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Whiteout (2009) - Trudging Through Snowy Plot Holes & Less Than Glacial Thrills

February 18, 2024 Do You Remember That Movie? Season 2 Episode 7
Whiteout (2009) - Trudging Through Snowy Plot Holes & Less Than Glacial Thrills
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Whiteout (2009) - Trudging Through Snowy Plot Holes & Less Than Glacial Thrills
Feb 18, 2024 Season 2 Episode 7
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We remember liking 2009's Whiteout starring Kate Beckinsale. Apparently, we don't know what we are talking about since it is sitting at Rotten Tomatoes with 7%, That's not a typo, it's at 7%, So what are we missing? We remember it had a good cast, a great lead, an interesting story, and an awesome backdrop. Join us, Ana and Jimmy, as we traverse the sub-zero escapades of "Whiteout" with Kate Beckinsale, whose US Marshal character doesn't let a little frostbite interfere with her impeccable style. With wit sharper than the Antarctic wind, we riff on the movie's logic-defying moments, from Beckinsale's pristine appearance to the baffling choice to exclude shower scenes in an environment that's anything but tropical. Beyond the giggles, we take a genuine look at the film's noteworthy cast, including Tom Skerritt and Alex O'Loughlin, and the unique challenges of life at an Antarctic outpost, all while comparing the film to other isolation horror flicks.

Have you ever wondered why a film can leave critics and audiences ice cold? We ponder the same as we sift through the frosty critical reception of "Whiteout," juxtaposing it with audience reviews that run the gamut from icy disdain to less-than-warm praise. Stick around as we carve through the movie's layers, starting with a Russian plane crash and segueing into Deputy US Marshal Kerry Stetco's backstory. We analyze the plot's snowy slips and slides and chuckle at the clichéd flashbacks that are supposed to chill our spines but instead raise our eyebrows. Don't forget to zip up your parka as we scrutinize the climax's improbable twists, musing over diamond smuggling schemes and murder mysteries that are more slippery than they appear.

As we wrap up our frosty film discussion, we consider the pros and cons of adding "Whiteout" to your watchlist. Is it a diamond in the rough or just ice masquerading as a gem? Sure, we may regret not renting over buying, but there's a certain charm to a thriller that chugs along like a snowmobile in need of a tune-up. Whether you think the movie is a blizzard of excitement or more like a drizzle of doldrums, we invite you to button up your coat and join the debate. Find out if "Whiteout" will leave you with the chills—or if it will just leave you out in the cold.

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We remember liking 2009's Whiteout starring Kate Beckinsale. Apparently, we don't know what we are talking about since it is sitting at Rotten Tomatoes with 7%, That's not a typo, it's at 7%, So what are we missing? We remember it had a good cast, a great lead, an interesting story, and an awesome backdrop. Join us, Ana and Jimmy, as we traverse the sub-zero escapades of "Whiteout" with Kate Beckinsale, whose US Marshal character doesn't let a little frostbite interfere with her impeccable style. With wit sharper than the Antarctic wind, we riff on the movie's logic-defying moments, from Beckinsale's pristine appearance to the baffling choice to exclude shower scenes in an environment that's anything but tropical. Beyond the giggles, we take a genuine look at the film's noteworthy cast, including Tom Skerritt and Alex O'Loughlin, and the unique challenges of life at an Antarctic outpost, all while comparing the film to other isolation horror flicks.

Have you ever wondered why a film can leave critics and audiences ice cold? We ponder the same as we sift through the frosty critical reception of "Whiteout," juxtaposing it with audience reviews that run the gamut from icy disdain to less-than-warm praise. Stick around as we carve through the movie's layers, starting with a Russian plane crash and segueing into Deputy US Marshal Kerry Stetco's backstory. We analyze the plot's snowy slips and slides and chuckle at the clichéd flashbacks that are supposed to chill our spines but instead raise our eyebrows. Don't forget to zip up your parka as we scrutinize the climax's improbable twists, musing over diamond smuggling schemes and murder mysteries that are more slippery than they appear.

As we wrap up our frosty film discussion, we consider the pros and cons of adding "Whiteout" to your watchlist. Is it a diamond in the rough or just ice masquerading as a gem? Sure, we may regret not renting over buying, but there's a certain charm to a thriller that chugs along like a snowmobile in need of a tune-up. Whether you think the movie is a blizzard of excitement or more like a drizzle of doldrums, we invite you to button up your coat and join the debate. Find out if "Whiteout" will leave you with the chills—or if it will just leave you out in the cold.

Do You Remember Liking This Movie?

Speaker 1:

I don't know why the beautiful and talented and beautiful, stunningly beautiful Cape back and sell couldn't operate the rope with the clip worth a fuck, like she was really bad at it.

Speaker 2:

She was terrible.

Speaker 1:

Like I know, you're being chased by the killer, but take a deep breath.

Speaker 2:

It's a carabiner. You're meant to be clipped on, and on, on and on easily.

Speaker 1:

That's the whole point. Killer didn't have a problem.

Speaker 2:

None, and he's running around with an axe lights, camera and action.

Speaker 3:

Welcome to the. I remember liking that movie podcast. Remember those childhood movies you loved. We're going to watch them again and find out if they're still as amazing as you remember. Let's get ready to join Anna and Jimmy as they go back and watch those movies you remember being so awesomely good Horror movies that scared, comedy movies that dare and action movies so preposterously ludicrous that they defied the laws of common sense. Now here's your hosts, Anna Santos and Jimmy Coates.

Speaker 1:

OK, welcome to the I remember liking that movie podcast we are. We're still stuck in the 2000s from the last movies we did.

Speaker 2:

You say you're being held hostage there.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and we've done a Kate Beckinsale movie.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, we have yeah.

Speaker 1:

I'll say Now, is this one going to be better? I don't know, I don't either. Ok, well, why do stars? Kate Beckinsale, who I love yes, I know so pretty is directed by a what's his name? Dominic Cena, who's known for California swordfish season of the witch, gone in 60 seconds. So a very capable director. I don't remember a whole lot other than Kate Beckinsale. I'm not recalling a lot of other actors. Oh, tom Skerritt, some other people, tom Skerritt, I know Tom Skerritt.

Speaker 2:

Alex O'Loughlin from Hawaii 5 0. And he did a Jennifer Lopez movie, the one where she impregnates herself and then she kind of has to break it to him after she starts dating him. Anyways, that's besides the point. Columbus Short is in it. He was on scandal and then he had a real life scandal that got him kicked off. A scandal. Gabrielle Mocked, who is from Suits. So very, very recognizable names.

Speaker 1:

What do you remember about Whiteout?

Speaker 2:

I remember, very, very I remember Kate Beckinsale plays a cop.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I remember that part.

Speaker 2:

Always looks super adorable in the middle of the frigid Arctic cold with snow.

Speaker 1:

Looks adorable, whatever she's in.

Speaker 2:

Actually I take it back Apparently this takes place in Antarctica, Learning things every day. I know she goes to investigate something.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And then she starts to go wrong and they're cut off, if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 1:

And it's one of those ones that we've both talked about liking where it's isolation and I mean you can't get more isolated than Antarctica Like if you're in trouble, probably take them a couple of days or so, and I mean like weeks.

Speaker 2:

I thought about applying for a job at the post office that's down there, because there's a lot of people that are looking for you.

Speaker 1:

That would be so cool.

Speaker 2:

I think that would be so cool yeah. I would love to do it, but then there, because it's so remote, there's no running water. So you don't get to take showers until the cruise ships come in, and then they'll let you go and take a shower in the staff area of the cruise ship. Other than that, you just got to wipe yourself down and I was like I love the idea of an adventure. Yeah, I need a daily shower. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1:

Two suitcases full of wet wipes.

Speaker 2:

I'm sorry, honestly, but I thought about doing it. So every time I see movies that take place in Antarctica, like the Thing, this there was a Predator movie, or is it Aliens movie?

Speaker 1:

Alien versus Predator, yeah.

Speaker 2:

I'm like, yes, show me all the magic under the ice, where you're cut off, and all it takes is one will play Storm and no one can get to you. I'm like I want to see this.

Speaker 1:

And it's the isolation too, the gray with Liam Neeson, the 30 days of night that we've done. Yeah, that would be cool Living in somewhere like minus the vampires.

Speaker 2:

I would love that I thought about moving up north because I'm like I think it would be a great experience, even if it's just for six months, just as, just to do yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I just I. This was another movie that I didn't think was going to be that great. It was a rental. It was around the time it came. It was released. It would have been a blockbuster and I was pleasantly surprised. It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. I just probably would have watched it because it was new. It wasn't something I wanted to. Yeah, that's yeah, but it wasn't something that I went to blockbuster to get. It would have been a second or third movie, but, yeah, I remember being pleasantly surprised. So let's take a look at the box office. It came out September 11th 2009. It had a budget of 35 million. It opened in 2,745 theaters. It opened at number seven. Yeah, I remember that one. I remember that one. I remember that one. It was a. It just came out that week. No, sorry, I can do battle myself with nine. That stop motion type cartoon, yep, which was very cool. That came out that way. Those both released in glorious bastards was that third came.

Speaker 1:

It's been out for four weeks All about Steve. It's been out for two. I don't remember that movie. I don't remember that movie. I remember that movie. It's been out for two weeks. I don't remember that movie.

Speaker 2:

Wait, I think that's the Sandra Bullock when I think she's a stalker.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I don't even remember I could do battle by myself that much.

Speaker 2:

I remember I can do battle by myself. I think that's Gabrielle Union, if I'm not mistaken. Yep, all about Steve. She's a crazy, like Sandra Bullock plays a crazy, I think, weather person or no. Crossword puzzle creator.

Speaker 1:

I think that's on one date with Bradley Cooper. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And then decides they're together forever. Yeah, she's wackadoodle and I love it.

Speaker 1:

The final destination was out for three weeks. I remember that I thought that movie was way better than people gave it credit for.

Speaker 2:

I really enjoyed it. I just did a rewatch of that and all the final destinations.

Speaker 1:

I love those movies, they're so great and sorority row, and it also released that weekend and it did better. So why did it open up? Way behind them. They had a weekend total of just over five million. It's domestic total at by the end that was just over 10 and an international of seven point seven and it grossed about 17.97, almost 18 million dollars. It was a. It was a bomb.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Did not do well.

Speaker 2:

It did not, god bless.

Speaker 1:

All right. So let's go to the tale of the tape it 2009. It is a mystery thriller, it's rated R and it comes in at one hour and 41 minutes. Taglines, all right.

Speaker 2:

Let's go.

Speaker 1:

See your last breath.

Speaker 2:

Okay, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1:

I that's a great. That's a great one, that one's great, which is good, because that's the only one but they were like someone came in, drop that down and like Mike we're like we're done.

Speaker 2:

We're done, we don't need anymore.

Speaker 1:

This is good, good Synopsis. The only US Marshall assigned to Antarctica Kerry, stettico, stettico, stettico, cape Beckinsale. We'll soon leave the harsh environment behind for good. In three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, kerry's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life. It's a great synopsis. It's a great synopsis. Great tagline, and here's the poster. It's a great poster.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's just Cape Beckinsale's face and but it's kind of, has that frozen sheen over it? It has like the iced overlook. Yeah, and it's just Cape Beckinsale whiteout.

Speaker 2:

See your last breath.

Speaker 1:

See your last breath.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 1:

Here's where things get bad, as they usually do. Yeah ready, I'm ready. Rotten tomatoes 118 critic reviews. It comes in at 7%.

Speaker 2:

It's sorry, what?

Speaker 1:

Single digit seven, just after six, before eight. I shit you not Wow. 250,000 audience score 21%. Oh my, God.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so those that are watching. I apologize for the thing here, but yeah, it is 7% by the critics and 21% by the audience score. The critic consensus is Kate Beckinsale is as lovely as ever and does her best with the material, but more about pacing and an uninspired plot leaves whiteout in the cold. I don't know if it's the lowest movie we have done thus far. It could be sevens pretty low. Wait, there was a 6%, if I remember. Yeah, now you said that. I think that I can't remember what.

Speaker 2:

I don't remember which one it was, but I think there was one that was like 6%.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and I was like that feels wrong. Yeah, which one was that? Was that Halloween resurrection? I don't know.

Speaker 2:

Maybe or H2O.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't know, h20. It was probably a horror, not a thriller movie of this high caliber, so we'll start with the fresh. There were not a lot, no shit, and you could go first.

Speaker 2:

Whiteout isn't particularly bad, but it does follow the thriller playbook step by step, with only a little tweaking. A lack of originality isn't the end of the world, but it could have been so much better. Joshua Starnes comingsoonnet. Original score 6.5 out of 10.

Speaker 1:

And that's a good review.

Speaker 2:

That's a good review.

Speaker 1:

I'll go first the most surprising thrill ride of the summer in that it is adequately thrilling, and I didn't expect that. Fred Topple, Cannes Magazine.

Speaker 2:

An easy enough way to pass time if you're not too demanding or if the cast are unusual. Setting peaks your interest. Daniel M Kimmel North Shore Movies. 3 out of 5.

Speaker 1:

A tolerably entertaining film starring the Weather. Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews 2.5 out of 4. These are all the positive ones I could get.

Speaker 2:

Okay, it's far from the best murder mystery you've ever seen, but I still can't help but liking this throwaway thriller. The ending was no surprise. Paul Chambers, CNN Radio.

Speaker 1:

Those are the worst good reviews I have ever read.

Speaker 2:

Those are terrible.

Speaker 1:

Rotten. Oh my God, there were so many. There were so many rad reviews. I will start a relatively mediocre, by the numbers mystery thriller that melts from your mind as soon as you step into the sunlight. James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk. Original score 2 out of 4.

Speaker 2:

James, if you want the real White Out experience, just read the book. Or ask the manager of your local 7-Eleven if you can play Clue in the beer. Cooler Longo Duralt and MSNBC original score 2 out of 5. Who in the beer?

Speaker 1:

cooler. That was awesome, oh my God. Yes, this is based on a graphic novel. The film has been sitting on the shelf for two and a half years. Maybe it went bad. Eric D Snyder ericdesnydercom. Original score.

Speaker 2:

Amazing If you'd forgotten that this title ever existed. Well, so have I, walter. Jumlah Film Freak Central 0.5 out of 4.

Speaker 1:

Kate Beckinsale is about as convincing a US Marshal as Joan Crawford is a loving mother. Keith Ollich time out 2 out of 5. Perfect.

Speaker 2:

The film's slick and expensive looking, but dumber than a dead penguin. Cliff Dorkin Dorkson, Chicago reader.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, these are all critics.

Speaker 2:

Dumber than a dead penguin.

Speaker 1:

The only thing to care about is what lotion Beckinsale uses to make her skin hold up so well in the subzero temps. Matt Pays metromixcom. 2 out of 4.

Speaker 2:

Valid. Valid Because I remember thinking while watching this movie how was her skin so nice?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, all right. Internet Movie Database has 40,000 user ratings at 5.5 out of 10. That's not too bad. That's surprising A lot higher than Rotten Tomatoes.

Speaker 2:

A lot higher, like you usually expect some difference. Imdb is usually higher than Rotten Tomatoes, but it's usually within like a 10% 15% difference. This is, from the audience ratings a 30% difference.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you're right From the audience ratings.

Speaker 2:

It's a 30% difference. So that's crazy to me because that's a huge jump.

Speaker 1:

All right, you may start.

Speaker 2:

I am ready. Fun and Suspenseville, 10 out of 10. Queen who, queen who.

Speaker 1:

There were only three to choose from you knew Really yeah. Don't get me wrong. There are a lot of people leaving the reviews, but only three of them were 10 out of 10.

Speaker 2:

Amazing.

Speaker 1:

I love it. A very underrated action mystery thriller 9010 Ivo Cobra 8.

Speaker 2:

People must have set their expectations too high. 8 out of 10. Field and Streamer.

Speaker 1:

Good popcorn. Flick 7010 Srozen 7.

Speaker 2:

Not bad. It has some nice atmosphere and a great setting. 6 out of 10. Callen Vass.

Speaker 1:

Overall not that great 5 out of 10. Age is 10.

Speaker 2:

Fantastic. Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but Kate's derriere is delightful. 4 out of 10. Ba Harrison, that's nice. You can find joy in that BA.

Speaker 1:

Good job. Someone should have used Whiteout on this pointless script. 3 out of 10. Grigenschildeberger.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, about as fun as Frostbite and as good as the Snowcone midwinter. 2 out of 10.

Speaker 1:

Cpc I like a good Snowcone List of money and possible loss of spouse. I just took my wife out on the town to celebrate our 33th wedding anniversary. Looks like I won't be getting lucky tonight. 1 out of 10. Stuckums.

Speaker 2:

I'm sorry, Stuckums. At least you got to watch Kate back in sale for an hour and a half.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, Again, there were a couple. I guess she showers. I don't think you see nudity Maybe her bomb. Yeah, I don't think you see nudity. Okay, so we did the box office, we did the tail tape, we did the reviews. We are going to now watch the trailer and make our predictions on something that is apparently not as good as we remember.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, it's going to be great.

Speaker 3:

It is the most isolated landmass on the planet. There is no permanent population, there is no horizon, no shadows, there is only white. Nature never intended for you to survive here, but this year, nature is not the only thing to fear.

Speaker 1:

This is United States Marshal Kerry Stucko over.

Speaker 2:

We have a real situation developing. What happened out there?

Speaker 3:

We were out looking for meteor samples, and then the reader went off the chart.

Speaker 2:

We did something big, oh my God.

Speaker 3:

What the hell happened here. I want to e back the base. I've already got two bodies on my hand.

Speaker 1:

Could be stuck here.

Speaker 2:

Way down. They really made the weather a main character in this.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, a couple of people were complaining that the trailer made it look like something like the thing, but then gave them a shitty CSI episode. It's fantastic, it looks good.

Speaker 2:

It looks like a procedural drama, like a CSI episode. There's a mystery, they take steps, they solve it. Hopefully, everybody that we care about lips will see how that goes. I'm not expecting them to recreate the wheel. No, it is what it is.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, Sometimes with these type of movies, if I can figure it out early on, that doesn't bug me, as long as it looks like there's action. It looks like there's, I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to like this movie. I'm kind of worried now after reading all those reviews. Oh, after the reviews, I'm terrified yeah because I really thought it was going to have a decent. I was expecting like 60, 55, not seven.

Speaker 2:

That was so harsh. No, because I remember liking the movie but not loving it. Like it was a pretty decent movie, it was entertaining for an hour and a half, like whatever. It was a good like watch, yeah. But then we hear all these reviews and I'm like yeah, maybe I didn't. Am I misremembering?

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

This sounds very different from the movie that I remember. But I mean, and also, you can't get much from the trailer other than bodies keep showing up, yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

That's all I understand. And there's no storms. I'm like, well, thanks, antarctica, there's bound to be one. But I'm holding out a small sliver of hope. We'll see if that hope comes to fruition. But I mean, yeah, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1:

There are thrillers that are like the departed, like seven, that are just amazing, and then there are ones that are pretty by the numbers.

Speaker 2:

They're entertaining.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. I don't know if I'm going to get that now, but I'm really. I'm excited to watch this movie for completely different reasons. Now, I thought this was going to be a movie I remember liking. Now I want to see if this movie is as bad as everyone says.

Speaker 2:

Right, and just how bad is it? But is it still like a bad watchable? Yeah. Everybody's willing to tell us how bad it is, but I'm like no, but I need you to tell me if it's still bad and watchable.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Or is it just so bad you want to turn it off because it hurts your eyes?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, Like like we watch Van Helsing not too long ago with Capecabello and it's a bad movie, but it is a terrible movie. Watchable, very watchable, so watchable, yeah yeah. Entertaining, very entertaining, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Laugh inducing.

Speaker 1:

Just a lot entertainment coming out of the woods.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so I mean like and I think that's I mean if it's as bad as they say it is, I want it to be bad entertaining.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Because we know it's not going to be bad and, like we know it's not going to be a groundbreaking movie. This is not a film classic. No, Nobody's going to be talking about this in film history years to come. No Like it's not going to happen.

Speaker 1:

And nobody's going to be like.

Speaker 2:

You know, citizen Kane and Whiteout. We know this. I just wanted to be a tolerable and entertaining watch.

Speaker 1:

And I don't want to be turning it off and going. What the fuck was, I think?

Speaker 2:

I don't want to sit there and be like I could have done so much in that hour and a half.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Like reorganize my Android drawer, like give me something entertaining, that's all I want.

Speaker 1:

Well, we are going to go watch Whiteout with Capebacconcel with a 7% rotten tomato score and just see how bad this movie really is, or if it's bad at all, and when we get back we are going to review it.

Speaker 3:

You heard them Movie time. Let's all go to the lobby and get ourselves a treat and then watch a classic kick ass movie from whenever the one we're about to watch was made. Yay.

Speaker 1:

All right, so did you watch 2009's Whiteout starring a very clothed not just clothed and overly clothed, but you can't get more clothed Capebacconcel.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I did, and I appreciated her clothes because she was dressed appropriately for the weather.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Thank you very much.

Speaker 1:

Dupont production designers.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, but apparently at one point in the movie she forget she has an opposable thumb. Oh, I got so bad at that your initial thoughts. It was all right. I mean it's funny because the things that I used to find entertaining about it I don't find that entertaining anymore because I'm like, oh, they just portrayed Capebacconcel as a moron in this, like she's just raging stupid who just goes room to room and has people tell her things.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's. Yeah, it was a little disappointing because I was really hoping it was going to be cheesy and terrible and I bought it.

Speaker 1:

So, Did you buy it? I bought it. I was looking at it because it wasn't that much more to buy, yeah.

Speaker 2:

And.

Speaker 1:

I'm like I should buy it on the off-chance and I'm like you know what? Fuck this, I'm just going to run.

Speaker 2:

I did this before on a couple and I'm like no, no, no, no, because normally to rent it's 4.99, to buy it's 14.99.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it was like 9.99 or something it was 9.99.

Speaker 2:

So I was like, well, what's the difference? I'll just buy it, because the last few that I've rented like a lot of them, except for Joe versus Volcano but I'm like, oh, I should have bought it. I should have bought it instead of just rent to get. So I was like, no, I'm going to buy this one Now. I wish I had rented it.

Speaker 1:

My initial thoughts. I owe some people an apology. This was not a great movie, but it wasn't 7% bad.

Speaker 2:

No.

Speaker 1:

And I think people sometimes get the wrong idea. It's not that rotten tomatoes are saying this movie is 7 out of 100. It's 93% of the reviewers didn't like the movie. But some gave it a 2.5 out of 5 or 2 out of 4 or 2 out of 5. But it was not as good as I remember. It wasn't bad bad but like I almost bought it, it was only a few bucks.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I bought it and I will watch it again to make it worth it, because if I watch it twice, then I've already like made back my money. This is my theory, girl math.

Speaker 1:

Now I had my hand on the button to buy it and then in my head was like don't buy it. Remember Steal Don. So I rented it. A shitty as Steal Don is, I should do like a riff track. That would be. That's a Mr Science Theater type of show movie. But yeah, okay. So well, let's dive into white out. Okay, in 1957, a Russian cargo plane is flying above Antarctica. In the cargo hold, three Russians sit with the padlock box. The co-pilot leaves his seat and goes into the cargo hold, then begins to shoot the other men who return fire. The chaos caused by the gunfight leads to a crash with kills all aboard. I'll be honest, I totally forgot about this part.

Speaker 2:

I totally forgot about it too. I was like, oh, is Kate on the plane? Kate was not on the plane. It was 1957 and they were all Russian. And I was like, oh, I don't remember this at all.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and there was a review that said the movie starts off with a plane crash. I thought it was a part of the murder or something, but this part was pretty good. Like these are Russians all on the plane. Three are guarding a padlock box. What's that all about? The pilot were told like. They were told to kill them. The pilots.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, the pilots had orders, yeah.

Speaker 1:

From who, why, what are these rascals up to? More importantly, what's in the box? This would have been a great start to a thing type movie, like a mutant virus movie or something. Yeah, so actually it's not a bad start. The shootout always love a good plane crash, so it's off the good start.

Speaker 2:

It drives me nuts because it always ends up happening. They end up aiming and shooting at the pilot when nobody else is in the cockpit. Yeah, this happens in movies over and over and over again and I'm like this just isn't logical.

Speaker 1:

No, because someone would at least either you would think, or someone would be like dude if we kill that guy.

Speaker 2:

We're going to die. I can't fly, it Can you fucking fly it, See, and that's where I have an issue. And so as soon as the pilot got shot, I was like again. Then nobody took over flying the plane, because I understand somebody from the back making their way up to the front and trying to fly the plane and then still crashing.

Speaker 1:

I'm like that makes sense, but just everybody staying in the back while shooting pilot shooting more like that makes no sense but anyways, in the modern era, newcomers arrive at the United States Emerson Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica while others are scheduled to leave, are preparing to do so early because of a storm. They must depart before the onset of winter or remain for six months. Deputy US Marshal Kerry Stetco, who has been working at Antarctica for two years since a betrayal by her partner in Miami that killed him and nearly killed her. Yeah, they didn't get to the betrayal part till much later in the movie and that was so cliched. Thank you, they didn't actually need that for the movie.

Speaker 2:

They really, really didn't know. Like, I Hate the backstory and I hate that it flashes back, yeah, and it's like he's having little mini panic attacks. But I'm like I understand you're having difficulty and I get that, but I'm like this isn't sitting right, it's not making sense.

Speaker 1:

No, it would have been better just having her little moments of anxiety From being in Antarctica for two years, like that's six months of total darkness, and you can have your little, but I don't need to see the flashbacks.

Speaker 2:

You can tell me it's been a lot of years since I've seen a dead body. You know, like, give me that. Yeah, last time I saw a dead body it wasn't the greatest time of my life. Sure, no problem, I don't need to see you handcuffing some guy to the bed over and over and over again.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, like who cares? Like why didn't she take more showers? Is the real question. That's like the best scene in the whole movie.

Speaker 2:

No cuz I Okay. So there are two things that I noted. First, when they announced where they were, they put Antarctica, the coldest, most isolated landmass in the world. Like people are not aware of what Antarctica is.

Speaker 1:

I'm like people are stupid.

Speaker 2:

This is true, I mean, but that's like for the really stupid. Yeah, cuz I was like guys for real. And then literally as soon as the movie really starts like once you get past all the Sweeping landscapes and all of that then all of a sudden she like walks in. You follow her. You don't see her face, it's usually shot from the back of her head, so you see that moving through the station she goes into a room and she immediately and dresses to go take a shower.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, she did.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, soon as she's like. Yep, also, this is something I noticed when she's in the shower. She's on her tiptoes. Oh, oh, was she? Yeah, she, she was not standing on her flat feet, toes, I Happen to notice it cuz I was like, okay, yeah, shower, whatever. And then I was like, is she? I was you gonna tip it? Oh, I don't know, but it drove me nuts, I think it's to make herself look better, oh, silhouette in the show, yeah, yeah but I was like that's dumb.

Speaker 2:

Stands on their tiptoes in the shower, but anyways.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, because for the next hour and a half you only see Kate Beckins on oversized sweaters, parkas, that goofy furry hat to war.

Speaker 2:

I appreciate that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, this is under world and Antarctica.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, so those listening? It's not underworld with Kate wearing leather or band Helsing where she's running around and corsets. It's showing up in cheesy cloud death scenes. She's a cop in Antarctica and it's killed and that's what we get. Uh, also, can we talk about the disgusting, gratuitous new deal of shlongs flapping around? In this movie there's a scene where guys, men, run out naked and their penis are on display for everyone to see. Gross, I Will say this didn't look bad for being in that cold of weather. I, because if that word me, you'd be like oh, look at him a eunuch. I Minus 55 yeah.

Speaker 1:

God, yeah, so she plans on because she talks to the doctor there, dr Fury Cool name didn't make sense for this movie, but she plans to resign after Returning to the United States in two days when everybody leaves, because apparently when it shuts down no one could fly in or get there for six months, correct, yeah, so stetco and pilot delphi, delphi, delphi, sorry, fly to the remote how, with how worth mess mezza, to retrieve a discovered body. The dead man is Anton Weiss, one of the group with three scientists looking for meteorites and autopsy finds evidence of murder by axe. Also, his face was caved in no climbing gear Because and there was a nice wall right beside him.

Speaker 1:

A murder requires a federal investigation. Stetco considers sending the body to McMurdo station to avoid spending another winter in Antarctica, but decides to continue the investigation. And I'd like to point out, tom scarott, if you grew up in the 80s and 90s, I mean alien top gun, space camp poltergeist, three other movies.

Speaker 2:

Picket fences.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, steel magnolias.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, man.

Speaker 1:

He was just one of those actors that was in a lot supporting stuff but, oh yeah, never seemed to phone it in. He always was good in whatever he said. Anything I watched him in yeah.

Speaker 2:

He is an incredibly good actor. Yeah incredibly good.

Speaker 1:

Also, I could easily do a winter stay in Antarctica Antarctica.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I could if I had daily showers. Yeah, well, looks like she had showers, so I yeah, you have the shower, so I'm like I could work at one of the stations. I don't have any special skills, though. No no like, unless you want me to like, type shit out, I can yeah go around making sure things are locked or something, yeah. I can be coffee for everybody. Super good at that.

Speaker 1:

Oh no, give me some movies, some books and video games. Yeah, I'd be fine. Oh yeah dark all the time. I don't care, go sleep whenever you want. Hardly anyone there and there's nothing there to eat. You Like the shitty North Pole with its polar bears and Inuits the fuck are they eating?

Speaker 2:

I know they have penguins, but penguins are.

Speaker 1:

They have penguins, they have seals.

Speaker 2:

Seals.

Speaker 1:

Seals can be mean but I'm not going fucking fishing while I'm there, so I'm not even going by the water. No, well, yeah so forget the North Pole, that's. It's dangerous, yeah, but you don't see any Inuans barbecuing killer whales, unsuspecting white folk who took their skadoo's off track. Look the white man's where he's not supposed to be, mmm tasty.

Speaker 2:

Native indigenous people. That's what we call them now. Indigenous people you said Indians.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I thought I said Inuit oh.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I heard Indians.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I, maybe I did. I meant Inuit, if I did.

Speaker 2:

Which makes sense, because that would be the further, the furthest north.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, god bless the only thing in Antarctica, really, if, unless you're going into water, which you shouldn't be, is penguins, I'd fuck a penguin up.

Speaker 2:

I've seen seals come up on the land. Yeah, but they try to be close.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's, but penguins go into fish.

Speaker 2:

This is so interesting I.

Speaker 1:

I want to figure out.

Speaker 2:

I know they don't have any random bears. No, we're like big cats running around Antarctica, but I'm wondering, like how far in, are there walruses down there? No, I'm, we're off on a tangent. We should get back to the movie.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, no, there, I know, I'll be honest, I did check it. There is nothing but a penguin there and Sea life, just penguin, and they'd be waddling around squawking. I'd be like fuck you penguin, your bird that can't fly, now you can that. Fucking kick it like a field goal. Barbecue, some penguin. No. North Pole, when I checked it. Arctic foxes, wolves, arctic wolves, wolverines, polar bears so many things can get you.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, no, you're totally like in danger from nature.

Speaker 1:

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2:

I'm able to survive if you know you don't die from the cold and if you like eating penguins.

Speaker 1:

That's all I'm saying when I go. Probably tastes like chicken. Goes to speak to one of the others at Vostok station, she finds him dying from a neck wound and is herself attacked by a black clad man with an ass. Sounded racist. I know it's not, but a sounded racist.

Speaker 2:

Little bit.

Speaker 1:

Look at that black clad man with an axe Racism. A stekko injures her hands in escaping, losing the wet skin of her fingers on the metal handle of the door. This was a great scene. That looked like it fucking hurt like.

Speaker 2:

Oh, fuck yeah. And she like, when she peels it off, I'm like, oh god, and I just took the top part of skin, which I was actually really impressed with, but I'm like I feel like that would be more like super glued to there. But it is a very accurate like description of what happens if you touch cold metal with like a wet hand in Antarctica, I was like, oh God, I Could see that.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that looked really, really painful and that that she, that he was chasing her. I don't know why the beautiful and talented and beautiful, stunningly beautiful Kate back at sale Couldn't operate the rope with the clip worth a fuck, like she was really bad at it. She was terrible like I know you're being chased by the killer, but take it.

Speaker 2:

It's a carabiner. Yeah, meant to be clipped on and on on and easily, easily, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

That's the whole killer didn't have a problem.

Speaker 2:

None, and he's running around with an axe.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, the weather didn't seem that bad. I was wondering why they just didn't run, but I don't know. But yeah, getting her, her bare hand frozen on that door, that was gross and that skin ripping off. So she like yeah, no.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, no, that was, that was extra. Yeah, icky.

Speaker 1:

Later she finds Robert Price, a United Nations security agent, examining the body of the second scientist. They conclude that the third who is missing must be the killer and set out to explore the group's most recent search site. So Delphi picks her up, wraps up her hand she's sleep forbid. This guy comes. His introduction made me ask aloud this new Robert Price guy like where the fuck did you learn to act, dude? It got a lot better, but that first initial meeting, like they were trying hard to make him look like he could be the killer.

Speaker 1:

Like it's so obviously trying to ram it down your throat like, hey, look at this guy, he could be the killer.

Speaker 2:

And like, yeah, fuck, I get it. Dude, every single person that got introduced there was super heavy. Like this is the killer, or is it?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2:

Can you just have everybody act the way they're supposed to act and if they're just naturally gonna be creepy Like you, don't have to make them extra weird so that we all sit there going oh, that's the killer.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Every single person who walks in.

Speaker 1:

So it wasn't the actor, it was the script, or the director or the producer. I was like we're gonna make the audience think he's a killer and yeah, just try, we're gonna make it seem really, really suspicious. Cause this is the guy from that show Suits right, yeah, yeah, so he's obviously can act.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, no, he's super good, but it literally feels like, okay, so you know those like if you take like an Agatha Christie book, like a murder mystery from like the 1940s, this feels like if you made a stage production of it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and you know, like the kind of over the a little over the top, a little overly earnest, just that you should be suspicious of me. Ha ha, let's see if this is a red herring that kind of graded on my nerves a little bit, cause I'm like, yeah, cause there I remembered who the killer was.

Speaker 1:

There was a scene near the end that made you go oh, maybe it is him, because I forgot, like I totally forgot who, like that's how you do it with. Like he had this look, just subtle look, and you're going oh, maybe he does have something to do with it. That's how you do it. This intro was horrible.

Speaker 2:

It was terrible.

Speaker 1:

Their stethoscope falls through the ice to find the old Russian cargo plane. Price and Delphi joined her to investigate and they realized that the lock box that had been opened and six cylinders removed. Price reveals that it is possible that nuclear fuel of interest to arms traffickers may be in the cylinders. Okay, wikipedia leaves it at that. That's all they say. So they actually have a tremor and the snow collapses and they get stuck in the plane Until Price figures out how to blow the hatch, because they're only about what? 10 feet under the snow, and I think they say that's less pressure than it would be if it was 10 feet of water. Yeah, and so they, and it was built to actually blow the hatch. Look, when people make these movies. They make them for people like me. I'm the right amount of stupid.

Speaker 2:

Well, it makes sense to me. Apparently, they were not making it for people like me, because when she offers up the battery in her satellite phone, I was like really, you're going to take your only form of communication and you're going to waste that on the possibility that the hatch will like go up and not cave back down on you and kill you. Cool, cool, smart move.

Speaker 1:

But it worked.

Speaker 2:

Well, yeah, because it's a movie.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, because everything in this movie from geology, meteorites, the fall from the ice wall, blowing the hatch, the storm everything sounded right to me. No further questions from this viewer.

Speaker 2:

Of course.

Speaker 1:

OK, there are. There are some movies that are so off it's stupid. I'll still watch it, but I don't think I've ever watched a movie and had to turn it off because it's too unrealistic, like it's even like. Armageddon. It's just so goofy, but it's so entertainment, entertaining Like I liked it. So, or Geostorm.

Speaker 2:

Yeah stupid.

Speaker 1:

I watched it, though I didn't really like it, but I finished it OK and on that note, ok. So we get out of the plane and we are more or less at the halfway point. Thus far, what are your thoughts thus far? Acting pacing story, because from here on out I found to be a little short of story and they kind of drag things out to fill the time.

Speaker 2:

So up to this point up to this point.

Speaker 2:

I'm super disappointed in our lead character, who's supposed to be a Marshall, a US Marshall. They're supposed to be good at their jobs, but all she does is she walks around pretty much aimlessly asking questions that nobody knows the answers to. But she should probably know, like and I'm sitting there going God really, when they find the dead body and she's got, she wheels it in. First of all, all bear doesn't even have a body bag. They knew they were going to retrieve a body. Yeah, so it's not like it was, like.

Speaker 2:

I was like who taught you how to do your job? I'm like no, fine, anyways, they wheel it through a party and then she's like what happened here? And then the doctor tells her what is this? Doctor tells her, and I was like are you telling me? You can't recognize a stab wound? You can't approximate that? Like, the cut happened when the guy was still alive because it got stitched Really. So she's a little bit of a moron. Everybody else is a bit of a caricature. It's all very cliche, but I'm not super mad at it yet. I'm just slightly rolling my eyes, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's fine, it's entertaining, yeah, it's a little bit of an eye roll and I'm like, fine, you're setting it up. You know, soon she's going to jump into action and, you know, solve things. Kick ass, Kick ass.

Speaker 1:

Now, by this point, Stetco must have her badly frostbitten fingers amputated by Doc.

Speaker 3:

Fury.

Speaker 1:

This was gross and a bit of bullshit, because she watches the entire thing and the reason. I know this from firsthand. Like the doctor would tell her to look away. I had an ingrown toenail.

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

So bad that it had to have the sides of my big toe taken off. And I wanted to watch it like a moron. And the doctor is like you can't, because even if you can't feel anything at any point while we're doing this, just by watching it, you will jerk your foot at some point. You won't mean to do it, it's just an automatic response from your brain. And he said I can take off a lot more than I'm supposed to. I'm like, oh OK, so yeah, that was stupid, but it was really gross, like revealing the fingers and poking at them.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

He's like we got to take it and she's like, no, you're not. That would have been me, I don't think so, do I know you? She then finds the missing scientist hiding in her office. He tells her that he and his two companions found the plane and took the canisters. But the killer has them now. Before Stetco can protect him, he is killed. But Stetco captures his killer, who is revealed to be Australian biologist, russell Haddon, so he was trying to get away from Stetco. I why I don't get?

Speaker 2:

Well, no, because I think, Stetco, if I'm remembering correctly, I think someone else comes into the room, the doc knocks on the door, yeah, and then he bolts and then he bolts and he freaks out. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Which? Where was it going to go? Your name, artica, he was going to go outside apparently, and of course the killer just happens behind the door after the guy locks it and sexy Kate Pexon sale can't get in to help him. Yeah, this was stupid, stupid.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1:

The base commander orders everyone to evacuate because of the murders, with Haddon locked in the brig, and the winter storm near Stetco and Price search for the canisters. However, haddon manages to escape and starts pursuing Stetco and Price. The three end up outside the base in a cat and mouse chase while the winter storm happens and just when Haddon corners and is about to kill Price, stetco arrives and cuts Haddon's safety rope and he is blown away due to the storm. This was OK, kind of a redoing of the earlier scene with the rope and clips. Kate Pexon sale still sucked at it.

Speaker 2:

Yes, correct.

Speaker 1:

At least this time there was an actual whiteout.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and when Haddon blows away, you can see him hitting the like pillars that was a supporting pillar.

Speaker 1:

So yeah, I was like that's nice, that's a song.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I want. I was like I want the sound a little bit louder.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Like you know, give me a little something else. But I was like this is nice, this is nice. I appreciate the bendiness of him. And then we just get flung, I'm like that's good.

Speaker 1:

Because if he's lucky, he'll freeze to death while still unconscious. If he's unlucky, he'll he'll come.

Speaker 2:

He'll be awake.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, he'll find out, he'll freeze to death. If I'll probably find out, penguins are a lot meater than happy feet, let us to believe. Cracking a skull onto one of the base of support pillars, right? Oh, it says killing him instantly. Okay, we don't know if his skull was cracked or if he was killed instantly, although it did sound like it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

But I think it's pretty penguin outcome better, that'd be a great movie.

Speaker 1:

People get stuck over winter in Ardika and they come across these rabid penguins.

Speaker 2:

That's a movie.

Speaker 1:

Don't talk about penguins like that A lot more nudity than that when I get into it. Um, where are we, wikipedia? Oh, they find the canister and they're full of jelly Full of jelly beans. So they know he had a partner. Stetco checks the last departing planes cargo manifest and learns that the bodies of the dead scientists were not aboard. She searches their body bags and notices that the stitching on Weiss's old wound match the distinctive pattern on her amputated fingers. Stetco explores the body and finds several bags of large uncut diamonds. Uh, hats off the set, go. Stick in her hands inside the body like that. That was gross.

Speaker 2:

Okay, can we just point out real quick the first time she sees a dead body she has flashbacks at a mini panic attack. The second time she sees a dead body, flashbacks at a mini panic attack. When she goes to shove her hand inside a dead body, she's good.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, she's all right. No concerns, she likes that.

Speaker 2:

Nothing at all. Also, can we also point out that before this scene, when she was trying to button up her sweater, oh yeah. She could not do it because she was missing her pinky and her ring finger and I was like I'm trying to think of the way that you do button with your pinky and your ring finger and maybe your thumb. But I was like you you have an opposable thumb. Your, your, your thumb moves.

Speaker 1:

I actually looked down and I brushed the Doritos off my shirt and then tried to. I'm like I don't use my pinky and I use my thumb.

Speaker 2:

I don't use it either. The most I do is I use my pinky to like steady my hand, but I also use the palm of my hand to steady my hand. I'm like this is fucking stupid.

Speaker 1:

It made me so angry, so fucking angry, but anyways and this is where they had price kind of looking like he still might be the partner when he made that look and he was kind of looking to see where she was going. That's the way you do it. Both of them are in agreement that the Australian had to have had a partner found the jelly beans, but that meant the Australian didn't know the diamonds were moved because he was just trying to get away with jelly beans. Yeah, Doc confesses that he was part of a diamond smuggling ring and with the others before hating killed the rest. He had hoped that the diamonds would make him wealthy outside Antarctica. When doc tells Stetco he wants to see the Aurora Australia, Australia's.

Speaker 2:

I think that's what he said one last time.

Speaker 1:

She allows him to walk outside to his death. Yep. Six months later, stetco price and Delphi have winter at the facility. She transmits an email to her superior rescinding her previous resignation and asking for a warmer location for her assignment. Laugh is had by audience and that is our movie. Oh right, what's your score? What's your score?

Speaker 2:

Um skip it, Skip it Skip it Like you bought it.

Speaker 2:

I bought it. I bought it, so I will watch it at least a few more times to justify me buying it. It's not so terrible You'll want to turn it off, but it's not cheesy enough or like funny enough or ridiculous enough to make you want to keep it on. It's just kind of a stupid, I think, action thriller. There's not that much action, except for her trying to like, attach herself to strings and that's about it Her not knowing how to work a carabiner and I don't know everybody acting really suspicious. It's just it's. I'm like they could have done so much better with this movie, so much better, but they did not. So I mean skip it. It's not. It's not even ridiculous enough to warrant a watch, just to be like I watched it. What about you?

Speaker 1:

My score. This wasn't. This wasn't a horrible movie. It wasn't a great movie. It it was a serviceable movie and as a serviceable movie it was okay. Like as a serviceable movie.

Speaker 1:

The first half of the movie was fine. I got into it. I rolled my eyes a few times. I'd forgotten practically everything. The second half of the movie didn't really, didn't really drop the ball. It just kind of painted the numbers, had betrayals just because through in the dock as the main bad or the main culprit, it just seemed to just have things happen to progress the movie towards the finish line. It didn't feel organic but it was okay.

Speaker 1:

Look, the location was great, it looks great. The isolation was a lot less isolated than I remember because there were people everywhere. The acting is fine. Price and Delphi, dr Fury and even a wrapped up Cape Beckinsale were fine. Like I talk about Cape Beckinsale being sexy because she's freaking is. She's also extremely talented but there wasn't a lot for her to go on Like for what she had. She did an okay job but they didn't give her a lot and they didn't make her character that great. Second half was just kind of okay. There's nothing mind blowing, nothing nail biting. I was expecting or remembering something more akin to mind hunters, with Val Kilmer and Christian Slater and now Al Kool J, or I see you with Sylvester Stallone and Chris Christopherson Two movies we should probably do an episode on and two movies that the what I love mind hunters I've.

Speaker 2:

I watch it religiously. When I when it was on prime, I was watching it like once a month.

Speaker 1:

I was just about to say, like they might well be not as good as we remember.

Speaker 2:

No, it's just as terrible as I remember, and I love it so much.

Speaker 1:

And yeah, that's fine, but this didn't have that, down to the wire villain reveal it was Doc Doc Fury, which sounds cool, but he's kind of like yeah, it was me.

Speaker 2:

I did it.

Speaker 1:

I want to retire what?

Speaker 2:

are you going to do? He doesn't even really say that she's all like you. Don't have a granddaughter now, but this will make me rich.

Speaker 1:

And you're like just like.

Speaker 2:

you're not even an evil mastermind, no kind of like the guy who lets everybody else do the work for him.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. Will I watch it again, maybe in another 10, 12 years, if I forget who the killer is.

Speaker 1:

I mean, I forgot it this time. It was okay For me. I would say like rent at a discount or stream it is a 2.5 or two out of five. By the way I do it, this leaves way more to the. Don't waste money on this movie. It's not horrible but it's not great. It's okay. I would say it's not a. Skip it If you don't remember a lot about this movie and see it. Stream it on a lazy afternoon on a weekend. It's serviceable like two out of five. Stream it. Just don't expect a nail biting throat. Do not waste money on it, even if it's for $10. Like Anna, I made a mistake.

Speaker 2:

I made a mistake and I regret that immensely, but that's okay, because I will watch it another two times, which will make it worth it to me financially. It's fine. However, I wish I had remembered more of this movie, because it's here's the thing If I had rented it for $4.99, that's one thing. It's a one time watch. You pay the $4.99, you can suck it up.

Speaker 1:

But because.

Speaker 2:

I paid $10 to watch it. I was like, oh crap, now I have to watch it more times. But this movie, it made me mildly angry because I'm like. You made the lead character the heroine. You made her incompetent. She's just a moron through the majority of this movie. I don't know if that was on purpose or if they just thought this will move the story along better, or whatever. I don't know who pissed in somebody's cornflakes and they made that decision, but it really ruined the movie for me.

Speaker 1:

That would have made the movie better if it was found out that she was Antarctica, because she was incompetent.

Speaker 2:

Honestly, that would have been a very different, but good movie where she tried to eventually yeah. She's like I don't know why they assigned me here, and then it goes from there.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I'd watch that movie, do a movie.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's fine.

Speaker 1:

No, it looked great, Like the acting was fine. The script wasn't all there and there was no. It's really hard to call this movie a thriller.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, there was no thrill. I was bored through most of it, yeah.

Speaker 1:

But, like I said, serviceable, I stuck through it. Well, we had to, we had to, but I would have regardless anyways, even if, especially if I paid, I did pay five bucks. But yeah, so anything else you want to add to the whiteouts?

Speaker 2:

I was disappointed, but I mean it is what it is. I mean, kate Beckinsale is still hot. There's still a bunch of hot guys in it who are very, very attractive Stuck them parkas. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with a parka. No, it's more fun to imagine what's underneath.

Speaker 1:

If they're wearing a parka, all right. Remember to like and subscribe below. And if you are listening or watching on YouTube, tell us below what you thought of the movie. Follow us on Facebook at I Remember Like that Movie podcast. Or on X at Good Bad, I don't know. And that's it for whiteout.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

So, yeah, thank you for joining us in previewing and reviewing the 2009 thriller. For those listening, I'm using quotations, air quotes. Yeah, not a whole lot of thrills here, but serviceful enough. Whatever, and until the next movie we remember liking.

Speaker 3:

Congratulations. You just had one of your childhood movie memories vindicated, or they just eviscerated it, I don't know. This is a generic one size fits all type of ending to the podcast. So thank you for listening and please join Anna and Jimmy next time for another episode of the I remember liking that movie podcast, if you dare to go back and watch that movie you remember liking.

Podcast Discusses Kate Beckinsale's "Whiteout"
Reviewing the Film "Whiteout"
Disappointing Movie Review
Discussion on Movie and Antarctic Survival
Antarctic Mystery and Diamond Smuggling
Mixed Reviews for Action Thriller Movie
Movie Podcast Episode Ending Discussion