JAR Media Posdact - 2025 (prt 1)

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 07:09 Housekeeping 09:34 Was 2025 a good year? 12:42 JAR 2025 15:45 Notable Moments of 2025 17:43 2025 YouTube 34:14 Meme Chat 2025 45:41 Movies 2025 #BroCastS6E8

Yeah. How's it? How's it? How did you? The bogus, where we're talking, these interesting, ton.

Crosson. On see. In si, we don't get some tongue. How did that one slide down your ear gullet?

I hate that. What's wrong? Slide down. your igoulet I sound like that fucking igoulet my friend that fucking guy I'm Luke Besson

your favorite director of Lucy I'm how you say the devil I am I love the French the France I hate the French

I've never been you've never been to France I've never even stepped foot in France keep it that way shit oh that's rich coming from where we're from brother swindon new york bonjo princess amadella come this way to see jaja bink

did you hear sebulba he's back uh... I lost on my money on bunta eve me and the boys are going tattooing eh Hey, Globjito! That was close to being Wotto. Yeah. Yeah.

I feel like the longer I try and do a terrible French accent. It always becomes Wato. Well, it just veers towards being offensive. That's good. We need that. It's fine to be offensive nowadays. If we haven't learned anything in 2025, it's that. That's the lesson of two,

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 2, 5 What's a 0 in French? Good question, they'd never taught me that. No. A, B, C, D, O, F, G, H, J, G, L, M. And two, three, can't find these... Dessuit?

This nuff? Uh, nuff. I had this. Should we watch some French SpongeBob? Yeah. I'm a page SpongeBob. My eyes. He would do it more like in his nose.

Kind of that sort of thing. Oh, Billy, you're getting a bit too warm. What do you think, um... What do you think Wotto would say to Lillani on Christmas Eve? Little Annie? What do you want in your stocking, Lillianney? I want to visit every... I want to visit every star in the galaxy.

You want a new pod race, sir, to make me some money? I want freedom, sir. I'm tired, Wato, please. It's Globbschido time this... 2025. What glup would Paisby? She, Paisley has the vibe of, you know, on the Jedi Council, there's that one, like, with a really long neck, like. He looks like a... He's like a circular head with a really long neck.

Yeah. He looks like, um, the toad from Master of Disguise. I'm just a turtle. The fuck you talking about. Search Master of Disguise turtle. What is Master of Disguise? It's a fucking goaded... film. The Master of Disguise. Yeah. Turtle. Yeah. Turtle club. Oh, this. Yeah.

Interesting turtle. Isn't there like a video of that guy reacting to the the news of 9-11 while he's in that outfit? Is there actually? Yeah. No, I'm not making this up. Yeah. Was it Dana or Dana Carver? They hit the second tower? confirms viral story about observing moment of silence for 9-11 while dressed as Turtle Man wow that makes the whole movie fucking work for that any day that's that's wild um good afternoon morning evening or night ladies and gentlemen welcome to brocraw bocrast you are looking joe cast uh season six episode eight um i'm alex joined by jim hello and uh this episode slash episodes is a little bit different

than what we normally do we kind of do a year round up rounding off catch up thinking of thinking of and future predictions too yeah that's a good idea we chuck some future predictions in yeah um so the way we're going to do this right um do a brief little housekeeping with some of the stuff of the Jile Media group chat, which is a perk of the Jile Media Patreon, which, before we get too deep, I'll shout out here makes the audio version of the show possible. You get the raw unfiltered MP3

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Yeah. You'd say, I guess... Yeah. podcast host of choice. That's not all there. You get your patron names right out in the first or second week of each month. A little humiliation ritual.

That's not all. After Hours, supplementary show every week as well. With a little caveat for whatever's going on, which I'll explain shortly. But all sorts you can find on there. Last week we did trying to read Squidward's Sewer Slide. We're in a bit of a creepy pasta kick. I actually made the

Sonic. EXE reading. life for everybody just part one Merry Christmas As a little You know A little present for those

Deck the halls of Sonic and tails Knuckles Knuckles Shadow And Kefka laugh Yeah Yeah that's cool Yeah there's all sorts

Going on over there We watched the Donkey Kong Country show from 97 Went through Matt Wash's Weird superhero opinions the neo-robot reactions and a various bunch of chances Argy's chance, pays his chance

well Billy doesn't have a chance yet She's got Billy, Geel and Meal though, right? Yeah, yeah Meal devours, Bickees and Jeal is what you want to search for if you want to find that one on the journal media Patreon, just look over there and have a look at the big AS

the big growing playlist JARMedia group chat as well hop in there, it is a group chat, doesn't need very much explaining and I've got three I've plucked from there as a jumping off point to get into this round off episode which we're basically

gonna record a big chunk split it in half at a place that makes sense for the Christmas holidays or just totally random or just totally random yeah we're gonna random number generator there's a certain level of formatting that we do

but whatever effort will do it live type thing so we've got four categories moments yeah the f words of the year um but moments movies tv and music and games that's five actually that was that was very silly of me and you just scared paisley um sorry baby so i think in this first half we're going to do moments and we didn't actually decide should we do movies yes in movies yes the ms then on the following episode tv music and games yeah that makes sense um so we normally have the ja after hours supplementary supplementing but because of mostly time constraints we can't we don't have the usual freedom we do this time of year so we

thought when this episode goes live the ja after hours for that week will be the second half of the wrap of the year um so if you're a patron you can get that early at Early access, basically, and for everyone else it would go live as normal, but we will be, I guess, away, and I'm doing all Christmas activities, and this always changes depending on, like, where Christmas day lands in the week normally. Yeah, because we've had Jarcos go up on Christmas day, right? Yeah, well, we don't really do cringe mess anymore. That was like what would always go up on Christmas day, whether or not it was on a Monday or not. Oh, okay, yeah. So, yeah, I think that's how it's going to work.

um so there'll be maybe one one job after hours deficit um before we go into the the new year and things return to normal um i got to say i'm pretty proud of our um our schedule our yeah we've been really consistent with the job after hours i think they've been good there's all sorts of fun i like the variety of it i think yeah yeah me too something wacky and different um so i guess we should just hop into it right let's rev our engines on the motive quads let's start top top top level num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num um what was 2025 a good year um i was going to break that into good year as one of them and good year for you question mark does that make sense to separate or is there any one do you know what i want to say

what's that um there's good things that happen in bad years philosophical yeah cringe base or tough oh like the year of 2025 yeah I guess cringe it has been it's I had to choose one of those three yeah it has been a cringe year for me it's like an objectively cringe year yeah but I've had worse years for sure you know I mean yeah like as far as years the years I've been collecting are concerned there have been worse and they've definitely been better yeah So are you sitting in Bad year

Good for you Neutral for me Bad year neutral for me Pay's, stop going for Bill Is she charging Billy? Yeah They go tip attack Neutral for you

Yeah Yeah but it's funny when Billy hits Pays It's not funny the other way around She never hits Pays for the record I mean Billy For those listening That Paisley's like locked in on Billy Who's under the desk

And is kind of like trying to play with her Billy's not having any of it She's not into it So Paisley might get smacked Hopefully on camera That would be funny So yeah Let's do like a word association game

2025 Cringe Yeah That was the only word Yeah let me do one for you Sure 2025 Poo

No We are That would be coming up shortly actually Yeah Because the way I wanted to break down moments right We've got are moments, like jar moments, um, like world moments, newsy type things, stuff like that.

Um, I have a list of in the space of YouTube, the trending topics of the year, the top creators of the year, the top podcasts of the year, top songs on shorts and the top songs. So that's separated because they're so different. And at the end of that, um, I thought, could do a meme chat the memes of 2025 i got a list okay i got a list of some of them so yeah yeah we're we're bringing it all home um so i guess and a lot of this especially when we talk about films i apologize that i guess the weighting is just going to be it's going to be very me heavy i think because it's like my thing yeah yeah so uh yeah i think you'll have more to say than you think but um just to i mean i i could say a lot about the two

that i've got yeah um so we'll see you how that goes i'll try and keep it not too like dominated um but uh so the two major things in the world of jar that i want to start with fnaf two that's it that if things had lined up better we we wanted to see fnaf two yeah it's just i hate december we can never find time for anything um i've i struggled to find time like anyway yeah when it's not yeah yeah So the loss of baby Rick, obviously, big one. Big one for me, I don't know about you. That's like left a scar of sorts.

Yeah, that's kind of coloured the whole year, you know. Yeah, but I feel like kind of rounded off by bubble butt. What? You don't remember bubble butt? Jog my memory, joke my memory. When I was running the bath, they noticed that the bubbles made it. look exactly like a bubble butt. I forgot about that.

Yeah, because I had that picture on my Google drive and I was like sorting some stuff for my drive. And I was like, what is that a picture of? Enhance. It all came flooding back. That's, if you want, if you want that, the jar episode with bubble butt, it's bubble up is the name of the episode, bubble UTT. Because butt would be like, like, set up.

Yeah, it would be like flagged. Bubble up. You can be a straight-up, like, fascist, but you can't have a butt. Yeah. So I think that kind of evens that out with the, maybe the best jar experiment ever, redacted month. Yeah. Yeah, that's obviously, um... The furthest of jokes ever gone, I would say, on the channel.

Yeah, probably. I feel like the EC was kind of like a prototype. Kind of like playing a similar playground, but never manifested, and it's kind of an ARG of sorts, actually. That wasn't ARG. That was the intent anyway, but, um, no, redacted month, A, I'm proud of it. Yeah. B, it's like the, the crown jewel. Yeah.

Of Jha. I feel like, um... Like, it could have been the last episode, like the last... Yeah, yeah, yeah. It could have been, like... the inverse it could have been the rest of which is what we do like it could have it could have never ended i i genuinely think we it could have still be going yes if we didn't put like an end date on it yeah i'm glad we did put an end date on it because

like yeah it took it was like an adjustment period to go back to like normal yeah yeah yeah it was a hard like it was a fucking tough transition it was a brutal whiplash back into reality yeah it was you said it oh fuck fuck don't worry i'll take it out yeah beat that beat that um can you do can you put a kefka scream in kefka laugh yeah kefka laugh sorry i did look at a few lists of like notable deaths of you know people and only one really stood out to me david lynch yeah we lost someone very cool yeah very cool who didn't seem that old to me. I don't know if he just had like before. Yeah,

he did, but he was like a chain smoker. Right. That makes sense. So it got him good, which is unfortunate. Yeah. Yeah, very cool person. Lost. And seeing as we're on there like misery, I've got a few misery ones.

I felt like just like, just to throw these out here, it's like, oh yeah, shit, that happened this year or is happening, right? Yeah. So we got fun stuff like escalation of Ukraine and Gaza war. Sudanese Civil War Gen Z Revolution in Nepal and Madagascar

That's quite cool at least Yeah Trade Wars One of the defining things of this year Yeah God So the prequals were right yet again Um On the flip side

Subalba's back Sobolba is back That was huge The best like announcement From the game awards by far First crewed Polar Orbit Space Flight And the first

fully successful landing of a spacecraft on the moon by a private company. What? When the fuck did that happen? In 2025. They kept that quiet. Jesus. Well, it shows the priority of what you see in your news feed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No one gives a fuck about shit like that. Yeah, fucking baby AI hippo is far more important. That private company one, I feel like, that's like a little sign of the future. Yeah, a little blazer on the way. That's like a 2026. Yeah, and the only other one of as far as that kind of stuff is chat, GPT5 being released in August, just as like a put that on the calendar type thing.

So do you want to do the like YouTube one next? Or do you want to do meme chat? Let's do YouTube. Yeah. So I kind of listed those topics a second ago, but we can break it down. Starting with trending topics. I think it's what 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Yeah, these are all like 10 The top 10 trending topics

On YouTube For 2025 I want to see what you can guess And what I need to fill in Some of them are like obvious, some you won't know What do you think? Trending Topics, 2025, on YouTube specifically What comes to your mind?

Um AI? No, you've got to think a bit more that specific. Trump? Not Trump. There are individuals, but they're also like... Is it like politics? Like...

No, it's not that broad. It's way more specific. So something like someone would be searching. Uh, Will Smith freestyle. Shall I give you one so you have like a... idea um cookie run kingdom what actually i guess it's like a mobile game wait that's a youtube trending yeah trending topic of 2025 cookie run kingdom it's just yeah it's just a cook it's just a phone game

why are people looking that i don't know on youtube some of these are were just like, what? Yeah. Okay. But like this one, we looked at them in the window of a shop earlier. Brain rot? Um, no, but that is one of them. Yeah.

Brain rot is one of them. I feel like that's really taken off as a turn. Yeah, 20205 is the year of rotting brains. Yeah, for sure. Because what you're referencing is that we were in some, what was the shop? It was like. The word. Yeah, just sort of like stationary and stuff like that.

Yeah, there's like coloring, there's like books and puzzles and... Yeah, and you're all like buying a gift and I see, they're selling like tat at the counter. And there's like trading cards. What are they called? Brain Rock Trading cards. They were called Brain Rock Trading Cards and they had, yeah, that hippo. Yeah, the little baby AI hippo. And I've seen like in supermarkets, you know, brain rot like toys. Yeah, it's like a brand now.

even though like I guess it's owned by no one because it's all like yeah like who makes like yeah and who owns a meme yeah how can you sell that you just take it because it's not like when um you know when pepe like became a meme yeah but that was like an actual comic artist who had his thing turned into a meme yeah so he had an ownership over that in a different way yeah yeah yeah owns it when it's like yeah a bunch of stolen like art being referenced by Tun Tun Sahur or whatever But yeah

Brainw along similar kind of lines But what do you think was the thing We're looking at in the window of a shop We're looking at PlayStation 5 Along the right lines Because I referenced this shop No, C-EX

I referenced it last episode of the one before And I called it S-E-X Um No one called me on it though So Loll Loll Loll

Nintendo Switch 2 Oh okay Yeah That's in there Um I do want one I want to switch to you That song you started singing

Earlier Well um I like BBS No no Will Smith on here Unfortunately Um Um Um

A 2025 song Yeah A meme A meme song Like it's famous We are Yeah it's Charlie Kirk We are Charlie Kirk

Well the trending topic is Charlie Kirk Oh right yeah of course yeah Yeah Which isn't surprising at all No Um This one you'll never get Because it's like what

User generated Roblox experiences Grow a Garden Dandy's world For Say can steal a brain rock that's like a string of I don't know what that means that's a trending that was like one of

2025's most yeah I don't get Roblox because they run it at like insane loss but it has like every child plays it did you hear about like in Venezuela because they

they they post World War I hyperinflation Germany themselves so their currency became worse worthless the most profitable like job in the country was like farming robucks so the best way to make money that's goofy yeah people like heaps of Venezuelans I think but god I hope it's Venezuela I hope I've got the right country but um yeah I listen to a thing about it and yeah loads of people that's so interesting it's weird that yeah because yeah that country's cooked it's and then uh Trump's just like bombing their boats

This is crazy. Squid game is on there. K-pop demon hunters. Oh, fuck off. La Boo-boo. Right, yeah. And the only two others that you would never guess, I don't think.

Blue Lock, do you know what that is? No. And Katzai. K-A-T-S-I. I don't know if that's who that is or what. Um, which moves this into top creators, which I think you will know... KSI. You will know one, two, three, four of them, I think, out of ten.

You said Mr. Beast, yep, that was number one, obviously. Uh, are the Paul brothers on there? No. Some of them are like, I don't know where they're popular, so like, Kaisenat. No. along the right lines I show speed Speed is on A's 3

Oh wow Um How do you tend to see Like speed a bit more Yeah Especially Especially now And he's doing all the

Like races and stuff Like he yeah Anyway Uh Is that like kids Kids bop There's shit on there No

Do you remember it was briefly the number one yeah I know what you mean like the that's not on there not on here wow um what was top creators a small cat

no um one is something that was in trending topics there's also a top creator Charlie Kirk yeah really six yeah well uh huh um the only other one you would know is

maybe the outdoor boys you don't know them no wow yeah okay I only recently got into them a little bit as it's revealed that he's like a Mormon lawyer or something weird I'd be surprised if you hadn't seen one of the shorts of the outdoor boys

is like a middle age dude yeah and he goes out yeah in like minus 50 degrees I've seen shorts of him yeah yeah okay he like popped off that's yeah that's confusing that he's called the outdoor boys I guess he's got he's got sons like little kids

Yeah, but most of the time he's by himself From what I... Yeah, yeah Good content Really good videos Like I've watched a bunch of them After I saw a couple shorts I'm like, this is really interesting

He's a handy man Now this one's interesting Top Podcasts on YouTube This is black-pilling shit Who do you think number one is? Candace Hermens? No She's actually not on the YouTube

Oh really? Yeah Nice one YouTube Joe Rogan is here Yeah he's number one Yeah Followed by a Joe Rogan adjacent person I know you don't like

Oh Lex Friedman No Is he on there? Think comedian One of the few left Theo von No it's kind of a trick question Because it's kill Tony

Which I I thought that was on netflos Calling it a podcast It's like a comedy show is it on Netflix? I've only seen like a one on YouTube. They had one on Netflix, I think. Right.

Yeah, I don't know. Um, and I don't think you would know any of the other ones. Really? Maybe one, which we were talking about in the car earlier. Um, um, yeah. Might be the only one, I think.

That isn't Candace Owens? It's not Candice Owens. We were talking about it earlier. Oh, and there is another one on here. might know who I showed you a clip of earlier. Otherwise, I think you were going to struggle. I'm struggling with the ones I'm meant to know. Diaryva's CEO. Oh, right.

He's on there. And this past weekend with Theo Vaughan. So, okay, Theo Von, I got that one. Yeah, no, I missed that one. I should have given you it earlier. But random ones like Smosh reads Reddit stories. That's one of them. Right.

That's the thing. Sean Ryan show. Don't know. 48 hours. Don't know. The Midas Touch podcast. I've heard of that, but I don't know what it is.

Yeah, that rings a bell. Rotten mango. And good mythical morning. So I don't know what the fuck is going on there. And at number four was jar media. Nice. And, uh, number one, 2026. Ham Dalila, let's, let's fucking get.

So we got top songs on shorts or top songs first Because they're completely different Top wait what Like top songs used in YouTube shorts Blue shirt guy and top songs Dun dun dun dun dun He's not on that That goes to show like the

It's all about the algorithm You know because to me like that's the song of 2025 Yeah Assumption by Sam Is it Gantry? Would you feel the same? No, I'm

I'm not sure if you could guess any of these but you probably know The Rat Pack one With the Rat Pack Ra! That one. I don't think so Unless it's called

Is it called Rat Pack? I don't know. I don't know. I guess Dochi Anxiety There's one on Yeah. Billy Elish Ocean Eyes

is one of them Yeah Black I Peas is on here Yeah Yeah no that makes sense I've seen Rock that body Yeah

Yeah yeah This like half of the year Has been full of rock that body Rock that body Come on come on Rock that body Um Forest Frank

Your ways better I didn't know that ATLXS Pasobem Salto Slowed So some TikTok song I guess Connie Francis Pretty Little Baby

I fucking hate that song How does it go Pretty little baby I don't think I know that one It's so fucking annoying No you're You're getting pissed off Yeah

Oh that one Yeah yeah No I know this song Yeah Oh right No I have seen a short With that in I just didn't know

What the song was called It really It really fucking scratches my brain in the worst way Joyful Chess Huh

Scrilla doot do That's the 6-7 song That's where it came from Soda Pop K-pop demon Hanses Can I just say this now Yeah fucking whatever Let me say this now

In like five years When 6-7 is long dead That shit's coming back Big time in my life Like five years later Yeah yeah In 2030, I'm going to be six-sevening all the time. Because I think, I don't know, that might be dead by like 2026, like January.

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of dead now. Like, it's cringe to do it now, but I still like dropping the odd, like, 21. I love that shit. Yeah, there's like a timing to it where it's like, there's a space where if you reference it, it's like funny again or like ironically funny or I don't. Yeah. It's all cannibalistic and. Yeah.

what are those damn daniel like those are only starting to become funny to me now you know like that's how long it's taken um the last one of this was giandro feet ola wav confess your love oh shit okay nice you know that one no yeah i don't know but that's

that's completely different there's only one song that crosses over for top songs which i guess is just songs people are searching out to listen to um I'll save you some stress by removing four of them at once, all from K-pop Demon Hunters. Wow. Oh, man. Golden Soda Pop, your idol, and how it's done.

I kind of hate when, like, it feels like K-pop Demon Hunters. We were, like, told, right, this is the popular thing, and then it just is. You know what I mean? Like, it was all over, like, radio stations and shit. It's everywhere. yeah i didn't like the film myself but i guess i can mention that later uh there there are two kandrick songs on here it's tv off tv off went like crazy viral this year yeah yeah um leuther yeah those are the two luther is a fucking good ass song yeah it's an amazing song um so that's four five six the next one the next two both have Bruno Mars in

The Lady Gaga one Yeah that with a smile Yeah It was number one Really The other one's Rose Bruno Mars APT Yeah I was gonna say

A putter A putta A putta A putter That song really fucking annoys me Because the pre-chorus Fucking rocks I don't think I've heard it The pre-chorus is It goes hard

But then the chorus is just A-Peta A-A-A-P-T A-P-T-A-A-P-T A-Peta A-Peta A-P-T Appetta. Like aperture? APT apartment. Oh,

like, Come back to. Okay. Meet me at the apita, apita. Right. Does he do the chorus? Yeah.

No, Billy, no, I've got the laptop. But, like, that's the thing. You've got one of,

like, a generational singer. Like, his voice is immaculate. And for the chorus you've got him featuring on, you have him going, A pita,

apita, uh, a pita, uh, put to, like, a bad, saying I could do that, you know.

But the pre, like I say, the pre-corrhiz fucking rocks. Okay. Don't you want me like I want you, baby. And what is left? Victor Valverde, Junior Torres, Elmeier de los Rannas. Okay, don't know that one. Alex Warren Ordinary is the only other one. So, um, huh?

Cool. That's pissed me off. There's just a whole other world out there, you know. I have no clue what's going on Um So now time for meme chat It's time for fucking meme chat

Get your shovels and Yeah Unbury the dead Whip out meme chat For 2025 Um We already mentioned that fucking Scrilla song

6-7 Is a Should we CBT them? I do want to do this I'll give um 67 based I give it cringe it sucks it feels like we've been there before

yeah when like an anti-humor joke that means nothing that like just saying is no it's cool I like it okay I like this as well the ham bit the ham bit is what sells it yeah no that goes a cringe chicken jockey uh tough

chicken jockey I think chicken no actually chicken jocky's based no I'm going cringe actually why because I I genuinely do feel for the cinema workers that shit wasn't funny

yeah like lose your mind and like jump up and scream and stuff but don't like actually bring chickens in yeah yeah it's like crazy work like rain it in yeah or if you're gonna do that

you clean it up yeah that's one where the ironic enjoyment in um IP slop it's just like fuck did that movie do well incredibly well um domestically it's still not been beaten by anything

and it never will um so that's cool um doche anxiety that is one of them what yeah I guess it is a meme yeah

anxiety cringe yeah I don't really have anything against her I just find that to be no that's the boring ass song

she she popped up like her career fucking exploded and she was really cool I thought really cool

and then that song comes out it's everywhere but it's extra frustrating with having this nostalgia of when that song came out and it was

fucking everywhere as well the original like yeah the original yeah which is a good a song yeah it's a really good song but which makes it it more annoying when it's like you haven't really changed this song you kind of just taken like the same chorus like it's the same fucking it's so weird but it doesn't like it doesn't feel reinvented or reinvigorated no but also the like it's not catchy no and the kind of um what's the term when like something is like Empty calories.

Yummy? No, easy to say, but, like, doesn't have much depth. Platitude. It feels like a platitude way of talking about the concept. Yes. It doesn't feel sincere. Yeah, see, for me, what I often seek out with music is, like, the capturing of a feeling. Yeah.

You know, so if a song is about anxiety, you want it to, like, feel. Yeah, that's a good point. Like, you can use the production to, like, sonically emulate the feeling which it's not doing because it's like boom boom boom

boom boom boom boom boom no it doesn't feel like an intentional juxtaposition like that like it just doesn't conjure the right emotion for me for what I'm looking for yeah

because I don't think about like the concept of anxiety or that at all when thinking about that original song no it's it's more about like perspective and relationships yeah

yeah um Yeah, that gets a cringe Yeah, I'll give that one a cringe The term aura farming I think it's best I like it, is it, I think it's based No, it's tough

No, it is tough It's certified tough Yeah Nothing else Like captures toughness I feel like Who do you credit

Is it like zoomers that get credit For these terms Because I feel like Some of them suck But I feel like they're outpacing millennials as far as like phrases for things like don't have the same ring you know how do you mean

you know like you know elder millennial cringe has a certain elder millennial come here dogo hello void you're my favorite void you know what I'm saying Taylor Swift whereas like saying Billy's aura farming is funny yes for now for now for now Maybe it'll become cringe. But it's two funny words to put together as well.

Like, aura is kind of funny anyway. I do like, like... I'm like farming it. I've noticed, um, like, gamer lingo has become way more normalized. Yeah. Because, like, farming... Yeah, true. That is...

That feels more like gamer. You know, you farm it for, like... You're farming XP. Yeah, or farming, like, green titanite shots, you know. Yeah. So, yeah, I... That is true. aura farming is fucking great.

Yeah. Yeah, that's tough. We got our first slur for robots. Yes. Clanker. Yep. Obviously, a Star Wars prequels reference.

Apparently, that was a thing before the Star Wars prequels. Really? Well, it's... It was specifically the Clone Wars TV show, I think. Yeah, it was. But it was, I think, like, the etymology of Clanker originates

before Star Wars, yeah. I'm pretty sure. It meant a bundle of sticks. Yeah. The Mary Queen of Scots used to burn the fucking wooden robots on. That wooden robot from Future Armour that dies if it doesn't get the water. What do you give Clanker? Cringe.

It's got to be cringe because you've got to protect the future for when, you know, the scam. Yeah. uh dark woke i actually like this term i'm not familiar you've not heard it no um i wonder if i have like an example i could give you i just don't have my finger on the pulse like i once did with memes yeah you're ahead of it before yeah i used to be right in the meme chat fucking i actually don't know how to explain it it's a social media phenomenon political messaging strategy that emerged in january 2025 following trump

second inauguration. The term terms use advocates for a shift in progressive political communication tactics pushing for more aggressive, direct and politically incorrect approaches and responding to conservative media strategies. So kind of like the Charlie Kirk

memes are like dark white. I guess? I don't know. They feel almost I'm sure some of them are like made by dark wokees but they also feel Joker like just

apathy, chaos like we just want to So what would constitute dark woke I've only seen it in terms of like Just specific memes referencing something really specific Like

I don't know You've gone you've gone dark woke You're Am I dark woke You've probably made dark woke jokes before that was one I'd have to think about more

Billy's Dark Quote It can be based though It can be funny Italian brain rock That's a big 2025 one Yeah It is cringe But I do like the name

Tung Tum Yeah I like that That one stands out of To her or whatever Jet 2 holidays weird how that one like stuff my first exposure to the jet two holiday one was bottom g doing like a jet two holiday thing

um yeah uh it's pretty cringy but that kind of feels like the intention and is it is it just a british one i think it might have gone and beyond really i think yeah because it's such a weird I don't know, it's just a weird, like, advert. I don't know.

Memes are so, like, esoteric at this point. Like, I don't know how to even deconstruct some of them. It kind of feels like, um... It's kind of anti-humor. Yeah, just should I answer? So just with those listening, we just had this insane phone call for, like, just five minutes. So we just got to readjust. Yeah, Jet 2 holidays.

What did you give that? Um... I liked it. I'll give it based. I'll give it based. If I didn't, if I might have already given it, Karen. It's a soft base. Yeah. Um, but I feel like the, the reason it resonated is because like, every British person has, like, they, you know that sound. Yeah. You know, with the music, with the, like, yeah. Yeah.

You've experienced it. So we, like, we've all had this shared experience. So, it's based because it is real, you know? Yeah. Two more. Labubu. Cringe. Yes, cringe. Mad cringe.

Although I kind of like the combined meme of saying, I want a Labuobu, my macho latte, my Dubai chocolate, and my morning rave. The combination. Morning rave? Yeah. I've not heard of that one. Apparently, that's the combo of memes.

We're like, I don't know what morning rave is I guess that's something people do maybe they do that in like California or something I don't know I don't know what they get not to over there

um and the last one the we are Charlie Kirk song um which is fucking everywhere yeah like fucking kids sing it like in playgrounds and shit that's a crazy one

yeah I don't know if you let's not rank that one why well you can if you want um it's kind of tough it has the same it's got aura it has the same aura as the Snyder song yes which is tough just one smack yeah so we carry the fucking flame um on that one um so So is there anything as far as moments or memes or whatever that are popping into your head before we move into movies or? I have to say you covered them pretty well.

Yeah. There'll be some ones I'm missing, but uh, so you're ready for this? Yeah. It's movie time. Time for the movies of 2025. Nap time. Yeah, nap time for gym. Um, so I've got 65 films on here.

I'm just going to shoot through if you have something that you want to hear about it or like something you want to say about it feel free to jump in I'm going to start at the bottom and go up so your least favorite worst to best you reckon

oh okay cool yeah yeah do best to worse no worse to best yeah so I think and this just keep this list updates with every 2025 movie I see so if you want to see if this maybe is out of date by the time I've seen a bunch of more stuff

just keep an eye on my letterbox it changes with that but um number 65 is the Minecraft movie wow that's cold i think the precedent it sets for Hollywood is like an atrocious one an awful one um that's ice cold people love that film uh the best joke to come out of it was the joke of you pretending to review it if you'd seen it and you hadn't even seen the fucking film and the review was was apt as someone who's seen it, your review was on point. You don't need to have seen it to have seen it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like anti-art. Yeah. Focus group. I would probably like be more on board of it if the film like bombed and like didn't wasn't being rewarded for it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is what separates it from 64 for me, which is Snow White, live action remake.

Shoot! Where even fans of the live action remakes didn't like it. you know that's how you know it's like yeah that's kind of satisfying as well the way they were talking about it before it came out like it was so wanky and that's like the only reason i it's nearly equal of minecraft but the fact it was a bomb and like wasn't rewarded because like the dwarfs are so scary in that film yeah yeah what they did with that it's like horror shit like they accidentally made the best horror movie of the year really it's like genuinely

terrifying shit that fucking awful film um so i'm glad that bombed and directed by mark web who did the amazing spider man movies no way hey yeah what a loser um 63 the strangers chapter two

it's just i don't know one of these home invasion bullshits it was like fucking unwatchable um oh that's the original was like the bags on their heads yeah yeah from like 2010 or something yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah and that movie at the time was like criticized for being like too a bit bit too real a bit too real here so i didn't even see the strangers chapter two part one or whatever i don't know what the fuck it's called even there are parts it's like a three part thing what three different films so i just jumped in the middle of this trilogy um right not that it mattered it wasn't like hard to follow or anything it was just um that kind of horror where like you've got nothing right you know nothing um the twits at 62 a netflix a Netflix animated movie based on the twits but they like Americanized it right and put like American political commentary in it and they're like fighting to be the mayor and these like orphan kids when the original

book is straight up just like these monkeys that they've like trapped and it's like the monkeys rebelling it's like I don't remember it was fucking horrendous that film um yeah like insulting um especially being fond of the book and everything it was like you just don't get it man yeah uh 61 house train your dragon live action remake start to see a theme here i think yeah um again the fact it's like one of the biggest films of the year one of the most successful films of the year directed by the same director of the original house train your dragon is a new angle i don't think that's been done before um a new angle of like and going through all the interviews of him talking about it and shit it basically

came down to if i wasn't going to do it then they were just going to make someone else do it anyway so i just thought i might as well do it and get my bag that's the state of the industry that's how fucking sad it is yeah yeah rewarded for it so now well they're just going to remake the trilogy it'll just be a i right yeah yeah remaking stuff um i think about it like every day at this point that frank zapper quote about nostalgia loops being shorter and shorter and that we are at a point where you know we have a live action house train your dragon yeah keeping it these same things in the same space um the thing is i i guess it doesn't hype in the same way but i i'd be way more into and more inclined to um i just pulled my thing out sorry um more inclined to go

to the cinema and watch one of these movies if they just released the original again yes they just did like a run of the original and since like i'd be down with like you know how to your dragon doesn't look bad by any means but if you did like a texture lighting update like a fucking video game yeah you could do that and i'd pay to see it again like that because there's nothing wrong with the original fucking story there's nothing wrong with it it's not old they don't change anything they've no that's my point it's because i would act like on a creative level all they do is make it worse yes every single creative choice makes it worse whereas i'd be fine if every creative choice made it better or at least its own thing

some new expression but it's not and that's what pisses me off and I think that applies to Snow White as well and a couple more that are about to come up next is the electric state the Russo Bros, the fucking Avengers assholes made this Millie Bobby Brown Chris Pratt adaptation of this incredible

graphic novel which is like the most it's so like real back and kind of creepy and scary and has this amazing world building and this film is like what i haven't seen the film but um i don't know if this is a 2025 film but you you mentioned chris pratt and you just triggered a memory of mine i saw the funniest fucking trailer oh for the yeah i saw the same one that's coming out next year that the AI one yeah yeah he's got to like prove it looks so so fucking funny it looks awesome yeah yeah um so that that's one of my favorite

films of the year is that trailer yeah the like streamer slop like netflix amazon on Prime, like, blockbuster. Yeah, yeah. Where it's, like, red notice, it's like the worst shit, like, other, but everyone watches it for some reason. Yeah. So fuck the electric state, um, a crime against, like, art and especially as, as far as, like, adapting a story and they make it about, like, this.

Is electric state a book? Yeah, yeah. It's a graphic novel that I have. Right. Um. Oh. With incredible. The really cool. Art in it.

Yeah. With all the, like, creepy robots and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Landscapes and, yeah. Just misses the. point entirely um 59 lilo and stitch live action uh-huh yep you can just see a trend going on there yeah just uh at least snow white was like kind of crazy you know with like the like crazy

horror dwarves they lilo and stitch is just boring fucking boring it's like you take this like succinct thing i just add half an hour yeah the original kind of sucks anyway i don't think it sucks i think it's got his charm animation's good yeah the animation's good yeah the is good i've got no love for that maybe yeah it's not my favorite isn't he but it's my least favorite disney that's not true but i yeah i don't give a shit about lee lan stage 58 he's that character's had a weird renaissance that i wasn't expecting where he's like the biggest disney character now but you see stitch everywhere yeah that's true everywhere every backpack every like pissy piece of jewelry or whatever it has stitch on it for whatever yeah um he's a dibby

He's like, Dibby Prime. He is it, yeah. 58 is the Unbreakable Boy, which was the story of this little boy. He's got, like, a bone disease, so he's got, like, really weak bones, and he's got, like, autism, and Zachary Levi's his dad, and it's, like, this, like, really Christian-ass film. It's kind of funny, bad, kind of entertaining, but kind of insulting, and... Yeah. you can imagine just from the premise 57 is Megan 2.0

67 M3 Gn's 2.0 You know the horror movie with like the The doll Yeah They decided to avenger Zify Megan And make her a super era Yeah It's not a horror movie anymore

It's like she's like Gliding through like Canyons in like a squirrel suit Yeah that's right They do that in the trailer Yeah I didn't understand like they bombed hard nobody saw it yeah because they were like trying to make it a thing they're trying to make it like a tic-tock trend because the first one came out had like the

megan ticot dance but it was a horror thing still but they've in the interviews um for this film they compare m thregan to superman and they say we want this to be like blumhouse's superman what well yeah exactly like it makes no sense obviously it's going to fucking bomb they released it in like summer for some reason. Summer blockbuster. Just completely like out of tune with audiences. What does the term blockbuster mean? I don't know.

I guess I've never thought about. Block. To bust the block. Oh, does it mean like people are queuing up round the block? Maybe. Is it something like that? I don't know. I'm a run the block.

I'm a run the black, black. 56 is an animal. animated film called Fixed, directed by, uh, Gendi Tartakovsky, who did like, um, I'm fucking blanking right now. Like that primal, that animated show, Samurai Jack, you know that art film? He's got very, the Hotel Transylvania stuff, super, um, recognizable great art director. Uh-huh. But this film, it has, you know, food fight.

Yes. No, not fucking food fight The other one The sausage party Always like the Yeah they combine in my head Yeah yeah Yeah sausage party

That style of humour Where saying fuck is the joke Oh right Yeah It's like animated And just being perverted And that's like the whole Thing

Uh 55 is highest to lowest A Spike Lee remake of Akira Curisawa's high and low The Curisal one Is an incredible film And Spike Lee did A weird Denzo Washington Apple TV remake of it

And is it as good as his remake of Oh boy Oh boy yeah It's about as incompetent Maybe not quite old boy level I don't understand Because whenever Spike Lee makes like His own shit

Yeah because you saw like Defive Bloods didn't you Yeah I see that yeah I really like Yeah That's the like the Vietnam Vietnam and that yeah the bombs Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah, I really enjoyed that film.

And Black Landsman is good as well? Black Klansman literally changed my perspective on the world. Really? That's cool. Yeah, I fucking love that film. Yeah, Carlo Raine's really great in that film. Yeah, he's great. He's way better than Densel Washington's son. Who I feel like he's like, he's becoming one of those nepo babies

which is like, you haven't proved yourself, man. You have no range. You're the same in everything. Right, yeah. Yeah. Because in Black Landsman, it works, because that character is kind of just like a vessel. He's kind of just going through it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like, I don't know. I've never really been impressed by him as an actor. He doesn't have what his dad has. That's for damn sure. Yeah, saying that, though, Denzo Washington, I don't know if he has a range, but his, his, like... He's got screen presents. He's got 10 charisma. He's got 10 charisma in the fallout, like, his charisma's off the chain.

So he could be in anything. It doesn't matter what the quality is. he's someone who's like i will watch the interviews for a film i'm not yeah yeah because you watch those ones where he's like killing people with like stools for what the fuck of that's um the equalizer and they're like five of them yeah yeah no i started watching the um the third one when we were going to Vegas like and i was on the um what do you call it the fucking medication um i was in like loads of pain i had a um wisdom tooth infection um um

And I started this film, and I had to stop because I was like, this is too, like... Yeah, like, the film opens up. Do you remember the intro to Fast Five? Where it's like showing the damage. Yeah, it's showing the damage that Jason Statham had done to his hospital. Yeah, with the music. It's like the equivalent to that, like going through this villa in Europe. The destruction.

And it's like everyone's already dead and stuff And like people are fucking butch it's like The most evil fucking heinous shit And I was like I'm supposed to be rooting for this guy The first one's goated though That's a great film He sets up like the hardware store

Yeah yeah It's so good Like home alone but like more Yeah It's so silly Yeah it's fun A horror movie called him the American football player won

just a mess of a film it was trying to be like interesting and stylish but it was just kind of like what the f is it supposed to be scary A24 light I can't remember if it was A24 A24 light Peel was attached

Oh shit yeah It had um Didn't it have the scary movie go in it Yes I'm blanking on his name right now The one who's in fucking Reckon for a dream. He's American for a dream? Yeah, and he's really good, isn't it?

Really? Um, 53 is Captain America Brave New World. I saw this film. Piece of shit. I watched on my phone. That's where it belongs. Yeah. It might have looked a bit better.

It didn't. It really. It looked awful. I thought it was great. It was like, it wanted to be this spy political thriller, but it was too scared to be like a political thriller. It was like, frightened to be what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But it was like carrying it. like it was a winter soldier or something it was obviously trying to be that yeah that type of Captain America and it yeah it doesn't work like there's no intrigue because like the

mystery is like spoiled on the fucking poster yeah it's how they sold the movie yeah yeah that was bizarre and as someone who hadn't been keeping up with all the like Marvel DC TV show bullshit

it i was kind of just like confused right yeah because like that's when the i guess he gets the captain america title is in that show yes it doesn't happen in the movies so the movie just kind of starts in his captain well he's he's given the shield by um by sleepy joe um at the end of end game that's right so the like then that's the implication the implication is that he's going to be but yeah um weirdly i I, like, latched on to that character, Anthony Mackey's character. Really? Like, the Falca...

I kind of find him lame, if I'm going to be real. Yeah, it's kind of partly his lameness that I like. You know, like, he's... That can be utilised in a group setting for me. He's, he's like the... Yeah, um, but like I watched the whole show, you know? Like, I, I really like Anthony Mackey. I think he's got that, that charisma.

Yeah, he's got, he's like a good actor. yeah yeah um but this film like i sat and like i i i enjoyed a bunch of the show you know like for what it was it wasn't you know it's it's not like i'm not watching it like i'm watching because i like the character from thunderbolts that came from that show he kind of looks like oh yeah he kind of looks like owen wilson it's um what's his face his son his dad is his fucking Starlord's dad

Kurt Russell he's Kurt Russell Oh really? Yes Because there's another character in Thunderbolts who is the son of another famous actor

Yeah they're all sons of famous actors Yeah They're all of them I had a really fucking weird dream that Anthony Mackey I had it

It was like a nightmare That I was in some mansion With a bunch of like actors and shit And like they were in a room and had some rapport and were like sat down drinking and like smoking cigars like talking and then i went in the room and sat down in this group and anthony macky locked eyes with me

it was like the fuck is this guy doing here that's it i feel like you've seen the future with that like that's that's 2026 that's because i was like at first i was like sitting down like trying to act like I belong there like Yeah Yeah And then he locked eyes Yeah I just like look over

And he's like staring me down Doing that falcon stare Yeah That reminds me of a dream I had With Denzo Washington in it though Was he reprimanding you Is he trying to kill you The fucking chainsaw

No Similar I must have been playing Warzone a lot at the time Because in my Like that will give you No Cool Jute war zone

Yeah in my dream Like I was in war zone that's scary yeah so i was like going around with a gun and then like i open a door you're in the guluck then bullets and like i'm in the hotel or whatever and i opened the door and danza washington's in there and he like fires some shots and he's like back the fuck off dude i'll fucking kill you and i was like oh yeah look just let me go and it'll be fine and like we had this like tense like yeah i think we actually teamed up in the end there it was kind of fire that is cool yeah

equalizer part four yeah for sure um I don't I never want to meet that character he'll fucking cut all my limbs off and fucking turn me into scarecrow

or something um but yeah that that Captain American movie is dick and I feel like um what's it Harrison Ford he's become like poison

box office poison you know he just can't be in a film anymore it won't do well i was watching a bit of that um he's in like an apple tv uh comedy where he's like plays a therapist right and he's like decent in that um yeah i mean to be fair to him like he he's trying in captain america like he he isn't phoning it in he's got nothing to work with like stress no no no thing for him to do there's not for anyone to do in that movie but i found it really confusing as well because he's meant to be the character

from... Yeah, because that actor died. He passed away. Yeah, but also, like... Edward Norton is alive. Yeah, but he didn't want to take part, though. So they recast him. Yeah, but, like, it's still really confusing

and they're, like, calling back to his daughter and stuff. And it's like... And the bad guy, spoiler alert, the... Oh, yeah, he's from that film. The guy who gets his brain fucking, like, big. Yeah. the guy who was in Green Lantern as well

Yeah Didn't he didn't that same thing No that was a different actor Yeah The guy friend He's Buster Scruggs Yeah Like he's a great actor

But I mean To to to To just now be utilising stuff That you were using in the Hulk It feels very Desperate Desperate and it's almost Gloop shitter as well

Yeah When the main two links Are a Disney Plus TV show show and a film from 2008 yeah yeah that makes it a bit late um 52 is Jurassic World Rebirth or as I call it Jurassic World Afterbirth um like it look kind of nice but like the actual story is like fucking unbearable it's like Scarlett Johansson just trauma dumping it's like and then there's a mutant dinosaur

that isn't even fun the whole like part goes wrong in the very opening scene because someone eats the Snickers and the like Snickers rapper gets stuck in like a door and then it frees the big mutants why

I'm not even joking it's awful I don't know why it's so difficult to make like a cool dinosaur movie but they can only be done once I guess like we're allowed

one yeah what is the deal with it yeah um because i think a true dinosaur like leaning more towards horror could actually be like the scariest thing you've ever seen don't you think the kong v t rex fight is fucking goated as fuck oh and the peter jackson yeah yeah and the v the vines well that has like the scariest scene of all time in it with the bugs and yeah that's just that is fucking scary yeah i kind of i i dig that film a bit it's it's i i uneven but it does have some good stuff in it and it's like so ridiculously bloated yeah it's crazy it's it's got some like yeah it was peter jackson like going too far it was like you know that scene in the third lord of the rings where it's like each each one of the lord of the rings

has a more insane legolus scene like it gets more yeah yeah yeah it's like taking that energy and like what if that was the whole movie yeah yeah no he needed to get it out of his system and i'm glad he did so i've got good memories of seeing that at the cinema and then he did like the hobbit trilogy in like yeah yeah yeah um he didn't get out of his system enough 51 is the monkey just a forgettable horror movie made by the long legs guy nothing really say about that monkey the monkey it's one of those you know toy story three oh that's right yeah you know they copyrighted yeah that monkey yeah so it had to be a different kind of monkey so it was a different

macky assorts he had a drum or something instead um Shelby Shelby Oaks

it's number 50 Chris Stockman's movie I was like right down the middle on it it's fine for its budget it did some cool stuff

but I don't think it's really going to move the needle it's just like a B horror movie with Keith David in it for one scene hell yeah

I love Keith David. It's like if you're going to drop some exposition, if it's going to be him delivering it, it's going to sell it. Yeah. Tron Ares at number 49. Jared. I don't know what the fuck they're thinking of that.

Why they keep giving him leading roles in films. Yeah, they're really trying to make him like the guy. Nobody wants him. He's creepy, dude. He's insanely creepy. kick-ass score some kind of cool action

conceptually my main point in my review is like just give me a version of this movie that has no dialogue like you know those versions of Star Wars where it's just the score

and you can watch the film and it's literally just the score and it's kind of its own story just from that I'd watch it again in that form but in no other form like just the score

and like the visuals you know it's kind of like putting on an LED light show for a little bit yeah uh dangerous animals at 48 it's like a serial killer who uses sharks in australia to kill people pretty forgettable um sounds kind of funnier and more interesting than how it actually is to watch um it's pretty forgettable 47 is brad pitt's f1 movie that's quite low pretty fucking boring um i don't care about f1 um but it was the director of top gun maverick so i was like well if half the movie is like racing scenes that are as good as the flying scenes from

avic um and there's some good like racing but I just feel like the stakes of something like Topga Maverick are way more involved yeah you know I don't really give a shit about Brad Pitt winning like a race whereas like Tom Cruise succeeding in his like secret military mission is a bit more like

against China um I thought the implication was that it was North Korea actually that's how I think I suppose yeah it could be but the the fighter jets they they are fighting against our chinese right right um so yeah that's boring as fuck um just like just that that structure of the like you know i'm past my prime i'm never going to win a race again we do you you're you're you're too uh trigger happy you're too cocky yeah and he's like teamed up with the like it's the past his prime guy and the young

up and comer it's the top gun formula um yeah 46 is K-pop demon hunters Boring I don't know I want more from Children's Entertainment 45 is a film

known scene called Sovereign that has Nick Offerman in it didn't really go anywhere I like the idea of like people being like radicalised and stuff but didn't really do it for me The biggest film of the year as far as box office

Naja 2 at 44 A Chinese film Chinese animated film Is it good Fucking boring man Everyone's like jerking off this film It's the most hype thing they've ever seen What's Chinese

Well I like that part about it What does it look like? It looks like anime No I can't say that It doesn't look like anime I'm being flippant right now okay Guys

It looks kind of like anime It's so it felt so long um and i don't know you can just see i like the dragons the look of them but big bloated

didn't really like the main character and it had this undercurrent of this like gay romance but they were too cowardly to commit for obvious reasons um why it's chinese we don't we don't have the balls to release like an animated kids film that has a gay main character in the west let alone

China I thought there was a gay a gaming character what in Elio which is number 43 the Pixar movie that was like the narrative that spread about it

that he was like a gay or non-binary or something when it's just like not in the movie it's just like one of those cultural things it was woke it was yeah it was branded as woke

like light year was for having the kiss that was I guess taken out in China yeah yeah But Elio, yeah, it's like Pixar's one this year Another trash film Not actually as bad as it looks It looks awful

It has like a chunk in the middle Where it's like Maybe at one point there was like kind of a cool idea here Yeah But just Where did it go wrong for Pixar? Cars 3 Cars 2

Yeah, Cars 2's cool Like a spy movie it's pretty cool spy adventure um i don't know i think isn't the when they funded or started the company it was they had this like 15 years of of plans and ideas like up to wally or something right so it's just this string of like incredible concepts and they don't really have the concepts anymore yeah used to be like oh that's a cool concept that you just can sell in one sentence in an elevator pitch but now it's like so it's this kind of troubled kid who doesn't really fit in and he like loves aliens and he wants to be like abducted by aliens and it turns

out there's a whole society and it's like too much yeah like it doesn't have the you see wally and it's like bro that's that's it robot at the end of the world robot apocalypse yeah yeah what about um what if the elements had their own society that that was worse than elio that film looked fucking awl it had like an anti-hook where it's like what is like what is even like fun about this concept fire and water like fall in love i guess and they're not supposed to mix yeah but they're mixing dog oh it's a bit spicy wow uh 42 is the black phone too oh shit with um keith lemon in it yeah keith lemmon's like a pea serial killer it's pretty cool um awesome it was fine It was serviceable.

I like the idea of hell being visualised as like really cold instead of fiery hot. Okay, I think that's kind of interesting. Like in God of War? Yeah, sure. 41 is the naked gun with Liam Neeson. I've seen one funny joke from that. It's got plenty of funny jokes, but overall I just, I don't know, didn't particularly vibe with me. It was fine.

People definitely like that one more than me. I'd never say it's bad. Seth Rogen loves Liam Neesons. Seth Rogen? Yeah, the family guy guy. Oh, Seth Incarnate. What's his name? Seth Rogen, Peter Griffin.

Oh, Seth MacFarlane. Um, the bad guys, too, at number 40. Just DreamWorks doing their thing. They just need better writing, because, like, the look of it is cool. The characters' designs are good. Um, kind of that spider verse. Percy style. But yeah, doesn't have it.

39 is Good Boy, the horror movie from the perspective of a dog. That was really funny. A better concept than actually like hype to like watch. It was just someone who like, he spent like three years just making this film and he like loves a dog. That's cute. Is it his dog? It's his dog. Yeah, cool.

so it's pretty pure yeah 38 the running man Edgar Wright pretty shit disappointing yeah I just don't know what he's what you is doing

anymore because like it's just I didn't rush out to see this I spent it took like weeks to go and see it and it's like I could have told myself that in like 2012 I was like there's going to be an Edgar Wright movie that's come out

and you don't even care about it you don't even hair about going to see it I'd be like really for real yeah yeah because he was on a real role up until baby driver yeah look at the balls on that kid yeah yeah maybe it was him that fucking ruined it um train wreck mayor of mayhem that was a netflix documentary about the mayor of was it Toronto who was like revealed to be like taking crack and stuff like that. That was really crazy. That sounds good.

I think it was Toronto. Together, a number 36, a horror movie with Bree. No, Alison Bree. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. This looked intriguing. Yeah, it was, it was interesting. It was okay. It was one of those horror movies that's...

I find that the first act for a lot of horror movies is the best part and, like, the intrigues just being explored, but they often fall apart when they have to provide like answers or delve too deep into answers that unravels the kind of scare or mystery yeah um it was you know it's fine uh 35 is dog man another dream works movie based on a children's book uh by dave pilky did like captain underpants it's like the same style um it's kind of like a morbid concept it's like a cop who like gets his head off somehow and gets like a dog's head put on him like robot cop kind of yeah but the whimsical way it's presented is less dark than how that sounds so he's got like the body of a human and the head of a dog

and he's like a cop it was kind of funny and cute again with the the fun like weird wacky art direction um but pretty empty calorie the long walk at 34 the walking pooing movie a concept movie how do they poo that's explained in the film how do they there are multiple scenes of them walking and pooing at the same time yeah because if you stop walking you get shot on the spot so like do they just like pants down poo

yeah do they squat or just like yeah one of them one character gets killed because he's like pooing and he's got rear this sounds like your kind of movie but how the fuck is this it's but it's so awesome how's this at 30 and like the the biggest like action scene in the film is like when there's like a 5% incline yeah so it's harder to pay

well they're just walking and like if you if you go too slow you just get killed yeah yeah you have to be walking a certain speed limit and they get to a part yeah there's a slight decline. So it's like harder. Yeah, yeah. That was quite clever. But it doesn't know how to wrap itself up. Okay.

Pretty corny. Companion at 33, kind of like an black mirror-esque AI robotics comedy thing. It's kind of interesting. The less you know about that one going in, the better. 32 is Mission Impossible. the final reckoning I saw that film

which has actually soured on me the more time has passed I can't actually imagine watching that film again really that's my issue with it yeah because I was thinking in the cinema like it's been over an hour and like nothing's fucking happened they're just like talking about how high the stakes are for like an hour

yeah yeah it's I could see myself more so like watching scenes from it yeah I'd watch the plane scene again but then we've watched the, I love the naked fight scene. That was pretty cool. Yeah.

When it's cutting between that and like the gun fight and the snowy, like that's, that shit's cool. It has its moments, but I can't escape the feeling of like, I could just watch fallout. Yes. Yeah. I could just watch fall out. The action's better. The, it feels like the stakes are bigger, weirdly, even though they insist the stakes are like everything in, um. Yeah, there's something about that pace, about just like, like, like always being.

on the back foot like it's so much more gripping yeah and the crescendo of the action like it it keeps kind of getting better yeah instead of like oh that was like a moment that was a yeah yeah and i just too long what is with the fucking bloat man yeah why is it so long and the the the like underwater bit is kind of fucking goofy as fuck yeah they push it yeah yeah um 20 no 31 is fantastic four first steps I still need to see that

just like a decent other movie you know I like the characters I want to see more of them but it's sweaty as well they're like frightened they're like this has to be

a level of quality or we're fucked like that's the feeling of the film they're like terrified yeah that's the feeling it has number 30 Sinners

You heard anything about this movie Yeah I really want to see it There's been a lot of talk about it This will be probably one of my most controversial placements Yeah I had to guess because people are loving it They're absolutely fucking loving it People are like

Well number one film of the year Yeah a lot of people They've been in their like top tens and stuff Maybe the first half I would I won't spoil anything Because Jim hasn't seen it um but you can see my thoughts on it in more details in many different places uh on sard we talked about it on i hg tv i talked about the backlash to the review and stuff um because from the second

i rated it on letterbox to three star it was like a you gave it that type thing yeah yeah yeah but i feel i feel like i'm justified in that um 29 is thunderbolts actually just one last thing on sinners i do think it's cool that it you know it's an original film was one of the very you successful, big original films. It just didn't fully work for me, but I'm glad it was a success. Yeah, 29 Thunderbolts, another Marvel movie. It's got some good action, set pieces.

It's kind of just what I'd want to see from these. Yeah, I really want to watch this. I don't know, one of my biggest issues with the formula of Marvel is what happens in the third act. Yeah. When they just become the same thing every time. Yeah. And this kind of skated past it by me and felt a bit more like,

can come nice a bit more character-focused corny but i like it yeah it's got a lane in it as well so yeah that's the main reason i saw it's for a lane uh avatar fire and ash a new entry 28 it's a masterpiece baby the best film of the year it's actually they're incredible so much spider um i don't know i i feel like i could do a whole hour on this fucking movie really honestly you fucking love avatar i i it's so weird i love it but don't as well i like i love jake sully man yeah yeah for jake yeah give me more jake more jake but more so that villain why so blue yeah why so blue jake he is aura farming in every single scene yeah yeah and his like even if the line fucking sucks that actor is

he's fucking mogging in every scene yeah yeah yeah where it's like i don't care what you're saying i want to just see you saying it he's he milks yeah yeah so when you're when you're having these dynamics of like spiders in danger we need an uneasy alliance right now we don't have a choice type shit i'm like these are trips i love man yeah okay that's great like um but just two fuck why is it's so fucking long yeah it's three hours and 15 minutes it's crazy yeah it feels like watching the extended edition like first right it's like give me this like when I compose it maybe Yeah

You know Man's got a piss fan Loads of like bad dialogue And bad like kid actors And shit like that Yeah But a lot to like about it too Are there any rats

Navi rats They got like Pandora squids Okay Can you connect to the squid Make the squid come There's lots of like Weird kind of sexual implications

In the movie Uh huh um with the squid i don't think anyone connects to a squid but they could if they wanted to i think they could isn't that the idea they'd get smitten in the knees you know james cameron took lsd while watching like a wow outdoor sea yeah well deep sea diving that's what he's doing when looking at the squid yeah he's like whoa man i'm connecting to the squid so yeah i said earlier to you is kind of like an inverse way of water well I love the last hour of way of water I think it's like incredible yeah whereas like the first hour of fire and ash i thought was like about that

quality so if you combine these three films there might be like a four star in there but on their own they're a bit more how do you feel about the first one it's the best one um I think the biggest issue with two and three that it doesn't have like a central kind of hero's journey character anymore yeah so like scatterbrained with all these different characters that sure they might get a little arc or something here and there but it just doesn't have that like through line of that first movie yeah you know the like dramatic irony of this like disabled human who's able to be this like mega alien and like there's just more going on I feel as like yeah that's a really really good introduction to like that

world yeah and just like I don't know on like an emotional level this there's like something there to someone who's disabled being able to like have this body and have all this physical freedom there's something interesting yeah that that first scene when um he like gets the ability to like run around and stuff and that gives it yeah exactly and that gives it like a fun kind of it's almost like child like yeah yeah exactly he's like reborn yeah but it gives it a tension where like the more he's using the like avatar body his human body's getting more and more frail and like that's like a fun dynamic that isn't really he's almost like addicted to it yeah yeah um there's something like relatable and kind of human about that whereas

it's more about just fighting i guess now well that's always been a part of it like the war bit but it doesn't have that you know that that inherent tension anymore um uh 27 is a documentary called seeds um which was i just read the exploration of black generational farmers in the American South reveals the fragility of legacy and the significance of owning land. That was very interesting. Yeah, I think you mentioned this to me

a little while ago. And had some great visuals in it. It was like a nice balance for me for like when a documentary can be artsy and wanky to a degree where it's like I don't even feel like I'm learning anything. I've seen a few of those. But this was like a nice balance where it's like

this feels artistic and like you got intent. But I'm also like, learning something to did it make you say sensational yeah did you go absolute cinema that's a meme

25 meme I think no um 26 is Titan the Ocean Gate submersible disaster um I thought it was just like a good collection of

the questions you wanted answered like people attach to it not people just theorizing about it like people actually involved like breaking it down um yeah just just wild 25 is a weird one a film called resurrection i saw this when i was in vancouver it has some of the best stuff i've seen in a film this year but also i don't know who i could ever recommend it to you know it's one of those um why like ridiculously long right um very loose and like you know what I'm saying um I didn't even it's like

structured in these certain parts that have no explanation as to what is like different about them until you hear like after the fact like oh this is like the human senses explored through like different things and it's like without you feel like you need a forward or a con some context or like um you know when you look at a portrait in a gallery there's a little bit of yeah yeah yeah I feel like I needed the explanation bit because there's like a narrative or like characters there's not much to attach yourself to

but it is cool though the Smashing Machine 24 I was kind of disappointed by this I just I just I I don't the rock just he's not a good actor bro really he's fine in the film he's fine but like the extra kudos that people are giving him just because

like whoa he's like trying to do his job this one time it just bugs me on a level where I'm like right and there's like points of melodrama that we're just like no this just isn't interesting to me for like a safety project really right yeah hopefully Maltese Supremes a bit better um Zootopia 2 or Zootropolis at 23 just a good ass movie just like a good action film it's just like a bunch of fun chases, set pieces, linked together, fun character designs,

it's got short round as a snake, that's all I'm looking for, you know? That's probably the biggest surprise of 2025. Because yeah, I didn't really give a shit about that first movie. Yeah, it was, didn't really resonate with me. Yeah. It's got some funny shit in it.

Is it the MRI machine? Yeah. It struck a good balance for me of, like, the horror comedy. Yeah. Take itself too seriously. Didn't know how to wrap up. That was my biggest issue with it, I think. But kind of re-invigued it.

Some of the effects are just awesome. Yeah. Yeah, it was, I enjoyed that. 21 is Louis through, the Settlers. Pretty dark and fucked up about the Settlers. Yeah, I had to watch that. um yeah

20 Mickey 17 I would desperately want to see that huge fucking bomb uh it bombed oh yeah big time yeah big big big

uneven but likeable I like it actually a lot um it's it grown on you I wouldn't say grown but I give it like you know

three and a half star seven uh Uh, like what I was saying about sinners, even though it is based on a book, this one. I'm confused. Hmm? In this list, you've got to a three and a half star. Yeah.

Um, didn't you give Frankenstein a three star? No. You didn't? Okay. No. We're nearly that. Um, if you're like a sci-fi fan, it's like, nice to get one of that kind of budget. And it's a shame it didn't do better so we couldn't get more of that kind of thing.

There's not more of a hunger for that, is unfortunate. But number 19 is warfare, a very intense, just disgusting slice of that fucking conflict. Yeah. In a way, they didn't seem to, like, overly romanticise anything. It was very much just, like, the camera was just kind of, like, observing. I don't know. because there was some debate about like how much like propaganda how much of this is like yeah um but i think it would be it didn't feel very hurrah like join the military to me it felt

more like this is like what it actually looks like to see someone screaming in agony and they can't stop screaming in agony because they they don't have like limbs anymore and they're like and it's just horrible it's fucking awful the thing that i want to see from a movie like that now um is like from the perspective of like that other side i thought it the way it balanced that was quite interesting the movie the way it did the way it nodded to the people that were like living there yeah how it affected them was quite interesting um extremely well made and maybe the best sound design really did you see at the cinema oh right yeah it was if you're like at all sensitive like do not watch that shit um next one is an animated film number 18 predator killer

of killers like a weird one spider verse predator anthology movie is this different to the one with um this is with el fanning yeah i haven't seen that one yet um right i've heard it's all right um i've heard it's it's uh spoilers but i've heard there's an action scene because she's like a robot that's oh i've heard about this too there's an action scene where it's like her legs and her top half. That sounds fun. Yeah, that sounds great.

Because the meme with that was the, because yeah, it's only the top half of El Fanning. Yeah. The meme was like, they're trying to hide her like ass from everybody. Yeah, no,

because like an on set photo was like put out where she's wearing like leggings because they like green screen her legs out and like she's rocking a fat fucking dump truck. Fair enough. Everyone's like, Don't forget what they took from us. Well, she'll be coming up again a little bit.

But it's, it's like really good action. It's like... Really? It's like a predator in, like, Norse Viking times. Oh, okay. It's a predator in, like, samurai times. Oh, it goes through, like... But it's all linked and it all, like, comes together.

All right. Why is predator having a resurgence? I don't know. I think the guy they just put in charge, like, just clearly kind of getting. it on a certain level and has the right balance of like kind of goofiness yeah yeah yeah i don't know that was like a surprise to me um this is a fun british one the ballad of wallace island um at 17 about a two-time lottery winner who went and lived on this little island um and basically uses his immense wealth to get this like band to come to his island to play to play

just for him oh god yeah it's really kind of interesting and there's only like three or four characters in it maybe five yeah um small scale like very british um and quirky and funny um and charming i'm kind of sad um yeah number 16 Frankenstein uh i thought this was awesome um okay you liked it more than i thought i loved the production design obviously I liked the design of like Frankenstein and the structure. That was like one thing because I actually watched this with my parents. We haven't watched a film together in bloody years. Yeah, I haven't watched something with them in a while.

So we had like a good chat about it afterwards and my mum said and like after she said it I couldn't Um, I couldn't disagree. And she said, I think they made Frankenstein too, like, hot. Like, sure. I think he should have been scarier. Um, I don't know. I don't really care about that personally. Um, because I kind of liked how he was more.

He wasn't the, you know, the screws coming out of the head. The screws in the neck, right? And the giant. forehead. Yeah, like he didn't have to look like the original book. He looked more like the Prometheus like space jockeys or whatever. I don't know, I liked it. I felt like it didn't impede the performance of the actor in any way. It looked great. Yeah, yeah. And like he's quite scary at the beginning when he's all like cloaked and stuff. Yeah. And it felt more like fairy tale kind characters yeah yeah i i think um gilmo del toro did i say it right i hope so yeah mo del torre i'm scared

now i know del toro um yeah is in his element when he's writing and directing like a whimsical story like like that's why pan's labyrinth is like just the perfect film for him yeah you know like that's one of the things i liked about it was the a lot of his films have kind of been a note to Frankenstein anyway all along yeah yeah yeah you know well because I saw a little bit of that like documentary thing that plays afterwards yeah like he's always wanted to do Frankenstein and only now feels like he's in a place where he can actually give it like his best shot yeah um because I was really sold and one over um early on in the the kind of courtroom scene where victor's proving his like early

fucked up like tech basically with that weird body and it's like this practical effect and he's like yeah yeah it's like the top half of like a rotting yeah so i thought that it had that nice macabre Victorian element yeah all the people like lining up waiting to be hanged and he's like looking them over yeah yeah yeah i feel like um the movie does such a good job there of like making you understand Frankenstein's perspective of the monster where he's like going across battlefields like cutting legs off and stuff and it's like he just sees this thing as an amalgamation of rotting flesh yeah you know he doesn't see it as a person

yeah and it's more like his hubris and he's not even thinking about like the overall impact that this will have Yeah, what the, and what it'll actually do once he's achieved it, this goal. Like, you didn't think that far ahead. And I love the, when you read about the writer of the book, Mary Shelley, her, like, strained relationship with her father is what she based. She, like, personified Frankenstein as. Uh-huh. So she personified those feelings of, like, longiness and, like, why did you make me, but you want nothing to do with me?

and like yeah yeah feeling I think it's communicated really well in the film yeah amazingly well and the

just the idea of like repeating um like like the sins of the father yeah like you you kind of just recreate

I also liked the I'm pretty sure it's the same in the book the structure of the boat that's stuck in the ice the Danish yeah um

yeah it is having um Mads Mikleson's brother um he's like the the main boat dude is it the captain or whatever

I know I recognized him I'm not sure what else he's been in but I didn't know he's his brother they I like they were able to speak Danish as well they didn't do their like yeah yeah yeah we're Danish

but we're all speaking English to each other yeah that was cool yeah I I love Oscar Isaac like in everything I've ever seen him in and this is no exception

Mia goth, I thought, was really good as well He's got this like He thinks that she should like him more Yes And you got some good humor with that In like the Yeah In church or whatever

That early stuff is really quite charming And yeah it's that whimsy The kind of stuff I would Would have thought Like if I had been told That those scenes were in the movie I'd be like in Frankenstein that sounds fucking boring but like in in the execution it's really cool

yeah I liked it a lot um so yeah nice one yeah awesome film uh 15 is court stealing um another bomb but a good ass film uh by daran aronovsky i think i mentioned uh requiem for a dream earlier yeah um he did the orb thing as well didn't he oh the sphere yeah yeah yeah the what's called like something of a postcard yeah whatever um yeah good just kind of like drama um austin butler is like the lead character he's like there's he was gonna be a baseball player but he was in like a horrible car crash and he's just got this completely different trajectory um and he gets in like a co-brother's kind of way it's just like wrong place wrong time and just pulled into this um matt smith crime mess right and all these like different factions

are like coming in and it's funny and brutal and fucked up too brutal for some people like tonally but i i liked the where it went um yeah i'd recommend that especially because it fucking bombed and no one saw it yeah uh wes anderson's the phoenician scheme at number 14 um fire I thought um benicio del Toro uh yeah it is really funny in it um um it's i don't know like it's michael sarah in it yeah he might be the best character actually is he's like this Norwegian um is he a pilot no he's like an expert on insects oh okay he's got these like giant stick insects in his hand and yeah yeah no That's funny. Like I feel like we don't really get like amazing comedies anymore unless

they're packaged in this kind of way or like in like one battle after another or something like they'll hide some humor or like satirical elements. 13 Eddington ariester's latest quite divisive lots of people don't like it but I found it to be quite a trend that starts appearing in my top 10 or around this point are these films that are encapsulating the 2020s, as far as, um, like misinformation, conspiracy theories, um, like wealth gaps and divides and this kind of thing being represented in some way. And Eddington does that very well. A, like a neo-Western set during COVID. Hmm. Crazy idea. I think it pays off. I've seen it twice. Um, definitely not for everyone, though.

Uh, number 12, bring her back. The racker-raca YouTuber Aussie dudes, their latest horror movie. Um, you didn't see talk to me, did you? I don't think so. With the horror movie, with the like hand that you hold. No, yeah, yeah, I didn't. Like a haunted hand. Um, this one had Sally Hawkins.

It was fucking excellent. Um, she was in shape of water. of del Toro um just a really solid great horror movie where they seem to be very good at working with quite young actors like there's some stuff they have these like kind of kid characters do in a horror setting that are like really disturbing um and effective and you know like emotional fucked up um that's definitely one to look out for and uh long similar lines 11 21 28 years later um yeah that's i i watched it again like reviewed it again i think it got better yeah i saw it twice it's definitely better on a second watch yeah and there's all this stuff about i don't know it's

nice to be rewarded as someone who is like british and is watching this british film yeah and a bunch of like the commentary and like meaning behind it um is enhanced by being that way where it was i feel like a lot of people are watching it and are disappointed because it's not like a zombie movie like a typical zombie movie it's about a bit more and it leans more towards like fantasy and kind of almost absurdism and there's this like dreamlike at point yeah um and like rewatching it and noticing the way like st george flag is used and there's a lot of cleverness in it um and the energy it just felt like kind of weird and different and now that it's confirmed that the third

movie has been greenlit I feel like nice because that was that was one of my fears was it was a bit too weird for general audiences people aren't going to come out for the second one and we won't even get the story finished as I'm hoping me near de Costa brings it together

something I love is when like when an older director just like comes in and like because this was the thing with like Mad Max um they come in after doing kind of a bunch of like lame like corny films yeah um comes back and just makes like a daring energetic like yeah it's like he's 20 years old

yeah yeah it's got that like train spotting energy like you can feel that like there's a these weird camera rigs these like editing choices and like the the young father's music is fucking awesome in it yeah so weird some it's super like frenetic yeah i got really engaged and it's it's almost like two movies in one yeah with it being like two excursions from like the safe space well i like seeing it as the the father's perspective and the mother's perspective then the son's perspective yeah yeah yeah um i don't know yeah there's lots going on with that movie i think people are

kind of ham waving it in certain ways um yeah i also love um the choice of like accents yes that it's not just like coming up north and yeah it's not like britannia fucking bbc and like we've already done london you know we did london in the first yeah yeah yeah but even in that one um like he's full on irish accent right Killian Murphy It's not like BBC English I can't remember Yeah I'm pretty sure he's

Because he's just like an Irish guy in London Yeah yeah Can't remember his accent Maybe I'm wrong Maybe I'm wrong Yeah I can't remember But um Yeah

And it's got northern Military man Um Fucking Doctor Who Oh yeah yeah Yeah and um Mad I Moody Who's Irish

Yeah Yeah Yeah Let's go Um So now we're in the top ten number 10 it's got to be Superman

bro kind of surprising for me I love the journey I've gone on with this movie dude it's so fucking good it's such a fucking good movie this is like I don't know

if a superhero movie culturally has like needed to exist quite like this before maybe in different ways like I feel like the dark night sums up that time period very well

yes it feels like it's like a response to like 9-11 and yeah yeah yeah all this kind of weird like angst to it going into the 2010s or late 2000s where this is like it's corny but it's like about hope and like being better yeah I love um

he's a living symbol but like it he himself isn't yeah like the point is that like like his his revelation in the movie is that he's not you know yeah he is like just a guy mm-hmm and he's a guy established in like the argument scene um like he's he's got this like childlike view of the world and it's like I just want to do good i have all this power that i he's an optimist do good with so that's what like is the foundational motivation for every action yeah and and i don't know i was kind of we've been told for so long that like like you can't do that like it doesn't work yeah and now it's it's too boy scouty it's too yeah it's like why why why is it unrealistic to like what to be a good

guy. Yeah. Like, he didn't want to do the right thing. But I think that's what made it succeed was like, not only are we not going to shy away from that, but we're going to fucking double down on that. Triple down, the squirrel. When I saw the squirrel, I was, I was like, that's the closest I've been to, like,

chicken jockey throw out my popcorn. I was like, they did it. He's done it. Fucking James Gun. Ah. The gun don't miss. Yeah. Yeah.

And that could have been included in the meme conversation, actually. Like, just using those notes from the theme. yeah or um star man yeah like star man with superman that is like well of course yeah oh i'm a cock sucker yes the meme of him like going ah yeah it's some good shit it like it like i don't know it put its fingers on the pulse of like culture in a certain way for sure i just feel like um because i was a james gun hater I remember when Early Guardian's days Yeah yeah

I remember when James Gunn was like Briefly fired from Disney I was like good Get rid of his ears It's good it happened for your sake Because you wouldn't have got this movie otherwise Well you I mean

This was when he was fired for those tweets Yeah Before Guardians 3 Yeah then they brought him back No but I would argue You wouldn't get this movie Without that happening Really?

Yeah because remember in that interim He made the suicide squad Did he? Yeah that's when that came out yeah oh wow which is also a fucking great film yeah i love that film um managed to make those characters like work but since guardians two i was like oh i get it now i was like danny davito you know when he's crying the mary poppins shit danny mary poppins yeah oh yeah yeah i'm mary poppins y'all he just yeah i don't know if

it's like just emotional manipulation or like to me it comes across his sincerity yeah i think it's like emotional honesty yeah like he and it's not afraid to do that it doesn't do the like oh just undercut it with a gag like there are instances of that but it's yeah yeah it's usually like within a comedic scene anyway though um yeah but he also has a willingness to like take shit to like a a darker space yeah so they like have stakes or consequence yeah there's consequence but also there's there is still the whimsy of it's fucking superman you know he's not fucking aura farming after like terrorist attack i would argue he is aura farming though in the way you want though i think that's shot of him coming up from the yeah after he's caught the like

the skyscraper that's fucking aura next next level that would to me it's like is this what people feel like when they're in like church or whatever yeah yeah yeah for sure that's exactly what I was feeling I remember like the the chills I like I needed like five extra layers I was I was shivering in the in the theater all three times that I went like and the the bit when he's like fighting Ultraman and he's been like lasered in his eyes and then he he like rises up yes fight and it's like it's so fucking cool I like the you know when the guitar iteration of the theme comes in and he's like spinning around like shooting his laser eyes and shit he's like right i'm done playing around now the slow-mo punch with the tooth hitting the camera it's like you just get it man yeah and all the dog shit yeah but again with the like the sincerity like you know this is someone who has a dog yeah like the highs and loads of having a fucking annoying

ass dog you know but like you but like the squirrel thing that line of him like saying it's not even a good dog but he's probably scared so I gotta help him

yeah so like damn so like an efficient super efficient script yeah and Corinne sweat yeah just killed

perfect casting yeah I'm blanking on her name but Lois Lane I can't Like, I actually, she, she is plucked from, like, the cartoon in my head. Like, they, they, they like, chemistry, man. They got, like, a chemistry where it's like, I'm, I'm sorry that, like, you're married and shit.

Yeah. Yeah. Can you imagine being that either of their partners? It's like, yeah, the paranoia must mean the next level. Yeah. Well, just like, well, the behind the scenes videos and shit, just like, you're fucking. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's crazy. but it works for the movie so it's fine yeah I was quite shocked by that especially how much better I found it on a second watch yeah and a third I gotta say

that third watch hit different but you've farmed it now for a bit you can watch it before the next one yeah I mean now that I've got like Wi-Fi and shit I'll probably just like buy it on Amazon and watch it a couple times a week so we're nearly done here don't worry

number nine bugonia your ghost lanthamos movie talking about these weird bugs bugs are included a framing device is bugs bees because they make an analogy what the fuck is it called

it's called like hive sickness or something it's like a condition that a beehive can get where they get like out of sync with the queen and they just start like killing themselves it's like a weird like name for it some phenomena and they were making a parallel with like humans I guess and uh putting a deranged conspiracy theorist um who gets all of his news from his own sources up against a CEO of a tech company that he's kidnapped oh um and there is this the emma stone one yeah yeah and um jesse plemmons so that's usually a winning formula for me when you have like almost a bottle movie type thing just put these actors together the script is good enough they're just acting against each other it's fucking awesome um yeah i need

to see them yeah that was a great one um number eight is weapons horror movie i saw a clip from that today that looks really fucking creepy and It's really creepy, really cool, holds up on rewatch. The structure of it is really interesting. Where like, it's not like a three-act structure. It's more like a five-act thing. But like this, the story switches perspective. Right.

But it tells one continuous story. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's awesome. Yeah, so without spoiling anything. I love one. Really cool. um this guy's doing a resident evil movie next year what and he apparently like loves the games and

shit oh shit okay it might finally fucking happen maybe it's time dude because if if you got that tone right oh my it could be like yeah funny and like creepy and fucking dude can you imagine when they get to resident evil four how fucking awesome that would be yeah since i played the remake of resi t um Like, how has, have films not been, like, made? I know. Like, a good film. Because you can't get it, or they just, don't get it. Like, with the adaptations they've tried.

What the? But he, you might be able to do it. If there's anyone I'm going to bet money on it'll be home. So, number seven is the Stephen Soderberg film Black Bag, with Kate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender playing this, like, power couples, spyy couple. Set in London, all these British characters. um pierce brosnin

in there peers uh the dude from Furiosa um who looks like uh

solid snake oh yeah he's one of the characters in it and he's excellent it's got it's like super short 90 minutes like the first scene is the hook of like

there's a rat right so it's just like the main character figure out who the rat is for 90 minutes it's super succinct kind of satirical and funny bombed hard

no one gave a fuck about it yeah but one you should check out because it was cool um this film I was describing to you

earlier I only watched this a few days ago number six I got it was just an accident um um uh how can expect

I don't want to spoil anything so I feel like you should just watch this it was just an accident it's called it was just an accident um I would just read what it says on letterbox Vahid, an Aja-Bajani auto mechanic, was once imprisoned by Iranian authorities.

During his sentence, he was interrogated, blindfolded. One day a man named Ekbal enters his workshop, his prosthetic leg creaks, and Vahid thinks he recognizes one of his former torturers. Another succinct, clever, brilliantly put together drama, avoids melodrama, is, like, bitingly political in what it's saying. and just is a great story with a fucking amazing ending um i don't know like yeah who would really have a beef with this fucking film um great stuff um number five sentimental value Norwegian film with um stella and l fanning um and a few others in there a it's about like

Stelan Scarsgard is playing a kind of past his prime director who's trying to get his passion project script made his megalopolis kind of yeah but he's got this strained relationship with his daughters and he's trying to like get this film made to kind of like he's so like hyper-focused on film he's kind of been an absent father and like it's fucked up his relationship with them and he's trying to use his art to reconnect with them um and his his daughter as an actor And, like, he wrote the story with her in mind, but, like, she doesn't want to take part. And it's just a really great drama.

With clever commentary about the nature of art and the kind of creative process and what you... Almost like, you know, whiplash where the core can see is, like, what are you willing to sacrifice? It sounds a bit birdman-y as well. Kind of, but it's not... It's more, uh, like, naturalistic, like, real. They feel like real people Birdman's obviously exaggerated And yeah it's very

It's like a straight up comedy Birdman Yeah But yeah it is You know It's about similar kind of themes Anyway That's a great drama

Number four The film I really want you to see Train Dreams I think I described it to you It's kind of it's like a A guy in 18 he like works on train developments and it's just like a mosaic of his life his entire life um and the meaning he finds in it but it's it's gorgeous all these it's called train dreams and dreams are like part of the structure and it feels very kind of like dreamy and like and like his life is like passing through his fingers in a way that you can't quite grasp

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It feels like it's encapsulating this entire life. Another great ending, great music, production design is, like, incredible. The guy from Fargo with the kind of bug eyes, oh, the fuck's his name. The blonde guy? Yeah, William H. Macy. With the funny voice. Yeah.

He's kind of like neurotic and... Yeah. He has like a bit part in the movie that's super... memorable and like nice there are loads of like small characters like i'll describe one scene for you for example that might so you want it that doesn't spoil anything he's like the main character's doing his job just like cutting wood or whatever and a guy shows up that seems like a bounty hunter or someone and he like he gets into like a gunfight and kills somebody but it's like the tertiary perspective of it like you're a character who's got nothing to do with it like like you're

this guy's just come in and then it's like what does it look like after like that the hit has been done yeah yeah yeah and the guy's just like you know i was just here for blood da da da da da like do we have a problem here and like what that looks like and everyone's just kind of like doing their job and what's nothing to do with it and then like that's that's not part of the plot beyond that scene type thing right right right a really cool that's cool it just yeah it doesn't feel like it's like slice of life yeah or like a caricature of like they're a mustache 12 villains everyone's kind of just like existing and that the main peril and threat of the world is the world but the world is fucking horrifying yeah just scary yeah yeah this sounds

really cool yeah I thought it was very very cool um number three uh Korean film no other choice by Park Chanwick um I'm trying to think what Park Chamwick film you've seen you've seen you've seen old boy yes um this is latest i'm not sure what else you've seen handmaid them or um no i i think it might be just um yeah um i don't i might like this more than old boy wow really i fucking love old boy i think it might be like his like masterpiece type thing his magnum opus i think it's genuinely might be that good it's so so clever um going back to this thing i was saying about films addressing like

AI and wealth disparity and like automation. Yeah, yeah. Just people who are being drawn to each other's throats, even though they're all like the same person or have the same situation really.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're infighting and stuff like that, but it's about a dude in the awful job market in a career at the moment he's like works for a paper company like office style he's like obsessed with paper can't get a new job after he's laid off so he decides to set up a fake paper company

so all of the people he'd be competing with in applying to other paper companies try to apply to his fake one so he can get their names and kill them so then you can just sleep walk into a a job but not have any competition yeah and like where it goes from there um that's awesome amazing hook fantastic execution um so funny so fucked up like and just like meticulously put together in where it's like it's it doesn't even make sense that it's in the same mediums like snow white you know yeah yeah yeah it's like it's just so is it one of those feelings one of those films where like after you watch it you're like how how yeah uh-huh how did they do this yes yeah it's quite incredible um and number two you've seen number one number one number two is

one battle after another i thought that was going to be your number one um re-watched it a few weeks ago and it kind of cemented yeah yeah i need to watch this shit crazy um i've seen a few little clips one of the funnier films of the year is the whole thing like a comedy it's kind of like a dark comedy satire tone

um pissed off Ben Shapiro which is always good that's like so did Superman it's like a sign of like oh it's connecting with the culture it's pissing off Ben Shapiro

yeah um everyone's amazing in it even though it's like three hours long you don't feel it at all yeah yeah um

an action sequence so simple but original and effective that's just like such a great way to end the movie and it has one of the best villains of the year yeah I've seen a few clips of him yeah he's got some like do you like black women oh Sean Penn is crazy in that film he's like unhinged that haircut like yeah he's so intense and like insecure yeah yeah I'm not gay yeah that scene is fucking brilliant yeah and the context of like why he's there and what he's doing it's just like and the Christmas adventurers and everything it's like not a homosexual it's quite brilliant yeah and number one to wrap this shit up war the worlds war of the worlds War of the World's... That was this year. War of the World's...

Yes, they came out this year. Yo! No, because the... I, when I turn my projector on, you know, it's got that home screen of just like random shit that's just released. I saw, and one of the widgets

was like a close-up of Ice Cube and it said, like, War of the World's out now. And I was like, what the fuck? I've not heard of this. I like War of the World's the story. What's Ice Cube got to do with this?

Is it's just like a weird documentary or something? Yeah. Then you go on it and you... You witnessed them. the best comedy ever it's so good the best comedy of the year yeah it's so good it's like we just put it on as a whim yeah like because that was funny because i i showed you cayoni scotsie this like yeah yeah then we watch more of the world yeah it's like two totally different masterpieces yeah it's like inverse of each other yeah yeah but one is like wait it's get you're like intellectually

you're like whoa this is saying so much yeah and you're like yeah it's not saying a single thing there's no words everything yeah it lets you feel like a you're like a cartographer like searching uncharted lands and then um that's war of the worlds i don't know how to describe it was so fucking true yeah oh my god what a fucking film because and it's it's unique that it's equally as funny by yourself right I watched it for the first time

by myself I recorded my reaction to it yeah and I thought I know I know everything that happens

like sharing it to you it's gonna be funny for your reaction but nah no

no it's like the the comedic timing is like so unintentionally perfect yeah

that it makes for like and there's just so many questions like why the fuck does this exist

why did they release this shit like yeah if I was ice cube I would have paid

for them to not release it. But all the big names in it as well makes it extra funny. Yeah. Like Evil Angoria being in there, Clark Gregg from like the Avengers and shit. It's just randomly. Yeah. Him being in it is the cherry on top. And he's just, he's always like sweating just on like,

yeah. And the fact that like all this shit's going on and they like FaceTime. After they show like all the satellites on Earth like being destroyed. Yeah. Networks anymore. It's so fucking good. They're like, they thought they were cooking by, like, modernizing the, the plot. I won't spoil anything.

They're eating data. Yeah. They're feeding off the data? Like, saving the day by, like, ordering a USB stick off Amazon? Yeah. The delivery driver is, like, a main character. It's so fucking stupid, man. It's like

I feel like It might be Amazon Like testing out propaganda It's like If this is what they want to release If I can go for it Give me more Give me more

That's crazy Yeah So good The AI slop we're fucking in for In the coming years Jesus Christ Yeah See what's gonna

It's gonna take away Like war of the worlds Yeah It's like the fact that I think what brings it All together The binding agent is Ice Cube.

It's so strange. I don't... It's when he's like... He has to react. His reactions. That's so funny. When he like stands up and he's like... Yeah.

So that should be on the meme list. It's just Ice Cube reactions. Yeah, tough. Yeah, tough as fuck. Yeah, unk, unk, fucking full ford. So yeah, I've still got like some big things to see. Like award season stuff. But I feel like it's a decent list for now.

It's a very healthy list. Yeah, I got a nice range of like countries and... Yeah. Types of story and stuff. Yeah, well done. So I guess as we wind down this, because I guess we won't shift to the question segment and stuff like that

Is there anything else? Did you watch anything else that wasn't from this year? You watched, oh no, no, you didn't actually watch it yet. You borrowed a couple of... Yeah, yeah, I haven't go around to it yet. If that's it. yeah i think um i think that is it on my front for sure i don't um for me like watching a movie is kind of like an event um yeah you'll have way more to say for music and games and a bit of tv and

yeah for sure um but one thing i as like in in a jamie way um it's not a 2025 film but i rewatched a film I hadn't seen for about 10 years Or whenever it came out The Witch Hmm Yeah I haven't seen that in a while It's probably been about 10 years for me actually Yeah

Because I think it came out when I was like 18 And watching it now Holy shit Like Like proper folk horror Yeah I've never seen Any other movie like it

Like apparently it was a fucking nightmare To film Because the language the language the the director was such such like a meticulous like it had to be like perfect it had to be totally accurate to the time that's what makes his stuff cool you know yeah i do know what else he's done northman he's the lighthouse yeah it's what put him on the map shit man nosferatu that makes so much sense i need to watch nosferrti but yeah what a crazy crazy good film what I didn't realize is that like

the script is made up of um a bunch of like relics of like journals and shit from that time oh I didn't like that people yeah that's cool the whole script is made up of that and when you know that it makes it so much scarier as well yeah it makes you wonder like what what the fuck actually was going on back then like to make these people come up with this shit because it's really freaky and like the the stuff with the baby and like the goat yeah the goat the

goat's fucking I mean the film is goated it is let's be let's be real um and doing like yeah I think I must have watched it while playing like destiny or something when I first because back then I couldn't sit and watch a film yeah I had to like be doing something else playing dr mary or something yeah yeah um yeah they would do that as well but to sit and just watch it man yeah that's like an atmosphere you can cut with a knife type thing yeah for sure um yeah i and like doing more less as well yes i feel like works in horace yeah and that like small cast yeah of really good actors yeah um and the the the ending um um I think is perfect like it's such a very clever film yeah and it the film almost like seduces you into like being or like you would just you would dance with the devil like under the same self yeah yeah it's like that's the whole plot of the film is like yeah yeah it's amazing it's a goaded shout out for sure goated as fuck

you seen the lighthouse yes but like i need to watch it again so i didn't give it my full attention yeah you got to do that properly yeah it was i was watching with someone when we were like talking pretty much the whole time and it's not that kind of film no um but i remember a lot of worlds is a good one for that yeah yeah it's built for that no you got to lock in for war of the worlds let's be real you go shh i'm listening yeah yeah Wait, I'm lost. Rewind it. So I guess we'll cap this episode off here.

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