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Dan: Juicy jigglers get jiggly and indulge with the juicy jigglers. These wonderful wobbly wonders packed with flavor guaranteed to make your taste buds divine and dance. Give them a jiggle. Let the fun begin. It's a word from our sponsors Welcome to bad dads film podcast. We've got the usual set of heroes with us.

We've got Saidi

hero number one

Cris: Also known as Saudi.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Saudi we've got Chris

Cris: Yes,

Dan: Also known as Columbian Chris.

Reegs: Yep,

Dan: And, and we've got Simon. Also known as Uncle Travelling Simon. You've just moved house.

Cris: Oh yeah, I did.

Dan: Yeah, he's he's quite the, the intrepid traveller. So you've moved Quite a long way from

Reegs: yeah, it's gotta be half a mile, I

Dan: Half a

Cris: It's

Dan: A long

Reegs: even a mile,

Dan: a long way to move a house I mean, how many of you push that that sucker down the hill? Yeah,

Cris: No, he pushed it up the hill.

Dan: he's up the hill even tougher even tougher well, we've got a filled Podcast this week is filmed with Film fun

Sidey: it's all foreign stuff,

isn't

Dan: foreign film fun facts. That's lots of in there. Including a top five.

And there may be more words from our sponsors as we go on because we are obviously quite a popular show and everybody wants a piece of us.

Yeah, yeah. And that's our story and we're sticking to it. How's your week been chaps?

Sidey: Alright,

Yeah. I watched a film that wasn't Homework.

I

Dan: too. And considering I didn't actually watch the homework, I that's quite a

Sidey: but I

Reegs: It's probably not the first time.

Sidey: yet.

I watched your home. Watched the the beekeeper.

Sta yeah.

Dan: Beckham? Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. It's Good.

Is it? Yeah.

Yeah.

Cris: Okay. Like, he kills everyone,

Sidey: Yeah. It's so

Cris: that's all I

Sidey: all I need to know.

amazingly

violent.

Cris: all I need to know. Have you seen that I've seen one, I can't remember what it's called. Where he, he's like an armored truck,

Reegs: He plays an armored truck?

Dan: think that's trans He's

Reegs: such range. No,

Dan: that must be trans Transformers.

Cris: know what I mean?

No, he's

Reegs: Wrath of

Sidey: Ratatouille.

Cris: Man. That's the one.

Reegs: It's fucking brilliant.

Sidey: Oh,

we did it on

Cris: Oh,

Reegs: was like the best movie I'd seen for ages.

Sidey: Honestly, this is up

Dan: brilliant.

I was

Sidey: it's not as,

I don't want to say sophisticated, but it's not as

Maybe it's not as good as that, but it does feature loads of crypto bros getting fucking violently violently Fucking killed It's brilliant. Yeah.

Cris: Okay.

Sidey: Strong.

strong recommendation on that one.

Dan: well, I I

went through Die Hard 1 and 2 with my underage daughter to, to watch it. She heard that these films were out there from Jake Peralta of the Brooklyn Nine Nine. And then that's all she wanted to do. So she was like die hard. Can we watch die hard?

Can we watch die hard? Jake said it was really good. Let's watch die hard.

It's

not that violent. It's not that gory. It's pretty violent, pretty gory, but not like crazy, you know, loads of F bombs like they just use. And, and so the missus was walking through every single time. It was like, fuck it is fucking out.

Pass me the fucking food. And yeah, I was just thinking, oh, this isn't going down well. But other than that. And because of that, probably my daughter absolutely loved it. She was like, Nakatomi Towers,

Sidey: she Yippee Ki Yay mother fucker at school? Yeah,

Dan: I've tried to tell her not to use the language, but who knows what they

Reegs: Oh, you have to get the third one going with her

Dan: Yeah, oh, oh, wait, I

Sidey: I'll wait that's great.

yeah, I'll have the vengeance

Dan: when they, when they're showing the sign, right from the beginning yeah, I thought I'll, I'll give it another few months before that

one.

Sidey: cosplay that.

Dan: does

Reegs: the sign say? You'll have to refresh my memory,

Dan: have to refresh my memory, Dan. Busy with work

Reegs: or something. Oh, something

Dan: ones and I had a few things

Cris: No, I, I just, I was busy with work and, and I went to watch ones and I had a few things to do over the weekend and I pretty much gave up on films to football watching the evenings of last week and over the weekend I was working in.

I do remember watching a movie on the plane, which I didn't tell you about. I think it's called the call of the wild.

Dan: Oh, right. Okay.

Cris: it's, it's about a dog. It's,

Dan: Oh, no.

Cris: I've seen the, I've read the book. It's Jack London. I'm pretty sure that's the name of the movie. It's about a dog gets trapped is with Harrison Ford.

And it's basically the story of this dog in Alaska. And he becomes the leader of Opaqa Wolves at the end of the movie, but it's like his journey. It's a bit shit to be

Reegs: And what, and Harrison Ford plays the

Cris: The, no, he

Sidey: he plays the dog in the secret life of pets 2, I

think.

Reegs: Oh, there he goes. He's got dog ped, he's got pedigree

Sidey: a

pedigree.

Cris: plays an actual gold digger.

Like a person that

Sidey: that A 49er?

Cris: Well, in Alaska,

Reegs: Alright.

Cris: And, and he kind of gets attached to this dog and whatever. It's a long story, but the film itself is a bit shit, but I was on the plane and I watched it, so I remember it

Sidey: Did you see, that Jon Stewart's dog died? You know, he's back on the tonight

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: Who is Jon Stewart?

Sidey: You'd

Reegs: Comedian cum, lol talk show host.

Cris: What,

is he?

Dan: an American.

Sidey: He,

his dog died and he like, announced it to everyone, I get you right in the feels if you watch it, yeah, sad, sad times.

Why,

Cris: Why,

why, I don't want to watch that, if it's sad.

Sidey: It is

sad, yeah. it's sad, I watched it this morning, it was

sad.

alright.

What about

you Riggs, you haven't really had time have you with all the

Reegs: No, no, it's been pretty full on and chaotic. Although, on the Saturday when I was sorting out internet and getting TV set up and all that sort of stuff, I did get everything ready in time to see Arsenal trounce Newcastle 1, so

Dan: Nice, yeah, good stuff. Okay.

Reegs: I, I'd looked back and I'd messaged you about 25

Cris: Yeah, I was

Sidey: going to message in the middle of that and go, he's at work.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: I honestly, I couldn't, I could hear my, I said to Sadia, I could feel my phone vibrating in my pocket, but I can't, you know, I was doing the bar, I couldn't,

Dan: 25 abuse

Cris: couldn't, and when I've seen it, I just kind of, I knew that, obviously I've seen the results, and I was just like, this is amazing, really.

Dan: I won't pick up. Well that, that's super. That's splendid. Let's talk about something else. We've got some snacks. We've also had a top five,

Sidey: Yeah, we have.

Dan: you want to

Reegs: had some contributions.

Sidey: Did we?

Reegs: Yep, I

Dan: Oh, last, last week's top

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Cris: Wow,

Dan: There we

go.

Cris: yeah,

Sidey: yeah, They had a poem given

Cris: We got a poem given today.

Dan: Down Dog

did?

Cris: Yeah. Yeah. Me and

Dan: well, you're going to have to bring it in and read it

Cris: We will definitely frame it when we move into the new venue, but yeah, it's, it's, I can't believe it really,

Dan: Well,

Cris: but we've got given a poem.

Reegs: That's nice. Yeah. Is it a good poem or is it?

Shit,

Cris: it's actually quite good considering who it's from. He's a nice guy, this guy, but I never thought he can

Reegs: he's a poet.

Sidey: He

didn't know

Cris: he can, I actually thought that he's dyslexic, so he can't write,

Reegs: I think he could be a poet and be dyslexic, I'm pretty sure.

Cris: then he's worse than

Dan: Well, whatever it is, he's a good boy.

He's

Cris: Yeah, he's a good boy. Really good boy. I'm, I'm well impressed. My, my wig is off to him.

Sidey: Nice.

Reegs: So last week's top five, obviously Darren Lethley comes in to save our bacon. Jason McAteer in the original Wash Go.

And Alan Shearer cameoed as himself in Purely Belter. I don't know

that

Dan: I don't know that one.

Gary

Reegs: job. Gary Lineker turned up as himself at the end of the TV adaptation of An evening with Gary Lineker which is good. And then Beaver's got the legend, Thomas Graverson in gold too.

Sidey: Oh, okay. Yeah

Reegs: an Everton fan? Is he a Beaver? He must be.

Cris: I think he's Man United.

Reegs: I did want to shout

Sidey: what is your designation, beaver? Let us know.

Cris: Yeah,

Reegs: want to shout out Shat as well, which I think is Adam, right? And I do appreciate him playing, but completely getting the wrong end of the stick and giving us Stephen Chow from Shaolin Soccer. Air Bud, which I love. It was supposed to be all professional footballers, but Air

Sidey: Did he have a professional

Reegs: He probably played for one of the Rovers, didn't he?

Sidey: me.

Dan: um,

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: And, that is Adam Mo Shay. yeah.

Reegs: But good, good contributions all round.

Sidey: I didn't, obviously put this one out. I don't know why I just left everyone alone. So they can pick up this week's topic, which is, Chris being a borderline racist, I think, maybe. Top five foreigners.

Cris: y yeah.

Sidey: You're probably one of Jersey's top five foreigners, I would say.

Cris: I wouldn't go that far.

Sidey: Hmm. well we'll let the

people decide.

I

Cris: I am a man of the people

Sidey: Yeah,

well, do you want to set the ball rolling Foreigner style?

Cris: Yes, I have a movie called The Foreigner.

Sidey: Okay. Oh,

Reegs: Jackie

Chan. Yes,

Cris: and he basically just is a one man army and he just blows up and kills everyone that stands in his way because he

Reegs: It's kind of much more of a thriller, I thought, than an action movie. He plays like, he's a restaurateur and his daughter gets killed in an I in an explosion that the IRA put together. Because Pierce Brosnan's this sort of like, Jerry Adams, Martin McGuinness.

Slash character. And he does go on a bit of a rampage and stuff, but it's like old man Jackie Chan. He's like not, you know,

Cris: Yeah, okay, yeah, so, sorry, yeah, it's not, it's not Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon style, but it's, it's not Rush

Reegs: It's kind of a taken, but less pulpy than that. More about the

Sidey: But he does, like you say, he does have that, this is kind of his mo, right?

of being the foreigner or the fish out of, water. Cause he, like you say, rush hour one, two, three

Reegs: Shanghai,

Knights, and

Sidey: there's two of those isn't there. Where he's, you know, the Asian fella in somewhere that's not Asia,

Reegs: around the world in 80 days, all that.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Cris: So, I thought that would be a good place to start with.

And especially because the movie is actually called The Foreigner.

I, I, I enjoyed it. Especially because with Jackie Chan is, sometimes is a lot of action.

Sidey: Yeah,

Coming over here, taking our kung fu jobs.

Cris: I know. Fucking Foreigner. I fucking hate them.

Dan: Well, I,

Reegs: P.

1. Brosnan's really good in it as well,

Sidey: Okay, cool. Well, I like P Frost.

Reegs: I'm giving that a bit of a recommend.

Dan: I I, I'm gonna take you back to 2007 and a film called Namaste London, and there's a foreign in it. forerunner in it called Clive. Clive Standen. He's in this Bollywood film and he's, he then becomes our foreigner in this movie where an Indian born guy gets relocated to London to establish himself and then return to India.

I just thought I'd flip it on his head and, and we would look at Bollywood and see the kind of. You know, Western actors that go into into foreign movie films over there, and Clive has, has done this film. You, you probably know him quite well already. He's been in lots of TV stuff and making his big move out there in Bollywood.

Sidey: Nice.

Dan: Do, do you know any Bollywood film actors that are from this side of the pond?

Sidey: No, I do not.

Dan: It's quite interesting. There's been quite a lot actually. Whenever, back in the

Reegs: day, Dean Gaffney,

Dan: they, I'm sure you'd have been it and, and, and

Reegs: and, and deck huge in

Dan: bound to have been, but it was one of those things that when you went to India back in the late nineties, early two thousands and things.

And you were in Mumbai or Bombay you had half a chance if you're in hostels and things of somebody coming in because they just did so many movies and they would want people to go and you're going for a day. I got offered a part one time. It didn't work with the flights and things.

Sidey: That true?

Dan: it's true. Yeah, I did.

And I was. I would have waited around and, and done it if my flight hadn't have been so, so soon afterwards. Otherwise, who knows? You know, I could have been part of this

Cris: have been even more of a star than you are.

Reegs: Mmm.

Cris: Wow.

Reegs: I was still waiting for a

Dan: No, no joke. this

Sidey: hard to know, isn't

it?

Dan: is,

this is fully

Sidey: Compliant

Dan: compliant and important.

Sidey: Okay.

Riggs?

Reegs: Well, I am probably gonna steal lots of people's thunder here, but there's two guys I wanna talk about in reference to foreigners. One is Mike Myers not the psycho from the Halloween, but Michael Myers, he's done, he's done his whole career has been

Sidey: like

Wasn't he, is this true that he was on Mallet's Mallet, Timmy Mallet?

Reegs: Get out of town, is he?

Sidey: I

think he was I think he was involved in that. That, I don't know if that's an over myth, but I'm considering it to be a fact.

Reegs: to be a fact. Yeah, definitely true the Mallet's Mallet. So yeah, Mike Myers, Austin Powers obviously was a, you know, that was his mucking around with it and Gold Member was kind of Dutch, I suppose, and Fat Bastard was Scottish and it's always kind of, and he did that before in, So I married an axe murderer when he played himself singing Do You Think I'm Sexy on the bagpipes or whatever.

Sidey: He's got a thing about the Scots, doesn't he? Because Shrek. Was a jock. And

then he did The

Reegs: The Love Guru. Which, have you seen it? Oh my g I mean, that is just, you know, not to pile in on something that's universally recognised as being racist and shit. But it is racist and shit, like, awful. And then the other guy was Sasha Baron Cohen, who does a similar sort of thing, but the joke is always on the people that he's interacting with, right?

Because Borat is so ridiculous that anybody who, you know, goes to him and, and you know, he had also Bruno.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Was that kind of foreigner type character and then you could say Ali G because he was a foreigner in a class system.

Sidey: Very nice.

Reegs: two guys sort of doing the same

Sidey: stolen any of my thunder there.

Cris: Yeah. I mean, I, I didn't even think about these, especially Mike Myers. I, I don't think I've seen two movies

Reegs: Is he Shrek? Is

He

The first

Cris: Is he? Yeah,

Sidey: voice actor of Shrek.

Cris: is he Okay. Oh, I've seen that.

Reegs: Okay, I'll assume that, yeah. Oh, he's

Cris: Oh

Sidey: He's an Anglophile, isn't he? I've saw that sort of

Cris: I've seen. Is he, is he not English?

Sidey: Is he really?

well done. Is Tom Hanks

Cris: Is Tom Hanks Canadian? No. Oh.

Oh,

Reegs: word from our sponsor, Tom

Cris: Sorry about that, Tom. I still love you.

Dan: Yeah, friend of the pod. Lester Spate.

Do you remember Lester?

Yes, so International Kaladi was another Indian film starring Akshay Kumar as the lead actor,

Sidey: Harold's brother.

Dan: Harold but the most critical kind of international cast Member was Lester, Lester Spate. He's a retired American footballer, as I'm sure you all know, and he also worked as an actor and a wrestler, and he plays the role of a fighter in this film

Sidey: Which film?

Dan: it was called International Kaladi,

Sidey: Right, okay.

Dan: Another big Bollywood one, and yeah, it wasn't Oscar nominated or anything, so you might have slipped under the radar,

Sidey: Should have been by all,

Cris: but

Sidey: I've heard about

Dan: another, one where a a foreign actor has elevated the film.

Sidey: Yeah, okay, what about A. Schwartz?

Reegs: Yeah. He

is.

Sidey: is.

He's the Austrian oak, and he turns up in lots of films and has that foreign accent I, I wanted to talk about. him.

Reegs: Famously, he's too foreign to be president, isn't he?

Even if he could have a, you know, chance.

Dan: You, you, you need, he's born in Austria.

Sidey: president in The Simpsons, though. Yeah. He was elected to

read.

Reegs: Which is

Sidey: To lead, not to read.

Dan: did do something the other week.

I watched him on TV. So just angling for a change of the law and said, well, you know, if, if they did change the amendment or whatever, and we, I could run for president and no, they're not going to do it for you. But you know, fair play for trying.

Sidey: But yeah, lots of films of his where he's,

Cris: He is also a foreigner in Terminator, as a,

from a

Reegs: a, Time,

Yes,

Sidey: his kind of acting style really suits that role. He's kind of a foreigner in Kindergarten Cop, I guess.

Which is a bit

Reegs: We're stretching it as far as we can here, but

Dan: could stretch it even further. I could go the guy out of was it The Great Escape.

You know, the guy who does the, finds the pin on the floor. He's a forger.

They're not quite foreigner, but we're using a similar kind of branch of words. Does that stretch it far

Reegs: got a few letters in

Sidey: know about that that seems,

Dan: it too far?

Sidey: stretch.

Cris: Ah, well done.

Dan: Well,

Sidey: So A Shorts, and I'm gonna put in, I'm gonna, as the, a Shorts, like nominating a film and I'll put in Conan, just for Pete's

Reegs: Oh yeah. Nice.

Cris: Yeah, that is a great shout. It's also quite a lot of sexual content in Conan. So I think that's why he likes it so much. It's good.

Reegs: You've never heard the lamentations of their women?

Sidey: No, and Pete, I keep saying, I keep saying to Pete, you have to nominate it.

Because it's probably the only way I will ever sit down and watch it.

And he then has a thing where he, He always assumes that when he picks something I will hate it out of spite.

So he won't nominate it because he doesn't want me to.

then

Reegs: Well, I have been thinking for a long time of picking it because I haven't seen the original in ages and then there was a reboot that fits within the time period of stuff that

Sidey: double down.

Reegs: on this. We could have a double

Sidey: Double bubble.

Reegs: and then Conan

O'Brien or

Sidey: Yeah, top five Conan O'Brien's

Reegs: five Conans.

Cris: Yeah.

Dan: Okay, did any of you watch Comeback Ishq?

Reegs: No. Well,

Dan: I'll tell you one big Hollywood player did.

And that's Sylvester Stallone, no, Sly Stallone made it into this one. And it was he appeared on screen to save Simrita, played by Kareena Kapoor.

Yeah,

Reegs: Yeah, so he's, he's going for, like, people out of mainstream Hollywood or other things into, into,

Dan: into

foreign Into,

Reegs: we would consider

foreign

Dan: might, but they wouldn't.

Yeah, you're right. And his appearance in the screen obviously delighted audiences who weren't, you know, aware that Sly was going to make an appearance. But this didn't really make this film into the super hit it promised to be. But it's certainly a good case of Sly going foreign.

Sidey: Nice.

Cris: Okay.

I've got an actor in the equalizer in the first one it's Martin Chokash. I think that's the way to say his name. He is the Russian guy that Mr. Pushkin sends over to find out who is killing all these men and He's the guy with the tattoos and stuff. He is. Both in real life a foreigner because he's clearly not American where the action happens in America.

And he is in this movie a foreigner, a Russian person in the movie. I really like the Equalizer.

Sidey: We liked

Cris: All, all, all of them. But the first one

Sidey: is

I haven't seen the third one

yet.

Reegs: don't

Cris: I've seen the third one either, but

Sidey: I think it'll be good.

Cris: it's yeah, it has to be good. It's like, you know, it can't, it can't not be good. So, and I've recently seen it the first equalizer.

So I remember that guy and

Sidey: hammer content.

Cris: yes, yeah, it's actually really nice. Yeah. So I had that and I also have Christopher Waltz. As an actor in, well, to be fair, in Django, he's a foreigner, he's a German, Dr. King Schultz. In, in Glorious Basterds, when he's in Paris, oh, sorry, when he's in Paris and when he's in France, in rural France, whatever, with a dairy farm.

He is a foreigner

Reegs: Has he? He's been nominated for Oscars in parts that have been different languages, I think, hasn't he? Christopher Waltz,

Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: I'm not sure for that, about that, but, but he is another one

Sidey: seen much of him recently.

Reegs: No.

Cris: That is another one that I really liked his his, whenever I seen, I don't think I've seen too many movies with him, but I did enjoy his performances every time I've seen him and he's. In these two cases,

Sidey: the real deal, isn't

Cris: both of them he is a foreigner and I think as the general, the SS Hans Landa, I think that's his name.

He is really good because he speaks all these languages and he just kind of flies from Italian to French to English to German. It's just

Sidey: Yeah, I think Tarantino was going to shelve the whole thing until he found Christoph Waltz. He was the only one who could pull off that role?

Cris: Okay.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: I had this one in mind as, as both as himself being a foreigner in Hollywood movies, but also representing a foreigner on screen.

Dan: saying only Christopher Waltz, but what about Nick Reese? Nick actually played Rupert Winterbottom in October 1st. One of the great films that came out in Nollywood.

Reegs: The Nigerian film

Dan: film industry. He's known for Hollyoaks.

Reegs: Oh, who was he in? Holly

Dan: Lockie Campbell.

He played in 2014 to 2016. He's, he's, he's quite tall at 6'4 and he's, he's a really solid guy. He's a West Ham fan. I'd like to give him a shout out. He's welcome. He's a big friend for the pod and I hope you're doing well Nick.

Sidey: Wow. Let's just get out of the way. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson are foreigners in Japan in that film that we've mentioned.

Dan: shoehorning that

Reegs: foreigner

Sidey: shoehorning. that is like, couldn't be more.

Cris: It's accurate, yes,

Sidey: but we've talked about it a lot.

Matt Damon is a

Reegs: foreign. Matt Damon,

Sidey: a foreigner

in

the Martian. Yeah, He's definitely

not local.

So

that

was there. Superman.

Reegs: He's also in Team America, world Police. And they go have the Deca Durer. They're sort of foreigners, aren't they?

Deca doca.

Sidey: Superman is. definitely not on his home planet.

Reegs: He's an alien.

Cris: He's

Sidey: Are we counting that as foreign? let's say? That's the intergalactic

Cris: foreign? He is not from around these

Sidey: Yeah. parts.

coming over here taking all our superhero jobs.

Cris: Exactly.

Sidey: yeah. Get him the fuck out. Yeah. Build that wall. So yeah, Superman. Nice.

Reegs: Nice.

I've got, oh, sorry Peter Sellers is a guy, a guy again that I feel is sort of synonymous with these kind of characters, obviously the Nazi super scientist in Doctor Strangelove, and then more obviously Clouseau, whose French was so bad that other French Speakers couldn't understand him and yeah, so Cluso, and then Short Circuit.

The sort of vaguely Indian sidekick, Ben, which was, I forget the actor's name, but, you know, doing brownface, basically. And they, he was just sort of stock foreigner character. What else did I have? Other things as well, oh, Ghostbusters 2. They have

Sidey: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. he's

Reegs: the art gallery guy, he's just from somewhere in Eastern Europe, let's say

Cris: Hungary probably with that name.

Reegs: And then in Police Academy, you ever see Police Academy

Cris: Yes,

they're amazing.

Reegs: Right, so do you remember the first one? There's the character George Martin who gets banged by Callahan, the sergeant with the big

Cris: yeah, yeah,

Reegs: And Mahoney confronts him one night and says, Every now and then I notice your accent slip.

He's this sort of Latino lover boy and he confesses that he just puts it on, the foreign accent. His name's just George Martin, but when he puts this Latino accent on and calls him George Martin. Dean,

Sidey: he's a

Reegs: To ladies. So strong police

Sidey: You've just reminded me of Serge

from Beverly Hills Cop.

Reegs: Mm-Hmm. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: And that's

I think

next month. there's another

Reegs: a new one. Is it Axel F is it called or

Sidey: Something like that.

Cris: Foley, yeah, Axl, yeah, something like that,

Sidey: that.

Dan: Axel

Reegs: shit,

really, isn't it? But

Cris: It can't be as good as, it can't be as good as the

Sidey: it can be and

will be.

Reegs: Actually, that

has just reminded me as well.

Trading Places, Dan Arod, Eddie, they have the whole scene on the train when they're all a different type of Lionel and he's got the black face and she's all dy gerdy and the, that's all about being foreigners, isn't it?

Dan: Lots of foreign content. Are you ready to whittle it down

Sidey: I got maybe one or two more that I'll

Reegs: Yeah, I've got a couple of good ones. Javier

Sidey: Bardem is a deeply Spanish man. And he always seems to be very Spanish. Except

Cris: Except for No Country for Old Men.

Sidey: Of course yeah, his

Cris: He's, I mean, he's definitely a weirdo in that one,

Sidey: His haircut still. has To show in that one, I was

thinking

of him as Raul Silva. In Skyfall. he's a Really good

villain.

Cris: Yes. Yeah.

Sidey: one of the Better bond villains. And then another, like a really famous real life foreigner from Riggs, favourite movie, Lawrence of Arabia. He's in Arabia. being All foreign and that. I've chanced upon a clip of a, an antics roadshow bit where a guy had a watch and he had no idea.

that he had bought it at a Jumbo's out or something, or an antique shop for

Reegs: God, it belonged to

Sidey: and it was Lawrence of Olivier's watch when he When he came back and he had changed his name to something else, and he had, they had all the documentation of And he's like

fuck.

It

wasn't worth?

like a billion pounds. It was worth like 15 grand or

Reegs: something still.

Thats so cool though.

Sidey: and he said the guys, that you could tell that the guy doing the appraisal was really excited. and he's like, I don't know if you know. Like, that when he came back, he he went by a different name, and this is his name, and the guy's like, Oh my god, it's going to be worth like

a hundred grand

Reegs: trillion dollars, I'm going to

Sidey: worth 10 to like, that's still pretty

Dan: it before, but he used to live in Jersey.

And he'd come here on holiday and

Cris: From Arabia, when he would come from Arabia.

Dan: a little plaque on the wall down at Half Day Park that says, Lawrence lived

Sidey: here.

Yep.

we still won't watch the movie.

Reegs: won't. Refused.

Dan: I watched

Reegs: I'll watch the remake with Justin

Bieber when it's like an hour and a half.

Sidey: Or they could just edit it down

to 20

minutes.

or something.

All that sans stuff, get rid of all that.

Reegs: I did have a couple, I know you're keen to get on,

Dan, for whatever reason,

Dan: me. If you've got it, I want it.

Reegs: Well, a foreign exchange student is a trope that's in, you've got Nadia in American

Pie

Cris: had that, yeah.

Reegs: And famously, I think when Bart is sent on a foreign exchange trip, and, what's the name, the kid from Albania, I've got it, Adil, that they send over, he's looking for nuclear secrets, and while Bart is working in a winery he's a foreign exchange student, and I think, for me, what is one of the ultimate, and gonna be my choice, for definite, is it, are we ready to do that, the Swedish chef, a He's

Dan: I don't know when you mentioned Bart Simpson, I just thought of Bort. Remember when they had that one,

Reegs: are no more bought license plates.

Sidey: That is

Dan: That

was so funny. Chris, could

Cris: Yeah. I've got John Travolta and I think Jonathan Rhys Myers in From Paris With Love.

They are both foreigners.

Reegs: It's not, Nick, no Nick Cage isn't in that one, is he from Paris? Which one's that one? It's

Cris: It's John Travolta, I think. Yeah. He, he's like this guy, hard, bald headed guy that He has loads of guns and he kills everyone

Reegs: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And

he's

Cris: some

Pakistani bomb makers kind of thing, whatever that they are foreigners in Paris.

They're both American and they eat burgers and do American things, which means they kill everyone. And I've got George Clooney in the American,

Dan: Yeah.

Cris: I don't know if you've seen that. Have you seen that?

Sidey: Yes, he's the hitman. Yes.

Cris: He's an assassin that hides in Italy and he. is really cool and he is also American and he's not

Sidey: not Indian.

Yeah, he's cool.

he's

Cris: Yeah, it's cool. He's really cool.

Reegs: like

Cris: Yeah, I told you he made that movie with Julie Roberts with Bali thing is so boring. It's so

Dan: so

Reegs: he's more

politically

Dan: Yeah, I think his wife is some

Cris: I hope he's sexually active with her because she's a pretty

Reegs: lady.

Sidey: they've got, With both of

Dan: watch out George, Chris

Sidey: kids. They, they

Dan: on the

Cris: George, Chris is on the prowl.

Sidey: a big mansion

Cris: Yeah, and

Sidey: go see it when I cycle

Cris: the, yeah, you might do I'll let him know, I'll let him know you're, you're going to be there.

The local newspaper put out the news that local celebrity lawyer marries American actor.

Reegs: Hmm.

Cris: So I, I really like that. And that's my, my, me done for.

Dan: Well, I'm going to put in Nick Rees who's does October 1st from his Nollywood film.

Sidey: Okay, I'm going to put in Jackie Chan from the Rush Hour ones that you mentioned. because I had that on my list and He's like, couldn't be more of a

foreigner than that. The whole, the

whole shtick is him.

Cris: It's cool though, it's, especially the first one was

Sidey: it's good.

What did you put in? I can't

Cris: I didn't

put in anything. I just said about the all that

Reegs: Well put,

something in Demi.

Cris: I was going to put Jackie Chan with the foreigner,

Sidey: but

Why him in

Reegs: him in twice.

He's called the

Cris: he's Jackie Chan is a cool, is a cool guy. And actually, no, I'm going to put Christophe for a waltz just because it's, we can't do double Jackie

Dan: let's time is our own. And the, the thing about this film is, Chris, you chose it, didn't

Cris: I did. Yes,

Dan: Give us

Cris: I did. Well, because I have to, I have to say I was a little bit not that I'm pressed. We're not pressed for time now, but I was a little bit pressed for time because I felt Saidi's anger in the message on the group saying I need to choose. Why did I not

Sidey: rage. the rage was

Dan: You

felt a time pressure, did you?

Cris: yes, and I thought I need to sort myself out and

Sidey: you did.

Cris: put something out there.

And I did a 15 minutes, maybe a five minutes research on initially Netflix and then just Netflix and I've come up with this foreign movie. I had the idea of foreigners already in movies. So, so I thought, well.

the

midweaker was the man of action, which is a Spanish movie. So I thought I'm going to go with the second one.

And I didn't really want the German movie. There was a Polish

Sidey: one does,

Cris: It was a Polish movie that I've seen. I think it's also on Netflix. I've seen the trailer and I thought that was quite an interesting story, but I thought this one was. A little bit more interesting and it was also the, it drew to my attention that it, on the Netflix description, it says that it was the number one foreign film in 90 countries

Dan: Right. Okay. So not them all.

Couldn't even

Sidey: think there were 90 countries.

Dan: We, we're going for it anyway. So you, people out there will be interested to see the levels of research we go into in choosing a movie. And and Paradise then is this it's like another hard sci fi. It's another one of those

Sidey: sci fi kind of films

Dan: films that could happen in the

Sidey: Yeah, we did The Kitchen last

week and this again is one that's a not too far distant future. But it's a real interesting premise, I thought, and it starts off as an ad. For Aeon. You didn't see this one,

did you?

Reegs: I did not. But I do know the premise, and it sounds a little bit like another movie that I have seen.

Dan: Right.

Sidey: it starts off as an ad for this. company which can, and it doesn't make it exactly clear how they do it, or the ad's kind of a bit vague, but effectively granting you more

Cris: Yes.

Sidey: and it's super swish and very slick and then it goes into a negotiation of, of a, a with, it looks like a very impoverished family in a sort of ghetto.

As a family of four or five in a tiny, tiny little grotty apartment and they're trying to negotiate with the eldest son to take 15

Cris: Yes.

Of his life to donate

Sidey: Some sort of procedure where you can give up your future life and and that can be genetically woven into someone else to make

them younger. again. So

taking

Cris: this is, you basically sell years of your life.

Sidey: life. Yeah. So they were going to give him

Reegs: like younger when you, if you, yes. All right. So you go back in

time,

Dan: so

Sidey: Well, you just, you just, you just like de aged.

Cris: in this guy's case, because he was 18,

Sidey: He would be aged.

Cris: He, yeah, he would be

Sidey: So they're going to he's going to get 700 grand and that's for 15 years, I think it was.

and and so they're, the way that they show you is that they, you know. They have no choice,

Reegs: ultimately.

Sidey: And they kind of lean into the fact that they are

Illegal immigrants?

possibly, and they're gonna be deported anyway.

And so this is their chance to,

Dan: Buy their way

Sidey: Buy

their way out of it.

To and I think they said that the old man wants to start up a shop.

and all that.

They're really they're preying on people who have nothing and you know, giving it

to the elite already.

Dan: get this guy, he's doing the hard sell from the beginning. The guy, the young kid there, he said, Oh, I was only thinking I'd sell a few years, you know, three or four, maybe, and he's going, Nah, look, what you want is fifteen.

Fifteen, it gives you the money. Look at your mum and dad, they want to shop, don't they? Do you think they're gonna, so he's tempting in, and they are vulnerable they are impoverished, they're in part of a huge Kind of what do you call it? It's not a, it's like housing estate. It's not a handset, it's like tents

Cris: it's a ghetto. Yeah. That's,

Dan: there's, there's fences in and around, you know, they're

Sidey: When they pan out, It looks like

hundreds and hundreds of thousands of almost like shipping containers. Maybe, like, divided into two, and that's what people live in in these places. And they're being preyed upon by the rich, who are just taking, literally taking years for their

Cris: And

then you can see this guy walking out and he goes through a fence and he kind of goes through a, a turn, a

Dan: Yeah, there's like a, as he walks through, you can see that it's a, it's a routine for him because he grabs an a kind of overall that he puts over his clothes.

He walks through a road, a load of people who sure enough start throwing red paint at him and things. But that's not a problem because he is used to this. He's got an overall on that covers all his clothes. As soon as he goes

Sidey: straight in the bin

Dan: his pass, there's a pass. There's kind of a retina scan and then he's through into ions kind of it looks

Sidey: a big campus and it looks, I'll tell you what it looks like there's a big tech company who has a campus that looks almost exactly like this.

did you recognize it?

Apple? have, Apple.

have this

big, circular,

it's, it's a big circle, it's

Dan: arena as well though, isn't it? You know, it's got that big state

Sidey: Well this, this has like, lifts that take them down into the bottom Apple, you know, it's

Dan: and

basically we go straight in and follow this, this same character. What's his name?

Cris: Max. Max

Dan: we follow, we follow Max as he arrives late into an award ceremony that he is going to be featuring in as the top employer

Cris: Employee of the

Dan: year, salesman of the year. He's got 273. It's not the

Sidey: It's the

month he's banked out this month and it's not the end of the month yet. But he's the sales, the broker of the month. And there's all, the other people up on stage

that have done something and blah blah blah. And then they bring out the CEO who

Dan: the CEO who, I have to say when I've seen her

Cris: I have to say when I've seen her, I was thinking, how come she's not young? Because obviously we're going to get into it, but she looks like a woman in her 60s.

And we already know that people are giving up their lives for others to be younger. So I was thinking, well, CEO and the founder of this company.

Sidey: the CEO and the founder of we see his home life where he we've seen the ghettos, but he lives in a very swanky apartment.

He's got a very pretty wife Everything's going great and they're talking about maybe they can actually trade up now And get a bigger house.

Wouldn't it

Cris: a lake or,

Sidey: wouldn't it be great to live by the lake? And

all this sort of

Cris: And all this action, meanwhile, happens in Berlin, we have

Dan: Yeah, and they're talking kids as well. You can see they've still got the appetite for each other because they're in bed soon,

Sidey: There's a sex scene

Cris: Yeah. there is

Dan: a sex scene,

Sidey: we see her boobs. But we don't see his dick.

Dan: No, no we don't.

Sidey: disappointing.

If you come here for dick.

Dan: dick You're gonna be

Cris: boobs.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: But he, they're in love and everything seems to be going swimmingly

Sidey: Until a huge pivot 180.

because They go out.

They

Dan: go out and come back and for fuck's sake, somebody left a candle burning.

Sidey: Well, they, yeah, their apartment block is on fire. And because we're in the future, their fire alarm is able to determine the cause of the

fire.

and it was a candle that was left on.

And that's a no no with the

insurance

Dan: it's

Sidey: is no payout. And so they're freaking out about that. And the lady that they're talking to, their lawyer, isn't it?

She says, well don't, you've got the

1. collateral.

and,

she's, and

the wife's like, oh fuck.

And,

Cris: has put down

Sidey: She

has put down her future life, 40 years of her life, as collateral for the apartment

that they had,

And she hadn't told him.

Dan: so we,

start to learn not only can people earn money, but they can start paying debts through, they can mortgage

Sidey: because there's

no insurance payout, and their apartment is the bank has called in the mortgage. Yeah. And that means that They will take

40 years,

And

Dan: for 40 years and they can do this in the future in this future world and with criminals and

Reegs: ah, and if they ever got the technology to do it here, that is exactly what they

Dan: It could it could it's true I mean it can save you know The state in housing people for for 30 years ago We'll just take 30 years off you

Reegs: it'd just be farming babies and then taking the life from

Dan: there, there is a

Sidey: we get started on it as

Dan: Yeah. There, it's not a

Cris: they do make the the point, they do make the point early that you have to be DNA compatible.

Dan: Yeah. So

Cris: so you can't just pick and choose

Sidey: So this is where,

it Speaks to the point about the CEO. What's her name?

Cris: name?

Sophie

Thiessen, Is it

Thiessen, yeah. Or Sophia, or Soph, Sophie Thiessen,

Sidey: so there has

to, you have to be so much like if you were doing a what do you call it.

something, No, well, the things that you can donate stuff here, Now, in the here and now, like where there would be a kidney or or anything like that, you have to match for people.

You

can't, I can't, I couldn't just randomly give it to someone you have to match. And so when we get into the plot, it turns out that this, so the, wife of Max

Reegs: is matches the

Sidey: for the CEO.

Reegs: she wants four years off

Sidey: And so When it comes to it,

this

she's taken, you know, she has signed up for it.

So, but it's, it's a forced transaction. So she's taken away

Cris: but straight from the lawyer, they go, the police comes and straight, you're a flight risk.

We need to take you in. So there's no go home

Dan: on this. And as you say, we learn that it's not a perfect science. They're not everybody is going to be a perfect match. You need to find the correct. donor. And it turns out the CEO of Aeon has very few donors, which might be one of the reasons she looks a little bit older because she struggled to get a donor.

And we learned that Max needed as the best salesman was put on to his wife before he knew her as to be his wife to tempt her to sell. Years of her life, but they ended up falling in love and, and so they have this kind of perfect donor and the perfect salesman, but he ain't, he ain't trying to get her to sell anything.

He's madly in love with his, his

Sidey: So he, if we see him freaking out, he goes, they, they, they're not supposed to see each other on, on the day of the procedure, maybe in case he tries to break her out. But we do see the procedure, It just, it is very clinical, as you imagine an operation, it's just kinda like three prong thing that goes into

the side, And

it just, I don't know, plasma or whatever is extracted in there.

And that happens, and so she gets taken home. And almost overnight she starts to age and then within like a day or two she

is

Reegs: 40

Dan: day or two, she is now 40 years old. She wakes up in the night, looks in

Cris: Yeah, because she wakes up in the night, looks in the mirror, and you can see already she's maybe 10 years older, and then she goes back to sleep, wakes up, and then you can see her looking in the mirror, and she's like

Reegs: Is special effects good? Convincing enough for the

Sidey: it's a little bit of Makeup,

and then it's just a different Actress.

right,

Cris: Yeah, they don't show it in terms of like, like

Reegs: it's not aging,

Cris: No, no, no, no. It's just, they don't show that now. It's a German movie. I don't think they're that much. I don't think they have a, they had a great budget.

Sidey: But what we've come to learn, but at first she freaks out about it and he's like, well, he's just determined to figure out a way to reverse it, to get it back.

So we need to fight, you know, it's a mistake. But, what we learn is that yes.

she,

He was

a plant, really.

And

the fire wasn't an accident. The fire was deliberate to make them lose everything.

Reegs: Hang

Dan: Aion. Aion.

Yeah,

Cris: Sophie Thaysen,

Sidey: It's all been a setup.

Cris: Meanwhile,

he goes to her to ask for money and for a loan to get the years back because she has already seen him and she, I'm your employee of the month.

I'm here to help my wife. Please help me. She's like, I'll send me your details. And I'll, and she, and he basically, he just gets a promotion,

Sidey: Yeah, it's no fucking good to me, I need them. I need like,

millions, now.

Cris: not 35 grand a year.

Dan: Yeah. So she's, she's not really helped him. And she was never going to do it. I mean, she hasn't

Reegs: not in her interest.

Dan: No,

Cris: and that's when he realizes because he goes to ask for money.

She's still.

And then he goes again when he, after he gets the promotion, he sees her, runs after her and he sees her as being black hair again. And in her thirties and he's like, well, hold on a minute. I know where you got the years from.

Reegs: Does it get harder? If she's really old, does it get hard, like, does, like, if you take 40 years off one, does it only take 5 years off you when you're, like, give you an extra 5

Sidey: I think it's a like for like switch.

in this world.

Cris: it does look

Reegs: So you could just live forever then?

Dan: Yeah, and, and this is it. They, they

Cris: if there's enough,

Dan: They talk about this Aeon, like, you know, what if Mozart had lived longer?

Sidey: how they justify it. They say Mozart,

Cris: Schiller.

Sidey: yeah, some other, you know,

Dan: within this, another kind of subplot going on is a terrorist organization called Adam. I think it is. And Adam group are. anti ageist.

They're, they're the people that are throwing these red pellet bombs at people and protesting and things because they just see this for what it is. It's basically buying people's youth, the rich buying life and therefore, yeah, and they'll justify it and saying, look. We want this for everybody. But until we get to a place where we've stabilized the DNA and people aren't still, you know, deteriorating, we've just managed to pause it for longer.

Then we're going to continue the research and things. And it. You meet the Sophie, the CEO, and a few other people in a room as they're talking around, you know, tactics and, and, and strategy and things. And it seems like she's being forced out of her company a little bit because they want even more, you know, where she is talking about research and things.

Sidey: Well, her,

her motivation for for de aging is not a superficial way in her mind a superficial.

I just want to be young she sees

a on For everyone.

And that her

work, in terms of the research and the development of its process is incomplete. And she needs to, she's the genius Who's come up there and she needs to remain young to

finish her

Dan: She is primarily

Sidey: So she's that's her

motivation.

But, we see the Adam, terrorist organization, they've sent people out. One of the guys we see has been employed as a nurse, and he is in one of these facilities and he takes out a silenced pistol. And just starts

Cris: yeah,

because

Sidey: all the patients.

Cris: nine Nobel prize winners.

So, so they, and they, they've matched them with people and they, now they're all in their like twenties and this guy's a nurse and you can see him just nine of them, he kills them all.

Sidey: it's brutal. It's fucking really good

Cris: That's actually quite good though, the way he does it. And he shoots the, the nurses and the employees in the leg, but everyone else, like all

Sidey: the, face,

Cris: the people, he just shoots them in

Sidey: it's proper execution, stuff. So Max becomes increasingly desperate and he tells his wife Elena, about you know, we need to, I got a plan.

We can sort this out. Effectively, what he's going to go and do is kidnap Sophie and he's

he's

sort of like in a funk sitting in his park and this little child comes up to do a drug deal, like literally even a school bag opens it. And he's like, no, off. And then she comes back later and he goes to see her and he's like, You're, like, you've been de aged, haven't you?

Reegs: Oh, I

Cris: an adult, but she looks

Sidey: funny,

It's like this little kid just comes over and is like, Do you

want some skit? She lights up a ciggy. That's Amazing.

Reegs: Amazing.

Dan: all her mannerisms show a much older person, but in fact she's just

Sidey: So he goes to see her, he

Dan: on the face of

Sidey: twigs, like, she must have had this done on the black market. So he goes to see her, he's like, I need a contact, I need to know,

like, where I need to go to do, this, So his plan is that he's going to kidnap

Tiffany

and Bethesda And go,

yeah, go Across the border to

Lithuania to

Dr. Nick Riviera and have the whole thing fucking reversed. And at first Elena's not she's kind of made her peace with it She's like look, I fucking signed up for it shit, but

Cris: You live

your life and I'll live mine, whatever.

Dan: But they also find out that she was pregnant at the time. So they lost the

Sidey: has some hideous miscarriage.

Dan: and

And this is just an extra devastating blow that Max can't take. And he's fully committed now to this deal.

And with the help. Of a, of a few people contacts and and a plan, he is going to kidnap this, this donor, who this person has received the years and get them back. He, he's gonna go and kidnap Sophie.

Sidey: Yes but she doesn't look like his boss anymore, and so he kidnaps someone who he believes to be Sophie Feason. Yeah.

Cris: She goes to this flat then she walks into the same car, goes to the cemetery and she's like, I want to be left alone. He goes the back way of the cemetery, goes in, fights with her, tases her, puts her in the car and you can see that it's a A much younger version than the one that we've seen before, but the assumption is that she

Sidey: just continue to DH.

Reegs: We don't, we don't know as the audience that,

Cris: no, no, no.

Reegs: not her.

Dan: her. It's

Cris: it's just, you just get a younger version of her.

Dan: And we go through this this kind of scene and, and cat and mouse game where they're trying to catch them. They know something's up, technologies everywhere, scanners and everything.

But they managed to face recognition,

Cris: take the ferry to Lithuania.

Dan: There's

a couple of people following them. One of them is this new head of. intelligence who's latched onto Sophie's number one kind of commander in chief. And they're then working to, to go and hunt these, this couple down and get the years back.

And, and you know, they, they know that they're

Sidey: it turns out,

The

girl that they kidnap, they have her bound and gags.

but When they eventually take the gag off, her, she's like, you fucking idiot,

I'm

Reegs: it's fine,

Cris: he says.

Sidey: She's Marie Thyssen. So she says, And they're like, that's bollocks,

That's just some,

Dan: max isn't having

Sidey: that story,

That's some story you're spinning to try and get us to let you go.

And then he's like, well, probably genetically, if, even if you are the daughter.

genetically it's

going to be very Close so we're just

going to fucking do it anyway.

And

Dan: we're just gonna fucking do it anyway. I think at this

Sidey: think at this point, the film gets a little bit confused

because

Dan: because The wife,

Sidey: for the wife says She's elena's like he's so like hell bent on getting this done at

first.

And she's like you've changed you've become like a fucking maniac criminal so even if we do sort this out you've changed like I don't want to be with you And then very very soon she pivots into being like no, let's fucking get it done And it just it kind of like goes a bit topsy-turvy for me at this point

Cris: Yeah, I was a bit like this changed really quickly into and the only point is that comes to this massive shootout. They're basically on their way. They're in Lithuania. They're on their way to meet Dr. Berg to do the switcheroo. And meanwhile, they get tracked down by Sophie, which now we actually realize that this is the daughter, it's not Sophie, it's Marie.

And we also get the Adam Project people that actually find them and they get kidnapped. Max and his wife now they get kidnapped and they end up in a kind of standoff with Sophie and

Sidey: yeah, you've got on on sort of the right hand side of the screen. You've got like the Adam terrorist group. then you've got the security guys trying to get the door back, and everyone's like trapped in the middle, and it's a huge shootout.

The, the female security agent ends up shooting the new head of security guy.

Cris: was a traitor he

Sidey: was he was the one

who brought Adam along and he's he's So, they've got, they're like specter. they've got

people everywhere.

But

I don't know, like to me at the start, like the film had a really, to me, interesting concept and idea and that kind of gets lost and this just becomes a kind of kidnappy kind of heisty thing action type

scenario where all that clever stuff is just kind of forgotten about.

Because it does, it becomes a big shootout.

Dan: Yeah,

Cris: big shootout. But for me, the talking point out of all the shootout and out of all that is what changes the mind of Elena is the Adam people give her a gun and say, kill her, the kid, kill her. And it will end. It will be all this will be done and you'll, you'll be happy and you just need to finish her.

And she points the gun at the kid, but she doesn't. So basically she saves her life. And then, after this big shootout, when they're making a run for it, the Max and his wife Elena, and Maria, Marie Thiessen, they're trying to escape. Marie gets the gun, and pulls the trigger on Elena. The gun is empty, but she is actually willing to kill her.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: So then

Elena is like, Right, you can fuck off. I'm not having this, and I want my ears back from you then. If you're gonna actually shoot me, I saved your life. And when it comes the other way around, you were willing to shoot me in the

Reegs: Mm-Hmm. .

Cris: That's

Dan: Yeah, she feels a lot less guilty about doing it now. But on the way to the doctor, Nick Riviera, who they've got kind of on call and it's a six hour window, they better find him. If it's not, Max just goes, I don't think we should be doing this. And he's been the one, the whole film, kind of the driving

Reegs: change of heart

Dan: And he's just saying. We now know for sure it's not the woman we thought it was, and now knowing that for sure, I can't do it.

Sidey: But

what he

Dan: like, what the fuck, you have taken me from fucking Berlin to Lithuania, we've gone through all this fucking shit, I've sneaked through a plane and I've hidden in a box in a bathtub and all this kind of stuff.

Sidey: quite a good scene

Dan: and, and then she's like, no. So she gets a knife. And or gun I can't remember but she's like, yeah big serrated fucking schwarzenegger thing and she's saying Get the fuck out the car now and he's like what and he going No, no, get the fuck out the car and she just abandons him in the middle of nowhere and heads

Reegs: off with the daughter

Dan: heads

Sidey: So they, they, they go, there separately. she, she does get

1. Well,

Dan: we, we, we look at this crazy scene. So she goes to this factory in the middle of nowhere, this rendezvous point. There's nobody there. Suddenly fucking truck pulls up. It's got a load of kit, like a lab on the back. This is mad professor doctor. He's coming on no bones. He doesn't give a shit. If, if it's a kid or it's an old lady or whatever,

Cris: He also looks very

Dan: He looks really young and he's probably had his his. And it's really mad, the end of it, isn't it? Because it left, and you wasn't sure. She, she just run, she's just

Cris: yeah. It just shows Marie getting injected in the neck to calm her down. Yeah. And then you see Elena walking off, but it doesn't really tell you you,

Dan: didn't see the operation or anything, but you cut to to the young Maria walking along the highway, and a truck just pulls over and stops and says, Are you alright, love? And she's like, blood and shit all over her face and, and so you, you get the idea, oh okay, she's been rescued but where has you know, Max gone, where's Elena gone and we next see them down, he's kind of,

Cris: no, we see Maria first in bed

Dan: Maria in bed, oh yeah, we see Maria in bed with mum.

Doting over going. Oh, thank goodness. You're back like that. And she said, oh, can I get those years back mom, you know, and she's like Naturally, you can't because I'm kind of a big deal around here, but don't worry We'll

Reegs: find

you another. eventually,

Dan: but you're not having mine. So you think fucking oh mom Thanks a lot light for that.

You can't even give us ten Can't give his light a few years just my bad back goes away or something. No not having any of it and, and then Elena is on the beach, and you think,

Cris: she's pregnant.

She's

Dan: pregnant, and you think, Oh, fucking hell, they've, they've got it together. Until you see the surfer dude come out of the sea, and he is not the same fella.

Sidey: She started a new life.

a new life.

And Max is

all up in the terrorist group.

Dan: well, he, he's kind of

Cris: he's the new Adam.

Dan: Yeah, he's kind of on the hill, just looking over, and she, Is that him? And he's looked down and he realises his life is no longer with her. And all the way through the film, it's been such love between

these

Sidey: he gonna kill her because

they, their mo is to kill anyone who's benefited from Yeah.

The technology and she has, So

he pulls the mask down.

Yeah. sounds

Reegs: like that's the implication

Sidey: He gonna go down and gunner down.

Dan: to wait for Paradise 2 for that

Cris: to happen. Shows them in this truck going to what it looks like, another Aeon base,

Sidey: going to kill someone

Cris: they're gonna

Dan: the fight goes on, you know, against ageism and, and everything else. So it was quite a thought provoking film in the sense that the idea.

of

bargaining

lives and, and years selling them, paying debts with them, government taking time and, and years off people as part of their, you know, punishment for, for crimes or, or debts or whatever. It's the kind of thing you think they would do it if, if they could, you know, if they, if this.

technology was developed it, it always looks really painful. There's always like,

Reegs: What,

Dan: know, like huge needles that go into the

Sidey: Yeah, they get,

Dan: you or, you know,

Sidey: kind of general, or they're certainly heavily tranquilized but then they do show these massive things getting

put into them.

That's the

Dan: matrix kind of needles that go in the

Sidey: but then it just abandoned all that interesting stuff. I thought it just it lost all of that and just became a not silly, but just a fairly predictable kind of heisty

Dan: wasn't as it wasn't as tight the second half of the film as,

Cris: But I did like the ending, though. Yeah,

Sidey: Yeah, the ending was

good.

Cris: Because it was unexpected.

Sidey: Yes.

they didn't bring them back

together.

for like

Dan: of like that

Sidey: happy ending. Yeah,

Dan: really hit all the notes.

Reegs: We watched Gatica a few weeks ago, Andrew Nichols, and he did a movie called In Time that starred Justin in Timberlake that had a.

At least from what you're saying, a very similar premise

Dan: the one with the time on

Cris: Yeah, I've seen that.

Reegs: literally see your life counting down on a stopwatch in front of you. And had a similar sort of commoditization of what And that also devolved into a bit of a third act mess that, like, left all of the intriguing ideas that it raised on the table sort of thing, so.

Sidey: And it didn't work Like, the thing with Max is that they paint the picture of him at the start of being like a sleazy kind of horrible broker who's preying on you know,

the

Reegs: he is like a honey trap, isn't he,

Sidey: But then, then he's supposed to be the sympathetic character and the second half of the movie and you're like, I don't sympathize with him.

He's a piece of shit. Yeah.

Dan: And he does get called out a couple of times by the Adam group who who suddenly, you know, you're as the viewer brought into this unfair predicament where the his wife is has been kind of railroaded into selling her life or or giving it up

for and and we know there's been a plot. In behind, you know, various people have been pulling the strings in behind.

So he's trying to get a bit of sympathy. But as you said, side, you also thinking what about that kid right at the beginning? He's given out, you know, instead of two or three years of his life. He's he was in this kind of refugee camp. And you can imagine he's just going through it all the time, preying on the on the weak and the vulnerable and

Reegs: think I do in principle support the tech, support the technology, as long as we can battery farm humans

Sidey: Yeah. Easily done. to

Reegs: replace us all sort of clone like, and then just keep us all living forever, that

Sidey: If you were to take years off Peter, do

you think you would in, It would like invoke you with some of his

personality?

Yeah. Cuz I

wouldn't want

Reegs: that. No,

Dan: No, you would not want that.

Sidey: But this is the best German film I saw this week.

Dan: Oh, right. Okay. That's, that's

Well, the, the

Reegs: sounded quite intriguing to me. You made me wanna watch it. I think

Dan: I think the, the best

Sidey: give it 10 if you wanted me to put some crude numeric score towards

1. the

Dan: best German one that I saw and it was last year was called the list which was really good. It was a series about Spotify and, and everything.

Sidey: Oh, yeah,

okay.

Dan: was pretty good. But as far as

Reegs: would that not

have been

Dan: films this week, it's all the same really, isn't it,

Sidey: Foreign, so foreign,

Dan: it's foreign. And Then we, yeah, this, this was

started

really well.

I mean, if you're into these kind of hard sci fi films just the very idea and concept I didn't think that, that missed too many beats. It wasn't a huge budget as, as you had said, but it wasn't one of those films that that necessarily needed more than what we saw there.

I think it was just a little more around the writing and the direction in that third act

Reegs: Stick the landing. Mm. Mm. Strong recommend then.

Dan: Oh, huge,

Sidey: couldn't be bigger.

Cris: Give it a go.

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Dan: One

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Sidey: We watched a more foreign language content, this was a

foreign

language cartoon. This was foreign,

Cris: we couldn't even find subtitles

Dan: No, well the subtitles were foreign.

Sidey: it's called

Cris: Pif et Hercule.

Sidey: Yeah, cat. It's like cats and

dogs stuff.

Reegs: This was very much itchy and

Dan: Bonjour.

Reegs: esk.

Dan: It was well, as our French listeners will no doubt be you know, excited to hear.

Sidey: well it be trip down memory lane for

Dan: Yeah,

Reegs: Well, and also for Romanians, I discovered there is a big thing about this in Romania,

Cris: there is. Yeah, that's the only reason why I chose it because it was one of the ones I was thinking, what did I watch that as a kid that was really not great, but also. Listen, the cartoons themselves are not great,

Reegs: Oh, the, I've put the music is amazing and

then

Cris: going to say, yeah.

Reegs: Lesat next to it. 'cause I think he says something like that

Cris: Supporté le chat, which means kind of not support, but kind of deal with the cat

Reegs: Yeah. Sort him out.

Sidey: cat,

Dan: Handle the

Cris: Kira's cat. So, so, you know, we do have a cat, but it's not.

Sidey: it's not

Cris: I feed her from time to time. And that's pretty

Dan: it.

There's

Sidey: the cat

is

Reegs: the cat is Urkul, right.

Urkul, Yeah. Yeah. and the dog

is Piff. Piff

Sidey: And I was watching closely because he's, Everything comes to life in this. as

Reegs: Yeah, lampposts. The

Sidey: cat, obviously the cat and the dog were alive, but the car was, was seemed to be getting

Reegs: It was like nuzzling him back like it was a dog.

Sidey: And then he, so he, he scrubbed the car and he hosed down the car. And then, when the cat attacked him in the car, he put the window up. So he had hosed the car down with the window open. We've all done

Reegs: Yeah.

That

Dan: Well, it gives you a good clean

Reegs: inside He closes

Sidey: That was the first bit of Because there'd been hijinks where the cat had been sprayed with water or had the bucket for it. But the cat, sorry, the cat is Hercule.

Reegs: Peef. Hercule is the, yeah.

Sidey: puts

his

Reegs: Yes.

Sidey: paws Through

the

window, and the car window goes up, and, like, brutally, almost

Reegs: He screams in pain and then his fingers are really red afterwards. And then he's racially profiled by

Sidey: police dog that turns

Reegs: that turns up.

Cris: and

Reegs: Then some shit happened. I had no idea

Sidey: He ran

Reegs: he ran away and a woman, a sort of sexy monkey woman exposes her breasts.

Sidey: nude, I

thought, because there were definite nipples and areolas.

Yeah.

Cris: well that's why we loved it as kids in Romania.

Sidey: I assumed

that that was a prostitute character.

Cris: No, it's Madame. It's just a lady on the street in France.

Sidey: So prostitute

Dan: meow? Are you doing? There's Anyway,

Reegs: but the cat gets pissed off today about him having a taxi so goes to a junkyard just gets to source his own

Sidey: taxi

Something With

a skull and crossbones that comes to

Reegs: Yeah, and walks off the screen

Sidey: there's

a lot going on.

Reegs: a moody pelican or some other

Cris: Yeah, like an Eagle

Sidey: I thought it was More like a,

Crow or a raven?

Reegs: Mm.

Dan: must, I must say, the animation reminded me of, like, the musk a hounds or something like that.

It was

Sidey: It was a character at the very end who looked like it was lifted out of the Musker

Hounds.

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: it was, it was really good animation. Anyway, I really like, maybe it was from the same lot because,

Sidey: But they throw

a lot at you. on this. So they're yeah, there's a car, there's kind of car chase.

Reegs: It's goes a bit Ben Hur slash Gladiator when it

Sidey: then yeah, what do you call it? the bodice is it? with the With the spike come out of the one

wheel to attack the other

and then, then

He pulls up to do a

Reegs: pile up. He recklessly pulls onto the motorway during its rush hour and he recklessly pulls onto the motorway course. Anyway, ends up in some shit with intercepting piffs.

He goes to pick up a fare outside a hotel and

It's

Cris: a really big guy.

Reegs: Yeah, a fat

Sidey: sizist. They're, sizist in this.

Reegs: Because Urkiel, like, smashes his car into pith to get him out of the way into a sort of removals van that's going to turn up as well as part of the

Sidey: He violently puts him in the Shuts

the bad

Reegs: into the back of the car.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: And drives away.

Reegs: Well, you say he drives away, he Right, this bit, I did not know what the fuck was going on, because he zooms off sort of speed style off an incomplete ramp and then suddenly it cuts to like a news report talking about UFOs and then the army come out to shoot them

Cris: Yes, because they say that there's two aliens flying in the skies for the first time. This is not a, this is not a fake news or something. This is actually happening. There's

Reegs: of the worlds. We're

Cris: getting the, we're getting the army out and that's what happens. They just get the army out, trying to shoot them down.

They break the barrier. Meanwhile, Piff, Piff is actually trying to get back at Akul and he's trying to get his customer back

Reegs: His car has suddenly got legs.

Cris: it's it's everything comes to life. The bins, the bins, the traffic lights,

Sidey: absolutely everything.

Reegs: But what does that mean, like, when you go to the toilet, like

Sidey: You're shitting Into its mouth.

Reegs: Yeah. Shitting into its open mouth and then it like, thanks you for it afterwards or whatever. That sounds great actually.

Dan: Yeah,

Cris: or whatever. That sounds great actually. It's a 10 minute episode. Towards the end. It's a

Sidey: it's a 10

minute episode where they throw about half an hour's worth of

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: hour.

Sidey: They, they really do everything. It happens

Cris: a lot. Especially when you don't really understand the dialogue.

Sidey: It's

quite good though, 'cause you can.

you know, you can put your own

Dan: own Your own twist on it,

Reegs: was, I was a bit baffled by what happened right in the denouement, right at the end, because Piff gets catapulted up into, no, Urquell gets catapulted up into the air and Piff listens to the radio, which says

Sidey: He's

dead.

Cris: There's aliens again.

Reegs: Ah, right. Because the final shot is of him orbiting the moon. Right. Okay.

There

Cris: There's a, they say there's alien, but there's only one this

Reegs: time. Right.

Cris: And that's what, what happened. Generally, that's what happens in every episode. They, they're not related. And each time the cat is the bad guy. He, well, Achilles is the bad guy.

He tries to To basically pull one on Piff, always tries to sneak up

Sidey: on him or,

Cris: or do something and he always ends up losing.

So that's kind of the general idea of it. It was quite big when I, when I was growing up, because it was one of the first cartoons that we had after 89, after we killed Ceausescu and we had the revolution.

So,

Reegs: It was edited by the French Communist Party, which is why it was approved in Romania.

That hence, hence its popularity.

Cris: Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: Oh, wait, So Is

it, Is it some sort of hidden

communist? subtext? Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. Well, I felt more communist after it.

Definitely.

Cris: communist after that. Wouldn't you? So there you have it. Great recommend,

Dan: strong recommend

Sidey: It

Cris: don't speak

Sidey: a real baffling curiosity to me, this,

Dan: you like You know Muskehounds, Doctanion and things and you thought I just don't have enough of that and you want to go French and with

Cris: and a great tune.

Reegs: The theme tune was

really

Dan: tune

Sidey: And communism. This would be right up your

alley. This

Dan: is it. You found it

So that's the end of another pod week, pod pickers.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: the bag.

Sidey: I think that you,

Daniel will nominate

Dan: I believe it is I, I will get those to you soon. Yes, post haste

Sidey: fill my Roth.

Dan: we'll, meet back around here in probably less than a week.

Sidey: It will be Because we're a day later than normal.

Yeah.

This week. Yeah.

It means nothing because

they'll be out at the same schedule as normal.

that's a pointless

Dan: We will feel that pain for you.

Sidey: Well, I will because I've got

to edit straight away after this. all that remains is to say, Sidey's signing out.

Reegs: Reegs is done.

Cris: Chris is terminated.

Dan: And Dan's gone.