Cinema Beef Podcast #131 : High On Enlightenment

The beefers are back in the new year and coming out of the gate with two films about two protagonists who let their brains get them into all kinds of shit.  I am joined by Legion After Dark’s Lady M. to discuss the loosest of King adaptations with The Lawnmower Man and Luc Besson’s mind bending actiongasm Lucy starring Scarlet Johannson. Strap on your glowy suit, this is gonna get redundant.

Well, I'm looking at you and I'm wondering what you're gonna do.

Looks like you've got no friends.

No one will stick with you to the end.

Thank you.

Keep them till the end.

Whether woman or man It makes you feel so good. So good!

Hello, folks, and welcome to 2019, Beefers.

This is the Cinema Beef Podcast.

I am one of your hosts, Gary Hill, with me today, or the wee hours of the morning and the afternoon, where she is.

It's not Jamie, it's not Suzanne.

It's not Iris.

From the Black Annis and the Legion of your Dark podcast, talking about them bigs and littles and shit.

Misty, how are you doing, girl?

Good, good.

I'm doing good.

I'm in lots of pain today, but I'm making it.

I'm making it.

It wasn't as painful as watching the Lawn Mower Man again.

Thinking about doms and subs and bigs and littles.

Love it, Dylan.

Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, when I when I when we canceled the Black Annis horror podcast, um, it was it was because

Ben, my co-host, and my husband, he just straight up didn't have time.

He did not have time to do it.

And carrying it on without a co-host is like, eh.

You know, I mean, that was like our show, and it just didn't feel right.

So I was like, okay, well, what type of what are my passions outside of horror?

Because there's.

500 bazillion horror movie podcasts these days.

There's a lot of them.

So many.

So I was like, okay, what are my interests?

What am I passionate about outside of horror that Ben's not really like into?

And I was like, kinky movies.

Here we go.

This one I can do on my own.

So, yeah, started Legion After Dark.

And we've been on hiatus for ages because, and I'll talk about this on the show; a bunch of changing circumstances, but.

we should have episodes back out next week, I'm thinking.

And what's interesting is like the premise to one of the movies me and you are talking about today is really close to

One of the things that happens in the next movie I'm doing for Legion After Dark, oddly enough.

They put you in a fancy suit and spin you around in a circle.

Right.

Like lawnmower man, he has a monkey that he's testing his shit on.

Monkey dies.

We watched the monkey cut, by the way, people.

We'll get into that later.

You know, it's just yeah, yeah.

Monkey dies, so he's like, oh, I'll just use this person.

And the movie I'm doing for Legion After Dark is the first really awful movie that I've done for the show.

And it's called The Pet.

It's not the one everyone's thinking of.

It's from like 2006, I think.

And that's the premise of his.

His dog dies.

So he like, oh, well, I'll just get like a chick to be a dog.

Oh boy.

I'll just get like a chick to replace it.

You know?

Are you listening to this, uh, GERBC Suzanne?

I'm not waiting making you watch this movie where the girl becomes a dog, okay?

Right.

And not in the cute animated sense, like, wow, this girl's soul has been transformed into the dog.

No, this is a person that dresses up like a dog and Jay plays like a dog.

You know?

Well, I mean, at least she doesn't dress up.

So I don't have to sit through like her dressing up.

And again, puppy play is one thing, but the premise of this movie.

Is like, is so god-awful and so fucked up that you're just like, this is not a cake.

This is just shit.

This is just this is just fucking awful.

You know, it doesn't paint anyone in a good light.

Let me know when you do a dirty shame.

Okay, I'll come on that show.

There's all kinds of fetishes in that movie.

Oh, I will do.

Hell yeah.

I'll add it to the list.

Yes, indeed.

That's a John Waters joint there, you know.

You can't really have a kanky podcast without at least mentioning John Waters at some point.

In which Tracy Ullman gets a concussion Mild Manner Tracy Ullman gets a concussion.

And she starts getting all kinds of freaky shit in the town.

Like, uh I don know, there a scene where she does a filthy hokey pokey dance in an old folk zone.

It's kinda hilarious.

That sounds amazing.

Oh my gosh.

But today, we'll start this show the same way.

We already start every show, and I'll ask Misty.

She says this is a really short list because she's been watching the same thing for like three weeks now.

Misty, what you've been watching, girl.

I have well, like I said, I'm in a lot of pain.

A lot of pain lately.

I am I tore my meniscus, which is a

Part of your knee and some tendons around the kneecap.

And so I've been in agony.

So all I've been watching.

While I've been because I can't get up really well, I can't walk around very well.

So I'm like stuck in bed.

So all I've been watching is I shouldn't be alive.

Cause, like,

I'll be like, I'll feel sorry for myself and be, oh, it hurts so much.

Then I'll watch I Shouldn Be Alive and be like, well, you know, at least I'm not in the desert eating a raw rattlesnake.

At least I didn't plane crash into the fucking Andes and like, you know, have to crawl down for eight miles with a broken pelvis or anything, you know.

Were you watching La Bamba in which Richie Valens was alive at the end of that movie?

Because there's a part of the movie where he eats snake around a campfire and of course he crashes in a plane.

This, if you assume, to presuppose that he lived through that, then you know.

Holy sh you know, I completely forgot that that movie existed.

And yes, I remember that.

Oh my god.

Yeah, so the short list.

I have just been watching I Shouldn't Be Alive, like running through episodes of I Shouldn't Be Alive to keep me from feeling sorry for myself for having hurt my knee.

Sometimes to be optimistic, you have to watch other people's misery.

Sometimes you have to do that, yes.

What have I been watching lately?

What have you been watching lately?

Your stuff, man.

I've been watching some stuff.

I watched the replacements for no good reason because it was on.

on my my fire stick and nowhere else for right now.

I'm gonna buy it eventually.

That's a football film I love so much with tons of great character actors in it.

So

when your football team sucks and the Bears you really you really literally dropped the ball on that one your kicker fucking blows balls.

But but anyway, you guys here could have could have kicked the next round and you guys could have lost.

But instead I watched

Jon Favreau and Ree Stefans and of course Keanu is Footsteps Falco who lovely gave like like I think he gave like half the salary for Gene Hackman to be in that movie

And it it it worked out real well because I really love, you know, Gene Hackman in that movie and I'm grateful for Tu Keanu for for doing that action.

Oh yeah.

What else?

Real stuff.

I I rewatched I I watched Xanadu because I was feeling down because, you know, the holiday boost is over, but the hangover is still very apparent.

And uh you need stuff like like that.

And I watched Drop Dead Gorgeous again because that's hilarious.

And oh my god.

Oh, there's so much good stuff.

It was Mr.

Tolkien's birthday, so I watched the entire extended 10 hours of Lord of the Rings.

Holy shit.

Yeah, it's worth it, though, if you love it.

And I do love it.

Oh, God, yeah.

You gotta watch I mean, you gotta watch the extended cut.

Oh, them other cuts are garbage in comparison.

Let's just pretend like there's not another cut.

Oh, yeah, there's just a extended cut.

Will from the Gentleman's Guide to Midnight Cinema showed his voice the first one.

I like, Well, did you watch the extended cut?

He's, No.

I was, Well, it's like a totally different experience, man.

you know again post-holiday blues i watched Trancers because trancers is a christmas movie people look it up okay

Jack Death Rules.

You guys all suck if you guys don't think so.

It's uh, yeah.

Oh, there's stuff.

Uh, I uh watched Hereditary.

These are all first time watching.

I watched Hereditary trying to catch up with 2018.

Oh, dude, I still haven't watched it.

I still haven watched.

Yeah, it's it's good.

And I don't I don't get when people say, you know, like, yeah, this, that, the other.

It's one of those films that that for me would have worked a lot better as a family drama without the supernatural shit in there, 'cause there's some real stuff going on in the movie.

I don't want to give too much away, but the the there's a br brother and sister involved.

And the sister dies in a horrible accident in the movie near the beginning of the film.

Th that that in um Tony Collette's own our own psychosis and stuff like that

Could have made for a good movie by itself.

They throw a whole bunch of supernatural shit in there.

They'll throw it.

It's in the film.

It's in the film.

It's implemented in the film.

But without it, I think it would have worked real fine as a family drama.

But it it's it's not Willis hates it to death.

I I think it's a good seven out of ten.

May maybe an eight out of ten if I watch it again.

Yeah, I think I will.

I've read online a lot of people bitching about how the son cries, and they're, oh, it cries like.

A baby or something, like he's like a little kid, and he's supposed to be a teenager.

And I'm sitting there going, anybody that says that?

You never know.

I have to tell you what happens to the movie is

He he goes to a party and he ha he's required to bring the the ten year old twelve year old sister along with him.

The poor girl has a peanut allergy and she eats cake that has a peanut in it or peanuts in it by accident

So she's going to anaphyleptic shock and she's she's got her head out the window.

Yeah.

The guy the kid swerves to miss an animal in the road, and the girl gets her head taken off by a telephone pole.

I think that's something that everyone ha that well, in the States anyway.

Like we all grew up hanging our like arms and heads and stuff out the window, and you always had that one relative that was like, Hey

Cut that out, or you're gonna hit that sign, it'll take your head clean off, it'll take your arm clean off, and it's like, Oh shit, that actually happened.

It literally happens.

So, if you do that to somebody, you know, a relative or a sister, whatever, you would

How would you react to that shit?

That's my thing.

When I hear people say that, all I can think is, okay, so you have never actually.

Full-on had an experience that just broke you.

Because I don't care how old you are, something bad enough happens, that's how you cry because you just fall apart.

Yeah.

It's not like I punched my brother in the arm and he fell out of a tree, hurt himself.

I mean, this literally took the kid's head off.

He's like, oh, I don't like the way he cries in the movie.

I'd be fucking terrible.

I'd be fucking devastated.

You know, terrible.

I would, yeah.

I would.

Yeah, absolutely.

I wouldn I would be but I'd probably end up institutionalized, really.

I could be I I don't like my sis I like my sister okay, but if I could I could dislike my sister with fire of a thousand sons.

If something like that happened to me, I'd fucking break down like a madman.

It's terrible, you know?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

And that's all I can think.

You what, though?

I mean, with any movie or any.

With any display of emotion in a movie, you get the hordes of internet dickheads going, oh, but you wouldn't react like that.

It's like, no, maybe you wouldn't because you're a sociopath, but the rest of us normal humans would.

Speaking of social fast, we'll get to that later when the house meeting happens, people.

But I watched Tuzz

I watched Pywack It because I heard it was decent.

It was okay.

I wasn't really big on the ending of the movie.

It was a nice concept of a angsty girl who uses witchcraft, and of course things go awry and she kills people.

You know, we we should um I'm gonna have to include you in my essay on how these movies that show girls using witchcraft and Ouija boards going horribly awry

is a product of the patriarchy.

Yes, indeed.

You telling me boys can't use a Ouija board?

Come tell me fuck you, man.

Boys can use a Ouija board all day long.

I watched Hellfest because that's a thing.

I'm just catching up on stuff.

And this was.

It was okay.

It it it was great.

It was okay for like a theatrical thing.

I would like to see like an unrated cut come to come to Blu-ray, but it didn't happen.

'Cause the kills you get, some of them are real good, but some are like a knife to the throat and to the gut and, you know, whatever.

It's it's in it's mostly in the dark 'cause it takes place inside these

this massive haunted mazes, like a like carnival type situation.

Uh the whole time I was watching it though, I would rather be watching the film Funha The Funhouse, the Toby Hooper film.

Yeah.

And I I don't like that film much either, so I'm not really the audience for this film, I guess.

I think that that's that's become a thing with movies these days, is people don't understand that

Like, and I'm not talking about like just horror movies.

I'm just movies in general.

People don't get like that movies have an aimed-at audience, you know?

Like, all the

Ghostbusters, all that backlash.

It's not for you.

It's for kids.

It's for a new generation of children.

What what what the fuck?

Calm down.

They don't write that.

They didn't write that movie just for like 40-year-old dudes.

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Gary Hill
Host of the Butcher Shop podcast series Cinema Beef and Last Call at Torchy's
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