The Weekly Planet - 626 Masters of the Universe & Summer Games Fest 2026

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

Dead franchises are back! That’s right, Masters of the Universe is finally in cinemas again after a near four decade break and its (Sword Talk/Quickstophers Quickstions) bad news for the character of He-Man. Plus we talk the passing of Anthony Head, Supergirl’s break even point, our first look at Lex Luthor’s battle armour from Man of Tomorrow (Superman 2), some big Avengers: Doomsday reveals, How To Rob A Bank, The End of Oak Street and a bunch of video game stuff including the new Wolverine game. Thanks for listening!New bonus clickbait podcast out now and available in fully edited video form! Available to watch on bigsandwich.co and patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesPLEASE be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start05:37 Anthony Head RIP10:53 Will Supergirl Succeed?14:18 Man of Tomorrow Lex Luthor Reveal19:56 Avengers: Doomsday Latest22:19 Tom Holland's Chris Nolan Lessons25:31 How To Rob A Bank Trailer28:11 The End of Oak Street Trailer31:18 Summer Games Fest 202635:18 Wolverine PS5 Gameplay Trailer39:36 God of War: Laufey Announced42:16 Control: Resonant Looks Great47:01 Masters of the Universe Movie Review01:10:00 Masters of the Universe Spoiler Segment01:16:22 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:23:25 Letters, It's Time For Letters01:31:52 Quickstopher's Quickstions01:41:44 Sword TalkSUBSCRIBE 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. Sunday. Nick Mason, what are you doing here? It's great to be here. You're doing a podcast. I am doing a podcast.

I love that you're amused by your own antics. I was amused because you did a face. I did do a face. So if anything, you're amusing, you idiot. You charming, moron. I am undeniably. A charming moron. A charming moron. There we go.

Yeah, it's on my passport. I had them put it on. Good. Occupation or just under your name or? I just said wherever you can fit it. Location, Charming Moran. Yeah, sure. Absolutely.

Charming Moransville. Yeah, for sure. For sure, Mason. Big week. Huge week. Huge week for franchises for dead men. Absolutely. We're of course talking about Masters of the Universe.

Should they call it He-Man and the Masters of the Universe? Do you think that would make a difference? No. No? No. You know how, you know how back in the, in like, the 80s Wall Street, days, all the Wall Street guys were called Masters of the Universe, or that's what they called themselves? Well, they did.

Okay. At least, unless I'm being lied to by American Psycho, which I probably am. These guys are all dead, though, right? But were they called, did they call themselves Masters of the Universe and then somebody at a toy company went, that's a great idea for a thing? Yeah. Or did the Wall Street guys? So the original line was like a Jason Bateman-style Wall Street.

That's right, exactly. Yeah. That's right. You turned the packaging around and they all had like a bone-white business card with their important details on it. And a big phone. And such a big phone. Big phone lifting action. Michael Douglas firing someone action. Nice. Blying, what was the stock that he liked to buy? Martin Sheen, not approving action. That's right. Yes. Hell yeah. But did the toy line come out and then a bunch of adult men on the stock market called themselves Masters the Universe based on the toy line? Because it

really could go either way. Let's do some research in the break. It could be parallel thought. There's no way. It's like an Armageddon deep impact situation. They didn't know. Two 80s master the universe. They didn't know. They didn't know. Okay.

Fine. We'll do some research in our off time, which is never because we're very busy. I might do it while you're talking. And then when you ask for my opinion on whatever you're talking about, I'll be like, huh, what? What? I didn't find anything on Master of the Universe, by the way. That's right.

It's a mystery. It's a mystery. Google AI says it's a mystery. That's right. So Mason, we've got a few things to talk about before that. There's time going to go to below if you do want to jump anywhere in particular. We're going to talk about the passing of Anthony Head. Boo.

We're going to talk about Supergirl and the early box office for that and its break-even point. Oh, a million trillion dollars? Yeah, a million trillion. No, it's not that much. It might struggle, though. We're going to talk about a new look at the next Superman movie. Oh, not Supergirls. You know, the Lex Luthor and whatever of it all.

You've seen all that, haven't you? A big, hunchy robot suit. Love that. Nicholas Holt sort of awkwardly lumbering down the street. But what about the movie? Got him. Did I? I think you did.

I got him. You absolutely got him. We're going to talk about some big Avengers Doomsday reveals. Not really. But we are going to talk about just what... We're going to talk about the coffee pop-up? Yeah. Did we talk about that last week?

No, we talked about it, I think, in some bonus stuff that we released. Wow. So we can't talk about it here. Big secrets in the coffee pop-up. But we're going to talk about what they're referring to this next phase in Marvel, which I know you're excited for. We're going to talk about some trailers for how to release. I like how to release.

I like how you didn't leave a point. pause for there for me to confirm. You were just like, I'm sure you're excited. I knew you're excited. I don't need your approval. I just shrank down to my seat slightly. I know you're excited. Trails for How to Rob a Bank and the End of Oak Street.

Oh, yes. Which I know you're excited for all. Time travelling house to the dinosaurs. Why is that happened to them? We don't know. Is this Stephen King related? No, it's someone else related. Is it Frank Daribont related?

I think it's a new. It's a new IP. A various houses going. back in time to various time periods. It is a Dejibram's produced movie. He's not directing it, though. And then we've got the first footage of the... Well, not the first footage.

We've got some more footage of the Wolfrene game, which is coming out. Oh, yes. There's some other game stuff revealed this week, which we can just rattle off. We'll rattle it right off. Yeah. We'll give it a big thumbs down. Everything's getting a big thumbs down this week. I'm looking here and it's all thumbs down, Mason.

Oh, yeah. I tell you that much. Good. Good. Yeah. One particular game. Then you got a war game. Oh, yeah.

People are so upset about it. It gives a fuck. Yeah, exactly. I know the original creator hates everything God of War. Oh, that isn't his. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. But, you know, he's allowed to have his opinions and I think he's good.

You like the original God of War games. Yeah. And you also like the new God of War games. Yeah. Which would you say is better? They both have their strength and weaknesses. Very interesting. Interesting middle of the road.

You've found yourself on there. I guess there's a narrative. I mean, the one that probably blew me away. Coward Street. The end of Coward Street. That's where you live. God of War II is probably the peak of that original trilogy. Okay.

And then there's a prequel and there's a PSP of games, which are quite good. And of the two newer ones, I definitely preferred the first one. The mechanics are really solid, good story and all of that. But I didn't end up finishing the second one. It just felt more, I didn't get fired up, but it felt more like just an expansion, like a... Right, uh-huh. Yeah. But, you know.

Well, I only played the new ones. Yeah. And as someone who plays like two games a year, I'm like, what? It's pretty good. I like it. I like the world. I like games. It's good stuff.

I like two games. Look at all these big things. Yeah. Look at these big colorful things. things. Look at this bloke. You got an axe. I got an axe. Yeah. Chucking the axe. Chucking the around. Never said that before. No, me neither. Let's start here, mate. Don. Let's start here, mate. All right. Let's start here, mate. Get out, mate. As he got, man. So you're a fan of this person I know, but Anthony Head has passed away at age 72.

Yeah. For those who aren't aware, Buffy was probably his most known role, but he's made appearances in Doctor Who. Ted Lassu, he was a great villain in that. I was telling you off here, had I known he was in Ted Lassow, I would have watched Ted Lassow. Now you can't. Now I can't. Because they're racing in from it. They got rid of it. He's most famous, I believe, in the UK for a series of coffee commercials,

which were like a soap opera that went for years and years and years. It's like prior to Buffy. Yeah, before Buffy. Wow. Was it like a, like a drama? You know, like, you know how like, man, my life and whatever. You know, there's that series of ads in Australia. The yo gorilla ads.

Yeah, those ones. Now, wasn't there a series of ads in Australia and everybody was obsessed with the two people in it? I can't remember the names. But it was just an ad for like travel insurance or something like that and everybody's. No, that's okay. I remember the Jerry Seinfeld Superman credit card commercials. Oh, absolutely. No preset spending limits.

No. No. Just ruin your life. Just spend all you like. No limits. Yeah. Except for the limits which we will eventually impose on you. Remember when you had to buy, if you were buying something on a credit card, they just put

it in that machine that went to chute and you tune. And then went somewhere. You could have gone nuts with that in a day. You could have gone insane with that. I'm really glad I didn't have that book, you know, this, it's, you know, it's, it went to electronics and computers before I had a credit card because I would have gone inside or been like, they could never catch up with me.

I used to work a till. You'd get occasionally one of those and I'm like, I don't even know where this is going. I've no idea what I'm doing. You're just letting me a child just use an ink pad to... Yeah, right? I don't know. We've gotten off track, James.

Sorry, yeah, Ted Lassu, which, yeah, but he was in coffee commercials or whatever. Anyway, his daughters confirmed that he passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family. His wife also passed away recently. Yeah, last disson. December last year.

Yeah. And I think it might be one of those ones where it's like, well, he had a complication of pneumonia. I think she had long COVID. That's all of the stuff. So there was a nice tribute from Brett Goldstein. Hang on. Oh, okay.

He's Roy Kent. Hang on one second. Okay. Sorry, he took a brief prores. Yeah. For some appraars. Yeah. Which we dub in.

We do. You know, we're here, Mason. Collings, can we dub that in? Yeah. Your brother was here. The one you don't like. The one I don't like. Yeah.

I must say, he's turned his life around. but I still don't like him. You didn't like him at all. No. You didn't say that to him, though. I know it's coward. Yeah. You could have said it to him, but you didn't coward.

Yeah. I'm in the middle of Oak Street order. Being a coward. Yeah, so... Okay, so here it is. The Goldblend couple was a British television advertising campaign for Ness Cafe Goldblend Instant Coffee, which ran from 1987 to 1993.

Oh, my God. 12, 45 seconds in installments. It starred Anthony Head and Sharon and Sharon and Sharon as Tony and Sharon, and a couple who began a slow burning romance over a cup of the advertised coffee. Their actual names. Yeah, the ads were in a serial format

with each ending in a cliffhanger. Damn. People were really invested in this, right? Beginning in 1990, new versions of the ads were produced for the American market where Goldblen was called Taster's Choice, and the ads referred to as the Taster's Choice saga. I don't know anything about this.

This is very region-specific, which I can appreciate. But yeah, yeah, he did it for a long time, and then he was like, I've got to move to America and like... Capitalize on this. But, yeah, hang on, I've got a great, where is it? This is another, I mean, because I know you're a huge Buffy fan, but it's great that you love this commercial you haven't seen.

I just think it's fine. I just think it's fascinating. It is, yeah. Do you think you can do a serialized commercial like that now? I don't feel like you could. You couldn't, what kind of market could it even penetrate? You know what I mean? That's true.

I mean, this is the equivalent of like TikTok stories in seven parts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And at the end, you're like, got you. This was a commercial. I freaking got you. But again, he was terrific in, and Anthony had had to sell every week on Buffy, like. The stupidest monster. Well, yeah, and this is, you know, this is the, this is it once again, the world is at stake.

Yeah. Absolutely. But terrific. Brought an absolute gravitas. Yeah. There's a quote here from his family also that says, it's with heavy hearts that we announced the death of our extraordinary father. It has been, and forever will be an honor and a privilege to be his daughters.

and to have a witness firsthand, the impact both he and his work have had on so many. Do you think this is it for the Buffy reboot even as well? I mean, it already wasn't happening. Yeah, no, that's... I figure it's going to happen at some point. Yeah, I mean, it's been a bad year, Michelle Tractonberg. She died of 39. Yeah. Nicholas Brendan died.

Yep. Not great. Yeah. But Brett Goldstein said on... Oh, that's right. On social media, Anthony Head was a brilliant actor who played the worst person in the world, which was an incredible skill because he was the best person. Infinitely charming and kind and fun and a joy, he will be sorely missed.

love to his family. So there you go. Maybe you should check out this Ted Lassow fellow. Maybe it will. Yeah. He's in, he's not in every, he's like a recurring. Yeah, he's a career. I think he's, yeah.

But he is like he's in it till the last episode. Yeah. Well, actually no, no, new season and whatever. So I don't know where it's at. Anyway, just, yeah, good body of work. Interesting guy seems nice by all accounts. Sucks. Yeah, no good.

Not he sucks. Yeah, no, that's true. The situation, just to be clear. What a way to end someone's, yeah, sucks. That's it. Yep. Yeah. Speaking of maybe sucks, Mason.

But who knows. Supergirl, the movie which is coming out this month. The break-even point has been revealed by deadline. It's got about $175 million production, but then if you take into account marketing distribution, which we do. We always do. It needs $315 million to break even.

We can do that. It seems doable. Seems doable. It's not tracking. Well, this tracking number is pretty broad, but in the US it's going to open between $55 and $77 million at this point. Which is okay. It's okay.

Again, this will depend on word of mouth, how long it. And did it build on Superman, et cetera? People like, oh, I like that last one, I'll see the new one. The most important thing about Superman was that, you know, Robin, it had to make some money, which apparently it did, even if it came down to streaming and toys and whatever. I didn't see any of that money. I didn't see any of the money either.

Which they promised we would. Yeah. They said, they said, James Gunn specifically said, he said, glaze this movie. I don't even know what that means. He said, if you glaze that, this movie, we'll give you a piece of that. Like a pot we said, no, no, no, no, no, why the kids are talking. We said, all right. Anyway, we made the pot.

We glazed it like a pot. We made these pots and then we got nothing. I can't believe this. Yeah, but it is getting... Your son made a pot. He did, yeah, I'm both my case. He glazed it. He glazed a pot.

He glazed a batman pot. Yeah, my daughter made a little cat. Yeah, not as interesting. Not IP based. It is interesting. We did it in small. He went and did some clay model work together. You know?

Hand stuff or whatever it's called. No, you're saying with your mind. Hand modeling. Hand modeling. That's what you're using your hands to model something. Or you're a hand model. That wasn't that one though. Okay.

It's the first one. Anyway, I would say this movie for sure doesn't have the same buzz as Superman. No. But there was some early screenings recently and apparently the word is very good or whatever. They don't mean anything. Correct. They're before. If they come out and people are like, oh, we're mixed on this, that's dire.

Absolutely. But anything, because it's always just, this is great people love it. And if you see an advanced media screening of a product and you can, you can, you can go off on your own, you know, off on your own way and go, this sucks actually. But if they put a camera in your face and they go, what did you think of this? And maybe the stars there or if you're like, this sucks. They won't invite you back. They'll invite you back if you say it privately or on a podcast that nobody listens to it.

Yeah, yeah, that's different. Which is this one. Yeah. But if you're at the red carpet event, of course you're going to say nice things. You're not going to be like, no, this sucked actually. Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, I guess we'll just see how it goes. And, you know, when we've got 80s properties, which I guess super good.

is technically in some way. I'm sure, okay. They know bombing. I don't know how this is going to go. I think it's a timeless product. Supergirl. It should be. But, you know, again, it's, but it was, you know,

because Superman had to be good. Yes. And this feels like. And it was pretty good. And it was good. Yeah. And so it is getting, you know, the more DCU movies we get into, they have to be good and also make money.

Yes. So, you know, we'll just see how, it's not enough just to be good, you know, from, you know, maybe not this point on, but the next one on. I don't know. $175 million is a lot of money. Not a lot of money, though.

But speaking of soon... But it could be, but they don't give us any of the money. They don't get any of that money. We've been glazing all over the place. Dude, how many pots have we made? So many. Hundreds. Oh, no, they're toppling over.

Foley of the... Or the pots to toppling over. Yeah. Pottery noises. Collings, don't you put the folly in. People at home do your own... Whatever you're holding, just smash it. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. That's right. We also got some imagery and then some onset footage. Yes. of the Lex Luthor Battlesuit, which is again why they released, not again, this is the first time I'm saying it,

which is why they released that first image of Nicholas Holt in the... Yeah, giant and ridiculous, big fan. And a practical... I mean, for some shots, surely. Yeah, but it's a... Practical enough that it's the full suit

and he's walking around it, which I think is... They do it in fallout and whatever. You see him at cons? Do you ever see him at cons? Do you see him at cons? Someone doing a big suit? Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah. Sometimes they're the emperor of the universe or whatever? Sometimes they are. Looks pretty cool. It's not the Lex Corp or was it Luther Corp. No, it's got the Argus logo on it. Yeah.

I wonder what that's about, mostly. Yeah. Maybe it's like a, because didn't we have, no, we had Luther Corp, various Luther Corp, henchman in Superman and they're wearing the green and purple suits. I don't know. I imagine he's repurposed some sort of Argus battle armor or something like that. Maybe he's working for them all or whatever's going on. Well, he would be working for them in order to,

get out of prison. Yeah, exactly. And also apparently, well, we've seen now, now it's got a, it's got a glass dome over the head. Hell yeah. Because classically, it doesn't. Does it sometimes have a force field even? I don't even know, that's true. But apparently it's unbreakable Lexi glass. Ah, that's fun. That's good, isn't it? That's fun. And the footage of him or the, um, you might have seen footage or still images of him and Superman just punching each other in the street. Or it seems mostly Superman punching him. Sure. Uh-huh. Yeah. This is a punch for a bit and then take on Brainiac situation. Seems that way, yeah. Yeah. And he, he, is going to be green skin, brainiac.

Yes. We've determined. For real. Not Robert Skelington. Brainiac. God, I love seeing that suit. Yeah. It's so ridiculous.

Exactly. Yeah. Nonsense. And I imagine there will be significant scenes where it is fully CG or whatever, or just like, you know, chest up or whatever. All the time. I mean, they do that with Superman. They'll replace like the entire guy.

Yeah. So they're definitely going to do it for this. But I think, you know, and obviously, and I would say also some of this is for optics. You know what I mean? Definitely. Yeah. We put it out in the street and we put it. put it on Oak Street, as they say.

Yeah. And then we show everybody and everybody goes, oh, very cool. We love this. Very cool. Because you know what just Nicholas Holt walking around in the grey socks suit with the exes on it and the tennis balls and the head thing with a camera on it, you know? All the stupid stuff.

Whatever that stuff. All the embarrassing stupid stuff. Probably doesn't even do anything. Probably doesn't even. It's probably a humiliation ritual. Yeah, it looks amazing. Will the movie be good though? Who's to say?

We don't know. It's out next year man of time. tomorrow. So it is, yeah, it is a Superman Lex Lutut team up movie.

But before that, obviously, Supergirl is mentioned and then we're going to be getting the Clayface movie later this year. Brown lanterns.

Brown lanterns. And Creature Commandos Season 2. Oh, I think it's coming in that time as well. All right. David Corrin's sweat. His hair looks a bit longer

as Superman. The suit's like slightly tweaked, but it's not, maybe a bit more form fitting. Right. It's maybe slightly bigger. Uh-huh. Yeah.

Yeah. Again, What some people were predicting, which was like the classic, maybe Christopher Reeves-style one, has not come to pass. But I still think it looks good. It's a good suit. I like it. Trunk design is imperative. It's very important.

And I think they've nailed the trunk. Totally. Totally. Yeah. Trunk. God, I just think he's such a good Superman as well. Agreed. Do you think this will, do you think we'll get a reduced role for all the other supporting cast members?

Are they going off world for this? Or what is happening? For the Superman. Yeah, Superman. I think it's going to be these. I think it's going to be a. and Brainiac's going to come and we'll probably see some stuff bottling upcidias and whatever. Oh yeah.

But I think it's going to be mostly Earth-based. Maybe some stratosphere stuff. Maybe some stratosphere stuff. It's okay. Tell you what, that box office is going to the stratosphere? But it also might not. It also might not. I also might fail very badly, depending, of course, on how Supergirl does.

That's right. I mean, different properties, you know? Superman is the more popular IP. Speaking of Supergirl, though, what's coming up this week for Caravanna Garbage? Is it Smallville Supergirl episodes? More Smallville episodes. very, I was very excited to, I mentioned this in the episode because people like, didn't they just, I saw, I think it might have been read it.

People will. Well, guess what? There's infinite episodes of Smallville. Didn't they do that last? Yes. Yeah. But we're coming back to even more so. And again, I, I think we're just going to have to keep coming back to it.

Some properties like the Transformers movies, I'm like, oh, this again. But I love going back to Smallville, the TV series, because there was 200 episodes. And they just had to, they just threw every insane thing at the wall just to see what would stick, often multiple times. Oh, yeah. And also like being dropped to do an episode. It really takes you a second. and to find your bearings.

Yeah. Like, Who's alive, who's kissed, who's married? Yeah. He's not married anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Who's the, who's filling in for Batman because they weren't allowed to use Batman? It's green arrow, it's a lot of the time. It's green arrow, sure. Sometimes it's not green arrow though.

Sometimes it's a different guy. Yeah. So that's coming this week. And then we're going to do some more Supergirl stuff. That's right. You can actually see that Supergirl video earlier that we're doing at big sandwich. com or Patreon.com slash Mr. Sunday movie.

Speaking of, this week, Masey did the, it's always an audio version, but Masey did a video on, we got this cupboard cupboard where we look at ridiculous clickbait. It's a 41 minute long video.

Is it because they looked at Disney-based crime? Yeah. It's the episode where we look at Disney crime and crime happening specifically in Disneyland. I was so excited. And it was really fascinating. Yeah, right? So I actually watched the video.

I was like, this is really interesting. Yeah. Because I've forgotten a lot of it because I don't know when we recorded a few weeks back. But yeah, anyway, thank you to Masey for doing that. Absolutely. That's terrific. It's people interested.

They can check. That it's linked below and all of those things, isn't it? Love it. And yes. Mason. Hello. Avengers Doom's Day, Big reveal, promise. Big reveal.

The Rusar brothers were like, you're not going to believe. This is going to blow your minds. What was it? Coffee, anyone? Coffee in England. The famous home of coffee. Home of great coffee, England. Nero coffee they have.

They should have done crumpets. Yeah. And bowler hats. Doom crumpets. Doom crumpets. We don't know what food they serve in Latvia. Don't assume it's borsh. and stuff. That's racist. I was going to assume that. Yeah. Can I not do that? It's too late to take it back. It's too late to take back what you thought. It's racist. They might have crumpets in Latvier. You can't do bowler hats because then you get confused with the English Avengers where one of them has a bowler hat. Yeah. Also, the crumpets have borsed in them. But that's... But you were racist to assume that.

That they had borsh in them. Yeah. But they do. They do, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I feel silly. And racist? Correct. Correct. Good. That's an alternate take from Nirvana's smells like Teen Spirit. I feel stupid and racist. Correct. Yeah.

So this was SX, SW, London. So there were some interviews with the Russo brothers. One of them was that they're done with Avengers movies after these, probably. We'll see. Fair enough. We'll see how many Tom Holland movies they make after this or whatever they did, Electric State movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They might come back. Also, these might not go well, but they did have a quote about starting over. they're calling. They said, look, we were with Rob, Danny Jr. Collings, oh, yeah. Earlier today, we're both talking about this concept that we're back to phase zero. Oh, okay. This is starting her from scratch. We want to make sure everybody feels like this isn't leaning on anything from the past. I mean, from what I know of this, kind of has to, doesn't it? Robert Danny Jr. is back who kicked off the MCU. Chris Evans is back. Chris Hemsworth is back. They're bringing back the original X-Men from the

X-Men movies. That's right, yes. I mean, I don't know, man. Yeah, okay. Does this feel like it leans a little bit into the past, but a little bit, maybe just a little bit? Yeah. Maybe just a little bit. So I guess that may, do they mean like storyline-wise where you don't have to know, or you don't have to know any of these existing things to go into it? I mean, I mean, the original Avengers had, you know, we'd established the characters in previous movies,

but you didn't really need to know anything going into that movie. I didn't need to know anything. That's exactly right. Yeah. So that's fun, isn't it? It is fun. God. Did you say this week also?

I don't... What I've done here is what I've bookmarked some things that I found interesting on Twitter. But guess what? The bookmarks aren't there anymore. Again, why are you even on Twitter? I don't know. You're embarrassing me. I like inline video.

What is that right? I'm like scrolling and then there's a video and I'm like, huh? There's every other platform one does that. But apparently Tom Holland has gone into the... He's gone into Spider-Man brand-new-day filming with some stuff he's learned from the Odyssey, from Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Oh, like, stuff like... Like, wood and horse stuff?

Yeah, no. Cyclop stuff? No, mostly stuff where he's like, he's like, you know, when I, when I record... Ollie, just come in. Come in. When, you know, he's got, he's doing stuff like, you know, we were recording. We were filming. Do the voice.

We were filming a brand new day and I said, this scene isn't working. And Christopher Nolan told me if the scene isn't working, you start again. And everybody went and they rewrote a scene. You know what I mean? Yeah. And it's like, yeah, that's how a movie's supposed to work. I don't know who, I don't know what they've been teaching you in Marvel Land, but like, surely you should have a properly written scene before you go in these,

filming these multi-hundred million dollar movies. But then if you don't have a properly written scene, what can you do? Just wing it, I guess. Just wing it, and they'll fix it in post. Don't worry about it. They'll fix it in post and put a voiceover in. I'll never believe that I was in a properly written scene, but then I was. I'm Peter Parker.

you know, and it's fixed. It's fixed. I mean, I also understand why... In a way, it felt like this scene didn't make any sense, but it actually did. I'm Peter Parker. You know? Easy, easy, fixed.

It is, it's... Yeah, it's... The idea that, yeah, you would go into something without a complete script is crazy, but I do think the luxury of being able to stop a production and restart the scene. Like, that's a lot of money, and I don't think that's important to, like, a lot of directors.

It should be for Marvel movie. because they each cost $200 million to make. They should be afforded that, but I guess they're not. That's right. But he did do that. And it's also a testament, I think, too. And, you know, we make fun at this delightful young man. But that he didn't just go, yeah, whatever.

Like, then he's come back and he's been like, we need to make these. I mean, he was so young when he made the other ones. And to be like, he said, I think that this one is going to be the best one. And I kind of believe him, because it looks the coolest. And it seems. That's got the Hulk in it. the most comic accurate and it's got a bunch of references. Webs.

Webs, exactly, and so forth. And I think it's a testament that he's, you know, he's gotten a lot of fame. He's kind of the linchpin of this. And he could just go, yeah, whatever, I'll do whatever scene. Just keep it rolling or whatever. But he's like, we should. What if a movie was good? What if a movie was good?

Deirdreve. That's right. Yeah. Who is a man. Some say bare minimum. I say, good on him. Yeah, everyone's got different opinions. Cool can open.

Thanks, man. Not your best. I invented it. So, yeah, Avengers Doomsday, December 18th. This year. This year. The Avengers Secret Wars December 17th. This year.

Next year. Oh. What do we got here? Trails are home nice. Pong, tingling. Do you like to How to Rob a Bank? I did see the trailer for that and it looked good. We were all wondering for a year.

Why did Nicholas Holt have blonde hair at the man? The Superman premieres and whatever. I honestly didn't think about it at all. We were all speculating. I didn't think about it. Is it for a movie? Is he trying to impress a girl? He's married.

Was he trying to impress a girl? this girl that he's married to. Maybe his wife perhaps. Yeah, man. I mean, I, because the only red carpet photos I saw with his wife, and I think she was pregnant, so maybe she was like, you need to do something for me. Blonde. I'm destroying my body here

for us. You're going to do something for me. You can destroy your hair. What if I were blonde, darling? And she's like, fair compromise. This is good. This is good, actually. This is good for both of us. Yeah. This is David Leach. Who did Deadpool 2, Bullet Train. John Wick stunt stuff, I think, and all of that.

Yes. Yeah. How do you feeling about this? Did he half direct Johnwick won? I think he did. Yeah. So. Yeah, but I like, I generally like his movies.

Yeah. Do you do Atomic Blonde? Ooh, who did do Atomic Blonde? No one says no one did. Oh, interesting. They did it on the day. One day. It took one day to do it.

It says it here Atomic Blonde was part of a coffee commercial. Oh. Is that accurate, do you think? I don't think that's accurate, but it could be accurate. No, that was him. There you go. I like Atomic blonde a lot. You've got an incredible memory, Mason.

And how do you do it? What's your secret? Just memory stuff. Having good memories? Oh, he did the fall guy. Mm-hmm. Or we did Hobbs and Shore maybe.

That's not a good movie, isn't it? Everybody directed that. No, awful. That's on, that's nobody's fault. Well, the Rock directed that, I think. He did. Yeah. Big as you want, Mr. The Rock.

Yeah. Yeah. Remember that? Then we're going to do a whole fast and furious spin-off universe. Oh, my God. Yeah. Everybody's going to get a solo movie. Everybody could.

And they still could. I mean, um, um, um, um, That lady, she got Megalopolis. That was her spinoff? Who? Natalie Emanuel. Oh, yeah, she did Megalopolis. Which I think, I consider that a spinoff of the Fast and Furious franchise.

Yeah. It's like, yeah. How do you take an idea that it's been percolating for 30 years and make the worst version of it? You give it to a 900-year-old man. Correct. That's unlimited money. That's what you do, Mason. That's what you do.

Hell yeah. This is out September 4. Looks good. I like bank robbery movies that are like, robbing a bank is okay. Yeah. You're allowed to do. do it. It's cool. That's right. We saw crime 101. He was robbing stuff and he wasn't hurting anybody. That's correct. Barry Kergan was though. He was crash banging into a room,

wasn't he? Hell yeah. Whizzing around? Whizzing around? Without a care in the world. How did he think he was going to get away with it? Probably whizzing away. Yeah, it whizz away. So then we got the end of Oak Street, which is time travel house. Time travel dinosaur time. House. What did you call it? House. So this is David Robert. Mitchell, David Robert Mitchell, though, the It Follows guy. You're sure that's not Mitchell and Webb merged together into one man? It might be. Maybe they did, Mason.

How do you feel about that? Did you say you directed again? David Roberts. What did you? Ben Robert Smith. No, no. What did he do prior? What did you do prior to this?

It follows. Okay, cool. You like It follows, Danny. Did he do something else? Under the Silver Lake. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's good. I haven't seen it yet.

You keep telling me it was good. He also might not have. No, he did do it. No, he did he do something that'll put him in director's jail? or something like that. It's probably under the Silver Lake. Probably didn't do any business. I think he poisoned a well in a third world country.

But that won't get you in... Hollywood trouble. No, absolutely why, no. No. Okay, I don't know why they're making this movie. Fascinating to me. What do you mean? What, their neighborhood goes back in time to dinosaur time?

Yeah, it feels like an old school kind of Spielberg kind of like, ooh, what's happening? You know, like a... I think I know precisely what's happening in my Spielberg movies, quite frankly. You're a polter guy. I knew what's happening in those. He didn't. You were like...

This funny little fellow, where's he from? Space, you idiot? I knew it was from space. I mean, look, either he was from space or somebody like plunged their drain and he came out of it. You know? Yeah, but what was he? I don't know. Yeah, that's what I mean.

Oh, gross. Just a yucky little freak. Yeah. Anyway, the town is time-traveled. What I do appreciate. Time travel town. I do appreciate that, you know, they don't have water or electricity because the electricity doesn't barely counts.

They're from the 70s. What do you mean? Well, they wouldn't miss it, really. Yeah, that's... Just washing a stream like you normally would have been 70s. What are they going to play? And in television? Yeah.

It sucks. Yeah. Waste of time anyway. Exactly. Go outside, running around with a dinosaur. Now, that's entertainment. That's entertainment. And so might be this movie on August 13th.

All right. Speaking of, what's out next week? It's disclosure day, isn't it? It is disclosure day, yeah. Is it? I mean, in the grey is still out at select cinemas. Stop saying in the grey. Like, anybody knows what you're talking about.

Please. Okay. It's actually insulting. You're upsetting everybody. People are trying to go to work. I want to see a boring Guy Ritchie movie. You can see any of the several thousand ones that he's already made. But I am not going to the cinema.

You will not get me to do that. It's also definitely not in cinemas. It's probably on Paramount Plus, which is also closing at the moment or something. It's in limbo. It's currently in limbo because it's at like one cinema, one session a week or something. Why are you keeping tabs on this?

But it's also not on streaming. because I'm on the holiday and I'm like maybe I'll see it. You know what I mean? You're a crazy man. You're a wild man. You need to stop what you're doing. Yeah. Unbelievable.

But also, I don't want to say it. I don't want to pay 20 bucks to see it on streaming or whatever. Yeah, sure. It's insane. Do you have any, do you know anybody who could just pirate it for you? I guess. I guess I could ask Guy Ritchie to send it to me. He probably would.

Yeah. He's not busy. No, he's busy. He's busy making 10 movies a year. That's exactly right. Oh, man. Oh. Mason, video games?

I've heard of them. Yeah, okay. I applied one every now and then. Few announcements last week to a year. I've opened a notes app on, I've opened a note on my phone that says reasons to buy a PS5. Okay. You want to lose $1,400. Yeah, well, it says Control Resonant, because that's coming out soon, and 007 First Light.

That's all I got so far. These are good reasons. I guess God of War. Which one? The new one. All right, man. I don't know what you're talking about. So anyway, here's some of the announcements that we had last week.

There's a new Resident Evil remake. This one is Veronica. Oh, yes. Alien Isolation 2. Couldn't they just do Resident Evil 9? I guess they... Yeah, they're always doing it. They were in a constant cycle of a new one and then a remake.

They're in a constant place to be. Must be nice. I agree. Alien isolation 2. I never think it's the first one I should, but people are excited for that. Gen Atlas, I'm excited for this because this is the creator of Shadow of the Colossus. Oh, I see. And it's sci-fi's and whatever and big, slow giant robots and whatever.

Did see the trailer for that. Well, you're allowed to see it. It's free. Ends the game also free? No, the game will cost money when to. comes out, but I don't know that for a fact. So, you know, keep those ears peeled to the ground. The last Ronan video game was re-announced.

Okay, yeah. But it's going to be from Platinum games now. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The last Ronan, who is it? It's a secret. So it's Platinum games who did Neo-Automeda, Bayonetta, Transformers Devastation. Okay, yeah, I remember that one.

They also did do a ninja-tellers game at one point, but it wasn't very good. Interesting. Okay, apparently. So they're coming back to do Ninja Turtles. So I guess we're just back to day one for that, so that's probably at least two years away. Terrific. This one also I just saw Star Trek Shadow Frontier,

which is from Blubert Team, who did the Silent Hill 2 remake. I remember a Blubert team. They did a game with Rooka Hauer that I remember enjoying, I think. Rooka Hauer. That was Blubert Team. Hardly know her. Yes. Let me check.

Let me check what they got. Polish makes sense. I'd get a Rooka Hauer. The Medium, Lays of Fear, Observer, Blair Witch, Kronos, the New Dawn. Any of these Rutka Hauer related. I think it was Observer. Observer.

Observer. Observer. Hardly know her. Nice. It is Rudge Hower. You're right. That's right. I have a copy of that somewhere.

This is getting big scores, this game that I've never heard of. What kind of game is it? Psychological horror game, would you say? I would say that, yes. Developed by Blubert team and published by Aspire. Yes. Okay, that's, yeah, you're probably right, actually. Anyway, it's a Roe Lauren.

Ro Laron, sorry. Ensign Ro Laren, who's from next generation and whatever. Correct, yes. And got the active back and everything. Sometimes you got to go there. You don't even like Star Trek, James. What I think is interesting about, I do actually, but what I think is interesting that this is a new kind of Star Trek game

and they just went, I don't know, this one, this woman. Yeah, sure, okay. We'll build a game around her. I think that's great. That is fun. Instead of just being like, you know, you've got to do your fleets or whatever. You do your fleets or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There was a Star Trek comic book series many years ago called Star Trek Defiant, and it's basically suicide squad. Oh. But Star Trek. So it was Worf who was captaining in the USS Defiant and he's got like a weird rogues gallery. So I think Roe Laran was in there and like Law who is date as evil clones on the team and etc.

etc. Pretty good series. All right. Yeah. Was it better than X-Men versus Star Trek or whatever it was? Yes. All right. Anyway.

I think you'd be more interested because there's a new Star Wars game coming out. The X-com star. No, I'm not really an ex-com kind of guy. I never really got into them. But there is that racing game which I do want to play. But it's Star Wars Zero company. Yeah. And at the end, it's like, General Skywalker's here.

And he's like, Bishom. And he's got the blue lightsaber, so you know he's still pretty good at that point. I guess... And there's this other guy in there? I would be more interested if they didn't keep announcing the return of Hayden Christensen as Anakin Sky. There's this old bloke in there and he's all like, I'm still got it. I'm a mold. But I can still shoot a blaster, I can still got it.

Yeah. This guy's in it. All these freaks. These guys, you're looking at stuff shooting. I know what an ex-com is. That's an R5 user. He's an R5 unit. Yeah.

No Row Laryn's to be found. I just think Roe Larrants. Aaron is the game is a more interesting. That is interesting, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, the main piece, I guess, if you listen to this podcast and you know and love us, which we do. Yes.

It was a new stuff from the Wolfrene video game. Wolfrene. So Liam McIntyrean, Australian is playing Wolf, Wofferane. He was in what? He was Spartacus. Spartacus. Among other things. He was also Weather Wizard, one of those guys.

Oh, yeah. He's been a bunch of video games as well, but he's the lead in this. So this is from Insomniac. He also did the Spider-Man games. But this one... And there was a big leak years ago, right? of a basic build or something like this. And so this is a whole bunch of gameplay.

And we see like Gene Gray and Sabretooth and Stake is in it, Omega Red is in it, Sentinels are in it. It also... He's all squat. He's squat. He's squat and he's hairy. And as you know, like, I used to know

Liam McIntyre. This is like... Was he squatting hairy at the time? No, he's like probably 6-1, 6-2 maybe. And smooth as a dolphin? I would say he's dolphin smooth. Yeah, I'd say he's dolphin-esque. No, he's got a...

No, he's not dolphin smooth. Interesting. But what's interesting as well as some people were just assumed because of the Spider-Man games that this is going to be a open world game. Yeah, right. But it is a linear narrative. And I guess they also, a lot of people would have also guessed, oh, maybe this is said in the Spider-Man universe, which it might be, but there doesn't seem to have any links thus far.

And this is also set prior to the founding of the X-Men, I think. Or something? Or something's happened with the X-Men. Because Gene Gray's in it. Yeah. But they know each other, so maybe it's not. Okay. I don't know.

Yeah, wow. Look at all those trailer breakdowns that I don't do any of the one. more. A lot of blood in this game. And there's a low-gore mode. There's a tone-down option. Okay. Where there's still some blood? There's some blood, yes. Okay. And all the villains are like balloon animals. Yes, that's right. Just pop them. And they go, I'm going to heaven. I'm not actually dead. I went to heaven. So it's okay. It's okay that you got me. So I was look because my son really wants to play this obviously. And I'm like, I don't know because he's cutting people's faces off. You're going to have to test out low-gore mode and see how

low gore it really is. And look, he'd be fine with it probably, but also, I probably shouldn't let him play this. Because also, like, Gore when we were kids, it's like 16 bit and whatever. But when you see, like, the insides of a person. When you, when you uppercutted a guy in Mortal Kombat, it was just like the same pixel spray of blood every single time. Absolutely, yeah. And now they're really, they're chopping stuff off.

They're chopping dudes up. Chopping dudes up. Chopin dudes up. Yep. Different outfits probably in this. People were complaining because his clothes regenerate. Oh, I see. I don't care about that.

It is a video game. But also, as some people mention, it could be nanites. Or unstable molecules. Or unstable molecules. I would get stable molecules. You think so? The most stable. Yeah, because maybe, you know, you're hosting a kid's birthday party and all your unstable

molecule clothes come off or whatever. That happens. You go to prison and you should. It can happen. So I would recommend if you're going to a child's birthday party, you're a stable molecule clothes, Wolverine. Yeah, suit of armour. Yeah, exactly.

Adamantium armour, man. Oh. Yeah. I'm really looking forward. to this. Who you excited to see in this game? Wolfrene. Besides Wolfrene.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I always love in a game when you get to fight a Sentinel. Yeah. Even if it's bad, which it usually is. We've talked about like when we play a movie spin-off game, it's always interesting to see the game's, yeah, the game's interpretation of, say, characters or villains or something or heroes that weren't in the movie originally. Yeah.

Like, you know, the X-Men universe, it's like, oh, you know, what if Iron Man was there? What if he was? But he wasn't. He wasn't. We recently, we played and recorded, and this would be under a few weeks at the paywold stuff. The X-Men video game, which is set between X-Men 2 and 3.

And there's just like Sentinels and all sorts of shit in Hydra. Yeah. Yeah, Hydra was an interesting choice. Well, it was 2006. It was before anybody was using it really. Yeah, that's true. And, yeah. And Wolverine in this, he's in Team X,

which is his Special Forces team before he was allowed. Allowed. Allowed to run a school. That's exactly right, yes. Yeah. Looks pretty good. It does look pretty good. I know I said this, but September 15th.

This will be maybe a day one purchase, depending on how it goes. Wow. But then sometimes I'll do that and then I won't play the actual game. And people get mad at me. I'm just more mad at myself. Well, you've got to buy a day one so you can install it and then install the updates. I want to talk about that later, actually. Oh, yeah, we prick a guy.

But we can't do that because we've got to talk about big movie. Okay. Do you want to talk about God of War? Oh, yeah. Okay. I think it's cool. What's this game? So it is a spinoff game featuring Deborah Ann Wohl from

Daredevil. Devere and swall. She is looking pretty swall. I don't know. No, I don't know. But they said we have to glaze this game. Yeah. So we're making the pots.

I'm happy to do it. We're making the pots. Yeah. And she, in the new God of War game, she is Kratos's wife, Faye. Yep. But who's sort of who died at the beginning of the new one. Yeah.

Yeah. So, and so she's only been a back baron character, but she has, after her death, she's ended up in this weird, weird dimension. Looks cool. Which you might think is cool. And Jack Quaid is there as a cube? Jack Wade is a cube.

And he goes, what's going on in this cube? Exactly. I think this is, I do think this is a good idea. Yeah. Because there's a lot of, again, what I played that first game, there is a lot of mystery around that character and what she's kind of set up for Kreyas and her son and all of that. Because the frost axe that he uses in the game, that's hers.

Yeah. So that would make for her. Get it. Well, she got it from the two guys. Yeah. I know, but it's like, I'm adding, you know, but it's like, I'm adding, glace in the pots. You're not adding anything.

You're adding nothing to these pots. I'm firing them all day. And you're like, I know. I already put it on the pot. But anyway, people are mad because of one frame of the trailer where she wakes up. And she's like, oh, and everybody's like, she looks old. She looks old and yuck.

I've put her through AI and now she's sexy. Well, thank God somebody had the courage to do that. And the patience, I should say. Yeah. Anyway, everybody's not everybody, but I think it looks good. I don't know. No, it does look good. They're based on a couple of frames.

Yeah. Because, again, it's the outrage merchants. They have to, they need something to get mad at every week. Yeah. And this is it. There's also been a bunch of different God of War spin-off games. And I think they all look Cratos, actually. And there's also large sections of, I think it's the last one where you don't play as

Kratos and whatever. But yeah, I think it's fine to look at it to play as a different character. I see a different mythology and a different underworld or whatever's got. Different swords. Different swords. Different swords. Different swords, different swords. Yeah.

And also, I think this is probably, this is a lead-up. If you're saying this is a spin-off, I would say this is probably a lead-up to the next mainline game, right? So to be presuming, like, the next game is either going to be Kratos and his son teaming up with Kratos's wife, and maybe he can play as all of them, or she dies at the end of this, and he's like, I've got to get double revenge. Double revenge time, it's time for extra double revenge. Oh, can you mention dying, and then you wake up and people are like, guess what, you've got a quest. Oh! I thought it was infinite blackness.

I thought it was going to be eaten by maggots. I've got to go on a quest for what? Looks cool. I don't know. I don't know, man. I mean, it's no wolf or rain. It's no wolf or rain.

That's absolutely true. I just wanted to talk about Control Resident. What do you want to talk about? I just think it looks cool. Yeah, but what do you want to talk about? Did you finish the last one? Did you know that I didn't?

Yeah, I remember. I'm sick of being in this weird, abstract pyramid house. What's going on here? I did finish it, yeah. Oh, there's a video hidden clip of this is going to give me a secret. I don't have time for secrets, Mason. Here's the thing about control as well is that. It's a good guy.

is a good game, but I, again, to me, the world was always profoundly more interesting, incredibly much more interesting than the gameplay itself. Yeah, because it's a lot of it's like you're in an incredible world that defies physics or whatever, and it's like, no, I've got to fight ten guys. And they're all just sort of glowing red and they got steam coming off and they float around and you throw stuff at them and you shoot them or whatever. But sometimes you'll find a TV in a weird room and you look at the TV and it tells you a secret. Sometimes there's a man-eating fridge.

What? There's a man eating fridge. Oh, man, I don't have time. But I kind of, I played that game, and I kind of wish that there was just a button where you could go, you push it, and the action sequence ended. And it's like, and on to the next thing. And on to the next weird thing. But I don't know, so this is about, so in the premise of the first game,

was that you were a woman called Jesse, who was searching for her brother. Who he was part of this organization or was kidnapped by them or something? When they were teenagers, he was abducted by an organization called the Federal Bureau of Control. Oh, it must be nice. Yeah, exactly. You know, just take a load off. And so she spends many years of her life trying to track this place, this organization down because they don't seem to exist. And then she finally finds them in a building that most people can't see.

And it's filled with weird triangles. As soon as she shows up, it gets locked down because it's being invaded by weird triangles. And she becomes the new head of the department because she picks up the cool gun, which means you're the leader of the organization. It's like the scalamer. Yeah. Or it might actually be Excalibur. You might actually be Excalibur.

And you've got to fight a bunch of floating guys and triangles and stuff. But in this it's set some years after and all the weird stuff from that building has escaped into New York. And it looks really good and they're doing a bunch of stuff with like... It's almost like an Arkham Asylum to Arkham City. It is a bit, yeah. Can she fly? Oh, well, this is the brother. Oh, can you fly?

She can fly in the first one. Yeah. Because you eventually build up your weird powers, don't you? Yeah, you build up your weird powers. Yeah. So you learn to fly food fighter style. Learn to fly Tom Petty. That's also true.

Yeah. RIP. Tom Petty died? Yeah, he's like her. Oh, no. I'm going to keep an eye out. You're going to keep an eye out for Tom Petty. You're going to keep an eye on that guy from ELO.

Damn, he died in 27N. Yeah. But in this one, you play the brother and you have to, I guess, clean up New York City. But it's, it's, they're doing a bunch of stuff with like you can, you can jump from different planes of like, you know, you can sometimes this is the, wall but then you can turn into the floor and you can go and that sort of stuff. That's kind of a, what was that game called Gravity Rush? Yeah, it's a bit of that. But it looked, the scale of it looks incredible. And again, I'm looking forward to playing some of it and then being like, I shouldn't have spent $1,400 on a PS5. Exactly. You know, and I'll, I'll just watch the

playthrough of this on YouTube. I think it's going to be the best out of your life. I think so too. It looks good. I mean, if it sounds like you don't love the gameplay, yeah, maybe you do just watch it on YouTube. Yeah, which would save me 1,500 bucks. But is that also, it's that also, an interesting enough movie in itself. Honestly, yes. Whoa, there we go. You heard it first, folks. Idiot likes video game story.

Stop the press. That's not news. That's everybody likes video games. Yeah, but people don't like them in the story. They like them for the... They look like an anime babe. Babes, exactly. That's why people like video games.

That's exactly right. That's my understanding. That's what everybody likes anime babes. Tifa is in, from Final Fantasy 7 is in Street, Fota 6 now. Tifa Final Fantasy, what? Tifa. from Final Fantasy 6. T-I-F-A.

T-F-A. What do you mean? In the mouth, do they fall out? Yes, James. Yes. They're also doing another one of those or whatever, aren't they? Another Final Fantasy 7. They're doing another remake, yeah.

That's probably why she's in Street, 40-6, for cross-promotional purposes. God, I love how things can be cross-promoted. Yeah. But anyway, control looks out. Just the visuals alone. Yeah. They've just gone, I just love the visuals.

So good. Just stuffed where you're like, why are they putting in this stuff in movies? Why don't, why no movie look like this? They will. Some young YouTuber Some up and coming Dude will be like

I grew up on this And now this is me This is me This is me This is me How are various movies doing this This week? I mean obsessions and backrooms

Backrooms had a pretty big drop off But it's already made its money back And then some But obsession is still building week To wait for that Actually we'll talk about it Because we're going to talk about big movie Let's do that now

Time for Big Movie Masters Big Movie Big Budget Big Budget million dollars into this according to variety. You can't disappoint the Masters of the Universe fan base, which as we know is,

let's say it all together, 50-year-old dead men. Put some reverb on that in post. I think that'll be a great idea. So the box office for this in the US, it's going to have about a 31 million US opening. Okay. As I mentioned in the US.

That hasn't covered the cost, honestly. No, and it won't. Scary Movie 6 is going to make 52 million in its first week. They should have just made another scary movie movie. Yeah, which also apparently is a bad movie. But, I mean, these will never consider good movies. No. But I have no desire to see that movie at any point, really.

Also, as we mentioned, it's competing with Backrooms and Obsession, which is all doing well. That franchise is not, they're not bolstered by dead men. Correct. So you can see why this has happened. Barely born men. Barely born men. Boys and girls and others and so forth. That's right.

They're loving it. They are loving it. They're loving the obsession backrooms situations. Yes. So there's been a few He-Man reboots over the years of all animated. The last... The last movie was in 1987 with Dovangkudrun. And at that point, the franchise, the toy franchise, the cartoon franchise, was already

sort of on the way out. Absolutely. This should have come out in like 2013, 2014. To capitalize on a big Marvel movie. Because I think you look around then, Ninja Turtles had come back at that point. Transformers were big. Guardians of the Galaxy. They'd just done a battleship.

That's right, Guardians of the Galaxy. That was the era to do that. They had done battleship. And 50-year-old men were 40-year-old men then. Or you do it immediately after Barbie. Like you shoot it out. You shoot it out of Hollywood as soon as Barbie is out. Yep.

And don't wait three years. Yeah, but it's too late. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, it was, you know, it's a cartoon come to life. Yeah. What do you think the story was? Oh, come on, man, all right. That's all right.

That's okay. You can do this. Very mind, you've got to remember the existing he-man law from the 80s. I don't want to do that. And also some of the Dolf Lundran stuff, which is different. And also this new he-man. I refuse to learn any of this. It's going to...

You don't need to learn it. You know it. That's true. I do. I do know. Okay, so there's a ternia. It's a magical realm or something or a planet or something. How do you get there with a spaceship or a warp thing?

I don't know. How long does it take? I don't know. I don't know. You can do a magic portal, but maybe it's a science portal. I don't know. Anyway, there's a royal family there. And Prince Adam, he's a little, he's a little weedy.

He's a little weedy, 10 year old kid. And everybody makes fun of him and his bullies him, including his dad and man at arms. And all his friends. All the kids, his own age and older. I don't think any of them were his friends. No, everybody hates him for some reason. The Bird Woman thinks he's all right. Yeah, Bird Woman thinks she's all right.

And then, but then, but then, Eternia is invaded by Skelling Tor. Oh, no. Evil warrior man, Skellingtor and Evil Lynn and all these weird freak mates show up. And so, the Bird lady sorcerer, she's like, hey, let's, let's, don't stand and fight. Little He-Man, you suck.

Little Adam. Well, so your name's not he-man. Yeah, it's Adam. Anyway, I'm going to throw you in a portal. Take the big sword of power, which is going to save the world eventually, but not now. Let's not try it now. Let's not get the king to try it or man-at-arms or anybody.

I can give this power to anybody. Yeah, but I'm going to give it to you a useless little kid, and I'm going to throw you into a portal that'll take you to earth. Don't let go of the sword. By the way, you're going to be thrown into an enormous maelstrom of energy, a hurricane of energy. But don't let go of this sword, 10-year-old boy. Don't do it.

The weakest of a soul. Yeah, I'm going to throw you into a situation that seems like 100, times worse than a car crash, but don't let go of the handle of this sword, which is already too heavy for you, you'd drop it anyway. Even if this was like a, just a, just a, just a smooth, just a smooth rainbow ride

to earth, he'd still drop it because he's 10 and weighs as much as he does. Big sword. Yeah. Anyway, a hard cut to the present day where Adam is working in an office and he's all, ah, this sucks, office life sucks, modern life sucks, and he's going on dates and he's telling people he's from the magical land of

attorney. And he's telling his roommate that he's from the magical land of attorney. And he's like, I wish I had the sword. Then I could prove that I would see it and go, that's cool. Then I'm going to get back, I'm going to go back to attorney. I got a cat there. Yeah, I got a cat there and my friend's a girl. There's a battering man bloke. Yeah, yeah, all these guys. And then one day, and he's, and he's always researching, where's my sword? Where's my sword, he says? Where's my dang sword? Yep. And you might be like, oh, is a lot of the said on earth? No. No. And you might be like, maybe you should just get over it. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people are, his roommate's like, I think you had some sort of traumatic event as a child.

And that's why you've invented this. He's like, no, no. That was a sword. Yeah, yeah. We don't know what happened after he landed in the lake or whatever and then it became an adult. No, we have no idea. We don't know what happened. Probably was fine.

You got a job, we went to school. You got a job went to school. Foster parents, we don't know. We don't know. We don't know. There's a lot of things we don't know in this movie. We don't know, but it's not important. No.

Because then he finds the sword at like a forbidden planet. Yeah. A minotaur comics, if you're in Australia, if you're in Melbourne specifically. Yeah, well, the character that he takes it off, I can't remember the name, but that was going to be the He-Man's original name. It was like Torric or something like that. So that was going to be the original He-Man. Interesting.

Okay. Anyway, he finds it, but then, you know what? Trouble finds him. Yeah. It's all the monsters and bad guys and stuff. Well, why? And then he's got to go back to a tournia. Yep.

And then he's got to be coming here. Because it's all real and whatever. Yeah. And you might think, did he spend his years on Earth training and doing muscle stuff? No, none of it. Even though he is visibly very big. Did he learn karate? No, he learned pronouns.

He learned pronouns and how to roll out of the way of something. Yes. Well, I don't even think he learned that, but he can do it. Instinct. Instinct. For being a cowardly little boy. Yeah, that's right. I have complaints of this movie.

Me too. Of this movie for children. Yes. Or dead men. Well, I mean, see, that's the thing, because I guess it's, they're banking on this being like a movie kids will really like and sort of re-ignite the franchise because that's better than coming up with a new thing. It's way better.

The Getter thing that previously worked 40 years ago and see if that works for the next generation. Does it? I don't think it will. Yeah. But I think all in all, I did. I enjoyed it, but it is going to bomb pretty hard unless a miracle happens in the same way the Dungeons and Dragons 2023 did.

But I really liked that movie and this movie I thought was all right. Yeah, I didn't think this was good as Dungeons and Dragons again and all the franchise that has its fans, but hasn't broken through to the moment. mainstream in a very long time. They attempted to make that happen. And I think Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves was a very good movie, very well structured, good characters, good performances, funny.

Made sense. Felt lived in, this doesn't feel lived in. And felt, I feel like it had a good flow to it, that movie. You know, I'm sure some people would say that movie is kind of cliched and how everything turned out, but I'm like, no, no, you've got the classic element. You reintroducing this concept, you need some classic elements to it. I think it flowed very well in that way. We call them compelments.

Compeliments. Because they're elements that compel and whatever you said. That's exactly right. I've already forgotten what I said. But this is not as good as that. No. It's okay. It looks cool.

Looks cool. I don't know why this is $200 million though, because I don't think it looks $200 million. Also, we didn't mention this. Directed by billionaire rapper Chilly Tea. You aware of this? Travis Knight? Formerly rapper Chili Tea. I didn't know his name was Chili T.

Did you know he was a billionaire? I didn't know he was a billionaire. Well, he's the son of Philip Knight. Who founded Nike. And he does all the Cuba on the two strings stuff. Yeah, he owns the animation studio. He loves animation this dude. Which you can do, you can have a company that doesn't make any money if you have

billions of dollars. Easy. But he was a rapper named Chili T. His first EP was produced by the Bomb Squad, who are most famous for producing Public Enemy. Wow. So he just got those guys. We could probably get those guys.

Like a teenager or whatever. They could improve this podcast probably. I think so too. Yeah. I do like his movies on the whole. I really like Bumblebee, actually. Yeah, he directed Bumblebee. Yeah.

But you know what? There's a few problems I have with this. Also, this is really, I know we say 50 year old man. This is a movie for kids. Like, I took my son to this. He loved it. That's what I'm saying. I think they're hoping.

They're hoping the people that made, you know, Chili Tea, great guy. He makes those animations. He made bumblebee, which again, we both like a lot. I think he's hoping that kids will be like. I'm sure he liked it when he was a kid. And he's like, I hope kids like this also. Yeah. We should start with the positives, I think.

Okay. Looks great. Looks, yeah. for the most part, I think. think. Yeah. I think also the designs are just bang on. Weird vehicles. Weird vehicles. There could be more. Yeah. There could be more weird vehicles. There could be the one where we all know which one it is, you know, exactly what I'm thinking about. The weird tank treads that flip over. The tank one and it sort of moves at right angles. Oh, that one. I'm thinking of two different weird ones. It looks like a

claw-footed bathtub. Yeah. And then it moves one set of feet and then it moves the other set of feet and there's a bit in the middle. That's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah. And it's a tank or something. I'm thinking of the tank treads that flip over. Oh, there's also that one. Yeah, okay. There's also one, and maybe it's just a toy where it's just a really long skeleton that you click guys in. Oh. Yeah, anyway, it doesn't matter.

But yeah, there's some weird guys in this. There's mech and neck and ram man and fisto. I had fisto as a kid. I loved that figure. Was there a cream for that? No, Mason, you don't even need a cream. Oh, so you still have it. You still have fisto.

You don't need a cream. It's not a problem, actually. Okay, well. Many people could live with it. Interesting. You know, weird bad guys. There's a bunch of references. we can talk about to the 87 one as well.

One of the bad guys is the 87 Gremlin. The Gremlin, the white-haired gremlin guy. Yeah, I think that's... And I think there's another guy who's supposed to be the bald-headed sword-knife-dart guy. Yeah. Whose name I cannot recall, and I will never ever recall it. Yeah, absolutely. I think he's in that as well, but he's older.

He might even be the same guy. I don't know. He might just be, yeah. Character design, spot on. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. I think Nicholas Galatine is really good as he, he man. And I think Camilla Men.

is really good as Tealer as well. I think they work well together. I think Idris Alper with Man in Arms is probably the most interesting character who has the most of an arc, I guess. Yep. Yeah. All in all, would you say? Yeah. They all looked apart. Villain design's really good. Yep. Trapatured-or. Looks great. Great, terrific work. I don't know who that guy is, who that actor is. Yeah. But good work there. And there's others. Look, Scalithor is in this. He's played by Jared Ledo. Correct. It's pretty good. Yep. I don't think it's as great as everybody is saying. But I think he does a pretty good job,

and there's some weird skeletal moments that I like. I like that he got paid $5 million. I like that too. I like that it's a body suit, and then they see GI the head. I think that makes it look really good. He's got those empty eyes with the red dots in it. The red dots are a great idea.

Because you can tell when he's closing his eyes or where he's looking, it really gives it character. Yeah. Because he's got the little sleeping cap on. And he's going, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. I don't think it's a particularly funny movie, but there is a moment where Skeletor creates like a dream sequence

where he goes to Adam's work in HR. And so he's in there and he's in a suit or whatever, he's got a skeleton head and he's just talking to him. And then there's a moment where he goes, what is this? Where? Like, just the idea of Skeletor going to a regular office job is really funny and where he just takes a moment to just be like,

this is really, like, I'm from a bizarre place, but this is very, strange. Like just, what a foreign concept. So I like that a lot. Also, apparently, Jared Leder did something terrifying every single day, said Travis Knight. He would do something unexpected in ways that would delight me, that would horrify me, that would make me laugh.

But that's part of the character. Like, sometimes he put blood on his face. Whoa. That's acting. So he was there in the, this isn't just a voice. No, he was there. But he's not in the promotional material. No.

Well, he's crook and also he's a box office poisoned man. And also, he's a poison man in this. He's got an acid, poisoned skeletal type. Oh, Alison Brie is Evil-Linn? That, you could have gone way bigger with Evil-Li-Li-Li. They didn't give her enough to do. Lena Hedy voices Evil-Linn in the newest series, the Kevin Smith one. The animated series.

Terrific. Like, I think you probably should have got her. And I like Alison Brie a lot, but it's just a lot of, oh, Lord Scalotor, and then she would just, like, wander off. There was nothing particularly evil about Evil. I think you really could have ramp that up. Also, the score is amazing. It's pretty good.

So it's Daniel Pemberton, who also did. Project Halmerry and Brian May does the guitar. Oh he's got a special credit for He-Man's sword of power riffs. So whenever He-Man pulls the sword, it's like it's very flash gaud in the soundtrack. There's a darkness song

there's a queen song in this as well which is interesting it's Princess of the Universe which is traditionally James traditionally that is the theme to Highlander. Yes. So which is coming out soon. So what are they going to do? And swords. This is going to be the new smash mouth

All-Star. Biao, bough, bough, bough, bough, etc. Exactly, yeah. Yeah. So all of that I like, I think there's a bunch of 87 cameos, which is cool. There's Dolph Lundgren who's in it. There's a big skeletal hologram at one point, which I like. At least one of his, I think there might be two guys.

There's a pig guy, like a literal pig guy. And also another guy we mentioned who's like an 87 guy. He-man lands in a swamp when he comes to Earth. That happens in the movie as well. So there's a bunch of stuff like that. So that's the praise. That is the praise. Any more praise?

fight sequences are pretty good. Fights are good. There's actually a sequence at the start and it's man-at-arms versus trap-jaw which I think might be the best fight in the movie. I was on board like the first 15 minutes of this. I'm like, I'm in it and it's like 100%. Yeah.

But it's probably about 30 minutes too long. Usually. But there's also bits in it where like, oh, you don't, you haven't flashed, uh, flashed just out and up. I think a big problem I had for this is there's too much. Oh, here comes the criticism. There's too much.

Here comes the criticism weird tank. Here it comes. There could have been... Clunk. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Clunk. I would have loved a big... Mason, it would have changed my whole opinion on this.

Absolutely. Which is still that I quite like that. And I've said this, I've been on the record a number of times. I would give the Michael Bay Transformers movies so much more slack. Yeah. If Optimus Prime turned into the truck

he was in and the cartoons. Toots me goats. I would just be like, everything else is fine. Because that would be the Transformers movies of my dreams. Even with all the weird sex stuff. I'd be like, this is fine.

This is good. This is good because he turns into the red truck that looks like the red truck. But he didn't. And so I'm like, no, no. And that's why Bumblebee is good. Agreed. Travis Knight gets that. But I think there's so much lamp shading.

So whenever they introduce a character, he man's like, oh, you're Ramman or your Fisto. And they're like, that's not our names. Why do you call us that? And he's like, well, I was a kid and that's just the... You were 10. You didn't learn any of their names. But they're also never like, oh, this is my actual name. Yeah.

And I think my problem with this is this movie feels... The world feels like it just started. Yeah. Because when Skeletor even turns out, it's Skelling Toll. Skelling Tor. Nobody even knows who he is. Yeah. When he was, Trapteor was fighting Man at Arms, I'm like, oh, they're like nemesisies. Yeah.

They know each other. Man at Arms has been man at arms for like 20 years. Yeah, yeah. And my son goes to me, do they know each other? And I'm like, yeah, definitely. Like, they would have had many run-ins. These are like the forces of good and evil. I didn't say to this.

These are the force of good and evil that have been battling for generations. Yeah. But they don't know each other. And I found that so bizarre where nobody knows anybody, like, from the opposing team. Nobody is, like, aware of anybody else's abilities. Nobody's really done anything in the 15 years that he-man's kind of gone. What is anybody's name? You know, like, what's, it just really felt, like, Dungeons and Dragons felt like this had existed forever.

Absolutely, yeah. And this feels like it's, you just, this is the star. So there's a sort of, negative. Yeah. So there's a couple of sort of through lines of this movie, which I think any movie like this, any kids movie, you know, it'll be like, remember to work as a team, you know, family is really important, you know, that sort of thing. It's always like. Yeah. And they put a bunch of them through there and it's how, you know, since E.T. probably. Be friends with a weird little freak, a yucky little freak. Love it.

But this has a few through lines and they felt really kind of weird and stilted. Yeah. And kind of like. So one of them is that they, there's a, there's a moment. It's not, I think this is a spoiler where, you know, their darkest hour, all the good guys are in trouble and, you know, and then He-Man's like, let's work as a team. Something I've learned is that from being on earth and being working in an office

and all this sort of stuff is we should work as a team. Yeah. And it's like, yeah. They're the resistance. Were they not working as a team before? But all the characters, like you said a lot. How are we going to get out this great? What if the jar, what if we all...

All the bars are unbreakable. Well, what if we all pushed at the bars at once? Good thinking, Hey man. Do you remember the portal stick that they had in... We're talking about Dungeons and Dragons and Dragons. But like, do you remember even just getting in a cart in that and like the fun and adventure of just doing a little thing like that? There's none of that here.

And there's also like... So when we first encounter Heeman as a child, Prince Adam, everybody's mean to him. Yeah. And then... Is dad's... mean to him. Yeah. He's like, you're a...

Like, beats him up. Yeah. In front of everybody. So he's like, my son, you're a weakling or whatever. And then later... He's like, I didn't want you to think that. And there's a moment as well where like... There's a moment where Adam has returned to Aturnia and he's talking to Idris Elber

and he's like, you were always mean to me and you pushed me over and all this sort of stuff. And it's like, no, man at arms was the only one who was nice to you. He wasn't. Yeah. I don't understand how they... He wasn't hitting you with sticks. He took it really easy on you.

Yeah. I don't understand how they missed this sort of stuff in the edit. And there's also, there's no, there's no, the problem I found is there's no real escalation or like, like we're talking about how, you know, the characters all work together and they team up and they escape or whatever. There's no real escalation or kind of revelation where he learns to harness his powers correctly because he learned something along the way. It's just like, oh, I don't know what I'm doing. And now I've got the sort of power. And I still don't know what I'm doing. But now I'm going to run in.

Now I've got the power. Yeah. It's like, well, based on what? Yeah. You know? Because like, you know, a lot of these movies, it's like they, it's a character who's really reckless and he gets into trouble. And then he's like, but then my friends told me this thing.

And then he takes that on board and then they win or whatever. It's like he doesn't learn any lessons. No, he doesn't. The only thing is, there is a must of the universe revelations. The reason that he has the power is because he's not just a warrior, he's kind and whatever. But they don't even really do a lot with that, I would say. I mean, and the obvious example and something that has done this within recent memory is the Thor movies. There's a lot of Ragnarok and original Thor and original Thor, you know, the premise of the Marvel Thor is that he is not worded.

of wielding the hammer, so he keeps getting defeated. And then when he proves himself that he's willing to sacrifice himself to help others and blah, blah, blah, that means he's a true warrior. He can fight a big robot. And then he can fight the big robot and he gets his Thor powers back. That's not, and did they take something like that out of this because it was too Thorish? Maybe, yeah. Maybe.

Which would have been fine because, I mean, there's so much of Thor that is borrowed from he, man, also, and from the comics and mythology. But these are all kind of loosely based around the same ideas and concepts. for sure. So I don't think that's a problem to do that. Oh yeah. So the thing, the thing, you know, and again, I don't think this is really a spoiler because it's the kind of the thematic thing. We can just do spoilers. That he, that the thing that he learned was that the idea that he's the ultimate worry and he was chosen to be the ultimate warrior, not because he was big and strong or whatever, but because he had empathy and he learned things.

But he learned them in an office environment that he hated. Yes. It was also awful. It was awful. Yeah. I don't understand. And, like, didn't, everybody worked there was awful and, I don't know, yeah. And everybody talks in therapy speaking.

Yeah, and it's, yeah, I don't understand. Like, to bring any of that into, like, attorney or his. I think it would have been better if he was the HR guy. Right. And he was being like, well, my life. Yeah, my life sucks because I'm not the prince of attorney or whatever. No, I'm going to take it out on everybody else. Yeah.

And then maybe he learned over the course of his office career that actually, actually you should be empathetic to these. You know, he sees somebody he fired and they're not doing too well or something. And he's like, oh, I should be more empathetic and I should be like, like if he was selfish or something. Okay, yeah, that makes sense. And then that's why he couldn't wield the power. And then he's like, I've got to be not selfish for the people I fired, but also the people of attorney and then he gets the powers or something. But it's sort of muddled.

I think the problem is also they come into this. Like, it's an origin story of both this world and introducing everything all at once and every go. This movie is all right, by the way. Yeah, it's fine. And including He-Man. this should have been already established because even at the end they're like well what do you call yourself

and he's like I'm he man and they're like that's dumb you're an idiot that's a stupid name but it's like it is but if you just start the universe and there already is a he man you don't have to go oh that's fisto oh fisting that's funny and then you do that joke for it oh hey man

that's a stupid name you don't have to do that every time if you just accept that it's this world was already running so I don't watch a lot of kids movies unless they intersect with our adult interest. Like Pinocchio. Like Pinocchio and He-Man. But my feeling is that when I think of like the trailers

that I've seen for like DreamWorks movies, minions and all that sort of stuff, the sense of humor is the same where every single joke is. Because you've watched more kids movies than I have because you have kids. But where somebody says something serious and then it has to be undercut with a quip immediately. Like every trailer is this and a big fart.

Somebody falls over and they do a big fart or whatever. It felt like this movie, They were like, we have to have that. Where there's a moment where Skeletor is like he's doing his big evil speech to his men. And he goes, ha, ha, ha, and he puts his arms to the sky. And then everybody just stands around and he goes, well, you shouldn't. You've got to go. You've got to go.

You've got to go. Whatever. And it's like, you don't. You need to do that. You need to pick, you need to pick, it's the idea that everybody in a universe is quippy. You can make Skeletor funny, but he can't be funny in the way. It felt like Ghostpast is 2016. It can't be funny.

Everybody can't be somebody doing a quip every time. You can have a character who's funny because they're so serious all the time. You can have a character that does do quips, but you can't have them all be the same guy. Absolutely. And it felt like everybody had exactly the same sense of humour. Yep, I agree. Yeah, but it's all right. It's fine.

It's pretty good. Yeah, best movie ever, why not? Yeah, it's good enough. It's late. All the people who like this are dead. Or children who can't buy their own tickets. Yeah. If it's school holidays where you are, which it isn't here, so I don't know why they've released this children's movie.

then maybe you could take your kids and they'll have a fun time. And you'll have an okay time too. It is too long. Spoilers. There's a moment at the end where he's like, I need to get the sword back because he loses the sword

and he loses faith in himself and his dad died and his dad like, I never wanted to be rude to you, but it's like, you were really rude. You're rude the whole time. You're rude for the entire memory. I didn't have time to, I didn't have the memory to learn

any of those people's names because I just remembered you being mean to me. You were so hurtful to me all the time. Mean and hurtful. King Ragnar, whatever your name is. Yeah. So they're like, we've got to get the sword back Prince Adam sitting on the back of Cringer who's in this,

who becomes battle cap just because he can, which is fine. And he just runs into the room and jumps off and just grabs the sword from in front of Skeletor. Nice. And then they have the thing where he goes into his mind and goes into his dreams, which I liked. Because again, Skeletor in the real world is very funny to me. Yeah.

Just like that he's at the gym and all of that. That's great. But it's also like the point is that the sword is not important that it's the guy. And I don't even mind that. I think it would have been more interesting. Which is also the lesson of, Yeah, exactly. But I think it all, but that's also happened in the, um, the newer He-Man

universe as well. Because there's a, there's one moment, because you know what? The sorcerer should probably have told him all of that stuff before he went into the portal. Hey, hold on to the sword, but if you lose it, don't worry about it because actually the powers within you the whole time. But are we doing it just to get you back though? Yeah. I think it would have been more interesting also if the sword was destroyed and the sword that he got was a replica. And it's like, it's not the sword. The sword. Yeah. Yeah. They even say that. They're like, the sword's not important. Like the guy is important. Yeah. But yeah, in revelations, he, he, He does the eye of the power thing without the sword,

so it just gives him the full blast of energy. And he basically becomes the Hulk, because it's like, it's supposed to channel it so you can contain it. And so there's a bit of that sort of here. But yeah, I, sort of here.

I did like the bit at the end where he goes to negotiate with Skeletor. He's like, look, you're awful, but you know, my skill is negotiation and whatever. I thought that was a good moment. And then to Skeletor just be like,

I don't do that. Like, I've got a skull for a head and, yeah. Let's have a big fight and whatever. And him's, just him punching Skeletor was fun as well. Good punches. I liked it. Good solid punches.

And then at the end they try to work in like the secret identity thing. And it's like, you don't need to do any of that. No. They're just like, well, he's running away to be he man, but we know he's Prince Adam. Let's just pretend we don't know. It's like, it's fine. So is this a prequel to the original show? I did like how they all put their hands on the hips and laugh.

I went, ha, ha, ha, ha. Like at the end of every cat. Yeah, that was fun. And then there's Orko and whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So that I quite like, again, it's like, maybe, I'm probably being too harsh on this.

But, you know, it's all right. It's all right. Post-Gredits are Orko's there because at the end of every Heyman episode, you get a lesson. Sounds woke to me. Be true to yourself. Sounds woke to me. It sounds like they're shoehorning their belief system at you. Yep.

Which they never did in the cartoons except for every episode, every day. Sometimes even during the episode. During the episode. Also, what I loved about their agendas. Yes, I loved about that show was everybody was, Skeletor was always just watching them on TV. Where are his cameras? Where are his cameras? Great question. Yeah. I also liked how Man at Arms killed Traptuore at the end or whatever his name is. That was a good arc. Idris Alba, incredible. Maybe all the money went to Idrisalba. Maybe. Now, five million went to your mate.

Yes. Your best mate. Skeletors threatens to return because Evelyn gets his skull at the end or whatever. And Shira is teased in a movie we will never see. They showed the name, the actress or the, I think she's a Mostly a model was revealed. But that's a stand-in. That's not. Correct. If they make a Shira movie, which they won't,

they'll recast. They're going to get Ed Norton. Ed Norton. Because he appeared at the end of Alita Battle Angel. He did. He said, hello. I've got glasses. Hello.

I'm Shira. I'm Shira. They're never making a Shira movie. They're not even making a sequel to this. It's like all the times they tease Thanos before they got. Yeah. Which again was like a stand-in guy. Yeah, that's what I'm telling you.

But I mean, the look is there, isn't it? Yeah, it looks like it. Should we do some reviews from people? from the great mates group. Planet Broadcasting Grandmains Group, I should say. Oh yes. Felipe says this was a blast and I said that as someone

with zero nostalgia for this IP. Well, that's promising, I think. A lot of people have been saying this. Bumblebee did okay enough to get a rise of the beasts which isn't as good. It's a worse movie. Yeah, it is.

Whoever played Skeletor did a pretty good job to be honest. Too bad, he'll never know who they are and the studio a good job of keeping his identity a secret. Ryan said my 10-year-old little boy and I just saw it. I'd be the first in this thread not to love it,

but I'm kind of disappointed. In the 80s, I was more into He-Man than I'll ever be into anything else in my life. I think there's a more dramatic, high-fantasy movie you made here, but they wanted to make some meaningless fluff. It was kind of a cross-between Thor Ragnarok and a Minecraft movie. That Minecraft movie, I think that's, that is bang on for me.

Like, there's a lot of Minecraft in this, right? I mean, certainly in my screening, because in between every scene, I yelled out, Chicken Jockey! You do that every movie. You do that every movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was doing it before it was cool.

I was doing it during screenings of Michael, Clayton. Ash says exactly what it should have been. Fun, Camby didn't take itself too seriously. If I was a kid, I'll be watching this on repeat and demand, every toy related to it, best movie ever.

And Josh says, by far the silliest movie I've seen a long time, but I did enjoy it, went with some mates who were all likely except my best mate, who was the biggest he man found as a kid and thought it was terrible. And he doesn't hold the old show

in any kind of weird reverence, so I guess sometimes you can't go back. So true. Yeah. So true. Do you think a lot of people maybe would have wanted a more serious version of this

I mean probably yeah it's dark and gritty it's not so much the jokes in this for me it's that a lot of that just did land like I have no problem with yeah it's a joke universe it's nonsense yeah but it's just like oh your fisto oh you're ramming man

cool man good joke again good joke you've done five times and again there is a cream for all of those no it's fine okay you don't even have to disclose it wow anyway should move second next segment of the show basically

next segment of the show what is that It's what we read. Yes, it is. What we're going to read? Yes, it is. I'm doing nothing. This is a segment, isn't it, Mason? We talk about what we've been reading, doing, listening to.

I just thought we've been doing. We have a casual chat. Walking around? Have you? Yeah, I've been walking around. How's that been going for you? I love it. I love walking around.

How many shoes you're wearing? A day? Yeah. Usually two. In total. Yeah. On the one foot. No.

James. Interesting. That's not how most people do it. but you're unique and that's why people find you really off-putting. Thank you. What else? What have you been reading or watching that?

I watched the first couple of the worst I'll start again. Yeah, I know, right? It's late. But he's on the wrong foot, one singular foot. That's right. I watched the first couple episodes of ponies

which is on binge.com. It's got Amelia Clark and Haley Lou Richardson. Oh, that one. Isn't that good? Yeah, I liked it. I liked the first couple episodes. I don't know what, because it came out in January, I think.

But I saw Amelia Clark on the dish, podcast this week. Yeah, okay. And I'm like, is she promoting that? Is she got a book? I thought maybe the second season was already out or something like that, but no, I think they talked about ponies, so I don't know. She's just doing the interview rounds recently.

I don't know if she's got a movie. Maybe it's banked. It might have been banked. Yeah, yeah. Or maybe the show's only doing okay. Or maybe they went, oh, we forgot to promote this, which honestly wouldn't surprise me. It can happen. But it's about two women in the 70s and they are, their husbands are like secret agents.

Cold War secret agents and their husband Spoiler alert but not really because it's the first episode Their husbands are killed And so they're like This is in the trailer Oh wait there is a new movie

June 5th called Next Life Which she's in Oh it's like a sci-fi rom Situation Navigates parallel universes In modern day London And jazz music Okay

But that's interesting Because I don't think that has a release date No it doesn't So I don't know I don't know what they're thinking Maybe they're banking it Maybe they're banking it Yeah

And so these two women have to like Become spies And they're ponies which stands for person of no interest. But it's fun. I like it a lot so far. Will it hold up? Will the full season be good and fun?

Yes. Terrific. Actually, I don't know. Also, it's good to see Amelia Clark in something that's good. Well,

she's been doing the rounds being like, sorry, Solo's not good. I'm sorry, Terminator Genesis. Sorry, Second Invasion wasn't good. Yeah. Sorry, it's all good.

Sorry, it's all bad. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. You're a British actor. You take every job that's offered to you. It's not your fault. Exactly. You're hardwired to do that.

Benedict Cumberbatch did it. No one's young on that guy. You're hardwired to do bad. Take bad roles and be in pantomimes. That's all you can do. It's not your fault. Yep. It's not your fault.

Born this way. Born this way. Exactly. Well, I've been playing a little bit but more of my kids have been playing Lego Batman Legacy of the Dark Nine, which is the latest.

It's an open world Lego Batman game. So it's like the Arkham Games. It's like the Arkham Games, but also pays homage to like every Batman movie and property and TV show and comic. Not every, but you know a lot of them. What I love about this, and I think I talk about this every time that I get any game, is you buy a game physically and you go home and you put it in your PlayStation 5 and it goes,

would you like me to load this on and it'll take 50 minutes? 50 minutes. Yeah, about that, probably 40 to 50 minutes, which I love. You love that. So that's happening. And I bet your kids love that too. I did it while they were at school. So it was done when they got home.

Hot tip of parents. Yeah. But also like the idea that I remember when the PlayStation came out, Mason, PlayStation 5, and they were like, no loading time. Oh, yes. Bull shit. It's just the same as every other system, if not worse. Like, I mean, maybe the PlayStation Pro, which is $1,400 loads quicker.

But it's just absolutely. Did you buy the loading peripheral, which is a very, it's a physically very narrow corridor. You set it up in your lounge room. Yeah, yeah. And you just sort of squeeze your way through it. And that takes a time you're through that. You've got to buy that. Otherwise, you're not, you don't get the point.

One, it's in that single use. Yeah, yeah. Like poisonous plastic. That's correct, yes. So, I don't know. Look, the game's fun because my son also recently finished the Arkham games, and this is very much Arkham Light. Yes.

He's fucking blitzing through this. Like, he is killing it. Like, because, you know, it's a stripped down version of the combat. It's easier. Open world. It's easier, you know. But also, like, he loves that, you know, you get to, like, kid out your bat cave and you can put all the bat suits out and collect all the different

cars and there's all these different characters and whatever so you grow that who's the voice of Batman? I cannot remember for the life of me but I could find out but you know Matt Berry is Bain and whatever oh okay very good um yeah I think it's it's a better uh shy mcalf shy labuff yeah shime labuff wow who I don't know this guy don't know him oh he looks but yeah he sounds like Batman okay uh it's probably it's not as not that I've seen as that much of it but it's not as funny as like the Lego Batman movie which is very funny but you know it's fun little gals and whatever and it's like, you start off in the Joker is, you know, the Jack Nicholson one and

then he morphs into the Heath Ledger 1 and whatever. Is it the same continuity as the Lego Batman movie? No, it's its own thing and whatever, but I like that it's also, with a game like this, instead of the Lego Skywalker Starga, which I dropped pretty quick, where you'd have to go mission to mission and whatever. This is just, it's one open world and one narrative and you can explore around. Okay. You know, and you drive the Batmobile through the streets. And whenever you're summoned the Batman bill, you just, like it builds around you. That's fine. Like, it's up. and stuff like that. And it's got the glide mechanic and whatever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it's cool. And it's also two-player co-op in, like, on screen. Okay. Which is great. Who's the second player or another Batman? So there's always somebody with Batman. So you can pick them at certain points, but it'll be like, because at the start, you're in the, whatever.

You do the Raz Al-Gul training. I see. So you're with Talia Al-Gul. Oh, okay. So they'll pick a different character, but then I guess at certain points you can just pick whoever. Yeah, nice. And Jim Gordon has a glue gun. Do you go?

Because everybody has to have mechanics and whatever. Oh, I see, yeah, because he's trapping those bad guys. Yeah. I get it. But, yeah, again, it's... For glazing purposes. Yes. To glaze those bad guys.

That's right. I would wait till it comes down in price. Okay. Because it's like $100 or $10 or whatever else. Should I wait till the PS5 goes down in price? That'll never happen, so don't even worry about that. Yeah. Yeah.

So it's all right. Anyway, it's just funny watching my son who got through the Arkham games mostly by himself. Yeah, yeah. Just, like, just crush this leg, okay? Like, it's nothing, you know? Who's the most surprising character who's, who's, appeared in it, do you think? I wouldn't say there's any huge surprises.

Is there a Carrie Kelly? Does Carrie Kelly appear in it? Not that I've seen. That would be nice, but I'm not paying that much attention to it to tell you. Okay. Well, later we'll check a, we'll check a YouTube video of every character. Every character you've ever said. Exactly.

Hello. Like a bad man. Yeah. Nice. That's cool and good. It is cool and good. We should. We should.

Is it letters and do you have the letters theme lined up? In order of the questions? that you've asked. Yep. Yes. And yes? Were there three questions or two questions? I think there was too.

It was, is it a letter segment or do you have the segment lined up? Then yes and yes. All right. Now. You had it ready. Letters. We love you. Some letters.

They're only a take my way. I know they're here right now. We're going to do letters. This is a great segment of the show where people write into us and we answer their questions. Agreed. We hit them back with some. of the best knowledge that they could ever have. And some quips to put them in their place.

Yeah, that's true. Keep them in their place. If you do want to do that, you can send a Gmail to weekly PlanetPod at gmail.com. That's you, Nick Mason. That's correct. Or go into the Planet Broadcasting Greatmates group. There is a thread every week. Every single week.

What do you got in terms of letters? This is from Michael. Michael? Who says when actors ruin movies, but not like that. Hey, James Amesa, a big fan. Sometimes the presence of an actor in a movie or show pulls me out of it, not because they're doing a bad acting, but because they were too good in another project.

it immediately invites comparison. I'm thinking of Giancarlo Esposito and anything other than Breaking Bad. Are there any other actors that you can't take seriously in a movie or show because you're constantly comparing them to their best work and something else.

Christopher Waltz falls into that, I think. Yeah, yeah. You can't enjoy old guy because he's so good in glorious bastards. Exactly. I don't believe him as old guy or as bad guy in Green Hornet. Yeah, Django and Glorious Bastards, yeah.

And yeah, he's good in everything and whatever. but yeah those are such those are incredible roles I think Rissotomey got that for years with my cousin Vinnie yeah right okay yeah which people also didn't like that she won on Oscar for or whatever

yeah right right right yeah some people have who got out of the way to shake that like watching Robert Danny Jr. there it is yeah because you know he immediately did Dr. Doolittle and it's like this is not the direction for you man Dr. Doom Little

I mean that's going to be that's going to be the acid test because according to him and according to other people maybe even according to Fingham If we're doing in acid, how he's acting going to be. Exactly. But they've said, like, you're going to forget he was Ironman. Yes. Which I won't because my memory is very good.

I remember it. My understanding is, unless they're lying to us, there's not going to be a, there's not going to be a connection. He's not going to take the mask off and he's going to be like, oh, look like Ironman. Everybody's going to be like, meh. Like, the idea is he's just a new character. Yeah. Supposedly and allegedly. Not that I'm digging too deeply under this.

Would you put Amelia Clark in that category even? Because of Game of Thrones? No, because I don't like Game of Thrones. Oh yeah, you don't like Game of Thrones. Anything other than Game of Thrones is good, quite frankly. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I think it's...

Dick Van Dyke? Because he was, you know, he was Mary Poppins and then... Yeah, that's probably true, yeah. I put Christopher Reeve in that. I mean, anybody... I like his actor. Yeah, anybody who is the problem and of course, and that's the lead actor problem.

Like, if character actors don't face this problem, I don't think. No. Because they're expected to blend in the... the background a little bit. If you get a George Clooney or a Brad Pitt or somebody like that, Julia Roberts, anybody who was in the oceans movies, they got a, you know, you are going to see them as movie star first, which is why they can't appear in supporting roles in anything, really. Absolutely. I think we've named some good examples. I think we've named some great examples. And it was easy. It was easy to do. Clooney in the Ness Cafe ads. Yeah, you love those.

Or the Nespresso ads. Yeah, those are good, aren't they? Good ads. Yeah. Another example of a coffee ad would be Anthony Head. Yeah. I think that I always knew. Yeah, that's right. I was telling you that. I know you are. Yeah.

Joshua says, given the master of the universe is a brand for dead men. Correct. Yes. A great, and we're including us. You might be like and women. No.

No. Only for dead boys. What other brand? Dead boys. It's a dead boy. It's a DB. It is. What other brand for dead people could get a big budget movie that's

doomed to fail? I got a list here. Okay. Thundercat, Silver Hawks, Mask, Voltron's going to happen anyway. Vehicle Voltron Defenders of the Earth theme song Defenders of the Earth

Defender His rockets ignite Jets into battle flying faster than flying Flash Gordon Lord of the jungle The hero who stalks The beasts call him brother

The Gorders Of the Earth Fenders Ghostbusters Action Man, Centurians, Dino-Riders Skeleton Warriors Bravestar Okay but of those

What's likely to happen Well Voltron is happening And G. G.I. Joe is happening? G. J.J. might probably happen I would say probably Thundercats, but not after this actually. No.

Yes, I would, of those I would probably like, see, I was going to say I'd like to see Silver Hawks, but I don't think I would. I mean, it's a limited kind of, it's got a limited appeal, doesn't it? The bloody, that Rick and Morty Alien show, Solar Opposites are doing, they have a side story in that which is Silver Hawks. Oh, is it? Okay, right. It's not really, but it's kind of that kind of thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd say any of those brands from the 80s, even like, they're probably, I think they're even doing one, maybe micro machines, like. Yeah, anything. also like you cannot mighty max when you if you if you want to see what the entertainment industry is attempting to revive look at comic books because there's a mask revival and you know and a bunch of the stuff from the energy on universe you know uh so gi jo obviously it's interesting that they're fascinates me that gi joe was the one they've hit on as like yeah this is we this will work

you know what's interesting about it because what's the difference between duke and hawk. Yeah. Can anybody describe the difference between those two guys? Hair color, maybe? Maybe, I don't know. I don't even know. I was speaking to somebody... I was speaking to somebody this week who grew up loving in England and loving 80s

Transformers comics, but also in general. And he was like, I was like, I thought you like, you like Joe Joe, right? We were talking about Master of Universe. And he's like, no, for me, that shit used to just get in the way of Transformers. Because the Transformers UK would often have an action force back because they were called action force in UK. And a backup story. Like they're just men

Like in different outfits That's exactly right Well that's the thing I was never a huge fan either When they did the movies They had to put them in the power Of the running power suits Because there's nothing really

Because it was just snake eyes And whoever else Yeah Yeah Yeah so I don't know I mean I think mask would do better Because at least then it's like You'd have to reinvent

Rebrand stuff from scratch There's no nostalgia for mask Oh of course not no Yeah But again like the I like mask That's one guy Yeah it was me

I like that They're banking with like Masters Universe. They're like, it's just easier to get an old thing that was successful once and try it again as opposed to attempting to come up with a new universe. Because if you come up with a new universe and it fails, you're out of Hollywood. But if you're like, well, this work once, let's try it. You can blame anybody else for it. You know what I? You can blame the previous executive.

Anybody but me. Yeah. Anybody but me. You didn't do this, Mason. You're not to blame. Give me that list again. Throw that list that you came up with. Thunder cats, Super Hawks, Mask, Voltron, Vehicle Voltron, Defenders of the Earth.

Oh, in Voltron, they're trying, aren't they? They are. It's happening. It's going to stream. It's going to stream. Which is just the perfect place for an enormous, a huge scale space adventure with the biggest robots you've ever seen. Just throw it on your TV. Let people watch it on their phones. They definitely looked at the tracking for this and made that decision. Look at the, watch the trailer on your phone and then go, oh, yeah.

Lions. Yeah. Ghostbusters. You know. I think that is a franchise That's pretty much done, yeah Action Man, British Centurians, Dino Riders Skeleton Warriors

Brave Star, standing up here on. Skeleton Warriors, my goodness. My goodness. I don't even know what that is really. Battletoads, biker mice from Mars. Who owns Battletoads, I wonder? Probably Capcom maybe. Yeah.

I don't know, something like that. Robert Kirkman's attempting to revive all the gold key superhero character, so Turok Magnus Robot Fighter, solar man of the app. Is he fight robots or he's a robot? that fights. I've asked you this before. He's a regular man and he fights robots. That's cool. Because they're owned by Dreamworks now, it turns out, those characters.

So he's licensing him out to put him, make new comics or whatever. And they tried Bloodshot. Okay. Oh, it was, uh, Battle Toads was owned by Rare, but Xbox bought Rare. So, okay. So Bill Gates owns them. Yeah. Okay. And he's doing unspeakable things to him on an island. Yeah. Some things that he would consider okay, but I wouldn't consider okay. Same, agreed. Uh, he's an email from Christopher. So anyway, they're all doomed. Come up with something new. You know, what you could do is you get some young people to come up with something new and go, all right, good work.

You don't even have to do young people. You maybe go ask podcasters. Oh, old podcasters? Old and approaching dead podcasters. You could do that, couldn't you? Yeah, well, not us, but, you know, maybe. You could ask us. Christopher emailed in.

I've got two quick questions. Let's see how quick these are. Hello, guys. Because you've got them quickstifers. Quickstifers questions. Quickstifers questions. New segment. Whenever this guy writes soon.

New segment, you've got a email in every week. Christopher for Quicksester's Questions. Hello guys, not sure if you've talked about this, but do you prefer to read a great comic book run or a great graphic novel? This is going to get you into that horrible hole. No, it isn't. Comic run, individual issues, graphic novel collected one story, one big story.

Yeah. Like made for the story. I mean... Or even, even like, I'm going to say graphic novel, five to six issues collected. Like, they know. That counts? I'm going to say they know from the outset it's going to be like six and it's a self-contained story.

Or do you prefer the ongoing, like, would you prefer to read the ongoing Superman story? Or would you prefer to get some like A-list creators to do like six issues? I love an ongoing if it continues to be good. And I like that when most of them are out. Yeah. So I don't forget. Yeah. Because I end up forgetting very easily.

Yeah. I mean, if we're, yeah, I think we've definitely talked about this when we do our comic book club. Oh, yeah. I do. I hate Marvel's current. situation, which is like, should we have an ongoing Ironman story over the span of a few years where various adventures happen to Ironman? No, let's reboot it every six issues. What have he lost his company? He did. He did six issues ago. And he got it back and then he built an old armor,

which wasn't as good, because that's all he had, all the equipment he had at the time. And then he gets his company back and he builds an even more high-tech armor and then he beats up Madam Mask or whatever. That's good. And then he loses his company again to a different guy. Oh, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He'll be all right, though, yeah. Yeah, it'll be fine because he'll build a, but build an old armor. And that armor is not going to, the technology that, like, it doesn't rely on the technology that he's come to rely on. No, because the bad guys took it away.

From his previous old armor. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They took all his, they just going to be, end up running around in his underpants. Yeah, they took the keys away. They took the keys to the Iron Man garage away. He's just got to have his underpants and his Iron Man roller skates. That's right.

Exactly. He's going to get back to his roots. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, thank you for the quick stuff for question. Oh, and what do you prefer one digesting in this form of media? What do you prefer when digesting this form of media? The writing or the art style?

Probably writing. Interesting. Art can, that's great. Art can get stuffed. That's a great call back. There was a quote from, I saw a video, I saw a video, it was an interview with Todd McFarlane and he basically said, Todd McFartland.

Exactly. He basically said like, it's the art that sells it. Initially, yeah. But the writing will get me to stay. I can forgive a lot if the. writing's really good. I mean, I think that that is image in a nutshell. Yeah.

They, you know, blew the doors off comic book sales initially because they had all the superstar artists with the super dynamic styles. But then what happened? I mean, it's still going strong to this day. Yeah, but all that shit is gone. Yeah, no, nobody likes any of that. That, look, I don't want to generalize. But a lot of that stuff has bad.

All that shit is bad. A lot of that stuff has bad writing. Yeah, it does. Not the filons necessarily. And there's some, you know, and there's stuff that very quickly came out of that. I don't know we talk about Savage Dragon and Destroy a Dark and whatever, and now modern day images. Way better.

Way better. Yeah. Less pouches. I mean, you can't tell me that the Walking Dead went for 130 issues because, you know, it was a black and white. Yeah. And I'm not saying the art isn't good at that. It is.

I mean, obviously there's a minimum standard. Yeah, exactly. But I mean, if, you know, we talk about, you know, people may be picking up comic book writing or art, you know, art as a hobby or something like that, if you've got a good idea for a comic. Yeah. And you can just barely draw. Give it a whirl anyway.

I know. I know it. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for the quickster for question. Thank you, Quistopher. We're excited to hear from you next week. With two quick questions. Two quick questions. A quick question for questions.

Guess what you've been drafted into the show. These are unpaid, by the way, but we will sue you if you don't email the next week. That's right. Daniel says my fiancé Peter is writing this. All right. Okay. As someone who listened to the show every week, I don't like movies. There's got to be, I thought, for a second. I'm like, this is going to be a dig at us, isn't it?

How often, you know, is it somebody's partner who hates us? Always. Absolutely. But so far, we're on board with him. He doesn't like movies, just like us. No, P-E-T-A. Okay. So I don't like movies and avoid them, but prefer TV-slash-streaming shows.

What is a movie you would recommend that gives off the same vibes as Shutter Island? I've got a few here, but if you've got any, you can also. Wait, so does this person like, only likes the movie Shutter Island? Yes, but same vibe, movies that are like Shutter Island. Okay, and you've got a list. Uh, yeah, so I've got identity. Yep. That's about identities and secrets and whatever.

Memento. Memento would be a really good one. Primal Fear. Okay. Identities and memories and whatever. Inception, because it's DiCaprio and I do. Hell yeah. Zodiac.

Zodiac's a good one. Gone girl. That's a good one. And if you want a grim, bad time with a similarish, depressing vibe, the stranger. Terrific movie. Terrific movie. I was just thinking about the other day. Such a good movie. Awful.

Also, there's a bunch of movies. are called The Strangers. There's actually a movie out now and it's like a black and white French film. No. It's Le Tranger Jones. But because it's an easy, it's a very common.

But the one we're talking about is an Australia movie. It's got Joel Edgerton in it. And it's got the guy from... He's a Joel Legiton in my opinion. Nice. It's got the guy from some of the Mission Impossible movies. Playing the most Australian,

like a very specific type of Australian guy. Yeah. And it's grim. And it's about like small town crime. and murder. And it might be based on a real thing that happened also. Yeah. 2022, the cast is Sean Harris.

Sean Harris, there we go, yeah. Nailed it. Not Australian. Not Australian. Best portrayal of that particular type of Australian. Yep. Maybe the only accurate portrayal best. The only guy who's ever done it.

Yeah. Yep. Like you see Australians in movies. You see Australian criminals in movies. You see that kind of low rent Australian criminal in movies in like chopper and Animal Kingdom or whatever. but this kind of specific beaten down suburban, just lowest of the low guy,

you never see them in a movie, but he's in this movie. You'll see him. Oh, you'll see him. I've seen him. Anyway, any of those would be good and fine. Yeah. Thank you for the questions.

Yeah. What's up next? You're not allowed to be in our segment, though? No. No, I don't mind. All right. Okay. Peter, you're in next week.

Yeah, but you have to do it through your partner, your fiancé, Damien. Exactly. Otherwise, you've broken up. And I'm, I forget. We're breaking you up. Yeah. Here's one more email from David.

David. After late 9Volt was recommended the other day, I've been watching the channel and learned the nanny was dubbed in over 30 languages and had a ton of remakes. It was big here. Was it popular in Australia? So popular. Yes, it was all the time.

It was definitely more popular than it was in America. It was on five times a day. Let me hit you with this, James. Mr. Sheffield. Yeah. And etc. And so on. Oh, Miss.

Fine. Oh, Niles. Or Miles. Was Friends? Yes, friends was huge everywhere. Yeah, yeah. But the Nanny was on at like 5.30 every night. Yeah, like five nights a week.

Yeah. Forever. It was like an every night a week show. Yeah, it was. Which also, I don't think. Probably not initially. No, they banked a few. Yeah, but it was like the Simpsons.

It was like the Nanny than the Simpsons then or whatever. Yeah. And the Nanny was the one that like I would watch because it was on. But like, I didn't love it. But it's like, well, it's either this or I don't watch TV and I can't do that. Exactly. That's right. What am I going to do?

Go outside. they don't make an extension cord that long. What do you mean? I don't have a TV they can do that. This isn't the year 2026. I've only got a Game Boy and that won't work in. I can't see that indoors or outdoors. So do you think cultural differences separate shows from going over countries?

Sometimes. Sometimes, but I would rather see the original, I think, than a remake. Like, I don't care for a localized remake so much. I'm with you on that, unless I'm missing a huge example of one that does great. I mean, the office and whatever. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I mean, we got an Australia in the office and nobody watched it. I watched 100 times.

So Australia's got a sitcom called Utopia, which is about... It's the office. It is... Well, it's not the office chance. But it's set in a government... It's more bureaucracy. It's set in a government department and they're all always being stymied by bureaucracy and like their...

The minister, you know, is always... It's not yes minister, though, either. That's a different show. But I think that would translate directly. Like, I think you can just throw that anywhere. Yeah. people who'd be like, yeah, no, we get this. I think it's also because that show, even though there are great characters in a whatever,

it's not relied specifically on that. It's more like the scenarios. And it's not relying also on you know who they are, I don't think. No, you don't. And I think the problem, oftentimes when a sitcom especially from Australia or the UK or something goes to America, they're like, we've got to do the big characters or we've got to do, you know, named actors in those roles. And I don't think those work necessarily.

Red dwarf did it sort of. Red dwarf did it twice. They did two. They did two pilots, I think. I know they did the hit crowd as well. Yeah. Because like Joel McCale was the lead. Joel McCall was the lead, yeah.

No. That one's not. It's not. What are he doing? And it's got, I mean, the thing about the American version of that is that it's got good actors, but it doesn't have the chemistry and you need to, like they didn't get the random character. They couldn't get Chris Morris, obviously, to do the random character. So they've got a new guy. And there's a bit, there's a bit where the main character with the first episode meets.

is being inducted by the boss. And she's like, who are the kind of people I'm going to meet down in the IT department? And Chris Morris is like, standard nerds! And it doesn't, they can't, they do it in a different way. Anyway.

William says, yeah, that's interesting though. William says, if you could have any sword from fiction, which one would you take? I'm presuming you could wield them as well. Yeah. It would be a lightsaber, obviously, because you also use it to like make dinner. but the power sword would be cool

if it could actually turn you into a he-man but is that useful? What about Aaron? And also when I, it's, it doesn't really, because in the cartoon he-man's the same. Like physically he looks the same. He's got a sword on his back. Was it implied that Adam in the movie was like,

it was just normal, right? He gets bigger because you see him get shirtless and you see his big muscles go big. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah. But he still looked enormous in his big pink shirt. Yeah. I can't remember. I think I saw somebody.

It might have been the great mess or whatever. Someone said, you know, why when you film him earlier, when he's smaller. Oh, yeah, I mean, you got to plan that out. It's like,

yeah, yeah, it's not really. Also, I think you would have to know that he can get that big as well. True.

Yeah. Also, while I'm watching the movie, I'm like, isn't this guy like 20? He's too young to get, oh, okay, well,

then never mind this. He's really 30s. Okay. I was like, he's too young to be making him be so big. He's a fresh, British man. Yeah.

Aragon sword, but not the magic one that he did the three-forge. I want his original sword. I don't know. I don't want any of the shit. See, because there's cool swords and there's also like magic swords. Yeah. I do like Kratos' axe, though, which is Faye's axe. And not a sword.

Yeah. Doesn't care. I'm including all bladed weapons. I don't even care. It's not a sword. Shut up. Shut up. Who is that?

Anyway, go on. I don't know. But they have opinions. So far, if they've been here a while, they have lots of, they have no opinions on anything other than what a sword is. Might be a recurring cactor and I don't know, though, that for a fact. Yeah. Anyway, go on. Can't pick an axe.

I agree with whoever that was. All right, fine, God. I think it was just you. Highlander? Yeah, it's not a magic sword though, is it? It doesn't have to be. I know, it's a good sword. You could hold it up and get it hit by lightning.

You think that's not cool? I'd just die. That would be cool, though. That's the way I die. How did he die? What, mate. I mean, just look, you could say. Just look.

Someone got on their ring doorbell. Yeah. Musketeer sword. Yeah, it's good sort. Any kind of musketeer sword. With the big, the elaborate basket. We're talking about this one with the Highlander commentary. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just, yeah.

All around that. Yeah. That's not out yet, is it. I don't know, man. It's out next week or week after. Yeah. Or it is out. No, no, it's out.

No, it's out a couple weeks. Nice. Go, all right. That's all my letters. I'm going to think about it. Normally I don't think about these as soon as we finish recording, but I'm going to spend the weekend going, the remainder of the weekend going. I like to think that you're not going to think about this at all.

What's the best sword? Brave Star have a sword? No. He had a horse. He had a horse. He had a gun and he had a horse and the horse had a gun. Yeah. Imagine you're the only guy with a lightsaber though. I would cut my foot off with it.

Well, that's exactly it, isn't it? Yeah. Like, I feel like you need a certain finesse. I do. I do. I think you do. I think you'd die immediately. No, I have a finesse and everybody knows it.

People call me finessa. It's pretty good. Fennessa Sunday movies. Pretty good. No. Disagray. Hard disagree. Stop looking at swords.

I don't know. What about a sword that's got a gun in it? That's cool. Does the devil make a cry sword have a gun in it? Probably. Yeah, I figured it would have a gun in it. All right. Any good swords in Narnia?

Yeah, probably. Fuck Narnia though. Wow. Stupid shit. Crap, universe of crap. What do you think of Harry Potter is what I think of Narnia? Yeah, nice. Why are you so mad at Narnia?

It's bullshit. It doesn't make any sense. Fucking lions Jesus and the king and whatever. It sounds like it makes perfect sense. No. It sounds like it's a perfect allegory. Yeah, I remember watching that movie, and there was just, like,

bandicoots crashing into fucking walruses and then, like, a white tiger's fighting, like, a polar bear. And I'm like, who am I going for here? This is just a random collection of animals. Oh, they're British? Fuck off. Sick of it. And it's coming back for a girl who's doing it.

Also, I remember as a kid, there was that shit show. Go on. That was, like, an adaptation of it. There was a kid's show that was always on. I'm like, this sucks. And also, I got given... You don't think of Pugwall Summer? No, that's a good show.

show, but I remember I got given the book's on tape and every now and then I'll be like, I guess I'll try this. And I'm like, God, this is awful. Oh, I want some Turkish delight. Kill yourself. Fuck me. Hard universe to like. Unlikable.

You don't like Zorro's sword? Yeah, man. All right. Zoro's got a great sword. Just checking. He doesn't have a great sword. That's a very specific type of sword. No, it's a great sword.

Okay. It's just my opinion on it. That's good. Anyway, don't derail me. I'm Haiti or Nadia. It seems that way, yeah. But you've broken my... momentum. And I don't like that.

I don't think a lightsaber should count. It's a sword. It's not a sword. It is a sword. Fine. Yeah. I don't think an axe counts either. Because it isn't a sword. All right. Should we finish up this whatever we're doing? All right. Podcasts. They say don't end a podcast angry. They say that, don't they? I think they do say that. I think they say go to bed angry after recording an angry podcast.

They do say that actually. So we've nailed it for the first time ever. Folks, thank you so much for listening. We absolutely appreciate it. Thank you for telling your friends about the podcast. because that is how we get new listeners. And thank you for leaving a five-star review on your podcast app of choice. James will troll all the apps. He's on all the apps.

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They always leave the rook date until the end of the show, which is frustrating, but would recommend to any of the rookie fans. I like the Rookie sword. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah. It's got police on the song. Police. Yeah, it's good.

And this is from Joe Bermore, from an unknown region of the world, just says five stars. And I love that for that person, whoever that is. That's my job, darn. You'd finish it. Honestly, that would be, hurry up so I can finish this angry. This would be...

I don't want to forget. That would be my ideal review, honestly, every week. If everybody could just leave blank five-star reviews. Here's two more blank ones. Bye everyone. Don't say blank. Just leave it. Or you could say blank?

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That really boosted my mood. And I don't like that because we're supposed to finish this angry. But now I'm angry again that you boosted my mood. That's what I figured. But now I'm happy that I'm angry again. How do you feel about we'll cover In the Grey next week? Guy Rich is In the Grey. It's not in Cinemas.

No. No. I don't think it ever was. We're doing Disclosure Day. I went there and I said, can I have one ticket for In the Grey? And they were like, there's never been a movie like that. Are you sure to you're not thinking? of Operation Fortune?

And I'm like, of course I'm not. That wasn't real either. Ruz de Gru, whatever it's called. Yeah, Ruz de Greer. No? No. Yeah. Anyway, Disclosure Day next week.

All right. Very excited. Is it a close encounter sequel? Maybe. Will I watch Close Encounters before I had to check? No. All right. All right.

Grab dead jamie, guys. We'll see next week. Bye. Bye.