JAR Media Posdact - 2024 Wrap-Up (Prt 1)

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

A & J start our annual wrap-up of notable TV/Movies/Games/Music of 2024 https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Find us on Spotify and iTunes under: "Jar Media Posdact" Find the original episodes under: "The JARChive" Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/jar-media-store Twitter: https://twitter.com/FourFunnies Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 04:55 Housekeeping 08:41 2024 Random Moments 18:09 2024 TV 35:04 2024 Movies #Brocast38 #2024

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well good afternoon morning evening or night ladies and gentlemen welcome to brocust number 38 i believe the Christmas one or something I believe I believe I'm Alex joined by Jim I believe

I believe it's a religious part of the year that's why I believe this is going up the Eve of the Eve Eve Eve Eve

Mm hmm Um No cringmas Soz Yep this is We normally at the end of the year We'll do a like

wrap up episode this isn't a regular episode by any means we're going to do like a it's going to be a two-parter probably because the next week there's just no good time to record again it's just a holiday season

so there's going to be a cliffhanger at a certain point and we're going to shift into you know yeah it was just abruptly like cut cut out yeah extremely abruptly halfway through one of us talking but don't worry it'll be

meaty amount of content i'm sure we're going to go through our movies tv music and uh am i missing video games yeah yeah and um i feel like there's a couple events that i'll want to bring up yeah of course anything come to mind i've just yeah just just 24 hashtag moments clark's on the wall god the watches on the wrist it's the moments everyone's favorite guerrilla's song um before we get into that kind of stuff we got a shout out those patrons over the journal media patreon that make the audio version of the show possible we get their names read out in the first or second week of each month like was that previous episode or the one before that i'm so i'm so sure the one before the one before yeah yeah um of course they also get

a jafter hours over on there too uh we probably won't have one until the new year a fresh one because i'm going to put up uh so i haven't points me even saying this right now because it will already be up with the wellis and grommet wrong trousers as they say will be going up today as of us recording um but you could have had that a whole like month early pretty much you know what we we even could do what watch the new because the new one comes out on christmas yeah that's part of why i wanted to do that yeah um yeah maybe that should be the next one um yeah yeah so there's that uh that would be live but also there's our

Spotify, Wrapped videos on there. There's a lot of music stuff, actually. 10 favorite songs in two parts as well. There's a whole, like, hour-long conversation or more with both parts combined. Yeah, there's lots of good stuff over there. All sorts of vids for you to enjoy. And there's more.

There's the Jal Media Group Chat, too, who give us ideas and quadrants to explore for each episode. Like Chocolate Fart, who said, favorite non-20204 released film slash games slash music etc discoveries of the year not worry we'll get into that in due time and hendrick carlson um so best game slash movies slash album of the year so we're way ahead are you there bub we're doing this uh yeah when we get to the media bit

um it's not necessarily stuff that has to be released in 2024 it's just like yeah stuff that we experience yeah i'll have obviously the most for movies um but it goes all over the place especially if like music and whatever we get to when we do um so i just want to do a quick housekeeping so i need to address two things from the previous one okay no one even commented about this but just for my own sanity i made a joke about setting off an mp and i meant to say e mp how did you so i must have not even caught them no one yeah uh no one did so ha ha and uh last episode of was the gold episode there were a few people that were like really angry about it like really yeah

you shouldn't have done that for so long um sorry that we that we should have invested in gold idiot yeah we we were just like writing it out waiting for the gold to you know the value to increase yeah yeah yeah hey yeah hey hey So I've got my wine, I've got my cigars. Can I be honest, sorry, before we move on, I want to know if you feel this as well, but being told that that went on for too long, does it not just make you want to do it, like, all again? Like a three-hour, like, yeah, it just really makes you want to double down. Yeah, yeah. I feel like, um, yeah, a bit of a contrarian thing.

Yeah, it's like a human instinct to just... Mm-hmm. Just got to go opposite. Yeah. Got to attack, you know? I've got to defend my like stupid act

yeah but don't worry I guess we actually have a subject for this one so yeah being gold being gold yeah so yeah starting off

we're going to do our top ten best investments of the yeah you think they do that they're all different gold companies gold one

gold two do you think like business podcasts actually do that i don't know because i don't listen to on here yeah the gains i made on the tesla this show did you see good you know the guy who um and this is something that happened in in 2024 so i feel like it applies hmm but the the guy who is on dragon's den and he has like a business podcast do you know him the see the millionaire CEO so the is that the one yeah the oh i can't remember his damn name the diary it's diary of his CEO guy yeah yeah yeah um i haven't seen dragons den since like the early 2000 no i haven't either but i just know he is on it um he's been like outed as supporting a bunch of like unhealthy

dietary stuff i think like what i know he's he was big into like huge Huell. Um, basically he was just being paid by sponsors. By Huell. Well, he was being paid by Huell. And, but that was like, overtly a, a sponsorship. Like, I'd get, I didn't, I didn't know he was the diary of a CEO guy. I was introduced to him through Huell adverts. Wait, really? Yeah. That's how I discovered him. Um, yeah, he's, he's, I think, um, you know, like the Joe Rogan stuff where it's like, oh take all these vitamins and stuff and like these whack doctors know what's up I think he's been kind of doing the same stuff and it's been like investigated

oh dear and yeah he's he's not been very good on that stuff and I can't help but feel that if he weren't an ultra capitalist and that might not been the case well I suppose yeah if I run that kind of thing could you call this year like the downfall of Joe Rogan

I personally would yeah i mean i think that's a fair assessment yeah i keep i keep i'm i'm very not cutting edge i've discovered oh same i'd never pretend to be no but like you you like to think that i'm on the pulse of all of it not not like everything but like when everyone was going at joe rogan especially during the 2020 yeah i guess i'd never put too much thought into it but i was like but he's just i definitely I wasn't listening by then. I wouldn't, no, I, I, the only stuff I was listening to was like, whack-ass crazy alien stuff. Yeah, the stuff like, didn't matter.

I guess most people would see that era as the fall of Joe Rogan, the 2020 vaccine stuff. Right, yeah. Apart from all the people who, like, still listen to him. But I thought he was harmless. I thought, like, if you're listening to Joe Rogan for advice on what to do during a internet, national pandemic, um, yeah, then like, maybe you deserve to get it. Um, but now everyone who was calling him out was so in the right. And it's annoying to me. It's like how, how did it take me this long to see him for what he is? Yeah. Now the videos are like starting to come out,

like, the downfall of Joe Rogan needs to be studied. Yeah. Stuff like that. Well, his, his, his comedy routine needs to be studied. All, like, opposite um yeah i mean you can take notes on just do the total opposite and it will probably get some laughs um not that like not that i'd be any good on stage but yeah his if if we're going into 24 moments i feel like the biggest one which we never talked about was did we talk about it Donald Trump being elected Oh yeah, we did the Joker episode instead That's right

Yeah, yeah Because that's how everyone was feeling Trump and I guess the election here as well We talked about that as well Yeah, I put both of these in my notes My list for the year Because I feel My political views have actually solidified this year

I feel like that is a 2024 thing for me Okay um i've i've listened to way more i think that's why my spotify listening hours was so down instead of going on a walk and listening to music i'll go on a walk and get educated on shit you know and that has sort of solidified my political views so my see that was 2020 for me right right yeah yeah i feel like i'd be far more of an extremist if i'd done that in 2020 because that was a dark fucking time to be looking at

the the world stage um but yeah i feel like the trump being elected and joe rogan being a shitty fucking shill a kind of one in the same topic to me yeah um the if you listen to that Elon Musk podcast I can't just before the election I think I did for like an hour yeah I because after you said about how like annoying it was oh my god yeah I listened to the whole thing and this isn't out of like support for Joe Rogan um it's like morbid curiosity yeah totally and you see like clips of it and you're like they just has to be out of context this has yeah it's very it's 100% like Jesse on his knees he can't keep getting away with this yeah you know because it's fucking insane

and then you see the clips from after the election like the just the obvious shilling for his side when in 2016 he was like I'm I would vote for Bernie

it's like yeah yeah it's crazy it's just like in the in the Texas bubble I guess because he used to be in California right yeah so of course he had like a bunch of like different ideas actually coming to him instead of the Texas bubble you're like got to go way out your way to go to Texas he's in Austin which is like a culture hub there but like it's not California yeah yeah for sure but also he's um he was given like 500 million dollars well yeah so that

probably have a fact as well that would probably make that injection of cash to anybody would probably make them this weird conservative freak you know yeah I mean absolute power, you know. But the Trump interview as well, the Trump podcast, the Joe Reagan Trump podcast. Did you listen to all of that? I did. Yeah, while playing the Elder Ring DLC. I, I, it, it genuinely upset me. Um, yeah, it was quite dystopian. A, it was like, how can you listen to this and then vote for him? And B, I, by the end of it, I was like, he's definitely winning I know I know I knew

and like we predicted that he would be I mean I guess it was semi obvious like the the Democrats didn't really have the chance I don't know if you went a polling pre-election yeah I think it's going to be pretty tight and now all the votes are in it is actually closer

than it initially looked yeah yeah um but I was convinced after listening why does it take them so long to like figure that voting stuff out like I guess it's a big ass country compared to us so it's like yeah it's also it has to be physical in America right like you have to go to place they have like the ballot boxes and stuff like that

where like I don't know how it works over there it's like different by state isn't it yeah and they you don't need like any ID or something depends on the state again yeah um because I think they were using because California never wants to have ID and although like Elon Musk was saying that they want it that way so that

they can keep shipping immigrants up so they can vote for Democrats and if the Democrats get in then it's the last election of all time. Like just straight up lies yeah so I felt pretty miserable around that period I'll be honest that was only this month right or was it November? November

yeah man time is quick yeah time yeah yeah um you're done with the politics i suppose uh the only other thing i'd say is the the opposite for i mean kind of the opposite for this country um as much as kia stama isn't like an ideal labor leader by any stretch of the imagination no at least labor's in yeah he's on Um, but he's Elon's next target. He's, like, obsessed with Kea. Oh, really? Yeah.

That makes sense. Uh-huh. Yeah. Um. Yeah, because he's threatening to fund Nigel Farage's, uh, next push in five years time, which is what I said my exact feel was. Yeah, yeah. Well, and that's why I say kind of opposite, because we had all the riots here and stuff.

which was a pretty dark time. Mm-hmm. Yeah. When it's like a place that you semi-know, you can, like, recognize these locations. You're seeing videos and you're like, oh my God, I was there like a month ago. Yeah.

What? Let alone if you live in the city or whatever. And Elon Musk is online saying about how there's going to be a civil war in the UK. And then he also said, says he's going to support the the Nazi-fascist party in the UK, the ones that caused the riots.

Yeah. Make it make sense. You can't. Fuck that man and fuck that party. Loser of the year. Elon Musk. Yeah. Whenever we bring up Elon Musk, there's one or two comments that are like, there's another rant on Elon Musk as predictable as pie in my mouth.

Ramah-nam-nam-nam-na. Yeah, well, if you don't, have a problem with Elon Musk, then you're a shit. You're like a fucking shill. Uh-huh. You know? Yeah. You're as you're like an enabler. I agree, I agree. I agree. I agree.

Yeah, so in terms of all that 2024 was kind of cringy, but in terms of definitely cringy, but it seems like a lot happened. Yeah. Yeah. But there were some good movies, maybe? Well, my take is that there are good movies and bad movies every single year. You're not going to be able to find a year that only has one or the other of those.

And I've seen quite a few, so I've got three categories of movie to talk about here. I've got my top 10 so far of the year. I obviously haven't seen everything, and there's a bunch I still need to see. But from what I've seen at this moment, my top 10, my bottom 10, and just some notable shoutouts of stuff that wasn't necessarily released in this year. I don't know how you want to do this because I'm probably going to dominate this conversation somewhat. Do you want to, should we go through yours first? Okay, I did TV and movies together.

Right. And I've got a, uh, I've got three. I can have one actually. I'm thinking about it right now. Um, and this, this isn't from 2024. It's more like 2004. okay um what is it it's hell's kitchen with gordon ramsie

your show of the year yeah i'm gonna crown that the show of my year i've only seen one season um but i i hate reality tv right yeah i have yeah it sucks no exceptions no some reality about it no it's the fakers thing ever but Gordon Ramsey be kind of funny I've never seen it I've only seen like the old clip yeah and those clips rock and it was yeah I always go clips yeah he you put him on TV and it fucking works

I yeah like I he's not even someone I'd want to meet you know I feel like he's probably a bit of a twat but damn he makes good TV I kind of always hope that he was like putting on that character and in real life he was actually like a really chill nice dude He kind of, he kind of seems to be that way. I think, um, it's like a character, it's a performance. Yeah.

But he's, he's also very passionate about, like, food. Yeah, yeah. And that's, that's something cool. I, I love the, like, dinner, being able to make a dinner. It's looked at as this, like, incredible thing. I was thinking about it, like, should be. Like, humans, we need to eat, and everybody does. but the the gap in like a shit meal to an incredible meal

there's something romantic about it though like the the ritual the like if you're making something you're preparing a meal for somebody someone you care about someone you want to like giving them energy yeah yeah you're sustaining them it's nice you're you're making them live longer yeah it's just a fun ass show yeah i've hell yeah and that's fairly recent too huh yeah that is recent um because like the only other show the reason i have so few shows is because i they've sucked up your uh well but i sat this year i guess i started early on and i've basically only been watching house

that's in terms of watch time that's my show of the year 100% and you're not alone i was looking at like on IMDB when I was looking at trying to refresh my memory on stuff earlier um it's like ranked of T like a list of TV shows, um, of engagement and House was on there. Really? Yeah, yeah.

Man, that's the power of TikTok. Where was it, was it put on like Netflix? It's Amazon Prime. Yeah. That'll be why I guess. Amazon Prime is my, my stream streaming choice of choice. Really? Even though it's got ads and so. Yeah.

it's the only one I use really I feel like it's got the best shit to be honest but um after finishing house I had mixed feelings I've kind of settled on the the ending fucking sucks really I really don't like it I really known as like a bad ending I don't know should I look at it sim but I I really do not like it it's it's like it's like it's like it's like contrived as fuck um i get what they were going for but it's like too big oh really yeah i mean spoilers so high score really yeah spoilers like i i like the destination they arrive at right at the end but how they get there is clunky as fuck um well it's long seasons too yeah it's a long ass show this is why it took me since

fucking I don't know February or something um yeah the ending really let me down and I feel like they could have given Hugh Lorry a lot more to work with

like he's got like two emotions the character of house oh really doesn't have range not really I mean what is it everyone loves about him so much then how smart he is he's funny he's fun he's a funny guy okay I mean it's it's not that he doesn't show a of a variation of emotions like Hugh Laurie can do a lot with

his face and like just yeah kind of a and his voice a look yeah he's got an awesome voice mm-hmm but there was no I didn't feel any catharsis at the end oh really you know I didn't I I was really fucking ready for it as well i was like you you just need to do a little bit and i'm satisfied and they don't really go there and like whenever house seems to start showing a bit of emotion um he's got to like undercut it with some snarky bullshit and it's like oh there's never a seamery like breaks down in tears or something no um he he like tries to kill him multiple times throughout the show I'm pretty sure um yeah like it's dark as fuck but it it

never like it never makes it feel real you know it never gives you enough of like a real human experience to me um so I was kind of disappointed I mean and the show's not all bad um I mean obviously not I watch fucking eight seasons like 24 episodes each every episode is pretty much long. I don't know how though. How I did it? I don't know. Do I regress it a little, a little? Really? No. Yeah. But at the same time, no. I don't because it was great and I'll probably do it again. Hell yeah. Um, do you have any other shows? Um, no. As things you start with shows, I might as well list mine off. I'll do it. Okay. Fairly quick. I mentioned desperate housewives. Oh yeah. Throughout the year. That's kind of like my equivalent of how

We were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, they both have eight seasons. They both have really long, like 20-something episodes every season. It's corny, it's saccharine, it's over-the-top melodrama, silly, but man is entertaining. These four main ladies are all awesome, apart from Susan. What's wrong with Susan? She's just annoying. It was like, you know, in different periods of time, there was like a different type of woman that was like romanticized in like Hollywood type stuff yeah like the manic pixie dream girl for a while

and susam is the like clumsy girl archetype yeah is she the one who's after the plumber yeah yeah yeah yeah so that was like fun to chip away at and was like a fun revisiting of something from weirdly childhood yeah yeah uh yeah uh yeah like yeah uh yeah like yeah uh yeah I won't go much more into detail on that. I want to shout out the penguin. I wish I'd see that. Yeah, I really think you should watch it, especially with how much you like the Batman.

I think Colin Farrell, it's just such a fun performance and a cool anti-hero character, the physicality of it, the prosthetics, the slant of like, I don't know, I was so kind of put off of the idea, like, with all these like Marvel shows and all this like, hey, it's happening in this universe,

but it's just sort of, it's tucked away in the same. side type thing but it felt kind of big but not too big where it felt like Batman needed to show up um it's like this gang rivalry stuff just a good like crime show a good um what's her name sophia i think this character like absolutely rock is it the lady with the huge eyes yeah yeah with the bug eyes yeah she she's awesome um great character great show would highly recommend that um did you not see fall out yeah i did yeah yeah So shout out to Fallout.

Amazon Prime. That is an Amazon Prime and way better than I expected it to be. Yeah. I see a lot of videos now. Like, Fallout TV show six months after. Revisited. Yeah, yeah. And I'm like, the, whatever.

The shit was fun. I was hooked. Like, it made me give New Vegas another shot. Really? Yeah. I thought the production was good. They were building all these sets. So, like, the characters in there, the way it was written, was solid from what I remember.

Um, what's his name? Oh, Goggins. Goggins. Goggins rocked. When, when Goggins shows up in anything, I'm like, hell yeah. Uh-huh. I'm in, unless it's, um, he kind of sort of on it. Um.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I'd watch another season of that. Yeah. Um, I think it was, wasn't it Christopher Nieland's brother who wrote it or something? Yeah. Um, yeah, that was like a nice surprise in the, like, IP-slok we're constantly bombarded with. That was one that was like, I don't even care about fallout, but I've always liked the aesthetic of it, and it was nice being able to experience a fallout story without having to play it, so.

Yeah, but also being someone that I would say I like Fallout more than you. Oh, yeah, without doubt. I never finished one. The reason I never watched The Last of Us is because I know every beat of that story. I've played that game a hundred times, if not more. You could just watch that one episode. And that's all I'd recommend, really, from that show, to be honest. Episode two.

Yeah. Like, watch that episode and then play the game. Yeah. And knowing that, um, I just thought, what's the point? Like, that's, there's a big time investment for something I, I know, like, the back of my hand. Yeah. It was well made, but like, whatever. I might be, I was thinking about it today.

Um, not today, the other day. Uh, not that that matters. The Last of Us 2, thinking about it, would, the plot would work way better as a TV show. yeah i think i agree paste that way it could actually work i'll definitely watch season two because i'm just curious how they're gonna even tackle that story yeah um so maybe i i will just watch season two yeah it's not like you've missed anything you know yeah everything that happens um shout out to speaking of politics i got into veep um in the build-up to the american election and it was so like prescient with uh the one-to-one like parallel with the uh louise dryfus main

character being a vice president that then becomes president yeah yeah reflecting like kamala's potential once upon a time or kamala sorry um really funny show love the characters in it love the i don't know just finding something that i actually find funny and there aren't like caveats yeah that's always nice takes a little while to get going i found a few like succession was similar where it's like the first half of like the first season it's like trying to figure out its tone and like what it's going for but once it does like season three and four especially we're like oh this is like on fire hilarious Hugh Laurie shows up it's basically when Hugh Laurie shows up it becomes like really yeah yeah because he yeah he I guess minor spoilers

for Veep if you care is like the vice president to her um which is a fun dynamic he's great in it she's obviously amazing julia louise dryfus is so funny um buster from uh arrested development really he's he's like her bag man he like carries her bag around right he's just like a bit too obsessed with her he's really funny i i've watched the first episode of arrester development again recently i did too this year i think yeah That's a show that knew what it was doing from the game. And just, like, doesn't age. It stays, like, just as funny.

It's really, really spot-off. A great show. But, seeming as you brought up Hugh Lorry again, because that's the main thing I got out of House is an admiration for that man. He is incredible. British icon? He's a musician.

Oh, is he? I didn't know about that. Yeah, House is always, like, playing the piano, and then there's scenes... He, like, buys an electric guitar, and he's playing the electric guitar. And it's really doing it. It's not like a...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he's, like, ridiculously... talented and house kind of he's like a genius yeah house is a platform to show off a bunch of his talents though he does like a doing an accent he's doing an accent he's acting really well he's physical performance plays music all the time um and he like juggles and stuff he's he's super suave he there's this scene and the the the CG is terrible in it um but he's he's like practicing making this cocktail or whatever and he's like throwing the bottle around his body and like catching it is on fire and that's where the

CG comes in right he's he's genuinely throwing this bottle around and it's like really impressive what an awesome guy Hugh Lorry is guy of the year I think okay really's your guy of the year I might have someone else no he's guy of the year um I got two more shows baby reindeer was a good British drama um very heavy quite different to all the shows we've just been talking about which are quite like poppy and light yeah i thought baby reindeer was like a documentary or something no no it was based on the main characters like experiences in his life um right and he it's got like a dark comedy's type thing going on he's like a comedian for a lot of it um and then all the all the conversations that

kind of started about like the the ethics of like making something like that and then like peers Morgan getting involved and like the woman figuring out the real is about stalker and the real woman stalker like was on Pierce Morgan and it became this weird like oh this is becoming it's not like a fictional thing it's like kind of both

it's a fictional show but it's also like this woman and you can see that like oh that was like weird and creepy and uh well-man Um, and finally I want to shout at X-Men 97. Not someone I was expecting to enjoy, to be honest. But I've always, I've always had a softness for the... Yeah, they, yeah, they clapped with that. That clapped.

Hell yeah. Animation was really good, actually. It was like a Korean company, I think, that did it. Does it look like a 90s show? It's got to the art style, but way better animation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there were a couple, like, weird, relationships. There's a whole like arc with Magneto and I guess minus spoilers. Um,

rogue have like a thing, which was quite weird. Um, but otherwise the show has some great actions, some grown, so many great moments. Um, yeah, that was sick. Awesome. That's fire. I'd recommend that. Quick question, because you brought up X-Men, was Invincible Season 2 this year? I want to say it was the previous year That's crazy Yeah Because the ads just come out

For the latest season It has, yeah That's probably Why it came to my head Mm-hmm That and X-Men Okay That's not one for this year then

Sorry guys Soz So how do you want to do this movie stuff then I've got one Do your one One if it's on here I can't believe I didn't think of this

and you might even tell me it was last year but Furiosa yeah that's his shit yeah yeah that's in my that's the one film I've seen in the cinema this year that's in my top ten yeah it's the movie the one movie I made the effort to go and see because like

to me going to the cinema that shit's a commitment you know so I I need to have some prior investment if I'm going to go uh huh you know which sounds kind of shit because then like I'm never going to go and see an independent film it's only going to be mad back or Batman but I was fucking right

I love that film holy shit is cool I saw it twice at the cinema actually so I've been to the cinema twice this year to see the same film okay respect yeah I really dug sawing that in IMAX yeah it blew my mind it made

Mad Max so much more versatile to me like as you can do anything with that universe now with what they did with Fury I said. Well, my favorite thing about Mad Max is the world building. Yeah.

And, like, we're in such a landscape, I feel like, where, like, law and, like, these specific rules that people get so, like, attached to and obsessed with, it's nice to have, like, a looser, like, mythic kind of feeling to this world. And the companion piece, like, nature of it to Fury Road, I rewatch that as well after and it like enriches that movie and it's like oh they're talking about that place and it's like oh this this is extremely cool the way this worked out um despite it being a prequel that doesn't like hold it back it's quite a different structure to a period really different i like that about it yeah that works so well in its favor because you don't know what to anticipate at any point

watching it for the first time yeah you genuinely have no idea you know what the result is going to be but the film goes in such directions where you don't know how it's yeah all you know is that i guess furiosa and joe survive and certain characters here are though yeah that's pretty much it the metal gear guy is super cool the chris hamsworth as well is like showing some range and being willing to put on those prosthetics and be like a villain and be gross yeah and be Aussie as well it's cool like yeah no i i i gained a lot of respect for him in this film because for so long it's just like he's Thor, he's the hot guy

Yeah, yeah He's gonna take his shirt off Yeah, I saw him play a villain in a movie Um This What the fuck was that movie? It's based in like a hotel It's got um

John Fucker The Madman John man guy Um I think I know what you're talking about But I never saw it so I can't pull it right now Yeah

Anyway Chris Hamsworth was the bad guy and it was like he's he's got his shirt off all the time and He's the hot bag guy. Yeah, he goes bust his thing is like he's he's he's in a cult he's like a cult leader And it just didn't really work for me um so I just saw him as like a piece of meat He was just a piece of ass to me yeah yeah um with this movie he's still got his shirt off all the time but when it's mad max gimp shirt off totally different vibe. Like you don't want to go near that guy. You don't want to smell his armpit sweat, you know? And they don't like shave off the edges as far as like his evilness. Yeah, he's

viciousness. Yeah. Yeah, that's what you want. Yeah. I don't know he might be my favorite like Mad Max villain, to be honest. Yeah, I love the, the little drops of his past that kind of indicate why he is the way he is why he's so bat shit and brutal and horrible and it's like cape thing being stained with the paint and stuff yeah super cool just really chariot fuck yeah yeah yeah there's a great ideas in that movie that was my so impressed number eight okay i mean should have been number one so uh should i go like okay and go like this so um where are we at let me know if you want to break as well I do um this let's get through the movies and so uh number 10 for

seeing as I just did furiosa I guess I'll start with my number 10 worst that I saw yeah Kung Fu Panda 4 oh sheesh that hurts right it hurt to watch really that bad it's not good it's not all right it's not all right it's not all right it's not okay to do this to kung fu panda baby i'm because i was let down by three but it's like yeah three it's just forgettable you know it's not really like insulting it's like yeah you kind of blew it like it's nowhere near i think two especially but like yeah i i think coming off of two three is bad yeah like how do you go from that to that if three is bad then four is like insulting it's like the member berry thing where all the marketing is about like oh we're bringing back uh uh

the tiger not the tiger that I don't want to say his name because I always say the character from Mass Victoria Hey Kai Lang It's Tai Lung I think

Tai Lung The new villains Like this chameleon who like Sucks Aquafina is in it It looks like shit Really Whereas like one and two especially

We're like they were pushing something with that Yeah three's quite impressive as well animation yeah yeah it's got some like good fight scenes and stuff like some action i don't remember a single like fun action set piece and it following um that push push in boots movie oh shit yeah that was like surprisingly excellent and even like i didn't love it though the wild robot that came out recently which had like a was that dream likes dream likes yeah had a really good like art style and art direction like they just dropped the ball and it made lots of money anyway so it doesn't even matter wow okay i agree with that then yeah

number 10 yeah fuck that film um that's lame as fuck my number 10 favorite the apprentice seen it twice now wow um people are probably sick of like

the subject matter but as far as like two incredibly strong lead performances surprised by bucky seeing that range he brings from there and this gradual transformation of this kind of shy a trump in the 80s into what he becomes later on

that was really impressed by that film um i love jeremy strong ever since uh succession and the like dynamic he has with him is uh disturbing to say the least um okay and obviously they're based on real people and jeremy strong is playing an infamous uh new york lawyer called roy cone um and i watched a bunch of like interviews with him of like real life interviews and we're like wow he nailed this what a great performance. I'd like to see a nod of the Oscars, but not many people have really seen or talked about it, so

it was really well directed. It was quite a modest budget for how big the scale is of like 80s, New York and like plucking in these old stock footage of New York from the 80s and whatnot, but it's just a cool style, frenetic, moves quick, got loads of good characters, would really recommend.

Ninth worst. Bit of a controversial one. three do you know anything about this guy art the clown and these is this the horror films they're just like disgusting yeah the whole they have incredible gore like the best gore you've ever seen but just in a framing I find so dull so boring and repetitive they just doesn't work for me like it maybe the most bored no not the most bored that's my number one one of the most boring cinema experiences of the year for me oh you saw it the center

yeah yeah I did a so I don't want more detail on that but god damn did not like that but I think the clown is in Call of Duty oh cool yeah yeah yeah I'll buy that for 20 pounds or whatever new horror icon yeah I'll buy Call of Duty for 70 pounds and then the clown pack for another 30

yeah just really not for I'm not the kind of horror I'm looking for yeah sounds boring number nine good anora do you know anything about this film watched it again yesterday actually it's about a hooker well dancer

works in a strip club woman in New York who gets into a relationship with the son of a Russian oligarch they get married in Vegas and you can imagine the parents of the son are not pleased about this and the kind of drama that unfolds from that really funny

surprisingly like delicate at points these there are these Armenian characters in it that are hilarious they're so good um yeah maybe

maybe like the one of those kind of unexpected comedies where it's also like a drama as well people are laughing and these are like cool characters um

really well directed Sean Baker thought it's fantastic it's probably going to win a few awards I would expect um It's, you know, they're like, stereotype way, uh, like strippers or, you know, sex workers are depicted in like Hollywood. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The rich man comes and picks her up off the street and damn they have the perfect romance. It's kind of like what would really happen. Right. That's a cool angle. Yeah, yeah. So a big shout out to Anora. Really love that. Number eight for bad.

Venom the Last Dance. Watch this last week. You mean for good? Nearly got me there When saying that It is the best of the three Venoms in my opinion Really? Better than Venom 1

Nah Yes I never even saw Venom 2 You could skip straight to 3 Okay But I don't know Maybe Venom 1 was the movie

That made me stop going to the cinema Because I'm pretty sure I saw it at the cinema Yeah, I remember seeing it with you Yeah Um, there was a, I mean, just describe one gag from Venom 3, and I think you'll get the whole, like, vibe. Okay. There's a shot where it's like a close-up on half Venom, half Tom Hardy's face, and they're both trying to say, we are Venom, but they're saying it, like, out of sync, and it feels like a 15-minute long scene where they're both, like, going, oh, we are, but, oh, like, trying to time it. Right, yeah.

And they're just, like, going like, that. um and then like tom hardy goes like we really got to practice that a little bit more that's like that movie in a nutshell um at the end that sounds kind of funny i kind of want to see this it's hyper schlock yeah like within seconds it's schlock like in a way that the other two aren't um there's like a scene where the venom goo goes onto like a fish and then the fish jumps onto like a frog and then the venom frog

there's like a venom horse they're all getting venomized like a chain in the end credits like venom goes on to like a cockroach which I thought was like an awesome visual metaphor for the series of movies just a piece of shit

is it like fun to watch though in a shit I mean it flew by yeah but just a completely valueless experience yeah but sometimes I personally look for that sometimes Yeah, that's why I watched it, I guess, like Yeah, outside of like

Reviewing it on Solonikos, but Yeah, just a piece of shit and it I guess the reason it's angering me on this list Is that it made a heap of money Of course, yeah Craven Hunter's funny because it's like Badly Made and no one has seen it as a bomb The same reason like Morbius is funny, you know?

So yeah, fuck that film Why do they keep trying? Yeah, I don't know I don't, okay, no. Number seven, good. Civil War. Alex Garland, I've been a long time fan of. I think he's an interesting, I think he's British filmmaker. Again, it's kind of cashing in on this political year we've been talking about, like, the idea of what potentially in some hypothetical world could happen in America and how extreme that could get.

More of an angle on, like, war photography, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. war photographers Kirsten Dunst is the lead in it she was really good uh it's kind of got the DNA of like 28 days later like as far as the structure's concerned of them having like an a to b type mission yeah yeah it's like these vignettes of these different ideas each exploring like the division in america and like the possible horrific angles it could go uh great sound design some really memorable scenes Jesse Plamonds comes in for a short 15 minutes scene that kind of steals the show

I don't know if he's ever been in anything bad really or even if he was in something middling he always like was great in it yeah yeah yeah yeah he was yeah because he was in that game night movie he's really funny in that film yeah he's genuine like he's guys got range if he's in a film you can reliably like get something out of it Yeah, and he's married to Kirsten Dunst, I think. Yeah, I believe you're right. Yeah, like they are in Farge.

Yeah, that's probably where they met, huh? Yeah, I really want to see that movie. That is one that I did want to, because it, like you said, that director is reliably good. Yeah, he always makes something like interesting. Even if you don't like love it, he makes like men was his previous one, which I don't think you saw. I did see it. Yeah. Did you like that?

Did you like that? I saw it late last year. Yeah, I thought that. I thought it was really good. really really good and uh you make stuff i want to see yeah after the the ending scene of men i'm not gonna forget that yeah you it's like it traumatizes you you know it i also thought yeah he shows you stuff that you don't even i genuinely find especially the beginning of that movie really scary the idea of like because i don't know we've we often go for like hikes like

in the woods and stuff and the idea of like being tailed or followed by someone and then the framing of like this town where everyone's got the same face and this didn't come out this year but like just on Alex Garland um and this like fertility god thing and yeah all that stuff's really creepy yeah i i remember seeing you'll see them in garden centers and stuff yeah i remember seeing one as a kid is it pagan um pagan yeah it's like ancient yeah i remember seeing that face as a kid thinking like that that that is a horror film like why isn't there a horror film where that's a thing and yeah that's basically what this film is but you don't realize until right a lot of people reduce it down to men bad um but that's like a

really shallow interpretation in my opinion yeah with the film yeah yeah so yeah shout out to civil war yeah we should watch that together on the projector I own it I bought it on iTunes so yeah I'd be done so that's what's that seven good seven bad Madame Webb. Yeah, boy. This year, one of the first things I remember from the year, see? Funny film, like a lot more funny than I almost, I almost put Madame Webb on my list

just because, like, all the conversation around it is, like, so funny. Oh, yeah, all the clips from it, all the, it's crazy. It was even made, and, like, what were they thinking? like I can kind of see the thought process with a character like Craven at least like Craven's last hunt is like a big famous Spider-Man story where it's like who knows Madam Webb who yeah and then having a real main character do a trailer came on for it in the cinema

I can't remember who I was with but they said um is this just shit Spider-Man And I was like, yeah Yeah Like if you If you don't know Like or you don't access You know

Film talk and stuff How the fuck is an average person Gonna know what Madam Webb is You're just gonna assume it's a Spider-Man rip off Yeah Or like I think what they're going for Is like they're kind of scam movies

Where they look like They're part of the MCU or something So someone who's just like vaguely on the surface right yeah a poster might think oh that's the new one in that thing yeah i've i've never thought of it quite like that yeah especially with like morbius's uh marketing and whatnot in the trailers like it had teasers for like michael keaton and stuff like he was obviously in the mccu as uh that's right and yeah also and he appears in the end credits or something

and the fact that venom was in spider-man now so that yeah oh yeah in the last dance the opening scene is um he's talking about like i'm sick of multiverses rubeb yeah oh there's a purple man with these stones like all this bullshit um so oh my god fuck off already had that poor man um so yeah madame webb is at least funnier i'd recommend like maybe watching it with some friends and some drinks and making fun of it it's one of those kind of movies yeah but venom isn't not on the same level but you probably could still do that with it

okay so number six the substance I want to see this great body horror um energetic crazy film kind of like a

exaggerated like saturated ugliness to it um yeah it's all when when you describe the film to me i just imagined the do you remember like the plastic surgery scene from brazil yeah yeah that's what popped into my head yeah like that's the focus of the whole film yeah yeah that is a concept i love body horror and like cronenberg type stuff um the last like 20 minutes is one of the best conclusions probably of the year without spoiling anything you should just definitely check it out if you're a fan of like horror and I don't know it's got

like a good thematic rapping of like what it's what it's talking about like body image and taking this like past their prime like star from the 80s and her wanting to embrace this crazy scientific technology thing that has all this weird branding and yeah it's gross it's weird it's funny um yeah full of energy definitely recommend the substance um number six bad miller's girl when i watched earlier in the year and speaking of fargo what and uh the hobbit guy and blanking on his name martin martin freeman plays like he's like a teacher it's like an english teacher that kind of has this romance with a student played by uh uh you know Wednesday from that Netflix show

oh yeah Jenna Ortega uh uh uh it was so hilariously written um and it was extra embarrassing because it was supposed to be like these english people who are like good at English like and there's this romance like through her writing yeah um and it was just incredibly embarrassing i can't remember it in much more detail because it was nearly a year ago that I saw it but that was definitely a standout like oh this is really embarrassing and boring um yeah miller's got sucked never heard of it yeah no one's seen it so number five good a recent film we just came out in the UK but I saw it at BFI a few months ago queer uh not heard of this either Daniel Craig oh uh lead film based on uh will

William S. Borrow's book, who's known for his kind of abstract surrealist style of writing. And Luca Guadayno, director of Challenges, director of Call Me By Your Name, Susperia, a bunch of great movies I love. Yeah, tackled this one. It's like a really unpredictable. film, a soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atkus Ross which is fantastic. Did they do challenges as well? Yeah, challenges will be coming up again shortly.

Two of my favorite films this year were by Luca and two of my favorite soundtracks were also yeah, which I thought was really good. So we made two films in a year? I don't know like sometimes things are

made a while ago and then they're locked in licensing and I figure out who's going to buy it, who's going to distribute it and all this. I don't know when they were shot or whatever, but either which way he is on fire, Luca. And he's got, speaking of range, like, just queer and challenges against each other. Queer is this, like, kind of quiet, introspective, like, character study of this guy, this, like, aching main character who has these, like, substance abuse issues. and it's like trying to find connections for people and turns into this like adventure um yeah i absolutely love that subtle um number five worst joker fully ado oh so i was intrigued because there are some people

out there that are like well this is master beast he did it of course deconstructed the whole idea of 2019 joker and he said f you to the audience do you think it is partly intentional um if it is then I don't respect it but in the sense that he saw how it was interpreted if that was true then why

why not just make a good movie though about that instead of like sandbagging it basically yeah um because he made hangover well yeah like he couldn't yeah yeah yeah he didn't even go for the like oh if we just kind of model this on films from the 70s and 80s

that are excellent and use that as the backbone but then it kind of has to be at least a little bit good right doesn't even do that like 2019 Joker I mean taxi driver yeah a taxi driver yeah a comedy but yeah it was dull uninteresting

the like repetitive or the musical angle just doesn't work all these things they're throwing out just doesn't work it was a really good cast

like Brendan Gleason is in it Mad I Moody so why you waste him and like I guess minor spoilers but they do stuff like have they set up like they subtly set up two face and stuff like that

and it's like but I thought this is a statement that's like anti this kind of stuff I thought it's like part of what you're saying with the movie it's like yeah screw the like big machine system of these superheroes

and it's like yeah we're making real films but no we're we need to make sure there's there's two face in case we make Joker 3 I don't like it's what are you do very unlikable and extremely dull and uninteresting

um yeah a waste of Lady Gaga too i thought that was kind of a cool like i want to see harley quinn like done right because she's so like annoying in every instance so even though she's i thought james yeah that one is the best one i've seen in that's that version of suicide squad but it's still a bit much i mean but i don't know if that's just the character inherently or whatnot but yeah she thought that casting was interesting though like lady gaga like what she'd bring yeah

I've never seen Lady Gaga in a movie, but what the fuck does she know about cameras? Number four, just briefly mentioned it, Challenges. Complete inverse of queer, it's like a... Tennis. Yeah, hyper-energetic tennis movie. Like a Love Triangle type situation. Incredible, especially conclusion. The way it's, the way it's structured.

and it's like these flashbacks that like all loop into each other and you're like learning new information about these three characters each time um beautifully shot the trent resner atkas ross score um obviously with the uh but unlike the sensitive kind of quiet thing it's going for in queer it's like it's like edm it's like goes hard um and i'll be bringing up that music again when we get to the music section later uh yeah that was that was a great film um for bad um this might be a bit unfair but i put this film the ballad of suzanne sezair which i saw at b f i sprinkled in a bunch of these like hour long obscure documentaries i'm trying to even remember what this one was about uh it was like

a woman reading poems in like the jungle for like an hour wait that's that's the film yeah that probably sounds reductive um and there's like a type of person that probably love that and maybe if you're in the right headspace you might love that but god damn it that's not why i'm watching films it feels like something that i'd see in the tape modern i'd sit there for five minutes and be like okay and then move on yeah yeah yeah uh number three good look back an anime an anime movie

it's like an hour long yeah it's about two artists they're like manga artists they each have like different perspectives on art and like what they want one kind of

is interested in commercial success one is more interested in just like doing it for themselves um that okay and it's It's heartbreaking. It's...

The animation is incredible. It's kind of loose. Frame heavy. It's really short. That's on Amazon Prime. I'd recommend that. Yeah. And I guess, you know,

I'm picky with my animaes. Like so many of the tropes I don't enjoy. You're an anime connoisseur. I might say. But yeah, I really, I really rated that. Number three bad. Rebel Moon Part 2.

What? What? God, it was somehow worse than part one, and part one was embarrassing. Um, Zach Snyder's take on Star Wars. Yeah, I remember. Or like a Kurosawa movie. Um, I joked in the Sardonicast review that it was like, Bugs Life.

And Bugs Life is based on like a Kurosawa. Purisawa. Is it? Film. Yeah, yeah. People got angry at me for that. What don't people get angry at you for? Not the film, Trap.

Don't say it. Don't think it's... But yeah, it's... God, it's cringy. It's so cringy. That Zach Slider's wheelhouse. But not, like, funny, cringy. where like I watched the extended version of BBS

You see Jesse Eisenberg No BBS I had an extended one Really? Yeah yeah Fucking hell Yeah that shit's cringy as fuck Yeah Jesse Eisenberg recently came out And he was like

Yeah I'm pretty sure that like hurt my career Like big time Being Yeah In that film That film or those films Is he Was he?

in justice? No, he was dead. I think he has a cameo. Does he? In the Snyder cut. Yeah, I can't remember. But yeah, Rebel Moon, absolute garbage. Stop giving him money.

You know. Is he still making mega bunder, though? I don't even know how that's measured anymore. I guess people like it on Netflix. Like, it's measured in blues that we can't see. I watched a great video. I can't remember who by, but

about how and I think it's Netflix in particular but they want that view time they want to make those movies that you don't they don't want their audience to focus on the movies because they're designed for you to be doing something else while the movies aren't

and that's why they're so gratuitously long and badly paced as well yeah and just fucking boring if you focus on them then they suck but like if you have it the background noise well anything can be your background noise yeah they're made to be like background noise yeah and tictox yeah or dr maria that like i watch her box yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you're like playing minecraft on your iPad while uh

yeah yeah like it has to be simple and dumb enough yeah and it repetitive so that they're constantly saying the same thing over and over yeah yeah in terms of that zach sninder is kind of perfect um number two good dune part two as far as like everyone's talking about how bad Hollywood is all the time this is one that's like oh nice now I can't remember if I've already asked this question but it's got to be asked how touchy are the characters in this one I don't remember that at all in part two did you notice it in the first one once you pointed out to me and I rewatched part one somewhat but uh mostly in like

My whole thing with part one was, though, like, I really like this atmosphere and this world you've set up, but it's half a story. So it's kind of how this comes together in the second part and got downed as you nail it. Like, from moment one, it's like, oh, hell yeah, this is cool. This is very cool and unconventional as far as, like, this isn't no Star Wars hero's journey. This is, like, kind of sick and not like cool sick, just like, ooh. Like gross. Yeah, and like this weird, like, genetic manipulation angle and this weird, Timothy Shamillay main character. Salameh, right, not Shamillet.

What did I say that? Shalame. Shalame. Shalame. Shamm. Um, incredible visuals, incredible music. Uh, like, the word epic has been abused, but it's like the way it wraps up and the scale of it. It's like, this is completely earned, and this is, like, jaw-droppingly, like, cool in a way that I haven't really experienced with, like, a big epic like that, probably since Lord of the Rings.

It feels like a sci-fi Lord of the Rings. I think it's crazy that these movies did well. I'm so happy they did, especially. It was scary after Blade Runner 2049, like, not doing well commercially. But with how good it is. Is it as good as Blade Runner 2049? Is it better? I was sat next to someone on the train reading Dune the other day.

There you go, yeah. You're going to get people into the books and everything. So we might have like a, I mean, it's never going to be Lord of the Rings, but like a trilogy, like that's... Is there going to be another one? Yeah, he's doing one more. Oh. Because there's so many books and it gets weirder and weirder with each one.

So I think he's cutting it off there because it's like, I don't even know how you're going to approach some of the concepts that the Dune stuff gets into. is the weird stuff meant to be good in the books it depends you ask type thing okay um and it gets weirder and weirder as it goes along and then like the author died and his son started like writing it and they're taking ideas and that's even more controversial um so i'll be i'll be curious what they do after that third movie if they want to hand it to a different director to attempt it but um i thought that was great in part two i'd recommend checking out especially because you've already seen part one like i've seen all the build-up and none of the

pay-off yeah exactly yeah it's just like that's just like hours of payoff um the thing is a lot a lot of the way dune one structured itself i was like huh for like the whole thing um yeah you you have to have subtitles you have to yeah um because i've only seen it in the cinema once and you can't like hear half of the yeah that's what i mean about subtype and they're saying like benny cheserat and like all these weird like words and you're like what are you saying yeah what like without having book knowledge also when the you're like so focused on the ridiculously impressive visuals like as as a slideshow of just awesome like unreal engine five like that that shit was cool when when like the sound design and when the rockets the the big guns are shooting

down and it hits like the ship with the shields and it like goes incredible ship with them and the explosions like running in the foreground it's like yeah yeah it's like fuck me this shit looks incredible uh-huh i don't know what like why any of it's happening i don't know who anyone is but fuck this shit's cool and the ornithopters flying around and folding the wings back oh that's cool yeah they're awesome it's very cool dragonfly things but it's a big investment hence me never seeing it i know i would have enjoyed it i know for a fact but it's like this is a three-hour film and I've got to like drive to the same blah blah blah uh number number two bad borderlands oh sheesh yeah I I hate the borderlands games for their writing

and think they suck for that and surprise surprise a film version of it is somehow worse wow they imagine imagine making borderlands characters worse like more annoying then in the games i mean i wouldn't believe it until you tell me kevin hart's in the film then i'm like oh okay that's doable and he was like one of the funnier parts because he clearly doesn't know what a borderlands is right yeah doesn't give a shit either he's like he think i'm the army guy with the gun i'm like cool guy like oh i mean it's playing j z oh no no um um yeah just a piece of shit fuck that film

yeah fuck borderlands um right and it's clap trap and it's jack black's clap trap do you think that's that only reason they got him

your name kind of like rhyme oh it's so bad yeah the Dutch was in it that was the high point oh is he good oh yeah he's um

he's Marcus he is yeah hell yeah he was also on desperate houseways in one episode hell yeah he's also in Ant-Man.

He is an Ant-Man. Is it only a more things? Amman 2 or? It's Ant-Man 2, yeah? Yeah. That feel fucking sucks dick. I weirdly watch Ant-Man 1 like every year.

Really? Yeah. I don't know what... I can't. Yeah, and I'm watching it like grit in my teeth the whole time. It's like, oh, there's a, there's a fragment or a hint of like a cool, funny concept. Yeah.

Tons the tank engine. To be fair, the whole, like, ending sequence is kind of fun yeah I'll be honest I kind of enjoy that and I like the actor he's in House of Cards the villain guy yeah the Yellow Jacket character yeah who's in Ant Man 3 right he's like the head oh he's Modoc yeah yeah spoiler I like that I like that actor so yeah I don't know why I I repeatedly watch it and get angry at it and the the process is I'm like this film is I'm irredeemable I fucking hate this this shit sucks and then by the end i'm like that was fine yeah that

director is um he sucks god he's bland yeah jesus christ the fact he directed yes man is never ending me funny to me um that's a fire fucking film that's my 2024 film so my number one greatest a little unknown gem on my letterbox like rome rounder for the year. Double Tucker. Double Tucker, bro. Get your phone out and go on IMDB and search double tucker. Can I do it on letterboxed?

Because I don't have the IMDB app. Oh yeah, you can do it on letterboxed. It's probably got like three ratings. Double tucker. Yeah, just search double tucker and look at the poster. I want to see your reaction or hear your reaction or whatever. Oh Hold on

2024 Oh Yeah I saw I saw you reviewed this Or said you'd watched it Or some Yeah

Yeah your star rating And I was like I might have to check this one out Is it a genuine like Like this is fire? I'm being pedantic This isn't my real number one I'm sorry

But in my heart That's disappointing Because it looks like it could be Actually kind of fire It is fire Um the first time I watched it I didn't have subtitles So I was just guessing what was happening

Which made it its own Like joyous lovable experience In and of itself Just like what are these like minions Flying around while it's People are like dying And it's like taking itself weirdly seriously And it's like what the fuck?

Oh really There's this whole like video game sequence So the main character gets turned into this like CG manner and they're like running through these trains and they're all these Marvel references where the double tuckers are like turning into like the Hulk and shit and like Thanos it's like what the fuck is going on and then I watched it with subtitles and was like this was better without context yeah but yeah shout out to double tucker right okay

did you watch the whole thing yeah you double fucker ooh I was so hyped I was so hope to watch this movie and you've ruined it nah no no it's more like I'm not watching it by myself my real number one is memoir of a snow

that's another one I saw that you'd yeah I've seen it twice now cementing it as probably my favourite that I've seen so far over the year an Australian film main character voiced by

one of the characters from Succession, who's an Aussie, getting to do her Aussie voice. That's two Aussie films, or at least Aussie directors in my top town. With Furiosa. Yeah. Which is cool. Get that Aussie representation out there. Let's go, Australia.

Um, oh, it is heartbreaking now. Is it animated? Yeah, stop motion. Oh, cool. But it's not aimed at kids at all. It's really fucking dark. um it's 90 minutes long it flies by it's heartbreaking it's about twins the whole snail aesthetic is amazing it's got this gloomy color palette all these characters are like really ugly looking

oh yeah yeah that's made for me all around baby oh i don't think it's got really a general wide release until like february in the uk or something so oh yeah um when you can see memoir of a snail okay i just don't want to spoil anything it's all about like it's funny and dark tragic comedy type thing um if a tear doesn't go into your eye you're inhuman go into your eye i guess out of your eye is that is that how you cry you like drop walking it goes out of one ear into the other out of one ear out of one eye it like I haven't even, like, I've had one glass of this tiny glass. Lightway.

Yeah, Jesus. You're like a snail. Watch memoir of a snail. Incredible stuff. It even avoids the like, what was it, flushed away that uses the snails as like minions. Oh yeah. Fuck. I hate that film.

Fuck that film. I love albumin, but fuck that film. And my number one worst, surprise, surprise is Megalopolis. Oh. shit the most boring piece of shit of the year um that's gonna get you in trouble bad i don't care lick my megalopolis um suck on my megalopolis it's just an embarrassing piece of shit uh but it's cool i'll never watch it don't i'm gonna watch it now because you said that nothing in your life will be improved your experience what if i was one of those guys that

watches it and I'm like oh shit I get it this rocks I would actually love that really yeah then we could do a five-hour long argument do you think there's any way that if that were to happen that I could convince you to re-watch it and enjoy it only if you watched it with me and we're pausing it every time something and explaining it's happening and you explained it to me and why what if I did the bit when Adam driver talks to a guy in the cinema I was the would that do it um maybe okay goodbye to the club oh what a bad film ugly confusing thematically all over the place beautiful beautiful deep smile makes makes smiles yeah my my worst theater experience for the year yeah by far i like

I might have left, if not doing a Sondon cast on it. Wow. I genuinely, I, yeah. I nearly did even despite that. I think, I think that's a valid, like, a valid review. Like, it's unwatchable. Like, if, if, like, that says something. If you're, you talk about movies, like, for a living.

And it's so bad that you're willing to just risk. Yeah, yeah. Like not being able to talk. I think if that's the thesis of your review. Yeah. Like a starting point, like, I couldn't even finish this. It was that unbearable. And you can talk about what you did see and why you made the decision.

Yeah. Because it's like when people talk about, um, like, it's more applicable to video games, I guess. Because they be long as far. Much more of a time investment. Yeah, but people are like, you didn't even roll credit. So how can you, it's like, if it's wasting my fucking time. then yeah i'm gonna get up and leave awful piece of shit to film um and i guess just made the fact it came from the director of godfather one to an apocalypse now wow yeah it's just

like man like a goliath type uh-huh falling thing um yeah did it make you want to commit war crimes shahlerbooth um yeah fuck that guy 2024 shout out worst guy no there's worse yeah there's worse but he's down there top five worst

bottom five worst no top five how does that work if you're in the top five worst guys then you are one of the worst guys you're one of the five worst guys yeah yeah he can be number five worst guy Elon Musk is in there We'll stop there Before it gets too

Controversial Now I'll just quickly run through some kind of honorable mentions Okay Spanish horror film called The Whaling Really unique structure was actually scary Managed to maintain it scares I don't know where you can watch it

I really want to watch it again But again I saw it at BFI so I hope it's picked up and released wider at some point it's yes in Spanish obviously I think it's like half Spanish half Argentinian really cool structure was like unique to me yeah that flew by I love that speaking of Jesse Eisenberg earlier his second directorial well his second film he's directed called a real pain was excellent what was his first film one I didn't see because I heard it was middling Kieran Culkin like carries it's his film it's mostly set in

Poland it's it's funny it's charming it's got good moments of drama yeah I really dug that Jesse Plyman speaking of him kinds of kindness or kind of kindness kind of kindness the poor things director the Lanthamos right yep lobster director weirdo it's not my favorite of his it was decent it has some segments I preferred more than others but uh that was really solid and creepy and weird and obtuse and unlike poor things that like everyone saw and was interested in um there's no one really saw this one who's kind of like this is for me kind of feeling to that movie yeah um i feel that with lobster the lobster i love that film uh i'm just

gonna skip over some of these inner violent nature is another horror movie i want to shout out where i didn't even like it really i only gave it like a two and a half stars on letterbox but the the gimmick of it was it's like a michael myers horror film but from the perspective of the killer okay yeah that's all the movie is like following him and the or it or whatever you want to call it the monster um and some of the kills are nolly um like really good like practical effects and like creative and it's got this like art house style which is like really weird um doesn't fully work it's like really boring until you get to these like kills right that can work to a horror movie's advantage kind of when it's just getting like i might go off this

and then something crazy happened. It was more by the tenth shot of like perspective of behind the killer walking through like the beautiful Canadian woodlands with like in complete silence except for the footsteps in the like grass or whatever, the crunching of the leaves. By the tenth time you've seen that and heard that. So my God, can we just like, right, yeah. Can we see something else? Can we move this song a little bit?

bit but I'd still recommend like watching it was kind of interesting and my last shout out um for films from this year anyways horizon an American saga Kevin Kossner's weird like attempt at this epic Western trilogy maybe it's four films just an idea so big and ridiculous it doesn't work but I had to respect kind of like the the hustle and attempt at it I'll be honest I I find Kevin Costner just very uncool Yeah, same

Like he's kind of lame Like he's not the main character though He's just like there's all these different characters And it's supposed to be The idea I think that he was going for It was like supposed to be covering A huge segment of the old West Like in different ways

And like all these different Yeah, yeah The sets were cool Like the shooting on location was really sweet there are some cool scenes it's just because like it's really unfocused there's loads of bad acting loads of bad characters there's some cool stuff in it and it felt like at the end of it I'd be like oh this is just getting interested now like right and it's over and it's like three hours long it's like oh bloated and yeah a bit of a miss um I need to shout out

didn't come out this year but Mars Express and the show Last Man uh for French stuff. No one's seen and more people need to see. I've been jerking off Mars Express for like months and months. Awesome sci-fi, like detective genre film. Another one I've got to watch. That was wonderful. If that came out this year, probably be my favorite. I've seen that three times. Yeah, at least in like top five. Nice. And French. French. anime though geese and the final one i'll shout out i finally saw the rocky horror picture show oh okay um one of those like osmosis movies where like you kind of know it and you definitely know a bunch of the music from it let's do the time warp again yeah yeah i mean if you haven't seen it like

you know a bunch of it um tim curry like just owns it weirdly i think it came out in the 70s weirdly progressive as far as like a lot of the stuff it's playing with and it's obviously a cult film like they still do shows of it to this day and everyone dresses up and it's like a whole whole thing I had a great time watching that I want to shout out um sorry I'll let you finish first we're just like it's nice when you go when you watch like a classic which where you already feel like this pressure to be like yeah everyone says this is awesome and then like oh no this is this is yeah they were right yeah yeah yeah yeah i want to shout out um like because you said theater earlier referring to the cinema but i i went to like a theater

in london you actually saw the the high art yeah yeah i've kind of you know graded from the yeah yeah i pulled myself up from my bootstraps and i um no i saw hades town which any like a drama interested person would know of guess things about like Greek gods yeah it's just a um like one of the Greek myths told in musical form but it's all like sounds like a mile what's the

I mean it kind of gave me Hercules vibes like the movie but um it what's the place in like Saint-Sandani but the real one Florida No that's not Florida I made that same mistake in our review I think

oh that's really gonna bug me I'll Google it but it's that sort of like jazzy music and the songs are so good I think I don't know how

it works new orleans yes so it's it's very new orleans inspired music um but they're in like olympus yeah well they're on they're on a stage um but well no they they go down to like the underworld and stuff right it's it's it's a Greek myth Hades plays a big part in it um you would probably recognize some of the characters from the game game Hades yeah well that would be coming up when we get to the game segment probably in the next episode yeah yeah um because like Orpheus um um I'm I'm terrible with remembering like Greek names and stuff um but yeah really Sisyphus in there no Sisyphus in there no he's my favorite he's yeah he rocks

he's fucking go he literally rocks yeah pun intended yeah i i would highly recommend going to see that because i i don't want to spoil anything but it it kind of rocked my world yeah yeah and it from a character thing from a story thing a plot that i i mean like the the the greek myths they were telling fucking belters they did they did it they yeah they nailed they nailed cinema like way before that shit existed, with just the stories that, like, it's, yeah, I couldn't recommend it enough. They're so, like, true to humanity's core. Yeah. I mean, I think Shakespeare gets too much credit, because, like, he was just ripping them up. Yeah. He didn't, he didn't come out

with that shit. Throwing shade at Shakespeare. Yeah, fuck that go. Um, yeah. Yeah. Now, myths are, they're the OG, you know? Yeah. They are the OGs. They're the original stories. They're like, they were what's Marvel is now. Yeah.

Anything else say about Hadesown? I don't know if the cast is the same, like, if you go and see it in London. I don't know if you'd see the same people in it as I did, but the guy who played the main character or the male lead had the most fucking beautiful voice I've ever heard in my life

really like he he was incredible and like he played the guitar um also the the stage um staging not the stage it like the the mechanisms on the stage oh he got like elaborate yeah i was like well because i we saw i think we should both also shout out Cirque de Soleil in Vegas that was this year that like fucking mind blowing and I'd never seen anything like that I don't even know where you could even see anything else like that yeah I don't think you could see any anything else like that in the world probably the most incredible thing I've ever seen on stage yeah yeah but saying that the implementation of like moving bits on a stage yeah in a more conventional stage show I was like oh shit you know

this is really yeah I'm playing with verticality the only disappointing bit is that I was sat like at the top back right a bit obscured

so yeah I couldn't see the stage properly I'd love to see it closer but yeah highly recommend yeah that's a cool shout out hell yeah and shout out to great Western Railway for making me late to everything

I know for making me poor and late yeah yeah when I was coming back from London when I saw you last weekend right on the journey back I was sat in the you know the the thing you slide to put your bicycle in

it was so packed I opened that and I sat on the floor smart shit yeah yeah because it was empty there was no bike in there luckily that's kind of a nice little encapsulation of a yeah and like two guys nearly started a fight on the train yeah there's this like really drunk woman with her boyfriend who were kind of like blocking the entrance and when we got to redding people were trying to get on and this like blokey bloke just like tried to pick a fight with the guy who was with the drunk girl and he was like dragged away by his wife and he was like if my

wife wasn't here you're lucky she was here and all this and it was like it was like midnight by that point And I was just like, oh my God, oh my God, am I going to have to like, what's happened? That's the thing we're getting the last train out. Yeah, yeah, you're going to get that kind of rabble. Yeah. Riff-Raff. Yeah, the fucking riff-rath. Did you get your knuckle dusters out?

And you're like, who's fucking asking for it then? I was like, well, I got to channel my Punisher energy yesterday. Yeah. I got a Spider-Man 2 train fight seeing my way out of here. More like a Spider-Man 3, like angry venom. Oh, yeah. You know. Bah, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da.

Ooh, do do do do Right So that's the movies Um That's probably a good place to Yeah Yeah To put a pin in it

And put a little What's like a cliffhanger We can put on I'm gonna kill you I guess I guess this can be the equivalent Of the jaffer hours Is that I'll put the

The second half Like up on Patreon before Okay, yeah Yeah, it goes life Um That's thinking with your brain. Also remember you have to end it halfway through a sentence.

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