Movie 43 & Lloyd of the Flies

Movie 43

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review, proudly sponsored this week by, I think, the best vegetarian porn site of all time, Corn Hub. This week we're gonna be even creepier than usual as we open things up with a look at movie's greatest insects.

Then after that we're watching the 2013 exhilarating experimental anthology, Movie 43. A film which boldly asks the question, Is it possible to take a cast of talented and hilarious people and make something about as funny as the sensation of having termites poured into your urethra? Tune in to find out what we thought. After that, we'll be buzzing over to the brand new Aardman animation, Lloyd of the Flies, in which a being that walks in shit tries to live like a Tory until he realizes it doesn't make him happy. now let's meet the dads. First up, we have seasoned veteran Dan, whose sporadic word mangling will leave you as bewildered as Iman Khalif's gynecologist. We don't have Dashing Chris with his sexy mask stories. Unfortunately, he's cried off this week scared off by a combination of Dan's verbal thrashing and the fact that he needed some serious alone time with the sexy witch from Conan the Barbarian.

But we do have full time contortionist and part time contrarian sidey who last week gave us the unforgettable advice never to go method If you're playing the part of a paedophile which was so good. I thought it was worth Repeating here and then there's me reegs. Hello

Sidey: Hello, you've been away.

Reegs: Yes. Yeah. Yeah in the north of

Sidey: Yeah. How was it?

Reegs: It was great. Yeah. I enjoyed it. Yeah

Sidey: anything

Dan: Light drizzle or

Sidey: faecal incidents?

Reegs: . Yes, I did get shot on by an Arctic turn. I saw puffins. They are very, very cute. Nice. Yeah. And seals as well. Very tasty. So it's good fun.

I saw some pretty incredible sites on Newcastle Main Street. It's, well about eight o'clock.

Sidey: Yeah, it sounds like it's worth a visit actually

Dan: was worth a visit actually. Yeah,

Sidey: No, that was the weekend before which we talked about last week But it was it's worth it's worth mentioning again because it's really good this weekend was more Just socializing got friends over from dubai two different ones.

So saw both of them and been watching loads of olympics

Dan: Yeah,

Sidey: olympics well into

Dan: it's been amazing. Yeah, it's such drama.

I mean, some of the the competitors, some of the, the sports you would never watch, suddenly you're,

Sidey: you're fully

Dan: you're fully invested. The, the skateboarding, the trap shooting the, even like, Diving and swimming and canoeing and

Reegs: Archery, I quite like as well. Did you see the archery clip of that? A

Sidey: the bee? The bee, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's good. Have you ever come across the world games? No,

Dan: No.

Sidey: because that's got even weirder niche sports. So it's got a handball and stuff like that. There's one what's one of them? It's called Nerf Ball or something.

I don't even know what that is. It's got like Frisbee golf. Okay. Cheerleading's in there and some other sports that I just didn't, I just didn't know what they were, were called at all. I dunno where it's broadcast. Probably YouTube.

Dan: I'm sure they did like a Highlands Games here once when I was younger. It was like tossing the caber and all that kind of thing. You don't see that much anymore. Certainly not Olympics, but they might bring it back. They're

Sidey: I'm some of the ones that frustrate me are where the judging is. Subjective rather than a race where you win, although I still think I still think the result of the 100 meters for last night was wrong, but

Reegs: but I like to see the really niche stuff, you know, cheese rolling and,

Sidey: well, they try and ban that don't know the one in in England. Yeah, because it's really dangerous.

Reegs: They

Dan: go down like.

Sidey: the authorities have gone to anyone who's involved in organizing said if you put that on,

Reegs: about running on logs? People do that, don't they, in the water, is that Yeah, that's Are you allowed to do that?

Dan: that's a thing.

Reegs: Soaring things really quickly. stuff, isn't it? Yeah.

Dan: Yeah.

they're different. They've all got skills, you know, maybe we'll see more of that,

Reegs: Doing a really good Power BI presentation. Yeah.

Dan: Is there anything else you've been watching? While all that's been going on? Have you squeezed in any extra movies, or? Yeah

Reegs: yeah, well I did have a bit of movie time I watched. I caught up on the X Men film series. All the, like, Days of Future Past,

Sidey: and, okay. That one's a good one.

Reegs: It's okay, yeah. Apocalypse.

Sidey: No, it's not a good one.

Reegs: it's not a good one. Dark Phoenix. Sometimes

Sidey: Oh, I haven't seen that one yet.

Reegs: Sometimes good, sometimes absolutely awful, as you might

Sidey: have. I heard it was just awful.

Reegs: So yeah, that was quite interesting to do that.

Dan: that was quite interesting. It was exclusively Olympics. I

Sidey: No, I think I was exclusively Olympics. I did have a look to see if I could watch something that's out now that isn't readily available. It wasn't there. So, that was Deadpool.

Dan: Watching the West Wing again, I mentioned that earlier, off, off air.

Sidey: I've also been watching loads of Stuart Lee clips when I've got a little five minutes. So, I just watched a quick bit of Stuart

Dan: Lee and Herring?

Sidey: Yes. From him. Yeah. It's

Reegs: would say when it was what's his

Sidey: I watched it when it was what's his face? The original host. It's now that Irritating

Dan: Roy Walker

Reegs: Mulhern

Sidey: Yeah. Don't like him. I couldn't watch it with

Dan: It's good, but it's not right. Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah, I used to enjoy that

Reegs: It's a good one. Catch Ray's family.

Dan: family. I was on Child's Play. You remember that? When the

Reegs: well, the murderous doll?

Dan: Yeah. No, when the kids had to describe a word. And it'd go blurb when they said the word, or

Sidey: Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, I know what you mean,

Dan: in the

Reegs: Oh, right. how old were you? Nine.

Dan: Daniel Craven, nine years old, from

Jersey.

Sidey: it on VHS somewhere?

Dan: Somewhere. I think Mum might have it

Sidey: Okay, cool. We did a top five last week, which was Revenges. We had a couple of noms online. Beaver surprised you didn't mention the Ultimate Revenge, Sicario, he loves that

Dan: Yeah

Sidey: and Darren Lethally, plump for Star Trek II, colon, The Wrath of Khan. The best film with the original Question Mark Khan wants to destroy Kirk for what he did to him. Also provided an excellent gif which he handily put. If you go on to Discord, you can see that. So I'm a bit Star Trek fan, so I think that can go in.

Yeah, there we

Dan: bit Star

Sidey: Shall we just Crawl our way into this week's top

Dan: Nice. Having it, yeah. Shall we just

Sidey: I dunno, what do sprint stars eat before they

Dan: into this

Sidey: Top five insects. Yeah.

Well,

Dan: This time of year, isn't there?

Reegs: They have

Dan: you know all about it. Although

Reegs: Well, round in my house there are fields and they have just sprayed shit all over them and our house is like a kajillion flies in it.

Sidey: Yeah, it's not

Reegs: I must have killed maybe A hundred flies by myself in the space of like two

Sidey: With a, with a,

Dan: they sprayed the field next to you and now the flies are in your place.

Reegs: Well it's all the shit and then they've just been, you know,

Dan: They probably just left the field because that's part of the problem. When I was a kid and you know, we're driving along the motorway or whatever it was, Victoria, your

car windscreen would be full of bugs. Like, you know, you'd have, now they're not there so much anymore, you know, and

Sidey: Apparently, there's been a huge decline in wasp numbers this summer.

Reegs: I'm all for it.

Sidey: Yeah, they're not, that's not around.

Dan: it's not, they're not our favorite, are they wasps? I mean, they,

Sidey: They're probably important to the food chain in some

Reegs: Ah, fuck it, we can do without them, I'm sure

Sidey: mosquitoes we could do, I, so I live by a body of water.

Reegs: Have you got a mosquito net?

Sidey: net? We've got a, a mesh covering over the bedroom window. Okay. So that we can have the window

Reegs: strong recommend per a hook in the ceiling. Also good for extra piece. And then you put a mosquito net down over your bed. We've

Sidey: Oh. I don't think I'd like that.

Reegs: It's a bit weird, but I strong recommend for not getting mossie bites.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: you I strongly recommend if you're going to do that take the box shape Mosquito net rather than the ones that are like a circus tent because they'll always touch the sides But the box tent

Sidey: what she said.

Dan: really cool,

Reegs: But make it strong enough that it can do like an inversion thing around your

Dan: Yeah, you

Sidey: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You need that. Yeah.

Dan: it's

just not worth taking it on

Sidey: But I, right, so we're gonna need to figure out how strict we're gonna be about this, because Dan's mentioned something already that I think could potentially be controversial.

Dan, go.

Dan: Okey dokey. Well, I'll start off with a nice Safe one then and I'll see what we're working our way down to up to

But I'm gonna say the fly the David Cronenberg Jeff Goldblum, Gina Davis

Sidey: 86

Dan: this was so around the World Cup and Well, it was just one of the first horror films I'd seen, you know, I don't think I saw it when it came out Well, I'd have only been about nine, but I probably saw it a year or two later

Sidey: up.

Dan: Maybe, yeah, maybe I was

Sidey: 19, maybe.

Dan: And you know, he's gone into that chamber and slowly does this wonderful experiment where he can trans, you know,

Sidey: We could, we could have a whole subset of transmogrification

into insects.

Yeah.

Reegs: What have you got? Have you got a section of

Sidey: of that

Dan: I was listening to Kafka this morning on

Reegs: Oh yeah. What's he chatting about these

Dan: Well he is chatting about Metamorphs and all that and he like, you know, so, similar to, to this, although the little fly that goes into the pod as he transforms, 'cause Jeff Goldin gets. naked, didn't he? He gets down into there.

Reegs: he does a few experiments. Pull his

Dan: off. He's, he's tried it. Was he tried a dog before or a cat or something?

Reegs: chimpanzee as well. We watched it for the pod.

Sidey: did. We all loved it.

Reegs: You get to see him like walking on the ceiling and doing this kind of gymnastic routine.

It's really hot. But then later he is this like

Dan: Yeah. There's a sweet spot about being a fly, isn't there? And then when it starts taking

Sidey: it does, it does fall off a cliff. Yeah. Yeah. What happened to the fly? Did it turn into a. A little tiny human.

Reegs: human.

Sidey: Because the Simpsons has the same stories and it becomes part fly.

I do that. I've got a moth for you. Yeah. Moth Ra. Yeah. So, the monsters, the the Godzilla Kaiju earlier episodes where they're men in suits. Yeah. I remember those fondly. And then there's been the recent rehash of it all. Yeah. Yeah.

And I think it's Godzilla King of Monsters and Mothra flits between being a goodie or a baddie.

Dan: right

Sidey: And in King of Monsters, Mothra is a goodie. Have you seen that one? Yeah, it's amazing. There's they like at the end, it's all triumphant, but like there's nothing

Reegs: but there's nothing left. Everything's

Sidey: Everything's been

Reegs: people dead. They

Sidey: Yeah, they never really touch on the body count in those films, but it's fucking like.

Vast but moth was cool because I like to think to myself. Well moths are pretty fucking

Dan: ing flimsy. Oh yeah, sometimes they're like a f ing hang glider. And the body is

Reegs: Oh yeah. Sometimes they're like a fucking

hang

Dan: And the

Sidey: the body is mainly just fluff and the wings, they're like, you just flick it and it would be

Yeah.

Reegs: rel though. But

Sidey: So, how terrifying a villain could Mothra ever really be? It's Just not

Reegs: turn on the light and then just breathe on him, he's gone.

Sidey: Yeah. But it's I do like those kaiju

Dan: of things.

Reegs: Yeah. Should I trip the is it really an insect thing? We'll start, go on, let's start talking about spiders

Sidey: Well, it's an arachnid, isn't it?

Reegs: is an arachnid. Yeah, but let's talk about spiders anyway, because I mean, you're going to talk about, Probably about arachnophobia. I'm going to talk about a pair of movies with like those shock homage to the shock fifties movies.

Eight legged freaks was one of them. A sort of solid enough comedy horror. I don't know.

Sidey: johansson

Reegs: It's got Scarlett Johansson in it. Amazingly. And David Arquette, it was okay, but it was one of those that's kind of much more trying to be funny than anything else. Big ass spider. Do you remember heroes? Greg Grunberg, he played.

Matt Parker, the, or Pac Man or whatever, he was a, like a fat telepath.

There's a he's in it. It was sort of awful, but at least sometimes ambitious and awful, which is good. And then one of the movies, I guess, that inspired all that was Them. You might have seen it as a kid, 1954s.

Dan: as well. This, we

Reegs: and son, yeah, it's the father and son father and daughter, sorry, teaming up with like a, like, they start with like a local cop, and then it's the FBI, and then eventually, like, you see, trying to stop this big invasion of mutated it is mutated spiders.

Is it? Or is it ants? Actually for

Dan: think it might be ants irradiated ants or something.

Reegs: all that stuff that inspired those kind

Dan: Yeah, well, I mean that that was on tv when I was a kid and it looked as real, you know to me as as anything but yeah, it has all kind of data, but it did win an oscar that

Reegs: brilliant,

Dan: you know, Starship Troopers?

Is that kind of fit in that band of eight legged freaks and things like that as well? Because that was the humans in like a military future, isn't it? Waging war against these giant bugs and it was a bit of a comedy. You would see, like, people just being eaten

Reegs: A population stirred up to hate what they have been told is an invading immigrant.

It

Sidey: Yes, it's Paul Verhoeven, isn't it? Michael Ironside's What's Not to Love. It's also got some good shower

Reegs: got some good shower scenes. It's a good part

Sidey: or because he wanted to be inclusive?

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: of it all.

Sidey: Yeah, they had mixed showers, didn't they? Did we see Dick?

Reegs: I hope so.

Sidey: Yeah, I think we might

Dan: I'm fairly

Reegs: Did you ever play the Earth Defense Force games at all? No. Like a, just that you play as Starship Troopers, but the wellbeing It is good.

Sidey: I enjoyed it. It was good.

Dan: Well there, take us on to the next.

Sidey: Naked Lunch?

Dan: bug me out, man.

Sidey: That's 1991. It's a Cronenberg joint. So, you know, it's good. Peter Weller, he's Robocop. He's an insect exterminator. And he accidentally kills his wife

Reegs: wife.

Sidey: then has to go on a journey through the interzone. There's

Reegs: There's

Sidey: Which I think is true to life. There's beetles that turn into typewriters giant bugs that are sliced apart,

Reegs: apart. There's

Sidey: and caterpillars and all sorts of other things. It's pretty standard fare.

Dan: the beetles, you could have a hard day's night, I guess, into this.

Could we? Yes. Absolutely.

You know, as

Reegs: Beatles? Yeah. It's a Very good.

Dan: All right, go on, carry

Sidey: It's spelt incorrectly if you want it to be

Dan: no, I don't.

Yeah.

Sidey: inclusion. Yeah.

Dan: Creative

Sidey: Yeah. Go for it, Reece.

Reegs: Do you wanna have two movies linked animation movies, both insecty and linked because the stars were sex pests? Yes. A Bug's Life and Ants. A Bug's Life had Kevin Spacey.

Course. Richard Kind. Hayden Panettiere, which I always think sounds like something you'd get in a bakery.

Sidey: Yeah. It does sound like a patisserie. Yeah. French Patisserie item.

Reegs: And Ants had Woody Allen. Yeah. Yeah, and Sylvester No, no, I don't think so.

Great,

But the interesting one about Bugs Life is a Pixar one, Randy Newman, all that stuff, but basically the theme is about the workers seizing the means of production from

Sidey: What is it, Marxist?

Reegs: yeah, basically. So, yeah. And it really is that if you watch it. So that's

great.

Sidey: great. I remember much preferring ants at the time. That was the Dreamworks version. I mean, it's got Stallone and Christopher Walken and

Have you not? No.

Dan: I've

Sidey: Oh, it's, it's decent. Is it? Yeah, yeah. Okay. And you're okay with Woody Allen's sexual predatory history, so you'll be fine

Dan: Allen's sexual, predatory history, so you'll be fine with

Sidey: Pinocchio,

Dan: insect

was He was a cricket I'm assuming

Reegs: You looked worried there, just for a second. You were like, I fucked it up. Was he a walrus?

Dan: were you saying he was a grasshopper?

Sidey: Grasshopper? Horse? No, it

Dan: I know it was, it was right there. He's got a little bit of character. He's, he's the good angel on Pinocchio's shoulder. He tries to be a mate to him. And and he doesn't listen to him and he gets turned into a donkey. But um,

Reegs: you know, he's

Dan: Yeah, well, you know,

Sidey: Who, Jiminy Cricket? hmm. That one reminds me a little bit of the cockroach in WALL E.

Reegs: in Warlick.

Sidey: It's not vocal, per se, but it is still the sort of a little bit of a guide.

I think it survives, doesn't it? You can't crush a cockroach like that. Boiling water, I think is what we have to do.

Reegs: That is what you have to do with that.

That's

Sidey: Yeah, it is. I have a worm.

Dan: Mm,

Reegs: Okay. Who

Sidey: June.

Reegs: Oh yeah.

Sidey: From Arrack, the giant sand worms.

Reegs: still not really seeing these movies. I want to have, we, we've done this part two for the pod.

I haven't even seen part one yet.

Sidey: Yeah, part two is where they, they really go big on the worm content. Where he, he actually,

they

Dan: they just rip this off Star Wars though?

Sidey: No he has to, he rides them, it's like his proof that he's cool to all the Oh, fuck, I can't remember, the ones that live in the desert, I

Dan: people, the blue

Sidey: Yeah and that's how they all go, oh, look, he can ride

Reegs: worm Yeah, and

Sidey: yeah, it's cool, and they're pretty terrifying, yeah, although not real,

Reegs: Was Tremors worms?

I didn't, yeah it was wasn't

Sidey: worms

Reegs: Well, the comic books like a bit of insect action. Ant Man, I think was a pretty good addition to the MCU until he became sort of painfully overused in kind of crappy side movies that were going nowhere. And the Blue Beetle, which I think was the last ever film in the DCU.

What does that tell you about what that

Sidey: What until james gunn reboots it all

Reegs: That particular, like, cinematic universe, like,

Sidey: But they are talking about a sequel

Reegs: and, to, to the Blue Beetle.

Sidey: Yeah, it was the blue beetle was the dude from cobra kai, isn't he? Yeah,

Reegs: I, I have seen it, I can't remember anything

Sidey: just looks a little bit iron manny to me

Reegs: Yeah, but, Iron Man, but more really kiddy.

Sidey: that was weird as well.

Like Robert, Danny, Judy coming back. Yeah. As Thingy

Reegs: stark variant. I reckon

Sidey: that's where they position it, but it's just, I think it's more Dr. Doom. Yeah. It's more like, oh, you really like this guy. He's back . I think we need, we need someone to save this.

Reegs: Yeah. Well that is what it was. Yeah. They needed something to save it.

Sidey: Dan, I think she,

Dan: when

I first watched this film what is it? I'm looking at 1990. So it was, it was probably, I went to see it at the cinema or very soon after on VHS or whatever it come out on arachnophobia.

And I know we can talk about arachnids and insects, but this was a new species of South American killer spider hitching a lift to California and, and then taking over and breeding in this small town. Leaving a trailer defs who and it's Jeff Daniels and John Goodman plays like a plumber and they can't understand something and it's just Puts his hand everywhere apart from where the spider is.

But you just, you know, one touch, it's gonna kill you.

Reegs: What year was this? 'cause I think I, 1990. I thought I saw this in the cinema,

Dan: Yeah, I

Sidey: Yeah, he probably would have done. Twelve, he probably was a twelve. I

Reegs: being absolutely shut up by exactly this scene. I was there

Dan: was you, that kid that she

himself?

Reegs: Yeah, that was right. Yeah, that was me. Yeah.

Sidey: Robert. Yeah, my missus is. You know, unbelievably terrified of spiders, even the tiny little weenie

Dan: ones. Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. I don't like like big ones particularly, although I know that they're harmless here.

But she would like,

Dan: She just, yeah.

Sidey: And

Dan: It's a

Sidey: above our door, we've got, you know, the ones that are in the tube, what are they called? Like funnels, but not not funnel, but they've they've just in there in like brick and mortar There's there's little hole you see there's a sort of tube of web and you can just see at the night the legs come out And that's waiting for something to come past so they get it I'm not we don't ever look up as you're entering the house because you would never ever get back in the gap

Reegs: had

Dan: a huntsman spider that just, like for, A week just lived above our front door and you just kind of had to run the gauntlet and it wasn't so bad leaving because you didn't see it. You know, it was you knew it was there, but sometimes you'd

Sidey: it's giving me the fear like

Reegs: yeah. Thinking right now I'm actually getting scared. I was thinking about the last time I saw one, like, and

Dan: nobody wanted to move it.

It was just there. It was, it was a site. It was a size of a clock. No, they're not. I mean, they're, they're like Not to us, you

Sidey: know.

Dan: kill like a bird

Sidey: or something like that. It's a

Dan: it's a big, big spot. You don't wanna get in a fight with it

Sidey: in a fight with

Dan: we left it there and it left us, but we would just kind of quickly get the key and through the door as quickly as we

could.

Australian

Sidey: as possible. Destroying,

Reegs: Disgusting. Kong, King, which was that?

Peter Jackson's Kong had a pretty gnarly scene with a whole like as they're escaping with Jack Black and a whole bunch of enormous Like those disgusting fucking millipede

Sidey: Oh, yeah

Reegs: all that going on every reality tv show that makes people eat that shit. What are you doing? Can we bees?

Candyman. Yeah, he negotiated in his contract a bonus of 1, 000 for every sting.

Sidey: How

Reegs: He had 23 verified stings at the end for

Sidey: that.

Reegs: but he produced one of the, even if you haven't seen the movie, you have seen the shot of I've not got his name here. It's really annoying because I really like this movie.

The bees pouring, Tony Todd the bees pouring out of his mouth. It's like a one of the iconic horror movie images of all time.

Sidey: Yeah, I was thinking about Wu-Tang Killer Bees. There's loads of Killer Bee references in their music.

Dan: And Bugs in Mouth, I mean, it's a classic serial killer. I think Hannibal Lecter film Silence of the Lambs. One of the,

Reegs: Death's Head

Sidey: buffalo build. Does it? Yes. It's a transformation metaphor, isn't it? Yeah.

Dan: So

often can send a message a bug can't it? And one that was really powerful and had lots of deeper meaning was Honey I Shrunk The Kids. Which, yeah, really Rick Moranis finest role. And

Reegs: just a standup guy,

Dan: yeah, he's, he's the, the the crazy scientist of teenage boy and daughter and he shrinks them down to size of a bug and then they're lost in the, in the backyard fighting again.

And it was cool, I mean,

Reegs: They have the big ant, don't they? It becomes their

Dan: This

was a, a ride in, in like, Disney and when you went over to America and Did all that, all that kind of thing going on the wasp and the bee it was brilliant.

Reegs: Yeah. I

Sidey: You mentioned Ant Man, you have Ant Man and the Wasp. Yeah. Was was a film with two of

Reegs: And Yellow Jacket is in there, which is some sort of hornet, I think, isn't it?

Sidey: and Yellow Jacket's series is really cool. And then I have another worm, which is Shoo from Meet the Feebles.

Reegs: Yes! Yeah, yeah.

Sidey: Was a character within a soap opera within the movie. So that was quite good. There's

Reegs: fly in that as well, that walks in shit. That's what they do, they just walk in shit and then walk in your house, what the fuck

Sidey: Yeah, that's really bad. Darren Leafley mentioned Star Trek 2, Kolo and the Wrath of Khan last week.

Reegs: That is one of the most horrifying things ever when it goes

Sidey: slug that goes through the ear that then like parasitically latches onto your brain and can

Reegs: I still have nightmares about it, it's like, horrendous.

Sidey: it back in Next Gen, there's an episode where they get parasitic things going in there.

It doesn't have the budget of that and so it looks Really Shit. Even at the time it looked shit, it was

fucking

Dan: it in the Matrix as well, don't they? I mean, it's not, it's some kind

Reegs: Yeah, homing device thing or

Dan: alien insect

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: runs up Yeah, well,

Sidey: apart from

Dan: got lots to choose from there. Let's

Reegs: our picks, though. Yeah,

Dan: though. Yeah, well, you

Reegs: Well, I am going to do that thing of springing surprise only because I just saw a really good one recently called Vermin Infested directed by Sebastian Vanecek.

It's like a French movie about a guy called Caleb who collects these crazy creatures and it's set in a dilapidated apartment building and it's these people are Spiders, like, like in between scenes seem to multiply almost exponentially in number and size and yeah, it's pretty crazy It's really good and he's directing the new Evil Dead movie.

So, infested

Dan: infested

Okay. Side, what are you going for?

Sidey: I'm gonna put in that corridor sequence from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where they have to go through the insect infested thing to get through to another thing.

Dan: Oh, and she's got to put her hand through the

Sidey: they do it first and then think she has to follow and she's, you know, she's, you see them all calling her over. It's like just watching Mrs. Spielberg.

Yeah.

Dan: well I'm I'm caught between two, Arachnophobia and Honey I Shrunk the Kids, because I'm pretty sure I've seen both of these at the cinema, so I'd like to put in one of them. I'm gonna go Honey I Shrunk the Kids, because there's more bugs in it.

Sidey: Yeah, okay.

Dan: Have you got enough juice?

Sidey: Yeah, I'm good. This is movie 43.

Dan: Yeah, it was recommended to me by my friend David the Swiss guy's family that came over saying, we sat and watched this and I'd never heard of it before.

It

Sidey: No, neither had I.

Dan: my

Reegs: I did know of this. This was Roger Ebert called this movie The Citizen Kane of Awful.

Sidey: So I didn't research it. I didn't know anything about it apart from we mentioned that it had a stellar cast and the only thing that I did know about it going in was searching for it on Amazon.

I had a brief thing saying it was an anthology and there was a very, very brief clip of Terrence Howard doing something. So

Reegs: do you like an anthology? No,

Sidey: So, I didn't know anything so I didn't know. Whether it was good, bad, blah, blah, blah, what

Dan: knew it was a comedy.

Reegs: You weren't going pre into this with any preconceptions or anything else? Yeah. Yeah, okay, good.

Dan: And but you you did know a little bit about

Reegs: I knew a little bit about it, yeah.

it? Not all the way through, no.

Dan: right. Okay,

Sidey: I still haven't.

Dan: Well

Sidey: haven't seen it all the way through. Chris, I think, said it was good when you mentioned it last week. Yeah. I think he said it

Dan: Yeah, he he was He was Seen it before, hasn't he? And he said that he, he'd enjoyed it.

So it's it's a strange premise and it's

Reegs: It starts with a framing device, which is different between the

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: and the US version.

I only watched one. I tried to seek out the other one just

Because

Sidey: yeah.

I only knew about that after the fact. The, the one I saw was the

one

Reegs: prank and

Sidey: with Greg Kane.

Yeah,

Reegs: No?

Sidey: said the one I had was Greg Kinnear was the movie exec.

Dan: What?

Sidey: Okay, so I had

Reegs: okay, you got the other story. Brilliant. Which, okay, I

Dan: So there's two

Sidey: Dennis Quaid is pitching to him

Reegs: Yeah, there's two versions. The US version, which you saw and we saw the international version.

Sidey: Kids looking for a move and guessing what it might be like Yeah, so this one the one I saw it starts off with Dennis Quaid pitching a movie to Greg Kinnear and he looks like shit, so he's like a nobody, he's failed at like getting movies off the ground, and Greg Kinnear is supposed to be a very successful movie producer, so he's pitching these stories to her, and they chat for a bit, and he starts talking about the first one, the first idea, which is Kate Winslet going out on a date.

Yeah. I assume all them. The logical bits

Reegs: bits They're the same,

Sidey: same. It's just the bits that they frame it with.

Reegs: There's a framing device, exactly. This one, the one that we watched is, it starts out with an internet prank within a sort of Ashton Kutcher type and he's got a dart, they're throwing a dart board at a dart and it seems to go viral, but it's actually his younger brother winding them up.

So they devised this plan to infect his laptop with porn.

His brother's

Dan: 12 year old brother or something.

Reegs: by getting him sidetracked on looking for this movie that they just made up, movie 43, and it ends up going on this big, like, It turns into this big adventure around it sort of thing. But yeah. Let's talk about the, the one, so we got the catch was the first one.

This is Kate Winsler and Hugh

Jackman.

Sidey: I didn't know anything about what it was going to be like, okay?

Reegs: I piss myself laughing too at this, to

Dan: be fair. So it says she's a single businesswoman who goes on a blind date with Hugh Jackman. The

Reegs: most

it doesn't play. She's in a, it

plays

Sidey: it very straight, it doesn't give you any inkling of what the date is going to be like, right?

She's nervous about going on this date. I shouldn't have, I shouldn't have said, yeah, it's a blah, blah, blah. She's donning herself up. She looks great. Her friend, I didn't know who it was a PA or whatever the fuck it was like, no, he's, he's a billionaire, super successful. Here he is on this magazine. And you're like, fuck, it's Hugh Jackman.

Didn't even know he was in it. And I've always had the hots for Kate Winslet. She looks great in this and she's dolling always brings a doorbell and they go out

Dan: He's got like a cravat

Sidey: it's cold, I think. And she's wearing a scarf and a big coat and they go out to dinner and he takes his scarf off and he has bollocks hanging down from his throat.

Where is Adam's apple?

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: He's got testes hanging down there.

Reegs: Did you laugh at that?

Sidey: I was like, Oh, okay. That's what this is. This is going to be like right. Yeah. No, I didn't laugh at it.

Reegs: Oh, I laughed

Dan: at it. And it's

Sidey: And it's that she sees it and no one else

Dan: else thinks it's funny. And the

Sidey: And the whole thing is her trying to point to people, interact with other people to say like,

Reegs: as he dips his bollocks in the soup, or

Dan: tits is bollocks, it's a soup, or Been told, oh, you two friends of his come over and say, you two on a date.

Oh, you're so cute. Let's get your photo together. You get round there and, and she has to, he has to kind of just

over her.

Reegs: fucking hammer the joke home forever though Don't they? The joke such is because it is just like a it's like a 20 second sketch that you Sketch that you get like an improv Type thing, but stretched out for about five

minutes. Yeah, they are all like that. And then some of them are very funny. Homeschooled,

Dan: you've got Anna

Reegs: another one that was quite funny.

Dan: Having coffee with their new neighbors. And their neighbors which is Liv Schreiber. Naomi Watts

Sidey: and Jeremy Alan White. I said to Kate, See this, this guy, Potentially

the next James Bond. She's like, what?

Reegs: Yeah, and you see him in the shower, you see his ass. So

Dan: and they're, they're talking about you know, they've homeschooled this kid and to their neighbors and they're saying, oh, you know, we really want to give them that full experience.

It's really important that we, we give them the full experience. And, and then so some, it just, it just goes on and on the

Reegs: like.

Sidey: it just means bullying, so

Reegs: the mum

Sidey: name wrong in class.

His mum and

Dan: Yeah, so it's His mum and dad are just being the school bullies or

Sidey: or the It's

Reegs: I thought she's going all

Dan: which she's going all the way with him. So it's really dark kind of sense of humour. These first two

Reegs: on too long though, doesn't it?

Dan: I don't know, I laughed,

Sidey: but.

Reegs: And then you see him like, and he seems really, like, normal and well adjusted, even though you've heard all these horrible things of him, and then he gets like a fucking, it's got no punchline in this

Dan: He's giving out

Reegs: goes out onto the town with like a mop that's got his mum's face on it, it's like, wah wah. The next one is about they, you think he's gonna propose to her, but she wants him to shit on him. He's Like,

Oh, come on now. This is what you're doing. You know, J. B. Smoove, you're a bit funny in this, maybe.

And how far did

Dan: which one's that?

Have I missed one out? They're at the Happy Birthday Pete

Reegs: Faris when she tries to, they talk to, talks to Chris Pratt. I think they were actually married

Sidey: They were so relieved schreiber and nami watts

Reegs: right

Dan: right. They

Reegs: Ask him to shit on her chest. That was like one of them veronica was the one with kieran colkin They have their whole life story over a supermarket thing.

It's fucking awful. Richard gear is selling a life sized

Sidey: was that?

Reegs: don't know man. Don't

Sidey: I don't even iBabe.

Reegs: Yeah a naked woman ipod

Sidey: It was just an excuse to have a good looking girl naked on the screen. There's no Richard Gere,

Reegs: man it

Sidey: fuck are

Dan: I think, I think Richard Gere wanted it to, it to be

Pulled,

Sidey: a single person involved in this did any promotion for

Dan: But I, well, I, I thought the the, the Chris Pratt one actually was, was

Sidey: That was the shit

Dan: yeah, that was, that was.

Sidey: when it

Dan: And what? No, I'm

Reegs: man, this is, right, how, they should have fucking stopped and written a, again and again and again, because this is stupid now.

Like, this is just like the Farshow or

Sidey: we got to Chloe Grace

Reegs: Farshow, because that was good.

Sidey: Chloe Grace? How do you say I that I'm gonna get wrong. Maritz. Mortez.

The period one as I'm out.

Reegs: I'm out.

Sidey: Are we laughing at a girl having her first period?

Reegs: I don't know, I mean, I think I could, there's probably circumstances in which that you could, yeah,

Sidey: If the writing's clever.

Reegs: yeah, which it wasn't in this yeah, I don't know.

Steven Merchant and Halle Berry, she proved that she's got no sense of humour, although she did look pretty cool with all the

Dan: she proved that she's got no sense of humour, although she did look pretty cool.

Reegs: The one I

Sidey: the one I was watching then would, it would flip back.

I'm sure yours did too. This would flip back to the the pitch Dennis Quad pitching

Reegs: it going well for him?

Sidey: No. Greg Canne would be like, no. It doesn't really work for us. It's not really the project we're looking for. It then devolved into having him at gunpoint. Trying to force the issue and it would just flip back between that sort of

Reegs: They eventually end up discovering the titular movie 43 and lo and behold it's a video from themselves in the future where Baxter the annoying shitbag brother is leader of the resistance and the Ashton Kutcher type is a drooling vegetable in the corner.

So,

Dan: And

what about the Emma Stone one? Did you not like that?

Sidey: I think I didn't

Reegs: No, that was fucking awful, man. And I like Kieran Culkin and Emma Stone. The other one as well, I just wanted to talk about it. Was Victory's Glory, Terrence Howard. The sort of firing up the basketball team. Yeah.

Only because he is completely fucking nuts. Terrence Howard, have you seen that? Like It all is numerology shit and the number, number zero doesn't exist and what the fuck man? What how are people doing this?

Sidey: this? I

Reegs: I know I did actually yeah, I bet I didn't barely watch the last one with the cat because it was fucking awful as well And we didn't even talk about Jason Sudeikis, who I like, who's in this

Dan: Oh, that,

Sidey: No, the Batman one with Uma Thurman, she's talking about, she's talking about cum.

Dan: Fiesel the cat, that cat that was just kind of so cute and, and until he, he hated the girlfriend. He got jealous over it. A

Sidey: lot of this is just picking subjects and trying to be edgy about gross out stuff.

But it's not clever. It doesn't have anything to say.

Dan: Ah, you're wrong.

Sidey: it's this is worse than Cats, this is the

Dan: No, it's not.

Sidey: for me, this is the worst thing we've watched on the pod.

Dan: No,

Reegs: Cats was a lot longer,

Sidey: Cats, Cats had at the outset a goal and some sort of artistic ambition. This is just shit, it's the lowest,

Reegs: then. Yeah,

Sidey: the lowest common denominator shit that didn't work, for me.

Reegs: some, oh, it's dreadful top

Dan: actors and actresses,

Sidey: whom

completely distanced

Dan: they've,

Sidey: it when they saw it

Dan: got a sense of humor for, for doing it. I thought there was some,

Reegs: Are you honestly going

to bat for

Dan: it, I'm going to say whenever there's, you do any of these little kind of, you know, anthologies type things, some of them hit, some of them miss, some of them are good.

Some of them

Reegs: not so good. No, I don't think it was

Dan: garbage. There was definitely some laughs in there. It wasn't it wasn't like. You know amazing the funniest thing I've seen the whole way through but there was a few in there and I like the The emmerstone and and kolkin one. I thought that was quite clever in fact, I felt the first half of it was was pretty good.

There was a few that just didn't make me laugh. But you know, I think other people will

Sidey: I was honestly incredulous that people really successful, talented people were involved in this.

And people made it, thought that this was good and worthy of putting out for people to look at.

Reegs: at. Brilliant actors in

this, and a lot of like, talent, like

Sidey: The amount of Oscar winners and nominees in this is unbelievable.

Reegs: the making of it is a strange story because it took over four years, I think, and they, you know, everybody into it seems to have been

Dan: There was a, a fairy.

Reegs: was making, like, were they holding their families at gunpoint and

Sidey: families

Reegs: them star in this

Dan: know, know there's a ferry that gives blowjobs for, for gold coins. You've got

Reegs: oh, Gerald Butler. He was great as the left record. It's all funny for about 30 seconds each time, but that's it.

Dan: It it, you lost the humor quicker

Reegs: well, they did the joke and then you, everybody's so flat and stilted in it.

Sidey: New York Times critic Elizabeth Weitzman gave it the most negative review. As a film critic, I've seen nearly 4, 000 movies over the last 15 years. I cannot think of one worse than movie 43.

It's It's really bad. It's astonishing. It's

Dan: taste. I quite liked it. There's definitely some really funny segments and episodes in there.

For me, there were more at the front of it. But, I enjoyed it. And I reckon there's people in here that will laugh at this a lot. Wow,

Reegs: Well,

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: well I'm

glad you found something to like about it because I didn't. It

Reegs: didn't.

Sidey: it was poor. I didn't see it through to the end and it's the first time,

Reegs: First time in

Sidey: first time of the pod that I've not seen one through. I just, it was just too bad. That's so, I can't. There's no point in me watching any more of this, it's

Dan: Well, let's hope for movie 44

Sidey: 44 and 45, but it did actually make money.

Reegs: did actually make money.

Dan: It made

Reegs: money. Yeah,

Sidey: Yeah, that's right, 6 million budget and it made 32,

Dan: There you go.

Sidey: which

Dan: It's just almost an experiment. You put people in front of a, you know, famous enough and you'll, you'll

Reegs: desperately needed rewriting Maybe there was something in there.

I don't know

that, you know, they should have

Sidey: the amount of talent in there, if you'd done something better with the writing they could have delivered something decent.

Dan: of the

Sidey: Peter Farrelly's in it,

Reegs: james gunn all sorts all sorts Utter bullshit.

Sidey: Yeah, it's a fail for me.

Dan: Strong Recommend.

Reegs: did you raw dog any of your flights? you just, right. I know they're only short haul, but you don't know entertainment, no drinks, no food.

You just stare at the seat in front.

people have been, but you've seen this people posting online doing like 12 hour flights, raw dogging.

Sidey: The recent ones I didn't do, I did drinks on the first one to Glasgow, not on the way back.

Raw dog, that one. And I raw, dogged both

Reegs: rawdogged both. Oh no, I would have

Sidey: oh no. I would've played some games on my phone actually, so, no, I'm out. I didn't do it. No, I didn't rule

Reegs: actually.

I don't want

Sidey: I don't want to do that.

Reegs: that.

Dan: They're troublesome enough these days, the long haul. If I can watch a movie or two to speed up that

Sidey: I need it. I want to have a few drinks as well.

Dan: and why not,

Reegs: I would rather raw dog a flight than watch movie 43 again.

Sidey: yeah, I'd take the emergency door off and just fucking jump and fuck

Dan: I'm glad it's made an impression on

Sidey: It has, definitely. But that is not what we're talking about now.

We're talking about

Reegs: Lloyd of the flies

Sidey: L-L-O-Y-D.

Yeah.

Dan: And our insect week.

Sidey: Yeah. And

Reegs: So not Golding's book at all. It's not based and even though they allude

Sidey: to be anything about being stranded in Pig.

Dan: I dunno whether, I mean, it's, it's made up of a lot of different episodes. We, we were in at the classic season one, episode three two,

Sidey: crumble down economics, crumble

Dan: Down E Economics, and we meet our CG ice.

Stop animation characters which is Lloyd a fly and he's got various friends

Sidey: his closest friends. Woodlouse called abacus. Yeah, it's good name

Reegs: He was Alex Lauder, if you ever watched the Netflix series, the End of the Fucking World. Oh, that's a bit rude. But

Sidey: Oh, okay, it's him.

Reegs: that.

Sidey: right. Okay. Yeah, I like him

Reegs: It was a good

Dan: we were trying to place his voice, weren't we?

Sidey: Yeah, and this particular one he's after some comic books.

Dan: Yeah, he's after comic books but he hasn't got any

Sidey: That's right, he's

Dan: in the form of, it hasn't got any currency and the currency is breadcrumbs, particular breadcrumbs, maybe baked crumbs, maybe,

Sidey: think it's any kind

Dan: he's got a bit of apple that doesn't have the same value as some crumb off a cinnamon bun or some such thing.

But when a rather nasty, dirty human empties the Yeah, I know it did. Yeah, they just ended the emptied the, the

Sidey: the, toaster. And then left them there.

Dan: and then left them there. Didn't seem to be any clear up

Reegs: There was no clear up.

Dan: well Lloyd was clearing up because he was dibbing dibs dibs dibs dibs every crumb until he had a

Sidey: He then becomes some sort of crumb oligarch.

Reegs: market has been flooded with money, hasn't it? And now he's hoarded it all for

himself.

Dan: he understands a little bit because he doesn't want to give it out too much he knows

Reegs: No, he won't share any of his. He doesn't

Dan: want to share any of it

And he starts buying some things that he wants.

He also starts paying people with crumbs to carry his crumb like lord's load into his, his house.

Sidey: He's just lording it. A

Dan: throne of crumbs.

Sidey: to get all of the comic books. But once he's read them, he's still unfulfilled. Because

Dan: is

saying, Nah, eh. Lloyd, you look so happy. You must be a hundred percent happy. And he seems a lot more well balanced actually Abacus. And he's saying, Oh, my father says, you know, you can never get a hundred percent happiness. You need to be striving for something, a few little pearls of wisdom and things from Abacus.

But Lloyd is, is thinking about the money

Sidey: he's greed, he's got the greed.

Dan: a bit crazy.

Sidey: crazy. He's gone full Tory,

Reegs: he ends up sitting on a throne of crumbs. And even the crumbs are decaying around him. he can't

keep up. They talk about outsourcing. Fucking hell, man. They genuinely do, don't they? Fucking hell. I don't know if it's just because you also served up 48 Hours and Movie 43. And then this. I hated this as well.

I

Sidey: I thought this was okay.

Dan: this? was good! You were all over it, you got the t shirt, Zzzz, I'm Lloyd,

Reegs: I think it's and flies have been i've been attacked by flies

Sidey: like flies? Yeah, we've got a fly problem as well. But this one was more cartoony and which

Reegs: been walking in shit and then giving me an economics lesson.

Fuck off.

Sidey: Yeah, I sort of enjoyed wondering where the kids were going to come across, you know, after watching this as having like Marxist sensibilities, that sort of thing.

I did enjoy that. The economics lesson was

Reegs: that

Well he gives it all away. It's less about

Dan: It's not much more

Sidey: was less about economics and more about just sharing.

Dan: called him a cunt and a bad

Sidey: Well, he got, he got a dressing down, didn't he? Abacus called him a cunt and a bad friend. Yeah. Don't like you when you're like this. Yeah. So he threw his, his one crumb at him. Yeah. And then he realised that, yeah, he was being a complete

bellend. with

Reegs: a touching moment.

Dan: Well, their flies

Sidey: In the insect world, but wood lice, they're important. My boss, the big boss at work, he got very upset because all his wood lice had died in his compost heap. He's very, very keen on his wood lice. So he would probably have got a kick out of this actually. Hmm.

Dan: Well, for me, I, I thought this was quite a nice

Sidey: the

animation was solid.

The theme tune was a banger. I'm not gonna play

Dan: we had to look, didn't we? If, if it was CGI or it was stop animation, but they've done stop animation so good on c, g, I Now, then we are fairly convinced that's what it was.

Reegs: Well, I don't, I wish we went straight into recording this week with things as where I would have looked it up. I did not like the aesthetic. It looked somewhere between both. Maybe it was both techniques together. But yeah, it rubbed me the wrong way. There's fuck

Sidey: Heavy,

Dan: way Heavy heavy

recommend there from reeks.

Sidey: from Riggs.

Dan: this is one of the best things you can watch on ITVX called

Sidey: Numb. I think what really like started the off on a bad foot was that on ITVX it forces you to watch like Clockwork Orange style.

It pins your eyes.

Dan: C

Sidey: forces you to watch six or seven adverts you cannot skip them

Dan: da. Yeah. It's all that

Sidey: so you have to do that so that you're going into it in a bad

mood

Dan: believe this has had a spinoff.

I think once you get to know the characters, I think one or two of the characters have had their own

Sidey: watch more of abacus it's a

Dan: Yeah, yeah, there's there's legs in this I think

Sidey: strong recommend

Dan: Strong

Reegs: Who's picking

Sidey: noms if you want to do that

Dan: want to do

Sidey: i think it might be your turn but i've got them if

Reegs: but I've

Sidey: can just flip reverse

Dan: ready to go

Sidey: I am.

Reegs: Yeah, let's hear it.

Dan: Oh, you haven't got your

Reegs: Oh, no, no, man, I'm not organised, I'm afraid, sorry.

Sidey: It's X week. So, we're going to have a midweeker. We're going to have the midweeker which is Existence.

Reegs: Okay.

Cronenberg.

Sidey: Bag top? Yeah.

Top five Xs. The main is Triple X return of XA cage. Okay. And the The kids TV is X-Men 97. Season one, episode two X.

Dan: Can you see the theme? There's a lot of X. Yeah.

Reegs: When you're saying X, is that E X or X with just an X,

Sidey: x. X. Gone give

Dan: Go on the hammers, like that.

Yeah, go on the

Reegs: X X or X Y.

Sidey: Yeah, so I'm excited for Triple X.

Yeah.

very good. So all that remains is to say Sidi's signing out.

Reegs: Reegs. Oh,

Sidey: left the building.

Reegs: the one.

Dan: Dan's gone.