The Weekly Planet - 430 Another DC Reshuffle & Everything Everywhere All at Once

Episode Date: April 18, 2022

Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.This week we talk the reveal that DC is getting another reboot/reshuffle due to a recent merger so that's fun. We talk that plus a bunch of other news linked below and the incredible Everything Everywhere All At Once. Thanks for listening!Total Reboot with The Weekly Planet: https://bit.ly/3MCWXP2Do Go On Live with Nick Mason coming soon: https://play.acast.com/s/do-go-on00:00 The Start03:18 DC Universe Overhaul15:36 Ezra Miller Flash Comic Controversy16:42 Fantastic Beasts Censored in China19:52 Dr Strange Multiverse of Madness Rating20:53 Morbius Box Office Failure24:46 Mason’s One Bit of News33:10 Everything Everywhere All At Once Review (spoilers 48:25 to 59:03)01:00:23 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:11:05 Letters, It’s Time For LettersJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownMaso's Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/nickmaseauThe Weekly Planet Twitter ► https://twitter.com/theweeklyplanetPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesTWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetTWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGjT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. And with me, is that Nick Mason? It is. Hello. Wow. Surprise, it's me. Surprise.

And what a wonderful surprise it is. I was the masked podcaster for a moment, and then I did the big reveal. Wow. What was your big paper mache head that you had? Big kombucha. The brand? No, the concept. Oh, okay.

Yeah. A big kombucha. No, I know what you mean, but I just thought you were in the pocket of big kombucha. Oh, yeah, more so. I don't drink it because it's garbage. No, it's good, Mason, actually. I wish they'd pay me instead of you, quite frankly. Mason, before we talk about the things that we are going to talk about this week,

weren't we on a little something this week? We were absolutely. We made a rare double appearance on another podcast. That's right. Specifically, Total Reboot with Cam and Alexi. They're going through a series of cool millennial movies that will bloody blow your mind. That's right. And we decided to get in there and watch the movie Dark City.

Correct. And had a heck of a time over there. If you decided to get in there and watch the movie Dark City. Correct. And had a heck of a time over there. If you're familiar with like The Matrix or even the movie Dark City, maybe it's something that you'd be interested in watching and or listening to. Those examples are both very similar to Dark City. So that's cool, I think. So, yeah, that'll be linked below. Thank you to Collings who's editing this for doing just that.

This week, Mason, here's the news. I'll give you a bit of a rundown, but then I'll give you more information. Okay, great. Time codes below if you do want to jump to any point in particular. Not you. You have to sit through it. Yeah, I can't do that at all. Exactly. What if I could though? What a power I would wield. You'd have the click remote. The click remote?

A movie I haven't seen but I think that's what it's about. So big shake up over at Warner Brothers in DC. I just keep clicking fast forward, fast forward-forward, fast-forward, and I get to the end of my life and I'm like, oh, no, I skipped past so much comic book movie news. Oh, big regrets, you know? That's right, exactly.

So don't be like me. If I had one piece of advice for you out there, folks, don't be like me. Don't skip through the comic book movie news. Just really embrace it and be there in the moment for the comic book movie news. But you can skip it if you want. I mean, you can if you want. It's fine.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're tight on time this week, you go to work or whatever. Yeah. That's right. Warner Brothers, big overhaul at Warner Brothers in DC, Mason and Sam's. Some flash news, sort of. Okay. In addition to that, Superman's maybe getting written out

of the DC universe of. Okay. In addition to that, Superman's maybe getting written out of the DC Universe officially. Wow. An update on Fantastic Beasts, Dumbledore something, something, et cetera. Oh, was that confirmed one way or the other? Which one? That maybe there's not going to be several more Fantastic Beasts. Oh, no, I mean that thing that happened in China.

Oh, that thing that happened in China. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doctor Strange 2 gets a rating and Morbius, of course, has got some big box office news. I had one more thought about the Morbius post-credit sequence, which we can talk about in that segment. We can do it. Okay, we'll hang on to it.

And then, of course, we're going to talk. I just can't stop thinking about the Morbius post-credit sequence. I know that. It's always month-vious for you, isn't it, even though I vetoed it. That's right, even though it cannot be month-vious anymore. Yeah, and then we're going to talk about the movie Everything All At Once. Everything Everywhere All At Once. I'm going to keep getting that wrong. Some of them

will be on purpose, which I'm looking forward to talking about. Okay, Mason, let's kick things off with a story from Variety who says Warner Brothers Discovery are exploring an overhaul of the DC entertainment sphere. Wait, so they're called Warner Brothers Discovery now because they bought the Discovery Channel.

No, so Discovery bought Warner Brothers. Oh. Yeah, I know. It seems wrong, right? It seems like it should be the other way. But I mean, I guess, no, it's the History Channel that is normal history during the day and then at night it's just like ancient aliens. Oh, really?

Yeah, I think so. When do they do your dad's World War II history? When do they do Churchill documentaries? Is that like around dinner time? Yeah, that would be about, yeah. Something to fall asleep to. That's exactly right. That's about dinner time.

I don't require that. I don't require that. Then when dad's fallen asleep because he's heard Churchill's famous speech or whatever, then you're like, get the remote. We're going to watch Ancient Aliens. But I don't know what Discovery does. Yeah, well, apparently they have $43 billion to buy Warner Brothers, which is what they did.

So there you go. Apparently the top leadership has been toying with the idea, this is fascinating, of turning DC into its own solidified content vertical. You know what I mean? I hate the sound of that. Yeah, no. So you know what that means, right? Yeah, obviously.

Movies. Yeah. Comic books. Yep. Happy meals. Exactly. We're all in together. Lunch boxes.

That's right. So people would obviously be familiar with the horizontal strategy of marketing. We're talking vertical. This is vertical. We're talking straight up and down. Oh, my God. For anybody who doesn't know, I can elaborate on this a little bit. That gives you room to sneak around the sites.

That's right. Horizontal, you can't do it. It's very inefficient. You have to leap over it. I don't have the knees for that. You could trip. You could trip. You could trip.

Yeah. So Discovery insiders believe that although DC has achieved cinematic success with recent films such as Aquaman and The Batman, it lacks a coherent... Sorry, the what? The Battleman. It lacks a coherent... I was defending Robert Pattinson

in a group chat today. It's like, I'm loving The Batman. I'm not liking this emo Robert Pattinson. I'm like, get fucked. He's great, actually. You know what the fuck you're talking? This is my bread and butter and you're wrong. You've got to get out of that group chat. I've never heard a positive story from that group chat, honestly. It's always like you never believe what happened in this group chat.

I'm like, you don't have to be in there. Yeah, I know. You're right. I guess you do though because you stop getting – if you leave the group chat, you'll stop getting invited to events you don't want to be at. What do I do, though, because you stop getting, if you leave the group chat, you'll stop getting invited to events you don't want to be at. What do I do, you know? So apparently, though, it lacks a coherent creative brand strategy.

Probably because of its horizontality. Exactly, yeah. So Discovery believes that several top shelf characters, such as Superman, have been left to languish and need to be revitalised. They also believe projects like Todd Phillips' Joker are a shiny example of how second-build characters from the DC library can and should be exploited.

That's their words. Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn is apparently another example. Don't they think China do that, I feel? Let me tell you a few things about that statement, James. First of all, they're absolutely bloody right, first of all, about letting Superman languish. He has been. Yeah.

So hats off to you. Tip of the hat to you, Discovery. You want to go vertical because he's an up and down character. He's going up and down. As though he's in like he's straight up and down, you know what I mean? He's telling the truth and he's flying up and down. He's flying up and down. They're like we should introduce some rings for him to fly through

and a kryptonite fog. No, that's horizontal. But also. You're thinking too horizontal should introduce some rings for him to fly through. And a kryptonite fog. No, that's horizontal. But also. You're thinking too horizontally. No, that is quite horizontal, isn't it? Yeah. The other thing there is I love how they think the Joker is a second tier character. Yeah, I know.

Like, you haven't been on this job long enough. If you think that the, like the, you're scraping the bottom of a barrel with a second tier character like the Joker. Yeah. Oh, no. Tell me, when you make a 10-eyed man movie, then give me a call. Then you scrape the bottom of the barrel. You're absolutely right. Like top five DC, top three.

He's probably in the top three, really. Yeah. They also want to get disparate efforts of TV. Condiment King. Yeah, there you go. Disparate efforts of TV and film to line up to maximise market value like Marvel are doing. Okay.

So basically they're looking for the words that they used in this article were, they're Kevin Feige. See, the thing is. Although it's a beige. Oh, man, I would have. Sorry, I had another thought, but I shouldn't have had another thought. I should have just called it. It doesn't sound that different from what they're already doing.

Yeah, I guess they're looking for a singular universe. Sure, but also like Joker, an unconnected character. Yes. Great. Well, I think it's also, I don't think. I used to have a job where I worked in a shop, like a department store. I know. Good for you.

And like once every. I know this, by the way. Are you telling me? Because I know this. Yeah, yeah. But like once every six to eight months, they would like reorganize the entire store. They would like change all the, like they would move all the departments around. Well, I think it was just, they're like, well, actually it's for, you know, for actually

for purposes of summer, we want to have the summer items towards the 5th. But it would take like shifting everything. You have to move everything. The electronics that do all like don't work, do they need to be moved? Probably. Yeah. But it was just like rearranging deck chairs in the Titanic. But it was just like and we'd do it while the store was being opened.

Like we would do it while the store was open. So people are like confused. And people would show up and be like, where's the department I always go to? And I'd have to be like, it's over. They've moved it to the other side of the store. But basically it's just to show they were doing something. Like it was to show manage. Like because if upper management came down and was like,

what have you been doing the last six months? And they're like, nothing. They'd get into trouble. So they're like, we reorganised everything for maximum whatever. That's this. Verticality. Verticality. That's this. It's just like, all we need to do is we need to make some TV shows and some movies. And we want to use

popular characters like Superman, but also less popular characters like Joker. And there's going to be TV shows as well. And it has to be linked like Marvel. If only we had some sort of streaming service we could put DC television shows on. Wouldn't that be incredible? It'd be like a home box office.

A maximum home box office. It's really... You're not doing anything, Discovery, you idiots. I've changed my tune. You've lost your minds. It's interesting because... And I'll do it. I'll be Kevin Feige.

They've also tried this. Like, this is how they started. Kevin Weige. Well, remember they wanted... Mike this is how they started. Kevin Weigie. Well, remember they wanted. Like Wario. Yeah, but they like. DC, but you get what I'm saying. It was like a Zack, very good.

It was like a Zack Snyder. It's not fully taken on. No, it's very good. I'll let him finish. Sorry. It's very good. I'll let him finish his thought, but then I'll point out that, again, that DC Kevin Feige would be like Wario.

Kevin Feige is Mario. Yeah, no, I get it. And it's very good. No, no, you can't hear this. You can't hear this. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, I get it and it's very good. No, no, you can't hear this. You can't hear this. I'm telling the listeners. Anyway, can you finish your thought? Yeah, so basically they did this already with Jeff Johns

and Zack Snyder and then they kept intervening and it became a mess, right? So that's what they were initially starting with. And that was horizontal. Yes, and the Flash probably. And the Flash is ending apparently. That's ending soon. So a lot of their TV stuff, but not all of it, is like is wrapping up

or changing. You know what I mean? So apparently also they're more interested in someone, and this speaks to exactly what you were talking about, in someone who can keep everything aligned rather than a creative guru. So they basically want someone who can run between departments and make sure everybody's doing their job properly. You know, so TV speaking of film and comics speaking of whatever,

comics speaking of video games. It sounds like they want a Kevin Feige, but they don't want someone who has the power of a Kevin Feige. Oh, they want just someone they can. They just want an intern they can bully. They can just keep running up and down the halls. Yeah. They're going to use Superman in this movie.

You're going to use him in the TV show? No, okay. Cool. Just don't you do it. Oh, they've done it. Sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm tired.

I'm so tired. Apparently they went to Emma Watts, who's a former executive over at Fox and Paramount, but she is not interested. And like I said before, the like, give it to me. No, this would be a fucking nightmare. Yeah. Because there's so much of this that is already beloved and also so much that people hate and the things that people love

or hate are different. That's true. So it's like. Sometimes the same. Yeah. Sometimes within the same person. Yeah. So you have to, with Marvel they had the advantage of being the first

to do it and starting pretty much from scratch. Yeah. Obviously there had been Marvel movies, but the MCU kicked off something new. Yeah. There is a lot of, for good or bad, there's a lot of baggage in this universe. And this isn't a clean start. There's still things going. Peacemaker's going, which has been off of Suicide Squad,

which is a movie people like but didn't make money. The Joker was one and done, or are they making a sequel? The Flash is connecting to the movie universe, I think, the TV show. Also that show is ending, but also The Flash as a movie is in universe, I think, the TV show. Also, that show is ending, but also The Flash, as a movie, is in trouble, as we've been talking about. And also, a real rod for your back, the real looming threat, of course, is that

the greatest movie moment of all time was when The Flash entered the Speed Force in Zack Snyder's Justice League. That's a whole... That's a real situation there. I imagine, in the interview process, they just Like that's a whole, that's a real situation there. Boy, is it. I imagine in the interview process they just show you the hashtag

Restore the Snyderverse on a big bit of paper and they're like, can you deal with this? Because you're going to have to every day. Every tweet you make, there's going to be a thousand responses underneath that are just that. Is that okay with you? Yeah, that's going to be your life. On top of that, this is via Viewer Anon,

which is a Twitter account which deals with scoops, since deleted. So you know it's good. Yeah, that's going to be your life. On top of that, this is via Viewer Anon, which is a Twitter account which deals with scoops, since deleted. So you know it's good. Yeah, exactly. Hot and fresh and good. It claims that The Flash will include a post-credits scene where Barry Allen mentions Superman to Aquaman, and Aquaman is like, I don't know who that is. So they're resetting the universe to kick out Superman officially.

But temporarily, you would imagine. And also, like, if we're doing vertical marketing, branding synergy strategies, then that won't happen because they want to put Superman back in. But also maybe they just want him as the TV character currently. But also J.J. Abrams is doing a Superman movie. Sounds to me, James, I don't know if you've encountered one of these recently, sounds to me like a post-credits sequence where they don't know what it means

and they're just putting it in there because it's a shocking thing. It is a shocking thing. It is very much a shocking thing. Also, that would suggest, because if you recall Justice League, the theatrical release of Justice League. It's my favourite movie. Which currently is still the canonical Justice League of this particular cinematic universe, at the end of that movie, all the other heroes are just sort of holding Steppenwolf at bay

and then Superman just shows up and cleans his clock instantly. What happened in this universe then if he wasn't there? I mean, we know that he recently showed up in Peacemaker. I mean, his silhouette. Yes, that's right. Maybe it was Shazam. Maybe it was Shazam. Do you definitively see the S shield on the suit?

I think, no, it is. They're concerned that it is, yeah. But is it, though? Well, I guess they could change it. Like, they could change it. Like, if we didn't see that it was definitively Superman, it could be any number of Superman localised. It could be Mon-El.

It feels like they're letting go of people who are stepping away from these properties. Could have been the Martian Manhunter. Like it's the wrong people. The fact that they're like, we're not doing Henry Cavill's Superman anymore. But it's like, you know, like people like that, right? Yeah.

They might not have been the most financially successful movies, though generally like they've done well. I think they were looking for like an Iron Man numbers. Yeah, right? Yeah. They might not have been the most financially successful movies, though generally, like, they've done well. I think they were looking for, like, an Iron Man numbers. Yeah, right. The Iron Man 3 in particular. But, like, people like him. Like, the problem with that Superman that people have is not him. No one's ever like, no, he sucks.

That's right. Everybody likes him. What did he do is my point. Great point, yeah. I'm just going to blame him. What did he do is my point. Great point, yeah. I'm just going to blame him. What did you do, Cavill? So anyway, we'll just see how this shakes out over the next couple of years, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so that's very interesting. Also, to finish my thought, DC are looking for a Wario. Yeah, they could play tennis together. Yes, that's true, yeah. That's fun. Yeah, now I get it. I didn't get it, but now I get it. Yeah, but now you get it, right?

And Feige would be like, yeah, actually, so for Phase 5, we were thinking of combining the cosmic characters and maybe the magic characters. Okay. What do you think about that? And the DC guy would be like, wah! Eh! You know?

I get it, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But he's not the penguin. No. He's Wario. Ooh! He probably has penguin-like elements. Yeah, but he is Wario, though. He's Wario. Ooh. He probably has penguin-like elements. Yeah, but he is Wario, though.

He's Wario, yeah. Very good. Well, that's a lot of news in just up top. Mason, let's talk about what do we got here. So this is via Bleeding Cool. There was a Flash prequel comic, a prequel to the movie, which was apparently going to come out April 26th, but printing for that had been ceased, stopped, given the no-go.

Oh, popped. It's been theorised that... They were going to put some of Ezra Miller's blood in it. That's right. They were going to do it Kiss style. Oh, no. This was because of Ezra Miller's recent actions, right? But the artist on that one, Ferreira, came out and said on Twitter,

no, it will be printed later this year so there won't be so much of a gap between the comic and the movie. So good to see Warner Brothers again taking a hard stance on something. That's right. Or as I call them, Warner Brothers. Very good. Because Wario works there now. They're going to have to address this sooner or later.

Or not. Can you just ignore it? Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Strange. Maybe there's a guy. They need a guy to be like, no, just ignore it.

It's fine probably. Yeah, it's fine probably. So there you go. Look, that's probably. And also like that makes sense for the people who worked on that comic. Like that's unfair that someone does something terrible and then your work gets thrown in the bin. That's true.

That sucks. I agree. Yeah. All right, here we go. This is by Deadline. I need some more good news. So Warner Brothers again. So the Fantastic Beasts, The Secrets of Dumbledore.

If you've come for a review of that movie because you're in the US and it just came out last week's episode, we did a full breakdown about that movie. We had a full breakdown. Yeah, we did, and how it's mostly about a magical horse that picks the president of magic, the president of magic being a character that I don't know previously existed in the...

But you knew in your heart probably would have existed, right? No, I thought like the way the world is structured, like different countries had different presidents and stuff. No, just one guy. Just one guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The horse picks. Yeah, that's right.

The magic horse picks. Look, we already covered it and we definitively solved the problem of the horse picking the president. I don't think we did. No, we did. Yeah. But apparently though, so this movie was released in China in the past week, and in doing so,

they removed the references of the same-sex relationship between the two three-equals lead characters, that being Dumbledore and Grindelwald, right? So the Chinese censors requested a cut, which Warner Brothers, according to a studio spokesman, accepted to comply with spokesman, accepted to comply with local requirements, adding that the spirit of the film remains intact. Man, they must have...

Yeah, I mean, it still sucks. Yeah. Didn't make it worse. They must have really chewed up the runtime with all those edits. Oh, mate, you're not wrong. So two lines were removed, six seconds of dialogue. One was because I was in love with you and the summer that Geralt and I fell in love. I knew it.

Yeah, so there you go. The first line is dialogue and the second is voiceover. Now, from a business perspective, this is a decision that I entirely understand. Is this a horizontal business decision? Yeah, I think so, like a big stack of money because it's already made $10 million. They've also got a bunch of cinemas closed due to COVID.

But Fantastic Beasts and look at these creatures. Look at this case. Look at it. That made $85 million in China. Okay. The last Crimes of Grindelwald made $57 million inexplicably. So for some reason, this is a franchise that China likes. Okay.

I don't know. Don't they not like magic and ghosts or something? Isn't that? I couldn't say. No, it's ghosts. They don't like ghosts. There. I don't know. Don't they not like magic and ghosts or something? Isn't that? I couldn't say. No, it's ghosts. They don't like ghosts. There's ghosts in Harry Potter, but Harry Potter's always been a big franchise in China, right?

So they're going, well, if we take out these six seconds, we can make $50 million. Right, yeah, yeah. That's what's happened here. But also, boo. I agree, yeah. Like, it's just the idea of like, no, this, you know, we don't need, these people don't exist, so let's not, you know, let's not harp on about this. Yeah, yeah. Like, it's just the idea of like, no, this, you know, we don't need, these people don't exist and let's not, you know,

let's not harp on about this. Yeah, yeah. Harping on. Like it's like nothing dialogue as well, you know what I mean? Agreed, yeah. But again, like I understand it, but. We didn't even really touch upon that they replaced Johnny Depp with Mads Mikkelsen and there's no explanation for it.

Nobody even says you look different now. Yeah, they did with Dumbledore. Did they? With Dumbledore dying. Oh, I guess they did, yeah. Yeah, so it does happen. Yeah, but old guys all look the same. Yeah, that's true. Old guys all look the same. If you're an old guy out there, we don't know what...

You look like a different old guy. Yep. Is that right? Agreed. Thanks. I was just going with the thing that you said. Yeah. I was doing a riff mace at it. It didn't really go. That was great. No, I think you did really well there. Thank God. Doctor Strange 2 has a rating. It's PG-13. Oh, for some supernatural violence.

Intense sequence of violence and action. Frightening images in some language. Uh-oh. So there you go. That's coming up. So when's that? That's going to be a few weeks away, isn't it? That's on the 4th, I believe. The critic screening of that, there is none, so it's going to be the few weeks away, isn't it? That's on the 4th, I believe. The critic screening of that, there is none, so it's going to be the premiere on May 2nd.

So I don't think that means it's bad. I think it means there's like 400 cameos in it. Yeah, and they have to, they cannot trust anyone at this point, reviewers or the general public, not to immediately go on. You can trust us, though. Yeah, we won't tell them. Just send us a list of cameos. Yeah, yeah. I don't even want to see go on. You can trust us, though. Tell us. Yeah, we won't tell them. Just send us a list of cameos. Yeah, yeah.

I don't even want to see the movie. And we are so strong-willed, we will simply print it out and place it on the table and we will not read from it. That's right. At any point during any upcoming podcast. Correct, correct, correct. And that's fun, isn't it? Let's do some.

But we will allude to them, every single one. Oh, we'll have to. Yeah. We'll have to. I'm not going to not. I've got the list, Mason. Yes, yes. This one's via Forbes.

I know Monthbius is over. This is Morbius News. So on its second Friday opening, it made $2.93 million, tying it with Dark Phoenix for an estimated 83% drop-off, an unprecedented Friday to Friday drop-off. That's unprecedented. Morbius is also expected to make. I mean, it's precedented because of Dark Phoenix.

That's right. So it's apparently expected to make just shy of $10 million in its second weekend. That is a 73.9% drop-off. Why, that's unprecedented. Well, that's also the biggest second week drop off for any comic book movie ever no so it's worse than i'll give you some examples fan four stick okay it's worse than the last two x-men movies whichever ones those ones were it's worse than what's another bad thing steel i guess steel's not good sure but like percentage

wise it's worse than Steel. We don't know what their drop-off was like. Worse than Green Lantern. Whoa. Yeah, it's atrocious. Oh, I guess in a way it's worse than literally every other superhero movie. Those are some examples. Those are bad, yeah.

It's worse than Spawn probably. Yeah, I mean, who's shocked by this? Not me. Yeah. I mean, I'm glad that it's the lowest because that movie, you know. It's teaching people a valuable lesson. I think, I'm glad that it's the lowest because that movie, you know. It's teaching people a valuable lesson. I think so, yeah. You can't just make some generic garbage and then be like,

well, but if you want, you stick around for the post-credits sequences. That's worth the price of admission. No, it's not. I mean, this one kind of is, but also just watch it on YouTube. No, it's not. It's really not. Yeah, just look it up. Just read a description of it.

But if I may, James, I had another thought about that. Oh, yeah, that's right. Is this Mason's one bit of news? No, it's not my bit of news. Well, then you need a one bit of news. You're going to know it's two bits of news next week. Then it's my one bit of news. So I've been thinking about the post-credit sequence,

and spoilers for the post-credit sequence of Morbius. If you haven't seen it, we're going to get into it right now. I don't think, no, people aren't seeing it now. It's done. No, that's true. So if you haven't seen it, it's not happening. Exactly. When Morbius goes into the desert and then the vulture shows up

to meet him in the desert, it is insane that his first line of dialogue isn't, my wife and daughter are in another dimension and I'm desperate to get back to them and I will do anything. Like they, it also shocked me a little bit that I didn't think of that until like a week later. Well, because there's so many other things to unpack. I mean, even to say that and then go, this has something to do with Spider-Man, can you help me?

You can even work in your little Spider-Man reference if you wanted to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no. But first of all, maybe we talk about this, but why would you think it has something to do with Spider-Man? I mean, the only reason this is because it's their only mutual friend, Spider-Man.

Exactly. Like Spider-Man's not known for dimensional stuff. No. But my point is that it speaks to my bad character that I didn't immediately go, well, like his entire motivation in the movie he was in was to provide for his family and then the big dogs took his business away, so he turned to crime. Yep.

But in this he's just like, they were like, should we let him keep his motivation? And they're like, nah, just make him a cartoon character. Yeah. Just whatever. Maybe this has something to do with Spider-Man. I also had the thought maybe he only has a wife and daughter in the MCU. Like he's legally not allowed to have,

like maybe Sony only own a version of the Vulture that doesn't have any family. Yeah, maybe. Well, Liz Allen is a Spider-Man character, so she'd have to, yeah, that's a great question. Yeah. Anyway, I just think it's just really good stuff. Yeah. Just don't give him, just don't make him a real three-dimensional character of any kind.

Why would you bother? Like legally in this universe, Sony won't allow me to have a wife and kids. So that's why I need to get back to the MCU. Yeah. Fantastic stuff. Also, that's an opinion. That's not a one piece of news. That's true. So that's going to be you owe us two bits of news next week.

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That's sunrisechallenge.ca. Mason, before we do, everything is always happening every moment of every day. Yes. Is it true by the glint in your eye that you do in fact have one bit of news? I do have one bit of news. And just a little peek behind the curtain, folks. Yeah. We recorded the start of this episode and the end of this episode several days ago.

That's right. And now we're back to talk about the movie Everything Everywhere all at once. But isn't that appropriate? Yeah, it really is. It's all about fragmented whatevers. But in the meantime. Yeah. So also just at some But in the meantime. Yeah.

So also just at some point in the last, at some point several days ago, you proposed, maybe it'll be coming up later in the episode. Okay. You proposed a system whereby if I fail to provide one bit of news, perhaps a number of times in a row, then you get another veto. Yes. You're allowed to veto a riff. And I was vehemently against it because I didn't have one bit of news,

but I've reconsidered it. Okay. I think if I – here's how it'll have to work. If I fail to provide five bits of one bit of news – In a row or in total? I think in total. Okay. Because in a row it would be like that's – what's that?

That's not going to happen. No, that's probably not going to happen. Yeah. But then you can get one more veto. Because I think it's fun to see how much fun you enjoy killing on this podcast, Jack. Oh, yeah, I love killing fun. Yeah, you love killing fun.

Anyway, what's your one bit of news? Well, this is a one bit of news from comicbookmovie.com. Oh, my God, this is big news. The unbearable weight of massive talent star Nicolas Cage asked for help retrieving his stolen comic books. Oh, did he? Yeah. And what's going on with that?

Well, I just noticed this because some years ago I did an episode of Do Go On where we talked about. Was it a heist? Yeah, well, among other things, we talked about detective comics and we talked about the origin of Superman. But intertwined, I found a delightful article by someone whose name I cannot recall. Was it me? No, it wasn't you.

You don't write articles. Oh, okay. What would be the odds that you wrote one article and then you forgot about it? I mean, it's possible. Yeah, but it was about the time that Nicolas Cage's house was burgled and all the, well, burgled, but all the thieves took was some very, very valuable sort of vintage DC comics

that he left in locked cases with the key right next to them. Yeah, right. But he's – in a promo tweet, you can track this down on Twitter, he's provided a tip line number if you want to call up if you have any information about these missing comic books because they retrieved one of them, I think. Yeah, and didn't he sell it like immediately?

Yeah, he did, yeah. Yeah. But I don't think he got back Detective Comics 27, which is the first appearance of Batman. Yeah. That never returned. Why didn't they call it Batman number one or Batman's here? He's going to be big actually.

Oh, yeah, nice. It's going to be a big. We've got an inkling. There's going to be a big movie. That's right. We think. Just one. Just one, yeah.

He said, I just want to get my comic books back, describing them as treasures that are in the $10 million range. He added that the money generated from selling them could be donated to charity and the video has a tip line number. We've tried it and it doesn't work, according to this article. But this might prompt someone to come forward with any information they have. Yeah, absolutely.

They're long gone. When did that happen? That happened- Like late 90s? Don't happen when he was in the running to be Superman. So like 96, 97. Yeah, that's why he had all the comic books, because he was doing research. And also they were a thing to buy.

They're gone. You reckon? Yes. I mean, they're not- do you mean gone in the sense that some collector has them? Yeah, some collectors or they've just been shuffled around so much. Yeah. Or maybe somebody panicked and just tossed them in a river or something like that.

Maybe they did, yeah. But, like, I don't know, I reckon that's probably, like, eight to 12 people removed. And what would anybody get out of that by coming forward and being like, yeah, I did that? Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Or somebody, and even if you'd said, I know this person took them,

it was 20 plus years ago. Speaking of a guy who did that, have I ever told you my, do you know that I'm a Jason Todd truther? Are you aware of that, that concept? As in, what does that mean exactly? So, you know, okay, so in the 80s, DC, I'll give you a very short version, but you would know this. In the 80s, DC decided to increase engagement from their readership.

What they would do is they would let their readers decide whether or not Jason Todd, the second Robin, would live or die. Yeah. And in order to determine that, they set up two 1-900 numbers and you could call one if you wanted him to live and you could call one if you wanted him to die. And once the time was up, it was like by some tiny margin, it was like 60 or 70 votes, it was Jason Todd is going to die.

Yeah. And then years later, representatives of DC in interviews were like, yeah, we heard there was a guy and he programmed his computer to just constantly call the Jason Todd should die number. Right. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Like, you know, every 90 seconds for eight hours or something, which is hundreds of votes, which would have tipped the scales over. Yes. And like over the years they were like, oh, we heard he was a lawyer. Oh, we heard he used a Mac. Oh. We heard he lived in California. Oh.

Like there's all this sort of stuff. And it's like, I don't think that guy existed. That's what, number one, here's my two. Where does the story come from? Well, it came from Denny O'Neill who was the Batman group editor at the time. But how would he know that a guy's doing that? We don't know.

He just heard the thing. So I don't know. But here's the thing. I think two things. I think one, that guy didn't exist and I think two, they were going to kill jason todd no matter what yeah firstly because imagine i think that's yeah like imagine if they'd done this thing and the the votes had said jason todd lives people would go oh so so a character in a john where everybody

lives all the time is going to live that's not a revelation that's not interesting and also if you were that guy yeah if you were so invested in this character that you wanted to kill him, by now you'd be like, that was me. I did that. I did that, right? Because you're not going to jail for that, are you? No, that's true. And like at this point, Jason Todd has both died and come back.

He's now kind of a character that is on. You'd be like, well, I was responsible for that. Yeah, he's in animation and he's in video games and lunchboxes and action figures and all this sort of stuff. Maybe they cut you a check. They wouldn't. They would 100% not cut you a check. But I think maybe then you wouldn't because there was a backlash

to the backlash. People were like, how dare you kill this character? We actually liked him. And I think maybe then you wouldn't have. But I reckon enough times past you'd be like, yeah, that was me actually. Unless he's dead. He might be dead.

I also considered that. But if it did happen, it would have been a dude. Yes, 100%. Yes. Does anybody know out there? I would love to know. Oh, wow. Have you got a hot tip line?

Yeah, it's whatever the Nick Cage one is, the same one. Just call it up and be like, I don't have any information about the comics, but I reckon this guy didn't really exist. Weeklyplanetpot.gmail.com. If you know. Yeah. Absolutely. But surely he would have told somebody.

Well, he could have died. I know. If he's a guy, which he is. But if he was a woman, lived forever. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, evolved into a higher being of energy. Maybe it's somebody who just went, I did my work and now I step back from the public spotlight.

Wow. Yeah, how many votes was it? It wasn't that many, was it? It was like in the tens of thousands, I think. Yeah. And, yeah, the difference was like 60 or 70 votes. It was some very small amount, which is why it's – because if that takes the heat off DC because then they could just be like,

well, you know, a guy did it. Yeah. There's some guy did it and it's not our fault. Also, I don't believe that it would have been skewed so far to him living that then somebody would have to ring thousands of times to skew it the other way. Right. I think it would have been, if it was official and legit,

more even and close or Jason Todd is killed, like, overwhelmingly. Yeah, right. I don't think it would be the other. Because you'd be more inclined to call, I think, if you did want him dead. Yeah. I guess. I don't think it would be the other. Because you'd be more inclined to call, I think, if you did want him dead, I guess. I don't know. Anyway, I want to see DC's phone records is what I'm saying. Give us your phones.

Give us your phone records, DC. Give us every one of your phones. Put them in the bag. You know all those 1980s phones that you just stuck in a bunch of milk crates and you put them in the back of the DC offices? Give them to me. I'm going to examine them. I'm going to dust them for prints.

I would love if you stormed into the D.C. office in a balaclava, took everybody's phones, and then that became an urban legend. Sure. This guy stormed in demanding all our landlines. I don't know what he needed them for. Anyways. Yeah. Mason, everything, everywhere, all at once.

My goodness. A movie that is opening in select cinemas around the globe. I had to go to a special fancy man cinema. I went to the same fancy man cinema. That's my regular cinema because I am a fancy man. You're a fancy man. And it's close. Yes.

Claire used to work there, so I've spent a lot of time there as a youth. You know what I mean? Don't go out with me. Claire. I used to work there, so I've spent a lot of time there as a youth. You know what I mean? Don't go out with me. I already got out with Claire. Get me a popcorn for free. I want a Coke, no ice. I don't want to watered down. I want old Coke, no ice.

Big, large, large popcorn. Fresh. Make it fresh. Yeah, so this has a budget of $25 million, which goes a long way. Yeah. I was also going to say, apparently it is expanding, like the release is expanding. I think I saw a tweet a couple of days ago that was like, in the US it's going to 2,000 more theatres and what have you.

Financially, I'm not sure how well it's doing. Well, at the moment it's only got $13.8 million worldwide, but I think that will change. I think it will do super well in streaming as well. But, yeah, so what do you think the story was? Also, I didn't know really anything about this going on, and I purposely didn't watch anything because people were like, this is amazing, you'll kill yourself. You'll kill yourself.

You'll like it so much. And so I think everybody who doesn't know should experience it like that. You should see it. Yes. And you should stop everybody who doesn't know should experience it like that. You should see it. Yes. And you should stop the review if you want to. Yeah, I think just the idea like us discussing the basic premise will be spoilery in some way. I think if you like.

And we'll keep that very vague also. Yeah, I think if you like superhero stuff. Yep. And you don't take it all that seriously. Yeah. I think you'll enjoy this. Yeah. Yeah. Because it starts as like a low-key like family drama.

And it is still that for a lot of it. It is that. Yeah. And, you know, they run a laundromat and, you know, it's tax time and everyone knows how difficult that is. Oh, my God. But then there are a series of other things that happen throughout the film. Yeah, so the delightful Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn who, as you mentioned.

If you didn't know what it was, though, you'd be like, is this like just some indie drama? Yeah. Is it the farewell with like Awkwafina or whatever? Who was supposed to be in this at one point actually, yeah. So she plays Evelyn. She runs a laundromat with her husband and then above the laundromat they live with their daughter.

Sorry, my brother's bloody messaging me. Which one? Which one do you think? The one, actually, I don't know. It's Easter. Yeah. The one I don't like. My brother said you've got to set the second controller as guest,

you dumbass. Oh, so it is the one I don't like. Yeah. Well, I'm trying to, never mind, it's a whole thing. Don't worry about it. The one I do like wouldn't know any of that stuff. No, he'd absolutely not know that. Which is why I like him so much.

Anyway, so they live upstairs of this busy laundromat. Let me think. Okay, so number one. Yep. Her estranged elderly father is coming to visit from China and he's probably going to judge her lifestyle and her success. I thought he was dead. Not in the movie.

I'm like, is this a dead man? The Weekend at Bernie's style. The actor. Yeah. Who's in, what's his name? He's in Big Trouble in Chinatown. He's in a bunch of stuff. He's been in like 600 movies apparently.

He has been in 600 movies. I was reading a bunch of stuff beforehand. James Hong. There we go. I should have remembered that because he's amazing. Yeah. Anyway, he's coming to town. He's going to be judging, you know, how successfully she is

and et cetera and she shouldn't have, she's made the wrong choices and et cetera. She's going to judge the daughter's relationship with another woman. They're being audited by the IRS. There's a big party. She's arranged a big Chinese New Year party. Who's going to arrive? It's very complicated.

Her relationship with her husband and her daughter, very strained it seems. James, what else could go wrong? Well, there's a multiverse and it's unravelling. That's right, exactly. There it is. To what extent? Well, just everything, all of it, all at once I guess.

What I found interesting about this was, first of all, a couple of things. We're not going to do full spoilers. We'll try not to, yes. But if you want going to do full spoilers, but we will do full spoilers. We'll try not to, yes. But if you want to skip to full spoilers, they're a time code. Sure. So why would you?

But if I got this script, I don't know whether you could fully comprehend what they were, the Daniels who directed this movie, and they did Swiss Army Man, which I still haven't seen, which I'm 100% going to watch this week, I hope. I don't know if I could like, yeah, you know, who knows. I don't know whether I could like comprehend it necessarily. Do you know what I mean? Because there's so much about this and multiple things happening at once.

And visually it's very, like there's a lot of things which I feel like you couldn't explain in a script. Yeah, right. And then you'd have to have those ideas in your head and then also be able to then execute them. It i think it feels to me like we've talked about this before but like you know in any era of like if you're an actor and you went onto a set and it was just all green screen you'd be like is this movie gonna be any good yeah like i feel like it sort of could be the same like at the script level you'd be like this could be amazing or it could be a total mess

yeah well michelle yo who is the star of this or one of the stars, I've seen a few interviews where she talks, a lot of interviews, down a bit of a rabbit hole, were talking about this and how, like the script she was just like blown away by it. And it was also a matter of like, are these guys serious about this? This is a real thing. But she's like, it's really a display of all of my abilities. Well, exactly.

Because it spans genres. You get everything. All sorts of stuff. And it's also interesting in that she is, you know, a Chinese actress of a certain age. Yes. The idea of just making her the star of this when you could have gotten one of the Chris's.

Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage. Well, that's the thing also because initially they were going to make the lead Jackie Chan. Her role was for Jackie Chan. Yeah, right. And he's great and he would have pulled off I think all of this. But I think there's something about her and the fact that she's turning 60

and this is another thing I saw in an interview where it's about an older or an Asian lady and an immigrant who's somebody you just might pass in the street, you know, any day of the week. But they've got this whole amazing backstory, like coming to, like for example in this movie, to America with dreams and hopes and looking to achieve the American dream and how did that go? Do you know what I mean? And you don't see characters really like that. In a movie like this, you might see it in like an indie kind of situation.

But 99% of this kind of movie, it would be a Chris Evans type probably. And he's in his 30s, but he just can't get it together. I mean, he's very handsome and he lives in a million-dollar loft. Yeah. And he drives a big American muscle car or whatever, but he can't get it together. And a lot of times, like, if somebody turns up and tells you you're the most special person in the world,

like you're James McAvoy in the movie Wanted, or do you know what I mean, or something like that, you know. And the fact that it's... You're Johnny Push. You're Johnny Push. Yeah, exactly. So I thought, yeah, that's one of the strengths of this, like, huge part of that movie, among many other things.

The way that they executed this, again, it's like it's so specific and direct and there's so many moments that flash by for like a split second. Like you might get like images of like the one character. You might get 50 images and in every image they're dressed differently with different makeup, different location, whatever. And just the effort that goes in, like a lot of people have compared this to The Matrix,

but I think there's a bunch of Monty Python in this and like Terry Gilliam and Douglas Adams. Yeah, I was going to say, he tried to guide the galaxy, yeah. There's so much of that in this as well. Yeah, there is sort of a mechanism that doesn't really make any sense. Also, if you're absolutely hung up on whether a movie's

sort of incredible sci-fi mechanic works. I don't know if this is going to work for you. I don't know if it does or doesn't. Now that I know what it is, I think I'd have to go back and watch it again, but I didn't have enough time. But, yeah, like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the characters spend a lot of time on a ship, which I think is called the Heart of Gold,

and it runs on an infinite improbability drive. And that's sort of... The least likely thing to happen will happen, like that will occur. Is that right? Something like that, yes. Something like that. And it's like, yeah, there's an element of that to this.

There was like a moment, a fleeting moment in this movie where it was really kicking off where I thought to myself, I'm like, is my brain too old for this? Right. Do you know what I mean? It's like there's a lot going on here and I'm pretty sure I'm keeping up, but am I? But also at the same time, I think this movie does a really good job

of ramping up like the world building and how things work. So by the time you are like well into it, you get it. Yeah, you get it. If you're paying attention, you get it, you know. But there was a moment where I'm like, maybe I'm old. But no, that was a very fleeting moment. I also want to talk about Ki-Hoo Kwan who people might know. Well, he's the doting husband in this movie but he is also probably

most famously to us, he's short round. He's short round. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Dome. So he's now 50 and he hasn't acted really. I think he's done a couple of TV things more recently. He did some sitcom stuff and I don't know. He probably did the Big Bang Theory as himself. Oh, yeah, maybe, yeah.

Yeah. But he hasn't really acted since the 90s and one of the reasons why he quit was because he, I was again reading about his backstory, was that there wasn't really any opportunities for him as an Asian actor. Like he's in Encino, man. I don't know if you remember that. He's just like a background student. He's in The Goonies as well?

Yeah, he's the main character in The Goonies. But he went to Hong Kong and various other places and worked as a flight choreographer and assistant director for like 20 years. That's why we haven't seen him. So he wasn't really getting roles that he liked so he just quit but then he saw crazy rich asians and he was like oh shit like i would have loved to have been a part of that and also and also like there was a lot because michelle yo's in that as well and that's what she was talking about there's a lot of pressure on that movie because if it didn't do well you can see the studio reaction would have been like,

well, this doesn't work in all Asian casts, so let's not do anything like this ever again. But it made $800 million or whatever it was. So, yeah, that's – so then he, you know, in deciding to come back, he got this script and then he went through like acting coaches and dialect coaches because he plays multiple people and it's like even his posture changes and multiple people play multiple people in this. And he was fucking awesome.

And there's a little, you see like little bits of short round in him as well. Like some of his characters are like, that's very short round because also he is short round. That's true, yes. But he was amazing. He was really, really impressive. Now, James, do you think this will somehow add fuel to the fire of Bring Back Short Round in an Indiana Jones movie?

Look, I've been on the Bring Back Short Round train for ages, but I was always like... You've been whipping? Yeah, exactly. You've been ducking? You've been ducking under tunnels? It's my brother again. Oh, my God.

He sent me a tutorial. Okay, that's good. All right, great. But I was... Finally. Yeah, I know, right? Finally this guy pulls his weight. But I'll, because he said, anyway, I just said how. He's like,

and he sent me a thing. Anyway. Right. But I was like, you've got to recast it. You know what I mean? Get someone cool. I get Glenn from The Walking Dead or whatever. Get Glenn from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Exactly. Get one of the Glenns. But get Glenn close. But he would, he could totally do it now. Yeah. You know? Yeah, yeah. Seeing this,s. Yeah. But get Glenn close. But he could totally do it now.

Yeah. You know? Yeah, yeah. Seeing this, absolutely. Yeah. And it was just interesting like seeing interviews about him talking about Indiana Jones and the way that he was treated. And he said like it was a great experience.

Like he was, like he had experience. Because he's got, he's from, I can't remember where he's from. But he's. James, I'll tell you exactly where he's from. I want to say. He is born in Vietnam, yeah. So like he came over in like the late 70s and then he was – he didn't see his family for like a year because it was like, you know,

it's a whole process of getting everybody over. You can't do it all at once. And so he's got this amazing life. But he had a good experience on those films and with Spielberg because Spielberg produced The Goonies. But then it just stopped kind of happening. And what is interesting about, and like you said, without giving away too much, he does play different versions

of Waymond, who is the character's name. I was like, is he saying that? But it's Waymond. His name is Waymond. And he can play kind of this doting kind of like wallflower husband. Yeah. But he can also be sort of a very kind of suave, kind of charismatic version of that.

He's almost as good as Jackie Chan in the movie The Tuxedo where he has a tuxedo that makes him fight. And there's a bit of that in this, I guess. Yeah, right. Sort of. I haven't seen that movie. But he gets one particular action sequence with a fanny pack or a bum bag. That's what we call it, yes.

Which is really great as well. Jamie Lee Curtis is really good in this. Stephanie Hsu, who plays their daughter, is really terrific in this. Yeah, it's very well cast all around, and there's some obviously great stunt people in it. So the fights in this, apparently it was choreographed by, there's a YouTube channel called The Marshall Club,

which I've never heard of. And they're pretty well known. But, you know, there's a billion YouTube channels. And they choreographed these fights? Yeah, or a bunch of them. So they do Hong Kong-inspired work on YouTube. There's been a bit of that where people start on YouTube and then they. Have Corridor Crew gone to Hollywood?

I think they have, but I don't think- Probably too much money. I don't think they need to now because it's their own business. Well, that's true. And they run like they do D&D campaigns. That's why we don't make movies. That's true. Because we've got this little business.

That's right, yeah. Also, this movie was produced by the Russo brothers. Yes. I didn't know that. That was another thing. So they met up with the Russo brothers and they were like, well, they're two people directing a movie together and we're two people directing.

Oh, I see. Right, right. And so I guess they connect on that level and they helped them with the script. They rented two tandem bikes and cycled through a park with them and did a big important meeting on them. Absolutely. So, yeah, that's cool, right?

Yeah. And the Russos, they don't have a Netflix deal, or do they? They have an Apple deal. What did Cherry go to? I didn't watch it. That went to Apple. Okay. Yeah. Maybe it was a one-stop. Anyway, this movie is completely absurd, and you sort of have to... You're right,

it builds in a way I don't think it would confuse you, but I think you... I enjoyed it a lot. It definitely could confuse you. Yeah, I think it definitely could confuse you. I enjoyed it a lot, and I wonder if in a different state of mind I'd be like, this is too silly. Yeah.

But I thought it was very – Oh, yeah, there's a bit of like Kung Fu Hustle or Shaolin Soccer. See, exactly, yeah. Which I haven't seen that one, but there's a lot of that in it. Yeah, I never liked Kung Fu Hustle. Yeah, I wasn't a big fan either, but I feel like I should watch that because I think I watched it when I was like 20 and I'm like, this is silly. But it's probably not.

Pretty good. I mean, it is silly, but it's probably amazing. But I think another strength of this movie is that it always comes back to like the core family and the relationship. Yes, yes. And you don't only get the relationships of like the people within the family in the regular dimension. Every other dimension is just as important.

And then the dynamics in relationships, someone who's your enemy in one dimension might be the person you're married to in another dimension. Right, yeah. So I think they handle, they walk that line really, really well. Yeah. Should we do spoilings? Let's do spoilings.

I think I'm going to say best movie ever. You should say this. Very good time. Yeah. Also it's pretty long but it's quick. Yeah, it is going to say best movie ever. You should say this. Very good time. Yeah. Also, it's pretty long, but it's quick. Yeah, it is. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

It's like two hours and 20, but I don't think you don't feel it. And there's no post-credits, so you can leave immediately. You can not read any of those names. You can just get out of there. Bang. We've already told you the Russo Brothers produced it. What more do you need? That's the only person, peoples, that you need to know of.

Who did all the different covers of Absolutely, Story of a Girl. We're in spoilers now. You're in spoilers. Best movie ever. So there's a moment where they mention- Waymond. Waymond says, like, I know you feel like something's wrong. Your clothes never, like, feel right.

Wear as well the next day. And your hand never falls in quite the same way. And I'm like, is that a fuck? Did you just- Yes, absolutely, Story of a Girl. And then you hear the song later. It keeps next day. And your hand falls in quite the same way. And I'm like, is that a fuck? Did you just, and then you hear the song later. I'm like, that wasn't a mistake. They did that on purpose.

It's like weird. So, okay. So I thought I misheard. I'm like, they did not just do like a story of a girl. It keeps coming. Like, I'm sure I missed a few as well,

but I think so. Okay. So, so to explain this, what happens is the, the uh the driving narrative of this movie is there is one central dimension called the alpha universe alpha and the alpha verse and that's central because they invented evelyn invented evelyn found a way, Evelyn discovered alternate universes and they produced a device or a technology that enables you to. Mind jump.

Mind jump into other universes. But her experiments on her daughter in that universe turned her into a dimension hopping. Nightmare monster. Nightmare monster creature. Called Jobu Tupaki. Yes. Yeah.

And then Evelyn was killed in that universe, but Jobu keeps going from dimension to dimension, killing people and trying to track down all the versions of Evelyn, I think. Seemingly to kill every one of them, but we find out later that she was just looking for somebody to be like, can you see what I see? Yeah. And everything is ludicrous. So what can happen in the alphaverse, people can transfer their consciousness into versions of themselves from other dimensions and operate in those dimensions.

But also they can, once they're in those dimensions, they can build a little device, it seems, and put it in like mostly made out of like Bluetooth headsets, stuff like that. And you can, if you can figure out the probability, if you can. You need to do a ridiculous thing to then slingshot into a dimension to get a skill which might be useful in the situation that you're in. The device doesn't allow you to access the skills and memories

and experiences of versions of you from other dimensions. But to get to somewhere specific, you need to do a specific silly thing to get there. So it might be eating a chapstick. It might be putting something in your bum. Sure, yeah, it might be. It might be. It is.

But also Evelyn discovers, because she is... The least successful and happy version of her. Yeah, but she also discovers that you can just do random stuff and activate this device and you'll end up with random feet. You'll end up with random skills from a random dimension. So, for example, you might have increased lung capacity or you might have increased dexterity with your feet because you've gone to a dimension where humans evolved

to have hot dog fingers. And not like hot dog-like fingers but real hot dog fingers that have mustard and ketchup in them. Yes. Do they have mustard and ketchup in them? I know there was that in the movie that they were watching in the hot dog dimension but we never see that in the real dimension. No, I think we do.

I think there's a scene where Jamie Lee Curtis bites her fingers off. Oh, okay, right. Okay, cool. Well, a lot of things happen in this movie. Boy, didn't they, yeah. Yeah. So there's that. So I think that's the kind of narrative,

that's the kind of device you have to kind of get past, like do a silly thing to get to a dimension to get powers. But also when you come back to a dimension, depending on who you are, you can physically take something with you. So if you're powerful enough like Jobu Tabaki, you can actually transfer physical, like you can make someone's head explode and turn into a confetti because they're from a confetti person universe.

Yeah, right. But you can physically bring that over, whereas not everybody can do that. But the problem is with the villain is when you can see everything everywhere all at once. Oh, that's the title of the movie. Nothing means anything. Right. And you're never really anywhere because you're experiencing fractions

of reality but you can only really be present in maybe a couple at a time. Right. And everything else is just a blank. You can put a person on autopilot, you know what I mean, and just kind of have them just wander around and just be boring and plain. And you can never die because if something happens to you, there's an infinite number of you. And every time a decision is made, anything, a branch in the universe happens.

So you can't not exist. So it's this never-ending nightmare where you can't die and nothing means anything because there's an infinite amount of you, which means that nobody else means anything because there's an infinite amount of them. And you don't, you know, there's no small moments or anything. It's quite existential when you think about it, isn't it? But luckily there's time for some kung fu as well.

That's true. And they go to like the dimension where they're just rocks. Right, yes. With the turns around. It's also very funny. Yeah. There's a moment where the rock turns around and it's got googly eyes. That's not going to make sense if you haven't seen it.

But like there's so many little moments that are just really very funny. One of my favourite dimensions was the raccoon tui. So there's a moment where evelyn mentions are you get you to her husband you were being controlled from a version of you from another dimension kind of like that movie raccoon tooey and it turns out there's a dimension where she is a chef in a teppanyaki restaurant where there's another really they do like skill yes and where there's another chef who's really good who is doing raccoon too. He has a raccoon.

Under his big chef's hat, yes. Who's pulling his hair and making him a chef. Yeah. But eventually she learns a valuable lesson because she is stubborn and she's always about fighting. What she learns is that the – what she learned from her husband. Yeah. She learns to appreciate more,

is maybe bend a little. And instead of just beating everybody up, maybe, you know. Do nice things. Do nice things. You can do nice things across the various multiverses. Yeah. Yeah.

And at the end, it's kind of implied that she's living this simple life, but it's also she's not. Was it all a dream? I don't think it's kind of implied that she's living this simple life, but it's also she's not. Was it all a dream? I don't think it's that. But she's also, maybe actually. Maybe. Maybe she died at the Star Chains and all the rest of it was just her dying moments, you know?

Fine. You know what? I'd give it this. If it was that, I'd be like, all right. But I don't know. For me, the ending I think is bittersweet because they decide that, like, we're just going to, you know, I can, I just, you know, I know everything is happening all at once all the

time, but I can just have these little moments where I'm filing my taxes and I'm with my family and that's good. But you see there's kind of this blank look on her face because maybe she's living all those other multiple lives at the same time. And is that good or not good? I don't know. I don't know either. Yeah.

Anyway, it was good. I really liked it. It's good, right? Yeah. It's good fun. Sequel, Mason? Probably not. Post-credits?

No, there's not post-credits and they shouldn't be a sequel. Here's a bit of fun for you. Okay. Randy Newman uncredited as Chad's raccoon. Like the voice? The official soundtrack credits Newman as a featured artist on the track Now We're Cookin'. Well, that makes sense.

He's a Pixar guy, isn't he? Yeah, absolutely it is. God, they really made this budget go a long way. Yeah, Jenny Slade is the customer in the laundromat with the dog. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's really fun. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. That's it. Yeah, people should check it out. I mean, but it's interesting as well. Like I also imagine there'll be some people who are like, I'm vague multiverse, I'm not on board. Oh, you could hate this. I could see going in and being like, I fucking hated that.

Yeah, right. I can think of like ten people off the top of my head who would hate this. Are they all in your group chat? Yes. Yeah, but they love the movie Goodfellas. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Well, it's a good movie. In a way, we're all the Goodfellellas. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Well, it's a good movie. In a way, we're all the Goodfellas, you know, all of us in the group chat.

Yeah. James, can you change the group chat title to A Bunch of Goodfellas? I'm not in charge of the group chat title, unfortunately. Wow. But what was I going to say? I thought you were the alpha, but I guess you're more of a sigma. I'm a sigma. That's right.

Would you, like, recommend this to your parents, for example? No, I That's all right. Would you recommend this to your parents, for example? No, I don't think so. Would you recommend it to my parents? As a prank, maybe. Maybe. Yeah. I don't know. Give it a go.

Yeah. I think even if you know this, all of this, and you haven't seen it, you can still go into this and I need to see it again because there's so many. I think even if you have been a little bit spoiled, if you were like, I'm not going to watch this whole, listen to the review. Yeah. I think even us spoiling it a little bit would be fine. I think there's enough in it like character moments

and funny stuff that I think would be worth it. And just like that's a pretty good fight scene. Yeah. Also, there's not that many fight scenes either. No, and also most of this movie is set in like two locations. Yes. It's set in a laundromat and the IRS office. Oh, and then other multiple dimensions.

Oh, yeah, but yeah, that's true. But yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah. And apparently that's a real like space that they rented. Like it's not a studio I think for the most part. And they filmed everything around what they could physically do in a space. Like, you know, that stairwell bit. Yes.

Where Jamie Lee Curtis jumps down the stairwell. That's, I was watching, you know, Notes on a Scene or whatever. Yeah, yeah. They just happened to find a stairwell where there was like a room to the side of it where you could set up cameras. Because in an actual stairwell, you couldn't fit a camera in that room and they're like, oh, do we build a stairwell? And it's like, oh, no, we found the stairwell where you can film

this thing happening. Wow. Oh, yeah, to get back to my original point. Oh, sorry. I think there's multiple versions of absolutely story of a girl in this movie. Yeah, because there's some maybe in other languages. Yeah. Yeah, yes.

Who recorded those, don't know. They're probably on the soundtrack, though. Maybe they are. Yeah. I didn't stay for the credits. I ran out of the Theatre Mason to tell everybody to see this movie. Wow, wow, wow. Yeah.

Anyways, and then the next segment, et cetera. We already recorded all that. Yeah, we did. Great. I keep going because I'm like, have we said enough? And I'm like, no, we did the rest of the podcast earlier. It's done already. Yeah.

My goodness. Do you hear that? No. Do you know what it's done for? Do you hear that when I said that? I heard. But what was the thing? Like I did hear what you said then.

Yeah. But I am a little bit concerned about the thing there wasn't anything prior to that i was trying to riff and then you'd riff and then we'd go into the thing but you just shot me down so your riff prompt was name anything name any noise that's what they do with like you know the improv group might be like give me a word give me give me a name, give me a place. James, you know, that's not how my brain works. My brain doesn't work at all. But, like, you know when somebody goes, name a song, any song, and you're like, oh, no, I can't.

My brain always goes blur song too because it's got song in the title. Oh, that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, did you hear that? Yes, it was the sound of the upcoming segment as it approaches on a big train. Sure. We're in a tunnel and it approaches on,

it's on like an old-timey steam train and it's on like a little carriage, like an open-air carriage that's in a box. Okay, good. We open it up. And what is it? Wow. It's the theme to what we read and what we're going to read.

Yeah, that's right. I mean, it's on mute, but no, it won't be. I had plenty of time to unmute that. I'm going to get a Wario for this podcast. Westworld. Whoa. Well, this is the segment of the show where we talk about things that we watched or read or listened to.

Don't we, Mason? We sure do. Have you got anything that you've made? Isn't there a comedy show that you want to spruik? Well, I was going to say, recently we mentioned Cam and Alexi on Total Reboot. We're on that show. Boy, did we. Cam is in Melbourne currently, and he's doing a show called Electric Dreams.

Wow. Which is a show all about the time he wanted to be a serious musician as a young man. And he's just, I haven't seen it yet, but it's coming. If you're listening to this right now, it's coming out this week. It's him going on stage with his actual songbook, all the songs he wrote. Oh, wow. Like when he was a teenager attempting to be a serious musician

and just belting them out on stage. That sounds incredible. So it should be really good, yeah. Excellent. How did your Do Go On episode go, Mason? Very well. Thank you for asking. I saw you met some people who were listening to the show.

I did, yes. Yes, we had a grand old time. Excellent. Got some photos with some listeners of the podcast. You had some brews afterwards. Were you like, let's have some brewskis, everyone? Yeah, I did and everybody left. So I was like, I've got ten brewskis, folks.

You're going to stick – oh, you've all left. So I'm just going to drink all these brewskis by myself in a pub that's closed. That's what I did. But, yeah, no, that was great. We'll be out this week or next week. And we talked about, Jess did a lovely report on the behind the scenes of the movie The Island of Dr. Moreau. Oh, my God, a nightmare, right?

Yeah. Oh, that's good. I'm looking forward to that. Good times. Thanks for having me do Go On podcast. You're welcome. So Sonic, I watched Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with my son this week. Yes.

You know, it was all right. Was it better or worse than the last one? The same. The same? Well, it was better in the sense that there's more like Sonic stuff. Okay. It's more like focused on Sonic and him and Tails working together and Knuckles shows up and whatever.

Where I think it is not as good is that it's most, all the Jim Carrey stuff is pretty much him clearly shouting at nothing. Okay, sure. Like he's supposed to be interacting with Sonic and he's in a big floating whatever and he's like, no, I've got the power and I'm doing a dance. Sure. Or is he dab or floss? Yeah, all that kind of stuff or whatever.

And it's just like, yeah, like he's good on his own, but I think it would have been better if he had literally anybody to play off. Yeah, right, right, right. Because the stuff with him and James Marsden, and they bring back like the guy who makes his lattes, like that's all fine, but it's mostly him just being like, no, I've got all the power in this room. I'm doing a dance now to celebrate.

I'm doing a dance about it. Nice. So there's a lot of flossing and what have you. Yeah. Are there any other like dated pop cultural references? Yeah, probably. Okay, great. You know, but again, like as a movie.

Yes. And it's the same with the first one. It is a kid's movie. Yes. And it is completely tolerable as a kid's movie. And my son loved it. You know, it's got robots, like giant robots and adventure and speed and fighting and fun and danger and whatever. But it's all very safe.

Not too much fighting. No, not too much fighting. Knuckles doesn't turn Sonic into a bloody pirate. No. With his famous signature echidna sandwiches. They make pretty much Knuckles. He's got his echidna sandwiches. Thanks.

Shut up. Shut up. He gives Sonic an echidna sandwich. Shut up. A vetoing echidna sandwich. That might be your last one, James. It is, yes. Oh, my God.

Worth it. And it's only April. Wow. Could I earn another one? Maybe, I don't know. We'd have to figure out a system, I guess. So people don't know I've got two vetoes for the year to veto a riff. No, you had three.

Oh, yeah, three. And the first one I can't remember. Yeah, but then the second one was mine. And now the third one is a Kinder Sandwich. And I'm done. I'm shutting it down that's me for the year, god I'm going to regret that you sure are and they make Knuckles

he's Drax, he's like I'm literal, I don't understand anything I honestly thought you meant Drax from Moonraker Hugo Drax so he's just like, I don't understand metaphors or like, oh I have to shake a hand I honestly thought you meant Drax from Moonraker. Yeah. Hugo Drax. Hugo Drax, yeah. So he's just like, oh, but I don't understand metaphors. Or like, oh, I have to shake a hand. How does that work?

You know, whatever. But again, if you've got like young kids, take him. Although there was a really young kid who was there. He was like four. He was like had to go outside because he was upset at a point. So maybe a bit older than that, I guess. You know your kids. Do whatever your kids like.

Yeah. But you're going to say it? No. Yeah, fair enough. I mean, when it's on streaming or something. Yeah, again, and it's totally fine. And there's more video game-y kind of stuff and there's like a maze you have to run through at the end and it's very much like a Sonic

kind of level with spikes and pits and whatever. Oh, okay, very video game-y. Okay. It's fun. Look, I think if we were in kind of a dry spell in terms of movies that are coming out and Sonic was the only thing out, we would probably cover it extensively in the podcast like we did the last one. Yeah.

But, I mean, this is a big month. Also, we kind of thought that was going to be a disaster and it was an interesting lead up in how they changed it, you know what I mean? Yeah. Where there's nothing as interesting about it. That's true. Though it is doing well. Yeah.

And, again, because it's fine. It's what it's supposed to be. It's exactly what it's supposed to be. They didn't go, okay, well, let's take Sonic and just make him a regular man who operates in some sort of weird post-apocalyptic parallel dimension in New York City or whatever. He's a blue hedgehog. Let's make him a blue hedgehog.

They didn't do the postman, but Sonic. That's true. Yeah, and that's a movie. What else have you been looking at, Martin? I've been reading the most recent She-Hulk series. Oh, yeah. What's that one about? That got pushed the next year, didn't it?

I think I saw that this week. Oh, the TV series, yeah. I think it might have been. So there are three issues in. It's written by Rainbow Rowell and illustrated by Luca Maresca and Jorge Antonio. And it's very much like it is the previous She-Hulk series which was just called Hulk and it ended in, I think, 2018

and it was very much like here's what happens when there's vast psychological trauma and here's what Jennifer Walters has turned into and, you know, this is real, this is big, heavy stuff. Yeah, that's right. James is giving me a shock. James is undermining what I'm saying with a shocked face. No.

But that was big, heavy stuff. Yeah. And this one is like definitively kind of back to basics. Quarter room shenanigans. Well, we actually haven't had that many quarter room shenanigans yet. But it's very much, I think it is, if I had to guess, it's because it's meant, it's supposed to be how the series is going to be. I think it's probably a signpost as how the upcoming TV series is going to be how the series is going to be. I think it's probably a signpost as how the upcoming TV series

is going to be. It's very much Jennifer Walters is a capable but kind of mousy lawyer, but she can also change at will into She-Hulk and she's powerful and fabulous and what have you, and she's dealing with various superhero legal, you know, little legal situations, and there's the occasional supervillain dust up kind of thing. It's quite...

Could she do a big kick? She can do a big kick. Yeah, that's what I like. It's also quite, like, if you are looking for, like, a heavy action series, this is not it, at least so far. It's more like a rom-com kind of series.

Like, she's... The big mystery or the big sort of narrative of this is sort of a minor superhero character called Jack of Hearts who we last saw off in deep space exploding and being a zombie, I think, has returned to Earth and his powers aren't working and he's like, oh, can I just crash at your place, Jennifer Walters? I'm so handsome.

I'm so handsome I've got a heart over my eyes. Isn't that something? So it's very much like kind of like fun and lighthearted and great art. So I know you're like don't expect big punch-ups or whatever, but you like it. Yeah, I think it's good. Then that's great. It's more just like a fun character-based book as opposed to like.

But again, we're only three issues in. Yeah. I think in issue four she's going to deal with one of the things, legal issues, so I think there might be a big dust-up. Those two and some villains will pop in and what have you. But it's good fun. Also, interestingly, she doesn't – this version of She-Hulk so far has not talked to the reader.

So I don't think she – I don't know if this version – Do you think they're getting people used to that for the show? I wonder if that is like, again, I wonder if this series is signposting the TV series, which would suggest that in the TV series she doesn't talk to the viewer. Because if you don't know She-Hulk famously, some versions of her are aware that she's a comic book character. So I have to wonder.

Which versions? Name them. John Byrne version. Yep. Some other ones. Very good. Thank you. You caught to wonder. Which versions? Name them. John Byrne version. Yep. Some other ones. Very good. Thank you. You called my bluff.

I did. Beautifully, I might add. It was a beautiful bluff call. It was. Anything else you're reading or are you happy to move on to the next segment of the show? Nope, that's it. Have you done any non-children's movie viewing or reading? Yeah, I mean, I'm watching.

I've been working my way through some Star Wars video games, trying to find something good for Attack of the Clones for the video game. Oh, yes. Caravan of Garbage is people won't believe me. It's 100% the Phantom Menace, the movie this week. The audio is already at bigsamac.co. The video will also

go up there. The edit, the video I gave to Ben, the audio was 36 minutes. Oh, yeah. And the Phantom Attack of the Clones video is going to be like 41, 42 minutes. Whoa. And we haven't recorded Revenge of the Sith yet. But, yeah, so Attack of the Clones games,

there's not a game that's like a straight representation of the game. Oh, is it? It's not Lego or like Game Boy Advance. Right, right. And there are things like in and around that movie. Yeah. But there's, unlike the other two prequels, there's not like a this is the Attack of the Clones game.

So most of the Attack of the Clones stuff is either like you said, handheld or like within a saga. Yeah. There's a The Clone Wars game that came out at the same time and I tried it and it's not great or that interesting and it's like bugged out and fucked at the moment. Like it's not interesting enough. We'll dig something out.

I might do a combination of things. There's something really off the wall and bizarre I want to do and maybe even just the new. A little dance? Yeah, and maybe just that new Lego Star Wars one. I'm currently playing through that actually, which I might talk about more next week. And I'm not up to the bit with like the Attack of the Clones stuff,

but I'll see if there's something there that maybe we can play together that we'll do as well. Well, this is good. All this patter is distraction from the fact that we're actually doing a big trick, big trick slash prank. That's right. No, we are. Look, alas, we are the boys who cried Batman Begins for five weeks in a row.

So nobody believes us anymore. They think we're doing a big prank. And that's fine. That's right. People are right to think that. But again. You will regain your trust for a bit and then we're doing a big prank, but this is legit. And that's fine. That's right. People are right to think that. But again. You will regain your trust for a bit and then we'll do another big prank. People like that Phantom Menace video game video though it seems.

That's good. Except people who love Elon Musk inexplicably. And I'd rather. Let's get into it. Let's get into it. Let's move it along, Mason. What's next? James, next is the letters segment.

Oh, that's perfect. Where we read out letters. Yep. Both of us together. Together. In unison. Here's the theme for it. The classic one was...

Letters, oh letters, we love you. Some letters, they're only a day away. I know they're here right now. We're going to do letters. A lot of people have said, oh, obviously you should do Jedi Power Battles for... Sure. We did it.

We already did it. Like four or three or four years ago. It's a pretty good video, I thought. And we've done Masters of Terras Kasai probably. Have we? Yeah, we did it within a Darth Vader video. Yeah, right, right, right, right. A defeating Darth Vader video.

Underneath... Not that bad, that game. I mean, it's bad, but it's like If you played anything from that era It's like 90% unplayable now Yeah, very true Anyway, go on I was going to say Because I play the Letters theme from YouTube

Every week from my phone And they give me suggested videos underneath What have you got there? And this one just says Obi-Wan has PTSD And it's a five minute clip And it's got 12 million views. Yeah, I've seen that.

What is it? It's basically old Obi-Wan talking about like, oh, I knew your father, we were mates or whatever. And then it flashes back to like all the things that he did with sad music to it. Right. It's pretty well edited. Okay, that's great.

Well, no wonder it has 12 million views. Yeah, 10 of those 12 million views are mine. That's terrific. So yeah, there you go. Now, check it out. Add it to your watch later. Do you have a watch later? Yes.

Do you have a YouTube account? What's your YouTube account name? I don't know. Are you logged in on the app is my question. Yeah, I think so. Tell me the name of your account. I won't. I shan't be doing it.

Are you commenting on things? Never. I never commented on anything. Liking things? Sometimes, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, algorithm is more kind of skewed towards the length of time where you spend watching something. So, yeah, just apparently, who the fuck knows.

Ask Mr. Beast. He knows what he's doing, I think. Anyway, Mason. Ask Obi-Wan PTSD guy. He knows. Okay. So this is a segment where people can write in and say, hello, I've got a suggestion or a question or something going on in my life.

A sequestion. That's right. They might shoot a Gmail, a weekly plan a pod at Gmail. A sequestion. That's right. They might shoot a Gmail at weeklyplanetpod.gmail. A sugequestion. Yeah, sugequestion. See, I can do this forever now because you can't veto anything anymore. I think it's great. Why would I veto this?

This is your best joke ever, Mason. Thank you. Not a compliment. But I'm taking it as a compliment. Sugequestion. Weeklyplanetpod.gmail.com. Email in with your suge questions, which is where you're asking a question but actually you're just recommending something and it's just,

you know those people, they're like, does anybody have any questions? Oh, this question's more of a comment. Yeah. I'm just going to stand here for two minutes and just say my piece and everybody's going to get bored and uncomfortable. Yeah. And then the person I'm talking to is just going to have to say yeah. Yeah, that's interesting.

That is great, actually. Thanks for your participation. So weeklyplanetpod.gmail.com if you do want to suit the words to question or hashtag weeklyplanetpod on Twitter. What have you got, Mason, this week? This is from Falsey. Hello, Falsey. They say, I dreamt that I was a concert performance

of the various songs from your podcast, and when it came time for what we read and what we're going to read, James did not say Westworld and I was apoplectic. Stormed out of the venue in a fit of rage and then I woke up. We did. Yeah. We broke this dude's brain. Pretty good, right? I'm sorry. I don't always read out dreams, but if they're very good like that,

that's great. Yeah, yeah. And also I just love the idea of we all go to Hamer Hall for like a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra renditions of our various theme songs. And then it comes to that bit, I'm like, no, I'm not doing it. I don't do that anymore.

The spotlight swings over to just a rickety wooden chair and you're not in it. Or you are in it. What would you prefer? I'd rather be in it. You're in it and you're like, no. It's all people ever want from me.

I have other abilities, you know. Now you want me to do it, I won't do it. You know what? If we ever did it, if that scenario ever presented itself, I wouldn't do it. Wow. Yeah. Wow.

But I think that's because you're chicken. Yeah, maybe. There'd be too many people watching. I got a tweet here from David Meyer, hashtag We're Here to Plan a Pod. We should do more live shows, but they're really stressful, Mason. Yeah. Let's not do any, actually. The best part about doing the Dougal on live show is there were three

other people there who were all professional comedians. You could just stop talking for like minutes at a time. I did. Yeah, there you go. I did it for 40 minutes. I stopped talking. Hashtag Weekly Planet Pod from David who says, with Jurassic World Dominion coming out about humans

and dinosaurs in the world together, what if they were building to Dino Riders movie, the cartoon from the 80s? I think they are building towards writing dinosaurs. Yeah, right, yeah. 100%. Is this for now the last one? Yeah, I think it's capping off this trilogy, but I think. There was a feature out of whatever this week as well.

Did you see? They're like, it's good to be back to Jurassic Park. Even though Sam Neill's like, why would I go back to a dinosaur island? But now they're in the world. So it makes sense that Sam Neill would be involved with dinosaurs again. I really wish they'd gone with that human dna dinosaur hybrid thing and there's time they're running around carrying guns but i don't know if they ever would just because they're supposed to be majestic

they're supposed to be majestic and i think i i kind of feel like the people who make the decisions about this franchise they feel like that is a bridge they can't cross because it turns into like weird sci-fi B movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if it's just like these dinosaurs are beautiful and majestic like you said, then it's still classy cinema. Yeah. Because they've had plenty of opportunities to genetically engineer a cool dinosaur.

Yeah. It's always just like I guess it's got sharper claws and it's taller. It's a big T-Rex. It's a bigger T-Rex. It's a T-Rex but it's got bigger arms. You know. It's a T-Rex, but it's got bigger arms. Yeah. You know? Well, that's good, isn't it?

Pretty good, right? Yeah, I'd see a Dino Runners movie, though. A show that I didn't really watch, but I remember seeing the toys and being like, oh, my God. This is legit. This is the best idea anyone's ever had. Mason, what else have we got in terms of watches? Let me find another email.

While you're doing that, I can do this from Amy, who says, hashtag, we're the PlanetPod. It says, from Amy, who says, hashtag We're Through the Planet Pod. It says, please fucking talk about this on hashtag We're Through the Planet Pod. Tim Burton, and that is linking to Tim Burton developing a Mars Attacks sequel movie. Oh. Mars Attacks famously. Yes. It didn't do well.

Correct, yes. People didn't like it. They were like, this is so bizarre and odd. And the cast is phenomenal as well. And based on baseball cards, I think. Is it? Well, I mean, there were certainly Mars Detect cards. Let me look it up real quick.

I'm just going to. It got 55% Rotten Tomatoes. It made, at a budget of $70 million, it made $101 million. So with marketing, it wouldn't have made its money back. But it had Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Tom Jones, Natalie Portman. Jesus.

Jack Black's in it. Yeah. My goodness. Based on the top. Ray J's in it, famous for Raycons. Oh, yeah. Yep. So there you go.

That's great. Yeah, based on the Topps trading card series of the same name. There you go. Okay. So, yeah, it's like a weird B movie throwback kind of thing. Yeah. I don't actually think I've seen it. I just remember, like, people's heads being stuck to dogs and stuff

and whatever. Yeah, I have seen it. I don't know. I think I remember being very hyped to see it. Yeah. But the end result was not as, it's not as good, I don't know. I think I went into it being like, oh, this is a wacky novelty, I bet it'll be fun.

It wasn't that much fun. Oh, okay. Well, that's not good. Yeah. Have you got another letter for us? I'll find another letter. Oh, while you're doing that, I've got another tweet here from Harry. So many tweets.

Harry Mooney says, hey, Mr. Sunday Movies and Wikipedia Brown, hashtag weekly planet pod. My fiance is watching Space Jam and New Legacy at 8 a.m. on a Friday. What an absolutely useless unit. Wish her luck. Yeah, good luck. How did that happen? My goodness, 8 a.m. on a Friday.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what that is. That's great. I think you should just look out for her. Yeah. Just see if she's okay. When is the perfect time to watch a Space Jam sequel? Ever.

Absolutely sure. Yes, that's right. If you don't have to watch it, never watch it is my motto. Yeah. Mason, I'm going to throw to you again. Okay. Do you have another? This is from Sugarfang Gaming.

Oh. He says, howdy. Howdy to you. I was doing some thinking the other day and I had the thought that a good idea for Caravan of Garbage or a weekly planet podcast would be The Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves and the Hollywood Land movie about the life and death of George Reeves. I reckon it could be interesting or not.

I don't know. I'm not a professional YouTuber. Well, yeah, we're pretty much, I think we're out of Superman movies except for Supergirl. Yeah. But yeah, no, know. I'm not a professional YouTuber. Well, yeah, we're pretty much, I think we're out of Superman movies, except for Supergirl. Yeah. But yeah, no, definitely. I've never seen Hollywoodland either, so I think watching a bunch of that would be interesting. Is it out of our wheelhouse? I have seen it. I feel like it might be. I mean, I think in the context

of the show, I think it would be interesting. Yeah, I guess you're probably right. And then you could put Ben Affleck in the thumbnail. It'd do super well based on that. It's very true, yeah. It's actually excellent branding that this person has sent over. Who sent this over? Sugar Fan Gaming. Perfect. But you could do.

That's good branding too. You could do Ben Affleck body in the Superman suit, head, sad Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette. You know that one where he's just standing outside in the rain or whatever and he's wearing a sweatshirt and he's smoking a cigarette. The range of like the way that guy looks is amazing. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

Like he can look just the worst and then he can look incredible. You know what I mean? I guess that's like all of us. But he's much more famous and good looking. But I think most of us pick up like a sensible middle ground. We always look kind of okay. Yeah, exactly. This is from Spoopy who says,

in honor of Raimi directing Multiverse of Madness, please do a commentary for Darkman next month. Hashtag weekly planet pod. I would love that actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you want to do Darkman? Let's do Darkman. Yeah, cool.

It's on our list. Yeah. Yeah, Darkman's very good. I mean, I don't know if it is very good. I remember enjoying it a lot when it came out. Yeah, I don't even know if I've ever seen it fully. I think I have. I don't know.

But, God, it's Liam Neeson at the fairground. Colin Friels. Colin Friels. Australian actor. Yeah. Anything else, Mason? Because I've got one more quick one just to go. Give me one second.

All right, I'll just read this one quickly from Jason who says, it's from Jason Magic Historian. Sonic is from that. His name is Jason Magic Historian? Yep. Or his name's Jason and he's a magic historian? It's Jason, magic historian. Oh, from the planet. His name is Jason, magic historian? Yep. Or his name's Jason, he's a magic historian? It's Jason, magic historian. Oh, that's exciting.

I agree. Sonic is from the planet Mobius. I didn't know that. Okay, great. Does that extend to Monthbius? Hashtag weekly planet pod. Look, Monthbius is self-sustaining at this point. That's true.

It is beyond my reach to shut down Monthbius. Monthbius outside of this podcast. Oh, that's true, actually, yeah. Like in the Great Mates group, on Reddit, onheus. Mumpheus outside of this podcast. Oh, that's true actually, yeah. Like in the Great Mates group, on Reddit, on Twitter. I can't stop Mumpheus. It's like when someone creates an iconic comic book character and it grows beyond them, you know what I mean? That's true, yeah.

And what they do or say cannot affect what they have done. That is very true. Yeah, so it's out of my hands. What I should have done is I should have really pushed a kid in a sandwich to the point where we're not doing, I'm not doing a kid in a sandwich right now. I'm talking about in the aftermath of a kid in a sandwich. What I should have done is I should have really pushed the bit

every week and then it could have become self-sustaining. That is, that is, that's my mistake, you know. What about for every one bit of news you don't bring? No, no, no, that's no. I mean, it's less work for you. Wait, so with it, wait, so for every, if every one bit of news I don't bring, you get another veto. No, no, that doesn't sound good to me.

What about like five, five or five for one? No, I don't like it. Ten? No, no, that, that wasn't the rules. You had, you, you had, You had three vetoes to spend wisely. And it's merely April. Exactly. All right, anything else?

Ooh, this is from James. Hello. Knight Rider reboot. When? Why? I don't know. Dear James and Mace, I've been listening to the podcast for a few years now. I love the show.

You help me get through my drive to work in the Texas heat, and I can't wait for the Snake Eyes review. I've been watching Knight Rider lately since I found it on Netflix, and it's reminded me how much I loved the show as a kid. I was wondering if you two were in charge of rebooting Knight Rider today, how would the show be different? You could not just be a cool guy in his awesome car. Also, who would you cast for the David Hasselhoff role?

God. Knight Rider. Because they've attempted it numerous times. There was Knight Rider 2000, which was the TV movie where they put old Knight Rider into a cool new future car in the year 2000. And then there was that reboot series where the guy was the best at everything. Yeah, that was the problem with that show is that they were like,

this guy's a cool guy and you're going to think he's a cool guy. Yeah, we know that you think he's a cool guy. Like, I don't know if David Hasselhoff's character was built from the ground up to be a cool guy. Like, he had a sort of 80s cool, and I'm sure they were like, we want a character that people will respect. Yeah, like he's cool, but it wasn't like, look how cool this guy is. Yeah, which was the reboot.

I don't know if that's on a streaming platform or anywhere. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe get on a streaming platform or anywhere. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe get an uncool guy. Oh, okay. Get Jay Baruchel. Yeah, you can do a Jay Baruchel. I don't mind that.

Yeah. Do you do regular guy? What if you make the car cool? Yeah. Like you give the car a cool personality. Yeah. And the guy's a real dweeb. Or opposite.

The car's a dweeb. That's how it was originally. No, no. Is it? Yes. It's an uncool car. Oh, I see what you mean. I meant their personalities.

No, no. I mean like it's the car that's like that guy's got threats. Like that. Cyber truck? Yeah, it's like Mr. Bean's car. Yes. Oh, and he has to ride it from the roof. Maybe.

So it's a cool guy's saddle. The problem with the other Knight Rider, the reboot, is it was a car that could transform into any other car. And it had so many cool – and it had force fields and it was invulnerable and it could shoot lasers or whatever. It's too much stuff. I reckon simplify it. I reckon the car is cool, like it's got a cool personality and the dude is a dweeb. Yeah. I reckon the car is cool, like it's got a cool personality

and the dude is a dweeb. Yeah. Oh, but no, they did that with Transformers, didn't they? Well, that's true. Who cares? Yeah. That's true. But he's a real, like the car has to get this dude

through social situations. And he's like, we'll start slow. We'll go through the drive-thru at McDonald's and see if you can manage that. And then after that, we'll start slow. We'll go through the drive-thru at McDonald's and see if you can manage that. And then after that, we'll help you ask out a girl and then we'll stop some bank robbers. Oh, beautiful. That's great.

You've solved the Knight Rider conundrum that executives have been trying to tackle for years, just boardrooms filled with screwed up paper and whiteboards just with insane scrawlings on it. You joke. But what's easier for them, rebooting Knight Rider or coming up with a piece of original material in any way? What are you talking about, Mason? Yeah, you're right.

The first thing. The first thing is definitely better, yes. All right, is that the show? That is the whole show, folks. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for telling your friends about the podcast because that's how we get more listeners. It's true, actually.

Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for leaving a five- the podcast because that's how we get more listeners. It's true, actually. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for leaving a five-star review on any podcasting platform of your choice. Once again, that's how it pops up on people's podcast catches and they go, what's this? Maybe I'll give this a go. Blessings. Wouldn't you say, Mason? Many blessings. Agreed.

And also, people love reviewing the show, don't they? They do, yeah. Like this one from Boba's Bounty who gave us five stars and said, amazing pod. After Harmontown finished up, I was looking for a new podcast to fall in love with and these couple of great mates did it for me. So much so after listening to a few episodes, I've decided to listen to them from the first episode.

The origin of the theme song and the running gags of the show have been some of my favourite parts to discover. I sing Westworld out loud every time for what we're going to read for the segment, and that comes on since the inception of the theme. And I will continue until I hear the first time James sings it out loud for the first time. Keep up all the fun comic book news, you guys. Loving it.

That's from C Thompson. Thank you so much, C Thompson. We will keep it up. And this is from Defot9, who says, good podcast. I don't even listen to this. And this is from Defot9. He says, good podcast. I don't even listen to this. It just radiates good podcast vibes. No, seriously, it's the only podcast I listen to because nothing else compares.

Thank you so much. So kind and generous. You're very welcome. I appreciate it. We appreciate it, bro. I appreciate you all. I'm doing a dab right now, aren't I, Mason? Yes, he's doing a dab. I wasn't, though.

Thank you for coming with me on that. Now he's doing all kinds of crazy dances. No, I'm not. No, he's doing very elaborate dances I wasn't though. Thank you for coming with me on that. Now he's doing all kinds of crazy dances. No, I'm not. No, he's doing very elaborate dances. I'm not doing any dancing. He's doing so many. Just he's inventing his own dances. Are they good?

They're bad dances. They're bad dances. You can at least tell people they were good dances. No, no, they were bad. Folks, if you want to get into contact with us, you can go to Weekly Planet Pod at Gmail, at Facebook, at Twitter, at Bandcamp. You can go to the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates Facebook group. You can go to the Weekly Planet Pod

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Yes. It's true. That's right. He's doing dances you've never seen before, and guess what? They're great. Oh, come on, mate. They're incredible dances. Yeah, I mean, I'm happy for him, but at the same time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where does he find the time to invent these dances? I don't know. I don't know, yeah. But he's, damn, damn. You can follow me on Twitter at Wikipedia Brown. I can't even be mad. You know what I mean?

Right? I'm just happy for him, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can follow me on Instagram at Nick Maiso. You can follow James on every platform at MrSundayMovies. If you want to support the show, you can go to patreon.com slash MrSundayMovies. You can chuck in a buck or any small amount.

Oh, yeah. Keeps the lights on in here. Keeps the bloody all the various recording devices mostly working, it seems. It seems that way, doesn't it? It seems that way, yeah. This is working. That's right. You can also sign up to BigSandwich.co.

All kinds of bonus podcasts, early videos, movie commentaries. Having a great time over there. We're going to record one after this, I think. We certainly are, Mason. The one about clickbait where you get mad. Yeah. That's right. All right.

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Yeah, exactly. If the t-shirt you're currently wearing has like a bunch of raggedy holes in it. Yeah, or some poo on it, just get a new one. Yeah. Don't you think? I mean, I guess you could throw that in the, you could wash that, I guess. Yeah, you know, I get a t-shirt. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cool. All right. That's it, isn't it? That was a good riff, though. Was it? I respect that you went with, isn't it? That was a good riff, though. Was it? I respect that you went with, what if there was poo on a T-shirt? I think that's really good. It's good.

Yeah, Colleagues has got dancers, but I got riffs, you know? Hell yeah. All right, thanks, everyone. Next week, what about this? Yep. What about the movie Ambulance? Oh, yeah, I haven't seen that. I hear cinematography-wise it's very good. There good a lot of drones yeah but also michael bay movies caused me physical

pain at this point right so it's a bit of a toss-up but let's give it a whirl and see if a non-transformers movie for michael bay will upset me or not i would love that terrific all right thanks everybody grab that gem you guys we'll see you next week. And goodbye. Bye. 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+.