The Weekly Planet - GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra - Caravan of Garbage

Episode Date: July 22, 2021

With Snake Eyes getting his own origin movie it's time to revisit the Snake Eyes origin movie, 2009's GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra. A blatant Hasbro attempt to cash in on the success of the Transformers m...ovie it seems Channing Tatum's Duke go up against the might of Destro, Cobra Commander and other people in goofy costumes with the back of GI Joe, an elite fighting force of weirdos with bizarre weapons and a green screen base. Also nanites and the President becomes the guy from The Mummy or whatever. It's a great movie and everyone thought so. Thanks for listening!SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ► https://youtu.be/Bh9Md13y_QkHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-s...The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/t...The Weekly Planet Direct Download ►

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Starting point is 00:00:55 This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of Caravan of Garbage. This week, in celebration of Snake Eye's Year Zero origin story, we're looking at G.I. Joe origin dukes up. Marriage story, yes. So this is also a G.I. Joe origin story of sorts, isn't it Mason? It's everybody's origin. Everybody's got a haunted past, everybody's got a flashback, everybody's just being a sad Channing Tatum driving a motorcycle in the rain outside a graveyard.
Starting point is 00:01:28 It's just, it's a lot of that. It's a lot of... It's a lot of leaving a like, isn't it? It's a lot of leaving a like and it's a lot of flashbacks and sad origins and... G.I. Joe sad origins. G.I. Joe sad origins for a movie that when you think about it is ultimately just about toys.
Starting point is 00:01:45 Like I think re-watching this movie, every scene I had to step back and go, okay, this is a movie, I guess, for children that is just about toys. And if you imagine all the characters are just action figures and vehicle play sets being wielded by children, smashing them into each other, you go, oh, this actually makes some sense. Well, yeah, because you say it's a toy property, and it is because Hasbro did this off the success of Transformers two years prior.
Starting point is 00:02:14 In the making of, there's literally a moment where one of the Hasbro executives is like, we looked at all our brands and went, what brands? And everybody applauded. Well, I applauded because i'm like yeah that's that's movies mostly isn't it what brands do we have how can we rebrand our brands and they and they just did it and we're lucky this isn't a cheerios movie honestly just cheerios battling for worldwide supremacy count chocula so well that that movieberry. That movie's definitely coming.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Cap'n Crunch. Oh my God. So a lot of this is based off the 1980s rebrand of the series because it was just like a standard action man prior to that. And also a lot of the stories from the comics. Going into this, were you a fan of G.I. Joe? Because I wasn't. I knew bits and pieces, but I didn't really have any of the toys or the ships or the play sets or whatever. I knew I had so many of the toys I read the I read the
Starting point is 00:03:10 the American comics I read Action Force the British version my god which is the same thing but rebranded for for Britain and they all have tea and crumpets and etc it's more polite they would they wear top hats and monocles and it is is more polite, yes. There's a monocle in this. Well, that's a tip of the hat to G.I. Joe the Action Force. So for me, look, I watched this movie in 2009 where I'd spent six months in fairly remote Africa teaching, and I hadn't seen a movie. And then on the plane, I sat down and somebody handed me food. I thought you were going to say they handed you a copy of G.I. Joe,
Starting point is 00:03:43 The Rise of Cobra on just the dvd you just still you just stared at that cover all the way 14 hours on a plane and i and i and i watched this movie and i went yeah i love this because it was just like and look i know it's objectively it's it's it's not great but i think as far as as you mentioned the translation from toys to comics it, it's just a cartoon. You know they have all the sayings like knowing is half the battle life like hair, kung fu grip
Starting point is 00:04:12 all these things that come from G.I. Joe and there's jetpacks and weird planes and big drills and submarines and a night raven I looked it up Mason, that's a big thing isn't it? The jet? I mean I guess It's a big thing! It's a very convenient mark six jet that exists there's only one in the world and it just happened to be there
Starting point is 00:04:30 uh and it's capable of catching mark five missiles it's very very convenient and it's also slightly more resistant to nanite technology yeah uh than other vehicles well i think we should take we first of all it's it's the rise of cobra everybody out there it's the rise of Cobra, everybody out there. It's not Rise of the Cobra, as everyone seems to think when I have conversations about it in real life. It's not what it's called. It's called The Rise of Cobra. What I did enjoy about this movie is I like the idea of regular army soldiers kind of encountering this worldwide task force
Starting point is 00:05:02 that has all this cool tech and all this, you know, all this slightly advanced warfare stuff. I think that's an interesting idea. I think it takes it way too far and it dips it into sort of cartoony. But I love their greatest weapon, which is, of course, you just mentioned, which is their plot armour, which is when every character... Sometimes it's literal armour. Sometimes it's literal armour.
Starting point is 00:05:23 But sometimes, like in the opening action sequence, you know, Cobra's shock blaster guns will just absolutely turn helicopters and cars just to atoms, unless Channing Tatum's in the Humvee, in which case he just flips it over. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Just people surviving exploding planes and helicopters and things flipping over
Starting point is 00:05:44 just because they've got to get to that next scene. They've got to get to the next scene. So in the not too distant future, in the year 2020, when this movie is set. Is it? Yes. What? What?
Starting point is 00:05:54 Is that? I missed it. This is true. Well, they don't say it, but that is officially when it's set. I should have known as a big G.I. Joe fan. Well, you should have also known. What's happening over at Action Force? How are the crumpets in 2020?
Starting point is 00:06:07 So Stephen Summers, who directed the first two mummy movies he took great care which i also think is a great choice if you're going to do do gi joe i understand why you'd get someone like him at this time great care to have three mummy alumni in this movie oh yeah three do we want to name them brandon fraser's in there yes sergeant something or other yes Yes. Not a character I recognised. Kevin J. O'Connor is in this as Dr Mindbender. Yep, yep. And the great Arnold Vosloo is Zartan. That's right.
Starting point is 00:06:31 What I love about Zartan is he's a master of disguise, as we all know. You mean putting a hat on. Yeah, I was going to say putting a hat on, putting on an eye patch, but then suddenly it's like, oh, we've got nanotechnology, we'll just change him into the president.
Starting point is 00:06:45 Yeah. I like that jump. There's like, oh, we've got nanotechnology. We'll just change you into the president. Yeah. I like that jump. There's no prosthetics. There's nothing in between. It's just put on a hat. Now you're the president. But Stephen Sommers took great care over the technology depicted in this film going through various books and magazines about weapons technology.
Starting point is 00:07:01 He feels that almost 100% of the technology can be developed within 10 to 20 years. How do you feel about that? Great question. By the way, it's about a nanite bomb and they'll keep naniting and they'll just engulf everything. So what's happened is Christopher Eccleston, he's gotten some juice from Doctor Who
Starting point is 00:07:20 and he's on his tour of doing Hollywood stuff that he hates. So he did Thor after this? Yeah. Before this? The same time? The same year? The same sets? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:30 He did that. He did this. He did one of those young adult novels, you know, whatever, where he was the guy with long hair. You know?
Starting point is 00:07:37 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They all did one of those. He did a bunch of those. Yeah, so he's in the middle of this. So he's a weapons designer. Yep. And he has developed a nanotechnological bomb that can eat through metal and etc and just and never stops eating through metal yes stop
Starting point is 00:07:52 never stopping but he wants it to seem like they're being stolen so he can chaos chaos so then he can sell bunkers to the president but then he gets somebody to become the president. Yeah. So he's got full control of everything. You could just get him in a toilet. You know what I mean? The president. Is that a social event? Yeah, yeah. He goes into a toilet.
Starting point is 00:08:11 I'll suck him into the toilet. Suck him into the toilet. Instead of building some sort of nanotech toilet that you sit on and you think it's a normal toilet, and then it opens up into like a big well and it sucks you down the toilet. And then Zartan drops down from the ceiling. It's perfect.
Starting point is 00:08:24 Yeah. That's what they would have done in Mission Impossible, I feel. Yeah, definitely. But yeah, do you think there's too many hologram people in this movie? Because that's a thought that I had. I think there's not enough Cisco telepresence in this movie. I think there should be more Cisco telepresence, and I want to invest in Cisco telepresence.
Starting point is 00:08:39 Well, that's very good. Because there were too many scenes where it was like, you better get this done. Oh, I'm a hologram. Well, you're not doing enough G.I you better get this done oh i'm a hologram well you you better get you better you you're not doing enough gi joe stuff i'm a hologram too it's like yeah okay fine you're all holograms who gives a shit stop doing this it happens like eight times well they did they stopped doing it and they got to weird jumping around suits oh yeah i wanted to ask you about that so they are called accelerator suits yes now steven
Starting point is 00:09:05 summers uh no i looked into this because i'm like is this a gi joe thing because i don't remember it being no yeah so steven this this james is my number one beef with this movie as the number one gi joe slash action force fan yeah yeah fair enough i don't like it that's i mean again their action their action figures clashing together but it But it feels very much like they went, you know why Transformers was successful? Robots spinning through the air in slow motion. We've got to get in some of that. Can we get a human man to do that? He'd be torn to pieces.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Put him in a suit. Well, Stephen Sommers, he wrote a script prior to this that never got picked up called Accelerator. Oh. And so he went, yeah. called Accelerator. And so he went, yeah. As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors, like when our estrogen levels drop during menopause, causing the risk of heart disease to go up. Know your risks. Visit heartandstroke.ca.
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Starting point is 00:11:01 and in bad CGI, it will come true. I didn't mind that sequence, because they're jumping through and over buses or whatever. It's not too bad, you know. And, I mean, it suits themselves when you see, like, people actually running in them, which they had to do for some of this. It's not a great design. Like, it's a weird clear faceplate.
Starting point is 00:11:19 But I just think, you know, there's some fun. It's a fun chase. Can we talk design? Let's talk design. Because some of the design in this, costume specifically, changes were made from the comics that did not need to be made. Are you talking about snake lips? The character's snake lips?
Starting point is 00:11:33 With carefully cultivated, just moulded, beautiful musculature and beautiful lips. You want him to just pick you up in his big arms and cradle you against his big Batman 89 carved musculature and give you a big comforting kiss with his big moulded lips. Do you think when he puts the mask on he has to lock his lips in? That's a great question. To the inside of the mask, his real lips?
Starting point is 00:11:56 I hope so. So that's Ray Park, by the way. People probably figured that out because he's doing all the Ray Park stuff that you know and love. But sometimes the mouth is slightly open. I'm like, has he got different masks? What's he doing? Because the mask doesn't move as far as I know. But yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:10 He has to anticipate when he might be surprised, for example, or quizzical. And then he has to dive behind a pillar and put his quizzical lips on. Like, hmm, purse lips to indicate scepticism. So what I think you might be referring to is when Christopher Eccleston's character, who is Destro, he's based off his ancestors.
Starting point is 00:12:29 He's like, my ancestor wore a metal mask. And then Cobra Commander's like, you'll wear a bloody metal mask all day, mate. And so he gives him the nanite metal mask technology. Funny stuff. Just a really funny scene, right? Just a big egghead with big metal ears sticking out the side. I'm a big fan, yeah. But Cobra Commander, I assume you're not a fan of.
Starting point is 00:12:52 No. Well, first of all, JGL just storming in on Channing Tatum's engagement. What's up? You're getting engaged? Here I am. He's still on one knee. Maybe just, yeah, see how this plays out. And then he becomes C cobra commander because he goes
Starting point is 00:13:06 into a building that's going to be airstrikes and then he discovers the secret to nanotechnology and then he stays in the building while it gets bombed but then because of the trauma that channing tatum felt because he couldn't save jgl yep he. He leaves Sienna Miller's Baroness. Yes. And that makes JGL want revenge against Channing Tatum? Yes. It's kind of on you, man. Well, I think the costume is very interesting.
Starting point is 00:13:40 Isn't it, though? Yeah. What I also love is he's doing a lot of one-eye acting because his mouth is completely covered and he's doing a lot of one-eye acting because his mouth is completely covered and he's wearing a monocle so it's just a lot of like intense one-eye stares and the voice that i assumed he would it was being like it's at a certain point you go why are you why did you get joseph gordon levitt if you can't see him yeah and he's doing a voice which i assumed was overdubbed by somebody else, but that's him doing like the cartoon Cobra Commander impression,
Starting point is 00:14:05 like a sort of halfway impression of that. Yeah, crazy stuff. And then the mask he gets at the end, rubbish. Well, apparently it was like, does this other mask look a bit like a KKK mask? And I'm like, yeah, I can see that. Anyway, what I'm saying is, based on all this, whoever did the costume designing should absolutely be fired right now from the production of G.I. Joe, The Rise of Cobra.
Starting point is 00:14:27 Wow. Yeah, I'm putting my foot down. Well, actually, no, you just missed it because this was set in the year 2020. Ah, I did miss it. Speaking of Cobra Commander, he's not a guy called Rex. He's a guy named Fred. So, yeah, I looked into it and there's kind of, what is his backstory? He's a guy named Fred.
Starting point is 00:14:42 Yeah. And he started a pyramid scheme. Is this true? Some steps are missing. And then Cobra. Okay, gotcha. In the town of Springfield, but not the Springfield you're thinking of. A different town of Springfield.
Starting point is 00:14:53 I like at the end how, because he's not the main bad guy. Then at the end he's like, I'm the main bad guy. Call me Cobra Commander. Then they're like, you're under arrest. And he's like, oh, fuck. Because if he didn't do that, he could have just said, I was being manipulated. Absolutely, right? But no, he had to step up, didn't he?
Starting point is 00:15:09 Yeah, that's right. So there's some Storm Shadow snake eye origin situation, which presumably we're getting in Snake Eye Origins Year Zero. Yeah. Where did he get his snake eyes? Where did he get his snake eyes? Stole them off a snake? Yeah. Okay, good.
Starting point is 00:15:24 That is accurate. Okay, good. That is accurate. Okay, good. So did Storm Shadow really kill their master when he was like eight? Because that's crazy. No, spoiler alert. It was. Hang on, let me think. Zartan?
Starting point is 00:15:36 It was either Zartan or Firefly. I can't remember, but it was one of them. It was a trick. Okay, so they're not really enemies? No. Oh. Yeah. What do you think of the storm shadow outfit though that's pretty good he invented the fidget spinner i was gonna say his dry cleaning
Starting point is 00:15:50 bills must be insane but he did invent the fidget spinner so you know he's guess he's got that money to burn yeah so do you think there is a real through line there because he is fidget spinning that shuriken i think it's entirely possible. I looked it up. They were invented in 1993, but they didn't come to prominence until after G.I. Joe Rise of Retaliations. So, you know, what do you do? What do you say? We also got Duke, obviously, who's just like generic action man.
Starting point is 00:16:14 I want to talk more about Channing Tatum's involvement because it's quite hilarious. I think I know a little bit about that. Oh, good, good. I mean, this is years before Magical Michael, but he's still looking good, isn't he? He's not looking like chiseled, but he's looking great.
Starting point is 00:16:26 And then we've got Ripcord, of course, who his story arc is, I can fly a plane. No one will let me fly a plane. But then they're going to let me fly the best plane. Yeah, that's right. It's the best voice-activated plane. The best Celtic voice-activated plane. Yeah, there's another one that's pretty good,
Starting point is 00:16:46 but I think this is the best one, yeah. So he also... It just keeps getting activated by football chants. Yeah. So his story is also he teaches a very competent G.I. Joe Task Force member to be less competent and more emotional, essentially. So that's fun, isn't it? Just wearing somebody down over the course of two hours.
Starting point is 00:17:06 I loved how they got their little meat cute. Ripcord and Scarlet got their little meat cute. They slowly got closer together. They learned to respect one another and be attracted to one another. And by the second one, they're just going to be obliterated in an airstrike or something. Or something, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:23 Or maybe off screen. I think it might even be off screen. I cannot remember. I have seen it. We will talk about it on another episode of Caravan of Garbage. Spoiler alert next week. Is that a spoiler? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:33 That's a spoiler. I've written here, I like their little cartoon base that they live in. I like the fact that they're all just wearing different camo. Oh, yeah. Some have got urban camo, some have got jungle camo. Why not? Who cares? You can mix it up, wear whatever you want. Well, that's G.I. Joe, isn't Some have got urban camo, some have got jungle camo. Why not? Who cares? I like it.
Starting point is 00:17:45 Just mix it up, wear whatever you want. Well, that's G.I. Joe, isn't it? Yeah, no, it is. Yeah. I'd also like... They're probably off on different global missions,
Starting point is 00:17:51 I don't know. They might be, yeah. I'd also enjoy the Die Another Day slash Austin Powers styled ice kind of cave that the Cobra Commander live in and also underwater
Starting point is 00:18:01 because a lot of this is submarine stuff. James, I have a list here. Yep. It says things that are CGI in this movie that probably shouldn't be CGI in this movie. Here we go. Cars, motorcycles, jet fighters, men in robot suits, men abseiling, missiles, smoke, electricity,
Starting point is 00:18:17 elevators, glass, sand, snow, water, submarines, large submarines, miniature fighter jets, underwater military bases, underground military bases polar bears that is that is the list do some of these practical do do do some of his models yeah just just get some stock footage of a polar bear yeah i mean i think the moment what you're talking about i think is mostly encapsulated in one elevator ride. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Terrific stuff. I like at the end how Cobra Commander and Destro are speaking of impossible spaces.
Starting point is 00:18:54 They're trapped in a weird, impossible prison. In a void, but in an electricity cell. But they're in cell numbers seven and nine. Who's in eight? Great question. Maybe it's in the next movie. I think they're all frozen. Can't remember.
Starting point is 00:19:07 It's a different prison than the second one. Anyway, the point is... Oh, there was a prison transfer. I want to say prison transfer origins, G.I. Joe, year one. My guess, James, would be there is no eight. So when there's a prison break, it's a bit fun for the guards because they're like, we're going to get eight, we're going to get eight. But the prison warden's like, there is no eight. This is hilarious.
Starting point is 00:19:24 This is actually a very good joke that I've done. I'm good at this. Let's talk, Mason. Okay. Finally, let's get real here. I'm turning my chair around. In terms of little trivia boys, let's call this. Let's call this little trivia boys.
Starting point is 00:19:37 Here's a little trivia boy for you. Hey, Breaker, it's just an ATM, not an ATM machine. Good point. It's not an automatic telemachine machine. Is he the one with the big minigun? No, he's the guy with the little goggles. He's on goggles. It's me, goggles.
Starting point is 00:19:50 I'm French. Yeah. Maybe that's why he didn't know. Oh, maybe. Maybe that's what they call it in France. I was actually, let's just do it here. There's a minigun in this. What do you think?
Starting point is 00:19:58 Pretty good. But it's not tearing through a bunch of people, right? It's not tearing through a bunch of people, so zero. Zero out of ten. through a bunch of people, right? So I'm tearing through a bunch of people, so zero. Zero out of ten. So interesting that you mentioned that Arnold Vosloo is not the only hangover from the Mummy movies.
Starting point is 00:20:10 So Brendan Fraser, I looked it up, he plays Sergeant Stone. There we go. Popular beret character, presumably. He rolls in on a three-wheeled motorbike. Hell yeah. Just being like, who's being a G.I. Joe in here? I'm going to check this out. Can I make anybody here a better G.I. Joe? Maybe one of these guys can teach me to's being a G.I. Joe in here? I'm going to check this out. Can I make anybody here a better G.I. Joe?
Starting point is 00:20:26 Maybe one of these guys can teach me to be a better G.I. Joe. So Brendan Fraser, and I think Stephen Summers has also mentioned this in passing, that in their continuity he is a descendant of Rick O'Connell. So there you go. The Mummy universe, including the Tom Cruise one, I guess, is set in this movie, which means the Tom Cruise Mummy movie is a prequel to this movie. Hell yeah, it is. Fuck yeah, I love continuity.
Starting point is 00:20:48 Maybe he's friends with Serpentor. He might be. Why isn't there a big snake-faced guy in this? Saving it for the sequels. Yeah. Did they, though? Or the origin, Serpentor origin. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:21:00 He's a bunch of dictator DNA. They put it in a centrifuge and spun it around. Okay. That's the origin. And some snake stuff stuff though, right? Not as much snake stuff. Then why does he look like a snake man? More Hitler stuff than snake stuff.
Starting point is 00:21:10 Oh, okay. Yeah. Terrific. A post-credit scene was planned in which the famously mute Snake Lips tells a joke to the G.I. Joe team, though this was advised against because it would detract from the seriousness of the film
Starting point is 00:21:23 as well as go against the... The toy film. That's right, as well as go against the core of the snake eyes character who has always been portrayed as a complete mute but also he got revenge so does that mean he can talk again or is this a version of snake eyes where his vocal cords are cut or whatever i can't remember uh i think a lot of these questions will be answered in the next movie in in snake eyes giorgio origins well i mean this version apparently took a vow of silence. Yes.
Starting point is 00:21:47 But the comic book version took the vow of silence specifically that it is like burning jet fuel to the face. Oh, yeah. Melted his head shut. Yeah. His whole head. All the holes in his head shut. So his head just looks like a knee.
Starting point is 00:21:58 Yeah. Just smooth. Baby smooth. That's right. Terrific. Okay. Ironically, something a snake doesn't have knees. Baby Smooth.
Starting point is 00:22:01 That's right. Terrific. Ironically, something a snake doesn't have, Nance. So Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans nearly got the role of Duke before it went, and by went I mean was forced upon Channing Tatum. Contractually, right? Yes. So he signed a three-picture deal early on in his career. This was before Magic Mike, so it was kind of a bit of,
Starting point is 00:22:25 what's this Channing Tatum fella going to do? You know what I mean? Yeah, right. Is he a funny guy or is he an action guy? So we'll surprise his boat. And he's a dancer. Triple threat. And he's a dad.
Starting point is 00:22:34 He does it all. Quadruple threat. That's right. And he's got a gun. There's a clip that we can put in here, that Ben will put in who edits these wonderfully where he's talking on Howard Stern about how he hated it
Starting point is 00:22:47 but by the end also he was like it was alright like the movie was like it was fine He got to work with Jogo Lev Exactly They're friends, they're mates
Starting point is 00:22:54 They've been in a bunch of movies together Speaking of hating it Christopher Eccleston You mentioned that Here we go That tour of hate revealed in an interview that he hated the film
Starting point is 00:23:01 What? Yes Unbelievable And a quick shout out to norton security for the download with the nano dds to get all the nano technology onto and the usb good stuff they got usbs right because that's that was in 2020 that is very true we haven't abandoned those yet uh want to talk budget go on this is a segment of the show called budget boys we're a couple of boys oh Oh, we're the Budget Boys?
Starting point is 00:23:25 Yes. Okay, great. No, I love being the Budget Boys. We're definitely closer to retirement than being boys. But that's okay, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So it was made for $175 million.
Starting point is 00:23:37 That seems like a lot. Yeah. Well, they had to make all those cartoon worlds. Oh, yeah, that's true. But it only made $300 million at the box office, which means it maybe just kind of broke even potentially but it was enough for a follow-up prequel with more even more origins yeah that you aren't even going to believe in fact probably
Starting point is 00:23:57 potentially the best origin of all the origin of the bruce willis that only works a day for a million dollars that's right yeah we'll see won't we oh my god only works a day for a million dollars. That's right, yeah. We'll see, won't we? Oh, my God. That's a thing that I learned quite recently. Yeah. And it's given me a whole new perspective on any role he's ever taken. So I want to go back and re-watch the sequel and see if that's what he's doing over there.
Starting point is 00:24:15 See where it's at. So, yeah, if you do want to see that video early, though, Jojo, I don't know what it's called. Retaliation. Retaliation. That'll actually go up early at bigsandwich.co, won't it, Mason? Yes, it will. They always go up.
Starting point is 00:24:27 It's a little bit early because Ben gets them done. And if you do sign up there, we've got bonus podcasts, we've got movie commentaries. Our podcast, The Weekly Planet, where we talk movies and comics and TV shows, that comes out a day early. We're probably going to do a Snake Eyes movie, won't we? Oh, yeah. We'll have to talk about Snake Eyes, won't we?
Starting point is 00:24:42 Yeah. We do this. We do Snake Eyes. We do all the other origin movies, G.I. Joe. I about Snake Eyes, won't we? Yeah. Yeah. We do this. We do Snake Eyes. We do all the other origin movies, G.I. Joe. I'm looking forward to Chuckles Origins. Who's Chuckles? He's got the white shirt on. He's the undercover guy.
Starting point is 00:24:52 He's like, I'm undercover. I'm wearing this really loud white shirt. That's very funny, though. Is that why they call him Chuckles also? I don't know. Yeah, that's great. We'll ask him. He's probably got that Joker problem.
Starting point is 00:25:02 He probably does have a Joker problem. Anyways, I'm at MrSundayMovies on Twitter. I'm at WikipediaBrown on Twitter. Leave something below if you want us to look at it. We'll look at it, won't we? Yeah. Do you think they should have done a post-credits where G.O. Joe calls an airstrike in on the Black Eyed Peas for Boom Boom Pow?
Starting point is 00:25:17 You think that should have been the end? I think it should have been. Maybe, yeah. All right. Thanks for watching, guys. Grab that gem, you guys. We'll see you next week. Goodbye.
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