The Weekly Planet - 379 Godzilla VS Kong

Episode Date: April 4, 2021

Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.If you wanted a review of the movie Godzilla VS Kong then you have arrived at a very fortuitous time. We talk about that as well as trailers for Spiral, The Suicide Squad, Rick & Morty Season 5, Space Jam 2 (but not really), the Thundercats movie, more delays and two huge cancellations for DC, more Knives Out but at Netflix, Russell Crowe joins Thor Love & Thunder, Obi Wan gets a cast and more! Thanks for watching!00:00 The Start05:15 New Suicide Squad Trailer08:37 Delays But Don't Dismays11:36 Aquaman & New Gods Cancelled14:52 Spiral Trailer17:27 Rick and Morty S5 Trailer20:11 Knives Out Sequels23:37 Russell Crowe in Thor 4 (Fun Little Cameo)24:50 Kenobi Cast Revealed30:25 Thundercats Movie36:05 Godzilla vs Kong Review (Spoilers 49:54 - 01:02:52)01:02:52 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:09:29 Letters, It's Time For LettersJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrown Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymovies TWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanet TWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGH Amazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGj T-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James, but I also go by Mr. Sunday Movies Inexplicably and with me as always is my co-host Nicholas Mason. Nah, I'm not here. Just kidding, I am April Fool's. Wow, you got me. Yeah, movies inexplicably, and with me as always is my co-host, Nicholas Mason. No, I'm not here. Just kidding. I am April Fool's.

Wow, you got me. Got you. I mean, but it's past April Fool's, so who's the real fools? You are still. Got you. Oh, fuck. That's right. See, that's an exclusion to the rule is that if you do it after midday

or whatever, you're the fool. But if you can convince somebody, they're still the fool. They're still the fool. Yeah, exactly. It's like any trick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Any trick that you do. Yeah.

Because we're now many days past. We were talking about it before the show about how people are loving April Fool's this year. The world is jack of it, as we would say in Australia. The internet collectively was like, nope. Stop this. Stop. We don't like it. And we know.

Yeah. We just know. Nothing is real on this day. We all know because also a lot of social media interns accidentally released their April Fool's Day pranks early. Yep, yep. All the scheduling program went off early, so everybody's like, oh, yeah, April Fool's is coming. Terrific.

And, look, this whole year has been in April Fool's, and quite frankly. I feel like it was similarly last year where people were like, just don't. But I feel like even though things are sort of clearing up, people were more jack of it this year than even last year. Oh, yeah, for sure. I love it. I love that people are over it.

Because it also gives it time to reinvent itself. Do you know what I mean? Maybe we're going to have the best goddamn April Fools of all time next year. Yeah. Can you imagine? I don't want it. I don't want it either. Subway was all like, guess what, guys?

We're released a coriander cookie. And people were like, delete your account. Delete your account. Never post on social media again. Subway. Yeah. Didn't you also hire a pedophile for like a decade, Subway? Didn't you do that?

Was that a fun April Fools prank? Subway. Bit of shush, please, Subway. Yeah. Also, nobody likes Subway, Subway. Bit of shush, please, Subway. Yeah. Also, nobody likes Subway, Subway. Nobody in the world. I don't mind a Subway from time to time. That's a good point.

Oh, you were going to go with nobody likes Subway. Just kidding, April Fool's. We all love Subway. No, I don't like Subway. Okay. No, not even. I'm nothing on Subway. Yeah.

That's where I'm at. My other favourite one was Volkswagen. We're like, we're changing the name of our company to Volkswagen. And people were like, hey, remember that time you pretended all your diesel engines were clean but they were really polluting and it cost you billions of dollars? Hey, remember that? That was a good April Fool's.

Good April Fool's prank. And then like a bunch of their investors were like, hey, this could actually impact our bottom line so we're going to sue you, Volkswagen. Yeah. Isn't it interesting that now people are just turning it on them? We're like, no, you've done terrible things, and we're just not having it, quite frankly.

Brand, get out of here. Get out of here, Brand. Yeah, there you go. She can bring me a delicious meatball sub, in which case I'm quite okay with it, Volkswagen. Yeah, that's fair enough. Deliver me a meatball sub in a Golf. Please.

So this week we've got news of more delays. We've got a trailer for James Gunn's The Suicide Squad. Another one, Mason. Space Jam and Spiral and Rick and Morty also got trailers. That's right. Knives Out, more Knives Out are coming. We'll talk about that. Watch out.

A Thor cameo, a new Thor cameo. There's going to be some Star Wars news in terms of the new Ewan McGregor-led Obi-Wan Star Wars news series. That's right. It's just him doing Star Wars news. There's so much Star Wars news coming, you say. Oh, so. Is it a desk?

In character as Obi-Wan? No, the actor Ewan McGregor. Coming up on the Clone Wars, he says. Okay, could we have potentially two series? Okay. Coming up on the Clone Wars, he says. Okay, could we have potentially two series? Okay.

One is the actor Ewan McGregor doing Star Wars news, but then there's another one running concurrently, which is the character Obi-Wan Kenobi, and he's doing news in the Star Wars universe. This is his first bite at going undercover. Oh, my God, yeah. He's like, well, I'll go undercover as a mild-mannered reporter. These glasses will do the trick. What if he was reporting on the real world in the Star Wars universe?

Wow. Yeah, incredible stuff. We're also going to talk about Thundercats. Hello there. Hello there. Thanks for tuning in. Yeah, they could call it hello there tonight if they do a night episode also, you know what I mean?

And then, of course, we're going to be talking about. Or good morning hello there if it's a morning show. So we're going to talk about, of course, Godzilla vs. Kong, which is a big release. I said okay, but I enjoyed it. Yeah, me too. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Yeah, we'll get into it.

Good morning, hello there. Do you want to talk about Suicide Squad trailer? How about this, James? Okay, what are we doing? Time codes as well. He goes undercover as one of those guys in like the SUV that drives around for a radio station and gives away prizes and stuff. Would you like a piping hot can of Coke?

Because it's the desert. Yeah, it's the desert, yeah. Hello there. Hello there. Just searing cans of Coke, just pegging them at people. I love it. Pegging means a different thing sometimes, by the way, just so people know. It didn't always mean that one thing. Itging means a different thing sometimes, by the way. Just so people

know. It didn't always mean that one thing. It also means a different thing. Intriguing. Let's talk about the Suicide Squad trailer just quickly. Because there was a Green Band trailer released. And my biggest takeaway from this was the arm fall off boy reveal. Nathan Fillion. His arms are a kimbo. His arms, but they're not just falling off. They're floating about. What power does he gain from that? I don't know.

He can punch from a distance. I mean, we don't even know that yet. They were like two inches from his shoulders. That's a good point, yeah. No, I'm not actually sure. I don't know. Because in the comics. He seemed very pleased with himself.

He did, didn't he? In the comics, he just pulls off his arms and he just like whaps you with it. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, that's a different situation. What was interesting about this one, first of all, the squad seems to be more low tech than it was in the previous version. And I'm saying specifically. So I think this has maybe gone around the internet

and I think maybe you've mentioned it as well. It seems to be in this movie there is two distinct, like the squad has been broken up into two distinct teams. Yeah. Or half are dead. Yeah, well, that's the thing. I think what seems to be, what may be happening in this thing is that you know how there's the team that do kind of that wild bunch

dramatic walk to camera? Yeah. And it's Mongol Captain Boomerang. Armful of boy. Armful of boy. Or the dead ones. Javelin and Pete Davidson, et cetera. The dead ones. Yeah the Dead Ones. Javelin and Pete Davidson, et cetera. The Dead Ones.

Yeah, the Dead Ones. Well, there's a moment where we're at the Task Force X headquarters and there's like a switchboard panel with the photographs of most of those characters on it. Yeah. And the switches are to set off the detonators in their brains. It used to be an app. Right?

It used to be an app, right? Maybe they took it off the App Store. They might have, yeah. But that panel contains Harley Quinn and, like, most of the people on that team. Yeah, right. Which suggests to me that most of them are going to die in, like, the first act.

Or seemingly. Yeah, right. I think maybe because what I think we're getting from this trailer is some stuff from the start and then maybe some final battle stuff. Like there's a beach, nighttime beach scene. Yes. So I think maybe it's going to appear as if a bunch of the team have died and then some, like Arm Fall Off Boy, the detachable kid,

he's going to come back. I think maybe him and Mongul are going to come back. Yeah, cool. But other people. I wouldn't mind. I like surprises. Yeah. I like to be surprised.

Well, I think we should just. I love April Fools. I think we should just evaluate, like we should examine these on such a granular level that there is no more surprises. Ruin everything for everyone. That's right. Ruin everything. Yes.

Yeah. Us most of all. That's my favorite. Speaking of ruin everything, our Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 3 review is up right now if you do want to check it out. Colleen's did an amazing job. They got up early at BigSandwich.co, the audio version. Well, well early.

Well. Too early. Well, well. If anything, yeah. Let's talk delays but not dismay. Do you have anything else to say in that? No, I didn't write any notes. I just wrote I'm a full-off boy.

Of course. That was the main takeaway, I think. Yeah, that's what I got from it. I think they're rescuing the thinker. Yeah, because they need him for something. Maybe to interface with Starro or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe he created Starro.

Maybe he did. Isn't he like an interdimensional whatever? He's like an interdimensional thing, but maybe he's a, you know, they mix some stuff up. Didn't they go and put in some Watchmen kind of squid stuff, like as a homage? Oh, I think probably, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What came first, the squid or the Starro? Starro. Starro did, yeah. Starro did, yeah. Starro did. Anything else? Oh, we see Ratcatcher doing a Ratcatcher stuff. Doing Ratcatcher.

Yep. She's got a ratcatcher wand. Yeah, that's true. That's about it. Looking good. I agree. Looking good, that show. August.

Movie. Movie and show. So again, delays but not dismay. It's the segment of the show where I name a bunch of things that have been delayed. But don't dismay. And we're also going to have cancellations. Oh, yeah. But not schmancelations.

Cancellations, just gone. Just forget it. Cancelations, be sad about it. Yeah, I'm going to get to that. So first up we had Uncharted. It was moved back a week to February 11th. Okay. A very unpopular move in my opinion.

Of 2022? Yeah, 2022, yeah. Okay, right. Just kidding. Nobody cares. Venom 2 was pushed back a week from the week it came out is coming out to a different week. Wow. When is that?

Maybe June, maybe September. I didn't check. Mortal Kombat also. This one was. One week, right? Yeah, but it's out like three weeks or whatever it is. So we've got a gap to fill in Caravan of Garbage. So we're going to do Mortal Kombat 1 and Mortal Kombat 2.

And we're either going to do Conquest or the web series or just a different thing. Or release that Avatar The Last Airbender movie that we recorded a million years ago. We could play Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks. Oh, we could, couldn't we? I liked that game. Right? Or was it no good?

It was probably bad. I remember it being fun. We played that together, didn't we? Yeah, we did, yeah. We had a lot of good times and free times. One of us was Kung Lao and one of us was the other Shaolin Monks that's in that game. Yeah, that's right.

Who knows? I remember fighting a lot of Barakas from memory. Yeah, except between one and two. I don't know. No one knows. Nobody played it except us and we don't know. And cut and that's the Caravan of Garbage. We did it.

Just put that up. Ben, make this into something. Edit this into a video. He doesn't listen to this. So, yeah, push back a week. I think that's to make room for Godzilla vs. Kong because it's doing well. Ah, yeah, okay. So why not just like let it kind of spin its wheels a bit in the box office

and get those HBO Max numbers in, you know what I mean? Big time. Oh, yeah. And then Resident Evil, which is called, what up, that city from the first game. It's moved from September to November. Raccoon City Palooza. Yeah.

So which is, I haven't seen any of this because I haven't released any trailers, but I am interested to see what Resident Evil is going to be doing. Yeah. Because I think it could be good. Famous last words. Yeah, you've done it now. What do you do? You know what I mean?

We're nothing here but wild, inaccurate predictions that people then throw in our face three years later. Every now and then we get an email that's like, you said this in 2014. You thought you were going to love Justice League, you fucking idiot. Like we get emails like that. We're in the present now. We know, all right?

We move forward in time too. Okay, but what if we didn't know? What if we'd forgotten about that? We shouldn't be allowed to forget about these things. You're probably right, yeah. Actually, we did some We Got This Covered episodes What if we'd forgotten about that? We shouldn't be allowed to forget about these things. You're probably right, yeah. Actually, we did some We Got This Covered episodes in Big Sandwich where we go through a bunch of predictions that we got wrong.

Oh, that we got wrong, yeah. Yeah, we did. And the wrong list is much longer than the right list. But it's more fun, I think. It's way more fun, yeah. And a lot of them were like. Some of them are jokes. I'm like, is this a joke?

I can't remember whether I said this was a joke. And some of them are like, boy, did we say that? Yeah. Huh. Who knew. Yeah. And a lot of them were like. Some of them are jokes. I'm like, is this a joke? I can't remember whether I said this was a joke. And some of them are like, boy, did we say that? Yeah. Huh. Who knew? Yeah. Who knew? So more DC news, though.

They've cancelled the movie The Trench, which is the Aquaman sidequel, which also starred everybody in Aquaman. It was a horror film set in a trench. Yeah, that's right. The deepest, darkest part of the ocean in that Aquaman movie. Quite frankly, who cares? Really. I mean, they're going to make another Aquaman movie anyway. It doesn't matter

at all. They'll probably go back to the trench. Yeah, exactly. And the other one which I do care about is Ava DuVernay's New Gods. Yeah. And she released a statement. Would you like me to read it? Please. Okay. Yeah. As part of our DC slate, some legacy development titles including... Oh, no, sorry. This is Warner Brothers.

She does have a statement. So here's the bloody propaganda. That's right. Developing titles including New Gods and the Torrential Novel are going to be moving forward. We thank our partners Ava DuVernay and Tom King, James Wan, and Peter Safran. So, yeah, Tom King was working on New Gods with Ava DuVernay.

And he, of course, for people who don't know, he wrote both the Mr. Miracle limited series, which he is one of the New Gods, and he also wrote the Vision limited series, of which WandaVision is sort of kind of based on. Which is kind of wild that they've now cancelled this. Yeah, right. Anyway, whatever. For their time and collaboration during the process,

and look forward to continued partnerships with them on other DC stories. The projects remain in their skillful hands if they were to move forward in the future. So, yeah, they're not saying no forever. They're saying no for now. No for now. But if they bring it back, then everybody involved is going to come back in apparently. Is that something to that effect?

Yeah. I also think like there's a lot – Warner Brothers have a habit of announcing a thing and then it just hangs in the air for six years. Yes. I think The Rock – I saw this the other day. The Rock was cast as Black Adam in like 2007. Yeah. Like not a joke.

Like he really did. Here we go. This is a statement. I thought I copied this over, but I didn't. Tom, I loved writing New Gods with you. I'm upset that the saga of Barda, Scott, Granny, Highfather, and the Furies ends this way. Diving into Kirby's fourth world was the adventure of a lifetime

that can't be taken away. Thank you for your friendship. And remember, Darkseid is. Oh, that's a thing that they say. So some sources have said this is partly this decision of relation to the new gods came from a desire to put a space between Zack Snyder's Justice League, which featured Darkseid, Granny Goodness, Mother Boxes, Apocalypse and a bunch of other shit,

and this. So, yeah. You know what I think? I think that's not true. Yeah? Because, I mean, you know, saying, well, we can't have two versions of Darkseid. Well, you've got two versions of the Joker.

That doesn't seem to matter. Yeah, exactly. You've got two versions of the Batman operating sort of concurrently. It doesn't matter at all. So I think they're looking for a scapegoat for we don't know how to do this and we're panicking and we don't know if it's going to work. So we won't. Yeah, as much as I would like to blame Snyder fans for this,

I don't think it's their fault. I think they are confused. I think they are genuinely like, yeah, like you said, we don't know what to do and we did this. They're bad at this. And people like it, but we hate it, I think. We don't want to move forward, but we also don't want to move forward on this different thing with some of these people in it. Yeah, I don't We don't want to move forward, but we also don't want to move forward on this different thing with some of these people in it.

Yeah, I don't think anybody's going to be like, oh, there was already a version of granny goodness, so I don't understand what's happening in this movie. I think it's more the dark side thing, if anything. They probably redesigned him to make him more comic. Yeah, but it's about the same. They redesign Iron Man in every movie. They redesign Thanos as well.

He looks different in a movie. That's right, different actor, different everything. Different everything, exactly. Other trailers this week. So, yeah, as of recording this, we haven't seen the Space Jam trailer because we recorded a fraction early. Scooch early. We only imagine what kind of trailer, what kind of movies they've entered.

Oh, my God, probably The Matrix. Probably The Matrix. Probably maybe the first Space Jam movie. Oh, that would be incredible, right? Oh, my God, probably The Matrix. Probably The Matrix. Probably maybe the first Space Jam movie. Oh, that would be incredible, right? God. Yeah, yeah, except they don't have Michael Jordan's likeness rights anymore, so it's just a generic basketball player. I'd appreciate that.

Michael Jordan, what are you doing here? Well, I'm just here to say good luck with the big gum. I can't say game. Oh, because the NBA owns the concept of the basketball game, yeah. But I don't know if you saw this, but Spiral also got a trailer. Oh, yeah, that's right. I saw a reboot sort of. Is it a continuation?

Seems to be. I think I saw a photo of Jigsaw. I don't know. Or did you see a photo of a Jigsaw? I might have seen that. But Samuel L. Jackson is Chris Rock's father or something. Okay. I can believe that.

There's some investigations going on. Because one of them has hair and one of them doesn't. There's some investigations going on. And that fucking puppet, he's on a bike probably. Like you go into a room and he comes down on a little tricycle and you're like, oh, no, this is bad. I'm in a Saw movie, you say. Jeebs.

Yeah. Do you reckon it's the return of Jigsaw or Carrie Elwes? Why would Carrie Elwes back? Didn't he come back in the last one? Did he? I don't know. You've seen it. I have, but I don't remember.

Maybe. Let's do five more minutes on this franchise we barely remember. I agree. But instead of doing that, let's move on. Wait. Do you think if you were trapped in a room and the jigsaw guy showed up, I'd just admit every bad thing you've ever done. And then he's got no choice but to let you go.

But then he's like, no, you still left the digger key out of your brain. Oh, jeez. No, but I learned my lesson, man. Come on. Yeah. Come on. I figured it out now. And then the little puppet on the bike slowly backs up.

Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. It's probably on a string. Yeah. It's probably just pulling it back. We should maybe do the Saw movies to go out of garbage, like the first three, because don't they just go insane? I'd probably, yeah. At a point.

As I've said, I've watched the first one. Yep. And I watched it. There was a gap. There was. Then we played the video game. Which is not bad. Which Lee Winnell wrote or Part Co wrote or something.

Or James Wan. And then I watched the movie Jigsaw and that's it. So I don't know. I've seen two and the game and that's it. I've seen more Friday the 13th movies than I've seen Saw movies. Wow. I know. That's quite the claim to fame.

Right. And you probably saw the trailer for Rick and Morty Season 5. I did. Coming June. All kinds of references in there. Transformers in there. Oh, my God. Blade in there.

Yeah, it kind of goes by so fast I just don't really register a lot of it. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but, you know, good. It's a good show and I like it that it's back. I hate the fans, but I like it. Like most things, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. It's yet to have gotten stale. like most things, I guess. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's yet to have gotten stale. I think the hype around it and the fandom definitely wears thin, but the show itself is still good.

Yes. Yeah, there you go. And they don't also seem to bend to the whims of what people want in it, which I appreciate. No, no. Yes. They subvert expectations, James. That's my least favourite thing. Speaking of.

So you'd rather people vert expectations? I want them verted, yeah. Like Tony Hawk would? He'd vert some expectations, yeah, yeah. He's got a great Twitter account, doesn't he? Yeah. He's like, a kid said, do an Ollie and I did, and he's like, you're just like Tony Hawk,

and he's like, yeah, in a way, I am like Tony Hawk. Most of his stories about people being like, you look like Tony Hawk, but you're old. I like to think that every day he wakes up and he has breakfast and then he gets in his Bentley and he drives to like his Tony Hawk corporate headquarters. And then every day, like he's got like a room full of interns and like a big, like virtual reality hologram wall where people are just inventing scenarios in which people can like, you're not Tony Hawk.

Like they're all. You don't think that he's just busing in you kids? He might be doing that too. Get in the van. I'm going to take you to. Just get in the van. I'll give you 50 bucks for your skateboard. Yeah.

Who am I? Are you Tony Hawk? No, I'm not. Get it out of your head. I'm going to do some skateboarding, but keep in mind, I'm not Tony Hawk, all right? You still got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That aggression that drives him, he's still got it. That's right. And the really knobbly shins. Yeah, you must. Just of a man who's wrecked him 100,000 times. Isn't it incredible, though, that he's still doing it? That cannot be. Best it's ever been.

Yeah, I kind of wish. He's the Michael Jarden of skateboarding. Of skateboarding. It's true. Yeah. I kind of wish I picked it up when I was younger, but obviously at this point it's no. Obviously not.

Deadline, though, reporting, there was a quiet bidding war. See, now, if I may, if you were going to pick it up now, you wouldn't have the lack of fear of death and injury that a teenager has, so you'd be in there with the elbow pads and the knee pads, butt pad, helmet, stack hat. I'd have it all. I'd have the whole thing. Yeah. And then I'd still crash.

Yeah. Yeah. And you'd land on the one part of your body that's not covered in a pad. Yeah. But like if you twist your ankle or like do a knee, it doesn't matter how many elbow pads you got on or knee pads. You know what I mean? It's trying to make a difference.

You step wrong. Forget it. You're limping for the rest of your life. Anyway, there was a quiet bidding war. Oh, shh. Between Apple, Amazon, and Netflix for Knives Out 2 and 3. All right. So these are owned and licensed by Rian Johnson,

who I think made one of the best Star Wars movies, I'm just saying, and his producing partner and T Street co-founder. Shh, everyone, shh, don't tell anyone. Don't tell anyone I said that. I agree, but shh. Yeah, co-founder Ram Bergman on a picture-by-picture basis. So Netflix closed this deal for Knives Out 2 and 3 for $450 million. That's so much money. Now is that the production deal?

Are they going to give him? He's already making it or he's already much money. Now is that the production deal? So are they going to give him? He's already making it or he's already filming it. Yeah, I think he's making it then they buy it. Okay. I think. So they're not personally handing him $450 million, but even if they were, good on him. No, I think they are essentially.

Oh, because he'd be going to his production company. Yeah, right, wow. So pretty much, good on him. Get that cheese. Is that the expression? I don't know. The next two Knives Out movies are just being filmed on Zoom. Yeah.

Nobody's wearing any makeup or whatever, and he's just taking, and it's going to cost $1 million, and he's just going to take $449 million for himself. Absolutely go for it. The mystery is who's been muted on the Zoom call. It's Daniel Craig. It's him. That was the revelation.

He just didn't want to do it, I'd imagine. But I was going to say, we mentioned recently, I think I said specifically, I don't want to throw you under the bus, but Netflix movie track record is not great, and I think so this is good. I think so too, yeah. It's some good stuff, you know what I mean? So wow. And it definitely suits, you know, you're at home

and you want to watch a good thing on TV, and it's, you know what I mean? And it definitely suits, you know, you're at home and you want to watch a good thing on TV and it's, you know. I'd still go to the movies for this though. I would make a night of seeing a Nightmare movie. You'd think that whatever big movie studio put out the original would have locked down based on the idea of, hey, maybe people will like a well-written movie that is filled with movie stars and great character actors. My goodness, yeah.

Guess not, though. Guess they didn't. Guess not either. Do you know that means that people are involved in the film now from now on because I think they've locked in two for three. They're like, give me $20 million, Rian Johnson. Ah, okay, right. Give me $20 million of your dollars right now.

Yeah. I'm going to put props in my Zoom background. Give it to me. Give me the money, Ryan Johnson. Give me the money. Now, I think he has more bargaining power just because- He makes good movies? He makes good movies, but also he doesn't-

Nobody beyond Daniel Craig is really required to be in any of the sequels. That is true. Maybe in Anna Di Arma's case, but probably not even then. I would like to see some of the characters from the original brought back for whatever reason, however they can shoehorn them in. I feel like they won't, though, because they don't need to. Maybe a few sequels down the line. I think this will be more of a kind of a Marvel Cinematic Universe

where he'll just get in. People will be like, oh, I would like to be in a good movie actually. I would love to be in a good movie too. Give me the $20 million. Give me that goddamn money, right? We know you've got it on you. I was going to say it's sticking out of your pockets. Open your wallet.

Just let me see how much money you've got in your wallet. Let me see what you're holding, Roy Johnson. Oh, you've got that cheese, as is the expression. It's an Australian expression. It's not. It is. It's not. We don't even have cheese here. Yeah, that's right. We're all lactose intolerant. It's an Australian expression. It's not. It is. It's not. We didn't even have cheese here.

Yeah, that's right. We're all lactose intolerant. It's all fruit. Every meal is fruit. Just tropical fruits. It's a fucking nightmare. Mason, Deadliner reporting that Russell Crowe is going to make a fun little cameo in the next Thor movie. Does it say fun little cameo there?

I wrote fun little cameo. The headline doesn't say fun little cameo. No, but they're saying he's making it. I'm excited to be here and making a fun little cameo. But they doesn't say fun little cameo. No, but they're saying he's making it. I'm excited to be here and making a fun little cameo. But they said he's going to be in it. To win it. That's right. And it's going to be like a minor role.

Okay. So I think it's just going to be like a Matt Damon in the last one and et cetera and so forth. So that's fun. Yeah, good on you, Russell Crowe. Get that cheese. And, oh, sorry, he's from New Zealand, so he wouldn't understand that expression.

So I apologise. Get that kiwi bird. Or fruit. So the universe you're building in this episode, James, is that Australia doesn't have cheese, but we have an expression that is get that cheese. Yeah, because cheese

is rare. We don't have it. So it's like, you get that if you you can because we do not have any cheese. So is it a metaphor or do we really mean cheese? No, it's money because you can't get cheese here. Right. Do you understand? No. It's good though.

Everyone who listens to this gets it. It's just you. I'm hoping you add more to this in this or subsequent episodes, but I like it. I like the world you're building. Thank you. Star Wars News Mason but I like it. I like the world you're building. Thank you. Star Wars News Mason. I'm ready.

There's a look on you, you were smiling and then your face just dropped. It's business time, James. There's no time for fun because the Star Wars News has started. Did you see that some stuff dropped on Disney Plus as well now? Oh, Star Wars Legends? No, it's called Vintage. That's the one. It's about toy collecting and stuff.

No, no, no. It might be. No, it's like Caravan of Garbage movies. Give me Caravan of Courage movies. Shut up, Mason. Everybody knows I mean that. And it's broken my brain. It's rewound my brain.

I was hoping you were surprising me here. Yeah. Disney have acquired all the Caravan of Garbage videos and they're going to put them on. And then, James, you know what we can do? What can we do? Get that cheese, baby. But it's a metaphor.

Yeah. Obviously. Let me just check. I'll just open Disney Plus and see what we got here. Okay. Come on, Disney Plus. Stop being like this. Yeah, it's called Star Wars Vintage Collect.

Star Vintage Wars. Oh, yes. So we've got Caravan of Courage, the Ewok Battle for Adventure, the Story of the Faithful Wookiee, the Ewoks Animated Series. No, not yet. And some of the Clone Wars 2D Animated, not the third season at this point. Okay. So there you go.

What's next, Mason? Star Wars news. That's right. Here we go. Back to battle stations. Here you go. What's next, Mason? Star Wars news. That's right. Here we go. Back to battle stations. Here we go. That's right. We got some Obi-Wan casting.

First of all, there's a synopsis, which may or may not have already been released, but this story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith, where Kenobi faced his greatest defeat. He did pretty well, though. Cut that dude's legs off. Right. Pretty good. Yeah.

It's pretty good. If anything, Darth Vader suffered, Anakin Skywalker suffered a bigger defeat. Yeah. Because he got his arms and legs chopped off. Embarrassing. Very. I'd be so embarrassed. And corruption of his best friend. Don't take a photo. This is so embarrassing. Come on, man. I'm burning up in this lava.

Stop it. Corruption of his best friend and apprentice, Anakin Skywalker turned evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. Actually, my Padawan's my best friend. Oh, that's weird, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Come on, man.

I'm not best friends with anybody I taught ever and I never will be. You've got to keep that professional distance for the rest of my life, Mason. That's right. Sometimes I run into students and I just go straight back into teacher mode. Still there, mate. Still locked away. It's still a piece of my brain I keep handy. When you say go back into teacher mode, you mean

run into the staff room so you don't have to talk to them? You just find the nearest staff room. You don't even... Whatever school is the closest. It could be a mile away. You just keep running. I just mean not swearing. Okay, right. But they're all doing well.

Do you think if you didn't have the outlet of being Mr. Sunday Movies While you were still teaching Do you think you would have cracked and yelled at a kid? Nah, because teaching is quite rewarding Regardless of, I found But yeah, probably That's the answer we all wanted

They also released the cast I don't know if you saw this Ewan McGregor Who's he going to play? I don't know yet, news reporter Hayden Christensen Who's he going to play? I don't know yet. News reporter. Hayden Christensen. Who's he going to play? News reporter.

He's co-anchor. He's just on fire, though, the whole time. It's the Star Wars universe, so fire burns longer. Today on Hoth, hot. He thinks everywhere's hot because he's on fire. He's on fire all the time. Moses Ingram who- Isn't it ironic though that the planet Hoth is so cold?

Yes. It's even going to be called, James. Colth? The planet Colth. Sorry, I stepped on your joke. No, no. What I wanted is for you to get it. Oh, okay.

Well, I did get it. Yeah. Because that's how you know a joke is very good. That's so true. When whoever you're talking to gets it first. We've got Moses Ingram who I think she was the one who mentioned in a post that she's going to be playing with lightsabers, so people are like

young Ahsoka, maybe? I see. Because they probably can't use Rosario Dawson without aging her down, which they could also do. Joel Edgerton is back. Bonnie Pease. Two things you need to know about her. Yep.

She's in this. Yep. And also she was in that Alice and Max sex cult. What? Correct. I didn't know that. Yep. She's the one.

So she was the Ewan McGregor's. She's in the Star Wars movies as well. Yep. Get the fuck out of here. She's in two things. Star Wars movies. And a weird sex cult. And a sex cult. Yeah. But she got out and then there's a documentary where she Wars movies and a weird sex cult. And a sex cult, yeah.

But she got out and then there's a documentary where she's like, Yeah, it's a survivor. Oh, yeah, just to clarify, yeah, she's a survivor. She's not one of the people who was doing all the crimes. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Kumail Nanjiani. Oh. I would have thought he would have been saving up for like a bigger role,

but maybe this will lead to a bigger thing. Because, you know, he's got a big Marvel role coming up. That's true. So that's going to be interesting. Indira Varma. Rupert Friend, O'Shea Jackson Jr. Who's that again? That's a name I recognize. I'll just say the others quickly.

Sung Kang, Simone Kessel, and Benny Safdie. From the Safdie brothers. Weird get. Awesome. Rupert Friend. So there's a Kessel in there. Seems that way, doesn't there? Nominative determinism.

So Rupert Friend, he was the last agent 47. You'd know this guy 100%. Yeah, but he's got to be another, because I never saw that one. No, you know this dude. You know this dude. You've seen him, and you know him. There you go. What do you think of that guy?

Looks a bit Luke Evans-y. He's got a bit of that, doesn't he? He's in Homeland. That one? Home dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, land. And away. Oh. Charlie Clawson co-starring.

So, yeah, that's a good cast. Yeah. And I can't wait to see it if it comes out, which it should. I bet who knows. Probably will come out. Probably I hope so, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors, like high blood pressure developed during pregnancy, which can put us two times more at risk of heart disease or stroke.

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he's been forced to fight a regular monkey. Oh, my God. Yeah. Then I have to talk about other news in relation to Adam Wingard. Please. Who was the director of that movie Because he's come out this week And he said, I'm directing a Thundercats movie

I'm going to be doing a Thundercats movie Is that how he put the emphasis on it? Thundercats movie, he said I don't like that This is interesting I don't have a lot of faith in this project if he's going to say it like that No, you should because listen to this This is the greatest Thundercats movie lead up I've ever heard in my life

And you're going to love this And we've heard a bunch in our time Yeah, we certainly have This is the greatest Thundercats movie lead-up I've ever heard in my life, and you've got to love this. And we've heard a bunch in our time. Yeah, we certainly have. So Thundercats is like a, people don't know, it's like a He-Man-esque action series from the late 80s. And if you don't know what He-Man is, it was a sort of Conan the Barbarian but in space.

And very homoerotic, which is why I liked it. What did you like about it? Yeah, that. I liked that there were four people in that universe. Yeah, just living on a barren, empty planet. They're like, we're fighting over this barren planet and you're like, you've got all those spaceships, why don't you go somewhere else? No, I like all the vines I get tangled in.

It's not a good show. No. But they did a reboot which was better also, to be fair. So Thundercats ran from 85 to 88. But anyway, so Adam Wingard was obsessed with Thundercats and he made it a point of saying, not when I was six, because he's like 38 years old. It was like, I was obsessed with Thundercats in year 10.

So when he was like 15, 16, 17 or whatever. So what he did over the course of that year, and it ruined his schooling, he wrote a 272-page script for Thundercats. So more than four hours this movie was shot. That's right, exactly. I mean, it probably would have even more than that, because what's a 15-year-old know about script writing? It's probably just like an ocean of text.

He said he hand-wrote it as well. Okay, that's, wow, okay. So it was one of those things where I would carry around my notebooks and talk about it. I didn't even realize kids in my class were making fun of me, and they would ask me questions about my Thundercats screenplay. It was only one day my friends asked me and I was excitedly telling him about all the things about my Thundercats screenplay and I heard him turn around to some of the girls in the class and these were girls I had crushes on

and he was making fun of me for writing Thundercats. So this is a man after my own heart. Just loving Thundercats well past the point where you should be loving Thundercats. This seems like a real Revenge of the Nerds situation. Yeah. But not like the movie, which is horrible. Exactly.

It really is, yeah. But just... I bet none of his friends are doing a goddamn thing and he's making Thundercats movies. Yeah. What looks like it's going to be one of the biggest movies of the year. But he said in terms of how he was going to make it, it's going to keep the 80s aesthetic.

He loves the designs and he's going to keep the designs. Okay. And you who loves sexy animal people, you said sexy. You'd probably also like those designs. I didn't say any of those things. That's what you're about. No, no, no, no. That's what you're about, I think.

Okay. I mean, you brought this up. I had no idea this was happening, but you're right. No, you insisted before the show that I mention this and make mention that you are the one involved in this. And I don't know why you're now turning it back on me. Because it's the truth. I feel like I've been betrayed for this thing that you love.

Wow. But so. You literally said that you were loving Thundercats and you would never let it go. You said that. No, I said he said that. And I'm loving that he wouldn't let it go. But you said he's a man after your heart.

Yeah, because that's the thing. Your heart being a loving animal. No, no, no. Because I like, you know, when you get to high school, when you're still liking like kids' properties and like comic books and things like that but you can't openly tell people. For him it's Thundercats and for you it's Thundercats. But for me it's something cool.

Wow. Like skateboarding or something. You know what I mean? That's what I was doing. But anyway, you said you didn't want to make it like the movie Cats. Why would anyone want to make anything like the movie Cats? Well, I thought maybe you'd do humans with CGI or whatever. But he said it's going to be a hybrid CGI film that has a hyper real look

and somehow bridges the gap between cartoon and CGI. So it seems like it's going to be, he's talking about like it's this new thing. But I think also if you're going to make a Thundercats movie for some reason, for some reason, why wouldn't you get the guy, aside from you who loves Thundercats more than anything in the world? You. No, no, him, this guy.

Oh, I see. Right, right, right. But he looks through the sword or whatever, doesn't he? Does he? The guy looks through the sword. It gives him the sight of something. Huh. Don't you remember?

Not really. You love it. You know what I'm talking about. I was more of a Silverhawks guy. Yeah, I bet you were. You liked those sexy bird costumes, didn't you remember? Not really. You love it. You know what I'm talking about. I was more of a Silverhawks guy. Yeah, I bet you were. You liked those sexy bird costumes, didn't you? Again, sexy is what you said to me before the show. That's literally what you said just then.

This is the first time I've ever brought up Silverhawks and you're like, hmm, Hawks, sexy, interesting. Very interesting. So, yeah, okay, all that aside, what do you think about a Thundercats movie? I'd probably watch it. Yeah, we would, wouldn't we? Yeah. Do we do the next thing? What's probably watch it. Yeah, we would, wouldn't we? Yeah.

Do we do the next thing? What's the last, like, because we did He-Man, came in a billion years ago. Yes. And that was interesting but bad. Yep. And then since then we've had the She-Ra cartoon, which I've not seen but people like.

There's a new He-Man cartoon with Kevin Smith he's doing. Okay. And there's Voltron. Voltron, yeah. Are you talking like live action? I don't know. Like I'm thinking of a very specific because there's, you know, you can't say is anything from,

has any property from the 80s been made into a movie? Yeah, everything. Yeah. It's always happening. But like action figures like that confluence of like, okay, it was just a toy and then they built an ad, a 22-minute ad to sell the toy. Yeah.

G.I. Joe. Yeah, I was going to say G.I. Joe. Yeah, I guess John Carter sort of falls into this. And Transformers. Yeah, oh, that's true. Okay, all right, heaps of stuff. Heaps of stuff it turns out. But I don't know, I feel like your He-Mans and your Thundercats

and your Silverhawks, they're different, again, from Transformers and Voltron, I guess, because it's more like mythical and swords and sorcery and that kind of shit. Yeah. Great stuff probably. Yeah. Should we talk about Godzilla's going to fight a monkey?

Yes. He's gone and he did in this movie that we saw. Yeah. So do you want to know some dates, numbers? Do you want to know some dates, but do you want to know some numbers? Yeah, dates and numbers, please. Okay. So Christmas is the 25th of December.

Some people, depending on different cultures, have different Christmases on different days. Also, they're pretty sure that that's not even when Jesus was born, but it's just an arbitrary date that they've picked. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I know what you mean. It's crazy, right? Yeah.

And that's all the dates I have for you this week. Wow. But I'll be back next week. I'll have a different date. Different date. Oh, wow. It's James' date of the week. So I think I opened too big with Christmas, didn't I?

Yeah, I mean, there's nowhere to go down. I mean, that's a big day. I could do my birthday, but that feels like it's like... And also people would steal your identity. And I want that. Yeah. So this is looking, though, to be the biggest opening since the pandemic hit. Huh.

20 to 30 million. And that was a heck of an opening, wasn't it? It certainly was. 20 to 30 million US, in the US. But it's also, on top of that, it's streaming. So to get that and on top of it being released online, pretty goddamn good. It did open in some territories internationally the week before. 123 million worldwide, which is pretty phenomenal, which is good news.

It means like the vaccine's rolling out. A lot of people like here, for example, there's been like extensive lockdown. So people have been going to the movies. I went last Wednesday night, last week, and it was like an early screening, just a public screening, and it was packed. Like it was jam-packadood. I went this afternoon and it was me and there was two other people. Jam-packed.

I had an assigned seat but I just sat wherever I wanted. You allowed to do that? No. I'm going to have to call the police. Excuse me. Don't do it. I'll kill you. Then I'll call the police for that.

I'll be dead though, won't I? Yeah, that's the loophole. The perfect crime. Yeah, so it seems good that, I mean, things are slowly going back to normal and it makes me just wonder what you think the story was. Oh, James, no. Gotcha. Okay, here it is.

All right. Godzilla's about, isn't he? He's always swimming about. He can't stop. And Kong's about, isn't he? He can't stop. He's all on Skull Island, isn't he? He won't stop.

But thenzilla's like i'm gonna swim about and i'm gonna blow stuff up what and people like that's not cool man don't do it why are you doing that and you're like i i shall not explain my actions it's a secret i'll never tell i'll never tell uh every time he goes back in the water he's like shut up shut up i'll be back i'll fucking kill you so they're like what are we gonna do tell anybody i was Every time he goes back into the water, he's like, shh. Shut up. Try and fucking shut up. I'll be back. I'll fucking kill you. Shut up. So they're like, what are we going to do?

Tell anybody I was here. I'll fucking kill you. Zip your lips. And so there's just a lot of people standing in like burned out cities talking to the press and they're like, I don't know what happened. The wind. The wind did it, I reckon. Yep.

I don't know. You see Godzilla just off camera doing like the neck slit motion. What happened? I don't know. The wind. The wind did it, I reckon. Yep. I don't know. You see Godzilla just off camera doing like the neck slit motion. I think probably just shoddy building practices knocked all these buildings down. But then they're like, hey, let's get Kong and we'll get Kong to fight him. No, that's not exactly what they were doing because they need Kong, without spoiling it,

to lead them to like a power source. Oh, that's right. So they can use a power source to defeat Godzilla. But it turns out that maybe there's more afoot and maybe it's a bigger foot. Who's the real monster? Ah, real monsters. Ah, real monsters.

There were a lot of real monsters in that, wasn't there? So, yeah, it's about two hours in length, which I thoroughly appreciated because I felt like the last one went for a really long and boring time. What did you think of this, though? I liked it. Me too. I thought it was pretty fun.

It was, there was less. Crap. Yeah, just, there were still human characters. What's interesting, though, I think is that there were fewer human characters and also I think they decided to perhaps reduce most of them to caricatures or like to like silhouettes of real people. It is a more comical, fantastical universe. Yeah, they're like, you know, in the last one how, you know,

Millie Bobby Brown's character, she had a mother and a father and it was all, you know, they had a lot of issues together and it was all very complicated. Well, in this, she just goes off on an adventure and her father's like, where are you? And she's like, boo. And he's like, I'll be back but not for very, I'm not in this much, just so you know.

So you're on your own for a lot of this. The last one was two hours and 12 but it felt much longer. It felt much longer. Because it felt like in that. This one is much more brisk. Yes. So there's kind of two, we'll do non-spoilers and spoilers, but there's two human kind of subplots, I guess,

the main plot being the fighting. And one of them I felt more compelling than the other. Is it because one is about podcasting? No, that was the one I felt was less compelling. You know what's interesting? Because, you know, was it the week before we did an episode on things that take you out of movies? Yeah.

All the things. And we did say, you know, if you the week before we did an episode on things that take you out of movies? Yeah. All the things. And we did say, you know, if you're an expert in something, then, you know, any time that subject is in a movie, you see all the holes in it. And as the world's most bona fide experts in podcasting, I'm like, so this guy, Bobby Brown, like like meets up with a conspiracy theory guy who has done like 250 episodes of a podcast about Titans. Yes. And the inner workings of.

A corporation that he has infiltrated secretly and they don't. And he's going to go in and do some like industrial espionage in this place. Yep. And what, they haven't found him? This doesn't disguise his voice. Yeah. It's also a popular podcast. Yeah.

Relatively, I guess. Billy Bobby Brown just listens to it. Podcasts are pretty underground, though. You can have a pretty niche podcast and you can be simultaneously reasonably well-known and nobody gives a fuck at all. Well, that is very true. But also at the same time, I'm like, you're not, the people that own this company aren't like.

What's this about? We heard this podcast. Nobody on the grapevine has been like, you're not, the people that own this company aren't like. What's this about? We heard this podcast. Nobody on the grapevine has been like, there's a guy. Yeah. And you couldn't just line up all your employees and say, hey, say welcome to the Titans secret podcast. Welcome to the podcast zone. Right.

I'm your host, Mr. Secret Podcast Man. Yeah, no, I liked the other story, which is mostly focused about getting Kong into a big hole in the air. It's me, Mr. Sunday Titans. Yeah, that's right. That's what I talk about. Yeah, but I did think, though. Is your host Nick Mason?

I'm on it as well. Well, I need someone to bounce off. But I think both of these stories, though, were way and well more compelling than the last two stories, which were like, not even, I think it was one story, it was mostly in boardrooms being like, where's Godzilla? Oh, we see him on the sonar. I think he's out of energy.

Well, we better see if we can get him some more. Oh, there's a different monster. Oh, I don't know. Oh, dear. Yeah, so I thought this was all much better and a bit sillier, which I think works. But we're not here for any of that because what are we really here for, Mason? Monster fights.

That's right, monster fights. You've probably seen it from the trailers, but there's two, which should have been the Batman-Superman formula. Yeah. You have a tussle up top and then a regroup and a gathering of weapons and thoughts and then a rematch. Yeah. That's what they should have done.

Isn't it largely that, though? It feels like it. No, it is in this. Yes, yes. That's what I'm saying, but it wasn't in Batman Superman. Oh, okay, we're saying. Okay, right, right, right. Yes, yes, yes.

Yeah, so I appreciated that. And I think the first one, again, it's in the trailer where it's out in the ocean and it's on a big battleship. It's very, it is tense because Kong is a gorilla and he's not a great swimmer. Sure. And Godzilla can shoot a giant nuclear laser. And he's a good swimmer. And he's an amazing swimmer and bloke, I guess.

He's got a real swimmer's physique. Yeah, he does, doesn't he? I'm not a fan of Godzilla. I know people are. No, not as in like the movie. I like the movies and the idea of him and all of that, but like terrible, terrible, terrible thing that exists. Just an awful lizard.

Yeah, and I know it's like that's kind of the point is that he's the great equaliser and he comes in and if there's something wrong with the earth, he's going to smash it to bits. And I'm like, just fuck off. Like, no thank you, man. So you'd be on the side of maybe somebody else in this movie. Yes, I was. Oh, and the second plot.

Yes. There's two plots. Two plots. There's the podcaster and Millie Bobby Brown. They're doing some investigations. They're going to do some investigating into a cybernetics company. Yeah. And then the second plot is that employees of the cybernetics company

and various researchers and people from Skull Island, they've got to team up and they've got to find their way to the, what's it called? The inner earth. The hollow earth. The hollow earth. They want to find their way. They believe it exists and they want to get in there and get,

and find the secret hollow earth energy. That's right, and use it to defeat a Godzilla. Yeah. Or whatever they want to use it for. Exactly. So I found it. But again, the fights were very, I think, great. They're mostly in the daytime, except if you've seen the trailer, there's like a neon-soaked Hong Kong kind of.

Which felt very like Pacific Rim-esque as well. Yeah, but I think better. Yeah, well, it's also been eight years since Pacific Rim or whatever it was, whatever it is, so that makes sense. They feel more real, I think. Yeah, I'd agree with that. I think also this one does a better job than the last one at scale and also it's more interesting fights because you kind of,

like you said, there's impact. You feel like the weight of creatures getting hurt and buildings falling down, which I never felt that engaged in the battles in the previous. And it also helps that both of these characters have, like, recognisable faces, I think. Yeah, totally. That definitely, yeah, and they also have their own kind of personality

or one of them has a personality. Kong's never looked better. Is Kong, like, is he a name actor and they've mo-capped his face? Well, last time it was Toby Kebbell. Okay. But I do not know. This time it's Toby Keith. What? Country music star's Toby Keith. What?

Country music star, Toby Keith. Just while I'm looking this up as well, I thought it was interesting that Alexander Skarza was like, my brother tried to get in the hollow earth and he got squashed flat. He went in there and it crushed him like a tin can. But then you see when they actually end up going into the hollow earth and there's like this big giant like pulsing kind of blue energy and it's like, well, I wouldn't fall into that. Like your brother's an idiot.

Right? Your brother's a massive fucking idiot. You would have been like, I'm not prepared for this. Let's go back. Come back later. Maybe get some samples. Exactly. I'm not saying who, but somebody must have.

They must have mo-capped it, but I can't say it because last time they kind of mentioned it up top and they made a big point of being like Toby Kebbell from the... Country music scene. Country music scene. But the Apes movies came in and did that. Oh, because he was the villain. Yeah.

Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, regardless of how they've done it, like he's got a real great like I'm tired and I'm sad face. He certainly does. It's tremendous. Yeah. I think that's part of the reason also why I like Kong better is because there is like a human element to him that you recognize and he is intelligent in the way that Godzilla isn't.

Godzilla has no empathy and he can't really be reasoned with. Yes. Like he'll come around to your side if it's advantageous to him. Sure. But Kong can kind of be coaxed and reasoned with and has emotion. Yeah, yeah. Where the other guy's just a fucking lunatic who shoots nuclear fire. You feel, it seems you're very biased against Godzilla.

Where are you at? Where are you at? Because Ben's a Godzilla. Ben's loving Godzilla. All right, okay. I just like friendship. Get out of here. You've got to pick a side.

If you had to pick a side, Mason. Oh, the evil corporation. Yeah, look, it moves at a good clip, I think. Yes. I think it's the primary. Totally. And they don't really explain the scale because Kong's bigger, obviously, but Godzilla's a little bit smaller.

But it seems to be maybe, but it's not really a problem. We'll talk more about it in spoilers, I think. Yeah, I mean, this never really felt like it was being bogged down with exposition or, you know, the science of it or any emotions of any kind. There's a little bit of that, but yeah. There's a little girl which kind of interacts with Kong, which I thought was a nice kind of touch. I thought there was a few callbacks which I liked.

One of them was flying Kong in, which if you've seen the original Kong vs. Godzilla, they fly him in on balloons or whatever. In this, it's like helicopters. There's a moment where he puts his axe handle in Godzilla's mouth. If you've seen that old one where he puts the tree in Godzilla's mouth, I thought that must be a callback. Should we do spoilers, though?

Let's do spoilers. Anyway, I'm going to say best movie ever. I'm also going to say best movie. I know a lot of people have been like, well, you should only come if you like monster fights, but there's nothing else going on here. I think there is slightly more going on here than just the monster fights. I think the monster fights themselves are excellent and some of the best we've seen also. Yeah, yeah. Great fluidity of movement.

Yeah. Like they're really. There is kind of the way they move. There is that slowness to them as well of something that is kind of that big. And when, you know, Kong's doing a big punch, there is like that wind up, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also just a lot of stuff gets wrecked.

So much stuff. A lot of innocent bystanders I'm sure are dead now. Definitely. A lot of people just still in their office building. Yeah. Like significantly after the fight has started. What are you doing? You know one of those guys is going to fall right through your building

and you'll be in it and you'll be dead. Yeah. You'll be dead. But I guess you want to see it, don't you? Yes, you do, yeah. Because they don't have Godzilla movies in this universe. They have to wait until he shows up in his town and be like, oh, wow, this is what I've been waiting for.

I would say that would be insensitive. Yes. In a Godzilla universe to have like Godzilla movies. Yeah, I guess. They made some 9-11 movies pretty quickly though, didn't they? They sure did, yeah. Yeah. And then they stopped making them. I guess, you know what, what I said made zero sense. Like, you know how in Watchmen

how there are superheroes in the real world and so nobody likes superhero comics, they like pirate comics. Like that's an interesting idea but of course there'd be superhero comics in that world. Of course there would be. The boys do it, don't they, or whatever. They sure do. Anyway, spoilers. Even though I like or prefer

Kong, I think it was good that he lost the fight. I think because He's not as good. He's not as strong. He's smarter. He's probably a little bit faster. He can use tools. He's more intelligent. But he's just not This wasn't a battle of wits. Come with a chess set next time, Kong.

Yeah, just the brute force behind Godzilla. But I also think it's a strategic, like the way the fights went was a strategic decision in the sense that of like it was a snake eating its own tail. Godzilla defeats Kong and Mechagodzilla comes in and defeats Godzilla and Kong comes in and defeats Mechagodzilla. So we're still technically on the fence as to who is the most powerful Titan. But it's Godzilla.

Yeah. Yeah. I think, so I appreciated that. It wasn't something I was like, oh, boo, I wanted my favorite one to win or whatever, whatever. But also I'm glad that they committed to it. They weren't just like, it was a draw. Sure, yeah.

Like you could, you know, even though like you said there's like elements to it and whatever, but I think it was good. And also the movie's called Godzilla. Raw. Sure, yeah. Like there's, you could, you know, even though it, like you said, there's like elements to it and whatever, but I think it was, it was good. And also the movie's called Godzilla. It's not Kong versus Godzilla. It's Godzilla. That's true. Versus Kong.

And also I think the market, I think the market generally speaking is more in favor of Godzilla. Yeah. Like I think the, the, like he's got more cultural cachet and he's had for longer than like Kong. He's, he hasn't been around as long as kong but there's more there's more consumers who are loving godzilla i think that's probably true yeah absolutely so no i like that yeah and um so you talked about the reveal of mecha godzilla which a few people including us had kind of figured out beforehand but what do

you think about the inclusion of liked it i mean here's the thing though this sort of again this expanded the universe into uh like if we went from two movies where the world is relatively normal to all of a sudden they're like anti-gravity ships and humanity can build a gigantic robot artificially intelligent yeah robot godzilla aaron taylor johnson would be like, I haven't seen any of this shit. I had to parachute in. Yeah. Look, it's a bit of a jump, and I'm fine with it, because it's just a movie about monsters killing each other. It's fine. Yeah, exactly.

I think they tried to, like, they've almost gone the Marvel route of, like, start pretty low-key. Well, I felt it was. There's a few otherworldly elements. I felt it was like Suicide Squad. Okay. The jump from, like, you know, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman where there's a couple of superheroes and then all of a sudden it's crazy

and you just throw everything in. That's fair enough. So you think this one probably made the biggest jump in terms of like, yeah, you're probably right, especially because of the neon. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Do you think we're going to get some big rock-em-sock-em Pacific Rim style robots because they are the same universe. They could be the same universe if they wanted to. I guess. Oh, because they're owned by the same company? Yeah. I don think we're going to get some big rock-em-sock-em Pacific Rim style robots? Because they are the same universe.

They could be the same universe if they wanted to. I guess. Oh, because they're owned by the same company? Yeah. I don't think they will. I think we probably will get more punchy robots and stuff in future episodes. I think if anything, they would potentially do,

I reckon they might do, because Pacific Rim is in the future, I reckon maybe they would do a Godzilla has been dormant for years and then he re-emerges and he teams up with the Pacific Rim robots. I also think like Pacific Rim isn't as popular as they would want it to be. Yeah. And maybe they just don't do it. Yeah. I'm also happy with that, I think.

Yeah, that's fine. Look, it's just about the robots. I don't care whether it's specifically the Pacific Rim universe. It doesn't bother me in a way. Yeah, and I also think like Godzilla and Kong are way more iconic than the Pacific Rim. Oh, definitely. Like draw a Pacific Rim robot.

Or a Pacific Rim kaiju, honestly. Name a person in a Pacific Rim movie. Stacker Pentecost. Very good. And also. Kittley Southern. That was my mate. That's made up.

You didn't even know. Wow. George Brush Head. That's more obvious, isn't it? Is that a monster or a man? Oh, no, it's George Brush Head. I'm a man. Just kidding.

Ah, yeah. I got you, didn't I? Yeah, so I liked also that you speculated specifically that maybe the Mechagodzilla was a previous Godzilla, which they used, but it ended up, which also makes sense because in the post-credits, the last movie, towards the end, they were mechanizing Ghidorah. Yeah, yeah. No Charles Dance in this movie.

No Charles Dance. He promised he'd be back. He was like, I'll definitely be back. I'll definitely be coming back. But there's a lot of people that aren't back, so it's not just me. That's right. Exactly. Don't worry about it.

What about the woman who played the mother? She's not back, is she? Oh, she died. She died, didn't she? Yeah. The character died. The actor. Oh, no.

Oh, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's good. But no, so essentially like Mechagodzilla is Ghidorah, really. Yeah. It's like got the mind on. A real Megatron Galvatron situation. It is a Megatron Galvatron situation. But it's got all rockets and stuff. It's like got the mind on. A real Megatron Galvatron situation. It is a Megatron Galvatron situation,

but it's got all rockets and stuff. It's shooting things. It's got, does it shoot a chain fist? I can't remember. No, it's got, it's got like,

it's got, he's got like a rocket powered body. Yeah. And he's got some atomic punches. Yeah. And he's got missiles and he's got that, that red laser blast. I think also you could just like,

you could just run out the clock on him. Cause he just ran out of juice. Yeah. Cause you're going to have to, he can't recharge. He doesn't know what he's doing. Yeah. That he just ran out of juice eventually. Because you can't recharge. He doesn't know what he's doing. Yeah, that's a good point. I assume. But maybe I reckon he would probably know enough.

If it's Ghidorah, he'd probably know enough to go back to the center of the earth and recharge. Oh, yeah, and get some more energy or whatever. Go down to Kong Special. I thought you were going to say go down to Kohl's. Go down to Kohl's. Local supermarket. Get a roast chicken in a bag.

Yeah, that's right. Recharge your nuclear energy source. That's right You can get anything at Kohl's can't you It's a great place But what did you think about all the Kong stuff In the centre of the earth They also were like

These guys all have genetic memories I think potentially That stuff might drag a little If there was a second viewing of this I think I'd be like Where's he going He's got to go get an axe Potentially that stuff might drag a little if there was a second viewing of this. Okay, sure. I think I'd be like, oh, yeah, the center of the Earth stuff. Oh, he's got to go get an axe. All right, cool.

Okay, yep. Either end of the super gravity ship. Cool. Okay, good stuff. I wondered if there was going to be, like, more Kongs in that. I wonder if there will be in future movies. There might be. Because, I mean, the center of the Earth seems like it's a reasonably big place.

You know who I would like to see? Who's that? Ultraman. Yes. At this point, like, you know, How would you do it, though? Because you did a video about Mechagodzilla and Godzilla and etc, and I posited

the theory that I said that humanity isn't technologically capable of building a Mechagodzilla, so it's probably just a previous Godzilla in, like, a suit of armour kind of vibe. Which is sort of what they did, in a way. Yeah, which turned out to not be true, but, like, if you've gone, okay, well, scientists are capable of building their own giant robot, Godzilla,

as opposed to just building a giant robot or a tank or something. Then that opens the door to everything else. And I don't know who owns Ultraman, probably Bandai. They probably own it, don't they? Yeah. Let's find out. I'll find out who owns Ultraman. Bring in Ultraman, probably Bandai. They probably own it, don't they? Yeah. Let's find out. I'll find out who owns Ultraman. Bring in Ultraman.

Would you get like a guy who was like, I'm Ultraman. I wonder if maybe they'd tie it to the center of the earth. You know what they'd do? They'd probably go, you know how there was a society in the center of the earth or a civilization or what have you. They'd probably be like, he's the last descendant of the society at the center of the earth and he's got Ultraman power. To Subaru Productions. Huh, look to Subaru i don't i've said that wrong obviously but

that feels like something that they could probably license if they wanted to or just use a different there's probably a variation they could do or came in rider sure the guy on the motorcycle he looks like a bug yeah exact speed rac. Speed Racer. You get Speed Racer. And you're the Astro Boy. He just gets swatted away. He springs up in the Mark 5. A big ramp. And then Godzilla just swats him into the ocean. But it's okay because it's got a submarine mode probably.

It's fine. It'd probably be okay. Inspector Gadget. Wow. Matthew Broderick? Yes. Or French Stewart? Both.

In a trench coat. So they're big enough to fight the monsters. They're in their regular trench coats on each other's shoulders in a big trench coat. Well, I was actually going to ask you about what you would like to see next because they also mentioned, and maybe it's been revealed by the time this goes out, but they shot a post-credits scene that they ended up using in the movie, but it wasn't specified.

I think it's the stuff at the end, the Hollow Earth. Yeah, okay. We're down in the Hollow Earth and what's going to be in the Hollow Earth? More monsters. More monsters, probably, yeah. But what do you think the next step is? Because there's been speculation also that it's going to be an alien invasion. Ah, well, King Ghidorah was from space.

Oh, that's the thing. They've already kind of done that. I feel like by pitting Godzilla and Kong against each other, you're kind of in a situation where it's like there's not another as iconic monster you can introduce. Frankenstein. Yeah, I guess. Speed Racer.

That's good. Frankenstein riding shotgun with Speed Racer. Yes. Yeah, I don't know. Do you know what I mean? I think you could maybe have them team up again to do a thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they've got a mutual respect now it seems.

They do. So, yeah, I think that's fine. Just bring in more of the monsters. But, again, I feel like Ghidorah is probably the most, and I'm not a huge Godzilla monster universe guy, but he feels like, when I think of one of those destroy all monsters posters, he's always front and center with the three heads. Rah, he says.

Going rah, shooting lightning and stuff. Yeah, so another Ghidorah. So I guess there's probably like super space Ghidorah or something like that. There's probably an upgraded version. Maybe the aliens from Independence Day are back. Transformers. Sure. There's probably a crossover comic.

Yeah. I'll fight Fortress Maximus or whatever. Yes. With a city called? Metroplex. Metroplex, yeah. It's a Metroplex action. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like it could be a little bit like that situation with Days of Future Past

where it's like we've combined all the X-Men and then it's like and now it's the 80s? It's like we've combined all the X-Men and then it's like and now it's the 80s and it's like who cares. They could fight Paul Bunyan, gigantic lumberjack man of legend. It's really good. Yeah. I'm not saying it can't be done and I think this universe is like it's clearly like back on track compared to the last one for me.

To be fair like I've liked three of the four of these movies. They've done reasonably well and I think this one box office wise is going to do well but I think yeah it's going to be So you didn't like King of the four of these movies. They've done reasonably well. I think this one, box office-wise, is going to do well. But I think, yeah, it's going to be. So you didn't like King of the Monsters? Not really. Because it was boring?

Yes. Too much lightning. Not enough lightning. Yeah, I didn't think it was as compelling. I felt it dragged. The human characters were, and I know they're never supposed to be that. Not the point, but just dreading going back to them. I didn't feel

anything when they're fighting each other and the moth comes in I'm like it gives a shit I don't care about anything but this it felt like and I know this Godzilla character now at this point and I've seen Kong and even if I hadn't I think it did a good job of like humanising him and even the idea that like

his island has been wrecked by natural disasters it seems or, maybe global warming. It's not really specified why. Power Rangers. Power Rangers. You could. You could do Power Rangers. No, but they wouldn't because remember the last one?

It was really good. Are they rebooting that? Probably, yeah. Yeah, I think they're rebooting it. And they're going to bring in all the old ones or something from memory. I can't remember. The important thing is that this movie was pretty good. Pretty good.

But going to it, it's the title of it. That's what it is. That's what this movie is. And I think it delivers on all of that. Yeah. So I cannot complain. It delivers on the standard issue premise that we've said, which is they fight for a bit, then they're mates.

That's right. You know, the tension builds as they fight. They go away. They fight again. Then they team up against a bigger monster, and that's the end. And my axe. He has an axe. He does, it's true, yeah.

It's a Godzilla plate. Is it? Yeah, because it's also nuclear. Oh, yeah, okay, yeah, that's true. Which is cool. He's just fast and loose with that nuclear breath at this point, isn't he? Remember the first movie, he really built up to it. Now he just turns up and he's just like, bam, bam, bam.

He's loving it. Yeah. I guess, yeah. Okay. There's a moment where he's like like, bam, bam, bam. He's loving it. I guess, yeah. There's a moment where he's like, I forgot how much I love this. Blam, blam. I will say this though. I think before we wrap it up, the first movie did a very good job of using a minimal amount of Godzilla. I know a lot of people don't like that, but when he did turn up into a city,

it was like, oh, shit. But I think they've never quite been able to capture that since. Like the reveal of him and like, you know, they do that halo jump or whatever and you kind of see him move through the smoke and all those kinds of things. I think there was a lot of really visually interesting things in that movie and reveals which they haven't quite been able to match since.

But this is still really fun. Yeah, all the city fight stuff was good. I think they did nail the sense of scale in that. Remember they both grabbed Mechagodzilla's arms and they pushed him through that building? That was so cool. Everybody died in that building. They were just going to work. Dead, yeah.

My God. Good stuff. All right, guys. It's time for the next segment of the show, isn't it, Mason? I love segments. What do you think it's called, though? I think it's probably called What We Readin'. Uh-huh.

What We Gonna Read. I agree. Gotta find that theme, mate. Didn't have it lined up. I didn't have it ready to go. Whoa. I feel like a right prat. I didn't even know, Mason.

I'm doing the theme. What are we reading? I forgot to mention this in the review of Godzilla V-Kong. Go on. First of all, they punch for a bit, then they're mates. Oh, yes. That's one thing. Gotta put that in. That's right.

IMDB removed the scores because it's being review bombed. By who? Who is a nemesis to Godzilla V. Kong? Who do you think it might be? If you had to guess, if there's one Warner Brothers property. Snyder fans. Yes. Wow.

But why? Because it's. Because they're demanding the Snyder cards. Oh, okay. Right, right, right. And this is the next, the Restore the Snyderverse. Here's the thing, though. This is not.

I thought you were going to. I, for a second, my initial thought was is it people who are upset about the outcome of godzilla v kong like people are upset at the the outcome of the battle between the two like i'm a big fan of one of them and i don't like it how the other one didn't win or what you know whatever i thought it was very well balanced i did too yeah yeah but here's the thing like i don't think the way way to get Warner Brothers to change their mind is to try and, like, cut the legs out from under another Warner Brothers property. What they should do is they should cut the legs out

from competing properties, like from a different studio. And then be like, we have this, we wield this power and we can do it for you. But I also feel like, and I know it ebbs and flows and it comes in waves, I also think it's entirely possible that it does feel like the Snyder Cut stuff is kind of fading a bit, do you know what I mean? Yeah. It's been a couple of weeks.

They've gotten what they want. But I don't just mean them. I don't think that part of Snyder will ever die, but people's interest in general is kind of waning. Yeah, right. I'm not saying there won't be a resurgence because there will be because the Snyder Cut, the initial one for Justice League, you know, it ebbed and flowed and it kind of went depending on rumours.

But for the moment I think people are jack of it, mate. And also I think, you know, what is probably important to note as well is that release the Snyder Cut was easier to do because there was a bank of film canisters with that on it. To restore the Snyderverse you have to rehire Zack Snyder and rewrite a bunch of movies. There's nothing yet. It's a whole thing.

You can't open up an editing booth and put together because there's no footage to put together. We won't have it. I'm jack of it, quite frankly. Yeah, so there you go. The other thing is for what we're reading, I just want to quickly mention this week we're doing Time Crap Sheldon Big Sandwich where we look at the year 2008.

That's right. Which among other things is Iron Man and The Dark Knight, which kind of set the tone for what's happening right now. The current cultural moment. The Snyder Cut. Yes. That's what started it all. So I also read, we read and recorded Truth, Red, White and Black,

which is the Isaiah Bradley Captain America origin story, which that's coming up as well. But also I read the comic off your behest, Maniac of New York. What did you think? I loved it. Good, right? I loved it, Mason. Yeah.

So for those people who don't remember or didn't listen to those episodes, it's, what is it? It's a Freddy Jason murderer type. Yeah, it's a. Jason, more Jason. There's a, it's a... Jason, more Jason. It's set in New York, and for the last four years in New York, there's been a hockey mask, a masked kind of axe and sword knife-wielding maniac called Maniac Harry.

Some people call him Harry. Yep. And no one seems to be able to figure out who he is, where he's come from, or how to stop him. He seems impervious to pain. He might not be to figure out who he is, where he's come from, or how to stop him. Like he seems impervious to pain. He might not be invincible, but maybe he is. Yeah, but rather than stopping him, the entire city has just adjusted to life with,

they're like, here's the weather, and here's your Maniac Harry report. Like what's he doing today? There's been some unconfirmed reports, you know, down in Brooklyn or whatever. That's it, exactly. And every now and then he just gets into some bloody strife, that guy, doesn't he?

But there's a team of two, like a cop on the edge and like a bureaucrat, two women who are like, we've got some stakes in finding out this guy's whole deal and stopping him, so we're going to do that. We hate this guy. Yeah, because he's a mass murderer. Yeah, he's murdered too many people. So, yeah, only two issues in, but I've already bought the third one, I think. I'm enjoying it very much.

Cool. What have you been reading? I've been reading, well, speaking of stuff we've talked about before, remember we mentioned Die, the Kieran Gillen comic book about people trapped in a sort of a Dungeons and Dragons world? Well, Kieran Gillen also wrote something that I read the first issue of some time ago and I thought, this is great. I'm going to get back into it, but I never did. It's called Once and Future. And it's, it's about, it's basically, yeah, so it's a, it's a, it's an ongoing, I think. And it's about, it's about some, some sort of British nationalist terrorists

who want to make Britain great again or what have you. And so they resurrect like an old English king, like an undead king. And it causes all sorts of supernatural uproar. And the only people that can stop this potential apocalypse in the making is a former monster hunter who's now like an old-age pensioner lady and her grandson who has no idea what's going on. Terrific stuff.

It's cool. It's funny. It's good because I'm about to buy instantly Volume 1 for $10.99. That's nearly $11. I'm going to click on this, Mason. Is that Australian dollars? It's Australian. That's not bad.

It's worth it, I think. I'm going to get that cheese. No, I'm going to give away that cheese. Okay, right, okay. Sorry, I misspoke. Okay. I don't mean to. It's a very clear metaphor and I don't mean to muddy it.

Okay, so it isn't one of those terms that means it's the same word that means two different things. No, it is also. Okay. Anything else that you're reading? I read the first issue of Silk. Oh, yeah. That's Spider-Man.

Spider-Man spinoff. Silk was the second person to get bitten by the radioactive spider that also bit Peter Parker. that's Spider-Man. Spider-Man spinoff. Silk is the second, was the second person to get bitten by the radioactive spider that also bit Peter Parker. But hid in a cupboard. Yeah, so she has spider powers also. But she hid in a cupboard, that's why she hasn't been around. Yeah, yeah. Oh, well she was, yeah. Not in a hubbard.

Not in a cupboard, but she wasn't around for a long time. She was in a bunker, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good stuff. Should I read that? But it's one issue. It is one issue. I might wait. I'll wait for a bit. I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good stuff. Should I read that? But it's one issue. It is one issue. I might wait. I'll wait for a bit. Come back and talk to me in six weeks.

That kind of word, James, is a contronym. What's that mean? It's a word that has two contradictory meanings. Oh, like cheese. Like get that cheese. Like get that cheese, which means both get money and give money. Spend money. Spend money away. And make money.

Yeah. Also three. It means three things. Is there a word for that? I don't think so, no. My goodness. We're breaking boundaries here. We really are.

Should we do the next segment of the show before we break any more boundaries? I think we definitely should. Okay. Why don't we do that then? Okay. The classic one was letters, oh letters, we love you. Some letters, they're only a take away. I know they're here right now.

We're going to do letters. What up, dogs? It's letters time. Let's get that cheese, James. That's right. Which means to check your mail and read any letters you've received. It's an Australian expression. Physical and or digital.

That's right. WeeklyPlanetPod at gmail.com or hashtag WeeklyPlanetPod. Do we have an audio letter this week, Mason? We do not. Oh, my goodness. Send some more email. Send some more letters. Send some audio letters.

So it also may have been lost in the kerfuffle and shuffle of the email box. Potentially, yeah. So there you go. But what do you have in terms of letters? This is from Nick Norris. Okay, Nick Norris. He says, my nightmare theatre experience. Here we go.

What's up, guys? Last night something really cool happened. The director of Godzilla vs. Kong, Adam Wingard, crashed our small theatre in Birmingham, Alabama. Yeah. Home of Black Betty. Whoa. Of the song Black Betty.

Whoa. Cool stuff. That's my editorial there. He didn't write that. Okay. Cool stuff like this never happens around here, so it was a treat. Anyway, this great movie experience got me thinking about my worst movie experience. When I went to see Jurassic World in theaters one Saturday, the film paused about 40 minutes in.

A worker then came over the intercom to announce, a family of four has just arrived late, so we're going to start the movie over. No. Everyone was visibly annoyed, but the crowd seemed to give the family the benefit of the doubt, as maybe this was some kind of unusual situation, like a special show to a sick child or something. I don't know. Okay, sure. Turns out, though, that nothing was special about the family the benefit of the doubt as maybe this was some kind of unusual situation like a special show to a sick child or something. I don't know. Okay, sure. Turns out, though, that nothing was special about the family

except that they knew the theatre work out and requested that the movie be restarted. This led to everyone complaining of full theatre being reimbursed and the worker being fired on the spot. Anyway, I hope you found that interesting from Nick. Yes. That's very... So, wait, so the worker knew the family?

Yep. So it wasn't like the manager made the worker do it And then fired the worker Doesn't sound like it They could have at least just said There's a problem with the reel We have to re-whatever Right

That's what I would have done Yeah, yeah, yeah That's insanity As a disgruntled worker That's what you would do You'd be like Sorry folks Yeah

The bloody film canister exploded or whatever That's right It exploded or whatever Yeah Yeah Sorry everyone You know sometimes things happen or whatever Tactic and exploded or whatever. That's right. It exploded or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, everyone. You know, sometimes things happen or whatever. Tad to get technical or whatever.

You wouldn't know because you're not a projectionist, but as a projectionist, you know that sometimes a film canister explodes or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. I feel the same way. Wow. What is your worst theater experience?

Do you have one? I mean, beyond like most of the bad theater experiences I've had have just been like the sound cuts out. Yeah, sure. You know, you're 20 minutes into a movie or you're like at a critical moment and the sound cuts out and everybody sits there for a minute. They're like, is this part

of the movie? Is this part of the thing? Is there some significance to the fact that the characters seem to be talking but no sound is coming out of their mouths? Is that relevant? Yeah. Is that relevant? Yeah. Is there a twist coming? Yeah.

And then you do like ten minutes of that and then somebody stands up and walks out of the theatre and they're like, oh, sorry, folks. I don't think this is. They're like, we'll give you free tickets if you want to come back. And you're like, I don't want to come back. I don't want to come back. I'll never come back. I'm here.

All right. I don't know. I'm the guy that goes out and be like, fix this thing. Like I used to not be that guy, but now I'm like, I ain't got time for this. I think it was the,

the first time I did was the family stone and it was like stretched. Remember the movie, the family stone. I'm like, I'm not watching this goddamn stretch movie. You fix this movie. Goddamn. I didn't say that.

I was like, your movie's off. It's all fucked up. Okay. You didn't just walk out to the candy bar and you're like, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not watching this.

I'm not going this goddamn stretch movie. I'm not going to explain any more than that. You've got to fix the damn stretch movies. Are you watching the Fantastic Four? What are you talking about? I'm sick of this bloody society with the stretch movies. I'm sick of it. Give me your money.

Give me all your money. Are you robbing us, sir? What's going on? I guess I am, yeah. I feel that would be a suitable recompense for a man who's been forced to watch many stretch movies that I like. Got a tweet here, which you can do at hashtag weeklyplanetpod, from JohnJScript42. It says, my guidance counsellor and I just found out

that we're fellow wackadadoos, which is the name of people who listen to this for no reason. That's right. And spend an hour reciting our favourite jokes, the jokes you do specifically. I promise not to tell people. You can just talk about your favourite jokes, though. I know about a certain man from Nantucket. What about him?

Just a colourful character, I guess. I bet he would be. I promise not to tell people where his Tom Holland impression came from. But yes. That's some good leverage you have on your camp counsellor. Throw him under the bus. Yeah, do it. Big time.

He does it and you have it queued up on your phone, have one of our episodes queued up on your phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you'd be the king. Are we talking about camp counsellor? Camp counsellor, yeah, yeah, yeah. You would be the king. Guidance counsellor, sorry.

Guidance counsellor. Oh, okay. You'd be the king of that school. You better believe it. P.S., what's the best buddy cop movie? Oh, my goodness. Is it Beverly Hills Cop 3? No.

Is it the movie Metro? Does he have any buddies in that movie? You don't know. Is it another 48 Hours? I was thinking maybe it's one of the 48 Hours films. Is it the movie where he teams up with Owen Wilson and he's a boxer? Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson. What?

Are you exclusively doing Eddie Murphy movies? I have. I am. I have and Owen Wilson. What? Are you exclusively doing Eddie Murphy movies? I have. I am. I have and I am. Okay. What are you doing? Okay, let me think. Buddy cop movies.

Or just buddy movies. Let me type in buddy cop movies and see what we come up with. I feel like it's a... I mean, the other guys. Yeah. Or the nice guys. That's the one of them. Both of them.

That's right. We did that whole episode, didn't we? We sure did. Actually, I saw Stuba relatively recently. That's the one of them. Both of them. That's right. We did that whole episode, didn't we? We sure did. Actually, I saw Stuber relatively recently. It's quite good. Okay. Nice Guys is great. The 21 Jump Street movies.

The First Men in Black But Only, that one. I never loved Rush Hour movies. I think they're okay. Yeah. Where are you with those ones? I bet they haven't aged well. I hate everybody in the Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Bad Boys movies. Oh, yep.

And No Thank You. What about Cop Out? No, that's a bad movie. That's thoroughly bad. That's one of the worst movies ever made. What about Tango and Cash? That's a good one. What about Red Heat?

Are you doing buddy cop movies or buddy movies? Buddy cop movies. Okay, right. I feel like just buddy movies. That's a good genre. Buddy movie, buddy movie. Remember that song? Yes, I do. Yeah. I've never seen the 48 hour movies. What are they like? I mean, they're

of their time. Yeah, okay. But I think they're still I imagine they're still entertaining. What about the Starsky and Hutch movie? What about Superbad? That's a buddy movie. I guess the Starsky and Hutch movie? What about Superbad? That's a buddy movie. I guess it's a buddy cop movie, Mason. Oh, yeah, we are exclusively doing that.

Hot Fuzz, obviously. Oh, tremendous, yeah. What about the movie Showtime with Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro? What about the movie The Internship starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn when they get a job at Google? What about the movie Showtime with Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro? Oh, yeah, that's a good one, yeah. Is it?

What about R.I.P.D.? No. That movie that's got Brian Reynolds and Jeff Bridges is in this movie? Yeah. What about Let's Be Cops? They tried to do a Men in Black thing. What about Let's Be Cops, which is apparently bad? That cannot be good.

What about The Watch? Is that the David Ayer one with Michael Peña and Jake Gyllenhaal? Yes, but I haven't seen it. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty grim, but that's sort of a buddy cop movie. What about Sherlock Holmes? Which one? They're the ultimate buddies.

Which movies? The Robert Downey Jr. Oh, yeah. What about Cop Out? No. Here's one. What about the one with Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr.? Oh, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Yeah, that's a good one. But they're not cops. They're not cops, no. But whatever.. What about the one with Val Kilmer and Robert Downey Jr.? Oh, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one. But they're not cops. They're not cops. But whatever. But it's the same. It's the genre. What about K9?

What about Turner and Hooch? No, no, no, no. What about Action Jackson? What about The Heat? I love The Heat. The Heat with Sandra Bullock. It's called Endwatch, that one I was talking about. Oh, okay, right.

I'm sorry. Yeah, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. It's a great movie. That's a good movie. What about Action Jackson? I can't.? Oh, okay, right. I'm sorry. Yeah, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. That's a great movie. That's a good movie. What about Action Jackson? I can't. Maybe I've seen Action Jackson. Does it have?

Scott Carl Weathers. Yeah, that's who I'm thinking of. Yeah. Yeah, nice. What about Felton? Who's his buddy, though, in Action Jackson? This is a woman on the poster. Nice.

So a woman. Do you think it's? What about Alien Nation? I mean. Is that a buddy cult movie? Yeah, it's James Caan and a guy with a really big head. I've never seen it and I don't want to say it. What about Bad Boys for Life?

No. What about Red Heat? No. What about Showtime with Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro? No. You're not going to trick me into saying that's a good movie. What about The Departed? Because some of them are buddies but they're often just shooting each other.

I feel like buddy cop movies are now coming to Netflix a lot. They're just doing them for that, aren't they? Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's enough buddy cop movies, isn't it? We could list a few more for 10, 15 more minutes. What about L.A. Confidential? Oh, the greatest buddies of them all. They're big, big good buddies.

What about Dredd or Judge Dredd? No. They're buddies. Yeah, no, no, because that's, regardless of which one it is, that's like a superior and a. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about Zootopia?

The movie Zootopia. Yes. Who's in Zootopia? It's Jason Bateman and someone and a rabbit. They're both animals. They're terrific. Yeah, cool, cool, cool, cool. What about the Chips remake with Michael Peña and Dax Shepard,

which is apparently terrible. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. What about the movie Silver Bears with Michael Keaton? Keaton. Keaton. Oh, it's a Michael Keaton joint. I would love to see them in a movie together.

What about the movie Cop Out? No. Here's one, Die Hard 3. That's a good one. It's all right, yeah. It's Buddy Cop as well. It is, movie Cop Out? No. Here's one. Die Hard 3. That's a good one. It's alright. It's buddy cop as well. It's the most buddy cop of all the Die Hards probably, I guess. Interesting. Very good.

What about the movie Get Smart with Anne Hathaway and Steve Curl? Yes. No. Okay, good. If you want an okay movie, you should check that out. It's pretty okay, isn't it? What about Ride Along 1 and or 2 with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube? Nope. No.

I agree. We've listed all the movies there. What about Cop Out? No. Have you actually seen Cop Out? Yeah. I watched it with you. Did you?

Yeah. Did we? Yeah. Not at the movies. No. I was going to say. I didn't even think I went to movies here. Yeah.

What about Miami Vice the movie with Jamie? Colin Farrell. And Jamie Foxx. No. I was going to say. I didn't even think I went to movies here. Yeah. What about Miami Vice the movie with Jamie? Colin Farrell. And Jamie Foxx. No. Bad. And it's not like, look, we should definitely stop talking about this. No. All right.

I was just kidding. I really wanted to. We could do an episode. Yeah. Can you feel the buddying in that? You know what I mean? What movie were we talking about again? Miami Vice. No, not at all. There's no buddying in that? What movie are we talking about again? Miami Vice. No, not at all.

There's no buddying in that. It's just boating back and forth to Cuba or something. That's the thing. Buddy cops don't necessarily even have to get along. There could be a friction, but there's got to be a buddy-like friction. But Miami Vice, they're just cops doing a cop job. They're like, are we going to stop these drug runners? Yeah, we probably could. That a cop job. They're like, are we going to stop these drug runners? And they're like, yeah, we probably don't.

That's our job. Now let's stoically sit in a speedboat and speedboat along and it's nighttime. Also, can we go to a nightclub after this? Yeah. Yes. Yes, we can. Yeah. And we're going to sit stoically and drink whiskey.

Yeah. Yeah. We look like Kane and Lynch, the video game. That's right. That's what they turn and they say to each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're just like that Kane and Lynch. People walk up to them and they're like, you guys look like

Kane and Lynch from the video game Kane and Lynch. That people thought was going to be good, but the game wasn't that good in the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so by extension, one of you looks a bit like Nick Cave and the other one looks fairly generic. What do you think of that, fellas? Anyway, joy or not. Matthew Wonstow.

He writes in a bit and I appreciate it. That's how it's pronounced? Wanstow? Onestro. I think I do this every time, don't I? It could be Wanstow. Maybe you're right. Matthew, if you could phonetically change your Twitter handle,

see how you pronounce it. You don't have to do that. Or you could change your name. Like if it's pronounced Wanstow, put a W at the front pronounce it. You don't have to do that. Or you could change your name. Like if it's pronounced one-sto. Yeah. Put a W at the front of it. We appreciate that. Change it by Deadpool.

Could Starro just be in the first 15 to 20 minutes of James Pew Pew Pew Guns the Suicide Squad? I say this because Quinn has two different outfits. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thought this. Hashtag weekly planet pod. She's also holding a javelin. Yeah. And so we're pretty sure the javelin's going to die pretty early on.

Yeah, maybe. But maybe, though. We don't know when Starro's going to appear. It could be an early on thing and they need Harley Quinn for a mission. But it seems like they're kind of an established team at that point maybe. Yeah, but also trailers are very good at pairing reaction shots with a different action shot. Yes, yes, yes.

So there's a bit in the Red Band trailer where Starro appears and then you see Idris Elba go like, whoa. And the joke there is obviously because he was in Pacific Rim and they had giant kaijus in there. Yeah, and he's like, whoa. But it's possible that he's not even in that scene. Exactly. Like Starro might be at the start and then they kill him

and then they're like, the thinker was involved here. Maybe we need to get the thinker or whatever. Whoa. Maybe. Yeah, I agree. It's tough to say. That's what I like. I guess we'll know when the movie comes out.

We definitely will. Do you have another email? I do have another email. This is from Carl. Hello, Carl. With the subject line, bad jokes. And I'm like, here we go. Is it Carl with a K or a C?

With a K. Oh. I don't have a preference. And I'm like, here comes a scathing review of our podcast because it says bad jokes. But it says, hello, James and Mason. Started watching your content after stumbling upon the Raimi Spider-Man Caravan of Garbage videos and have recently started working my way backwards through the pod

and I'm loving every second of it. I want to ask, what is your least favourite joke or gag that appears in lots of different films? Mine is when a character falls over, you sit by someone or otherwise injured and says, I'm okay in a funny voice. It never fails to make me feel like, I'm fine. Yeah, I hate that. My balls are fine.

I'm all right. Don't worry, man. People are stepping over them or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. God, there's so many. You know what? Here's one that worked once and never again. It's when somebody goes, you know, this isn't a movie.

Yeah, it did work once. But it is. It's always a movie. They did an end game to explain time travel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This isn't the movie Back to the Future. This is the movie. I mean, this is the end game.

This is the end game. Yeah. Just the situation we're in. Oh, yeah. Not the movie. It's not a movie. Yeah. No, I don't like that either.

Yeah. Oh, man. I wish I had have thought about this before the show. I could have thought of something. Well, we've got 10 minutes to pause and just think about it. That's a really good point. Yeah, yeah. Maybe I could Google overused jokes in movies.

Great. Terrific. Jokes. Oh, my God. Oh, I hate it when somebody's talking about somebody and they're behind them. Yeah, right. No, like I hate the guy's got a big dumb head and I'm sick of him

and he comes in. If he was here right now, I'd tell him what for and he's like, oh, my God, he's behind me, isn't he? He turns around and he's like, now you're in for a drubbing, now, I'd tell him what for and he's like, oh my god, he's behind me and he turns around and he's like, now you're in for a drubbing, mate. I'll tell you this much. Everybody knows you're back up against a wall so there can be no one behind you before you start

spilling the tea or as we call it, getting the cheese. Here's one. Here's a Reddit thread I found from AskReddit. Okay. Jokes that are overused in movies or TV shows.

The Wilhelm Scream. That's a funny joke. Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl. I don't know what that is. What? God, I'm so sick of both of those jokes, those great jokes. Have you stumbled on a Reddit subreddit that is exclusively for tricking people who Google stuff?

There's like five responses and none of them are good. One just says any stereotype. Thanks. It's really good. That is a great joke, isn't it? References to pop culture after the 90s because I don't get it and it's not funny. It's not funny.

I don't get it and that's not funny to me. That's not funny to me. I thought this was going to be interesting. I thought it was going to be a goldmine but it's not funny to me. That's not funny to me. Meh. I thought this was going to be interesting, but it's bad. I thought it was going to be a goldmine, but it's not. Yeah. My goodness. No, that sucked. I apologize.

Watch Mojo. I've got a list. If it's a video, I'm not going to read it. Watch it. One character suggested idea and the other character says it's terrible then proceeds to present the exact same idea. Yep. Oh, yeah.

That's a good one. That's a Lion King thing as well. Musicals that poke fun at the fact that everyone's suddenly singing and dancing. Fart jokes. Wow. I think you can make a fresh fart joke. Somebody's a bit cultured, aren't they?

The cool grandma who pretends to be frail. Okay. I'm so sick of that. Yeah, right? What is it? Like they do a rap? Yeah, like they do a rap yeah like they do a rap exactly yeah rap yeah or how about you know that that you know any any moment where it's like this plan's not

gonna work and i'll be no part of it and then it cuts to them and they're like in a in a dress or whatever because it's they're in they're in the plan yeah yeah what about this one that's a good one what about this one is oh is that something in your pocket? You have to be able to see me or whatever What's that in your pocket? Is it your dick? No, it's a gun or a mint A big mint, I guess But do you know what I'm talking about? Yep Yeah, you know, it's like Someone they think is like, is that a gun?

No, it's a roller quarter You know what I mean? Just people confusing things for other things in people's pants Yes, that's what I'm talking about Is this because you have no object permanence? I have nothing going on in my life Wow just people confusing things for other things in people's pants yes that's what I'm talking no I don't care for it is this because you have no object permanence is that why

I have nothing going on in my life wow at all yeah that's incredible James yeah that's it for me what do you got another one

no that's everything I like everything else in movies I think all jokes in movies are incredible I disagree yeah but also

you make a lot of sense and that's what I like about you should we wrap up the show I think we should wrap up the show. Thanks, folks, so much for listening. We hope everybody's doing all right out there, having a grand old time. Hope you're getting your jabs if you're a boxer. Yes.

Hope you're getting the cheese if you're in any other form of employment. We are not. Our jabs are currently under delivering big time. They sure are. Because I don't know if people know this about this, but our federal government is the biggest bunch of fucking Muppets on the planet. Oh, not on the planet.

Top three. Top three. In a developed, like, country. Yeah. Top three. Yes. Yes. Sorry, go on.

Big three. Yeah. We consider ourselves in the big three. The other two don't. The other two don't. No, definitely don't. Yeah. Yeah. Big Muppets, hate them.

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Yeah. One of us out. How about this? Okay. The movie The Medallion, featuring Jackie Chan and Claire Forlani. Who's Claire Forlani? She's in Bloody Men in Black 1, I think. Oh, that's a different woman.

No, that's a different woman. A different woman. But look how high her kicks are. What's it called again? The Medallion. You clicked on Sausage Party. Look how high that kick is. Does The Medallion...

I reckon somebody gets magic karate power. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Yeah, yeah. Like the tuxedo. Like the tuxedo, but it's a medallion, yeah. What about Bulletproof Monk? That's a great buddy movie. I remember liking Bulletproof Monk.

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So the medallion can be used for resurrection. Okay. It's got two halves of the medallion. It also gives you superhuman strength in immortality. Also, it can take away the life that it gives. And at one point, the medallion appearing and talking to a snake head and it traps the snake head in the medallion. Sounds like the same medallion from the movie Double Dragon.

So they resurrect Nicole with using the... Nicole Kidman? No, it doesn't say Nicole Kidman but it doesn't not say. Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls? I think that's what it means, yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought. Oh, my goodness, this did not do well anywhere. People did not like the movie The Medallion.

Wow, that's unfortunate for the creators and stars of the movie The Medallion. Next week, other things. Other things, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Maybe we'll do a whole episode on either buddy cop movies. Or The Medallion. Or The Medallion or jokes that you're sick of in movies. Yeah, either way.

Either and all, anyways. It's just going to be us looking at Reddit and going, a man sings a song? What a terrible joke in a movie. I didn't know that song and I didn't like it. All right, guys.

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