Anna from Adapted with Anna and Sam (you can also find them on Twitter!) joins us this week to talk about a movie she remembers liking as a kid: Batteries Not Included!
Image Description: A little electronic alien creature with blue light emitting from its eyes and undercarriage hovers in a kitchen at night.
Here's Anna's hazy summary:
"What I remember is that there are these little flying aliens that look like small flying saucers, but although they are made of metal they are sentient. They befriend the various inhabitants of a city apartment building. I think there's an old couple, a pregnant woman, and some other characters who blur together. The UFOs don't talk but they learn to communicate with the humans. At one point the female gives birth, and one of the little baby UFOs seems to be still-born, but one of the humans is able to bring it back somehow? And there are villains...are they property developers? I think that someone is trying to get the residents of the building to move out for some reason. The little UFOs help them. I seem to recall that one of the bad guys attacks and almost kills one of the UFOs with a baseball bat. And I think the humans repair him, maybe?"
How close was Anna? Pretty close!
Anna’s podcast is also super fun, and if you want to try it out, Anna’s favorite episode is The Hunt for Red October.
The movie adaptation for The Dark Is Rising came out in 2007. It has a rating of 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Julia was wrong about there being a female rat in Ratatouille. There are none. The bumbling grandma was a human. But the rest of Julia’s memory about that was accurate. The problematic fight scene happens at about 16:20, right after Remy runs past an artist painting a sexy woman (we only see his canvas, not the model) in his studio, which is full of paintings of nude women in sexy poses.
Some important questions to think about:
Could Geoffrey actually be a dog?
Can we get Rian Johnson to make a Gritty reboot of this movie?
How long is 5 seconds in robot time?
Scheduling change notice: We’re moving to one episode per week on most weeks from now on. We’re doing this to make sure we can sustain the show on a lasting basis because it takes a lot of time to research, watch, record, and edit episodes for each movie we choose. We love the work, but it’s a lot, and we have other things to do in our lives, too! So from now on, free subscribers will get two main episodes and two After These Messages episodes every month. Paid subscribers, you’ll still get two extra episodes every month, same as before. This means that there won’t be an After These Messages episode on Thursday this week. Instead, you’ll get to hear Anna’s commercial viewing picks next Tuesday!
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Batteries Not Included with Anna Waldron