The Weekly Planet - 486 Big Brands & Big Bombs

Episode Date: July 10, 2023

Disaster has struck the 2023 blockbuster season with now both Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny and The Flash massively underperforming. But the good news is Mattel is moving ahead with 45 of it's toy propeties being developed into feature length films. We get into all that plus word on the latest Mission Impossible, Chronicles of Narnia return, an update on Shang Chi 2, Deadpool 3 rumours and more! Thanks for listeningClaire is on tour in the UK and Ireland! Grab tickets and more info here https://www.clairetonti.com/eventsVisit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.Please be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start05:33 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning is Great?10:55 The Barbie Movie Banned14:23 Chronicles of Narnia Netflix Movies16:13 Threads?19:02 Shang-Chi Sequel20:48 Deadpool 3 Casting30:40 No Ahsoka Trailer32:27 Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny Drop-Off34:46 The Flash is the Biggest Comic Book Movie Bomb Ever39:50 Big Brands Coming to Cinemas56:32 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read (and Harrison Ford Movies)01:12:05 Letters, It's Time For Letters (and Secret Invasion)James' 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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Red hot comic book movie news. Defenders of the Earth. Defenders. The Weekly Planet. The Weekly Planet. Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. Yes. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. Please don't interrupt me.

With me as always is my co-host Nick Mason. That was to you and the listeners. Please don't interrupt me. Don't interrupt, I understand, sure. I thought you were bringing me into that. No, I mean you're part of it. That's great. Because when I'm talking, you're one of the listeners. But when you're talking me into that. No. I mean, you're part of it. That's great. Because when I'm talking, you're one of the listeners.

But when you're talking, I'm not. You don't listen to podcasts. That's right. As you've said repeatedly, you don't listen to podcasts. Well, that's not true. I listened to one this week, which we will talk about. Now, Mason. Hello.

A couple of things up top. Oh, yes. First of all, it's been high demand. People have been years have been saying to us, when are you going to do a movie commentary for the movie The Time Machine starring Guy Pearce from 2002? Uh-huh, sure. When is that happening? It's been relentless,

these requests. People show up at our houses and they're like, we've found your address and we're going to harass you about this and then we're going to leave and then we're going to delete that memory from our minds. That's right. Because otherwise it's doxing. Exactly. You're not allowed to do that. You shouldn't and you're right. Because otherwise it's doxing. Exactly. You're not allowed to do that.

You shouldn't and you're not allowed to. But they come up to us on the street and they're like, where's your commentary on the time machine? Well, right now it's at bigsandwich.co where there's a bunch of other stuff if people are interested in. Look, to be fair, let's be real, no one was asking for this. This is a labour of love of mine. I'm the only body who talks about the time machine 2002. You had reams of notes

so if people are interested they can check that out the other thing is this might be a little bit of a shorter episode this week as Mason has discovered we're going to do we're going to do like Harrison Ford retrospective thing which we are going to touch on a little bit but I didn't get to enough Harrison Ford

movies this week I got to one because Claire's still in Europe for a couple of weeks. It's his award-nominated role. I did. I got to the big one. Yeah. So I guess we'll talk about that a little bit. It's Oscar losing role.

Oscar losing role. That's right. So, yeah, it might be a little bit shorter. Things are bloody flat chat here at the moment, aren't they? It seems flat chat. I got here and it was indeed flat chat. So, yeah. But that's okay.

It doesn't mean we can't have fun and not interrupt each other. Do you think? Yep, absolutely. Because then it will go quicker. Yeah. Here's the news of the week that we're going to be getting to. I thought I was going to be talking about the fugitive to a fellow fughead. You can talk about the fugitive.

Okay. We'll talk about it. I mean, you've seen it. Yeah, I saw it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you've seen it. Yeah, I saw it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen the sequel as well. That's true. Yeah.

Have you seen the original TV series? No. Have you? No. What's it called? The Fugitive. Whoa. That's right.

Fugitive Zero Origins. Is it before he was a fugitive? Yep. Just a doctor. Just a doctor man. So we're going to talk about- Richard Kimball, rad doctor. Doing everything by the book.

His vascular surgery is tubular. His wife's alive. And not Ashley Judd. You think it is, but it's a different lady. It's Ashley Judd in that movie. No. Oh, okay. She looks like Ashley Judd.

Yeah, okay, fair enough. So anyway, we're going to talk about the first reports on Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning. You might have some thoughts on that as well. We're going to talk about how- James, even if I didn't, I'd make some stuff up. That's true, that's true. We're going to talk about how long he plans to do these.

Tom Cruise. Yeah, Tom Cruise. What his plan is for the Barbie Oppenheimer week. Not the royal he. No, no, no, no, no. All of us. What we plan to do with Tom Cruise's career. And then speaking of Barbie, we're going to talk about a little bit

of a Barbie controversy that's going on at the moment, which may have been resolved. We're going to talk about the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Might be coming to Netflix. Okay. For a bit. For a bit. What's happening with Shang-Chi?

What is happening with Shang-Chi? We'll find out. Well, I mean, based on some movie posters I've seen on Twitter, I don't think Simu Liu has enough time to make a Shang-Chi 2. What's he with Shang-Chi? We'll find out. Well, I mean, based on some movie posters I've seen on Twitter, I don't think Simu Liu has enough time to make a Shang-Chi 2. What's he up to? Just straight to streaming movies. Is he? Just a lot of them.

I don't know what he's doing. Well, you've got to get money. That's true. That's what I say. You're putting that on your gravestone. That's right. It's been your birthday recently. I've chipped in to get you a gravestone.

I've chipped in to get something chipped on your gravestone. And it's you've got to get that money. You've got to get it. We're going to talk about one cameo in Deadpool 3. There's been a lot of rumors. I'm going to do one. Okay. And then.

Do you think it's the best one? I think it's the most interesting one, the one that I want to see. But also you can skip that because there are time cones below. What if I'm thinking of one right now and it's different from the one you're thinking of? We can do two. Same together? Yeah, we'll say them together. But not yet. Okay. Then we're going to cones below. What if I'm thinking of one right now and it's different from the one you're thinking of? We can do two. Same together? Yeah, we'll same together. But not yet.

Okay. Then we're going to talk about... Oh, I cannot wait. Trailers Ahoy with a Twist. Oh. We're going to talk about the fate of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. We're going to talk about what has happened to The Flash, the movie. My God.

Both of those movies. Yeah. It's not good news. Unless you hate those movies, in which case it's very good news. A lot of people hate those movies. A lot of people, they're jack of it. This week is a real lesson in Australian slang, I think. Flat chat.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Get a dog up you. Get a dog up you. And the tradition of putting I got that money on your gravestone. Yeah, on your gravestone. That's right. And then I've got a New Yorker article I want to unpack,

which is about the 45 different brands that Mattel is putting on the table. They're like, there's so much money in this. After Barbie, they're like, I think we've got some ideas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just a very fascinating thing to kind of work through, if you don't mind. I'm very excited for that. Anyways.

And then maybe we'll talk about Harrison Ford for a minute. We'll talk about Harrison Ford for a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. So, Mason, universal acclaim for Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1. That's right. Last time I checked, it was at 98% on those rotten tomatoes.

Well, that's actually rigged, and it's filled with shills, and you're a fucking idiot, and you married Kathleen Kennedy. Yeah, I know. And thanks for your well wishes. You're welcome. Did you like the bread maker I got you? It was wonderful. Did Kathleen like it?

She did like it, but then she ruined it. Oh, no. She put too much diversity in my bread maker. Did she have her red laser eyes and she like exploded it? Yeah, she lasered it. So you don't like her? Your wife? No.

Okay. I married her because she was going to be president of Lucasfilm or whatever, and then every day she's like, I've been fired from president of Lucasfilm. Every day she's on my case. And then she's like, oh, wait, that was just an article from some weird clickbait website, which I confused for my own internal emails.

And then I'm like, oh, don't worry about it. And then the next day she's like, I'm not fired again. Whoa. I don't know what happened. Is it my laser eyes? Are they off-putting to people? I think it's the laser eyes. Here's a quote from the IGN review.

And now you've seen this movie. I have. And you're not going to speak to it, like, fully. In detail. I'm going to spoil everything about it now. It says, Tom Cruise is back to fight God and save Hollywood's jobs. Is that true? In a way it is, yes.

Yeah. Yeah. God. In a way it is, yes. Okay. Yeah. I'll tell you this. I'll tell you without spoiling anything.

Yeah. The antagonist is perhaps slightly different than what we've seen in previous Mission impossible movies. Cause it's a fictional character. No. Cause it's a fictional being like an entity. I wouldn't want to say, I wouldn't want to say,

Oh my God. But also, is he a robot? I would describe, is it a lizard? I would describe the vibes of this movie. Having, having us,

we've recently seen, you know, the most, the three most recent mission impossible movies before this. Oh, by the way, the Gary Vaynerchuk this week is six. The Henry Cavill one.

Yeah, yeah. I would describe the vibes of this one as insane. It's just surreal and insane. In a good way? Yes, I think so. All right. Yeah. But it takes a minute to get used to, I think.

Okay. Because he fist fights God. Yes. The opening 25 minutes is a de-aged Tom Cruise fist fighting God. Have you ever seen that Family Guy sketch where Peter Griffin fights the chicken? What was that? It's Tom Cruise and God.

Well, I can't wait to see that this week, genuinely. I was hoping to get to it this weekend because there's been some early screening because they're just like, we'll show everybody. We'll show everybody this movie. You know something that I appreciated when we, again, when we did the Caravan of Garbage on the previous movies is that the title sequences in a kind of throwback to the TV series, I guess.

They hit your head, right? Yeah, they show clips from the upcoming movie you're about to see and I think there's a certain confidence in being like, well, yeah, there's going to be a helicopter chase. Yeah, there's going to be a car chase. There's going to be this. We're going to do this stunt or whatever. Even though it's just clips of it.

Yeah. They're just like, yeah, it's sort of a spoiler yeah but it's worth it it's gonna be worth it and it's good it's kind of weird it's kind of almost like a trailer in the movie yeah and it's interesting because like you know when you get on into a like an okay movie or a bad movie and you know what's gonna happen and you're like well this doesn't mean anything because later there's gonna be a whatever yeah. Yeah, right. But here it's like, get ready. Get ready. He's going to fist fight God. Yeah. Yeah. All right, here we go.

Tom Cruise has said. His hair goes really big and golden. Sort of, you know, like a big inferno, you know. That's cool. He spends 20 minutes in a corner just going. Getting more vascular. Yeah, getting more and more vascular, yeah. Cool.

So he spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald and he said, Harrison Ford is a legend. Yes, that's right. That's all he said. No, he said. He said, didn't he say he's got 20 years to catch up with him? He said, I hope to still be going. I've got 20 years to catch up with him.

Hope to keep making Mission Impossible films until I'm his age. Wow. Tom Cruise is now 61, I believe. Yeah, he is 61. Isn't that shocking? That is shocking. I would have said 51, I believe. He is 61. Isn't that shocking? That is shocking. I would have said 51. I would have said 62. But a good 62 where he looks 51

is what I would say. So that's interesting because the narrative has been like, you'll do Dead Reckoning 1 and 2. But yeah. We'll see, won't we? In the 20 years of these, I guess I'll just watch them until I'm 60. And he'll still be 61.

You've caught up to him. I don't understand. Another quote is people ask him about what are you going to do with Barbie and Oppenheimer. They're out the same week. We're all asking that question to ourselves. And he said, I want to see both Barbie and Oppenheimer. I'll see them opening weekend.

Friday, I'll see Oppenheimer first and then Barbie on Saturday. Interesting choice. I wonder what order should I see them in? What are you going to do? A lot of people are, I mean, opinion is divided on the internet. I think a lot of people are having like brunch and then they're seeing Barbie. Oh, yeah. And then they're going to a bar and smoking a lot of cigarettes

and then they're seeing Oppenheimer. I wonder if I want to see Oppenheimer and then they're going to a bar and smoking a lot of cigarettes and then they're seeing Oppenheimer. I wonder if I want to see Oppenheimer and then see something lighter with Barbie or do I want that in the back of my mind, just watching people get obliterated by a nuclear explosion? Well, maybe that's your one. I mean, maybe, you know, the central theme of Barbie, at least some of it seems to be she's having thoughts.

Escape from reality. And she's having thoughts about death as well. So maybe you'll go into it and being like. That's very interesting. Maybe that'll add to that sense of doom. Yeah, yeah, okay. In that movie, you know. I don't like this.

I like this idea that we're having. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Vietnam authorities, i.e. the National Film Evaluation Council, the NAFIC, said, they said and they've done it, they've banned screenings of Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie in their country. There is a scene in the movie where we see a map with a nine dash line which represents China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, a violation of Vietnam's sovereignty.

Yeah, so that's the map. We haven't seen the movie yet. When they go to the real world or whatever? No, it's the map that Kate McKinnon draws. You see it in the trailer where Kate McKinnon, as sort of demented, drawn-on Barbie is like, and she's sort of, it's not an official map. Yeah, she just draws a line on it.

Yeah, it's just like it's made with like construction paper. Okay, right. I think that's the map. You don't think Kate McKinnon's Barbie character has any opinions on any of this stuff? I don't think she does actually, no. Okay. No, but it's interesting that of Barbie and Oppenheimer,

the one that is causing geopolitical issues is the Barbie one. Sure. And Oppenheimer is something to do with romance and age gap discourse this week. Ooh. Isn't that nudity in it or something? There is nudity in it apparently. Oh, my God.

Yeah. What are you saying, Florence Pugh, what now? Because Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy, they're a couple in the movie, I think. Thoseian Murphy are, they're a couple in the movie I think, those two characters in real life or a couple in the movie, a couple in real life. But Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy are like 20 years. Yeah, because he'd be mid-40s at least. Something like that.

Yeah. But also the character Florence Pugh is playing, she's basically the same age as that person was in real life. Oh, okay. So what's the discourse? Oh, that it's, oh. They're too, the gap. The age is too big.

They're real. In the two real life people, their age gap was like 10 years. But in the movie, the two actors' age gap is 20 years. Well, I think that's a credit to Cillian Murphy's skincare regime. I think it is too. But, you know, I don't know. I'll decide that on the day when I see it. That's right.

Whether it's appropriate or not. Yes. Anyway. I mean, you probably won't be thinking about it because that big bomb's going to go off and it's going to singe your hair. That's true. Eyebrow hair off.

In real life that's going to happen? I think so, yeah. Great, cool. Anyway, a spokesperson from Warner Brothers film group came out and they said, listen. Are you kidding us? They said, the map in Barbie Land is a childlike crown drawing or crayon, as some say.

Nobody says crown drawing. In Australia they do. Crown. I was a fucking primary school teacher, Mason. They do actually. It's not right, but it's true. You didn't believe me that we called drinking taps or drink fountains, drink taps.

It's true. You're like, that's not what they're called. I'm like, I work at a school. I've worked at many schools and that is what they're called. Maybe you should go into a primary school and ask some kids. I think I know what I'm talking about, James, because when I was in primary school I got elected class president because I successfully got Coca-Cola put in all the drink taps.

I campaigned on that. I'm the only person on earth that made it happen. It's because your uncle worked at Nintendo. That's right. Yeah, he did. Yeah, because my uncle worked at Nintendo and his brother worked at Coca-Cola and we made it happen. It's because your uncle worked at Nintendo. Yeah, he used his connections. That's right. Yeah, he did. Yeah, because my uncle worked at Nintendo and his brother worked at Coca-Cola and we made it happen. So the doodles depict Barbie's make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the real world.

It's not intended to make any type of statement. Well, too late. You've made a statement. Made a statement. Sorry. And obviously it's just because somebody in production design was like, okay, we're going to make a fake, we're going to make a childlike map and we'll just download the first map off Wikipedia

and just trace it and make it childlike and they just happen to put that line in. That's what happened. Pretty cool. I wonder if they'll change it before the movie comes out. Probably not as much as it was. Anyway, this is by The New Yorker. So Greta Gerwig, who directed this,

will have two films based on C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Chronicles of Narnia. For Netflix. I like Greta Gerwig, who directed this, will have two films based on C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. Chronicles of Narnia. For Netflix. I like Greta Gerwig a lot. I'm indifferent to Chronicles of Narnia, but I know people are big fans of that particular universe. When did we most recently get a Chronicles of Narnia anything? It's been quite recent, right? Crisp Capsian?

What's it called? Oh, Prince Caspian. Chris Crapsian. It's Prince Crisp Crapsian. Chronicles of Narnia movies. Here we go. It's the Horn of Narnia. That heralds the arrival of Prince Crisp Crapsian.

It was the Voyage of the Dawn Trader, and that was 2010. That was going to be a Chronicles of Narnia, the Silver Chair movie. Silver Chair movie? Like the band, yeah, with Daniel Johns. That didn't get made. So there you go. I saw the first one. I read an interview with the members of the band Silver Chair once

and they were like, yeah, we named our band after Sliver, which was some sort of band or something, and UMI's Berlin Chair, that song. And I'm like, no, you didn't. You named it after the Silver Chair, Narnia. That's what she named it after. Don't lie. You don't have to lie.

You don't have to lie to me, Daniel Johns. Is that his name? Yeah, Daniel Johns, yeah. And the other two? You don't have to lie to me the other two, all right? Daniel Johns does have to lie to you and is choosing to. Wow. And that's fine with me, quite frankly.

That's between you and Johns. So what do you think about that, this thing that comes to Netflix? I'm not interested. Yeah, cool. People like them. Yep. And maybe they'll even make at least one. They might make it.

Because I feel like there's been a few times where they've started this and then gone, ah, we're tired. Look, I like Greta Gerwig as a filmmaker very much, and if she can get a bunch of money to do this and then maybe make one and then they cancel the other one, but she's got a bunch of money and she can go do a project she's interested in. Something you like. Yeah.

Barbie 2. Barbie 2. Oppen Barbie 2. Barbie 2. Oppenheimer 2. Oh. Mason, you were talking about Samu Liu before. I was. And he did an AMA on threads, which you might be familiar with as a new social media sensation. I am.

Threads, Instagram gave me a notification and it's like 3,000 people want to talk to you on threads. And I'm like, that seems like a lie. No, because it's linked to Instagram. So I,000 people want to talk to you on threads. And I'm like, that seems like a lie. No, because it's linked to Instagram. So I think everybody does want to talk to you. I got it, Mason, because I'm always up to date. Oh, yeah? How's that going for you?

I hate it. I've looked at it four times and I hate it. And it doesn't show you people you follow? No, so like why would I even look at this? Yeah, no. And I read, I was thinking about it, but then I read if you attempt to delete your threads account, it also deletes your Instagram account. Yes, that is true.

So that's great. That is in the fine print. Well, I love that. Yeah, so there you go. That's a fun little prank and I've got to respect it, if I'm honest. Yeah, well, I have 3,800 followers, so I am killing you on this, mate. Wow. You've got to catch up.

But I just said 3,800. Does it just give you 3,800 followers? No, it's because it's linked to Instagram or whatever. So if anybody who has threads on that, it carries over you. I hate it. I agree. But don't you want to see Twitter killed by Instagram slash better? No.

I want Twitter killed just straight up, and then I want somebody to smack my phone out of my hand whenever I try to check anything in my daily life. Yeah, okay. And they go, smell a flower. Yeah. You know? Okay.

Yeah. Actually, I like Twitter as a platform. Not now. I mean, because now if you, you can skip. There's time codes. You can't, Mason. We're doing this. We're doing this live.

When you click on, you know, like a big tweet, the first. Hundred replies. At least. Yeah. I just blue check fucking dorks who have nothing to say. Yeah, but they've got to say it though, don't they? Because they paid for it. Yeah.

But you've got to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll. You've got to find someone who's just like awful. Back in the day, you'd click a big tweet and there'd be a bunch of other jokes, interesting things that rose organically to the top and now it's just people going, well, I think that too. I mean, it's not also like meta now because they have Instagram, they have Facebook, and now if they take this Twitter place, which is possible, I guess.

Oh, good work on shaking up that drink and then opening that drink, Mason. Thanks. No, I was being sarcastic. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. It's fine probably. Do you have a serviette? I've saved the day because I save all my serviettes.

Why do you do that? For this exact situation. Because you're a grub. Yeah, because I'm a grub. Yeah, because like Meta, well, they're known like all of these social media platforms. That's right. I don't know if anybody has noticed, but Meta is awful. No, I think they're cool.

And they reckon they're not going to do anything with it monetarily until they get to 3 billion users or whatever it is. Okay, great. Also, a significant portion of the population. I can't remember. It was a lot. And I don't even believe that. I don't believe anything. And nothing is good. Anyway, Mason, here's something that might be good when it comes out.

Go on. This podcast. Yeah. Did an AMA on threads. What a legendary situation we're in, James. I opened up a sugar-free soda and it sort of fizzed everywhere. Yeah. God, people are going to be talking about this for years to come. Probably right. What a time.

What a time. And he was asked about Shang-Chi 2. Oh, yeah? And he said, he's in Barbie. He's doing big movies. That's right. He said, it would release after another Avengers movie, but that keeps pushing back due to circumstances beyond my control.

I hope to have more concrete news to share soon. So the next Avengers movie is apparently Avengers the Kang Dynasty in 2026. So it will be after that. That's quite a long time. If they even call it the Kang Dynasty and not another bloke dynasty. That's right. That's all still playing out at the moment. Yes.

So that's why there's been no Shang-Chi 2, which is kind of bizarre because people liked that movie. People liked it. It did well, yep. So, you know. Yeah. But who am I to say anything? And it's also, I mean, you know, it feels like as a, you know,

the central protagonist isn't a guy in a billion-dollar armored suit that you have to visual effects over. No. It's a guy who's good at martial arts. Surely that is a cheaper, easier proposition, or a guy who turns into a big, great monster or whatever. Well, I guess at the end of that movie, I don't know if you know, like they took the area that they were fighting in

and it wasn't on green screen and they put it in a different grey arena or whatever. Do you remember at the end how they're fighting in a quarry or whatever? Oh, yeah, I do remember that, yeah. Yeah, you know the worst bit of the movie? Oh, yeah, that bit, the end bit. The bit we all left remembering the most. Yeah. I know you liked the tram bit, Mason.

Bus fight, sure. Yeah, the bus fight, et cetera. So there you go. Look forward to that if it ever happens. Mason. Go on. This is by THR. We're keeping it positive, Travis. We are. We're saying if it ever happens. Mason. Go on. This is by THR. We're keeping it positive, Travis.

We are. We're saying if it ever happens. If it ever happens. It's probably going to happen. This is Deadpool 3 news. Skip ahead if you don't want any spoilers. But apparently, we'll say them at the same time. Who's the person you heard is in this this week?

Okay, 3, 2, 1. One, Electra. What were you going to say? Jennifer Garner. Oh, different. Yep, different. We had different things to say. That's true, yeah.

I saw some other ones, but I don't want to every week be like, now this person is in it, now this person is in it. So we'll talk about this one. But bearing in mind that's content. That is content, but you know, maybe a little. But you'd be content not to use that content. That's true. Thank you for saying that.

So for those people who don't know, I mean, if you listen to this, you probably know. There was a Daredevil movie in 2003 starring Ben Affleck. Yes. And Jennifer Garner was in it. It's where they met and fell in love for a time. That's right. And she played Elektra.

And then at the end of that movie, she was stabbed by Colin Farrell. That's right. Not in real life. That's right. In an acting capacity. It was in an acting capacity. It was the character of Bullseye. In an act capacity.

And then she got a spin-off movie. Yeah, called Electra. Called Stabbed Electra. And they pushed her around on a gurney to various exotic locales. I'm like, can you assassinate this Yakuza boss? That's right. And there's nothing. And another guy was like, dude, I think she's dead.

But anyway, she came back. She came alive. That's true. And she fought a guy who had tattoos that came to life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In a movie called Electra from 2005. And if you've ever seen this movie, it's dreadful. It is dreadful.

It's a dreadful movie. But she, I like a lot. Yep. So, you know, why not bring every person who's ever been in a good or bad movie? Do you think this will be an extended role or do you think it'll be in the style of Deadpool 2 where the Weapon X guys show up or the X-Force guys show up and they're all immediately killed I have no idea I don't know what this movie is doing that's right it's gonna be an endgame scenario where all the portals open and every person who's been it might be a part of that is it if they've done that the next year

a portal parody scene I'd be like all right very current but now I'm just like all right that seems a bit it seems a little dated, honestly. Well, speaking of dated, this is a multiverse scenario from all the people we've heard who potentially are or could be in this movie. Yeah, right. How are you feeling about multiverses at the moment? I'm sick of them.

I mean, because there was a good one. There was a good one. It was a really good one. Yeah. And then there was a dreadful one. I mean, I would say a good one. There was a good one. It was a really good one. Yeah. And then there was a dreadful one. I mean, I would say generally I like multiverse stuff. Like in the comics, I definitely do. Yeah.

You like when Reed Richards has got a really long head and he's evil and he's from the Ultimate Universe? Yes, I do like that. Cool, I like that too. We like the same things. That's very true. We have similar tastes, basically. That's right.

Why don't we get along then? I don't know. It's infuriating. I think it's you, though. It's your personality. It is my get along then? I don't know. It's infuriating. I think it's you though. It's your personality. It is my personality. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's easy to work in the comics because they come in every month

and you can wipe the slate clean every once in a while. But I don't know. Look, maybe it'll be great. But again, I think as I've said, maybe even when we talked about Multiverse of madness or quantum mania or something like that that if you're in it if you're in a multiverse you have to i think they need to establish some firm rules for the multiverse yeah in terms of how many universes there are and crossing over multiverses and people exchanging places deadpool doesn't mean anything doesn't mean anything. Because remember in one of the Deadpools, he opens the door

and it's the X-Men from the 80s or whatever, but he's in the modern day. So will it matter? Well, it doesn't matter, but I think I'm talking more in the MCU. Yeah, sure. In the sense of like. Which this is, I guess, technically. I mean, as a big fan of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, James,

you would know the reason they did. That's why we don't get a lot. That's exactly right. The reason they did Crisis on Infinite Earths, James, you would know. The reason they did – That's why we don't get a lot. That's exactly right. The reason they did Crisis on Infinite Earths is because the number of alternate universes was getting so – It was causing a crisis within the offices of DC. That's exactly right. Yeah, okay.

There were too many universes to keep track of. And, look, I even hate to bring this up, James, but do you remember that episode of Rick and Morty where Rick and Morty's... He turned into a pickle, yeah. That's probably one of the most famous episodes. That is a good episode. Yeah. He's a bigger egg.

Remember? Yeah, yeah. Bigger egg, bitch. You've got that T-shirt that you got in a loot crate. That's right. Go on. I did get a Rick and Morty T-shirt in a loot crate once. Do you remember the episode where Morty tries to make a love potion

and he mutates everybody on the planet into these horrible monsters. And rather than fix the situation, Rick and Morty simply go to a parallel universe where only they have died. Yes. And they just replace the death. And then life has just moved on. Yeah. That's kind of the dilemma we're in where it's like,

oh, this character, their whole family died. Well, let's just move them to another parallel universe where only they died. And that'll be fine. Well, that was the kingpin's goal in the first Spider-Verse movie as well. It was, yeah. There's also been a theory that every movie and show in Phase 4 is in a different dimension. I have not heard that. But my question is, why?

And does it matter? Like, what would that mean? What would that prove? What is the evidence for that? This is a different dimension. does it matter? Like, what would that mean? What would that prove? What is the evidence for that? This is a different dimension. How different? Very similar, actually. Is it just continuity errors that people have picked up on?

That bad greed screen. You know how we rushed out this episode? That's because it was in a different universe. Oh, my God. On that street scene, petrol's $4 a gallon. In this one, it's $3.80. That must be in separate universes. But petrol tanks are smaller? What does that mean don't know about the same people don't notice but here's what i'm saying is that it ultimately is yeah you need to establish the rules otherwise

it's sort of pointless because yeah if someone dies you can just go to another universe and get another version of and then you close it off yeah you shut it down. If there's infinite number of universes, you have the problem of, well, on the one hand, there's infinite number of worlds to save and that is too much. And at a certain point you go, well, if a billion universes dies, it doesn't matter because there's still infinite numbers left. And it also has the problem of, and again, the DC universe had this, if there's a problem Supermanman can't handle he can

just go to a bunch of parallel universes get another hundred supermen yeah and they can help him yeah but there's also a hundred other lex luthers etc we'll help him too we'll help him too yeah the friendly ones the friendly universe so it just becomes unwieldy and yeah which is why dc ultimately went to 52 alternate universes which i think is where it currently stands but i don't know but you i think they've got to do that you know what i was doing the other day what's that ultimately went to 52 alternate universes, which I think is where it currently stands, but I don't know. But I think they've got to do that. You know what I was doing the other day? What's that? Thinking of multiverses.

Okay. I was at the pub. I was at a local publican. Is that what they're called? Yeah. Yes. I was having a drink with a few of my mates. The fellas.

The fellas, the boys, my boys. Yeah, your boys, yeah. And such. Anyway. Now, why do you get along with them and not with me? I don't get along with them. Oh, my God, you're right. I'm starting to think it's a you problem. No. Now, why do you get along with them and not with me? I don't get along with them. Oh, my God. You're right.

Starting to think it's a you problem. No, no, no. It's everybody else. Oh, wow. Anyway. You know what they say. If you meet an arsehole, well, you met an arsehole. But if you meet arseholes all day, it's their problem.

It's not your problem. It's their problem. I'm going to make it their problem. Yeah, that's right. So they'll ask you about Indiana Jones and what's it like. And I'm like, it's fine. They said, we're normies. Yeah.

Please let us know about Indiana Jones. And they didn't know it was out or whatever. Yeah. And like, how was it like? And I'm like, I liked elements of it. I didn't love it. They're like, what was that bit? Like, is he young in it?

I'm like, he's at the start. And they're like, what? And I'm explaining. I'm not going to spoil it here. I'm explaining the third act. And they're just like, what do you mean? What? And then I'm like, I don't know.

It's like a thing that's happening. There's like weird stuff in movies like that Flash movie that came out. And they're like, when? When was there a Flash movie? Like three weeks ago. And they're like, did they say, you mean that guy that says Shazam? No. That's another thing they don't know.

And I said, yeah, because Michael Keaton. No, because I said i i was i basically said that it failed because i think one of the reasons there's a lot of reasons because harrison ford is 80 years old and he was indiana jones a million years ago and so nobody knows or cares yeah and i'm like it's like how michael keaton's batman again and they were like michael keaton's batman again and i'm like yeah and they go when and they go three weeks ago and they go, when? And I go, three weeks ago. And they go, in a Batman movie. And I said, no. And then I basically beat by beat, not because I wanted to. I explained.

You had to expel it out. You had to share the curse like you're showing somebody the video from the ring. And they were asking, so I wasn't just doing it. Because I don't talk about movies that much. It's like they're watching the video for The Ring and they're like, well, play a bit more. Play a bit more of this. What's up to this?

Oh, my God. And I basically took them through the plot beat by beat. Yeah. And they were like, what are you talking about? Is this real? And I'm like, no, it's real. And they're like, I don't get it. Is this one of those algorithmically generated YouTube videos for kids?

And I'm going to spoil the ending of The Flash the flash okay if you haven't seen it and you probably haven't no if you listen to this you've probably seen it you've been spoiled and then they're like so who's batman and i'm like because robert pattinson's batman i'm like no he's he's batman in a different dimension you know the christian battle it's like that they're like oh i like that one i'm like yeah i know it's because it's good and they said so who's batman and i'm like okay so it's george clooney and they're like what are you talking i'm like okay so so initially it's ben affleck and then it's michael and they're like is ben affleck still batman i'm like well no not anymore because he was

replaced by michael keaton it was replaced by george clooney i'm starting to think the general population are not super au fait with the concept of multiverses and different versions of characters existing in different universes. So I suspect this is one of the reasons why this movie is not doing well. Yeah. Because like explaining them to, like also I wasn't selling it obviously. Right. Like I wasn't trying to, but they were just like, that sounds awful. And I'm like, well, a lot of people are saying that.

Not you, Mason. No. Wait, which movie were you talking about? That was The Flash. Oh, yeah, yeah. I thought it was fun. Yeah, okay. So that was that.

We'll talk a bit more about The Flash in a sec. But trailers, not ahoy. The boat has sunk, Mason. The boat has sunk, yes. This is by Bespin Bulletin and Making Star Wars. This is normally the segment of the show where we talk about a trailer that came out. But there was supposed to be an Ahsoka footage that came out.

It was at a CinemaCon or whatever recently. I don't know. Coming at Comic-Con, an Ahsoka footage. Look at it. What color are these lightsabers? Now, apparently, again, according to the Bespin Bulletin and Making Star Wars, it was supposed to be released on one of the platforms.

It was Twitter. But because of the state of Twitter. Oh, the very state of it. It limits what you can see in the platform's instability. They didn't release it this week. Good call. So a lot of people were like, where's that footage? They could have put it on YouTube.

Yeah, I know, but Twitter's like, you know, you get it trending. It is very cool. But now when people can only read like nine tweets a day, even if that's still a thing, I don't use Twitter, so I don't know. Is it? I don't even know. It was for me for like, well,'s still a thing. I don't use Twitter, so I don't know. Is it? I don't even know. It was for me for like, well, it wasn't even, I didn't get an error message, but for like.

It stopped scrolling or whatever. Yeah, for like eight hours or something. God, I love how this fucking show has just been like, so this horrible brand ruined another horrible brand. What if we got them to fight? I guess that's what Twitter and Meta are doing, I guess. So there you go. So that didn't come out because of that very reason,

but so expect that any time soon. So that's the trailers not ahoy for this week. They've got a new segment where I'm like, here's something that didn't happen. Here's something that didn't happen. But you know what? I mean, there's so much to that, isn't there? We can put almost anything in that.

That's right. You just think of things that didn't happen this week. Hot dogs didn't fall from the sky. Isn't that a wonderful image? Hot dogs, the contestant from Australian Big Brother. Precisely, he didn't fall from the sky. 2006 or whatever it was. That's right, yeah.

Oh, my God. That's good news for him. I agree. His real name was Simon. Mason. Simon Hot Dogs. I think his last name was Hot Dogs. Okay. Hot Dogs Simon. No, I think his last name was Hot Dogs. Oh, okay. Hot Dogs

Simon. No, I think it was his nickname was Hot Dogs. Don't you dare Google that. You're considering Googling it and it's not worth it. He saw my answer. It's not worth it. This is why we sometimes get along. Could you save me from doing silly things? Because it's going to push something out of your brain

and you're going to forget something tomorrow. You're going to forget to pick one of your kids up from school or whatever. Because you're like, oh, hot dogs real day was Simon something. Simon something. I'll Google it after I pick up my kids. So Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in its second week fell 58% to 25 to 28 million. Which again, I think. That's not a horrible fall if a movie did really well.

And generally speaking, yeah, the drop-off is pretty rapid, like people will see. But, you know, and again, as I think we've certainly pointed out, it's done, like, in terms of gaining, in terms of getting tens of millions of dollars of ticket sales, it's done quite well. Like, as an opening, I think it's one of the best Indiana Joneses. Like, it's up there. What? In terms of sale? I didn't hear that. Okay. Is that true? opening, I think it's one of the best Indiana Joneses. It's up there. What? In terms of

sale? I didn't hear that. Okay. Is that true? Yeah, I think it might be. Okay. But I mean, I think that's probably not factoring in inflation, but also it's not factoring in that the movie cost $300 million. Yeah, exactly. Again, if this were a cheaper movie, it'd be doing alright. But even if it did cost what

the last one cost, it's still the lowest opening Indiana Jones movie by quite a lot. Oh, it is? Okay. And the decline also, this decline of 58% would be the biggest drop-off in the franchise's history. So it's all bad. So you know this franchise that's over?

Yeah, yeah. It's definitely over. Definitely over. Well, look, I got bad information there. I thought it was maybe not over. No, no. I mean, it might spin off into other things, but they're not going to. I mean, if this did really well, they would go,

maybe we could do another one. They would absolutely consider it, but now they're not. Should we get the guy that doubles for Harrison Ford that looks exactly like a young Indiana Jones? No, no, no, no, no, no. We can't do that. Sean Patrick Fowler. He might become popular.

Oh, okay. We can't do that. Oh, Alden Einreich you're talking about. Oh, the other guy. Anthony Ingruba? Yes. Oh, okay. He looks quite similar to him. And he does the voice? He does the voice, yeah. We don't want that. Oh, Alden Einreich you're talking about. Oh, the other guy. Anthony Ingruber? Yes. Oh, okay. He looks quite similar to him.

And he does The Voice? He does The Voice, yeah. Cool. So anyway, that's all bad. Again, 58% drop-off is good if your movie makes $200 million in its opening week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a terrific drop-off. That's true.

But other than that. Because then you've made almost $300 million. Exactly. Speaking of big bombs, Mason, and I'm not just talking about Oppenheimer. Oh, yes. You're talking about this movie that's going to. This Forbes came out and they said, listen, we talk money and numbers. That's right.

We're the big dogs when it comes to talking money and numbers. That's right. And they said The Flash is the biggest comic book bomb in history. That's a big deal. It is a big deal. And you might be like, what are the others? They've provided us with a list. Okay.

So are we factoring in stuff? Is this just of the modern era or is this like Captain America 1990? This goes back to 2010. Okay, right. But yes, it's of. Okay, right. This would be a percentage. This would be like.

It's percentage is budget related. It's a multiple of the budget, et cetera. So Captain America 1990 probably did poorly, but it cost 50 grand. Like Superman 4 did badly, but it didn't cost $300 million. That's true. Yeah. So at number 10, we've got Green Lantern.

That lost $75 million. Okay. Which is a shame because that's actually a really bad movie. And they should have made a better movie and then it would have done better. That's a great idea. At number nine, we've got The New Mutants at $84 million. Yep.

Well, look, that was a victim of the pandemic and also it was bad. Yeah. And they cut the – Yeah. They cut a – it seemed like it was missing 40 minutes of a movie. It did. Just all the things that should happen in a movie. And they fought a big magic bear.

That bit I liked. But I think, yeah, I mean – It was a mind bear, wasn't it? It was a big mind – someone dreamt a mind bear? I think so, yeah. It also would have done better, I mean, I think that would have been... It was a mind bear, wasn't it? It was a big mind... Someone dreamt a mind bear? I think so, yeah. It also would have done better, I think, had it come out when it was supposed to have come out because it had a bunch of young stars.

It had Gamma Throne stars. Yeah, Anya Taylor-Joy and Gamma Thrones and whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that was their attempt to kickstart, you know, a new, a young... Kickstart our hearts. Exactly. But, again, pandemic and also...

And it also came out after X-Men went back to whatever, whatever, and they were like, what do we do with this? That's true. They filmed it in like 2007. Yeah, yeah, and it was bad. And it was bad. Bad, yeah. I like how Magic had a big magic sword or whatever.

Yeah, that was okay. I think. I think. Yeah, yeah, or at least a big psychic arm thing. Something happened. Some stuff happened. We're all talking about it. We're all talking about it, and Maybe there was a guy in a mirror.

You know, there's a guy in a wall or whatever, and it's like, and you're like, how do they do that? And then it's like, you just put rubber on the wall. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You poke your fingers through it. That's true. Number eight, we had RIPD, $92 million. Has anybody read the comic?

Is that based on a comic? It must be. Yeah, it is. These are comic book movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These aren't just movies, Mason. See, I wonder if that's a cheat. I reckon that was probably a comic.

I'm going to look it up. I bet that's one of those comics that was made with the express purpose of being converted into a. Let me check. Ooh, hot dogs, real name. No! Started in 2003. Okay.

So I don't think so. Oh, yeah. All right. And there was a sequel. Did you know that? Yes. Starring the guy from Burn Notice, maybe. The guy from Burn Notice, maybe. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. All right. And there was a sequel. Did you know that? Yes. Starring the guy from Burn Notice, maybe. The guy from Burn Notice, maybe.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, cool. Next up, we've got Fantastic Four, $100 million. It doesn't specify which one, but I'm assuming it was 2015. Yeah. At number six, we have Black Adam. Okay. That was minus negative $130 million.

Okay. You're still looking at RAPD? Yes. What was that last one? That one was Black Adam. No, it was Black Adam. Yeah. Then it was $100 million, negative $100 million. Okay. You're still looking at R.I.P.D.? Yes, what was that last one? That one was Black Adam. No, it was Black Adam. Yeah. It was 100 million, negative 100 million. Number five, we had The Suicide Squad,

which was 130, which was pandemic-related and whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Number four was Dark Phoenix, which was negative 133 million. That was bad. That was bad. Next up was Wonder Woman 1984, which was negative 137. Again, pandemic. And it was bad. And it was bad. Next up was number two with Shazam Fury of the Gods

with negative $150 million. That's a lot. And coming in, you think that's a lot. Coming in at number one was The Flash with negative $200 million. No. Yeah. No. No, yes, Mason.

Wow. So if they'd made a $200 million movie and nobody bought any tickets, it still would have broken even. Yes. Well, they've talked about The Flash and they said if they'd made a $200 million movie and nobody bought any tickets, it still would have broken even. Yes. Well, they've talked about The Flash and they said if they'd just released it on HBO Max they would have lost less money because they wouldn't have marketed it. That's true.

Anyway, you might be wondering what's the trend here? What's the future of The Flash in the DCU? Well, there's six DC movies on this list out of ten, and then there's a couple of X-Men movies. And then there's no MCU movies yet. Yeah, right. But I feel like that's going to change in the near future. But, I mean, again, some of these are pandemic-related.

Yeah. My God. And I know people are saying, like, this latest trend, like the flash bombing is because of, like, the Ezra Miller situation and whatever. But if you look at the DC trend, it's been bad for years. For years, yeah. The DCEU stuff, not Joker and the other one.

The Batman. The Batman, yeah. It's not, I mean they might have bombed for slightly different reasons, but it's not, things have not been good. This isn't new. I'm not surprised. I would like to see these in the larger context of just blockbuster movies in general. Do you want me to email Forbes?

If you could email Forbes. Yeah. Be like, hey, losers, you missed out on every other movie. What does this mean in relation to Waterworld? That's exactly right. And The Postman, two Kevin Costner movies. And RIPD2. Yes, that's right.

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votre argent. C'est R-A-K-U-T-E-N. when it comes to numbers and finance and currency. New York is all about brunch. Brunch. There's maybe a cartoon where a dog's walking into a bank. They're like a couple. Look at this freaking dog. Kill that dog. Whoa. No dogs in the bank. He might want to rob the bank.

Shoot it. And that's how you win the caption contest. That's right. Bang, bang, bang. Dead dog. Basically, like I saw this I saw this news this week That Mattel

Bringing 45 brands To the big screen Are you reading directly From the article there? No Some guy going I saw this news I saw this news this week

I don't know And I went Oh that's Dumb And then I went You know The dumb universe This is the dawning

Of the dumb universe And I went back To the original article And I. This is the dawning of the dumb universe. And I went back to the original article and I'm like, I guess I'll just skim this to see what brands. And then it sucked me into it. Oh, yeah. And the article is just, it's not nice. It's very catty.

Like you might say to a dog walking into a bank, oh, and the bank teller's a cat. There we go. Nice. And that's how you dog walking into a bank. Oh, and the bank teller's a cat. There we go. Nice. Nice. And that's how you win. My natural enemy. I'm shooting you.

I'm shooting this dog because I'm a cat. Bang, bang, bang, bang. I hate Mondays. I have to work at a bank. Two guns? Yeah. He's doing two guns. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Anyway, so here's some of the news and just stop whenever you want to say something. All right. But don't interrupt, obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Put your hand up. Okay. So 45 Brands. Okay, this is off the back of Barbie, which isn't out yet. Not out yet.

But it seems to be going in a good direction. But is this a Morbius-style trick that the public are playing on this company? I don't think so. I think people are jazzed. I think they are jazzed, but I think maybe it's sort of a different strand of the same thing. I think people are jazzed and they're putting the memes and they're doing Barbenheimer and they're doing all this sort of stuff. But some people are also wondering is this going to be sort

of a fun skewering of consumerism and whatever and it's a fun adventure and all that, or is it just the first bit's fun and then she goes into the real world and it's just running around and we go, this was fine. Yeah, okay. And then it doesn't do that well. Oh. Well, sorry.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I did put my hand up. And you pointed, so I thought I'd burst your bubble and ruin your day. Anyway, so they're putting the cart before the horse. Yeah, they absolutely are. Some of the things that they're looking at making. Hot wheels, matchbox. Okay, so two cars. Two cars, but separate

One's got a track One's on a track Yeah, Hot Wheels are primarily like They'll do a ramp and a jump and a loop But Matchbox, you just put them on your shelf or whatever Yeah, and you go, wow, I've got a Ferrari or whatever A little one But they're the same size, Hot Wheels and Matchbox?

Yeah, pretty much And some work on the others, then they sometimes No idea Doesn't matter But I guess we do three Matchbox car movies and three Hot Wheels car movies, then you combine them. You do Matchbox X Hot Wheels. X Vin Diesel.

But often these movies also, these brands also, they have brands within them. They'll be like the Mario Kart Hot Wheels, the whatever, whatever Hot Wheels. Yeah, true, true. Let me ask you this. Yes. Do you think this is going to be, it's a real-life racing adventure

with characters or do you think it's just going to be some sort of animated thing where it's just like cars? They don't know. I don't think they know either. And we'll get to why. And we're giving them free ideas is what we're doing here, but that's fine. Yeah.

Polly Pocket. Okay, I don't really know. He-Man. Oh, is Polly Pocket the one? It's Mighty Max. I don't know what that is either. They have, is Polly Pocket the one? It's Mighty Max, but it's- I don't know what that is either. It's a little- They have a little thing.

It's a little clam and you open it and there's a little world in it. Yeah, you open it up and it's like a little house and they've got a little guy in there. Yeah, yeah, I know that stuff. Excellent. He-Man. Yep, sure. What did we watch recently? Maybe for Carry Around the Garbage, maybe.

It's the movie He-Man. Well, it's the movie Masters of the Universe. It's the movie Masters of the Universe. That's right. Don't tell anyone, that's a spoiler. Bob the Builder. Okay, sure. Rock them, sock them robots. They did that though, didn't they? The Hugh Jackman one.

Real Steel, sure. But it wasn't branded as rock them, sock them robots. That was silly of me to say. Magic 8-Ball. It's going to be a curse. It'll be a horror movie, right? It'll be a cursed 8-Ball. Maybe. Am I going to die? Yeah, you're going to die. I don't know. American Girl. It's a doll, I assume. Yeah, I guess.

Probably, yeah. It's Barbie, though, again. If it is. I don't know. Is it? I don't know. Uno. Cursed cards. No. Hold that one. Magic cards? We have a synopsis. Hold that one in mind. I don't. Okay. This is their idea. Wow. Okay. So this guy was like, their boss was like, you've got to come up with some solid synopses for some of these a song i don't okay this is their idea wow okay so this guy was like you

their boss was like you've got to come up with some solid synopses for some of these or you're fired yeah you've got to do three or four so you can't just list the names of stuff we already own and i'll get and i'll applaud you you've got to come up with some ideas for some of this otherwise it's just going to be you reading off the wikipedia page of stuff we owned um the last one that they've listed is viewmaster these are things that either developed started developing the past or looking to viewmaster if you don't know which you probably don't let's be real yeah it was a thing you looked through virtual reality yeah no it wasn't interesting you look through a little set of but oh you mean as a movie no I just meant I was making fun of it.

And you, by extension. Oh, you didn't put your hand up, so I reject that. You look through it. You look through like a binocular. And there's a little clicky thing. There's a little click thing, and it's like a little slideshow. And you can be like, look at the ocean. That's right.

Now I'm in a forest. Now I'm looking at a picture of a forest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's thrilling. Make a good movie. What am I doing? Bloody view master realist for somebody's bloody brunch. Yeah. How is that better Yeah, it's thrilling. Make a good movie. One of them do a bloody viewmaster real as somebody's bloody brunch.

Yeah. How is that better than a phone as a toy? It's not. I don't think so. No. That's all they had. Mate, fucking running is better than that. I hate running.

So what do you think that will be? Do you think that will be? Nothing. They're not going to make that. No, they're not going to make that. Let's give them some free ideas then. Now, obviously not, because this Barbie isn't going to do as well

as they think it's going to do. Okay, it's a thing where you jump into different worlds. Yes, it is. It absolutely is. You're welcome. There you go. Animated or live action? A mixture.

Nice. Hate it. Is the Viewmaster going to be a thing that talks? It's magic or whatever. It's like Jumanji. Does it talk? Yeah, it goes, hi, kids. Fucking let's go, whatever.

Where do you want to go? I'm magic. But it's also tired of doing this. I'm tired of magic, yeah. I haven't even been doing it for years. This is my first day. This is my first day out of the box, actually. And quite frankly, I'm sick of it.

So this is by the New Yorker. This is one of the many quotes it says. Mattel insists that its films aren't designed to boost toy sales, but the corporate synergy is undeniable. Oh, that is very shrewd of them. That's very. Well, of course. It's undeniable.

I mean, there's nothing you can do. Like even if the Viewmaster movie was a roaring success with the Magic Viewmaster, I guess you just reissue the Viewmaster, but then kids will be like, all right, click, click, click, click, click. All right, we're done. Can I use your phone? Dad, can I borrow your phone? Do you have games on your phone?

Can I borrow your phone? I'm mad at you. I'm going to smash it for you giving me that Viewmaster. I'm going to find the refund policy on the online store you bought the Viewmaster because I want the money back. I'm also divorcing you. So that's good. So here's some of the ideas they've got going.

There's a whole group of minds behind this. Oh, yeah, that's right. And they're paying writers to do this. So Daniel Kaluuya is working on an A24-style Barney movie. Now, what I guess I like about that is they're not all going to be a toy does a thing. Right. Like it can be you can do a weird duck, whatever.

They won't. They won't make that. This won't happen. Also, Robert Williams did Death to Smoochie. Do you remember that? Yes. It's the same principle, I think. Good point.

I mean, sure, I would love to see a Daniel Kaluuya Barney movie. Yeah, sure, okay. Would he be Barney or would he be running from Barney? Or to Barney to kill him. Here's another bit that happened. So there was a short video that was played. Okay. It's described here.

It's an uncomfortable video in which J.J. Abrams struggled to describe the new franchise of Hot Wheels becoming a movie. Right. And the quote is from him, for a long time we were talking to Mattel about Hot Wheels and we couldn't quite find the thing that clicked that made it worthy of what Hot Wheels, that title, deserved. It is.

Then we came up with something emotional and grounded and gritty, brackets, a script as yet to materialise. That's wonderful. It's grounded and gritty, okay. Well, that suggests to me it's not animated unless it's adult animation. Yeah, sure. I love how they're like, check out this promo. So we thought about it and we eventually did come up with something.

What is it? We haven't written it yet. We haven't written it, but if we were to say that it's just we show the cars and they drive around, people wouldn't be interested. But if we say it's emotional and grounded and gritty, maybe people will watch it. Absolutely. That's great.

Also, I think maybe one of the things they're forgetting is that the whole point of, like, Barbie is the kids had Barbie and they socialised with Barbie and Barbie had, you know, there's an emotional connection to that sort of stuff. And I guess with a lot of this, it's just like, oh, yeah, you know? Oh, yeah, exactly. Like if you had a Matchbox car, you're like, oh, I've got the Ford Mustang.

And then you're a grown-up, you're like, I'll buy a Ford Mustang. You like the car more than the. That's a really good point. You're right. You're not buying it because you're like, oh, God. Yep. God. Because it's just cars.

It's just cars. It's literal. It's just cars. Are they little cars and they come to life? Well, that's cars then, isn't it? That's just seeing a car. No, but they're still little. Okay.

They're still little. It's like small soldiers. There's nobody in them? Small soldiers. There's nobody in them. They just drive around. Great. Yeah.

An AI gets into them or whatever. Algorithm. An algorithm gets into them and they drive around. Yeah. So this is where we get into Uno. So Agent Jeremy Barber, who's from the United Talents Agency. Okay, so this isn't a movie about Agent Jeremy Barber. No, this is Uno related.

This is what Jeremy Barber was saying. Look, my kid. They've cornered him in a lift. He was about to leave and somebody stopped the door by putting their hand in there. And he's like, look. Jeremy, we need one solid idea. And he's like, look.

All right, go ahead. Look, my kids and I played Uno every night during the pandemic. I think you're adding some aggression there. Sorry, it should be excited. Look, my kids and I played Uno every night during the pandemic. I love it. Is there an Uno movie? I don't know.

There's not, Jeremy. No, there is. Here we go. So Marcy Kelly was brought in as the writer for the Uno movie and she was sent a slide deck for some inspiration of what to do. So that's like a... Like some inspirational PowerPoint or whatever. Like this, this and this.

And it'd be like emotional, nostalgia, whatever. Brand synergy. Brand synergy. And apparently it highlighted how cross-cultural the game is and funny things about how seriously people take it. And little seeds for things to work into a movie, including a meme of Beyonce holding Uno cards. Oh, hell yeah.

The mandate. I love that. Just a meme. Just put a meme. Yo, Beyonce. We can get Beyonce in there. We can't. Imagine if we did, though.

What if we did, though? We won't. She hasn't done a movie since Austin Powers or whatever. Oh, she did Dreamgirls or whatever. The mandate, inexplicably in relation to the Uno movie, was for a heist movie. So Kelly got to work. Okay, great.

Yeah, great. Good. The script she emerged with wasn't quite what Mattel had in mind. She'd set Uno in Atlanta's hip-hop scene. The first draft that I sent in was fuck heavy, she recalls sheepishly. An executive flagged every instant of the obscenity in the screenplay.

It was something like 50 pages, she said, and then the next draft had one. Fuck, that is. I got my one well-placed PG-13 fuck in the Uno heist movie set in the Atlanta hip-hop scene. Was she watching a lot of Atlanta at the time? Great question. Great question.

Yeah. Now, Uno, I mean, if you're going to do it, you do it. A magic set of cards? No, I was going to say, based on the initial thing you said there, I was going to say you get, it's about competitive Uno. It's like a competitive Uno and you get Vince Vaughn and you get Owen Wilson. You bring those two, that winning team back.

Make it a Wedding Crashers slash that movie they worked at Google sequel. Exactly, that's right, yes. Like a high-stakes Uno game. This is their new thing, their Uno guys. I don't mind that idea. Like a high stakes Uno game. This is their new thing. They're Uno guys. I don't mind that idea. You could call it Uno guys. Uno guys.

That's right. Fucking Uno guys. That's right. That's right. That's right. So it says, if Kelly sometimes struggled to please Mattel, the executives didn't always seem to know what they wanted either. Why is it in the hip hop scene though?

I think it's because I think they sent Beyonce and it was probably in the memes or whatever. So they went, oh, I guess that's hip-hop, right? Maybe there's a value. Is there one? There's no collectible Uno card. Can you imagine like a rap battle and someone's like, I'll reverse it on you.

Now you do a rap. Sure. About the number seven blue. And the guy's like, I'm just a cashier here at the toy shop. Do a rap. Sure, yeah. About the number seven blue. And the guy's like, I'm just a cashier here at the toy shop. Do a rap. I'm gonna get my manager. They can do a rap. My boss, there's another guy here

who wants to do a rap on you. You have to do a rap back, Adam. Yes, he had the reverse card. I'm going on break. Not long after we spoke, her Udo script was set aside. On fire. I'm going on break. Not long after we spoke, her Uno script was set aside. On fire. It was set on fire. Yeah, and one day,

Ryder's Room took another run at the concept. A heist, Mattel reasoned. Okay. Might be the way forward after all. Great. So you're doing a heist. You go up to security guard. They say you can't come through here.

You drop a skip. You shoot them with a gun. Nice. Then they have to let you in. You've skipped them. Yeah. They've skipped into the next life. What do you think?

I love that. So the cards reflect reality. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's great. What do you think? I think that's cool. Yeah. And I think, you know, given the choice between somebody coming up with an original heist

movie. Yeah. You know, with good performances and innovative, you know, mechanics and fun twists and turns. Maybe there's like a 3D map and then the map transitions to the real life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But rather than that, I'd just rather have a heist

that is just a really obvious, has a really obvious product placement for Uno in it. I think that's good. Because that's synergy and I love that. Would this like, if they did the heist, would the Uno cards have properties? Oh. Because what would you use them for other than that?

Well, I was picturing a valuable Uno card that they have to steal. I mean, is there such a thing? You're saying somebody's perhaps had – Is it a draw four? We need the draw four. I need to get my brother out of prison. This is the card to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I got to draw my four brothers out of prison. Well, I mean, obviously we can have maybe, you know, an AI imbues properties into the Uno cards and then you can use the Uno cards in real life to do magical things. That's cool, yeah. Can you see like a Now You See Me inspired? Do you think that's what they're thinking? Yeah, that series, they did two of them and nobody particularly

liked them. Yeah, but cards though, right? But cards though, yeah. Okay, cool. Good, really good. So that's where we're at at the moment with all these brands. JJ Abrams might be doing one. Might be doing Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars. Barney might be getting an A24 style horror movie. And there might be this hip hop heist with Uno cards somehow

in it. So there we go. They're going to drop that draw four or whatever. What's the one with all the colors on it? Yeah, there's draw four where you can change the color and there's a regular color where you can just change it but nobody draws anything. That's great.

Yeah, cool. Draw two. Guns. Bang, bang, you know? Yeah. Cool. Nice. Wow, so there we go.

Can we skip to the next segment of the show? They can just integrate it into the next Bond movie. Instead of playing Texas Hold'em, he plays Uno. Let's play a game we all know. That's right. Don't make me learn a different type of poker. And there's a guy offside being like, he's got the draw for. This is for a million dollars.

That's good, actually. That's good. It's what you want. That's right. We forgot to say Uno. That's going to be, he's going to have to pick up. He's forgot to say Uno, Le Chiffre. My goodness.

I'm going to hit you in your Uno balls with this rope. Do you know what it's time for? What's it time for? It's time for What We Reading. Is it? Yeah. That was quick. Yeah, well, it's a shorter episode, Mason.

It is a shorter episode. Because I'm tired. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I'm tired, Mason. It seems like you are tired. But we're going to talk about some Harrison harrison ford oh that's true yeah should we do the there'll be a theme song i love that there we go i'm doing the thing what are we reading today whoa we got here we did it's true and that's the truth yeah mason uh

again we're gonna do some do some Harrison Ford stuff. And maybe we will when his next blockbuster comes out, Captain America, He's the Hulk or whatever it's coming out. Captain America, I don't know what I'm doing here. We've done a Keanu Reeves one. We did another one. Yeah, that's right. And maybe even a third one.

Was it a Statham? I don't know. I don't think so. We did a couple, whatever they were. That's right. We broke down some filmographies. Statham wishes we did a retrospective on his career. That's true. And we will when he releases a third they were. That's right. We broke down some filmographies. Statham wishes we did a retrospective on his career. That's true.

And we will when he releases a third Meg movie. That's right. Meg with a three in it. That's right, Threg. Threg. Yeah, Threg, yeah. So you met Renton this last week, but Conan O'Brien's podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, they brought in Harrison Ford

for the latest episode. They wheeled him in. Yeah. And if you want to hear Harrison Ford just be normal and not berated about Star Wars and who would win the fight between the Millennium Falcon and the train. You get Conan O'Brien, a guy who was absolutely not interested in any of those things, it seems.

Yeah. And it's just a really fun kind of nice conversation. And you get a better sense of who Harrison Ford is. Yeah, yeah. And what he's like. Because there's enough time in this interview to actually get to some stuff that isn't like, what's the future for Indiana Jones? What do you think's going on there?

They're just like, yeah, you've got that movie coming out and whatever. Anyway, let's do some silly stuff. And he's quite funny as well. Like you're given the opportunity. And that's why he's funny in the movies where he's allowed to be funny. Yeah, he's sharp. He's got a very dry wit about him. I do think the last 10 minutes kind of descends into a room full of people just not believing that harrison ford came in to do the podcast oh sure yeah that's

true yeah it's very good though uh but i mean i feel like even when that happens on conan's podcast it is like one percent of that of the energy you get from like an episode of fallon oh absolutely yeah it's just like, oh, my God. Oh, no, it's not like... Oh, my God, you're on Modern Family or whatever. It's not awful. Yeah, it's not awful. It's very good and very funny.

But we watched some Harrison Ford movies this week also. That's true, we did. We both watched the movie Witness. We both watched Witness. Which is from 1985-ish. That's right, yeah. And if you don't know what that movie is, it's where a kid, a little boy, a little Amish boy, witnesses a murder. That's right. And then Harrison if you don't know what that movie is, it's where a kid, a little boy,

a little Amish boy witnesses a murder. That's right. And then Harrison Ford comes in and he goes, I'm a cop. I'm a good cop. That's right. What murder did you witness? And the boy tells him. It turns out the witness.

He says, you're a witness now. You're a witness. That's right. And then the boy turns out he knows something too much. And Harrison Ford has to go undercover and hiding at this Amish community to protect this little boy. I mean, he doesn't have to, but he gets shot. And he has to recover in the Amish community.

And he crashes his car and he has to. He crashes his car into like the one. The one thing. The one birdhouse. Like he goes to, he drops the kid and his mom off at the Amish community and then he's like, I'm going to leave. But he's been shot and he's wounded. And then he just sort of, he drives off and you see him.

Wobbles away. Wobbles away and his car just drives into a field and then just hits like this one stick. Absolutely. Holding up a birdhouse. Yeah. It's also got Kelly McGinnis, who you might know from First Top Gun.

I know her from the movie Witness. Oh, yeah. It's got Viggo Mortensen. A young Viggo Mortensen. A very young and very blonde Viggo Mortensen. A very young and very blonde Viggo Mortensen. And a very not saying much Viggo Mortensen. That's right. It's got Alexander Godunov, who you might know as one of the German terrorists in First

Die Hard, among other things. It's got Danny Glover. Daniel Glover. As a cop, but maybe not one you want to be friends with. Maybe one who does murders. Yeah, maybe. Maybe he's the one who does the murder in the movie. Maybe he's the one that the witness witnessed.

That's right. Yeah, potentially. Yeah, that's right. Now, one of the things this movie has, I recommend this, by the way. This is Harrison Ford's one and only Oscar nomination, I believe. So I've got the nominees here.

James, so he was nominated for Witness. Also in the running that year, James Garner. This is actor in a leading role. Yep. James Garner for Murphy's Romance. Never heard of it. Don't know that. Jack Nicholson for Pritzy's Honor.

Never heard of it. Never heard of that. John Voight for Runaway Train. Never heard of it. And the winner was William Hurt for Kiss of the Spider Woman. I have seen Kiss of the Spider Woman. We all know that one. No, I don't.

What is it? It's two guys in prison and they're telling each other stories. They're all good actors. Yes, for sure. What's Kiss of the Spider Woman. We all know that one. No, I don't. What is it? It's two guys in prison and they're telling each other stories. They're all good actors. Yes, for sure. What's Kiss of the Spider Woman like? Well, it's like a prison drama. Prison drama? Do they escape at the end?

No. The drama? Yeah, they escape the drama, yeah. I just want some quiet from this drama that you're creating. Yeah, the movie goes for two hours, then they're like, okay, now, shh, shh, are you done? Yeah. Okay, because I was just waiting for you shh. Are you done? Yeah.

Okay, because I was just waiting for you to stop. I'm going to sleep now. Exactly. What I like about this movie is just seeing Harrison Ford. He's not like a normal, normal guy because he's like a good cop on the edge. Not even on the edge. But just seeing him be like he's kind of understated in parts. He does some big Harrison Ford moments and there is some action in it or whatever.

There is a moment where he beats up a bunch of townies because he has to pretend to be Amish. Yeah. And so they're off. There's a scene where they're like a bunch of townies because he has to pretend to be Amish. Yeah. And so they're off. There's a scene where they're like, yuck, yuck, let's make fun of Harrison Ford. Yeah, they're all in the little Amish, the horse-drawn cart, and so these townies show up and they're like, we're going to daub some ice cream on you.

Yeah. And he's like, and Harrison Ford gets up to do his Harrison Ford thing and the Amish are like, but that's not our way. And he's like, well, it's my way. And then he beats them up. Then the Indiana Jones shoots them all. Oh, my God. He shoots them one bullet through all of them.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I can see why he got nominated for this, but it is kind of surprising he hasn't been nominated for other stuff because if you look at some of the other movies he's in. What did he do immediately subsequent to this, I wonder? Let's have a look. Let's go back and have a look.

Because I wonder if this – I often wonder what a – What a movie is. Yeah, I often wonder what a movie is. Yeah, I often wonder what a movie is. But I wonder what a loss, like not an Oscar win does to you. Yeah. Or even if you put in a career best performance and then you don't even get nominated. Like what is that?

Does that make you act harder or does it make you just go, I'm just going to go with the money now? Okay, sure. Here's something you might not know. If you want a really understated performance that he does in an incredibly big movie. Okay. He's in The Conversation.

Oh, yeah. He's got a scene with Gene Hackman. That's right. He's in Star Wars. I don't know if you've seen that one. Yep. Here's one that I don't think people have seen. I'm just going to quickly do this because why not, Mason?

Okay, all right. But there's a movie called The Guns of Navarone. It's from like the 60s or something. It's got like Gregory Peck and other people and Robert Shaw, I think. In 1988, he was in the movie Frantic, which was popularised in the Barenaked Ladies song one week where they say, Like Harrison Ford, I'm getting frantic.

Remember that? Yeah. He is frantic. I thought that was just a reference to him being frantic in movies. I didn't know it was a reference to a specific movie. They're referring to his behaviour in interviews. So Harrison Ford is in a sequel to The Guns of Navarone called Force 10 from Navarone in 1978.

And I remember really enjoying it. But apparently people are like, it's not as good as the original or whatever. But apparently people are like, it's not as good as the original or whatever. But I remember being like, that's a war movie. This is pretty solid. And it's not as good as the original, which is an incredible movie of that era. He's in Apocalypse Now, Mason.

Yeah. So you rewatched The Fugitive. I did rewatch The Fugitive. How are you feeling? I loved it. Yeah? It was frantic, I would say. Like Harrison Ford.

Like Harrison Ford. He tends to get frantic. That's exactly right. I loved it. I loved Tommy Lee Jones, I would say. Like Harrison Ford. Like Harrison Ford. He tends to get frantic. That's exactly right. I loved it. I loved Tommy Lee Jones, I believe, won an Oscar for that one. Yeah. In your face, Harrison Ford. Yeah.

But just what I loved about it, and I loved the same thing with Witness as well, just a bunch of character actors getting to just really get in there, you know, just a bunch of freaks. Normal looking people. Just a bunch of normal looking freaks getting in there, you know, just a bunch of freaks with weird faces. Normal-looking people. Just a bunch of normal-looking freaks getting in there, you know. Absolutely. Just not everybody had to be a beautiful model man or woman, you know.

They could just be normal. Also, Jane Lynch is in it for a second. Oh, really? Yeah, you know, like a rare. Is it Robert Downey Jr. in that one or is he only in the sequel? No, he's only in the sequel. Okay. Yeah.

And in retrospect, you could guess that he was the bad guy in US Marshals because he's the only new guy. Because the other guy, who are the other people on the team? Joey Pants. Joey Pants is on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A few others that pop up in that. Yeah, I can't believe they made a sequel.

Julianne Moore's in that. That's right. I know that. Yeah, she's a doctor in a hospital that Harrison Ford has to get to. Because he wants to find the one-armed man. Or needs to find the one-armed man. And he's like, I didn't kill my wife. And he's like, well, if you didn't prove it by jumping out of this big pipe.

Dare accepted. And then he does. How's that start to hold up? Oh, really badly. It's very bad. It's obviously a dummy. It falls. Yeah, it falls with, like, very very stationary limbs and a man who done that

would obviously die they should have waited the into a kind of a pin drop right my my thought in my again i really enjoyed it but my thought was that he's like a grown-up tin tin this character because he's constantly getting into scrapes that would kill anyone and he just by sheer circumstance like he's he gets convicted of the murder of his wife and then they put him on a prison bus and then the bus crashes and he's fine. Oh, that's how he gets off. That's how he gets out initially, right?

Yeah, yeah. And then the bus gets hit by a train and he escapes that and then he jumps off the dam and he's fine. Oh, my God. Very Tintin. Okay. So this movie, let me just, I'm sorry, I had something to say and I completely forgot.

Oh, this is the one that also he filmed when he did that episode of Young Indiana Jones, and that's why he has a beard in that. Oh, right, yeah. He looks great with a beard. It's a 93. How do you feel when he dyed his hair? I loved it. In the mirror?

Yeah, it was lovely. Because he pretends to be an orderly in it or something, doesn't he? He pretends to be a janitor. Okay, yeah, right. Okay, good stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he pretends to be an orderly in it or something, doesn't he? He pretends to be a janitor. Okay, yeah, right. Okay, good stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just looking at this, Mason. Oh, and it also has the other end of.

Oh, yeah. Do you remember that episode of Scrubs where the janitor? Oh, yeah. Because this is the first time that Neil Flynn, who is the janitor in Scrubs, worked with Harrison Ford because he did it again in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull where he plays an FBI agent. But there's an episode of Scrubs where the janitor in Scrubs, worked with Harrison Ford because he did it again in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull where he plays an FBI agent. But there's an episode of Scrubs where the janitor is like,

no, I was in the movie The Fugitive. Yeah. Because he's the actor. He plays a cop on the subway. And isn't it also that JD sees him in that movie initially and he's like, is that the guy? Yeah. Yeah, so that's fun.

It's a bit of fun. Real life in that movie. He says like Kimball Freeze or something like that, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Apparently he loves the movie K-9 The Widow whatever. Yeah, so that's fun. It's a bit of fun. Real life in that movie. He says like Kimball Freeze or something like that, doesn't he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Apparently he loves the movie Canine the Widowmaker. Okay. Which is about submarines and whatever. I started to watch and then I had to stop because, Mason, I'm alone.

I'm all alone. Yes. The first of his Jack Ryan movies. Oh, yes. Patriot Games. And I got like 10 minutes in and then I – it's also not a movie I'm like, I have to watch this work, I can put this on. Yeah, I wish I could have got to it, but I didn't.

But, yeah, I don't know. Have you seen any of those? I don't remember. I probably saw some of them. I have seen. I've definitely seen Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. And I've read the novels. Oh, well, apparently Tom Clancy thought he was too old.

I think he was approaching 50 at the time, which I don't think is a problem. Sabrina. Sabrina remake. Oh, well, apparently Tom Clancy thought he was too old. I think he was approaching 50 at the time, which I don't think is a problem. Sabrina. Sabrina remake. Yes. How do you feel about Air Force One? Get off my plane, Gary Oldman or whoever else is here. I don't have any strong feelings about it. What about the plane crash?

I don't remember it. The CGI plane crash. I remember it. People are like awful. Is it better or worse than him jumping off? Okay, right. It's worse. That's a shame.

Yeah. Is it really early CG where it's very obviously like it's got the pixels? It's like an episode of Sliders. Yeah, great. It's got like no texture to it. Do you remember Six Days, Seven Nights? Yes. Where Harrison Ford plays a pilot who crashes.

Yeah. Bit of a stretch, mate. On an island with Anne Heche. Oh, the late Anne Heche. Yeah, that's right. And they fall in love. And this was just after Anne Heche had come out. And the trailers were like, Harrison Ford goes where no man has gone before or whatever.

Yeah, that's right. And he has to get a snake out of her pants or whatever. Yeah, right. Anyways, tell me where Morrison is in that movie. So I remember as a kid being like, oh, my God, it's Boba Fett. He's basically Australian. It's Boba Fett. He's basically Australian. It's Boba Fett versus Han Solo. Oh, I didn't even think of that.

Yeah. I didn't even think of that. Now, listen, don't watch the movie Hollywood Homicide, but Google the scene Hollywood Homicide Harrison Ford bike. Okay. Does he steal a bike off a kid? Yeah, he steals a bike off a little girl and does a foot chase, and he's just screaming at everybody the whole time.

It's very funny. And he's intentionally funny, like he's being funny in it. It's really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. What else we got, Mason? We got to acknowledge at some point that Harrison Ford is being deliberately funny sometimes.

Yeah. What else? What are you thinking? What am I thinking in terms of the oeuvre of Harrison Ford? Ender's Game? Didn't see it. Well, the thing about Ender's Game is a lot of that footage. He was in Anchorman 2?

He was, yeah. I haven't seen Anchorman 2. Yeah, he fires Ron Burgundon. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, so there's a moment. He looks like he's having a nice time. Yeah, he looks like he's having a knife time. He does a knife time.

All right, I'm going to look. Here's my last two picks, James. My last two picks, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2. Oh, wow. How original for you to do that. That's right. Do you recommend the one that came in between? Middle.

The Kurt Russell movie? Middle period Blade Runner. Soldier? No. No? Not seen it. It's in the Blade Runner universe. Might be great.

Yeah. Might be great. So, yeah, Ender's Game, I just wanted to say, we play as some kind of Colonel Space whatever. That movie was. Colonel Space kind of Colonel Space whatever. That movie was- Colonel Space whatever. Colonel Space whatever. That movie was great for people making Episode 7 fan trailers

before it came out. Oh, of course. Like getting footage of Harrison Ford being a space colonel. Yeah, right. And they're like, you know. This is what it's going to be like. Yeah. It's magical.

Apparently he's good in 42. Okay. That's a movie, Chadwick Boseman's movie from 2013. It's not a 65 prequel. So, no, Age of Adaline was interesting because that uses, there's a woman in it who doesn't age. Okay. And Harrison Ford is, and so she dates Harrison Ford when he's young.

Okay. And then when he's older, so when he's young, he's played by Anthony Ingruba. Okay. Who does the impressions of him. Right. And then when he's older, he's played by Harrison Ford. Right. Okay. Who does the impressions of him. Right. And then when he's old, he's played by Harrison Ford. Right.

So if that's what you were looking for in a movie, Mason. I kind of was. That's what you're going to get. The Age of Adaline. Yeah. There you go. That's what you're going to get, Mason. That's what I want, though.

Yeah. So that's cool. Anyway, so he's made of lots of good movies. Agreed. And that's all I've got to say about that. Same. Yeah. Anything else or should we move on?

I think we could move on. Oh, I just want to say quickly in Witness, I'm going to spoil the ending for a little bit. Oh, no. In a way, we're all the Witness. There's a moment where one of the bad corrupt cops has a horrible grain silo related death. Yeah.

Very harrowing. Yeah. And the other one is at the end when there's the cops there. Isn't it the dressmaker? No, I haven't. We've talked about it. We have talked about it. There's a great solar alarm.

I know. I knew because I know you hate that idea, so I thought you would have enjoyed that. Love that. Thank you. There's a moment at the end where Harrison Ford is there and there's one corrupt cop left who's going to shoot Harrison Ford with a shotgun.

And Harrison Ford's like, stop doing it enough. You can't kill everybody. And he's like, what are you going to shoot this old man? And he just grabs an old kill everybody. And he's like, what are you going to shoot this old man? And he just grabs an old Amish man. He's like, what are you going to shoot this boy? And I'm like, settle down, Harrison Ford. He might, actually. He might only be trying to shoot you, but he's using a shotgun

so he'll get the other two as well. He's got a spread. He's got a spread, Harrison Ford. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, when he drives off at the end, he should have hit the birdhouse again. Yeah, that's right. Later, Luci, yeah. It's really good. Also, when he drives off at the end, he should have hit the birdhouse again. Yeah, that's right. Later, Lucis. I haven't learned anything.

I'm about the same as I was before. It's true. Love that. Me too. Love that for us. Yeah, me too. Should we do letters? Yeah, let's do it.

I've got a theme for letters. The classic one. Convenience. 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.

Yeah. If you do want to reach the show, hashtag WeeklyPlanetPod on Twitter or WeeklyPlanetPod at gmail.com. That's right. What have you got in terms of letters this week? I'll find one real quick. Don't worry about it. Okay, well, I'll do this then.

Okay. This is from Tom Bonehawk. Excuse me? That's what he said. Tom Bonehawk. Bone-A-Hawk. B-O-N-E-A-Hawk. Oh, like Bone Tomahawk, but reversed.

Nope. Okay. It says, Secret Invasion keeps getting better with every episode. Disagree. Mendo giving full, you've been talking to the cops, energy in the restaurant scene with Gravik.

Yeah, I enjoyed that scene. Yeah. I do not love this show. It's kind of a bit flat and meandering. I think it's improved since the first episode. Yeah. The intrigue is not there for me, kind of. It's interesting because people are like,

I've seen people on the internet go, what you said, all the superhero movies are the same, but they've given you something different. You said you wanted something different. Now you've been given something different. You're like, oh, I don't like that. What do you want? I You said you wanted something different. Now you've been given something different. You're like, Oh, I don't like that.

What do you want? I don't know. Something good. Yeah. Something really good would be good. You know, it's worthy of the millions and millions and millions of dollars they're pouring into these things,

you know? So I guess spoiler for this episode, a bit of time code at the end. The implication is that James Rhodes. Yes. Is a Scrollington. That is true. Yes.

Do you think it's, he's always been a scroll or do you think he's going to rescue him from one of those pods? He's just kept in a yes. Do you think he's always been a Skrull, or do you think he's going to rescue him from one of those pods? He's just kept in a pod. Oh, no, he's in a pod already. Yeah, I agree. Because they're not going to be like, he was a Skrull the whole time. No, that's true.

Because that would change something. Yeah. We can't change anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think they'll be quite recent as well. Yeah. Because otherwise he has to get up. Well, he calls him Nick in an earlier episode.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, my friends don't call me Nick. Even though a lot of people in the MCU do call him Nick. That's what I call him Well, he calls him Nick in an earlier episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, my friends don't call me Nick. Even though a lot of people in the MCU do call him Nick. That's what I call him. Captain America calls him Nick. His mum calls him Nicholas. That's right. Yeah.

Anyway, it's all right. I think there's like three left. It's all right. Yeah. Is Rhodey going to get in the war machine armour though? No. Oh, damn it. It costs money.

That is true. He probably couldn't get it to Britain either. No, they have to like, they're doing they're using all their money on morphin people. But also I was going to say he has to he can't be too far back because he's got Armor Wars coming up. Yeah. And so otherwise you have to do all his character development

again. Yeah. The character development he has. All it has to be is before the last, just after the last time we saw him, which was one of his shows. No, he was in an MCU show. Was he? Was he in Captain America, the Captain America boys?

He might have been. At the start where he's like, you shouldn't have given up the Captain America boy. Oh, that's right, yeah. He might have been in a different one. I don't know whether it was in that one. But if he was in that, then they could just flash back to that. Yeah.

And it can be like, you know, I said you shouldn't have given up the Captain America, boys. And he leaves the room and he gets bonked on the head. Yeah. Or he leaves the room and he leaves like a green slime trail. They've added that in. And then he goes, but this was recent. This happened just recently. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so don't worry. Don't worry about it. Cool. Anyway, I will continue to watch it because it is my job. Yeah. This is an email from Ben. Ben? Hey, since Superman is really the whole reason we have this podcast, I wondered if you

boys have been watching My Adventures with Superman. I would if they put it on a streaming service. It's not out here. He has said the first is on YouTube for free. Oh, then I'll do that. Yeah, I'll do that also. Wait, let me check if it's even on Australian YouTube. Yeah, that's right. He says it's really fun it feels like someone's finally trying to make a superman

project and respect the ip in the 21st century uh yeah yeah it's not on the australian uh that'll be right uh and seeing as james is the guy who knows everything about anime then he definitely should check it out yes there is some comparisons that could be made it is certainly anime-esque he's got a sort of Sailor Moon suit up sequence. I don't know if you've seen it. No. Where it's like, pew, pew, pew. Sailor Moon.

He says Sailor Moon, yeah. Is he allowed to say that? No. Legally? No, no, no. Well, he is Superman. Did you see the trailer for Suicide Squad, Isekai? You're an anime fan.

Oh, I saw a picture of it. Okay, good. And? I don't know, it looks pretty fun. I didn't know there was a whole genre of sort of Japanese literature and animation and all sorts of stuff, isekai, which is just you go to a different place and you've got to do stuff. Like you've got to go on a quest.

Oh, okay. Like there's a name. Isekai is the name for it of like. So it's like a side mission. Yeah, but it's like. So if you saw that recent Batman Ninja, which went on, they ended up in feudal Japan

and they had to solve all the problems and blah blah blah it's a whole genre Ninja Turtles 3 Ninja Turtles 3 as in Isekai I guess I knew it

there you go I know anime we're learning lots of things because the original anime was Ninja Turtles 3 that is very true isn't it yeah I just got a tweet here

from Rusty Shackleford okay who says hashtag we can plan a pod why have sometimes listened to your podcast with me Very true, isn't it? Yeah. I just got a tweet here from Rusty Shackleford. Okay. Who says, hashtag WickedPlanetPod. Wives sometimes listen to your podcast with me, as well as Caravan of Garbage. You gave me some hot takes. One, the host names are James and Jeremy. That's true.

That's true. Two, the old theme was better. Probably. Three, she's born and raised in Virginia. This is for you. And thinks they're worse drivers than VA drivers. What do you think of that? Here's the thing.

I can't remember where we came down on that. No, we got confusing. We got confused. Everyone was yelling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we changed topics to something else, I think. We'll come back to it. I'll come back to it and based on scant evidence,

I'll completely change my opinion on what I said last time. All of that is good to know, though. It is. Thank you for telling us. That's right. I appreciate that a lot. I'm going to find a second email. What do you think about that, James?

I find that highly disrespectful. But what do I do, you know? That's true. Maybe I'll look at my Twitter again. This fucking works. I hate this. I always hated it. Now I hate it even more.

Oh, here's something interesting. So Kyle has written in and said, Hashtag week upon a pod. Mates, I've cracked the mystery of the fashion specs. You know, Indiana Jones? That's true, yeah. Does he even need glasses? Yeah. I've been watching the adventures of young Indiana Jones on Disney+. And in episode 12, he's getting spy gear with

he's getting set up with spy gear and they give him Coke bottle spectacles to disguise himself from the Germans. Clark Kent style. Seems like a stretch but he'd keep it up all the way into his professor days but the Germans never did capture him on campus, did they? Oh. The whole thing is like,

we talked about how is it like a Clark Kent-esque. Right, yeah. Like, is it like, oh, now he's an action man, now he's this, you know. Well, I mean, you know, in the... But he's saying it's literal. In a real world sense, it's because they wanted to distinguish him in the movie. Yes. Definitively, here's the academic side and here's the action side.

Yes, yes, yes. But yeah, you're probably right, yeah. Also, it might be one of those things where some people will wear a hat for a costume party and then suddenly they're a hat guy. Yeah, absolutely. That looks bad. Yeah, it's a good show. Everyone thinks so.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Here's an email from Juan. Juan? A letter sent two years too late. Oh. Hey, mates, I'm Diego, and I've been listening to the pod since just after the pandemic hit.

I listen to every new episode since then, but recently went back and started from episode one. Oh, my God. I've just hit episode 376. We discuss small details that take you out of movies. Ah, yes. I get taken out of a movie when another actor or franchise's name dropped because I immediately start thinking if any actors in the movie

have worked with the actors mentioned or have even been in the franchise mentioned. So the best example, in Endgame they mention apparently Hot Tub Time Machine and Sebastian Stan is in Hot Tub Time Machine. He is too. And the Big Lebowski because Jeff Bridges is in the Big Lebowski. And far from having Fury mention Star Wars, which Samuel L. Jackson is also in.

Yes. And also they mention... Crocodile Dundee. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And in Civil War they mention... Crocodile Dundee. Yeah, yeah. And in Civil War, they're like hey, there's this old movie and it's Sapphire Strikes Back and you know. Yeah. And Harrison Ford is General Ross. He is the General Ross now, that's right.

So they're going to have to change one. They're either going to have to change that line in Civil War or they're going to have to turf him from... Fair. Yeah, I think so too. Absolutely. Yeah. My god. Yeah. Well, that's interesting. civil war or they're gonna have to turf him from fair yeah i think so absolutely yeah my god yeah well that's interesting and it's very interesting i also think that but my here's the problem is you go well obviously if they mention chris evans in a in a marvel movie you go well obviously it's captain america and chris evans just happens to look a lot like him yeah but then you get into

the oceans 12 situation where you've got a character played by Julia Roberts and they confuse her for the real Julia Roberts. And Bruce Willis is there as himself. Yeah, that's right. Good movie. That's annoying. It is annoying. I hate it.

I hate it too. But I guess, you know, every once in a while. Every once in a while something happens. It's so true. We all get along. That's, I don't know if we all get along. Some of us do. Not us.

No. What's next, Mason? Are we wrapping this old show up? We're wrapping this old show up, James, because you've got to sleep and you've got to take your kids to school tomorrow. Both your kids. Both of them. You're turfing the three-year-old at a primary school tomorrow.

What are you going to do? That's right. Folks, thank you so much. They legally have to take them. That's true. They can't just push them in front of traffic. That's right. That's illegal.

It's true. Why did you look push them in front of traffic. That's right. That's illegal. It's true. Why did you look shifty then? I don't know. You have a real side-to-side look. I'm like, do I call the cops on this guy? Not me. I'm not doing that. I'm saying they can't.

Yeah, well. But I also can't. That's true. Yeah. Folks, thank you so much for listening. While you're doing that, I'm just going to quickly check the monitor and come back. Oh, my God. All right.

Okay. It's difficult to do if you're not there. Yeah. Because I'm looking at it. That's what she said. Wait a second. Folks, thank you so much for listening to the podcast. We absolutely appreciate it.

You are the reason that we're here recording this very podcast. If you want to get into contact with us, actually, no, there's a different bit. Yeah. I say, folks, thank you for. I'm here. Is this going to help? No.

I'm back. No, it's worse now. Folks, thank you for listening. Thank you for telling your'm here. Is this going to help? No. I'm back. No, it's worse now. Folks, thank you for listening. Thank you for telling your friends about it, this podcast. Yeah, man. Thank you for subscribing to the podcast, and thank you for leaving a five-star review. It is free to leave a review as far as I know, but eventually I'll try and monetize it. Yeah.

Spotify will be like, you can't leave a review unless you're bloody – you know? Unless we hit you with a rock. Yeah. Do you have any five-star reviews? I do. I've got two, Mason. This is from MHCNC who says – five stars, by the way. Any app. That's you with a rock. Yeah. Do you have any five-star reviews? I do. I've got two, Mason. This is from MHCNC who says, five stars, by the way. Any app.

That's fine. That's very good. That's very good. At the end of doing a long day doing science, my brain is too scrambled to listen to educational podcasts. Podcasts? Podcasts. But in fact, I learned-

What do you live by? A bloody lake or something? I know. But in fact, I learned for a scientist to get this wrong in this review. Disappointing. In fact, I learned from this show. It did come in handy last week. The final question of trivia night was,

which movie based on a book and later adapted into a TV show was the first to use CGI? I, of course, knew the answer was Westworld. Westworld? Bet 20 points on it and came third overall as a result. This podcast is not just fun. It's educational and could help anyone with their trivia goals. You listen to this podcast, you get a bronze.

That's right. Next time I'm in Melbourne, I hear you guys are kind of our $10 winnings. Cheers, lads. It's Monte from Los Angeles. Do they get $10 each or do they collectively get $10? Good question. I don't know. But, yeah, figure that out and then let us know.

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Love the podcast, five stars, but the revelation of Little James implies the existence of Big James, which begs the question of where is the giant Big James? My theory is that Mr. Sunday and Nick Mason killed Big James in the early episode when Nick Mason refers to the podcast studio as a man cave. I believe it's just that, a room made from or within the bones of Big James.

If you haven't listened to this podcast, I highly recommend it. Five stars. Now, Big James has died of a heart issue. He's too big. Too big. Like an Andre the Giant situation, unfortunately. You know, you see a lot of little old men. You've never seen any big old men.

Never seen any big old men. That's right. That's right. Sometimes you do. They're just very quiet and still. Yeah, because they have to because if they move, their heart will explode. Their heart will explode. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I'm excited for that. Yeah, when are you seeing it? Probably Friday. What? See it earlier so we can talk about it earlier. When? In our real lives. I don't want to do that.

See it earlier so I can send you one text and I go, how about that thing? And you go, whoa. I can't. It depends it out. No, take your time. Don't worry about it. No, well,, whoa. I can't. It depends. Nah, take your time. Don't worry about it. No, well, it depends because I can't take my kids to see it.

If it was Barbie or Oppenheimer, I would obviously take them. That's true. Let me have a look. Let's get some. We've got some upcoming sessions. I saw Elemental. How was that? It's fine.

Great. What do you think of that? Did you save Pixar as a studio by seeing it? I did, actually, yeah. That's cool, actually. Yeah. No, it was all right. Like for a kid's movie. My kids were like, yeah, that was all right.

Nice. I'm like, yep, good assessment. That's great. It's not showing until, oh, wait, there are some sessions tomorrow. A couple of sessions? We'll see it tomorrow. But it's not free. Why would it be free?

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