The Last Voyage of the Demeter

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[00:00:43] Hello everyone and welcome to Footcandle Films here on The MESH.tv podcast network.

[00:00:49] My name is Aaron Jackson, the cross-propagable for me on the other microphone.

[00:00:53] It's Chris Fry, we are co-directors and co-founders of the Footcandle Film Society and the annual Footcandle Film Festival. Chris, how you doing?

[00:01:04] I am doing well. I am actually fresh off a week of vacation at the beach.

[00:01:09] That you are. That is nice.

[00:01:11] I did not have said vacation. The more you bring it up, it makes me feel really good.

[00:01:17] Thanks for doing that.

[00:01:18] Glad to have you back.

[00:01:20] The saddle here, back at the microphone for another episode of our film discussion, film review show that is on the MESH network.

[00:01:29] Today's episode we have a review of a film called The Last Voyage of the Demeter,

[00:01:36] talking about a selected chapter from the Brahms Derker Dracula novel turned into a feature-length film.

[00:01:42] We will be discussing and reviewing that film here in just a moment.

[00:01:46] After the film review, I think we are going to do a couple different things.

[00:01:50] I have maybe got some movie trailers of some upcoming movies I want to share and get Chris's reaction on.

[00:01:56] Talk about a little bit. Chris threw a brand new trailer on me right before recording time that I am so excited to watch.

[00:02:02] I have not watched it yet but we are going to do that here on the show after the review.

[00:02:07] Chris, you may have a recommendation of a film too that you want to give out as well.

[00:02:11] So we are going to do a little bit of all that after the main review.

[00:02:14] But let's not delay that any further.

[00:02:17] Let's get right into our review of the main feature film.

[00:02:20] It is The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

[00:02:24] Evil is in bored.

[00:02:26] Powerful evil.

[00:02:29] We call him Dracula.

[00:02:35] The Demeter, on Charter from Romania to London.

[00:02:41] Shipping private crates.

[00:02:44] Contents unknown.

[00:02:47] Out at sea with no London sight.

[00:02:54] Director Andre Overtal has described his new film The Last Voyage of the Demeter as basically alien on a ship in 1897.

[00:03:03] Alan, what was your experience with the film?

[00:03:06] I think it will spawn five sequels like the Ridley Scott classic.

[00:03:11] Okay, couple of thoughts on this.

[00:03:13] First off, I think just to make sure everybody is clear what the film is and what's doing.

[00:03:20] There is a chapter from the original Brahms-Drucker's novel talking about the voyage of the Demeter as ship that sailed from Carpathia to England.

[00:03:32] That happened to be the ship that also brought some cargo across very dangerous cargo that included the body of Dracula.

[00:03:41] In the novel, I think this is just important because this is kind of cute upright at the beginning of the film in the little text.

[00:03:47] Nobody survives.

[00:03:49] The ship washes up on shore or by his gun and that's basically how Dracula made his way to England and then we all know the story from there.

[00:03:57] So interesting film, interesting concept to put out to kind of take one small chapter of a novel and expand it into a feature length film.

[00:04:05] Your question is how did I find the voyage?

[00:04:08] I thought the voyage okay.

[00:04:11] Okay, I think there's a lot that does work in this film but then there's equally some things that do not work.

[00:04:20] So will it spawn in these sequels?

[00:04:23] Oh, it sure wants to but it absolutely is not going to.

[00:04:27] I mean I just... I'm saying that both from a I think react audience reaction and also just box office it's bombing pretty bad.

[00:04:35] It's not going to get anywhere.

[00:04:37] It absolutely won't you to believe in the final minute or two of the film that yes this is going to set up a whole Dracula franchise that they're building on but it's not going to.

[00:04:48] That actually that last closing minute or two is actually kind of a disappointment for me.

[00:04:53] I thought it was just so obvious what they were trying to do at the end of the film and it...

[00:04:59] I didn't like that.

[00:05:01] I thought that kind of actually notched the whole film down quite a bit for me when we got to the end.

[00:05:06] But I'll say look, I think this films...

[00:05:09] Got some things working for it. I will call out that I thought the acting across the board was good.

[00:05:17] I liked all the characters, I thought the acting...

[00:05:21] Top to bottom. I mean a lot of actors, actors you'll recognize but maybe don't know personally or know their names as much.

[00:05:29] Cory Hawkins is kind of our lead as climates.

[00:05:32] That was really good. I liked him. Liam Cunningham as the captain, Captain Elliott.

[00:05:37] That was good. Acting wise, yes, that was good and I think production design wise.

[00:05:42] I like the ship. I like the look of the ship. I like the feel of it.

[00:05:46] I like the kind of architecture and the way they move around it.

[00:05:49] So it's got some things working for it but there's a lot of things that don't and we can get to that in a little bit.

[00:05:56] Chris, I want to hear your thoughts. What do you think of the last voyage of the Demeter?

[00:06:00] This was one of my top 10 films that I was looking forward to in 2023.

[00:06:05] I always make these lists at the end of every year and my thing is it can't be part of a cinematic universe.

[00:06:12] That's the first dodge the bull on that one.

[00:06:15] Yeah, can't be part of a cinematic universe and it can't be like a sequel which would make a party so there's no sequel as no cinematic universes.

[00:06:22] This came in, I was like, oh, taking this one chapter and trying to make a movie out of it but the interesting thing of caught and you can't get off the ship.

[00:06:32] I was like cool. The guy did the director did throughout the whole alien on the ship and I'm like in 1897 I'm like, okay.

[00:06:42] I admire the idea and for the most part, like you said, I really didn't like the last minute or two. That was terrible but for the most part, I feel like the actors do do a good job and their director is does a good job but the confines of the ship are too small for me to believe that they wouldn't be able to figure it's like, oh we can't do anything during the day.

[00:07:11] But at night, everything happens at night totally makes sense and everything.

[00:07:16] But then they show daytime scenes like, yeah, why are you guys not doing something about this during the day?

[00:07:23] The whole fault of this film, the thing we're about halfway well about two thirds of the way through the film.

[00:07:29] I'm spending more time in myself thinking, why are they not doing this differently as a character?

[00:07:36] And it's because they've made the choice to take this short idea of a story and turn it in a movie.

[00:07:43] You can't just have Dracula on the first night wipe out the entire ship and we're done.

[00:07:48] So you have to spread it out over, you have to have justification to spread it out over a week or whatever this film takes place.

[00:07:55] And that itself automatically puts you to disadvantage in the storytelling department because you're right.

[00:08:01] There are so many things that I'm like almost shouting at characters like, what are you doing?

[00:08:07] Why are you doing? Sure. This is during the day, you've realized that this Dracula creature does not come out during the day.

[00:08:13] So that sounds like the good time to go find this thing or figure out what it is.

[00:08:17] Oh wait a minute, there are some boxes. A lady that knows all about this creature is in one of the boxes.

[00:08:24] Could it be that the other creature is in another one of those boxes? Should we just chuck those boxes over the board?

[00:08:30] There are so many things that could be done. It's like, it just didn't make sense to me.

[00:08:34] So that was my biggest feeling with this movie is that the concept is great but it needed to be a short film and needed to take place on one night.

[00:08:44] And it needed to be like, that's it because it does not...it's strain credibility to think this is a story that would expand into a movie like it did.

[00:08:53] Sure, I mean everybody take a drink, biggest impediment to the film. Who was it running time? It's almost two hours.

[00:08:59] If this had been 80, 90 minutes, I think that would have helped.

[00:09:05] I mentioned to the whole alien comparison because it's not...I mean yeah, it's a ship but it's not...it's not like a tank or a thing.

[00:09:14] So if you have all this time, it's like you'd think they'd be able to figure out this is what's...it's not like the Nostromo which is this huge monster of spaceship.

[00:09:22] It's a small ship in 1897 so yeah just the frustrating things are that you just think people would figure out.

[00:09:30] You mention the girl who's found played by Asling Fransiosi I think, she was in Game of Thrones as well as one of the other characters you mentioned Liam Cunningham.

[00:09:40] He was Captain Elliott, he was also in Game of Thrones so they kind of got a little Game of Thrones thing going.

[00:09:45] She was in a film called Nightingale too where she was like a central character.

[00:09:48] She's really good...does a really good job of being acting creepy.

[00:09:53] And when they introduced her character and kind of how she came about I thought that was...I was like oh that's a wrinkle I wasn't expecting.

[00:10:01] But then like you're saying it kind of shot itself in the foot because then it was like oh yes cool character wasn't expecting this development these things.

[00:10:10] But then it's like yeah but why can't she help them figure out?

[00:10:14] She's basically telling them...this is what you can do.

[00:10:17] This is what the creature is and she told him later, it seemed like days later.

[00:10:22] She went on a little spiel telling him about it. Well it's kind of late now.

[00:10:26] I mean she could have been a bit of a days but still...I do what you're saying.

[00:10:30] I think it's just they kind of shot themselves in the foot a little bit with saying let's turn this into a movie.

[00:10:35] Chris would did if this worked better and this was in my mind.

[00:10:39] Is if the whole movie took place over one night.

[00:10:43] Agreed.

[00:10:44] It's like something like...it's currently from wrong but I think in the book, in the chapter,

[00:10:50] they notice something's going on because first the rats disappear and then the animals, something's happening.

[00:10:57] And then people start dying.

[00:11:01] So yeah if somehow they would have maybe like two nights once the rats was animals.

[00:11:06] And then on the third night everything goes and that way it's like they don't have time to do anything in the daylight because they don't know what's going on.

[00:11:13] We wouldn't be wondering why are these characters doing the other 15 hours of the day right?

[00:11:19] Where they're just sitting on a ship and they're spearing for their life.

[00:11:22] I'm like well there's a lot that could be done in that time. There's a lot you should be doing.

[00:11:26] So there's a way they're scripted to where it would have worked.

[00:11:29] I could have seen it building to a one night of terror for all the characters.

[00:11:35] And you're right, they're having to think quickly and try to react quickly to what to do.

[00:11:40] That would have been exhilarating and I think that would have worked really well but as is now it's like...

[00:11:44] It kind of just fell into a formula where it's like okay, it's night time.

[00:11:48] We know one character is going to die. So which characters are going to be?

[00:11:52] Oh we're spending a little bit of time with this character. That must be the one that's going to die right now.

[00:11:56] Yeah things were kind of telegraphed. I have to say...

[00:11:58] You got formulaic.

[00:11:59] I have to say when it was time for Toby played by Woody Norman to be disposed of.

[00:12:05] I couldn't have been happier and I don't blame Woody Norman.

[00:12:10] I think it was the stereotypical endearing little kid.

[00:12:14] Plenty of little endearing kids.

[00:12:16] Yeah but so much so.

[00:12:17] And because you say they tell you at the outset, here's the ship that swash the shore.

[00:12:22] So it's like okay you just expect everybody to die.

[00:12:25] So when it came this time I was like yes.

[00:12:28] It just annoyed me because...

[00:12:30] It's another little problem is I don't think everybody that goes in to see this film

[00:12:34] realizes or knows the original source material.

[00:12:37] Gotcha.

[00:12:38] So they pretty much in two different ways at the beginning, both in text on the screen

[00:12:43] and with a scene where we see the ship has washed up on shore

[00:12:47] and their soldiers, British soldiers going to check it out

[00:12:50] and they're saying oh everybody's dead on there and it's all this.

[00:12:52] So we know the deal.

[00:12:54] Like so already it's all set up for you.

[00:12:56] Yes this is what's gonna happen.

[00:12:58] Right. Nobody's gonna survive.

[00:12:59] Now do they throw a little bit of a wrinkle

[00:13:03] and it yes and I'm okay with that.

[00:13:06] I liked the wrinkle, the little changing of the plot a little bit by the end

[00:13:13] as far as one or two characters in particular.

[00:13:16] So yeah.

[00:13:17] I was fine with the wrinkle at first.

[00:13:20] I just didn't like the last minute of the set up.

[00:13:23] Yeah.

[00:13:24] And actually without dispelling anything,

[00:13:28] I feel or without ruining anything with the ending.

[00:13:31] I feel like it would have been better if one had caused the demise of the other.

[00:13:39] I'll leave it at that.

[00:13:41] Oh right.

[00:13:42] Yeah, I can see that.

[00:13:43] I mean the idea that if somebody's still around but then we...

[00:13:48] Yes.

[00:13:49] I can see it.

[00:13:50] There are definitely some ways to play with the ending.

[00:13:52] To basically make it into a real dark note.

[00:13:54] But he would gel with how.

[00:13:56] Yes, right.

[00:13:57] I mean there's definitely ways to end it.

[00:13:59] I did like the fact that...

[00:14:01] Oh God, yeah, I don't want to swallow it.

[00:14:04] Yes, the whole idea of everybody's dead on the ship is a little subverted.

[00:14:09] It's a little sad.

[00:14:10] And that's good because at least kept me intrigued by the end.

[00:14:13] I wasn't just saying okay well just wait and free each person to die.

[00:14:18] It just got formulaic.

[00:14:20] I think the structure of it was just its own weakness.

[00:14:23] I think just trying to say oh we need to make this...

[00:14:26] We want to have days and nights and we want to have this spread out over a longer time.

[00:14:30] It just doesn't work as a story that way.

[00:14:32] And there's too many holes, there's too many things that you question.

[00:14:35] And then it just becomes formulaic.

[00:14:37] I mean they even tried at one point to give an explanation of why only one person was being killed each night.

[00:14:42] It's like oh I guess that's all he needs to feed on each night type of thing.

[00:14:46] I'm like yeah well no you're trying to make a two hour movie

[00:14:49] and you want to spread it out over multiple days.

[00:14:52] That's why you're doing it?

[00:14:53] Yeah I'm sure Dracula if he wanted to kill everybody in one night he certainly could do that.

[00:14:57] And I think you know yes Hollywood listen up we're giving it

[00:15:01] If you weren't so hell bent on trying to start a franchise

[00:15:05] or make sure there could be a sequel just focus on making a good film,

[00:15:10] then maybe the writers could have said yeah we're going to do this as if we're going to want to done because...

[00:15:14] Yeah and I think that would have solved everything.

[00:15:18] I honestly grown in that last minute because you hear a voice over from a character

[00:15:24] and it's basically setting up.

[00:15:26] Oh yes we want to make a franchise out of this.

[00:15:29] And so I'm going to continue doing this

[00:15:32] and this is going to continue like okay yeah

[00:15:35] and that was disappointing.

[00:15:36] You're right the best things that spin into franchise are ones that

[00:15:40] are not gearing themselves up that way.

[00:15:43] It has a complete story, it just happens to be a complete story people

[00:15:47] enjoyed and they want to see more of.

[00:15:49] So then you make sequels.

[00:15:51] Don't queue it up so obviously and overtly at the end of your film.

[00:15:55] And then it looks kind of bad too because when you see the box office returns like yeah

[00:16:00] this thing there's never going to be a sequel to this thing.

[00:16:02] Right.

[00:16:03] So that's for people who like the ending,

[00:16:05] it's now this disappointing because it's not going to go anywhere.

[00:16:07] I will say like you and you know to kind of some things up on a positive note.

[00:16:11] I will say yeah the film looked good.

[00:16:14] It looked really good.

[00:16:15] The actors were a good job.

[00:16:16] I thought the use, the trying to do different settings of when he kills people.

[00:16:21] I thought that, oh Dracula, like kills me, I thought that was effective.

[00:16:24] I liked the setup a little bit at the beginning and then how they spend some time

[00:16:28] with the people kind of getting together before they even get on the ship.

[00:16:31] And I was like okay and that actually, yeah it was good.

[00:16:34] All of that good.

[00:16:35] I think just the problem of stretching it out too far away.

[00:16:39] It's just the storytelling.

[00:16:40] It's just the plotting of the film was a problem.

[00:16:43] But everything looks wise, it was great.

[00:16:45] And I thought some of the scares and some of the moments were good.

[00:16:50] I mean they were good scary moments.

[00:16:53] I think one particular I think when fog starts pouring in.

[00:16:58] Yes.

[00:16:59] That was really good.

[00:17:00] That was a cool little sequence and had some great visuals to it.

[00:17:03] So look, there's enough here to watch.

[00:17:06] There's enough here to enjoy.

[00:17:08] If you really like Dracula stories and kind of that gothic heart,

[00:17:13] it's not about like just a serial killer running around.

[00:17:16] So if you like Brainstoker Dracula, Francis Rokai with some like that,

[00:17:20] or the interview with the vampire movies, yeah, you're like that.

[00:17:23] It's not terrible.

[00:17:24] It's just, unfortunately I just think if you think about it a little too long.

[00:17:28] Right.

[00:17:29] It's problematic.

[00:17:30] Right.

[00:17:31] And I do regret them ending it the way they did with such an overt setup

[00:17:37] to some getting ready for the sequel guys.

[00:17:39] That's never going to happen.

[00:17:40] Yeah.

[00:17:41] But yeah, no, I look even though I feel like I'm kind of bashed on the film

[00:17:44] a little bit for its plot.

[00:17:46] Ultimately, I think I enjoyed this film.

[00:17:48] I'm able to, I think I had an okay time with it.

[00:17:50] So I'm going to give it a favorable rating.

[00:17:54] It was good enough to justify my time.

[00:17:58] But it's disappointing to think that with a little tighter script

[00:18:04] and a little better plotting, how this really could have worked really,

[00:18:08] really well.

[00:18:09] Sure.

[00:18:10] It's just the shame it didn't.

[00:18:11] Agreed.

[00:18:12] I know it's not kind of positive.

[00:18:14] It is a positive.

[00:18:15] Something I thought was clever.

[00:18:17] They incorporate the knocking on the side of a ship

[00:18:21] or the knocking that it will kind of echo in that people know something is going on.

[00:18:25] Done in the film and I was like, oh, I'd never thought about that

[00:18:28] on a wooden ship out in the middle of the ocean.

[00:18:30] It's a way of communicating with the crew that she's using the film

[00:18:32] and it actually, yeah, great.

[00:18:35] I don't like the last minute or two minutes we've said new yourselves.

[00:18:37] But there's a use of the knock in you're like, oh, that's kind of a clever call back.

[00:18:41] Well, don't you think how great would the movie have ended if it just ended with the knocking?

[00:18:46] Seriously.

[00:18:47] Yeah.

[00:18:48] I mean, you, I can't even dance around this.

[00:18:51] You have a character that we're seeing at the end of the film

[00:18:54] and they're in a location that we're seeing them in.

[00:18:56] Right.

[00:18:57] And they think that they're, you know, they know that this evil has now

[00:19:01] made it to England, you know, because that's what happens in the story.

[00:19:04] Right.

[00:19:05] And then you hear the knocking and that's kind of it.

[00:19:07] I'm like, okay, that would have been pretty cool.

[00:19:09] And I cut to black.

[00:19:10] Yeah, that's it.

[00:19:11] That's the way you end a movie where you can still leave it open.

[00:19:15] But it's an ending.

[00:19:17] It's like, you know, but instead it's the, we get the monologue voiceover

[00:19:21] setting up a superhero franchise to hunt down Dracula.

[00:19:25] No, no, no, no, no, no.

[00:19:27] Yeah.

[00:19:28] That didn't work.

[00:19:29] But yeah, I mentioned actors, you know, lean cutting him.

[00:19:33] I thought was really, I liked him as the, the ships captain.

[00:19:36] I really like Corey Hawkins as Clemens, kind of the lead character we follow who

[00:19:40] turned out he has a medical degree and actually a very skilled doctor.

[00:19:44] But he is African-American so he has a hard time or African descent

[00:19:49] has a hard time with getting a job so he finds himself on the ship.

[00:19:54] David Dasmalscheon as a woolshick.

[00:19:57] Okay, I like him and people my name has been suicide squad.

[00:20:01] If you know see his face, you'll be like, oh yeah, I know who that is.

[00:20:06] I like him as an actor and he was in some of the ant-man movies as well.

[00:20:10] Yeah, he was.

[00:20:11] I wish they would have given him more to do.

[00:20:15] I feel like he got cast because of how he can kind of have a creepy presence.

[00:20:20] And I'm just like, that's it.

[00:20:23] I feel like he was really kind of hindered.

[00:20:26] Well, I felt bad.

[00:20:27] I mean, grand, you got to paycheck.

[00:20:28] I mean, you're throwing nine or ten guys in real public that many

[00:20:32] of them the way they're dressed and their appearance looks very similar.

[00:20:35] It's got a whole star track like you're wearing a red shirt.

[00:20:38] You're going to go with that too.

[00:20:40] Yeah, definitely.

[00:20:41] They didn't really feel the need to give too many other characters

[00:20:44] really any kind of development which is I think fine in a movie like this.

[00:20:49] I mean, we spend the most time with Clement with Anna.

[00:20:52] You know, you mentioned the girl that comes aboard unexpectedly and then the captain.

[00:20:57] And that's pretty much it.

[00:20:59] And then Toby, you know, the kid.

[00:21:01] Toby.

[00:21:02] Woody Norman who we saw in a...

[00:21:04] Come on, come on, come on, come on, which I liked him a lot.

[00:21:07] He's a really good young actor.

[00:21:10] Yeah, but I think this part was just kind of very cliche.

[00:21:15] Well, and here's something that also once I found it, he was in C'mon C'mon.

[00:21:18] I was like, interesting.

[00:21:19] I remember some people commenting on C'mon C'mon.

[00:21:23] They just really couldn't stand the kid.

[00:21:25] And I'm like, no, I thought he was playing a...

[00:21:27] He was a kid and he was a kid.

[00:21:28] But I think it was like they saw the casting people saw that maybe like,

[00:21:32] oh, we want somebody.

[00:21:33] And then they stick him aboard a ship.

[00:21:35] Because he was kind of being the same way where he's trying to be endearing but always kind of...

[00:21:40] I don't know.

[00:21:41] I just...

[00:21:42] I thought he was fine as an actor or just the character really annoyed me in this.

[00:21:48] So it was weird.

[00:21:49] But yeah, that's where we are.

[00:21:52] Look, the director called this alien on a ship.

[00:21:55] I think that works for the most part.

[00:21:57] I mean, that's kind of the format we're dealing with.

[00:21:59] Of course, alien is much better.

[00:22:02] It does it much better.

[00:22:03] We don't know how aliens are going to end so we're kind of waiting to see where it's going to go.

[00:22:08] It didn't fall into quite the same formulaic.

[00:22:11] Okay, every night somebody has to die here as the formula we follow.

[00:22:15] It was obviously a little more better and unique.

[00:22:18] But I mean, if you like that style film and you're looking for something a little better than just a schlocking horror film,

[00:22:26] it has a little bit more going for it.

[00:22:28] I think this is...

[00:22:29] I think this is okay.

[00:22:30] I think this is worthwhile.

[00:22:32] It's the most muted response of a review.

[00:22:35] Well, I am letting you in that review because I'm afraid I would...

[00:22:39] We like to be positive.

[00:22:41] We try to review movies.

[00:22:43] We always like to say, you ended up positive.

[00:22:45] I'm just going to nod my head.

[00:22:47] I will say I'm disappointed in some of the reviews this film is getting.

[00:22:53] Because I think they're unfairly negative.

[00:22:58] And they're basing it off of a couple of the things we've talked about.

[00:23:01] Plots and plot and some character decisions in the film.

[00:23:05] Which yeah, I mean, but look, most films have bad plotting.

[00:23:09] It's just whether or not they're distracting you overall.

[00:23:12] And this is a distracting plot point in here, but I don't think it's warranting quite the wretched reviews that people are giving in.

[00:23:21] It's not great, but it's not bad either.

[00:23:25] It's worth while watching.

[00:23:27] Like you said, if you were a fan of the genre, historical, horror, gothic horror,

[00:23:33] you like Dracula, like my wife and I.

[00:23:35] Our first date was watching a Dracula film.

[00:23:38] This is kind of our thing.

[00:23:40] So we thought it was okay.

[00:23:43] It's worth checking out from that standpoint, I think.

[00:23:46] Okay.

[00:23:47] So that is the last voyage of the Demeter.

[00:23:50] It is...

[00:23:51] I would say it's playing in theaters right now, but I don't know if it still will be by the time people hear this.

[00:23:56] Or maybe because of the strikes that it still will be.

[00:24:00] Maybe the saving grace.

[00:24:02] Maybe there's an empty theater space and they need something to fill it with.

[00:24:06] So we're saying it's got problems, it's got issues, but could be an okay time for you.

[00:24:12] If you decide to go check it out.

[00:24:14] All right.

[00:24:15] Chris, let's take a quick little break.

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[00:24:19] And I've got some trailers to share.

[00:24:21] And we're going to talk through some upcoming films.

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[00:24:50] Hello and welcome back to FootCandle Films here on TheMesh.TV Podcast Network.

[00:24:56] We had our review of the last voyage of the Demeter just a moment ago.

[00:25:00] But now we're going to go in and talk about some movies coming up soon.

[00:25:05] So Chris and I sometimes like to check out trailers for better for worse.

[00:25:09] And they can be a little little too spoilery sometimes or sometimes set up on fair expectations.

[00:25:15] They're still fun to watch and get ideas of what what films are coming down the pipeline.

[00:25:20] So we're going to check out a couple trailers.

[00:25:22] We're going to analyze this in audio podcast.

[00:25:25] So we're going to be playing the audio from the trailer, which is not as impressive as the actual trailer itself.

[00:25:29] So do invite you to go check it out on your own if you find it to be interesting.

[00:25:33] But we're going to play clips of the trailers and talk about them and get some feedback.

[00:25:38] Chris, I'll end to do one first.

[00:25:40] This is not one I told you about.

[00:25:43] Okay.

[00:25:44] But it's another one I'm curious just because I'm kind of intrigued by the people in this film.

[00:25:51] So Adam Sandler, I have heard of them.

[00:25:54] Has been making movies with Netflix for a while now.

[00:25:57] I think he signed like a really big Netflix deal many years ago.

[00:26:00] Yeah.

[00:26:01] He's done like several straight to Netflix films that some with Jennifer Aniston.

[00:26:05] He did some with, I don't remember who else.

[00:26:08] But anyway, he's done several.

[00:26:10] Yes.

[00:26:11] A couple of them have been actually surprisingly good.

[00:26:13] I mean, he did the film with hustlers.

[00:26:16] Hustle.

[00:26:17] Hustle.

[00:26:18] The hustle.

[00:26:19] He has a basketball.

[00:26:20] Yeah.

[00:26:21] I thought it was pretty good.

[00:26:22] I thought that was pretty good.

[00:26:23] There was another one he did in this Netflix range.

[00:26:25] I thought was okay as well.

[00:26:26] I can't remember it offhand.

[00:26:28] Most of them have been just kind of lowbrow comedy stuff.

[00:26:31] You're talking about the Huey Halloween, the murder party, one and two.

[00:26:35] They do.

[00:26:36] Yes, all of those.

[00:26:38] So we have one coming up now that's called where he is not the lead.

[00:26:42] Okay.

[00:26:43] He is a supporting actor in it.

[00:26:45] And it's called you are so not invited to my bar mitzvah.

[00:26:50] Have you heard of this?

[00:26:51] I think I have.

[00:26:53] Is his daughter in it?

[00:26:55] Oh, see that was the little log line I was going to do afterwards.

[00:26:58] Yes.

[00:26:59] Okay.

[00:27:00] It is Adam Sandler.

[00:27:01] Okay.

[00:27:02] Adam Sandler is the father to his own daughter.

[00:27:05] So he has two daughters in the film that are actresses and one of them is the lead in this

[00:27:10] film, as you can see in the trailer.

[00:27:12] And so yes, all three of them acting together.

[00:27:17] Anyway, curious your thoughts.

[00:27:20] Here's the trailer for you are so not invited to my bar mitzvah.

[00:27:23] My bar mitzvah determines the rest of my life.

[00:27:28] Have I have a kickass party?

[00:27:31] The doors would open?

[00:27:35] And I just think to believe it would make the party perfect.

[00:27:38] You can have a ball pit?

[00:27:39] That's for kids.

[00:27:40] I've had my period for seven months now.

[00:27:42] That's a long period sweetheart.

[00:27:47] All right.

[00:27:48] So Alan, we often talk about how with trailers they reveal too much and that trailer...

[00:27:57] I think that...

[00:27:58] Yeah, I think it looks like it may be a pretty decent film.

[00:28:03] No, you know, it has a target market obviously.

[00:28:05] It's high school girls or whatever.

[00:28:08] And about friendships and everything.

[00:28:11] But I think it looks good but I wish the trailer would have been not...

[00:28:15] I wish it would have been shorter.

[00:28:16] I feel like what we often say is they make movies too long.

[00:28:19] We just said that about the last one of the meter.

[00:28:21] Make this trailer like a minute or a minute 15.

[00:28:24] It's like stop because some of the lines in there were kind of funny.

[00:28:29] And I'm like, yeah, but just save some of those for the actual movie.

[00:28:33] Well, I can buy it.

[00:28:34] Yeah, the trailers are too long.

[00:28:35] That's a two minute and 45 second trailer.

[00:28:37] Yeah, yeah.

[00:28:38] And it does walk through...

[00:28:40] I hate the trailers that walk through every beat of the film.

[00:28:42] Like, this is going to happen.

[00:28:44] Then there's going to be this sequence.

[00:28:45] And there's going to be this scene.

[00:28:46] And there's going to be this confrontation.

[00:28:48] And it doesn't need it.

[00:28:50] I think there's enough you could have done with this to adequately tease the film, which is what a trailer is supposed to do.

[00:28:56] It's just to tease you about the film.

[00:28:58] And then get you excited about it.

[00:29:00] I will say...

[00:29:01] Look, I like the idea of Adam Sandler being in this with his two daughters.

[00:29:06] And it makes it kind of impressive where it's like he's passing the baton.

[00:29:10] Because this is a comedy and the daughter's doing kind of so.

[00:29:13] And I remember it correctly in Punch Drug Love that Adam Sandler was also in the PT Anderson film,

[00:29:19] were his sister like, or sisters or something?

[00:29:23] I know in the film his character has several sisters.

[00:29:27] Yes.

[00:29:28] But I want to say like some of them may have actually been relatives of Adam Sandler.

[00:29:32] Oh, I don't know.

[00:29:34] I didn't know anything from about that wrong.

[00:29:36] But I was just wondering if maybe Adam Sandler's kind of got a thing for like enjoying working with family.

[00:29:43] And that's kind of a thing he likes to do, which is cool.

[00:29:46] I think that's great if that's the case.

[00:29:48] Now this is killing me so I'm going to find out right now while we're on the air.

[00:29:52] Punch Drug Love were any of the characters in that film actual Sandlers?

[00:29:58] I will say that to Adam Sandler...

[00:30:01] No, maybe not.

[00:30:02] I think he's a talent and he's so good when he does drama.

[00:30:06] And he can still do comedy.

[00:30:08] I just don't know, did he write this film?

[00:30:11] I don't know, he did not.

[00:30:12] He did not.

[00:30:13] Okay, well I think a lot of times like...

[00:30:15] I mean I don't know that he wrote He Be Halloween but I feel like...

[00:30:18] I don't know, he's such a good actor.

[00:30:20] He was really good in...

[00:30:23] What's the James movie?

[00:30:25] Oh, I got James.

[00:30:26] Thank you.

[00:30:27] I couldn't think of the modifier.

[00:30:28] I'm got James.

[00:30:29] Yeah, so it's like he's still talented.

[00:30:31] I don't know, I wish he'd have another Punch Drug Club or another Uncut James.

[00:30:35] Well he can.

[00:30:36] Well he grows one out every few years.

[00:30:37] How so is good?

[00:30:38] How so is good.

[00:30:39] Yeah.

[00:30:40] How so is okay.

[00:30:41] Uncut drugs before that really good.

[00:30:43] There'll be another one of those.

[00:30:44] He'll cycle one of those out.

[00:30:46] I just like the fact that...

[00:30:48] I like the fact that it's not that every time I hear an Adam Sandler movie is coming out,

[00:30:51] I grown.

[00:30:52] I'm honestly kind of 50-50.

[00:30:55] I'm like there's a 50-50 chance this is going to be an interesting good movie.

[00:30:59] There's a 50% chance it could be Huebe Halloween too.

[00:31:03] So, we don't know.

[00:31:04] All right.

[00:31:05] Anyway that is you are so not invited to my bar mitzvah is a Netflix film coming out on August 25th.

[00:31:10] So here in just about a week or two.

[00:31:13] Yeah.

[00:31:14] Yeah, look I know I'm not the ideal target market for this film.

[00:31:18] I'm still interested in seeing it.

[00:31:19] I think it'd be...

[00:31:20] It's going to be fun to see.

[00:31:21] All right.

[00:31:22] Now speaking of trailers that do not detail every plot step of the film,

[00:31:30] let's turn our attention to another trailer that came out.

[00:31:33] This is a minute and a half teaser.

[00:31:35] Okay.

[00:31:36] And it absolutely does not give away the plot of the film.

[00:31:39] Is this the type of trailers I don't mind?

[00:31:41] Okay.

[00:31:42] But I will say that this trailer for stupid, stupid reasons has gotten controversial

[00:31:48] since it's released a couple days ago.

[00:31:51] Even to the point where the family of the person that this film is about

[00:31:56] put out a statement, depending the trailer in the film.

[00:32:00] It's getting ridiculous.

[00:32:02] This is the film Maestro, which we have talked about before on this show.

[00:32:06] I talked about that it was going to be...

[00:32:09] My birthday buddy is in this film and directed it.

[00:32:14] I mean, we share the same birthday.

[00:32:16] No, we've never actually met but Bradley Cooper.

[00:32:18] Bradley...

[00:32:19] Why was I blanking on the name?

[00:32:20] Bradley Cooper is starring and directing this film.

[00:32:23] This is a film that at one point had Steve Spielberg's name attached to it.

[00:32:27] But then Bradley Cooper decided to take it on when Spielberg passed on it.

[00:32:33] And it is a film about a cultural icon Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montelegra Cohn Bernstein.

[00:32:42] The film is listed as being a love letter to life and art.

[00:32:46] And then it's core and emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.

[00:32:51] Let's watch the trailer.

[00:32:53] This is another Netflix film although this one will have a theatrical release before it goes to Netflix.

[00:32:58] Let's take a look.

[00:33:00] This is with Bradley Cooper and also with...

[00:33:03] Carrie Mulligan.

[00:33:04] Carrie Mulligan.

[00:33:05] God, my memory is so bad right now.

[00:33:09] Here we go. This is the trailer or teaser trailer for MyStrive.

[00:33:14] Oh, it's a...well...

[00:33:16] No.

[00:33:17] No.

[00:33:18] Can you try it?

[00:33:21] Maybe I should stop and think for a second.

[00:33:23] You should stop and think because I am sending it to you.

[00:33:26] Tony.

[00:33:27] No.

[00:33:30] So how long do we have to do this for?

[00:33:32] We need to build up a very strong connection.

[00:33:39] Alright, so that is the trailer for MyStrive.

[00:33:42] Now Chris, your thoughts on the trailer?

[00:33:45] You had not seen it before?

[00:33:47] Correct.

[00:33:48] I had not seen it before.

[00:33:50] Yeah, I think it's interesting.

[00:33:52] It just kind of set the stage up.

[00:33:55] I'm a little...

[00:33:56] I'm curious that instead of just being about myStrive,

[00:34:01] it seems to be kind of what you hinted at.

[00:34:04] It's more about the relationship between Leonard Bernstein and his wife.

[00:34:09] Where it's usually everything is focused on

[00:34:12] the one who has the title of the film.

[00:34:15] So that's curious.

[00:34:16] It's more about this love relationship that goes on, probably has its ups and downs as you can possibly imagine.

[00:34:21] Also, I was wondering when the trailer first started, it was in black and white.

[00:34:28] And then it shifted and then it's in color.

[00:34:31] First of all, they're going to do this whole thing in black and white.

[00:34:34] That's a stylistic choice.

[00:34:35] But then it has some segments in color so I'll be interested to see.

[00:34:38] It looks like maybe later period life is in color.

[00:34:41] I think the question I got is everything before a certain time period is black and white.

[00:34:44] Everything after it looks to be color.

[00:34:46] Sure.

[00:34:47] So it...

[00:34:48] Interesting.

[00:34:49] And I like Bradley Cooper.

[00:34:52] And I like Carrie Mulligan a lot.

[00:34:53] Well, I think the trailer is great.

[00:34:55] I love it.

[00:34:56] This is the kind of trailer I want.

[00:34:57] Give me just a little enough of a taste of the style of the film and give me a little taste of the performance that I'm in store for.

[00:35:03] But I could not tell you what the plot is of the film or what it's going to be from start to end.

[00:35:09] Unfortunately, I got some negative feedback.

[00:35:12] Basically Bradley Cooper in the film is wearing a prosthetic nose.

[00:35:17] Supposedly the reason was Leonard Bernstein had a pretty pronounced nose and they wanted to kind of have that look that way.

[00:35:24] It's gotten some accusations of being anti-Semitic by playing that up.

[00:35:28] And you know, some people commenting that Bradley Cooper's nose was already pretty good size.

[00:35:33] Why it had to be exaggerated more?

[00:35:35] That could be playing into some negative stereotypes.

[00:35:37] All that I...

[00:35:39] Not to get political and stuff.

[00:35:42] I don't get that.

[00:35:43] I mean, I feel like if somebody wants to physically try to look more like the person that they're portraying,

[00:35:48] I don't mind that.

[00:35:50] And I don't think it was done for any kind of malice or done with any kind of spiting mind, but that's just my take on it.

[00:35:56] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:35:58] Of course, well not of course.

[00:36:00] But I know who Leonard Bernstein was.

[00:36:02] But what do I know about him? His music.

[00:36:04] Yeah.

[00:36:05] I don't really know what he looks like.

[00:36:07] So I don't know if you had told...

[00:36:10] Like I don't know that I would have thought one thing or the other.

[00:36:13] You know, because I just wouldn't have...

[00:36:14] I would have said...

[00:36:15] I would have just assumed.

[00:36:16] Like you said that he looks that way because that's how he looked.

[00:36:19] Yeah.

[00:36:20] And even the family has come out and made a big statement.

[00:36:22] It's like look, we love the film.

[00:36:25] We love his performance.

[00:36:26] Yes, our father had a very large nose.

[00:36:30] And we think that was...

[00:36:32] He nailed it.

[00:36:33] That's why he was portrayed.

[00:36:35] Anyway, so they've come out in defense and saying no.

[00:36:38] It's all nothing.

[00:36:40] Anyway, I think the trailer's great.

[00:36:42] It is the kind of trailer I won't, which is just give me enough of a morsel of the film to get excited about it.

[00:36:48] This one will have a theatrical run.

[00:36:51] It sounds like for maybe a few weeks and then it is going to come out on Netflix on December 20th.

[00:36:55] So sometime in November, sitting theaters and then it'll come to Netflix on December 20th and time for Christmas there.

[00:37:03] This is Cooper's second film history record.

[00:37:06] Second film.

[00:37:07] Yep, he did of course The Stars' Boy.

[00:37:09] And then he did this one.

[00:37:11] So yeah, so looks good.

[00:37:14] So far, I mean we'll see how it turns out at the end but looks good.

[00:37:18] I'm excited about that.

[00:37:19] So both films have centered around music.

[00:37:21] Interesting.

[00:37:22] The Stars' Boy and Centres are on music.

[00:37:24] Oh, both of them.

[00:37:25] Yeah, both of them.

[00:37:26] You're right.

[00:37:27] They's directing.

[00:37:28] Interesting.

[00:37:29] Okay Chris, I know you've got a recommendation to give and I want to get to that.

[00:37:33] But you did throw...

[00:37:34] You did drop something in my lap right before we went on the recording here.

[00:37:38] And I'd be remiss if I didn't...

[00:37:40] I could wait and hold this for another week but I'm like no, I think I need to get it out there now.

[00:37:45] My stroke was pretty high brow film.

[00:37:49] I think you know very, very classically made.

[00:37:51] I think we talked about that.

[00:37:53] Last Voyager The Meter even though it was a horror film, I think just a lot of...

[00:37:56] There was a good style and production quality put into this.

[00:38:00] Let's go ahead and flip the tables a little bit and look at a film that's coming out.

[00:38:04] I was just made aware of this one.

[00:38:07] Is it coming online or is it going to be a theatrical?

[00:38:11] I think it's actually in theaters.

[00:38:13] In theaters, August 30th.

[00:38:15] Okay.

[00:38:16] So coming out guys, real soon.

[00:38:18] Oh boy.

[00:38:19] The film is titled Slotter House.

[00:38:23] So like Slotter House but with the word Sloth instead of Slotter.

[00:38:29] So Slotter House which is kind of an awkward word to say but it works.

[00:38:34] And the description of the film is Emily A. Senior.

[00:38:37] It wants to be elected as her sororities president.

[00:38:40] She adopts a cute sloth.

[00:38:43] Which you do.

[00:38:45] Which one does when trying to win every sorority, dear friends?

[00:38:48] A cute sloth thinking it can become the new mascot and help her win

[00:38:53] until a string of fatalities implicate the Sloth as the main suspect in the murders.

[00:39:00] The poacher for this is amazing.

[00:39:03] I have not seen the trailer but I'm kind of so excited to see it now.

[00:39:08] So you do think I should watch the trailer?

[00:39:11] We're going to watch the Slotter House trailer together and then we'll give our thoughts afterwards.

[00:39:17] This is Slotter House.

[00:39:22] So cute.

[00:39:24] What is that?

[00:39:25] This is Sloth.

[00:39:29] If you're interested, it could sell you that one.

[00:39:31] They're really hot so?

[00:39:32] Maybe they just tricked us all.

[00:39:34] In the jungle she's abated.

[00:39:36] But out here she's an alpha.

[00:39:39] Alpha!

[00:39:41] You're just a wild animal.

[00:39:43] You don't even know what it means.

[00:39:45] Look, I...

[00:39:48] Yeah.

[00:39:50] No.

[00:39:51] No.

[00:39:52] I will not flock to a theater to see it but I think it could be fun to watch.

[00:39:58] The trailer lets you know exactly what you're in for.

[00:40:01] The fact they joke about the title makes it kind of a story.

[00:40:04] Yeah look, I get it.

[00:40:05] It's definitely going for a little more meta comedy horror.

[00:40:09] You mention snakes on a plane type of thing.

[00:40:11] Yeah.

[00:40:12] I think they kind of feel and vibe to it.

[00:40:15] It just looks really bad.

[00:40:18] Oh, I...

[00:40:20] I mean like but not even joking bad, having fun with it bad.

[00:40:24] It just looks bad so...

[00:40:26] But we'll see Slotter House.

[00:40:29] Yes.

[00:40:30] So the idea that the Sloth actually is conniving and I saw it crawling up on a keyboard trying to navigate a mouse.

[00:40:37] This is highly evolving.

[00:40:39] Going with a highly evolved Sloth.

[00:40:41] Yes.

[00:40:42] So it's not just you're running the Mille Sloth.

[00:40:44] Oh no.

[00:40:45] This is a...

[00:40:46] Any kills people?

[00:40:47] Okay.

[00:40:48] Yes.

[00:40:49] No, no look.

[00:40:50] Hey, look, I love...

[00:40:51] I mean, I'm gonna go see Strais this weekend.

[00:40:53] I like my animals that act like humans and animals that...

[00:40:56] In that movie it's gonna...

[00:40:58] In that one it'll talk here.

[00:40:59] This one...

[00:41:00] It kills people.

[00:41:01] I'm on board with that genre.

[00:41:03] I just...

[00:41:04] This one doesn't look good but we'll see.

[00:41:06] We will see.

[00:41:07] Chris, turn our attention to something that we know is good with a recommendation.

[00:41:13] A film that you have caught up with and you want to recommend for the audience.

[00:41:18] It's a film that will be coming out very soon.

[00:41:20] Yes.

[00:41:21] Okay.

[00:41:22] So this is our time where we like to turn it over to either of us that may have a recommendation to share of a film.

[00:41:27] And Chris has one so Chris, what are you recommending for us today?

[00:41:30] So Aaron, have you heard of Dressie Bessie, the Minder's Marshmello Coast?

[00:41:37] You recognize any of those bands?

[00:41:39] No.

[00:41:40] Okay.

[00:41:41] How about the Olivia Trimmer Control Neutral Mill Co-Tell?

[00:41:45] I've heard Neutral Mill Co-Tell.

[00:41:47] And the Apples in Stereo.

[00:41:49] I haven't heard of them.

[00:41:50] I haven't heard of them.

[00:41:51] I've not heard of Montreal.

[00:41:52] No.

[00:41:53] Okay.

[00:41:54] Neutral Mill Co-Tell.

[00:41:55] So Neutral Mill Co-Tell is your score.

[00:41:56] All of these bands are featured in a new documentary called the Elephant Six Recording Company.

[00:42:01] Okay.

[00:42:02] The documentary by director CB Stockwith tells the story of the 90s rock collective that basically became,

[00:42:09] that launched the career over like 30 bands.

[00:42:12] The film has archive footage and new interviews and it kind of gives you an understanding of the lightning,

[00:42:19] you know, bottle basically experience that was started by some guys that were high school friends in Louisiana,

[00:42:25] Bill Dawes, William Colornhart, Jeff Mangum and Robert Schneider.

[00:42:29] Robert Schneider, they graduate, they kind of are making music but not really.

[00:42:35] And then they graduate and they kind of split one guy, Robert Schneider, who does Apples in Stereo.

[00:42:40] He goes to Denver, Colorado.

[00:42:42] The other guys move to Athens, Georgia which you know, both places of our year.

[00:42:47] Oh yeah.

[00:42:48] So B-52s.

[00:42:49] So they move there because they've heard of this scene and they kind of develop their own wacky, crazy scene there.

[00:42:57] They get cheap housing because it's for like college students and they just start forming bands.

[00:43:03] Like one person is in like six or seven bands and all these different bands and they keep attracting other musicians.

[00:43:08] So much so that they're kind of gets to be, they develop this basically kind of label Elephant Six Recording Company

[00:43:16] and Rolling Stone, they make the cover of Rolling Stone or not cover of Rolling Stone but they make articles in Rolling Stone.

[00:43:22] And basically there starts to be this huge mythology that's built up around them such that Rolling Stone at one point believes

[00:43:29] that all of the musicians from all the bands live in one house which not necessarily true.

[00:43:35] But you know all this, they're like crazy stuff they do.

[00:43:38] They hold these big parties, they're big like potlucks where they do all this kind of random, crazy stuff.

[00:43:43] A lot of the bands have like performance art integrated into their shows, just crazy, crazy, crazy creativity.

[00:43:51] Watching the film just makes me or makes you want to create whether it's music, sculpture, paintings, film, performance art

[00:43:59] and that to the benefit of discovering because I knew of some of these bands but discovering all these other new bands that never heard of

[00:44:07] makes me very nostalgic for the alternative music scene of like the late 90s.

[00:44:11] This is like right in my wheelhouse, stuff I care about and it's awesome.

[00:44:16] So I would highly highly recommend it if you're interested in music or performance art or just creativity, it just makes you want to create.

[00:44:27] It's going to be available VOD and on DVD September 5th.

[00:44:31] So it may have had like a kind of a festival type around but then it would be widely available September 5th.

[00:44:37] It's good, it's like a BOD so it won't be on the screen.

[00:44:39] Yeah so it'll be all the different streaming services.

[00:44:41] And that sounds really good.

[00:44:43] And then it may eventually get to like something like Hulu or Netflix but it's going to be VOD so like all the places that you rent movies.

[00:44:49] I think it sounds great. I'm excited.

[00:44:52] That sounds right up my alley as well so very interesting.

[00:44:55] Yeah just hearing the ideas they had, the willingness to go out there and create something regardless of I mean they were dirt poor to start off with.

[00:45:05] Yeah, struggling to kind of like eat you know but they were able to like just you know throw caution of the wind and just be really creative.

[00:45:13] So elephant six recording company.

[00:45:17] So great.

[00:45:19] That's great. That's a recommendation again coming out September 6th.

[00:45:22] September 5th.

[00:45:24] So if you are listening to this before then just you know hold tight it'll be available on demand for video video on demand purchase or rental on September 5th.

[00:45:34] Okay so that is what we've got tapped for today for our show.

[00:45:38] We had our review of the last voyage of the Demeter.

[00:45:42] We talked about you are so not invited to my bar mitzvah.

[00:45:46] We talked about my strobe and we talked about Slother House all films coming out over the next few months that we saw trailers for and then Chris's review of elephant recording company.

[00:45:59] It's a long yes so elephant six recording company.

[00:46:02] Health is I missed the six it's a long title.

[00:46:04] Six recording company coming out September 5th.

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