The Weekly Planet - 542 The Acolyte Cancelled & Blink Twice

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

Hello everyone, welcome back to podcasting.  This week we’re talking the cancellation of The Acolyte, trailers of Lord of the Rings: The War Of Rohim and Megalopolis, Anaconda but again, James Spader returning to the MCU, how Robert Downey Jr returned as Doctor Doom, Michael Keaton’s thoughts on Batgirl being shelved and we review Blink Twice. Thanks for listeningUK Tour Tickets for Sanspants x The Weekly Planet available here: https://www.sanspantsradio.com/events/category/live-shows/Special Tour T-Shirt! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3xR91FK9ogXVnTyGRH07RvgR4GPHTfQkzJvyfEN06mFbCBw/viewform00:00 The Start4:07 Rotten Tomatoes new system7:27 The Acolyte is cancelled forever16:11 Lord of the Rings: The War Of Rohim18:52 Megalopolis draaaama24:21 Anaconda25:48 James Spader back as Ultron27:15 How RDJ returned as Doom32:38 Martian Manhunter stuff34:46 Michael Keaton’s thoughts on Batgirl being shelved37:52 Blink Twice46:00 Blink Twice Spoiler Segment51:12 What We Reading/What We Gonna Read1:01:33 LettersSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Thank you. I just opened two drinks. No, I opened the second. That's my new thing, I'm opening two drinks now. Wow, all right, good luck going broke on that. I'll never go broke, do you know why? Because I'm really confident. Mason.

Sipped like a man who is not confident. It's not about. Who's covering up all his many insecurities. It's not about how I sip. It's about being confident. Like a coward. Yeah. Mason, we got a big show this week I sip. It's about being confident. Yeah. Mason, we got a big show this week. Big show.

No, no, no. And if you're out here and you're like, looking forward to you guys talking about The Crow, we didn't watch The Crow. We couldn't. It was at screenings at weird times and we just couldn't do it. Which shows, I think, the faith that the studio has in the movie The Crow. Yeah. If you've watched The Crow in anticipation of us talking about The Crow, sorry, we might talk about it next week.

Yeah, we most likely will. So it's got a wide release in other places, but in Australia, only advanced screenings at weird times. There was one on Friday, I was busy, Mason. It was like a 9.30 a.m., I'm not getting up for that. No, that's crazy, what are you talking about? It's insane, what are you talking about?

Anyway, but for people wondering, reviews are not good. But I'm also wondering if that's because it's a movie that's okay to kick. Something like it's got, it's got six. Oh, here we go. Here's the thing, it's got 6% of currently Rotten Tomatoes or something like that. But that means six people are like,

I like this more than I don't like it. I mean, it's six people if a hundred people reviewed it, Mason. That's true, yeah. Do you not know how percentages are? Yeah, there's six, there's a hundred reviewers. Yeah. There's a hundred Rotten Tomatoes reviewers.

What happens if one dies? And they're all the enemy. What happens if one dies? You've got to, there's six there's a hundred reviewers. Yeah, there's a hundred rotten tomatoes reviewers. What happens if I know the enemy? What happens if one does? You got it. There's a there's a contest of champions. Oh and and whoever becomes the biggest champion It gets to be there. Oh, that's great. Yeah, that's right. I'd love to be a big champion Hmm after they have to be put up to be put in stocks and rotten tomatoes are thrown at them It's the name of the thing that actually makes a lot of so makes a lot of sense, you know Ah, you know, I just make sense. We watched the movie blink twice instead That's right, which was available to watch which we will talk about in non spoilers and then spoilers

But of course there's news on the lead up At the acolytes been cancelled. Oh, yeah, that's gonna get into that I'm gonna talk about trailers for both the Lord of the Rings the war of Rohim and Megalopolis and boys and there's some controversy there. It sure is. They manufactured the controversy or was it some dumbass? Oh New anaconda movie, Mason? Oh yeah, I heard about that. James Bader's back as Ultron, maybe? Why Robert Downey Jr. decided to return to Iron Man.

Is it the money? Yeah. But other things? Sure. We've got two pieces of Martian Manhunter news. Oh, two pieces! That's right. That's low for this podcast.

I agree. And Michael Keaton was asked about Batgirl and what he thought about it being cancelled. And let me tell ya, he's indifferent. He's largely indifferent. Yeah. But it's pretty fun to talk about. Oh, should we also talk about, speaking of Rotten Tomatoes, that Rotten Tomatoes have now instituted a hot popcorn meter or something? Oh yeah, we should talk about that. Hot popcorn? This movie's certified hot popcorn. There's time codes below if you do want to uh whatever. I'm editing the one this week so if you're like the editing's bad this week it's because of me. Collin's is uh is not available. He's in the gym all weekend. Wow. He wanted to get swole for Monday.

Yeah so why wouldn't you? Yeah. Well he gets swole for the whole year. Yeah yeah. Yeah he's that efficient. A lot of people are like god I gotta go to the gym three days a week. Oh. Gotta get swole. He's like one day a year. Get it done! And then he gets it done. You know what I mean? It's insane. Before we talk about that Rotten Tomatoes thing though, I thank you to everybody who came to the live Conspirations show on Friday. It was a lot of fun. Sam Peterson, Ceeley Piccola and Georgia Love. Everybody who came up and said hi, and then maybe you didn't hi, maybe you were just there and you saw me.

Thank you so much for coming out. I really appreciate it. That was cool. There's still tickets to some things I think available for the shows that I'm doing in the UK with sans pants It's on the website. It's linked below. You'll figure it out. Also, we're doing some people won't figure out. You won't well Then you can't come. Yeah, that's the other thing is we're doing expressions of interest on a particular T-shirt a tour t-shirt to see how I want to get printed I don't know if you've seen this, but the guy who did it, what the hell's his name?

His name is James Fosdike. James Fosdike, yeah. It's a parody, Mason. I love that. Of the original Spider-Man. Amazing Fantasy 15. Yeah, that's linked below if you do want to check that out. That's pretty cool, that's very cool.

Cool, all right Mason, let's do Rotten Tomatoes, whatever. Do you have the link there? Cause I don't. Nah. Nah. Let's figure it out. Well you said it. I did, but then I'm like, you know what, I'll just look it up on X the Everything app while I don't not figure it out. Well, you said it I did but then I'm all then I'm like, you know I'll just look it up on X the everything app while I do my banking on X the everything app and it'll be easy to

Find but guess what the search function is broken on that piece of no, you're just using it wrong. You're not using it Confidently, what do you think is more likely that I'm using it wrong or that it's a piece of crap website It's both it is both but basically rotten tomatoes in addition to having you know a Critics yes a percentage of reviews and there's a lot of fresh or rotten and also an audience score That's right. They're now going now now audiences, and I think you have to purchase your tickets through a certain website it's like a fan dango and dango yeah, and what if you're a verified purchaser of a Movie ticket through this service you were then allowed to click through and say if this movie is hot popcorn or not That's right. And now it's gonna be a verified hot hot or stale. Oh

So no like bad or no like in between I should say it was bad, right? Yeah, but what's worse than like is verified heart and then there's hot and stale You ever see that's exactly it. Do you see what I'm saying? No, but what they've done here This is this is quite canny because yeah, these are the only three states That's what I'm talking about that the public want because this clearly is a measure Yeah for the audiences to go to so it's it's it's like a safe avenue to review bomb. Yes, you see what I mean? It's like you can either make a movie stale, like get a big fan campaign and a non-fan campaign going

to say this thing's stale, or if you wanna make Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon or whatever, verified hot, hot, hot popcorn, you can do that. I guess. I mean, how does that work for streaming? I don't know. I guess you just harass them until they go, fine, we'll just say, we'll just say for stream? I don't know. Yeah. I guess you just harass them until they go fine. We'll just say it's good.

All right. Just say rebel moon is hot popcorn for you. Ha. God, this popcorn is too hot to touch. You can say that. Yeah. Anyway, it doesn't ultimately mean anything. No, I mean, I don't really pay attention to that.

The only time I ever go to Rotten Tomatoes is if there is some sort of controversy about Rotten Tomatoes reviews, or I want to read something particularly scathing because I know it's there or something like that, you know. Absolutely. So, I don't know. I don't know what this is. But do you think that it is a mechanism for people to go, well, we all want to get together and say this movie's hot. We all want to push back against reviewers.

I think they're looking for a way to like make more money Although you through like the ticketing services. Oh, yeah, you use them exclusively So you not taking advantage but you're funneling people who are inclined to review things Yes and have strong opinions to buy through a particular service Even if you don't even see the movie because you want your opinion to be known But I would say just don't do it who cares, right? Yeah, there should be an additional one. And it's just, I heard it's bad, or I heard it's good. You don't have to buy a ticket. A mate of my brother's saw it. Yeah, this is like Free With Ads.

It's Rotten Tomatoes equivalent of Free With Ads. And it's just like a picture of somebody with their ear against the door of the theatre. It's like, I heard it was good. I heard it was bad actually, so. My mate, he got a cheap ticket and he went well You didn't when he gave those tickets to a friend of his and I think he didn't go So when we're saying heard it sucks Anyway, that's is what it is Mason, but here we go according to deadline

The acolyte has been cancelled probably now now people have been splitting hairs over this Well, there's nothing official out of Disney, should clarify that, but this is I would say 99% true. No I know but I'm saying that there's been some discourse as there always is. Some series they say, okay, we made one season and we're not picking it up again for a second season. Yeah. Which is different from we are canceling this show. Oh, okay. So I think some people who are big acolyte haters are like, oh, they canceled it.

And other people are saying, well, they just didn't pick it up again. And there's a difference there. You know, I mean, I think it's the one in the same at this point. I think it is. I think I know, like, there are people saying that we won. We did a big backlash and Disney back down. And don't get me wrong, We said this was stale popcorn. You did a great backlash.

My cousin heard it was bad. Kathleen Kennedy, I think she quit. I heard that. Yeah, and she's crying. I mean, she only quit because she was about to get fired. We're well past the point where people will be like, we got her, if Kathleen Kennedy quits now. No, I don't think so. People are.

It's been 14 years since she came on board, right? Yeah, I think people are still going to consider it a victory. If she goes, she could put out a statement and say, I am after I've been doing this for 15 years, and of my own free will, I think I've done some great work. And here's all my successes. And of my own free will, I am retiring. And here's my bank balance. Like, here's a screenshot of my bank balance, all the money I made. Goodbye I made goodbye everyone and people would be like haha. We got it. Yeah, we defeated her you did too

Yeah, you're scared and she was crying. That's right. Um to be clear. I'm not crying. Yeah, she was crying Yeah, look I'm not saying that like audience reaction to things doesn't make a difference because I think if and or hadn't have been as well Received or critically as well received as it did it probably wouldn't have also got a second season Like but that also the difference between and or and this is and or built episode to episode hadn't have been as well received or critically as well received as it did it probably wouldn't have also got a second season. But that also the difference between Andor and this is Andor built episode to episode. But didn't Andor also haven't they? It was good yeah.

It was good but didn't they set in motion a second season before? Well that is true also. And also wasn't Andor going to be five seasons? Oh and then they cut it down. Yeah that's a good point. I mean this was also apparently going to move forward. There was talks before it came out that they were in the planning stages of season two But yeah, make no mistake. This is a rating situation

It got the worst ratings of any Star Wars live-action show that they have done by quite a lot and the first two episodes Did like holiday special? Yeah lower than that. Wow the first two episodes did okay, I think then it didn't get better Yeah, it dropped off Significantly, uh-huh. So look look I'm not I was talking about this on Friday with some people some lovely people who I met It came out. Oh, yeah, you did. I heard you derailed the episode of confessions I had to and if you if you listen to that it's gonna be mostly silence and you're going another thing Another thing about the acolyte you guys know what the alcohol is you don't well settle in here. We go Let's go. We'll watch it on my phone. Wait wait. No we can't cuz that'll give him one more view

Wait to like word on a pirate. I'm gonna pirate it like going into it. I liked the concept of it I liked the cast like this era was an interesting thing like it got away from the Star Wars thing But I just I didn't like it I thought the execution was like not good or fun and muddled in the flashbacks and all of that It's it sucks that it that it was cancelled for those involved. Yeah, but I'm also I don't want to go into that like You didn't love particularly. Yeah, exactly. Like it sucks, but you know, whatever I think I look I certainly liked it more than I liked say a Soka. Yeah, which was a piece of cardboard And I think it looked better. I think it was more interesting.

He didn't lean heavily onto Skywalker stuff. Yeah. But clearly that's not- But Anakin Skywalker didn't turn up and go, here's a flashback. That's true, yeah. And you loved that. Maybe you should have.

I mean, Sidious or whatever his name was, that guy was going to. Creep in a cave. Yeah, creep in a cave. Who knows what creepy stuff he was getting up to in that cave, now we'll never know. We'll find that in a comic probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, look, and I'm sure it's disappointing for everybody involved

So and you know the thing about it as well is I we've reached the point as well. I think where There are certain certain actors and creatives are not gonna want to sign up for a thing with with Lucasfilm with Star Wars with with because they're just gonna be inundated with critique Absolutely worse probably absolutely so Molly from Star Wars explained I'm trying to find a tweet But I'm using the search function and I type in her name and it doesn't come up Wow that's really think that's a skill issue No, do you think it's a bad website issue? Okay? She said something online that I don't have in front of me where it was like it's gonna be hard to hard to get invested in things. Yeah. Because like, even if you like a thing, or you're

looking forward to a thing, it kind of kills the vibe of you know, and your enthusiasm when you're like, well, why should I bother with any of this? And that's the thing as well because sometimes shows build also, sometimes shows do build. There's plenty of shows that, you know, a lot of classics. And that's the reason that people often, you know,, when a classic series makes it to Netflix or another streaming service, it becomes, you know, one of the most watched shows because people go, oh, it's Breaking Bad has appeared on this streaming service. It's five seasons and it ends in a satisfying manner and I can re-watch the whole thing. I don't have to worry that it's gonna do two seasons and I'm really invested in the characters and then they cancel it. Absolutely. Yeah, so on the one hand, you know, people creating this sort of stuff

should probably say, okay, we're gonna have a satisfying season one and it's gonna wrap up and if people want more seasons, we'll try that again. But then I think maybe executives are gonna go, we can't just do that. We can't just have one season and then, and then it's because then people might drop off. So you're going to have to set this, you know, drop the seeds for a neck, a neck season. Just, just mostly make, mostly make season one, a teaser for season two.

If you could make the entire show, a season one of a teaser for season two, and we will cancel it. We're going to cancel it so there will be no season two. So it'll just be a ghost of a series. You know, just, Just a shadow of itself. A whiff. A shadow of nothing.

You know what I mean? Or, you know, I think that, but again, we don't know what these algorithms are. These Disney plus Netflix algorithms. You know, what I would like to see is for somebody in a position of decision making to say, we're making a series and it's going to be three seasons guaranteed, you watch it or you don't we're gonna make three seasons and then maybe it's gonna maybe something like that would build But I don't think anybody you know the algorithm the whatever algorithms. They're looking at aren't telling them to do that No, they're not gonna. They're not gonna start Figuring out that sort of damage control means until the the venture capital money runs out absolutely

Yeah, you know I did find runs out. Absolutely, yeah. I did find that tweet. It says, Molly Damon says, follow her on Twitter, her and Alex. Or their YouTube, not Twitter, Twitter sucks. Or us, you can follow us. I couldn't even find her, so who knows. The worst part about hearing the Acolyte is canceled

is it will absolutely impact my ability to enjoy any more new projects from Star Wars. I feel like everything I went through while this show was on was for nothing. I don't enjoy being depressed and cynical about this fandom. And yeah, absolutely. It's um, and they're deleting shows off streaming services. One thing I did notice that there was somebody pointed out that you can't buy Acolyte merchandise on the Star Wars website. Like that's all going. So is the Acolyte another, is it like Willow? Is it going to be a series they just,

is this going to be the first Star Wars thing to be removed from Disney Plus? I would be surprised. Oh, well, maybe. If they got rid of it. And the other thing I think is, is this gonna send the message to Lucasfilm that people just want story set five years

after Return of the Jedi, or just before A New Hope, which is like generally where the things that do well kind of sit, or people enjoy of the newer stuff And I don't really want that I want to go I would like to see things in other directions and whatever sure also I want to end or yeah And then you can shut it down shut it all down I've said that before when Obi-Wan came out, but you know now I mean it this is real this time

Also, apparently counter even at one point was up for soul That's um Squid game oh, yeah, okay, so that's um, his name is uh... Squid Game. Oh yeah, so not Manny Jacinto's role. No. The kind of the Mr. Squid Game. Yeah, Mr. Squid Game. Skull Squiddy.

Li Zhengjie. So I think that could have been really interesting, but also I think that's also good for him that he can be in another thing now. That's correct, yes. He can be in another thing now. That's correct. Yes. A different Star Wars thing if he wants to as a wise Jedi man, you know, he does have that kind of Keanu Reeves kind of hair going on, doesn't he? Keanu Reeves does, yes. Keanu Reeves and then the other guy, yeah.

Anyway so. And Carrie Anne Moss. Carrie Anne Moss, exactly. Put him in a tank, put him in a tank. Make him kiss, make him get married. And in real life, make him get married. Make him get married. Yep. real life, make him get married. Yep, pull that clause from The Matrix.

If they appear to Star Wars television show, they have to get married. And at the time they're like, oh, what are the odds? Sure, we'll sign, whatever. Good fun, what do you think, Yano? Yeah, great fun, huh? Good friends, good fun. Anyway, it is what it is.

Mason trailers, ahoy. This one's for The Lord of the Rings, the war of Rohim. It's an anime Yep, but it's here to remind you that Lord of the Rings the movies at the start Oh, yeah, like you remember one of the rings. I do actually the cartoon. Yeah, what do you think of that? So this is director Kenji Kamiyama and he directed some Blade Runner Black Lotus some Ghost in the Shell stuff Star Wars visions He's got his bloody paws and hands and everything. I think he has human hands. Okay. He's got his human hands Yep, go on all sorts of things. He's got some good stuff man. Where his human lips. Where are they? Yeah, they're on his human face where they should be. That's right. Yes. How do you feel about Lord of the Rings?

Not only returning. Oh, yeah, this trailer just sort of washed over me. I don't know You did say that as you were watching it. It didn't, I mean, you know, it's. Did it bring anything out of you? Because I know your love of Lord of the Rings. I don't have that. I don't know what you're talking about. You think you have someone else.

Think you have my brother who loves Lord of the Rings? Yeah, you are thinking of him, yeah. Yeah, but you said you like the Hobbit though. I didn't say that. No, you didn't. You're thinking of your brother again. I am thinking of my brother who doesn't like the Hobbit. Doesn't he? No that. No, you didn't you're thinking of your brother I think my brother who doesn't like just doesn't he know interesting. Why would he what are you talking about? Yeah, you don't I've never figured it out

I don't know if he is I don't know what his deal is what's going on that head of his good And I what's ping ponging around in that brain. I'll be a ping pong. Yeah, probably Yeah, I don't know this. I mean it just didn't where's Gollum is what I'm saying We're getting the golem. Yeah, where are the recognizable Lord of the Rings things? It didn't just know this is like, you know It's it's a Helms deep and whatever and it's trying to do is before the battle of Helms deep and you know It's an it's a lead into the whatever. I tell a different story Mason You don't just want Lord of the Rings again, which we are getting and we've got that TV show that's happening

That's right starting this week again. Yeah again. You getting back into that universe? Nope, didn't get into it in the first place. Yeah but you could get back to it whenever you wanted. I don't want to! Okay fair enough. So anyway Mason says no stars don't bother. Okay well what are you saying? Looks alright.

Great. I'll get involved, I'm gonna see it, I'm gonna see it Mason, yeah and we'll see it for work. You'll see it for your job as a tram driver and I'll see it for this. Okay sure. Okay, sure. Okay. So I don't have to talk about it on the podcast. No! I just have to talk with my mates about it.

No, your mates at work? Yes. Yeah, cool. Okay. Alrighty. And then of course we got the... What jumped out at you? There's a big elephant?

Yeah. A showdown? She's like... I think you'll find that's called a... An elephrump or whatever. Elephrump, exactly, yeah. I think you'll find it's called an elefunc because that's what the black OPs named their album after. That is true. Yeah

There's also a bit where a guy's like a girl can't be a warrior and she's like I'll be a warrior Oh Lord of the Rings all over here. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you know, yeah, that's what jumped out to me Sure, just more Lord of the Rings stuff man. There's nothing wrong with that. Get over it. God this guy Megalopolis. yeah got a new trailer First of all before we get about get into the controversy of this. Yes. How did you feel of this as a trailer? Are you loving the imagery? You're like, well Adam Drava's got a real bowl cut in this He does back to his early days of girls where he had a bowl cut. I I

Still don't know what to make of this movie friend of the show Alexi told me told the opposite last week It was on last week. We talked about megalopolis for a little bit He seemed to enjoy it when he saw it Again, it still looks to me. Like I said like like Francis Ford Coppola accidentally has reinvented early 2000 superhero Hell yeah, it looks a lot like that. But there's some there's some it looks like it looks like he's made a movie set in the mystery man universe God I hope so yeah, I just if you did that by accident. I would be incredible Flaming carrots, that's what Adam Drive would say drinking. It's a carrot would appear. Yeah, that'd be cool Yeah, so of course the controversy from this though is that there's a bunch of quotes at the start. Yeah, so that so

What they've done is they've... They're basically letting people know that this movie might suck. Yeah, or you might think it sucks. But it actually isn't. It's good. So it's quotes from... it is alleged quotes from apparently scathing reviews of some of his previous movies from the 60s and the 70s to prove that critics were wrong. People like Siskel and Ebert Pauline Kale like famous dead people And you know and and and it's lines critiquing his movies like Apocalypse Now or the Godfather when they came out Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Okay. So this one's for the Godfather Uh-huh. This one is from Andrew Saris from the village voice who says a sloppy self-indulgent movie. Oh, that's harsh

Isn't that a good movie? Don't people like The Godfather generally? I think they do. This one is also from The Godfather. It says diminished by its artisness. Mm. That's from the New Yorker. This one says Bram Stoker's Dracula was a beautiful mess.

Bram Stoker's horny Dracula. Yeah, that's right. This one says Apocalypse Now, a spectacular failure. That's John Simon from the National Review. This one from Vincent Canby from the New York Times says, hollow at the core. Roger Ebert, famous reviewer Roger Ebert said of Dracula, Horny Dracula, a triumph of style over substance. Whoa. Rex Reed says Daily News about apocalypse now, an epic piece of trash. Whoa. All these dead people, Mason. That's what people said back

in the 70s. They said, this is trash. this is trash. This is mid and trash, actually. But anyway, it turns out that basically all of these quotes are not real. One might be from a Batman movie. Yeah, so Roger Ebert's comment, a triumph of style over substance, was from his 1989 review of Batman. And other ones I just completely mad. Some of these reviewers are no longer with us. Pauline Kale's no longer with us. Cisco-Nay, but not as well. But basically, these are just completely made up quotes for the most part. And what I think has happened, somebody from Lionsgate has gone to chat GPT and has said, hey, chat GPT, find me some quotes from negative reviews of Francis Ford Coppola movies and

it's just auto completed. And didn't check what they were. Didn't check it. Yeah. Well apparently yeah these are supposed to be AI generated. Variety said that Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis. We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zowetrope

for this inexcusable error in our vetting process. We screwed up. We are sorry. They also parted ways with Eddie Egan, the marketing consultant who came up with the Megalopolis trailer that included the fake quotes. So yes, someone got fired, Mason. Nobody checked this either? It's crazy. Yeah, you would because also all of these like just as a baseline like all of Cisco and a bit reviews are available on their website and you could just you could find bad or middling reviews for any of the so over on so Owen Gleiberman who did a review uh was a reviewer for variety he called he was cited as calling the 1992 film Bram Stoker's horny Dracula

a beautiful mess and highlighting its absurdity where he worked for entity went for Entertainment Weekly at the time and he said as far as me calling Bram Stoker's Dracula a beautiful mess I only wish I'd said that regarding that film it now sounds kind that's fun well critics love the Godfather and though apocalypse now was divisive received a lot of crucial critical support so that's interesting isn't it yeah now I guess the question then becomes was this a dumb accident by a chat jpg? I think it was. Yeah. Or is this some sort of scheme to highlight the absurdity of reviews? Whoa! And like, this is a fantasy world and everything's crazy in this fantasy world.

Are we being played? Is this even real? Are we being played? We might be being played. Are we in the Mystery Man universe? We might be being played. Are we in the Mystery Man universe? We might be in the Mystery Man universe, but I don't think we are. Yeah, good. God, I don't have time for that, quite frankly.

No. I'm pretty busy. Yeah, I think this started as an idea to, so people go, well, I think it's bad, but maybe it's not. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. I don't know whether it's gotta be bad. I mean, Alexi loved it. I mean, he got to be in it, sort of. That's true, yeah. So he can't be trusted. Yeah, I don't know whether it's got to be bad. I mean Alexi loved it Uh-huh. I mean he got to be in it sort of trust. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, but um, but yeah, I think it's got to be interesting Alexi megalopolis really that yeah, that's great. I'm actually loved it. That's cool. I yeah, I understand the the the idea behind this

It's like well, I I don't like it. But uh, you know People these professional critics back in the day didn't like any of these so maybe yeah, I'll see it again. Maybe I'm an idiot Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe you are Mason this is why I have my time to shine Hello, apparently Jack Black and Paul Rudder set the star in a new Anaconda movie now this the plot of this allegedly Yeah Is that they they they're playing two characters who loved the movie Anaconda from back in the day what and they want to They want to go and recreate the movie anaconda and then they get mixed up in an anaconda Oh my god, that is what I read anyway, you know Owen Wilson is in the original anaconda

I just think that's funny because they probably let me tell you this about that revelation that Owen Wilson for me was in anaconda Yeah, that's really interesting It's really interesting. Very interesting. I don't think it's very or really interesting, but it is true. I reckon they'll bring back John Voight. No.

Do you think if it is that idea, they're going to bring back some of that cast to be like, Oh Jennifer Lopez. Yeah Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube is in it. Eric Stoltz is in it. Danny Trejo is in it. John Voight is in it, Frank Welker is the voice of Anaconda. Wow. Yeah. Angela Anaconda, do you ever see that

show? Don't worry about it Mason. Um, alright. They made a bunch of those didn't they? Yep. There's some director whatever. It's probably an Anaconda 5D. Yeah I remember enjoying first Anaconda. It's a bit of a fun schlock kind of situation. Yeah. Remember the bit where John Voight gets vomited by a snake and then he goes all wing. Yeah, John Voight's right I'm John Voight. I'm in Megalopolis Few Hollywood's worst in Megalopolis. Have you noticed? No, I don't notice anything, but I do notice this THR saying The James Spader will voice Ultron in the Vision TV series.

Age of Ultron, the last movie James Spader was in. Is that true? Blacklist? That's a TV series. No, no, I'm saying I'm thinking of the other things that he did. The Office for a Time? Correct. God.

Did you do that one where he... It's fucking Boston Legal? Did he do any more Boston Legal? I don't think he did any more Boston Legal. You don't know if it's Boston Legal? Yeah, he did Boston Legal. This is not Boston Legal. Yeah. Let me have a look. But at the blacklist very successful. So I imagine he's making that TV Yeah, you're right. That was the last one that he did, but he did do the motion capture though

So he's probably all tuck it out from that's true. Yeah. Yeah good on you No, he's pretty much just done the blacklist since that was it. Oh, he isn't something He's in Untitled Vision series in 2020. Yes.26. Which I think they're probably just gonna call the vision. I think a lot of- White Vision? Yeah, like white vision's a little off. Also, Vision Quest seems a little bit- White Vision Quest. Oh, that's good actually. Yeah. The white vision quest, the only true vision quest, they should call it.

They should call it. All other Vision Quests are fake. Completely agrave. Okay. Well, that's still still going forward so that's interesting. Apparently it is. Now THR they got some information on how Robert Downey Jr. decided to come back to- I was going to say James Bader is the Ultron in that movie. He's got some good lines in that movie.

Give me your, give me your, give me your vibranium. Give me your face. Give me your face. I'm Optimus Prime. Yeah. I want your vibranium. Yeah exactly. Give me your vibranium.

I'm making a vision. I'm gonna get in his body. Yeah I'm here to HR they spoke to Robert Downey jr. About how he decided to come back to the MCU Okay, so that he said so probably a year ago cuz you know, uh, Feige and I have kept in touch We're pals Favreau Feige and I have kept in touch. I'm close friends with the Russo brothers But I'll never say which one I like more. We have other business we're doing. So there's a little group of fellow travelers and I had this instinct that I wanted to go to Bob Iger and add this idea outside of the cinematic universe that I could serve, I could be of service to what's going on at the parks and then location-based entertainment. So you know

these Iron Man has come back in the in the parks this thing, you know he's like hi I'm Iron Man and welcome to Disney. Did they kill him in the parks? Yeah they killed him in the parks this thing. You know, he's like, Hi, I'm Iron Man and welcome to Disney, etc. Did they kill him in the parks? Yeah, they killed him in the parks. Was he executed in the town square in the middle of Disney World? Yes. Wow, in front of children. Yep. Wow.

You're a fan of that? Yeah, it's cool. Susan and I were sitting down with Feige. That's Robert Downey and his wife. Susan Downey Jr. That's right, and they production company together. And at one point he said, It just keeps occurring to me that if you were to come back and Susan was like wait wait come back as

what? Excuse me what did you say Robert Downey Jr.? What did you say to my husband I'll kill you. Then we both realized over time that it was another thing that just disproves any doubt anyone could ever have about that guy very sophisticated creative thinker about how can we not go backwards how can we not disappoint expectations how can we not go backwards? How can we not disappoint expectations? How can we continue to beat expectations? And he brought up Victor Von Doom. I looked up his character and I was like, wow. I'm the biggest fan.

I wish I had been, I've been the biggest fan for 20 years. 100 million dollars. 100 million dollars in years. Wow, later Kevin goes, let's get Victor Von Doom right. Let's get it right. And then they went and sat down with Bob Iger and Bob Iger goes, yeah, whatever. Yeah, I. Later, Kevin goes, let's get Victor Dom von Doom right. Let's get it right. And then they went and sat down with Bob Iger and Bob Iger goes, yeah, whatever. Yeah, I don't care. Whatever. Hey, you're Mr. You're Mr. Money. You're Mr. Money. Yeah. And you're Susan Downey Jr. You're Mrs. Money Jr. Mrs. Money Jr. That's right. All right.

We've got all this money in the room. That's fine with me. Yeah. You got an idea? Whatever. Whatever money people, the money bringers. Do you think this happened, these conversations happened as soon as the first thing came out about Jonathan May, just like even the early days, they're like, let's fucking get ahead of this. Yeah, absolutely. Let's start something in motion. Absolutely, yeah.

Because even if that all didn't happen, there's still room to bring back Doom, down the line and another thing, but it turns out they're doing it this time. There's also rumors this week that they were looking at him or Mads Mikkelsen Now, of course, he already played K. Cillius as everybody remembers everybody remembers case doctor strange original time And he was gonna be in the new vision quest spin-off sitcom. Everybody remembers K. Cillius He's lost his powers. He just wanders around New York. He's lost his powers. His eyes are normal. He still has a ponytail

It's regular New York. it's not mirror dimension. That's right. So yeah, is any of this- But he thinks it's the mirror dimension, so he's always going for the wrong side of the door. Oh no. Okay, Silas. But it's the wrong side and inside.

Oh, okay, Silas. Okay, Silas. I don't, there's no inside here. I didn't even really, like that seemed like a series of buzzwords and just incoherent rambling. Do you think this is a good idea? Yes.

Well, what do you mean? Well, I think you should do this. Well, that's clever actually. And we're friends. Yeah. And we finished doing that Robert Downey Jr's crazy cars show or whatever. Yeah.

Of which we maybe did one season or seven years worth. I don't know. I don't know how many years we did. Robert Downey Jr goes, look at these cars. Yeah. Some of them are powered by carrots or whatever. None of them are powered by carrots, Mason. I haven't seen it though, to be fair. No, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. So that's fun, isn't it? I guess.

That is fun. I would have preferred Mads Mikkelsen. Yeah. I'm not saying this is going to be bad, but I just think I would have liked Mads Mikkelsenels. And again that is the thing of they're gonna go where the money's like. I would have preferred and I know a lot of people I know people in the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates group would have preferred a Romani actor because you know Victor Von Doom's entire origin is based around him being Romani. Well Robert Downey Jr. did a Welsh accent in the movie where he pulled a pair of bagpipes out of his dragon's butt So you probably can do an accent and he was Charlie Chaplin and he was Charles Chaplin

Hmm, and he was Air America and he was Iron Man. He was Iron Man and he was due date He was due date in the movie due date. Yeah And he was the judge or something. He was the judge my dad's going to jail not on my watch Yeah, I remember the tagline. And he had an album that time, do you remember? Did he? He had a jazz album. Oh yeah, and he mimed that Elton John song once.

Yeah. Yeah. And he went to jail. He did all that cocaine. Ali McBeal! Ali McBeal! Scooby-dee-boo bop-da-da! You know?

Weird science. Weird science, yeah. But anyway, he should be a Romani guy. And people are like, well, how many Romani actors? I don't know. There's probably some. There's probably some. Remember how they needed a deaf American Indian woman to play Echo so they found someone?

Oh yeah. Remember when they needed a young Muslim woman who loved Marvel superheroes so they got Iman got a man, but I'm he'd never acted before and yeah, but Mason. Yeah, she was already famous Actually, she wasn't famous at all Yeah, and then she became like beloved people like her a lot Yeah, she was on a few seasons of Robert Downey jr. Is crazy cars. What's she? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's great NEPO kids, you know, right? Yeah, exactly. I could know Robert Downey jr. I just she? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's great. Neppo kids, you know. Right. Yeah, exactly. I could know Robert Downey Jr. I just don't. That's right. Yeah. All right, Mason, let's do some Martian Manhunter news. Two pieces. Okay, great. One is that

James Gunn posted a picture of Chocos. Oh, yeah, which is the off brand Oreos that Martian Manhunter loves in the comic books. They're in the DC universe. There's a bunch of products that only exist in the soda, cola, big belly burger DC universe. There's a bunch of products that only exist in- Soda Cola. Big belly burger. That's correct. Something et cetera and so on. The Daily Planet. The Daily Planet, that is a newspaper or something.

Or probably now it's an online resource and media conglomerate. That's right. But, because you know the way media moves these days. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. People are saying that's a hint towards Martian Manhunter. And it could very well be.

Knowing James Garnet probably is. Yeah. It might show up for a little bit. But of course the other bit towards Martian Manhunter and it could very well be. Knowing James Garner probably is. It might show up for a little bit. But of course the other bit of Martian Manhunter news is something that did not happen. We got some very high-res images of Hugh Keyes-Byrne, of course played Morton Joe in Mad Max Fury Road. And Toe Kata Romano as well. He did, that's right. Different characters though. He was going to be Martian Manhunter in George Miller's, like, I don't wanna say 2009, Justice League movie. Justice League Mortal, yes.

Yeah, and it's just a gross suit prosthetic situation. He's like, ah, I'm Martian Manhunter. Because I guess we'd seen a very, like a sort of an all cast photo from a significant distance. Yeah, and he's like on one knee, you can't really see much of him. Was that concept art or was that photographs? No, no no that's real

there's there is like there's a like there's the megan gale stuff yeah yeah leaked as well yeah he's back and that one yeah you've probably seen this so I think that is a slowly like the drip feeding us these like yes absolutely over the decades and etc so yeah all right I would have loved to have seen that movie. Me too. But we can't ever see it now. Maybe they'll do an AI animated one. It'll be bad.

Oh perfect, just, oh my God, I can't wait for it. Everybody moving slowly and weirdly. Slowly and looking stoically at the camera. Yeah. It goes, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum. And they're just staring. It's good.

Oh incredible. Can you imagine the plot that would be in that? Yeah. Yeah, nice. I can. Dark side's there, zooming. Let's good credible. Can you imagine the plot that would be in there? Yeah. Yeah nice. I can Oxides there zooming let's get him. Yeah, um, yeah, I'm not even saying it would have been good But it would have been fucking weird. I know that yeah. All right Mason. Let's talk about Michael Keaton He spoke to GQ and this is via variety where they asked him about hey, man You filmed a whole movie Batgirl and you put on that stupid suit and you stood stoically. You were in an alley next to the Batmobile.

Remember Memories? Same Batmobile or a new Batmobile, I don't know. You probably were made to say, let's get nuts and all of those things. Was it sad that that movie got cancelled? And he said, no, I didn't care one way or another Big fun nice check Keaton said when asked if he was disappointed the film's axing GQ notes that Keaton was also rubbing his fingers together in the universal gesture Formula that's great

That's fun. I like those boys They're nice guys and he added on a softer note about back girl director Adil El-Abi and Bilal Fala. I pull for them. I want them to succeed and I think they felt very badly. And that made me feel bad. Me? I'm good. Yeah. At least we know he has empathy. Exactly. Also you know what tone he's delivering that in, you know what I mean?

The tone I did. Yeah. No, he's pretty like, that's, you know what he's like. Yeah, yeah, we do. It's true actually, yeah. No, I don't think this is pretty like that's you know what he's like. Yeah, we do No, I don't think this is like, uh, I Don't think it's disrespectful. He's like no I got fucking paid and I'm sorry that didn't come out But like it doesn't affect me directly. What does it matter to him? Yeah, exactly You know, yeah got a bunch of money like it doesn't need a big break Yeah, he doesn't need to and he also got to be Batman again. Anyway, yeah

He doesn't need to prove himself as in like he doesn't need to prove himself in the superhero genre Sphere or in like the dramatic acting sphere of like regular movies like he's proven himself for decades He's proven himself Multiplicity times this isn't the one that he was gonna win an Oscar for no, I mean we'll never know now That's true. Maybe we can recreate it using AI. Yeah, that's true I've already done it looks bad. I just did it then. That's a show. We were talking. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah firefly. No It's coming at me really slowly Some of this looks good and some of it doesn't look yeah

Also, his mask is different scene to scene. You notice that there's all these like inconsistencies You can't get it to make like the same face twice junk bad but I'll only get better and that's cool all right should we talk about the movie we're talking about yes oh before we do let's wait here's some Ultron quotes movie Age of Ultron okay this church was built in the middle of the city so everyone could be equally close to God I like that the symmetry the geometry of belief that's a good line yes one When the earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it. And believe me, he's winding up.

Damn. It's a good line. These Joss Whedon lines are going hard, Mason. I mean, he's a bad person with some good lines. As I always say, keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and then wait to find out which is which. Whoa. It's Robert Downey Jr. Oh.

No, that was also Ultron. But I'm saying that's... That's Robert Downey Jr. Oh. No, that was also Ultron. Oh. But I'm saying that's. That's Robert Downey Jr. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And et cetera, you know. Yeah. I'm Ultron and that just happened.

That's right. I'm Ultron and he's behind me, isn't he? Yeah. Oh. Next thing, Mason. Yeah, next thing. Blink twice. We watched it, it's a movie.

No, do it. There he is. On a budget of 20 million. Joke's on him, I. Yeah, next thing. Blink twice. We watched it, it's a movie. No, do it. There he is. On a budget of 20 million- Joke's on him, I just winked four times. On a budget. You got tricked, idiot. I did, I did. That much like the people in this movie, maybe.

I don't know, no spoilers yet. On a budget of $20 million, at a box office return of 7.1 million. Sorry, say those numbers again. Cost 20 million, box office return of 7.1 million. Sorry, say that's not as again. It cost 20 million, box office return in the US, it's gonna make about 7.1 million opening. Okay, right. So this is a low budget movie.

It'll probably do alright, yeah. So this is a movie with one location, they filmed one location. Directorial debut of Zoe Kravitz. Zoe Kravitz. Who you'll know from Mad Max Fury Road. That's right. The Batman.

The Batman. That season of High Fidelity which is good but I only figured out that it existed after it got cancelled. Okay cool. Other things? Cool. But she's not in it? No. It is, Deadpool 3 took the top spot again in the box office.

It took it from Alien Romulus which had like a 61% drop off which will still probably end up doing alright especially around the world. But it did debut ahead of The Crow, which cost a lot more. Originally this was going to be called Pussy Island. Oh, I know. I've heard. But apparently like they focus tested it and women specifically were like, no, don't do that. And she was like, well, the idea was like to reclaim the word and all of that. But it seems that people are not quite ready for that. Sure. But your kids are going to

love it. Mason, what do you think the story was? Oh, come on, mate. All right. There's a young woman named Frieda. Yep. And she's her and her best friend. They live together, they're housemates and they're cater waiters. And one day they're going to be catering an event by... What's his name? Slater King. Channing Tatum. Channing Tat he's a he's a big tech billionaire and he's been involved in some sort of scandal

But he's he's he's he's he's turned a new leaf. He's really sorry. Yeah, he's really sorry of all of all the stuff He's done, but he's he's returned to the simple life by buying an island and living on an island He's right lives the simple grows his own food on this island Anyway, they're they're catering this event by this guy and Frieda is like I'm gonna get in with him And we're gonna become best friends This is gonna be great and then they do that and then he's like why don't you two come? With me onto the island we'll fly to the island have a great time on the island hell Yeah, and then they do they're like should we go to an island with a billionaire?

I forgot why not should be cool. Yeah, and it's pretty cool. It seems pretty cool initially everyone's smoking marijuana Yeah, having a run around and putting clothes on sure absolutely some snakes, but don't worry about it Don't worry about the snakes. It's totally okay If you I think if you enjoy to get out more don't worry darling sure Other movies okay, that's a low bar to clear get out if I mean get out so good I think we talked about don't worry. No, it's almost bar to clear. Get out. I mean get out. No I think we've talked about Don't Worry Darling. It's almost a great film. I completely agree. I really enjoyed this though. I thought it was pretty solid. I think some of the pacing is a little

off but I think one of the sort of the mechanism, there's something is happening on this island. The characters are... Will you got get to it or whatever Not really, but I the the the these these two friends they get on the island They meet these high society types and all having a great time I'm in a great time things seem to be not this something seems off. Yeah, Freda's friend is like Oh, I don't know about this place and things are a little off and and it's about sort of memory and this sort of thing And so I felt like a little bit of the pacing was like, there's an inciting incident in this movie,

but it seems to take place like about halfway through the second act. And I'm like, that's a little late to, but then I guess you go well, you know. Sometimes it's a little late. Sometimes it's a little late, you're absolutely right. Yeah, no, I think it does a good job with building tension. I think there's a nice balance between the tension

and there's a little bit of humor in there. It gets a little crook towards the end. Oh yeah, it gets real crook, yeah. I think, yeah, as you mentioned, the cast is great. I think Tatum's. Alia Shawkat, famously of Arrested Development and Search Party. This is the third season of which I haven't seen

and I should watch. Oh, that's great, yeah. I think it's, It gets it goes places. You wouldn't expect it to go Yeah, and the interesting cast because it's got some kind of sort of younger Some sort of Hollywood new blood so we've got a Drea Ohana who was in hitman recently and she's bix in and or She's incredible in this as well. But then we've also got, you know, a Christian Slater, a Hayley Joel Osment. Kyle McLaughlin. Gina Davis is in this. Gina Davis is in this.

Yeah, right? Yeah, it's that. And I saw, you know how Letterbox does those red carpet interviews where they go up to people and they say, hey, what are your four favorite movies? A couple of weeks ago, they asked Ridley Scott his four favorite movies and one of his was Blade Runner he's just like and I'm enjoying this trend of people just going yeah one of my favorite movies of all time is a movie that I made but Gina Davis was asked and one of hers was Thelma and Louise hell yeah she's just

like yeah I love Thelma and Louise. She didn't like cutthroat island? She didn't say. She didn't say? I mean she didn't even mention the long kiss goodnight. What? That's a good movie too. Sounds like a woman who hates her own filmography. I completely agree. Women should be supporting their women, even if it's you, yourself. Yeah. Back yourself, man. And me. Yeah, and Mason specifically.

I think the other thing about this movie is it looks incredible. I mean, you wouldn't think, I mean, Zoe Kravitz has obviously had a career in the arts and maybe grew up a little more advanced than other people when it comes to being close to an artistic scene. Oh, you're saying she's an Apple baby. No, I'm not saying that, but she is. But that's fine.

There's nothing wrong with that. But she's never been like, as far as I know, I got here through pure talented grit. Unless she has said that. But she clearly has an eye for this kind of thing. Like the style of this, again, she doesn't do every, a director doesn't do every single element of a film. But she clearly like handles

and wrangles this really, really well. I like the pace of it. I like the tension of it. I like the tension of it. I like the ominous feeling that it gave. Before you know what's going on, it is unsettling, but you can't really specifically... I used to say, I just feel stuck. Stuck where I don't want to be. Stuck trying to get to where I really need to be.

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I think it's in service of the story. I think if you looked at like get out and don't worry darling Yeah, I don't think it's any more outlandish. No, that's really saying yeah in movies like that I wasn't like that's some bullshit, but I think also if it's a worse movie then you're like well That's but because you kind of like you're in it Yeah But I think also if it's a worse movie then you're like well that's because you kind of like you're in it Yeah, and you're invested in the characters And you know you're rooting for a certain outcome for Channing Tatum to just be a good person just to just to really just get richer And rich just believe in him just really get richer. You know financially and emotionally Yes, a real enrichment of his soul. You know absolutely yeah, and there's also a moment in this movie where it just becomes girls being mates

You know That's true. And I think that's cool how like there was this kind of bonding moment, this banding together and like figuring out what's going on and I think that's like the way it turns then is a really interesting outcome. There's not a lot we can say really about this movie without spoiling it. No, it's all spoilers. I will say this has got great sound design as well. I think one sound in particular which really stuck out was Channing Tatum's vape It's got a real crackle to it. Yeah, which I found really kind of satisfying I think more iconic vapes in movies. Please

You know if you hear of the iconic jacket is over move over Ryan Gosling. It's iconic vapes It's iconic iconic lighters as well. Oh, yeah. Yeah smok's back in a big way smoking is back in a big way. Oh and snakes Thanks are back in a big snakes are back in a big way We're not that far in but should we do some spoilers? I think we should know best movie ever I mean if you're looking for something that isn't the crow to watch this week Yeah, you've watched Deadpool and Wolverine a bunch of times and you're like, I'd like to see something Well, maybe you want to see the crow again. Maybe you do, maybe you want to support The Crow. Support The Crow at your local cinema.

That's right. Maybe you want to get in as many viewings as you can in the one day it'll be at your local cinema. And then we'll never see it again, it'll be deleted off everything. So it was a long road to The Crow wasn't it? Yeah I'm excited to watch it though. The Crow! It's its own thing apparently, I don't know.

It's Crow thing. Anyway, spoilers. Best movie ever, you best best movie its own thing apparently. I don't know. It's its crow thing. Anyway, spoilers. Best movie ever? Yep, time goes below if you're doing a jump ahead. So it turns out that this island is not just any island. Well, it is actually. It's an island and it's covered in snakes.

But they're conducting this kind of billionaire experiment. But it's not so much experiment, it's more just like a device to torture women. So there's a perfume that you spray and it basically means that you are It kind of makes you malleable in terms of things that you will remember specifically trauma Yeah, so it'll it wipes any trauma that you will have from your mind in in taking it Yeah So they're having these it seems like because again like the first probably 50 minutes of this movie seems not exclusively But they're just living the same day again and again,

getting up, having drinks by the pool, having a swim, having a vape, et cetera. And then they have a little fun party at night. And then it ripped. And they run around. Yeah, and they run around and they're like, why are we running? And then you kind of realize what's happening

is that they're actually there to be, the men who are there are just- They're all assaulting them. They're all assaulting them basically every night. And then they happening is that they're actually there to be like all the men who were there just we're all assaulting They're all assaulting them basically at every night and then they wake up and they're forgotten But there's little clues along the way that of how they kind of got there and you know But you can't really make heads nor tails of it until well then Freida is given a free to Is is given a little a little? You call them flask. Yeah yeah you call those hip flasks

last year she's one of the one of the the cleaning staff officer a little hip flask of some mysterious Korean liquid yeah and she drinks it and it's awful but it's it's it's venom from the snakes in the in the in the oh that's before her friend gets bit yes so if but if you so if you take the snake venom then basically it negates any of the yeah drugs, which is a Quite the contrivance. Absolutely, because it's the only that's apparent. It's the only I Mean, yeah, the island is the only place that has the flowers that makes the perfume and that makes you forget But the island is also the only place that has the snakes that negates the yeah

Yeah, you think that they could maybe keep the island separate sure. Yeah, what I'm saying, but yeah, it's fine I don't I don't mind any of that but a friend early had been bitten Yeah, and therefore remembered it so they had to remember said to kill her but they of course don't remember her being killed or her specifically and Then it's about unraveling kind of what is going on and then it's when you get you know, the more kind of teaming up It's also it's not immediate. You don remember immediately it slowly comes back to you so if you have the snake venom you got a few hours before your brain switches back online and then you're like so there's a few people that have like they all end up taking the snake venom and you know they're going to remember at some point and it's like

what is that gonna look like when they realize what has been happening? Revenge basically. Big time team-ups and revenge just girls being matesvenge basically. Big time team ups and revenge. Just girls being mates getting revenge. I would say it's mostly satisfying revenge. I mean it is a shame that Elliot Shortcats character is murdered. Yeah, absolutely. And of course Gina Davis takes a shot of the, or multiple shots of the snake venom and she remembers but then she's mad about it. Yeah. She is actually, she would prefer about it. Yeah, she she she's actually She would she would prefer doesn't know she doesn't want to know just wants to keep her job She's been enabling this bill you had to do this this horrible island. Yeah, absolutely

So and it's also no Miyake's character who also by the way is in Star Wars That character for that character from Star Wars, but also done better things including this. She'd been there before. So Channing Tatum seemed to have some kind of affection for her. He seemed to genuinely like her but also enjoy torturing her. Yeah, because he's also, there's a reveal in this that he and his sister were molested as kids. He's awful, but he seems to think that he is doing goodbye That erasing people's memories. Yes is a is a is a better option than working through the trauma It's just a race it and don't remember it anymore. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely

The way it wraps up though. She spikes his vape. That's right with the with the memory drug. Uh-huh marries him Takes over the company. Yeah, and just keeps him as kind of I Guess like a like a face or a figurehead But she's the one pulling making all the moves and can enact revenge or do any kind of thing that she's interesting Yeah, which I thought was a really interesting Yeah ending to this instead of just like, you know caving his head in like they did to Christian Slater or whatever I would have kept his head in probably But yeah, I mean you don't get to take over the company He's having his head in like they did to Christian Slater or whatever. I would have kept his head in probably. Probably.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I mean, you don't get to take over the company that I guess do. Oh, that's true. Yeah. So she can cave his head in later if she's so inclined. So he's this kind of befuddled. Yeah. I don't know.

He just stands around basically. Yeah, right. Just stands around like she makes it to the company. Oh, living the dream. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, just to stand around. Oh, just to be a figurehead. Oh my god.

My goodness. Just to be a trophy Channing status. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. But no, I I, again I quite enjoyed this. I mean when I say enjoyed. Yes exactly yeah. I thought it was a good movie. It's well done. Yeah it's well made. In my opinion. And that's all the things I'm gonna say about that movie. Wow. Now I'm gonna forget that movie using snake venom or the opposite. Reverse snake venom. Reverse snake venom. Wow! That snake poop comes out the other end. Yep, it's true. Alright, should we move it along then? Yes, let's move it along. Alright, what are we gonna do though? We should do what we're reading. Well, I'm not busy. What are we gonna read? Let's do that now.

Yeah, let's do it now. I'm doing a thing. Oh, this is a, it's not really a spoiler but just quickly get him at the movie We're just talking about there was a moment where they all kind of had this revelation that Like how they were kind of tricked or kind of not even tricked They just decided to go along to this island. They were just like what are we what are we doing? Well, we should be smarter than this. Yeah, I enjoyed that moment quite a lot. Anyways, Mason, this is the segment of the show where we go, hello, what have you been reading or doing or watching or listening to?

Yes. What have you been doing? Well, speaking of remakes, like the remake of The Crow we didn't watch. The Crow. I decided I would watch John Woo's 2024 remake of the John Woo 1989 Hong Kong action thriller The Killer. Which is on who? No, it's on Peacock in the US.

It's on Netflix in Australia and I presume everywhere else. Okay. Why did he do this? Which sounds like a joke. It sounds like a 30 Rock joke. That like Judah Friedlander's character on 30 Rock would be like, I can't wait for the remake of Hard Boiled on Peacock. It's got Nathan- uh, what's her name? Natalie Emanuel. So she's from the Fast and Furious franchise

and other things. And it's got Sam Worthington. Yeah, that's right. And it's got a 54% on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't know what that means for their new popcorn meter. That's true. So how did you feel about this? I think for the most part, it's quite good.

Is it, action wise, what's it doing for you? Like why would you watch this over the original you would watch this over the original because you can't watch the original Because due to various licensing things you can't really get it most places what you can steal it off the internet We're talking about this briefly. Okay, but to just to recap so Oh, yeah shit is nowhere. Yeah, so just to recap briefly in the 80s You know Hong Kong action was started in the air started me. It's kind of a big deal and so a company Hong Kong real estate company the name which escapes from it

I think it might be like princess real estate or something like that decided to get into the movie making business and so they the movie making business. And so they bankrolled all of John Woo's like, early classics. Okay, so a better tomorrow, the killer bullet in the head and hard boiled. Yeah, maybe a couple of others. I don't know. But and they handled like the international distribution. So like movie releases and like, would they go through other companies, etc. to distribute? Would they be like, yeah, they would. So they so you don't warn our brothers or whatever yeah although in in australia i think we probably would have been madmen entertainment or something like that and so they arranged all these

distribution deals for vhs and dvd or whatever but of course those deals eventually expire and the rights refer back to this company but since then the demand for hong kong action movies has kind of cooled off a little bit so that company now just does real estate so they don't do movies anymore So if you're like an Australian distributor, and you want to do like a new blu-ray release of the killer Yeah, you contact you email them and most likely you get nothing back Like in the best-case scenario they send you an email. That's like we're not doing movies We never did so they just locked it what like, if you if you find them on, if you find like if you're if your country has these movies on Blu ray or DVD or whatever,

either they're they they you know, they have the contract either went for like 40 years, or it's just, you know, yeah, it's bootlegs. And they could they could make some money. Yeah, they could make at least we have talked about this. Yeah, just give it bootlegs. Yeah, and they could they could make some money here They could make or at least we have talked about this. Yeah, just give it to somebody else to do like yeah, right Yeah, but you don't have to do any of it. Yeah But anyway, otherwise, you know, so he remade it. So he remade I don't know if that's specifically why he remade it So how was it action wise though? It's not it's pretty it's pretty solid. I think not like Netflix II generic kind of it's I mean It's it's not as it's certainly not a squibby as the originals squibbies my favorite streaming service vertical streaming. Yeah Mine's squibby, which is free, but there's ads so that you know his is I mean those original John Woo action movies

They are sort of famously Insanely squibby. Like it's that, you know, it's the two gun action. It's, you know, some people call that genre heroic bloodshed. And it's like, you know, Chao Yon Fatal like empty two handguns into one guy. And it's just squib after squib after squib. It's not that. It's a little CGI blood.

But I think it's quite charming. There's a sequence where Natalie Emanuel's a little CGI blood, but I think it's quite charming. There's a sequence where Natalie Emanuel's character and Omar Sy who's the new kind of police detective who's trying to track her down They have a kind of a meet-cute Yeah, where they like have a gun on each other and they're in the hospital and then some bad guys come out from you know From behind and they they sort of you know They take their eyes off one another and they shoot the bad guys And then they put the guns back on themselves. It's fine. Like it's it's fun and charming

I think there's some interesting, you know chase sequences and stuff like that. I think yeah charming leads is the key I think Natalie Emanuel is good. I think Omar side is it the same story. Yes. Okay So basically is the first one funny in the way that this one is? I don't really think this one is particularly funny Oh charming I I guess charming. Yeah No Yeah, so the plot of the original and the plot of this one is that Your main character she's a killer and she was contracted to kill a bunch of guys who are sort of in a nightclub at this Point yeah, and in doing so she accidentally blinds a nightclub singer. And so and and the

the contract was to kill everybody in the nightclub and she doesn't kill her. And so, you know, various bad guy factions, they want to get rid of her and they want to kill the singer and she wants to protect her and there's the police are there also. And, you know, it's a whole thing and there's drug smuggling and blah, blah, blah. Okay. Yeah, so I think it's I think it's worth it.. So we've got The Killer 1989. Yes. And we've got The Killer 2024. How does it compare to The Killer from 2023 starring Michael Fassbender?

I think The Killer starring Michael Fassbender is a better movie. Than all of these movies? No, I don't think it's as good as The Killer. There's also a third The Killer on Netflix I think, but think but none of the job movies are on there. That's great Yeah, it is great. They could just put them on streaming couldn't they? Yeah Yeah, they could even make a streaming. They do in the two in BitTorrent BitTorrent streaming service That's a good point isn't it though and it's free. Yeah, great. Well Mason I watched with my family Go on I'd seen it before I saw it in 2008, but I saw it a hundred feet back from the stage

No, that's not very far much further than the very base. I saw wicked in 2008, but I saw it 100 feet back from the stage. Now that's not very far. Much further than the very base. I saw Wicked in London. Oh. And it's come to Melbourne, it's just wrapping up. So you saw a live thing. I saw a live thing. I went to Wicked again. Well, there's going to be a Wicked movie later this year.

So I took my kids along. And there was, uh, initially... I'm flying around, isn't that the famous song? I'm flying around. Where's that wizard gonna fuck him up? Yeah. And they do. Just a witch. Don't call me a bitch. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm saying it. She kind of is. Whoa. She's a bit rude, but it's also the way that people treat her, you know? Anyway, if you haven't seen it, you will later this year, maybe because they're making a movie,

which doesn't look great, but hey, whatever. But no, it could be all right. I don't agree with some of the casting is all I'm saying Glinda specifically, but we'll see I don't know Um, so basically version. Yeah, who's in this version? I don't know. No, I don't know. No one I knew Maybe some people that I knew but um No, you're gonna name some people and I want to say I don't know but it's basically the Wizard of Oz but it's still From the perspective of the wicked witch. Uh-huh. He's actually maybe not so wicked and has maybe had some hard times I've had some hard time. Yeah, it tells you more about like underland of Oz and there's like political undertones in it I'm making excuses for my bad behavior

Yeah, but of that yeah, it's just great. It's really good and fun and my kids loved it My son who was like I don't want to say this I I'm not interested in this at all afterwards He goes, but he says that before everything it's true He genuinely does and he was like I loved that that before everything. It's true, he genuinely does. And he was like, I loved that. And at half the half point that he was like, this is like TV. I'm like, yeah, it's called theater.

You should show him the Blues Brothers. I'm like, that's a musical. That is a musical, I might actually, yeah. Though he has seen theater before, but yeah, both of them loved it. And I also thoroughly enjoyed it. Also, I just love, and this is in the movies Especially like all of the movies the wizard. He's just like he sucks like he's a con man and he's like I think that's just really

He's a victim of circumstance as well. No, he's not because he was James Franco. Oh, yeah He was not really his fault that sucks that he died. Yeah, you'll never know what he's really like That's right a bad guy probably got set on fire on that alien planet I did see another movie, but I don't know if I can talk about it because it was a very very early screening and we'll never know what he's really like. A bad guy probably. He got set on fire on that alien planet. I did see another movie, but I don't know if I can talk about it because it was a very, very early screening. People might know Michael Shanks,

who I've done an interview with before. He's made a bunch of shorts. He did the Wizard of Oz. He invited me to just a screening of his movie. Like a very small- This is part of the Melbourne International Film Festival. No, this was just a thing where he's just like invited some people.

And I haven't asked him, but I would love, not to spoil, but I'd love to talk about it, just to give my general opinion, but I'm just gonna hold back on that until I get to- It's a shot for shot remake of Wicked. Yeah. Okay, right. That he's gonna release a week before the-

That's right. The official version. That's really interesting. I think it's a, I think it's brave. It is brave, isn't it? And interesting. Brave and beautiful. All right, should we move it along? Let's move it along the letters. I'm ready. Okay. I'm gonna play the letters You're gonna see wicked have you seen wicked the musical you're gonna see the movie. I guess I'll say the movie even for work

Yeah, I'll see if I'm working a trend. Yes. I'll talk about my work mates People like tram questions for me on and Friday when I was yeah, give me throw one Ah, what was it? It was things like oh, can you listen to anything while the tram? Drive, I said no good. You can't have your phone can't have an ear an airport in Where you live so obviously why like you told you told them right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah Anything all the things that they wanted to know I was happy to that's great fill in the blanks. Yeah Which you would have wanted I think it's true. Yeah, yeah, cuz then that's my favorite thing cuz then I don't have to do it Do anything? No, that's perfect for me. There was a moment where I said at the end

Oh Nick Mason is here and I pointed to the crowd and some people turned around. I'm like, it's not really A bit went all Anyway, no, it went. Yeah, he's not actually there. Yay Damn you wanna reach this show you can simply hashtag weekly planet pot on Twitter or tweet directly at us I meant to put a thread in the great mates group this week. I didn't oh, yes Well that return go. How did it go? Or didn't it go? How did it go? It went really well. As good as it probably could have gone for me not doing it. Interesting. Yeah. How many how many comments did you get on that? How many comments did I get on it? Yeah, I'm just counting them up now. We'll have to come back to this. Do

you mind if we circle back? Let's circle back to it. Maybe next week when I finish. We'll hop on a call. Yeah, and we'll circle back to it. Okay, cool. Absolutely. Do you mind if we circle back? Let's circle back to it later. Maybe next week when I finish counting them. Well next week we'll hop on a call and we'll circle back to it. Okay, cool. Absolutely. Do you mind taking minutes? I mean, if not, I'm not too busy hopping on a call. Alright Mason, also you can send us a Gmail. That's absolutely true.

The weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com. Mason, what do you got? Here's an email from Ryan. Ryan. I had to watch The Crow and it's your fault. No it's not. Hey James and Mason, I've been watch The Crow and it's your fault. No it's not. Hey James and Maisel, I've been a fan of the podcast for quite some time and it's encouraged me to go back to the movie theatre regularly this year.

Thank you, that's a podcast we make. That's right, I haven't done that since before the pandemic and it's been a great experience even when the movies aren't really up my alley. I do it mostly for self therapy but also to be informed before listening to the next episode of the podcast. That meant I had to watch The Crow. And let me tell you, it's not great. However, I don't think it was the worst worst I liked a lot of the elements in it

and I think I had the potential to be awesome but damn was an overall rough watch so thanks for that PS Ben and Lawrence I appreciate and love you too well that's really kind of you to say and sorry we didn't watch the crowd we watch it next week but we might not unless if something better comes up yeah we'll probably we'll probably end up with there's a new terminator thing coming out next week that's true true, Terminator Zero, yeah. But speaking of, at BigSandwich.co we looked at six Terminator games, three based on the first Terminator, three based on Terminator 2 because we're covering them for Caravan of Garbage. That's like a 44 minute video just powering through some absolute dreck.

And Fidel. And Fidel also of course had to do that also. He had to suffer through the dreck without the joy and fun of playing the games. That's right. Oh some of them aren't that fun. But all in all I really enjoyed going back and looking at those. Me too. I tried to do a bit of variety and different platforms.

Terminator 1 on MS-DOS for example. That's right. Which was bad. But there's some good stuff in there. There are some good Terminator games but not many in that video. It was good to go back to yeah, but you could always see the crow again if you're going back to true Yeah, I mean look look we can't save the crow No, it costs too much money and no one likes it and no one's seeing it So I mean we're gonna buy tickets when I get when I can free tickets. Yeah, I'm buying two tickets

Yeah, we're not we can't save it Unless each of our tickets cost us 70 million dollars. Yeah, we I don't think we need to save it No, yeah, I'd have to have significantly more money than that to even want to attempt Spending 70. Yeah, I reckon even if I had like 71 million dollars spend 70 million dollars to watch the crow Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know this having not seen the new crow? Do you know whether it's a continuation of the crow story or is it like, this is the first time there's been a crow? I'm pretty sure it's like story-wise, it's a remake more or less of the first one.

So it's Eric Draven again, probably. Or maybe now he's called Eric TikTok or whatever. You know? Eric eye makeup. That's right. Yeah. Eric idol makeup. Whoa. Yeah, that's right. Life's right. Yeah. Eric idol makeup. Whoa. That's right.

Yeah. Lava Brian. This is from Doopster. It says hashtag weekly planet pod. Have you ever guys heard of the 1997 anime called Berserk? It originally, it was really a manga considered one of the best of all time and is definitely worth a read watch stay prayed up. Only in the Vegas sense. Yeah. I've seen it mentioned on Twitter. is still going I know it but I don't know it I'm also I also confused with Berserker which is the Keanu Reeves one yeah and also I get it it's not the same but like remember the max reminds me of the max it's not the same at all no but it's still going now mm-hmm yeah there you go okay no I'm sorry I haven't seen it. I mean, I am somebody who knows everything about anime. No, it said the original series went from 97 to 98,

but there's also a 2016 series and... I don't know, it's probably Involtable, whatever. Yeah, it's like Gundam. There's a million Gundams. Oh, what era of Gundam are they in now? What are you up to now, Gundam? That's right. Hand in your badge.

Hand in your big badge and your big gun, Gundam. Hand in your big Gundam. Gundam. Hand in your badge. Hand in your big badge in your big gun Gundam. Hand in your big Gundam. Gundam? There's an anime called PathLabor and it's like, it's cops but they've got big mech suits. And so they have a big revolver. It's always fun whenever I see. The mech pulls out a giant revolver, it's fun. Hand in your big giant revolver it's fun. Handing your big giant revolver. Pat Laver. And then he has to go to his big apartment. He sits on a giant couch. No he had to pay for the, it's like how you have to pay for your uniform at a lot of jobs. You get to keep it. He had to pay for the Pat Laver so now he just sits around the house. Makes sense to me. He has to give the gun back. Gotta give it back. What do you got now Mason? Here's an email

from Ryan. Ryan? Hey James and Mason last week I emailed in about seeing every movie in 2025 you remember you guys had some questions about it So here's my plan for one I have the regal pass meaning I pay $20 a month and I can see any movie I'd like so it's not gonna cost An arm and a leg. I love that for you. We don't have that in Australia. It's annoying. Yeah, I would Man, would you pay $20 a month for it? Fuck? Yes. Yes. Absolutely Oh man, would you pay $20 a month for it? Fuck yes. Yes. Absolutely. I see so many. No, I could see two and that's enough. Yeah. And I definitely see at least two movies a month.

You could see one and it'll be an- Absolutely. Twenty bucks for one movie. And it'd be still cheaper. Is it like certain times though? Cause for us it's often like it's time sensitive. We have to watch it the week it comes out. I bet it's not the weekends. Yeah. You probably can't see stuff. Fine. out. I bet it's not the weekends. Yeah.

You probably can't see stuff. Fine. Yeah, it's fine. Absolutely fine. Two, I plan on seeing any movie in theaters and streaming, but if there's a limited engagement for a movie and it's only showing during times I'm at work, I have to wait and see it whenever it's on streaming.

Fair enough. Number three, James asks what I do for work. I'm a forklift driver and work at a comic book store. Oh wow. I like to think simultaneously. Me too. Pat Labor style, he's just driving around the aisles. In a big mech suit.'s a Pat Labour style. He's just driving around the driving around the In a big forklift and he's just he's in a mech suit and he's in the

Forklift exactly. That's right. And then there's a follow-up email After looking at the list for movies for streaming next year The new plan is to see every movie that's released in theaters with a few streaming movies sprinkled in that's fair Yes, there's an insane number of streaming movies. Absolutely. There's too many. Yeah. You know?

That's an edge. I appreciate the follow up. Yeah, me too. Me too. We don't often do a lot of follow up emails, do we? No, because we forget. We forget. No.

This one we remember. Yeah, that's right. But no more. That's your last email. You've had enough. Wow. Pat Labor, whatever your name is. His name was Pat Labor.

No, good luck and God bless you. That's something that's gonna cost you, I mean if the tickets are lying, so that's, what is it? How many months are there in the year? How many days are there in a week? Seven. So if there's 12 months per month,

and every day you get a ticket, what is that? How many does that cost him? I don't know. All right, next one, Mason. There's some sunshine in the sunshine who says, hashtag weekly planet pod pod now that we're well past Well the halfway point of the year are there any movies or TV shows left in 2024 that you are genuinely excited about squid game To Agatha all along Joker to electric boogaloo. Yeah, I

Let me get my list up here. I'm not that list. I am looking forward to hellboy the next one same We've been recording the hellboy movies and that's been a fun rewatch. We haven't been re-recording themselves. No no no no no. B country wine style. Terminator Zero I'm interested in. Beetlejuice 2 I need to watch the original Beetlejuice because I've never seen it. Transformers 1 I am looking forward to because my son is like a massive fan so that would be cool to see. I'm curious about Joker but I'm not heavily invested in it. I'm curious about Joker, but I'm not heavily invested in it. Gladiator 2 I'm really interested in, even if it's a fucking disaster, because why not? Wicked is mentioned.

And a little preview, you wanna cover the movie for Cameron and Garwood, you wanna cover the movie Virtuosity. That's correct. Either that or I wanna do a movie commentary on it. Because Russell Crowe and Denzel. No, I'm not gonna be doing the Rusty Crowe history history trilogy and that's not in history. That's the that's the future So true is no, I mean, I guess we could do the rusty crow and

Denzel Washington movies so that American gangster. Yeah, and that's it and there's probably a flashback in gladiator. So that's right Yeah, like meeting shake hands. Yeah wicked. I am interested in seeing Venom 3, eh. Craven, is that even this year? It's in December. Oh yeah, it is. Craven's out in December or something. Cra-Semba, waving for Craven.

Mufasa, no. Oh, Nosferatu's out before the end of the year. It could be interesting. The Robert Eggers one. Oh yeah, no, I'm thrilled for that one actually. So there's some stuff. Big Eggers fan. I'm a real egg ahead Yeah, you are or a Robert head. Yeah, cuz you're a rotten egg of a bloke. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'm a stinky little rotten egg

But I stand by that's great. Yeah, what's your last email? Here's one last email James about to I got two more Oh about time. This is from John John. Hey guys, love the podcast I'm super late to the party, but I was watching is from John. John? Hey guys, love the podcast. I'm super late to the party but I was watching Mr. In Between and that's a brilliant show. Love it. I haven't seen it but I gotta get to it. It's great, you should watch it. The show is based in Australia.

Oh, we know. It's not only based in Australia, it is Australia. It's not just based in Australia, man. Never been but the guy's eating something called Dimmies and it looks delicious. I don't like them but a lot of people do. I have no idea what it was but it looks super delicious. A Dimmie... It's kind of like a dumpling, but yeah, so it's called

It's a dim sim. A dimmy is a dim sim and it's like basically like a cartoon version of like dim sum Yes, so it's like a like a you can you can boil them or you can deep fry them Yeah, like they're a mystery meat package. They're a mystery. I don't like the skin that they're in Yeah, they're probably better deep-, but even then I don't. I would eat a dumpling any day of the week over at Dim Sim. I hate Dim Sim's. I hate them. I don't like them either. I'm with you. But a bit of soy sauce, you get them from like a fish and chip shop or whatever.

I would rather anything from a chip shop. I would rather a crab stick. Are they even like, I know those versions aren't. They're not like distinctly Asian. Those versions aren't. No. Yeah. They're sort of from that era where like, in Australia, I don't know about anywhere else, but in Australia where people would have like, they'd make Asian food at home

where it was just like pasta noodles with Asian sauce. Yeah, exactly. Just a mystery sauce. Just a Worcestershire maybe. Yeah, yeah. Put some peas in and. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, was wondering if there was any, was wondering if there was, was wondering if they were as good as the show made them look? No. And if you guys ever watched a show or movie where they ate something and you wanted to eat it as well.

Yes. Certainly. There's a, people almost certainly know this, but there's a YouTube channel called Binging with Babish. Yeah. Where Andrew raised his name and he makes all the dishes from movies and TV shows. That's all, I mean, you know, watching that is certainly easier than making all the food involved.

Absolutely. But you know, Chef is a great example. Chef's a good example, yeah. I've mentioned this before, there's a Stanley Tucci movie called Big Night. Oh, I need to watch this. It's good, I've got it on David, I'll bring it over. Well, I haven't watched the last round of whatever that you gave me. Oh, another round. But the basically, it's two guys, they run a restaurant in the 50s, Italian immigrants. And basically, they've

got to set up for a big night because they think there's a celebrity coming to their restaurant. Oh, yeah, they make a they make a dish called the Timpano. Yeah, which I think it's called the Timpano. But it's this maybe maybe look it up real quick James. It's it's in a no It's like a imagine a drum. It's like a it's like a pie. That's like the size and the shape of like a drum Oh, wow, it's filled with like meat and lasagna and like sausages Sausages and pasta and it's it's like a it's like you cut it open It's like a you get an enormous slice of pot It's like a wheel of fucking cheese. Yeah, it looks like a wheel of cheese

But it's it's like you basically cut it open and it's like a every slice is like an Italian smorgasbord It's like a real dish, but it's like you cut this open looks like fucking tryptophobia. Yeah Yeah, you want this? Yeah, you gotta see it alive, man I hate this I would but I mean that's the thing, that's like a great lost dish. Because that would take 24 hours to make. And how would you even like... Yeah, and it's like you can't just go to a restaurant and go, can I have a timpano please?

Because it's like a 20 person dish. Yeah, exactly. It's crazy. Yeah. Okay, interesting. Anyway, I want one of those. You want one of those? If anyone would like to deliver one to my house. Please, that would be incredible. I'm trying to think if there's any specific foods. I mean, you know, there's like

Go down a rabbit hole of like just watching just the anime like cutting and preparing the food. There's sheer ghibli. Yeah, so anything like that, I guess yeah, but uh other than that no, I'm not swayed by movies. I keep my own opinion. That's right. Yeah, you only eat those weird pancakes you like I've stopped eating those my what's yeah Hang on. I put my glasses on say that again. They would again you've stopped eating eyes. I'm eating pancakes what? What I should you remind me I should make those pancakes again, yeah, that's right I'm normally just doing a smoothie. I'm hammering down a smoothie. My show absolutely don't know what's in my smoothie Here we go about a cup of skim milk. smoothie, I'm hammering down a smoothie motion. Sure, absolutely. Do you want to know what's in my smoothie? Here we go.

About a cup of skim milk. Okay. Vanilla protein powder, sorry, vanilla ice cream protein powder. Uh huh. I'll try a bit of creatine at the moment just to see what's going on, you know what I mean? See if it makes a difference, who knows. I'm putting a couple of ice cubes. A frozen banana, make sure you froze it the night before.

Frozen it the night before. Two tablespoons of oats and about a tablespoon of crunchy peanut butter Blend that into smoothie. It's pretty solid man, but it is it's very much dependent on your protein powder of choice Sorry, I wasn't listening. I was looking at pictures of Tim Pana and Delicious you love this Tim Pana. Yeah, yum. Oh James when you say Tim Pana next Can you tell him that I don't like him? Okay? Well anyway? he's one more email James. I love it You're excited for it. Yep This is from team set off. Hello team set off. I don't know if that's a real name or not Who says what's it like in the distant future of 2024? Hey James and Mason been a listener since way back first time writing in

I'm the year ago today. I ditched my aspirations of being a biology instructor and made the jump to student financial aid Oh my god on that day. I decided to start the pod from episode 1. It's been my only audio entertainment on commutes for the whole year. Whoa! I've made it to episode 176 and have vowed to continue listening in order, which means I'm missing out on all the new current comic book movie news shooting up my butthole and have no idea how 2023 slash 2024 cinema has been. What's it like in the future?

Are we still West-whirling today? No. Wow. It's my hope that maybe Mason is still checking the Gmail and this finds you and maybe I can get a shout out that I'll get to in another year or so when I catch up and that maybe I could be the official student financial advisor, aid advisor of the podcast if it's still available. You got it man. Either way keep up the great job dudes. Well thank you. What do you think? What do you think it's like this year? 2023, 2024?

Yeah. There's been some real highlights. I agree. There's been some good stuff. Yes. There's only been a couple of disasters of the flash. Do you think most people like- Thought of four.

When did that come out? Was that 2023 or was it like 2021? Last year, last year I want to say. Okay. I think most people don't see all the bad movies. And we don't even see all the bad movies. Oh that's very true. Yeah.

I think it's, you know, yeah. I think generally it's been very good. I think so. We didn't mind Alien Romulus. We didn't mind Alien Romulus. I think I, and I said this to the people on Friday, I was probably a little too harsh on Deadpool of Wolverine because at least the people who made it seemed to like what they were doing.

Joy, yeah, yeah, yeah. Twisters was fine. Borderlands was fucking dreadful. Oh yeah. Didn't mind a quiet place inside out. Yep. Oh, we didn't even mention that. That's a... I don't know if you saw any of Gamescom. I think it was the game developers conference or whatever.

They announced Borderlands 4. Oh yeah, good on them. And just 2 silence. Yeah. Oh, Dune 2 was this year. Yeah. Fuck yeah. Ghostbusters was this year. Mm- fuck. Yeah ghostbusters was this year

Mm-hmm God was it and King Kong. There's a King Kong. The flower moon was 2023. That's a good one. That was good Furiosa I enjoyed that. It's a good one. You like the acolyte. Yeah. I loved it. You like to soak up. Yeah, I loved it Yeah, yeah good. It's good. It's alright. There's always good stuff. It's always good Sometimes you just got to dig a little deeper. Sometimes it's mainstream stuff There's always some good stuff though. That's right. Yeah, if you know where to look not us though We're only covering the mainstream stuff. That's right idiots Speaking of Mason. Yes, do a wrap of the show and I read some beautiful reviews that people have sent like an idiot I'll do that. Yeah folks. Thank you so much for listening We absolutely do appreciate it even if you've started from episode one and you're catching up slowly. Yeah, get to you

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