The Kristian Harloff Show - X-Men 97 DRAMA! Beau DeMayo's Firing Exposed! Justified?

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

Big drama coming from Camp Disney on Friday. The rumor was that Beau DeMayo was fired for some kind of conduct not becoming of The Mouse House. A new report goes deeper than that and talks about just what might have happened. Beau and his team fired back. What is really going on with the X-Men 97 production? Is the X-Men 97 animated series in trouble? We'll break down all the details surrounding Beau DeMayo's exit from X-Men 97, including how this might impact the MCU and Marvel Studios' plans for the beloved characters like Wolverine, Gambit, Professor X, and Jean Grey. Plus, we've got other juicy updates: John Wick 5 might be closer than we think—new reports suggest they're starting to shoot soon! And in other Marvel news, Brian Cox isn't holding back, blaming the MCU for the decline of cinema. Meanwhile, Charlie Cox is eager for a Daredevil and Spider-Man team-up. Join Kristian Harloff and John Rocha on Big Thing LIVE for all this and more! Don't miss the latest rumors and drama from the world of X-Men, Marvel, and beyond. #xmen97 #mcu #marvel #deadpoolandwolverine #xmen #drama #rumors OUR SPONSORS: LIQUID IV: Indulge in hydration this summer with Liquid I.V. Get 20% off your first order of Liquid I.V. when you go to http://www.LIQUIDIV.com and use code BIGTHING at checkout. AG1: Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase at http://www.drinkAG1.com/BIGTHING ROCKETMONEY: Stop wasting money on things you don't use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to http://www.RocketMone.com/THING JOYMODE: Go to http://www.usejoymode.com and get 20% off with code [BIGTHING] at checkout.

Welcome back, everybody. It's Monday. It's a live show. What the hell happened with Bo de Mayo. Well, something happened. We knew that happened from the second he was let go. And then the question was, how are they going to let it go? They're not going to talk about it anymore. It's like somebody going to talk about it. And the second somebody does, if it's going to hit the Shan, that's exactly what happened. Now, all the details are coming out. And it's a he said they said, it looks like. So we're going to find out exactly. What the hell the report said, what Disney's saying, Bose team fired back and that and more. Brian Cox, he joins the crew.

What crew? The crew that blames cinema not doing as well on comic book movies. Why has everybody blamed comic book movies? It's like, there's other reasons. That's because of Marvel and DC. That's just like, that's what everybody says now. It's like there's a lot of other reasons, I think, besides just that, but we'll talk about his comments.

And I know everybody always says succession with him, but he'll always be, I'm your uncle, Argyle. Started as Arnold, but it was braveheart, I promise. Uncle Argyle, indeed. Well, that Brian Cox, but Charlie Cox says that he wants a Spider-Man team up. I think we all do, Charlie. We'll discuss that that's going to happen. And then John Wick, part five.

What? Yeah, it looks like it's going to happen. How's that going to work? Well, we'll discuss that. There's other things. There's other stuff going on. But we'll figure it out. You guys are going to ask questions. You're going to have a bunch of questions. So we're going to have a bunch of answers. So you can throw in those questions now. And we'll get to them by the end of the show. So it is myself. It's John Roker. It's the big thing. It's Monday. It's live. You got all the info. Here you go. What's going on, everybody? It's me and John Roker. It's here. It's our live show on Monday.

on August 19th the year of our Lord. So what's going on, Uncle Argyle? How are you doing? It was a good accent. Good attempt at a Scottish accent. The second half of it I had. The first part of it was Arnold. Your uncle Argyle. I'll teach out of fight. It's the best.

Yeah, good, good weekend, busy weekend, crazy weekend. But also, brother, you can smell it in the air. College football, NFL football is right around the corner, baby. It's right around the corner. It's true. I went to, I mean, so funny, you know me, I'm a diehard Yankee fan, but I am also an animal of convenience. Yes. You know that as well.

So when I had everything to my friend, you know David Gambino. So you know, he was in town. Of the Gambinos? Yeah. And he wrote to me and he says, let's go to a baseball game while I'm here. I'm like, sure. And he's, and I was working. So he's like, what's, he's like, which one are you do?

And the Yankees are Mets. And I'm like, way easier for me to get to a Mets game. It was way easier. And way cheaper. They're playing the A's. They're playing the A's. They're handing out the tickets. Yeah, exactly. They were paying me to go to the baseball game. But I went with him and my friend James,

when they played the A's. And the other thing is every time I go to see the Yankees live, every time I went to see them against the Angels, they would lose. Every time I see the Mets, they went. I don't even like the Mets. That's weird. That is weird. It's bizarre. Anyway, all right, let's get into this thing, man, because it's a thing. It is a thing.

So let's start with the news that went down over. It was like Friday, really. Bode Mayo. And here I'm going to read some stuff in excerpts. What hell's my glasses? Here they are. The Hollywood Reporter. Marvel fires back over X-Men 97 creators claim.

He was stripped of season two credits, cites egregious, excuse me, egregious investigation findings. So this is five months after Marvel Studios fired Bode Mayo for mysterious reasons. The writer claimed Thursday that he no longer will get credit on the second season of the hit Disney Plus show, which he completed work on before his exit. The mail made the claim on social media saying it was part of a troubling pattern he endured while working on Marvel. Marvel shot back soon after and in a statement to the Hollywood reporter gave insight into his

firing saying it occurred after an internal investigation. So above is X-Men fan art, posted on Instagram for Gay Pride in June is what DeMaio writes. On June 13th, Marvel sent a letter notifying me that they'd strip me in my season two credits due to the post. Mayo wrote on Thursday on X, along with an illustration of a shirtless version of himself as a superhero cyclops. DeMayo, who spent several years at Marvel working on a draft of a long, he worked on the blade feature as well as the TV show Moon Night, added, sadly, this is the latest in a troubling pattern I suffered while working on X-Men. and Blade. Marvel responded by saying that DeMeo's behavior was the cause of his firing and for him losing his credits. They wrote, Mr. DeMayo was terminated in March 2024 following an internal investigation said a Marvel spokesperson in a statement. Given the egregious nature of his findings, we severatized with him immediately and he has no further affiliation with Marvel.

Sources say that following his exit and agreement was reached between the two parties over the issue of tweeting about the show, something that DeMeo has continued to occasionally do, in light of the breaches, his credit for season two was removed. While no details of the cause of determination for the eternal reviews have surfaced, sources say it involved sexual misconduct. DeMayo did not immediately return a request for comment. DeMaio was an avid social media user during his tenure at Marvel, sharing X-Men tidbits as well as shirtless pictures of himself and even running a non-explicit only fans' account. This all led the LGBT publication out to declare him the second. sexy gay Marvel writer and showrunner to know on the surface the notion that Marvel would strip the mail of a credit due to a social media post would stretch credibility. Oh, thank you. Yes. I have glasses on too as outside observers note the gay pride illustration is similar to a number of posts he made while employed at Marvel and fired Marvel executive Victoria Alonzo

retained credit on projects she previously worked on following her exit in 2023, but the reveal of an internal investigation points to deeper causes. So the last part of about this is despite the bad press around his firing. X-Men went on to be hit with audience's critics. Until now, DeMaio has remained mostly Mummon is firing from Marvel, though in recent days he did note that he had tried and failed to secure a seat at the Emmys from the studio. There's a little bit more here, but we can dive into it. John's covered this, so we can get a little more insight if there's. Is there anything in general, John, here that I missed that I didn't continue to go over?

Well, no, not you, I think you've done the good general broad brush for the situation for sure. But, you know, with Jeff's report over the weekend on Friday, rather, that really highlighted some of these accusations that might have been going on behind the scenes. Again, this is sources telling Jeff and Jeff vets his sources pretty thoroughly. It doesn't mean he's always right, but almost always he is, with these kinds of things, because Jeff is very sensitive. He's not a sensationalist in this way, that, you know, these, that he was, Bodimea was allegedly, sending pictures of himself in various states of undress to staffers, male staffers in the 20 to 30 year range, through a role range, whether they wanted them or not.

And I think that's what was part of the situation. And then apparently groped a particular person over on the production staff. And again, these are all alleged things that Jeff heard from his sources. So this is not named in the Disney situation. But someone, because you know, you and I have dealt with corporations before. Sure. the word egregious is a very big word that corporations use to essentially say we have numerous

examples of this we have investigated these examples and so now we can say egregious because it's a lot and so clearly there's a lot of smoke here and a fire the question is why why now why do this why shoot yourself in the foot like this unless you've got incredible evidence to go against Disney with. I don't understand. Unless you just are a person who is a product of self-destruction. Clearly, right. It's like that, that happens. That happens. And we've seen it.

We've seen it in smallest people, look, I've told you this many times over and it's not, we joke about it, but I'm, social media is the destruction of all of us. It is the destruction of all of us. It is, it has ruined many careers, right and wrong. Yeah, true. And it is going to continue to do that because people, people should not have this tool at the ready in the way that they do. And in order to do,

and this is, this is completely separate from the other thing. You just said that from the allegations, what I was writing about this is just, if you're posting stuff and people say, hey, okay, look, you got fired. And now the part of the deal is, we're going to give you your credit.

Yeah. But don't talk about this anymore. Just be quiet. Just go and get, you know, it'll blow over after a little while. Go get your job. Do your thing. you know, you'll be fine. We're not going to talk about it.

You don't talk about it. And then see you later. You know, go do your thing. And he decided to want to keep tweeting. So like, okay, fine, then you don't get credit. You're done. And you're not going to beat Disney that way. And he's just one of these guys that he, because I do think, and I don't know this for a fact,

but I do think sometimes that people think, you know what? I can get such an army behind me on Twitter. And I can get so many people behind me thinking like, yeah, X-Men 97 was so good. It's not going to be as good without you. and so you know what f disney so we got you back and it's like yeah but if there's more to the story shush yeah and the thing is um relying on an internet mob to be behind you consistently is a fool's errand it is a fool's uh uh decision because the internet mob turns in a minute of the second they think you're not uh loyal or you're not fully going with them like the crazier it gets

If you don't go as crazy with them, then they turn on you for not going as crazy with them. How loyal you are to them. Yeah. No. There's no winning with an internet. No, absolutely zero. No. It's like you think you're fighting.

Whatever cause you think you're fighting, that cause is going to turn on you whenever it benefits them. Yeah. And so, you know, it's like, and if they don't end, the other side of that is if they don't, they're like, yeah, I just saw this clip. There's an old school clip. And there's John McEnroe yelling at some lady in the front row. this clip probably have my lifetime knowing it's as 80s as it gets and so here's this woman she's been screaming at him the whole entire game yeah she's yelling at him screaming at him yelling at him and so finally you know mack and row he goes over and he says shush she tells her stop yelling

during my stuff and so the lady goes she calls him in a hole right and then she gets up and goes like this to the crowd yeah right according the crowd response crickets because it is a no you yelling at him the whole time right it's the same thing it's like you got to it now the other side of it is if he was a complete you know jerks that's screaming at her the whole time and then the crowd's like yeah get him you know that happens on twitter also yeah we saw that was serena when serena was yelling at that uh line umpire that female line umpire said she was going to shove the ball down her throat because she didn't like the way she was calling stuff and yeah the internet turned on serena and that's or the sports fans turned on serena that's the thing yeah with both though

i mean this is where it's perplexing and you might be right it might i don't want to to default to self-destruction in 2024, but you might be right here, Christian, because if he, as you said, if he had just stayed quiet, took his lumps, Disney was willing to go into an understood agreement that they weren't going to say anything to a future employer about him as long as he didn't start any stuff and he could have gone on to another employer, possibly pulled the same stuff with a new employer because apparently in Jeff's reporting, he had done this at Netflix as well, allegedly. then the pattern could have kept repeating with Bo.

But Bo opening his mouth, challenging Disney. I think you're right. I think he thought, well, we've seen so many people supposedly about to get canceled, but then all these people rally around him, maybe Bo thought, well, if I playing the narrative, and they love my show. And they love my show, right. And if I paint the narrative that they're being homophobic, then I will really get all these people on my side. Plus, I'm black, so maybe it's racist too.

I get all these people on my side and I'll be able to fight the mouse. But if the mouse has evidence, that's all going to come out and we're going to see what happens. And they clearly feel it because, look, you could see where they would get if they didn't, where they would get nervous and say, oh, you know, we'll hire you back. Right. They would get, because. All right, we won't come to the Emmys. We won't take your name off.

We shouldn't have acted in the way that we did and we shouldn't have just fired you because of a tweet because they've done that before. And they're like, oh, my God, everybody's going to go nuts and they're going to, They're going to get so mad at us if we do this. Disney's done that before. But if they have enough, they're like, oh, there's enough there that there's no way we can have this guy work for us again. And we made a good deal with you. It's over.

Yeah. It's over, but we're not going to say anything about it. And because it was weird. We said it when we were talking about initially. Nobody was saying anything. And they weren't even. There was, oh, yeah, he's gone. Well, the day before the premiere, it's like, he's gone.

Why? But they never said. So now it's like, okay, if he's open in his mouth, we'll tell you why. Because he was doing some stuff. So you want to keep coming after it? You want to try to get the mob. But we can show you what you did. And then we have the right to do it.

I think this is a lose situation for Bodomeo. Yeah. I think he thought it was Magneto. Yeah. And he's not Magneto. Not this time around. Especially if you did all the stuff that Jeff's talking about. It's like, you will not win this because no one's going to want you to be there.

and it doesn't matter, the mob's going to turn against you and say, no, if you're doing change stuff at work and you're not making a safe place for people to be around, and it doesn't matter how good your show is. And Christian, let's say even if it was consensual, you're still violating the tactics of being a manager or being a showrunner and with a subordinate person, and I don't mean subservient, subordinate, you know, lower than you on the packing scale, you are sending these pictures. you're essentially intimidating them to want to, or do you have to respond to this kind of stuff?

And it's in 1965 anymore. It's one of these things. I mean, even bringing back that McEnroe clip again, right? Which I never thought in any world would be that relevant twice in one conversation. But they're like, so the conversation that the announcers are having are, I mean, they're really,

they're super misogynistic and not course, right? But like, where's the, Where going with it is basically, well, the woman, you know, this person, what you probably say today is this person shouldn't be yelling at Macaro. Let him do his thing and said, they're like, well, what do you expect him to give you a kiss? You know, it's like, like, right. And it's like the things you can do that you got away with and what you'd say. And that was just, and it wasn't, it was the norm for them. They didn't.

Yeah, yeah, right. They would get in trouble for something like that, right? Because they didn't. And they wouldn't have in the same way that, but you're in, you're in. you're now and you're tweeting, you're sending pictures to people and you're doing, I mean, this is like,

post, like all this stuff that's gone down and over the last like five years, right? It's like, what are you doing? What are you doing? And why are you risking that? And that's why I say some people just had this thing where they can't control themselves

and they do they, it's a destruction thing. Yeah, yeah. Agreed. It's so unfortunate. I agree. It's unfortunate.

But, you know, it's also, it's unfortunate, again, if it's the people that, as you say, allegedly if these things did happen.

It was unfortunate to them that they couldn't just enjoy their job. And they have to like, you get these pictures, they get these things and they're trying and they know. And it's got to also be a bummer because you're working on this thing you know is good. You know this guy is extremely talented. You know that he understands what the fans want. And then you got to also understand if you're on the other side of it where you're like,

oh, okay, we made this deal with this guy. Let's wash our hands of this thing. He's going to get his credit. We're going to, everything was fine. And then he's tweeting about it. You're like, All right. That's it.

Now we have to do the thing that we didn't want to do. And now it's, we're not going to, you know, you put our backs against the wall. We're going to, we're going to fight back. And any, the lawyer he's chosen is a lawyer who's represented, Sage Steele and other people have gone up against Disney. Other of these, the far right contingent, so to speak, who've gone against Disney. I'm sure he may have consulted with Gina Crono's lawsuit, very possible. Because Friedman came out with that statement and said very clearly, like, this is what Disney does.

they try to shut everybody up and have them sign NDAs. Probably not wrong, but Bo is the one who started this. If Bo doesn't accuse Disney of being homophobic or against the LGBT community with that posed, then this whole shitstorm doesn't start. So to now retroactively go after Disney and say, well, they made him sign the stuff, really is a waste of time. And people went through his timeline and we're like, what he's talking about does not make sense with the posts he was posting according to

the timeline. So it's just out of control. I do want to give a plug to Jeff. If you guys don't subscribe to his newsletter, Theinsnider.com, go and subscribe. Jeff does great reporting there. And certainly this was something he was sitting on for quite some time before he let out of the bag, you know.

Yeah, I mean, it is, it is, it's an unfortunate circumstance overall. But, you know, what do you guys think about it, man? All right. I'm going to move to the next story here, John. We got the box office. The box office, I'll get you out of the, I know. The reason I can't try to adjust this stupid. Oh, I love it. I wish I had a better background for you to be entertaining. There you go. There we go. All right. All right. So as we said last week, man, we knew that Alien Romulus was going to dethrone Deadpool and Wolverine, but, you know, after however many weeks it was. Deadpool Wolverine will start with them. They're 1.1 billion. I told you was going to start to slow, though. I told you. Told you. Again, you don't listen to me. We start listening to me when it comes to box office, John.

I'm telling one. A hell of a box office run thus far and it still made 29 million last weekend. It ends with us, did another 24 million. That movie so far, controversy or not. Yeah, you know, $179 million

worldwide. It's made almost 100 million already domestically. That is a massive, massive hit for what that is. Twisters. What? They put Twisters back in the theater? Probably. hanging on, man, hanging on.

Holy crap. I just watched it again over the weekend with my wife on Amazon. It was a 9.8. Yeah. That's a good. And look at that, Coraline. My daughter was upset because she wanted to see, if you wanted to take her to see Coraline and we forgot that it was out. So that made 8.4.

But Romulus makes 41.5, 41.5 for Alien Romulus. This is a, you and I both enjoyed this movie thoroughly. Yeah, I saw some. I mean, I've seen people that we know, like I've seen a lot of people that we know. And, you know, it's, it was okay. I've seen people who have liked garbage talking about this movie. And I'm like, why stop this? It's like, it's their opinion.

But I was reading some people who tweet now about, well, I thought it fell fall apart. I'm like, I've seen your reviews on other things. And come on. This movie, this movie was really, I. I enjoyed the hell. They took big swings. Yes. I enjoyed the hell out.

I'm a big Feddy Alvers. Freddie Alvers is a star of this film followed by Kaley. And then I agree with you. The dude who plays, what's it? Yeah, David Johnson. Yeah. David Johnson. He was fantastic.

Yeah, yeah. Fantastic. So, I mean, the whole cast was, but I think it was a really good movie. I enjoyed it thoroughly. And I'm glad it's doing decent. But yeah, I mean, anything really, I mean, I think the whole of me, I'll tell you what stands out. I'm going to answer the question I'm asking.

Okay. What stands out about the numbers here? And the answer is this Blake lively movie. Yeah. I mean, holy moly. Yeah, as I'm reading now on people, it has crossed $200 million globally. Wow.

200. Like you said, the better than expected, we said last week, 50 million opening last week. This weekend, 24 million. Yeah, it dropped 52%. But you can, you can. can drop 52% when you go over $200 million. How are your budget

the first weekend? The budget was $25 million. So for all the controversy and cancel Blake lively, let's dig up old interviews. And look, by the way, I'm no fan of hers and what she did and what she pulled in this or any stuff in the past. I think she's just a rich little mean girl. But look,

her and Ryan clearly figured out how to make money off of this movie by pitching it a certain way and courting the controversy. And, you know, And Justin isn't going to care because Justin gets paid off of this stuff making money as well. So as much as his reputation may be a little bit in question with the back of both of Blake just like hers is, $200 million, Christian, I'll gladly fight with you to make $200 million on a $25 million movie for God's sake.

You got that part? If that's part of your contract, your party contract is I'm going to make money. Fine, you know what? But maybe they would have made the same deal. It's like, let's not say anything. Let's not talk about anything. You know, whatever happens here will go our separate ways. you do. I happen to agree with you.

I didn't love that interview that resurfaced. We didn't talk about that. Because I always, I'm always obviously going to take the side of the interviewer. When it comes to, depending on presentation, right? I'll always, I'll always take the side of the person who's in the

right when it comes to, like, I remember when we were watching some interview that Downey did with this asshole face. Oh yeah. Right. And this guy was just He was just. Yes. He wasn't, it's guy is like a gotcha type guy and he's you know he's one of these he was there to there's people don't understand is that he he he's there to talk about i think it was one of the avengers

movies whatever it was or hiring movie whatever it was if you're going there and you're sitting down like if i if i have somebody in for a one-on-one interview and i tell the publicists are coming i'm like i cover everything you know i don't know where the where it's going to go but it's a deep dive into the person's life yeah yeah it gets mad at me for bringing up something where i'm like hey you know in your past you've this this this and this and in it he's going going, well, hey, why are we talking about this? Because I told you guys we were going to go, you don't have, we back off and I'll have that conversation.

And then I think whoever that person is, if it's me or anyone says that, then they're in the right. Right. But if you're bombarding somebody and it's you going after somebody in a moment, like you watch that interview, it is horrible what that guy does to Downey. And Downey leaves and he had every right to. Danny was 100% in the right and I'll stand by that.

This woman, yeah, started off by asking Blake, Blake, I think he was pregnant at the time. She was eight months pregnant. She had announced it two or three months before. Congratulations on your bump. I mean, maybe, you know, it's like congratulations on your pregnancy. If she says bump, because maybe she's, you know, maybe she would, there was something that she was a little self-conscious about her body or whatever it might be.

But that was not the intention of what the reporter was doing. It wasn't. And then she was just talking to Parker Posey the whole time turning her body and being, it should be rude. And the, and the woman took it as well as she could. But in my opinion, that Blake lively and. and Parker Posey, to be clearly honest, were in the wrong for the way they treated that woman.

And maybe Parker less so than Blake, but it was, Parker was just trying to make the best of it. He was trying to make the best of it. But it was, and we also, and this is the other thing that I've said many times over and why I think Twitter is such a shithole

and other places are too. I'm not going to go so far as to call Blake lively a mean girl and say she's a spoiled rich girl and all that stuff too, because I'll tell you, I don't know what she was going through that time in her life. I don't know what she was going through that day when she walked in. I had a bad day on air and I got and I and I took and I took the lumps for it and I still take the lumps for it and I deserve but like there are times of people go they have bad days now I don't know if that necessarily was a bad day for her she's having a bad month she's having a bad year right whatever it might be I get people a little bit more leniency when it comes to having bad times but the question is I would have liked to see in her address it and say something along the lines of hey this is something I shouldn't have done and I feel bad about it um and I'm And I would, and I'd be forgiving of that.

Not everybody would, but I would be forgiving of that. And I don't know if she feels that one. But I'm not, but I also not going to just say, I mean, and no offense to you, but I'm not going to go ahead and, I've seen people besides you calling her mean girl, say she's spoiled and all that too. I don't know what she was going through that. Well, I mean, yeah, for me, it's more a matter of repeated examples of it, not just the interview, but other stuff that's come out and speaking to people who've

worked on sets with her, me personally speaking to people who worked on sets with her. and then seeing other people on social media who've, like, published emails from people who've been on sets with her. So it's just like you see numerous examples and you get a good idea. But look, the way you're approaching it, I think is also a very sweet way to approach it. You're giving grace. There's nothing wrong with that. So just two different ways to approach situation for me. And I look at it and I just go, it's unfortunate all around because this kind of taints what could have been a really good story in terms of her kind of.

coming out with a movie like this with her husband and their husband and wife making a lot of money, you know, which hadn't happened. I think it's been 64 years or something like that since a husband and wife both had different movies at the same time making a lot of money in top and the box office. So it just kind of taints it all. And the story of the film about domestic violence and overcoming domestic violence is also getting lost with all of this drama, for sure. It doesn't also get overshadowed. And that's the other thing.

I mean, I haven't seen the movies. I can't speak on it. One of the things that I've seen is that people are like, the way that it's been promoted is just kind of like brushed past it. I think there was another interviewer who asked her something about it in a serious way. And she kind of joked about it and went in a different way with it. And acknowledge it.

And people who had, you know, severed domestic violence and those things who kind of took offense to that. Like, why aren't you addressing this? This is more so than what this is. And so, but I haven't seen the movie. So I can't really speak on it. You didn't see it yet, right? Yeah, I don't know if I will, to be honest with it.

But I probably should at some point. point, but yeah, I don't know if I will. But you're right, because this morning, the Daily Mail is watching on TikTok, Daily Mail posted a clip of their interview, and she said, yeah, the film does cover domestic violence, but it's about, it's not just about being defined by, it's about overcoming things, and it's a fun and funny film. And it's like, what are you talking about? So it just becomes this idea of they, it was clear that they purposely wanted to push down

the story of domestic violence and elevate the story of female empowerment or overcoming the obstacles so you're not defined by it, which I get. But I think it's a mistake to, you know, kind of try to push down the domestic violence thing, which is what most people are offended by, to be honest. Yeah, I think that one's harder for me to speak on just one because I haven't seen the movie itself. Oh, totally, totally. All right. I should just be it, though, I suppose. Yeah, I mean, I'll probably wind up checking out, especially when it comes out. That reminds me in the fact that, and maybe even do a watch-along to it, because we're going to start adding more movie reactions to this channel.

and I mentioned I'm adding some new people to the channel. And if you haven't seen the community posts, we're going to have a movie reaction team. And Matt Serra will be one of those people, but I'm adding four new ladies to the rotation. One is my friend Samantha. One is my friend Alexandra, just goes by Alex.

One is my friend Tina. And one will be my lovely wife. Oh, no. Yeah, I know, exactly. So business with pleasure. I know, I know. But this was something that it all came about. We're going to do a bunch of movies.

And that's going to start sooner than later. I don't know which one we're going to do first. I might make my wife watch Bumblebee. She won't watch it. But now I make her watch Bumblebee. So to clarify, what you're saying, movie reactions, you're going to watch stuff with somebody in your office. That's the reaction.

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I'm going to bring up this topic, man, because this is an interesting one to me. Brian Cox, he says, cinema is beginning to implode. Succession star and British acting legend, Brian Cox, says that cinema is in a very bad way right now with part of the blame going on superhero franchises. Cox, who's never afraid to speak his mind, appeared at the Edinburgh International Film Festival panel on Saturday and via the Hollywood Reporter was asked about how critically acclaimed the popular various TV series have taken over much of the zeitgeist conversation in recent years. Cox, who jumps between films and TV fairly regularly had his own fun in comic book movies as

William Shreaker in X2, and he says that cinema is hitting some real rough times. He says, what's happened is that television is doing what cinemas used to do. I agree with that. I think cinema is in a very bad way. I don't know about that. I think it's lost at the place because of partly the grandiose elements between Marvel DC and all that. And I think it's beginning to implode, actually. You're kind of losing the plot. He says that films are making a lot of money that makes everybody happy, but in terms of the work, it becomes diluted afterwards. He then brings up his time in those films and how he understands the draw for actors financially and socially. I mean, I've done those kind of projects. Deadpool meets the guy, Wolverine, who I created, but I've

forgotten. Actually, when those films are on, there's always a bit of me as Striker, and they never pay me any money. So it's just become a party time for me, for, excuse me, so it's just become a party time for certain actors to do this stuff. When you know the Hugh Jackman can do a bit more, Ryan Reynolds, but it's because they go down that road and it's box office. They make a lot of money. You can't knock it. Excuse me. However, television is pulling ahead, in part because of the lack of time constraints. There's so many shows and you've got the honor of telling the story over a period of time. However, there's some sadness there as films of his childhood made him want to be the actor that he's become and then those

films are going away. So there's a lot in here John. There's a lot. I'm going to say this. There's some, the meat of this, I agree with. The meat of it. I don't agree with the fact that everybody always said,

I joked about it in the intro. It seems like every old school actor and director just immediately point their finger and go, it's comic book movies. The comic book movies. It's the, now what he was saying was the big, grandiose movies that they, oh, you know me, they over and for. And like that aspect of it, I couldn't agree more with. Like, they just, they lose, they lose the plot.

They just look to try to get people, what they think people want to see. So they put, you know, the money into the movies. They overspend. They put the big blockbuster budgets and they overspend, they do all this stuff. So I don't disagree with that. But the only reason you blame it on Marvel in D.C., because those are the ones that have been super successful all the time and continue to go on.

Right. What do you make of some of these comments? This feels like, and I don't want to, I don't want to, okay, fine, I'll say it. It just feels like old man getting angry on the couch yelling about everything in front of the television. That's what it feels like to me. And look, Brian Cox has more than earned the right to do that. I've been very blessed to be able to interview him, which is up on my channel, 30 minutes, like three years ago before they started doing the final season succession.

Great interview. Definitely a guy that does not mince words has very strong opinions about the film industry and about acting. And so nothing he said here struck me as inauthentic in that this is what he legitimate believes. But how much do I know that Brian Cox, how much do I believe, rather, that Brian Cox is like exploring all the all the movies that are coming out in the cinema, the smaller films, the international films, the films that are in different languages, you know, all these the new, the up and coming film directors. I don't think Brian Cox is out here watching all these films. What was the new one that came out, D.D. or like, I don't think he's out here watching all it to make an assessment about what's going on with the film industry. Because in my opinion, I think he's talking about mainstream film culture.

And I totally understand that because tastes have changed. It's become way more of a blockbuster culture. But I would argue that the level and quality of the films overall being made, I would put up against almost any decade because there are so many people who are now have access to tell their stories or tell stories who come from so many different walks of life, different genders, different identities, sexual identities, different ethnicities who are telling these incredible stories who are opening our minds up for people who have access to this stuff.

There's so many incredible independent films that are out there for people to enjoy and watch and really savor that are dramas and comedies and black comedies and noirs. All kinds of stuff is out of them. So let's say the film industry, I think he's talking about the mainstream, and I wish they would clarify that. Mainstream film industry, theatrically released films from big studios, this, this, this. It's changed. That's the bottom line is that it's changed today. The type of movies that do successful, the type of movies that people are going to see in the theaters, that has changed, and he's not wrong about it. We've talked about that many times over, and TV is partially the main reason of why that is, too, because you can see

There's a positive and negative to it, right? And I think the major positive is something you're saying. These smaller movies and these smaller things that if you put them in theaters, A, would be significantly harder to, A, get made, B, to make any money off of them.

And it's like, oh, this movie played in front of 200 theaters across the country and, and, or shoot, let's say, let's say 15 theaters across the country and a couple people saw them here and there. But then you put them on Netflix,

Amazon and you're opening up, look at Roxy's movie, right? The Always Lola. You make that movie in 1999 and it's going to be very hard to get people to see it. It's going to wind up on VHS and you're going to, it's going to be like you're walking through like,

oh, what's that movie? And it maybe finds a life if somebody picks it up on cable and that type of thing. But it comes off and through social media and through everything else and it finds itself an audience through it. And it gets on Amazon and you see. way more people see it than they would if it was in the theater, right?

Yeah. But the actor, and especially an old school actor like Brian Cox, you come up with this idea as you've grown up and he said as much, you know, you have these actors that were larger than life on the silver screen. You see them and there was certain movies, like whether there was one flu over the cuckoo's nest or, or even going farther back with,

what's the, oh my God, what's the one with Boo Radley? Oh, yeah. Kill a Mockingbird. Thank you. So Kill a Mockingbird comes out, you know,

and based off the novel, and all that stuff. And that's the type of movie back in the day that was the blockbuster. That was the big, that doesn't be, that's not a blockbuster today. And so, and it,

but he's not wrong where you get more opportunities in television to really shine your acting. Sure. Sure. Yeah. The movie theater in general is a spectacle place now. It is, but that's not a comic book movie's fault.

It's, that's, that's the book. When they were going after the summer movie, you can, you want to blame somebody? You blame Jaws. Blame Spielberg.

blame Jaws. If you're going to blame somebody, but back, because when, when Jaws came out and created the blockbuster and then Star Wars came out, then people realized they can make a lot of money on movies like this and the industry changed. I'd say, yeah, you're right. Look, you can't blame

you can't blame Marvel and DC on this one. Yeah, it's not. I agree with you. It's too ridiculous that people are constantly coming after Marvel in these new movies. And it's just frustrating because you're like, this is just the fall guy. Because what you do then when you do that is you're also like giving people an

excuse to not get blamed for terrible writing, for bad directing, bad acting in these mainstream films that get put out that aren't super hero films. Oh, nobody came because it wasn't a Marvel or DC film. No, you made a bad movie. Own it. Accept it.

you made a bad movie. So too much of this is coming after Marvel in DC and who by the way are both have had their problems. Marvel currently DC in the past. So it hasn't been like it's been an uninterrupted winning streak for years and years and years. They've had some, I mean, Marvel, especially now, you know, is, sure, Devin Wolverine did well, but nothing says the next Marvel movie is necessarily.

You just said it. The frustration comes with the old school actor in the act in general. The actor in general, where you hear every, what's everybody talking about over the last two weeks in the cinema, Dead Puller. So to him, he's going on another one of these freaking superhero movies, and that's all everyone's talking about. Yeah, but why is that, Brian? Why is it the right people going to see those?

It's not just because of spectacle, because there's tons of spectacle crap, and there's tons of spectacle that don't do well. Look at Furiosa. Yes, it was spectacle. What's that? The fall guy. Spectical.

So it's not just that. I think that there's more to it. But I think that there's, you're not going to change. And it's the same thing I say about Scorsese. And I'm not complaining about Brian Cox's comments. I love Brian. I'm not complaining about it. I don't think it's correct.

But I'm not complaining about that. them because in the same way that I say about Martin Scorsese, both Martin Scorsese, Brian Cox can complain about whatever they want it. A, they've earned it. B, you're not going to change a point of view. The 70s, 80s, whatever it is. It's like, you talk to my dad about things and have conversations. I know that my dad's going to have a point of view from old school that I'm not going to agree with at all, but I'm not going to change his mind. Wait a minute, Dad, no, Marvel and DC, they're not to blame. You know what? You're right. It's going to tell me, tell me, F myself.

And so it's like, get out of here. I know what I'm talking about. I know what I'm talking about. I was in Nam. I'm like, what does that to do with the normal B.C? So it's deep in the shit. Where are you? What are you talking about?

I know what I'm talking about here. And so it's, you know, you let it fly. Who cares? That's the thing. Yeah. Notice that they never, almost never go after the audience. The audience, it's a supply and demand business. If the audience wanted to go.

back to in terms of endearment days of the 80s or the godfather days of the 70s if the audience wanted to go back to that then you would see that they would come out look Oppenheimer and came how do you explain Oppenheimer that's not a blockbuster that's a billion dollar movie in

no way is that a blockbuster type movie it is because of the money it made but not the way it was made that movie could have made 50 million Christian is really yeah it's Nolan whatever but still it's about a guy from the 1940s who built a nuclear bomb how many people are excited to movie like that yet it made a billion dollars so you just kind of under it just is a lot you're right

there's no change in their opinions but they never go after the audience because the audience is the one who patronizes their shit you know it's always convenient to go after the studio of course what do you think but i'll tell you can i think if he would have gone after the studios and said you know the problem is because i you know people always tell me there's somebody so what this guy's obsessed with budgets what do you care about the budgets for as long as they make a good movie i'm like because you can make a good movie that's not 200 million dollars you can go on for brian Fox's point. You can make a really good, well-acted movie. And the problem is that the studios feel they have to spend so much money on them that they lose money and nobody wants to make them.

But if you start make, look, I look at that romantic. I'm not that this is a quality cinema, but the Sydney, Sweeney and Glenn Powell. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone but you or something like that? Yeah. We cost $6 and three Snickers bars to make. And it made a lot of money because it didn't rely on people having to rush out opening weekend to see it. Yeah. It had no counter programming. It was able to keep on a chugling, as Mark Ellis would say. And it kept making money. And that's how you do it.

So yeah, so for that person who's watching, why? So upset with the button. Because that's how you can change the industry. And that's why I want to see quality stuff. So when I bring that up, it's because you look, Alien Romulus is a perfect example. Alien Romulus costs whatever was 70 million, which is a smaller budget these days for a big, August movie, 70, 75 million, whatever it was, had very, very good actors in it who cost nothing much, nothing.

And they used their budget when accounted. Yep. So, okay, so let's see. You guys got your questions coming in there, throw them in there. We're going to cover one more topic before we get to your questions. So as I mentioned earlier, if you put your comments in there now, I see there's a bunch. It's like 23 questions or any of the super chat. It's amazing.

So we'll have a bunch of questions to go through. if you guys anything you want doesn't have to be movies doesn't have to be tv whatever you want if the wrestling stuff in there go ahead but we'll get we'll do some more stuff last news topic that i want to get to is this i'm now this is going to be a spoiler for john wick four so if you haven't seen john wick four i would i would come back later don't make a sandwich go make a sandwich production on a fifth john wick film is reportedly targeting a 2025 start canna reeves going to return to lead the role again according to daniel RPK. It's nearly three-hour John Wick, Chapter 4, closed out its run with $440 million at the

box office, just $100 million. Going off the point we just made, that is the fourth movie of a franchise and it only costs $100 million to make. By the time you get to some fourth movies, they're spending $300 million, $300 million to make. And a three-hour movie, despite the events of that film, another chapter is understandable. Shortly after the film's release, Lionsgate President Joe Drake confirmed, Fifth John Wick was in development with direct director Chad Seleski a few months later indicating he had ideas for some more. Script work got underway just after the strike ended. Then in January, Stilisky and Lionsgate announced a deal that gives him creative

oversight over both John Wick and the rebooted Highlander franchise with the intent of expanding Wick. The Wick spin-off ballerina underwent reshoots back in February. It's on track for June 2025 release while the John Wick under the High Table TV series is in the works and likely going to bridge the gap between the fourth and the fifth, them in the way next month the penguin will do for the two matt reeves batman films all right john yeah i want you do me a favor here do it explain to me how the hell this makes sense come on do it what do you mean what do you mean what do you make oh we never saw i'm doing that's that's true

we never saw we never saw and then and then buried and then a whole you know we didn't see any of that so you know i think it was always well let's see if people show up to this two hour and 45 it movie and they did so now they got to make a move someone just called it and mike joyce just called it uh john wick resurrection probably the name of the movie bang bang boom perfect the name of the movie it's a good call um and yeah i mean look no it people get over that question very fast oh yeah knowing that john wick that canter reeves is coming back it's going to be very hard to find someone who doesn't love canner reeves yeah you know what he mean it's like you want to see him do this until he doesn't want to do it.

If he wants to do it and they think they can do it again, I don't want to see another three hour John Wick movie, though, to be honest with you. Yeah, I mean, enough enough with the killing, like enough with the ridiculous ability to kill nonstop for three hours. So now that's the question, though, because if you go back and you watch those movies, the first one, the first one is, it's, I mean,

grin, it's still a spectacle, but it's more grounded than the other ones, right? Oh, totally. Like, and we've said this, he gets shot and you feel, oh, he might die. Yeah. You can throw John Wick on. off of the Empire State Building and he's fine in number four. I mean, the absolutely hilarious scene of him falling down those stairs.

Oh my gosh. The best. They came up with bulletproof, bulletproof suit coats, bro. That's what they did. We're in Fast and Furious territory. Aren't we? I know. But can you pull that back?

Because I think that you get some of those four. I would like it'd be great if that's how they reset it. And like the opposite of what Fasten the Furious did. By the time they got to four and five, they went away from like the point. break street racing type thing and said let's just go balls to the wall over the top superhero type stuff now and it worked for them maybe the opposite maybe go to now go to go to go to a fifth one and spend 80 million dollars on it 70 million dollars and do something small again like something like you do like may makes it feel like the first one all over again I think people I feel like that's

where we very relevant to the conversation we were just having with Brian Cox it's like well we've gone we've gone so high we've got up to this can we go back down yeah You can make good do a good story. Someone suggested something on internet on the on Twitter rather or on X whatever you want to call it this week. And I I was like I think could make that work. Remember years ago or they wanted to cross over men in black with 21 Jump Street. I saw someone suggest a John Wick equalizer crossover where it's Denzel and Johnwick and they've literally been working in essence under the same kind of situation. They both are they either.

Just mix the worlds together somehow where they were coming. But are they both Lionsgate? I don't think so. Oh, I don't know. I think one's Lionsgate and one is universal. Look, I mean, Spider-Man was Sony. Why don't we work out a deal in loan equalizer over to John Wick? I think that's the problem you get into.

And when you have a Spider-Man, this is a good, this is relevant, again, to the conversation. You have Sony and you have Marvel and you have that deal sit down. someone in that conversation at some point goes, okay, this is going to cost us both a lot of money in order to do this. Yeah. And we're both risking a lot of money here. Do we think that these movies can make this amount of money in order to pay you, pay the theaters, pay them, pay that. And the answer was yes, because you had Spider-Man in it. And you have Spider-Man involved and is Spider-Man running around with Iron Man, then yeah. So that got people into the theater. Is there enough of a risk between Lionsgate and? universal to put Denzel and John Wick together. I don't know. In Deadpool and Wolverine, you know,

was able to, they were able to buy him from Fox, so that really worked. But I mean, I'll tell you what would have worked back in the day. They would have made a lot of money is that, but they never could have done it. Arnold and Sly doing a movie back to the other, back in the, in the late 80s, 90s. If they could have gotten past their egos, that movie would have probably been one of the biggest action movies of all time. because look what expendables did when they were barely could walk. Yeah. Like this now, they would have, you would have had like, you said that I did.

Come on. John Matrix, John Matrix and John Rambo together in a movie. Oh, come on. Good night. Come on. I mean, that's, look out AI because that's what's going to happen. When people are going to start doing AI movies, you're going to have John Matrix and Rambo doing their own thing. Come on, Rambo say, do something.

Don't say anything. He's going to be explosive arrows blow up something. Come on. Oh. Stop grunting. I need a sandwich. They drew for his blood. They drew for his blood.

$50 billion that movie. Oh, I'm on board. I'm on board. But yeah. So anyway, I mean, it's, it's, John Wick, whether it comes out, and I think that was they also, the point that they made about branching the TV show makes sense.

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hey, click on those links. Browse around. Just do that right now. You're watching live? Browse around. All right, dummy, stop asking me. Click on that link. That's all I'm asking. Go ahead. All right. John, we got some more questions. We've got lot of questions for us here today and joy mode baby joy mode yeah you know what's hilarious is now because people know i my friends will come over and they'll be like hey i got me what you know joy mode it is i'm telling you joy mode so you use the code you cheap bastards um mike joyce yeah i caught up on all the alien movies i missed this weekend and i ended up really enjoying alien resurrection why is it so poorly thought of um well i mean i don't

have a great answer for that because I can only really remember alien and aliens. Yeah. And speaking of which, like I mentioned Sam, my friend Sam, and I said, have you seen aliens? And she's like, I don't think so. She's like, I've seen the first one. So I'm like, oh, see, Sam's going to be a gold mine. Someone said like, oh, you know, I want to see you do with your wife. I don't know about the other ones, though.

I'm like, you ever met them? You got to meet him. You got to meet Sam's hilarious. Oh, and you're going to like it. Three out of four, spicy Latinas. Wow, she's a Latina. Nice. Sam's Puerto Rican.

Yeah. Get ready. Alex is half Puerto Rican. Nice. Tina's Colombian. Nice. Even better. South American.

Respect. Yeah. And Matt's Italian. Matt's going to be hilarious. I'm a good. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know.

I don't know enough about a... Okay. Let me take this one. I'll tell you exactly what the problem is. That's a European approach to an alien movie that American audiences didn't like. I like Alien Resurrection. It's directed by Phil Ginoe, who did City of Lost Children, the same director.

It's a French approach to alien. And I... You're on a writer one? The approach. Yeah, the one on a writer one. Yeah, exactly. And so I get the ending. Pissed some people off.

I totally understand. It's really weird. But I thought it was an interesting way to take the franchise. So I think all of these films have taken huge swings in different ways, whether they've worked on out overall, the thing is a matter of subjectivity. But I think overall, they've been... interesting in the way they've explored the franchise.

So I've never not enjoyed an alien movie. I think Alien Covenant is the close I came to not enjoying an alien movie, but it still has some good scenes in it. But overall, I think every one of those films is rewatchable, for sure. Yeah, they kind of blend together for me for the most part, except the first two. All right. So Mike Joyce follows this up with,

who's an actor that you actively avoid watching? After Alien Four and Night at the Roxbury, I realize they do not like Daniel Hadea. at all. Mike, that's your problem. Well, I don't,

I mean, that's a question for me that probably would, you know, as someone pops up in the next couple of months, I'm like, oh, I should have told Mike that one. But I wouldn't say actively avoid anybody.

I just, there's sometimes when I'll be watching, I'm like, all right, here you go. I'll tell you who I used to feel like when someone used to pop up and I'd be like, great, someone says,

any of the pretty face. Who's the, What's, what's, what's our boy from Oppenheimer? He's in the Chamelon movie. Trial Murphy? Oh, Trap. Oh, oh, Josh Hardnett. Yeah.

So when he first hit the scene, I'm like, Pearl Harbor and all this, I'm like, come out with this guy, pretty funny. He's fantastic. He's fantastic. And he popped up in the bear briefly, too. Yes, yes. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah.

Popped up in the beer. I think it's, it's, I don't agree with you, Dan Hade. Dan Hade is one of the best character actors ever. Mike. He's also, Clueless, right? Yeah, Clueless. He played Richard Nixon and Dick. He's also...

He's in Commando. Yeah, he's in Commando. He's also part of one of my favorite movies from the 80s, running scared with Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines. No one talked about that movie. He is great as the captain of the chief of detectives. He's great. I love Mike.

I'm with you, Roke. Strong disagree on Dan Hade. Yeah, great. Plus Dan, he was Carla's ex-husband and Cheers for those people to remember that. There'll be no smirching the good name of Dan Hadeah here. Pete Parker, 2288 watching Romulus made me realize what a missed opportunity was not

casting Spaney as Ellie in The Last of Us. She looks like her and a great actress. Maybe so. I mean, we haven't seen, we haven't seen, oh, you're saying as Ellie, as Ellie. Yeah, I mean, yeah. The main, I mean, look, she's, who they got is pretty damn good.

Yeah. But, yeah, I will hill know besmirching of Bella Ramsey here. Lori Fair Lake, I will know this. But she does, I mean, I am becoming a really big Kaylee Spaney fan, though. Yeah. I'll tell you that because she was great in Civil War. Yes. Great in this.

She's a very subtle, subtle actress, and she's going to leave her in this role. There are a lot of times sometimes when people are in roles like this and like, they're just trying to be either tough or they're trying to be, you know, too cool for school. And I didn't, that didn't read at all for this. The movie had to be carried on her overall journey and it worked. this girl is in her 20s, early 20s. She's really good. Fantastic is Priscilla Presley as well.

And I know. I didn't see that. She's so good in that. And so, yeah, she's becoming like our answer to Florence Pugh. Like she's becoming an naturally gifted American actress to counter the British actress of Florence Pue. She's unnaturally gifted Florence Pue. That is, yeah, you know what's so funny about this is that I'm, I'm, this is probably the hot take that I have.

Okay. I'm not on the Florence Pugh. train. I know. I think she's good. I think she's a good actress. But I'm like, everyone loses their mind over her. Yeah, she's fine. She's fine. I thought she's good little women. I think you just answered Mike Joyce's question. Yeah. Well, no, no, no, no, because actually avoiding is like, oh, here she is again. I'll tell you that my wife is starting to feel that way about Glenn Powell. Oh my God, he's getting a little too much. Yeah, I agree. He's all over the, but that's what Hollywood does. I don't know if it's his fault.

but here's the difference here's the difference though is that sometimes what they do is they jam people down your throats right away and there's people their movies aren't doing good like no no I promise he's a star he's just look at Sam Worthington here he is tag him tag him take him take him you're like I don't know what Sam Worthington is

and they did that like a bunch of different people his movies are making money yeah Eric Banna Josh Lucas there's a lot of people they tried to make the next big thing and it didn't work out of is making money Glenn Powell did it.

We just mentioned that anyone but you movie did very well. Top Gun Maverick. The Hitman movie was critically acclaimed. He's like there is the media who's his, he's your next star, star, star, star, star, star, and that's like pull back a little bit. Pull back just a little bit. And don't overuse the guy because you should see my wife when she is because she didn't know he was in.

We watched Twisters. And that's one I wish that we were watching because I didn't tell her who was in it. She was like, this guy again. That's what she says. I'm like, he's good in it. Give him a break. he's really good in that movie he is good you didn't like the movie though i did not like the movie but he was good in the movie yeah yeah she's good too that girl oh yeah jzzi has always been good you know

yeah pete park can you guys rank the alien films including a v pete uh i wouldn't be able to do it justice pete i'll give you aliens alien that's all that's all that's all and then no no hmm aliens alien and as much i like it alien romulus will be i would say yeah alien aliens alien romulus and then the rest are battling for the lower positions. Yeah. Yeah, because I don't, I just, I can't, I can't bring them up in my memory enough to do it, to do that list justice. I put cover it at the bottom for sure. Yeah. Oh, I did see this. I wish we would have covered this day. We'll cover it right now. Johnny venerable. Tamora Morrison says that Bobafet will not appear in the Mandalorian movie stating that Boba Fett may have impact,

the book of Boba Fett rather, may have impacted the character's future. How is that his fault? It's not his fault, but that's what they do. They, they basically say, well, the audience didn't like it. So it's your fault. They don't blame it on themselves. So Lucasfilm does famously. They do that very, very well. And you go back, you look at old interviews with Tamor Morrison. He's like, I'm talking too much. I gotta keep the mystery, the mystery of the character. I'm talking too much. This is not what the character. He seems to be the only one who knew the essence of the Bobafet character. Everybody else, he's, I am Boba Fett. Yeah, we know that. Stop saying that. Every time we get into a situation, I am Boba Fett. Cut it out. Fight. Who knew that this,

guy who's been in the Star Wars universe for decades before the people who bought Star Wars knew exactly what to do with a character that he played the father of and then eventually played the son right, Bova Fed. So, like, they didn't listen to it. And he was very clear

about it. I know that he wanted to do a like man with no name type approach to Bova Fed. And they didn't want to do that. They wanted to Disneyify their approach to it and make it more talkative and accessible. and go for those rousing moments.

And that is not what Boba Fett should have been. Again, another series that should have been more like and or, but it was much too much like a young adult series. It just, and then, but that's fine, though, if you're going to pitch it that way, but when you're pitching it like it's the godfather of Star Wars series, you better deliver and not give me,

I am Boba Fett. Give me the Jolly Rancher gang. Oh, my God, God. Not good. Matt Sinister McHale, the assassination of Jesse James by the King, Carrard Robert 4. What the hell kind of title is that? Your take, how many F-bom should a PG-13 movie have? I would probably say, I think what they have, one or two is fine for that, you know, and I say that more so as a dad at this point.

So you don't want to really, yeah, one or two popping in there is fine by me. What do you think, John? Well, first of all, the first part of your question, yes, a long title, but an excellent Western, one of the best Westerns, I think, of the last 30 years. seen it oh my god i know i know i know it's one of brad pitt's greatest performances in casey a a afflick is is incredible in that film but the second part of your question uh yeah i hear what you're saying you know i understand what you're which i hear what you're putting down on that throwing down all right uh roman fedora k christian i saw romulus on saturday to drive it that's cool that's a fun way to see that yeah a fun way to see that movie really enjoyed it in complete agreement give fede a terminator movie that's actual horror that's what you have been saying that john i think that

if they steal kind of what he's been doing and they are able to give fede alver as a 50 million dollar 60 million dollar terminator movie small scale i mean he's what he used like three or four locations in alien i mean come on do that he's already shown you you can play in two separate franchises with an evil dead remake and this one and both of them are well liked so yeah i agree i would love to see that oh i'd love to see that uh mezipa hey christian and roger all right hear me now Hear me out. Live action remake of Brave Little Toaster. Any thoughts? I don't think you're crazy for that. I mean, look, right now they're remaking, like, where they're doing live action to a lot of different animated movies.

I'd actually like to see them do a live action version of the damn Transformers movie. You know, like the best Transformers movie, the 1986 animated movie, like an actual live action version of that. Let me see that. Want to see all of it. I want to see all of it. I want to see all of it. Rodhamis Prime. Give me an area. Ultra Magnus. Give me the whole, give me the whole Shabangh. Who's going to do justice to Scatman Crothers? Who's going to do justice to that

voice? Which did he do? Jazz. Go on. Oh, he just, he did jazz, right? I don't know if we get anybody. Orson Wells did Unicron. Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. hilarious. So, yeah, I mean, little toast. Sure. I mean, you can take shot at all these things. Depends on

I don't know which studio owns the rights to that one, but, look, I go back to the thing, and this is in bringing up Terminator, bringing up all these things. what you will hardly get from me ever is no, they shouldn't make that movie because, well, let the franchise die.

I've heard many people say that, no, don't make a remake of that. No, it doesn't need to be made. Look, there's a chance that anytime you remake something, anytime that you do this,

it could be a disaster. But you can also, Alien Romulus could have been a complete fart. Yeah. Like in the way that the last Shane Black Predator movie was. Um, like, and it's just a matter of the story you are telling anything. Like I do like anytime someone was no, no, no, let it rest. It's over.

They can't figure it out. No, the people who came before couldn't figure it out. If somebody out there that can figure it out, the question is, can you find that person? That's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. Um, all right. Fuzzy bubbles.

Had a thought. When you start the movie rewatches, how about a retro movie day like gleaming the cube or any 80s movie? Um, well, here's the thing. You guys got to watch them. You know, because it's going to cost money for me to get the people in here. It's going to make sure that, you know, if I'm putting the time and effort, it's going to be like a good three hours out of the day that I'm taking a shot with these things. So I would, look, if I put out a gleaming, they would make, you don't understand how happy I would be. If I did a gleaming the cube reaction and 100,000 people watch it, do you understand for so many different reasons?

One, obviously, it's a success on the channel. Two, more, 100,000 people are going to get introduced. just a gleaming the cube. But let's be realistic. I put out a gleaming the cube movie reaction. I don't care who is on them with me. Nobody's watching. You know what I mean? Yeah, I agree. Yes. You just got to know what your audience is with that. I know. I would love that. I would love that. I would love that. And no offense. I mean, some, I think the suggestions always come from a good place because you personally want to see that. But you got to look on YouTube and see what's really capturing people's attentions when you do retro stuff. Because,

it can't just be anything you want to do. I wish it was. I agree. I would show, I mean, do you know how much money I would, I would pay to get my wife to watch rad with me? Rad!

Oh, yeah. She would, she wouldn't be, it would be hilarious because she would be like, why are you making me watch this? And if it was worth it, then I know like,

well, yeah, I'm going to make you watch it because I know people are going to want to watch you watch us. But they won't. It won't click on Rad. I wish. True.

It's a me, Steve. Which actors do you want working together? Do you know, by the way, that he doesn't even say it's a me, Mario? That's not what he says. Of course. I thought everyone would say, it's a me, Mario. It's not what he says.

It's like it's Sumi or something. That's like his, that's the guy's name. Mine is Leo and Denzel in a crime drama. That's pretty good. I like that. Also, do you think some actors avoid each other working in films? Yeah, of course. I'm sure.

I mean, we just mentioned Arnold and Sly. They mentioned, they totally. avoided each other back in the day. And they both realized that had they not and they made a movie together and figuring out a way to Dunn it, they probably would have made a lot more together. But are there two movies?

Are you two people I like to see team up right now? You? You got somebody? Florence Pew and Kaylee Spain. Good one. I don't dislike her. I'm just saying that there's a certain hype behind her right now that I'm just like, and it's not even necessarily the hype. I think

she's an attractive woman, but people lose their minds over how attractive she doesn't make she's pretty bro she's hot it's hotter than julia roberts you're out of your mind you're and in their primes yeah in their prime 100% you're a lunatic you're a lunatic you're a lunatic you are a lunatic you're a lunatic you're a lunatic and 22 year old julia roberts makes her look like something you find in the bottom of the ocean please i could find 22 of julya roft on any college campus get out of you're a lunatic. You're a goddamn, you're a lunatic. Carlton Rutter, London Calling, which movie do you predict earning more Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, or Mufasa? John, great, cinefiles episode of Cassidy

and Sundance Kid. Mufasa wins that fight easily, hands down. Box office wise? Hands down. Oh, come on. Do you want to be doing another one here? No, we're not doing any more bets. I'm telling you what I want to see more is Beeljuice Part 2. There's no doubt about it. You're talking it, John. I know. It's a kid's movie versus. It's not even that.

It's a December release. It's a sequel to the or prequel to one of the biggest, not only biggest animated movies, probably the biggest conversion movie, whatever you're going to call it. I mean, that last one made a billion dollars. It's not even a contest.

Yeah, all right, fine. Fine. But don't be surprised if Bealjuge's wins that in the long run. I would be very surprised. no world where even comes close. Okay. Next one. Fuzzy Bubbles. Do you think Beetleju's, Beetlejuice do a bill? Oh, no, no way. No world. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I'd be lucky if it does four. I think between 400 and 500 and 500.

Five to 700 is an Uber success for that film. There's no world. No. No way. Let's see. So next next one. Random Pat. A random pat. Do you think a Deadpool four is on the table? Would you like to see Or would you rather just see him show up in a supporting role going forward? What I'd rather see is him in a supporting role going forward. They are going to be complete lunatics if they don't go for a fourth one. Because this one made one point, it makes more money every time it goes out into the theater. Yeah, they'll definitely go for it.

What I don't want to do, and I know Ryan Reynolds' ego is going to want to do this, is have Deadpool show up in a bunch of films. I don't want that to have. I don't want him to become the new Tony Stark. Yeah. I really don't want that. But don't be surprised if that's what happens. Because when you make a billion dollars in two weeks, you got a lot of cashet with Marvel.

But a Deadpool 4 absolutely is going to happen for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it should. Business-wise, it should happen. Makes all the sense in the world. Chilling in the basement. A lot of new people here today.

I love it. Thank you for all the new peeps. And obviously, thank you to all the old peeps too. But a lot of new new usernames in here. Chilling in the basement. I think that this battle was Friedman's idea in the first place. If true, I wonder what Friedman thinks he has that could make. Disney back off and I'm assuming he's talking here about the boat to mail.

Oh yeah, the boat of mail thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because Friedman is his, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, it's got to be something, but I mean, maybe there's like a settlement or something, whatever it could be. But right now, odds are in Disney's court, I would, I would assume. I think that's come out. Yeah. Yeah. Random Pat, would you like to see the MCU X-Men begin with the OG5, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Angel, and Gene as teenagers and show the true origin the X-Men. It would be ballsy.

Ballsy, if they could do it that way. Be interesting. I still think that the X-Men are the future of the MCU in general. I think that you start the first thing you can get away with because it's the X-Men is the first thing you do is an X-Men movie. And then from the X-Men movie, then you start to do single X-Men movies, then to do an X-Men 2 movie in the same vein of Avengers. Then you do, you know, more single movies than an X-Exman.

X-Men 3 or whatever it is, two, three, and you just build it out. And you can, because you can build out the characters the same way. You don't have to do these little side. Well, this comic book that we like back in the day and maybe we can turn that into a movie now. It's like, now focus on the X-Men. You go, they'll provide box office and good movies for the least the next 10 years. Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

I think, I don't know if I want to see an origin. I think it could be like, like Spider-Man. Like he was already fully formed. Right. when we met him in, I think, Civil War. So why do you need to do a fully, everybody knows the X-Men origin, for God's sakes, why I start there. It limits you, too, because you go, okay, we got to lay the groundwork,

we've got to meet everybody, we've got to see their interactions. You have to bring in Magneto, and it's like, ah, you know, so. Yeah. All right, John, before we move on, go ahead and give the people some breakdown here. I mean, what's on this week on the channel? What are you, what's new? What's the haps? We got a lot going on over on the outlaw nation, head on over the Elination for now.

Changes are coming to that. channel. Name changes coming. Certain things are happening on that channel that will be changing. Background's going to be changed. A lot of changing is coming to the channel. But for now, you can hang out there and hang out with us there on the Outlaw Nation, YouTube.com slash John Roka says. We're going to do a live show tonight at 6 p.m. with our friend Eric Rogers, his animation showrunner. Currently has Angry Birds, Mr. Island on Prime Video doing gangbusters. So he's going to hang out with this for an hour. And then we've got hot mic coming up in a couple of, on Thursday at 4 p.m.

PT Jedi Way is coming out this week. Some more geek buddy stuff, my stuff. There's a lot happening and spill the tequila. Hopefully Winston and I can line up another one there this week as well. And as Carlton Rudder mentioned, we just did part one of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on my podcast, the Cineophiles. Come and hang out with us there. Thank you. Let's go check that out.

Gallagost. Hey, hey, fellas football as well. What's up, buddy? Have you had a movie or TV that you love, the creator turned out to be a shit? And didn't that affect your enjoyment retroact? Cheers. I mean, yeah, I mean, sure, there's tons. I mean, it's hard for me to watch usual suspect, you know, but I'm not going to stop watching it in the same way that it had the conversation, like, you know, there's, I had this whole conversation with Roxy. You know, it's very

hard for her, like when I, I have, I have Braveheart on my wall and she does not, she's not a fan of Mel Gibson, obviously. So, um, it's like, it's, it's tough. You got to separate people this, but I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to stop watching certain movies, though. You know what I mean? Like there is, uh, I will say, there's, there's, There's one, there's one person I've had my own personal issues with that would turn, turned up in a Marvel show one time. I just actively boo him when he's on and talk about how excited I am when his character does stupid things. So you want to say it is. Okay.

I'll tell you off, off here, but it, yeah, but it was a, I'll say it was a recent show. And every time the person, every time he was on there doing something, I was like, oh, good, some stupid again. Terrible character. I think, I think Cosby is a big one for me because I love the Cosby show man. And I still go back and I still listen to sometimes some of this stand up because it's just like, that's my childhood, bro. So it's, it's really hard to sure to do that. But yeah, Brian Singer is a big one for sure.

Yeah, I have a tough time watching usual suspects now, but it's still so damn good. Not even Brian Singer. I was going by Kevin Spacey. Oh, yeah, Spacey too. For me, it's more singer. I mean, I don't know. Space is weird the thing with Spacey's, but Singer's much more for me. Much.

Yeah. Overall, though, you know, it's like that's why for me, I am a. able to maybe more so I've gotten people telling me how do you watch this I'm like you watch it you don't tell me not to watch this like I'm not I'm not I'm you guys me the conversation of what the particular person did yeah that's another conversation we can have but whether or not I'm going to stop watching them like what was the one thing I was subjective what all the flash stuff was going on yeah support that it means you support I was the baller it's like no it means that I want to go see the movie and I want to and and also

As far as I know, Ezra Miller didn't direct it. Ezra Miller didn't put Batman suit back on. Ezra Miller wasn't trying to get the start as Supergirl. Ezra Miller wasn't working every day, being away from their family to make sure they could do PA stuff or be director of photography. So just because one person does something, doesn't be, I can't watch that.

I'm always. I was like, no, that's not how it works for me. You can choose that, and that's fair. I don't want to see it because I don't want to see that person on screen. Well, no one's pure. because all the people telling you that probably have a bunch of Weinstein movies in their collection.

And if you're going to go out, you don't get to choose. If you're going to go on that road, you don't get to choose where you stop. Do you know what I'm saying? If you're going to be purely about telling people, you can't watch any problematic, anything from problematic people, you've got to go all the way out to producer, director, even studio head. So,

you know, you can't just pick and choose. So, I think that people is ridiculous on that. But I'll never say, if somebody, but somebody said, I can't go see that movie. I don't want to support Ezra Miller. I said, that's that. That's your prerogative. You absolutely do that. And I'm not going to say it.

Suck it up and go see it because other people work that. I'm not going to say that, but don't tell me. I can't see it. Stick it up your ass. All right. Here you go. We work that out. We worked that out.

Yes, have you all seen clips of Dom on Logan Paul's podcast? Yes. Thank you for how much I've come around on him. Him grilling Logan about visiting Japan was gold. I didn't see that. But so, all right. So what I did see.

Yeah. Does it, and you tell me, because you watch the interview. Okay. It seemed like Dom doesn't like him, really. No, it was more a matter. Yeah, I mean, because here are my husband. Before you get it, the clip I saw was him, you know, Logan Paul asking something like, does, does your wife F with Ria?

And he's, and Dom goes, what do you mean? Yeah. And then he's like, oh, no, I mean, because of this, this and this. So I didn't. What did he ask him about Japan? Well, he said, are you going to go to Japan? And he's like, and everyone on the podcast is like, I don't know if they expected him to ask him that,

but Logan got all emotional about it. And he said, well, I want to be asked back. And he goes, well, yeah. And he started bringing up what happened on that video and then said, you could wear the hat, which is the hat, of course, that he wore. And so that I could not believe Don went that far with him. But Logan was like, unless it was at work.

Logan was supremely upset and pissed about it, which I thought. He was mad that he brought up. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was like, he started crying. Like, it was a weird kind of reaction. to Dom's thing. I do like Dom a lot, though. Me too, bro. I'll come around him.

I'll tell you right now, he will be the champion. One day, he will absolutely wear the belt. You know why? Because he puts in the work. He's a worker. He understands the business, obviously, from his family in general. He is putting together some of the

he's already been part of some great storylines. Kid knows how to get heat. He's one of these guys, though, that eventually, the conversations like this. Yeah. It's going to be hard to get him heat. He's going to start cheering. Oh, they're going to turn. Oh, 100%. The turn is coming.

They're going to start cheering him because there's only, like, Louderia. They try to keep her as in heal. And they're like, no, we're going to have that Dom turn on you because no one's going to boo you. Right. No one's going to boo you. You're just, you're that. He loves her. So I don't think it could be as legendary as his dad, but I think he's going to win more titles than his dad did. I just have a feeling. Interesting. All right, next one.

Gala goes, can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies. Bo de Mayo's Waylon and Dr. Yeah, for real. It's going to be interesting to see how that all lands. Mad Sinister McCall, per Beth Snyder. Bo allegedly fought Don Cheetah over missing eye contact and earmuffs. Also ate Filoni's left over Mac and cheese from employee fridge. I'm, I got to find out.

I'm now convinced that mad Sinister McCall is like Ken Napsaw. like sitting so he's always got like that one line that comes out he started popping up on hot mike and he's coming after jeff and jeff woman the counter oh you just got a great sense of humor people don't realize that about jeff they think he's like so like he just got a great sense of humor he does yeah um fuzzy bubbles john blocked a reported dallas after his first calm i can't block anyone what does that christian runs the channel i don't block anybody reported dallas oh after his first comment i see i didn't i didn't do i didn't either yeah i didn't I don't know anybody.

I see me. The reason you owe me a steak dinner, Dard, Vader's burnt asshole was also wrong, might I say? Yeah, true. But as he gives us a very generous super chat, I call him wrong. Flipping, I love Alien Romulus.

While I do understand some of the fan service, the return of that character, for instance, but others just feel silly. I like being upset that Harry Potter goes to Hogwarts each book. Yeah, I know what you're saying. Yeah, I agree. there are, look, people sometimes, John and I've talked about this many times, is that sometimes

critics in general just feel the need like, oh, I don't really know what to say about it, so I'm just going to, I'm going to say this instead. And I'm going to, like, we have talked about it many times over. We're both big fans of both Whitney Seibold and, and, um, bibs. Yeah. But they, they tweet to get reactions out of you. Someone the other day said something along the lines of, about the alien movies, of a I don't necessarily think aliens is is better than the first and Whitney's like I'll tell you what one and two aren't even the best in the franchise like get out of here come on what are you doing

because he said they're not he's definitively saying it it's like start with this I'll give you I'll help you out start with I think in my opinion that they're not the best I don't even like the first two is the best I have these instead but definitively saying they're not you're wrong it's like cut it out As a critic, you can't do that. You can't do that.

You can't. It's like you can't help people what's right. That was the problem with the written critic in general. The written critic for a long time, and I believe that's why the print critic has been overshadowed by the video critic and influencers and everything too, because the print critic comes off like an elitist,

always has from the second, and not everyone is, but they do come off that way. And when you say things definitively, like, nope, it's not the best. You're wrong. It's like that when you have that opinion, you are going to make people say, well, I'm going to TikTok to find somebody that I can relate to.

Yeah, well, I mean, I think the print critics served its purpose for many decades for helping guide us to great films, right? A lot of us who love film relied on the print critic to guide us there. But over the last few years, we've seen print critics abuse their status. to willfully destroy directors or films without factoring in the audience and deliver a critique that is condescending and dismissive. And it's frustrating when you get to that situation. There's a difference between defending your opinion and scoffing at the people questioning. Stating it is fact. Yeah, or stating as fact. That's the thing that gets me.

It's like I'm and I say that to people when they're commenting. Like when they say like, no, this is rude. It's like, start with, I don't agree. And I'll tell you why, in my opinion, then that's it. Then it's a causal conversation. And it's someone that I'll read. If someone says like people normally say, if someone said, people normally say that alien and aliens are the best of the franchise. Yeah. After doing a rewatch, I have a different opinion.

I actually think that these were the ones that are the best on the list. And here's why. I'm going to, this is an interesting take. I might not agree with it, but don't tell me what's, that I'm wrong. Because you don't know that. It's a movie. It drives me nuts. Yeah.

EWalk, thoughts on Colin Firth joining Spielberg's UFO movie. I didn't realize it. Yeah. I just, right. Okay. I watched Alien Romulus and I was very impressed by David Johnson's performance. He was, he was fantastic. And I wish I could dive into it a little bit more about what he did so all, but it like dives

into spoiler stuff. For sure. But he did really good John. Colin Firth joining, I mean, yeah, I mean, my, look, for running the channel that I have for the UAP stuff, I'm in a very. different spot with it than like say John is, right? Like I'm hoping that they're actually going to start putting real, um, events that are happening within the government and the,

the, the stuff with what Schumer and rounds and all these people are trying to do right now to bring, you know, awareness to this. And, and he basically makes the post for this subject matter. That's what I'm hoping. I don't need to see another war of the world. I mean, that's not something that I mean, but then the person who's going to go see it in a summer movie wants Spielberg UFOs. Oh, I want to see another E.T. movie. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, for me, it's more a matter of this is a great choice. Colin Firth is a fantastic actor. And you bring some real gravitas to the film by having actors like this be a part of it. So there's more weight already in your mind of what this film is going to be about with someone like Colin Firth attached.

Christian, did you see the UFO sighting in California? Is that crap? It was a drone. It was a drone. That's what that's been, That particular one. I want to see a live one. With those lights in general from what they were saying as a drone, I mean, look, there's one of those, there's always the answer. Like, that's what the standard answer is. What was a drone?

A balloon, but this one seemed to be an actual drone itself, but who knows? But I did see those. I didn't report in that one because I did a little bit more looking at it. It looked like it was a drone, but yeah. Who knows? Who knows? Fuzzy bubbles. Context only.

Fuzzy bubbles formerly, Bill Gaffney. Hey, hey, Bill. All right, let's see, next one, and this is. And we got some more in here. Like I said, we'll be here until the very last one. So we want to throw some more questions before John are out. Throw them in there. Okay, let's see.

The next question here, John is from, I'm waiting. I'm waiting. Maybe that was it. Is that it? Nope. I got one. Okay, Jim. Jim won.

20 years ago, dramas like Perfect Storm and Castaway were top 10 movies. the need to appeal to an international audience is like China led to more franchise movies. That's also very true. It's also very true. But it is, it's, it's, it's, with, with budgets and with that of what they're trying to accomplish. And don't forget streaming with so much more material. And the idea that now you don't have to go out if you want to find something, like there

are tons of shows. Yeah. If I wasn't doing this and I wasn't seeing movies and you were like, hey, you want to go to the movies tonight like well you know i still haven't seen all the boys i still i i have i have one episode left of the bear i have uh i have a ton i have a bunch of things that i could watch right now um i'll wait until it comes out it'll be out i got a good tv i get a good surround sound i'm all right you know so and unless it's something i really got a see in the theater so it's a different time yeah and also it wasn't just the china thing it was that audiences that enjoyed that at the time

in their twenties and thirties are now fifties and 60s and 60s And the audience that came up behind them doesn't necessarily look for those kinds of things. So it's different now. The audience who catered to now between the 20 and 30 range is completely different than the audience that was back then. So taste change. And like everything, because people watching Perfect Storm and whatever, those people that were in their 50s and 60s when those films came out were watching different type of films in 20s and 30. So it's always a transition in progress. I don't know why people think film was just invented 10 years ago.

like it's always the same thing tastes change and people could go back to the westerns times and be like too many westerns there were westerns all the time back then people don't remember the people because they weren't alive they don't remember that so yeah yeah out of your film history bam 86 the reason star was has sucked a lot and they don't go the direction of and or is because they are trying to figure out a formula that can easily be duplicated at infinitive uh disney's all about formulas yeah i mean look that's that's that's this is where i say look disney has part to blame in it but when anytime someone writes that i go don't write disney first but the rewrite i'm going to rewrite that ending for you and say that lucas film is all about formulas because disney's also responsible for deadpool and wolvering disney's responsible for you know inside out too uh alien romulus and lomulus under the umbrella right so they're all responsive the disney's responsible for that too but you don't give disney the the credit for making Romulus good. You give Fedé Alvarez and the company that put it together the credit for doing it.

Now, Disney also probably had notes and other things too, but you're not wrong when it comes to the formula side of it. They, John and I talk about all the time. Andor is not loved over there in a way that it looks like it's an old school Star Wars show. It's not to them to begin. And it's also overshadowed the other stuff that they wanted to do. as far as quality. So, yeah, it's just a, we're broken record here, John,

that it's like, it needs to be, the whole thing just needs to be gutted. I agree. Yeah. And I come around on that opinion, by the way, and I agree with you. God bless you on how you're still doing a freaking Star Wars show week. I don't know how you do it. How do you do it? How do you, A, stay motivated to want to try to do it.

B, find enough news that's worth a damn. I think it's having two people who love it so much. in Laura and Kevin that we do it. I'm just frustrated as you and I are. I know, but it's fun discussions. It's fun discussions. Fair enough. Yeah.

You're right, Sonny's. Luke Skywanker, there he is. How about Freddie Alvarez directing a Star Wars movie? Good luck. But not, yeah,

not in this current, I'd rather see his talents go somewhere else right now. Great point. Isn't that crazy? That's actually a really good point, Christian. You're like, I don't want good directors going anymore over there

because their stuff gets diluted. They're not taking seriously. in the same way. They're kind of like, here, take, do this, cut this down, make it faster, more intense. Listen to Filoni. And it's like, no, get, no. And if it fails, no one's going to stand in the bullet in front of you, they're going to let you take all the hits for it. All the hits. No, I mean, that's why, that's why I do have hope with Favro, because Favro ain't getting bullied by anybody. No, true. Very true. I'm not getting bullied by anybody. Favro's going to make the movie he wants to make. I think that the

Favreau movie could look the most like the original trilogy at any movie that you've seen thus for. But we'll see. Derek, what are your thoughts on balding? My best friend's got a big spot, but has braids around the center can only be covered by a hat. I believe you should just let it go when the time comes. I don't agree with that.

Because like I said, I've gotten involved with both recently hymns and has been helping out tremendous of people. I've Neutrafall has been on board for dude like there are we're in such a different place now in the world um where with with with with um advances in things and science and the way that things work so you can actually make it work now and if you want to put in you know put in the work you can you can make it happen because it's like it's hard it's hard for dudes man because like oh just and this is not on you Derek because a lot of people like oh just just do it naturally. And then because women go to,

do a billion different things to themselves. And they're like, yeah, it's all right. That's what they do. It's okay. It's like, guys do it. And it's like, oh, you're push. Just do it. Just eat naturally. And it's like, it's not fair. I think, I think everybody should be able to do whatever the hell you want to do to yourself. Yeah. Whatever feels comfortable for you, whatever you're happy with. It's, it's what's got to go. It's about your own personal feeling about it for sure. Like, I'm very close to shaving all my hair off and just playing around with a bald look a little bit.

Really? Myself, yeah. And everyone was like, you got such great hair. Why would you do that? And I'm like, yeah, because I like the look. Like one of my favorite soccer players, Mohammed Sala for Liverpool, I like the ball. It's not full bald, it's just a little bit. And I'm like, that's not actually not a bad look. I want to try that look out. So we'll see.

But it's all personal. Do it on here. Do it on here. So, Hank, any wrestler interviews coming up? We almost got Lillian Garcia. We're supposed to. Oh, yeah, that's right. It's supposed to happen today or this week, but I can't I couldn't do it and then we were going to potentially get John to do it today, but it just didn't work out in time.

But there were there were some that were thrown out my way at some point that we were working on. No one, no one locked in yet. At one point, they had thrown out Sammy Zane, which I thought was been great, but I just think great. Just didn't happen. But no wrestling interviews happening thus far, but I would also say that the man of the hour right now is Chris Van Bleed. It's just killing. Who's become a very good friend of mine. And he's just talking about a hardworking, just good individual.

I love that dude, man. He's such a great guy. He really is. Making great content, too. He really is. Blake Gilbert, surprised how good Romulus was, except the D.A.s character, overall, great movie. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting that there is that still that bit of the,

that you can go on YouTube and you can find, you know, D.H stuff and all that type of stuff, and you can find it significantly better than stuff that they're still doing on movies. You know? Yeah, I see people's points in issues. I was more jazzed that character showed up. Yeah. And I don't think you de-age that character because that character is not an aging thing.

So, but I get it in terms of the actor. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. Especially when I just watched the Apes movie. I did a movie reaction for the Apes movie. And that technology is incredible. Oh, so good.

Like, how could you not do that with the most recent one? Yeah, the most recent. Had you not seen it? No, I'd never seen it before. Oh, it's good. Yeah, I loved it. Really, really liked it. Fuzzy Bubbles, I blocked Dallas.

Oh, okay. Well, there you go. He blocked him. How can you do that? I guess he blocked him from his own, from Jesus. Oh, oh, oh, oh. He just didn't want to deal with him, I guess. Fair point.

And then Fuzzy Bubbles follows it up. I don't like people being disrespectful. All right, that's fair. Thank you. Philly G. I'm with Roker. Florence Pugh for the win. Roberts could play a female joke with us.

How dare you? People are, you want to, look, you want to get blocked from my channel? You just spurch, you just be smirch the good name of Julie Roberts. crazy crazy I mean the woman was a smoke show you're insane in pretty woman are you out of your mind I don't get never found her attractive never lunatic when they sue that scene in oceans level when he's like this is the best part of my day when she walks down yeah I'm like what are you talking about I don't know I wrote that line and sent I'm sure you did moist gumption worked overnight someone missed these live show I got a new job and I'm much happier happy to have you too thanks to the

thing for helping me survive overnight. Well, I'm glad that that is something that you, that you are able to do and you're able to be with us and thank you for the kind words. And yeah, we have a lot of great stuff happening right now on the channel. So I'm glad that you're you're part of it. Grim Bear 13. People are so fast to throw blame at Marvel for running ruining movies. Yeah. But it seems that they overlook things like theater conditions, cost and audience behavior. One thousand percent. Agreed. Yeah. People have changed in general. and the attitude and the appetite for movies have changed also. I went to Twisters.

Yes. And a couple was fighting behind, an old couple was fighting behind me, went into different rows. Oh, no. I had a family come in right as the movie is starting with their two teenage daughters, and they started talking to the whole effing movie.

And another person fell asleep during old, other old man fell asleep during the movie. You understand? As you watch it with the cast of Cacoon? Yeah. To me. I'm like, I get so mad. Look, I'm not going to do this, but I get so mad at people disrespecting the

moviegoing experience like this. I want to take baseball bats to everybody. I mean, I would never do that. But that's how I feel sometimes because like, it's such a sacred place, the movie theater. And so people don't respect it anymore. The new generations, they don't care. Well, that's so, I don't hardly, I very rarely go to the movies when it's not

press screenings because of that. It's like, without fail, there's always someone that is either on their phone, feet up like a disgusting animal. Some guy not too long ago when I was still in L.A. Had his socks, you know, just his socks on with his feet up. It's disgusting big, huge claw just hanging out there. And it's like, you're at, where are you? You're not home.

It's not your living room. It is not your living room. Guys be nuts. I'm with you. Joseph Sanchez, just curious. Jordan Peel films rank. So we got three of them, right? You got get out.

No. Get out. Nope. And then what's the third one? Us. I would go, I would go get out us. And then no. I didn't really love Nope.

I go get out, nope, us. Okay. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't, that one I didn't. I rewatch, when I rewatch this us, I like it better, better and better. Yeah. Okay. Fair.

But the other one, I didn't, didn't dig that. Um, okay. Michael Miles. John Wick, thank you, Michael, by the way. Resurrection. John Wick is in purgatory with all the people he killed and must kill them again in order to escape, avoid and going to hell. Plot Twist. His dead wife helps him along the way. I mean, if you're going to bring her back, come on. If you're going down this route of the supernatural and all that, I mean, then you're going, then you're just going, you're not going back to number one.

You're going way past where you did. Um, but I say that not of like, oh, you're crazy. Michael, there's no way they would do that. They very well could try to do something like that. Sure. Because they said, we've gone sober knockers. Let's go into the supernatural world now. But in my own personal opinion, I hope that they don't do that.

What they need to bring back is the dead dog that was killed in the first one. And then he starts fighting too. Yeah, in purgatory. Yeah, absolutely. Do you watch a dog documentary on Netflix that is put out? No. Do I, should I? Is it good?

It's good. It's like, basically, it's people, it's in, they're in Long Island. actually yeah and they but they they they they what they do is they get these dogs and they and they have them they start they train them they like this doggy kindergarten they get them as puppies and they they get them and they try to get them to people whether it's soldiers PTSD or it's people who need the service dogs and they train them through and and they and they get them to a place that if they graduate they can get to this family and and be with them the service dogs and

they but they not just that portion of it they also just kind of go over the this the brainwaves of the dogs and what dogs can do and and if we're listed is one dog that's like talking through it's it's it's interesting okay i like we watched it with the kids and it was pretty okay she's a big dog lover so i'll watch it with her okay gym one rangers or islanders rangers but not not that i'm you know gonna fight to the death for it it's just like it's one of those things that if they make the playoffs i'll watch them i'm not a big i'm not like a huge hockey fan i'm i'm the cliche answer of for some reason hockey's just so much more exciting to watch in person than it is on TV.

Yeah. Joe Hendo TV. Would you like to see George Miller get another shot at Justice League in James Guns DCU? I don't know. I mean, I'd love to see George Miller just something outside of the Mad Max world and I like to see him do something outside. I like to see an original. I mean,

you know, he's only so much longer the guy's going to be able to do what he's doing. And he's still doing it. So I like to see him do something like a new movie by the mind of George Miller. Like that's what I like to say. Yeah, sure. But the problem is they're probably not going to give them that because the last movie didn't do very well. Yeah.

So they probably would give him something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Julius Wyatt, five days to college football. Yeah. Love you guys. How do you think we're going to do this year, John? I just got my college football 25 for EA Sports.

Can't wait to pop that thing open and play it. I think we're going to do really well this year. I really think we're going to be in contention. I think we're going to beat Georgia Tech there in Ireland. That's how we're opening in Dublin, which is so awesome. Um, but I think we're going to be really well. I mean, it sucks to lose our quarterback, but, you know, it's the game. And I think he's, I think our coach is fantastic, man.

So I'm looking forward to this season. It's going to be fun. Bama too, yeah. It's the last one. Derek Johnson, Julia Roberts, Dust Pew, both in their prime. That's right. You crazy. Lips and curves on Julia.

What curves? Are you crazy? You ever see Mystic Pizza fool? She's a flat. She's a carpenter's dream. You're insane. You've never, dude, she had a dunk. You kidding me?

Please. You're kidding me. Where are you at, John, in that world? sorry I love Florence but that girl's body isn't for me yeah I did really Roberts had a I mean the whole reason she wore the thing over herself in pretty women she thought she had a big butt it's like yeah you do it show it why not Toshky you're ready you're out of you got the job um so curves get out of you that's right she have no curves you can get curve in your brain

Christina Hendrix that's curves people are out of your freaking minds you want you want to be all worked up you see you tell john You start getting John all worked up about whatever it was, calling him, tell me, get rid of them. You make one shot at Julia Roberts and I'll come to your house. Anyway, so what do you think overall about all this stuff? I'm glad that you guys were in here. Thank you for all the super chats and the questions you put in here. John, thank you.

Where can we find you? You can find me hanging out with Thunder God Cairo 770 who says, Julie does not have curves. Those are sidewalks. I agree. Nice to see you, John. It's been nice. So,

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