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The Acolyte Episode 7 Recap: Sol's Reckless Path, Season Finale Speculations and More!
Today we're breaking down Episode 7 of The Acolyte, aptly titled "Choice," where we'll unravel Saul's bold moves, Mei's heartbreaking journey, and Torbin's childlike spur-of-the-moment decisions. From dissecting intense Wookiee brawls to analyzing Master Indara's heroic deeds, we're wondering if the final episode can neatly tie up all the loose ends.
And to cap it all off, we've got Eric's take on "Star Trek: Prodigy," Chris diving into "The Iron Claw," and a thrilling exploration of the supernatural in AP’s review of "Long Legs."
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Speaker 2:It's Whatcha Watchin'. Welcome to Whatcha Watchin'. Presented by Geeky, a Go-Go, a show where we dive into what's currently on our screens. Big screens or little screens, size matter not here, just the quality or lack of of our cues. I'm Chris Nitro. This week we're continuing our review and recap of the Acolyte, diving into Episode 7. Ap is a leg guy and it shows in his cinema choice of this week Longlegs. Eric is boldly going into watching Star Trek Prodigy and I'm going to elbow drop you with my thoughts on the Iron Claw, anthony, take it away.
Speaker 1:Well, folks, I will try not to elbow drop you into my recap of the Acolyte episode seven. All right, we're in the home stretch and, as a reminder, if you're not into spoilers, well, fast forward about 10 or 15 minutes. You've been warned. Episode seven came out this past Tuesday and was essentially episode three, but from a different point of view. See what I did there. Episode 3, but from a different point of view, see what I did there. Episode that was my dad joke, okay. Episode 3, titled Destiny, showed us what happened on Brendock from May and Osha's perspective, leading us down some rabbit holes. And if you want to check out that recap episode, we'll leave a link in the show notes.
Speaker 1:Leaving Episode 3, we are beginning to ask the question how naughty are the Jedi? Well, in Episode 7, titled Choice, we get to find out. So what did we find out? Saul is so needy for a Padawan that he decides to insert his authority, reject the advice of his superior and crash a coven of witches that were simply minding their own dark side business. Not only that, we get to see the catalyst for Mei's anger and the fact that she takes out that he Sol takes out Mother Anisea in a bizarre trigger happy moment, which is very unbecoming of the Jedi. Oh, and he also had the chance to save both Osha and Mei. But because he has his light-sided heart set on Osha, he let Mei fall into a chasm. Terrible mentoring, oh.
Speaker 1:And we get to see the angsty, beardless Torbin race off to prove a vergence in the Force and nearly start an intergalactic incident on the way, just so he can get back home to Coruscant because he's bored. Yes, that actually happened. So outside of a lot of nods to the prequels, OT and sequels, there weren't a lot of big aha moments. Outside of Saul killing Anisea and seeing how much of a baby Torben is Now speaking of nods to the prequels a fun Easter egg there's a reference to a hyperspace incident that wiped out all life forms. Now, I believe this is a nod to the very first High Republic book, light of the Dead Jedi, which starts out with the Jedi coming to save the day after a ship explodes in a hyperspace lane. The piece is taking out planets left and right. It's pretty intense. Chris, you actually introduced me to that book. Did you catch that little easter egg there?
Speaker 2:I did and I was excited when I heard it. I was like I actually know something. I heard that one before. I know me too.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh, chris is going to love this one. So, chris, were there any major ahas for you in this episode? Seeing episode three in essence from a different perspective? Were any of your suspicions confirmed or your tinfoil hat theories confirmed in this episode? Yet?
Speaker 2:I mean, the biggest takeaway that I have from this episode is a cinematic one, right? It's not so much story progression or anything to that effect, but what this reminded me of was Rashomon, right, the old samurai film. I don't even think of it as a samurai film, it's just an old Japanese film, and I don't know why I'm blanking on the director's name. He's, it's.
Speaker 1:Kurosawa.
Speaker 2:There you go. Kurosawa, right. So Rashomon is Kurosawa's first foray or first international smash hit. That kind of like really brings Japanese cinema to the West. I think it was 1950, 1951 maybe and it's a story told from the perspective of four people and it's different every time. So it's in the nod to the taking liberties or taking, I forget the word using Kurosawa as a source for Star Wars, right, because we see it in the original trilogy. Everyone has, even George Lucas himself has said it, he's taken from Kurosawa. And then we see that continue on in, uh, the mandalorian right with lone, lone, wolf and cub, uh, and, and now we for it further continues, right, you're seeing a story told from different perspectives. So I, no huge surprises to me. Nothing reaffirmed or changed my perspective on whatever, other than the fact that it, this episode is made to make you think like there's always two sides of a story or multiple sides to a story. So I I enjoyed that thing, that part, most about episode seven very nice eric soul.
Speaker 1:We got to see Very nice Eric Sol. We got to see a very interesting side of Sol, almost a likeness to Qui-Gon, when he kind of discovers Anakin and wanting to vouch for this kid who's a little too old. What do you think of Sol's character direction in this episode and like where he took it and and do you think he did some of the right things as a potential Jedi master to a Padawan?
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I think he came across as a relatively new Jedi master, I feel like, or Knight, I don't know if he's. Was he a master in this one yet I'm not sure.
Speaker 3:but it came across as relatively new, right, and it makes sense, and it's interesting how he's so passionate about, uh, this individual, like you said, that he wants to run after, so he was maybe behaving a little bit more rash than usual, right.
Speaker 3:And I could also see, though, because I watch this again, where you know, if you find yourself in some those kind of situations and you go, it's a really intense standoff, right, essentially, uh, when, like, sith hit the fan and uh, and I could see how, in those situation, you're like, well, it's time for me to whip out my lightsaber and all the things that happen. I think that you know all throughout the entire show, people were like, oh, you're gonna see that maybe soul or whoever is the big bad, but I didn't walk away feeling like there was a big bad. I walked away feeling like, wow, that's just a set of really unfortunate situation that happened, um, so I didn't walk away feeling different, uh, about the guy I. I'm glad that we finally got the full story, because, oh my gosh, so has been trying to tell us a story for Seven episodes at this point.
Speaker 3:Thank you so thank you for letting me finish out on the story, and it would be interesting to see how it plays in. I will say, my least favorite person continued to be Torben. Like what is the deal? I think, first oh, I'm so bored, I want to go home. Like, really Like, this is what we expect out of Padawan these days and how did he, in 16 years, go from? I want to just go home to Master Torben Right, like, what else has he accomplished since coming back, you know to give him this.
Speaker 2:Given this opportunity, I want the mustache help. He grew a beard. Oh my god, terrible facial hair still. But oh, you mean you, he taped. He taped a beard on there, you go, so bad.
Speaker 3:So yeah, I mean like I, I see that and, by the way, like I didn't think that he um was choosing between may and osha, I think he legitimately was not strong enough to be able to do all that right and so.
Speaker 3:I guess he is choosing the sense of maybe I can save the one I have deeper connections with, but I don't think he was able to kind of save both. And yeah, I could see how you don't want to talk about it, because this is such an awkward thing and Trinity told us not to talk about it right and so I like how you call her Trinity by the way, trinity told us not to talk about it, right?
Speaker 3:So, um, I like how you call her Trinity by the way, if Trinity tells you not to do it, you don't do it, so that's right, but yeah, I mean I. I, I did not. I walked away, uh feeling uh satisfied that we finally got the full arc of the story, and I look forward to how they're going to actually close it out with a bang on Tuesday for the last episode. But what?
Speaker 1:do you think, anthony? So I'm with you on all of the above. And speaking of Torben, I thought it was really interesting to not that I need more Torben in my life, but that moment where in episode three, where we see him kind of have a Jedi mind trick played on him by Anise and the coven and he kind of kind of blacks out and goes onto his knees. This episode we got to see, I think for the first time ever, what the subconscious actually looks like when you're under the influence of a Jedi mind trick, like time comes to a screeching halt and the person who's doing the mind trick on you is literally in your mind having a conversation with you. I thought that was really interesting. And since Ahsoka, where we got to see what's it called the Force it's where they go into like the force and they're on that kind of intergalactic highway and things like that. We saw that in the animated shows but we haven't seen it in live action. It'd be really interesting to see more of what the real force looks like in reality. So like when you say he wasn't strong enough to hold both of them, what does that look like from the force perspective? Anyway, I thought that was a really interesting creative choice and a choice from the writing gallery to show that. But I'm with you, there were no big ahas.
Speaker 1:I was hoping that this episode would have had more of Chimere's arc, but I think we're going to get that in next week's episode or this week's episode. The episode will be coming out this Tuesday, the 16th, and I think Leslie Hayland, in an interview with the Nerdist, actually shared that this final episode will tie a lot of things up rather nicely, but also set some things up for a potential season two, which they have not been confirmed for a second season just yet, which is odd confirmed for a second season just yet, which is odd. Uh, when, and it's not odd, uh, I mean when you have a hit show, you usually find out within like the first five or six episodes if it's going to get picked up for a second season. We haven't heard boo from Disney just yet.
Speaker 1:Not sure what they're waiting for. Hopefully they're not taking the, the review bombing uh to heart, uh, but yeah, it's um, I just I can't wait for episode eight because I want, I want Chimera to be Plagueis. That's all I want. That's what I've wanted since episode one. Gosh, darn it.
Speaker 3:Which we haven't talked about this yet. Talk about mind control, talk about mother. I mean, holy crap, we were so disappointed that we did not get a Kyo Naka fight, a few episodes back we got an angry Wookiee who just went hog on all the things and I mean there are two parts to that right.
Speaker 3:I think like I need more, I need the extended version of that fight. And then two um, what master indara did to kaonaka? Uh, that resulted in all the witches, I don't know, fainting dead, like all that kind of stuff. It's like what was that right?
Speaker 1:and so those are cool stuff. Yeah, that's a, yeah, that's like megaforce right there, like she. She wiped out the entire coven Like they were dead right, Like she's like we don't know. I mean, they look well, they all burnt. Love that chicken from coven. Oh, oh, oh, come on. No, no. By Arthur Miller.
Speaker 2:My thought on. I mean, yes, it was an amazing Wookiee fight, right Like I was fully expecting some arms to get ripped off. He caught him in that arm lock at one point and I was like it's going to pop off. But I was like, no, no, no, this is Disney+, it's not going to happen. But I don't, I I'm of the mindset. I don't think, like, even though she says that she's going to tie it not onto a lot of things or put a bow on it, I don't think one episode's enough. I think we're just way too far out into the weeds. We didn't address, like, like we didn't see Chimera, this entire episode. Like how do you go back to that? You know his I don't know what you want to call it his spa time. Like I don't like how do you go back into that story and bring May I mean Osha back into this? Like we have an entire, we have a singular episode and like, unless it's like an hour and a half long episode, I don't know how they can put a bow on it.
Speaker 1:Um, so what do you hope to see in episode eight?
Speaker 2:I honestly I don't. I don't want it to finish like I'm, I'm, I, I like this series, right, I think it should be renewed for a second season, just just to finish a story arc, um, or to give it his due diligence. Um, you know, not trying to wrap it up and you said they averaged to less than 30 minutes an episode of actual airtime. Like I don't, I don't think, I don't, like there's too much going on to wrap a bow on it. Like you said. Um, maybe, um, they're waiting to make an announcement at d23, the expo. Uh, that's happening in like two or three weeks. Oh, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:Uh, maybe they're saving a celebration you know, or maybe the review bonds actually worked and they're just like you know what. We're not going to do. This I, I don't know I would.
Speaker 1:I would be so sad that our fan base is that miserable. You know level of just I'm going to bleep this out that that they spend their time sitting in their mother's basements, you know, creating fake accounts like dumbledore rocks, jedi sucks at 69. Uh, acolyte is a terrible show. One star, one star, zero stars, like it just makes me sad that we're at that level of of ridiculousness. So I hope Disney doesn't fall for that.
Speaker 3:I would hope that, as a company, they look at hard data. There are streaming data associated with this thing. There are all these kind of things associated with it. I think that they can figure out a different way to justify if they want to continue a different season of this thing. That's the hope.
Speaker 1:And I'm actually curious because I feel like the Accolte didn't have like a Okay. So the Nielsen streaming charts for the Acolyte week one. Acolyte is a pretty underwhelming number seven on the original streaming charts has a week one viewership of 488 million minutes. I don't know what the.
Speaker 3:I also read a chart somewhere, though, where this thing like, yes, it's like at the toward, like the bottom, but andor actually performed worse and they and they renewed that.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, yeah. Andor, so, yeah, yeah. And so the Acolyte was about six point two, six million views. Ahsoka eight point five million views. But I think Ahsoka had so much buildup to it because you have the Clone Wars, you have rebels, you have all this like preexisting fandom of the, the new guard, so to speak, that people were and Ahsoka is such a beloved character, that doesn't surprise me. And then Andor, that actually kind of does surprise me 5.43 million views. So it is in third place here, and knowing how loved Rogue One is within our fandom, that kind of shocks me. So, eric, to kind of wrap up our recap, what are you looking forward to in Episode 8, if anything, or you just want to take?
Speaker 3:it all in in the moment and be surprised. I don't know what a Season 2 could be like for this, and so I actually want the whole story to wrap up in whatever time period. And you know what the show actually, the whole story to wrap up in whatever time period. You know what, like, the show actually has been moving along really quickly, so maybe they won't be able to wrap things up in 30 minutes. Um, hopefully it's a little longer than that.
Speaker 3:Um, and I wonder if the acolyte becomes kind of like, um, what is it? Knives out. Yeah, it's another acolyte show, but guess what? These kind of things are happening all over the galaxy of random dudes who are trying to become Sith Lords. And here's another story that we don't hear about because the Jedi just brushed him under the rug or whatever, and then at least this becomes like a closing of a story, maybe, but I just don't know if we're going to be able to see enough of some of these characters that we're beginning to kind of really fall in love with a little bit, to see more of them in just one episode alone, and I don't like this idea of oh yeah, the story continues in season two kind of situation, I'm going to be very unsatisfied. If that's the case, yeah, I'm going to be very unsatisfied.
Speaker 1:If that's the case, yeah, I'm with you. All right, folks. Well, that was our recap of Episode 7. We can't wait for Episode 8. What did you think of Episode 7? Shoot us a line at mailbag at geekyagogocom and we may feature it on a future episode, or leave us a comment in the comments section of our YouTube post or on our Facebook posts of this episode. We'd love to hear your tinfoil hat theories about the acolyte. All right, nitro. Back to you for our regularly scheduled Whatcha Watchin'.
Speaker 2:I mean, the segment doesn't really need an introduction, right? Because this is what the show is all about, so let's dive right into it. Eric whatcha watching.
Speaker 3:The new season of Star Trek Prodigy is out, surprise. I too am also a closet Trek fan as well. There's no reason why you have to pick a side between Star Wars and Star Trek. Yes, there is. Nah, star Trek Prodigy is a nice surprise. I think they started on Paramount maybe, and then Netflix picked it up. It's actually Star Trek has been doing some fantastic animated shows and Prodigy is one of them.
Speaker 3:And for those who don't know, prodig um takes place in timeline wise in star trek timeline wise around right after star trek voyager uh ended, and so the show actually has a lot of cameos, uh. And in season three, which I think is the season I just watched, um season two, season two, uh, there has been just a lot of really great story that's been tied in and I really enjoyed it. I finished this all in one week. It's short episodes, you know. You're talking about like 20, 25 minutes kind of situation per episode, and it talks about this new crew of aliens, actually, who took over a new USS Starfleet ship and all the shenanigans that they got into. And what's interesting is I didn't know, this is the first season around, but the second season I paid attention where one of the main actors who are voicing. This is the woman from from uh uh fallout. It's that. It's uh ella something.
Speaker 3:Yes uh, yeah, so yes, I, because I started going like, well, now that I watch fallout, I caught on to the voice and I went wait a second, this sounds like her. And I looked and I was like oh, that is her. And I never really honestly pay attention to a lot of credits, especially, uh, honestly, uh, on streaming services, I just press skip, uh and then jump straight to the content, and so that was a really nice surprise to kind of see that um. So, anyway, highly recommend it. Uh. For those who didn't follow, it's a quick watch. You can see both seasons on netflix and, uh, I've really really enjoyed it. And you, if you like other star trek shows, uh, you're definitely gonna like, I think, where this show was going do you have to be a star trek fan to appreciate this?
Speaker 3:I think I think star trek is and this is what I was telling uh, uh, with folks. I think star trek has done tv really well and they have figured out a way so that, yeah, they are universes, but the story is about story, right, it's about humanity. It's about, uh, you know, discovering uh the unknown. It's about, um, people's interaction with one another. Yes, the more you know about star trek, the deeper the cut.
Speaker 3:Some of these uh stories will be right, like, why do people get excited all of a sudden when this character shows up? I think like that will add to it. But look, also the fact that this is an animated like series, it's not like I don't think they expect, well, I don't know who the target audience for this, but it's animated, uh, but like, let's say, younger audiences. I don't think they expect people to have known all the different Star Treks before coming into this thing, right, and so, yeah, I don't think you need to do that. Oh, and also, I am pretty sure Dee Bradley Baker is in this somewhere. Also our Star Wars voice legend. So, yeah, nice, our Star Wars voice legend. So yeah.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 2:Cool beans. I was going to Google Dee Bradley Baker but I said you know what? I don't really care because I'm not a Trekker. Wait, hold up Either one.
Speaker 3:But Dee Bradley Baker has voiced everything in Star Wars. You need to look him up.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Well, not everything Pretty much everything. Isn't he the voice?
Speaker 3:of the clones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because he did not voice K-2SO Wow.
Speaker 3:Everything else, maybe we should have a.
Speaker 1:Maybe we should do an episode about our favorite voiceover actors.
Speaker 3:With, obviously, anthony Pizzuto. Thank you, thank you cool.
Speaker 2:Thank you, eric. Uh, move it on to me, chris, what you're watching. Uh, this week I watched the iron claw. Uh, it's a film, a, a biographical sports drama is what wikipedia is calling it about the Von Erich family, the Von Erichs plural. It's a family of professional wrestlers that were cursed because a lot of them ended up passing away in very strange or unfortunate circumstances, but they kind of were helped with the glamorification of wrestling, so that period of 70s, late 70s into early 80s, like right as we're going into wrestlemania and things like that. So you have all these, if anybody's really into like wrestling, lore, uh, wwe, and you know it's precursor wwf, uh and whatnot. People know about all the, the circuits, um, and, and the kind of the franchises that are all over the country of people wrestling. So the Von Erichs they come up in what at the time was called WCCW, which is World Class Championship Wrestling, and the patriarch of the family is Fritz Von Erich and he kind of took this heel persona. Anthony, could you explain to us what the heel is? Oh boy.
Speaker 1:Isn't the heel. I'm calling you out, you are calling me out, hold on. So there's the heel is the bad guy, and I think there's another one called the feel, the face, the face, the face. I don't know why. I thought it was heel and feel, but yeah, so the heel is like the villain. So you know, like the Undertaker was the villain for a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Fritz, was actively wrestling, probably in the 50s to the 70s or something like that, and he took on the persona of post-World War II German bad guy kind of thing. So their, his, their, their, their actual familiar name is ad kissin, but he took on the, the role of the von eric, the patriarch fritz von eric, and you know, he brought his sons into into the industry and they just they became this dynamo of like teaching everybody and and they have these schools and whatnot and and the, the family just went through the whole, like I said, a whole bunch of serious, unfortunate accidents. One of them died while he was on tour in japan. Um, one of them committed suicide, um, at least one of them, I believe. Uh, one of them died very young, uh, as a child, um, kind of thing. And it puts this, like I said this, so so-called familial curse on it, right so to the point, where they talk about in the film is like, um, the main protagonist paid, played by Zac Efron, he plays, I think it's Kevin Von Erich. He doesn't want his son to have anything to do with, like the Von Erichs or something like that, just because he doesn't want to fall into this familial curse or whatever.
Speaker 2:So great acting. Jeremy allen white is in it, who I you know, he's, he's, he's becoming a really good actor in his own um, I think we talked about the bears briefly in previous episodes fantastic show. I'll talk about it another episode, if we have it. Um, zachary franz in it. Jeremy on white, uh, the, the um, the patriarch is played by holt mcclainy. Um, he's been tons of tons of films. Um, yeah, lily james is in it. Um, yeah, so mara tierney, great cast right and and it's hot, and there's easter eggs in it.
Speaker 2:It because you meet some wrestling legends. You hear about the Rhodes family and they want to buy out the school that the Von Erichs started because they're in financial troubles and things like that. So if you're a fan of wrestling, I highly, highly recommend this film. I thought it was well done. It's a film I don't know if it was completely factual, but if it wasn't completely biographical, semi-biographical, but I liked it. I liked it a lot. Nice, and I don't think Eric gave his disco balls, but I'll give mine. We'll get back to Eric. I'm giving the Ironclaw four disco balls, eric, what about?
Speaker 3:you Star Trek four balls.
Speaker 2:Star Trek Prodigy Four balls. You're definitely a Trekker.
Speaker 3:A Trekkie? I believe that's the term Such a Trekker.
Speaker 2:Trekkies.
Speaker 1:You know it's not serious fan, okay trekker no, it's trekker so yeah, like I said, oh, I can't, can I do that yeah?
Speaker 3:is that it you?
Speaker 2:can do the beat. Yeah, that's it there no, it's is it. Is it thumb close or thumb out? I could do both.
Speaker 1:Wow, you're ambidextrous.
Speaker 3:Some people can't do this, apparently. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:Can't do this, can't do this. See my fingers go like backwards when I do that, though.
Speaker 2:This is great content for the podcast guys we are on.
Speaker 1:YouTube We'll save that. This is our content for the podcast guys. We are on YouTube. This is our after party.
Speaker 2:Go to the after party to see our Vulcan death grip, our Vulcan hand signal, whatever, it's called because I'm not a trekker like Eric is. Oh my God, so yeah, I recommend the Iroclop is. Oh my god, so yeah, I recommend the Iroclop a lot.
Speaker 1:It has some really great scores. On Rotten Tomatoes it's 89% fresh, 94% audience score Really great critics consensus and audience consensus. And Zac Efron, he is just an American treasure. He is a super talented, talented individual. He plays funny, he plays dramatic. He is really a very talented individual. I just saw him in Family Affair on Netflix with Nicole Kidman, who is borderline unrecognizable these days.
Speaker 3:Well, same as Zac Efron is also borderline unrecognizable these days, well, same as Zac Efron is also borderline unrecognizable these days.
Speaker 1:He looks more like Zac Efron than Nicole Kidman. Looks like Nicole Kidman, though, like she is, it's hard to watch her. She did a lot with that face of hers, which is so unfortunate and completely unnecessary. But yes, zac efron's definitely had work done as well, but he is, he is. He is very talented. Uh, funny guy we were just talking the other day here, uh, at the house around, how overnight sometimes.
Speaker 3:In the last year, two years, zach efron has gone from playing kid roles to playing dads now like he's doing a lot of dad roles these days, and in the past, I think year there's actually been quite a few Zac Efron like things that have come out, which I thought was interesting. How he has begun to transition himself into a different role, different kind of actor, which I enjoy watching Nice Yep.
Speaker 1:Cool, nice Yep.
Speaker 2:Cool, all right, anthony, all right Last but not least, what you watching Long Legs.
Speaker 1:Long Legs came out this past week. It's an hour and 41 minutes. The synopsis here on IMDb says In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree, directed by Oz Perkins. Oz Perkins, I think he had his directorial debut with the Black Coat's Daughter, starring Kiernan Shipka, who actually makes an appearance in this, which is a really good thriller, supernatural horror. He also did Gretel and Hansel, which is a very wacky, fantastical type of horror film, and so this show is very much in the vein of his directing style. And so this show is very much in the vein of his directing style. It stars Micah Monroe, who is wonderful. She was we actually my wife and I just watched her in God is a Bullet, where she's with one of the Scars guards, the one that played Pennywise. But she's also been in Significant Other. She was in let's see, the Stranger Watcher. She's been in a lot of things.
Speaker 1:And then I didn't realize this going into it, because I tried to avoid this anything like leading up to it as much as possible, because the marketing campaign for this film was super shady and suspicious. What do I mean by that? I mean, like the first trailer was just like weird characters, and I don't even think it even dropped the name, it just said coming from Neon, which is a film production company that does lots of wacky, weird, horror, thriller type of films, and the trailers just got weirder and weirder. So, knowing that, I tried to avoid as much as possible. It wasn't until I was sitting in the theater that I realized that Nicolas Cage was in it. Okay, nicolas Cage has had a very lengthy career.
Speaker 3:Nicolas Cage has become a caricature of himself.
Speaker 2:Of himself. We could probably do an episode on Nicolas Cage Maybe you want to save some of this.
Speaker 1:I will save some of it. So I wish they had not said Nicolas Cage in the opening credits. I wish not that I noticed before coming to it, but I hope that they didn't reveal that Nicolas Cage was in it at all, because that immediately changed my mood about the film. I'm like, oh, it's a Nicolas Cage movie, I'll beep that out. So. But in his and Oz Perkins defense, they did a good job with his makeup that they actually could have hidden the fact that Nicolas Cage was in it until the final credits because he was unrecognizable physically as himself. It wasn't until he started doing weird Nicolas Cage things, like singing really loud in the car at particular moments or doing his weird long ass screaming things that Nicolas Cage does. It was like God, it's Nicolas Cage. Anyway, that aside, I forget what, what reputable review source said this, but there's been many saying that this is the scariest movie of the year. Well, it's July, we still have a few months left. Okay, there are some jump scares.
Speaker 1:Micah Monroe plays an FBI agent who is psychic. This is 1980, 84 or 88. She's a psychic, so I guess they bring her on sites to kind of get a vibe as to what's going on, to help them find criminals and things like this. Anyway, she becomes the target of this serial killer called Longlegs and this person sometimes just has this presence at the scene of these very gratuitous crime scenes, always involving a child and their family, with the exception of one time where the child escapes as we go through the course of the film. And Micah Monroe? She does a wonderful job. She plays almost a borderline, stoic, socially awkward quiet. You almost get an eerie vibe from her at points throughout the film, vibe from her at points throughout the film. Anyway, she becomes the target of long legs. He starts leaving little clues for her.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to spoil the film because it's still out and I think it's going to have a good run to it. But I will say what you think. If you're going into it fresh, if you think you're expecting a classic monster movie, horror film, when you think of the name Long Legs, you're not. You start with almost like a procedural thriller in the vein of of, uh, um, chianti, uh, silence of the Lambs, uh, in the vein of Silence of the Lambs. But then it takes a turn into the supernatural and that's where I was kind of. It was like interesting twist here. I was expecting to start with supernatural, but I was accepting the fact that this was just going to be a serial killer movie and then it went Supernatural. So you get a lot of like emotional turmoil throughout the film, um and uh, but anyway I don't think it's the scariest movie of the year. Uh, that just kind of lowers the bar, I think, for other horror movies that might be coming out.
Speaker 1:Uh, no offense to Oz Perkins. He's had, he has had a great canon of work already. Is it scary? Yes, kind of going back to what I was saying about, this was pre-recording when we were talking about X and Pearl, where they're like filmed in the vein of the time period that they're set in. The movie actually starts looking like a 1970s film with the same type of music that you would see in a 1970s film. I think it was four by three aspect ratio to start with and then it kind of spreads out as we get into like the 80s.
Speaker 1:It was really interesting creative choice there. Go see it if you like scares. Just know that you're going to be kind of twisted and turned. Try to forget that it's Nicolas Cage in the movie. I think that'll make your viewing experience a little bit better. He does do a really great job of playing this creepy, almost non-binary like. When you first see him, I thought it was a woman and I thought he was playing a woman. Then I thought he was playing a transgendered woman and then they identified him as a him. It was like it was lots of like twists and turns in this film, but yeah, it was a lot of fun. I will give it three and a half disco balls only because it was so talked up as being the scariest movie of the year and it was not the scariest movie of the year, but I enjoyed it and I suggest you check it out.
Speaker 3:Wait, hold on. So you've seen all these scary movies. Would it be in the top X this year of all the movies you've seen? Where would you place that in your top list of movies that you've seen? Is it up there, or is it just not even close?
Speaker 1:The top movies I've seen this year or in my life, oh, this year. Oh, it's probably 11. I wouldn't put it in the top 10.
Speaker 3:Ooh not even close. I wouldn't put it in the top 10.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, yeah, I would put it yeah in the 11. And I'd have to kind of go back through the record to see what I watched. Because we watch. We probably watch two horror movies like every weekend, you know. So we're halfway through the year. That's 100 possibly horror movies this year so far. So we watched a lot of horror movies. I like horror movies. I don't want to I want to do a spoiler for our episode where we talk about horror movies but I like. I like movies that make you feel uncomfortable. That's a good horror movie that makes, that, gives you that kind of physical transformation where you feel you get the goosebumps, you feel uncomfortable. Didn't get much of that in here. Like I said, there's a few jump scares, the plot is interesting, the supernatural component was interesting as well, but scariest movie of the year no which, by the way, a quick shout out to Neon right, you talked about that.
Speaker 3:I think that they've branched away from just doing horror. I think they've done a lot of independent film distributions. You remember how we talked about Robot Dreams? I'm pretty sure that was a Neon distribution as well. Okay, and I know we're going to go deep in our nicholas cage list, but well, my favorite, his reason, uh, where he does the truffle hunter, uh, pig, I think that was the movie yes um, dad was also neon, and I think parasite was neon, itania was leon, so there's there's quite a lot um and uh.
Speaker 3:For those who don't know, like I'm pretty sure neon was co-started by, uh uh, the animal draft house guy. Um, yeah, really I didn't realize that and so, okay, I like, I like the way he runs his theaters back in the days and I like the way that he picked his films. So I, I, I'm a huge fan of, uh, this independent film distribution producing kind of company love it, love it yes uh and parasite was great, um, uh.
Speaker 1:So ferrari, uh, which is a non thriller but another fantastic kind of biopic. Uh yeah, they, they have a good collection of films under their belt.
Speaker 2:Cool. I mean it sounds like you're being generous when you're saying three and a half, but you were like I would like to give it more.
Speaker 1:I want to give it more just because they did it start like the marketing. It's always the marketing that gets you and like it started with like these really eerie cryptic. You know, it harkens me back to the days of like Blair Witch, like, where they started like dropping like the newspaper articles and they stood up a website to make you think that it was all real.
Speaker 2:Or even.
Speaker 1:Cloverfield, all the actors in Cloverfield they had MySpace pages and like they just stopped communicating on the day of the event. It's so good, it was, that was so good, and so like. So when you line up great marketing with a really interesting film and a concept, that's, that's new, like like Blair Witch had never been done before. Cloverfield was kind of a riff off of Blair Witch, but still now you took it to an extraterrestrial perspective. This film started like on the indie marketing circuit. You started seeing like articles about it and bloody disgusting, saying look what just dropped from Neon. What the heck is this? There's no, there's nothing about it. It's just these weird. What's it telling us this? There's no, there's nothing about it. It's just these weird what's it telling us? And you were expecting you're you go in with these expectations that it's going to be super creepy and super goose fleshy and it just it. What? At least for me, it wasn't the case fair.
Speaker 2:I'm trying like the only thing I could think of is like nick cage and mandy like when. When you describe nick Cage in this film, I'm like Nick Cage is honest in that there's a period of his life where he needed to pay off his debt. All right, he's not ashamed of it.
Speaker 3:He's making money doing great films and yeah, let's save this for a Nicolas Cage deep dive, because this guy has had quite a uh, a career that I think we could talk a lot of our favorite nick cage films.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely absolutely cool, all right, uh, I guess I'll take us out all right, uh, do you want more geeky gogo?
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