The Weekly Planet - 24 Batman Arkham Knight, 300: Rise Of An Empire & Transformers 4

Episode Date: March 10, 2014

This week we discuss news on The Avengers Age Of Ultron, Transformers 4, Fantastic Four & more!Plus we go in depth on 300: Rise Of An Empire and Batman: Arkham Knight! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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With me as always is my co-host Nick Mason. Welcome back Mason. Thank you. How's your holiday going? Really great. You're a real prick, you know that? I know, I'm aware. The emails have been coming through. Good, good. I was called the son of a bitch a lot the last episode. Yes, yes. Fair. For somebody's birthday treat, I believe. That's the one, yeah. Just to insult you. Yeah, good. Yeah. I'm happy to help. Oh, good. Now, you have some

news, is that right? You've done some research. I'm pregnant. Oh. Oh, you mean actual. Well, I haven't done any research. I read a thing on the internet. Good, that's what I want. This is probably in your list of news anyway. Wow, let's see. Well, I was going to say that there was an interview with Zack Snyder recently. Oh, I want to talk about that.

Speaking of all things 300 and Zack Snyder and et cetera, that somebody did an interview with him about various things, and they mentioned Watchmen, and he said, well, chiefly I did Watchmen to save her from the Terry Gilliams of the world I just put this in before you came over I think that is going

to enrage people has it enraged people? well no it hasn't because there's actually he said that in reaction to something else Joel Silver the producer

he did Beef and Vendetta and a bunch of other stuff one of the Batman films? probably Forever? yeah maybe I don't know we could look it up but we don't do that.

Not worth it. So basically he said that his version, which was made by Terry Gilliam, was much, much better. And that Zack Snyder was too much of a slave to the material. Even though he did say he liked that version, but he said he was too slavish to that. He said he was too slavish. Yes, he did say that also. Like that weird Eastern European place that's right

shout outs to Slavistan Slavinians if you're listening yeah those guys Slavinatonians those are the ones well look

we can judge this though because I've worked out a way to judge it I have his ending to the movie and how that was going to run I'm ready now Terry Gilliam as you may be aware

I am not a fan of I'm not a fan no absolutely not. I know he's got some good movies, but I think what tipped us over the edge was the time we watched Brazil. It was, yes. Which is a lot of people's favourite movies. Of all time, yeah.

But it's nonsense. And it's horrendously produced. And it's, yes. You might say that that's not his fault, that's the producer's fault, but it is his fault because he watched the movie before he put it out. You know? Yeah, but there's elements in that film which are just, like, first-year film school, like, defects that they should have ironed out. Are you talking that the ending was a dream?

Well, the ending was a dream. Spoiler alert, guys, if you haven't seen Brazil, but it's decades old at this point. But, you know, elements where there's a scene set in a frozen room and somebody runs through the room and bumps their head on all the icicles

that are coming down from the ceiling which are clearly made of rubber there's elements like that there's you know there'll be a vehicle blocking a road

and then it'll cut to a different angle and the vehicle's been moved to a different angle and nobody there's that weird samurai fight

there's the samurai fight there's the there's the element there's the part where a guy leaps out of a building and then he wasn't wearing a hat, then all of a sudden he is wearing a hat. Okay, yeah, yeah, stuff like that.

And you can't blame all these on, well, it's the director's vision. Yeah, fair point. And also it makes no sense. Yeah. Well, apparently, what's that, Time 1? It's really good. Time Bandits is apparently really good. I enjoyed The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Oh, yeah. I enjoyed 12 Monkeys. I did 12 Monkeys. I didn't know that. Okay, yeah. I think it's just Brazil that I hate. It's bad. I think he gets a free pass, essentially, because he was part of Monty Python.

Yeah. And they essentially could do no wrong, but it's not a good film. I don't know why people love it. I guess maybe at the time that was the first... Movie. Yeah, it was the very first movie ever made, and certainly it was the very first sci-fi film that was about bureaucracy gone mad. This incredible satire of that.

It was like a parody or a satire of 1984, but isn't 1984 itself a satire? That's a satire. Sure, yeah. But there were not enough men with wings. Oh, that's right. That's actually a common complaint of that book and movie. Yeah, yeah. But I guess the link between gilliam and it's

not just watchmen i guess it's also because sucker punch had like robot samurai weird dream sequences that were unnecessary and it was a terrible film so i guess there's the link two terrible films all right well i could i could tell you his ending to the film i'm ready okay so let's get ready to judge and from a non-filmmaker standpoint okay just criticize people who create fantastic i'm ready for that it's what the internet was made for let's do that's right okay so basically the osmandias character convinces dr manhattan to go back in time and stop himself from being created so there will be no dr manhattan and hence no and then that would kind of halt the rest of the superheroes existing okay sure so sure. So there would be no super-powered being anymore,

because he's the only super-powered being. Yes. Well, there's a couple of psychics in the comics, but it's all very vague. It's all vague, yeah, yeah. Okay, and that's not it, though. Yep, I'm ready. This is my favourite scene.

Okay, I'm ready. I think I know where this is going to go. In the vortex that was created after what occurred, the characters from Watchmen only became comic book characters. So the three characters at the left, Rorschach, Knight, Allen, Silk Spectre, they're suddenly standing in Times Square and there's a kid reading a comic book and the comic book's got them on it. And he says, hey, you're just like in my comic book

because they became comic book characters. Awful. And he also says it was very smart, it was very articulate, and it really gave you a very satisfying resolution to the story. Incorrect. All of those are incorrect. That's Gilliam's ending, was it? Yeah. That's no.

I imagine if that were to come to print, people would be like, oh, he's such a visionary. He's, you know, he's bent genres and he's broken down barriers, but that's just terrible. Well, people on Coming Up With A Movie When This Went Up weren't a fan. People liked the Watchmen movie. Yeah, I did. Even though they changed the squid ending to the other ending. I like it. I think it works really, really well.

I think it's probably Zack Snyder's best film. I'd say so too, yeah. Yeah. And he also thinks that as well, actually. There you go. Yeah. Good thinking, Zack Snyder. You've got the right opinion for a change, mate.

Yeah, good for you. Yeah. So, yeah, there you go. We'll come back to Zack Snyder later. Please. Even though he didn't direct 300. He may as well have. He may as bloody well have.

There was that weird samurai fight. Yeah. Okay, in a dream. Okay, so let's go from the top then. New news. Uh-huh. New news? New news.

Okay, now, did you watch the new Transformers trailer? I know that because you just watched it then. Immediately, but I watched it before that. Yeah, you already knew. I've done my research. I know, I know. I would never be one to criticize you not to do that. Thank you. Even though that because you just watched it then. Immediately, but I watched it before that. Yeah, you already knew. I've done my research. I know, I know. I would never be one to criticise you not to do that. Thank you.

Even though I criticise you for that every week. And rightly so. So what do you think of the new trailer? We've seen the Superball clip, but this is something else. Yep, they finally put cartoon Optimus Prime truck in the film. I was happy with that. Momentarily. Do you know the reason why they didn't put him in the other ones? Supposedly because, like, dimensionally, he wouldn't be big truck. Yeah. In the film. I was happy with that. Momentarily. Do you know the reason why they didn't put him in the other ones?

Supposedly because like dimensionally. Yeah. He wouldn't be big enough. Yeah. Forgetting that he's got a trailer. If they just put a trailer on the back. Heaps of room. You know what you can put in the back of a truck trailer?

Lots of stuff. A couch. Couch, certainly. A chair. Heaps of LPs. Like a milk crate filled with LPs. Anything you want. Anything you want. Exactly. With a milk crate filled with LPs. Anything you want. Anything you want.

Exactly. With a grease it. Optimus Prime. You could have put it in there. Also, the thing is, because it's CGI, you're not building a real thing. So you can make his dimensions bigger when he transformers. Transformers? It doesn't matter.

When he transformers into a truck. Yeah. But also, the first film features a gigantic cube that can be compacted down into a tiny little cube. So, who's he fooling really come on michael bay but yeah i no i don't know just there were a lot of long establishing shots in the first transformers where they're all driving down a highway all the good guys yeah and optimus prime still looks like a teeny little truck okay yeah you should have put that trailer on would have looked much more impressive no you're right yeah yeah does he have the trailer

at all in those movies? He has it in 2 and 3. Okay. Like, momentarily, he carries it. It's got guns and stuff in it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, look, I'd go back and check, but I never will. No, don't. Yeah, I'm not going to subject myself to that. But yeah, he's going to be the old-style truck for a minute.

Yeah. And then he's going to... We won't actually see him transform out of that mode into robot mode. He'll just explode out of the barn. Okay, yeah, yeah.

Now, it's also going with the hole, which happened in Transformers 3. We don't need Transformers anymore! We don't need Transformers to save us from evil robots! It kind of looks like they do, though. I know, yeah. Spoiler alert, but it's definitely... They're going to need those Transformers. You better believe it.

Who was the villain? Do we know? Kelsey Grammer. No, but besides that... Kelsey Grammer is the villain. Do you mean in real life? Yes! No, no, in the movie, Kelsey Grammer is the villain.

But who's the robot villain? Oh, I think it's Galvatron. Okay. Yeah. Does that mean Megatron died in 3? Because I have no idea. I can't remember. I know he died at the end of 1.

Uh-huh. And then he got his face smashed at the end of 2. Uh-huh. After coming back. Yeah. And then at the end of 3, a building fell over and there was a snake. That solves all my questions. That answers all my questions there. Is there going to be Galvatron

or Shockwave, I guess? Okay. Whichever one in the cartoons had a gun coming out of his face, which is neither of them. Yeah, I don't know. It may as well be Galvatron. Yeah, exactly. Are they going to bring in Unicron then? Maybe that fleet of ships is Unicron. Yeah. Because it's not going to make any less sense

than any other. Yeah, exactly. Do you think they'll do a big city destroying thing again? Yes. Yeah. Because it's not going to make any less sense than any other. That's true. Yeah, exactly. Do you think they'll do a big city-destroying thing again? Yes. Yeah, why not? What have they got left? Nothing. No. What do you think about Grimlock coming back in?

We spoke about that briefly. But Optimus Prime hits him right in the face. That's a bit of a diss. What I think happens, I think Optimus Prime goes to look for him, and he's an ancient Transformer that's been there for ages. And he's... You know how all of them are in stasis? Yeah, yeah. for periods of time and i think he must find him and then grimlock attacks and then he's like help me grimlock grimlock's like i will let's do it yep so that's

what i think he's my two-headed bird friend or enemy maybe frenemy yeah also it's also got that thing in trailers that i love which i think is the new brrm, where it stutters to a stop. It goes... Yeah, that's a good... Yeah, yeah. I'm going to put that in so people know what I'm talking about right here. Yeah, it's on here as well, yeah. I mean, we're going to see it, aren't we?

Yeah, okay. And we're looking forward to it. Nope. People don't like it when I power on the Transformers movies. That's not true. Most people like it. Some people don't. Some people are.

Yeah. Okay. But, you know, I think they're... Are they people that grew up on Transformers? Because I grew up on Transformers, but I will happily rain on this parade. So, you know. Would you like to see a movie that's just set on Cybertron? Not made by Michael Bay?

Yeah. Me too. I like those games. Fall of Cybertron. Not made by Michael Bay. Yeah. Me too. I like those games. Fall of Cybertron and the other one. I can't believe it's not Cybertron. War for Cybertron. Oh, okay, right. Both of those.

You played those? Yes. Yeah, they're good. Second one's better. But still, there you go. All right, Mason, moving along. Terminator 5. Okay.

It's coming along nicely. So what's the nigger says? It's an amazing script, and he's never lied to us before. That's very true. But of course he's going to say that. Kindergarten cop. Last action hero. He said he didn't have a tumour. But then he didn't? No, he definitely didn't.

He didn't. So, last action hero. People look back on that movie now and say it was way ahead of its time. No. Just, no? Sometimes I just put my foot down. I don't need a reason. Look in your hearts. You'll know that I'm right. Now, apparently this new film,

it is going to reset the timeline. We've talked about this before, but it's going to revisit specific scenes from the first two movies. Mostly the first one. Robocop vs. The Terminator style? I really hope so. If you haven't seen it,

please go watch the Robocop vs. Terminator. No, what's the worst Robocop story? That's the video on my YouTube channel. If you haven't checked it out the Robocop vs Terminator no what's the worst Robocop story that's the video on my YouTube channel if you haven't checked it out go and check it out that is the best

Terminator Robocop story you'll ever read I think so yeah don't read the comic or do doesn't matter irrelevant

yeah check it out but basically one of the scenes is apparently the killing spree the Sarah Connor killing spree

where he systematically goes through the phone book oh yep okay another one is a scene with the iguana. Remember Pugsley the iguana? Not really.

Remember Sarah Connor had an iguana or a friend had an iguana? Was it when they're ready to go out? Yeah. To the club? Yeah, to the club.

I have no memory of that. The club's called Tech Noir. Tech Noir, yeah. And apparently the other scene where John Connor's foster parents are killed. Yeah, sure. Stabbed right through the face. I have no memory of that. The club's called Tech Noir. Tech Noir, yeah. And apparently the other scene where John Connor's foster parents are killed

stabbed right through the face. I remember that. Here's a question for you. If a Terminator can only travel through time because they've got their skin covered in human flesh

Yes. I'm sure this has been addressed and I know people have asked this question before. How does a T-1000 go back in time? Liquid metal. Ah.

But is that the same as human skin? Yeah. Okay. Is this, if it's going to revisit some scenes, thousand go back in time liquid metal ah but that is that the same as human skin yeah okay is this is this reboot if it's going to revisit some scenes is it going to reboot the continuity within the continuity okay i mean like is some are they going to go back in time and the terminators or whatever going to go back in time and reinsert themselves into the pre-existing continuity i think that's how it's gonna work yeah that's gonna confuse

Schwarzenegger's role specifically dumb people Schwarzenegger's role though apparently is gonna be that of like old Spock in the new Star Trek films where he's like he's gonna

guide the young Terminators yes the Terminator you know is gonna kill a Sarah Connor and be like wasn't the right Sarah Connor and then he looks up into the sky and old T-800 Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to sort

of appear in the clouds. Like Mufasa? Yeah. And give him advice. Yeah. I'm ready for that. Just like believe in yourself. Get back out there.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, great. Easy nine millimeter. Yeah. He would say that. That's probably the most important gun.

Yeah. I'm still yet to find somebody I want to show Terminator 1 and 2 to who haven't seen them. So that second bit, second movie blows their mind when it turns out Schwarzenegger's not the villain. Because they spoiled all that in the promos, but somebody didn't know that. Magic moment. Face melting. So yeah. Or a complete

anti-climax. And you'd be like, see? Look! Look! Right? And they'd be like what are you... Do you want to get lunch or something? look right and they'd be like what are you do you want to get

lunch or something alright Avengers 2 news Mason good Scarlett Johansson is pregnant with a baby

a human baby okay cool you cool with that wait am I the father did this it's unlikely are you springing this on me

I have congratulations thanks but basically so all those scenes She's playing a big role in the movie It's being pushed forward A very big role

I made the pregnant belly motion there They've been pushed up to April Which is due in August So get them out of the way You know Yeah yeah So there you go So that's changed the filming somewhat

But you know I said this in my video I think on Sunday That What is it? Penelope Cruz was pregnant During the Pirates 4, and her sister just stood in, and it was fine, because they looked like identical. Does Scarlett Johansson have a sister that looks identical?

No, she's got a sister that looks like Penelope Cruz. Oh, that'll sort it then, yeah. Good. So, yeah, there you go. Did you watch the new... And she's got that sister that looks kind of like Johnny Depp, so... Let's make a new franchise, guys. We can do it. Did you watch the new Sin City trailer?pp. So let's make a new franchise, guys. We can do it.

Did you watch the new Sin City trailer? No. Oh, there's a new Sin City trailer. Okay. Do you want to watch it now? Is it pretty much exactly like the old Sin City trailer? It looks exactly the same, yeah. Does it look kind of like they filmed them at the same time?

It does look like that. And I think that's a really fair achievement. Because I think often... It's been nine years, by the way. It's been nine years since the last one. 2005, if you can believe that. Believe it, though. I will.

Can you believe it? Yes. Yeah. I thought you could. I understand the passage of time. Good, good. But basically, it looks identical. Because a lot of times when they do this, you know,

and I said this again in my video on Sunday, you know the Lord of the Rings films? Yes. And the Hobbit films look very different, I think. Set in the same universe, but there's a weird...'t know i just think they don't they don't mesh uh-huh is that because technology's moved on yes that weird frames per second issue it's it's it's i think it's more the technology thing i think there's less sets this time right uh it does everything kind of looks shinier uh-huh kind of and a lot of the stuff seems to be as well that a lot of the there

was a lot more location shooting in the last one. Like they'd go to a real forest. Right. Because I remember there's a scene in the new one where they're in a forest

or whatever. I can't remember. But basically I remember that week later I saw the end of the first one Fellowship of the Ring when they have that

big fight scene in the forest and all the orcs are running through and it's clearly a real forest and it looks amazing because it's a real forest.

But the hobbits are not that. There doesn't seem to be a lot of it. There's some of it, but not nowhere near as much. But Sin City looks pretty much, well, because I guess Sin City was all CGI. Exactly. It's all green screen, blue screen or whatever. So there you go. But no, it looks exactly the same.

Bruce Willis is back. I knew he was back, but I didn't know in what capacity. I think he's like a voiceover ghost. Well, there's going to be a lot of voiceover ghosts, right? Marv's back. Yeah, but I think Marv's story's set in the past. Okay, then. Good.

Yeah. What's your favourite Sin City story from the last Sin City movie? You're probably Marv. Oh, really? If he leaps out that window. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty good, right? I like the yellow bastard one.

Okay. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Everyone's got favourites. They sure do. We've discovered a couple today, haven't we? We sure have. Email in. Tell us your favourites. Don't. No, don't. They sure do. We've discovered a couple today, haven't we? We sure have.

Email in, tell us your favourites. Don't. No, do. Okay. Yeah. Tell us one of the three. One of the three stories. Just say one, two or three.

We'll figure it out. We will. Yeah, yeah. Now, I have a grievance to wear. Towards me? No. Okay. It's not personal in any way.

I think it might be. I think the undercurrent will be aggressive towards me. It could spiral towards us? No. Okay. It's not personal in any way. I think it might be. I think the undercurrent will be aggressive towards me. It could spiral towards me, yes. I'm going to find an undercurrent of aggression towards me, whatever this is. You know, last week,

you're probably right. You know, last week or the week before the Amazing Spider-Man 2 we were talking about too many clips, too many spoilers. You said that specifically.

I did, yeah. Too many clips and spoilers. So get ready for this. Well, basically, a whole lot of footage came online this week, and I'm not going to spoil a lot of it, but it's way too much. For example, I know exactly how many minutes. This isn't even footage.

Mark Webb, the director, revealed this. I know how many minutes the rhino is in Spider-Man 2. I'm not going to spoil it for you, but now I know that. And I'm like, I didn't really need to know the exact minutes he's there. No, exactly. Because you know exactly. So you go, well, okay, if it's, you know, nine need to know the exact minutes he's there. No, exactly. So. Because you know exactly. You go, well, okay, if it's, you know, nine minutes, we're at the eight minute mark.

Spider-Man is definitely going to pull, have to pull something out of his, out of his spidey boots. Spider hat. To stop this. Spider hat. Spider hat, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So that's.

I don't know, man. That's annoying. That is, that's way too much information. It's way too much. Yeah. I've read that and I've gone, this is, this is ridiculous. And the hat, I said this last time, same thing with the last movie. It was something like 45 minutes of footage was released that somebody edited together.

Right. There's so much going on here. And I've seen most of it. But just hold something back, you know? I will. Like, people will see it. It's Spider-Man. Yeah.

So, you know, make of that what you will. It's dumb. Yeah. Was there enough undercurrent of aggression towards you during that? First of all, how dare you? Second of all, no, it's fine. Sam Raimi's production company, Ghost House Pictures. Yep.

His company and another company, which I can't remember. It should be called Raiming It Down Your Throat. I'll think of another one as you talk. Good, good. I'll ignore whatever you're saying. Okay, gotcha. Just give you a blank look. Gotcha. Yep, okay. They're going to make The Last of Us movie. Oh. Good, good. I'll ignore whatever you're saying. Okay, gotcha. Just jump in. Just give you a blank look. Gotcha.

Yep, okay. They're going to make The Last of Us movie. Oh, okay, sure. Are they going to get Ellen Page? I hope so. No, I doubt it. Ellen Page, what is she,

27 now? 27, 28? Something like that. Yeah. Though she still passed for young. Yeah. But she wasn't in

The Last of Us game. That's true, yeah. She was in Beyond Two Souls. Which is apparently not good. I've heard good things. I've heard not good. Wow. I've heard it's like an interactive movie that's not not good. I've heard good things. I've heard not good. Wow. I've heard it's like an interactive movie that's not that interactive.

I love those things though. Really? No. Did you like Heavy Rain? No. Do you like rain? Jason. That's my Heavy Rain impression.

I haven't played it. It doesn't matter. I remember I saw the trailer. Not trailer. I saw the review and it's like, it starts off pretty slow. And he's brushing his teeth. Yeah. And I'm like, not playing that.

Yeah. I'm going to swing from a thing and kick a guy in the face. I can brush my teeth in real life if I choose to, which I do not. That's right. So yeah.

The guy who was the director or art director or director of some description, story director, director, he's going to write the script for Last of Us. He did it for the video game.

Same guy. So there you go. I hope they get Josh Brolin because that's who he's based off. Really it for the video game. Same guy. So there you go. Okay. I hope they get Josh Brolin. Because that's who he's based off, really, the look is anyway. So yeah. I don't see why Josh Brolin wouldn't do it. He did Oldboy, so you know.

Yeah, he'll do anything. He'll do anything for a sweet paycheck. Yeah, Jonah Hex, yeah. And that George Bush movie that probably came way too soon. Yeah. I think it came out when he was still in office. I don't care now. Nah. It's not a great movie either.

Singing in the Rain, brackets E. That's his musical production company. Very good. But I don't think Ellen Page would do it because they used her lightness without her permission. Yeah, and she was kind of annoyed by that. Yeah, rightly so. I think they did apologise though to her. Yeah.

They should get together all the animated characters that are clearly based on real people, like the Ben Affleck character from Final Fantasy and Ellen Pageman make a movie about him. Good. Like a kind of Wreck-It-Ralph kind of style movie? I think so, yeah. Sure. Now, were you worried that the Fantastic Four movie

was not going to be grounded in reality enough? Worried, certainly a word that some people use. Unconcerned? Sure. At all? You are concerned? No, I'm not concerned. Okay, good.

Well, Miles Teller, who's playing Mr. Fantastic, as we spoke about, controversial casting choice. Because, you know, apparently it's all based on the ultimate Fantastic Four, which I haven't read.

Have you read that? Yeah, but they are young. They're a lot younger. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Is that the best way to go, though? Why not? Okay. Last couple of times

haven't worked out too well, so whatever. No, you're right. Just throw anything at the wall, see what sticks, you know? That's it. Well, Miles Teller said this. When I read the script,

I didn't feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. So he didn't feel like that. These are very human people that end up having to become, I guess, what is known as the Fantastic Four.

That's a really odd way of phrasing any of that. Wouldn't you rather? I want a larger-than- incredible story superhero tale i don't want a family that's like i don't know about this we're grounded in reality our personal problems are more important than whatever's coming to destroy us i don't care about your personal problems galactus yeah big purple man big metal swoopy bits on his helmet. Sometimes a cloud. Sometimes a cloud. Either of those is fine.

So, yeah, what do you think of that? Fox are doing it. We're doing X-Men. They love grounding things in reality, don't they? They sure do. Yeah. It's going to be what it's going to be. Next.

I got my watch with news, but we covered that. So, Mason, I think we may have come to the end of the news this week. And hence the end of the show. I hope it's the end of news forever. No, I don't. I love news. Cool. Well, look, we are going to talk about the Arkham Origins game as well.

Not Arkham Origins, Arkham Knight. But before that, we are going to talk also about 300 Rise of an Empire. Fantastic. What I like to think of is the first in a series of the Nick Mason forced to see it film festival. The seeing it under duress cinematic extravaganza. Here's to many more. But you enjoy shelling out your own money for movies you don't want to see, don't you?

Oh, yeah. I do love that. You're right. You got me again. It's in the spirit of the festival. Yeah, yeah. I think so. No refunds.

No refunds. Now, this is a refunds no refunds now this is it uh it's not a sequel is it it's a prequel side call sort of sequel because it kind of it covers before to after if they if there was a news article that came up on comicbookmovie.com yeah our favorite comicabookamovie.com website. That revealed that this was all just offcuts from the first 300, stapled together, wake up Ron Burgundy style, and then they just CG'd over the top

just to finish it. Would you be surprised? No. Exactly. So I take it you're a massive fan. Yeah, absolutely. As I was at the... We should mention at the start of this,

spoilers, spoilers galore. But at the same time, there's no way to spoil this film, ultimately. If you've seen the first one, especially. Yeah. Because it's mostly just red trends. But it's the absolute stereotypical sword and sandals kind of film.

There's no surprises, right? No. Nothing springs out of you and goes, wow, I can't believe they did that. I didn't feel... I mean, I think in my review, I just said it's okay. It's fine. I've forgotten a lot of feel, I mean, I think in my review I just said, it's okay. It's fine.

I've forgotten a lot of it. I had to write a lot of stuff down because normally I could just talk about it but I saw this on Thursday. It's all gone out of your head. I just don't, yeah.

Well, so I guess, was it better than the first? Ah, did you recently, did you re-watch the first one? I was going to but I didn't,

no. What do you remember of it? Well, I remember it being, there being tension before each battle. Yes. And them going into their first battle in particular, they'd come across the Immortals who'd hung all those guys to the tree. Right, yep.

And they're kind of going up against these mythical warriors and they're outnumbered and whatever. And every battle brought something new. But these are the battles, not to discredit them, they're fine. It's just ships crashing into each other. There's a lot of ships crashing into each other. I'm like, I wonder if in this next battle there'll be a different way of ships crashing into each other,

but there wasn't. Cinematically, I remember 300, like from, I guess, a cinematographer's perspective, like brought some new things to the table. Yeah. Like the first one had kind of that that kind of you know they run somebody runs in a battle and then everything slows down a lot and then it speeds up again and then it slows down then he kills a guy that it's like what they there's a lot of that again yeah but what i think is because originally in the first 300 as i remember it zach snyder had some sort of hand-cranked camera. Okay, yeah. And he can't, so he could control that manually, and it had a very kind of, you could, you know,

you could see all the detail and it was quite good. I think what's happened between the first 300 and the new 300 is there's some sort of Adobe After Effects plug-in that's being made for it now. And you just push a button and it slows time to whatever you want and then it speeds it up, and then you just CGI over the top. In the first battle we see where they do that, you've got

your main characters. It's Themistocles and Artemisia are the two main characters. For the purposes of this discussion I'm going to call them Theo and Eva Green because it's just easy to pronounce and remember. So in the first battle, Theo's fighting these guys, right?

And you see him, the camera slows down, and he does all his action, and he flips a guy over his back. Like, I think every element of that was computer generated. I think they just had him run across something and bob up and down a bit. And they CGI'd, like, some Persians over the top of him. Because it doesn't look...

No, it certainly doesn't look as good. I know people say it matches the visual style of the first one. I don't think it really does. I don't think it does. I think it's got a really weird dark blue filter as well. I think I said this in my review, but there's a bit in the first one where they watch all the ships crash and it's raining

and it's dark and it's blue. That's what this whole movie looks like. Yes, you're right. So, you know, what did you think of the new guy, though, Theo? He's no Jerry Butler, is he? No, he's not. He's no good time party guy. I like the actor.

His beard isn't as full? Certainly not. But I think Jerry Butler's beard is comically full. Like, if you look back, like, there's some brief clips of him in this new one, and it's ridiculously full. Yeah, it's crazy. It's very Spartan to have an amazing beard go hard or go home i say that's right but uh beard certainly isn't spartan no the opposite of that

he's an australian actor yes i saw with my brother and as soon as he started talking my brother turns me and goes oh jesus it's fucking australian because i know about you but i can hear an australian accent immediately i can hear an hear an Australian accent doing an American accent. Yes. And I could not not hear that. That's fair. And maybe that's different if you're from overseas. Uh-huh.

But, yeah. No, you can pick it straight away. Yeah. It's not. It's really distracting. Yeah, it is. Yeah. It is.

It's like, that's why I find the second two Star Wars prequels really distracting, because they're filmed in Australia, and there's a lot of accents that I can tell are Australians.ians and a lot of people i've seen pop up in australian soap operas and whatever i'm like that's that guy that's that guy that's like oh he was in the tv show water rats yes exactly you know stuff like that so it draws me right out that being said i think he did an okay job i think the action scene especially in the last battle he's got a really good kind of one shot moment i think where he kills a lot of guys and yeah okay that was quite good yeah but yeah yeah. But yeah, he's certainly, no, you're right, he's no Jerry Butler. There was a lot of, especially in that final battle, there's a lot of, and I thought we were beyond this in action films, there's a lot of five-frame cuts, or whatever it is,

you know, couple of frames, switch angles, couple of frames, switch angles. Yeah, yeah. I thought we were over that. Did 300 do that? Did 300 have any long shots? I think it had more long shots than that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I might be wrong. Yeah, it feels like a cheaper film. Yeah. wise, it does. It must have been cheaper, right? I'd imagine. Yeah, yeah. No, no. 300

was only like $65 million to make. But I feel like they built more sets for this than they did 300, but it still didn't look as good. Speaking of Australian soap actors. Always. This will only be relevant to our two listeners. Except for Chris Hemsworth. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I can't pick his accent. Well, Silas, Theo's best friend, he's played by

Callum Mulvey, who Australian listeners will know, and if you want to look this up, American listeners, he plays Drasic in a 1990s like teen soap opera

called Heartbreak High, which was like, you know, teens having teen problems, he was the bad boy. Yeah. And he brings that bad boy flair and style to this film. He sure does, doesn't he?

Yeah. Yeah. Did you, they're obviously not as, they're not as fit looking as the other guys as well. Sure. I know Sullivan Stapleton said he lost a lot of weight for it, but they didn't want him to bulk up because, because when you see the Spartans in it, they're much noticeably bigger than everybody else. But I don't know.

I, I think that that that that brought something to the last film, having so many muscular men, which sounds ridiculous. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it brought a particular thing to that movie, like that sense of camaraderie and battle and friendship, and they're all in this together, and they've all been trained in exactly the same way.

In this one, they're kind of like a ragtag. They're kind of like, I don't know, it's just not, I didn't find that whole army is engaging. But then again, the A-Team aren't all equally bulky, are they? That's true. When you think about it. Yeah, I don't know what I'm actually complaining about here. I think it's just the sense of camaraderie between the men is not there

and the individuality between them. And also, apparently when you get shot with an arrow, you live for a really, really long time in this. Dealers, ages, ages and ages. You could go all the way back to Persia. Long enough to have a little speech, get settled in a comfy bed, you know.

You know what I thought was really funny? Yes. I can't remember what exactly he said, but as the Dracic was dying and he got hit with the arrow and he comes in

and he whispers something. He's like, rack off. That was the, that was the, that's the common 1990s like Australian swear. Yeah.

Rack off. Go to... TV swear. Nobody actually used it. Go to YouTube. Look up heartbreak high rack off. You'll find a compilation of all the rack offs. It's like four minutes of it.

It's amazing. Please do that. I enjoy it. Do it. That's a little slice of Australian culture for our American listeners. And Icelandians. Oh, yeah. Those guys.

And Slovenians. Yeah, all those guys. All those guys. Yeah, thank you. But yeah, he goes, come here on a taste. And he whispers to him. And then the son goes to him, what did my dad say to me, say to you? And he goes, don't worry, I'll tell you later.

And then just before the battle, he goes, your dad said that you're a pretty good bloke. And I'm like, you could have just told him that. Could have said that, yeah. And it wasn't that. It was something else. But it was something so inconsequential. It wasn't like, here's some amazing, this is where you really come from, or don't forget to whatever. Yeah.

You know, it was just like, you're pretty great. Uh-huh. I like to think it was what Scarlett Johansson whispered to Bill Murray at the end of Lost in Transformation. Or the other way around, doesn't it? Or the other way around. Yeah. I haven't seen it.

Pretty good. Okay, so Xerxes. Yes. This is based on... The graphic novel that's not out yet. Which hasn't come out yet. Okay, is it finished? Do we even know?

I don't think it's finished, no. Probably not finished. Well, I'm assuming it's going to come out now around the time that they... The three-quarter of this is going to come out. Because it ended very abruptly. That's true. This movie. I think they're going to make another one.

Go on, sorry. I was going to say, the transformation of Xerxes to the golden god that he is... Yeah. Is that a metaphor? I don't know! I don't know. I don't know. Because that part, the Queen Gorgo, played by Lena Headey, is telling that story. So are they embellishing on it?

Did he really become a nine foot giant man? I don't know. It's a really good question. Because he goes mad and he goes into the desert. Yeah. mad and he goes into the desert yeah and then is is him stepping into the pool intended to be a metaphor for years and years of of training and you know learning of the the the ways of war and leadership and then he emerges as the golden man or does he just go into the pool and magic happens like like you see on the back of like camper vans and stuff like the sticker that says magic happens

and then he just emerges as the golden god instantly because if so why doesn't he just get all his troops to go into the pool you would think that would be a good solution that would be pretty that would be all eight feet tall invincible man yeah no you're right i don't know i don't know what to make of that is he really giant because that's the thing i was unsure of going in because in the first one all the magical elements are put there because david went and was telling the story right their right they're about sure who is barely used in this movie as well but he's got he keeps that great voice he does hello i'm david webham is that close that's really good i thought he was in the room with us also he should watch his eye socket because it's constantly bleeding i'm just saying yeah i'm just saying but uh yeah I'm just saying. But, yeah, I don't know.

Like, is it... So, in this, I was like, what's the magical elements here? And what's magic and what's not? Hmm. Well, because it's called Rise of an Empire. Yeah. My assumption was going to be we would see more of the rise of an empire, which we really didn't.

No. We had the Greek Empire already established. We had the Persian Empire already established. Where's the... Which empire rose? No. Empire Records, the movie. Oh, that was good, wasn't it? Yeah. Sure was. Open till midnight. That's right. Did you like Eva Green? Yes. Were you going to say something else? I was going to say surprise Eva Green. I didn't know she was going to be in that. Oh, really? So there

you go. Yeah, no, she was great, I thought. Yeah. She definitely was the most interesting new character to bring in. Because every other character that was interesting was from the original movie. Yeah, yeah. You know, when Hunchback comes in, I'm like, oh, cool, I remember him. And then that was it. Old Hunchy Magoo, he's back for another piece of the pie. So, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, it's... Do you think, because Eva Green gets her boobs out, spoiler alert. We get boobs like 20 seconds into the movie. Yeah, straight away. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's because they were like, okay, the producers were like, okay, Eva Green, can you get your boobs out for this film? Yeah.

And she's like, is it essential to the story? And they're like, not really, but they're great. And she was like, okay, but as long as I'm not the only one, because I look like a right idiot. And they're like, okay, fine, straight away. Put it in. Let this all shut green up. Yeah, that's right.

Wouldn't surprise me. Eva Green, you've been snookered, mate. They tricked you. Well, no, she doesn't mind going, dude. Yeah, that's actually a good point. Good for her. Yeah. But it's estimated that it's earned between Friday and Sunday in the US about $45 million.

Uh-huh. How much did it cost to make? $42 million. Uh-huh. How much did it cost to make? $42 million. I don't know. But, uh... So, if that's in the first three days, it's going to make its money back, which means there'll probably be another one.

Uh-huh. Because it just kind of ends where Eva Green is killed. Yep. And she's like, you got me, Stapleton. What would they call him again? Theo.

Theo. Theo and Eva Green. And then Xerxes is like, son of a bitch. And then the movie ends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I don't know. You know what I've got here, though?

I've got questions for Mason. Yes, I have. I wrote a list of questions that I don't know the answer to, that I wanted to put to you. Okay. I'm going to head you off when a man and a woman love each other very much. Ah! Ah.

I got you. Do they have to love each other? Not really. Can they be forced together in a relationship? Yeah, it could be an accident. Okay, cool. Anyway, what are each other? Not really. Can they be forced together in a relationship? Yeah, it could be an accident. Okay, cool. Anyway, what are your questions? All right.

Does riding a horse into a sea battle put you at an advantage or disadvantage? Well, the thing about horses is they really love getting lots of wooden splinters in them. So if you're riding it directly at a big wooden ship that's exploding, they love that. They really get into it. And they love jumping into a water, into water, deep water, and then being able to leap out really easily. Yeah, horses love leaping out.

Horses have a natural buoyancy at about probably like six feet underwater. Like they achieve a natural, like a neutral buoyancy, and then they can just leap out of water. Okay. Yeah. That makes sense.

That's science for you. Did you like all the inspiring speeches about freedom and honour? You know what? In the cinema, he gets to the midpoint of that speech, and in my head I went, freedom! There'll be freedom! And then he said freedom, and I high-fived myself.

Yeah. That's right. Yeah. They were not great speeches, were they? No. No. And there was a lot of them. Yeah.

What do you think when people you know when somebody gets the end of a speech and everybody goes what are they actually saying what do you say to be part of that I'm really into this

oh you say this is a moment we're all agreeing with what you're saying oh that makes sense but everybody's saying it in a different way so it just sounds like

and one guy's probably like I'm actually against this but you can't I'm a's probably like, I'm actually against this! But you can't. I'm a conscientious objector! I'm against war. Can I get a shirt, please? I'd like a shirt. It's cold out.

It's real cold. We're near the beach and it's windy. Yeah. You don't want to be near the beach when it's windy. It's the worst. I mean, I know we've been paying now on this movie. It's fine, though, right? Or it's terrible?

I thought it was okay. I think that if we can't come to, right? Or it's terrible? I thought it was okay. I think that if we can't come to a consensus on whether it's good or bad, like if we're right on the line, it's bad. Okay, fair enough. I got more questions though.

Okay, I'm ready. Did you like the ship that was filled with tar? Yeah. Yeah. Should ships... I love stuff filled with tar. Good.

Roads. Cigarettes. Trucks that are making roads. Cancerous lungs. Yes. Squeeze them out like a sponge. The tar baby from the Br'er Rabbit storybook. Yes.

That's really racist, by the way. Some sort of tar monster. Yes. Should... The guitar as an instrument. You know? All those things. I love them.

Don't question me about... I'm sorry. Okay. You love tar. Yeah. Should ships have railings? Yes. Not a single ship had a single railing.

No, they had the rope. They had that bit of rope. Yeah, it's not enough. You're right. If you crash into another ship and you're holding a rope with one hand, guess what? You're going in. How did they fall for it? Because remember the Greeks are headed towards the Persian ship and they're like, we'll do

this sweet ramming the ship thing we did last time. And they're just heading along. And then another Persian ship just gets right up in their grill. You know, from the side. How did they not see that coming? I don't know. I also don't understand how... It's like they had camera perspective.

They could only see exactly what was coming down the camera lens. There's like a hundred of them. Look, get one person to look left. Just one person. Any of them? Yeah, any of them. But they don't have rail them. Look, just get one person to look left. Just one person. Any of them? Yeah, any of them. But they don't have railings so you can see right...

Not David Wenham. No. He's only got one eye and it's his right eye so don't get him to look left. But also, if you're holding on... You know the bit

where they circled the ships? Yes. And then the ships come over the wave and they're like bearing down on them like it's a hill? Yes.

Was that a wave or a hill in the water? Because it wasn't moving. It was that natural buoyancy. Because Persian ships retrieve a natural buoyancy at about, like, 8 to 10 feet under the water. Okay. So they can just jump out. Okay, I understand that.

Yeah, like going over a hill. Did you like the bit where the guy was kicked in the chest, like the first movie? Yes, I did. That is classic 300. When Drasic, the second-in-command guy, was spotted as a spy and leapt into the water, did he swim all the way back to Greece? I like to think that he was in the water and he was swimming for a bit and he got real tired. And then he saw a Nazi submarine that was just floating on the top and he just grabbed onto the periscope.

And that got him all the way back to Greece. Well, that makes sense. Because why would that submerge? That's why would it? That's a really long swim, though. Even if they were near the shore, which they weren't, that's a really long swim. For the record, listeners,

I know that sort of submarine is mostly not submerged. So don't email me and be all like, well, he would have been fired because it probably would have submerged. I know. We're talking about 300 here. Don't muddy the issue. You brought it up. I did, didn't I?

You're muddying the issue. Yes. You and your love of tar and mud. Why do people... This happened twice in the movie. Why do people take their helmets off in the middle of a battle? It's a dumb move, isn't it? Yep.

We see how effective helmets are right at the start. Clangs him right in the head. Deflects all sorts of arrows. Yeah. Why do both leaders, especially Theo, agree to meet with the opposite leader when she's known to be the worst person in the world? Why would he go to her ship? Because they've got the chemistry.

Didn't you see that? You could very easily recut some of that, not as a film, but as a trailer, like as a wacky rom-com trailer. Yeah, you're probably right. It's probably happened already. I'm sure it has. Speaking of, did you enjoy the weird sex fight scene? Yes.

Yeah. That's it? Yeah. Alright, cool. Okay, how about this one? Why did the Spartans in the first movie insist that no one in Greece wanted to help them, but it appears like everybody in Greece wanted to help them? Oh, like at the end when all the Greeks helped them.

Even before that, because during the 300 battle, the Greeks were doing other things and the Spartans were like, we've been abandoned. Like, you haven't been abandoned. You chose to do this. And the other guys are fighting another battle, arguably a more important battle, because you lost anyway. Yeah, yeah. Do you see what I'm saying?

Yeah, some people look at that weird passive-aggressive kind of, okay, so I'll just clean the house myself because nobody else is going to do it. Just ask me to clean the house. I'll do it. I'll help you out. Just ask. Is that a personal grievance?

No, but I'm just saying. That's hypothetical grievance. All I'm saying is, guys, you can ask for help. Yeah, exactly. And then at the end when they're like, we're all for Greece and Sparta or whatever And then at the end when they're like, we're all for Greece and Sparta or whatever. And then at the end they're like or during it they're like, come and help us Spartans.

And they're like, nah, you guys are dickheads. I thought, don't you have a common purpose here? Persian killing. Also, why was Themistocles Theo, sorry, surprised when the 300 were killed? When they found out that they didn't live.

That was a given that they were not going to survive that. There's not a lot of them. There was only 300. Exactly. Yeah. So I don't understand why they weren't just like, well, yeah, that's, I mean, they did better than we expected. Yeah, but boy, you know, I don't know.

Because you're buying into the, that's buying into the magic of the movies Sure I guess it is They're like well They're undefeatable I have one more question I think it's the best question Yep Did you enjoy the CGI Puma?

Is there a CGI Puma? It was next to Xerxes And it was a weird CGI Puma I didn't even notice it I'll be honest with you Must have blended in so well Yeah But you didn't even notice Well that's what they do They you. Must have blended in so well. Yeah, I think so. That you didn't even notice.

Well, that's what they do. They camouflage, right? Yeah. They camouflage in a tar, in tarry environments, you know? It was a weird, it looked weird. Okay. It looked real weird.

No memory of that at all. But you know what? I think I've just come to this conclusion now. If the first 300 didn't exist, this movie would make zero sense. You know? Absolutely, yeah. And people wouldn't be...

That's your cycle. That's your... Yeah. It's your Lion King two and a half which one was that I think it's three I think that's the third movie but yeah

I think it's called The Lion King There and Back Again okay so yeah there you go general consensus Mason worst movie ever

sorry sorry guys worst movie ever people genuinely seem to be liking it yeah but I think it's just okay but of course

that doesn't apply here. It's the worst movie ever. Arbitrary rules that we invented. Have to be it. Yeah, worst movie ever. FX's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London.

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Okay. Announced just this week. Yes. Long time coming. Rumours and speculation coming for years Okay. To Batman Arkham Knight. Okay. Announced just this week. Yes. Long time coming. Rumours and speculation coming for years about this game. Not Arkham World. No. Interestingly.

Though it could very well be. It may as well be that because really, giant, giant map. Yeah. Which I'll get to. This is the last game in the Arkham series. Okay. Capping off the original trilogy, even though there's four games, that one's an origin. The Rocksteady one.

Yes. Put it that way. What did you think of the trailer? Bearing in mind it was probably all CGI. Also, I hate all CGI trailers in video games because they don't show us anything and they don't mean anything, but this one I don't mind. That being said, in the last one where they had the CGI trailer where he fights Deathstroke in the shipping container yard has nothing to do with anything.

And everything he does in that trailer, you cannot do in the game. And Deathstroke also shoots a crane, and that doesn't help him. Not Deathstroke, Deadshot. And that has nothing to do with anything. Great CGI trailer. Didn't mean anything. Yes. I think it's disappointing now that they have to put, like, underneath actual in-game footage when it's actual in-game footage. That's... Yeah. Well, look, it's next gen, so even if this is CGI, which it probably is, I'm okay with it.

Yeah, if it's going to be Xbox One, PS4, then that... PC. Yeah, they're capable of that, right? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, we're yet to see what they're fully capable of.

This is my reason for now for getting a PS4. I've been holding off. I'm like, no point in me getting one yet. Yeah, yeah. This is going to push me. I had zero interest. Titanfall maybe would have got me to buy one.

What are you leaning towards? Well I've got a 360 now. The PS4 plays 360 games though. That's not true. That's a trick. You've tried to trick me. You know what? The Xbox One has that always on internet feature which I don't care for.

It's got, you you know i don't know there's some very creepy features in the xbox one some of them they have retracted well i don't know which one that's what they say yeah yeah but i don't know like they're talking about gaming features of the xbox one where you know they'll you know you'll be playing a multiplayer game and the you know the connect sensor and the camera are seeing all the players and they can tell if one player isn't engaged as much and then they can give them more bonuses and stuff like that. So you can see it, they're just going, oh. Yeah, yeah.

And that's a tactic. Yeah, exactly. But I think, you know, technologically, that's amazing. Yeah. But I don't know. I think that's creepy. I cover all my cameras. Well, I used to.

I don't have a webcam, but I'd cover them with a bit of tape or something. Good idea, yeah. I mean, even though no one's going to see anything. I'm not doing anything. Right. I'm not up to anything. Yeah, yeah. But I still, I don't like the idea of people looking at me.

You just want to make your pipe bombs in secret. Exactly. Yeah, that's right. For fuck's sake. Yeah. Anyway, maybe PS4 is, I think, what I'm saying. That's what I'm leaning towards, yeah. Because I don't want to descend into a 1994 Big Brother world of surveillance and darkness.

You know what though, people, people, and it's the, it's probably more of the generation under us. Uh-huh. I seem to be more okay with it. Yeah. Than we are. Uh-huh. And the older generation.

That is because they're idiots. You know what, I don't believe in that whole the next generation is dumber than the last. I think every generation gets better than the last one. Uh-huh. Except for the World War II generation, which was clearly better than the baby boomers right because they're a bunch of fuckwits but not true mostly true but um so yeah i mean where are we going i don't know i've always been a ps2 i got a ps2 yeah i didn't have a ps1 and that and then i God of War. That's why I got a PS3. And then went off the God of War games and stayed for Uncharted and Last of Us.

Which is, again, why I'm getting a PS4 for that reason. Or maybe I'll switch. I'll switch to PS4. I'd love to play Titanfall. And I'd love to go back and play Gears of War and Halo and all that. Which I only played a little bit of. But yeah, you're right. Sorry. Arkham Knight.

Think of it as. I don't know. It looks great. Yeah. But again, as you pointed out, none of that potentially is in-game footage. No.

That's all. But because they've proven themselves, I'm okay with it. Yeah, I trust whatever they're going to put out, I guess. We know the Scarecrow

is the villain in this? Yes. Well, one of. I think that's probably a misdirect. Really? I think there's something else going on.

I feel that... Well, he wants everybody to leave that's probably a misdirect. Really? I think there's something else going on. I feel that... Well, he wants everybody to leave the city for some reason. Yeah. There's some kind of... I think he put bombs or gas or something. Because if you recall in Arkham City, there is a... The Scarecrow's secret in Arkham City

is he's got a shipping container filled with bugs that are filled with mad... We talked a lot about shipping containers. Yeah, heaps. We love them. I'd live in one if I could. But, you know, with the madness

toxin in them. Yeah. So my assumption with this sequel was he was going to release them on Gotham and everybody was going to go insane

but I guess that's not the issue here. If he wants everybody out what's he going to do? What's he going to do, Mason? Do you think there has to be a Joker has to come back, right? Well, possibly, yeah.

Well, they got Troy Baker who voiced the Joker in the last one. He's voicing Two-Face. Okay. So, you know, there's a chance that he could be voicing the Joker in this. I'd be happy if they just didn't put the Joker in, though. Right. He's been the villain now in every game. Uh-huh.

And he's been great in every game. Yeah. But, you know. But then again, Batman's been the hero in every game. Oh, yeah. So, I think you shake up the formula, I say. Are you... Some people are upset, though, that it isn't next-gen.

Are you okay with that? That it is only next-gen, sorry. And PC. Yeah, I'm okay with that, yeah. Me too. I mean, there's a moment to move on. Yeah. The next-gen systems are much cheaper now than they have ever been.

They were so expensive. When the PS3 or whatever came out, they were like 900 bucks. And these are... It was insane. Four or five or3 or whatever came out, they were like 900 bucks. And these are... It was insane. Four or five or something like that. Yeah, it was ridiculous. Yeah. But yeah, yeah.

I'm okay with this. Me too. Yeah. It's... Yeah. Because you get the games that straddle the generations. And the ones that go up

to the next generation aren't that big of... There's not that much difference. Like the Assassin's Creed Black Flag, for example, is pretty much identical. So this one allows for a more open world, more people on the screen, more whatever.

How big is this world? Well, I am going to get to that, but I can't remember. I've written down a bunch of stuff. I can just take you through it. Or I can skip around. No, don't. It'll confuse us both. Don't do that. Okay, so I can tell you about the storyline. Okay.

The game's main storyline is set one year after 2011's Batman Arkham City. But it's been many years. Yeah. I'm upset with that. Okay, so I can tell you about the storyline. Okay. Okay, the game's main storyline is set one year after 2011's Batman Arkham City. But it's been many years. Yeah. I'm upset with that. It should be the exact amount of years that have passed.

Real time. Yes, thank you. And follows Batman at the peak of his ability as he confronts the supervillain Scarecrow, who has returned to Gotham City to unite Batman's enemies

in a plot to finally kill the Dark Knight. It says that Scarecrow has created a new strain of his fear toxin and has planted bombs across the city. There you go. Forcing a citywide evacuation. Only criminals remain in the city, which would...

Wait a second. What? They've done it again. They've... You hate that? I hate it. Leave some people in the city. There'll be people in the city.

No, I mean all the people. Okay. Set it at night. That's fine city. There'll be people in the city. No, I mean all the people. Okay. Set it at night. That's fine. That's when Batman does his best work. But do it Grand Theft Auto style or prototype or whatever. I want to see people in the city. Because otherwise it's just a big empty box.

Fair point. But they do a big empty box better than the Arkham Origins one. Arkham Origins was a real big empty box. It was very empty, yeah. I'm sure there'll be still people around. You come across the

occasional political prisoner in the last one, remember? Yeah. You'd be like, oh, Batman, I'm a Batman. What am I doing in

the city, Batman? It says that Commissioner Gordon and the Gotham City Police are overwhelmed and the other villains that are linked up are the Penguin Two-Face

Harley Quinn. So there you go. What I do like about about that though it says batman in his peak abilities so it's not young inexperienced batman it's not old broken batman it's like batman the batman you want to play yeah exactly and the batman that should be in every movie just show me peak ability batman i don't need young batman or old batman i want peak ability. I don't need young Batman or old Batman. I want peak ability Batman. Don't need to make him relatable. You know, like, oh, he's just like me. He's not getting it right. He's not like me.

He shouldn't be anything like me. So peak ability's great. If he was anything like us, the city would be doomed. Big empty sandbox. Yep. Doomed. Many gadgets and gameplay elements from the game's return, including grapple gun, line launcher, and batarangs,

and also a countering system. Oh, yeah, okay. And detective vision. I'm familiar with it. Also, you can now quick-fire gadgets from mid-air. Oh, okay. That's pretty cool. That I'm not coordinated enough. I think I've reached the level of coordination, like my peak.

This is it? Yeah, this is it. Yeah, yeah. I think my game coordination is slipping because I play less. Right. So whenever I get back, I'm like, I have to relearn everything. Better than those bloody baby boomers though. Dickheads. Pack of dickheads. Yeah.

Batman's suit is upgraded in the game. It looks great. The suit looks great. He's got some sort of armoured layer. Yeah, because he starts with the old one and he counts the new one. He's got longer ears as well. Reminisce of Batman Forever great the best Batman

yes I think Batman Forever is better than Batman Begins Kevin Smith actually just said that recently but I think I thought that before

Batman Forever the one with the Riddler in it yeah with Jim Carrey yeah and um what's her face yep

hmm I think it's better there you go the Batman second Batman movie isn't even about Batman yeah it's about a weird penguin and a cat and a big rubber duck.

It's crap. You said Batman Begins, though. Yeah. Oh, fuck. I meant Batman Returns. Wow, okay. Redacted. No, that's not true at all.

I should have left that. I should have left that. People are flipping out. God. Yeah, Jesus. No, that's not true at all. Okay, let's move on with our lives. Arkham Knight introduces the fear takedown where Batman can subdue up to three enemies

simultaneously as long as he's undetected. Ooh. As well as multiple great takedowns. Not just great takedowns. He's always had some great takedowns. From a great and familiar face's return, as I've mentioned. And there's a new villain, though, called... Oh, Kevin Conroy's back.

Good. Which is great. This is what he's been working on. Remember he revealed a little bit back. He's like, though, called... Oh, Kevin Conroy's back. Good. Which is great. This is what he's been working on. Remember he revealed a little bit back. He's like, yeah, I'm working on the new Arkham game. Yeah. And they're like, are you? He's like, uh, no.

Right. But a new villain called Arkham Knight. Did you hear about this? No. So basically, he's like a militarized version of Batman. Remember how we said a few weeks back, Batman doesn't have the... A reverse Batman, yeah. This is the reverse Batman. He's got the A logo on doesn't have the... A reverse Batman, yeah. This is the reverse Batman.

He's got the A logo on his chest from the Arkham. Yeah, okay. And there's like a silhouette kind of picture of him. Ooh. So what do you think of that, Mason? I'm going to look it up real quick. Yeah, do that. We'll continue talking.

I will. Are we going to resolve... Are they going to attempt to resolve a lot of the side quest bits and pieces from Arkham City? Like all that Riddler crap? The Riddler crap, certainly. We'll finally get a chance to pulp it. I hope it's just the scene where you just pulp the Riddler. You can pulp him in the last one.

You can do all the riddles. But I started to do it, and then I got... And there's so many, I went, you know what? Not worth it. I looked it up on YouTube, and I'm glad I didn't do it. Great. But, you know, like, we see Azrael. Ah, yeah.

We see the Order of Saint of Dumas and all that sort of stuff. Yep, yep. We never... You see some Robin. You see some Robin. Sweet Robin action. You see... We see Hush. Oh, yeah. Well, Hush is rumoured You see some Robin. You see some Robin. Sweet Robin action. You see... We see Hush.

Oh, yeah. Well, Hush is rumoured in this as well. I don't want Hush to be in it. You hate Hush, don't you? Well, it was the worst part of Hush, when you think about it. You were just saying that before, because you just read the Batman 52. Yeah. Spoiler alert.

Let's not spoil any of those. Okay, yeah. Yeah, but that's... But you think Hush and the Court of Hours suffers from the same... There's an issue there. Yeah. Which makes Hush a bad villain. Is it the bandages?

Yeah, it's the bandages. Yeah, that's it. I knew it. Well, that is the Arkham Knight. That's Arkham Knight, yeah. All right. I take it I'll leave it. Sure.

Yep. The city. Now, the island, it's made up of three islands, five times the size of Arkham City. Uh-huh. And they say it's not so much about scale as it is detail. Okay. I want to make it rich and full of interesting things to do.

We're trying to create the biggest open world. Not, sorry. We're not trying to create the biggest open world game ever. We're trying to create a really rich, vibrant, dense open world. Okay. Hardly dense. Yeah, thank you. I'm all for that.

Cool. A real Atari environment. Yes, that's right. Also, the game. The car's a big element of the game. The Batmobile. It's drivable now, right? First drivable.

Everybody's been wanting to play that. They couldn't put it into the other ones because of restrictions, they said, graphically. Right, okay, yeah. CPU something. I don't understand how that works. No. But what they basically did,

they've designed the city around the use of the car. They plonked... They've designed a city around the use of cars? they plonked they've designed a city around use of cars wow what an idea all right but uh they plonked a they should have built it with accessible public transport batman's always getting the bus yeah they plonk um they put it in the the old arkham city map and they found that the roads were too narrow so they basically widened everything. Okay. Because the car couldn't...

There's a lot of alleyways and whatever in that one. But yeah, the Batmobile is bulletproof, can be summoned to any location as necessary. It features the ability to perform jumps like a horse out of water. Speed boosts, rotating on the spot, like Batman Returns. Or Batman Begins. They're the same movie, aren't they?

Yeah. I think it was the first one, where it lifts up on the thing. Yeah. Is it? No, because he tortures the Red Triangle Gang with it. Oh, yeah. Okay, it's the second one. I gotcha.

Sorry. Smash through objects like barricades, trees, and fires missiles that can immobilize enemies. By killing them, presumably. Yes. That's what missiles do as a general rule. It looks very much like a combination of the 80s Batmobile and the Tumbler. It does, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. It's got a bit of everything in it.mobile and the Tumbler it does doesn't it yeah yeah

it's got a bit of everything in it do you like the look of it I think it should be more streamlined okay fair enough but whatever if he's you know

if he's on some sort of war footing with all these you know with the Arkham Knight yeah yeah with the Arkham Knight then why not

yeah at specific locations Batman can eject from the Batmobile and immediately begin gliding that's pretty cool and some enemies

run away at the side of the vehicle, eliminating the need for Batman to fight them, and enemies attacking the car can be... People are afraid of cars. Yeah, who isn't? That's a good point. They are dangerous.

Yeah. Enemies attacking the car can be subdued with automated taser defences. Also, Riddler trophies return, now including objectives requiring the Batmobile. So there you go. How adorable. It sounds like a good inclusion. Pretty good, yeah.

I don't like the Riddler trophies. I know you're into them, but you're always like, you'll never open this cage and get the question mark. I'm like, why? Why would I do that? I'm not on board with the Riddler trophies in Arkham City. I think they were too elaborate and nonsensical. Yeah. But I liked in the first one where you could find, like, little tips of the hat and little nods to all the other characters.

Yeah. So you could find the Riddler's umbrellas and, you know, Prometheus' most wanted sign and all that sort of stuff. Prometheus on Blu-ray. Yeah, yeah. Cool. That's exactly what I'm thinking. Oh, great.

So you're all for them returning then. Yes. I found all the challenges were basically there's a hatch that's open and then there's an electricity cable leading to a cage that's got a question mark in it. And you've got to throw a bat around through the hatch and it hits a button and then the cage opens and then you get it. And the Riddler's like, whoa, you got me.

It's like, oh, I didn't. Well, it's not worth it. Yeah, no, I don't care. Not worth it. Yeah. So basically, yeah, yep, designed for whatever, whatever. Also, the buildings are made taller to accommodate the vehicle's ejection ability. So yeah, that's the game, Mason.

That's everything we know so far. I've got every detail that you could possibly... Scour the internet. I fucking dare you. You won't find anything else. You know what's weird is I'm not mad at that. Like, we know details about the video game. I'm quite okay with that.

But if you gave me that amount of details about a movie, I'd smash your face. I'd smash your face right now. But these are more like, they're not so much story elements as things that you get. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Like, people aren't mad when, like, this is the new Batsuit and these are his gadgets. Like, that's fine. Yeah, yeah. But if I was to tell you everything that's going to happen in Batman vs Superman, you'd

be really annoyed. Very. That Wonder Woman breaks it up at the end. Oh. Yeah, yeah. But if I was to tell you everything that's going to happen in Batman vs. Superman, you'd be really annoyed. Very. That Wonder Woman breaks it up at the end. So, yeah. Yeah. There's going to be more villains, though, right? Probably, yeah. I hope so.

There always is. Croc, maybe? Maybe Croc will be back. I like Croc. I think... Crazy Quilt. Kite Man. Tick Tock.

Tick Tock, sure. That's how he's named. Clock King. Clock King? Clock King is in a new episode. It was in Arrow, yeah. And they say that... What's her name?

Oh, what's her name? The girlfriend of Joker. Harley Quinn. Yep. Harley Quinn is going to be coming up. In Arrow? Yeah. That didn't work.

That didn't work in Birds of Prey, but we'll give it another shot. Or did it really work? No, it definitely didn't work. But it worked. Oh, yeah. Good point. So, yeah. Anything else to say before we move on? I'm looking forward to it.

Yes, you are. I will. I'll buy an exchange. I'm buying. Yeah, exactly. So, maybe we could play together. No multiplayer either. There you go.

Caught everything. What even? Multiplayer? Nothing. Okay. Challenge maps? Yeah, there'll be challenge maps. Okay, good.

With a Z. Challenge maps. Good. All right, Mason, you know what it's time for? What is it time for? What are we reading? What are we going to read? Oh, what are we going to read?

Your favourite segment of the show. Yeah. Do you want to kick us off? Would you want me to kick us off? Well, I done read in a quarter of hours. Thank you for learning that. Okay. Worth a read.

Yeah, of course. Yeah. It's a very... It kind of alters some of the... It's happy to alter a lot of the past details of Gotham City. Yeah. But at the same time, I guess it does flesh out a lot of elements that we maybe had not heard of before. Yeah, that's it.

Well, the Batman Zero year, that's set in the same universe. It redoes this whole origin as well. It redoes year one. Yep. Which, I think I've said, I think I claimed before that it was better than year one. You probably did. You say a lot of stuff. I say a lot of stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I don't know whether that's true. I flip-flop on things all the time. Yeah, totally. You can change your opinion. It's cool. Yeah. It's cool, Mason.

Yeah. But, yeah, so you liked it. Yeah, it was worth a worry, definitely. Yeah, cool. There's the story that comes after that as well, the one with the Joker. Okay. You know, he's cut his face off. Right, right, right.

Check that out. It's really good. Has he had his face reattached since? I don't think he's back. He hasn't been back yet oh interesting he's running about they'll bring him back

to classic Joker of course they will they'll have to yeah yeah well Mason yeah so

what I'm gonna read actually I'm gonna watch I've been re-watching Comedy Bang Bang okay which is super great it's a very for those who haven't seen it

in the US you can get it on IFC or download it off the internet for nothing it's a very surreal chat show featuring Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts For those who haven't seen it, in the US you can get it on IFC or download it off the internet for nothing. It's a very surreal chat show featuring Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts. I've heard that's really good. I always hear it advertised in podcasts that I listen to. Get into it.

It's super fun. And I've started watching Portlandia, which I've... What's that? It's Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. It's a sketch comedy show set in Portland, which is Portland, Oregon, which is also super great. Okay. Get into those. All right.

That's also on IFC, I think. Doesn't matter. The website? Yes. Yeah. Continue, anyway. What have you been reading? Well, yesterday I caught up on every episode of True Detective, except for the one that

comes out Sunday night, which is very soon. Yep. So I'm super pumped to see the end of that. Absolutely. I hope it pays off. As of so far, it's definitely one the end of that absolutely I hope it pays off as of so far it's definitely one of the best television shows

I've ever watched I watched every episode in a row and it's amazing because I'll go to a movie and be like jeez this is long but like

even though 300 was cut very very short yes I'm like this has gone for a while yeah it really did didn't it yeah

but that went I think it went for less than 90 minutes or around that because I read your review before I went in yeah I watched it on the it really did, didn't it? Yeah. But that went for, I think it went for less than 90 minutes or around that. Because I read your review before I went in. Yeah. Well, I watched it

on the internet. Thank God I didn't have to read anything. But I watched it and you did say it ended very abruptly and I kept crossing my fingers going,

God, I hope this ends now. I hope it ends now. I'm still going and it ended. Okay, great. That was abrupt but not as abrupt as I'd hoped.

Good, good, good. Fantastic. Yeah. So yeah, get into True Detective though. If you haven't watched it, everybody's watching that show. I think so, yeah. What's really good about it as well, the Woody Harrelson wigs. He gets thinner as it goes on.

It's incredible. Yeah. I really thought about that. He's got the in-between wig. Yes. It's great. He's got the full head in between. Modern day paunch.

Yeah. Current gen Woody Harrelson. So yeah. Next gen, just a bare skull. So, what I wanted to... My brother reminded me of this last week. And I lost my mind. It's something from the 90s which I owned, which I think everybody should check out.

Okay. It's called... It's a video board game in the vein of Nightmare. Do you remember Nightmare? I remember Nightmare, sure. But it's called Rap Rat. And you're saying listeners should track that down somehow. Yes.

They should both track down the board game and acquire a VCR. Yes. And play the Rap Rat video board game. Basically, the Rap Rat... What is this? What is this treasure hunt you've... Oh, you've bound people to we can bring up anything

yeah it's a good point it's what we read and what we're gonna read and it covers everything I established that in whatever episode we started this in right okay

right alright you got me you've trapped me in a web of logic so basically it's a big wheel of cheese a big the screen's filled with cheese

and as the timer goes more cheese gets chomped away as you're trying to collect cheese and race around the board. And every now and then, Rap Rat will pop out of the... Rap Rat. Will pop out of the centre of the cheese. And he's like a little puppet. A little rubber rat puppet.

And he raps and gives you instructions. Are they educational raps? No. They're fun raps. Mason, I've got a clip here that you can watch and I'm also going to put it up For the listeners Okay great It's ready to go

Get your headphones on Jesus This is The worst thing you've ever done And let's say something Yeah I've brought a lot of Chug to this show

I'm ready I'm ready He looks really annoyed By the way everybody My headphones have unplugged again God Alright here we go. Here we go.

A minute and a half. The TV. The TV is on. This is the all-new video board game for children who just want to have fun. The tape is playing, so let's get ready. I'm not liking it so far. What are you talking about? It's filled with 90s sass.

I don't like it. Oh, rules. Okay, great. Rap Rat may pop up at any point in the game to the sound of a... When he appears and you hear the... You must stop playing at once and listen to him. If he asks you to do something, you must do it. Because he's Rap Rat and he's the boss.

Oh, you've got to obey the rules of Rap Rat because he's the boss. Okay, I get it. Yeah. Oh, he's rapping Rat, and he's the boss. Oh, you've got to obey the rules of Rap Rat, because he's the boss. Okay, I get it. Oh, he's rapping. Okay, good. I'm a rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat Rap Rat! Rap Rat! I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm history in the making

and all yours for the taking. I'm the talk of the town, the cold side of cool. I'm a legend in a lunchtime. I'm a one-sir in a lifetime. Got an alien attitude And lots of ratitude Oh, I get it, he's got ratitude.

He's got ratitude! Do I have to keep watching this? No. Okay, thank God. Alright, well, you know what? You've proved me wrong. You really can't recommend anything on this dumb segment. You're against Rap Rats.

No. The video board game. Do whatever you like. Live your life, man. Look, all I'm saying is, people should go to YouTube and look up Rap Rats. Okay. Don't buy the video board game,

but check it out. They were all the rage, mate. I've never heard of it. You've never heard of a video board game? No. You played Nightmare, surely? Yes. Alright, fine.

There you go. Well, I think I've derailed this segment and show. Yes. That being said, let's move it along. Okay. Just shoutouts for this week, Mason. Oh, yes. Yes, please.

Okay. But you really like the rap-rat bit, right? Yeah, I think it's probably the highlight of what we've done so far in our lives. Noah Oldberg says, has found... Hey, Noah. Hello, Noah. Noah, he says, thinks he's, Benjamin McKenzie's home address. Oh, this...

All right, you know what? I'll reserve judgment. Hold on. What have we verged on here? It's fine. I'll tell you what's going on. He said, should we send him a package? And is it weird that looking up the address of an actor...

Is it weird to look at where it is? The answer is yes. I applaud your ingenuity, certainly. Let's send it to his agent's address instead. So not harass him where he lives. Correct. That's a fair point. Do you think we could be in trouble with the law?

Well, we couldn't. That's true. Should we do it? Should we say nobody send him? I think we should do it. We personally should do it. Let's send him. All right, done.

Okay, cool. Well, thank you, Noah. That's a good idea. Going out of his way. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. Would it be all it. Let's send him. All right, done. Okay, cool. Well, thank you, Noah. That's a good idea. Going out of his way. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. But it'd be all right to send it to his house, though, wouldn't it? No. Is that not okay?

Not good at all, no. Fair enough. Anthony Saverda from California, he recommends, this ties into what we read and what we're going to read, 10 Grand Comic. Michael, J. Michael Straczynski's Ten Grand Comic. It's like Constantine, even though he's never read Constantine, but he's pretty sure it's like Constantine. He didn't look it up.

That's good enough. That's good enough for me. And you know what? It's followed our ethos of not looking up anything. Why would you? Exactly. I love it. J. Michael Straczynski, you might know from Babylon 5,

your favorite TV series. Never seen it. Babylon 5. Cruski you might know from Babylon 5 your favourite TV series never seen it Babylon 5 Crusade the sequel to Babylon 5 haven't seen it anything else yeah he's done

a sort of comic book works okay cool alright so check it out guys please do I will Courtney Heck remember Courtney Heck

yes yeah friend of the show that nerd I apologise that's fine she's saying that she likes the shout outs and we should continue them because I was like should we keep doing the shout outs Yes. Yeah. Friend of the show. That nerd. I apologize. That's fine. She's saying that she likes the shout outs and we should continue them. Because I was like, ah, should we keep doing the shout outs or whatever?

Whatever. People are bored of the shout outs. Yep. She thinks Chuckham at the end. And people, she said she was really happy when people were like. It's a shame we can't Chuckham at the end then. Wait, this is the end. I've done it.

You've done it. You're a genius. Yeah. And she also thinks that along with everybody else who emailed in, no background email. No background emails. no background music. Remember that was the thing last week? No, absolutely not. We got a lot of responses to that saying, don't do it. I'm glad.

So I guess we're not doing it. Also, I apologize to Courtney because I've never actually responded to an email. I just respond on this. It's a weird back and forth. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Or give but no take.

That's right. Jerk. You're a jerk. I am. Gabe Viana from Florida. Can you give out a shout out to my mate Ernie, tell him he's a real arsehole? You want to do it together? Yeah.

Ernie. Hey, Ernie. You're a real arsehole. Also, he said that he's a punk nerd and a real prick. Wow. I'm glad we called him an arsehole in unison there. That felt good. It did feel good, didn't it?

Yeah, yeah. If you would like us to say anything else in unison we're happy to do it because it felt real good does it have to be an insult no I mean insults preferred obviously yeah we'll do anything

yeah Mika B M-A-C-A-H Mika he actually writes his own movie news for his school newspaper oh

and says start early we should have we didn't though we didn't because we didn't go to the same school and they didn't have And because we didn't go to the same school.

And they didn't have movies when we were growing up. Magic Lantern shows. That's right. And Rap Rat video podcasts. Yeah, that's all we had. We made it work though somehow. We made our own fun. I know, right?

His primary source of news though is us. It's a bad idea, but I applaud it. Yeah. Sure. I mean, it go get all your information from here that's fine char math mason is starting uni this monday says they listen to this podcast when they're on the bus there so good luck get out there yeah learn yeah by the time this comes out uni would have started i assume so just knowledge i love it i love knowledge i love people listening to things

I love buses do you? well I have a natural buoyancy like when they get in the water like at about 12 feet there's like a there's like a neutral buoyancy and they can just leap out of the water

which is amazing when you think about it also says if you want to read a webcomic series it'll blow your minds yes and by blow your minds I mean ultimately disappoint you

great there it was that's what I'm about me and my friends wrote a comic called Chum Weejoo Adventures, and you can find it on our Tumblr at chumweejoeadventures.tumblr.com. Can you spell that out for me? C-H-U-M-W-I-J-I-adventures.tumblr.com. I love it.

I haven't checked it out. Well. All the people that have written in this week saying, hey, check this out, and whatever. I haven't actually done it. I didn't have time. I've been busy, but I'm going to do it. But I'm saying to people, I have so much faith in our listeners that...

You're just going to recommend that? Yeah, sure. Absolutely. So, yeah. Thank you. Don't call us heroes. It's fine. I'll let society do that for us.

Here's a question for you, Mason. I'm ready. Jacob Chancellor's written in. Question number one. What is your opinion on the revival of ROM Space Knight? I'm on board with ROM Space Knight. Can you tell me about that? Okay, so basically, there are these creatures called the Dire Wraiths, right?

Yeah. And they're bad news. Oh, no. Anyway. Well, I'm against their revival. Okay, they're not real, but... Okay. Okay, right, but in a fictional universe.

Okay. Right. Anyway, they're going to destroy the planet of Galador. Yep. But there's a not real, but... Okay. Okay, right, but in a fictional universe. Okay. Right. And anyway, they're going to destroy the planet of Galador. Yep. But, there's a couple of people on Galador and they're not going to stand for that. So, basically they get all cyborg-ed up and they become the Space Knights and they

get out there and they kick ass. So, we're all for this. Yeah, they made a brief appearance in the Guardians of the Galaxy, that whole space universe. Fantastic. Perfect time to bring it back then. Yeah, absolutely. He said he's taken the time to write it himself because he's an idiot, he says.

I didn't say that. Not my words. I would never insult somebody. You know that. I'm on board. Let's do it. All right. This question's specifically for you, Mason.

Okay. It's not good. You're not going to like this one. I think I probably will. That's fine. What do you think of the recent news that The Rock may be playing Green Lantern? Jon Stewart, Green Lantern, I guess?

I assume, yeah. I think we might have mentioned this at some point in the past, but I think he's too big to be a normal-sized character. Yeah. That sounds bad. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, like, if your primary characteristic is you're physically really big... Yeah.

I think the character you should play should be... Because there's a very limited number of people who are physically very large and also good actors. You should give them... Give them all the roles. Large people roles. Yeah, yeah. And normal people get... Not normal.

That's mean. Not freakishly mutated people should be given regular roles. Okay. Like a regular looking guy. What about if we had Hal Jordan Green Lantern? Hear me out. Uh-huh.

Hulk Hogan. Yeah, good point. Okay, I'm on board now. He'd prefer Idris Elba. He'd have a glowing, glowing green horseshoe moustache. Wouldn't that be great?

That would be great. He would cast... Idris Elba would be on board? Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. And he'd think he'd... That'd be really good, actually. Yeah, and he'd pull off the accent

yeah I think that's he's been recommended before but because he's with Marvel doing in Thor yeah we just

I don't want to say he's a waste but it's kind of a waste yeah he just hangs he's got half a scene yeah

I think he's a better actor and more high profile than just that role but I mean in the Thor films he's got

the massive helmet and the armour and the white eyes the golden eyes or what have you. So, you switch him out for Jon Stewart. Yeah. Unrecognisable.

I just thought maybe there's something in the contract that says he can't. That's actually a good point. I don't know whether they do that. But then we've got Deadpool and... Oh, yeah. Good point. And Green Lantern. Yeah.

So, that worked out really well. That was with Fox, though. Nah, I don't care. This question is directed to... Rules are made to be broken. They sure are. Contracts are made to be broken. Yes. Yeah. This is one made to be broken. Yes.

Yeah. This is one specifically directed at me. What's my favourite film and why? My favourite film... It's The Sting. I do love The Sting. Do you really think that's my favourite movie? No.

I do like The Sting. My favourite movie is probably Brazil. That's not true. It's a lie, obviously. No, look, my favourite recent-ish film... You can't really have a favourite film, right? And this changes all the time. People like to nail that down, but I don't think you can.

Okay, this is a movie that I really, really enjoy. Also, then you run into somebody else who is... It's also your favourite, their film of all time, but they know a lot more about it, and you get trapped into a boring conversation about it. But if you just say, hey, I like this film, you can extricate yourself. Yeah.

Same with, like, people get a... Like, somebody will get a Batman tattoo or something like that. I love seeing people with a Batman tattoo or whatate yourself. Yeah. Same with like people get a, like somebody will get a Batman tattoo or something like that. I love seeing people with a Batman tattoo or what have you. Yeah. But I would never get one because I would encounter somebody who knows a lot more about Batman than I do

and I'd have to have that conversation. And they would bail you up. Yeah, absolutely. To demand to know if you know enough. You're right. Issue numbers. Years. What his secret identity is.

Who knows any of these things, you know? Ugh. My favourite recent movie is... Which movie is the one where the Batmobile comes up on the big metal post and spins around? The second one. The Dark Knight. Yes.

Is that the one? Yeah, yeah. My favourite film is Sunshine of late. Oh, yeah. The Danny Boyle Sunshine. I love sci-fis. But then again, I don't love all sci-fis. We always say,

oh, do you like this movie and this movie? Like, there's a whole lot of, like, 70s sci-fi that I haven't seen, like Logan's Run or whatever. I've only seen bits and pieces of. And I haven't read even a lot of sci-fi. So I guess I like sci-fi. I don't know that much about it. But I think Sunshine's an amazing movie. It's got a really great international cast, awesome attention to detail on how the ship's set up.

It kind of devolves into this horror thing at the end yep but I still love that it's Chris Evans that was the first time I saw him and I went wow he's really amazing even though he'd done

some other stuff before that was when that was why when he got cast as Captain America I went oh yeah that's great it'll be fine because he's really good in that movie

I love Sunshine and it's way better than Gravity which is ironic because you don't love Sunshine in real life nah fuck that stay inside forever that's your rule that's it stay inside and watch Sunshine that's right And it's way better than Gravity. Which is ironic because you don't love Sunshine in real life. No, fuck that.

Stay inside forever. That's your rule. That's it. Stay inside and watch Sunshine. That's right. On the Blu-ray. Yeah, yeah. It's great.

And it works really well in a cinema, but it tanked. And then Slumdog Boonair, whose next film came out and did really, really well. That's right. And that's everybody's favourite movie. And it's fine. But Sunshine's better. Yeah. So, yeah.

What's your favourite movie? Number one, Have to Choose. Oh, man. I think it's probably ghostbusters okay yeah which you know everything holds up in that film yeah yeah especially the ghost busting yeah yeah that's the film that made me want to be funny and arguably some might say i have achieved that in some small way is that true yeah though you want it to be like dan akroyd yeah absolutely mybuster. You've modelled your look after Dan Aykroyd as well, haven't you? Yeah, absolutely. Use of surgery. Surgery.

Wandering around with that crystal skull in my hand all the time for no reason. Justin Hayden, who you may recall is having a baby. Yes. Yeah, very exciting news. Needs a favour. Captain America, the second Captain America, is coming out on his birthday. The problem is his baby will be born about two days before it comes out. Possibly induced. Are we going to have to take care of the baby? Is this a wacky babysitting situation? I'm

ready. He asks us, could we explain to his wife, Stephanie. Hello, Stephanie. I'm assuming she's only listening to this part. Yeah. I'm sorry. I think she started yet, so I think we should. Okay, cool. Yeah. I'll give you a cue and then we'll go. Okay, cool. Why it's important for him to leave and see this movie. Hello, Stephanie.

Hello, Stephanie. It's the internet's Nick Mason and James, junior editor, Mr. Sunday here. Poor Dave. Listen,

a magical thing has happened. He should be a responsible father and stay home with you. You've tricked him. You know what? It's a miracle that's happened and it's beautiful. It's great. It's an amazing part of the world.

You're a nun and you've started a new life as a child. But that new life's never going to have a guy with big metal wings on his back and he can fly with the big metal wings. It's never going to have... Your baby gonna have like a like a big robot arm that's true shield in its hand yeah it's never that can come off and choke people fly around that is yeah never gonna have a big battleship that can also fly mm-hmm yeah it's never gonna have robert redford in its life that's true i assume well he hasn't got a lot of years left No he doesn't Yeah yeah So that being said Maybe just give him a couple hours

Yeah To go and see the movie Or maybe Maybe there'll be a Mums and Bubs sitting Sure Yeah yeah And I bet he'll do something really nice for you afterwards You better

You better you son of a bitch Good luck to your book I don't think we sold that No we didn't did we No I like the bit where you. No, we didn't, did we? No. I like the bit where you said metal wings. Yeah, that was good. Because that was really good.

Yeah, yeah. Just let him out. Yeah, come on. It's what he wants. Yeah. From what I've found with people with kids, not having kids myself, you have 10 kids. Is that right? Sure, yeah.

That I know about. Up top. That's it. Yeah. But everybody needs their time to do something at certain points. So I'm sure he'll allow you To escape and Do whatever women do

In their spare time What do they do? Chew shopping I don't want to generalise But That's what it is So yeah Good luck guys

Also he said We'd like to do a poll To name his baby Yes Absolutely Okay He doesn't know the sex yet. Okay, well then Xerxes.

Yep. That works for either. Robin. Robin. Works for either. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Crazy Quilt.

Yep. Yep. That works for either. White Man. That's gender neutral. Boy, there's a lot of options, isn't there? There's a lot of options. Even just in this episode.

Listeners, email in. Oh, yeah. Definitely with options. What about Galvatron? Galvatron is great. Do you know I lost a bet and I have to name my first kid Concession Stand? That's unfortunate for you. But that same person I lost the bet to, he also lost a bet and he has to name his kid Galvatron.

Great. That's a true story. Yeah, so there you go. Great. What do a true story. Yeah, so there you go. Great. What do you think of that? Well, okay, so Galvatron and Concession Stand are officially off limits for you guys. But look, I'm going to note this down in my phone right here, and I'm going to come up with a great list of names for next week.

Okay. Let's do it. Blake Battersby Mason. Yes. He lives in Rattalade. He's a Brit number four. He's, I think, one of our youngest listeners. You might be going to Rattalade. He's a Brit number four. He's, I think, one of our youngest listeners. You might be going to Rattalade.

And he said, come visit. I will. Will you? Maybe. He's 14. No, I won't then. I'm not really allowed in his schools. Yeah, fair enough.

Okay, cool. So Mason won't visit. That being said. It's not that I'm not allowed in his schools. It's just I can't read or write. And it brings up bad memories. That's right. You know.

So yeah. Thanks, Blake. I like blake absolutely always the same nice things isaac nellist he asked about the lego marvel movie lego marvel lego marvel game if i've played it yet i got given a copy of lego marvel unfortunately it's on ps4 which i do not own oh i see well so it was a gift and like finally here's your present james great my my present is to pay another 500 to play this game worst present ever so yeah i've decided i'm gonna hang on to it yeah until after night comes out yeah exactly um isaac also says shout outs are cool and he's right yeah moving on did he say cool like k-e-w-l of course he did wow kieran holt from the uk oh thank you isaac you're the best absolutely yeah k Yeah. Kieran Holt from the UK.

He wants a shout out for replying to his last email because I replied to his last email. And it's also was his 18th birthday last... Oh, Jesus. Did your microphone just move? It was his 18th birthday last week. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, man. What do you reckon he's got up to? Probably, let's see, he's in the UK.

Yeah. So drunk and mayhem probably. Yeah, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Probably stolen a Bobby's hat. You's in the UK. Yeah. So, Drunken Mayhem, probably. Yeah, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Probably stolen a Bobby's hat. You know? Put that on there.

Put that on his bonks. That's right. That's his head. That's his head. Yeah, yeah. Happy birthday, Kieran. Absolutely. Thank you very much.

Trey White. He's emailed him before. Great guy. He's done his own podcast. He's requested to join our show via Skype. The only thing is... We're technical. we're not like i'll jump right ahead i don't care what your opinion is here but uh technically we're unable

like this barely works that's right yeah as soon as we can though yeah absolutely i'm happy to do it at some point because i'm sure we're gonna get you know people on and stuff yeah we we barely do this yes and this took a lot many months of me buying microphones and going ah this is work and all this kind of thing so yeah but with these podcasts though when you do get yours up let us know and we'll definitely plug it 100 absolutely so yeah and hopefully we can get you on in the future so yeah thanks trey best of luck but it better not be better than our bloody podcast yeah that's right i mean it's a low certainly, but you stay under that bar. Ben McMillan.

I was wondering if we could get a shout out for him and his friends. They've got a YouTube channel, which I did actually check out. It's called Something Random Inc. I love it. It's good fun. It is, yeah.

Did you have good fun? I did have good fun. Good mix of things. That's the best amount of fun. Type that into the Google. I mean, into the YouTube. Right. And it'll get you right there.

So, yeah. I love a YouTube channel. You know that. I YouTube. Right. And it'll get you right there. So, yeah. I love a YouTube channel. You know that. I do. Yeah. Steve O'Leary from Canada. He says, hey, guys, love the show. Was wondering if I can get a shout-out to my friends.

Wait. This is the same one. For Something Random Inc. Shout-out because it was me. Did I get the same email from two different guys saying the same YouTube channel? That is sneaky. You know what happened there? We got Mackenzie Mustache. this is some sort of viral campaign unless i've made a mistake i

refuse i refuse to bow down to these guys more like nothing random ink steve o'leary also says shout out because it's him great i'm on board with that that's fine i'll flip flop so check out that channel guys Jack Sheen from Ireland remember him he had minor lip surgery I do and you said that he might wake up

as a robot cop I did say that yeah but he didn't he's fine he also gave us a good idea for an X-Men

Day of the Future past podcast to go through all the characters and that which we'll probably do in the future better than that

so yeah glad Jack Sheen's not dead I'm glad you have normal lips again or whatever you wanted maybe you wanted special lips maybe you went's not dead I'm glad you have normal lips again Or whatever you wanted, maybe you wanted special lips Maybe you went in for special lips I hope you have the special lips you wanted

The most special lips Yeah, like razor lips Or laser lips Like a Bond villain Or poison lips like from Batman and Robin Poison lips Best of luck with your poison lips Key Belling

He's an aspiring director From Brunswick East Best of luck with your poison lips. Key Belling. He's an aspiring director from Brunswick East. It'd be awesome if you could give his Facebook page and YouTube channel B.East Films a shout out. So, aspiring film director, absolutely. Right up our alley. Yeah, right up our alley. We're both incredibly talented filmmakers. Yeah, we are.

We've seen films. How hard can it be? I know, right? It's just one more step. I bet I can make something better than Brazil. Probably not. I bet I could. Yeah, it'd be good.

So yeah, definitely check that out. I love it when people start up stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. That's what the internet's for. That's it. It's not for complaining about things. No, definitely not. It's for actually making things for other people to complain about.

That's right. So yeah, yeah. It's so much easier now to do things these days as well. So, it's a blessing and a curse because the internet is flooded with terrible things. But every now and then, you get something. I'm assuming like B.East Films, which again, I haven't checked out, but I'm sure it's amazing. Diamond in the rough. Diamond in the rough.

So, yeah. This one's from a no-name person. No name was given. From Melbourne. Mystery. Is this you? It could be. Let's see what it says. No name was given. From Melbourne. Is this you? It could be. Let's see what it says.

They've started a podcast. Huh. Have you started a podcast behind my back? Yeah, it's just... It's me making, like, snarky comments about this podcast during it. You get two channels, or you get two iPods or whatever, and you just play them simultaneously. Nice. Yeah.

As you go... Yeah, it's pretty much just that. Do you even say stuff in relation to you yeah but like nice things or bad things just all bad things there's another podcast

called the week to week podcast and we're wondering if you can give us a shout out absolutely I can done week to week podcast they're on SoundCloud

Facebook and Gmail they talk about movies music games and pop culture also from Melbourne so if you like podcasts I don't from Melbourne no if you were like podcasts. I don't. From Melbourne.

No. If you were to. Oh, okay, right. Sure, yeah. Definitely worth checking out. Definitely. I'm sure they're probably better than ours. But they better bloody not be.

I like that. They're in for the chop. We know where they live. Melbourne. This is our city. That's right. We run this town like the crew from Entourage. No, it's...

You got something there that you wanted to bring up? No. Really? Yeah. You didn't get any amazing tweets this week? Let me check. I'm sure I've missed one as well.

I feel like there was one in here asking if we could do another podcast, maybe do two a week and I can't remember who it's from so I'm really apologised for that person.

I'll have them put it in here. He said, can we do two podcasts a week? And the answer is, probably not. We don't have the time. We don't, unfortunately. Because I do two videos yep

plus the podcast you do the podcast and I'm on vacation and he's on vacation who has time really we might have to see dumb movies about dumb

Greek Roman gladiator whatever I just watched dumb film best movie ever there you go that's the show for this week

fantastic we did it again now we haven't thanked Gabriel Bruton for ages for the theme song. It's fantastic every time. We mean, I mean to thank him every week and I don't. Thank you so much again. It's probably because you're a bad person.

It's not because I'm a bad person, Mason. No. Is it? Yeah. Maybe I don't like the theme song. That's not true. I love it. It's the best.

So, yeah. Now, guys, if you want to reach out this week. Oh, do we want to talk about Benjamin McKenzie or do you want to give it another week's rest I think we'll give it one more week's rest I agree because you know why he's been completely inactive

at all hasn't had something since like mid-Feb or early Feb or something like that interesting so yeah maybe he's growing an underground

moustache like you suggested and then he's just going to spring it on us that'd be great we'll give it another week we'll see what he does yeah this is like a game of chess

it is the deadliest game of chess and also it's on Twitter it's got nothing to do with chess it's. This is like a game of chess. It is. But the deadliest game of chess. And also it's on Twitter. It's got nothing to do with chess. It's just like a game of chess where you harass people on the internet that are famous. All right. So if you want to get in contact with us, Weekly Planet Pod on Gmail, Facebook, Twitter. I'll shout out anything.

I'm not, as indicated. Unless it's like something horrific. Yeah. I'm at WikipediaBrown on Twitter. Check him out. And you're at MrSundayMovies. I'm on Facebook and Twitter. There you go.

And YouTube. Get on the YouTube, Mason. This week I've got a new video coming out, I think. It's going to be the upcoming films through the summer, the US summer and the Northern Hemisphere summer. So maybe we'll talk about that next week. Absolutely, because there were some real winners in that last one. Some real great stuff. Maybe we could do a little bit. Including 300 Rise of an Empire. You know how well that next week. Absolutely, because there were some real winners in that last one. Some real great stuff.

Maybe we could do a little bit. Including 300 Rise of an Empire. You know how well that worked out. I'm surprised you hated as much as you do. I don't hate it. It's fine. I am indifferent.

I'm largely indifferent. Well, then you'll love the follow-up film. 300. Keep on the hundreding. I'm glad you were there because I just didn't have anything. Okay, good.

I'm glad you're here for this podcast. Thank you. You bring something. I'm glad you were there because I just didn't have anything okay good I'm glad you're here for this podcast thank you you bring something I'm glad to be here cool thanks guys thank you see you next week

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