The Weekly Planet - 622 Daredevil, The Boys & Mortal Kombat 2

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

Welcome back to another episode of The Weekly Planet where wer talk movies (Mortal Kombat 2), comics (some Doctor Strange Thing) and TV Shows (Daredevil: Born Again Season 2/The Boys Season 5). We also talk the news of the week including a Spider-Man MCU origin revelation, a snow first look at The Batman Part II, a new Planet of the Apes movie in the works and trailers for Evil Dead Burn and Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Thanks for listening!New bonus Q&A podcast episode with James & Maso out now on bigsandwich.co and patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesAlso Nick Mason is on TWO new episodes of the great Book Cheat podcast talking Sherlock Holmes right here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/06w566g9SNKC2YcG6aGRXU?si=c8a599a5b13547b1PLEASE be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start03:18 MCU Spider-Man's Origin Reveals07:38 The Batman Part 2 Camera Test11:40 New Planet of the Apes Movie Details20:42 Evil Dead Burn Trailer22:52 The Odyssey Trailer27:10 Mortal Kombat 2 Movie Review43:56 Mortal Kombat 2 Spoiler Segment53:02 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read58:14 Daredevil: Born Again S2 & The Boys S5 (so far) Spoiler Reviews01:11:50 Letters, It's Time For John 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.

Welcome back everybody to another episode of the weekly planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James also known as Mr. Sundade. With me as always, Nick Mason. Great to be here. Pretty good, right? Excuse me? I said, oh, okay. I thought you said something else.

Mason. Ksh Patel, my favorite director of the FBI. He's your favorite? Yeah, yeah. He's probably my favorite. Because of his antics? He's got great antics. That's what I'm saying.

What's he even up to? I don't know. Yeah. This isn't political, by the way. We just love antics. Yeah, and also we do like him. But that's not political, the fact that we like him. No, he's just like us, a podcaster or something.

We just like him, all right? Yeah, we just like him. Won't worry about it. You like his attitude? We don't think about who you like. So don't worry about who we like. Oh, this is a bad rift to start with, I think. I don't like him at all.

Well, I do like him. Okay. And I think this is a good rip. All right then, wow. And a good rift. Yeah, maybe. Because I don't like him and you do like him. I do like him a lot.

Mason, maybe something this week both of us liked was Mortal Kombat 2, which we saw at Cinnamon. Maybe. We'll get to that. But of course, we've got the news of the week in the lead-up, including maybe we know more about the origin of Spider-Man and the MCU. Do we know that? Oh, yeah.

Do we? Joe Russo, who directed some Spider-Man stuff. I honestly thought you were going to say Joe Rugan. Joe. I was, I don't know. I was on the podcast train. And I was just thinking of other cool, other cool podcasts. I don't know, man.

I don't know, man. Okay, but imagine if such a man existed. I mean, probably they're. probably is a man called Joe Rougan. Joe Rogen. What do you think his life's like? Normal, probably. Probably pretty normal.

Let me Google Joe Rogen. I imagine he has quite a few conversations every week that are like, oh, do you listen to the Joe Ruegan podcast? And he's like, I think you'll find it's the Joe Rogen podcast, and yes. It's not letting me search for Joe Rogen. It's not letting you. I would say, do you mean Joe Rogan? Oh, okay.

Yeah. And you're just going to let an AI trample all over you? Yep. Huh. That's what Joe Rugan would do. No, I found one. on LinkedIn. Okay.

Now click so he knows you've looked at his profile. I will. I was going to read out some information, but then I'm just doxing this man for no reason. No, there is a reason for antics. Leave Joe Rougan alone. Leave Joe Rougan alone. Yeah.

All right, Mason. We've also got, as I said, news of the week. There's time codes below if you don't jump to anything. There's that Spider-Man thing I mentioned. We've got some first test footage for the next Batman movie. Oh, that's right. We don't have the footage. Matt Reeves has the footage.

We have some stills. We have some stills. We do. That's true. That's a bit disappointing. Don't over promise here. Unless you want to under deliver. I do want under deliver.

Then that's perfect. Let's do that. Isn't that what they say for success? Over promise. Over promise. Under promise. Under promise. Underdiver.

Okay. Terrific. We can do that. Yeah. Wait. We can't do that. No. And we won't.

Perfect. But even less than you think we will. That's right. That's on a t-shirt. And you plan out of the apes movie? Is there? Oh. Yeah.

Oh. And trailers are away for both Evil Dead Burn and The Odyssey. That's right. Big trailer. Yeah, a couple of big trailers this week. Did you see The Odyssey up top of Mortal Kombat too? Yes. Me too.

My dad's going to come and get you. No, he says in an American way. My dad's going to come and get you. Gia, cow. Gidea. Let's start here. Joe Russo, who's one of the directors of Captain America Civil War and some Avengers movies and whatever.

And then some Netflix stuff that you probably probably didn't watch. I watched the Grey Man. Or did I? Did you? We've always, we've talked about this time. I haven't watched the Grey Man, but I did watch the last one. I did watch the Electric State.

No, you didn't. You hated the Grey Man. Yeah, it's bad. You said it was atrocious. I was trying to trick you. You did. Anyway, Joe Russo said that because in Spider-Man,

it's spoilers for the Spider-Man in the MCU. By the time we meet him, Uncle Ben is already dead. And in addition to that, then his Aunt May dies and said, with great bills comes great responsibility. Hang on, we don't know his Uncle Ben is dead. True.

Well, sometimes we don't understand implications. You know what I mean? Sometimes we just, unless somebody outright says it. Yeah, that's true. Some people say that our media literacy is dead. Who said that? Everyone has always said that.

All the reviews say that. They give us five stars and they say, I like that their media literacy is dead, that they have the media literacy of dead toddlers. That's what they say. Jesus. Yeah, that's every review. The last 10 reviews have all said that. All right.

Yeah, but five stars. I cannot stress this enough. Five-star reviews. We're eventually going to get to these reviews that people are going to put up because of this. And we won't know what's going on. It's been a year's time. Why did you say this about it? That's so mean.

So mean and weird. Yeah. Anyway, apparently, well, not apparently. He said this. If he blamed himself for Uncle Ben's death, I think he becomes a very different character. So in our minds, no, he wasn't responsible for Uncle Ben's death. That would have been a different interpretation, a more intense interpretation of the character. So, yeah, because that also makes sense because then he gets the great power,

great responsibility lesson from his dead aunt. Sure. And you don't need to double up on that, do you? No, but I mean, but look, again, he's learned the lesson that great power comes from great responsibility because he saved the universe. He helped save the universe with the Avengers. I don't really feel like he needs that lesson. Yeah. You know, also at the end of the...

Facts don't care about your feelings. At the end of the movie where he's also used his powers responsibly in an attempt to help people. Yeah. You know what I mean? I don't think he needs it there. I think you're being hypercritical. I think I'm being hypercritical, which is weird. because of the media literacy thing

that is true about us. Yeah, correct. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I don't. See, the thing about this, and again, we've been, we've talked about this before. I don't like the fact that Deb decided that this character has to be this absolute golden boy.

Yeah. Like, he's never done anything wrong. And it's like, no, that's the point of the character. Well, he didn't catch that grenade, which killed his aunt. He could have caught the grenade. That would have been better. What if that was a lesson? Peter.

You can't catch for shit. You should learn to catch a grenade. If you'd learn to catch a grenade before this, I wouldn't be dying now. I died an explosion. But I'm dying now. Willem Defoe has killed me. You dumb ass. You're dumb ass.

You dumb. Peter? Peter? Peter? I wish you'd dead beat Uncle Ben and told you how to catch and throw and stuff. But he didn't. Maybe we'll meet him in the future in a future movie. Not me.

I'm dying. I'm never coming back. Grenade got me. Grenade. Multiverse me. Maybe you'll see me. And you'll be sad. shed a single tear because I'll be there.

Yep, but I'm not your aunt, man. I'm a different, art, mate. I'm a different art, mate. Oh, yeah. Dice. I can see why they probably didn't do that. Yeah. It's not a terrible interpretation.

No. Of a classic scene from a movie. Anyway. Because it's the correct one. I think so. So anyway, we'll see where this goes. Maybe we'll get a flashback at some point or find out what happened, Uncle Ben.

Or he's alive, like he's in some versions. Yeah. Who's to say which? I think it's probably Adam Scott. Yeah? You just get Adam Scott again? Because he did it in. Yes.

I don't. And people love Adam Scott. And people will laugh because it's from Adam Webb, but they'll be like, but we love Adam Scott. And he's got his beard from the secret life of Walter Midd. That he can stick on? That he can stick on. He can stick on beard. Uncle Ben doesn't even always have a beard.

Often he doesn't have a beard. Yeah, but for this occasion, he puts it on. Okay. Yeah. Is it a joke? No, it's very seriously. It's very seriously and solemnly. Solomely.

Sticking on this Astro-Turf beard. Why didn't he even have to have a beard in that movie? I don't know, man. I don't, yeah, I don't know. That was probably, because in that movie he's like a super C. CEO hipster 2013 guy. Yeah, like a, I don't know. I don't know, man.

And they all work for Time magazine and whatever. They all work for Life magazine. Sorry, they work for Life magazine. Very different magazine. Nah. Mason, we also got a Batman camera test for the Batman part two. That's right. Matt Reeves, the director of that.

Cameras working, he said. Matt Reeves, he said cameras are on. Have anyone checked these? Because before we filmed this big movie, We should check if they work. Lens caps are off. Good job, everybody. Charge the battery.

I'm Matt Reeves. Charge the battery or get that guy that cranks the camera. I'm wearing a little waistcoat. Look at me. I'm a fancy lad. And the lens caps are off. And it's time to film the Batman too. Here we go.

I don't know if I like this guy? I think there's an element of truth to this good impression I've done of Matt Reeves. I've given him the energy that is correct. Yeah, I think his energy. No, it's the waistcoat, and I think I've given him the correct energy, but I've cranked it up. I've cranked it up to the Batman 2 levels. Saterical is what you're saying? It's very satirical.

Yes. Of Matt Reeves. Of Matt Reeves. Just to be clear. Anyway, it's hashtag snow ties. That's a winter wonderland. You didn't say that. Here in Batman 2 land.

Which I call Gotham City. So the setting of this is going to be a frosty Gotham City. Because we're saying again, Batman through the snow, people are like, finally Batman in the snow. This has already happened. It's happened in animated series and movies and whatever, animated movies, but also, of course, the Mr. Freeze Batman movie. And in the song, Batman through the snow. Batman through the snow. In a Batmobile, but it's white because of his...

Does he have a white Batmobile? Merchandising reasons. Do you have a white Batonabil? No. But for the snow? No, then how would he find it? He's got a clicker. It just comes up to him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, it's camera test. It's snowing in Gotham. So everybody's like, it's Ice Madhatter. Cold Manhattan is the villain in this. Someone said in the weekly planet Reddit, Snow Joker. Nice. Which I enjoy.

Nice. But do you think it's going to be like a Mr. Freeze or like a more realistic Mr. Freeze? I hope so. Yeah. That's what I'm hoping for. Like a good version of that. That would be great.

We'll see, I guess. The Batman saga news tweeted this. It said, my biggest fucking dream. in live action is a bloody Batman in the snow. I really hope this means... A bloody Batman in the snow. A bloody Batman in the snow. We don't know what his tone is there.

No, true. Well, then he's got a crying face emoji in a prayer hands. Does that help? That's good. Get over yourself. And then Matt Reeve said... Indeed.

It is. Thank you. Heart. Put a heart. So that's what we're going to get. I would like to see an updated Batman suit. something closer to the comics. Yep, I want some gold accents.

Ooh, gold accents. Yep. You're doing a gold accent for that, Matt Reeves. Thank you. Oh, Matt Reeves. It's time to film the Batman. Hope I finished the script. Oh, did I?

I think he did. No, we're winging it. What year did that come out? Like 2021? Maybe. I feel like it did. 2022. You're actually right.

It was 2022. Not that long, I guess. Well, it'll be five years by the time this comes out. But again, does this mean, does camera testimony? I mean 100% we're going right now. We're filming right now? I'm pretty sure it's about to start. Okay.

Yeah. What's James Gunner got to say about this? Nothing. He's suspiciously absent from the internet ever since he got kicked out of the universe by Zach Snyder. That's really interesting. Yeah. Probably afraid.

This is your first episode. Don't even worry about whatever that I just said. Yeah. It's a whole thing. In fact, if this is your first episode, just ignore everything we've set up until this point. Except that Matt Reeves thing. Now the serious podcast. But the Matt Reeves thing is.

That's good. That's canon. That is canon. That's right. All right. Now let's do a serious part of the podcast. Goodbye, everyone. See you next time.

I've been Matt Reeves. Say hi to your mom for me. Matt Reeves. You stole that. By deadline. No, I didn't. Just like you stole Batman. You didn't bet that.

Deadline says that there's a new Planet of the Apes movie in the works. Okay. So we got one a few years back. Correct. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. It was set a couple hundred years after the season. or ones and whatever or whatever it is. Probably, yeah.

Really good. That was directed by Wes Ball, who's not coming back because he's making the Zelda movie and then probably another Zelda movie. So we're getting Wes Baldwin? No, Mason. No, he's busy being in Limbiscuit. I don't know, he's a successful band.

He's got all those looks. Yeah. So this time around, it's been... Wes Bentley. What's that? It's Wes Bentley? Sorry. James, you recently started a free HBO Max trial

on Prime Video. Who did this? Who's signing me up to? a pride video. One of my kids, Mason. Oh, secretly. Yeah. Oh, this is you.

They're going to get a talking to tomorrow. Seven day free trial. Then it's $12 a month. Yeah. Interesting. They are in the other room. I could just go and ask them. And record it for content?

And record it for content. Yeah. And be screaming at my kids. Exactly right. Yeah. I got to fucking deal with another thing. And I know I complain about this all the time because everything's an app and a thing and a connection and your password and then it sends you a code.

a phone. Folks, we're getting another classic James, it's not a rand. It's the end of the rams. People love the classic James, there's just ramp it up now.

It's going to get, you know what, I'm going to see if I can cancel this during the show. Wow. I'm going to do it right now. Did they, did they just subscribe to?

I don't even know if it was like it. Which one? Prime video or HBO Max? Do you think your son is watching the HBO Max? Do you think your son is watching the HBO Max? I also have HBO Max. Like I have that separately,

which is annoying. Could you have done this? But no, because some of my family also. I have access to my Amazon account. So it's probably my, could have been one of my stupid brothers. Could be.

Anyway, where's ball busy? Where's snipes? What about that? That's good. Hang on, I got it. Yep.

I'm carefully right now. Wow. I hope this ruined somebody's day. Okay, so you've got options. You can remind me in three days before renewal. Oh, yes. Turn off auto renew and watch until May 17th or keep current subscription. There should just be a big button that says, I don't want this.

Oh, now it's like, oh, why do you want to leave? Why don't you want this anymore? You've got to put in my stupid brother probably did this. All right, because you are. No, I'm not going to say. I'm just going to leave it. Nice. Okay, I've done it.

I'm sorry, everybody. I'm sorry. Can't believe this has interrupted Planet of the Apes news. We love the Planet of the Apes franchise. This isn't my fault. This is the universal something. I don't know. Anyway, this is now going to be directed by Matt.

Reeks? Jackman. Here I come. No, Matt. It's time to direct a Planet of the Oaks movie again. You're busy. Because I did, you did, you did some ones. I wrote him or something.

You did the last ones. I'm back. Guess who's back? Oh, Revesy. Here he is. You're not back. Here he is. Matt Shackman is going to director who directed Fantastic Four First Steps.

Hey, Matt, what are you doing here? I'm the Matt's supposed to be directed this. He wouldn't know. You get out of here. I'll kill you, Matt Shackman. You know what I didn't like about Fantastic. I'm going to kill you. Sorry, I lost the voice, but it's back to perfect now.

No, this is good. But you know, they also, they cut out the apes from Fantastic Four. They did, it's true. There was an ape scene with John Malkovich and everything. I mean, and that's, you know, that's prior performance. Who's to say he won't cut all the apes out of this? Yeah. Right?

We don't know that. We don't know. I wouldn't trust him to do this. Can you also watch a version of that last movie where it's just all the mocap suits? You can, it's true. Yeah, so that's pretty cool, I guess. That reminds me, apes, primates. I, unrelated, but a host of it.

When you supposed to do this last week? Yes, but it's okay. I've found a loophole. Okay. Because Prime mates, hosted by Matt Stewart, I was on an episode of Dave Warnacky's podcast book cheat. Not only that. I was on two episodes.

Of Dave Warnockke's bookchate? It was a big two-part episode. We talked about the Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes story, Valley of Fear. But it was too much banter and too many riffs. So we broke it up into two, two bits.

I feel like, loophole. Nah, man, this is like Hunger Games three and four. I don't think this should have been two podcasts. No, no, we always plan. We could have easily cut into one. We started and we said we've always planned, we're going to do this in two, aren't we gentlemen? Two parts, gentlemen.

And then you left that in the episode. Yeah, it's definitely there. And if you listen to both and you don't hear it, listen again, you'll find it. I suspect there's going to be a massive drop off on that second episode, and rightly so. You think so? Because you are screwing people for content. In one way, they're both free. Oh.

Well, time is not free, Mason. It's a luxury for some. It's free if your time's not valuable. If you don't value yourself. and that's the audience we want to cultivate. People with low self-esteem who don't believe their time has any value. Yeah, that's probably a bunch of overlap there.

Yeah. It's undeniable. This Planet of the Apes movie, the next one will be written by Josh Friedman who worked on that last Fantastic Four movie. Again, no Apes. We worked on Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes? There you go. You think he's going to insist?

Maybe. Listen, do not cut my apes out of this, Shackman. You son of a bitch, I work hard on those apes. They're called Da Vinci and... All my apes are gone, he said. And I don't want that. All my apes, my precious. Apes?

He worked on Kingdom of Planet the Apes. He worked on Terminated Dark Fate and also Terminated the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Now, this isn't confirmed what I'm about to say, but I want you to take this to the bank. Sources say to deadline that this will not be a continuation of the most recent Kingdom of Planet of the Apes movie, but a new story that Shackman and Freedmen are developing. So there you go. Does it say within the same universe? I'm assuming it's the same universe.

They're doing the astronaut thing, aren't that? I would hope so. That's what they're doing, right? Yeah, because so at the end of the last movie, we discover that there is a sort of underground bunker outpost of humans that haven't been affected by that virus that makes you dumb, right? Which I call social media.

Dude. Yeah, man. You skewered them. You skewed all our dumb listeners. I lined up all our dumb listeners and I skewed them. I skewed and skewed them. That I don't mind. They got nothing else to do.

That's exactly right. Because you said their time is worthless, right? Yep. Wow. I don't think that's true. It's interesting. I think I appreciate that they've taken the time to listen to this bullshit. Are you saying our time is worthless?

That is obviously true. It is very obviously true, isn't it? But you still got them. Yeah, I got them. Oh, I got them. So it's worth it to me. Yeah, that's right. Anyway, what were you saying?

Yeah, so they're in a bunker. A bunker. And the idea was, and there was one woman who was immune to that virus, and so she was out and about. Yeah. And then they... But why was she immune? I don't remember. I don't remember either.

Did they give her a cure or something? No, I think she was just naturally immune. Oh, it must be nice. I'm naturally immune. I'm whoever that person is. It must be nice. I was in The Witcher maybe, the TV series, maybe. I don't know that.

I'm naturally immune. But didn't they give her information and maybe her family was out there or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because she had to go into the ape world. Had to go to the ape world. Who's doing this ape stuff? So I guess they're like, that's enough to that stuff. It's not of that stuff.

Yeah, me too. But it's astronaut time. It's astronaut time. The astronauts are coming back. It's probably is. Probably Adam Scott with that beard. Yeah. He's put it back on.

He's like, man, I've been out in space for a long time. I've got this beard I put on. I went space crazy. I can't grow a beard, but I'm to indicate that I've been gone a while. I've put this beard on. Put this fake beard on. They gave it to us for emergencies.

NASA gave it to us. I said, if you're gone for longer than you think, put this beard on. I'm from the National Association of Space. Apes. Oh, no. What a twist. What a twist. Who's the twist for, though?

Because we know the twist. It's a twist, though, isn't it? No. Apes. But it wasn't before, as he says. It wasn't before. Yeah, before I was here. Before it was something else.

None of this was going on. No, but now it's going on. This is new to me. Yeah. And I'm looking at the space shuttle. And on the side, it's Abraham Lincoln, but he's a gorilla. That wasn't there before. That wasn't there when I took off.

What happened? And there was a wormhole. Could be something to do with that? Yeah. But they renamed him. They're now called an ape hole. Yeah. What does that mean?

I don't know. Anyway, so look forward to all of that. Yeah, yeah. And return to gastroids. What do you think about this? The resurrected AI corpse of Charlton Heston? It's good. It's good.

I think it's good. They got that character wrong. If he's coming back at his love of that ape stuff, I think they fuck that up. No, but that's the twist. They put the wrong prompt in. Unless you're right, it is the twist. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway, so I, this is a good creative team. So we'll see. It is a shame that it doesn't carry on, but, you know, it is what it is. And what am I going to do about it? Nothing. Trailers a hoi. Coward work.

Yeah, you think I should dedicate any time to this? I think you should do something about it. We've dedicated way too much time into this. I canceled a subscription service during this segment of the show. Because our time is worthless. Exactly. Yeah. Trailers are high.

Oh, tingling. What's it for? Evil then burn. Oh, that's right. God, this looks mean. It's mean again. It's mean again. Mean is bad.

I mean, it never really went. We got Evil Dead Rise. That was pretty mean. Then Lee Cronin came back for Lee Cronin's The Mummy. And he said, I'm mean. I'll make it slightly less mean. And then, is he directing this one also? No.

Oh. This is actually, I wrote it down. Wait, no, I didn't. This was a director. He'd done like one other horror film. Oh, I'm liking these Evil Dead movies. Well, I'm going to say, like, the modern Evil Dead movies, but there's this, the last one.

And there's like the 2013 one. And they're sort of linked. And they're also sort of linked to the Bruce Campbell ones. Correct. So he made a movie called Infested in 23.

Okay. It's a French director called Sebastian Vanichek. Oh, very good. So yeah, but it looks awful and mean and gross and awful. And there are links.

There are characters in this that are in the other, the reboot one. There's a character for me who would rise in this in the lake, I think, or somebody say. But, you know,

it's the usual stuff of gore and trauma and pulling a thing out of you or whatever. And guess what I'm your mom? There's a bit where, and I'm going to kill you. Yeah,

there's a bit where a guy gets slammed onto an open cutlery thing. Yeah, so that's right. Yeah. That's why you always put your knives and forks down. Yeah, don't put them up. That's crazy. You wouldn't, there's no circumstance. There'd better be an establishing scene in this movie.

Where he goes, why are you doing that? Well, it's just what I do. But why do you do it like that? My dead mum always said, put your knives up. But don't you cut yourself every time you go to get the knives and force? Yeah, but my dead mum said to do that. You're dead mum. I sure hope she doesn't come back and fling me on them.

Oh, no, she's done it. She's doing it. it. Well. Yeah. Westing ape. That wasn't there before. Before what? Just before. Before what? What's the point where you last saw that definitively when that said Westinghouse? You know, I hadn't really thought about it. Maybe on the box when we got the when we got the dishwasher delivered. Okay. Maybe it said Westing House. But I don't really remember. Maybe it always said Westing ape. Well, exactly. Anyway, this is on July 10. I will say this one.

Yeah. And then we got a big new trailer for The Odyssey. Christopher Nolan's next movie. He did an interview I saw with Stephen Colbert where he talked about it and they're like, well, are they really gods and whatever and magic in this? And he's like, well, you have to wear this for the movie? Yes is the answer. They're right there.

Unless it's an hallucination. There's a big fucking cyclops running around. The cyclops guy's just out there in the forest. Yeah, why is he eyed sideways? Why is he doing that? Yeah. Yeah. This also has, so yeah, also there's cyclopses.

There's big men. Very big men. There's wooden horse. Big men in anachronistic armor probably. Probably. Doesn't seem accurate. I don't think so. It doesn't seem accurate to me.

Well, speaking of not accurate, people are like, why is everybody in this movie American? And I guess the answer is because you're just used to hearing English accents. Why is, why, I guess why are the accents in, you know, all other movies from this era, British, yeah. I don't care. Yeah. It is weird making Tom Olland do one. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

With Robert Pattinson, who's also. British. But maybe, you know what it was? I think they hired John Berenthal and they went, this guy can't do any other accents. I see. We're just going to have to work around this guy, I guess. You're blaming Johnny B. Yeah, I am actually. Wow. Yeah, I don't mind. Wow. Yeah. This looks great. I agreed. It's apparently, it's, the runtime is not as insane as it would have you believe. What do you believe it to be? Uh, 19 hours. It's actually a bit longer than that. Wow. No, it's, uh, it's, it's 180 minutes. No, That was Oppenheimer.

No, fucking AI's... It is under three hours, I think. Google Ape I. James. Yeah. Google Ape I. Rang time is shorter than Oppenheimer. Okay.

Google Ape A, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's interesting as well that people on the internet are like, Christopher Nolan's clearly forgotten how to direct a movie with all these inaccuracies. Maybe there's a reason for him. I don't know. Do you think he's lost his mind suddenly and he's just like, I don't know? Yeah.

I don't care. Just whatever. You know, I used to be all about meticulous planning of this sort of stuff, but now I just don't care. Now I'm like any old shit will go. Just whack it all together. Yeah. You know? Those guys aren't actually bigger than the regular actors.

I just filmed it at a funny angle. I just set the camera down and I just said whatever. Yep. And they turned out bigger and I won't just leave that. Just whatever. Say they're bigger, I don't know. Big Greek blokes or something. Or not Greek?

I don't even know. Yeah. I just said, do everybody do American accents. It doesn't matter. I don't even say that. At the start of the shoot, I just, said, okay, who wants to be a goody and who wants to be a baddie? And I just moved to different sides. And just whatever, it doesn't matter. Switch in the middle of the movie, I don't care.

Whatever. We could call it a bit of trail. It doesn't matter. But we won't even explain it. I don't care. You getting all this by the way? Yeah. Do what you don't. I don't care. Put in the middle of the movie. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, maybe. It's also, it's, according to him, it's a lot of practical stuff, a lot of in-camera stuff. Apparently a lot of the Cyclops is practical, which I guess they're using, I don't know, reprojection, mirrors and whatever.

You know, because this is a throwback to like the Ray Harry Housen movies. Because he was like, well, I want to do something like that, but on like a huge budget. Yeah. Which is, and what's this, like a $2 million dollar budget or something like that, I assume? Yeah, why don't. I assume. How much money even?

$250 million. You'd think you'd put more effort into it to just whatever, film, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it doesn't have to. He made Oppenheimer on Oscars. It did. Yeah. So, yeah, anyway, I'm looking forward to this.

It's out July 17th. That's just after Evil Dead Burn. Anyway, I just think they're doing all-American accents because it's just like, just do whatever. Like, just do American accent. It's irrelevant. It's irrelevant. It would only be distracting if the movie was bad.

Are we all expecting them to be British accents because Christopher Olin himself is British? Yeah, but like, nobody's British and Batman, the Batman movie. That's true. Even though there's a bunch of British people in it. That's true. Gary Oldman. Gary Oldman.

Christian Bale from Wales. Yep. Others probably. Sure. Yeah. Glenn Powell's in The Dark Night Rises. That's true. I think he's British.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. We're going to move it along. Do you want to talk about Mortal Kombat 2? Yes. All right. Do you want to come and listen to me shout to my kids about HBO Max?

Yes. Even though they probably didn't do it. Probably didn't do it. Because they're watching Sonic 3, I think. They're watching Sonic 3. Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat 2. 2.

Not the game. No. Or the last Mortal Kombat 2 move. But we could review that if you wanted to. We did already. The movie at least. No, I mean the Mortal Kombat 2 the game. It's pretty good.

Pretty good. It's one of my favorite Mortal Kombat games early days. I'm more of a Mortal Kombat 4 guy, as you know. That's right. Which makes my opinion valid because this movie is also in three dimensions. Oh, and it's also the fourth one. It's also the... Yeah, I guess it is.

The fourth one. There you go, I got it right. Yeah. Great. Good for me. Anyways, on a budget of $80 million. Okay, sure. The last one in 2021, which feels like... a prequel to this at this point.

The way this is put out. That was made for 55. Okay. 80 feels very reasonable for this kind of thing. You don't really want to go much higher than that, especially because in the US, it's probably going to debut around $40 million, the same as,

it's going to have the same numbers for the Devil West Party two. Oh, okay. Not at the same time, I should say, in that second weekend. Yeah. And then around the world it's going to make between $60 and $80 million in total. It's not going to be massive at same. We don't know what kind of legs it's going to have

Like is this just up top Is it just Mortal Kombat fans going to see it And then it will drop off But there's no big movie next week And then the week after that There's the Mandelorian versus Groglet I think there is a big movie next week I don't think there is something soon

Yeah Mandelorian versus Groglet The week after That's already out That is already out yes Yeah My parents saw it they liked it But I guess nobody except us Who let's going

Well let's watch Devil Race Prada And also Mortal Kombat too I'm maybe cultured gentlemen would That's true Maybe cultured gentlemen Of course, Director Simon McCoyd returns the last one, Australian director. And he wants me to ask you what you think the story was. Oh, come on, Simon McQuod.

Give me a break, man. What are you doing to me? He just wants to know if you're paying attention. I'm not paying attention. All right. So we've got to do a Mortal Kombat again. Yeah. Because if...

Well, they didn't do a Mortal Kombat in the last one. They didn't get to it. They didn't ultimately get to Mortal Kombat. So, yeah. They were too busy teaching Mr. Armadillo how to use his mini-chlorian powers. Exactly. So in this one, they've got to teach Johnny Cage how to do his midi-chlorian powers. But they don't really.

No, they don't really. You're just like, you just got to believe that you can do it. Can you fight? And he's like, sort of. Yeah, I did. Yeah. Do you look the same as you did in 1996? Yes, I look exactly the same.

That's right. Then you're going to be all right. That's all right. Do you want to get like a stunt double to come in and do all the flips and whatever for you, Carl Urban? I mean, Johnny Cage? I do actually, yes. I would love that. I would love that more than anything.

But not just in the bit where I'm in a fake movie in the movie. Do you want to just do it in the regular movie? Absolutely, I would. Do you think Carl Urban... That would be peachy keen for me. Do you think Carl Urban really learned how to do the splits? No. Or the shadow kick or whatever?

Maybe he learned how to do the shadow kick. Of those two, shadow kick for sure. It's more likely he learned to do a shadow kick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They could put him on like an apple box on wheels. And they could, you know, teach him how to put his leg up and then they could just push him. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway, there's, you know, the outworld, there's a tournament. Yep. Is it called Mortal Kombat? It's called Mortal Kombat. How many times you have to win it before you get to take someone's place? If you win it ten times, you get to take somebody's realm. And guess what?

The bad guys, they took adenia. They took that. That's one of the good guys. Sardinia? Sardinia, that's right. Now they've got all the sardines. Yeah. Oh, no.

They also get marbelia. That's how they have all the marbles. Oh, no. Yeah, that's right. And now. Do they get necrophilia? They've skipped that one. Why are you fighting for that, though?

If you won't, I don't think... Yeah, it's interesting. Also, you don't need to fight for it. You could just... Yeah, yeah. You've got plenty of necklaces. Why would you need to go to neclete? Exactly.

You don't even go anywhere. Why would you go to necletia? She's got that necklace. But anyway, um... You're talking about Katana? I am talking about Katana. But anyway, EarthRama's lost nine times. And so this is the big one.

Yeah, get it together. Yeah, right? So the good guys... You're lost. Who died already? So the good guys are got to get some more last minute champions. Yeah. They've got to get an extra champion.

because Kuglau died in the last one. A bunch of people died in the last one. Guess what? They're all back. I forgot also. Oh, Kugnlau died. I forgot that. Because I did not rewatch this and I don't remember much about it. Yeah.

So... How you choose a chosen one, James, is that they have a birth mark on them, except in this, but they just don't. So that was it last time, was it? In the last one... Was it a Mortal Kombat shaped birth mark? Vagely. Yeah.

Because Mr. Armadillo man had one. Yeah. But in this one, you just get chosen. The elder gods just choose you. And they've chosen Johnny Cage. But he's like, I refuse the call to advance. Kids don't want me to do Mortal Kombat anymore. I mean, movies or whatever.

Yeah. But I guess I'll do it. I guess I'll do a Mortal Kombat. Yeah. Because he has to, because he's literally teleported into a Mortal Kombat at one point. Anyway, everybody's back. All your faves.

Even the dead ones. And who else is... Well, Goro's not back. Gora's not back. Voice of Angus Sampson. Did you know that? That I did not know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wow. Also, someone who did a voice in the last movie is a full character in this, but it's a different character. Who's that? It's Damon Harriman. Oh, who was he the voice of? He was the voice of one of those other freaks.

One of the bad guy freaks, hang on, I'll look it up. Because he's now Kwan Chi. He's Kuan Chi now, yeah, exactly. He's little Kuan Chi. That's right. Anyway, because the director's Australian. Yeah. These are filmed in Australia.

Yeah, yeah. And they've got some Australians in them. That's correct. Yeah. Anyway, they've got to do a Mortal Kombat. Also, when Shao Khan defeated, won the Mortal Kombat against Adania, he took the King's daughter, Kitana, as his daughter. And so she's grown up now.

And she's like, I'm working for the bad guys. But am I? No. No. Absolutely not. And then whatever. Now, look, I'm really, I'm not a fan of like, well, we made this for the fans. Because, you know, it's an excuse for making a stupid movie.

He was the voice of Cabal, Damon Harriman. Cabal. He was in the last movie? He was in the last movie? Yeah. Fuck me. Yeah. That feels like a character you wouldn't put in a Mortal Kombat movie.

That's right, yeah. But yeah, you know, it's that like, oh, we made this for the fans. They put Armadillo Man in it. They'll put anybody in a Mortal Kombat movie. We'll talk about Armadillo Man and what's going on. But it's like, that always feels like, yeah, oh, we made a stupid movie. It's not for you. But I feel like this is a stupid movie that's made for...

That anyone can enjoy. Yeah, that's made for the fans, but it is more the more better for it, I feel. It's probably the best Mortal Kombat movie. I think it is, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which isn't to say it's great necessarily. No, I don't think so.

It's a decent amount of fun, I think. What I would say is some of your faves may die. Yep. But also, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it and you'll know. Like, I reckon you could just look at the poster and go, lives, lives dies, lives, lives, dies, and you'd be correct. Yeah.

Just look at it and just go, think about it for a moment. Yep. And you'll know. That's right. You'll be correct. Yep. And we love you for it. Yeah.

So Cole has been pushed to the background for Johnny Cage and to a lesser extent, Cano. Also, and we talked about this when we, I'm sure when we talked about the trailers for this, but again, this is essentially the same structure as the last one. But they actually do a Mortal Kombat. Yeah, they actually do a Mortal Kombat. And also, instead of new guy, new to the franchise being inducted into Mortal Kombat, they just went, well, let's do it with a character. People actually know.

It is bizarre that they went with Cole Young the last time around. Because I remember from, like, he's totally. fine as in the role. But why wouldn't you just make him Johnny Cage or Kenchi or any of the sub-Zeroes? Well, that was the rumor, wasn't it, that it was going to be, the reveal was going to be. Because he's related to Scorpion as well.

Scorpion's descendant or something. But he doesn't have Scorpion powers. No, he's got Amadillo Man powers. He's got Amidlo and Pan Powers. The rumor, I think, wasn't it going to be that at one point he was going to become a Cage fighter and change his name to Johnny Cage. Oh, that's good. But then the movie came out and they're like, no, actually, Johnny Cage.

Exactly. I think maybe it was because, and we're still talking about, and we're still talking about the first movie here, because they didn't want the main character, they didn't want to be like, well, Scorpion's the main character because then the fans would be like, but he's not my main character.

I don't like this. But also fans know that each movie is, or game, I should say, is there are different focuses on different characters. Let's talk about focus on characters. Who's the main character in this? Well, yeah, that's a great question because I don't really feel it is Johnny Cage.

Yeah. It's not really any, but Sonia's pushing. to the back end so's Jack, so's Luke Kang Raiden gets Professor X'd fairly early on. Yes. So I guess it's Johnny Cage is it, Kano?

Ketana. It's Katana. Oh, Ketana. Oh, right. Shit. Yeah. No, it is. You're right. But they're in a huge swast of this where she's just not in it. Yeah. God, you're absolutely right. And there's moments where you're like, what happened? Oh, yeah, Kano's in this. I forgot. He's back now, you know? But I mean, that's the problem with an ensemble. I

shudder to think how they're going to do that with the Street Fighter movie, which we got a trailer for beforehand and so many more characters which is good yeah love it yeah but yeah so you've got the new characters of johnny cage katana and jade who's her bodyguard yes and you know and they have to all run around and do a tournament and whatever and whatnot i think all the game stuff is like i mean a lot of it's really obvious uh-huh there might be like sound effects or particular fatalities or whatever or ed boon or ed boon is just in it and they go hi ed boon he goes hi i work at this bar i'm ed boon well um

You're a real boon to this bar. Thank you. Sir. I think you mean to say I'm a real Ed Boon to this bar. I didn't mean that. Ed, you don't know what acting is. Stop it. I don't need to know what acting is.

I'm Mortal Kombat, man. That's sure he is. You know, like, there's a moment where there's an acid pit stage. Yeah, yeah. And the camera just pulls back and it's just the video game. Yes. Uh-huh. So, like, 2D fighting secrets.

Uh-huh. There's also, you know, again, fatalities. there's a bit where, like, at the end of a fighter, a fighter is like wavering where they wait for you to do a fatality on them and whatever it is. There's things like that that are going on. How do you feel about the fatalities?

Oh, yeah, it's pretty good on the whole. I don't know, I think you could go more. You could go bigger. The problem with the doubt, I wonder if we covered this same ground when we talk about the previous Mortal Kombat movie, but it's a universe in which in the games, every character dies horribly.

Every time. But then they're back for the sequel. Yeah. So none of them really are canonical. Yeah. So in this, like, but you have to, you have to bear in mind that there are actors that people want to see again or have ironclad contracts to return. And how do you manage that? Can you kill them and bring them back as a ghost or whatever?

Or does that work canonically? Or like, you know, so there are, so there are only so many people you can kill. Yeah. Because, and what if you kill someone's absolute favor? Or, you know. Well, everybody's got someone's absolute favorite, man. Mine's Armadillo, man. He's good.

It's weird. I don't think they even put him in games, did they? Well, maybe they did. I think they were planning to, and then they didn't. Right, okay. Yeah. And then they'll also be like, oh, yeah, his sub-zero sort of. We'll see, if you go to the cast list on Wikipedia, it says Lewis Tan is Cole Young,

and Cole Young does not have a clickable link. Well, there you go. That says everything you need to know. So true. But also, like, I think, again, making him a more minor character in this, it just, just, works for the movie. This movie very much feels like we absolutely heard all your criticisms and we're just

going to do... And we're afraid of you. We're afraid of you and we're going to do all of that. And I don't think the movie's worse off for it. I think they took criticism on board and made something. A better movie and also fans seem to be enjoying something that I think fans definitely enjoyed in the last movie. I know I certainly did was

Josh Lawson as Cano. Incredible. And obviously we know from the trailer he's back but he was killed. You got a You've got a big spike through the head. We see it in this. Yeah, yeah. But of course, they couldn't go without him, so they brought him back. Yep.

With necromancy magic or something. And he's back and he's foul mouth again and he's funny. Yeah. It's a very Australian-flavored offensive man. Absolutely. I think it's a great bit. Paring him up with Carl Urban or whoever else is. I think from time to time, it is a little much.

I think maybe they're riffing too much on screen. They're riffing too much on the set and they're just like, well, we've got to keep all this in. But, uh... Well, yeah, you're going to make the run. What'd you think about a Baraka in this? Oh, yeah. Or a Baraka. Mm, uh, good fun.

Good fun. Looks like him. He's in Furiosa. The actor who plays Baraka? Correct. There you go. It's probably a bunch of Furiosa people in this. I'd be, I'd bet my bottom dollar nice.

Would you bet your bottom? Yeah, maybe. But yeah, as I think I was saying earlier, and then they'll just be like, oh, he's Scorpion. Yes. We're putting Scorpion in and he's going to fight Sub-Zero, but it's not really Sub-Zero. It's whoever Sub-Zero becomes because he died in the last one. Noob Sybot.

Yeah. Classic Mortal Kombat law. Yeah, classic just reverse someone's name. That's right. So he's a noob cybot. But that was good as well because noob cybot can go out of himself. He can go out of himself. Would we be all so lucky to go out of ourselves?

Absolutely. I think all in all, I enjoyed this. It felt brisk and fun and it was entertaining. And the fighting's pretty good. It does also feel like, oh, they made like three sets. It does. They recycle a bunch of them. You know what?

That was going to be one of my criticisms, and it still is, and it remains, I'm going to do it right now. Is it some green screen stuff? There's a lot of just standing around. When they're not fighting, it's just people in a room standing. Yeah. There's a dirt pit scene. The acid pit wasn't real at all, obviously. There's like an arena kind of you see at the start.

There's a sort of a town. Yeah, and they use that like multiple times for probably three different fights there. Yeah. There's some interesting stuff that is clearly pulled directly. from the games like there's you know there'll be a test your might there'll be a kind of uh

you know like a like a uh sort of an Asian flavoured kind of you know yeah bridge with a with a big blue warp behind it or something like that you know it's great looks pretty good and then some of it's just like oh yeah we're in a we're in a room I also thought the villain was

like pretty menacing like the he has a fight at the very opening of the movie and it felt kind of the mountain versus Pedro Pascar. Oh yeah. It felt like that kind of terrifying giant guy versus a little guy. Yeah,

like a menacing villain that is given invincibility at some point but you probably didn't even really need to do that. You know? Yeah. Because you know there's that moment where he gets... A magical amulet. He gets the magic lamelet

that he took from the Fasten and the Furious characters. That's right. So he's just invincible. But it's like, I don't think he needs to be. I don't think he needs to have that. But whatever. Anyways, I'm going to say best. I'm going to say best movie ever. I'm going to say best movie or also. Nortal combat. You know what? I also

like the, I like the idea of Johnny Cage being a washed up guy. Yes. That was funny. I thought that was sold really well. Is that what he is though in the games often now? I think it depends where you are in the continuity. But I like the and you know, the bit where he's, you know, he was supposed to be Van Dam initially in the original game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like just him at the fan convention, you know. Yeah. It was a fun. But he's not on TikTok so people don't love that. That's exactly. Right. He's not an influence. I also like the fake Johnny Cage movie. Terrific, yes. We see a bit, because this obviously is from New Line Cinema or, you know,

which is a Warner Brothers, whatever company in it. Whatever. Yeah, but we see in the universe, he did a bunch of movies in the 90s also released through New Line Cinema. And yeah, there's a great bit. And it's very much Stephen Seagal, later period Stephen Seagal kind of vibe where he's sort of twirling a staff, you know, vaguely and everybody just kind of falls over. Yeah, absolutely.

No, there's a, and he's doing the splits flip over a rocket and all that sort of style. That was a great bit. A great. And when he jumps over the rocket, the way it hits the helicopter at that angle and whatever, it doesn't make any sense. It's fantastic. Yeah. Yeah, I think we were skeptical of Carl Urban in this because it's like, well, is he a martial artist? I was believed in him.

And whatever. And, but yeah, he's, he's, and I think this work. He takes a lot of shots at Lord of the Rings. He does. A franchise he was in. He does, yeah. But also, like, he's very, his physicality is. really stiff.

Unless he's played by the stuntman, which I think is kind of funny as well. Well, like, it's either him, like, awkwardly... Is that part of the meta commentary? That's what I mean, like, flailing, like... It's not, but it could have been. Maybe heavy punches, or he's doing, like, huge karate flips.

I bet they thought about it, and they're like... Who cares? This is too much... This is one more... This is one layer more than we're prepared to handle in this instance, you know what I mean? Yeah, maybe you're right. Anyway, best movie ever, let's do it. Even more spoilers.

Time for big spoilers. First of all, um... it doesn't matter if anybody dies because you can visit them and we're just going to bring them back yeah they're all in hell or heaven or you can just bring them back yeah you just bring them back

there's a moment yeah like in the previous movie I guess if you brought somebody back from the dead they came back to some sort of revenant creature did he kind of steal that in the last movie I assume he did that amulet that makes you magic and indesible I don't even know if he did yeah I think maybe it's just he just had it and it was convenient for the plot but yeah they just

bring there's just a sort of hand wavy thing of like yeah we just brought him back the way he got brought back because he's just normal now. Yeah, he doesn't have much of a soul. And he's got a laser eye now as well. Did he not have a laser eye on the last one? He did, but Sonia stabbed it out.

Nice. But at the end of the movie, they're just like, oh yeah, we won Mortal Kombat, so that's handy. But we've also captured Damon Harriman, so he's just going to bring back all our dead friends. So it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. We're just drag him around.

Oh yeah, Louis Tang gets his head smashed him with a hammer. He does. A bit of fun. It is. Not Mr. Armadillo. Amadillo your head. Yeah. Also, but I mean, also, we knew he was because Shao Khan just got the amulet that made him mortal.

And then Louis Tan comes in and he's like, I'm ready. He's like, I'm going to do this from my family. I don't even care if I die. I mean, not care if I die. Even though you saw my daughter in the last movie and I killed Goro. Smash. Smash and dead and died. Jacks also dies.

Yes. Gets a axe through the neck and whatever. Kung Lao kills, the Kung Lao is killed by Liu Kang. Again. That was a fun fatality. just drop him onto a spinning hat. I think that was my favorite hat. My favorite hat.

It's also my favorite fight in the movie. Including all the hats that I wear over here? The only hats are stupid. You look like an idiot. But also, that is clearly a fight where... Well, that's the end of my 52 weeks of hats experiment. Ended at week 51. That's clearly a fight where it's not a guy versus a CGI guy

or two people who can't... We've clearly just learned martial arts for this movie. It's two guys who are athletic enough and have done martial arts training where it feels it feels like a more fluid kind of fight and that's fun with the fire and the hat and all of that it's probably the best fight yeah anyway Shao Khan

he thinks because he's got his immortal thing oh yeah they so they cut Raiden's throat and they steal all the magic in him yes and then they give it to Shao Khan Shir Khan yes and so he's immortal and can do anything and whatever yeah yeah yeah and then but luckily Katana's a double agent

and she's like okay well if you get it if you go into his balance you get the amulet, you destroy the amulet, Raiden's power will come back to Raiden, and then Shaqal might be immortal anymore. Yeah. And then it'll all come together in a satisfying ending it all at the same time.

Yep. And it'll be sorted. Yeah. Hopefully Jacks doesn't die in the meantime, and Lewis Tan. Doesn't die in the meantime. But it doesn't matter because we'll bring him back later. Yeah, it doesn't matter.

We'll go get him in the next movie if they make one. Also, if you've got a necromancer who can bring all your dead friends back, what are you going to do next? Bring your mom's back? I guess you could bring your mom's back. Bring your dad's back? Yeah, maybe. Or your friends?

everybody you know who's ever died. Yeah. You're going to do a little tour of everywhere you've ever lived and bring back all your dead mates. Is that what you would do with it? Maybe. You don't have any dead mates. That's what I'm saying.

So what's your argument? I don't know. That you want to bring back all your dead mates that you don't have. I could bring back some dead people and be like, do you want to view mates? Oh yeah. That's not a bad idea. Not a bad idea at all.

But it's like it's, again, it's that weird game breaking element. Oh, so you're just going to bring back people who died in the Mortal Kombat tournament. are you? Yeah. Some of those, and which would make sense if it's like, you should be called

immortal combat? Maybe. But I, if, if that would make sense if like, I don't know, you got killed

with a magic fireball or whatever, but what if somebody just ripped your head off? Yeah. Like, you shouldn't be able to come back from that with the magic.

What if you, what if you turn into a fall? Oh, Lou Kang dies. He flies into space. I forgot that. My planet needs me. Bye.

I'm, I'm the main character, but I don't want to do this one. That's right. I also not the main character because I wasn't in the last one either. Yeah. Yeah.

He flies away, doesn't he? He flies away. He flies away. He flies away. He's beautiful hair. Um, so apparently the future of this is in early planning days. Okay. Is there anything you particularly want to see?

Uh, cyborgs. Oh, yeah. We're probably due for that. Syborgs. I did those in moral common annihilation. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Oh, they did. I would like to see Sub Zero's brother Sub Zero. Other Sub Zero. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who's the mainline sub Zero. Sub Sub Sub Zero.

Thank you. He's probably the. main sub-zero. Sub-sub-0. Do-do-do-do, do, do, do, do, et cetera. He's the main one for the most part, isn't he? Brother of sub-zero is now, this has been pretty much the main sub-zero for the longest time now.

But also there was a time-travel game. But there was also a time travel game where... Mortal Kombat 1, yeah. Yeah, where it was maybe 9? Mortal Kombat, yeah, one of them was a time travel game, and then they reset the continuity at the end of Mortal Kombat X, I think. And then Kung Lao, no, Lou Kang became like the Raider in order. Correct, yes.

and then the next one was MK1, which is a reboot continuity. Yeah, man. They probably shouldn't do that straight away. They should bring back all the people who died. Yep. And we can have a fresh, we can have a fresh run and be like,

here's a new movie where there's no consequences. Also, because we know for sure that everybody comes back. And it's versus DC. We're just doing that. Yes. Like that game did. I think they can't bring back everybody.

I think they should be like, I don't think they should because also you can, the roster is huge. Yeah. You don't need to. I think they should just be like, obviously this, they've put this.

this in because they know people are going to complain, oh, my favorite died or whatever. How could you kill Jacks or whatever? But, and they're like, well, we need the insurance policy to be like, hey, just so you know, we can bring him back. But also, I think that if you have a consequence free universe, which the consequences should be you die and you stay dead, right? Yeah. So.

Like the real world. Like the real world. It's consequences to being dead. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. I got some reviews here from people who wrote in. Go on.

Planet Broadcasting great mates. This is from William Thode who says, big old stupid fun. Much better than the first one. And when they gave us exactly what we want and make up for the bad first one in spectacular fashion. Carl says, I love the movie.

It was disappointed with the whole amulet to make Shao Khan immortal. He's big enough threat without having to be immortal. My head cannon was the tournament was going to change the amulet and Kuanche was going to steal it leading into the third film with Shinok. You have Shinok fan Mason?

Love him. Fidel races. Fidel I'm a real Shinox, Stan. Thank you. Fidel's editing this video for YouTube. Whoa. Amazing.

Whoa. Is he put an effect on that? Whoa. He's probably put an amazing effect on. I agree. He says MK2 is better than the 20201-1, but it's still plagued by the same things the first one did. At least it's got more dumb fun.

Johnny Cage should have been the made dude since the start, and Carl Urban was having some snarky fun. Cana stole both movies so far, in my opinion. And your opinion is more valid because you made the video. So true. Darrell says, just got out of the IMAX screening of both MK films back to back. Well, the second had a lot more video game stuff and an actual Mortal Kombat.

I'd say it wasn't much of an improvement over the first. Plot was paper thin and because of the switch to cage, they sped around a bunch of plot and development. I did love Baraka, though. Baraka, though. And Paul said, oh, I got a couple left. Paul says the filmmakers truly took the criticism of the first movie to heart and fixed all the big complaints of the sequel. Yan Yan says, it did not waste my fucking time. It was serious for a few seconds.

Max, lull. here and there, when it needs to be, but it was fun and funny throughout. Baraka was honestly a highlight that I just wasn't expecting. And he loved Johnny Cajun, Kano. Wow. Yeah, there's a sort of a... Buddy cop comedy fellow. Yeah, there's a bit, you know, but Baraka is kind of...

Oh, that part. Yeah, where he's kind of like, you know, he's perceived as this, he's this, you know, monster, remorseless kind of monster warlord type character. And then he's wowed, he's wowed by just... Johnny Cage. And he's way out by his Hollywood pizzazz. Yeah. And being punched in the balls.

And Johnny Cage did that shadow kick just when he needed to. He did the shadow kick just at the right time because he just knew. He knew he had to break an amulet. I better do the shadow kick, he said. I'm doing the shadow kick. Was it relevant that the amulet is green and the shadow kick is also green and Shau Khan's power is also green? I'm going to say yes, it was very relevant.

Do you think it was relevant? It was probably the most relevant thing that happened in the movie. Was there ever any foreshadowing that he would do the foreshadowing kick? Yes, he said I'm going to have to do a shathing. shadow kick later. At some point I'm going to have to do a shadow kick, which I know how to do, but I'm afraid to do. I don't have the confidence yet. Yeah, but I could do it technically. Because if I didn't technically know how to do it, me suddenly doing it would make no sense. But I technically know how to do it. I'm simply afraid, and I wish I believed in myself.

But I will later. I will later believe in myself and then I'll do the shadow kick, which is green as a coincidence. Yeah, it's a coincidence. All right, should we move to the next segment of the show? Let's move along. But what is it? It's called what we read. What else is it called? It's called what we're going to read. It's the name. It's the full name. I'm doing the thing.

What are we reading today? This is a great segment. I think I say that every week. But I stand by. Sometimes you just don't, we do a segment and you just don't comment on whether you think it's good or not at all. Like when we went to review the movie, you didn't say, I think this is a good segment. So what are you suggesting?

I'm saying that whenever I don't say it, I'm having an abysmal time. And I'm putting in as little effort and thought as possible. Because I feel like you don't comment most of the time on the quality of the segment. Would that then suggest that you're having an abysmal time? Good use of abysmal as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We should bring back having an abysmal time and telling people we're having an abysmal time. Folks, if you're out there and I know you are out there because you're not in here.

And you're having an abysmal time. And we know you are. We know you are. Because the world. And all the terrible things I've said about you throughout the course of this episode. You've been very cruel. Tell some people this week. Quite frankly, not a lot going on.

I agree. In your brain. That's right. Or outside of my brain. Just around me in general. But if you're out there and we know you are, tell people this week having an abysmal time. See what their reaction is.

What do you mean up to? They've just been having an abysmal time, actually. And how's that going? Great, you can say. I love it. I love it too. What do you are, this is the same where we're talking about things

we'll be watching, reading, doing, listening to, etc. Isn't that true? I actually watched a great video this week. You might have seen this also. It's by, comic Drake in panels to pixels and it's about their thesis that 1996 was the worst year in comic history

I am working my way through that video I'm probably halfway yeah Terrific video Do you think it is? It could be It was one of the many years that Marvel was going through a bankruptcy Yeah yeah yeah

So and it was the year I think of Of Heroes Reborn and a bunch of other stuff A bunch of other crap Yeah it really was Were you reading comics then? Yes I was yeah I got Heroes Reborn Iron Man issue one.

I might even have... Is it good? That's all right. I think I even had that Captain America issue where he's like, he's all chesty. Did you like it when you saw it? I don't think so. I felt awful. Jim Lee was in it.

The Iron Man one I'm talking. God, that's hot. You've made a hot room. I know, right? I've made the room hot for my purposes, all right? Yeah, okay. Anyway, good video. Yeah.

I also listen to a podcast. It's a short podcast from a couple of years ago because this week I was thinking about Harvey Danger. Do you remember Harvey Danger? The band? Yeah, the band Harvey Danger. Paranoia. Exactly, yeah.

And they were... So I was thinking about them. And they were like an indie rock pop band from like the 90s. They started about 92 and I think I made it to about 2009. You might be familiar with them if you're a fan of the band Placebo. Maybe. Every me, every you and whatever. Sure.

You might, you may know them if you've ever watched. Flagpole City. You may have, you may know them if you've ever watched the show, Peep Show. Because that was the theme of the peep show for like eight years. Wow. But I was thinking about, because I'm like, I wonder what they're up to. And so Sean and Nelson, who is the lead singer of, they, but they amicably separated in 2009-ish, I think. But Sean Nelson, who is the lead singer of the band, he was also a journalist.

And in 2024, he did a short series of podcasts for Nebula called The Wonder of It All, when he talks to people who had like sudden one hit wonder fame. There was a YouTube channel that did something similar. This might be it. But he's talked to John Hodgman, he talked, who was of course, he's done a bunch of stuff, but he was the PC in the Mac. Yeah, PC ads for Apple. He talks to DC Pearson.

He talks to Jacob Schlickter of Semisonic about sort of being. Closing time. Yeah, sort of about being like what happens to you, like when you have this sudden success, You have this, you know, like a breakthrough that everybody notices and, like, their attention is drawn to it. Like, how do you deal with that? What did your life become after that? I think it's interesting.

That is interesting. Weiss did a similar series. I know they did one for Weiser and they did one with Vanessa Carlton, who did a thousand miles. Don't have to tell me. It's just the story of, well, the Vanessa Carton one is the story of a thousand miles by Vanessa Carlton. This is really interesting. Who's that about again?

It's about somebody famous. Oh, it might be, it might be about like a famous comedian. Yeah. She went to Juilliard with someone who she was in love with and she wrote the song about them. It's like Ben, it's not Ben Lay. No, it's like Will Forte or somebody like that, somebody on that level. It's like one of those guys. Yeah.

Glenn Howerton. Could be a Glenn or maybe Anthony Mackey. Might be about Anthony Mackey, right? Cool. But also that, I think the, the guest there is like, okay, they went at the same year as she did. But she might have also been in, like, it might have been a couple of years either way. So it could be, you know. Could have been about you, Mason.

Could have been about me, a person she's never met. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Glenn Howerton. Glenn Howton. Oh, they got an awful 65 one from. Yeah, nice.

They also had the song. Blue, ba, da, bit, ba, ba. Yeah, but they have another one. Yeah. But I've forgotten it, so they didn't really, did they? Yeah. Cool. Yeah.

Well, what result? Well, I finished Daredevil. Oh, yeah. Yes. Did he finish Daredevil? Yes. Big finish. I liked it a lot.

Big legal drama finish. Well, it's interesting because the second season also had like a 50% drop off apparently. Okay, right. But I think also this will, and if he's in Spider-Man and who knows if he is. He is. I think this will just like, just kind of. I've seen it 10 times. So that's right.

You told my son that before. Yeah, I lied to him. We started this. And he didn't know. He thought you were definitely telling the truth. Yeah. I think this will do well, like over time. Absolutely.

Yeah, because it's solid enough. Yeah. I think it's more than solid. I liked the last season, the first Disney Plus one which they retour, but this is much stronger. Yeah. And just a great series of Daredevil in general. I think the action's really great. The performances are really great.

Like they put twists on different characters as like a bunch of really cool bullseye kind of stuff. Yeah, right. Who's, who's, spoiler alert, is probably going to be in the Thunderbolts or something. Something like that, it seems. Who knows? Yeah. He's been, he's been, he's been, uh, he's been, uh, he's been, uh, the, um, De Fontaine's team, I guess, yeah. Uh, Kingpin said, says that says that his middle name is Grant and that's something I did not know.

King Grant Pin. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Are you, I kind of, I, I hope there's a flashback episode. I hope there's less king. I hope there's less king. You don't need to do Kingpin every time.

That's what I'm saying. Though if you look at like the leaks, not like, there's just photos from Montesset. Just all kingpin all the time. He's there. he's got a big beard and... Great, good. And whatever. But it is a thing of, like, Kingpin's doing this.

Thank you, to take over the city. We've got to stop him. He's amassed more power than ever. Oh, everybody suddenly knows that this guy. Oh, this is the Kingpin. We forgot. Yeah, that's true. It's the Kingpin.

What they could have... When he got all the police to beat everybody up, we should have realized something was wrong. They should just bring an Iron Man drone into, like, just blast him with a chest beam. Absolutely. Like, just atomize him with that chest beam. Easy enough to do. Exactly.

Yeah, I'm glad to. Oh, he's hiding behind a bin, is he? Well, guess what? I got all these smart missiles, so you're dead. Bin pin. Bin pin. King Bin. No.

Bin pin. Bin bin? No. Bin, king pit. All right, I'll accept that. What was I going to say? I still will do some spoilers here if you haven't seen it again. I would highly recommend it.

We also see, I think they could have done more with Jessica Jones, who shows up in this. Yes. But they're... Was the actor busy or something? I don't know. I think maybe they're building towards season three because we know. Iron fist again. Because Luke Cages does appear in this.

Apparently, what's the actor? His name is Mike Kosa. No, Jessica Jones. Oh, it's Christian Ritter. Yeah. She apparently pushed for that. Okay, great. So I thought that was, you know, interesting bringing her back in.

But yeah, they're not going to do it, but there was a window here to do kind of connect this more to the MCU and bring in some more MCU kind of. characters as opposed to the Netflix Daredevil kind of universe. But they're probably not going to do that at this point. They're keeping it. Botched. Separate.

But, you know, I think you're right. And like, it doesn't have to be the kingpin. There's so many great Daredevil villains or just Marvel villains you can bring in the Daredevil has fought, you know? Have you been watching the Vort Rising sequel prequel? The Boys? The final season of the boys? Yeah, which is just, what's...

God. Yeah, which is just... Look, it's been all right this season. It's fine, but like, why are we last minute making this a fucking... Well, because they want to do 10 seasons... Because they want to do 10 seasons of Wart Rising. Yeah, no, I know that. I know that, obviously, but maybe just nail this down.

There's going to be two seasons of Bort Rising, you're going to guess. Because people will be like, oh, that guy we know at the end of the last was dead or whatever. Yeah. So just... Okay. Oh, she's going to be a Nazi. Okay. Yeah, again, it's not terrible, but it's like... Like, I like Soldier Boy, but...

Uh-huh. Why is he the main character of this show now? all the sudden. Because everybody else is tired. And all these friends turn up and like... All these brand new friends. What about Huey? And I know he's in it.

Yeah. But there's a lot of stuff that they're kind of built to. Well, also I think a lot of people... A lot of people have said, well, you know, my... A lot of those characters arcs wrapped up, like, a season ago. That's probably true, actually. Like Huey and Starlight, like, they're kind of sorted, you know?

Yeah. Like, I think maybe when we talked about it a couple of, you know, a few weeks about when the first couple of episodes came out, they sort of had to manufacture a little bit of drama between them of like, you didn't even come and rescue me or whatever and it's like well now they're because their relationship was sort of it's fine you know and it's the same with many of the others

they're like yeah or like you know homeland they've um homelanders got out of this again or whatever or like you know the idea of everybody everybody on both sides has had insane plot armor for like two seasons where it's like surely homelander would have lasered you to death by now or surely you could have killed another soup by now

kind of thing, you know. Did bombsite, who's, like, what's his name's, Bucky? Yes. Did he, like, have his, just his uniform on already, or did he put it on to come in? I kind of thought he just maybe always dressed like that. Well, that's what I mean.

Like, why isn't he wearing a Hawaiian shirt, like butcher. Like, his butcher wears on a white shirt, I guess. That's right, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and, you know, I'm like, I don't, I like the idea of making Homeland or a mortal and whatever. No, you like that. I like it. I think it's good.

You like it if he would rule over all of us like a god. Okay, that's interesting. you'd like that. And you know, the deep, and this is all spoilers, obviously, and the deep, you know, black noir like kills a billion fish. Yeah. Second black noir. Oh, yeah. Or third? No, he's second. But then he gets choked out by a, like a podcasting cable. That dude's bulletproof. Yeah, right. And he's narcoleptic, which they didn't, they didn't lean back into. Right. Okay. You would have thought that that would come back at some point, right? Maybe he's not dead. Who knows? But it does feel like we are, yeah, we've run out of story where also had a rush to wrap this up and also we have to set up a prequel. Yeah, that, Black Noir, the second one,

he tanked like a mini gun, like a, like a thousand rounds from a mini gun in that episode, but you can choke him out with a, that cord would break. Let's do it now. Let's test this with I don't think he's here. I know, I meant on you. Oh, no, I'm not here. It's fine. I'm not here either. Okay, I'll do it then. I'm barely here. I guess I'll solo choke myself to death with a podcasting cord. Mason, it's not time for your nightly ritual. It's night time. It's night time. It is. Anyway. It's fine, though.

I'm enjoying it. It's fine. I think it is better than last season, but I think after this episode, I'll also they're going to reintroduce his Nazi, like, girlfriend or whatever. Like, that'll come back. Yep. And it'll be his mom. And then we'll probably get one episode, which is some of the people.

Some of the people from Gen. Oh, they'll show up. Yeah. They haven't yet, maybe. They'll all surround Home Lander in a circle and they'll combine their powers or whatever. Yeah. I saw an interview with Eric Kripke that was like, I have worried about the ending of this and how people...

Everybody will hate it. Yeah, because you're Game of Thrones in it, I guess. You might be, I don't know. You might be, we'll see. We'll certainly say, maybe the last, because there's like two left or something. Something like that. Maybe the last two will be phenomenal.

Also, I wonder if, like, as an actor who's been with this show from the beginning, do you look at the scripts for these episodes and you go like, hey, I'm not in this a lot. What's happening? Yeah. Or you're like, oh, nice. I'm getting paid the same or more, and I don't have to do anything. Didn't Carl over.

I'm actually exhausted. now. Well, Carl Urban liked a tweet that was like, I'm not, oh, this isn't very good. All right. I think. Well, I mean, you can never, that, I mean, you know, fumble fingers, you know, you can't, you can't assume that anybody who accidentally retweets or likes or whatever did it on purpose. You're absolutely right.

Sometimes it, because it might, you know, the tweet might be like, the boys is great and all. And he's like, all right, you know, that's nice. Nice. I like that, because that's a nice thing to do. That's great for me. But then it says, the boys is great and all. But I wish Eric.

Kripke would die or whatever, and he's liked it accidentally, you know what I mean? I wouldn't like it accidentally. I'd like it on purpose. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Also, like giving Homeland a like V1, which is like the V that makes him immortal. It's kind of irrelevant because we also see that you can still take away somebody's powers if they have that in your system because it happens to bomb site. Also, bomb side's like, I'm sick of looking at your pretty face to like Soldier Boy. And it's like, you're also very handsome. You're prettier than he is. Yeah. And you're wearing joddpas. Yeah, man.

then he just runs off into the woods. Yeah, that's right. I guess we'll see him in the 1950s, man. Yeah, when you have your powers of being strong and you can fly and you're involved. I liked him, by the way. Do you think Soldier Boy can fly, but he doesn't do it? I don't think he's embarrassing. I don't think he can.

Okay, right. Because I think he would if he could. Yeah, that's probably true. Yeah. What else? What other thoughts can I have about? We are in the middle of our Daredevil review, just so you know. You know, that's fine.

We'll get back to Daredevil in a minute. But I think, no, I think the, you know, the, I think V1 is important because also, I think what they're trying to push here is the idea that soldier boy's on his side now. So maybe we don't have the, we don't have the option of soldier boy could depower him potentially. You know what I mean? Yeah. So the next episode on May 13th is called the Frenchman, the female and the man called Mother's Milk. So they're all going to die.

Maybe. And the last episode is called Blood and Bone. It's called Everybody else dies after that. He didn't die and this is going to die. Yeah. I feel like if you put all their. character names, like their character archetypes in the title.

It's not because those three are going to run off into the sunset as a trio, right? Or maybe they do. Maybe they're like, this is the end for us. Maybe, maybe butcher and Ewee and Starlight go you guys won't be able to survive this. You two normal men and this invulnerable woman

who can regenerate from anything. You should leave. And they go, okay, fine. Cool man. Maybe. Or they die. Or they all die. They all get lazied. I don't remember who dies in the comic of the boys. didn't finish it because it's not great. At a certain point you're like, oh, this isn't the great, is it?

There are some ideas here that maybe it's not great. Yeah. Anyway, Daredevil. Anyway, nearly done. Yes, back to Dead Devil. Kingpin after his, so after he's in the bin pin. Yes. After he has the court case or whatever.

And Dead Devil outs himself. Yes. I don't think he needed to. No, completely unnecessary. But he did it. And then he threw his stick to prove it. Yeah, that's right. But just watching Kingpin fucking.

fucking body, just normal people. Just 40 normal people. That was fun, yeah. It was pretty fun. Yeah. And it didn't end with the fight with him and deader because they did that already. Yeah. They did the previous week's episode.

I guess so and also like there's the tease of season three. There's going to be a new version of muse because apparently they also, the showrunners thought, well, the writer, I can't remember that they didn't really get to do muse justice in the last season. Yeah. So there's a muse is now a mantle that the psychologist. just takes on. It's also going to jump a year. Kimpin's in exile. I'm not sure if the Punisher is going to be in it because, or maybe he is. So Dario, uh, Scarapain, who, who worked

on Punisher, one last kill, which is the one shot coming up. It's called one last kill before bedtime. He says, I think the story, uh, that will happen after the Punisher, after the punishment before the events of born, born again, born again. Born again. It's true. So, So the Punisher, one last kill is during around the events of this season. Yes. We apparently, which is out in May, May 12th, 2026, is that right? Maybe. Maybe that's what we're going to talk about next.

We could, if it's out. If it's out. Yeah, because we're talking about what we're going to, and you were like, there's a big thing out. One last kill before bedtime. Yeah, it's on May 12th, cool. Very nice. Oh, that's great. That's something we can talk about next week.

That's great. Yeah. That's great. Telecox is great. Also, just a regular Daredevil uniform. You could do it next season. And are they doing it next season now? Or a different wacky color, you know?

He does do with wacky color. They already did a gold one. Even wackier. Even wackier. Even wackier, yeah. I'm just having a look now. I mean, it's red, it's looking red from these leaked, whatever. Or maybe it's not leaked yet.

I know also bullseye is getting a more bullseysy. They're slowly bullseizing him, aren't they? They are. And again, he's got, because we've seen him in the Daredevil suit. He does have the chin for cowl. Well, he was up for Captain America at one one as well. He's got the chin for cow but uncovered mouth. So why do they do the reverse with him?

What do we do? Also, everybody knows what he looks like. He doesn't care. He doesn't care. He's killing everybody all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, cool. All in all, it's good and I liked it.

And I'm glad they've already started season three. Me too. Because they might not have considering the ratings. That's true. That have come in for this. But, you know, it's the attention economy. It's got to get people's attention. Speaking of at big sandwich.com.

Oh, here we go. And also Patreon.com slash Mr. Sunday movies. What have we got this week, Mason? I don't know. Tell me all about it. I don't know. Tell me all about it. Probably some podcasts from digital files.

That's right. It's a Q&A. That's right. It's a Q&A. Very good. Which I think you recall very fondly. I think they're bad games. Watching me play terrible Masters of the Universe games.

And then one good Masters of the Universe game. That's right. That's next week. All right. Should we move to the next segment of the show? Yeah, it's letters. It's letters. It's the letters theme.

It's letters I'm John Letters Go on I'm a character in the show I bring the letters You think so You think this is gonna fly Do I think so

I'm here every week John Letters Have you always been here Pip some people think I say John Lennons But that's not what I'm saying I'm saying John Letters So you've not only established

This character Who? John Letters I haven't established anything I am John Letters You've also You're suggesting that people think

you are saying John Lennon's. Yeah. Okay. What did you think I said? I think you said John Letters. Yeah, that's my name.

I don't like any of this. What's not to like, baby? Here are the letters I'm gonna get out of here though. See you next week? Sure, yeah. Let's see you next week.

Let's see what you bring. Let's see what heat you bring next week. Make a note for it. You're the only guy putting the bloody heater on. I'll bring the letters. Okay. It's good. That's the kind of

banter that you can expect for me, John Letters, and you. I forgot your name? What was it again? McMason. Fake name, not a real name. Come on, John Letters. What do you invent a more interesting character? Don't blow me up, John Letters. John Letters is a good and real name.

Your name is fake and you're an idiot. Can you go on LinkedIn and look up John Letters, see what he's up to? Okay, let me just borrow James's computer who's happy to sit silently. That's right I am. I have this my voice. What? I don't know. I don't know John Letters.

I don't know. Feels like if we're going to add this into the connoot that you've, I don't know, you've coerced James into taking a spot here because it didn't sound like him. Yeah, weird. Yeah. Have you kidnapped James, John Letters? No, he's right here. You can see him too. There's a bunch of John Letters on LinkedIn.

John Letters, I'm calling the police. Please don't. Oh, yes. I'm in trouble for a lot of things. All right, bye. John Letters was here. Yeah. Did you see him?

Yeah, I did see him, yeah. You were talking to him just then. I was, yeah, actually, yeah. Great. man and character you know he's got a he feels like he has a deeper backstory and I'm looking forward to

I think it was just crimes that he did yeah but I'm looking forward to knowing what crimes he did next week well he said he'd be back next week next week you can tell us I'll John Letters isn't like to lie if you could make a note

to say ask him about his crimes next week okay I'll do that yeah specifically his crimes okay no problem yeah I'll also make a note this is the John Letters segment of the show

where John Letters brings us letters. Oh, yes. And we read the letters. But the letters actually, you can send one to Weekly PlanetPod at Gmail.com, which I assume John Letters has access to. Is he vetting these letters? I don't know what he's up to.

You're asking me like I know here. Is this a John Letter vetting? I don't know. Okay. Add him on LinkedIn. But you just let him in here. I let him in the doors open. Okay.

You think I locked this studio door. My kids are always busting in and out of here. You know that. Yeah. You should be careful around your kids with his John Letters. Well, we don't know what he did. I agree. That's what I'm saying.

I'm telling you that. Okay. Or go to the Planet Broadcasting Graemeads crew. Should we get a gun? Should we get a gun? For John Letters. To kill John Letters. Just in case.

No problem. No problem. Planet Broadcasting Grameenmates Group. Yep, that's right. It's a Facebook group. You can go in there. John Letters and Jek's the group. And we've just given him the keys to the letters.

I didn't. I think there's probably like financial information in the in the inbox. plan on one. Maybe. Okay, all right. I doubt it. Okay, but I'm saying if he's got access to that, he could get access to some other stuff as well. Yeah, I guess he could. We'll ask him when he comes back. I guess we're killing. I think we should kill him. You got a letter here?

Yeah. This is from George. John Leonard, John Letters. I knew. No, he's got me saying it. John Lennon's. It's John Letters. Please continue. Okay. George says, Hello Mason, a question to ponder. If you told someone from 80 years ago that things like Batman, Captain America and Scooby-Doo are still being made,

they would probably be shocked and or depressed. What's something that has been made in more recent times that you can see being remade and repackaged to death over the next century? Is there anything recent that has enough staying power? Hope you both thriving and diving. That's from George. God, I mean, how do you know? K-pop demon hunters?

Potentially. Is that a flash in the pan? Or is it... The Logan Paul brothers? Oh, absolutely. They're going to be around forever. Logan Paul and Logan Jake Paul? Yeah.

Yeah, maybe. Mr. Beast? Beast games? Is you just going to keep pumping money into Beast games? We'll get 80 seasons of Beast games. President Mr. Beast. President Mr. Beast. Come on, man.

Resident Mr. Beast. You've done it again. You've made the best decision. You've found the fit of ground that everybody likes. That's right. You and you alone. And you're dumb, mates. Whoa, this is unbelievable.

Whoa. Whoa. We're in the president's cabinet. We're literally stuck in his cabinet. I'm the Secretary of Defense. Yeah. I'm the secretary of feastables. Yum.

I'm the secretary of those rotten lunch packs he made. Oh yeah. The rotten ones. Anyway. Anyway. I don't know, but like, you know,

I guess the, like, you know, Batman, I don't know, it just, it strikes a chord with people. Yeah.

I think you're saying like something now, right? Something invented recently. Is that what you're saying? Yes. So Batman's old. No, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, is what now has that hits to the core of people like Batman.

So it's like, because K-pop demon hunters, that's sort of, that, people are going wild for that, right? That's a phenomenon, right? Yeah, but does, is that, or is that just like a fad and people are going insane for it? Who knows? Because also, like, Batman wasn't always popular. That's true. Like, hugely popular. And I think, you know, and it's.

So it could be like, in 20, we don't get much K-pop demon hunters and then 20 years, something else happens. Yeah. And we get the equivalent of the Batman 60s TV show. Yeah, exactly. Like the Batman, you know, in comic books as well, like the popularity is waxed and waned, where there's poised and waned, where there's, like, you know, oftentimes you'll hear like internally,

they're like, maybe we should cancel Batman or whatever. Like, that has happened. But it seems insane to us because the most popular comic book movies are always Batman movies and blah, blah, blah, you know. Maybe it's the Olympus has fallen movies. Maybe it's the Olympics. Maybe it's the Olympics. Maybe that will keep going or happening.

I mean, if we knew it would be... This is what everybody's looking for, right? Yeah. Something that will last 100 years. 100 years. Yeah. Let's say Capeob Demon Hunters. Say cavem.

And then be comfortably wrong. Exactly, that's right. In a hundred years time when we're dead. It doesn't matter. But Mr. Beast is president. Mr. Beast. Of the wasteland. Yes, that's right.

I don't know. You can give it more thoughts. Yeah. Transformers are cars that turn our robots. Yeah, but that was in the 80s. man. But that's always exciting, isn't it? Yeah, but again. And also it is in the 80s. No, it's not recent. No, it's not recent at all, no.

This is from Jordan A.V. He says, Who are your mains in Mortal Kombat? Or any other fighting games you play? I know James has mentioned being a fan of Dragon Ball Fighters. Yes, I play some Dragon Ball Fighting Games. Who are your mains in Mortal Kombat, though? Scorpion. Yep. Striker, if there's ever striker. Oh, really? Because you like cops.

No. You like shooting people and being a cop. Yep. Because he's just like, I brought a gun. Why wouldn't you bring a gun? You would bring a gun. Yeah. And he's using it enough. People are like, well, I guess this isn't illegal. He looks like shit. He's a bad character design.

Yeah, that's true. And he's got grenades, doesn't he? He does have grenades. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you think your main in a Mortal Kombat says anything about yourself? Yes. Besides that you love cops? Yes.

My main's, first of it was Raiden. Yep. Also, I think the first Mortal Kombat I really played was Mortal Kombat on the game gear because a friend of mine had it. Oh, yeah, right. Had to put in that blood code. Yeah, if it even had that. It did.

Sub-zero, I like a lot. And I really, I'm Kenchi, who's the blind swordsman. Yeah, right, right, right. He's a great character. I don't know many of the modern ones. He's not even, he's like 20 years old. Well, that's what I meant. At least.

Yeah. Right. Yes, yes, yes. Smoke? No, I would be Scorpion for sure. Yeah. Yeah. That wind guy for Mortal Kombat 4, whatever his name is.

Mr. Wind. Mr. Wind. Mr. Wind. Windbreaker. Yeah, windbreaker. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

No, I don't know. No, I don't know. I look all the ninjas. I look all the different colored ninjas. That's fun. It's good when you can go back and be like, I know how to do Sub Zero's freezing kick and move. Anyway, what about other games, like a street fighter?

Ah, I like a Ryu. Dalsim. Oh, yeah. I don't know a lot. I'm not as, I know because it's Ken and Ryan, they've got the same basic. Correct.

Combo pattern, whatever they're called move list. What else? What are the fighting game? Oh, Tekken? You're a Tekken guy? Well, not, I mean, again, not for 20 years. No. 20 years.

Yeah, probably. So 2006, you're playing Tekken? Were you? Was I maybe? I don't know. Were you? I don't know. I'm asking you.

Maybe. Maybe. Again, in one of the Tekans, you could just play as the devil. And he was purple and giant and he could fly and he could shoot lasers, like unblockable lasers from his mouth. That's handy. Yeah, it was handy. That was my favorite. Yeah.

Because he was cheating effectively. Sure. Yeah. Do you ever play a soul caliber? Yes. Oh, right then. Yeah. What about an injustice?

I just played the main story. Yeah. And then I'll just play whoever. And then I don't really go beyond that. of those games when I played them. All right, should we move it along? Yes, let's move on. What else?

Here we go, let's have a quick look. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Ben emailed in and said, hello, gents. Hope you both well. Hello, Ben, we are. A long-time listener, I'm just emailing in because I have some exciting news to share the Motor City teaser trailer drop this week,

and I edited it. Oh, that's the Alan Richardson one. It's Alan Richardson and Ben Foster, yeah. I did not watch this trailer. I did. It looks fun, looks good. It was he says It was such a fun process

To work on with the team at the agency I work at On a personal note I wanted to say a big thank you to you guys Because I probably wouldn't be in the position I am in now Disagree. Cutting trailers for movies and TV shows Without having discovered the podcast And the Mr. Sunday movies YouTube channel

Your trailer breakdowns are what got me interested in trailers And how they're put together In the first place I originally started by cutting my own fan trailers online And now I'm in a job I love In large part because I was inspired by you guys But a lot of amazing teachers and mentors I'm still learning a lot

and excited for what's next down the road. I'm over the moon. I'm also over the moon. I'm bored by it. I'm over the moon that teases out in the world. And again, thank you to you both for the inspiration. That's great. Congratulations.

That's really cool. And I encourage you to do trailer breakdowns. That's why you did them. You did. You are the inspiration. You said, I'd like to have a personal breakdown, a mental and emotional breakdown. You said, James, not yet. Do it in your trailer.

And you went, wait a minute, I should. And you had a breakdown in your trailer. I did. And then you started doing trailer breakdown. It's exactly what happened. Wow, I've loaded this up right now, so straight after the show, I'm going to watch this trailer with Giant Alan Richardson. Congratulations. Also, you did all that.

I didn't do any of that. That's true. I mean, you inspired me, Mason, and I inspired him. Correct. So I guess it was you. You are the one to thank. You welcome everyone. You welcome everyone in that chain.

I was simply a middleman. That's true. Yeah. This is from the Don E. Who says, what are you reading? And by this, I mean, no compromise. An actual book. Oh, all right, all right, mate.

What was the latest actual book you read and in? I'm going to have to look up. I'm currently reading the short story novella, train dreams by Dennis Johnson. Oh, that's a Netflix movie now. That is. We could make it a movie. Which is Joel Edgerton, which I haven't watched, but I might, if I finish this book, which I will, because it's not very long.

I haven't read it yet, and this is not a book, but I just got this. It's called Doctor Strange Fall Sunrise. It's a comic book, but it's by Tradmore. I got the Treasury Edition, which is like a format they used to have in the 70s, which is like a large format. It's like a big one. It's a real big one. Bigger than a regular book.

I would bring it, but it's too big. Not too big for me. Okay. All right. All right, mate. All right, mate. All right, mate. What's a book you've been written, James?

The one I just named. Oh, yeah. Train Dreams. Yes. Nice. Do you have an actual book that you read? Or just these big picture books that you're buying? Honestly, the last book I did buy was a big picture book on like the history, like notable quartz watches.

That's a book. Nothing wrong with that man. There you go. I mentioned a book. What's the one about the one about the, devil and whatever the book that I read. Oh, it's short stay in hell. Yeah, so I read that recently.

This guy's accusing us of not reading books when actually we're reading some books. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a stack of books next to my bed that I'm being. I'm looking forward. There's a new Alan Moore book on the way. It's part of his great, the great when series. I'm a great... That's on the way, I think soon.

I'll tell you when that's coming out. I don't need to know. Come on, man. You're telling me, but I don't even care. I won't even read it. I don't care. And I don't even want to know. And I don't care.

But that will be the next book I read, I imagine. I like that. You're going to get a physical book? Yeah, I love it. You're going to say let's get physical? Oh. Right. It's called I Hear a New World and it's out June 30th.

All right. Yes. You got any more letters? I do. Go on then. Okay. Here it is. It's coming.

I'm ready right now. This is from John. Nah. John Riley. My name's amazing. My name's John Riley. Yes. We know.

Yes. Long time listener since I was about 15. I'm now 26 and working in the film industry. Oh. Another one. So James mentioned he likes something I work on. What was it? I have an absolute dream job as a picture vehicle captain for the TV show from.

I like from. I like from. My job is basically to wrangle any vehicle that appears on screen. There's a lot of vehicles in that. Like burnt out vehicles, vehicles running over stuff and whatever. And I don't know if you know this. The job of a vehicle wrangle is very complicated because what happens is the start of the day.

They just start up all the cars in a field and they just take the handbrake off and just let them put a brick on the on the, on the accelerator and they're all just driving around in a field wildly. Is that okay? Yeah. Who's doing that? The union guys. Okay.

Yeah. That makes sense, I guess. That's right. That's cool. Anyway, I like that show a lot. I've been enjoying this current season. John Riley says,

my question is, do you have a favorite iconic movie vehicle? I'd pick any movie vehicle. It'll be the DeLorean from Ready Player 1. Yeah, nice. That's a good one. What's your? The Batmobile from Ready Player 1.

Batman's there and he's my friend. the the ex-police car that the Blues Brothers drive Oh okay Yeah Because it's just a regular It's a regular car

That's been Slightly souped up And You like the Ecto one as well I do like the Ecto one What about Bullets Bullet That's a good car Yeah

What about top gear What about the TV show top gear? What about the WRX That Fast and Furious No Terrible car What about Bumble Bay

No What about the lotus That turns into a boat From James Bond The BOTUS. The BOTUS. You know, it's a good one? I never called it the BOTUS.

Yeah, it's good. Mad Max's car. The Interceptor, yeah. It's a freaking sick car. You like the Invisible Car from Die Another Day. No, it's awful. I had it. You like the Akira car.

What? The Akira car from Akira. Oh yeah, that's right. Let's all get in my Akira car. I'm Kinnaida. Let's get in my car. You like the car from the Green Hornet, the 2010, rebut whatever it was.

I don't like it. You like the general Lee, but only the flag? Is that right? Yeah, I only like the flag It's on the top of the General E. Yeah. I got it made into a t-shirt.

Oh, yeah. How do you feel about the DB5 Aston Martin? The t-shirt just says the words, the flag from the top of the General E, and then there's a thumbs-up emoji. T-shirt idea? T-shirt idea. I like it. It's not an idea. It's a real thing that I've done.

You like Maita from the Cars franchise, obviously. And the guy who Army Hammer Voice, whatever his character's name was. No, I don't like any of that. Do you like the tumbler? No, I don't like it. And even more than the tumbler, you like that flying tumbler that he has in the third Batman movie? I like the rumbly tumbler. You like Megatron when he turns into a big, greasy truck?

I don't like any of these. These are all bad vehicles. You like the Tron light cycle car and all light cycle. Yes, I do. There we go. You like the Thalmour and Louise car they killed themselves in. No, and there's no guarantee they did. I think they flew off into the sunset.

You like the... It had shitty, chitty, bang, bang modifications. Speaking of it, you like that too. You like the Aston Martin from James Bond, but one of the shittier ones. Oh, these are statements. None of these are questions. You're not asking me. You're telling me what I like.

Okay. You like Night Rider. I actually do like Night Rider. Yeah, I know you do. Yeah. You like the electric Jurassic Park car that's on the little track. I like Magnum's car. You like Magnum's Ferrari.

Here's one I actually think you do like. You like the Batmobile from 1989. I do like that. But also all the other ones, including the Schumacher ones. No, I don't like those. No, you don't like any of those? No, I don't like any vehicles. Okay.

You like the car from Demolition Man that fills up with foam? I do like, yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you like Herbie the Love Bug? No. No? No. No.

No. I don't know, man. No. Just no. You like the car from that Australian movie we're talking about that splits into the two cars? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Here's one you like?

Yes. You like Condor Man's car? I do like Condor Man's car. I knew it. Yeah. Show me a car. I'll show you a car that I like from the movies. Tell you that much.

You like Mr. Bean's car, but he's sitting on the roof and he's... I don't like Mr. Bean's car or Mr. Bean's car. I know, what's wrong with him? I don't know, I just don't like him. Because he's rude? Yeah. You like speed race, maybe. You like the mystery man van.

The mystery man van? Yeah, like the mystery man van van. Wow. Yeah. What do you like? I liked everything that I said then. That's terrific. I think we've covered all the vehicle.

But if I had to pick one, it's probably the flag. The flag t-shirt that you said. Yeah, it's a good one. I'd pick a car would be that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You like the car from Greece that flew off into space at the end? Oh, it's because it had chitty-d-titty-bang DNA. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. you like the cyber truck I don't you know what the cyber truck if it wasn't being made by the company that made it

and like you had 10 cars already I guess it would be kind of a and it worked and it wasn't like terribly engineered so it's like a completely different like if you put your hand in it

it'll shock your finger off like if somebody if somebody with with technical knowhow and experience made like a vehicle like that You know, so it's like a pixely car. Yeah.

That would be, I think that would be fun. I agree. But it's just... This idiot. Yeah, no good. The Blade Runner car is cool. Especially the Blade Runner 2049. So true.

Anyway, those are all the cars. All the cars. But again, I cannot stress enough with that T-shirt. Absolutely, yes. I got one from Aito. Yes. Who says, can I nominate? Well, speaking of cars,

demolition man for this car and batch of 90s sci-fi Caravan garbage. You're too late. We already did it. You can nominate it, but we don't know what's going to happen. And you've wasted your nomination. You've wasted your nomination, but we love you for it.

That's right. But you can never nominate anything again. No, that's right. Mr. Letters. James Letters? John Letters. Yeah.

Not to be confused. Maybe he has a brother though. Well, not to be confused with John Lennon's. Sure. He's not going to bring any more of this guy's letters. Right. Because you've wasted it. Yeah, that's right.

Something that's going to happen, but not this week. Because this week it's total recall. That's right. All right. What a time. Got any more letters? Because I'm done. I'm done.

I'm cooked and I'm out. I'm done. John Letters didn't bring me any more letters. Didn't they? Oh, that's, okay. If your letter never, if you're like, hey, hey, I emailed the Weekly Planet, a weekly planet pot at gmail.com and nobody ever,

they didn't read it out. That was John Letters. Speak to John Letters. Speak to John Letters. All right, that's the show. That is the whole show. Thank you so much for listening. We absolutely appreciate it.

Thank you for telling you, thank you for listening. Yep. Thank you for telling you, thank you for listening. Thank you for telling your friends about the podcast because that is how we get new listeners. And thank you for living a phone. fire star review on your podcast app of choice. That'll be an option just right in there.

Probably looking at it right now. Probably looking at it. While driving. Yeah. That's good. Get in there. And if you do that, James will find it.

He'll read it out. This is from Alex from the USA says here's what Mason doesn't realize. The thoughts are the prizes. Oh. There you go. And this one's from Old Malpaso from the UK who says, get this in your ear holes now. The world's on fire and everyone is on a collision course into oblivion.

So he may as well get some laughs in whilst we burn. That's good stuff. That's the positive mental attitude we promote here. That's right. And thank you, John Letters, for bringing not in the little letters, but the reviews. Oh, he's doing that also. Not to be confused with John Lennon's. Who's not a real guy at all.

Not a real guy. Don't check LinkedIn. Don't even bother. I already did. Yeah, okay. Interesting addition to the law there that he's also bringing the reviews. So you're not doing that work. You need to be clear about something, Mason.

This is not a man I've invented. He's a real man. That's what I'm saying. And I'm just curious as to how much sway he has. on this podcast. If he's bringing the letters and also the reviews? He is, yeah. Anything else that we need to know about?

I think that's probably most of it, yeah. Okay. Does he control the Patreon or something? Because that might be... He gets the money from it. Huh. And then he distributes that to us. I don't think so.

He just keeps the money. Do you want it to distribute it to us? Yes. I'd rather he not have any control over it at all. When he comes back, we might have to talk to him. Yeah, about a lot of stuff, actually. You talk to him. I'm not really big on confrontation, to be honest.

All right. And I probably won't be here. Yeah, you always leave when John Letters arrives, almost like you're afraid of him. I am afraid of it. Do you have some sort of history together? We have a history. Well, one time I called him John Lennon's, and he just got really upset with me. And I don't want to repeat of that.

But it's not his name. It is John Letters. John Lennons isn't a real name. That's why it's not. That's right. John Letters is. Yeah. Please continue.

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