The Magnificent Seven (2016) & The Sound Collector

Magnificent Seven

Reegs: yeah. It's pretty fucking tragic.

Cris: I must say, despite the fact that we are not in full squad tonight, I have seen all the bad dads today.

Reegs: What, including Pete?

Cris: Yes, he was in the cafe early.

Reegs: Oh dear.

Cris: joined Sidy for a coffee in the morning And then he stayed to work for a bit.

Dan: was

Reegs: then Sidey was,

Dan: well

Reegs: yeah, and then Sidey was horrendously sick.

Cris: I hope not because of Pete.

Dan: Well, there's a connection there that I wouldn't like to discount.

Reegs: Welcome

to Bad Dad's Film Review, where if you're into half remembered facts, rambling anecdotes, mispronunciations, and occasionally glib assessments of your favourite movie, we've definitely got you covered. This week sees Dan at the helm and proves to be predictably chaotic as we start things off with a chat about the top five fours.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: And then after that we'll be taking a look at the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven in which Denzel Washington and an indeterminate number of accomplices team up to rescue an old west town from moustache twirling industrialist Peter Skarsgård. And then we'll finish things up with a look at charming British stop motion animation The Sound Collector.

All that's left to do is introduce the game. Which includes former professional cuer and full time neck model, Dan. We also have artisanal globe maker, Chris. And there's me Riggs alone. We were going to be joined. Unfortunately had to

Dan: unfortunately, had

Reegs: at the

Dan: at the

last Amateur snack outside the room.

Yeah, he's been Liz Hurling, I think, isn't he? He's, he's not well.

Cris: well. Yeah, I've seen him this morning. He, he, he looked good. He was wearing a shirt, wearing a shirt, chinos and some form of

Dan: I didn't the

Cris: I didn't get the chance.

Dan: get the chance. We do, of course. And we wish

Reegs: We don't wish him

Cris: We, I have seen him this morning as well. He was meant to come in because one of his many children was meant to be playing futsal right over the road here. But his son wasn't feeling it or he was tired. And,

Dan: raining as well that

Cris: then it sounded like an excuse to me, really. But, well, futsal is indoors.

So

I dunno, I dunno what to say about that, but it's not for me to say.

So he's not here. So both of them are here.

Dan: Oh. Thank goodness for that. Because it is normally a lot worse when they're both here. Yeah. But we've got the dream team.

Reegs: We have.

Cris: Yes.

Dan: thing the triangle of terror, the trio of Something

Terrific the terrific trio. Why not? And we have in that brilliant theme.

The four fours Fours in film.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Is that something we want to talk about before? Or should we talk about anything you've watched this week that might have interested the rest of us

Reegs: I have got to the end pretty much of Fallout, the penultimate episode. I don't know if it's just because I've been watching it kind of sporadically, but I haven't really got a fucking

Dan: two seasons one season

Reegs: One season.

Dan: yeah i've i'm up to date then on that

Reegs: I do enjoy it, but I have lost the thread of what's happening a little bit. But,

Dan: Okay so that's kept you

Reegs: it? Yeah, I'm watching Arsenal. That's been great too.

Dan: The

Cris: thing that I've watched was last week on Tuesday evening, I think it was the only evening when I really actually had time to watch anything was, I've tried to watch Napoleon and I'm

Dan: Napoleon. Is that like an eight part

Reegs: No, it's the Ridley,

Cris: it's a

Dan: the film

Cris: Apple Plus, or Apple TV, TV Apple Plus thing with Joaquin Phoenix and

Dan: Hakim.

Cris: some, the girl with the tits. I can't remember her name. She's English.

What's her name?

Dan: anyway? Don't think we know anyone with that description.

Reegs: No,

Cris: She's quite pretty

Dan: Oh,

Cris: She's got, looking, I don't know She's got this

Dan: she single. She sounds great.

Cris: know, I can't

Reegs: has she been in? That would

Cris: been in, I think Mission Impossible?

Reegs: Mm Oh. Rose McGowan?

Cris: No I can't remember. I will tell you anyway. She is quite pretty and she's in it and she's got tits

Dan: Wow.

Cris: Which I don't know if that

Vanessa Kirby.

Reegs: All right.

Dan: Okay

Cris: in

Reegs: Ornithological? Blue tits? Or is that what you're talking about?

Cris: she's an actual

got

Dan: she's

Cris: really nice Boobs in this movie, so I don't know.

Dan: Oh,

Cris: But the movie itself, I've I think I've got another half hour to watch.

I've abandoned the movie before it finished. So

Dan: Yeah.

Cris: I was, I was gonna have to have a shower and have to go to bed. But normally if you go half an hour left in a movie, you kind of just power through it and watch it. It just didn't really,

Dan: didn't keep your attention. Right.

Cris: I've read the history of Napoleon Bonaparte as well.

And it's obviously not, which I don't really care that much in movies. It's nice if they stick to the story, but not always. I don't really care all the time. And I'm not French, so I don't really care about Napoleon. But it just, I don't know. It just felt like it could have been done better.

Dan: Right, it sounds like it could have been done. Laziness. So I didn't really get up to much actually. I watched a bit of the homework. I have watched I was telling you earlier

late, late night champions league finals. That was pretty much, I got sucked into a, a YouTube rabbit hole.

But I've been quite excited to talk about fours, so

Reegs: Well, we did have, just before we do, we did actually have nominations for Scottish things last week. We had a load of good ones from Darren who talked about So I Married an Axe Murderer The Dad in That, The Train Spotting, you guys talked about that. That was fun to hear about. He talked about Sean Connery's accent in absolutely anything.

Dan: i imagine it's a Scottish accent.

Reegs: Spanish Immortal, Russian Submarine Commander, Irish American Cop, It's All The Shame,

Dan: Yeah, all a shame! Ha ha ha, money, penny.

Reegs: and Talking Heads Frontman David Byrne was born in Dunfermline, which Sidey did not, was crapping his pants about,

Dan: Ah, right. Yeah. Lon. Yeah. Hey, well, okay. Thanks very much for letting me any of those.

Gonna make it into our

Reegs: Yeah, I'm going to put in the Wicker Man. That has got a bit of Scottish vibes going on up there.

Dan: was up there, wasn't it? Where it all went

Cris: yeah, very

Dan: up in the, in the islands and the

Cris: like that film.

Dan: Yeah. It was, it was spooky. It was spookily and eerily. Too true, I think but good choices. Thank you

Cris: Fours in movies.

Dan: Fours and movies, we

We, should, after this, talk about the array of toxic waste that we've got in front of

Reegs: of us. Yeah, let's, let's tease it because

You

Dan: well, yeah, let's, let's tease it, because you don't often see such a, Clear case of absolute shit on one table that we're going to eat.

Reegs: Are you

gonna do a them

Cris: from your trip to Cardiff last week?

Reegs: No. I Googled the most sour sweets you can buy. And these came up, so I thought I'd try 'em. So

Dan: them. Okay,

Reegs: we'll do a live tasting for

Dan: do a live tasting.

Let me start the fours with three men.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: so, you remember this movie? It was the, the classic Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson kind of movie where three guys I think around 80s, late 80s had been find a baby outside their apartment and must look after it with hijinks.

Reegs: of course. So they would keep it. Yeah.

Dan: Yeah, of course you would.

You know, it's like New York. What are you going to

Reegs: Social services are well

Dan: yeah, yeah. If somebody leaves a baby on your apartment, you take it in. And then you bring it up with three guys who think that it might get them some lady action somewhere along the line like they're walking a nice dog in the park or something.

But they're pushing a baby now around and

Reegs: Who is it? Tom selleck

Dan: was Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg. And Ted Danson,

Reegs: danson What a trio that

Dan: three men and a baby and they all live in this bachelor's life Until you know, the the kid is there So I thought that was an interesting four to start us off and one that we hadn't Mentioned in a little while what that what that film is like to watch again three men and a baby I remember enjoying it at the time, but I was a lot younger.

Like yeah

Reegs: it's just one of those wacky 80s premise comedies, isn't

Dan: Yeah, well they I think it had a spinoff or two

Reegs: There was

Dan: a little lady

Reegs: a sequel, yeah, exactly. I

Dan: think there was

Reegs: I am gonna go with with the death of Roger Corman this week. Did you see that? The cult filmmaker, independent filmmaker, gave a start to so many people, I found out.

This, this week he mentored people like Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme Joe Dante, James Cameron, a load of different people gave them their starts in the industry in some way or another. And he famously or infamously perhaps produced an unreleased version of the fantastic four.

Dan: Okay.

Reegs: was made for an ultra low budget, I think in 1994, something like that, him and his partner. And they did it to retain, they had to make the movie to retain the rights to the franchise, but it was never released. Of course, if you are interested in those sorts of things, you can find it on the internet to watch.

But yeah, he, he did it. Passed away this way, he died. We can, we can face up to the reality of it. He died this week. Roger Corman responsible for some great

Dan: Over

Reegs: over the years. Death Race 2000 battle Beyond the Stars, all that sort of stuff. Yeah. Great, great.

Cris: Okay, I've got the four kids in South Park.

Dan: Oh, yes, nice one.

Cris: Kyle, Stan, Cartman, and Kenny,

Dan: Yeah.

Cris: who I, I, I always remember this because one of my friends,

She's, she's one of my friends.

I truly love her. And she always had a, she had a,

it wasn't a maroon winter jacket, but it was kind of a, a reddish coat and it had the fur on the top and whenever she would put it up, we would always try to mimic the, Oh my God, I killed Kenny. Kind of with a, with a guy's voice in it. There was, I've always remember that.

Then also, I think. As, as far as car, as cartoons go, they're by far my favorite cartoons.

Dan: Nice. Well,

Cris: south Park

Dan: I don't think you can do a fours without mentioning the four musketeers. We've got the classic Athos, Porthos, Aramis and Dogtanion. And I say Dogtanion because we, we have done the films and we've done the cartoons.

The cartoon is absolutely amazing. In fact, One for all and all for one musket hounds. It's just, as soon as I say it, the tune goes into my head, but it was a really decent film as well, where I think it were, who is it? Sting and Rod Stewart and somebody else did the soundtrack to one of the films.

Oh, for one, one for, Oh, remember that one? It was it was called. in the charts for ages. And it's, it's a classic story and it's, it's one of those that They've still produced, I think, a recent version of it. So it's an old story that keeps getting revamped, redone even in the same kind of way, just with newer, younger actors.

Because the, the story is so timeless and it's just action adventure. You've got young who's obviously heads to Paris to join this team of dogs, ninjas kind of guards and everything and and has On his opening day, a fight with all three of the the best musketeers and that's kind of how he He finds himself as part of their gang because there's a bigger enemy that they can all gang up on it against But still a classic still really enjoy it

Cris: At the

base, yeah.

Dan: base, yeah

Cris: Yeah. Is it rigged?

Reegs: Breaking

the fourth wall.

That's a technique where a character can interact or becomes aware that they're fictional. Maybe even that there's an audience and that they can interact sort of indirectly or directly with it. Done to great effect in lots of movies. Sidey's favourite, Ferris Bueller, famously has Bueller talking to the audience.

Dan: film, doesn't he?

Reegs: Deadpool did it a lot and was infamous for doing it in the comics.

before

They did it in the movies

Cris: that what it's called? When you kind of talk to us, like as

Dan: yeah, talk to the the viewer you're breaking the fourth

Reegs: or anything where you're, you know, interacting with the audience, even in something like the office or something where they would look at the camera to punctuate a joke. That is even, that is a sort of orchestrated fourth wall type as well.

Dan: watching you watching us

Reegs: Yeah, even, but even, even if it's through you know, you're also exploring the interaction of the medium as well as the, but anyway,

Cris: Okay. Yeah. All right. I didn't know that. That's an expression for that.

Reegs: great example.

Gremlins to the new batch. She seen that. Halfway through the projector breaks down. If you saw it in the cinema and Hulk Hogan, they get Hulk Hogan to come out the seat and fix it and shout at the gremlins and all

Dan: Oh, really? Yeah, yeah,

Reegs: think on the home video release, it was John Wayne messing about with the thing and,

Dan: don't want, yeah, okay,

Reegs: and space balls.

Did you ever see that?

At one point the cameraman gets taken out during the fight. So yeah, a little bit of breaking the fourth wall type craziness.

Dan: Okay. Well, talking of breaking on through to the other side, the doors the Oliver Stone movie has the the four members of the doors in it which is one of still the really big. formative films, I think for me, like when I watched this and Oliver Stone and how he portrayed the doors, I was particularly into the music at the, at the time, but it just brought a whole new life to the characters because Val Kilmer's portrayal of Jim Morrison was, you know, he'd gone full method on him and he looked like him.

He, he was so cool. They, they captured all that area around Venice beach and everything before starting out and how they. You know, become this shy kind of college band and then developed into the doors is, you know, one of the biggest musical rock bands of the sixties and all time afterwards his love interests with Pamela course and then everything.

But the music was still just so fantastic. You know, I mean, he's 27 when he died, Jim Morrison and and.

Lots more promised beyond that life, but he was always the kind of guy who was gonna get his kicks before the whole shit house went up in flames, I guess

Reegs: How was that? What was the fourness

Dan: well, there's four of them

Cris: members in the

Dan: members in the band, you know the doors here you got ray manzeric

Reegs: they were formative as

Dan: Yeah, there's there's so much there isn't

Cris: was so

Reegs: He's working on

Dan: gonna see if I can get any

Cris: a, he's clever.

Dan: this fornication is allowed We've got anything that's fortnight, you know, that would but go on you carry on you've got your your own I'm sure

Cris: I've got four people in, in a movie, which I remember watching as a kid. I had it on VHS on the A team

Dan: Ah, yeah.

Cris: with Baraka's face and the colonel

Dan: Did you, are you talking about the, the film or the TV series? Yeah, the TV. I had the action figures. I had yeah. Well, my brother had two. And I had the other two. So I had B. A. and I had did I have

Reegs: The van. The van was the

Dan: We had the van. We had the van. I mean, we were obviously quite spoiled kids, but we were really into it.

So it was our big Christmas present. My brother got Murdoch and Hannibal. Obviously I had B. A. That's all I wanted. I didn't care about the rest of it. But my bro

Cris: want BA?

Dan: He preferred Hannibal, he saw the coolness in

Reegs: Oh man, no!

Dan: him. Yeah, yeah, and the face man he liked, whereas I had Murdoch and

Reegs: No, I remember playing, I remember playing A team at Primary school and you

Dan: Playing it? How do you play it?

Reegs: you pretend to be in the 80s

Dan: Oh, right.

Cris: Yeah, you got a few mates and you

Dan: You try and make MacGyver,

Reegs: be BA, you'd be howling mad Murdoch.

Nobody wants to, everybody knew that Peppard was racist and old, so nobody wanted to be him and then face had to kiss girls, which is even

Dan: Yeah, yeah. Nobody wanted to do that. But yeah, it was a really good movie. Classic

Cris: Oh, brilliant. Yeah. For, for me, the, because obviously at the time the, I think we had a couple of the, I think a set, a set of maybe 10 VHSs or something like that, and I think the first three didn't have subtitle and they weren't dubbed,

Reegs: So

Cris: it was just, you just had the English language.

I don't know, however, the fool, you don't, you know, all this, all that, the way he was saying, honestly, and we all, all we did was just try to repeat lines that we didn't know how, what it means or what the point of this, these expressions is.

Reegs: knew he was cool.

Cris: Yeah, he was really cool. Yeah, of course. So yeah, that's, I hope that works as a four famous, I don't know, like a group of four people in, in a movie.

Dan: for me.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: Over to you

Reegs: Is it? I'll rattle through a couple

Dan: give us a few

Reegs: Four Lions was the brilliantly funny Chris Morris comedy directed by Morris and written with the Peep Show guys.

About a bunch of Sheffield dimwits who declare jihad. And it's got Riz Ahmed in that we saw in Sound of Metal. And Kay Van Novak and a couple of other guys, that was pretty good. Benedict Cumberbatch, memorably in it. Towards the end as a hapless negotiator I am number four, anybody ever see that? A young adulty type thing with Timothy Olyphant and Alex Pettifer, a teenage fugitive with an incredible secret, he's an alien or something the fourth kind

Dan: That's

Reegs: alien abduction thing, Mila Jovovich, Elias Koteas and Will Patton. It's like a sort of, sort of purports to be a based on real events or recreation of real events and done about a psychologist who uncovers like her own memories of repressed abduction really terrible, not very good.

But yeah, that's a couple of three movies with fours in.

Dan: There's often,

Reegs: That's 12.

Dan: that he goes, you do the math. The stand by me. We've mentioned this a few times of Rob Reiner film. The, the classic growing up and coming of age film where four friends go to, and it's narrated brilliantly actually by Richard Dreyfuss. Who is the elder kid? And these four lads here that there's a body.

Been found or to be found somebody's body is is on the right on the train tracks like a day or two's walk from where they are and and they want an adventure to go and see it and They go through all these You know, they go along the train tracks through the marshes. There's loads of leeches and things and It's just such a wonderful film.

We've reviewed it before for the pod. It's An all time classic and these four guys four friends Like you don't meet people like that other than when you're that age It's just friends like that at that age and it really takes you Ties it all together fantastically. And that would be a solid four

Reegs: Nice. Should we get to nominating or?

Dan: go on let's let's We've got teenage mutant hero turtles. I mean anything with four. I was thinking faster the furious four that

Cris: Yeah, I would say Rambo

Dan: Rambo

Reegs: Wow, Rocky 4.

Dan: four. I mean lots of fours

Cris: was gonna say, is that better than Rambo 4?

Reegs: Yeah.

Is it?

Cris: Which one is Rocky 4?

Reegs: It's Drago.

Cris: Oh, yes, that is good. Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with

Reegs: you can't really it's one of the best

Cris: No, I can't. Yeah, that's one of the best ones. Yeah.

Reegs: Maybe best part forever. I don't know. And also the fourth matrix, which I think everybody agrees is the best of all of the matrix movies

Dan: Is it that one called or?

Resurrections. Then you've got the, the hobbits in Lord of the Ring. That's Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin.

Reegs: Just picking four random,

Dan: Yes, it is. Oh, you're not having that one.

Cris: ideas. No, you're not having that one.

Reegs: Yeah. yeah.

Dan: You've got any band with like the Beatles, they obviously

Cris: I think we

Dan: hard days night and the fab four and everything. You've got the monkeys who tried to be the fab four

Reegs: The rattles.

Cris: was the Rat Pack, four of them. Yeah, there were four of them though.

Reegs: Sure. Why

Dan: they did a brilliant Rolling Stones documentary as well.

Reegs: red Dwarf.

There was four of them. This is tedious

Dan: Okay, well let's choose your four then. You can only have one of four.

Reegs: It is me.

Dan: Yeah, well, if it wants to be you, it can be you.

Reegs: can I have a press conference.

Dan: okay.

Reegs: It's the four seasons total landscaping press conference given by Rudy Giuliani. If you remember, they accidentally booked a local landscaping business instead of the four seasons hotel to deliver an update for Donald Trump during his reelection year.

And, and it was, you know, it was sort of situated halfway between a sex shop and a crematorium, I think. And they gave this big press conference from it there. So I'm going for the four seasons landscaping. Press conference.

Dan: Nice.

Cris: South Park.

Dan: South Park for you. I'm going to put in the doors because it was a fantastic film, but I'm sure out there we will have more fours.

And I wait to hear. Four three two one

Reegs: do we do now? Pause or stop?

Dan: Yeah, Or

Cris: we just carry on if we don't want to stop and that's it.

Dan: Gonna try something

So, oh my why they're individually

Cris: I can feel saliva coming in my mouth just when I'm thinking about them.

Dan: so i'm i'm I've got in my hand an

Reegs: don't give him too much publicity to get but it's

Dan: It's, it's an orange, like, what's that? A waste biohazard bin.

Reegs: I

Dan: And they're individually wrapped.

Sweets, it's just like a like a drop. Oh dear me Okay Okay,

Reegs: my

Dan: my face

Reegs: is nipping

Dan: into you know, my eyes are being sucked to the back of my head

Reegs: It's like

Dan: on my tongue.

Yeah. It's on my eyes, my nose and my mouth are all really close together now.

Reegs: Ew.

Dan: Dude.

Cris: Does it get any better?

Reegs: Yeah, it will do because there's a quite, if you crunch it,

Dan: fusion.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Dear me, I can, I can, I can't speak with this in my mouth.

Reegs: This probably makes for great content. I would think.

Dan: this is a

toxic

waste nuclear fusion sweet that I've just put in my mouth and it is

Cris: Well, I'll give it a go.

Reegs: Alright.

I go, Chris is gonna get into it.

Dan: good luck.

Cris: Okay,

Dan: Sour sherbet.

Cris: Now. It's

Dan: a

second though, doesn't it bloody hell great

Cris: my God, though.

Dan: so

Cris: the beginning of it is pure acid vinegar,

Dan: Pure nuclear sourness I think they could be popular and I see that we've got a green a yellow and a purple tub there

Reegs: And a red one.

Dan: And a red one as well. So these

are gonna, these are gonna run and run. These could blow our head off. If we don't make it to the end of the pod, you know why. We've just been, we're too radioactive with these, I guess.

Reegs: Oh,

I think I'm crying now.

Dan: Yeah, they do almost make you cry. They bring a tear to your eye, these.

Reegs: And that segues

almost too

well, as Sidey would say, into this week's movie.

Dan: Which is the magnificent four. Plus three.

Cris: Yes them

Dan: Yeah, the magnificent seven.

Reegs: I have to say, I watched this in the best possible way, which is on a bank holiday. No. Because we had a bank holiday here in Jersey, Liberation Day.

week Yeah. or yeah,

And so, you know, that is the right way to watch a Magnificent

Dan: When you should be at work but in fact you're going to watch a a modern western, who has taken a classic film I mean

Reegs: Which if itself was a

Dan: Was a remake of kurosawa's, seven samurai then it went to the magnificent seven and I remember watching the magnificent seven Oh on a Sunday. It may have even been a bank holiday.

Who knows? Many years ago in my pajamas, in front of the fire the whole family's there and we're watching your Brenner and others

Reegs: Bronson

Dan: dish out some justice and made up of brilliant characters that you really cared if they were going to live and if they were going to die and if they were going to save this poor village in which they hired to protect.

The theme is pretty much the same. There's a village in old Mexico that is being torn to pieces by an industrialist somebody, a capitalist who, who just Wants to mine the village and mine the mine the

Reegs: Well, you see them run through the town straight away, don't they? I mean, they just cope like an army basically just goes through it.

Dan: Take what they want they have no respect we see

Reegs: round up people to force them to work in the mine.

Dan: yeah, and and they will shoot dead anybody that opposes or Shouts them back and they'll go into the church and they'll they'll Flash their guns around there as well just to show how mean they are and how much they disrespect anything that Decent law abiding folk would consider to be sacred

Reegs: Where he's only, he's only greed and profit are his motives.

Dan: Yeah, he's a real meanie.

Reegs: And he gives them he says, you've got three weeks, I think. And I'll give you 20 per

Dan: of land or whatever it

Reegs: of land you got. And you get the fuck out of here. Cause this is now a mine, a gold mine. And you're going to go and

Dan: Don't get in the way of progress.

Reegs: He says this to them threateningly in the church while you can hear a baby crying as he threatens them.

And you know, people are looking in disbelief like you're not going to commit those acts of violence here because like you say, they're brandishing their weapons and it spills outside where If you see the small act of rebellion is very quickly quashed and the fights are great in this because what you see is an individual ratcheting up of tension, which you watch how one move affects another.

So a guy will mop his brow, which will cause someone else to put their hand on their heel of their gun, which will cause someone else to unbuckle the holster, which will cause someone else to raise their rifle to their shoulder. And then the fights are very quick, actually, after that. And.

Dan: Yeah, it accelerates quite quickly.

I think they go in and they may start trying to burn the church down. Certainly one guy

Yeah, well certainly one guy stands up and he goes what kind of a man are you? Well, i'm the kind of man who will shoot you for saying what kind of a man am I? And i'll do that in front of everybody without any, you know, the sheriff say doesn't give a shit He's running this town and and the sheriff's on his paywall.

At least he's scared shitless of him if if he's not and he knows he's every right to be scared shitless because this guy will just kill him And then he'll go and find another You mayor or sheriff to do whatever he wants. They have no choice then. They're really desperate. And it's one of the, it's the wife of the guy who's got shot actually, who seems to have,

Reegs: Emma Cullen.

Dan: yeah, she seems to have the most drive and ambition and, and desperation and and balls really to go in, do something about this.

So she heads to the.

Which is probably a you know,

Reegs: Couple of days ride away.

Dan: Two

days wide away. In the hopes she can find somebody who can take on this this bad man, this army and his his plans.

Reegs: And wouldn't you know it entering town? Is is it Sam Chisholm? It's definitely

Cris: Sam, yes. Sam Chisholm.

Reegs: He is Denzel Washington. We see him first. He's all dressed in black. Yeah.

Dan: Man in black,

Reegs: man in black and he. Stows his horse, I don't know if he's stow a horse, parks his horse,

Dan: he parks it.

Reegs: and

Dan: it in there, next to the

Reegs: Goes into the bar, and there's a moment where you think they're gonna, Maybe half address the fact that he's black where he says I'm not for sale. And everybody turns around and looks away, and then he starts asking for information, sliding money across the bar. I'm looking for this guy. What was his name?

Yeah.

Dan: And

he was wanted for unlawful killing and murdering and butchering and, and down downright nastiness,

Cris: Sorry, Bartholomew Bogue.

Reegs: Oh no, that's the other

Dan: and, and well, the, the, the chap that he Denzel Washington's originally in town for, and he's, he's a real piece of work.

Of course there's no internet around these days. You know, nobody's got a recent photograph of anybody. Nobody knows who the hell anybody looks like. They, they're just reliant on information. And, oh, I saw him. He came through the town a couple of days ago. A few of them, though, have perked up at his arrival.

And, and he's waiting for something to happen.

Reegs: he flashes his badge as well, doesn't he?

Dan: Yeah, he is an official sworn in county

Reegs: Doah,

Dan: doodah collector guy. Bounty hunter. Not quite a bounty hunter, but something similar. He's He's got the law on his side.

Reegs: Yeah. So he starts telling this story about this guy that he's, after, like you say, people are starting to perk up and pretty quickly it becomes clear that the guy, he's.

talking to is the guy that he's after pretty much and so there's a quick gunfight I think two people are killed straight there he kills two of them looks at the other guy is like don't

Dan: don't . And they rush off to get the sheriff who comes back and

Reegs: he he goes out with hands in the air surrendering his weapon and then explains I'm a marshal or whatever the fuck I am and here's the wanted poster of the guy also but what we hadn't mentioned is that Chris Pratt There's also been in this bar do it getting rowdy drunk with his mates looking a bit shifty.

When a law man comes in, he's the only one who doesn't shit himself basically. When he realized when everybody sees how much of a badass Chism

Dan: badass Chism is. From behind and in you know in the back and everything so, this is noticed by chism so there's straight away a little bit of respect and the camaraderie between them, which is just as well because chris pratt is

Reegs: his horse has been impounded

Dan: Yeah, yeah.

Reegs: it's got one of

Dan: He gambled his horse, I think, didn't he? He's gambled his horse, he's gambled anything else that was worth anything, and the guy won't give him his horse back. He wants 25 for it, which is a fair amount of money, even in this day and

age.

Reegs: It was the same horse that was in War Horse,

Dan.

Dan: well that's,

Reegs: a celebrity horse.

Cris: Yeah, that must be worth 25.

Dan: Denzel

sees him looking to get his horse back and says, look, I'll buy the horse.

You come and work for me.

Reegs: Only after, yeah, we haven't forgot to mention, haven't we, that after he's gone out and shown his warrant thing, Emma and her friend Teddy Q or something she said to him, I've got money and I want you to come and

Dan: come

Reegs: come and defend our town. We've got this guy and he says, oh, you want revenge? And she says, I want retribution, but I'll take revenge if that's all there is.

Justice. Yeah. And he's initially a bit reluctant, but then he is, when he hears the name Bogue that you were mentioning before that that's

Dan: This is a name that's come up before, and they've,

Reegs: so that that's why he ends up

Dan: got. Yeah, and they've got everything they've got in this kind of leather satchel.

And it's just, you can hear it chingling about in there and you imagine that that is everything that this town has got. They're only farmers and, and and simple folk. They're not murderers and, and criminals. Gunslingers or anything? And and so everything is on the line there for them and he he says look you're gonna need an army To to fight this army.

You're gonna need a a plan and recruit so begins recruiting. Our heroes.

Reegs: Yeah. And this is a cool little stretch of where you get introduced to it. Everybody gets a little turn to be introduced as they recruit the guys. So first off, I don't know if it's quite first, but we'll go for Good Night Robo Show and his mate Billy Rocks.

These two are great. This is Ethan Hawkers. That is one of the best names ever. Good Night Robo Show. He's a PTSD suffering former civil war fighter who I assumed was in a gay relationship with the opium smoking Billy Rocks, although they never really bring that bit out,

Dan: Billy Rocks is a Native American Indian.

Reegs: he's a Korean. He kills a guy in a quick draw contest with his hair thing.

Dan: Oh, he

Reegs: you remember that? It was amazing.

Dan: yeah, he's got a hairband.

Reegs: So there's those two and who else do we need? We need Vincent D'Onofrio, who's going to turn up as basically Little John from the he's Jack Horne, some sort of like folk legend.

Native American killer.

Dan: He's, yeah.

Reegs: He's the one who's in, he's like a strange performance really. Cause he mumbles high pitched through most of it.

Dan: yeah, well the band he puts together, I remember and I'm comparing this now to the,

Cris: to the

Dan: to the original they seem to have a lot more fun and a lot more Ark in in collecting those characters and and those people in in the first one say here the band is is put together

Reegs: quick. One of them is Vasquez a Mexican, a criminal who is going to be given his freedom in, in exchange for fighting alongside and who Chris Pratt's character is instantly racist towards, even though he's fine taking orders from

Dan: Denzel Washington and I must say Denzel Washington in this his for me He just elevated each scene. He was in you could

Reegs: That is Denzel.

Dan: That is Denzel and it just seems such a step when anybody else was in down When I saw other characters trying to be like chris pratt, for example and we can get in the ins and outs of it all but

Reegs: They hand solo him up a bit, basically. Chris Pratt is basically hand solo, pretty

Dan: Yeah, they they've tried to give him a few sort of laugh lines and you know, he's

Reegs: he's He's a little bit roguish as well. Treads the line a little bit in terms of morally what he

Dan: Yeah, that's right. He's

He hasn't got the same scruples as

Denzel who's really, you know taken This to heart now this effort that he's going to have to make to Save this town so they ride into town.

Reegs: Oh, and they pick up a Native American as well, who's been tracking them. Comes to have a chat with them, forces Denzel to eat a bit of Deer's liver or something? Yeah,

Dan: it's a, it's a raw deer liver as part of a bonding thing.

And and suddenly they've got an expert tracker as part of their team as well. They were all scared of him. They were all about to shoot him until Denzel was managed to speak a few words and, and get him to join the gang, if you like. And, and that's what they do. Now as they ride into town, the, the main bad guy's men are there and they own the town, and suddenly these guys are wandering in, and there's gonna be a shoot off.

You, you know that.

Reegs: This was my favorite bit of the movie by distance. This part when they walk in and take the town back. Yeah. Because they are clearly quite outnumbered and yet, you know, they position themselves and then, you know, the way it escalates, the tension, what I was talking about before, where one movement affects another, but this across a great many different

Dan: is a classic Mexican standoff kind of look on the, you know, main street, on the main drive People are closing doors and windows and things and it's only those that are out there with guns that are staying out there.

Reegs: And it's a impeccably shot sort of three or four minute battle sequence, really, really good.

I really like this, you know, in stark contrast to the last 40 minutes of the movie, which we'll talk about in a minute. But as that ends, we do find out some stuff because one guy kind of, they kill like seven or eight guys each. I think they even talk about it. And then they get rid of all of the.

Brogue's men. Bogue. Brogue. Bogue. They get rid of all of his men apart from one guy who Goodnight RoboShow can't shoot.

Dan: No, he, he's, he's, he's kind of going through this this moral

Reegs: No, it's PTSD. He can't pull the trigger.

Dan: Yeah. Well, he, he's, he's not, he's not sure whether he should, you know, he's thinking, oh, is it

Reegs: Well, he's had a dream that when he kills next, he'll be the one to die afterwards as well,

hasn't

Dan: he kills next, he'll be the one to die afterwards as well, hasn't he? In this way, and then another

Reegs: He gets away and then another guy that they find, they send back to Peter Scars guard to tell him, fuck you. You know,

Dan: Yeah, I can't believe this guy went back. Because you knew he was going to be killed as soon as you delivered this news to that guy.

No, just head to Mexico, mate.

Reegs: They said something like, you know, you're telling he is a yellow belied. Coward if he

Dan: wanna tell him he's a yellow bellied coward? And he's like, yeah, right, okay, I'm gonna go and do that. And, and then next scene, it cuts to that. He called me a yellow bellied. And you're like, hmm, okay. And sure enough, yeah the messenger gets shot.

Reegs: So, back at the town, Rose Creek, I think it's called Denzel tells the gang and the the collected town, right? We haven't got three weeks. We've got

A week. That's how long it's gonna take.

It's gonna take that guy three days to get there. It's gonna take Bogar day to sort his shit out, and then three days for them to come back. So that's what we've got, and we've gotta make an army. The people who are gonna stay, we're gonna defend the town. So a load of people just go straight away. They're not having a fight.

The people who stay behind are just this ragtag collection of farmers. Most of 'em have never seen a weapon before.

Dan: up a pitchfork and going, yeah, we'll get them, and they're like, oh, fucking hell, we've got a long way to go. But they, they've got a week, so they're going to get them digging trenches, they're going to get them shooting practice,

Reegs: terrible shooting

terrible shooting

Dan: and

and just try to turn this ragtag of farmers and you know, agricultural men into warriors and fighters and soldiers. Well, it's a long way to go. Young lady's still involved. She's probably she wants to get a gun start shooting people. And they start putting sandbags down and, as I say, digging ditches and things.

It's

Reegs: It's one of those where, you know, they confiscate some, they take some dynamite from the mine and all that. It's never 100 percent clear what the plan is.

They just show you bits and pieces and you know it's going to pay off

later and you'll

Dan: it's all gone a little A team and things and they're trying to say MacGyver, all this stuff together.

So the plan is when the baddies men come into town, they're going to be waiting for him and they're going to try and take him by the element of surprise. It's the only chance they've got. He knows there's going to be an army. And to be fair, that next scene, when you see him coming in on the horses, there's a Fuck ton of

Reegs: There's loads of them. And also, the Magnificent Seven has become the Awkward Six because the night before, Goodnight RoboShow's piked it,

Dan: yeah, he, he can't take it anymore. His his nerves won't hold.

He's saying,

I'm I'm just not there anymore. I'm I'm a coward like I just don't want any part of this We're not gonna we're not gonna make it against this law.

So he goes off

But the girl comes in and she makes up the seventh again. So we're back to seven

Because she's suddenly got a cowboy hat on and she can shoot better than just about everyone else who isn't one of the magnificent

So she's in

Reegs: So, anyway, the attack begins the next day. I, we don't need to go through all of it. It's a lot of explosions. They, the horses, I mean, the big thing is

Dan: well, that's it. A lot of explosion and they've digging, they've digged these ditches and there's a big open plane that the horses have to, to run over to get into the village. And they obviously funneled them in a little bit with you know, trees or whatever.

So they know, you know, Basically what route they're coming and they've they've wired a few areas for explosions But they've also made these little kind of pits where they're all like little

Bunkers, aren't they? And they're all just sat in there waiting to to spring out so they can ambush them and come up behind them and start shooting The horses as they're pushing

I won't see him all camouflaged.

Reegs: There is a lot of shooting, as you might imagine, which I do not want to go

Dan: No, lots of explosions.

Reegs: Vincent D'Onofrio, I think is the first of the seven to die. He is killed by the bad guys have got their own Native American so that he kills D'Onofrio. D'Onofrio, also killed, is

Dan: The big bear guy yeah. He, well, he went, he went down

Reegs: was the first one to go

Dan: he went in about eight arrows in him, didn't he? And then he just kind of slumps forward. But even after like six arrows, he's still moving forward. But in the end he's, he's just, he

Cris: dead man.

Dan: yeah. But he doesn't collapse fully, he kind of kneels and just. Rests his head forward and and that's him dead.

Yeah,

Reegs: good Night Robes show comes back to join the

Dan: Wouldn't you know just just as the thing's looking a little bit Well, which way is this gonna go good night comes back on a horse. He takes out I think saving Denzel or Chris Pratt. He takes a terrific long shot. They were questioning whether his eyes have still got it. He's still got it

Reegs: Oh, because Bogue has also got now a a Gatling gun, machine gun, like a revolving barrel machine gun thing that he's just spraying the whole town with gunfire, it doesn't matter whether his own men are

Dan: Well, they asked and they say yes, I own men's in there he's like don't

Reegs: worry.

Sucks to be them, yeah.

Dan: that's it sucks to be them and they're about 300 meters back just Absolutely gunning the town down. And yeah, everybody must be ripped to shreds who weren't lucky enough to be hiding in behind a significant wall or

Reegs: Yeah, but when that thing needs a magazine change we see Chris Pratt. I'm not really sure what prompted his act of self sacrifice but he essentially charges

Dan: he's, he's taking a shot. He's

Reegs: he's taking a shot.

He's going to

Dan: he's, he's going to die. So he's thinking and he all the way through it, he's had this kind of card trick or, or slight of hand that is got him out of a few scrapes and, and won him some money or, or whatever it is. So his his heroic act. to get just close to this Gatling gun brings him just there, but they absolutely pepper him full of bullets and he's,

Reegs: robocop really that scene in robocop really like there should be nothing left of him

Dan: and you see him like just wanting to

to,

light a cigarette and they're about to finish him. And one of the guy I think it might be Scarsguard, the main guy, he goes,

Reegs: let him have his

Dan: you know, get I'll go down, I'll even light it for you. You know, so he lights this cigarette and he falls forward and he thinks, Oh, I'm just going to, but as he's falling for what he's actually doing, he's pulled out this stick of dynamite and he's lit it from the cigarette light and it's sizzling down.

And it's a big enough stick of dynamite that he can just see, Oh, fuck, you know, that kind of sense of impending doom as he, as he throws it towards him and

Reegs: Well it blows, he takes out the Gatling gun, yeah.

Bogue escapes though and down to the church really for a standoff, there's basically only Chisholm and Bogue

Dan: That's right, yeah.

Reegs: And they have this Big confrontation where Chisholm reveals his motivation. He says, Oh, you know, your soldiers, I think lynched and murdered my family. And he was like, he doesn't even remember it, Bogue.

It was just like, just another Tuesday to him sort of thing.

Dan: yeah, no, he, he, that's right. He's, he's he's just one of those guys done so many bad things. He doesn't remember who he's done 'em to.

Reegs: They, they have a fight then in the church on the, the grounds where that he desecrated early, earlier. And it looks like he's got the drop on Denzel with this little shot, little pistol

Dan: That's right.

It will Denzel's on top of him beating to a pulp. He's about to you know But he's sneaky little bastard. He's got a gun out of his shoes, one of these tiny little cap gun things, but would put a hole in his side and then you hear it, the gunshot and you think, Oh, Denzel's got it. But in fact, it's not, it's the girl who's at the door of the church and she's seen that he pulled this little gun out and she, she shot him and saves Denzel.

Reegs: And then mercifully, they just race to the finishing line. Now, I think we see some pictures of the townspeople celebrating the graves of the ones who died which include the Native American and Vincent D'Onofrio. And then in over one of the most laughable CGI landscapes I think I've ever seen, she says they were. Magnificent. And I cried at what a horrible ending

Dan: you to hear the

Reegs: theme tune, yeah.

Dan: Yeah. It wasn't as good as No. This James

Reegs: was James Horner's last ever soundtrack, so.

Dan: Okay.

Reegs: And they only drop the Magnificent Seven theme tune, the one dun dun dun, that's, you only get that right at the end. It's such a banger though.

Dan: Yeah. This wasn't such a banger though for me.

This was nowhere near worth lacing, the boots of the Certainly No Seven Samurai. And and it wasn't.

Cris: wasn't even close to the

Dan: enough to the original which I remember maybe, you

Cris: nostalgia,

Dan: nostalgia maybe the rose tinted glasses coming out. Maybe I should have made that the the midweek so we could properly compare them.

But nevertheless, in my mind, this was a, an inferior offering to the original Magnificent Seven. It had, it had kind of moments. Denzel literally. You know, is the only reason to watch this, this film as far as the actor is just what an actor, I mean, just a presence, you suddenly do believe that he is the one, you know, character who seems to have read the script and got all the, the mood of everything, right?

Chris Pratt and the other ones Chris Pratt is the other one that the film wants to invest into and, and give him screen time and put him in. But he's just.

I like

Cris: feel

Dan: I like him, but he's just not a cowboy and that I can believe in and, and this character that I thought he could be. He's gonna you know, be a hero and you're going to root for him and like for him.

He wasn't particularly that likable and and the others you didn't really get to know. You know, you, I remember the other characters in the, in the, in the, Magnificent seven. And it was the guy with a knife that I really loved, you know, and he just, he was quiet and he, you know, he was,

Cris: yeah, everyone had something

Dan: knew, you knew a little bit more about him and you knew a little bit more about his motivations, whereas this lot, they just kind of wanted to get it.

Into the final scene, it seemed, where they could start blowing things up a little bit. Chris Pratt says that at one point, I really enjoyed blowing things up and I thought, well, that's kind of all that the last part of the film gave us. So it, It was a bit of a shame. It wasn't unwatchable it was just meh for me.

I don't know, what did you think about it, Riggs?

Reegs: Well, I, this is a pretty solidly entertaining movie of this type. It's a remake of like a much better movie, which is itself was also a remake of a much better movie. That's the URA sour one. That's the one I really wanna watch again.

Dan: to watch. It's kind of diluted down each time, isn't it?

And this one has taken a lot of

Reegs: You know. I have to say though, that watching this on a bank holiday, sort of as nature intended, it did hit really, really well, even though, you know, the last 45 minutes is just a slog of explosions and stuff.

And then tonally, you're never quite sure whether you're supposed to be taking this stuff seriously. Sometimes there's like an emotional PTSD moment with Good Night, and then the next minute, one guy's, you know, one, the goodies Native American is fighting the baddies Native American with tomahawks and they're getting their Like, am I supposed to be in like,

Dan: like, yeah, no, there were, there was a few things like that where the humor didn't quite hit.

The emotion didn't. Really make me feel anything. Although it was, it was trying to,

Cris: tell you that I've watched this movie. I remember nothing of

Dan: Yeah. because

Cris: I watched it a few years ago. I'm I'm a hundred percent sure when I've seen the trailer earlier, while I was watching quickly, just to kind of see, I'm pretty sure I watched it before when I've seen the cast and everything, I was like, I'm I've watched this.

And when you're kind of talking about things and it's, that's how memorable it was that I don't remember.

Reegs: But, if you are in the market for a very well made, modern ish western,

Dan: Yeah

Reegs: On that, you know, if that is hitting you, you something in the sweet spot.

This is gonna help,

Dan: yeah, it's not awful. It's, if you're into that kind of movie or you want to watch a,

Reegs: I had a really, I had a far better time watching this than I probably should have done. Do you

Dan: Right, yeah, yeah,

Reegs: having a beer or whatever it was on a, on a bank holiday

Dan: to watch, you know, it's, it's not gonna tax you too much. I, I just thought that with the actors involved, I thought they might have rung a little bit more out of this. And I mean, it, Saidi probably hasn't bothered to give us any metrics cause he's not here, but I would imagine this didn't make tons of money at the box

Reegs: No, I think it did. All

Cris: Moderate success, it

Dan: moderate success.

I, I missed it first time round. It wasn't on my radar is like a bar, you know, you've got to go and see it and whatever, and it films come out so fast that if you don't. If it isn't good, if people aren't talking about it, then you've missed it. And it could be years like it has been before I get round to watch it.

Reegs: It looks nice though, doesn't it? And it is, it's Antoine Focqua. I like his name. And he did, he was also with these guys, Denzel and Ethan Hawke with Training Day. If you remember

Dan: Yeah. One. Yeah.

Reegs: Which was a pretty good movie too. So these guys obviously have fun working together and they do good work. So yeah.

Magnificent. Recommend.

Dan: I would, yeah, I would strongly recommend, strongly recommend.

Sound mate sound

Reegs: Alright, sound, yeah. Sound? Yeah,

Cris: Yeah, sound.

Dan: sound sound Well, I collect sounds But not like this kids TV show that I watched the sound collector

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: which,

I had not seen before I was looking around for kids TV

It's a BBC offering

Reegs: It's not. It's

Dan: It's not a BBC offering. What was the offering? What did I watch it on?

I-T-V-I-T-V production

Reegs: made in conjunction with Rye, which I don't know is an

Cris: Rye, yeah, Italian, yeah.

Reegs: and in conjunction with BFI and the studio that made this delightful looking thing because it is stop motion against live action backgrounds. It was McKinnon and Saunders. They did the.

Puppets models and animation. And it really does look very distinct because it's very modern stylings, it's very charming stop motion, but very detailed, very modern against live action backgrounds. Very distinct look.

Dan: It was absolutely beautiful to see. Yeah. And it sort of centers around this kind of Rastafari

Reegs: rastafarian

Dan: looking . I don't think that is the, the look that they've gone for, but it's the look that he's got.

Reegs: Look that they've gone for, but it's the look that he's got.

And this particular episode featured on rock pools

Dan: And, and this particular episode featured on rock pools which he wanted to go and record the, the sound.

And actually the rock pool features very quickly because as soon as he gets there, he's, he's pretty much off again, but

Reegs: well he gets to the beach doesn't he gets the goals at the

Dan: at the beach. Yeah, that's right. So on the way down and, and you hear very clearly without You know too many surprises sound on this is fantastic it's just really great and I I was just watching this thinking about You know that that very exercise really that that activity of of recording sounds and and then playing them back because it was something I used to do.

Just you know, whether it be

The waves or birds

Reegs: very mindful, isn't it?

You know, focusing on a particular sound, particularly of nature like that. He's on a beach with the waves crashing and even a fucking gull squawking, but

Dan: It is. And then when you bring those sounds back to the like a studio or try to put them out, you know, they, they're just so alive and they can bring you back to that moment in time and everything.

I just love the way they put this on a kid's radar, you know, that because there's everybody's got a recording device these days, you know, you can get your hands on one. Yeah. He's got this classic one with a microphone that at one point he encases in a, a plastic kind of unit that he can drop under the water to get the, the sounds of underwater anything, but they, they remain true to what sounds you would hear, which underwater is just like a, you know, kind of a bristly sounds and the goals and the birds and, and, you know, all these other kinds of noises that he records and so it is just that is, is very,

mellow.

Reegs: It's voiced by Keira Knightley. So that's pretty sexy as

Dan: got a lovely. Yeah,

Reegs: don't know if that's what she was going for,

Dan: well, she's got a lovely silky voice, isn't she? She's you know, it's very easy to, to listen to. And, and so basically It's only a five, six minute show.

Reegs: he's got a pet mole, a rescue mole.

Dan: you, you're transfixed with the the stop motion animation.

And the, the outside, I mean, at one point where he just gets to the rock pool, you just see it perfectly like this. You know, this scene, there's a little rock pool and, and then this little stop motion guy and the guy comes along and over the, the rocks and everything and starts recording. And, it's just one frame, it's just, holds this and you just see this kid, he's not doing much and,

But it

transfixed me, it was just really, really nice, I, I

Reegs: and well, as well, the the sort of central idea of somebody discovering, somebody hearing impaired, discovering the world through sound and preserving that is a beautiful thing as well.

So,

Dan: so and there's loads of these i think there was a good series length that you could go and explore more and i think i probably will i think this is the kind of five or six minute show i would just like to see more of because of the animation it was cheers So beautifully the detail in the things that he was Setting up on the table or playing with or or just positioned in the house.

I thought it was really nice Yeah, yeah, it was it was a pleasant surprise for me. What about yourself? Did you did you did you watch this with the kids or anything or is it just on yourself?

Reegs: It was just me. But yeah, I really liked this. So the whole concept the way it's executed yeah, brilliant really and very unique looking modern but charming is really difficult to pull off it's you know, it's still very bright

British as well, even though it's got that Italian involvement as well, which probably brings something else

to it.

It's

Dan: well. It's got, as well, which probably brings something else to it as well.

being quite famous and popular in British you know, stop animation and, and stuff like that. But

I'll be interested just because the whole concept and, and because of the, the approach to it, or Keira Knightley as, as well.

I'll probably watch a, yeah, listen to a few more of these in that five or six minutes long. They're, they're memorable enough that I think you'll enjoy it. Strong recommends this

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: Yeah, really sound.

We just stop here

Cris: Well, no, you have to say,

Reegs: what. Tell

Cris: do all the, what are we doing next week? And we got the

Reegs: no,

Dan: a really a he's right he's right I don't know should we leave them sidey decide whether we say

Reegs: Ah, fuck Sidey in the ears.

Dan: him in the ears. Yeah, it's gone. Dan's gone