The Weekly Planet - 392 The Tomorrow War & Best Time Travel Methods

Episode Date: July 5, 2021

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The Weekly Planet, The Weekly Planet Gotta change that theme song. Anyway, listen Mason, we're back. And welcome back everybody to another episode of The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. With me as always is my co-host Nick Mason. We're ready to podcast.

Red, red, ready to podcast. What do you say to that? You just said you're a red rooster. I do love red rooster for some Mason. We're ready to podcast. We're red, red ready to podcast. You just had your red rooster. I do love red rooster for some reason. You treated yourself to a red rooster. I think it's a tax dodge, but I don't mind because they have that one thing that I eat. You know what I mean? And there's never anybody in there. Never anybody there. But it's been around for 50 years. I don't get it. You didn't consider

treating yourself to the BTS meal from McDonald's? What is that? It's a meal at McDonald's, but it's been created by the K-pop superstars from BTS. Oh McDonald's? What is that? It's a meal at McDonald's, but it's been created by the K-pop superstars from BTS. Oh, I didn't know that. Get a load of this meal, James. You ready for it? Because you used to work at McDonald's.

That's why I don't eat really. So this is going to blow your mind. Okay, you ready for this? A serve of chicken McNuggets. Yeah. A serve of fries. Okay. A soft drink of your choice.

Yep. Two sauces. That's the meal. That's the BTS meal from McDonald's. Do you choose the sauces? No, they're two predetermined sauces. That sucks. Cajun and something else. That's the worst.

I love it. Why? I love it. You can just order that. No, I know, but that's why I love it because it's the most cynical marketing thing ever created and it's been foisted on like the the nicest most earnest fans of anything ever because like unless they don't like you and then they will destroy yeah they'll destroy you but like bts fans are like you know they they're like oh my god that

bts have created this meal for us yeah clearly mcdonald's have just gone to bts and have been like here's 10 million dollars and then bts have said whatever you should eat at mcdonald's hey bts fans eat at mcdonald's which is why i just don't even get a key ring nope you don't get a you don't get a it's like not in a special box you don't get a collectible cup some of the boxes have like a color to them it's like purple but not all of them do that's insane i've had a lot of the bts meal i haven't you. But you probably have. I have, in the sense that I've eaten a lot of McDonald's McNugget meals, yeah. They say BTS is like

the cheat code for the marketing industry. Now you just plug BTS in and people are like, yes, please. Oh, really? I also think it's probably nuggets because nuggets would be the easiest. Like international. And you don't have to make the burger. Oh, you just chuck them in or whatever. And they know they're going to be inundated with BTS fans.

Exactly. And they just make it happen. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I used to be able to tell how many nuggets were in a box by just holding it. I could tell the weight of it. Wow. I'd be like, that's six.

Wow. That's five. That's not enough. I could do that. I wonder if I still could. Let's test it. Okay. Next week.

On YouTube. Yeah, because this week, Mason. We're going to put a single McNugget under your mattress and see if you can feel it. So we're going to be talking about some Black Panther news. Yeah. We're going to be talking about Tarantino's last movie and whether Brad Pitt killed his wife in that movie. Oh, yeah.

Oh, of course, in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. We'll just do this now, but there was some leaked promo stuff for The Flash and Batman's in it, whatever. That's it. That's all we're going to cover. The Many Saints of Newark, some Optimus Primal news for the next Transformers, He-Man Revelations trailer,

some weird WandaVision alterations, which you may have heard of. I have. There's a spin-off in the works for Fast and Furious, another one. What? This is new news to me. I'm excited for this.

I know. Good Omens, season two, Star Wars Visions, and then we're going to talk a bit about, I'm going to say Edge of Tomorrow. It's not what it's called. It's called Chris Pratt Falls into a Portal. I mean, you figure it out. You figure it out.

What's it called? I was going to say. Tomorrow War. The Tomorrow War, yes. Okay. And also, if you don't want to watch the Tomorrow War or if you don't have Amazon Prime that it's on or you have zero interest in it,

after that we're going to determine definitively what is the best movie or TV time travel device. Agreed. There's a lot of them, so we probably won't rank them, but we're just going to I love that you've done this. We're going to figure them out. I've got a system. It're going to do it. There's a lot of them so we probably won't rank them but we're just going to. I love that you've done this.

We're going to get all that. We're going to figure them out. I've got a system. It's going to be great. We don't have that much to say about Tomorrow When The War Began. Yeah. The book or the movie or this movie. Yeah.

But, yeah, there's time codes if you want to jump around. But, yeah, time travel, that's where it's at. So the Diz Insider Mason. That's the slogan for the Tomorrow War, time travel, it's where it's at. So the Diz Insider Mason. That's the slogan for the Tomorrow War. Time travel. It's where it's at. So the Diz Insider. Big wink. Yeah.

They've claimed that in Black Panther, Wakanda Forever, that's going to feature a war between the Wakandans and the Atlanteans. Oh. Two technologically advanced hidden and ancient societies. And Charles Murphy from Murphy's Multiverse has also said the movie's going to have Namor. The submariner himself.

Namora. The Marvel Aquaman. That's right, exactly. Namora. Lady Marvel Aquaman. That's right. And Atuma, who's the bad guy or whatever. It's not Atuma.

Thank you, there we go. Et cetera and so forth. All of those jokes. Just think of all those jokes. I did. Everyone can think of one. Yeah, just run it through your head. I thought of the best one.

What is it? I'm not going to tell you. You cut me off so I'm not going to do it. Good. Those bites. What do you think about that though? I think that's great. Yeah.

Okay. It's interesting that they've gone with Atlantis when DC have gone, you know what, Atlantis is our turf. Stay out of our turf. They must have an idea, right? I mean, they do, but they must have an idea that they think is better than what. Yeah, sure.

And you know what? I wouldn't put it past them if they did. I think there's only one example I can think of where someone did a better version. That's probably Quicksilver. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah. But you know, whatever. They eventually stole him back anyway. That's probably Quicksilver. Yeah, you're probably right. But, you know, whatever. They eventually stole him back anyway.

That's true. I learned recently that Marvel has a Scarecrow in addition to DC having a Scarecrow. What do you mean by – oh, I thought you were like outside the office. Outside the office. They've built a Scarecrow. It's got Stan Lee's face on it. No, it's got Jack Kirby's face. That's scarier.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. It would be. But Marvel had a Scarecrow because I learned from the YouTube channel Casually Comics. Yeah. Scarecrow, the DC Scarecrow wasn't used for like 24 years. And so Marvel was like, we're going to get on this, we're going to get a bloody Scarecrow. Didn't work though, did it?

No. Casually Comics, good channel by the way. Good channel. Yeah. Well worth a watch and or listen. So Quentin Tarantino, he went on the Joe Rogan podcast and he said, Rogan, I've got a lot of opinions. I've got a lot of things to say. I mean, he mostly just bagged out Bruce Lee's wife for like 20 minutes. I did watch the whole thing or listen to it at least.

Is that because in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt's character gets into a fight with an actor portraying Bruce Lee. Yes. And then there's been some controversy over the last couple of years where did Bruce Lee's daughter say? It was Bruce Lee's daughter and he essentially said that like everybody else who like hates this can fuck off.

Like Bruce Lee's daughter is entitled to opinion but he doesn't care what anyone else thinks about it. Okay. What did Rogan think? Well, then they talked about Bruce Lee for quite, this is off topic, for quite a long time, and he basically said how Bruce Lee's wife made a lot of claims and lies about things that Bruce Lee had done which weren't true

after his death. And he basically was just like, she's a liar, and he just did that for 20 minutes, which I don't know whether it's true or not. But I was like, this is a lot for a man who's dead, who died like 40 years ago. Yeah. But anyway, him and Rogan got onto what his last movie might be

and he said... Because Tarantino has famously said he's only going to do... Only doing 10. He's going to do books and plays and he's even considered redoing Reservoir Dogs, but like with all the stuff that he's learnt since. He's going to build a Magic the Gathering deck. He's going to invent his own.

Maybe. These all have the N word on them. This is not cool. I know. I've got Django Zorro, and I do want to read that as well, but he wrote that, didn't he? I don't know. I can't remember.

I've read it, but I don't remember if he wrote it. So he said, though, there's a good chance it could be Kill Bill 3 with Uma Thurman and Maya Hawke, who is her daughter, with Ethan Hawke. Because if you remember Kill Bill 1 or 2, there's some people left alive and maybe the children of some people that she killed that might come back. Because she kills one of the, what are they called, the Striking Vipers or whatever they are?

Something like that, yeah. She kills one of them in front of her daughter. And then it's like, you should fight me in 20 years if you can. Probably will. Yeah. So, look, part of me's like, you should fight me in 20 years if you can. Probably will. Yeah. So look, part of me is like, I want to see that, but also maybe the other, maybe just whatever. I don't know.

Maybe rude Star Trek. He's going to do rude Star Trek. He's going to do rude Star Trek. Bracket Star Trek, but rude. Yeah. So he also released his book Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and here's a spoiler. What is that? Is that a novel or is it a screenplay?

Essentially he, and I think you can relate to this because you're an auteur, and you've also, you're a big fan of Rogan, that you just want to sit down and just hash some shit out like men, you know what I mean? So he was a big fan growing up of novelisations of popular films, which I was as well as a kid and I don't know if you were. I think you were as well. So he's essentially created.

Alan Dean Foster. That's right. He's essentially created like a novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Has somebody ghost written it or he wrote it? No, he wrote it. Okay. And it's kind of based around the idea that a lot of the times, you know, the author would get like an earlier script and so there's extended scenes

and things that don't line up with the movie. Yeah. So there's like a whole bunch of extra stuff in there including, and spoiler alert if you don't want to know, there's a time code for the next thing if you're doing a leap ahead. Whether or not Brad Pitt's character killed his wife or not. And yes, he did. Oh.

He did murder his wife. My goodness. And he's killed a bunch of people. He also, actually to get back to the Bruce Lee thing, he got stuck on that idea of how Brad Pitt won that fight against Bruce Lee. And it's interesting how he came to that, and I get it. But it's also like this is fictional. So he's like, yeah, this guy could definitely be Bruce Lee.

I'm like, yeah, this guy you invented. I guess he could. I don't fucking know. So anyway, that's where it's at. Well, the funny thing is about Brad Pitt's character is if he's kicked by a man named Bruce, every time that happens he gets ten times more powerful. Oh, really?

Yeah. I didn't know that. And he gets taller, doesn't he? He gets taller and more powerful, yeah, yeah, and he gets more invulnerable to the kicks. So, you know, it's no wonder he could beat Bruce Lee in a fight because we invented him to know that. And he gets taller, doesn't he? He gets taller and more powerful. Yeah, yeah. And he gets more invulnerable to the kicks. So, you know, it's no wonder he could beat Bruce Lee in a fight because we invented him to do that specifically. Anyway, if you want to check out the Broggan podcast,

you definitely can. It's linked below. If you're a Rogan-eer like we are. No, Broggan. If you're a Broggan-eer, you're one of the Broggan-eers. So there you go. Yeah, that's interesting. I like the idea of, idea of the additional scenes added on

Apparently it's good, the book So they're not scenes that were in the original script that were cut He's invented them I think some were Either way, that's pretty interesting But also, it does definitely and again, I haven't read it yet

but knowing more about Brad Pitt's character in that it feels like it would change your viewing of the film. Yes, definitely. Interesting. Yeah. I didn't love that movie. We did an episode on it.

I mean, I've only seen it once. Yeah, I'd be like some of his movies I don't like and I didn't like as much and then I revisit and I really enjoyed them. It's sort of fascinating to the degree to me that it was just like driving around in Hollywood and we're enjoying looking at all the old-timey sights and then everybody gets their head smashed through a wall. With a can of soup or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, again, we've done an episode. So there was a trailer for The Many Saints of Newark. It's supposed to be New York though, right? It's supposed to say New York? No. You said it wrong.

No, I don't believe so. You said it wrong in the trailer. I don't believe that's true, no. What's this, though, when it's at home, Mason? Well, this is the prequel to the Sopranos TV series. The Sopranos. It's going to be a whole episode of this, is it? It's going to be all this.

Well, I love it. Yeah, you've seen every episode? Yeah, I think so. I've got to watch it. It's a good show. I've seen bits and pieces, yeah. I hope the Mini Saints in Newark is just going to be solo style. They're going to explain how he lost his hair.

They're going to explain all his catchphrases. They're going to explain why he twirls his fork before he eats pasta. Oh, yeah, yeah. Interesting. They're going to develop it all. So speaking of interesting, I said that. It's James Gandolfini's son. Yeah. And a bunch of people who are involved in the TV series

because obviously James Gandolfini passed in early 2010s maybe. Something like that. Yeah. So as someone who's not seen it and is not a fan, this still looked interesting to me. So I think I'm going to have to get this show, just mainline it with those two black bars down the side of my TV. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Get through them all. Maybe mainline it two episodes at a time. I'll do it. That'll fill in those black bars if you just watch two episodes. Can I stretch it out so it's all stretched and squished? Yeah. Yeah, I'll do it. Yeah.

I'll do it. James Gandolfini, whiter than ever. Yes, please. He's a real talent, that bloke. Yep. A lot of people think that. I also think that. Whoa.

Yeah. I don't mind saying it. Is there any more Dexter news? I say that only because we've got Yv. I also think that. Whoa. Yeah. I don't mind saying it. Is there any more Dexter news? I say that only because we've got Yvonne Strahovski in the Tomorrow War. Yes, Tomorrow and the War Began. Yeah. Yes, the Trinity Killer will return. Whoa.

Who was played by John Lithgow. Yeah. And again, spoiler, you can jump ahead in a time code. I was like, didn't he die? He was like, yeah, he was beaten to death. So he's going to be a mind ghost, I'd imagine. Yeah, I imagine he's a mind ghost or a dark passenger. I hate mind ghosts.

Get out of here, mind ghosts. You want to have him show up for real in Defiance of All Logic in the timeline. Just have him show up. Whatever. I don't care. Speaking of Defiance of All Logic, the next Transformers movie is Beast Control or whatever it's called.

Sure. It's going to have, we talked about it last week. Tomorrow when the beasts began. Yes, it's going to have. Do people know what we're talking about? It's a series of like young adult novels in Australia. There's a war starts in Australia. They get invaded by a vague Asian nation.

Yeah. Asian-ish, I guess. And yeah, there's many of them. You have to read. You probably have to read one for school. Yeah, you would. Well, you did two decades ago. In the 90s, yeah.

They made a movie and then they made a series more recently. And I think every now and then he'll write another book. Anyway, Ron Perlman is going to voice Optimus Primal is my point. That's cool. What do you think of that? I like it. You said it's cool. And speaking of the 80s, we've got another trailer for He-Man Revelations,

which is a sequel of sorts to original he-man yeah original recipe yeah i saw i saw a trailer breakdown with kevin smith oh yeah and he uh yeah he's very excited i don't know if you you can imagine kevin smith and yeah he he uh he was it was like it's gonna be like the next episode of the tv series like yeah but like like i think we said in previous weeks, it's how you remember the series being. He wants it to look like how you remember it being, which I think is, you know. I heard somebody complaining that they changed Man at Arms to Woman at Arms,

but I don't know whether that's true or not. I'm just looking into that. Maybe people are upset. I'll tell you one thing. I looked at the cast list. Also, who cares? It's a terrible show. I dare you to watch it.

Well, that's the thing. Like the part of this breakdown was like, oh my God, we're going to honor. They haven't. Yeah. They're like, we're going to honor the legacy of this cut. And it's like, it was a 22 minute toy commercial every morning. That's what it was. It was just drilling purchase commands into our brains.

But I did look at. No, they're Liam Cunningham who played davos in uh game of thrones is man yeah i looked up the cast list because i was interested and it got because we got mark hamill as uh as uh skeletor and etc but playing moss man is a is an actor named alan oppenheimer and i'm like that's an interesting last name i wonder if he's related in any way to robert oppenheimer the creator of the father of the atomic bomb and. And so I went to Google and I put his name in, and of course people have asked the question already, so I clicked on the little tab.

It says, is Alan Oppenheimer related to Robert Oppenheimer? And it says here, he is the third cousin of scientist Robert Oppenheimer. Woo! Oppenheimer's voice he used for Seaspray was virtually the same he used for Merman on the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon. Good to know. That's from tfwiki.net, the Transformers wiki. But great, good info dump there.

That's good stuff. Roboto was in it, played by Justin Long. Remember him? He had like that, he's mad at gears and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fuck yeah. All the greats. Yeah, all the greats.

Yeah. Anyway, looking forward to it, I think. No, I am. This news comes. Oh, Lena Headey's evil in. Yes. All-star cast. Good cast. Except for the He-Man. I don't know who Chris Williams is. No, I don't know news comes... Oh, lean ahead. He's evil in. Anyway. All-star cast. Good cast.

Except for the He-Man. I don't know who Chris Williams is. No, I don't know him either. But, you know, he sounds enough like him. Or, if he doesn't, I don't know. I don't remember what He-Man sounds like. He did a lot of this. But it's good to see Griffin Newman is Orko.

Griffin Newman? He is the tick. He's not the tick. He's Arthur on the tick. Oh, I like that. He's also one of the hosts of the Blank Check. The new one. Yes, and he's also the host of the Blank Check podcast.

I really liked the tick. Yeah, me too. The new tick. Why did you cancel on Amazon? You have infinite money. Right. You made a Chris Pratt future movie. Bring him back a tick.

Bring him back a tick. I think if Tick Out had come out now, they probably would have kept making it. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Anyway, this is from Reddit user NotACoolGuy. He noticed something interesting in WandaVision. So apparently they've redone a lot or some of the post-credits of the last episode. They've added some stuff?

They've added some spooky goings-on in the background? I thought this was something that they changed, like they got rid of, but it's something they added. It looks like a silhouette of a person floating down through the trees in like a cloak. I did see, I didn't go back and watch it on Disney+, but I did see the clip attached to one of these, and I'm

like, is that something? I don't... It definitely is the outline of something. If it was going to be anybody, it would be Doctor Strange, because there's also, they've added to the credits, Michael Giancino is now accredited for the Doctor Strange theme, and that's also an addition. But, like, it feels like something they would

have put in and then taken out. Like, they originally put in Doctor Strange, and then did a very quick cut and paste, got rid of him, and then later altered the scene so he wasn't in it at all and you couldn't see anything. And yet it's the opposite of that. And I just think why would they – is this a mistake? What is this?

Well, see, I don't know how it could be a mistake because then – because why would it be on the Disney Plus server? Yeah. And why would they swap it out? I mean – Robert Swappenheimer. Oh. The creator of the Swappic Bomb.

The Swappic Bomb. Just swaps people around. You get confused. I don't like that. Yeah, right? You're wearing someone else's clothes. Bomb drops. You're like, your wife's like, when are you picking up the kids?

And you're like, I thought you were going to pick up the kids. Divorced. Oh, no. Swappenheimer. kids and you're like i thought you were going to pick up the kids divorced oh no yeah swap an island but um maybe it's the thing that you said where maybe they he was in it originally they digitally wiped him out and then they're like we got this we got this stuff yeah let's just put it in let's let's spike the let's enhance the viewing of this let's get people to watch it again yeah i just chucking a thing in that we have. You get, you know, people

get hyped for the next thing. You're right, actually. I've fallen for marketing yet again. What if they slowly put Doctor Strange in it? Like, what if over the course of several weeks or months, they keep adding bits and then all of a sudden he's in it? That would be cool. That would be a magic

trick. That was like a little Spanish dance that you did there. It was supposed to be a little magic Spanish dance, but all right. Felt right. Yeah. So, yeah, anyway, there you go. Do you love Vin Diesel? Yes.

Talking to Variety. More than anything. Good, because he says they're working on a – More than this bit of string you've left on here that I can't stop playing with. Yeah, it's good, isn't it? What's this bit of string you've left on here that I can't stop playing with? Yeah, it's good, isn't it? They're working on a potential spin-off film for the character of Cypher.

Which one's? Oh, that's Charlize Theron's character. Very good. I wanted to see if you, because I had to look it up. First, they went Guy from the Matrix? They're bringing in the Guy from the Matrix? Speaking of the Matrix, Looney Tunes. We could talk about that. Let's quickly talk about Fast and Furious.

Do you want to see Cypher's? Nope. Not interested. Why? Are they trying to make her a good guy? I mean, they invariably make them all good guys, but I mean, surely there's another character more interesting. Surely you'd get bloody John Cena's character.

He would be more suitable for her. Cypher doesn't do anything. She just sits in a room. In a box, the last one she did. I don't know. I don't know what they're doing. I mean, haven't they talked about an all-female Fast and Furious movie? Maybe that.

Do that. Maybe Charlize Theron just has a better agent than John Cena. Wow. Yeah, that's right. I didn't know that. Anyway, let's talk about Space Jam and New Legacy. We weren't going to. Yeah.

You sent me some clips this week. Did I? No, I sent you Space Jam clips. It's true. Yeah, you've been sending me a series of Space Jam clips. Did we? And I think there's obviously the granny does the. Does the rap.

No, the granny does the Matrix. Oh, does the Matrix. Does the Matrix. Which I think we predicted, but you maintain we the secreted into existence. We made it manifest by thinking too much about it. I don't know whether we said it on the show or we just thought it or we think we invented it. Yeah. But, yeah, the granny does the matrix.

I bet the granny does the matrix trinity kick, and she does. They put it in there. If we did that, can you please let us know if we actually said this on the show? If we said that, yeah. Because that – I mean, obviously they didn't hear this and then put it in. No, but it's a case of, I would say parallel thought,

but also a case of on this podcast, what we do is some information goes into our brain and then we just say the first thing that comes to mind, and that's what they've done. Yeah. Swappenheimer. These people with $100 million to burn have just done the first thing they could think of. They're like, should we think any harder about this?

No. I didn't predict that Speedy Gonzalez was going to be there. No, you didn't predict that. That's true. What a team up. Second pass. There we go. And then you sent me another clip of Porky Pig doing a rap.

Where the comments are turned off. So, yeah, the comments have been turned off. And fair enough. Here's what I think. a rap where the comments are turned off so what yeah the comments have been turned off and fair enough um i this here's what i think i think that uh i've gone to sleep one day and warner brothers has put a device in my brain that's read my thoughts and built a movie filled with everything that i don't like they've they've specifically gone what's what are the what what's what are his least favorite things are a comedy cartoon rap yeah put that in just a just a lazy matrix just the laziest matrix just throw it in who cares no

thought this will make him upset yeah and has it yes oh because well it's it ordinarily it wouldn't yeah but because i just wouldn't watch it, but I have to. This feels very Truman showy. They're like, let's get him. Let's get him and see how he reacts in public. I hate it. I love it.

And you were like, oh, the rap was written by this guy. And I'm like, who? I had to look it up. I don't know who that guy is. What was his name? Like Murph or something? I can't remember. I'll find it. But, I mean, if you were like,

this is the last rap MF Doom wrote before he died or something, I'd be like, oh, I'm on board with that. But they do the full rap, but it's not great, is it? No. Yeah. Murs is the guy who wrote the rap. Good on you, Murs. Good on you, Murs.

I think he's after my time. You know, make money. Well, he's after my time. You know, make money. Well, he was actually born before you. But yeah, there you go. Wow. Heck of a thing. Heck of a fucking thing, mate. Heck of a thing.

Neil Gaiman. Yeah, go on. Off the back of saying they're not going to do Good Omens season two. They're doing Good Omens season two? And he's involved? He is. So I can read out his statement. Please. It's been 31 years since Good Omens season two? And he's involved? He is. So I can read out his statement. Please.

It's been 31 years since Good Omens was published, which means it's 32 years since Terry Pratchett and I lay in our respective beds in a Seattle hotel room at the World Fantasy Convention and plotted the sequel, Gaiman said. I got to use bits of the sequel in Good Omens. That's where our angels came from. Terry's not here any longer, but when he was, we had talked about what we wanted to do with Good Omens and where the story went next.

And now thanks to the BBC studios and Amazon, I get to take it there. I can't say I'm upset by this because I liked Good Omens a lot. Yeah. I saw a comment that was like, what, so you're just going to make it up or whatever? And he's like, the first one was made up. Yeah, I made it up. Yeah. How do you think this works?

I mean, yeah, again, like having Terry Pratchett like not be alive. Yes. Yeah, that is, you know, that sucks. Yeah. I mean, if they had an idea and he thinks he can pull it off, why not? Yeah, exactly, yeah. People liked it as well. I mean, it was, you know, I know people have just watched it nonstop

since it came out. People are big fans. Oh, wow. People are cosplaying. People nonstop since it came out. People are big fans. People are cosplaying. People are doing all sorts of stuff. They're loving it. David Tennant, they say to themselves. They say David Tennant. Me and Michael Sheen have that show where they Zoom each other.

I didn't watch it. You watched it. You liked it, didn't you? Yeah, cool. What do you think of David Tennant's long hair? Love it. Here we go. Have you got more opinions?

Here we go. That's all I have. Sorry. Here we go. Yeah. Oh, you got more opinions? Here we go. That's all I have. Sorry. Here we go. No, that's all I got. Cool. Yeah. I mean, if they've already got the plot outline for a sequel, why not?

Why not? Yeah. Is this because they didn't make it into a book before it's a TV series and so it's not legitimate or whatever? Yes. Shut up, idiots. Shut up, idiots. Yeah.

Everything's made up. And also, Neil Gaiman is sort of broken through to TV and movies now, which is a much harder sell, I would imagine. So why not send it directly to TV? Why not? Why not? He's doing books. He's doing TV.

He's doing Sandman. He's doing that American Gods show that isn't going well, apparently. I think that could cancel. Yeah, it's done. Okay. I watched the first one when it came out, and then I didn't watch the rest of it. Maybe I will one cancel. It's done. I watched the first one when it came out and then I didn't watch the rest of it. Maybe I will one day. Maybe you should.

Last bit of news, Star Wars Visions. We got a look, a very early look where they talked about this manga-inspired series. But as I know, as a guy who knows everything about anime, this is technically anime. It's not manga. I can't believe nobody involved in this production has picked up on it. I think everybody probably has.

Then why do they keep saying Manga? The thing I read said Anime. Okay, good. Well, the thing that I watched didn't. I think they're shorts, but they're coming in September. It's a variety of different animation. It's going to be different animation. It looks pretty cool. It does look cool. I like the idea of this.

It could be a situation where something... It's coming, it's going to be nine episodes. Okay. I just looked it up on the Wikipedia. Nice. And that maybe we'll get some live action stuff at some point. I think it's like a Legends-esque kind of, you know,

situations where what if this happened? What if? Yeah, what if it did? What if, James? Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, but what if? Specifically tell me how. It's interesting. Oh, no, that is interesting. It's interesting, Mason. I if, James? Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, but what if? Specifically, tell me how. It's interesting. Oh, no, that is interesting. It's interesting, Mason. I agree, I agree.

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Oh, yeah, then definitely. That's right. And our data probably won't be used against us. But using the internet... You mean our model data from Star Trek that we own collectively together? That, and also online our data or data as I call it. But using the internet without ExpressVPN,

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Didn't everyone work for the joy of it? The Federation doesn't use currency, but other... That's a trick, right? Probably, yeah. You just get people to work for free to just wipe out alien nations for nothing? Yep. So you can play poker with the captain.

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Tomorrow when the war began. Go on. Chris Pratt. He's in the future. This was supposed to go to- I mean, he's in the future, but then he's further into the future. He's going to go even further. Because the present day stuff is set in 2022.

Yes, yes. Which at the time of recording is not now. The future. I just checked the clock. Are you correct? The podcast machine we record on continues to not say that. That's right. I mean, to be fair, it doesn't have the date on it.

No, it doesn't have any of that. I have no idea what's going on. I don't even know if it's working. Check your weather widget. See if that'll tell you the date. I turned it off. Okay. People sent me the thing of how to turn that thing off.

I appreciate that on my computer machine. Anyway, this was supposed to go to movies, which makes sense because it's budgeted and it looks like a movies, doesn't it? It mostly looks like a movies. But it ended up going to Amazon Prime. They ended up buying it during the pandemic. And what we got here is like a blend of like Edge of Tomorrow, Starship Troopers, ID4, Aliens, The Thing.

There's a bit of all of that in it. What do you think the story was? Okay, hang on. So Chris Pratt. Yep. He's a teacher. Yep. But he used to be a cool Green Beret man.

Yeah. And then there's the halftime show at the football game gets pretty hectic. Soccer for our American listeners. That's right. It gets very hectic because there's big sparkly lights and a bunch of people show up and they're like, hey, we're from the future, 30 years in the future. And in the future, tomorrow

when the war began, these aliens showed up and they killed us all. And so we're going to draft all of you to go into the future and fight this war that's not going well at all. Anyway, just come along then. You're going to fucking hate it by the way. I mean, yeah. It's no good.

It's the worst. We can't show you it at all, but it's bad. You're going to hate it. But if we showed you it, you'd hate it even more. So we figured by not showing you anything about the war, you'll be like, love it, let's get in there. I'm happy to go. And anyway, Chris Pratt's like, well, thank God I haven't been drafted.

But then he does get drafted. Yeah. Then he goes to the future and there's a war. There's a war. And he's among it. Yeah, he's getting amongst does get drafted. Yeah. Then he goes to the future and there's a war. There's a war. And he's just, he's among it. Yeah. He's getting amongst it. Yeah.

Yeah. What I think, first of all, I know it's got a bit of hate. It's pretty good. You know what I mean? It's all right. I thought it was pretty okay. It's like TV good for a movie on TV. You know what I mean?

Yeah. For a streaming service I have already and it was on, I'm like even if I saw this at cinemas, I don't think I would have walked away like upset by this. Are you being tricked by the all-star cast, James? Maybe, I don't know. Because we've got Chris Pratt. Yes. We've got Betty Gilpin as his long-suffering wife.

By the way, more Betty Gilpin in this place. It's a bit Betty Gilpin-like. It's Betty Gilpin-like. If you don't mind me saying so. We've got Yvonne Strahovski from Chuck. Yep. And that season of Dexter. Two seasons of Dexter.

And Handmaid's Tale. Yeah, that's right. We got the guy who's the MC at that baby competition in I Think You Should Leave. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bart Harley. The guy who's always booing Bart Harley Jarvis. He's in it. We've got Just Kidding Simmons.

Yep, Just Kidding Simmons is in this as a hard drinking, hard plane repairing man. We've got Mary Lynn Rice Cub. Yep. I wonder if they weren't sure whether this was going to be an action movie or an action comedy when they started making it. Sam Richardson is in it as well, who I really like, yeah. Did you mention him already? I don't know. Yeah, cool. this was going to be an action movie or an action comedy when they started making it. Sam Richardson is in it as well, who I really like, yeah.

Did you mention him already? I don't know. Yeah, cool. But you're right, yeah, it's a comedic cast of characters. It is kind of a comedic cast. So you didn't love it? Well, I think my issues with it will be covered in spoilers, so we'll talk about it then, I think. Do you want to just do that now?

No, let's talk about what is good about it. Fine. Special effects, are they pretty good? Really good, I think. Do you want to just do that now? No, let's talk about what is good about it. Fine. Special effects, are they pretty good? Really good. I think the creature design is excellent. Oh yeah, because it's an alien type creature. One of the things I didn't like about an Edge of Tomorrow

situation was that it's a weird, boogly, shapeless kind of thingamajig that can kind of... Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good movie movie and better than this. But I liked the solid design of it and the sound design and it's shooting stuff and it's got tentacles and whatever. But it's also like how you kill them is strange.

It's like, no, you've got to cut their neck or shoot them in the feet or something. It's like... Sure, yeah, yeah. You need to be clear on what this is. You've got a machine gun, their head off, I gently tickle them under the armpits, otherwise they won't die.

Yeah, and it's kind of like... Sometimes you can end it with 200 bullets and then they're fine. Yeah, or that's more out of problem. Shoot their head off. Yeah, sometimes they die instantly,

sometimes, you know, they wouldn't, I don't know. But I think one of the most unrealistic things about this movie is an American household having a massive soccer party. Yeah, that was weird, wasn't it?

I thought, because in the trailer I'm like, this must be a Super Bowl situation. Yeah. But here's a question for you. If you were watching the big game, the big soccer game, maybe it was the FIFA World Cup.

The big association football match. Maybe it gets huge in 2022 in the US. Maybe. I mean, it's growing in popularity every day. David Beckham moved to the LA Galaxy. Sure did. Yeah, Mason. Yeah.

I'll have you know. Anyway, it hits- Vinnie Jones is a soccer hooligan turned Hollywood movie star. It's true. Anyway, so Ted Lasso is popular now. Yeah, that's right. Have you seen that yet? Not yet, no.

It's good you watch it. Okay. Anyway, so you're watching the big game. All of a sudden, there's a big light show, and people walk out of the lightning and smoke with guns and combat gear. and people walk out of the lightning and smoke with guns and combat gear. And so how long from then would you have to, would you be, would it take you to be convinced that this isn't some Red Bull marketing campaign?

I'd have to be in the time machine. I'd have to be in the future, I think, being mauled by a monster. Up until that point, because what happens is you get drafted and they put a device on your arm it's like a like a gauntlet kind of thing and that when they activate the time machine it doesn't matter where you are but you get time machined into the future yeah and then you have to be you have to you're in the future for a week and then you get teleported back and you're gone from the present for a week and then you show up yep yeah a week later and then your tour of duty is over. You have to survive by then.

Yeah. So I reckon at the point they're putting the thing on my arm, I'd still be like, no, this is. Even when they're drilling it into you. Yeah, I'd still be like, no, this is, I'm going to be. You've gone a bit far, but I love a fun viral marketing. Yeah, this is going to get me access to the after party, I reckon. Or a special Red Bull fridge.

Yeah, that's right. Yes, exactly. You could use it as 7-Eleven. get me access to the after party i reckon or a special red bull fridge yeah that's right yes exactly we're all gonna yeah we're all gonna we're all gonna swipe at the big the big red bull fridge and if it goes green and the fridge opens and you get fifty thousand dollars and a year's worth of red bull or whatever i'd still be like no this is they're making this up and it'd only be when i'm being torn to shreds by the monster i'd be like oh maybe because even if i'm gone in the future i'd still be like did they knock maybe, because even if I'm gone in the future, I'd still be like. Did they knock me out? Is this a set? I don't know.

Yeah, you're right. But you're absolutely right, yeah. Because also they don't show anybody the aliens on purpose because they're like, you're going to fucking hate this, so we're not going to show you or even tell you how to defeat these things. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of stuff in this where I'm like, that's dumb.

It's a dumb thing. I think they're fairly cannily built the time travel mechanic so there isn't really time for any training. So how it works is there's a fixed point in the future and when they – sorry, they've built a time machine in the future and when they activate the time machine, it can transport people exactly 30 years into the future.

So it's like a fixed window. Yeah, but as we move forward in time, the way you get dropped also moves forward. So it's always exactly 30 windows, 30 years from wherever you are. Does that make sense? Yeah. So they can't, for example, go into the past, train people for 20 years and have them sent back into the future because then it would be 20 years further in the future and presumably everybody would be dead

so it would be pointless. So if you turn up in cargo shorts and heels, you've fucking gone to the future like that. Yeah, yeah. Like if you turn up in your dressing gown, guess what? You're running from alien monsters in a dressing gown with your butt flapping in the breeze. Does your dressing gown have a butt flap on it? Does yours not? Yes, it does. Do you have a dressing gown? I do. I got a dressing gown with your butt flapping in the breeze. Does your dressing gown have a butt flap on it?

Does yours not? Yes, it does. Do you have a dressing gown? I do. I got a dressing gown. It's good stuff. I'm going to give you a dressing gown, Mason. Whoa, why's that?

You're right. But I think there's some good action scenes in this, which we'll talk more about in spoilers. There's a moment where they tip a helicopter as a bunch of monsters kind of jump towards it. They just get shredded. Because sometimes you can kill them. them sometimes you can sometimes there's a lot sometimes there's four as a weapon i don't know yeah but it felt like the swarms very felt

very starship troopers-esque yeah i felt like i see that's the thing like i kind of felt like i i think the the way they've decided to make this interesting they've gone okay time travel mechanic alien invasion, we'll combine those two things, make it a bit fresher. But I feel like the alien invasion part, that is very, it's just kind of aliens and they've got a queen, there are drone aliens and queen aliens and that's, you know. Oh, totally.

And we have to, if we do this, we can defeat them all, but if we don't, we'll be destroyed. Like it felt very aliens, very Edge of Tomorrow. Oblivion. Oblivion, sure. The movie Oblivion. Sure, sure, sure. I felt that was kind of derivative.

It all felt fine, you know? Can't disagree with any of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think a lot of the, especially the tail end when J.K. Simmons turns up for more J.K. Simmons-ing, that was where I was like, yeah, this is a little bit better than okay. Yeah, okay. Because he's always good, you know what I mean? And there's a fun dynamic that happens at the end.

Anyway, let's do spoilers. Okay, I'm going to say best movie ever just because. TV, though. Best movie ever, asterisk, TV. Underlined TV, bold underlined TV. You wouldn't get this 10 years ago on TV. No, definitely not. No fucking way would something like this exist.

But if I saw this at the movies, I'd go, this was probably still fine, I guess. Yeah, I'm just taking what the budget on this was because it looked pretty expensive. Also, we got Michael Mitchell. Chris McKay directed this as well, and he did the Lego Batman movie and a bunch of other stuff. Mike Mitchell is one of the hosts of the podcast dough boys oh the review chain restaurants 200

million dollars a lot of money too much yep anyway spoilers um spoilers okay here's the thing is i've lost completely lost my train of thought now good ah i'm about to give you a dressing down oh no what was what was the thing i objected to? Time travel, aliens, queens, come back from the future. You do your thing and then I'll think of it. Okay, I was going to say, so essentially they go into the future and Chris Pat meets his daughter, played by Yvonne Strzok-Muskovsky. Yes, yes. And she's like, you're my dad and, like, you are cool, but no, you suck.

Yeah. You suck ass. Yeah, and your butt is flapping in the breeze and I do not like it. And she's like, you came back from the tomorrow when the war began and something had happened and you were all PTSD'd and you weren't a good father and you divorced and then you died in a car accident. Yeah, so one of the reveals we find out is the reason a lot of people

are being drafted to be sent into the future is because they have died before that event. You can't go to the future if you're going to exist in the future. Yeah, so we know he died. Parallels? Parallels, who knows. So in 2020, the present day stuff is set in 2022. He died in 2030.

Yeah. And then the future stuff is in 2051. Yes. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I remember the thing. Okay, here we go. But I've lost it again. Oh, yeah, no, I remember that.

Okay, so the thing that I object, the thing that I found odd was at the end of the movie, the end of the second act, I guess, Chris Pratt comes back from the future. Yep. He's, you know, he's like, it's good to be back and I'm sad. The future's going to be back and I'm sad. The future's going to be, my daughter's, I want to go back. She got obliterated.

Got obliterated. The time travel isn't working. It's not working anymore because the aliens blew it up or whatever. She looks like she fell into one of those Renaissance paintings. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was very much that situation. And then he and his wife are like, hey, wait a minute. We've figured it out. What if they didn't arrive in the future?

They arrived in the past and we find where they are? What if you know someone who knows about volcanoes? First of all, how did nobody else think of this? Because when they started attacking in Russia, where did they come from? My first thought was probably they were already there. I didn't think aliens. Nobody saw a comet land? Yeah, I think I was like, well, maybe they're subterranean creatures, Yeah. I didn't think aliens. Nobody saw a comet land?

Yeah, I think I was like, well, maybe they're subterranean creatures, something, I don't know. Maybe they're experiments or something like that. But I'm like, maybe they've already been here because that's. So you're saying that nobody on this planet, nobody in the past or the future had that thought at all. Nobody was a scientist sort of like Chris Pratt and had a kid in their class and knew a lot about volcanoes.

And secondly, then these people who have demonstrably gone to the future to fight aliens, go to their commander of this thing and they're like hey, we think that they might be around and we can stop this. And he's like what is this cockamamie nonsense?

I'm not, what are you, you guys have gone time travel crazy. I don't think, why would that be? Why would that be? I can't believe that. Like, because this government was presented with a bunch of, like, young people that appeared in a light show at a soccer game, and they're like, there's a war in the future,

and we're going to send everybody, we're going to make everybody disappear for a week and then maybe bring some of them back. No imagery. You have to draft everybody in the country to this. And they're like, sure thing. Yeah, you're right. But then Chris Pratt's like, we have information from the future

and we've got this toxin that can kill all the aliens. We need to go over here. And they're like, what are you even talking about? What are you, a dumb idiot? We'll believe that drafting everybody into the future. We'll do that without question. We'll just draft everybody into the time war. Even to be like, yeah, just go.

Like take six people and do it. Yes, but then they're like, well, we have to get a team together of just good old boys and a couple of mates and friends and my dad. Get my dad involved. Get my dad. Get dad involved. He's jacked. Yeah.

Yeah. Jacked dad. And it's also like, so I guess depending on how the time travel works in this universe, I thought, and apparently it had like a pretty bleak ending initially, that they were going to go and try and stop this thing and in doing so they would set the events in motion, which would lead to tomorrow when the war began. Yeah, right, right, right.

But they just, they don't. Or maybe it does. It might be a sequel. Well, I feel they left it open enough for a sequel. I mean, the alien did explode and splatter on a rock. But maybe another alien got out there. Yeah, aliens. Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, they find a spaceship and they go in there. And I just enjoyed the last battle with J.K. Simmons and Chris Pratt fighting an alien monster in the snow. His father and son. And so he poisons it at one point. It's not time to make a change. It's time to leave.

But he poisons its arm and it like tears off its own arm to escape and like it's smarter than the others. But even the fact they went into the spaceship and just go, let's just stab all of these egg sacks filled with aliens that might be a bioweapon from a whatever. But they didn't go like, let's kill the main one first. They just went, let's just do any of this and just see how it goes. Find a girl, settle down.

If you want, you can marry. But, you know, J.K. Simmons got to meet his granddaughter or whatever, and that's cool. But, yeah, there was a bit of kind of like hand-waving stuff and then the president or whoever was in charge of the war was like, I did this, this was my decision. This was just like the movie The Thing. Anyone remember that one?

Well, see, there we go. And I imagine at this point it is quite difficult to invent like an iconic alien species that is interesting and isn't derivative of something else. But if you go too far, then probably they won't green light your movie yeah because if you go okay well it's like aliens plus edge of tomorrow people will be like well they made money we should do that but if you're like one of those did well yeah exactly but if you're like okay well it's an alien and it only exists inside your mind because it's just conceptual and it only there's 21 power

dimensions or whatever people will be like this is too much yeah this is too original and we don't like it can you say it's a combination of Aliens and something else? Can you make it grey like Edge of Tomorrow? Right, yeah. And the movie Oblivion. Yeah, like the idea of what an Alien is is kind of, you know, it could be way broader in scope but because they won't give you money to make something unless it's Aliens combined with Die Hard or whatever.

$200 million. Have they done Aliens versus Die Hard? Has Dark Horse done Aliens vs. Die Hard? Has Dark Horse done Aliens vs. Die Hard, the comic book? Great question. Do you want to look in that? Please do. I didn't think so. Find some fan art, though, at least.

Aliens vs. Die Hard. There's articles and stuff, Reddit threads, but no, there doesn't seem. There's just fan posters and whatever. No. There's a 2020 movie called Breach, which came up in my search results, but no. Incredible stuff. Would you watch Alien vs. Die Hard?

Yes, because they're both good at going through air ducts and stuff. That's a really good point. Isn't it, though? That's an interesting, just scuttering through. But again, it's got to be like original recipe John McClane with The Widow's Peak and he's got the wife beater on his. Do you recast? Do you de-age?

You recast, I think. Wow. Yeah. You get Chris Pratt. Wow. Yeah. Give him the widow's peak. Yes.

Have him make a hell of a day of it. Terrific stuff. Yeah, it was, again, it was all right. It was all right. But let's do that time travel thing you wanted to do. Let's do it. Well, I mean, we're talking time travel. Time travel's big, James.

Huge, mate. So I figure we go through some travel time travel's big james huge mate so i figure we we go through some popular time travel mechanics we we hash them out we determine definitively what is the best one if i were to hand you the keys to a time travel device yeah which one would you take wow i got i got a couple of i got a couple of provisos okay we can either use them or completely ignore them all right uh like ease of use yep the scope of the time travel, like where can you go, how can you go, all that sort of stuff. What prospects there are for shenanigans.

Should I be writing this down? No, it doesn't matter. Like what scope do you have for shenanigans? Just having a bit of fun with it. Yeah. And four, can you kill Hitler? Can you go back in time and kill Hitler? Okay.

Because, for example, let's take this as an example. Yeah. Ease of use, pretty easy. You just put the thing on and you can get bread balls out of the fridge. Yeah, but you're limited. You are limited. You just go to a terrible place. You just go to a terrible place, so that's bad.

We don't like that. But it's pretty easy because as soon as it activates, you time travel. You don't have to get into a device or whatever. You're just there. So that's pretty handy. But it also could drop you midair. And it does. I mean, they're like, oh So that's pretty handy. But it also could drop you midair. And it does. I mean, they're like, oh, it went crazy this time around.

That was never explained, was it? No, they just went, something's wrong, and then they just got thrown. I think it happens every time. Yeah, you're probably right. I reckon the main guy. Oh, no, it went crazy. The main guy's never fixed it. He's just like, oh.

And the boss was in that day, and he's like, oh, it's crazy what happened this time. That's why there's so many fatalities. Anyway, and also, fixed point in time. That's why there's so many fatalities. Anyway, and also fixed point in time. You cannot go back and kill Hitler. No. Because it's only exactly 30 years. Because it barely works as it is.

So, yeah, you're not helping those. All right. Here's a popular. I'm combining this. I'll also. Nude rule. So you turn up nude. I'm saying, is there a nude rule involved?

Oh, is that part of it? I feel that heavily weights it. Definitely. So here we go. Bill and Ted and Doctor Who. I'm smashing them together. That's anything. It's anywhere. Anything goes. You can go anywhere. It mostly works. Mostly works. But it mostly works

for the owner. Yes. And I feel like... Oh, you think if I got it, it wouldn't work? Yeah. And I think especially Doctor Who's TARDIS or any TARDISes, TARDI, they seem to have a mind of their own. Yeah. Sometimes they'll take you somewhere because. Because when you think, oh, like I'm going to go

and I'm going to watch Pompeii explode or whatever, that'll be fun. You go there and then you've got to solve a time-based whatever. Every single time I'll be like, are you making me do this? Because Doctor Who's always like, let's go on a fun adventure, but then there's a murder to solve or whatever, or the aliens are going to destroy the world or whatever. I feel like the TARDIS has got a mind of its own and it's constantly trying to get you to do stuff.

I'm not seeing everything that happens because there's in-between stuff. It's like, we're to the planet of the boobs, the big boobs, you know, or whatever. And that was good for some reason. Yeah, but no, I see what you're saying. But I don't think that's what the Bill and Ted's one does, though. No, you just dial in your location. Look, those are both up there. Yeah, I agree.

See, initially I was going to be like the TemPad from Loki is pretty good because, again, you can go anywhere you like. It's pocket-sized. Pocket-sized. Sylvie has seemingly used hers for like maybe thousands of years. You never have to recharge or anything like that. That's true. And that's good.

It can smash, though. It can smash very easily. Or run out of battero. You keep your clothes on. Yep. But also I was thinking about it in terms of the can you kill Hitler. It can smash very easily. Or run out of battero. You keep your clothes on. Yep. But also, I was thinking about it, in terms of the can you kill Hitler, you can kill Hitler, but you don't really kill Hitler. But then a bunch of cops show up.

The cops show up, exactly. Shenanigans are very limited. Yeah. Because anything you do that is slightly outside of what they want you to, at time of recording, because the last couple of episodes of Loki aren't out yet. If you kill Hitler, first of all, Hitler's not really dead in your timeline. He's only dead in a branching timeline.

And then, like you said, the cops show up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, right? And they hit you with evaporation sticks. They hit you with evaporation sticks. They either kill you or- Spoiler alert. They kill you.

Yes. Based on the trailers, they definitely kill you. Okay, here's- I have this one. All right, all right. Here's two that involve the nude rule. Terminator and Terminator 2. No, time traveller's wife.

Oh, yeah, he does have a nude. That sucks, that time travel. Right? He's got a weird genetic abnormality that makes him travel through time. But, like, when he's stressed or randomly and, yeah, it's a nightmare. Yeah, so both of those, you lose your clothes. Yes. Terminator you can sort of control.

Yeah. But you also live in a horrible future war. Does that count? Yeah, I think you've got to factor that in as well. Also, you go somewhere you're not getting back. So that's like a one shot. Unless you build another time machine. Yeah, but you can't.

Yeah, but you can. Like, could you? Yeah. No, you couldn't. They did it once in Sarah Connor Chronicles. They'd already set it up. I'd have a bit of a glance at it before I went in. You'd just see a big coil and a lightning.

And I'd get those at Best Buy. No, I think they're both terrible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the new thing aside. Yeah. And also, the thing about killing Hitler. Yeah. Time Traveler's wife, I mean, you show up at random, obviously.

Yeah, you could definitely kill Hitler if you just happen to land there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the thing about the Time traveller's wife as well, often it might go to a place in your psyche. And I think often you can only, not always, but you go to places you already know. So you won't end up on the other side of the world. That's true.

Yeah, it's a good book. And also, I was going to say with Terminator, you could kill Hitler. Mm-hmm. But it seems in the Terminator universe especially, the further you go back in time, the more likely it is to ruin everything. Yes. I mean, you run the risk here, but sometimes it's funny. Yeah.

With some of these other ones, sometimes it's funny. So, like, if you killed Hitler, probably Skynet wouldn't exist and then the time travel technology doesn't exist. If you could time it properly, you could land in Hitler's bed and just, like, evaporate half of him. Oh, that's true. That's another plus or minus depending on how you feel. The time bubble.

But then you're stuck in Hitler's room. Exactly, yeah, and you've got to pretend to be Hitler for the rest of the war. Oh, no. Yeah, that's right. Speaking of time, speaking of like time traveller's wife, you know, it's time travel but it's also love. What about about time? That's a good one. So it's time travel but it's also love. What about About Time?

That's a good one. So here's the thing. Here's your options. Yeah. You can travel through time. But only in your lifetime. Only in your lifetime. All you have to do, it's pretty convenient because all you have to do is you have to go into like a closet or something.

Close your eyes and think. You clench your fists and you close your eyes and you think really hard about your past and then your consciousness goes back into your body in the past and then you can relive stuff and change stuff. So you can't kill Hitler unless you were born, unless you were capable of wielding a sniper rifle before Hitler. Well, here's the thing though. The butterfly effect also doesn't work so that you can't affect major changes in the universe, which I also think is a good thing.

And you can't get rich. Should we have added that in? No, you can get rich, but it's boring. Yeah, yeah. Like people don't. It's like you've got to find out how it works for you. But I reckon you can time travel. I know you couldn't.

I was going to say because if you grabbed like your dad and then got him to time travel again. Oh, it's a grab your dad situation. I reckon you could. Is there a grab your dad rule for all of these? Because he takes his sister back in time. But I reckon if you told your dad to go back and speak to his dad and then you could go back and kill Hitler that way.

You could do it like telegram style. I guess. But you'd also have to have had an ancestor who could get near Hitler. But here's the other twist, and you may remember this. Once you've had a kid. Yes, yes. You can't go back and change anything from before your child was born. Because you'll get a different kid.

Because you'll get a different kid. So it depends on how much do you care about killing Hitler more than you care about what your kid looks like. Yeah. No, I couldn't do that. I couldn't erase my kids. Yeah, yeah. And plus you'd have to tag your dad or whatever.

Tag my dad. You'd have to be like, because you'd be like, hey, dad, can you, I'm going to, we've got to kill dad. We've't erase my kids. Yeah. Yeah. And plus you'd have to tag your dad or whatever. Tag my dad. You have to be like, cause you'd be like, Hey dad, can you, I'm going to, we've got to kill dad. We've got to kill Hitler. So I'm going to need you to be, are you free on Saturday? Okay. Now you're going to have, we're going to have to go back. We're going to have to contact your dad. Do you think your dad's going to be free on Saturday? I know he's dead currently, but he'll be alive then. So yeah. Okay. You, you want to, you want to, you've, you've liked a YouTube video. You don't want to, okay, you want to click the thumb, Dad.

You don't want to. You know what I like about that one, though, as well? It's low stakes. Yep. It's just you. Yep. So you're not affecting everything else massively. That's true.

And you can just do fun stuff. That's true. Like that's a fun, like no stress situation. And what the character learns. And you learn a lesson. Yeah. And what the character learns, our friend Donal Gleeson, Donut Gleeson, is that what he learns to do, I think,

is that he goes back, once he's finished a day, he goes back to the start of the day and then he goes through it again and he just doesn't worry about it. And he can enjoy it. And then he can just do that. So his life goes like twice as long. But then by the very end, he even stops doing that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he just appreciates Rachel McAdams. Okay. But speaking of British actors and time travel. That's my favourite, yeah. Uh-oh. Red Dwarf. You've got two options. Oh, God.

You've got two options for Red Dwarf. Number one, the time slide. This is the Red Dwarf episode we're doing. Two Red Dwarf episodes. No, I mean because we've got people. Oh, this is the Red Dwarf. This is the Red Dwarf episode we're doing. Two Red Dwarf episodes. No, I mean because we've got people. Oh, this is the Red Dwarf. This is the Red Dwarf episode. Okay, so there's an episode where they discover like a mutated form

of film developing fluid. And if you put it on a photo, you can go back in time to where the photo was taken. You cannot leave the photo. Can you kill Hitler? You probably can kill Hitler because there are pictures of Hitler. So you can just go into a picture of Hitler. And they steal his briefcase bomb.

They actually stop Hitler from being killed. Yeah, they reverse kill Hitler. They steal the bomb that was going to be used to kill Hitler. Yeah. Shenanigans, plenty of rubbish shenanigans. Yeah, yeah. But you cannot leave the frame of the photograph. But you can massively affect events as we discover.

Yes. Because Rimmer lives a whole different life and whatever. Yeah, yeah. Oh, no, sorry, Lister does, yeah. But again, I would say probably still not the best. No, not ideal. The best one. The other one is where they go back to the JFK assassination.

I guess there's three. There's three. Okay, so in season six they discover a time machine and they use it to go back to like the 20th century or the 22nd century, wherever their present day was, and they discover they're still in the present day but in deep space. Yes. Because it's also not a space machine.

It's just a time machine. So that's useless. No, but it's also not because what they technically could do is go back three billion years or however far they are in the future and then do the rest of the journey and you could arrive back on Earth at the time that you left. Yeah, maybe. So it's not technically useless. You'd still have to travel the distance.

Yeah. But you wouldn't do it. You'd still need a hyperdrive. Yeah. And again, eventually Ace Rimmer just has a time machine spaceship. Well, it's only that they end up having a time and space machine where they can visit anywhere in the past and they don't go home with it. I don't understand.

They should have said something like they could only use it like a handful of times they had to do this particular thing. Anyway, whatever. They stopped thinking about it. They sure did because none of those. Okay. Here's the classic. They stopped thinking about it. They sure did because it doesn't, none of those things matter. Here's the classic. A lot of people will put this at number one, but I probably disagree.

Back to the future. Any of the DeLoreans. Oh, it's kind of a shit show, that whole thing, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, you can go any time. Yeah. But you're still in Hill Valley for the most part. Well, it's a time, where you leave, you arrive.

Yes. You have to get up to 88 miles per hour, but you never factor in enough fuel to get home, which is always plutonium. Not always. Sometimes it's garbage. No, that doesn't run the fusion thing, the actual reactor, I think. Anyway, sorry, go on.

Or it does. And you always have to get it up to 88 miles per hour, which is usually not happening. That's a nightmare wherever you land. Anyway, sorry, go on. Or it does occur. And you always have to get it up to 88 miles per hour, which is usually not happening. That's a nightmare wherever you land. Yeah, exactly. Look, I think it's iconic, but it's a bad time machine. Yeah, I agree. You want to station it.

It's the same with the time cop. I mean, you know what? It's better when it flies. Yeah, yeah. Because you're not going to land in the middle of the road. No, that's true. You're probably going to crash another flying whatever. Yeah, that's true.

But it's the same with the time cop machine, which is it's basically the DeLorean, but it's on rails. Right, okay. It's the same thing. You still have to get up flying whatever. Yeah, that's true. But it's the same with the time cop machine, which is it's basically the DeLorean but it's on rails. Right, okay. It's the same thing. You still have to get up to speed. Useless. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's true.

I don't remember the time cop. Yeah, but a lot of people are going to put up the top because it's back to the future. No, and it's like I don't like the time travel rules in that universe where, you know, you might erase your family or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That seems stressful.

And I can't play guitar. That's true. Yes. Okay, how about a few of these, James? Yeah. Let's smash all these together. All right yeah, yeah. That seems stressful. And I can't play guitar. That's true. Yes. Okay, how about a few of these, James? Yeah. Let's smash all these together. All right, all right. Okay.

Oh, actually, I've got four all together. All right, all right. A couple of these I don't know anything about. You can fill me in, I hope. All right. Lost. What's the time travel mechanic in Lost? It's an explosion or something.

Okay, great. It's like one way. Where do you go? You go to the past? You go to the past. Yeah. I don't really remember it, but it's not something. Okay, great. It's like one way. Where do you go? You go to the past? You go to the past, yeah. I don't really remember it, but it's not good. Okay, great. And you're stuck on the island and whatever.

Okay, well, here's three that are all. Okay, heroes. Hero can do. Don't remember. Oh, yeah, he can travel, can't he? He can go anywhere and any when, but it kills you eventually. Because of the power of it or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he has a ponytail. He does have a ponytail, yeah. Yeah, cool. This one also kills you eventually. Because of the power of it or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he has a ponytail. He does have a ponytail, yeah. Yeah, cool. This one also kills you eventually, the butterfly effect. Oh, because you're doing butterfly stuff. Yeah, too many butterflies. You get your mouth filled with butterflies every time you do it. I reckon you could use that sparingly, and it's not a terrible one.

I feel like that and the Domino Gleason one are. They're quite similar, yeah. They're quite similar, except his one doesn't kill you. I kept trying to group these together, but they all overlap a little bit. I mean, one of them you get an aneurysm, so I don't think those should go together. And I think, yeah, the butterfly effect one. One of them you meet Rachel McAdams, one you meet Amy Smart.

That's up to you. Yeah, that's true, yeah. Yeah. I mean, that one seems like a lot of stress. Yeah, well, there's different variations on the ending, but one of them is he strangles himself in the womb. Yeah. With the umbilical cord.

There's two endings, though. I think, yeah, I mean, there's not a lot of room for shenanigans because it's either don't use it at all. He tries shenanigans and he ends up in jail. Yeah, exactly. There's no room for shenanigans and you can't kill Hitler, I don't think. I think you can't go before you're born, so no fun. Boo.

Quantum leap? Yeah, you jump into a body. You jump into a random body. Yeah, but it's, no, that sucks. You've got no control over it. You've got an AI. You could kill Hitler, but you have to end up in. Hitler's body.

Yeah. Maybe he did kill Hitler. Maybe he did kill Hitler. Jumped into his body and shot himself. That's a gritty reboot. And also, that guy never got home. As far as we know, yeah. He didn't do it.

That's true, yeah. Why have they not rebooted that? Great question. Isn't it though? Maybe they have. Yeah, that's true. No, they haven't. Let's see.

What have we got here? Okay. The Bruce Willis double, 12 Monkeys and Looper. Bruce Willis, 12 Monkeys, everything is inevitable and the world is ending and you will get shot in an airport. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. And it's one way. Yes. And it's one way.

Yes, and it's one way. Looper. Looper's very similar to the Tomorrow War. Yeah. Because there's a future point. Yes. And they always, it's a fixed span. It's like 40 years or 30 years or something like that.

It's a bit vague. No Hitler? No. No shenanigans. No. You're allowed shenanigans, but they're not time travel shenanigans. They can also, you can be cut up and your bits fall off. Yeah, I don't like that at all.

Yeah. Yeah, see, that's the thing. As soon as you're involved in this time travel stuff, you're in a lot of trouble. But what about telekinesis? Oh, my goodness. Yes, please. Yeah.

I don't like any of those. Okay. All right. A couple. Edge of Tomorrow. How do you feel about that? Which one's that again? It's the Tom Cruise one.

Hang on, I'm thinking. Okay. Yeah, that's the Groundhog Day one. Yeah. It's the same day again and again. Oh, let's put Groundhog Day in there as well. Yeah, it's depending where you land. Yeah.

But a nightmare. Yeah, unless you land in Punxsutawney. Yeah, this is also that movie, the wedding movie. The Wedding Time Traveler. Andy Samberg one. Oh, Palm Springs, yeah. movie, Andy Samberg. Oh, Palm Springs, yeah. Yeah, it's the same. It's the Groundhog Day rules. Yeah, it's an infinite time loop situation.

Sucks. Yeah. I mean, there's shenanigans left, right, and center, but if you're stuck in an alien war, no good. Yeah. But I guess the thing about time travel shenanigans in this situation is if you're in it, you probably know. You're there to win it. Yeah, if you're in it, you probably know. You're there to win it.

Yeah, if you're in it, you're there to win it. Like if I was stuck in an infinite time loop situation, I would eventually go, well, there's got to be a way out of this because invariably there is a way out of this. I either have to defeat an alien monster queen or I have to become a slightly better person. Yeah. Either one or the other.

I'm getting out of this. What are you doing? Can I just fight the monster god? I don't want to start recycling. What if you land nowhere near the alien monster queen where you're at a wedding? God. You've got to travel across the globe.

That's a sequel I would like to see. Sure. I think that would be, depending on what day you had, it could be good. Yeah. Yeah. But you could really mess with people day you had, it could be good. Yeah. Yeah. But you could really mess with people. Yeah, and you could become a, well, that's also the thing,

like because Bill Murray's character, he learns to do everything. He does everything, yeah. He becomes a better person. He can play the piano. He knows everything about everything. He does. He's a good insurance customer. That's right.

Like, you know, you'd... You'd make a go of it. Make a go of it, yeah. Ice cream flavours as well. Yeah, ice cream flavours. I've got a couple more. Let's do it. Let's do it.

Actually, I've got one more. Okay. Well, I've got Star Wars here and I've written a question mark because I don't understand how Star Wars... That is a time travel tree or something.

They haven't really established it. You've got to know the Force and whatever. I don't want to do that. It's a hassle. I'd have to become a slightly better person so I'm not going to do it.

And then Star Trek. There's a bunch of Star Trek. Oh, God. Okay, here's a few. Here become a slightly better person, so I'm not going to do it. And then Star Trek. There's a bunch of Star Trek. Oh, God. Okay, here's a few. Here's a few for you, James. You can either visit the Guardian of Forever, who's a weird, spooky voice in a rock, and you go through a portal.

You keep your clothes, which is good. You go back in time. He's all about riddles. He's always riddling you. I know. It's two-way, provided you either, like, you really want to come back or you solve a thing that is happening in the past. Okay.

If you figure out why you're there, you get to come back. Oh, lessons. Yeah, yeah. Or the other option too, Guardian Forever, or you can slingshot around the sun. Oh, yeah, that's true. You can time travel. What do they do in the Borg one?

Oh, just the time sphere. What about that angel suit from the new Star Trek? Discovery. Just time travel through that. Just go wherever. And there's a time police as well. They can just time travel. There's a whole bunch of them.

Just go nuts. Those are. And there's always complications. There's always complications. It's never cut and dried at Star Trek, and I like it. Nah, I like it either. Also, it might be a hollow room. I'd be like, is this a fucking hollow room?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or am I in a Borg dimension? What century is this? It doesn't matter. Am I in the 29th century? When are they set? So was the slingshot around the sun the Wales one? Yeah, but they've done it a bunch of times.

Okay, great. They've done, in the original series, they did time travel like three different ways, I think. Rad. Yeah, it is rad. They slingshot in the original series. What's the winner? What would you most, also Hot Tub Time Machine. Time Machine, Hot Tub, yeah, I think. Rad. Yeah, it is rad. They slingshot in the original series. What's the winner? What would you most...

Also, Hot Tub Time Machine. Time Machine, Hot Tub. Yeah, got it. And you have to get the Trillenium or whatever to get back. Yeah, and you also have to get, like, just... It can't be good for you. No. I mean, you have to get mostly nude.

Yeah, that's true. But also, you've got to get absolutely wasted for it to work. You're partying, having a good time, don't you? Yeah, that's true, yeah. I would pick... You've got to pick one. We've got to pick one. I mean, selfishly, I would pick the Domhnall Gle a good time. That's true. Yeah. I would pick, I mean,

for selfishly, I would pick the Domhnall Gleeson one. Yeah. That guy whose name we never pronounce right. Because personally, you could benefit your life

in a good way and those around you. I think it would be mostly stress free because you could anticipate like the minor annoyances. You could look out for the people around you.

Yeah. I don't think on a global scale it would make that much of a difference unless you're like I'm going to be president or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think for happiness you stay clothed. You can relive incredible moments. You can fix moments that you've had a terrible time in.

Yeah. And the ramifications aren't that serious unless it's a kid's thing. Do you think that you – I would probably get in my head about it. That's the problem. I would go – I'd go to the cafe and the guy would be like, enjoy your coffee, and I'd be like, you too. And then I'd be like, oh, no, and then I'd run to the bathroom and I'd time travel back and then I'd come back in and I'd be like,

thanks, you too. I did it again. And then I'd like every, I think for some people, like they try and fix every moment of their life forever. Yeah. And it would inevitably not work. There's also the Rick and Morty one where he gives him the machine, the do-over button.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is him just jumping parallel dimensions, like ruining shit along the way. Oh, I missed out on the time machine. I was going to tie in the time machine and hot tub time machine. Time machine's a nightmare. It's not bad, though. You get to see, like, history whipping around around you.

Yeah, but everything is inevitable. You cannot change anything because the reason he works out that he can't save his wife because he never would have invented the machine in the first place, which would have meant that he was going to save his wife. That's true. And you have to find an albino Jeremy Irons. Yeah, okay, that's also bad.

I'm sure there are others, but I'd be very interested to know what people would pick. Yeah, if there's another one, which would you prefer? Time travel, or even any of these and why. Yeah, very good. Hit us up on Twitter, at MrSundayMovies on Twitter. At WikipediaBrown. Please do it.

Should we do the next segment of the show? That was fun, Mason. I enjoyed that. It was fun, a fun time. Me too. It's called What We Reading. What We Gonna Read. That's right.

And it's never not going to be called that, unlike the theme song, which I will change. That's right. I'm doing that again for a few weeks, where I say I'm going to change the theme song, and then I forget. I'm doing the theme. What are we Westworld to go?

Nice work, Mason. Thank you. What have you been Westworlding this week? I think I mentioned this to you earlier in the week, but I've been watching a YouTube channel called Rate My Takeaway. Which is just, it's just a guy. He's from Leeds. Yep.

He sent me photos. Did we talk about it in a commentary? We talked about it in a commentary. Oh, yeah. We've done a Crank audio commentary for the movie Crank with Jason Statham. We've done Why Not Crank? And it's got a special celebrity guest. Yes, it's Claire. Yeah, she just drops in. The worst moment

she could have dropped in. Oh my god. Just hating the movie. It's tremendous. We had a good time. Anyway, we're watching this channel and it's just a guy from Leeds and he just he goes to a takeaway place near where he lives, I think and he gets, he orders some takeaway and then he's got a little folding table. He sets it up in front of the, and he gets, he orders some takeaway and then he's

got a little folding table. He sets it up in front of the restaurant and he gets his food and he just eats the food and he's very excited about the food. Yeah. He just does it every day. He's having a good time. Yeah, it's great. He's having a good time.

Yeah. Well, we both saw Black Widow earlier in the week. Oh, yeah, that's true, yeah. We won't, well, we can talk about our opinions if you want, but I'm not going to. If you want to know my early opinion I'm going to mention Unsuggestable this week I'll tell you what I think So that's a plug for my other podcast

Where we recommend stuff Next week will be the Black Widow episode Will it not be Mason? It will So whether you Disney Plus Whether you catch it in cinemas Come back this time next week For Black Widow

I've also been watching another YouTube channel By a guy called Thew Adams I guess it's short for Matthew Disney+, whether you catch it in cinemas, come back this time next week for Black Widow. I've also been watching another YouTube channel. It's by a guy called Thew Adams. I guess it's short for Matthew, T-H-E-W Adams, and he reviews Transformers. It fills my need for, like, looking at Transformers. Oh, boy, does it. But I don't want to buy the Transformers. I randomly ran across him.

Oh, my God, he's got a Unicron. Yeah, that's what I saw. Yeah. It's like a half-hour video of him, like, unboxing and transforming. Is it a good video? Yes. All right, I'm going to add it to my thing. He's fun.

He's quick and he's funny and he's not taking it too seriously. Sometimes these guys are boring. Yeah, yeah. And you never know. Sometimes he's got a shaved head. And also you never know because, like, he's doing this video and he's just like, and I was seeing the situation that was happening in Palestine and I just had to say something and I'm like, oh, no.

And he's like, here's how you can donate and help out. And I'm like, oh, thank God. Oh, thank God. Because this was a long video and I got through it and I didn't, I'm glad you're not a terrible person. Oh, my God, he's got Mega Drive Megatron. He's got all the Transformers. And I got through it and I didn't, I'm glad you're not a terrible person. There we go. Oh, my God, he's got Mega Drive Megatron. He's got all the Transformers.

And people send him stuff. Does he do new ones, old ones, all of it? He does new ones, old ones, and, like, he's got, it's it? Oh, my God, he's got Combiner Wars Devastator. He's got all the, and they keep, like, they keep reissuing, like there's a hundred Optimus Primes now. Yeah, sick. Has he got the one that transforms itself?

That'd be a short video. I don't know. I don't know if he does have that. Very good. Well, I've been watching a movie on Netflix. It's called Fear Street. They're doing a Fear Street trilogy. Is that based on some books or something?

Yeah, some R.L. Stine horror novels from the 90s or something. Yes. So this one's set in 94. Then they're going to go back to 78, and then they're going to go back to the origin of how it all started. Oh, Fear Street Zero Legends Origins. It was like Salem Witch something, something or whatever. Oh, I see.

Right, right, right. And it jumps around a bit. It's good because it's very like heavy on the horror and like one person's head goes through a bread slicer at one point. I know. Or whatever. But a lot of the characters I found in the first movie, it's like these are all terrible people.

And not like they're terrible, but like insufferable to be around. But by the end, I'd really come around on it. I'm like, yeah, it's interesting because they're releasing one every Friday for the next three weeks on Netflix. So they're just going to bang up. Every Friday the 13th. That's right, Mason. So they're just going to do them in bulk,

and I think that's a really interesting strategy of release. So I'll be finishing these trilogies, this trilogy, if you don't mind. There's a new Steven Soderbergh movie out soon. Oh, yeah, what's that called? It's called, it's part of a phrase. Steven Soderbread. Yeah, that's why I remembered. It's got a sort of like small-time, old-timey criminal stuff,

heist movie. I always like a Soderbergh heist movie. Didn't he quit for a bit? He's like, I'm not doing movie. He did, yeah. I'm not doing movie, he said. He said, I'm not doing movie. I think he said, I'm not like chasing like blockbuster.

No Sudden Move? No Sudden Move, there it is. There we go. Oh, yeah, it's got- Cheadle's in it, maybe? C. There it is. There we go. Oh, yeah, it's got – Cheadle's in it maybe? Cheadle and Benicio Del Toro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, the last one of his I watched was Logan Lucky,

even though he's done stuff in between, but I really enjoyed Logan Lucky. Yeah, so I might get to that. Oh, I also rewatched – I don't know why. It just showed up. The Station Agent, have you ever seen that? What's The Station Agent? Many years ago. It's Peter Dinklage.

Oh, yeah, I know this. He inherits – he's the station? Many years ago. It's Peter Dinklage. Oh, yeah, I know this. He inherits. He's a train enthusiast. Yeah. And he inherits like an old train depot like out in the kind of the middle of nowhere. And he just. It's got Michelle Williams. It's got Bobby Cannavale.

You know what? Because I'd forgotten. And I'm like, hey, it's Bobby Cannavale. Every time I see him in something, I'm like, hey, it's Bobby Cannavale. He's approved the movie. John Slattery. John Slattery. He's got John Slattery. It's got Patricia Clarkson is in there.

And it's just a nice movie where nice things happen. I love nice things. It's got a little bit of drama, but you're like, I think everybody's, at the end everybody's had a nice time and everybody's become a better person. Man, the dink's been at it for a while, hasn't he? Yeah, that's right. He's been working for ages. He's in that Australian movie.

Is he? Pete Hellyer movie, isn't he? Oh, maybe. I think he's in it, working for ages. He's in that Australian movie. Is he? Pete Hellier movie, isn't he? Oh, maybe. I think he's in it, isn't it? I don't know. I'm not sure he is. Let me check. Which one?

You and your stupid mate? No, Mason. Okay. Idiot box? No, let me check. I'm 100% sure because it was just before Game of Thrones. He's in I Love You Too. Oh, right.

He dates like Megan Gale or he wants to or something. I can't remember. Anyway, let's do the next segment of the show, the letters segment. I Love You Too. All right. He dates like Megan Gale or he wants to or something. I can't remember. Anyway, let's do the next segment of the show, the letters segment. The classic one was letters,

oh letters, we love you. So letters, they're only the take away. We're going to hear it right now. We're going to have to let us. I'm going to find a letter. You can do it. If you do want to reach the show,

you can find the letter, hashtag weeklyplanetpod on Twitter or weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com. While he's finding a letter, I'm going to read this by Ben. Please do. He says, hashtag weeklyplanetpod, I've always considered the Iron Man sequels to be the weakest films in the MCU

because they have no overall impact on the MCU as a whole. Say what you will about Thor the Dark World, but it does help with making Loki's sacrifice in Infinity War more impactful. Yeah, it seems like somehow Thor the Dark World has become like a linchpin of the universe, whereas the Iron Man movie is not as much. And maybe that's also a result of Robert Down downey jr is expensive maybe that's true maybe also because it's it's a little explored movie yeah in the sense that you know it was made i think all it at a point where people weren't asking the producers and the stars for every tiny little secret and every aspect of the movie and like what does this mean and did this mean this and this is the secret thing and blah blah so there's so many unanswered questions so i guess

you can just squeeze some some life out of that. All right, I will then. Yeah, good. Thanks. But no, I guess that is true because the Iron Man movies are just like, the second one's like, oh, the Avengers is next. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speaking of, Iron Man 2 this week for Caravan of Garbage.

That's right. First one people really enjoyed, I think, I hope, and next week. Yes. We do Iron Man 3, but this week, Iron Man 2. Do you have one yet, Mason? Still looking. Okay, I'll, and next week. Yes. We'll be doing Iron Man 3, but this week, Iron Man 2. Do you have one yet, Mason? Still looking. Okay, I'll do this next one. Okay, great.

It's from MCMLXXXVII, who says, Hashtag Weekly Planet Pod. Have you guys ever discussed doing Resident Evil for Caravan of Garbage? I just re-watched the first one, only one I've seen, and felt it held up. Decent. So I put on the second, fully intending to watch them all, and it was so horrible, I doubt I'll go back.

Yeah, we're probably going to do them this year. Yeah, yeah. Or some of them. You know what we should do? I was just thinking this the other day that we've never gotten to. We should do Batman Forever and Batman and Robin. Definitely. Oh, we also haven't done Batman Returns.

We also haven't done Batman Returns. It's true. Yes. Maybe we do them leading up to the Keaton Flash thing. Yeah, maybe. Or the Batman, whenever that's coming out. Well, I thought with the Batman we'd do the Nolans. Yeah, okay, cool.

Or whatever. Have we not done the Nolans? No. Whoa. How did you know that? I've seen them, though. That's what I thought. Are you suggesting we've seen these movies,

but we haven't mined them for content? We haven't done the Iron Man movies until recently. We haven't cynically just torn them to pieces for content. Not yet. That's wild. We haven't gotten one man's artistic vision of a character. You're just giving it a new twist. And we haven't just been like, look at that.

What's that guy doing? How did he get back into Gotham? What did he build a step? Step out of the pit. How'd they get cable news in the pit? Is there a cable in the pit? Is this Marrakesh? I can't tell. Anyway, sorry, go on.

That's all I have. What have you got in terms of letters? I'm still looking for letters. You idiot. Not that I don't love letters. I do love letters. But you want letters, don't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, I've got one more tweet. You're lucky. Okay, cool. I'm buying you a bit of time here. Okay, great. From NinjaDude3 who says, Mr. Sunday Movies, what superpowers do you dislike in movies? I really don't like super speed because it creates a lot of plot holes. I thought about this briefly.

Go on. No, I spent the day. I took the day. You spent the amount of time it took you to read that letter. Yes. I think it depends on what they do with anything because anything can be made interesting depending on how you look at it. Very true.

Like super speed can be good depending on what rules you establish, you know, what the character is and whatever, I feel. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's no superpower that I hate. I just, I hate it more when people forget their superpowers and don't use them. That's the thing that kind of annoys me. I consider that the Martian Manhunter rule. Yeah. Where he can

walk through walls and change shape and turn invisible and he's got heat vision and whatever. He's also telekinetic, isn't he? Yeah, sometimes, probably. He's definitely telepathic. Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, but then he'll just get clonked on the head. Yeah.

Why'd you get clonked on the head, man? Like you've got a few choices. If you're going to walk into a room, you could turn invisible or you could become intangible and stuff would just go straight through you. Or be anybody, turn into anybody. Become a big plush man and then you get hit on the head and you'd be all plush. In that last Superman Doomsday whatever movie,

he gets clocked by Doomsday. Who does? Well, like he does that becomes intangible and he can't hit him. Oh, in the animated movies. But then there's a moment where he doesn't and he grabs him. You know what I mean? It's done quite well, I feel. So, yeah, I guess, yeah, that's my answer.

And that's Mason's answer. Yeah. And now he's ready. I'm still not. With a letter, isn't he? This is from Dylan. Yes. My dad nearly went to fisticuffs with Bruce Willis.

Whoa. I'm just reading this for the first time, so let's see how it goes. Let's do it. I know you boys are sick of Bruce Willis at this point. Who isn't? I'm not, is the answer. Me, we're not. But no one was as sick of him

as my dad in the gym nearly 20 years ago. Both are bald dudes and my dad was trying to use some cardio machine in a gym in Vegas. But Mr. Willis continually refused to get off it. He didn't know who was Bruce Willis and luckily for Bruce, that was one of the few times my mom went with my dad and she told him who he was.

I don't know why he backed down rather than taking the opportunity to preemptively punish Bruce Willis for his later work, but there you have it. You don't want to punch someone for movies they haven't made yet. That's true. You want to wait until their oeuvre is complete and they're in their 70s and you punch them. Why did you do Kill Shot, Bruce Willis, you could say?

Why did you do G.I. Joe 2? Retaliation. Was it retaliation for us watching all your movies in the past and supporting you financially, Bruce Willis? You dog of a bloke. Yeah. Yeah. What else, Mason?

I've got all sorts of stuff here. Don't even worry about it. I can't wait to hear what you have. Anyway, the Loki recaps are happening, aren't they? Two left. That's right, yeah, yeah. Oh, he's just working on those at the moment, or he will be when they come out.

That's going to be happening. Nice. This is from Gavin. He says, thank you. Hey, guys, I just wanted to say thank you for all of the content. You never fail to cheer me up, and especially over the past two years, I've been dealing with a lot of grief. You've often made me smile on days that I might not have otherwise.

Oh, man, that's so good. The good news is that I'm fine now. I'm going in for my last therapy session on Friday, and I feel okay for the first time in a long time. That's awesome. Thanks, James. Thanks, Mason I do. The good news is that I'm fine now. I'm going in for my last therapy session on Friday and I feel okay for the first time in a long time. That's awesome. Thanks, James. Thanks, Mason, for keeping me entertained along the way.

P.S. When are you two getting letterboxed accounts? Grabbed at Jem and thanks again from Gavin in the UK. This is another thing I've got to keep track of. So never. I feel this is our letterboxed account. In a way. Yeah.

If somebody wanted to make one, you could just give it. I guess we could do a letterboxed account. Yeah. And every letterboxed review is just a link to the current episode of the podcast. Well, that is true. Yeah, that would work. Not a bad idea. Yeah.

I'm not doing that. Okay. Somebody might, though. Anything else or should we call it a day? Congratulations also on your last session. That's really cool. This is from Tom. He says, hi, guys.

I started listening to the pod last year when I needed something to entertain me while looking after the golf course in our first lockdown in England, and my mate recommended you guys, and I've been hooked ever since. Unfortunately, he didn't lie about it. We do appreciate that if you do lie about it. Oh, very good. I was wondering what films, shows, books, games would you like to see the universe expanded with different stories and new cast and characters in the same world

similar to the Mandalorian in Star Wars? For me, he says I'd like to see the Netflix from Bright, which itself was trash but the world was full of potential to explore what would you guys like totally agree that's a really good point yeah the hancock universe universe isn't there just two superheroes in the hancock universe and they're both angels we're just doing will smith stuff are we i guess we are wild wild rest are we talking about hitch hitch to both their wives are dead oh we did too. How about this? Hitch, and it's just the stories of people who want to be like Hitch,

but they're not as good as Hitch. So horrible pick-up artists. They just keep ruining people's lives. They set up Hitch-style services to make you better at picking up women or getting married or whatever, but they're bad at it. That's good. And they just cause havoc and they go to jail. That's a good one.

Yeah. What about this? What about that Will Smith movie where- He's killed by jellyfish? Yeah, something. Yeah, the one where he has to make seven pounds. Yeah, that's the one. And they use his organs to-

Yeah, that one. I didn't, I did say it. I was going to say I didn't say it. No, I saw it. Is that the same one where he's like a businessman but he's imagining all his friends or something? No, you're thinking of collateral beauty. Yeah.

And that was also a scam by somebody to get his money or something. Okay, well, I want to see movies set in both of those universes and then we collide them. They're parallel universes and we collide them in a dimensional adventure. That's interesting. Interdimensional adventure, seven pounds collateral beauty. I'd call it seven beautiful collateral pounds.

Dimension origins. Well, I want to see the movie Gemini Man, but better. Nice. Just remake it. Nice. And make it interesting and good. You'd want to see one relating to you, James. Bloody Virgo man.

Well, if we're talking... If we're talking Will Smith... Of course, we're only talking Will Smith. For some reason. The Men in Black universe should be a better universe. It should, shouldn't it? I, Robot, you could definitely do more with that. More Converse sneakers.

You could get some Jack Purcells. What about this? After Earth is about coming back to Earth after things have evolved. So before Earth. I've never seen it. No. Before Earth. Just regular Earth.

That should be interesting where you come back and the Earth's evolved in different and interesting ways. Okay, but before Earth. What about Bad Boys 3? Again. Bad Boys Zero Origins. There's just one boy? Just one boy. Bad boy.

He's not even a cop yet. He's just bad. Doesn't matter which one it is. But I guess Will Smith is. This rude boy. Oh, yeah. They could call it. Yeah, nice.

He's so precocious, this boy. Any more Will Smith movies? Independence Day. I mean, they did it. No, they did that, didn't they? Bag of Ants. Oh. The Further Adventures of Bag of Ants.

He's a, what is his deal? He's a guy. Is he a golf caddy or something? Yeah, he's a mythical. He's a magic golf caddy. Or something. The origin, where'd he get his golf bag? Where'd he get his bag?

He's not actually magic, but yeah. Oh, okay. What about Wild Wild West? I did briefly mention it. Just regular West. Just. Mine are all prequels. I don't, he's actually magic. But yeah. What about Wild Wild West? I did briefly mention it. Just regular West. Mine are all prequels. I don't know what's going on. Yeah.

Why are you doing that? I don't know. Yeah. Enemy of the state. There's even more cameras. The state's just fine with him. Prequel. Okay.

Because he hasn't done anything too bad. Stop saying prequels. Concussion. The one that's about. Hey, my head's feeling fine. Yeah. I haven't hit it yet. Yeah.

Yeah. I haven't hit my head yet. That's a bit of foreshadowing. Will Smith, stand down. I haven't hit my head yet. I don't need you yet. All right. So those are all the Will Smith.

All the Will Smith expanded universes. That we want. Is that it? Yeah. Let's fucking wrap it up. Let's wrap. Folks, thank you so much for listening to the podcast. We very much appreciate it, especially when it goes off the rails,

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We're going to talk Black Widow. Well, I am very much looking forward to talking about that. I have many things to say, but again, suggestible. I'll talk about it a little bit there. Don't have too much fun banter with your wife. I'll try not to. Make the fun banter for me. Have dull banter with your wife.

That's easy. Shoot down any banter your wife tries to start on the podcast. No. Make it, yeah. No, Claire. No, Claire, no. You ever heard of, no, I haven't. Has she seen Black Widow the podcast. No. Make it, yeah. No, Claire. No, Claire, no. You ever heard of, no, I haven't. Has she seen Black Widow?

No. Oh. Well, I mean, if you want to maybe just really recount the plot in its entirety to her, she should appreciate that. That's exactly right. Yeah, so anything else, you can do it, can't you? Anything else, you can do it. That's good.

That's good stuff. Thank you again to Collinx for the edit on this, and we'll see you guys. At the movies. The movies. Grab that jam, you guys. At the movies. The movies. Grab that jam you got. Including some of the people, a lot of people we saw at Black Widow as well. At the movies.

At the movies. See you next time. At the movies. At the movies. Goodbye. At the movies. 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+.