The Weekly Planet - 170 The Last Jedi & Resident Evil The Final Chapter

Episode Date: January 30, 2017

Well well well. Another week, another terrible movie to talk about. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. Also we talk Split,Oscar and Razzies, Bryan Singer back in the X-Men Universe, Marvel Video Game news, Star Wars The Last Jedi, Woody Harrelson in the Han Solo movie, The Flash being a disaster and other things. Thanks for listening!0:38 RIP John Hurt1:51 Oscars & Razzies6:35 Bryan Singer doing more X-Men stuff9:37 Marvel Video Game News13:14 Star Wars The Last Jedi21:28 Woody Harrelson Star Wars stuff24:20 Every Which Way But Loose remake27:21 The Flash is a disaster35:21 David Ayer Suicide Squad regrets36:43 Resident Evil Review full spoilers1:00:12 Split Review sort of and Spoilers1:09:52 What We Reading/What We Gonna Read1:16:36 Letters It’s Time For LettersBuy Resident Evil: The Complete Collection on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2OCPX4SPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesMr Sunday Movies YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/lB90W2The Weekly Planet YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHFind our T-Shirts here: https://goo.gl/q6gE9C Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca. Welcome back, everybody, to the official podcast of ComicBookMovie.com, where we talk movies, comics, TV shows. The Weekly Planet, The Weekly Planet the weekly planet did I not say that you missed that part what did I just say welcome back something like that we normally do a little ad during at the start it's thrown you but now we're doing it during but before we do that

Mason we gotta say John Hurt died 77 we didn't have to say it we have to say it man he's a legend mate he's been in a bunch

of good stuff 1984 Harry Potter the first one and then the last two I wanna say he's the wand seller he's the wand seller

exactly Alien Hellboy Hellboy one and two V for Vendetta two sure yeah uh he's the wand seller he's the wand seller exactly alien hell hell boy hell boy one and two uh v for vendetta yeah indiana jones four should have ended on a better one than that but yeah what a what a bloody legend of cinema yeah right uh there's not i don't think there's any official information in terms of him passing away but yeah that sucks man yeah 77 not it's as we always say it's not that old in hollywood years hollywood years right yeah people people bloody fame enables you to live forever

so 77's not that old that's exactly it so no do you have a favorite john hurt film hell boy yeah fair not two oh you didn't like two did you not so much no he's not really in it either he's not really that much yeah okay fair enough i really in it that much. Okay, fair enough. I really like V for Vendetta. Pretty good, right? Yeah. And it may be it parallels certain current day events, Mason. Who's to say? Well, 1984 certainly does.

Yeah, fair enough. Did they get him for V for Vendetta because he was in 1984? I believe that. They must have, yeah, because he plays the almighty British dictator or whatever. Yeah. He'll definitely be missed. We've got the full list of Oscar nominations, Mason. You ready?

I'm going to read them. No, I'm not doing it. I didn't read them. Did you read them? No. No. The Razzies also came out. Do you put any stock in the Razzies?

Maybe I should. I don't think so. I think they're equally bullshit for different reasons. It's all politics. It's all politics, baby. But the one this surprised me, because a few people tweeted it, it's this. Ben Affleck is nominated for worst actor in batman v superman not his fault is he the worst actor in batman v superman is he co-nominated with jesse eisenberg he should be

i don't know but he'd have to be right yeah right yeah but he's everybody i mean i thought it was universally agreed even if you hate that movie, he did a good job. Yeah. Isn't that the idea? Maybe, but I guess maybe he's the guy with the biggest profile for that movie. Yeah, I guess so. So if you're going to kick somebody... Yeah, I guess so.

Is the Razzies known for kicking people... Does it punch up or punch down? You know what I mean? That's a good question. I know, remember they... I'm sure there's a lot of cracks at Rob Schneider. No doubt. But I remember when they nominated Halle Berry for Catwoman

and then she said, well, I'll turn up, whatever, and if I win, I'll accept the award. And then she won. Do you think there was any chance that she would turn up and then they wouldn't give it to her? Oh, out of spite. Yeah, do you know what I mean? It's clearly just a group of people just going, this is some shit, isn, like, do you know what I mean? Do you think they, I mean, I'm not, it's clearly just like a group of people just going,

this is some shit, isn't it? Like, do you know what I mean? Like, I don't think there's any kind of process. It's just people going, what's dumb? Or what do I think is dumb specifically? I've just found a list of movies that have been nominated for an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year. Wow.

Pearl Harbor 2001. What Oscar did that get nominated for? Oscar the Grouch mate into the bin got him yep uh best sound editing etc okay so technical awards fair enough yeah that's that's a you know it's a nice looking but then the worst picture director and actor okay you know i went i was at my parents house the other the week at uh bragging my dad had a copy of pearl harbour i'm like hey your favorite movie. Just waving it around? I just found it.

He's like, that's your grandpa's who died. Don't pin that on me. He's like, I hate that movie. Just so we're clear, my dad hates the movie Pearl Harbor. Okay, then. Which is fair enough because it is shit. And he specifically said the bit where they fly the plane through the hangar. He's like, that's unrealistic.

It couldn't happen. I don't disagree. That's right. But I bet they've done it on Mythbusters Almost certainly Yeah, anything else in the Razzies? Zoolander 2's been nominated for nine nominations Oh yeah, fair enough

Bad Grandpa is in there Robert De Niro is worst actor Yeah, fair enough Probably, I haven't seen it Yeah, I mean Gods of Egypt is in there Independence Day Resurgence Yeah, I guess I feel like, I don't care about the Razzies,

I feel. No. Like, we all know which of the worst ones were. We don't need a ceremony for it. We're all on the internet, mate. Yeah, right. Exactly.

The internet has evolved beyond the Razzies, I feel. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Well, too bad, Mason. That's right. Yeah, Twitter is its own The Razzies, isn't it?

Really. Oh, see, Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill both got nominated for Batman v Superman. But again, still not... See, I don't like that interpretation of Superman and I don't think they've really done anything with him, but I don't think it's Henry Cavill's fault.

Correct. Yeah, it's just kind of the way it is. We're looking forward to Justice League though, aren't we, Mason? Yeah, I guess. I knew it. We're well into it. Mason, what's the first thing in the loot crate?

Surprise everybody. There's an ad in the show. Yeah, we're sponsored by Loot Crate this week, which is bloody good. Love the bloody loot crate. This one is Origins, I believe. So I'm going to crack this baby open.

Oh, guess what? Instant Millionaire, copy of Action Comics number one. I've never seen one of those in real life. Yeah, well, here it is. Check this out. I don't even care that it's worth a million dollars.

Mason, don't do it. No, I'm cracking open the plastic. I'm cracking it open. Look at this. Look, I'm bloody opening it. Yeah? Mason. Man, comic books were thick back in the day.

Here's the bloody cardboard backing. Don't fox the edges. No, I'm foxing the edges. Look at this. Stop doing it. It's sticking to me bloody shirt pocket. Mason. Look at this.

I'm going to take it down the watering hole and catch frogs with it. What are you going to do? Nothing. Anyway, that's pretty exciting. I've never read that, actually. Well, he's not... Superman isn't the... Like, it's not an entirely Superman book.

Okay. So you can just tear out the other pages then. Yeah, ultimately. That's fine, yeah. Marco Polo gets a story, if I believe. Chuck Dawson, cowboy hero. Don't know him. No, no idea.

Some sort of Zatara master magician. Okay. So that's Zatanna's dad. There you go. Yeah. Pretty great. I'm going to give this a whirl. Anyway.

Good stuff. Look at the next bit of news, Mason. Fun fact, though. Yeah. They have put Superman at the front. He's not at the front in the original. Well, that's probably worth more then. I know, right, Miss Prince?

Bryan Singer will direct the pilot for an untitled X-Men TV series. Yawn, and also bad. The still untitled X-Men TV series will focus on two ordinary parents who discover their children possess mutant abilities. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. That sounds a little bit Runaways, but not enough for my liking.

Sure, yeah. Well, I don't think they can do the Runaways. Probably can't do the Runaways. Yeah, because weren't Marvel talking about doing a Runaways TV series? I'm sure we've talked about that. I bet we have, yeah. Yeah. Anyway. I've been up. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. TV series? I'm sure we've talked about that. I bet we have, yeah. Yeah. Anyway.

I've been up. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. Yeah. So I'm a little bit tired. So when you said Bryan Singer is going to direct a TV series, I couldn't quite get the boo in before you said what it was. That's my number one regret thus far in this podcast. Oh, no.

You didn't go, Bryan Singer's directing a TV series. And I went, boo. He's done some good stuff though, right? Surely you must enjoy some of his work. You liked Valkyrie. You liked Jack the Giant Slayer. None of those things. You liked Unusual Suspects, The Usual Suspects.

Oh, I did like Usual Suspects. Yeah, there you go. Gotcha, Mason. I bloody gotcha, man. I'm back on board, Singer. Okay, good. Do you think this is a demotion and then next he'll do commercials and then he'll be in the gutter?

Is that how this is working? Or do you think this is just kind of his swan song the x-men universe yeah i think he's doing this as a favor okay i think he still has some kind he has some kind of juice in this universe and and they're like yeah that's a phrase that's a real phrase it's not this guy's got some juice in this universe yeah yeah it's definitely not but go on uh and i think they're like oh we're getting singer yeah it's gonna be great. I'm sure people love it. So it's like J.J. Abrams putting his name on Westworld or whatever.

I don't think he directed an episode, though, did he? J.J. Abrams? I couldn't know for sure. No, we'd know, I think. Yeah, we would know. We'd go, that was the most J.J. Abrams episode. Yeah, absolutely. Good stuff.

What's the next item, Mason? Ooh, let me check. Don't lie to me either. Okay. It's Captain America themed. It says Captain America circa 1940. Good. This What's the next item, Mason? Don't lie to me either. Okay. It's Captain America themed. It says Captain America circa 1940. Good. This is not a toy.

This product is intended for adults only. Is that what it says on it? Okay. Is it an ashtray? No, it's a bloody... Look. It's a replica shield. It's a magnet, is it?

No, it's like a replica. Oh, okay. Cool. But it's his original one yeah it's the it's the shield shaped shield very good not a toy just to be clear not a toy how dare you it's got a little stand there you put it on your desk you can put that on a little dog no i'm gonna put it on my desk all right fine you don't have a desk sorry i should put on a little dog now that you mention it that would be fun dog. Can you clink that?

I want to hear the clinkiness. Wait. Okay. Just a bit. So it's not a cardboard one. No, it's not a cardboard one. And not for kids. Not for kids. It's for dogs or desks.

Yep, exactly. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Mason. What you can do is you can put it on your desk and you can get that other desk thing with the balls on the chain. Yeah, right.

And you can see how invincible it is. I'm going to guess very invincible. You don't think it's vincible? I think it's invincible. Okay. You're calling the invincible it is. I'm going to guess very invincible. You don't think it's vincible? I think it's invincible. Okay, you're calling the shots, mate. This is very good. Mason, I have to inform you of the big Marvel news this week in terms of video games.

Before we say this, we should point out, we recorded an episode of Filthy Casuals. Yeah, we did. And then after that happened, and we talked a little bit about comic book movie video games, comic book video games. For about two minutes. We maybe talked about three.

Yeah. And we talked about how all the Marvel ones have been shit, but they're making Spider-Man now. And then this week it came out that Square Enix, or Enix, are teaming up with Marvel to do a- It's the Final Fantasy guys. That's right. To do a whole bunch of, no, sorry.

No, it's the Tomb Raider guys. Oh, it is too. Yeah. Do you play the new Tomb Raiders? They're real good, man. I played the first one. It was great. So the second one's about the same.

But so they're licensing the games, not Sega, which means that they'll probably be good, hopefully. It's great. Did you see the trailer for the first one? Yes. Refresh my memory. It's just like... Oh, it's all their equipment.

Yeah, and it's all like... You see Thor's hammer on the ground, it's generating some zappies. You see Hulk's glasses. Yeah. And some of the other Avengers wear glasses. He's the biggest nerd, isn't he? He is the biggest nerd. I mean, Henry Pym might wear some glasses from time to time.

Yeah, I guess so. But I don't think it's going to be a Henry Pym-focused game. Not so much. If I had to guess. Do you think this will draw any inspiration from the movie universe or do you think it will be separate the way that the Spider-Man game is? I think it will be separate because it's hard to get all the likeness rights. You're not going to have an Iron Man that looks like...

And then you've got to get the voice and whatever. I think it's going to exist in that weird limbo that a lot of Marvel stuff exists in where it's sort of the classic stuff and it's sort of the Ultimates and it's sort of the classic stuff and it's sort of the ultimates and it's sort of the movie universe and they just make a little like the ultimate alliance games yeah exactly so it could go either way could go no i think i think there's a big good i think this is a great move so they've got we talked about who had like some good studios doing the spider-man one

and now we're gonna square next to in these ones i i think and i might be wrong here i remember reading that they're building a video game universe with its own continuity cool so you know all the all kind of games will tie into each other that work for arkham asylum city yeah absolutely totally arkham asylum city night yes it's a great game but that being said because it's video games it's like who cares do whatever just whatever whatever you need i don't think you want to limit yourself with continuity in video games just do do whatever whatever makes a good game do you know what i mean that's what i feel what do you what's that it's the little you put the shield it's a protective cover for the shield you put the shield on the bloody i'll do it later

yeah maybe maybe you should maybe i will all right before i say the next thing what's the next item oh okay it's a ninja turtles tiki mug okay. It's a Ninja Turtles tiki mug. Okay, what? In fact, I think technically it's a muglet. It's a little mug. Is a muglet a real word? Yeah. Okay.

Look. That's pretty cute. The only... Yeah, it's like a tiki-themed Leonardo. Could you put a little candle in it? You could put a little candle in it. That's what I'm doing, Mason. I'll put it next to my bath. Most of the rest of this episode is me going on my phone

trying to see where I can buy the remaining three. I've got my box I haven't opened. Oh, maybe there's a different one. You can't have it. No, I'm taking it though. Actually, if you want it, you can have it. What, you're doing it now? Yeah, I'm literally going to do it now.

The people need to know. I'm here, guys. Pray continue. Okay, sure. This better not be another Leonardo. Actually, we'll just see. I'll wait. Okay, cool. I think not be another Leonardo. Actually, we'll just see. I'll wait. Okay, cool.

I think it is a Leonardo. Might be another Leonardo. I wonder if you've got the Lutcrate. Let us know if you're a Leonardo. It's another Leonardo, but that's okay. Boo. He's your least favorite character, isn't he? No, wait.

Potentially. Okay, fair enough. Yeah. Well, you can still have that then. Great. You can have two Leonados. Love it. The dream. Awesome. Big Star Wars news this week, enough. Yeah. Well, you can still have that then. Great. You can have two Leonados. Love it.

The dream. Awesome. Big Star Wars news this week, Mason. Yes. Some say too big even for the internet to handle. This feels like last week's news. Hey, off the bed. Come on. I mean, whatever.

I'm used to saying off the bed. Sure, yeah. She's always coming in my room jumping on the bed, mate. Right. We're not recording this from a bed. But if we were, oh. It jumping on the bed, mate. Right. We're not recording this from a bed. But if we were, oh. It's on your bed. There we go.

Great stuff. See, I'm not consistent enough when she gets on the bed, because some mornings I'm just like, whatever. Other mornings I'm like, get off. Yeah. I'm not a good dog owner is what I'm saying, until I give her that shield. So yeah. So the Star Wars Episode VIII has a title.

Yes, it does. It's called The Last Jedi. Now, Mason, I did a video on it. it's called the last jedi now mason i've i did a video on it i've shared my thoughts oh yes i've got a list of things here which you can't say about it because they've been said to death and people are sick of it okay okay so if you've got a fresh take other than this maybe fine maybe we could do maybe we could do stale take bingo where i give you my thoughts on it and you just go okay fine i'm happy. Okay, fine. I'm happy to do that. You know what? No, we're doing it my way.

No, it's fine. It's good. I don't know. Okay, so The Last Jedi. Whose is it? Is it Luke Skywalker's The Last Jedi? Maybe Rey's The Last Jedi. Okay, maybe there's another person there, The Last Jedi.

I don't actually have that. Oh, great. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Maybe Kylo Ren's The Last Jedi. It turns out he's actually The Last Jedi. I don't think it is. Hey, come on There you go. Maybe Kylo Ren's the last Jedi. Turns out he's actually the last Jedi. I don't think it is. Hey, come on.

That's right. That's right. The other one is Jedi can be plural. Yep. That is very true. And it has red font. Like Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith. Yep.

Very good. And people are saying, well, it's going to be a dark one because Revenge of the Sith has red font as did Return of the Jedi. Return of the Jedi isn't a dark film. No. It's got Muppets and shit in it, man. There's a dance number at the start of one of the versions. Look, I kind of regret, no, I don't regret, you know, making a video like this.

Yeah, no regrets, man. Don't have any regrets. Yeah, no regrets. You're right. What is there really to say? I like the title. I think it's a good title. Do you like the title?

I do like the title. Good. Also, you can't say Snoke? I like the title. I think it's a good title. Do you like the title? I do like the title. Good. Also, you can't say Snoke. I've said that here as well. Yes. The latest meme, thanks to everybody who's sending me there the Star Wars meme, the latest Snoke theory is that he is, maybe it's not the latest, but it's come up in my Twitter feed a couple of times.

Yeah, yeah. It's Snoke is the Stormtrooper who cracked his head on the bulkhead in the first Star Wars. I think there's a new Snoke theory where he's some general who appears in Aftermath, the series, and he goes off to the other side of the galaxy to explore the Force, and maybe he comes back with all wicked powers.

He's wicked smart. He left the whole Empire in his rear view, and he came back wicked smart. Yeah, no. Do you think... Okay, I guess... Oh, shut up. What do you think The Last Jedi actually is?

What do you think? Oh, it's Luke Skywalker. Because in The Force Awakens, the opening crawl literally says Luke Skywalker, The Last Jedi. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, definitely. But also, it's one of those things where I think it's going to be ambiguous.

Because like A New Hope can be like the Death Star plans. It can be Obi-Wan Kenobi being snatched out of hiding. It can be Luke becoming a Jedi. It can be blowing up the Death Star. It can be like a bunch of stuff. It could be maybe we get some nice droids from these Jawas. Maybe that's the new hope. Oh, that's nice, isn't it?

Yeah, exactly. There are many options, Mason. Yes. I've got some more Star Wars news, but show me that T-shirt first. Pixel Mario. And then shut up about it. No, but it's... Oh, all right. It's Pixel Mario and then shut up about it nah but it's

oh alright it's Pixel Mario you're bloody happy the original since 1981 oh that would have been the arcade yes because

was Super Mario Brothers 85 I want to say 85, 86 I'm no good with dates what do you say what do you think take a punt

back yourself oh um 2004 look I'm not 100% on that let me just check okay 19 85 it is 85 wow there you go almost like you prepared earlier for that no i googled it what you think it took me that long to look at something i'd how would i know you even i didn't even know it was in the box mate didn't you no you opened mine you've owned you've owned sticky tape i've seen it you could have sticky tape the box back up whenever i go to owned sticky tape. I've seen it. You could have sticky taped the box back up.

Whenever I go to find sticky tape, I can never find it, mate. That's my burden that I bear. That is the burden that you bear. In this household. Yeah. Is that the last thing? Oh, in the box? Because I'll quickly do the ad spot.

Oh, you know what? Little loot plate. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Has it got Leonardo on it? No, it's got a bloody sewer grate. And it is great. Loot's great. Has it got Leonardo on it? No, it's got a bloody sewer grate. And it is great. Loot's great.

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A very easy to do thing. I bet you're shit at Lego. Lego's hard now, man. Because you know it used to be just bricks. It's now like really specific bits and pieces. That's what I'm talking about. It doesn't, like, sure you can build a Star Wars U-Wing. But you can't do it with regular.

You can't do it with regular blocks. That's what I'm talking about. You have to buy the new set and it's like 150 bucks. Yeah. I bought my, remember how my nephew did this show briefly? Yes. To help promote Stranger Things. I bought him a, as a, as a, you know, as a thank you, an X-Wing.

It was like 120 bucks. Right. Like it's crazy expensive. It is crazy. And you know what he did? He threw it intoWing. It was like $120. Right. Like, it's crazy expensive. It is crazy. And you know what he did? He threw it into the pool. No, he didn't. He built it.

He liked it. Yeah. Also, oh, sorry, I forgot to mention this. If you head to www.lukecrate.com slash weeklyplanet, one word, and enter promo code weeklyplanet, one word, just weeklyplanet, as one word. All of this is the word that's right

you'll save three dollars off i'll link that below i've actually spelt weekly planet wrong here in my notes they don't need to know they don't but i've told them haven't i mason yeah but yes also there's a bunch of you can choose from a bunch of boxes if you are interested uh yeah there's the stuff you can choose from or you can you can just live your life however you want to live your life, man. Okay. All right. I'm going to do that by reading this Action Comics number one. What's on the back?

Is that the original ads? Yeah, I would say so. It's like when you would mail away for like x-ray goggles or ventriloquism kits. Sure. Automatic mouth organ. What if there's a gun on here? You could usually buy a gun. Yeah, like a cap gun gun on here you can put ball bearings in giant flying plane how much is it?

because they would never $1.50 for the giant flying plane because when I was a kid in the 80s they still had these but they would never ship to Australia so I never knew how giant was the giant flying plane How giant was the giant plane? Exactly.

Five feet. That's pretty big, man. That's pretty big. For a dollar. I mean, I know it's like 1930s prices, but man, that's... Blonde wigs, only 35 cents. Only 35 cents? Yeah, change your appearance.

Blonde wigs, interesting. Do you reckon they're still open for business? I would love a blonde wig. Japanese rose bushes. This is everything. What? There's a 30 cent guide to jujitsu. So just to be clear, this Japanese rose bushes, this came out before World War II, obviously.

Yes. Jew's harp. Nose flute. Luminous paint. What the fuck is a nose flute? What's a... Why do you... Luminous paint, I understand.

I bet it's toxic. Oh, definitely, yeah. I bet if you got it and you put it on your skin you'd die learn to dance 25 cents learn to tap dance also 25 cents what do you choose should be less in my opinion this is worth the price of admission on its own i feel just dangerous things that children used to buy because yeah because like you can we can never get the sea monkeys or whatever no back in the like we could never get the sea monkeys or whatever. No. From back in the day.

I could never get the Charles Atlas muscle building method. Obviously, look at me. I'm a wreck. What was that? Was it just like, eat steak, lift a round weight or something like that? Do some reps. Yeah, do some reps, mate. We've got to get back to Star Wars.

I hope you don't mind. All right, fine. Woody Harrelson, we've talked about, I think, how he's been cast. Yeah. As a mentor for Harrison Solo. He's going to be playing... Well, they asked him if he's going to be playing Garrus Shrike, and he was like...

Now, what's that? I don't know whether he was confused or he was, like, caught out. Because you can't tell with that bloke. Who knows what he's up to? Also, sometimes if you throw out a character name or something, was like caught out because you can't tell with that bloke who knows what he's up to also sometimes if you if you throw out a character name or something at a like an actor off the cuff on a red carpet or something sometimes they just don't know yeah well of course he doesn't know of course he doesn't know do you know who gareth shrike is see i do mason oh yeah i think i'm saying it right

he's from the han solo trilogy of books that are now out of continuity. He's the guy who raised Han Solo. He found him on the street and he kind of artful dodges him. He's got this crew of like pirates, but also kids that he gets to pickpocket and rob rich people and, and, and swindle and stuff. And so Han Solo, when he's like 19,

he runs away. And Garrus strike. We really want somebody from the, the old expanded universe in the new continuity. Oh, you want someone? No, I don't. I'm just saying people collectively seem to really...

I don't think they're going to do it. Well, they've done it before. Give me an example. Saw Gerrera. Grand Admiral Thrawn. Bubsy the Bobcat. These are all examples, aren't they? Yep.

Ratchet and or Clank. Yes. So I think there's a chance that it could be him or if not it's probably like a variation yeah something very

but yeah I still mean though it's a dangerous road where you once you open that door people are never going to stop being like where's Kyle Katarn

they're never going to bring Kyle Katarn where's Mara Jade where's Shemarion Luke Skywalker what's going on there I don't doubt they'll bring in like variations of these characters,

and maybe we will get them. Who knows? But you've got to kind of let this shit go. You know what I mean? I think so too, yeah. But if you're a true Star Wars fan, you won't. Never let it go, no. Never let it go.

But I also like the idea. I think if you're going to wipe away the continuity, I do like the idea that you keep a lot of it in print and call it Legends. Because then you can be like, well, maybe this part of the story... Yeah, absolutely. But you don't like the pick and choose elements, the nature of it. No.

Because it throws Woody Harrelson off and you don't like that. Throws him under the bus. Yeah. Good on him. That actually begins filming in March. It's coming up soon, Mason. Very good. You know what?

Just today, I finally watched Hail Caesar. Is it good? Yeah. It's great. Oh, really? Because I heard it wasn't that great. I had a lot of fun with it. Not all the character arcs wrap up.

Yeah, but he's good, isn't he? Yeah, Alden Ehrenreich is very... Did I pronounce it correctly? Who knows? No, I don't know. Okay. He's very charming in it, so that 100% works for me. He's a cowboy, isn't he?

Yeah. Yeah, good. He's like a cowboy horse wrangler who becomes a Hollywood star. That's the dream, isn't it? Yeah. Great. Just wrangling. Just wrangling and acting.

Wrangling and acting. Now, this bit in news, this is only for me. And maybe a bit for you, but I want to bring it up. Every Which Way But Loose is getting a remake by the director of The Sex Trip, which I looked up as a 2004 raunchy post-American pie sex comedy that I've never heard of. So is that the director's most well-regarded work or his most recent work?

That's the one that they said in the article. They're like, it's by the guy who did this. And then I'm like, I've never heard of that movie. Do you remember there was a whole lot of American pie straight to DVD? Road Trip. Euro Trip. Loser. Beer Fest.

Beer Fest is kind of different. Yeah. It's not, isn't that a little bit like a cut above those kind of movies? Yeah. Waiting, sort of. Yeah, sure. Okay, waiting works, yeah. Van Wilder.

Party Liaison. Yeah, absolutely. All these classic films. Did you see Jake Gyllenhaal said that Ryan Reynolds should have got a best actor nod for Deadpool? No, I didn't say that. Do you think that's true? He should have got a best actor nod? No. I mean, he did a good job, didn't he?

But do you think it was a stretch? I mean, the effort for him to get this film made, that deserves an award in itself. A real pat on the back. A Hollywood pat on the back. Daniel Day-Lewis probably, I don't know, learned how to sew or something. Yep.

Was he in a film this year? Probably not. Or was he taking a year being a regular working man? Yeah, he's working in a coal mine now. He probably is, yeah. He's the canary in a coal mine. Oh, God. Anyway, every which way but loose.

Tweet, tweet. That's what he says in his coal mine. He's every which way but loose. I'm overcome with fumes. That's what he says In his cold mind He's um Every which way but loose I'm overcome with fumes That's what he'd say There's a There's a movie from 1978 Where Clint Eastwood

And an orangutan Travel the country And he's a He's a Roadside boxer But the orangutan Clint Eastwood is But the monkey

The orangutan can also box Yeah could And they get into all sorts of scuffs Great And it had a sequel Called Every Which Way You Can Any Which Way You Can Any which way and they're both great i bet they're both about anyway what what are we are we at the point where they're just grabbing anything yeah like who know who remembers that movie really or like who's calling for like i'd love to see that again but

that's the point nobody alive okay it's just me nobody in this nobody in like a generation of young people has seen it i shouldn't have seen it though either like i'm not that old i don't know why i know what it is but yeah so you think that's why i think it's just right for yeah just right for a re okay people love monkeys people love roadside boxing i think they should just remake it as something else just call it it Monkey Punch. People would see it then. Let's just look. I don't know, mate. I'm not a bloody... How about this?

All female, any which way but loose. So the monkey's a... Monkey's female. Monkey's female. The Clint Eastwood is a female. Meryl Streep. As the monkey

or the Clint Eastwood? Okay, she can do it. She is herself and she also puts on the mocap and she's the monkey. Perfect. Then finally somebody will get an Oscar nomination for the... That's true.

If Meryl Streep played a monkey, they'd give it to her. They absolutely would. Mason, are you aware of the status of the Flash movie? I can run you through a breakdown of what's been happening with this before we get to the latest bit of news. Is it a disaster so far? It's an absolute disaster. Great.

Oh, there's been a whole bunch of director changes. Yes, exactly. We've discussed this, but I cannot remember it. We have, but I'm happy to go through. Please do. I have to do a bit of a run-up to get to where we are. Every episode of The Weekly Planet is somebody's first episode of The Weekly Planet.

Including yours, because you mostly forget what happened the week before. Okay. Yes. So, Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Every single episode I sit in the wrong spot and we have to adjust the microphone. But every week that microphone kind of falls down and I have to fix

it. That's not your fault entirely, Mason. I don't blame you. I know I smit it in butter. Oh, that was you? Yeah. You're buttering up my microphones. I don't like it, mate. So Phil Lord and Chris Miller, they wrote the script. They directed Jump Street Lego movie. They're doing the Han Solo movie. Okay.

Warner Brothers wanted them to come on board as directors, but they dropped out to previous commitments or whatever. Presumably the Han Solo movie, which is starting in March, right? You're going to pick a Star Wars movie over a DC movie, I'd imagine. You absolutely are. Especially in this current climate, Mason. After that, Seth Graham Smith came on board, but then- Three names, serial killer.

Is that how that works? Yeah. Okay, I believe you. I don't have any examples. All right, bloody... Just killers generally. Manson. What's his name?

No. We didn't kill anyone, did we? Lee Harvey Oswald. Yep. He's not a serial killer. Yeah, no, but he's a killer. Maybe he didn't do it also, Mason. Oh, that's a good point.

Yeah. Yeah. Conspiracize. Sean William Scott. Yeah, he's a killer Maybe he didn't do it also Mason Oh that's a good point Yeah Yeah Conspiracize Sean William Scott Yeah he's a serial killer Yep yep That's all I got Tony Tony Tony That's three different guys

Is it Aren't they all called Tony Yeah but it's different spellings Okay fair enough Alright well you've They're all foolproof Thank you Examples

So anyway this serial killer Yeah so Seth Graham Seth Graham Smith Seth Graham Smith, he came on board, but he dropped out due to creative differences. People are like, well, that's not good. What if he didn't run? Well, I don't know. What's the reason for him dropping?

We don't know the specific reason. Maybe his reason was dumb. Because I remember they talked about there was one of the people who came on board for Wonder Woman, wanted her to have a talking tiger as a sidekick. i think warner brothers put their foot down and went no we're not we're not doing that what is happening i was just thinking about the other day because the the the last attempt at wonder woman was that tv series with adrian padalecki oh yeah wonder woman you saw the pilot for that i did yeah it was mostly finished and i think we've talked about

before but briefly she's got three identities for no reason, right? She's Wonder Woman. She's head of, she's Diana Prince, head of a huge multinational corporation. But she's also a regular girl. She's their own secretary

or assistant or whatever. She's got like a mansion where she's Diana Prince and a skyscraper or whatever. But she's also got a little apartment where she puts on like track pants and jammy jams and a hoodie and just sits on the couch eating ice cream

because she's just a regular girl as well as being a CEO and a superhero because women can do anything. That's too much going on there. There's too much going on. They wanted to Clark Kent it. That's what they wanted to do. Yeah, right.

Just do the Clark Kent thing then. Yeah. You don't have to do... Anyway, whatever. Just give... Rather than... You know what? Just give her a friend.

That's what she didn't have. She didn't have a friend. She was her own friend. Yeah. She was her own sad sidekick or whatever. Yeah, right? Great. Anyway, don't worry though, Mason,

because the Wonder Woman movie is probably going to be fine or a disaster, depending on who you talk to. So after he dropped out, Rick Afamua... I never know how to say it. Rick Afamua. That's him. to say it. Rick Afamua. That's him. Three names. Oh, no.

No, that's not. That's two names. He was slated to direct. So everyone's like, great, back on board. Because directors leave. Peyton Reed had to step in for Ant-Man when Edgar Wright left. Steven Spielberg was going to do Return of the Jedi, but he couldn't because of Writer's Guild. I can't remember why.

Director's Guild. So the two examples you've given are from a while ago and also... One's two years ago and one was 30 years ago. Sure. And both of those had one replacement, not a whole bunch of replacements. That's right. So Rick Famu, he dropped out again for creative reasons.

By the way, this was supposed to start shooting in January. Yep. As in the month we are currently in. We're nearly at the end of. Yeah, it hasn't. And now The Flash is currently without a director, but Warner Brothers have brought in Joby Harold to do a page one rewrite.

That sounds bad. Boy, does it. Now, that doesn't mean, oh, just page one is no good, but everything else is fine. It's not like, we need a page 50 rewrite. It's just page 50. Change the position of that full stop, and then it's fine. So a page one rewrite is rewrite the whole thing from scratch.

Correct. From page one. Oh, boy. Yeah, so that's not good. Now, is that official? Yes. Well, actually, Variety said it, and Variety aren't like, they're not some bullshit website.

When Variety says something, it generally means... They're not like the Weekly Planet podcast. Correct. They have some idea what they're doing. So, by the way, this movie will be... It's fully cast. Everyone's waiting to do it. They've got Billy Crudup as Barry Allen's dad. Obviously, what's his name? Ezra Miller.

Who else is in the camera? Unless he goes trekking off in the Andes or hiking Machu Picchu or something. Yeah, that's his name? Ezra Miller Yep Unless he goes trekking off in the Andes Or hiking Machu Picchu or something Yeah, that's exactly right He's a man of the world, Mason You can't pin him down He's decided to just make some homebrew He's decided to make some small batch

Some small batch ales He was great He's not going to be an actor anymore He was great at bloody Where he had the bowl cut Oh, sure The Harry Potter one or whatever Fantastic bassist

Yeah, he was good in that We are losing our words, right? We absolutely are We can't remember the titles of anything It's so fucking hot in this room, though bloody where he had the bowl cut oh sure harry potter whatever yeah he was good in that uh we are losing our words right we absolutely can't remember the titles of any fucking hot in this room though it's a thousand degrees yeah anyway this has got a release date of march 2018 good luck yeah right that's not gonna happen what is what is going on here like i feel like if you've got a phil lord and ch script They wrote Jump Street The Jump Street movies And the Lego movies It's probably a good script

And if it's not It's probably okay at worst What are you doing? I'm just going to quickly check out I'm not saying this guy's a bad writer But it's so late in the day People love Jump Street People bloody love it

That's right he wrote Awake Which I'm not familiar with but it's so late in the day. People love Jump Street. People bloody love it. Those were great. That's right. He wrote Awake which I am not familiar with. Okay. He's writing Robin Hood Origins. The Robin Hood Origins movie. Another one?

Yeah. It's the one with Taron Egerton the kid from Kingsman. Great. And he's also doing that Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie which looks terrible.

But again it's probably not his fault if it's terrible. If they're like write a Guy Ritchie, King Arthur movie, or just write a King Arthur movie, how do you make that good? You don't. It's not going to be a good movie.

Anyway, maybe they should just bring the TV universe. Sure, right? Just kind of weasel it into the cinematic universe. So they can't because Justice League is obviously happening and Ezra Miller's in that. Also, this is apparently going to be, or maybe it's not now, it was supposed to be a sequel to Justice League

and not an origin. I hope they don't make it an origin. Yeah, I'm sick of origins. Yeah, and we've seen it. We've literally seen it like two years ago. Yeah, and the Flash TV show, I don't really keep up to date with it, but it's done a pretty solid job of getting that,

it did a solid job of getting that going. Anyway, good luck. You fucked it up know, it did a solid job of getting that going. Anyway, good luck. You fucked it up though. It's not going to work. Suit still looks great though. They'll have to push it back another year. Yeah. They'll have to, right?

I like, cause scripts, cause anyway, Suicide Squad took like six weeks to write and that apparently is a very short turnaround. I wouldn't know. I've never written anything. I just criticized. It's the title of my life. Feels good though, right? Boy, does it. It's nice up here at my what's the words on your um my horse my horse yeah yeah yeah

vantage point vantage point very good and my stack of vantage point DVDs which I bought to me with that movie I feel like Matthew Fox is probably it I don't know oh sure him or Scott Wolf. Sure, yeah. One of the... Party of five. Yeah. I was going to say one of the animals in the Wilderness Brothers. Sure, okay.

David Ayer actually talked about Suicide Squad this week. Got a quote here. Oh, yeah. Here we go. He said, I wish I had a time machine. It's not a good start, but... So I could go back and kill Hitler. Who's with me?

No, he didn't want to do that. Oh, wow, that's weird. He wants to make the main... Just to be clear, David Ayer, you've ruined your chance here. This is what you're going to do? This is what you're going to do with the time machine? You're not going to go back and kill Hitler?

No. Wow, poor form, mate. All right. He's going to make the Joker the main villain of the Suicide Squad and engineer a more grounded story. He wants to take the good and the bad and learn from it for his next project because he loves movies and he loves DC.

He talks about how he's a high school dropout and he used to paint houses for a living and he's lucky to have the job that he has and he wants to give these characters stories and plots they deserve next time. And then he said, also, there's not a bunch of hidden Joker scenes on the cutting room floor. Disagree.

Yeah, there's... There's a bunch of that stuff in the trailer. I can understand that, but he also talks about how that, like he, you know, he put together the best movie that he could and then people were like, this sucks and you suck or whatever. Right. Like that's tough, man. Like, you know, I didn't hate it.

I've only seen it once. I'm not looking forward to watching it again in case I really hate it. I just want to keep that in my mind and be like, yeah, what's up, Spider? It was okay. I didn't hate it. So, yeah, he's doing the Harley Quinn movie next, the Gotham City Siren. So do you reckon he'll make the joke of the villain in that instead?

Give Jared Leto the chance that he deserves. If Leto wants back in. Mason, oh, this is, okay. We've got to talk about Resident Evil. Oh, no. That's where we're at this week. Yep. Do you mind if we do full spoilers

like we did for Xander Cage last week nah let's do it so we went and saw Resident Evil the final chapter they thought they could bribe us with

bottles of water and ice creams vanilla ice creams yep I've never seen that before really at a movie media thing three ice creams

yeah it's normally like what is it it's like a really old popcorn and a drink. Yeah, and drinks that they've just taken out of the truck, so they're warm. Yeah, yeah. You've got this warm Coke.

Will that engender positive feelings for whatever? Whatever. We're making more of an effort to say anything this year, aren't we, mate? Yeah, I think so. We agreed on that, yeah. But somebody tweeted, I mean, I'm sorry, I don't have your name in front of you,

but they said that they called it the best Resident Evil movie that there's been. I don't know whether that's true. Like, I've seen most of them. Is this the best one? It's the loudest one. That's another way they attempted to trick us when we went into the cinema. It's so loud. By the way, full spoilers.

Yeah. But there's not that many spoilers. No, it's a Resident Evil movie. Yeah. And there's not really any plot till the last, like, 15 full spoilers. Yeah. But there's not that many spoilers. No, it's a Resident Evil movie. And there's not really any plot till the last 15 minutes anyway. Yeah. It's just them trekking. Yeah, it's trekking. You know what it's trying to be?

It thinks it's Mad Max Fury Road. That's what it absolutely does. Mason, what do you think the story was? Oh, all right. Gotcha, Mason. Milla Jovovich is in a world full of zombies. Yes. There's like a five-minute recap at the start, isn't there,

of all the films? Yes, that's right. So this one, what is it? She has to get to release, she has to get to the original Resident Evil movie. Yeah, she has to go back to Raccoon City, which is the location of the first two Resident Evil films, I think. Yeah, but specifically the bunker of the first two Resident Evil films, I think. Yeah.

But specifically the bunker from the first one. And in the bunker, there is a T-Virus anti... So in the Resident Evil universe, everybody's turned into a zombie because of this thing called the T-Virus. There's 5,000 people left on Earth. They specifically say that. And they run into a bunch of them. And there's a weird timer set up.

They're like, you've got 48 hours to save the world or else everybody's literally going to die at the stroke of a night. Yeah, but the way they explain that later is that the forces of Umbrella are going out and killing the settlements. Okay. But that's very specific. Isn't it, though? Yeah.

So she has to release the virus before umbrella kills everybody yes okay so that so inexplicably there has always been an antivirus that could have saved everybody yeah in the original resident evil raccoon city facility yeah so she has to go back to get that and it's airborne issue all she has to do is release it above ground and it will go around the world and destroy all the zombies. Or will it? Well. Yeah, we'll talk about that.

I should point out the Resident Evil has just passed $1 billion worldwide. Huh. The sum total of the franchise. Oh, right. Okay, not this one. Just to be clear. Whew. Yeah.

You were going to kill yourself, weren't you? I was certainly going to have to re-evaluate some aspects of my life and the universe, yes. But this movie has already made its money back because as we talked about it it suddenly got like a budget of 40 50 50 million i think it's 40 million dollars 40 million dollars yeah and it or and before it even came out here it made like 35 in japan so it's kind of i mean you have to double your budget to whatever but it's not going to make less than that you know in the rest of the world so this is why they keep making these. I will say this. There are certain elements of this that make it look like a more expensive

movie than it is. It's loud. Yes. But there is like, you know, there's shots of like decaying cities and some of them, there's a giant bat monster at the start, which looks okay from a distance.

Yeah. Until you see it up close. Yeah. And then it's kind of no good, but yeah. So it's, it's kind of no good. But yeah, so it's... There's so many jump scares in this movie. I think I owe Xander Cage an apology. He kicked that movie last week, but at least it was fun.

This is just dreary and nonsense and strobing and noise. I reckon there's probably... It's non-stop jump scares for about 20 minutes. The first 20 is just just a really loud whoop and then but it's it's not just like a monster screaming it's it's just like shrieking metal it's guns like clicking there's an explosion at the start where she kills the giant bat creature and the explosion is softer than the creature's scream and she uses a mine to explode it or whatever like it's i don't know whether it

was just the cinema the way in but i was like this is i don't this is too loud do you think this is the point that we at which we got old yeah potentially because you know if it is too out too loud you are too old oh well that's probably true yeah like we flicked over 2017 2017 is the year of us complaining and telling kids to get off our lawn. Absolutely. So what else? She's got a ragtag team of friends. One of them is Ruby Rose, who was also in Xander Cates.

That was weird. Yeah. They kind of kept that quiet, didn't they? Yep. That she was in this. Yep. But they're all kind of interchangeable. And the bit where they go into the facility and they all start getting picked off. But I don't know who any of them are.

It was a ragtag team very similar to all the previous ragtags. Yeah, absolutely. In two and three, I think we had Odette Fair from The Mummy. Yeah. And we have very much an Odette Fair type character in this. Claire Redfield is back. She's back. That woman from Heroes.

Yes, that woman from Heroes is back. But before that, so she has to make her way to raccoon city because the little red girl tells her the little red hologram girl has turned good mason and she said and it's her prerogative to stop umbrella corporation now but she can't stop it because she's programmed not to but she can program but she can tell alice to do it yes because they as they specify at the start of this movie the red queen girl is based off the memories and appearance of the daughter of a scientist who invented the t virus to help her she had some sort of disease aging disease yes

so so the so she got better, allegedly. She didn't. She comes back later as an old Mila Djokovic. But also, there's a file that got uploaded there, which means that... It's so hot in here. That means that she has to stop the world from being destroyed. Because that's right. Because the people who...

All the rich people, the one percenters, have been frozen underground. And then when the world has been destroyed, biblical style, they're going to come out. And then the world will be cleansed and whatever. I mean, it'll be a bit messy. Yeah, just a bit. There doesn't appear to be any kind of situation. There didn't seem to be any kind of infrastructure in place.

No. To like sweep the billions of dead bodies off the streets and clear up all the rubble of literally every building in every city that's been knocked over. There's no system in place. I wouldn't want to live in that world. Also, I guess it's not a desert world anymore because in the third one, the world was a desert world. Yes, it was.

And the fourth one, they went to a forest and a ship. Yep. The fifth one I didn't see, but I think i read the synopsis before and there was ice yep so there's still ice and this one is just a mad max world yeah it is yeah and so she gets alice gets captured by whoever the bad guy is it's game jorah mormont from game of thrones let's call him game of thrones yep and he's gonna drag her across the city yep across the wasteland to the facility she wants to go to anyway for some reason.

Mm-hmm. And she doesn't have her magic powers. Yes. I don't know why. These movies are a mess. Is this making any sense? Yes, to me it is. Okay, good.

Mm-hmm. Anyway, don't say it. Because, yeah, that's probably, yeah, that certainly makes sense. Because in the original, she was just kind of quick a little bit. Yeah. And in the second one, she'd been affected by the T-virus. In a positive way. Yeah, in a classic Blade kind of situation in these kind of movies,

she's the one person that is affected by it, but only in the good way. And she became superhumanly fast and strong and had a Wolverine-style healing factor. And then in one of them that she got it taken away. Well, after that she got telekinetic abilities. Okay. And then after that she got telekinetic abilities and like 100 clones of herself.

Yes. It became her army. And then they were all killed and then she was ambushed and they took away her telekinetic abilities. But at the end of the last one, Wesker gave it back to her. Yep. But it was a trick. But it turned out it was just a trick.

Yeah. Which I don't know. See, that's the thing. I don't know how that was achieved. I guess they went at the end of the last one, they're like, okay, well, we need to give her an edge. Let's give her her powers back. And it must have been a temporary. But that's the thing.

But in this one, Wesker, who's the secondary bad guy, was like, we pretended to give her her powers back. So I can only imagine they tricked her with some sort of magic lantern silhouette show kind of thing or some like garbage cans on strings. And they were like, she's using the powers. Lift the garbage cans. Look at her go. Wow. You're doing it, Alice.

So now she's more or less regular except she's super fast and strong. And can do anything. And can do anything again, yeah. So they've got two Mad Max cars and they're dragging, West Girl, sorry, Game of Thrones is dragging her across the country. She's tied out the back.

She's got her wrists tied and they've got a rope and they're dragging a horde of zombies. Yeah, so they've got, we can only assume, tens of thousands of zombies all following the fresh meat. I thought that was kind of a fun visual. Yeah, me too. That's the thing, there were elements in this movie where I'm like,

oh, that could be something if this was in a better movie. Yeah, yeah. But also, you know what, put her in a little cart. Yeah, I guess the idea is to make them run. But also, there's bits where the zombies could catch up to you also. So it wasn't really clear how far... Were they trying to keep the people alive or running behind it? I think so, for a time.

Yeah. Okay. That's why they had a whole bunch of reserve members in the back to be used to fight. And Game of Thrones is really religious as well. He's gone, he's become an insane sort of religious apocalypse predictor. Nut. Apocalypse maker happener. Also, he's a clone.

Yeah, he's also a clone. Don't get to that. So, I don't know, man. Is there a fight sequence in this that isn't a nightmare? I thought some of the hand-to-hand stuff on the roof of the tanks was quite cool. Okay, sure. I guess also because that's bright. Because a lot of the fight scenes are in a strobing room.

And it cuts very quickly. So you can't really tell what's going on and who's hitting who. Yeah, okay. I'll pay that. Fair enough. Like, I think Mila Jovovich. Is that her name? I'm saying Jovovich. Jovovich. I'm thinking of the tennis player. Like, I think Mila Djokovic, is that her name? I'm saying Jovovich.

Jovovich. I'm thinking of the tennis player. You're thinking of Djokovic, yeah. I am. I think she's good in the role for what it is. I think she's done a solid job over these 15 movies. Right. You know, but what do you do with it?

You know what I mean? Exactly, yeah. It's been so long. You stare down the barrel of the camera. You say, my name is Aliceice something something something and i'm gonna keep fighting for justice in this world that's exactly what it is okay so the last there are some revelations in the last few minutes the last 15 or so minutes alice gets there and then it's revealed that the Red Queen, the hologram red girl, is actually based off Alice as a child. Yes.

And the original Alice, the disease didn't get cured and she got old. So there's what Game of Thrones refers to as a trinity of bitches. Do you remember that? Very, very rude. Don't care for that at all. Because there's a bit where the Red Queen,

original Alice, who's an old lady and the alice we know from the movies are in the one room yes and they're talking about how we have to stop the apocalypse it's done but you know whatever you know we have to stop whatever's happening and so the alice that's been in these movies is not the original alice she's a clone she's a clone which i thought oh that's interesting that's interesting. Yep. But who cares though? Do you know what I mean? It's true, yeah. And didn't you also say

that it was established that she wasn't a clone in one of the earlier ones? I thought that initially, but no. So in the first movie, she doesn't have any memories. Yeah.

She's lost her memories, but she is part of our, she's part of the Umbrella Corporation research team where she is pretending to be in a couple with a guy. Another bloke, yeah. So I thought that was an actual relationship.

I remember that being an actual relationship, but it isn't. She just has, that was her job for a while, and then she's lost her memory. So she actually doesn't know what happened before. But the actual revelation is that she never had any memories resident evil revelations mason yeah yeah so what are we doing here what are we doing what are we doing here so i kind of liked that and explained why yeah she didn't have memories and whatever i mean i would also like it more if i kind of remembered what happened in any of these movies which i which i don't i feel like if you

are going to see this if you're a fan of the series maybe watch the first one before because it's the one that ties into the most yeah they visit the same facility and there's the same laser hallway which by the way disappointing laser hallway sequence was a little wasn't remember in the first one it's it's literally the same hallway in the first one it like crisscrosses through somebody and they fall apart in little cubes or whatever. There's none of that. Yeah. Alice loses a couple of fingers. Yeah, right.

Who cares, mate? Exactly who cares. More laser hallways. Yeah, that fight was very disappointing. It's her versus Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones. Yeah. The real Game of Thrones. The real Game of Thrones.

So not the clone Game of Thrones that we see throughout most of the movie. Game of Clones? Yes. Okay. So not Game of Clones, but original Game of Thrones, who has been in suspended animation under the umbrella for so long. This entire time. But he also knew exactly what was going on.

So I guess he wakes up every now and then and just kind of checks in to see what's happening. Sure, yeah. But there's also hundreds of thousands of rich people frozen under there as well. Yeah. But he also has some kind of nanotechnology where he can predict what's going to happen that's a blast from the past boy movies from the early

2000s it's just nanotechnology well he was frozen in the early 2000s of course he's got nanotechnology so in the last one like man is little britain still going no mate in the last one weskerker had the T-virus ability where he could get speared through the head and he'd grow back or whatever. But in this one, he gets his foot trapped in the door and he dies. Does he not have his healing abilities?

Maybe that was taken out in the last movie. That's right, because his whole head came open. His whole head came open, Mason. You're right. I think he got a shard of glass kicked into it or something. Yes, he did, yeah. From memory, I couldn't tell you. So maybe he got the virus taken out of him it or something. Yes, he did, yeah. From memory. I don't... I can't... Couldn't tell you. So maybe he got the virus taken out of him.

Wesker, what a one-dimensional cliche of a character. I know, right? There's no... Because he kind of looks like Game of Thrones as well. Yeah. So it's kind of... I cannot tell if he's playing that for laughs or not. He must be.

Like, maybe if I played the video games more, I'd be like, oh, this is... That is... I've played the games... That is Wes be like, oh, this is... That is... I've played the games... That is Wesker, pretty much, more or less. But is the version in the movie... Is the version in the video games, rather, is he kind of earnestly like that? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I would say so. But is he... Because, you know, on the Flash TV series, we had Captain Cold played by Wentworth Miller, who's just like unabashedly an asshole. Yeah, sure. And he's like, I love being an asshole. I love being Captain Cold, yeah.

Is Wesker like that? Does he love being a bad guy? Yeah, a little bit. Look, I don't really remember. Sure, okay. I like some of the games, but I don't really remember the story. I remember four reasonably well,

but it's not kind of on the main Resident Evil path. It's kind of like almost a side story. I get it. Oh, by the way, when I said a trinity of bitches before, that wasn't something I said. That's something Game of Thrones said. It's something you do commonly say, but not on this podcast. It's just a coincidence that it also happened. Yeah, I do have that t-shirt.

But Wesker has this nanotechnology which means Alice puts a- Wait, you mean Game of Thrones? Game of Thrones. Sorry. Sorry. Game of Thrones gets a grenade put in his pocket and it blows a hole in his side and presumably his heart. Yes.

But then he regenerates. Uh-huh. And then at the end, Game of Clones stabs him to death and he dies. Yes, right. I don't... I guess... No, I don't think... I don't think he had the regenerative ability.

I think he'd been enhanced. He was faster and stronger. I think the grenade was going to do him in. I think that's too far. But also, that is a dangerous game. Game of Thrones, in this movie, he's been given some sort of neural net technology system. He's got the equilibrium skills.

Yeah, it's way too overdone at this point. He's got the powers of Midnighter. He's got the powers of... Yeah. Basically, he runs a million fight scenarios in his head.

Yeah. He's got Sherlock Holmes from the Sherlock Holmes movie. That's exactly what he's got, yeah. He runs a million fight scenarios in his head. So if you go to fight him physically, you can't because he'll...

He'll grab it. He'll do judo it he'll do judo he'll do judo and he'll hit you with a bottle of champagne or whatever yeah and so

that's right there's champagne in this so so in the final battle sequence in the laser hallway she goes to fight him and he thumps her a whole bunch

and then and he's got the he's got the only sample of the antivirus on him in his pocket and she puts a like and she outfoxes him by putting a grenade.

We don't know. Do we see her? I think so. Okay, let's see. Doesn't she grab it from the facility at the start? Okay, I'm all right with that. Who cares? Okay, that's fine.

Go, go. Anyway, she puts a grenade in his jacket pocket. That's a dangerous game. That's so dangerous. That's the one vial that will save the remaining 5,000 people. Because you can break the vial, but you have to do it above ground. If you do it underground, it's useless. What's the point, Mason?

I mean, I guess you would then be infected with that, and then you could... Oh, no, because that's going to kill... She thinks it's going to kill her, isn't it? Because the T-virus, because that's the ultimate sacrifice, because she's got the T-virus in her, except she doesn't anymore. So I don't know why anyone would think that that was going to kill her,

because they took it out of her anyway the grenade goes off and then she takes the thing from the pocket and then she goes to the surface and just as she's about to make the ultimate sacrifice the ultimate she's about to break it he appears from behind her and catches it some people behind us gasped what are you doing yeah look they've just been overwhelmed by jump scares. Sure. And then, but then Game of Clones turns up and stabs himself to death because he's religious. Yeah, because he's like, you can't be the real guy. I'm the real guy. You know what?

If Game of Thrones was smart, he would have gone, oh no, I'm the clone. You're the real guy. Good point. Don't tell him. Yeah, right. He's not going to take, by the way, he's missing a hand. So he's just run across the countryside. He's very upset.

He's a bit sweaty. Yep. Don't tell him that. There were a whole bunch of points where people... You know why those people jump scared? Why? We're jump scared by people appearing. It's because Game of Thrones just showed up. Yeah.

He'd just been in a scenario where there's tens of thousands of zombies chasing him. Yeah. And then he just shows up. Yeah. And they're not really that close to him. Right? Yeah. He'd just been in a scenario where there's tens of thousands of zombies chasing him. Yeah. And then he just shows up. Yeah. And they're not really that close to him. Right? Yeah. He's like missing a hand.

He's a good half a K ahead. Yeah. And he was about 20 meters ahead. Right? Yeah. God, good on him, mate. Anyway, great film. What a good film.

I disagree. And then she drops the T-virus and all the zombies instantly die yes like it's not like they have to breathe it in it's just that's actually not a bad effect and all the zombies fall down it's a pretty good effect and then alice doesn't die and they're like oh by the way it's not the final one they threaten a sequel yeah they do they're like well the virus is the virus last time when it spread it went through when in planes and trains and automobiles this time it's going to slowly creep across the world i've still got some world spike the camera i've still got some work to do and then you don't just wait yeah just wait and also there's three giant bats that

come after her yeah who's making the giant bats who's making the giant bats i always thought that was just some sort of weird mutation evolution okay because they've got their because they throw in a resident evil bioweapon. Yep. Which is like a weird... They all have weird dogs as well, don't they? Yeah, they do. They've got weird dogs and I don't know, whatever. Anyway, more like Resi-don't-evil Mason. Nice. Got him. Worst movie

ever. Garbage. More like Resident... Weevil. Weevil, Keevil, Deevil. Yeah, I'm just... Resident Peevil? Yeah, sureeevil. Resident Peevil? Yeah, sure. Great. Resident Peevil.

Yeah. I'm not going through the rest of the alphabet. You got to P. You're pretty close. That's true. Yeah. What about Resident Queefle? Oh, pretty good.

Very nice. Yeah, I'm not happy with it, if I'm honest. No, you should be. Was it worth it to see this movie so I could say Resident Queefle yes I'll tell you why

it was worth it for me because immediately after the movie you left to do your own thing and I went into the city to get the tram home

I ran into a friend of mine who was heading in the opposite direction great there's more to the story but basically I'm like okay I'm going to go story but basically i'm like okay i'm gonna

go this way and she's like okay i'm gonna go this way but while we're having this conversation we're standing like in the middle of a crosswalk yeah for like i reckon maybe no more than one second yeah there and then we go to move out of the way and there's a guy he's like a he's like a short guy he's kind of bald and kind of like late middle age and he's wearing all black he's like like a like a like black and a black jeans and like a black bowling shirt on right and behind him is like four really big versions of him like they're all in black and they're all real tall and they got like what are we looking at here what is this but that well here's the thing and then so we're we're in front of this one dude for like one second yeah and he goes he gets this

expression like this enraged expression on his face and he gives it one of these like the you know the hands in front of him like palms up like exasperated doesn't say anything but he's like like he's like what are you doing inconveniencing me for one second this guy was incredibly angry we move just so we can get past and we look back and we're like, that's Angry Anderson. He's a tiny man, isn't he? That's Angry Anderson. He's in, well, he's a musician. He is.

He's in Mad Max 3. Yeah, he's part of famous Australian pub rock band Rose Tattoo. Look up Angry Anderson AFL Grand Final. We've talked about it before on the show. In 1991 or 2, I want to say, he came out in a blue Batmobile at the AFL Grand Final and then he sung, what was it? Probably Up There, Kazaley.

No, it wasn't Working Class Man. It was Bound for Glory. Bound for Glory. He sang Bound for Glory and it's notoriously one of the dumbest things that's ever happened. Anyway, this is a bad movie-going experience, but Angry Anderson got angry at me in the immediate aftermath. So I feel.

So he was flanked by bodyguards? Or were they his mates? Maybe it's just his big mates. I don't know. Shut up, Angry Anderson. Whoa. Yeah, that's what I say to him. Well, I say to him, sorry for getting in your way.

I say, fuck you, Angry Anderson. Walk around. You're not that important, mate. In your face. Yeah. Well, that's great. I think so. I'm glad you met Angry Anderson. Walk around. You're not that important, mate. In your face. Yeah. Well, that's great. I think so. I'm glad you met Angry Anderson.

Me too. That's the perfect Angry Anderson interaction, isn't it? It is, isn't it? Yeah. Were you like, what a dickhead? Or were you like, oh, fair enough? It was like one second. Okay.

So he's a dickhead. But at the same time, we were thrilled. Celebrity interaction. No doubt. Mason, do you mind if I quickly talk about Split because I saw Split this week so Split is the

Ewan McGregor film no James McAvoy there we go whatever I thought I had a piece of information there you don't

it's James McAvoy because he looks like Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting I feel he's got that manic look he does yeah so the premise of this movie is

he has multiple personalities. 23 personalities. Okay. I'm going to spoil Split. I'll time code it down the bottom if you haven't seen it. It's an M. Night Shyamalan film. Now, are you going to spoil this because it's so good? Well, I'm going to leave that to you.

Okay. Because I didn't mind it, but the twist means nothing to me. But I think it's an okay film in general. If you're a massive M. Night Shyamalan fan you'll get a massive you'll get a huge kick out of the ending

how do you feel it portrays people with multiple personalities oh it just nails it very tasteful great but it's also it's set in a universe

which is not our own okay which I'll explain okay so basically what do you think the story was no you don't have to tell what do you think the story was? No, you don't have to tell us. What do you think the story was though?

He's got 23 personalities. Yes. But then another one emerges and tries to kill everyone? Yes, one emerges and some are more dominant than the others. What he's doing, he kidnaps some girls. Now, do you actually see legit 23 personalities? Yes, and he does a really good job. Wow.

Actually, yeah, he conveys them really well. Look, it doesn't paint the perfect picture of mental health. Is one of them like a doctor with a clipboard and one's a construction worker and one's a nerd with taped together glasses? I thought you were doing the village people for a second. One's a biker leather man for some reason. No, they're just like, one's like a soft-spoken lady,

one's like a flamboyant kind of designer, one's like a, I don't know. One's's like uh i don't know one's angry at people one's got one's got like ocd like severe so one of them has gloves one of them wears gloves one of them does yeah one of them does one of his personalities he has gloves yeah so they kidnap well one of his personalities kidnap kidnap these three girls so they can sacrifice them to the beast yep which is this uh which is his 24th personality which is this monster which resides within him and the psychiatrist who he's going to see maintains that the beast isn't real and you don't need to worry about it like because he keeps

visiting the psychiatrist one of his personalities keeps emailing the psychiatrist and being like something's up you need to come and see me but then these other personalities go in and go no we're cool we're fine and she knows that he has 23 personalities and he's aware that he has 23 personalities okay everybody knows the situation sure right um but but can i can i can i guess sure is there a 25th personality no it's 20 so the 20 but also they physically they physically change okay so like the one who one one of them is insulin dependent, diabetic. Okay. But the other ones aren't.

Right, okay. Like there's a kid who just eats candy and whatever. Maybe that's why he's insulin dependent. Sure, yeah. But they're completely separate like biologically, which is kind of interesting because, Mason, it's not set in our world. And I'll explain that.

Oh, I see, right. So at the end, the beast comes out. It's James McAvoy, except he can like crawl on walls because he's incredibly strong and he can like crawl across a ceiling and whatever because also he's bulletproof the girl shoots him point blank with a shotgun and they they sting him now is this this climbing on the walls in bulletproof nature yeah is this before the reveal? Like, is this before... Well, it's kind of implied that his body changes. Okay.

But you don't... And then you also see a woman... He kills a psychiatrist, but she breaks a knife off on him. Okay. She goes to stab him. He's got, like, tough skin. Okay. So, anyway, the girl gets away.

She tries to put him down with a shotgun. And then he sees that she's also been abused. So, he walks away. He goes, oh, I'm only after the people who are are kind of i can't remember the term he's exactly but he he likes to get people who haven't anything happened to them okay so that's the that's what the beast likes to do and the beast runs off into the night uh-huh anyway yes i'm like i've heard there's a twist i'm like where's this going because it's kind of wrapping up it's an m9 sharmiline movie there'd better be a twist I think he feels compelled to put in a twist.

Definitely. He can't just make a movie. He can't just make a movie anymore. But so you see a diner at the end, right? And they're talking about this guy who kidnapped these girls and what have you. And actually, the main girl does a really good job because she's also going through some of her own psychological problems. And that gets kind of unraveled as the movie does. So she's from The Witch.

I don't know if you've seen The Witch. No, I'm aware of it. Yeah, apparently it's great. I'm aware of movies. Good. She's really good in it. And so is James McAvoy, or Ewan McGregor. They're both great, aren't they, at whatever they do.

You can't rule out that he doesn't have another personality. I certainly can't. That's Ewan McGregor. That's Ewan McGregor. So they're in this dinerer and someone's watching on tv that there's this guy who's loose who's got 24 personalities and he's a madman and he's a villain or whatever and then one of the people in there says oh this is just like that thing that happened 15 years ago what's his name that that guy who went mad the super villain and then

you see bruce willis and he goes mr glass this movie is set in the Unbreakable universe. What? It's an Unbreakable sequel. Wow. Yeah. What do you think of that? That's incredible. So that's why he's bulletproof.

It's a superhero world, essentially. Yeah, okay. Do you care about, because I know, do you even like Unbreakable? I don't like Unbreakable. Well, that's why I thought, I want to know what your take on it was. That's really interesting. Yeah. But there's no other people with superpowers.

Well, Bruce Willis, I guess. Bruce Willis and Mappaboy. And this guy, yeah. Okay. Yeah, but they're very specific to this universe. They're not like capes and flying and whatever. It's like biological anomalies kind of, I guess. Yeah. So we might be getting kind of more Unbreakable.

But I feel like I've only seen Unbreakable in bits and pieces. So for me, I'm like, oh, that's interesting. So you broke it up. That's right. So this movie's twist relies on you having a working knowledge of a M. Night Shyamalan movie that came out at least 10 years ago. Oh, I want to say like 2002. Right.

Maybe I'd have to look into it. I can look that up. But yeah. So what do you think of that though? Look, I kind of like the idea of an expanded non-Marvel, non-DC superhero universe. It is 2000, sorry.

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But who cares? What do you mean? In a way. Yes, because I know a lot of people who are massive fans of his movies, in particular his earlier ones This kind of blew them away But for someone like me who I vaguely remember it And I know who these characters are

It's not really a twist to me It's just kind of like, okay So Bruce Willis is there It's Bruce Willis, yeah Unbreakable Bruce Willis Unbreakable And unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt They're both there, it's the same universe

Wow Yeah And he says it's Mr. Glass. Yeah. Like Mr. Glass. Yes. Does Bruce Willis then do any superheroing? No.

No, he flies to the... No. Does he do anything that implies that he's still Unbreakable? No. How does it end then? That's how it ends. Oh. So he's just on the loose.

He's on the loose. He's just on the loose. Yeah, because they're probably going to do a follow-up and I guess Bruce... I don't think they will. They definitely will. No. is because that people are calling it this his return to form shamalan has now found a thing that he can kind of build off he's got his he you know he unbeknownst to himself he kicked off a superhero franchise 17 years ago and now he's got an opportunity where they're in the public spotlight and he's, you know, kind of on a roll that he can now kind of make.

You know what he could have done? Yeah. He's put all his succeeding, like every movie since from Unbreakable to this one, put them all in the same universe. Well, like the village could be. I guess Sixth Sense couldn't because there's two Bruce Willis's. Yeah. I guess. But look, this is a universe where one man has 24 personalities.

Why couldn't two men look like Bruce Willis? One of his personalities is a ghost. Yep. Okay, great. Yeah. Yeah. Is that intriguing to you at all? Or are you like, what a bunch of bullshit?

I thought it was interesting, but it doesn't mean anything to me. That's how I say it. Yeah. And it's also because the entire premise of Unbreakable. Unbreakable. Sorry, guys. The entire premise of Unbreakable. Unbreakable.

Sorry, guys. The entire premise of that is that Bruce Willis is this, like he exists on one end of this spectrum of humanity where he's indestructible. Correct. And he exists as a sort of a guardian to regular people in a way. I don't know. I don't remember. Because that's why he has the psychic powers.

Oh, he has psychic powers. So why does... Where does McAvoy exist on this continuum? You know what I mean? I don't know. You can't build this continuum and be like, okay, on one side you've got Bruce Willis

who's indestructible and kind of strong and he can sense when people have got a gun and also he's afraid of water. And then on the other side you have his polar opposite, Mr. Glass, who's a guy who breaks his legs all the time but he's a great swimmer yeah right the the this mcavoy character doesn't exist on that spectrum i guess he's on a different spectrum i guess this is just a universe where they can just be weird anomalies yeah yeah all right it sounds like the hero's universe to me I think if they'd made these movies back to back, I'd buy that.

17 years apart, just don't like it. Okay, fair enough. In your face, Shyamalan. That's right. Try again next year. Have another swing. No, good on him, man. Yeah, great.

You know what? Good on him. Yeah, people love it. All right, Mason, we've got to talk about what we've been reading and what we're going to read yeah sure i hope you don't mind no that's okay we can do it good i'm doing the thing what have you been reading uh actually today i was on uh a friend of the show, Levin's podcast, Serious Issues. Oh, cool. Yeah, it's a great podcast. You've been on that before, yeah.

Yes, he was in Melbourne just briefly. So I finished work last night at 3am. He finished DJing at 3am. And then he gave me a big stack of comics. Yep. So I started reading comics at like 4am this morning. What were you reading?

And I got through a whole bunch and then I went and did his podcast. So I read a whole bunch. I actually read, the best thing I read is he brought the whole run of the Warren Ellis, James Bond series. Oh, cool.

Yeah, I'm only like six in or something. Real good. Yeah, awesome. Okay, cool. That's real nice. What else did I read? I read a Kiss comic book. Yeah, that's not good.

It's no good. Yeah. Let me dispel any notions that you have. It's like a kid and his parents don't approve because rock and roll is the devil's. What year is it? It's the modern day. Horseshit.

Exactly. That's exactly what I said. He's like, I'm going to form a band because I love Kiss so much. And his father's like, No, you won't. You'll be the head of this. You'll be the next in line to run my corporation.

And rock and roll is the devil's music. And get your mind out of the gutter and stop frittering all your life. Go to CEO school or whatever. And then he's like, I hate you, dad. And then the dad drives off a cliff. And he's like, oh, I guess I'm the head of this corporation now, whatever. But he just wants to rock and roll all night. But that's the thing. Like, you can't sell rock and roll as this unacceptable.

It's the devil's music and it's so taboo. Especially not Kiss. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like, we're way past that now. Exactly. Like, rock and roll. Men in makeup is not a big deal.

Rock and roll is the most boring. Like, it's the most boring musical. It hasn't been the devil's music for like 40 years. Absolutely. I guess there was a brief period where like Marilyn Manson was kind of like, but it's even, but it's, it's not, not even, his aren't even close to that, that kind of like, that kind of shit. Anyway, that was a highlight.

What did I read that was good? I read Civil War 2 The Oath. Oh, I heard that's good actually. It's a real gab fest. Anyway, if you want to listen to that, I think that podcast will be out same time as this one, I think. So switch over if you're finishing listening to this. What have you been reading?

I watched the eight episodes of Lemony Snicket to the series of Unfortunate Events. A lot of people love it. They're really into it. I didn't like it. Okay. I did not care for it. I have, which I didn't mind. Are there a bunch of Lemony Snicket movies?

There's a bunch of Lemony Snicket books. Okay. I think this might be two, like a book for every two episodes or something like that. And Putty is Lemony Snicket. Yeah. And you know what? It's very well cast and it looks beautiful and there's a lot of like special effects and like it's a quirky universe and whatever.

And Neil Patrick Harris is Count Olaf. He's very funny. And a bunch of kids play a lot of like special effects and like it's a Quaker universe and whatever. And Neil Patrick Harris is Count Olaf. He's very funny. A bunch of kids play a bunch of kids. But the problem with it for me, you know,

I didn't hate it. It's okay. But a lot, and this is, and a lot of my problems with it also stem, I think, from what the books are like,

which I haven't read. But like throughout the series, Lemony Snicket, Putty, is constantly telling you to switch it off, to not watch it. Oh, yes. This is a depressing story and you should literally do anything else. But he says, and initially you're like, okay.

But then they're doing it in like episode seven. I'm like, well, I'm fucking in, aren't I? You don't need to keep saying it. Keep it a rest, mate. Yeah, just stop it. Drop it. I'm watching it, all right? Yeah, right.

So also it's really literal. Okay. Like, to a fault. So, like, a kid will be like, one of the kids will be like, oh, this is confounding. This is an example. And then, like, it'll cut to Lemony Snick and it'll be like, confounding is a word that means when somebody's confused and the situation is whatever. It's like, dude, I fucking know what confounding means.

Yeah, yeah. Right? And people might say, well, it's for kids. But there's so many brutal murders in it. I don think it is for kids right exactly yeah and also the because count olaf is trying to kidnap the kids so we can inherit their fortune all right and so then he turns up in different costumes every time and he's like um just a regular fisherman and i want to take these kids with me and whatever but no no adult can see it. And so it's incredibly frustrating because everybody but the kids are idiots. And it's just the same kind of like the kids are like,

it's clearly Neil Patrick Harris and he's wearing a wig and he's dressing as a lady. But the adult's like, it couldn't be him because Count Olaf's not a woman, he's a man. And it's just like, it's really like frustrating to kind of, but again, all these problems for me stem from the story. If you love the books, apparently it's just on point. But don't you love, do you think the idea behind that is,

oh, we're adults, but we're going into this magical world of suspension of disbelief and oh, here's a man dressed as a lady, but we're just going to roll with it. No, it's not like that. It's just, it is literally, hey, everyone here's an idiot okay except for the kids yeah and again it's well cast it's well acted it looks beautiful it's faithful to the books a lot of people love it yeah but it just wasn't for me yeah like that like honestly i think they knocked it out of the park for what for what it is but again it's just i don't care you don't care for it i

don't want it yeah good anything else you're reading or gonna read uh i read uh the first issue of a image book called god country i know god country yeah it's sort of like a um it's kind of hard to describe it it's it's set in the first issue set in a little midwestern town yeah and there's a man looking after his father who's got dementia and but there's a storm coming to town, and that storm contains just some weird stuff. Okay. Is it good?

Yeah, it's good. The art's great. Is there a spoiler? Are you spoiling some stuff? Yeah, there kind of is a spoiler that I couldn't. Mason, I know I just spoiled a bunch of stuff in this episode for people, but please don't spoil it for me. Yeah, it's a good point.

If you don't mind. No, I won't do it. But basically, like, the old man, the father, like, this storm is bringing a lot of chaos and a lot of, look, monsters. Sure, yeah. And the father's, the storm is also bringing, like, the storm brings a weapon

that only the father can wield. And he's old. And he's old and feeble and has this dimension. Is it ongoing? There's only one issue out now, but I think it's ongoing, yeah. All right, then. I'll get into it, Mason. Real nice.

Real good. Cool. Wait. Don't say anything. I would never say anything. Okay. I've never said anything and I wouldn't now. Time for letters?

If you say so. Yeah, it is. The classic one was... Letters, oh letters, we love you. Some letters, they're only a day away. is on point mason thank you with timing but also the way you held it it sounded really good it sounded real sounded crisp in the sound like something i edited in and not you just holding your phone up to the microphone very good uh now you dipped into the mailbag oh yeah i should find something in the mailbag we've uh we've opened we've opened that up again weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com that's right we didn't get as many letters this week

because we've told people for like two years to stop sending stuff to the gmail account but weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com yeah we only what was it like 30 odd maybe so there's a pretty good chance of uh you send it yeah here's a little one this is from Felix Harmer on Gmail he's messaging you from

he's messaging you us me he's messaging us from Manchester UK he's a new student studying nursing

nice moving somewhere new is a bit challenging that is very true disagree alright look at this this bloody social

butterfly alright mate no it is yeah that's right he's having an awkward drink with some random people he just met and Shia LaBeouf came up.

We should talk about that in a second. All right, fine. One of the guys started talking about how much of a dickhead he is and he said, are you a weekly whacker to do? That man was in fact a weekly whacker to do. Which is the name of the people

who listen to this podcast. Awkward pause makes sense for us. And he responded, grab that gem. That's good. Excellent. Yeah. Good stuff. We've been friends grab that jam. That's good. Excellent. Yeah. Good stuff. I've been friends ever since.

So a couple of days ago. And this will only bring them closer together. I think so. So that's Felix and Finn, which feels like an excellent... Solving crimes? Crime solving duo. Felix and Finn. One's real uptight.

One's a nurse. Mason, I also have a letter I dipped into my own email, if you don't mind. Oh, yeah, sure. This one, the subject line is info. Great. And this is the email. Is this something about your gym membership? It is not. Okay. It's from a person called AdRequest. Oh, yes. This is it. Hi.

And then there's a little space and then it says, Hi. There's no punctuation in this or capital letters. You have great channel. HTTPS colon slash slash www.youtube.com slash user slash Mr. Sunday movies slash about. That's you. That's me, baby. And we like to make video about our website on your channel.

So how much will cost? All right. Don't leave us hanging. How much will cost? No, I guess I'm making the video about their website. Yeah, but how much will it cost? Oh, $4 million. No, let's make it a reasonable number. Let's say $40,000.

$40,000. That's not reasonable at all, is it? Depends what the website is. I haven't clicked on it because I'm presuming I'm going to go there. It's just all dicks or something. No, it's just going to be a phishing scam. Yeah, okay. I'm just going to go to it.

Don't do this. I'm doing it. We're going to lose the episode. No, the recording. Not the point. the recording point they're very recording episode hackers are very good i won't say the actual website oh it's a watch movies online for free except it's still loading sounds really good that certainly doesn't sound like something that's going to take control of your laptop look it's got a dog and he's got a little popcorn and a drink. Oh, he's going to have a great time at the movies. Type here what movie you want to watch.

See if it works. No, I won't. Okay. Coward. Okay, fine. What's a movie I want to watch? Resident Evil. That's not a movie I want to watch, but all right.

All right, yeah. Here we go. Zero results. Wow. See, that will... It read your mind. That's very good. Oh, that's great.

Oh, no, here we go. It's just a whole lot of... There's a lot of Arabic links. A site to Vumo. It just links to a whole lot of other websites. No idea. We have Resonant. Some of the Resonant...

No, great. Anyway, yeah, $40,000. I'll do it. Sure, yeah. Is that reasonable? of the resonance. No, great. Anyway, yeah, $40,000. I'll do it. Sure, yeah. Is that reasonable? Fantastic. I think so. Yeah.

We can also contact the show with tweets, Mason. That's right. Hashtag Weekly Planet Pod. This is from... This might be more fruitful. Perhaps. Yeah. I check them out during the week, grab a couple.

Also, if we're going to... Because we're opening up the mailbag, that allows us some longer stuff. So if you want to send me specifically any insane fan theories you have oh no you don't have to read them that's okay i have to listen to them though don't i just put in the subject line insane fan theory and i'll i'll get onto that okay if i can find a choice one does it have to be real yeah it has to be real so it can't be like it's a not coming like a joke one or whatever it have to be real? Yeah, it has to be real. So it can't be like a joke one or whatever. It has to be a legit... I don't have the patience to joke.

I understand. We're not about jokes in this podcast. That's true. We're a serious business. Yeah. What if they go and give me $40,000? Should I email back and say $40,000? Yes.

But it's clearly a scam, the website though. So I'd put it up on my YouTube channel. Hey everyone, go to dogwithapopcornandadrink.com. My dog loves it, having a sneeze. Okay, hashtag weeklyplanetpods from Fido Reyes. Started watching slash reading Riverdale, the CW Archie comics interpretation. It started off well. I really enjoyed it.

Did you watch it? I haven't watched it yet. I watched it. What did you think? It's kind of like the OC or Dawson's Creek or whatever. It's a super sexy version of Archie. How sexy is Archie? He's got abs.

Really? That's how sexy it is, yeah. Shirtless Archie. Shirtless Archie. It goes to Netflix every week. So they upload the new episode as it goes. But I didn't hate it. I'm like, yeah, this is all right.

Yeah. I mean, I haven't read the comics I don't know anything about the characters but it's it's Dawson's Creek it's the OC it's all those

so it's kind of moody and yeah but there's a murder mystery as well oh okay yeah but no like it's

I enjoyed it for what it was the Archie universe is all over the place it's everywhere mate he's fighting the predator yeah right what else is he doing teaming up with the Punisher and like they still do like original recipe Archie Universe is all over the place. It's everywhere, mate. He's fighting the Predator. Yeah, right. What else is he doing?

Teaming up with the Punisher. And they still do like original recipe Archie and Jughead and whatever, where it's that Archie house style. And it's kind of just fun for little kids. But they also do like the Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North kind of super ironic Jughead series and the Reggie series and all that sort of stuff. And then there's ones where they're all undead and there's ones where they face their own mortality.

Isn't there one where he's married to the different girl? Yes. There's one where, this was a couple of years ago, but there was one where Archie married Betty and in a parallel universe where he married Veronica. And it's basically the awful ways their lives go. There's no positive endings. So he doesn't win. No, either way, he doesn't win. Great. But you're going to check it out? the awful ways their lives go. There's no positive ending. So he doesn't win. No, either way,

he doesn't win. Great. But you're going to check it out? I think I should, yeah. I think you should because you're a fan of Archie. But is it fun and ironical? It's a little bit fun and ironical

but it's more super serious. Teen issues. Archie's, I don't want to spoil it for you, Mason, but Archie's having an affair with the teacher. What?

It's this kind of universe. Mr. Weatherby? No, it's some some bird i don't know a name yeah but he had a he had a sexy summer fling wow yeah that's not very archie but i'm willing to go with it they're trying new things you know it's it's if you're familiar with the oc like i said already in those shows it's exactly it's exactly that but the archie riverdale riverdale here we come is that the theme song it's exactly i didn't hate it though yeah i quite liked it this is from kane pritchard hashtag weekly planet pod

assuming the joker has a role in the batman do you think he'll have enough screen time riverdale yeah i'm gonna check that out later do you think the joker will have enough screen time in the batman to come into his own apparently it's going to be set in ark out later. Do you think the Joker will have enough screen time in the Batman to come into his own? Apparently it's going to be set in Arkham Asylum. Okay. Do you think it'll heavily feature the Joker? I think they're going to give another villain a go. I don't think they're going to do a plethora.

A poison ivy, a clay face, a riddler. I hope they do a clay face. An egghead. I hope they do that. King Tut. King Tut, yeah. Yeah. Okay.

But you don't think they'll do the Joker as the main key villain? I don't know. I kind of hope they don't. Because we've seen it. We've seen it. And he's... Stop recycling the same old villains. He's got the biggest rogues gallery in existence, except for maybe Spider-Man.

Give us some new stuff. I don't know if it's the biggest, but it's one of the best. I'm sure if someone has a bigger... No. Bigger but worse rogues gallery. Think of gallery think of someone else no i can't because they're not memorable yeah that's actually really good yeah yeah um i i don't know i think it would be okay if they're doing this arkham asylum version put him in there yeah but i don't know if it's going to be the movie where the joker's going to shine maybe he'll like we mentioned before in that harley quinn gotham city science maybe that's because what's his name

regrets David A. not making Jared Leto the key villain which he really should have in hindsight or at least

somebody who's in it more yeah I'm not maybe but probably not I'd say I think it's going to be a rogues gallery like you said

I think it's going to be the ventriloquist and Scarface I like him man me too Clock King Clock King. Clock King. Yeah.

I'd like to see a Mr. Freeze. Crazy Quilt. Yeah. Kite Man. All classic guys. Ten-Eyed Man. How many eyes? Ten eyes.

They're on his fingers. Does he have eyes in his head? No. Oh, then I was going to throw in your face that that's 12. 12 eyes, right? Yeah. That's right, yeah. Okay, fair enough.

Good, man, good. I was going to say something about that. I's 12. 12 lies, right? Yeah. That's right, yeah. Okay, fair enough. Good, man, good. I was going to say something about that. I can't remember. No, Mr. Freeze. Have you read the... There was a one-off all-star Batman comic recently that Scott Snyder wrote where Batman goes to the Arctic to beat up Mr. Freeze.

Oh, but it sounds great. It's pretty good, man. Wow, that's a bold move because he's in his element. You know he is. But Batman, maybe he's more ready than you think he is. And by that I mean he's exactly as ready as you think he is. Right. Because he's never not ready.

Yeah. Except for most of the movie versions. He seems thoroughly unprepared most of the time. I would have loved to see Mr. Freeze in the Nolanverse. Yeah. What version they would have done of that. Yeah. Right.

Do you think it would? But it's not really that kind of universe. Yeah. It's just a guy who's killed all the time. I was going to say they couldn't do him because he's in Batman and Robin, but Bane was in Batman and Robin as well. That's right, yeah. I would love to see a movie version of Mr. Freeze. The big clunky suit.

Batman cracking his big dome. Right. Yeah, man. Yeah, good. And I really like Mr. Freeze in the Arkham games as well. Same. Some of the best stuff in those games. See, that I feel is the dilemma.

If you're going to make a The Batman with Ben Affleck and you're going to put it in Arkham Asylum. If you use all the same villains as the Arkham games, at least a small percentage of people are going to be like, this is a poor man's version of the Arkham game. Absolutely. Yeah. So that's kind of why I feel like you can't... If you're like, okay, well, Batman's bringing in the Joker to Arkham Asylum and then this

whole system goes into lockdown and he has to fight his way out. It's the same thing. But I guess, though, not everybody has played those games. Like, they're very popular games, obviously, and me and you, we know them back to front. After this, we're going to play it, aren't we? That's right. I don't have it, but it's in my old house.

By that, I mean my parents' house. Yeah. But, okay, we get this question a lot. Yes. This is, I can't remember from who let's say everybody let's say darren hayes from savage garden sure yep he's written in uh what movie do you think would you fly us to the moon and back we would darren you better believe it massive star wars fan actually yeah darren hayes what movie do you think it would take for them to reboot

the universe like what would have to what would it take like would it take a ben affleck leaving would it be the justice league falling down as a project to restart it what what would have to be the thing that it's a good question yeah my assumption would be that if they finish whatever story arc this is and it and it crashes and assuming that's the thing if if they finish whatever this story this is and it crashes and... Assuming that's the thing. If they finish whatever this story arc is and it doesn't do very well and it's not well received, I would think maybe they'd take... I love how you say whatever this story arc is. Because like Marvel, for all their faults,

they've clearly been building towards something. Yes. But I guess this is building towards mother boxes. Great. Yeah, because we saw one in a deleted scene in the last movie or whatever anyway sorry go on so i think if they get to the end of this and i i think that and it doesn't play out or it doesn't it's not fine if it's financially well received i think they'll just keep doing it yeah well it's suicide squad even though a lot of people didn't like it

and critics kicked it still did well. Still made a billion dollars. Yeah. Look, I think, you know what might actually kill it? I think if they finish the current arc of movies and there's another, like their next one is coming out in a year or 18 months. When they finally get around to fixing the Flash. Yeah. And then they're like, okay, this is coming out in 2019. And then the director drops out and then they reschedule

for another six months in the future yeah I think they might just be like you know what we're going to cancel this one

and restart it in two or three years so new Superman new Batman new everything do you think it's one of those things where like

maybe leave it for five years or do you think they'd be like well this comic book bubble's going to burst so we just got to keep going

we just got to knuckle down. Because you know how much gap there was between this universe and the Nolan universe? 2011 and then? One year. One year. 2012, 2013.

Right. Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel. You're right. One year. So who knows, mate? Aren't movies interesting? Movies are so interesting. Watching them, talking about them, speculating, making movies, aren't movies interesting movies are so interesting watching them

talking about them speculating making movies thinking about movies looking at a TV guide oh there's a movie coming up maybe we should

watch the movie yeah man that's the show for this week we did it what do you got oh you can find us if you want to

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bloody listening this might even be a record week I think we might hit 2 million downloads that's not including YouTube either

I think we're going to be well over that and we didn't even do we missed an episode as well didn't we yeah it's pretty good I guess

it's pretty good right it seems good right yeah thanks to everybody who's telling people that's the way this is happening reviews help as well, probably.

Or they don't. I don't know how iTunes works. Don't know how it works. We've never learned. All right. Next week. Another thing. Don't know yet.

We'll figure it out. If you've got a topic suggestion, send it through. Oh, that'd be great as well. If you're sending an Insane Fan Theory in the Gmail, put Insane Fan Theory slash episode suggestion, because I'd like to hear uh yeah all right thanks everybody grab that jimmy guys we'll see you later bye i'm gonna read this bloody action comic number one now you should read it i'm gonna read it to the dog hey dog do you like stop it don't lick my action comics number one it's

it's already been bent in your pocket mason that's worthless it's worthless now