The Weekly Planet - 629 Supergirl!
Episode Date: June 29, 2026The second movie entry in James Gunn's DCU is here, 2026's Supergirl starring Millie Alcock and it is not doing well at the box office and also people don't like it very much. We review that plus the... annoucement of three new DC animated shows with Absolute Batman, Joker: Laugh Riot and Krypto, an influencer free start for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, trailers for Batman gets his back broken and Digger. what David Ellison has in stall for the upcoming DC movie and TV slate and more! Thanks for listeningNew bonus X-Men video game let's play video out now! Available to watch with entire back catalogue of 'Never Go Back' and all other bonuses on bigsandwich.co and patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesPLEASE be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start04:08 New DCU Animated Shows Announced13:18 Influencers Banned from Odyssey Showings17:38 Tom Cruise's 'Digger' Movie Trailer23:36 Future of DCU After Paramount Takeover27:09 Supergirl Movie Review51:00 Supergirl Spoiler Segment01:08:42 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:20:08 Letters, It's Time For LettersSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-moviesThe Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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.
With me, as always, Nick Mason.
Very exciting to be here.
Big movie week.
Big movie week.
Not doing well, big movie.
Still a big movie, though.
Still a big movie regardless of whether Tron 3 was big movie.
They put a lot of money into it.
They did put a lot of money into it.
And they put some money into this movie, Supergirl 2026.
That way, yeah.
Yeah.
Which is very exciting to talk about because honestly, I've been looking forward to this for a really
long time, which is why I have opinions about it.
But see, here's the thing. Before going into this,
mere minutes ago, James, you said to me that you're not sure whether you liked it or not.
No, no, it's not even, I'm not sure what rating I'm going to get that.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, exactly, because that's the thing that people will remember.
And it's important that I get it right and make everybody happy.
That's right.
And you can change your mind in subsequent weeks.
No, I can't.
Okay, don't do it then.
That I don't think is the advantage that we have over like back in the olden days when people...
We're much smarter than everyone else.
We're so much smarter than everybody else because back in the day,
those dumb asses who reviewed stuff
for the newspaper or the radio or the TV or whatever.
What are you talking about?
These dead men.
I'm talking about dumb, dead, dumb asses.
Dead dumb asses.
Who only had one shot and then their opinion was locked in forever.
Yeah, but they also thought nobody would see that ever again.
Yeah, that's true.
If they were smarter, they would have an errata section.
They would show back up on, you know, video hits or whatever.
Yeah.
Or recovery.
Oh, recovery.
And say, it's time for me to re-review.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, one.
it's still good.
It's still a good movie, I believe.
Yeah.
But we can just, over subsequent weeks,
we can just be like, oh, change my mind.
Yeah, change my mind.
It's all right.
Actually, everyone doesn't like it, not I don't like it either.
Yeah, that's right.
I've never liked it, actually.
I never liked it.
It was my opinion all along.
That's right.
But we've got some news of the week in the lead up.
That's right.
We've got the announcement of three animated DC shows.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know if you heard about these.
There's some interesting choices here.
One very obvious one that seems obvious.
But the other two, I'm like, oh, it's a crypto one.
I'm like, yeah, that's inevitable.
Oh, that's true.
It's just a thing.
Wasn't that a one-off?
Maybe Groot?
Yeah, no, there was like six or eight episodes.
My kids watched it.
I would have thought one of the other ones was the inevitable one, which one will get to them.
Okay, yeah.
I're also going to talk about how they're not going to allow influences into screenings
of the Odyssey before it comes out.
Interesting.
I mean, also, they're worthless.
They come out and they go, oh, a great time.
Yeah.
Sometimes they did.
I can't tell.
Influences are useless.
Old-timey newspaper and radio reviewers are useless.
You've got to thread that needle.
You've got to be a couple of guys
Just a couple of guys
White
Gotta be white
Gotta be white
We don't make the rules
We just happen to fit perfectly
Yeah yeah
And we can change your opinion later
We're allowed to do that
Yeah yeah
I won't because I'll have the correct opinion
But yeah
So I'm gonna talk a bit about that
I'll stop you there
I'll have the correct opinion both times
So
You'll be even more right the second
Even more correct the second time
Yeah
We've got one trailer in particular
For Tom Cruise's next movie digger
And
And then we're going to talk a bit about, what am I doing?
Oh, David Allison and what he thinks about the future of the DCU.
Terrific.
Yeah.
Terrific.
There's time goes below.
He's terrific.
He is terrific.
David, if you're listening, you're terrific.
Which one are you again?
You're the younger one.
He's the younger billionaire.
I was going to say Tom Collins.
It's Rob Colleges.
He edits this.
Because I got Tom Cruise and Rob Collings.
And Tom Collins, which is what you're currently drinking.
That's right.
You've got one in each hand.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah.
Am I not allowed to?
On my own show?
My own podcast?
You're allowed to make their own rules of my own show?
Jeez, Louise.
There's time goes below
because Tom Collings puts them in there.
Terrific.
The drink.
The drink, yes.
Okay.
You can skip to whatever.
I see you often.
I love you, Tom Collins.
I show up here and you're late at night
and you're on your couch with your computer
are like, Tom Collins is making some minutes.
I'm going to point out of something.
James, no.
Tom Collins is going to tell everybody the internet what's what.
Just talk to Tom colleagues.
I talk to Tom colleagues.
People have asked this before.
Have you ever dubbed these episodes drunk?
Never.
No.
We don't drink during them.
They wouldn't be better.
They'd be much worse.
They'd be much worse, yeah.
All right, let's start here, though.
We've got three animated DC shows that were announced.
Yes.
First of which being, I'll let's talk about crypto first.
Okay.
Here's the synopsis.
Yes.
When he's not hanging out with Superman or Supergirl,
crypto tags along with a gang of misfit criminal wannabes who live down the block
and they soon discover he's a ball of destructive, lovable energy,
worse than any of them.
And he follows them into misadventures and polylate plans.
It's crypto's pure nature slowly ends up redeeming them whether they want to or not.
What do you think of that?
He will be pissing on things.
Oh, yeah.
He loves doing that.
Sounds fun.
Who did you say he was teaming up with it?
Criminals.
Criminals?
Criminals?
Criminals?
I'm guessing this is an animated.
Yeah, it is.
It's an animated series.
Two-D animated.
Why's he teaming up with criminals?
I don't know.
What's going on there?
He doesn't know.
He's a dog.
I guess he's a dog.
Isn't he smart though?
Ish.
He's like nearly like person smart.
If he's smart, he's mean.
Yeah, okay.
If he's smart.
Yeah.
And that's the thing, because he's smart, but he's only, he seems to only do the right thing reluctantly.
Yeah, true.
Like in the Superman movie where Superman gets beaten to within an inch of his life, he then kicks Superman in the balls before taking him to the fortress of solitude.
So clearly he knows right from wrong.
He's just choosing to do wrong.
I love that about him.
Yeah, me too.
That would kill a man completely if you did that to a normal person.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So there was a crypto.
the Super Dog series.
I remember that vaguely.
From like 2005.
There was also like a Super Pets movie a couple years ago.
That's right.
Duane the Rock Johnson was Crypto the Dog or whatever.
I don't know if you ever saw that movie.
Now at the end of the post credits was
Black Adam turns up with his Black Adam dog.
I remember that, yeah.
You don't.
No, that's all I remember of that.
I didn't see it.
But that's all I remember.
Yeah.
I've seen a still of that.
It's cool that he got to voice all those characters probably.
You feel so all right.
My kids didn't mind it.
Great.
Keanu Reyes was Batman and whatever.
Anyway, Crypto series.
There we go.
Another one is absolute Batman.
This is absolute Batman.
Bass, based on the Scott Snyder run, which also he is show running.
Okay, great.
And artist Nick Dragrogoator, he's going to produce it as well.
Very cool.
This has been a huge success for DC, re-launching a new universe.
They're about to bring together Absolute Justice League.
And they've done Flash Wonder Woman, Batman.
Machine Manhunter.
They don't Cyborg yet?
No.
Okay.
Green Lantern.
Green Latin, yep, they've done some of that.
All sorts.
All sorts.
So it's a universe where, what is it, where they take away like a key, well, Darkside made it and takes away a key component of.
Darkside created this universe and for reasons that I can't remember.
And he's taken away, he's taken away what makes these characters who they are with the expectation that they will, you know, become bloody wasterels on the street or whatever.
You know, like Bruce Wayne doesn't have any money and Superman didn't have.
Yeah, but he's still enormous.
Yeah.
He's too big.
He should have taken away how enormous he is.
Yeah.
Should have made him 410.
410. 410.
But not like a Wolverine 410.
No.
Like a frail 410.
Frail 410.
Frail 410 Batman.
Yeah.
So Superman doesn't have his kind of loving Earth parents, you know, and he...
But now he's got like anarchy and stopping corporations.
That's right.
Yeah, yeah.
He's taken away the wrong things.
Yeah.
Make him 410.
That's right.
And so on.
so forth, but of course they're overcoming
their drawback. What's Wonder Woman's thing?
She's not got one arm. I don't think that's true,
is it? No, she's got a, like, a
magic robot arm. Oh, I didn't realize that.
Batman's got his regular arm back. Did you know that?
How did you get it back?
So, for people who don't know this
for a number of...
Alfred lost his hand a few years ago. And he's dead?
He's dead in the moment, yeah.
In the Batman, the mainline
Batman comics, for a while Batman only
had one arm because he went to a parallel universe
and somebody cut his hand off.
He didn't like it.
No, but what happened is he built,
do you remember he built that robot called Failsafe?
Yeah, of course.
Which was designed to stop him if he ever went bad.
Well, that failsafe put himself into a robot,
like a Batman, robot batman body,
and then he got his own Robin, like a human Robin,
and they're like, where do you get this Robin from?
But the Robin turned out to be a clone of Bruce Wayne.
Yeah.
And then that Robin died, but he's like,
you should have one of my hands.
You can take the one that you still have.
Yeah.
He's have two right hands.
Two right hands.
So he has his hands back.
Two right-hand Batman.
And probably he's a billionaire again.
Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah.
Yeah.
Because for a minute he wasn't a billionaire.
Oh my God, how did he even deal with that?
He got a really expensive apartment on the really nice end of Gotham.
Did he?
Yeah.
Must be nice.
It must be incredible to be able to do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just the name brand alone.
Yeah, I'm sure he can.
Anyway, for people who haven't seen it, the absolute Batman, the comic book,
it's just he's big Batman and he fights even bigger villains.
It's sort of anime style, I feel like it's kind of, you know,
know. It's good. I like it from what I've read. I don't know about the release date of this one. I mean, it'd be at least two years away, I'd imagine, probably more. No specific date yet. Now, now, you would tell him you earlier, you want an entirely celebrity voice cast, right? You said, you said blow all the budget on celebrity voice cast.
So, blow up the pokies and blow up the budget. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So who would you get? Who's the biggest celebrity who could be Batman that you know? Real Batman? Just the actual Batman. I mean, he's rich again, isn't he? That's correct. Which is good. That's good. Yeah. Seth Rogen.
Seth Rogen could, well, he was in Supergirl, wasn't he?
Yes.
He was one of those little Star Wars fellows.
That's right.
There's a few little Star Wars fellows that they've just plopped into Supergirl.
I guess they built the wireframe and now that asset is just available to anybody.
CGI face on that thing, I should?
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, okay, cool.
Who would I get for...
Edson Mouts voicing.
You wonder if you saw the trailer, but for Nightfall Part 1?
I didn't see the trailer, I think I saw it.
So doing a three-part, Batman gets his backboat broken by Bain,
but also then a lunatic takes over as Batman.
and starts killing people.
He's got a blonde mullet.
That was a popular comic run in the 90s.
People would probably be aware of
and they're animating that entire thing.
They've never done Asriel, I think, in animation.
That's interesting.
You would have thought they would have been aware.
And you're saying Anson Mount is Batman.
I believe so.
That sounds pretty good.
It looks great, honestly.
So, yeah, that's cool.
But anyway, absolute Batman is happening.
It is happening.
What's the third one?
The third one is Joker Laugh Riot.
Here we go.
The series follows the Joker after Batman is murdered
determined to uncover who killed his greatest rival.
The clown prince of crime launches a ruthless campaign
through Gotham City's criminal underworld.
What begins as a violent search for answers
gradually pulls him closer to an even darker truth.
Because what does Joker even do if he doesn't have a Batman or whatever?
Probably more crimes.
Probably more and weirder crimes.
Or sometimes he just stops.
He's like, ah, I was all why I was doing any of that.
I don't know why I asked before, because these were all animated,
the Krypton was animated.
I guess what I meant was, is that that live action animation kind of thing.
Right.
Do you know they're using the CGI asset of him from them?
Oh, I see.
That could work.
Yeah.
I don't think they're doing that.
No.
Yeah.
But these all sound really interesting, honestly.
Crypto 1 probably not as much.
It's more aimed at kids than whatever, I assume.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, great.
I know the new Cape Crusader Batman series that season two is coming is out soon as well.
Oh, yeah.
It's like a reimagining of the 90s series, which I didn't finish the first season.
I got to go back to that.
What I'm excited for is if we're going to do absolute Batman.
Are we?
We are.
We must.
simply must.
They're going to have to do it in the absolute Batman style,
because that is the Nick Dragata art and all the concepts and stuff.
If you,
because I think an issue that a lot of DC animated stuff has is they sort of,
they flatten it out to that DC house style.
Right,
which I don't think is particularly interesting, really.
It's sort of, yeah, new 52, it feels sort of generic.
The pseudo 3D2.
Yeah, but absolute Batman has that sort of,
it's got that super exaggerated look.
Yeah.
And I think that that's part and past it with it.
It's almost like that 90s spawn Todd McBarland kind of thing.
Yeah.
Loving all that.
Yeah.
So they got to do that.
They can't flatten it out.
Such a,
that's like a huge appeal of that comic is that it's so different.
So if they did it just regular.
That would be really funny though.
Yeah, it would be.
He's got that ridiculous Batmobile,
which is just a big dump truck or whatever it is.
Yeah, it's like a construction yard dump truck.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Love all of that.
It's one of those big trucks you see.
That's right.
and then his mates are all the villains or whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And the Joker, well, he's different.
He's different.
He's a lizard or a snake or something, isn't he?
No, he's, well, he is, because they all are.
They're all lizards.
They're all giant lizards and snakes and stuff.
But he is, he is essentially who Bruce Wayne is in the real universe.
So he's, you know, incredibly rich and well-connected and incredibly skilled and blah, blah, blah, and he never laughs.
Except when he's an evil lizard or snake or whatever.
He's laughing too much.
He's laughing too much.
He's saving him up.
He's saving up.
He's saving up those laughs.
That's annoying.
He's saving up those giggles.
I don't like that.
Yeah.
Should call him the giggler.
They should call him Mr. Giggles.
Yes.
Cool.
Anyway, great stuff.
Probably who knows?
Who knows?
We might not even watch him.
Who knows?
Who might not even watch it?
I remember being so excited for the Cape Crusader that I just haven't watched it.
Yeah, I watched a couple and I'm like, no, no, this doesn't grab me yet.
I'll get to it eventually.
Yeah.
And then I didn't.
Yeah.
This one's via THR, though, an article where it says the top headline in it is.
It's a show of strength worthy of Odysseus.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Is he supposed to be very strong?
Very strong.
Is he?
So strong.
But he's like a guy, right?
He's not like mythologically supernaturally strong, is it?
Well, according to the Hollywood reporter, a bunch of just illiterate dumbasses.
You called them turds once.
I did call them.
Yeah, they did.
Yeah.
I called them illiterate turds.
Universal has decided to skip having word of mouth,
aka influencer screenings for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.
Sounds like they're afraid.
It does seem like that.
Yeah, instead, after the film's global premiere screening in London, on July 6th,
the film will begin screening.
For film critics, this bucks the trends of studios getting ahead of professional reviews
by inviting fan site bloggers and influencers to see major releases in advance and
leading the post, often highly enthusiastic, mini reviews on social media.
Why would you want enthusiasm?
Yeah, and they always are mostly enthusiastic.
It's just them, it's usually them just photos on the red carpet.
It's a vlog and it's photos on the red carpet.
it and then they've got a dolly popcorn bucket, which is Odysseus's head.
Yeah.
With popcorn in it.
Yep.
And then they're like, loved it.
I loved it.
It was good.
It's good.
It's actually really good.
But was it, though?
Yeah, we don't know.
We don't know.
I was going to, because I've got a note here that says, does this even help?
Like when they, these media screening, not a media screening, sorry.
I feel like critic screenings do.
If you follow a particular critic or whatever and, you know, you like them, then that can help.
But I don't think this stuff helps at all.
I think it might just be created a little.
little bit of buzz, but most people are just like, who know what this is, are like,
why don't believe you? Even if it's true, I can't take your word on this. Also, I wonder if
some of the stuff in The Odyssey, I wonder if some people be like, this is kind of hokey in a
cringe kind of way. And that's just from a kind of word of mouth influencer perspective,
like there's going to be big men in this. Big man. There's going to be a big cyclops man.
Big one-eyed cyclops. And I got to, I got to imagine that's being done in
some sort of forced perspective way, and I think like perhaps Jason and the Argonauts.
Yeah.
And I'm wondering if people are going to be like, that's silly.
That's silly.
I hope it looks silly.
That's silly what you've done, yeah.
I really hope it does look silly.
Me too.
Well, speaking of this week for Caravan Garbage, we're starting by looking at three movies
that inspired Christopher Nolan for The Odyssey.
That's right.
And up first is Jason and the Argonauts.
From the 1960, whatever's.
That's right.
63.
And then the week after that is Troy.
And then third week, who knows?
Mystery, mystery movie.
But it's one that Christopher Nolan loves.
We know that.
That's right.
So, of course, it's early at big sandwich.com.
I love this movie.
Direct quote from him.
I love beep.
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Of beep.
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It's all there.
Also, thanks to Rob Collings as well,
we started up YouTube membership.
So there's early videos.
Is he related to Tom Collins?
Yeah, he's Tom Collins.
They both invented different drinks.
You're not, you're not familiar with the Rob Collings?
It's not very good.
That's a shame.
Yeah.
It's like it's salary juice and vodka.
And cinnamon, I think.
So it's a breakfast drink.
I don't know about that, mate.
So you have to speak to Rob or Tom colleagues about this.
Sounds breakfasty.
That's what you think breakfast is, fine.
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It's all the stuff that is already on Patreon,
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Do whatever.
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On YouTube, it's like two bucks if you just want early videos.
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If you don't want anything, you don't have to even be on the internet.
Just close your eyes and go, la, la, la, la.
If you're just like, oh, I don't even like material possessions and capitalism and stuff.
Yeah.
All right.
All right, you've achieved some sort of oneness with the universe.
Great.
Good on you.
Good on you.
You're going to look at your phone once and your whole mind is going to collapse.
That's right.
You're going to be like, you're going to wake up in the middle of the night.
You're going to be like, there'll be no harm and looking at my phone.
What time is it?
We just one second.
I'm going to go.
I'm going to get.
I've got to gamble online.
Let's go.
Let's put on some multis.
Let's put off my pay on a multi, you'll say.
That's what you'll say.
Yep.
I say, ha-ha.
Trailer's the Hoy Mason.
Onck tingling.
We got the one this week, really.
Even though we talked about that Batman one.
It's for Digger, which is Alejandro.
In a Rittu.
Who people would know from Birdman, the Revenant.
Oh, yes.
And he's doing Tom Cruise's latest.
Did he win an Oscar for?
for the Revenant or was it just Leonardo DiCaprio sleeping in the corpse of an ox or whatever
he decided that's a good question because I think that was the because that was the year where
people like Decapero deserves an Oscar but we didn't we we shafted him multiple years in a row
let's just give it to him for whatever yeah that's right uh yeah he won best director
good for that that's good three Oscars and also so DiCaprio yeah uh best director and best
cinematography yeah i uh i like birdman a lot some people say pretentious but i don't think of i didn't
think it was. I thought it was interesting. I thought it was
interesting. I'm Michael Keaton. He basically
skewered, took a lens.
Yes. Took a swipe at the character
of Batman by being a birdman.
That's right. And then he just came back and did Batman again
in a horrible movie. And Spider-Man. And he was
also in Spider-Man. He was a different kind of Birdman
in Spider-Man. That's a different kind of Birdman, isn't it? Yeah.
So what's interesting about this trailer is that... So I saw
this prior to the Supergirl trailer.
It's 90% just clips
of Tom Cruise. Yeah, and at the end of the trailer,
it's like all these clips provided,
they would have had to license them out.
This would have been an expensive trailer.
Tom Cruise could have just rung around.
He could have just rung around.
I don't think it would have.
No, probably, yeah.
But also like...
But yeah, it's just a clips from all his previous moves.
Watching those guys, this guy's filmography is like, it's phenomenal.
Agreed.
Like, we all know he's a weird lunatic.
Absolutely, we do.
And he has problems.
Yes.
But like, you forget that he's just like this incredible talent.
Yeah.
You don't forget, I guess people don't.
And also, it's amazing that...
It's just him, because I think Mission Impossible movies have just been.
been the last eight years.
But it's,
it's fascinating
that he's never won
anything for any of these.
Yeah,
good.
Like he's never,
yeah.
But he's never,
they've never given him an Oscar.
Because then it'd stop.
He'd turn to dust.
That's,
I guess he would stop.
He'd be like,
I've achieved it.
And he would just be at the,
the podium.
And he would turn to dust
holding the,
the Oscar.
And the Oscar would just stay floating
in the air.
He'd be like,
what?
And they'd have to shut the building down forever.
I would love it if just like a,
like a 1960-style alien
and like a silver,
1040.
suit just walks on and just takes his hand and then walks him off stage and then we just never
see him again.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And the Oscar's floating.
The Oscar is floating.
You can do the thing that you said also.
Thank you.
I like that also.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just a bit of string.
Yeah.
It's movie magic.
It is.
Yeah.
A bit of fishing wire.
Yeah.
So this movie, I can give you a synopsis.
Thank you.
It doesn't tell you much in the trailer.
No, because this is Tom Cruise makeup heavy mode, a lairropic thunder.
Exactly.
Digger Rockwell is a powerful and bow.
boastful oil baron whose company sparks an environmental catastrophe.
Threats include a deadly glacier named Judy and a potential nuclear escalation.
Based on the end of the world, he goes on a chaotic, ego-driven mission to resolve the crisis he created
and position himself as humanity's ultimate hero.
That sounds fun.
It does sound fun.
A bad guy may be trying to do a good thing, but maybe he's just doing bad stuff.
Is this, are we looking at parallels to kind of like an alternate reality, Elon Musk or something like that?
Like where a rich person does a good thing.
I mean, yeah, it could be that, but also, like, maybe, you know, is he doing,
it was his ego-driven or whatever, so he's probably doing it for his own reasons,
but maybe he's doing more harm than good.
Maybe.
But I'm very interested in this.
Yeah.
When is this out?
It must be next year, right?
Yeah.
I'm glad he's stopped doing Mission Impossible movies for a minute.
I know he's done some little things like, oh not this year, it's in October.
I know he's done some little things like in between, like smaller projects, but he's due for
something like this.
Absolutely.
I think people have forgotten that he also was a phenomenal actor.
Here's the thing also.
This is, I guess, maybe the question I was leading to before is, has he never won an Oscar because Hollywood's like, well, he gets all the box office results.
Don't you think he has enough?
He had three wives.
Isn't that enough?
Yeah, exactly.
But all are they like, or are people in Hollywood like, in real life, he's kind of off-putting?
We won't vote for him because.
We don't like it.
Because everybody you speak to about who's met Tom Cruise or is interacting with Tom Cruise.
Like any normal person who meets Tom Cruise is like, it was.
like he and I were the only people in the room.
Yeah.
He was like,
you know,
he's infinitely rich.
Like being hit with a laser.
It's like being hit with a laser.
It's like you,
it was like he really cared about me and kind of,
you know,
we,
you know,
you'd think he was a Hollywood,
whatever,
but he was really focused and whatever.
But maybe if you interact with him for a long enough period,
you're like,
I don't like this.
It would be really intense,
I'd imagine.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
Yeah.
You did have three wives and they all got divorced when they were 33.
That's interesting.
You think that's true?
Sounds like a significant number in his life for some reason.
Yeah.
Yeah. He also did that.
Didn't he do that?
I mean, he's done some, also he's done some great lines in his life.
Didn't, because on the set of Top Gun Maverick, Miles Teller, he was around the plane
so much he got jet fuel in his blood.
Do you remember that?
And he went to Tom Cruise and he said, he went to the doctor again.
And they were like, oh, you've got traces of jet fuel.
And he went to Tom Cruise and he went, hey, Tom Cruise, I went to the doctor.
And it turns out, I have jet fuel in my blood.
and Tom Cruise was like, yeah, I was born with it, kid.
No, but I have a serious medical condition.
Yeah, yeah, me too.
I was born with it.
That's right.
It's got success.
It's in my blood.
It's the jet fuel the stardom, Miles Teller.
She should know about.
That's so funny.
Someone's like, I've got a serious medical condition.
Yeah, me too, and it's cool.
I was born with that, and I got it, no idea.
It's cool.
I made it cool.
I did it before you.
Yeah.
Yeah, I saw Emily Blant's hot ones recently.
She had another.
She had some great Tom Cruise.
Was that from when she was doing Alien Time?
Yes.
Yeah.
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Supergirl producer Lars P. Winther.
What are you getting paid by the story?
I try to be, yeah.
Yeah, okay, great.
Except any and all money from anybody.
David Allison.
Oh, yes.
Spoke about David Allison, of course.
David Allison, who is head of Paramount and his dad's a
billionaire and his friends with Trump or whatever, and they're sucking up all the media.
I reckon if your dad's a billionaire, you're probably, like, you're also a billionaire,
right?
Because, like, that's effectively infinite money, right?
It is infinite money, yeah.
Spoke about the DC future, and David Allison apparently said he's pretty open about what
we're doing.
We do have a slate, and a lot of it, obviously, Clayface is already coming out.
How does he know about Clayface?
No, this is, this is the, I don't know.
This is what the producer is saying.
This is what Lars P. Winther is saying.
Oh, Lars P. Winthrop is coming out.
We already have a lantern's TV show.
those things, the trains left the station. So we're good. He's a big fan. He's been great with us.
For now. He's giving us kind of, kind of what we want. For now. So far, everything's good.
For now. Yeah. So there you go. I mean, yeah, all this stuff is in motion, of course. He's not going to
come in and be like, as soon as this is over, I'm going to throw you into a bin. And look, also,
David Ellison does. Because as soon as this is over, he's going to get someone else to throw
them into orbit. Yeah, that's right. He's dad. Well, I mean, also, I've, you know, seen this on social media
recently. Some people's speculation about the current slate of DC stuff. The fact that they
produced Superman really quickly and then Supergirl came out, you know, is being filmed and is done
really quickly. And some man of tomorrow was already in production and it's, you know, probably
nearly finished filming or whatever and Clayface is on the way and whatever. People have
speculated that it's because regardless of the quality of these things and whether people
enjoy them or not, and regardless of the box offer returns on this, when a new, a new
regime comes in, which might happen, you know, one of these multiple acquisitions.
It's not diverse.
It's not diverse.
Exactly.
The new management always just cancels everything.
Anything that isn't 99% done and even stuff that is 99% done, the new management
will cancel it because they don't want to be on the hook for something that may end up
being bad from some other guy.
Like it doesn't matter if it's movies or it's urban planning or its light bulbs or whatever.
It happens at like, I used to work in schools.
Yeah.
It happened there all the time.
You'd always see people come in and just scrap whatever the previous.
Because if they release something and it's popular, the other guy did it.
But if they release it and it tanks, it's like, well, this is your fault for not.
You could have stopped this.
You could have stopped this, exactly.
So the idea is almost always just cancel anything that isn't unstoppable right now.
You cancel it and you start again.
So I think the idea with James Gunn and Saffron at the head of DC currently is put out everything you have plans to put out.
Yeah.
Because as soon as the new guys come in, they might just.
dump everybody and start again.
And the other thing is this deal isn't done yet.
It's still up in the air.
There's still regulatory systems.
And you know what happening up in the air?
What?
George Clooney fired everybody.
He did.
And then he got a special badge for flying so much.
Special badge.
So it's not,
it'll probably happen,
but it's not done yet.
So why would he come in and be like,
I'm going to throw all this out?
Maybe he doesn't want to because that's not going to go well for,
if word gets out that he's going to do that,
that will destabilize everything in the deal and what it.
Like,
There's so many wheels in motion.
And that's what happened.
The last time when the DCEU was sort of, you know,
on the verge of being cancelled,
then everybody learned it was getting cancelled
and everybody's like...
That's why there's three different endings to the flash.
Yeah, three great endings.
Three good endings that all make sense.
Right.
Well, speaking of the DCU,
should we review the movie we're reviewing?
Yeah.
Supergirl.
Supergirl.
2026 coming hot off the heels of Superman 2025.
Hot stuff.
The hot stuff train keeps on rolling.
Or flying.
Well, all right.
Through space.
On a budget of 170.
On a bus.
Space bus.
That's true.
Spass.
About $170 million into this, but the rap says it needs about $300 million to break even.
Deadlight and says 315.
Which you think is a fairly achievable amount of money.
Go on.
Potentially.
I also heard, or I read, I read a tweet.
I read a tweet with a screenshot.
I know where you're going with this and I'm ready, but go on.
Okay.
The tweet said that Supergirl has come up with some sort of hundred.
million-dollar-plus brand deal with various brands.
So that has covered a lot of the production costs or something.
I know they did a Timex watch that is a Supergirl cross-blondy collaboration.
Call me!
Exactly.
Not in the movie.
In the trailer.
Other songs are in the movie.
Other songs are in the movie.
Good songs.
So Deadline have an article on this.
It says, Supergirl's 100 million plus promo partner campaign, biggest ever for Warner Bros.
DC Studios.
Not bad.
So what it's saying is that, so the movie when it comes out,
will have promotional partnerships with 80 plus sponsors while delivering 100 million plus in media
value.
And that's not counting consumer products.
So it's actually, it's media value.
Media value.
It's not actually,
not real money.
Literally giving them $100 million.
I'm not saying they're not going to make money from merch and Timex watches or whatever
you're talking about.
That drink cup.
Yeah.
That looks, how you know it looks.
That's right.
Exactly.
It's the wrong color.
Why they pick that?
That's not even the color of a trench coat.
It's really not.
Is that cup even real or is it an AI thing?
I can't remember.
and AI thing.
Yeah.
So yeah,
it's media value.
Media value.
I love media value.
Because looking in this movie,
there's not actually
really product placement in it.
No,
except for buses.
There's buses.
Yeah.
Big bus.
And old headphones.
Yep.
And sunglasses.
Yep.
Yeah.
And drinking.
Yes.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Should have just done it out,
just a series of alcohols.
They absolutely could have.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So on it.
Space Aviation gin.
Spaviation gin.
There's,
there's shit popcorn that they have in it.
That's right.
It's literal shit popcorn.
Yeah, bugfeasies popcorn.
Yeah.
Now that's media value.
It is.
So the box office for this, it's lower than predicted.
The US, it's 40 million.
I can predict very low things.
Could you predict lower than 40 million?
Easily.
39 million.
Yeah, it might actually be.
Yes, they told you.
And about 20 to 25 million internationally, it's going to open behind Toy Stories
5 second week, which is going to hit 70 million in the US, probably more.
How's it going to do next week when Minions 5 comes out?
It's going to be wiped off the map.
On top of that, reception is mixed, reviews are mixed.
Yeah, it's not looking good for this movie.
Which also, having seen it, like, I didn't love this, Mason.
Interesting.
Interesting opinion you have.
I really wanted to because I love the comic this is based on.
I like a lot of the casting in this.
I like the director and who wrote it and all of that, but I just think it doesn't.
Do you like the star of the movie, Milly Alcock?
Australia's own Milly Al-Elley,
I do. I've not seen her in anything before this. I know she's in House of the Dragon.
Sure. I know she's in that show upright. Upright. Which is the show where Tim Minchin has to
drive an upright piano across Australia. That's right. There's two seasons of that.
Yeah. I know why did they need to do it again? I guess he had to drive the piano back.
That's right. Yeah. Because he drove it to the wrong place. He drove it to a place. They're like,
we didn't want this. Yeah. Why did you bring us a piano? I thought you responded on my Facebook
Marketplace ad. Well, we didn't. We didn't. We didn't. Yeah. She's in that video where she's
talking about just living with her parents or whatever if you've seen that. Anyways, you're throwing
us all off track. What do you think the story was? Oh, come on, man. All right. Okay, so Supergirl,
she's a troubled lass because she, unlike Superman, she remembers that bit of Krypton that she used to
live on before it was destroyed. And she's come to Earth and she doesn't, she doesn't know anybody,
she doesn't like anything. And so what she does is she goes into outer space. She goes to solar systems
with red sons because
Kryptonians lose their powers
under a red sun
and that enables her to get really drunk
and forget all her troubles.
Yep.
Pack up her troubles in her old kit bag.
Smile, smile, smile.
She doesn't forget any of her troubles.
She doesn't forget any of her troubles.
She should.
She remembered that pneumonia that I have
that I've just given her free.
That's where you don't have any troubles.
Because I pack her up.
That you remember.
Oh, that's true.
Anyway, but then she's out in some weird
dive bar somewhere
and she meets a young lady
in Mbruthi whose parents
were killed by Cream, the Brigand Cream.
Cream of the Yellow Hills.
And she's like, I'm going to get revenge on this guy.
And she's like, you shouldn't do that.
And she's like, but I'm going to.
Revenge will lead you down a dark path, et cetera, and so forth.
Absolutely.
Maybe that's the message of the comic.
Maybe Ruthie could pack up all your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile, smile, you know?
Which is the thing I'm currently doing.
I'm doing that and it's working fine as far as I'm going to remember.
But then Ruthie's like, I'm going to do it anyway.
She's like, all right, well, I'm going to accompany you because also cream, he shot my dog,
crypto with a poison art
and he's got the only antidote to the poison dart
so I guess we're going to have to go together and get some revenge
also lobo's there. Yeah lobo's there and he plays
it's not a spoiler because he's in the posters. Yeah he plays
the horse from the comic. He does play
a comet the super horse yes.
Yeah who factors into the comic
so yeah Anna Nguera wrote
this she actually wrote the
version for Sasha Calais
when she was still Supergirl
that was entirely scrapped
yeah so which isn't surprising
and I think there's been some
I mean, there's been so much controversy or controversy over this movie because Anna Naguera hasn't,
this is the first movie she's written that has been produced.
And she's also doing Teen Titans and Wonder Woman, potentially.
But my understanding is a couple of things.
One is that she wrote a horror movie for Warner Brothers and then it ended up not happening,
but they like the script a lot.
That's usually what happens.
If you see a writer who's like, they've never worked on anything before,
but they've got a big name movie coming out or something like that,
It's usually because they had some previous work that has been unproduced, but people enjoyed it.
She has also written some plays, I think.
That are, you know, about female relationships and all that sort of stuff.
And Craig Gillespie, who directed this.
The I Tonya.
I think is very good and something else that I haven't seen, I think.
But, yeah.
Yeah, again, all names that I like, but I think that, those two combined,
and then I know there's been some things that James Gunn has influence over because he runs the DCU.
is for, like, I think some of these things that come together, like, do not work.
How interesting.
Yeah.
So I want to talk about the comic for a bit.
So this is why Everyman Cinema.
Uh-huh.
So Craig.
Is that us?
Are we Everyman Cinema?
That's us, yeah.
So Craig Gillespie, he said this.
He said, I very deliberately didn't look at Tom King's book.
So there's a book called Supergirl Woman Tomorrow.
We've got a video on it.
It's like a 10, 12.
8, 10 issues or whatever.
But almost everybody's read it through the collective.
edition. So it's written by Tom King
and illustrated by Bilky
Everly. I thought it was Bill Quist.
I've learned this week, but it's Bilky.
Okay, there you go. And...
He did Cruella. And Lars and the Real Girl.
People like...
Oh, I'm like Lars and the Real Girl. It's good.
Corrella's pretty good.
It's way... He did dumb money as well. If you saw dumb money,
I like that. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
So, and
Tom King is
best known for... He's worked
mostly for Marvel and DC
and he takes an existing character.
Maybe a very known character
a well-known character like Superman or Supergirl
or maybe less known like the vision or
human target or Adam Strange or whatever
and he writes a short
is eight to ten issue
storyline
like a self-contained thing
and it's like what if they've got depression
exactly it's often a deconstruction
of where they have depression where they have depression
and there's there's two
I think people offer I would say
for the most part I like what Tom King
produces there's a couple of things that I don't like
he did something called Heroes in Crisis
which is...
Bad depression.
Yeah, it's not good.
But I think there are often two reasons people don't like Tom King.
One is he might take a character you're very familiar with it.
You like. It's your favorite character.
And in this particular storyline, which is not necessarily incontinuity with the rest of D.C.,
he mischaracterizes that character or takes him in a different direction.
You're not expecting.
And the other reason people don't like Tom King is he was in the CIA.
And he may have had something to do with the invasion of Iraq and millions of people have died.
Yeah.
But, I mean, Bill Keelke,
heavily wonderful artist phenomenal also work with him on Helen of Windhorn which is great
which I read recently which is really good um but this the the the story of the comic book which is
true grit um I think the writing is really good and the art is incredible the art it's beautiful
ridiculous yeah which I want to talk about it's specifically in relation to this yes but yes so he said
I very deliberately didn't look at Tom King's book when I first read the script I went off Anna Naguera's
script and there was grit to that and I really wanted to come from the character of Cara going
to these different worlds and the fringes of society. I wanted to feel the poverty. I wanted to feel
the crime and the dust and the texture. Let me ask you this. Did he then read the comic book afterwards?
Yes, so he did. But before that even he said he brought in 120 images to present to DC Studio
CEO James Gunn and Peter Safran. Will he just pages on the comic book? Yeah, no. And in that process,
sorry, well, some of it must have been because he said he went back and read Woman of Tomorrow.
think such a huge part of visually for a lot of this, not always, because there's some really
interesting, like, character designs and alien stuff and puppetry and...
Seth Rogen.
Yeah, Seth Rogen.
But it does, like, there's so much stuff in that book that is just not here visually.
Yeah.
There's a lot of ideas that come in, like, she'll catch a space bus.
They do the green sun.
You know, the characters of...
They're the green sun, though.
They sort of do the green sun.
Yeah.
We'll later, we'll talk about stuff we like in this.
But if...
Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff I like to this.
If we're on this currently, what I would say is my number one criticism about this movie is it is a criticism of how it's been adapted from the original story.
But I would say whether or not it is an adaptation or not, it's also a criticism of the structure of this movie, like how it's been scripted.
Because I think they're the same problem ultimately, which is they have taken the episodic issue by issue structure of this comic, but comic books in general, like any kind of.
issue to issue comic book, but they have taken the wondrous, fantastical events and set pieces
of the comic book and they've either toned them down significantly or they've taken them out
entirely.
So what that results in is a kind of stop-start structure of this script.
And then it's intercut with like grubby bars and grubby rooms.
Just over and over again.
The structure of this film essentially is.
Kara, Supergirl and Ruthie, are in some sort of grey or brown environment.
They could be indoors, they could be outdoors, they could be in space, but it's definitely
grey and brown.
And they are set upon by some Briggins or some bandits or some space pirates.
And under normal circumstances, Karu would be easily able to defeat them using her Supergirl
Kryptonian powers.
But her powers have been nerfed somehow or immediately get nerfed at the start of the fight.
Then she struggles to defeat them.
then they flee and then she gets some or all of her powers back
and then you just repeat that four times and then the movie ends.
At the fifth one they go, that'll do.
This one will stick actually.
Like it feels very repetitive.
I think that is not uncommon with comic books in general and also comic book movies,
but they are so repetitive and there's no escalation to any of it.
There's no way to know how many bandits there are or how powerful they are.
I don't mind the idea that Supergirl in the universe, like Superman often,
she's not special because everybody's weird and powerful or magic or strong or whatever.
On Earth, she is incredibly powerful, but in space, maybe there's some, there's numerous people.
She's just an alien like everyone else is an alien.
You're physically strong than her and she can have a fist fight with them and that's not.
But it's impossible to tell.
Like I think when you think of like at this point an old timey meat and potato superhero movie like Iron Man,
in the first act Tony Stark builds his makeshift suit
and he escapes the foot soldiers of the ten rings
and in the second act he builds his snazzy red and gold suit
and he rescues the hostages from the foot soldiers of the ten rings
and in the third act he gets his arc reactor taken away
and then does he fight the foot soldiers of the ten rings?
No he doesn't.
He fights a guy with the same powers as him
which is a problem in its own but at least he's a bigger guy.
There's an escalation there.
Imagine if the first Iron Man was just he,
fights the foot soldiers of the 10 rings five times in a row. And furthermore, every time he
fights them, they shoot him out of the sky with a missile. And every single time he's like, geez,
geez, I should really figure out how to stop that happening. And then it just, he just keeps doing that.
He'd be like, this is boring. Yeah. Iron Man would say, this is boring. This is boring to me.
Yeah. But you'd be like, why is this one the finale? And it's the same with this. It's just like,
she just fights a bunch of guys who are grey and brown in a grey and brown environment.
Yeah.
And they're all stronger than her until she gets her powers back and then...
I think it's also because it's the grey and brown environments again and again,
you notice the repetition, whereas in the comics, she's on a pirate ship, she's on a beach.
And it's like in the cosmic atmosphere or whatever.
And it looks phenomenal.
And again, from an episode to episode basis, if you really drill down into that,
these kind of would be sort of repetitive.
But because they're, like a lot of this is built on novelty,
which is sort of, you know, embarrassing as comic book fans,
but that you need that.
You can't just go, well, I think this will stand on its own
without the scene where Kara powers itself through the sun
and becomes a flaming phoenix or where she teams up with a super horse
or or she ends up on the planet that was designed to kill Superman or whatever.
And she has to escape it without anybody's help.
And again, and they do elements of that,
but you don't, you know, you get the phoenix.
fire moment, but it's not really that.
It's just she gets her power. She goes to the green
sun planet and she just lies
down for a bit. Whereas in the comic,
that's a whole issue and it's about
Ruthie, like, protecting her on this planet
until the sun goes down. Also, I think a bunch of this
got cut out. Absolutely.
100%. There is probably like 30 minutes more
in this. Yeah.
Yeah. Which is disappointing.
Also, the villain in this and people have talked about this
a lot. Also, I like Millie
Alcock. I think Eve
Ridley is great Ruthie. I think
all that works. I like that also, again,
she's, this is one of the things that
James Gunn said that she's not known in the
universe, because in the comic, wherever she goes,
people are trying to attack her just because
she's a supergirl, and Superman
has done something to them. Whereas
here, it's like, people don't know her, which she wouldn't, because
Superman's like three years old. And she's not wearing
a supergirl suit. She's not wearing the supergirl suit. Whatever,
yeah. But they don't know Superman because he's
relatively new. Yeah.
But the villain of this, cream.
Cream. In the comic, and you
might think this sounds worse. Cream of the yellow snows.
Yeah.
You might think this sounds worse.
Don't eat it.
Don't eat it.
You might think this sounds worse, but in the comic, he's just a guy.
He's like a-
He's ginger.
He's not just a guy.
He's a demon.
He's not even an intergalactic space guy.
No, he's not, he's from a, he's from a, like a clan of Briggins that are on Ruthie's
planet.
And he lives just there.
Because he's not, they're not space-faring.
Yeah.
The reason the reason the woman of tomorrow takes place across the entire galaxy or whatever it
because he and his brigands steal Supergirls spaceship.
Otherwise, they would never have been able to get off the plane.
Again, they do sort of do that here as well.
But they do a weird, we'll get into it in spoilers, I think,
but there's a weird contrivance to get them to steal Supergirl's ship,
which we'll talk about later.
And in the comic cream.
Cream of the Yellow Snow.
He becomes part of these Briggins and kind of works his way up the ranks
and he learns about technology and how you would stop Supergirl.
And like he has this gadgets.
He has gadgets.
and he has like a teleportation.
Yeah, a teleportation like orb that can send Supergirl like millions of miles away.
And I understand what is probably happening here is they're like,
we've got to simplify some of this.
Yeah, yeah, you...
That's in their mind is what they have to do.
For sure, but I don't really think you have to because I think then in doing that,
you kind of skip over key components and interesting moments.
In the Guardians of the Galaxy, there is a point where, which is a James Gun joint,
where a bunch of the characters
just live in a giant celestial head
and nobody explains that
it's just there you just go
oh that's interesting
that must have a fun backstory to it
guess what it doesn't
not a dark of it yeah yeah but like
they didn't go we can let's just make it a space station
because people would be confused
as why it's a celestial head
yeah they just put it in they just had faith in the audience
absolutely and the villain is like
there's this element of like
he's from the eastern European region of space
It's like he's chaotic and evil and all, what am I going to do next?
But it felt really generic.
And even the look is too much.
And he doesn't really even say or do anything profoundly interesting.
No.
Like there is an element of like all chaos and the Joker and whatever, but it doesn't.
Yeah.
I don't think it works like very much at all.
There's a moment where they go to a planet where it's filled with like it's a, it's like a female slavery planet.
Yeah.
And that's built.
That's the planet Bilki.
Is there anything in that?
That's new for the movie.
That is new.
Is that odd?
That is all odd and new.
Another new element of this is Lobo is in this and I think that's all great and work.
There's one scene in particular where he's in prison with Ruthie and that I think that's an addition because they're like, we need to put more Lobo in this.
And I think that's a good moment.
I think, you know, people have said our Jason Mamal was born to play Lobo and that's probably true or an evil genie in a fast and furious movie.
But does he need to be in this?
No.
Not particularly.
Even that scene.
He's fun though.
Yeah, he's fun.
But he's not relevant to the plot really.
No.
In one moment he's taking the place of the place of Comet the Super Horse.
He doesn't really need to.
But like all of the scenes he's in, if he wasn't in them, they would play out exactly the same.
Even the scene with Ruthie, it's nice to have that back and forth.
But if he wasn't in that, that scene would still play out the same.
Because she is the motivating power behind the scene.
Yep.
He's just, he literally.
just follows behind her.
Yeah. I think they just wanted to have
Lobo in this universe. Yeah, for sure. Again, that was a
James Gun thing. It's sort of a backdoor pilot for a Lobo
because it's like, who's Lobo? If he just
showed up, people would be like, who's this. I mean, I'd get it.
Yeah, I'd also get it. I know it from stuff. Because they do say who he is
as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a ultimate evil
guy who killed his whole race or whatever.
Yeah, but we should get... I don't get the sense
that he's really that evil at all.
No. Which I guess is the point.
I hear some stuff that I like. I think the action, there is some good action in this.
There's a moment where, like, Supergirl, just like,
flat, I guess it's, we'll go into spoilers later, but there's a few flying and punching and kicking
moments, which I think are good. It is often with a grey or brown backdrop, which makes it
less interesting. I think the suit is great. Agreed. When she's wearing it. Yeah, when she's wearing
it, which is barely at all. Last 15 minutes. Also, there's a series of Krypton flashbacks in this,
which I think fleshes out that. With David Crumholtz as Zor-L. Yeah. Crumholtz from
numbers. Yeah. Nummy-crummy, as I call it.
And it also confirms that Superman's dad sucks.
Oh, yeah.
Because he's like,
oh yeah,
my brother,
he's sending his son to Earth to be a god.
Yeah,
that's the thing that they're going to stick with,
which,
you know,
whatever.
But,
yeah,
so that stuff I all liked in getting,
I think they get a lot of the supergirl right
in terms of like why she is the way she is,
because she witnessed the destruction of Krypton.
There's a line like,
Superman sees the good in people,
I see the truth.
But she is ultimately a good person.
And she's a good person.
And she's a good,
Emily Alcock is,
I think,
a great presence of this.
But I think,
should have been more cool stuff.
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Should have been more cool stuff.
Yeah, but also I think, and we'll talk about this in spoilers,
like, it does deviate fairly wildly from the end of the comic,
and I think it is a worst decision.
Interesting.
I think in terms of just like the point of the character and the point of the story,
and again, this is not a direct adaptation.
Yes.
But I think the elements that you've changed are not better.
Yeah, right.
I would say on the whole, worse.
anything that has changed.
Yeah.
That being said, if I had not read the comic and it's kind of hard to do this,
I think it's an okay movie.
Yeah.
But for me also, this is a disappointing adaptation.
I was really looking forward to this when it was announced.
I would say this, are you holding a knife?
Yes.
Okay.
It's also a bottle opener.
In case my, for your Tom Collins is.
Yeah.
In case my opinion is different from yours.
That's right.
You're going to bottle open me.
It's to me it's best movie ever, but probably on the same level as like the Mandalorian versus Groglet was the best movie ever.
I feel exactly the same.
It's pretty fun and there's some good elements to it.
I liked with Mandalorian versus Groglet, I like the stop motion and I like the fun little adventure that Groglet goes on when Mandalorians asleep.
Makes a mud hut.
Makes a mud hut and all that sort of stuff.
A lot of that was pretty fun.
It's a movie that I think if you're in the mood for it, it will be enjoyable.
Pretty short.
It's no post credits.
That's true.
Yeah.
Well, we're talking about what was supposed to be the post credits.
Superman pops up and David Corenceweets, it's great.
I think the scenes between Mili Alcock and David Corencewood are very good as well.
I think those are enjoyable.
He's incredible.
What a great choice for Superman.
And they're, of course, going to be...
She's going to be a man of tomorrow a significant amount, which I think is a good call.
Yeah.
That's good.
Yeah.
I remember when this was announced, though, between this and Superman, I remember
being, well, if they can nail, like, the tone and the look or whatever of the, of that comic.
Yeah.
I am looking forward to this more than Superman.
Yeah, absolutely.
But again, this is...
Well, that's the thing as well.
Like, I think, I think if...
When you think of the classic great superhero movies, you always go, okay, remember the scene where this happens.
Whether it's Captain America, Winter Soldier, where he's fighting all the guys in the elevator,
or he's fighting the helicopter or, you know, the...
Yeah, what are the great action set pieces from this?
Like even in Superman, and I think opinion was also divided on Superman,
but you've got him fighting the giant monster with the injustice gang.
He's fighting himself.
There's the Protonic Stream River thing, you know, in the pocket dimension.
He yells at Lex Luther and then a dog malls.
There's like stuff like that.
Even the moment in Superman, I've watched this clip again and again.
It's just on YouTube.
It's just Lovis Lane sitting down and interviewing Superman.
And she like pushes him and pushes him and pushes him until he snaps.
Yeah.
And it's just very.
clearly is like, I did this because people were dying.
And what the fuck else am I supposed to do?
And what I'd like about this scene is well?
There's nothing like that in here.
He's not scary in it.
He's just kind of like, he's like, he's just, he's reached the end of his rope and the end
of his rope is him being, stop being mean to me, which is very Superman.
And I think there's probably like, uh, maybe there's in deleted scenes of this.
There's a, there's some, there should be, I bet, I bet they cut out some of the relationship
stuff or the bonding between Ruthie and Kara.
Yeah.
And that's in the deleted scenes that we just never got around to.
Yeah.
But I don't think there's a moment in this where there might be like,
there's a funny bit.
Like, I'll spoil this for the...
Let's do spoilers.
Okay.
And what are you saying?
Best movie ever.
Yeah, but like barely and as an adaptation, really disappointing.
I can't stress that enough.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
There's a moment in this where Kara and Lobo,
they're not really teaming up,
but they're both fighting the brigands at the same time.
Yeah.
And Lobo looks at her and goes,
you're that dits from the bar.
and she goes, that's funny, that's what I've been calling you.
That's a funny joke.
That's a good joke.
But it's also, it's led off from the bit where, like,
she pretends to be just like a tourist from Earth.
And she wouldn't she be like...
I don't care.
Yeah, it's strange.
Yeah, it is.
But also in that moment, I believe she has her current powers.
Yes, exactly.
So she could at least be like...
She could at least fly.
She can't fly away.
She could take a punch from Lobo easily.
He just ends up in jail later.
Yeah.
Like, so how...
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
I don't know, but like, what's the...
What's the...
I think there's the...
or maybe a few iconic hits and punches or something from this,
but like what jumps out at you from?
I remember a bit where there's a bit where Supergirl like grabs cream
and just fucking bodies him over about 200 meters.
It's sort of the Hulk reading up Loki like thumping him into the ground over another.
That was pretty fun, yeah.
And there's a moment where she kicks a guy in the head.
That's pretty cool.
That is fun, yeah.
It's the thing, I think maybe it's, you know,
James, when I was doing with big jokes earlier about Iron Man
and the same how it's weirdly repetitive.
It's weird she always keeps falling for the same stuff over and over.
The problem with this movie is that her so much, like,
her power levels are inconsistent even when non-powered versus powered,
there's like, yeah, you're like, how would you be shot by multiple kryptonite arrows?
You'd just avoid them, wouldn't you?
Although, look, I feel like my one exception for that idea of like,
how can she fall for this sort of stuff,
Cryptonite seems to be different.
In this universe you're not?
No, I mean, like, you know how like people are like, how could Superman be shot by a
kryptonite bullet?
I kind of feel like maybe the justification is if a, if a kryptonite bullet is coming at a
kryptonian, that already starts weakening their defenses kind of things.
Well, maybe they can't see it so that I don't move.
Yeah, yeah.
But like, there's moments where she's like catching a spear out of midair super fast or
what have you.
And it's like there doesn't seem to be that much consistent.
Also, she can just fly up and decryptonite herself.
I guess she wanted to, but she doesn't through a bit.
That's true.
Yeah.
In terms of spoilers, there's a moment which there's a particular song use at the end in a battle montage.
Which I believe was a last minute thing.
Apparently they went through 45 songs and it was James Gunn's decision to do this cover of Jimmy Eat World's.
The middle.
The middle.
So, Ian, here's the thing as well.
So what's weird about it is because her soundtrack and she's got kind of a guardian
of the Galaxy-esque soundtrack that she's bringing with her is like punk rock like 80s punk rock
and kind of like blondey but not really just in the trailer yeah that's right and then at the pivotal
action moment we get this tweet cover of this and it's you know what would have maybe fixed the
setup and i understand they didn't do this because it's too late in the game imagine if there was a
scene there was a flashback sequence on earth where superman's like hey carra i know you love you love
you love rock and punk rock he's a cool rock and soft and you're a cool rock and
for your playlist and it was Jimmy eight worlds in the middle.
Yeah.
And she's like, oh, Clark, you're such a normie.
This sucks.
Yeah.
And then later you see the, she becomes herself.
She becomes good.
And then this song comes, the tweet cover comes on.
You'd be like, okay.
You're saying put a reason in for this song.
Put a reason in for the song.
Put a reason in for the song itself.
No.
That's, I.
But you could.
But also, you could just do that with any song.
It does feel like you can put any song in here.
If you put the scene, if you put the scene in where Super.
Superman recommends a dumb song
that he thinks is cool and is not cool,
you can just then put anything in.
Totally.
And regardless,
you'd be like,
this song sucks,
you suck.
And you know,
it's about everything being alright and whatever.
Yeah.
So I guess that's the point.
They could have.
Or boys light up by Australian crawl.
They could have.
Yeah.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
So I've got a few things.
Or horses by Daryl Braithway.
Like, they could have.
Because of that horse.
She doesn't ride.
She doesn't have a horse.
Last week we mentioned the maybe a couple of weeks ago.
I mentioned the TV series Ponies, which I was watching that got canceled.
And you mentioned the Australian singer Darrell Braithwaite.
He's no longer touring.
He retired.
Yeah.
So there we go.
We did it.
We did it, folks.
This is an Easter egg.
This is an Easter egg.
There's a few things that they changed from the comic, which I think of for the worst.
For a minor, which I haven't talked about yet, because they're in spoilers.
One is that crypto gets poisoned at the start.
That happens in the comic.
Yes.
And so Supergirl's reason for going with Ruthie is because she wants to get the
And also, that happens over months.
This happens over like three days.
In the comic, Supergirl eventually reveals that Crypto was fine months ago.
Yeah. And she's just...
She got the point. She got the antidote from a veteran area or something.
She figured it out.
She figured it out, but she's just going along because she wanted...
To do good.
She wanted to guide Ruthie through this situation.
She didn't need to...
She's Supergirl. She didn't need...
And she also wanted to guide her choices and morality.
Mm-hmm.
Whereas at the end of this, she does have a moment with Cream.
She goes, if you kill this guy, then you're going to let revenge, blah, blah, blah, take over you and I know what that feels like.
And then Supergirl just stabs him.
Correct.
And in the comic, Supergirl puts him in the Phantom Zone.
He comes out like hundreds of years.
Like 300 years later and he's really remorseful.
And Ruthie's a very old woman and just kind of bops him on the head and he falls over.
He's not dead.
So it's like she has moved on and lived this wonderful life, but she's still like, I don't forgive you for this.
I don't have to.
But also, I'm not going to kill you.
Whereas this felt really, I don't know, it felt like, like Supergirl kills, right?
And Superman also kills.
We know that, but it felt really, I don't know, like, out of character.
Interesting.
But also she'd killed a bunch of people prior, so it's also like, well, why not just kill this guy?
I guess he cares.
Yeah.
And also, I think because there's a moment where she kills cream and Lobo is looking at it from a distance.
Yeah, weird.
And he's like, yeah.
I think they probably just want to set up like a future thing.
where he's like, we're the same, you and I kind of thing.
Yeah, probably.
So maybe there's that.
But why not put him in the phantom zone or something?
Because it's too many things.
Yeah.
I think they wanted a very straightforward down the line.
We start at A and we end up at C or whatever.
Also, I mean, similarly, because there's, so in the comic book, as we've mentioned,
at one point, cream, he's got a little sphere.
It's like a magic device.
Yeah.
I can't remember how you, you make a big sacrifice.
and if you throw it to
And you make it and it's a ball of magic
And if you throw it at somebody
You can send someone somewhere else
And because obviously he can't stop Superveil physically
Yeah
So he hits her with this magic sphere
And she ends up on a planet
It's an entire
The bit of it is enough
I believe it's new for the comic book
But it's a solar system
That years ago was manufactured by some villains
To kill Superman
And he'd been there before
And it was it a blue sun
I think it was still a green sun.
Because it's green
kryptonite radiation.
It's a manufactured solar system
that was designed to kill Superman
and the backstory is
and the story that Superman told Supergirl
was that he was there for 45 minutes
and he nearly died
but then the Justice League showed up and rescued him.
And in this sequence she's thrown there
and there's nobody to rescue her
and she has to survive hours and hours
before the sun sets and she can escape.
But will she die and there's lots of.
of murderous fawn, a big dragon creatures, I think.
And so Ruthie has to protect her, and they learn about each other and what have you.
And Supergirl is tenacious enough that she survives a thing that not even Superman could survive.
And then she manages to escape.
So what they've done here is they've sort of truncated this by saying that the Briggins live on a planet that is between two sons, a green sun and a yellow sun.
and she gets passage on some pirate ship
and they take her there
and then as soon as she gets there
she realizes the sun is green
and she's going to lose her powers
and she's going to die.
But in the comic book she gets teleported there
without any foreknowledge.
But in this, they put a bag on her head,
which she can see through.
I mean, I guess they don't know that.
But you're saying as in like she should have seen this.
She would have been like, oh, there's a green sun.
This is a trick.
And then I'll just take over the ship like I was easily.
and then I'll go to the other side of the planet.
Go to the other side of the planet.
So what happens is she just goes into a cave
until the yellow sun comes up
and then she's back to normal.
But there's also, it feels like a situation
where that would be a good timer to set
because this is the final battle
where you'd be like, when's the green sun going to come up again?
You know, she could be like,
okay, not only do I have to rescue Ruthie
and get the antidote and do all this sort of stuff
if I don't do it in 45 minutes
the green sun's going to come up and I'm going to die.
Yeah.
But that doesn't come up again?
No, it doesn't.
They're just like, well, it's yellow sun time.
Let's go.
Let's go.
It's yellow sun day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
Also, apparently was James Gunn's idea to end with Krem's death.
Okay.
Cream, sorry.
Thank you.
And there was no other logical conclusion
and they didn't shoot a backup.
It was like, this is what we're doing.
See, that's the thing is, I think,
the reason that they didn't do the magic sphere thing
and the reason they didn't do the Phantom's own thing is because they,
they are additional layers of dimensions and I think that's fine.
I mean,
they don't even explain why Supergirl comes to Earthlight.
They didn't feel the need to explain.
No.
Which is, again, fine.
But I think they just went, okay, well, this is meant to be an A to B space adventure.
If we do, if she gets thrown into another, if she gets hit with a ball of energy and she
ends up in another place, people are like, if she's still in the universe, you should be in
another universe, blah, blah, blah.
Or if you put, and if you put cream in the phantom zone, people will be like, okay, well,
well, what's the deal there?
That seems a little complicated at the end.
Well, Supergirl was late to Earth
because she was in the Phantom Zone
and you introduced it there
and then you reintroduce it later.
Well, they didn't.
No, they didn't.
Yeah.
Anyway, Superman is also...
If only they'd introduce the fandom zone
in any other Superman media ever.
All of them.
Including the last Supergirl TV series.
The Post-Qaeda...
They did.
The post-criticism was initially
going to be...
She goes back to Earth and speaks to Superman.
It would be nice if she took Ruthie to Earth.
I agree.
Yeah.
But they do it here.
Maybe they did.
They probably did.
Maybe.
But that's now the ending
of the movie and she goes and talks to Clark
Just a flat-ass looking scene as well
You know?
Is that the same?
Is that his apartment or is it her apartment?
That's his apartment because it's the one where you see
And putting his boots on.
It looks worse though.
Well, maybe he remodeled.
Anyway, it just feels really additional
And I don't know.
Yeah.
Whatever.
Anyway, I've got some reviews here from people
who wrote to the planet broadcasting great mates.
You know what I like the scene that I like?
Unless you have an additional scene that you like.
Well, there's the additional scene.
Thank you for asking.
The additional scene that I liked is when she's talking to a mother who's dying on Argo City
and she's like, you've got to be good.
You don't have to be nice.
You don't have to be, you know.
I agree.
You don't have to be, be, you can be argumentated.
You can kick someone in the head.
You can kick somebody right in the head.
You can drag somebody across the desert or whatever, but you've got to be good.
And I thought that was fun.
I agree.
And then at the end, Superman's like, hey, you got to wear this suit because then you'd be good.
I thought that was nice.
Yeah.
She was like, I kill the man with a sword.
That's fine, I guess.
I've killed people.
I just don't tell anybody about it.
I'm Superman, but I kill people.
Superman does kill people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've talked about it before.
I'm okay with it depending on how it's written.
Those guys I put in the phantoms and I killed them later.
I killed them later.
Yeah.
I chucked that,
I kick one of them off a cliff or whatever.
I think you'll find in the British TV version of that show,
they were alive and arrested at the end of the same.
I think you'll find...
They just got a regular jail.
They've got a regular county jail.
Anyway, in terms of reviews, Darren says it's fine at best.
Millie Alcock is incredible and I can't wait to see more of her,
but if you're going to adapt to women of Tomlin,
Woman of Tomorrow, why not go all the way and adapt
a woman of tomorrow? Why do Cliff Notes
version? Agreed, but also again
like we said, I'm glad they're making
that movie now. I'm glad that isn't a
maybe because otherwise we'd never
see her in like... Yeah. I suspect
I'm sure there's... I bet there's a
Marvel movie where there's characters have been introduced
in their own stuff and they're just fine.
And then later you go, oh you know what?
I liked... Here's some damning with faint praise.
Iron Fist is way better in the subsequent
stuff than he is in his own show. I think you
good look at, and I want to talk about... When they finally put him in Defenders and he was in the
later seasons of Luke Cage came into his own. I think that was good. And he's coming back,
I think. He is, yeah. And there's... But if they'd never done that, you'd be like, well, this is
just terrible. This is just a couple of seasons of a terrible show where he's an idiot. I wanted
to talk about this in like in the future in particular, but yeah, like an example of that would be
like the Incredible Hulk. A movie that didn't do super well, but then the character goes on to
whatever. Yeah. Joe says, best movie ever. This is what
and it still should have been,
Cara's flawed character
who has to do with
the dark side of life,
but there is always
an inherent feeling
of hope in the movie.
Yes.
James says,
I hate to say this,
but a little bit underwhelmed
with this one.
I was ready to love it
expecting now the Guardians of the Galaxy,
but after getting home,
I'm struggling to think
of a single memorable moment
that isn't just a cool shot
we saw in the trailers.
Masey says,
great work, Macy, by the way.
Oh yes, Maisie.
Edith's videos,
moderates,
plan of broadcasting great mates group.
There's a bunch of incredible stuff.
Movie was all right.
Good, she killed him.
which again I don't even yeah I don't even hate
well talked about it yeah but I know hated the slow Jimmy at well
I think I think it makes sense in this in this version of it because it's like she feels like her life is already
Supergirl feels like her life is already over and ruined to some degree totally but then
I understand the choice I just don't but also that when you think about it also
what ideally would what happen in this universe in this storyline it should be like she'd start out
with the idea of like who cares about anything
I'm just going to get drunk.
But by the time she's gone to the end of the saga,
when she's spent time with Ruthie,
she could potentially be like,
no, I'm not just going to kill people willy-nilly
and ruin my life because life is worth living or whatever.
I'm going to take you to county jail, Kreme.
You're going to have to pay a fine to get out.
Strength of a thousand men, shut up.
Yeah, that's the thing also.
In the comic, Kram, Kram, he, I mentioned this,
but he's remorseful.
Yeah.
And he just, it's just kind of,
I'm evil
and then he's this
Yeah yeah
Nick says
I enjoyed it
And liked a lot
A lot of parts of it
Millie is great
Not a perfect movie
Pretty bland
Bad guy
Although he was a bad man
Jessica says
Sure I didn't love it
But I still enjoy it nonetheless
Millie is amazing
My mom was fun as Lobo
The plot and action
We're both fun
A solid enough
Not perfect adaptation
Of the amazing comic
But still a decent adaptation
And a fun movie
Best movie ever for me
There it is
So yeah
In that group
It's overall I would say
Skewing Positive
I think that too yeah
Yeah.
Anyway, in terms of the future, people...
And like us, we're skewing positive.
We're skewing positive and we're the best.
Thank you.
We are the best.
You punctuated that with a big dramatic point.
We are the best.
We are the best.
So people are like, well, is the DC you over a second movie out of the gate
and people aren't seeing it.
It's a flop and whatever.
I think if you're getting me out season two of Creature Commandos,
which you're out any minute now.
And peacemaking, whatever.
Clayface.
Clayface.
Lantons will make it's money back.
Yeah, you would hope.
Probably.
But I think one or two movies
can turn this around.
People remember the last thing.
Okay, so an example of this, and you mentioned it,
Iron Man, massive hit, made $585 million.
People loved it.
The next one was the Incredible Hulk.
Yes.
And if you remember that, it was less well received.
It made a lot less money.
It barely broke even.
Then after that...
Edward Norton was rude behind the scene.
It was rude behind the scenes to Louis Lettier.
Then it was Iron Man too, which was a big hit,
but again, people were like...
I didn't like it so much, yeah.
It's all right.
Four did pretty well.
Captain America did pretty well.
And then it was the Avengers.
Yeah.
And I'm not saying that, oh, they just, just look to the MCU and this is what it'll be.
Yeah.
Because it's not replicable ever again.
Absolutely not.
But what I am saying is that you can, this is not necessarily the end of anything.
No.
I think if Man of Tomorrow comes out and people like it like they did Superman.
Then they could do Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow.
Exactly.
And they could adapt that book that people like.
They could adapt that.
That'd be perfect.
It would be.
I also think.
This is a completely different era of comic book movies.
And making an okay movie, it's not going to get people.
People aren't going to see this because it's,
I'm not going to recommend this to people.
I'll be like, if you want to see it, see it on streaming.
I'll probably recommend it.
Do you recommend it to me?
No, you've seen it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My son, they saw it with me and he was like, yeah, it's all right.
All right, great.
It was fine.
Yeah.
Just did he, okay, I guess this is the key when he left the cinema.
Was he like, oh, I like the bit where this happened?
No.
Then that's a shame.
Yeah.
It's a shame.
Because there's always,
they should always be one of those
where kids are like,
yeah.
I like the bit.
I like when Lobo let off all those hand grenades
and killed all those men.
I like that bit.
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty good.
He's always talking about bits that he liked.
Yeah.
I'll ask him.
Okay.
I'll say after this.
Okay.
Name a bit that you like.
Mason demands you choose a bit you liked.
You can't escape this.
Yeah.
All right.
Should we move to the next segment of the show?
Let's move it.
What is it?
That's what we're reading.
What is it?
What is it?
What we're going to read?
I'm sorry.
God, listen.
Okay.
I'm doing the thing.
What are we reading today?
This is a great time for us to share with us what we've been watching, reading, listening to.
And that's a great sentence.
It is, that's right.
Can you explain to me?
Yes.
Your comings and goings.
No, I won't.
It's not any of your damn business.
Can you give me a hit?
My life is my own.
But I'll tell you this at some point.
Oh, you always tracking mud into my house, so I know you're up to something.
I'm doing muddy stuff.
Yeah, all right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I watched the movie Normal.
Normal, yeah, what's this one?
That's what's his name, isn't it?
Yes, it's what's his name.
Bob Odenkirk.
It's starring Bob Odenkirk as directed by Ben Wheatley,
who people will know from,
he did, I think his best movie is probably high-rise,
which is Tom Hiddleston is in that high-rise in the 70s.
Oh, okay, I haven't seen it.
He also did that movie Free Fire,
which is Bree Larson and Killian Murphy
and a bunch of other people who are not Oscar winners
in a warehouse.
shooting in each other. Is that good or something?
I quite liked it. Have I seen that or something? I feel like I've seen it.
I only saw, I waited literally years to watch that until it was free on a streaming service.
I'm like, I don't think this is going to be good enough to watch for money.
Okay. Oh, it's got Army Hammer.
He, what? Oh, yeah, it does too. I forgot about that.
Oh, that's why you like it so much. Yeah, no, pre-heggy got canceled.
You're allowed to watch something with Army Hammer, so no one's going to judge you for,
I don't know, man, for hashtag you about a man-a-muncle sequel.
Watching Citizen Vigilante.
Yeah, yeah.
That one's...
Yeah, I know about it.
Yeah.
What's his name?
Overboll.
Yeah.
Good movie.
But I watch normal.
So, it's...
This movie's from a screenplay by Bob Odenkirk and Derek Kohlstad, who's a name I didn't recognize, but he was one of the creators of John Wick.
Oh.
But I guess he didn't direct it or he did, he wrote on the first two, I think.
Too many people are claiming that they...
Right.
You think we could?
You think we could get into that?
Yeah.
I think so.
It was us in Evil Longoria who made John Wick.
We kicked in the money.
That's right.
She kicked in some amount of money and we kicked in some amount of money.
We whicked in some money.
We whipped in some money.
So basically Bob Odenkirk plays a cop who has moved to this town called normal, which is like...
But he's actually a shape-shifting robot.
No, he's normal.
No.
But he's a regular man.
But he's moved there to be the interim sheriff because the previous sheriff had some sort of mishap.
He got drunk and he went out into the cold and the snow and he died.
Oh.
And so he's just filling in.
until they elect a new sheriff.
Oh.
But then, and it's a normal, as the name would suggest, it's a very boring town.
It's all snowed in.
But then nothing really happens.
And then a couple of...
Sounds great, so a couple of people from out of, this couple from out of town,
they need money and they're like, we're going to rob the bank.
So they're going to rob the bank and they want to get into the vault.
And at that point...
This doesn't sound very normal.
It doesn't sound normal at all.
And then at that point, everything goes off the rails and it turns out the town is full of secrets.
And if you're like, this sounds like hot fuzz, yeah.
Yes, it's just hot fuzz again.
And is it good?
No.
Unlike Bob Odenkirk.
Is it funny?
Like hot fuzz is really funny?
No, it's not funny like hot fuzz is really funny.
I can only imagine Edgar Wright watching this and going
Not so easy now, is it?
Yeah.
Not so easy now to make hot fuzz.
Is it Ben Wheatley, who I presumably know quite well.
Damn.
No, it's not as funny, but it's the same thing of like town with secrets
and everybody's in on the secret.
Okay, it's Ben Wheatley, yeah, he's English, okay.
Yeah, and then it's kind of like, yeah, and it's, but it's, I mean, it's, it is American hot fuzz.
I guess they, some, I guess Bob Odenkirk and Derek Kostad went, we need an American hot fuzz.
That's certainly, we've been saying that for years.
We've been saying that for years.
Just do another one, but not as good.
Yeah.
I wish it were great, but it's not.
That's a shame.
It's a fun cast, Odin Kiddick.
Lena Heddy's in it for a minute.
Henry Winkler is the mayor of the town, which is kind of fun.
I like Henry Winkler.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah.
He was the Fons, wasn't he?
Wasn't he the Fong?
He was the Fonz.
For years?
He was the Fons and his Atom smasher's dad.
Oh, yeah.
Damn, happy days.
The original Atombsmash.
Yes, I remember.
That is Happy Days, good.
What?
Happy Days?
Nah, man.
Okay.
I don't think so.
It's pretty dark days, if anything.
That's true.
If you're having a good time, you're not paying attention, mate.
Let me tell you that.
I wasn't going to talk about this, but I recently rewatch the Running Man.
The new one.
Yes.
It's really good.
Yeah, except for the last like 20-11.
The consensus is it's pretty good
except for they didn't do 9-11 at the end.
Again, I said this at the time,
I think it's better than the original movie.
Yeah.
And I agree.
But again, the problem is,
and again, it's,
they put themselves in an impossible position
where they went.
Should we do a 9-11?
Yeah, but no,
but they put themselves in the impossible position
of remake a movie
that everybody considers a classic
even though they haven't watched it in a decade.
I was going to say,
nobody's watched the running man
in a really long time.
Yeah, it's not, it's not.
It's all right.
But it's not top-tier
Schwarzenegger, really, no.
He's got that onesie, and that's interesting.
That's true.
And he gets in that jet car.
Yeah.
And he fights a guy who has a hologram
AI face in both versions.
Yes.
Yeah.
But what I did watch...
Oh, sorry, do you want to keep talking about Normale?
Just watch Hot Fuzz again.
That would be my recommendation
to watch Hot Fuzz because it's a great movie.
Should I watch the movie Paul about the Alien?
Which also has Simon Peg and Nick Cross.
I don't think you have to watch that, no.
Are you considering watching Harry Potter?
Because it's got Nick
Frost in it?
The new Harry Potter.
Yes.
It's the only reason I'm going to watch it.
Don't watch it.
Actually, I'm also going to watch it because I love Harry Potter.
You don't love Harry Potter.
No, sorry, I misspoke.
I love the idea of rebooting Harry Potter.
I cannot wait.
Great.
I don't support this.
Okay.
Jokes.
No.
We make jokes.
No, we've never, not this time.
Oh my God, you're right.
We've never made jokes.
We forgot.
We forgot to make jokes for 10 years.
It's all right.
It's,
nah,
Don't worry about it.
All right.
Okay.
It's a shame.
I wish it were...
Yeah, well, I really went the way you described it.
It received generally positive reviews and critics according to Wikipedia.
Yeah, all right.
Yeah.
I think during the writing process, somebody should have said, you're just writing hot fuzz again.
Yeah.
So it'd better be better action and more fun than hot fuzz.
Absolutely.
It's a shame.
They are...
I'm just saying if they're...
So, they have worked together, Edgar Wright, and him...
Oh, Ben Wheatley.
Yeah.
The Red Wright's produced at least one of his movies
and they know each other from other from other things.
Sitesy is from 2012 or something.
Okay.
Yeah, so there you go.
All right.
Interesting.
Did it at least that?
I watch...
I'm going to do a quick Twitter and see if Edgar Wright has had anything to say about normal.
Well, I hope so.
You talked about the new Harry Potter TV show?
No.
Did you say these looking forward to as much as I am?
I'm going to tweet.
I'm going to look...
You're going to tweet at Edgar Wright.
And I'm going to search Edgar Wright Normal and see what happens.
All right.
Nothing.
Well, but you're using the Twitter.
search function, right?
I'm using the very good Twitter search function.
It's a very good search function.
It really works.
Yes.
Anyway, what do you've been watching?
I'm just looking, because he's got,
I'm just looking on his Instagram.
You're looking for,
looking for dirt.
I think when Edgar Riders has been up to them.
The running man.
I've seen the running man.
I watched it recently.
Me too.
It's mostly running man stuff, actually.
Okay, so I watched St. Louis DTF.
Oh, with, uh,
did you watch it with Justin Maven?
Did you watch it with Jason Mason?
I would have Mason,
but actually I don't know anything about him.
Yes.
You couldn't even...
You're literally drooling.
Yeah, I know, right.
I couldn't wait.
I could not wait.
So it's Jason Bateman, David Harbour.
I couldn't wait and I ruined the entire setup.
Linda Cardalini.
Oh, great, terrific.
So it's about, sort of...
Jason Bateman plays a weatherman, David Harbour plays his...
Weather?
No, he plays the sign language interpreter.
Okay.
Linda Carnalini plays David Harbour's partner,
who was also having...
an affair with Jason Bainment.
Oh, it's a real triangle.
And initially I'm like, oh, this is going to be like underworld neighborhood sleazy kind
of creepy sex stuff.
And there's a little bit of that, but what really is...
So what stopped you from switching it off if it wasn't that creepy stuff?
But what it really is, it's more about love and friendship and specifically male friendship
and the relationship between Jason Bainman and David Harbour's character.
Okay.
who were just looking, in particular David Harbour's character,
who used to be quite a fit and attractive man,
and now he's got a bit slubby in his older age.
And also he wears a body suit in this because he's slim now.
I don't know what he's going.
Well, I bet he would have been fit for Thunderbolts, maybe.
Yeah, I mean, he got really thin for stranger things.
Oh, that's right.
I don't know if he's that because that was very, very thin.
But it's about their relationship and also in particular,
David Harbors just looking to be loved and accepted.
and not in a general, like, public way,
but just in his interpersonal relationships
and about him, because Linda Cardinini has a son
from a previous relationship
and it's his relationship with him as well.
Right, okay.
So it's not...
A real blended family.
Yeah, it's not so much...
It's not what I thought it was at all.
Is it funny?
In moments, yeah, but it's more...
It's very low-key.
It's a drama.
It's a drama.
And there is a murder mystery element to...
Whoa, okay.
Early on, which isn't a straightforward...
What's the DTF part?
Because that's what you say on a...
Well, there's an app.
It's in Louis DTF and the people who were looking to cheat on their partner.
Oh, I see, right.
That's the idea.
Do you remember there was that website and it was like...
Oh, the one that got leaked.
Yeah, and it was like, because it was like, here's a website to cheat on your partner or whatever.
And it turned out like 99% of people.
It was all men.
It was all a man and everybody else was fake.
And everybody got docks.
Everybody got docks.
Yeah.
Pretty good.
That's fun.
So actually, because last week I mentioned the show, maximum pleasure guaranteed.
Which I'm up to date on.
You like it?
It's great.
Yeah.
See, that's the, for me, it was a toss-up between should I watch that show or should I watch DTF St. Louis.
I'm like, okay, you know, because they both thematic, they're not, they've, they've elements similar, seemingly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is, that's more kind of, more direct kind of crime.
And it's more a thrill, yeah.
Yeah.
Whereas this is kind of less of that.
But what St. Louis DTF has, or DTF St. Louis, I'm like, said it's wrong, whatever it is.
It's got two detectives.
Well, one's, Richard Jenkins plays a detective who's like an old school detective who doesn't
understand the, you know, kind of the underbelly of society and how people cheat on their
spouses and neighborhoods and whatever, right, right, right, right. And the apps. And the apps, exactly.
And Joyce Sunday's a special crime officer and they work together and she's younger and kind of
more across it. Right. It's those two working together, interviewing people, using their own kind of
methods to uncover what's happening. And they're, they're a great pairing. Yeah, right. So, yeah,
I would recommend this. Nice. Um, you're going to see some dongs and stuff, just so you know,
Interesting. Okay. That's interesting.
That is very interesting. And crooked dons.
Huh.
Crooked is the day is long. So normal?
Yeah. It's normal. Yeah.
It's good. Like a boomerang.
Yeah, yeah, great.
Well, I'll watch that show. After, of course, I watch episode two of sugar, which is, which is out.
People are loving episode two of sugar and sugar in general. Yeah. Yeah, great.
Everyone's on the sugar train two to, too, too.
Yeah, hell yeah, brother. Look out Cavity City.
Yeah. Somebody, I believe somebody finally did ask Colin Farrell about the twist.
And he was like, yeah, some people are mixing.
on it. Yeah, we know.
We know. Did you know that we're doing it, Colin Farrell?
I don't think he did.
No. Anyway, should we do some letters?
Time for letters. We need a theme. We need a theme.
Oh, here it is. I just wrote this now. And I'm performing it live.
What? Yeah. How?
A tweet cover of it. Okay. Here it is.
I don't like it. Everything's going to be all right.
What was that? Tom Cardi came up.
All right. Mason, if you do want to reach this show, it's as simple as this.
Hashtag, no, we don't.
do it anymore.
Weekly Planetpot at gmail.com, send a concise letter with paragraphs to Nick Mason.
Yes.
Or go to the Planet Broadcasting Greatmates Group and there is a link, a page, a thread every
week you can put a thing in and then question and whatever.
Speaking of questions.
Questions.
Here's an email.
Is Quicksdiver back?
Here's an email from Quicksdiva.
Hell yeah.
He actually emailed this last week, but it got lost in the Gmail search.
Of course it did.
It always does.
He's emailed in because a couple of weeks ago he emailed
in with quickstiff's quick questions.
Yep.
He's emailed in to say,
we'll do my duty.
Hello, quickstaff here again,
doing my duty under duress, I might add.
You briefly talked about serialized commercials
in the last episode.
I was thinking of Kutut.
What?
Kutut.
Google Kutut really quickly.
How you spell that?
Ketut.
Yeah.
They had a romance or something.
Kut and another lady.
I've forgotten already.
Oh yeah, I don't know this.
What's it called again?
Amy characters?
Yes, for the Amy Insurance.
Yes.
I don't know this man.
Anyway, you briefly.
talking about serialized commercials last episode,
I wanted to give a quick shout out
to the Swedish ICA commercials.
ICA is one of Sweden's biggest supermarket chains
and their commercials have been running
since November 29th, 2001.
They hold the world record
for the longest running television advertising drama
with over 1,000 episodes.
My quick questions are,
can I sue you guys if you don't read my letter
or does the lawsuit thing only work one way?
It's one way.
Yeah, but you can sue us.
You can sue us. Yeah, that's it.
It doesn't work the other way.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's alternating weeks.
Yeah, it is.
That's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lots of love Quicksstaffer.
Thanks, Quicksdifers.
Quistopher's questions.
He's back.
That's what, it's interesting.
I'm glad we hired this guy.
He's good.
Me too.
Is this the way the world is going?
Just like interpersonal dramas in ads for insurance or whatever?
Yeah, absolutely.
I guess it is, yeah.
I hope since 2001, apparently.
It's 2001.
We talked about this a bit last week, Mason, but one says,
do you think Marvel leaked those scenes from Doomstay deliberately to create online buzz?
Or is this Mason's fault?
Uh.
I think it's.
No, because it's, I don't know,
There wasn't even that much buzz, honestly.
Maybe only from where I'm sitting.
And again, because they're outsourcing a lot of the special...
By ivory towel.
Yeah.
They're outsourcing all the special effects are like...
Yeah, yeah.
...there are...
I guess every once in a while, there'll be either something that hasn't been watermarked
and they're like, just check it out of it.
Yeah.
Or somebody's stupid enough to be like, I will get fired for this.
Absolutely.
I'll get fired and sued for this.
Here we go.
I love that.
I'll be famous.
Yeah.
It must be somebody making that miscalculation.
They'll be like, I will get fired.
famous for this.
This is how.
Nobody else has ever been famous from this, but I will be famous.
People sure will be discussing the events of the movie Doomsday, but I will become, I'll be at
the forefront.
I'll be interviewed, they'll give me free stuff, I'll get tickets to the premiere, Kevin Feigue
give me one of his hats.
Oh my God.
Yeah, he'll take the hats right off his head.
Doesn't he wear a hat under his hat?
Yeah.
It's a bandana.
That's exactly right.
Like John Travolta wears in the movie Wild Hogs.
It's one of Axel Rose's bandanas.
Oh my God.
Yeah, that's right.
Doesn't that guy look strange?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
There should be a trailer for that soon, right?
Yeah, I'd hope so, yeah.
Yeah, maybe next week.
I'd be like, you remember this?
Yep.
Well, yeah.
There's also been rumours that I've, you know,
I was nearly put it in use, but it happens all the time of, like,
is there going to be a third Avengers movie?
Is there going to be Secret Wars Part 1 and 2?
Oh, well, maybe.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't care.
Okay.
And it's just cut footage from the previous two.
No, no sequence, whatever.
Yeah.
There's a voiceover maybe.
It's like that Ancoman sequel, remember that they made?
Not the actual Anker Man sequel, but the off-cut stuff.
That's right, yeah.
What else you got, Mason?
It's from Alex, who says Leonardo DiCaprio's famous advice to young and up-and-coming actors is not to do superhero movies.
I think it was no hard drugs, no superhero movies, if I recall.
He told that to Timothy Shalameh.
My question is, if you had to pick Leonardo DiCaprio to play one superhero, which character do you think he should play?
I think it would be a great plastic man.
my wife come and thinks she should play none.
Pierce, she's one of the few spouses that hate you, apparently.
So that's good.
Whoa.
There's more than a few.
Hate us or don't hate us?
Haters.
All right.
There's more than a few.
Hell yeah.
We've met some.
I think he should maybe play somebody in the vein of a spider noir.
Okay.
Well, that's done.
They did it already.
In the vein of James.
What about a Richard Ryder?
Nova.
Yeah.
Old Nova.
Old Nova.
I think he would have to be a guy who doesn't, he's not doing the
the physical action stuff.
I don't know if we'd buy that necessarily.
When was the last time we was doing big physical action sequences?
The revenant.
Blood diamonds.
Yeah.
Catching if you can.
Inception.
That's true.
He was running around.
Did he do any jumping around in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
A little bit.
More acting than jump.
Oh, he does kill someone with a flamethrower, I guess.
He does kill someone with a flamethrower.
Yeah.
I reckon somebody like, you're bringing him in with somebody,
a smaller role with some gravitas.
Make him the Phantom Stranger or the Specter or something.
Oh, okay, like an old school.
Like an old school guy, you know.
Yeah, okay, I like that idea, yeah.
Because now he's kind of like old Hollywood.
Yeah.
But he likes young Hollywood if you know what I mean.
If you're not on mood.
You bring him in because of his young girlfriends.
Yes.
You bring him in.
One battle after another.
Is that action?
Is that action?
He's doing some running.
He tries to charge his phone.
He does fall off that roof.
He does fall off that route.
Actually, that's fun.
I reckon you bring him in for a small.
ball a roll with some to bring the gravitas and you get people going how they get him yeah how they
get in to bring to the gravitas exactly Leonardo to bring the gravitas they call it that's what
they would say in the cinemas they would stand up when they would say that that's Leonardo to bring
it a gravitas they would say very good yeah I think you bring him in as a guy who's or even even like
a a guy who is not like maybe he the character used to wear a costume
maybe the
this brand is poison now
but you could bring him in as the original sandman
the Wesley Dodds suit
and a trench coat of the gas mask guy
I think that would work and he's like a supporter
Do you think he'd be a good
The Shadow?
Yeah
I think he's a rich playboy kind of
You just cool
You bring him in for the DCU
and you just say he's Wesley Dodds
Yeah
Because then he's not the sandman
Because of the
How would you feel about him
The alleged crimes
Yeah
How would you feel about being him
Like an original Ted court
Or something like that
That could work too
Yeah
I like the
of him being the original of something,
like an old version of...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mentor-type character, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I think you're on the right show.
Or Robin.
Oh, Robin!
Robin!
You like, I think you're on it
with Spider-Man noir,
but again, that's already you've been...
Yeah, that's been...
I didn't even know why you recommended it.
I'm stupid.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Has he ever been...
It was nearly Spider-Man.
That's it, yeah.
In the 90s, I should say.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
Nick says,
yes.
What's the last time a movie made you feel something?
Well, Supergirl did make me feel
some things in the Krypton stuff.
I recently watched We Live in Time.
Have you seen that with Andrew Garfield and Flores Pugh?
No, they were busy that day.
But have you seen that movie?
I have seen it.
It's good.
It's great.
It's really good.
Those two together.
Also, speaking of, he's in the Faraway Tree movie.
Oh, yeah.
Which is great also.
He's gone wild.
He's getting out of control.
I love Andrew Garfield.
And Florence Pugh is great.
And I think, who's in Farway Tree?
Cliff Foy is in it as well.
She was the Queen maybe.
She was the Queen maybe for a minute.
Or Diana.
I don't know.
was the queen. You're right. She was the queen. Okay, right. Yeah, I think Elizabeth
Dubicki was Diana, that's true. Yeah.
Too tall. Diana was tall.
Was she? Yeah, she was like five, no, she was six, ten? That's not true.
It's not true. I think she was like five, eleven. I mean, maybe one, maybe at one point
she was six, ten. Uh, since she was five, ten. Okay, that is quite tall. Yeah.
What are we talking about? I forgot. We live in time is great. If we haven't
it's told, uh, out of, out of sequence and about the couple and how they meet and have a child
and one and get sick, and it's also about their dreams and whatever. Yeah, yeah.
Not told.
That's a good movie.
Lineally,
it's probably,
the substance also.
Oh,
that definitely made me to feel something.
You don't,
you know,
you don't,
you know,
when you feel something in a movie
it doesn't have to be like
sad and emotional.
Yeah.
But like,
I saw that movie.
And again,
it's the vibe,
you know,
you see it with a festival or whatever,
and I'm like,
this is movies.
I love me.
This is crazy.
Yeah.
Toy Story 5,
did that make you feel anything?
Uh,
felt bloody,
bloody,
I'm bum soar in this seat
because this movie's going so long.
Oh my.
Just kidding.
I like that movie.
God.
I didn't feel anything.
I felt nothing.
Except when Buzz was a drone.
Sure, yeah.
I was like, he's a drone!
Did you feel anything during the Michael Jackson movie?
I did say that?
Did you feel anything while I was describing to you how much I hated the Michael Jackson movie?
I felt disgust.
I just felt disgust.
There must be a recent movie that I'm like.
Hey man.
No.
Disclosure Day.
No.
Spider-No.
I bet.
The Mandalorian versus Grogler.
No, none of those.
The punishment.
one last kill. I'm just going through our episodes.
No, no.
Mortal Kombat 2.
None of these, but all I...
The ball was a boys for N'A.
If you went, I bet there's a review where I'm like,
this is it, movies are back, baby.
Yeah.
The drama?
That's it.
Yep, that was a good one.
That was good, yep.
Did you feel anything during the Super Mario Galaxy movie?
No.
No.
Did you feel anything for the Moana
live action trailer?
No.
People apparently don't know is coming out?
No.
Okay.
Is that also not going to do well?
That would be astounding.
It seems like it's not, but,
Yeah, we'll see.
Wow.
Early freaking days on that one, my friend.
My bloody, blah.
Got another one, Mason?
His an email from Sam.
All right, we'll do one more from Sam.
Hello, James recently said he did his biggest deadlift ever.
How big was it and does he think he's a big man?
I do think I'm a big man.
But what was it?
It was, I weigh a bit under 70 kilo.
I weigh 69.
That's what I weigh.
I don't weigh very much.
Interesting.
But I was...
I was busy that day.
I didn't ask.
but I was 155.
Okay.
Is that good?
Yeah, it's pretty good, I guess.
And as to the second question?
I do feel like a big man.
There we go.
It's not the best deadlift in the world, but it's pretty solid.
Now, what's deadlift?
Okay.
Here's the one where you go.
No, it's not that one.
It's where you pick up a weight from the floor, then you put it down again.
Okay, the big long way.
You lift it to like your waist.
Oh, not bad.
It's a regular bar.
Use a mixed grip, Mason.
Don't do...
And you lift with your back?
Yeah.
Lower back on your neck.
Lower back and your neck.
Lower back and your neck.
So one way on each, ideally.
Lengthways.
Lengthways, yeah.
It's also something you can really fuck up your back if you do it incorrectly.
So I try to not wrench my back doing that.
Yeah, don't wrench your back.
Yeah, it's cool.
Quinton says, what's Claire up to recently?
I don't know.
No, I do know.
She's got a documentary.
And so it's nearly...
It's finished filming, I think.
It's finished filming.
It's going to be finished finished next week.
It's about matresence.
You probably will be able to see it because it is being.
It seems like it's going to get shopped around to like
major streamers. So it's a very good chance that it will be available. And she's probably
going to tour it around and other bits and pieces. For what I've seen of it, which is a lot of
it, it's great. And you could also see it. I can see it. You can see it, Mason. So that's what
she's up to, among other things. You're not barred from seeing it. No. No, metrescence is for
everyone. That's right. That's what I say. Yes. When is it going to be a mentrescence for men?
Nice. There is called petrescence. Oh. Yeah. Ask me about it. Is it good? I don't know, Mason.
This is not my area.
I can't believe you brought this up.
You could film a competing documentary really quickly.
Let's knock it out.
Mentressants for men.
Men trussons for men.
That's right.
And we could sell a fragrance as well.
That's right.
For men.
For men.
Yeah.
Men only.
Anyway, it's awesome.
She's doing great work.
I got two more hours, James.
This one's from Dylan.
Yeah.
He says Ian McKellen just watched me in a play.
Whoa, that would have been awful.
Oh, scary.
Long time listening to the pod.
Thanks heaps to what you do every week.
No, we don't mind.
Just this week, I was acting in a play in Wellington, New Zealand,
and who had been the audience but bloody Sir Ian McKellen.
Presumably here filming The Hunt for Gollum.
Yeah.
He's Saturday night at my local independent theatre watching the original play I was performing in.
I couldn't just stare at him as I was acting on stage,
but I got a glimpse of him and thought,
that old guy looks like Ian McKellon.
It was.
I didn't get to speak to him after the show,
but my fun fact to share is that he used a little pair of those opera binoculars
to watch the show in this small 70-seat theater.
Feels pretty cool that he watched me perform,
and maybe you can get me cast him to play young Gandalf
in a young Sheldon-like spin-off show.
Have you ever encountered a celebrity
in an unexpected place?
I was at a restaurant
and I was going, Jeffrey Rush was there.
Metorious, alleged.
Yeah, he's done some stuff.
Allegedly, yeah.
Allegedly.
You look like shit.
That's great.
Allegedly.
Was this in the Camberwell Q area?
No, it was down like Mornington Peninsula way.
Oh, okay.
I guess he's on the run.
Allegedly.
For things that he did allegedly.
But no, I didn't speak to him.
Okay.
But, you know, he was a, I mean, he's meeting some good stuff, but yeah.
Allegedly other things.
He's allegedly other things, yes.
Notariously litigious as well.
That's right.
Yeah.
What about you?
Don't see many celebrities.
Let me think.
I saw a known, a known, a comedian, Australian comedian recently.
Oh, yes.
He's been on a bit of a tear.
A bit of a tear.
Yeah, you say.
And he was all doing that, but like on stage.
And I was like, oh, this is fun.
Naming no names.
say you're a great crowd, never forget that. Did he say that?
That's interesting. Well, he always says that.
Really? I guess he had some other stuff to say.
He had a lot of things to say.
That's great. That's great. Look, wasn't a great set, whoever this was.
I guess I see a lot of comedians that I know. Yeah. True. And you consider me famous, don't you?
Yeah, famous. Idiot. Asshole. Dumbass. Famous at that.
You didn't have to say idiot, that.
Well, it did. I chose to say it.
Have you got another...
I said it quietly, but now I'm emboldened.
Have you got another...
I got one more email, James.
It's an email from Tyler.
Hey, boyos.
I haven't seen Supergirl yet, with all the fuss...
Lisa, right?
Yeah, that's true.
With all the fuss being made about its box office,
I saw something that said
that the only two DC movies to make a profit in this decade
have been Superman and the Batman.
Yeah.
It makes me wonder what DC could do
that would be an immediate and guaranteed financial success.
Personally, I do genuinely think a crossover
between Robert Pattinson's Batman
and David Courantzweet,
Superman would be an easy billion dollar movie.
Regardless of the fact that the studio head doesn't want to do it.
I mean, I don't even know if that's true.
I think there's a very good chance to that they'll turn around and just mash them together.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I think guaranteed profit here is probably Clayface because it's cheap.
It's cheaper and people are loving substance like gooey, sticky stuff.
Goey, Gey men and gooey gows.
Yeah, man.
But, yeah, I mean, I think it would blow people's minds if in the next,
in Man of Tomorrow post-credit sequence or even final act,
Patinson shows up.
And he's got the...
Twilight, sparkly chest.
His Twilight, Sparkly Chest.
Put him in the Batman bat suit.
Yeah.
But make it blue and gray with the, turn the logo gold.
Like, same set up.
Give it...
I think if you just go, okay, here's the Batman continuity.
Yeah.
And it was years ago.
Yeah, exactly.
And that's why he's got the makeshift stuff.
Yeah.
And then modernize the suit, make it more streamlined, make it more DCU and be like,
this is where he is now.
Yeah.
I think people would get that.
He cut his hair.
He'd cut his hair.
He's not as greasy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think people would be like,
ah,
like, if you showed up in the final battle
of the man of tomorrow,
people would be like,
ah,
ah,
you've got to see this on YouTube.
You've got to see this on YouTube.
You're going to watch the cam version on YouTube.
Ah.
Boer.
This is disgusting.
And they're on their phone buying 10 more tickets
to the next show.
One empty popcorn bucket,
please.
Blu.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's, I mean, they haven't established Batman that people like, I know we've talked about it, they be, there's no doubt.
I feel like this is an ongoing conversation.
And I also think the Batman is a heightened enough universe.
Yeah, man.
It doesn't, it's not, that universe is not real life.
Yeah, it's, it's filmed in front of the volume.
Yeah.
It's not just the Dark Knight universe where it's just Chicago, whatever.
Yeah.
It's weird, it's weird Gotham.
Yeah.
That would be perfect next to a metropolis.
Wothom.
Wathom.
Yeah.
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That is the show.
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Ugh.
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That's like sarcasm?
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What is it?
I don't know, actually.
You got something coming up.
Maybe there'll be a Wuthering Heights movie.
Maybe.
Is it Wuthering Heights or Wuthering Heights?
You think of Wethers originals.
Hey, I've got a question for you.
This is unrelated.
Oh, it's minions.
Yeah.
I'm not, yeah.
Yeah, minions.
Yeah, minions.
Do you want to do for Caravan of Garbage?
Do you want to do six Resident Evil movies in a row?
Yeah, kind of.
Six weeks of Resident Evil.
Yeah, kind of, I do, actually.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We'll regret that.
Death of Robin Hood?
Yeah, we could do that.
It's supposed to be alright.
Lovicus, which is spooky Australian movie again.
I do want to see that as well, yeah.
Interesting.
It's spooky in Australia.
Spoken in Australia.
Anyway, I'll figure something out.
It's probably something, a TV show or something else.
It's always a TV show.
You can just talk about stuff.
Yeah.
We're like, hey, everybody.
Let's rap about it.
Stuff, current events, let's wrap about it.
Yep.
You know, turn our chairs around.
Baseball caps.
turn them around. That's right.
Dumb to rap about stuff, you know?
Do you consider a teenage dirtbag by Wheatis a rap song?
No.
Okay.
All right. Goodbye everyone.
Grabbed at Jemmy, guys.
We'll see it next week.
Some people do.
Nobody does.
Some people have.
Not even people in Wheatis think that.
