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And Episode 31

So, I finally rented Iron Lung last night.

First off, I have to say congrats to Mark for making me forget it was him on screen. I really thought it was gonna be an awkward watch and it wasn't at all.

Second, very nice job grossing me out at the end there. I don't watch as much horror these days and my stomach was turning at the end. Had to distract myself with something else for the last 20 minutes or so.

I didn't realize until later, reading some things on tumblr, a realization that I think I was supposed to happen during the movie that is super cool in hindsight. When he takes a picture of what he thinks is a skeleton, it's actually this creature, but at the moment we don't know that he's taking x-rays.

I'm all for a movie with some ambiguity, and the ambiguity of the ending doesn't bother me very much, but this is a moment that I think could have been hammered in differently so that I had that realization during the movie. Since the people at the station knew it was x-ray, I don't know why they didn't comment on an actual thing being down there.

Also, I've seen complaints about the audio mix, and apparently that was a theater specific thing, but I also struggled sometimes just watching on YouTube on my computer. I turned on the closed captions almost immediately, but the captions didn't seem to include all of the dialogue, so I was still missing some pieces.