How Did This Get Made? - Bats LIVE! (w/ Ike Barinholtz)

Episode Date: October 6, 2023

Ike Barinholtz swoops into Largo to help Paul, June, and Jason break down the 1999 Lou Diamond Phillips horror flick Bats. They discuss the jacked bats on steroids, the river of guano, the insanity of trying to shoot bats with handguns, and if Jimmy is actually a ghost. Plus, Paul reveals how live possums factored into his childhood Halloween decorations and an audience member drops a bombshell translation of Dr. Casper's necklace. HDTGM is going on tour this Oct & Nov! Go to hdtgm.com for tix and info. Follow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer/HDTGM Discord: discord.gg/hdtgmPaul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheerCheck out Paul and Rob Huebel live on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/friendzone) every Thursday 8-10pm EST Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul and Amy Nicholson here: listen.earwolf.com/unspooledSubscribe to The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael here: www.thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcast Check out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.comCheck out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hdtgmWhere to find Jason, June & Paul:@PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter@Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on TwitterJason is not on Twitter

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They call me when they're bad ass and he's on the line Breaking A's big, and it's because they cool his eyes Cause they're bad, and he's on the line Breaking eight feet in his cousin cool as ice Cause the bad gym money looking kind of night All this shit is getting more and more chasing me's getting late Do this baby shower the monkey shots in the pain They're just a fortune movies while they making the grave Here's a real question for you how did this kid hang? Hello people of Earth and hello people of Earth, and hello, people of Langell!

Cheers! We are excited because tonight we are going to talk about an actor that we love, Lou Diamond Phillips. LDP in a movie called Bats, a movie that has sequels, but with none of this cast, a movie that you guessed it is about bats. Honestly, that's all you really need to know. I guess a lot of bats. And maybe if we want to add to that and bats that eat people. I mean that's really the premise of the movie. Bats that eat people get loose in a town and Lou Diamond Phillips has to save the day. Oh and Lou Diamond Phillips is

southern. Okay so, movie came out in 1999, which is interesting because when you watch it, if I told you 1987, you'd be like, okay, sure. But tonight we are going to break down this movie with my two co-hosts. Please welcome them to the stage. Mr. Jason Manzookas! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

What's up, Drugs? Oh! Oh! That's right. How we doing, Largo? Yeah! Here we go! Boom! Wait, there's four seats? How we doing, Largo? Yeah! Here we go!

Boom! Wait, there's four seats? Four seats, Jason, because tonight we do have a special guest who's out of this game. How did this get made all-star, if you will, but before we get in. I will. Before we get into that, I did want to ask you this.

Were you surprised to find out as much as I was that this movie was released theatrically? Okay. Yes, I am. Second, and forgive me if you included this earlier in your statements, had never heard of this movie in my entire life full-sod. I don't think that that's odd. But here's the thing, I'm not sure why,

because it was great! We love that. This love was great! I was like, oh my God, give me this little town set piece forever! I fucking, this should be a classic. Why don't we watch this like we watch tremors? Fuck you!

I am on the same page here because... Boy, I thought it was dynamite. I love it. I mean, I love LDP. I was like, they're in a mine now! And they're wearing spacesuits. This movie's got it all! Except for the bad guys are bats.

You can't shoot bats with a handgun. Jason, hold on. Get him out here. Please, look at him out here. Please welcome my other co-host, June Dayan, Raphael. How are you, Jim? I'm well. How are you, Paul? I'm doing well. Jun, Dean of Myyer, one of the stars in this movie.

Incredible. Incredible. One of my co-stars in Prana 3D, she was just as awesome as you would expect, but she's afraid of bats. Are you afraid of bats? Of course. I'm an American adult woman. Yes. I would of course I am.

I wouldn't trust you if you weren't afraid of bats. I'd be like, ooh, that's a rush inside. If you remember, Paul, I did have an encounter with a bat. A few years back. Oh, okay. And I thought, God, it was so upsetting because I thought at first that, you know, one of my deceased relatives has been coming back as a hummingbird. And so I thought, oh my God, it was nighttime in Ohio

and I thought, oh my God, look at all those hummingbirds. I've never seen a roost of hummingbirds together like that. All those hummingbirds on the roof of this cave. And I was so excited. And when I realized they were bats, it was just, it was really upsetting. I mean, they really are just nightbirds that carry disease.

And that's how it was. That was so much fun. That was so much fun. But, and that's what was so crazy about about our zoologist, our scientist, Dina, because she never brought up the fact that bats have caused a lot of trouble. Great point. Great point.

She says, should we get some garlic for this, making the connection between the bats that vampires turn into. And just nobody, I think that Jimmy is a ghost in the movie. He's saying things all the time, like, how come nobody asked me if I wanted to stay here? I mean, and then he's like, well, we got to go to the thing. As if, just, a shame, Jimmy died last couple hours ago.

They ignored him. They did not include him in one conversation. What if we just, oh, it's true. Jimmy doesn't need to, Jimmy entertains himself. Now, I don't wanna get too far into it because we do have a special guest tonight. Let's do the whole show before the guest comes out. Our special guest tonight is a film, a TV,

an amazing actor, a writer, but also the person who introduced us to a little known LA tour, the Jason Statham tour. Please welcome, Ike, Farron Holtz! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!

Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Thank you. Thank you. Ike, welcome back. It's been far too long.

Too long. I wore my stave, then, I'm sure. Love it! My favorite. One of our... That's too much. ...sale it free one of our... Free sale at Free and AZ. We cannot get started. We cannot.

We cannot. I wish I feel like I would have watched the Jason State The Movie in preparation. Um, where do you fall in the Bats world? Did you know about Bats? Have you seen Bats? The movie? The movie?

The movie. Uh, no. He did, I will say this. Backstage, I did say to me, now, are we gonna watch the movie up there? Ha, ha, ha. I was terrified that we were gonna watch the whole movie again. Ha, ha, ha.

It's like, that was like four minutes ago. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Uh, I'm not afraid of bats. I have no experience with them. Except for the time that a giant, I was unloading some stolen goods and a man dressed like a bat, beat up me and my co-op. Well, that, I mean, this guy has been getting a lot. I mean, he's, he's the best. He's the best.

But he's also, I mean, what's up with him? He seems a little weird this guy, right? He's dressed like a bat. I swear to God, boss. I don't know if I would have so soon. After seeing the bat for the movie. Are you a good for the Falcon family? He's dressed like a bat. I swear to God, boss. I don't know if I would have chosen. After seeing the bat- Are you a goon for the Falcone family? What's going on?

Mr. Falcone here, swear to God, he looks like a bat- I don't want to tell you. Mr. Cobb, Mr. Cobbapot, you got to understand. All I have to say is this. We're just going to do Batman, but it's instead. When I see Batman, I would not think of the bats that I see in this movie. Like, no, bats are terrifying.

These bats with their little fingers climbing in, like the dinkiness of their legs and fingers in this movie freak me the whole way out. I will say like the, in the same way that like 28 days later introduced us to fast zombies. This movie introduced us to Jack. Jack. They were all jack. Jack the bats and they're all like ripped. They all had insane shoulders. Also, I'll tell you of the little Hollywood secret, industry secret.

When you see a bat in a movie, it's Jack, it's steroids. They are the secret. They are the taking tremble-own H.A. to a full cycle. We never heard the full thing that this scientist did. He's like, oh no, I just injected them with steroids. I made them angry and very strong. It can hit a 500-foot home run. There were times that the bat faces looked like French bulldogs.

Yes. I was like, I wouldn't be surprised if they were. Yeah, I think some props guy in Alhambra was just taping a bat body to a bunch of Frenchy puppies. My dog, Patunia can be in this movie. My dog, Patunia, is really good. He's shoving them into a bat costume. But, okay, so, so Paul, here's what I don't understand.

Yes, really. And I didn't love this movie the way that you two love this movie. It's a shame, it's a real shame. I don't know. No, did I really like it? Yes. Okay, but I could not understand what the purpose of injecting

these bats with these steroids was. I know they were becoming weapons. But here's my question. The really big bats. The really big ones? The jacked bats. The jacked bats. It seemed like there were like two of those.

Yes, there were two. Okay. Those are the two men's bats. Those are the two hero bats that escaped. Okay, so they're like number one and two on the call sheet. Who escaped? They escaped the prison. So those two bats, okay, so those two bats escaped the prison, but will the rest of the

bats that we know and love become those bats? Eventually. Well, we saw that moment where they do the computer analysis of in six weeks, they'll be in New Orleans from Artichrot. But, Paul. And one year, it will be the entire. It appears the day. But here's the day.

One year New York for the same Patrick Debra. They'll be, they'll make it to Coachella. They got a very big social bet. A glass of beer in this president. They're all bull, they're stuck in the mud at Bernie Man. Was that anybody here at Bernie Man stuck in the mud? Raise your hand. This is a nut.

Of course not. Of course not. Good. You f**k. Of course not, go. Of course not, go. You fuck. But here is the thing. I love that I'm like, this get made crowd is like, what? Of course not.

Yeah, they listen to podcasts. They don't go to Burning Man. But so all of the little bats though are still like murderous bats. Yes, yes, but they don't have any enhancements, I believe. Wait, so wait, are you saying that those two bats are just controlling the other bats to attack? But the other bats also are killers as well. That's what I thought.

I think they've got the fever, but I don't think they've... I don't think they've been given the enhancements. I thought that it was their own. I thought that it was their own. I asked on to them by, like, biting. By the two escaped. They said at one point, the good news. Wait, we have good news. Right.

Only other bats can get this. Right. So there is a threat there. I did like when they took the tracker. Yeah, and they put it on that bat. and then the other two bats instantly marked it. They're moving that even in nature, snitches get stitches. This is crazy.

There's also, by the way, an incredible set piece where they arrive at a school and fully to an opera soundtrack, 18 montage, the whole school. And at the end of the montage, they're like, we have to go to the mine. Ha! Ha!

Goodbye! Goodbye school. But there's so much. But it's zeroes out the whole. Jason, there's so many things in this movie like that. So in the mine, they are the plan, the big plan to kill these bats is to get a giant cooler, like a giant air conditioner down there.

But they have to go and just turn it on. It's already the great news. It's already there. Why not turn it on before you've dropped it in? Well, because they wanted to get it in deep enough, they didn't want to scare the bats out. So, what if the bats- Sears think the sound of it on would have scared them?

It's air conditioners and bats are like people moving in T-rexes. So, if an air conditioner is on, they're gonna get freaked out, but if you just low- Lower it. They are, oh, what's on? Nothing. I don't see anything. Okay, here's another question. You know they're in the mine.

Why not just close off all the entrances? Okay, well, this brings up a problem that I have, too. So, and I guess the, I'm like, I know that I'm, I think I'm gonna answer my own question, is that they had to turn on the refrigeration unit, because I was like, what's the difference between blowing up the dynamite at the top of the mine and the bombs that the airplanes would have dropped on it anyway like

truly needed to turn the machine on it and get out and blow the door before the fact that it's okay that i guess that's it yeah the money makes sense guys chill i will say this the opening sequence were about to see this young man and girl there at their in the car they that's uh... he's about to pin her it was was very 1955. Yes. Very like it felt like, oh, this is a small town

unaffected by 1999 culture. This is a year before 2000. It was like the opening of Thriller. Yeah. That, you know. With this one, I looked up and saw that it was 1999. I was, I truly was like 92. This felt very early 90s. This is giving me big twister vibe

Well, I was trying to figure out what spawned this movie like right what what what was successful a couple years Because there are the phobia had already been out early Yeah, I feel like this was in a time of like lake placid like I feel like this was in a time of like Lake Placid. Like, big scary things and a condo. Like that. Outbreak, Sphere Kicker. Yes. 100, yeah.

But this is also, like I mean it, Twister, because this also had like big like POV from the bats, from the sky, from the, like everywhere. But when that POV or the bat comes on, I'm like, this movie looks like shit. Like, it's a weird, different lens. Different lens, yeah. I did look at the end of the cold open,

they're like, they're letting you know, these aren't just bats. These are Texas bats. Which means they're armed and denied with a health coverage. They are, well, these are... These are, that means, in case you want. These are all those bats we're wearing, they're sure to say, back off off, I'm a fucking big dog,

they all have big dog shirts on. All the bats are like, we want private power, we don't want the government to give us power. But here's the engine, this movie does make certain choices that were honestly very compelling. Like the mayor, for example, I would like to watch an entire movie about. I was so obsessed with her.

She's incredible. She deserves her own prestige drama eight episodes. So fluently, I mean. If this movie was about something that wasn't bad, I'm not kidding, it would be a classic, because the set pieces are a blast, but every time they cut to the threat, it's laughable. Because they are, it's just those jacked bats.

It's a bunch of. Who are like, wherever our leads are, the jacked bats like Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show are perth somewhere above like, ah! Ah! It's just a bunch of jacked Texas bats. Dude, so many bats have moved from LA to Texas. Oh yeah. It's just a bunch of Jack Texas bats. Dude, so many bats have moved from LA to Texas.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They don't want to pay taxes and they have a big stand. Is that great, there. Is that Joe Rogan interviewing that bat last week? You know, and that bat is not an expert, but they ask some good questions. They've got that bat asking. So, so, so, so you, you're awake at night.

But you're asleep, and they're like, that is so fucking wild. Here's the thing, bats, bats love, bats love cigars. That's what you mean. Jamie, pull up the clip of, pull up the clip of that bat, the man bat. Have you heard about this man bat? I thought he was interesting. It was interesting. He was like, hey, hey, bat, hey, bat.

Have you heard about the pyramids? And all of the gold had to have come from outer space? You heard about this, right? Jimmy pulled that video. Let me just, this show brought to you by YouTube shorts. What I love about this movie is it does have a lot of elements to your point of like, what was it based on? And Jurassic Park feels like part of it,

because it's like, I feel like there was an era where it was like, we're gonna chopper to a scientist somewhere. It's like, we'd never see that part, but like, we'll fly to them. They're never driving to the scientist. Like, that helicopter, Lyand. That's a $4 million trip. Trust a chopper, two CDC scientists,

to a remote site to just to get a bad expert. And there's just five of them. Like the most of the movie, there's your friend, Dan Meyer. Dan's from Sarsher Troopers. She's great. Leon. Oh, Leon.

I remember from the Madonna video. You remember that? Of course. He was. Yeah, the mid-air video. Of course. He was legit hilarious, I thought. Oh, yeah. Every line he had, like, remember early on, he's like, man, I hate bats. And she's like, why do you do this job?

He's like, I want to have sex with you. I'm in to you. He's like, super horny. Everyone's horny as a kid. It was funny because every now and then, his jokes undercutcut plot and then they had to like walk it back. It's like, you can't say I know nothing about bats and then later go, I made this mock-up of how the bats got. And he worked out this for years, he says.

He's like the computer guy doing all that stuff. And he's like, yes, afraid of bats. Dean of Meyer at the very beginning of the movie very boldly says, I will kill no bats. Then I think proceeds to kill thousands of bats. LAUGHTER She, when she says, we have to annihilate them. Like, it said, was such, like, wow.

Like, Jesus. That's just's great. The Gravy Toss moments of this movie. It's a great comparison to Jurassic Park, because those moments land when it's T-Rex and dinosaurs. But when those guys come out in the helicopter and she says, what's going on? And they say, bat, Dr. Casper, it's bat.

I... What are we doing? We can't do that. Here's the one. Here's what I wanted. You have it? I'll pull it up and it was a dune. I really wanted to see the why she loved bad so much. I never felt like a quick get behind it.

She has a story, but I wish it had been a flashback. But the door, it should have been a flashback. And I guess I did find a set of spikes. I will find that flashback. I did feel like, oh, there were points where she seemed to be able to connect to the sonar of the bats and the call. And I thought, is she part bat?

Is she? Her mother was a bat. Or she got bit by a bad guy. I don't... I... Nothing about what the way she performed, because I do like her performance, but the story is flawed.

It's like, I was a child. Wait, you're telling me that? You're telling me, Dreamers. The story of bats. No, no, no, no, no, no. What? No, no, no. Her story of why she likes bats,

because she's like, Oh, yeah, I was a child, and I was fucking scared of why she likes bats because she's like, oh yeah, I was a child and I was fucking scared of a bat. My dad's like, I'm gonna make you hold one. That felt like more traumatic to me. And I- And I- And then I held it and it was so delicate and I loved it.

And it's like, and then my dad said, it's not that bad. It pollinates the forest. And she's like, okay, that's my profession. Like, it was a quiz job from- And I have to say, I mean, I've never held Like, it was a quiz jump from me. And I have to say, I'm gonna never held a bat, don't want to, won't. But I have like, there's no way that you held a bat

and felt any sort of maternal affection towards me. Yes, maybe you would be like, maybe you would be like, oh, okay, I'm not as scared anymore, but you wouldn't be like, oh, I gotta take'm not as scared anymore, but you wouldn't be like, oh, I gotta take care of these guys. I guess. I hesitate to tell the story again, but I will, my stepfather captured possums,

and we go. Here we go. And for Halloween, we'd put them on our doorstep. So kids coming to Trick or Treat would be really freaked out by these possums trying to get out of their cages. And... Paul? Yeah. I know that for me, when I grew up, we would put up Halloween decorations.

And they might be out there for a couple of weeks. Was the possum in a cage on your porch for weeks? No, it's just... It's time to take the possum in. It's Thanksgiving. Now put up the Christmas Possible. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha alive and my stepfather thought, well, this is the greatest time to use all these traps. We laid them all around the front door so kids would walk up to our front door and then all these cages were rattling. Like, with live possums in them.

June has Paul at all asked if he can do this at your house. So here's as interesting. I'd never really been into like Halloween decor and I have noticed, Paul, say right here right now, that every year we are bringing more attractions into our Halloween experience at the moment. Well, when I found this thing

that you can drill into a tree that's a face and arms yeah I'm gonna fucking buy that yes you are not where we end up you know do I have a clown that when you walk by him he's activated and steam shoots out of his mouth yes Have I freaked out the the the mailman? Yes! These things happen! I mean, it's all like, I didn't think of it as weird, but the possums watching the possums in the trap reminded me of these creatures. Like, it's some...

Well, those were really animals suffering. It was a no-kill trap. It was a no-kill trap. It was a no-kill trap. Sure, sure. We would then pile the traps in the car and then drive out far away and release them. In to a lake. We would release them into a river.

I also thought, like talking about like Dean of Myrton, the story about her dad making your touch a bat, then it also felt like Lou Diamond Phillips had a fucked up childhood too because he's like, blood moon. The mom always told me when a blood moon happens, someone gets killed. How is this crazy? Your mom told you that? He was also in that scene. He was, it was really mid to late 90, where the coolest, hottest thing a man could do

was suck on a cigar. You know what I mean? He's got a cigar like four times, and it's like, oh, you think he's cool now? Watch him suck on this six inch turd. Fuckin', you're gonna fall in love, Dinahmeyer. Very, very 1998 energy. He was like, loved opera.

I believe brought his own opera album to the school. I had that question too. It was like, there. Was it in the car with him? So that's very important to him. Never comes up again. And he basically is like, please don't tell the guys downtown that I listen to opera.

Also, I will say, like, I think moments before they go into the school and they start the 18 montage, the other, there was the guy from Shawshank, who's like the bad guy, and then there's his deputy who's great actor named Carlos Chacotte. He was Ramon the pool boy from Seinfeld. He gets killed by the bats. And like, 10 seconds later,

Lou Diamond Phillips makes a joke and Dean of Myers like, and then they're into the montage. It was like, it was like, this man just died. He was a colleague of yours, can someone call his family? Not even. Not even. Hey Carlos is dead, yeah, bats got him.

They didn't even cover him up because he gets killed at night. And then all of a sudden there's a photographer like, ch-ch-ch-ch, it's like, they got him again. They didn't even cover him up because he gets killed at night and then all of a sudden there's a photographer like, ch-ch-ch-ch, it's like, they cover this man. He is this throat is so lit. He got a figure that the bats killed 300 people that night. What the thing is, but the thing is in the attacks, it seemed to me that they would kill one person

and then I'll leave. Like they're like, all right, we killed the one person for now. Let's go. And I was like, they debats, this does give me John's three vibes, in that it seems to be that the bats are seeking revenge. And that is something I wish I wasn't saying to the crowd, but it is, the bats appear, the two main bats

who escape to the lab appear to only want to kill the doctor, but the bats appear, the two main bats who escaped the lab, appear to only want to kill the doctor, the professor. Yes, right? Right. And he seems to be like true. Well, they killed the team. They killed the two teams, right? They killed the two teams, but once the professor is there, they're like, they're going after him.

And he's like, they want me. I can control them. It's hard because they were killing so many other people before and after to be quite honest. Some of those people were horny so bad. Well, they deserve to die. I've always said that. Everyone, Lou Donovan Phillips, LDP very horny in this film, constantly making jokes to Dean of Myrelik.

This would be like fishnets. Yeah, but yeah, that's what I was saying. Why is that joke told? Why? I don't know. Because it's great. Because it's a great joke. Because they realize, oh, the theater will be laughing so hard that we need to end again.

For the time. I am. Also, I gotta say, again the two thirds of this movie, when all this is going on, there's five of them. The minute the CDC showed up, they should have been like, fucking call Washington, get Bill Clinton. Like, where's Bill Clinton? But to your point, I just realized when Junior was saying

I'm coming up, he's not. I've missed this movie, had the line of dialogue, Where's Bill Clinton? I promise you. I wouldn't have solved so much. Oh, where's Bill Clinton? If there's a scene with Bill Clinton, where Bill Clinton? I promised you. I wouldn't have solved so much. Where's Bill Clinton? If there is a scene with Bill Clinton,

where Bill Clinton, like, and it's the bill Clinton playing himself was in this movie, he has to give like a press conference where he's like, we will not let this country be torn apart by bats. I feel your bats. I would have even settled for John Travolta as Bill Clinton from Pyramid Colors. Yeah.

But there is a moment where you just said it, you just realized that Lou Diamond Phillips isn't even the sheriff of this town. The sheriff. He is. Well, then who's the sheriff? He's the mayor. Oh, the mayor.

Oh, the mayor. That woman is the mayor who gets cut by the bad on the sheet. She's the sheriff. He's the mayor. Two shows I grew up with. We do. Oh. Yeah.

Well, here's the interesting thing about how the bats attack, because there are times where I can't mind, too, still have some questions about the difference between the radioactive bats and the regular bats, but the regular bats seem to be able to kill someone very quickly just by biting their necks. Sure does seem that way, yeah. It sure does seem that way. And overwhelming people with like bats. Well, and that I can understand, like,

a swarm of anything, honestly, anything. It's a group of bats called, I kept writing a flock of bats and I was like, that can't be right. Because that's Seagulls, just like Jonathan Livingston. But do we know what's a group thing? Right, is it a Rooster? Is it a ruse? It's a bad thing. Let's see. Wow. I'm gonna say a murder of

Crow's. Call it a holiday. Oh, I'm gonna read it right there. Tim, give it a for Tim. Tim knows everything. I'm gonna read Tim. Tim knows everything. Yeah, it's Tim. Well done Tim.

Well okay, so let's hear the, like we can watch a doctor here describe what these bats are because i think they're i'm agree with you and i think all these bads were were uh... were gotten something usually uh... here this is my favorite scene of the whole movie actually tell me doctor mccabe what exactly did you do to them i'm sorry but again i'm not allowed to say now that's bullshit

those things are killing people in my town as far as as I can tell, you're directly responsible for that. We need to know what we're dealing with your doctor. I'm kinda curious myself, not that you mentioned it. Ghost, ghost, nobody heard him. I'll tell you that. You let me know how I do. You've somehow increased their natural intelligence. Yes.

Here's my favorite part. He's in a sixth sense movie. Lee on his. When this is the best moment to say that he's dead, here we go, or on his rewind it, one minute, there we go. Oh wait, I'll go. She, by the way, puts us together too quickly. You let me know how I do.

You've somehow increased their natural intelligence. Yes, and their ability to work together communally. Well, that's not so bad, right? You could all use a little dose of that. Then you made them aggressive. Ghost! Ignores me! Finally, you made them carnivores. No, Dr. Casper. I made them omnivorous. Put my bats anywhere in the world world and they will feed you.

But why would you do that? Because I'm a scientist. That's what you do. We make everything a little better. Big lives start. Better crop yields. Millions of years of evolution. I'm against to think that you could do better. Apparently I have Dr. Casper. How does more bats give you better crop yield? I love that moment though, because he goes, we made them work together good. That's good. Then they kill people.

That's bad. Like you like you needed someone to be like, just in case the audience isn't following it. Yeah, some things are good, some things are bad. But you'll be the voice of the audience. It's such a thing. They also knew they had this big reveal of they've weaponized the bats for the government defense. And they really wait to say that they're training them into weapons when that's clearly what's happening.

They clearly had nothing in their seat and they go, uh, crop yields. Why would they need to be able to chill people for crop yields? But they also like set up stuff that you don't see pay off. Like that scientist is in his dark, not laboratory. Police department. I'm sorry, can we talk about the lighting in the lab for a second?

Oh, blue. Holy fucking shit. This is a laboratory. You need lights. The lights in the lab are off. There is magic hour sunlight shooting through the windows into the floor and then he's looking at a sample of the tiny light. It's like, there's also a fuck.

The diner is also seems to be as if the power has gone on. Yes. And the emergency lights have turned on and they're like, well, this is what we're doing. Every place in town looks like they have no power, and then they reveal power in a crazy way. Like, the kid playing a video game, oh, no, no. We're fully loaded, but the town is dark.

Like, it is comically dark. I feel like they destroyed a real town for this movie. Which is kind of like a whole pool. That's kind of cool. Some of those like, those set pieces with big car crashes and explosions, I was like, this looks good. Yeah.

I thought that the scientists, I thought he was in his hotel room. Wait, that when he was looking through the microscope? Yeah. Because, well, this is how, he's traveling. He doesn't live there permanently. Do you mean in the school? Because he also does look when they're in the school

Definitely the lab I could see him being like all right. I'm on my way. I'm having a business right now But I'll be on the way in a moment. I could have sworn. I saw bed in that room Well, sometimes the cops work so hard. They you know the nap the a nap, too There is a moment that I love this movie it's going to be hard to explain but I'll try where it starts off on on the the pool boy from Seinfeld who's great and he's on the phone and the camera pans off of him and it goes onto the scientist who's looking in the microscope but in a normal

movie they were like yes well I'm right here and then that voice would kind of trickle out and we just be focused on music and the guy in the lab. But while he's looking, they keep his volume up. The guy in the middle is like, well, yeah, no, she's very nice. I don't think so. Well, we'll probably meet them up later. Well, they don't need to know anything.

Yeah, I got it, but sure. This movie, though, I think I'd pizza. Sure. Yeah, I mean, I like him, but I love him. Anyway, I'm like, I should a salad too, baby, okay? This movie does a lot of that wherein, like, somebody will be deeply foregrounded in an extreme close-up, big face bad guy,

and then right to the side will be all three other cast members, like 13 feet away in the deep background. And it's like, the movie is visually, in a way very interesting for what it is because they're trying to do something But a lot of times I was like what is going on that feels like kids being like let's make a movie That scene I think we were just talking about when they're in the lab. I remember Being like how much fucking longer is in this movie and I looked at the counter and only 17 minutes had gone by. Listen, when the military called and said

that they were sending in the air troopers or whatever they were, in 62 minutes, I was like, oh no. By the way, that moment where you see the F-16 scrambling, the funniest shit, so clearly from a different film, like I imagine that the director said of the line producer early on, hey, I would love if possible,

if we can get a couple shots of F-16 scrambling. You know what, we just did Iron Eagle, we can get it. We can say it. You're right, good. Iron Eagle too. It's Iron Eagle too. Yes.

Is it, that's what it is? Wait, did I do what? Yeah, it's Iron Eagle. I. Yes. Is it, that's what it is? Wait, did I do what? Yeah, it's Iron Eagle. I do not know that. I just thought it was a random, like, Department of Defense industrial film from like, 19 or two. It is literally, basically, what Iron Eagle is.

But you did not get that, and it's, it looks like it's a different film. It's, it, like, it's different film stock. It's shockingly different, like, and that's the weird thing about the movie is, like, they also do the giant massacre, like the end of the movie massacre right in the middle. It's like, we're not gonna top this 300 people

killed in the town. It's like, now it's gonna become like a room drama. Like just, it's like, it's like, it's so fascinated by this mayor because she did tell everybody to get inside. And they, and they didn't evacuate. And in fact, in order to eat. In order to eat.

Because you know what? It's also Texas. It's Texas. Friday night football. You don't mess with that. That's also Texas. I don't care if I'm going to get eaten by a bat. I'm going to watch my gigantic grand son.

But honestly, it was. To hell with CTE. It was 17. I could not believe they didn't show what I would have paid to see that woman that may or go around and somehow get the word out that the bats are here. I would pay very good money to see that scene. I guarantee you this town is full of anti-batsers. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

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I think that initially they might have thought like, well, the bats are bats, and they'll be killer bats. And that'll be really scary to see all those bats, as killer bats. But then they must have shot some of those bats, and thought like, oh, I'm going to have to go back and get the bats. And then they'll be like, oh, I'm going to have to go back and get the bats. I'm going to have see all those bats as killer bats. But then they must have shot some of those bats

and thought like, oh, this doesn't work at all. And then they made just two crazy-looking Taylor Bats, because- To like proper puppets. Puppets, because that's always so tough about the movie. I kept on thinking to myself, this is a movie about bats, this is a movie about bats. Wait, you needed to remind me.

I did, actually. Because what I was doing, we just saw. Because what I was seeing, bore no resemblance to a bat. Yeah, so they were definitely the same puppets they used for like goolees. Yeah, it felt like they definitely felt

like little demons of some sort. Yeah, yeah. You just watched Munchies, and it felt like Munchies felt like little demons of some sense. Yeah, you just watched Munchies, and it felt like Munchies. It felt like Munchies. The other really weird puppet to me was the baby puppet. Oh, that was the baby from American Sniper. I don't know if you got through that, but it goes in the crib. I was so upset by the way that baby looked and I know that the movie wanted me to feel nervous about the baby and I wanted to but I was like that baby is scaring me

more than that back. It was very upsetting. I was almost as upsetting as again, great actor, but Carlos Jacquat's haircut. They were like, so you're a CDC scientist, we're going to make you look like Ringo Star in 1960 fucking eight. You are in Hermits. Hermits, Hermits. Good news. Okay. You're in a Hermits, Hermits cover band. Your character name is Peter Noon. Your bangs need to be lower. Cover all your eyes. It should look like an old school cartoon character. By the way, though, they gave him a really heroic moment. I mean, that sacrifice to his life. He did. He was a good guy. Yeah.

Trying to save, you know, and Dean Amire, who is in this, and is, I can't remember, with Dr. What's her name? Dr. Sheila's her first name, but Dr. Carter is it? Dr. Casper. Dr. Casper. And nobody is calling her Dr. Casper in this movie. Everybody's like, hey, she, like, get over here. And they're meanwhile talking to the bad guy is like, Dr. What's his name?

He's like the bad guy. Yeah, she's Dr. Warden Norton from Shawshake. It was very, there was a lot of outbreak vibes. In fact, because this movie is only available, I believe on FreeVee, which has ads, I kept toggling over to other tabs to watch clips on YouTube during the ads. And I went down a outbreak wormhole and then I went through a JT Walsh wormhole. The best.

Amazing actor. And then that got me in a slingblade wormhole. And I found out I watched a video called Five Reasons Why John Ritter didn't like Slingblade. Whoa! And I- Which has to be truthful. The videos on YouTube are always right. They're always the truth.

The first reason was he didn't like his haircut. But then the movie had started so I had to toggle over. I didn't watch the vlog. For it's not a great story, but it happened. But I like it. But I like it. For $2.99 I rented like that he's so upset. I mean, I like it. For $2.99, I rented the movie and didn't look back.

For $4.99, I bought it because I knew I was going to have to watch it on multiple devices. And I was right. Yeah. What is good? You watch a movie. You want to watch it the way the filmmaker intended. Like, I went to Hollywood Boulevard

to the IMAX to see up in Hollywood. 70 millimeter prints. I watched this on a broken iPad on a toilet. And it was like, perfect. This movie written by John Logan. Right, so I was gonna bring this up. John Logan wrote Skyfall, Rango, the aviator, Ladiator, alien covenant, specter, Hugo,

Sweeney Todd, last samurai, any given Sunday. Did he write this movie when he was like a little boy? He wrote this movie on a dare. What is wild about this movie? It's one of his first credits, but this movie was produced in just five months. One of the fastest-produced 35-millimeter feature films

from script to screen to receive a wide release. What's so crazy is it seems as though they spent so much time on it. They got the script and hired the director in May. Production began in June and July. They shop for 36 days. They edited, including 250 visual effects, scored and mixed in August and September. And it was 3,000 batch.

And they released it on 2,540 screens in October. So from May to October, that is. And they really thought this was going to be big. Like to release it that wide, they must have thought this week we're sitting on a guy. We got to hurry up guys. Yeah. Well, I think it's like they need to get off for Halloween. This is Halloween movie. But I will say there are moments that creep me out. The movie is not like incredibly bloody. But that moment when all the bats are on the car. The car. Yes. Was disgusting. Really? And I was like, I guess it's you. I love when the bats come in through when she grabs

the cigarette lighter. I love that. That's a joke you couldn't do anymore because it cancels culture. Oh. But I put it too much. I brought that. I brought that.

People, that puts the bats. I feel great. I can't talk to the audience. Is this when you want your spotlight? Let me ask you a question, bat. What do you think about all this cancel culture? Do you guys deal with that in the Bat World? Because in here, it's fucking crazy.

How is this gonna be? There was another moment I was genuinely creeped out where I think one of the real big bats, the killer bats, like tapped on someone's shoulder, like a human shoulder. Yeah. That's the other cat. It was really.

Well, that's a very underrated. That's very underrated. That's the tiny fingers and hands that bats are so weird. But when that bat is crawling up the tailpipe, like, it's like John McClain and Die Hard, just like, Amen. Here's what I'll say. Yes, we are watching a movie where our heroes

are human people who are trying to survive this bat nightmare, ala birds, or something like that. But boy, the movie should be about the bats who escape a torture lab where they then are able to exact revenge on their torture. Their story is the heroic one here. I want to watch only the story of these bats. Maybe they link up with Amy from Congo.

That's the movie. That's a team up movie. By the way, I just want to shut out Jimmy one more time because Jimmy says a line that I wrote down that I love. He goes, he wrote, Bravo, like they say in the opera. Like, I don't know if you needed to, to come of that, like just Bravo would have worked,

but then I was like, oh, is that a dick on Lee Dunham and Phillips, okay, sure, but it also felt like he was just doing these jokes for himself. Yeah, yeah. Again, I think he might be a ghost, sure, but it also felt like he was just doing these jokes for himself. Yeah. Again, I think he might be a ghost, so... Can I tell you what was my favorite line in this movie? And I'll do my imitation of Lou Diamond Phillips, you're saying it. So when they're in the cave and the spate suits and the mind, whatever the fuck.

He goes, wait a minute. If there's this much guano in here, oh Jesus Christ. By the way, they're in a river of shit, like up to their kneecaps, they're in a river up to their chest. And we did see the amount of bats that were in that roost. And I have a lot of questions about their digestive systems because that is still so much in. Luckily, similar to those. Uh-huh.

Do bats just have diarrhea all the time? Only diarrhea. Man, remember between Ace Ventura and this movie, Guano was so hot. Guano is it? It had a moment. No, no, no. And one of the bats is able to unlock Lou Diamond Phillips's

space helmet. He takes his helmet off. Completely. And it's not as if he's being swarmed by bats and it pops up. A single bat is like, well, here's the line, whatever, the oxygen line or whatever, and then pops the helmet right off, and the diamond films is then bitten by the bat, and then walks through Guano, this guy is dead.

Is that, is that folks? Is that Guano in all of those wounds? When the bat's on him and she shoots the bat, and then there's like a little explosion, and you get the blue lightning bolts that you used to see in 90s movies. And I just maybe think, it made me appreciate James Cameron's blue lightning bolts.

Sure. And again, I imagine the director being like, I want top of the line blue lightning bolts. I want that the James Cameron, and they're like, yeah, for sure. And then like a weekend is shooting the line producers, like, hey, we couldn't do that. We have the guy who did the fucking garbage pale kids movie. He's gonna do the blue lightning and the drugs like,

fuck fine, I got bigger problems in that. And we do have the costume for Allie Gator if we needed for anything at all. By the way, I love so hard. There were a couple of moments in that final sequence that really got me good. When that one bat woke up and was like, yeah.

Okay. I left so hard. And then when our heroes are racing out of the mine, those bats on all of them are flying after them, but just sort of paced right behind them. They never catch up. Just, never, never catch up. And I might even be in the elevator. When they get in the elevator in the bats, they just

right below them. And also, we've all been in a room with the bat. They're the fastest things on earth. Well, that's why when Lou Diamond Phillips takes that as gun in a car, like, what the fuck are you going to do? You're going to kill Dean Amire. You're going to kill yourself.

It's great. Absolutely. How much people are shooting bats with handguns. With revolvers. With fucking revolvers. I understand. I understand. Shotguns, I understand.

That's a very wide spread. But for people to be like, bam, bam, bam. Dina Meyer is a doctor of bad ology. She's like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. But they're also missing a lot. I'm like, early, I'm like, you're in Texas. Go to any child's birthday party and get an AK-47. It's there.

Machine guns. That's what's going to kill these things. Not a fucking six-shooter, annual, please. Let's go to the crowd. Hey, everybody. Everybody's given an AR-15. All right, let's see what we have in the crowd. We have a handbrake right over here. Okay, what do we got here? Sir, your name, your question.

Pete, my main question is to talk about the necklace. And the idea that she had a necklace, and I forget why it was, but then to put it around the guy that the scientist who saved her, but he just got eaten by the bats and I know it had something to do with the bats, but it was a good luck. She goes, it's an ancient Chinese symbol that gave her good luck because bats

and Chinese culture are a good omen. Yes, but they killed him. Like it's right. You did. It seems like it was. The necklace was, the necklace was both not a talisman that protected her, and it was a form of mockery by putting it on him. I gotta say too, I must have like been watching like a kitchen nightmare's clip with my other

tab, because I have no memory of a necklace. And it's felt so. Well, it wasn't as much a necklace as it was like a choker. You know, it was like a piece of black fabric and a- Well, every man wants to be- I have a choker put on him as he's dying. I know. She choked him out.

Okay, yes. Your name- oh, I love your shirt. Your name, your question. Oh, what's the shirt? It's Jeff Goldblum from Drowson Park. Oh, nice. Oh, nice. So, to answer, your question. I'll hold it mine. Wait, what's the shirt? It's, uh, it's Jeff Goldblum from Drowning Park. Oh, nice. Oh, nice. So, to answer June's question, what's your name?

Too much pressure. My name's Matt. Hi. Thank you, Matt. To answer June's question from the beginning, the two Jack's bats were, like, Indonesian Fox bats or something. And those were the ones that he did science on.

And they had a lot of friends. So you're saying that you're saying that's their normal size? They are large. I guess, but their virus infected the other regular bats. But my question is, when they're doing the montage and boarding up the school, he's like, hey, I contacted the bats, they're coming to get you and I'm going to rule them and stuff. I forgot about that.

I'm constantly thinking about that. I'm constantly thinking about that. Matt, do you know how he did that? I think he was a bat foe. You know, I think... Can you show Matt out? Thank you for your service, sir. Can Matt be shown out, please?

He definitely had some back communicator because I think earlier in the movie, when the Jeep is being attacked, all their eyes turn red, and they're like, fup, we're out of here. And I think he hit it. By the way, can I just put that in? I thought he had some sort of... way, can I just point out?

He had some sort of controller or there was going to be some reveal that he was able to communicate with control or something, but I never felt like it was laid out for us. Go on, sorry. I just want to point out an amazing costume here in the crowd. We have some two costumes here. Yeah, look at these costumes.

Some back costumes. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. On the very very, well, you can do all right. Well, let's do it. Let's see. I try to keep it interesting. OK, one. So flying foxes are fruit bats.

They're adorable in the bananas. They look like little flying dogs. They're super cute puppies. He calls them like the ugliest thing in the world. Two, there's a bridge in Austin that's completely been taken over by bats and is now protected by, and I think the bat, the bat scientist Merlin Tuttle was the one who kind of got that all underway.

What do you mean completely taken over by bats? They are. No, I'm actually seeing this. I've actually seen this. Do you want to avoid the bridge? I do have a good tip for you, though. So bats also are one of the primary, they may be the primary pollinator for agave.

So if you like tequila, bats. And I think them for all they do, I don't want to interact with them. I think that's pretty serious. Do you think? We think that's pretty serious. I appreciate them, yes. Oh my, I'm gonna quote class seat and I see a bat.

I give him my seat. Let me be clear. I sit and coach. Let me be clear. I love bat. American bat. American bat. Not all of these indigenous binders. Wow. I do love bat. This is all just stuff. This is all the stuff that she had. She loves bats.

It can't be bat. Amazing. Fantastic. So great. Amazing. And an amazing bat costume. Thank you for both your knowledge and your commitment to the costumes. Yes. Okay. Your name and your question. Hi, I'm Ethan. And my question is, how did the bat know how to take a part a car, which they do to the police van? Well, because all bats, they have to learn how to survive. So some, I mean, that was part of the process.

When they were in the lab, the cages were lined with car and driver magazine. And they can't, they can't, it depends on the bats. They can't read. I will say, the doctor does say, the doctor does say a number of the bats were on an AP track, and some of the bats, though, were on a vocational track. So is the bats the guy?

You guys drive cars, are you guys driving cars? I heard these bats are driving cars, that's wild. Jimmy, show me that video, that monkey. Driving a bicycle. Elon, Elon says the bats are going to be driving these cars. Oh, yeah, bats are epic. I love my bats. I love bats.

All right. All right. Your name and your question. My name's Evelyn, and I want to go back to the necklace because if you know what the necklace means It's even more cruel and strange that she leaves it on his dead body So bat in Chinese is Bianfu and Fou means blessing So her necklace was actually a symbol of the five blessings

Which are one health, two wealth, three long life, four love of virtue, and five peaceful death by natural causes. Oh my God! Oh, wow. Incredible stuff. Holy shit. Wow. Wait, was that, Evelyn, was that? Yes. Amazing. Give it up for Evelyn. Wow.

That was incredible. Wow. Now, obviously, we have opinions about this movie, but there are people out there with a different opinion. It is now time for second opinions. The bats are in journey, a massacre unfold, Then we see those puppet bats, And we've all been trolled.

When the Patsa attack Gallup was aware, Go to Florida next, I want to send you there. Don't mess with Texas or they're gonna power, but these are bad. You know that they don't care. I see their wings. It's like an angel sigh. Texas took our choice. Women have no voice.

Patriarchy, the movie's world. Oh God, I give it five stars on Amazon, all of the stars. Here the bad screech What's your name Jen I thought you guys ready for this I I thought I was setting up Jen. I was like, you know what? I'm going to give Jen a break.

I won't have her follow the duet. Now, I'm like, oh man, I'm going to get out of here. Good fucking luck, boys. She knew. She knew. I should have listened. All right. Here we go, guys.

Which Madonna song will you guys be doing? So I'm Mark Conner. And now it's time for second opinions. If you ain't watching Bats, get the fuck out of the logo. If you ain't the wildlife's who I'll just with especially Kira Pratcha, get the fuck out of the logo. If you ain't way steep in Guano, get the fuck out of the logo. Bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats I'm watching facts. The reviews say five stars every time I give them facts. So cups and everybody, let's watch facts.

Yes, give it up. Yes. Wow. Who do you hate job? All slapping. Just escort them out. Oh my god. Just escort them out.

Just you guys keep walking straight through the door. All right. So there are 672. I feel like the bats version of shots could chart. I'm probably good. There are 672 total reviews. 67% are five-star reviews. Let's get into it.

Are a lot of the reviewers their last name, Diamond Phillips? And Diamond Phillips. I will go on record and say, I thought LDP crushed it. You fucking crushed it. Just LDP, LDP, always crushed it. LDP and Dean and Miron were absolutely, everybody was great. And most of the time there's really only four people on screen for most. Yes. From I'm going to say 85% of the movie there's four people.

Which is crazy. LDP, we need an LDP, Renaissance. LDP, I know, the broth is on cigars. He broth is on cigars, for sure. And improvise the majority of his dialogue. Thank God. Thank God. Thank God. What you said checked out,

because there was a scene early on when he's in the truck with her, where the scene is only like 12 seconds long, but he says, uh-huh, five times. In like 12 seconds. So yeah, him, him riffing that, I buy that. Yeah, I get it, improvised. I got it, I got it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, him riffing that, I buy that. Yeah, I get it, provides. I got it, I got it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it.

I loved when Jimmy said the line about it. This place is as tight as the Alamo, and he goes, man, it's maybe not the best, maybe not the best comparison. I felt like they all had chemistry. Yeah, I can't believe it. Yeah, even with Jimmy, the ghost. I mean, even Jimmy says Houston, we have a problem.

I do feel like a lot of the movie was improvised. What do you have to? I mean, you gotta be working off these bats. You gotta say something. All right, D3 Mighty Ducks wrote this review. Wait, a movie review to another movie. D3 Mighty Ducks is the username. And that's identifying so much with that,

that you beat them to the identifying moniker. D3 writes, this is a good watch, dot, dot, dot. Better to have it playing on the background. It's nothing special. Yet, it's special to me. Five starts, starts. Yet, it's special to me. Five stars. Five stars for something that did a lot in 90 minutes. Five stars. Bats.

I just want to go there again. This is a good watch, dot, dot, dot, better to have playing on in the background. Five stars. It's nothing special. Dot, dot, dot, da, yet special to me. I feel like if the person was allowed to go on, they'd be like, it's terrible, but to me, it's not cool.

You know, like it really is. I mean, it's okay. It's no Mighty Docs 3. And then this one is written by Humble Opinion. This is one of my favorite movies. I am into the sci-fi aspect of the bats, the fact that this is possible, that this could happen.

And I really like Lou Diamond Phillips. The picture shows DNA experimentation and combines it with some comedic responses. This has got to be one of the all-time best, ooh, and yeah, movies that doesn't involve sex or human on human violence and mutilation. For old-fashioned bats gone wild, like this is the greatest.

Old-fashioned bats gone wild? I bought those DVDs. I had them all. I bought all the bats gone wild Wilds. Old-fashioned Batscon Wild. This Batscon Wild. This Batscon Wild. This Batscon Wild. This Batscon Wild.

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The acting is good, but I have to say that Leon for contributing actor is the best. A guy that works with bats, hates bats, and finds humor in the situations, he can't be. Five stars, Lou Diamond Phillip rocks, and of course the bats aren't bad either. And then this one, I'll just end on this one from Anthony Wilkins who writes, we got many bats out here in Herbie Bay, nothing out of the usual. Good film though. You might have noticed I have some strange taste. Five stocks.

It's so interesting because listening to this guy think he is. Listen, listening to these Amazon Five Star reviews, like it's so crazy to hear their screen names, but honestly, it's even crazier when they just write their names in. Yeah. That's so scary. There are people need to know what I am and what I think. I feel like that guy has a million reviews and he doesn't watch anything.

He's just like, oh yeah, this lawn mower's pretty good. I'm not really a lawn mower guy. I'm kind of into other stuff. You know what I mean? You're just trying to meet people. More of a lawn mower is pretty good. I'm not really a lawn mower guy. I'm kind of another stuff. You know what I mean? You're just trying to meet people. More of a lawn mower man. We try to get some follow-up questions going. We met at the Amazon Marketplace.

He was reviewing a scrub daddy, and I was in the market for a new kind of sponge, and I just like this humor. It was fun. I will read the occasional third opinion, and this one was really good from Michelle Verenzi. Why did you look at us and do that? Because your name is Michelle Verenzi.

I don't know who it is. Because June said that she's most weird out when the minute says their full name. I thought June knew Michelle. Oh, so. And then what is from Michelle Verenzi? June, your college roommate, Michelle Verenzi. So Michelle gives it one star and writes this.

Bats are not monsters, and they should not be portrayed as such. Hang on. Are you a Michelle? Back girl. Back girl. Ma'am, are you Michelle? Bat lady.

Is your name Michelle Verenzy? Yes or no? So that is, those are some second opinions. Man, oh man, bats and bats and bats. This was, I mean, I recommend this movie. I thought this movie was very fun. In the way that we watch a lot of that movies, but there's something joyful about this movie.

I really feel like everyone was in on the joke. Yes, and plus I feel like every 10 to 15 minutes, the movie would become a different movie. Which, so it's constantly being like, what about one of these? Do you want it to be a assault on precinct 13 with bats? It can be for about 15 minutes. It's like, it's a bunch of different kinds of movies.

I'm just excited to know that when I do die, hopefully. Which is so soon. It could be tomorrow morning, it could be in 50 years, but as I am dying, and I'm saying goodbye to my family, I know I'm gonna look at them and go, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, bats, everybody. It's so hard, you know, I have become so mentally deranged from this podcast that I don't,

I genuinely like, I don't know what's what anymore. So yeah, I guess watch this movie. I don't even know what I'm saying. Like, I mean, compared to a lot of the other movies were forced to watch this, this was, I guess watch this. Genes win Lee very fun. I thought it this was out of,

this is my third time on this podcast. This was by far the best. Oh, that's a nice, yeah, it has the most solid core. I mean, it did come out in 1999 where the top movies were Star Wars episode one, Phantom Menace, the Sixth Sense and Austin Powers. This did actually beat the movie Jack Frost,

where Snow Man is killed. Snow Man is killed, yes. And one of the kids says, Jim, dad, you're the man. He says, no, I'm the snowman. That's right. I remember that. And it also, and the air Michelle, and I can other characters says, snow dad is better

than no dad. So it's true, always true. Also, I will just comment that in the movie, during the, I will say, epic, small town set piece where the whole town gets destroyed. No Sforatu is playing at the movie theater. Which I very much enjoyed. Have you noticed that at no point is there more than like nine people in a shot together?

No. They have like no budget for extra. Zero. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. When we talk about John Logan too, he was a playwright in Chicago for ten years before writing his first screenplay on spec, which was any given Sunday Sunday which was released the same year as bass and it was nominated for the Oscars in

2001 the year like two years after this for Gladiator then a couple years after that for aviator and then a couple years after that for Hugo This is fuck well, you know what happened is he probably sold any given Sunday? Yes, and they're like this is great. What else you got and he's like, uh, Nothing. I mean unless you like bats I will say this there was a sequel Ludhemen Films and Dean of Myrhead of five-year contracts with dimension films or sorry destination films in case of a possible sequel The contracts expired in 2004, and Bats 2, Human Harvest, Bergen Production in 2006.

And much of the dismay of the director of Bats 2, who didn't want to spend money on CGI, found out that all the puppets were missing. Oh! Ah! What? Yeah, I'm so into it and buzz the out all the puppets and the first movie so it's gonna be great. All right, day one, here we go, here we go. All right, so Lou, Lou Diamond, what do I call you? L-D-P.

You're gonna walk in, Dina, you're gonna walk up here. And we're, how far away are those bats? Are they fighting? We don't, we don't got the bats. You don't have the bats? Everyone go home. At what point in post, do you feel like they were like, I think we need to make all the bats sound like the predator?

Because there is a point where the bats start to be like, crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr grrr, grrr, grrr, grrr. Yeah, at a certain point, because I watched it with subtitles on, obviously. And I choose the always. And I think I saw the phrase batscuing. Yeah. Multiple times. I, and they are, that is like,

it's increasing throughout the movie. The bats, it's like, the movie wants to be jaws, the movie wants to be all of these things, but the bats are so tiny and so insignificant that they have to make them jacked and give them a very threatening chitter that they can be like, but I will say hats off to this movie

because they do kill that final bat. They don't give you a sequel possibility. They kill it. Run over like it. Good. Kill him. Yeah, we did it. We solved the movie.

Because once you kill one bat, they're all dead. They're all dead. They all know. There's certainly not a bunch more underneath him. Give it a Frank Baron, I'll say to Joe Man. June day in Rayfield. Tase the man, Zookus. What a show. What a show. A big thank you to Ike Baronholds and guess what people we love doing live shows.

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