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Star Wars The Acolyte Episode 3 Spoilers in this Episode. You’ve Been Warned.
Nitro and AP are dining at the Scotchwood Diner in Scotch Plains, NJ this week kicking things off with some dad jokes and inappropriate commentary on Eric’s food poisoning. Nitro spills the beans on an unforgettable Ghostbusters Day event while AP recounts his work trip to beautiful St. John, New Brunswick before diving into some inspirational “go get ems” by Nitro to turn his AP’s home maintenance challenges, like those pesky decorative finials and rogue branches, into YouTube gold. Expect laughter, solid advice, and a pinch of relatable home improvement woes.
Next, we crank up the geek factor with a riveting discussion on Star Wars The Acolyte episode 3! Our collective enthusiasm bumps the show's rating to 3.5 as we dissect the early episodes and potential twists and turns. This week we meet a new breed of witches and speculate wildly on Sith origins dating back to 5000 BBY. We even question the Jedi's moral high ground with some eyebrow-raising actions, like the burning of the coven's headquarters and the dramatic rescue of Osha. From rule-bending Jedi to strict code followers, we delve into the complexities that make the Star Wars universe endlessly fascinating.
Finally, we vent our frustrations over two underwhelming Netflix films. "The Block Island Sound" lured us in with its eerie synopsis but dismayed us with a lackluster alien narrative. Meanwhile, "Damsel," despite its promising medieval setup and Millie Bobby Brown's star power, failed to hit the mark. Both films left us wanting more, and we’re here to share why they might not be worth your watchlist.
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Can a match box.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Can it? No, but a tin can.
Speaker 2:Oh, come on. Wow, okay, that was a good dad joke. That was a good dad joke. Hey, how many A's are in Canada? Three, oh, no, c-a-n-a-d-a-a, four, it's four, all right let's get this show on the road.
Speaker 1:Nice, 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. Joining me today in the on-location Go-Go in Scotchwich Diner in beautiful Scotch Plains, new Jersey, is Anthony.
Speaker 2:Pizzuto. Hello you beautiful people out there.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's just the two of us today it is. Eric was a little under the weather. That's totally fine, get it, life happens. You think he had to make.
Speaker 2:He had to make. What is that? What are you doing? It's a signal for poo-poos. You got to learn the signal. Is Goldberg still on? Beverly Goldberg was just amazing. Yes, eric has a tummy ache. Sorry, eric, that's what you get for not showing up. Oh my god, how was your week? What you been?
Speaker 1:doing good. I mean busy, just work. This past week we did partake in the annual Ghostbusters Day festivities which will be in a future episode, folks, we'll talk about that more in depth there. But other than that, just uneventful, busy week enjoying the weather. It's starting to get really warm here in New Jersey, but tonight's going to be thunderstorms, so we'll see what about you.
Speaker 2:I was in Canada this week Nice, yeah, beautiful Canada. St John, new Brunswick, beautiful, beautiful city. I was there on a work trip, but it was just like a quick overnight trip. It's a busy day today. I'm looking forward to the weekend. I'm supposed to be nice out. I'm going to spend a lot of time on my back patio splashing around in my big old kiddie pool.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's been very quiet. You know I got to tell you, chris, I'm feeling a little I don't know creatively constipated these days. I'm like I'm losing my mojo. My YouTube channel, I mean, I haven't done anything in that for like a couple months now. I need some inspiration. Inspire me, me, chris. Dance for me. I don't know if I could inspire you.
Speaker 1:However, this is the time of year where we kind of like all go into spruce up the house outside mode. Right, people are mulching, people are taking care of their gardens, people are fixing their fences yeah, making them more decorative with your finial project. Like, I totally get that. So it's one of those things where, like, everyone's attention is focused on the outside of the house, making sure it's in working order, it looks nice. Fix the things that are broken over the winter. I mean, you could showcase some of that stuff. Some people new homeowners they may not know how to take care of things and stuff like that, but hey, you know. Maybe this is how much you, how you can calculate how much mulch you need, you know.
Speaker 2:That's a good idea. I like that.
Speaker 1:I like that you know how to install it properly, you know, should you put fabric down, where should you put fabric down, things like that. So, like you know, maybe not made by AP stuff, but fixed by AP things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely Okay, look at that. I Definitely Okay, look at that. I asked for inspiration and I received it. Thank you, it's actually funny. So I was so close to finishing my fence project. So, for those of you who don't know, I'm putting decorative finials on my picket fence. I'll post a picture and it looks pretty darn nice. It's been a very long process because you have to cut off all the metal current pressed pickets and then pound on metal finials. I'm doing the metal on the front and I did 3D printed on the side. Okay, I get down to like the last three. I have 60 plus panels. I get down to like the last three.
Speaker 2:A giant branch falls and hits one of the panels and bends it right out of shape. Wow, now you would think that it's aluminum. You could be able to. This is like Aluminum's hard to bend, like this type of aluminum's hard to bend. So now I'm like trying to go find a DIY solution on like just buying the panel and stuff like that. I didn't realize this.
Speaker 2:But like fence panels, they're different, like based on the manufacturer and stuff like the spacing is different. So now I'm like working with this one fence company to see if I can, you know, get as close to a match as possible, but it's been quite the headache. But there's nothing more defeating when you're this close to the end of a project and then something just craps all over it like like a branch breaking the fence. It didn't happen when you were out there, right, it didn't, thank God. No, it didn't happen when I was out there because it was a big. It must have been a 16-foot long branch, because I have these big sycamores that kind of line the front of my house, and it was a branch from one of those.
Speaker 2:How are you doing?
Speaker 1:Very, very good. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so that kind of put a damper on my excitement on this project.
Speaker 1:But yes, you're right.
Speaker 2:There are plenty of things I can be doing outside that can fuel the YouTube algorithm Yep. Thank you, Chris.
Speaker 1:Cool, I'm not prepared right now. I literally just want to take a chop of food. But let's just dive right into what you're watching, anthony what you're watching.
Speaker 2:So, chris, because the Acolyte is out, and it's going to be out for the next couple of weeks, I feel like we need to do a weekly episode recap. Sure, maybe we make that part of our next few episodes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's a great idea. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:So well, eric, if you're listening to this, do your homework. So episode three of the Acolyte came out this past week, this last Tuesday. That was the 11th, I believe, and if you listened to last week's episode, I bet Eric Ho $5 that we were done seeing Carrie Ann Moss. Shame on me, should have known. Don't trust IMDb when Disney is involved. So I gladly gave Eric my five hard-earned dollars, because episode three of the Acolyte is all a flashback. So it takes place 16 years prior to the events of Episodes 1 and 2. And we get to see May and Osha and how they ended up in the care of the Jedis that we get to meet in Episodes 1 and 2. And it was really interesting. So it takes place on the planet starts with a B Brendok, brendok. And they are young members. They must be what? 10-ish, 11?
Speaker 1:I mean they can't be older than that, they were pretty young, pre-teen. Yeah, definitely around that age.
Speaker 2:So Mae and Osher are like pre-teen and they are members of this coven of witches. That really kind of made me think of the witches of Dothomir.
Speaker 1:The Nightsisters.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Nightsisters, exactly which I'm curious if they're going to either be a sect of the Nightsisters or evolve into the Nightsisters. But so we see Mae and Osha being raised by this coven of witches on the planet of Brendak and trained and being prepared for something that we don't fully know what it is, but there's going to be a ceremony involved, called the Ascension, and you know what's interesting and this is not the spoiler-free episode, because we have our week, you know, you have a week to watch it, and then all bets are off. So what you get to see, though, is the relationship of May and Osha at the very beginning, and how much, like any siblings, they annoy the hell out of each other, and they're poking at each other and driving each other crazy, and one is trying to be something and trying to bring the other along with them when they don't want to. I think they did a great job of portraying the natural behavior of siblings and how dysfunctional siblings can be, especially not that I have twins, but I feel like there's a lot of twins in my universe these days. You'll see what that's like, and so the leader of the coven, who is played by, is that Jodie Turner-Smith, I believe who plays Mother Anisea? Yes, yeah, jodie Turner-Smith. She is in essence the mother of May and Osha.
Speaker 2:They start the ceremony May is bestowed upon with this, whatever ascension thing is. And as they're about to ascend, osha, the Jedi arrive. And the Jedi come and they ask ask, you know, we hear your training children. And the witches say there are no children here. And then the Wookiee Jedi, you know, through his, his power of foresight, uncovers that there are children. Anyway. We start to see the divide of May and Osha going their separate paths, where May wants to stay with the witches of Randok and mother Anisea, but Osha has a different path and in the episode we, you know. So we see Carrie Ann Moss as Indara. We see Junis Sultamo I think that's how you say it yep, yeah, as yeah as Kalnaka, the Wookiee Jedi. Master Sol is there, as well as Master or Padawan Torben, who is the eight-year-old dressed in daddy's clothes. He's a lovely actor, but his face and that beard.
Speaker 1:He didn't like the beard. He doesn't have a beard, though he doesn't have the beard.
Speaker 2:No, he looks age-appropriate in episode three. Episode one and two not so much. But they come and they want to put the girls through the trials and mother anisea, you know, has asked them to lie in in no uncertain terms. May does so, osha doesn't. She follows her path of light. Anyway, through a bunch of series of unfortunate events, mei gets really mad, burns the place down and disappears, but the Jedi grab Osha before anything major happens and the episode ends.
Speaker 2:I'm maintaining my enjoyment of this show. I'm maintaining my enjoyment, I think, last episode. I forget what we gave it for. I think it was a collective 3.25 or something like that I'm still keeping it at a hard. I'm going to do a 3.5. A hard 3.5 because we're still early on, so there's still room for improvement and disappointment, but I'm still thoroughly enjoying it. I have very few nitpicky things about this episode that I didn't like. But I did love seeing a new breed of witches. You know, because we've been, we've seen the witches, the night sisters, in clone wars and we've seen them in ahsoka now. Um, so it was nice to see this new sect of witches. But I'm also really and this kind of goes into kind of speculation mode, I feel like. Do we know in canon when the Sith started?
Speaker 1:I do not. I think I do have a copy of the Timelines book yeah, okay, I think it does list either a Timelines book? Yeah okay. I think it does list either a general time frame, yeah, okay, or something specific, but I remember seeing it.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. So according to Wikipedia and I have the Timelines book as well, I'm going to double check this it says the Sith were formed around 5000 BBY, which, for those of you who are not in the know, bby is the Before Battle of Yavin, which is Star Wars Episode IV. Okay, so we're 100 years BBY.
Speaker 1:We're 100 years? I don't know, so I haven't looked at this definitively yeah, but what I've heard definitively was this is 100 years before the Empire Before the Empire Right. So is it the Empire in the beginning or the end of Episode 3? Or are they considering it before Episode 4, our quote-unquote first introduction to the Empire our quote-unquote first introduction to the Empire. So it's somewhere between 80 to 100 years prior to Episode IV, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Okay, I get you, I get you Okay. So we will find out when the Sith were actually developed and I'm asking the question because there were a lot of things during the ceremony that made me think Sith. There were a lot of things during the ceremony that made me think Sith. For example, the chanting that they were doing was something along the lines of, like, the power of the one is the power of the two, or something like that. And we know in the Sith culture that it's, you know, the rule of two. There's the master and the apprentice, the light and the darkness.
Speaker 2:And so my speculation and I'm going back to Plagueis I feel like we're going to see Plagueis come out of this somehow, whether it's May as Plagueis or Anisea as Plagueis, mother Anisea as Plagueis. But I have a strong feeling that the ceremony that they were doing was embodying them with the, the power and the culture of the sith, with this kind of rule of two, ethos, um, and that's what really excited me. What also really ex and again this was not explained, but I'm speculating again now is we're we're going into, we're seeing what? Because Torben makes a comment in episode 2 about you know, I didn't, you know, I didn't realize what we were doing, or or something like that. So At the end of Episode 3, the Coven's headquarters burns down in essence and the Jedi grab Osha to rescue her. I wonder if the Jedi are not all they're cracked up to be. I wonder if the Jedi burnt that place down to take the kid or kids, poor kids.
Speaker 1:I don't disagree with you. I did find it very far-fetched that this one little flame I shouldn't say little, because it spread very quickly I didn't understand how that happened in a cavern-like type of dwelling.
Speaker 1:But when May sets fire to the door to prevent her sister from running off, literally the entire place burns down. So I have Carrie type feelings about the whole thing. Yeah, you know Carrie's a pyromancer, but, for lack of a better term, I don't, I don't, you know, I don't know. It's. It's very questionable To your Jedi point, specifically, people who have really invested themselves in the Jedi and whatnot. It's, it's, it's a time. It's a time people have always associated the Jedi with, like good, right.
Speaker 1:But if you watch a lot of Star Wars or you imbibe a lot of Star Wars because there's comics and books and all these other things, there's a gray area right, and we learn that. I would say we learn that firstly from Qui-Gon. Right, he didn't want to do exactly what the council said. You know he was taking a risk doing some things and you know. So the term a gray Jedi right kind of arose from that time frame right when we get introduced to Qui-Gon. It's like we're doing morally ambiguous things, whereas one of the Padawans in the first I shouldn't say Padawan, the Jedi Knight I forgot his name he's very rule-driven. He's like this is the Jedi way, this is how we do things. This is another thing. It's like you, this is the Jedi way, this is how we do things and this and that other thing. It's like you're being the extremely good rookie cop, sure yeah.
Speaker 1:As a brand new Jedi Knight, whereas some of the older Jedi are more experienced Jedi. They're like you don't really you can bend things here and there. And so we see in Episode 3, carrie-anne Moss' character and there you know like and and and. So we see in episode three, um, carry on moss's character. She kind of says like she has to make the decision by herself.
Speaker 2:But then uh we, I forget all their names.
Speaker 1:I'm terrible at this, um, the, the. The guy kind of tried to. He kind of influences her just a little bit, saying you know, if you read you, if you really want to, you can tell the truth, right. So that's an influence, right. That's not strictly Jedi way and you kind of see Carrie Ann Moss' character just kind of like she's like what is he doing? Kind of face.
Speaker 1:You know, like we shouldn't be doing this and she's letting it happen. Gotcha, yeah, so I agree with you. Yes, you know, the Jedi aren't exactly the bastions of light that we think they are Master Sol is the character you're thinking of.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, so do you. Do you, because I think you gave it a three last time. Do you maintain your three? Maintaining the three Anything that you didn't like about this episode.
Speaker 1:No, I mean it's, we're partway through the journey, right? You can't definitively say I didn't like this, I didn't like that, maybe they could have explained things better, but the story's not done, right. I mean, things are unexplained, maybe they'll never be explained. We'll never know. Sure, yeah, I don't know how many seasons this is going to run.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:It may be this one season, we're done. Who knows, I is going to run. It may be this one season, we're done. Who knows, I hope it isn't. I like Star Wars. I keep saying this over and over again All Star Wars is good. Star Wars, yeah, it's a new story, it's a new timeline and I'm excited about it all. So, yeah, I couldn't say definitively I didn't like this or I didn't like that.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, mine are very nitpicky. Still. Like last time, they were technical things. Nothing from a story perspective bothered me. I am actually thoroughly enjoying this story and for the first time in a long time I'm enjoying the self-speculation of what might come. I feel like this is making me a fan again, which is of the new stuff. I'll never not be a fan of the originals, obviously, but technical things. One thing that really bothered me was the music during the Ascension ceremony. Typically, in the Star Wars music universe there's no vocals. I mean, there's maybe, out of the hundreds of instrumentation that we have, there's like maybe four that have vocals attached to them. I'm including the Ewoks, yub Nubs and that you know, like the Fates.
Speaker 1:Duel of the Fates.
Speaker 2:But the vocals in during the ascension and I don't know if they were just trying to, like make the voices of the witches seem more ominous and enhanced, but it came across as like goofy, cheesy, unnecessary lyrics. But and so I wasn't a fan of that. I I find it mildly distracting, but that's it again. Like all this stuff so far, these three episodes have been technical things and I can, but I can still live with it. Ob Obi-Wan Ahsoka, definitely. Book of Boba Fett. I could nitpick the entire thing apart because most of those annoyed me, but this I'm still very happy with. Proud of and, unfortunately, our Star Wars brother and sister. It still had a 17% average audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, I think it was review-bombed.
Speaker 1:The people that care, I think, aren't bothering to feed into it. Yeah, because for every positive review, someone's going to bother to type up. Yeah, probably three or four more people will go and write another negative review.
Speaker 2:Oh sure, well, like how many knuckleheads out there are just going to chat gpt saying right, bad review of this, and then copy and paste it on there um, so yeah, yeah it's, it is what it is.
Speaker 1:You know, I I've to your point about the other series. Like I've come to lower my standards on the technical aspect of it, um, meaning like editing and actual filming and whatnot.
Speaker 1:I'm not a huge music person, so like that stuff falls away unless, like I'm actually re-watching the episode and actually paying attention to the music. I only watched it the one time. You know it. Very rarely does music impact my thought on a show or a movie or whatever. You know what we have in the Mandalorian. You know gray shirt, jeans watch guy in the background.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, I think it was.
Speaker 1:Book of Boba Fett, where they're doing like a race scene and you see the overhead shot and you see the backside of the set set like the plain wood paneling. Like I don't, I don't care. Like they messed up the editing process slightly, I don't, you know, whatever. Um, does that completely destroy my opinion of the show? No, absolutely not. Like that's not, they didn't intend for me to see that. Like is there a starbucks cup in the episode? Like in game of thrones, whatever who cares?
Speaker 1:someone goof, someone goofed and the editors didn't catch it. They have hard jobs right. They're literally reviewing hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of footage oh sure yeah, trying to get their story across right In the way that the director wants it. So I don't blame them for any of that stuff the technical things and, as the great creator has taught us, you can go back and fix it.
Speaker 2:That is true. That is very true. I'm curious. I doubt they'll ever do that. And those things, those were accidental oopsies. I don't hold grudges against those. It's the purposeful decisions. You know, like the uber clear. Um, it's almost like you know when, when they show a picture of someone in a movie or tv show and it's clearly their headshot, their acting headshot, yeah, and it's not something that was taken in a candid perspective. It's like are you that lazy? Go outside, take a quick snap on your phone and get it printed at CVS. Right, don't grab their headshot off of IMDb. Same thing with the effects feedback that we had in the last episode. So, yeah, but still enjoying it, still loving it. Can't wait for next Tuesday. Tuesday the 18th is the next episode, episode four. So we'll talk about that in our next episode. Nice, nice.
Speaker 1:Cool, that was great. Looking forward to the next ones, whenever I can participate. How about we move on to our regular Watch? Watchin' Anthony, what you watching, okay, what am I?
Speaker 2:watching. Am I going to start with the good one or the bad one? Whatever you want to do.
Speaker 2:Alright. So this has been in my queue for a while. It's called the Block Island Sound and the logline is Something lurks. It's not the logline, it's the synopsis on IMDb. Something lurks off the coast of Block Island, silently influencing the behavior of fisherman Tom Lynch. After suffering a series of violent outbursts, he unknowingly puts his family in grave danger.
Speaker 2:I think the Netflix description was a little bit different, which is why I ended up watching it. I also watched it because Neville Archambault is in it is in it and neville archambault is the main antagonist in the 13 cameras theory series 12 cameras series, which is a wonderful horror thriller series. Um, maybe I'll talk about that in a future episode. Uh, he actually had passed away a couple years ago, which is unfortunate anyway. Uh, it's a horror mystery sci-fi, which which is why I wanted to watch it. It started out strong, with creepy island vibes. In the end, it just was one big disappointment. So I think in the Netflix description it mentions something about a mysterious presence or beast killing off the animals on the island, and that's what attracted me to it, because I was expecting like a monster flick. Monster flicks are fun. Actually, I'm going to pull it up now. Block island sound.
Speaker 2:On an island, a fisherman this is what sold me on it and on an island, a fisherman's family faces horrors and dark truths when an ominous force begins killing the wildlife and puts their own lives in danger. That sounds interesting and there is some of that in the movie, but the uh it ends up being a a lame sci-fi, contact, alien type of film, which I was more expecting and I guess, I don't know, maybe the ominous force led me down the path of thinking it was going to be like a paranormal or a monster type of thing. Uh ended up being just aliens pulling up people, uh and experimenting on them and then sending them back and the. The analogy that they kind of illustrate in the the film because they're on an island and it's a fishing community is sometimes you do a catch and release, and one of the protagonists I think it's the sister of the main character. She is like fish and wildlife or some sort of researcher of fish and she's explaining to the daughter her daughter that sometimes you get a fish out of the water, you do tests on them and learn more about them and then you send them back into the water. And throughout the film there are these images of the father character who dies early on.
Speaker 2:Just saying the word girl Very creepy in the background, girl and come to find out the aliens wanted a female to experiment on and then send her back and that was the end of the movie. I don't know, I thought it was boring and then send her back and that was, that was the end of the movie. I don't know it, I I just I thought it was boring. I wanted a monster because the description made it sound like there was gonna be a monster and um, but but I will say it has a. It has a 90 on the tomato meter, 47% audience score. Audience reviews absolutely terrible. Do not waste your time.
Speaker 2:Critics reviews the McManus Brothers craft a tale that is equally unusual and cryptic, I mean, and you know you could take that in a good way or a bad way, but yeah, don't watch it. Two disco balls. It was good background noise, but I don't recommend it. What about you? What was on your list this week?
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, we're going to have just bad all around this episode.
Speaker 1:So I watched Damsel on Netflix. Okay, yeah, starring Millie Bobby Brown, just something I thought would have been fun. So, spoiler alert, folks I thought it would have been fun, something for the kids to watch. I think it was rated PG or something like that. So I was like, oh, you know, the kids, pg-13 is what IMDb is telling me, something the kids could get along with, and you know, whatever Very strong female cast, right. So I was like this is going to be a little bit inspiring for my daughter.
Speaker 1:So Millie Bobby brown plays the protagonist, um, angela bassett plays her stepmother, um, you know, I thought there would have been like a typical like knight's tale, not the film knight's tale, but, like you know, middle ages tale of, uh, the stepmother's evil and blah, blah, blah. Sure, yeah, robin Wright is in it. She plays a queen in another land, or she plays the queen, I should say. And then there is a dragon in the film played by I'm forgetting her name and it's hard to say. I think it's Shoray Agdashloo. If you hear her voice, you know exactly who I'm talking about. Very raspy.
Speaker 1:Did you watch the Expanse? I did not. Shoray Agdashloo, I'm not doing you justice, madam. I'm very sorry for mispronouncing your name, and she's not in the top you have to go to all cast. It's further down and she's credited as dragon, so the dragon doesn't have a voice. So, basically, what it is is Millie Bobby Brown plays this princess or something. Millie Bobby Brown plays this princess or something. You know her father's not a queen, he's like a duke or something like of the sort Okay, she's the daughter of this royal person and their, their, their land is very barren, right, it's, it's cold and there's not a lot of natural resources and, um, they can't afford to like upkeep and they're worried about, you know, the financial stability of the land. Whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1:So they send. Yes, I agree, so they send. They send an emissary comes from the king and the queen to their land and basically she's being called up as a suitor for the prince and so she talks, she has a heart-to-heart with her father and this and that, like you know, you should do this for the stability of our land, our kingdom, whatever you want to call it, and it would help us out immensely if you, you know, marry, marry out of duty instead of love. So she's like, okay, well, at least can I go see him. Whatever, I'll do it and fast forward a little bit. Like within days they're having a marriage ceremony. Again, she's doing her duty and whatnot, trying to help out her family, bring honor to them. It turns out she's actually a sacrifice. Oh, okay, literally, in the, they have the wedding in the castle and then they go up to do the ceremony to make her a royal.
Speaker 1:It's some kind of blood oath thing.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Right after she's turned into a royal by the ceremony, they literally throw her into a pit, and so the title Damsel is Damsel in Distress it's a play on that, sure and so she falls into the pit. She survives this and she ends up having to escape through a cave, and in the cave is this dragon, and you know, the dragon barely gets her at some point. She manages to escape part of that, okay, and then, as she's trying to find her way out, she's like finding the remains of other princesses, right.
Speaker 1:So this is an ongoing thing and they discover it's. It's something that they do often. Okay, I should have said.
Speaker 1:The movie starts with a king and a group of knights going to face this dragon centuries prior to the events of the film. Okay, um, and the dragon basically annihilates everybody, right? But then you, through the storytelling, you find out like the king actually cuts a deal with the dragon and says I'm going to um, the. The king destroys the dragon's eggs, three of her children, which you find out are the last of her line, and the king, like, cuts the deal and says, basically, you know, I will give you three sacrifices for the rest of time. Oh, wow, right.
Speaker 1:And so the dragon obviously outlives all these people. Sure, but the kingdom continues their tradition, so they're basically just getting suckers to come in and say, oh, you can marry our prince. And then, as soon as it happens, because you know they have to sacrifice people of royal blood, so it's all that. Just, you know I don't want to ruin the end, obviously it's. You know she makes it out and whatnot. But man, it was hard to watch. It's like some of this acting, some of these, like you could tell what's happening.
Speaker 1:Next it was very, very like, uh, cookie cutter like. This is what we did, this is how we took care of things and and you know, um, and it was just like I said, for really strong female characters and actresses too, both young and old I shouldn't say old, experienced Okay, cancel All around. Their acting was good, but it was like also bad at the same time. Typical Almost purposely, yeah, but it was like also bad at the same time. Typical, almost purposely yeah, the none of the male casts was really like. Ray winstone was in it um, he's been in probably over 100 films and whatnot. British actor um, so, yeah, it was. It was like I said it was. I thought it was would have been something very like cool and maybe it is for children right, but for me I was like, nah, so did you watch it with the kids?
Speaker 1:I did not. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't super scary or whatever, because it was like there's fighting here and whatnot. And the poster I shouldn't say poster it's on Netflix. The poster, the banner for it, shows Millie Bobby Brown really like, really like, beat up and dirty and whatnot so I was like I didn't know how far this was going to go it is pg-13 and you know we've seen, we've taken to see marvel films and whatnot so I'm not wasn't super concerned, but I just didn't know where everything was going.
Speaker 1:But it's basically like a fairy tale. Uh turned really really bad. Yeah, back into you know game of thrones ending with like I, I partnered with the dragon, now and the dragon is wiping out your kingdom. Oh my god, that's hysterical right that's hysterical.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there seems like there's a lot of tropes that are being borrowed from here, right, like I'm getting vibes of almost like this uh, there's like wicker man, or even midsummer, which is a more recent one, where, like you know, you go to this particular locale and, you know, you, you bear witness to their customs of, you know, people being raised and groomed, just as part of their culture, to be sacrifices to the midsummer bounty or to the island's success in Wicker man. So I feel like there's a lot of source material that kind of feeds into the trope of the tricked sacrifice, so to speak, which is really. It's interesting. It's too bad. It sounds like the execution wasn't that great, for whatever weird reason. I thought this was a vampire movie for some reason, so I don't know where I got that from, but yeah, okay, so this was on my queue. I'm actually going to remove it now based off of this. Thank you for saving me possibly two hours of my life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, like I said, it was Millie Bobby Brown. I feel like she's a little bit of someone to look up to for young girls. Sure, she was great in Enola Holmes. It was Enola Holmes, right, enola Holmes, yeah. So I was thinking it was like, oh, there's going to be something really cool, something to that, and I was just like, nope, this is no longer Eleven, this isn't the lovable young woman in this film. So, yeah, I'm giving it. I guess, from an adult perspective, I'm giving it two disco balls.
Speaker 2:Two disco balls. Wow, we are on a roll. This episode Okay, got it. Got it. She looks like Elena in this with her hair like that. Yeah, kind of Depends on where she wears it. Elena, you can cosplay as Millie Bobby Brown, got it, I think. Because we talked so much about Acolyte, maybe we just call it good on this episode. Sure, but yeah. So thank you for saving me some time in my life on Damsel.
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