JAR Media Posdact - 2021 JAR Wrap Up - JARCast Episode 255

Episode Date: January 3, 2022

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I'm so tired right now Please don't go a second wind Because when the second wind comes along it's like we'll go for like two hours Which was what happened last time Because you got a second wind and I was moody So it's just like Here we are

Good afternoon, morning, evening or night Ladies and gentlemen And welcome to episode 255 of the jar car the first one of 2021. I'm your host Alex, joined by my bro Jim. Hello. I'm a bro James. Good afternoon. Before we get too deep into

the show, let me shout out the journal media Patreon who make the audio version possible. They get earlier videos when we have those in the pipeline and it's not the holiday period and your names are read at the first week of each month, which is

today. It's this one. Um They will be they get wet on the second week of the month Yeah This one Just give us a break this once We'll do it for the next one Like

I don't know about you guys I'm so knackard right now It's the first as we record this Just the new year So it was up to like 4 a.m. last night Getting shit faced Um Mm-hmm

Did you get Face I got shit all over my face Just drenched in this stuff With last night Because we got together Like early Because we were like

We'll cook some wings or some fires So I came here early And it's like as soon as I arrived I started drinking And because my alcohol tolerance is non-existent I was shit-faced by like seven o'clock And I stopped So like by two o'clock

I was fine Went home Book flights to Latvia Boom Good time I introduced you to The story of Ricky O Yes

Yeah We had a little Binge of a few movies Some shit ones And some extremely good ones Yeah Jim unfortunately Missed out on Rikio Yeah I missed Rikio

I love to show you at some point I think you'd like it But We're gonna do something A little bit different This episode Um Normally there's a bit of structure

Oh okay Dude this is crazy What So the TV we use Is like Gonna turn off Yeah, it's annoying Because it's annoying because my TV at home

The button for the TV remote The remote just doesn't work Because the shitty skybox So when you have like a smart TV or whatever The skybox just controls your TV So when that pops up You have to turn the TV off And then we turn it back on

So you lose whatever you're watching It's shit I don't know if I've talked about this on the cast before But Smart TV is Awful One of my least favourite invention I like smart TVs

because I've had to use a Sky in the Smart TV age where you have to go to your Sky menu and then find YouTube Sky does suck though you could use Apple TV Amazon Fire TV stick or something anything's better than

like the smart TV time to update your TV time to everything that everything is going to have updates in the future like buy a jacket it's got to be updated Yeah, and it like shows all ads and stuff.

It's so annoying. Because jackets get updated and they just stop getting sold and they have this new one that's more expensive. No, but you don't update the same old jacket. No, you got a digital jacket that they could like patch. No, how long until they have like ads on clothing? They already do. Like Supreme. That's an ad.

Yeah. No, but like I'm talking about like... You get paid. What about what if it would be like... Surely you'll start with like trains. trainers or something. There'll be like some kind of trainer that you can like change with your phone or something and yeah I don't think they're going to need like clothes aren't going to need sponsorships. But yeah, going back to smart TVs. I hate that they call them smart TVs as well because now when you buy a TV it can't not be smart. Yeah. You can only buy smart TV. Yeah. You can only buy smart TV. Yeah. You don't even have a choice at this point. I would pick a smart TV if there anything every day. the week. I think they're great because I've been deprived of smart TVs

for so long. But I don't like the fact that they have ads for a PlayStation on your smart TV. Yeah. That might just be a Samsung thing. I remember when that started happening at being like a drama on online a little bit. They're patching in ads into my TV

because when I first got it, it didn't do that. The updates that you don't want, like just force it in. But anyway, I started to say we were going to do something a little bit different for this episode and then we've got sidetracked by tech issues but this is a 2021 wrap-up wrap-up of like just media it's it's i reckon just lay back just see where it goes kind of just see where the conversation takes us i've got a list of certain things my some stand-out

movies games um and music mostly a couple of shows as well but we'll see what we get to um in time What do you want to start with? Because I've probably got the most, like, movie stuff. You see, I don't have a particularly extensive list, but I'm sure I could talk in. Mm-hmm. There's some notable standouts. I reckon we should start with what's freshest on the brain. James, that being the new Matrix.

We can start there. Yeah, it doesn't necessarily have to be, like, good things. Just notes of all things from 2021. So I had my first dip in of the Matrix franchise with... So you've never seen a Matrix, but you've had a super unique experience. I've never seen a Matrix. I've barely seen a single scene from it. Even the most famous scene I've never bothered watching.

It's like, it was like out of context and whatnot. So yeah, you didn't even know the twist from like the end of the first act of the Matrix, you know? Yeah. So you were like, it was like a fresh experience as far as Matrix. the Matrix story's concerned and what did you think without any the context and without any of the fan service meaning anything to you?

It was fucking it was awful. It's a terrible movie and I think that's not like a contrarian take. It's shit. But I found it weird because it's like because I've known about the Matrix for so long I thought it would be

something else. What the fuck is this all alien shit? Yeah, yeah. But that That's what the Matrix is, apparently. Yeah, it's like really anime-inspired kind of steampunky robot stuff. I've had this weird relationship with the Matrix trilogy ever since I, like, discovered them. Where, yeah, you watch that first one, it's like, oh, this is so cool.

This is such a unique world. This is such a cool story. So, you know, philosophical and exciting and the action and the style of it. and everything and the grittiness of it is is really enticing in that whole you know just that edginess um then you watch the second one and the third one and

I have I I just can't stand the sequels to the movie so then it's kind of like once you get to the end of the trilogy you forget about how good the first one is and you kind of write it off in your or at least I do write it off in my head a little bit but then I think it was this year actually I rewatched

the first matrix um yeah I did too But just the first one, then I just left it. And that's what you should do. I just leave it like that, because it's a complete story anyway, basically. Yeah, it's totally satisfying the way it ends in everything. And I don't know if this is a bit of a spicy take, but I think the sequels to the Matrix are way worse than the prequels to Star Wars.

Yeah, no, yeah, I would initially say that and I haven't seen them. Way more boring. Mm. Well, yeah, to go back to the new one, that was my big. thing it's like it's such a boring film it's so long as well it's long it's two and a half hours long the action is worse um the acting shit just the the whole the the visual style of the movie i wasn't expecting like dibby shit in it like dibby robots and like yeah now they try to do some like well-building stuff and kind of touch on these cool ideas of like

the robots like having civil wars amongst each other and stuff but but what it boils into is like this really obnoxious kind of meta commentary. It's so meta. They basically completely wet on Matrix. Yeah, it's very like, it's, well, I was about to say it's not as bad as like episode nine where it's like we're bringing back the emperor. So then if you think about it, the whole conflict from the original trilogy that wrapped up nicely and felt conclusive now has to kind of be undone.

Yeah, just so you can have the story continue. They do, they kind of have to do that again a bit. And they try to, like, they try to make it work, but. And I've seen, like, such conflicting opinions on this movie. Some people, like, love it. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that. And they're saying it's, like, such a refreshing take and in this cynical age of blockbusters.

And, like, it's a whole slant of the movie, the whole commentary of, like, yeah, this. Isn't it shit that, like, it's all about remakes and stuff and it's like super yeah meta with like boardroom scenes like within the movie of them discussing rebooting the game that already finished that's right yeah yeah um it's to be honest i if it's where it goes after that first act where it like really devolves to me um i could imagine it having that first act and maybe going somewhere a bit more interesting, but, yeah, I went stow on it too long because Jim hasn't seen it,

and I guess, spoilers. Yeah, but I'm disappointed, though, that you guys are saying it's shit. I thought it was going to at least be entertaining, consistently, and there are only, like, one or two scenes that I thought were, like, conceptually kind of cool, with, like, putting some spin on, like,

the Matrix gimmicks. I won't say what, but I think you'll know what I'm talking about, James. There's like a couple of kind of cool things, but, yeah, overall, the actions way worse. And apparently, I was reading, like, through the trivia on NDB, like, the cinematographer who did, the original trilogy wasn't there. That's probably why, because the cinematography in it is terrible, and the lighting in every scene. It's notably much worse, yeah, and the lighting was way worse. just the fake sheen to everything and the score of the I can't remember who composed the original trilogy music but it's really good the original music in that first movie especially

and it's really lacking it just it just feels like a parody of itself yeah it's lame but my expectations were so low because in my mind because the balance was already like there's way more bad matrix already I guess if you don't count the animatrix. Yeah, that's what you do. You watch The Matrix and the Animatrix. It's the Animatrix good. Yeah.

It's actually decent. Really? Yeah. I don't know anything about it. It's anime. It is anime. Nice. Because The Matrix is super anime.

Yeah, yeah. It's a bunch of different studios in Japan came together and did the Animatrix. Hmm. Mm-hmm. But it's like it actually explores the questions you have but aren't filled in in that first Matrix movie and like a cool kind of creepy satisfying way that's another thing there's like no creepiness or like kind of there is a grossness to that

first Matrix movie you know it's like scary in a way yeah there's none of that fear in this new one it's kind of a generic love story ultimately the end of the day how is the love between kianu and i mean kianu's just a really really um he's not a good actor how are you yeah he's just a little sweetheart and everyone loves him it works in that first matrix

because he's like the fish out of water just like bombarded with information and it kind of like works and he's got like the really good physical performance with all the martial art stuff which just sucks in the new one it's like such a downgrade

really that yeah I was going to ask the action that's one of the more disappointing things to me was like I thought at least they were going to do something with that because that's kind of and I know it's part of the like commentary like yeah you you don't get what you expect because it's like a cynical remake and it's being all self-referential and it's all the point of the movie but it still needs to be entertaining at the end of the day

to me yeah and and are they going to make more do you think yep from the end of I mean, it's just, it's just like the first matrix again. Right. Yeah. Yeah, that, because to me, if your point is that, it's like the Deadpool thing again. Yeah, I kept thinking that. When you're criticizing something, but you're still just doing it. Mm-hmm.

You can't really call that criticism. Like, it doesn't make it okay just because you're aware that you're doing it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I felt some, I think. I'll be curious what you thought, think of it, but... Yeah, I was, I've been quite excited to see it.

Mm-hmm. But, yeah, it's not even, like, funny, those are things. It's just kind of boring and like that. Just another one for the worst-case scenario. Just another one for the 2021 pile of, like, just kind of... Poo. Unnecessary, uh, nostalgia-based, um... Pooh, but this one's just a bit more meta than the other ones.

The other movie we watched James was the new Resident Evil movie reboot. It's not the mere Djibovic one anymore. It's a reboot that's trying to cash in on the recent success of the remade. Yeah, yeah, the really good remix. Instantly, like, Madrid is like a 1. This is like a 10 on the enjoyment scale. This movie was fun because it was so shit. It was just shit, sloppy, and quite fun.

and I liked it. I had fun making fun of it. Yeah, it was one of those. And I was just so frustrated by certain things, like, that there's loads of imagery. Yeah, like, you have to go to a facility in Resident Evil, right? It's just one of the things on the check, like one of the checklist.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the facility looks like a... It's just a room. It's just like a science lab. Yeah, like a science lab. Like a really lame one. Like a really lame one from, like, a secondary school. Like the cheapest one they could put together

that they had to actually use physical. They got like a liquor in there. It looks worse than the Paul W.S. Anderson one. And the dogs. Yeah, no, the dogs especially because we also happen to watch the W.S. Anderson one from 2002. And the dogs in that looks so much better than the one from 20 years later. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of them were like practical, right?

Not that that 2002 movie's like good. Can we saw that? And that's actually shit as well. It's awful. It peaks at the laser war scene. That's like the only thing of note really from it. But yeah, this new one, they, they have a lot of fan service and use imagery from R.E.2 a lot. Like they, like the police headquarters and...

Right. It's the whole, the problem with this movie is like trying to capture Wesleyan Evil 1 and 2. And like they, it pushes them together and makes this kind of clustering. Mm-hmm. messy yeah instead of just focusing on

Leon and Claire they also shove in Resker then they've got Jill and then you've got Chris

yeah so two simultaneous stories going on at once only could have done you only needed one and they

they kind of use like scenes from REE2 like you know one of the best scenes in the whole game is that guy

who's like in the jail cell and Mr. X like they do that exact scene. Oh, Christ.

Without, Mr. X isn't in the movie. Yep. Instead, there's just like a zombie in the cell with him that's like slowly walking towards him, even though he's got, he's got Leon's gun.

And he's like pointing it at Leon. And then the zombie, it's like so bad. It's like, it just doesn't make sense. It's so dumb. And they make Leon like an incompetent, like,

buffoon. Yeah. And people went fucking mad at the actor Like he completely disappeared off the internet Because so many people were giving him hate But it's like He was giving a shit script by Yeah, it's like not his fault

He was cast The directors and writers obviously They have no idea Leon's character They really don't understand it And I feel that he probably could have been a decent Leon with a decent script Yeah, if they'd like fixed his hair His hair was definitely wrong

He needed to be more like curtony He needs to be a little bit dorky Yeah, he needs to be dorky as her but not incompetent like they made him Yeah, he just seemed completely useless Yeah, it was just Shit Claire

Claire was decent I guess She had the energy that probably could have worked in a good movie And it was like Every other scene is like a character Like Claire coming in And then like announcing their name So then the people in the audience could be like

Oh it's It's chill Like they at the beginning They just reference the dual sandwich thing but you're not you don't know these characters because it doesn't actually yeah it's fucking really weird it's really really really bad and then aida's in it right at the end anything they throw every iconography because it's like in one scene leon's doing the leon pose in resonable too and it's yeah yeah and it's fun to like point out and be like fucking doing that

in a if you like know resi but it's like a normal person like this movie but it's like um it's like how it should have ended like oh That's that thing that I know The frustrating thing is I think Resident Evil is a franchise That could actually really work in film But you need the right talent I think James Wan could do it

Yeah It needs the wacky It needs the right tone It can't take itself seriously Yeah yeah But also it has to Be serious at some points I don't know if serious is the right word

But it has to It has to be self-aware but not like Deadport Yeah Yeah Not take Yeah

Not actually take the humor Too far Yeah yeah Metta and shit But that was Poopies stinky Probably one of the better movies I've seen this year

I've only seen shit So that's quite hard If they're on the shit Let's talk about red notice I love red notice I fucking love it We've been saving this Um

Because you watched it When I was in Canada didn't you? We had a fucking great time We straight up did I gotta be honest This is a movie We're going into it

Jamie because we wanted to watch it And I was like Jamie Let's watch Red Notice And Jamie was like no we're not watching it Then we started watching something else And it was like no we're watching Red Notice So even Jamie didn't watch it at the time And I was just like we're doing it

And I'll give it this It wasn't as bad as I was anticipating Yeah that's exactly it when so i'm known for two things not liking the rock and not liking uh rham reynolds so when i see there's a movie with both of them in it and galgado oh yeah and galgado um imagine all the people uh your your expectations or my expectations were so so well the joke is that it like looks like a fake movie like the whole poster it looks like some fan on Debian Art made it.

Watching it, it doesn't seem like a real movie either. Yeah. I was surprised that Ryan Reynolds didn't bother you more because he was like the part that was making it like the worst for me. Because he's just, he's Depple. Yeah. Yeah.

It's, you might as well just enjoy the movie as like he's like universe hopping and he's just, Deb Paul has hopped into a Yeah. Like a different. That would have been a better movie. Like, that's the that's the thing with both of these actors that's so frustrating

is that when they're in something there's there's no there's no acting yeah they're not actors but i guess it's what some people want they like that it's clearly successful yeah it's one of the biggest movies of the year i was looking at like the roundup on i mdb of like the most searched most looked at movies of the year and red notice was one of them It was like a really depressing list of movies It was like The Eternals Snyder

Justice League What other crap was on there I'm glad the Eternals was on there Fuck is a free guy on there Free Guy on there Free Guy's being mentioned A lot That was a 2021

Big one We've talked about that movie Yeah yeah exactly But the thing with this movie is that There's like a twist towards the end and now this is this is not a in a standard movie but it's a bad twist yeah it sucks but because because the rock is so boring in every other film he's in yeah this twist in this movie is like oh oh he like it's like they they used the the expectation the expectation of

the rock sucking and being boring to make the movie slightly more interesting. That's what kind of bothered me about it though, because that's what it seemed like. It was like, yeah, we know how boring he is. And that's like the only thing you can do with him, you know? Mm. I don't know, it's just another one of the rock jungle movies to add to the like pile. Yeah, the rock in a jungle. But it's like they're going to, there's two, there's two more of these movies being made back to back.

As soon as they finish filming your second one, they're instantly filming the third one. How, like, the whole twist done, they are just generic shit movies, just like how we've said before, picture what we just said, when you're trying to mimic something and criticize it, but you're still it.

Yeah. It's pure just cut more fluff, like Netflix just throwing money at, like, superstars, and that's what sells it. That's all they needed. And it worked because it's done so well. So many people have watched it. Yeah.

Yeah. Everyone in my work watched it. Everyone was talking about web notice. Yeah. It's like there was another one on that like IMDB list of notable films of the year, that Zach Snyder zombie movie. Oh, the one of Dave Boutista. Yeah, with him, which is also terrible.

But it broke correct streaming records and everyone saw it and they're making a sequel and spin-offs and it's like, I guess, yeah, I guess this is it, man. it's actually yeah it's depressing because you look at when I look at the the poster of Red Notice

it's like you know that's a film I never want to see yeah that's why I put it off for so long because it's definitely that's what it screams oh the Rock is wearing

cargo cargo trousers and a brown shirt in the jungle Let's talk about one I think we liked You haven't seen this one James But Jim went to the cinema to see Spider-Man

No Way home Yeah Even the most jaded Of fans seem to be enjoying this one Yeah It's It's funny because Going off of what we were just saying about Red Notice

this and that. This movie is very much like a product thing and it's this. And a nostalgia cash grab thing. Yeah. Yeah, totally. But I love it. Yeah. Same. I love it entirely and I've seen a bunch of people say that it's like poorly paced or whatever. All these criticisms about the story structure and missteps they took. and this might be me just totally vision clouded by nostalgia but I couldn't care less

this movie had me like hooked the whole time and it made me feel like a kid again I think it's the best of that Spider-Man trilogy of Tom Holland movies yeah which I already like all three I already liked the previous two

I thought they were both really good. Yeah. Yeah, it fixed a bunch of the, like, problems I have with the previous two. Yeah. Like, action scenes are, like, particularly stand out. The music's better. The whole, like, Dr. Strange stuff's really cool. Yeah.

It's just, like, a fun Spider-Man movie. It got the Spider-Man thing right. Yeah, because the main problem with the first one to me is, like, the Iron Man stuff I don't like that they needed like another character for a Spider-Man movie it doesn't seem necessary to me

I almost like it more now like now that that's a trilogy so that it's more distinct it's not like the main Spider-Man movie is also an Iron Man movie in the same way it's still like a vehicle for

to put like the lizard and electrons stuff in it and its inherent link to those movies is super strange um yeah and something i've never seen before like you know like the mc u is kind of invented this the style of movie where you basically have a checklist of movies you have to have seen prior for stuff to even make sense and this is adding and taking it to the next level where it's like now you go to watch yeah movies from like a different studio from a different age

and now it's spawned this like well I've seen like some conversations of people saying like they're scared of what the knock on effect of this movie's gonna be and I feel similarly I totally understand that but what I reckon is gonna happen

like the whole cinematic universe thing is that studios are going to try and ape this and just fuck it up and just totally screw it Yeah, because that's the thing, it is all like at the end of it in service of a main character and I like a one and it feels like he's progressed as a character and it feels like a true superhero movie where it has like weight at the end and it has like emotional moments and the shit you'd want from a Spider-Man movie. So yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by that because I was so concerned, especially with all this nostalgia shit, how they managed to make that work. Yeah, and it doesn't feel forced. it, Dr. Strange is like the money-making machine of the fact they got him working, yeah.

Yeah, but with that character now, they've opened the doors to movies like this. Whereas before, if they did like a, I think if they did a Spider-Verse plot where Dr. Strange wasn't involved and it was some machine or something, it would have been way harder to digest. Yeah. But because we've seen the stuff with that other character. to, if you have seen that movie, then, like, you just totally believe it and run with it. Is there a lot of, um, influence because of Spider-Verse?

Because it's Spider-Vus did the same thing really well. So was Spider-Verse is just a way better movie? Spider-Verse is a better movie. Um, and it feels like it's, it took some of the punch away from the, like, it's not the first, like, big-screen adaptation of that whole Spider-Man multiverse. idea, like they'll be into the punch in such a, like, vibrant way. Mm-hmm. But if anything, it helped it get made, probably.

Probably inspired them to push it. Take the whisk, really, of it. Yeah. And obviously, Spider-Vus 2 is going to be a thing. Mm-hmm. Next year, this year. Yeah, that's one to look forward to for this year. Ten months. Ten months.

Whole months. Mm-hmm. Because I'm, I love Spider-verse. It's probably one of my favorite movies. I fucking love it. Even though I'm not a Spider-Man, like, fan, there's been times where you've tried to watch, I think it's the second one,

and I'm like, I'm not watching it, I'm just going to go upstairs and sit in silence because I just don't. But I appreciate it, though. I did. In the end. Did you still not like it? I missed it.

I can't watch them now and be like, yeah, I love them because it's just like, I have no childhood nostalgia for it. So I just see them as movies nowadays. It's like they haven't aged. well. See, there are some things that have aged, like, really well in them, I reckon. Like, the whole Dock-Ock stuff looks incredible. Yeah, like, that looks obscene. And it has, like, the best scene from, like, any CPR movie, the hospital scene with Doc Ock is, like, such a cool.

Yes, it's, like, the best establishing of a villain. Yeah, yeah, so, like, totally perfect for, like, that character. Mm-hmm. And it actually makes the... The villain intimidating. Yeah, yeah. What else have we got here? Eternal's.

Yeah, if we're on Marvel, I mean. Any developed thoughts on Eternals? I still like Eternals. I still don't. I dislike it more now, I think. I wouldn't mind re-watching Eternals. Yeah, I'll re-watch it at some point. I'm not looking forward to it.

I don't think I ever want to see it again. And, no, you're just being a hater. I haven't seen the Rings Marvel movie yet But I've heard that's actually pretty good Yeah, I've heard that's good I think it's on Disney Plus I'll give that a shot too Yeah

All the Eternals is coming to Disney Plus On January 14th Nice The last like superhero thing I guess is The sort of suicide squad out there It's pretty fun Yeah I like James gone a lot

You see I didn't put that on my list but seeming as you brought it up I really like it I really like that movie I think I personally think it's better than the first guardians

of the galaxy really yeah I thought it was probably funnier I thought it was way funnier and maybe it didn't have the emotional call

it didn't have that heart yeah it doesn't have the heart but because it just you know it's just inherently way more dumb but it did it it never like annoyed me, whereas Guardians of the Galaxy very much annoyed me.

I want to throw out Dune. Yeah, that's on my list. Yeah, Dune is a big one. I think I've seen it four times now, three, four times. Yeah. Yeah, I'm enjoying it

and finding new things each time and kind of appreciating it more and more. Yeah, it's just such a cool story, it's such a cool universe and just that commitment to the kind of slower pace and it's like

proper, proper sci-fi isn't it? Yeah, it's it's like full-on dorky. Yeah, like as dorky as dorky as dork can be like you've got to read the wiki pages and it the fresh thing about it is that it takes itself

so seriously. Yeah. Which is what the source material deserves and yeah yeah it's it's so tiresome when everything is like funny everything has to make you love yeah yeah it's got like two jokes or something

maybe one yeah and it doesn't mean there aren't characters like smiling and having a laugh and stuff in the movie yeah it just means yeah is that what people want from like Dune is for them to be cracking jokes it like it diffuses tension

like that that was what Marvel did to begin with and it's why it's like it's like levity it makes it the high stakes a bit lower and it's like just more generally appealing whereas when in dune like shit's going down

and it's like oh this is like a real war hellscape and it's yeah but you know you just actually feel that like a good example of the humor the levity used like incorrectly to me is Guardians of the Galaxy

2 when this is his name Yondu his spoiler alert funeral a joke is cracked and it's it like ruins the moment the character

it feels like the character wouldn't say it at that moment it like yeah it can ruin a whole scene but it's also just like the wrong time to tell a joke but anyway yeah Dean I've

it's a rare type of movie where you sort of I don't see this movie as a movie right oh like it's almost like someone found it yeah it's just like a segment of this it's like an artifact from some ancient age

watching it at the cinema in IMAX too in IMAX it looked perfect I didn't believe for a second that anything was like CG yeah the attention to detail visually is ridiculous

the story isn't like the most complex thing in the world it's pretty simple really but it just feels like a like it's building because it is only half the first book yeah exactly that's what I mean by

I feel like the movie is both halves and it will be like a six hour movie yeah yeah That's so cool that we're in a place where we can actually get that, because I don't think that could have happened 10 years ago even. No. And it nearly didn't happen. Like, the part two wasn't greenlit, even though he wanted, he wanted to just do it.

Yeah, they should have, because now it's going to be, like, a huge weight and everything's going to be, like, way longer than if they'd, like, had the confidence the Lord of the Rings sit or something. It's just like, it's an experience. experience when you sit in the cinema and watch it i think that is how this movie should be watched when you sit in the cinema and watch it like you're just there yeah yeah um a couple more throughout there i want to throw out uh inside which is a netflix like the beau burnum Netflix all right movie um i don't know if you guys are really that familiar of bo burnham but yeah not particularly i'm not all i really know i've seen like the odd like the odd like the

of his um on youtube and his movie he did a few years back but uh it's out of the like lockdown art that's come out so far it's the one that has captured that misery of um what 2020 lockdown was like the most and it's like it's so well done and it's so impressive because he like did it all himself um and it's so creative with like the the little tricks he comes up with to keep it vibrant for the whole runtime and it's just i can't really go back to it or listen to the songs despite how like clever and funny they are because it just makes me like miserable that's like the sign of a good uh good bit of expression yeah coming out from that time it captured it perfectly um i didn't realize it was about that i think i might have to check it

yeah and it's got some like really good uh like parodies and stuff in it and it's just really clever and well written um i'll throw a couple more out here speaking of james one uh malignant is a really it's not like amazing or anything but it's i think it's one i think james would enjoy it too to be honest it's got like it builds to this it's a horror movie that builds to this like twist and it's like such a funny as fuck twist and he like just goes in on the ridiculousness of it and it's really

satisfying you just have to get there first right um it's super inconsistent and weird um yeah okay I'm gonna end this section on uh the green night you heard of this one you've seen this one I've heard of this

this yeah really cool um it's stay the imagery especially to stay with me one of the one of the prettier movies from the year with the striking visuals and just the composition of everything

is stuck with me pretty slow it's like it's it is what it is in terms of like the pace but that was one of the more

notable movies of the year do I mean yeah I want to check that one out there's a bunch like I've still got to catch up on I usually like spend the year after catching up as opposed to.

Yeah. There is one more movie I want to drop before we move on that we watched quite early on in the year, I'm pretty sure. That's Judas and the Black Messiah. Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up because I did have that note down, but I figured.

Yeah, this movie I love a movie that, because it's based on reality and it illuminates like a dark part of

American history that obviously they didn't want out for quite a while yeah it's like a performance showcase too like yeah treated with like real respect and gravitas with all the actors and yeah that's really well done that

yeah it's just an excellent movie let's move on to games Let's talk about some games What do you want to start? Like I guess Masked Legendary Edition Um

A bunch of the shit Like on mine I was like Oh it's like Just like re-releases Yeah And just the same shit Repackaged I had an interesting time with that

And I like the three jar videos That came out of it So I went We don't need to stay on that For a particularly long Because you can go on the channel And find those

but yeah it it reignited and re-destroyed my love for mass effect i was glad i was not expecting to reconnect with mass effect too specifically in the way that i did yeah it's like oh i've got like a newfound appreciation for this this game um do you have any game to throw out then um yeah i well okay what one that I know neither of you have played and I haven't played it like loads I haven't even finished it but death leap the new arcane game yeah yeah you like it I think it's really good it they that they misstepped in a few places because the whole um you get like invaded like in Dark Souls by this character I forgot that was a mechanic And it's all contextualised within the story.

And from what I've experienced of the story, it's pretty fun so far, but I've heard that the ending sucks. But I'm not in it for the story. The moment's moment gameplay feels so good and is so fun. Was that who developed it? Okay.

It's like a dishonor. It's quite dishonored like, isn't it? Yeah. But the thing with dishonorage, and this is something Deathloops being criticized for not having, Dishonored had like a Morality system

Morality system So the more people you killed The more the plague spread It was like a way to incentivise Stealth a bit more Wasn't it sneaking around Yeah yeah Less killing

But it meant All the interesting stuff You could do in that game Involved killing people Yeah That's the whole game Was built one doing stealthy cool kills Yeah

And you couldn't do that If you're not playing that Exactly so And there's like a good ending And a bad ending I like dissonad Knowing that Yeah I think Desonnet is

really good, but knowing that there's a good ending and a bad ending, I don't want to get the bad ending, so I'm going to play the game in the most tedious, boring way because that's what's incentivised. I'm going to use the sleep-dart crossbow and choke everyone out.

I've not replayed dishonored a bunch because of that. It puts me off. Whereas Death Loop, the whole idea is that there's basically zero consequences

once you get through the early progression and you become like really powerful really fast once you get there you're pretty much incentivised to just like just say fuck it I'm going and just run and gun just go mental just play of the system they're giving you yeah yeah and like

push it as far as you can and there are flaws like the AI the enemies sucks Yeah. Oh, really? That's kind of a shame. Yeah, they're really stupid, but when you are playing in that way, where you're just, like, running around,

because you can die pretty quick. So... It's kind of like a rogue-like thing, isn't it? Sort of? Kind of. The whole, like, loop thing where you're... Yeah. But the, like, there's four maps and four times of day.

Okay. And you... areas slightly change based on the time, the four times a day. Do you think it hurts it following on from Prey, which like everyone fucking loved Prey. Yeah, and Prey, Mooncash.

Yeah, Mooncresher, especially, I've heard is, um, which... Does it better. Yeah. Similar ideas. Yeah, that's, that's sort of the most frustrating thing about it. But at the same time, Moon Crash is like

always stressful. Mm-hmm. Whereas death loop is like, it's funny. Yeah, that's the freedom you get from, like, having an expansion type of thing. Yeah, yeah. Where it's like separated from, you can just play like the normal prey shit. And then you can play Mooncrash if you want that more. Yeah.

I think Moon Crash is probably like a better game. Really? Yeah, Moon Crash is. Can you play Moon Crash without playing pro? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. You get the same, like, enjoyment, I mean. Or is it better to play, pray? Well, Mooncrash is, like, straight up a rogue like, pretty much.

Okay. Whereas Prey is, like, a... I've only watched, like, one video on it, like, from when it came out sort of things. Yeah, yeah. Vague in my head. But it does sound cool. Yeah, I'd highly recommend it if you haven't played it before. But, um...

Yeah, definitely, fun game. Um, the invasion stuff is annoying. because I want to interact with those systems but when people like I got invaded early on by this guy who had unlocked like all the powers and

the sniper rifle and it just put me off immediately it's like how am I gonna did you learn to adapt to that or well it's optional so I ended up turning you can still get invaded by like an AI but again the AI isn't very good

okay Yeah, that just sounds like it would be frustrating when you're like trying to learn the game. You're basically just going to be shit for like a few hours. I think something maybe they should have done was just not have you be invaded for a while and then have like it be a moment. Once you're like kind of good at the game maybe then.

Yeah, and you figure it out and stuff because it just immediately put me off. Yeah. I want to quickly, I didn't finish this game and only surface level engaged with it but I want to mention psychonauts too because

from like all the trailers and stuff I was like this doesn't really look like something I'd like but because at Game Pass I just downloaded it when it came out and I played the whole like

intro thing where you're going through this weird like teeth thing and it's like super creative and the writing was really clever too and the way it was

like implementing these kind of psychological ideas as like villains in the game and it's all like the the main characters like voice and stuff being like billy from the grim adventures yeah grim

adventures uh really cool um yeah it's stunning as well yeah the art direction is incredible art style mm-hmm because it came out around the same time as that new rat chit and clank which yeah isn't really the kind of and all their like reviews like iGN say and it's like yeah it looks like a Pixar movie and all this and it's like I don't love the odd direction of those like ration clank and like the character designs

and stuff especially yeah it looks more like an illumination movie or something yeah not a pixel yeah maybe maybe illumination might be a bit harsh because I haven't actually played that ration clan but I've never been there's not like a spark of like oh that's like cool in the same way psychonauts is like

maybe I just like things that are bit kind of weird and offbeat because it's definitely fucking weird it's a really really weird game because we all played it because we did that first level we were all here

and we all kind of had a little play of it and it feels great to play it feels very good psychonauts is a game I just respect because it's just so out there it's just so not normal and that's yeah I appreciate that

and I think so I would like to play a psychonauts too I just have not been able to get the opportunity to um a game I got a lot of enjoyment from I don't think it came out in

2021 but I think the version I played did come out in 2021, the ultimate edition of control from the what, the Max Payne developers Remedy. Remedy, yeah, yeah. I haven't really played a remedy game before. You have?

Which one? Oh no, you haven't no, ignore me. Yeah, yeah. I was thinking Max Payne Free. Yeah, Jim has always talked about the original Max Payne's and how good they are and I've always heard that and respected them for that but I never like felt it like myself and the whole gimmick of control as like the telekinetic powers

yeah and as far as like game feel is concerned holy shitters it feels so it's so satisfying and knowing they're like building like a four player like thing like spin-off thing with that gameplay um setting you might mention it before but yeah yeah yeah like that to me is like oh there's some potential there for some like crazy fun um but yeah just as far as i could not get enough of that gameplay loop and the the progression i found navigating the world like really obnoxious and

annoying yeah but it was worth it for me once you like start once you get the flying ability that's when it's like oh this is like this is like a different game because you're playing it and it's like yeah i wish there was like something something something holding it back just a little but then you get the flying ability. That's when it's like, oh shit. This is like really, really fun. That game has always intrigued me if it's like just design of flying enemies. Yeah, visually, it's really cool.

The story, like, I don't know what happened, but it was awesome. Yeah, I love the way it's presented. A lot of games to me, when they try and be cinematic, they just copy the most bog standard cinema shit. Unchired That is just a cinema game Yeah Whereas there's this just atmosphere

This actual tangible feeling To this place Like But also uses That interactive nature A bit more To tell the story too Yeah

I don't think you got to it But it's called like The maze The matchstick Something like that There's like a set piece Towards the end That is like

Whoa This is really fucking Creative and cool Yeah One you want to bump Yeah yeah So I'd really recommend playing control if you hadn't. I think that was like a game of year from like 2020 or something.

It's another one of those games where I've not been able to play it because I haven't had a console PC that can. Obviously since I've upgraded graphics cards and whatnot. Oh yeah, because that's what put me off playing it at first because apparently it ran like shit when it came out. Yeah, that's the reason I kind of stopped playing. Because you brought it on Epic, didn't you? Yeah, I think I did.

Because I won't do that. I refuse to use Epic. But when it comes to Remedy, I got to support... Was it an exclusive or something? Yeah, have a launch. Lame. But it's on game purse now. Just it's just on Steam?

Yeah, it's on Steam now as well. But at first, it wasn't... Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I was really enjoying my time with it. I stopped playing shortly. after I got the flying. Okay. Because it kept, like, stuttering.

It should be patched up and run a bit better now. Yeah, yeah. I have started it again since, but it's just got an Apex Battle Pass to finish, you know what I'm saying? What we can do about Apex? There's been a lot of Apex Legends gameplay between the three of us.

Apex has continued to be in my number one game. It's not changed. I play Apex every day. an Apex is a great game and it's in a great place. Yeah. Yeah, it remains to be just the best battle real. The only multiplayer game other than... Playing it the amount we had, and I don't think I've played it as much as you guys even,

but it's made me so much better at shooters. Yeah. Because it feels so good, especially. There's no FPS that feels as good as a lot. that's that's the main thing i don't care because this is why i play time full too so much as well just moving around feels giving around feels amazing the like different character abilities are like mostly really fun everyone like settles into like a small group of like the types of abilities and play styles they like yeah um and me other like new maps pretty fun and the thing

with Apex is the last year for first person shooters has been atrocious. Battlefield is just a mess. I've not even touched it. I think it's probably one of the worst games come out on ages. Then COD came out. The new COD came out terrible. Then because of the new cod coming up, it's made Warzone terrible, nobody wants to play Warzone.

So there's the only consistent FPS that's like, the formula's right and it just does everything as it should is Apex. Because the Halo Infinite, as you've talked about, great gameplay but it's like they've fucked up the systems that make you want to play it constantly so the only one

that's like just you can get in and play and it will just be good is Apex and it's just keep it's keeping going and I'm going to keep playing it I fucking love Apex yeah I'm happy with my relationship with that game it's just like one of these services

you don't play it all the time you will like jump in after two weeks yeah yeah we'll do like a whole big session and then that's it and you still get the same enjoy moment that I do out of it yeah I never would have anticipated to be like to have two free-to-play games like in my roster at this point yeah what's the other one hello infinite oh yeah should we should we well we made a hole with you on it don't we did we no wait what oh because it's fucked isn't it yeah that video's never coming out we lost that also um I campaign has

come out mm-hmm I've we might as well talk about a little bit is a no notable thing we've been building up for a long time so we just start where where it matters i've slated this game since day one i've beaten this game while it was down and rightfully so it did deserve it they've messed this up completely but playing it it does feel great it feels great they've nailed what they needed to nail yeah they actually made a halo game yeah like so oh it sounds like Halo. It looks like Halo. It feels like Halo. Yeah, that's the thing. Because like Halo 5, removing Halo from, it feels

good. Like, I think it feels like a good game. Yeah. But it's not Halo game. It's wrong. Like, the flow of combat's different. The movement just fucks, just shit up and changes it from a core foundational level into something else. Just an awful era for video. Whereas, yeah, they simplified it. They changed the movement.

You can still, like, sprint and slide, but sprint is like nothing really it's like really not an issue um i still don't think sprint should be in the game yeah i'd prefer it not to be there if i had a choice but i guess compromises whatever um that the grapple hook kind of changes it uh it's so much fun to be like a pathfinder and in the single player basically from apex that's that's the most surprising thing that they've managed to make a grapple that feels as good as the apex slash time it's yeah I think they made it feel like a halo replica yeah the way the physics work it like never gets old and you can like really

angle it in like certain ways and pull off really satisfying just like moments in the sandbox and it feels really sandbox one one thing I found is that I'm enjoying halo because it's like my YouTube algorithm is like short clips of really cool effects you're actually seeing halo clips being shared around and stuff yeah people like I just watch one earlier today where people have found out that like you can just like speed runners have like broken the game and you can oh yeah you can like using glitch into a pelican and then fly out of bounds and just fly to like the last level and just finish the game yeah you can like really abuse the like out of bounds and

shit it's like really yeah and it always felt like three four three was scared of that sort of thing with yeah yeah that's what's so cool about the yeah it's like they realized one of the positives with the open design of that section. Insane that, though. It's all well and good having Halo gameplay, but when you don't have Halo gameplay with Halo levels, you've lost something. Especially at Halo levels, you can't even,

as of recording this, like, replay. It's so strange, it's so dumb. Yeah. And the thing is, I've had this itch of, like, I want to play PVE Halo. Mm-hmm. But I don't... No co-op hurts it so much.

No co-op, and... the campaign missions the levels I don't like any of them bar one two yeah there's like if I try and remember each one they're so they just blend into one

there's nothing really distinct about any of them and they don't have like moments never really Halo's whole thing is moments yeah every level has that moment where it's like fuck yeah yeah but it's yeah it does get repetitive

after a while yeah environment thing especially is the environment yeah just a bit much i've been i started my legendary play through like yesterday um i've been enjoying that it's like it's definitely better balance than like halo reach legendary feels way more fun you can i was worried that it was going to be way too hard no no you can actually use the grapple and like engage with the sandbox that isn't just like hiding behind like mars away and just picking shit off in the most boring gameplay style ever and with a plasma pistol but that is some that's a problem i found specifically

was nine times out of ten it is best to be far away in in the combat and the fobs that you get throughout the game the bases you can get whatever weapons in the game you want as the game progresses makes it way too easy you'll never you you never have to think about what what weapon you're like if you kill a grunt and you're low on ammo and he's got a plasma pistol yeah I feel like you have to pick that up as far as like actual open world like game design is pretty bad in my opinion yeah like it feels like it's that fuck yeah it's that far cry problem yeah where you're being given all these tools but why would you use

all these tools when there is an objectively correct choice I would I think if I could have had a choice or say in the matter I don't I don't think it needed

the open world to be as big as it is I think just having multiple smaller really large maps and trying to work with that instead of the crazy broadness and it is cool like being able to go to the top of mountain and seeing like all the monuments and like places you are going to go like get that side of it but so much was lost

because of that decision yeah and especially there's been no thought put into how you traverse through the map yeah you just grapple everywhere that's one thing three four three have never got right is the vehicles they're not right the way they like work in the sandbox the grapple has kind of fucked the whole thing yeah um the grapple is like so powerful um against vehicles Yeah, I do think in multiplayer, though, the vehicles are pretty correct. They're too weak, I think, in terms of how much health they can, like, damage they can take. And, yeah, wot hogs are a bit off. I like the wot hog.

That's my favorite in the game. But, like, the banshee is totally useless. Yeah, yeah. I never used a tank in there. yeah it's just like all of all of my like concerns that I was listening on the cast for like months were basically all correct about like the multiplayer and how like just fucked like and bare bones it is and how like it's like the worst unlock system ever in halo games it's actually worse than halo fives it's so fucking bad we were just praising apex for the way they like reward you for everything and these like mini events to try and get you in and stuff and halos like ape that and copied it but they fucked that it's so shit. It's so easy to do like a small event because I do every Apex small event

it's just like I go on for 15 minutes I just do the little things and I'm always going to finish it but from what I've heard it's like you have to just be like you've got to do it every day or one day you have no control you can't sit down and be like

I got like four hours today I just want to grind out this event just get all the shit from it just get it done on my own time that's the good thing about Apex it has challenges but there's like a next level So if you invest another hour or two You're gonna finish the events quicker

Yeah Because you've just done that extra bit But like yeah In Halo Infinite Like the Christmas event That's on as we're recording this It doesn't have challenges So you can't do challenges

To progress through it The only way you can level it up Is by doing one game a day And that's how you go through it Yeah that's bad That sucks And it means like the rewards at the end Because I've been away for Christmas

There's stuff I just straight up can't get like the alluring stuff at the end of it like it's physically impossible for me to get because I was like two days like behind so I just can't I think it's a completely purposeful design that they just want like the retention yeah in the most extreme degree they want to be able to look at the figures at the end of mouth be like so many people played it's like they're not playing if they're doing one match a day and there has been backlash to the store in it but it wasn't like battlefront two levels so I think they've gotten away with it. I think it's

fucked as far as the store's concerned like just the response to the cat ear's stuff and it's just selling like hot cakes. Yeah people complain online but they're looking at the numbers probably and seeing like whales. They're going to be making make a minute. The cat is like a micro-transection

yes 10 quid. Fuck. Fuck. I'd buy that totally but that's bad. Yeah exactly so I've already noticed that we've complained in Apex before about how the visual style is like Just gets ruined really quick I've already noticed that

Where it's like these fucked up skins And everyone like hardly even looks like Spartans See it took colourful like It took apex a while for them to get to that level So we're starting basically at that So yeah cat is from the get-go Yeah The game has been out a month

Like I'd sunk like well over 100 hours Into the well into the first season of Apex and there was nothing like that the skins the obscene skins were really kind of law accurate and they worked when just the whole choice

to have the first season of Infinite be based around Halo Reach but then charging you for a bunch of the armor then it's like all linked to this game that had the best like customization armor like customization

out of any Halo game yeah best progression so to remind yeah the progression like to remind you of that through the new one and just how bad the new one is and how little control you have over it feels lame but i will say though the the gamer has me coming back because it's so fun yeah i actually feel like i'm getting halo moments out of it yeah it gives me like stockholm syndrome oh i have major stockholm syndrome right now yeah i'm pissed off at it yeah i'm really

You know, big team battle is broken, and it has been broken for weeks. Really? Yeah. It's like a known bug. It's even in, like, the menu of the game, like, saying about it. Like, it's something to do with, like, the servers or something. Like, you can just queue up, and it will just break. So, I activated a boost.

Like, yeah, I got, like, an hour. Let's just play some big team for a bit. And I was, like, cue in. wait it for 10 minutes I was like what's going on why is like what is happening meanwhile the time is ticking down I got into one game

it was all fucked like desynced like laggy as hell like super unbalanced and fucked up and so yeah I got like one game in out of like that whole hour and I just felt like

fuck you see no no no no no no and the challenges as well really bad it's just a real yeah real missed opportunity boosts are the single worst thing to ever happen in gaming to fill your season pass

with fucking boosts is actually just score, Stan? Yeah, I hate it. It straight up doesn't make sense. Yeah. Do you know what's the good thing Apex does boost?

It's not something you use. It's just like, okay, you've just got passive boost. Do the whole season you get like triple X-B. Boom, that's just, it stacks. Boom, you don't have to use it. It's just like this, they go. It's like, at least like,

if you're going to have boosts, be like, the next three games, you get double XP. Yep. Something like that. I don't. I can know that it be it has to be passive over the the timer that goes down

yeah even in the menus like that's so lame do you know what's the lame thing about those timer ones though they're always there's always there's always a pack of them in the store for like 10 quid yeah 25 boosts shit shit cod did it as well yeah hate it that's the first time I saw it

and I had like hundreds of things I'd never use them because it's just like what why would I get yeah I refuse to use them I wouldn't use them in HALO it's just bollocks pure fucking shit yeah

I'm sure Hela will come up again at some point I've got one more game I don't know if you have any more Jim before we go there I really need to pee okay I actually need to pee as well I should two things I want to mention

just before we move on to final games I would have mentioned this in housekeeping but we didn't do it this week one we should have said on the last cast or in Cringmast or something that we weren't going to have a cast

this past Monday Yeah Surely the charlings are intelligent enough to know that the Cringmoth special was that video Yeah normally I guess it lines up better in a year Where it's like December was like crazy It was a messy month

Yeah such a fun fuck-fucky month um so yeah i was disappointed because we don't normally miss weeks we didn't i wouldn't say we missed one i mean you see in post on like the subreddit saying like nine days since the last since the game cast yeah yeah just like yeah i don't know how that happens slip through the cracks um literally cool and the one other thing was i saw a couple comments and posts over the last like few episodes and weeks about

like pod bean like ads being played on the the Spotify version the audio version I don't know what that is about um I'll try and look into it pod bean that's like the RSS feed host who host the jarcast um

it's like the whatever um but apparently there's like some kind of ad that's been playing the beginning of stuff on subject of ads Have you noticed anything with YouTube recently? Well, the dislike's going. Because obviously, when you do ads, you can choose skippable and unskippical ads, right?

Yeah. Every channel's got unskippable ads. Channels that never do ads from a moral point of view and now got four unscriptable ads. I've noticed it with our channel as well. There's something fucking weird going on with the ads on YouTube. Yeah, sometimes they, like, update things, or, like, there's just, like, weird tweaks that

fuck around with it I don't know um it's weird like that pod beam one I don't know well that's about I'll try and I can do it

anyway the last game I wanted to throw out was uh gears tactics I've wanted to play that one really fun I like Xcom a lot and it's kind of like a simplified

version of Xcom with a gears of war skin but the rules of Gears of War translate really well to that style of game I had a really good time playing that I have it downloaded

because it's just on GamePass Yeah again it was a GamePass thing Just like control it was like Just the right amount of like game You know it's like not another service That just has to go on forever It's just like yeah

That was a nice just game Yeah it's nice to have Really game really video gamey video game Yeah speaking of A short one I just want to drop in is Resent Evil. We've already talked about Western Evil today.

Do you like it? Good game, funny game. The story is like the stupidest thing, but it worked for me. It really did. Right, did that game come out this year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of earlier in the year, but

we've been getting lost in the 2020-2020, missed. The collective brain frog where yeah it's like impossible to distinguish anything in that timeline I just straight up can't and I don't know how to I guess

it's so confusing yeah it's just been a nightmare chaos two years but yeah Resident Evil the the Rienjin has the most like squelchy satisfying

beast zombie yeah werewolf shooting some really impressive like character models and shit yeah yeah beautiful game as well i don't know how the hell it it ran perfectly for me no troubles yeah and it looks genuinely incredible yeah i said i don't want to play the first person resident evils that's just a me thing um because i loved r e2 i thought r2 is so fucking

good um but yeah i didn't get around to rye yeah should do a quick shout out to the gtale online dlc make a new game you fucking cunt fucking no that actually pissed me off when the rumours of like dray was coming in to yeah to do a gta soundtrade and it was like oh

they're just updating their like 10 year old game no great a game I have no interest to play because it's like you want to do all this cool new content drop literally like a thousand pound on shark cars to even get like a tiny bit of the content yeah added I swear the longer game like that goes on the more fuck the economy becomes

Oh yeah It's like oh yeah Like it's kind of a problem in destiny as well It's just like the bigger pool of shit you have Like the more like cunty there It's just that is capitalism Because it's like we're going to have a huge crash in the future Because it's just getting more fucked

Because there's so much more more more more Well yeah because that's what killed destiny for me was when they added in that awful store the other verse and yeah it kind of just it just makes it tacky

it makes it like oh it's like a lute bass game what are you doing? Yeah that's that's lame but um want to do music yeah just do music

yeah got a few ones here a few uh 2021 bangers you might as well start with Donda No, don't be angry I can be angry

Donda's good I love Donda Donda Donda My knee jerk to Donda was It's Kanye But it's kind of shit That was my knee jerk

And then I listened to it more And then I couldn't help but listen to it more No you give yourself Stockholm syndrome I don't like this thing but if I keep with this thing I'll eventually like it is what your mentality was

I didn't listen to it too like it I listened to it You forced yourself to listen to it No I'm literally saying I did the opposite No you shale did No I listened to it and it Something fell off

I don't know but I was like Hold up off the grid That shit kind of slapped Yeah Off the grid to me was like like the main reason I kept listening to the album because I like Jail from the get-go.

God Breathe is a bad song. And then off the grid is just like a straight-up langer. There are a couple of songs I really don't like on it, but I think overall there are more I do like. As an experience, I like the whole album. Yeah, me too. I think not the part two very much, but... And I don't really like the deluxe.

version? Yeah, I haven't really listened to that much. Yeah, he made some weird changes and... Although I'm glad he put the Andre 3,000... Yeah, yeah. Unfiltered, single. Yeah, for sure.

Um... Yeah, we talked about it before. I've mentioned this and I... When I did that, like, Sardonicast live stream, there was, like, towards the end there was a question about, like, what's so... was so an album from 2021 um you like and i'm so fucking embarrassed because i was like so tired

and a bit drunk and i said um oh there's this little mix album that's so good and i meant i meant little sims oh fuck bro yeah i just saw a comment that was like little mix i was like oh fuck i can't believe i did that but uh little mix aren't even together anymore i know yeah i didn't i didn't catch it but uh little sims sometimes i might be introvert fucking oh mm-hmm they're supposed to see her live um in december but it just it's too much going on you would have got covid yeah 100% yeah if i got covid from gorillas i definitely would have got covered from a little sims one um yeah check that out and if we're mentioning gorillas the Meanwhile EP is really good

We saw Do two of the songs live When we saw the Now Now Sorry the song machine tour Yep Like they kind of debuted some of the songs there That was great Need to listen to those songs again

Because I enjoyed them live Yeah all of those are really good And actually Damon Albaughan's solo project That's like Iceland based Or whatever has a really good song On it I've been listening to a lot Yeah.

Royal Morning Blue. Yes. I'm a big fan of that. Do you have any throw out there, Jim? Speaking of Iceland. I think it was Iceland. So I've been gradually going through Death Stranding again and there's low raw songs that played periodically throughout the game.

it's such a change of music taste for me to go to something that sounds like so serene and sort of... Yeah, it's more ambient. Yeah, and Ooooo, sad boy sort of vibes. But I love the singer's voice. I don't know his name, but I love his voice and I just love what they're going for. So the album

May be tomorrow by Low Rule I've listened to that Yeah, whenever I hear Low Roar I like what I hear Yeah Yeah, there's There's just a weird thing

It's like a problem with me thing When it comes to music like this Like I feel like I'm not allowed Do you know what I mean? No, what do you mean? No, because it's like Ubu Sad Boy

You know Like James makes fun of my music taste for not being hard enough. I do make fun of your music taste a lot. Yeah, because James... I have reason for that because... Yeah, because your toxic masculinity... No, I have reasons for that,

because the only time I ever listen to your music taste is when we go to McDonald's only... It's only been for an entire year, Donda and Tyler the Creator. I have good reasons to mock your music taste. No, that's simply not true. It's because whenever something else, like Low Rawl would come on, you'd be like... Quench, then forcefully

change it. Yeah, pretty much. And you'd be like, wow, your music taste just isn't hard enough. It's like, what? So maybe it's all... I take back what I said about it being a problem with me and it's a problem with James that he's making me insecure about my music taste.

No, you shouldn't be insecure about your music taste because I literally listen to K-pop while you're in my car. Yeah, but I'm not rude about it. you are you literally forcefully changed it when you were in my car no I vibe I vibe the driver

gets decision and obviously it's Tyler the creator yeah seeming as you brought him out call me if you get lost cool me if you get lost great great album 10 out of 10 yeah and

honestly I know I say this kind of shit a lot because I'm I exaggerate yeah we all do but I think this song this album has my favourite song of all time

on it really the amount of times I've listened to it Corsu Mm-hmm There's genuinely something about it the

The themes The He's just being so fucking honest Mm-hmm And I respect I respect Yeah I got a couple

I'm a standouts from that one too I can't remember their names but really fucking good yeah yeah to me that there's only one song that I'm not crazy about and even then

it's only like the first half of the song I don't really like I really like the second half and that's the song that follows Coursu how do you rate what's your favorite album of this

of Tyler's still Eagle. I want to throw out I don't live here anymore with the war on drugs. This is like a recency bonus one for me the last few days I've been listening to this album.

It's got some really good songs on it. Yeah, I listened through it a while ago but I've only really been obsessed with one song from it. Yeah. I've got three or four I really really like on it.

um yeah it's still early thoughts on that one there of like where it sits in i think it's better than their previous album more distinct because that they were falling into the seems a bit kind of similar to the previous album like thing going on but yeah no this because this is the only album of those i've listened to other than

what's the other one called that i I can't remember their names like I remember Lost in the Dream or something yeah I remember the album covers like more yeah yeah I remember this this album has a terrible cover

oh yeah I hate it it's like a white square with them drinking a cup of tea and a triangle in the corner it's really weird yeah it looks like a dude yeah walking in snow with a guitar and a cup of coffee

and a plaid shirt it's just like the most yeah it sucks history sort of shit but yeah yeah I like their sound you probably like this more than me but an evening was Silk Sonic

Yeah Yeah I did It's not high art or anything And it's goofy as fuck And I just laugh Listening to this album Because it's It's just horny as fuck

Oh yeah That's basically the album It's horny and then being stroppy About like yeah not very important shit and I like I like just having an album that in total contrast to low raw it just makes me smile and feel happy

I'm a I'm a big Anderson pack fan I think he's really fucking good I don't really listen to Bruno Mars particularly yeah this this album made me like Bruno Mars whereas before I it's a surprising a good combo yeah especially like whatever the singles were they released for it those are still probably my favourites yeah smoking

out the window in particular i was pleased to see thundercat on there as well because yeah i love that song thundercat is one i got into in 2020 um loving and stereo came out the uh jungle album as well the drama based music genre which is good um and just two more throughout the the turning wheel by spelling really good that's also kind of a new one for me I've been going through

and I want to shout out our uncle's EP they've played on Spotify the build back better EP by pop gang if you want obscure go find out that's indie is indie you can get yeah that's that's and

Jowlings will like that the cover is like the proto pisser yeah the it's it's the original pisa it's pre pisser what do they they call it

the hell car yeah yeah that's right so go check out build by battery P on Spotify any other music throughout there do what about you James did you have anything musical that stood out to you

or is it kind of the same it's kind of the same I've mainly listened to stuff that isn't this year. I've just gone back. I've just gone back because to listen to things I should have listened to. So I've not really got many to talk about. Yeah. But to be honest, the artist who's like defined the year for me is MF Doom

because I had the like David Bowie thing of the where like I wasn't that familiar with the discography. But then when they passed away, it kind of was the unfortunate spark that got me in. God, there's so much good shit. Oh, there's so much, so much good stuff. And I'm just the wordplay, I just can't get enough of how creative that, that writing is. The monkey. So, I mean, as we kind of simmer down now, towards the end, it's the TV section, but I don't really have anything too new. these are just kind of notable things

I checked out in 2021 as far as TV is concerned I watched like all of attack on Titan you did did I mention it on the cast I can't remember I'm pretty sure we talked about it but I watched all of it and then I

went and read the manga to the end because I'm I'm torn on it because I don't know how much of the bad writing is because of bad translations because I don't think when I was reading it is officially

been translated and released in the UK or you know so it's really hard to tell because that's like an art in and of itself like translating the stories because

there's the whole the pain with anime or manga is like it's finding that that one good translation group is knowing that group because I've watched like initial D with a different group and it's like

shit hitting hell that's like a huge difference so it's like you can get some really obscure series where the people who've translated it's like a shit translation and that's it just will ruin your experience well yeah localising is like an art in and of itself so

I don't want to be too cruel but I think I was like super disappointed with where it goes and how it ends I thought it was like so bad but yeah because I watched season two and three this year as well

and it's like just I was I don't know if my just expectations and standards were too high as well for the show but when the like Titan fights turned into like

that kind of CG style as opposed to it was CG that had hands hand drawn like yeah it's it doesn't look as good as those first couple of seasons

and then after that point like I get it like the scale gets to such a degree where they would need unlimited time and money basically to achieve some of the stuff that they have to achieve but at the same time it's like it doesn't have the same effect on me if something is lost but I still read the whole thing I mean I enjoyed myself for what it was worth but yeah great first season one of the best I watched the HBO Watchman The Trent Reznor soundtrack Yeah that's actually the main reason I watched it Because I wanted to watch it I'd had some of that soundtrack on my Spotify

Ever since it came out But I'd never had it contextualised by what actually happens in the show But Amazing soundtrack And it made me kind of respect the The writer of it more It was the guy He's got a bit of a rep

For these like awful I think he's been linked to like J.J. Abrams and lost It's like one of those guys But But the angle It felt like a like an else world like Watchman take

Where it's like Modernizing it in a way that It's like clever It's like a fun spin And it's not like Overriding the original Or anything Like the original still happens

and it has some really memorable cool characters like the Buster Scruggs guys has such a standout in my mind I really like that character actor but yes it's cool, clever Watchman is just an interesting universe it doesn't fully come together

and there's some there's some weird stuff in there have some bad dialogue here in there but overall I thought it was really cool up to the HBO standard another HBO thing actually there's a lot of HBO here True Detective season 3

I checked out it's okay I just feel like season one was abnormally good so anytime you try and follow it up it's like never the same it never reaches the same heights

you never have the as good as the like lead to actors you're going to have like it's never the same as that first season and never has the the level of dialogue or the the like dramatic moments and just the

just that bayou setting of that first season it's just so cool it's so creepy and fucking weird and like spinning the true crime angle to make it feel fresh even though it's like so done to death I think whereas season three is a bit more like yeah this is true crime like stuff it's cool good actors good drama it does kind of vaguely link back to the first season

which the second season doesn't do yeah I enjoyed that it was okay and another HBO thing was euphoria really cool really stylish I would describe it as kind of like

if certain reasons why I was done well it's not about like suicide or whatever in the same way but I just mean like the high school setting playing around with like mental health topics and drug abuse and this kind of thing

but attaching it to like really realistic well-performed characters Zendaya does a really good job in the lead really satisfying like building up story yeah that's a really good one super stylish in the way it's presented as well really memorable camera work

Any other big one As I've like checked out that Netflix show The Crown Like a big chunk of it A few seasons of it I saw all of the The Doctor Who guy Who looks like a caveman

It's Matt something I know you're gonna love Yeah the football one Yeah the football one He was really good He was awesome Yeah The really good performance

is it's really well written. I don't know how much is exaggerated for dramatic effects, I'm sure a healthy amount. But really interesting. I don't really care about the raw family and have my own personal issues with them, but it's very critical of the whole idea and it doesn't shy away from the stuff you want to see,

the drama that probably was happening. behind the scenes and yeah yeah you know what I mean yeah yeah that's that it surprised me that you started watching it and it surprised me more that you liked it and it it makes me rethink whether I should try because I just assumed it was like kind of jerking off the role that's what I assume too because we're just so used to that kind of thing in the UK like just jerking off the royal family all the time and but now it's way more critical of the idea and like just elements of history

that I was like is it like this is like real and then you like Google it and you're like oh my shit and reading through historical like just craziness you had no idea

went down it's like a fun way of an entertaining way of kind of exploring the royal family because I've genuinely have never really given a fuck about their standing and despite their importance

to the the nature of the country but those are kind of the big tv ones for me if you guys have any i honestly couldn't and can't think of any standout tv shows i watched i watched squid game squig game fuck yeah yeah i was that's kind of is the 2021 yeah like it's it's hugely yeah it's huge everyone knows squid game but it is good it's a very good series just one and done watch it have fun yeah the more time i i've had away from it since the more i've grown to really not like the ending and the shit yeah the ending wasn't great but i don't mind really it was it was fun entertaining the

fucking cliff hangers it did that thing where like it was the tug of war and episode the one before they actually do it and it was like 11 at night and i was like okay yeah this would be my last episode get to the tug of war bit and then i had to fucking continue watching piss me off it's extremely bingeable yeah that way that's how i binge it's it's the it's the type of writing where you're like how would this hold up on a second rewatch type thing is it is it like what are the like you know is it going to stand the test of time quite you know

yeah yeah and it's again like with um attack on titan with some of the writing feels super like on the nose oh yeah the way characters

talk to each other but yeah there's loads of like awful dialogue yeah um but i it gave me that like pit in my stomach feeling that like good horror does to me yeah like that first episode with that you know the the game the yeah um with the light or whatever the light the the doll the big doll it spins his head of you know everyone knows it's like oh yeah

this is like gross and like fucking vile and yeah scary horrible and scary to watch um yeah is bingeable as fuck and the memes as well pretty good yeah that iconic toby toby meme the squid game toby meme the best fucking meme ever I know we're forgetting meme

of the year don't worry about these shit movies and these shit games a meme of the year is the only one that people actually care about and it is the toby McGuire squid game meme he hasn't seen it but it is the best fucking meme you're gonna have to

show Alex then which I'm gonna find on here is it like a what is it is it a video? Yeah I quite like that that song that they always play in in Squid game

yeah it it started pissing me off it's really fucking weird but yeah it does get repressive after a while but it's whenever I like see a meme that has it in I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, it's fun

It's very, but It pissed me off, but it felt like in the Right way Alex, just go on YouTube and type in Spider-Man and Squid Game and you'll get the fucking video. You're saying this is the best movie of the year and you're saying earlier that you have no attachment to the Toby shit

The memes have made the attachment I fucking love, I love it Yeah, that was a good video That's my meme of the year You have a meme of the year, Jim? Um, the memes this year have been shit. I like the cat with a wig on.

Oh my god. Is that one? This one I've seen. Yeah, I don't even, I can't think of, like, any memes from 2021. Big Chungus? Because it sounds... Oh, yeah, I like, um... No.

What in the Matrix Hell from Space Jam, New Legacy. I like making fun of the... that that's not a meme boy i like um that film was memed what it depends how you what define meme right oh was uh johnsina speaking chinese speaking mandarin yes that that's yes that's my meme that that is a good meme okay let me i'm going on google and i'm typing meme of the y meme of the of the of 20... Memes of 20201 What's that meme

Like Encyclopedia Bowship website Oh fuck We got the evergreen memes this year I fucking forgot The Evergreen situation

The boat In Suarez Connell Oh shit That fucking is this year in March I do Yeah That was pretty funny The Bernie Sanders meme

Oh Yeah, I remember that one Gate Gash Gate Keep Gas like Go boss Another meme this year This year? Yeah This has been a long ass year, dude

Yeah Honestly, some of these memes are fucking shit Yeah Well that's always the case Well, should we wrap up Yeah I think we're done for now A lot of stuff to cover

some stuff got more than others but whatever I'm tired I'm tired too Happy New Year motherfuckers Make 22 go hard Go to Latvia Do it The one Latvian jowling is going to be so pleased

He's already messaged me He was like, I'm going to go to meet you man Ha ha ha ha ha.