Spencer and Dave are finishing off Oliver Stone's Vietnam War Trilogy of films. First it was Platoon where we saw the action from the American soldiers in Vietnam. Next, we watched Born on the Fourth of July all about the soldiers coming back to the USA and living in a changed world. Now, the third film from 1993, Heaven and Earth is all about what it was like from the Vietnam side of the war.

The real-life story of Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le), a girl growing up in a peaceful for the moment Vietnamese village, farming rice and living life as a Buddhist. But then the French come and ravish the village before there is a calm before the war. Next, it's the Viet Cong and then the Americans to the point that she has been tortured and abused by all sides, and she and her mom leave towards the city of Saigon. Here she takes up whatever jobs she can to get by before she meets an American (Tommy Lee Jones), who is a little too determent to be with her and at first seems like the right caring person to get her out of Vietnam and taken to America.

What seems like the best course of action turns into more problems when she gets to California. But Le Ly still makes the best of it and even though there are still more hardships she, is able to still achieve great success for herself before returning back to Vietnam.

This might be the greatest made Oliver Stone movie out there. It's a very hard drama but it's full of some of the most insightful looks at the whole Vietnam conflict. A movie that should be shown in an educational fashion. But sadly it was released against an onslaught of big movies including Shindler's List, Tombstone, Grumpy Old Men, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Batman Mask of the Phantasm just to name a few. 1993 is one of the biggest years of releases and Heaven and Earth just got swept under the rug.

Probably after Shindler's List, people where not looking for another hard hitting, true life story a couple weeks later. And I hate to say it, but I have a feeling that the casual American audience looked at this movie like a foreign film, that they were afraid they would be reading subtitles the whole time and that wasn't going to help the cause. But this movie is beyond worth checking out. Really a masterclass story being told.

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Spencer and Cameron are talking all about the stuck out in space, cabin fever style horror story of Mouthwashing from 2024. An indie title on Steam where it plays out more like an interactive movie, similar to games like Soma where one really gets to interact with characters and watch the story unfold into dark and humorous madness.

It's the story about a space trucking, freight team, delivering cargo across the galaxy and at about halfway into their journey, they crash into a meteor and are left stranded in space with the captain just barely alive. So, the four remaining crew members take it to themselves to pass the time and figure a way out of there.

The game goes back in fourth, Tarantino style, from before the crash and after the incident and weaves together the plot with twists and turns abound. Characters at first feel like they are leaning one way then the more you know they start to change your perspective.

It's more of an experience than a standard game, but what we liked about it is how this is almost like the new way to make indie films, utilizing that light bit of interactive play mechanics that gaming has to offer. It's a fantastic combination for some really interesting ways to tell a story.

So, come join us for the run through retrospective discussion, as we deep dive into the lore, gameplay mechanics, and give a retro review on our modern experience. Let us know your thoughts on the game, survival horror titles, and what we should play next.

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Do you enjoy the hang out with friends after watching a movie, playing a video game, or reading a comic then discussing nothing but the good times of the experience?

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Podcasting multimedia fun for over 10 years, with a 1000 plus episodes of reviews, discussions, interviews, and laughing it up with friends. Here’s just a few of the greats we’ve talked about over the years.

Old Man Orange Podcast is all about enjoying the good times of studying and indulging the multi-media offerings of storytelling throughout time. Deep diving vintage cinema, reliving the nostalgia of gaming, finding unproduced movie scripts of what could have been, and discovering new comic books to read.

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Spencer and Ryan are back to talk about the new graphic novel of Absolute Batman Volume 2 by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Frank Martin, and Clayton Cowles. The alternative new DCU world of the classic characters, where Bruce Wayne is a blue collar worker and is good friends with his general Batman Prime enemies, like Penguin, Two Face, Croc, and Riddler.

This story starts off with an interesting new take on a monstrous Mr. Freeze plot then dives into the bread and butter of Batman taking on Bane in a whole new bad way. This Bane shows up early in the Bat career and totally wreaks havoc on Batman and all his friends. With Bane being the power muscle for a terrorist ring around the world and trying to get Batman to take the venom and become his new heir.

It's a totally interesting take on the Dark Knight and there are layers upon layers of story and details intwined throughout that really takes at least a second read to fully digest.

Beyond that we also go into just some other comic books we have been reading in the last while like some 80s Captain America and Iron Man meets Doomsday, to a newer Wonder Woman. Then catching up on manga with Black Lagoon and a new surprise book, Mujina into the Deep that is nothing but pure good story time.

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Spencer and Cameron are going back to 2002 and looking at what was the last big hurrah in the classic Resident Evil style of gameplay and story before Resident Evil 4 shook up the formula, Zero. When RE games were exclusive for Nintendo and everything just felt right. The GameCube controller almost felt dialed in perfectly for RE controls and the glory days of pre-rendered backgrounds, tank controls, and camera angles were at a pinnacle.

But not everyone was game for this style by this point. RE0 really comes out at the tail end of the golden age Survival Horror gaming boom. And if you loved these types of games, Zero was an instant favorite. But if you have had enough of the puzzles, gameplay, and horror, this one would be more of the same. And a lot of people were looking for something different. I just remember X-Play (For my old man gamer reference) just hated the living daylights out of these games until RE4 changed up the arena. At least there was always Game Pro magazine (2nd old man gamer reference) that kept the faith alive for the love of the classic horror.

This game started off as an N64 exclusive and take a look at that demo footage. That version would have been way past cool. The graphics always feel like they were more in line with the original game. Then the game finally got converted to GameCube in the RE 1 Remake engine. With a lot of cool experimental features for the gameplay. Sometimes goofy, but other times quite interesting.

Resident Evil Zero serves as a prequel to the original Resident Evil, following rookie S.T.A.R.S. medic Rebecca Chambers (who is one of my all-time favorite RE characters) as she investigates a series of grisly murders near Raccoon City. After Bravo Team’s helicopter crashes in the Arklay Mountains, Rebecca encounters escaped death-row inmate Billy Coen, and the two reluctantly team up to survive a nightmare unfolding around them. Their investigation leads them through an abandoned train, eerie facilities, and secret laboratories tied to Umbrella Corporation’s bioweapon experiments. As they uncover the origins of the T-Virus and the betrayal of former Umbrella researcher James Marcus, they battle grotesque creatures and uncover the tragic consequences of unchecked scientific ambition. The story ends by directly setting the stage for the Spencer Mansion incident, revealing how the outbreak began just hours before the events of the original game.

I would really like to see Rebecca and Billy return at some point in a new Resident Evil game, maybe even a third Revelations. Here's hoping!

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Spencer and Cameron are talking all about good ole Resident Evil Code Veronica on the latest Silent Evil Podcast. Coming out originally on Sega Dreamcast in 2000 and looking as realistic as possible for the time. With the full 3d environments and cutscenes making it feel like the full movie experience. The game later came out PS2 and GameCube with the Code Veronica X version. HD Remaster on PS3 and Xbox 360 too. Generally, just adding in more cutscenes and expanding on Wesker's whole reason for being in the game. You can play any of the iterations, though the Dreamcast version will always have a special place in my upbringing.

This game always felt just huge! And gameplay wise it is the longest of the Resident Evil games at this point. Originally this was supposed to carry the number of 3 but Sony got their panties in a bunch and claimed they wanted the number on their console. Silly rabbit. Well, Sega like usual, always got the short end of the stick but they still got first dibbs on literally one of the greatest classic styled, survival horror games out there with Code Veronica. Funny enough, back in the day, my friends and I referred to CV as RE4. Well, until the actual 4 came out.

This is the story of Claire Redfield, just 3 months after the Racoon City events of Resident Evil 2 and 3. She is still out searching for her brother Chris and is now in a Paris facility of Umbrella. After some John Woo like action, she is captured and sent to the Rockfort Island Prison where all hell has just broken loose and you know what that means. The T-Virus has no run rampant through the island, and it is up to Claire to make her way back to freedom, joining forces with a Leonardo DiCaprio lookalike named Steve. Who really goes to show, some people just have all the dumb luck in survival.

Their journey finally takes them to a remote laboratory/facility of Umbrella in Antarctica, where the game definitely starts to take some Thing turns. Chris comes in the second half of the game to now rescue Claire, solve the Ashford mystery, and run into his old nemesis, Albert Wesker. This game is so close to feeling like a perfect cap off to an excellent trilogy minus just a couple things that open up for another sequel.

Who knows what might be in store for Code Veronica, a full tilt remake maybe? Though you somewhat have one with The Darkside Chronicles and then an alternative playthrough with Gun Survivor 2. But we never know what Capcom might have next for us. Maybe they can grab Shinji Mikami and have him return to work his magic.

So, come join us for the run through retrospective discussion, as we deep dive into the lore, gameplay mechanics, and give a retro review on our modern experience. Let us know your thoughts on the game, survival horror titles, and what we should play next.

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Spencer and Dave are continuing the Vietnam War Trilogy from film maker Oliver Stone, with the 2nd movie, Born on the Fourth of July from 1989. Starring Tom Cruise in what might be his mightiest performance ever, at least for the drama department with other actors including Willem Dafoe, Kyra Sedgwick, and Tom Berenger just to name a few. It's an award-winning movie that literally deserves it as you are going through the real life, true story experience of Ron Kovic, who Tom Cruise plays and whose book the movie is based off of. The movie also contains one of the greatest, if maybe the only, wheelchair battles in history with Tom Cruise and Willem Dafoe duking it out.

The story follows Ron Kovic, a fiercely patriotic young man who eagerly enlists to fight in the Vietnam War, believing deeply in American ideals of honor and sacrifice. Severely wounded in combat and paralyzed from the chest down, Ron returns home to a country that seems unwilling to acknowledge either his suffering or the war’s moral cost. As he struggles with physical pain, survivor’s guilt, and neglect within the Veterans Administration system, his faith in the government and the war steadily erodes. Over time, Ron transforms from a flag-waving Marine into a passionate anti-war activist, channeling his anger and trauma into protest. The film charts his painful journey from idealism to disillusionment, ultimately portraying a man who reclaims his voice by confronting the very system he once trusted without question.

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Spencer and Dave are starting up Oliver Stone's Vietnam War Trilogy, with the first film, Platoon from 1986. An all star cast with Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David, Forest Whitaker, John McGinley, and Johnny Depp to name just a few of the young buck actors.

The movie holds up like no other and is really the start of the modern war film look and feel. Once you start up this film, it's hard to press pause.

Platoon's plot follows Chris Taylor, a young American volunteer who arrives in Vietnam and is quickly stripped of his idealism as he’s thrown into the brutal reality of jungle warfare. Serving in an infantry platoon, Chris finds himself caught between two opposing sergeants: the compassionate, weary Elias and the ruthless, hardened Barnes, whose moral clash mirrors the larger conflict tearing the platoon apart. As ambushes, patrols, and civilian encounters grow more violent and chaotic, the men become increasingly divided, and Chris is forced to confront the psychological toll of combat, the loss of innocence, and the blurred line between right and wrong. By the end, the true battle isn’t just against the enemy, but within the soldiers themselves, leaving Chris forever changed by the war.

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