The Weekly Planet - Double Dragon (Extended) - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

With the release of both The Minecraft movie and The Last of Us Season 2 we thought we'd revist some classic video game adaptations. So we're kicking things off with 1994's Double Dragon! A bad movie... that came out at the wrong time. Martial arts, action set pieces, humor, this has all of that but none of it is very good. Thanks for checking out our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ► Help support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.coQm/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:01:40 Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravan at Garbage where we're looking at some video game movies because video games are movies now Yep, and they have been prior to now. Also. Yep, undoubtedly. This one is in that golden era of is this even possible? No So we've got four weeks of this the fourth one is undecided if you do have any suggestions Please leave them below. But of course we're starting with 1994's Double Dragon. Yuck. Awful.
Starting point is 00:02:07 It's bad. It's a bad movie. Yeah, you have to leave a like. It goes for an hour and 35 minutes. But is that even? That's no, it felt like 135 minutes. Absolutely. Yeah. So long. So little happens in it. Yeah. Clearly, the intent was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a big hit.
Starting point is 00:02:24 Yep. Let's do something in that. What else Clearly the intent was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a big hit. Yep. Let's do something in that vein. What else do the kids like? What else are the kids putting quarters into? Kids were putting quarters into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Just regular turtles in the aquarium? This game? Oh yeah, they still do that. Just thumbing those quarters in. And they were like, what else do kids like? Double Dragon? Kids love that. It's late. Double Dragon was, they still were making them, but it was over at this point. People were doing a Mortal Kombat on each other. People were doing a Street Fighter on each other. Hold that thought for another week.
Starting point is 00:02:54 Interesting. So this was in the era as well. So Teknos, who created this brand, they ported this game to everything. It didn't matter whether it was good or not. It mostly wasn't. Well, depending on the system, solid core game in Double Dragon did a lot for the beat'em up genre. One of the earliest microtransaction games, I don't know if you know this, because Double Dragon 3 in the arcades,
Starting point is 00:03:18 if you wanted like a weapon or something like more energy or whatever it is, you could go to a shop in the game and put more coins in and pay for it that way. Oh my god. Right? But I put all my coins in that turtle. Too bad, get them out. Tip that turtle upside down and tip them out.
Starting point is 00:03:35 I mean, that's wild for them. Now it's like, yeah, of course, that makes a lot of sense. There was also an animated series, which was not good, where I think they literally turned into dragons. Yeah, there was a Marvel Comics series That was set in the future. This is also set in the future. Yeah, it's set in the future This is certainly far-flung future of 2007 2007 the world has been Destroyed a big earthquake big earthquake this smog. There's acid rain. You got a jack up your buildings
Starting point is 00:04:03 You got a jack up your jack and run up a jack up your buildings. You gotta jack up your... You gotta jack them right up. You gotta jack up those buildings. People have got paper-powered rocket cars. Yeah, they've got Back to the Future 2-style garbage fuel units in the middle of their vehicles. The one thing that I love about this future... There would be no rubbish, because people would just be jamming it into their cars.
Starting point is 00:04:21 Hell yeah. Ridiculous. I love that. My favourite part of this future is though That if you go past somebody's car you can just look up who's driving the car Like you've got a little terminal in your car and you can figure out who's driving the car you get a picture of them You get your address you get how much they bench? So it's a social media in
Starting point is 00:04:41 Essentially to determine like whether you can beat them in a fight in a road rage incident I think that maybe that's the main driver of why this society collapsed. Oh, okay. It's not night gangs No, I mean it is night gangs night gangs. Yeah, I think maybe a lot of it is just like hey Robert What do you learn the bloody? What do you bloody learn to indicate before you merge idiot? And then you yeah shoot at each other I put my bench stats low and then I get little guys coming up They're like they're coming to get me. I could talk about that. I could out fight that guy And I'll break him over my knee like I'm Bane. I'm not that big, but I'm bigger than that guy, you know
Starting point is 00:05:16 Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's this kind of pseudo Robocop used anchor experience Andy Dicks among it Fuck off by the way Andy Vanna white and Another guy yeah, yeah, hang on. I got an easy sort of an oh George Hamilton. Yeah, I'm asleep and actor George Hamilton They're the host of this show. They're taking weird digs at one point. They're like Madonna's finally retired Madonna's bloody she's a bit past this isn't she I looked it up The last album prior to this sold four million copies 2005 so I guess she fell off after that I guess she did also she could have married Tom Arnold don't you think yeah That's not implausible
Starting point is 00:05:54 1994's Tom Arnold yeah funny guy coming off true lies around this era Yeah, I don't know man So the story of the original game is Billy and Jimmy have to rescue Jimmy's girlfriend And it takes some inspiration from Fist of the North Star, but this is just What if there was a medallion but it was two medallions and if you got one of the medallions you can turn into a shadow Man, and if you've got the other medallion you can't do anything unless there's two of you There's two brothers and then you hang around with this medallion for a bit and you try and figure out how it works And then you're like nuts to this and you throw it away, and then it comes back to you
Starting point is 00:06:29 And then you've got magic pounds. Yeah, things falls on you, but you're all right You and then you and your brother get costumes Yeah, like in your video game, and then you fight Robert Patrick when I was a kid I remember I remember thinking two draws for this double dragon video game, incredible. Two dragons? And I'm like, that's Robert Patrick from Terminator 2. Exactly. Hell yeah, he's the bad guy in this again.
Starting point is 00:06:51 I'm excited for this. Yeah. I shouldn't have been, it's awful. No, he's a- It's awful and it's awful now. I mean, yet again, he's at the forefront of special effects for an evil character in a movie. But I feel like this really erodes Robert Patrick's
Starting point is 00:07:04 villainous nature that he cultivated in Terminator 2. He doesn't mind this role. He's like, yeah it was a funny character to play and was fairly liberating and I did it as a favor. He's like, yeah whatever. He's chewing some scenery. Is that his real hair? Did he bleach that? Oh he bleached it, Mason. Wow, that explains present-day Robert Patrick. Does it? Yep. But he aged in real time, it's not like it. No, he would have had a beautiful full head of Fabio-like hair, but the peroxide burned it all off. I think he's still pretty good, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:07:31 I'm saying it could have been better. He was Agent Doggett after this, he was in the X-Files. No, I know. He was second Molder. He was Peacemaker's dad in Peacemaker. He was Peacemaker's dad in Peacemaker. He's in the new Mortal Kombat, speaking of Mortal Kombat, he's T-1000. Oh my god, he's T-1000. He's doing all the moves,
Starting point is 00:07:44 he's doing the spike through the eye move. That's a good one. Yeah. I was thinking in watching this. I wasn't thinking at all. No. I was falling into a coma, I think. Sure.
Starting point is 00:07:53 I was angry and then I fell into a coma. That's how I'm gonna die. I figured it out, I think. Just you saying that then. Would I have liked this as a kid? And I just don't think I would have. Like I liked Suburban Commando and Ninja Ninja Turtles 2 Secret of the Ooze, and probably the three ninjas movies, some of them, I don't fucking know.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Well, it's interesting because I really like that. Even now, I really like that original Ninja Turtles movie. Oh, yeah. I like the second one still. And this isn't a million miles away from that, but it's way worse. It's similar in that it's a martial arts movie for kids, where very obviously none of the blows land. It's just a lot of spinning kicks to nobody. And I forgive that in TMNT, the original one.
Starting point is 00:08:34 We forgive you. And that's probably because- I mean, they do also throw a guy into a garbage truck and crush all these bones. And Raphael gets absolutely pulverized by the Foot Clan. So I think maybe that's it. I don't know. They beat a rat up! They do beat a rat up, that's true. But it's just... it's not interesting. Nothing happens.
Starting point is 00:08:51 They've tried it, they've given us kind of a Super Mario Bros. style world, you know? Their aim was to make this better than the Super Mario Bros. movie which came out the year before. It's not better. It's worse than that movie. I mean, we've talked about that movie and it's not great, but at least it's interesting. But it is kind of going for that grimy, Blade Runner, Super Mario World kind of universe and it really just doesn't land. And you know what I found out about this,
Starting point is 00:09:14 which is absolutely wild? What's that? The first draft of this was written by Paul Dini. That's the Batman, the animated series guy. Yes it is, Mason. Wow. Rejected, They rejected his script. And then-
Starting point is 00:09:26 Because it was about a boy whose parents were killed and then he grew up to be a vigilante. Yeah, he said, he was like, can we do Batman? Yeah, I've only written, I can only write Batman. I can write it really well to be clear. Do you own the rights to Batman? No, Warner Brothers do. Sorry, all right.
Starting point is 00:09:39 All right, hear me out. Double Batman. What do you think? So then Michael Gould came in to write some of it. You might recognise his name because he produced and wrote on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Isn't that something interesting? Well you're going to start somewhere. We do, I mean everybody's got a turkey in their filmography.
Starting point is 00:10:01 And you know Walter White and Jesse, they found two halves of that medallion.. They combined together to make the blue meth. Yeah they made super meth with it. Yeah I remember that. Okay let's talk about the leads in this. We've got Mark Dukaskos who's a legit martial artist. He was in... You wouldn't be able to tell from this movie. He does some flips. Yeah all right. Sometimes they reverse the flip also. Sure okay. His hair is bouncing around. Yeah. He was in John, yep. He was in John Wick 3. He was in John Wick 3. Legit. And then we've got Party of Five's Scott Wolf.
Starting point is 00:10:29 Now look, I don't dislike Scott Wolf. And I think, in all honesty, he does okay considering, because nothing looks like it's a real fight anyway, so why not it be this? Nothing looks like a real fight or a real human interaction. Well, they're supposed to be like children, right? I think that's the idea They wrote them that way that they're like they're kids. They're like teenage is not children Well, you know just our children But yes, it was revealed at the end that it was just two actual children just telling each other a stupid story
Starting point is 00:11:00 I'd be like, yeah, that makes more sense. Actually. Yeah that I got the medallion and then I turned into a ghost and then I went into this guy's body and I danced around. And he was the T1000. But I'm struggling with the T1000 because I'm a ghost and a ghost beats a liquid metal robot. It introduces them by them being in a tag team karate tournament but they're just beating up the one guy like the second guy doesn't get tagged in well I mean that's that's a tactical mistake on the part of the other two isn't it yeah I guess it's not their movie yeah I mean that one guy is better than them both martial arts because they win no they start a fight after the fight though and then they
Starting point is 00:11:40 win they win yeah I think that there's some okay stunts in this there's a moment where two very clear stuntmen in front of an explosion and they leap over a car. Okay, yeah. And I think that looks really good. You know, Splinter's shattering everywhere. It reminded me of Butch Cassidy in the Sundance Kid. Oh yeah, okay.
Starting point is 00:11:56 And that's a relevant comparison. I think so too. Yeah. I don't mind also there's a big muscle man in this. He's a big muscle man and then he becomes an even bigger muscle man. I feel like that's very video game villain esque. Yeah, I guess that's a that's a video game villain evolution Yeah, that's a bobo. He's sort of one of the iconic Villains from that series. He's also got his own game a Bobo's quest really I don't know if it's official or not
Starting point is 00:12:20 Probably not. Did you make this game? Yes. It's a flip book, isn't it? Probably not. Did you make this game? Yes. It's a flip book, isn't it? It is a flip book. Oh, there's virtual reality in this, remember that? There's a bunch of video game stuff in this, but no... Yeah, there's a car driving sequence where you see like, where it's 3D.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Oh, Mike, some incredibleness. There's a moment in this where the Lee brothers are being pursued in their garbage eating car by the bad guys, and one of the brothers is like, huh? Let's see how you handle this and then he just turns the he does a right turn and they yeah And they just and they like One point they throw a newspaper on the back under the guys windscreen and he doesn't he can't see him But then he's got a camera and he's got a video game starts. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. It's awful. It's bad Yeah, it is bad the effects guys or or whatever like, hey, we've got
Starting point is 00:13:05 this we have this car racing thing you want me to and then just like, yeah, just throw it in. Yeah, we don't care. We don't care. Doesn't matter. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. Good. unlimited money and cocaine here. Let's go nuts. Should we do a virtual reality also roller coaster? Just moment. Remember the bit where Alyssa Milano walks in on her brother and he's just like, whoa, Aly! Alyssa Milano is playing Marion, who's supposed to be Jimmy's love interest in the series.
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Starting point is 00:14:08 Or wherever you listen to podcasts. And let's see what spicy things people get up to. See you there. Acast helps creators launch, grow and monetize their podcasts everywhere. Acast.com. There's a woman who I assumed was like one of their girlfriends but it's their mum essentially. Yeah. I thought they were the same age.
Starting point is 00:14:32 That's what I thought. It's their legal guardian and she's around for a bit and then they just, they just sat around, what do they do? She dies. In an explosion. Yeah. And then they get away or whatever and they're like no and then she comes back as Obi-Wan at the end and like now you can do a double dragon on Robert Patrick but before we get to that there's a boat chase that goes for a really long time
Starting point is 00:14:51 I'm like if I can set it up, okay, the Lee brothers are surrounded on there the Lee brothers and they are brothers They are brothers. We talked about this earlier. They are brothers. That's all the information. We don't that's I mean, you know, we don't know the Backstories we don't and you don't necessarily need it unlike and all brothers have similarities don't. I mean, you know, we don't have the backstories. We don't. And you don't necessarily need it. And like brothers have similarities, and they also have differences. Sometimes those differences are subtle, sometimes they're very obvious. And you're like, huh? But then you don't question it because it's none of your business really. Because families are different.
Starting point is 00:15:17 All families are different, aren't they? And that's beautiful. Exactly. But to set it up, the Lee brothers are... And they are brothers. They're brothers. They're trapped in a boathouse, and they're surrounded on all sides by the wacky gangs all with their own Yeah, at least or whatever and and Billy Lee's like he's having it as a motorbike We can get out of here, but then he gets on the motorbike He tries to start the motorbike and it all falls apart. They're like
Starting point is 00:15:38 What are we gonna do now classic gag reckless Kelly did a better Jimmy Lee's like I think I've got an idea Here's how we can do it. There's a boat in this boathouse. Let's get in the boat, that's in the boat, and then we can just leave. Because there's a clear path to the water. They get out of there, don't they? They just get in the boat.
Starting point is 00:15:53 What a stunning display of strategy from the Lee brothers. I completely agree, and they are brothers. You a glee? Yes. They're the Lee brothers. And they also go into an explosion. And they're in that explosion. There's not like a split second where they could have escaped that explosion, but then they're like, I guess we escaped the explosion.
Starting point is 00:16:10 But they did have a magic amulet, which is also how everybody in Fast and Furious survives. Even Brian, who died in real life. But he's alive in the movies. He's just late to all the barbecues. He's busy. Yeah, he's busy, man. So in the finale-hmm if you play original double dragon or one of them I don't remember which one I think it's the first one Jimmy and Billy they get to the end and they defeat the boss and then then they have to Fight each other that's right. I'm gonna who's gonna be Marion's boyfriend Marion doesn't have a say in this She's just like I guess whoever kills the other guy. Yeah, that's fine. Whatever man, and then yeah, that's how it goes
Starting point is 00:16:42 So then you she gives you a kiss and she goes, great, thanks for killing your brother. And they are brothers. Mmm. So I don't know, I don't know about that. The movie goes in a different direction. Yeah. Which I don't like. Okay.
Starting point is 00:16:52 Do the thing from the game. Right. So the final sequence looks like it's set in Willy Wonka's factory except it's garbage instead of sweets. You know, there's like a green river and everything's colorful and whatever. I don't like it. So they have to fight Robert Patrick who's turning in and out of a shadow. Which is not a great effect but you know. And sometimes he can go into your body and control you but not if you have the amulet.
Starting point is 00:17:14 But he can't do it on either of the brothers even though only one of them has the half of the amulet. No he does it on the other brother. He does it on one of the brothers. And then the brothers have to fight. Which I guess is Good for him. And then the brothers have to fight. Which I guess is like the game. Yeah. And they are brothers. But then sometimes he can just like turn into a shadow and choke a guy out.
Starting point is 00:17:30 Yeah that's good. Yeah I think he should have done that. That goes from like the Hills have Eyes or something, doesn't he? Maybe. Yeah maybe everybody. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah so they fight Robert Patrick and what I like about that is it's actually a call back to the start of the movie where they beat up one guy together.
Starting point is 00:17:44 And they do it again. Except you know this time they have the magic amulets which makes it much easier at a point or after their mum appears and goes you can do a double dragon on Robert Patrick and whatever and then they get magic new outfits and it looks good. Yeah they're fun and they interact and they're brothers. I think that's great. They are brothers. At one point one of them was like well you're ugly but I'm homely.
Starting point is 00:18:04 What are you doing? What is this? What did you decide their... like their relationship is so random. It's never established like, is one the funny one and one the serious one? No. No? They're both goofy sometimes and not? Like is one... One's younger. They say that.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Yeah, one is younger. Yeah. God, so vague and boring. Yeah, it's good isn't it? No. Yeah. Do you ever play the movie tie-in game to this? No, so they were originally gonna do the thing which they did for Street Fighter The movie the game digitized digitized or full combat style
Starting point is 00:18:34 That's right, but they didn't have time to do that. So they could they get Kylie Minogue. I wish they wish Yeah, straight. I'm gonna open the game or a stunt double No, they did they get Kylie Minogue or a stunt double the very life I'm talking about it next way. Okay, right. Yeah, so yeah, just end up being a regular fighting game that came out the next year It's one-on-one and you know, it's like it's all today and etc. Traditionally not where the double dragon Franchise excels one-on-one. No, it flourishes. No, it absolutely doesn't the idea of a double dragon is there's two dragons You beat up other dragons. I think that's how it happens and goes. And there's conveyor belts. There's a bunch of conveyor belts.
Starting point is 00:19:07 Yep. You can jump on the conveyor belts and they're going the wrong way and you lose focus for a second and you fall off the conveyor belt and you die. There's none of that in this movie. No, none of that, man. Right? It's not about chases. It's not about car chases and boat chases.
Starting point is 00:19:21 It's about punching. Yeah. God, get the punches right for God's sake. I completely agree. Do you know what it's time for now? What's it time for? It's time for Detrivia Dragon. I love that.
Starting point is 00:19:30 This is a trivia section of the show where we go, hey, do you want some interesting facts about Double Dragon, the movie? I would say no, but I would love for some trivia to salvage the experience of watching this movie, which is bad. Oh God. I'm looking at this and I don't think that's gonna happen. I have one piece of trivia.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Okay. The director of this movie directed the Genesis video, Invisible Touch. That's good. Ah, is it? I mean, the video is, right? Probably, I don't know. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:55 I just read it here, I don't know. That's great. That is great. I don't think he directed a movie after this. But whose fault is that? His fault. Yeah, not exclusively, but yeah. So Alyssa Milano and Scott Wolfe actually started dating while filming and they were engaged
Starting point is 00:20:08 for a time being. Well isn't that delightful for them? Yeah. A real party of two. Or a real charmed, but two. Or a real double dragon. Whoa! Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:17 Two dragons in that relationship. Two dragons? Yeah. Two superstars of Hollywood. I bet that's how they introduced each other. The old is the other dragon. His, his Aunt Billie Lange is Jimmy Lee, you know what I mean? Which is Marion. But in the, because we're, our relationship with the double dragons, that's what we're saying.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Sure. We have to break up. I'm sick of explaining this joke. It's not even a joke. No one gets it. It's our lives. This is our lives, Alyssa Milano. I'm imagining that fight in Marriage Story, but it's just about double dragon. And they broke the amulet. And DeCascos is like, am I part of this? Am I a double dragon?
Starting point is 00:20:51 No, you're not. No, there's no room. It's not called triple dragon. God. Sibling characters Marion and Mark are played by real life siblings, Alissa Milano and Corey Milano. That's great.
Starting point is 00:21:02 There you go. Wow, because that's what we needed. We needed backstory for a non main character. That's great. There you go. Wow, because that's what we needed. We needed backstory for a non-main character. That's what we needed. Agreed. And we needed nepotism, obviously. Nepotism. Brothers gotta get a leg up.
Starting point is 00:21:13 Got it. And they are brothers. Yeah. The boat chase was filmed on a river in Northeast Ohio, and it culminates in an explosion that uses 700 gallons of gasoline combined with 200 gallons of alcohol. Despite warning everybody the night before on several different news channels,
Starting point is 00:21:27 the explosion caused Cleveland residents to panic, leading to 210 phone calls to emergency services for over 10 minutes. I mean, it was a big explosion, wasn't it? It was a big explosion. I didn't get the sense that it was that big. I feel like they filmed it too close. Yeah, they do that, don't they? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:43 I don't know, man. I mean, it was a big explosion, apparently, this. Uh, here's a little bit of a Breaking the fourth wall Mason if you don't mind. I'm ready in this otherwise flawless movie in the power corps hideout There's a double dragon arcade game Yep Remember the moment where Robert Patrick is gifted the medallion and he's like this is clearly half a medallion Like the person who got that Amulet you didn't like it looks like a piece of a jigsaw you didn't
Starting point is 00:22:11 Come on man. It's maybe they didn't listen to his narration at the start of the movie You know then the movie I was surprised that it was him doing the narrative movie starts with a little bit of narration because and Classic bit of tell don't show yeah, man which is I think is the way Hollywood movies are meant to be where he's like well once there was a empire and they had a ancient dynasty and then there was a those two dragons two dragons and there but then they made a medallion and that's the truth and this is that story I'll gotta get that medallion it's me Robert Patrick I'm here you'll see me later I'm gonna's me Robert Patrick I'm here you'll
Starting point is 00:22:45 see me later I'm gonna be a shadow man I'm doing this as a favor just to be clear so the box office for this on a budget of seven point eight million dollars not that bad considering I feel like I guess I got a lot done yeah I built a bunch of weird hideouts. Yeah explosion explosion. Yep They built that medallion two medallions and the down the medallions. Yeah, they turned Robert Patrick into that shadowy cellophane man It was a ghost. It was a ghost. Yeah. Oh you think maybe Robert Patrick did that on his own? Yeah, maybe as a favor as a favor The return of this was four point two million dollars The reason it was so low for one It was bad and kids didn't like it
Starting point is 00:23:26 But kids couldn't even see it because it was released as a PG 13 They weren't even given the option by the studio to cut it down Which is wild who do you think is seeing this? Well nobody obviously but somebody would have seen it Potentially, I mean these days they would have cut it down to a G or whatever or they would have made it a harder Yeah, exactly. Never be saying a harder. You know what I mean these days they would have cut it down to a G or whatever or they would have made it a hard R Yeah, exactly. Never be saying a hard R. You know what I mean? Remember in the movie the wizard there's a moment where there he goes you got 50,000 points on Double Dragon Unbelievable we talked about the way I hope we talked about it then but like that's not even possible like an autistic boy Played Double Dragon for like 33 seconds. Oh, I see what you're saying. You would have had to play the whole game
Starting point is 00:24:07 Yeah, but even then because there's a god of 50,000. I don't know. I don't know man. I don't know man I'm just stuck on that point where you said there's a double dragon arcade machine Yeah, like in the in the wake of this. Do you think anybody contemplated like Maybe but you'd think you'd be like hey you guys are called Billy and Jimmy Lee. Yeah, and you do martial arts Yeah, and Marion all those characters in this game. Yeah Marion. That's that games in your headquarters I'm ever even thought about I'm with you. I agree with you. There's someone spying on us I'm having a mental health episode right now. Am I imagining this which part of my imagining? Am I imagining the video game or do I live in the video game?
Starting point is 00:24:45 And I'm imagining my real life. What's happening? Well the game came first so presumably these guys modeled their lives off the double dragon video Game, but only roughly yeah, right and some of the stuff just happened to line up by coincidence like the magic outfits They got at the end which look like the outfits from the game. Yeah. God. It's good to double dragon. Jimmy like, did you just start dating me because my name's Marion and Jimmy Lee and the, yeah babe. Yeah. Yeah babe. We're gonna break up.
Starting point is 00:25:14 And we're gonna fight to the death. Yeah. Me and my brother. And we are brothers! Yeah. Well that's cool. Oh also there's the police bit as well. You know the police are in this?
Starting point is 00:25:22 Oh yeah. Before we get to the plugs and whatever. There's a police subplot in this I don't know why they don't want to take bribes but he'll take a check at the end from Robert Patrick mmm yeah it's a bad movie I don't know what it's like RoboCop s because it's too much of this movie and also not enough yeah you know and too much and too much mostly the too much thing yeah yeah it could be much shorter and by shorter I mean not exist at all. Oh, that'd be perfect. I agree. Hmm. Anyways, you know we have something called big sandwich dot com, Mason?
Starting point is 00:25:49 Yes, I do. That's right. We're videos including Caravan of Garbage always got there early Here's a hint towards next week already said at a Street Fighter the movie. Oh The first one not the Chun-Li one. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah get to that at some maybe we that could be the fourth one Could be let us know. Yeah, let us know. It's really bad. Yeah, it's bad and boring and stupid. Anyways, that's not the only thing that goes up there We have video game let's plays. We have so many we love an arcade side-scroller, don't we? Oh my god We've got a bunch of those including Ninja Turtles including the Punisher. We've looked at a bunch of Robocop games Indiana Jones games Star Wars, so many different games. These are all valuable IPs,
Starting point is 00:26:27 much like the Double Dragon IP was a valuable IP up until this point. Now it's not. That's right. Now it's probably owned by the guy who owns Atari or whatever. Yeah. Just puts it on a T-shirt every once in a while.
Starting point is 00:26:37 That's what he does. I don't know. We don't know. There's also movie commentaries, there's bonus podcasts, we do a bunch of stuff there. There's literally thousands of hours of bonus content if you do want to check that out. And you do. And you do.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Also we have a podcast called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. We're going to talk about all the big video game movies as they come out. That's what we have to do, don't we? That's right. We're going to talk about your Minecraft. Minecraft is what I was thinking. You're the Last of Us Part 2. You're the Last of Us.
Starting point is 00:27:03 You're the Last of Us Part 2. You know the song? Yeah, yeah, yeah. John Farnham. You're the Last of Us part two. You're the last of us. You're the last of us part two. You know the song Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, John Farnham. You're the last of us. Oh, yeah, I know it. Yeah, so that's got its own YouTube channel It's on Apple Spotify, etc and so forth. Mmm. Thank you so much to Ben for the edit Thank you, Ben, and we'll see you guys on the next one. Grab that gym. You guys will see you next week Bye. This was awful. Bad movie. Awful movie. I agree. It's currently it's on YouTube if you want to watch it. Oh yeah, you just watch it. Yeah, don't. Don't do it. It really- That's the mark of a really bad movie. Yeah. Or a really good movie because sometimes the Criterion movies are just on there and Criterion clearly doesn't care. Yeah. But like it's mostly at the mark of a really bad movie. Generally, yeah.
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