The Weekly Planet - 15 Kryptonian Wonder Woman, The Rock As Green Lantern & Most Anticipated Films!

Episode Date: January 7, 2014

This week we discuss a new origin for Wonder Woman, The Rock being cast as GL, Ant-Man, Michael Bay's wig out and the most anticipated films from Jan to March! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca. Red hot comic book movie news. Shooting up your butthole. The Weekly Planet. The Weekly Planet. Welcome to another episode of The Weekly Planet, official podcast of comicbookmovie.com, Mason. Welcome back.

Thank you. Hi, good to see you. It's good to be back. It's only been a week, obviously, between episodes, but we haven't seen each other for a couple of weeks. It feels like a lifetime, I'll be honest with you. It does, doesn't it? In a good way or a bad way? In a way.

Sure. You may know me as Mr. Sunday, Mason. You don't. I don't. I know you as your real name, which you flat out refused to reveal for so many bizarre reasons, but it's fine. Joining me, of course, is my co-host, Nick Mason. Hello. Real name. Yep. Did you get to up to any shenanigans over the holiday period? No, not as much as I thought. I think I mentioned this in the last podcast that my New Year's and normally my idiot school friends hurting each other and somebody goes to the hospital. One year, I didn't mention this last month, I think, one year a guy lit his hands on fire.

Fantastic. And then when he went to the hospital. Just as a goof. Just as a goof. Everybody trashed his house where the party was. Well, he deserves it when you think about it. Good friend of ours as well. Fantastic.

So that's how that night played out. What did I do this year? I got through this relatively injury free. I did attempt to impress a girl in a park and I fell off a motorised skateboard. That wouldn't have impressed her. I didn't do it deliberately to impress her. But it was one of those, you know those skateboards

and they've got like the hand control? We should point out that you're 14 as well. I'm a 14 year old boy. Because you're in a park on your motorised scooter. And anyway, so she said, hey, do you want to have a go on that?

And I said, and I thought, no, obviously I don't. I have no capacity for balance or anything. But my voice said, yes,

I do want to have a go on that. And I was on it for like a second and a half and I pulled that, I pulled that trigger and just straight off and I dropped really hard this leg

this leg my left leg is just I think I slightly dislocated the knee just a just a touch just enough

this leg is a tenth over my life it's always this side it's just a testament to attempting to impress girls and just attracting horrific injuries

like this this ankle has been sprained a lot. Like it's just a loose sack of just bits of bone. Like broken spaghetti. Every bit of this leg clicks when I move it now. One more is artificial hip territory. I think if that happens, I'm just going to cut it off.

And cast it in bronze and mount it on the wall. It'll be like testament to idiocy. There it is. But other than that, I'm fine. It was a great year the wall. Yeah. And be like, testament to idiocy. There it is. But other than that, I'm fine. It was a great, great news. Wow, girls. They make us do crazy things. Well, let's get straight into the news, Mason.

Okay. Because there has been much news. Oh, even over the holiday period? Sure. I mean, you know, things slow down, of course, in Hollywood or Hollyweird, some call it.

Classic. Don't get me started, mate. But you may have heard it about another Shia LaBeouf has apologised again for his plagiarism. I just want to talk about this briefly. Did he do it by skywriting? Yeah, he did it by skywriting. As we've mentioned, he's a total fucking idiot on every level.

But he basically did a five mile long apology which says, I'm sorry, Daniel Klaus. Team of skywriters, by the way. I was going to say, because it would be very difficult to get that much of an apology out of one Skywriter. By the time you get to the end. Especially because most Skywriters are drunk. Is that liable? Probably.

Oh, jeez. So, yeah, I mean, which is weird. I mean, first of all, where he did, he did in Hollywood. And Daniel Klaus apparently... Sweet callback. It's a very early callback to this show. Daniel Klaus lives in Oakland.

So, Not nearby at all? Not nearby at all. Right. So, which is strange. And then also, Because he doesn't want it

actually for Daniel Klaus. He wants the people to see it. Yeah, He wants the most TMZ coverage of that. That's exactly right. And he also, Because what he could have done

is gone to Daniel Klaus' house and given him money. All that money which he spent on Skyrim. I've never Skyrim'd anything, but I'd imagine it's a lot. And getting a team. Oh my god. Are you kidding me, Mason? Are you kidding me?

He probably used all his Disturbia money. He probably did. Least. Maybe some Transformers 1. Maybe. I don't think he would have chipped into the Transformers 1. Unlikely. But look, he also tweeted this. Remember how he plagiarised his apologies as well? Yes. one and maybe i don't think he would have chipped into the transformers one unlikely yeah but look

he also has tweeted this remember how he plagiarized his apologies as well yes he wrote this about that you have my apologies for offending you for thinking i was serious instead of accurately realizing i was mocking you so he we're the idiots well we didn't realize that he was doing that deliberately to mock people who were offended that he ripped off somebody just because he could. Yeah. Because he's famous, Shia LaBeouf. Yeah. Wow.

He got us. He's got a problem. Yeah, he does. Yeah. Yeah. But that's alright. Maybe we'll just... Do we want to talk about Shia LaBeouf ever again?

No, let's put a moratorium on him. Sure. Let's throw him in the Kim Kardashian pile. Let's not... Remember early on when we said, let's... We've talked too much about Kim Kardashian. Well, she's on the pile. She's on the pile. Sure. Let's throw him in the Kim Kardashian pile. Remember early on when we said we've talked too much about Kim Kardashian. She's on the pile.

She's on the pile. Yeah. Okay, I say if he ever gets mentioned in another Indiana Jones movie, we'll bring him up again. Okay.

But other than that, dead to us. Or if he turns out, like he does something like Kony 2012, like the Kony 2012 guy, like he's just, he's

just, he's found walking down the street wanking or whatever. Then we mention him. I think that's worse. Unless he does anything spectacular like that. Forget it. Done. All right. There is some other comic book news, Mason.

I'm ready. Just movie news in general, sure. This one happens to be comic book related. Now, The Rock. You're familiar with The Rock, Dwayne Johnson. I love The Rock. I think he's great. Great guy, great bloke, great actor, giant man.

Good on him. Seems to be getting bigger as he gets older, which is weird. Yeah, absolutely. Anyway, he confirmed... Like a deer's antlers. Yeah, is that how that works? I think so. Like a tree.

Exactly like a tree. Now, he confirmed early this week. Sorry, last week. Because we're recording this on the Tuesday. The date goes out. We never do that. Fresh. This is some fresh news.

So fresh. This is going to be the freshest episode ever. It sure is. Because I had to turn it all the way backwards. So fresh. It's going to be fresh like a music compilation from the 90s. So fresh. I hope they get those overseas.

I don't know. Surely. Sure, yeah. Why not? Anyway, The Rock confirmed that he has been talking to DC about a role in the DC movie universe. It was assumed by many initially that it was Lobo because he has mentioned Lobo before. Which makes sense. But I think, though, if they're going to use The Rock, I'm not saying that he's wasted on Lobo.

But Lobo is too much of a minor character to put someone as big as The Rock in that role. Do you know what I mean? a minor character to put someone as big as the Rock in that role do you know what I mean because you need because Lobo's really

he's part of the DC space universe he's not how rarely does he come to Earth very rarely and most he might pop in

I guess he pops in every once in a while yeah but I don't know that much about him to be honest but um yeah I don't know I think they'd probably

see that as well as a waste of kind of an opportunity to put the Rock in something I reckon he'd look good as Darkseid a waste of kind of an opportunity to put The Rock in something. I reckon he'd look good as Darkseid. Well, absolutely he would. But there was also talk of that.

But they're saying that he could be Jon Stewart. It's rumoured that he's Jon Stewart Green Lantern. Don't like it. Very big for Green Lantern. Very big for Green Lantern. Jon Stewart's supposed to be an ex-Marine, I think, but also an architect. Oh, really? So I don't see The Rock as an architect.

Yeah. I mean, I certainly see a man called Dwayne Johnson as an architect, but not The Rock. Yeah. I just think it would be weird, and I mentioned this in a video, where it'd be like, Henry Cavill's pretty, Cavill's pretty big, Ben Affleck's pretty big. The Rock is enormous comparatively. I mean, because Henry Cavill was obviously worked out a lot. He looked amazing for that role. But he only worked out for months leading up.

The Rock has been working out since he was 16. Exactly. Hence why his arms are as wide as his head. Yeah. He's got bigger arms than Mark Wahlberg. And Mark Wahlberg's arms... Mark Wahlberg in his entirety, yes. No, you're right.

And I think somebody of that size has to play a character who isn't defined by his size. No. Because otherwise it's going to look weird. They've also said there's been rumours as well of Black Adam and others. Yeah, he's Egyptian though, I think. He's not actually. That's fine.

The Rock's kind of a mix of races. He is, certainly. Yeah. And I applaud him for that. Okay. Yep. Yeah, so there we go. Also, Wonder Woman news.

Yep. Now, as we know... Is it how to pronounce her last name? No. Is it Gatto or Gatto? We still don't know. Gatto. And we should check, but we won't.

No, don't do it. Because we're not really in that business, are we? No. We're not in the business of fact-checking. Absolutely not. Yeah. Well, it's said now that this, again, is another rumour. I'm just going to preface this by saying that.

I preface it by saying it's a fact. What's anyone going to do? It's a fact, 100%. This is apparently from a very reliable source, who knows. But a Wonder Woman was going to turn out to be a descendant of ancient Kryptonians who attempted to settle an outpost on Earth from thousands of years before. So we know that ship that crashed becomes the Fortress of Solitude and Man of Steel. And there's one open pod.

And he's like, what's it do with this? He doesn't say it out loud. He looks at it. And you think he thinks it. Yeah. He does go, ooh. He did. Interreagin'. He did say that.

Basically, so all Amazonians would then be Kryptonians. Don't like it. To send itself. Don't like it. Me neither. No, not at all. Is it dumber than her being made of clay

ah no it's less dumb than that yeah but I don't think what you're doing there is you're

limiting the amount of origin stories I am aren't I yeah you are personally like you know how in Smallville all the villains

were you know powered by Kryptonite yeah same thing if you make them all if you make the first wave Like, you know, how in Smallville, all the villains were powered by Kryptonite. Yeah. Same thing. If you make them all... If you make the first wave of heroes all from Kryptonian stuff, then you can't later come in and say, well, this person's magic. No.

Because then people will say, well... What? Where did the magic come from in this universe? Exactly. I don't like it. I agree. Basically, the idea would be then that she's relatively powered down

in comparison to Superman because it's kind of it's watered down through the generations obviously and they've adapted to living in the Earth's atmosphere

for hundreds of centuries so her powers I guess wouldn't be in line with what Superman's got necessarily because otherwise she'd just have a laser vision and freeze breath

and all those things so where's the lasso of truth going to come from yeah that's it indestructible bracelets invisible jet laser vision and freeze breath and all those things. Yeah, so where's the lasso of truth going to come from? Yeah, that's it, yeah. Indestructible bracelets. Yeah. Invisible jet.

Other things she has, you know. Spangly outfit. Spangly outfit. Yeah. Wasn't the original rumor that Supergirl was in that pod? That was a rumor as well, yeah. And she's only recently gone out, so that's it. Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, it's possible, sure.

I'm much more in favor of that. Yeah, me too. Where's this rumor come from? It's from... Latino News, your favorite. I can't remember which website. It's Yeah, me too. Where's this rumour come from? It's from... Latino News, your favourite? I can't remember which website. It's a Batman-centric

website. Well, what would they know? Probably more than us, to be honest. No. No. But look, you know,

it makes sense... I'm going to say, if you're listening from whatever that website is, we know more about Batman than you. How do you like

that website? That's our first official enemy we've made there. Good. Here's to many more. Basically, though, the way it would make sense, which I think it's dumb. It makes sense.

Yeah, it totally works. But why change the origin when you don't have to? But basically that Kryptonians then can be produced without parents because they were all born in that Genesis chamber or whatever. So you could just produce a race of women through that. You don't need males and females. So you could say that's where they all come from. Or you just do what's in the comics.

Yeah, make them out of clay. Yeah, make them out of clay. Well, the New 52 is different. She's like a daughter of a god. She's made out of styrofoam? Yeah, she's made out of styrofoam. She's made out of that weird gloppy stuff

where you can stretch it or whatever, but if you hit it with a hammer, it breaks. Yeah, exactly. She's made out of that stuff. That's cool. So there you go. A couple more bits of news.

Oh, I forgot to put the Ant-Man thing in. That's all right. I'll talk about that later. You can talk about it now. No, I'll come back to it. There's another rumor. This has been rumored before, but it's seemingly becoming closer to becoming a reality.

Ooh. You're familiar with... Listeners, you couldn't see the smugness in his face and the little head bob he did when he was like, it's coming closer to reality. So, mock this at your peril. Yeah, that's it.

Basically, Hayley Atwell, who was from Captain America, that episode of Black Mirror, which is amazing. Yep. You've seen that show? Yes. Great show. Great, love it.

Anyway, she's apparently going to be... If you haven't seen that show, don't Google it. Just go to your local DVD retailer slash iTunes legitimate purchase place and just get Black Mirror. Yeah. Don't ask anybody about it. No. You probably won't sleep well.

Especially after their first one in the series. Yeah. I know I didn't. But anyway, basically, so she is apparently going to be spending six months in LA working on an Agent Carter TV show. Hmm. For ABC?

Yes. Oh. Which means it'd be like the early days of S.H.I.E.L.D. hmm your silence speaks volumes

hmm do they really need two agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? well if one's not very good sure oh then a second one

okay that's a good point in the you know in the world of two wrongs don't make wait I guess

if two wrongs don't make a right two terrible agents of S.H.I. right two terrible agents of shield tv series makes a good i think doom patrol movie i don't know i mean i i think i find i like that character and there's a few people on the comic book movie website are like oh she sucks she's not that interesting or whatever i like her a lot i think she's very interesting and i think she was a really um strong part of that movie and I think it could work really well that being said Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

isn't very good so I'm obviously sceptical about that but hey maybe we'll see it maybe we won't I bet we will we will

because we have to they could bring in Zola and a few other old school Captain America dumb dumb Dugan yeah exactly

well that's the thing other people have been saying why not do the um what's his group Other people have been saying, why not do the... What's his group called? The Howling Commandos. Why not do a Howling Commandos movie? Like a band of... Not movie show.

Like a band of brothers. Okay, yep. Which would be cool also. You know what? I'm in favour of that now that you mention it because you could have... Because when you said band of brothers

I'm like, oh, we've seen that, blah, blah. But they're fighting crazy Nazi monsters. Yes! And everything's shooting lightning bolts out of it. Yeah. You know? I mean, there's obviously...

There'd be a lot of... Like, Band of Brothers cost millions and millions of dollars. Right. But Band of Brothers is great. Marvel's got millions and millions of dollars, right? I don't think they do. No, ABC certainly doesn't. Not for...

Not for genre television, they don't. No. No. Yeah. So, look, I'm... Although they built that plane. Oh, they did, didn't they? Didn't they?

A plane. That plane that I love and I question whether it's a real plane is it a real plane? we'll never know look I've got the Ant-Man news in front of me so I just subtly looked it up I didn't even break concentration

that's how good I am at this not so good that I'm prepared you did get it right the first time let's see if you get it right the second time so basically Edgar Wright has posted a picture online from... Did you ever see the show Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes animated show? Nope. Apparently it's very good.

I haven't seen it. They cancelled it after two seasons. It portrays a lot of the characters really, really well. Anyway, the episode that he... This picture that he posted is from one of the episodes where Scott Lang steals. Ant-Man. Ant-Man. Steals, finds an Ant-Man costume and steals it and uses it for nefarious means.

Oh. And so people are assuming from that. Yep. That Scott Lang is going to be the Ant-Man. Okay. The Ant-Man. And he's going to be Irredeemable Ant-Man, I guess. I guess so.

I mean, yeah. I mean, even though, but Scott Lang's not the Irredeemable Ant-Man, I guess. I guess so. I mean, yeah. I mean, even though... But Scott Lang's not the Irredeemable Ant-Man, is he? No, correct. So, I mean, that also would go in line with saying it's going to be a heist movie. Oh. So, and I think the idea as well, then they pick him up and they're like, we're really impressed with your Ant-Man-ing skills. But then does that mean they're jumping over the Hank Pym origin?

Or maybe he's from the 70s or something maybe i don't have i don't think we have time for all the there's so many minor characters now yeah and there's the with your legacy characters like your flash green lantern and whatever yeah i think i think in a lot of cases it is going to be okay to just compress them into one sure it's probably a combination of things yeah and um i we didn't actually talk about this because we were away, but obviously Paul Rudd is Ant-Man. So he'd kind of fit that wisecracking kind of thievery kind of dude, right? Definitely.

Yeah. I really like Paul Rudd. You know, I watched it again the other day. This is 40. A lot of people don't like that movie. I think it's great. A lot of really awkward arguments. It's like you feel like you're in the room.

Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah. It makes you feel really uncomfortable. That's true, yeah. But I love it. I think it's great. What like you're in the room yeah it makes you feel really that's true yeah but i love it i think it's great what a piece of movies that is it's too long though and it doesn't really go anywhere it's kind of rambling it's good so do you like it or not you none of your fucking business i'm sorry it's fine so yeah that's pretty much all the movie news for this week other than the michael bay weird samsung off, which we just watched. That was pretty great. For those who haven't seen it, I'm sure everybody's seen it at this point, but he was promoting a new Samsung.

The curved television. Yep. Which is the new thing. Uh-huh. Because flat screen's not good anymore. 3D's not good anymore, certainly. Yeah. Well, I don't think it ever was.

And I mean, we all have the giant TV now. We do. All of us have that giant TV. We should buy another one. Yeah. So. I mean, that's how they got people. Because why should we be happy with the giant TV now. We do. All of us have that We should buy another one. Yeah. I mean that's how they got people. Because why should

we be happy with a giant TV? Once everybody gets a giant TV you can only basically make them bigger and bigger until it gets to a point where they won't fit

in your house. And then you've got to do something different. Yeah, they physically won't fit through your door anymore. Yeah, that's it. But you know

TVs used to be curved though anyway. Oh yeah. You've got like the curved screen when we were kids. I mean they also used to have

wooden panel sides. I think I had one of them when we had the oldest TV in the world. You mean, they also used to have wooden wood panel sides. I think I had one of them. We had the, like the oldest TV in the world. You got to get up and you click the turning thing. Yeah. Some people had that and the knob was broken off. So I had to put a wrench in or whatever. Yeah.

But anyway, the point is, stop reminiscing for one second, if you could. And he was there to promote the Curved TV. And apparently he was answering questions, but he was answering them off... Like, all the answers were prepared, obviously, but he was reading them off a teleprompter. As they would be. I mean, that's understandable. And then he came up and he said, oh, the text is wrong. Or the text spacing or the text size on the teleprompter was wrong.

Yeah. He was like, well, just wing it. And then they asked him a question. He's like, sorry, nope. And he just walked away and it was funny the question that he really messed up

was where do you get your ideas from and he's like Hollywood's a visual media but it tells stories and he's just like I don't know if you're a director

you should know that that's what I think you should be able to go wow I pull from another different sources what a bunch of great writers I've got I've got a lot of

inspiring people around me I spend time with actors I just thought of that off the top of my head and I'm not a director so he should be better than that that's all I'm saying but how many cameras on you right now? yeah

one just the one just the one the security camera from the 7-Eleven we're currently robbing isn't it great how we can multitask like this? it's great we're really good at this but yeah

fair enough public speaking is difficult. Do you like public speaking? Nah. See, for me, it's a skill that I've developed over the years. It still terrifies me, but I can do it. I've emceed some weddings like a cool kid. Just up there.

Just tearing it up. Just cracking wires. Just cracking wires like a mad dog. That being said, yeah, I fucking hate it. Yeah. So don't ask me to emcee your wedding. No, fine. Go.

Yeah. Jerk. Oh. I want to relax at a wedding. Yeah. So don't ask me to emcee your wedding. No, fine, go. Yeah. Jerk. Oh. I want to relax at a wedding. Yeah. It's like having a job. It's like saying,

come to our wedding, do a job. Because you've got to organise everything. Hmm. I've diverted again, haven't I? You really have.

That's okay. But look, Mason, it's the early months of the year. We've already had our first big blockbuster of the year. Which was?

Paranormal activities. Was that at the blockbuster of the year? We've already had our first big blockbuster of the year. Which was? Paranormal Activities. Was that at the blockbuster of the year? It made the least money of all the paranormal activities, but apparently it still made three times its budget back in the first day. Because they cost nothing to make. Because they cost nothing, yeah. Because it's 90 minutes, it's 89 minutes

of somebody in a room and then one minute of a scary thing, right? I haven't seen any, but that's the summary. I've seen the first one and that's essentially and apparently this one's mostly jump scares and it's a spin-off as well because it's not

it's the fifth movie but Paranormal Activity 5 is coming in October. Great. So we're getting two in one year. Oh, well, why not, eh? So basically

that was the big movie of the year at the moment. Yep. A lot of the time they do open with a horror movie. Last year they opened

with Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D remake which is apparently the worst which I didn't see and the same thing this year but I thought

let's talk about the movies if you want to that are coming out just over the next three months we could go through the year

but we'd be here forever and then I'd have to make a longer list sounds like a lot of work we'd have to watch more trailers so we'll just

exactly we'll just talk January to March and then we'll call it a day. What do you think? I love it. I love that idea. Now we've watched

all the trailers in preparation, I hope, right? We've watched some of the trailers. Some of the trailers. And the one that's out this week in the US,

so it's not out in our country until next month, not that it matters because neither of us will see it, is... We might see it.

No. What is it? The Legend of Hercules. No, we won't see that it. No. What is it? The Legend of Hercules. No, we won't see that, will we? Yeah. Well, there's two Hercules movies coming this year. There's the Rock one, just playing Green Lantern Man. Yep.

And there's this one with Callan Lutz from the Twilight franchise, and he's also in an episode of 30 Rock where he plays Lutz's nephew or something. Oh, okay, that makes sense. Which is pretty good. That's a fun little twist. Yeah. That's the reason why I think I like that guy, because I okay, that makes sense. Which is pretty good. That's a fun little twist. Yeah. That's the reason why I think I like that guy

because I thought, what a good sport going on that show. A lot of people hate this guy with a passion because he's too pretty and whatever, whatever. Is he a vampire or a werewolf? I think he's a vampire.

But yeah. Maybe he's a combination of the two. No, there's only one in that universe and it's their kid. You should know that. Come on.

I shouldn't know that. I'll tell you that much. Yeah. Yeah. So basically, we saw the trailer. Did you think it was as generic and crap looking

as everybody says it is? Yes. And also, it looked like a really huge God of War rip-off. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Because he's got the whippy... He does have the whippy things. I didn't even think of that. He's got the chains with the rocks on it and he's whipping them around and then they're like, embrace your Godhood,

Hercules. And then he's got the lightning thingamajig-o. Oh whipping them around. And then they're like, embrace your godhood, Hercules. And then he's got the lightning thingamajig on him. Oh, yeah. I didn't even think of that. Lightning whips. Lightning whips, yeah. It's very... You know what? This is the year, and we're going to get to this very soon as we go through the rest of these.

But this is the year for just God of War, slow-mo, shirtless Greek men leaping through the air in slow motion. Finally? Yeah. I say. There's a lot of... If I could summarise the trailers of this first three months, it's... You know, a bit of dramatic... Everybody should know this as well.

20 minutes before we started recording, he just did that for 20 minutes. Just sitting in the room. I'm trying to prepare. You can take these out in the edit. Oh my god. But anyway, it's a lot of that. You could summarise all the movies. Yeah, you could. You're right. There is a point in every trailer pretty much coming up where there is that

particular... I mean, it's early months. It's usually how it is. I don't see... I don't know unless they're saving some good stuff for a further trailer. Yeah. This looks awfully generic for a movie about Hercules. I don't think they're saving anything because it's out this week.

Oh, right. Then it looks pretty awful. I mean, it's just, so he's a, he's a fairly regular looking guy. Yep. And he's a gladiator. He's a gladiator. Which it doesn't matter. Where are the rest of the gods?

Where are the demigods? Where are the monsters? Where are the, where's a gladiator where are the rest of the gods where are the demigods where are the monsters where's everything it's like before he was a god he was just a man no he wasn't he's always been a demigod he's always been half god I guess you're working with a limited budget there

because it looks like it could be made for television as well if you look at a show like Spartacus it looks pretty close to that speaking of, Liam McIntyre from Spartacus, good friend of the show, Liam McIntyre. Sure, your mate. Yeah, well, I've met him, and he probably wouldn't recognise me. Maybe on property he would. He'd be going, oh, okay, yeah.

But I don't reckon he knows who I am at all. But great guy, though, that being said, he's in it. So I guess... As? His best friend. Great. Maybe Aeolus? Aeolus, exactly, from the TV series.

Did you ever watch that show? Yes. I fucking hated that show. It was not great, was it? Good young Hercules spin-off, though, with Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling, exactly. Will you rise with the sun to help change mental health care forever? Join the Sunrise Challenge to raise funds for CAMH,

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Let's move to the next movie that you'll love. I don't think I will, though. This is the second reboot for this particular franchise. Great. And the fourth actor to play him. Oh, okay, right. Jack Ryan, Shadow Recrut. No, that's right.

We'll continue as if that's right. C-R-U-T. Yeah. Recrut. They rebooted this, the Jack Ryan franchise, in, I think, 2002 with Ben Affleck in the summer. Would you call these reboots? Yeah.

Okay, right. It is. They're making it more Bourne Identity, James Bond-y kind of thing. Oh, I see what I'm running into. And all these movies have done really, really well financially because everybody's dad has a copy of a Jack Ryan book. That's true. And knows who they are.

I don't think I've seen any of them except the half of The Hunt for Red October. I've seen Hunt for Red October. Okay, so was The Sum of All Fears a prequel to the Harrison Ford ones? You know what? It might be, actually. So maybe it is the same. Okay, so we've gone prequel and then we've gone... Now, this seems like a reboot, though.

Yeah, this is definitely a reboot, this one. But basically what happened, Alec Baldwin took on the role in the 80s. They couldn't afford to get Alec Baldwin back for the second one. And then they got Harrison Ford for Clear and Present Danger and Patriot Games. I don't know what order that is. Patriot Games, then Clear and Present Danger. That's what. I don't know what order that is. Patriot Games then Clear and Present Danger. That's what I said. Okay.

Is it? Yeah, it is. And then they obviously rebooted it. I'm okay with this franchise. It seems there's a fight in the toilet. Did you notice? Oh, yeah. Casino Royale style.

Casino Royale style, yeah. And he even... Smashes you into a sink. Yeah. I mean, I'll see this, but I don't really care about anything about it I think it'll do alright yeah it feels

Bourne Identity-ish but not Bourne Identity-ish enough no like those in the first couple of Bourne Identity films especially the

you know the really kind of close in as if filmed on video kind of fight sequences where people jam pens into each other's arms just as a matter of course you know

that's the best fight scene in all those Bourne movies as well they never topped it anyway so go on um yeah the tight end of the Casino Royale

I don't know I feel I feel it's quite generic yeah you know what's going working for it though Kenneth Branagh is the director

and he did Thor and he's made a bunch of good stuff in the past yeah and he's also the villain Kevin Costner's back yep none of those hair plugs have taken he's got. And he's also the villain. Kevin Costner's back. Yep.

Now those hair plugs have taken. He's got that beautiful head of him. He's public again. I love it. So, you know. I don't know. I'm a big fan of Casino Royale, so maybe... Sure.

If they put some element of that in. Do you remember in Casino... My favourite part of Casino Royale is right at the start where Bond goes to kill the section chief, the crooked section chief. Yeah.

And he shoots the guy, and then the guy tumbles over his desk, and you see on the desk a picture of his wife and children. That's brutal. That's... Like, has Billy Bond been around in that office long enough? He knows. He's had a look.

He's had a poke. He's gone through the drawers because he's got the gun, didn't he? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, I guess that was the point of driving home. What a prick. And he is a prick. I think that was the point they were driving home. What a prick. And he is a prick. I think I've said

this before. James Bond is a total prick. He was a prick in the 60s and he's a prick now. I'll still watch him I like him.

Yeah absolutely. But yeah good on him. Jack Ryan. Don't set a good example for the kids. No. That's all I'm saying. Jack Ryan 9 out of

10 stars. You saying that already? I don't know. Yeah. Now the next one I know you're super excited about. What if Chris Pine is an action star?

He's been in others besides Star Trek. Has he been in anything else? Oh, this means war. Yeah, he's been in this. He has been in things. He's got a bit of stuff coming up. He could very well Sam Worthington it soon. That's true.

And then we throw him on the Shia LaBeouf, Kim Kardashian pile. I find him completely non-offensive. A lot of people hate him as Kirk. The general consensus is for Star Trek, Spock's amazing, dead on. Kirk should shut up. Looks like a mannequin man. So, you know, say what you will of that. Yeah, Carl Urban, great.

Can't fault him. Have you watched Almost Human yet? Nope. You're a dickhead. Oh, get there, God. Next one. I think they've just finished downloading from the iTunes store. Oh, have they? Yes. You're a dickhead. Oh, get there, God. Next one. I think they've just finished downloading from the iTunes store.

Oh, have they? Yes. Cool. What's your iTunes password? Just out of curiosity. I'm not going to tell you. I just want to check to see if it's right. To check if you're being legitimate. You son of a bitch. Okay, next one. iFrankenstein. Okay. I know you've got many thoughts on this. I've got thoughts about this.

I've got thoughts. You know what it is? Because it's from the producers of Underworld. It's got Bill Nighy in it. Yeah. It's just an Underworld sequel. Yes, it is. Ultimately, when you think about it.

Well, it's like Priest. It's like that one... What's the one where Paul... Paul Bettany. Paul Bettany is an angel in a cafe, and then it gets attacked by angels? Yeah, I remember that. I can't remember what it's called. I think there's two Paul Bettany. Yeah angel in a cafe, and then it gets attacked by angels. Yeah, I remember that. I can't remember what it's called. I think there's two Paul Bettany...

Yeah, there's Priest, and there's that one. There's another one, yeah. Yeah, where he's an angel. Might be called Gabriel, or was that the Australian movie called Gabriel that we watched? That was the Australian movie, yeah. Which is the worst. It was okay. No, it wasn't.

Listeners, go find the Australian film Gabriel. It's like a weird sci-fi... That rips off The Matrix and everything else and Dark City and a whole bunch of other stuff. Give it a watch and let us know what you think.

Don't do it. I say don't do it. Okay, don't do it then. But it does have the original Spartacus in it who died. I can't remember

his name. He's a terrible Australian guy. Good guy. But yeah, he's great Spartacus. Shame he died. Anyway, this movie

though, Legend of not Legend of Achilles. I, Frankenstein, Aaron Eckhart, who we love on the show, friend of the show. Friend of the show, Aaron Eckhart. Yeah. Do you think he makes a good sexy Frankenstein?

Also, should Frankenstein be sexy? Also, do you think he makes a good Frankenstein? I think. A good sexy Frankenstein. Because you know how it's all sexy vampires and sexy werewolves and whatever. Make it sexy. I think they're trying to make sexy Frankensteins now. Isn't that the least, next to, no, I was going to say next to the mummy, but the mummy can't be sexy. I and whatever. Make it sexy. I think they're trying to make sexy Frankenstein now. Isn't that the least... Next to...

No, he would... I was going to say next to the mummy. But the mummy can be sexy. Sexy mummies. I was just going to say sexy. You've already had a sexy mummy. Really? Arnold Boslu.

He's sexy enough. You shave him down. You put him in a little gold spangly... I guess so. But I mean like bandaged up. Not sexy. No, bandaged up. No.

But Frankenstein is a horrible monster. Horrific. Murdering freak. Mutant man. Yeah. Who's made up of the parts of dead criminals. Correct, yes. So it looks very Van Helsing.

It looks very generic. I'll probably see it because I see more stuff now that I do this podcast. So I feel obliged. So out of duty, you'll see it. Out of duty, I'll see it. It just looks like an underworld sequel. Yeah, it does. I'm glad though

he's going to be fighting Gargoyles why does Bill Nighy keep being in these movies why wouldn't he though they're like Bill Nighy do you want two million dollars

I don't know that's a good point I'd do it I guess I guess Bill Nighy in these films he only really ever gets two scenes

he appears early on for whatever reason for some exposition and then he betrays them and then by the end you're like oh he's the bad guy and he shows up again

and then he goes now it's time for you to die Frankenstein and then he turns into a CGI monster and he can just leave for the day

so I guess yeah okay pretty much easy money you're right yeah why wouldn't you those kind of

word movies are okay and then he can appear in an Edgar Wright film for no money or whatever yeah exactly did you like

the underworld movies no I didn't see two I've seen all the other ones though if you've seen one you've seen two yeah And then he can appear in an Edgar Wright film for no money or whatever. Yeah, exactly. Did you like the Underworld movies? No. I didn't say two. I've seen all the other ones, though. If you've seen one, you've seen two. Yeah. Have you seen the prequel one, Rise of the Lycans? I'm sure I've seen bits of it.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure I've been at a stoner's house while it's been playing in the background, you know? Sure, yeah. And everybody's fascinated by it. Yeah, you're like, which Underworld is this? And they're like, doesn't matter. Don't worry about it.

It's all blue. Yeah. I know that. So that's great. Good on it. We're moving on to February, the month of February. This is actually probably... The month of love.

Yeah, some say that. Is there any wacky romantic comedies coming out? I'm sure there is. I didn't write them down. Okay, then never mind then. The first up is, there's a bit more interesting stuff in this month. The Lego movie. Animated movie, the Lego movie.

They've made it to kind of look Lego, kind of stop motion-y, which it totally isn't. People keep telling me on the internet that they're like, it's all stop motion. It's not. Stop telling me it's fucking stop motion because it's not. What do you think of that movie? Trailer. Well, I guess it's a testament to the power of that CG where some some people are convinced yeah well maybe it's a power maybe it's a testament to people's dumbness maybe it's both of those yeah yeah because it looks like it looks like because they've removed

a few frames in you know to make it look a bit kind of oh i see yeah okay whatever it's there's probably just a button for that now i'm sure sure there is. Stop motion effect. You just click it. Done. It brings together a lot of the DC Universe. You've got your Batman, you've got your Superman, you've got your Wonder Woman. I'm okay with that. I'm ambivalent towards the Lego. Really? Well, you love your Lego Star Wars. Well, I used to.

And your Lego. I did ask for that. I think I said last time I asked for the Marvel Lego game. But this year's Christmas. I didn't get it. Well. I'll get it though. I'll bloody get it asked for the Marvel Lego game. But this year's Christmas. I didn't get it. Well. I'll get it, though. I'll bloody get it.

But the last Lego game I... You could pay for it with your adult money that you have from your adult job. I could do that. I didn't even think of that. Or you could do that and then while you're in the line at the shop, you could contemplate your life choices and put it back. Because it's a game for children. But it's got all the characters.

Oh, continue then. Yeah. Oh, Lego Iron Man? Oh, just quickly on up does just quickly on the Marvel games yep

Activision which owns all the Marvel properties did they're licensed with Marvel expired which means Activision

we can buy it up great I'm assuming Disney is going to make them in house now yes but most of the Activision games

are terrible there's a few exceptions. Spider-Man 2 is great. I don't know if you remember that. I love that game. Do you remember, though, when we played Marvel Ultimate Alliance? Yep. On PS3 or what? PS2? PS2, yeah.

I bought that game, and I think you were there, and you came round to my house and it was like going to work. We'd sit down. Finishing that game was like like going to work and we'd slog through it for eight hours then you go right i'll catch you later and then you'd leave then you come back in the next this is our holiday by the way yes come back in eight o'clock the next day carby like clock on sit down you know play through that and that took us maybe a week to make. That was awful. Was that an Activision game? I think it was, yeah.

Ugh, alright. And it was like this dungeon crawling slog of a game. And that game is looked upon fondly. But it's not good. Yeah, I think people... Great roster and whatever, but it's not a good game. No. You remember how painful that was?

There are precious few comic book video game times that are good. Yeah. Ultimate Destruction. Great game. Ultimate Destruction, great. tie-ins that are good. Yeah. Ultimate Destruction. Great game. Ultimate Destruction, great. Spider-Man 2. Yep. That's about it.

Yep. Yeah. The Spider-Man 3 iPad game. Not true. That's awful. I'm trying to think of those anymore. Have you played that? No, I haven't.

Isn't that the one that you said is freemium? It's freemium, yeah. And it costs like $120 to buy everything or something? Yeah, it's freemium, which I'd never encountered before. I'd successfully avoided that for years and years, the freemium, yeah. And it costs like $120 to buy everything or something? Yeah, it's freemium, which I'd never encountered before. I'd successfully avoided that for years and years, the freemium model. So you download it and you play it, and it's just like an endless runner. It's not very good, but the lure of it is you can buy all the Iron Man items in the game. Get a War Machine armor.

Yeah, and you can play as them, and they're all basically the same, but in order to do that, you earn experience points and credits, and that just takes forever. You just grind for hours and hours and hours. Or you can you in order to do that you won't experience points and credits and that just takes forever you just grind for hours and hours and hours or you can pay real money just click it and you get them and like every little every every little bit in the game if you want to repair your armor fast or if you want to skip a thing if you want to do a thing you can pay real money to skip and it's just and i was appalled like at how much money like If you download it for your kid or whatever, they could just click the button accidentally.

Like, I want to play this with all the Iron Mans, and click it, and it costs you $150 or whatever it is. And I was appalled, so I went to look for reviews, because that's all reviews are, essentially, is to back up your own opinions on things. That's true. And I clicked, and I was hoping people would be like, this is the worst abusive power ever

in the video game. And people were like the freemium features are quite reasonable. How did that happen? I think it's a slow burn. It slowly creeped up on me.

Yeah, because obviously that's your first experience but it's everybody else's hundredth. So, you know. God. Great game though. What were we talking about?

Oh, Lego. Lego movie My point was I hadn't played a Lego game Since Star Wars 1 Great So I didn't buy the Pirates 1 Yeah

That being said I will watch this Lego movie And I'm excited to see it Not excited But I gotta find a little kid to take I was gonna say It's a fun movie for kids right I got nephews

I'll take them along Yeah Though me and my brother Once saw Toy Story 3 By ourselves That's got depth though, right? This will have,

this will have zero depth. Yeah. You're right. After that, this one I'm excited for. A lot of people are hating on it. Haters on the internet.

Yep. Robocop. Okay, I'm bored. And I know you're okay with this one as well. I'm totally bored with it, yeah. And I know you're a massive fan of Robocop 3.

That's not true. That's absolutely why I would know. Terrible. He flies at the end of that one 3. That's not true. That's absolutely why I would know. Terrible. He flies at the end of that one, though. That's why you like it so much. You'll believe a cop who is a robot can fly was the tagline for that movie. And boy, did we.

Boy. Never seen it. Yeah, I mean, I like that it's diverted from the original story, which is not always a good idea, where they haven't... They've tried to do something different in that he is more man than machine, and it's about free will and whatever. And the other one was more about

corporatisation and whatever, which I think there's elements of that in this. Well, yeah, and this one's more about... And I think we recovered this last time we looked at it. Sure. Have they changed the trailer since we've... I think there might have been another one. Okay, well, anyway, this one's more about

the militarisation of the United States. That's what I... That's right. Which I think there might have been another one okay well anyway this one's more about the sort of militarisation of the United States that's what I'm yeah that's right which I think is interesting forget what I said and I'm 100% on board with it I think it's going to be great

yeah it could be great it's probably okay but a good director though yeah was the guy who did Elite Squad Elite Squad

Enemies Elite which I haven't watched yet because you legitimately gave me a copy and I haven't watched it yet yeah just drink the water. Great.

Yeah, you can say that, can't you though? I can say the water. You're doing a real good job. Last one, rounding off that month. By the way, there are movies coming out around these ones. Right, but they've probably got meaning and themes. Who's into that? Probably Judi Dench is in one.

Oh, yeah. But no, Philomena or whatever. Yeah, yeah. But the thing is though, most of the Oscar bait movies come out before December or they're not available for Oscars. Right, right at that point. And normally a movie that wins an Oscar won't come out in these months because by the time the Oscar season rolls around, you get 12 Years a Slave which hits in November or whatever. Oh right. And that will take it. As it should,

I watched it the other night. Holy shit, have you seen that movie? No. It's incredible. will take it. As it should. I watched it the other night. Holy shit. Have you seen that movie? No. It's incredible and awful and incredible. Oh. But you should watch it. Okay. Yeah. Anyway. Next one. A Paul W.S. Anderson movie. Yep. Starring... Resident Evil? No. It's that particular guy. Yes. But not Resident Evil. Pompeii. Pompeii. Yep. Okay. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yep. Okay, here's another. Here's a gladiator or something. Yep, here's a gladiator or something.

It's the guy from Kit Harington, I think his name is, from Game of Thrones. Right. Emily Browning, Australian's own Emily Browning. Correct. Went to school near us. She hasn't done anything to warrant her being bumped from Australia. Not yet. So good.

Yeah, I've seen her in person she's a very cute girl there's these all follow the exact same formula you've got your kind of rough and ready gladiator type and you've got your

your mean your mean villainy kind of weaselly guy with the with the the Roman haircut

I think that's probably why they do it because the it's they make so many of these because the Roman haircut is so easy to do probably why they do it, because they make so many of these, because the Roman haircut is so easy to do. You just paste it down over your forehead.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you've got your beautiful woman in bloody blood. Maybe they're meant to be together. Maybe they're not. And maybe there's some sort of blind wise woman. There's always one of those.

Who has many portents. Yeah. Yeah. And sooth sayings. That's it. It basically seems like this movie though that the city is Pompeii is crumbling around

them while the gladiated fights are happening yep and he's gonna probably rescue her or something it looks like good

destruction computer graphics I guess but we've seen it all haven't we we've seen it all and we've also seen it Wrath of the Titans

style with giant monsters is anybody gonna release a Kraken in this film unlikely speaking of Wrath of the Titans they're not making a sequel to Wrath of the Titans this film unlikely speaking of Wrath of the Titans they're not making a sequel to

Wrath of the Titans we're left with only two of the Titans films is it Wrath which one's first one we've got Remember the Titans

oh yeah that's a good movie I like that movie look I'll probably see this one for the same reason I see anything wow

yeah I mean it's fun I guess we know how it ends we do the ship sinks you know and people drown in the ice thing. Yeah, I mean, it's fun, I guess. We know how it ends. We do. The ship sinks. You know? And people drown in the ice.

How soon is too soon to make a movie about... The destruction of Pompeii. Yeah. I mean, they did one about Titanic,

wasn't that way ago, wasn't it? Nah. It'll look fine, I guess. People hate on Paul W.S. Anderson, fair

enough. Some of the Resident Evil movies are okay. I think it's three, the one in the desert, which is pretty good. The one that's set in the. Anderson. Fair enough. Some of the Resident Evil movies are okay. I think it's three. The one in the desert, which is pretty good. The one that's set in the desert. You saw that.

They get sillier and sillier. Yeah, of course. But that one, I think, mate, is easily the best. The rest are mostly nonsense. The first one has the bit where she scissor kicks a rubber dog. Yeah. Which is really great. But he also made Event Horizon.

Okay, yeah. Which is a great movie. Do you think that still holds up though? Yeah, absolutely When was the last time you saw it? That movie's fucking terrifying Yeah, it was But when was the last time you saw it?

Oh, probably maybe four or five years ago Oh, okay Yeah, I think I was living in London I was on TV I don't know Who knows? We'll never know We'll never know, that's right

I think he made the latest Musketeer reboot With, uh Oh, the Musketeer? Yeah, the kid from Percy Jackson And I think Orlando Bloom's the feathery quifty

um villain oh he's the villain oh cause he's not the young cool kid anymore he does have a tweedly mustache

ten years ago he would have been the kid that's true like in pirate style yep now tweedly villain

great cause he's very tweedly yeah what's up that's the end of that month huh

March success a successful month definitely uh there's a few in March uh this is another one so get ready for the What's up? That's the end of that month. Huh. March. Success. A successful month. Definitely. There's a few in March. This is another one. So get ready for the music thing.

Okay. 300, Rise of an Empire. There's another one. There it is. Lots of leaping. Lots of slow motion leaping. Probably slightly higher than usual. Sure. Because they're the titans. They certainly are.

And everybody's real aggro. Yeah. This movie is a sequel to the 2007 movie, 300? Why not? Yeah. It's based on a graphic novel that is yet to be released, which is a sequel slash prequel to 300. Frank Miller again. Frank Miller again.

He's gone crazy. He sure has. I bet this one will be crazy. Yeah. But it tells the rise of Xerxes and how he became a god and why he's gold yeah prequel

no no that's some parts of it and most of it is set afterwards and Lena Headey is in it and she's like let's destroy the army

yep and you see there's she's the beautiful lady in this one so we've got the yes we've got a young we've got a young

rough and ready guy probably Australian guy can't remember his name but the Australian guy's a late guy. David Wenham's coming back. He is. Sullivan Stapleton, that's his name.

Sorry, go on. CGI abs. CGI abs with David Wenham. You know what, though? In watching that trailer, the abs are not as insane this time around. Well, I think it's because they're not a Spartan army. Oh, I see, right. They're just regular dudes.

And Greeks are just regularly buff and not ridiculous. Ridiculous. Not music buff. As history tells us. Absolutely, yeah. So, yeah, that's, I mean, I'll say it. I think it's a sequel

that's come way too late. A bodybuilder bro dude's going to watch this one, though, because they're not crazy. Ah, that's a good point. Because they're not crazy built. Yeah. Maybe not.

Hmm? Yeah. I'm certainly not going to watch it. Are you really not going to? Because I'm crazy built. Did you indenture it? Like a mad dog. Like a mad dog.

Did you see the, you just talked about it. That's an original. What did you think? Fine. Do you think it set the bar for CGI something? Slow motion? Blood.

Oh, they did that hand crank camera. They kind of pioneered that hand crank camera thing for the weird, you know, we'll slow it down while he lives in the air and then we'll spin it up again and it hits the guy. Yeah. Fine. Great. Sure? I've had enough of that.

Yeah. Haven't we all? What if they set some of this to dubstep though oh my god can you imagine yeah

but yeah so it's mostly set on the sea as well a lot of naval battles there appears to be a scene where a guy rides a horse into a ship

into the water onto a ship or something that happens there so sure I'll see it you'll see it there's no

I think... For me, they're going to have to raise the stakes. I want to see something spectacular in that trailer. I didn't see anything spectacular in it. Yeah, fair enough. I can't even remember the director. I want to see one of those giant mutant men from 300. Well, the reason, I think I've said this before,

the reason those are in it is because it's David Wynnum's storytelling and he exaggerates everything. Well, they could do that in this one. They could have something storytelling. Mutant men. Giants. Dragons. Kraken. Kraken. Oh, exaggerates, right. Well, they could do that in this one. Sure they could. They could have some new storytelling. Mutant men. Giants. Dragons. Kraken.

Kraken. Release the Kraken. Absolutely. Next one. Need for Speed. Ha ha! No, there's none of that in this one. Now, the funny thing about this movie is it doesn't look the worst.

It doesn't look the worst, but it doesn't look very Need for Speedy. Sure. You know what I mean? I mean, it's called Need for Speed, and it's based on't look very Need for Speedy. Sure. You know what I mean? I mean, it's called Need for Speed, and it's based on the video game Need for Speed. Yeah. The series, but... I mean, Need for Speed generally, or some of the newer games do, they don't really have a storyline. It's just outrun the cops.

That's true. There was one I had called Hot Pursuit, which was great from a few years back. I don't mind. I'm not a cars guy. I know you're a big cars guy. Not true. Not true. I have a car in a sense

yeah but it's got Aaron Paul who's from Breaking Bad Breaking Bad of course I think it looks okay it's got Tony Stark's father

the guy who plays Tony Stark's father and I think he's the villain and maybe he portrays yeah he looks fine looks tense yep I don't know

he's clearly the character's clearly dealing with some issues. Sure is. That he can only solve with a need for speed. Maybe that's his issue, he has a need for speed. Didn't the name need for speed come from Top Gun? That I feel the need, the need for speed?

I think it probably came from the ability for someone to rhyme need and speed. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So look, I guess I'll see this one also. I don't know, I think it's a mistake to... Well, maybe it's not. I find it odd that you're going to take a video game franchise and make it into a film

and it's a drama. Yeah. I think it should just be wacky fun. Yeah. I think it should be a heist. But I did see a stunt for this online and it was a real car that they flipped and whatever and it looked pretty cool. Man with the golden gun

corkscrew style? Exactly. Except it smashes instead of lands right way up. So they just flung it with a catapult. Okay, I'll say that.

There we go. This next one's very interesting in the sense that it's the first really big Kickstarter movie project. It's the continuation of the franchise

Veronica Mars. There we go. What do you think of that? I was a huge fan of Veronica Mars. I know you were. I never watched it. It's the continuation of the franchise Veronica Mars. There we go. What do you think of that? I was a huge fan of Veronica Mars. I know you were. I never watched it. It was great. Go back and see. It still holds up, I assume. Maybe I will. Yeah. You saw the trailer. You'll probably see this one. I'll see this one, yeah. What do you think of it? First of all, what's the deal with Veronica Mars?

Well, she used to be a teen detective. Didn't we all? Yeah, because her father used to be the sheriff of Neptune Which is a town in California And then there was a bit of a scandal A bit of a scandal Relating to a wealthy family in that town And then he was deposed as sheriff

And then he became a private investigator And so she became a private investigator helping out Who's the father in it? It's Enrico Colantoni What's he in? He's in Veronica Mars. Yep. Who's in Just Shoot Me?

The TV series? The sitcom? Oh, the bald guy. With David Spade, the bald guy. He's great. Yeah, he's good. He's been in other stuff, I assume. I can't remember.

Yeah. Anyway, she, over the course of three seasons, she solved a series of serious crimes in the city, but she also solved like teen issues great rivals relationships all those things

all those things yep skateboarding tricks all the things that teens are about and this movie as well what is it

she's not a private detective anymore is that right no she's become a lawyer yeah but she's gonna have some detecting she's gonna have to yeah

because she's the only one that they trust or something probably yeah well look hopefully it does alright. Because I like the idea of these, you know, cancelled TV properties or whatever that still have a bit of life in them being brought back. Yeah.

I like the idea of Kristen Bell being in good films. You do like that, don't you? We discussed that. The lifeguard should be good. Yeah. This one should be good. Yeah. Hopefully.

Yeah. Which is good in House of Lies as well. Oh, is she? That's not a good show. I like it. It makes me feel really dirty, though, watching it, because it's really grim, and Matt Damon makes Don Cheadle give him a handjob in one episode. Okay, Matt Damon?

Yeah. As Matt Damon. There you go. Okay. I haven't got Matt Damon. Watch it only for that. See, I've watched a few episodes of that, and it's a show that seems very much in love with its own sort of of look how smart we are

yeah look how smug and cool these characters are that's true but he's also they're also very all broken as well which is interesting

I could take it a little bit yeah fair enough better than Suits I'll tell you that much haven't seen that haven't seen Suits okay next one

is called Divergent oh yes it's like a Hunger Games-esque Shailene Woodley's in it who was going to be Mary Jane Watson in the new Spider-Man movie except they cut all her parts out of it because apparently it didn't work.

She's the star in this. She's the star. Okay. It's about fitting in or not fitting in. It seems to be about being assigned some roles. It's a little bit Harry Potter-esque that everybody's assigned a role, a house in society. It's like you're evil. You're evil forever. That everybody's assigned a role, a house.

Like, you're evil. You're evil forever. That's how that heart works. You're one of the dumb ones. You're in Hufflepuff. Hufflepuff's the one with just idiots, right? They just smoke weed. Yeah.

Yeah, mostly, yeah. Which is fine. Don't equate smoking weed with being dumb, Mason. Don't make that mistake. I don't smoke weed. Yeah, but Hufflepuff's just like generic leftovers, right? Yeah, pretty much. You're dumb or fat. You're in Hufflepuff's just like generic leftovers, right? Yeah, pretty much. You're dumb or fat.

You're in Hufflepuff. Yeah, exactly. I mean, sure, I will not say this properly. Yeah. Because I don't. Apparently it's a very successful teen franchise and bloody blah. And apparently in this universe, your university entrance exam is they dump you in a big tank of water and attempt to murder you. Sure, why not?

Kate Winslet's the bad guy. Okay. I don't know anything about it other than that. You were watching the trailer that I was here when you were watching it and it stopped

three quarters of the way through and you went, yeah, I get it. It's fine. It's fine. I don't need to see the end. Yeah. I feel the same way

about the film as a whole. Yeah. Yeah. That being said, I feel like we don't get it because we don't know what it's about. Nah, it's probably fine.

Let's move it along. Let's throw it in that basket with Mortal Instruments whenever they are, which I've come to decide is probably about like musical instruments, like a band of musical instruments

that come to life. Sentient. Using magic and they become like sexy teens. Cool. So that's... And maybe they change back every now and then.

Maybe they change back every now and then. Probably at inconvenient times I'd say so Great The next one Noah Russell Crowe

Ho ho ho ho Yeah a little bit A little bit of that A little drier maybe I think Is it Ridley Scott who did that? I can't even remember I should have bloody checked that

I'm pretty sure Noah It's Darren Aronofsky Oh that's right Old Darren Aron Darren Aron yeah Who passed on the Wolverine he was well into the Wolverine

and then jumped ship so he's making a movie there's two big biblical movies coming out this year there's this one and there's one with Christian Bale who's

Moses okay and I'd imagine there's a big battle in the Red Sea or something oh there would be wouldn't there

he parts that sea and then they clash they clash in the middle yeah there's a Kraken probably but I guess there's going to be Oh, there would be, wouldn't there? He parts that sea and then... They clash. They clash in the middle, yeah. There's a Kraken, probably. But I guess there's going to be a lot of these big, big biblical gladiator-style movies coming out. There's a few in the pipeworks. Which is weird because there's no scheduled apocalypse this year.

Like, you know, the last few years there's always been some lunatic like, well, the main calendar says that we're all doomed in October or whatever and then October passes and they're like, well, actually, I'm in October 2048.

That's what I meant. You misheard me. You misheard me. Yeah. Yeah, so I guess that's the way of doing this, I guess. Yeah, I feel

usually the apocalyptic films come out when the zeitgeist says we're all going to die. But I guess not. Maybe we're breaking the trend. Also, it doesn't look that interesting. No, it doesn't. I mean, he builds an ark.

I mean, we've all seen Evan Almighty, and it looks pretty similar to that. It does, doesn't it? Yeah. It's all just going to be slapstick. So my understanding of the story of Noah is that they wipe everybody out, except all the animals. They being God, yes. They being God, sorry.

And Russell Crowe. And then his family repopulate the Earth? Or is there more people? What's the deal there? I think it's... I think Noah's family, or maybe his extended family, are the only people judged worthy in the world. Yeah. I think.

So they're all on the boat. Okay. But it might be, like, they might have married in. Sure, okay. Like, some of the people they've married in. I think that's the case, actually. I think. So they're all on the boat. Okay. But it might be, like, they might have married in. Sure, okay. Like, some of the people they've married in. I think that's the case, actually.

Well, you won't. I'll boil this down. You're worried about incest. Yes. And I think we're in the clear. But that means those kids are there. There's only so many

parents you can make there. Okay, there's got to be incest. Yeah. No, but the Bible papers over it. Good. Like with, you know, Adam and Eve. At one point, like, C over it good like with you know Adam and Eve

yeah at one point like Cain and Abel you know that happens they have the kids and then I think at one point

they just say hey there's another town over there like God created another town over there go for your life go for it go nuts

go nuts mate one more I added this late in the game okay I'm ready the raid to Barandal Barandal Barandal Barandal Barandal guidance recommended yes One more. I added this late in the game. Okay, I'm ready. The Raid 2. Berendal.

Ooh. Berendal? Berendal. Berendal. Berendal Guidance Recommended. Yes. Did you see the first Raid? I didn't see the first one. I've never seen it.

I feel bad about that. I know, because it's supposed to be amazing. Yeah. Indonesian film? It's one of those films, I think, that's got one of the, you know, a really long one-take, it's got a lot of really long one-take action sequences. Like a Tony Jaa-esque. Yeah, like a Tony Jaa.

Punching elephant. Just leaping through panes of glass. Yeah. Just 20 minutes of leaping through... Just running down a street and leaping through things. Yeah, yeah. I hope to see the other one before and then catch this one in the cinema.

Hopefully. We can do that. Yeah. Though we did... Remember a few years back, we swore off Asian cinema. Do you remember that? This doesn't make it sound good.

No, it doesn't, but we got a string of, we watched a string of bad films. There are, I quite, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's okay. Yep.

I like Hero quite a bit. We loved Kung Fu Hustle. Boy, did we. No, we didn't. No. A lot of people loved that. We hated that. I hate Kung Fu Hustle.

It's nonsense. Yeah. It's not for us though no it's not my sense of humour it's your sense of humour which is weird you didn't like it

no but the raid looks incredible apparently the new Ninja Turtles movie as well which is coming out this movie a lot of the fighting is based off that

really like that kind of style the Michael Bay Ninja Turtles film well he's he's producing okay and storming off stage

he's storming off stage yeah yeah that's pretty much all that's all much all that. I've got some Ninja Turtles news off the top of my head. Okay, I'm ready. They basically come out and said that some of the people have seen the toys from the

new movie and they're not going to be kind of like beaked turtles like they initially thought and they're going to be kind of creepy looking. They're just going to be like very traditional in design kind of turtles and that's pretty much it. They've all got their weapons, they've all got their headbands and whatever and they all look fine do you think that might be a strategy now in hollywood where they put out really misleading yeah like you've ruined my childhood information and then they pull it back yeah because i'm sure there are people be like i'm never seeing like they hear that ninja turtles is coming back that's all they hear and

they go i've never seen another ninja turtles because the best one was the one from the 90s or whatever and then they put out this big ninja turtle alien situation and then these guys well now i'm definitely not gonna say the best one was the one from the night and then they pull it back and then then the calm settles in and people are like, oh, I guess I will see it. It is the one I love. Well, I guess I'll see it then.

Yeah. Okay. I mean, we'll see it, won't we? Yes. To be sure. To be sure. There's a guy who did that one with Aaron Egghart where he fights aliens. Thank you for smoking.

Thank you for smoking. That's a great movie. Battle LA. Another movie where aliens' weakness or strength is water. And another movie that I switched off. Yeah, me too. Midway through, just like, nah, what is the point of this? Yeah.

It's a bit kind of... I don't even know. It's crap, isn't it? It sure is. I wonder why we watch these films. Yeah. That's pretty much it. So that's pretty much the show for this week, Dan.

Oh, we did it. We did it again. I just want to say a quick apology to everybody because I haven't been on the Twitter or anything for like two weeks. I checked it the other day. I've got a whole lot of Twitter responses to respond to which I don't know which I'll actually get to

if at all. So if I don't do that, I apologise. Sounds like a bit of a downer. You know what? I guarantee he'll get to all of them. You get a response every single one. I'm pretty good with responses. You get a response, you get a retweet, you get a star. So if I don't respond to you, I apologise. Because I just want to cut it, start afresh.

If he doesn't respond to you, he's doing it deliberately. Not accidentally, he's doing it deliberately. Everybody else gets a private message except for you. That's right. So I haven't checked the emails or anything, so I apologise for that. But if you do want to hit us up for real, because I'm back. We're back from holidays. Get us on all

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I mean, we didn't really go anywhere we've only been doing this for a couple of months it's not really a massive return ultimately we should also shout out to Gabriel Bruton for the theme song thank you again for the theme song that's the show Mason yep

next week probably some other stuff we'll probably talk we'll probably talk in front of these microphones it'll be pretty great yeah classic memories

of things that will happen alright thanks everyone bye