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I somewhat get Dylan’s ex-girlfriend trying to maintain their birthday gift tradition, but why does she buy him two tickets? Why waste the money on a ticket that will likely go to waste? And it also seems cruel because he’s naturally going to think that she wants to go with him. She couldn’t find a nicer way of telling him she’s moved on and has started dating someone else?

Don't forget that although Dylan's body is 30 years old, his soul is at least sixty. Which makes sense because signing your name to your texts is a total boomer thing to do.

I know Dylan thought he saw the day he died, but he really saw the day everyone missed their train. The movie showed the train on the board as being scheduled for 2:22, so it should be just about ready to pull away from the platform as they all mill about in the Great Hall. Also did the aerial ballet have 2 superhuman performers or was it only like 15 minutes long? I have trouble believing 2 acrobats would have the physical stamina to extend a 10 minute circus act into a 90 minute show.

The episode does a great job of pointing out the large flaws of this movie, but there were several small things throughout the movie that really irked me. 1. I found the throwing away of the trays with the flight info to be incredibly wasteful. Why not throw out the paper with the flight info and just reuse the tray? 2. I was bothered by Teresa Palmer putting her ice cream cone inside the cup with Dylan's phone that was being used as the speaker. There is no way his phone or that speaker are not a complete sticky mess with melted ice cream. 3. Dylan ended every text message with "D." You are not sending letters or even email, you do not need to indicate who you are in every text message. What an unnecessary waste of time. 4. If Jonas does not intend to kill Teresa Palmer, then why does he bring a gun with him when they try to go away together for the weekend?

Paul, June, and Jason discuss the 2017 science fiction thriller 2:22 recorded live from Portland, OR! They talk about aerial ballet, sacred geometry, the badassery of air traffic control, and much more. Subscribe to Unspooled with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson here: http://www.earwolf.com/show/unspooled/ Check out The Jane Club over at www.janeclub.com Check out new HDTGM merch over at https://www.teepubli…wdidthisgetmade Where to Find Jason, June & Paul: @PaulScheer on Instagram & Twitter @Junediane on IG and @MsJuneDiane on Twitter Jason is Not on Twitter

Amy & Paul stand for 1988’s rousing math class drama Stand And Deliver! They ask if this is the first major ‘indie’ film, learn how Edward James Olmos crafted his commanding performance as Jaime Escalante, and investigate whether the real students depicted cheated on their exam. Plus: Lou Diamond Phillips explains how he got cast as Angel, and why poker requires top-notch math skills. This is the second episode of our “Back To School” miniseries; next week’s film is The 400 Blows! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. Also check out our live Spool Party episodes on youtube.com/earwolf!

Someone tore me a new asshole and I am loving it.

I always thought of this as a mainstream movie, but Paul & Amy talking about it as an indie really made me appreciate it a lot more. I don't think it's quite great enough for the list, but it's definitely closer than I initially thought. (Kind of an inverse Mean Girls, which I kind of anticipated possibly making the list, but I also think falls just short.) But I think Stand has definitely had the influence and sort of become iconic in the way of some old classics have that I might say yes in the end. Like, I was shown To Kill A Mockingbird in school. I was also shown Stand and Deliver. That must mean something.

I'm surprised Paul and Jason didn't connect 2:22 to the comicbook heroes Hawkman and Hawkgirl. These two characters have had many incarnations-- as space alien war heroes for their home planet, as star-crossed lovers from different castes in ancient Egypt, to archeologists during World War II. The throughline that connects all these iterations is that they are doomed to reincarnate, be drawn to each other, and to die tragically because of their similarly reincarnated rival who cursed them in the first place. (Jeez, just typing it all out reminds me that comics are weird and I love them.) Maybe because of that, I didn't find the central conceit that difficult to buy into, or maybe I'm just crazy and seeing patterns all over the place. D

I wonder if the filmmakers were going for something poetic by having the meetcute between a pilot and a dancer happen by way of an aerial ballet? No one asked why Sarah was on the plane in the first place? I thought that might have some bearing on the character or plot, but, like most things in the movie, Nope. Paul asks, why go to Grand Central at all if it's supposed to be the site of this tragedy? Well, Jonas' Plan A was to go to the airport, when he picks up Sarah. So yeah, he WASN'T going to go, but then The, I don't know, Unvierse or something sends a text that informs him the plane is canceled, and Jonas very casually says "Yup, let's go to Grand Central." Then elsewhere Jason asks, was Jonas going to kill the woman at the end? He not only has the gun from his studio, but it's in a big holster on his left hip. We can put aside the question if the woman would even have noticed this (perhaps she thought he was just happy to see her?) -- but since we know they were first headed to the airport until he got a text from the airline, does that mean he was going to roll up to the airport with a loaded gun on his hip? There's just so many things about this movie, which I guess makes it pretty perfect as far as HDTGM goes!

So the three people who died in 1987 were reincarnated because their souls left their bodies when they were killed in entered the bodies of babies born that same day. Ergo, this movie is positing that babies don't have souls until they are born. Fetuses must not have souls. Which makes this the most pro-choice movie ever. Interesting how a movie that's all about fate is REALLY all about the right to choose.

Corrections and omissions: Paul misspoke - the (awful) Jim Carrey movie is "The Number 23", not Se7en. There actually is a good time numeral film - 4:44 (Last Day on Earth), which is 2011 film directed by Abel Ferrara about people trying to find the meaning life on the final day of Earth's existence. (Scientists predict that due to cosmic radiation destroying the ozone layer, all life on Earth will end on 4:44 AM EST.) 4:44 is a doubling of 2:22!!! P.S. And, fun trivia, in Japan (and other East Asian countries), 4:44 is an unlucky time because the pronunciation of four is 'shi', which is also the word for death (and the characters look similar.) So in many Japanese horror films and video games (e.g. Katasumi and 4444444444, Harvest Moon) 4:44 has a creepy significance. Hotels and hospitals often don't have a fourth floor or a room 444, like how in America hotels won't have a 13th floor.

I can't recall the last time my reaction to a movie's climax was so at odds with what the movie was going for. I laughed out loud when Daario the 2nd whispered "boom". I'm glad I wasn't in a theater to ruin the experience for the one other person that would have been there. The part of the movie that bugged me the most is all of the other characters who served no purpose other than to establish the pattern to be noticed. Fate had to intervene in all of their lives too just to put them in the right place and the right time. I think if you start tracing back each of their lives that brought them to that moment then it will very quickly spiderweb out and everything in the world is just clockwork to get to the Grand Central Station showdown. Essentially this movie leans very hard into the idea of predestination which I have never cared for at all.

Teresa palmer has done more movies with numbers than bruce willis 222, 237,parts per million kill me 3 times, triple 9, i am number 4, grudge 2 Also filmed before virus and jason said to avoid this stay inside for 2 wks

I wonder if there is something more to the tossing of the trays that was either cut from the movie or just not explained because it also seemed wasteful to me, though I thought perhaps someone else was taking the papers out and restocking the trays later. I also noticed that Teresa ended every single one of her texts to Dylan with 'xxx" which I have never seen in a movie outside of a person who is having an affair, only for their significant other to find the text on their phone. As for Jonas' intentions at the end, I do think he had the intention of killing Teresa as a backup plan, which is why Dylan had to go to the train station to stop it from happening. It's clear to me that Jonas, who I though was played by mumble-horror mainstay Joe Swanberg for half of the movie, also knew he was a reincarnation as he was stalking Teresa with his whole mega-apartment being filled with portraits of her and that collage of headshots of hers, and saying things like how he hopes Dylan realizes how good he has it being with her and other clingy crap. Then when they are at Grand Central, he asks the ticket guy for tickets to that station that has been closed for 30 years, which if I'm that ticket seller I start wondering why multiple people are asking for tickets to a place that hasn't been running in decades. It's at this point Teresa is starting to see the signs as well and realizes that Dylan was right about the connection between them and the victims from 30 years prior, piled onto by Jonas calling her the previous girl's name. So when she starts to push away from him as he's got both hands on either side of her face and is beet red demanding she say she loves him, it's clear the next thing would have been him using that gun on her right then if Dylan hadn't shown up and taken Jonas' attention off of Teresa. And Dylan breaks the cycle of 2:22 by taking the bullet meant for Teresa, which didn't happen in 87 as evident by how piss poor it was explained in the movie. The standoff concluded with the cop killing the pregnant woman, the guy she really loved killed the cop, and the cops killed him and then framed him as a criminal to cover up the fact that this detective just unprovoked murdered a pregnant chick. Also did this movie have the most overt, on-the-nose soundtrack ever? The ballet song was about being alone and finding someone to love, the park dance song had a similar message and if I recall the flashbacks had some overt music.

I wish I could take credit, but I just copy and pasted it from the podcast description

How could Jason, Paul, and June not realize the twist in the plot? I love you guys but i was surprised none of you three figured it out. Here are the clues i picked up on: the beginning we see the murder in Grand Central Station but never see faces only bodies and the gun. Clearly they wanted us to not know who those people were. (Which turne dout to be a red herring since it was not the same actors playing those three characters.) Dylan and Sarah have the same birthday in 1987. Sarah and Jonas were previously a couple. When Dylan visits the sister who explains the murder love triangle happened 30 years ago it became obvious to me what the twist would be. At that point the little interest i had in the film was gone and I started playing on my phone while watching the movie. @Cameron H. i love that you keep the Jason twitter joke going. I wish they would occasionally bring it up in the show.

Did anyone else notice when Dylan first walks up to Sarah in the bar, she asks if he wants to get out of here. He says yes. Cut scene to a bar. But weren't they just at a bar? If I say i want to get out of here it is because i need a change of scenery but they simply switched bars. Maybe the first place was a restaurant but it definitely had a full bar and therefore i was confounded on their choice. I was expecting them to go to a park or someones apartment, not another bar. Second did anyone else notice that the police did not give a f*** about Dylan when he was dying on the floor of Grand Central Station. Only two cops were shown hovering over Jonas but they were no longer securing the scene, they instead appeared to be talking oblivious to the dying person. Does this mean the final scene of Dylan as a pilot never happened because Dylan bleed out ( not from a gun shot wound but) from the apathy of first responders.

Let’s talk astronomy. If a Star only 30 light years away goes supernova we’re all dead.

I completely agree about the practical effects. I would go so far as to say they look better in HD quality. I can't say that for most movies, even more modern ones. I admit to being tainted by HDTGM. I was so sure the movie makers pulled a Streets of Fire and draped an outside area so scenes could be shot irregardless of the sun. Later it was obvious it was a set, especially when it rains but the Doo-Wop Girls don't get wet until they step out into the street. Even then it doesn't seem like they get very wet. Very good compositing? (GIF from Tumblr)

I can't find anything other than it was a slow build. Roger Corman didn't even think it would be a success so he didn't copyright it. That's why it's in the public domain now and you can find various copies of it floating around. It was shown on TV here and there throughout the 60's and 70's and became a cult following. When home video took off the covers featured Jack Nicholson to gather interest since he was a known star. When I first discovered Death Race 2000, I read Roger Corman's claim that all his movies were profitable so I guess this did well enough.

THANK YOU! That's what I was trying to figure out how to say but couldn't so I didn't. Now that I saw it I like (love?) the idea of Audrey dying, Seymour feeding her and then dying himself. In the original movie Audrey doesn't die but Seymour does, climbing into Audrey Jr. with a hatchet (or axe) to kill Audrey Jr. from the inside. He's successful and the movie ends. If they had ended the movie musical after Seymour I would have been happy with that. I certainly understand buying multiple discs to have both endings and I would agree with doing that. Several streaming services (HBO Max, Vudu, Movies Anywhere, at least) allow both with one subscription, rental, or purchase but you don't physically own anything. I'm getting away from streaming and going back to physical discs. All you own with a streaming is a license. You're counting on them not pulling the movie because their license ran out, or them losing the data that you own the license (as happened with me with iTunes when I had to switch my AppleID to a new e-mail address). Physical is best again. Sorry, I didn't mean to rant. I'll wipe the spittle from my mouth and go back to work.

I think the scene is entertaining and, for two modern comedic icons of the same era, I think this is their only time together other than some SNL skits. But Bill Murray doesn't relate to any main characters. He barely talks to Seymour. We don't learn anything valuable from him. For all it does for the story or characters, you might as well cut in one of his monologues from Caddyshack. If you want something that really reinforces the villainy of the dentist (which this scene does), I think more dialogue with Audrey explaining how little she enjoys BDSM would be way more effective. If you cut it from the movie and showed it to someone for the first time, no one would ask for more of the dentist. I also think the humor is a bit different from everything else we see. It's not that it isn't funny; it's that it's unrelated to the rest of the movie. But I realize this is a controversial take on this section of the movie.

I will agree that the ending—in both the play and the movie—would have been better if it had been a mix: Audrey gets tragically eaten, Seymour escapes but it doesn’t matter because then you establish that the earth is fucked. That’s what shocked me when I saw the play—I figured Audrey was gonna die but was blown away when Seymour gets killed, too. It is an insanely downbeat ending but the play is VERY faithful to the plot of the original movie. I’ve seen this so many times I can recite dialogue, but still the scene where Audrey squeaks when Seymour tells her he named the plant Audrey Ii made me laugh nonstop for the better part of a minute. It’s too bad Ellen Greene didn’t appear in more comedies—she fucking nails it!

I watched the director’s cut on HBO and loved it. Honestly, I think it works so much better. Not only does it capture the play’s ending, but it has AMAZING puppetry. Truly, Frank Oz’s masterwork (although I enjoy Bowfinger as well, but no singing plants in that one). i get that it’s a bleak ending that goes against typical musical tropes, but that’s what makes it work so well. I’ve seen the play performed two years ago (and it was excellent—it’s amazing what they can do with puppetry onstage. Also, the singer for Audrey II definitely had a Levi Stubbs-type vibe and did it really well). It was the first time I’d seen the original ending and it was shocking (although I’d heard how it ended before and knew that Oz hated the studio version). I’ve known several people throughout the years that have found the “happy” ending fun but... also feeling that it was a LITTLE unintentionally racist (these have all been white people who have expressed this opinion to me, by the way). I go back and forth on this, but it is true that it’s slightly cringey that the principal Black character is a) the villain and b)killed by a white man who is not exactly innocent. Although the leads are SUPER charming, that doesn’t change the fact that Seymour is guilty of manslaughter, twice. It feels a little weird that the white dude can go happily off to suburbia. It’s as well-done as a test-mandated happy ending can be, but it does feel a little off. but maybe I just feel the human race deserves to be destroyed by blood-hungry plants! Also, I think Grudian didn’t like the dentist stuff. Disagree 1,000,000%. I love the movie but Steve Martin has my favorite musical number and this is one of my favorite performances of his, because it’s so different. The Bill Murray scene is great. For me, in a movie filled with highly entertaining shit, it very nearly ran away with it. By the way, I saw this in movie theaters. Like 3 times. When I was 12!