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The Mob is Back! Another addition of Teach Ray Sports, we pay tribute to our first gaming console on its 40th anniversary, The NES, Kevin gives his first impressions of the Switch 2 console, we talk TV with the finale of Gen V season 2 (Prime), new episodes of Tulsa King (Paramount), Chad Powers and Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), Ray reviews the new documentary Downey Wrote That (Peacock), the documentary Mr. Scorsese (Apple TV) and the documentary Drew: The Man Behind The Poster, we talk Steven King movies this week for Halloween with Carrie (1976), Silver Bullet (1985), Pet Sematary (1989) and The Dead Zone (1983) and finally the week we review the new Steven King adaptation, The Long Walk
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Casual Host Introduction
00:00:28
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Keep learning.
00:01:23
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Hey, what's going on? Not much, man. how are you doing? Doing good.
Teach Ray Sports Segment Intro
00:01:28
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doing good. Going to open up the show with some breaking news from yesterday. I'm going to get your opinion on this stuff that I have no idea about.
00:01:37
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With an impromptu, Teach Ray Sports.
00:01:43
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This is the theme to teach race sports. We need a theme for teach race sports. I couldn't think of anything that would be original. I stole this instrumental from the Gary Shanley Show.
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This is the theme to teach race sports. This is the theme to teach race sports.
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now We are back in a mob society. but Yes, we are. um Before we get into this story, I was going to actually ask you before I check the notes to do an impromptu teach Ray sports.
00:02:19
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Okay. Because I think today on the radio, they had my favorite segment of all time that I just sought heard. So, Ed Gain was popular because that documentary on Netflix. Mm-hmm.
00:02:32
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And I told you about how much of a psychopath Joe Mazzula is, right? Yes, yeah. I have sent you clips, Celtics head coach. So, at the end of every caller's call, they would say a quote, and you had to guess if it was from Ed Gain or Joe Mazzula.
00:02:48
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One of the quotes attributed to Joe Mazzula was, after dinner, you're going to be abducted, he said at a press conference. Wow. Um... He had some other pretty wild ones attributed to him. Like, Ed Gain was, like, I think, like, six of them went to Missouri and, like, two to Ed Gain.
00:03:06
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And every time somebody would be like, Ed Gain, they'd be like, nope, Missouri. Wow. And it was funny, so i was going to bring that up before we get into this whole scandal of it all.
Microphone Troubles
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ah Your mic is very, very modulated. i don't know what's going on. Is it?
00:03:20
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Yeah, you're interested talking like an echo chamber mixed with electronics. Well, I told you we got internet issues over here, so might have to try to bear with me here. oh But start talking. I'll see if I can
NBA Betting Scandal Discussion
00:03:36
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fix it.
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So yesterday news broke that the Department of Justice and the head of the FBI, Patel, um had this huge sting operation with the and NBA and betting.
00:03:49
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And it went a lot deeper than that. Eventually they had a press conference later in the day. where they started naming people that they arrested there were actually players in the NBA. I don't know if you know any of the players, any of the people that were involved.
00:04:02
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um I know the other big part of this is that the five families that they talk about in all the movies were a part of this. Yep.
00:04:13
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And they they're they're the ones who actually went in got... put the put the pressure on these and NBA players to rig games, um to shave points off of scores and not play correctly so another team may win.
00:04:29
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This is like old-school mob shit that we've seen in the movies our whole life growing up, but still happening in America. And they arrest some members of the five families. They arrest it. Who are some of these players that you know of? i know one of them in the article here is... um Is Terry rose there Rosier Rosier? don't know who the that is from Miami.
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Can you hear me now? Is it a little better? Yeah, a little better, yeah. Not as modulated. um So, I believe one of the ones... Here, I'll turn down a little bit more. Is that okay? um One of the ones is Chauncey Billings.
00:05:05
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Yes. First round draft pick of the Celtics and then traded away halfway through his rookie season. I believe that was him. um Yeah, Chauncey is the one name remembered. And I think Terry Rozier was, this is what hurts.
00:05:20
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The game that they point to was game seven, Eastern Conference Finals, Celtics, Cleveland, 2018. That he was dominant the entire series and then shit the bed the final when all this money went towards him on the final game.
00:05:42
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So that as a Celtics fan hurts a lot. um After that, I kind of stopped paying attention cause i was kind of pissed off. They were talking about it briefly on the radio. They mentioned they did.
00:05:54
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They were using the same scam from season one, episode five of psych poker. I don't even know where it's the name of the episode. Great episode. Yeah.
00:06:06
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But they were using the the glasses with the the cards had like a tack on the back. Yes, I saw that. Yep. yeahp Yeah, and heard about that. It's without a psych. Yep, I heard about that too. It's without a psych. Yeah, they use a lot of technology. That's what I heard to spy on things and and in these card games.
00:06:23
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And the other thing I heard of... Something about cameras in the drawer the dealer or something like too? I don't know. they had private games in one of the Jenner kids um condos when she wasn't there. One and one time when she wasn't there, is like one of the part-time condos somewhere.
00:06:38
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And the mobsters were running games out of there. I guess without her knowledge, I don't know, but... Crazy story. I'm sure this is bret fresh and brand new. I'm sure we'll hear more about it in the coming weeks, but crazy.
00:06:51
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um And the other big thing about it, which I always have to bring up LeBron. um LeBron is a part of this, too, because I guess one of his injury reports was reported. um to the mobsters and they took bets with that knowledge known before the world knew about it. Yep.
00:07:06
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I saw that too. Yep. So crazy, crazy story. Something you definitely hear about in the movies. This will probably be made into a movie 10 years from now. Martin Scorsese's final film. Sure.
00:07:18
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Because he's 80 something. We'll talk about that later. But um yeah, crazy story. um What we, well, number one, no, not what we watched this week.
00:07:29
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um We just hit an anniversary last weekend, and I meant to talk about it this month. and i We actually hit two anniversaries this year. Back to the Future, we're going to get into that eventually.
00:07:42
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There's a lot there, because that is both of our favorite one of our favorite movies, franchises. yeah I just watched all three for the first time in a long time, back-to-back last night, which I hadn't done in a while, um because we were talking about Robert Zemeckis' Soft Pod and how his animated films, because there's some news about um one of his animated films, and we're talking about how shitty they were.
00:08:04
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And was like, wow, got to get that taste out of my mouth of the bad Robert Zemeckis films, so I went back and watched Back to the Future, which are... By far my favorite trilogy. are I mean, those three films take less than one Lord of the Rings movie to watch. so They pretty much do. I did it all in five five and a half hours. so ah But the one thing we're going to talk about, um it's actually a two-parter because Kevin has a surprise review.
00:08:30
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More of a first reaction, first impressions. But... 40 years ago this week on the 18th of October and in 1985, a little system came out that changed both of our lives for the better.
00:08:48
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And pretty much our whole entire life has been based off of this one system, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Action to Set. um As you can see right there, that was...
00:08:59
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huge for us the nintendo the mario the super mario brothers and duck hunt cartridge i had also the in um the nin ninja turtles one i i don't remember which one i got with the set i know the ninja turtles arcade came with a set and that may have been one the one i had but i also had i also had mario and duck hunt too so i don't know um i think they had a set that had both those i can't remember um but came with the controllers also came with the light gun which was for Duck Hunt.
00:09:27
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That was fucking crazy technology back then. Right. That changed our lives. Like, that having that console, having that power in our house, generation before us had, what, Atari?
00:09:39
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Did not hit the level of what this did, as far as the lexicon of America and everything else. And everybody knows this story. Systems sold for $180 in
00:09:50
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equivalent to about $542 in 2025, you inflation. Which is right about where video game consoles are right now, about five, six. If you go higher on the higher end of the pros, they're about 700.
00:10:04
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But huge for us. I know for me, Nintendo was all o Mario.
Nostalgia for NES Games
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I wasn't into Zelda until the 64. Nintendo was all Mario. yep um I didn't have too many games growing because I didn't have a lot of money. But I did have Mario. Mm-hmm.
00:10:19
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um And I played a lot of Ninja Turtles, and I played a lot of Mario. I went over to Cousins' house, played a ton of games over there, too. i remember Friday the 13th. I remember Mario 3. um i mean, that's basically where I got my start of video games.
00:10:33
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was the generation of trading games, too, with friends. oh yeah like You'd have yeah Mario 2, and the other person might have Mario 3, and you beat Mario 2, and whatever, and you'd just trade them off or whatever. Because half my collection, I feel like, um when I was looking back on it a few years ago,
00:10:47
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I didn't buy half those games and like people had like their names written on them like we just trade like their were tapes back in the day. So yeah, great system I think we got ours. I want to say Christmas of 88 89.
00:10:59
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eighty eight or eighty nine Probably around there for me too. sister It was my sister's console. So a lot of the games were hers. I remember I used to have to when Mario 3 came out, I used to have to go into her room and play it because it was on her TV in her room.
00:11:16
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And she'd have, she'd be like doing homework, listening to the fucking new kids on the block or something. I'd be playing Mario three. So every time I've played Mario three now, I think of new kids on the block. Um, but yeah, great system. Uh, my cousin got one. She got different games.
00:11:29
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Um, One of my favorite games that came out, um because we grew up in Maine, it was tough to get to the Magic Kingdom. Did you ever play the Disney Magic Kingdom game?
00:11:41
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Where basically went on to different rides, but it was, like, games, so, like, you to, like, you know, avoid enemy shit like that. That's fun. And you could walk around the park, and, like, they had Space Mountain and all that shit. um That was a fun game.
00:11:53
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And another one from my childhood i remember is going to my cousin's, and we used to play... a side-scroller called Bugs Bunny's Birthday Bash, I believe. yeah You ever play that? Yeah.
00:12:03
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That game was fucking fun. Yeah, that game was fun. yeah, I'm sure. I think Angry Video Game Nerd is talking about it a couple times. yeah um Yeah, that game is a lot of fun. um But, yeah, just ah just first.
00:12:16
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Second system we own, ah we did have the Atari 5200. yeah um I think we had a ColecoVision that I never actually played, though. But this is like the first introduction for me. The Atari hadn't been hooked up yet.
00:12:29
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And it wasn't until about a year after we got this where our my dad mentioned we had a fucking Atari or something like that in the attic. So I made him get it and we actually had that hooked up for many years next to my Nintendo. Nice.
00:12:41
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um I had my first system late 80s. Like I said, the Ninja Turtle game, Mario Brothers, those are the two I remember the most. Yep. Before that, my dad my dad had another kind of another family, little older than I was, so I had sisters that had the Nintendo set way before I did.
00:12:59
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And they had Mario 2. That's the first Mario game I remember playing. They also had Elevator Action, which is a huge arcade game. Came out around the same time, ah maybe early 80s. They also had a cartridge for the and NES. I remember that game, too.
00:13:14
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Actually, about 10 years ago, or maybe 15 years ago, when I moved over here, I went to a video game store over here and found one and bought it. i don't know how much they are now, but paid like $10 for it at the time. but um Those are the two... that's like the two core memories I have of Nintendo. And of course, the light gun, playing mar playing um Duck Hunt, and just all those familiar sounds that you hear now, and it brings you right back to what youre where you were back then. but um Well, 40 years later, i mean, you have Super Nintendo,
00:13:43
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N64 to the Wii, well to the GameCube before that, to the Wii didn't really hit too well. To the Switch, you can go out through all the handhelds we had,
Switch 2 Game Discussions
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the Game Gears, the Game Boys, the DS, everything Nintendo.
00:13:58
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And then we had the Switch. And then we had the Switch OLED. And then this year, we had the Switch 2, which Kevin just got two days ago. I did.
00:14:11
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And he's had some time to play. He's had some time to play. I don't know what games. I know you got Mario Kart it came with the bundle. Well, here's the thing, Raymond. I ordered that on Amazon, right?
00:14:22
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As you know, because it said it'll be delivered the next day. It was like three o'clock and the fucking thing hadn't shipped yet. So I canceled that order and I went to Best Buy because i checked on their website and they had one copy with the Mario Kart bundle.
00:14:33
Speaker
So I got that. And then, this is just as far as you were just talking about the games I've bought. Last night I checked my account and I had been refunded the money from the one from Amazon, so I bought a bunch of games on Switch 2, including the new Donkey Kong, which I haven't really got into it.
00:14:49
Speaker
um They have a Kirby game coming out next month that I pre-ordered, and a Mortal Kombat game pre-ordered, which is like... It's like the... All of them. Yeah, the collection. No, it's just the old school one, so it's like the first three, I think.
00:15:02
Speaker
No. All arcade versions. No, that's like ten... That's like ten games. That's the arcade, the NES... Yeah, that's a whole collection of Mortal Kombat. I thought it was like... thought it was like 20 bucks, so I was like, fuck it.
00:15:17
Speaker
Okay, yeah, cool. It's not good to play on handheld. Um... And I bought a Hitman Blood Money Revisited, which is an upgraded version of Hitman Blood Money, which is my first game in all of that series. so And that was cheap too.
00:15:29
Speaker
um So when I got it, it comes with the Mario Kart bundle. And my first thought was the first Switch I think only had, what, 32 gigabytes of memory, right? Mm-hmm.
00:15:40
Speaker
So if you were to download literally any game, you would have to buy an SD card and those are expensive, whatever. Well, the new Switch, the SD card doesn't fit from the old Switch. They have the new updated SD cards. So I was like, fuck, did just lose like five games?
00:15:54
Speaker
The Switch 2 has, i think, 250, over 200 gigabytes of internal memory. So when you transfer everything from your Switch 1 to your Switch 2, it takes those games and downloads them to your Switch 2, which is a nice touch because...
00:16:10
Speaker
Nintendo has always been the company where like, I guess now it's all linked to your account, but like up until the switch one, like if you had a digital game on the Wii U and the system bricks, like you'd lost that game. Like you couldn't connect, couldn't download it.
00:16:20
Speaker
Yep. Okay. So I did the updates. I did all that. Um, there was no code for Mario world, which I was very concerned about. Cause usually when you get a bundle like this, it comes the code to download the game.
00:16:35
Speaker
Um, um, So I went on to the store and it immediately says, you own Mario Kart World, would you like to download? ah So it's connected to the console, which I was concerned about.
00:16:46
Speaker
um Those were all my problems alleviated. And my favorite thing about this console here... Is I got the original switch the first night I took off the joy-con But I only press the button in like halfway and it broke the latch So I was never really able to play comfortably in handheld because the left joy-con would slip off all the time right with this you just press this and it's magnetic and pops right off and it goes right back on it's a great touch um i didn't look at any reviews of it because i honestly didn't didn't really plan on buying one because i just got um the steam deck last year which i fucking love but mario kart was calling me and the donkey kong game was awesome yeah so and it's fully backwards compatible um
00:17:34
Speaker
That's the thing. when you Being fully fully backwards compatible changes that because it adds a whole library of games right in the beginning of the console. So, yeah. And the other thing, too, is I almost paid for it at Best Buy is they have the upgrade ticket for the two Zelda games to upgrade them to Switch 2, 60 frames per second, blah, blah, blah.
00:17:54
Speaker
And I almost bought that, but I was like, I'll just wait and buy it online. So when I put Breath of the Wild into my Switch... it said you pay for Nintendo online, you get the free upgrade.
00:18:06
Speaker
So I upgraded that today because I paid for the online service, which only like 20 bucks a month anyways. So that was cool. I'm trying to think of what else. But yeah, overall, it's just, it's great. the The Switch 2 Pro Controller.
00:18:24
Speaker
also bought Mario Galaxy 2. Okay, yeah. Pro Controller.
00:18:30
Speaker
um it just is It's been my favorite controller since the Wii U's Pro Controller. It is the most comfortable, perfect thing I've ever, like, it's fucking great.
00:18:41
Speaker
um I don't know how long the battery life is, but I know i remember on the Wii U it was incredible because the battery life was like 80 hours. So, and the Wii U didn't many games, so I'd probably charge it like three times overall in its life.
00:18:53
Speaker
um But yeah, the Switch, the Nintendo Pro controllers were all awesome. And that's the one drawback of the Switch itself is I do want to play in handheld, but I really don't like how the sticks are on the actual Switch itself. I just don't like the feel whatever, but like... always thought they were too small.
00:19:13
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. That's how it feels like my thumb slips off them. um But it's fine for like Mario Kart and some other games. But ah yeah, very happy with the purchase. i hope they release something soon for Mario, like a new Mario game. I don't know. I've been paying attention to Switch 2 news.
00:19:30
Speaker
ah But I do have some work to do and obviously left. Plus, I just got Galaxy 2 because had Galaxy 1 from the other bundle. Okay, that's my question. ah Question. ah Plugging it in, did you have it do you have a hook to a TV? How does it look in 4K?
00:19:45
Speaker
Looks great. Mario plays great. I played Mario Kart 8 a lot last night, too. um played some Breath of the Wild before I upgraded it, um and the frame rate difference is yeah i imagine very worth it. You have an OLED, too, so it looks awesome. My TV, yes. yeah yeah yeah And that's the one thing they didn't do with the Switch screens. They didn't give you the OLED, and I think it's probably because they'll do... and They'll do an OLED version for it eventually.
00:20:15
Speaker
yeah um But yeah, I'm very happy with the purchase. I was just playing Mario Kart before we get on. um Yeah, that was my other question. A couple things about Mario Kart that kind of pissed me off is, all right, believe it with the Wii U version of Mario Kart, is you can race with your Mii and you could like customize your vehicle.
00:20:35
Speaker
Right, yeah. As of now, I can't do any of that. Okay. Yeah. Which kind of sucked because I got used to playing with my Mii and a certain bike I already used. But they have Waluigi in it, and I love Waluigi, so I use them for Dry Bones.
00:20:49
Speaker
um But yeah, the game itself is really good. um Play is incredibly smooth. I played a little bit on my handheld. um Yeah, I mean, it's Nintendo. They just do quality products. products um I was telling you on text, the original Switch feels like a toy in your hand compared to this or like the Steam Deck, which is what I thought of when I like when i
Switch 2 vs Original Switch
00:21:10
Speaker
got the Steam Deck. I didn't pick up my Switch once after that because it just felt so much better.
00:21:15
Speaker
um So yeah, Switch 2. Highly recommend it. Awesome. Like you mentioned with the OLED, that's the one holdout I have for it is the handheld OLED. Um, cause I have the OLED. I paid extra for the the one I have, the original Switch.
00:21:30
Speaker
You're probably more of the type to play in handheld than I am. Like my cousin was more the type to play in handheld. Um, cause I, when I first got the Switch, I would play some in handheld during like baseball and like football games.
00:21:41
Speaker
But now I usually read comics during that time. like So I like, I like it. I like playing it on the screen and just watching something on like my iPad or something off to the side. Awesome. ah Yeah, well and the more games you get, the more ah reviews you'll have of a system that that I'm really looking forward to hear more more about.
Gen V Season Finale Discussion
00:22:00
Speaker
so um What we watched this week, going talk about some TV shows.
00:22:05
Speaker
Gen V finale happened this week. it's setting up the boys' final season. um at the end, um they defeat the big bad, Godoken.
00:22:17
Speaker
And Marie and all the other members of Gen V are now working for Starlighter. They're part of her resistance group going into the next season of The Boys. Which I lost.
00:22:31
Speaker
Yeah, which i'm yeah I'm guessing we'll see them join the group. So that'll be exciting. We also saw A-Train at the end too, which is really cool. saw We saw The Deep in the beginning of the season. We saw A-Train. We saw Starlighter. We didn't see Homelander this season. Didn't see him at the end of last season though. Overall, how did you feel about this season?
00:22:52
Speaker
ah Not as good as the first season and not as good as the boys. Yep. The, um the consensus when we watched it as a group was that they probably had to scramble for the first bunch of episodes, which is why they weren't great.
00:23:06
Speaker
Cause Andre, Andre chase died. Yeah. Yeah. Um, So, but the last two episodes were fantastic. Yeah. And might be the best might be to the two best of the series. I haven't watched season one since it aired though. So but the last two episodes were excellent.
00:23:23
Speaker
um So I'm sure they had the end game that they didn't change much of. I'm sure a lot leading up to it. They had to because of chase cha chance, chase, whatever his name is dying. right yeah um Tulsa King. Have you probably had a time to watch Tulsa King? It's been a week.
00:23:40
Speaker
espanea in a week Okay. I'm not going to talk much about it, but it's very good. Yeah, I know. The big bad this season is amazing.
00:23:50
Speaker
ah Chad Powers. One more episode of that, too. um Basically, what you'd expect is all of his ah changing his identity into this Chad Powers is going to come back and haunt him.
00:24:03
Speaker
um One more episode next week. I'll talk about the finale. um Only Murders in the Building finale is next week as well. I'll talk about that once we find out who the bad guy is.
00:24:14
Speaker
um I watched a couple of documentaries I want to talk about.
Jim Downey Documentary Review
00:24:18
Speaker
Did you have time to watch the Downey Wrote That documentary on Peacock? About Jim Downey.
00:24:24
Speaker
You did not. All right, good documentary. I'm not a huge... It's SNL, yeah. I don't really know much about Jim Downey. I know it's SNL, so it's literally all I know about him. So I didn't really care to watch that. um Voice of SNL in the 80s and 90s. If you saw him, you'd recognize him. The big role for me was Billy Madison.
00:24:44
Speaker
He played the principal who does the speech at the end, if you saw that. he Also for us... um Dirty Work. He's also the guy that had the speech, um the homeless guy that gets fired in Dirty Work. You know him from that stuff. Voice of SNL. He was a head writer from the 70s, 80s, 90s. Got fired with Norm.
00:25:04
Speaker
ah Very deadpan delivery. Match made in heaven when he met Norm. That's why they became writing partners during that time in SNL. um especially weekend update and then they got fired eventually with the oj don omeyer stuff don't john don omeyer was the head of nbc was friends with oj and he kept telling lord michaels to so tell your weekend update anchor who was norm at the time to stop telling all these oj jokes and And Norm and Downey just went in even harder when they were told not to, to the point where eventually um they were both fired from SNL at the same exact time, basically a week or two after Chris Farley died, 97, 98. And mentioned that in the documentary.
00:25:49
Speaker
Jim Downey, also in the movie There Will Be Blood, did not realize that until this documentary. Interesting. um Rehired in the year 2000 during all the political stuff with ah the Bush...
00:26:01
Speaker
and everything going on and brought political satire into the cold opens. everything Every time you think of SNL now and the cold opens, it always opens with a press conference with the president or something. That all started in the year 2000 during that election.
00:26:15
Speaker
And that was all written by Jim Downing. um He was in 32 of the 50 seasons of SNL. Three different runs. He left in the 80s, came back eventually, left in the 90s because he was fired, came back in 2000, and left finally in 2013 to be done with it. He came back for the fiftieth last year, wrote a couple of sketches, but...
00:26:37
Speaker
um Huge, huge mark on SNL. um and One of those guys, if you knew who he was, you saw him. He's he's been in every... Adam Sandler has worked with him. and Like I mentioned, Norah's worked with him forever up until his passing. so um Another documentary. I don't know if you had any chance to watch any of it.
00:26:53
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He just got off of work, so that's why. but the Scorsese documentary.
Martin Scorsese Filmography Documentary
00:26:57
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Yeah. I'm two episodes in. It is fucking fantastic. I'll be watching. I plan to do like one, one a week, uh, I mean one a night this week, but I got caught up, um, friend of mine's going through some stuff, so we ended up binge watching Game of Thrones the last couple nights until like 2 a.m., so.
00:27:15
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Yeah, that's crazy because that's, that show is the most depressing show in the world. Um, yeah. Um, but yeah, it's a great documentary. It's on Apple TV. Um, I'm not going talk about the documentary, but let me just list the amount of movies in this guy's catalog.
00:27:31
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Starting with Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, New York, New York. Some of these I haven't seen. new York, new York, I haven't seen. Seems like it's something up my alley. The New York thing was awesome. Oh, you would love that movie. Yeah, you would love it.
00:27:43
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The Last Waltz, that's the ah the band, the band, the band. Raging Bull, haven't seen that, surprisingly. It's on my list. um in the story There's a story. have Have they gotten into that part of the documentary yet with with Raging Bull and Rocky II? Have you gotten into that yet?
00:27:59
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No. Okay, I'll talk about that. episode i think think. ah King of Comedy. I think you may have watched that for the podcast. We did. we did yeah yeah yep ah Color of Money. Never saw that either. And that's with ah Paul Newman and Tom Cruise.
00:28:13
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um The Last Temptation of Christ. I have that on the list of the for the podcast to watch when the Resurrection of Christ comes out cause i want to watch The the the Passion of the Christ. I never saw that either.
00:28:23
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um I know totally i know of two totally different movies, but it's one of the ones I haven't seen. yeah Then, of course, you get into the 90s. You've got Goodfellas. You've got Cape Fear. Age of Innocence. that's the one with um That's the one with a Method Actor there who's in um ah
00:28:42
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Gangsta of New York. um Charlie Chaplin. No, no, the method. Oh, guy I know. um Fucking the greatest actor of all time. good Yes, that guy. Daniel Day. Yeah, Daniel Day.
00:28:52
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um Casino. Gangs of New York. He has a couple of duds in the and he goes into the 2000s and starts meeting up with Leonardo, and that's kind of like the last two episodes. Gangs of New York.
00:29:04
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The Aviator. Departed. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay, good. The only guy that's not in this documentary was Joe Pesci. And the reason why he doesn't want to talk about those roles is because all of the roles that he played, he based off a real gangsters. He was more involved in that life.
00:29:20
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So he didn't want to implement. Right. He didn't want to implement anybody. Joe. so that's why he wasn't. He grew up. with Didn't he grow up with the fucking guy from Goodfellas? Yeah, he did. That's yeah. Yeah. same neighborhood Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:32
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I wouldn't do that either. was him. But yeah, log he teamed up with Leo for Gangs of New York, Aviator, Departed, which is another great, fantastic movie. Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, um and then he's again they're going to be doing the next... He did Killers of the Flower movie, which also haven't seen.
00:29:48
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um And the next one, the next project... It's fine. they didn't talk but They didn't talk about in the movie, but Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence are going to be in a movie. Ghost Story um is the next Martin Scorsese movie. Also...
00:30:03
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I found out doing my research. It wasn't in the documentary, but yep there is an SCTV documentary reunion that was filmed back in 2018 that got shelved because of the pandemic.
00:30:15
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um And Rick Moranis actually came back out of retirement for that and filmed some sketches and filmed part of that. It was supposed to be for Netflix. never came out. um Supposedly it was scrapped. and Not scrapped, it was just put on the shelf for a while.
00:30:28
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um with everything happened in the pandemic, and then Scorsese got busy with this, and then got busy with the other movies he's been doing, um that'll be out eventually, and that'll be fun. i'm I'm excited to see that, probably, I'm guessing, around the time Spaceballs comes out.
00:30:41
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But yeah, I don't want to get into too much, but just that amount of movies. The other movie they didn't mention in the documentary, Hugo. You ever watch Hugo? It's like a kid's movie. Yep. Oh, yeah.
00:30:52
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They didn't mention that at all in the documentary. That's one of his movies, too. um And a couple of Boardwalk Empire. He was the executive producer of that and Vinyl. Never watched Vinyl, but I know i know you're a huge fan of Boardwalk.
00:31:05
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And the Shine and the Light Rolling Stones concert film came out in 2007, 2008. He did that as well. um Huge career, a huge massive part of Hollywood, um and a huge massive part of cinema in general. So every time you see the memes with him in cinema...
00:31:22
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It's true. He's just, there's nobody like him. Um, and it's great to see how his life turned into, to what his movies became eventually growing up in New York city. I know you watched the first two episodes, you know, you lived in the slums in New York.
00:31:37
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Um, where all the gangs were happening at the same time. So we see a lot of that stuff going on in the streets. Um, a very shy kid. He had, he's an asthmatic kid. So he wasn't a part of it, but he saw from the outside, like a lot of people that lived in New York in his, uh, level new and saw. So,
00:31:54
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Um, yeah, it's great documentary. Can't wait for you to watch it. Um, and I'm, there's a lot of Scorsese movies I haven't seen. I haven't seen Mean Streets. That's Robert De Niro's first movie with him. Uh, Scorsese's first movie. Kind of, kind of want to watch that now.
00:32:07
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Um, New York, New York. When I worked at the video store, um, I wasn't allowed to take new movies home. That's when I caught up on a lot of old movies. And that's when why I saw a lot of the older movies. So I saw them when i was like 15. So I revisited them.
00:32:21
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So let me know if you want to revisit them because I'll try to watch them. now Yeah, we'll get we'll get into it. Maybe once the year starts. We'll do this first season thing. yeah um The other thing, the other documentary I'm sure you haven't had a chance to watch. We talked about it last week. Drew Struzan, who passed away.
00:32:36
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um This is on YouTube. It's a documentary all about his making of posters. ah Growing up and talking talking about him starting in the 70s, becoming an album creator. He created the ah Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath, and a few other album covers.
00:32:53
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um But it reminded me of the realism of art. like I talked about it, um Alex Ross, how I love his art in comic books. um And Drew had that kind of same realistic eye where his pictures on the poster, even though they were paintings, they looked like pictures. They look real. That's how realistic they were. obviously an inspiration for Alex Ross, his inspiration, you think about it, of course, Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell did the same thing in the fifties. makes perfect sense.
00:33:21
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Yeah. um He had a close association with Lucasfilm, did all the star Wars stuff, did all the indie stuff. um He did everything for them. um Had an association, of course, with um Jim Henson and all the Muppet movies.
00:33:34
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um He did the poster, the iconic poster for The Thing, which I've never seen. I'm sure you've seen it, the the horror the horror movie The Thing. Yeah, it's one of the greatest movies of all time. Right.
00:33:46
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And some say it's best poster of all time. He did it overnight, like with no... They told they gave him a task to do it and he did it overnight. and It just came out amazing, and it's iconic. um Worked with Amblin. Worked with steel Spielberg very closely. Did the posters for E.T., Goonies, Cuthro, Island. But my favorite was Hook. I mentioned that last week.
00:34:05
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Did all the posters for Back to the Future. And those are my favorite movies. We already talked about it. My favorite posters. So yeah, it makes sense. He did all the posters for the Police Academy movies.
00:34:17
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um He did Mallrats for Kevin Smith, the iconic poster for that. He worked with Frank Darabont. He did the Green Mile Shawshank Redemption. um he did it He came back later on in 2013 and did a Walking Dead cf Season 1 poster as well.
00:34:34
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I worked with Guillermo del Toro for hell boyy um the Hellboy, Hellboy 2, Pan's Labyrinth. The studio did not want to use that artwork because the studio just was getting more and more into Photoshop. more and Now it's into AI, but back then it was Photoshop, so didn't want to hire these artists $50,000, $100,000 to do these paintings.
00:34:53
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So they would go in and into Photoshop and just take pictures and do it themselves, kind of losing that artist's touch. but um Making his art a true lost art when he passed away. And there's not a lot of people like him that do that hand-on, hand-to-hand artwork style for...
00:35:09
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for these is either AI or Photoshop, which sucks. Um, and, uh, encapsulates fully what, um, what the artist was and is and brings the movie to life in ways that pictures and, and maybe AI can try to tackle, but never, never the same.
Drew Struzan Documentary Review
00:35:25
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He also did comic book covers. He did this one in the early two thousands, uh, action comics with Superman. And he actually put himself in the bottom left corner there. Um, yeah, great documentary. It's on YouTube for free. If anybody wants to watch it, it's called, um,
00:35:39
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Drew, the man behind the poster. Great documentary. ah Rest in peace to him. um And this week, we are two weeks away from Halloween. Actually, next weekend is Halloween. So we're on our second to last week of Halloween.
00:35:51
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Yes. And we decided to go full full steam ahead into Stephen King. um And a couple of these movies I know you've seen. i know there's a couple you hadn't brand new this week. Starting off with Carrie.
00:36:03
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Never saw that. This is the very first adaptation of sting a Stephen King novel into a movie. um Directed by Brian De Palma, who did Scarface, Untouchables, Carlitos Way. he did the first of Mission Impossible movie.
00:36:16
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sorryring Starring Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, and William Catt, the greatest American hero. Came out in 1976. Um, people put this right up on top of their list of horror movies just because of the, came out at perfect time for horror movies. also yeah Um, story it came out in the seventies when horror movies were more, um, niche gore.
00:36:36
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it was more niche. It was more gore. A lot of directors from horror in the seventies actually were switching over from soft core pornography. yeah Um, they talk about that. Like the director of the first Friday 13th. Um,
00:36:49
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um But yeah, Carrie was awesome. And the thing about it is, like I said, everything used to focus on a lot of gore. Last House on the Left, stuff like that were coming out.
00:37:00
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Wes Craven was doing shit like that. And this actually was ah just a very good story and is probably my favorite Stephen King book. I love this book. Yeah, we're going to get into the my favorite book next week because I'm going to be watching all the It movies. um yeah Getting ready for the next It TV show.
00:37:18
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um Great movie, though. You're right. One thing about Carrie, I will say this. um You've never seen the remake, I'm assuming, because you never saw the original. No. oh The remake is pretty good.
00:37:30
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um The issue is they cast a girl from Kick-Ass. Kick-Ass. while she was like, as she like had become like a woman and was actually quite attractive and beautiful and Carrie isn't supposed to be like, even remotely could be fitting in with the, the popular crowd just based on like looks and stuff like that.
00:37:56
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Um, so I thought that was a real big miscast where a Sissy Spacek is like the perfect Carrie and down to a T what's described in the book. Um, um, CZ Spacek's awesome as Carrie.
00:38:09
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um That's the one big drawback about the remake because like it's like this girl would have been popular in the early two thousand or mid-2000s whenever the movie came out. Late 2010s, I mean.
00:38:21
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um Just based on looks alone with the way people are so superficial in high school. um But yeah, Carrie is awesome. The original. Reminded me of She's All That, even though they're totally different movies, but taking this girl who's kind of the outcast and making her the prom queen.
00:38:40
Speaker
It's a sick joke. Sick joke that can't became part of it, yeah. um And she took revenge and killed everybody. Spoiler, but... um The one movie that you haven't seen that you recommended this week for Stephen King... Why did I recommend this? Just because it was on my goddamn iTunes library.
00:38:57
Speaker
It's funny you say that, because I didn't mind the movie, and it's it's kind of like one of those things where... The actor makes it fun to watch just because you know him.
00:39:08
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I liked it because of Gary Busey. Like, every time he was on the screen, I was like, oh, okay, this is good. then whenever he was on the screen, I was like, uh, this isn't We watched Silver Bullet, which is a werewolf movie.
00:39:21
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Came out in 1985 with ah Gary Busey's the star of this and Corey Haim. um This was a couple of years before The Lost Boys. is a couple This is kind of right right in the beginning of his career.
00:39:32
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um screen bit Screenplay was written by Stephen King. Came out in 1985. And Gary Busey, this is before his accident, but he was chewing scenery the whole entire time. Had some great one-liners.
00:39:44
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Great one-liners in this movie that um I don't remember off the top of my head. yep But um he was just chewing the scenery the whole entire time, being the drunk uncle, which was awesome. um Yeah, great movie for what it was, if you just take it out of context. And of course,
00:39:59
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Typical Stephen King um the kids in the wheelchair. There's always yeah he always focuses on like a loser or a loser group which is why I said losers club in it carries an outcast um But overall it's an okay movie. Um It just doesn't age well.
00:40:15
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It's not the biggest definite one like if I saw this and when did it come out like the 80s like 85 yeah 85 I saw this in 85 I probably would have fucking loved it, but like it does not age well No.
00:40:26
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No. The monster and everything. Everything about it is kind of campy. my god, the monster's fucking terrible. Horrible. Horrible, yeah. um Another movie I never saw. This is so Maine.
00:40:36
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So Maine. Growing up in the in down east Maine, Bangor, my whole entire childhood, Pet Sematary is Maine. Um... Ed Gwynn, Fred Gwynn, who played Herman Munster in The Munsters, came into this movie playing the guy who lives across the street who's kind of the, think he's a man.
00:40:59
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That's where he's from. Yeah, that's right. the And wasn't he in, are you talking about the guy from um My Cousin Vinny, The Judge? yeah Yeah, he's a judge in that. it was his last role. He died that same year. He's awesome.
00:41:10
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um Every time that guy pops on screen, and of course, I think it's Family Guy does like a rift of him at some points in there. Family Guy does does a riff on this movie in particular a lot. um Fred Gwynn was mimicking Stephen King because that's what Stephen King sounds like. He's got that deep down east Bangor accent.
00:41:28
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but Screenplay also written by Stephen King starring Fred Gwynn, Dale Midkiff. You've seen in a whole bunch of other stuff. The one show that I remember him was a show called Time Tracks. It like two seasons...
00:41:42
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All about time travel, but this guy that came from the future into the past was like a police officer in the past hunting down bad guys from the future that came to came to the past. Great show, only lasted a couple of seasons, but i remember watching it in reruns.
00:41:55
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um And the little kid from Kindergarten Cop... Full House, who is the little kid who ends up getting killed in this. Yes. Iconic in Kindergarten Cough where girls have a penis, boys have a vagina. You've ever seen that movie? You know it.
00:42:11
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yeah But he plays a little demon kid that if you ever saw him, and this was in real life, you would punch him across the fucking room. yeah Because he has the cat eyes. It's crazy. um And the girl from Ghost Rider on PBS, which is a show that nobody talks about,
00:42:25
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but was huge in my fucking childhood, the PBS show Ghost Rider, but she was ah she was the lead of that show. She was the daughter of this movie. um And Stephen King, I think this may have been his only role he ever had in one of his projects as a reverend. No, he was bartender in it He was in It.
00:42:42
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No, he was in a blogger. He was selling like, he had like a thrift store, I believe. That's what was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't remember. I'm going to watch it this weekend. I think it was the second It. It was It, chapter two. Okay.
00:42:54
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But all the all all that being said, I love this movie. Yeah, it's From what it was, yeah. for I mean, Pet Sematary, the pets go in there, they come back to life the next day, and they're demi demonic. There's something crazy going on there, but yeah.
00:43:07
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This was um one of those movies I grew up with. um yeah I'd go over to Jason Sanborn's house and Derek, his brother, was two years older than us. So he'd always get like horror movies. And this is one we used to watch all the time yeah at his house.
00:43:21
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um The remake is actually not that bad. okay They switched it, I believe. couple years ago? Yeah, i believe the son lives and the daughter dies in the remake. And um the neighbor in that is played by... um John Lithgow.
00:43:37
Speaker
Yeah, John Lithgow. Yeah. And he is fantastic in that movie. Yeah, gotta watch that. So i honestly, you're if you're a fan of Lithgow, if you have time to watch it this week going into next week and you want to review it, just let me know. I'll watch it too because I haven't seen it for since I got on digital when it came out.
00:43:53
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But I did enjoy the remake of it for what it is. But I grew up on the original and it's just such a classic to me. um I saw it a million times as a youth, so I didn't feel the need to watch it this time. But it's a great movie.
00:44:07
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Another one of his books that's also very good. Uh, his books are very hit or miss. Um, his short stories are almost better, like The Long Walk, which we'll get to, and, um, obviously Shawshank Redemption he wrote. Oh, yeah. Um, but yeah, Stephen King's Pet Sematary is fantastic.
00:44:24
Speaker
Um, and the last movie of the classic Stephen King is The Dead Zone. Mm-hmm. um This is with Christopher Walken. Yes. Came out in the late 90s, no, early 80s, I mean, 1983.
00:44:37
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um Directed by David k Cronenberg, who did The Fly, History of Violence, Eastern Promises, and he won for a Crash, Best Director, I believe. Love love k Cronenberg. Yep. um Starring Christopher Walken, Tom Skerritt, who's in Top Gun, whole bunch of other shit, yeah and a cameo appearance by Martin Sheen at the end of this movie.
00:44:57
Speaker
This is more my type of Stephen King. I love this movie just because i love ghost stuff. I love like yeah premonitions and all that type of thing. And I thought Christopher Walken just played this part perfectly.
00:45:09
Speaker
He is awesome. Just great movie. Yeah, agreed. Didn't know much about it going in. I'm kind of glad that it was kind of blind going in, but yeah. um But all of that leads up to the review of the week. I know you had probably mentioned this before on the podcast, but... Yeah, i gave it a four and a half or a five. I think gave it a four and a half or a four. Yeah.
00:45:29
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In the theaters this summer, there was a Stephen King movie that came out, Adaptation. Called The Long Walk. Um... Didn't know much about it going in.
00:45:40
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Kind of glad I didn't. Set in... It almost looks futuristic, but then you look at the cars, it almost looks like it could be set in the 70s or 80s. I think it's... I think it's an alternate universe.
00:45:50
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Um... Okay. where it's either right around vietnam or like something like that it just feels like it has that aesthetic to it that feels definitely does but i felt that too alternate like history type thing is how i feel don't know if like it immediately brought me back to peacemaker where it did the nazis or world war ii or whatever but i'm not sure they don't really explain that and it's not important to the story at all um you just have to know it doesn't take place in current time But basically, without giving the big spoilers of the movie away, it's set in that type of world where annually they have this walk where they have 50 kids from each of the 50 states come in on this walk.
00:46:28
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And they have to walk, keep walking and keep walking and not stop. They get penalized penalize if they stop. And the last lone survivor gets the wish of his lifetime plus millions of dollars, billions of dollars whatever to live for the rest of his life.
00:46:44
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um And i don't know how many years they had done this for however long it's been going on. But um the lead of this is the major played by Mark Hamill. um the two stars of this the two main stars there's a few other familiar familiar faces are um i don't know their names but i know the kid from alien romulus yep and i know aaron johnston and aaron johnston and uh fucking seymour seymour hoffman's uh yeah philm seymour hoffman's son who's a fucking hell an actor this movie amazing in this movie they're both great they're both great yeah
00:47:19
Speaker
The only other movie I've seen Philip Seymour Hoffman sun in was Saturday Night, and I know you saw the other one, which was Licorice Pizza, right? there was He was the star that Was it Licorice Pizza or something else I'm thinking of? Yeah, that's it, right? Licorice Pizza, yep. yeah Which I haven't seen. It's on my list of things to watch, but great fucking... This is a great fucking movie.
00:47:37
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yeah um lots of lots It definitely feels like Stephen King. it seems to the point where this starts in Maine. that's what it' you don't They don't never tell you that. But it seems like, because this kid, who's Philip Seymour Hoffman's son, he's starting in his home ten in his home state.
00:47:53
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And the way they're talking, they're talking about going to Freeport. They're talking about they talking about a lot of stuff of being in an area that's kind of out of there. No big city stuff happening.
00:48:05
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Reminded me a lot of Bangor, where Stephen King grew up. So I'm guessing that's kind of what what this is without actually saying it's where it was located. um But Stephen King is all located in Maine too, so it makes perfect sense. But great movie. Four and a half out of five for me.
00:48:20
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Recommend it to anybody who has who has't any any need of watching a new movie. um Speaking of that, Weapons just came on HBO today. So two great horror movies, horror thriller movies out right now if you want to watch them.
00:48:33
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um And yeah, and with that being said, let's get into the news.
00:48:45
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ah Not a lot of trailers to talk about, so I'll talk about this one
00:48:50
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Um, on Netflix coming out on November 12th, there's a Eddie Murphy documentary called being Eddie. Um, and they bring him and a whole bunch of people he's worked with in the past talking about his career.
00:49:01
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Um, I'm not sure if there's episodes or if it's just one movie or what it is, but, um, it's going be on November 12th coming out on Netflix. So excited for that. Uh, weekend box office last week, black phone too. Are you fan of the black phone franchise? I know their first couple years ago.
00:49:18
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I reviewed the first one on the podcast. um I was disappointed in it, but I've heard incredible things about the new one. But granted, I saw the first one.
00:49:30
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I fucking I get caught up in hype of movies. So I saw it like when I was caught up in the hype of it and it just didn't live up to what I was told. So, right. It's still good movie, but I've heard the new one's awesome.
00:49:42
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26.5 from number one. it Tron Aries, 11.4. Week two. um People are saying it's trash a trash movie too. um Good Fortune debuted this week. That's the Keanu Reeves movie where he plays an angel of Seth Rogen. 6.2 million debuted.
00:49:59
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um For a comedy this in this climate, not surprisingly. Not surprised by that. but um yeah Rest in peace to Sam Rivers. If you're a kid who grew up in hip-hop, rock, in the but beginning of the millennium, Sam Rivers is the basis of Limp Bizkit.
00:50:16
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Passed away on unannounced. I think he had a liver disease a few years ago. and no No word on how he died, but they're speculating that could be the reason why. But he passed away this week. Rest in peace to him.
00:50:29
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um And let's get into the big news of the week, which is Warner Brothers if you ask going for a Sam Rivers going for sale. Warner Brothers is going for sale, and the big rumor was that Paramount was going to be the buyer. And they've downplayed that. I think since this article came out that we're going to be talking about now, there's been three bids by Paramount that have been denied by Warner Brothers for ownership.
00:50:57
Speaker
The last bid was to keep David Zasoff on as the co-CEO of the company. And with all the stock options and everything and 80% of the company, they poo-pooed that situation. So now, one of others came up this week and said they're evaluating um acquisition offers from multiple parties.
00:51:17
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And speculation on who those parties are has gone all over the internet crazy. um After receiving interest from multiple parties, we have initiated a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives to identify the best path forward to unlock the value of our assets.
00:51:33
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Um, speculation is Netflix who has gone out and denied it because they like to keep their own property. I personally, i don't know if I believe in it. I think that was just, I'm not saying if they're going to bid on it or not. Um, type deal. Cause an expiration that big, you don't want to put your cards on the table so soon into the negotiations.
00:51:53
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Yep. um Also, Comcast was listed. um Ted Sarandos, like I mentioned, kind of poo-pooing it and kind of talking light about it. um Warner Brothers, um the big the big other thing was Apple TV. And Warner Brothers says that Apple has shown interest in acquiring the TV and film library.
00:52:13
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Probably not the networks because they don't care about that. I think Netflix would be very interested in the library, but they also know that whoever takes over, they can work on a deal to show Warner Brothers movies with them. So.
00:52:26
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And if the potential merger happens, the
Warner Brothers Acquisition Speculation
00:52:31
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Writers Guild of America came out yesterday and said it would be disaster for writers because a lot of people would be downplayed as far as pay is concerned.
00:52:40
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um It would diminish competition and free speech. um So they said they will work together with the regulators to block the merger. So you already have one big union going against this merger in the first place. So...
00:52:53
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Um, speculation, and we're talking about other companies, um, Disney, they're saying Disney does not want a part of it at all. Um, and I don't think they can, to be honest.
00:53:05
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Um, I think they're too big already to acquire another company like that. Like, not money-wise, but I think they're just, they, they won't be allowed to by the FCC or whoever regulates that shit. Right.
00:53:16
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doing race research in 2016 before they bought 20th Century Fox, that was that was Bob Iger's one big acquisition prospect, was Warner Brothers.
00:53:27
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That was the plan, and then 20th Century Fox went for sale, and they jumped on that deal instead. So, yeah I don't... Unless they have a boner for work maybe... marvel yeah right I honestly don't think it can go through with the regulations.
00:53:39
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Yeah. um It won't pass. They probably have to sell off Fox or something. you know um yeah the other The other thing is like the paramount of it all, um Trump is huge on this deal and wants Paramount to own it.
00:53:55
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And also, he just had this big huge knockdown dragout with Paramount where they fired Stephen Colbert. So, was there some sort of collusion there? Don't want to get political, but the questions have have to be there.
00:54:07
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I don't know if it'll ever be explored correctly with the FCC and everybody in that pocket, but... I'm not necessarily Republican or Democrat, but you see that from a mile away. um But yeah, huge thing. And then, of course, as this comes out, HBO Max announces that they're going to up the price of HBO Max this week during this article timeline. Bad timing.
Streaming Service Cost Concerns
00:54:30
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um And ah the highest price going up for the just a regular HBO Max, just plain HBO Max, $18.49, which is higher than Netflix.
00:54:40
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Netflix is currently at $17.99 a month. of So they're the highest price, if you want to get premium for HBO Max now, which is no commercials, is $22.99 and went up for $2 a month. so that's crazy.
00:54:54
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Crazy. for three Basically, what you're paying for three streaming services now, you're That's what you were paying for cable a decade ago. So they're making up for it now, which sucks. Because we were at the Renaissance five years ago during the pandemic. It was so sweet, wasn't it?
00:55:08
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Yeah. Now we're fucked. The consumer is the one that's fucked up over it. But yeah. um Hooters. We talked about it a few months ago, how they were talking about going maybe and liquidating the company and trying to change the strategy of the company.
00:55:22
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While the original owners of Hooters came in, and the original founders, and they acquired 111 Hooters restaurants for $40 million. They're going to try to rescue the brand.
00:55:33
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I filed for Chapter 11 earlier in the year. They're going to to rescue the brand and bring it back to its former glory of breaded wings, original sauces, refurbishing the restaurants in server uniforms, the the short shorts and everything. They're going to focus all on the what made them popular in the 90s, and they're going to focus on that and try to bring these 111 Hooters locations back into prominence,
00:55:55
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Love Hooters. We talked about it before. Hooters has more of a connection with us going to wrestling events because it was right near the Fleet Center. but yeah yeah yeah Good to see maybe not going out of bankruptcy bankruptcy going into bankruptcy. but yeah ah fair I saw this article wanted to bring it up.
00:56:11
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Francis Ford Coppola who had Megalopolis come out last year, was a huge, huge box office failure. Not only box office, but critical failure. failure um Laughed out of Hollywood for it pretty much after he was high on it.
00:56:27
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Had a yard sale this week. And he put ah his $1 million dollar watch on sale, for sale, during this sale, trying to make money back for all the money he lost, putting all of his personal money into making Megalopolis, which is a failure commercially and for himself.
00:56:45
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I want to bring that up. We've got the first picture of Anthony Apaglietto. I don't know how to say his last name, but he's playing Sylvester Stallone in the I Play Rocky movie, TV series, wherever it's going to be. um That's him looks right out of Rocky. looks Looks just like it's out of Rocky. so um And announced today, Austin Butler is in talks along with Michael B. Jordan to be in a but Miami Vice reboot at Universal Pictures.
00:57:12
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Austin Butler would play Sonny Crockett, and ah Michael B. Jordan would be playing Tubbs. um Yeah, all about the South Florida detectives and big played by Don Johnson way back in the I never saw the... Wasn't Colin Farrell the other reason Colin Farrell and Jimmy Fox, yeah.
00:57:30
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Back in maybe 20 years ago. never saw that. yeah Yeah, I don't think I did either. don't think I did either. Maybe that was before our time. I love those... Right. I love those two actors.
00:57:41
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I think that would be a great combination too. So I'm kind of excited for that. um Netflix is developing a series about the Kennedy family. Described as the American version of The Crown.
00:57:53
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Michael Fassbender has been cast as Joseph Kennedy Sr. There's a lot of controversy with the Kennedy family going way back into the 40s with, I believe it was John F. Kennedy's sister who had the lobotomy and became a vegetable after that.
00:58:07
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And I'm wondering, i'm guessing they're going to get into all of that, plus all the Kennedy assassinations and everything that's involved and around that too. That'll be an amazing documentary and amazing series on Netflix. So yeah, we'll hear more about that in the coming year.
00:58:22
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um Netflix has announced that they're also developing films and TV shows based on the board game Catan. I've heard of the game. I know it's, I think it's a little bit more like an RPG type of game, board game. I'm not really sure, but it's on, it's on, it's Netflix has a deal with that. i wanted to bring that up.
00:58:38
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um They announced season three of Shrinking coming out Wednesday, January 28th on Apple TV for the first episode airing through April 8th. Got some brand new pictures for that.
00:58:50
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um That's the Michael Fassbender and John Kennedy's father. um And Shrinking. And that's Catan. That's Shrinking. Hopefully, yeah, that's Shrinking. New pictures of Shrinking.
00:59:02
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um And Bill Lawrence has said the series has always had plans for three-season arc. um And the th third season is going to be about moving forward, where first season was about grief. Second season was about forgiveness. So, yeah, really cool. Cannot wait for that.
00:59:17
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um And announced this week that Stranger Things, the finale, will be airing in theaters. It's going happen on New Year's Eve, same day as a Netflix release. Oh, um so the backlash... Yeah.
00:59:28
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Caused that to happen, I guess. did happen. um IMAX is also joining forces with Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video to eventize streaming content. ah Most significantly, ah Netflix, when they're doing their Greta Gerwig's Narnia series coming out Thanksgiving of next year, um that's going one of their first movies. Also, I believe they're doing... Netflix is also doing a two-week IMAX exclusive run.
00:59:53
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Um, theatrical window for four weeks and they're committed to marketing and everything um frankenstein is ah also a part of that deal so yeah it's huge um here's deal um amazon we talked about them buying the rights to do the creative control of james bond Found out the price this week. They paid $20 million dollars for Creative Control, which we thought it was gonna be a lot higher than that.
01:00:17
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But they did pay $20 million to have Creative Control in the next series of Bond to get it away from the Broccoli. So that's kind of crazy.
01:00:26
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Seems low. and Announced yesterday, um they're going to be doing another ah Christmas Carol. This time, Ebenezer, A Christmas Carol, um starring Johnny Depp.
01:00:38
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yeah and Who was the director of this one? I can't remember. This Thai West one. Ty West, yeah. I didn't even read it in here. Yeah, Ty West. Ty West, of course, Maxine.
01:00:49
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um The other one we were talking about, reason I got confused is the other one was robert Eggers and Willem Dafoe. Who's pitch perfect for this as far as direction goes. um And that's where our... I can't wait for that one.
01:01:03
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That's where our Robert Zemeckis... love Ty West also. And that's where our Robert Zemeckis talk came from and why I watched Back the Future last night. is because the remake that he did, the animated one, was the worst movie I've seen, one of the worst movies I've seen in the theater, right up there with Freddy Got Fingered, if I had to compare the two.
01:01:21
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But yeah, um not a big fan. The only the only Christmas Carol I'm a huge fan of is Muppets. Muppets, yeah. I'm not a huge fan of the story, but Eggers will most certainly get me to watch his version of the story.
01:01:34
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You love Tye West too, so you probably, depending on how this turns out, the casting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mortal Kombat 2 moved up a week to May 8th of 2026, so they're taking over the Avengers, where Avengers is going to be. They're going opening up the summer blockbuster season. We should have been reviewing this very episode.
01:01:52
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this Yeah, for sure. ah Got a brand new poster for Sinners coming out IMAX, I believe, next week or is it this weekend? Next week. yeah i Coming out IMAX for the whole weekend. Coming out on IMAX, I think this weekend was Back to the Future, right? Didn't that come out this weekend on IMAX in... Yes.
01:02:09
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yeah I think so. yeah I've got brand new posters for Fallout Season 2, debuting in December. I've got brand new posters of all the characters for that. I've got brand new character posters for Wicked.
01:02:22
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Tickets went on sale. um Have not got them yet. But yeah, they also announced who's playing the Cowardly Lion, played by Coleman Domingo. Can't wait for that. um And Star Wars news.
Rejected Star Wars Pitches Discussion
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David Fincher reportedly pitched a Star Wars film set after The Rise of Skywalker.
01:02:42
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David Fincher is one of my favorite directors. I just don't see his style with Star Wars. Well, neither did Lucasfilm. They turned him down. Yeah, I mean, it would be very interesting to see um his style in Star Wars. um Right.
01:02:57
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was thinking about, actually, when I saw this on Twitter, and i was like, I honestly think Fincher might have five movies in my top 30 of all time. Two of them in my top 10. One of them's in your top five, at least.
01:03:10
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One of you my top three, yeah. Yeah, top three. My Club, obviously, yeah. My Club and Seven are both probably my top ten. i mean five least Seven is an amazing movie. Zodiac's top 15. Amazing movie.
01:03:22
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The Game is top 30. Social Network. Social Network, another top 15. Performances in that are amazing. yeah Plus, um his work on his Netflix show, Mindhunters. Yeah.
01:03:34
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um Yeah. right I honestly do... I don't even think of him like like people always talk about Nolan stuff, but like to me, Fincher... It doesn't get much better than Fincher for me, for storytelling.
01:03:46
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Yeah. Makes perfect perfect sense. ah Other Star Wars news, Adam Driver. Talking about him and Steven Soderbergh being part of a two-year development of a Ben Solo Star Wars movie that was set after the Rise of Skywalker, where Ben Solo would have survived. Yeah.
01:04:02
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um But Disney strapped it before could even take place. It's set after Rise of Skywalker. Lucasfilm loved the idea, but Disney said no.
01:04:14
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um They didn't see how Ben Solo was going to be alive after he died at the end of Rise of Skywalker. Okay, so first off, Disney, you can get fucked. um Second off, Disney, this is the only character from that series people would have wanted to see more of, yes and you still would have made a billion dollars.
01:04:29
Speaker
I'm sure people are going to see the Rey movie. It's going to be great with the young girls, but this is the one character from the sequel trilogy everyone loved. And also, you fucking put somehow Palpatine has returned into a fucking script, and you say that you can't see how this guy can return. Right, yeah. The other thing is the fans have gone crazy.
01:04:49
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And there's a marketing campaign online right now. Yeah. um Bring back Ben Solo. blowing up. Somebody rented an airplane and flew it over Hollywood yesterday with a hashtag SaveBenSolo. It's crazy.
01:05:02
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um Don't think it'll happen. It should happen. Don't think it will. It should. Yep. They're kind of, besides the right movie, which is still kind of weird, they distance themselves from that whole trilogy after a backlash.
01:05:15
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A Ben Solo movie, say, I mean, it says it was going to after Rise Skywalker, but say Disney was like, you can do a Ben Solo movie, but have it be before episode seven and have it leading up to episode seven would also be very good with the way episode seven starts off where he's hunting people down.
01:05:31
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Right. Yeah. So that would have also been a great idea. Yep. Let's talk about some swag. Swag! Stuff we all get.
01:05:42
Speaker
Come on, son. You know that's right. They announced some Goonies stuff today. i got some Goonies Lego figures. um The Goonies pirate ship from the movie. $300, 2,900 pieces.
01:05:57
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um Coming out on November 1st, they also announced a whole bunch of minifigures there, too. They also announced the Attic from the beginning of the movie. Give me a little mini Lego set of 179 pieces. That was announced today Also announced the house, the Creel House, from Stranger Things last season.
01:06:15
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um I think Vecna lived there. That's coming out as well. i know i have a picture of that too. But yeah, Lego sets are becoming more dioramas than sets now. So yeah. um DC News of the Week.
01:06:30
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um DC Studios has registers so registered Salvation Run as a trademark after Peacemaker Season 2 ended. hu um Also posted on... Instagram or threads yesterday, James Gunn, um, posting all the storyboards he's currently writing for man of tomorrow in the middle of his, he's, he's known for his big, huge run of storyboards where he, he picks out everything.
01:06:53
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The other great thing about the Martin Scorsese documentary, he does the same thing in his scripts. He writes the storyboards on the edge of the strip, which I thought was a cool. I know. James Gunn, it's funny, because certain segment don't like him, but he talked about learning that from Zack Snyder during Dawn of the Dead, when Zack would do that, and that's when he started doing it after Dawn of the Dead, um any project he worked on.
01:07:14
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Okay. um Speaking of James Gunn, also talking about Darkseid and how people think he's being eyed for being the big bad of the DCU, saying using Darkseid as the big bad now is not necessarily the thing because of a lot of reasons, Zack Snyder being one of them.
01:07:29
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And, of course, the connection kind of looking like Thanos and Marvel has already done that. um But he does say that... in mr miracle that the new gods are going to be playing the bigger part of this story yes of course he is dark side is a part of the new gods but he's more interested in talking about the other characters of that um which are going to be introduced in mr miracle so yes um um yeah and because we got dark side um Kind of. Right. In the Snyder Cut. um
01:08:03
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There's more villains in DC than Darkseid, so I'm glad he kind of said that. um Just like, I know you always have an issue with um the fact they always go back to the Joker for Batman when there's plenty of other villains you yeah.
01:08:15
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um i'm on the side of i like my batman to have a joker but not have him be the big bad which is why i like the way it was handled in um matt reed's universe there looks like it's gonna be handled where he's kind of just gonna be in the background um but yeah there's more villains in dc and also what james gunn has done this week i think is awesome um you know where all these interviews and and news is coming from right yeah and Coming from podcasts of stuff that he listens and watches.
01:08:41
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He's going on people that support the DCU that he listens to, like Boba, who I love Boba. He's one of my favorite podcasts. Jenna. Yep, Jenna's another one. He's going around to all these... I mean they're they're quote-unquote small podcasts, but they're pretty big within the DC community. yeah And it's just cool of him to take 10 minutes out of his day to go on these and and answer questions. And, of course, every answer he says gets torn apart by... yes people that have cult-like behaviors. But this is really cool of him to do if you ask me.
01:09:11
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The other thing I heard him talk about was Constantine 2. He said he's met with Keanu Reeves, but hasn't read the script. He knows there's a script for the second one. He's discussed it on and off, discussed it with Keanu. So we'll see if that returns.
01:09:25
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Why did this become a thing? Because all I remember when Constantine came out... It was trashed.
'Constantine' Film Reception and Sequel Speculation
01:09:30
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It was how people hated it. Yeah, it was trashed. liked it. I liked it, it was trashed by everybody. it yeah Yeah, it was not like, and now all of a sudden people want to see a sequel. Is it because of John Wick's popularity maybe? Maybe.
01:09:42
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That's the only thing I can think of is that he, because he was kind of out of Hollywood after Constantine. mean, he was doing stuff, but it wasn't until John Wick where he kind of resurrected his career. So, I don't know.
Sadie Sink's Role in 'Spider-Man' Speculation
01:09:54
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ah Marvel News of the Week. You see Sadie Sink from Stranger Things is first time on set of ah ah Spider-Man. um sitting next Standing next to daniel Dustin Daniel Cretton there.
01:10:05
Speaker
yeah i Still not sure who she's playing, but she is wearing army fatigues under this jacket she's wearing. so Speculation she she could be a follower of the Punisher, could be a part of the army, who knows.
01:10:16
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um what we'll We won't know for a while on that role, but ah probably until the trailer comes out.
'Fantastic Four' on Disney+ Announcement
01:10:21
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um And finally in news, coming out and on November 5th, they announced that this week, or today I mean, Fantastic Four coming to Disney+. plus So if anybody has not seen that yet, it'll be if you have Disney+, it'll be there.
01:10:33
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so um That's it for our show this
Halloween Episode Teaser
01:10:36
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week. Next week we have a jam-packed Halloween episode. um The big thing we're going to talking about is It.
01:10:44
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Welcome to Derry. That debuts on Sunday. The first episode. Getting rave reviews. People are loving it. and On HBO Max if anybody wants to watch along with us. But our finale for Halloween movies...
01:10:58
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It's going to terrify me for weeks to come. Children of the Corn. I'm going to watch that. ah I'm going to watch The Birds. I wanted to watch a Hitchcock movie this month. awesome I've never seen I'm going to watch that.
01:11:11
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umm going to review The Conjuring The Last Rites. Kind of great timing effect that we have that to watch.
01:11:19
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Because I know there's a lot of connections to The Exorcist, to that movie. And we're going watch that as well for the very first time. I've never seen it. you Have you seen it? You never saw it either. No, that's that's why I wanted to do it this year.
01:11:30
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I ordered it last October on 4K. There was an issue with Amazon. I got it in November, and I said, fuck this, I'll wait a year. Right. So...
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01:11:39
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Pray for us. We're going to need it because the demon is going be coming into this house this week and i won't be sleeping towards the end of it.
01:11:47
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Um, so yeah, we're going to review the exorcist and all those other movies. Also going to be watching it. I haven't seen it one and two back to back ever since the theater. I haven't seen them. so I'm going to watch them, uh, this weekend and kind of before getting prepare our stuff going into the TV show, but yeah.
01:12:03
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I might you go back and watch the Tim Curry one too because I love that movie. so If I'm to watch them all, I'm going to watch that one too. so Thank you, everybody. and We will be back for our Halloween Spectacular next week. We'll see you then.
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