My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 335 - NERD NEWS (SUPERMAN REVEALS, CANCELLED STAR WARS GAMES, AND MORE) WITH CLEM

Episode Date: March 1, 2024

Robbie and Clem recap the week of nerd news, which included 'Superman: Legacy' changing its name to 'Superman' (and a logo reveal), EA cancelling their Star Wars bounty hunter game, Lucasfilm confirmi...ng that the Rey movie is NOT Episode X, Ray Winstone calling his experience on Black Widow "soul destroying", and more! #StarWars #Superman #Dune2 ****************************************   My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike!   Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/MyMomsBasementWithRobbieFox Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement presented by Barstool Sports. It is Robbie Fox and Clem back for another week of nerd news. We've got a decent portion of nerd news for you this week. We've got some movie news, we've got some video game news, some rumors that got cleared up. I think it's only appropriate that we start with the Superman news because yesterday, Leap Day, February 29th, was Superman's birthday. And just by coincidence, Superman Legacy, now retitled Superman, started shooting on Superman's birthday. James Gunn swears that this was a total accident he didn't even realize that leap day was superman's birthday till recently but they revealed the logo which looks very kingdom come superman and they also like i said
Starting point is 00:00:57 renamed the movie it's gone from superman legacy to now just Superman, which you could say anything you want to me. That's just a big balls move by James Gunn being like, this is fucking Superman. We're not throwing any taglines, any cheesy titles on it. This is the most definitive Superman we're getting since Christopher Reeve. So, yeah,
Starting point is 00:01:19 I have two different thoughts on these two stories here. Very different in terms of how I feel about our boy, James Gunn. Our boy. He's the baseman's boy. He is the baseman's boy, James Gunn. One, I loved Just Going Superman. That is balls on the table. I'm fucking
Starting point is 00:01:38 here to save the DCU, and if I don't, whatever, there's going to be another guy. But this is it. There's no, because it's always like a little, you said, a little tagline, a little this, little that, it's like, no, I should have just said, oh, you know, I don't want to step on Christopher Reeve's toes, it's probably not the best analogy, as I'm saying this out loud, nonetheless, I don't want to step on the toes of the fans of the original movie, yada, yada, no, let's just fucking forget everything that has ever happened to the dcu and we're starting fresh right now so this is superman it's not superman this man of steel that you know blah blah it's fucking just superman here put a period in it so you know
Starting point is 00:02:15 it's the end of the book that is it superman period so i'm very i was very happy to hear that they did that and it kind of like every, how many times have I said here on the podcast, like just hit the reset button and don't look back. Don't like, you know, Harry Cavill this, or it's like,
Starting point is 00:02:33 no, no, just disconnect from everything. So I love that. The leap year stuff and Superman's birthday. And it was just coincidence. Come on, man.
Starting point is 00:02:41 You had it fucking made in the shade to be like, we were waiting for the one in let's see 365 times four that's a 12 that's another 14 about 15 1 in 1500 chance in these four years that you could do make this announcement get the pictures leaked on superman's birthday and be like yeah because we're fucking running this shit right. We knew that there was a 1 in a 15, whatever I just said, chance that this was going to happen. And I would have loved it. I would have eaten it all up
Starting point is 00:03:12 and all of us fucking, everyone who's been glazing James Gunn, yeah, I'm going to start using the phrase that kids say these days. Very adult phrase, by the way, if you think of it. If it is what I'm thinking about. And just be like, yeah, we did it. but don't tell me like coincidence, this and that, that's just fucking lame. I thought that was lame personally. I thought you shouldn't delete
Starting point is 00:03:31 pictures by the way. Fake, not real. Oh, fucking AI got us again. Huh? Was that an AI? I got us again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you zoom in on the photographers on that picture, it looks very, yeah. James Gunn also came out and said, that ain real um this is the logo though i'll put it on screen if you're watching on youtube that's what i meant i meant the logo that uh that leaked yes that's what i was talking okay so that's official they were pictures of david corn sweat or you know it was quote unquote david corn sweat in the actual suit those were fake but they actually got a lot of people. So I wanted to make that clear. We haven't seen the full suit. We don't know if he's going to be wearing undies. We don't know if he's going to have the bullet belt yet. We don't know if the
Starting point is 00:04:12 logo is going to be on the Cape. This is all the questions going through every comic book fans mind. I assume we'll see that soon though, because they're going to have to film some of this shit outdoors and you would rather put out an official look at the costume before it leaks, you know? Yeah, that makes sense. And like you said, it is such a big, it happens with all the big superheroes. Are they going to have this? Are they going to have that? What's the Batmobile going to look like?
Starting point is 00:04:35 Are they, you know, Wolverine going to have the suit? All the iconic heroes. And Superman is kind of the boss of this. Now, I have to ask you, Bob. We're in the basement. The basement is very much known. You're in the basement the basement is very much known you're in the basement it's the trust tree we can say our true opinions here you will not get any kind of backlash and i need your honest opinion here is there any part of you
Starting point is 00:04:57 as the diehard batman fan that is kind of hoping that i'm not gonna say it flops but like if if i could tell you behind door one is a movie and they're gonna say holy shit they made a movie better than the dark night and behind door two is like yeah 8.1 pretty good excuse me ball scale uh 4.1 yeah pretty good which would you choose as a fan of not only like we have the podcast right so a good movie is good for the podcast hypothetically speaking a fan of cinema you go to the movies jeff d lowe likes you because you go to keep the lights on there uh but at the same time diehard batman guy and i do feel like it more so than any other superheroes, the Batman fans versus Superman fans is like a rivalry that's honestly hasn't been one for years. But could be one if, like, both of them put out fucking great movies coming up and we're just like, holy shit, we have Batman and Superman.
Starting point is 00:05:57 DC is back. James Gunn did it. Our fucking The Basement Boy has become The Basement Man. That's a good point. I remember I used to argue with the kid i went to school with bridges and he was a huge superman fan and i'd be like batman would whoop his ass he has whooped his ass he's got a kryptonite brass knuckles he's got kryptonite rings he could hit him with he's got kryptonite bombs he'd be like no way superman lasers him
Starting point is 00:06:19 right in the mouth doesn't see it coming he's done. We had these arguments daily. I gotta say, there would be part of me that would be killed by liking a movie more than The Dark Knight and having it be a superhero that's not my favorite superhero. So that door one you presented, it would kill me inside
Starting point is 00:06:40 to be like, this is better than The Dark Knight. I don't... But like, the comic book fan, the James Gunn fan, the DC fan in me like wants that, like wants a movie where I could be like, holy fuck. Like a movie hasn't blown me away since The Dark Knight. Maybe Infinity War came close. this one went oh it would have to be better than infinity war which would be like i can't even comprehend kicking off a universe could be better than infinity war in the dark knight and all that so yeah i'll take the 4.1 you know and that's why i love you bob and that's why everyone listening and watching loves you because you tell the truth and so 4.1 is a promising start to the universe
Starting point is 00:07:22 we'll take that yeah it's like almost take that You almost can't have it be You can't even compare Infinity War and Endgame To any other movie because it's like an ensemble movie It's wrapping up a fucking decade Worth of work But like Dark Knight, I'm trying to think of What other
Starting point is 00:07:39 If it's better than say the original Iron Man It gets better accolades Than Guardians Stuff like that if it's better than say the original Iron Man, it gets better accolades than Guardians, stuff like that, that are, you know, standalone-ish movies that are not, you know,
Starting point is 00:07:51 have the entire universe essentially fighting it. And I'm going to have to say though, Bob, I'm going to just steer into this here and I hope this doesn't cause friction, but I think that our Cap versus Iron Man was a very, it's been a very fun subplot. I think I'm becoming a super big guy. I'm putting it down on the table right now superman's my guy clark kent i got fucking lois lane you have maggie jill and all i got lois lane
Starting point is 00:08:13 girl next door i got what's his name jimmy uh jimmy olsen jimmy olsen i got that little fucking ginger he's a ginger i think he's a ginger yeah this guy he's a superman guy i don't even know jimmy olsen just became you know what the board birth of a superman guy was just happened live on the podcast here here's the good thing about this rivalry is it could be diffused with one word martha so you gotta say martha and then you remember oh our moms have the same name we could stop fighting now there you go that's like the uh that's like the safe word it just like eases all the fucking tension here it's the nerd why did you say that name then it's like all right which martha was better it's like well my you know superman's mom midwestern girl she cut the sandwiches and little triangles listen i'm the
Starting point is 00:09:01 biggest batman guy you're gonna find superman's martha's better is she better i don't know much about her i'm a new superman listen yeah like martha wayne a saint you know she had some mental issues if you want to follow the the batman storyline and there's other some other storylines with it she's part of the arkham family and stuff but like at the end of the day super rich like probably not super down to earth married to a doctor living in skyscrapers and shit when you get ma kent she's like the all-american like you know she's the mom you want especially i gotta say in the zack snyder movies really good i think sally field is that who plays oh sally. I feel like she was in something decent. Let me verify that because I get Sally Field mixed up with another actress.
Starting point is 00:09:52 No, it wasn't Sally Field. It was Diane Lane. Diane Lane is a good one, too. She's like one of the infamous forever a smoke. She's just stunning. She's 60 years old now, still just like an absolute beauty. You know, she couldn't, it wouldn't fit because she is much more New York. just stunning. She's 60 years old now, still just like an absolute beauty. You know, she couldn't, it wouldn't fit because she is much more New York,
Starting point is 00:10:08 but like, I'm trying to think who they, do they have, have they announced who Ma Kent will be? No, but I think Sally Fields should do it now. Sally, yeah, you know what, I'll bet. I was going to say Marissa Tomei, but we already have her, obviously, as they have me and all that kind of stuff, and she is New York
Starting point is 00:10:24 more so than Nebraskabraska right um kansas this guy he and the superman guy he hit a superman guy i'm still i'm still getting my bearings it's been a long time hey i knew midwest i was fucking directionally correct do they bore i feel like they border each other that's the same thing you know they might i'm not as good of geography as I am Superman knowledge. I mean, if our boy KB was listening, he'd be puking everywhere. Oh, they're fucking basically the same state. They're right there. Nebraska's right on top of Kansas.
Starting point is 00:10:57 It's not a big deal. This guy thinks Superman works for the Daily Bugle. That's Clark. guy thinks superman works for the daily bugle that's clark i i like the hardest thing about being a superman guy which i am is the whole glasses thing it always just is like come on you know what i disagree i thought that my whole life and then recently i've seen some people like in my normal life friends family whatever without glasses and they look so different that i'm like you know what i think i'd get fooled by Clark Kent. You think you'd get fooled?
Starting point is 00:11:26 Yeah. The only part, imagine like if say Clark Kent or Superman worked for bar school and everyone's like, dude, like, oh, hey, Clark, how's it going, dude? And Portnoy would be the only person to be like, dude, that's fucking Superman. That's not, it's a fake voice, right? That would be his kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:11:43 He'd sniff out Clark Kent instantly. instantly but yeah the rest of us probably would Because glasses do change the first time I Threw on Lester like where's Clint Where'd he go All right so If anyone at Barstool is Superman A Kryptonian pretending to Be one of us
Starting point is 00:12:00 It's got to be Mincy It's got to be Mincy you know he does like The you know messed up hair and Cross-eyed, and then we think, oh, he's just bumbling all mince. And then he leaves here, and it's like he ain't doing hogs for the cause. He's saving the planet. And he has backers. He has the two richest people in the company are backing him at different times. It's crazy.
Starting point is 00:12:21 He just felt like failing upwards isn't even what he does. And I honestly, when this last thing with the combine, followed by the thousand dollar offer from his peaches, I thought we were going to see the death of Mincy. And somehow he's going to emerge stronger. He has. We're taping this Friday morning. We have the Clemmer versus Mincy challenge. And I feel like they're if you're just going on Mincy,
Starting point is 00:12:44 he's like the pitcher has a good season bad season good season bad season he's gonna run like a 4-1-4 he's gonna break the nfl records i'm like how the fuck did he do that i don't know i've been running guys i've been doing a whole lot of running i was gonna say when you were saying kryptonian i was gonna say i feel like clemmer is a villain and this kind of plays this could play out perfectly in this combine here we have our kryptonian and our fucking supervillain. And you can just see like a comic book guy who does the gargoyle pose like our boy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Onto some video game news. Some unfortunate video game news. EA has canceled the Star Wars Bounty Hunter first person shooter game. EA laid off a bunch of employees hundreds i think and in this game some details we got you were going to play as a mandalorian not din jar not the mandalorian but a mandalorian pursuing bounties across the galaxy fast-paced jetpack combat that sounds fucking awesome um you battled various types of stormtroopers atsts at80s it was not an open world game, which surprised me.
Starting point is 00:13:47 I kind of pictured this being like a Red Dead Redemption type Mandalorian game, but apparently not. And it's confirmed that Jedi Survivor slash Fallen Order 3 is still in development. And a Knights of the Old Republic remake is also still in development. This is a bummer, though. There was a game back in the day called Star Wars 1313, and they were like, it's about a secret bounty hunter in the depths of Coruscant. I think it was revealed along the way that it was going to be about a young Boba Fett, and there's even some leaked test footage from it that looked awesome. For my whole childhood, I was always always thinking that game sounds so good this game sounded like it was going to be that you know for the next generation the next level of uh
Starting point is 00:14:32 consoles sucks i i think a star wars bounty hunter game kind of like the one i described like a red dead redemption but it's in the star wars universe that would fucking fly off the shelves like sell it to rockstar let him do a rated r version of it it might take him uh 12 years to put it out you know but let's get him started on it now let him do a rated r star wars game where they're saying like you fucking scruffy nerf herder throw an f-bomb in there or something like that would be that'd be everything we ever wanted there was an old game called star wars galaxies that was open world online people loved it i it was like before my time i never really got a chance to play it wait what was the
Starting point is 00:15:09 name of the title that one galaxies it was like an online only game and you could go planet to planet you could fit a bunch of people in an online server i watched plenty of videos on it on youtube and i'm like this seemed like the most fun game ever i feel like i might have had that game and it was like it was so 2003 and i feel like the like it might have been choppy or something like it just never like hooked me in but this was one of the games i said i kind of oversaturated myself with star wars games at some point and i just cut bait with it. This sucks because, like you said, there's certain like, sex of the star, S-E-C-T-S. Sex of the Star Wars. They're not talking the big capital
Starting point is 00:15:52 S word. There's certain sex of the Star Wars universe that can make a very cool video game and bounty hunting. The fucking, the catalog is wide open. Go to any planet, do anything. You have to get this person on this fucking, in this star system. Boom.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Done. Very cool. Pretty clean. It was EA, right? Yeah. EA sucks. Let's be honest. I haven't fucked with any of their loot crate.
Starting point is 00:16:16 I don't know if they're still just fucking people over like they used to. But that's the one thing. It's like, it sucks. The layoffs obviously suck. But with the EA thing, it's not like, if it was a Rock a rock star game this would be if you're wearing black on the podcast yeah exactly so it sucks but hopefully someone somewhere i love this idea of just giving rock star licenses for all the big franchises and they're like listen guys the one thing is you have to come out the game in 15 years just can't do it and then to do it. And then we get a Marvel game.
Starting point is 00:16:45 We get ourselves a Star Wars game. It could be some pretty cool shit along with... God, we actually know. You know what? Take it back. They're not getting shit until GTA 6 comes out. Because I'm still... It's Dr. Dre teetoxing me.
Starting point is 00:16:56 Until I see it on my fucking TV, I'm not going to believe it's going to happen. So, absolutely. We just got a report this week. They said it's entering the final stages of development. Like they made all their employees. They're, they're making them come back in five days a week, which it was like, now they're making them do that. We've been waiting.
Starting point is 00:17:11 Cause they've been taking fucking three day weekends. Come on. Yup. Yup. I also, I sent this to you offline. It was just one of the deals I happened to see star Wars squadrons, no free ads, but it is available on Xbox One Series
Starting point is 00:17:28 XS I don't I still don't know which Xbox is the new one what's the old one those are the same ones I don't know I just know Star Wars Squadrons from $40 to $2 either online and then it says GameStop has it as well if you're still a GameStop person let me see yeah still $1.99
Starting point is 00:17:44 so I mean... I'm going to get that. I haven't played it. It's just a dogfighting game, and I think it was mostly made for VR. So, like, I think the PlayStation has a VR capability thing. So you could be, like, in the cockpit and look around and see
Starting point is 00:17:59 all the controls and shit like that. I think I might have bought this game, and I never... I just never played it i played it like twice and just forgot about it but i mean two dollars it's not dude that's not even a slice of pizza how crazy is that two dollars is like it's cheese slice uh i'm just looking here metacritic got a 79 in terms of the right that's not bad 5.6 on the user scale which isn't great but two bucks i mean fuck just, fuck, just listen to the- Two bucks, yeah. You can fly around for a bit. So I didn't want any Xbox people out there.
Starting point is 00:18:28 Which one is the current Xbox? So I know. The Series X. Series X, okay. Yeah. Some more Star Wars news. Not really news as much as they were rumors that were shot down. Rumors started swirling this week that the Rey movie is going to be titled Episode 10, A New Beginning.
Starting point is 00:18:46 So everyone was like, oh, fuck, here we go. Episode 10, The Skywalker Saga is back. Lucasfilm denied these rumors faster than Han Solo made the Kessel Run. It was unbelievable how quick we got a statement from Lucasfilm calling that categorically incorrect. So they're like, this is unbelievably false. Please, everyone, calm down. They confirmed that the working title for the movie is New Jedi Order. So that doesn't confirm that it's the final title.
Starting point is 00:19:16 Obviously, Superman Legacy, we just saw change their working title. But yeah, calm down, everybody. It's not episode 10. And I think this is smart. I think if you did episode 10, people go in with like much higher expectations of this is part of the definitive saga. If you just call it New Jedi Order and people go in thinking, oh, it's a little Rogue One level spinoff, and then you blow us away, all the more power to you. Maybe you can make an episode 10 after that. But you got to prove yourself first. Yeah. the more power to you maybe you can make an episode 10 after that but you gotta gotta prove yourself first yeah it it raises the expectations and also like lowers them where i'm like i'm like a little bit yeah because there's a taste in your mouth yeah you know what the the it's not the
Starting point is 00:19:56 skywalker saga anymore it's the emperor saga like i'm like all right so the emperor is the big bad in all this. He's going to come in. It is the... Ready? Palpatine. No, still wrong. Palpatine. Palpatine. I thought I said Palpatine. You still hit like a Palpal. That L slips in there.
Starting point is 00:20:19 It slips in there on its own. It's crazy. It's like Qui-Gon. I got Qui-Gon. You got Palpatine. So, yeah. And you got a SupermanGon. I got Qui-Gon. You got Papal Team. So, yeah. And you got a Superman from Nebraska. Yeah, I got a Superman.
Starting point is 00:20:34 Hey, what if, like, what fucking, James Gunn could move him to Nebraska? No one's going to say. No, you can't. You can't move Superman out of Kansas. You can't do it. What if it's on the border? And it's like, so, my mailing address is one address, but my schooling is a different town. So, it's like so my like my my mailing address is one address and but i'm in my schooling is a different town so it's like maybe technically no maybe i'm not giving you nebraska superman is there a superman is cursed there's a kansas city missouri and a kansas city kansas if there's
Starting point is 00:20:57 a kansas city nebraska we're moving to kansas city nebraska i'm with you, Bob. And it's like, don't give Daisy Ridley, like, I gotta carry another one of these fucking, like, epic movies. Get us out of this loop. You could actually make a case that, like, if this movie's good, the Skywalker saga is, like, weighing down the Star Wars overall franchise. If you did it like the prequels and the sequels, and you just love the original trilogy, and you're like, well, you did it like the prequels of the sequels and you just love the original trilogy and you're like well you did have rebel one all solo the thing is the rebel one rogue one rogue one you're in a different like you're in a multiverse today that is just slightly off
Starting point is 00:21:37 from ours you're just a little bit off on everything you're saying. I was going out to get coffee. And then I was like, oh, shoot, I'm not going to have time to go back and do all this stuff. So I didn't have the second coffee of the day. I rarely do it. I know I need it, though. This hammered home that I did need that second cup of coffee. So this is good to know. You went to Square Bucks to try to get coffee.
Starting point is 00:22:01 I went to Stella Red. Yeah. Also, I just wanted to shout out the Bad Batch yet again. I know some people have asked for full recaps. I don't know if it's like a full recap week to week show for me. I'm watching it and really enjoying it. Like I was one of the people that kind of fell off during season two. I'm very glad that I picked it back up in season three.
Starting point is 00:22:22 I think it's shaping up to be an amazing season. I think maybe I'll do something at the end of the season, like a little recap of the, or maybe mid season. I'll do a mid season and a final thing, but the bad batch, very good. And it feels like it's obviously still a kid show,
Starting point is 00:22:38 but it feels like they're aging it up a little bit with its audience. This is a bit of a darker season. It feels like it has bigger stakes. We've got the emperor getting papal teen in here is always great you know now and would you say this is doing its job to what it what the clone wars did for the prequels makes oh my god yeah better okay yes i'm here season three especially we're full-on slight spoilers i don't think this is a real spoiler i think it'll just sell you on it this is how the emperor got cloned like we're straight up doing metachlorians and m counts and we're trying to get the cloning numbers up and nala say from
Starting point is 00:23:18 camino is back and it's really good now definitely worth checking out is there any part of this story that's very important that i have to play a game of Fortnite to get some of the answers? Read the back of a cereal box. Everything's just there. Everything's in the show. It's a crazy concept, but they put all the plot you need in the actual show. It's crazy. Oh, this actually, I wanted to raise this point.
Starting point is 00:23:42 Again, trust tree stuff here. We're in the basement and the bad batch actually if i watch the bad batch it would be another example of why i wouldn't do something like this but for the first time in my life i i thought would it really be so bad if i canceled disney plus for a little while and how crazy is that it's like if you lose someone like robbie you got kids that's crazy now i can't do that so the only reason i would keep it to be honest my kids only watch disney plus for bluey and like the thing is they watch it they love bluey so i can't do it just because of bluey but i'm just thinking i'm
Starting point is 00:24:15 like like they're just raising the prices every month i probably just end up doing like maybe the ad version at some point but i'm like i'm not even like the disney plus logo i think of secret invasion right now i should take a loki season two which is great but it's like i just have that bad taste in my mouth and i just see it i'm just like this is again me bringing that series back for the 100th straight podcast um but it's just like they should take it off the the disney plus you know like we're big advocates of like keep everything on there it off the Disney Plus. We're big advocates of keep everything on there. It's the vault. We don't want you taking products off.
Starting point is 00:24:50 They should take that off, though. Sell it to Netflix, too, and bomb Netflix with it. You basically throw the show on the floor. And someone sees it and just is like, oh. It's the guy taking the headphones off me. Except he's like, put the phone across the room. So I was like, you know what? They're kind of losing me here
Starting point is 00:25:05 because but i can't obviously do it we have the show we have enough stuff that'll come on disney plus and it's and hey this month now x-men 97 and that is why i could never actually do it once x-men 97 comes back and just being able to have end game infinity war. Yeah. All the different module Marvel projects at my fingertips. But it's like, at the same point, I couldn't get X-Men on there. The original, like the movie that we watched.
Starting point is 00:25:33 And I'm like, how the fuck? Like, so it just kind of like, I was just like, I worked myself into a tizzy and I was just like, man, their new shit.
Starting point is 00:25:40 Isn't even that good. The old stuff I watched so many times. And I was like, and they're just going to raise the price. I think it was, it it's 140 for the year i pay and it's really i mean when you break that 12 bucks a month or something that's not bad but it's like a principal thing but i think i one okay one through five on the ball scale i'm maybe like a 3.5 in terms of people that are going to be your disney uh plus consumers I guess having the Simpsons is always nice. You're like 4.5. They lose Rob.
Starting point is 00:26:07 I watched there was a lot. Yeah. I rewatch Mando episodes, the clone wars, bad batch rebels. Disney plus is one of my go-tos for sure. Even, even Pixar movies,
Starting point is 00:26:18 to be honest, like if I'm working and I want to throw something on the background, the Incredibles monster, well, like monster sink, I can't really throw it in the background. That one suck me and i'll start crying um but you know the the pixar movies that don't make you cry the few and far between that don't make you cry now yeah exactly now that you mentioned it this did have like my this i thought of this a couple times
Starting point is 00:26:37 over the last week and one of the times is when i heard they're making a toy story 5 and they said it's gonna end if they're gonna do it the perfect way to end the franchise and i was like you fuckers did that with toy story you did it and then i got mad i got mad at disney so this was a thing at disney it wasn't as much so disney plus yeah so it was rooted in most or most so in toy story than star wars and marvel than anything else so i've apologized for any of the ricochet shots or the, but I was in like a pretty angry place the other day, all because of Toy Story 5 looking back. Not even Toy Story 5.
Starting point is 00:27:08 Toy Story 4 is why I was there. Yeah, which I think is a good movie, but it doesn't hold a candle to 3 and the ending they had for 3. So it's like, ah, tough. It's like, again, I lived through this. We'll do our sports analogy. Michael Jordan on The Wizards wasn't all bad. He had some good fucking moments when he pinned Ron Mercer with the two-handed block.
Starting point is 00:27:29 It was incredible. But it was not like they had the fucking Brian Russell push-off shot against Utah. Perfect movie fucking ending. And then they're like, oh, let's just fucking run it back one more time here. Well, let me put you in a better mood. Thanks to our friends at Game Time. You shouldn't have to worry when you're buying tickets to your next big event.
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Starting point is 00:29:50 because of the smell thing he says that being in black widow was quote soul destroying after he was asked to tone down his performance he said they came to the set producers and said you got to tone down this performance he said he tried to quit his role before reshoots started but couldn't due to contract obligations he said i'd end up in court it's like being kicked in the balls he described this as just the worst experience ever i thought he was pretty good in the movie but he honestly wasn't in a ton of the movie i think that was one of the things we complained about in that movie where we like could have been more of him more of the villain more of you hating him before you meet him um but maybe they removed him because his performance was all wacky or something i don't know or maybe they just didn't like him on set so they tried to minimize his
Starting point is 00:30:34 role sounds weird that he said it was soul destroying because they asked him to tone down his performance he's going crazy was he speaking in a pepe lepew voice like what was he speaking in a pet baila pew voice like what was he doing i kind of like the i kind of like the thought of that this is just more of the i don't want to say dark times but just one of those movies that was like i remember the villain and then uh who was it a taskmaster right yeah be a taskmaster but i'm like oh taskmaster would be cool and then kind of just fizzled out and i think they killed the i don't think i was just bummed they kept her alive but they turned her into a good person by the end it was yeah they didn't handle her well yeah so i kind of lumped this i'm gonna take our boy ray winstone's rant and the soul crushing side of it and we're just gonna you know crumple it up no disrespect to ray but we're gonna like crumple it up and we're just gonna put it like in the garbage bin of the last you know two or
Starting point is 00:31:29 three years all the magic from this phase it's just one big pile of shit it's not your fault right it's not your fault it's not your fault it's not your fault it's not your fault i'll give my robin williams for you you almost like if anyone has a problem with any Marvel projects from the last couple of years, it's like, yeah, man, those are some dark days.
Starting point is 00:31:48 It's like, if you had a, if you've ever been on like a bender in your life and there's just a year or so that kind of don't remember what's going on. It's like, yeah, we're just going to forget, you know,
Starting point is 00:31:56 1996 or something like that. If someone had a rough year, crazy, not me, not me, but just someone in general. Instead though, like even marvel's
Starting point is 00:32:06 rough years the dark years are like better than dc's you know decent year like for a studio for a big franchise like marvel that produces many movies as they have the stinkers the ones that are just flat out bad are very few and far between. So like they are the dark times, but they're not the darkest of times. Yes, there is light there. I, again, I compare this to, I, I, I always, I've been saying it for a while and even going to James Gunn now going to DC, it's like WWF and WCW where it's like WWF. It was like, no matter what they did, everything they touched turned to gold. Their beds weren't really that bad.
Starting point is 00:32:44 And then somehow, some way WCw was able to turn it around and then it made them both awesome and i'm still praying that like we are in the beginning of that that superman reveal is like you know the first time that you saw scott hall in like the wcw you know like this is the beginning of it and i'm really hoping that's the case so but yeah i mean that's the thing it's the the pile like the trash pile is like oh that was that bad marvel year and then it's like out back the flaming dumpster that was dc's you know last decade or whatever so the next two stories i've got good news and i've got bad news which one would you like first i'm a bad news first kind of guy bob i don't know what are you before we get into it'm a bad news first kind of guy, Bob. What are you before we get into it?
Starting point is 00:33:25 I think bad news first, because then the good news, you could kind of get out of that rut that you're about to put in. Yep. Clem, this is sad. This is sad times. Oh, no, I don't like this. You're not going to kill Juan again, are you? You're not going to kill Juan again.
Starting point is 00:33:38 No, no, no, no, no. I'm just going to tell you the Nicole Kidman AMC ad has been retired. No. Yeah, you've seen it for the last time they started retiring it last night but there's three new nicole kidman amc ads that have been deployed to theaters um they started debuting last night with dune 2 previews i'm going to see dune 2 tonight as we record this it's friday march 1st um i can't wait i'm so excited for this movie rewatch dune this week i'm all in on dune 2 everyone's raving about it jeff delo's combing
Starting point is 00:34:11 his pants ken jack came up to me today he said it's worth the hype gucci said worth the hype so i'm almost as excited for a new nicole kidman ad as i am doing too i actually i'm gonna go to the nicole kidman ad tonight and then i'm gonna i made my promise to myself and to the listeners i'm only gonna watch dune on an airplane screen so i have to wait what that's like two years before i mean no airplanes get pretty quick now i get yeah maybe maybe a year yeah i'd say like the super bowl if we go if i fly to new orleans for the dozen again for another super bowl uh tournament that is what i will see dune so i'll be interested to hear your review and i'll be seeing it then i i would see if jeff wants to hop in the basement and do like a dune podcast with me just to give him a platform to
Starting point is 00:34:56 gush about dune yeah it's gonna have to be like nsfw though because we don't know what yeah he's gonna be taking a sandworm out for sure all right so i and i've seen the reviews i've seen the tweets from everybody um i saw jeff blogged about it how it's just like incredible have to see another biggest screen possible which again my airplane flight is gonna thumb the toes at all those requests like they didn't feel this way about doom one did they no i mean jeff did but like not everyone else did jeff was like this is you know the greatest movie ever but he even scored this higher than doom one i went back and looked at what he scored doing one he scored that in 96 this is a 98 so it ain't oppenheimer which was 100 but it's 98 because like i i saw june again on an airplane uh i don't really remember what
Starting point is 00:35:48 like i haven't i remember i remember like the big things but i'm just like i don't know that's why i re-watched it this week i was in the same same place and i felt like i liked it the first one but i didn't love it and then i re-watched it and i was like maybe i do love it like the re-watch actually really helped because there's a lot going on and i'm you know i'm sure if you read the book which you know sounds like was an absolute just monster back in the day everyone's like this is going to be incredible if someone could harness all this into a movie and i was watching my guy heavy spoilers he did i watched his breakdown even of june 1 to be get ready for june 2 and i'm just like i'm still just overwhelmed by all this shit, man.
Starting point is 00:36:26 There's fucking Sands and Daya has blue eyes. What the fuck's going on? Then I have Zendaya in a C3PO outfit in my head. There's a lot of things that I'm battling. But I want to love it, so I'm excited for Dune 2. I'm excited myself. Bob Fox is going to be like, you're the meter I can
Starting point is 00:36:42 go off of here because I think Jeff is a Dune guy. He's's a dune guy he's just a dune guy yeah yeah yeah it's like wait wait it's like the opposite of like frank with the mets it's like if you hear about how this guy is the worst player of all time and then it's like oh frank i looked at his baseball card he batted like 310 last year and had 45 on words he's the fucking worst he's never gonna win so uh jeff is the anti-frank for the dune which is like the nicest thing i think i could say to someone's fandom. And Dave is also a big Dune guy.
Starting point is 00:37:09 Dave Portnoy, our boss, he came up to me and Jeff after seeing Dune for the first time. And I still crack up thinking about it. He was like, did you guys know Star Wars kind of ripped off Dune? And we were like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We knew that. But he loves Dune. He told Jeff recently, I think at the Super Bowl, Jeff said they were just watching the Super Bowl. A Dune commercial came on.
Starting point is 00:37:29 And Dave turned to him and he was like, that might be a dress up on opening night movie. Wow. Yeah. So I'm sure he'll be seeing it probably this weekend. Maybe he'll bring Miss Peaches to the theater. Do the Dune boys come out? The Dune boys. We all have that thing that goes into our nose the the fremen thing
Starting point is 00:37:46 um all right so the good news um wasn't even the three new nicole kidman ads i have even better news for us as basement boys i thought that was the good news that's a double this is why you get the bad news out of the way. Because if there's some good news with the bad news, then you get the good news on top. Even though it didn't perform the way that the studio anticipated, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem 2 will be happening. It will be released in theaters October 9th, 2026. So we still got a ways to go until then. But I believe there's going to be a TV show on Nickelodeon to bridge the gap between movies. I was worried about this because we heard like, oh yeah, it didn't really do what they anticipated box office wise.
Starting point is 00:38:34 So I was like, fuck, I want a sequel out of this. I want them to get their secret of the use moment. And I was worried we weren't going to, but here we got it confirmed. I think it's, it's a paramount that confirmed it i am like i have two feelings i have the feeling of like happiness that this is coming because again anyone who's listened to this or i i basically like started a grassroots campaign on twitter begging people to go for a movie i have nothing to do with at the same point like i just hate hearing despite the studio being disappointed
Starting point is 00:39:05 so it's like i just they don't i i want to make a franchise out of this i want to have a new mutant mayhem kind of thing every three or so years with the creative people in place but i feel like now it's like kind of got to go we got to go all in here got to nail this uh they're going to be given notes which never is good for a movie yeah so i'm kind of worried about it bro you listed a lot of cons but pro shredder bro shredder yes very very very very very very big bro i turned that on last week when my kids were all from school really and i was like and they just like i don't want to watch this right now i'm like yeah i know This is just my way. I do this.
Starting point is 00:39:45 This is a good thing for parents. Turn a movie on you want them to watch. They're going to watch it after like 10 minutes and all of us were just like locked in. That movie is so fucking fun.
Starting point is 00:39:54 It's so good. There is, I will say, from the time he becomes like a monster till the like, they win it, like right before them when they go to,
Starting point is 00:40:01 I think it's like the Staten Island Zoo. I don't love that part. Everything else is fucking intense. It's such a good goddamn movie so bob you know what like that that was the best case bad news good news scenario i could have i have the three nicole kidman's coming back i feel like you're gonna have to find a like someone's gonna find a way to get that original nicole kidman either on there or like into your streaming like you turn on netflix you turn on
Starting point is 00:40:25 and that's gonna pop up like like the streaming the streaming companies are gonna be in a war to get the nicole kim and amcn as a little they're gonna put it out on on the criterion collection you're gonna be able to get like a dvd bonus features and all that shit all right so the the final news item i gotta admit clem i'm, I'm pissed off again. I have a rant compared. I'm real upset about this. I texted the group chat about it. And I I'm, I'm the only person that's pissed off about this. Apparently they're remaking the crow. Okay. And when I heard the remake in the crow, I wasn't stoked about it. I really liked the crow 90s cult classic movie starring brandon lee if you haven't seen it i understand it's not like the most classic movie of all time it's also not the best movie of all time it's a decent movie with an amazing perfect vibe like it puts you in that 90s almost tim burton-y aesthetic it nails the aesthetic and look of everything, particularly Eric Draven, the crow himself.
Starting point is 00:41:29 Brandon Lee looks so fucking cool in that movie as the crow that Sting based the next 30 years of his career off the guy. He just started immediately. I think it was Kevin Ash and Scott Hall gave him the idea. They were like, the crow is sick. Why don't you just be the crow? He had birds. He had crows.
Starting point is 00:41:46 He was in the rafters. He was being brooding. The crow is one of the all-time movie character looks for me. Comic book character looks for me based off a graphic novel. They announced they're remaking it. I'm like, that's probably a bad idea. Then they announced the weirdo Skarsgård brother, Bill, is going to play him. And I was like like all right he played
Starting point is 00:42:06 pennywise and it he's a fucking weird lanky guy weird eyes i was like that kind of seems like it could work he's the perfect fit if you're gonna recast the crow eric draven all right i'll give him a shot and then they put out pictures of eric draven bill scars guard in the new crow movie and he looks like a soundcloud rapper he doesn't look anything like the crow he has short hair he's got he he looks like almost the joker i know the crow has kind of like clown paint but he looks like the florida joker that's trying to sue gta6 for putting him in the game he looks like jared leto's joker with the damage tattoos on his face. He's got eyebrow tattoos.
Starting point is 00:42:48 He looks like Lil Xan. This is so unbelievably beyond my worst dreams. I was stunned. I'm out on this movie. I'm not seeing the crow with Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs. I'm out about everything
Starting point is 00:43:03 that has to do with it. I can't believe how much this was botched just from the pictures alone and listen when i saw i remember like it was yesterday the first picture of jared leto's joker coming out he's like this ah he's got a damage tattoo on his head i was at a ranger game when i saw it and i was with my cousin kenny i looked at it with him shout out kenny i was like oh my god i was like this is not great but you know what i'm gonna give it a shot maybe the joker in this new age has tattoos fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me i'm not letting you fool me twice with the fucking jared leto joker and the damaged tattoos out on the crow okay first of all what was kenny thought what were kenny's thoughts on the original
Starting point is 00:43:50 joker when he saw yeah i don't even think he cared i think he was just watching the ranger all right it looks fine got a ranger game on right now bob come on goddamn nerdy cousin here not just talking about comic book i feel for you dude you were fired up about it i need you to tell him to dude. You were fired up about it. I need you to tell him to knock it off. Tell him to knock it off. Cause that's. Knock it off.
Starting point is 00:44:09 Knock it off. Yeah, man. This is one of those things where it's like your boy is going through it. I have, I haven't even seen the original crow. The original crow was a fucking like huge deal. I mean, when they were started filming it, then obviously he dies and it was like fucking just like eerie. It's like a creepy vibe around the whole movie obviously because of what happened yeah but it works so well
Starting point is 00:44:30 like it's again it's one of those movies where I can't recommend it and be like it's the fucking best movie ever you're gonna love it it's just like me and my brother love it my brother watches it I think like every Halloween it's like a good Halloween movie so wait for October to come around if you just want a spooky 90seen it's like a good halloween movie so wait for october to come
Starting point is 00:44:45 around if you just want a spooky 90s vibe it's such a 90s movie the crow is a great one my wife loves tim burton and we love the 90s in general so i feel like she she would like it i might have to check it out based on this now what if i'm okay don't buy my head off of this but i'm just trying to help you out here what if like so if so if it has the 90s vibe, which is a very distinct vibe, which again, the distinct thing, great point. Let's be honest, like the 2020s, kind of like it's like a lost, it just feels like a lost world we're in right now. Everyone's kind of segmented in their own little world.
Starting point is 00:45:19 It just feels like we've made copies on copies on copies, Xeroxes on Xeroxes of other stuff. And it just comes out maybe in the music and pop culture. And maybe this movie is just a reflection of that, where the 90s were so fucking pure. You're not going to do it, huh? And don't remake The Crow. It's not meant for this era. Wow, that was the dad voice came back out there. He yelled at me, but I was just trying to be fair.
Starting point is 00:45:44 Listen, when your boy is going through stuff, you know when you just stop and you just say, all right, we're not going to go through. So I'm not even going to make, I don't fucking want to, I haven't seen the original. I don't give a fuck about this. Fuck this new Crow. I'm not going to watch it.
Starting point is 00:45:56 I'm a Superman guy. I'm just going to watch Superman. Thank you, Clem. We're going to Nebraska. We're going to see where Superman landed. Happy birthday, Superman leap year. Fuck the Crow. Fuck the Crow. Fuck're going to see where Superman landed. Happy birthday, Superman. Leap year. Fuck the crow. Fuck the crow.
Starting point is 00:46:07 Fuck the crow. But go watch the original. If you could go find it on streaming somewhere, you know, that's my recommendation to the basement boys and girls this week is check it out. I hope it's on Disney Plus so that I have a reason. No way it's on Disney Plus. It's probably streaming somewhere. Prime Video. you got to...
Starting point is 00:46:25 Paramount Plus. Paramount Plus, you can get it. There you go. Amazon is such a tease because it's like, yeah, you can buy it for $4. No, buddy. That's not what streaming is. That's not how we work. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:36 All right. That was the basement for this week. Do we have a hashtag that the people could use? We talked Bad Batch. We talked Star Wars. Mando. Superman. that the people could use we talked bad batch we talked star wars mando superman uh something about nebraska super super or um what what was our uh rebel one hashtag rebel one hashtag rebel one there we go my shitty brain that that's basically the hashtag so rebel one that's that's god damn that's when you buy it at a bootleg at the
Starting point is 00:47:05 metalance flea market that's what it says on the cover we have star we have rogue one at home definitely we have rogue one at home god damn it also if you've made it to the end of this podcast just a tease for next week i believe monday this will be dropping as long as i get the file sent to me um i interviewed david desmalchen, our friend from the Suicide Squad, The Dark Knight. He played Polka Dot Man in Suicide Squad. The Dark Knight, he plays that officer that Joker kidnaps and everything. He's kind of like a henchman, Joker henchman. He's in a ton of great shit, though.
Starting point is 00:47:37 Prisoners, Dune, Blade Runner 2049. He's in a new movie called Late Night with the Devil. I interviewed him about that yesterday, and it was awesome. He's a great guy. He remembered me from last time. He remembered the basement. So we always appreciate David Videsmouch coming and chopping it up about movies. So look out for that on Monday.
Starting point is 00:47:55 And, yeah, anything else, Clem? No, I like that dude, man. He just has that look about him. I feel like he is one of those guys. He's also, like in The Dark Knight, the guy who, in the beginning, who was a bank robbery. You're just like, I just like he is one of those guys. He's also in the, like in the dark night, the guy who, uh, in the beginning with the bank robbery, you're just like, I just like that guy,
Starting point is 00:48:09 you know, the guy from heat you're talking about. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Um, and like, this is another one of those guys.
Starting point is 00:48:16 And there's, there's a, there's a, I mean, in a, like Kelly Murphy's like a juiced up version of that. He's like a fucking A-lister now, but like,
Starting point is 00:48:24 you know, he's seeing me like, I just like that guy. And like a fucking A-lister now, but like, you'd always see him. You're like, I just like that guy. And, um, the Mr. Robot guy,
Starting point is 00:48:28 like they all, they're a little different, little strange white guys. Let's be honest. So, uh, this dude, he's a friend of the base.
Starting point is 00:48:36 He's a friend of mine for sure. So check it out. Uh, Monday, you said hopefully Monday. Yeah, hopefully they, it's like a,
Starting point is 00:48:42 it was a screener interview. So like they have the zoom link, so they got to send me the, the download of it. But yeah, hopefully. It was a screener interview, so they have the Zoom link. So they got to send me the download of it, but it is what it is. I think they'll send it to me this weekend. Fuck. The name of the, what's it called? The Zack Snyder Star Wars ripoff. Was it Rebel One?
Starting point is 00:48:59 Is it? No, Rebel Moon, that was. Rebel Moon. Fuck, that's why I was trying to find it. Close enough, you know? Damn it. Yeah. All right. That was the basement for this why it was close enough. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 00:49:06 That was the basement for this week. We will talk to you next week. I'm getting a second coffee next week. Even if I don't need it, I don't care.

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