The Weekly Planet - 490 The Meg 2 & Controversies Galore

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

Welcome back to another episode of The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV Shows. This week, STRIKES. Including the Stephen Amell controversy, more delays including Kraven and Spider-Verse, narrowing in on the MCU Fantastic Four cast, Barbenheimer insensitive marketing, trailers for Loke Season 2/Saw X and of course Meg 2: The Trench. Thanks for listening!Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, video let's plays, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.Maso on Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/47-nick-mason-and-jess-perkinsPlease be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start04:35 Guy Who Hates Star Wars07:17 Kraven, Ghostbusters & Spider-Verse Delayed13:03 Stephen Amell & SAG-AFTRA Strike Controversies21:31 Why The Witcher Series is Bad?25:18 Wonder Woman 3 with Gal Gadot27:05 Fantastic Four Casting Rumours30:06 Barbenheimer Controversy32:10 Why Secret Invasion is Bad?35:53 Loki Season Two Trailer40:07 Saw X Trailer44:23 Meg 2: The Trench Full Spoiler Review01:06:35 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:11:20 Letters, It's Time For LettersJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownMaso's Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/nickmaseauThe Weekly Planet Twitter ► https://twitter.com/theweeklyplanetPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesTWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetTWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGjT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday and with me as always, thank goodness. Because what would we do without him? It's Nick Mason. Thanks, it's great to be here, James. I'm doing compliments from now on. I love that. People think that I'm rude and mean. And I want to change that narrative.

Who thinks that? People who tell me. Give us a complete and I want to change that narrative. Who thinks that? People who tell me. Give us a complete list of all the people that think you're rude. A complete list? Yep. You mean my grievance list? Alright. Oh no, James, no! You've already fallen back into your old ways. Ah, big week. Speaking of falling back into

their old ways. I mean, firstly, Jason Statham, but yeah. Oh yeah, I was going to say I was an episode of Who Knew It with Matt Stewart. You did know it. I did know it. You did know it. I did know it. You better believe I did know it. But it's myself and Jess Perkins answering funny quiz questions in a funny way. We had a good time. Wow. You should check that out, I think.

Yeah. After this, obviously. Yeah, obviously. Yeah, great. Is he more positive than me? That's a great question. I hate that about him. Yeah. You know? Yeah, yeah. Do you ever hate that about him. You know? Do you ever feel that about someone else? Just a resentment? Do you have that? You just meet him or don't meet him and you just don't like him.

I don't like him. Who are we talking about? Matt Stewart. I don't like him. Wow. Yeah, great. Really good show. Check it out. It will be linked below. This week though, we're going to be talking about the Meg 2 The Trench. That's right. It's just Meg 2 The Trench. It's Meg 2 Trench? Yeah. Is it?. It will be linked below. This week, though, we're going to be talking about the Meg 2 The Trench. That's right. It's just Meg 2 The Trench. It's Meg 2

Trench? Yeah. Is it? It's not The Meg 2. No, it's Meg 2 The Trench. I thought it was The Meg 2 The Trench also, but clearly some hoity-toity executive, some bean counter out there was like, no, let's just make it Meg 2 The Trench. Something sounds wrong. Too many thes. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I was going to say because that is too many thes.

But then it shouldn't be Meg 2 then, should it? No. Because the first one was The Meg. The Meg. We're right and they're right. Yeah, I was going to say because that is too many thes. But then it shouldn't be Meg too then, should it? No. Because the first one was the Meg. The Meg. We're right and they're wrong. I agree. Add them to your grievance list and put my name at the top of your grievance list as well. Now it's James and Mace's grievance list.

Okay. I thought you meant add you to the grievance list. You can if you want. Or you are at the top anyway. I know. But add me to that. Okay, cool. Because I'm my number one hater, as you know.

I do know that. We're going to be talking more delays. We're going to be getting into some strike news, including some things that Stephen Amell said, in addition to some other CEOs and such who have some very interesting things to say. Oh, boy. We're going to be getting into some news of The Witcher

and why it wasn't very good from somebody who made it. They're going to explain it. Oh, the current season or just generally? Just generally. Oh, wow. Yeah, we're going to talk about Wonder Woman 3. We're going to be talking Fantastic Four Rumours. We're going to talk about some controversy behind Barbenheimer.

Is there really? He hates men. Oh, my God. They do. They both hate men. I didn't realize it. Oh, my God. One more than the other.

Yeah. No, it's a different thing, but we'll get into that. Interesting, right. We're going to talk about something that may have happened with Secret Invasion, like why that turned out the way it is. That should be our new segment. Why did this happen? With Secret Invasion.

We can do it every week, I think. Yeah, that's right. Because we produced a little video, and when I say we, I mean Rob Collins did an incredible job putting that video together that's on YouTube, and a lot of people job putting that video together that's on YouTube. And a lot of people are watching that. So that's a bit of fun. This is why.

It's like I think it's the biggest video we've had of the year so far, like growth-wise. And trended, which hasn't happened to me in like six years, or Rob Collings. And look, it's the great editing. It's an incredible thumbnail. I'll thank myself for that. That thumbnail is very good.

Obviously, we were both killing it in that video. But this is why shit like this takes off. This is why channels focus on this kind of stuff because it gets traction. And that's what we're going to do now. Yeah, that's right. Well, because then what happens is, and we've talked about this off air, I think, is that a lot of cases people, maybe they have a bad week and they're like, you know what I hate? I hate this particular actor or whatever it is. And they make a video and it gets a million views or two million views

and then they're like, well, now – This is my personality. Exactly. Do I continue to do this? Because they've tasted the highest heights, you know what I mean? And they go, well – I like tasting the lowest lows. Oh, yeah.

That's the stuff. And then I guess you go, well, do I become someone who every week has an opinion where I hate everything? Or do I just go back to what I normally do and get 50,000 views or whatever or less? And I think a lot of people just quit after that. Sure, happens. But some people go, well, I'm very happy to pretend to be mad.

I'm just going to pretend to be mad every week. It's easier when you are mad. That is true, actually. Yeah, that's what I find. Yeah. We could just make videos off your grievance list. Hey, speaking of grievance listeners. Yeah.

Sorry, speaking of grievance lists. Grievance listeners. General grievance. Yeah, this is from IndieWire. Here's a bit of news for you. I love this. Jim Jarmusch will never watch Star Wars films. I resent their cultural impact.

Whoa. This is so close to my white whale, which is a guy who doesn't know watch Star Wars films. I resent their cultural impact. Whoa! This is so close to my white whale, which is a guy who doesn't know what Star Wars is. But if anything, it's even better because it's a guy in the movie industry who doesn't like... He knows what Star Wars is, but he hates it. Jarmusch said,

I resent that I know so much about them and the characters. Why is all that in my head when I've never actually seen one? Jim Jarmusch won't be travelling to a galaxy far, far away anytime soon. The Dead Don't Die director revealed to The Believer that he will never see the Star Wars franchise at a protest over its cultural impact. I have particular things I will never see. I will never see any Star Wars films

because I resent that I know so much about them and the characters. Why is all that in my head when I've never actually seen one? Why do I know about R2-D2 and Darth Vader and all these things when I've never even seen a Star Wars film? That's a great question. Yeah, yeah. It's because it's infiltrated. But he's also said, I've never seen Gone with the Wind

and I never will just because I feel like it's forced on me and it's some kind of corny thing. He does have his preferences against mass things, but because I really deeply love the craft of filmmaking, I of course like masterful filmmakers' work. He probably likes the MCU. But I watch all kinds of stuff, he clarified. On a plane recently I watched Cruella.

I love the Naked Gun movies because they're so stupid. I'm sort of amazed by the John Wick movies, just by how many people he can kill. I haven't seen the Twilight movies. Okay. This is a great interview. This is so scattershot. The Terminator is a masterpiece of cinema.

It's a big action movie essentially, so I don't really differentiate. Anyway. That's so weird. He's talking about the last nearly 50 years. Well, we've gotten further with the wind, obviously. It's just like, well, I hate this and I love this and I haven't seen this, but I did like this. It's just all over the place. I love – I've never really read any interviews with Jim wind, obviously. It's just like, well, I hate this and I love this and I haven't seen this, but I did like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just all over the place.

I love, I've never really read any interviews with Jim Jarmusch before, but I'm definitely going to track some more down. For people who are not super familiar with his work, I would say track down Ghost Dog, The Way of the Samurai. Oh, okay. Which has Forrest Whitaker. Yeah, yeah.

Star Wars' own Forrest Whitaker. That's right. As a hitman who follows, who follows the way of the samurai. I've never seen that, I think. I think you might have seen it. I might have seen it. Maybe I'll watch it again for the first time. Yeah, you might have seen it.

Yeah, cool. All right. I know of it. Yeah. Also, Coffee and Cigarettes, which has- Coffee and Cigarettes. Absolutely. It certainly does.

Yeah. But it's got Tom Waits in it. It's like a series of vignettes where people- Two members of the Wu-Tang Clan have a conversation with Bill Murray. It's a whole thing. Anyway. He was great in Dracula. Tom Waits in it. It's like a series of vignettes where people, two members of the Wu-Tang Clan have a conversation with Bill Murray, it's a whole thing. Anyway. He was great in Dracula, Tom Waits. That's true, he was, yes.

Yeah. Good stuff. Mason, it's time for our segment delays. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes, please. Now, because we recorded a bit early last week, we missed this bit of news, but Kraven the Animal Man,

that's been pushed back. What? From October of 2023 to August to one year from now of 2024. Whoa. Yeah. Because obviously they can't get actors out to promote their movies at the moment. That's true, yeah.

And they're worried by the time October rolls around that that's still going to be the case. And you really need somebody out there pushing this movie. That's right. Influences? Influences. Yeah, scabs and influences. Well, did you see Mr. Beast got in trouble this week? I did see that, yeah.

But, I mean, it seems as if it was fine, like it was something that was within the rules of SAG or whatever. Something like that, yeah. And he also donated the money and whatever. Okay, right, right, right. Because he's in it briefly. Yeah, he is. He's got a cameo.

Yeah, in Ninja Turtles or whatever, which we won't be talking about. Ugh. Yeah, it's not out here yet. I'm annoyed, Mason. Yeah, we're going to watch the Meg 2. Meg 2. And the next week we're going to watch. Oh, folks, just to get ahead of this,

next week in Australia sees the release of both Gran Turismo and Dracula on a Boat again. Yeah. Which do you think we should watch? If we only have time for one. Or both. We're not Barbenheimer-ing this. No.

Yeah. I mean, I would rather watch Dracula on a boat, but I guess. We're not doing Dractorismo. It's not happening. My goodness. We're not doing Granular. No, that's good too. We don't have time.

No. I kind of want to watch both. I mean, we will eventually. Yeah, we will. If there's nothing the next week, we probably will. Yeah. There we go. Because I think, my guess would be Gran Turismo is probably worse.

Yeah. But there might be more to talk about. Or it's boring. Could be boring. Yeah. I saw there was a recent thread in the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates group. On Facebook.com. Yeah, that's right.

And it was talking about like topics that we could cover because like i know i love doing topics but then you get to this time of the year big releases every week yeah big releases every week that's right another bit of news something that's moved mason ghostbusters the next one i think it's called ghostbusters the next one nostalgia for 40 year old men oh nice uh it's moved from december of this year well i can't wait i gotta wait 15 years 15 years before I can watch this movie then, but all right. To March of 2024.

So that's good? Yeah. That's the one where it's back in New York, baby. Yeah, back in New York as Winston's paying for it all. Great. Because he got good at business. And Beyond the Spider-Verse, which is the next Spider-Verse movie, has been delayed from March of next year to...

Indefinitely, question mark. Yeah, we saw this come up a few weeks back, but basically when they finished the first one under much sufferance and everybody crunched and didn't get paid properly, we were under the assumption that they'd started the second movie, third movie, but they hadn't. Hadn't at all, yeah. This one, I mean, mean obvious i think we knew

this was going to happen because again that nobody had recorded any lines for this one yet maybe the script wasn't even finished you know this was in real pre-pre-production yeah but this one to me feels like or at least it felt like this a week ago and and you know news has moved on obviously but it felt to me like studios going, hey, you like that Spider-Man movie? Yeah. Well, guess what the writers are taking away from you? Guess what the writers and actors are taking away from you?

New Spider-Man movie? Guess what? Maybe it'll never come out. And whose fault is that? These people will want to be paid what they're worth. I don't think at this point in my life there's something if they were like, well, guess what? This isn't coming out.

I'd be like, all right. I don't think there's anything where I'd be really upset about. I feel like when I was younger, absolutely. I'd be like, why isn't there a sequel to this? I'm mad about it. But now I'm like, whatever. Yeah, I think if it never comes out, there'll be a big art book. It'll be the Spider-Verse art book and it'll cover the first movie and the second movie and then the next one it'll be like some concept art

for the next one and it'll say at the end like, at the end Miles defeated the bad guys through teamwork. Yeah. And we'll be like some concept art for the next one and it'll say at the end like at the end um miles defeated the bad guys through teamwork yeah and and we'll be like yeah yeah figured it turned out he didn't have to kill his family to prevail in the end oh really in this kid's movie they found a different way he'd have to shoot his own dad or whatever i mean they're definitely gonna make it yeah because it made so much money but you know it's just a matter of when uh oh this is terrible news. Five Netflix original movies have been pushed into 2024. Oh, no.

I was expecting them to come out in 2023, whatever they were. Sometimes there's one out and then you missed it. Yeah. They might have released four in the time it's taken us to record some of this podcast. So I was watching Red Notice the other day. Okay. You don't have to tell me that.

Sorry. Why don't you start a story of while I was breathing the other day? We know. And I accidentally went out of Red Notice and I was scrolling through other things and I came across The Grey Man. Yeah, right. I saw Ryan Gosling and I nearly watched it. Nearly watched it.

That's progress, I think. That's great. I didn't though. No, no, no, no. Yeah, but one day I feel like I'll watch it. But I saw Ryan Gosling recently in Barbie. It's got Chris Evans, the Russo brothers directing. I'm like, okay, okay, maybe this is the best movie I've ever seen maybe.

But I didn't watch it. I nearly watched it. Yeah, you nearly watched it. That's like, you know, I don't know if you're cleaning your toilet or whatever and there's just like some unidentified goop and you're like, oh, do I stick my finger in it? No, obviously not. But good news, here's some good news.

Madam Web has actually been moved up from February 16th of 2024 to February 14th, Valentine's Day of 2024. That's moved up two days. Two days. So if you're looking to take a special certain someone. Your best gal that you're going steady with. That's right. Or whoever.

No, only your best gal you're going steady with. Okay, you're right. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. So there you go. That's exciting. That is exciting. So here's something via variety.

Stephen Amell. Oh, yes. It was at a panel and he got in a bit of hot water for this. I'm just going to read it out. can do panels as long as it's not promoting something so you can appear on things as long as it's not in so you could go to think he intended to provide something yeah no I think this is definitely yeah yeah yeah okay let's continue with the story he said I support my union I do and I stand with them I do not support striking I don't I think that it's a reductive negotiating tactic I find the I don't. I think that it's a reductive negotiating

tactic. I find the entire thing incredibly frustrating. I think the thinking as it pertains to the show, like the show that I'm on that premiered last night. There it is. I think it's myopic. Now, he's walked back a bunch of this on Instagram. I'm not going to go through it, but he basically said, you know, I didn't...

His PR said, you know, he said he didn't support strikes, but actually what he meant was he does support strikes. And you misinterpreted. Yeah. Which is, he walked it back. No, that's not nothing. You know, that's. He was forced to walk it back and that's not nothing.

I mean, and I know that like it is, I mean, it is frustrating. He's got a new thing coming out. He's got a new show. Like, of course that would be frustrating. And I know that he's not the only one that is feeling like that. But unfortunately, like, for a strike to work, you do need that conformity in terms of, I said conformity, people are going to be like, communism!

That's right. Communists on a podcast! But it's, you know what, here's something that's never going to happen. The writers and the actors go, hey, can we have some residuals? And the studio go, no. And the writers and actors go, hey can we have some residuals and the studio go no and the writers and actors go oh well thanks anyway yeah and the studio goes well since you were so nice we'll give you a couple of residuals it's not going to happen they won't no exactly the the reality is as we've talked about this has happened because it got to a it got to a breaking

point you know and we've seen this in a lot of industries. It's not just, this just happens to be a very public one because Hollywood is in everybody's homes, whether you like it or not, even in Jim Jarmusch's home. That's right. He's swatting it all away with a broom. This is via Bloomberg though. This is all kind of related. Walt Disney Co and NBC Universal are paying lobbyists to watch over legislation that would bar them from using a lucrative state tax break if artificial intelligence is used to displace workers in their film and TV productions. Just keeping an eye on it. Keeping an eye on it.

Making sure that's... Now, I saw that and I was very confused by the wording of it. Yes. So if we can break that down. So what is happening is the law is going to say that if you use AI in your movie productions or your TV productions, you lose out on a big tax break. Yes. So it is in the movie industry and TV industry's best interest currently to not use AI because

they won't get, because they'll get less money. The legislation would bar them from using the tax break. Okay, right. So if it goes through, that would stop them from doing it. So at the moment there is nothing in place for that at the moment. But I know it's worded. So they want the law to not go through. Yeah, whatever it means, the idea is that they want to use,

they want artificial intelligence to be put in place and they get a tax break for using it. Which also, like, why would you get a tax break for that? What about that? Yeah, you're not creating jobs, are you? What's going on? Yeah. Not really.

Not in the same way as using actual people. Yeah. I don't know. Working on a bloody computer. So, yeah, there you go. But David Zaslav, he's here to say something. He spoke to Variety. He's head of Warner Brothers Discovery.

I saw two people kissing on the television. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't get it. So I cancelled the show and I deleted it. I'm normal. Yeah, he's normal. Normal man. That's why we like him.

If you don't know, he's head of Warner Brothers Discovery. He's currently scrapping it for parts to either sell it or, I don't know, consolidate or cut losses or I don't know what he's doing exactly. Now, did he say this week? Is this the quote that I had? Yeah, yeah, I got it here. Now, did he say this week, is this the quote that I heard? Yeah, yeah, I got it here. Let me read it, Mason. You want this juicy quote.

While we're all hoping for a fast resolution, our modelling assumes a return to work date in early September. Should the strikes run through the end of the year, I would expect several 100 million upside to our free cash flow guidance and some incremental downsides for the adjusted EBITDA. So basically he's saying that- A bit da da. Is that a Kid Rock song? A bit da, yeah. Kid Rock does have the line, it's not statutory, it's mandatory. Remember that thing that he said? That's okay.

Yeah, just something that Kid Rock said, if you're a fan. I'm not a fan of him, actually. That's okay. Yeah, just something that Kid Rock said if you're a fan. I'm not a fan of him, actually. Basically, if the strike continues, well, they'll actually save $100 million on production. But that's like being like, I fucking sold all my furniture and look at all this cash I have.

I've got nowhere to sit, but look, I've got $1,000. Like, think, idiot. I mean, he knows this. He does, yeah. It's just a way to spit it to investors and shareholders and whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so that's fun. Speaking of having a big pile of cash.

Oh, yeah. Here's another piece of news that I discovered that I love. Okay. I don't know if you know this, but in 2020, Leslie David Baker, who is Stanley on The Office. Oh, yes. I saw this. He opened a Kickstarter campaign.

With his nephew or something. Yeah, to make a web series called Uncle Stan, which was pitched as like a spin-off of The Office, but almost certainly not, right? It would be him as a guy called Uncle Stan. Yeah, because it was not officially tied to NBC or whoever owns The Office. Anyway, the crowdfunding goal was $300,000 and it raised $336,450. Woo!

And then just nothing happened. Yeah. But? Well, but he is apparently when the Kickstarter campaign ended, you know, some people's donations go through and some people don't. Some don't. And so he apparently got about $100,000 and it's just been sitting in an account so he's going to return it.

Yeah. That's good. It is good. I mean, I would have loved to have seen Stanley spin off show. He helps his, not really obviously, but he helps his nephew with a small business or something. Yeah, right. So that's good stuff.

I was just like, okay. Yeah. NBC's going to be involved in this, are they? Yeah, definitely. They're going to be helping you. Okay. Well, there was nearly a Dwight spin off. Oh, yeah, that's right. Fruit are they? Yeah, definitely. They're going to be helping you. Okay. Well, there was nearly a Dwight spin-off. Oh, yeah, that's right.

Fruit Farms? Yeah, they packaged it into an episode. Sorry, the dog's here, everybody. Hello. How you doing? How you doing? It's dog time, everybody. It's fun how Ollie comes for a visit.

I think it is, too. So speaking of money, though, $15 million has been raised for the Strike Fund. Oh, yeah. Those people who don't know, that Strike Fund goes to help people who are part of the unions and who are basically struggling to make rent, basic necessities, things like that, which they were already doing.

But obviously when you're not working at all, that becomes a problem. And some people have donated like a million dollars each. Well, some names this week. We saw George and Amal Clooney, Lucinda and Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hugh Jackman. Matt Damon's wife is Lucinda Damon? Yes. There you go. Hugh Jackman and Deborah Lee Furness.

They're married, by the way. Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, Julia Roberts, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Meryl Streep and Oprah Winfrey. So that's all. They're married, by the way. They're all married. All of those people. All of those people are married. One of those weird Hollywood romance situations. Yeah, God. So that's all. They're married, by the way. They're all married. All of those people. All of those people are married. One of those weird Hollywood romance situations. Yeah, God.

So there you go. That's nice. Good for them. Yeah, good for them. Oh, it's actually a little bit of money. If it's still a million dollars. I don't care. It doesn't matter.

It's still money and that's good, yeah. But as, look, I've seen comments and I've even replied to a few people about this, that the people who actually- I had you. Are they on your grievance list, all those people you replied to? No, these people I love and I'm just happy to have a conversation with them. Respect them, you respect them. I love it, I respect them.

Yeah, that's great. Is that the people who you see, like look at a picketing line. These aren't the Hollywood celebrities that are suffering. They've all got their money. So the people who are donating and supporting this, they don't need to do it. They can say nothing or the opposite of nothing. They can come out and have a big sook about it.

Did you know also that Drew Carey like foots the bill for everybody's lunch? Does he? Like he did this in The Last Strike as well. It's called Bob's Big Boy. It's like a – and if you're a SAG member, I think, probably a – oh, if you're a Writers Guild member actually as well, you just go in there and he pays for it.

Is he there at the counter with his credit card? No, he's just got a there and he pays for it. Is he there at the counter with his credit card? No, he's just got a tab going. Oh, wow. Drew Carey at Legendary is like one of the most generous men in Hollywood. He's one of those guys where it's like buys a cup of coffee and leaves a $100 tip. He's like that guy. Well, he made because he's obviously on whose line for years.

And he was on the Price is Right. And Price is Right. So, yeah, he's doing all right. Good on him. That's great. So this bit of news is from the Polish news site Yborzygza. I apologize. No, no, it's Yborzygza.

W-Y-B-O-R-C-Z-A. And this is translated. Yborzygza. Yeah, this is translated from Polish. A Yborg is like a cyborg. But confused? Very confused. So Tomek Baginski is a producer on the Netflix drama series The Witcher,

which recently has just been getting rinsed for being like a bad version of the books and whatever and didn't come together. And Henry Cavill deserves better and all those things people have been saying, et cetera. Henry Cavill's at his typewriter. He's in a big tent on the set and he's typing away. Just trying to make it work.

That's right. He said, when a series is made for a huge mass of viewers with different experiences from different parts of the world and a large part of them are Americans, these simplifications not only make sense, they are necessary. It is painful for us and for me too, but the higher level of nuance and complexity will have a smaller range. It won't reach people.

Sometimes it may go too far, but we have to make these decisions and accept them. Basically saying the reason The Witcher is bad is because people are dumb. Yeah. What's happened there is somebody has taken that, you know, that quote about Rick and Morty where it takes a real powerful mind to understand the true. Think about it.

They've translated that to Polish and back again. So, look, I don't think that's true. I think there's a lot of shows with incredible nuance and structured storytelling that do make waves, you know. That's right. Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty, for example. I mean, Game of Thrones would even –

or early Game of Thrones would be an example of that, you know. And I think. Andor. Andor. Because I was going to say Succession, but then Succession and, like, The Witcher don't have a lot in common. So I'm like, what's sci-fi fantasy? Andor.

Andor, exactly. What's another sci-fi fantasy? His dark materials or whatever. Cleopatra 2525. She made it to 2525. Earth 2. I loved Earth 2. Sliders.

I loved Sliders. The latest seasons. Sliders. I loved Sliders. The latest seasons of Sliders. I don't love that. You got me there. Yeah, I got you. Because I walked into that. Yeah, you were Jerry O'Connell's brother. You were Jerry O'Connell's brother.

Yeah, that's right. Barry O'Connell. Barry O'Connell. It's too much O'Connell. Yeah. Wind it back a bit. So, yeah, there you go. Harsh Realm.

Don't know that one. That was the... Okay, what it is, it's the series that Chris Carter did after the X-Files where some people get trapped in a virtual world. But here's the thing. I've never seen it. I've never seen a single frame of it. I'm not even 100% sure it really exists.

Let's have a look. Harsh Realm. It's probably because the VR headset's too heavy. It's Harsh Realm. It ran from 1999 to 2000. It's got 44 the VR headset's too heavy. It's Harsh Realm. It ran from 1999 to 2000. It's got 44% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's got Terry Quinn, who's Locke from Lost. The Matrix makes platoon in a sci-fi drama, Harsh Realm.

A soldier, Tom Hobbs, gets in way over his head when he's recruited by a government-sponsored war game involving flesh-and-blood people, digital representations of those people, and entities that look real but exist only in a virtual reality universe known as Harsh Realm, now ruled by the clever retired Sergeant Omar Asentiago. When he enters the Harsh Realm, Hobbes leaves his pregnant fiancée,

Sophie Green, in the real world. But it says real world like real world. He's always been in the Harsh Realm. Wow. That's too much for 1999. Yeah, it really is. I'm reading that now. I'm like, it's too many things.

That's like, yeah, it would be like attempting to do a Westworld series in 1999. Yeah. The budget's not there. The tech isn't there. Yeah. And it's weird to me. I've never, like I've always heard about it. I've never heard of that.

Right? But I've never seen a single, I've not even seen a trailer. I'm going to watch a YouTube video about that. Somebody's probably made a great retrospective. Yeah. I love it when someone makes a good video on something like that. Oh, my God. It's perfect.

Here we go. Wonder Woman 3 news, Mason. This is via comicbook.com. Apparently Gal Gadot said, I love portraying Wonder Woman. It's so close to and dear to my heart. From what I've heard from James and Peter is that we're going to develop a Wonder Woman 3 together. Apparently Patty Jenkins is out.

Her version of Wonder Woman 3 didn't align with James Gunn's vision for the DCU. But there's some other news from, and we'll talk about these guys and have some other scoops after this, from the Hot Mike podcast with Jeff Snyder and John Roker. And Hot Mike. Yes, and Hot Mike, where they're saying that she is actually out. Right.

And that they were just being like, yeah, we'd love to work with you in the future. They saw her at a party. Yeah. She approached and she was like, what's my future in the DCEU? And Gunn went, oh, yeah, you're still in it. Good, I reckon. Yeah, good.

I mean, it's not, you know, we've got to talk to the money man. I'm sure he's talked about how how they are going to do something with her and that actor specifically, haven't they? Yeah, right. But yeah, I don't know. We'll see. It would be – I know people are upset because if they fire all of the Justice League. Except Wonder Woman and Aquaman.

Oh, but he's going to be Lobo probably. Yeah, because people are like Henry Cavill deserves better, et cetera. Get on that typewriter, Cavill. That's right. Get back et cetera. Get on that tie-rider, Cavill. That's right. Get back on it. Punch up that Superman script. He's all right. He's got Warthausen 40K or whatever.

He's got Warthausen 40K. Yeah, he absolutely does, yeah. We've got to defend the Warthausen. From what? Orcs, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Is that big armour they're wearing?

Oh, no. That's right. We should get our big armour. It's right here. I'm in mine. Yeah. Is that big armor they're wearing? Oh, no. That's right. We should get our big armor. It's right here. I'm in mine. Yeah. I'm in mine already. I'm excited.

You? What? I've got a sword and it's also a chainsaw. This is all actual dialogue. This is great. Yeah. Can't wait for this show. So that's fun.

Anyway, Fantastic Four rumors. I've got a whippersnapper, but it's also a laser. Fantastic Four, the Four rumors. I've got a whippersnapper, but it's also a laser. Fantastic Four, the new one. This is by the Hot Mike podcast with Jeff Snyder and John Roker. And Hot Mike. Yeah. Apparently, Vanessa Kirby is Sue Storm. Yeah, right.

Mission Impossible movies, Hobbs and Shaw, other things. Other things, yeah. Good choice, I think. Yeah, Jason Statham's big sister in Hobbs and Shaw. Yeah, that's right. They said that they thought that Jack Wade was playing Johnny Storm because they heard the initials JQ. Jack Wade has come out and said, from the boys, and Oppenheimer,

he's come out and said. And Star Trek. And Star Trek, yeah. And Auntie Donna. And Auntie Donna in that one skit. He said that, in the new Superman show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Said that, no, he's not playing Johnny Storm, but then he said he's what you donate to the Strike Fund

or whatever. But apparently the actor is Joseph Quinn. Oh, he's from Stranger Things. He's Eddie, right? He's Eddie, yeah. So I don't mind that either. I've seen people very down on that. They're like, this guy, this uggo. He's not blonde, right? He's handsome, isn't he? I mean, if you put him in like a loose 80s Metallica T-shirt and a wig,

then yeah, that's not what Johnny Stone looks like as much. But no, I think he could definitely do it. Adam Driver is apparently unlikely for Mr. Fantastic because he didn't connect with the script, but it's said that Matt Smith is in. You're just going to have to get him away from the Morbius universe. You're going to have to pay him a lot of money. That's right.

Not to reprise the character of Milo. Yeah, that's right. Milo Morbius. Morbius's brother. That's good stuff. So if all of that is true. Also, who's the guy from The Bear they think might be the thing? Oh, Eben Moss-Bachra.

Yeah, he was in Andor as well. Was he? He was Micro in The Punisher. Oh, was he? Okay, cool. He might be the thing and he's great. So I have no problem with that. Oh, that works for me.

That's great. But none of these are locked in. And also none of these are Dennis Reynolds from Always Sunny. No, none of them are. Which I still would love. I watched all of that, the new series. Oh, season 16? Is that what it is?

Yeah. Is it good? Yeah, it is. It's on the 8, unfortunately. Okay, season 16? Is that what it is? Yeah. Is it good? Yeah, it is. It's on the 8, unfortunately. Okay, right. But, yeah, consistently good and terrible as a show. Let me ask you this because I haven't kept up. Yeah.

But I still, you know, I'll watch it and enjoy it. Yeah. I guess I'm going to have to watch a season at a time from, like, 10 up. Yeah, right. I think that's maybe where I'm up to. I watched a, I think it was a Captain Midnight video on Always Sunny. Apparently Charlie Day never wanted to switch out from four, three aspect ratio and standard definition.

Okay. And now they're in, you know, modern framing and HD. What was his reasoning for that? Because it just looks better as like a bad sitcom. It looks grubbier and, you know, it's not meant to be a show. It's not meant to look good. It's not meant to look like a movie, you know. I grubbier yeah and it and it you know it's it's not meant to be a show it's not meant to look good it's not meant to look like a movie you know i mean and it doesn't it still doesn't look okay good but it's not four by three yeah right i mean you obviously know that but but yeah it's been going since 2005 yeah crazy there you go anyways mason we all laughed and

laughed about those barbenheimer memes, didn't we? We sure did. Actually, I think, if I recall correctly. I did one big laugh. Yeah, well, you. You laughed and laughed and I went, ha! And then I just stopped and that was stony-faced once more. If I recall, you probably laughed too much and I didn't actually

laugh much at all because it's actually, I thought it was in poor taste combining those two things together. I actually said, hmm, that's darkly funny. And that's inappropriate. That's all I said. Well, the Japanese thought what you think is inappropriate, Mason. Well, I think lumping all the Japanese together into one is inappropriate. So I'm sure some Japanese people thought it was fine.

Well, I don't know about that, Mason, because I would never assume to speak on behalf of all Japanese people. Ah, damn it. I'm like the thing I just did. Anyways, here's the news. Okay. Japan's Barbie Twitter account responded to how the US Barbie accounts were supporting the memes of the mashup between films. So this featured images like Barbie smiling next to a nuclear explosion from the Oppenheimer promotional material.

So basically, they, you know, those memes are circulating through, officially through Warner Brothers, like they retweet a thing where Margot Robbie's propped up on the shoulder of, you know, Oppenheimer and whatever. Anyway, they said, we consider it extremely regrettable that the official account at the American headquarters

for the movie Barbie reacted to the social media posting of Barbenheimer fans. We take this situation very seriously. We're of the American headquarters for the movie Barbie reacted to the social media posting of Barbenheimer fans. We take this situation very seriously. We're asking the US headquarters to take appropriate action. We apologise to those who will be offended by the series of inconsiderate reactions. That's Warner Brothers Japan. Now Warner Brothers America have since come out and apologised for that.

And also the way this also came to a head is because apparently Japanese Twitter were responding by doing mashups of Barbie and 9-11, which I also thought was in poor taste. I didn't do a big laugh either. Interesting. So, yeah, just a little bit of real world sleeping in our movies, which I hate. Keep politics out of movies, basically.

That's right. You know? Stick to your Star Wars where there's no politics. That's what I'd say. Exactly, yeah. That's right. Here's something that's actually via Reddit user CostasPat257

and it's via Secret Invasion. Now this user has broken down the timeline of what happened with Secret Invasion. Okay, so this is out in the real world. Yes. This is in the timeline of Secret Invasion. This is within the MCU. Exactly. Because we gotta know when Rhodey was become a Skrull.

No, we don't. No, we don't. We don't need to know anything. We don't need to know. I also love, like, just as a side note, I love that the director came out and was like, well, he became a Skrull here, but then also he's like, we'll see how we go, won't we?

So nobody knows. No, absolutely they don't. Rhodey became a Skrull at precisely the point where it means people won't be mad at us. Right there. The sweet spot. So apparently. Also, you know what's going to happen?

What's happening? I'll tell you what we're going to do. What are we going to do? Also, spoilers for Secret Invasion if you haven't seen it, but it cares. Don't worry. I reckon even if Rhodey was turned into a Skrull after Civil War, so Infinity War and Endgame, he was a Skrull and real Rhodey was

in the basement or whatever. I reckon they'll just go the thing with the – It's a memory link. The memory thing with the lights, it was a memory link. So I'd be like, man, I do remember it. I actually do. I wasn't there but I do remember. I remember Tony Stark's funeral.

That's right. It's pretty cool. It's cool as hell. Yeah, I went, I'm the Iron Man going now. Yeah. I actually do. I wasn't there, but I do remember. I remember Tony Stark's funeral. That's right. It's pretty cool. Yeah. It's cool as hell. Yeah, I went, I'm the Iron Man guy now. Yeah, that's right. I've got the Iron Man suit in my car. It's cool as hell.

Anybody want to see it? Oh, you're all guys and whatever. Yeah, I mean, I would. Yeah, I would see it too. But if I was in the MCU, I wouldn't want to see it. I'd be like, no, thank you. Interesting. There's probably more interesting things happening anywhere else. Also, I think calling it War Machine is in kind of poor taste.

I agree. I mean, it's darkly comic in a way, and I'm like, hmm. I can see that. I just find it in poor taste. Anyway, so it seems as if, and I didn't realize this, but showrunners were switched. So Kyle Bradsheet. Great name.

First of all, great name. I agree. He wrote on Mr. Robot. He was switched out it seems for Brian Tucker who wrote on movies such as Broken City

with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe from 2013 I haven't seen that movie I don't know anything about it but apparently he had to rewrite

most of this series in three months and then they and then they had to reshoot it in four months but Samuel L. Jackson and you can tell watching it because it's a fucking mess.

And Samuel L. Jackson was only shooting his scenes for three weeks of those four months. Oh, wow. So that might be why that this is the way it is and it cost $212 million or whatever it was, which you could have made two Oppenheimers for. Yeah. Which I would have been fed.

I'd love a sequel to Oppenheimer. Yeah, you would. No, just where people are like, that wasers for. Yeah. Which I would have been I'd love a sequel to Oppenheimer. Yeah, you would. No, just where people are like, that was bad actually. Yeah. This more just giving him a real drubbing

for what he did. You got too curious. Yeah. And then a big bomb happened. He's like, I said I was sorry, God. I got swept up. No, you didn't.

Well, I'm saying it now. Well, it's too late. I shouldn't have to ask you for an apology. Well, I couldn't. I didn't think of it before. I didn't think of apologies before. I didn't think of apologies before. You didn't think of an apology?

No. For the nuclear bomb? I thought. That didn't come into your mind? I thought it'd be smaller. Or really big. And then I wouldn't have to apologize to anybody. So I just did that spot.

Yeah. That sweet spot of. Sorry, it was perfect. Sorry, my bomb was a Goldilocks. It was just right. Sorry. You know what? I'm not sorry anymore.

No, I know. Sorry I saved the world, according to some people. Sorry. Sorry. So anyways, I guess off the back of it. I had some doubt now. I don't have any doubt because you've been so mean. This debate went my way, so I'm right.

That's right. Anyway, so in regards to Secret Invasion, the MCU is dead. People are declaring it. Oh, yeah. In other news, Deadline is reporting that Loki Season 2, the trailer, has 80 million views, which is the most of any Disney Plus show. Oh, okay. So, yeah.

You saw the trailer for that. I did see the trailer. No. This is, I think think it's always been the mcu but it's also until we build something again at some point but this is just going to be it there's going to be a terrible one a pretty good one hopefully a really good one and it's just going to be that yeah until they start making it yeah but i feel like it's always going to be or somebody or there is a new new Kevin Feige who comes in who's just like. Slop. Oh, okay.

Slop. I was going to say the other action. No. But this guy's demanding slop. Yeah. Okay, wow. I was going to say a fresh set of eyes and, you know, somebody who would, you know.

No, old slop. Slow it down kind of thing. No, fast slop. Fast slop. Okay, that's great. Well, that's apparently what Kevin Feige is doing. Yeah. He's stripping it back. But, yeah, I really like the look of thing. No, fast slop. Fast slop. Okay, that's great. Well, that's apparently what Kevin Feige is doing. Yeah, yeah. He's stripping it back.

But yeah, I really like the look of this. We got K. Hui Kwan as some sort of TVA employee. Is that because of his performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once? I mean, his performance, yes. I think he must have filmed it before. Oh, interesting. Before that came out. Interesting, okay.

That's a bit of fun, isn't it? Yeah, because otherwise he probably would have been in a movie or something. That's true. But then again, there's some big players in the series. What else? Very little Kang. Well, yeah. What's interesting about that,

because I've seen completely different reactions. I saw some people go, well, he's obviously been cut out of the show, and some people are going, wow, he's doing a lot of that trailer. I think he's going to be a really big force in the show. I think he'll be exactly what they need him to be for whatever they're moving forward with.

Yeah. Whatever that looks like. Yeah, yeah. Which we don't know yet. Also, maybe it's the cynic in me, James, but perhaps they went, boy, we really need 80 million people to watch this trailer and a lot of people to watch the show. The easiest way to build some controversy for this is to put him in,

keep him in the trailer. I'm sure they definitely factored it in. And then everybody will be like, they still even, like regardless of where that is going because we don't know, you know, in terms of legal issues and his career and his contracts with, you know, movie studios and Marvel and all that sort of stuff. Yeah. I think they probably just went, boy, people talk about that guy, don't they?

So let's put him on that kind of thing. Yeah, absolutely. And it may even be, like that might be it. Yeah, he might just be in that one scene. Because we see a big, is it a statue or something? Or like his face emerges from something and then Loki and. Like that's the guy. Yeah, Loki and Mobius go to a show in the past.

He's got an old timey facial hair. And they see Victor Timely. And for all we know, that scene they might go, he's on stage now so we can go and do a heist. And then they just don't. Like it doesn't factor in at all. We don't know yet. He's on stage.

We'll hit him with a brick. We'll hit him with a brick. It's a perfect opportunity. Yeah. So there you go. We are in the trailers of Hoist section, aren't we, by the way? It seems that way. Yeah. I was going to say also, Loki is glitching in this.

Yes. Is that a reference to across the Spider-Verse? Yeah, maybe. I like the live action effect of that too. Maybe they're making that. It's like a bit Cronenberg-y kind of like stretchy skin. Do you think that is because, and I saw a lot of people like, actually they're just taking advantage

of the goodwill for Spider-Verse by putting that in. They're ripping it off. They would have made it ages ago. Exactly. But also, you know, they're meant to be in the same multiverse. So it would make sense for the rules to be the same. So where's that going? That's a bit interesting, isn't it?

Donald Glover is in Spider-Verse. That's right. They mention Tom Holland, Doctor Strange and whatever, don't they? That's correct. They do. We don't glean a lot of the plot though, really. No. I mean, you know.

I don't care. I'm just looking forward to Loki and Mobius and Sylvie just having a bit of a muck around. Yeah, she's working at some kind of donut shop or something. Working at a donut shop. Let me check. Loki released it October 6th. So there you go.

That's coming up. That's coming up. That's coming up. Yeah. Anyway, I'm excited. I mean, look, I would love it to just be like a week-to-week procedural where they're doing weird time travel stuff. Yeah, sure. Just having fun adventures and solving mysteries.

It's probably the overarching story of the multiverse, et cetera, impending doom, et cetera. Oh, yeah, that doom stuff. Cool, cool, cool. We've got another trailer. Oh, yeah. It's the first trailer because it's trailers of Hoyt for Saw X. Sorks, sorry.

Go Sorks. Go Sorks. This one we're wondering how is Jigsaw back? And the answer is. It's a prequel? It's an in-between qual. It's an in-between qual. Set between Saw 1 and one of the other Saws.

Where is it live? Saw 2, actually. So it's set way back when. Because I've seen some of the Saw movies. Yeah. I've seen 1, 2, actually. So it's set way back when. Because I've seen some of the Saw movies. Yeah. I've seen 1, 2, 3, maybe some in the middle. Mm-hmm. Saw.

We saw the last one. Jigsaw? Spiral. Spiral. Spiral. And then I've seen the one before that, which I think might have just been called Saw. I didn't see that one. Right, okay.

Yeah. So this one, obviously, they're like, well, we killed Tobin Bell nine movies ago. Even though he kept coming back, even though he was dead. They do flashbacks and whatever. What if he made some videos? What if he did make – What if he made some threatening TikToks? It was ahead of his time.

He died in 2007. He's pointing at, like, cut off your leg and you'll live. Then somebody walks in in the back. Somebody walks through. Yeah. I love it if it was in a shopping centre. Yeah, yeah. You know, like holding up an escalator.

You ever see those? Yeah, yeah. It's him and his apprentices and they're all doing a dance together. Yeah. You know? It'd be great. Or maybe he's making the people he's torturing do a TikTok dance. Yeah, okay.

That's probably true. Okay, so this one is so because the premise was that he was diagnosed with cancer. Yeah, he had a brain tumour and he went to a – he goes to a special facility that promised to cure him. And then they're like, tricked you. We just took all your money. That's right.

And, like, who cares? He's going to die. And now he's got to do big revenge on all of them. He's going to do big ghoulish activities. Which, again, look, I've been entertained by some of these, but also I don't like that his philosophy is so oddly defined and it varies from movie to movie. He's a bad guy.

He's a bad guy. Yeah, yeah. He's bad. I mean the worst part about him is his inconsistency, I think. I mean that's darkly funny. I don't find it funny at all. Well, you wouldn't. But just that sometimes it's like, well, I'm going to murder you for revenge

because you didn't cure my brain tumour. But then sometimes it's like you're sad because your daughter died and then you don't appreciate life so you've got to cut your feet off or whatever. And it's like, why? It's almost as if he has a brain tumor oh yeah see that's the thing isn't it because it's like well actually he's crazy so all his all his to the extent that anything he does make sense that's uh you know yeah i don't like him i don't like him either some people might be fans but i don't like these

weird pig masks that he wears sometimes yeah not anymore anyway apparently the bathroom reappears what i love about that and i think we've talked about this how many people could possibly be hiding in that bathroom exactly it's all one yeah yeah is that you have to now because they just used it they i can't remember whether it was a set or they i think it was a set i assume but then you it was made on the cheap and now you have to recreate that exact bathroom which is way more expensive tile cracks and yeah know what I mean. And if it's set after, then you've got to place everything that's broken on the floor properly and all of that.

I think they should do it like costumes in the MCU. Like the next movie it's the same but it's got more textures on it. And the next one it's like stealth mode so all the tiles are black. Maybe a double sink. Yeah, absolutely a double sink. Saw couples edition. That's exactly right. Double toilets. Yeah, absolutely a double sink. Sure. Couple's edition. That's exactly right.

Double toilets. Yeah, cut your tongues off together or whatever. Oh, that's great. You talk too much, cut your tongue off. Oh, fuck. Could I just be a bit quieter? Yeah, I guess. Okay, see you.

Bye. All right, Mason. Sometimes he's just, you'll never shoot this person with a gun. No, see you. Bye. All right, Mason. Sometimes he's just, you'll never shoot this person with a gun. No, I will. You'll never shoot. Isn't there one where it's just like, you'll never shoot me? You'll never shoot me. I would absolutely shoot you. Yeah, I will actually.

You would never. I'm gonna. Bang. What if you accidentally shot someone else? Well, I'd shoot again. I don't know these people. Bang. They're all probably terrible.

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No, we did. We could have just ended the podcast here. On a budget of $129 million. Well, on a budget of $129 million, we couldn't end the show here, I think. We'd be wasting the money. Our investors would want their money back. So are you in Meg too, the trash? Well, they both, coincidentally, these things both have $129 million

for the budget. It is made in the box office on its opening weekend, $45 million. It's coming behind Ninja Turtles. Sorry, made $25 million. The first one made $45 million in the opening weekend. But also Barbie and Oppenheimer are still out and doing well. I think Barbie's still number one. Ninja Turtles did better than this.

This is just the way of the world. The Meg not making the waves hasn't got quite the bite. It's not as cool as Deep Ocean. Atomic explosion. No, it's not, is it? Yeah, no, no, no. That freaking explosion was sick. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah. So, yeah, it's doing okay. And it might carry, who knows. But not great. Not a great return, it seems, at this point. But also early numbers, we'll have to see. What do you think the story was? Oh, come on, mate.

For Meg to the Trench. Come on, mate. I'm in a vulnerable spot here. I just watched Meg to the Trench. Yeah, I know, right? All right, so if you recall the story was? Oh, come on, mate. For Meg to the Trench. Come on, mate. I'm in a vulnerable spot here. I just watched Meg to the Trench. Yeah, I know, right? All right, so if you recall the last Meg, nobody does. Yeah. Jason Statham had to fight the Meg, but actually there was two the Megs.

A second the Meg. Because they went down into the thermocline, which is a point in the ocean, and one of the Megs escaped. Man, you're telling me. Two the Megs. You're really speaking my language. That's right. But this time, it's the future.

It's years later because time has passed in the Meg universe as well as it has passed in the current universe. It's crazy. It's crazy how they did that. Jason Statham has a daughter who might be his adopted daughter or something. From the first one maybe? From the first one I think, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, maybe. There's some people in this who you're like, were they in the first one? And the answer's maybe. There's some people in this where you're like, how are they in two submarines at the same time? And then you realize they're different people. Anyway, Jason Statham, he's doing good around the world,

but he also works for a company, which might have been in the first one, that is now using its incredible advanced technology to explore below the thermocline. Love that for him. At 25,000 feet, they're getting in little submarines, they're putting on their little diving suits. It's their own Jurassic World. That's right, but then they go down there, and what's down there?

There's more weird stuff, not just the Meg. But it's mostly the Meg. Mostly the Meg, and then there's the Meg that they've raised the Meg. One guy thinks he can train at the Meg. Yeah, and maybe he can. And then maybe there's some other parties who also want what's in the trench, but they're there and they're causing trouble. But who's more trouble, them or the Meg?

It's hard to say. Probably both. Yeah, both, I reckon. Probably more the Meg. Or capitalism. Ultimately, I think probably capitalism. Yeah. This is capitalism versus scientific discovery and wonder, I think,

is what it is. It's a real Jurassic Park situation. It's a real those guys died in the submarine situation, isn't it? Yeah, it really is. Yeah, I tell you what, Mason, this movie was ahead of its time. I didn't like this. I? I think the first half is better.

I think the second half is better. Oh, really? I was really looking forward to the second half, and I didn't think it delivered. I thought this movie was almost entirely building up to a second half, which is what I want, which is various giant monsters menacing people at a luxury resort. You know?

But you didn't like that. No, I thought the payoff wasn't. Look, basically this movie is Jurassic World, which is weird because it didn't come that long after the last one, whereas Jurassic World was like 30 years. I can't remember, 20 years. It was the movie Underwater, if you remember that movie. It was the movie Piranha 3D.

It felt a little Piranha 3D, didn't it? I guess also The Abyss as well. It was a bit of The Abyss. Piranha 3D PG. Yeah, exactly. Piranha 3D had boobs. It did have. Oh, yeah, you might be right.

But, no, you are right. That is true. But I just feel like I was, so the first half is set kind of – or maybe a bit more, is set in the trench. That's right. And it's this kind of deep exploration. They're trying to survive and whatever, and there's Megs about and other creatures, and they have to get back to the surface.

And then, because you know at the end, like the Megs are going to get loose on a resort. And so I was kind of like, this is fine, this bit. I don't mind this. It's okay. I don't care about any of these characters, but this is fine. When the killing starts, that's when this is really going to kick off. That's going to be it, yeah.

This movie's going to get overdrive. But it never quite kicked off for me. Is it because this is PG-ish? Yes, that's a factor. And I think it's PG-ish and the kills and that aren't creative enough to be interesting. It's just like chomp. There is one that is from like the inside of the Meg's mouth.

That one, yeah. And it's doing a big munch on a bunch of beach goers. Big munch on a bunch. Big munch on a bunch. And you want a big munch on a bunch. Yeah. But yeah. I think also, yeah, there's some special effects in that.

I love special effects. Me too. With Jason Statham jet skiing. I love visual effects too. Yeah, sure. Just to be clear. Because when you say I love special effects, people are like, oh, so you hate visual effects. Well, I like special effects. Me too. It's Jason Statham, Jet Ski. I love visual effects too. Just to be clear because when you say I love special effects, people are like, oh, so you hate visual effects.

Well, I like them both. I thought you hate visual effects. Do you think that just because I said I love special effects? Yeah. Well, no, I like both of them. I like both types of effects. We should have clarified. I did.

You stopped listening. No, I was just trying to make sense of what you were saying. You made perfect sense. You were just like pulsating hate. Yeah, that's true. I'll tell you what, we'll put special effects on our list. Okay, put it on the grievance list. Yeah, but like there's a lot of Jason Statham jet skiing away from a Meg

and none of it looked very good and convincing. Oh, my. There are a couple of shots though. They look like asylum moments. Yeah, they look like asylum moments, but they also look like renaissance paintings. There's a moment where he's cresting the top of a

wave on a big yellow jet ski and he's holding an explosive tipped spear and then he's coming down on a giant The Meg and I'm like, whoa. I love how he has no sense of like, let's preserve these creatures. He's immediately like, let's fucking kill all these. Like straight away. It's not like, dude, there's preserve these creatures. He's immediately like, let's fucking kill all these.

Like straight away. It's not like, dude, there's like four of these in the world. Right. But he's like, let's kill them all with explosions. Yeah. Which I, so I like that aspect of it. But you mentioned some of the characters, like some of the characters. I didn't mention any of the characters.

Oh, yes, I did. I did. It's true. You forgot, but some of the characters. Oh, yes, I did. I did. It's true. You forgot, but some of the characters return. Some are dead or missing. Yep. Including the love interest from the last one who had the daughter. She died in between movies somehow.

You didn't have to do that. His best mate is a Chinese action star. His best mate is Cliff Curtis. Sorry. Love Cliff Curtis, by the way. Bless him. He's really good in this. Get that cheese, Cliff Curtis.

Was he in the first one? Maybe. I think he was. But he might not have been. We might be confusing him with other noted New Zealand actor, Jemaine Clement, who was in Avatar 2. Of course. Yeah, yeah.

They do look very similar. But I found the new characters in this less interesting. There's a character called Comic-Con. And I don't think it's his name oh the guy though the the handsome nerd guy yeah but he's like i like comic-con and i love generically branded action figures yeah yeah it's like dude this is fucking warner brothers give him a batman fuck group or something yeah what are you doing yeah it was weird as well they they had that you're like dressing up at warner and going to comic-con yeah yeah they had the conversation of like like dressing up and going to Comic Con? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had the conversation of like, oh, this guy's got a lot of toys.

Oh, they're actually figurines. Oh, no, they're actually toys. Really? It's not 1999 anymore. What are you doing? No, it is 1999. Oh, my God. I've been in a coma. Yeah.

And I've been imagining that I've been doing a podcast. 40-year-old Virgin did it. Wow. Yeah. What was the – was it some Ricky Gervais show where he's, it was a movie he did with Eric Banner. Uh-huh. And he's like, I love collecting my vintage Marvel action toys.

And it's just like whatever the latest hot toys. Yeah, right. So it's just like, I hate that shit. At least if you're going to insult nerds, just get it right. Right. I just, I love an absolute. But if you were going to insult nerds, why would you get it right? I guess that's the question.

You add insult to injury by just putting out, oh, this is my vintage 1970s Thor or whatever, and it's like, no, you went down to Kmart and you bought that. That's from Thor The Dark World. Yeah, that's right. He's holding the weird red ooze. Yeah, exactly. There's a guy that apparently returns,

and I'd forgotten him from the first movie as well. Ruby Rose was in that first movie, right? She definitely was, exactly. I like there's a guy that apparently returns and I'd forgotten him from the first movie as well. Ruby Rose was in that first movie, right? She definitely was, yes. I don't think she died, but she might have. There's a guy who's on the team, a guy who has improved himself. Yeah, that's right. And if I had remembered that previous movie, it's like he apparently couldn't swim or defend himself,

whereas this movie he's got a backpack of supplies and weapons and he's learned to swim and fight. And I thought that was pretty interesting. But he was also, they gave him that default role of like something happens and he's like, damn, that happened. Yeah. Damn, that shark blew up or whatever. And you're like, all right.

It did. Yeah. It did though. That's true. Yeah. Well, speaking of sharks blowing up, we also this week on BigSandwich.co, we did a movie commentary for Deep Blue Sea. That's true. Yeah. Well, speaking of sharks blowing up, we also this week on BigSandwich.co, we did a movie commentary for Deep Blue Sea. That's right.

And there's going to be a lot of people in that going, damn, that shark blew up. In anticipation of the Meg 2 doing incredible numbers at the box office, we're like, let's get ahead of this. Let's get ahead of this. We'll talk about Deep Blue Sea and people will love it. Yeah. So that was a fun one to talk about, actually.

Yeah. Yeah, but i think also the trench part at the start because they get stuck under the water or they get stuck in the trench i think all that looks really good and i guess also it's because it's in darkness but the suits that they're wearing and they're trekking underwater and the underwater facility and all of that i think all that's like yeah i think there was some i think there was pretty some there was some solid there was some solid action and there was also some moments where I'm like,

I don't even, that couldn't work, surely. You're talking about the bit where he swims out? Yeah, so they're 25,000 feet underwater. Yeah, which is cool. It's very cool. But it's also hot because it's hot down there. It's hot down there. Yeah, because of the cool water that keeps the hot water in.

The thermocline. Thank you. That's right. But anyway, they go down there in two little submersibles and they crash so they have to put on their super deep 25,000 feet diving suits that only have two hours of air so they can trek across the trench to get to a facility that is down there, a mysterious facility.

But then when they're in the facility, there's a moment where Jason Statham. Why is the facility like a crashed ship? Is that to disguise it? That's a great question. Because they just go, oh, we looked at our equipment and that's an active station. And why is it all so dirty and weird? Yeah, that's what I mean.

Is it because the people on there are so dirty and weird? Yeah. Because you'd expect if they're, look, spoilers for this movie. Sure. Because it's not very good. But it's not a lot to spoil. No. But I'll just say that the amount of money you'd put down there

to build a facility on 25,000 feet under the wall, wouldn't it be all nice and clean and white and... Maybe put some more people in it. Yeah. As opposed to... Is it because the people that work down there are all dirty pirate guys and they're just like, well, this is dirty now. But anyway, there's a moment in it where Statham, in order to,

some of the characters are trapped in an airlock and so Statham has to go out of the airlock in a different way and go around the other side. Yeah. And does he go outside? Yeah, he goes outside. You'd die. No, but they explode. You'd explode.

Because he lets air out of his nose very slowly. Okay. And they quickly say because, you know, fish don't get crushed down here. Of course. So, yeah. You would though. Look, maybe there's some unique science to it. Because I guess, because what I'm trying to figure out,

and in order to do so I'd have to watch it again, which I'm not going to do. Yeah. You're probably better off watching the first one first and then the second. That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was sort of under the impression that maybe he was going out of the airlock but he was still inside the facility.

Okay, yeah, yeah. Which I guess would make more sense because if you went – the very idea. You like that section is flooded the facility. Yeah. Don't worry, I'll hold my breath. I'll hold my breath. I've got my British lungs. I'll hold my breath but I'll still be in the facility.

My chest is big. My lungs are big. That's right. They must blow us my head. It's like a shark fin. You guys heard that song? I'll base my whole life around it. My lungs are filled with Yorkshire puddings.

They hold the air in. They're very aerated. You want your puddings and gravy in me lungs. But if you went, you'd explode. You would implode. This is seen earlier where somebody gets a crack in their helmet

and their head pops. Yeah, that was cool. I like that. Because they're at that level of pressure. So he must still be in the I'm going to have to go with he must still be in the facility because otherwise he'd – No, because he went outside and he looked up and he saw the Meg. Yeah, he did see the Meg, didn't he? And he wasn't looking at it through a window.

I guess he did breathe out of his sinuses though. And he did have those Yorkshire puddings in his load. That's true, he did. They are very aerated. I don't know if you know that. That was hard. I might need a pint. I might need a pint after that.

Mason, he probably needed a pint. He probably would need a pint. I need a pint after that. Pint a Greek sausage roll. Straighten your lungs. That's how I do it. That's right. I looked it up.

The deepest ever scuba dive is like 320 metres. Pathetic. So 25,000 feet is more than that. Yeah. In the old scale. I mean, if you're acclimatised. I mean, I guess if you've done some breathing outside of your sinuses. Yeah, that's fine.

And you see a little bit of blood come out of his nose. And he just doesn't get turned inside out. Yeah. Anyway, that's good stuff. Look, I... You're just going to have to turned inside out. Yeah. Anyway, that's good stuff. Look, I... You're just going to have to let it go. Yeah. And I'm sure people will write and be like,

maybe there's some truth to that. Maybe there is. I don't know. Look, if it had been at 300 metres, I'd be like, oh, okay. Yeah, but that's not very exciting. No, it's not. It's not at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, no, that part was all fine and they had to get out and get back to their facility which was being overrun by, well, this is spoilers, corporate greed. That's right. Because the bad guy is a CEO woman and she's like, I can't believe you found our secret facility because what we're doing, we're damaging the environment on purpose but nobody can see it because it's under the ocean.

That's right. Because if we did it publicly, we'd get into trouble. Yeah. We wouldn't just go. We wouldn't just have to pay a fine. Yeah, which we would because each rock is worth a billion dollars that we bring up apparently. In a way, fines make things legal for the rich.

Ha, ha, ha. She's a real cackling monstrosity of a woman. Yeah, yeah. And the person who's betrayed them on the platform another woman typical

that's right very typical I called that early did you? yeah I knew just cause even if she wasn't evil I think I would have

figured it out that she was like you know uh huh sure yeah so that's all fun and cooperation they just turn on a dime these two characters

they really do they're just like hey I'm happy to help. And then it's like, but it's time to do evil for money. Ha, ha, ha. I'm going to kill everyone. And they even did that thing where they call them up on the video monitors and be like, hey, just FYI, I'm going to do big evil right now. You wouldn't.

No. You'd just leave some plausible deniability. Exactly. Because if you got caught, you'd be like, I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, I would never. I don't know what you are talking about, Willis. So, yeah, then the second half, the Megs get out of the thermal chamber and they go to Fun Island.

That's right. Way to take a real run at that name, by the way. Hey, we need a name for a fun island. Let's put Fun Island there on the day. What about F-Boy Island? Oh, yeah. Not bad. Yeah.

Not bad at all. And then so the three Megs turn up and some blizzards. And there's a big octopus we forgot to mention. Or a squid? I don't care. Wow. It's got a beak. So does that make it an octopus or a squid?

I think that's an octopus. I think that's an octopus. Yeah. And then everybody just takes a really long time to get out of the water. Yeah. Oh, it's so long. So long. And again, I just think it was bloodless but not very fun.

Like I wanted some more kind of creativity and they tried to do a bit like of comeuppance and be like, well, this person's a bitch. Watch them get eaten by a shark. But it's like, I don't know. It didn't feel. So much of this also did feel like that this was catering for a Chinese release. It's obvious because, again, one of his best mates is a,

I can't remember his name, I'll bring that up, but is a Chinese action star. Ah, I see. And it was similarly for the first one. But so it just, I don't know, it didn't, I don't know, like it wasn't funny at all. Yeah, no, look, I do remember laughing at some bits, but if you were to ask me what they were, I could not tell you.

Wu Jing is his name. There you go. I mean, he's no Cliff Curtis. That's so true. Yeah. That's so true. They're clearly really, you know, they're pumping for the New Zealand market there.

They're really, you know. Smart. That's what you want. Yeah, that's true. That's what you want. Yeah. So, yeah, like, you know, people, they're hanging out. They are hanging out.

It's true. They're hanging out. They're having a good time. Jet skis and I don't know. What else? I don't have anything else. No, that's about it, I think. There's not a lot to this movie really.

No. I think if you like the first Meg, like you really liked it, there's enough here for that. But as someone who didn't really like the first Meg the movie that much, yeah, this is where we're at. Yeah, look, I saw a tweet today and it was something along, it had just a little screenshot

and it was like, movies are back. It's Barbie Oppenheimer talk to me, Mission Impossible, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mutant Mayhem. We don't have that. And the Meg 2, which has got 20% on Rotten Tomatoes currently. Hells yeah. Maybe even lower currently.

Who knows? But yeah, I think this is a really stacked current movie lineup. I reckon if there was nothing else out that I kind of want to see again, I'd be like, oh yeah, this is a bit of fun. This is more fun. But just knowing I could have gone into another theater and watched Mission Impossible 7 again. If this had come out the same, if we had have got Ninja Turtles

this week, I would have watched that and not watched this at all. Absolutely. Yeah. So even for this show. Anyway, I've got some reviews here. This one's from Josh, the 90s kid. He says, hashtag weekly planet pod. Sorry, but mutant mayhem is simply not my Ninja Turtles.

They've been mutated into something fresh and unique today's kids and teens can clearly identify with. As a 30-something-year-old man, I demand they continue to make things my inner child can identify with. Nah, just joking. Best movie ever. They even had a you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us moment a la Spider-Man.

Well, you would because it's New York, baby. Yeah, that sounds great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This one's from Nate Harris who says, it's amazing what people can create when they genuinely care what they're making. Hashtag Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Oh, that one's also about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Mutant Mayhem, yeah. I think these are all Ninja Turtles. Oh, that one's also about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Mutant Mayhem, yeah. I think these are all Ninja Turtles. Let me check. This is from C-Ray who says, I wasn't enthusiastic about- What, are you doing a bit? Are you doing a comedy bit? There's no bits here, Mason. Interesting.

Who would make a joke at such a time? Such a pivotal moment in the podcast. Well, we'd never make a joke at any point in the podcast. Exactly. Let alone now. C-Ray says says i wasn't enthusiastic about mutant mayhem but after i adjusted to the layer of grime in this universe i was all good it's got a well-utilized voice cast and characters with changes to the canon that didn't upset

superfly was fucking awesome best movie ever and nate says just saw meg poo the stench there we go smells like razzie's chum worst movie ever I also saw Ninja Turtles and it was really great. Wish you were talking about that instead. Well, we will be on the 7th of September when no one cares anymore. That's right. And it's probably on streaming before that. Yeah. So there you go.

I saw some people in the Great Mates group also worked on the Meg too, which is awesome, by the way. I'm sorry that I didn't love it. But this is not your fault. Sure. It was a bad concept from beginning to end. No, I think the concept is solid. Yeah.

Oh, did we say we thought it was the best movie ever or the worst movie ever? Worst. God, look, I'm torn because I don't really think it's the worst movie ever. Obviously it's not. But okay. It should have been bloodier. Yes.

And look. And also I understand why you can't because you're catering to a wider market, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I get it. But I mean in this, but right now you're not going to, is this movie even going to make its money back? I don't know. So you may as well have gone for broke and just.

Yeah, but if you get woke, you go broke. Because apparently Splinter's gay. I don't know if you saw that as well have gone for broke and just. Yeah, but if you get woke, you go broke. Because apparently Splinter's gay. I don't know if you saw that. I did see that, yeah. Also, apparently he's not gay at all. Whoa, all right. Well, now I don't know who to believe. Some people who saw the movie or some people who are paid to get mad at everything.

I can't believe they made a rat gay. Right? Or they didn't. I can't believe that either. Or they didn't. I can't believe that either. You're saying worst movie ever? Yeah.

Okay, I'm going to say. I mean, I know it's not like highbrow, because I think what to me this is supposed to be, it's not. Does that make sense? It falls short of being the schlocky kind of fun. And seeing the trailer, I was like, oh, they've really leaned into like the silliness of it. But I don't feel they did it enough.

Yeah, look, I'm also going to go with worst movie ever. I didn't hate it. But look, based around the current crop, I would have loved. I mean, look what we've been getting this year so far. There's been some really good stuff. I would have loved to have added to this like current landscape of really great movies with a really over-the-top stupid violence. Exactly. You know, monster movie with sharks and bloody and people getting

chopped to bits and all that sort of stuff. You know, love Statham generally, but. What's not to like? That's right. And he's very tall. Yeah. A lot of people know that. Who wants a Yorkshire pudding?

It's got some air in it for you. It's got some ear in it? Some air. Oh. It might be some ear. It might have some ear. Yeah, look, I would have loved to have added, you know, to this great current crop of movies at the cinemas.

Yeah. Because then I could be like, movies are back. Movies are back. Every genre you could possibly want is here and and kicking goals but but it is not yeah it's a shame well there you go should we move it along let's move it along to what what we're reading yeah what we're gonna read whoa yeah i'm doing the thing What are we reading today? I've been busy. Go on.

Well, I watch things. Oh, yes. I like to know what's going on. I thought you said you were busy. Yeah, I'm busy watching things for this show. It doesn't count. What do you mean? It doesn't count. It counts.

You climbing mountains? I have. You scuba dive? I have scuba dive. Did you scuba dive with the Meg? Well, no, they don't exist anymore, do they? Well. So I should check?

You should check. So the only acceptable answer is I've been busy because I've been searching for the Meg, which I found. Yeah. And they would have gone, cool. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. But anything less than that is not.

Because if you search for the Meg and you hadn't found it, you'd be like, yeah, they're fictional. Dumbass. Dumbass. Anyway, you're busy watching content, are you? Yeah. Oh, okay. See, I would suggest that that says you have too much free time.

I want to get up and punch you, Mason. Well, you're too busy watching content, so you wouldn't dare. Yeah, and we'd be in a scuffle then. That's true. So I watched Invincible Atom Eve. Oh, yeah, great. Which is before the debut of Invincible Season 2, they released an episode which is the origincible Atom Eve. Oh, yeah, great. Which is before the debut of Invincible Season 2, they released an episode which is the origin of Atom Eve

from that series with her from a little girl growing into a teenager and her superpowers. Terrific. It is good. I agree. Really good. Oh, you watched it too? You've been busy.

You've been as busy as I have. No, I'm not. I've been less busy. I'm a man of leisure. I don't know where I was going with this. It's not a fully formed idea. No, I know.

I was just reaching for anything to make fun of you and it didn't entirely work. I think I felt bad. So good. Great. But you know what I liked about it is that her powers are like green lanterns, but it's like,

yeah, it's very creative. It's like such creative use of those abilities. I think that was cool. You know, there's a fight on like a, like a freeway and it's just kind of, you know. My God. It's just, you know, she's.

They're rocking them and socking them. They're rocking them and socking them. Yeah. Find out more about where she's come from, who her parents are, all of that, like who created her. Really, really good stuff. So it bodes well for the new season, whenever that's out. Are they in it for the long haul, Amazon making this invincible show?

I think they are, yeah. I believe they are. I mean, it probably costs them nothing to make. Yeah, right. And people like it. So they don't care. Well, that's two wins for me. No.

Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen. And Evan. Monroe Smith. Yes, Monroe Smith. Evan. Evan. Evan. Evan Goldberg. Evan Goldberg. Evan Goldberg, yeah, that's right.

Evan Goldberg, there we go. Cool. Terrific. Yeah, I don't know how much they actually have to do with this, but boy, they're among us, aren't they? They sure are. Yeah. Cool, cool, cool.

Anything else you've been doing? I haven't watched it yet, but I'm going to watch because I'm very excited. It's also on Amazon Video. Shin Kamen Rider. Oh. So it's from Hideaki Anno, who created Neon Genesis Evangelion. Yeah.

Neon Genesis Evangelion. Yeah, I'm a big fan. And he also directed Shin Godzilla, which I enjoyed a lot. Yes. Which is real creepy and weird. But this is like a modern reinterpretation of Kamen Rider or Masked Rider, I guess, depending on where you're from, who's like a Japanese superhero.

He's a motorcycle guy. Yeah, yeah. But I don't know if it's anything like Shin Godzilla. I'm excited for it. Really good. He also did Shin Ultraman, but I haven't watched that yet. You also love The Terminal List, don't you, on Amazon? No, nobody likes that.

Don't you like it? With Chris Pratt. Yeah, he's like, I'm here to do some action on you. Yeah. Too late, buddy. You're on The Term Pratt. Yeah, he's like, I'm here to do some action on you. Yeah. Too late, buddy. You're on the terminal list. What? That's right.

It's a double level catchphrase because he always says, hey, buddy, you're on the terminal list. And whatever terrorist is like, what? What? So what is that? And then we know the episode's kicked off. So are you not allowed to do the action if you're on the terminal list? Is that right?

You're forbidden? You are forbidden, yes. That's right. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. Taylor Kitsch is in that. Great.

He was in John Carter of Mars. Yeah, he was Gambit. Nice. Oh, man. I heard he's in a great scene where he finds out he's on the terminal list. You'll never guess what his reaction is. What? What?

And he has to go on the run. Yeah, he's got to go on the run. Wow. From the terminal list. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's just Minority Report changed the words. They did a find and replace and changed it to the terminal list.

All right. Now that we're finished talking about the terminal list, we're going to move on to the next segment of the show. We could. We could, or we should. Or we're going to. Make up your mind. We are going to. We're going to do it right now. It's called Letters. It goes like this. The theme song goes like this.

The classic one was Letters, oh letters, we love you. Some letters, they're only a day away I know they're here right now, we're gonna do letters I get so many, like, all my tweets that are liked, so many of them are just bots Oh, really? Really obvious bots

I'm just looking now, well, they're not called tweets now or whatever, I don't know But, yeah, Oh, God. Just, you know. Fucking nightmare. Again, it's always been bad. But anyway. If you do want to reach the show, hashtag Weekly Planet Pod. That's right.

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Hey, James and Maceo, just finished the latest season of the Righteous Gemstones and feel it's Danny McBride and Jodie Hill's best work yet. It's got me on a Danny McBride kick, and I've been going back watching Eastbound and Down and Vice Principals. Yeah. It's been interesting to see the evolution of their story writing through these three different shows. And while Eastbound and Vice Principals were terrific,

they've really been about to find a perfect mix of heart, character depth and storytelling. I also love the chemistry Danny McBride and Walton Goggins have together. Just wondering if you guys have had a chance to catch up on Gemstones. I've not watched any of them. No, I've heard good things. Again, it's that thing of like there's so many things to watch currently. But, yeah, I love Walton Goggins.

Because I love scrolling on my phone. Oh, yeah? So, you know, often I'll just do that. I saw an interview with Justine Bateman, so actor, director, writer, producer, also Jason Bateman's older sister, I think. Okay. But she was saying she was taking some meetings with studios recently

and what they're looking for now, what studios and TV networks are looking for, is what they're calling second screen entertainment, which is stuff. I mean, I do that. Yeah, it's calling second screen entertainment, which is stuff. I mean, I do that. It's a new term they've invented for stuff you can watch that is not quite engaging enough so you can just be on your phone also. So you can just tune back in every once in a while.

That's what I'm looking for. And she was saying. Let's be real. Most shows are that anyway. You don't need to cater specifically to that. No, that's true. You can just watch a Law and Order show or an NCIS or whatever. Yeah, and she was saying something along the lines of, yeah,

she's had pictures rejected because they sound too engaging. Yeah. God, you need to make something people like. Yeah. The Righteous Gemstones, James, is currently on Binge in Australia, all three seasons. I hate Binge. Yes, same.

But I guess I want, I mean, it's, you know, I love Danny McBride, love Eastbound and Down. Me too. I didn't see Vice Principal. No, neither did I, but let's get to it. I agree. Let's do it. Should we read a tweet?

We should read a tweet. Do you want to read it together? Yeah, let's read it in unison. Can you send it to me? Yeah, I'll send it to you. It should be coming through. Okay, three, two, one, let's go. This is from William Robinson.

William Robinson. What are you doing? Hashtag Weekly Planet Pod. Hashtag Weekly any minute. Okay, three, two, one, let's go. This is from William Robinson. William Robinson. What are you doing? Hashtag Weekly Planet Pod. Hashtag Weekly Planet Pod. Hey, James and Maceo. Hey, James and Maceo. Hope you're doing well. Backflips.

Oh. Backflips. Well, I am. Hope you're doing well. The new Poirot film, A Haunting in Venice, looks exciting. It's shaking things up and entering the horror genre. Are there any other franchises you think would be ideal for leaning into the recent horror

boom? Thanks. I haven't even watched the trailer for that movie yet. Oh, I have. It looks good. Yeah, Tina Fey's in it. Oh, okay. Yeah. I enjoy Kenneth Branagh's just being like, I'm going to be a weird Belgian detective. I love doing it. I love having my little adventures and I get

everybody around the table at the end and I reveal who the killer is. He goes, yap, yap, yap, yap. He goes, yap, yap, yap. I saw the first one. I didn't watch the second one. Yeah, okay. Things that should lean into the horror genre. Are there any franchises that did that?

Like the second one was like, and now this is a horror. Oh, that's a great question. I'm sure this exists. I mean, Marvel dipped their toe in with Werewolf. They did that one time. And I, you know, again, they need to slow everything down, but give me the Midnight Suns. Give me Werewolf by Night, Man-Thing, put Doctor Strange on there,

Blade, Black Knight, some others. Scarlet Witch can be back and be like, oh, I've changed my mind. I'm sorry, all right? Sorry, God. Jesus, stop going on about it. Actually, I'm not even sorry. This is an evil team, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, I've changed my mind. I'm sorry, all right? Sorry, all right, God. Jesus, stop going on about it. Actually, I'm not even sorry. This is an evil team, isn't it?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm not sorry. That's right. Fuck you, Blade. I'll turn you into spaghetti, mate. I'll do it. I'll do it. You thought I could only do that to Mr. Fantastic, but I can do it to anybody.

I can turn anybody into spaghetti. What has taken a shift in horror? I don't know. Not a lot. I'm sure there's a franchise where like some do like the opposite, where like you got the Terminator. Oh, yeah, right. Terminator or like even Alien to Aliens.

That's true. You know, but I'm sure there are examples of this. James, do a little Google on the Google machine. What do I Google? James, do a little Google on the Google machine. What do I Google? Movies, movie sequels that turn into horror. I mean, Star Wars does it every now and then.

You know, there's a spooky one. Evil Dead, no. Quiet Place, no. None of these. No, none of these. Email in, folks. You'll know. This definitely exists. James, we're going to use the power of groupthink,

which I think is great. We're going to crowdsource and crowdfund this thing. So everybody send in. If you're going to send it in, send it in and a dollar. And this will be our office spinoff. Yeah, that's right. I don't even have to Google for this. I feel like I've got one.

I just can't. Well, well obviously don't do I Mason No that's true, anyway here's an email from Rory Subject line says Disney Puss Hey Mason and James, just curious about your thoughts on the news that Disney is pulling out of the physical media market in Australia and New Zealand No doubt other movie distributors

will eventually do the same, would this affect either of you or do you stream everything anyway and who cares? It's a sad day for me since I still buy 4K discs of the big, big movies, as getting to the cinema is hard these days, kids, mate, and I need the highest quality. The big question, I guess, is what will JB Hi-Fi order to fill their old DVD shelves?

More Batman-themed puzzles? Yes, but also Funko Pops. That's the answer there. Kind regards, Rory from Cairns. Now, someone who's been across this is Dave Lee. Yeah, friend of the show Dave Lee. He's been on this podcast. Yeah, he's a big, like I've been to his place.

Him and his dad are big physical media guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's like if you're looking for like DVD reviews and stuff like that, he goes through like extensively what's available and when things are out and whatever. Yeah. And a lot of the stuff also he obviously buys online and a lot of those shops are even closing down like the physical media.

Yeah. Um, which sucks. Like I, I love the idea of physical media, but I just don't, I don't, I don't want to do it because I would just be caught up in it and it would

be me constantly chasing. Also, I don't really rewatch stuff. Yeah. Right. I think that's also the nature of this job and it is a job Mason. I know you think it's not, but it is. I think it's a lark.

I don't go back often. I'll go back for work. Yeah, right. But I don't often go backwards. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if I need something, it's on streaming. And if it's not, I'll use VPNs and maybe other ways or whatever. Ooh.

But I'll pay for something when I can. Yeah. But I love the idea of physical media. I don't think it's – this is a testing ground to see what they can do. But I think it's always going to be available. Maybe not for everything, but it will just be more niche and more expensive. Yeah.

I mean, there are a lot of companies that do like niche luxury releases of like – And like limited run games and stuff like that. Yeah, premium releases. What's the name? Terrorvision do like horror stuff and there's dead end DVD that do kind of, you know, cult classics and that sort of stuff. What I do often is if I'm recommended something, I will check to see if it's on any of the streaming services

and if it's not, I will attempt to buy the Blu-ray which sometimes can be quite difficult because a lot of the time if it's a movie that's more than a few years old they've just stopped pressing it you can't go down to JB Hi-Fi which is our local, what is it, like a Best Buy or whatever Yeah, it's Best Buys

So often times I'll go to eBay and there'll be like somebody who has, I guess, just a warehouse of Blu-rays or whatever and they have some copies of it and I'll go to eBay and there'll be like somebody who has, I guess, just a warehouse of Blu-rays or whatever, and they have some copies of it and I'll get that. So, you know. I got Strange Days recently. Remember that movie? Which one was that one?

Strange Days. It's the one where it was a future in which you could. We had a really strange day. Yeah, everybody had a really strange day. It's the one where the drug, the world's like, was you could replay people's memories in your mind. Do you remember that? Angela Bassett's in it. Ray Fiennes is in it. It's really good. And I got that recently

but that was kind of a heck of a time to kind of blur out. Oh, it's got that guy. Michael Wincott. Yes. Damn. Catherine Bigelow directed this. Yeah, that's right. That's what I'm saying. Cool. Vinnie D'Onofrio's in this. Yeah, that came about because somebody was like oh my god, remember Catherine Bigelow directed Strange Days? And I'm like, oh, you haven't seen that.

It's probably on streaming. Julia Lewis? Of course it's not on streaming, so I had to track it down. William Fickner? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to watch this. No, no, do it. Yeah, cool.

Well, you can't have my copy on Blu-ray because it's the only copy left in the world. Apparently somebody says it's the greatest cyberpunk movie ever made. That might be true. Cool. We've got another tweet. Do I have another tweet? Yeah.

No, you have the tweets. Do you have a letter then? I just did a letter. Oh, yeah. Do you want me to do one? No, didn't I do that one? No. It's from Eli.

Oh, yeah. He says, I love your podcast. Ah. Hashtag weekly planet pod. I have been a listener for about six years and have gotten to know your bits very well. My question to you. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.

Is what is your fave or least fave bits the other does, e.g. Frozen Air, Submarine Babies. I hate that one. I love Frozen Air. I love it. People probably know this, but I love stupid stuff and then just running that into the ground. Yeah, that's right.

Because that, to me. I also don't think of anything we do as like, well, that's my bit and that's your bit. It's like, you know. Well, yeah, because I feel like I don't often come up with the funny thing anyway, so I wouldn't feel confident claiming it. But also, the few times I've had to run the show here,

like if you've been away or whatever, it's very difficult to. Oh, is it? To run the show and also be real funny. I got this as a tweet from me. I got you. I knew it. So good job over there.

Yeah, I think, yeah, I know it because I don't think I'm particularly funny. I think like for a normal person, like a bog standard person, I'm probably slightly funnier than a bog standard person. Someone who lives in a bog. Yeah, but I'm not a professional. This has turned into something else. I'm not a professional comedian by any stretch. I think you're much funnier than me.

I'm also not a professional comedian, though. But you are much funnier than me is what you're saying. Yeah. I don't know, but what other bits would you? Yeah, I don't know. I just like driving. I think all the funniest stuff we're not there yet unfortunately it's 10 30 p.m yeah and usually the funniest stuff happens after 11 yeah that's

true but it's yeah we break we break yeah absolutely i mean there's whenever i listen back to like the best ofs that robert collings puts together like that's what i'm like oh that that was funny actually i um yeah and when sometimes people will start a thread and be like, what's your favourite bit? And I'm like, oh, no, that was funny. You know what happens is whenever we get to the end of the year and Rob Collins is going to put together the best stuff, I'm always like, I don't know if we said anything funny this year.

Yeah, it does worry me. Yeah. Oh, this one's going to be ten minutes long. And some people argue that maybe we didn't. That's right. Because it's not for everybody. But I don't know. What bits do I like?

I love the Jason Statham thing. I like the previous Meg thing we did. Oh, yeah. I love doing my funny little voices. Yeah. You love funny voices. Yeah. But also like I don't.

I love just talking funny on a microphone like this. Hopefully it turns into something. Hopefully it turns into something, yeah. Sometimes it doesn't. You're just talking like this for a while. Just fun to do it though. Absolutely. It's just for me, you know.

And if it turns into a joke, that's fine. And I'm going to not help this turn into a joke also. That's good. It's got to stay just like this. Nice. I like it when one of us shoots down the other guy's fin. I think that's funny. But, yeah, I don't know.

What was that? I also like it's – I think also what we do specifically is it's – if you could call it a job, Mason, is that it's only something that we can kind of do together. Yeah, right. Does that make sense? Like, you know, so it's, you know, on my own, I'm half a man, Mason, is what I'm saying.

Wow. I'm weak. Wow. Wow. And that's why we get into our I'm saying. Wow. I'm weak. Wow. Wow. And that's why we get into our traditional podcast recording trench coat. That's right. And we record shoulder on top of your shoulders. And we go to Claire and we go,

one ticket to recording a podcast, please. And she goes, okay, here you go. She plays along. She does. She certainly does, yeah. And then we go and we're like, ha-ha, it was two of us. All time. Do you have another letter?

This is from Brendan. Brendan? And he says, who's in need of a hit? Me. Good morning, boys. I've been thinking about Owen Wilson of late, and I love the bloke, but he's not had a decent movie lately. I mean, he's in Loki.

Paint is apparently us, and the Haunted Mansion is bombing, but he seems to skate by do you think he's in need of a hit movie and can you think of any other top brass actors who need to make a banger to save their careers gotta make a hit movie keep up the good work from brendan uh that's a great question well he's in loki at the moment yeah that's true not a movie but uh yeah um he was that iron man dad straight to stream he was iron man you know what he was in the movie marry me Me with Jennifer Lopez. When was that?

Oh, that was quite recently, right? I liked it. I thought it was like if you like, you know, like 90s, early 2000s rom-coms, which also have these two in it. Yeah, right. This, I think, is a nice little throwback to that. I think that's a really fun one. Yeah.

Do we need them to be in a hit or they can just be in a good movie? Okay. You know what I mean? Actors who need a hit. I'm googling it. Are you going to google it? Just to see what Google thinks they're a bunch of losers. Actors addicted to heroin. Oh no! They don't need a hit of that stuff as far as I'm concerned.

They've got Charlie Hunnam here. I see a picture of, oh here we go, Watt Culture. Ten top class actors in desperate need. Of heroin? Oh, come on, WhatCulture. That started me at number fucking nine, number two. Wow.

Maybe they go in random order. Here we go. Keira Knightley. Okay, sure. Maybe, yeah. Are these going to be people who have just sort of dropped off the radar a bit? Yeah. Here's the thing as well.

A lot of the time it's just public perception of like, well, these people have – one is always – one I always think of is Jon Hamm. Yeah. And people are always like, well, he never made it as a movie star, did he? Because he hasn't been in the MCU, has he? And you never see him do it. He's never a big star in a big movie or whatever.

And it's like, I don't think he needs to be a – No. Like he made – he was critically acclaimed on mad men in an era when yeah when when like every when tv was the thing you tuned into every week so millions of people would have seen him in that and gone everybody in that show is great yeah and some and a lot of weeks he's the best thing in that show yeah and he would have made enough money to yeah to never have to work 30 rock he's very good at that. He's in 30 Rock.

He's in Top Gun Maverick. Yeah. He seems to just, like a lot of people. He's in Good Omens. He's in Good Omens. Do you watch season two? Not yet. We'll talk about that next week.

Yeah, yeah, nice. Oh, then we don't have to watch Gran Turismo. No, we have to watch both of those too. I've already watched Good Omens, so it would be disrespectful of me to not continue watching other content. That's true, I think. You've made a perfect, you've trapped me in a web of logic. Yeah, it's that thing of

he's probably achieved all he wants to do. And it's the same with a lot of people. It's like, oh, they didn't make it. Well, maybe they just thought Hollywood sucked and they don't want to do that. Maybe they just do fun things that they want to do. Next up, we've got Johnny Depp. I'd like to see Eccleston, Christopher Eccleston. I don't know why I thought that. Probably Good Omens, David Tennant.

Is Eccleston in The Leftovers? What show is that again? The one where the rapture. He is. He's a priest or something. That's what I thought. I have vague memories of that. Great show.

But I would like to see, because he's great and he came to. I only want to see him do Doctor Who and nothing else. Okay, great. Okay, great. And I'd love to see him show up in a snake eye sequel. Yeah, nice. As Metal Face Man. Well, see, that's exactly where you're going with that,

is that he got the juice from Doctor Who, then he went to America and he did a bunch of big Hollywood movies that he hated. So I'd like to see him just in a good movie, you know? That's my pick. We have Mike Myers. So just make my way through this list. Steve Carell. Again, like Steve Carell was in the biggest show in the world

and he's proven himself in like dramatic performances. What do you mean he needs a big hit? Chloe Grace Moretz, I guess. She was just in The Peripheral. Oh, yeah. I watched some of that. Nice. Liam Neeson, again, I guess.

But again, like see, I think this is the larger picture of, like, I don't think Liam Neeson wants to. If he can just come in and work on a set with the director he likes and do one of these. Put on a trench coat and hold a gun. Hold a gun and then have a bit of fun and, you know, he sees everybody he likes and he gets paid a big chunk of change. Because, you know, he was in Schindler's List.

Exactly. He doesn't have anything to prove as far as like, you know, like he can work with big directors and he can do a great performance and whatever. Let him live. Exactly. Let him live. Let him live.

Let him live. Let Liam live. Jennifer Lawrence. She's starting to come back because I think she went away and had kids and got married or whatever. She's doing stuff. Armie Hammer. This is from November of 2020, by the way.

Okay, right. Just so you know. He does need a hit, though, doesn't he? Don't you think? Yeah, he does a big hit. You can tell this is dated. Alden Ironrike. Again, we talked about him.

Oh, he's come to see. That's perfect. Really good. I reckon had I thought of that weeks ago, I would have said, oh, Alden Ironrike, he should come back. Number one is Fassbender. Well, he had Assassin's Creed, didn't he? He had Assassin's Creed.

Come on. And the sequel they probably made. Assassin's Creed 2, back on the swing arm. Assassin's Creed 2, get me off this swing arm. It's dangerous. Mason, you got any more? No, that's everything. I've got one here from Amanda just quickly who says,

hello, mates. If you could have absolutely anything at all. If you could have absolutely anything in the world from anywhere in the world to eat. Millions of dollars. Millions of dollars. No, to eat. A million dollars still?

Yeah, a million dollars. A coin? Yeah, yeah. To eat at this very moment. With a series of hot sauces on them. To have at this very moment, what would it be? Bonus, what food does Melbourne do best? Here in SoCal, it's definitely Mexican food.

If I could have anything. Well, I've eaten dinner already. Okay. But is this magical food? No, just to have food from anywhere in the world. Oh, nice. God, what would I have? Probably Red Rooster.

In Hong Kong, they do these like bubbly waffles. Oh, okay. You get like a big sheet of bubbly waffles. Yeah. They're delicious. I love them. I've never had that. They're good.

What would I have? God, let me think. What's a good thing I love? Food. Just good food. Really good dumplings from anywhere. I love a freshly made hot cinnamon donut. Just a hot, a hot off the roll.

I would go a hot jam donut. Well, all right. But not too hot. Not too hot. No, I don't want to burn into. I would go a hot jam donut. Well, all right. But not too hot. Not too hot. I don't want to burn into it and bite into it and die. No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. But what does Melbourne do best?

Melbourne does a bit of everything, honestly. There's not really. Melbourne does good Greek food. Yeah, that's true. There's a big Greek culture here. But I think it's got, there's just a, there is a lot of good food in Melbourne. But there's not a lot of – like Australia doesn't have – Not where I live.

Australia doesn't have – there's no Australian cuisine really. We don't have any culture. Yeah. People think it's being Alaricum, but we're not. We're all cops. The website WhatCulture is actually – that's named after Australian culture. Exactly. Nah.

Yeah, Australia does – Melbourne does great Italian and great food. I mean there's indigenous culture, but, you know, we're actively destroying that. That's true. Yeah. If they have anything right now. Oh, there's a place in Melbourne that does a great French dip sandwich. Okay. It's like beef and cheese and a thing, and it's got a big dish of gravy.

Is it kind of like a Reuben? Yeah, it's a little bit like a Reuben. Okay. Yeah. Great. And listen, Harry works there. Oh, really? It's got butcher's diners at the top of Burke Street.

Cool. Tell them I sent you, and they'll be like, who is that? What are you even talking about? They only do it on Saturdays. So get on Saturday. That sandwich? They only do that sandwich on Saturdays. Oh, wow. Should I get one?

No, I'm going to get all of them. I got two last time. Nah. Yeah. All right. All right, Mason. All right. Should we wrap it up?

Yeah, we should wrap it up. Folks, thank you so much for listening to the podcast. Wow. We appreciate it. Thank you for telling your friends about it. Yep.. Wrap it up. Yeah, we should wrap it up folks. Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. Wow. We appreciate it. Uh, thank you for, uh, telling your friends about it.

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Are you fucking deaf? I just said I hadn't done it. Sorry. What? And you knew that. Sorry. What? Mason.

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