The Weekly Planet - 386 Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead

Episode Date: May 24, 2021

Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.ARMY OF THE DEAD. That's what this week's episode is about. But in addition to that Star Wars news, some Indiana Jones 5 story details, Amazon moves to acquire James Bond, Henry Cavill and the Highlander reboot, new DCEU casting and other stuff plus a big merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery or something. Thanks for listening!00:00 The Start04:39 Star Wars News08:31 Indiana Jones Space Race12:25 Amazon in James Bond Talks19:52 Henry Cavill in Highlander Reboot21:49 New DCEU Casting, Costumes, Movies and Shows26:54 AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Discovery Deal Something 28:27 Army of the Dead Review (Spoilers 43:08 to 58:12) 58:12 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:02:57 Letters, It’s Time For LettersJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesTWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetTWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGjT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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With me as always is my co-host Nick Mason. Hello. Hello. Hello, Nick Mason. Why are you talking like that? Because we just recorded a video about the son of the mask. That's right. Even though in the upcoming mask video that we do for Caravan of Garbage

we're going to say, do you want us to talk about son of the mask? We know that people will just make us want to talk about it. So we got ahead of it. This is a little peek behind the curtain. Sometimes we're like, hey, guys, you want us to talk about this? We've already recorded it. We've already done it. Here's the question, though.

What if we're like, hey, guys, do you want us to talk about Son of the Mask? And the answer was overwhelmingly no. It was like, and they were like, the answer's no. And also we have like incontrovertible evidence that the producers of The Mask were like, you know, Hollywood cultists or whatever. And we're like, well, now we can't talk about it. Will we still do it? I think we would because we're rebels.

Because we recorded it. We did already. Like Bruce Springsteen and Obama, we're renegades, you know what I mean? In many ways we are, aren't we? How do you feel about a lot of celebrities that have got their podcast now? They can't get it off. Oh, I love the son of the mask. I mean, there's a million of them, and a lot of them are just like,

remember when I was in this or whatever? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like you've got to kind of do a little bit more. Good example, Lex Luthor from Smallville. He's interviewing people. That's true. He's doing new stuff, and you know what I mean? That's interesting to me.

Just trying to break out of the mold of Lex Luthor from Smallville, which you've just boxed him in just there michael rosenbaum that's right he's interesting yeah uh but that's what i would call it michael rosenbaum is interesting i'm interesting i promise just give me a chance i'm not just i also did the movie i've got hair now yeah i was capable of growing the hair i was in the movie where i dressed as a woman it's probably very problematic going back sorority boys that one exactly was also in a movie where I dressed as a woman. It's probably very problematic going back. Sorority Boys. That one, exactly. It was also in a movie about pool, the name of which I cannot remember. Sorority Pool.

Sorority Pool. Very good. Speaking of seeing stuff early if you want, Carrie Manning Arvidge specifically, they go up early at bigsandwich.co. That's right. This week we're actually talking about, if you're hearing this, it'll be up by now, we're doing Sweet Tooth.

That's right. It's soon to be a Netflix series, so we're hearing this, it'll be out by now, we're doing Sweet Tooth. That's right. It's soon to be a Netflix series, so we covered the comic and that lined up very nicely. I got the recent email that says, hey, you know, this stuff's coming out on Netflix soon. And in the one for Sweet Tooth, it was like tags, heartwarming, fun fantasy, and I'm like either they're taking a way different direction in the TV series which they might be

or it's a trick it's a trick it could be a trick oh no oh dear to answer your question I'm good thank you

yeah okay that's great to hear but yeah he had a bloody recorder podcast that's exactly right yeah so anyway Big Sandwich

is a bunch of stuff that goes up early if you do want to check it out we're going to do the news of the week before we get into Army of the Dead because we've got Star Wars news, Mason. Oh, yes.

We've got Indiana Jones news. We've got Amazon slash Bond news. We've got Highlander news. We've got a bunch of DC stuff that's going on, and then we're getting to that thing that I said before. Leave a like if you could. Are we doing that? By the way, if you're listening on YouTube,

there's 100,000 subscribers just quietly. It just happened. Go on. Thank you. Do we get a plaque? Do we get a thing? I guess I can put it next to the other plaque. Can I have that one?

If you want. Remember when you went to open the old plaque? I'm going to drop it on the way out. Like I'll drop it on the curb. I'll be like, thanks for this. I'm going to put this in my house and I'll drop it and it'll just explode like safety glass. Bajagged. Yeah, bajagged. I think you opened the old one and it wasn just explode like safety glass. But jagged.

Yeah, but jagged. I think you opened the old one and it wasn't in there. Didn't you? You were like, oh, is this your thing? And you opened it and it wasn't in there. I was like, I don't know where it is. Great. I took it out of the box and I don't know what I did with it.

Terrific. Because you have, obviously, you get one for 100,000 subscribers. Do you get another one for a million subscribers? It's a gold one, yeah. Whoa. But I haven't looked into that at all. And I'm not verified on YouTube, which is apparently a thing. Because every now and then people are like, you're not verified.

I don't even. Every once in a while somebody's like, you're not the real Mr. Sunday Movies. And you're like, I put out 3,000 videos. But also I don't have that tick, so I guess. Oh, no. The imposter syndrome is creeping in. Oh, God. I don't know if imposter syndrome exists for just putting out just whatever on YouTube, if I'm honest.

It's like, no, this is about my speed. Based on the insane confidence levels of some people that put out videos on YouTube, imposter syndrome does not exist on YouTube. You might be right, yeah. A whole bunch of it's your boy dick faces out there. So many of them. There's time codes if you want to jump around as well.

There is every week. Collin puts them in. So you might have heard this, but Rangers of the New Republic, which is one of the Star Wars series, which was in development, was going to star Cara Dune. Oh yes, that's right. Of course, that all fell by the way. So when Jenna Carano was fired, slash

let go, slash... Fired. It was fired. And so and that series, along with a bunch of other ones, including Ahsoka and I think whatever's happening in the Mandalorian was going to lead into like a team-up series. Yes. So that's no longer in active development.

So they'll probably funnel that into something else. It's going to be a new series called The Mandalorian Shows Up, expecting there to be a team-up but there isn't anything. It's just him. Just an empty room. And he's like, so do I just do another season of The Mandalorian or do I

and he turns to like the director who's just shrugged I don't know we didn't plan for this this has never happened before I don't put something on the volume

put something on that screen yeah clouds that's fine it's fine it's the train coming it's the train coming to the audience jump out of the way Mandalorian look at it's a regular It's the train coming in. It's the train coming in the audience. Jump out of the way, Mandalorian.

Look out. It's a regular. Look out. It's a future train because it's in the past. Yeah, it's not a, yeah, it's a Corellian train is what it is. It's not a regular train. Don't worry about it. And in other Star Wars, also, I'm not really, I wasn't super,

when they announced it, I went, okay. I think the three or four we're already getting. It's fine. Exactly. So I'm not, I'm just like, I want to three or four we're already getting. It's fine. Exactly. So I'm just like, I want to see Obi-Wan. Everything else can go in the bin. Not that I'm not looking forward to it, but that's the one that I've been wanting to see since they announced that they were bringing back Star Wars.

And am I building that up too much? Definitely. It seems like you are. You're doing a lot of big hand gestures. No, Mason. You've got a wistful look in your eyes. I've got to put it up with the volume. Your voice is going up an octave in that weird way. This is how I talk now. Oh, no. You've got a wistful look in your eyes. I've got to put it up on the volume. Your voice is going up an octave in that weird way.

This is how I talk now. Oh, no. See, I've always talked. Oh, boy. I've been hiding it. Yeah. You can't wait for Obi-Wan to say his famous hello. Hello, everyone.

Hello, everyone. What are you guys doing here? Yeah. Another news, Dave Filoni was made official on the dog's back. Come here, puppy, come on. Oh, you're doing it. You're doing it. You're getting the door open.

On the mainline Star Wars websites that he is the executive creative director over at Lucasfilm. A lot of people were like, yeah, Cudlian Kennedy's out, blah, blah, blah. You know, everything that there is. The regular stuff. Yeah. But then it was quickly pointed out by a variety of sources that this had already happened last summer and this was just like they're just updating their website

because he's clearly in charge of a lot of stuff that's been going on, including the TV stuff and the animated stuff and whatever, et cetera, and so forth. The serials. The serials. Mandalorianos. Mandaloro. Mandaros.

I don't know. Mandos? Yodos. Manflakes. Manflakes? Yep. I'm not interested. I'm not interested, Mason, in that. I don't know. Andos? Yodos. Manflakes. Manflakes? Yep. I'm not interested. I'm not interested, Mason, in that.

They're low-carb. Low-carb manflakes. I'm a little bit interested. See? I'm a little bit interested. They're keto. Keto manflakes. Okay.

I mean, will they be good? Because most of them aren't good. No, they're bad. They're definitely bad. I'll still eat them. But they're in the shape of Mandos and Grogu's. Did you ever get... Marshmallow grogues. Did you ever get those special

cereal as a kid that shaped like things or like... No. Yeah. All I got were just raw cut square... Cardboard. Bits of wheat. You didn't get a fancy cereal as a kid? I'm sure I got a Coco Pops or something. Sure, yeah. Fair enough. A Frosties.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever had that. But there you go yeah. Fair enough. A Frosties is what we call Frosted Flakes. I don't think I've ever had them, but there you go. You should treat yourself now, James. You should get off your low carb and just ruin it. I'll die, Mason. Yeah. I'll die. Die of shock.

Die of sugar-based shock. This is via the Illuminerdi, though. Get some Cinnamon Toast Crunch, the worst cereal in the world that I love. So there is a Magic Spoon one of that. Nah, it wouldn't be as good. Yeah, I think. I don't know. Maybe there is a- It wouldn't be. Nah, it wouldn't be as good. Yeah, I think. I don't know. Maybe there isn't.

It wouldn't be as good because it wouldn't kill you. You wouldn't eat it and then be like, I'm so excited, and then just be like, I'm so tired. This has killed me, actually. This is I'm dead, actually. Yeah. Do you want some Indiana Jones news? Yes.

It's by the Illuminati. Pretty reasonable source. I may have said that in the past and then that thing turned out wrong. Did they burn you? Yeah. But there's some story details. So apparently it's going to be set, set, set, set. It's going to set. It's going to sit right

in the 60s. The 60s, James? That's what it was. It was a sexy time. Was it? It's 69. So for a brief period towards the end it was a bit sexy. It built to it. It wasn't just suddenly sexy Mason. It culminated. I built to it. It wasn't just suddenly sexy Mason.

It culminated. I understand, sure. All right, well, now this story all checks out, so continue. So set during the 60s during the space race. The sexy 60s. That's right. Oh, the space race was sexy, okay. Exactly.

Madsen Mickelson is going to apparently play a Nazi scientist enlisted into NASA by the United States government to work on the space agency's moon landing initiative. Oh. Seanette Renee Wilson, meanwhile, plays Mads Mikkelsen's CIA handler and apparently a female villain described as an evil and brutal killer. I love the idea of bringing the Nazis back into Indiana Jones. Sure.

Just to clarify, because they're the bad guys, not because I'm rooting for them. I feel like you need to clarify that in the modern day. But I feel like what maybe we're glossing over there is this approaching Indiana Jones on the moon? That's what people are saying. I think, look, they're- Or is it just merely a backdrop?

Is this like a Forrest Gump situation? Yeah, exactly. It's Indiana Jones versus Nazi adventures with the backdrop of the space race. He doesn't insert himself into real world events and alter them. Yet. Yeah, exactly. But he's like, woo, we're going to the moon. He's on the outside of the ship.

He's on the outside of Apollo 11. Woo, whipping his hat about, whipping his hat. Woo. They're like, we're off course, Indiana Jones. If only there was some way to attach ourselves to that asteroid and swing around. Woo! It's very sexy up here.

It's sexy. He's really gone native to them. He is American. What was I saying? Yeah. He's leaning into it. Yeah, he's leaning into it, yeah. Yeah, he's got some European culture in him.

That's true, yeah. But, I mean, it looks like he'll meet Hitler. He'll arc of the government, but it won't affect World War II. He'll arc of that covenant. Yeah, but it won't affect, like, the timeline of real world events. So that's where it's at. Interesting. Again, yet.

Yet, yeah. It's going to be very sexy, though, by the sounds of things. I'm a moon vampire now. Yet, yeah. It's going to be very sexy, though, by the sounds of things. I'm a moon vampire now. Do you think Sean Connery will come back somehow? No.

He died in the timeline and in real life. Oh, that's true, yeah. Yeah. Did he die in the time? He was dead in the last movie, yeah. Oh, yeah. They could have brought him back because they'd be like, you can come back because of Arcturus. You can come back because of Arcturus. You can come back because of Arcturus.

Cup of life juice. What's that thing? Because what do we see? Ricky Martin's the cup of life. He just reanimates his body Weekend at Bernie's style. Olé, olé, olé. Thanks, Ricky Martin. What are you doing in the 60s?

Well, he was in Menudo, which I'm assuming began in the 60s. Sure. What do we see of the death of Henry Jones Sr.? A picture. Just a picture. Your dad's dead and Marcus is dead. Doesn't prove nothing. No, I agree.

But again, dead in real life. So, you know, maybe they can use some of that graphics engine from that James Bond game Sean Connery did. Bring him back that way. So Amazon. Maybe Ricky Martin could do it. Henery did. Bring him back that way. So Amazon. Maybe Ricky Martin could do it. He could do it. He's got many talents.

He's always in Australia hosting a game show panel. He's always like, that was hard or whatever. And then we never see that person again he's referring to. Because Ricky pushed him off a cliff later. Well, they all get thrown into a volcano, I think. I don't know, because they all disappear, don't they? He's like, you're going to take a trip into the cup of life, this active volcano.

So Amazon is apparently, this is by Variety. Now that's living La Vida Loca. In a way. It talks to buy MGM for $9 billion. That's more than it was on offer for last time, I think. Probably, yeah. MGM is constantly in dire financial straits, have you noticed that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

For as long as I can remember. That's right. So they've got like the Hobbit, Stargate, Robocop, and most importantly, I guess, Bond. Yes. And here's the thing, though, because there's a bit of a wrinkle in that. There's scepticism that MGM's prize asset, which is at stake in the 007 franchise,

can be properly monetised because the Broccoli family who own... The Brocks. That's right. They have final say on everything from the film's marketing and distributions and the plans of who's going to be James Bond when, like, Daniel Craig leaves or whatever. They have... Regardless of who owns MGM, right?

Yes, they have the creative control. So MGM could be like, we think you should cast this person. Sorry, Amazon could be like, we would prefer you to cast this person. And the Broccoli's could be like, nah. No. No. There's a standoff. Zuckerberg and the Broccoli's.

Oh, my God. Is he Amazon? No, he's another thing. Oh, the other guy. No, Bezos. There we go. Bezos, yeah. Doesn't matter.

He's brought in Zuckerberg. Yeah. He's rich enough that he can hire Zuckerberg to do his negotiations. He probably could. Ah, ah, just sweating. Ah, ah, I'm rich but I'm not confident. Ah. Oh, that's interesting.

That's my Zuckerberg. My Zuckerberg would have just been just a dead-eyed stare. You just bring Zuckerberg in and he sits down at the table and he just stares you down. He doesn't react or blink. Yeah. And eventually you just cave. You're like, fine. Why did you bring in this cardboard? Oh down at the table, and he just stares you down. He doesn't react or blink. Yeah. And eventually you just cave. You're like, fine. Why did you bring in this cardboard?

Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, he's been there for 20 minutes, and he hasn't moved or said anything. Oh. He's getting weirder, isn't he? Yeah, yeah. I don't know whether he's filling his face with something or what, but the guy is not right.

Yeah. The Broccoli's, et cetera, have final say. They've also been nixing streaming shows and spin-off ideas and things like that. Yeah. So they're kind of, it seems, very hesitant to move him outside of the cinematic universe that he exists in. Yeah, right.

Which I think it's either a case where he could be left behind because of modern streaming and things moving in the TV or it's a good move because you're kind of keeping the purity, I guess, which is the James Bond cinema experience. For a second there I thought you meant in story, like James Bond the man is being left behind because of streaming. Bond, we don't need you anymore because of streaming. Because terrorism is down because everybody's just glued to their screens.

And we just know where everybody is because we can tell that they're streaming at home. So we don't need you to do any more spy stuff. Amazon streaming, by the way. Yeah, people are loving it. They're loving it. They're loving the... Here's a new season of The Boys. All right, I'll...

I'll just be going then. See, it's a shame now that people may know that for a long time there was a guy called Kevin McClory who was a screenwriter who worked with Ian Fleming on Thunderball and then he got the rights to make Thunderball and he kept attempting to make Thunderball over and over again. I kind of wish he was still around. Until he did.

Well, yeah, he made Thunderball and then he made Never Say Never Again. Never Say Never Again. And he tried to make it again. Did he? As Warhead, like Warhead 91 or something like that. Really? So this would be the perfect time.

Amazon could be like, if you don't – we will just get Kevin McClory to make Thunderball again. We'll do it. It could only be about Thunderball. Yeah. But we'll make it again. I love how interesting that is and how weird it is. But I think – because he passed away and I think they bought it

from his family or they negotiated just before he died or something like that. Yeah, or he left it in his will. He was like, I don't even want it. I'm just fucking around. Well, he really was. It's fascinating because, like, they let it, we've talked about this before, but they brought him in as a producer

on Thunderball sort of expecting that he'd be like to get it out of his system. Like, well, I've made Thunderball, so now I'll stop. And he's like, no, I'm going to make Thunderball again. Because they were like, you can't make anything for 10 years. And I guess they expected him to stop. And he's like, I'm going to make Thunderball. I don't care. I'll make Thunderball again.

He did. Sorry, I just grabbed my jumper. So he did it in 83. And then was it the early 90s he was going to make it again? He kept trying to make it, I think. That's fucking incredible. Oh, my God, I love that. Yeah.

Yeah. What a legend. Not even twice did he mean it. He's like, I'll do another one. I'll do another football game. Probably made a lot of money off of it. Yeah, maybe, yeah. You know what?

If I owned rights to one of the James Bond stories, I would just continually be trying to make it. And then that's the thing because I guess in a way, because you'd have to repeat this, it's the same storyline essentially. It's like two stolen nuclear warheads. But when you think about it, if they made another one of those now, nobody would really notice because that's kind of the exact Bond formula. You'd be like, of course, somebody's stealing two nuclear warheads.

Yeah, that's all they do. Sometimes they do nanotechs but it's mostly warheads. What do you think about Bond on streaming, though, or like a spin-off of another agent? Because, I mean, they did Treadstone, and I don't know anything about it. Maybe it was Warhead. I mean, you know, there's been some recent Bond comics that are enjoyable. You could do a Miss Moneypenny.

Yeah. Because she is, you know, in this continuity, she's kind of like a, you know, she was formerly like an active field agent. And then they just put her on a desk. Well, she shot James Bond, so. He's a fucking idiot. Like that guy, how many people has he fucking killed accidentally? Peeps, probably.

That's what I'm talking about. He's always like kicking a safety bolt out of a printing press and it just rolls over a bunch of security guards and he's like, oh, we won't see that in the papers. You killed those men, Bond. They're not all terrorists. That guy just worked here. And they were on lunch.

You can kill them when they're on the clock, but they flocked out for lunch, so you can't do it. Yeah. You could get Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter. Yeah. But again, though, this is all ending. Oh, that's true, yeah. Or they could continue it with the, you know,

because there's a new 007. We don't know. I think, again, they're waiting until the movie comes out. Yeah, I reckon if they get sort of series rights, they would probably adapt the comic books, some of which are like, you know, adaptations of the old stuff and some of which are like fresh ideas. Sometimes they've got robot hands.

Well, Felix Leiter has a robot. He's got a robot arm and a robot leg. Sick. Yeah. Yeah. Because he got ate by has a robot. He's got a robot arm and a robot leg. Sick. Yeah. Yeah. Because he got ate by sharks that time. That's right. So to me, when we talk about Bond for an extended period of time,

I often wonder, does anyone even care? Is this popular or not? Because I can never tell. Sometimes it makes a billion dollars. Sometimes nobody sees it. I don't know. I don't know whether people like these. Yeah. And I think people are undecided on it as well.

Anyway, do you want more news? Yes. Speaking of, I you want more news? Yes. Speaking of, I'm going to send you this. Speaking of MI5, I got a recent, it's on the BBC blog. The article's just called Bugger, and it's about how terrible MI5 and MI6 were over the years, like how they've just been fundamentally incompetent for like 50 years, but it's just been spun spun by like Bond films.

Yeah. Cool Bourne identity stuff where you're like, MI6 is doing cool stuff. No, they're not. They're just chasing ghosts and anyway, I'll send it to you. That'd be great, yeah. It's good. Oh, there's one more thing I did want to say is I love how one very

like bizarre family just has the rights to Bond. Yes. And because it doesn't really happen anymore. Like all the corporations buy everything up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just, I mean, they're fucking billionaires. Yeah, that's true, yeah. But just the idea that they're just like,

we're just going to do it our way whether you like it or not. I think that's fascinating. It is, isn't it? Yeah. Anyways, Deadliner reporting that Lionsgate's version of Highlander is going to be rebooted with Henry Cavill. They don't know if it's a continuation or new or whatever. But I would kind of like to see a continuation or whatever, to be honest.

Yeah, sure. Good question. I mean, because I know they made a bunch of stuff and some of it is in continuity and some of it isn't. I don't know. Yeah, it's complicated. And a lot of them are bad. Yeah.

I'm just closing the door because it's fucking freezing. Terrific stuff. It's really cold at the moment. I don't like it. I'm always at the perfect temperature. Oh, you were under the heater. That's why. Yeah, that's right.

Getting my legs through the door. But whenever I say it's cold, people are like, you're living in bloody Toronto, mate. Shut up. Shut up. I'm not used to the cold, all right? I'm actually a penguin and I live in Arctic temperatures. What a fucking killer whale gets you.

All right. I'm actually a native of planet Pluto, so what you think of cold is actually quite warm for me. Well, it's not a planet. It's not a planet anymore, so. I'm actually a supervillain Mr Freeze, so. You only had one good story and then it was diminishing returns. Oh, my precious Nora.

Oh, just slink back to... He had some other good stuff. That's true, yeah. Yeah, so Highlander, there you go. There you go, I like Highlander. One of the John Wick dudes is doing it, I think. Oh! There you go.

Maybe they'll do competent swordplay in this one. Because, you know, I like Highlander a lot, but that swordplay is very like clank, clank, swing and dunk. That's the subheading in the title, Highlander competent swordplay. I would watch that. Close the door on the dog's back, Mason. What do I even do with my life? I'll get the door for the dog.

Then I'll close the door and your precious leggings won't be cold. But the dog will want to get out again. Here you go. Oh, you're jumping up now. Here you go. There we go.

DC stuff, here we go. Go on. You might have seen there was a new look at a bunch of Batman stuff including the Riddler and people were like, this Riddler design sucks.

Oh, he's got kind of a gimp mask situation. Dog immediately wants to get out. I'll let the dog out. Who let the dog out? Is that why you pointed at me then? Because you knew I was going to do that? Yes, that's right.

Yeah, so it's like a Zodiac killer thing. Yeah. I like it. I know it's like odd and not the Riddler or whatever, but I don't. Is the dog trying to get in again? No, I think she was just sniffing. Okay, cool. Yeah.

Cocaine. This dog shouldn't do that. She doesn't want you to see. That's why she keeps coming in and out and scratching at the door. I can hear you out there doing cocaine, dog. I'm going to live forever. I'm going to have to. I just have to leave the door a bit open so she can run in and out.

Okay, there you go, Willie. All right, you're doing great. She's a good dog. When you're out, I try not to do this. Just lines of cocaine. Yeah. What else was there? A bunch of other just like promo art and whatever.

You know, you stand at the suit and go and whatever. It's fine. McDonald's ad, that sort of stuff. Jason Momoa was on the Drew Barrymore show. I didn't know. Drew Barrymore had a show? Yeah, Boer had a show yeah there you go maybe it's a great podcast as well

you know I think I saw a clip from like the first episode okay 100 years ago interesting and what did Jason Momoa have to say

he said Aquaman 2 starts production in July and he actually wrote the story treatment whoa and then he said James Wan finished it off so what does that even mean

I don't know how does how much a year and then Aquaman was in the ocean. He was sitting on his chair. James, here, I need you to finish my story. I'm sure he did more than that.

Jason, this is just a picture of Aquaman punching a big crab. Yeah, man. Yeah, come on. Come on. Finish it off, dude. So there you go. It starts in July, though, so that's happening. Yeah, come on. Come on. Finish it off, dude. So there you go. It starts in July, though, so that's happening. Good, I think.

James Wan just adds a Burger King promotion. They're like, that's perfect. And they present it to Warner Brothers. They're like, the perfect movie. You've done it, gentlemen. Jeremy Irvine has been cast as Alan Scott. He's in Yellowstone. Alan Scott is notable because he's an openly gay DC character

and the original Green Lantern. That's correct, yes. So they're slowly filling out that cast with multiple Green Lanterns of that Green Lantern movie. Injustice is also getting an animated film treatment. Injustice, you're saying? Injustice. The video game series and comic book series.

Yes. That's good. I mean, that's, you know, that's, it's for a concept based out of a video game, a good series and a lot of good stuff in there. Well, I mean, exactly. It's sort of, the only downside I see to that is that a lot of the, you know, a lot of the more recent DC animated movies are kind of like one's apparently universe and everybody's getting killed.

You wouldn't read about it. I couldn't tell you. Apocalypse War is pretty much that. I wanted to see the new Man of Tomorrow one. Apparently that one's quite good. Like early days of Superman it's got Lobo and he wears the goggles and stuff. Superman and Lois is back as well, which is sick. I really like that show. HBO and Cartoon Network

are working on a show called My Adventures with Superman. It's a coming-of-age tale with Clark Loss and Jimmy Olsen as they do investigative reporting as a team at the Daily Planet. And Jack Quaid from The Boys is Clark Kent. Huh. So that's cool. I like that.

So how much Superman-ing is going to be in that? Don't know. Right? Some might imagine. You'd think so. If he's at the Daily Planet or whatever. Oh, I did see a few of that. Is there an Aquaman series as well?

Maybe. There's definitely like an Aquaman and I saw a still of like Aquaman and Mirror and they're very much in like. In love. Well, that but also like very stylized kind of like, not Powerpuff Girls but like. Oh, okay. Like little squats.

Like a Teen Titans. Yeah, yeah, something like that. Donpuff Girls, but like little squats. Like a Teen Titans. Yeah, something like that. Dunno. Okay, cool, man. I'm excited for that, though. Yeah, me too. They're punching a crab. They've got a Burger King promotion.

Oh, my God. How would that burger even hold up underwater? Not well, but not worse. Batman Caped Crusader has also been announced. It's going to be executive produced by Bruce Timm, who worked on Batman the Animated Series, J.J. Abrams, of course, from J.J. Abrams fame, and Matt Reeves.

You know me. It's me, J.J. Abrams, from J.J. Abrams fame. I don't need to explain him, do I? He's done so many things. And Matt Reeves, who's playing the Ops and also a new Batman movie. Apparently it's going to be a state-of-the-art, use state-of-the-art animation techniques

and technologies available to give a fresh take on-the-art, use state-of-the-art animation techniques and technologies available to give a fresh take on the series. The show will once again reinvent Batman and his iconic rogues gallery with sophisticated storytelling, nuanced characters and intense action sequences all set in a visually striking world. That sounds very interesting. And visually striking. Again, the one character sheet that I've seen of that,

he looks very much like original sort of 1940s Batman. Original recipe. Original recipe Batman. He's holding a Burger King burger. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

How does that hold up when he's punching the Joker? About the same. Whatever. That's right. There you go. Yeah. And there's some other news, which it's very complicated, but I'm just going to kind of surface, kind of cover it.

I'm ready to not understand this. Good. The A-team, did you say? Yeah, A-team. No, AT&T apparently, not apparently, they have pulled the plug on their $85 billion deal, which they had less than three years ago with Warner Brothers, and Warner Media Assets are now merging with Discovery.

AT&T will receive $43 billion as a result of this, just casually throwing around all that amount of money. Not bad. They just don't want to be in the entertainment industry. I'm assuming maybe it's because they were all harassed by the Snyder Cut vans. I don't think that's the reason. AT&T are like, we just want to do phone and cable service

that doesn't work. We just want to cripple everybody's internet services, apparently, which is what they do. I don't know. I've heard nothing but bad things. Yeah, so there you go. I've written here, what does that mean? Probably a lot, but we don't know yet.

It basically means an entire change of management. Projects will be cancelled and restarted and whatever. The directions of things will shift or they won't. We don't know. Yeah, right. I guess it depends who gets to the top and, like, if they're like, I don't like these DC movies, let's do something else, and then it just filters down and the whole slate gets reset somehow.

Exactly, yeah. It's too early to tell. Can you be holding a crab and fighting a Burger King burger instead? What do you think? You're the boss. Anyway, let's do the next thing. Okay, great. FX's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship

between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. FX's The Veil, starring Elizabeth Moss, is now streaming on Disney+. So off the back of the announcement that Zack Snyder has confirmed that there is a sucker punch cut that exists. Did you hear this? Oh, good. Never seen it. I've also not seen it, no.

I'd watch the cut, like another cut of it, I guess. But anyway, it's not the key. Bearing in mind it's probably much longer. I didn't know that. And worse? Maybe. I did like Justice League tenfold more. There you go.

But Army of the Dead. That's right. It had a limited run in theaters where it made $780,000, which isn't great, but also it was very limited. And it was off one screening. It was off one screening. People paid thousands of dollars. It was crazy, right?

Yeah, yeah. They just wanted to get in there. You've got to get in there. Yeah. But it obviously did end up on Netflix over the weekend where it seems to be doing reasonably well. Number one in Australia. That's right, which means nothing.

Absolutely nothing. What do any of those Netflix numbers mean? We don't know. They won't release it. We don't know the specifics of them. You know how Netflix now has that thing where it's like, just play me something. It's like the randomiser. I hate that. Do you hate it? Yes. Well, here's the thing. Every time I've clicked it, it's not like, it doesn't give me some obscure, you know,

Bulgarian drama from the 70s or whatever. It's just like, have you seen Shadow and Bone? And it's like, oh, the thing that's been on the front page for like five weeks. Oh, that's what it is. So it doesn't like drop you into a random episode of The Commish or something.

I think it is. No, the Bulgarian version of The Commish. Oh. Das Commish. Michael Chiklis is still in it. What? Yeah, now. It came out two years ago.

Very strange. Anyway, but I think it's supposed to be random, but I think it just gives you whatever's popular anyway. Great. Like it's random, but it's like a very specific basket of random. Like do you want another serial killer documentary? Guess. I guess, yeah.

Anyways, what do you think the story was? Oh, yeah. Okay, all right. So Vegas, baby, Vegas. I love Vegas, baby love vegas first of all vegas baby you've got a you've got to factor that in but it turned out there was a zombie outbreak in vegas which isn't very money as far as i'm concerned because when you think of vegas you think that's money baby you know what i mean it's swing time it's money baby it's money baby but then there's a zombie outbreak which is not money at all no money and then and then uh they wall zombie outbreak, which is not money at all. It's not money. And then they wall it off.

Yep. Which is not money in any stretch of the imagination. I mean, it's – I mean, it's money if you're outside of Vegas. That's pretty money. It's money. You know, in terms of survivability of the human race. Yes, yes.

But if you're trapped in Vegas and you're being attacked by zombies, that's not money. Not money at all. But then, speaking of money, this guy is like, hey, Dave Bautista, do you want to go into Vegas and get some money? And he says, is this money? Is this money? I mean, on the face of it, this seems like money.

Sounds like money. But maybe if we dig a little deeper, this won't be money. Yeah. Anyway, he gets a team together. That's right. He goes into Vegas. So it's a, first of all, great opening credits. Yep.

He's really good at these opening credits. Tell us the whole story. You get attached to characters that he kills in the opening credits. Here's the thing. I do not disagree. I 100% agree. But I kind of think that might be the best part of the movie. Oh, really?

Yeah. I quite enjoyed this. Okay. I have my complaints and I will get into them. But I do like the idea of a zombie Vegas heist. I love the idea. The concept is incredible. And I think I went back to check.

Maybe not a flawless execution necessarily, but yeah. I went back to check after I'd watched it. But initially when I put it up on the screen, I think like to back. Maybe not a flawless execution necessarily, but yeah. I went back to check after I'd watched it. But initially when I put it up on the screen, I think like to start the movie, I think it said something like Ocean's Eleven meets Shaun of the Dead or something like that. And it's not that. No, not entirely.

Well, see, I went into this. I had seen, you know, the trailers and the trailer is cut mostly from the opening sequence, I think. Yeah, like the guy with the big buzzsaw? Yeah, yeah. He doesn't really use it that much in there. And that's the thing, like I went in this like what could be better, Vegas, which is money, obviously, and a heist movie, which is money, obviously, and a zombie movie, which can be money or not money depending,

but, you know, with good production values it can be extremely money. And I thought it would be a lot different to this. Yeah, it's pretty, it takes a while to kind of, it's a bit stretched out for one. I think that's a massive problem with it. Yeah. Not maybe a massive problem, but a problem. It's like two and a half hours plus, which is too long.

I think a lot of the familial and interpersonal relationships didn't really work for me a lot of the time. Okay, sure. So I think maybe they should have lent more into the weird zombie hierarchy and other strange stuff that's going on in Vegas. I think maybe what they should have lent into was you're driving a big, you know, Chevy with big fins on it and like no roof, just screaming down the Vegas strip

shooting machine guns. Yeah. Would have been nice. Yeah. No, that's fair. Yeah, that's true because there's not a lot of Vegas. I mean, there's zombie killing in it, but I thought I was expecting a more kind of over-the-top,

dead rising kind of. And you do get that in the opening credits, but it's a lot of like, where's my daughter? Where's my goddamn daughter? Well, see, that's the thing. And again, look, I don't feel like it was a wasted two and a half hours. And I think there are some great visuals and the action is pretty okay. And I like Dave Bautista in stuff.

When he's running across the tables and he's like shooting zombies. He's got his little glasses on. I love how he's got his little glasses. You know you're in for a treat when Dave Bautista's in a movie and he's got little glasses on. Blade Runner 2049, he's got his little glasses on. Stuber, he's got his little glasses on. I haven't seen Stuber.

And I think there are, you know. Stuber's centered around him. He just had laser vision, so that's why he hires the Uber. Okay, right. There we go. And, I mean, speaking of, we get an appearance from Shades, from Luke Cage. Yes, yes.

Shades is in this. Yeah. Look, I don't know, but I think I was expecting this to be more fun than it was. Okay, fair enough. But you've seen Dawn of the Dead, so obviously, yeah. Yeah, I know, but I also feel like the setting lends itself to more fun and glitz.

Vegas, baby. It's Vegas and it's money, but, I mean, this could have been set after the first half hour. This could have been set anywhere. Yeah, that's fair enough. I think, yeah, you're probably right. It could have lent more into the glitz merged with the horror element, which is what I liked about the queen zombie. Yeah.

That she was this former Vegas showgirl who's now this horrible monster. I want to judge this on what it is, not what it could be or what I imagine it would be. But I think it's a real missed opportunity to put a movie in Vegas and just not use any – like it's just them busting into a bank vault in an abandoned town somewhere. Like what's the – Well, yeah, because a lot of it is –

I mean there's a white tiger stalking around but that's barely – Yeah, that is cool but you don't really see it that much. But that idea in itself I really like and that visual, half its face is kind of – Yeah, yeah. And I also like how they have the – like a lot of the tropes of like a heist movie, like assembling the crew, I really enjoy.

I think Natara's great in this. The best special effect in the movie because she was pasted over the top of Crystalia. Oh, entirely. So those aren't new scenes. It's all new. That's amazing. Isn't it?

I mean, you, there's. So they didn't, they didn't refilm the scenes. They just put her in. That's great. I mean, and when I think, oh, sorry, apparently my phone's not on silent everybody, even though it always is. I don't know. But, um.

Oh, they can just change that now. Yeah. From Apple headquarters. They can just be like, no, your phone's not on silent anymore. So after all the multiple allegations and cancel Cotter, et cetera, I know, shut up about it, everybody. But, you know, they made a decision which I think, given all the information that is available, was the right decision.

It cost millions of dollars to do so. You can kind of notice it in points. But also, thank God he was the character who's mostly in scenes on the roof by himself. Yes. Because that would have saved them a lot of time and money. I mean, potentially there were other scenes they cut him out. Yeah, well, that's true. That's true also.

I also liked in this how there is this sense of foreboding because they are going to nuke Vegas because it's just an absolute zombie wasteland. I like how they say zombie. They do, don't they? They're not like, oh, it's the crawlers. Oh, it's the whatever. It's the shadow people. Exactly.

None of that shit. They're just like, they're zombies. Yeah, yeah. I like also how they're going in for $200 million. Dave Bautista gets $50 million and he's like, split it however you want. And for every person they meet, it just becomes a less and less. And they're like, it's coming for 20 grand. Spoilers.

Spoilers. We will do like heavy spoilers as well, obviously. But I also enjoyed how, so the safe cracker, they're like, this kid, what are we bringing this kid? He's 40. I looked him up. I'm like, that guy's not a kid. That guy's older than me.

Yeah, right. Yeah. But I think there were, like, relationships that worked within the crew. I think despite not being in the same room as anybody, it's amazing that Tig comes off so well, the interplay with others. I think Dave Bautista and the – His little glasses? Yeah, his little glasses.

Great interplay. But with his – like, the daughter stuff may not have worked, but he's got, like, a best mate and they go in together and they're doing the heist together. Like, the guy who's friends with the guy cracking the vault and they kind of develop. They bond over time, yeah. Yeah, there's stuff that I think is good,

but I think, yeah, you're right. Why is a lot of this looks like it's in a Resident Evil hallway? Like that, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, I have some specific logical inconsistencies I would like to discuss in spoilers. Me too, yeah. But what else is good in this? Look, I have some specific logical inconsistencies I would like to discuss in spoilers. But what else is good in this?

I just think there should have been more showgirls and just, you know. You want to see a zombie Elvis or whatever? I sort of understand, like, logistically why they couldn't have done it in Vegas. Like, they couldn't have set this in vegas during the during the outbreak yeah but i think that would have been more you also can't film in vegas or something i mean i'm sure you could replicate it with sets but i'm just saying like i understand like logistically you couldn't do it because there'd be too many people and you couldn't like can't shut down the strip and if there's you know and it's it's way easier to you know have them fight a hundred zombies as opposed to however many million people are in vegas and also you can't be like for for the purposes of the story

you can't be like oh no they're gonna drop a nuke on las vegas with millions of human people in it yeah unless we and while we do this heist, like you can't, that wouldn't work. So they have to set it after Vegas has already been shut down and many of the zombies are like. Yeah. Yeah. This is, I guess this is a minor spoiler for the movie,

but the reason when they first go into, when they go into Vegas for the second time to begin this heist, a lot of the zombies are sort of in a comatose kind of state yes the vegas heat has dried them out and they're like when it rains that's when they come back to life and i was like that's going to be interesting it doesn't happen but i i do love that idea and there is more stuff coming from this universe which i can talk about we'll see yeah okay yeah yeah so anything anything i say critical of this people will be like well it's it's they're going to explain it in the prequel i'm not watching the prequel i'm watching this movie oh you mean i mean currently i'm watching that point yeah because there's some

other very strange stuff in this which we'll get to but things are yeah i mean that that is my major criticism i i use the setting give us zombie show girls and yeah and you know people i want to see people running through like an active casino firing machine guns at zombies and who's a zombie and who's just a bloody bloody old lady and she's like wants to use a slot machine you know what i mean yeah that's who the real one-armed bandits the bloody the michelle this guy was only one arm because he's a zombie yeah that's good i think they did that in the credits. All that stuff that you're talking about was in the credits. Cool. But yeah, I like

the idea of reanimated wet zombies are fun. I think there was some good homages to like aliens. There's even a character who's got like the you know, the red headband. Oh yeah. And there's like they're going down the corridor and all the zombies are kind of shut down. There's kind of like an alien hive kind of feeling involved to it.

Yeah, there's some tension to it. Yeah, I think the zombie hierarchy is really interesting. This has probably been done in other movies, but I haven't seen every zombie movie. I Am Legend, I feel like, shades of that. Yeah, but I think this did it better than that. Okay. You know, that king of zombies who we don't really know where he comes from,

but again, we can talk about that towards the end in supplementary materials and some spoilers. I liked how Larry Fong got a poster and he's the cinematographer who's worked on Zack Snyder's stuff before. I was like, who's that guy? Oh, cool, he's done a bunch of stuff. But Zack Snyder actually did the cinematography on this and I think a lot of it does look really good, but some of it...

Is blurry? It's blurry and it's like that... I put my glasses on, my going outside glasses on, because I'm like, am I going a bit... Am I Dave Batista-ing this, mate? Is my vision getting worse when I put my glasses on, my going outside glasses on, because I'm like, am I going a bit. Am I day patistering this, mate? Is my vision getting worse when I put my glasses on? I'm like, no, no, some of these shots are quite blurry. Well, yeah, because some of the shots felt like, you know,

the extra scene that they shot for Justice League where they're in the desert? And even though it's in the desert, it feels like they shot it in a box. Like some of this you don't get the scope of Vegas. You get like a locked on performance and then the rest is just kind of muddled and blurry and like with soft edges. But even foreground stuff was blurry.

Yeah, you're probably right. Or your eyes don't. Your eyes aren't working anymore, yeah. Yeah. But there's also like every zombie movie there's like I enjoy like people who do stupid things in zombie movies. It's kind of a trope. And a lot of them is stuff like it's just appropriate attire.

Like his daughter's just wearing like a tank top and another guy with a big buzzsaw is just wearing a singlet or whatever. Put some hockey pads on. Exactly. Tape some newspapers to your arms or whatever. But just like you wouldn't go into this environment like that. And also I've just written here the song Zombie by the Cranberries. That song's not actually about zombies.

I don't know if you know this, Zack Snyder. It's about some children who were killed. Yeah, but zombies is fine. They were killed in a bombing. I don't know. But you know what? I think because the song. It was a bombing.

There were tanks and bombs and guns and bombs. So I guess in a way where the insensitive ones. I didn't mind it. It's a bit on the nose. It's so on the nose. You know what? They should have done a Richard Cheese cover of something. With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns.

In your head. They're dying. Oh, maybe I could be Richard Cheese. You definitely could. This is the second movie I've seen in a week with a Richard Cheese song because Barb and Star also has. Does this have a Richard Cheese song? Yeah, he does the opening. Oh, could be Richard Cheese. You definitely could. This is the second movie I've seen in a week with a Richard Cheese song because Barb and Star also has. Does this have a Richard Cheese song? Yeah.

He does the opening. Oh, that is Richard Cheese. The opening medley kind of vibe. It's an Elvis number, right? Yes. But Barb and Star has, he's in it. He's like the poolside piano player. Ba-ba-bow.

That kind of stuff? Yeah, like ba-bow. Should we do spoilers? Yes. People had some questions specifically about. Oh, best movie ever or worst movie ever? I liked it. I think it's best movie ever.

It's best movie ever. I didn't love it and I think there's a lot of wasted. Look, I think my position is pretty clear. Yeah. Wasted potential. You put it in Vegas. Give me a. Yeah.

I'm driving a Chevy down the strip. I'm firing a gun that's firing chainsaws. I don't think it's amazing. Yeah. But but I think I like Dave Bautista quite a lot and I wasn't bored and it's a little long. It looks pretty good. But all the things you're saying, yes, I agree, but I just don't think it probably bothered me as much as it did you, I guess. I'm so bothered.

You seem bothered, Mason. You seem hot and flustered with bother. That's right. Anyway, spoilers for this movie. Yes. I have questions, but what do you got? Do you see the robot zombie? That'll be explained in the prequel, James.

I don't mind this. So basically there's a moment, and I thought I maybe imagined it. No, you didn't. I forgot too. Where a zombie gets shot in the face and he's got like- On like the Casanova floor. The skin comes off and he's got like a Terminator skull and blue glowing eyes underneath. And so Zack Snyder was asked about this.

And look, by the time this comes out, he might have just explained it in entirety, which he does. Like before Justice League came out, he's like, and there's this scene and there's this scene and there's this scene and there's this scene. I wonder if Zack Snyder just has a higher tolerance for fans asking questions than most people. He seems to.

But I think maybe he holds on because he's like, Snyder just has a higher tolerance for fans asking questions than most. He seems to. He's really. But I think maybe he holds on because he's like, I'm digging the interactions, but I think eventually he's like, oh, God, I am sick of this. All right, here's the deal. It's a robot from space and it's going to be in the next movie. Yeah. So the key to quote is,

are they monitors that the government has placed among the zombies to monitor them? Are they technology from another world? What's happening there? Yeah. So there you go. So coming up, Matthias, I've looked up the pronunciation of his name. It's a German name. I'm so sorry.

I even spelled it out. He plays the safecracker in this. Yes. He's directing Army of Thieves, which is the prequel. It's already filmed. It's coming out this year. So he's an actor and a director? Yes. That's fascinating. Which isieves, which is the prequel. It's already filmed. It's coming out this year. So he's an actor and a director? Yes. That's fascinating. Which is really interesting. So I'm looking forward to that.

And also there's an Army of the Dead Las Vegas animated six episode series, which a bunch of the cast are back for, including Dave Bautista, including Tig Notaro. It's interesting you say pronunciation, because I looked up Dolores O'Riordan's name. Yeah. Because she's the lead singer of The Zombies. Of The Cranberries. Because I'm like, they probably name because she's the late-terms zombie of the Cranberries because I'm like they probably –

because she died quite recently. Yes. I'm like that's probably how they're allowed to use it now. Oh, right. I mean surely it would have been used by now in something else. Like another zombie movie? Yes. You might be right.

Anyway, yeah. So the twist in this is that they're not about the money, is that they need the head of one of the generals. So if you get bitten by the head zombie. The alpha and alpha zombie. The alpha. You become one of these generals. Which is like a faster zombie, smarter.

Yeah. Tactical. Tactical. Control other zombies and whatever. And they're like, if we get the DNA, we can create our own zombies. Yes. Yeah. And she's pregnant.

And the thing is what you could, she's like the second thing you see when you come in. Yeah. So he could have just said, just go and snag me one. Well, yeah, I mean the – Like why do this whole like do the heist and whatever when it's just like just grab one? That's what I –

There's so many of them. That was my first thought because, yeah, like – I mean maybe he'd be like, I'm not doing that because I don't want to unleash this on the world. But he could have been like, hey, listen, we think that they're going to blow these zombies up, but we think there's a cure for cancer in this. Yeah, okay, yeah. Like we could, you know, we can heal all the wounds in the world

because these zombies are still alive and they should be dead or whatever. I mean, you're right. Like his choice is if they didn't send him in at cross purposes, they could have done this. In a minute. In one minute. And they would have been like. Because also when they do snab the queen, nobody's there.

Yeah, exactly. They just do it. Yeah, yeah. And they could have just, they were literally like 50 feet from the door. They could have just taken the zombie. And that's the thing. Like Tanaka, who's the guy that hires him, is like, okay, we need you to go in and get this money.

It's our money, baby. It's very money. But we're also going to send in this guy who you don't trust who's going to throw you off. He's going to throw you all off your game. And he's going to betray. And he's there like betraying people and getting them killed. Yeah.

And it's like, surely you would want this to go off without a hitch. Because they are also protecting you. Like, the more of you there are, the better it is. Yeah. Yeah. He's good in Sarah Connor Chronicles. It's true. He's chromatic.

Yeah. And it's good when he gets his head mashed by that tiger. And, I mean, a thought that I also had was, like, And he gets his head mashed by that tiger. And, I mean, a thought that I also had was, like, couldn't you just fly a helicopter in with, like, a harpoon on it? You can't fly into no-fly zone. No, but.

Just do it anyway. No, but that's the thing because Dave Bautista gets off the phone with Tanaka and he's like, all right, I'm in. And then Tanaka turns around and there's all the military generals there and they're all like, good, we're all on board with this. The only reason it's a no-fly zone is because the military don't want you in there. So if the military are on board with all the shenanigans, they'd just be like, just let one in and be like, we're doing a final flyby just in case there are civilians in there before we blow this place up.

And then just shoot one with a harpoon and drag it out and then get the DNA and then just dump it back in and it's done. Yeah, that is true. Like one minute. Maybe they didn't like Dave Bautista. They wanted Dave Bautista to be dead. And people have also made the complaint that his daughter just got everybody killed really because she went in looking for one particular or one group of people and they got that one person.

Everybody else is murdered. But didn't she die as well? Maybe. And I think she was still alive. In the helicopter crash? I don't know. I think everybody died in that helicopter crash. Oh, really?

Except for her, yeah. Well, there you go. Well, well done. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, look, that didn't really, these are thoughts I had during the movie, but I was just like, I don't care.

Also, here's another thing, James. Yeah. James, if I may. Oh, I'd love to hear it. Tanaka goes, hey, I need you to crack this safe. It's got the $200 million in it. It's protected by some non-lethal traps. And then it's like poison darts and a machine gun and something else.

A smashy wall. A smashy wall. What if they all walked into it? If they all walked into it, except for maybe the one guy who's on Tanaka's team, they're all dead and he's got no body to protect him. Like what – you would probably say – He can't get the helicopter. Oh, he was going to kill the pilot?

I don't know. But like – but then he's got no one to help him get the – there's no one left on the team to – Yeah, it doesn't – it shouldn't matter to him. He shouldn't be actively killing people. Yeah. Makes no sense. He should be like, Tanaka should have been like,

there are some traps, like a machine gun. Yeah. So you watch out. Also, this is the combo because it's my safe. Yeah. Yeah. You don't actually need a safe, Cracker, because that's my building. Yeah.

I also found it a bit bizarre that, so it was all nuked and then the guy who was in the safe managed to get out of the safe. Why didn't you all get in the safe? Well, even then, I don't think that safe would have opened if it didn't be dead from nuclear radiation. Yeah, that's right. Because of the bomb that hit it. Yeah.

Yeah, but honestly. I thought initially that guy was going to be like, he was going to go for revenge against Tanaka. Oh, that would have been cool. I thought that's what, because I'm like, oh, he's scoping out a private plane. Maybe that's Tanaka's private plane. He's going to blow it up. I thought that would be more interesting,

but I guess we've got to have a sequel set in Mexico City or whatever. South of the border, exactly. South of the border. Richard Chase is back. Did you see Zack Snyder came out this week and he was asked about like, his movies are often said to have like a right-wing message, and he was like, I'm left-wing. He's like, I vote Democrat and that's who I am.

And a lot of people are like, oh, we don't like this. Well, I think he's, look, not to get too far into it, but I think he is an objectivist libertarian. I cannot argue with that, yeah. He can be left-ish and be that. Yeah, totally, yeah. But he was talking about how like he's all about empowerment and like representation and things like that. So, yeah, I just But he was talking about how, like, he's all about empowerment and, like, representation and things like that.

So, yeah, I just think that's really funny how a lot of people maybe don't like that about him. Also, I have a note here. There's a guy on the team who's, like, a YouTube trick shot guy. Yeah, I liked him. And his hair. Doesn't do any trick shots. Oh, yeah, he didn't do any trick shots.

It's even in a scene where doing some trick shots specifically would probably have helped Adelaide. You know, there's a scene where I think it's his friend like is being sworn by zombies and it's like,

and I'm like, oh man, this would be the perfect opportunity for him to do like a bunch of triple headshots or whatever and rescue her and he's just like,

nah, I'll shoot that petrol tank. Yeah. And he also didn't, which anybody could have done. He also didn't seem bothered by it afterwards. No. Like that really affected him.

Then he was like, eh, let's all have fun with this, all right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Do you think it would have been more interesting as well, like the zombie headquarters instead of being like in a weird dirty pool? It is surrounded by that not pristine but like nearly pristine kind of glitz and glamour going on, do you know what I mean? Yes.

I know obviously there would have been wear and tear like they show in the movie, but, yeah, I think you're right. Like that heightened version of like Ocean's Eleven Vegas might have been cool. I was expecting all the zombies out the wazoo. Do you think maybe if you set it at night or it goes into night, that would have been more because everything lights up and the strip suddenly is neon. Oh, yeah, that would be cool, yeah.

Because Vegas during the day is very different. Yeah. Outside at least. That would be cool. Inside it looks exactly the same no matter what time of day it is. Yeah. Yeah. So what do you think about the zombie giving birth to a zombie or whatever? And maybe it's an alien.

Who knows? Oh, yeah. Look, we'll find out in the prequels and sequels, won't we? Do you think it's an alien virus? I would say, yeah. Because they mentioned it up top, Area 51 and whatever and what they're transporting. I would say it's going to be an alien virus because it seems to me that the people making this seem

to think it's a very original concept and it's not. Like they're like, this is going to blow your minds when we reveal what it is. And it's like, oh, you mean like in Marvel Zombies, how it was aliens. Well, and also The Walking Dead was originally pitched, like not really, but just to get it through as an alien virus. That's how he got it through.

I think there have been a bunch of zombie things where it's like, it's a virus from space. It came from a comet or whatever. So I guess he was the guy to open it or whatever, I assume. I don't know. Some sort of punk rock show. Punk rock show. My cape will protect me.

Yeah, I like that. He's got the helmet and he's the staff and that. I think that's all really cool. I enjoyed the part where they were like shooting at him and they couldn't get him because his helmet was on and then he took the helmet off and they're like, well, time for a fist fight. Let's fight this.

Maybe shoot him in the head now. I'd shoot him so many times that guy wouldn't even know how many times he'd been shot because I'd shot him so much. And he'd be dead. He'd be dead. Can't count when you're dead. And they all die if you shoot the main one, isn't it? Is that true?

I'm thinking of Frankensteins. That's for all you Frank heads out there. Yeah, that's right. Got some tweets here from people who saw it. Terrific, all right. It's from iWatchStuff, says, Army in the Dead is through Snyder. Great characters, performances, beautifully shot scenes,

but he tried jamming every version of the story into one movie, and I was left wondering where did that come from about plot points more than zombies. Jonathan says, I'm angry at how bored Army of the Dead made me. It squandered its only good idea, zombie hierarchy. I definitely don't think that's its only good idea, but each to their own. Name another good idea.

This Vegas thing, the heist thing. And everyone was terrible in it. Ugly to look at too. Garbage. Pure shit. Whoa. And Bill said, this is to you specifically, even though it wasn't a minigun, did Wikipedia Brown, you appreciate this, 50 cal turning a zombie into liquid

in the open credits of Army of the Dead. Yeah, that was really good actually. That was very impressive. Because again, like a human body, even a zombie body, they rarely commit to somebody being fully machine gunned. Good stuff. And they really did. That's what I was going to say with regards to heists.

I feel like, and again, you can do however you want, but I feel like the fun of a heist is either one, everybody gets away and they're rich, or maybe there's one sacrifice or something like that. It's like, go on without me. Or everybody gets away penniless, but they're like, what an experience. And this was neither. This was neither.

Everybody died. It was bad. It was sad. It was sad. Nobody even got, you know, it's not like they even like, it's not even like the father and the daughter got away and they had, you know, I mean, I guess he had like 20 grand in his pocket or whatever. And he had his moment of like, do you love me?

She's like, yeah. As soon as the helicopter landed, I'm like, I'm going to say with absolute certainty, the first thing he's going to say is about like the food truck. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, oh, lobster rolls. I'm like, yeah, I get it. But he wasn't going to do it, was he?

I do like lobster rolls, though. But he got bitten, so he couldn't have done it. No, he couldn't have done it. No. He should have been like, you know what? Brains rolls. Do you get it? have done it. No. He should have been like, you know what? You know what? Brains rolls. Do you get it? We can make brains rolls.

I'm dying. I'm dying. I've got it. Oh, because I'll be safe brains. So that's what I am now. So yum, yum, yum. How about my daughter's brains rolls? I'm going to eat them up.

I'm going to eat them daughter's brains rolls. I'm just kidding. You need to shoot me. Yeah, you should shoot me right in my head. Shoot me in the head. Yeah, so but I guess it would have to guess the next one we'll have to lean into, the sequel that is, that he does, that guy doesn't kill himself on the plane, which you would do.

You know? I mean, I guess you would do, but does he have a gun? It's probably a knife on the plane or something like that. Or it'd just be like lock me up because I have a virus and I have the zombie virus. Because people would be like, oh, that zombie virus. And he stays in the toilet. Yeah.

He was in the toilet, so maybe he... He couldn't get out. The next movie is just two hours of him in the toilet. Hello? I'm not a zombie yet. Actually, I didn't... I actually didn't change. I think this was maybe just a regular dog that bit me.

Or a regular person? Yeah, maybe. I don't know. Yeah. I got out of that vault when I got nuked. It's amazing. I don't know. I got out of that vault when I got nuked. It's amazing. I just walked through Las Vegas. He carried a lot

of money too. That would have been really heavy. Probably his limbs are melting off as well because of radiation poisoning. But if you hold like a ream of paper, it's very heavy. Oh my god, yeah. I mean, you know, whatever. Some people, maybe that's not that heavy. I don't know. Some people are strong. Some people are emailing right now. Actually, my job is I actually Some people maybe that's not that heavy. I don't know. Maybe, yeah. Some people are strong.

Some people are emailing right now. Actually, my job is I actually move reams of paper in an office. So... Actually doing it right now? Doing it right now. Yep. And texting with my other hand. That's right. I can lift a ream of paper with one hand.

Speaking of end of the world, et cetera, and so forth, we are going to do A Quiet Place 2 next week. Oh, yeah, that's right. So if people want to come back for that. But, yeah, that was our review of that movie we watched. That's right. I thought it was all right. I thought it was all right too.

Yeah, cool. All right. Again, if you got Netflix, it was free. Yeah, what do you think of that? Yeah, pretty good. Not bad. I might say it's technically not free because you're actually paying for a subscription service.

No, I'm actually stealing off your account. Person emailing in, I've gotten your details and I'm using your account. So it's free for me. That's pretty lucky for you. What I've done is I've made my account and I've called it add new user and my icon is the plus. I've made my icon

the little plus sign so it looks like you could add two new users. That's right. Incredible. There we go. It's time for the next segment of the show. Do you know what it is? Oh, is it what we're reading? Yes. What are we going to read? Yes. I'm're going to read. Yes. I'm doing a thing. Westworld.

Westworlding it this week, aren't we, Mason? We really are. You better believe it, yeah. This is the segment of the show where we talk about things we read, watch, listen to, whatever. I watched the first episode of MODOK on Disney+. I also watched the first episode of MODOK on Disney+, because in Australia on Star, we only get the first episode, whereas I understand it

in America on Hulu, they've gotten every episode. It's a real horses for courses, you know what I mean? I was very much like, this feels like it was just finding its groove, and I would have liked to continue this. It's pretty good. What do you think? I thought it was fun.

It's pretty good. What do you think? I thought it was fun. Yeah, it's a different take on the classic Marvel villain of MODOK. Yep. Patton Oswalt is MODOK. Yeah. Yeah. And he's just trying to take over stuff and whatever, but corporate hierarchy. And I guess somehow I skipped this or I didn't know it.

It is real stop motion. Yes, it is. I was surprised by that. But then I saw some behind the scenes stuff. It's good stop motion, isn't it? Wow. Yeah. It's really, it's quite good. Yeah, that's harder, I think, in a lot of ways. But also, computer animation is also hard. Yeah, that's very true, actually.

So, you know, just so you know. Just letting you know, guys, I'm emailing in. I'm both a visual effects guy and a stop motion guy, and they're both equally as difficult. Because what? We've got your Netflix account. That's right. We took it. That's right. We took it while you were doing both your jobs. It's fun.

Again, it's probably not for kids. It's a little bit rude. And there's some limbs being blasted off and so forth. Blood and death and whatever. So there you go. What else have we been doing? Anything? Anything else? No, I mean, now my phone torch is on. I'm not liking this.

You've lost my mind? You've become a dad. You've become full dad. I have, haven't I? Yeah, that's right. I was just looking for my keys. I dropped them. My phone torch.

I don't know. That's all. I have another podcast called Suggestible. Go on. Right, with my wife where we talk about things. Who might be coming on for Quiet Place 2 next week. Because it's a family drama. Family drama.

And you were recently attacked by big monsters that are very good at hearing. Bloody kids am I, right? Yes. Yeah. They can hear everything. Okay. And they remember things you don't think they'll remember. Such as?

Well, this morning, because we were gone today, we were going out to do a thing, and I was packing the lunches for everybody, and my son was like, can we have a buckle gun battle? You know buckle gun? Vaguely, yeah. It doesn't matter. I'm like.

I only know it from other conversations we've had where you mentioned your son's love of whatever this is. Are they like Beyblades? No, they're like little Pokemon and they battle and whatever, and they roll into a little ball. Anyway, but yes, they're also like Beyblades. That's what I thought. And I'm like, I can't right now because I'm packing,

but when we come out this afternoon, first thing we do. And then the car, I'm like, on the way back, I'm like, man, I'm so tired. I'm just going to lie down for a minute. We get home. And my son was like, hey, remember, we're going to have that buckle gun battle. We'll be going home. And I'm like, ah, you got me. But then it turned into a wrestle.

He's like, let's just wrestle. And I'm like, let's wrestle. Nice. And then you get him in the choke. He's out. And then you just go, you got me. But then it turned into a wrestle. He's like, let's just wrestle. And I'm like, let's wrestle. And then you get him in the choke. He's out. And then you just go, you have a nap. We both have a nap. Yeah, terrific. Anything else you're reading?

No, that's. You watch any Buckle Gun? No. Oh, it's a cartoon as well. Of course it's a cartoon. No, a lot of YouTube. I'm watching that Toy Galaxy that I mentioned. Oh, yeah, yeah.

It's good. Yeah, it's good. I learned just today's episode or the most recent episode, Disney owned like all the Power Rangers stuff for a couple of years. Did they? And then they sold it back. Why? I don't know.

They didn't sell anything. But it's madness. Like Saban, who used to own Power Rangers, sold it to – or they sold it to Fox. Disney bought Fox. And then Saban just bought it back from Power Rangers, sold it to Fox. Disney bought Fox. And then Saban just bought it back from them. And Disney are like, okay. Wow.

Isn't that, yeah. That's nuts. They don't give up anything. I don't understand. Does Saban have something on the mouse? I don't know. Do you think it's, I mean, now they wouldn't give it back. No.

Because they just, but I'd be. This is quite recent, though. Oh, is it? This is after Disney purchased Fox. If I was – but I'd be – This is quite recent though. Oh, is it? This is after Disney purchased Fox. If I was Disney, I'd be stressed. I'd be like, we've got too many things going. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've got too many plates.

You'd keep forgetting you had stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I've done a couple of videos a week and I'm flat out, mate. They'd be like, what are we doing with that Die Hard sequel? And they'd be like, I don't know. We own Die Hard. Seems a bit rude for us.

I don't know. Should we put him in Kingdom Hearts? Should we put John McClane in Kingdom bit rude for us. I don't know. Should we put him in Kingdom Hearts? Should we put John McClane in Kingdom Hearts? Why not? I don't know. Which version of John McClane? The bald John McClane? No, obviously not.

Widow's Peak. John McClane. They go to the Nakatomi Plaza realm. Isn't he in Call of Duty or something coming up? Oh, maybe. Or Modern War? I don't know. Oh, maybe.

Anyway. Anyway, let's do the next segment. I agree. Modern War? I don't know. Oh, maybe. Anyway. Anyway, let's do the next segment. I agree. The letters segment. The letters segment. It's got a theme. I love the little themes. The classic one was letters, oh letters.

We love you, some letters. They're only a day away. I know they're here right now. We're going to do letters. I'm getting messages from my crypto group that crypto is over for this year. It's just all, it's crashed. It's in the toilet. Yeah, it's just in the toilet.

But it's only May. We're in a bear market, Mason. That's bad. I don't know. Yeah, it could be. Terrific. So I'm just looking at my money that I put in. Okay.

And I'm just back to square one. I'm just exactly where I was when I started. Wow. So I just wasted months of my life. But James, obviously though you're not back at square one because you also have thought about it for months. I do. But you've done nothing but think about it for months.

So that's something, isn't it? That is something to be fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's really exciting. Yeah, yeah. And the rainforest burned down. Did it? I don't have any of the rainforest burning down crypto.

Okay, all right. Just to clarify. Okay, all right. Just to clarify. Okay. I'm not going to name which because I don't want anybody to buy anything. I don't want to influence anything. What about that shed full of video cards you've got out there?

Don't even look at that, Mason. It's on fire, though, isn't it? It's unrelated. Okay, cool. It's a separate independent project that I'm working on. I'll burn all the video cards. You're going to break the Guinness World Records for burning the most video cards. So in the letter segment of the show, people write in and they go,

we've got a letter for you. And we say, lay it on us. Yeah, lay it on us. On us, baby. That's right. This is so money, we say. We've got an audio letter. The machine is having a bit of strife at the moment, so I might just play it out loud so you can hear it.

I love it. And if it doesn't come out, Collings will put in the other version. But I think it might be all right as is. Here we go. I can't believe crypto's over. That's crazy. Like the planet crypto exploded. Yes, it is, isn't it?

All the scientists warned you. They were like, the planet's going to explode, man. And you're like, nah. I don't believe you. This is remarkable. Elon Musk said the planet wasn't going to explode. I trust him, actually. Yeah, here we go.

Hey, James and Maisel, this is Marcus from Sweden. I was just thinking, and maybe you've already talked about this, but since MCU Thor has its roots in Scandinavian and mainly Norwegian mythology, shouldn't he be speaking with like a Norwegian accent instead of that Shakespearean accent he's doing now so more like I am Thor the god of thunder this is my hammer Mjölnir have you seen my wicked

brother Loke something like that I don't know anyway thanks for a fantastic podcast take care from Sweden bye it's a very valid point but I think people would be like this is silly these movies are serious and this is too silly. People can't accept that.

What if in a future movie he takes a really solid shot to the nuts and he just starts speaking in Norwegian and people are like, and he's like, I've been doing a fake Shakespearean accent. Oh, my God. Oh, this hurts so much. I'd love to do the accent, but I feel like people would just be, it sounds like we're making fun of it. But it's just we can't do it. I mean, we don't know for sure that this hurts so much. I'd love to do the accent, but I feel like people would just be, it sounds like we're making fun of it. But it's just we can't do it.

I mean, we don't know for sure that this gentleman isn't making fun of his countrymen there. Exactly. So that's exciting. But, no, do you think that's something they'll ever lean into? Because they haven't at all. No. Yeah.

I mean, they don't even really do it in Vikings, do they? No. You know what? Maybe they would do it if they did like a flashback. I think they would do it as a goof. Oh, do you think it, you know what? Maybe they would do it if they did like a flashback. I think they would do it as a goof. Oh, do you think it's like era dependent? Yeah. Okay. I wouldn't be surprised. But I mean, he was, you know,

in Thor. He was from the past, wasn't he? Yeah, yeah. I reckon if they did like maybe a flashback, you know, a thousand years in the past, he would be doing that. But then they would probably undercut it with somebody being like, why are you doing that? You're not from Norway, you're from Asgard. Yes. Kind of thing, you know? I'd be like, why are you doing that? You're not from Norway. You're from Asgard. Yes.

Kind of thing, you know? They'd be like, yeah, I am. Bro. Well, this is awkward. This is Thorquard. Oh, that's his catchphrase. I love it. Good stuff all around. You got any more tweets or emails?

I've got all kinds of emails. I've got some here as well. This is from Jennifer. Hello. She's written, Marvel character's unworthy of an action figure. Hey, James and Mace, I was listening to the pod from a couple of weeks ago

and heard you guys discussing action figures and collecting. I actually collect action figures myself, it's the attached photo, and was wondering what you two think is an MCU character who does not need an action figure. I asked because Hasbro recently revealed a Happy Hogan figure and I bought it. What do you got?

Let's see it. Gent, Pierce can be the action figure collecting trans girl of the podcast. Absolutely you may. Here's the collection. It's a little smaller. Oh, my goodness.

They're colour arranged as well, it seems. I think the – I've opened some weird documents thing. I don't know. It's gone. But I did see it. It's from Jen. I'll look in there and map myself.

Yeah, good question. I feel like – I guess there's nobody who in the Marvel University is completely unworthy of an action figure. That's probably true. But you don't want to make somebody an action figure and then it doesn't sell. Yeah, absolutely. That is the key.

Jen with a G or a J? Jen with a J. Okay. I think if you were like if you did one of actor DC Pearson who is in like the Apple store in Captain America Winter Soldier. Yeah, yeah. And it sold like two, I'd be like, I feel bad for that guy. I love all the little posy arms that have gone on it.

But I think there's enough. I think going into that, DC Pearson would know, this isn't going to be gangbusters. This is a goof. This is for collectors and whatever. Yeah, I guess that's probably true, yeah. Yeah. There's some good stuff here, man. Look at that.

That's really, even got the portal in the background. There's a giant man. Yeah. Did you see the portal? Yeah. She made a portal there. Yeah, nice. Wait, where's the giant man?

He could be giant-er. Yeah. I think he's just a hot toy. Yeah, I think he's a hot toy. I think he's just a big ant man. Because how big do they make him? You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like I'm not, no shade, no shade. I'm not saying you've done the wrong thing here, but I'm saying that's probably the biggest one you could get. I would say 100% Happy Hogan deserves an action figure. Yes. You know what it is? Yes. They have to be in an action sequence, I think.

Oh, okay. Happy Hogan's been in an action sequence. I mean, not in a huge major role, but but he's chucked the Iron Man briefcase around. He's been on the plane in Spider-Man Homecoming. He blew up in that explosion. He was killed, probably. Remember that explosion he was in in Iron Man 3? What about Stan Lee?

Never been in an action sequence. He was in the scene on the train with Captain Marvel. All I'm saying is get rid of the figure. Just get rid of it. Get rid of Stan Lee Just get rid of it. Get rid of Stanley. Get rid of it. Dump Stanley.

All right. Yeah. I bet there are. Old Lady Skrull. Switch on the back. Yep. Push the button. Head spins round.

Skrull face. There's already all the Black Widow figures out as well. I'm looking at this here. That's interesting. Some ones here I didn't even know about. Oh, there's Deadpool in there. Oh, does Wong have an action figure? Wong would have to have an action figure.

Wong had better have an action figure. Anyway, like you who are like, it's Deadpool in there. Oh, does Wong have an action figure? Wong would have to have an action figure. Wong had better have an action figure. Anyway, like you who are like, it's good that these exist. I'm seeing this. I'm like, I'm glad somebody's collecting all these. It's cool. Yeah. And they've got little arms.

She's put little arms on them so the flying ones are flying or jumping. Nice. Good stuff. Nice. I know it. All right, I got one more email. It's from Finley. Just says, thank you.

That's it? Greetings, James and Maceo from the dreary, damp island known as the UK. I've been listening to the podcast since 2019. It's been an absolute blast listening to all the brilliant banter and James' seemingly never-ending spiral into deeper and deeper madness. Thank you very much. That is a trend going on there. The podcast, along with some good cups of tea, have cheered me up all throughout secondary school

and the stress that comes with exams and especially the lockdown period. I've now finished my time there and will hopefully be moving on to a college animation course after the break ends. Very good. It's my personal thank you for all the laughs you've given me over these past few years as they have been much appreciated. Keep up the good work, mates, and never stop the argument over which one of you is attracted to cartoon animals.

It's James. That's what it said in the email? Yeah, and that's from Google, so you know it's official. Like Google sent this? No, Google's added it in Gmail. In your Gmail because, and that's from Google. So you know it's official. Like Google sent this? No, Google's added it in Gmail. In your Gmail, because it thinks it's to you. Cheers, and if I may

ask, can be the official stereotypical tea-drinking Brit of the pod. We might have one of those already, but you've asked now, so superseded it. If you're the other one, you're out. Or you're out, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't know. Don't, I mean, admit defeat if you want. Yeah.

Also, like, people have come in and out of this podcast, so who knows who hears what at any point in time, you know what I mean? Got something here from C-Ray who says, hashtag Wicked Planet Pod. That's how you find us on Twitter. That's right. I find me specifically. I want to search every week.

Even though most of us can discern real life from fantasy, are there any actors who have been effectively ruined for you by a particular movie role? Best part ever is always cheers. For me, it's actors in real life I don't like who have done, like, bad stuff. Yeah, definitely. And then I'm like, I don't want to watch a movie with you in it. Yeah.

So that to me. But I don't think there's any role where, like, I know Eddie Murphy has done, like, The Clumps or whatever. Ah, sure. But there's nothing where, first of all, I've never seen that. Okay. But, or Norbert, I meant to say Norbert, but also The Clumps, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But, like. Meet Dave. Yeah, it doesn't ruin, because I'm like, I also know he's good in things. Yeah, you don't watch him in Dolomite Is My Name and be like, that guy's a robot spaceship. Yeah. Meet Dave. Meet Dave.

But what about you? Ah. Is there anyone who's just like, oh, man, that's really bad and I can't? No, I mean, you know, I think it's more of a, you're right, it's more of a bad person thing. Like I don't think, even like it's, even if you're a big time movie star, I think it feels like sometimes it's completely the luck of the draw whether the movie you're in is good or not.

Yeah. You know, you don't really have any control. It might be a good script, it might be a good director or whatever, but it might be ruined in editing. Yes. Bad special effects, you know. It's a lot of the time it's kind of out of your hands or, you know, you signed onto one script and then they changed it all and it sucks now.

Yeah, absolutely. Or are we talking about more like somebody is so defined by a particular role that you can't see them as anything else. Yeah, I think that's what, yeah, what C-Ray is saying. Well, let's think of some big-time actors. Chris Reeve. Okay. Like in another role.

No, I would love to see him in another role. I mean, he's dead obviously. Yeah, it's a bit late now. And he did do other things. Yeah, yeah. And what about a Chris? What about any other Chrises? Like a Chris Hemsworth?

Yeah. I mean, that being said, like, other than his comedy roles, there's not really another movie where I'm like, I really love him in that particular Moby Dick movie or whatever. Oh, right. I haven't seen it. Yeah, okay. What about a Chris Evans?

He's good. I really like him. Yeah, I mean, you know, the fact that he was Captain America didn't ruin his role in Knives Out. No. I mean, he worked against type on that. That's right. Ben mentioned how he watched Sunshine the other day,

which has Chris Evans in it. And that movie was the reason why when he got cast as Captain America, I'm like, that's fine. That's actually really great. So, no, genuinely. I'm laughing, actually. That's fine. That's really great, actually.

But, no, he's really incredible in that movie. And if I had to say maybe just Fantastic Four, I'd be like, but that and Cellular, which I think is a pretty underrated speed-esque movie, he's good. He sort of got typecast into being, he was kind of, you know, smarmy arsehole for a while. Yeah. You know, he was Johnny Storm and he was in.

Scott Pilgrim. Scott Pilgrim and he was in one of the Not On The Tee movie. He was in that as well. Yes, which was like his breakout. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But even like if you saw Scott Pilgrim, he's so good in that. Like you can't – you'd have to be a good actor to make that as good as that is. Does he have plucked eyebrows and that?

Does he have like very – they're very aggressively – Maybe they've, I don't know, painted on or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. It's good. It's good stuff. Yeah. Who else? Let's see. No, I think it's good. It's good stuff. Yeah. Who else?

Let's see. No, I think it's more of a bad people thing. Yeah. That's interesting, though. It's from iWatchStuff, actually, from another tweet from earlier. How long do you think the concept of canon will keep being relevant? It's basically fans ceding control of what's real in fictional universes to giant corporations at this point.

Does it matter and will fans care about it for much longer? Yes. People will care about it until the end of time. The culture has become everything must be canonical. But does it matter? No. No, it doesn't matter. I just don't watch or read the things that I don't like.

It's interesting because I feel like there must, I think there will in, there's sort of a, corporations I think probably believe that there is a shelf life to continuity for people who don't read DC comics for example they will reset their continuity fairly regularly, like every 10 years

or even more frequently I think it's because they're like, well we don't want to alienate new readers, we don't want them to come in and be like, I don't understand Superman and Lois are married, that can't be right because I saw that in a cartoon, we don't want to alienate new readers. We don't want them to come in and be like, I don't understand. Superman and Lois are married. That can't be right because I saw that in a cartoon. They weren't married, so we've got to reset it so they aren't married anymore kind of thing.

A magic genie made it so. Yeah, but I think that alienates long-time readers. But I think they are more like, well, we've got to get the kids. The kids spend their disposable income. They spend their pocket money on all this stuff. We've got to – so I'm wondering – I wonder if Marvel has an expiry date on their continuity. Yeah.

And I think if they ever reset the Marvel Universe, they would probably do it in continuity. Okay, sure, yeah. Because then – because if they were just like, we're getting rid of it all and we're just going to do a new Iron Man and a new Thor and a new Captain America, all new actors, blah i think people be super mad about it yeah but i think if they were like you know eternity shows up and and resets the universe in a big you know dramatic finale yeah and then we get a restart i think people would be

not everybody would be okay yeah but i think in in story that like when they did the Star Trek reboot, they very cannily went, this is the same Star Trek universe but due to some sort of time travel. Eric Banner did this. Eric Banner. Blame Eric Banner. Eric Bananigans. Various Bananigans.

The timeline has been altered, which is why it's kind of faster paced and cooler and newer actors because the timeline has been altered, which is why it's kind of faster paced and cooler and newer actors because the timeline has been altered. But the old stuff is still there. Yes. It's just in a parallel timeline. I think people are okay with that. They've all got strange powdered old man wigs in that universe or whatever's going on in that one. But this one, they're all slick dicks.

That's right. Bunch of slick dicks over there, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I wonder if, yeah, because, you know. I think you're right. I mean, also, if they did a canon reset and people liked it in continuity, but if it was bad, then, like, with comics, when they do a bad one, people jump up and down and then they change it back.

Well, because, you know, obviously people really enjoyed Iron Man. Yeah. And, you know, he's become sort of a cultural fixture of that universe. He's famous. Well, he's famous. But like prior to the MCU he was kind of a B-list character in the comic books. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is why he is in this.

But I wonder like if the subsequent like the new phase of characters, like your Ms. Marvels and your new Hawkeye and all that, those characters, if they capture the public imagination as much as the previous generation do, I think it gives the universe enough juice to just keep going. Yeah. But I think if people, I think if this new stuff comes out and people like kind of lukewarm on it,

they might do a reset at some point. Yeah, I think you might be right. But if the, you know, the new, who's coming up next? new stuff comes out and people like kind of lukewarm on it, they might do a reset at some point. Yeah. But if the, you know, the new, who's coming up next? You know, the bloody, the Ms. Marvels. Your Black Widows. Your Black Widows, yeah. Spider-Man again. Spider-Man again, yeah. Doctor Strange.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shang-Chi. Well, yeah, there's an example. There we go. Like if your Shang-Chi does well and is like, you know, seamlessly integrates new hero, new, you know, maybe they put him on the Avengers, then we just keep it going. But if people are like,

this doesn't have the spark of the old stuff, maybe Disney will be like, new Iron Man. We're restarting the continuity. I think they're going to do that anyway. I think they're going to reintroduce a bunch of new characters, which they're doing, and then they're going to be like, and now Iron Man and Captain America are back or whatever. I think it's going to reintroduce a bunch of new characters, which they're doing, and then they're going to be like, and now Iron Man and Captain America are back, or whatever. I think it's going to happen. Yeah, yeah.

Because it makes money. What? Yeah. Is that why they're doing this? No, they're doing it because they love Star Trek Universe. Cool, man. The ones with the powdered wigs and the slick dick universe. Wow. What if they teamed up? Can you imagine? So slippery.

I got one more here from Matt, the Pharaoh Wizard. Hashtag weekly planet pod. That's how you reach the show on Twitter. Hey guys, now that movies are coming back, do you prefer doing movie review episodes or did you like more topic episodes like you did last year? I like both. I like

fluctuating between the two. I don't like when everything is coming out all the time and we just do it week to week. That's annoying for us. Yeah. But I feel it's also like because not everybody can get out to the movies. Yeah, exactly. You know, movies are expensive.

You know, we don't want to be like you won't be able to listen to this episode if you haven't watched the latest thing of the cinema. So I like a mix of both,. So I like a mix of both. I like a mix of both. I like a mix of both. But I like the topic episodes because they're fun as well and you can just kind of spin your wheels and be like, I remember Blade Trinity. I remember

the movie Cellular. Remember Ryan Reynolds' little beard? Do you remember his little beard? I do actually, yes. And that's the show. That's right. That's how we do it here. That's exactly right. Papow. Folks, papow. Thank you so much for listening.

Thank you for telling a friend. Thank you for lying to a friend again to listen to the podcast. Thank you for leaving a nice review. James, you got a nice review? I do. I got two nice reviews here. This is from Dorks of All Trades who says, literally the only good podcast.

Seriously, it's the only thing I listen to. Why would you listen to any other podcast? Why would you Westworld any other podcast? Why would you Westworld any other book? It's like you don't even have a crush on Maid Marian. Put this in your brain and leave it there. This is another five-star review. Great points. All great points. From Tyler is here. I'm getting old.

It's nice to see some people as cynical as I am. Hang loose bras from California. Whoa. Hang loose. It's cool that you're doing that. Yeah, I'm doing hang loose. He's doing hang loose, everyone. Double hang loosen. I don't even know if that's legal in most states, but that's okay.

Are we that cynical or are we just keeping it real? I don't know, man. I don't even. This is just it. Yep. Don't know what to tell you. Yeah. Well.

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I'm obsessed with it. He's obsessed with it, yeah. We're probably going to do Indiana Jones, the first one. Yes. That will be probably next week. Because the Phantom's commentary is out and we're like, this is like a B-list Indiana Jones movie. Why wouldn't we just do the Indiana Jones movies?

Now we are. We're doing at least one. Yeah, that's right. Like we said next – oh, sorry, keep going. Yeah. Go ahead. No, you go ahead. I was just going to say next week, Quiet Place 2.

Oh, that's right. I know people saw that clip of Emily Blunt being like, stop asking me about being Fantastic Four. Did you see that? I didn't see the clip. Apparently in like the wider context it was like it wasn't an aggressive interview but that clip is just like everyone's asking me this, stop asking me about fucking Fantastic Four.

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What? That really bright light? Yeah. I don't like it. It's too bright. I'm shining it. I'm closing my eyes. No, but you have to open them Yeah. I don't like it. It's too bright. I'm closing my eyes. No, but you have to open

eventually. I'll never open them. Huh. See who wins this standoff. I don't like wasting the power, so I'm going to turn it off. Oh, that wasn't a trick.

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