ALIENOID (South Korea, 2022)

Where we're going, we don't need roads! Because there's spaceships and wuxia and magic and ALL THE MOVIE in South Korean sci-fi action and a whole lot more genre-mashup ALIENOID directed by Choi Dong-hoon, starring Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Woo-bin, and Kim Tae-ri.  >>> Alienoid trailer <<<

Since last time, we've cheered as EEAAO & RRR WON OSCARS (watch the performance!) and Simon has been searching high and low for Pod-worthy movies which sadlyVR FIGHTER, BAD CITY & CODE OF THE ASSASSINS were not. Plus we've seen CREED (1 & 3 respectively), DUNGEONS & DRAGONS and 65...

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The other people are very old and old. They spend a lot of time with them. All these going on the Simon field of soundboard. Bye. Wow! The guy here! The only thing I want to fight you without fighting is to go around. So motherfuckers always try to escape the bill. Dodge this. Welcome to Dodge This! Action movies unleashed. Season 2. Episode 3. We're tackling the 2022 South Korean genre mix-up. Slashed there is action in it, so it still counts. Alienoid, I'm Simon Fielder and joining me as ever via the underground electrical wires of the internet is my good pal Thanks, Linda. Listeners know how well I'm doing with my, bought in lockdown. Thought I was going to stream more microphones. Mate, it already sounds amazing. I'm just, I just thought I draw attention to it. So that the microphone isn't new, by the way, it's the arm. I've got a whole new set up. If you're here for the, the tech set up, nerd chat, well, let's just find no action fans. Like myself, they are chiefly concerned with audio quality. And just to sort of give you a little window into my world, the person who focuses too much on some things at the detriment of perhaps the more important things. Welcome to Dodge of this, the best sounding action movie podcast on the internet, Pupu, Pupu, very exciting times. Hey, we've got so much to get through. And as ever, I would like to just find out what you've been up to since last episode, since I say this is every two and then life gets in the way. Life finds a way though, Simon. That's true, and it's like a box of chocolates. Yeah, exactly. Movie references. Here's what I will say, and this was highlighted, actually. I was listening to another podcast, the I would argue, probably the biggest action movie podcast action for everyone. And the guy who runs that was sort of, they were talking about these vulture stunts awards man, hitman's holiday had one stuff and how it's such a great DTV movie. And he sort of, like casually was like, yeah, we had to sort of slightly pivot what we talk about because there's basically just not enough good DTV movies for us to do a podcast about them every week. And I was like, that, that rings very true as once again, my things I've seen outside of the main movie for the pod are all things I was hoping to do a whole episode about but I was like, I'm just, I think they're the three star and below movies and I don't want to dedicate a whole episode to them. You're, you're letterbox that you have in a horrible week. Honestly, I felt quite sad recently, I was scrolling through my letterbox of this year and every single movie is three stars. Apart from like two, apart from basically the ones I've talked about on this podcast and I think I even gave Patan three stars on that box. But I was like, it's so big, we have to talk about it. just made me feel a bit like, I think I need to just start watching other movies. You have to balance. Yeah, I've been doing a lot of the Oscar films. Yes. Like stuff like that. Yeah. Well, we've also got to touch on that. Let's start there. The bloody Oscars. The bloody BAFTAs. Na-a-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na RRR one and Oscar! And that live... Natu, Natu. Oh my god, it was so good. That was great. That was great. I'll put that into it in the show, nice, if you haven't seen it. It's weird, isn't it? Because obviously it's one of the biggest films in the world, but there's still a part of it that makes us feel like we discovered it before it got big. I felt like a proud parent. I just get to say those, I think. I feel like this is the close I'm going to get to watching someone graduate. I was like, I feel like this Oscar is for me RRR before most people. Thank you. Thank you. Where's my medal? Thank you. That's great. I'm sorry. I'm excited to see that. And also everything everywhere, just absolutely sweeping the board. Yeah, and also not just like it's sweeping the ball, but the wholesomeness of all of it, like, I can't get enough of K-HUQuan's Instagram. He's just such a delight. He's like a person that just started doing movies like one week ago, and it's, and one, who's like been, you know, in the industry for years to years. But his enthusiasm and he just, all his pictures are like, selfies with famous people. Like, he isn't part of that now. It's so great. I love it. Yeah, it's good. It's good. We have got so much to get through. So I don't think we can linger on the Oscars. All right. Suffice to say, oh, top two movies of the year. So, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, top two movies of the year. I hate myself a little bit saying that, but, yeah. I'm probably going to see him everyone listening also did. I'm really half committed to it, so I really sold it. Thanks so much for that. Let's talk about what you've seen that isn't alienoid Matthew. Anything but will I have? I have, I've watched loads the last few weeks, but I have got two podcast appropriate films. Hello. So the first is I got to Cree 3 on the opening day. Oh, first you got three. Podcast appropriate films. So I saw Cree 3 on the opening day, Cree 3. I absolutely loved it. Did you? I'm going to rewatch all three of them by think. So Creed is going to be the best one, obviously. Well, I actually forgot to put it in the document, but since last week's spake, I watched Creed the first one. And enjoyed it a great deal. Yeah, that was great. And also I was coming to it having not seen any Rocky movies. So I was like, I was approaching it like a millennial watching it. Like, why is this? Why is this boxing series? Never seen Rocky. No, it's a major gap in my. What? I know. point in all I can only imagine but the good thing is I didn't feel like I was missing anything having not seen them. I felt like oh I was like okay let me just quickly find out who that character is or like what the actual thing that happened to his dad was or whatever. Yeah I mean there's so much well this is a weird thing I think Creed 3 would be my favorite Creed film had Stallone still been in it. He's great in the first one I have to say. since Rocky 5, so Rocky 5 and Rocky Balboa. That was kind of the story he was always gunning for, sort of legacy and family and all that and stuff. But then yeah, it just sort of like Rocky Balboa was decent, Rocky 5 is absolute dog shit. Uh, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I mean, sure fans of the podcast have done this as well. I don't know if you have, but like the background of Stallone getting that film made is just such a sort of underdog story in itself. Yeah. And like everything that goes around it to the point where he but kiss the dog in Rocky, which you will have no idea about. Is his actual dog in it at some point. He's so broke. He sells his dog in his to boys dog back like he's that sort of levels of, wow, stuff happening for him. There's a there's a million like, amazing stories. It's like he gets picked up by random from an ex a friend who ends up get helping him get stuff made as if there's like there's about a 12 pot podcast just in the making it's a proper rags to riches mirroring the story of the movie. So I'm just saying incredible. Because it is a original film that he wanted to make which he did make was about wrestling but he wound up the yeah, Rocky was on the launch team. But yeah, Cree three. Anyway, Cree three you saw and it's podcast adjacent. It is podcast adjacent. action movie or is it a sports movie? So I always will argue on this, but I do feel like it is a sports movie. I don't feel like I'd ever refer to it as an action film. And like, yeah, there's some, there's some amazing, it's in, I'd say if you're a fan of Rockies or boxing movies or the Creed series, yeah, it's good. It's very good. It's never gonna, like, it's evolving and it's becoming something, but yeah, absolutely. I think I'll work my way through two and three. Sure. Maybe we'll just all the Rockies first. That's six movies Matthew, isn't it? Right. You just said one of them was dog shit. Yeah, only one. Rocky one incredible. Rocky two. Good. Rocky three. Good. Rocky four. Incredible for the wrong reasons. Rocky five. Dog shit. Rocky Bamboa. Fine. Creed great. Creed two. Yeah. Oh, what? Creed two is better than at least three Rocky movies. Okay. No two more. Okay. Next week I'm gonna next time I'm gonna have my rookie movie order. Anyway, talking too long about Cree 3 is well worth a lot. And the other one, the other two, I watched 65, which I was so excited about. Yeah. And yeah, it's just the promise of that film, man lands on prehistoric earth with future tech, fights dinosaurs, what a great film. I mean. bits in it. The thing is, it just didn't have the action to hold it. It was tension. They were there, but it didn't pull it through. There was a really good, very basic, man-protect child storyline. You're basic, go-to-action-trop, or basic. It just didn't hold up. There's some really good flares. even for a 92 minute film, it felt like it was probably 10 minutes too long. Not God. Yeah. But it was so lean getting in. Like the opening sort of vignette was like, bam, and it's happening. Yeah. And you just like, amazing. But yeah, just it just fell short. And I'm definitely saying it's not bad film. And I think Adam Driver is absolutely phenomenal in it. As is the girl, I don't know the answer's name, but she's amazing. But just yeah, just didn't. was the weird thing that didn't give you the chills. But yeah, it's absolutely a middle, like it's by no means a terrible film. Like it's a sort of, it's a streamer. It's 11 o'clock. God, it's so near and a half, we'll pop that on and then not. It doesn't matter. Sort of Netflix vibe in it. Yeah, the other one which I will say is I got to see the Dungeons & Dragons film already. Buh-buh-buh-buh! Yeah, they invited me to a little, little multi-media. for the UK, which is, and it's great. It's absolutely great. I absolutely loved it. Start to finish. Wow. And like I played D&D with a question time, if you're anyone's a D&D fan, comedians played Dungeon Dragons. So I've loved D&D for a while, but you know, they've never really managed to bring it to screen in a big way. And it's just, it's so lovingly The plotted well, it's pace well, it's funny, the, all the actors are great in their parts. It's uni world. Does it have, oh uni. Well, there is a Easter egg, which is all over the internet already. And it generally is one of the few Easter eggs I've seen in a film in the last few years that's brought me to near pure joy. That's amazing. It's great. But yeah, it's going to be out probably in about a week after this is released. adjusting even so went with some friends we all got invited from question time and one of them never really played D&D and even they said yeah it's really accessible. Okay yeah I see you'll hate it but why? Three stars letterboxed yeah I know I think I'm not sure if it's me or the movies at this point we'll see we'll see. general vibe is yourself. What have you been watching? Well, I've been attempting to record this podcast at least a week earlier by tracking down a movie that is worthy of an entire episode. You've had a real tough time. It's relatively current. Also, for listeners, like Simon's loves, like you can tell from listed, like Simon's things is like DTV and like proper, like, you know, hard to find actual films. Yeah. And he really, he watches so many more films than ever make the podcast because we've we want to celebrate films not can bend them. But also on the side of this, I'm just a nightmare for it. Gary, to watch this film this week has been like a full-time job for Simon. Thank you for admitting that matter. Yes. It has caused me some degree of stress. So thank you. Here is the list of movies that didn't make the podcast this episode. Just out on Hyar, Code of the Assassins, to be a lot of fun. And occasionally was has a lot of quite daft Inspector Gadget style assassins with weird gadgets and things like this. Those of weird CGI every character that enters gets a Street Fighter 2 style intro screen which seems really cool for the first two characters but then convoluted confusing plot. I had no idea what was going on for 80% of it. And then occasionally, there's a cool fight scene. Anyway, sorry, it's a two and a half stars, didn't make the broadcast. Also, this one was such a so close run, bad city. This is by the same dude who made Hydra, mumble core Japanese sort of drama action movie from a few years ago that featured saying words. I'm just making up words at this point. But I featured some really interesting cool fight choreography and this is like the follow up to that so you're like all right he's got more money he's got more scope and it does have more money and scope but somehow it still has quite a meandering tone And clearly what I want from the movie is not what the director wants the movie to be. And I think those things are sort of at odds. I'm like, oh my God, when this guy gets some money, he's gonna make his SPL, make his flashpoint, make a full out balls out action movie. And he's clearly not interested in doing that. And he's made another movie that's like Hydra but bigger. And the action is sort of fine. And there's lots of like bigger battles, kind of melee stuff. but it was okay, but it just didn't land for me. It's not a sort of, it's not a fielders, it's not for fielders. It that's why it didn't, its name is not in the title of this podcast. You know what? Sometimes the DTV movie is insurge all along and you're just gonna keep searching. That's right. It is worth a look. I mean, it's out on rentals now, the final one, and I've not discounted this one yet because I wanna lump it in. Because on its own, I'm not sure it deserves an episode. It's called VR Fighter Slash, it's called, oh, it's called something else. It's been like rebranded VR Fighter. Anyway, it's a Chinese straight to streaming movie, which I enjoyed quite a lot. And it was probably 82 minutes long. So it takes a lot of boxes. But I think in conjunction with maybe one or two others, we'll do the Chinese DTV episode. But that episode not today. I'm going to watch it this week because you've sent it. Yeah, I would start with that one because it it sets out its stall so early just going we haven't got a lot of money but we've got a lot of action you guys and then kind of just continues in that vein. I don't think you'll be bored. Okay. You might laugh at it and with it but you go, you go, it's got some good some good Ah, right. In that case, you might prefer VR animal crossing. Do you know what? There's violence in that. You can feel it. The savage. So that and Crete. Crete was good enjoyed it. But is it an action movie? There is a sports movie. More on that to come. Spaction. I think that's pretty much everything I've watched. And I'm up to the penultimate episode of The Last of Us. So I don't want to spend any more time talking about it, but it's still, it's still absolutely great. Shall we delve into the quagmire of Simon has put too many trailers? Yeah, we're going to wrap through these because oh boy, after saying there wasn't much coming out. Yeah, it turns out they were, they did. We are about to end an action season though because we're going towards spring summer. So yeah, it does make sense. We haven't even, we haven't mentioned it yet, but he looms heavy in the air and I, I The next episode of this podcast might have the number four in the title Oh not because it's also episode four the fuck that's not clear enough. Yeah, it doesn't work John Wick fours out next week Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do the trailers Welcome to Trailer'sville 2023. Well, let's rattle through these. First of all, we didn't mention it last time, fast X. I have very little to say about this since I still haven't seen fast nine, but I have seen the previous eight. It looks like it's another fast and furious movie. I've missed a lot of the fast franchise. I just need to catch up. I did say to my wife, I'm gonna watch all nine before this comes out. That's too many, Matthew. That is too many. it'll be. My honest opinion about this is I think they've arguably been entertaining, but diminishing returns since five. Okay. Okay. Well, fast sex doesn't look as good as that. No, but I will say I last out loud at the trailer twice, so I don't normally do that. I think maybe the door that Indian mass entertainer spectacles has opened will be scratched mixed metaphors by fast X. Yeah. I will say that. It will deliver that level of insane ridiculous action. And maybe, and if you set your brain to the right setting, I think I love him. I'm no, no qualms were where that friend chose one. Fair enough. Fair enough. Right. We've got too many trailers. That's really good segue though, because Martin put me in exactly that mind. Right. This is, I wish I knew how I'd just discovered this. I think the YouTube algorithm now knows it needs to serve me a lot of Indian action movie trailers. And this one is called Martin. I think the chief reason that I've put it in is because it put me in mind of the bad guy from Patan being called Jim, the fact that now there is a movie called Martin where he's like this hulking huge hard that very enjoyable. I, I couldn't tell. What was going on in this trailer? Absolutely. I don't know who I'm supposed to be rooting for. I don't know why it's a Fast and Furious movie in the middle. I know that it is an Indian blockbuster and it checked every single box of things to expect from a trailer, including some very good like editing on various like guns being cocked and like all that sort of trailer. Oh yeah. It's absolutely. the movies about. Yeah, it looked like every anime I've seen from the mid 2000s. It looked like so many people are going to get clothes lined and sort of kicked with like a just a really mediocre looking push kick to the chest and then they're going to fly back 20 feet. Oh yeah, that's the emotion. Yes, I hope that some of the sort of Patan and War is, will seep into this movie and it won't be kind of the very old school everyone on wires flying around action. But who knows? Oh, also, can I check? At the end of the trailer went two other massive dudes come in. Was that old Rictus erectus? Who's he? I did recognize one of them. Nathan Jones is in Mad Max. He plays like a thing he's, um, some quite to see Rictus. name of all time. There's only so many guys that have that size in movies. I was like, oh, is he the one from Game of Thrones or where have I seen him before being an absolute power hulk? I think it's old Richter Syrectus. Say it all more time that name. I'll keep saying it. It's really fun to say. Richter Syrectus. It sounds like a line from Life of Brian. It really does. It really does. Yeah, I have nothing more to say about Martin. I'm sorry. I don't know more info about any of the people involved. Well, in time, our knowledge of Indian movies will expand, but now it is just an absolutely over the top insane trailer. Keep those trailers coming, Simon. Here we go. Gerard of Butlerton is back in a candor har. This one looks like... Now last time we talked about the Guy Richie Middle East war movie with Jake Gillypantz and now Gerard is in this one. for, remember when I made all those films because the Iraq war was happening? Yeah. It feels like that. It feels very out of place in this day and age. Like, because it doesn't feel like it can be a period film, yeah. So, just don't feel that it has that distance. It just feels like this sort of film, I'll say, in the pyramid that is the action genre, I'd say this is the sort of film that does the least for me. Yeah. Like, it just, I watched a trailer, I was like, watch that. I'll never watch that. Unless Simon tells me to. It's like a little bit of a war movie, a little bit of a, I've got to go back to save this guy movie. It's hard to know where it's going to land, isn't it? There's a line, there's a line in the trailer, which is something like, it's only 30 miles to set it far. It's just everything in between the tarot. I was just like, not keen. He's not keen. Yeah, this is a full TBC, I think, on this one. all good. But I mean, then you said plane was good. I've got time for Girard Butler. I've got time for Girard. No issue there. There's a part of me that's almost tempted to watch Angel has fallen because a few, I've read and heard a few things about it are okay. I've seen the first one and not the ones in between. That's the gritty, buffy spin off is it? Yeah. He goes, he's mad and he's taken over a North London tube station and to would watch that movie. There's such a big escalator you guys imagine the action scene you could have on that and not just that YouTube video, the guy on skis. Well, there we go. Lots of taking in it. It is a good, it's a classic YouTube London banter on that one. Right. We've got arguably three more to get through here. Okay. Let's, let's end with the big guy. So let's, let's do this one. I don't even know what this film's called Is it customs front line? Yes. Yes, it's out of Hong Kong. I put it in just because I'm excited to see action movies coming out of Hong Kong because they're so fune far between these days. Yeah. And it's got, I'll nicky-tsay in it from Raging Fire. Which is what, what made me go, okay, exactly those things made me go, okay, I'm going to keep an eye on this just because it ticks all the boxes. Trailer didn't do much for me. It's a fool. It could go either way, one, I think. I'm excited to see those people. in action, lots of guns, some martial arts, it's set in Hong Kong so it gives me a warm feeling inside. But there are a lot of movies that look like this that weren't great in the past. So we got to wear it till it comes out. All the materials are there. They've got all the building blocks. All we need is them to let's keep moving. I'm getting travel sickness from the speed of ghosted coming out on Apple TV. When you said this, I started watching it. I was like, is he just copied the wrong trailer? Exactly, my thought. When I started watching the trailer, I was like, I don't know why I've clicked on this, but evidently the marketing has worked very well. It looks like a rom-com, and then it turns into, I suppose a, com-action-com, rom-com-action. Rom-sh-in. Rom-sh-in. I'm not going to be. At the con. Oh, God. And then the podcast is an hour of this and it fades out. So yeah, it starts off it like a romcom and then it turns into an action flick. It's Anna Der Armas being all actioned up. Whatever she did in that Bond movie made everyone go, she looks bloody great wielding a submachine gun. Let's make her do that in a lot of movies going forward. And also it's unless I've missed something the first time they've paired them back up and old one of the chris isn't it? And they haven't been together since no is out. Pine, is it pine? One of the chris is. It's in the Evans, it's an Evans. It's Evans. It's Evans or Pine? It's Evans. Is it Evans? Okay, yeah. Pine Star Trek. Pine Star Trek. Evans is the Gray Man. There's three, there's three chris's. You've missed one. Who's the other one, Evan? Chris, the other chris Evans from UK TV. No. Yeah, the other chris Evans. Come on, you can do this. The three, the three action chris's at the moment. The three action chris's. man, if I don't get this, I'm going to have to fire myself from the podcast. You will probably say it's on action style. Okay. And that is a good one from Star Trek. Yeah. We've got Evans from the Grey Man and we've got Chris from a Marvel movie. Yes. Okay. Narrow it down for me, Matthew. We have to remote it through the Australia. You could say it's a Chris. Oh, Chris Pratt. Okay. Yeah. action in my head, but you're right, yeah. Jurassic World franchise. Easter Asix. Yeah. And the terminal, especially, he was very hard in that when you were there. They're the action Chris's. All the action Chris's. Action Chris's. Love that show. Anyway, ghosted. Again, I'm going to categorize it as 100% could go either way. It could be trying too hard and the action is not very good and there's too much on a massive green screen. Or it could be like, oh, fun actually put me in mind of a modern true lois could go that way. Yes, that's a good one actually, but with the roles have been reversed because she's the spy. Final trailer and I had to put this in even though it did absolutely nothing for me, but it's the detail more than an Netflix called Fubar. That is some Arnie there, Simon. Yeah. I've been working on that for... Get it to the chopper! You'll get yourself to the chopper you, please. And you need your clothes, your boats, and a bus time table. Consider that a divorce! Yeah. Your luggage. Wow, that's a deep cut. Eraser. All right, and you'd love to see that. Right, Arnie, we're talking about Alan Schwarzenegger, Okay, he's got it from what. He net point impressions. He's back in a Netflix series. I don't know what it is. It's such a teaser. The whole marketing is done whatever he fives to 10 years does. Arnie has what is quote unquote a comeback. So he says, I'm back. And then that's the whole marketing campaign. Literally could be anything at this point and someone punches them in the dick and we're a little bit more content. My laugh, if that, if it's like this is what we're expecting, I'm not holding my breath for this one. I, I will watch anything with Ernie and so. Fair enough. Fair enough. I think there'll be no avoiding it whenever it drops, so we'll definitely touch upon it in a cock tapping way. You could say we'll be back to discuss it. Or be back, or be back. You stay here, I'll be right back. That's what he says there. I'm bored. I'll be, I'll be, I'll be right back. Okay. Right, the trailer section has gone on far too long. Yeah. The movie that we've got to talk about is so long and it's got so much going on. I'm activating feature press. I will teach you a presentation. Touch this. We are talking about South Korea's 2022 movie called Alienoid from director Donghun Choi and writer Donghun Choi. Russia said writer director, but it was too late. Matthew, I usually like to have you do the little summation to give us a little plot sum up at the beginning. And I think this one could be one of the the one of the hardest, but I think you're going to nail it because this, even I, as I was watching this was like, bugger, I think this might not be an action movie, but it absolutely is. We're going to have this talk. Then I'll be through it. It absolutely elayed all of my fears. So let's start us off by giving us the little outline, courtesy of m heighten.com. Okay. So aliens are using human bodies as prisons for their worst criminals. They are bringing the prisoners to earth, putting them in the bodies, and there is a robot guard that is sent to earth to keep an eye on it. I knew you'd be good at this already. That already is a good hook, but get this. I wouldn't say when it's set because it's set over multiple timelines because given the technology, time and space essentially exists at all point. So there's about three interweaving threads that are working towards a close point. on to how and why one of their worst criminals has escaped. You will discover that along the way because at first it's just a lot of like, oh wow, what is going on. Essentially, robot god kills an alien prisoner and their human host decides to take their child and raise them using their wacky robot sidekick that's kind of an AI. The child grows and ultimately fates intervenes. And the guard and their sidekick aren't the ones who are gonna save humanity from their escaped worst prisoner. It turns out Destiny has a plan for the child. They raised but did not want all along. The DTV was in our hearts all along. It was. It was. This is not DTV. Let me put that out right at the top. This is a big budget blockbuster. I wish I could have seen this in the cinema because it's- Yeah, this is experienced cinema at its biggest. Yeah. would a part of me and I don't know whether I'm saying this in a detrimental way or I'm kind of just going to say it on a sort of level platform. This is almost like a Marvel movie. Yeah, this is how do you feel about that? I would say yes. Absolutely. What is lovely at the moment is, I don't know what's going on in South Korea, but the last 10 years, they're in a bloody Everyone keeps screaming at Hollywood to do big original ideas. I pays in it. And like for some reason in the West Netflix is doing that, but they're not doing it in maybe Netflix. We talk about this a lot, but Netflix, there's something about Netflix that sits between TV and cinema when they do films. They don't always reach that. And that's not everything. There is a lot of films that are very cinematic, very big Netflix. God love them, have done something for modern cinema and modern film makers. that was massively needed. That said, the massive budget Hollywood, like we were just taking like the marvels and stuff, those big fantasy action films. They all seem to come from franchises and they all seem to have a system through them. There's something going on outside of the West and South Korea is doing this in a big way at the moment. This film's like what I'm trying to think of some alive. That was one of their big ones. Obviously, parasite but they're doing something where they're doing the original IP that is just crammed with ideas and this is for anyone who's listening to this podcast, Alien Oid is exactly what I love. It is absolutely bonkers. Who many ideas some could argue but that's a tough argument to level as a criticism. But this, yeah, I mean, I've read some of the reviews in the feedback and like a lot of them are exactly what I hate about films ago. You're not going to have a clue what's there just doesn't spoon feed it to you. That's true. Yeah. Like compared to code of the assassins where I genuinely was like, I am trying my best to work out who everyone is and what they want. And I was like, I've got, I don't know. Whereas this, I was like, it does feel confusing, but it is the, it does sort of quite unquote make sense. It's all laid out for you. They tell you everything you need to know. And you kind of, you, it, it, in spite of the fact that as you say, It's all into weaves, but it is long, it's two and a half hours. Two hours. It does kind of make sense. And I say that having not tried to overthink it from having seen the end backwards an hour ago, oh no, wait, that doesn't make sense. But when you watch it, it seems to. But this is the thing, it's got to be said straight away going into this. And it was built, it is listed as this someplace has been all, it is essentially alienoid part one. This is not, you're not getting it closure in this film. There's so much going on in this film. Good to know. Because yeah, it weaves to a cliffhanger point. And apparently they were filmed together. So part two was filmed. Oh, it has been filmed. I didn't know of it. At the same time as part one. Yeah, so it already exists. And apparently out this year, which is good to know, it's not like Netflix is going to be like, no, not successful enough actually. So that's what I've heard. This is great. I love this film. I absolutely love it. Because again, two things. is, its ideas are through the roof. Like, they have gone, we're gonna run with this. So like, even like, when an idea is big, a lot of it is sci-fi or fantasies. They fall apart because their internal logic doesn't match. Well, I love about this is their internal logic, they've gone through it, but they're not giving you everything yet. You have to figure it out as the character figure out. So it's not like, you're not getting any big rafts of exposition, you get enough to understand what's going on, and luckily they have that beautiful, of child discovers something has to have explained in. That's true, you do get it. You do get it, but I was just gonna say, I don't remember any characters doing like a lot of exposition, but that would be the only time. Other times they just like cut back to the 1300s and you're like, okay, what's happening now? I can't believe I'm saying this. My weirdest thing about this film is that I had any niggles. It's not even a niggle. I just, I can handle the idea of, Aliens using humans for prison, big villain escapes, tries to commit human genocide essentially eventually for their own gain. And I can handle that they throw them back in time and go through time that time because of this technology exists or in a non-linear format, find their bounce around. Why couldn't understand? And I thought was going to get a explain to me at some point. Obviously, if the human host of the prisoner, if their alien becomes aware they're in prison, they essentially take over the human host and they essentially get superpowers. That's fine. I'm done with that. That's fine. I understand that. That's fine. That's internal logic. We didn't understand that is why in the 1300s is their magic? Yeah, that's never really explained, is it? I didn't know if that was going to be alien tech, old tech that's done this. No. that this movie is like a genre, bending, mishmash. It's like everything that happens in the 1300s is basically like a Wujah movie. It's magic. It's people leaping across rooftops, and that just kind of is the default. This is when this is set, and this is this type of movie. It's like a Chinese Wujah movie. And that's never really sort of explained. It's just like, this guy knows magic. So, That might be useful later. What I love about this is exactly that. Their period affects how their characters fight, how they interact, how they move. And there is an old trope of fantasy and sci-fi, which is like, old world is magic, and at some point around the industrial age, it becomes science. And that's exactly what they do with this film. I do like that. I just thought there was gonna be sort of more of a link, which probably is, there's probably gonna be something in part two. But who in really, going, I don't know what's going on, but they all, it's like a plant. It's like three struts of hair and as it peaks, it's sort of the last 20 minutes, it all starts to bleed together. And it's so lovingly done. And the so like, we love about this is, it's funny. It is also funny at the beginning when I was kind of having the, oh no, I think this is not an action movie, Douse. Was because it felt like a caper. It felt like one of those 80s, 90s, like almost like Soko Gorma. Like it's an navigate as well. There's so much pain like, yes. It felt like it might be a flight over the navigator, like action, adventure, family, warm-hearted comedy. And it does, it is that for certain periods. But then it's dark at times as well. And then it's a Wushar movie. Then it's like a super heroes, like Pew-Pew Aliens, spectacle blockbuster, it's so many things. And then yeah, and then also it doesn't have the Marvel sugar coating like no blood, no over the top violence, it's South Korea. So they're like, well, we're going to have violence. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good night. It just does so many things. It does. I mean, it's like, so I finished watching this at half one this morning. Yay. I said to somebody and I was like, I'm gonna watch half tonight and they'll watch half in the morning. I was like, that's a bad idea. I can't put it down. I can't stop. It's two hours, 22. It feels like an nightmare film for me. It just, everything was so well-paced for me. Like, every beat, even when they throw into a little comedy thing, it's all the purpose. There's no like, there's a million times where whenever this script was going together, went, this would be bananas or this would be cool. Everything is for purpose. There's no unnecessary stuff in this film I don't think. I think everything dries it forward. Every character has an agenda that moves them forward and everyone is evolving from what happens in the piece. So if something happens to a character, it's going to affect a version of themselves down the line. And I love that. I love that it was for purpose and it wasn't just like, we've come up with this mad script. let's film it. Everything has been thought through from the tiniest details to the point where they know what's going on so well, they don't have to give you all that information. They don't have to try and justify it through exposition because they go, we know what's happening and you will at some point too. And it is great. And anyone complaining about, you're well, and the thing was going on. Just watch it again. You will. That's it. I don't think there was any points where I not like annoying. At the times when you're like, I'm not entirely sure, then it, give it time, it lays it all out for you. When there's like the two mages arrive and you're like, what is this now? What are these characters? There's a character called Doctor'd. What's going on? There's a character called Doctor'd and a really good joke, pay off where someone calls him dog shit. And then like, I love your translated that for us. Extraordinary scenes. Yeah. But all these sort of characters come in and you're just like, I don't know why these characters are here and then it all gets revealed and they all have a part to play in kind of the finale, I suppose. But again, what I love about this is there's no non-floor character, even the kid is flawed. Like everyone's a bit shifty in it. Everyone's got their own hustle going on. But when things get serious, they all do that thing of coming out of their own bullshit. It's great. It's really great. It just puts me into mind of like, of an anime that I love that is done quite ridiculously. And it's like that, but it's done lovingly and it's done with decent plotting and decent scripting and stuff. And I just absolutely found love for this film. I think it's one of my favorite films I've seen in the last couple of years. Just because it was just fun. Like, big ideas work when it's got love behind it. I think back when I watch Psycho Gorman, put me in mind of Psycho Gorman, which Psycho Gorman had a massive budget and a massive scope. Because the scope of this film is huge. It is massive. I mean, it's in two parts. That's how big the scope is. They were just like, this is a five hour movie, you guys. Can we just make two movies? Is that okay? Somehow. Somehow, they're like, yeah, yeah, that's even fine. What do you need? I mean, we need to make basically two Marvel level movies. of money. We got to blow a lot of stuff up and we're going to go to different time periods. Yeah, it's great. And that's the thing when they when they do like the time periods, they properly, like all the period pieces look great. They're absolutely like so well, like imagine and render. What's great is they've they've really matched, they've cleared in a lot of wirework and they've merged it with CGI. And at times you can see it, like as you always can with CGI, lovingly pieced everything together. I think they just get that all on everything. Like the whole, you know, we are sort of running over roofs, even down to that beautiful detail that I've fell in love with the first time I watched Crunch and Tiger just hearing material go. So much. Yeah, it's love it. Like, I mean, the action in this is big, right? It's like everything is large scale. of cool hand-to-hand battles. It's a lot of wirework, CG, lasers, robots. It's pure spectacle. So just to so you know what you're getting into going in, and it is, it's all really well done. Don't give me a run. I've got time for a man standing on top of an enormous pole, and then kind of floating down. I've got a lot of time for the Dragon Ball Z stuff. I'll match it. There's definitely a lot of DBZ influence. And last airbender influence. There's a scene where, if you're there's any Dragon Ball Z fans listening, there's a scene where in a hospital, I'm not going to say what happened, but it's the closest I've ever seen to a real, actually like a live action version of the cell saga, the beginning of the cell saga that I've ever seen. I don't know what that means, but I think I know the big. Yeah, there's just just. I liked how much of the, that egg thing kind of appeared in a very cool white way. everything is great. So just go back to your point about, you're not going to see great hand-to-hand combat. You are though, it's just is very, it's like a dance, it's that sort of action. Because what I loved about this and what some marvels lose and some big Hollywood blockbusters is when you bring in the element of CGI, you go, well, we can do anything with this, we CGI. But there is a fight with two robots, it's completely CGI, it's in a lift. and flying around and chasing and zapping that. They put them in a lift and they clearly choreographed a hand-to-hand fight. That's a thing. They can come in and set like rotoscope, doesn't it? Yeah, because it looks like to humans fighting. That's absolutely amazing. That's absolutely amazing. The exact same thought I had was, oh, this is like a really good fight in a lift. They just happen to be robots. But they're like punching and blocking and smashing each other around until they start lasering a bit. But yeah, it's really well choreographed. But again, they contained it and they gone, well, we don't want them to switch it. There's all that collateral of a big Hollywood movie, but it's their actions are very confined. And it really means that when they do that stuff that it's clearly CGI, it feels real and it feels like the blow is a landing. It feels what it gives it is jeopardy. Yeah, it felt like a real fight. And to, for context, in the scene afterwards, is driving a spaceship through a building and then the other one is pew-pew-ing him with his spaceship. So it does go from one extreme to the other. But I suppose that ticks all the boxes there. There's something for everyone. The close quarters combat in a lift, love that. Also, when a spaceship was driving through a parking lot, I was like, this is really fucking good CG. This is really good, really good. We could probably talk about this film for hours. I'm just aware that we've had a long long cast already. I don't think there's much else I could say other than you've probably got the flavor of it now and absolutely if you can get hold of a copy, watch it. Yeah, that's going to be the tricky part, I think. It's available on streaming in the US currently and it is also distributed by well-go. So I can only hope that maybe it finds its way onto high R in the near future. I would be surprised given the size of this film and again, in like box office wise it does well. When we supply surprise if they're currently in distribution talks with I would hope so yeah it'll definitely go to streaming or or limited cinema at some point. Yeah it demands a bigger international release because I think that there's massive like crossover international potential for this. Yeah huge huge but absolutely if you can can get a copy do watch this it is like just everything I love like like yeah. Marshall Arts mixed with sci-fi. This is two for two in movies that I've gone, I think Matt's gonna like this one. Yeah, yeah, you're really nailed it. Between Project Wallfunting and Aeneod, in fact, and both out of South Korea. So there I have an absolute whale of a season in Dodge this so far. Yeah, big fan of it. I text you like five minutes in though, do you know, I love this already. Yeah, I know. And today I went back and like skimmed through it and I ended up, I was like, I'll just like, just to remind myself, you know, the various parts of the movie. And then like, I just watched that seen and I had the same like feeling that I imagine you did when it started and I was like, okay, what's going on here? And I was like, yeah, I think I'm going to like this. I think I'm going to try and rewatch it in the next few weeks just to see what I missed. Now I know the way the plot moves. That's true. Yeah, I think it's one of those where once you know how all pieces together, you can kind of go back and watch it and go, oh yeah, okay, oh I see. But you've got the same feeling about what they did when I watched RR in terms of not only I love this? Right. Yeah. It's definitely a good showcase for big budget. I don't think it's going to hit the Oscar. I don't think it's going to trouble the Oscars, but I think there's a very specific audience for this movie and it is you and I and ideally everyone else who listens to this podcast. So if you haven't tracked it down, do so or just keep your eyes peeled because it's going to be showing up somewhere soon. Yeah. If you go and actually replay. Night, bye night Yes, I have several infact. Because I could decide what they wanted. And again, and I thought, oh yeah, I know what it is. And then during my little re-skim, I was like, I totally forgot about that. I totally forgot about that. I think I'm going to go with the one that may gave me the most joy, which I'm just going to say the big hand. Yeah, that is. I don't want to say any more about it. It's not really a spoiler, is it? No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. No, but it is. No, but it is. It's just a... No, but it is. No, but it is. mages who are like these, I guess they're they wizards, they do magic stuff and they they have trinkets. The merchants who have magical wares. Yes, they've got all these like apparatus that do fun things like a little, they've got a cloak of invisibility, they've got these stickers that when you put a sticker on someone, it freezes them. It's so good and they get to like use the ball, it's it's so fun. They feel like characters, if you're playing a big Japanese RPG, here every location with a big bag and shop. And you'd have to work out like, how am I gonna use this weird magical item in this scene and they do at the end. And yeah, there's this big, there's a big ridiculous like cartoonish bit of CG that was so like deserved. And I was totally happy with it. And then it worked great. I will, I've got a second and third place as well. I got for it. You want to do your first one? I want to do it all. I want to say if you hit because I've got two. OK, perfect. And I want to say if you hit the same one at all. There's two that I remember, shots, where it's basically the girl from quote unquote, the future has a semi-automatic handgun in the 1300s. And there's just a couple of slow-mo shots where it pulls out one, it pulls out to a super, super wide. flying through the air and slow motion and her pointing a gun at him, which just looks fucking cool. And there's another bit towards the end where again, she is shooting someone in the 1300s with a semi-automatic handgun from the future of slash now. And a guy is flying across and there's broken glass. And it's just like a shot that looks fucking cool. Yeah. Did I get it? Did I get it yet? No, you didn't. I got one more. It turns out we're doing action reflamego. In the bit in the middle where it turns into a super mega exploding Marvel style movie and gains its full action chops, I would say. There's a bit where a car crashes and the guy flies out of the front window of the car and then goes through the front window of a neighboring bus. I forgot about that. That is a great action refoo. I enjoyed that. A great deal also. The way his body flies as well is really just perfect. It's just great. Already you're like, oh, he's flying out of the car. But then there's a bus crash, isn't he goes into the bus? Yeah, loved it. Loved it. Really great CG in this movie. And I'm happy to shit on bad CG, but it's, yeah, this is the movie that needs it. And it's good. And it's not janky. And I didn't get with all nine of my action replays. I didn't get your one. another one is like, so that's straight. I'm going to give one that I've just sort of just because you remind me of that sequence. They do, we're talking about the lasers earlier. They do a Gundam style laser and I love a Gundam style laser. Please explain. A laser sort of goes through something and then split second later. It goes, I love that. Fucking love that. Just by the noises, I think I can picture it. Yes. That's great. So there's that. I'm gonna go for the silly one first. Great. There's a magic fan where two cats become human. I can't believe we haven't even talked about the magic fan. So magic fan guys. I've got it right now. I've got it right. More notes. The main one of the main guys is a wizard or a guy who does magic in the 30s. No, he's not even that. He's essentially to use a term we've already used. He's essentially an airbender. They took all that. So, okay. Yes. And he's a bouncy hunter. Yeah. and he's got a fan and his fan can do magic, like do. There's more. And then things start to thanks him this. Right, Phil. But the fans got a picture of two cats on it. Don't worry. The cats come to life and come out of the fan. What's that? Are they just cats? No, obviously, there can also be two human men that do martial arts. I think it's kind of his servants and it's great when they're in human form doing cat things. As a cat owner, a lot of joy in the, this is a very good moment. That's quite near the beginning the movie. So don't worry about having to. But man, all the way through, you're going to get a lot of, they set out that stall very early. Like if you get through about the first 20 minutes and you're like, um, this is not for me, then just, just check out then just cut your losses. But if you get through the first 20 minutes and you're like, there's a lot of that I've enjoyed so far, then you're only going to get more into it as it goes, I would say. What's your other action replay? This is my, this is my ultimate action replay. So I've pinned it into one scene needs mentioning, there is a mission impossible rope lowered into a room scene where the guy we're just talking about, the airbender guy, he is trying to get an artifact that is crucial to the plot, the two majors are there, and what I love about this scene is it balances three things, it becomes a scene which has tension, it has a whole subplot going on which is pure comedy, martial arts, but essentially it is visible while work. So he's attached to a rope, whilst his two cats in human form are lowering him down, and then this massive fight erupts around him. So they essentially have this beautiful sort of, he's on a wire, and he's very much doing while work, but it's very much pinned to a rope. He does a kick, he spins off something else, he does a kick, and in the space of about a second he lands four kicks on one person, good. Yes, it's just so slick. It's so goddamn slick. I rewound it because I was so excited. Meanwhile, there is a Stephen Charles style comedic beat happening in the same room with Titwere Titwere. We won't spoil over it. It's great. It's very funny. And it does, I would say like the comedy, I'm a very harsh critic of comedy generally in maybe just seasoned. We've just seen so much that it takes a lot. And sometimes with movies from different parts of the world, it just lands different, you know, the sensibilities are different. But this one, I think, just treads the right balance of slightly OTT, sort of that Hong Kong in your face type comedy and a sort of subtlety. And I think it, for me, it was just the right balance in between. You might say it was a balance as well from a magical fan. Wow. The perfect balance. There's also a sword that he tries to get out of the fan. Which, until he's worthy, is an umbrella. Whole lot of stuff going on in this film. Good Lord. I feel like we've barely scratched the surface of this. But normally I was like, oh, we've spoiled the film. Nah. There's no way. There's so much happening in this film. There's films worth of films in here. got this far, like we said, with Project Wallfunding, you'll know by now if you want to watch this movie. Yeah. If you haven't, I don't think we've spoiled anything for you. If you have seen it, I would love to hear from other people who've seen it and their thoughts, because, yes, currently it is residing in the RRR hidden gem category until it gets more international distribution. And everyone gets to see it. but pretty pretty and I love projects of wolf hunting and pattern is also there. Okay. Well, this is gold medal. Every time the credits are still rolling from one in the set of a true. We could still be in a pattern flashback. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. All right. This has been a good one. I'm glad season three is doing great. We got there eventually. Sorry for this delay. I'm in season three of Patan and I've watched too many bad straight to video movies in the search for the good ones that I lovingly bring to you all listening to Simon's gradual breakdown. I should do like a Patreon where I just review all the shit that I don't want to talk about on the actual podcast. Like a spin off, like a YouTube second channel where it's just like the sort of like B sides of the podcast where I'm like, hi guys, yeah, this week I'm gonna be talking about code of the assassins. Look, I didn't love it, all right, but I'm gonna talk about it for half an hour. I'm not gonna help you with that one. That's not interesting. It's hard enough getting him to watch two and a half hours of alien noise. But we got him at the end of the... It's not hard, I just have to find the time. Kate said this to me, my wife, she said, well, you just watch it in the mornings, I can't watch this type of film in the morning. agree with you on that. Also, there's no room in my house that I can make dark enough to watch movies in a comfortable setting by which I mean my lounge has two windows, one with a curtain and one with no curtain. And if you can't, I try to understand that sentence from Simon, just go and watch the film one hour photo and you're getting idea and there's no one hour photos in some near damn botched my, I see another Robin Williams reference, yeah, another one with Williams. Same era We must and all it remains to say is that next episode, it's gonna be Joe wait for. It's gonna have to be Joe wait for. That's all, that's all I've got for you. Please come and find us on all the socials. It's all linked below. Hit us up if you've seen Alienoid or my God, if you want to recommend something that we haven't seen or haven't talked about, please. I welcome your recommends so that I don't have to keep dredging through. All that they need to be is good action movies the world and ideally current, we're steering away from the archives. Yeah, as can say, we're trying to up to date current, but if you've got an absolute touchpoint that we have completely missed in our back catalogue, please, please, you'd love to see it. And then see you next time for there, there you go. We will be back for you. We come, we're coming back. Yeah, I'm just going to let you just hear it. comes mate. I guess he's back. I guess you could say I'm back. Oh wait, now I'm doing John Wick. Yeah. I guess you could say I'm people keep asking me if I'm back. So I guess you could say I'm back. That's you call there the num chucks.