F**kface - Summer Movie Draft 2025 Wrap Up

Episode Date: February 8, 2026

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we total the domestic gross, and whoever wins with the best collection of movies, uh, wins the game. I described that poorly at the end, but you get the point, money, accounts, people buy things. There's a winner. And we're going to go, the summer movies figure person by person.

But before we look at the bottom of the leaderboard and work up, there were some misses. I miss one of the bigger movies. That's on me. Weapons. And what was that? Yeah, what was that? What was what?

Me taking accountability? I was wondering what the one you missed was. Oh, weapons hit the plus. They're on unassigned movies scored. Hmm. $526 million. Well, no. Okay, so we need to clarify.

That's not incorrect. So last year, that's not incorrect. It isn't. Because last year, it went longer because we didn't, we started later into the summer. This year we drafted earlier. So these movies would have been reflective if we would have done it based on the timeline of last year. But that's not what we did. Ah.

Ah. I see. So. It's a coding error. It is a, I guess, but like, I don't want to insult any of the coding or anything here. This website is amazing and community made and makes this whole process so much easier. So pretty softens the blow of all the insulting you were doing the second. So much insulting.

But weapons was my big mess. Yep. For this. Yeah. Big one. It $149 million. It was huge. It's a great movie.

Really has me excited to see that director make the Resident Evil movie. I think that would be a lot of fun. Yeah. Very curious. The only one with money left over, it probably would have gone to me, and that would have given me, uh,

about what I would have needed to climb the rates. To climb. Could have been. One more place. But unfortunately, but unfortunately it didn't because it's unassigned. All movies scored. This is everything.

That's a whole list. So you want to start at Jeff and then we can just work through his list. Yeah. So let's have, let's have a look. Jeff came in his place, unfortunately. Yeah, I did. In fifth place.

Dead last. Oh, so long. That's exactly where I wanted to be. Because first off, I didn't get credit for one battle after another. It got pushed and that was a huge film. See, I wasn't going. Everybody else is going for money here. I'm going for Oscars.

Which was the point, I think. I understand that's what your point was. But I'm going to be a feeling pretty good on Oscar night when I'm holding up my trophies. So, wait, it got pushed out of the summer. I don't think we're giving out just, I mean, just to be clear, we're not giving out any trophies for winning an Oscar for the summer movie league. That is true. Yeah, but I'll be giving them to myself.

in my heart. I think this guy got too close to Sazlap. I mean, truly what else is new. Yeah. So what you don't make sense. I think he's got Sazlav brainwash. You don't get the money for that one? What, one battle after another?

Yeah. Why would he get the money for it? Because it was pushed out of the summer. It's a shame because it made a lot of money. Gavin, are you upset? I just don't know why you, you boy, right? It is my movie, yeah. Right, but it didn't come out in the summer

for the summer movie league. How many of these movies have you seen, Jeff, of yours. Of mine? Oh, God, let's see. I've seen,

uh, uh, you know, I saw dailies on all of them but when they were being filmed, but I haven't actually made it to the theater to sit down and watch, uh,

let's see, there's zero of them. I've seen. Oh, wow. Really? You saw zero of these? Yeah, I've seen none of them.

That's wild. Didn't you see friendship? No. No, I never saw it. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, okay. I'm just, I'm blown away.

I have some facts about just movies. Okay, go on. Clown and of Clornefield was the biggest opening for IFC ever with 3.6 million. That was the one of you had cheering on. Trilogy. What? Which I didn't know. And it felt like Jen Alpha's first slasher movie.

I did see Clion and of Cornfield. It's fun. But I had no idea it was a young adult book. But I watched it and went, oh, this is, this is like aimed at a very young audience. As a slash your film. And to be clear, Gavin, Gavin brought up a great point. You thought you had that movie.

Yeah, you would probably just left a way, but it was Jeff's movie. I sure did. I was convinced for quite a while that that was mine. And I did not. And it wasn't. Zero clowns in mine cornfield. Yeah.

I actually, I feel pretty good about all my movies. I'm bummed, you know, one battle after another made $200 million. It would have been nice to book that. But I guess because it fell out of season, I can't.

But the only one I'm really disappointed in. I thought that materialists would have done better. Yeah. Really? Yeah, I thought it would have done a little bit better. The Pedro Pascall,

Chris Evans in Dakota. Yeah, Dakota Johnson. It was kind of to ride in the high of Oh, yeah, Johnson, not fending. It was kind of riding the high of that,

of that genre. Oh, it was. I don't know that there's anything in that genre anymore. I think materialist was like kind of it. Yeah. I feel like every summer

or like a lot of summers, there is a movie like designed for women that does really well and then they go, wow, women see movies. This is crazy. And I do feel like the materialist was set up to be that film.

Yes. Yeah, but anyway, check out. But anyway, shut up. Look at F1, $189 million. Dollars. Moving on to Friendship, your second release, Jeff. Biggest debut for a limited release.

I also was shocked to learn that it wasn't written or directed by Tim Robinson because it feels so much like his comedy. I thought you're going to say it wasn't written or directed by anyone. Nobody wrote or directed. It was a series of bystanders who filmed and they asked for their footage.

What about you? Like, as far as the group, what movies have you seen out of this list? One ball out of another. I'm not only one that's seen any of these movies? No, I mean, there's friendship. I don't think I saw nobody No, I didn't see nobody too

No, I think just, I think friendship was it I think I'm one of 10 people that didn't see F1 Yeah, well, I'm one of the other 10 people There you know, it was fun Gavin, Gavin, I feel like you saw F1 Nope Wow

That seems like a cinema experience And European somehow Nah, I don't give a shit It's technically a sport So he doesn't like it It falls under the... I guess you're right sports fandom

Karate Kid's Legends was originally an hour 58 minutes long but it was cut down to 94 minutes is my fact about that one and it feels that way that is a very odd movie Jackie Chan it's like 94 minutes long and Jackie Chan doesn't show up really until like 45 minutes into the film I wonder how it

compared financially to the other karate kid films lowest grossing I want to say yeah that's a shame Did you watch all of these movies, Andrew? I watched most of these movies. The only ones on Jeff's list that I haven't seen are the ritual. You and everybody else. And Clicka and Americana.

Voided those. Those don't seem to be movies that came out. Yeah. No, it, I didn't, I just didn't feel like putting myself through those. But again, those are zero dollars, so they didn't really come out. It doesn't even matter that you didn't see them. That's true. Yeah, they came out outside of the window, I guess.

Yeah. I can't believe nobody to grow so low when I actually saw the marketing for that. Like I actually saw that being advertised. Oh, I didn't. Oh, I mean, I saw like TikTok ads for it and I went, oh, they made another one of these. All right. You say so low, it is Bob Odenkirk's like second highest grossing film. Whoa.

And he's the lead of. Right, but right. But how many movies is Bob Odenkirk? See that now that's another question I was interested in. I noted that. How many movies do you guys think it is? He's been in. Not as a leap, just been in.

Oh, been in. He's been in a lot. What would be your guess? I would say 15. 12. I thought that he would be in way more than he was. He's in 23 movies in his career. Wow.

He's a TV guy. He's a behind the scenes guy. He is. But Run Ronnie Run is the only one that matters. he's just something that has felt famous to me for a really long time and so he is famous he's just not he's not movie famous he's tv famous he's tv famous and he's kind of got that like vince gilligan like they absolutely destroy on tv but none of them really have any great movie pulls yeah i could see that like nobody one is

like really fun but i didn't leave it going well dude bro i hope they make nobody too yeah like i saw tictock apparently he based that character off of him it's semi-autobiographical. He got robbed a couple times and it like shook his world and so he made those movies just realizing I can really zoom the ceiling of like a power and give everyone a better look at this.

My note for dangerous animals, which is a great movie that I'd recommend checking out. It's a fun horror movie. But I think this is so funny. It is the first film released under IFC films rebrand to independent film company felt

feels like an incredibly unnecessary re-ran, but also makes me realize that technically their previous name was independent film company films. It's like when British Petroleum changed their name to BP. You know what? That's exactly like, I think about that all the time. Was that a Jai Courtney movie? It was.

And he's so good in it. He plays like a kind of charismatic serial killer psychopath, and he doesn't have to do a lot of serious lifting. He's like, he gets to just kind of chew the scenery and he is... Yeah. Be a character actor. Yeah.

I think he fits really well as a character actor. He does. I feel like all your very best serial killers are charismatic. You know, the Ted Bundy types. Nobody... Yeah. Charismatic serial killer is very funny.

Nobody likes... Like, John Wayne Gaisy, not charismatic. You know what I mean? That is very true. Okay. Speaking of serial killers. Jeffrey Dahmer, not charismatic. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

My favorite, I think bullshit movie of the year is I know what you did last summer, which is... Oh, great. Oh, I saw that. No, I didn't. Shit, no, I didn't. You see it? I wish he did, so we could talk about it. Went round and around on that one.

I was getting rid of real cost. Millie and we didn't end up seeing him. Oh, man. They brought back Freddie Prince for this. Hell yeah. And Jennifer Love Hewitt. Yeah. And it is...

Big fan of the Ghost Whisper, Nick. He's cheering about it. Loves it. Justified and Ghostosper is two favorite chefs. They did the screen thing where they, it's like legacy sequel or they bring back the original people. And it is, I think the funniest bad movie I've seen this year.

It is so bad and it fucks up that whole franchise in the most enjoyable way. Where, go ahead, Jeff. No, you go ahead. Sorry. I was just going to say that there is a level, of sacredness for some people for some reason with that original film

and even the sequel, there are people that love that thing and this ruins it. So it brought me so much joy to read those subreddits later and to see people be so mad because it makes such an irrational choice where spoilers, if you

don't want to have, be careful, like stop listening for a moment. If you don't want I know what you did last summer to be spoiled. They brought back Freddie Prince Jr. and he's the villain in this movie. What? Uh, which is supposed to be the big twist.

Wow. And it completely betrays everything that that character was in the first two films. And it doesn't feel earned. And his motives make no sense. And it just is absolutely insane. And it also is bold enough. Because with inflation, it is the least highest grossing.

Uh, I know what you did last summer film. Uh, yeah, no enough to have a post credit scene. that is fucking crazy where Jennifer Love Hewitt goes to the co-lead

of the second one and they're hanging out in the end and she's like, it's not over. And she shows a photo of the two of them with them circled saying you're next.

So they like, the next one in an insane way. It is so bad. People were so mad that they made Freddie Prince Jr. The bad guy when he was the hero. The only genuinely

funny thing about the film. is there's a scene where they like really lean into the first movie, but they kind of act like the second one didn't happen for most of the film. And the second movie is they go on vacation to Jamaica and the killer comes and gets them. And there's a line in the movie because it's all rich kids where he's like, why don't we just fucking get on my boat and go to Jamaica and wait until this all ends? And Freddie Prince Jr. just says, that's a bad idea. I wouldn't do that.

To that point is the only reference to the second film. And I was like, that's great. Did they retcon any of the first movie? No, they didn't do any retconning, but all of their like explanation of what has happened between what the end of two and now with Freddie Prince Jr. just make zero sense.

He had a tough time. He had a tough time, and he's the killer because he's upset that the town tried to move past the killings. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, he's stuck in the past. A lot of guys we can't escape high school end up in that situation.

Yeah, yeah, and then it makes you crazy. You mentioned Jennifer Love Hewitt's rich television history with the Ghost Whisperer. What was, what did she have a TV show where she used to jackdudes off? What was that? The client list, I believe, was the name of that. Thank you, yeah.

Yeah. I think that was a showtimore confused. You get those confused? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the ghost and the Ghost Whisper if it's about jacking guys off? Probably the ghost. Most of all the relationships they have

after they get busted, getting happy endings from Jennifer Love Heath. Man, is this kind of highest? I think it's crazy that I know what you did last summer. An MTV Films movie from the late 90s has any love for it at all. I know, it was insane. Oh, dude,

I saw it at the theater with Millie like four years ago. It was awesome and it was full and people were having a blast. It was cool. It was cool. Wild. People love that franchise. Just a fun, dumb movie. I don't even remember the second one,

but the first one is just, it's fun. Looking else at Jeff's list that I have written F1, by far the most successful Apple Film If you combine the totals of the other four of the top five It's still less than F1 So it'd be interesting to see What they call the sequel

Because can they do F2? Like that doesn't make sense You can't call it F2 Unless it's about kids trying to get an F1 F12 F2 I mean, isn't, isn't F, yeah, it would have to be F1, too, because F2, I think, is a league, isn't it? Well, here's the thing.

The minor leagues, it's like AAA baseball. Yeah. Does anyone care if I spoil the end of F1? No. No, go for it. Does he win? Does he die? He wins, you can't believe it.

But then they're like, cool, do you want to keep racing F1? And he's like, nah, I'm going to go do other stuff now. And they kind of set him up to be like a bounty hunter of different forms of racing in the end, which I like a lot. He's going to NASCAR it. So I think he's going to NASCAR it. So I think. I think it'll be another slot car type thing. Also, it's the Jerry Bruckheimer, who is the producer of, uh,

oh, what's the name of the Tom Cruise race movie? Days of Thunder. Thank you, Nick. He wants to do a sequel where they combine those characters. Oh! Oh! Spinoff Days of Thunder F1 thing. So that's crazy.

Days of Thunder 2. Yeah. I'm taking it. I'm drafting that. I'm drafting that one. When was the last time they were in a movie together? have been interview with a vampire, right? Yeah, I think that's the only movie that they've both been in. Has there ever been a movie that was a sequel to two different other movies? Oh, like, where they bridge it?

Yeah. AVP. Freddie versus Jason. Yeah, I mean, really, it's just some horror franchise bullshit, right? Like, where they make them fight. That's, Gavin, that's a great question. Very good question. Yeah, there's not like a World War II sad movie where they combine, like, the different platoons or something. I think it is all for moving nonsense. And we got to get Private Ryan. Yeah. Schindler's list and saving Private Ryan.

This sucks. Whoa. Fury Ryan. Materialist was the first indie to cross 100 million this year. Nice. It's also a movie that gave me so much anxiety. Just seeing how that dating scene works.

Terrifying. Stressful. What else do I have? Smurfs. I got so mad when watching the Smurfs. We've talked about on the podcast. my hatred of the Smurfs and that Smurfs movie. I got so mad.

I wanted to figure out who to blame for the creation of it. And I guess it's a Belgium thing. And then I looked into it and saw that it performed as like, who gave this thing money? And the top, I want to say, what do I have written down? It visits three of the four largest markets for it. So I went, oh, you fuckers know you're doing. France.

France, big style. France, Germany, Australia. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Does well in all three of those. No, exactly what they're doing. No, exactly what they're doing. Now, do you think it performed well in those markets because they knew those are big markets,

and so they, or focus toward that? Or do you think they only did well in those markets because they were in? Like if they had put, I don't know, New Zealand in, it would have performed well in New Zealand. I don't think, I think they just love the Smurfs. those places, but I do want to, like, see

who the person is and is like, did you see the Smurfs went to my town? I gotta go see that movie. Actually, do Smurfs were here? Like if the Smur, like if there was a Portugal scene, maybe it would have done very well in Portugal, you never know. Portugal Smurf. The last thing I have

to say about just movies. Portugal, the Smurf. Is caught stealing is a movie that I would recommend watching because they don't make movies like caught stealing anymore. it is imagine if Darren Aronofsky made a Guy Ritchie mob film set in New York

it is quirky and fun and Austin Butler is emulating young Brad Pitt and he does a great job at doing that it is apparently based on a trilogy of books based on how poorly it did at the box

office I don't think we'll get another one in that entry but I think it's for the best because I think it has a perfect ending as it And I don't think that have one of the doctors, like Doctor Who guy's in it? Matt Smith. Matt Smith, yes. I don't like Mohawk guy, right?

I don't like, I don't like looking. I don't like looking at him. He's not in it much. He bugs me. He bugs me so much. Is it his eyebrows? Maybe. I don't know what it is.

I think it's like a combination of all of the features that make him a human man. Every time I'd walk into Emily's room and she was watching the crown and he was on screen, I had to leave. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The bohawk actually helps frame his face better, it feels like. Did you watch House of Dragon? No.

No. You look bad in that. Partially because he's a Targaryen, right? He is a Targaryian. It has a wildcast, though, of Matt Smith, bad bunny, action Bronson is in it. Oh. Oh, weird. Wow, I didn't know that.

How much is Action Bronson in it? Probably a total of five minutes of screen time. I'm fine. Never mind. But he does it well. Leave Schreiber, right? Leave Schreiber's in it. Yeah.

That's a pretty good Valley movie for two points, though. Yeah. Yeah. Can't complain about that. Do we want to move into fourth place? Let's do it. Let's do it. With Amex Platinum, you have access to over 1,400 airport lounges worldwide.

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is big news. Choose news, not noise. CBC News. Fifth place, disgusting, fourth place, that means they gave a really good effort and they had some really good ideas. Thought I had way more movies than this. Nope. Less movies, but you did have Horizon and American Saga Chapter 2, the Kevin Costner great.

Now, okay, so here's what I was going to ask. Gavin, when this movie eventually comes out, do you think so by your logic of, oh, it didn't come out, but why didn't you get the money? When this movie eventually comes out, should I get the money for this? Sure, I don't. Well, no, you can't make that argument

because you owned it originally. and then it stayed in the pool. Sure, why not? I think it surely, if it doesn't release by the time we do this in the summer of this year, it has to go back into the pool for the chance of another person to buy it. Well, I'll be back in the pool next time

we drop the movies. Like, it's always in the pool. Okay. I'm starting to think about, but if let's say it's back in the pool, right, and somebody else buys it that isn't Eric, Eric doesn't get this money now. Remains to be seen.

Depends if someone else buys it. Yeah. Okay. Sure. If I get it next season, I should get it twice. Didn't we do something weird where I had like first refusal on it for this year or something? I think so. I think if you wanted to spend the same amount of points that you bought it for you at first refusal.

And since you didn't, it went into the pool and then it went for one point. Yeah, let's do that again. Okay. So, but do I have it? Correct. Well, you would have first right of refusal. Oh, okay. And if not, it goes into the pool, I kind of like.

It comes out right now when it makes money, then it's all moot because it made money while you owned it, but not during the contest. So it's useless. I don't know if that movie will ever come out. Like it's done. It's been done for over a year. I don't understand why that's not. Yeah, but Wiley Coyote is getting a movie or whatever, and everyone said that would never come out. That is true.

That is true. But there were like, maybe there is, maybe it's a tax thing. Maybe he's trying, but I think he's still trying to make two more of these. I don't know. But. But like first movie didn't come out for the second summer in a row. Didn't this movie break him? Does he have any more money? I'm doing commercials recently.

I thought I thought that might be why. How much money can he possibly be making by looking at nature on the Fox News Channel or whatever he does? Talking about how greater national parks are. Like that cannot be funding these films. I think he lost a lot. And then I don't know what the street. strategy is going forward, but he keeps saying, I'm going to make the other two of these. Maybe that's how he got it done. He got Fox now to pay for him to go talk about nature in national

parks. And then while he's there, he just puts on a cowboy outfit and gets some buddies like, all right, all right. Change the camera. Get the good camera out. I am excited to see, like, there's like less than a percent chance that we ever get a third one of these. But the first one looked super expensive. And I assume the second one also does. So I'm hoping for like, a very noticeable downgrade. It's maybe the only reason why I would watch three is to see how much cheaper it looks than one of two. Andrew, let me ask you a couple of questions here.

I don't really care about Juliet and Romeo. I'm sure you have a fact about that. Good. Hurry up tomorrow was the movie with the weekend, right? It is. Oh, what? How was that? Nothing interesting to say is what I noted for it

as having seen it. It starts out. kind of fun and it's like oh this is just like a weird artsy thing i could get behind this like visually it's kind of interesting and then it just makes everything that kind of had any charm about it so unlikable and it feels so pretentious in that it's it's hinting at so many different ideas but doesn't really make a statement on any of them it's terrible yeah i don't know why the weekend keeps doing acting it seems to not be working out yeah it seems to not be working out yeah it seems to not be As someone who isn't into music but is more aware of like movies and TV, it made me think

his album bombed because the movie was so bad and well received. And then learning that like, no, people still musically really like the weekend. I went, oh, okay. Crazy. Yep. Yep. Because my perception of him is just so bad. Moving on to Eric's next movie, bring her back.

Which disappointed compared to the, it's the directors that made talk to me. so this had like a large investment and a widespread release and I was trying to look into it and I thought this was a really funny point I saw by a lot of people of people that may have seen it but decided not to you.

The trailer just looked too scaring and unpleasant which I think is an interesting problem for a horror film. As someone who has seen it it is just unpleasant like it's not bad but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it. It's just very

dark and there's like nothing fun about the horror of it. It is just very sad and depressing and well acted. Good ending? Happy ending? Uh, sure. You know what it's about, Jeff? No, I don't know anything about it. Sally Fields plays a woman who...

Hold on, Sally Fields still alive? Not Sally Fields. Uh, the other Sally. The Paddington Sally. Sally still alive. Who's the Paddington Sally? Sue? Is her name Sue? Sally Sue? Sally Sue? The mom... Sally Sue Paddington? Sally Hawkins. She plays a woman whose kid dies and she is using like...

Is her kid to go to family? No, unfortunately not. She's busy helping the equalizer. Yeah. Her kid dies and she's using like rituals to try to bring her kid back. How old's the kid? Probably like 10, I would say. So a little evil 10 year old? Sort of like the kid dies. You don't see much of it. And then there's this other kid that is clearly things are fucked up with it.

There's a scene where that kid tries to eat a knife. And apparently, Whoa! ...warked out of the theater at that point. Oh my God. That's crazy. Yeah, it's an unpleasant film. Yep.

But not an unpleasant film is the Phoenician scheme. That was one of my favorite. movies of the summer. I loved Phoenician scheme. I was shocked that it reviewed kind of poorly as far as Wes Anderson's. There's nothing in it that would review. You are getting exactly what you think you're going to get with that film. I think it's incredible. It might be bottle rock. It's my favorite movie of all time. With time, the Phoenician scheme might surpass it. I love this. My favorite movie of all time. Do you mean Wes Anderson film or movie of all time? Really? Yeah.

Because the Phoenician scheme is great. It's up there with for me too. Wow. It's the Phoenician scheme is so good. Benicio del Toro is such an amazing actor. It is all of the like quirkiness of Wes Anderson but with purpose. It is a movie. So right.

Where the way that it shot and the way that it looks to me felt like that is how the lead character played by Benicio del Toro sees the world. Like it made sense. within the narrative structure of that film, I couldn't recommend enough. I don't understand why people didn't like it. So if you're a guy like me and I only have time to see one movie, I could see the Phoenician scheme or I could see Bring Her Back. You're recommending I see the Phoenician scheme?

Absolutely. Way more so. It is so good. Phoenician scheme is a really great story of like father-daughter. I got one of those. And it's fantastic. Jeff. I think you'll really like this movie

if you haven't seen it. It's really fantastic. I have not seen it. I'll see it. I think you will really, really appreciate it. I'll see it instead of bring her back. Crazy that both of those got 19 mil. Yeah.

But bring her back was way more valuable for you as points. Oh yeah. Well, yeah. I wanted Phoenician scheme because I thought that there would be a chance that it would overperform just based on, it's Wes Anderson. There's going to be some word of mouth. Yeah, for sure. And as Benisio de Tartara.

He's amazing. Yeah. I was watching it and I was thinking you could just put a camera in front of his face and it's so interesting. Like he just has an interesting face. His facial features tell a story. I love that actor. It's incredible. But moving on.

Annie's friends with Ham Hands Bill. They went to high school together. If you say so. The next film that Eric had was Ballerina, which its proper title is a John Wick story. Story present. Yeah. It has a crazy title and it greatly underperformed. Yeah, huge.

Huge underperformance on that. Wow. I will say, and I sent this to Gavin. It has, I think, the coolest shot of any of the movies I saw in the summer, including the Phoenician scheme, which is nothing but beautiful shots. There's such a cool action sequence in it where the ballerina character, the lead character gets in a car and the camera starts with her on the street getting in the car and begins to raise as the car drives down the street and then begins to slowly lower as her car

gets broadsided and push back down the street. And it is like a one shot that is so awesome of like her being in the car driving the camera like pulling away to show her leaving and then slowly lowering to bring her back into frame and she's on the side of the vehicle as it's being pushed to avoid being shot because they're firing into the driver's seat. It is so cool. There's so many great action sequences in this.

It is a cool concept. I just don't think it looked very good. No, I don't think so either. It was a... It's not a look so cool. 90 million dollar budget. How many of those John Wick films are there in that universe now?

This is the fifth. There wasn't one just about the hotel that they stay at. Oh, that was a TV show, I believe. Oh, okay. So there's five movies in a TV thing. And they're making another John Wick movie, but nobody really knows what that will necessarily be

because of how the fourth one ends. But it is sort of disappointing to me that I don't think there will be more because I think what John Wick really nails outside of the action sequences is the cool world building. They set up like really cool world stuff in all of those movies that I really enjoy.

And expanding on that is an interesting idea to me. But people didn't want to see ballerina. Nope. But what they did want to see, Superman, baby. I got to say, I watched, it was one of the last movies I watched

in preparation for doing this content. And it's so fucking good. It's so much fun. It's so good. I didn't want to see it so bad because I'm so burnt out on superhero stories, especially like movies.

And it was just so much fun and there isn't this weight of expectation that is with Marvel movies where they clearly, set up what will be coming next, but it doesn't feel like a story that is part of a grander plot. It is just, it feels pretty isolated, I felt, as far as just telling a good Superman story. And do you think replacing Cavill was the right move? Yes. Yeah. To me honest, the actor, 100% I don't really care who plays Superman in a weird way. But I did think the actor that they

replaced him with did a very good job. I completely agree with what you're saying there, Andrew. It doesn't matter who plays Superman in some ways, yeah. I think it's such a different portrayal of the character. I really love it. It is. I feel like every Superman movie, it feels like every Superman movie in my lifetime is dower and dark. And it's like, I don't know what, like, those original Superman movies are like,

oh, it's a fun, he's a character and he's standing up very straight and he's, you know, portraying something or whatever. All of these Superman movies that have come out, like in, Our lifetime, largely, are just so, like, banal and just not exciting. This was so colorful and fun, and it felt like a breath of fresh air for that character. I loved it. I think you've got to blame Nolan, though. Yeah.

No, I agree. I totally agree. I don't think there's a... And it fits for Batman. Yeah, boy, it doesn't fit for Superman. Boy, it doesn't fit for Superman at all. This fit for Superman. They tried to Batman Superman.

They did. And you can't. You have to... You have to Batman v Superman. Well, they shouldn't do that either. Well, but what if we made it longer? And black and white only. Yeah, well, you know, fourth place, a good effort.

But I will say, not as good at Nick. Nick, big style money here with only a few picks. Look at that. Yeah, I went all in. Yeah, on a few of these. Yeah, and Magic Farm, which I decided not to see based on the fact that $84,000 worth of People saw it. I think that's,

I think it's worth seeing just for that. Is that the lowest money per point we've seen, 42 grand? I think so. What is this? I don't even know what this is.

You took it. You spent 50 on how to train your dragon. I think I was trying to get that one as well. Yeah, you were, you caused my bid to go, Scott. You did get Thunderbolts ultimately

for sort of a bargain. I did. And it did surprisingly well because it was actually also kind of a fun movie I felt. by comparison to where Marvel had been going. And it tackled some interesting concepts that I think they handled fairly well.

That's what I heard. I didn't watch any in the Marvel movies because I just cannot get back on that train. Why does it have a star next to its name? That because they're not really the Thunderbolts, Jeff. That's their temporary name because they are the new Avengers. Oh. 12 million per point there.

Great value. solid value solid buy then we went to shadow force don't know what that is no idea it is a black leading action movie directed by Cho Karnahan and it is incredibly average my only note for

shadow force and I think this is a very weird thing it features Method Man as a side character in it and the Wu-Tang clan is referenced in the movie but Method Man isn't part of the Wu-Tang Clan because he plays a character with a different name that is not related to. Maybe he just looks like Method Man. No, they like, I guess.

I guess they could do that. I don't know. It just felt really weird. There's like a scene in that movie that is in the trailer and feels entirely designed to be in the trailer where they play a Wu-Tang track. And they're like, do you know this little kid? And the little kid's like, yeah, Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with. And they're like, oh, crazy.

It's a bad action movie. It also was probably greatly hurt by I saw my favorite action movie the summer directly after this. Mission impossible to final reckoning. Oh, absolutely. Just the next movie on Nick's List. My note for this is, I think this franchise,

more than maybe any other franchise, is great and terrible because of Tom Cruise. and I left Mission Impossible to Final Reckoning really kind of morally conflicted in a weird way where it is a fun action movie with fun action sequences but it's also the last few films have been about how Ethan Hunt is essentially like the Jesus of the world that is the only one that can save everybody

and knowing Tom Cruise's personal views about himself through Scientology like those leaked videos of like, if you're Scientologist and you drive past a car crash, you need to stop because you're the only one that can actually help. Knowing how he feels about the world makes me feel like I'm watching kind of a weird propaganda Tom Cruise thing about how great he is. But also like every action movie is about how great the lead is.

So I don't know where like weird Scientology ego begins and where like his thing ends. I can't separate the two. So it becomes a very odd thing where, once again, spoilers, the whole point in the movie is they're fighting this AI, and they establish that it's so powerful, nobody could have it. But then one character says, no,

I would trust you in control of the AI that could end the whole universe. And then they stop the AI, and then he just gets to keep the AI. He doesn't destroy it. He's given it. That's awesome. You can have this. I don't know.

I just had no idea. why it was a two-part story. The first part of that story was just so irrelevant by the end of it. I didn't see, I didn't see this last one because I felt like the other part did not make me want to see it based on everything that they laid out.

The other part is so much better than this part. They lead so much of the first movie is about they need to find the submarine and then he gets to the submarine in this one and it's just a confusing action sequence where the submarine is falling off the side

of a cliff type thing, like the seabed. And I was so excited for him. They just made it seem so cool and that it would be this epic moment that he gets to the submarine and then it's a sequence that is really hard to follow and just feels rushed. It sucks. It's a bad movie.

It's almost three hours of them explaining why a thing needs to happen and then doing the thing and then spending 40 more minutes explaining why a thing needs to happen. To me, the crazy thing. And also very forcefully connecting the other films. Yeah, the craziest thing to me about those two films is that they brought Kittridge back.

It was a character from the first one. Yes. Is that the guy that he walks in and he finds the knife from the scene where he's in in the first movie where he's going down? No, Kitridge is like the, oh yeah, because they brought that guy back to her the second part. They did. That guy was William Donlo or something? William, yeah. The guy that walks in in the first movie there was a sequence where he,

he's like a significant part of the movie which says a lot about how how much this movie sticks with you and you see it. It's the guy from the first film where Tom Cruise repels into a room, hacks a computer and then leaves and then a guy walks in and he sees

a knife that fell on a computer or on like a book on a desk and he's like what? Well he's the guy that works in the room and they made him throw up and shit. They bring him back and he's like a main character and his story is that after the computer got hacked, they sent him to Antarctica

for the past like 20 something years as punishment. And there's also once again like a scene that feels really weird Tom Cruise Jesus worship. Everything I do is great. Where Tom Cruise is like, I can't, I don't know how to like repay you.

Or apologize to you for hacking the computer and making you be sent to Antarctica. And he's like, that was the best thing that ever happened in my life. You don't need to. I apologize. Check my hand. What the fuck?

I love the cold I discovered. He, yeah, like he, he, he, he, he, he marries a woman who is local to the area

and it's like he's been living happily. To Antarctica? Whoa, was it a polar bear? What the fuck? It actually was cool. It was cool to see them

both in the same scene together though, because in the first movie, he's kind of like hanging above his head a little bit, but they don't actually meet, really.

No. But it just felt weird to bring it back. They tried to time Mission Impossible 3. It's just not good. It's a bad movie. And it is, it makes me conflicted. The last two movies on Nick's List are the Ruse, which I didn't see. At zero, it got pushed out of the thing.

I don't know if that's out yet. And then how to train your dragon, which I would have watched, but it is like the only summer movie that isn't available on any streaming platform. Oh. Hmm. At least in Canada. Did it come out on disc? I don't know if it came out on disc. Peacock or something.

I think it's on Peacock in the U.S., but I don't have like a peacock version in Canada. That makes sense. Like Peacock isn't in Canada and whatever. Yeah, like you guys don't have like a different one. Whatever the licenses for it didn't give you that. Come here, but it's, it did well.

Were you happy, Nick, with 50 points getting $262 million for? Uh, I think I would have preferred the output of, say, Mission Impossible or Thunderbolts in the comparison. But for all I went in, I'm glad it did that well. It felt like they were doing like a whole theme park based around it. Like it seemed like they believed that it would be huge. I don't think you made a bad bet.

No, I don't think so either. I also think Gavin played the game and drove you up. Yeah. I mean, it was your most, I think that's your highest grossing film, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. And I definitely think that if Gavin hadn't like game due there, you would have had like

crazy numbers. on that for your, you know, your money per point. Yeah, you probably could have got it in the 30s if it wasn't for you. Yeah, you got freed, dude. You got freed. Sorry, son.

I wanted it. I think when we see Devons, we'll see the alternate world where if Nick would have backed off what he would end up with. Now we moved to me who came at second place. When McDonald's partnered with Franks Redhot, they said they could put that shit on everything.

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but I figure this is sort of a public service announcement. I just got an alert on my phone that could affect all of us. There's a nationwide recall of tater tots going on right now. Oh, shit. Cases of Tater Tots. Careful, Andrew. ...created with plastic across 26 states. So if you've bought Tater Tots recently, be aware.

That's wild because everything has plastic in it, so it must have a lot of plastic in it. Yeah, it must be like big pieces. Orida Tator Tots, Cisco Tater Tots, it's looking bad. But I follow them on Twitter. I love Orida Tater Tater Tots. I want deals. Do they tweet out about it?

No, I just got the Cousin Alert. Maybe Ethan Hunt can come in and stop the Tater Tats. Macro Plastics. Hurting people. Yeah, many plastics. But my list of films is Fight or Flight, which did not do well at all to my disappointment. I think my favorite movie in the summer. Fantastic film.

If I could convince... Wow, I have to watch it. Regulation listeners to watch one summer movie, it might be Fighter Flight. I think it could do it the most out of that because they kind of set up for a sequel in a fun way that feels like it will not happen based on $3.5 million at the box office.

I think I saw more of your movies than anybody else's. The next movie was Final Destination Bloodlines, which was a huge hit. Probably my best buy, I would say. Forty points, $138 million. I think by far the most... successful. You like this one, Jeff, right?

You saw this? I think you and I are the only two that saw it. It was cool to see Tony Todd. It was, uh, yeah, I liked how they, I, I mean, the whole franchise is a mess, right? But I liked how they explained it all that it made sense. It's fine. It's good.

I enjoyed it. I had no issues. I thought it was fun. I thought they structured it really well. I watched every final destination leading up to it. So I saw them like basically all in a row, which was a fun way to do it. Where would you rank it amongst all of them? I think maybe third.

Really? I don't know. Maybe fourth. One and two. I like one, two, and then four, I believe I liked. Okay. I really enjoyed the... Does everyone die right after?

Is that what you said, Gavin? Well, no, didn't Tony Todd die right after filming it? Yeah. He did. And it makes it very emotional. Where the director, like, his character essentially explains everything he can and then decides that, like, he's going to go leave now, essentially. And he says a goodbye to the...

but it's also very much a goodbye to the audience. Yeah. And he was allowed to say whatever he wanted to in that sequence. And it's very tight. Surprisingly touching for like a cartoonish horror movie to that point. Then we have Elio, which I watched last night. Huge bomb, dude. It's the second lowest grossing Pixar movie of all time.

It had production troubles. It's interesting where if you watch the first trailer of that movie. It has a lot of different plot elements to it that are not in the final product, and there are scenes that are not in that movie. It is a weird one. It's fine. What was the, do you know what the lowest grossing was? A movie called Onward. Oh, the, yeah. Was that Chris Pratt? Chris Pratt's in it. It's, it's good. I enjoy that movie quite a bit. I looked up Elio. It's reported that the budget was $150 million. But Hollywood Reporter did some deep diving and found out that the budget was probably over $200 million. Oh, shit. Worldwide, it made $154 million. Oh, my God. Yeah, I guess if they had to, like, change the plot and they'd already animated a lot of it, that must have sucked.

Woof. It is a movie about a kid that is obsessed with aliens and wants to be abducted. And if you watch that first trailer, when he gets abducted in it, he says, please, no. Like, he is not into alien shit at all. It is so wild that, like, how much the maiden character personality has changed by the time they ended up releasing it. It's good. It's, I think, the prettiest movie I saw this year. The animation is so incredible, but it made the character designs of the people feel weird because they're very cartoonish for everything else is, like, hyper-realistic.

I didn't like that, but, like, incredible animation. So, well done. Well, wasn't well done, though. and also trailer problems Megan 2.0 Mithrigan 2.0 It is not as bad as the trailer appears. I think it's maybe the worst trailer

of the summer. We did a Falcon event where we watched all the summer movie trailers. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was terrible, but it is the Terminator 2 problem. It is another movie that has been infected by Terminator 2 and trying to copy that success. Bomb terribly at the box office.

How much did the first one make, you know? Not off the top of my head, but I think at least double what that one did. Maybe even triple. 180 million worldwide, 95 million domestic. Wow. Wow. What an overperformance. That's crazy.

I thought I absolutely got a steal at nine points at the time. Nope. No, and also like crazy that Ilya made less than Megan, the first Megan in like context of films. You didn't have any. Sub million points, though. That's, you did pretty good value on your picks. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I wasn't, I wasn't upset with my selection overall, but did not work out.

The next one was Fantastic Four, didn't see. Yeah, how did you like this movie? You don't have anything to say about it? I didn't see it. It's a Marvel superhero movie. Oh, I see, I can't see. I saw that. I'm sure I would have liked it.

What did you think, Gavin? Gavin, why don't you give us a rundown? How did you feel about Fantastic Four? Shit. Oh, wow. There you have it. I just get unmemorable tripe. Yeah.

It just, I can't. Like, I, I don't know if he's going to be felt, felt like he was really gassing up for something. And then he just sort of sputtered out. You're there in the, you've sat through the credits to see the posting. And then all you do is just like kind of lift your eyebrows up. And then just stand up and go and do another thing. And that was it. Huh.

Just left no impression. That was another thing I appreciate about Superman. What would have been the post credit scene they just have at the end of the movie. And then there is. a post-credit scene, but it's just like a goofy thing. Like there's no, you don't have to sit around. Yep. Next movie that came out is the naked gun.

Maybe one of my favorites of this, like, re-watched it like two nights ago. I was the most excited about this movie. I loved it. I love the original naked gun so much. And I don't feel like it's that necessarily. Like it feels very different to what those movies were. It's a different pacing style because that, the Zucker Brothers comedy films have such a distinct rhythm to them.

And I get them not trying to duplicate that. I think that is probably the way to go, but it just feels like a different era of naked gun. Yeah, I prefer the original, but it's still very funny. Yeah. I mean, I like, I think naked gun one, naked gun two, and the naked gun are probably the top three

naked gun movies. Yeah. I mean, it's great. I agree. This is a very good one. I love the style, the iconic style of the first couple. But the scene where he's in the car, in this new one, was so funny.

To me, it's when he's giving her a name and it's Cherry Roosevelt fat bozo chowing spaghetti. And then he keeps, the bad guy keeps calling her Miss Spaghetti the rest of the movie made me laugh the whole time. It's so, dude, it's so funny. Batista has a cameo in this movie that I think about all the time. I think it's such a funny cameo.

in that film. It's great. I thought the highlight of it was when he said she was so hot, the toilet wants her poop. Begging for the brown. Beg for the brown. That joke set the tone for the whole movie. That was quite a joke.

Begging for the brown. I heard that they have an idea and they have gags, some gags written for a sequel, but the movie came out like four days before parents, amount had like a big turnover in like ownership and management and so now it's just like I don't know where we stand with any of this so sort of in limbo I think I think the only issue with that film was Paul Walter Hauser was largely irrelevant and barely in the film and he's a pretty funny dude and I would

have liked to see him like was he the ed guy yeah yes yeah he's the he's the yeah that was a miss for me that they just didn't do enough with him yeah I agree uh really funny guy who just didn't have enough to do but every time he was on it was very funny. When they're hanging a Spirit Halloween sign because they're closing down the police station. I was like, that's good. Andrew, did you see the bad guys too? No, I didn't see the bad guys too.

I didn't see the bad guys one. Why, just some Marvel movie? No, because I needed to see the bad guys one if I was going to see the bad guys too and I just didn't, with all the other movies I had to see. That's probably true. I didn't see a single movie in the theaters this summer so I had to watch all of these as streaming.

So it was a lot of like, I've been watching a lot of movies this past month. And it's like, I can't, I can't add the bad guys want to do the bad guys too. I already did that with nobody. I watched nobody one to watch nobody two. How'd you like those films? Are they good? Oh, they're a lot of fun.

They're great. Bob Odenkirk does such a great job as an action hero. Christopher Lloyd is phenomenal in it. And the Riza is also a very fun character. Oh yeah. And all those films. It also does, I think they're talking about maybe doing a third. It does one of my favorite action movie bits in recent times where,

the movie, the first one opens with him in an interrogation room and he pulls a kitten out of his jacket that becomes the family cat. And in the second movie, it's him at an interrogation table and he's got a dog next to him that becomes a family dog. So I'm excited to see what animal they adopt as the intro opening for Nobody Three. I think it's a very fun bit. But I didn't see it. I didn't see Freak Your Friday though. This is the last movie on my list. And it is everything you want that to be.

It is a really fun. It is the reverse of I know what you did last summer where they bring back the key cast members after a long period of time, but they like hit all of the notes that the people that like those movies would want hit. 92 million bucks. Holy shit.

Yeah, it hit a huge nostalgia kind of wave. And as I said, it is the people that grew up loving the Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Freaky Friday, now have kids. And so they can take them to it. And it is a movie about those characters having kids. I also think there was, it had some pretty strong marketing around it too.

Oh, it sure did. It was brand. Everything was branded Free Gear Friday. They were inescapable commercials. It's so much like press around it too. I'm surprised though, because didn't go to streaming really quickly, like almost simultaneous with the theater release.

It was pretty quick. But I think that's the plan for most movies now. So I think this was an easy one for them to try something out on and be like, I don't know, let's just see what happens when we do this. I thought about that while watching this were 90% of these movies, I watched because they were on a streaming service and how crazy that is

where I was thinking about in the past having to wait like eight months for a movie I wanted to see that came out the summer to be on DVD. Yep. Like it's the turnaround it feels like is like two months tops now. I miss it though.

That's me in second place, which means our thrilling winner is Gavin. Whoa. Oh my God, I got nothing. Gavin won because he ended up buying the two biggest movies of the summer. Yep. So he needed it.

Which what I said before, his first film is the Lilo and Stitch live action reboot. If Nick wouldn't have ended up with how to train your dragon, I feel like he would have ended up with Lelone Stitch. I think we went back and the whole board would have flipped. Fourth on this a bit. And I bet on how to train your dragon to win over Lilo and Stitch. And I think that's a fair. I think it's a fair stab either way. 100% because Leelow and Stitch is it's a remake and you didn't know what kind of fatigue there was for that

versus how to train your dragon which is also a remake but they were putting a theme park behind it Burger King tie in and all this stuff so and Leelow and Stitch is like an IP that started in 2002 so like 23 24 years ago so it won't fucking die how to train your dragon isn't old no I think it it almost taps into the freakier Friday type thing though where there it's like the people that love that property have been content starved for such a long time. Like there were DVD sequels and like a TV show, but it's not like there has been

like mainline big exciting Lilo and Stitch content since like the early 2000s. $10 million per point. My God. 42 point purchase. Wow. Wow. I'm kind of

I'm a little bit disappointed with I don't understand you. I was really hoping a lot. I don't understand you. It's another movie I'd recommend seeing, but do not watch the trailer. That is a film that, like, I knew nothing about until we did that Falcon Event trailer watch, saw the trailer, thought, oh, that's a really funny

idea, then watch the film and 90% of that movie and the things that make it work are spoiled in the trailer. If you haven't seen the trailer, go watch that movie. I didn't actually watch any of my movies. Really? Any of the four?

And to be honest, I'd rather put a candle out with my nuts than watch that Jurassic pop movie. Yeah. No kidding. But 28 years later, 70 million, huh?

It was interesting. I really liked it. I thought it was very good. It has a very controversial final five minutes, but I think... That's the one on here that I actually do want to watch.

There's already another one coming out, right? Yeah, the direct sequel is coming out. I think it's out this month. Yeah, it's out next week. Maybe early February. Yeah, they like shot them concurrently.

28 decades later? No, it's like 28 years later the bone yard or something. Yeah, the bone temple. The bone temple. It is 28 years later is a movie that is like a very gritty, emotional kind of zombie story.

And then it turns Mad Max in the last five minutes, which some people absolutely hated. But I think works in the context of this is a planned trilogy. Yes. And that they had already filmed the second one and the second one will expand on those elements. I also just think as like

kind of grounded and gritty as this movie is. I think it makes sense the idea that 28 years into a zombie apocalypse, some crazy shit, would eventually societally break out. Like there would be just some insane cult nonsense or just like people doing wild stuff. So I think as jarring as it is in the context of the film, I think it makes the world that it is set in so much more interesting. And I am very excited to see how they expand on that in the second one.

Yeah. And then they filmed Murphy should be popping back in in this one now. Sounds like it was kind of like you're describing 2026 in America right now without the Wow, Jeff. That's some poignant social commentary. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Welcome to the regulation podcast, boys. Hell. Yeah, but how about, hey, Andrew, did you watch Jurassic World Rebirth? I sure did. And it's the best of the most recent Jurassic World movies, but that is saying so low.

Guys, this is the turd that floated. Check this out. It's bad in like a way of They just need to make these movies fun I guess I'd be curious to know If kids like these movies What's the plot of this one? You ever play Sega Genesis video game? It's pretty much that.

Actually Eric's pitch of that this is a PS1 game Is what made me genuinely excited to see it. They are, they have to go get, I haven't seen it, this is based on trailers. They have to go to special hidden islands where special hidden dinosaurs are that were too dangerous to be on Jurassic planet or whatever, Jurassic World Island.

And so they have to go get the egg from the land dinosaur, the water dinosaur, and the sky dinosaur. I don't know if they go through temples or dungeons to do it, but they might as well. They go through one temple for the sky. There's a sky temple. It is, so they, if you didn't see the last ones, they establish that dinosaurs just live amongst us.

now and they immediately backtrack on that and this one where I guess because the people are using too much air the dinosaurs can't survive so the dinosaurs are dying out in all the populated areas and so essentially the only place with sustaining dinosaurs is this island that has been ruled off limits when you say using too much air do you mean like literally oxygen like literally oxygen for the dinosaurs to breathe yes the dinosaurs are becoming oxygen deprived is what they say and they are suffocating to death because of it. And that's how they're getting rid of them in like the cities. Is that because of like CO2?

Like there's more CO2 in the air now? I don't remember the specific science that they stated. But they just like their quick explanation is too much oxygen. I just got such prat fatigue. I just couldn't bring myself to see it. Well, it's not in this one. So you have that going for you. Yeah, he's not in it.

No. He's not in a. It's a Scarlett-Hansson Jonathan Bailey-led film. It is about an evil medical company wants to make a super drug. And so they hire mercenaries to come in to try to get the dinosaurs, like Eric is saying, their DNA to try to make this medicine that can be widespread. I may have rolled my eyes so hard during the trailer that didn't notice he wasn't in it. I didn't see that movie because of someone who wasn't in the movie.

You've got so much Pratt fatigue. You won't see Franchise. that he's been a part of. It's like olives. Like, I can't eat a sandwich if there were olives in the bread sort of thing. How do you feel about Maria

these days? Nah, I'd rather watch the frickin' Bob Hoskins one. Wow. But that is the movies of the list. We went through all of them. We miss weapons, unfortunately.

That's on me. I'll do a better job next year. It's kind of tough to find a consolidated list of films for the summer, surprisingly. I really liked, wide releases.

I really liked our first summer movie league. I didn't give a fuck about the movies that were coming out this last year. No. I think I saw two. Yeah. One of them came out in April. Is that summer? Which one was the April one?

I don't know. Look how early the bar starts. Right here is a Nick pick too. I mean, no. I don't know about that. Looks fine. What's Nick's first one? No.

Oh, it's Magic Farm. April 25th. And Thunderbolt. is right at, uh... And when did one battle after another come out? December. Great question. No, we didn't come out December.

December, no, came out in September, I believe. I think, end of September? I'd say September is more summer than April. Um, definitely. Yeah. But, but, you go ahead and hop on this chart. And I'm saying according to these dates. Yeah.

Just, just a note for next year when we do this again to shore up the dates a little bit. I'd like to say congratulations to Gavin on his victory. You are the year champion. And you get your price. Oh yeah, you get your prize. But real quick, before you do that, big thanks to Andrew for putting this together. Really appreciate it.

Thank you. Yeah, we're going to do. All right. Yeah. Making the list, but also like a huge shout out to RegulationFan.com. Yeah, regulation fan.com for putting this together. I'm sorry about that stuff Andrew said at the beginning.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't know why he said that. Kevin, you get a graded VHS copy of Moustrap. How do you feel about that? that. Love it. It just came out on 4K Blu-ray, but I, you know, I'll cherish the VHS. And I, yeah, I'm really happy to win because, to be honest, after we picked all these movies, I really thought I'd blown it. I thought I was going to win for sure. I was so confident that I was going to have a back-to-back win. But we'll, uh, we'll do this again in summer. I thought fourth was actually

the best one. So that's just how I feel. Wow. Good for you. Eric, if Horizon Kevin Costner's dream adventure comes out this summer. Will you see that? Will that be a movie that gets you to the theater? Oh, I got to put, yeah. And I think we have to go see it as a company. Oh, I agree. I'm into that.

Yeah. What's crazy is I won it in July. Like, no one ever took it over again. Yeah. Yeah. No, you killed it with the two movies. Yeah, I will say, I don't know how much money it'll make the movie. And I don't even know if it's some release,

but my biggest, uh, most anticipated film of 2026 is the Adventures of Cliff Booth. Can't wait for that. Oh. They're doing a sequel to the Brad Pitt character once upon a time in Hollywood written and directed by David Finchery. Oh, interesting. Weird. That will be interesting.

But until then, thank you so much for listening. Make sure to check out our Patreon. Patreon. Patreon.com slash the Regulation Pod. Let us know what your favorite summer movie is. I'm curious. Should I see the Fantastic Ford, despite how Gavin felt about it? We'll see.

Probably not. All right. Probably not. Bye. Bye.