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Ooh, E spam down. We're getting to the car series now. Which is actually really good for me because uh I have now reached the uh age of which uh I now am only
into uh classic muscle cars. So I I've reached that weird man age where that's all I can think about now. It's a nineteen seventy Dodge Charger.
Your uh your midlife crisis is to opine for cars of the past. Mine is to get obsessed with the speed of the cars of the future and go in electric.
There you go, yeah, there you go. See we're all so it's all about the uh I mean it really is boys and their toys, isn't it?
Well th this series more is more about road menace.
Yeah, yeah, Road Menaces this series. But I mean still uh in mine at least, the dude's car was pretty sweet. I I was sad that it you know, what happened to it.
Well, the Valiant is fucking gorgeous. Yes. And I don't disagree. I think the seventies are a little too boxy for my taste. For some of the vehicles, just let me say that, not all of them. The tail end of the sixties
Where it was still rounded off and then just starting to get boxy. That's the look of the cars I like the most myself.
I and you'd be all right with seventy seventy one cars as well, uh'cause they're also still kinda rounded off. Uh
It's that training.
When you get into the Yeah. But I get what you say, when you get into the mid seventies it shit starts getting real boxy. Yeah.
Yeah, it gets very, very boxy looking. Um and by the eighties, things just get really, really weird. Like mustangs from like the late.
sec seventies or into the early eighties are like some of my least favorites to the looks. Yeah. Same with the Corvettes too, because they start they're still rounded more, the Corvettes, so I like the way that those look, but you know, just the way that it is.
Yeah.
I mean, for my money hands down, there is only one muscle car in my heart. And you happen to know where that has to be because you happen to know what movie that has to be from, because that was one of our major covers that we did very recently.
Which one is it again?
The Hemikuda from Phantasm.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Hemikuda from Phantasm. Oh my god. And and same for me. I mean I love that. I mean my favorite right now i it's always a flip of the sixty nine Dodge Charger or the seventy Dodge Charger.
No, I I totally get that.
One of those two for me. Uh you know, I like a sixty nine Dodge Charger, just don't paint it, you know, hunter orange and have a racist flag on the top of it.
Uh
But when I was a little kid and and first saw that car and that was the version that Deuce a hazard, I didn't know anything about all that, all right? I just knew it was a car that went fast.
Yeah.
And they're r and they're running from cops. So that's I was like, Okay, well yeah, I'd run from a cop too.
Yeah, the rule always is and always shall be ye ha and fuck the law.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unfortunately they just put uh you know, a loser's flag on top. And that's that ha happens to some people.
All right, we're not talking about that stuff. We're actually talking this week. Um, now I'm not sure if people are aware or not, but the movie that we're covering this week, they may not have actually looked at the title. Sometimes they just listen. We're doing dual, right? Wow.
Wow. Duel. And uh not only that, directed by m Mr. Steven Spielberg.
Not familiar. Did he do anything after this?
Did you do anything after? You know, I don't know man. What are you thinking?
It's a real shame'cause I mean, spoiler alert, this movie's really well done.
It's an epic movie, man. It keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the whole fucking thing.
really wish that he had a more more of a career than this'cause I don't I've never
Me too, man. I I really think he could have been really good at period pieces.
Maybe.
I mean I just think I think he had an eye for that for some reason. But you know, whatever.
Yeah. He's very DTL oriented, very good at building tension, and it's just a shame we've never heard from what did you say his name was again? I'm sorry.
Steven Spielberg? It might be Spiel Herg? I don't know. I don't know how the B goes. It might be a hard B, soft B. I just don't know.
Uh. Okay. Well hope hopefully you know hopefully hopefully whatever ended up happening with uh Steven's life at
You know?
Yeah.
I hope he's doing all right.
He's probably an accountant or like a or maybe like a he's probably retired by now. I mean you gotta say seventy one. You know, hopefully he just has a nice life.
That's really just because I mean this is this movie turned out great. What a bunch of dicks.
Yeah.
I propose to you that we just keep trolling the audience and just keep that going, wouldn't you?
Yeah, this one you know what, I I agree. I think we just keep going that this director's never done anything else in his entire life.
Well with that note, we're gonna take the break here. We're gonna play a little bit of music. Maybe we'll have something else. I'll figure out whatever I'm gonna edit in here to to lull us a little bit. And when we come back we will talk about uh Steven's
Spielberg's.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's how you pronounce it.
But the movies duels from nineteen seventy one.
Yeah, very up. That's okay.
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Well, whatever I just played, hopefully it was entertaining and kept people uh ready to listen to us talk about duel between when we were kinda talking about duel and now when we're talking about duel.
Yeah. Because, you know, we're we have to duel.
It's dueling.
So let's get going.
Talking yeah, we're not gonna actually duel. That'd be horrible. I mean
I don't wanna ruin this poor guy, Steven Spielberg's movie. I'cause especially'cause I don't know if he ever did anything else. I don't think so. So you know, I kinda wanna be kind to this one and only movie he's ever had.
That's that's fair. Why don't we go ahead and get started on the review?
to address that.
Alright, let's do it. Uh, duel. The first thirty minutes, uh, we start and this dude's driving. He's like you we follow him, he's like we just we see like it's like the
uh the POV at the front of the car. Pull out the driveways, go through the city and you know, getting out of the city, you radio shows are happening. And then we cut to we finally see him because this is all opening credits and he's just driving.
Sweet looking car, valiant. Uh and nice red too. Uh and he has this big truck that's on the side of him uh or in front of him. So he just passes him on the highway. Nothing serious, nothing terrible, you know, no cutoffs just passing a big oil truck it seems and you know and then you just go.
And then the truck speeds up and passes him and then slows down so he passes the truck again.
Uh, they both stop at a gas station. The attendant comes out and we see the guy leaving the truck, but we only see his feet. You never see the guy.
Um the mechanic checking the car, you know, because you know, these in the old days, you'd take your car, they'd fill it up with gas for you and then also give it to once over.
And he's like, You might want to check out the radiator hose, and the guy's like, Uh yeah, I've heard that before. Uh he goes inside to call his wife, and that is our first clip.
This would be the way.
Yeah, this would be it. This this would be podcasting.
Uh it's me.
What's the matter? Do you have an answer?
No, no, no, there's nothing like that
Nothing happened. I just...
Amen.
Well, I I just wanted to uh to apologize. You don't have to apologize. Well I know I don't have to and I wanted to.
When I left the house this morning you were asleep, so I just wanted to call you up and tell you that uh...
I uh I'm sorry about last night. Oh, I really don't even want to talk about it. Well Don't you think maybe we ought to?
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No, because if we talk about it we'll just get into a fight and you wouldn't want that, would you? Of course not.
Well what is what is that supposed to mean? Oh, never mind. Just a minute. No, I I know I know what it's supposed to mean. I mean it means that you you think that I should should go out and and and call Steve Henderson up and and challenge him to a fist fight or something.
No, of course not. But I mean, I think you could have at least said something to the man last night. I mean, after all, you
It's probably time to rape me in front of that whole party. Oh come on, honey.
Just forget it. You gonna be home by six thirty? If Forbes lets me go in time. Well, is it that important that you see him?
Well, he's leaving for Hawaii in the morning. The way he's been griping to the front office, if I don't reach him today, I could lose the account.
You said there would be no problem about getting home on time. There probably won't be.
Sure, mother. God knows she's not coming to see me. Honey, I said there probably won't be a problem. Well, just be on time, okay?
All right.
Okay, I'll be there.
Uh so after listening that we can tell this is a man who maybe avoids conflict whenever he can.
Uh his wife was there kind of an argument because apparently a coworker of his or somebody at a party was uh like uh apparently dry humping her and her words almost was raping her.
Uh, and uh so that caused a fight. Uh, because he didn't do enough. Uh like he just talked to the guy, but you know, she felt he could have done sh he should have done more.
Well, and also like if she truly feels like he was practically raping her in front of people, shouldn't there be some kind of charges or at least recompense beyond just a stern talking to?
This is nineteen seventy, so I'm gonna say probably
Yeah.
Unfortunately, we've got to be able to do that.
No way.
Yeah.
I mean it's it's still not so much a good time for the ladies right now.
No, that's what I'm saying. It has never been a good time for the ladies. That is what I'm saying. Never.
Yeah. Never. Fuck. Um so uh yeah, but you know, and then his mother's she's like you're gonna be over time, she has to meet this guy to save a client or whatever and
And uh his mom's coming in and it's like the the you know, old trope of the mother in law doesn't like the wife and all that kinda stuff, so
He's you know, he's going through it as a dude. Uh you know, he's uh he's he's he's had a d himself a day. Uh so anyway he gets back into his car and we got more driving and the truck shows up again.
So this time he waves him around saying, All right, I'm done he's like done playing this fucking game, right? He's like, you know what? Fuck it.
Uh, I don't need this, raves him around. The truck goes around him and then slows right the fuck down and he's like, I gave you the road, what do you want? And he blocks any attempt for the guy to try to go around him. Well then
He waves him off, like, all right, you know, you was done fucking with him. Well when the guy gets in the other lane, all of a sudden there's an oncoming car that he couldn't see and it almost hits him. So now this truck driver has crossed into a whole new territory of being a dick.
Well no, he was trying to purposely kill him there when he wanted him to go around. Yeah. Yeah, he wanted he wanted him to front end the other car.
That alone should have been enough for the guy to be like, all right, I am going to just pull over somewhere, call the people that are ahead, tell them I'm not going to make it, and then go the fuck home and get away from the direction this guy's headed. This is so
Because this guy's
Yeah.
Pissing me off already. And uh I'm I'm done with this shit.
It's like listen, dude, the guy tried to fucking kill you. Get the fuck away from him now and go back to your family.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Just get back to the fam, you'll be fine. Uh y talk to your boss, just say, Hey yeah, this guy was trying to kill me. Uh pretty crazy, boss.
Uh so no I didn't make the fucking meeting. My bad. Uh I'm trying to live here. And uh yeah, something like that need to happen because that was uh that was scary shit.
And that was that's kinda like the first jump scare of the movie, like where you're like, Holy fuck So then he sees there's this unpaved, kind of like service type road and he uses that to pass the oil truck. Uh the truck then gets on his ass
and almost rams him off the road. At this point he slides off the road r across the street from a diner, takes out a white picket fence.
Uh the truck drives by and this leads to our next clip.
He's alright.
What happened?
Thank you.
That truck rabble tried to kill me. Kill you? Go. Chase me down the mountain
At nearly nine miles an hour. I don't don't know what else you'd call it.
Well that that's okay.
Anything I can do for you? No, no, no, nothing. Thank you. No, that's okay. Okay.
Just a little whiplash is all.
What happened out there mister?
Shall I use your men's room, please? Yeah, through the door. On the right. Down the hall. Turn left. Second door.
Amen.
I will you never know.
You just never know.
Thank you.
You just go along figuring some things don't change ever.
Like being able to drive on a public highway without somebody trying to murder you.
And then one stupid thing happens.
20, 25 minutes out of your whole life.
And all the ropes that kept you hanging in there get cut loose.
Thank you.
And it's like there you are. Right back in the jungle again.
All right, boy, it was a nightmare, but it's over now.
It's all over it.
All right. That's the end of the first thirty.
When he crashes into the
Yeah, the fence after the clip, then yeah, it's that's the end of the first thirty. He's got a lot of problems, you know, n not a lot of problems. He just you know
conflict avoidance, that kind of stuff. But yeah, this is this is next level stuff here.
Yeah. I just wanted to kind of talk about first of all, for a first time director
I know that the I I've kind of heard that this director had been kind of making f you know, short films, student films, shooting stuff like a most of his life before actually making this. But for I I believe this was a made for TV movie back in the day, wasn't it?
I believe so. There is a theatrical release as well, but yes, I believe it was more of a made for T V movie.
Yeah. Okay, so on a made for TV movie budget, he was able to bring out this much tension. There's a lot of promise in here and it's really saw like sad we've just never heard from him again.
No, I mean is it I mean uh you know, knowing this like this world he probably went on to become like a veterinarian or something.
Yeah, I just hope he did some good in the world, you know.
Yeah, me too. Opie brought some joy to people's lives. I I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he became an archaeologist and a professor. You know, you never know. Never know. Never know. Maybe
Also fought Nazi Nazis in the thirties. Yeah.
He might have fought some Nazis. You never know.
Maybe maybe he went and uh helped out an alien.
Yeah.
Found a crystal skull.
find a Christmas call yeah you never know maybe you know phoned home maybe phoned home I don't know maybe
We photoshopped a bunch of walkie talkies into people's hands instead of girls.
Yeah, because the fuck.
I've got to keep this going.
Up making the alterations.
Yeah, no, this this is it's apparent the level of tension, the way that the shots are laid out to create the tension. This is him making a dry run at Jaws, only Bruce is the fucking scary ass, rusty ass fucking tanker truck.
Exactly. Exactly. Uh when I was uh explaining the movie to my wife, she goes, It's sounds like maximum overdrive, only there's an actual person inside the killer truck and I'm like, Yeah, kinda.
Yeah. No, this is essentially a serial killer in a truck. Yeah. Like to me, because
Much.
Uh all of his he's got a shit ton of license plates all over the front of his truck, so you can never really tell where he's actually from or where it's actually registered.
It's a rusty, fucked up old truck that people do not want to look at, and he is purposely finding someone to fuck with and hunt with this truck. Yeah. That is such a
Exactly. I always that's how I thought about it and then I thought about another one that's also a little bit scary. And it's this guy's just drive truck for years, years, years, years, years, years, years from one end of the country to the other.
Probably has an couple exes, you know, ex wives, you know, no family anymore, like no kids, probably just'cause he's always been on the road and maybe he was just thinking about that too much one day and this guy just ended up passing him and that just snapped him. And this is the first.
Ha ha ha.
Yeah, that's pretty good, man. Um, that's a possibility. Like maybe he's an owner operator. This is his truck, and this is his tanker.
Yeah, I mean,
he this is like a run that he just absolutely has to do, but something went wrong. Maybe he got his pay docked. Maybe he didn't get paid for the run that he just did. And that's the end of him being able to own this fucking tanker.
And this motherfucker did what he did and it just so happened to be the wrong guy on the right day that did the dumbass thing.
And boom, he snapped. Yeah. That's a that's a way to look at it. I I personally, me being the darker sicker fuck that I am, I like to p think that this guy's collecting trophies going up and down the highways picking out guys like this.
And what I would love is he could still be a serial killer. This is just the first kill. Or at least the first attempt.
Yeah, yeah.
He finally like I said, like you said, pay doc, baby boss on his ass, realizes he has two ex wives who took everything, doesn't have any kids, or even worse, maybe has a kid who doesn't talk to him anymore because he never gets to see him.
Always on the road. This guy passes and then that's it and he's like fuck it. I'm gonna start killing everyone I see on this fucking
He got something that penicillin can't cure from a lot lizard and now he's fucking done.
Yep. Yep. Yep. The the uh the you get uh you got chlamydia and it you never got it checked out, so now it's poisoning his brain.
It's like it's like Al Capone and I don't know if that was chlamydia or if that was uh Goteria, but it was one of the two.
Might have been syphilis because syphilis came.
Oh, syphilis, there you go, that's what he got. Syphilis and he did get it checked. Now his brain's getting poisoned like a pounds.
Before long he's gonna start running around like those mushroom people from The Last of Us.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh man, never always rap it. Always rap your Jimmy.
Let's move on to the next thirty.
Let's do it.
The guy he goes across the street to the diner and goes to the restroom. He's he's now we've heard he's in the restroom. He kinda talked himself down.
And when he comes out, he sees the truck is back out there. Now he starts scanning the room and he sees like the same boots on multiple guys in there'cause of course there are a lot of different truckers in this diner. The waitress shows up and that is our next clip.
Ready to order now?
Yes, thank you. Um Oh, I think I'll
Just give me um uh why don't you just give me a cheese sandwich of Swiss cheese on rye or Y. Swiss cheese on rye. And um could I have another glass of water please? Oh, sure, another glass of
Did you have an aspirin? Oh, your headaches. Sure, I got you some things.
Has to be crazy.
I just
Why don't I buy you a beard?
straightened out, huh?
Look, mister, I'm sorry.
All right.
Anything else? No, thank you.
Thank you.
What if I called the local police?
I'll have to stay here, lose more time.
You know, what if he stayed to? Actually talked to the police himself. Naturally, he'd deny everything. I've I've I've got no proof, and I'm sure none of these people would back me up.
The cops are brought.
Alright, uh so anyway he's trying to figure out ways of trying to scan this guy out. He's also trying to calm himself down.
Uh because he's rilts riling himself up about how, you know, what if I leave? What if I didn't leave n too early? What if I left you w why didn't I leave right away? And all this kind of stuff.
And uh after scanning the room a little bit more he thinks he clocks the guy and he confronts them and that is our next clip.
This is the way.
This is podcasting.
I want you to cut her down.
Just just cut it out, okay?
To where?
Thank you.
Let's not play games.
And call the police.
Thank you.
You if you think you can take that that truck of yours and just use it as a murder weapon just killing people on the highway, why...
You're wrong. You've got another thing coming.
You need help.
Don't you tell me I need help.
All right, come on. You already hit him twice now. What more do you want? Huh? Come on now. Look at him. He's sick. Can't you see he's gonna fight no one? The creep goes around and act like Sam.
All right.
All right, all right. I'll buy another sandwich. I'll buy you another sandwich. Now come on, forget it.
They're my friends.
We're good.
Come buy a beer.
I bet you get out of it.
All right. And uh now the dude beats the shit out of him. Uh he goes outside, he leaves the dude to beat the shit out of him, leaves, and gets into a whole different truck.
And then we see the bad guy truck takes off so we show he was even in the diner to begin with.
No he was back in that little sleeper section that was in the back of his truck.
Yeah.
Which is even fucking creepier because this guy's just literally hunting him. He's stalking him. Yeah. It's creepy. It's
Yeah. It's super creepy. It is super creepy when you realize the guy the truck takes off so the guy was never in the diner. That like creeped me the fuck out. Like I was almost positive he was picking a fight with the wrong guy.
uh just the way movies go. But I thought at least that he'd like go into his car and then all of a sudden the truck would start following him like later. But you when you see the truck just take off and you know the guy was just waiting out there, you're like, holy shit that's That's even worse.
Yeah, yeah, it's horrifying.
Yeah. Bye.
So the dude tries to run after him after he takes off and then he's just you know resigned and he just takes off in his car. Uh driving around he pulls over to help a stranded school bus and that is our next clip.
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What kind of help?
I could use a push.
Damn thing overheated on me and I stopped let it cool off. Now I can't get her started again.
you flag down their truck.
Would you mind? The one that just went by here a couple of minutes ago.
I guess I didn't notice. I must have been inside trying to get that piece of junk shaken again. Well anyway, how about it?
Well, I don't know. It looks like it'd go right underneath the bump.
Hmm.
Hey!
Mind getting off the car, you're gonna get hurt there.
No, you're all right. Rodney, get down from there. That goes for you too, Sean. All right, come on now, everybody. Back on the bus.
You know we don't have to.
Well, we'll see.
Come on, come on.
Thank you.
Mr. Pfeiffer, that guy's stuff.
Me too!
Sorry, mister. I could have sworn we were okay.
I told you we were going to get hung up
I'm gonna give you a hand.
Don't don't don't sit on the hood. That hood will dent. I told the kids not to get on the hood.
Just uh see if you can bounce it loose and and I'll uh
Uh
Just bounce it loose.
So now his car bumper stuck underneath the bus.
Uh another thing I liked about this movie is while there's few dialogue, the dialogue there is, it's always like when he's trying to explain something, it's a m it's it's maddening to me'cause everyone starts talking over him or
starts talking at the same time is when he's trying to ask a question and you can feel that kind of like madness kicking in of will you fuck shut the fuck up while I try to tell you something, please'cause it's like, yeah, they just do not listen.
Yeah, well who are you really gonna believe a guy that's like telling you that, you know, that shit is happening, really?
Yeah, yeah, well, and I'm not even talking about that. Even this bus driver thing when he's trying to explain to him why it won't work'cause he'll get hitched up under the bus, the bus driver's talking over him.
Not paying attention to the little snot nosed brats that are out there sitting on top of the guy's fucking car. Uh if I was him I would just pulled back and just take'em all out like a fucking bullet alley. But that's just me and my road rage.
Ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha.
Um so anyway, uh as he l looking, all of a sudden he sees the truck in the in a tunnel. He freaks out, tries to get the kids away from the road, the bus driver's not listening to him.
Uh, they get his car loose, he takes off right as the right as the truck shows up. The truck actually gives a push through the school butt.
And to get it going,'cause it's it was you know you know, kind of it it it it had died or whatever. And so the guy
The guy stopped it, it wouldn't start back up and so just a jump start would get it going. And the reason the truck did it is so that no one would believe him whenever the if the guy said anything.
And then also then it just makes it look like the truck was trying to g wait to have a go at it too. Yeah.
Yep. So he but now you think he's kinda gone away. Uh he gets stopped as a train crossing, of course the truck's behind him. The trucks trying to push him through onto the you know, to get you know, into the train that's going.
Luckily he's able to fight that enough to where in the train passes he l you know, then goes and he kinda gets pushed off the road and the truck just drives right past him.
Um and uh so the dude starts driving again but really slow. He's like doing thirty-five on the highway because he's trying to stay away from this truck, but then he looks up and there's the truck at the side of the road waiting for him.
Uh we have some more give and chase where they're kinda swerving all over the place. I think the truck's trying to hit him or take him off the road. The guy's trying to avoid him and just trying to get away from him. So then he stops at a gas station.
And that is our next clip.
Help you, mister. Have you got a telephone? Out in back.
This way. Something for your car. Uh
Well you can uh put what ethyl you can get in a tank. Oh, Rocky.
Would you mind checking those radiator hoses? I do that.
Take a look at my snakes if you have time.
Weird place for a telephone boat.
Operator. I'd like to report a truck driver that's been endangering my life.
In that case, I'll have to give you the police, sir. Right, well give me the police.
Sir, which department do you want? Whichever's closer. What number are you calling from? Uh this this number is 9821.
And what's your name, sir?
David Mann.
How do you spell that, please?
M-A-N-N, that's two N's.
I'd like to report a truck driver that's been endangering my life.
So he the truck destroys the phone booth and David we find out his name actually, David Mann.
Uh he is just barely able to escape. Uh then the truck just starts ramming everything and then like this lady who owns this gas station has like snakes and spot and tranchulas and all that and they're all loose now.
Uh
So uh yeah, there's just snake spiders everywhere and David gets back into his car, he's able to get away. That's the end of that thirty minutes before we go into the final thirty minutes.
This really builds tension well. I mean, there's not a lot of stuff to add because so much of it is actually visual.
And again,
Man, first time director, really, really well done. Like you can see, there's someone here who clearly has been working at making something for a long time and really, really planning out how to do a film. There's
No moments wasted. There's everything builds tension. Even the moments when the guy's talking to himself, it builds tension because it makes you panicky because you see how scared he actually is.
Yeah, and he the the actor did a great job in his voiceovers for his inner thoughts. Uh he sound he gets more and more panicky as everything goes.
Um for an hour and thirty movie there's no filler. Everything is needed in this movie that you get. Um there's not a lot of dialogue. It is just I mean the most filler you actually get is just the intro.
you know, the the the opening credits. And you need the opening credits, but I mean I'm just saying that's the only time you can consider anything filler. Everything else is real. Like like just everything else is just so needed. It's it's
Outstanding. And you're on the edge of your seat the whole entire time.
The only thing that felt like filler besides like just the kind of calm opening, which is you need that because it's it's going to ease you into this world that's gonna slowly build tension. Yeah.
And that's very important. And it's the opening that really felt like, um, I can't really say that because this director didn't make anything else, so I can't say what else it felt like.
Comparatively.
I wonder if he I just hope he didn't end up like directing porn.
Ha ha ha
Maybe.
Yeah. I hope not.
I mean it seems to be a waste.
Not that there's yeah, I mean not that.
There's nothing wrong with doing port, but I'm just saying it's
If that's what the director chose to do, then that's
Yeah, I mean I just feel like he he m his talents could be used elsewhere.
That's absolutely true. But no, I I can see a lot of the tension building all the way through. And the only thing that really felt like filler to me that I was gonna complain was possibly filler, is when he pulls over to help the kids with the school bus. Because like what it actually was doing though.
was giving us a moment to where we could relieve some tension and feel like maybe he was gonna be okay and then also be distracted before revealing that the truck is back.
And then I realized what it was and I was like, Oh, that's right, Cort, you just hate kids and don't wanna watch them in movies.
Mm mm, I'm fucking preach and I and I'm a dad. How irresponsible is that?
Right. Yeah. But it's it does. It builds tension the entire time and the only times you get any relief from the tensions
of anything that's going on, he you get put right back into his head, which is still filled with tension because he cannot calm down because obviously this man has been trying to kill him for a while now. No one fucking believes him. Everybody talks over him and it just becomes more frustrated.
and and just like irritating to watch. It's more frustrating and irritating to watch because you are so now on this man's side because you've been privy to everything that no one else believes and it drives you crazy.
Yeah, exactly. It's just terrifying.
Yeah, absolutely, man. So we can we can move on. Let's finish her off.
All right, let's do it. Uh yeah. Here all right, the final thirty, uh
So, um, David hides uh like just around this kinda like rock area in his car and the truck passes him by and he actually falls asleep. I mean I'm sure he's exhausted. So he's just trying to make it, you know, feel better.
Get some rest and a train going by wakes him up and he laughs a little bit like it's finally over and he drives away.
Uh as he's driving, he sees the truck on the side of the road. And we get some more antics, uh driving, you know, trying to escape him, the truck's trying to hit him. Much the same as everything, you know, gli although although now it's much more violent.
Uh now everything's a little bit more serious and uh uh probably not uh that's definitely not a good thing for him.
Um then uh he uh s he he stops his car and he s uh waves down these old this old couple and that is our final clip.
Thank you.
What's the matter? Car trouble? Well, in a way, yes. I wonder if you'd do me a favor. What's that? Would you stop the nearest telephone you come to and call the police?
Please.
Yeah, you you see that truck? Mr. Weed over any trouble. No, no, no, there won't be any trouble. All I'm asking you to do is just call.
We gotta go.
Ma'am.
All I'm asking you to do is just to make a phone call. General, step on the My life's in danger. Can't you make a lousy phone call to the lousy police for me? Stop it, Mr. Yuan. Well just drop me off at the nearest station. I'll pay you for it.
Alright. See and again these are old people, they would not stop talking over'em, uh, wouldn't even help'em, and then they just took took off. So he gets back in his car and
I mean the guy does sound fucking crazy and it's really hard to believe what
But the first thing he does is he just says, Hey, can you do me a favor and just uh when you get to a phone call the police for
And then they go, We don't want any trouble and well you know, there's no trouble, you just call the police and or and he goes like maybe you can take me to a police station, I'll pay you and just they wouldn't shut the fi then the old guy's like, Well, was it an accident? Is it that he's like, No, it's not an accident, is it that no it's like
Fuck man, I was getting tired of these old people. I'm like, Mm fuckers, you lucky I'm not there, I'd shoot you.
Yeah.
Wow.
I'd kill an old motherfucker.
Ha ha ha.
Stop stop trying to get me murdered.
Um so yeah, uh anyway, he starts really going up the mountain and what happens his radiator hose gives out. He was gonna try to get that radiator hose checked at the last before the trucker destroyed the foam boost.
Uh so it goes out and he's barely able to get to the top of the mountain, but he does, so he's able to roll all the way back down. Uh he stopped and the truck starts coming at him.
Um uh and uh it starts uh really bearing down on him and he's able to get the car uh started right before the truck really just totals him out. It you know, would have just T boned him and killed him.
Uh he's b b barely gets out of there by restarting his car.
Uh he drives up a dirt road, uh he uh turns the car to face the truck in front of a canyon, and then what he does is he wredges a briefcase onto the accelerator and he steers the car onto the oncoming truck
jumping at the last moment. The truck hits the car which bursts into flames and big fire. And then the truck and the car both plunge over the cliff. It's way slow motion. It's an awesome job.
Uh the truck and the car both explode or just crash down there. There's not much of an explosion after that. It just crashes down there. We see like the wreckage, you see blood dripping in the truck, symbolizing that the man is dead.
Uh and David just sits up there and he sits at the cliff's edge and um just throws stones at the wreckage at the bottom as the sun sets and roll credits.
This show still fucking sucks!
Wow, that was fucked up.
Yeah, there was no explosion because this is a made for TV budget and they didn't have the money to make it across.
The the car did explode when he hit it the first time, but there's no big explosion at the end of the cliff. So they must uh doused the budget on the uh on on that first explosion.
Which is also why I think that the tanker was empty. Whatever was in there. Yeah.
Yes, I do not think the taker had oil in it. Plus if it did have oil in it, there's no way and I don't care how big the engine is, the guy would have been able to catch up to the car.
Yeah, in a lot of different circumstances here.
Yeah.'Cause he's pulling a lot.
But if it's empty, then that diesel engine is just i it could take it to you know good speed.
Yeah, yeah, you are absolutely not wrong. That's the way to look at it for sure.
Damn what a movie. Oh, that was good.
Yeah. I mean what a shame that we never saw anything else from this director.
You know. Again, I I just think I felt like he would have been he would have done a good thing with I y I know this sounds crazy. I think he could have made a movie about a shark.
Okay.
You know, and the shark is evil.
Replace the oil tanker with a shark and instead of a a a lengthy travel everyone's just on the beach. Right.
Oh and it's Taurus, right?'Cause that's like
Force of swimming.
'Cause they have no idea what to Yeah.
Uh again, just off the top of my head, you throw in a corrupt mayor and then some town festival that he doesn't want to have to stop.
Oh, yeah.
No matter what.
Oh no, it's tourist season'cause they can't close the beaches because it's tourist season.
There it is. There it is. Something. Something. And then you know, maybe a dance off against a shark for the rec center. I don't know. It's something. It's something. There's something there.
Well and like the leisurely way that this movie opens with duel, like you could actually have it to where like we take you to and if it's on an island so no one can escape, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like they're they have to stay on what lands left to get away from this shark, right? So that's
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah, that's good stuff. And I bet you can make a whole franchise out of that shark shit.
Yeah, yeah and one of them has to be three D.
That one of'em has to be three D.
Yeah, okay, enough of enough of this.
One of us is gonna have an underwater bait.
I just
The shark attack.
I could feel everyone just fucking unsubscribing with this, like rage unsubscribing.
Fuck yeah.
Oh, God.
No, like in all seriousness, yes, uh Steven Spielberg would move on to do many wonderful films, not all of them.
Uh yeah. Jaws is my favorite Steven Spielberger film still to date. Uh I really do really, really love Jaws.
Uh, you can see the opening of Jaws, the way that we get to the island and we're in all of these people's lives, and we leisurely work our way into the actual horror, even though we do see the shark attack to bring us in at the beginning.
But the leisurely way that he brings us in is exactly the way that they do it in duel.
And I've always thought that that first attack where you see the skinny dipper get attacked before we go through everything else. Uh I always thought that that was sort of like, No, no, we have to put action up front to keep people interested. Then we get into the rest of it, right?
Yeah.
Yeah. And that's just exactly that's how you horror film, right? And a lot of the techniques that he was going to use in Jaws
Which became one of the most famous blockbuster horror films of all time. He is developing here. And you can see it, and it's pretty cool.
Yeah, it's it's fucking awesome. Uh th again this is just uh uh you see yeah, you see a lot of the things that go to Jaws. You know, this is
Obviously this but he you know, Steven Spielberg never gets enough love for how good at horror and suspense he is. Maybe not as much as horror,'cause you know, I don't even know how much I think of Jaws as a horror movie as much as I think of s a suspense movie.
Steven Spielberg has never been bad at suspense.
Oh, the remains have eaten.
And Alex Kirtner getting bitten like that and the blood flying everywhere, that is absolute horrible.
Oh yeah. Oh oh that's true. Yeah. Yeah. No, that is absolute horror. All right. No, yeah, that's true. But I also think he's just awesome at you know, suspense.
Well what what Steven Spielberg is actually really good at doing, and I have to admit this, is he is really good at figuring out how to use cinema to manipulate the feelings of his audience, which is what a director should be good at.
Sometimes he may do that to what I consider ham handedly, obviously, because he's working f with a broader brush because he wants to reach a wider audience than someone like myself, who is a picky, irritated, miserable old fuck.
And, you know, before all that, you were a picky, miserable young fuck.
Yeah, I was a picky, irritated, miserable little shit.
grew up to become a picky, miserable, irritated old fuck.
But you know, it's all great now.
Yeah. Now look, it's just this is what I'm saying. Uh whether or not something is my taste, I can absolutely appreciate the craftsmanship and the skill.
I've always been able to.
Yeah.
appreciate things when you even though it's not maybe your cup of tea. I've always been able to and I have too. They I I think that's something I I you know I have as well is listen, maybe it's not my thing but I can respect the artistry or at least the technique that they use to create them.
Yeah. Now if you're gonna do something that is attempting to draw an emotion out of me, if you make me way too aware of the manipulation you are using to do that, the way that my brain is wired, I automatically just go fuck you at you.
I don't know why, but I do. It's just the way that my brain triggers. When I know that I'm being emotionally manipulated, even when it's a movie and I'm asking the movie to do that, I get angry at it for it. It's not easy to control.
How dare you make me feel my own feelings?
Kind of. It gets me upset and I don't know why and I don't I don't want to fucking deal with it. I'm just gonna keep getting tattooed.
I mean, I think that's for the best. I mean, listen, I know I used to say maybe therapy or you want to go toss the ball around, but let's face it, my man, we're in our forties now. Uh it's too late.
Uh you go ahead, you just get all those tattoos. Alright, pal? You're gonna be just fine.
It's not gonna fix it, Cort. Just get all the tattoos, drive the car way too fast.
Yeah. There's no there's no fixing it.
I mean I could have probably gotten some kind of a surgery to make it better, but at this point at my age there's just no
No, that's but it's too far. Too long. All right. It's too long.
Yeah, it's a quality of life thing. Not so much that I'm too old, just that the planet's not gonna live that long anyway.
Yeah, right. And I mean let's be honest, you're too old.
Well that's f that's fair. But also, like even if I have say twenty
So let's say if you were like twenty five years old, yeah, I still wouldn't do it because yeah, the planet's just gonna you know be ravaged.
Yeah, that's why that's what I'm saying. Like even if I have twenty five plus years left or twenty some odd years left, I'm still fucked because the planet probably doesn't have that.
No, yeah. I mean not not with the people we have on it now. Yeah.
I mean, I'm just trying to get as much tattoo coverage as I can before that ends so that, you know, at least I can go out looking bangin'. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go yeah, go out tight, man.
Why do you think I'm drinking so much lately? It's just perfect for me.
You're going out high anti.
Yeah, yeah, damn right I am.
I I ain't facing the end sober. Listen, I didn't like being sober during the good times. What makes you think I want to be sober during the bad?
That's how you don't feel your own feelings.
That's goddamn right it is.
That's why I can't give you too much shit for the tattoos, pal. I'm t I'm tattooing myself as well. It's just inside. It's my liver.
Yeah, you're staining your liver with the bourbon.
Yep. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
All right.
Yeah, I yeah.
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Alright, so uh
Was this the first Steven Spielberg? I don't think we've done draws. Did we do draws? Did someone have us cover draws? Maybe we did cover draws. I can't remember if we covered draws.
Uh you know what? We might have covered Jots.
I think that was that that was probably somebody's uh Bring Your Own Cinematic.
Yeah, I think so. I think I think I remember us.
Yeah, that sounds about right. You know what?
But how how long has it been? I mean, man, we we done so many fucking movies.
It's been over a decade, so we have done at least five hundred and twenty movies.
Five hundred I've watched five hundred and twenty movies. Some I've probably seen, but you know how many I probably hadn't?
Plus their first few episodes we did two movies and there's other episodes where we did multiple movies plus T V shows, so
Holy shit.
Yeah. Yeah, that's a lot. And I can't.
I can't go home again.
Yeah. Yeah. Fuck. Well, why don't we all just like get the fuck out of here because we have so little time left on this planet?
Yeah, right.
form or another. So everybody enjoy what life you have left and kick the fuck out of this week and
Yeah.
It's recording now. Okay.
This is not the way.
Ha ha ha.
Well, it's just it'll still be the way. It's just that we are not recording it live.
'Cause we'll still have clips. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I gotcha. Yeah.
So I mean I'll be editing.
Now this now this is podcasting.
Yeah.
All right, well let's go ahead and get started if you're ready to rock. You ready?
Alright, let's do it.
Alright.
Two.
So obviously he's got a little bit of whiplash. Uh you know, nothing too terrible but uh
It's a it's enough to you know cause some issues. Uh he decides to uh uh he walks over to the diner. Uh hold on. I really fucked up here. I'm sorry.