Weekend Watchlist: Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bullet Train and Prey
[Izon by Trent Walton fades in, plays alone, fades out]
MIA Hi! Welcome to Weekend Watchlist, a look at what’s screening and streaming brought to you by The Letterboxd Show. I’m Mia, there’s Slim...
SLIM Hello!
MIA And together we’ll dig through what’s dropping this weekend, last weekend, recent trends on Letterboxd and we’ll also take a peek at our own watchlists—all under 30 minutes or your money back!
SLIM Mia, this could be the biggest episode we’ve ever done—your return to the show. Are you excited to be back? Welcome back!
MIA It’s so good to be back. For listeners who do not know, I contracted the plague. You know that plague that’s been going around for the past two and a half years?
SLIM Uh huh...
MIA Yeah, I finally got that. But luckily, I got to see Nope before I got it.
SLIM Yes.
MIA So it hasn’t been all bad.
SLIM Okay, well, we’re glad you’re back.
MIA Thank you.
SLIM And in better health for the podcast.
MIA Yes.
SLIM So this episode, we’ll be spotlighting Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bullet Train, and let me just say my sleeper pick of the year, Prey. We’ll also be spotlighting community reviews tagged ‘Weekend Watchlist’ and we’ll talk about what happens when your friend of mine Dennis Hopper goes a little David Lynch later in the show.
MIA Woo! Week of violence! Let’s go! [Slim laughs] These are violent films—all of them!
SLIM #violence this week.
MIA So first up, we got Bodies Bodies Bodies directed by Halina Reijn. It is limited released right now and it’ll go wide next week. It is on 52,000 watchlists. “In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich, twenty-somethings decides to play ‘bodies, bodies, bodies’, a game where one of them is secretly a ‘killer’, while the rest try to ‘escape’. Things take a turn for the worst when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.”
SLIM Oh my word. I , I think this premiere maybe at South by Southwest this year, and there was a definite buzz floating around in Slack on Twitter. And you’ve seen this. So what’s the buzz? What’s happening with this movie?
MIA So I saw this a couple months ago—it’s true, it’s true. What is happening with this movie is that Lee Pace is 6′5″ and he... is in the film! [Mia & Slim laugh]
SLIM Adds to watchlist.
MIA Yes, exactly. No, but he’s so funny, and so was Rachel Sennott, she’s also in the movie and they both have such hilarious chemistry. It’s so much fun to watch them together. The script really kind of relies on the improv talent of the cast—
SLIM Oh...
MIA Which is okay, because everyone’s so, so talented and really rolls with the punches. It can feel a little bit messy because of this, but that messiness actually kind of works because it’s exploring like messy friendships and it kind of mirrors that. So overall, I had a blast. It’s fun. [Mia laughs]
SLIM Would you consider this like a slasher-horror or like a horror-comedy? What would you call it?
MIA Definitely more horror-comedy—it’s got the laughs. It’s kind of skewering Gen Z slash younger Millennials. But in a way that’s not like finger-wagging at them, I suppose.
SLIM Okay.
MIA Like it’s—the humor comes from authenticity, even though they’re not being authentic... It’s really interesting.
SLIM There are whispers that you might have spoken to a certain 6′5″ actor on the telephone and maybe, maybe next week we’ll hear some of that.
MIA Yeah!
SLIM Can you drop a teaser at all about that conversation?
MIA Yes, I did talk with with Mr. Lee Pace. We also talked about a movie that Slim, I think that you may be might like, it’s called Top Gun...
SLIM Ohh!
MIA So if you tune in next week, you might get to hear a little bit of Lee X Top Gun.
SLIM Okay. Ayo Edebiri from The Bear—which everyone that I know is watching on Hulu—left a review: “Ok, critics are saying I had a damn blast…! Soooo FUN. Loved the direction. Piiitch perfect performances. YOU MUST SEE IN A THEATER! So fun to watch with a group of strangers.” So very positive take on that movie.
MIA We have another review from Josh Ruben, director of Scare Me and Werewolves Within: “Rachel Sennott is a goddamn genius.”
SLIM Oh my god.
MIA I have to agree. She is easily the standout. Oh my god. She was so funny. She has a podcast, so I really related to her—her character has a podcast... [Slim & Mia laugh]
SLIM To be clear...
MIA To be clear—maybe she does, but she’s a lot of fun. Definitely see it if you’re part of the Rachel-hive.
SLIM Okay, what about Bullet Train, our next movie this week. Brad Pitt—how tall is Brad Pitt? Is he 6′5″? Do we know his height?
MIA No. He is 6′. exactly, I believe.
SLIM Oh my word, okay. Lee towering over him. Directed by David Leitch, this is in theaters, 48k watchlists. “Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug’s latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world’s fastest train.” Bullet Train poster came out, everyone’s like, ‘Is this a real movie? Brad Pitt on a bullet train?’ Mia, you heard about this movie?
MIA Sorry, I just have to say one thing, I got his height wrong... [Slim & Mia laugh] He’s 5′11″. So I need to—
SLIM You know the Brad Pitt fans are typing an iTunes review right now, “Mia got Brad’s height wrong, please!”
MIA And I knew it was 5′11″ because we used to be married... [Slim laughs] And so, it’s humiliating... I got it mixed up because Robert Pattinson, my new husband, is 6′ exactly.
SLIM Okay.
MIA So, I’m sorry everybody. Brat Pitt—
SLIM People make mistakes! You know, with your exes.
MIA Brad Pitt is 5′11″.
SLIM Yes, 5′11″ Brad.
MIA Yeah, so he’s not 6′.
SLIM No. Okay.
MIA Yeah, so maybe you don’t want to ride the bullet train... [Slim laughs] No, I’m kidding—
SLIM I feel like we’re workshopping Letterboxd reviews right now from you down the line, once you actually see Bullet Train. [Slim laughs] This is from the director of Deadpool 2. I grew up a major Deadpool fan and then Deadpool hit like nuclear popularity and I kind of checked out. But the X War stuff in Deadpool 2 I thought was like, super funny. So Brad and David are back together again for Bullet Train.
MIA I am on the opposite end of the Deadpool spectrum, I believe—hich is okay! Isn’t that beautiful?
SLIM So wait, you’re a Deadpool fan? Or you’re not a Deadpool fan?
MIA No, I’m a Deadpool anti, I kind of believe that he ruined popular culture.
SLIM Oh my...
MIA I know! It’s a heavy charge to put on that guy.
SLIM It is a very heavy charge. First you got Brad’s height wrong, bow you’re saying Deadpool ruined society, what’s next on this episode? [Mia laughs]
MIA I know, I know, I know. It’s a hot take for me.
SLIM What about Brad? What about Brad in an action-comedy movie Bullet Train? That’s probably going to bring you back in, right?
MIA I know. Well, I am, I am intrigued by—as I mentioned, we used to be married—and I am intrigued by the idea of him kind of embarrassing himself on the big screen. I saw the trailer and I think he’s like saying things like “Holy shitballs!” and like calling a woman a ‘Karen’. So that’s kind of the main draw for me. But I was supposed to see the Bullet Train. I was supposed to ride the Bullet Train on Monday. But, you know, I have this plague. So I decided, hm, maybe it’s not... worth it to infect—
SLIM You want to save lives.
MIA Yeah, I was actually being a hero by not riding the train.
SLIM You’re my Deadpool.
MIA Thank you! Thank you so much! I’m off to destroy popular culture. [Slim & Mia laugh] No, but I will be seeing Bullet Train ultimately, because I am fun and I like to have fun.
SLIM David Erlich, dear friend of the show, left a review for Bullet Train: “If Bullet Train is one of the worst movies that Brad Pitt has ever starred in—better than Troy, but a hair short of The Mexican—this big shiny nothing of a blockbuster is also a remarkable testament to the actor’s batting average over the last 30 years, and some of the best evidence we have as to why he’s been synonymous with the movies themselves for that entire time.” I feel like this could be my [The] Gray Man, like I liked [The] Gray Man, you know? And I might like Bullet Train, so I’m in! I’m all in!
MIA Yeah, he’s in that little bucket hat. Do you think he insisted on wearing the bucket hat because he wears them in real life?
SLIM It’a a very, it’s a very specific wardrobe. I feel like at this point, he’s like, ‘Just let me wear whatever I want.’ Like, what’s-his-face, Tom Hardy in Venom. You know Tom Hardy chose his own wardrobe and those movies. It’s obvious.
MIA Okay! More violence—more violence ahead. We’ve got Prey, directed by Dan Trachtenberg, Mr. 10 Cloverfield Lane, a film I loved. Prey is dropping on Hulu, it is on 16,000 watchlists. “On the Great Plains in 1719, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior, sets out to protect her people when an unknown danger threatens them. But the prey she’s stalking turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.”
SLIM Mia, our long Predator national nightmare is finally over. We’ve been through so much pain over the years, Predator fans. And I watched this this week, I said in my review that this is like “Top Gun: Maverick for Predator simps like me.” I love the story. I love that she is a member of the Comanche and she’s fighting kind of the norms of women not being the warrior in her group. I loved her little dog sidekick, and I loved that she was haunting Predator for the most part of the movie.
MIA Yeah, I think it’s cool that they have a Comanche-cut as well—
SLIM Yes.
MIA Where they’re all speaking the language. I think that’s really neat. I also think it’s cool that—just so everybody’s not super nervous, the dog is okay the whole movie.
SLIM Yes.
MIA No spoilers, but the dog is fine. You don’t have to be afraid.
SLIM Rest easy.
MIA Sometimes I get very afraid if there’s a little doggie or a little kitty companion. [Mia laughs]
SLIM So what did you think of Prey? Do you have a Predator history?
MIA So Slim... I was actually hoping you could catch me up a little bit on this Predator guy, because truthfully, before Prey, I had not seen a single Predator film, because I’m a big fan of Alien, and I know that he fights my beloved Alien and I kind of bought into that false dichotomy. So I automatically am like, ‘Predator’s my enemy.’ So I never watched any of them. But after watching this one, I had a blast. So I’d like to know a little bit more about this guy.
SLIM Sure. Yeah, this is like a prequel, you can say this is like a prequel, it’s not really a sequel, it takes place 300 years in the past or whatever. But the famous one is the Arnold Schwarzenegger one where he runs his like covert-military-op rescue mission in the jungle, and then they encounter ‘a predator’. And in the sequel to that, it takes place I think in like LA during a summer heatwave and predominantly all the Predator movies, like the race of predators hunt in the heat. Like that’s their like, they come to earth as almost like their playing-field to just like annihilate people and hunt them. So Predator is regarded as the best one. Predator 2 has its fans, Danny Glover is the star of that one. But the rest, you know... not great.
MIA Which one has Topher Grace?
SLIM That’s Predators. And that one has, believe it or not, Adrien Brody as like the sexy-star leading-man, which is bizarre.
MIA I’ve heard of this. That is bizarre and I will be watching. [Slim laughs] Regardless of the quality of the movie.
SLIM Yes.
MIA I don’t, I don’t care if Adrien Brody and Topher Grace are in the Predator movie, I’ll check it out on that alone.
SLIM Predators has an awesome opening and Adrien Brody plays the Arnold Schwarzenegger-esque character, which is a crazy sentence to say.
MIA That’s hilarious. [Mia laughs]
SLIM It’s good. The Shane Black[-directed] The Predator, I did not like, so I had like really low expectations going into Prey and they were exceptionally exceeded. So I hope people check this out on Hulu. There’s, like you said, there’s going to be a Comanche version that they filmed. So the version that we watched was in the English language, but I’d love to rewatch with my son and check out the Comanche version.
MIA Yes, I had a great time. And again, I am a Predator noob.
SLIM When you go back and watch Predator, you’ll finally get the meme of like, Arnold and Carl Weathers, like their arms meeting.
MIA That’s what that’s from?
SLIM That movie, yeah.
MIA The shaking, the hands? Oh my god. Okay. Yeah, I’ll watch that. And I’ll watch Predators with Adrien Brody and Topher Grace. [Slim laughs]
SLIM Yes! All right, so lightning round—two other releases out this week, just real quick before we look back at last week. They/Them directed by John Logan—
MIA They slash Them, Slim!
SLIM I’m sorry, you’re right.
MIA The slash is very important!
SLIM They slash Them—even though there’s not a lot of slashing in this movie, I’ll say that. So I need to talk to the producers of this movie who chose that title. They/Them, John Logan, Paramount+, 9,000 watchlists. “Campers at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp endure unsettling psychological techniques while the campsite is stalked by a mysterious killer.” This is a 2.6 average on Letterboxd right now. And then the last one before we look back at last week, I Love My Dad, directed by James Morosini, also starring him, in theaters, 3,000 watchlists, 3.6 average. “A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.” And I was watching a little YouTube interview, apparently this actually happened to James in real life. His own dad catfished him by pretending to be a sexy-lady on the internet to reconnect with his own son. Can you believe that?
MIA Whoa. And it seemed to work, so... and movies are an endorsement of behavior... [Slim laughs] As we all know...
SLIM Patton Oswalt stars as the dad, so I know there’s probably a lot of Patton fans out there.
MIA Oh yeah, there’s a Remy, Remy the Rat hive for sure.
SLIM Big time Rat-hive.
MIA Yeah, big time Rat-hive. [Mia & Slim laugh]
SLIM So let’s look back at last week. What do you want to spotlight when you think back to last week, Mia?
MIA Oh, I know exactly what I want to spotlight. I want to spotlight Resurrection. I was so bummed that I was too sick to come on the podcast last week, because this is one of my favorite films of the year. I rewatched it in anticipation of going on the pod to talk about it. It is just—it was just such a surprise to me. Like I just kind of watched at Sundance like, ‘Oh, whatever, Tim Roth is in this. I’ll check it out.’ And then I was blown away! Rebecca Hall’s performance is incredible, her like seven-minute monologue...
SLIM Oh my god.
MIA That just tore me apart. When she yells like, “Impede my mission once more and I’ll beat you till you’re dead!” That was awesome. [Slim & Mia laugh]
SLIM Yes.
MIA I’m like, ‘What!’ And then of course, we’ve got Tim Roth, English character-actor, Tim Roth, one of the best in the game. He is playing his creepiest character yet, I’m kind of a Tim Roth expert, but I will say this is his freakiest role, at least for me. He is terrifying. Oh, man. I still don’t even fully know what’s going on with him in this, I need to like watch interviews of him talking about the role because it’s just so fascinating to me. Yeah, I loved Resurrection. Please check it out!
SLIM Please.
MIA And then I also wanted to spotlight Nope, because I saw Nope right before I got sick. And again, I love this one as well. It really interrogates the state of the American spectacle, while also being a spectacle itself and being wildly entertaining. And just really what a blockbuster should be, just very both smart and entertaining, you know? And it seems like that’s a little hard to come by these days. But yeah, I saw it in IMAX. I loved it. If anybody knows where I can cop Steven Yeun’s red, bedazzled UFO cowboy outfit, please let me know. It is my dream outfit.
SLIM What an amazing Halloween costume or like cosplay opportunity that would be.
MIA Yes! That’s what I was thinking while watching. I was like, I need to dress like him for Halloween. [Slim laughs] I have the time. This is it. I’m going to be Steven Yeun. Not a lot of Korean characters out there for me to be. So we’ve got one! Yeah!
SLIM Brian Formo, dear friend of the show, also left a review for Resurrection: “I walked out of a therapy session—centered on how I need to be aware of the moments when I grant space to aggressors and gaslighters due to transgressions in my youth—and right into this? LMAO.”
MIA Yeah, this is—
SLIM Bad timing, bad timing, Brian. [Slim laughs]
MIA Yeah, this is a psychological torture.
SLIM Yes.
MIA But in a good way!
SLIM Bianca, last one for Resurrection: “Great psychological horror and damn Rebecca Hall is firing on all cylinders! Her monologue alone is enough to hand her a Best Actress nomination. On top of that she impressively showcases just how insidious psychological and emotional abuse can be.” Loved Resurrection, watch it, please.
MIA Yes, she deserves the Best Actress nomination. We have a review of Not Okay, directed by Quinn Shephard on Hulu, 3.2 average from neonghostwolf: “This is Mia Isaac’s world and we just live in it. Really good satire about fame and things you do about to get it.” Yes, I really enjoyed Mia Isaac’s performance in this and not just because we share a name. [Slim laughs] She really blew me away. She was also great in Don’t Make Me Go with John Cho, which came out a little earlier this year. Yeah, very impressed with her performance. We have a another review of Vengeance directed by BJ Novak, in theaters, 3.6 average. This review from Emma Hodge: “It was a lot darker than I expected and surprisingly pregnant. Trying to pinpoint the cause of this country’s biggest problems is a nearly impossible task and the film almost gets there. Fantastic ending.”
SLIM Big week. Big week of releases.
MIA Oh yeah.
SLIM We checked in with Jack, Jack Facts, he’s back for his Bodies Bodies Bodies has squeezed in at number 50. It premiered, as we mentioned, earlier South by Southwest with their release officially kicking off this weekend and wider next weekend. But then there’s also This is GWAR at seventeen. A rock-doc about the heavy-metal band on Shudder.
MIA Huh!
SLIM Do you listen any GWAR, Mia? Do you have any favorite GWAR songs?
MIA Wow, I am not familiar with GWAR. I’m not super familiar with heavy-metal, but I it because I’m a rock-and-roll gal. So, that’s cool that a rock-doc is sneaking in there.
SLIM GWAR, if you want to come on the pod, we’ll do a live show. It’s like Mad God on that stage when you’re seeing GWAR.
MIA Oh so you’re familiar with GWAR?
SLIM I’ve seen videos, I don’t think I’ve ever heard any of their music but I know that their show is very monstrous—monster-ish? There’s a lot of monstering.
MIA So that’s why it’s on Shudder, with Mad God. So you could do a Mad God, This is GWAR double feature.
SLIM We’ll collab with Shudder. Shudder, call us. We will take credit for that. Final segment of the show is when we talk about our watchlists, you know, everyone adds these movies to their watchlists and then we usually get together and we shuffle our watchlist. And whichever one is the first one on the list, we watch before the next episode. So, what did you get when you shuffled when you were last on the show?
MIA Well call me Mia Atreides because I was a woman in the frickin’ dunes! It feels like forever ago when I watched Woman in the Dunes, but it was just two weeks ago. I caught a gorgeous 35mm print at the New Bev. Oh wow, I had never seen this one before. So it was, um... God, how do I put this movie into words? Like... [Mia laughs] It is some of the most beautifully photographed sand I have ever seen in my life, just like the texture of the sand, the black-and-white cinematography. I was really, really blown away. This is a masterpiece of a film. It is not as sexually torturous as the Letterboxd synopsis will have you believe. It’s more about the futility of capitalism and how capitalism just feels like you’re just digging in the sand forever with no end in sight, no reward, which is a form of psychological torture. So... you got that... but not not as much sexual, I will be honest. So make that—
SLIM There’s like a hype around this movie, that it’s like sexy, like sex, Woman in the Dunes, sex!
MIA Yeah! It has ‘erotic’ in the tagline, and of course there are some erotic scenes but not what I was expecting, I suppose. I think I was going into it a little too depraved. [Mia laughs]
SLIM It happens to the best of us. [Slim laughs]
MIA But, it’s a masterpiece. It’s in the Letterboxd Top 250—unimpeachably great!
SLIM BurtonMacReady might have been also at your screening. So we keep an eye out for reviews tagged ‘Weekend Watchlist’ and this one popped up. They left a review: “This had been near the top of my watchlist for some time. I was on the fence if I should go see it at the New Beverly tonight but I was listening to the Letterboxd podcast Weekend Watchlist and co-host Mia got it as her weekly watchlist pick, which inspired me to go. Thank God I waited to see it in a theater because it is an incredibly hypnotic experience. With overwhelming visuals and sparse but abrasive sounds.” So very positive take as well from BurtonMacReady.
MIA My buddy Burton! I wonder if we were in the same show. That’s awesome! Wow, I’m a Woman in the Dunes influencer.
SLIM Weren’t we joking about this too? Like you walking into the screening with like your sunglasses on?
MIA Paparazzi bulbs flashing! [Slim laughs]
SLIM Maybe Burton was getting flashed too by those bulbs! [Mia laughs] So my shuffle last week was a movie called Catchfire, Dennis Hopper directed, Jodie Foster starring. And this one has like a bit of a history where I think upon release, Dennis Hopper had his name taken off, so it’s listed as like, ‘Co-directed by Alan Smithee’ you know, the fake made-up director name. Eventually there was a Director’s Cut released, which restored his name and had a new title, I think was called Backfire. So that’s the version I watched. Dennis Hopper stars with Jodie and Dennis Hopper plays a hitman who gets hired to kill Jodie Foster because she witnessed a hit, but over the course of the years that she escapes, he like falls in love with her. And when he finally gets a hold of her he like, professes his love for her and kidnaps her. And oddly, she falls in love with him in this movie! [Slim laughs] So the movie is very absurd. It’s got a great cast. I compared it to like a watered-down David Lynch movie. I did not vibe with it really at all, personally. So I’m on a bit of a losing streak with my shuffles, but I’m glad I experienced it. You haven’t watched Catchfire, have you, Mia?
MIA No, but it’s reminded me of Almodóvar’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! which is kind of a similar thing about a guy who kidnaps a woman and they fall for each other. But it’s done, it’s like more of a comedy, like it’s lighter.
SLIM Oh okay. What’s that Almodóvar movie where like, the one when he performed surgery on someone?
MIA The Skin I Live In?
SLIM Oh my god. That is a wild movie.
MIA That is a wild one. The gender is all over the place in there! [Mia laughs]
SLIM Geez Louise. Bonkers movie.
MIA Yeah.
SLIM Boy. So let’s spotlight some reviews from our community. Kev watched Being There, shuffled their watchlist: “Have you ever bought a movie because you’ve heard how great it is, had it sit in your apartment for over a year, land on it in the Letterboxd Weekend Watchlist Shuffle, sat on it for like 2 months, and then made your way through it, kicking and screaming, in half-hour installments?”
MIA Oh no!
SLIM Kev, that’s a journey. That is a journey and a half. Thank you for making that journey with us.
MIA Oooh. That’s—my mom’s always telling me to watch Being There, because Peter Sellars reminds her of my cat, because they both have like a very blank stare, I guess? I haven’t seen the film, but apparently he’s just very blank. I don’t know if that’s interesting.
SLIM The poster is very famous. I recognize the Being There poster with the guy walking in air, he’s got the little suitcase umbrella.
MIA Yeah, that’s my cat!
SLIM That’s Brad, on the poster walking in there?
MIA Yeah, that’s Brad, Brad my cat. [Slim laughs] You can fact check that! You can look it up! [Mia laughs]
SLIM Yes, we have another review. Liam’s Re-Animator review—ooh, Re-Animator is also on my watchlist, I want to say. “I mean is this one of the greatest horror movies ever made or what. Knew I would love it from the opening credits with that awesome remix of the Psycho theme. Some really amazing gore and blood effects and it’s crazy how this is only 85 minutes and puts so much great stuff into it. Also, does no one talk about how ridiculously gay this movie is?” Wow, you know, nobody does talk about that because I did not know that and now it’s bumping to the top of my watchlist.
SLIM God, I have this watched, but I do not have a review. I might need to have this at the top of my watchlist, personally, Re-Animator.
MIA Woo! The big, gay Re-Animator watch. [Slim laughs] Let’s do it.
SLIM Last review we’ll spotlight before we shuffle again, Matthew Lyon’s [The] Adventures of Tintin review: “Why did they only make half a film? It’s Dune: Part One all over again.” Strong words for Matthew. I agree about the Dune aspect by the way, but we won’t go there this episode.
MIA Oh yeah, that’s a whole—that’s a whole special.
SLIM That’s a whole can of worms that I don’t feel like opening up. Alright, so let’s go to our watchlist. Go to service, I’m going to go to stream-only.
MIA Yes!
SLIM And then sort by shuffle and that will be the movie I have to watch for next week. And feel free to along and shuffle your own watchlist to find something brand new. [Shuffle sound plays] The Perfume of the Lady in Black. “Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.” Oh my word. So my buddy, the reason this is on my watchlist, is my buddies’ podcast, Bat & Spider, covered this in their recent episodes. So now I can finally weasel this in and along on that episode.
MIA Nice!
SLIM What about you, Mia? What are you going to shuffle and get?
MIA Let me see... Click! [Shuffle sound plays] [Mia & Slim laugh] Oh... I got the Colin Farrell mermaid movie, Ondine, 2009 directed by Neil Jordan of Interview with the Vampire. So he’s going from vampires to mermaids. ‘An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net, believing her to be a mermaid.”
SLIM So wait, you just said this is a Colin Farrell movie?
MIA He’s the Irish fisherman in question!
SLIM Is your watchlist just Colin Farrell movies at this point? [Slim laughs]
MIA Yes, that is a large chunk of the watchlist. I am a Farrell completionist, so this will get me a little closer. Yes, he’s playing an Irish fisherman named Syracuse.
SLIM How tall is Colin Farrell?
MIA Oh, oh, I know this. If I had to guess, I feel like he’s 5′10″… Let me see… [Slim laughs] Come on. Come on! Yes!! He’s 5′10″! [Slim laughs]
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MIA Thanks to our crew and thanks to Letterboxd member Sophie Shin for the episode transcript. And to you, for listening. Weekend Watchlist is a Tapedeck production.
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