The Kristian Harloff Show - Oscar Ratings Are The 2nd Lowest of All Time

Episode Date: March 28, 2022

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Drivers who switch and save could save hundreds. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates, potential savings will vary. What's going on, everybody? Welcome. It's Monday, and it is the big thing. I hope you had a great weekend. I hope you did some fun things. I hope you had a good weekend. My weekend was not great. Not great. I'll talk about it a little bit more, too. We lost a dog this weekend. So it was kind of a, it was a bummer. It was a big bummer. My father-in-law's dog passed. Diesel. He's in Akita, only eight years old. And he was a sweetheart of a dog.

And so that was my, you know, my weekend was the family and I trying to, you know, get over it, figure it out and help my father-in-law through it. So that's the reason the show is a little late today. So apologies. Apologies. Apologies. Yeah. So we'll be talking about Darth Vader, some news that, that Deborah Chow talked about in the Obi-Wan series, some Dr. Strange stuff. I took some questions. The Oscars ratings were in the, still in the crapper, not the worst of all time, but certainly the second worst of all time. Talk about that.

Talk about Cota winning. So just up top, letting everybody know, I ain't talking about the thing everyone's talking about. You're bummed, you're bummed. But it's just not in the mindset to really talk about it. Plus the fact, whatever my opinion is on the matter, are you either going to agree with me or you're going to disagree with me? And I don't, there's tons of people talking about it on Twitter. guys and on all over the place there's videos you you you can't you can't walk a step on social media

without seeing it so if you came here for that with me i apologize i just i'm not i'm not doing it i want to talk about some stuff i enjoy talking about and that's star wars and and and halos apparently also did really well for paramount plus so we'll talk about that i've reviewed that first episode look at that i got the hat on but i'll talk about that so that's those are the few things that'll be talking about and I think there's some other things, questions you guys had submitted on Facebook. It was a little later, but that's it. That's a big thing. Let's get into it. Let's talk about it. I'm ready. Are you ready? It's a big thing. Let's do it. It's not long enough for me to get there. Nice to have you on board. It's the 28th. I'm on my lonesome. I've got Kate Mulligan coming on

the show this week. That's going to be fun. Brett, step's still in London. London. Queen Winston coming back on the Friday show. And that's it. So, all right, let's talk about some stuff. First is what I will say, I didn't, like I was fast forwarding through, like I made it very clear with the Oscars in general. I think it's a show that just needs to get off of network television.

It just continuously goes down and down and down and down and down. And as I mentioned, I'm not going to go. deep diving into the big topic of last night, but that's the reason that I think it had any ratings whatsoever. And this, if you look at, that's not what we're going to talk about yet. Oscar viewership rises from Dismal 2021, but it is still the second lowest ever with 15.4 million. Get it off network television.

It is so dated and no one cares. the jokes aren't funny. It's not a show anymore. It's nobody knows. The casual viewers don't know the movies anymore. It's terrible. I fast forwarded through all of it. I was just watching, okay, who won?

Great. Fast forward. I don't care about the speech. Fast forward. Fast forward. Fast forward. Go, go, go, go. Who won? And then all I might as well just look at, I will say this. Very happy with the winners.

Very happy with who won. As Cota winning best picture, that was the best picture in my humble opinion. It was great. I would have been okay with Dune also, but Cota was fantastic. Encanto winning. Fantastic. My daughter was very happy about that. I think that they got it right as far as this year with a lot of the winners.

But the ceremony in the show, who cares? It's so dull and boring and pretentious. It sucks. It sucks. It sucks. I'm not saying don't have them. You should have them. They should be celebrated. Your work should be celebrated. I know that there's clout inside of being able to do. If you're an agent, you're saying, oh, Oscar, Oscar winner, Jessica Chastain and blah, blah, blah, I get it. You got to keep it. Put it on a streaming service. Put it on a streaming service. It's part of the streaming service. And if you care like any other show, you watch it. Force feeding people to watch it and wondering why your ratings are going down. every year. It's terrible. It's so boring. I used to remember when we used to watch, wanting to watch that show because it was like a big event. And I saw someone last night called the Super Bowl for movie fans. It says who. Says who. I mean, that's what they want it to be.

That's why people, Super Bowl, people watch it every single year and continue to watch and ratings get good. It's terrible. It is a terrible, terrible production. Not terrible to do. believe that they should still happen. And I believe that they should still honor the work that's been done. And I still think they should definitely should happen. But get it off network television. And just cutting awards is not the way to do it. You turn it into a show in an event.

But it's, I don't know. I didn't care. Didn't care. So I don't know. And a lot of people, obviously, and I think that it might be a nostalgia thing too, that people still grasp onto it. And people still want to get excited about it.

I just don't give a rat fart about it. I don't know if you guys feel the same or don't. You could argue about it, and that's fine. But the ratings are down. Well, they're up, I guess, from last year. And there was more to watch. So they were up. But still the second lowest of all time.

That's not, it's like, well, we didn't come in last place. But the academy was hoping that with these new changes, people were going to get excited. they get excited about what are they getting excited about what are people tuning in for the casual fans don't know what the hell the movies are a lot of them and it's you know there's not a lot of a i don't know is this just not a it to me it's happy with the winners happy with the winners again um majority of people that that won i thought should have won but the show it's just not a show you just hand it out awards and hearing people talk and it's like eh i don't know it's my grouchy old

ass now you know anyway what do you guys think should they keep doing it should put it on streaming i think that's where that you go i think i think you don't get rid of the the first of all of the musical numbers and and play it all together and and make it like an overall theme and have have have one host she just had amy schumer or want to sykes or whoever like one host do it the whole time. But to be completely fair, I fast forwarded through so much. I don't even know if it was, from what I saw, I was like, oh, keep going, keep going.

But, you know, they're going to keep doing it, I guess, and keep trying. It is what it is. So that was the Oscars. Very curious to hear what everyone else thinks. You think it should keep going? Or you think it's time to put a pin in it? I'm curious. You know what I'm going to do?

I have a couple of questions that are still coming in on Facebook, so I'm going to hold this one. I like that one. I had chosen all of them already by broadcast, by the time we started. But I'm going to try that one more here. Try one more. I like that one a lot, actually. So we'll see what we get.

We'll see what we get. Okay. As I mentioned earlier in the intro, my father-in-law is his dog Diesel, he was a Nikita He's a sweetheart of a dog man He was like the first dog That well my

My oldest is 10 And um It was really kind of like the first dog That she ever remembered And he was just like this little bear And he just, he was eight years old He just had some health problems And you know

These big dogs sometimes It was a real bummer And we were hoping he was gonna kick out of it And he just didn't And he passed So I had to uh go over there i got to see him i got to see him on um what the hell was it was it was saturday right i got to see him on saturday and um and it is funny though too because people

don't know what you're going through when they're going through i'm getting these stupid work phone calls in the middle of trying to take care of this dying dog and my father-in-law it's just like you know there's just so many bigger things in in in life than the little minutia and i'm just not I just very different headspace kind of going into this week in general where you just look at people arguing with each other online and screaming and yelling about each other about something that today they'll be passionate about and in two weeks they won't give a shit they'll be yelling about something else so that's why I'm saying like I'm just I just want to talk about fun shit

with you guys I was watching the intro that we did the other day I was laughing about it we're just kind of fucking around and that's the kind of shit that I like to do and I and I And I apologize to you if you, if you came here to see me kind of get into it. I don't do that anymore. I just don't. It's too tired by it. And I just, I'll have my opinions on it. And I can't, I'll keep it to myself or I'll talk to someone else about it.

But it's just, it's just not, it's not worth it to me to be honest with you. So I apologize once again. If you, uh, if you think, you know, if you think that I was coming, if you're coming here to, hear me give you a whole big spiel. Not the case. So, anyway, you know what's in this water? In this glass? Nothing.

Absolutely nothing. So when I went to get a sip of it right now, it was like a little voice in my head and said, ha-ha, jokes on you, asshole, because there's nothing in there. So what are you going to do? Except be sad. But I won't be sad because Dark Horizons, which I go to and I get my shit from,

Where the hell was that? I saw something on here. Where the hell is it? It's the Darth Vader story that I found this morning that I really liked. There is it? Are you kidding me? I just saw something about Darth Vader. Now I can't find.

There it is. Obi-1 offers a not fully formed Vader. All right, let's get into this story. That's not the story. There it is. Darth Vader. As we know, this is from Garth Franklin over Dark Orion's.

As we know, the upcoming, Juan Canobi-Connobe limited series on the Disney Plus Service features a return of Darth Vader and events set 10 years after the prequels and 20 years before the original trilogy. Because of that, we'll see a version of the character we haven't really seen before, which is one reason that the filmmaker, Deborah Chow, who directed the entire series run, wanted Heaton Christensen to return to the role. Christians only played Vader in the final moments of the last of the prequel films, and so hasn't really strutted his stuff as the Vader incarnation of an Anakin Skywalker character.

Chow tells Entertainment Weekly that the series being very character-focused and being in the point of the timeline is naturally led to the inclusion of Vader. Great. See? Makes sense. That's what I'm saying. I think Darth Mall story was bullshit. I really wanted to do something that was character-based and character-driven because this is the benefit of the limited series is that you have more time to sort out to tell a real character story.

Preach, Devere Chow, preach. So for me, the starting place of character is you just start and you look at who's been important to him in his life, and it's quite hard to avoid Anagan and Vader in that scenario, especially coming out of Revenge of the Sith. God, I love this woman. So it came out of evolution of the character for me. It wasn't just to sort of bring him back.

It was really like, who means something, and where are we at this point in the timeline with Vader? He isn't the New Hope Vader quite yet. You know what I mean? So we are with the character sort of in the middle of this period. It's still Vader, obviously, but it's a Vader that isn't quite as fully formed as a new hope. Love that.

Love that. Chow adds that Ewe and Gregor and Christensen have been their characters, so long and live with them and their lives for so long that it makes it so helpful in terms of the creative. Obi-Wan's going to debut on May 25th on the Disney Plus service. Man, so much to talk about there. So much to talk about.

This is great. It's great. I love everything she's saying. I love everything that this woman is saying about how she's approaching it. The idea that it's more character-driven. You have more time to spend. It's what we've been talking about on this show. You have more time to go in depth instead of just worrying, well, what's two hours and

there's too much dialogue, so just blow something up and have a fight. Put them in space and blow up, blow things up and just throw a couple dialogues in it just, they need big, big, big, big, big, big, big, and now the emperor comes back and that big, big, big, big, big, big, fuck that shit. Now it's take your time, build it out. And the idea that, yeah, he's not there. So the question is how more powerful he becomes through more anger. And if you look at, I think it's in a comic book, one of the comic books, and he's still

battling with shit inside of himself. Ten years later, he's probably still battling with shit and getting more evil and more evil. And as she said, you know, he's not there yet. This is nine years before, or, yeah, nine years before New Hope, I think. And that's nine years of pain. That's nine years of anger. That's nine years of murdering people That he has done.

He's already done 10 years of it, but it's nine more, attacking it on. So he's getting more and more deeper and deeper into the dark side. Is there any of the light side still in him at all of this period? People will just assume no,

but there still could be. As Padme said, you know, there's still good in him, but is that what Obi-1 senses? Is there, like, what kind of pain is he going through? Is he still flashing back to Padmay? I wonder if Natalie Portman's going to show up

in this thing in a scene or two, in a flashback or just voiceover or something. Keep talking about Quigon and Liam Neeson and Palpatine popping up, which I think is pretty likely. But I think it would be a nice little surprise if Natalie Portman shows up.

And I think that it's possible because of the Thor movie that's coming out. Is it Love and Thunder or whatever it's called? Do you know what it's called? That's what it's called. I don't know. I just stop trying to be accurate. But she's around and she's doing stuff. So they're like, hey, can you do like a quick scene?

And I don't remember that this is true or not. I think I heard Christiansen dated back in the day. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe I made that up in my head. I don't know. But either way, I don't know what the hell that has to do with anything. Maybe the chemistry. Maybe they don't like each other.

Maybe she said, no, I don't want to see that prick. Or maybe he said, no, I don't want to be around her. Or maybe they said, hey, it'd be fun to see each other again. And these are all thoughts that I could have put on a piece of paper and scratched out and said, maybe I don't want to talk about that. But I did. This is what I do. Just think of things and I talk about it.

And then I tell you guys and you guys agree or disagree. It's raining here. Yeah. People shut down in L.A. when it rains. Which is weird. Hit the brakes. I think that it's like a big old storm. It's drizzling.

Dick face. Take it easy. So anyway, I like to see. I like what Debra Chow's talking about a lot. I really do. I love it. I can't wait for this series, man. I can't wait.

It's so exciting. This is like the, this is the series slash movie slash story I've been looking for. I think since 2012, when I said they're bringing stuff back. I mean, maybe even since Return to the Jedi. It's like the first actual prequel

that plays into everything that you fell in love with in episode four. not taking anything away from the prequels that came out, but I just think more of an attachment to it because you have more time to develop. And I think even with Van Amettish, you had to have that spectacle, and you had to do all this season.

You couldn't really deep dive into the character. I think that's what they're going to do. Oh, I'm so pumped for this. Cannot wait. I cannot wait. I'm so excited for it. I'm also excited for Sunday. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.

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And then we'll get to some of the questions. It might be a shorter show today. I don't know. Some other things coming out. I know I got Morbius, the review coming out on Wednesday. I saw Moon Night. So four episodes of Moon Night. I think I'll be able to talk about those soon.

I'll do the non-spoiler first, and then I'll get into the spoilers once the episodes coming out. I don't know how they're going to release the episodes. So if they're releasing the episodes one by one, then I will just do the spoiler episodes as they come out. Maybe I'll do it the same way that I did the Obi-One ones with the pictures and all that stuff. But if not, then I might, if they drop them all on the same day, then I'll probably just do a big chunk review of it. I don't know, I got to see.

But I'll definitely do a big chunk non-spoiler when I think that, I forget when the embargo. I think, shit, the embargo might be, when the hell is the embargo? You know what? I'm going to check right now. I'm going to tell you right now when that embargo is. and then I'm going to release my damn review of it because I want to talk about it.

And let's see. I'm going to tell you right now. The review is tomorrow. Okay, so I'll have the review out tomorrow at 6 a.m. So you check out this channel tomorrow. You've got my non-spoiler, the first four episodes of Moon Night. It'll be non-spoiler. Look at that.

So I'll be wearing all this. What I'm wearing right now, I'll be wearing in the review. Why? Because I'll be shooting my review probably after I shoot this. Because I just figured out when the embargo lifts. Look at me. Doing everything with you guys.

It's like you guys are in the office with me. You're sitting around and we're having a conversation. So that's what I can tell myself when I'm going crazy in the garage is that I'm actually talking to you guys about our plans and our future. What are you going to have for lunch? Don't eat that. You had that yesterday. Yeah, you can have that.

It's better for you. No, don't get cheese on it. Great. Okay. So let's get into this other story then. That's nothing. That's a blank screen. Well, that's not.

There you go. Halo. Halo. Halo did really well. Halo did really well for Paramount Plus. It kicked some ace. And let me get the actual numbers. It's somewhere.

where we're here. It came out the other day, and we're, Halo, Halo, Halo. It's got the biggest new Paramount Plus launch. Paramount Plus has announced that it's just launched Halo TV series based on the iconic Xbox gaming franchise. Unsurprisingly had the streamers' biggest series premiere to date. According to reps for the service,

the first day launched topped the previous mark established by Yellowstone prequel 1883 in December. No numbers were provided at such through, and Nielsen's streaming rankings won't be published for a week. One complication is that the 1882 series premiere also aired on the linear Paramount Network behind an episode of Yellowstone with that airing drawing 4.9 million viewers. Halo, on the other hand, is only available via the Paramount Plus service. The series, which has already been renewed for a second season, debuted March 24th,

and was originally developed at Showtime before migrating to Paramount Plus a year ago. I got a lot to say about the Halo series, and I did a review of it. You can check out my review if you didn't miss it, but it is a spoiler. So I won't get into spoilers here. we'll just kind of talk about it in a non-spoilery way. I was a, and M, I was a big Halo fan when it came out like everybody else, the first one, what, 20 years ago or whatever it was, and I really enjoyed it.

I loved it. I went up playing with my friends, like, again, like everybody else did it. I was obsessed by it. I used to play it all the damn time. And the second one, I think, too. And as they kept going on, I trailed off, but it's just because I'm not a massive gamer like everyone. It had nothing to do with the property itself.

But I loved the lore and I loved the music. And not just the gameplay, but I love the story behind it. And the science, you know, if you've been following me, you guys know that science fiction is, it's my jam. So when they, this story in the way it was put together was something I was always very interested in. And I always thought it would be a good, I guess, at the time, movie.

I remember, and it's funny because the other day, I talked about this on my review. In 2005, when I was at Warner Brothers, they had somebody dress up as Master Chief, and he was walking the script around to studios, and he would drop it off to the executive, and he sat down in the waiting room while the executive read the script,

and then he took the script and left. And people were like, is this true? Is this true? And so my friend John Zazerni is a producer, he tweeted it out and said, hey, did you guys remember this? And he had a picture of it. And he kind of validated the story I was telling.

But either way, it was a massive thing. I remember everybody talked about it. I think the script was shit from what I had heard, the movie. And then Peter Jackson got involved. And it just never came to fruition of them doing a movie. Fast forward. Here comes streaming, which is just, as we were just talking about, you can do so much with streaming,

and Obi-Wan and the development of the character in the world. So that to me was very encouraging. I think it's a smart way. I think video games, and I think someone actually asked me this later on in one of the questions, but I'll address it here and then, you know,

apologize for covering it now when I could have covered it during the question series, but I just think it's relevant for us talking about it. And that is that video games, I think, are better served in streaming because there's just so much detail

and I think like long books are better served. I mean, unless you're going to do a scene, series of movies like Harry Potter, right? Harry Potter, you were able to do like eight movies, put them all together and I think it worked really well. Could you have done shit 12 or 15 seasons of Harry Potter? Probably, but movies are better for that, for sure. But I think that there are certain things, like I still say Knights of Republic. You don't have to change up stuff. You just, you stay true to the story and you make a series out of it.

the hardcore fans will know what's going on, but that's just like a book. You keep what's true to what people fell in love with in the story. And that's what I was wondering what they were going to do with Halo, because in the trailers, you see a couple different things. Like from what I remember, and like I said, I trailed off. So you guys who've played that game no better than I do. But I just don't remember him fighting alongside with any Spartans, at least in the first couple of games.

It was just him. He was alone, and he was with, and Cortana was always in his ear. And now another no-brainer money-saving tip from Progressive. That doesn't sound good. Paper shredders jammed, but I think I've fixed it. Oh, well, try shredding these $50 bills, that. Seems like it's working.

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And then you saw I'm fighting with other Spartans inside of this trailer. And I was like, okay. And then you saw the covenant, you saw the weapons. Okay, that looks pretty true to it. And they're like, well, they're not going canon. And they're going through a different story. I was like, well, all right, let's just see how, at least what they relate to it. So when the series started, I'm like, I don't know what the hell I'm about to get myself into.

And the first 15 minutes, I tweeted out, I was blown away. I'm like, holy crap, it's violent as hell. It's graphic as hell. I'm like, they're pulling no punches. The fighting is incredible. They throw a lot of, the covenant to me looked great. And they're doing all these things where I'm like, oh, man, because I was worried it was going to be like a bad sci-fi channel show.

And I'm like, in the beginning, the acting was kind of sci-fi channelage. But then Covenant shows up, shit starts going down. And I'm like, oh, this is going to be great. And I tweeted out, this is, they got me. I'm on board. I can't wait to see where they're going to go with this. And then the second half of the episode, it turns into a very familiar story that I think we've seen

in recently like a thousand times over, like so many times. Like, oh, whether it's, and a lot of Star Wars stuff, whether it's Mandalorian or Bad Batch or All these shows. I'm like, oh, I've seen this a million times. We're doing this again. And, you know, it's out there that he takes his helmet off. So that's not really a spoiler as much because everyone was talking about it. That bothered me less if you can figure it out inside this new canon of why.

Because they don't establish as much as they do in Mandalorian. Like in Mandalorian, they establish why he's got his helmet on. And when he does take it off, it's like, okay, there's reasons behind it and he earned it. In the movie, I mean, this is because in a video game, you don't, and I don't think he does. Again, I don't think he takes off. Maybe he does in one of the games, not sure, but it's known that it's like dread. He just keeps it on. So that's what the fans are, I think, more.

attached to. But in the rules of this TV show, they don't really establish why he needs to keep it on. So I get it. I also understand why people will be mad about it, but I get it. It's just the story from the second half. I'm like, oh, this is so tired. And then it read that the showrunners still haven't like really played the game or got into the lore or the books or anything too. And I I am still on board with the idea that I don't think you need to be a hardcore fan of the source material if you're a producer of it. As long as you understand it and you get it and you start to go, oh yeah, this sounds fun. I can do this.

But I do think you need people involved in it that are, whether it's a Debra Chow or Falonia Favro. They're all big fans inside of the Star Wars side of it. But that being said, in the first 10, 15 minutes, it seems like they were paying a lot of attention because it was, I felt like I was playing the game, but it also felt like it was part of, like, I was learning this new lure. nonetheless, it did very well for Paramount Plus. The question is, will they keep people?

Do people feel, because I'm going to watch the next episode, and if I don't like the next one, depending on how, if the story has me on board at all, I like to try to stick it out. I really would like to try to stick it out. But like if they continue with the story that they're going with, it's just I've seen it a thousand times. I don't need to see it again.

And it's not what made Halo interesting. to me. It really isn't. But I'm curious what you guys think if you watched it at all. But as far as Paramount Plus goes, they're starting to make a move. You know, they got Yellowstone and they also have, what's the other one? Oh yeah, 1883. They have. So they're starting to make some moves. And we're talked about the streaming wars, if you will, last week. And they're not in the game yet. Well, they're in the game. They're just not, they're not hunting for the trophy yet, we should say. they're in the game, but they're not, they're not, they're not, they're nowhere near it. They're not even, the silver, bronze, gold, they're nowhere near it.

It's, it's all about HBO Max, Disney Plus, and Netflix. Those are the ones who are battling it out right now. Amazon and, and, in Paramount Plus, they're going, they're going for, they're trying, they're trying to get there, but they're not, they're not there yet. So that's it, man. That's everything. I'm trying to see if there's anything else. Worth a damn we should be talking about before I move on to the questions,

because we did get a lot of questions. I don't know what that is. Oscars ratings rise. There you go, 56% on last year. I mean, again, let's see what they say about this. This year's Oscars viewership clocked in at 15.36 million viewers on Sunday. It's a rise of 48%.

The number doesn't include out-of-home viewing or streaming. While that's still considerably down compared to the 23. million viewers in 2020 and 29.6 in 2019. It is an improvement on the 10.4 million viewers in 2.1, 10.1, that's pretty bad. 2021's mid-pandemic, host-less ceremony. It's still the second least to watch Oscar ceremony since Nielsen's began tracking it. Yeah, it's just, besides the fact that what I might, I don't want to rehash what I just said before with why I think that it's just not worth putting it on ABC anymore.

there's just so much to watch now too. Like remember back when that show was the show to watch is that there's a lot of different variables, right? The one part of it is that there were just a couple channels and you would tune in. There was the big event. And now you can watch. There's tons of movies that you can watch.

There's tons of TV shows you can catch up on. There's all this stuff that's just, that's part one. Part two is with Twitter, with Facebook, with reality shows, with all these things, with Instagram, you have access to these celebrities all the damn time, daily, all the time. When it was no social media and there was none of this stuff, it was the time that you saw the celebrities. It was the time that the celebrities were treated like, or treated like royalty, and you see them, oh, this is the big event.

This is a kind of romantic, the version of Hollywood that people saw when you're a little kid. It's like, oh, look at all these moments. They're all over the place now. You see them all the time. It's not as magical. It's not as mysterious. They're just, they're everywhere. You can follow them on Instagram.

You can follow them on TikTok. You can follow them everywhere. And so now it's, it's, okay, now they're just accepting awards. And who knows what the hell they're going to say or do? And it's like, it just becomes, eh, I don't give a shit, motherfucker. All right. Moving on.

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I'm going to look. I'm going to look. I'm going to look and see if there's any more stories that are worth a damn. Let's see. I am very happy about Coda, though, I will tell you. I could have sworn that Power the Dog was going to win. And I like, well, I should say, when I saw Power the Dog, I think he's a very well-made film. I was a little bored, very well-made film.

I was bored. Performances are fantastic. Directed, wonderful. That was bored. Cota just blew me away. and the fact that it came out so early Yeah, I love it. There's a new, so Lightyear, there's a new trailer, I guess.

A new trailer confirms that Toy Story spin-off for release in theaters. You'll leave that. I don't know. There's nothing else really going on. He's talking about the Oscars. Let's get into what you guys are asking about, and I'll see if there's any more questions that I should bring up from what you guys have submitted.

And then if there's anything else, I'll bring that up. Oh, okay. Let's just try. What I have up here, I will bring up, and this is the first one. This one I did pull. All right. Matt Moore, I am sorry for your loss as well. Thank you, Matt. Would you like to see 24 come back with Keitha Sutherland? Not sure if I've ever heard your thoughts in the show. Well, I loved the show. When the show came out and it was around in the early 2000s, I loved it. I actually went to a screening of it when Kiefer Sutherland was there. Where the hell was that? I remember being there, seeing it was season two. and it was a great episode. And I really liked it a lot.

The problem with 24, I think, is that when that show came out, the real-time bit and all that, it was so different, right? But 24 episodes is a lot of TV, man, and it's just too much filler. And then you get cougars running around in Runyon Park chasing after Jack Bauer's daughter because they don't know what else to do. And that's the problem with that show. you're going to do an every hour for 24 hours. Just call it 12 or something.

I don't know. 24 is just too much. But the answer, yeah, of course. I'd be interested in it. I think they did that, right? Didn't they bring them back for one more adventure? Jack Bauer? But I think I would want to see it.

I would want to see a Jack Bauer movie. And I wonder if it's just a time has come and gone for Jack Bauer. I guess that's the real question. But would I be curious about it? Yeah, I'd be curious about it. I really loved the show for a long time. And I think I started to bail towards the end because it's just very hard to keep a show going.

They did season upon season on season with 24 episodes each season. And they pushed the limits of network television with what they could do. Jack Bauer was a, he did not follow the rules at all. That was what was so great about him. Yeah, it's a lot. I mean, a lot of memories from racing back. Did David Palmer? Did he, did he die?

I feel like he got it. Maybe he did. He was great in season one. Anyway. Yeah, I'd love to see Bauer come back. I'd be interested to see it for sure. I'd be interested in, and then probably if it stinks, I'd bail like anybody else.

So, all right. Next question. I don't need. I didn't catch the Oscar, sadly due to time zones, but do you think that Batman would have scored an Oscar had to come out earlier? Not for Best Picture, no, and I still think it's got a, you know, you could probably still do it now this year, I mean, but I think it's got a good shot for, for music. I don't think Michael Jekino's score should be nominated for best score, but no, I don't think

that it would have, if it would have come out in December, would have qualified. And I just, I don't think that that's, that's one of the reasons I think the Academy is never going to have big ratings like that on network television ever again is because, regardless of how much the people inside of the space feel. And like I said, I think Cota was, of the movies that, I mean, they still, Cota was the best movie I saw. And I watched it, I think I watched it this year, but it was, it was the best movie last year as far as a feel good movie. And Dune, again, I could go with Dune, but Dune still, I want to see Dune one and two. I think it fits together as one big movie. movie. But I mean, I would have been fine if doing one, loved it. But, um, but yeah, but the problem, if they want people to watch, then, and I know that's not what you're asking, but if they want people to watch, one of the problems is that the more accessible movies, and I think

nominating movies like Batman and, um, uh, Spider-Man and movies like that, they, they feel it would devalue the, um, the prestige of the Oscar. is when I think that it would actually invite the bigger people out there. But you have this stigma that the, theuteur feels that comic book movies and science fiction movies are just, you know, amusement park rise, as they've once been stated before. And I think that's the, that's why you're not going to have people tuning in anymore. That's one of the reasons, one of the many reasons.

But as far as Batman getting nominated, no, I don't think it would have, if it came out earlier, it would have gotten nominated. But I think that it's got a shot for score of the show. year. I hope. I hope because the score is brilliant. All right, next question. John Crum. Ha! Come last at you. So sorry about the loss of your

father-in-law's dog. Thank you, John. He was a sweet, he was a really sweet dog. They are part of the family and it's horrible when we lose them. Thank you. Thoughts and prayers. My question is, did you ever watch the first Sonic, the Hedgehog movie? Despite the horrific first trailer, it actually turned out to be a fun family film and arguably one of the best video game adaptations to date.

I think Sonic 2 looks even better in the perfect family film. Will you be seeing it with the kiddos Are you excited for it at all? So where did that go, by the way? Oh, there it is. So the answer to your question, no, I have not seen the movie yet. And it's not because of, I don't want to see that.

I've heard nothing but good things about Sonic. I've heard great things about Sonic, really great things about Sonic. And I remember how bad the trailer was and they went in to change it and all that stuff. And it makes sense now why they went back to change it because they probably know, we have a good movie on our hands. And then people bitching about it. change the look. And they did, and it worked.

So I think that I want to check out the first one. And I know that my daughter wants to see it also. My oldest wants to see it. So I might tune that in. I'm curious if my four-year-old would be able to watch it. I don't know enough about it. So maybe if you guys can in the comments section. By the way, if you're watching this on Premiere,

even if you're putting your comments in during the actual premiere, please drop a comment into the the comment section here and I'll answer it back and I'll go back and forth with you guys. It's just because the algorithm it favors the going back and forth and being interactive and that's what I've been doing with you guys. I'm enjoying it

and the same reason why we're doing it for a lot of it for where the hell are we? Titans and we just had an epic match between Marisol McKee and Sam Levine and guys can still check that out. It's still on paper review. It's still on Patreon. And you should check it out.

And this week on Titans, we've got some really fun stuff happening. But activity and going back and forth and being interactive with you guys, it really helps tremendously. So if you're able to put your questions, excuse me, put your comments in there while you're watching. But as far as Sonic goes, yeah, man, I'll be checking it out soon. And you probably inspired me again. It's one of those ones that I keep meaning to watch.

And I know two is coming out, so I will see it. But yeah, I'll be checking it out. and thank you for the recommendation for sure. All right, next one, Jamie Livesy. What I do want to ask you is, if you read the passage from the book on the official Star Wars website, which seems to suggest a new Force Ghost

appearing to Luke between episode 6 and 7, this appears to change canon forever. Thoughts, I did not hear about this until you wrote it. But what I will say, and it pains me to say this because I always wanted it to not be this way, but don't take much stock. I used to have this conversation since we can't be back in the day all the time

where I would be on the other side of it, but I don't take much stock in what happens in the books and the comic books and the video games. If they want to use it, they will, but they're not going to hold it as gospel. They're not going to say, oh, well, you know, he's got this force ghost that he was talking to, so we've got to introduce him.

If they want to use it, they'll use it. But they don't, they don't. They'll bring in Vance and saw Guerrera, if it fits things they want in the story, but they're not. And I don't know if we'll ever going to see Ray Sloan ever. I hope that we do. But and that doesn't necessarily mean that they have to. It means that they're like, oh, it would be fun character to use. So now I don't think it changes canon at all because I don't think enough people pay attention to Canon minus the hardcore fans.

And I used to let's pay attention to all of it. but now because I'm pretty pretty confident that they don't pay that much attention to it that nah I don't think it changes canon at all to be honest um all right next one oh this was a big story the the Steiner brothers for those people in um that are wrestling fans

center brothers I think at one point were like banned from or at least Scott Snyder was from w i think i don't remember but they're being uh there's announced that they're going to be in inducted into Hall of Fame and they should be. They should be. I remember WCW, they were like, they popped out as a standout team and then they did a lot of stuff.

And Scott Steiner did more as an individual wrestler, but they, the together, this is this picture of them here at Michigan and all that stuff. This is the team that I remember very well growing up, being in high school, remember these guys and,

you know, the Steiner brothers got to come over to the WV because they're, like they did the shit man it was so good and i remember them very well um so yeah they did absolutely deserve it 100% they deserve it for everything that they did and i think it's also pretty great that a lot of the stuff that people like you know if w wcccc not w back in the day a lot of those accomplishments that people did in the wcd wouldn't have been recognized in wb and a lot of the stuff that they did it's now you go well i don't know how it really works on Peacock now, but when the WV network

was a thing, and I missed that, it was really great. You could access all the old school WCW stuff and all this because they owned all the catalogs. So it's, but it's great that they're getting honored. It's great. All right, next one, I think this is another, this is Chris Parker, who says, with Halo Castlevania and Soon the Last of Us and God of War,

do you think video game adaptations fit the TV show format better? Yeah, this is, your comment was the one I was talking about earlier. I do. I think it's the best way to do it because I just think that there's too much story to try to condense into a two-hour movie and every time they do a movie. Uncharted including,

no matter how successful Uncharted was, uncharted included, every time they do a movie, they change so much shit about it and take away the original stuff and the original story that was so fun and they condense it all. I think there's like four portions of video games in the Uncharted movie that's all crammed into one new movie.

And that was a conscious choice, and they went out and they did their thing to make sure that a new audience would find it and make a new adventure movie, and they succeeded, obviously, as far as box office went. But I still think that Uncharted would have been a very interesting television show if they would have taken all of the games and stretched those out into like five or six seasons

into a television show. I think that would have been awesome. but I do think that the TV works a lot better. You just have more time. And even something like Halo, where even though it's still changing shit up, you have more time, which kind of goes against the whole point of it.

I don't know what the, I mean, maybe they eventually go. I guess that's the idea of TV, right? Is that they can pay attention and they can listen to what's going on and maybe they can switch things up. That's the beauty of TV where movies, You make the movie, you have the script, you put it out there.

Right? And that's like, uh-oh, we can't really change anything up now. That's the movie. TV, it's like, okay, we did season one. You really didn't like that storyline we went with. What if we go back into the games and really explore what they liked about the games and make season two driven towards the games? That's the benefit.

And I think the argument can be able you could do that with a sequel of a movie too. I guess you just have to wait a lot longer, right? Like, that's the TV is another benefit, is that you can make season two of Halo and come out next year. and movies usually take two, well, three to four years. And the difference is you want to see how it does before it gets greenlit and then all these conversations as opposed to TV. Yeah, we're doing two or three seasons. We know we're doing it.

Let's move. And once they have the numbers in, well, all right, our numbers are pretty good consistently for three weeks. Let's do season two. Get it moving. I think that it would behoove them to go more into the game storylines and explore the stuff that really, that people enjoy it.

If they see that overall criticism, continue. But we'll see. We'll see. Next question. It's another wrestling one I like it. AJ Johnson, what are your thoughts on Triple H retiring from in-ring wrestling moving forward? Also, Dune won six Oscars. But somehow, Diney wasn't nominated for directing.

Your thoughts? Sorry for the two and one. Baffling about the Deney not getting nominated for directing because that movie is brilliantly directed. brilliantly and it should have been. That was probably the biggest snub of the night as far as... Who won directing? See, I don't even know everybody who won. I really didn't even know who won.

Let me see. You know what? Let's do that real quick. I don't even know who won. Cota won best pitcher. Will Smith won best actor. Jessica Chastain won best actress. No Time to Die was Best Original Score.

Is that right? Enkanto was best animated. Like I said, a lot of these... Oh, Jane Campion. Okay. A better job. I think she did a really good job, but I liked his movie better,

and I think it was... Yeah, I would have picked him. But, yeah, everybody who won, I think... Ariana DeBos was awesome. Troy Coat-Sir was awesome. Drive my car, I didn't see. Yeah, I mean, best original... All best original score.

Was that the score? Was that the score? Anyway, best visual effects was doing. Okay. Yeah. There's this, I mean, I mean, I guess a lot of these things that were just best sound, best editing. All the, all the wins came like off screen, I guess.

I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it. Like I said, I think the people who won good argument, but not, didn't he not getting, that's the only one that I think, at a best director I probably would have had, I would have had Deney. Who was nominated in Best Director? Let's see. Kenneth Brana from Belfast.

I didn't see drive my car, so I don't know. Steven Spielberg was really good. I would have removed Paul Thomas Anderson, and I would have put Denise over there. I like Lickrish Pizza, but not as much as doing. And I think it was a much better directed movie than Lickrish Pizza, to be honest. That's interesting. Interesting.

Okay. Next one. What do you got? All right. Oh, Triple H. Triple H. Sorry, sorry. I didn't answer that.

Triple H is one of the greatest wrestlers. Hall of Fame guy for sure and has a lot to do, obviously, creatively and everything that he did. I mean, how old is he? I'm going to guess. I'm going to say that he's 54 years old. Hey, Siri, how old is Triple H? Triple H is 50 years old.

50 years old. Sherry, you're an idiot. You show me 52. It says 52. And you say 50? You a moron? Let's try that again. Hey, Siri, how old is Triple H?

Hey, Siri, do you fall asleep? You fucking ass. Hey, Siri, how old is Triple H? Triple H is 50 years old. This is 52. No way he's 50 years old. No way. Let's say.

A little dummy. 52. 50 years old. Were you time traveling? Anyway, 52 years old. We aren't here on his body. He doesn't need to, he doesn't need to, need to do it anymore. He's got a lot of other things that he's doing. A lot of times when people

are still wrestling. It's because they got a, they got something to hang on to. He doesn't need to hang on to it. And he's been through multiple, multiple injuries and surgeries. It's time from the, time from the step down. And good for him that he decided that it was, it was time. And he get him more involved than on camera, though, because he's pretty good in the wrestling. I don't think he's the greatest actor outside of wrestling, but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about as far as a sports entertainment performer, he's one of the best. And I think having him on camera would be great and other things that he's doing behind the scenes.

And so good for him. Good for him. I think it's a good move, smart move. And, you know, it's, he knows if it's time, then it's time. Is that it? Is that everything? No, just a couple more, I'll call it a day. Lewis Scott, what are you hoping to see most in Dr. Strange, too?

This is a great question because the answer to that is I don't really know. I don't really know. I think that from what I hear is that the stuff that they collaborated with Sony to give us a lot of like some fun movie, like a really fun movie in No Way Home and the stuff that you got, the little tidbits, but it seems like they're going to go all out with everything that they're allowed to do now because of the properties that they have that is all theirs and theirs alone. I think they're going to go balls to the wall. And I like that.

They're not really showing us, minus the little voiceover from Patrick Stewart. But I dig it, man. I dig what we're about to see. And I think, what am I, I don't know. I don't know what I'm most looking forward to. I just, I think the continuation of it, remember, I'm a sucker for parallel universes and multiverses and all that shit.

I was a sucker for it way before any of this stuff. So the idea of it and how it all plays together, So that was the thing that I loved about endgame. I love their idea, the idea of time travel that they play with because to me, that's, that's when you listen to scientists. And so that's the way that time travel would work as far as if you went back into time, you wouldn't, if I went back and stopped my parents from meeting, I'd still exist in this timeline. it's a different timeline. I would just create a new timeline that then I would not exist in that particular timeline.

That's what most scientists say is real. I like that. In Free Guy, they play with the back to the future logic and all that stuff and in one particular timeline. I just think that's not the way that the universe works and how it works. So I like the idea of the multiverses and the different versions of yourself

and all those things. that's what they've been playing in a lot. And that's why I love this phase of Marvel so much because anything happened and it's just batshit crazy and Loki and No Way Home and the NIST. So I'm just looking forward to it because it's, to me, this is the, like I like Dr. Strange, the first one, but playing inside of the time travel and all that,

so that's my favorite kind of stuff. So that's what I'm looking forward to. This is the time travel stuff. All right, I think this is the last one and then we'll call it a day here. Paul Stevenson, is Dr. Strange overrated? He did next to nothing in Infinity War. He couldn't find vision, but he could find Tony release.

He could have used a mirror dimension on the... But he didn't next to nothing to help. Yeah, I guess, but he's still... I mean, he's still pretty damn powerful for everything he's able to do. And he does mess stuff up, but... I don't know. I don't think he's overrated. I think Bennett had come back to so much fun to watch,

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