Free With Ads - Alien vs. Predator

Episode Date: May 21, 2024

Emily and Jordan watched the long awaited IP synergy extravaganza Alien Vs. Predator on Free With Ads this week! It's a movie where they took two amazing franchises, put the bad guys in a catacomb of some kind and made them fight like a child shaking up an ant farm. Enjoy!Visit Emily's ETSY store right now and buy some stuff!If you would like to pick the next Free With Ads movie, you can! Here's how: pre-order Jordan's new graphic novel Youth Group. Then shoot us an email at [e-mail] with the receipt and you will be automatically entered into a contest to choose the next Free With Ads movie. The winner will also receive a homemade rosary made by Emily Fleming (you can request an upside down cross!) Don't have money? Don't worry! Here's another way to enter. We are also accepting people who request Youth Group at their local library. Email us a screenshot of you asking, or if you just talked to a librarian you can just tell us that you did that. Honor system, so don't lie please.

This This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asks the question, why pay Hulu eight bucks a month for a bunch of alien and predator movies when you can go on YouTube for free and watch one 90-minute movie that has them both, plus the added bonus of the human-predator sexual tension that no one asked for, but it turns out we all need it. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is Alien vs. Predator, the 2004 creature feature

that's as close as we're ever going to get to a film adaptation of the Monster Mash. Before we talk about this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we're going to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week. Other free stuff. Hey, I thought I'd use my bit of this segment to play another round of What's Matthew McConaughey Talking About? The only game where we try and guess

what the fuck is Matthew McConaughey talking about. I love this game. Do we have a sting for it yet? I will make a sting for it. Oh, I'm excited. It'll sound something like McConaughey game. Yeah, that's it.? I will make a sting for it. Oh, I'm excited. It'll sound something like- McConaughey. Yeah, that's it. Is that-

Yeah, you got it. Maybe we could try and get all right, all right, all right in there. I don't know. All right. No, that doesn't work. All right, all right. We'll figure it out, guys. Audience, are you loving this?

You're seeing how the sausage is made. It's a behind the scenes peek. So Matthew McConaughey, a wonderful actor, he has a really weird social media presence where he tries to blow your mind with, I guess, motivational speaking. He sounds great when he says it, but if you actually dig into what he's saying, it is a bizarre word salad. Yeah. So I'm going to play a video from the Matthew McConaughey YouTube channel.

This is a video he posted this year for like New Year's. So this is Matthew McConaughey's New Year's message to fans. So here's to the green lights of the past year, to the lessons and the joys that they brought us. Here's to taking the positives and making them plural, to being great at what we're good at instead of just being good at what we suck at. Here's to forever being students in this life, to forever learning and catching more green lights in this next new year by designing on purpose. Good luck. And as always, in the meantime, and all times, just keep living. So, Emily, Matt, what the fuck is Matthew McConaughey talking about? I think I hate Matthew McConaughey talking about I think I hate Matthew McConaughey

this makes me love him more I think I don't care if he lives or dies oh my gosh and I just looked up as soon as he was talking that bullshit I was like is he vaccinated let's take a look no this is the yeah these are the

mind ramblings of a vaccinated man. For sure. He is, as is his wife, an older child, is two youngest or not, and only became eligible for shots this week. Where are you finding that information? Oh, I just looked it right up on Google. His first thing came up. Huh.

Saying he wouldn't mandate vaccines for young children himself because he wants more information. He wants to do his own research. But at least he's vaccinated and his wife. And you know what? Now we can see what the vaccine did to him. And I don't know anymore. I know, actually.

You make a good point. The man made perfect sense until he got his Pfizer. Until he got vaccinated. Speaking in coherent sentences. But listen, if the vaccine made me stupid but that hot, I'd be like, yo, vaccine. I mean, he hasn't won an Oscar since the vaccine. I don't know.

He hasn't made one of those fucking speeches. Listen, we're here to play a game. What is Matthew McConaughey talking about? It's just motivational jargon. It's just him going, I did not like the line about being good at what we're not good at. Yeah, what is that? Because what if you're not good at a lot of stuff?

You got to at least try. Yeah, I didn't like when he, I mean, you guys just heard the audio. I don't like the way he looked directly into my soul when he said things you suck at. And I was like, what do you mean things I suck at? And the subtext was making love to your wife, Matt. That's exactly right. Well, he's definitely good at that. There's no lie.

I don't believe that. I do. But here's why I don't think that. He is so hot. If you look at him, he's so hot. He never had to eat pussy. You think he's ever thrusted once in his life? I do.

He lies down and goes, this is a treat for you. Because he's that kind of hot where he's definitely poly, so he's not just thrusting into one lady. He's doing it like a whole fucking- Do you think it's a Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 hours thing? Who is that? I think Malcolm Gladwell is like a pop-sci guy, and I think his thesis is-

What is pop-sci? Popular- Popular science? Popular science, yeah. What is popular science? Oh, boy. Okay, popular means people like it. Don't bring up Malcolm Gladwell ever again.

This is what I'm trying to do here. So the Malcolm Gladwell thing is if you do something for 10,000 hours, you're an expert at it. Oh, okay. So I guess you're saying it's that. So I'm an expert at just laying there. Yeah. Cool, cool, cool. Hell yeah.

No, I could just tell he's good. He's good in bed. Or else he wouldn't have gotten this far in Hollywood. You might be right about that. I do think that he hasn't thrust since 96 i don't know you've seen his abs right yeah but that's just so that he can be so hot that he doesn't have to thrust okay i get it i just really want to watch david lynch kick the shit out of matthew mcconaughey at a transcendental meditation retreat that would be fun i think that would be great if he just rolled up to whatever fucking Joshua Tree bullshit that Matthew McConaughey is at.

David Lynch just pops out and goes, come on, McConaughey, meet me outside. I think your dream world is bullshit. I tell people to listen to their dream world and then I met you and you're fucking it up. My nonsense is charming. Listen to my weird voice. at you and you're fucking it up. My nonsense is charming. Listen to my weird voice.

My favorite part about these McConaughey things is when he like says something that he thinks is funny. He has that like fake laugh where he's like, aren't I great? I can't believe I just said that. He really charms himself. He does. Anyways, there's no possible way to win this game because it is impossible to deduce what the fuck matthew mcconaughey it's so true uh emily what do you got this week okay the only thing i thought about is um it's free to go outside it is you're right

and it's springtime it's beautiful beautiful in la i'm wearing shorts you're wearing shorts i know you got long pants on up there i got i got long pants what the fuck is wrong with you i mostly own long pants oh i don't want people to look at my legs you have beautiful gams no they're only for my wife are we married then you're not seeing my gams oh well well well if you want to milk the cow you gotta got to put the ring on the gown. If you like it, then you should have seen me with shorts on. I love shorts weather. I love a jort, and I'm thrilled. It's my favorite time of year.

You're right. Hey, go outside and enjoy spring. Go outside. I mean, California right now, I mean, Los Angeles, the flowers, all of it. Oh, my God, I know, right? I love it, I love it. The smells, the scents of blooms. It's true. RIP to the people with allergies, though.

I mean. My eyes have been a little bit itchy. Yeah, mine are itchy as fuck. But it's so beautiful. You just close the window, but look out. Pop a Target brand Claritin-like pill. Yeah. Get yourself outside.

For sure. Hey, now it's time to talk about AVP, Alien vs. Predator. Now, Emily, this was your pick. Yes. Tell me about what went into this pick. I saw this in the theaters in 2004, which is the year of my senior year in high school. Oh, fun time. Best year of my life.

Did you see it on Ditch Day? I saw it with my best friend who lived next door to me, Laura. I also saw this with my best friend. Really? My best high school friend. Your neighbor? Ryan Christian. That's so cute.

Laura Stinson. Or as my father, Mike Fleming, would say, Laura Stinsonian Factor. Why? I don't know. Explain that one. Mike's fun. Mike's fun. My dad would come up with nicknames for random people. Why? I don't know. Explain that one. Mike's fun. Mike's fun.

My dad would come up with nicknames for like random people. I have never met Mike Fleming, but I've heard a lot about Mike Fleming. And my assumption? Mike's fun. He is fun. I bet he's fun. He loved that SNL sketch where it'd be like Sting Stingerino oh wow he had the same dad

he loved Rob yeah well I think I think everyone's dad loves Rob Schneider well because coming up with nicknames and like

that kind of familiarities for people my dad loved doing that but Laura Stinsonian factor I don't know anyone else that he did

like a nickname for that other than this weird kid who lived in the house behind our house we had a sewage creek that we used to swim in um that goes between our house and the other houses back there uh we didn't know it was a sewage creek until much later after we'd swam in it a lot you couldn't tell because it was filled with sewage no it was like a drainage situation. They had like bridges going over it all through the backyards.

It was really cute looking. Okay. We just didn't know it was, you know. The sewage wasn't apparent. No, no, no. Not at all. I could look into how that all works, but it didn't look like sewage. Anyway, there was this kid behind us in the backyard.

We had to cross a little bridge over the sewage creek. His name was Walker, and he would take, we had a carpool on our street, and he was kind of a, he had a mohawk, like, when he was eight, I'd say. And his parents, I remember I hung out with them, and they ate tofu, like, with nothing on it. Wild.

And I had to eat it, because I was polite. That was nice of him. He loved Gargoyles, the cartoon. Oh, wow. Okay. Sounds like a pretty cool kid. Kind of cool. I bet this kid turned out real cool.

I hope he did. But he would walk really determined over the thing and then through our backyard. And my dad, as he saw him come and would go, Walker man, Walker man, moving as fast as he can. Walker man, a neighborhood legend. I don't think that kid knows that my dad would say that, but he would just stand there and wait for him to walk across the bridge and he would just start singing that song. Walker either died in an ATV accident or is the head writer of Severance on Apple Plus.

One of the two. Fuck yeah. Walker is one of those two things. I hope it's the second one. I want to know what's going on with the second season. Walker, if you're out there, fill us in. What's going on with season two of Severance? I've got more Walker stories, but I won't get into it now.

Okay. Maybe we'll do this. Maybe next time we watch a Chuck Norris movie. Oh. Or when we finally watch a Chuck Norris movie, he played Walker. Texas Ranger. So that'll be a natural segue into a Walker story. All right, Walker man will get his own story next time.

So you saw it with your best friend. Yes. Should I tell you that our birthdays are different? Or you could just, you know, how'd it go? So you saw this in theaters and you loved it. I loved it. So do you want to hear my experience? Sure, I do. Yes. just you know how'd it go so let me so you saw this in theaters and you loved it i loved it so do you want to hear my experience sure i do yes i love both of these franchises the aliens movies

the predator movies i i've loved them since i was a kid i've seen every movie i even like some of the ones that people like less like i'm a prometheus guy i'm an alien covenant guy these are movies i'm a resurrection bitch Oh! I have seen the one with Winona Ryder. Oh, so that movie took some shit at the time. That movie's a wacko classic. Yeah, well actually, Laura Stetsonian Factor was playing that at her house. That's why

I saw that. There you go. So I have seen two movies. I thought I'd only seen one. I love these movies. This concept of the alien predator fighting got teased in Predator 2 when Danny Glover gets on board the Predator ship toward the concept of the alien predator fighting got teased in Predator 2 when Danny Glover gets on board the Predator ship toward the end of the movie and you see all their trophies. The Predators, of course,

the hunter aliens, they collect trophies, they collect skulls. You see an alien xenomorph skull in the ship. People went fucking nuts. It started all this fan fiction. So the alien fighting the Predator turned into a little franchise in comics. It started all this fan fiction. So the alien fighting the predator turned into a little franchise in comics. It was video games, but they would never make the fucking movie.

Yeah, it was like 1990 that they teased it. Yeah, totally. So this idea of them fighting and media where they fight has been around so long, but they would never make the movie. And they'd always tease it, and then finally they're like, we're getting the movie. And it's being directed by Paul W.S. anderson the guy who directed the resident evil movie i thought you're gonna say there will be blood yeah that would be so wild if he's like i just put a ws in there i also think he might have been the guy who did um event horizon he did do event horizon which i think is the scariest movie there is.

I think it's so scary. Totally scary. Like, fuck Hellraiser, fuck that fucking shit. It was horrible. No pleasure in Event Horizon. Yeah, this guy, fun resume on this guy. I like a lot of his movies. He also remade Death Race with Jason Statham. I think that's a really fun movie. I don't know that one.

It's a great one. So, I was stoked. I came home from college. I'm like, I'm going to see this with Ryan Christian, my best buddy, who loves action movies, alien movies, and horror movies. We had been talking about this thing since we were 15, reading the comics, playing the video games. We saw it in the theaters, and it was one of the most disappointing theatrical experiences of my life. I hated this movie. I hated it. I hated this movie. I hated it. I was so disappointed.

I had been waiting for this movie, and I saw it, and it wasn't what I wanted it to be, and I have not watched it since, and I'm glad I rewatched it for this. We'll talk about our feelings as we go, but I'm just laying down some groundwork. Okay. Well, I'm so sorry that I'm just laying down some groundwork. Okay.

Well, I'm so sorry that I suggested a traumatizing movie like this. Emily, honestly, I'm glad you did. Oh, okay. Good. So, we start with, we open in a general science room where science is happening. Fun little Easter egg. They're watching Frankenstein vs. the Wolfman. Oh, shit.

Another movie where two popular monsters fight each other. Fun Easter egg. They're watching Frankenstein versus the Wolfman, another movie where two popular monsters fight each other. Fun Easter egg. And we learn that there's a problem in Sector 14. One scientist is like, there's something in Sector 14. The other one says, there isn't anything in Sector 14. And he says, there is now. We are off to the races. All right.

And then next scene, we get introduced to our main character. This is Alexa. She is ice climbing in Nepal with like an axe. Answering a cell phone? I don't get it. I love this intro to her. This is so rad. She's climbing an ice wall by herself and then takes like a Bluetooth call from a lackey

at the Weyland Corporation. That's right. The evil corporation from the aliens. Can I just say something, though? You may. I like this. I love this actress. She's great.

She's really great. I do like the character, but the character is so, like, I don't know, obliviously nervous all the time. Sure. Like, she's on this ice thing. Every time she's hanging from something, she almost dies. Yeah. And she's just kind of nervous about everything,

but then figures it out. But it's like, this ice thing, she's like, oh my God, I almost died. But I'll take a phone call. Yeah. And then she's like shaking the whole way up there. Like, she's just, I think her baseline is terrified all the time.

Right, sure. Which I guess makes sense. Even when she's not fighting aliens. Yeah, I guess, you know, I think she's an adrenaline junkie. I think we learn later that this is like. But she warns everyone. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, I think underwritten character, great actor. Fun fact, she's from Blade as well. Yes, and Love and Basketball. Oh my gosh, I haven't seen that. But I know that's like a classic. Yeah, apparently she's in six. That's where Love and Basketball. Oh my gosh, I haven't seen that, but I know that's like a classic. Yeah, apparently she was in six. That's where Love and Basketball fight, right? Love v. Basketball.

Love vs. Basketball. Whoever wins, we lose. She is also in Succession, but I don't remember seeing her, but look out for her there. So she like never became a star, but is just like a working actor. She's like a voice on Family Guy and has a great resume.

Oh, she's also the voice of Catwoman in the Harley Quinn show. Yes, I saw that. Anyway, so this is Alexa. She is a scientist, explorer person. Waiting for her at the top is another great character actor, Colin Salmon, who I really like. Great voice on this guy. He's a real that guy from that thing.

He is in Paul W. Sanderson's Resident Evil. Oh. Have you guys seen that movie? I have not. I'll be honest. I never saw it. Great scene in that movie where he gets chopped up into little cubes by lasers. What?

Later in this movie, he gets chopped up into little cubes by Annette. Oh, shit. They're always chopping this guy up into cubes. He's really been typecast as cube guy. That sucks. It's hard.

But I guess for the last 10 years, he's been on 200 episodes of a British soap opera. Oh, good for him. Oh, cool. Good for him. Oh, I like that they'll chop me

into cubes in this one. No, no. In every episode, he chops into cubes. Not again. He's like the Kenny of In every episode. Chopped the cubes. Not again. He's like the Kenny of British TV. Yeah, honestly, the first couple guys that died did not see coming.

I thought it would have been maybe, I don't know. Well, we've got our guy with the facial scars. It's from Sons of Anarchy. Oh, no, I didn't recognize him. Yeah, he had a bad blonde dye job, which maybe it was a wig. Okay. In this case, is it the worst hat? The worst hat.

So yeah, so we've got like all sorts of great character actors, like no stars in this thing, but like some fun actors. We go to our other lead. This is Sebastian and he's an archaeology guy and he's looking for a burial chamber and he doesn't find it. He finds a Pepsi bottle cap instead. Was it sponsored by Pepsi? It's gotta be.

Yeah, it's gotta be product placement. Yeah, this bottle cap keeps coming back in the movie. But he doesn't have any funding. He needs funding. So many of these movies are like, where's our funding? And it's like, if you do something dangerous, you get your sweet funding.

Yeah, here it is, bitch. Here's your goddamn funding. Yeah, you it is, bitch. Here's your goddamn funding. Yeah, you die. An alien pops out of your chest, and you're like, it's a living. That's Alien v. Predator v. Flintstone. Yabba dabba die. Fuck you.

Fuck you. That's so funny. So anyway, so they're all being like collected. This is basically like the opening of this movie is the opening to Jurassic Park. Like this movie is just a hodgepodge of other movies. But yeah, so, you know, they fly on a helicopter like Jurassic Park to the like secret base where they meet where they meet Waylon, the, the head guy of the Waylon Corporation. With a Britney Spears mic. Oh, that's right.

He does have a Britney Spears mic. He addresses them. That Britney Spears mic, he goes down one set of maybe six steps and then he takes it off for dramatic effect. And you're like, bitch, what the fuck? I thought that was the most bitch ass introduction for this guy. Also,

side note. Yeah. I know this guy's daughter. Really? Lance Henriksen? Yeah. She, I worked with her at a restaurant in Nashville.

Oh my gosh. Oh wow. And, um, I was like blown away. I was like, your dad's like a fucking acting legend. Yeah,

totally. Huge deal. And that we, um, I got fired from that restaurant. All the restaurants I worked at in Nashville um i got fired from that restaurant all the restaurants i worked at in nashville i got fired from i was bad at it i deserved it oh i was bad at all my food service yeah but she was so nice i can't remember her name but she's like an amazing

musician um but this bitch-ass character sucks and i don't think it's his fault so anyway so yeah so this is actually this is some really fun casting so So Lance Henriksen, it plays Bishop the android in Aliens. Right. And so the implication here is that his company made that android, but he made all the androids look like him. But then there were other ones. I fucking love that. But in between.

Yeah, there are other androids. Okay, I should also preface. This is like the only alien predator movie I've really watched. you kind of saw resurrection kind of okay i just remember being like i love winona rider i mean she's and also the basketball scene i remember going i love this movie because of that resurrection is also the only um alien movie and technically i guess predator movie movie I've seen. Really? You guys have seen Resurrection

and this movie? I was too scared to see the other one. You've never seen Predator? No. Wow! I can't believe that. I just kind of missed it. It's just one of those things I've missed. I've seen bits and pieces

of Alien. Me too. Sure, and I think like we talked about God just, you know, it's just one of those things I've missed. I've seen bits and pieces of Aliens. Me too. Sure. And I think like we talked about Godfather, like you see that movie in parodies. Yes. You see it in clips. Right. You know.

Well, I also like. Because all I know is that at some point in Alien, the alien pops out of a guy's chest. Sure. Yes. And then starts singing, hello, my baby. Hello, my honey. You're thinking of Spaceballs? That's Spaceballs.

You're thinking of Spaceballs. Okay. Okay. Okay. Spaceballs was free with ads for a minute and we fucking missed it. Hello, my honey. You're thinking of Spaceballs? That's Spaceballs. You're thinking of Spaceballs. Okay, okay, okay. Spaceballs was free with ads for a minute, and we fucking missed it. Oh, we missed it. No, I was too scared. These are very, I mean, Alien and Aliens are terrifying movies.

But I love Giger or Geiger, H.R. Geiger, but I've seen exhibitions of his work and stuff. Yeah, his designs were the ones they used to create the aliens. Fucking amazing artwork-wise. Too wet for me. Too wet? They're too wet. You're married to a woman. I know.

I have the same problem with my wife. Too wet. Just always moist. And I feel like, just give me a nice dry alien. Give me a dry guy. Yeah, give me an E.T. Yeah, give me an E.T. Yeah, give me an E.T. E.T. was never wet.

Oh, fuck. He was so dusty at the end there. Give me a dusty guy. Yeah, he was just going through menopause. I just hate the idea that it's like, not only is he trying to kill me, but he's going to cover me in goo? Yeah. Fuck off.

This movie was gooey as fuck. Too gooey. But yeah, I did see them. I did. I remember my parents took me. Nine years old, we went see them. I did. I remember my parents took me nine years old. We went to Disney World in Florida. And at that time, MGM Studios still exists.

That was lit because you could go on the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. So cool. Which I hated, but I loved it. And Alien Encounter. Oh, yeah. I could do a whole fucking episode talking about that. I think that's like a Lilo and Stitch ride now, right? I know.

Pussies. But they did have the Hollywood ride, which I think was in MGM Studios. And it's like you went through Wizard of Oz. And I can't even remember what the other movies were. But there was an alien section. Right. And you saw the people in the cryo kind of sleep. Right.

Little pods. And it opening. And then out of nowhere, the queen drops from the ceiling, and there's sparks and shit. And I lost my nine-year-old mind. That was me at the Jaws part of Universal Studios. No, Jaws fucks me up too, Jordan. But, yeah.

Rides were scary. They're so scary. And so I just went, I don't need to see that movie. It's too terrifying. But I did see this movie in the theater. Wild. Okay. So we learn that Waylon is doing an expedition to the Arctic to find a pyramid,

this secret pyramid that they just discovered in Sector 14. He wants it for business reasons. We learn a little bit more about his motivation, but he has this vague business reason for wanting to get in the pyramid. Yeah, I still think it's vague. Yeah, well, we'll talk about that when we get to it. Okay, okay. So our gal Alexa, she doesn't want to do it.

It's too dangerous, but then she kind of comes to the realization that if she doesn't take this expedition out, they're going to die. They're going to get a B- explorer. Spoiler alert. Yeah.

Well, and they can't anymore anyway. Yep. So yeah. So she, for noble reasons, decides to go on the expedition. Right. And so they're off. It's going to happen. And then we get our first shot aboard the Predator ship.

That's right. The Predator. He's gearing up. He's putting on his little mask. He's getting his weapons. He's going down to Earth. Hey, I think it's time for Hunk Watch. It's Hunk Watch. I'm going to pause at a question. I think we have the same hunk. Predator Daddy? Yes.

People, there are many who are attracted to the Predator. Well, especially, well, I don't want to do too many spoilers, but when he finally takes off his helmet and looks at our hero in the eye, I'm like, whoa. Oh, you like him without the helmet better? Yes. You like the mandible.

I like the eyes. You like the bug mouth. It's a good smoky eye. It's not really about the mouth. I mainly just focus on the eyes. The eyes. You like the expressive, lively eyes, beautiful hair. Yeah.

And, you know, he's built. He's significant. Yeah. Thick thighs and lives. I think he seems... I like the dreads. You like the dreads. Yeah, beautiful, lush hair.

Yeah. All right. The predator's the hunk. You like him with the helmet. I like him without. Okay. Is that what you're saying? I mean like him with the helmet. I like him without. Okay. Is that what you're saying? I mean, terrifying without the helmet.

Yeah. But maybe I'm just a soft, maybe I'm just a softy soft boy. He has nice eyes. I agree with Emily. I think so. He's beautiful. When the Predator and I are climbing into bed, I say, leave the mask on. Fuck me with the mask.

I just imagine you both with masks on, like, banging your heads together. Oh, man. That's how we fuck. That's how you fuck, yeah. Then you put a little mark. You do not have to hone your cone alone. Oh, I would love to see a predator fuck a cone head. Attention, fan artists.

I have an idea for you. Attention, fan artists. I have an idea for you. Attention, weirdos. Please, send somebody who's an illustrator or not even an illustrator. Please draw it. Do it in MS Paint. Are you a deviant art guy? Well, I've got an assignment for you. Predator V Conehead.

Okay, so we're off to the pyramid. The humans are off to the pyramid. This exchange happens, and I have been obsessed with this exchange since I saw the movie in theaters. I want to play it, and I want to make sure that I'm not insane. When I was a kid growing up in Italy,

you know what they call a moon that big? La luna del cacciatore. La luna del cacciatore. La luna del cacciatore. Brava. What's that? Hunter's moon. Hunter's moon. Mm-hmm.

Hmm. Okay. Emily, I'll talk about what I think is wrong with that scene you go first yes so dramatic irony uh-huh it is a literary technique is when the audience knows something that the characters don't okay a good example would be in the first dracula when the guy is at dracula's not the first track, but the Bela Lugosi Dracula, the famous one. He's at,

the guy's at Dracula's mansion. He asked Dracula if he wants any wine. Dracula says, I never drink wine. Dramatic irony. We know that he's a vampire. The guy doesn't. So the guy just thinks that's a remark.

This, the line in this script, when he's pointing out the hunter's moon, we, the audience, know that there are aliens and predators in the pyramid where they're headed.

They don't know this. They don't even know these creatures exist. Exactly, yes. Why do they laugh? Right? Are they laughing because they're,

are they watching the movie? They know that the, the predator's gonna happen soon. Yeah! They're like, we're is going to happen soon. Yeah. They're like, we're going to die. A hunter's moon. They're super stoked for Alien versus Predator. Finally, they're doing it.

After those great Dark Horse comics. I think that maybe that means hunting for treasure is kind of what they're both thinking. Okay. But can I tell you what I think is wrong with it? Oh, yes. Okay. First of all italian my asshole what you sound like antonio bender i think that guy is actually italian well he needs to work hard air at it because i don't think so right emily your southern accent sucks it sure does

also what's the next line uh when the moon hits your eye it's a hunter's moon I was sitting there going alright when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie you know what we call it in Italy yes exactly that's what I thought he was going to fucking say it is a hunter's pizza because I literally

watched this with friends and we were like what the fuck is his accent we missed this first part I think he's a genuine Italian guy well I don't believe it and I think he should check his birth records or something show us your birth certificate Italian guy it does feel like he's not because he says

when I was a little boy in Italy it was so which is like not something anyone says when they're not in like when I was a boy in Orange County, California. Yes, when I was a boy. Exactly.

In Culver City. When I was a girl at the Kid Rock Bar where I was born. Born in the bathroom at the Kid Rock Bar. Yep, but I was hanging out with friends, and we missed this line, but towards the middle end of whatever in the movie, we were like, what is this accent we just started going yeah he sounds like Antonio Banderas and someone looked it up and said oh he's Spanish

and then I oh this actor well I guess that's what they looked up and then I re-watched the movie for I was trying to find this quote and he goes as a little boy in Italy and I'm like they had to say that because everyone was gonna go go, what the fuck is this accent? Like, that's what I thought it was. Wild. And the fact that he went, the moon, I went, oh, here we go. He's going to start crooning. Why else would he need to say he's Italian unless he's going to do the classic moon hit in the eye?

So he actually is Italian. Oh. He is from Rome, Italy. Okay. And yeah, so he just is bad. And he is not a very good actor. Yeah, he's just bad at convincing you. He was in the witness protection program and then had to pretend to be Italian.

That's the explanation. Anyway. Adding it to the wiki. Okay, whatever. Okay, so let's forge ahead. So we get like a penguin jump scare scene. They think something's in the thing. I thought maybe a penguin predator thing was going to happen.

Me too. So that's part of predator or alien logic anyway. It's like the alien, it lays its eggs and it takes the shape of whatever it's in. I really wanted to see a penguin alien. Me too. But also apparently predator lore is also, I watch a lot of videos about this shit but I haven't seen the other movies. Okay.

There is other things about Predator where they've like advanced their DNA with the things that they've captured and shit but that might have just been one nerd on YouTube. I think later in this franchise, in the next AVP movie we do get to see the alien Predator hybrid. Which I want to see that so bad um so

okay so uh so then but then the predators comes down he starts taking out dudes he can be invisible i guess there's three of them there's three predators they're taking out dudes shooting them with the the guys are shooting at them with machine guns predators are taking them out these scenes are pretty cool these are pretty coolator kill scenes. Do they always string them up like that? Yeah, I think that's part of their hunting technique. So they would skin you and then take your skull for a trophy. And I think that's maybe kind of something that I didn't like about this at the time, which I thought it should be gorier, right?

Like these movies that typically have been rated R, this one was PG-13. I think I wanted more heads getting ripped out. I think I wanted more guts. Anyway. Was Predator like that? Because I know Alien is. I've seen clips on things where it's like, holy shit, the like, I don't know, wet guttural crunching of so much of it. Yeah, sure.

They're very gross movies. But Predator movies, I'm just like, it's Arnold in some trees. Uh-huh. Just going, oh, no. Yeah. The first one is great. I love the first Predator movie. But, you know, your mileage may vary.

But, so, yeah, he's taking out, the Predators are taking out random dudes. We get to see the alien queen. She's popping out of the chamber. She's frozen. This is a big fucking puppet, and it looks great. It looks great. It looks cool. Cool, so cool. Sway.

And there's so much fucking rad practical shit in this movie. Well, and then there's really shitty practical stuff at some point. I even kind of like the shitty, I think I just, you know, I'm- The people who are in black morph suits with like the head on it.

Oh, what was this? Towards the end when they're trying to gnaw the fucking chains off the queen you could just tell yeah sure it's people in little morphos yes and then with a huge head on and i'm like oh my god you guys i you know i am i am a i'm a i'm a basic 40ish dude and that i am very nostalgic for practical stuff. I am too. Anytime it's like puppets and guys in suits, I'm just like, yay. I am in full agreement with you there.

But also like, let's put a whole bodysuit on, motherfucker. I don't know. So the Predator's taking out random dudes. We see the queen. She's being held prisoner in this chamber. She's like unthawing. It looks so fucking cool. She starts laying eggs and they get on a little conveyor belt and they're going out into the pyramid.

But also, tiniest pussy I've ever seen. Like so tight, like huge gut full of eggs. And then you just have this little fucking, I'd say that thing is the size. She's been saving herself for marriage. She's been saving herself for marriage She's been saving herself Only Emily Emily would be like You know I was watching Alien vs Predator And the queen had a tight little pussy

The queen's pussy was too tight One star One star Alien pussy too tight Listen that pussy was like the size Of a Stanley Cup. I'd say, right? And those eggs are chunky.

Not the hockey one. The eggs are chunky. That confused me for so long. Yeah, sure. But yeah, it was, and it's really gross, and I love how gross it is. It is, me too. Because there isn't too much,

there's some grody stuff, grody alien stuff, but that was nice and gross. So these eggs are going on a conveyor belt out into the pyramid where our heroes are. They're exploring the pyramid. Oh, I'll just go back a little bit to talk about the scene that I kind of liked. We have Waylon and Alexa. They're kind of talking about why they do what they do. Oh, I love this speech.

Me too. I thought this was like, this is the best writing and acting in this movie. She's talking about how she you know, her dad used to take her up mountains and they like shared champagne on the top of this mountain and he died on the way back down. And then Waylon is talking about why he's doing this because he doesn't want to just be like

remembered for like being a fucking cunt. Yeah, being a rich asshole and it's like the stock dropped 10 points after he died and that's all people remember. And so he wants to do something a rich asshole. And it's like the stock dropped 10 points after he died. And that's all people remember. And so he wants to do something for his legacy. And it kind of fits in with the fact that he would make robots that look like him. You know, he's a guy who's obsessed with legacy.

I like this. They're both great in this scene. And it's some good writing in a movie that, like, doesn't have a lot of writing, period. So this is when shit starts hitting the fan. The alien eggs start hatching. They like latch onto faces. You know how the life cycle works. Latch onto the face, fuck the face, egg in the stomach, thing bursts out of the stomach,

grows into the alien. Also, can I say like, why do the face huggers choose to face fuck some people longer than others? Yeah, I think- There's always one guy or one person who's like right ain't got one on their face sure and i guess you know just babies take different amounts of time to gestate you guys you don't understand babies because neither of you have one but some babies latch really explain it to us dad some babies latch really easily some babies you really have to

coax into latching yeah and it's all it a whole thing. There's subreddits about it. And alien babies, I'm sure, no different. Yeah. And some babies refuse the bottle, in this case, the head. Oh, that's true. But yeah, the only other woman in this movie wakes up and all the dudes are still getting face fucked probably because they liked it more. Yeah, that's probably it. Because they're nasty.

Because they're nasty little freaks. They're like, she's not into it. I'm gonna... And then she gets a chest burster before any of theirs are off their face, which is so fast. Yeah. So yes, the life cycle is kind of different depending on what's happening in the movie.

Probably just more for convenience. So yeah, so kind of shit's hitting the fan. The pyramid is like shifting and moving around. That's kind of cool. Maybe something I didn't appreciate watching this movie the first time. It's like, oh, this kind of shit's hitting the fan. The pyramid is like shifting and moving around. That's kind of cool. Maybe something I didn't appreciate watching this movie the first time. It's like, oh, this is a cool device. This pyramid is always changing. So they're like locked into different rooms with the aliens.

It's neat. It was kind of like Cube. It was a little like Cube, a movie which I think we all love. Yes. So, yeah, people are just getting fucking died. Everybody's getting died. Getting died. And it's all pretty cool.

Our boy Waylon sacrifices himself. So Alexa can run. He fights the Predator. The Predator looks inside him with his x-ray vision and sees that he has a bad heart or bad lungs or something. Or cancer or something. Yeah, sure. We don't really learn what's up with Waylon.

He just has a futuristic inhaler. Well, sure. We don't really learn what's up with Waylon. He just like has a futuristic inhaler. Well, I thought that he was going to look inside him and realize he was an android. That would have been cool. But he wasn't because I was really confused because I remember he's in other movies and I'm like isn't he dead? Yeah.

So I think the thing with Predators is that they have honor. They don't attack weak things. They don't attack you if you're not armed. I think that's what people don't know when they're fighting the Predator is they just shoot at it. It's like if you just dropped your gun, it wouldn't kill you. See, this is why I like Predator. This is the only Predator movie I've seen, but I feel like I would be friends. I feel like I could be friends with Predator.

Well, and then the humans do side with the Predator. Yes. So I watched this movie and I went like, I feel like I could be friends. They seem friendly. Unless they want to sacrifice you to breed more aliens for sport. I would just start crying. I would just start crying. Yeah, you can't kill a crying guy.

So we see one of the predators getting alien guts. The alien guts are all acidic. And he's rubbing, he's marking himself with the acid. And then the Italian guy says, this is all starting to make sense. No, it's not. Not to you. What about this makes sense to you, guy who's not seen the movie? He just should have said, wow, that's a spicy meatball.

The blood, she is a spicy meatball. Yes. The blood, she is a spicy. Yeah. No, he wouldn't say it's a spicy meatball. He'd be like, it's a spicy trail we go sometimes these days. Right. He wouldn't say the thing we want him to say. Just do the line.

So they figure earlier in the movie, they find these predator guns and a sarcophagus. Alexa reads these hieroglyphics that just exposition dump everything we don't know so far. We see a little flashback of the aliens and the predators fighting on ancient pyramids. It's implied that the predators told humans how to build the pyramids. I like that. I did like it.

I really did like the backstory. Although it was very silly. Yes. Like it's too silly to exist in the alien universe. Sure. Yeah. It's too simplistic. Like, but there's other theories about things.

I've watched so many YouTube videos about all these movies, but not seen the movies. Are the YouTube videos longer than the movies? Probably. I think I watched a couple of 1.5 hour videos. Oh, yeah. Okay. That is me in Dark Souls lore. I will watch a two hour video about Dark Souls.

I'll have to find out what that is. Is that like a Malcolm Gladwell thing? Yes, it's a Malcolm Gladwell. Let's move on. Malcolm Gladwell's dark souls. Anyway, so they decide that they're going to side with the Predators probably because of what Matt said. They're more

human. They have honor. They're bipedal. We like that. They're more human? I think than the aliens the predators are aren't the xenomorphs like half human i guess you're right so i guess technically dna wise they're more human yeah so now who's the monster is it man is man the most deadly of the monster whoa whenever that happens in a movie or television I'm always like, that's deep, guys Whoa Oh, also I'm 12

That's the only kind of person that impresses Whoa, I'm 12 I also really like the song What If God Was One Of Us Whoa, what if he was? What if he was? Oh, man That's so deep It's like, Suburbia's pretty fucked up behind the white picket fences.

Yeah, man. Suburbia's pretty fucked up. Suburbia's actually like the real urban jungle, if you think about it. Whoa, I'm 12. My favorite movie is Memento. Oh, I'm 12. I love Memento. I'm so cool.

I'm so glad I'm 12. Oh, I'm so 12. Anyway, so now that the Predator has his gun, he can so 12. Anyway. So now that the Predator has his gun, he can fuck up the aliens. He fucks them up. He makes Alexa weapons out of alien body parts. Wait, wait, wait. You got to say that because Alexa gave him the weapon. That's true, yes.

It helped with their bond. I think I mentioned. Okay, if I didn't mention that. Yes. They decide that we're going to start arming the Predators. Yeah, yeah mentioned, okay, if I didn't mention that, yes, she, they decide that we're going to start arming the predators. Yeah, yeah.

And then, yes, so then I think she's kind of part of the clan at this point. So he makes her a shield out of one of their heads

and a spear out of one of their spike tails. None of them were, well, they don't really use them at all. It's just kind of like a cool visual. It is a cool visual.

I mean, the action figures at this time, I bet were lit. I haven't looked up the action figure, but I bet you get the shield. I think you're probably right.

I think you're exactly right. Well, I didn't realize the alien's goo was acidic. Yeah. But I liked the way the Predator visually explained that by pouring it onto the alien's head, but then it dripped onto the ground. It's like the aliens like exoskeleton is resistant. Yeah.

So put this on your arm. I think there is a like brave version of this movie with no humans and no talking. Yeah. There is like a there is like a silent version

of this movie where aliens fight predators and there's no speech. Well I'm also confused as to why people don't gut the alien and put their exoskeleton on like a fucking suit.

That would be cool. And then walk around because if it's acid resistant, also you're in disguise. You're like a Trojan horse. That's a great idea. Yeah, okay. You can have that one

whatever person is directing this one. Here you go, Ridley Scott. Yeah, Ridley. Use that in your next sequel. So she says to the alien, you're one ugly mother. That's a callback to the first Predator. Arnold says you're one ugly motherfucker.

Oh, cool. But she's saying it to the alien this time. That's fine. Yeah, and this time they cut it off because they made it PG-13. Yeah, I know. I think I was mad about that at the time. I think I didn't like it. Oh, I love swear words.

I'm 12. I'm 12. I got to hear a swear. How am I supposed to be 12 if I don't hear a swear? So they fight the queen. It's pretty cool. This scene is really cool and well done. Really cool.

The queen looks great. The suspense is great. They throw her off the edge of a nice cliff. She falls into the water. They are standing right at the edge. I'm like, guys, this thing's crumbling. I know you look cool standing here, but back up a couple steps. Well, that's like her favorite place to be is next to a crumbling bridge and a crumbling mountain.

She loves to be almost falling. Yes. Predator takes off the mask. Emily gets all horned up for those mandibles. Well, he takes off the mask a couple of times. It's before the queen attacks. But also he takes off his mask to mark himself, like you were talking about, and a facehugger jumps out and we can't tell if it gets on his face or not.

Right. And that comes up later. That'll come up later. Yes. So yeah, and then kind of, and then he, and then now that the queen is dead, she is part of the tribe

and he marks her. He gives her the same mark with the alien blood. But on the cheek, which I was like, you know, I'd want it to be a little bit more, I want a tramp stamp. Just a little butterfly,

but in acid I got this predator brand in Cabo I'm holding The little spear and the thing and then I turn around And go mmm And like bend over with my little trans-tamp He's like okay Can you do like a little ship on the side

Of my arm with that I mean I'm just saying Otherwise people are going to think I hurt myself Could you also make it say destiny, but in like Sanskrit? In predator language, make it say bliss. Can you give me a Calvin and Hobbes? That'd be sick. So my buddy, Ryan Christian,

who I saw this movie with, in the first Predator movie, he, on their arm, they have a gauntlet with a self-destruct sequence in predator language. Ryan has that tattoo. That's how much he loves Predator. Is it wraparound,

like all the way around the arm? No, it's just like, it's kind of like down the back of the arm. Cool, I love it. So anyway, the man, there are Predator tattoos out there. Wow. So he was like for real

when you guys saw this movie. Yeah, totally. We were, I mean, I'm not tattoo serious, but I love these movies. So did he get that tattoo before or after this movie? Oh, great question. Yeah.

Anyway, so the queen's dead. She's part of the tribe. That is the only sexual tension in the movie between her and Predator when he's marking her. Well, her and Italian guy, they have a little bit. Boy, I thought they had no chemistry. They were trying to make it happen. They were. You're right.

The movie was trying to make it happen. The movie wants that to happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, but I think he's just too much of a blank slate to feel anything about. Well, can I say one thing? Sure. It was refreshing about this movie. You can say a bunch of things.

It's a podcast. Say whatever. Okay. Well, you're right. I hate it when I start things with, can I say one thing? It's a podcast. Say whatever. Okay. Well, you're right. I hate it when I start things with, can I say one thing? It's like, I never say one thing. Yabba dabba die. I don't know. We're just saying stuff. I don't think I've ever said one thing in my life. It's either nothing or so many things. Okay. So all of the actors, except for her and like Henriksen, are unrecognizable actors like yeah i kind of love that

there used to be a time where people who weren't big celebrities could get parts in movies yeah i like the in the first scene there's a lady who like leans over and looks at the whatever sector whatever sure we all we see is her, and then we never see her again. Yeah, the scientists never come back. Yeah, that was what got her her SAG card. Yeah, she probably gets a fucking alien versus predator check four times a year with eight cents. Yes, good for fucking her.

Because she says there's something in sector 14. Yes, like it makes me sad that movies aren't more like this. That's all I'm saying. I also love the cast of this movie. Yes. So we want to talk about the shocking twist in this movie. Okay. But first, we're going to take a little break. We're back.

It's Free With Ads. This is Alien vs. Predator. Okay, so the shocking twist. She just kind of goes off. Maybe she dies on the Arctic tundra. We don't know. They do not tell us what happens to the main character. But a bunch of predators come down.

There's a big king predator who I think is the tallest person in the movie. Tallest guy. Nice. Is a predator a guy? Well, I didn't see any with tits, so I don't know. You're right. He was the tallest guy. I don't know.

tits so I don't know. He was the tallest guy. I don't know. You know at this point we'll just say guy but we mean guy in the kind of non-gendered sense. Let's be let's have a conversation about that because the xenomorphs are there male xenomorphs or all they are they all. Right. They just do that.

There's the queen. Yeah. It seems like everybody else's reproduction is that like a parasitic reproduction. Well, yeah. I mean, it feels like maybe there's only females because they give birth to an egg and the egg inhabits a human being. Uh-huh. So they're like- And they have those tight pussies.

They sure do. They sure do. So I guess I've never looked into that. Maybe people can talk about that. I'll Google it. I've always assumed that xenomorphs are just female. And then predators are just male. Predators are boys and aliens are girls.

Cats are girls. Dogs are boys. Yes. I think you're right. That's kind of a dumb assumption that I've got in my brain, which is probably, you know, it is dumb. Men are from Mars. Predators are from whatever planet the Predators are from.

We don't know. We don't know. I'm sure it's in a comic book somewhere. But yeah, also our buddy, the Predator, who's been the companion to our main character, passes away because he gets stabbed through the heart. Yeah, gets it with the tail. God, those tails.

So they come, they take his body, they bring the body up on the ship. Yeah. We get a loving shot of his body being laid to rest in front of the spaceship window as it's blasting off. Yeah. And then, shocking twist, out from the chest bursts an alien with the predator mouth. Oh, shit. The alien won.

Yes. Also, cutest baby alien. He's really cute. Of the whole franchise. Little mouth. I know. He's doing his best. He's doing his best.

He's doing his best. We love him. As a parent, I was just like, someone take care of him, please. Also, as a parent, you're probably like, oof, it's going to be tough latching. Oh, my God. I know. For this kid. This kid is going to have trouble latching.

Going to spend a lot of money on nipples for the bottle. I'll tell you that much right now. Yeah, exactly. Those are not cheap. She does get a spear, remember? And also, here's the thing. Everything feels like a lie because she's there with dead dude predator. And then it shows that the ship is just all enveloping.

It feels like it's covering so much of the sky. So it's like they're all just watching. They were all up in their ship just watching shit go down for funsies. I think what this is, I think what we saw is like, it's like a predator trial. I think they send the predators down into that pyramid to like test their might.

Right. So I think what they were watching was a test. And I think their- So that predator- That dude failed. Their dude failed. She's the winner.

That predator, was it like a teenager then? I think so. I think that was a teenager. Oh, buddy think so i think that was oh buddy that's a big yikes that's a big guy because they were oh no he said so many sexual things about him you know what that makes sense because that is the shortest Predator I've ever seen. He was pretty short. I thought that guy was, I was like, why are they so little? Like, I don't get it. Not as impressive.

Well, that's AVP. Before we talk about what we thought about the movie, we want to talk about our favorite lines in the movie. Hell yeah. I'm going to go first. I love a line that probably got a huge laugh at the time but now means nothing. that probably got a huge laugh at the time, but now means nothing. My favorite example that we've seen on this show so far is Drew Barrymore in He's Just Not That Into You

going like, he MySpaced me! We're talking about a guy she liked, and so I'm sure that got a huge laugh at the time. Now it's just like, what the fuck? She MySpaced you? Anyway, there's a line like this in this movie, and I want to play it now. They're looking in a sarcophagus at some predator weapons, and you get this line. Any idea what these are?

No. You? No. It's a good thing we brought the experts. Well, yeah, it is a good thing. Because this is like finding Moses' DVD collection. This is like finding Moses' DVD collection. This is like finding Moses' DVD collection. He literally no idea what he's talking about.

So, yeah, I think at the time just like DVDs were hot and someone who's punching up this script is like, oh, we should put in a line about DVDs. Yeah. Anyway, Moses, huge, huge porn collection. His favorite was The Parting of the Pink Sea. Anyway. Emily! I love it! No, huge porn collection. His favorite was The Parting of the Pink Sea. Anyway. Emily.

I love it. No, it's bad. It's bad. It sucks. Emily, what do you got for me? Why did you say my name right after that? No, I was telling you. Like as if you're like, Emily, you know.

I'm like, yo. I was saying that you know that that sucked what I did. Oh, okay. Okay. What was your favorite line? I really liked it when our main character, what's her name again? Alexa. Oh, how could I forget?

Alexa, play Alien versus Predator. Oh my God, don't. They're all listening to us now. When they were trying to, we've got an actor who was from Trainspotting who's in it. Yeah, yeah. He was the only actor I recognized in this movie. I was like, oh, he's the guy who had the completely incomprehensible Scottish accent. But you could hear him here.

He was no problem. Sounded great in this movie. And he's one of the only dudes who we had experienced the whole wall, like, you know, being entrapped with goo into a wall. Right. Yes. He got gooed up to the wall and impregnated. Oh, God. It's like you didn't have to go that hard. Yeah. He got gooed up to the wall and impregnated. Oh, God.

It's like you didn't have to go that hard. Yeah. You could have just trapped him in the room. Anyway. You got to goo him up. If you got goo. If you got goo, yeah, use it. Yeah.

Jinxed. Oh, fuck. So they were trying to convince her to do it. And somehow these two dudes are doing it by saying, we have kids, please come with us. Right. right and i'm like what the fuck are you talking why would that make her want to go oh to keep you from dying for your kids what a weird like just don't go motherfucker anyway so here they are trying to do it and she responds with a great line i wish you'd reconsider coming with us, Lex.

Come on, don't make me pull out pictures of my kids again. Your kids aren't that cute. She's tough, she's tough. It's just like, I'll let you die because your kids aren't that cute. I fucking love it. I liked that line. Well, yeah, we are going to rank this movie on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials after we come back it's free with ads we're going to review alien versus predator emily you want to

go first okay uh nine nine okay yeah i had a great time i'm so glad we're not watching godfather 2 i was just so excited to not be watching that. Wow. Matt is dying. I'm fuming right now. He's fuming. Are you kidding me? Are you the greatest movie in the world versus Alien versus?

Monster. Can we Xbox again? Killing spree. Honestly, I can't wait to get home and find out if there's a soundtrack for this movie. Oh, yeah. Oh, you like the score? Well, no. I just feel like there's got to be movie music that was not in the movie.

Okay. Like in Godzilla, I don't think all of those. Like, Jamiroquai wasn't in the movie. Oh. It was just on the soundtrack. So you're thinking there was maybe a cardigan song on the soundtrack yeah that'd be great i don't care about anything but goo oh man beautiful i think we're the best podcast that's ever existed.

Yes. Better than cereal. Better than 99% invisible. Hey, the Daily. Take a hike. This American get a life. Yeah. Oh.

Pound sand, Marc Maron. Jesus Christ. What else is there? So, yeah. So, I'll give my review. I hated this movie when I first watched it. Okay. I wanted to watch it fresh.

I wanted to like, hey, forget about that bad experience. Just watch this movie. And you know what? I had a fucking blast. Yes! I really had fun watching this movie. I think the alien shit in it is great. I think there's so many cool scenes of people being claustrophobic

and the aliens kind of coming out of nowhere. Those are all hallmarks of the series. The predator kills are really cool. And the fucking practical stuff just goes such a long way with me. It's like, this is how these movies should look. It should be practical stuff, kind of augmented with CGI.

It's like it looks this movie was made in 2004 it looks fucking awesome it really does the queen looks great all the monsters look great this looks better than like a movie that is in theaters now i agree completely and just because like it's just such a nice aesthetic and i think and i think emily what you're saying is right it's like there's no movie stars in this movie, but there's a bunch of cool, fun actors getting fucking killed and saying bad lines. It's really, really fun. I think that like, I don't know.

I think when I first watched it, I was looking for something else. I had these benchmarks that I wanted to hit, and because it didn't hit them, I didn't like it. You're more of a purist. I'm more of a purist. I do think that there are much, much better movies in these two worlds. I think Alien, Aliens, Predator are all classics.

For sure. Prey, oh my God. Have you seen Prey? I haven't seen Prey yet. I haven't seen it. Prey's terrific. Prey is the straight to Hulu Predator sequel. It's a fucking blast.

Definitely see that movie if you're looking for Predator sequel. It's a fucking blast. Definitely see that movie if you're looking for Predator content. Okay. I'm going to give this a six. I think it is really, really fun. That's solid. Yeah, I'm going to give this a solid six. I think it's a blast.

Yeah, and maybe if you're scared off by its bad Rotten Tomatoes score, if you're scared off by its reputation, I would say don't be. I think it's a really well-made, really fun monster movie that I think does a lot of fun stuff with both the franchises. Absolutely. I just want to say real quick, I loved this movie.

And I thought I had seen it. And earlier I was telling you, Jordan, I was like, I remember seeing it, but I don't remember this movie at all. I was thinking of Freddy vs. Jason. I had not remember this movie at all i was thinking of freddie versus jason i had not seen this movie and in watching it i realized like i think it got me on the level of i love when everyone's friends yeah i like it when people are friends so like the when as soon as the lady and the predator were like let's team up i was like i could watch this for a year i was immediately into it because i was like well aliens are just pure evil but this guy has kind eyes yes kind eyes and i just i just want to play a kind my favorite clip okay it's of the the ending fight

it's it works better visually um so i uh put some music over it just so that people could feel what I was feeling as I was watching it. Here it is. You've got a friend in me. If you do not. You've got a friend in me. When the road looks like a head. Smile, smile. Man, you have done yourself. Alexa and the Predator are a real Woody and Buzz pair, aren't they? I love that they're friends.

Matt, why won't you ever do the Sting song after anything? Listen, the Sting song will make a reappearance at some point. I thought about it for this movie because there's a lot of Sting happening, but in this case, I was like, I like that. I admire your restraint, Matt.

Thank you. AVP, Alien vs. Predator, we kind of loved it. Check it out. Let's do some plugs. Okay. AVP, Alien vs. Predator. We kind of loved it. Loved it. Check it out. Yeah. Okay. Let's do some plugs.

Emily, anything going on this week? Listen, I don't know what to promote because I got so many things going on. Oh my gosh. Too many. I mean, at this time, I'm probably on the road with Mythical at this point. Oh, yeah. I think so. We're recording this a bit in advance.

Emily is going to be on the Mythical tour. I might pop up in a place or two. Maybe. We don't know. Oh, yeah. I think so. We're recording this a bit in advance. Emily is going to be on the Mythical Tour. I might pop up in a place or two. Maybe. We don't know. So, yeah. But, yeah. So, I'll be in a bus

praying that they don't care about my snoring. I bought a bunch of earplugs in cool colors. Just going to pass them out? Yeah, I'm going to make little bags for people. Maybe get like a nose strip

for yourself? I think it's... I don't think that will nose strip for yourself? I think it's, I don't think that will do anything. Okay. I think it's like the back of my throat between my mouth and my nose. So it's just who I am. You could put a strip down there. I think it's who I am now.

It's just like what I sound like when I sleep. So I'll figure it out eventually. Hey, I'm going to announce the official end of our Pick a Movie for Free with Ads by pre-ordering Youth Group the contest. So, this episode is dropping on the 21st. We are going to

announce the person who's picking our next movie on the 28th. So you have one more week to pre-order Youth Group, the upcoming YA horror comedy graphic novel from me and Bowen McGurdy. You can pre-order that at a bookstore, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or you can request it at your local library. Hell yeah.

What you do is you email freewithads at maximumfund.org. You've emailed us that receipt, that proof that you requested it at the library. If you talk to the librarian, let us know. We're not going to be dicks about it. Don't lie about it. Actually talk to the librarian, let us know. We're not going to be dicks about it. Don't lie about it. Actually talk to the librarian. Request the book. And the 28th, we are going to announce the person who is picking our next movie.

So, yeah, we've had a ton of fun with this. Our last fan-picked movie was Over the Top, which was a blast. One of my favorite movies we've watched thus far. Insane. We totally want to watch your favorite insane Free With Ads movie. So pre-order that book, request it at your local library, and then email us the proof, freewithadsatmaximumfun.org, and we will pick that winner very soon. I'm not on tour yet.

It's the next week. Emily was checking out her calendar. Yeah. Sorry about that. It's the next week, but I still don't have much going on. Yeah, go to that tour. Yeah. It's going to be fun.

All right, that was Free With Ads. Next week, our movie will be? All Dogs Go to Heaven. Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network. We were left.