In The Loop & Power Rangers Time Force

In The Loop

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review. The only podcast brave enough to combine incompetent podcasting with equally incompetent film criticism. Today's episode is more twisted than an explosion in a pretzel factory on Bring Your Kids to Work Day as we take a look at loops. You know, loops starting of course with our top five loop segments, which promises to go nowhere fast.

And then rounding the corner into Armando Iannucci's 2009 Political satire in the Loop. And our kids TV section this week sees us taking on Power Rangers time force, Japanese fetish television about spandex clad teenagers earnestly working out their feelings, while solving their problems by punching monsters until they explode.

Quick warning, we might spoil stuff because we're selfish fuckers who don't care about your viewing experience. And as you may have noticed, we do occasionally let the odd bad word slip out. So if you're under 18 overly sensitive or still possess the will to live, we should probably part ways now so you can do something more productive [00:01:00] instead.

But for everyone else, let's meet the hosts. Four reasons why Evolution should have a customer service department starting with the man who remembers when you had to wind up your race manually. It's Dan, Dan's age, like a fine wine. If wine could develop dementia and prostate issues, and a zero fucks attitude would be inspiring if it wasn't so clearly rooted in complete spiritual and emotional castration.

Dan: when

Reegs: we also have lovely Chris bringing his signature enthusiasm for film, all the warmth of a Siberian gulag in January. Will this week's movie have been too long or too boring? Could it be both? Stay tuned to find out and spooning up behind me, the man who invented the idea of the top five.

In fact, he loves a list so much. He ranks himself silly three or four times a day. It's sidey.

Sidey: True,

Reegs: And then there's me regs. Hello?

Cris: Hello

Dan: Bonjour. Could you say that again please? I missed that bit. No been watching anything this week. [00:02:00] because we normally start with that kind of waffle, don't

Reegs: we?

1. What have I watched?

I've watched the last few episodes now coming into the final stretch of you. Have you ever watched that? the Netflix Stalkery ery thing? Yeah.

Dan: Oh, okay.

Sidey: No, I not started that one yet.

Reegs: Yeah. Well, I've done, this is five seasons, Chris, so you'd have been well out. Not really,

Dan: Five seasons. Have you been invested for five seasons?

Sidey: for 10 episodes of season?

Reegs: Yeah. It's like silly. It's like easy to put on, you know, glass of wine and just something kind of silly. That, you know, it's funny

Dan: Right? Okay. It's imposturous you. I

don't think that's been on my algorithms, so I've, I've not seen it. What about you side? Have you seen anything? I

Sidey: I have been watching and enjoying the bear.

Reegs: Oh, that's

Dan: okay.

Sidey: It's very good. It's,

Reegs: I thought you'd like

Sidey: It's excellent. Yeah, take me a while. But yeah, they're, they're breezy little episodes, they're like 28, 29 minutes. Obviously in, in America that'd be an hour and a half with adverts.

But yeah, streaming wise, you you can do like three or four in no time at all.

Reegs: But they're really different [00:03:00] as well.

'cause you get some that are like. Half an hour of just real intense like pressure and, and all that stuff. And then other times it's like really quiet and about the music and just the food and all that

Sidey: Yeah, it's good. It's really good.

Dan: Okay.

because, I, I, how many episodes do you need to invest before you

invested?

Sidey: Well, you can watch one episode, the pilot, and that'll give you like everything you need to know, I would say the characters. It's Jeremy Allen White who's gonna be playing Bruce Springsteen in the biopic of Bruce Springsteen.

And then the other people, I think Olivia Coleman's in it later on.

Reegs: Yes, she is. And what's his chops? Oh, he played Adam Warlock. That's the only thing I can think of. He was in warfare

Sidey: know exactly the bloke you mean. I just can't think of his name.

Reegs: Will Polter.

That's

Sidey: it.

It's yeah, it's like a family restaurant that he's ended up running because his brother's killed himself. And there's a cousin that works there and there's lots of banging heads

Reegs: His mom as well. Oh, I don't wanna spoil it. There is some, there are actually a few really good cameos in it as well, like for one or two episodes, which I won't spoil.

But yeah,

Sidey: it's a strong recommend so far [00:04:00] anyway, but yeah. What about you Chris?

Cris: Ah, I watched I've got a few, actually, I forgot about this last week because obviously we didn't do the, the one when your wedding was here.

Yes, I watched a movie. It's a Amazon Prime. It's a French movie called Disorder with Shards. It's a surname of the guy which is like a psychological thriller, thrilling action kind of thing.

Sidey: Is there any male for frontal nudity?

Cris: Yes,

Sidey: I'm in.

Reegs: okay.

Dan: Now you're

Cris: Disorder and it is with this guy. This is Sean

Sidey: Okay.

Cris: It is French. He is kind of, it's almost like the French version of Man on Fire, Like he only, he doesn't go in Mexico and he kind of protects his family and blah, blah, blah, whatever. And then it's kind of, but he's also PTSD. And it's, it's quite interesting and quite intense at, at some point. And directly afterwards.

I remember it because I watched I was early at home and I was like, I can't do anything else. I just put [00:05:00] a working man on, and I watched a working man

Sidey: good.

Isn't it

so generic?

Cris: It's honestly, especially after I, I, I'm not saying this disorder of French film was great. I, it wasn't a masterpiece. But after watching this where you're, he's a bit on edge, he's darkly filmed, he's a bit, and then you see a working man and you're like, fuck.

You know, is this, is this what acting came up? Is just like, what? It's what

Sidey: working man is like taking all the most average bits of loads of other films and putting 'em together?

Cris: Yes. And it's

Reegs: sounds even the title is so kind of generic. Really?

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

Cris: And, and you, they don't even explain to you really.

I mean,

No, no. I, I get that. But no, the, the, the, you know when, because you watch it the first time when those Mexicans come for the other Mexican,

Sidey: It is, something's happened,

Cris: Yeah. They owe money or whatever, but it's just like, and he beats the shit outta them. And then even when that girl gets kidnapped, he's like, oh, so why do you kidnap her?

Oh, that guy takes pictures of girls in the club and someone pays money for them. And they, it's just like, is this what you came up with?

Reegs: Mm.

Cris: Is this, the writing [00:06:00] on, on this film? Is this what, out of all these people and all this budget that you have, is this what you came up with?

Sidey: It just, it's just whatever it takes to get Statham to fight

Cris: to, and to beat people up and whatever.

And I've watched a Japanese film called Rory Kenshin, the beginning,

Sidey: right?

Cris: is like a samurai kind of. He's this young kid that basically it's when they try the emperor try to take over the Shogun. Kind of thing in Japan, I can't remember the year in 17 hundreds or whatever. And this guy is basically a killing machine.

So he kills everyone. And then he gets infiltrated by this young girl who in the end turns out that he killed her future husband, but before they got married and now she's out for revenge. But she gets Stockholm syndrome and

Sidey: by me,

Cris: oh, it, it's all like, and it's all like turn coats and turn and all

Dan: been watching a fair bit of TV this week [00:07:00] for

Cris: this week. This is the thing. I've watched it, I mean, I had it written down just so I remember because I watched it two weeks ago.

Sidey: we missed a week, didn't we?

Cris: but I just didn't really

Dan: right. 'cause somebody had to get married.

Cris: I know. And, and when last week I didn't really remember much out of all this stuff that I watched, so I just put it all out there.

Sidey: What about you, Dan?

Cris: And that's it.

Dan: I watched the Equalizer tree.

Reegs: I dunno if I've seen the third

Dan: one.

No. Well, it's, it's fresh out.

Sidey: It's on one of it's on Netflix.

Dan: On Netflix

Reegs: I might have to put that down. I

Cris: the one where he is in the train

Dan: really like the, I really like the first two.

Sidey: it.

Dan: I'll leave you and maybe, we'll, we will talk about the third one another time in more depth. I watched kind of a family film called Grand Tomo, which is based

Reegs: Oh, Aaron Paul.

Dan: No, no. I'm

Cris: Clin

Dan: Wrong again.

It's Orlando

Sidey: no, that's Grant Torino

Cris: Torino. Yeah.

Dan: and he is a marketing man for Nissan who wants to get a program of people who are used to driving on Grant [00:08:00] Tomo, the computer game simulator and put them behind real. On a really at Attract. It's based on a true story, right? Believe it or not. And, and a guy called Jan. His name's not, but it's something like that.

He's not, not Vest staffan either, but he he wins the GT Academy and then goes on this journey of becoming a racing car driver,

Reegs: from playing a computer

Dan: from play. Well, it's not a computer game. It's a, it is a

Reegs: it's a, a simulation.

Dan: So it's, and the guy who did it, the Japanese guy who made the game,

Reegs: I've got it. Grand tomo though. 'cause I used to play that. It wasn't a simulation where me and Max were just smoking weed and playing that on the

Dan: Well, it was, it was when he, he did it anyway, so, it was kind of not like Jaws. Nothing like that. Really.

Sidey: it didn't sound anything like

Dan: yeah, no, it wasn't. So, yeah, it's not, no, nothing like that.

But it was quite good. We watched it together as a family. And actually both the girls were really into it. Like, [00:09:00] like, I didn't know they were into cars. They were going, oh, yeah, it's, I was like, really?

Sidey: really? There's there's a, there's an F1 movie coming out isn't there? With Brad Pitt and other people looks, it's terrible. I think.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: Is it Michael Mann?

Sidey: Surely not.

Reegs: I think it's something, something

Cris: manly man. I dunno.

Dan: Well, we, we are not sure clearly, but

Sidey: sure It's nothing like Jaws though.

Dan: Nothing like Joyce. Nothing

Sidey: yours. Should we just plow on with the top five loops? Let's

Dan: plow

Sidey: Top five loops. So there was no sort of hard and fast interpretation. You could do whatever you like with

Dan: Top five loops. There's no hard and fast.

Reegs: Very good, very good. Could we get all the time loopy ones out the way in one go? Just so that we, 'cause there's so many of them, but surely we've got other things other than that.

So we could just get 'em all out the way.

Sidey: I suppose the most famous one of all would be Groundhog Day. Yeah. It's now a, it's this the way of describing something that happens

Dan: Boss level.

Reegs: and I still think it's the peak, isn't it really? Groundhog Day of, of all the time Loop

Dan: [00:10:00] Yeah. Because it's funny. But I tell you what, boss level wasn't too bad at all.

Remember that one? The map of Tiny, perfect Little

Reegs: We

watched that for the pod.

Dan: We did indeed. We watched both of those and edge Lord of Tomorrow.

Reegs: Yes,

Sidey: We've watched a few haven't because we did Palm Springs. Yeah.

Reegs: But yeah, 'cause it has become like a, a really big thing. Any other like, noticeable, noticeable ones?

Happy Death Day franchise on Netflix at the moment. That one's really good. Where she gets killed and has to effectively solve her own mur murder in a time Loop

Sidey: there's one called Russian Doll.

Reegs: Yeah. With No.

Sidey: Jaws

Reegs: Tiny Shouty New York Jewish woman. Oh, for goodness sakes

Sidey: Shouty

Reegs: hair.

Is she really? New York? Always smoking

Dan: cigarettes

New York

Reegs: Jackets. Oh man. It's really annoying. I must have her

Sidey: Was she an American Pie?

Reegs: No, she was, oh, she was a child actor though. I'll have to remember that

Sidey: Not Natasha [00:11:00] Leon.

Reegs: Yes. Natasha Leon,

Sidey: American party. She she? Yeah. She was like the sensible one. And she's in the thing that Ryan Johnson's directing at the moment. Yeah. But she's the, she can tell when everyone's lying. Yeah. Yeah. That's her. I can't tell if she's putting on her accent. It seems so exaggerated to me.

Reegs: Yeah. I think that is her

Sidey: real genuine. Yeah. Okay.

Reegs: I know what you mean though. It's like it's, see, see, it's so big. It's almost like an

affectation,

Sidey: She was in a movie. I'm a cheerleader. I'm only a cheerleader. I'm just a cheerleader or something. Yeah. Which looks quite interesting. But anyway, just I think we've covered off the loop.

Have you got any more Loop

Reegs: source code?

Cris: Palm Springs?

Sidey: Yes. That's the one. Yeah.

Cris: Oh, did you say that already?

I, there's

Sidey: but we?

Dan: loop back there.

Cris: That was the only one that I had. And oh, sorry, I'm gonna remember this.

Sidey: Could we have Memento that's kind of a bit

Reegs: Yeah. This

Sidey: then 10 it.

it is a little bit like a palindrome kind of thing, isn't it? Yeah,

Reegs: Mobius strip.

Cris: Sorry. The 51st date, is that a time loop or is that, does that not count? Because the [00:12:00] same day all the time.

Sidey: Yes, sounds like it.

Reegs: No, that's just over 24 hours though, isn't it? Yeah. No, I don't think that's a loop. Is it? It's not a loop. It's not a time repeating is it?

Dan: we talk

Sidey: Donny Darko was a time,

Reegs: there was a time loop in Donny Darko.

Yeah, in Dr. Strange, he uses a time loop to kill Dore Maus ki or to sort of beat him into a stale mate, doesn't he? Over like

Sidey: a billion years or something. Yeah. His also the prop is loads of loops that spin round,

Reegs: Oh yeah. That's cool.

Sidey: The Eye of Fundera, I

Dan: what about in slightly a different theme.

Reegs: Yeah, let's go.

Different loops.

Dan: double jeopardy. It was a legal loophole.

A

Reegs: loopholes as

Dan: Yeah. That was Ashley Judd was it? Or?

Sidey: Yeah, she's a person.

Dan: She's a person. I don't think she's an act

Reegs: Yeah. The whole premise was that you couldn't get, because she'd already been

Dan: tried and cleared of her husband's death.

When actually he turned up again. She wouldn't get. She wouldn't get in trouble for killing,

Sidey: Right.

Dan: him

Reegs: Because Yeah. It was just [00:13:00] preposterous,

Dan: isn't it? Yeah. So that, that, but it was a legal loophole. Yeah. And

And

I'm having it.

Reegs: Yeah. Well, the establishing plot of the Liar, liar is all about him doing loads of legal loopholes, isn't it?

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: 21 Jump Street starts with the guys getting off on illegal technicality because they didn't read them their Miranda rights. loophole. and in casino, I think he, he famously mentions that you don't actually have to have a license to work in the, because it's like a big part of the plot.

You just have to apply for one.

Sidey: Oh,

Reegs: so every 10 years they've got like a 10 year backlog and you just change your job title every now and then and just keep applying for it. So you never actually have to have a license. You just have to be in the system. And that's how Sammy is allowed to be part of that mob world.

Dan: Nice. Any other loops that aren't really loops

I've

Reegs: got? Well, Jonah Hill is the loop hole guy in Hollywood. If you think about it, war dogs. He plays a guy who exploits the loopholes in government contracting to make money from [00:14:00] arms dealing in the Wolf of Wall Street. He's involved in stock manipulation schemes, you know, finding loopholes in the law to do that.

And in Moneyball it's, maybe this is more about finding market inefficiencies than loopholes, but Moneyball as well, he is sort of. Doing, applying that approach as well.

Sidey: We mentioned Dr. Strange's little thingy. I can't remember what it's called. It does have a time,

Dan: I thingy. Yeah

Sidey: a magical kind of sounding name

Reegs: name amulet of something.

Sidey: Yeah. And it, it kind of, it spins round when the time stone is activated. There's one in Harry Potter, which Hermione uses in the prison ra band to keep appearing doing multiple classes, but also to loop back around and save

butterballs or whatever the thing's called. And that also has like time spinning things that you flick it and

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: goes back in time.

Nice.

Reegs: Nice.

Sidey: so that,

Dan: I remember watching a Japanese film called The Ring which is a loop, a type of loop, isn't it? A ring, yeah. And it was

Sidey: scary.

Dan: scary. Scary. Yeah. It was out in [00:15:00] deepest, darkest WANs late at night in a farmhouse.

Sidey: That's not where it set though, is it?

Dan: no, that's not where it was set, but was where I was. Right. Watching it.

And that made it all the more spooky. It was a late night channel four movie, which just came on and remember on the channel four movies, you'd have about 20 minutes of a guy explaining how good this movie was gonna be before it came on. Yeah. And then it hit you with it and the only respite you got was in the commercials and then you were just sucked back into this.

And actually it wasn't that. You know, it wasn't jump ski, it was all psychological. You know, you would just put you in that really spooky place. At one point all this woman did. If you'd had the sound down, it wouldn't have been a problem. But all this woman did was just kind of walk past the camera with her hair down across her face and we were like, ah.

Sidey: there's loads of really good cosplay of that.

Dan: Yeah,

Sidey: it's, quite, quite clever how they do it.

Reegs: The ring?

Dan: The [00:16:00] ring. Yeah. They remade it.

They

1. And it was shit.

Reegs: it wasn't shit but Naomi Watts. It was yeah, it was about watching a videotape, wasn't

Sidey: it?

Dan: Yes. Yeah. I

Cris: got Fruit Loops.

Sidey: Yeah, I've got

Reegs: through loops. Yeah.

Cris: Fruit Loops in the Land of Bad. That's the only one I remember.

Dan: Wait, there two can play at this game.

Reegs: Yeah. The token Sam, the Toan

Dan: Nevermind.

Sidey: I've seen

Reegs: It's at the center of a Mandela effect debate I found today. Looking up Fruit loops. Yeah, because how would you say the fruit in Fruit Loops is spelt,

Sidey: I dunno, just the normal way of spelling fruit.

Two

Cris: o's no fruit.

Reegs: Yes, exactly.

It doesn't meet the legal definition for fruit, but it does apparently contain enough fruit to to be called fruit. So it's double O's, but it used to be, UIT

Sidey: Is that 'cause the,

Dan: Oh my Lord,

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: That one it,

Dan: Oh my Lord. That clever though,

Sidey: you ever eaten Fruit Loops,

Dan: spelling of it and say No, we're not saying fruit. We're saying fruit.

Reegs: We're saying fruit.

Dan: We're saying

Sidey: Have you ever had that, Chris, have you eaten it?

[00:17:00] it looks

Dan: random. I've had them, I've had them in the little kind of, you know, packets you get of

Sidey: variety pack.

Cris: ones,

Dan: the variety

Reegs: Yeah. I've tried them

Dan: tried it,

Cris: I've seen how they look like,

it is never

Reegs: led me, they were in the UK as well.

It led me on a rabbit hole of all sorts of stuff. Fruit Loops, the Mandela Effect. It was also like. Hardcore, 80 serial enthusiasts are really into spotting fruit loops in movies. And there's like websites devoted to like Michael Mann's Manhunter where they, where he walks through the store and they're people, like, they've got diagrams like picking out all the different boxes of like different types of fruit loops and cereals and stuff that

Sidey: I was watching something about. A collector and he was, they were collecting something else, but they also were really into cereal boxes.

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: Sometimes you think, what am I doing in my life when you hear inspirational people like this. I

Sidey: know. Yeah I've also I am aware of some pornographic content involving

Fruits. Yeah.

Dan: loops is, you're not talking about meats sphincters again, are you?[00:18:00]

that

because we were off, we were off.

What you

Reegs: you do with a fruit loop that it's gonna be vial,

Sidey: it? I don't wanna really go into it in any detail, but if you searched that online, I'm sure you could find it.

Dan: Wow,

Sidey: okay. It's absolutely revolting.

What about something that is loop shaped but bigger than a fruit loop cereal?

Reegs: I'd love to know about that.

Sidey: Thanos ship in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a loop. Is a gigantic loop, and it kind of spins round and looks, so

Aerodynamically un. Like unsuitable to be a spacecraft thinking, but it's a gigantic, I mean circle really, but, but a loop.

Dan: I'm thinking about the, the ship Now, which was in the Jennifer Lawrence movie where she was asleep for ages, passengers Didn't that have those big

Reegs: around it. Also, the device in contact was a bit loopy

Sidey: It was, I think there's a similar one in Event Horizon wasn't

Reegs: Mm.

Dan: lots of sci-fi loops

then.

Sidey: Wait, I was gonna, maybe, could you even have like the Stargate [00:19:00] thing and

Dan: Wow. Yeah, I think, can we have the

Sidey: of circles. I mean, they are kind of

Dan: we've got it. Well, I've got one, it could be my choice though, but I've got a few of them.

So, let me just explain the the loop that I'm talking about. It's the automatic dialogue. Replace a dialogue replacement looping the A DR. Yeah. That refers to the process of rerecording dialogue in a studio after filming. Which is basically dubbing, isn't it, you know, when they're coming in.

But that is a kind of film looping, which they've used in lots of different films. Christopher Nolan is known never to use it which is why you can hardly make out some of the words that his actors say because he's

Sidey: does really seem to have embraced that recent Yeah. In recent films.

Dan: Yeah. And the, the cinemas, they, they look amazing, but the cameras don't always pick up the best audio.

Sidey: You want 'em to put the words on in the cinema, don't

You

Dan: you're thinking enter the dragon now when you, you wanna fight, let's fight. And things like that [00:20:00] would be pretty good use of a DR

Reegs: or a bit like our kids TV this week,

that describing there.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: About Loop the loops.

Dan: Loop, loop

Sidey: That one. Well, my norm is gonna be a kind of loop.

The loop.

Reegs: Oh, right. Okay. All right. Well I'll leave it then

Sidey: Well, no, you can do

Reegs: Well I just was thinking about Top Gun. I didn't wanna steal you. Is that was

Sidey: No, no, it's a video game. Gun

Reegs: Maverick. Because,

Cris: that mean?

Loop The loop.

Reegs: loop. You do like a vertical circle.

Cris: I've seen that with the green arrows, red arrows. Yeah, I've seen that here. Yeah. In Jersey.

Reegs: And featured in many films, but I think Top Gun, iron Eagle, the Right Stuff, top Gun

Sidey: Nice.

Reegs: I would say. And then I have got, oh, and then looping in the Matrix. Revolutions. I think he's in that place. Limbo. It's a mobile avenue, is where he is.

He's left there and he runs off, it's like Patman. He runs off the left hand

Sidey: side. Is this the, he

Reegs: on the right hand.

Sidey: Fourth one.

Reegs: the third one, [00:21:00] when he, he goes into the train station. He's with Satie, the Indian girl. Yeah. And,

Cris: sounds like a brothel.

Reegs: it's not a brothel, it's a train station.

Yeah.

Sidey: I'm gonna put my knm in then.

Alright, let's do it. It is a loop. The loop, but it's Sonic Hedgehog.

Reegs: Oh

yeah. That's good.

Sidey: runs around at pace and in the level design there's quite a lot of loop the loops. He also collects little loops in the gold ring. Things that he is so

Reegs: that's double loop.

Sidey: So double loops inside the hedge. I didn't actually like that game, but I'm putting in

Reegs: movies are quite good. My youngest likes him.

Sidey: I saw the first one at the Plex, but I haven't seen, oh, I haven't seen the second one. I've not seen the third one.

Cris: I'm, gonna put my no in because obviously you know how much of a music fan I am and because no one mentioned any music.

The only thing, and I told you today I'm gonna struggle with loops and, and I didn't really know how to interpret this and I didn't think of loopholes and all that stuff. So, the loop in music. Yeah. Is a repeating section of sound material and it can be between 10 and 40 seconds long and it just kind of keeps on [00:22:00] going on the loop.

Can I have that?

because I'm not really, I I

Sidey: embellish that one. I was thinking of Daft Punk around the world. 'cause they just, that's, and the video is the, the loop of the same people doing the same dance move and I think they say around the world 144 times in the song

Reegs: I was thinking about like when they loop in terms of editing, like in Pi, where it'll build the same set of images and loop them so that, you know, to show repetition as well in the, it's the cinematic equivalent

Cris: Right. Okay. Where you kind of go again, again, again.

Dan: But

I was thinking more of,

Sidey: but Cha and Dave.

Dan: yeah. Chaz and Davies Chaz and Davey Chaz and Dave Snooker, loopy when Snook of All the World That was that famous 2002 TV movie. So there you go. They're Spurs fans, I believe

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: did the, the on the

in the cup for Totting Ham

Dan: Totting. Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: old mate, Aussie

Dan: with my mate Aussie. They, they did they did Glastonbury as well, didn't they?

In 2007 ish. [00:23:00] Yeah. So, snooker, loopy

Sidey: Nuts are we.

Reegs: Nice. And I'll go for the fruit loops and get out. We watched that for the pod, didn't we?

Sidey: Yes, we did. Yeah. Yeah,

Reegs: She sits there looking through the like draft picks of the college, like NFL players and she's got like a bowl of fruit loops and her bowl of milk, which she has completely separately.

image of racial segregation.

Sidey: Yeah. Nice.

Cris: out

and being a lunatic

Reegs: being a fucking lunatic.

Dan: It's loopy.

Sidey: We're not in a sort of sci-fi loop anymore. No. Really any kind of loop. It's just the name of the film is called In the Loop.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Dan: Which this term refers to being in the know.

Sidey: Yes.

Reegs: Yes.

Which basically none of our characters are at any point

Sidey: I, and I think we could just probably say from the outset, this is probably a really scarily accurate portrayal of how the government

Dan: What was this? 2009? Nine.

Reegs: 2009, but sort of portraying it is not real there. There's time things that indicate that the time period, this set might be around [00:24:00] 2003.

Sidey: some undisclosed kind of something going on in the Middle East.

Some skirmish or other

Reegs: Yeah. And clearly, you know, based on lots of real characters in the government or pastiches of them or, yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: So there was a series first,

1. the thick of it.

Cris: oh. Was that the, the first, the series?

Sidey: First.

Cris: Right. Okay. Is that as sweary as this

Sidey: More so probably. Yeah.

Cris: I'm gonna watch that.

Dan: It's,

Sidey: oh, it's incredible. You

Cris: today.

Sidey: It is incredible. But here we, we get thrust straight into, we're in Westminster.

Reegs: Yeah, we opened with some, some building roof works on Downing Street and then Malcolm Tucker Peter Capaldi, he's the Prime Minister's director of communications.

This sort of

Dan: thin doctor,

Reegs: Scottish ball of tightly wound rage who stalks the cor corridors of Westminster.

Sidey: Bullying. Bullying does not get close. Does not get close to what he does.

Reegs: Yeah. And he's obviously based on Alistair Campbell and yeah, it was what was [00:25:00] quaint called spin in those times. Now we live in a kind of post-truth society that anybody can just make up any bullshit and it doesn't matter.

So, you know, that does that element of spin and people trying to do things is, is sort of faintly quaint

Sidey: We see him arrive at work and he's given a big stack of recordings of basically all the comms that have gone out. From the government. Yeah. Overnight. And his job, first thing in the morning is to listen to that

Reegs: Yeah. He meets and greets everyone first, I think he calls them Cox. And he says, oh, how did your team do? And then he calls

Sidey: Fuck off.

Reegs: as he, as he walked. It's

Sidey: But the first CD that he puts in, it's Simon Foster.

Reegs: Yeah. He's been on Eddie Me's radio 4:00 PM

show.

Dan: British Secretary of State for international development.

Reegs: Yeah. And

Sidey: And he's talking about some

Reegs: diarrhea. He's talking about diarrhea. 'cause he's going, what is this? The shitting forecast

Cris: he mentions it quite like a couple of times. He's

Sidey: isn't that? And he says,

Reegs: he accidentally gets drawn onto the subject

Sidey: he says, generic in, in [00:26:00] some sort of different connotation about the war.

Reegs: He says it's unforeseeable.

Sidey: But then he says, oh. And, but the, the interview goes, oh, oh, speaking of the war, what do you think about the situation?

Like it's completely like total different

Reegs: sandbagged on the

Dan: coin.

Yeah. He accidentally backs military action on tv.

Sidey: but he, he

Reegs: doesn't, no. He says war. He says military action is unforeseeable.

It's later he will flip flop on his decision to say that they should climb the mountain of conflict. Yeah. So, right, so as he's saying all this stuff, we've got the director, it is Toby's first day on the job as well. Chris Addison, he's there. We've seen him arrive with his relationship with his girlfriend.

It's clearly on the fritz. It's very, all about domesticating. They're taking little jabs at each other. And he's there with Judy Greer and he's been introduced as the new guy around Dan, she guess is his name. Is

Sidey: They usually

Reegs: they usually called Dan. Yeah. And they both get phone calls at the same time as this going on from Malcolm.

From from Malcolm. Yeah. It's a brilliant little psych gag. They're like, how did he do that? And he's got two phones

Sidey: and he just [00:27:00] appears immediately and tells her to fuck Yeah.

And then about 10 seconds later, I thought I told you to fuck off. He gets, he tells her three times.

Reegs: tells her to fuck off.

He's doing immediate damage control. He phones people up. He's saying, I know, you know, you may have heard him say that, but he did not actually say that and all this stuff. It's

Sidey: and I know that, is it this one or later on where he says to the,

Reegs: it's this one,

Sidey: journalist.

Oh. And, and, and if I happen to mention that you were doing this, that and the other BQ Well, that wasn't your wife. That's right. Yeah. He didn't say that. Thank you fucking very much.

Dan: fuck itty. Bye. Yeah.

Reegs: by. Yeah. And he does get into a big argument with can't, what is the actor's name? She is Judy Greer. About purview. It is when he says, he calls her Mary Antoinette and then says, let them eat cock

Cris: Well, the horse cock thing.

She says something about the horse

Sidey: says lubricated horse cock.

It's just a torrent of swear words and

Dan: many good

Reegs: with the lubricated

Sidey: And you get the impression actually that Simon Foster and

Is [00:28:00] it Judy Malloy? Yeah. They're, they've been desensitized to it. They're just like, I just, you know, fuck off. Whatever.

Reegs: Yes, it's exactly,

Sidey: is just like, look, I'm not, we're not children.

You know, they, they're not scared of him. They're sort of scared of him. 'cause they just can't be bothered to listen to this tirade every single time they're do anything. But they're also like, they're

Reegs: they're scared of his real rage, but he carries such a general level of anger that it's not, they are desensitized it.

But Toby, it's his first day. Oh, what the fuck? He's, he's obviously on edge. His girlfriend manages to get him throws him a bone basically to help him on his first day.

Cris: he'll be meet in the room,

Reegs: gets him invited to her boss' thing. She works in the foreign office and he'll get to go to the State Department meeting where some big wigs from the Americans are.

And the Americans only feel happy if there's lots of people in the room

Sidey: They don't feel that they're getting a real meeting unless there's 50 people in the room or something like that. So you'll just be room meat, room meat,

Reegs: Room meat. He's meet in the room. Yeah. He's not prime cut. It's not awful. I'm not liver, I'm tip meat yeah, he's very good. So, in [00:29:00] this meeting where he's tipped me and told to say nothing, it's being led by Karen Clarke.

She's a state what is she? Secretary of State for diplomacy. And she's got a girl working for her, Anna Chum Lumpski.

Sidey: She's written a paper. Her,

Reegs: her.

Sidey: they know that the Simon Foster has said this comment about the war.

Yeah. And they know that he's gonna be in the room. So they're getting, and she,

Reegs: and she, her person,

Sidey: Americans aren't all on the same page.

Reegs: the Americans are not at all on the same page. She's very anti-war. Her Anna Chlumsky, her staffer, has written this paper, put. Pip pip post-war planning parameters, implications, and

Sidey: possibility.

She says, oh no, it's got an acronym.

Reegs: acronym. Yeah. And it's it sets out the case for and against war with this unnamed country.

But the case is very much heavily stacked in favor of against, which is Karen's position. So, and she leans on, simon Foster to kind of make a statement in the meeting and he just sort of,

Sidey: really wanting to chap up.

Yeah. And he sort of makes a fool of

Reegs: but he just flip flops. He doesn't, he says, I can't remember his exact line, but he [00:30:00] commits to nothing says nothing.

Sidey: Well he is been told, he's been shouted at by Malcolm Tucker to toe the line toe. This is what we fucking say. You don't deviate from that.

Reegs: And passed an important note in the meeting. When he unfolds, it says you are being a

Sidey: tip. I think it's outside this meeting on the street where the news reporters call him,

Reegs: He's ambushed

Sidey: and put him, and again, he doesn't know what to

Cris: that's when he says about the

Reegs: he says to, to, to get, to get to the land of peace, you have to climb the mountain of conflict, which gets him in the sights of the sort of right wing hawks in the

Sidey: Well, he knows immediately. 'cause he gets in the case, he's like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck,

What did you

Cris: tell me to shut up? I told you to shut up.

Sidey: yeah.

so there's this, the American guy, Lenton Barwick.

Brah. Yeah. He's really good at this.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: Oh, he's good. He is good at

Sidey: But there's another guy Anna Chum Luki Lee. Her sort of

Cris: The antagonist

Sidey: guy, the, the, the other guy who's like [00:31:00] so passively aggressively has it go, oh, that paper that he wrote

Reegs: about

Sidey: talked about?

Yeah. Oh, that's really interesting. That paper. It couldn't, I was really interested because it couldn't be more against the political climate of the times

Reegs: A real curricular. Yeah.

Sidey: without actually like losing

Reegs: He's the guy, he's desperate to get the attention of Linton. It's Zach Wood. He's a staffer there. You know, this is what it's all about. People's petty jealousies and, and career motivations being absolutely He tries to get his attention by carrying a squash racket round in his bag, hoping he'll invite him to play squash, which he'll never do.

Linton is really unsettling. He's a kind of Paul Wolfowitz type character. Like a really just got a hard on for war at any cost.

Sidey: Ben for conflict

Reegs: and like scarily will just kind of rewrite, you know, this is where they did absolutely nail it. They just didn't realize it would go all the way up to the president.

But he will rewrite reality

Cris: But that's the thing that in the, in that meeting where Foster makes a tit out of himself. Yeah. They, one of Linton's people [00:32:00] drops a hint of a, a war meeting

Sidey: That's right. There's a secret committee.

Cris: a

Reegs: The Future planning committee. The war com. Yeah. It's the war

Cris: So then when Karen goes back, that's when the, the, well, we need to find this meeting.

We need to find where, what's

Sidey: Look up the most boring named committees.

And one of those will be the war committee. They're not gonna call it the fucking war committee. So it's the future planning thing.

Reegs: She also meets she finds some kind of, Karen finds some kind of support for her, like, position in the form of general George Miller, who is James Del Feeny,

Cris: There's another legend,

Reegs: He is absolutely brilliant in this. And there's, there's a great scene where there, I mean, his objections are that he's a career soldier and he's like, we can't fight a war. We don't have the logistics for this. Which he works out on a kind of leap pad in a teenager, in a girl's bedroom.

Sidey: It's like

Reegs: he's working out the numbers and it's like making like noises.

He goes 12

Sidey: He also has the, I think, the best line in the movie, oh,

Reegs: Well, this is the problem with civilians wanting to go to war. Once you've been [00:33:00] there, you never want to go again unless you absolutely have to. It's like France,

Sidey: honestly howled with laughing. Just, you know, when you're watching something on your own and you laugh, you're like, that's properly funny. I fucking, I was pissing myself and I've seen it, you know, couple

Reegs: and then he follows it up with another belter. 'cause he says at the end of a war you need some soldiers left. Really? Or it looks like you've lost. Yeah. So that's his objections And also his objections are political 'cause he wants power as well.

Sidey: But the Brits get invited over to go to America

Reegs: to internationalize the dissent is what they call it. And they bring foster over to speak

Cris: and he doesn't wanna take Judy with him either.

Reegs: No, he fucks Judy off. Even though she's really hardworking in favor of

Cris: and she, she looks like she knows everything that's happening more than damn

Reegs: damn well they can't even get to the fucking airport. Like they can't. Phones are in the middle of the night, like, where do we get a car and all this. Yeah.

Sidey: It goes Pete Tong almost immediately [00:34:00] because. Toby knows Liz from college. Yeah. And she invites him out and they end up getting

Reegs: Well, it's quite a funny moment just before that 'cause Simon's like, oh, we're in the seat of power. What we, I don't wanna just want spank one out over a shark documentary. And then so then they're both sitting in their pants and Malcolm turns

Sidey: Yeah. Unannounced.

Cris: in.

Reegs: Yeah. And then so yeah, Toby does end up going out on,

Sidey: he goes out the razzle, he, they fuck.

Reegs: him and Liza

Sidey: And she just leaves. She's obviously left in the morning.

She's got her shit together. But leaves Toby, he wakes up his alarm. He slept through it. Yeah. He eventually wakes up. It's half nine in the meeting's already started. He just rocks

Reegs: big important meeting. He's there with his boss the first time away. He is absolutely fucked it up.

He's like wreaking of booze when he turns up.

Sidey: You, because, see, Simon's not thrilled. Yeah. To say the least. But the, the meeting that they're actually attending is also a smoke screen. They've been sidelined anyway.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: he's also leaked

the fact that there is a war meeting. It's like to his

Reegs: leaked it to his mate who works for [00:35:00] CNN, like, but wi within seconds.

And then Malcolm's

Sidey: coming. Don't fucking tell anyone. He's like, oh.

Reegs: anyone. He's already just done it. Yeah.

Cris: And then they go to the meeting and then there's loads of people that know now it's like, who the fuck

Sidey: Well they, they go to that meeting. But Malcolm goes to another meeting with this kid. He looks 12.

Reegs: Yeah, Malcolm is, oh, it's another great line.

Malcolm is convinced that the real meeting is at the White House. He says that's where the power is. I'm not in this shitty thing. So he fucks off there insulting some American tourist on the way. Calls him a fat fuck. And then he meets that kid, I dunno who the actor is. He's really funny

Cris: He is funny. Yeah, he is funny.

Reegs: funny. He says how old are you? And he's like, I'm 22, but I'll be 23 in nine days. We could cancel the meeting anyway, later on he says, oh,

Sidey: your master

Reegs: your master race of Superpowered toddlers. Yeah. Yeah. And he threatens, he said, don't get sarcastic with me, son. We burn this city to the ground in 1814 and I'm all up for doing it again.

Sidey: Yeah. But they don't bother. They're just like, it's war off a ducks back to them. They're just like, well,

Reegs: Well actually [00:36:00] he gets put in his place a little

Sidey: bit.

He does. Yeah. He, he's been marginalized completely, which obviously is like playing, you know, putting his ego outta joint. But he goes, and he, he sort of goes on about this to Lenton later on and he says, look, just 'cause we achieved fucking things, you know, early age than you fuck you, that's on you. He's like, oh fuck.

But it, it's a really good load, load of insults that he dishes out. I really

Reegs: It's brilliant. Yeah. So the real meeting is happening and like you say, it's now swamped with people. Everybody's found out about it because of leaks and blah, blah, blah. And in this one they start having discussions about whether things are official or unofficial.

Officially this glass of water, I could call it a shoe,

Sidey: but

Reegs: not.

Cris: Fin's got a good line. I can't remember what it is, but he is, oh, officially this could be this, but this is actually

Reegs: unofficially, this appears to be bullshit

Cris: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Reegs: And what they what they're trying to do is Karen and George are looking for Foster to speak up in that meeting against war.

Yeah. Whereas Linton, Berwick is like seized onto this con climb the [00:37:00] mountain of conflict thing, having bumper stickers printed out with it and is like using it and thinks it's an argument for war. And then he is being asked to say his position, which he dilly dallies and flips on 'cause he doesn't have one.

Sidey: There's also it's like a un council vote,

where. They've had to corral all of these,

Cris: No. The bald guy,

Sidey: all of these big wigs into the room to take a vote on it. And Mark is like, right, that needs to be brought forward two hours. And they're trying to find out who's leaked the information. So they've got this other Scottish guy

Reegs: Jamie

Sidey: who just fucking like screams at the two in the office.

It's Toby's ex misses. 'cause they've split up, now she's found out about the affair.

Cris: Oh. And the guy with the opera there with, with the,

Sidey: and the guy keeps playing Turn that fucking music off. Yeah. And he just destroys this fax machine. And then, and then it pivots a bit later on because stuff changes like Right. We need to put that meeting back after having like excruciatingly just begged and, and pleaded with all these dignitaries to, to move the vote forward two hours.

Now they need to move it back two and a half hours.

Reegs: Well, that's [00:38:00] all ask covering really that Malcolm does on his own behalf because Berwick says to him afterwards, I need it, you know, information.

And then he goes to kind of,

Sidey: they rewrite Lisa's paper, don't

Reegs: Do they wholesale copy parts? They take out all the arguments against and then they give that as the smoking gun. Yeah. For, for

Cris: change the name, everything. There's no more Iceman is something else. It's just like the whole thing is

Sidey: just don't James Gini and Malcolm Tucker face off.

Reegs: They do Well that it's, it is a little bit earlier than that.

Sidey: says to him, tinker Taylor. Soldier cunt. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

but he does put him in his place. He's, 'cause he gives him all the psycho stuff. Malcolm. And he is just like, you're nothing here. Like just, you're small fry.

So that's why Malcolm Does all this shenanigans gets his shit together to

Sidey: Yeah.

Like you say, everyone's nothing about, this is about the big picture of what's going on. It's all individual people's motivations. Yeah. To, and

Reegs: which is

Sidey: quite terrifying

Reegs: Individual [00:39:00] motivations. Mostly very cowardly and spineless as well.

Like morally bankrupt

Dan: would think it?

Reegs: you. Yes. There's been a subplot about his constituents back in

Sidey: Hampton.

Oh, Steve Cogan. Yeah.

Reegs: it's Steve Cogan. Yeah. As Paul, I think he is the very aggressive constituent

Cris: with a wall. Yeah.

Oh my God. Forgot

Reegs: back to bite him in the As

Dan: it's in danger of collapsing into his mother's garden or something, isn't it?

Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. And Foster, who's been threatening his resignation all the way through to real impact at all is suddenly fi like basically put in the firing line at the end because of this whole wall situation with which Malcolm blows up by phoning up all of the people going, oh, please don't print this story.

And then so Fox foster's political career and then, you know, the film kind of ends with, you know, they've gone, they've taken the unilateral decision to approve going to war. This is in spite of, it's really dark when you think about it because Miller has already clearly pointed out [00:40:00] that they are underfunded and

Sidey: Yeah. There's loads of people gonna die. People are gonna

Reegs: people are gonna die. Yeah. And it start, then a new guy comes in. It's actually Will Smith. He went to our school. Yeah. And in the last line of the film, he says to him, where are you from? And

Sidey: they out, boom. There you go. Loop right back to home.

Dan: Yeah.

Well that is looping back right round. This is fantastic. It, the, the series quiz that you are gonna get

Cris: Yeah. What are they called?

Dan: the

Sidey: The thick of it. I would like, I, I think the series is even better. Yes. But this is still top tier.

Dan: really, yeah. It, it's genius stuff, but

Reegs: Malcolm's best moments are in, in the thick of it.

Not in

Sidey: He gets, he gets. Like done over a few times in this. He gets sort of brought down to earth.

He does eventually in the series as well, but not you get good four or five series of him just fucking tearing into people and being horrible

Dan: it. The, the thing is, it's just so close to what I expect isn't far off the truth.

As far [00:41:00] as the, the selfishness of individual

Sidey: Yeah. If you're a career politician, you are likely to put your career longevity ahead

Dan: really pisses me off. You know, they, they, they, they'll flip and flap. They'll, at one moment it will be you know that they're standing on principle. Another minute it will be, we've listened to our constituents and we've done this.

So I'm not suddenly standing on principle because. Actually I've been well outvoted here, so now I'm gonna, and

Sidey: because if you are,

Dan: that kind

Sidey: you're a Joe blogs and you go into politics and you study s but then you'll be like the minister for, you know, something fucking like, agriculture. But then next, so you might be in the home office or

Reegs: I know

Sidey: and you're, but you can't know all that stuff.

Reegs: to be amazing farming and economy and health and you've

Sidey: got all your staff, isn't that? But it's still, you must have to know. I don't know. I just find it weird to have these people are not experts at their field,

Reegs: Well, and also this is a pains to point out how fabulously mediocre a lot of [00:42:00] these people are as well.

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: And Armando Ianucci, I mean, he's

Sidey: he's the Don isn't, he is fucking great. He

Dan: He just cuts through the shit. He's the writer

Cris: Oh,

Sidey: he wrote and directed this, and then he is responsible for things like Alan Partridge and he's got his own TV show, day to day, all those things. Yeah.

Amazing, amazing writer.

Dan: He did a, a yeah. A lot with Chris Morris who did brass eye and, and things like that.

But he, he's yeah, just a fantastic mind in which he can just cut through the bullshit and see comedy in it. But that's satirical comedy where it just helps you really reflect on Ha It's hard to kind of laugh at some of it because it is so close to the, the bone. It's frightening. It's frighteningly funny.

Yeah, you've gotta laugh because otherwise you'll cry. It

Sidey: It didn't cost much to make this. Do you wanna know how much it was?

Dan: Yes.

Yeah. Cool.

Sidey: About $600,000

Reegs: Wow.

Dan: is crazy cheap. What

Cris: with James Gun? Feeney in it.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Is it, I, I guess is [00:43:00] that because of just the use of like probably four cameras?

The entire thing? I

Cris: Yeah, the filming.

Sidey: Well, I think the actual first edit of this when they, 'cause there's so much, it encourages improvisation and it's quite a lot of, you know, sporadic, you know, just like erratic filming

that,

Cris: like behind

Sidey: the scenes. The first edit was four and a half hours long, and it took them months and months and months to whittle it down to what you get on the screen.

Box office, just under 8 million us. So that's

Dan: Yeah. Big money back. Yeah.

Cris: how do they not pay these? I mean, these are good actors

Dan: I

Reegs: Yeah. But there, a film like this, they just wanna be in it because you read a script like that and you're like, they'll, you know, they'll have shot for only a couple of days in the us Do you know what I mean?

It's like, if you're about can you make it, we'll do

Sidey: did. Right. So, they needed to do various bits of research. So James Gandini, he

Reegs: I know. This is

Sidey: He got access to ing to, to interview generals and get into that. I, Amanda Ucci, so the writer director, he just went to the US department, the State Department flashed an ID and said, I'm with the BBC. And they just let him in, just let him walk round.

No security, nothing. Like he had no permissions to be there. [00:44:00] He just flashed him an idea and they're like, on you go.

Reegs: Have you seen his quote about it? He says, part of me thought it was fun. Another thought part. Thought it was probably

Sidey: anthem.

Cris: Fucking Oh wow.

Sidey: It's crazy, isn't it? Yeah.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah, the original edit was four and a half hours long. Took four months to complete editing it. The word, fuck, how many times?

Reegs: Oh

81.

Sidey: No more. Malcolm Tucker has more than that.

Cris: Was it

163?

Sidey: 135 times The word fuck is uttered 86 of which by Malcolm Tucker, which is 63.7% of the fucks.

how many fucks he gave.

Cris: He gave a lot of

Reegs: how many

Dan: yeah. I mean, really, like Peter Capaldi really liked Tom Hollander.

Cris: he is? Do you know what? I've never realized how short he is. Have you seen him When he is, he is next to the lady. The, the Judy lady. Fuck it. Oh, I dunno how tall

Reegs: he meets Toby sitting on that women's desk and he sits down next to, he says, don't sit on her desk. And it's

Sidey: So funny.

Reegs: Anyway, yes.

Sidey: Any film where like the opening, one of the opening [00:45:00] Salvos includes Lubricated Horse Cork is gonna be a strong recommend for me.

Cris: Yeah.

recommend.

I'm

not gonna lie, this was, I I, when I've seen it, I was, oh, politicals. I Okay, let's see. And honestly, I, I told you this this morning.

Kira asked me, she's like, oh, what were you watching that was at the office? I was like, no, no. It's, it's, it is like a political thing. She's like, fuck yeah. I've never heard you laugh, because exactly like you said, she watched a little bit at the beginning with me and she was on her laptop a little bit, and then she went to do her own thing and all she could hear is me laughing by myself on the sofa,

Sidey: Oh, see the line about France? Fucking, it

Cris: honestly I was just pissing myself and she was like, are you all right?

I was like, yeah, this is really good. So yeah, I really loved it. This is, this is brilliant and I'm gonna watch the series, probably not the whole five season. I've seen this five seasons. I'm not

Sidey: yeah. But they, it's, they're short seasons. So I'd be like five, six episodes and it, it, I would say stick with it. 'cause you just get more and more of like genius content.

Dan: into the, the, the, if it,

Cris: If it's, if it's as sweary as [00:46:00] this,

Sidey: it's all, it's more, it is more so

guy that's like,

Cris: does

Sidey: there was a graph.

They had a, doesn't

Reegs: come in for a little while, which she say they stitched him together out of other old

Sidey: He, he has a really

Dan: like got a mate.

Sidey: they're at an international conference and he needs to print something and he is like, who the fuck will know how to use a printer, the Japanese. And then there's a graph of the amount of swearing on, on TV and it over the time and they showed it on.

Reegs: When the

Sidey: have I got and I think it's been Arm Manish was on the panel and they're like, what happened in this year, the, between these years where the swearing went off the chart? And they're like, that was the thick of it. It was on the tell. Yeah, it's amazing. Strong, strong

Recommend.

Dan: Strong recommend

Sidey: Power Rangers.

Dan: I was gonna say, oh, in

Sidey: power Rangers time. Force Have

Reegs: we done Power Rangers before?

Sidey: We had not. We'd done 500 plus

Reegs: and we've never

Sidey: still not done Power Rangers.

Cris: There was cartoons as well as this.

Reegs: There's all sorts. This with the ninth season of Incarnation of the Power

Sidey: Yeah,

Reegs: this has been all sorts of [00:47:00] huge in Japan and it's based on a series called Mii, Centai Time Ranger.

Maybe

Dan: bigger than that.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Cris: Have you seen any of these, Dan in your

Dan: Yeah, I had seen Power Rangers and when I first saw them I thought, this is utter shit. What the hell is going on here? But it was huge. It was just a phenomenon.

Sidey: Yeah. There was well I remember it being kind of like the old Godzilla movies 'cause you would have sort of

Reegs: Kaiju

Sidey: in, men in monsters, kaiju costumes, fighting in destroying cities

Reegs: Yeah. And robots though as well. Like little, you know, machines that would vultron like form up to make a giant robot, which sadly this episode doesn't have any of that. No. Shenanigans

Sidey: And then there was, so there were the original Power Rangers. Yeah. And then everyone got very excited. There was a white one came along, I think, and all white one. And then so that's the sort of thing. They introduced new things every now and then because of course there was toys and stuff as

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: But I remember hating it 'cause I was, I was at the wrong age when this came out. It wasn't cool [00:48:00] to like this sort the HI was, but we're

Dan: how long has this been out?

Sidey: Oh, it would've been around in the nineties.

Reegs: Yeah. Late, late nineties. I remember

Cris: it

Late nineties. Surely earlier than that.

Sidey: Mid to late, I say. 'cause I remember being at school, sort of finishing school. And this was around then

Dan: Well, we, we watched the episode, which was like, as we noticed, it was like porn acting.

It

Sidey: is massively exaggerated in it. Everything.

Reegs: Yeah, it's like a particular style of soap opera melodrama that's associated with this series. Yeah. And I didn't like it when I was a kid, but I watched it today and I fucking loved it. I really, really loved how earnest it was.

Sidey: in this one, we get it is sort of reintroducing and it's like a new start almost, isn't it? Yeah. Because this is the first of the time force slot. So they're villains of time that have the ability to time travel.

Reegs: We get a sort of futuristic but badly rendered city. And then we get a Vernon Wells, great Vernon Wells who led off some steam, burn it from Commando. [00:49:00] And he's the villain, Ransick,

Sidey: Ralph Renick. Yeah.

Reegs: got a tragic backstory. He was shunned from society in the year 3000 'cause of the scars on his

Cris: Ah, that's why he's got the

Sidey: He looks a bit Borg like as Oh, he seems to be he's got. Appendages.

Reegs: They all looked like they were about to play. Do you remember that heavy metal band, gu? Yeah. They all looked like they were about to go and play in an AGU concert.

Sidey: They capture him like early on in the episode, don't they?

And he's on trial for sort of

Dan: they catch him really early on. I

Sidey: like in the first minute or two,

Dan: they just straight into this battle. That's pretty

Reegs: good

Dan: there is. He slides over one of those big water tanks and our power ranger kind of flips over it and then he gets kicked.

And he crashes into an electrical pile on and he goes, ha ha ha. It's a firework. Yeah. But eventually he, he manages to subdue the evil foe and bring him to his knees. A load of people come and take him off his hands and he hands over what would be a time [00:50:00] loop kind of,

Sidey: It's his time travel device.

Yeah. It lets him travel to any point in history. Yeah we see him on trial and he's going to be cryogenically.

Detained, which we know we've mentioned before.

Dan: Demolition man

Sidey: man, this doesn't work. But when he's being sentenced, he gets, he looks at a woman that's watching.

Dan: of a glad eye

Sidey: and she gives it the layer,

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: return, the jello, they're real

Reegs: real subtle

Sidey: subtle, big nod like that as

Dan: That's

Reegs: naira. They describe as his daughter, but when she says it, she says it like, daddy fuck me.

Sidey: She says, daddy. And you're like, oh, hang

1. Yeah.

Reegs: But yeah. Anyway

Sidey: break him out of his intercept him before he gets

Reegs: No, she does break him out. Him and her, and she's got, like, when she comes to rescue him, she's wearing this big white outfit and she's got like this pink thing and she looks like an ice cream cone on her head.

And she goes with this like C3 POS robot called FRAX to go

pull 'em out. And there's like a little subplot as well going on. Two of the time people, Jen and Alex, he's [00:51:00] proposed to her. Yeah. And they're all gonna live happily ever after. I think this is a point you guys had been out at and it just goes on to,

Dan: I was, I was gonna say I watched this probably, what, an hour and a half ago and I've already forgotten most of what I watched.

I do remember that

Sidey: it's, it's a super happy tender moment. But it can't last,

Reegs: No, it doesn't last. Basically what's his name?

Sidey: Ransom. Ralph Renick.

Reegs: Ralph Renick ends up going back in time to the year 2001 and our intrepid adventurers have to go back after him. Yeah, back through the portal back to the year 2001.

on the way the guy who proposed to the other one dies. But I did wanna mention that not enough giant robot things, but right at the very end, the way that they do send them off into space is a giant robot twats the spaceship with a hammer,

Sidey: Basically. That's, this must be a better way.

Reegs: Exactly. I thought that cannot be the best way to send him into space, but it did look kind of

Dan: It's certainly within budget because this. [00:52:00] I dunno. I mean, we've seen some really bad shit in kids TV over the last few episodes. I'm trying to think back the last time. We all really enjoyed a, genuinely enjoyed a a kid's,

Sidey: is super popular.

Dan: tv. This is super popular.

Reegs: I liked this.

Dan: I liked this. You like this?

Yeah. I

I

Reegs: thought this was big. You watched like 10 minutes of it and you were barely watching. It was, I mean, it's got big ambition, big stunts. No, the whole thing end to end has good stunts. Good practical designs and stuff. It's like, yeah,

Dan: it started strong in the first minute or two, but it really, it, it, it just wasn't my thing.

Maybe, I

Sidey: it like silliness. It

Dan: does. It does. And I actually like it more now than when I used to. And it's like

Reegs: form

Dan: when it used to be on

Reegs: and big characters and themes. This one apparently is about xenophobia this this

Sidey: All right. Okay.

Reegs: that. But yeah, my disappointment with this one was just no

Sidey: that's what I wanted to see. Yeah. I was hoping for like big Kaiju stuff. This

Dan: was a [00:53:00] part one of

Sidey: This

was a two part. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Dan: who knows? But I won't be watching part two. But overall power ranges, it was huge. It had all the toys. It was, it was a cultural phenomenon and on

Sidey: Really good. Really easy to cosplay it. 'cause it's

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: a leotard really.

Reegs: Yeah. But the well the villains outfits are pretty fucking full on though. You could cosplay as them.

Sidey: Yeah, that's true. Yeah. There was the whale sort of cha shark character

Reegs: Yeah, it's like a Sharky character guy with a big green mohawk.

Cris: Yeah, that was, he looked quite cool actually. The Mohawk guy, the fat shark, I wasn't really impressed with,

Reegs: you were a bit disappointed,

Sidey: he was a bit sort of, rock steady, kind of that sort of vibe from Yeah. Turtles maybe, but

Reegs: but a little bit like also the dad in dinosaurs as well, if you ever

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: him

bit like

that.

Sidey: Yeah. Strong recommend though. Strong.

Cris: Very. Yeah. Strong.

Sidey: Anyone got any idea whose noms it is next week?

Reegs: I think it must be

Sidey: one of us.

Reegs: it's one

of us two. Well, I'll check.

Sidey: I'm doing the island walk at the [00:54:00] weekend, so. Wow.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Oh yeah.

Sidey: big 4

Cris: walking what? 48

miles? 48 miles?

Sidey: miles. Yeah.

Cris: 48 miles. Yeah, 48 miles.

Dan: 48 miles. Is it

Sidey: to watch, we can get the norms in early. I

Dan: nine by five miles? 60

Cris: K or something

Sidey: Something like

that. I have to start at half two in the morning

Dan: Where do they find an extra three miles from nine by five miles.

Sidey: But yeah, if whoever it is, if we get the s early, I could try and watch them before. 'cause the weekend probably gonna, it's gonna k my weekend. I

Dan: that

Reegs: you start at half two.

Sidey: I think the, the start thing opens at half two.

Reegs: And then you what? Finish at what time?

Sidey: What? Depends how long it takes. It should

Cris: hopefully around 12

hours,

Sidey: is about 18 hours,

Dan: Five minute Milin. How long is exactly gonna take you.

Sidey: I won't be five minute mile in it.

Cris: Hopefully. Hopefully the average is like, not the average, but hopefully it's 12, 13 hours from kind of

Sidey: they give you a plan of where you'll be at certain times.

And the average is 18

Reegs: and it's this year they're doing the whole Stephen King, the Long Walk thing, aren't they? That

Dan: Well, I'm, I'm thinking of it

Reegs: person to

Dan: finish. I'm [00:55:00] thinking of a, I'm thinking of a theme here. A walking theme.

Sidey: Okay. Yeah. Running man.

Dan: Yeah,

Reegs: That's more running than walking,

Dan: the, the the walk.

Reegs: walk the line.

We already did

Dan: the

Sidey: top five walks.

Dan: Top five walks,

Reegs: Walk. Walker. Texas Ranger.

Yeah. It's easy.

Dan: we go.

Sidey: This thing writes itself. Yeah.

Dan: Voy Walker. Is, yeah, we've got tons coming. So tune in another time. Another place.

Sidey: All that remains is to say, society signing out

Reegs: Reese's left the building

Cris: Lot of it did. Eh,

Dan: Dan's gone.