Shattered

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Welcome to the Pugsley Crew Reviews podcast where we talk about all manner of films, whether the good bad. Today I have with me a returning guest per 9,000. [00:00:20] Speaker A: Hi everyone. [00:00:23] Speaker B: Oh, how are you doing, man? [00:00:26] Speaker A: I'm not doing bad. How you doing, Chat? [00:00:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm doing pretty good. Doing pretty good. It's been a while. It's been a few months since the last podcast because Christmas, New Year, you've been up to much since we last chatted. [00:00:43] Speaker A: Not a great deal. Trying to do fitness boxing on the switch to get in a bit better shape. That's about it really. [00:00:51] Speaker B: Ah, the. So the North Star is there. [00:00:56] Speaker A: Well, I started out on the demo Fist of the North Star and ran the demo out because you can only use it so many times and then realized I own the old original non Fist of North Star 1. So went on that. But they've just put the Fist of the North Star one on the eShop down in the sale from like £40 to £4. So I've got that. Yeah, yeah, digital now, so. [00:01:21] Speaker B: And it's a lot more fun probably than a non. This is an all star one because, you know, you can punch stuff and then go, you are already dead. Terrible. So the film we are talking about today is called Shattered. It's one that KU picked a reason for this particular film. [00:01:46] Speaker A: One reason was that it's got John Malkovich in it and usually he's worth a watch. And another reason is because I do like these like kidnappy home invasion. I'd call them sort of horror, but not. But it's a horror that can actually happen, if you know what I mean. Unlike zombies, where you're going, yeah, they don't exist. You're going to go, well, you could get battered, you could get held hostage. It's all realistic fears as well. To a point. [00:02:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I get you completely. Yeah. When I saw John Malkovich was in there because I was watching, I was like, oh, he's probably the bad guy because he usually is, but he wasn't what's kind of a bad guy? [00:02:33] Speaker A: Yeah, he's. He's more of a. Just a bit of a dick, isn't he? [00:02:37] Speaker B: As such perverted dick. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Yes, I would agree with that. Basically this film is about a very rich man who is basically living alone, lonely. He has got a wife and child but, well, ex wife and child in the middle of a divorce and he's not very trusting and so on and so forth. And then he meets a woman, old Sky, I forgot his name. His name was Chris. [00:03:12] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:13] Speaker B: Sky. And like within eating up with her twice, he's like, oh, you're really nice. I like you a lot. And then he has his leg broken and like, oh, you'll have to live here with me and help me. And it's like, that's a bit quick. That's what I was thinking. I was awfully quick. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Yeah. I can't believe even the most nutty of lonely people would invite somebody in that quickly. [00:03:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially considering he's security conscious or security conscience. He doesn't trust things and people. And then obviously, like, I just have all my security codes. [00:03:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Is a bit implausible. And well, that regard and other regards. [00:04:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Even his wife, when he's like, oh, I've got a, a nurse coming in. And she's like, oh, I bet that's hard for you because of your trust issues. And he's like, yeah, I'll talk to you later. And then you're thinking, even she knows you got trust issues. And yet he invited her in within two orgasms. Brilliant. So, yeah, the film itself, the story is pretty much like she turns out to be a identity thief. He was living with some other woman while watching him. They were spying on him. He. She killed her for some reason and then. Don't know why. I don't know why she needed to kill her. [00:05:00] Speaker A: No, it's not really explained, is it? The other woman seems very desperately in love with her. [00:05:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:07] Speaker A: And at first you think she's committed suicide because she's left her. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:13] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, it's not really explained at all. [00:05:18] Speaker B: Yeah, it's kind of like, oh, I just had to kill her for the. Was for me. I don't know because obviously he ends up living with him for a little bit. And it's funny there because when they, when they, when it's revealed on the news, it's like suicide or murder as the headline. This woman and she was killed and, and she's like, oh, you should come and eat chicken and stuff because she comes in with a bucket chicken. She's like, I thought you're a model and you don't eat chicken. Oh, no, we, we pick out old time models and stuff like that basically. And then she's like, oh, but I've never heard about Lisa. And he's like, what about her? And like, oh, she, she's dead. Yeah, I know, I killed her. And it's like what? [00:06:20] Speaker A: I mean at first when she was just like, nah, I'm gonna eat my chicken. I thought that didn't instantly tell Me, she killed her. I thought she a psychopath or something. Is that what this is gonna be? That she just doesn't have any emotional regard for anyone else? Yeah, well it's. I don't know. He's just, he's a strange bloke in it because he doesn't see stuff coming. [00:06:46] Speaker B: No, does not. But obviously a lot of stuff comes at him quite fast because obviously he invites her in really, really quickly. And it goes from her being invited in to her stealing his phone one to then have access to all his security which kind of screws him over because he isn't able to access any. Then she ties him to his wheelchair, just leaves him on it for days while they doing stuff like loot his house. The guy who brought his leg turned out to be a person involved with the whole thing. Or like I said to the Mrs. When I was watching it because I, I watch, watched her in bed and we watching it and she'd seen it. I didn't know that. Oh, do you expect this to happen? I said I expected her to be dodgy, but I didn't expect it to go the route it did. Like, yeah. [00:07:56] Speaker A: No, my missus watched it with me and she instantly went, he's broke his leg because she's got him too. It's all a setup. And I was like, okay, probably, yeah. [00:08:12] Speaker B: That'S the thing. So he was like kind of predictable in that you knew what was gonna kind of happen. But it kind of. I like, I knew she's dodgy, this would happen. The leg breaking thing, that was kind of predictable in the sense of I thought it was set up but I didn't expect to be all about fucking just stealing all his money. I thought she was just crazy lady. [00:08:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I thought it was more going to be more a murder sort of thing than a financial thing. [00:08:44] Speaker B: Yeah. But it turns out it would have been a murder thing. They were going to kill him anyway. Yeah, but because as the film progresses, more people get introduced. Like the guy who broke his leg turns up. Another guy turns up. Like he manages to escape and then he like falls off his water bike or more but it looks like a mobile type thing, snowmobile, bike. And he falls off on a road in front of another car. The guy's like, oh, what's the matter? And he's like, oh, she's trying to kill me. I don't know why I did that voice. He's trying to kill me. You need to help. You need to form the police. And like, okay, I'll form the police and phones 911, but he doesn't really phone 91 1. He phones her. I said to the missus, I guarantee you when that happened. And he's like, I'll help Boontaka. I said, I bet you any money he takes her back. Back to the house. And he took him back to. [00:09:48] Speaker A: I said that. And it. It reminded me of an old film that. The name I can't remember. But there's this old film where this bloke runs away from this village where people are eating people. [00:09:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:09:59] Speaker A: And the police pick him up and I'm talking. This is like a 60s 70s thing. And the police, like tell him he's safe and then they drive him back into the village to clearly get out. And I was like. I was just thinking that all the time. And I was like, this is going to be like, ah, he's being drove back into it. Oh, yes, he is. [00:10:19] Speaker B: It is pretty hella very convenient though. [00:10:23] Speaker A: Anything. He falls off the Schema Bill thing straight in front of that car. It doesn't wait at all. He's exactly at the right place at the right time for that car to be there. [00:10:33] Speaker B: What Jorah made me think of, though, honestly, when. When it happened, it was me, it made me think of Goonies. The Goonies. Because when Chunk runs away, he escapes. He runs up the car like, help. I know where the. I can't remember the names. [00:10:47] Speaker A: What they called Fratelli Brothers. [00:10:49] Speaker B: Yeah. I know where they are. And they were gonna kill me. And he's screaming at the bloody thing. And then the light goes on and it's one of the brothers. Just reminded me of that. But obviously it was like, not quite this similar enough. Yeah. I love the Goon. [00:11:11] Speaker A: Oh, I do. [00:11:12] Speaker B: It's a really good film. [00:11:16] Speaker A: It's nice to see that. That lad out. The Goonies. Is it key. The one that's Data in it. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:23] Speaker A: The inventor. He's come back around and got a nice career for himself again. Now enter. [00:11:28] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. He was in Everything in low key. Everything Everywhere, all at once, I think. [00:11:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:39] Speaker B: Couldn't remember the name of that. Everything, Everything all at Once. [00:11:43] Speaker A: I've still not seen that and I know people rave about it. [00:11:46] Speaker B: Some people really like it, some people really don't. I. I enjoyed it. I thought it was quite fun, like. But I wouldn't. Like. Some people loved it, some people really, really didn't. [00:11:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:58] Speaker B: Anyway, back to the film. What. What did you think of the film itself, though? Because, like, I thought it was all right. [00:12:08] Speaker A: It was a weird film because I think it started off fair enough. Then there was some meandering in the middle. And then I actually thought the end. I don't know, 30 minutes was quite good. It kept building up and getting surprising in ways, but there was a predictable patch in the middle that, you know, could have been streamlined or had a bit done to it. I'd probably call it quite an average film. I think they did bank a lot on Malkovich very much, though, was he. The COVID of the film that I saw is Four Faces, and this was one of them. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Chris sky and Sky's father in law. [00:12:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:59] Speaker B: Which is a bit grim, apparently. [00:13:02] Speaker A: The film took 21 days to film and I reckon probably only two days of that at Malkovich there. [00:13:07] Speaker B: Yeah. If the. [00:13:09] Speaker A: They probably filmed it around him. When are you available, mate? What can you do? Well, we'll do your bits and then we'll work out from there sort of thing. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Yeah. I thought the film a bit awful. Like, I thought the acting was a bit strange. It was to the point where I said to the missus, it feels like the voices have been dubbed over. So the people speaking. I don't know why. Really weird. The feeling I got like I was watching. I was like, have they dubbed this? I don't care why. I thought. It clearly isn't dubbed. At least I'm aware of. [00:13:45] Speaker A: We watched about four films in the row. This was the first one. And it was like a cursed thing because the sound got increasingly worse across the films. [00:13:57] Speaker B: All right. [00:13:58] Speaker A: We watched a film, I think it's called something like, would you like to dine with me? Which was about a man kidnapping a woman to try and convince her that she wanted to be married to him. [00:14:08] Speaker B: That sounds lovely. [00:14:10] Speaker A: Yeah. And the sound of quality. And that was worse than this. And then we went on to watch this one, and I don't remember the name of it, but it was children being kidnapped. And there was only six lines said in it. And they were all just people screaming people's names. There was no other voices in it, but there was all distortion on the sound to the point you could hear. And it was on Netflix. And I'm just like going, is there something wrong with our unit? Have we got a. Because this getting worse and worse for everything we watch. To the point I actually put Dragon Ball diamond on that I'd watched before. I went, no, no, it's fine. It's just these films getting gradually worse. [00:14:51] Speaker B: That's brilliant. That is. Yeah. I wouldn't say, like, the sound was, but I just. It just. I Don't know. It's the. Like they didn't really give a. When they were acting. Like it's. I can't describe it. Like they didn't really put the effort in or something. I don't know. It just came across like the acting wasn't great. Mainly like when they were talking and stuff. So I don't know if it was just me. [00:15:20] Speaker A: Maybe with it being a 21 day shoot, a lot of things were like your first take at it, whether it sounded good or not. Maybe they just like went, oh yeah, she's gonna kill. Yeah, that'll do. Next one. Next real set up for the next scene. [00:15:35] Speaker B: I should gonna kill you. That'll do. I hope that was the case. [00:15:42] Speaker A: Have you ever seen the film Troll 2? [00:15:45] Speaker B: I haven't. I want to watch it. [00:15:47] Speaker A: It's legendary. The best thing, I think it's a lad stood at the top of the stairs and it's one of those things where it was filmed in English, but the director was Italian or something, so he didn't really understand what people were saying or how they were saying it. So he couldn't direct it. Right. But there's a lad in glasses stood at the top of the stairs watching a woman get eaten. And he goes, oh, they're eating her. And then they're going to get me. [00:16:17] Speaker B: There you go. Look, next. Next time we do films, we'll have to do Plague dogs and troll 2 sorted. [00:16:26] Speaker A: It doesn't stand you though how sort of vacant. Some people can give a performance and actually get in a film. You do think, well, I did better than this in junior school when we sort of did Joseph or Summer. It's. [00:16:43] Speaker B: No, I completely gather. I wonder if it comes down to the actor themselves or the director because they meant to direct or both. [00:16:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, you never know with studio pressure and stuff, is it. You've got to get it done fast. We won't pay anymore. This is your budget. Yeah, that's. That's it. [00:17:07] Speaker B: I also. One of these. The thing with this film. Sorry, man. With this film. Right. Is another thing I found predictable was the ending. I thought, right, she's not gonna shoot Chris. And she didn't shoot Chris, she shot the other guy. And then Chris tried to cut her up. So she kind of thought, I'm gonna kill Chris. But then I was like, are they both there? What's gonna happen? The door is gonna pick up the gun and shoot her. And the daughter picked up the gun and shot her. It was like the film was all right, but it Was very predictable and something seemed off about it for me personally, I don't know what it was, but something was not right. [00:17:52] Speaker A: You know the most weird bit where they cut his thumb off and he, the other guy like put it in a glove and arm like it was his thumb and he'd injured it. [00:18:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:04] Speaker A: And I'm like, there's no way that I'd open that thing. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I liked about. That's what I laughed when I was talking to the missus when we were watching it. There's like, it's not working. There's no heat signature. There's no heat signature. That's like all of a sudden it's like, how is there all of a sudden a heat signature from a thumb that's detached? Shove a little barbecue skewer in there and have it on, like. [00:18:29] Speaker A: But I did like it when they got in the box and she took the money thing. [00:18:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:34] Speaker A: It was just a note, like gone. [00:18:37] Speaker B: Yeah, well, pissed off, cuz they. And then when. When is like when they were in the car on the way back. It's like, oh, it looks like your boyfriend screwed you over. And I was like, it had nothing to do with him. It was his wife stealing money. Bloody hell, man. But yeah, the film was okay. I, I'll go with that. I'll give it. I'll give it like a 6 out of 10 rating because at the end of the day it was pretty predictable but it had boobies in there, so it automatically gets a couple of points for. [00:19:21] Speaker A: No, it's one of them. If you've got a quiet afternoon, watch it. But you'll never watch it again once you've seen how it turns out. It's not something anybody I think would return to. [00:19:30] Speaker B: No. I'm in agreement there. It was okay. It's definitely something I'm glad I watched because it was enjoyable. It's not like something really bad where I'm like, oh, I wish I hadn't watched that. Like that Cocaine Shark. [00:19:45] Speaker A: Oh, wow, that was bad. But this, I've actually watched Cocaine Bear since then. [00:19:50] Speaker B: Cocaine Bear is good though. Yeah. [00:19:52] Speaker A: It's not bad, is it? [00:19:53] Speaker B: Quite fun. [00:19:56] Speaker A: That's one of them films. As long as you turn your brain off and go with it. It's funny. [00:20:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:01] Speaker A: As long as you're not like trying to see any deep meaning and you just. I want to see a bear that's hammered ripping things apart. It's all right. It's good. [00:20:09] Speaker B: Exactly. Whereas. Made no sense. [00:20:16] Speaker A: No, I mean. Oh, I think probably the catering department on this film had 10 times the budget that cocaine shark ever saw. [00:20:26] Speaker B: Yeah, more than likely. But, yeah, I. Is there anything you'd like to add a bit of a shorter episode today, everyone? Because it is. So we roll. Yeah, we don't. We don't. We don't try and get it to stick to a certain time format anymore. We just go. Until you have nothing else to. Yeah. [00:20:45] Speaker A: Some films don't have a great deal to say about them, do they? Own. Without doing a beat by beat every word said in the film. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:20:53] Speaker A: And without letting the tangents go off to the movie. And we have tangented quite a bit into Goony territory and stuff, so. [00:20:59] Speaker B: Exactly, exactly. And Goonies is a better film than this. [00:21:03] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I watch Goonies again and again. [00:21:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. It's funny because I don't. I don't pour it on myself, like. But if it's on TV and it comes on, I'll just say, even without. [00:21:15] Speaker A: There's films like that in there that if you're flicking through and it's on you, you will just stop and go. Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. Poltergeist is one for me. I've seen Poltergeist a million times and just go, that's. That's all right. I'll stay on that. Because I could be on. [00:21:31] Speaker B: I think I've seen Poltergeist 1 the most, then Poltergeist 3, then Poltergeist 2, in that order of the most I've seen, which is really fucking weird. Oh, there you go. Anything you'd like to add about Shattered? [00:21:52] Speaker A: It's not Malovich's finest work. [00:21:57] Speaker B: It's got. I like the way he's like. He's just like a perv. It's like the telescope scene where he's like, oh, let's just watch a woman naked doing exercises. There's like all this going on in the house next door. But he's like, turn the thing to look at the naked woman. It's like, come on, dude. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Then he say something like, I'll see you same time tomorrow or something like that at the end. [00:22:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:25] Speaker A: And it is nice to see him not be like the proper villain, just be an old. Yeah, it's. It's refreshing. And it shows that he's not too uptight and serious an actor to take a slightly comedic role and take the pit out of himself a bit. [00:22:44] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. I think that is gonna be us then. Like I said, a bit of a shorter episode. But some films don't deserve a lot said about him? Yeah, it's very, very, very average Five or six? I'm not sure Five and a half Five and a half? Yeah five and a half I'll go. [00:23:04] Speaker A: With that yeah, I could go with that score. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Well, that'll be us for this we'll be back hopefully in two weeks time thank you everyone for tuning in it's been a pleasure as always thank you Kerr for taking part thank you for having me no problem at all, man it's always a pleasure that's gonna be us so bye bye Bye. [00:23:34] Speaker A: Chris? [00:23:35] Speaker B: What's wrong? Oh. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Sky, I. [00:23:47] Speaker B: I saw something on the news okay Something good or something bad? It's your roommate, Lisa what about her? [00:24:05] Speaker A: She died. [00:24:17] Speaker B: Scott should probably contact the police that would be stupid of me why? Because I'm the one who killed her this is the best chicken no kidding Here Got some.