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121. The Dangers of Thinking That You’re Smarter Than You Are
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Adrian and Simon review director Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and writer/director James Gunn’s Peacemaker Season 2. Additionally, they examine the somewhat ridiculous production costs for Star wars Rise of Skywalker; while they compare the production costs and quality of the Star Wars Andor TV series. Plus, Apple doesn’t like “plus” anymore as they vibrantly rebrand their streaming service to simply, “Apple TV”. They also get hyped for Marvel’s upcoming VisionQuest & Wonder Man TV shows, they discuss the future of Game of Thrones with the upcoming A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms HBO TV series, and they gear up for spooky season with discussions about The Evil Dead (2013) & Alan Wake. The two brothers also discuss Tim Robinson’s HBO comedy series The Chair Company, a house under siege from a wasp colony, and the benefits of all-you-can-eat vacations.
This episode was recorded in Canada on October 18th 2025. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on November 4th for Episode 122.
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Rebranding Confusion: Apple TV Plus to Apple TV
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This episode, we talk about how Apple TV Plus is now Apple TV, since Apple, they're they're just simply not a fan of pluses, because having a plus is somehow more confusing than having a streaming box called an Apple TV, and then an app called Apple TV, and then now also there's streaming service just being called Apple TV instead of Apple TV Plus.
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Yeah, that
Debating 'Rise of Skywalker' and Favorite Movies
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tracks. We discuss how the third most expensive movie of all time, Rise of Skywalker, just so happens to be Adrian's favorite movie of all time, just behind Morbius and Sausage Party. Oh, my goodness. What the heck, man? That's not true. You know that's not true.
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But I really dislike this movie. I'd rather shoot my legs off than watch it. It's so bad. It ruins everything. They went through everything in Andor, which is a great show everyone should watch just to lead up to this.
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Look, we're supposed to be nuanced. You'd rather shoot your legs off than watch Rise of Skywalker? Yep. That's nuanced? That's not hyperbolic to you? Okay. And
Podcast Introduction: Meet Adrian and Simon
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we review director Paul Thomas Anderson's hit film One Battle After Another and the finale of writer-director James Gunn's Peacemaker Season 2.
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Wow. We do do that.
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Am I supposed to do something here? it' Say your line. Oh, my name is Adrian Pinter. My name
Personal Stories: Wasp Infestation and Destination Weddings
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is Simon Eadie. Welcome to Split Focus, a film and TV podcast, episode one, two, one. Hello. Hello. Hello.
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to be audience Dude, I'm under siege. I'm under siege every day every day of the last two weeks since I saw you last on this here pod, my friend. Under siege?
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Under siege. Explain. It's been horrible. There's a wasp nest in my wall. Inside? Wasps. The insect that I like the least, I must say. It is the worst insect. up there I like spiders better than wasps.
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I like mosquitoes better than wasps. Wasps are the worst. Aren't spiders arachnids? They're not insects?
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technicalities okay you know what i'm trying to say i think a bug okay just sorry bugs that's what i'm trying to say bugs all right doesn't matter anyway they're in my wall wearing your wall there is ah there's a there's an air conditioning unit on the outside of my wall and there's a there's the the guy who installed the air conditioner Not good at his job.
00:02:49
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There's lots of mistakes. He did lots of problems. he He installed the central air at the same time as installing the air conditioning unit. And he left the gaping hole where the pipes go in from the air conditioner. And so naturally, things get in there.
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And that's why sometimes I hear like things like behind the walls. They don't get in the house, but I can hear them. It's me. But the wasps are very small little creatures. And so they...
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They do get in and it's very annoying. And it's we've been killing three to five wasps a day. in your house? Yes. In the house. It's really bad. They've got pets. You know, you were scared. were scared. They're going to get stung.
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We ordered an exterminator. Don't think they did a good job, to be honest. I think that they didn't know what they were doing. Although they said they were, they i love when one of the most dangerous things, I think, and this is something I believe sincerely, is somebody who claims to be an expert and claims to know everything, but doesn't actually know as much as they claim to the point where they're like, that's like an unknowledgeable, confident person.
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I guess it would be the, is a dangerous thing for society in general. But that's what these guys seem like they were because it it it is odd that we're still getting wasps oh exactly a week after ah after they werere were exterminated, quote unquote.
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So it is it is very frustrating. Again, every day, wasps are floating around somewhere in the house. um Usually they they gravitate toward the window because they get in somewhere in the house. yeah And then I think it's usually through the vents because again, the air conditioner guy did such a bad job um at installing it that he he installed the venting throughout the house as well. And I think because he did such a bad job, there must be a bunch of holes.
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um Anyway, it's been's been bad. It's been a bad two weeks ah in that regard. But it's weird because it's we've had almost had more wasps in the house since they exterminated, quote unquote, the nest.
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So it's been frustrating. It's been it's been a time. It's been a not not fun time, I will say. Yeah, it sounds awful, dude. I I hate wasps. There's they're frightening. They'll sting you.
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and You can be allergic to them as well. I don't know if I'm allergic to them. um I've never been stung by a wasp. Oh, lucky at you. My grandma's allergic to wasps. So what if I am?
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What if it has been passed down through generations and I get stung in the comfort of my backyard, no EpiPen around, and then I die from a wasp? Whoa. So you never got tested? Does it just determine whether you might be deathly allergic? and not an urban but I've never had an allergy test.
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how did you How did your grandmother find out? I'm assuming the old-fashioned way. got stung. Yeah. And then she just was rushed to the hospital? Yeah. Did she carry an EpiPen for such an occasion or she just kind of took the risk because wasps aren't that, they don't sting you that often?
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I guess she just took the risk. This was ah in Serbia. Right. where she Where she's from. Right. Former Yugoslavia back then. Indeed. When all those countries got along.
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The thing about wasps is that they they don't really serve much of a purpose in the in an ecosystem way. I know they do. and Everything does in some way. But it's like in comparison to other creatures out there, I feel like they're just the least important.
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I agree. They're not bees, that's for sure. and i Whenever someone says bee in place of wasp, When they're talking about a bee, I get a little frustrated because I love bees. And bees die when they sting you.
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Wasps can sting you unlimited times. Yeah. Bees are like Japanese World War II fighter pilots, you know the kamikaze pilots. Yeah. yeah but They didn't do much they do much bad. Yeah.
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But you know when they when they had to do bad, they died as well. But also bees don't want to sting They're just trying to their little busy work. Just like the Japanese in World War Didn't want to kamikaze. I feel like they were told to do it and they didn't want to.
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No, they did a lot of war crimes. I was being facetious. Oh, okay. I was making a little joke. got you. You know? Gotcha. Humor. was trying in Korea, you know what I mean?
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Comedy. Yeah. Anyway. Okay, well, yeah, it's been it's been tough it's been tough. But yeah, I don't like wasps. and i and i And I wish they would stop. i which sure would stop Yesterday, I think we got caught four, which is above average. The average is three per day. how are you killing them?
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there So here's the thing about the wasps. The wasps that come into the house are generally stupid. they're They come in and they're very delirious. Like they're dumber than the average wasp? or or i think they're very hungry.
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they they they don't they're not so They're stupid in a way like you ever seen a stupid fly? You know, like a fly ah after like winter's over. Like they like they were hibernating somewhere in your house and then they come and they're like like hitting the window and they you they can't move very fast. Like flies generally are very fast.
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you They zip around. You can't hit them. It's difficult. But these wasps don't even move. They're like crawling. Sometimes they don't fly at all. They go to the light and they're like, i just I think this is the sun. This is where I'm supposed to be.
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Like that kind of sadness. They're just trying to survive. But they they they're too stupid to even like... go to food and stuff. Do you think that was caused by the exterminator? No, because now like yeah partially partially. Yes, the exterminator sprayed into the hole, but he fumigated first. The reason why I think he did a bad job. And I mean, somebody was listening to this. There was an exterminator. I guess it'd be they could tell us otherwise, but we're never going to have that happen. But but regardless of that, and like the exterminator fumigated inside the hole and then put like a powder that like kind of ah freezes their wings and then they they can't fly anymore.
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um The fumigation, though, I don't think should have happened. They were claiming this exterminator it was the only one that could do it the same day last week. And so we went with them. But they were trying to argue that their price was slightly higher because they did two different things, even though the other exterminators did one.
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But when I looked online, you should really just put the powder in there so they take it back to the nest and then they kill the nest because it basically disintegrates the nest from within. But if you fumigate first, they go further into the house is what a lot of different like posts I was looking at were saying. So I'm looking, did they actually just, because they claimed that that they legitimized their business by by doing these two steps. But I feel like the fumigation step should have been second, not first. Like they should have come back in a week.
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I don't know for sure. I'm not an exterminator, but it just seems like they've went further into the house. like they were They were stupid when they were coming in before, and now they're stupid again. But the the thing I know for sure is that I knew they were coming in and out of this hole because I could see them.
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Little airplanes going in through an airport, you know like a little... They're there's they're porting, they're docking into this hole repeatedly, just constant wasps going in and out. So there was definitely a nest in there. The question is whether what what where there there might have been another one somewhere else.
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is Is that possible is the question? I don't know. um So I don't know. It's ah it's unfortunate. but But they are not going in and out of that hole anymore. So they are stopped from doing that. So there's no one going in and out of that hole. There's still that dust that they put there.
00:09:43
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Okay. That would disintegrate their nest in the surface of the like the the beginning of the hole. And i I don't know. i I just wish that they weren't still coming to the house. But they did say... that They have a 90-day warranty, and they also did
Resorts and Honeymoon Plans
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say that they we would wait two weeks. The question I have, though, is wasps only, from my understanding, survive two to three days without food, so I don't understand how they could be surviving for two weeks.
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i don't I don't know where the math math's on that, but they said after two weeks, you should stop seeing them. If you don't stop seeing them after two weeks, call us again, and they'll come back. and maybe they're Maybe they're eating each other to survive.
00:10:16
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It's possible. the the The truth is, here's a thing. Here's a little tidbit about wasps. If there's a wasp nest in your wall at all, do not seal the hole. If you see the hole, do not seal it. Do not seal it for a few weeks because the the reason why that is is because if there are more wasps in the hole, they will actually dig a hole in your drywall.
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Wasps are little fuckers. Okay. Oh my goodness. Dude, you're bringing out the F-bomb. You rarely swear. This is crazy. They're really crappy. They'll literally gnaw and you can hear them in the wall. You can hear them gnawing at your drywall.
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it's ah It's like a horror movie. A horror movie. Wasps are the worst, worst by far bug that exists. I just yeah just don't like them. They kill bees as well in some some situations and they're very territorial and they sting you for like no reason sometimes.
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um there's there's They suck. They really suck. You're out on a bridge in Elora eating an ice cream cone and and then they they're they're zipping around. They want some more ice cream cone. Yeah. That happened to me two weeks ago.
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Yeah, I accidentally stepped on a wasp years ago when I was at the cottage. I just stepped on one with bare feet. Yeah. And so that's how I knew I was ah not allergic because I got stung by that that stupid little guy.
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And so that happened. And there was a there was a time, I think, as a child, back in my childhood at home, where I think I stepped on one in the and the driveway. but i don't know if that was a bee or not. um But bees, again, you know they're they're they're risking it all.
00:11:39
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They're risking it all. they you They kill themselves after this thing. you so It's very different. But anyway, wasps suck. And so hopefully we see the rest of them today than we did to yesterday because yesterday there were a lot.
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like So yesterday it was almost like a record. i I heard you had four yesterday. don't know it was four or five. Well, you told maximum we've had, I think, is zi five. um But minimum has been one or two a day. So how are are you killing them? I asked you a question. Like, how are you murdering them? Because they don't move. They're they're not barely flying. With what?
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What are you using? I'm using paper towel and just squishing them on the ground. Mm-hmm. really really Those ones are really moving. So some of them are flying. The ones that fly towards the light, as I kind of alluded to earlier.
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um Those ones, we spray with like a Lysol spray and they get so like but they get so drunk with the Lysol spray. And then they just crash into the ground and then we squish them. Do you ever light them on fire?
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I'm going to light something on fire in the middle of my house. I'm just going to go in my living room. I'm going to light them on fire with what? Like a blowtorch or maybe a flamethrower? Get a little light you go... And then because they're already sprayed with Lysol, they go.
00:12:46
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I rarely light anything. rarely light fire in my home. And if I do that, it would be in like a fire, a fireplace. Not a, not in the middle. For a candle. Sure. But I'm careful with that. Like you don't just light. Oh, this is like light. Oh, it's there it is. It's on this drape.
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Oops. My house is on fire now for one stupid ass wasp. That's not even moving. and know Don't do it on on on a drape, dude. Not a wise choice. Sorry, why are you asking that?
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I don't know. you torture wasps outside? Sometimes. When I was a kid, I used to ah burn animals. Oh, my God. Isn't that the back story of the villain in Stranger Things?
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Vectis or what it is? Vectis? Vectna. Vectna. That's right. Thank you. I knew you were going to get that because you just watched it. I'm still watching it. I'm still watching it. Right. Didn't he like kill? Didn't he like light things on?
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Like he was alludot it was alluded to. They didn't show it, but it wasn't in his like childhood. Like he would light animals on fire and like torture them. Yeah. Yeah. He was a little bit. He was a little off. Yeah. He's so me.
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Vecna is so me. Yeah.
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Yeah. I didn't actually light animals on fire, but yeah. That's one way to describe it. I would light on fire though. You would light animals on fire. Insects. Bugs. Oh, insects.
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Critters. I just generally wouldn't. Not critters. You give them a quick death. you No. Okay. All right. Well, you're just, I guess you're one step removed from Vecna, I suppose.
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He's so me, dude. He's so me. How was your last two weeks, though? What happened to you? What what did you do? Did you have anything fun happen to you? Anything miserable? Do you have a you under siege from from rats or something in your house?
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Hopefully not. cause that sounds worse.
Critiques and Tech Frustrations
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actually like No, no siege, dude. No siege whatsoever. um Last couple of weeks were pretty OK. I don't really remember what happened like two weeks ago.
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But this week ago, um i went to Mexico. Is where I went to go. um i went with ah obviously my fiance. We went for our our mutual friend's wedding.
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it was like really beautiful. Why would that be obvious? That I went with my fiancee. I went obviously with my fiance, like not necessarily last two trips you talked about on this very podcast. You did not go with your fiance on. That's that's actually a very fair point that you have made. That is ah a very fair point.
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um Yeah. And my next trip, I'm going solo as well. Crazy. um But yes. But ah yeah, so went with my fiance to our friend's wedding, i'm went to a resort in Cancun, um like an all inclusive.
00:15:29
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It was awesome, dude. I loved it. I love I live for all inclusive lifestyle. It's amazing. Yeah, it's really nice. I know you're not much of a drinker. um Like I like having beverages of the alcoholic variety. So it's cool to like, you know, essentially be like just a little buzzed all throughout the day.
00:15:49
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You know, it's kind of fun. I wasn't going to him. Maybe had like we were there for four nights. So there was like one night where I like I got wasted. I'll be honest with you. And then there was raccoons on the resort.
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I don't know if you saw it. I posted it on my Instagram story. So I did. Yeah. And it was cool yeah, there's like these little raccoons. They were so cute. And they're like, oh, give me a food. And my fiance was like, I want to give you food, but I can't because there's signs being like, don't feed the animals.
00:16:14
Speaker
Crazy stuff, though, on the last night. So you have your hotel room, right? And then you you can order room service, which we did. And you can you put your your room service in like a cubby, like the the the plates and stuff in a cubby right by the exit. So when they come around, they can just open it and take and take your plates and stuff from your room if they don't come in, like in the middle of the night.
00:16:35
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And it was this was the last night. So it kind of bummed me out because I was really tired. you know We were leaving fairly early in the morning. So I put the plates out and closed the cup. We're on the third floor of of our hotel um building that we're in.
00:16:50
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And, you know, it's like midnight. I'm like, i really need to go to bed. And like, you know, 1230, I still haven't fallen asleep like one. And then I hear like a big crash. I'm like, oh, my God, is someone like hammered trying to crawl into our room through this cubby? Because there's a bunch of like drunk kids there.
00:17:06
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but Not kids. Like, ah you know, just like your early 20 folk that that are just like wanting to sick. wasted and and like, you know, like just, I don't know, you you just stay away with them. our Our group is, you know, everyone it was having a good time together sort of thing.
00:17:22
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I'm like, are they trying to come in? No, Simon. I look through the little people and you know what i see? ah see a little raccoon tail hanging out from the outside of that cubby. So I was like, oh my goodness, good thing I didn't open it because then the raccoon would have jumped into our room possibly, but he ate half a club sandwich.
00:17:43
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Because that's what was in there. So. Oh, OK. Gotcha. Yeah. Cool. So good for that raccoon. he he He had a good time. He even left the um I guess he took out the toothpicks and just left him.
00:17:54
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Oh, yeah. And ate him. But yeah, good for him. But all in all, amazing time. Super awesome. It was at the Breathless Riviera in Cancun or some shit like that. I think that's what it was called.
00:18:05
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Delicious food, dude. I love Mexican food and it's like authentic Mexican food. I ate so many tacos, dude. I had tacos for breakfast. I had tacos for lunch. I had tacos for dinner. I ate so much food, an unhealthy amount.
00:18:18
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And then like the drinks I was having, I was, it's called a mango tango and it's essentially a mango slushie and a strawberry slushie. And i I assume they put in rum or something. i don't know. You can't taste the booze. And I was just drinking these slushies all day.
00:18:31
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like, Oh, this is so good, dude. um But I loved it. I really like it. I really want to go back. Me and my fiance were talking like maybe we'll go to an all inclusive for our honeymoon. Yeah, that's what we're going to do. Nice, nice. hey We just like the all-you-can-eat vacation, you know?
00:18:46
Speaker
Mm-hmm. what we it. I know. It's good stuff, man. It's good stuff. And it's interesting. Like because the cost of booze in Canada or in Ontario, at least compared to like the US and everywhere else is so much more expensive.
00:19:03
Speaker
So like getting drinks there, it's like, man, this this single drink would have been like fucking 20 bucks at a restaurant. You know, so it's like when you think about it like that, it's like I paid for my trip and just drinks and then the excessive amounts of food. Chilaquilis.
00:19:18
Speaker
You ever have Chilaquilis? Hmm. don't know. I'm probably pronouncing it wrong, but it's delicious. It's like these like crisp, like tortilla chips that they like fry. And then they as like sauce on it, maybe salsa verde, maybe like red enchilada sauce, Cotija cheese, red onions.
00:19:33
Speaker
Oh my God, dude. I love it. I love food. As you know, ah love cooking. i love eating. And yeah, I was, i was, uh, I was overindulging a little bit, but like honestly four nights I think is a good amount of time. I don't know if I would have wanted to stay like an extra like three nights. Like I feel like by the by the end of the fourth day and like I was like, sweet, we're going home tomorrow. I'm kind of ready for it.
00:19:56
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I was like, I i wouldn't be, i don't want to drink anymore. i can continue eating, but ah eventually it's like, what am I doing? I'm just lying around. I'm just taking in the sun. I'm being in the pool. And it's an amazing life, but it's like, I got to go back to reality.
00:20:12
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You know what i mean, man? Right. Yeah. You know? So it's nice to be home, but beautiful wedding. Amazing time. I loved it. I loved it. That's great. I loved it. You know, what what appeals to me about the all-you-can-eat vacation is that you just don't have to think about money because it's already been paid for ahead of time. Just because I'm not a super well-off individual.
00:20:32
Speaker
You know, I don't have that much money. And I feel like I just – I've been on a few vacations where – I was treated and I felt really, it was amazing. It was incredible. And there were vacations where they weren't that type of vacation where it was all inclusive. Like I was traveling around, going to various sites and and doing you know seeing the sites in London, london England and o and in Curacao.
00:20:52
Speaker
And those two vacations were amazing because my fiance's father paid for them and it was he was very generous and it was awesome. It was fantastic. probably the best vacations ever, but it's also because he paid for a lot of it. We paid for a little bit, but not nearly as much. And I was, i was, ah I was, I felt honored, you know, I was like, this is, ah this is great.
00:21:10
Speaker
But I feel like if I was going to pay for my own vacation and just go to like Japan, which I really want to go to, I do want to visit Japan. That's a great example. And so does my fiance like big time. And so we want to go there, but the question is, and I mean, now the end is not very ah in terms of the conversion to the,
00:21:27
Speaker
So the dollar is much lower. that Their economy has not been doing super well in that regard. So the yen has kind of dropped in value. So it's a good time to potentially go. It might have gone up now, actually. I'm not sure. But in the last the last time I checked, six months ago, it was...
00:21:41
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Lower. Anyway, but the point is it's still kind of expensive and you kind of have to kind of count your pennies each time you go visit you know a restaurant or something. And so i don't know. I really want to go to Japan. I do and i and I'm going to eventually, but it's just that's a different kind of vacation. So for the honeymoon aspect where it's kind of like a sit back and relax type of situation, I feel like it could be really good to be – in that kind of all-you-can-eat vacation did uh so the people you went to go there to their wedding uh those individuals did they did they are they playing a honeymoon at ah at a kind of another all all-inclusive resort or are they kind of going to ah go to like i see the sites i'm curious actually are they going to double up because they just did it for their actual wedding for the destination wedding type thing in mexico so what's the deal i'm curious that's interesting i actually know
00:22:29
Speaker
No, that's a good question. i didn't really ask them. i Maybe they're just kind of doing it all in one go, like because the wedding was on the Tuesday. Right. They just don't bring it up. That's why was also like when we came home yesterday. They're coming home today.
00:22:42
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So like and they came like a few couple days before us, like went. Sorry. um So they had like a full week there. Stuff to prep as well, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm not too sure. um But I highly they recommend it if you can afford again it. Again, it wasn't cheap. Like the the resort we went to like all in, I think for Cassandra and I for the four nights was like $3,200 plus taxes, of course.
00:23:05
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Yeah. So it ain't cheap. um And you obviously paid. They didn't pay for you. Oh, of course. Yeah. No, God, no. I would never expect anyone to do that. If I did a destination wedding, I think I would pay for the people I invited.
00:23:18
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I think that would be the only way I would do that type of wedding personally. That's crazy. not judging anyone who does it because obviously everyone does that. But I just don't – I don't see it. It doesn't make as much sense because, like again, it's like that I was honored to go on that trip to Curacao as an example. Yeah.
00:23:34
Speaker
I didn't, you know, they didn't expect me to pay for it in that regard. Like they pay for everything in that case or not everything, but a lot of it. And that was, that was great, but it's it's strange. Like it's a wedding. So it's like, I would love for you to be there as an example for like the best man. It's like the best man goes there and then he's got to pay the money to go. It's, ah it's kind of an interesting like gambit.
00:23:53
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ah in some capacity. So that's kind of my my take for what I would do. I don't frown upon it. I just think that if I was going to do that myself, I would definitely just honor the guest with the payment, which I could not afford at the moment, certainly. But I would too hard to do that if I was going to do it. Yeah, that's the thing, right? It's like I simply would not be able to afford to do that for people. And so Right. So if I was rich, dude, if I was fucking rolling in cash, I wouldn't give a shit. Yeah, of course. I would i would bring all my close friends and then pay for them. Like, yeah, come on, let's go. But in in my financial situation, I'm not like poor.
00:24:27
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you know, like we own a house, but like, you know, like we have payments. There's things we're about to have our wedding, which is costly. But you're paying for everything. That's the are indeed paying. That's kind of where i'm my mind's at.
00:24:38
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Would you have done a destination wedding in another life where you would just have people come there? I'm sure you maybe considered a destination wedding at some point in the process. Would you just do that and then ask your guests to pay? It's just an interesting situation. That's I think I'm not frowning upon it in any way. I'm just thinking like for me, I just couldn't do that to someone in that regard.
00:24:57
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um My wedding is like also miniature, right? And the one I'm having in December. So it's a bit different too. But i I don't know. I would rationalize it in the sense like if you don't want to know hard feelings is like the way I would put it. Like I understand this is an expense. If you can't afford it, don't worry about it. Like that's okay.
00:25:12
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I'll pick another best man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're not that important is what I would say. Yeah, right. I got lots of people on the docket for best men. No, not to worry. You're out. Yeah, yeah. That's the extreme example, really, because that's the most – like that and the bridesmaids are the most important elements of the wedding. I would be lucky, though. Like my best man, Peter, as you know, like he's doing well for himself. He's living the bachelor life.
00:25:38
Speaker
No kids. He's just enjoying life. He has a very good paying job. Like he's just he's doing well, man. So like I wouldn't have to worry about him. Right. And the rest. Who cares? Yeah, right. no one else matters.
00:25:52
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ah za Well, the bridesmaids in that case, the bridesmaids would matter. Not maybe to you, but yeah, to feed your fiance. say That's the that's the part. Yeah. But yeah.
00:26:03
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Life's expensive, baby. Life's expensive. It sure is. sure is. All right. Well, should we move on to film and TV? Si. Si, senor. As the title of our podcast dictates.
00:26:15
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Yeah. Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. Let's dive now into some quick bites of news, a component of our show where we discuss three to seven film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over the past two weeks.
00:26:27
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This time we have five items on the agenda. The first, Adrian, is one I wanted to hear some feedback from you on because we didn't really get to talk about this outside the podcast. And it is Apple streaming service. Apple TV Plus is being rebranded to Apple TV despite having a hardware stream box called the Apple TV and an iPhone app called Apple TV, meaning they're dropping the plus from Apple TV Plus.
00:26:50
Speaker
And it's just going to be Apple TV now. What are your thoughts on this? um Because it, I don't know, it strikes me as odd. I agree with you, man. i's Like, what's the point?
00:27:02
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like why what is that I can't rationalize a reason that you would drop apple the the Plus from Apple TV and then just have three things
00:27:15
Speaker
with the same name. You have a hardware. You have a software. That's an app where you can also purchase things. products like movies and and shows on called Apple TV. And rent things. Yeah. And rent things.
00:27:29
Speaker
And then now you have that streaming service. I guess it's like Amazon Prime Video in that sense where it's like Amazon Prime Video. You can buy, sell. You can't sell. You can buy rent.
00:27:40
Speaker
You can buy rent and then also have like Amazon Prime. So I don't know. It is... It's a weird choice. Again, I'm not against it. I don't think this is like as dumb as HBO dropping the HBO and making it just Max. You know, I think that was a far worse decision.
00:27:57
Speaker
Yeah. That would be as if Apple TV dropped the Apple TV and wrote plus TV plus. Yeah. Or just, yeah. TV plus. They were dropped the Apple yeah and it just became TV plus. It's like, well, that's really nondescript, isn't it?
00:28:10
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Yeah, it is. It is bizarre for sure. Here's the thing. Like, Eddie Q was on Matthew Baloney's podcast and he said, quote, I just decided, we just decided, look, we put the plus in there because we we've used it in our other services like iCloud Plus and News Plus.
00:28:28
Speaker
But we do that when we have a free service and then there's a paid version. We stayed consistent because of it, but we all called it Apple TV and we said, given what we're where we are today, it's a great time to do it.
00:28:40
Speaker
So let's just do it. Fair enough. But there is technically ah free version in the sense that you can just, you open the app and then it and you'll be shown what's playing where. Right. That part is free.
00:28:52
Speaker
Right. So what is he talking? Is he like, he doesn't even have a good idea. He's an Apple executive, like really high up. Like he's at the top echelon of Apple, by the way, if you don't know who Eddie Q is. No, I don't know. He's super important for the services business.
00:29:04
Speaker
More like Eddie Poo. Am I right? I'm not going to go with you on that one. Okay. Sorry. Fair enough. You're not right. Fair enough. Actually.
00:29:14
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But um I don't know. I thought it was odd. It's funny because Matthew Bologna kind of did like a cool full full circle thing this year because he was on the studio at ah at Apple TV Plus. Literally on it as a like a...
00:29:27
Speaker
a film and TV journalist in Hollywood. and And now he's Eddie Q's on his podcast. yeah That was kind of cool. um But yeah, the funny thing is when they kind of did this potential start of the rebrand, they, they wrote, and now it's called Apple TV, a vibrant new identity.
00:29:47
Speaker
that's like That's what they claimed it was. but you know i just I just don't understand because it's confusing. And Apple TV Plus isn't really a bad name. it's like No. There was the other articles that were kind of claiming like, oh, this is the beginning of everyone doing the same thing now. everyone like Paramount Plus will just be called Paramount. like That doesn't make any sense. It wouldn't be better. You're you're differentiating your streaming service, which is a good idea.
00:30:12
Speaker
i don't i just i'm i'm missing... Their reasoning on this from a perspective of marketing when they're very stubborn on things like, you know, when you say iPhone XS or iPhone X, it's iPhone 10. Okay.
00:30:24
Speaker
They really are stubborn on the way they name things, even though they name things with silly, silly lingo that can kind of go two ways ah in some aspect. Yeah. and well After they did this, they they like announced that they struck a deal with ah to do a bundle with Peacock, actually, in the United States for like an NBC Universal Apple partnership.
00:30:45
Speaker
And then there's also they announced like it was like $700 million dollars or something like that. They picked up the rights to Formula One racing on Apple TV um at the same time. I find it interesting too what he's saying. He's like, I just decided. i like this. I just decided. We just decided where it makes it sound like he really just decided. That was also the fun part.
00:31:06
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I just decided comma. We just decided. I'm like, hmm. So you just decided you're in charge. but So anyway, but then the thing really struck me from what he said was.
00:31:17
Speaker
um I don't even know where I was going with that. Take your time. I don't know. Whatever. It doesn't really matter. The point is. It struck you so hard that you forgot. I forgot because it's not and not in the on the right up here. I don't think actually. right in the head.
00:31:31
Speaker
It struck you right in the head, dude. I lost some memory. Yeah. It hit me so hard that I forgot. Exactly. no worries, dude. Don't even fret, man. Yeah, it's like the Rockford Files. That guy gets f freaking Jim Rockford got freaking knocked in the head like 82 times. There's no way he had did not have crazy permanent but brain damage. Every episode of Rockford Files. Have you ever seen Rocket Files?
00:31:52
Speaker
No. All right. He's a detective basically. And he's ah it's like an old show. And it was like on TV land as ah when I was a kid. so I was watching it on there. But it's like ah in any way, Jim Rockford would go on these like he would, you know, try to solve crimes. And then he would always get knocked out, like knocked out cold.
00:32:09
Speaker
every episode almost. It was like kind of a joke. And I was like, how is this guy alive? He would have serious brain damage. There's just no way you get knocked out like one time. It's pretty, it's pretty bad, but it was like a kind of a weird, almost like a Looney Tunes esque type thing where you get knocked out and be, and then you just wake up and he's like, Oh, where am I? Oh yeah. I got knocked out by that criminal as I was discovering whether he murdered these people anyway.
00:32:35
Speaker
Okay. Um, poor Jim Rockford. yeah but Yeah, for Jim Rockford. yeah You know i played Jim Rockford? You never watch ah the um Eight Simple Rules?
00:32:46
Speaker
Yeah, i watched Eight Simple Rules. You know when they did the, when unfortunately Ritter passed away? John Ritter? Yeah, he got kind of replaced because they they couldn't, they had to make up for it by having two different actors get added in.
00:32:59
Speaker
So they had David Spade. Yeah. But they also had the grandfather. The grandfather it is him, but I'm losing his name. that's That's who he is. And he actually makes Rockford Files reference on the show.
00:33:12
Speaker
Yeah. He's like, I think at one point he goes to see a recital or something. some Somebody's some something for one of the kids. And then he's like, ah that was that was worth missing Rockford Files for.
00:33:24
Speaker
yeah mean like Interesting. Interesting. A little meta joke. That's James Garner. James Garner is the name of the actor. Anyway, that was a big sidetrack. I think the Apple TV Plus thing is not as smart as they claim it is. And i think their confidence about it is ah is a bit silly.
00:33:41
Speaker
And I don't i don't know. Like the reasoning because, oh oh, that's what it was in this. No, they did say it. they He said, we all call it that right now.
00:33:54
Speaker
Internally, he's claiming that they call it that internally. That's what struck me from the the right there. Yeah, Apple TV Plus. So they call it Apple TV internally. They don't call it Plus. And as a result, that's why they think they should do that that way.
00:34:07
Speaker
But the reason why they call it like that internally is because they're the they're I'm pretty sure Eddie Q is the services team. So he doesn't make the hardware. So like that doesn't that doesn't make sense. And now the Apple TV 4K is called the Apple TV 4K. And there's also an Apple TV HD.
00:34:23
Speaker
But that's still the Apple TV box. And really, no one calls it the box. And it's not on the labeling. If you look at the Apple TV, it just says Apple TV. and And you were exactly right about the app. I use the app every day to just to see if where a certain title is streaming. Is it streaming on, for instance, I recently watched the the movie 13 Assassins by Takashi Miike, a director that was actually inspired Ghost of Yotei, the video game we're both playing.
00:34:49
Speaker
And so I was looking for this everywhere. It is not available anywhere, but I use the Apple TV Plus app to try to suss out where it is available in Canada. And it isn't available really anywhere in Canada. And I found it a really weird source to watch it on.
00:35:01
Speaker
um But the the point is, it was very difficult to find. And that's the Apple TV service. And then Apple TV Plus is inside that app in terms of the content in there, the TV shows and movies. So if you don't know about that, as anyone listening to this podcast, that's why i'm having a and know that's why I'm annoyed by this. Because I feel like it is not distinct and unique branding. It's kind of your...
00:35:21
Speaker
you're kind of diluting it in a weird way. And there was funny, it was an article, I think it was a Hollywood reporter or something was saying the opposite. They're like, it was being diluted because it was called Apple TV plus. But I'm like, I don't think that's true. It's kind of going the opposite. I can't remember which article it was, but they were kind of using language that was like saying that this is better. Like, I don't know how it's better. I have no idea how it is, could be better.
00:35:42
Speaker
um But anyway, that is very peculiar in my opinion. And then the other thing that's peculiar, if you have your phone handy, open up the Apple TV app, put Turn on anything, put on slow horses, throw on the foundation, ah you know, put on severance.
00:35:58
Speaker
When you turn it on and I put on the Eugene Levy show, the like the reluctant traveler ah yesterday, and it literally opens with Apple TV plus. There's a little watermark in the corner of the screen. It says Apple TV plus everything still says Apple TV plus. So why would you rebrand and then not do the rebrand? It's just so sloppy. And it's so funny because the Apple's,
00:36:18
Speaker
if known for anything, is known for their incredibly impeccable branding ah more than anything else. So I am confused about it. Maybe it's changed now. and Do you find it's changed now? You're looking at it. well umm No, it still says Apple TV+. plus Right. Isn't that weird? Even in the app.
00:36:34
Speaker
Even in the app, it shows Apple TV+. Yeah. What kind of a vibrant rebrand is this? You didn't change any of any of the aspects of it. Yeah, I don't know. apple Apple's been pissing me off a little bit.
00:36:45
Speaker
What's this whole iOS 26? Why did we jump 12 numbers? Oh, they're they're matching the year. Oh, but it's 25, Simon. Yeah, but this moves through 26. It's going to be more of 26 than it will be of 25.
00:37:00
Speaker
Whatever. Because it launched in September. I don't like it. um Other thing, fuck Apple Maps. Apple Maps sucks. i saw I hate Apple Maps, dude. It is so bad. It's like, oh, do you want to go on the highway? You want to go on the 401 where everything is red? It's only going take you an hour 20.
00:37:15
Speaker
Or your other option is this two-hour route that goes around. I'm like, why can't we just... I don't, don't give me the shortest amount of turns, avoid the highway and give me an option that is quicker than two hours, which there is because it gave me that option and I selected it.
00:37:34
Speaker
And then when I stopped to get gas, it backed out and then it just didn't want to give me that route again. It just simply did not want to. I hate Apple T or Apple maps. Fuck Apple maps.
00:37:44
Speaker
Pisses me the fuck off all the time. There was a lot of F bombs in a short amount of time, but frig it. It makes me so mad, dude. Interesting. Yeah, I don't know. Why don't you just use Google Maps?
00:37:56
Speaker
Because it doesn't work as nicely on CarPlay. Yeah. That's kind of why I use Apple Maps as well, the integration. But the thing about it is that it's funny. You just described the opposite problem I have with Apple Maps. My biggest issue with Apple Maps is that it usually gives me 55 turns and it saves me five minutes when I'd rather make five turns and not save the five minutes. Yeah, I guess it but i guess it's like, oh, let's Apple Maps specifically wants to give you the route that you least like.
00:38:23
Speaker
Yeah. And it knows. Maybe. my my my My thought process is that they turned on AI Siri a while ago, but they's she's just listening. All she's doing is listening and she's going to piss this motherfucker off.
00:38:36
Speaker
Yeah, sure. so It's crazy because that Siri thing hasn't launched yet. And it's like they sold phones on it. and I know. It's kind of crazy. That's why I got the iPhone. To be fair, I needed a new iPhone. So I was like, sweet. Like i had the 11 Pro Max and it lasted me five years.
00:38:51
Speaker
So when the 16 Pro Max came out, I was like, cool. I'll just get that again. I'm like, this is exciting. The AI features on it's going to be neat. Yeah.
00:39:01
Speaker
The 17's out and they still don't have the AI? Come on, man. Come on. Well, they have the some of the AI, but they don't have that. that Only one I cared about. Yeah. Because Ciri's an idiot. Yeah, Ciri's such a bozo, dude. I'm sorry, Ciri. She's so stuck in time. It feels like she's still from 2012 when they launched the- iPhone I genuinely believe like things have gotten worse on the iPhone. Maybe this is just like old man yelling at clouds, but like I use swipe to text all the time.
00:39:26
Speaker
The predictive text has literally gotten worse. i'm I'm telling you right now. i I'll be typing the same things over and over again and it'll be like, oh, this is when you want to use that that phrase that you used three messages ago.
00:39:39
Speaker
No, I don't want to send the exact same response. I'm sending something different, but why aren't you doing it on words? and Anyways, who cares? It is weird. There's a lot of things like that constantly.
00:39:50
Speaker
um I don't mind the naming of iOS 26 though. That's kind of clever because it just lines up with the year every year. So that kind of works for me. Because they announced it in like June of 2025. um in Whatever, June of the year that it's coming. And then it's just like ah FIFA, you know, or and NHL.
00:40:05
Speaker
Yeah. Like the video games. They always do the year after because it's there are more months in the next year than there are in the previous. What about um
00:40:15
Speaker
the baseball one? Baseball is the year it is in. Oh, it is? Yeah. Okay. So, MLB The Show launches in the spring and it's 25. Oh, okay. Good to know. Good to know. Good to know.
00:40:28
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah. So, yeah. Okay. Anyway, I think it's stupid. Where did you watch this this samurai movie? Oh, man. Not worth it. though Don't do it. I got it at ah Flex flinglex Fling. Flex Fling.
00:40:41
Speaker
I don't know what that is. so Yeah, not good. It wasn't on the Apple TV Plus app, actually. I tried and it didn't show it for good reason because it's shit. It's really bad and they keep your credit card information and they don't let me delete it. And i don't know if it's a scam or not. But I did watch the movie. The reason I don't recommend it, and I do like the movie a lot, actually. I thought it was a great sam samurai movie, like great Japanese film.
00:41:00
Speaker
I just think that it's ah it was really, really low quality. It wasn't even... It was even HD, like 720p. It was like 480p. It was claiming it was DVD quality, but when I'm watching DVD quality, it's like that was not standard definition. That was the worst movie I've seen on my TV in a long time.
00:41:19
Speaker
And it was good though. Picture-wise. Yeah, visually. Visually, it was horrible. The resolution was bad. It was garbled image. It was it they just jagged jagged shapes all all the way through.
00:41:31
Speaker
And the movie is very good. And I was like, i felt like I kind of missed out. Um, because I can't, you can't find it in Canada. I don't know what the deal is with that. You cannot rent it. You cannot find it on a streaming service. It is available nowhere. I was almost going to buy it from Amazon because i was, i am very serious about this one. This is a film that is, is really well regarded and it came out more recently. So I was curious about a Japanese samurai film that came out more recently. And there was again, inspired ghost of Yote to the point where they even have a mode named after it, which I actually prefer using as well in the game. that the blood and dirt mode?
00:42:03
Speaker
Me came mode. Yeah. That's the one use the whole time. Because it's not just about the blood and dirt. They zoom in the camera. So you have a closer, more cinematic camera as well. um So I actually prefer it over the other other default mode. ah I've been rocking the Watanabe mode.
00:42:20
Speaker
Really? oh the music's so good, though, in... It's cool because the music will turn back into like its original score and like cut scenes and everything. It's just the, it's like the music when I'm just kind of journeying around. I'm like, this is like a fucking chill vibe, dude.
00:42:35
Speaker
I genuinely started liking the game more when I turned it on. Yeah. yeah Yeah, it's cool. It's pretty good game. Pretty good game. I'm enjoying it. It's a great game. just don't love it. and It's done not clicking as much as I want it to, but I don't know. I didn't love the first game either. You can put Miike mode at the same time.
00:42:52
Speaker
I'm pretty sure it's Waijami. You can double it up? Yeah, you can double all three, I think, because you can get the Kurosawa. Yeah. I love the Kurosawa mode, but I just... It's too beautiful from a color perspective perspective. I found that same thing. That's one of the best things about it is like how how much the color pops.
00:43:11
Speaker
like Like, yeah i don't want to put on this black and white. I don't give a shit about it. You know me. I don't like black and white. too They do really neat tricks with the sound as well. The sound design in the game is very good yeah overall.
00:43:22
Speaker
Like, it's very, very, a lot of attention to detail in that regard. But yeah, we really got sidetracked here. Anyway, Apple TV Plus, removing the Plus is dumb. It just feels like a reason they're doing it is because internally they call it Apple TV. And that's really why I think they do that. I don't think there's any other reason for this.
00:43:38
Speaker
And I'm curious what the how they're going to rebrand it. Are they going to change some of the the the branding in terms of the logo? Are they going to go full out? like Because they've done nothing. They've done a zero about this except for in a press release for something they said it was out called now called Apple TV.
00:43:51
Speaker
Pretty odd. But now let's move on, Adrian, to talking about a second Quick Byte news story. It's ah about – this is a quick one. we'll just kind of go over this quick. But California ah Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that states that ads that play between the shows and movies on streaming services must legally be the same volume as the content itself.
00:44:12
Speaker
Thoughts? Good. Next one. The question is, will it apply to us? I would hope so. Well, for Disney Plus and the streaming services we get, I guess.
00:44:24
Speaker
But we won't comply to Crave. Crave is the worst one. Crave is my worst streaming service and is proving to be that over and over again. And they ruin the content from the from Hollywood.
00:44:36
Speaker
In Crave, they actively ruin it. So i don't I almost don't want to have Crave anymore, but I kind of have no choice. I really wish we just had HBO Max in Canada. Yeah. Because it really is everywhere else, man. They launched it in like Australia not too long ago. Like, yeah, I would love it as well. I get craved for free, though, so I'm i'm not complaining. and It's like it's totally free because I get it through my Bell phone plan.
00:44:59
Speaker
It's basic. It has ads, but whatever. It's fucking free, man. it's saving me like $22 a month. I'll deal with the odd ads for the few shows I'm watching on there. No, it's like 16 bucks for the free one, right?
00:45:10
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Sorry, sorry. Yeah, yeah. The basic. Yeah. Yeah. um You might be right. But still, something like saving money. um If they gave me an option where it's like, pay $5 more and then you get an ad free, I would do that.
00:45:23
Speaker
But they don't let you do that. Yeah. They don't let you. They're like, oh, you want it? You want it without ads?
Marvel's Vision Quest and the MCU
00:45:29
Speaker
Give us $22. I would love to work, to be honest, I would love to work at Crave and be the guy who who actually curates the content and goes in and checks the app and then like gets the engineers to fix things in the app.
00:45:43
Speaker
To be in charge of Crave, I would improve it tenfold It would be incredible. But they they whoever is in charge of that is just phoning it in. They're clearly just cashing the paycheck. yeah It is really bad.
00:45:57
Speaker
And I'm going to talk about that in a second when we get into what we're watching. Because I have something to mention about that. But anyway, let's move on to the next Quick Byte news story, Adrian. As recently hyped up at the New York Comic Con, Vision Quest is coming to Disney Plus 2026. And it's considered...
00:46:12
Speaker
and is's considered and it's is considered to be the end of a trilogy started by wandavision it features numerous actors playing ai characters from the mcu harold lewis plays uh do ah doo me or dummy uh orla brady plays friday emily hampshire plays edith and james spader returns as ultron alongside actor paul bettany's vision um we didn't get a trailer for this i'm curious if you're Interested in this at all.
00:46:41
Speaker
um But also, it's kind i from me my perspective, I just think it's really cool that they're bringing the a lot of the actors who played these AI characters in the in the movies and TV shows already. And they they don't no one really inhabits the characters as much as James Spader and Paul Bettany have.
00:47:00
Speaker
ah like We never see Friday Edith. ah Dummy, I don't think, even says anything. I could be wrong. I don't even know what dummy is. I'll be straight up with you. When you mentioned that, i was like, I don't remember this.
00:47:12
Speaker
I missed one. um Jarvis is going to be played by. That was actually. That's one of the things too. Is that also Jarvis also going to be played by Paul Bettany? No, actually. That's why I must have missed. i glanced over because I didn't Jarvis.
00:47:28
Speaker
So Jarvis, um i don't know if have you ever watched um Agent Carter. Yes. Oh, you did the first season. Okay. And me too.
00:47:38
Speaker
James Darcy plays ah Jarvis in Agent Carter, not in AI, because it takes place in the like post, no, during World War II, right? No, it was post-World War II. Yeah, it's for it's in the 40s, like mid-40s or some shit like that. Right. So James Darcy plays like a butler. It's Stark's butler, I think.
00:47:58
Speaker
Like Howard Stark's butler. And it's Jarvis. So James Darcy's in this, I think, playing Jarvis, which is interesting. interesting um actually wait no james darcy's in the end game he is in end game yeah they do that that flashback thing yeah that's cool too not flashback timeline thing yeah but uh yeah apparently he's gonna be in it too if i if i sell correctly so anyway yeah what do you think um yeah i gotta it's interesting because they said like the the this is going to be the end of the trilogy started by wandavision and then the second in that trilogy is agatha all along i was like oh
00:48:34
Speaker
I don't know why I assumed it would be Dr. Strange in the multiverse of madness, considering what happens in that movie, oh but I guess it makes sense. Um, I didn't watch Agatha all along. I guess I'll watch it eventually.
00:48:44
Speaker
I'm not, I'm not super like invested in, in the MCU TV shows like fully. Um, as you know, I've just, it's a lot of content and it's, it, there's so much good TV out there. It's like, I'm not going to waste my time.
00:48:58
Speaker
Um, So yeah, I don't know. I know Agatha all along. You mentioned it. Our friend, Senate, he also mentioned how good it is, how he really, really liked Agatha all along. So I'll probably watch it leading up to this and then hop in. Cause I am curious. I like vision as a character and I want to know what happens at the, like after what happened.
00:49:19
Speaker
yeah if that makes sense what happened in one division yeah yeah um so yeah i'm intrigued what are you excited for this because you're more invested in the mcu shows compared to me at least uh yeah i'm interested in this one the thing is is like they they just dropped the ball too many times on various things that like i'm kind of now didn't used to care about reviews that much like before secret invasion i i didn't care what the web reviews were But when Secret Invasion came out and was badly reviewed, I'm like, oh, it's probably not that bad.
00:49:51
Speaker
It's really bad. it was like, now I just, Agatha Long, I wasn't necessarily going watch. And then I watched it because it was reviewed well. was It was well regarded. And it is excellent.
00:50:02
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it's It's amazing. The only one I kind of didn't watch is Ironheart. Yeah. because the trailers don't me at all. Because you're racist, yeah. Yeah, thanks. What was I going to look up here?
00:50:13
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um Yeah, no, sorry. Vision Quest. Who is this the showrunner? I have no idea. Is it the same?
00:50:22
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Matt Shackman. The same showrunner. Sorry? Was it Matt Shackman that did? um No, Matt Shackman is the director. Oh, okay.
00:50:34
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It's, ah what's her name? Jack Schaefer. Schaefer. Yeah. Jack Schaefer, but I don't know about Vision Quest. Because I feel like it was somebody else. Yeah, Terry Metallus. Who the heck is that?
00:50:45
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I have no idea. He did. The thing about Jack Schaefer, and this is the thing, like she wrote WandaVision and I didn't like the way it ends. i thought the last half of that show was not good. I think the way it's very creatively made, i think it's a delightful, like,
00:50:59
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like a production value. It's really, really cool. And I think the idea is really cool. I just think that it was poorly executed in terms of like the mystery aspect of it. And that's kind of the big thing, especially in the ending.
00:51:10
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yeah And so that's kind of why I didn't like WandaVision. But did she do Agatha all along? Yes. And that's the redemption thing for me is that Jack Schaefer murdered with, I think Agatha all along is actually funny because it starts bad.
00:51:22
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and my opinion, it starts slow, not bad. doesn't start like in a bad way. It just starts really slow. And i'm like, I don't think I'm going to like this like after the second episode. And then on the last half, I'm like, wow, she's like, she's cooking here.
00:51:34
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I was really impressed. Like, I think she did an incredible job. so i was like, that don't I don't know. I judged too prematurely. Maybe maybe some some executive cook in the kitchen for WandaVision was like, we have to have a ah light in the sky though.
00:51:47
Speaker
That's what we have to have every time. So if we don't have a light in the sky, then we... It's not a Marvel property. You know what i mean? Like we have to have a fight with two wizards shooting, zapping each other. This is, if this doesn't happen, this isn't Marvel.
00:52:03
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It's kind of, kind of felt like what it was. Um, yeah, that was bad. But yeah, Terry Metallus is 12. twelve Oh, he, oh, he showed, I never watched this. I've never saw the movie either. I should watch that actually, but the movie for sure.
00:52:18
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Uh, but he show ran 12 monkeys. Yeah. Yeah. I heard good things. Didn't watch it. Yeah. And let's see here. He was a showrunner for Star Trek Picard. That's actually really well regarded for the most part.
00:52:30
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thought it was not. I thought that was like the Star Trek show that people did not like. Is that true? Is that true? i don't know I have no attachment to Star Trek, but I feel like I remember hearing people being like, this shit, this sucks.
00:52:43
Speaker
I thought the beginning, it started badly and then it became, oh yeah, audience score. Yeah, yeah. You're talking about audience score? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah, the audience score is low. Yeah. Yeah, they're not, not for the, not for the critic score. The greatest score is remarkably high, especially with season three.
00:53:01
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Season three is a 97%. And the audience loved it too. It's an 88% popcorn meter as well. Okay. So, okay. For the third season, but they didn't like the first couple.
00:53:14
Speaker
My brother watched the show and he didn't like the first season either, which is interesting because he's a big Star Trek fan. He had been in the back of the day. And then he watched Picard, he did not like it. And I don't know if he ended up watching season three or not, but he thought this is like not really great.
00:53:29
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But then, yeah, the season, season three is, there was where it like really like ramped up and that that's over now. It's ended. Sorry. What do you say? Ramped up. Yeah, I guess so. Where they just kind of hit their stride.
00:53:43
Speaker
don't know. Sometimes that happens. I feel like they just hit their stride. and that's all i always i always tell people who watch Breaking Bad, you got to get past the first six episodes cause the first season.
00:53:53
Speaker
I love the first season, man. I think the first season is remarkable. do people think it's boring or whatever. That's stupid. And it's still good. They're very good. I think it's excellent no matter what. But I think that yeah and anyone anyone would potentially see the value in it just watching the first six episodes. But if you want to kind of convince someone to watch, it's like The Office season one.
00:54:12
Speaker
I always hear that too. I like The Office season one. I don't like The Office season one that much. But like I like i think, don't know, man, Breaking Bad, i I genuinely believe Breaking Bad's pilot episode is one of the great pilots of any show.
00:54:24
Speaker
I love that episode. It sets up all the characters. It shows you their personalities. it It like it sets up the premise of the show. I think I think that's a near like perfect episode pilot episode.
00:54:35
Speaker
um i would I would I would argue the Better Call Saul is maybe a little bit more guilty of it, where especially coming from Breaking Bad and then you watch Better Call Saul. It's like that first season is very slow. especially compared to how fucking crazy the end of Breaking Bad gets. So it's like, right, you know, it kind of loses its steam and then it but I still really love that first season. I love it.
00:54:55
Speaker
Yeah. It's also longer, right? That's yeah, it was 12 episodes, maybe, maybe 13, maybe 10. I don't know. It's a number. It's definitely more than six.
00:55:06
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So episodes.
00:55:10
Speaker
episodes You can find it pretty quickly, I'm sure. Yeah. but I love Dark Souls. It's excellent. There's 10 every season except for the the sixth. Okay. ah Six was split into two.
00:55:21
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Actually, yeah whenever someone says what's the best as pilot of any show, I think the show that comes to mind actually is Fargo. Yeah.
00:55:38
Speaker
Every time I see that pilot, I'm like, this is amazing. They just knocked it out of the park. It's incredibly exciting. There's like never a dull moment almost in the entire thing. And he completely like...
00:55:51
Speaker
Nails the town. Like there is no miss in terms of guys. People really doubted. Like, what is this? Who are you talking about? You're making a, a spinoff of a, of a, of a, like a classic movie from the Coen brothers.
00:56:05
Speaker
Like, what are you doing? Noah Hawley. And first of all, who is Noah Hawley in that year, whatever that was 2014 or whatever. I was like, uh, I don't know. I think that that, that pilot is crazy.
00:56:15
Speaker
The way it ends is crazy. It's like, if that doesn't grab you, um, don't watch the show. It's basically the thing. It's not for you then, but it's great. Yeah. Yeah. The lost a pilot is pretty great too, actually, because it's split into two parts.
00:56:30
Speaker
It's a movie. Yeah. yeah It's a movie. Yeah. it's It's pretty great. Yeah. But yeah, there's like, it's crazy when you watch the lost pilot again, there's like, there's, there's a full on, they don't do this that often. I feel like in modern TV, but there's like a full on monologue.
00:56:44
Speaker
Like Jack's monologue is like one that you would have in like, i feel like an addition or something. He's just like sewing up, like think he's sewing up Kate and he's just like saying that monologue for like a long, it's like a long monologue. I'm like, this is intense. Like it's just a, it's essentially a drama. There's not much action in the first bit of that.
00:57:00
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Well, there, I guess there is a little bit in the at very beginning, but then it kind of slows down in the middle and then it gets really creepy in the end. It's like this weird, it's it's cool. I like that pilot a lot too, but it's long. Yeah. wasn't I don't think he's sewing up Kate. Isn't he isn't he telling Kate to sew him? Oh, she's sewing him Yeah. Right, he hurt himself. yeah she's He's teaching her how to do it. like It's just like sewing it's like sewing a shirt or something like that. right Yeah, man, I love Lost.
00:57:24
Speaker
What a good show. Yeah, it's great. What a good show. Yeah, it's great. um Yeah, okay. and Where was I? I don't even know what we were talking about. As reported by publication.
00:57:35
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most Most interesting thing here about this is all the AI. And I'm curious what that even means. What does that show look like? Is going to be trippy like WandaVision? Is that the idea?
00:57:46
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I'm curious. And will we get Vision back in the MCU when it closes off? That's the question I have. ah Is James Spader going to play himself? Kind of like how in WandaVision, they i just had Paul Bettany out of the Vision kind of garb. He didn't look like Vision. like Vision's obviously a cyborg type being or android.
00:58:06
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really an android um so it would be cool to see if ge if James Spader is in it because I really like James Spader
TV Show Quality: Fargo, Breaking Bad, and Suits
00:58:12
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everything he's in he's got such gravitas I really like him as an actor it will be interesting to see if he's in a lot of it and if he's out of the Ultron robot costume is he going to be a humanoid person for Vision Quest yeah he's his blacklist character yeah sure you ever watch the blacklist?
00:58:32
Speaker
I watched like the first like four or five seasons That's a lot. Jesus, you're going to say episodes. You said seasons. Me too. was exactly the same number. Why'd you stop watching it? I have no idea.
00:58:45
Speaker
Yeah, I think there's just too much good TV is yeah kind of your point earlier. I think that's what happened to me. I did the same thing with Suits as well. I think I watched like three or four seasons and I'm like, all right, I'm done.
00:58:55
Speaker
Like it's because it's just like, what so you guys are working in a law firm. Why do you have the emotional maturity of like a child? You guys are always mad at each all the time. I see. I can't believe you did that.
00:59:06
Speaker
It's just dramatic. like Everyone's so dramatic all the time. like Imagine and a law office was that exciting all the time. That'd be crazy. I would never hire any of them as a lawyer, ever, if I knew that's what was going on. They're just backstabbing each other constantly. What is happening here? Every second, like pretty much, I was going to say every second episode, of really every episode. somebody literally, Somebody's getting stabbed in the back. Someone's getting mad at what someone else. Yeah, it's crazy.
00:59:30
Speaker
It's entertaining, though. isn' interestinging It's entertaining. I like Suits. Suits is like a crazy hit on Netflix, right? like As a yeah syndicated... show yeah yeah i think it got bigger like pretty much after because or like during because they like released all the seasons on netflix and then it kind of like exploded and then suits la came out and that got canceled after one season not reviewed well at all yeah it got canceled i didn't see that it got canceled i guess we should have talked about that i feel like we did i talked about it airing i don't know if i said anything but i don't know i remember uh talking about it because i i said something like steven amell can't catch a break
01:00:06
Speaker
Oh. Yeah. Right. Like post Arrow, he'll like do a show. Even that Heels show, which was reviewed very well, I think it got canceled after like two seasons or something like that. That did you do really well. What is he doing now?
01:00:18
Speaker
I have no idea. Steven Amell. But Arrow went on for a long time. I don't know if he can't catch a break. like And even heels, like 2021 to 2023, isn't that three seasons? Two seasons. thoses two seasons. Okay. That's not so bad.
01:00:31
Speaker
He was like a recurring character in the Flash show. He's in Arrow from 2012 to 2020. That's a pretty steady gig. There's a lot of actors who... The person who can't catch a break was Josh Holloway, actually speaking the last.
01:00:42
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That guy literally couldn't catch a break. Although he did just get cast in something else, um I think. But anyway, we're getting really sidetracked now. So let's move on to... The next story here, as reported by publication Forbes, this a fun one. I know you're gonna love this. Star Wars Rise of skywwa Skywalker was a whopping $593.7 million dollars to make.
01:01:02
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According to Disney, the production was reportedly under budget. These costs reflect the production budget and do not include the marketing budget. Actually, i don't know if that was according to Disney that I think of it. I think it was according to the filing ah in the UK because that's how they found out this information because that they don't – with Hollywood right accounting, then you never find out any information about the actual budgets of anything. But in the when you film in the UK, they have to file.
01:01:26
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And so when they file the information, it kind of all leaks out it over time and you can kind of add it together to get the overall total. Anyway, these costs reflect the production budget and do not include the marketing budget. According to Forbes, this makes Rise of Skywalker the third most expensive film of all time behind Jurassic World Dominion and Star Wars The Force Awakens.
01:01:43
Speaker
Weird thing, if you search on Wikipedia right now, most expensive films, you can look at the list. I do this sometimes with games, do like what's the top selling game of all time, whatever. um But we don't know that's Minecraft.
01:01:54
Speaker
What? is it Oh, yeah, it is Minecraft. Yeah. No, is it a Tetris? uh not tetris because tetris has so many versions it's a weird that's a weird discrepancy it's technically tetris you're right yeah um so that was a good guess but yeah yeah it's it's minecraft because minecraft is gta5 number two then number two yeah which is crazy they are over 200 million dollars 200 million sales sorry not million dollars they billions of dollars um but okay uh so yeah anyway so if you look at the the list on wikipedia
01:02:25
Speaker
It does not show that Raza skywa Skywalker is third. It says it's first, but it also claims that it's below $500 million dollars to make, not $593.7 million. There is discrepancies because they I think that that list on Wikipedia is going based upon what the reporting was from the actual Hollywood film companies.
01:02:48
Speaker
I don't know. It's very confusing in that regard. So like you can't really know for sure. I don't know what forbes list what like what li Forbes is going off of. I'll just go with what they said just to talk about it, just have a conversation
High Budget Films: 'Rise of Skywalker' and 'Andor'
01:03:00
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piece. But anyway, yeah, Rise of Skywalker was very expensive, and it's a turd.
01:03:05
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I have something to say about its expense and how I can see where the money went, but I'll just give it to you because I know how much you love Rise of Skywalker. so what do you Yeah, I was just going to say, thank goodness they spent this much on a movie that's amazing. It's pretty much the third best movie of all time, probably.
01:03:20
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Yeah, right. um Correlated with the price, yeah. Yeah, no. i I don't even know. I don't even remember how it looks like. It looks excellent. Yeah. Visually, it still looks excellent. excellent Yeah.
01:03:31
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That's the funny thing. I watched it once. for the movie really bad because the writing is a piece of shit. but But when I came out of that movie with my brother and our family friend, we – We talked about the movie a little bit, and my brother said, that movie wasn't written that well, but I will say that looks and feels exactly like a Star Wars movie. like it it like That movie's perfect in that regard. like per I think he said something like that. it was like It was really good in that regard, but I can't see through the shit.
01:04:01
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personally so i'm like yeah you're right because it sounds amazing it sounds amazing john williams score is amazing as usual he's got like they've got the you know the the lightsaber battles it looks incredible the lightsaber fight between ray and kylo ren on the on the weird sinking thing it looks crazy looks good the cg is amazing there's there's like there's a space battle looks really good but a space battle doesn't make any sense so can't I can't unfortunately see past that. You got the Knights of Ren walking about these cool characters that were teased in the first movie.
01:04:35
Speaker
I forgot to hear that. And they just keep on showing up. Like, hey, we're the Ren. And all of a sudden they're just dead. Yeah. just What a mess. Anyway. But yeah, it's like that's where it kind of makes sense, I guess.
01:04:48
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I suppose. But was it worth it? No. It wasn't worth Yeah. Right. I actually get sad thinking about that movie. Yeah. Like I get sad. Cause it ruins everything else.
01:04:58
Speaker
Yeah. Cause it's the, at at the end. I just like in my head cannon, it doesn't exist. Yeah. But then going forward, that's so that's my head cannon doesn't exist. It's not working though. And or sad.
01:05:09
Speaker
So good. I hate to burst your bubble, but it's not working. It's worth working. Just let me have it. Let me fucking have it. You're not having it. I'm saying you're not having it. does you know You know what I need? Yeah.
01:05:20
Speaker
yeah You know, it's funny, you know, I don't want severance for work-life balance. I want to close off my mind to rise of Skywalker. I just want a severance for just rise of Skywalker as existence. god If anyone asks me like, but but that happened to rise of Skywalker. I'm like, what rise of Skywalker? Oh, actually, I guess that would be like, just like, oh, it's my favorite. I think one of my favorite lines in Westworld is like, that doesn't look like anything to me, you know? Yeah.
01:05:45
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You see why the Skywalker or it's just like, it's, it's this Oscar Isaac saying like, uh, Emperor Palpatine has, what was it? What was it? Somehow Palpatine has returned.
01:05:56
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Somehow Palpatine has returned. I look at that clip and I'm just like, that doesn't look like anything to me. Yeah. You know, at least we've got Andor man, at least got Andor, which is like the greatest television of the year.
01:06:08
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Right. So I got it here. I guess how much Andor cost to make, do you know? You know, I don't know if you know saw if you saw it or not. No, it's like 200 something million per season. Guess again. Oh, per season.
01:06:19
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ah You're getting closer with that. Sure. yeah You're wrong though. Is it 250 per season? it 300 per season? Getting closer. Is it 350 per season? Almost. It's $650 million the two seasons. That's just about. That's fair.
01:06:33
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almost it's six hundred and fifty million dollars for the two seasons that's a just about that's fair It's lot of money though. It's beautiful. And it's amazing. And it's written well.
01:06:44
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and it and it And it somehow has parallels to what's happened in the real world. And it's beautifully written. And it won some Emmys finally. It got what it's deserved. And I will talk about Andor to anyone ever.
01:06:55
Speaker
I go on tangents. I'll i'll talk about Andor for 15 minutes to people that don't even care. and and And I want them to watch it because it's beautiful. Beautiful. And I tear it up. I tear it up watching Star Wars. I love it.
01:07:07
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I love Andor, man. I love Andor. It's excellent.
Streaming Services and Profitability
01:07:12
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but us Here's the thing about this, though. There's that classic Hollywood accounting situation where a film does bad, especially in Disney+, plus which I always find interesting, MCU movies, right? We'll see Thunderbolts come out, and it doesn't do so well in theaters, but it still hit budget. like it It hit the budget in terms of the box office.
01:07:30
Speaker
Yeah. But it's going to go to Disney+. plus We've talked about this before. So they're going to get another pop. Andor only has one pop. It can only make the money, theoretically, by correlating how much it costs to make to how many subscribers they have.
01:07:46
Speaker
And somehow figuring out the numbers of how many people would have subscribed or even cared about Andor enough to just... subscribe for Andor, if that makes sense. So that's a tricky calculation that I'm not sure how they do behind the scenes, but we don't hear that Andor was a waste of money. We don't hear that it was a loss, a net loss for Disney, which is great because I love Andor, but I wonder if they would never ever make something like that again.
01:08:10
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And that's kind of the question. yeah I think that they should. Well, obviously you think that.
01:08:19
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Me too. I think they should too. I hope that they should do though. Not should. I hope that they do. I hope that they that enough people do watch it. And you're right to to tell as many people as possible about it because i want to bake in the marketing for this like by my fandom because I just want people to watch it so that we can get something like this again.
01:08:40
Speaker
yeah and That they're not afraid to maybe make a more political or more serious version of Star Wars. for Disney plus because they do not get a second pop in the box office. They only get one. They just get one chance to win and it's through Disney plus subscriptions and that's it.
01:08:55
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So yeah, anyway, that's kind of what the thought process that I had with that. But Rise of Skywalker being 600 million, I can't even believe it in some aspect because it, That was why i clicked. It's funny. You said the thing about Andor because as soon as I saw the 600 million thing, I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. whoaa whoa who But Andor's 24 episodes. So it's 24 hours, way more movie time.
01:09:15
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How much did Andor cost to make? And it costs 650 million, which is just over the amount of a less than three hour film. That to me doesn't look much better.
01:09:30
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And that's the cool crazy thing about it is that the Andor is actually a bargain for what it is. Cause it, there, it doesn't look like there's any expense spared at all. Spared no expense on that.
01:09:42
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It looks incredible. So yeah. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah. I love Andor. Yeah. So we got to hope that they make something like that again, especially coming off the heels of Xbox Game Pass going up $10 American, $10 USD. Yeah.
01:09:59
Speaker
yeah You know, like there's an idea that like how can we both agree here? i don't know if you thought this before, if we talked about this before, obviously game pass wasn't profitable, right?
01:10:11
Speaker
Like for Frito-Lay. Correct. It wasn't profitable. Yeah. But they say it was profitable two months ago. Game pass ultimate they claimed was profitable two months ago. Definitely not. that It's profitable in the sense that it, they are making more money what they are spending on licensing the service but they're not taking into account the cost of every game that they're putting on that they're making no no they're they're they're taking into account the costs of the game they're putting on that they didn't make because those fees are directly correlated to game pass but right yeah exactly but they're not taking into account the budgets for the games that are first party that they are making yeah and they're also not taking into account
01:10:53
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I guess the lost sales because of putting it on there. Like call of duty is crazy. Like they literally, um, like, cause they, they did the tiers of game pass and in the middle tier where you'll still get first party games like a year later, they specifically said you're not getting call of duty.
01:11:11
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You just simply are not getting call duty on that. So it's, I don't know It's crazy. And call duty costs like hundreds of millions of dollars to make every single year. i don't know. It's a, yeah, no, of course, of course it wasn't profitable.
01:11:23
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Right. they're doing That's the same thing as when we talk about Hollywood accounting in this case too, is the same shit. they're They're not being transparent. They're making it sound worse than it is or better than it is in various spots whenever they feel like it. But that's the advantage of the streaming services in some way.
01:11:39
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yeah Is that you can make, but not necessarily for games when you'd never sell the games to your audience. I got the issue with games and Game Pass because they sold Game Pass so heavily that no audience, very few Xbox players were really buying games a la carte. They weren't buying them from the store.
01:11:55
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And so that makes it a problem. Whereas the box office is still a huge boon for for for Disney. And then they can sell it on Disney Plus. after as well, which is an advantage. like Rise of Skywalker, apparently, if you compared this budget with the amount they made in the in the actual box office sales, because it was like ah you lose about 50% of the the sales according to this Forbes article, they lost about 50% to the actual theatrical venues. so They made about half and they made about a billion dollars on Rise of Skywalker ticket sales.
01:12:28
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So therefore they're about, they just kind of approximately broke even something like that. So they they, they, they, broke. Even they made money, they made profit, but they spent money on marketing, but then they also spent, money they also made a lot of money on licensing deals and selling merchandising as well.
01:12:46
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So like you, you can never really figure out how much they actually made. And then a year later, did Actually, know the same year. Disney Plus launched that same year, and then Disney Plus had the movie on there. And how many how many subscriptions did you generate because you put Rise of Skywalker on there?
01:13:02
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Hopefully none. But regardless of that, and because there's a lot better stuff on Disney Plus than Rise of Skywalker, let me tell you. Yes, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, seasons one and two, yeah better than Rise of Skywalker. jet I'm not even joking.
01:13:15
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That was something that – that is a line that you you should – one of your favorite things you say is, I'm not being facetious. I'm surprised you didn't say that because that's true. i thought you You look like you're joking because you were smiling there, but I know 100% that you're telling the truth. Rise of Skywalker is way more of a turd than the
Franchise Fun: Jurassic World and Marvel Trailers
01:13:32
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Mormon lives of Mormon wives or whatever you say. The lives of Mormon wives. There's some good drama.
01:13:37
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think it's coming back. season yeah Season three coming out. I don't know. You can look that up while we move on to the next one. But yeah, are you done talking about this? Oh, yeah, it's crazy also. but ah a Jurassic World Dominion is very expensive, eh?
01:13:49
Speaker
What the hell? Yeah. At least that one was pretty fun. Yeah, that one's fun to watch. It was fun to watch, but not good. yeah Better than Ron and Scarwalker, though. Because the thing about Jurassic Park, and I find Jurassic Park 1 is like, the expectations for me were low going into it, and they should have been, because like what do you what do you really expect?
01:14:08
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But the Jurassic Park is excellent. I think it's a really good movie. And then every other Jurassic movie is kind of like, the expectations are really low. What are we really expecting out of the story here? There's no like weight of the previous, there's no baggage of the previous episodes that we're like, oh you know. Well, the baggage, they sweep it under the rug. They're like...
01:14:28
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yeah Because all the dinosaurs go free at the end of the Fallen Kingdom. And then in Dominion, they're like kind of roaming, not so much. And then they're like fully roaming at the end of Dominion. you know And then in the this new one, they're like, yeah, all the dinosaurs died. Climate's fucked.
01:14:42
Speaker
Right. And it's like, oh, man. yeah really where are you going and they're making a sequel it's like where are you guys gonna go with it it's like another island dude i don't give a shit i just want to see dinosaurs killing people i'm gonna fucking watch it day one dude i don't care but it's like i wonder if they're gonna retcon the retcon and just be like actually dinosaurs are still out they got powerful climate now oh you're saying for the next movie after rebirth yeah Yeah, now they're actually all all over the world because the the genetically modified ones were genetically modified to survive any climates. And they started breeding maybe, and then and now they're roaming the earth.
01:15:19
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I'm not sure how much Rebirth cost to me because I don't see Rebirth on that list anywhere. I'm not sure about that one. It's Dominion that was the – That movie actually looks really good. My only issue with that movie – Rebirth does.
01:15:29
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Yeah. Yeah. Is the sizing of the the super dinosaur constantly changed, like scale-wise? Was it the the Star Wars creature?
01:15:40
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I forget. Rancor. Rancor. Thank you. Yeah. yeah um But anyways. Secret Labs Mormon Live season three, by the way, November 13th.
01:15:51
Speaker
All 10 episodes at once, which is great. excited. Because then I can just pop that subscription on for a month, watch it, turn it off. Because there's there ain't much else that I care about watching on Disney+. Huh.
01:16:05
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Is the Jonas Brothers movie, the Christmas movie, is that going to be a Disney Plus one? Are you hype for that? Yeah. No, but while you're looking my fiance yeah and like some of our friends, they really want to watch it. So we might watch Jonas Brothers, a very Jonas Christmas movie.
01:16:25
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It's on Disney. It is going to be on Disney+. but And that's released in the same time as Secret the next day after Secret Lives and Modern Lives. So it works out perfectly. like Look that. This is a perfect segue to the next the next quick bite of news, which is kind of just ah kind of a follow-up we do every week, every two weeks, I guess, when we do this show. And it's just the trailers that happened this last two weeks. I've only got a few list listed here, but if you've got any more that you want to mention, that's cool too. But we can start off with Wonder Man.
01:16:52
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don't know if you watched the trailer for the Wonder Man show, but I got to say, I'm way more hyped about this than am. That it was before I watched the trailer. I didn't know what this was, but it's funny. Cause if you look at the comment section, not positive as you oh really, very negative.
01:17:07
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Look at, look just watch the trailer, look at the trailer and scroll down. It's, it's pretty worth seeing. Maybe it's changed. would, I pray that it is. I honestly, if you find out that it is more positive now, uh, I'd be happy to hear that, but.
01:17:18
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I got to say that this Wonder Man trailer is like, what a surprise. What is this? I am shocked that this is the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And I really love Ben Kingsley in his role. And I love Yahya Abdul-Mateen too.
01:17:31
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Like in everything he's been in. Yes, the second. The second. Oh, yeah, that's fair. the The Roman numerals. Yeah.
01:17:41
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Yeah, he's great. yeah all the all All of them, and like I have no idea what this show is going to be.
01:17:48
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Yeah. Sorry. What? Like ah looking through the comments. It's funny. A lot of the comments are actually DC related. Funnily enough. It's like hot girl dropped the president. Oh yeah.
01:18:01
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Anyways, that's good. Yeah. It's kind of a spoiler. So we're waiting else. Um, yeah, it's like, zero um they're not negative. It's like, have no idea what I just watched. 20% comments wonder 80% comments about Superman.
01:18:15
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The title hadn't said that this was a trailer for Wonder Man. I wouldn't have been able to guess. And even after watching it, I still have no idea what I just watched. Is that negative though? Like what is what is the point of that? Yeah. When I saw it, like it was just not, there was not a positive comment though. I guess maybe, maybe what I saw was no positivity, which is i'm unfortunate because I thought it looks interesting to me and this is coming out shortly. So maybe that's a reason why you might want to,
01:18:38
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Keep it if you're interested in this at all. i don't know if you were or not. I can't. No, this comes out in January though. not to keep it that long. I'll fucking turn off. Oh, it's January. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was December. No, end of January. Oh, I forgot.
01:18:49
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Okay. um Yeah. No, one looks good. i don't know. People just like complain on the internet, man. I don't fucking read YouTube comments rarely. It's just why. Yeah. But sometimes you find really positive comments like for the Avatar 3 trailer, you know, yeah fire and ash or whatever the shit is called.
01:19:04
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More like fire and ass. Am I right? Oh, am I right, dude? Am I right? Come on. Give me that one at least. Wow. That's good. Yeah. Good stuff. like yeah know It looks good. i'm I'm curious about this Wonder Man um show.
01:19:19
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Will I watch it? I don't know. I probably will. I'm like, I'm kind of shocked. I understand. Like what it what do what did I watch is is a kind of a fair assessment, but it's in like a different way. Like what did I watch? Because how is this in the MCU? I'm super excited to see what this is.
01:19:36
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My hesitant and hasz it ah hesitancy is based upon the same kind of delay that Ironheart had, right? Wonder Woman and Ironheart were held back. So what were they held back because they're not good enough?
01:19:52
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to like go next to like a lot of other MCU properties because they spread them out. That was what they wanted to do. Is it because they're not good enough or they just wanted to give them the best chance because they're really great. I don't really know. Like I think about when Andor launched and it launched with two episodes to start. I was like, oh, because they're worried. And I think they were worried. And I think if you watch the first episode of Andor, you're There's like a, it's not that exciting right out of the gate. And and then for people who, are especially not, you know, expecting something very Star Wars-esque, it's not that Star Wars right from the beginning. It is clearly Star Wars, but at the same time, it's like, there's not a lot that happens in the first episodes of launching. No, was the first three, I guess. They launched three episodes in one.
01:20:30
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Go, think. I think they did three at a time. Right. But I think that was in some way strategic, not only because it they actually had little story arcs that ended at the episode at the end of each third episode, but I think that it also helped with the hype potentially too. Because i the end of the third episode is amazing.
01:20:48
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The end of every one of the third episodes, pretty much throughout the entire series, especially the first season, is really, really, really well-timed and well-thought-out. the ah These arcs are completely well-built, obviously. But anyway, so I don't know.
01:21:01
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I'm just curious to see if Wonder Man is any good or if they're putting it – they delayed it because it was like shot like two years ago or something stupid. like Whether it's not good enough. and Did they have to – do a lot of reworks for it to make it better. Ironheart is not that bad.
01:21:16
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Like it doesn't look as boring as the trailer is. It's not bad at all. Potentially it's like over an 80, right? on medical I don't remember. It was was something like that when it initially was coming out. So I think it's good enough that I'm definitely going to watch Ironheart. 77.
01:21:30
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Okay, close to an 80. 46 popcorn meter, but let's see how real that is, you know? It's a black woman, so you got to take that. What was the percentage for? 46 audience score. 46, yeah. It sucks that like- 100%. Yeah, it's a bummer when it's like, you can't trust an audience score if the main character a minority.
01:21:51
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like I had an argument ah with somebody the other day. They're like, oh, I'm like, ah so- They pointed at Death Stranding 2 and they said to me, so Death Stranding, we're in front of the Video King Cabin Center retail store, right? they pointed at Death Stranding 2 and they say, oh, Death Stranding 2, not good, eh?
01:22:10
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Not good. I heard it was really, really bad. just not great. I'm like, no, it... No, it's really good. He's like, no, I watched a few streamers and they said the Death Stranding 2 is not good. I'm like, Death Stranding 2 might win Game of the Year. I mean, probably won't. There's a lot of contenders this year, but it is excellent. and It will at least get nominated for Game of the Year. I think that's a guarantee. yeah and like And he's like, what? How can that be? um is And I'm like, well, critics love it. It's like 90 Metacritic. He's like, oh, I don't trust critics. I just trust...
01:22:38
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and like I'm like, who do you trust? He's like, I trust these like random streamers on online. I'm like, ah but that's one guy's opinion. Isn't it better to take ah like the amalga amalgamation of many different streamers and reviewers and then take those together? and Wouldn't that be a better typical yeah judgment of what you would think?
01:22:55
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But I hear this all the time like with Rotten Tomatoes. I don't trust Rotten Tomatoes. was like, I don't know what you mean you don't trust it. it's just a it's You're not trusting it completely. Explore Death Stranding 2 is weird as well, though, because they're the user rating is 8.8.
01:23:09
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Yeah. But then the other thing was, i then I talked about the video game awards last year. Right. I'm like for for the video game awards. I'm like, he's like, Oh, so yeah. You know, black myth. Wukong is really good. Like it did it win game of the year? I'm like, no, it didn't win, but it got nominated. it was, it was really well regarded. People like it, but I mean, it wasn't reviewed that well he's like, well, i don't trust those reviews though. Cause I just trust, I don't trust. He's like, he's this like, it's should have won game of the year. And they the game award should be like the Oscars and that it shouldn't be based on popular opinion.
01:23:39
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I'm like, what? It's not based on, what do you mean popular opinion? There are a bunch of professional critics that are reviewing. It's not like, and people didn didn't vote like American Idol. I was like so confused. But I have this conversation a lot. And when I told them that it was Astro Bot that won, and whenever i have this conversation, Astro Bot won game of the year last year for anyone who doesn't know.
01:23:56
Speaker
Anytime I have this conversation about Astro Bot winning game in the year, they're like, no, it doesn't deserve it. It's like, well, what deserved it? And usually it's Black Myth, Wukong, or they'll say some random game. That's fucking stupid. Okay, so coming from me, I played every single game the year nomination.
01:24:09
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yeah it's incredible now you you did it you just played the last one you didn't play yeah and blackman the ugon great game yeah game of the year i don't even think it should have been in that conversation you didn't know wait you didn't know you didn't play eldon ring the yeah yeah it doesn't care i played regular i should never have been nominated but anyway not eldon ring by the way we're talking about the dlc which was nominated for game of the year which is very odd but it's like whatever it's it's just more of the same and cool yeah probably cool boss fights but come on um Yeah. Blackmouth Wukong, it's great game, like genuinely really good. I honestly like I'm playing Ghost of Yotei, which is that reviewed better.
01:24:43
Speaker
I actually enjoyed Blackmouth Wukong more than more the Yotei. I'm kind of like, I kind of want to jump back into that. um But again, I don't love open world games. I like more linear stuff and it's just like it's a fun combat game.
01:24:54
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um Right. In my personal, I mean, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, dude. like Like, for me, that is what should have won Game Year. Yeah, but what about Astro Bot over Myth Wukong? That's the question, too, right? Oh, 100%.
01:25:06
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100% over that. Astro Bot would have probably been my second choice after Final Fantasy. Oh, okay, cool. Maybe Metaphor? i don't remember. I don't love metaphor. So Astro Bot Wukong for sure is what you're saying. Oh yeah. Wukong shouldn't have been in that conversation. Like straight up should not have been in that conversation. They were the, the, the makers of that game though were visible. That was the crazy thing at the awards when they had a shot, like a camera shot of them when they lost the award to Astro Bot. They looked like they were crying or something. It was very unusual.
01:25:34
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And then later on, they kind of like threw shade at like at the whole awards thing because they should have won. It's like, like guys, things this is your first game. it's It's like you should be proud of what you came out with. Like, it's it's cool that it was even nominated. i Again, I don't think it should have been one best and action game, which is fair because it's so fun.
01:25:52
Speaker
Um, but yeah, like it's, I don't know, man, come on, come on. It's crazy. It's great. It's just crazy stuff. But anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that, I don't know, the people are very strange. They're stuck in their own like little, um, vacuum chamber. You know, they, they, they don't, they see this like weird boxed in tunnel vision and they don't, they can't see outside. So like people looking in the comment sections, this really makes me miserable. I, you typically don't read them, but sometimes I like, I'm like, Oh, this looks like, especially if something's interesting or wacky, like wonder man's trailer is nothing to do with the MCU almost at all. It's a remarkable trailer. trailer it's just ben kingsley it's just ben kingsley which is so cool and so what i'm like i wonder what people are thinking i was thinking oh people must be like confused but not miserable about it but most of the people were i found when i was scrolling through it was like people were confused and they weren't they kept ah you you're saying the one-off topic but they just didn't seem hyped about it at all like yeah i should have what did i watch and what why was i here what is this mcu is cooked or it's like okay it's not
01:26:48
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It's like, that's not really true. It's just, you don't want to give things a chance that are different. You want the same thing, but you don't want the same thing. That's the funny thing too. Like you want the same thing over and over again. That's where the MCU, I feel like has gone the right direction in this phase is that they tried to do stuff that was different in some way. It's just sometimes they went off in a bad direction because they don't seem to know again. They had no idea what they're doing, man. Power hierarchy. They're just don't know. That's the problem though.
01:27:13
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They need a board. They need a guy. They need to bring in the rock. Because he's going to change the power power hierarchy of the MC universe now. Yeah, yeah, right. And he's still playing Black Adam.
01:27:25
Speaker
Yeah, he's he's playing Black Adam. Yeah, that makes sense. just Anyway, yeah, that's one thing. I think we talked about this before, but James Gunn nails it. I got to stress this, especially like in Peacemaker. He knows exactly what power each characters have and then he makes sure the logic makes sense. I really appreciate that. But we talked him about that before. Anyway, trailers, let's get back to them.
01:27:46
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What other trailers were you interested in? I also ah wrote down here a night of the seven kingdoms, the new game of Thrones spinoff show. That was the pluralist teaser as well. Like the, the, we talked about him earlier, but Vince Gilligan's next show on Apple TV plus.
01:28:00
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That's his actual last name. Yeah. That's where he was born. Yeah. That's why I was called that. And then mercy trailer. okay. so okay I want to talk about the mercy trailer real quick. Cause I don't have much to say about this because this is like essentially crisp rat is, um, taken.
01:28:18
Speaker
And he's like, you're a former detective. And we have an AI system that thinks that you're guilty and you got to prove that you're not guilty for killing your wife. And if you don't go under this threshold, you're going to be executed in 90 minutes. I'm like, that's a cool setup.
01:28:31
Speaker
Yeah. And then they're like, you have unlimited resources to look at any footage to find out, to to prove you're not guilty. I'm like, I'm sitting there. I'm like, you have an AI system in place. to to Yeah. find... Why doesn't the AI system just figure it out? you're You're figuring out who's guilty, but can't you just run the AI system to do the exact opposite as well?
01:28:56
Speaker
like what is like what What the heck? It makes no sense. I was sitting there and I was like, oh, this seems like a fun process. And then halfway through the trailer, I'm like, wait, this is actually really fucking stupid. And I got a little annoyed.
01:29:09
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ah Well, it seems like the... It's a broken AI program too. It's gone and gone rogue in some way. So like, it maybe it doesn't want to, it, it believe it, maybe it's with its weird, distorted.
01:29:20
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Is Rebecca Ferguson the AI? Yeah. Okay. I thought, I thought so. I was, I was confused. Like, is she just delivering the info for information and there is a, She's like the personification of the AI.
01:29:31
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Yeah. I like Rebecca Ferguson. So yeah I don't know. Maybe we'll watch this. i don't think it's going to be reviewed particularly well. It looks silly, but it looks like a fun watch. You're right about that. I didn't even think about that. But I kind of figured that the reason why that is, is because it's like, no, I'm not doing the work for you. Do do it yourself. You have to prove that you're not. It's like, this is basically as opposed to innocence,
01:29:53
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ah you're presumed innocence, you're presumed guilty, and then you have to prove you're innocent. is but Is that how distorted the AI has changed society? That's kind of the thing I'm thinking now it might be, but it does it did seem a little silly. It's funny.
01:30:05
Speaker
There's a lot of Chris Pratt movies that are kind of silly, I feel like. The like the premise is not... I don't know. He's good. I like him, but his choices sometimes. that that that I'll never forget that movie where they go to the Arctic. What was it? Oh my God, the Amazon movie.
01:30:20
Speaker
Yeah. ah That movie was so bad, dude. Oh, it's bad. ah Yeah. Especially the the way it ends. It just keeps getting worse on a plot hole perspective. It had such a good cast. What is it called?
01:30:32
Speaker
I don't know. J.K. Simmons. Chris Pratt movie. Yeah, I love J.K. Simmons too. Chris Pratt. Pratt. Chris Pratt. J.K. Simmons. The Tomorrow War.
01:30:42
Speaker
It's very popular, that movie, I think, for Amazon at the time. But. Yeah. Yeah, anyway. Sam Richardson's in this movie as well. I totally forgot about that.
01:30:53
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Yeah, he was like a comic relief a little bit. It was good.
01:30:57
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He was good. Anyway. was a bad movie, That was a movie. All right. Anything else you want to talk about from the trailers I listed there? 76 popcorn meter, dude, for the Tomorrow War? Jeez, Louise, man. What was the overall, what was the critics score, though? 51. We align with the critics, though, don't we?
01:31:14
Speaker
Sometimes. Not for Sausage Party. For me. Not for you. actually like Sausage Maybe time and place. right. if watched it. But anyways. There's one specific movie we don't align with the critics on, and it will always bug me that it's so far off.
01:31:28
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and Because it seems so strange. Which one? Dawn of Justice. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Batman versus Superman. I'll never understand how it can be that far off what I believe.
01:31:40
Speaker
Yeah. No, I agree with you. i mean, now even last episode, the long walk is reviewed incredibly well and we're kind of like, eh. But we didn't. We're going hate it. Yeah, that one's like a middling one. That one's okay, but we really like Batman v Superman and Dawn of Justice, so we actually like legitimately think it's great.
01:31:58
Speaker
It's not the best movie we've ever seen, but we really like I love it, yeah. The first hundred episodes, you said at the end of every episode, Batman v Superman is a good movie. that That's it. that's not what you be like anyway dude i remember coming out of that theater thinking i was insane because everyone we went with we're like that's not a good movie i'm like i fucking loved it i thought this was so good i'm like this is so fun and even you you're like man i don't like it and then you watched it again with your brother like a week later yeah and then like i remember we sat down and talked to about it like i did a complete 180 this movie is great i was like yes finally
01:32:30
Speaker
There's also the element of like watching the rated R movie is even better because they it's not that it was rated r because I feel like it wasn't didn't need to be rated R. But the longer cut is actually even better. It just felt like it – I think the reason why I didn't like it, I think this 100% the reason, and I might have said this at the time, is honestly just because of the stupid Martha thing because I still think it's ah the worst part of the entire movie. By far, yeah. too cheesy. Yeah.
01:32:55
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And that that threw me off so bad because I'm like, why, why are you making this like important moment? So like simplified, it's like, it's, it just seems like it's badly written, but it's not, it's not nearly as bad.
01:33:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. well My frustration is people always hyper focus on like one or two bad things from something that's like amazing. Yeah. Um,
01:33:18
Speaker
Okay, maybe I shouldn't say amazing. um Well, in some cases, amazing. Like Last of Us Part II, as an example, they'll focus on like one or two things and be like, this is fucking so bad because of this. Sometimes. But yeah.
01:33:29
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To that point, though, sometimes the things that people focus on are deal breakers. like If they're a plot hole that completely fundamentally breaks the fabric of the film, that's the problem. I just don't think Martha's doing that. That's that's the issue.
01:33:43
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it's It's really cheesy, but it's like, is that worth the movie being bad over? Nah. If you do that many times in a movie, though, like like Zack Snyder's other film, the zombie zombie army. army did whatever Army of the dead.
01:33:56
Speaker
our army of the dead no zombie army that's a game uh but yeah the army of the dead like the the way that movie the movie starts right off the gate with stupid writing theyre right out of the gate and it just never gets better from there it just it does that repeatedly just stupid decisions and dumb things happen all the time and you're like none of these people are smart enough to survive this how do they let's have an emotional moment right here in the middle of this room that was the craziest i was like dude what what are you doing My mind went to It's yeah. There are like movies where it's like every character in this movie. This is the, this is the moment they gain sentience.
01:34:31
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They have no like history. the The ironic part is they did a prequel with one of the characters. Um, That one was okay, though, but it wasn't written or directed by Zack Snyder. so Yeah, it was written and directed by the guy.
01:34:43
Speaker
I think Zack Snyder is is a good director. I just don't – I wish he wouldn't write so much. And I feel that – it seems mean, but maybe he should just have a co-partner always to write it yeah to kind of like level him off a bit because it's just – I don't know.
01:34:57
Speaker
His writing is sometimes is – he's just not thinking it through. Did you ever watch the Rebel Moon movies? I didn't. Obviously written by Zack Snyder though. Yeah. And very, very, very badly reviewed. You didn't, right?
01:35:09
Speaker
no, I did not. And they did like the director's cut releases, which I think in some cases were worse. i don't know. Oh, good. Could be wrong. Great. I'll watch them one day maybe. Well, Batman vs. Superman is written by Goyer too, right?
01:35:21
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That's the thing about Batman vs. Superman. It's not actually written by Zack Snyder. But he did write Justice League. Yeah, that's okay. That's good one. That's good one.
01:35:33
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remember superman let me just check that real quick but other than that any other trailers here yeah so you brought up a knight of the seven kingdoms looks great i'm i'm very intrigued i'm excited about this i'll definitely watch a knight of the silent kingdoms upon release i uh i love game of thrones i love the world again i don't love the way the show ended you know how rushed it felt um kind of a bummer, but this looks fun and it's interesting.
01:35:59
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i don't know if you saw, I think there was an article that came out that they're not doing like a big grand opening, like similar, like the, du du du no du du but they have the dragon and game of Thrones because they want to set, like set, set this apart.
01:36:12
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Cause tonally, this is meant to be quite different. than the other comedy. Yeah. Which is kind of cool. I'm like, I'm intrigued about this. It still seems like it's going to be, you know, dark at a lot of moments and there's still going to be a lot of people dying and everything, but it seems a little bit more lighthearted and fun, which is, I think going to be like a nice change of pace for, for this universe that is so dark and dire, um, you know, typically all throughout.
01:36:37
Speaker
Um, and then obviously I think house of the dragon season three is going to come out next year too, which I'm very excited for felt season three season three, I felt season two is a little weak. I liked it.
01:36:48
Speaker
Overall. I just think. It ends where it begins with like a specific character. It's like we we don't need to have all this. And it just. Not much. Not much happened when you really think about it. Not much happened. There's like maybe one or two.
01:37:05
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major events that take place that is a really big event that they take a long time to get to like a really long time but in a way that it's almost like yeah anyway that's that's the that's a huge thing that happens but yeah yeah anyway but it also kind of goes back to the start in a way that's what i mean that's what i'm referring to yeah that's okay i liked it though i liked it i feel like there's development there yeah but i imagine season three is gonna be a fucking banger So I'm very excited about that.
01:37:36
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Yeah. So yeah, Knight Seven Kingdoms looks get good. Are you excited for this one? I am. It's there's something about the music though. That throws me off a little bit. It's like, there's almost like a Hallmark movie type. I don't know. that Maybe that's mean, but like, and don't know. There's like, it's not that it's only not Hallmark movie. That's not a good description. it's almost like a, ah ah like there's like a, like it's, it's one of those like family life movies where they're like the family, like goes on the road together. like these Caillou and his neighbor going on the road to like.
01:38:06
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ah see Fair Yeah.
01:38:09
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that That is kind of funny. um But anyway, I wonder if that was a conscious choice to to really set it apart again. Like I think they're really being like, hey, like this is different.
01:38:20
Speaker
um Yeah, it's like a folksy kind of music they got going on. I like it though, because it's cool. I just hope there's a lot to go on. in the plot, like i hope they get into your point, I guess it was season two of house of the dragon. Like there could be a lot less that would happen here, you know, and then it would feel a lot worse because house of the dragon is still huge spectacle season two, you know, yeah there's still like a lot spectacle.
01:38:45
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There's dragons in it. They're fighting. There's like a crazy moment where there's like a dragon fighting at one point. I'm like, this is a lot of money they put into this. So like, there's like, those are, those are moments that you're probably not going to have in this kind of situation. I'm sure the budget on this is much worse, like much less. I shouldn't say worse because the budget doesn't have to be big.
01:39:02
Speaker
So they, they're literallyly going on this journey. But like this idea. I love, um, do you ever read into the Chronicles of Narnia? never There's a lot of that kind of thing. the My favorite thing about Chronicles of Narnia is when they're like there's a few characters just going on a journey across Narnia.
01:39:18
Speaker
I always love that. There's like something interesting about that. Or even like the hobbits traveling across Middle-earth. like Like, you know, in the beginning of the film, like the fellowship and they they they collect the fellowship and then the fellowship is like going on this journey together. There's this traveling aspect of it that I really kind of appreciate. And also kind of fleshes out your world a lot more too, because it shows the grittiness of your ward at a world on a more grounded level. Whereas Game of Thrones has never really kind of been that grounded.
01:39:46
Speaker
There's a lot of cool moments with like, you know, ah ah it's Bronn, right? Bronn and Peter Dinklage's character. Yeah, Tyrion. Tyrion. they're going they're They're traveling together, and there's a lot of those moments a little bit, but they just don't do that that much. And the idea of traveling across Game of Thrones... Oh, great example would be the Hound and... Arya.
01:40:05
Speaker
Arya. like I love those moments. There's something really grounded about it. It kind of makes you feel kind of... I don't know. i don't know that it's It's good for me. I really love that idea, and that's kind of what this is. So I'm excited about that, but I hope there's enough that happens in terms of character development and actual world building that the it makes it feel...
01:40:23
Speaker
big enough that it makes sense and it doesn't just again it's not like a comedy where just a sitcom where the end of the season they're in the same place as you mentioned with season two of house of the dragon because it would be much more the same place than of the dragon would be because again it's a spectacle of house of the dragon anyway exactly so i'm curious i'm excited yeah um and then obviously we had the the longest teaser for pluribus yeah dude what is this show this looks so cool i have a i have a theory which might be like a like a i don't know. It might be a popular theory. Again, I wasn't really looking online.
01:40:55
Speaker
I wasn't either. Yeah. So obviously like it's, it's Ray Sehorne. She's like the main character. She seems miserable, but it seems like everyone else in this world is like hive minded, like, and they know that she's the only person that isn't happy in a way.
01:41:13
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So like, she's literally being talked to through the TV by the president. Like, Oh, don't worry. Like we'll fix you. Um, or whatever. I'm thinking this is like alien invasion thing. Like an alien came down. it infected people.
01:41:24
Speaker
Everyone has this hot. Yeah. And she's like immune. And they're like, we'll figure this out. Don't worry. You'll become one of us. And that she is like the only like regular human left. Maybe, maybe we'll be introduced to more characters as, as it goes on. Uh, kind of, uh, Allah, um, last man on earth. If ever watched that TV show with will forte, um, from back in the day.
01:41:46
Speaker
Um, It's different. It wasn't alien invasion. um But yeah, I'm curious if it's something like that. That's my only theory. But at the same time, Vince Gilliam, what was he doing, man? What are you doing? This looks good.
01:41:59
Speaker
ah can't wait. cause look good It's cool. there's then It's funny because we talked about Apple TV plus whatever, Apple TV. yeah quite negatively at the start of this, but I think it's my favorite streaming service right now running at the moment.
01:42:14
Speaker
Like, like if we're looking at a moment to moment situation, it's my favorite one. I watched the most content and from it on a regular basis. I have the least likelihood to cancel it, although I have it tied into other subscriptions. So I wouldn't anyway, but i have the apple one just thinking about all all the shows I watch on it, where there's, whether it be Ted Lasso severance or slow horses or shrinking,
01:42:36
Speaker
um or Dark Matter, or like, it's just, there's a lot of shows on there that I'm very, very keen on this being on Apple TV as well. i mean, i don't know. They, I feel like this has got to go going on there. They're, they're, they have such a premium.
01:42:49
Speaker
Content base. I was looking through when we were looking at when I was going through the the new releases so we can go through that segment later. And there's just so much Netflix stuff coming out that I've just never heard of.
01:42:59
Speaker
And there's so to be fair, there are a lot of foreign ah things that I probably wouldn't watch anyway in this for other countries. And that's okay. That's cool. they're trying to. you know, dip into different markets. But I just, i feel like that the, the, the quality um consistency is just all over the place with a lot of these streaming services. We've talked about this before, but I just, I'm really impressed with Apple's output.
01:43:22
Speaker
It's really, really cool. And this is something that I'm hoping they're not going to decrease because that the rumor was that they were losing money. Yeah. So like year over year, like they're bleeding money and that this is kind of like a value added kind of service type situation that Apple brings to the table by owning their devices and being in their ecosystem. So I'm hoping that they just keep, keep it up. Cause I'm blurb. This looks really cool, but I just have no idea what it is. And I think Vince Gilligan just knocks it out of the park.
01:43:49
Speaker
At least for the last two, two major shows he's been a part of. Yeah. I'm very excited. Me too. Sorry. What day is that? When is it coming? It's 4th, 7th.
01:44:03
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. Cause I didn't see it on the list when I was going through. Yeah. I wonder if I missed it. November 7th. Okay. Okay. Cool, man. Is that it? Anything else? Any other trailers I missed that you were interested in? Cause I feel like I missed a few trailers for this by week. um they' we only I've been busy, man. I was out of the country. i don't know if you heard.
01:44:22
Speaker
Yeah, I have. Yeah. Yeah. i was I was busy too. I'm under siege over here. I don't know if you heard. ah Dude, I did hear. Yeah. Under siege by by Japanese fighter pilots, kamikaze pilots.
01:44:35
Speaker
it's's They're not kamikaze at all. Oh yeah, those were the bees. Sorry, sorry. They'll sting you many times. Yeah, don't know if that was like a racist statement I just said.
01:44:45
Speaker
If it was, apologize. I take it back. Yeah, I didn't mean it that Revoked. I didn't mean intent, not there to be racism. I love Japan. I love the Japanese people of Japanese culture.
01:44:57
Speaker
ah love JRPGs.
01:45:01
Speaker
Apology accepted. I can't accept it, but I, I accept. Thanks man. On behalf of the Japanese people. The whiteest man.
01:45:10
Speaker
The whiteest man ever. Anyway. Yeah, I knew what you meant. I knew what you meant. Just making a silly, silly quip, but yeah. All right. We're going to move on now. Cool.
01:45:21
Speaker
On to the montage, Adrian, a sequence of our show in which I briefly present seven of the bi-weeks smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict. Number one, a sequel to the hit blockbuster video game adaptation, A Minecraft Movie, is slated to release in 2027 with director Jared Hess returning to direct. Jared Hess, I still remember you fucking cheering on people bringing in chickens to movie theaters, you bitch.
01:45:47
Speaker
You bitch, Jared Hess. Number two, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, minority director Lee Isaac Chung is set to direct a Ocean's Eleven prequel film with Bradley Cooper and Margot Robbie set to star.
01:46:01
Speaker
Oh, cool. I'll probably check this out. I swear to God, weren't they doing another? Ocean's Eleven prequel with different people. Doesn't matter. Who cares? Continue. Number three. Invincible season four will premiere in March of 2026 with Guardians of the Galaxy actor Lee Pace cast as villain Thrag. Awesome. Can't wait. Good show.
01:46:22
Speaker
Good actor. Number four, as announced at New York Comic Con, Transformers actor Megan Fox has been cast as Toy Chica in the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's sequel film.
01:46:34
Speaker
Nice, dude. Megan Fox also in New Girl for like a couple seasons, which is a great show. And honestly, I like that first Five Nights at Freddy's movie. It's fun. It's fun. I'll probably watch it New Girl. what ah What a modern reference that is.
01:46:49
Speaker
Yeah, I love that show. Yeah. Number five. As announced at New York Comic Con, Daredevil Born Again has been greenlit for a third season ahead of its second season premiere in March of 2026. Oh my goodness. That's cool. I'm excited. Maybe.
01:47:07
Speaker
Depending on the quality. Number six. As reported by Deadline, Toxic Avenger writer-director Macon Blair is writing-directing a comedy film called The Shitheads, which is set to star the studio actor Dave Franco, Roofman actor Peter Dinklage, and succession actor Nicholas Braun. Nice. I wanted to watch Toxic Avenger. didn't watch it.
01:47:28
Speaker
wonder if it's available to rent at home. Maybe I'll watch it. Spooky season. Number seven. Apple's hit blockbuster film F1 The Movie, with its $629 million dollars in theater ticket sales, will officially launch on streaming service Apple TV on December 12th, 2025.
01:47:46
Speaker
This will mark a 160-day theatrical window for the Brad Pitt-starring film, which premiered in theaters on June 27th of this year. i don't really care too much.
01:47:57
Speaker
I did. I'll watch this. don't know. It's Top Gun with cars. I heard Top Gun Maverick with cars. I heard. And that concludes the montage. wow Here's the thing about the Apple.
01:48:10
Speaker
ah The F1 movie going to Apple TV. The window is huge. Yeah, it's like half a year. It's the exact opposite of Netflix.
01:48:21
Speaker
So I just praised i praised Apple for a different reason. I think their quality is good. This movie is a hit. It was one of the biggest blockbusters of the year for an original film. And I mean, somewhat original. I mean, it's based on the F1, Formula One. But you know what i'm saying? It's like not a one a Marvel movie or like a sequel.
01:48:39
Speaker
Yeah. And um it's it's super interesting in that 168 days is crazy. Normally, the window is 45 days for a lot of these films. Some of them are shorter. Some of them are crazy. like So they really waited and made sure that it got as much box office hype as possible before they moved it to streaming.
01:48:58
Speaker
And it's ah obviously an Apple film from beginning. like It wasn't like it was an Apple. like it's In the and the beginning credits, like it's an Apple film. It's not like they bought it for streaming rights later. or some kind of weird thing at the end there.
01:49:10
Speaker
they They knew that it was this this was their plan. And so Netflix doesn't like box office. they don't They don't care about theaters. They just don't care about the exhibitionist industry. But obviously Apple does.
01:49:20
Speaker
And I respect them for that because we like going to the theater. So good for them. do. Yeah. You do as well. And together we make a we. Indeed.
01:49:32
Speaker
and Indeed, indeed. Okay. Now it is time to talk about what we've been watching this bi-week. Adrian, I will throw it to you first. What have you watched for this two week period?
01:49:44
Speaker
Um, I haven't watched a crazy amount, but I did watch a couple of things. I'm still watching hacks. I'm on season two, really good. I'm really enjoying it. I'm liking this season even more than the first season. You kind of get to know the characters. Um, good stuff. It's on HBO.
01:49:57
Speaker
Um, Yeah, it's about, you know, like a ah canceled writer that gets partnered with a, um you know, failing comedian that that's we're not failing, but, you know, a comedian that's kind of ah slowly getting out of the spotlight and they're doing things together. This one's fun because it's kind of a road trip season.
01:50:17
Speaker
So like, I like this. I like road trips. Um, so really good. Uh, obviously still watching stranger things season four, still on amazing only watch like one or two episodes since last. So again, won't talk about that until I finish it again.
01:50:31
Speaker
And then i watched cause it's spooky season, Simon. It's October spooky season time. I watched a movie called evil dead, but the 2013 evil dead that's directed by Fede Alvarez, the guy that did don't breathe. And, um,
01:50:48
Speaker
alien Romulus. Yeah. Both movies. I really, really like, and it's kind of cool to go back in time to see, you know, one of his earlier movies in the evil dead and see how much he's grown as a director, you know, five years later with don't breathe. And then like another, like six years later with, or five years, five or six years with alien Romulus.
01:51:10
Speaker
Um, And it's it's interesting because I don't really think like the 2013 The Evil Dead is like particularly great. I think it's well directed and it looks cool, but it It takes itself almost a little bit too seriously.
01:51:28
Speaker
So when there are these brief moments of campiness, it doesn't fit as well. Whereas like the movie, like the original Evil Dead movie, or even like the more recent Evil Dead Rise, which I watched in theaters, is like kind of campy throughout, but also incredibly terrifying and intense.
01:51:46
Speaker
Um, so I don't know. I thought it was kind of interesting to go back to this, see how much, see how far he's, I guess, come as a director since then. Um, and it's cool that obviously he's grown so much and has made, I think two fucking banger movies with again, both alien and Romulus and, um, don't breathe.
01:52:03
Speaker
But yeah, I think, The Evil Dead, the 2013, it's kind of like a recall, like, you know, not not a full reboot, not a full sequel. I think it's just kind of set in the universe, but similar premise to the first one in the sense that they're going to a cabin in the woods.
01:52:18
Speaker
The difference being that the main character is this drug addict um and she goes there with like her brother and some of her friends to ah like to detox. And I just think the writing is kind of weak.
01:52:30
Speaker
The setup of the movie is kind of weak. All the characters are kind of caricatures. They don't, they're not too interesting on their own, um which is unfortunate, especially when they start getting killed off and you just don't really care, which is, I think, like kind of a big issue in a lot of, you know, horror movies. Like you want,
01:52:52
Speaker
You want to care when people are getting murdered sometimes um or you want to have fun with it and be like, oh, cool. They're getting murdered in fun ways. And I think it leans a little bit more towards that side where, again, they are getting murdered brutally.
01:53:04
Speaker
um But it's just not as fun as that. I think it should be until honestly, like the last like 15, 20 minutes where it goes pretty much full camp. And I was like, okay, you know, I kind of wish you maintained or had this tone all throughout the movie instead of just kind of switching to it near the end.
01:53:22
Speaker
um But all in all, like, I think it's a good watch. Again, it's spooky season. You you want to know where I watched this, Simon? On the plane. No, I watched it on the PlayStation Plus streaming service, like Sony Pictures Core, because it's on. Oh, cool.
01:53:38
Speaker
Yeah, because they rotated about 100 movies, right? Yeah, exactly. free. you have PlayStation Plus Premium. Yeah, exactly, which which I do. So I was like, oh, cool, it's on there. Because I was like, oh, maybe I can rent it for $5. I was like, wait, I have like, when you upgraded back in the day to PS Plus Premium, they would give you movie credits. So they gave me like five.
01:53:56
Speaker
And I think that's where I watched 28 Days Later, when I rewatched it recently. Yeah. I was like, cool, I can use one of the credits to the Evil Dead movie. But they actually just added it to the service. I'm like, OK, neat. So I just had access to it.
01:54:07
Speaker
And that's where I watched it. And yeah, so it's fun. It's fun. It's cool to go back to this and then again, see like where Fede Alvarez has gone. And again, it's not like a total waste of time. I just didn't particularly love it, you know? OK.
01:54:20
Speaker
So yeah, it is like very bloody and gory and. I like that sort of stuff during spooky season. and you know I mean, I like that sort of stuff all the time, but especially during spooky season.
01:54:31
Speaker
So I watched that. And then the other thing I watched, Simon, is the first episode of HBO's The Chair Company, which is Tim Robinson's new show. He stars in it. He wrote it with Zach Kanin and i think there's someone else um that I'm forgetting.
01:54:50
Speaker
But it is a Very interesting show. I watched it with my fiancee. um Cassandra, who does it not like I think you should leave really. like sure how did go Why did she watch this? Because I forgot. I was like, just watch it with me. Come on. and This might be different.
01:55:05
Speaker
And she actually was intrigued because the cool part about the show, Simon, is that it's a mystery thriller comedy. And you're like, how does that work?
01:55:16
Speaker
And they make it work. They do. It's really cool because it's about, um you know, the setup of it is, you know, Tim Robinson, he gets a promotion at his company. And as he's kind of like accepting the promotion or whatever, he goes back to sit down on his chair.
01:55:31
Speaker
And when he sits, the chair breaks and he falls and embarrasses himself in front of everyone. And that's kind of the inciting event. And he's like, I got to figure out. You know, this chair, you know, like who built this chair? Cause there's, there's something up, you know, this could cause mass casualties.
01:55:48
Speaker
His characters never can let anything lie. yeah That's the problem. And that's the setup. So he's like literally calling, ah trying to figure out who, like who's running the company of this chair company, the chair company, as they say in the, in the show to, to stop this wide spreading,
01:56:07
Speaker
disaster that could happen and and possibly hurt many people because he fell on this chair. And that is the, that is the setup of the show, but it goes in some very interesting places.
01:56:18
Speaker
Whereas by the end of the first episode, you're like, okay, like this is different than what I'm expecting. And I'm kind of, I want to know, i want to know what's, what's happening here. Cause it seems, yeah, like it's not everything is what it seems.
01:56:31
Speaker
um And it's really funny. There's some like really good jokes. Even just like the first scene in the show is absurd. And it's like, it You know, ah like he has a very defined style of comedy, right?
01:56:45
Speaker
That I think works in short bursts. yeah And then with with friendship, I a movie that I really liked and like, know, the more I think of it, I really like it was almost too much at times because it's like this is an hour and a half. And you're like, oh, my God, dude, like this is so cringy. Like I want to stop now.
01:57:02
Speaker
It does. It does. And like it, it, it ends neatly. Um, whereas this one has thing. It comes back around as in like, it gets so cringy. It's almost unbearable, but then it still, so somehow comes back yeah to being funny again. And then it goes back to being too cringy. It's unbearable. And then the audience is like in the theater we were in was like quiet.
01:57:20
Speaker
Like there's like, you could hear a pin drop and then it gets funny again. they're like, there's like nervous laughter, but then there's real laughter. It's just like this combo. But these episodes are what, 30 minutes? Is it a comedy? 30 minutes, yes. Yeah. Exactly. And it's like- It has to 30 minutes. It's comedy.
01:57:34
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. It is a comedy. And vice versa. Yeah. Yeah. um So, it's I think it's done very well. And it's like, it doesn't have- I feel like friendship dragged a little bit like with specific scenes where it's like, oh, the cringe is just continuing to go with the scene. Whereas I think in, in, um, the chair company, there is still those cringy moments, but they don't last nearly as long because, you know, TV is a different format than a movie.
01:58:00
Speaker
So you're kind of like going through these scenes a little bit quicker. Um, But really good, man. I highly recommend i think you would enjoy it. You like, I think you should leave. um Maybe have Dawn sit down and watch it because I know she doesn't like, I think you should leave, but maybe she'll be intrigued. Because like, again, we finished the the first episode and Cassandra was like, oh, I'm actually curious. Like I'm i'm i'm in.
01:58:18
Speaker
So yeah we'll be watching it week to week. Yeah. Cool. And that's all I watched on my own. Sweet. I watched things with you. Indeed. But what else have you watched on your own?
01:58:32
Speaker
So as yeah as I mentioned earlier, I watched 13 Assassins on Flixfling. What a bad experience. God damn. I already went over that, so I'm not going to do it again. We've been still watching Fargo season four.
01:58:43
Speaker
um This is a weird thing. Fargo season four. We just started watching another episode after a couple of days not watched. Excuse me. Damn. Yep. Good burp.
01:58:55
Speaker
Thanks. ah But after a few days of not watching it, um then we watched it again. And then now it's not on Crave anymore. It's on Amazon Prime. It's funny because we were watching it. I feel like ruined the reveal. But and we're watching it essentially on Crave. And the problem was, I explained this before, the Italian subtitles, you have to turn them on every time because there were no Italian subtitles coming on, but they're supposed to be built into the actual show because there's a talent there's like a gang that's all italian in it takes place in the nineteen fifty s in kansas city missouri anyway so it's yeah very frustrating in crave really bad and then it started to work randomly and we're like wait what's going on it's working crave used to save the day you you fixed it i'm like this is the best crave experience i've had in a while they actually fixed the problem Nope.
01:59:45
Speaker
It just switched over automatically to the Amazon prime feed because FX is Fargo was added to Amazon prime video as well. So it's on both. Don't watch it on crave audience. Don't do it. It sucks.
01:59:56
Speaker
It's not a good experience because they never do any auditing or check any of their content.
Canadian Streaming Woes: Crave and Bilingual Support
02:00:00
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They just put it on there and it's worse quality typically. And it just doesn't have the the correct subtitling, et cetera. It's not good.
02:00:08
Speaker
I don't recommend crave if you can avoid it, but unfortunately crave is the only place we can get HBO content in Canada. So um that's how you're watching the chair company, presumably, as an example.
02:00:20
Speaker
But that's in English, so not to worry. you think that ah you also You think a streaming service that has to deal with different languages very consistently because we're a bilingual nation in Canada with French and English would get that correct.
02:00:33
Speaker
It's a very odd thing that they don't seem to understand language support in a country that's bilingual, but whatever. I know we don't have an Italian as one of our languages, as French and English, but still like you would think that they have to deal with this so often that it wouldn't be an issue. But I think that people wouldn't complain here because not enough people watch any content here. have a much more muted of of population and a much more muted, I'm sure subscriber base for Crave specifically. And so I'm sure that's just not something that comes up repeatedly. And if I reported it, they just
Fargo Season 4: Critiques and Praise
02:01:02
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wouldn't care.
02:01:02
Speaker
um And that's just also Bell. just the way they are are the big three here bell tell us rogers not exactly impressed with them as you might be able to tell from my tone but anyway yeah not a great experience but i will say this fargo season four ah it is the worst of the fargos for for me but i think it's still pretty great and it's reviewed pretty poorly in comparison to the rest of the seasons but i think it's still 60 something so it's not it's not like the end of the world um But I will say this, episode nine of season four is really great.
02:01:36
Speaker
Like really, really, really great. I'm really a big fan of it. It's one of the best episodes of Fargo in general, which is pretty great. ah we like It completely takes a different kind of turn. It's one of those like episodes that kind of goes off.
02:01:51
Speaker
on a tangent in a weird way you know like you know the classic episode from mythic quest where it's like just another developer uh in the past in the same building type situation it feels like that in a big way so it's like almost like a bottled bottled up episode but it's actually not a bottle episode in terms of budget so that's a bad word to use but But you know what i'm talking about. I follow you. I follow you. It's kind of not – it's following the plot of the regular show, but it's doing it in a different way, and it's not exactly following all the characters you know and love. It's just kind of following a select few, and it's doing it in a way that's a different style to the rest of the show as well.
02:02:25
Speaker
It's very creative, and that's what's really cool about Noah Hawley. He takes something that is already established, and he's able to just make it – His own, like X-Men, like Fargo, and like Alien. yeah he He takes these properties and he's not really making his own thing. And the times he's made his own thing actually hasn't worked out that well in comparison, ah which is really like loose in the sky.
02:02:47
Speaker
i was just going to say, yeah, that was like 2018, 19, something like that It was also a movie though. So yeah I'm wondering if he just maybe doesn't nail the movie idea. Maybe he needs the long format to really tell his stories. He's just better at that. I don't know.
02:02:58
Speaker
I hope he tries his hand at another movie so we can see how it goes. But um yeah, and something original. But yeah, this episode was really great. And I only have two episodes left. It has 11 episodes this season. I really like it overall.
02:03:11
Speaker
it ah It definitely subverts expectations more than i even remember the other seasons doing in some way. And I really like it. It's cool. The tone is different from all of these in all of these Fargo seasons, and yet they're the same because it's still i like it's still harnessing the power of what Fargo was, like the Coen Brothers Fargo film. So I just really am impressed with it. i um Yeah, it's it's really cool. i still I do think it's the weakest of the seasons, but that's just because Fargo as a show is really great.
02:03:38
Speaker
So when compare it to the other seasons, it's worse. uh i i initially thought that i liked season two the worst initially but i obviously haven't seen four yet um but in general i don't even know if that's true if it's between two and three like i really like two having what we watched it a second time two is my favorite like thinking back like two is my favorite and oh i i love three as well I love 3, too, yeah.
02:04:03
Speaker
But, i i again, I loved all 1, 2, and 3. Like, I don't know which one I liked the least. I can't believe you haven't watched these seasons. I know. I got shown to get into it. Considering, like, Fargo's one of your favorite movies, right, in my world? Yeah, yeah. had It's one of my favorite movies. I rewatched that movie earlier this year before jumping into the show. um Yeah, I got to do it. I think it was just... It was on Netflix.
02:04:28
Speaker
The first three seasons. What? Yeah. Was it not? Oh, three seasons, maybe. And then I remember season four. and I was like, I'll get around to it when it comes on Netflix. I'll get around to it. And then they removed the three seasons and then it wasn't anywhere.
02:04:40
Speaker
And then like five came out and I'm like, man, I still have no access to it. And then ah and now it's on two streaming services. So that's perfect. so i know you have it's an embarrassment of riches in some way, but it was really only one option.
02:04:52
Speaker
um and There's really only one option because they speak Italian enough that you just don't want to watch it. Bada boom, bada bing. Like, could just imagine, i don't know, maybe you've done this with another show, but imagine you have to switch to subtitles every time they start speaking Italian. And they're not just speaking Italian. They're moving between Italian and English in the scenes.
02:05:12
Speaker
It's so annoying. I can't stress enough. It's very irritating. Like anytime the Italian folks are speaking, you're like, okay, I got to turn it on. the sub Season my five, however, is not on Amazon.
02:05:25
Speaker
Oh, it isn't? Yeah. it It's there, but it says start your free trial to Crave. So you got to like- All right. So I'll just watch it on Crave. Season four, not that bo poorly reviewed. I thought it was like a 67% or something. like Like fresh, but not as fresh as it could be. It's an 84%. Still, while we're great, reviewed popcorn meter really low.
02:05:47
Speaker
56%. Really low. People didn't like it. Hmm. But- It's cool. I like it. I think it's cool. it's I love how they intertwine the seasons. They're all connected. The characters intertwine constantly. I really love that. They do the same thing in this season.
02:06:02
Speaker
There's a moment in season three that always caught me off guard. I was like almost celebrating. It's on a bus. I know exactly you're talking favorite scenes in a show ever. This character is not... like like most of the characters in Fargo, they're not really a good person, but you're like, you kind of, you will them to succeed. Cause like in reality, the the person that they're fighting up against is like way worse. They're like, it's like the lesser of two evils, but like way better.
02:06:30
Speaker
And it's just like, it's like a triumphant moment. When I saw that in the season, i was like, is that, I was like so happy so much. It was amazing. I love It's really good too, because they start playing the music.
02:06:41
Speaker
Oh, I love that music too. Yeah. Yeah. So they like start playing the music as like the cameras panning and you're like, no, like it's like a setup.
02:06:52
Speaker
And you're like, I know this song. Why do I know this song? And yeah, they show the character. Yeah. So good, dude. So good. Yeah. It's great. It's great. Anyway. Cool. All right.
Film Reviews: Babylon's Hollywood Excess
02:07:02
Speaker
Well, ah let's see here.
02:07:04
Speaker
ah What else did I watch? So I love i like season four a lot. I like it much more after episode nine. I also watched ah Babylon, actually. The film Babylon, which is – that is critically not loved.
02:07:18
Speaker
That is not loved. That is below 60%. It's Rotten on Rotten Tomatoes. That's Damien Chazelle's movie that was critically panned. It's very long. It's over three hours long. It's great. I'm like, what?
02:07:30
Speaker
i don't understand why people didn't like this movie. It's pretty great. it's it's It's kind of like a tale of excess in Hollywood in the 1920s. And it follows like, it goes through many years of the beginning of like when movie stars started to become a thing. Stars Brad Pitt, Marco Robbie, ah Diego Calva, who I don't know from anything else really, but he's great in it too.
02:07:51
Speaker
It's pretty cool. Honestly, I'm like kind of shocked that, know, cause love Lola land and I really, really, really love whiplash. Like whiplash one of my top five movies maybe of all time. I really, really like it.
02:08:03
Speaker
So I'm kind of, I don't know what the heck critics were looking at, but it's only 57%. It's not that low. Yeah. You know who um actually mentioned that movie to me within the past like year or so? And it was, was also saying very similar things to you.
02:08:16
Speaker
Our friend Corey. i amm like Yeah, he really loved this movie. And like, i don't I don't understand why people talk shit about this. Like, it's fantastic. Yeah, it's not perfect. ah like it It's a little bit overly long, perhaps. People call it like pretentious or something, and they... I don't know. it But it's a it is a tale of excess in Hollywood, and that's kind of what they they they show. and its I don't know. It's interesting. It's weirdly described as almost like a lonely movie, too. like These people are all together all the time, but they're kind of just alone. it's There's something really neat about the way that they...
02:08:50
Speaker
The way Damon Chazelle does it. I think he does a good job. and And the budget was really high on this and it was critically not well regarded. And then it didn't really make any money at the box office and in comparison what it to what it should have.
02:09:02
Speaker
He came off La Land and First Man, I guess, and then made this. And then it just didn't do so well. But then again, it did come out in 2022, which is right off the the heels of the pandemic. yeah So that also probably didn't help him out, but the critics certainly didn't either. This is on Crave and there's no problem with the languages issue with subtitles. Thank goodness.
02:09:19
Speaker
So that's cool. But I do recommend it, but it's just very long. I don't really watch overly long movies at home very often because... um Attention span. No, actually, that's, it's not because also because video games are even longer, but I'm playing video games, but also I'm usually watching ah movies with my fiance and she doesn't really like long movies at all. We just saw a movie that's really long. um That she didn't want to come to because it's long. mu ah Same with my fiance. Yeah. Like it was literally like, eh, like three hours almost. And like, I don't want to that. Like fair enough.
02:09:51
Speaker
Three hours in, we just saw in theaters, and the movie is One Battle After Another, Adrian, a movie we both saw together in theaters, as we just said. This movie is Paul Thomas Henderson's recent film that is garnered really, really, in contrast to Babylon, really rave reviews from critics far and wide.
02:10:10
Speaker
It seems like a lot of... like People in Hollywood really like it too. I just saw like a randomly Kevin Bacon on Instagram was just like, I just came out of one battle after another. It was like, what a great movie. He was just like, ah you don't see that too often where a star is just like commenting about how much he loved a film.
02:10:27
Speaker
um But the movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, stars Benicio Del Toro, stars... um Women that you don't know the names of. It's Chase Infinity, right? Chase. Well, she's never been in anything to be fair. Yeah, it is Chase Infinity. she's she's new ah but yeah chase infinity i yeah you bring up the list of everyone oh sean penn how did i miss sean penn sean penn was crazy good regina hall regina hall yeah that she's that's known for her roles in the
Paul Thomas Anderson's New Film
02:10:56
Speaker
scary movie franchise yeah sure it is honestly cool to see
02:11:03
Speaker
her in... Because i I'm sure she's done more serious roles, but I know her best from the Scary Movie franchise. So like seeing her in this, playing such an amazing role, I was like, this is awesome. like she's She's fantastic in this.
02:11:16
Speaker
um I think the entire cast of this movie is stellar. think everyone... Tana Taylor is the what last remaining name that I feel like we have to mention. She's great too.
02:11:27
Speaker
Profidia. um yeah And yeah, I think yeah like that i think everyone... is immaculate in this movie. Like genuinely, the acting is is impeccable. There's not like a, there's not a weak link.
02:11:41
Speaker
And I honestly did not know this is Chase Infinity's first movie because holy moly, she's brilliant in this. Is there very first? She's starter. Is that your thing? Oh, she was in Presumed Innocent, the TV show apparently. Yeah, she's in other things.
02:11:53
Speaker
Sorry, I'm saying this is like her start, like big start. Oh, okay. Understood. I wasn't saying that was her first thing ever. Sorry. Okay, I misunderstood. I like that. um But she's newer to the scene. month Okay.
02:12:04
Speaker
Yeah. And again, she's amazing. um I thought this movie as a whole was pretty great. I don't think I love it as much as everyone's like raving about it online though. Like,
02:12:16
Speaker
um which which is too bad. i was like going into it. And I remember, I think before, I can't remember if we talked about it on air or off air, but you mentioned like this has the potential to be maybe our favorite movie of the year.
02:12:28
Speaker
And it's, it's not for me nowhere near, I would say. um i think it's really good. It's a long movie, does not feel long, which is nice. It's kind of like it feels brisk. um I think the story is super interesting, goes in a bunch of different ways that I honestly was not expecting.
02:12:50
Speaker
um My big issue with this movie, though, and and we talked about it um after the movie briefly, you and I, I, uh, fuck what's that movie called? Um, sinners had the same issue for me is the trailers came out and they show these big events that happen in like the third act of the movie.
02:13:11
Speaker
So I'm sitting there waiting for these scenes to come. And it's like, cool, man. We're like two hours in. And you know, one of these scenes still haven't happened. and i know that's going to happen. So it kind of,
02:13:24
Speaker
it ruins it a bit. I don't think it ruins it fully, but it's just like, I know the event there's like, what's going to happen from this point on because of what was shown in the trailer. And it's frustrating that they do that um because you're just waiting for, for, you know, the, you know, the carpet to get pulled out from under you.
02:13:42
Speaker
And I think maybe that kind of soured my view of this movie just a little bit. but there were still a lot of amazing surprises and some really cool twists that I, again, did not see coming. And I love the way they dealt with them.
02:13:59
Speaker
Um, one in particular, um, which obviously i'm not going to say here, but yeah, like I, I don't know. I, I wish I loved this movie more though. Like I genuinely do. Like I, I really enjoyed it. I had a good time, but I just don't see what everyone else is seeing.
02:14:17
Speaker
fully. And I don't know what I'm missing. Because again, like I think this movie is great, but like people are talking about it, like it's the second coming of Christ. And I just, I simply don't see it, um which which is too bad.
02:14:30
Speaker
I do think the way they highlight, cause it's, this movie is like a fairly political movie as well. i'm Obviously like it, it's interesting. I think you mentioned this, that like, I mean, it it essentially deals with like ice and like, you know, taking immigrants or like illegal immigrants and stuff like that.
02:14:46
Speaker
Um, And it's all they're like in the movie, I guess, like almost comically evil, like, like more evil than what we're dealing with right now and or what people are dealing with right now in the States or at least, you know, the perspective of it. um Yeah. I don't think it's comical though.
02:15:01
Speaker
I think it's um really grounded and that's, what's the problem, right? It's not what they're facing now. It's thank God they're not yeah there yet, but that this is like, this is a realistic portrayal of what I could see it becoming. If it, if it goes a few steps further.
02:15:14
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's ah there's an element of comical in that there's like this weird, there's this weird like side thing, but I feel like it's not that crazy. i don't know if you saw it recently. There's this crazy text message chain that came out. I did see that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, like, again, these aren't that, they don't seem that far off of our reality, unfortunately, um in that regard.
02:15:35
Speaker
But yeah. Yeah. But I do like I do appreciate because I think a lot, i don't know, like ah I heard online like a lot of like conservative, like, you know, the big conservative guys like Ben Shapiro and everything is saying like this movie promotes like violence against ice.
02:15:51
Speaker
And I don't think so. I think they make, you know, the extreme left wing people seem kind of. Yeah, extreme. Bad. You know? And it's like, I'm not cheering for them. Like, I don't like some of these characters.
02:16:03
Speaker
I think like, you kind of fucking suck, actually. And you're taking it way too far. And I, like, so, like, kind of going into this and like, oh, sorry, go ahead. To that point, on the other side, they're also much further. So, don't connect ice directly to this because it's, if you're connecting it directly to what the movie is showing, you're in deep shit. If that's what you think ice is doing now, that, I mean, that's that's the thing. They're both,
02:16:28
Speaker
ah further polar opposite like extremes than they've ever kind of been in this film than they are definitely in reality so like you're I agree with you like I don't agree with either side yeah that's actually the only criticism I have of them film we'll get to that in a second um is that it's just the way that they don't necessarily ground the regular folks as much as I would have liked Yeah, by I do. It's funny, though, but i like i I do feel like they do ground the regular folks, and that's in Leonardo leonardo DiCaprio's character. like yeah it's he's like oh
02:17:01
Speaker
He's not regular in the sense, he was like- His is Rocket Man. Yeah. No, i that's fair, but I think he's grounded in the sense of, i don't know, like there's, he's like this like, yeah, I'm i'm super left-wing. I'm left-leaning. like you know like i'm i want to fight for the people. And then he's like, oh, that you fucking liberal retard. He says, as i was like yeah, you're left-wing when it suits you.
02:17:23
Speaker
And it's like, i you you meet people like that. They're like, I'm so progressive. And then it's like when push comes to shove, they're like, nah, fuck you guys. Like you pissed me off. And I feel like that was a very realistic, ah you know, portrayal in the movie. I love his character. Like I think he, like he's, I mean, he is the protagonist. You're following him mostly throughout the movie.
02:17:41
Speaker
And he's just so interesting and funny and adds a lot of levity to the movie along with Benicio del Toro's character. um But again, like, there are things in that trailer that get shown and it doesn't happen until you're fucking, you know, two hours into this three hour movie. And it's like, fuck man, I wish, I wish they I had more surprises.
02:18:01
Speaker
um And I think, yeah, again, that's what really held me back from like fully loving this movie. Like maybe if I went in totally blind, I would be, you know, shout maybe this was the second coming of Christ in that case, but I already knew Christ was coming, you know?
02:18:15
Speaker
So the rapture. Yeah. Didn't come, I guess. i fear Apparently, according to what people thought. Yeah. um Yeah. ah Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. I really like the performances are crazy. You mentioned this earlier. Like they they just really nailed it. Like Sean Penn has a very weird, weird guy walk. Let me tell you.
02:18:35
Speaker
He is amazing. He's really chameleoned into that character. He did a great job. Like that, ah the cast did a great job. The writing is really great. The dialogue is incredible. They're just, the only thing again, that I didn't like as much as i I could have. And I found it actually quite grounded in the way that they did most of the film. Like I think that this is what revolutionaries would be potentially in like a modern day society if things went this far type of situation.
02:19:03
Speaker
And I hope they don't go this far. hope they don't go anywhere close to this because they're not that close to it now. But it does feel realistic in that... Even the car chase, there's a car chase sequence.
02:19:14
Speaker
It's like you always seen like see like Mission Impossible car chases or James Bond or or even like the Bourne movies. and It's like, okay, like those those car chases are fun, but they they really break the laws of what things would happen. like The randomness of streetlights, as an example, you can't really escape. Or the the laws of traffic,
02:19:35
Speaker
Like you're, you're driving in, in rush hour or you even just accidentally hit a traffic jam. What do you do? Like, why is mission impossible? Never hitting a track. you know, Ethan Hunt never hits a traffic jam.
02:19:47
Speaker
It's just strange. And this is, they really do like ground. I feel like that's the best example of how they ground everything. They they ground everything like from, from weird bank heists to like, again, it's very good in that regard. I really appreciate that.
02:20:01
Speaker
um And even the way that ICE kind of – their version of ICE, the the administration – like the enforcement for immigration, they they just feel – they feel real. They're where the negotiator – there's like an interrogator, not negotiator. There's an interrogator from the immigration enforcement or from like the army.
02:20:18
Speaker
And the way that the army seems to be infiltrating cities as well and how the police are wearing military uniforms, I think that's a huge thing. Like you don't see that normally. That's not a normal thing in American – like the modern American day. Now it's becoming weirdly relevant.
02:20:34
Speaker
Uh, strangely, like this film was being made for like a year ago. Like he kind of in a weird way predicted it. Like when was this film? Actually, I don't even know. When was one battle after another, ah produced after another filming date.
02:20:52
Speaker
Not locations. Oh, there's like when we talk about auto, I hate autofill in general. Speaking of AI, just autofill. they filmed it in January, 2024 to June, 2024. So was when the Biden administration was in.
02:21:06
Speaker
It's just strangely coincidental. It's not like he made it yesterday when they were like, they were sending troops to fricking Portland and Chicago and You know what I mean Like, it's a strange thing. Like, this is kind of a realistic take on what would happen if the government really went too far and fascism kind of took over or started to take root in bigger, deeper ways.
02:21:24
Speaker
And this is like a really crazy thing. So this is where my criticism of the film comes from. I feel like you talked about Leonardo DiCaprio potentially being like the normal people, but he's like, he's kind of, but he's not because he's a revolutionary and a terrorist in some capacity. You know what I mean? me Like, he's a, he's, and he's like,
02:21:40
Speaker
And he's basically, you know, i like the the United States just like labeled Antifa as a terrorist organization, which is impossible because Antifa is not ah an organization at all, but it's a movement. This is like if they had labeled an actual, like he would have been a part of an actual terrorist cell that's actually Antifa. But there's not there's no, it's this thing. That's what's so crazy about labeling that as a terrorist organization. First of all, they're just protesters and they haven't done anything. And secondly, like there's no bombings or any of that bullshit.
02:22:09
Speaker
That's not happening. but he's actually part of a cell. Like that's where perfidia and his character, Bob, and they're like, they're kind of doing their thing and they're like ah blowing up fricking government buildings and shit in this film.
02:22:21
Speaker
And it's, it's really frightening and you can't really relate to them because, uh, I'm against it. Fascism. But I am not a terrorist in any way. and You know what I mean? There's no way you could connect. I cannot connect.
02:22:33
Speaker
I can't quite relate. Although, to be to your credit, I think what were talking about is like later on in the movie, he becomes kind of a regular guy. And i think the most grounded part of the film, they they do a few time jumps. They change some stuff up.
02:22:44
Speaker
But they one of the most grounded part of the movie is, I feel like, anything to do with Chase Infinity's character and that she's kind of innocent in a way. She isn't she isns't completely... a subjected to it, but she is kind of still.
02:22:58
Speaker
And that's kind of my problem with it. They don't show what's going on when Leonardo DiCaprio's rocket man is blowing up a freaking building. like What are regular people thinking when they when they try to rob a bank? like I want to know like what's what does the regular folk think about this? What is the news channels? What do they look like? Are they are they completely propaganda like situations? There's an element of like I'm very interested in the world and what, because this is so close to our reality versus like a long walk, which we talked about last episode long walk is really far like i can't i can't quite place how what happened in that society this society i can kind of see exactly the threads in which they got to it but i don't know how other people react like how did they react to ice and how do they react to the other extreme and like are they cheering one or the other on or like what's going on here and that that's the only thing i didn't love
02:23:48
Speaker
To be honest. It's just like they kind of just missed the mark a little bit because Chase Infinity's character so interesting, but it's not quite there. like You see that with her classmates a little bit. like They're regular people, but they don't really explain their points of view or what's happened like in that regard.
02:24:04
Speaker
But then again, there are so many tiny little details that he fleshed out in this film from the... costumes and the the production design and the way the cities are. Like initially this, apparently the movie I think was supposed to be called the battle of, uh, back.
02:24:18
Speaker
What's it called? Backton. What's it called? The city they're in. I have no back to cross back to cross. It's apparently it's been supposed to be, was supposed to be called something along the lines of like that battle of back and cross. I much prefer one battle after another.
02:24:30
Speaker
Uh, anyway, um But that they're in the city. it's like They call it a sanctuary city. i'm like, oh, what's that? that's There's something just interesting. It's like a US city that's like a sanctuary to immigrants, I guess. And Benicio Del Toro's character and his his dealings with immigrants as well is so interesting. And he him just like running a regular business, as you see in the trailer, he's a sensei or whatever. he runs a karate dojo.
02:24:56
Speaker
Karate dojo. And then there's just like the little tiny details of like the way of each of these sets are completely built. I just, they just, everything feels so real and tangible. Like they just filmed it in the real world and it's clearly not.
02:25:09
Speaker
And I just think that he nails like Paul Thomas Anderson and his team, like really nail that. Like and into the point where it's, it's brilliant and it's really laugh, love, funny in many moments. I agree with you that the trailer does reveal too much, but I try not to put that into my critique, I guess, of a film as much as it's disappointing. I would agree with you, but I just, I, that I feel like I got, I got to try to separate myself from that aspect.
02:25:33
Speaker
But when I got home, the only thing that really bothered me most when I kept thinking about it was the, was the the the lack of groundedness in that we don't see too much of the lack of extreme. We either see Sean Penn's characters extreme, or we see Leonardo DiCaprio's characters extreme. And there's not a lot of like, even some of the family dynamics we see are extreme. Like they're not relatable in that way. And yet the characters are so relatable and that's what's so amazing but I would like to see like what is a regular guy going to work at his bank job or like a teacher doing like what are they potentially doing but maybe all of America's extreme I don't think that's what they're trying to say I think they're no no like yeah I think yeah like it's interesting because i you see regular people but you don't constantly yeah but you don't get to know any characters though exactly exactly um so yeah its it is interesting
02:26:26
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. i do Like, I do think this movie is great though. Like I want to I feel like I've been, I feel like I've been fairly positive about it. I just, I just wish I liked it more. But yeah, like ah I think there's a lot of great in it. um I got to go back and watch paul more tell paul um mobile but more Paul Thomas Anderson movies.
02:26:44
Speaker
Cause I feel like I've really only seen licorice pizza in this one. Start with there will be blood. That's my recommendation. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Johnny Greenwood is also the, like he, he did the score, I think for there will be blood as well. And there's pizza, but Johnny Greenwood is from radio head.
02:27:00
Speaker
Like he's a big component of radio head. And he scored this just like he did. there's pizza and there will be blood. He's been working with Paul Thomas Anderson, but I i really liked the score. That's why I'm bringing it up. I really liked the piano eccentric aspects of it too. And there's like a, there's like a tension in that the music, sometimes the music is just kind of running underneath.
02:27:18
Speaker
Like, I think dialogue scenes, if I'm remembering correctly, like it's just running underneath and it just feels like really tense, like constantly. I don't know if you got that mentality too. It's just really great in that regard.
02:27:29
Speaker
Yeah, the music is actually a huge standout, like the score. it like It's always just going. It's like these drum beats. Yeah, right underneath everything. it's like yeah It barely stops like because you're – And I think that goes really well with the tone of it because it's one battle after another. Like it's just one thing after another. They can't catch a break. They even say that movie. They say it.
02:27:50
Speaker
That's another really small mythic that I pointed out to you in the parking lot after we saw the film. The movie, at one point a character says the title and then shortly after that they put the title over top of it which is like – Kind of on the nose, but I was like, if you're going to go on the nose anyway, why wouldn't you just have the character say one battle after another as the title sequence comes up?
02:28:11
Speaker
I was like, I was very, that was like, i didn't like that. Personally, if I was editing it, I would 100% made it so that when Leonardo DiCaprio's character says whatever he's like, It's just like one battle after another. And then it just, it would pop up. It would be one battle after another as he says it, like each word.
02:28:27
Speaker
don't know. That's what I would have done personally. Again, maybe that's a bit too cheesy, but I just feel like you did it. You did that. Did it like that with like 30 seconds later. You basically just put it on the screen 30 seconds later. Just go for it, Paul.
02:28:40
Speaker
Come on, bro. Yeah. But yeah, no, it's a, ah I think it's really great. I was going to say masterpiece, but there's a little bit flawed in some small aspects, as I mentioned. For me, it's a four and a half out of five though. I feel like for you, for you, the score is lower.
02:28:51
Speaker
Yeah. and i For me, it's like a four, like, okay, it's it's a four. yeah So like, again, like great, but I just, I wanted to love it more than I did. Yeah. And there was enough in there that I just like didn't.
02:29:03
Speaker
Yeah. Again, didn't love. um I scored it as a four. And then I was like, I kept just kept thinking about it. that Like after we watched it, because we watched it before the weekend, if I recall. And then I just, all weekend i was i like, but i and just love it.
02:29:15
Speaker
Like, I just like, there's just so much about it to love. There's just so many of the little quirks as well of each character. Like Bob, again, Leonardo DiCaprio's character is just the quirkiest dude. The whole password thing. is This is so good. There's also a lot of memes that have come out of this movie as well.
02:29:30
Speaker
but We talked about that in the parking lot. Like Benicio del Toro like walking along the line and in that one scene. um like how many Have you had anything to drink? That that scene is just like, I've had a few beers or whatever it was. It's just like, it's so good.
02:29:44
Speaker
And the carpet. that carpet that's in the trailer, that kind of, wish that wasn't spoiled, even though it's the smallest detail. was very Wes Anderson. i agree. And that, like, he he drops down to the, tribe like, the hatch in the trailer and in the movie and the and the in the rug literally just falls follows the hatch.
02:29:59
Speaker
There's just, like, the choreography of a lot of it is just, like, It's impeccable, but also effortless. Like it's like, you know, they're not trying too hard. Wes Anderson looks like it's trying. Actually, that is quite a, quite a Wes Anderson thing. I guess he, did he doesn't look like he's really trying too hard, but but he, like he's really trying trying, I guess, because everything is exactly lined up.
02:30:19
Speaker
This film is almost, it's chaotic, but it's, it really doesn't feel like you're trying to, he tried too hard. It's like, it's just like a, it's like, it's like a refined chaos, if that makes any sense. um But yeah, it's just, yeah, it's really cool. And there's like, there's also this element of, I don't know if I've ever seen a Paul Thomas Anderson movie with action sequences that are,
02:30:39
Speaker
like it's That's a rare thing because if you watch any of his movies, they're mostly dramas with a capital D. you know there's just like There's a lot of like going on, but there's you don't really see thriller type top but Paul Thomas name is Anderson. I haven't seen every movie he's made.
02:30:54
Speaker
The most recent one I saw was Boogie Nights, which again, there's not it's not an action movie. But there's a little bit of action in it It's like gritty with the crime crime drama aspects. But this, yeah, this is... Again, it feels like there's like the action sequences are really, again, grounded in reality. There's like that rooftop sequence and there's like these various like, even like gun gun sequences like where they're actually battling a little bit more hand to hand that are are quite interesting.
02:31:17
Speaker
I don't
Final Thoughts on Anderson and 'Fargo'
02:31:18
Speaker
know. I like it a lot. So four and a half out of five for me. Four over here. Cool. That's a- Super cool. 8.5 out of 10 for us. we We join the chorus of people who like it and that Rotten Tomatoes score is like 93 or something, right?
02:31:31
Speaker
97? 95. ninety seven ah vi Pretty cool. You know what's actually really high right now? You just talked about it. The chair company is a hundred. Yeah, it is That's just incredible.
02:31:42
Speaker
i just didn't watch it because of I purely didn't watch it because of the week to week. Okay. That's the only reason I completely intend to. I was actually really looking forward to it. I was like, I'm like, should I just watch it? I'm like, I don't know.
02:31:58
Speaker
and I feel like you can break the rule for comedies. Why? Why that? I don't know. I want you to watch it talk to you about it. I feel like do one week to week at a time. I think that would be fair.
02:32:09
Speaker
I think it's okay to do that. I just don't like having like 15 shows have to keep track of to jump into as well. That's annoying on ah on its own merit. I want to jump into ah Only Matters in the Building because that's like I think almost wrapping up now.
02:32:22
Speaker
And I just got Disney Plus, as you as you may remember from before we just started recording. I was helping my fiance just get online. She couldn't remember the password. So we you know I honored Disney with their with with another subscription post Jimmy Kimmel's reinstatement, I guess.
02:32:39
Speaker
Good for them. Okay, cool. Is that all we have to say about one battle after another? Yeah. Yeah. Well, cool actually, one more one one more thing. Do you know that Paul Thomas Anderson's married to Maya Rudolph?
02:32:55
Speaker
I did know that, but I forgot. I saw that on – she went on the smart list and she mentioned it. Yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy, yeah. That's cool. That's a good call out. Yeah. I found that out mere moments ago.
02:33:08
Speaker
Mere moments, yeah. Yeah. sort Cool. Nice, man. Have she been in any of his movies? um apparently she was in one of them okay but i don't know which one think i think think it said that she was in there will will be blood but i don't know how true that is oh it's from google so interesting okay interesting yeah cool man Cool indeed.
02:33:39
Speaker
All
Peacemaker's Season Finale and Future
02:33:40
Speaker
right. Well, ah there's one more thing we both watched together. I don't know if you want to talk about it that much, but it just ended. Peacemaker. Oh, yeah. It's over. Dude, forgot about that. Did you finish it? I did. i did finish It's pretty good.
02:33:51
Speaker
I didn't love this last episode, actually. Oh, I adored it. yeah i i think like the season as much as i feel like i did this season i think it's generally way way better than the first season yeah i just i disagree with you i was like kind of on the fence because like i think this season has a lot uh like a lot of awesome character moments it's more focused in that sense but i think the first season was a more fun season and like some characters got to do more um and it was like a Again, a little bit more larger scale.
02:34:21
Speaker
I think the season meandered a bit and it really – Yeah, that we disagree on that term. like yeah Clearly. It just didn't meander at all. It's focused on one thing. I just think went slow. Yeah, that's fair. My issue with it is like after the first few minutes ah of the episode, it I honestly felt like I was getting whiplash because things started moving so fast.
02:34:46
Speaker
And I was frustrated because you have these like episodes that are so slow where, like again, not much happens. And you decide to do this season finale where it was just go, go, go. And I think you could have adjusted the pacing of the show a little bit To dedicate more time to the events of what was going on in this finale.
02:35:09
Speaker
Or just simply extend the finale into multiple episodes. yeah um Because I just felt, yeah, like that that was like one of the main things that kind of stuck ah stuck out to me. I also think there were some character inconsistencies.
02:35:24
Speaker
with with one character in particular, um which I just found weird. um not Not any of the main cast, but like kind of the side cast that was brought in. And i was like, this I don't know, it just, it felt odd and it was throwing me off.
02:35:40
Speaker
I do think there was a lot of really great mo ah like moments in this episode. Edebayo specifically is like such a phenomenal character. i think Danielle Brooks is like such a great actor, man.
02:35:54
Speaker
I've only seen her in orange is the new black. I think apart from this, the first two seasons that I watched. um And I just think she brings us like lovable charm to it where she's just like, she's a really good person and she cares about her friends and you root for her.
02:36:12
Speaker
And she always sees the best in people. And it brings like this, and don't know. makes you feel good on the inside. And like there, there's like one line in particular that I just loved that,
02:36:23
Speaker
where she says like, I saw an eagle hug a human. and And like, I'm like, Oh my God, I don't know why. Like it's, ah it's such an absurd line, but it like, it hit me emotionally. Like it's like, this is really beautiful. It's an amazing performance.
02:36:35
Speaker
And I, I do, i think like the end of the episode is kind of like an ending montage. I was like, Oh, this is kind of neat. And it, I'm curious how it's going to set up the wider universe.
02:36:47
Speaker
And then they do this one final scene, which,
02:36:53
Speaker
And I was kind of like, oh, what? Like, it just felt weird. Like, it just, i don't know, kind of like pulled the rug out from under you. Like, I was like, you had like an amazing ending. And I feel like this is where it should end. And then they're like we're actually going to throw this little bit in.
02:37:05
Speaker
And was like, oh, I guess like it's just set up maybe a next next season or whatever else. But I think next season is far, pretty far away. Yeah. So i don't know. i I didn't love it. And I think, yeah, this kind of solidified my opinion that I do like the first season better.
02:37:19
Speaker
Now that it's bad, i just didn't love this last episode, which is too bad. i loved it. I was shocked. I thought you were going to like it because it's doing the opposite of what you were claiming. Even now. Like you the the first season, a lot more happens, as you mentioned. And now finally a lot happens and you're like, eh.
02:37:34
Speaker
But the issue is, is that a lot happens in one episode as opposed to- yeah but that's like good though. Because it it was all character development, right? It was just like, i feel like I look at this as- I look at this in the same way I look at mar' Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy by James Gunn.
02:37:51
Speaker
the first The first episode of that, the first movie, Volume 1, is very much a setup situation, but you look at everything on a surface level. So each character from Star-Lord to Drax Rocket the Raccoon, they're all introduced on a very surface level. And there's like there's ah You just kind of see them for who they are at the moment. Like you just got acquainted with them. And then there's these like grand plot elements. And it's literally about freaking infinity stone. It's insane to think and that's such an important element of the movie in a way. And like, it's it's like, that's almost too much. Like it's like, whoa, take a step back. It's crazy.
02:38:26
Speaker
But that's, that's, they a lot happens in the movie. Like ah a lot. But I much prefer volume two because volume two and volume three, they dive into the character elements of each of the characters in a much deeper way.
02:38:38
Speaker
Although the plot lines are not necessarily as grand, especially in the second one. And that is kind of separated. and There's no infinity stone as an example. Um, It's kind of more about the independent like psyches of the characters and what the the situation they're going through. Once you've established a character set, like a set of characters, you can kind of di dive in a deeper way into their their lives.
02:39:01
Speaker
Volume two, actually, I disliked more than volume one until I had seen it a few more times. And I had seen them both a few more times. And I was like, no, volume two is just way better. And I don't talk to many people that like volume two better.
02:39:13
Speaker
It's just not something I do, but I'd seen it so many times at that point. I'm like, no, I just like all the beats to me make on an emotional level, an emotional resonance perspective. It's more cheesy and corny in some ways, but it just, it hits the nail on the head on, on their development. And it's again, much deeper than surface level for each character. And that's kind of what I feel like with Peacemaker season two as well. Like he's, He's not, the story's not as grand. You're not dealing with necessarily as, it's actually a crazy thing that's happening, but it's hard to really read the first season's craziness in terms of what they're actually dealing with.
02:39:46
Speaker
But it almost doesn't even make any sense. Just like Guardians of the Galaxy shouldn't have been fighting who they were fighting in the first movie in a way, because it's just like, they're way out of outclassed and outmatched. It's kind of a similar situation here. A bunch of misfits are dealing with something that they really shouldn't be dealing with in the first season of Peacemaker.
02:40:02
Speaker
But in the second season, each character's dived into in a deeper way from at least the core set of characters, I guess. ah They're like looking into them and... kind of like each character has the time to shine, but it's really ah peacemaker psyche story very predominantly. Like what, what has this guy actually gone through? What has his life been like? He's a, he's a big ham in a way.
02:40:23
Speaker
He's a, he's a very weird guy and he's like a very campy person, but it's, it's interesting to see on a much deeper level than surface what he actually thinks and what he's going through. And he's not just the dick that we see in suicide, the suicide squad.
02:40:39
Speaker
with the, um, is introduced in that. And we kind of see what he's going through in a deeper level. And like we just find it family dynamic and we, we get what he actually feels about that.
02:40:50
Speaker
The last episode, which we're talking about here. And I went on a tangent. Um, I liked a lot because it, it set up a lot and it did a great, I could, I could understand potentially,
02:41:03
Speaker
I don't feel like I understand more where things are going ah for the universe. It's like the last episode, like we they've kind of closed off what the main story is, I guess with Peacemaker, but then they're going to go into like kind of setting up the be different kind of,
02:41:20
Speaker
in-universe levels that could happen. there is There was a, I don't know if you saw this, but apparently Deadpool almost showed up in the episode. They almost did a crossover and they they couldn't get it approved.
02:41:31
Speaker
They wanted to do it. i don't know how far it got. Yes, Deadpool. That's so weird. Obviously, it's not the same universe in any way and not even the same property owners in any close brick proximity in that Deadpool is Marvel and this is DC and Warner Brothers, but.
02:41:48
Speaker
Um, yeah, apparently they, he, James Gunn talked to Ryan Reynolds and he wanted to make it happen because there's a way you could do it for a split second. Cause the way that they, they set up the episode.
02:42:00
Speaker
Yeah. There was a weird thing too. ah That I thought was very strange. So Rick Flagg senior is a big element in this whole season, right? He's this big thing.
02:42:11
Speaker
And he's like, you can see in the trailer in the beginning, he's really kind of has it out for Peacemaker because Peacemaker killed his son. That's like the thing. we that's not a spoiler in this because he literally did it in the Suicide Squad and I feel like i don't know what else I could say he did he killed him so so that's that's pretty much the starting of this inciting incident of this season it didn't even happen in the season I guess in terms of the plot moving along and Rick Flagg is ah they get to the end of the season and it's like he kind of becomes morphed version of himself in a weird way. that interesting that
02:42:46
Speaker
That's what I was talking about where like there's a character inconsistencies where I don't think it's inconsistent. Like I just feel like his character is there's like ah there's a the flip ah yeah like a switch flip though.
02:42:57
Speaker
It just seems just found it like so extreme and I was like oh man that's kind of weird dude. It just doesn't. do you know about him is the question I think you need to ask yourself. Preacher commandos. Right, but that's not a good guy. He's a bit of an idiot.
02:43:11
Speaker
yeah That's the thing about Creature Commandos. he's ah He's an idiot. He seems like he's the good guy because he's dealing with a bunch of bad people. He's like, they're not, none of them are really, they're all misfits, but they're like, he's not really, we don't really see what he's like. That actually, that Rick Flag in that show is what I was just talking about. We don't know who he is because it's like an introductory to who he is.
02:43:36
Speaker
And we kind of understand that he's out for good. Like he's like the greater good. But the way James Gunn described it as he's like, he thinks he's much smarter than he is.
02:43:46
Speaker
And that's dangerous. And that's actually funny enough. That's exactly what I just talked to about at the beginning of this episode of our podcast. Because I was saying like those exterminators, they think they're much smarter than they are. And they're overconfident. And I don't think they know what they're doing with the wasps. And I think I'm going to have wasps for the next like- for the next like three years. mean, it's a scary thing.
02:44:07
Speaker
um but But yeah, that's kind of what James Gunn described it as. And I kind of agreed with you until I kind of heard that yeah from James. And I was like, yeah, that actually makes sense. Like we didn't really know who he was though. Cause actually the the, the time in which I felt like Rick flag shined the most as a beacon for good is not creature commandos.
02:44:29
Speaker
It's in Superman. That's what really threw me off. Cause in Superman, he was completely for Superman. And you see it in the trailer a little bit too. He's like kind of, you're not really, but you're kind of not sure.
02:44:41
Speaker
Like you're not really sure which way he's leaning. But I think the problem is, is like there's, don't want to spoil anything here. So I can't really say it, but there's, there's an element of manipulation going on.
02:44:52
Speaker
And it's like, when you have somebody with the, there' there's an, there's an element that we're not acknowledging an element that is literally one of the, the biggest forces in the DCU theoretically, like a big force.
02:45:05
Speaker
And they're in this and it's like, Oh, well, I don't know how Rick flag can really handle that. Cause he's a, not, he's not that. guess that's fair. I guess that's, I guess that's a fair assessment, but we don't see it really.
02:45:18
Speaker
Yeah, well, you see more and more how it's influencing. And it's just like, what's going on here? Like, how are you letting this happen? It's like, waszi you're not that smart. I think that's the problem is yeah he's kind of a dummy.
02:45:31
Speaker
And it's like, oh, that's unfortunate. Like a dummy who has power. Amanda Waller, not a dummy. Yeah. And I'm curious to see, because they're making a Waller TV series. What does a Waller TV series look like?
02:45:44
Speaker
um What happens with Rick Flagg? Yeah. Is it going to be related to Argus? Because Rick Flagg is obviously in charge of Argus. Yeah. That's the whole plot. I don't know. But again, another character that I felt like was very inconsistent. It's like essentially the the second that the robot, like cyborg girl. Yeah.
02:46:02
Speaker
um And I felt like her character switch at the end as well. Like she just – kind of just happened. And like, oh, that's weird. don't know. It shouldn't seem... i'll give you the like I'll give you... Like, maybe we're not seeing it all. That's what but that's what I'm trying to say.
02:46:19
Speaker
Which is fair. But it's like, I don't know, from... I only know what I know because ah I'm seeing it and it's a TV show. People say lots of things yeah because they have to, especially in that kind of military situation. they yeah They're following orders, right? But at a certain point, then you look at the situation and you're like wait, maybe this isn't actually what we're supposed to do. Yeah. I just found that it was very quick.
02:46:42
Speaker
Maybe. I don't know. That didn't necessarily agree with. But again, you don't know much about that character. So maybe like they yeah they were having an an internal monologue through it. So again, I can kind of rationalize it from that perspective. But again, just as a me watching that show without yeah having to...
02:47:00
Speaker
think like rationalize it. Me being a big dummy. I was like, ah, seems a little bit off. Seems a little off. Yeah. But it's still great. Like I still really loved it. Like the the season as a whole.
02:47:11
Speaker
I just, yeah. Yeah, I think the first season better. The spectacle of the last season, though, the last episode was something else. It was interesting. The spectacle of it. You didn't like it, though. i I thought it was cool. I just, again, it's like so fast. Yeah. is this not what to so I think the idea was it's not what it was about.
02:47:30
Speaker
that's fair. I think focus is like, we're going to do this quickly because this isn't really what it's about, and we understand what it's about, and we're going to focused on what it's about. It's cool to do this because it's a fun little – It's a fun little sequence. Like it's, yeah this is cool. We're going to set up the rest of the universe.
02:47:46
Speaker
So here's the thing I was saying about Rick flag for man of tomorrow. There's like a article IGN wrote that says that Rick flag is the villain.
02:47:59
Speaker
Because we talked about this idea that Superman and Lex Luthor are going to team up. And the thought process is that Rick Flagg Sr. is the villain. I thought that was preposterous, but whatever.
02:48:11
Speaker
they're like we they The title of their article was basically like, we know who the villain is in the next in superman oh yeah tomorrow i saw that i saw the article name and it's like and we're not super pleased about it or something yeah and then i'm like i'm not gonna read this don't care clicked because i don't know was on news i'm like well i'm curious what they say because like how can they know what that is was i was just like there's a young i'm like you know it is okay let's check it out and i look at it i'm like it's rick i'm like what That's such a stupid take in my opinion. There is, I think a 90% chance that isn't true.
02:48:45
Speaker
Like that's how much I just, I think they missed the mark. Like they don't even understand. don't, because he's not that good. Like he's, he's not as admitted by James Gunn. Like you think that he's going to be defeated. that He can't be defeated by either of those two people.
02:49:01
Speaker
but he's going to need Lex Luthor and Superman to like, what are you talking about? It doesn't make any logical sense. It's absurd, but it just doesn't make any sense to me. But there's an element again. and like, there's like the last scene of Peacemaker is like, it's really cool the way it's set up. In my opinion, I was really, cause I'm the way it makes me sad.
02:49:19
Speaker
But I'm like, it makes me sad from a story perspective, not from like a plot being interesting perspective. I think it's really interesting. And I think that Peacemaker season three is a long way out.
02:49:30
Speaker
James Gunn said recently that- he's not They're not really working on Peacemaker season three necessarily, but these characters will show up in another thing. like They didn't even greenlight season three. They might not even have it.
02:49:42
Speaker
they're Apparently, the characters are going to show up something else. My guess is Waller is the next thing they'll show up in. so they If they do the Waller series and like actually do that eventually, because that was supposed to be number and that was like number three on the docket for the DCU, and it's just like stuck in development hell.
02:49:57
Speaker
But- Yeah, that's too bad and you didn't like it I thought were going to be like on on the same side. You're like, yeah, yeah, actually, my ideas of this season spun around when I saw the excitement of season, the season two finale. But no, not not today.
02:50:10
Speaker
Alas. Oh, well. Yeah, it's so great. Like, again, nuance, right? Like, I still think it's good. Yeah, yeah. I still love it. Yeah, true. Yeah, of course. 100%. Yeah. yeah Yeah, that's all that matters. so But yeah, all right, well, I guess that's it Is there anything else you want to say?
02:50:23
Speaker
No, sirree. Let's go on to the next bit here. The next bit. The next bit. Let me find out what is the next bit. Oh, now on to a segment of our show that I like to call A Look to the Future.
02:50:36
Speaker
portion of our podcast where each of us present at least three of our picks for the TV series or movies that look most interesting to us that are releasing between October 21st and November 3rd, 2025. You go first, as is customary. What is your pick, sir? who oo are my entire My pick, Simon, is a Netflix show that I'm very excited about. The second season of Nobody he Wants This.
02:50:59
Speaker
ah we should We should make this into a game where we kind of guess. Okay. You only say up to a certain point, and then and then I'm like, I know what it is. That would be kind of fun. But yeah, I would guessed that. Okay. what what What's your guess?
02:51:10
Speaker
You already just said it. Just say it. Nobody wants this season two. Wrong. No, that's right. I already said it. You got it. Why do you look down at the paper? yeah like I'm not sure what I said.
02:51:24
Speaker
Yeah, nobody wants a season two. It's coming out on Thursday of this week. So that's October 23rd. I'm very stoked for this. I loved the first season. It's nice to get a second season of a show within a year.
02:51:37
Speaker
On Netflix. Pretty cool, eh? Pretty cool. um All dropping at the same time. Me and my fiance are definitely going to jump into this. so Yeah, cool. I don't if my fiance watched this one.
02:51:47
Speaker
I'm going to ask her. It's really good, dude. It's really good. It's funny as heck. It's um wholesome, amazing acting from Adam Brody and Christian Bell.
02:51:59
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Leighton Meester is in this second season, who is Adam Brody's actual wife. That would be interesting. Yeah. and it would be I messaged Leighton Meester on Instagram hoping because Adam Brody doesn't have any social media.
02:52:14
Speaker
and I messaged her and I said, hey, would would you and Adam Brody be willing to hang out with our friends here in Guelph, Ontario and do a Chris Mica? Because Chris Mica is like a bit in the OC.
02:52:27
Speaker
where Adam Brody does like Christmas and Hanukkah together. no I got that. And I wrote, like none of us are Jewish, but we want to experience it. And she never read it or responded, which shocked me. but You didn't send this to her.
02:52:39
Speaker
I did. No, you didn't. I did. um Why? i don't know. was What kind of parasocial? what Holy parasocial nonsense, Batman.
02:52:50
Speaker
and What are you doing? You got to shoot your shot, dude. I want to shoot my shot and see if Adam Brody would come down, hang out with our friend group and do McCullough. Come up. Come up. Yeah, i guess come up. yeah Yeah. Okay.
02:53:02
Speaker
You got to shoot your shot. okay Why the heck not, man? Why the heck not? That's an amazing nonsense. i can' I don't know if I believe you. But a anyway. Okay, so I'm going to try this. i'm going to try that I'm going to say a little bit of a line, and you're going to tell me if you know what the thing I'm i'm saying is.
02:53:14
Speaker
So another thing that's coming out on October 22nd or October 29th is a movie directed by um a director who directed The Marvels.
02:53:26
Speaker
based And in she's adapting a play by Henrik Ibsen. I know. I know. It stars Tessa Thompson. Yeah. I know I don't know the name of the movie, From Love and Thunder and Thor Ragnarok in Westworld.
02:53:39
Speaker
And it is called Hedda, Adrian, based upon the play Hedda Gatler by Henrik Ibsen. And it's October 22nd in theaters. It seems like a limited release. And then it's going to be October 29th on Amazon Prime Video.
02:53:52
Speaker
Cool. Cool. Yeah. Nia DaCosta is the director. There you go. Look at that. like she who am mean Who is Nia DaCosta? Is it Jeopardy? yeah Nia DaCosta doing 28 years later Bone Temple.
02:54:05
Speaker
so I know. That's exciting. I loved Candyman. really didn't like the marbles. I don't know. yeah how to look skin um yeah yeah I don't care about like period pieces like that. and just just like the I looked at the trail. I'm like, I'm sure it's good. and not Not for me.
02:54:24
Speaker
I do love lesbians, but, you know, I was like, I was just thinking about, like, how many things are releasing in this, like, two-week period. I'm like, wow, this is crazy. Like, we think we think about – sometimes i feel like we've talked about this, like, video games. There's so many games launching and it's like there's just no time to play them all, especially with the – the the crazy number of like live service fortnights and court call of duties and battlefields out there that take up a lot time. And so it's interesting. Like I, I always want a lot of these things to exist. Like you don't like ah maybe Hedda because you don't like period pieces like pride and prejudice, et cetera. And, and there's the, and that's fair. Right.
02:54:59
Speaker
But like, I want it to exist. I want every kind of variety of thing to exist. I think it's so awesome. How, like what a tapestry of things like that these creators are making exist out there. Yeah. And that's why Andor, Andor is amazing. And like, I'm love that Andor could exist, but it's too expensive in some way.
02:55:16
Speaker
Like I wish it wasn't so expensive so that we can get more things like that. But anyway, what's your third, what's your second pick? My second pick is a TV show. That's a prequel to a movie. That's based on a book. Simon, do you know what this is? It's coming out October 26th.
02:55:31
Speaker
A prequel to a movie that's based on a book, a prequel. Yeah.
02:55:37
Speaker
Yeah, I know it. It's coming out on HBO.
02:55:42
Speaker
don't have this one. I don't know. It is Welcome to Dairy. Oh shit. I didn't even have this series. It's coming out. October 26th. Oh my God. I can't believe I didn't write this down. That's crazy.
02:55:54
Speaker
I should have got that hundred percent. I'm very excited for this one. This seems fun. This is going to be, I guess the second show I'll be watching week to week for myself. Cool. um Along with the chair company. But I'm very stoked, man. The trailer, I would just watch the new red band trail. I'm like, cool.
02:56:08
Speaker
It looks spooky, dude. looks spooky. I kind of wish it came out earlier this month though. So we had more time to enjoy it throughout spooky season. Yeah, what's up with that? It's a TV show and they're doing week to week. Why wouldn't it try to end near Halloween, you know?
02:56:20
Speaker
Because, yeah, it ends like near Christmas. I think like December 18th or something like that. Yeah. ah maybe Maybe they do a little plot twist and it goes Christmas Nightmare Before Christmas? Come on. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. yeah Oh, sorry, there's a plot and it's going to be on Christmas? that we just said in the plot? Yeah.
02:56:35
Speaker
Smart. Yeah, they should do that. So. Okay, cool. ah My third pick, second pick, sorry, I know why I'm screwing the numbers here, um is going to be a movie directed by ah gentleman who constantly casts an actor. Begonia.
02:56:54
Speaker
Oh, God damn That was fast. year yeah You're good. It is Begonia. It's the director and he constantly casts Emma Stone in his films. He's cast Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in this movie that seems to be about like ah like a like ah executive like millionaire CEO person played by Emma Stone who's completely kidnapped by Jesse Plemons and some other like weird guy, but he's not that Jesse Plum is weird. I'm trying to say that their characters are very strange and they're kidnapping this CEO.
02:57:27
Speaker
Cause she's an alien.
02:57:29
Speaker
It's like, eat the rat trail Oh, is that what it is? yeah Oh, but they think she's an alien. Yeah. yeah it's like an eat I thought it was like an eat the rich thing, but it's kind of, it seems like it's like a Q and on conspiracy theory. like Yeah. This is an alien lady.
02:57:41
Speaker
Right. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It looks fun. It looks fun. Yeah, it looks like a fun. fun the word you used? Yeah, okay. Yeah, it's cool. we What was the movie we're yet to see? We have to go see a film. We said, oh, I really want to go see Good Fortune.
02:57:56
Speaker
I think the comedies don't survive in theaters well, and I think we should try to support them when they look good. I think we should have gone to see Naked Gun, to be honest, but we ran out of time and yeah we're busy. Not enough time. But I really want to go see Good Fortune whenever you're free because that that will be good one. You can watch that.
02:58:11
Speaker
I'm down. I'm down if you are. I know my fiance wants to watch that movie. In case I didn't say it, Begonia comes out on October 31st on Halloween. This is technically the Halloween episode of our podcast because there's no there's no version Halloween okies episode near Halloween and other than this one.
02:58:29
Speaker
The next episode is after Halloween. It's spooky season. It comes out on the 31st? ah That's what I saw. is You think something different? Conflicting reports? but but but but but but Conflicting reports? had a different thing written down, but i might be wrong.
02:58:43
Speaker
So it doesn't really matter. What did you have? The 20... twenty um
02:58:49
Speaker
24th. Oh, I've wide release. Wide release is 31st. so Okay, cool. 24th says limited is what I got. Understood. In Canada, if that's the case, but it says limited release. for Yeah, that's right. I actually initially wrote October 24th and I but erased it.
02:59:05
Speaker
Cool, man. Cool, man. All right, my third movie, Simon, is a horror movie directed by a YouTuber that reviews horror movies. And this is his directorial debut.
02:59:20
Speaker
Okay. It is coming out October 24th. He's risking it all, eh? and He is indeed. He's like, and I only review horror movies and I'm going to put my, my, my money where my mouth is.
02:59:34
Speaker
Good for him. He did get Mike Flanagan attached as a producer. So I guess Mike Flanagan saw something in it. Um, And it looks really good. The trailers are like not super revealing. and It's it it seems very interesting.
02:59:47
Speaker
It's called Shelby Oaks and Chris Stockman is the the guy I'm talking about. Nice. um I watch some of his videos on occasion. I like his reviews. so Cool. Looks really good. Looks spooky.
02:59:58
Speaker
That's coming out again October 24th. I'm quite excited for that one. Awesome. Spooky season, baby. Sweet. That's great. Yeah. Cool. What's next you, pal?
03:00:09
Speaker
This one. this This film is a Netflix film that was at various film festivals in the past. It comes out on October 24th. It is ah directed by the director of Hurt Locker, Catherine Bigelow.
03:00:25
Speaker
And it's a political thriller. You don't got this. And it's called House of Dynamite, which launches on October 24th on Netflix. You remember talking about that, right? i think so. Yeah. Yeah.
03:00:39
Speaker
ah remember much. This has got Jessica Chastain in it. ah She does it. Wait, am I confusing something? It does have Jessica Chastain. Now I'm confused.
03:00:50
Speaker
How's the dynamite? Let me just pull this up real quick just to make sure. It's Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson. Oh, Jessica Chastain's in a different film. and You're thinking of the Apple TV Plus show now?
03:01:03
Speaker
No, I'm thinking of Zero Dark Thirty, I think. Okay. Which I think she is in. It's Rebecca Ferguson. Okay, cool. But yeah, Jared Harris, Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson.
03:01:14
Speaker
But yeah, yeah. And this is what says on IMDb. When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
03:01:27
Speaker
Written by Noah Oppenheim and directed by Catherine Bigelow. Oh, I completely forgot. I looked up earlier. i have off these tabs open. I looked up over earlier who wrote Justice League.
03:01:40
Speaker
The Justice League screenplay was by Chris Terrio. The story was Zack Snyder, but there was a team up. They teamed up to to write that specifically for Batman versus Superman. Don't justice.
03:01:52
Speaker
It wasn't written by. ah Snyder, it doesn't look like at all. Maybe the story's by him, but the writer the writers were Chris Terrio and David Esquire. Oh, okay. So there you go The Boyster. They've a lawyer who famously helped to write The Dark Knight, I believe.
03:02:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. That seems right. but seem I'm pretty sure you're right about that. and he's the I think he's the showrunner on The Foundation, which really looks cool. The Foundation.
03:02:19
Speaker
It looks like a huge budget, man. I wonder much they spent on The Foundation of Star Wars. $67. $650 million. yeah At least $67. It's cool to have like a company like Apple who wants to seem to, they seem to want to make art in some way and they have so much money to do so. Like they're not just an art company though. Like Disney is all about making art to make money.
03:02:41
Speaker
Like, you know what i mean? That's the only thing they do. They just produce art, but it's really, if the bottom line isn't there, they don't give a crap in some aspect. they They don't do that many projects that are like pro bono.
03:02:51
Speaker
like They're not trying to not trying to make some really cool piece of art just for the sake of it and don't expect to make a dime typically, and especially if it's very expensive. But Apple's like spending the big bucks on almost every project.
03:03:03
Speaker
And I'm wondering if the like they're going to eventually see, like you know maybe it wasn't worth spending $600 million dollars on. I bet you that must have been the cost of the foundation because that looks expensive. Is it called? No, it's just called Foundation, right?
03:03:17
Speaker
Foundation? Sure. Not that Foundation. Also stars Lee Pace and Jared Harris.
03:03:24
Speaker
All right, Simon.
Anticipations: Chainsaw Man Movie and Netflix Releases
03:03:25
Speaker
My next pick, it's a movie that is a sequel to the first season of an anime. That is the next arc based on movie. Man something or else.
03:03:36
Speaker
Yeah, dude, it is. Chainsaw Man. was the subtitle? The movie Reza Arc. Reza Arc. Yeah. I want to watch this. it's It sucks because it's coming out on October 24th, but looking, it's it's only in like Winston Churchill and and Mississauga.
03:03:50
Speaker
I don't really want to drive that far for I'm sure it'll be on Crunchyroll at a certain point, but I really liked the first season of Chainsaw Man. i thought it was really cool. Yeah. It's one of like, you know, the few animes that I like just kind of jumped into. I'm like, oh, I like this.
03:04:03
Speaker
It starts off like a little bit tropey and then kind of flips it on its head and then and becomes like very like, whoa, damn. And some really cool villains and they become woke.
03:04:14
Speaker
No, No, it's not woke. Let me tell you, it's not woke. um But yeah, it it like it. There's like a like a point like halfway through the first season where you're like, holy shit, they're actually going there with it. And like so much shit happens and like.
03:04:31
Speaker
And then it just fucking blasts off in in quality. And I really, really, really liked it. So I'm excited for it. Again, I don't know if I'll be able to watch it in theaters if they don't bring it close to us, but I'll watch it on Crunchyroll when it inevitably releases there.
03:04:46
Speaker
Cool. All right. Yeah. The next film, Adrian, is we're past the three, but I've got lost here. And there's so many. It's ridiculous. ah is a film by a director who directed a little World War I film few years ago.
03:05:05
Speaker
recently directed a film that takes place in a ah in in the Vatican called Conclave. That director is Edward Berger. It's a ballad of a small player.
03:05:18
Speaker
and Correct. That's Netflix, right? Just in the nick of time on that one. October 29th is the date in which it comes out on Netflix. I didn't realize it was Netflix. I don't know why I didn't. I should have known that.
03:05:29
Speaker
Reviewed not very well, actually, which sucks because the trailer looks awesome, in my opinion. Too bad. thought it looked really good. And because Conclave is amazing.
03:05:39
Speaker
And I think that All Quiet on the Western Front, which is the film I referenced earlier, the World War I film, from the perspective of the Germans, I thought was also really good. Like, I think that, I think we watched it together. Was that the one that Peter had to leave?
03:05:53
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Because I couldn't remember if it was that one or different. Yeah. He got like very sick. Yeah. That was, that sucked. I felt bad for him. He watched it at home after. was like, it was really good. do you think? He really liked it.
03:06:04
Speaker
I really liked it. Yeah. That's good. Yes. All right, my friend. This is 59%. It's 1% less than being fresh with 68 reviews. When it's 69, it could get the 60%. 69, Yeah. oh but sixty eight reviews when it' sixty nine it could get the sixty percent sixty nine yeah They just need one more review.
03:06:24
Speaker
Nice, dude. work Cool. Yeah, I got one movie left on my list, and it is rom-com of sorts. um It stars Dave Franco and Alison Williams.
03:06:41
Speaker
Yeah. McKenna Grace. Yeah. Mason Thames. It's based on a book. by best sellingling but from the best-selling author of It Ends With Us, which was that Blake Lively movie. Right. It's coming out October 24th.
03:06:55
Speaker
It's by the director of The Fault in Our Stars. Oh, dear. Is it a Crier? Is it a Crier movie? Maybe. So the premise of the movie actually seems interesting, right? So it's like Dave Franco and his wife, they're together.
03:07:10
Speaker
And then his I, I, I, yeah, Dave Franco. Yeah. Dave Franco and his wife. And then Alison Williams has like her husband. Right. And for whatever reason, Dave Franco's wife and Alison Williams husband dying a car accident. They're together. And Dave Franco and Alison Williams don't know why they were together.
03:07:30
Speaker
So like Dave Franco's like, were they fucking having an affair behind her back? So we didn't know it. And then it's like them trying to figure out what happened. And then I think Alison Williams, like her daughter, McKenna Grace is like, there's like a love story going on with some dude or something like that. And then Dave Franco's character and Alison Williams' character fall in love because Dave Franco can only love people named Alison.
03:07:53
Speaker
Yes, exactly. hundred percent. that right? Yeah, it is. You guessed the end. Dave Franco can only love people. Yeah. And is that the next title of the episode? i don't know We'll see.
03:08:04
Speaker
I guess you'll know if you're the audience. Yeah. Anyway, I got another one here, Adrian. This is a controversial one. um It's quite controversial out in the world of video games, I think, especially, although this property wasn't initially a video game at all, but a a novel by a Polish author.
03:08:26
Speaker
And it's just... the Oh, I know.
Liam Hemsworth in The Witcher: Fan Reactions
03:08:29
Speaker
It's Witcher Season 4 with Liam Hemsworth. Yes, Liam... Geralt. Liam Hemsworth is now the new Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher 4 Season 4.
03:08:40
Speaker
And people aren't liking it. But I don't know. I didn't i fell off the season in season two because they made an unbelievable choice in like the second episode or something like that. is the first episode.
03:08:51
Speaker
I couldn't even believe that they would do this because there there was like a character they they had that was from long through the books. And I don't think they ever died or whatever. And then they just like killed them off or something. I can't remember what they exactly was, but I will say stupid.
03:09:08
Speaker
Stupid. Sorry, not to get that too sidetracked, but like from the perspective of someone that never read the book, yeah like does it like did it shock like do you? Is that character in the games? Because I know you played the game. Yeah. Oh, okay.
03:09:21
Speaker
Then disregard. Don't worry about it. couldn't understand it I was like, but what's what's the point of this? So my my thought process on this type of thing is, when you have a character like this, you can just introduce a different character and then kill them instead.
03:09:36
Speaker
like the idea problem the The shock value of it was, here's this character that you know and love because you've already read the books or played the game. We're going to dispatch them. because We don't want them to live because then you're going to have an emotional response.
03:09:51
Speaker
But they never did any character development in the show, which is a big no-no. If they had at least done character development first and then made them... perish then you would be like, oh, I'm connected and that makes sense. But they never did any character development that was any good.
03:10:05
Speaker
And then they just got rid of it. I was like, that's a really dumb, that's that's the laziest writing probably I've ever seen. And I just, i literally couldn't go back to the show because it wasn't about killing the character. it was about the principle of why they did it.
03:10:18
Speaker
and There was no benefit. They just didn't they didn't benefit in any way. They're just like, we can do whatever we want with these characters. That's what I thought. like We're going power trip these fans. It's like, I don't know what the point of that is. Just introduce a character and then kill them.
03:10:30
Speaker
You make it up because you don't need to take this character that people love or just don't even introduce the character that people love at all and you just skip over them and don't introduce them. It's just so much easier to just do that. But then I don't know how much people didn't like that. I hate that. I think that's just this lazy.
03:10:44
Speaker
Yeah. Liam Hemsworth as Geralt is not a problem at all. People have problems with different things that I just don't have an issue with. I think he looks okay. Looks cool. Oh, also Lawrence Fishburne's in the season. as like a vampire dude who's in the in the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt at the DLC only.
03:11:00
Speaker
The DLC for the Witcher, i don't know if I talked to you about this, the Witcher 3 DLC is some of the best DLC I've ever played by by a margin. It is so good. CD Projekt Red, who also makes Cyberpunk 2077, their Phantom Liberty DLC is so good. But the Wild Hunt's DLC is so emotional and such an ending like...
03:11:18
Speaker
it for whicher like ah the Witcher Geralt of Rivia's storyline in that saga in the three games, I guess. I just think they did such a good job in ending the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt in that DLC, in a way that I've never really played. i don't find DLC that compelling most of the time. In fact, I'm playing DLC while I play Alan Wake 2. I'm like, ah, this is fine.
03:11:40
Speaker
Alan Wake 2 is a much more interesting experience than DLC. the Night Springs, that's like sprinkled throughout it? I don't dislike it. I just don't see the – I'm like kind of like, oh, you're just taking me out of this. Like I'm really intrigued by the storyline. it does it. Yeah. Yeah, because I like the Night Springs. So Night Springs is like for those who don't know and care. What banger of a song, by the way.
03:11:59
Speaker
How good is the music? The Night Springs thing? Like the the thing, song d ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah. No, no, no. Like the, the night, the song, like the end. Oh, at the end. Oh, yeah. When the chapter ends. Oh, that one's good too. Yeah, that one's good. Yeah. So much good music in that game. But Night Springs. Oh, there's one song that that ends the chapters. I love that song by Poe.
03:12:19
Speaker
I think it's excellent. It's amazing. Okay. But but that that's a like a that's a cinematic masterpiece, that game. That that makes me so sad that that that they just broke even just recently. Like, oh my God, they should be making profit hand over fist. That game's immaculate, man.
03:12:33
Speaker
And they're never going to make that again. they're I don't think they're ever going to make a three or... I don't even know. They're not even working on control now. there's not a focus It can't even be a focus, i don't think. I think they're maybe working it at a very small capacity, but their focus is Max Payne. So it's just disappointing because I think that it's...
03:12:49
Speaker
It's really excellent. It's very frightening though. I don't like scaring myself. Yeah, dude. You know what's crazy? It's very scary. <unk>s It's crazy to play a horror game in the dark, which I have to do because I just, I want the full cinematic experience.
03:13:02
Speaker
But I'm playing a horror game like Alan Wake 2 in dark, but also in a room in which the beat the wasps just can keep getting in. I almost said B. What kind of an asshole am I? Not B wasp.
03:13:12
Speaker
You piece the wasps just keep getting into this room and that the most common room in the house is that room that I i play video games in. Yeah. man, it's terrifying. Cause I literally saw a wasp fly in front of the screen at Allen Lake. um Oh my goodness.
03:13:26
Speaker
It's not good. And I have to pause it. I'm like, Oh, I've got to go kill the wasp now. It's scary. You don't want to watch. And plus they come up from behind you. So like, what if they just start crawling on your face, man? This is like a, yeah it's spooky. That game makes me want to drink coffee.
03:13:39
Speaker
Yeah. ah I'm going to make give myself a coffee. Once we finish. Yeah. Quick aside. just talking about where I started playing. I got silent hill F. Oh yeah, cool. And i I started playing that last night. I played it for 35 minutes and I literally was like, I can't do this right now. i'm I'm exhausted from coming home from the plane. It is midnight. It is pitch black.
03:14:00
Speaker
And I literally was like, oh, yeah and i yeah it's so scary. Like I literally was like, I am not in the mental state to play this right now. i I thought I was hallucinating. I was like, what the fuck, man?
03:14:11
Speaker
So I put it down and then I jumped to Ghost of Yote for a while. Yeah. Because I was like, I can't. i I literally could not. I was like, I'm too tired and my heart is racing. Yeah. I went to bed at like fucking three in the morning.
03:14:24
Speaker
I'm not going to jump into a horror game after this again.
Gaming Adaptations: Alan Wake and Control
03:14:27
Speaker
i just like this so much though there's what really drew me in and we talked about this a little bit a while ago is this idea of the way alan wake uses live action it's basically a movie in some aspect like it really is a cinematic like masterpiece it's like i feel like what sam wake is doing and what hidey kojima is doing they're both like they intersect mediums with like film and and and video games in a very like palpable way like they did just do such a good job yeah sam like might be my like favorite video game creator like really i just like the
03:14:58
Speaker
going That seems crazy. Yeah, like going back you know his name because he's one of the auteurs, I guess. I love Tetsuya Nomura, Final Fantasy, and like Kingdom Hearts. And obviously Neil Druckmann I love.
03:15:11
Speaker
um But it's like Sam, like like what he did with Alan Wake, which I loved when I was younger, and then replaying it. And then yeah going through Control. and then like ah playing Alan Wake 2 shortly thereafter as well. And being like, wow, man. like You're creating something so...
03:15:29
Speaker
unique in a video game. Sure. It's like, it's it's not, but I mean, if it has been done before, I don't know about it. And it's just like all these like interconnected things and like references to it. And, oh man, I'm so excited for you to finish it. I can't wait to talk to you about it in detail.
03:15:43
Speaker
The other thing that's really neat about it and it is such a really cool moment that I, I just, uh, found like five hours ago playing the game, not five hours in the game, not five hours ago from now, because it's a long podcast. I wasn't playing it five hours ago, but, um,
03:15:59
Speaker
the The Herald of Darkness bit. Holy shit. And the correlation specifically with the video game awards. Because I thought that video game awards performance that they did on stage was absolutely incredible. And I hadn't even played the game.
03:16:11
Speaker
That's actually one of the reasons I wanted to play the game as well. Because I knew the intersection of the but live action elements and the cinematic aspect of it. That's why I'm playing it Because I don't like horror games. Again, I'm trying to relax and I don't want to be, I already have anxiety. Do I need more anxiety while I'm trying to relax? Probably not.
03:16:27
Speaker
But the, the element of the way they perform that on stage in such an amazing way, the sequence in the game is amazing too, but the way they did it is really cool. Like the stage, like situation with, uh, with all the like core cast, even like the, not only the voice actor who was there, what's his name?
03:16:46
Speaker
Actually, the guy plays Casper Darling, um Because he's great. Yeah. um I forget. um But he also plays Alan Wake. He plays both, which I think is really cool. I wonder, did they say they were making a movie? We talked about this a little bit. I don't remember.
03:17:00
Speaker
I can't remember if they're making a movie or a TV show, but they definitely are. Yeah. And Control, I think. It almost doesn't make sense. Because it's like the advantage of the cross medium in the actual game. is Can you even capture that in?
03:17:15
Speaker
Can you even capture it anyway inside the... inside a movie because you're kind of like, it's not interactive. and Oh, it's Matthew Perretta. He plays Casper Darling in Alan Wake.
03:17:26
Speaker
But yeah, because it's cool. like They use a different like body double dude who does a great job, by the way, on his own in his own right because he's largely in it so much as a live action actor. it's not like they did a facial scan and then put Casper Darling actors, like ah sorry, Matthew Perretta's voice over top of him.
03:17:45
Speaker
He actually is in it in a substantial way. And he has to voice the words that Matthew Peretta is saying consistently because it's not just the facial skin. I have live action bits in this video. It's crazy. It's really, I don't think I've ever seen that really in that yeah know like size and scope.
03:18:02
Speaker
So it's pretty cool. So yeah, Alan Wake and Control Games are getting movies. It's a partnership between Remedy Entertainment and Annapurna. Annapurna. Right. That's cool. So hopefully that comes to fruition.
03:18:16
Speaker
Yeah. you know want be interesting? No. Not that I really want anyone to acquire anyone, but it' be cool if somebody like with the cloud of PlayStation acquired Remedy. I don't want like Microsoft to acquire anyone else because disaster, but Remedy such a small studio that the problem seems to be marketing maybe for Alan Wake. like How the hell is it not selling by like Resident Evil numbers?
03:18:37
Speaker
That's what's crazy to me because it is the same kind of genre. It's it's interesting though because like I think – like survival horror games aren't particularly huge or popular. Resident Evil is pretty popular. Again, apart from Resident Evil, which sell like hotcakes, but Silent Hill 2 remake that came out, I think a year ago, just over a year ago.
03:18:58
Speaker
Like, I think they just announced it sold 2.5 million copies, which is good. It's substantial. But again, it's based on like, it's a remake of a game that is critically acclaimed from like the PS1 generation that everyone talks about being like one of the great survival horror like stories ever.
03:19:13
Speaker
And it's like, yeah, I don't know. It's it's interesting. just I don't think it's a genre that particularly does well. And again, I think the biggest shame is like Control is a game that is not survival horror. I mean, it's horror in a lot of ways, but it is like way more action focused and such kinetic gameplay.
03:19:32
Speaker
um i feel like that should have been the big one. And it still didn't. It just didn't light the world on fire, which sucks. And they just did a PS5 Pro update. I'm like, man, I kind of want to jump back into that. Yeah. So I don't know. don't like two.
03:19:44
Speaker
Apparently it's sold we do over two million copies actually. It's not bad. But I guess it just costs so much to make, which I can see why. But anyway, but yeah, it's, it is in the style of a PlayStation game though. It is over, over the shoulder in that way, specifically not in other ways, but like the over the shoulder action game that they love to do.
03:20:04
Speaker
Yeah. But, um, it's one of my favorite games ever, dude. Like it's crazy how good that game cool okay uh what was it who was up <unk> remember i said the witcher oh i leave him hemsworth the witcher not good people don't like it um And I wonder how it's going to do. Lawrence Fishburne's in it.
03:20:22
Speaker
He's playing a character that I thought was amazing in the DLC. Like, just absolutely incredible. And it's making me want to go play it because I love Lawrence Fishburne. And I also really like this character. So I'm like, do I want to watch all the way up to there just to get the Lawrence Fishburne?
03:20:35
Speaker
And i I'm curious about Liam Hemsworth. Like, will he nail it? He looks like he's doing an okay job. yeah But there's a reason why ah Henry Cavill left, and it's because he didn't like the scripts. He didn't like the way the path was going in terms of the writing.
03:20:48
Speaker
so So anyway, I'm probably not going to do that because there's a lot to watch, including Down Cemetery Road, Adrian. Oh, could have given you the option. I guess that I don't know anything else that's coming out.
03:21:00
Speaker
Down Cemetery Road is an Apple TV Plus political British detective drama with Ruth Wilson of Luther fame. Speaking of Edris Elba. If you remember, where's Wilson from Luther?
03:21:15
Speaker
You watch Luther, no? Yep. Okay. Yeah, she's the main main actress in that. Anyway, and Emma Thompson. So it's Ruth ah Wilson and Emma Thompson unraveling like a grand British conspiracy from a writer from Slow Horses and it's on Apple TV.
03:21:32
Speaker
So this is a recipe for success. Morwenna Banks is specifically show running it. This looks great. I might watch this because again, Apple's killing it and I think that Slow Horses is one of their best shows.
03:21:45
Speaker
which is saying something. So that's cool. Uh, the next thing I think you might've seen this. So I'm just going to give you some hints. Uh, this, this stars Kyle Chandler, Diane Lane and Phoebe Deniver in a weird dating thriller film in which Phoebe Deniver is, uh, you know, kind of fighting against Diane Lane's character because she's dating her, her son.
03:22:10
Speaker
and And essentially, there's some weird political conspiracy going on here too. But it's like a kind of like um you're not really sure in the trailer what exactly is going on. This comes out October 29th, and it's called Anniversary.
03:22:24
Speaker
o Yeah. So I don't know what exactly this is. but and the McKenna Grace is also in this movie. Interesting. She is. Yeah, that's a good point. Okay.
03:22:36
Speaker
Yes. So there's that. And then there's also, I think I one more. No, I have two more. This one, I feel like you will guess. um i A TV show comes out November 2nd.
03:22:48
Speaker
It stars Rachel Sennett. in this HBO comedy. Oh, I love LA. Yeah, I love LA. I really want to watch that. Totally forgot about that. Yeah. Damn. Yeah, good call. There go. I'm very excited about that show. I love Rachel Sennett. She's so fucking funny in everything she's in.
03:23:03
Speaker
There you go. And this is, yeah, she's directing and writing. It's like her show. She's show running. So very excited about that. Good call. Good call. There you go. And that one, this this whole game reminds me of, I just saw like a Jeopardy clip of of various Jeopardy hosts.
03:23:20
Speaker
um going through various video games and they were really giving hints of the video games and almost everyone, the actual contestants had no clue what they were. It's actually, it was an entertaining one. I was almost going to send you this, but ah hesitate I and I didn't.
03:23:35
Speaker
So that's it. I think that's everything. Cool. Oh, I have one more here, but it's really not that. yeah Oh, no, this one's okay.
Paramount+ and New Show Releases
03:23:42
Speaker
This one's different. Crutch. This is a strange thing. I don't even feel. I've never seen the show The Neighborhood, but this is a spinoff of the show The Neighborhood. It comes out November 3rd. stars Tracy Morgan, and it's going to be on Paramount+. Oh.
03:23:56
Speaker
I swear. Paramount Plus stuff. I just don't see as often. It's like off my radar. I don't know what the deal is. It's a muted marketing for me in Canada, I feel like, in comparison. And also, they didn't seem to care about my business when I had issues guy watching Mission Impossible earlier this year. Yeah, fuck you, Paramount. You didn't care about my friend's business.
03:24:14
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, right. So don't care about you, Paramount+. plus Okay, well, I guess that's it. too Cool. guess that's everything. That's all the thr things we were excited for. got to go see um Good Fortune. I think that's ah the one to see.
03:24:27
Speaker
Sure. I think that's let's do that's my choice. Let's do it. Let's do it, man. Is there anything else you want to see this? I want to watch Shelby Oaks. I want to watch Regretting You, with but I'll probably do a date night for Regretting You. I feel like we're missing something that we just that came out last the last two weeks that we didn't go see now.
03:24:42
Speaker
See, though. I said no. I'm being tired. Man, Blackphone too. Oh yeah, maybe. Roofman. Roofman. That's one. I do want to see Roofman.
03:24:53
Speaker
Yeah. I'd rather watch Blackphone, the second Blackphone.
03:25:00
Speaker
I saw a clip with Roofman where they... um He was on a roof? Yeah, no. Yeah, like for Roofman, it was... ah it's What's his name? I'm losing everyone's name now. It's the end. Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst, apparently, they don't get to see each other until... He basically separated them, like Derek Sanfrance, the director.
03:25:21
Speaker
He separated them and he didn't allow them to see each other until like the exact moment they actually meet in real life. So the first time that the actors and the characters meet each other is in that scene so that they he could create serious tension. And I think Channing Tatum has never met Kirsten Dunst.
03:25:36
Speaker
at all so it completely worked out in that regard i'm like that sounds like a really cool like immersive kind of yeah way to do it so that is cool still got to watch gabby's dollhouse the movie as well but i know yeah i know i know you mention it every time we go to the theaters all the merch you want me to buy yeah okay well i guess that's it adrian that's it and that's all we are gonna close this close this guy off And I'm going to ask you now, is there anything else you want to say to the audience before we disappear into the night or day?
03:26:11
Speaker
Watch Andor. You should watch Andor. Right. Yeah, it's true. If you already watched it, watch it again. Because it's that good. Yeah, exactly true. Exactly true. Open up another Disney Plus account, pay for it, and then watch it to show them your support and then close it.
03:26:27
Speaker
So just to basically signal them that you only watched Andor. Yeah, do that. And do that with multiple emails. Adrian hasn't done that. But you should. You should do that. It's true. haven't done that. Okay. Anyway, that's it then.
03:26:41
Speaker
Thank you for listening to episode 121 of Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie, and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my and or loving co-host, Adrian Pinter.
03:26:54
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Please join us on November 2025 for episode 122. Good evening you. good evening to you And good luck. Why are you waving? You know that this is i did full audio. did four. I did four. So you wouldn't forget the number of November. Holy smokes.
03:27:10
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Thank you for waving to the audience. This is an audio, you know, art form, if you can call it art. Anyway. My goodness gracious me. Good evening to you and good luck, audience. Goodbye. Take care.
03:27:21
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Take care. Goodbye.