Episode #29 - Reflections of Evil
Oscar: “I randomly stumbled across the trailer for this on YouTube a while back and decided it looked inexplicable enough to own. As for why I haven’t watched it - it was after we started The Stack.”
Andy: I need this intro. (0:00)
Andy: Sydney Pollack?
Stacey: Jackson Pollack? (0:00)
Jackie: This is going to be fucking terrible.
Oscar: Thing you have to know about this is that it was made, like, 5 years ago.
Jackie: Really? I thought this was the 60s
Oscar: Yeah, this guy just made this and gave out copies around LA.
Aaron: Try 29,000 copies. (0:01)
Jackie: I needed to see that. (0:03)
Andy: Going from Contact to this is pretty jarring.
Oscar: This is like John Waters meets TV Carnage. (0:04)
Jackie: Is this guy Michael Moore? (0:05)
Aaron: Is this whole thing dubbed?
Oscar: I have a feeling, yes.
Andy: I have a feeling the director also does half the voices, too. (0:06)
Jackie: How long is this?
Andy: Two hours and 15 minutes!
Jackie: Of this?
Aaron: Just think of this as a slightly longer TV Carnage with an overarching plot (0:08)
Matt: This is a pretty good representation of LA so far. (0:11)
Andy: This movie is going to test my limits. For 45 minutes this is going be fun, an then it’s an hour and half of torture. (0:12)
Jackie: Are these people all just people in the street?
Oscar: I’m going to guess some of them are. (0:12)
Andy: I think this whole movie was shot by him interacting and taping real people, and then dubbing over a storyline.
Matt: Which is amazing, if it’s true. (0:14)
Matt: Crazy that this is shot on film.
Oscar: I ordered this through Barnes and Noble, for, like ten bucks.
Aaron: Fifteen minutes, guys! (0:15)
Aaron: This movie draws heavily from America’s Funniest Home Videos. (0:17)
Oscar: This feels like the movie Cecil B. Demented was making. (0:17)
Aaron: I like how he only has Manischewitz products in his cabinets.
Oscar: He got sponsorship. (0:18)
Andy: Raw fish? On top of a pie?
Jackie: This is not my beautiful house!
Matt: Didn’t Henry Rollins say he liked this movie. (0:20)
Andy: This foley is going to kill me.
Aaron: It only felt like a second, but he’s been going through that fridge for 18 hours. (0:21)
Andy: This has all the charm of early Peter Jackson.
Aaron: This was ghost directed by Peter Jackson. (0:22)
Oscar: I think now we officially have one week to live.
Andy: Yeah this feels like the Ring? I’m sorry, did I say The Ring? This feels like Fear Dot Com.
Matt & Aaron: (in unison) This feels like Swimfan! (0:24)
Stacey: The title card feels so good compared to that. (0:24)
Oscar: How did this not win Best Sound Design?
Andy: This is the worst sound design! That’s like saying Hammerfall should always win best music. (0:27)
Andy: Oh my god…
Oscar: Now imagine you’re a celebrity, and you get a copy of this in the mail.
Aaron: Three times! (0:29)
Andy: This is how Oscar sees and hears the world.
Matt: This is just his inner view.
Oscar: Right now I’m seeing this movie like Forest Gump.
Stacey: Looks like he’s wearing a kilt.
Aaron: I like how the film quality changes with each shot. (0:31)
Andy: That was like a Mr. Rodgers shot. (0:33)
Matt: You have to give it this… everything in this movie is very intentional. It’s really impressive.
Andy: Yeah, especially considering this is all mainly one person. (0:36)
Andy: This movie is just turning into a commentary of “Something Evil.” (0:37)
Stacey: Hehe. Lightsaber sounds.
Aaron: He found the sound effects tape for Star Wars. (0:40)
Andy: If this turns into a musical number, all is forgiven. (0:42)
Oscar: I’m really glad movies like this are still being made. (0:43)
Stacey: “The Hunger…is never ending…”
Aaron:: Man, Thriller just can’t get started here. (0:48)
Andy: I like his collection of headphones.
Aaron: What’s with the sound effects?!
Oscar: You mean how they’re awesome? (0:50)
Aaron: Imagine seeing this in a theater.
Oscar: Oh, man… (0:51)
Aaron: Can you imagine how many cans of Pringles were used in the making of the sound effects reel? (0:55)
Andy: This is like a suburban gang fight - pruning saw vs. hatchet. (0:58)
All: What?! Ugh…
Jackie: That’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force special effects.
Stacey: I like how the explosion had square framing. (1:00)
Oscar: This must be the dog scene Rollins was talking about on the back of the box. (1:02)
Oscar: This is what it’s like in Grand Theft Auto when you enter the code that makes everyone attack you. (1:05)
Matt: Looks like Iggy Pop is in this movie. (1:07)
Matt: That’s what LA is like. Helicopters all the time.
Andy: Really? Is this really what LA is like?
Aaron: I was there for two days once. It was a lot like this. (1:09)
Aaron: Turns out the afterlife isn’t so different than the real world. (1:12)
Aaron: “Rugrats was filmed in front of a live studio audience…” (1:18)
Aaron: To be honest, I always wanted to do a movie where 95 percent of it is walking.
Matt: Got beaten to the punch. (1:19)
Jackie: Obvious green screen. They don’t even have the restraints.
Andy: Nah, that would require building a set - something this movie doesn’t look like it’s willing to do. (1:20)
Jackie: Credit sequence?
Matt: Really long credit sequence?
Andy: Really?
Aaron: Not really. I sincerely doubt it’s over. (1:30)
Aaron: Well, if that wasn’t an ad for Final Cut Pro, I don’t know what is. (1:31)
Aaron: This movie mystifies me on even a fundamental level. How can I possibly review this movie? Enough Barking Dogs to Last Me a Lifetime
Matt: Perhaps one of the greatest movies about Los Angeles ever made. The dog sequence is incredible. Miss Congeniality 2
Stacey: This movie may have been the brain child (if you could call it a brain) from someone who liked to listen to four different Firesign Theatre albums at the same time. 47 Pairs of Headphones
Jackie: The only enjoyable thing about this movie was that it was not, in fact, two hours and fifteen minutes long. 1 Bundle.
Andy: It’s little coinscidence that we kept making Clockwork Orange references throughout this whole movie. At first I couldn’t stand another minute of it, and by the end I was slightly (I put emphasis on slightly) bummed that it wasn’t going to continue. I need to watch another movie before I think this is normal. A whole of wristwatches. 5 Dollars.
Oscar: In a perfect world, this would be playing in every multiplex. I’m not being ironic - I want to be able to see this at 2:00 in the afternoon in a shopping mall. 6 Disgusting Matzo Balls
