The Weekly Planet - 172 Avengers Infinity War Begins & Best Keanu Reeves Films

Episode Date: February 13, 2017

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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Weekly Planet. Official podcast of comicbookmovie.com where we talk movies, comics, TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. With me as always is my co-host Nick Mays. I'm here too. How was your week? What have you been up to? I've been battling smoke detectors, as you know. Oh, tell us about that. It's not a great story. The smoke detectors...

I disagree. I think it is a great story. I'm going to breeze through it. But basically, the smoke detectors have been going off in my house. You know when they run out of battery and they make the beep? I found out it's every 40 seconds because I've been timing it. So during the night... You've put tissue boxes on your feet. You haven't cut any of your nails.

You've stayed in your house Howard Hughes style. And you're counting the seconds in between beeps on a smoke detector. It's been happening for like a week. And I got the first one and I'm like, sweet. And then during the night, I can hear it. And initially, I thought it was still beeping even though I pulled the battery sweet. And then during the night I can hear it. And initially I thought it was still beeping even though I pulled the battery out. And I thought that I was going mad.

And then last night I'm like, I've had enough of this. So I went to grab the one. I'm like, it must've had a charge in it. So I went downstairs to grab it and just peg it across the road. Shouldn't do that. Keep your smoke detectors, they're important. But then there was another beep and I realized,

oh no, there's another one in my house that I didn't know about because I rent this place. So I went upstairs and I went to go and grab it. And then it's like 15 feet in the air. And I'm like, I cannot get that. I don't have a ladder. It's three in the morning. So today I went and bought a ladder.

I got it. I pulled the battery. You had a problem. You found a solution. That's right. I pulled the battery. Comic books, everybody. We'll get there.

No, no. Your tale of domestic woe must come first and then i'm like sweet relief and then i hear the beep again 40 seconds later seconds later because i timed it and i realized that the house next door to be because it's water we share a wall nobody's living there at the moment because they're leasing it and their smoke detectors run out of batteries. So there's no... You can't go around. You can't knock on the door and be like, hey, neighbor, can I have a cup of sugar? And also, check your smoke detectors. So I've been going mad.

Yeah. When you got here, I told you that story. I very frantically told you that story. Because I looked out your back, like into your backyard and I noticed on the table in your backyard, there were a series of smoke detectors just sitting on the table in your backyard there are a series of smoke detectors just sitting on a table that i pulled off the roof yeah right because i because i wanted to make sure that the one i was hearing wasn't the ones in my it doesn't matter

mason i also had a fun time with technology this would you like to hear about it please please i went to a wedding yesterday it was great great had a good old time but i hadn't been to a wedding yesterday. It was great. Had a good old time. But I hadn't been to a wedding in a while. And there were so many cameras. They were covering every single angle. There was a camera on a jib. What? Apparently, the happy couple had won a camera package. That's expensive.

Yeah. So they brought all these people in. And there was this camera on the jib. And there was all these people with bandoliers of cameras. like a crossover leather patch like a bandito and he had two cameras and then there was there was one guy over in the corner and he had like uh he was holding like a big controller with a big monitor on it and i'm like oh he must be the director like this this system must be so big that he has to like do live switching and stuff like that and i'm like oh that's that's kind of interesting and then the car pulls up with the beautiful bride and the

harp plays there and she's like she's doing the bridal waltz and then all of a sudden you hear and i look over and the guy with the big monitor thing it turns out that's a drone remote he's a drone pilot and he started up a drone as the bridal party is entering. So I'm just hearing, and everybody's like, what is that? And I don't know if they tested it or not, but it doesn't matter how, like if it's a hundred feet in the air, you can still hear the drone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can still hear the drone of the drone.

The drone of the drone. So, but then I'm like, well, you know, that covers an avenue that you don't normally get in wedding photography, which is people looking directly up into the'm like, well, you know, that covers an avenue that you don't normally get in wedding photography, which is people looking directly up into the air going, hey, what's that? Oh, it's a drone. That's amazing. So if you want to ruin your wedding, hire a drone.

And a harp player that you can drown out with a drone. That's great. Which also I point out as well, this show is starting now, but Andrew Levins, who has a podcast called Serious Issues. A comic book podcast. That's right.

He came in. I nearly said codcast. Codcast. All about fish. But he came in the other day and we recorded an episode of Serious Issues, which is going up the same day this goes up. Yeah. It's on Monday.

Individually. Individually, yes. And you also did one- Last week. The week before. Maybe two weeks before. Did you get mostly good issues or mostly bad issues? I got some pretty good ones.

I got almost all bad. I got a week of garbage. I'll link that below, but he's a great bloke and it's a great podcast. Yeah. Maybe check it out. If you like comic books and you listen to this and you're like, these guys are okay, but you're hardcore into comics. This is the guy.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Mason. Super Bowl was last week. Yes, it was. It's old news, but did anything stand out from it for you? Ah.

Any standout TV spots, trailers? Let me think. Did Captain Jack Sparrow covered in mud appeal to you? What's he got now? Has he got knuckle tattoos or something? I don't know, man. That's his new thing. Maybe you always had them.

Yeah, but did you see it? No. So there's only one shot of him and he's kind of covered in mud. I think it's because they're like, Johnny Depp's in a bit of a... He's in actor's prison at the moment. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? He might be going that Mel Gibson route at some point.

But we see, what's his name? Orlando Bloom's back and he's covered in barnacles or whatever. So everybody's covered in mud and barnacles this time around. Yeah, that's right. Pirates of the Caribbean, mud and barnacles. Not as sexy as you remember and what's his name javier bardem has underwater hair it's it always looks like he's underwater huh you know because they're they're gonna have like a the bad pirate has to have like a weird

supernatural thing has to be a fish monster or a jeffrey rush skeleton man you can't go backwards at this point can you can't be you can't be like in this time this one the enemies are just bureaucracy they have been bureaucracy also no i mean't be like, in this one, the enemies are just bureaucracy. They have been bureaucracy also. No, I mean even further, like they're trying to get the boat license back. Jack Sparrow's just standing in line at the... You've got too many masters on this ship, Jack Sparrow. Maximum of three.

Yeah. Any interest in this? Kind of, because I haven't seen, like I've missed a couple so maybe you know what don't watch him going into this that's yeah you don't you know you will be burnt by the time you get around all right so maybe this one will be good and the only way that that'll be the case for you is if you don't watch the other plots plot of this one captain jack's got a there's did he get the wrong side of some sort of secret exactly yeah so the Exactly, yeah. So the same. Great. The same.

So just think about the same and then that's it. Fantastic. Guardians had a trailer, about a 1 minute 30 trailer. That's right, yeah. It looked pretty good. Fantastic, yeah. Some more funny, funny spots. The thing is they tested it at Marvel and it's the only movie there ever to get a 100% rating.

Yeah, right. Yeah. The Avengers got high 90s, which is good, but so did Iron Man 3. So which way does this go? See, that's exactly it. I think, yeah, look, the hype train. Yeah, totally.

I don't know if it's... Yeah, I mean, and also I should point out, they don't get the general public for this. They get friends and family of people who work at Marvel. Right, okay. Which is, you know, helps keep the secret or whatever. I don't think this is good or bad news i mean it's not bad news is it obviously but i don't think it's indicative of the final product necessarily who's gonna say bad yeah it's a there's a raccoon it's good isn't it no i mean who's gonna say bad because if you

work from your dad works for marvel you're not gonna say it's bad are you i mean i'm presuming it's anonymous that's the way you'd want to do it now but you can always tell because of handwriting yeah yeah fair enough I used to work uh my my last job before I did this amazing whatever this is we do I'm not sure exactly yeah the sinking ship um they'd always be like a questionnaire to be like you know to be like rank your workplace what do you and it was anonymous but there was like two guys who worked there and it was like male. And so there was a male and female box. I'm like, well, I can't be truthful on this.

I mean, I enjoyed the job anyway. They segregated it. They segregated it, yeah. It's so weird. Yeah, and it was like age bracket. And I'm like, well, I'm the only one in this age bracket who's male. Do you know what I mean? So it's not really anonymous, is it?

Did you consider dotting all your I's with little hearts and putting it in the girl box? I should have, in hindsight. That was electronic, so what do you do? It was an online questionnaire, mate. It's just a thing. But you had to click girl or boy. Yeah.

It's so weird. It wasn't girl or boy. It was male or female. No, it was girl or boy. And the girl had a little heart next to it, and the boy had a saxophone, which, as we all know, is the universal symbol for being a boy manly virile power playing the saxophone you're right did you see the oh ghost in the

shell that's one i remember okay yeah that looked great face off yes there's apparently a new trailer for that i think by the time this goes up there might be a new trailer as well yeah a couple of weeks ago i was like there's something on the tip of my tongue a property that is going to be better than the original and people are going to be loathe to admit it a property that is going to be better than the original. And people are going to be loathe to admit it, but it's going to be better. Did you say that to me in our private lives? Maybe. But I think it's this. I think this is going to be better than the

anime. And people are going to be like, this cut, the original's a classic and you can't beat it. I think this is going to be better. Didn't you watch it recently? Some of it. The voice acting's so flat in it. It's just these weird pauses in the audio. Yep, yep.

I get you. It's hard to listen to. Okay, sure. I can't understand that. I can't relate. But sure, I see what you mean. You know what? I don't disagree with you.

And for the most part, it looks shot for shot identical. Yeah. What we've seen so far, except for there's a bit where this geisha woman robot turns into some sort of scorpion spider thing, which I don't remember from the original. Maybe that's in the sequel or maybe that's in the standalone complex.

Maybe it's in the prequel, The Scorpion Geisha. Maybe it is, yeah. Oh! Yeah. That's a reference to The Scorpion King, Mason. I get it. Which is a prequel, The Scorpion Geisha. Maybe it is, yeah. Oh! Yeah. That's a reference to The Scorpion King Mason. I get it. Which is a prequel to The Mummy, for those people who... Not the Tom Cruise one.

The classic The Mummy, but not the classic The Classic The Mummy from the 30s. The Brendan Fraser classic. The 1999 one, which is a classic. It's a great movie. Did you read that article on why Brendan Fraser doesn't get work anymore? No. Maybe you don't. Was it depressing? Kind of. But is it because he's a bad bloke

no it's just like he aged out of it i think he aged out of it and he he he was in that position in hollywood where you sort of he had abs he definitely had abs but also we have to or did he though yeah george Yeah, George of the Jungle. Oh yeah, good point. I think it's the point... Thank you. Yeah, all right. He got into that sort of position where you can say yes to everything. Like there's a constant stream of work and you'll... Which can go either way.

The Nick Cage position. Yeah, Samuel L. Jackson. Like if you can... And if people like everything you're in... Yeah. Your career just keeps going. Samuel L. Jackson can always fall back on a quentin tarantino movie or an avengers film yeah he'll always get one yeah but i think with brendan like

brendan fraser like he just kept doing everything yeah and then he did furry animals or furry vengeance very yeah furry vengeance yeah and i think what happened is eventually the returns dried up on him even like And it wasn't his fault. It's just the movies were bad. Whose fault was it? The movies. The movies. Okay, yeah.

I blame the movies. Okay, good. The movies are kind of bad and the returns are... And then it's like, well, you're not making us any more money, Brendan Fraser, so we're not going to cast you in things. Okay. It's like Cuba Gooding Jr. He'll be back.

Yeah, probably. Well, he did the OJ thing, which I haven't seen, which is apparently amazing. Okay, that's interesting. Now I don't need to read. Thank you, Mason, for saving me that. What were we talking about? Stranger Things 2. Season 2 has a trailer.

Oh, yes. Looks good. Did you see it? Didn't see it. Big ominous monster in the sky like the mist. Yeah, looks good. I'm well on board. You see Ghostbuster outfits.

Love horror, supernatural stuff with mist in it. You know it, mate. The mist is a great movie, I think. No. Isn't it? I really enjoyed it. You know it, mate. The mist is a great movie, I think. No. Isn't it? No. I really enjoyed it. The ending's brutal.

Yeah. Show it. If you've got a very sensitive partner, show it to them. Apropos of nothing. Because it's got a brutal ending. Okay, Mason, we've got to talk about the Batman

because there's so many of the Batman. Unless you've got any more Super Bowl stuff or whatever. It's like a week ago now. There was a Transformers the last night. Yeah, whatever. TV spot again. Yeah.

You know what? The one thing I noticed- Oh, they've got baby Dinobots. That was the question. Boo! Because it looked like either a generic Decepticon, because they're sort of just gray and brown and could be anything, but it also looked like kind of a dragon coming out kind of thing. Yeah, okay.

So that's a baby Dinobot. I know they're selling the toys at least. Yep. Because this one, you also see they've got like a little BB-8 style, it's called Wheelie or something as well. Oh. And I suspect, and I might be wrong, I think they knew Star Wars was called The Last Jedi

and they called this The Last Knight. Wow. Because they called Age of Extinction on the back of Age of Ultron. Wow. And I genuinely think they went, well, that's the hot title for this year. So what they've done essentially- I might be wrong. No, what they've done is they've seen that they released Transformers

and then the Asylum, legendary low-budget, terrible movie maker, Asylum released Transmorphers. Yes. And successfully tricked a whole bunch of grandmas into buying that dvd for their children correct so they've gone well if it worked for them maybe it'll work for us let's just move this up the chain absolutely and fake like we're a sequel to a better movie in a better series yeah oh amazing good on him i guess good on him i guess pricks uh the batman there's oh yeah there's updates so what i heard i heard well so affleck was out we knew what do you got mason

affleck was out we knew that he's out and then i heard much like the flash we heard that the batman needs a page run one rewrite right. Rewrite. Rewrite. They need to wheel over it. Yep. Start again. Yeah, go on. Which doesn't mean, as we've learned, that they just have to rewrite page one. It means page one and all the remaining pages.

You've got to wheel over it. That's right. You cannot use it. Soaken. It's just soaken. So that's obviously not generally good news. Yeah, but then... But then, yes. But then I heard that somebody on the inside was like, so that's obviously that's not generally good news yeah but then but then yes

but then I heard that somebody on the inside was like no it's fine it's a great script yeah it came through Variety which is generally

a good yeah good source but they said that yeah Warner Brothers apparently very happy with it and it's Chris Terrio who did Batman Superman

and is that right is that the idea yeah maybe is that what I'm saying maybe how do you fall on what do you think though do you think any of that is Chris Terrio, who did Batman, Superman. Is that right? Is that the idea? Yeah, maybe, maybe. Is that what I'm saying? Maybe. How do you fall on, what do you think, though? Do you think any of that is?

Well, I heard that they said the script was bad. Yeah. And then they were like, this guy says it's good. And he was the guy who broke this other news quite recently. And he's very reliable. Right. I think what they've done is they've gone to that guy and said, hey, you know, we gave you that scoop earlier.

How us. Yeah. We gave you that scoop earlier. Hell us. We gave you that scoop earlier. Could you now go and you owe us. So how about you go and tell everybody that the script is great? So you think that's more likely than the script being actually good? Yes. Legitimately good.

Also, we should point out. The Batman script is reportedly pleasing everyone, says Slashfilm. Shut up, Slashfilm. I don't think it came from them, did it? Were they the original source? No, I don't think so. But shut up, Slashfilm. I don't think it came from them, did it? Were they the original source? No, I don't think so. But shut up, Slashfilm. Yeah, shut up. I've got a quote here.

It relates to Deathstroke being the villain. So the story for the Batman. Okay, Justin Kroll, the Variety reporter who broke the news about Ben Affleck not directing the Batman. He says, everyone at Warner Brothers are very happy with it. There's some names, but I only recognize Ben Affleck. Sure. I think there was some Warner Brothers executives. Chief Content Officer Toby Emmerich.

We should get one of them. A Chief Content Officer. No, we want a Cheap Content Officer. That's actually true. Yeah, you're right. Send your resumes to whatever our email address is. So the story for the, I've got a quote here about the original script, which apparently was to include Deathstroke as the main villain,

which we kind of knew because Joe Manganiello, Manganiello? Yeah. Remember there was that test footage of him that showed up and he's apparently, he's doing some katana training, getting ready. Now, if they move the shooting date of this, does that mean potentially he's out? No, he says he's starting training soon regardless.

But I think he said that also because he likes to be ready. They're saying 2019 for this now, obviously. They won't be ready for next year. And there was apparently going to be some other villainous appearances by characters, including the Joker. And Jared Leto apparently was softening on his stance and appears to be interested in returning, and they're not sure whether that part will be for the Batman

or Gotham City Sirens. Okay, sure. So, you know, he got burnt. Yeah, right. Do you think he wants a shot at redemption, or do you think he's like, I'm done? Yeah, because he wants to be the greatest Joker. He won't be.

It's going to give it the good old college try, though. Yeah, good on him man i mean because look i don't think i did a whole video on it but i think the reason it's not very good is because there was they didn't build a proper story around him and they just let him kind of pinwheel and it was amazing and magnetic on the day and everybody was transfixed but then when you go to edit it into a narrative you're like we can't use this because he's just doing the jack-off motion and putting his tongue out yeah you know what i mean yeah yeah use this because he's just doing the jack-off motion and putting his tongue out or whatever. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah, I think he's definitely capable. Yeah. But I don't know, if that was me, I'd probably cut my losses. But I don't want to be the greatest actor in the world. Cut your losses, take all the wardrobe they gave you. Yep. Keep all the weird tuxedos.

Grow your eyebrows back. Yep, that's right. And so now director-wise, it's been confirmed it's Matt Reeves, right? It's probably Matt Reeves. Okay, right. Who's done the Planet of the Apes movies. He wrote the screenplay for Under Siege 2. Oh, it's a good one.

On a train? Are you kidding me? And The Pool Bearer. It had David Schwimmer. It's a David Schwimmer film. I don't have anything to say about that. It's fair. Yeah, okay.

Well, he directed it. He wrote and directed it. Okay. Look, I think he's great. Yeah, okay. Well, he directed it. He wrote and directed it. Okay. Look, I think he's great. Yeah. I really enjoy the Apes films. You know, so, I mean,

the guys who are doing Infinity War did You Mean Dupree. So, you know. That's usually very true, yeah. You can obviously, you know, improve.

Co-creator of Felicity. Sure. I didn't watch it. No, it's okay. I heard that when she cut her hair, people weren't happy though. They were like, this isn't the Felicity I fell in love didn't watch it. No, it's okay. I heard that when she cut her hair, people weren't happy, though. They were like, this isn't the Felicity I fell in love with. That's right.

Yeah. We had two seasons of that beautiful long-haired Felicity, and then it's a nightmare. But, yeah, what do you think of that? Matt Reeves. Yeah, great. Like, he's not like a Chris Nolan or whatever, obviously. Like, he's not that level of auteur.

That's true. But he did direct Cloverfield, I think. Oh, did he? Oh, he did too, which is pretty solid. And that's kind of, you know, that was fun and inventive. Yeah, yeah. Yep, I don't disagree. No, I think there are, considering how late in the day this is

and how badly this has kind of fallen apart, it's a good get. Yeah, totally. Like that's a solid choice. And yeah, in plan of the ace movies he's gonna demand good effects i would imagine you can't you can't go can you render that again they could bring in gorilla grog absolutely finally yeah totally no it's great i think it's a good that's a good choice i should also we've got some marvel news here i just want to quickly point out that dr strange this week uh on the back of opening in Japan outgrossed Man of Steel.

Is that good? That's amazing. I mean, it's a Superman film against a character that nobody knew about a year ago. Well, that's true. Yeah, you're right. That's amazing. That really speaks to the Marvel marketing and how well the universe is going in general. Because we both thought

it was okay. I think you liked it less than me. But the fact that it made more money than a superman movie is fucking insane like how is that possible superman movies i do they have the i've never really thought that superman movies have the pull that that anything else okay yeah maybe you're right yeah sure i love superman you love superman yeah but it's not but movies have... Well, for you in particular, you've never liked any of them, really. I didn't mind Man of Steel. Yeah, yeah.

No, me neither. It's okay. But the private... Yeah. But... If you listen to our commentary, you can feel the moment when we both drop off.

It's quite long. Yeah. But I really... I don't think the public at large like Superman. Yeah, you're probably right. But I think nobody... But nobody knew Doctor Strange.

That's true, yeah. Maybe that worked for it though because they were like, oh, this is a new character as opposed to be like Superman. Yeah, I agree. Because you don't know what Doctor Strange weaknesses are.

Being stabbed. Being stabbed and driving a Lamborghini off a cliff. That's his weakness. Who knew? Yeah. Do you remember at the end of that there's a little PSA

and it says, remember not to text of that, there's a little PSA and it says, remember not to text and drive because it's a real trouble. You know what? This guy texted and drove and now he's the Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth Dimension. I was going to say that's implied because it's not. It's the opposite lesson of that, isn't it? Smash your hands up.

Get a new gift. Yeah. Absolutely. But yeah, you don't know what his powers are. You don't know what his limitations are. It's an intriguing concept yeah yeah that you may or may not love

but Superman you go the public at large go in going your mic's popping a bit do you want to turn it a little back yeah

no just push it away from you a little bit no just like this just sideways yeah okay that should work anyway keep going

sorry oh no that's alright I was going to say like the general public goes in going what problems is Superman going to. I was going to say, like, the general public goes in going, what problems is Superman going to have? Is it going to be kryptonite again? Is he going to cry?

Is he going to cry? Yeah, that's so true. Yeah, but you know what? That's also the opportunity to make a Superman movie where people go, oh, I haven't seen this version of Superman. Correct, yeah. Which I feel like Man of Steel was. Yeah.

I don't think it resonated enough for then people to tell other people that because i think a lot of people coming out of dr strange going and telling other people oh no this is great you should you should say it's fun it's got it's got sherlock in it and yeah right yeah yeah he smashes his hands up that funny joke about beyonce what a what a joke i had something else what else was good in that something was good uh i liked the cloak it was good i like the whip fight i like when he fell through all the dimensions he went in his own eye and then his fingers had arms yeah but you thought not enough of that no i like the way you beat the villain the infinite loop time loop yeah anything anything you liked uh i like the joke that mads mickelson makes that's better in the trailer than

it is in the movie yes i like that was a good that makes that's better in the trailer than it is in the movie. I like that. That was a good joke in the trailer, but not in the movie itself. Wasn't it just? Michael Douglas is back for Ant-Man and the Wasp. Nice. No need for anything on that. Great.

Sounds good. Good. Quite young. Well, regular day Michael Douglas, definitely. But no, I don't think, maybe he's just going to be some kind of mentor. I'd like to see him suit up. Oh, yeah, sure. Because like,

it's kind of that same thing as Pacific Rim. Remember where the guy couldn't, he couldn't Jaeger because he'd done too many Jaegers. He'd done too many Jaegers, exactly, yeah. And Michael Douglas is on the same kind of spectrum where he can't really do it anymore because it kind of,

it's implied that he went mad and hit his wife maybe, like he did in the comics. But no, I'd like to see it so like, he has to do it anymore because it kind of it's implied that he went mad and hit his wife maybe like he did in the comics but I'd like to see it so like he has to do it again I think that would be cool that would be fun yeah it'd be like the time also

in Batman 66 where Alfred had to rescue Bruce Wayne in the Batman outfit do you remember that? no and he's got his tweeted little moustache

broken out from under the under the suit amazing oh I do remember that now yeah you're right what a fun time anyway great when are they going to bring I've said this before and I said it on Twitter at Wikipedia Brown on Twitter Yeah. Mud of the suit? Amazing. Oh, I do remember that now. Yeah, you're right. What a fun time. Anyway, great.

When are they going to bring... I've said this before and I said it on Twitter, at Wikipedia Brown on Twitter, bring back some of the 60s Batman villains. I'm just going to unfollow you for that shameless plug, Mason. I'm not happy. Bring back Milton Berle as Louis the Lilac. That's what I say.

Bring back Egghead. Bring him back. Yeah. As I said, put scrambled. Tattoo scrambled across his forehead. Then he's not your grandpappy's Egghead, is he? No, he's not. We also got an Iron Fist trailer.

That's coming up. Yeah, it looks great. Yeah, it does. I really hope it's good because I didn't love Luke Cage. Yeah. At all. I like the character. I liked everybody in it for the most part,

but that really kind of flattened out after three episodes. But you know what? I think maybe one of the downfall of that a little bit was there were so many one-sided samey fights. Yeah, walking down a corridor and people are hitting him. Which initially in the trailer, super fun, but when there's... How many episodes was it?

12? Yeah. 13 episodes was a bit samey. But this one Like the action in that wasn't great. This martial arts stuff is looking real nice. The best Luke Cage fight scene is in Jessica Jones. Yeah, it is.

That bar fight. Yeah, absolutely. He tries to get back into the company, he just shows up in his fisherman's pants or whatever. He's like, I'm the CEO and they kick him out and he beats up security guards or whatever yeah he's like i'm the ceo and they kick him out and he beats up security guards or whatever it's very it's very batman it's very doctor strange it's it's all those kind of mystical origins you go to the orient and you'll learn some magic powers or whatever yeah yeah no it's it's it's i hope it's good i'm i'm well on

board and the defenders at the moment is is is which is good. What I also like about this is it's opening up magic. Yeah. Some iron fisting. He ain't messing around with that iron fist, let me tell you. No, he's certainly not. Which is good because the Netflix series have been relatively effects-free. Like not superhero-free because Jessica Jones is obviously super strong. Luke Cage and Daredevil's got the radar sensor, whatever.

But I just want somebody punching the ground with a glowing fist and everything goes flying. Yeah, man. I want to see a guy hit a car that's coming at him and it flips over his head. Yes. Can we please get that for once?

Yeah, God. No, but yeah, no, that's, that's, that's pretty bloody.

It's pretty bloody exciting. Also, I think we've got what we do. We've got lined up. We're going to do an iron fist episode where we talk about some classic iron fist comics and stories over the next few weeks. I'm looking forward to that. I've got a few in the tank. Absolutely.

I've been reading through. We've got some interesting ones that we want to get to. Now, Mason, for this next section, for the segment that we're doing, I'm fairly certain I'm going to get Ben to turn this into a YouTube video. So it has to be perfect. I don't want you to say anything too outlandish that he then has to animate or find an obscure picture of. I'll say whatever I want. What are we talking about? The Avengers Infinity War pre-production trailer that went out.

Oh, yes. Did you get a bloody look in on that? I got a look in on that. So this is the way they do it now, I guess. It started on January 23rd. So it's going to be pretty much a year of filming. They're doing two back-to-back. Infinity War and then something else. An untitled Avengers project. Yeah. But we do know that it is going to two back-to-back. Infinity War and then Untitled Avengers Project.

But we do know that it is going to be a direct follow-up. So it's going to be May next year and then the following May. And there's going to be massive consequences for the universe Mason. So this will be like a things missed. What did you see? The secrets. Tom Holland's not American

at all. That's right. Hello! I saw the Avengers. I saw the Avengers in the cinema with all my mates. And who knew that very shortly afterwards I'd be in the Avengers and I'd be Spider-Man. Did you notice his Hollywood hair? He's got Hollywood hair now.

He's got Hollywood hair now, right? It only takes a few months, doesn't it? He's got Hollywood hair. It's something in the water. Something in that L.A in that la water it must be it's the water in the sunshine i think so if you live in the area well let's talk about spider-man though because there's a few now i'm friends with robert downey jr and whoever was on my left i can't remember fuck off that's robert downey jr but um yeah so spider- you see, he's got motion capture gloves on under the suit. You see it.

He was kind of keeping them hidden, but not really. I think they said, I think they reckon they said to do that deliberately. Absolutely. Everything in this is incredibly planned. Yeah, right. But also there was another behind the scenes video where he's asking Robert Danny Jr. questions. And this is before they kind of revealed that Spider-Man's in it.

And he flips the camera around and you see Tom Holland's face. He's got his beautiful Hollywood hair. But he's also got all the mocap dots all over his face. Okay. Which has led people to believe that maybe this is the version of Spider-Man that gets the black suit because he goes to space. Right, yeah. Because in Secret Wars, is that right?

Secret Wars. The original Secret Wars, yeah. He gets the symbiote. Yes, he does. In the Spider-Man 3, it just drops from space and lands in a park that is near. And it's never explained where it came from. Are there aliens in that universe?

I guess. I suppose so. I always assume because in that universe, it's all just misfits of science. I just assumed it was shot out of a cannon from some sort of lab. Absolutely. As a prank, maybe.

Yeah, totally. Or even an experiment to be like let's see what this does yeah let's give this to some rando in a park everything will have a whole bunch of fun provided that guy doesn't have super strength oh no the way i justified it which you shouldn't because that's not a very good movie is that i guess that symbiote had some kind of direction he was going or it was going and it was like i'm gonna latch onto the strongest thing in this universe okay sure and it's spider-man so i i i maybe it wasn't an accident or maybe someone just shot it out of a cannon shot it out of a cannon

that's my theory good good uh they're also talking about how this is the comp the infinity war is a combination of it was chris pratt chris pratt was It was Chris Pratt. And he wouldn't have said rude things. He's a lovely young man. He's got great Hollywood hair. They were saying that it's a combination of 10 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Because by the time this role was around, Iron Man was 2008.

And now this one's bloody whatever next year is. Isn't it weird to think the Avengers was 2012 and this will be six years after the Avengers. So the Avengers was closer to Iron Man than six years after the Avengers so the Avengers was closer to Iron Man than this is to the Avengers the original Avengers does that make sense that is fun to think about you're not wrong god time is funny isn't it it certainly is uh so Thanos yeah we see a bit of concept art we see him and he's got a nice sleeveless tee on absolutely he does look a bit like Vin Diesel doesn't he he's got that kind of look he should probably wear a hat he looks a bit weird with his

his bald head because he looks like a big purple egg yes he looks like a purple twitter egg the ultimate villain there's somebody trolling you on twitter they were talking about how he's had a reimagining absolutely yeah they're talking They're talking about how since pretty much day one, or since the Avengers. Or like Captain Lay, America, send. Burn. But I think maybe the first inkling of Thanos was in Thor, the original Thor.

We see the Infinity Gauntlet. One of them. It's not the one that he actually has because there's two of them, the left and right-handed. And people have speculated since then that we're going to be getting Thanos. So they've said, oh, we know Thanos is coming and people know it's coming, so we want to introduce him in a way that kind of... Do you think when they went past that treasure room in Thor,

do you think they had any inkling they were going to do it from there? Because there's like the Eye of Agamotto. There's something else in there I can't remember. No, I think you have the theory that they just threw a bunch in and just thought what people bid on yeah yeah totally yeah absolutely because infinity the infinity gauntlet storyline it's it's good but it's not and it's it's very 90s yeah but it that's probably not the most memorable storyline of that era until it's been, you know, so heavily promoted. I've never properly read it.

I've kind of skimmed it because it seems long. But I do like that moment where Captain America kind of faces up to Thanos and he's like, you're a bully and we're going to stop you. And then he just breaks his shield. Right, yeah. I love it. They said the reason also they did Civil War is because they wanted to make Thanos more of a challenge, even though he's the most powerful being in the whatever whatever and he has a device that gives him

infinite power sure yeah yeah that uh the idea was you break the avengers apart in civil war so they're kind of more vulnerable and you bring them back together for for this movie that's kind of the idea and also we're going to see why he's the most dangerous kind of being in the galaxy infinity infinity because the actual like the the clear kind of being in the galaxy infinity infinity because the actual like the clear reveal of him which is in guardians of the galaxy is just kind of like here's a raisin sitting on a chair about on a flying chair yeah there's any kind of there's no dramatic reveal where he's like walking down a like a hallway and you hear his feet thundered down you know like this guy so he it's like, he looked like a character from the Jetsons.

Yeah. Like. He just kind of floats across. And there's no like even sense of scale because he's like nine feet tall. Yeah, yeah. But you don't get that because he's kind of, you see him at kind of a distance. It could be like, it's Baron Zemo's imaginary alien friend that only he can see. The great kazoo style.

But yeah, they are. And they also mentioned that the collector's probably, it looks like the collector's going to return. Cool, okay. Which makes sense because he's tied to the Infinity Stones or whatever. Did you see the- But in this, I guess, in the comic books, he's sort of one of the most ancient beings in the universe

and he has ultimate cosmic power and et cetera. But in this, he's just a weird dude. By et cetera, do you mean weird hair? So weird. Yeah, yeah. It's weird. Yeah. But in the movie, he just seems to be some guy.

Yeah. He's just a sad dude who collects stuff. He's kind of got a library of stuff. Yeah. That's pretty much it. And do you see that there's a Tony Stark concept art where you see like his new suit? Yeah, right.

It looks like he's building another armory perhaps because they also mentioned that he's kind of one of the only ones on Earth who knows this is coming because remember he had that vision? Yeah. And that's why the reason he made Ultron in the first place. Well, he should definitely build another arsenal of dangerous things because it went so well the last time. Did you see there was some Spider-Man concept art and there's a new version of his armor

in that? Yes. Very cool. Yeah. That's like the Centurion armor? No. It looks a lot like the Ultimate's armor. Like his original version, which was kind of clunkier.

Yeah, yeah. I like it. I think it's cool. It is pretty cool. You don't like it? No, I do like it, all right? Mason likes it, everybody. I like it, all right?

Two thumbs up. Yeah. And we also see the Guardians of the Galaxy are going to meet the Avengers, which is... Yeah. We knew that was coming. Yeah, absolutely. But it's good to get the confirmation. But speaking of the Ultimate Universe, one of the pieces of concept art...

Garbage. Garbage. Garbage. Of concept art, we see Rocket Raccoon, and we see Thor behind him, and Thor's hammer is not his traditional hammer. Oh, right. People are either theorizing that it's the ultimate version, which is the current story arc, isn't it?

In Unworthy Thor, the comic book series Unworthy Thor, he can't use his original hammer and Jane Foster is now the official Thor. Yep. Thor for real. Thank you. And he's attempting to find the, the ultimate universe is Thor's hammer. Cause all the universes collided.

And he's trying to track that down. So you think maybe he's. Well, that's either that or the, or it's, or it's yarn born the ax. Yeah. Cause you don't see the end of it.

I think it might be because this is, this is a weird, this would be a weird entry point to add parallel universes. Be like, PS, PS, this parallel universe you haven't seen before there's two hammers yeah there's two hammers but it must give must have some whatever it is must have some form

of power because he's wearing the thor suit and the suit kind of is tied to the hammer in this universe because remember when he gets the hammer back it i agree but also shut up yeah obviously but i think if he lost the i think if he lost the use of the hammer I think he loses the use of the hammer in Ragnarok the suit stays okay like if he lost his power I think like in

like you know I think Avengers when he holds the hammer aloft and he gets you know he calls the lightning down and builds the suit around him I think that once once the suit's done it's like a real physical thing

I guess that's true because in the dark world when it goes into another dimension on the other side of the galaxy his suit doesn't fall off. Exactly. That would be very embarrassing.

In the original Thor comic books if he loses if he doesn't touch the hammer for 60 seconds he turns back into Donald Blake. I think it would be

better in this. It would be more realistic certainly in this movie. If he lost the hammer for 60 seconds all his clothes fell off. So he has to sleep spooning his hammer

yeah exactly okay fair enough but yeah i i get this i'm imagine maybe he loses the hammer in ragnarok yeah absolutely and now he's just he's a sad he's a weakened version of an axe i mean how sad could you be bloody hell oh well that's that's what a great video this maybe was. Do you want me to do more Tom Holland? Sure. Just cap it. Bookend it. Oh, yeah. Go. Hello.

Fresh in your drink. He has to get everyone's drinks. Yeah, absolutely. Why do you think he's got the mocap? I reckon maybe it's web fists. Oh, cool. Web fists would be great. Yeah, maybe.

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of Darker. Oh yeah. Lego Batman. John Wick 2. Yeah. How many of Darker. Oh, yeah. Lego Batman. Mm-hmm. John Wick 2. Yeah. How many of those did we see? Zero. Bloody goose egg, mate, because one of them we've got no interest in.

Yep. And the remaining two... Are not out here. Not out here yet. John Wick 2 is never coming out here. Apparently there is... To the best of my knowledge. There is no release date for that, and Lego Batman's being saved for the school holidays.

Which who knows when that is? Who bloody knows? So what we thought we'd do this week in celebration of Keanu Reeves. In all his glory. Who I'm a big fan of. Same. Are you? Yeah.

Okay. We thought we'd talk about the Keanu. We thought we'd do this every now and then. Take an action star and just go through their movies, some of the best and the worst. Just pick them off one by one. Just take decades, their decades-long oeuvre, all the work that they've worked so hard on

and bloody slaved away on, and just be like, good, bad, good, bad, hate it, no good, this guy sucks, see you later, who's next? That's what we're going to do. I'm excited. Me too. I thought of a rating system. Our normal rating system is best movie ever, worst movie ever.

Yeah. But I thought if it's bad, we could say Keanu. And if it's good, we could say Keay-yes. Great. What do you think? Keanu. No, I'm kidding. It's great.

Great. Awesome. Do you want to do these chronologically? Okay, sure. Yeah? Okay. So what would you Do you want to do these chronologically? Okay, sure. Yeah, okay. So what would you say his first big breakout action movie is? Interesting you say break. Why is that interesting?

Is it Point Break? I think it's Point Break. The ones I saw on his IMDb list I didn't recognize as action movies. Right. Yeah. I think Bill and Ted's was before, but that's not really an action movie. No. It's a great movie, but it's not an action movie.

When was the last time you saw Bill and Ted's, though? Not that long ago. I think they're both good. People say Bogus Journey isn't as good. I think they're both as good as each other. I agree. Yeah, for whatever that means. Yeah.

I kind of, is that, is the Bill and Ted 3, is that still on the slate? Absolutely. He was on Graham Norton recently, and he said, the story revolves around they're now in their 50s, and they still haven't written the song that's got to save the world. So it's got this mountain pressure. Because the premise was always that they united all of humanity.

Wild Stallions, Greatest Hits or whatever. So I guess they're still successful rock stars because that's how Bogus Journey ends. They time travel and they learn how to play guitar and they come back and play a Kiss song. What's Alex Winter been up to? Not much, but he looks good. He looks in good shape.

He's busting out some zingers on Twitter too. Is he? Great. Good on him. That's his latest bloody administration, you know what I mean? Is he up against Piers Morgan? Probably. Isn't everybody?

Yeah, Point Break though. I only just recently saw this. You've got a hot new take then. Yeah. So instead of watching John Wick 2 2 you watched point break some months ago yeah that's right yeah uh look i wasn't on board until that guy gets a dog thrown at him well i don't remember that somebody gets a dog there's a chase sequence through a whole bunch of like beachfront residential property okay and at one point some and some the the pursuer gets a dog hurled at them. You don't remember that. Who's chasing who?

I don't know. That's great. Now, Patrick Swayze was nearly 40 when the time this movie came out, but he's Bodhi, isn't he? Yeah. Is he Bodhi? He's certainly Grody. He is. He's dead now, unfortunately. He's a. Bodhi. And can certainly grody. He is.

He's dead now. Unfortunately, he's a dead man. That's what I meant. Oh, is that what you meant? That's my, I don't know.

Grody's just like gross. It's a surface. It's surfer dude, slang man. So he's a rotting corpse, which is quite grody. Very extremely grody. Okay,

good. Rest in peace. Yeah. But yeah, so this movie has been, I think the reason this really got pushed into the public consciousness recently, or recently-ish,

Hot Fuzz kind of brought it back in a big way. Right, yeah. Because there's a lot of references to Point Break in Hot Fuzz. He does the gun shooting into the air because he can't shoot, what's his name, and whatever. There's a theory in it that Bodhi goes out

and becomes one with the ocean at the end or something. He goes for one last surf and then he goes out and he either dies or he... He definitely dies. No, I don't know. It's a big wave out there. And some atrocious Australian accents right at the end. So what's the story again?

So he has to go... He's the raddest... Hello, welcome to Bell's Beach. Is that where it is? Yeah. Bodhi's the raddest dude. They're surfers slash extreme sportsmen slash bank robbers. Yeah, that's right.

Because they want an endless summer, man. Don't we all? And a way to fund an endless summer is not a series of part-time jobs that you tell your boss to stick it later on. No. You rob some banks. In presidential masks. Yeah, exactly.

And then they send in Keanu Reeves, former football star. Yeah, correct. Yeah, but he didn't have an injury, so Johnny Utah. Former QB, Johnny Utah. Yeah, yeah. And then, so he infiltrates the gang, learns to surf and be extreme. Yep. But then maybe he gets too close to the case.

Well, he has a tryst with Tank Girl at one point. Oh, girl and laurie petty's in it i didn't know that okay sure yeah anyway is it good no agreed next look it's good for the time yeah but even even watching it at the time was it boring a little bit okay yeah yeah well that's that's never good it wasn't yeah because it hadn't we hadn't reached that level of everything being extreme with a massive level of irony on top. Right. Like it was just extreme. But don't you think that's a better version of extreme

than somebody doing massive levels of irony extreme? That is the eternal question, isn't it? Because it's funnier. Because they're like, oh, no, this is... They think this is... You know what? Again, somebody gets a dog thrown at them. Yeah, good point. You should Google that real quick. All right.

You should look up point break dog throw. I'll do it. Okay, do it. Also, Gary Busey's in it. Or Nick Nolte. No, it's definitely Gary Busey. Okay, right, yeah. There's a video here that says Keanu Reeves hunts dog.

So he gets thrown at him and then he he drop kicks it yeah there you go he catches it and then he kicks it off the balcony yeah amazing i'm gonna watch that again jeez somebody's got a remix you know what wow he really puts the boot you know and in retrospect

now that I'm thinking about it there is some it is enjoyable in this like this unrelenting machismo kind of now you mentioned Gary Busey Gary Busey's in it we got

he's facing off against John C. McGinley oh yeah the doc from Scrubs yeah yeah yeah it's just... What a duo. Oh, yeah.

Man, what an era. Anyway, does Bram Stoker's Dracula count as an action movie? No, it was an action film. Absolutely not. I don't think so, either. Yeah. Anyway, it's not that good, is it? No.

Well, the next one, the big one, is Speed from 1994. Yeah, right. Which is a great movie. When was the last time you saw it, though? Not that long ago. Oh, wait. I should have said, Ki-ya, yes. To the point, Bray?

Yeah, why not? I'm going to say Ki-Ah No, because I haven't seen it in a while. Speed, yeah. I haven't seen it in a while, obviously, but that's kind of, that also does the unironic kind of tough guy, like cool speeches and awesome action before it became like self-aware and you know like

xander cage winking at the camera it takes itself so seriously and it's so funny and great for those reasons do we still have movies that are unironic no they don't exist wow oh resident evil maybe ah oh i don't know what that was no i feel they're winking at the camera as well yeah remember that one where the guy gets his head cut in half? They get a piece of glass through his head? No, I feel like they're pooing right into the camera. That's what they're doing. Oh, fantastic.

Okay, good. But when's the last time you saw Speed? When it came out. No shit. Maybe. You haven't seen Speed since. I don't think so. It's got a great sense of mounting tension.

To be fair, it does, once they're off the bus, it becomes kind of less interesting. Yeah. Because it's all about the bus. Because how much speed can you achieve not on a bus? Well, in the sequel, none. None. Because it's on a boat or whatever. Yeah, I think, you know what?

I probably saw it at the cinema and then I probably would have seen it first run on like free-to-air TV like two years later or something like that. Where it's an ad every four minutes. And it was two and a half hours long. And they cut out all the swearing and whatever. Yeah, absolutely.

No dogs being punted at all. No. But there's the bus jump, which they actually did. They CGI removed the bridge, but actually they really flung a bus with a whole bunch of people in it. No, no one was in it as far as I know. Maybe the driver, I guess. I assume.

Nah, they can remote control it, can't they? If they can remote a drone at a wedding, you can remote a bus over a fake bridge. But there's amazing stuff. Even the way that he... There's a great... First of all, the opening sequence is great where he shoots Jeff Daniels.

That's always great. Just seeing Jeff Daniels shot. To stop Dennis Hopper, who's the mad bomber, who's a former bomb disposal guy. Now, why has he gone mad? Cause he's got, all he got was a cheap watch and whatever. And he even uses his watch on the bomb.

Do you remember? Cause Dennis Hopper uses a bomb and an elevator cable to get everybody's attention at the start. And they think he's been killed in the explosion, which if you rewatch that scene, he absolutely was. Cause there's no way he got away in that, in that time frame that is

that is you unironic see we're talking about movies that have layers of irony and no irony we recently watched triple x yes three and a character is clearly atomized in an explosion right at the start and then comes back at the end yes that's that that no there's no irony there absolutely not it wasn't like a hahaha as if you can't get me. I'm explosion-proof or whatever. That's it. Bloody hell. Dennis Hopper.

Dennis Hopper. So the bomb on the bus, they have to keep it above 50. I know what the plot of Speed is. I'm just telling everybody who has it. And even when Keanu Reeves figures that out and he's trying to get on the bus before it hits 50, and even that's a great sequence because you feel like he feel like he's gonna make it yeah but he doesn't right and then he gets on and then he has then they'll have to obviously have to keep pay keep pace in the brake lines i'm not the brake

lines the the fuel line gets cut so they're using they're losing fuel and it was a woman tries to jump off and he blows the stairs yeah whatever yeah they loop the footage they loop the footage classic loop the footage yeah when's a classic loop the footage. When do you think looping the footage died? Is it still around, looping the footage? I think we still see variations on loop. I'm sure Bond recently has looped the footage. But nowadays, I guess now it's very much an accepted trope. I'm sure back when they did Speed,

there was a long explanation of how we're going to input, we're going to record some footage that already exists, then we're going to loop it around. We're going to use editing techniques or whatever. We're going to intercept a signal. But now I guess you just show somebody plugging in a little box. Yeah, exactly. And the cameras flicker for a second.

But I think there's variations on loop the footage. Like Mission Impossible will take a photo of a stairwell and then put that in front of the camera. Yeah, right. Or do you remember that bit in 4 where they go in the stairwell and then put that in front of the camera yeah right or like do you remember that bit in four where they they go in the kremlin and they use that fake hallway remember the fake projection the fake projected hallway so i think there's we've seen variations on on loop the footage yeah but i don't think you can just do straight up look the footage and expect people to care yeah these days new trend you Poop the footage. Somebody work on that. Yeah, please.

And there's also the great line where Keanu Reeves kills Dennis Hopper. I killed you, Dennis Hopper, you bitch. Where he takes his, Dennis Hopper's like, I'm smarter and I'm better than you and you're a real dummy, Keanu Reeves' character. Jack Speed. Jack? Jack Speed.

I don't know what his name is. It's almost certainly Jack. I'm going to look it up. I think it is. And then he takes his head off and then Keanu Reeves says, yeah, but I'm taller. That's fine. Okay.

That's pretty good. Nothing wrong with that, mate. Nothing wrong with that. And then there's a pretty good model train crash with him and Sandra Bullock. Oh, after the action's finished. After the action's finished. They build model trains together and they crash them together.

And then they laugh and laugh. Yeah. Because remember, he handcuffs, Dennis Hopper handcuffs Sandra Bullock to the train. Yep. His name's Jack Traven. There we go. You nailed it. And then.

I was just thinking about that. There are so, there's an incredibly limited number of names you can give to an action hero. Yeah, yeah. That he's allowed to maintain his manliness. Totally, yeah. He can't be called Dale. He can't be called Trevor Pittsburgh.

Can he? No. No. Jack Pittsburgh, though. Definitely. See? Easy. Pittsburgh is an okay name for a hero.

You're right. Yeah. Great. Anyway, it's a good movie. I think it's one of his best. Huh. Yeah. Do you think it'll hold up, though? Yeah, I think so. All right. I think there's a good movie. I think it's one of his best. Huh. Yeah. Do you think it'll hold up though?

Yeah, I think so. All right. I think there's a good, I love the mounting tension. I love the line at the end where they're like, relationship shouldn't start because there's too much passion and they don't last or whatever. Yeah. I don't like that. It's the worst bit of the movie.

And their relationship doesn't last. Absolutely. Because she's with, what's his name? The other guy in Speed 2. Temuera Morrison. No, he's in that. Willem Dafoe. No. What the hell is his name? The other guy in Speed 2. Temuera Morrison. No, he isn't that. Willem Dafoe. No.

What the hell is his name? Dunno. No idea. Anyway, she's with a different cop in Speed 2. Oh, wow. And that's about... Who looks quite similar? Yeah.

That was a very expensive failure, that movie, which I've never seen in entirety. No, neither have I. Yeah. Why would you? Speed 2 cruise control. But... Even Under Siege 2, which we spoke about earlier, has a faster vehicle in it. You know it does, mate.

They did it the correct way. Bloody aircraft carrier or whatever it was, battleship, then train. Did they have a sexy woman coming out of a cake in 2? No, but there's a woman who uses her boobs to distract somebody and then Steven Seagal kills them. Great. I assume with a neck break and a knife to the back of the head that is the equivalent of going faster i agree in a big way yeah woman dives into a cake

jason patrick is who you that's that's who it is yeah and apparently he hated sandra bullock and she knew it whatever what's see i think where's he now exactly i don't even know which one he is i think keanu reeves is smart in a lot of ways. Because... Name all the ways he's smart. Because if you look at the movies he's in, I've said this before, he's not necessarily the greatest actor,

but every now and then he picks something which is just fucking on point. That's true. You know what I mean? Bill and Ted, Speed, we're going to go through them and you're going to know them when we hit them. You're absolutely going to know the ones I'm talking about.

This next one is... Are you sure it's not Sheer Chance, though? It could very well be. I think I've spoken about this. Maybe he's the luckiest man in Hollywood. Because there are people who probably like Keanu Reeves, who have similar acting... Jason Patrick.

Exactly. Who have similar acting strengths and weaknesses, who have just not been that great in the audition. They haven't got these particular ones and have not survived as long as Keanu Reeves has. Okay, fair enough. I'm not saying he's bad. I like him and stuff.

Yeah. But what I'm saying is there are probably a hundred, not a hundred thousand. There's a hundred thousand Keanu Reeves types out there. That's what I'm talking about. They've just slowly fritted away. Right. Yeah.

Well, you're probably right. 1990. Oh, Keanu what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you're probably right. 1990. Oh, Keanu. Yes. For speed. You're going to Keanu Spears? You're going to Keanu? I'll Keanu.

Okay, good. I appreciate it. 1995, Johnny Mnemonic. See, that's what I'm talking about. He's not on it. No, I agree. There's a lot of crap in between. There's a lot of Keanu Greaves movies where he's sad

and he does a serious role and he's with a girl and whatever. There's a lot of Keanu Greaves. This isn't one of them. But this is set in the year 2021, isn't it? And he's a data carrier. He's a data carrier, yeah. What else happens? What do you want to know?

There's a cybernetic dolphin. Dolph Lundgren is an indestructible street preacher. Yep. There's a dude who's got a monomolecular whip inside his thumb. He eventually cuts himself in half. Which, read the manual, man. That's going to happen. If you're going to put it in your thumb, read the manual.

There's, what is it? He's got 160 gigabytes that he can store in his head. How quaint. 160 gigabytes. That's an iPod classic. I right but they put in he's got a memory doubler yes so they put in 320 yeah which means it's even more than more it's even more dangerous and it's going to bleed into his regular memories and kill him well that's the thing and also he in order to have his his data in order to have this data capacity built in he had to erase the memories of his childhood.

Oh, boo. He's a conflicted man. I bet he is. It's kind of fun, this movie. No, it is. It's not good. No. But it's fun.

There's also the bit where he goes on the internet. Look, if you're going to watch this, if you only want to watch one bit, it's just him getting in there. Surfing through virtual buildings. Because that's what we thought the internet was going to be back in the day. I don't think I ever thought that. It was like this in Hackers.

It's that kind of like you come across a locked door and there's a skull and crossbow. It's like, huh, huh, huh. And then you have to knock on it with your data gloves and then you have to answer a riddle. That's how you hack into a computer. Yeah. But then, no, I feel that genuinely was the dream.

People were like, you can go through virtual reality to get to all your files. And then after about a couple of months, people were like, can't I just, just let me click on it. Yeah, exactly. I don't want to fly through. I don't want to fly through my photos. Just let me click on it.

It's like Jurassic Park where you've got to go through that system of virtual buildings to find the right folders to close the doors or whatever. So inconvenient. Yeah, I do kind of love a 90s interface. There's also that movie. What's the one where Sandra Bullock loses her eye? The Net. That's got a lot of that as well, yeah.

Wow. And it was just erasing her driver's license and all sorts of stuff, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. Because you don't want just somebody typing away. Yeah, no. See, that's the thing. It's Hollywood's interpretation of just computer use. It's always, who's typing these days?

Nobody's typing. Nobody's typing. Everyone's clicking a mouse. Everyone's clicking and copying and a proxy. I would love to see a hacking film. If anybody knows of one, a film that is predominantly about hacking, not hackers,

but predominantly about hacking where somebody hacks by just like click, click, double clicks his mouse and he's like, all right, we got him. Now we wait for five hours for somebody to click on that email, that phishing attempt and then input their password

and then I'll just have it. A lot of hacking is now- I'm just going to do some hacking. I'm going to find uh somebody's put a post note with their password in the bin there it is i've done the hacking guys this is me done there's a lot of like the way that you get kind of get into somebody's account and access them and create you know take out a phone in their name or whatever you ring up their service provider you pretend that they're them and then you shut off their phone system and that means you can get,

and then they send, you're like, this is my new email, and then you've got access to everything. So it's a lot of, a lot of it, a lot of hacking is now just going through people. Social engineering. Tricking idiots.

That's hacking these days, man. It's not flying through a virtual world wearing gloves and you're fighting a 3D pterodactyl or whatever the hell this is. Yeah. I wish it was. Have you ever been hacked? You seem like somebody who'd been hacked.

No, I don't think so. Maybe. Yeah. Nothing severe as far as I know. But yeah. Please don't hack me if you're listening. I'm going to hack you. Not you.

I know you can't. I'm talking to the listeners. No, I can hack you. Say it in my bin. Say it in my post-it note bin. All right. Fine. All right.

Yeah. Anyway, I'm going to say Kiara,ia yes even though it's not very good ah because it's kind of funny but also watch it with somebody else watch with someone who'll appreciate it watch it with somebody else and have something else to do yeah here's your rule phones on phones on you can text it's allowed you can use the real internet, which is on your phone. This one I haven't seen, but I suspect you may have. Here we go. 1996 Chain Reaction.

It's been a very long time, but yes, I have seen that. I was going to re-watch it, but then something else came up. Something better than Chain Reaction? Look. What is Chain Reaction? Hang on. Was it a boy who's a genius or something? No, it was a cool dude on a motorcycle. Okay.

Something, something fusion reactor. Okay. There was a lot of that in the 90s, wasn't there? Like the Saint, remember that? Val Kilmer and the woman from Back to the Future, the replacement Jennifer. Yes. Yeah, she invented a form of fusion and whatever.

And then the Russians were trying to get it. But the saint could be anybody and anywhere. Yeah, anyway, so Keanu Reeves was a cool guy. Yep. He was also like a lab tech kind of guy. That's a sci-fi thriller, Mason. Yeah, because of fusion. Anyway, they're all working together.

They want to make a fusion reactor because it's 100% clean energy or whatever. And then I think the government, Keanu Reeves discovers the secret and then bloody the government comes after him. I bet they do. And he's on his motorcycle. How does he feel about that? He's all like, what? What?

Yeah. What? Is that him? What? What? No. That's why Keanu Reeves. No, it's too much enunciation. What? No? Yeah. What? Is that him? What? What? No. That's my Keanu Reeves. No, it's too much enunciation.

What? No. No. I think I do a good Keanu Reeves. All right. Look, it's forgettable. Yeah, I'm going to say no. Yeah, Keanu.

Yeah, Keanu. All right. I don't think this one counts, but I put it in. I just wanted to be sure. 1997's The Devil's Advocate. It's not, is it? It's not an action movie. It's not an action movie at all.

I mean, he fights the devil. Yeah. Who's maybe his father? I don't remember. No, it's not is it it's not a action it's not an action movie at all i mean he fights the devil yeah who's maybe his father i don't know it's definitely his father i don't i don't think i've ever seen the end of it i've seen like i've watched it like three quarters that movie like four times okay so the end of that movie so the premise is that keanu reeves is a southern lawyer what is this him he's a little out of his depth sure as a as an actor acting as a lawyer a lot of these movies that we've skipped he's a little out of his depth yeah Sure. As an actor, acting as a lawyer. A lot of these movies that we've skipped, he's a little out of his depth. Yeah.

Anyway, go on. And then... Al Pacino. Al Pacino shows up. Who are? Thank you. Hell! Great.

Thank you. He's the devil. Who are? I'm the devil. And then he's like, hey, come to work for me and we'll win all these cases because I'm the best

and maybe I'm the devil. Turns out he is the devil. And then Keanu Reeves rejects his... He's like, I reject all this. I regret it and I'm sad and what have you. And then time reverses itself. And then he ends up back in the place where they first met. And he's like, I'm still just a regular Southern lawyer.

So everything's fine. So Keanu Reeves doesn't know that it's been reversed? I can't remember. We can edit this out. Did the devil catch him in a time loop? Or did Keanu Reeves win? No, Keanu Reeves won. And reversed time?

Yes. Is this a Bill and Ted sequel? Yeah, it's the one we've always wanted. Bill and Ted 3 is actually going to be Bill and Ted 4. Does the devil know that time is reversed? Can he have another crack at well he's not reverse it's i think it's implied that all the events of the movie never were okay because he compromises his principle and his principles and he's a bad guy and all this sort of stuff and then he regrets it and then he's like i reject your ideology what have you and then it's all made into a war. So he's Damien, the devil's son.

No, he doesn't actually have any powers, though. Okay. Yeah. Sounds crap. Anyway, it's not an action movie. Pacino, in my opinion. This is a big one. 1999's The Matrix.

Never heard of it. I feel like this one is its own episode, like The Matrix films. We've talked The Matrix to death. I feel like this one is, it's its own episode. Yeah. Like the Matrix films. I think we can, we've talked the Matrix to death, I feel. Yeah, but I think we, I don't think we've done an actual episode, but I think we should maybe save it. Yeah, I think so too. For when they announce a Matrix sequel, which they will.

Yeah. Don't think it's not coming. Yeah. Anyway, Kiara, yes? Yep. For the first one. And then the Stan Lawrence Fishburno. Wait.

And then Carrie-Anne Loss for the last one. There we go. Very good. We've done it. That's Reloaded Revolutions. Good action in most of them, but really falls off a cliff. We're going to go to- You know what?

Keanu Reeves shoots himself at the end of the Devil's Advocate. Okay, so he doesn't- And then time reverses. Oh, okay, right. Good on him, mate. Great. Constantine. Yeah. 2005's Constantine. A bit of a hidden gem, mate. Great. Constantine. Yeah.

2005's Constantine. A bit of a hidden gem, I'll say. I agree. It's a bit of a fun time. Yeah. If you're going in expecting British blonde John Constantine having a quip and being a British gent, hello, and all that, this is not that. It's barely Constantine, but it's kind of great.

I like it. Yeah. It's better than the TV series. Probably. It's much better. He fights a- That 20 minutes that I watched. He fights a monster made of fish and crabs.

Yeah. So there's a great scene at the start where he fills the sprinklers with, what is it? With holy water. And then opens and then turns them on and then he just shotguns a room of demons. Yeah. And he also fights Gavin Ross shotguns a room of demons. Yeah. And he also fights Gavin Rossdale. Gavin Rossdale from Bush. For some reason. Yeah.

Shia LaBeouf sees Cabby. Yeah. Yeah, and he's like, I'm going to be like you, John Constantine. Me and you are going to fight the devil together. And this is before they felt the need to guarantee this was going to be part of a franchise. Yeah. And have a sequel and tie into a large universe and i think they will and i don't know there is kind of the implication of a sequel

because at the end the devil takes away his lung cancer because he's dying that's why he's dying for this movie yeah and then he's chewing gum at the end that's right yeah and he also the he makes the ultimate sacrifice so he's going to go to heaven and the devil's like I don't know I disapprove I'm the guy from Fargo what's his name I'm generic Eastern European accent man

who's in everything and Keanu Reeves gives him the bird as he's off to heaven it's pretty great what else in that movie I don't think I've seen it maybe it's not great

I haven't seen it no it is great I haven't seen it since we saw it I haven't seen it since then okay cool I like it a lot good creature effects pretty good the devil looks great he's got the white No, it is great. I haven't seen it since we saw it. Yeah. I haven't seen it since then. Okay, cool.

I like it a lot. Good creature effects. Pretty good. Yep. The devil looks great. The devil. He's got the white suit and the bleeding feet at all times. And it's because you kind of don't, you don't see the devil.

Like there's all this talk of the devil and then he just kind of rocks up and he's just like a, it's like a smooth looking guy. Yeah. What's that guy's name? Gavin Rostow from Bush. I don't think it is. No. He's in bloody everything. He's the Russian in Armageddon.

Peter Stormare. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, that's who it is, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you Google that Russian who's in everything? Yeah, I did. Because that's bloody Vladimir Putin putting his bloody fingers in every pie.

The web of intrigue. Mm-hmm. And lies. What do we got? Oh, Rachel Weisz is in that. That's right. Yeah, she is, yeah. She's also in Chain Reaction.

Wow. Yes, that's right. Teamed up again. Reteamed. The Dream Team. And also bloody... What's his name in it? No, sorry.

Not what's his name. Tilda Swinton's in it. Yes. Because she's an angel. Like an angel who then betrays John Constantine. It's an all-star cast. Boy, is it. Anyway, I think it might be worth a look.

It might be terrible. If you love Constantine, it's not that exactly. But I think there's enough elements to it. I feel that it is, it's like the first Iron Man movie. There's enough, I mean, I say that, but I'm not the biggest fan of Hellblazer or Constantine just generally. Disagree, you're the biggest fan, Hellblazer or Constantine just generally Disagree you're the biggest fan

but go on Thank you but I think there were enough elements you can't you can't shoehorn in 30 years of one character's history

into two hours it just doesn't work so take some of the elements there's a there's a Garth Ennis storyline where he does get cancer and he has to you know

how's he going to get out of this one kind of thing That's right because the a big point of this story is the reason why he's doing good things is because he wants to go to heaven. Yeah. But also the people in heaven know that he's just doing it to get into heaven.

Yeah, right. So they're like, no. No, right. It doesn't count until he does make an actual sacrifice at the end. Yeah, right. So it's kind of implied that he's only doing this stuff for his own purpose. Yeah, that element worked for me. Yeah, totally, yeah.

And there's the bit where he shotguns all the demons covered in holy water. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. Pretty good. I think if you like kind of like Blade, it's kind of in that kind of camp. I agree, yeah. I would even say it's better than Blade. I haven't watched Blade in a long time.

It's probably, it cannot have aged well, Blade. Great. Do you want to know what's next? Because I can tell. Oh, Ki-Ai, yes. Big Ki-Ai, yes. Big Ki-Ai, yes. That one, me too. Street King. Wait, I was going to say what's next? Because I can tell. Oh, Kiayes. Big Kiayes. Big Kiayes. Me too.

Street King. Wait. I was going to say that's the one I watched. You watched Street King? I watched Street King. Have you seen it before? No, this is my first time. It's kind of trading daylight, right?

Yeah, but I quite liked it. I don't really remember it, but I remember enjoying it. It has a weirdly all sarcastic. It's got Forrest Whitaker. Great. It has Hugh Laurie doing his unplaceable American accent. Don't like it. It's no good, right?

Chris Evans is in it as well. Oh, okay. Cedric the Entertainer is in it. Perfect. Coleman has snuck in again as usual. Terry Crews and Naomi Harris. Terry Crews is in it. Jay Moore?

Yeah, Jay Moore's in it. Aiden from Sex and the City? Yeah, they're all in it. Terry Crews before he became the most small man in Hollywood. Yes. He's quite... But anyway, it's... He didn't get so big.

Yeah, it is kind of training day light. The action's pretty solid. I think reviews with this were kind of mixed, but it's kind of... Yeah, yeah. I think Keanu Reeves works really well in this. There's an opening scene, though. In the opening scene...

So he's the new cop, and they're kind of corrupting him or trying to no no no he's um he's he's gone on the radar of internal affairs kind of thing is he a bad bloke he's not the greatest bloke he gets the job done but sometimes he bends a rule so for example so in the opening sequence uh directed by david ayer yeah Who's known for, of course, 2008 Street Kings, but also Suicide Squad. Yeah. So in the opening sequence, you don't know he's a cop initially, so it's kind of funny

because he wakes up fully clothed and he's got a gun under his pillow kind of thing. Yeah. And then he goes out late at night to, like he drives to a parking lot where there are these two Korean gangsters who wanted to buy a machine gun off him. And he opens the trunk of his car and it's like a heavy machine gun,

like a Browning kind of... And they're like, this is too big or something? Yeah, they're like, we wanted like... They clearly wanted like an AK-47 or whatever. And so he goes super racist at them. And they beat... It's uncomfortable. And then they beat him up and they steal his car.

Yeah. And they take it to their hideout. But he's put a GPS in the car. Right. So he can track it down because what apparently happened is they kidnapped two women. Oh. And he needed to find them. So it's a bigger, it's a long con.

Yeah, it's a long con. So he goes in there and he shoots them all. Because he's, like, he just goes in, he shoots one of them on the toilet and he shoots one of them. So there's no, like, put your hands up no just kill them but in the like in the wrap-up he's like i came and i introduced myself as a police officer and then i then i returned fire or whatever but he just goes in and he shoots but he's like i'm like doing i'm not going to court exactly so he's kind of he's doing it for the right reasons but he's kind of a bad egg and he kind of gets on the yeah uh and but it and it is a good scene but on the other hand i'm like couldn't you've just put a tracker in an ak-47 and just sold it to him and not get

beat up get beat up well it's 2008 how big were trackers i don't know probably huge yeah when did grand torino come out uh i would say i want to say 2009 was that the era when hollywood got out all their racism towards Asian people? But it was okay because there was a message in it probably, right? Yeah. Anyway, I want to say Kia. Gran Torino was 2008. Same year.

There you go. That's unfortunate. I'm going to say Kia, yes. But it's okay because now nobody in Hollywood is racist anymore. Clint Eastwood put a cap on it for me. No, from memory, a Kia, yes. It's got a 36% on Rotten Tomatoes

but I don't think it's I don't remember disliking it at all it's fun yeah I mean not fun I mean you know

it's a bit racist if we're honest 2008 was this isn't an action film really or yeah it is The Day the Earth Stood Still

where he's Klaatu have you ever seen that no but I've seen the original it's piss poor man it's no good anyway the original also it's piss poor, man. It's no good. Anyway, the original also, it's probably, I know it's a classic.

I bet it's also piss poor. Yeah. I bet they're both piss poor for different reasons. He's an alien. Pretty good. He saves the world at the end, even though he shouldn't.

What is the action beat in this movie? There's an explosion. I think he gets shot at some point. Great. I don't know. I don't really remember. It's no good. We're getting up to the modern day, though.

Cool. 2013, there was two movies he did, both martial arts focused. One he directed called Man of Tai Chi, which has a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. I haven't seen it, but apparently it's okay. I don't even know that. Didn't even know that existed. Man of Tai Chi. Man of Tai Chi.

Yeah. Is it like a Tai Chi workout video? Yes, it is. Yes. It's mostly about getting your knees high and your fists up mason that's how you do it yeah okay uh i don't know i don't know anything about it somebody let us know yeah please if you think that i want to know from this episode a good hacking film man of tai chi man of tai chi at wikipedia brown thank you mr sunday movies but last night i actually watched 2013's 47 Man of Tai Chi. Man of Tai Chi. At Wikipedia Brown. Thank you if you could. At Mr. Sunday Movies. But last night, I actually watched 2013's 47 Ronin.

I was going to say, that's the only other one. That movie had a budget of $175 million and made like $60 million or something like that. It looks very expensive, but also it's got CGI monsters and whatever. Does it look expensive but weird and glossy and unrealistic? Yeah, it is. It's a bit of a combination of that. I'd imagine a lot of that is location and going over budget. They kicked the director at one point.

In his head. Yeah. So he had real trouble finishing the movie. And reading after that as well. Because when I message you, I'm like, it's no good. It's bad. And it didn't do well critically or commercially but it's fine

what's it about though okay so it's about they call him a half breed so maybe there was a bit of racism residual racism where's Keanu Reeves from I think he might be

is he Hawaiian he might be Hawaiian yeah or might be quarter Hawaiian I'm not sure exactly yeah but anyway he's as a kid

he turns up in the woods in Japan and they're like, this guy's a demon. He's got the mark of a demon on his head or whatever. So they raise him even though they're like, you're a half breed and we hate you and you come from demons. You can never be a samurai. Sounds like a bad childhood if you ask me.

Agreed. And all he wants to be is a samurai. He wants to be the last samurai or just a samurai. Just a samurai. So there's a witch comes into comes into town and she's

in a different is it Rachel Weisz again no it's all Japanese cast and Keanu Reeves wherever he's from is this a Great Wall kind of situation

no I don't think so I don't think so but I know 47 Ronin is like a Japanese kind of folk tale I think it's actually it might even be

based loosely on a real event it may very well be I think it's actually, it might even be based loosely on a real event. It may very well be. I think it is. You say all those things, but maybe it's a manga. You don't know. No, I think it's a 47 Ronin real? Question that?

It was popularized. Hello. No, it looks to be based on a real thing. That's a legend. And the site and the graves, spoiler alert, of these 47 samurai, you can visit it now. You can go and... It's not really a spoiler.

I mean, we probably figured they were dead by now. Sure. But... Do we see all 47 Ronin? You do. Ooh. They all have a personality. Oh, yes.

There's a roly-poly one some there's like there's a there's a roly-poly one there's a space one there's a grappling hook one there's a karate chop one there's one that doesn't trust him and there's one you can cut his hair so there's a bit where counter is gets beaten with sticks because the there's a tournament and they're the warrior from his town gets poisoned by the witch so he puts on the armor and he goes to fight. So he fights this giant who later, you find out that the armor might be empty because it explodes and there's nothing in it. I'm like, oh, that's interesting.

That could have been something. So this is a magical, this is Earth. Yes. It's a magical Japan. It's a magical Earth. So anyway, they got to save their princess because their leader's being killed and the princess has to marry this evil guy who's working for a witch who's really a flying dragon.

Oh, yeah. Spoiler alert. And so they've got to assemble the 47 Ronin and they need swords. So instead of going to a sword maker, Keanu Reeves takes them back to where he's from because he's from the land of monsters, which is basically men who the top half of their head is a bird. Why isn't the top half of him a bird then?

Because he was abandoned in the woods because his mum was Japanese and his father was an English sailor. Was either one of those a bird? No. Okay. But he also learnt a little bit of magic, and by that I mean he can kind of move a little bit quicker, and he uses that twice in the entire movie.

Nice. Wants to kill a dragon and wants to get a sword. And anyway, so they're also instructed by the emperor don't get revenge on the the bad guy who killed you poisoned your leader or whatever but they do get revenge they kill everybody and then they have to 47 ronin themselves seppuku at the end so everybody except for one guy they're like one of the soldiers they pick out and they go you're the son of a great samurai who's about to kill himself your bloodline should continue so you're free oh so everybody else has to kill themselves but i'd imagine everyone else would have been like hey i'm the last of my bloodline yeah right this is my bloodline all right counter is doesn't have a family so but he's also in love with the japanese princess but then he's

like i'll find you in the next lifetime. Spoiler alert, he doesn't. I was going to say, was there a post-credits sequence where the game was on? No. And he just arrives in the modern day and he's like, all right. No, it's done. Anyway, I'm still going to say Keanu, unfortunately. Yeah.

It's not great but it's not terrible. Look, based on your retelling, which might be bad, I'm going to say Keanu as well. Okay, good. And the last one is John Wick that we're up to at least. It's good. It is good, yeah. And that's on all the bloody Netflixes and whatever,

so if you get a chance. Get into it, mate. Get into it, mate. It's good. And we'd love to give an opinion on John Wick 2. We'll let you know when it comes out on TV here or whatever. Or when we steal it off the internet, more likely. Realistically, yeah.

Any other of note? I think I got most of them. Have you seen this movie, The Neon Demon? No. I haven't seen it yet, but he's in that. Yeah. It's the guy who did Drive. Yes.

Yeah. No. I hear it's brutal. But they say that, but in his last one, somebody gets their hands cut off. You don't see it. I watched that scene. Yeah. I didn't watch the movie.

I just watched that bit where Ryan Gosling gets his hands cut off. Yeah.'t see it. I watched that scene. I didn't watch the movie. I just watched that bit where Ryan Gosling gets his hands cut off. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Great. Anything else? No, that's it. Great. We talked about all the Keanu Reeves movies.

Okay, here's a wrap-up. What do you reckon about Keanu Reeves as an action star? He's great. You know why? He puts his body back into it. He's 52. He trains.

Is he really? Yes. Yes, I know. Yeah. He trains. How much of the Hollywood martial arts do you think he has retained? Well, you see, there's training videos of him for John Wick where he's doing like Kung Fu or whatever.

Kung Pao. Kung Pao. He's doing Kung Pao into the fist. Kung Pao and Tai Chi. But no, I think maybe, I mean, I remember seeing an interview with Matt Damon where they asked like, hey, you got trained to do the Jason Bourne fight. Do you carry that over?

And he's like, oh, no, for a very specific moment in time, I could do a very specific fight sequence. Yeah, right. But I can't actually do any actual moves. But I think Keanu Reeves also, he has a bit of a background in martial arts. Yeah. Yeah, as far as I know. I saw him on a Jay Leno or Conan or something like that.

Did he kick Jay Leno in his big face? Yeah. Great. Yeah. But he was Jay Leno in his big face? Yeah. Great. Yeah. But he was like, if somebody came at me, because you're trying to sort of stop six inches before anybody's face. Yeah. He was like, if anybody came at me,

I could legitimately defend myself and then I would run. Like I'd get to a point where I could get out of this and then I would just take off. Okay, cool. I respect that. Me too. We should come at him. Yeah, right?

Just to see what happens. You go at him and then when he runs off, I'm waiting. Yeah. You're going to brick and a bat. Didn't see that coming, did you, Keanu? But all in all, I think he's good, man. I genuinely, I think also he knows his limits. He's very weirdly charismatic.

There was a lot of time where for years people were like, he's a plank of wood and whatever. And maybe that's why he was so appealing because you can kind of project emotions onto him. That's true, yeah. You see him in an interview, he's pretty affable. He's had some pretty tragic stuff happen to him in his life, which I don't know the exact details on,

but I'm not going to elaborate, but you can look that up if you want. Did he bloody meet you? Hey, come on, mate. Here's that. Come on. Oh, sorry. Anyway, in general, a big Kia, yes.

I agree. Even though he's done a lot of garbage. I think when we do another one of these, our rating system should still be Kia, yes and Kia, no. No problem. I'm happy to do it. Can't wait to see what Schwarzenegger gets. Kia, yes, probably. On the whole, until you hit mid to late 90s. Yeah. Yeah. No problem. I'm happy to do it. Can't wait to see what Schwarzenegger gets. Keanu, yes, probably.

On the whole, until you hit like mid to late 90s. Yeah. All right. You know what it's time for then? What's it time for? What are we reading?

Oh, what are we going to read? It's our famous segment. We'll do a theme. You know it. Put it in now. Yeah, I will. Okay, cool, man. I'm doing a theme.

What are we reading today. I watch Legion. I haven't watched that yet. So this is the new... Is this Fox? Yeah, I guess. Who's put this out? Yeah, but it's by the people who did the Fargo TV series. Okay.

One episode's out, right? Yeah. Okay. I'm not going to spoil it for you. Okay, don't. I bloody loved it, though. Did you really? I really liked it.

What's good about it? It's not just an X-Men film. Grace. It's really... It's what we've always wanted. Something that isn't an X-Men film, but has the X-Men in it. Without spoiling anything, it's very well acted. I like the settings, really unique.

Halfway through, you're like, what is going on? And it all... There's not things set up for the future where you're like, you're never going to answer this. It answers a of questions okay um and it makes a lot it makes sense it's also it's it is obviously linked to the x to the x-men i don't know whether the x-men universe i don't think it will be it shouldn't be it feels very different but is his patronage revealed do we know that because in the comic books he's the son of Professor X. Well, I don't... Do you want me to spoil it?

Can't say. No, no, don't spoil it. Okay. Here's a question for you. You can say... Spoiler, don't spoil. In the comic books, he has multiple personalities

and each one has a different power. Right. Is that the case in this? I didn't... It could be a factor. Yeah. Okay, right. But it's not something

that they really heavily press. Right. Because recently we've had splits. Of course. The James McAvoy or possibly Ewan McGregor film in which he has multiple personalities. He has too many, doesn't he? Yeah.

Have you seen that yet? No. That's right, because I spoiled the ending for you. Why would I see it anyway? There's no way I'd see it. It's okay, man. It's all right. But this is intriguing.

Does he have crazy Legion hair? He doesn't. He just has regular hair. He has a variety of hairs depending on the era that he's in. Okay. But no, it's got a really good cast. Look, man, I think you'll really like it. I think you'll really like it, yeah.

Cool, man. We'll talk about it maybe when you've seen it. What do you read? Is that a limited? I think it might be 8 or 10 or something. I can look it up for you while you're telling me what you're going to read. What I read this week, I actually read a... I believe it was a Kickstarter comic book a few years ago.

It's by Gail Simone, who's done Nightwing and Secret Six and bloody Birds of Prey and that sort of stuff. Disagree, but go on. Okay, but it's called Leaving Megalopolis and it's very much in the vein of Irredeemable, Michael X Irredeemable, which we're both a big fan of. Big fan, yeah. So basically it's set in this city called Megalopolis,

which was formerly the safest city in America because there were so many superheroes in it. Okay. But then this sinkhole opens up in the city and this gigantic monster-type creature, like this Cthulhu-esque monster comes out and they all team up to defeat it. But afterwards they all become like bloodthirsty lunatics. Okay.

And so they have set their sights on killing everybody in the city. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's like a military cordon around the city and the story is set around like a group of survivors trying to make their way out of the city. That sounds great. It's fun. Has it just started?

This is from 2012, but there's a new sequel coming out that's out now. What's it called, sorry? Leaving Megalopolis. I will read that. And so there's a sequel called Surviving Megalopolis where a different team has to go back in to rescue somebody. Oh, sounds dangerous. Sounds intrigue. It's fun.

Colour me intriguing. It's real fun. I'll check it out. What else have I read? Have I read anything else? You don't have to have read anything. Are you still on Riverdale? What are you doing with Riverdale?

Yeah, I'm up to date. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's probably like it's, you know, it is what it is. It's Dawson's Creek. It's the OC. It's all those. Yeah, it's true. Hang on.

It's Jughead. Yeah, it isn't a Jughead. It's a bloody Jughead. I'm just going to just bloody check my comiXology, see if I've read anything else. I don't mind. Okay, good. I actually reread, this week I read Black Mirror.

What's his name? Dick Grayson is Batman. Oh, yeah, sure. Have you ever read that? No, I have not. You should totally read it. It's great. Okay, well.

Also, I read a bunch of stuff which I talked about on Serious Issues. Oh, yeah. And you got more good stuff than bad. A lot of it, I don't know what the ratio is, but a lot of stuff which I talked about on Serious Issues so oh yeah and you got more you got more good stuff than bad a lot of it I don't know what the ratio is but a lot of it I enjoyed at least three I'd say

I really enjoyed oh you know what something I did read as well this is the new Valiant universe there's a series called Divinity 3 which is out now

I read that well I have not read that yet it's great but I've read I read Divinity 1 yeah yeah just to I'm gonna did you like it? yeah It's great. But I've read Divinity 1. Yeah, yeah. Just to, I'm going to run my way through it. Did you like it?

Yeah, it's great. Yeah, then you'll like the one I read. So it's essentially about a group of cosmonauts that were specially selected to go out into the universe, go on a lifelong mission into space to explore the far reaches of the universe. Something happens to them, and then one of them comes back as sort of this divine godlike being. lifelong mission into space to explore the far reaches of the universe. Something happens to them. Yeah.

And then one of them comes back as sort of this divine godlike being. It's real, real, real cool. A Cthulhu type? No, just a regular. Just a regular kind of. Just a regular godlike kind of guy. Pretty good. Good stuff.

All right. Ready for the next segment then? Yeah. It's letters. So we're going to do a letters thing. It always is, isn't it? It always is so there's a little option here that's just appeared on my YouTube app

and it says save this video offline for later should I do that because I play this off my phone every week from YouTube should I save it or should I keep the challenge? Is it actually going to save the video or is it just going to save the link?

Oh, let's find out. Download this video. Wow. Well, that's your call, mate. No, not now. Email in, listeners. If you have an opinion on this weird thing that we do every week. If you do have an opinion about the show or if you have a question, if you email weekly planet pod at gmail.com mason is a

crawling through the emails been crawling through the emails finding so uh yeah weekly planet pod at gmail.com also if you hashtag weekly planet pod on twitter also pick out a couple of tweets do you want to do the letter first here's the letter this is gary roper weekly planet pod at gmail.com gary roper thanks thanks very well in gary we appreciate it gary gun to your head gun to your balls okay i like it like it. That's the challenge. What superhero would you cast Keanu Reeves in in a comic book movie? He was going to be Plastic Man at one point. What?

Yeah, that was the thing that was going to happen. Doesn't work for me at all. I don't know anything about Plastic Man, so I'm going to say it does work. Ki-I-Yes. Yeah. A big Ki-I-Yes from this fella. Now, Gary says not the best actor, but in good shape for 52 years old. You know he is, Matt.

Agreed. If I had to, my suggestion, Nemesis, it says. Yeah, I can say that. Yeah, okay. Even the cop. He could be the cop in Nemesis. Yeah, okay. Yeah, definitely.

I wonder if you put him in an image comic or something, or a Valiant as opposed to like you make him a Green Lantern or a whatever. Yeah, what do you reckon? I reckon 20 years ago he could have been Nightwing. Absolutely. Yeah, definitely. And now he could be old Nightwing. Old Nightwing.

He's older than Batman Nightwing. Yeah, right? Inexplicably. Though he kind of looks younger than Ben Affleck in a lot of ways. Yeah. I wonder, who would you cast him in the Batman universe? Constantine again. Bring him back as Constantine.

Bring him back. All right. No, I wouldn't hate that neither would I that'd be great we're supposed to be getting Dark Avengers at some point aren't we

that's been on and off Justice League Dark just sorry yeah Justice League Dark I didn't say Dark Avengers everybody just to be clear

you definitely didn't but uh yeah no yeah I wouldn't I would not be upset he suits the he suits that universe better than the TV version

yeah that's probably true it's gritty enough. He fights a big crab fish monster man, doesn't he? That's right, yeah. Yeah. Who else? Who else could he be? What about a Mr. Fantastic?

No. You don't think so? Absolutely not. Why not? Because he's dumb. He's a big old dummy. Yeah. Okay.

Put some techno babble in his mouth. Yeah, you're right. Roll that around in your brain. See how that feels. He looks like him. All right. He's about the right age Roll that around in your brain, see how that feels. He looks like him. All right. He's about the right age. You just want him to do stretchy stuff.

I do, if I'm honest. Let's have him be elongated, man. Let's have him be bloody... Now we're talking, mate. Yeah. Maybe... Flatman from the Great Lakes Adventures. Flat Stanley from the kids' book series.

Yeah. Maybe he's not Flatman. It doesn't matter. Yeah. Anyone else? Maybe Alan Scott. Maybe the first Green Lantern. Okay, sure.

Would work. He's old. Yeah, yeah. We say old if he does not. Yeah, that's right. Especially not in Hollywood years. I feel like also on the back of John Wick, maybe the old superhero studios will come a-knockin'.

Yeah, maybe. What about a bloodshot? No, it wouldn't work. A bloodshot come a knocking. Yeah, maybe. What about a bloodshot? No, it wouldn't work. Bloodshot's too bulky. Yeah, fair enough. But there's different versions of him, but yeah, fair enough. Okay. What about Hawkman?

Turok Dinosaur Hunter. Disagree. Maybe. Caveman? Is he going to have a caveman looking dude? Or is Turok in the modern day? He's in the modern day, okay he's a he's a native American man all right well then maybe Keanu Reeves is also that he's like got that

Johnny Depp kind of thing I like yeah he's ethically ambiguous yeah that's right we've given everybody some great options there you know what let's just make him Shazam we don't have a Shazam yet I'm just just saying what people... Some people have... There's like a Tony Stark. Nah. You don't think you can do a Technobabble again, I guess. You could make him Shazam. Because there's enough footage of him to youthify him. Yeah.

So you can make him like a teen Billy Batson or like a Billy Batson in his early 20s maybe. Okay, sure. And then when he Shazams and he's Captain Marvel. Do you think there's... Regular era Keanu. 52 era Keanu. Do you think there's any point in his life where he could have been Superman? Where he could have made a good Superman?

Ah, no. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Yeah. It's more a hair issue than anything else. Okay, if you say so, mate. I think that's a question's done, isn't it? I think so.

All right, what's next? We definitively answered the question. What about Deathstroke or Deadshot if you got rid of Will Smith? Ah, no. No? No, don't like it. You don't think he'd be a good Deathstroke? He needs more bulk.

He could do the sword play. He needs more bulk, though. Yeah, he could bulk. All right. I'm happy with the Deathstroke casting anyway. Yeah, yeah, same. Okay, this is a tweet. Tweet. I'm happy with the Deathstroke casting anyway. Yeah, yeah. But yeah. Okay. This is a tweet.

Tweet. I did it. I made the note. Should I edit that out? No. Or should I live in shame? Yeah, live in shame. Okay, good.

Yeah. This is from Metal Eugenio. Metal Eugenio. Hashtag WigglyPlanetPod on Twitter. Which superhero is the best supporting cast? Like parents, friends, girlfriend, etc. Yep. Spider-Man or Batman, I guess.

It's Batman. More than Spider-Man. He's got a good supporting cast. I like Batman's supporting cast because he's always like, I work alone, but there's like 40 of them. He's got so many people. So many. He's got an international network. He's got like a garage full of helpers now

and tech dudes and whatever yeah yeah but every now and then maybe he would just go back to just him what do you think about

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I think I like Arrow's team better. Well, well. Felicity. Yeah, yeah. But not the Felicity we were talking about earlier. A different Felicity. Diggle. Diggle's in there.

Red Arrow. Red Arrow. Speedy. A couple others. His sister or whatever, yeah. Some dudes also have bone arrows. Love it. Red Arrow Red Arrow Speedy Couple others His sister or whatever Some dudes also have bone arrows Love it Sometimes

The bad guy from Doctor Who Yeah sometimes What's his name? John Barrowman? Yeah That guy Yeah okay so you think Batman? It's Batman

He's got An assortment of Robins Some of which are dead Some of which are evil Some of which are dead And they've come back and they're good now. Okay.

You got Oracle, Slash Batgirl. But just because he's got a lot, does that make him the best? Best. I mean, these are, you know what, to be fair though, a lot of these are really good characters.

That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, okay. All right. I think Superman has a good supporting cast of like, especially new Superman, he's got a kid, you know, he's married or whatever,

he's got his work life. And apparently there's no Jimmy Olsen yet. Oh, maybe he's been shot in the head in the desert. That's what we're talking about. Yeah. That's canon now. Yeah.

Great. It's cross all mediums. Yeah. You're right. I think, I think Jimmy Olsen's a great supporting character. If they ever bring him back. Of course they will.

Do you reckon they'll bring him back in a sexy way or in an argyle vest way or both? You can do both. Sexy. I reckon sexy, argyle vest, or both you can do both sexy i reckon sexy argyle vest no shirt underneath rippling abs do you ever want to see like jimmy olsen come back and he gets turned into a giant lizard and superman has to fight him or something yes okay that's what he's for that is what he's for isn't he yeah jimmy olsen's been replaced with the robot or whatever yeah great this is. This is from Daniel Worthington.

Hey, hashtag weekly fun pod. Hey, dudes. Oh. Did either of you watch Monkey back in the day? If so, any musings on it? No one ever seems to talk about it. You remember Monkey Magic? I remember Monkey Magic, yeah, sure.

I didn't really watch it, but I know what it is. A man who was exploded out of a rock into existence. Correct. Weird English dubbing, fights his way across a very piss-poor looking Japanese land. Was it Chinese, Japanese? Chinese, I think. Okay, sure. And he can fly in a cloud and he can fight with a stick.

He's got a stick. He can replicate himself. Pigsy. Pigsy. One of the characters was maybe a woman But also maybe a man Sure yeah I didn't really watch

Mostly we see it as ironic t-shirts now I think Yeah totally yeah Absolutely Were you a fan of it back in the day? Absolutely But I could not tell you anything about it for a million dollars I know that Monkey's Yearning Which was one of the last episodes that aired

Was on December 20 on December 2004. That can't be right. I think you're thinking of something else. That's what it says here. Obviously, it was filmed a long time ago, but the dub might have then arrived. In 2004. Yeah. No, it's also got here, their first episode 1978, final episode 1980.

So it didn't even go for very long. Right, okay. Let me do the... I remember. Or was it a whistle? Pigsy had a rake. Anyway, it's reminiscing talk here on the Weekly Planet. Pigsy had a rake.

I get it. Nah, it's shit. Yeah. Anything else? Any more musings? Look, I'll watch some of it on YouTube later And I'll give you a proper evaluation next week Okay Note it down

I don't believe you will I won't, I'll forget You know what? I'm going to treat everybody to the monkey magic theme song Okay I'm not going to blast it I'm just going to play it Okay, cool

Get ready, Mason I'm ready This is boring. God, TV was boring, wasn't it? Yeah. God, this is a really long intro. Ugh, move it along along where's the monkey magic

this is fucking insane an egg just came out of a rock and it's rolling up a hill yeah

and it's about to hatch and I'm presuming monkey magic's going to happen. As foretold in the prophecy. But it's also like one of the first things that ever happened on earth, it seems. Did he leap out of the egg? Did the monkey leap out of the egg? And he looked like a monkey. Yeah.

So. Okay, we've all had enough of this, I think. Absolutely. I had enough of it before you started. Also, he was in a full monkey outfit when he came out. Because he's a monkey. No, no, no. We've discovered a fundamental misunderstanding

that you have about the universe. Monkeys aren't humans wearing little monkey suits. Monkeys look like that. No, monkey suits. Monkeys look like that. No, I know. Genetically look like that. So he's full monkey under that is regular clothes. Yes.

Amazing. I have learned something today. Yeah. Right. All right. Great. That's the show for this week. We did it.

Yeah, we did. Uh, next week, don't know, but, uh, we do have that charity thing.

If you people want to, we mentioned it up top. We won't, we banged on about that for quite a bit but that's all linked below if you could help out that would be awesome yeah what are we going to do next week

assuming we get any any movies or TV shows that America gets next week who knows anymore who does though while you're going through all our details I'll quickly check the movies

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Ooh. Awesome. Is that out already in America? I don't think so. You can go to patreon.com slash MrSundayMovies. Uh-huh. Donate a buck or two a month if you'd like. Don't mind if I do, Mason.

You can click on that Amazon affiliate link that's in our episode description. You can click through there if you want to buy Monkey Magic on DVD. Don't mind if I do, Mason. You can click on that Amazon affiliate link that's in our episode description. You can click through there if you want to buy Monkey Magic on DVD or 4K Blu-ray just to see that monkey fur in operation. You can do that. You click there. You pay the same price and we get a kickback somehow. Why has he got a man's face then? You're telling me he's a monkey, but he's got a man's face.

Monkeys are just like us, James. No, they're not. They share 99.999% of our DNA. But you know what? When they eat one of us, because they're monsters. They're soulless monsters. They're not good, are they? No, terrifying.

But most creatures share like 99% of our DNA. That's true, yeah. Otherwise, you're just a jellyfish. What was I up to? I don't know. I cut you off. Amazon affiliate link. We've got some t-shirts on tpublic.com.

Great designs there. Thank you to the Bruton and the Baskin-Liskin. Rack them for all our theme songs. Oh, thank you to our friend at Free Cheesy Bread on Twitter. He got the Grab That Gem tattoo last week. Yes. You wanted to see the rest of his tattoo, didn't you? Yeah.

So last week he took a photo of that gem they grabbed that gem tattoo and above that he apparently he had what looked like a front loading washing machine with like the great wave coming out of it sweet uh that is correct apparently um he said the washer has no story behind it i apologize may i please be the official bad decision of the podcast absolutely you may uh And above that, above the washer, he's got a tattoo of Mr. T eating what appears to be breakfast cereal, but it's actually buttons. What does that mean? Who knows? All of these raise more questions than I answer, and I love them.

That's so good. Good work, buddy. Thank you for that. I should also point out I finally did my Walking Dead video, what you call my magnum opus. The Chinese democracy of your life. It's up. I've done it.

You're Duke Nukem forever. I rewatched it and I'm like, I don't even know if I agree with all of this anymore, but I'm standing. No, I do. I think there's one thing where I said, nobody important ever dies.

That's not, it's not actually true. I should have said nobody I care about dies, but also that could be anybody on that show. Yeah. And true for your real life as well. You know it, mate. Can't wait till you're dead.

Nah, we're all right though. Yeah. Is that everything? That's it. We did it. All right. We'll see you guys next week. Grab a gym, you guys.

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