The Weekly Planet - 594 One Battle After Another & Stan Lee Returns!

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

Fantastic news! There's a new movie and it's good. We review One Battle After Another, the latest from director Paul Thomas Anderson. Plus we discuss the Superman sequel man of steel (lowercase) and its connection to Peacemaker Season 2 and the wider DCU, Stan Lee's return in AI form, trailers for Avatar: Fire & Ash, Wolverine PS5 and The Mandalorian VS Groglet, a Bard Wire reboot and Mad Max might return but on television. Thanks for listeningNew episode of We Got 'We Got This Covered' Covered the clickbait bonus podcast out now!! Plus entire back-catalogue of let's play videos, bonus podcasts, movie commentaries, early access and ad-free episodes all available on https://bigsandwich.coEditor Laurence’s New Dunkirk Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtCohwqkY4James on Not Another Crime Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIlwfqZ7clE&tPLEASE be aware timecodes may shift up to a few minutes due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start06:13 Man of Tomorrow Draft Reveal14:58 AI Stan Lee at Comic Con22:48 Avatar: Fire and Ash Trailer25:57 Wolverine PS5 Game Trailer28:14 The Mandalorian & Grogu Trailer37:44 Barb Wire Reboot Series Announced39:15 Mad Max Series Rumour43:03 One Battle After Another Movie Review57:43 One Battle After Another Spoiler Segment01:04:51 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:12:10 Letters, It’s Time For 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-moviesThe Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4The 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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And he's got footy's finals fever. There's Nick Mason. Very good. I do have footy finals fever. I've never had a can open like that before. I know, right? Multi-stage. Yeah, I'm an expert.

Yeah. It's a primo can as well. You can stop at midway. You know what I mean? Coca-Cola Corporation, they know what they do. I agree. And they've never made a mistake, and I can't imagine it. And even if they did that apologize.

That's correct, yeah. And we'd accept that apology. Yes, we would immediately. And they'd check. Yeah. We'd accept a check. Yeah. Coca-Cola Corporation.

Mason, it's time for medium to, oh, actually, big movie. It is big movie. You might think, well, this doesn't feel like a big movie because of, you know, because of the scope of the narrative. Oh, yes. The kind of story they're telling. Oh, yes. But it actually is big movie.

Big movie. It's time for big movie again. One battle after another. Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie. Yeah, that's right, big movie. Big movie. But Mason, of course, you could skip to that, skip straight to that review. That's right.

Where we try and kind of... You can skip around that review. You can skip around, all around. You don't even need to listen to that part. You've got freedom for now. Yeah. I mean, it's a kind of a... It's a difficult movie to talk about, I feel.

I disagree. Not in a bad way. I is. But like, narratively, it's... I liked it too. I don't know if I'm going to do it justice in terms of discussing it. I'm going to do it great justice. I think my part of...

the review of this movie is going to be a piece of art akin to, if not superior to the movie we talked about. And you wouldn't even put $175 million into your thoughts, would you? No, I'm not even going to think about it. I didn't think about it when I watched it. I haven't thought about it in the interim. I'm not going to think about it before. I'm just going to start talking and I'm going to win an Oscar. Wow. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, they're going to have a new category at the Oscars for best half of a podcast review of a movie and I'm going to win it. I'm excited. Yeah.

Maybe do you think I'll be nominated? No. Oh, man. Yeah. That's a shame. But I'm happy for you. Thanks. I don't need that.

But I appreciate it. You're welcome. I had the lead up, of course. We've got the news of the week, Mason. Oh, yes. So many things, including a draft of Man of Tomorrow and hints towards what that movie is going to be, next Superman movie, including its links to peacemaker season two, which we want to get into.

I want to talk about how Stan Lee is back. Not Stanley. Oh. But the means that they have, the means that the necromancers over at AIHQ have resurrected him. Yeah, you might think would it have been better to dig up his corpse and puppet it? Maybe. Yes, that would have been better. At least it would have really been him.

Sure. For a while. For a bit. Then we've got trailers, big trailers this week based it for Avatar, Fire and Ash, the next Wolverine game and the Mandalorian versus Groglitz. Whoa. Did you know that barbed wire is getting a rebate? it, Mason? Yes, because Pamela Anderson

and her sons have a production company and then they're going to be making some stuff. I knew that vaguely. That's right. And an update on the next Mad Max something that's happening. Oh, I'm excited for that Mason. Oh, and next week we're going to talk about the smashing machine. Oh, my God, Mason. We went back and forth, we're like, should we talk about this? But then

we were like, we were like... What are we going to talk about? But then we were like, well, we made fun of the Rock for so long about him not doing anything of any artistic import. He's probably talking about this movie. Absolutely. Yeah. Mason, I just want to quickly say up top I mentioned this last week

but I thought this would be a good place to mention it Lawrence made a new video called Is Dunkirk Chris Nolan's best film Just wanted to mention an up top It's an incredible YouTube video It's linked below Lawrence of course edits the camera He does he does he does such a good job

And I'm a big fan of his work And also this video Have you seen it? Yes It's linked below if you get to hear Lawrence's voice Yeah that's right And I guessed it on a podcast Oh yes

It's out now it's called Not Another Crime Pod You know about this? I do know about it's hosted by Sammy Peterson That's right and Georgia Love and we talk about Yahoo Sirius and the life of. I'm fascinated. It is fascinating. Yeah.

Yeah. So what's also interesting about that is that my microphone arm is over George's face for most of that. Oh, it's on video. Yeah, it's on video, yeah. But do you talk about, because I'm, for people who don't know, Yahoo series is an Australian movie writer, producer, director, actor. Yeah. And he made three movies.

Yep. Start one in the 80s, one in the 90s and one in like 2000. Yeah, the other 2000s. And he's never done anything else. Oh, he's done some docks and stuff. Yeah. But he hasn't really acted in anything else. No, you are correct.

Or done any other like, he hasn't worked on like, you know, TV shows like behind the scenes or anything like that. And I'm sort of fascinated. He was on how he had Saturday. Yeah. So he did. Yeah. Yeah. Because he, his first movie was a, depending on how you calculate it, moderate hit.

Yeah. Next to. Bombs. Hard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But like what he, do you get into that? Like what he's been doing and stuff? Is there other answers? There are other answers, but there is not a lot of information like about him in general. Yeah. Yeah. It's a pretty sad kind of story to be honest, especially on the back end. But you made it funny. Yeah, it's all funny all the way through. That's great. It's a great podcast. If anybody knows.

Yeah. Like he, like, I, like, he's ill. Like, it's a whole thing. But also like, if you, if you went out there, because it's sort of fascinating because he's sort of like, for the first one's called. Young Einstein, and it's about a version of Albert Einstein who grew up in Tasmania, which is the southernmost part of Australia, and he invents rock and roll music and bubbles in beer. Yeah. And then he has an advent, like a Victorian era adventure. Yes. But like, if you made that, why didn't you then go into TV or movie production? Why did he only do these three things and nothing else?

It was such a huge success and like independently financed and all of that. It's like, well, I'll just do this version of it. It's what Paul Hogan did. Like, he made so much money. on those Crocodile Dundee movies. That's so true. He's the own most of them. Yeah.

If you know anything about Yahoo Sirius. Or if you are, Yahoo Sirius. If you're right, if you're Yahoo Sirius. We'll come to you, even. Okay. Do you think? He's in Sydney, I think. Let's not go to Sydney.

Yeah, let's not go to Sydney. We'll catch a train. Do you want to take a long time to get there? Yeah. Cool. Yeah. All right. Let's start with this Mason.

Gone. Oh, no, we covered the Smash Machine. We did. It's coming up next week. Yes. James Gunn showed a draft of The Man of Tomorrow. Oh, did he show, put it up to the camera? Yeah, and then flicked through it real quick.

Yeah, I couldn't read it. It's too interesting things. It's the second draft. Okay. And also, Man of Tomorrow is in lowercase. The title is in, it's all in lowercase. Is that important? I don't know.

It's interesting. Is that breaking with tradition of a script? Sometimes words have capital letters. Do you think it's relevant? I think it's not irrelevant. Do you think his caps lock key was broken? That's probably what happened. Then why would he just use the shift key?

You could hold down the shift key. Because both of his shift keys were broken. So he's, he's a, he's a, a man who got paid $15 million to direct Superman and presumably multi millions of dollars for his other movie directing work. Yes. And he's working off a broken keyboard. Yes. With at minimum three broken keys. Let me check this, Mason. Okay. I'm going to look at the picture of the script of yep. Superman, the original script was all caps. Huh. Superman colon legacy. Do you think it's his lucky keyboard? Maybe it's his lucky keyboard. And he's gone. He's had it since the days of sliver.

Slither. Flither. Thilver. Or, tromar. Tromoth. Mm. Tromoth. Yeah.

Anyway, it's a bisected brain. Oh, yeah. There's a picture on. On the front, yeah, which says Brainiac. It's brainiac, right? It's Brainiac? Or it could be another guy in a brain. Who's a brain guy?

Big brain, who's got a big brain? Hector Hammond. Hector Hammond has a big brain. He's purchased Hector Hammond. I don't know he doesn't have to because it's a green light. Yeah, he's already got it. He's got a big time already. Could be Monsieur Malar from Dumpotry.

It could be that monkey from the Power Puff girls. There's a big brain. Could be Gorilla Grod. He's got a big brain. I don't think. I think it's... Do you think it's brainiac? Yes.

Well, it says Lex Luther and Superman, they're going to work together to a certain degree for a much bigger threat. He spoke to the ring verse this week and he said, I think getting to know more of Lex as a human being. We saw a lot about the evil part of Lex. He's pretty evil. He as a character is really interesting. There's something despite everything that's incredibly heroic about Lex.

Yeah, because like, I guess a lot of classic villains, he thinks he's right. You know? Yeah. his idea, you know, his idea that meta-humans are dangerous and all that is not incorrect. Correct, yes. Because a lot of them are. And apparently this is more comic booky in many ways than Superman. And he's talked about before how Man of Tomorrow and Peacemaker Season 2 are connected.

I mean, we're going to have to do some Peacemaker spoilers here, I think. So we'll talk about that, Mason, if you're up to date. If you're not up to date on the TV series Peacemaker, time codes below. Skip two after the one battle after another review. That's right. Or skip to another aspect of your life. You can do that. That's right.

Yeah. Or just after this bit of news, you could even do. If you can't, some people email in, sometimes they're like, I couldn't stop the podcast or skipy head because I was cycling up a mountain or, you know, driving a bus off a cliff or whatever. Having a nap. Exactly. I couldn't avoid the spoilers. Just start screaming.

Yep. Just start screaming and we'll let you know when it's screen. And run from your phone and or a device. That's right. Yeah. So you're the spoilers, Mason. And in the latest episode of Peacemaker, Rick Flagg goes to visit a certain character in prison. And who is it?

It's Lex Luthor. Let me jump in there. Oh, okay. And who's a playboy? It's Nicholas Holmason. Let me jump in there. Did you notice? I did notice that, yeah.

Yeah. Little Easter egg for the true fans, I think. Yeah. He was saying how there was going to be some big cameos and, you know, me like others were like, oh, it'll be Superman. They'll put Superman in it. I've got an idea of who else we might be saying in this. But, uh, Jared from Subway. Jared, that would be a bad choice, I think.

I agree. Even if you got somebody to play Jared from Subway, I still think that's not something that they should put in the DCU, even in the bad dimension. Okay. So, you know. So, you know. I think he does appear in a DC comic at one point. Oh, no, he meets Superman or something. Yeah, yeah.

It might be a Marvel one. So they need Lex Luthor because he opened an initial rip. But I just want to be clear, you think he, that he should be in prison, though. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But you don't need to, he's already in prison. You don't need to, he's already in prison. No, no, I agree with you. I just wanted to be...

Yeah, but also, with that comic book that you talked about, maybe they do another issue of that where he goes to prison. Absolutely. Because we know he exists in that universe. Yeah, yeah. So you put that version also in prison. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Are you offhandedly, you have the characters go to Subway. Yeah. And be like, I'm glad the spokesperson... That's right. For many years ago, Subway, he's in prison. Yeah. It wasn't Superman that got him either. Yeah, regular law enforcement.

Regular law people got him somehow. Yeah. So, yeah, Lexington, because he did into... dimensional portal stuff that's what peacemaker's doing and yeah i mean you've figured this out fairly quickly like a bunch of people it's it's it's a it's nazi earth it's earth x yeah it is potentially yes yeah that's right i found it really funny our peacemaker didn't notice for a long time yeah i mean i mean watching it as well because when they intercut back to the real world and in the real world there are people of color and so i guess you know which is a reflection of this world exactly so i guess

like maybe watching this if you hadn't seen the fan theories you wouldn't have noticed because if you're not really paying attention. Like, is it designed to not notice? No, I think it's designed to be a definite contrast. Yeah. But, I mean, I think that that sort of speaks to the idea that, you know, it's a universe. He's blinded by the fact that this is universe where he is universally loved. And his dad and brother are there.

They're not dead. And that's good for him. That is good for him. And Harcourt loves him. Unfortunately, they're all Nazis. Yeah, they are all Nazis, yes. But is it like did Nazis when World War II, did America turn to fascism? Who knows, Mason?

What's going on in this universe? I mean, because, and perhaps an even bigger spoiler for this episode, is that vigilante meets alternate universe vigilante, and they go, we're doing the Spider-Man meme. So, Spider-Man exists as a concept. Yeah. In this Nazi universe. Not only does Spider-Man exist, the concept of a meme exists. And the internet has progressed to the same level where Spider-Man pointing in himself from a cartoon in the 60s is a meme. But there are internment camps and presumably slavery and other things going.

I'm going to say one got out. I think they might be instill in them. I don't think they might be in the phantom zone. Oh, okay. I think I mentioned that a couple of years. Yeah, oh, you might be right. Well, that's going to come up. I mean, the next week, I think they're going to explain all of it

and kind of how they got here. Yeah. But again, I just think it's really funny that Chris never noticed that like the American flag has a Nazi symbol in the corner. Yeah. But you know what? I think this does pave the way for. Uh-huh.

I hope so. Yeah. Just clean an house in this universe. just let him loose. Yeah. Because he would be in, he's in the, he's back in the containment unit. Yeah. And he's, he's friends with Rick Flagg.

If you watched Creature Commandos. Yeah. I mean, this, I mean, you know, James Gunn has said there's going to be some, you know, blowing your mind cameos. I think if we see a lot, yeah, a live action GI robot would be incredible. Yeah. There's a, you've watched that whole series, didn't you? Yes.

There is that amazing sequence where he gets adopted by what you think is a, a nice man in the modern day. Uh-huh. And then he takes him to a, group meeting and it's all Nazis and then he kills everybody in the room like a variation on that would be that would be tremendous and look I hate to get political but this is the way out the store I didn't choose this story did I know you did not and I don't agree with all this Nazi stuff quite frankly I think it's bad you don't agree with all the Nazi stuff I don't

well the cars I think you said were all right some of the cars I don't know if I use that exact wording because the car can't have an opinion I guess just something that is built yeah it's not ultimately evil unless it's inhabited by a ghost. I mean, I do think some cars are cool. Yeah. You know. Yeah. But on the whole, no, I would say no. You could point them, I'd say all of things and I'd say no thanks. Yeah. That's right. This is my opinion. Yeah. I'd also say that, but I think even more strongly. Okay. I'd be like, no and not even thanks. Yeah, but yeah, but people would be like, he's putting on a bit, isn't he? He's protesting too much. Oh, the lady Doth protest too much. Yes. Okay. Potentially. I don't know. I believe you. I would love to

see just the entire Creature Commandos team. I mean, how much are they spending on the show? Dr. Flossphosphorus coming out of people and whatever else. Yeah. Well, I mean, Lex Luther does mention some people

in the cell next to him. Yeah. And one of them is maybe Killer Croc, who's the other one, I don't know. Don't know. But, yeah, I would, I mean, if we're going to see, you know, I don't want to set myself up for disappointment,

but I would love to see a, you know, a Suicide Squad team or a Creature Commandos team just go in there, bring back Bloodsport. Absolutely. That'd be terrific. Yeah. Anyway, Superman, oh, man of tomorrow, sorry, is out, lower case is out July of 2027. Yeah.

A couple years away. Cool. Pretty cool. John, I really like this episode of Peacemaker. It's picked up a little bit. The episodes are way too short, though. Like 35 minutes, including credits. You're not getting a lot of episodes here, Mason.

Anyway, to some We're in Hell news. Oh, yes. What is it? We're in Hell might as well. That's correct. While we're here, fans can now interact with Stan. Stan Lee in an enclosed booth at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I'm trapped true believers.

Yeah. Let me out. You might be like, that's incredible. I don't think that. He must be doing really well for 102 years old. He died. He died. He died. He died. He died, he died in 2018 at age 95. Yeah.

But luckily, his likeness is owned by a company called like Blammo or something. They're called Cartoon with a K Studios. There it is. Okay. They got the rights to his likeness and the signature before his death. Wow. No, people are screaming at Disney about this. Disney can't do anything about it. This one is not Disney.

No. That's right. Believe it or not. Yeah. You could scream at Disney. I mean, you could even scream at them about this if you want to. Yeah. We don't care.

But they didn't do this one. They would have done this one, just to be clear. We don't know that for sure, but I know it for certain. If they did have his likeness rights, they would do exactly this. Yep. Except maybe it'd be animatronic or something. No, I think they'd have it to be a hologram. Yeah.

They would do this. But in this particular instance, this is not their fault. Now, this is from Chris De Moilin, who is the chief executive at Comi Cars Entertainment, who operates a Los Angeles ComicCon. What's it called? Comicars. Like Comicazi. Yeah.

C-O-M-I-K-A-Z-A. Comacazi. Comic-A-C-E. Yeah, I guess so. That's good, too. You're pointing at me. What happened to your finger? I just scraped it.

Scraped it on what? I don't know. What, are you all right? No, I'm fine. Okay. I was in the city like a couple of weeks ago How was that?

Great. Which rally were you at? All of them. Yeah? Yeah. I'd play all the sides. That way I'm always on top. Smart.

But there was an ad in Flinders Street, which is like a main thoroughfare in Melbourne. Yeah. And it was an ad for like a Thai green curry of some sort. Love a Thai green curry. And it's like an electronic billboard. It's like 50 feet wide. Loving all this.

And like the first quarter of it's a picture of the curry, you don't pack. You know, you can get it in the supermarket, put it in the microwave or whatever. And then the rest of the billboard, like letters like 10 feet high, it said, commit hurry, curry. And I saw it once, and I'm always going through that intersection, saw it once, never again. Got you, didn't that? Because what they've done there, James, is they've conflated their product with the concept, James, of Japanese ritual suicide.

What they've done there. They're not even the same. They're not even the same. They're not even the same. It's a different Asian thing. But I don't think you should do that. But I saw it once and never again. I hope somebody took a photo of it

because I'm like, that's a lot to unpack it. It makes me think you didn't say this. And it's just something you wanted to see. Maybe. Anybody who took a photo of that, please set it in. Because I just... Don't mock up something. We're not interested.

Why would anyone do... I mean, obviously in the advertising company, they were like, this is our absolute home run. This is incredible. Look at the pun we've made here. I would also say, like, there are Japanese carries. So if you're going to make a reference to ritualistic suicide and a curry, you could use a real Japanese curry. But they're not making Japanese curry currently in this company.

They should, though. They should, I think that would have worked better. I don't think you'd even be thinking about it. I would be thinking about it. If you'd be like both of these things, they're okay and they're good together. Yeah. Cool. Yeah.

Right. I call those divorced dad meals. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I just want to say, Mason, I was already eating them beforehand, all right? People outside of Australia may not be aware of the. concept of the roast chicken in a bag you get a

oh yeah the bachelor's handbag bachelor's handbag yeah oh yeah I don't get a lot of those no yeah yeah yeah even roasted chicken it's not that yeah it's like when like there's an ad for like soup or something and the product the advertising slogan's like soup happens and it's like what you've done there is you've associated your product with something I don't want in my mouth yeah that's right you've made a mistake yeah with your serving for one soup

Anyway, what are we talking about? Christa Moyland said Oh, from... Comikaze Entertainment, who operates the Los Angeles Comic Con said From crashing a plane into a battleship To your death, entertainment Yeah, he said, it's obviously sad for many of us When Stanley passed.

Many of us, not all of us? This guy is making mistake after mistake. First of all, he's named his company after... I don't know he named it. Oh yeah, it's a good point. What if it was like, yeah, I just stole the name, actually? head honcho of Los Angeles I don't, you know what, this is going to take too long

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we don't have time for this God, this is the most look like a guy I've ever seen And we look like a couple of guys Yeah, but this dude looks like a guy Oh yeah How much looking like a guy is this guy? Oh, that guy's looking like something of a guy That's a primo guy right there

You want a more casual picture of, uh, from Getty images Polo shirt? Mate, flannel Oh, he is related, that guy's relatable Yeah, yeah, that's good Anyway, we're all obviously Obviously sad when Stan passed most of us or whatever. Most of us, yeah.

We all felt something. Yeah, yeah, I definitely recognize that I'd retain the rights to his images. We all felt the shifting in our bank balance. Was it going to be positive or negative? Well, to be fair, he didn't, he doesn't own the company that made the ghoul box. This avatar will never say something that Stan didn't say. It will never have a point of view about Marvel or the stories or Stan's role in them that hasn't come directly from something Stan had said.

So you ask a question to Stan. Stanley and he goes, I have no, hey, Stanley, how do you like, what do you think about Robert Danny Jr. coming back as Iron Man? I have no strong feelings about Iron Man either way, true believer. Hey man, what color's the Hulk's dick and how big is it? You have a lot of questions about superhero penises. We talked about this already. Do you remember years ago, people reminded us because I'd forgotten that we said that Disney, Disney are going to bring back Stanley's AI. Did we? Yeah. And, uh, because that's a conversation for Morat's. Yes, of course.

Different super hero penises and whatever had. They've done it. Yeah. And just in time for this episode. Absolutely. We run out of content. That's right. So thanks, Comikaze.

Yeah. Well, at least it's free. I'm just kidding. It's apparently $20 for three minutes. Damn. But you get in the booth? You get in the booth with it. I think you stand in front of the booth.

Yeah, I noticed that, yeah. Does it have? I've seen one before. They're not 3D. No. Really. Yeah. Can you have conversation with multiple people at once?

Because there's multiple sides of the queue. I don't think so. Oh, maybe. Maybe you put your money in and he talks to you. If anybody comes up from another side, he's like, just hold on. Just give me a minute. Give me a minute. Sean Connolly.

Fuck, man. I mean, at least he's not really in there. Yeah, you're absolutely right. I guess, yeah. I mean, do we know that for sure? I mean, no. Maybe they brought him back somehow with necromancy. Yeah, I guess that would be interesting in itself.

Hey, Stan Lee, what do you think about the new Daredevil series? Well, True Believer, I truly think it's an amazing. I love that Charlie. Please, get me out. True believer, call the police. The glass is too thick. I can't break through. I'm trapped.

Well, at least he's got enough air for a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, so that's good. Fucking old man. I don't know. I think if he breaks, I think if he breaks too, he'll die again, though. Yeah, I guess he's got enough. You would. He'd cut himself on the glass.

Oh, you think he saw what escape. Yeah, I think the magic only sustains him while he's in the box. When Vision went out of Wondertown and he disintegrated. I think that's probably the case. He would de-res. Like in Tron. I think he would de-res. Tron's coming up. Yeah, you're excited.

It's kind of. I'm excited too. Kind of, I said. Yeah. Mason Trailers, Ahoi. Honk. Whoa, we got three big Trothers this week. The first one is for Avatar 3, Fire and Ash. It looks a lot like the last one.

It comes across the tribe and the best. But the tribe's like, we don't like you. But then they go to war because Stephen Lang's avatar also goes to war. That's right. And they're flying around on ships. And you've made a point about Jake Sully's gun. Where's he getting all these bullets from? I assume, you know what?

I've had time to think about it, James. I've had time to ruminate. I think he probably just steals bullets off like the enemy. Totally. That's probably what's happening. There's crab mecks. Spiders back, but he doesn't need a mask anymore because he's got avatared. Did he have a tail?

He's running around without a mask. Oh, yeah. That's true. down by the tree and all the stuff goes in his mouth or whatever. Did that happen in the last one? No, this happens in this trailer. I'll tell you what, I didn't pay a lot of attention to this. You don't need to do that, Mason. One, because I was watching it on my phone

and I watched it with the sound off. This is not going to be the part that the Academy pays attention to this episode. I didn't think so. Yeah. But I was like, I want to watch this on the big screen. I want to take this in fully on the big screen for the first time. You said this is going to look as good on my phone as it would on the big screen. I was doing a big joke,

James. Doing one of my famous jokes. But I think it is going to be you're not going to think about it so much but I think if you were to watch Way of Water prior to watching this and then you watched Fire and Ash I think you'd be like this is a jump in like technology

I was going to say it looks the same because there was definitely a jump between one and two what did you watch this on? Do you watch it on a big TV? I did watch it on my TV You watched it on the Lappie? Yeah, I watched it on my TV

on 360P I don't want to waste the information in my technology It's got a limited amount of information that could give out I don't want to use it all I'm going to, James, I'm going to save my judgment on this movie until it's on the big screen. Okay.

It's going to look incredible. Even if it is the exact technology as two or three years ago. And the exact same plot, which is going to be. I don't know. I would like to see it deviates somewhat. And I think maybe it will because there's fire people. Yeah. And they're like, and Jake Sally, I reckon's going to die.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think. They're going to do a big avatar sacrifice. Oh, yeah. Nice. And then somebody, maybe one of his sons that I don't remember or care about. One of them died in the last one, though, remember. Nope.

Yeah, and everyone got real excited about it. Okay, well, and I think the remaining one's going to take over from Jake Solly as the dad. Biggest bow and arrows I've ever seen in a movie. That's right. Yeah. And you've seen Dances with Wolves. Yep. You've seen Avengers.

I have seen Robin Hood, the Russell Crow version. That's right. Yep. I'm saying the Taryn Egerton version. That's right. Yeah, man. I'm having a great time. Yeah, man.

When is this coming out? At the end of the year. Great. Decemro. Nice. Yeah. Well, I'm very excited for it. I think it's going to look cool.

I think so, too. We like the second one. And we will re-watch it. Oh, in spite, it's connecting with the, with the Sunni webinar. That's what I'm telling you, is connecting up. Do these good news of the... I talk to a whale. Yes, but how...

Because he went in the tree, you got the internet connection. It's in the trailer, man. How can you judge whether this movie's going to look better on a phone or a screen if you don't even be looking at it properly? It's disgusting. I can just do it. I don't think it's beautiful. All right.

Wolverine PS5 finally got an official look. We got an all-cggy trailer like three years ago. And there was some leaked footage. There was a whole bunch of leaked stuff. But now it's been revealed that even though we already knew this, Liam McIntyre. Who you know. I do know. He would not remember me, but I knew him from like 15, 20 years ago.

Because he worked with Claire at Rivoli Cinemas. That's right. Really nice guy. And he was second Spartacus in the Spartacus TV show. He's the second Australian I'm second Spartacus I'm second Spartacus also Yeah it looks great

It does look great Dismemberment So this is insomniac So this is the people who made the two Spider-Man games Correct The PS The PlayStation exclusive Spider-Man games

That's right exactly And it looks like we get a little preview We get the you seem to be fighting a lot of Reavers Who are like the cyborg guys Legs and arms off through faces or whatever Yeah yeah it looks pretty It looks pretty bloody Yeah

But we also get a look at Amiga Red. Yes. He's one of the villains. Mystique pops in briefly. What's his name? Wolverine's brother in the movie. Sabretooth in this?

I didn't see Sabretooth. Okay. Maybe that was looking of another guy. I think Stephen Merchant should be in this. I agree. As his character from the office. I agree. Oggie.

Yeah. I, there's a lot of emphasis on blood in this apparently, like, getting the blood correct. You even see, like, there's a behind-the-scenes video that they released and they get even, like, blood between the teeth. Oh, right. Even things like that.

Well, good luck to all the streamers who are going to have to stream this when it comes out. Ooh, good luck to them. I agree. It's different costumes, obviously, which is looking good. That's true. Cowboy hat Wolverine, Wolverine costume, Wolverine. And there will be others. It will be others.

I wonder how open-worldy it is, or is it going to be? Because it's different locations, because Spider-Man's obviously, it's New York City. Yeah. But it's got the travel mechanic. First of it's got fast travel, if you don't want to do any of that boring web swinging. No, thank you. But also, incredible traversal. Yes.

How's Wolverine going to do that? jumping, jumping and maybe a motorbike. Yeah. I hope he's got like a two-foot vertical leap. Oh, he's got a bigger leap than that, but isn't he? He shouldn't. Okay, I agree. This is out fall in the Northern Hemisphere of 2026.

Okay. Yeah, I'm getting this. All right. 100%? 100%. You won't stop me. Not even if you want to. And then we got a trailer for The Mandalorian versus Groglit.

This is a continuation of the Mandalorian TV series. Correct. And by extension, the Book of Boba Fett, the TV series. series and Assoca the TV series. Probably. It's five years after Return of the Jedi. This is the first cinematic Star Wars film since The Rise of Skywalker.

Directed by John Favre, written by John Favre on Dave Filoni. Oh, the two boys. And let me tell you, the reception wasn't very positive, I would say, middling. That's being very generous. What do you think of the poster?

Yeah. They're leaning into it being like old school adventure, adventure, serial kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Tell you what, it looks a little flat. It does look flat. I mean, it's the Mandalorian from TV, but he's on...

It probably will do okay, I guess. There's a big Jabba the Hut, played voice by Jeremy Allen White. That's Rotter the Hut. Yes. There's flying around, there's shooting. Also, Pedro Pascal is confirmed to actually be in us and not just his voice. I don't know. Yeah.

Do you care about this? No, not at all. Not at all. It's kind of not enough to... Maybe general audiences do. They're like, Oh, Star Wars on the big screen, haven't seen one of those in a while,

very excited. Yeah, they've just had an episode pushed on me every week for the past four years or whatever. It's a little bug in here, Mason. There's no bugs. Okay.

Not anymore. I got them all with my claps. But it's, yeah, I mean, if it's a, look, if it's a fun little adventure, then sure,

the Razor crest is back, which is good. I don't like how he's in that little ship. Yeah, yeah, the Phantom Menace era ship. Terrible. Yeah.

How do you do anything? You don't want to walk around? You don't want to go for a jog? Do you want to go to the toilet? Do you want to go to the toilet the Mandalorian? Don't bespoil a beautiful phantom menace era ship by going to the toilet in it and on it.

You stupid idiot. The Mandalorian? So I mean I lost track of the Mandalorian and Asoka and so on and so forth. How? By not watching them? By not watching them? Or by watching them and forgetting? A combination of both. I can do both. You're amazing. Thank you. You can do it all.

So I remember the razor crest blow up. Yeah, that was good. And then Grogoo, he got sent away to go to Luke Skywalker. He had to go to Luke Skywalker's house. But then they just reset the status quo, right? In a different series. In a different series. So if you were to, if you were like, I'm solely watching the Mandalorian,

he gave away Groglet and then Groglet just came back. Correct. Or he just, did you, or you never saw him give him away? No, there's an episode where he goes to visit Luke Skywalker. Oh, yeah. Skawaker goes, hi, I'm alive and I'm young and my voice is normal and my face is normal

everything's normal about me yeah you can trust me you can trust me I look normal I know because he didn't drop him off because Luke Skywaka came to to visit him on the ship

and everybody cried on YouTube when they saw Luke Skywark so but you could just ignore all the continuity of all the subsequent like the book of Boba Fett and Asoka and whatever you could ignore anything I guess you can

yeah you'd be amazed at the thing you can not pay attention to. Yeah. I do it every day. Yeah. I do it a lot on this podcast. I agree. I don't care about this.

But that's the thing. Surely if the... I think if there wasn't that book of Boba Fett and we hadn't had any Mandalorian cids, the groglet went with Luke Skywalker. Then I think I'd be like, oh, it's been a while. Maybe I care about this.

But there's been so much stuff since. But it's interesting to me that there was never any real. so there was never a season of the Mandalorian where he's like boy I sure am lonely without Grogu I wish he was here because he was just never as far as the series goes he's never been gone what am I going to do with his dark saver

or whatever yeah exactly yeah or they did that I don't know yeah like surely there's some dramatic weight to being like and isn't also you're asking the right question I am asking a lot of good questions wasn't there a whole bit like the whole character art for the Mandalorian where he's like well I'll never take my helmet

off it's really important that I never take my helmet off and then he's like, well, actually, I was in a cult. Which I should probably not be in a cult. No, there was a machine where you had to scan your face, anyone's face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Bill Burr was there. Bill Burr was there. This is before he went to Saudi Arabia.

Before he went to Saudi Arabia for a million dollars. With Jamoan. Yeah, with Jemmoan. Jimoan is there. Yeah. Wasn't there character development where he's like, I don't want to be in this cult anymore. And now he's like, well, I'm back in the cult, the cult's actually cool. No, in the third series, which I don't know whether you watched,

They were like, the only way, because you took your helmet off, because he was honorable and he told him that he did, was if you bathe in the waters of Mandelaw. And he's like, well, Mandelaw blew up in a big explosion for whatever happened. And they're like, well, we don't give a shit. Yeah. Figure it out. Figure it out. And so he did. He goes into the water.

How did he go to the water if it blew up? He went underground, man, probably. And there was still water there. He could have used the time travel tree. He didn't eat it. He probably would have if he dated it, but he didn't need it. Yeah, yeah. And then he, but he stepped into the water.

but there was no floor, so he sung for a really long time. But then he got out, I can't remember how. Probably Jetpack. Yeah, he probably used his Jetpack, but it was something else, I think. And then they were like, good job. And then he's allowed to continue doing everything exactly has he already had before. From an outsider's perspective, a lot of this sounds bad.

Like bad character development. I can see how you'd think that. I can understand, well, maybe the description that I've given you was not painted a visceral and, I would even say, terrifying image, seated to your brain. I can understand that, but that's not what's happened to you. It's actually good. So maybe.

Well, good. It's great. Then I'm excited for the mandolin. You didn't listen to be talented enough. No, I didn't. That is confirmed. You just said, I don't. It should have just been a cowboy show, is what I'm saying.

I agree. I agree. And then he's like, and it's like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Right. And then he's like, well, actually, it's cool that I'm, I'm not in this cult. Yep. And I feel good about it.

now I'm... The Boba Fett show was good. No, it wasn't. Remember that bit where he was like, I like this town, I'm the sheriff now, I'm Boba Fett. I do remember that, yes. And Timmy the Olfant was there, maybe. I don't think he was in that.

No, but he was in some of it at some point. It was in some of it, yes. Fuck, man. So much potential to just be a stupid, a stupid fun thing. But then he's got to, this Dave Filoni character, he's got to bury it in law, doesn't he? I don't think it's just... Connect everything.

Yeah, I mean, it's all of them, isn't it? I mean, it's a lot of, it would be a lot of meetings and focus groups and looking at data and whatever. And I'm like, well, that's not interesting. No. It's awful. It's probably the worst thing that could ever happen. I agree.

Yeah. Out May 22nd of next year. All right then. Can't come quick enough so we can get over it. Get it over with. Get it done. Knock it out. What's the plot of this also?

I don't know. And his Werner Herzog coming back. I don't know. Let me check. The mandoloring. I want to see the baby again. Show me the baby again. I heard you.

The baby went away and no, no, you've got the baby again. and show with the baby. The Mandalorian versus Groglett synopsis. What a cute little fellow. Here we go. The evil empire has fallen. All right. Great.

And the Imperial Warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. Great. As the fledgling new republic works to protect everything, the rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of the legendary, legendary, legendary, legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter, Din Jaron, and his younger apprentice, Groglett. Correct. That's the story. Of, I guess, any episode.

And of this, and of this, this is a big budget episode, which we're calling a movie. That's great. We are calling it that. Yeah. Some people have said, James, they've said, well, you know, some people have said, oh, this looks flat and dull and boring. Yeah. Because they're using the volume, but they don't have the guide actually knows how that works. Yeah, whoever that is.

Yeah, Greg Fraser. And it looks bad. And then people like, well, actually, the TV show actually looked like a movie. So actually, it's very good. Some of it did. But I think it looks bad. Some of it looked good. Yeah, the first season looked good.

I think it looks bad compared to a lot of movies. And I don't want to do Star Wars sequel, what do you call it? You know, going over it again and being revisionism and be like, well, they actually were incredible, actually. They all look good. Yeah. The last one is bad. Yeah. But they all look great.

Mm-hmm. This is a real downgrade. Flat. It's flat. Yeah. Weird and the lighting's weird. Lydding gray and brown. But Sagoni Weaver's there.

She's there. Two Sagoni Weaver trailers this way. Two Scogony Weavers, that's, man, that's all you could ask for, really. That's right. Yeah. I mean, if you're here just for knowing when Sagony Weaver is in. a trailer you are eating well this week oh my god a feast for you yum yum yum but if you want if you want a really good mandolin movie you're not getting that no it's not going to happen

maybe in 10 years i think if pedro pascal didn't get famous they could have had him have his helmet off all the time and that would have been more interesting i think so too the last series which i don't know if you watched it all no or maybe i don't know he he wasn't in it yeah he still voiced it but you really felt it right it was just like this is some guy There's only so much of this guy running around with a helmet on You can give a fuck about Because there's three guys, right? There's Pedro Pascal, there's the guy in the suit and there's a stunt guy

And maybe another guy and sometimes he's CGI I don't know And I don't want to know We've spent a lot of time on this trailer That we do not care about That's what people love I think so too We're only nearly 40 minutes in

Oh that's great Let's do this Mason By deadline Pamela Anderson's sons Brandon and Dylan Their production company Brandon Anderson? Brandon Anderson. Bill and Anderson.

They're doing a Barb wire series. Okay. This is their first project. Are they playing Barb Wire? Yes. Wow. Apparently it's different feel from the movie. Okay.

And there's no word whether Pamela Anderson will appear. I doubt it's going to be, she's going to be the character of Barb Dwyer. I doubt that also. And it might go to series, I guess, if it gets picked up or they make it. I'm going to guess present day. Yeah. I'm going to guess not post-apocalyptic. I'm going to say it's closer to the comic book where it's like there's some superpowered people

and she's in the present day and she's like... It's a world and it's bad. Yeah, it's a world and it's kind of gangs and stuff and she's going to keep the peace or whatever. We watched this recently for Caravanaghabbage. Not dreadful. Not the worst movie we've ever watched for that. Better than you'd think.

Not great though. No. And it's Casablanca. And it is just Casablanca. Yeah. But it's got Boba Fett in it. Yeah. It's hard not to like something as compelling as this bit of news.

I mean, we even mentioned more like, this is due for a reason. boot, isn't it? And here it is. And there we are. So there we go. And they say, James, that the romance of Pamelaar Anderson and Liam Neeson was fake. I heard it wasn't fake, maybe. It was fake for the promotion of the movie The Naked Gun. Well, I disagree. I think it's real.

I don't fall for anything fake. That's right. I think it's real and remains real. Everything is real and remains real and you should listen to everybody. Throw out your Tylenol. Mason, next bit of news. Mad Max Bible. Podcast. This is by them. Furiosa, a Mad Max saga. Is it via them, though? Because I think the Mad Max Bible guy on Twitter was like,

I think this is, you've made this up. Oh, maybe. Let me check this. Maybe. Well, I'll, I'll do the news, then we'll figure it out. Then I'll poke some holes in it. Please. Furiosa, the movie, made $174 million on a budget of $23 million.

That's bad. Not a bad movie, though, I thought. Not as good as Fury Road, but there's no movie as good as that movie, except maybe that Mandalorian groglet movie. Absolutely. Apparently now there was going to be a wasteland movie which was set before

The Fury Road It was going to star Tom Hardy at some point Mad Max the wasteland Normal Australia Mad Max But the 80s The 80s Yuck

I remember the old times Oh you mean six years ago Yeah It was still the VFL Oh was there? We still had 40 finals fever But only in Victoria Man man man

Now they're men But they're weirder They got weirder clothes on They tattoo themselves or they don't I don't know Sometimes they're holding a skull Or a big stick I don't know

Piercings where you wouldn't expect Yep Everything's dry But also sticky That's right All right Apparently it's going to be a TV series It's maybe

It's a dystopian wasteland Max Rockostansky Will Rockenstansky Whatever his name is Will return Maybe it's Tom Hardy If it's TV series Maybe it won't be

I mean, Tom Hardy has done TV. Yes. He was in picky blinders and other stuff, I'm sure. Anyway, what are you hearing about this, Mason? Okay. Okay, so here it is. Sci-Fi archives on Twitter has said, George Miller's Mad Max,

The Wasteland is now being reworked as an HBO Max series via Mad Max Bible. And then Mad Max Bible has replied, I didn't say it was reworked as a series for HBO Max. I said it was turned into a series, no streaming platform mentioned. Don't get your sources from blogs that add stuff to what I say for clicks. So, but the series part is potentially true.

That's true. Oh, no, you're telling me that. I'm telling you that. Great. Well, I love that for them, maybe. You know what I want? I want 80s Australian aesthetic. That's what I want.

Yeah. Give me some old Ford Falcons. Give me going down in the milk bar. Yep. Give me... Putting a milk crate on the front of your BMX bike. Exactly. I want to see what happens to Franco.

We want to know. The man and the business. Yes. You know? These car's a big couch. A big Greek couch. Are you still doing a grand sale? in the Apocalypse?

Probably. Yeah. Yeah. Just at the Mad Max Reddit came across this gem. It's the X-Files. Oh, yes. Gillian Anderson and David Dukoviny,

but they're in Mad Max. That's crazy. And it's AI. And it's AI. I could tell you in advance it was AI. Yeah, what do you think? I don't like it. I don't like it either.

Do you think this should exist? No, I don't think that. Do you think this is bad? Yes. Do you think the person who did this should be condemned to hell? Yes. Or one of those holographic boxes. Put them in the box.

Put them in the box. Put them in the box. The punishment. the punishment for what you have wrought is the very technology that you have wrought and you're getting in there, in the box. What's the point of that?

I don't know. Imagine a different thing. You know I'm against generally pop culture mashups. I know you are. You used to love it when back to the future was a... No, I didn't.

I don't like those. Well, what if it was? That'd be incredible. What if Marty McFly visited Bill and Ted? That would be incredible, obviously. And then they got shot by Time Cop. They all just got shot by Time Cop. Maybe, yeah.

Yeah, and Robocop and Terminator Cop. That would be great. Rick and Morty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You've said the magic words, the three magic words that you know I love. That'll make me forgive all of that.

Rick and Morton. Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty. Anyway, it's done for big movie. Big movie. Welcome back, everybody. Ooh, third can. Second, to a review of...

No, but third overall. Third overall, I guess... Fourth one, because the listeners have got a can going. They've got a communal can going. So they've one can. Yeah. Let me tell you, this is Sprite Zero Sugar. The can's...

It's not that good. It's just content on it. It's not that good. Content. I don't mind Sprite Zero Sugar. It's okay. I wouldn't rave about it. Yeah.

I would do a plug for it. I would do an ad for it, though. Solo Zero Sugar, probably the best one. I was speaking to somebody who worked on the Solo energy campaign, you know, for the solo energy drink. Yep. And apparently the original Solo energy drink just tasted like Solo. But people were like, this tastes like just like Sol.

It doesn't feel like it's giving me the energy that I need. Probably doesn't have caffeine and ginseng. and so on and so But it did and so they just made it taste more like fucking hot piss and so people were like

yeah this is the one now Is that why it's called solo hot piss Yeah basically It's called solo hot piss that'll give you a zip and a zap You drink that

You're gonna I don't even know what's going to happen honestly We haven't looked into it We didn't do any research One battle after another On a budget of

According to Wikipedia So various sources between $130 and $175 million. Huge marketing campaign. This is easily Paul Thomas Anderson's biggest film. He's the director, by the way. He's the director of this. The US box office opening is going to be maybe $21 million.

It's going to make another probably $24 internationally. That's low. It's pretty low, but it's not low for Paul Thomas Anderson. No, it would have, it's good. This is an unprecedented marketing campaign. Leonardo DiCaprio is on, he's going on talk shows, he's going on podcasts. Leonardo DiCaprio, my understanding, is he's not been on a talk show since about 2006.

So they've had to pull out all the, all the, all the, all the, all the big guns for this. Like, they are, they are really trying to make this happen. But it's not going to happen. Because it's Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Yeah. The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the box office he's ever had, I think was, there will be blood. Yeah. Which is like $75, 80 million, something like that.

That's such a good movie. Yeah. But everything else is like 50 million, 40 million. Yep. Nothing. I think the, um, what are they called? The Underworld movies did all right, didn't they? didn't they?

Oh, James. James, you're thinking of a different guy. I'm thinking of a different guy in an even more different guy than that guy. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Bole-Thomas Anderson, of course, there would be blood, licorice pizza. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just a bunch of great movies.

Yep. They do not. They don't. light the box office on fire, but that's not the point. No, it's not. He's one of the few directors that is still he's there in reserve. It's for when, when movie studios

are like, we've got to make some art. We should do something people want. Yeah, exactly. And nobody sees. That's exactly right. What do you think the story was? Oh, come on, mate. Well, here's the thing. So, I would say if you want to see this or if you're interested in his movies, don't, I didn't really know anything about it going in. And I think

that helped immensely. Yeah. So it's about... It's also kind of hard to explain. But here's the thing. It's like, if you were to really boil it down. I mean, if you were to break down the narrative, like the... You might be like, it's taken. Yeah, I guess it is. Yeah.

Yeah. And I think they're trying... I think they're trying to pitch it a little bit like that. It's, it's like, funny taken. Yeah. But it's not that. It's completely its own thing. So it's...

It's funny, but it's also, you know, it's pretty dire. It's pretty full on. Yeah. So it's a... So back in the day, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tiana Taylor, they're, their, uh... I would say the, although I guess it would be the late 20, 2000s. Yeah, they're in a, they play a couple of, a couple of revolutionaries.

They're in a group called the French 75. They go around, they blow stuff up. They're based on the weather underground from the 60s and 70s, a group who killed themselves when one of their bombs went off. Ah, yeah. They're slightly more competent than them. So they're in this revolutionary group. Leonardo DiCaprio plays like a, like a pyrotechnics.

Demolition guy. What's his name? He's got a name, a bomb guy, like a bomb name. Demolition Man or something like that? Something like that, yeah. Yeah. But anyway, they're together in this group. They get a little bit romantic.

Some say too romantic. Ooh, and then they fall foul of a bunch of, you know, the authorities who were trying to track him down, including one guy named Captain Lockjaw. Yeah. It's played by a very twitchy Sean Penn. He's Sean Penn. He's grotesque. Yep.

And he's also in this movie. Yeah, they do that. We got him. And then... There's a tiny little angry pharaoh man. But then the authorities jump on this group and sort of break them apart and a bunch of people go to jail

and a bunch of people rat out, everybody else. 16 years past. Yeah, Leonardo DiCaprio goes on the run. Goes to ground. He fries his brain on drugs and alcohol and stuff. And paranoia. Yeah, yeah. Oh, but they have a kid.

They have a kid. They have a kid. And so he's raised this kid on his own because she got sent up the river, but then she went on the run. He's kind of a bad dad. He's trying his best, though. He's cooked.

He's a pretty bad dad. He's a pretty bad dad, but she's a very capable. Yeah, yeah. 16-year-old person. But he's, you know, he's changed his name. They got now out there. But what if old, old enemies go to roost? What if all jaw comes back?

What if he comes back? And he does. He does come back to do revenge and figure some stuff out. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's really, there's nothing like this. I just mean like that you see very often. This isn't like, this is like seeing a, you know, like a Tarantino kind of thing. It's not the same, but it's, you get something like this every six years, maybe, if you're lucky.

Yeah, yeah. You know? Yeah, it's a real, just a real, real, real, propulsive kind of thriller. Yeah. It's got some real emotion behind it. Incredible performances. It's about this kind of, this element of like, yeah, you know, the daughter's in danger and he's in danger. what are they going to do?

But it's also like this much wider scope in terms of like how the wider world is affected by this. And this character Lockjaw, he wants to track these people down because they're part of this terrorist group. But he's also got this like just real personal grievance. I thought it was interesting how like he basically mobilizes the military to take apart this entire town that Leonardo DiCaprio lives in

just because he's got this personal beef. And that sort of really reflects. absolutely the real world and how like these these you know communities are being torn apart because this just there's just a ghoul running there's just a ghoul running around twitching and ghoulin well that's interesting because you might you know it feels very modern in terms of the themes but this was apparently he started writing it in 1999 because it's based in a book yeah it's based on the book and a lot of a lot of the early stuff didn't really survive but like the ideas behind it and the spirit I saw this on a commode mayor review

with Paul Thomas Anderson. Like, that was always there. Like, this was the essence of it. Yeah. It's from the very get-go. And, yeah, no, I just, I, it's interesting, like, because the first 30 minutes is, like, it's kind of like a quick sequence over, you know, said over a few years of, like, this group and what they get up to.

And they're, they're a fairly effective, like, left-wing organization, which does bombings and releases immigrants and various other good deeds. Not all good, I should point out. Sometimes they shoot people. Paul, which they shouldn't. And then it slows down. And then when it comes to modern day, and then it kind of unfolds in real time.

Leonardo DiCaprio, I saw this video on him, and it's, I recommend everybody watches it. I recommend you watch a Leonardo Caprio movie. Yeah, Titanic, Man in the Iron Mask. Romeo plus Juliet. Romeo plus Juliet. It's by the YouTube channel Dodford.

It's called Leo DiCaprio Must Grow Up. And it really highlights, like, what a fascinating person he is, because, like, of how he's rise to fame and then his environmental work and he's dating life, but also he's, like, he's friends with Jeff Bezos. Oh, yeah, right. And he's kind of turned his, not, maybe not turn his back on all, like, the environmental advocacy that he's done. But, like, and he's always dating a 25-year-old and whatever.

Like, it's this weird, he's just such as, I think he's just been famous for so long. Yeah. So I don't, I don't know. Is he like an empty vessel who's just kind of like, what's he filled up by? You know what I mean? acting, I guess, but like, it's just, it's just what a fascinatingly odd human being. What's interesting as well, because this movie is being pitched as like a Taken style movie, like an action kind of thing, but he's not being depicted as a cool action guy.

He's a real grub. Yeah. He spends the entire movie in a bathrobe. Yeah, that's right. Well, there's a lot of intentionally the dude in this. Yeah, because like a lot of these movies, you get Jason Statham. Yeah. He looks, they put him in a suit or they put him in a cool leather jacket or whatever.

And it's like, you'd be like, yeah, this is a guy, you know, mowing down the bad guys. Like plowing his way through to rescue his daughter or his wife or his ex-wife or his friend's ex-wife or whatever. He's like out of shape and he can't shoot straight or fight. Any previous skills or abilities he had earlier are just, they're mostly gone. Yeah, he doesn't remember any of the revolutionary codes or any of that sort of stuff. I mean, that phone call, that's a series of phone calls. he has trying to figure out trying to get access to information like figure out what's going on with his daughter that's just very funny stuff yeah uh all in all yeah and there's also a subplot

with lockjaw played by sean pen again grotesque um where he he's partly doing this to like tie up loose ends because he wants to be in a kind of white supremacist secret society yeah and just the the the just the pointlessness of it all in the end kind of. We'll talk about it in spoilers. Yeah, absolutely. And also like, because that's his ultimate dream, I guess, to be recognized. Yeah, yeah. I've also got Benicio del Toro, who is sort of, he is, he's, he's, he's, he's friends with

DiCaprio's character because he's a, he's a martial arts teacher who teaches DeCaprio's daughter, who we haven't even talked about her yet, but she's great. But he is also, he's got stuff going on behind the scenes because it's part, I guess the town where they live is a sanctuary city, which you know, really know anything about in Australia, but it's kind of like there's a lot of immigrants there, and they're not all documented, and so he's kind of keeps an eye on them. They've got their own set of rules and codes and whatever, so he's brought into this, but he's not part of it.

And I love that he's just like, I'm on board, let's do it. He's like, can you get me a gun? He's like, yeah, definitely. He's, he might be my favorite character in this, just really wonderful and really calming. Not any of the white supremacists? Not even the puffy vest white supremacists The business casual white supremacists

But getting back to that Just the matter of fact way That they talk about people And people of different races And what they're doing like they're doing good It's really horrifying Because I think there is There is a lot of that that really exists

Yeah You know and it's just And it is funny Because it's like Look at these fucking idiots But these people are in charge A lot of the time A lot of the time and always

There's nothing I think that really Approaches of like an action sequence Like we would think of an entire There's like running across a roof There's some really interesting action in it Yeah There's a sequence towards the end That is it's

You're talking about the undulating hills Yeah that's great It's not a it's not a chase As you would think about a car chase In a movie with like a lot of You know quick turns Throughout a city or something like that But it's just like out in

out in the middle of nowhere these kind of undulating boats on waves yeah and it's so tense yeah and it's and it's because it's these these cars going up and down these hills and every time you come up you kind of you're seeing where the next car is and you lose your visibility it's really quite tense uh the the score is really good score is really good uh unfortunately it's johnny greenwood so unfortunately from radiohead so unfortunately i must give some credit to johnny greenwood from radio head you love johnny greenwood i don't you love radio they all suck now. No, man, just give them a chance.

I'm actually, I wasn't a fan of radio head, but I've recently come around. Is this something I should know? It's not important. I don't want you have to take your commemorative radio head platinum records off the wall. So just don't worry about it. But it's like this really kind of paranoid piano score

for the most. It's really tense and upsetting. Yeah. So good work. Absolutely. No growing up. Yeah. Chase Infinity is amazing.

So she plays DiCaprio's daughter Yeah And there's something that apparently Leonardo DiCaprio added Because she said she was born in 1999 or 2000 And she's an adult Which can't be correct What's going on? Can't be correct at all

Doesn't make any sense Doesn't make any sense But something that was added apparently by DiCaprio She's not allowed to have a phone Yes right Because of various government whatever But she it's revealed And this isn't really a spoiler

But she has a secret phone Yes And I just think yes she would Yeah of course Of course she's going to have a secret phone Both your kids have secret phones They got secret phones And I allowed that

Yeah She's wonderful Really good She's gonna be in a bunch of stuff Like Yeah this is He's gonna have a long career I feel like

She might I mean she's at the very least Probably gonna be in another couple Of Paul Thomas Anderson Absolutely A couple of A couple of cameos I'll talk about him

With spoilers I think Yeah But a couple of interesting Cameos Good movie Tiana Taylor's great Yeah Who's mostly a musician I think

I don't really know anything about it. Yeah, I just, I really enjoyed it. Go see it in cinemas if you are. Yeah, see, I didn't see it in IMAX, but it is available in IMAX. There's something about the format I can't remember, but there's some particular use of film and camera that gives it a good depth. Oh, it's in VistaVision. Yeah.

Which is a format that I don't really use very often. I saw it in a Geelong cinema. Interesting. But it looked great. Great, okay. And it was also a cinema where the chairs were like desks in like a, in like a lecture hall they got that little

like a little table what yeah it was wild okay yeah you have to squeeze you way in I squeeze my own I don't need too mate I'm very trim you know that that's true that's true

that's true uh spoilers I thought it was great it's a great movie it's long it is long I was gonna because I was away I was gonna bring some people with me

and I'm like you know what I just I'm just gonna go over myself yeah you don't want to have to I don't want to because I'm like I don't know where the I know I'm not I'm going to like this, I'm pretty sure, but do I want to bring somebody else to this?

You don't want to look over and they're giving like, they're giving the vibe of like, we could probably go. Yeah, you know what I mean? I don't need that. You know. So I was happy to sit there for nearly three hours by myself, plus the post credits. Yeah. Where Kang shows up.

That's right. That's right. Now I'm in the Paul Thomas Anderson universe. Spoilers. I'm recruiting punch drunk love. I'm recruiting phantom thread. I hope we've named all the he was. movie because otherwise people will be like, I can't believe you didn't name

Magnolia or whatever. I'm going to name all the movies. No, you don't have to do it. Magnolia. I'm recruiting Magnolia. I need his enchanted vest and haircuts. That's all the movie. We've named all the movies. Fantastic. Junun. I've never even heard of that one. But we named it. Yeah, we named it. We named them all. Spoilers. Spoilers. Alana Heim's in this. She was in Liquorice Pizza, of course.

Yeah. She's one of the members of the French 75. She gets shot on the head. Yep. So that's fun. That is fun. That is fun. And she was wearing a wig. Why would you just dye your hair, Alana Haim? I don't know, man. I don't understand why they're doing anything. Is that really a spoiler that she's in it? No, it's not, but I think some people would be like... Yeah.

What other spoils? Oh, her name's May West. The character's name is May West. Oh, okay, right. I thought the... So Lockjaw, he gets shot in the face by... Because the white supremacist's group, they cotton on that he... One of the spoilers in this said he might have a daughter.

He might have had... Leonardo DiCaprio's daughter might be his daughter. Yes, because Sean Penn and Tiana Taylor had a little encounter back in the olden days. And so he wants to be part of this. That's all he's been thinking about. That's right. And he wants to be part of this white supremacist group of business, influence of dorks. Influents and but they're like, they're very intent on being like you can't have any mixed race relationships.

you can't be any of this sort of stuff and that he has come to the realization that this... Oh no, there might be someone out there. So he's got to tie up this loose end. And so he wants to, you know, he wants to track her down determine whether or not he's the father

and if that is the case, get rid of her. And also, like, it's interesting because he could just not. Yeah, that's right. They wouldn't know. No one would ever know, yeah. But of course, he's got the... But he's also obsessed.

He became obsessed with this woman and now he's obsessed with this whole thing. And yeah, he's sort of, you know, Oh, one of the guys in the group is called, is named Roy Moore, which I think is, you know, because the real Roy Moore was, uh, see a congressman and a real creep. You used to grey on young, underage girls in shopping stores. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not an accident, I assume. No.

Yeah. So, but yeah, they caught on that he might have this daughter. And so they're like, we'd rather get rid of him. So they, in the kind of the hill chase sequence towards the end, they want to, one of the guys comes out in his best and his whatever and shoots him in the face. He shoots him in the face. But he lives through that. And recovers. And recover more somewhat.

Yeah. And then he just kind of, it's so, it's so, at the end, so sad and pointless. He's so happy. He's fine. They're like, you know, water under the bridge. Yeah. Here's your corner office. Yeah, he's your boring nothing corner office.

Exactly, but he's so happy to do it. And obviously they're, you know, as soon as they sit him down and that, I'm like, he's going to die in some horrible way. Yeah. Poison gas him to death. But it was just like, is this what you wanted? Yeah. I mean, probably not.

No. Not the death part. But even the fact that, like, let's say he did get in, but you just got an office with a bunch of fucking dorks, like, doing bad stuff. Doing bad stuff, yeah, yes, it is, yeah. Amazing stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

And I also thought it was, like, everything that DiCaprio does in this, he's just, he's pretty much ineffective. Yeah. Like he's trying to do all the taking stuff. Yeah, he's falling off roofs and getting arrested. And he gets, one point he has to leap out of a car because he drinks a beer in front of. of a cop car right

like just just an absolute loser I'm yeah I enjoy it I would love to watch another movie with Benetia Deltore's character

where he's just like they stop him and they do the sobriety test and he's just doing a little dance that was great yeah they're like you mean drinking he's like yeah a little bit

yeah especially just after seeing the Wolfman which is oh yeah not good but he's so amazing in this

great stuff Great stuff, Mason. Great stuff. What else? I mean, how does it end? Obviously... I mean, Chase Infinity's character, she becomes a revolutionary. That's true.

They're like her parents. Go on off doing stuff. And teach us Leonardo Caprio how to use a phone. That's right. And that's wonderful. You can do his front-facing selfies or whatever. Yeah, nice. Do you think Leonardo DiCaprio knows how to use a phone?

No, I think he tells an assistant to send a text. Okay, great. Yeah. An incriminating text. Let's get the boys back together. Where's Toby McGuire? Let's get all the boys. I'd forgotten they're in the Great Gatsby together.

They are. And they're a couple of boys in a big boys group of boys. Gatsby Boys. Gratsby's. Gatsby's boys. The Great Spies. Do you want some reviews here from people in the Planet Broadcasting Greatmates group? Yes.

Dylan says probably one of the fun, probably one of my favorite movies of the year. Great story. Oh, we didn't say. Yeah, best movie ever. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Great story. Pretty funny.

Politically charged. Just really well done all around. It's not expecting a bunch of weird racists who men in a big base. Yeah, even that is like, this sucks, this room. Absolutely, yeah. You like this? This wood powder wall with like a fake mountain backdrop with a dead bird or whatever. Chris White.

I did not love this one as much as I wanted to, but it's a lot of fun. Timely and incredibly well made, definitely an 8 out of 10. Cameron says, best movie ever, Sean Penn is the best worst antagonist I've seen this year. So, yeah, generally people seem to be enjoying one battle after another. And it is, isn't it, Mason? Just one battle after another, you know? In life, isn't it? Yeah, man.

Uh, yeah. Revolutionaries, et cetera. Yeah. I'm glad, uh, I'm glad Warren Brothers has had a good enough year. Yeah. Like box office wise that they can. Because this one would have suffered, do you think? Yeah, straight to streaming, maybe.

This would have been their next movie, which made over 20 million and its opening weekend or whatever. So, yeah, they're having a good run. David Zazzov, he's done it again. He's done it again. Yeah. Well, he's a guy in a vest in a room, isn't he? Yeah, absolutely.

He's in a little. room. Yeah. Should we move it along? But he didn't see this. No, he definitely would move. But are we moving it along? We're moving along. To what? What? What?

What? What? That's right. I'm doing nothing. What do we reading today? Great times for great segments. It is great times for great segments. And congratulations on your award you would have won for that review you did. I didn't even think about it at the time.

You wouldn't need to. I was just thinking about how lacklust of my. my review was at the same time as yours as you were just firing on all cylinders. You'll get them next time. I don't think I will. I think maybe one day you'll get the Oscar for your review. And that year your review wasn't that good. But it's like a career Oscar, like Leonardo DiCaprio.

Because I did a review place like sleeping in an ox carcass or whatever. Exactly. That's right. Okay. Yeah. This is a great segment because we get to talk about things we've been experiencing other than just movies at the cinema. But sometimes it is just movies at the cinema.

Sometimes it is movies at the cinema. Did you finish Alien Earth? No. Interesting. Very divisive in the alien community. So that's finished. The series is done. I did enjoy it on the whole.

Yeah, but the criticism, like, I understand this. The stuff about like, oh, the Xenimov wouldn't do this or whatever. I'm like, I don't really care about that. The Zinimov's done a bunch of shit in different mediums. It does end on a kind of like, oh, I would like to watch more of this. I don't know if I loved how it just kind of ended here. But yeah. And you get to see what that plant one does, I'm not ever.

Oh, yeah. I would have liked to have seen more of that octopus eye, do some more stuff. Yeah, for sure. It's hence towards the future. But, I mean, you know, their future secured. I mean, they're going to be in, you know, rom-coms and all sorts of stuff. Different eye sockets. Yeah, you don't have to worry about, you don't have to worry about career octopus eyeball.

No. I just can't wait for the next series in three years. That's right. Did you see the Duffer Brothers, the Stranger Things guys were like, we're actually, we actually love this format. We love it when there's a new season of something every few years. Well, nobody else does the Duffer Brothers. You're thinking of movies. Yeah, exactly.

When they do one every few years, maybe you should make movies. Maybe you could make a movie. Duffer Brothers. What a bunch of Duffers. Couple of Duffers. Yeah. I also, there's a new volume unfolding of beneath the trees where nobody sees. Oh, yes. Which is now called Right of Spring.

Patrick Hofarth did this. I've mentioned this before, but it's like a comic book. Yes, it's a comic book. It's like a Sylvania family kind of world with ducks and bears and whatever. But also there's a Dexter in it. Yeah, right. And it's just, I really like it. I like the juxtaposition between like the art and what's happening.

I should get on to that. It's really good. So there's two or three issues of the new run. Yeah, I love it. I think it's great. It's not really like anything else. I read a couple of DC comics. Some disc comics.

That's right. First one is, so last week I talked about the new new gods. Must be nice. You brought that in, I remember. I did. And that was written by Ram V. And he's done another series that's just wrapped up. It's called Resurrection Man Quantum Karma.

and it's a follow-up to the Resurrection Man series from like the early 2000s. I love the early 2000, I was young. It was a character who he was a lawyer and then he is something, something nanites because that was the thing at the time. And what happened is he gained the power anytime he died, he came back with a different power.

Oh, okay. Remember this guy? Long gray hair? He was a sort of, yeah, he had a series back in the day, but there were some inconsistencies with the character because he was a character from the present time. But he also had memories from like thousands of years ago

How then? This series sort of covers it What's the answer? You don't remember resurrection? What's his name? Resurrection Man. Mitchella,

you'll know it when you say him. Often a trench coat and a hat. Resurrection man. But he has a history with Vandal Savage. Oh no, I'd know this guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it also, it's, yeah, it's... There was a film?

I don't think so. No, that's a different guy, I think. But this series sort of, it tells a news story, but it also squares up the kind of, I think there was some inconsistency back in the day because I don't think they knew what character this was meant to be, like there were different writers. Yeah, okay. But it also sort of tells this story about like what happens to a character like this when he retires and he just doesn't, he's not spending his days getting killed all the time.

Like what happens when he actually gets to the end of his life? Right. I think it's a really interesting story. So he gets old? He gets old. Wouldn't he just die and come back? Well, maybe he does, James. Ah, wow.

Maybe he does. Also, there's a nice tribute. One of the... Quantum Karma. Yeah. One of the illustrators back in the day was Jackson, Gweese, and he passed away this year. Yeah. But before he did that, he does the first page of every issue.

They brought him back. Oh, wow. So it's a nice tribute to him. How did they do that? Well, he just... They pre-planned it. I think they did, yeah. He came in.

So he did... So the first page... of every issue was a little throwback to the old series and then they have the... Is it a page often, is it a flashback or is it now... It is a flashback, yeah. Okay, gotcha. That's really interesting.

I also read Batman off-world. I don't know if you've seen this. Here's the cover for the first issue. How's he getting there? Spaceship. That's spaceship. It's written by Jason, Aaron, and illustrated by Doug Manky

and it's a story set after Batman year one. So it's early in Batman's career, but he goes into space and he starts a revolution in space, basically. Classic. What happens is that in Gotham City, one of the local mobs brings in an alien guy as an enforcer

and Batman can't defeat him because he doesn't know anything about him. So he goes on a journey into space to discover this dude's home planet and figure out. Is this new? When's this from? This is from 2024, 2025. That sounds awesome. Yeah. And so basically he just goes into space and he's like, he borrows a Starlab ship and he goes into space.

And then he's like, And then while he's there, he's just like, well, there's some space injustice happening. I can't, I can't leave this space injustice unhandled. So he becomes like a space revolutionary and inspires a whole thing. It's very, it's very interesting. Yeah, how many issues? It's Jason Aaron who did. It is six issues.

Jason Aaron did some Thor stuff, which was great. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Did he do new Thor, whatever? Yeah. Hmm. Sick. Oh, well, I am also reading Batman the Colt, which I mentioned last week when I'm still reading it. I do want to talk about that.

Yeah. But I am very much enjoying it. that yeah let me get this resurrection man even though i barely remember resurrection you'll like it i think i think it is given though it is a a it touches on some stuff from the previous series from 20 plus years ago yeah i think you'll you'll get into it read sample here we go the art is by written by ram v illustrated by an and r they're a great team great work good stuff good stuff all right god we're good at reading things we're got at reading things aren't yeah and review And we also review things.

We won that award. Well, it's kind of an award for both of us in a way, the Academy Award. Elaborate on that. Well, you won the award, but you couldn't have done that review without me, I feel. I could have. Oh. Yeah, I guess that's a good point. Yeah.

In fact, if anything, I think the silences would be more poignant. More poignant. Like if we cut out the bits where you talked and I just said a thing, and then there was a little bit of silence. I think people would be like, wow. This is like a Paul Thomas Anderson movie. But in an audio form. And probably better. And better.

Yeah. Not probably. Probably. Anyway, it's time for letters. It's the time for letters. Here's the lettuce then. Woo! Settle.

Settle down. Sorry. I know you've got footy finals fever. Always. And you have a brain worm. I got a brainworm. It's probably affecting you. It's wearing a little footy guernsey.

It's also got footies finals fevers. That's great. Yeah. That is terrific actually. If you do want to reach the show to discuss footy finals fever or anything else, you can send Mason a very concise Gmail. That's right. The weekly planet pod at gmail.com.

And you might be like, I'll just send a really long one with no paragraphs. No. No. We see through your ruse. Maybe I'll send a really long one, but it's got a bunch of paragraphs, paragraphs. Also, no. No, that's still long. You haven't seen through your ruse.

Yeah. You think, you think, but no. No. So send him a Gmail. Yeah. And also you can go in the Planet Broadcasting Greatmates Group, which happens all the time every week. There's a thread. And you can put something into there.

This is actually from the Planet Broadcasting Greatmates Facebook group, but not from that thread. This is a separate thing. This is from Zeff, who says, I got in the podcast during the COVID epidemic and recently remembered

an episode that had some hate mail specifically talking about how BVS will age like fine wine in the next five years, Batman v, Superman, Donald Justice. Oh, that's right. So I set my calendar to it, Meso suggested

and got the notification today to remind me of it. So on September 27th, 2025, which is today, I was wondering if this movie has aged better for you all. I'd argue that it's actually aged worse, especially now that we have a better version of Superman on film.

How's this age? Does it age like fine wine? I mean, I haven't even watched it in five years. I don't think it's... I don't think it's better. I absolutely do not think it's better. But I also don't... Like it looks good.

Yep. Like I would, if we were to go back and watch it now, I would go, well, it still looks the same. Yeah, it still looks... I think it is... Do you remember when Doomsday showed up? Yeah. Come on, what are we doing?

I think it's completely shelf stable this movie. I don't think it's gotten better or worse. Yeah, I agree. But I didn't think it was particularly great to be. begin with. Shelf stable. I think it's just like... I mean, it's nearly 10 years old.

Yeah. It just came out in a very specific time when DC were doing a very specific thing. Hell yeah. And there's not really much else that we care about. It's true. What do you think? I don't think it's got worse. I think, yeah, I don't know.

I don't think Superman makes it worse. I think any criticism I have of then is the same since all the stuff that has come out since. It doesn't make, newer stuff hasn't made me go, oh, that makes that look even stupid or dumb or all that characterization, all those things I pretty much thought. Yeah, I mean, if, look, I would say if anything, um, Zach Snyder's subsequent work has maybe made it look a bit better. Yeah, I'd agree with that. Like a, like a rebel moon, which are just dreadful. Yeah. I wish they weren't.

I wish they were great. Dreadful moon. We've covered them. Thank you. We've covered them. Dreadle moon. Yeah. Okay, go on.

We covered them when they came out. But again, just the idea of this is his chance to do anything. Do anything with an unlimited budget hire, whoever you want, say whatever you want, et cetera. And they were just dreadful. Yeah. Dreadful moon. Dreadful moon. Dreadful moon.

Yeah. So, um, there you have it. I think, I don't think it has aged like fine wine. It is aged like a shelf stable product, like a Twinkie. Yes. It's just the same. Or a packet of two-minute noodles dry. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. But the packet is sealed, so the weevils haven't got in. Yes. Yes. Finley says, Gettoy,

but the release of the first trailer for Insomniak's Wolverine game in mind is there any superhero character you like to see get a standalone video game treatment either from Insomniac or another developer. I mean, I'd personally love to see a Daredevil

at me too or a Defender's game at me too something street level with the ability to explore the city with a billy club not dissimilar to Spider-Man's web swinging Superman. Yeah.

Just to see if somebody can do it. Yeah. See, the thing you mentioned there that they need to have a traversal mechanic if it's going to be an open world thing It has to have a traversal mechanic that isn't just painful. Yeah. Whether it be a vehicle or a gliding or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess, and I guess, you know, it's not outside the room of possibility that you could just add that to basically anybody. Yeah. You just say they've got a jet pack. They've got a jet pack. Yeah. You could add a jetpack to the Rocketeer, for example, and he could rocketeer around. He could rocketeer in multiple directions.

One jetpack facing up, one jetpack facing down, fire him up at the same time. That's right. What's going to happen? Yeah. Rocketeer video games Yeah, okay I would love a Daredevil game though I mean the swinging mechanic

would be Spider-Man as but I guess you do it at night and you do it more kind of grimy and you don't make him as powerful and you know But is that less fun? Yeah, maybe radar sensors, detectives, etc.

Yeah. You know, Spider-Man could drop down and beat up 40 guys Yeah, Daredevil can't Yeah, but is that less fun? Well, you make scenarios where it is fun you make a game and you make it fun.

Is there some mechanics you should take out? Is Detective Vision played out? Or is that something you absolutely? Not, you know, Detective Vision, the idea of like, I saw a tweet, it's an old tweet, but it's like proposed Hulk game from 2032 or whatever, and it's like Hulk investigate crime scene and the pop-up goes,

your GammaVision can see crime particles. Click R3 and you can look at the crime particles or whatever. Hulk follow trail. But like, is that something you absolutely need now? in this sort of game? I think it's okay, especially if the character has some ability adjacent to that.

Like, Daredevil using his hearing vision or whatever. Sure. To, you know, to follow somebody or look through something or whatever. Yes. Yeah, but I think if you just, yeah, gave it to Hulk or whatever, then no. Don't put it in.

Do something else. Yeah. Have a, have his, you press R3 and then he smashes a car in half. Yeah, yeah. Kill somebody. Kind of would like a rocketeer game now that I think about it. Yeah, that'd be a,

Yeah, yeah. Drops in, kills 40 guys. With rocket exhaust. You can have all sorts of combos with rocket exhaust, and you've got a gun. Easiest thing in the world. And some classic biffo. Easiest thing in the world.

Classic one left right, yeah, one two punch, left right, good night. Yep. One tequila, two, tequila, three, tequila, floor. Any other games? Rocketeer, though. Yeah, get machine games to do it. What about a Spider-Man game?

Oh, no. Okay. No, no. Do you want another Batman-Archmesque game? I mean, there is that Lego one that's coming. coming out. Yeah. I would like Rock City to do something else.

Yeah. Like a Superman game. Yeah, or just not a fucking Batman game. Yeah. I know Suicide Squad isn't a Batman game, but it kind of is. I'm with you, I think, I think. No, it's not actually. It's something else in a place.

I think enough kind of indie game developers and kind of off-brand developers have shown you can do a Superman-esque game well. Like you can make the mechanics work and it's not necessarily. about him fighting bad guys and you know a guy with a you know a gun can hurt him or whatever but it's about you know saving buildings of metropolis or you know yeah etc running around running around yeah give him a jet pack so he can fly it's free to do in a game yeah it's not a real jet pack you don't actually have to build that's so true isn't it yeah you got another really long email here's an email from Alex and it's quite short which is good for me that's great for me too uh Alex says hey mate's been a long time listener since

2013. I'm running a marathon in Chester, UK, next weekend, 5th of October. I've been fundraising for Cancer Research UK. That's good. I took up running during COVID and I'll always listen to the weekly planet when I run. I'm planning on timing the end of the marathon with the end of this week's episode. So we'll hopefully be listening to the letter segment when I'm on the home stretch. Do you have any words of encouragement, discouragement, abuse for the final few kilometers? Just get in there. Also, could you please give a shout out to my amazing wife? Emily, she's been so great supporting me through training and is generally amazing. I would say just don't embarrass yourself at the end.

Yeah. Because that'll become a viral video. You're the ones where people get bendy, legs out of the end, or they pee themselves or vomit or whatever. Or do it all at once. Yeah, that would be funny too. Just collapse and vomit and pee yourself. Yeah.

All at the one. Do a car wheel. Do a car wheel over the line. You just don't, just not get a car wheel. Easy. Yeah, easy. Yeah. You've made it all this way so far.

Yeah. Just do a cartwheel. I've never done a marathon and I have no desire to. So I don't have any. From what the people I know who have done them is that you've got more in the tank than you'd think. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, but I'll stay hydrated.

Don't do it. Oh, it's something that I've heard. Don't do anything different on the morning off. Don't be like, I'm going to take gel packs or whatever or for anything that you do. Now, break that down for me, James. Are you eating the gel packs? Yeah, they're like, they give you like a boost of energy or whatever. Do they have caffeine in them?

I don't know. But my brother who does a bunch of marathons, he's done them. Oh, yes. Yeah, don't break routine like the day of because you'll shit your pants. Yeah, that's right. Anything you do differently. And good luck. Yeah.

Get running. You can start now and then it'll be over already. Start early. Start early. Win. Yes. Start three or four days before. Win.

Win. Win. And then when the actual day comes, you just show up. You're like, I do a video of myself winning this. I already did a cartwheel. I'll take the number. Yeah. I stick the number on, but I did.

You know that I did this already. I can just go over to the podium now. Yeah. And you just give me the medals. Give me the medals and the prize. Medal and the money. Medal and the money. Medal of the money.

It's from Anne who says, Mason, what's your favorite cartoon stripping the newspaper Sunday funnies? Don't say The Phantom. Well, it's stripped them all out. And also, I don't read the newspaper. What is even in? Can we somehow bring up the funnies right now, Jones? I did open up, because my dad still gets the newspaper. And it's like four pages.

And three of them are Harvey Norman commercials. Yeah, absolutely. But it's like maybe two or three comics now. Yeah, right. And but when I was a kid, it was, there was a full page in the heralds, and it was like Garfield, Snake Tales, Haggar the horrible robots robot man

which became something else It was an alien He became an alien at some point No but he robot man He was an alien But robot man just became One of the supporting cast members Okay

It's just called like Gary or whatever now Gary That one Yes the Phantom I remember as a kid I used to They released the Batman comic strip His name's Monty

Monty there we go It was a big deal And I would clip them out Yeah totally The Batman comic strip Because it was like the I don't know if they made comic strips specifically for the newspaper or it was just reprints of the stuff from the 40s

but it was that i remember the first one where he he's do you remember that old batman panel where he's like being a scientist he's got the lab code on he's got the goggles yeah he's doing also science yeah um love that what else of all time the spider man because there was a definitive spider man yeah specific for the comic strip yeah spider man back in the day um and these often didn't There was no real continuity with anything else going on, was there? Nancy. Do you know Nancy? No.

That's not real. That's not real. It's not real. It's not real. But it wasn't, I don't think we got it in Australia, but Nancy was, I'll show you Nancy. Yeah. He's like a little depression era girl. Okay.

But it was quite, it's had a few different authors over the years, but it's, it was like a real, even like back in the olden days, it was real groundbreaking in terms of like, she would do a lot of meta stuff. Like she would break out of the comic panels and stuff like that. Originally by Ernie Bushmiller from the... Like a She-Hulk? Yeah, like She-Hulk. That's Nancy and that's Sluggo. Oh, I know this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just go on Twitter and look up Nancy comic. You'll find an interesting one that'll be like, well, that's crazy. That's crazy this... How do that? Yeah. Who allow them do that? Who allow them do that?

Originally by Ernie Bushmiller, but then there was a subsequent author. I think it was a lady author. I don't have it here. Who did that? A bunch of them. But, yeah, great stuff. One of my faves. Cool.

But then also the Phantom, obviously. Because it was always three panels. First panel recapped what happened in the previous strip. I can't believe I got this. One panel of new material. Third panel was just like, but who's that in the shadows? Well, I don't know, man. I'll only know by the second panel of tomorrow's strip.

I won't know in the first panel, because that's going to recap this one. This is a mistake. Agreed. Yeah. What's your email address? Here's one more email, James. Yeah. I might have lost it.

Oh, right, here it is. Yes. This is from Harry. Harry. So, a question on film posters. Hello, you young boys. That's so young, thanks. I'm a big fan of yours from a little town in southwest England.

I'm a 22-year-old graphic designer making posters for short films all over the world trying to make a name for myself. Ooh. His graphic design account is King Pictures 7 on Instagram. Check it out. My question is, do you think modern movie posters have lost their mark on culture and have become formulaic? Or do you still think they're as relevant and important to the industry as they were back in the day? I think they can really fall

I think once a I'm looking at some of these posters this is good stuff that King Pictures is made I think that a lot of them I mean we go through we go through

we go through phases don't we yeah industry I think there is a I think there is a tendency for these designers to rest on their laurels especially when it is like a Marvel

or like a big franchise thing a Star Wars something like that yeah where it's just everybody's head faces on the poster. I think it's the alternate posters that... That are the interesting ones. Yeah, totally, always.

Either fan-made or sometimes they just let a bunch of creators and let rip with official posters and you don't always see them in the... You don't always see them like in the movie theaters, but oftentimes it's just online only. Yeah. And somebody really gets to pick apart the specificity of the movie and turn it into. What I think is also interesting, like those ones they wouldn't often use for marketing because those ones you have to stop and look at it and be like, what is this?

Whereas like a poster that says Star Wars and got a big face on everyone's face. You go, wow, Robert Danny Jr. is the emperor now. It immediately conveys to you what it is. Yeah. Which I don't think is necessarily a good thing. I mean, obviously the worst ones now are the AI generated. Some of the worst stuff. I saw this one I thought you would like.

This is an AI generated. Simpsons movie 2025 post. Who is, is. Why are some of them real and some of them cartooned? I don't know, but also why's Homer there twice? He's being played by Vin Diesel, but also cartoon. I don't know. I think that was Flanders, but I guess it's not.

As Adam Sandler is Flanders. Who's playing March? Well, see, here's the thing. It's always just a generic woman, isn't it? Well, yeah, it says here, so I kept the, I screenshot of this. This is good stuff, Mason. I screenshot of this from, from Instagram, because it sends me garbage. Why would Vin Diesel be Homer?

I don't know, but it's Vin Diesel in a yellow polo shirt. He's holding a plate. He's looking very, very sombre, and he's holding a plate of classic Simpsons donuts. Oh, yes. Then to the right of him, it's Adam Sandler with a beer, hold, Adam Sandler with a beard and a beer. Yeah. And he's just

holding a picture of a picture of beer. And it's like, who is he supposed to be? It's not Flanders. No, it can't be Flanders. He's got a beard and a full head of hair. And then to the left of Vin Diesel's Homer's Simpson is just a generic woman as Marge. It's always a generic woman. The hashtag say Katie Perry. But it doesn't look like Katie Perry. And the children

are... It might be Courtney Cox. That could be Courtney Cox. The AI, that is calling it Cox. So the problem with AI generated posters is... Nothing. Nothing. They're perfect. But also, I think whenever AI is asked to draw a woman, it's drawing from like a lot of porn.

Oh, okay. So, yeah. And there's a lot of... So, like, and airbrushing and stuff as well going on. So I don't know. Yeah. But then it's those three and then below them, it's some other members of the Simpsons. But also, Homer is there again.

But his is a 2D image. Yeah, but then Bart and Lisa and Maggie are like three-dimensional. Yeah. So I don't... Anyway, this is the best poster of 2025. For the Simpsons movie 2025. Ah! Yeah, it's pretty cool, right?

Yeah, pretty cool. I wish I had a great example. Speaking of the Rocketeer, that classic Rocketeer won... Good one. That Rocketeer won a poster. Everybody knows which one I'm talking about. What do you think of the Mandalorian versus Groglett? Terrible in retrospect.

What do you think of this? from Caleb, who says, I know you've probably forgotten most of your ratings, but is there any best or worst movie ever that you've given out and regretted? Remindered, both of you and Mesa gave Wonder 1,984, a best movie ever. Honestly, I don't remember what I've given...

I think that one I immediately regretted it. I think even the week after, if you listen to the episode, maybe the week or two weeks after, I'm sure I probably said, I think this was bad. I mean, but that's... Red one, I gave a best movie album. And then I regretted that one.

What's interesting about... podcasting as a medium is you can because we're here every week we can and we do retrospective videos and stuff like that is we can go back and say you know with the benefit of hindsight this movie's a lot better than I thought it was

or you know I was too generous or what have you or if it's Batman be Superman it's the same and I think I wonder if a lot of you know movie critics from back in the day not saying we're critics we're just two dudes we're just two dudes both win awards that's right for both of us

I wonder if they would go back you know because there wasn't really a space anywhere for them to go. You know what? With the benefit of hindsight, I was too harsh on this movie. Tron's good. Tron's good, exactly. It's not. No.

Yeah, probably a bunch of them, but I'm also like, that's the beauty of this, the medium of movies and TVs. You can just, really, you know, any art form and this is you can just go, well, I've had time to sit with this. Yep. And it sucks. Yeah, that's right. We can do retrospectives and we can cover older stuff.

And, you know, I think sometimes as well, some movies have, you know, you should probably should sit with it, you know, a few weeks or do a rewatch or wait until it comes out on streaming and watch it again and then say, you know, my definitive opinion is this. I mean, I strive, because I used to do movies like on YouTube. Yeah. And it's often like it would have to be, you'd have to get it out as soon as possible for it to be sane. Yeah. It's different now because it's so flooded that. Also, you all would always say that were the worst movie ever. Yeah, I didn't always say that.

Yeah. But it is, I didn't, yeah, I didn't like having to come out and then immediately go like, what do I fucking think of this or whatever? It's, you know, because sometimes you would get it wrong or you just haven't, like you said, you haven't sat with it enough. So even being able to, I try to see a movie as early as possible, they'd give it three or four days so I can talk about it here. Yeah. But even then, that's often not enough time. Yeah. Yeah.

And also, you know, I think we, I've certainly learned over the last few years that oftentimes it is, and we joke about it being the best movie ever of the worst movie. movie ever, but a lot of the time it is, it can be a movie with a great couple of sequences in it or a great performance from one guy or whatever, Tron, exactly, and it doesn't really hang together properly as a movie, but it's worth seeing, it is strong, but it's worth seeing it for the one thing, or, you know. Absolutely. Yeah. So there you go.

That's the magic movies. That's, that's magic movies. And everybody's talking about them. Everybody's talking about movies. Yeah. And I think in a hundred years time, they'll still be talking about TikTok. Do you think? and slop on TikTok

AI slop just endless slop that's come out I showed you this before the new slot before the episode where it's just like this is a new thing

for meta you know matter that thing you love but we're doing AI slop just an endless just an endless cycle of

short slop of just randomly generated just random look at these people do it on a skateboard and there's a flamingo cloud oh my god people are running on clouds

and then they're walking through a tunnel and then there's then there's other stuff boy you're going to love it I'm not pretty fucking dire dire

I say it a lot Yeah, yeah Who is, is it for boomers? Or like, people have like fucking Facebook brain. I'm in, I'm in a bunch of terrible group chats, but one in particular, like, it's just this awful guy who'll come in every now and then you're like, if you've seen this?

And it's news that's like two days old. Uh-huh. But it's also wrong. Yeah, because it's already been debunked. Dude, you're late to this wrong news. But it's also like even the, oh, here it is, James, vibes. And you feed in the meta.

AI app for short form AI generated videos. Fuck, that's so awful. Yeah, look, this guy's playing piano underwater. This guy's on the top of a train in the clouds. They're just looking over a city. You can do that with your own life, actually. There's some more clouds. This guy's skateboarding on the clouds.

There's an anime something. Oh, God, there's some little fluffy men. There's a ice cream truck. Giant person. Guy painting. Japanese stuff, bombs. Another snowboard. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Different snowboards. Yeah. Floating things. Floating mikes. People falling. Yeah. These people are real in their cartoons. Just women.

Sky whales. Astronaut is on a bike. A bear and an alligator having a boxing match underwater. A cat and a suit. This is like, it sounds like we're doing like ink plot tests. Like what do we see? But we're literally saying it. I think it is for people who are already locked into what it like they're on, they're like, they're just on their phone.

And they've looked at Instagram, they've looked at TikTok, they've looked at Twitter or whatever it is. And they just, this app just needs retention. For the love of God. It's like, it just keeps going for, it's, what they want is they want an endless loop of stuff. Yeah. So you never, you're like, well, maybe the next thing will be, this is interesting, this is interesting, this is interesting, this is interesting. Maybe the next thing will be the thing that changes my life. It won't be.

But, um, I guess people should turn off their fines. Ah, yeah. Keep them on forever. I keep them on, but don't look at that, obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do like how every idea that Facebook has is bad. I do like that too. And they spend billions of dollars on shit that people are like, this sucks.

I don't want to wear a camera in my glasses. I put on, I bought some ray bands the other week. Oh, here we go. I was in the store. Okay, Tom Cruise. Yeah, thanks. They weren't, though, they weren't the Tom Cruise ray bands, Mason. They were cool, more modern look that he got in everywhere.

All right. And they had these, I don't know whether they were meta or whatever, but there were glasses that you put on. And they didn't have the heads-up display, but it was like, try them out and I'm like I don't I don't like yeah sure so what do you get then so you put it on and it's like you look at something and you go what's this and it like describe something to you or whatever it's got speakers in it yeah but only you can hear it maybe I don't know but it didn't work that's great well or anything and I just can't imagine do you think maybe they're regular glasses

and they're trying to gaslight you into into a hallucinating it spoke I couldn't tell you what it said wow but it was just like do you think they were haunted they're trying to get rid of this one pair of haunted glasses. They ship into every Rayban store, hoping their top salesman will be like, these are AI. And you put them on, it's like, kill your family. You should kill your family.

And it's like, and you want the one guy to be like, oh, these are cool, actually. I can definitely hear the AI. Yeah, I like how they're way thicker than a normal pair of glasses. Fucking hell. Just stop putting shit in other shit. Wow.

You know what I mean? Wow. You could very well say stop putting art in film, James. That's what you're saying. I would never say that, Mason. I would only think it. Yes. Anyways, is that the show?

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But I should get those glasses. They were thick in a weird way I didn't like. And they're also in a style I'm not familiar with. Interesting. Three lenses? Three lenses. Wow. Try glasses.

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I can't watch you do another fight. smashing machine. Well, I've got to do a fight for our future. But don't you see, you're killing yourself the smashing machine? Yeah, that's what I love about it. What? I think it's cool when my brains get smashed. What? It feels fun. Can't you do some of the smashing instead of you being smashed to the smashing machine? Nah, it's not in the name, is it? But you're so big. You're so big you could use your big muscles for smashing. Well, I want to be smashed until I'm little. I want to be smashed in the head, just smashed down a bunch until I'm three feet tall. And then I can fit through our doggy door. That's always been my dream.

Wow. We don't even need to watch it now. No, I don't think so. Yeah. All right, bye, everyone. Smashing machine. Grab the gym. You guys will see it next week.

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