Stinky Pop: Election Day Bonus Episode!
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Today is an extra special episode. This is a bonus episode of Stinky Pop for everyone to enjoy and use as a distraction for whatever could be going on while you're listening to this on November 5th, 2024. Are you in line for a very important responsibility? Are you at home looking for alternatives to doom scrolling? Well, good news. I've invited Barb and Gus to come talk through a little post-October wrap-up.

And we're going to talk through our favorite film or TV from this month. And as a bonus, if you listen to the whole episode at the end, we're going to talk about the very worst single thing we watched this last month as well. Hello, Barb and Gus. Hello. I think right now we are all probably recording an episode of Campaign 3 of Sneaky Dragon.

Oh yeah, like currently, like on the day, on November 5th. Oh, you mean while people are listening to, you broke my brain. While people are listening to this, if they listen to this tomorrow. No, you said while, whatever you're doing on November 5th, 2024, and that's what I'm doing. So you're going to listen to this episode while we record canon. Yeah, I can distract. I'm not very busy when we do those recordings. I've got time.

Well, since you're our resident senior movie enthusiast. Oh, sir. Gus is kind of our senior everything because we get to make fun of the fact that he's the oldest one of us. What?

And why don't you start us off? I asked you guys to come with a few, you know, a small list of what you watched this last month that you can talk about to our viewers, our listeners, our audience, and they can catch up on some good things. Sure. I'm going to lead us off with a horror film I saw in October. It's actually a film I almost did with the episode with you, John. This was my alternate that I didn't end up doing because I like A Tale of Two Sisters more.

There was a film that came out or actually it might have come out earlier in the year, but I think it finally- But you watched it in October. I watched it in October because it's starting to get attention in October because it's like a scary movie. I just looked, it actually came out. It's a Korean film. It came out in Korea last year, but it's just coming out in the United States now. It's called Sleep. And the- What's the synopsis of it? The synopsis, let me pull it up.

A young expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband's nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family. So it's the kind of thing where it's a married couple and then the husband starts sleepwalking and doing scary and or dangerous things. So it's like the horror of your partner like suddenly becoming evil and antagonistic to you. And not being aware of it. Right. Having no memory of it at all.

I saw a, not to sway from this movie discussion too hard, but it's in the same vein. I saw a video on TikTok, of course, where this man was filming his wife because he was trying to convince her like, hey, you've been like,

getting out of bed and doing things in your sleep. And she basically was like, no, like, I don't know what you're talking about. You're lying. You're making this up. And so he filmed her one night where she was in the living room, ironing all of their baby clothes and like being really rude to him. And then he like showed her the video the next day. And she was like this ironing,

I'm so uncomfortable. Like I, I, this is actually really scary that I was doing that. Like operating an iron, first of all, and like not having any awareness or like recollection of this happening. That must be really uncomfortable to sleepwalk and not have any memory or awareness of that happening. Like you see it and it's like, it's very clearly you, but you weren't like, you weren't mentally there. It wasn't you.

So a couple of interesting things about this movie. One of the stars, the husband who's sleepwalking is the actor Lee Soon-kyun, who was the rich father in Parasite. And the female lead is an actress named Jung Yu-mi. And she's great. I see her in reality TV shows, in Korean reality TV shows all the time. I think she's hilarious. She's really great. So it was weird seeing her. I always associate her with like,

yeah quirky and funny and this was a very serious role so it was weird like to see an actual like her her her acting performance like that oh i don't i only know her from the reality stuff that's always like super light-hearted and fun um the movie was was good i think i i maybe hyped it up too much for myself actually now that i think about it it was playing here in austin at fantastic fest and i saw it on the schedule which is why i looked it up

And I saw that it was available to stream, so I rented it and just watched it at home streaming. And if it's the kind of thing that sounds interesting to you, you can do that as well. Barb isn't a scary movie person. No way. I learned this last month. So how, on the spookums level, how freaky is this movie to you?

Is it going to send Barbara into a flurry? Yeah, like on a scale from like Barbara to 10, where does it fall? I would say there's probably about six spookums in it. Okay. So it's pretty spooky. It's not like the scariest thing ever. I think A Tale of Two Sisters was spookier. This one is just unsettling. It's like, yeah. Yeah, and it's just like... I don't love that either, though.

I was like, there's definitely some scary stuff. And there's stuff that happens and that they show in this film. And I'm like, I wish I didn't see that. Or I wish they did not explore this thread because I don't like that.

And if you're saying that, I feel like you have a higher tolerance than I do. That sounds like me describing, I'm not going to talk about it, but it sounds like me describing Smile 2. Smile 2 was just how can we gross out the audience as much as possible with gore? Like just really visceral gore.

Wet gore. Wet. Smile 2 is rough. Noted. Noted. Not that I was planning to see that. No, you didn't even see Smile 1. You listed it as a movie you will never see. Negative.

Negative man. But like I mentioned in the Stinky Pop where we did, you know, for the scary movies for A Tale of Two Sisters, like I'm always trying to... I watch a lot of Korean film. I was trying to watch like international film. Sure. Things that are not necessarily in the English language. And this one, I think... And sometimes when you watch films from other countries, you're like, oh, there's like a cultural difference or I can't quite connect with the message being conveyed here. This one, I think, is very universal. Very accessible. Yeah. I think like...

even if you know nothing about South Korea, there's nothing specific to that. Well, I mean, there is a little bit. There's some specific cultural things, but you'll get the gist of it. There's some... No, I don't want to get too much into it, but yeah, there's a little bit, but it's not... It's very... You'll understand what's going on. There's not anything roadblocking you. Out of... I've decided just off the cuff, out of five stinkies, how good is sleep? I'd probably give sleep...

That's tough. Between three and a half and four. 3.75 stinkies. 3.75 stinkies. Okay. So decent. Don't be expecting to be wowed, but throw it on. It's entertaining. It's kind of like if you have a stinky trash and you take it out and the smell kind of lingers for like 30 minutes or so. That kind of smell. I hate that. Barbara, why don't you wipe the palette clean with, I'm sure, a less viscerally disturbing idea.

We're doing stuff we liked, right? Yeah, stuff you liked. So I'm very sad in that I realized I don't think I saw a single new movie. TV Works 2. Okay. In that case, I was going to ask. Yeah. Only Murders in the Building Season 4. Oh. I just finished it with Trevor, my fiancé. Season 4 is already out? Yeah, and finished. I didn't even finish watching Season 3. We fell off and I just haven't gotten back to it. That's the Meryl Streep season, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Season four is done? Yeah. What the heck? I think it finished a few days ago from the time of recording this. Okay. Again, if you've never heard of Only Murders in the Building, it's a show on Hulu that every season is a different murder mystery, essentially. Starring a bunch of unknowns. Well, sometimes.

Something I was going to say is that show is probably the most stacked show I've ever seen on television. It like over the course of these seasons, you have Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Paul Rudd, Meryl Streep, Eugene Levy,

Sting. Sting. Sting and Amy Schumer were both in the same season. Sting and Amy Schumer made like a one episode. Eva Longoria, Zach Galifianakis. And there's a bunch of other cameos and other characters throughout it. What's her name? Cara Delevingne. That's her, right? She was in season two. And it's very well done. And I also love a good murder mystery. Like that's one of my favorite genres of anything, which is I think why I liked our

Our second campaign, Grotath, so much because it was like a murder mystery. Yeah. But yeah, we just finished it. It was great. I had a great time watching it. And yeah, it was. Okay. Well, this has been very informative because I didn't realize I'm that far behind on a show I genuinely love because, I mean, mostly it was my draw was I adore horror.

Steve Martin and Martin Short. Oh, yeah. I worship at their comedic feet. And I like Selena Gomez too. And I don't know if it's the way that her character is, but she is very like a little bit like unemotive. She's subdued. Very subdued in this show. And again, like I'm not sure if that's her character or if that's her acting style, but I think she plays the character very well. And she's playing against...

Steve and Martin Martin even more than Steve who are playing silly characters so she kind of plays a straight man to them a little bit yes um I I think that show was so well received and knocked it so far out of the park in season one that they were immediately like the studio was like let's get this in the production pipeline yeah that's like every year now like it just comes out like clockwork they're just banging them out there's none of this like a lot of tv nowadays it's like oh

Wait a year and a half. Wait two years for another season. I think they are on the only murders in a building train and they are just like knocking those out. Oh, yeah. And there's I'm pretty sure going to be another season because as every season has done, it's ended with another murder cliffhanger. And so, yeah, I obviously won't give anything away because I want. OK, I have to catch up.

I'm probably the opposite of you, Barb. I don't watch very much TV anymore, so I'm behind on every show I want to watch, every single one. But I watch all movies, and the movie I want to talk about is Robot Dreams. I haven't even heard of that. Robot Dreams was an animated film. It's directed by Pablo Berger. Yeah, Berger.

It's another international film. It is... I don't know what country. Oh, Spain. It comes from Spain. And it also has some animation from France. It is an animated film with no dialogue. The entire movie has no dialogue. And it tells the story in 1984 Manhattan. But it's a world where it's inhabited by anthropomorphized animals. The lead character is just named Dog.

And it's really thinking outside the box there. Yeah. And dog is a lonely, uh, kind of, uh, uh,

in their home and they decide to order a robot. It's like kind of like a 1984, but futuristic, like robots are a thing, but they're very like simplistic robots, but there's a robot to come be its friend. And the whole movie is a story of their first year of relationship. And it, it goes places where they get separated at one point. It kind of has a little bit of a Milo and Otis kind of vibe to it. But it's, it's one of those movies that I would recommend to people because it is just an enjoyable movie.

and warming watch. Like if you're ever in the mood, like where you need that palette cleanse from something heavier that you're watching, like this one is just, you can throw it on. It's so delightful. The animation is like akin to like, maybe like Bob's burgers kind of like animation. Uh, it's very colorful and, but like flat cell animation kind of look. Um, it's got a great soundtrack. Uh, and like I said, the whole thing, no dialogue whatsoever. Um,

They make a few effort sounds and that's about it. I feel like at first I was like, oh, how do you have a whole movie like that? But then I think back to so many of like the Pixar shorts that they have play before a movie that often don't have any dialogue and it conveys beautiful emotion and it's like so well done. And I'm like, oh, I could see how someone would accomplish that through animation.

It's a, it's, I'm a huge fan of anybody who's going out there and doing gutsy things with animation. And, and so whenever I find these kinds of pieces that are just like, it's, it's, I think it got, it's gotten nominated for a few things. It's one of those like really like low budget indie kind of animation projects. How did you find it by the way? It was all, it was all, they had trailers at Alamo. And so I was able to catch it because of that.

So it's not streaming anywhere yet. You saw it in the theater? Yes.

I saw it a little while ago. Maybe this was an October thing. Maybe this was before October. But I still just wanted to bring it up. I wanted people to go check it out once they're able to. Robot Dreams. So once it's able to come out for people to watch. I just wanted to, you know, it's kind of like what you were saying, Gus, like tell people about stuff that they should put on their radar and catch while they can. Oh, this looks so cute. I'm looking at the photo of it. It's very cute. Cover art. Yeah, and it's a mixture of...

uh retro music and retro vibes but then like there's a bunch of robots throughout the world as well i love that uh juxtaposition yeah absolutely but uh okay so why don't you take us down to bummers again gus because you watch all bummers i'm just kidding i'm just kidding i'm just kidding but what else did you watch this uh last month that you want to tell people to watch so i i i i'm going to mention one very quickly i watched alien romulus which was

in my opinion phenomenal finally a good second episode of stinky pop i was gonna say we did an episode of stinky pop so if you are listening to this and want to check it out that is on our page but we have the gus stamp of approval that that's why i wanted to mention it because i knew we had uh you had already talked about it i'm not going to get into depth about it but if you are subscribed to our patreon uh at stinky dragon pod.com you can go listen to the alien romulus episode right now i'm not on that and watch it by then uh but i've subsequently watched it phenomenal film um but

I'm going to talk about a different film. I'm going to talk about a documentary I watched on Netflix. It's another foreign language one. This is a... Give a style. Yeah, it's a Colombian documentary. And let me tell you,

I grew up speaking both Spanish and English, and some Spanish accents sound very weird to me. My family's from Mexico. I speak Mexican Spanish. I could listen to Colombian Spanish all day. So give me a good Colombian film. A soothing dialect. It's good. It's a dialect I'm all on board with. It's good. Colombian talking, it's good. It's good. So I watched a Colombian documentary on Netflix called The Accidental Twins, which sounds

The premise is almost like a science experiment. A science experiment you could never ethically do. Should we... Should me and John try to guess what accidental twins, what the premise of this is? Sure. Why not? So it's... You said sci-fi. So it can either be... It's a documentary. Documentary. It's a documentary. Yeah. So the accidental could either be that these people have accidentally become twins, and I don't know how you do that, or they're accident-prone twins. Yeah.

accidental what do you think barb i'm gonna say something about how like maybe they were born twins and separated at birth and then somehow found each other or got reunited yeah that happens you're on the right track barbara but it's way more complicated than that oh good break it down there's a set of twins born in bogota columbia we'll call them twins one

There's a second set of twins born in the country on the same day in Colombia. We'll call them twins two. So it's two sets of twins. Correct. One of twins two becomes sick and has to go to the hospital in Bogota. So they take him to the hospital in Bogota. And they accidentally swap him with one of twins one. So one of twins one goes to the country. One of twins two stays in the city. Oh, like they were baby babies.

They're like fraternal then at that point. Correct. The twins grow up assuming they're fraternal. So it's two boys in Bogota who don't look anything alike and two boys in the country in the middle of nowhere who don't look anything alike. Wow. One day, one of the twins who works in Bogota is told by his coworker like, hey, I saw you at the butcher shop this past weekend. You didn't say hi to me. You acted like you didn't know me. And the guy's like, I don't know. I wasn't at the butcher. I don't know what you're talking about. Then

Then the coworker goes back to the butcher shop, takes a picture of that guy, brings it in. It's like, this isn't you. And the guy's like, no, that's not me.

uh then the guy who's working who's being told this he looks up that butcher on facebook and it's like oh yeah that guy does look like me scrolls through it and sees a picture of that guy with that guy's brother it's like that guy's brother looks like my brother oh my god i need to watch this immediately after this recording so then yeah it's like unwrapped by this point they're in their mid-20s like 25 or something so then it's like what in the world happened so it's like unraveling and like

How do you deal with all of these family dynamics? Because you grew up with this person who you consider your twin brother, but it's not... And your parents and your family. Your real twin grew up out in the middle, somewhere entirely different, had a really different life experience. Both their families just got much bigger. Dude, that's insane. Accidental twin? Accidental twins. It's on Netflix. It's really just such a crazy story. Like it gets...

much deeper. There's a lot more to explore about it. And since it happened relatively recently, you know, this was in the smartphone era. There is like video footage they took of themselves the day they meet each other. Uh...

Even though this documentary hadn't been produced yet, they were still learning about it. Now that everyone has a smartphone with a high-quality camera, they were filming themselves. And they filmed their first interactions and meeting each other and how all of that happened. So there's all of this footage documenting it all. It's really, really something else. Highly recommend it. That's so cool. I need to go watch that. I love premises like that. But just the most wild things happening in real life that are just like the chances of it happening are so low. But yeah.

And that's why I said, like, this sounds like a science experiment, but you could never do. Like, you could never be like, like, it's like trying to define that whole nature versus nurture thing. It's like, oh, this is the closest you could get to doing that because they actually do it. It's not very moral. Right. Right.

Before we jump to Barbara's number two, since you threw out a documentary, I'm going to quickly throw a documentary as well that I didn't put on my list, but I watched this last month. It's on Netflix called Daughters. It is a documentary crew following a bunch of families where they are participating in a program where this function, I think that's called Fathers and Daughters. I think that's what it might be would be called.

They, they throw fathers and daughter dances for daughters whose dads are in prison and they throw the dance in prison. So it's incarcerated fathers and the fathers have to go through this whole 10 week program beforehand in order to participate. So it's a whole like therapy group kind of thing. And they have to talk through it. But the documentarians are not only in the jail or in the prison, but they're also following the daughters outside. And it's,

it's a heartbreaking movie because it's, it is a bit is about like a broken system and, uh, and how, uh, it continues to fail our families and fail our children. Um, but it is shot so beautifully and the story and the, the, their stories that they follow are so compelling. Um,

uh barbara you will cry like crazy if you watch it i know you um yes sir but uh it is i i want people to watch it because it's it's one of those kind of important stories that i think is very um it's good for us to to learn about how our country works yeah definitely and to know about these kind of programs that are doing very altruistic things good crying once in a while too yeah what's

What else did you watch this last month, Barbara? I was going to make a joke that I've been watching this documentary called The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. I watched, I think, the first 30 minutes of that. And I was like, oh, I'm very intrigued. I don't think I'm going to watch this right now. I'm good. I saw a couple movies that I enjoyed in the last few months. Okay, help us out. One of which was Fly Me to the Moon.

Oh, that was good. Which was the- Channing Tatum? Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Channing Tatum, also known as Tate Tatingham between me and Trevor because there was one night we completely forgot his name. And we just kept going, is it Tate? Tate Tatingham.

- Tate Tatingham? - My wife and I will call him Tanning Chatham or Chatham Tan, like we miss him all the time. I have no idea what that guy's name actually is. - Wow, that's so funny. - Yeah, just always forget it, but Tate Tatingham, as he's known in our household. It was great. It was about the moon landing. - Yeah. - And more specifically, like the marketing around the moon

At that time, which I found fascinating because I have a degree in marketing. And so to see Scarlett Johansson in that kind of role, I was like, ooh, like this would have been an alternate universe. But I thought it was like it was very entertaining. I thought the premise was really interesting. It wasn't obviously the best movie in the world, but I quite enjoyed it.

Fun, fun, fun. How did you watch that? Like what platform is that on? I watched it in theaters. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. That was a, that was a few months ago in theaters, but it's, I would imagine it's gotta be on streaming at this point. I think it's on Apple TV. I was going to try to find out. Yeah. I think, I think it should be there. And then another movie I watched, which for the majority of our audience, I probably wouldn't recommend because it's going to be a little too mature was Blink Twice. Yeah.

Oh, another Tanningham. Another Tatingham movie, actually, now that I think about it. That one is very dark and very not suited for young people. That's a thriller. It's a rated R thriller. Yeah, rated R movie. But one of those movies that it's like...

uncomfortable and there's like you're trying to figure out what's going on the whole time and there's a big twist and like a reveal psychological thriller yeah which I like those because I like trying to figure out what the plot twist is going to be or what the reveal at the end is going to be and I thought this one did a pretty good job with that did either of you check out on Netflix it's what's inside no

Okay, it wasn't on my list, but Barbara, you brought a good recent thriller that I haven't gotten to watch yet. I did want to watch Blink twice, so I'm glad that you watched it and sounds like you enjoyed it. Yeah, I also have a pretty low bar. How many stinkies? How many stinkies? That one I'd probably give a good three stinkies to. Three stinkies, yeah. Yeah. Gotcha. It's What's Inside is a...

I would say it's kind of in the genre of like bodies, bodies, bodies, where it's like these Gen Z horror films involving modern like problems that youths have. Like bodies, bodies, bodies is a bunch of like influencers in the house and they're playing a game and that kind of thing. Yeah.

It's What's Inside is a reunion story of a bunch of childhood friends who are coming together to celebrate one of theirs engagement. And one of their friends who was ostracized from the group but joins back up brings a device. And the device, they all hook up to the device. And what it does is that it swaps their brain to someone else's body.

It's like a, you know, an invention that is able to kind of like give people this other experience through someone else's eyes. But then they play a game of,

who's in whose body is what they do. So it's very like mafia is what it is. Like werewolves within or not. Yeah, werewolves, not werewolves within the movie. Werewolves, that kind of thing. It's shot interestingly though because they introduced this concept at the beginning of like, you know when you used to have those like, those, I can't remember what you call them, but like if you put like a filter of red over this drawing, you can only see the red drawing that's underneath it.

They do this where they switch the camera colors so that you can sometimes see who's actually in the body. Oh, that's cool. And then they swap it back and forth so that you see actually the body itself. But they do it in color. And do you know what platform it's on? I'm literally... It's Netflix. It's Netflix. Everything you guys are saying, I'm literally writing down as like a to-watch list because these all sound awesome. And this one is a thriller. There is some like...

There's some violence, some like it's a murder mystery a little bit is what it is. Kind of like Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. Kind of like Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. And that's why it felt very much like that. But the other movie I wanted to talk about that I got to see in theaters is Death Becomes Her. Oh, that's a blast from the past. Like a 30 year old film. Oh, it's old. Paramount. Yeah, it's a very old 19.

Shoot. 1980. It was probably 94. No, it was in the 90s. 90s? 1990s. 1990s Robert Zemeckis film. The Paramount here in Austin was doing a bunch of, it was called Panic at the Paramount, and they were doing a bunch of old movies for Halloween. Fun.

So went and saw it in theater. Never seen it in theater. Had only seen it when I was a kid when it was on TV. And starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis. And it's a movie about the obsession that Hollywood has with youthfulness and longevity and fame. And it's...

it's so campy. It's very over the top. It is Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn fighting for an hour and a half and it's fantastic. It's Bruce Willis playing as one of the most funny characters he's ever played. This meek mouse of a husband. And

The twist is that these two Hollywood starlets are obsessed with staying beautiful forever, and they happen upon a Hollywood secret. It's this secret potion that only a select few people can take that gives them immortality.

But the twist is that their immortal bodies, while they never change, they never heal. And so they have to maintain their bodies in order for them to last for forever and that kind of thing. It's very silly. It won an Academy Award for visual effects because there's some amazing...

amazing visual effects for the 1990s yeah this is this is like when computer effects like kind of first started appearing in films yeah uh yeah it was very it was even i remember i looked it came out in 92 so i was like 14 when it came out i remember seeing like the commercials and the trailers for it at the time be like how did they do that that looks crazy wow it's a it's a halloween movie is what i would call because it is a it is a monster movie but it is uh it is very it's

uh family not family friendly but it's not gory and it's not uh like scary would you put it on like it's silly like hocus pocus kind of level of hocus pocus level of silliness um probably not something that the kids will care about okay okay um it's not like fun witches this is like um teens and up will think this is great um gotcha

But divas doing what divas do best throughout the entire movie. It's so good. You talking about like Hollywood's obsession with like looks and stuff like that and being ageless reminds me of a movie I really still want to see called The Substance. Oh, I was going to bring that up. Have you seen it? It's on my to-do. It's on my list. I'm probably going to watch it this weekend. Yeah. That's also another one that I would not recommend for anyone young. I think it's rated R. No kids.

uh apparently it's like very body horror kind of it's but yeah a lot of body horror with uh uh jennifer connelly no it's got demi more demi more demi more yes what pretty uh brunette i know apparently it's very good and that's something that i'd really like to see soon give me another one gus so i i'm gonna i'm gonna bring up i guess a tv show as well

I've been watching The Penguin on Max, which I think has seven episodes out now. I think it's an eight-episode miniseries. Have either of you been watching that by any chance? No. Again, on my to-do list. No TV for me. I didn't start watching it until maybe just before the weekend, this past weekend. So I've only been watching it for a week. I've waited until five episodes were out to start watching it. I can't do week-to-week on anything anymore. Yeah.

I think next week is the last episode, if I remember right. And I'm probably up to episode seven, somewhere on there. Anyway, I wasn't going to watch it. I don't know. It really didn't seem interesting to me, but there was so much buzz about it online and like the reviews for it seemed so great. And I was like, I liked the Batman movie. Okay. You know, it was fine. Yeah. I was like, I don't remember. I've watched it once when it came out. I was like, yeah, I'll start watching the Penguin. And yeah,

it's fine it's the most fine show possible i don't know that it does i don't know that it does anything like super groundbreaking or new like the first couple episodes i was like colin farrell's just doing like a tony soprano impression while dressed up in makeup um i don't know that it's necessarily doing anything like super crazy or grumpy it's not bad i'll watch it it's fine it gets

better as it goes on but it's not like oh my god this is like it i think my expectations were set too high because of all the reviews and what people were saying online it's totally fine it's not bad that happens with me with a lot of stuff yeah but it's not amazing it's like two stinkies two and a half stinkies it's okay yeah if it's all out if all eight episodes are out you want to watch it knock yourself out like it's uh you want to watch something very good on because that's a max show right yeah

That is it. That is DC related. You want to watch my adventures with Superman, which is the animated Superman movie where David Quaid does the voice from or no Jack Quaid. Yeah. I was like trying to remember his name. It's Jack Quaid. Yeah. Jack Quaid. He does the voice of Superman. Really good Superman animated show. Like, like got some anime vibes out now. Right. Yeah.

I recommend everybody go watch it. And it's definitely worth your time. Also on HBO, I assume. Yeah. Max. Max. Max thing. Sorry. Max. You've distracted me and you made me think of something else that I want to bring up real fast, John, if I may. Go for it. Permission to add another one. Yeah. Also on Max, also animated. This is why I remembered about it. I watched the Junji Ito horror series, Uzumaki.

Oh, I've seen the stuff about that. Yeah, it's only four episodes that are half an hour each. Okay. So it's a quick watch. Yeah. Like movie length to watch the whole thing. Yeah. And you know, it's all now it's like one story. It's done in four episodes. If you're not familiar with that, like Junji Ito horror, it's bonkers. Like it's a really weird story.

What? Weird anime? What? The visuals are... I watched the first episode and the visuals were amazing. The second episode I watched, I was like, the visuals are not as good. Something changed. And apparently there were production problems behind the scenes. So it's very uneven in quality. It's still watchable. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just like, oh, something is different. That happens. That happens. Again, going back to what I said before, if you want something...

totally different not not you know originally because i think it was originally uh uh a manga series in japan that junji ito had written uh and it was adapted into this animated series if you want something like that's totally out of left field not with our this like this country sensibilities at all check it out it's also on max if you're looking for the weird that's yeah it's it's weird and like

super disturbing and kind of gross. But it's all like black and white. Like they present it like a manga style. Has Gus brought anything that like someone under 10 should watch? Probably not.

I say we haven't. Stinky Pop is not here with those. Like I said, the last episode we talked about like horror movies that kids want to watch. And then we've done Wolverine and Deadpool and we've done Alien Romulus. Also, it's totally fine. If you are one of the people who are listening to this while waiting in line to vote, that means you are 18 or older. So there you go. Say there you go. If you're doing that. Barbara, what else have you been watching? Something I wanted to bring up that I was disappointed in.

Oh, no. This might be controversial or y'all might agree with me wholeheartedly. The second Beetlejuice movie, the new Beetlejuice. It was...

It was. And I understand that I might be a little skewed in my opinion because I actually never had seen the first Beetlejuice. I did. I've seen clips from it. Trevor basically told me the entire story before we were about to see the second one. I mean, I think, John, you were there, too. We were there. I was greeting for it. So I was like, well, I, you know, I want to take this opportunity to see the movie. But in my opinion, it could have been much stronger if you took away like

three out of the ten plot points that was happening. There's a lot of plot lines. There's a lot of subplots. So much going on. There's a lot going on. Burton had a lot of ideas that he'd been probably thinking about for quite a while. And so many characters that I just felt like were maybe not necessarily

Yes. So it wasn't bad. And I like I still had fun in certain moments, but I just felt myself being like, but like, oh, my God, there's so much going on. This is some things were weird in a good way and some things were weird in a bad way.

So yeah, I just, I kind of left being like, oh, that was, yeah, not as good as I was hoping for. That was like a Beetlejuice sound effect you did. I will say Catherine O'Hara chews up the scene every time the camera's on her. Every time. Perfect. Her and also, why am I blanking on his name? The guy who plays Beetlejuice. Michael Keaton. Michael Keaton. Incredible. Those two were definitely the shining moments of that. Did Monica Bellucci say a word the entire movie? I can't remember. What?

Was the point of her. She was part of like they did the origin story thing they do with like these sequels. Like, oh, where did Beetlejuice come from? And she was like his wife and that kind of thing. But yeah, she's like built up to be the antagonist in the entire film. And then she's gone. It literally is like that could have been completely chopped out of the movie. It would have made a single difference. She murders Danny DeVito. And that's about all she does that's interesting. Yep.

Pretty much. I still haven't seen it. I'm waiting for it to come to max. It's one of those things where I watched the original Beetlejuice when I was a kid and I loved it and I still think it's a great film. Yeah. But I've been under no rush to watch it. I'll wait until it's free and then I'll watch it. And again. A movie you shouldn't wait for. Wasn't the worst. Wasn't the worst. Wasn't amazing. How many Stinkys? Probably like two. Yeah. I think that's fair. Yeah. I'm going France. I'm going...

uh kind of um dramatic sci-fi uh but multiple timelines piece i'm i want to talk about the beast or la bette um i believe it's on apple tv you can rent it on apple tv um it's uh a leah sedu uh film leah sedu who's uh uh one of the actresses in like the later bond films like specter and no time to die um but also possible films um was she missing possible

Yeah. Isn't she, isn't she? She's like the, I think you're thinking bond. Isn't she in ghost protocol? She might be, she might be. Yeah. Look at it. Um, but, um, and then also it's got George McKay who, uh, he was the guy from 1917, the one shot, the single shot, uh, world war two film. Yeah. Um, uh, and it's this movie that takes place in the future, like 2040 where AI has taken over most jobs. So people don't really have a lot of work. Um,

Um, but in order to get better jobs, they can go through this whole like DNA purging process where they explore their past lives. And in doing so purge all their emotions. Um, the humans don't have jobs because, uh, they can't be trusted as other emotions.

So Lea Seydoux goes through this process to get a better job, but she's like experiencing her past lives. And she experiences a past life in 1910 France. And she experienced a life in like 2014 America. And it's this kind of weird overlapping timelines thing. George McKay plays this guy who also keeps showing up in her other lives. And so she's, it's kind of like this, like, are they soulmates kind of story? And I,

I've talked about to Gus about this where I'm like I'm kind of on a French film kick this is a really good example of really good French film um it's a little bit of a slow cerebral burner it doesn't tell you all the answers from the get-go and it's a little confusing is it subbed or dubbed it's I mean I watch it subbed um I don't know if it could be dubbed um but I watch everything subbed um

That sounded snobbish. It's just my preference. But I love Lea Seydoux and I love anything that's a good French sci-fi that comes out of there. So find the beast and watch the beast. She was in Ghost Protocol. She kills Sawyer from Lost at the very beginning. Josh Holloway. And then she meets to do the diamond exchange in the tower. Yeah, I remember now. I remember now.

She's great. Whenever I hear of like French film or French things or the French language till the day I die, I'm going to think of Dexter's Laboratory and Omelette du Fromage. Omelette du Fromage. It's just like, yeah, it's just like ingrained in me. It's like at the core of my being is Omelette du Fromage.

That's pretty funny. Speaking of accents, George McKay plays a character in the middle timeline in 2014. He's this British actor, but he plays an American in the middle timeline, and he plays this incel vlogger who talks. He's shooting these videos about how women will never date him and that kind of thing, but he captures that character, that American character, perfectly. And you hate...

that character perfectly it sounds like a character i would not enjoy but that's the thing is that he plays his other two lives are in are these very charismatic he's using his normal like british dialect accent and he plays these very charismatic and enchanting characters so it's very jarring when they finally cut to this character and he does such a good job like you kind of have to figure out you know where each timeline ends and begins it's great

You got something else, Gus? I was going to mention before Gus jumps in. I don't know if you guys saw. And maybe we should save this for the end of things we're excited for coming out eventually. Oh, you got something coming up you want to watch? Yes. Two things in particular. Okay. Go for it. But I could save it for the end if we prefer. We make the rules. Okay. This is my show and I say yes. Two things I'm very excited for coming out. I don't know if you guys saw. There's going to be a second season of Squid Game.

Yes, very soon. I don't know how you follow up the first show. I also don't know. Like, I saw a trailer for it, which I kind of regret watching a trailer. I wanted to go in blind. I'm going in blind. But I guess I won't give anything away. Yeah, don't give anything away. But I will say... I had questions after that trailer too, Barbara. Maybe if you want, we can sidebar about it. Okay. Here, I'm going to take my headphones off and you guys can talk. My question is, why would...

The guy who did the Squid Games go back and do it again. Right. And he's also going back and it's like, from what you see in the trailer, I assume it's not the entire thing. They show like the same games, like the robot girl is there. So I imagine we'll start seeing some of the same stuff and then it'll change. But yeah, I don't know. It was weird. Something's got to happen. Yeah. Okay. We'll give John the thumbs up. All right, John. He's coming back. I just had to thumbs up the whole time.

I'm one of those people like, it's so funny. I'm dating someone who's the exact opposite of this. I don't like any spoilers whatsoever. I don't want to know anything about stuff. I like to go in blind. She will like, Lily, we're watching something. She'll look up a spoiler.

Yeah. Even when I'm watching a TV show, I can't look it up on IMDb because I don't want to know if an actor is in only a certain number of episodes. Because you're like, oh, this character doesn't make it. Yeah. I've spoiled a number of reality shows for myself that way. Where I just like, oh, I want to see this person's Instagram to see like, you know, just get to know them better as a person. And then I end up seeing something from an episode. I had to watch it. I'm like, oh, man.

How about one more? Oh, wait, you had one more thing you were looking forward to. Severance season two. Yes. God, talk about a show, Gus, that you were saying you have to wait forever for the second season. God, it's been four years? Severance was a COVID show, wasn't it? I want to say it was 2021.

or 2022 so it's been three or four years since it's come out yeah but that that first season of severance i think i might re-watch it just i have to i have to but i i don't know that i've enjoyed a season of television more than that i think breaking bad adam scott oh my gosh this it's just so well done and also like the last episode too is just like man and mind-blowing

It premiered February of 2022. Wow. So yeah, this will be three years later because it's January 2025 that it comes back. And I don't know if you've read this. There's been a lot of talk about the production problems for Severance Season 2. Is that why it took so long? Yeah, that's one of the reasons it took so long. And the spiraling budget for Severance Season 2. Yeah. Spiraling like as in ballooning? Yes. It is the most expensive TV show ever made. Whoa, what? What?

$200 million budget for Severance season two. That's not good. That's not good. But I mean, it's such a good show. That's what I'm saying, but that kind of stuff goes like, well, this might be our last season because those kinds of things like... It's too expensive. It gets too expensive. That's what happened to Westworld. Westworld was like, we have one more season and we'll be done. And Max was like, nah, HBO was like, no, no, just end it. It's over. I watched...

Dark Crystal, the Netflix series. And I watched and I was like, oh, this looks too good. This looks too good. And no one will watch it because it is a niche Muppets IP. This is the only season I'm ever getting. As I'm watching it, I knew it. I knew it. And it made me sad immediately. Let's go one more each and then we'll do things for people to avoid, even though you guys have already done some things for people to avoid. Oh, yeah. Sure. I have one more here. Go for it.

It's a streaming series on Netflix. Once again, it's a Korean series. I watch a lot of Korean content. So for me on Netflix, it was like first page. It kept trying to get me to watch the show and I kept ignoring it. Hey, you like this stuff. Watch it. Right. And eventually I was like, fine, I'll watch it. It's called The Frog. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Have you seen it? No, but it's also been recommended to me, but it seems interesting. Is it good? I think there was a big push for them. I think it was like a...

a series they really wanted everyone to see it's like one of their prestige shows it's shot beautifully it's acted well the story and editing are a mess oh no that's too bad it's it's good it looks great and it's good at times but then lots of times it's just confusing yeah um i'm gonna tell you something this will help you if you want if you decide to watch it okay

The story takes place over two different timelines. And that's never made clear until like episode three or four. And the whole time I was like, what's going on? Like, it's like these...

Two different stories that are happening that aren't intersecting. And eventually, eventually I'm like, Oh, the calendar behind this person says 2001. This is 20 years in the past. This has no relevance in what's going on now. So one of those things where they think they're being super clever, but all they're actually doing is confusing their audience. Right. And I think that,

Maybe the script needed a little more polish and or the edit needed to be done a little differently because it's like really intense. You know, the basic premise is like this older kind of semi-retired guy runs a like an Airbnb out in the country, right? It's just him and like this other old guy who helps him run it. And then one day this kind of like creepy young woman shows up to rent it.

And there's just something unsettling about her. And like, you realize that she's like, she's a killer and she does bad things. And it's like now she's tied up into this guy's life who just runs like a simple Airbnb in the country. Sure. And he's just trying to get her out of his life without her messing his life up or doing anything bad.

And it's like eight episodes. And the lead actress in it is an actress named Komenci. And she's great. I've seen her in a few things. And actually, there's like an older female detective in it who is the... She plays the original housekeeper in Parasite, the one who gets ousted. She looks...

Very different. I watched it. I was like, oh yeah, that was her. She looks kind of familiar. Oh yeah, she was in Parasite too. So many Parasite actors. She looks pretty different. Yeah, I think all of those actors have their choice of roles now after the huge success that Parasite was. Is that still your favorite movie, do you think? Absolutely. I just rewatched it again the other day. I told John, I want to do a Stinky Pop by myself. Just like a watch along of Parasite. Now, it's on my list. I would like to do it at some point because I love that film. But yeah, and then again, kind of like what I was talking about with Sleep.

The lead actress here, Komen Si. I've seen her in some... Actually, I've watched her in a reality show with the lead actress from Sleep. And again, she's like young and goofy and just kind of like always laughing and making jokes. And in this show, she's a killer. Wow. Never not typecast. Yeah, watching that acting transformation where it's like, oh yeah, she's scary in this. People got chopsies.

What's your final one? What's your final one, Barb? My recommendation? Yeah. So this probably goes against the rules. It's actually a YouTube channel.

If I may. It's fine. Hey, do what you want to do. I'm just trying to think of the stuff that I really enjoy watching. So this is a YouTube channel that Trevor and I really love called Kara and Nate. You've probably heard me talk about it before in some content in the past because it's the only YouTube channel we watch, really. Yeah, I think I've heard you mention it. They are travel vloggers. And we started watching them especially during the pandemic because we were just like,

stuck at home and it was nice to see people's travel videos. And then during the pandemic, they, um, like many people got a van and did like traveling around the U S via the van. Um, but they make great, great content and it's really good. Like living vicariously through other people as they experience different things and like getting to see them participate in different challenges. Like the, it's a husband and wife, Kara and Nate and Nate just participated in this 100 mile run, um,

Which was very extreme and very interesting to watch, like, the build-up to it and the training. This is called, like, ultra marathons, I think, or something like that. Yeah. And they've done things where they've, you know, like, climbed the equivalents of Mount Everest in, like, this other challenge. They've done, like, a... They biked across America in one thing. But they also do, like...

It's called wish fulfillment, I guess, content where they're like based on the amount of traveling they've done, they've accrued points. And so they're able to get these like crazy upgrades and do all these things. And so or the hotels or or airlines offer them things to like make a video if they like stay at a hotel. And so they've done things like, oh, we stayed at like a ten thousand dollar a night room in Vegas. And they like film the whole experience. And I don't know. I just like they're very positive people and very fun to watch. And they make really good.

quality travel videos and so if you're just looking to like completely escape from reality um and you know but still enjoy kind of like the world in a positive way it's really fun to watch them i love travel stuff like that yeah all right some some comfort watches for people to throw on their timeline exactly um

Well, one, I looked it up. It was like Robot Dreams is actually all over the place. So I'm pretty sure I watched it by renting it from like Apple TV or like YouTube or something. Oh, nice. I think that's what it was. I was like, I watched it recently. Did I not watch it recently? It's on my diary. But I'm going to go...

I got two movies that I wanted to talk about. I'll talk about this one. Another French. Another French film. French animated film. Another animated film. But not one for the kids. Robot Dreams, for the kids. Watch Robot Dreams with the kids. Mars Express is not for the kids. It's... It sounds like it could be. Mars Express is like...

It's like Ghost in the Shell, like, era of sci-fi noir kind of stuff. You can rent and watch it on, like, a million places. But it is... It's set in, like, the future where... In fact, I wrote down the synopsis because I wanted to, like, read the synopsis. In 2200...

main character, Aline Ruby, who's a private detective and Carlos Rivera, who's her Android replica of her partner who died five years ago. People kind of have like backups of themselves. So he's like this Android backup of his like body. Cause he died five years ago. They're sent to earth to capture this woman who has a, a warrant for her arrest. But the whole story is about these, like this world where robots and synthetics and augmented humans exist and

It's got a little bit of like iRobot vibes where it's like the robots are obviously, they follow these directives of like not being able to hurt humans and having to follow direct reports from humans, that kind of thing. But people are like jailbreaking the robots so that they can do whatever they want. But then there's also like...

It's kind of like there's an underlying plot of something deeper and sinister going on with the robots and the companies that are making them and that kind of thing. It's very graphic as far as animated. There is actual gore, but it's not as bad as I would say Akira, which has a little bit more body horror. This is just like there's a little bit of blood and a little bit of some violence, but it is...

captivating, captivating from the get go. Um, like it immediately draws you in. You're like, I love this world. Like the world building is really interesting. The design is beautiful. It never gets boring. It keeps moving. Um,

The main character is really interesting and it's got like, it's kind of like on the level of what I would think of like minority report where someone was like, let's really try to envision like an interesting future with like advanced technology. That seems like it might happen. But I just watched it actually just the other day. I immediately, it's like I texted Blaine. I was like, Hey, someone made a movie for you. He didn't realize it. It's very Blaine movie. Yeah.

Mars Express, directed by Jeremy Perrine.

um it's fantastic it sounds cool uh it's another one of those animated ones where i'm like please keep making these kind of anime movies forever i know animation is like a struggling art um never stop because this is this is exactly what this is for do you do you think if you could like looking at all the members of stinky dragon like point to each person and go like i know your movie i know your movie like how blaine's would be like predator or alien or something like that

If I couldn't before we started Stinky Pop, I can now after we've done Stinky Pop because I've really got to read, I think, on a lot of you that I didn't have quite a good read on. That's cool. But yeah, I could 100% craft a five movie list. I'm like, I could tell you would probably like these five movies, that kind of thing. But yeah, Mars Express, check it out. Real fast sidebar based on something you said.

It still creeps me out to this day, speaking of Akira, how prescient that movie was and how close some of those things came to happening. Akira, which came out in the 80s, early 80s, I believe, was set in Tokyo in 2020 when a global pandemic was going on and the Olympics were about to be held. Wow. And I was like, when all of that stuff started happening, I was like, oh no. Tetsuo, watch out. Yeah.

Did you guys bring something that we can kind of dish on something bad you watched? What's something bad you guys watched? I mean, my answer was mostly Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice was your bad watch? Luckily didn't see very many bad pieces of content this month. There you go. You stick to the stuff you like.

Yeah, I try to stick with things I know I'm going to like. I had a few questionable misses, which I mentioned, but I did want to bring something up. You reminded me of something that I am looking forward to quite a bit, which is there's going to be a new Ghost in the Shell anime coming out in 2026. Oh, fun. And Ghost in the Shell is one of my all-time top favorite movies, the original Ghost in the Shell anime from the early 90s. And even the standalone complex from the early 2000s, I think both seasons, seasons one and two are just like,

like tour de force, just showing off what can be done storytelling and with visuals at the time, the visuals are a little dated now, but I think at the time they were just absolutely incredible. And I remember the animated film having pretty good visuals. Incredible. I talk about like the original ghost in the shell anime. Yeah. Just like, yeah. For hand drawn, just like some of the stuff was just like breathtaking. The like the cityscape stuff. Yeah. It's just so phenomenal. And yeah,

If you've never seen it, I mean, this is a movie or this anime has inspired just about every sci-fi cyberpunk thing that has come after it. If you've seen The Matrix and you've never seen Ghost in the Shell, you should go watch Ghost in the Shell. If you've seen Blade Runner and haven't seen Ghost in the Shell, you should go watch Ghost in the Shell. All of this came from that. But I would say even the visual language of...

ghost in the shell is a lot more directly represented in the matrix as opposed to blade runner i think yeah they're both cyberpunk stories but i think yeah if you look at ghost in the shell you're like oh this is an animated kind of like an animated precursor an alpha of the matrix which they the the uh wachowski sisters they uh they talked about how anime was a huge contributor to the matrix they're big weebs i never knew that

But The Matrix is a very nerdy movie, so. It is so nerdy. So few people have watched it. Love The Matrix.

I will tell you, since you guys didn't have anything too terrible, although you said Penguin wasn't very good, I'll give you two terrible movies I watched this month. Oh, no. One's not going to be a surprise to anybody that I watched it and it was terrible because it's been panned by everybody, but Joker, Fully Adieu. You watched it? Gosh. Oh, I went to the movie theater and I saw it. Oh, my God. You paid money. It was one of those movies that it's actually really interesting how it starts off and you're like, because I knew going in it was bad because people had already reviewed it.

And you're like, it's not that bad. That point to the end of the movie, you're like, how did it get so bad? How did it get so, how? How'd you do this? How'd you fumble this so bad? Oh my God, this movie was terrible. It's like a full on musical too, right? Which I think a lot of people didn't really know. And it's not a good musical, which is amazing because Lady Gaga's in it. Right. And she's great. It's not a good musical. Oh.

And it doesn't like that it's a musical and it doesn't want to show that it's a musical, but it sings so much. And every time it does, by the end of the movie, you're like, not another song, not another song. I think they tried to really hide that in the marketing, right? Like it doesn't come across as a musical. They hide that in marketing for all musicals now. There's no musical that is marketed as a musical except for Wicked.

And that's because you can't hide that. It's because it's based on a Broadway show. Yeah. But like the Wonka movie, no one advertised that it was a full musical. It's just a thing now. Because no one wants musicals. Why are they making them if they have to hide it in the marketing? It makes no sense. I don't know. Another movie that I watched that is, I think another one people would be surprised that I watched, but no one's surprised it was bad. I watched Borderlands.

Because I had to. I had to. I had to. Which I also heard that was poop. Wow. There are shots in Borderlands that... I don't know if I opened up After Effects, if I'd be able to do a single visual effect. I think I could do better visual effects than Borderlands. Wow. That bad. Did they not have a good budget for it or something? It is such a ballooned budget. It was such a costly movie. I don't know how...

it costs so much and looks so bad. Um, and then also was not fun, uh, or interesting or a good homage to the video game. Um, the performances are mixed, uh, like not everyone is phoning it in, but no one has a good script to read the entire movie. Um, so even when they're like trying to deliver things, well, it's not a good line in the first place. Um,

It might be the worst video game film ever, in my opinion. Well, until the Minecraft movie comes out. Until the Minecraft movie comes out.

which I don't, I'm sure I'll go see that with my kids. Uh, but I've watched actually a fair, I watched so many movies that I, and I'm unlike you guys where I'm like, I try and like look out things that, uh, have like mixed reviews sometimes just to see like, cause you can find some gems in there sometimes of things that, uh, people, you know, improperly reviewed. Uh, no, everyone aptly reviewed borderlands. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah, I think I heard some friends of ours who also do podcasts talk about that movie in a very similar vein, John. It's such a bummer because we even know people that got to do appearances in it. Oh, yeah, yeah. But it's not good.

um such which is such a bummer to say but i'm glad we did come up with a lot of fun things i hope people can uh have uh some suggestions i love that this this is with you and gus uh uh it was this was running the gamut of like genres oh yeah and uh you know specificities um so hopefully this distracted you all from your day or just gave you something good to listen to or made you even think like i want more of this and if you do you can go to patreon.com slash stinky dragon pod or stinky dragon look up look up stinky dragon yeah

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