The Weekly Planet - Ready Player One - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

In our final entry in our "movies about video games that aren't based on video games" we take a look at the be all and end all entry defined by those very specific parametres, 2018's Ready Player One. In a future bogged down in nostelgia to the detriment of a crumbling society it's up to a group of plucky internet savy individuals to unlock the mystery of the Oasis, a Virtual Reality space where your wildest dreams can come true. If your wildiest dreams are like, walking around and Batman is there or the Delorian or whatever. Probably the most unusual choice for Steven Spielberg to direct but hey, he certainly threw a lot of stuff in it. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp 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/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.

Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravana Garbage, a very special one. Why? Because it's the final video in our movies about video games, but they're not based on video games. I mean, there's certainly some video games in it, isn't there? There's... All the cool ones from the 80s. And more modern ones, but not totally modern ones. You know, you will see a tracer.

The 80s. Battle Toads. But stuff from the 80s. Yeah, stuff from the 80s also. I love stuff from the 80s. Do you love stuff from the 80s? Let's have an 80s party. Let's wear 80s clothes.

I don't want to have an 80s. 80s party and I don't want to wear 80s clothes. Is that all right? Don't you want to dress as Buccaroo Banzai? Famous character Buccaro Banzai? Don't you want to walk down that canal? Like at the end of Buccaro Banzai and we're there? Whose favorite movie is Baccaru Banzai? Peter Wellers.

Maybe. I don't think it is. I don't think it is. It's probably one of the Robocop movies he was in or that Star Trek reboot he did or whatever into darkness or whatever. Maybe. God. So we're talking about Ready Player 1. Yeah. Which came out in 2018 and was just like, what if something you remembered? Sorry, what if everything you've ever remembered

is presented to you in one slick package? Just what if everything you've ever remembered, you remembered it again, but it's mushed together like a manufactured meat. Yeah, please leave a like. Oh, please. I look, I didn't like this when it came out. And look, I'm not saying I like it now

because I definitely don't. Yes. But for me, if I just kind of didn't focus on everything that was happening in the background and when you'd see Freddie Kruger get shot with a later, or whatever. He does, which is good because he's a child molester. He's a child molester.

Well, we don't know which version for Freddie Kruger that was. That's true. Wait, was the reboot Freddie Kruger also a child molester? No, the new one is. The old one wasn't. He was just a child killer. Okay, great. That is great.

This might just be in the audio version. No, no, no. I think this will make the cut. It's important information. Okay. But I do think there's some, like a little bit of Spielberg pizzazz to this. Okay. Not a lot because it's true.

joked with battle toads and whatever else. Sure, and stuff from the 80s. And Ninja Turtles and Beetlejuice and the Joker and... Jalced from the 80s. Harley Quinn and different guns you might recognize. Warner Brothers properties. Yeah, not exclusively, but mostly, yeah. This feels like an eternity ago.

Yeah. You said you didn't hate it as much in this rewatch? Yeah, but also I was going into this being like, I'm going to hate this so much. The first time or this time? But this time. And I think just going in with that, with that hate in my heart.

It kind of alleviated a bit. Okay. And I didn't feel it the entire time. Now, this, of course, is based on a book. Yeah. I did not read the book prior to the original viewing of this. You don't have enough 80s pop culture knowledge to understand that book. Only true nerds.

That's the other thing about this movie. So it's the world, the world. Okay. There's not just two things. There's many things. There's many things. Okay. But the world is based on, this virtual world is based on, like, the memories and the

nostalgia that it's created James Halliday, like, loves. Anorak. Yeah, but it's like, it's just basic stuff. It's the real surface level, isn't it? At one point, the two main characters have a little disco dance to stay in alive by the Bee Gees. Oh, you mean the most famous disco song that's ever been? Yeah, great, good. That's a real deep cut.

That proves they're real, they're true nerds, doesn't it? Yeah, exactly. So what is the story of this? Well, I was going to say, it's based on the book. I didn't read the book. No. And I never will. It sounds like it's right up your alley, though, this book.

No, come on, ma. There's nothing, James, that I hate more than pop culture mashups for no reason. What if Back to the Future met Batman? Great. What if he did? What if they did? What if Back to the Future did meet Batman? What if they met?

Look, I mean, sure there's a bunch that work, but like you need to give me a why. Yeah, okay, sure. Oh, look, Batman's in the Delorean. I don't care. It needs to mean something, right? And this is an entire universe of stuff that doesn't mean anything. Yeah, but isn't that being online? Doesn't it not mean anything?

Oh, maybe. But I didn't read the book at the time. People who I trust critically, they read the book and they're like, this is bad. And I'm like, okay, I won't go into it. I won't read it. But I went into the movie initially expecting the absolute worst

upon original viewing in 2018 a lifetime ago. And I'm like, oh yeah, all right. It's taken master filmmaker Stephen Spielberg to make this concept palatable to me. Yeah, but I guess this is fine. But upon a rewatch, awful. awful universe. I hate it so much. It's the pop culture mashups. Yeah. It's, we'll get into it. But tell me the story, James.

Okay, so it's this guy called James Halliday. Yes. Who a girl didn't kiss him one time or he didn't kiss a girl. So what he decided to do was create this entire world that people can go into. Create a world? Create a world. And they can be like, man, I want to be Freddie Kruger. Okay. That's your call in this libertarian universe where you can be whoever you want, who's guilty of whatever crimes,

who went to hell for the crimes he did. This is pretty cut and dry because he did get sent to hell by supernatural forces for the crimes he did. But sure, you can be that guy. Yeah. So you go in there and... You got cool knives, man, and that's cool.

And you remember him. That's right. So you go in there and then you basically... Because the world sucks. Because the world sucks. Yeah, you live your entire life in there and there's whole, you know, there's currency in there. Oh, hell yeah.

You can make money and experience your dreams and do a big surf and go mountain climbing with Batman. And just even seeing that, I'm like, I would hate to mountain climb with Batman. That I don't think I would... Because it'd be critical of your technique. It'd be critical of me and also like, it's not Batman, is it? If it was the real Batman. Oh, sure, if real Batman was there. Yeah. And then if you fell, it wouldn't matter because he'd be in the Delorean and he'd rescue you. Is that a good enough reason? That's a great reason. Let's write that fanfic. Uh, but yeah, everybody's in the... But then Halliday dies. Yep. Right. And he... Well deserved.

Yeah, absolutely. But he's like, I'm level. I've left clues and I've left clues in the game and if you... You get three keys. You fight all the keys, you, you get money and you get to run the company. Terrible idea. Awful idea. Nobody good would win that. No.

Only in a fantasy Steven Spielberg epic would somebody of any kind of moral fortitude get through this gaultlet of nonsense. Yeah. But also it's not that complicated. Sure. You could have the most basic pop culture knowledge. Like, I mean for the first one you've got to win a race. It's a car race where you get smashed by King Kong or like the Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park

or you go backwards and then you just win. How would nobody thought of that? How does that even work? How did nobody do it by accident? Exactly. Also, there's like 35 cars doing it at a time. Is there multiple different versions of this happening at any one point? Because they'd have to be, right?

I don't know, man. Because it's... I'm not a computer programmer. This is a community of like a billion plus people. More than a billion. Billions. That's what I'm saying. So nobody accidentally... 35 at a time, though. 35 at a time. Civilisations would live and die before you got a chance to play.

But at a certain point, just this guy and all his friends just win it a whole bunch of times in a row. Yeah, exactly. That's great. So that's fun, isn't it? But I guess from my perspective, one thing that I did like about this is that this potential future does kind of seem viable. Just we live in trash and we get delivered trash and we eat trash. But we... And you wear a suit that lets you feel when you get hit in the nuts. Yeah, exactly.

We'll get to that. But then you put on goggles and everything's okay for a second. Like, I feel like there are a lot of major companies and it's not just Facebook, but it's... Who wish we live in this universe. Yeah, totally. This is the torment nexus all over again. Who are pushing us into this scenario at the behest of like, oh, I don't understand people that I don't like making eye contact. So now you all have to live in this fucking awful environment that I can.

control. It's just showing this holiday guy didn't use his billions to make anything better while he was alive. I know, right. And now he's just relying on what is essentially a one in a billion roll of the dice to hope that the guy who wins is going to do that instead. Yeah, exactly. Pretty cool, right? But it's pretty cool you can see battle toads and robocop. I just have a list of... Yeah, no, not really. And just, oh God. And also, is there like one of everything? Because at one point, Ben Mendelso, Ben Mendo-Mendelso, he's the evil CEO, wants to take over the company and put ads in everything. He's in the Ben Mendelsohn's.

He is, isn't he? He's having all sorts of good roles. This Rogue One, that Netflix show or whatever. So he's using his entire company to hopefully win this challenge and take over so he can just put ads everywhere. Yeah, but he's not going to win James because all the expert operators that he sends in, they don't know about joust. They don't know about Battletoads.

They only know how to be a soldier or whatever. They don't know that James Halliday. His favorite breakfast is ego waffles or whatever, whatever it is? His favorite tutor was golden eyes, slappers only. His favorite food is hot pockets. His favorite restaurant is Chuckie cheese. What are you like fucking six years old? Grow up.

Awful. What's wrong with you? Ben Mendelsohn should take this over. At least he wears a suit. At least he's got a little bit of class about him. At least his avatar looks like a big Hulkkin cut of Superman guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what?

Basic-ass nerd taste. You know what I hated so much about this? is that it just, upon a rewatch, like so much of this is pitched as like, well, the world sucks, but this is so cool, and we could become the CEO and whatever. But it's just so profoundly sad

that this billionaire sets up this game so that the only way to escape the abject poverty in your life is to just waste your existence, rote learning, all the basic pop culture garbage that he liked. Exactly. Not doing anything else. Not learning to play an instrument or like, swimming.

Swimming. Swimming in a garbage infested. Climbing a mountain without Batman. Without Batman. I'm so... Wow. With your own thoughts? I don't know.

Or like writing a poem or looking at a sunset or whatever. Just in your garbage room going, oh, what's this guy's favorite? Did he like Rubik's cubes or not? I'm better do some research on whether he liked the Rubik's Cube. Oh.

Oh, it's so sad. And if Parsival is doing this, there's got to be millions of people around the world. Just in the hunched over the dark. Oh, Goro. Exactly. What if Goro and aliens?

Awful. And there's no turn at the end where it's like, actually, what's more important as being outside? Well, that kind of becomes the ending, right? Yeah, I guess. We'll talk about it, where they make everybody get off the internet. But yeah, the second challenge, we go into this at this point. He's met his love interest because he saw an anime girl and he's an anime boy.

Also terrible I think maybe the reason that so many people are like I'll be Freddie Kruger Because otherwise you have to be a generic anime boy Just an anime boy And again just the idea of like This is what you came up with Yeah just a fish-eyed blue skin loser

Oh that's Artemis she's so cool Yeah Oh she's so hot And as his friend said That could be anyone I mean yeah she is hideous isn't she She's like you wouldn't like me in the real world Because I'm a beautiful woman with a slight birthmark

Over my eye Yeah, fucking disgusting. What he's talking about? They should have made a real world hideous. Right? This is like the ugly Betty all over again. Show me a hideous woman. And he should be hideous too.

They should both be hideous. God. Their avatar should be Ty Sheridan and Olivia Cook. And in the real world, they look like us. Yeah, just two blokes. They're 40s. Hunched and pale. Yeah, let's see if your love can break down those boundaries.

But it is about love. Because the second challenge is you have to go into the Shining Hotel. Sure. Because Halliday once took a girl to see The Shining. And so now he's trapped a virtual version of her. Uncool, by the way, in this world, dancing with zombies. For eternity. For eternity.

Essentially, because maybe nobody ever figures this out. Yeah, so you have to go through this twisted version of the Shining. And you might be like, well, how do you make the Shining more twisted? I don't know. It's just more boring, I guess. And there's zombies and giant... axe wielding people and yeah more blood elevators and it's just i honestly i appreciate the recreation sure i do but it's just it's you put a recreation of another guy's wife in there

because the guy that he uh made this with well not really he says that he did most of it was simon peg and simon peg ended up marrying this woman and he obviously never got over that so he created this world that we're all stuck in because you never as a billionaire you'd never meet other women. No, he couldn't possibly, right? Yeah. Terrible. So you have to jump across some zombies and then make her dance with you and then that's the end of that challenge. I've got a note here that just says, I believe in virtual prisons, as in I believe it will happen, but also I believe in them. Let me not that second part. Right. So if you go into debt, which everybody is, you have to go into a little booth and you put on a virtual helmet and you work for Ben Mendelsohn? Sure. But also like, why are you

doing manual labor in a virtual work? Like, why do you even need to do that? Like, isn't there just a button you can press and... Or doesn't it just do it automatically? That's what I mean. I don't know. Maybe they're mining Bitcoin. But they're not.

Or Trump coin or whatever they're using in the future. Everything's gotten much worse. Like, yeah. To me, again, this idea of like, just the whole concept in the wake of like we exist in this world where AI is being pushed on everybody all the time. Just this idea that... To just make generative AI nothing. Yeah.

Like, this seems just way more cynical and awful in the retrospect. There's a moment in this, we say, you know, they're always looking at Halliday and old archival footage. And at one point he says, I'm a dreamer. I build worlds. You didn't build anything. You built like the technology. All this stuff already existed. And then you just crammed everything into it.

Yeah. Now you're right. Yeah, I am right. I should have the billion dollars. Great. Oh, yeah, that was my question. I brought this up earlier. Ben Mendo promises the anime boy.

that he can, like, give him the Millennium Falcon, and he's like, you have that. So does that mean that, like, there's only one millennium? There's one of everything? Is that part of the rules, I guess? I don't know, man. I would crash that immediately.

I'll do that on purpose. I'd be like, now there's no Millennium Falcon. But there's no, like, because anime boy has the DeLorean. Yeah, exactly. So, like, where'd he get it? You'd be famous if you had the DeLorean, right? You'd already be famous.

But it's also got the night ride of light on it. Of course it does. Yeah. Of course it does. Artemis has Canada's bike from Akira. That's a big. It's a big deal. It's a big deal.

But again, maybe you can just, everybody's got a version. I don't know. Maybe you can get like a, because there's billions of people using this service and there's not one billion iconic vehicles in pop culture. Exactly. So either you have to like just get a different colored version or something or maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe Mendo's got like the screen accurate Millennium Falcon. Oh, and there's not got off.

And you can only get a pink version. Like you can only buy generic pink. It sounds way better. No, it's for girls, though. You can't have it. I can't have it and I will crash it into the Iron Giant. Good. Let's talk about this.

So the final challenge is playing an Atari game and finding an Easter egg, which is nothing. So a good thing that Ben Mendo-Mendellson put a force field around it and sent a thousand of these drones out to kill the Iron Giant or whatever. Like that's a proper challenge, you know what I mean? Not standing at a platform playing fucking joust. Also, all those games. games are horrible. Agreed. It's astounding the video game ministry got off the ground.

Well, it didn't. It fell down right after that, didn't it? It sure did. So, yeah, I mean, I love watching the Iron Giant kill someone and then be lit on fire by Mecca Godzilla and then melt in lava and then it does the Terminator thumbs up. I fucking hate this actually. I know. I'm turned around on it.

This is awful. It's meaning, because the Iron Giant, he's a being of peace. Yeah. This is his whole thing. But it's like, nah, what if he was running and punching and shooting? because then it would look cool, wouldn't it? I mean, in the movie, like, he is, yeah, he's a war machine that learns to be Superman, essentially. Yeah, uh-huh.

And this, it's just, I don't know, he's a guy who could, yeah, shoot and punch and use lasers and... But also, he's not real. Also, he's not real. The real iron giants out there in the real world. That's right, go find him. Yeah. Climb a mountain with him. So you mentioned the kick in the nuts suit.

So you can get a super haptic feedback suit. For perverts. For perverts. The Ben Mendelssohn has, or you can buy one for a million megabucks. or whatever it is. And there's a moment where he gets kicked in the nuts and he feels that in the real world. But also, then you see that he takes that component off.

Like, you don't have to wear that part. Yeah, but he's an optional. He's a business pervert. I guess he is. He didn't seem like he liked it. I don't know. I will say this. I did like the moment where they make it look like he's come out of the virtual world,

but he isn't actually. Okay. I think that's something that I was like, oh, okay. And I also like that he put his... I think you'd know, though. Yeah. Yeah, well, he figures it out. Also, that he puts his password on a little postage next to his chair.

Like, that to me is believable. Like something that somebody, anybody, really, not just a dumb CEO would do. Correct. You know what the final challenge should have been? What? Just something to do with emotional intelligence. Well, it sort of is, right? Because you can choose, you speak to a wizard and it's Halliday.

Yeah. And then from there, he's like, sign this and it's all yours. It's the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory thing. And he's like, no, this isn't right. actually. He's like, will you pass a test? Now you get to see me as a little boy. Also, he's a rich kid.

The test should have been hummatured that no one's ever thought off before. Um, uh, uh, uh, and it's just back to the ditch. How's that go? Da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Yeah. And it kills you with lightning. Yeah. You die for real.

I think there should be more you die for real. Because if you die in this, you lose all your stuff. Yeah. It's fine. Who cares? Yeah, I guess. No, no, man. Who cares?

It's not how real job works. No, it's not. If you die for real, you don't. I'd rather just have a real job, honestly. Was there any? It's all drones and whatever, isn't it? I guess. So, yeah, you go into Halliday's Room as a kid.

It's in like the 70s, I guess, or like the early 80s. The 80s! Whoa! Look at it, he's a rich kid! That's way back to the futures for old. The 80s. But, like, he's a rich kid. Look at this room.

Look at all this stuff. Yeah. Transformers probably. Transformers probably like every board game you could ever think of every video game. Imagine. every board game and every video game you can think of. It gets me tingling just thinking about it. Imagine if they were all there and they were all friends. Every video game and every board game, they're all friends.

I'm the Monopoly bad. Well, I'm Sammas from Metroid. We're friends. Wouldn't it make more sense if he didn't have access to this stuff? But it looks like his parents just gave him literally everything that he'd ever want. And also, it's weird that you've trapped a child version of yourself in this room. 100%. It's a black mirror episode.

Yeah. And then at the end you both leave through a door? I don't like that. What are you doing? That's bad, I think. Halliday's not dead, actually, really. He uploaded his consciousness, it seems. Well, then he's dead.

Then he's dead because you can't do that. It's not how it works. And again, all of this would have been solved if you had have just talked to another girl. Absolutely. You fucking loser. Rally, man. You know what?

Not everybody likes you. This is everybody. In the world. Absolutely. Nobody, except for Robert Redford, has 100% strike rate. That's so true, isn't it? So what are you doing? Yeah.

What lesson did you learn? Again, if only your billions of dollars gave you a little bit of downtime that let you go out and meet people or whatever, if you go to a, start a video game, start an 80s video game club. For girls. For girls. And then you could also be there. And he could be like, oh, so you like 80s video games. And then eventually one would go, a girl would go in a day. You've got billions of dollars.

There's your problem solved, man. Yeah. God. Because also, they try to work it around that like, well, actually, because Simon Pegg's still alive and he's the robot earlier. Well, actually, you know, the real lesson that Halliday learned that he should have been nicer to Simon Pegg. I don't think so at all. I think it was the girl thing the entire time. He didn't trap Simon Peg in the fucking shining.

Like, you know what I'm talking about? In the Torman Nexus, yes. Absolutely. Yeah, you're crazy. No good. Just absolute fucking loser behaviour. Agreed. Because imagine if this guy also didn't have pop culture references, right?

I mean, because that's the thing that people find endearing about it. But liking stuff isn't a personality. Agreed. Just listing things. Listing things is not a person. I don't know we do that a lot. And it is our personality. Listing obscure Australian references is a personality.

But otherwise it doesn't count. It's not what you've wrote learned. It's what you know and what it means. makes you feel and what that makes you think and what you can kind of, you know, you can, you can, well, what is life about? What is life about? You know what I mean? What do you do with that information?

Just having it is irrelevant, you know what I mean? How are you making someone else's life better? How are you making somebody feel included with that information? They could be Battletoads. You could be the three Battletoads. And you'd have two friends. Anyway, he does end up owning the Oasis anyway. Even though he was like, I won't sign this, I think this is wrong.

I will sign this and I will be and my five friends will decide what to do with the Oasis. And what they do decide is closing on Tuesdays and Thursdays. What if you're a person in desperate poverty with parents in the hospital and you're estranged from your children and the only times you can get to work at Tuesdays and Thursdays? Well, too bad. Well, I don't know, man, because Tuesdays and Thursdays is for kissing in the real world, man. That's so true, isn't it? Yeah, also somebody would just make a rival thing you could use.

Yes, absolutely. That's what would happen. Someone would go, well, this is the Tuesday and Thursday, online Oasis Network. Yeah, you can do crook shit. That's right. We're calling it Tuther. Tuther. Tuther VR.

Tuther VR crook shit. That's exactly right. It's funny, though, because you see that Apple and their Oculus, whatever, they clearly borrowed from this. Uh-huh. There's no lesson in this that makes me go, yeah, this is good. Well, I mean, Apple also borrowed the... iPad from Star Trek. That's true.

The pad, do-da-da-da-da. That's good, actually, isn't it? Good, looking at an iPad. But they, but I mean, Apple at least innovated because you could do everything on one iPad. You ever seen an episode of Star Trek the next generation? They've got to do like five tasks, because they've five different pads, just juggling them all. It's ridiculous. What are you doing?

Yeah. How are these even connected? Ethernet? You stupid future idiots. Yeah, I completely agree. But, yeah, just, I don't know. Like, I know the lesson is this is like... There is no lesson.

Well, the lesson is supposed to be like going to the real world. Yeah, but I mean, only vaguely. Yeah. If you've got a girl to kiss. Otherwise, stay inside and be friends with Green Arrow or whatever. Fuck me. It's dire stuff. It's also, it feels dire.

Yeah. Because again, this is something that I know is, like, being pushed. Yeah. And they're going to make it like, you know, they don't want to be like, well, it's the metaverse, but you can go to work. And you sit at a desk and you're a gorilla and your boss is a big. robot arm and you have to talk about fucking spreadsheets or whatever. Right.

But you're talking to a robot. And you're a gorilla. And you're a gorilla. You're the yoga gorilla. Yeah. This is worse. Like what we're really looking to go towards is a worse version of this. I'm climbing the yoga gorilla.

In our dystopian future where we all have to live in the internet, I'm going to be the yoga gorilla. Original color way. Yep. I'll be the snake. Nice. Who's friends to the yoga gorilla. Absolutely.

I'll call you back, Barry. Anyways, it's time for ready trivia. All right. Are you ready for this trivia? Oh, I hate it. Okay. Jack Nicholson was apparently asked to reprise his role as Mr. Shining in the Shining segment, but he didn't, and they didn't CGI him or whatever.

But he's old. Yeah, he's old. He's old. He's old. They could have just filmed it, you know, the front seats of a basketball game and just put the footage in. And he's having to go, yes, Johnny. And he just cuts to him. Just hunched over.

Yeah. Or you de-age him, and that looks weird. I guess they were DAG when he'd look glossy and weird. They do anime boy, Jack Nicholson. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, apparently, this is according to Roger Gaiet, who was the VFX supervisor on this. Roger Giat, sorry, so they're going to. No, I'm making fun of you.

Oh, okay. I'm making fun of you. What do you think of that? All right. Who's this Roger 6-7? Is that who it is? That's over. Six-7's over, Mason.

Not at my house. So he's this VFX supervisor on this, and he said initially they were going to do the Forrest Gump approach for the shining, take original footage and plates and then pull people into it. And they quickly realized because they needed to create new shots, they digitally recreated the whole thing. Which I think, you know, yeah, it's incredible for the most part, I guess. But there's, I mean, you know, it would have been more incredible if the flash was there.

Because he would run through that whole hotel so fast. He'd drink all the blood really quickly. Drink all the blood so fast, you know. For the lady in the bath, they used a body double for the back on blue screen. And when you see her face, it's the original lady from the shining that they put into it. There is real elements in that, but every background is digital. I'm guessing the big zombie axe-wielding lady. Also, again, like, you're not even using Mr. The Shining.

Right? Like, you don't even see, like, the back of him? I guess he hates women. Because what if The Shining, except the villain isn't Jack Nicholson with an axe? The villain's a girl I went on a date with once, is to who the villain is. Also, the real world stuff was shot on film, and the digital stuff was... Not real. Digital, obviously.

Sure, okay. Stephen Spielberg said that this was the third most difficult film Stephen Spielborg. What if that was a thing? Well, got it. Classic mashup, Stephen Spielberg. I'm picturing it. Star Trek villain The Borg. This is perfect and I love it.

Stephen Spielborg. He said it's the third most difficult movie he's being involved in behind Jaws and Saving Private Ryan. And he actually made the movie The Post while the 1500 digital effects shots for this movie were being compositive. He made an entire additional movie. Yeah, well, he does it all the time. Yeah, I guess it's too much.

He's always making all these movies. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, here's a list of cameos for. Oh, it's gone. You can go back and pause that. Because I know people are going to be like, I can't believe you didn't point that out. I don't care.

It means nothing to me. I agree. Oh, it's Gundam. Is it? Yep. It's Gundam. From the TV show Gundam. Hello, everyone.

It's me. Hello. I'm Gary Gundam. Gundam here. Gary Gundam. There he is. Yeah, I've got a big sword. How, if you lived in this universe,

how long would it be before you got sick of like, okay, I have to do a car race. So I have to throw my little car on the ground and then it slowly becomes a car. You'd be like, just get on with it. Yeah, can't this have PS5 load times? Right? Or the load times they promised.

Yeah. Yeah, but I guess it's cool, right? Could you see inside it? And it's got a green frame like the Matrix. That's great. That is great. Was Neo in this? I should check that list.

Oh, God, good question. No. I say, as in no, don't check. Don't worry about it. You don't care, do you? I don't care. Yeah, there you go. I guess people did because they're like...

Yeah, I mean, I didn't need to... I got a... I've got to watch this to see if my favorite guy's in it. Just watch the thing with your favorite guy. Yeah, the big trouble in the little Chinatown truck. That's your favorite guy. The Pork Chop Express. Yeah, it's in this.

Yeah, but you could just watch that movie again. Yeah, you should. Anyways, the budget of this, around $175 million and it made $607.8. I don't think this would do that now. What about Ready Player 2? Well, okay, let's talk about that. Okay. So...

No, I don't think it would either. No. Because it's cameos, but it's not even like, like, you know, the most recent Spider-Man movie, it had the old Spider-Man in, but they were actually being played by those actors. It wasn't just... Yeah, but what if they weren't? It wasn't just 3D models of the old guys in Spider-Man. I mean, it was a lot of it.

No, it was a lot, but it was just that. It was just the old Spider-Man suits swinging around, just corpses swinging around New York City. I mean, you'd watch it once, obviously. Sure. But never again. But, like, none of this is any... None of this is real, so, like, why would you... Yeah.

Who's coming back for a sake? I don't know. I don't know. Well, Spielberg doesn't want to do it. He said that before. Interesting. Well,

it was his third, his third, hardest movie to make. That's right, exactly. The last announcement we've had was in 2024, where apparently it's,

it's still in the works. So, who knows, under Paramount's stern leadership, sure, if that ends up going through. Yeah. And maybe, it does feel like a David Allison

kind of like, I love movies. That's his thing. I love movies. Name a movie. Name a movie you like and tell me why you like it. That's right.

Oh, happy days. Nice try. That's a TV show. Do you want a sequel to this? Because I kind of want to see, like imagine this with a lesser director. Isn't the, isn't the, my understanding of the plot of the sequel is it's just, he, the, the, the, uh, Parsival is the, is the CEO of this company. And he just makes a bunch of awful, selfish decisions. But it's framed as like, he's still a cool, awesome guy.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Because he's still got the, uh, he's still got the, uh, he's still got the, And he's got the DeLorean. And he's got the DeLorean. Yeah, apparently it explores the dark side of virtual reality fame and the consequences of technology. Wow.

Well, it sounds really interesting. And there's a new enemy. There's an AI is going to trap people in a simulation permanently. Just take you the helmet off, man. Yeah, that can't stop you. It's not how this works. No. You're dying the game.

You don't die in the real life. I guess you do because you lose all your money. Yeah, you lose all your money. And then you just... Then you have to kill yourself. Yeah. You just jump off that big stack of... trailers that you live in.

Yeah. Cool. That is cool. Cool. I mean, you know, like, because we did Serenity last week. Yes. And I was like, what a weird thing. But at least it was like, I don't know.

At least it's authentically crazy. Totally. Absolutely. Like a man wrote the script, the man who's currently writing the James Bond movie. Stephen Knight. And he, at least he organically came up with that. You know what I mean? He didn't just push some action figures together.

You know? Yeah, I guess so. Anyways, here's a hint towards next week. You're a big fan of this? I don't know what it is. May know, let me check. All right. It's probably...

It just says a picture of a butt. Whoa. I mean, certain contexts, I'm a fan of that. How do you feel about doing original War of the Worlds, Spielberg War of the Worlds? Ice Cube War of the Worlds. Oh, yeah.

When's the original War of the Worlds? Like in the 50s or 60s? Remember that one came out? Yeah. All right. All right. I know, yeah. Look, we have to get through

original War of the Worlds to get to Ice Cube. War of the World, all right? I know you're not happy about it. We can do Mars attacks. That's not War of the Worlds. I know. You stupid idiot. I know I'm a stupid idiot. There's a War of the World ship in this, not the Spielberg one though. Great. Original, yeah. Great. Well, I would have preferred it was Ice Cube. It's flying along. You see him in a laptop flying along. Great. If you do want to say that early, you can head out of it a Big Sandwich.com where not only is there early stuff, there's video game Let's Play,

there's bonus movie commentaries. There's what, Mason? The most fun you'll ever have. Most fun you'll ever have, comic book club. Oh yeah, that's a video. We talked about Wolverine Fighting the Predator. We did. That's a mashup.

That's what you like. That's what you like. That's what you like. You're stupid idiot. You like that. Yeah, that's right. We also have a podcast called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows

that comes out every Monday if you are interested. Thank you so much to Ben and Lawrence for the edit. Thank you, Ben and Lawrence. Incredible movie. Batman versus Predator. At least that's something. That was something. That's something.

We got a video on that. It makes sense. It does make sense. You know? Yeah. But Batman fighting the DeLorean in a jungle? It doesn't make any sense. Doesn't make as much sense.

They're friends. Why would they be fighting in the jungle? Exactly. Makes no sense. And even if Batman defeated DeLorean, he would just go back in time and do it again. Didn't the DeLorean turn into a transformer at one point? Of course it did. That's good.

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