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Ep 156: The Electric State - Month of Action!
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The Electric State is Netflix's most expensive film at $320 million, as well as one of the most expensive movies ever, period. It follows Michelle and her robot friend Cosmo as they travel across a dystopian America ravaged by a war between humans and robots, looking for her brother. Joined by a veteran and smuggler named Keats and his wisecracking companion robot, Herman, boredom ensues. Despite having a killer cast including Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, and Anthony Mackie, this movie sits at a 14% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 2.1 on Letterboxd, so we're here to see what the hell happened.
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Introduction and 'Month of Action' Concept
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Welcome back. It's time for the month of action. And this month or and this week, our world is a tire fire floating on an ocean of piss. I'm Derek. I'm Whitney.
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I'm Jack. And this is Bad Movies. Worst People.
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Weapons hot and one-liners at the ready, recruits. This ain't just some summer blockbuster vacation. This is the real deal.
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You've been chosen as part of an elite task force for the month of action.
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Now when those bullets start to fly and everything around you is up in flames, don't you lose your nerve.
Humor and Special Intro Collaboration
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Remember who you are. You're the toughest, craziest, most resourceful sons of to ever lace them up.
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We don't wait for backup and we damn sure don't retreat. Now strap your asses in and get ready for the drop. Oh, and one more thing. Before you pull that trigger, tell them John Mortis sent you.
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That's dope. Man, I got caught up in that. I forgot were doing a podcast. I thought I was watching something really fucking cool. Wasn't that Long Kiss Goodnight? Yeah, you bet your sweet flimmed up hand.
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I don't know what we're doing. i just work here, guys. I don't even get paid for this. Yes, that is a special intro made for us by Mickey from... ah i mean He does stuff for B Action. I think he does stuff for Give Me Back My Action and horror movies as well.
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There's some of the people who are joining us for the month of action. It's actually their event. We're just joining them. but Yeah, we're joining them.
Discussion on 'The Electric State'
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ah figured we kick off the month talking about big old expensive action blockbuster from 2025.
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Can you call it a blockbuster? No, because it came out at home. Yeah, exactly. Probably a failure. Who knows? The Electric State. Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo.
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You had high hopes for that. Yeah, i mean they're so i mean, they did a bunch of stuff that I liked. They did a bunch of Arrested Development. Yeah, I love that. They did some good Marvel.
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Yeah, they did Winter Soldier, Civil war War, Infinity War, Endgame. And then they started making their own movies. And they did, like, The Gray Man on Netflix. and Oh, right gossiping. Somewhere in there, they also did You, Me, and Dupree.
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Hmm. Hmm. I don't think I've ever seen that. Oh, man. It's Owen Wilson.
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But these guys are kind of monsters. We'll get to it in a second. ah It's based on ah a graphic novel by Simon Stalenhag. So for those that don't know, that's a comic book, right?
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Yeah, but got more version of a comic book. Yeah, less of us a weekly. Hey, look, I forgot about my little banners again. Look at that little banner. um That makes sense, though, because I really enjoyed this world here.
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I was like, well, somebody created a pretty fucking decent little piece of world that I like and I'd like to delve into. I should just read the graphic novel. Did you ever watch Tales from the
Comparisons and Critiques
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Loop? was a Netflix or a Amazon show.
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No, we watched it. Did we? yeah Oh, we did. Very post apocalyptic kind of thing. Very similar big robots and stuff. It's his style. But ah I feel like without having read the the graphic novel that this is based on, these guys probably just butchered his tone.
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It's like this is a picture from Tales from the Loop. Yeah. So you can get the tone just from the color and the ah you know broken robot. I mean, you get some of that here in the scavenger part. We get the colorful poppy version from these guys, and like in this picture.
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so That's the peanut mobile, man. that's thing You got to get that thing popping.
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And then this was Either pea nor a nut. It's actually more of a van. almost like it's a van. It's fairly similar to a van. It would be called a leg-vume.
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Leg-vroom. There we That's pretty good. It's got love plenty of leg-room. So this was written by frequent collaborators of these two, Christopher Marcus and Stephen McFeely.
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ah great Great name. Stephen McFeely sounds like, it's like, babe, you got to be careful. When you drink red wine, you get a little Stevie McFeely. ah a thousand percent. I know you do, you boob hound.
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Because these guys wrote... When he starts going around honking girls' boobs with consent, but honking nonetheless. or a gentle brush along the buttocks. Easy now, keep it above the waist.
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But these guys wrote, also, they wrote pretty much everything those guys directed except for you, me, and Dupree. They wrote Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame. ah They also wrote Pain and Gain, so they're welcome back. Oh, yeah. Welcome back. They wrote Captain America First Avenger and Thor Dark World, so it's like this. Don't hold that against him.
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And also they created ah the Agent Carter TV show. Oh, we liked Agent Carter, didn't we? Yeah, Peggy. Short for Margaret. um And I was just going through some other credits. We do have some other welcome backs. Music is Alan Silvestri. Not surprising because he does all that Marvel stuff.
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Oh, that's funny because there's a Silvestri acting in this too. Yeah, he did ah either like mocap or like something for some of the robots. and I'll do your music, but you need to get my fucking deadbeat son a job. Something. I don't care if you throw him off of a roof. That actually works better for me.
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Just sits in his room cranking it all day. He's a jackpot. We've had Alan Silvestri's music on here a lot. ah Oh, yes. Quick and the Dead, Super Mario Brothers, Dutch Sidekicks.
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And again, this month on Long Kiss Goodnight for Patreon. And I've made fun of him a bunch for being just like the poor man's Johnny Dubs. You know, he's like, yeah you need something scored without a lot of feeling. It's not he's not terrible feeling for me.
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Oh, I know. I could pick out a couple parts where I like, Whitney you got that hot nose. Yep. If she's not leaking, she's at least heating up. Don't even. just Somehow she was feeling emotions to this movie. The movie wasn't feeling them, but she
Emotional Responses and Financial Concerns
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was. I blame menopause.
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Also, hold on. i will always be more sad of a person in a quirky robot relationship than like friends. Because I'll tell you what, when it was when it comes time for the very end of the movie where it's the sister brother thing, I'm like, couldn't give a shit.
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I couldn't care to care. Hermes? Hermes, though. Hermes? Herman. No, Herman. Hermy. He just called him Herm. Big Herm. What's up, Big Herm? Yeah.
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So he called him Hermy.
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Hermen. Pretty sure he calls him Herm the whole time. He doesn't matter. Subtitles. He's not a real person. He's a robot. Whoa. he This thing didn't exist. None of these wars were fought. No, that's not true.
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Because ah there is somebody that is credited for the mocap, the ah Randall from Scrubs, the the little person actor yeah that's also in Pirates of the Caribbean. So he had to be something.
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Yeah. Just blocking. I think they were doing, cause he's also listed under stunts. So I think maybe for certain aspects they did, but like I was reading a thing. So despite the large robot cast in this movie, electric state has no actual animatronics or puppets.
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Everything is CGI because Joe Russo explained, uh, animatronics would have quote made it cost five times as much, which, gives me pause because it cost 320 million fucking dollars to make this movie.
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And there were over 1000 people credited for special visual effects. Damn. I mean bet you money. It costs more than a couple Stan Winston and fucking Tom Savini can come in and build you some robots. Oh, you just need a bag of cocaine. Tom Savini will fucking build you so many robots.
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So many. Because he's, in fact, a cocaine-powered robot. And they will all gush. Yeah. Why did you add blood to these robots? Wait, when they get shot later, you are going to thank me. It's not
Streaming vs. Theater Debate
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blood. It's oils and transmission fluids.
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It's their blood. It's their blood. Exactly. Exactly. Transmission fluids, red. I don't we obviously don't have a box office game because this is a Netflix original. Eight people watched it. ah It had of what's described as I've read both disappointing and just fine viewership.
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ah Twenty five point two million views. I did some math based on the average ticket price of eleven dollars and thirty one cents in the United States. If every one of those people went to the theater to see this movie, that's still two hundred and eighty five million dollars.
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So it's still ah failure. Yeah, which 285. Come on. Yeah. Well, if you didn't make spend the budget of like, I don't know, an entire small country's gross domestic product.
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And it was still available for us to watch on Netflix. and Unlike, I don't know, what was that one? Cowboy Bebop? Cowboy Bebop. Shut down after seven days. Yeah, they took it off. I think it's still on there, but they canceled it. Yeah, no, yeah I'm pretty sure you still watch it, but the day came out, because I didn't even finish watching it until I heard it was canceled. And i was like, you guys are idiots. They did Einstein so wrong in that.
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Left him on the Poor little guy's just stuck on a dock forever. He's okay. He's okay. Is he? Yeah, Space Angels, come and save him. Don't worry about it. Okay. I've got some headcanon.
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Before we get too far, I do want to say, i I'll talk about it again at the end, but we're doing another giveaway this month. Digital download code. It's not a movie we're discussing. It's The Running Man, the original with Arnold Schwarzenegger, obviously, because the remake's not out yet.
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If we ever do discuss it, it's going to be on Patreon. He made me watch it the other night. He let you. You watched part of it and went to bed. i know, I had to go to bed. But I have this to give away because it is the month of action, and that is an action.
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It is an action. and It is an action. It's definitely an action. I'd call it an action. I mentioned to you guys that these guys are kind of monsters. Yes, um i was that was said. based on... so There's a quote from these one of those two during an interview. I think it was Joe. He seems to be the one who talks a lot. He also has two cameos in the movie. he's always one that talks a lot.
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Yeah. He said, ah thing to remember is it's an elitist notion to be able to go to the movie theater. This is him arguing for why streaming is better than movie theaters.
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Okay. What a shill. This idea was created and we hang on
Performance Highlights and 1990 Setting
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to that the theater is a sacred space and it's bullshit. It rejects the idea of allowing everyone in under the tent because digital distribution is valuable.
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People can share accounts. They can get 40 stories for the cost of one story. But we have some kind of culture war about whether or not there's value in that. And it's fucking bananas. But then also, so he's arguing that it's better to have streaming because people can share accounts, but then the people who are paying to make your movie aren't making money off you making a movie.
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And also he's saying like, because the theater is expensive is basically the thing it, disincludes some people. And I'm like, homie, it's $5 on Tuesday. Yeah. Right, because you see what these movies are to buy?
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So and when a movie is like Sinners. Sinners was still in theaters. It might even still be. Go see it. um When that was in theaters, they did the early release, and it was a $20 rental, $25 purchase.
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For digital? Yeah. I know if there's a huge family, that makes sense. But for like for us three, that doesn't make sense. I don't think. No. Oh, by the way, that movie comes out on physical the day after this episode airs, July 8th. Guess who's buying it?
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Guess who probably already has a pre-order. Not me. Oh. I do. Fucker. But the funny thing is, those there's so they're talking about how, like, um You know, people shouldn't go, don't need to go to theaters. You can watch stuff at home.
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But then with this $320 million dollars movie, they turn it around and express concern about the sustainability of streaming services because they're spending so much on individual films.
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Yeah. I'm like, you made the 16th, the most expensive movie Netflix has ever produced. And the 16th most expensive movie in history, all of the others of which are franchise films, Star Wars, Marvel, Pirates, Fast X, Indiana Jones 5, all that stuff.
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So you can't complain that people that these companies aren't going to be able so so to sustain themselves when people's Netflix ah subscription goes up. Here's why. yeah It's exactly why it's going up.
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Because they are going up. we We actually... We used our daughters. Netflix accounts. I used my old roommates. and Still logged in You know, it's super funny. She lives in our house.
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After it was ah over, i was like, I'll put on Seinfeld while i make myself some food. And it's like, sorry, this TV is not part of your package. You need to log back in. was like, I don't even care. I got to watch Electric State, so cool. Wow.
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It was like, hey, please, I don't even care if this isn't your fucking account. he Watch Electric State. We got to pump those numbers up. Just start. Share your password this week and this week only.
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We got to get those rookie numbers up. Oh, that's hilarious. but We'll get into this movie which has ah ah deep cast. I've got a lot of these people written down, but most of them aren't in the movie.
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Let me say something real quick, though. If I could... kind of can a fa kid that i can't put You can put a kitty cat in the oven. You can't call biscuits. um I think that this movie would have actually benefited from being in a theater.
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I think it would have. You know, and like you can, I think that just sounds like something you were told to say by Disney and Netflix and all these other streamers that it' streaming services you work for.
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Yeah. Well, and that's the thing. I mean, they are Marvel directors. Cause I didn't hate this movie, but I did not like you, you kind of touched on it earlier. There's just no emotion here.
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No. And that's the thing. And I mean, I'll discuss it more at the end, but it's just with the message they're trying to, they think they're trying to send with this movie. But then, like, the message they're trying to send with this movie they that they think they're trying to send is unplug, connect with your family, connect with people.
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You heard it on Netflix. But then they made a movie that was 90% CG, uses AI, and is only available in streaming so you don't have to go out of your house. They didn't even yeah do, like, the gun method where he has his little brother be a focal point for people to...
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Yeah, i don't I think a lot of times there was nothing there and they were just looking. I mean, Chris Pratt, I mean, he worked with James Gunn, but he's at this point used to looking at things that aren't there. Right. And Millie Bobby Brown probably is, too, because Stranger Things. But it's a valid point.
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And I will say right now, like. Millie Bobby Brown, probably the best performance in this movie. She tried to give some something to it. She tried. She's not old and burnt out yet. She's 20 weeks. Derek's like she's like 30, 21.
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ah twenty one Yeah, she started, she must have started Stranger Things when she was like 10. 10, yeah, she was. She was like nine or 10 years old. Oh, and as the reason we're just covering this movie, because i we none of us had seen it until now, is because I heard that it was awful.
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The current ratings on this movie right now, it's sitting at 14% on Rotten Tomatoes for critics. 68% from People, which is okay, but it's that's what it's for. it's it's That's their popcorn meter. This is a popcorn picture, except for you have to you know go use your microwave.
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Not me, buddy. And a 2.1 on Letterboxd, which is also... normal people, not all critics who are reviewing movies, but they're more film oriented people. So 68% of the people liked it. Rotten Tomatoes. Let's it's mostly your average moviegoer, everyday person.
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Well, you'll find out my thoughts. Yeah, we'll get there. I think people can tell mine already. Yeah, I think so. Like a poker player, this one.
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So let's talk the electric state. Man, I didn't know Bon Jovi had a fucking new album dropping. Right? Look at that. is he got Is that Billie Eilish backing him up right there? And then what looks like maybe Daft Punk a little bit? and A little bit, yeah. All right, Bon Jovi and Daft Punk going on tour. Billie Eilish with them.
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Millie, Billie Eilish. they just They just did a song together. It's Daft Punk featuring Bon Jovi with choruses by Billie Eilish. ah Millie, Billie. Millie, Billie.
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Millie, Billie Brown. Man, her parents fucked up.
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All right, so the movie starts in the year 1990. That way we don't have to worry about cell phones, I think. I wonder, it was like, this is kind of a weird choice. Yeah.
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I mean, I guess it's like that retro futuristic thing, like Fallout, right? that's that That was my thoughts, too, because it has like Disney making robots in the 50s, I guess it would have to be, if he's opening his park, right? It's like Fallout. Yeah.
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That's what we're saying. That's what I said, yeah. It's like, it's retro futuristic. Yeah. It's like certain things stalled out here, but other technologies took off. Like what would happen if robots took off more than phones? Yeah. Because you have robots to communicate with each We didn't cell phones because we had robots. Yeah.
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Like Ready Player One, they all had those. We still got some You Got Mail. We did. ah So we have Christopher played by a kid named Woody Norman. Just like his acting.
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The only credit I recognized for him was Last Voyage of the Demeter, which I did not see. i didn't know what that is ah It's that. The Last Voyage of the Dementor is like it's like a Harry Potter one. But from the point of view of these like prison guards that don't even want to do their fucking job because they were created by some horribly transphobic monster.
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No, it was ah a movie based around the first chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula. It's just his voyage to um pirates of the Pirates of the Caribbean vampire.
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Yeah. Yeah. And then, of course, his sister, Michelle, played by Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things and whatnot. whatno And whatnot. I want to say Michelle Green.
00:18:37
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That name is actually Jennifer Aniston's sister, Reese Hitter Spoon. Please hit her spoon. Or her other sister is... Rachel Green. Oh, who's her other sister?
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don't know. oh ah fucking... Woo!
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Come on now. my brain is not working. Yep. 100% Christine Applegate. Thank you. was like, my brain is just fucking misfiring. What is that from?
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Every episode of... ah and now Anytime she walked into room with Mary with Children. Yeah, okay. I was like... i Thank you, Derek, for getting it, because, I mean, i think I've torched myself these last couple days. i think that I'm afraid the gen to ah non-gen ratio is shifting in the 80s. I mean, we had to celebrate Canada's independence.
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My pee was purple. I bet it was. And then that's not normal. And their mom, who we only see for a second, is just Joe Russo either trying to save some money or get some extra money for his family because that's played by his wife and Russo.
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e I don't remember. They're just standing in the hallway while Christopher is taking that test. Oh, I didn't even see them. Then they're just about out. Yeah, and then they die. Yeah, not just about out. They are out.
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We get no other flashbacks from them. She's also in the movie Jawbreaker. Oh, okay. Who was she in She was goth girl. You know what's happening? he's keeping her He's keeping her working just enough to get that sag.
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ah that sad kill they they The The insurance. Yeah, because she was in Civil War as Baron Zemo's wife and she was in the Winter Soldier as like a ah technician or some shit. She comes in just for one day.
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She comes in for one fucking day, one scene. She's like, I got this fucking flashback nailed. Give me my insurance. There you go. We'll take that $1,200 or whatever. Hell yeah. Thank you. Put that in the pile with all of our other $100 bills.
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That makes $1,001,200. So he's like a super genius. He takes this test that apparently took Einstein three days to complete and does it in like an hour or some shit.
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Yeah. Very important for later in the movie, I think. Is it? Dude, we we finished this movie about... what, three hours ago? Yeah. I'm so glad I took notes. Most of it has just evaporated from my mind. Oh, 1,000%. We did have to go to Costco, though.
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I got done with my watch, and I was just waiting for you guys to text, and I started fucking around on my Xbox, and I was like, whew, I can't go too deep into this. It's all going to leave my fucking brain right now. And it had cool parts. Like, I was into the world, you know? i like ah Chris Pratt's hair is ridiculous, but I was in on it right away.
00:21:15
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there's ah There's a concept here that could work. That's it. That's it. I like Blue Acres. Mm-hmm. Whoever's in charge of the robot design I thought was really fun. ChatGPT thanks you for your service.
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Oh, probably. No, I'm sure it was made by a person with assistance of ah a robot. Not even like the making, but the conception of. Yeah, the designs and stuff. Like taco playing a piano. That does sound like AI. Oh, my God.
00:21:41
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I loved taco. Of course. Yeah. But we get the idea of what's going on here because this military guy is walking by, bumps into the kid, and he's like, why the fuck you have a robot on your shirt, you little piece of shit? War is coming.
00:21:54
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Join humanity. Fucking hippie. The idea of a military guy, like... Right now, a guy bumps into a kid and the kid has, i don't know, a trans person on his shirt. don't know. they would just ice him.
00:22:07
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And they're just like, go fuck yourself, little kid. And just walk away. And it's like, kid's like 13, dude. You've never surfed a day in your life, you lying little piece of shit. Have you met you? yeah and i've never I've never told a kid to go fuck themselves. At a volume they could hear.
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and a volume they could hear. Unless it was warranted. Point of order. I have a rule, man. I don't fucking scream at little kids unless that kid's a dick. I mean, we had a child. He's yelled at a few kids.
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ah But they have this thing, and it comes back around later, where she wants him to go to school. He doesn't want to go because he's like a Doogie Howser type. Yeah, the kid's only like 12. Everything exists in a state of electricity, and if we touch, our particles mix, and I'll always be with you or something.
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I don't think that's Oh, they can't see us. We're fingering off off screen. Hey, Ed. a my You need to get one of those Reacher hands like the ah Terminator 2 hand.
00:23:12
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It would be just much like Anakin. The ones that you just use to flip people off like this all the time they always have bent fingers. think that's what they got in Attack of the Clones to use for Anakin's hand during the wedding scene. And then we have a montage that opens up the movie that tells us a lot.
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There's a lot of- Exposition! And I mean, most of the dialogue in this movie is exposition dump, but it's just this is just like, let's set up the whole world. You've got three and a half minutes, go. Yep.
00:23:39
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We need the Micro Machine guy to take a fucking deep breath. We invented robots. Robots started revolting. We started fighting for the robots. Robots started winning. We started to put little frames. I'm gonna put a kid in the machine. Then he Holly Hunter is here.
00:23:52
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I know, I heard her before I saw her and I was like, it's Mrs. Incredible. Yeah, Holly Hunter is the news anchor, Madeline Vance. Oh, I couldn't tell if it was her or Gary Busey.
00:24:03
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yeah And it's funny because she was in ah her first movie. was movie called The Burning that I've mentioned to you guys before. It's like a Friday the 13th type slasher thing. Yeah, totally remember. You know who else was in that movie?
00:24:14
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Jason Alexander. Oh, nice. There's my IMDb trivia for the week. There you That's a good one. Type that up. Yeah, seriously, put that in over the, well, they have a reference to CatDog there. Oh, my God. i was was looking at the IMDb trivia, and I was like, this is all what I hate.
00:24:30
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There was one that I had when we were watching, or when I was watching, and it's out of my brain now, but there was one i was like, I have an IMDb stupid fucking dumb fact. Like all of it was like, it was like Anthony Mackie was in Captain America and now he's in this playing of Herman. And that's what Joe Russo directed.
00:24:50
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I know my stupid IMDb. Woody Harrelson voices Mr. Peanut and always wanted a Twinkie when he was in fucking Zombieland. And the only thing these robots have to serve Chris Pratt is a Twinkie. IMDb.com.
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Oh, itt and you could connect that even more because, uh, Oh, what was it? Somebody did something. Yep. I don't remember now. Somebody was involved with Zombieland 2, but I don't remember who it was.
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Was it Russo? I don't know. I forget. That was days ago. I didn't look through the cast to see who voiced, and I knew that voice, and I was like, God, I know this voice. Why do I know this voice? There was three I got right away. Him, Brian Cox, and Jenny Slate.
00:25:37
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Yeah, Brian Cox is a baseball guy. Jenny Slate is the postal. yeah I think her name. yeah but Penny Pell. And i Anthony Mackie is Herman.
00:25:49
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Herm. Anthony Mackie was Falcon when the Russo brothers decided to. be a fcon Anthony Mackie also plays a mostly CG character in Marvel. I really did like Herm.
00:26:01
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Me too. they They have the moments that work, great but it's all just so like heavy handed. It's like Chris Pratt has his companion robot. And so you know something's gonna happen to the companion robot.
00:26:13
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but he he said that line that he's got a body for each size. actually didn't hate Chris Pratt in this. We talked about before, a little bit of fatigue. This is the kind of role that I think he's good at. Yeah. Because he's not all over the movie.
00:26:25
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No. And he's back to being, he's kind of like Andy from, is it Andy from Parks and Rec? He's kind of back to the big tummy. They probably CG'd the little tummy up.
00:26:36
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I was wondering about that. He's like, I'm not eating those donuts. He's pushing it You know how much work I did? Let's go back to that Disney workout. I mean, you got a photo here.
00:26:47
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He doesn't really have a really have much pouch punch going on there. Not at all. But when he's laying down in the bed, like pushing it out. Yeah. and he's He's killing that mustache, though.
00:26:59
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He is. I'm digging the mustache. And ah when the doctor comes on, what's his name? ah Data. Amherst. Amherst. I was like, why does he still sound like data?
00:27:12
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That's just his voice. that's what he like. Like still sounds like the child. Yeah. oh that was one of the stupid pieces of trivia. um God, shut some point it was like, it was like, oh and in one scene a robot rips the heart out of another robot.
00:27:26
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ah That happens in Temple of Doom. Ki Hoi Kwan played Short Round in Temple of Doom. I was like, this isn't trivia. Stop with this. There was a blue sky in this movie, like an actual sky that's blue.
00:27:38
Speaker
And the movie Lord of the Rings, there are sometimes skies that are also blue. There was a trivia fact about Blue Sky. it was like, it might be a reference to Blue Sky Studios, which made a movie, which is a defunct animation studio that made a movie called Robots, which also starred Stanley Tucci.
00:27:56
Speaker
i i need to go back onto that I need to make sure I go back onto the IMDB trivia for this and just thumbs down everything. Yeah, was this helpful? No. Not helpful. Not helpful. so and i wouldnt Zoe and I watched Robots a lot when she was like five.
00:28:10
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Well, speaking of Robots and Stacey Tucci. don't think it's the same Robots, is it? It's an animated series. Yeah, animated. No, wasn't a series. It's an animated show. Oh, okay. Robin Williams. You're having a baby, but yeah, it's Robin Williams. I don't never saw it.
00:28:23
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But speaking of robots, we meet Stanley Tucci playing Ethan Skate during this ah montage. Stanley Tucci we love. We saw him in Transformers, Dino Wars, or whatever the fuck. He was in a couple because he he came back and played Merlin. Yep.
00:28:40
Speaker
Yeah, that was the one I was thinking of. That was when we saw him. Oh, but i know there's also the one where he's really... He's got the Asian female assistant. Oh, no. A Knight's Tale. um hes But he's in one as, like, kind of this character.
00:28:53
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Like, as a tech mogul. yeah Remember, he's the one... His company builds the Transformer, like, vending machines. and Like, they're building Transformers. They build that CG pixel bot that ends up being Megatron's brain.
00:29:08
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Okay. I don't remember. Those movies are... This movie will stick around better than those. Yeah? Even though it's already going away. We better hurry up, man. It's on its way out.
00:29:21
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And I do like in this montage, they talk about like the robot rights movement because they built robots to do all the work, as always in these type of stories. The robots got tired of doing the all the work.
00:29:32
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They rebelled and they were trying to just like be treated as as if they were alive because they are artificial intelligence. It's topic for a whole other time. I like when when it's all kind of and finishing.
00:29:46
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We got Mr. Peanut, Woody Harrelson, and it's like Mr. Peanut signed a peace accord with President Clinton. And I was like, that's the funniest sentence I've ever heard. Yes. I love it. I love that Clinton was in it.
00:29:59
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And that was such a bad deep fake. I've seen better deep fakes on Facebook. Can you have sex with these robots? I'm going to find out. Hillary, grab my lube. Just kidding. They don't need none.
00:30:12
Speaker
Look at that. Look at that cigar bot. Hey, Monica, come over here. I got something for you. Is that a dress bot? I like it. Yeah, it's it's great because they they kind of introduce like and the leader of all these robots and they hard fucking was that pan up.
00:30:27
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00:31:29
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We do see Chris Pratt in the montage. He was a soldier during these wars. And then Stanley Tucci invented this neurocaster thing that does something with your splits your brain in half.
00:31:41
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Yeah. yeah sounds Sounds super safe. Yeah. and And so people could control robots. They could control drones to fight the robots. So we won. um And when we won the wars, Kid Rock threw a party. Dude, I laughed so fucking loud. did I. Because I'm like, man, they they picked the right name to go with because you know that guy had fucking party.
00:32:03
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He's like, get rid of everything robotic. He got rid of his motorcycle and he got a bicycle. The only problem is this would have been somewhere between 1990 and 1994. Kid Rock was just doing like rap in Detroit. No, he wasn't doing that yet. No, yeah, he hadn't bought the Bob yet. He was rapping with the insane, or sorry, the inner city posse before they were the insane clown posse. Look at this fucking dropping of knowledge.
00:32:30
Speaker
My God. I should be impressed, but I'm ashamed. I'm married to him. He's all mine. And she's impressed. so They did a song with him as Inner City Posse, and then he was on a remix of Is That You from Carnival of Carnage.
00:32:46
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That's what he was doing in the early 90s. The things being said. The news would not have been talking about him is all I'm saying. Yeah. Well, this a different universe. yeah Yeah. Cell phones didn't exist. Kid Rock blew up faster somehow.
00:33:01
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I don't understand. People didn't start liking Kid Rock until they got dumber from cell phones. There it is. and Once we started leaning into the more idiocracy, it's like, that Kid Rock's not too bad or too bad. It's because they split their brains in a half so they were all big Kid Rock fans.
00:33:16
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You know who's got a good track? Is that Kid Rock? His name is Kid Rock. Kid Rock.
00:33:24
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um yeah then we cut forward to 1994. Millie Bobby Brown is living in a foster home with her foster dad Jason Alexander. oh yeah. Kind of in this movie.
00:33:35
Speaker
I mean he's living living in this fucking machine. Yeah I mean he's sleeping with it on I was like that that's how you get lawnmower man. Yeah. ah He'd love to be a lawnmower man.
00:33:47
Speaker
That's how you get virtuosity. Because he had like fucking suction cup shits on his eyes when we see him. I mean, Derek and I have the, we have the Oculus. And if you wear that for longer than an hour, you have the rings. You'll have little red marks, but they'll go away. These were like, almost like cuts in his face. These are calluses.
00:34:06
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a Face calluses, which is not something I should have said. I do like when she storms out from him, she goes to school and like the class, they all have to put on their, their caster things.
00:34:18
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And she's just looking at the book and the, the girl sitting next to her played by one of the Russo's daughters. Uh, gotta get that insurance. Get them teeth. It's like, uh, you have to use your caster.
00:34:29
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And she's like, oh, sorry, I have a condition where I can only live in reality. I know. I loved it. i was like, get a girl. That's what I think. I mean, she's putting emphasis on words and performing.
00:34:40
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its Yeah, she does a good job. I mean, you could also say that the other people are also doing good jobs because they are basically drones at this point. Yes. They don't know how to enter they don't know how to interact yeah with humans. Human. Welcome to human Pennsylvania, where we are all human.
00:34:59
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assure you. Not sure one of us is a pod person. So she gets sent to the principal, who's ah Miss Sablinski, who was, I don't know what her name was, played by someone named Maren Hinkle. She was on Two and a Half Men, Whitney told me. Oh, yeah. Hinkle's Einhorn. Einhorn is Hinkle.
00:35:16
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She plays the kid's mom, Ducky's ex-wife. Oh, okay. I know what you're talking about. ah John Cryer's ex-wife from Two and a Half Men.
00:35:27
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Yeah. That's fine. Jack doesn't need to get it, it's We also learned that her entire family died in an accident. ah Because I was like, oh, we're going to find out they died in the war or something. It's like, no, they died ah a deer crashing into a deer.
00:35:41
Speaker
A female deer. Oh, I'm so sorry. female deer. So is the deer. Yeah, I like that line. And just, it's great because she's been in trouble before. She's like, just turn the page. Not goingnna explain myself. Just turn the page and you'll It's all there.
00:35:55
Speaker
And with the needle drops in this movie, I'm surprised they didn't start playing Metallica right there. Yeah, because it's pretty on the nose most of the time. Yeah, ah that's where $180 million dollars of this fucking $320 million budget went.
00:36:08
Speaker
Yeah, you want Journey in your fucking movie? You're going to pay. Mostly horrible needle drops, too. I mean, some of them are songs I enjoy, but let's just like it feels so out of place. um there's the the end of the movie is like an uh orchestral cover of wonder wall and i didn't hate that because you didn't have to hear whatever whichever gallagher that was saying no liam doesn't matter one one of those shithead brothers they both they both suck
00:36:40
Speaker
Oh, I'm not singing for your movie. Oh, I don't want to sing any songs in your movie. You can have the rights to it though. You can go ahead and do it yourself on the string violin, get a cello, say cello to my little friend.
00:36:51
Speaker
It's my bank account. love that you're doing a Beatles because Liam said they were bigger than the Beatles. Bigger than the Beatles. Bigger than Jesus. Bigger than breast implants.
00:37:02
Speaker
think you can go ahead and just AI it. Just AI a a i our song on a piano. I could play a real robot if you want. to Look at this. Beep boop, mop meep. Put me in the movie. Eep, op, orc, ah ah. Perfect.
00:37:16
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There's a little ET moment because Billy billy meie Bobby Brown hears some ruckus outside. It's a robot. It's the whole dark outside thing with the flashlight. Very much the Elliot going to the shed kind of scene.
00:37:31
Speaker
And we're introduced to Cosmo, who is voiced by Alan Tudyk. Fuck yeah. That's awesome. I didn't recognize that. I had to go through for that one because Alan Tudyk is a voice guy.
00:37:42
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say, he's an actual voice actor. And one of the things I read was a lot of the AI use in this was on voice modulation, but he's also a voice actor. They probably just used that to make it sound like TV clips from a little cartoon. Yeah.
00:37:58
Speaker
Yeah. Because he's much like ah ah Bumblebee or whichever one it is. Yeah, because he's clips from just his show. but a lot of A lot of these guys have the very specific, like the baseball guy is almost always making baseball references. yeah The post office lady can say anything.
00:38:15
Speaker
They can all say anything they want just those in those terms. He can only talk in clips from the show. Spoilers for this movie, but somebody helped him get in this body.
00:38:26
Speaker
They would have picked something very unrecognizable, something not high tech. Well, and I mean, that works i don't we don't have to... They tell us right now. We don't have to like hide it. Also, if you wanted to watch it, you could have watched it.
00:38:39
Speaker
Could have, unless you don't have Netflix. The robot has her brother's brain inside of it. Just his neurons. Just his consciousness. I wonder if he can't talk because it's not...
00:38:52
Speaker
like these other ones are robots with intelligence and he's just connecting to this robot so he can only use the clips that are built in or something yeah that makes sense that makes you did more work than this movie did i just kind of took it as he was a just real lo-fi bot yeah because he says that way he didn't get noticed like here he's talking about he's trying to tell her about uh this company's
00:39:16
Speaker
Center? Center, thank you. And it's spelled like century. And when their logo is on a glass door and it starts to open, a swastika does look like it appears. Yes, sir, it does. Like there's somebody who's standing right in the middle is like, that doesn't look good.
00:39:32
Speaker
ah But he's like, when he's talking about Stanley Tucci and stuff, he's like, we have to defeat the rock monster. And I was like, ah all I could think was rock lobster. so We got to go fight the rock monster. It wasn't a rock.
00:39:44
Speaker
To the moon, Jesse. ah So Jason Alexander commits some domestic abuse against his foster daughter, and calls the cops. but After he pushes her, he calls the cops because she has a robot, which is illegal. Yep.
00:39:59
Speaker
And then he's got a bunch of contraband, I'm assuming. Yeah. Yeah. Because she says it's all stuff from the exclusion zone, which we just start calling the X. Yep. We don't have enough time for all those syllables. it's already two hour, eight minute.
00:40:13
Speaker
i People are so dumb now they don't know how to speak. Why say many words? Few do trick. Exactly. This is like idiocracy, but less funny. but Yeah, a lot less funny.
00:40:23
Speaker
Go away, I'm baiting. No Terry Crews. You know what they're missing? Patrick Warburton. Oh, yeah. Hey, go away. I'm baiting. yeah To the moon.
00:40:35
Speaker
We've got to fight that rock monster. She tases him and he's like, put on your jet pack. Time to zoom. And they get the fuck out of there, steal the car, which is a great way to say we got to get out of here. and Just in general. If I remember it, I might just start saying it like we're at the bar and it's like, hey, guys, we got we're going to another bar. It's almost last call. Put on your jet packs. We got a zoom.
00:40:55
Speaker
Oh, shit. That movie's about to start. Put on your jet packs. We got a zoom.
00:41:00
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So yeah, she figures out through a game of charades, so much like Tammy and the T-Rex, that her brother is at- Two words. You put that picture down. Sounds lie. Yeah, the little robot starts eating a rose, and it's weird. She finds out her brother is at center, and she has to go to Tabletop Mountain, which is in the exclusion zone, to find a doctor with glasses. It's in Arizona, guys.
00:41:26
Speaker
Why couldn't they have put the fucking brain in Tammy, the T-Rex, the titular T-Rex? A whole different movie. Yeah, instead of running around with little stupid robot that's not even powerful like the other ones. It's a little stronger than a person. I when he's doing the slingshot with the baseball, it's like, meh.
00:41:41
Speaker
A little limp there, buddy. and Just a little flaccid, sir. The doctor is Ki Hoi Kwan, playing Dr. Amherst. Welcome back. Who does a good job with the...
00:41:55
Speaker
three and a half minutes he's in the movie? Yeah. Yeah, pretty bummed, because we we get him in a flashback pretty early so we know he's gonna be in this. I didn't realize how long he wasn't gonna be in this. But we still have his voice because he is the computer. Yeah, he is the voice of PC, the computer man. i read it Computer man.
00:42:15
Speaker
I read that this was supposed to be ah Michelle Yao. But she had to drop out because she was doing something else. I'm not mad. They basically like, because the Russo's company, Agbo or whatever, that produced this movie, they were also producers on...
00:42:31
Speaker
Everything everywhere all at once. So I imagine they were just like, all right, well, we'll just get another person from that movie. And if we can't get him, we'll get Jamie Lee Curtis. We'll keep fucking going here, pal. ah you know what? We'll just get James Hong.
00:42:45
Speaker
Oh, fuck yeah. You should always try and get James Hong. Is that snot? ah Yes. I hate that that's how always how you do it. know. It took me a second, too. It's like, oh, boogers master in the second or third one.
00:42:59
Speaker
think it's the second. Yeah. ah But we find out in flashback that he had told her that Christopher died. So we're like, ooh, something nefarious is afoot.
00:43:10
Speaker
Ooh. i Dude, at this point I was like- Also, he has glasses. At this point I was like, okay, so Stanley Tucci took the kid and is using him to run the network. Got it. And I'm like, how long is left? Oh, two hours and four minutes? I also- At the very beginning, as soon as the rob robot's like, she's yelling at the robot, i was like, oh, that's totally her brother. Like, when he's like sneaking through the backyard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Same instantly. Like there wasn't anything here, including the flip at the end from a certain character. None of that was like, yep. Saw that coming as soon as he mentioned a code of standards.
00:43:48
Speaker
Yeah. And his line fell like a wet noodle. Oh, God. I. You talk about Giancarlo Esposito, and I think for which normally seventy five, 75% of this movie, I think he does good. He's menacing.
00:44:01
Speaker
Yeah, good. He does. That create third act is. Bad. like his Maybe it's because he's not here. His character's turn is bad. Sitting in front of a camera. That's the thing. They got all these big names. None of them had to stand up except for Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown and Ki-Hui Kwan for about five minutes yeah for one day of shooting.
00:44:20
Speaker
Everybody else is either sitting in a booth or sitting at a desk. Tucci, yeah, he walks around a little bit. Just to get to another place to sit. yeah Trust me, I get it. That's my energy. Hey, I mean, good for me to go for a walk to the couch.
00:44:34
Speaker
They're all doing the ah Ving Rhames in Mission Impossible. you know They're like, I'll be in your movie, but I'm not standing up. Yeah, because I don't want to.
00:44:42
Speaker
ah So then we're reintroduced to Chris Pratt playing Keats. He shows up as a trucker with the first needle drop that kind of doesn't make any sense. ah Mother.
00:44:53
Speaker
Yeah. Tell your children not to walk my way. Should have been like, life is a highway. Yeah. I mean, it's just, I get it. No, it makes sense. Like, pay attention to me. The vibe of the music matches him. But the song is just weird.
00:45:06
Speaker
It's... i I didn't hate it. i I thought it worked. it's better than Bad to the Bone. Yeah. Like, he's doing... don't know, man. That kind of... It's a little more on the nose for this character. Oh, it's way on the nose.
00:45:21
Speaker
Here's how you improve it. You start with him pulling up with Barbie Girl. But as soon as he gets in with people seeing him, he flips it to... Bad to the Bone. We heard you playing Barbie Girl.
00:45:34
Speaker
Now we're just doing, speaking of Terry Crews, now we're just doing white girls or white chicks or whatever it's called. He's got Alanis Morissette just banging Jagged Little Pill out. Ooh. What a dangin' album.
00:45:47
Speaker
But yeah, they're they're there looking for who owns the P.O. o box all the contraband was coming from. It's him. They're very excited. We get Colin Domingo in the movie for four seconds. Well, Colin Domingo's face in the movie for four seconds. He was in Sing Sing.
00:46:00
Speaker
Yeah, he was in Sing Sing when we went and saw that the movie. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in a bunch of shit. Fear the Walking Dead is is my was my introduction to him. And he was actually rumored.
00:46:11
Speaker
you shouldn't. He was rumored to replace, ah was it Jonathan Majors as Kang, but never came to fruition. Yeah, I mean, he does stuff like Selma and Sing Sing. I don't umt know that he's going to do.
00:46:24
Speaker
i mean, he he would exist he would have killed it. Yeah. yeah I mean, he's never beat his girlfriend. so I mean, you do this movie. like you do if he not this Not this movie.
00:46:35
Speaker
You do a Kang fucking movie or two or three, and now you have the money that you'll need to just do all the independent projects and plays you've ever wanted to. Yeah, I guess that's fair. I love saying only problem is like a lot of people don't want to sign up for Marvel movies anymore like big actors because it's like, okay, sure. I'll do your movie and then I have to do appearances and movies for the next 10 to 12 years. Caveat to that. Usually not with the villains.
00:47:01
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's fair. But he is the big, big bad. So he'd have. Right. Of course, he could film all his cameos in one day like Stanley. And I guess I mean, like Thanos is done. You know what i mean? We're never going to have to have a cameo with Thanos. And if you do, you can just CG a big fucking wrinkled thumb after it gets of the bathtub.
00:47:17
Speaker
Put some googly eyes on that shit, dude. i'm Fine, I guess I'll do it myself. You got talking Jujubee?
00:47:27
Speaker
Somebody left that Jujubee in the sun too long. but Are there villains at Disneyland? Probably. Yeah, I'd have to think so, especially when they got their own movies.
00:47:38
Speaker
I mean, I know the Star Wars. For sure, Kylo Ren be walking around. But like Maleficent has her own movie. Who's the other 101 Dalmatians chick? Cruella de Vil has her own movie.
00:47:49
Speaker
I've definitely seen people take pictures with Mickey. Yeah. Talk about a villain. Oh my God, I wish we would've gotten a Mickey bot. That's it, I'm gonna rip your fucking heart out and shove it up your ass!
00:48:00
Speaker
We have that big cat. It kind of reminds me of the cat from... um
00:48:07
Speaker
Felix. Yes. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I do want to mention that he's he's selling him this gun, this 1873 Colt Peacemaker. I only want to mention it because he found it. He had to go all the way to Tucson for it.
00:48:18
Speaker
Woo! Arizona. Arizona rules. Did he go to your house? yeah No, I wouldn't let this little puppy out of my hand. If i'm if I have to get out of the X zone, I'm taking this with me. yeah My cat and my pistol. That's it.
00:48:32
Speaker
But like Coleman Domingo tries to rob him because he's like, does the gun loaded? Yeah. Okay. Well, then i'm not paying you. Click. Stupid move. i thought it was going to be like, oh, I actually didn't put the shells in. i was just testing your character, you dumb dick.
00:48:46
Speaker
No, we got to introduce our our other robotics. I'm shocked. I'm shocked by your behavior. I'm shocked. look at and Look at me. Shocked.
00:48:59
Speaker
And it's Herman played by Anthony Mackie. ah Kind of Very, very distorted voice, but yeah. I liked him. He's doing a high pitch voice too. Yeah. I feel like else could Oh, think just talking and it's all modulation.
00:49:12
Speaker
Well, you did say the AI thing, so you're probably right. Yeah. Yeah, put somebody else there, dude. Give me fucking like, ah oh, you're shocked that I had to help you out again. Who do you think did the lifting?
00:49:24
Speaker
Don't tell me again about having to lift. You don't know. wore this uncomfortable hunk of battery up my ass for eight years, and I'll be damned if Mr. Peanut's going to get his hands on it. i wore this uncomfortable me up my ass.
00:49:40
Speaker
ah That's true.
00:49:43
Speaker
It's like the human centipede in here, except no humans just peed. Ooh, I peed a little. I'm a robot nesting doll. Yes, he is.
00:49:55
Speaker
Made China. I loved it. ah So Michelle and Cosmo stow away in the truck, get to the secret hideout. um There's like a really long scene. It was kind of funny. About the food. But it just went on really long. Yeah, about like, because he unplugs the refrigerator to charge his batteries and there's a whole argument.
00:50:13
Speaker
And at first I was laughing, but then I was like, you know, this movie could have been one hour and 59 minutes. I like some of the nostalgia dumps because he's like, there's food right there. And he's like, well, no, that's merchandise. Get the lunchbox. Like that is a 1984 G.I. Joe lunchbox. All those were kind of fun.
00:50:28
Speaker
all those were kind of fun That was funny because he's like, no, the lunchbox is to put lunch in. It doesn't come with life lunch. He doesn't have lunch. I'm not eating a fucking He-Man Abba Zabba.
00:50:42
Speaker
But then Cosmos. Abba Zabba, you're my only friend. Cosmos sneaking around triggers this Billy of the Big Mouth bass to start singing. So they find out they're there. But they don't have time to argue too long because Giancarlo Esposito shows up.
00:50:57
Speaker
ah I love that it's got a little ranger star on his on his fucking, what are these things called? Sleeves? ah Drones. Same thing. but in the in the credits, he's credited as commander whatever he was slash the marshal, hence the badge.
00:51:12
Speaker
ah But no one ever says marshal. Everybody calls him the butcher of Schenectady. So he should have been credited as the butcher. Yeah. But hey, whatever. There was probably what they had to get it under two and a half hours to like, dude, we can't have a backstory of him.
00:51:26
Speaker
Just fucking why he's so anti robot and just trying to hunt them down. Motherfucker has like heads of robots above him. Yeah. Well, i mean, we get his vibe already, right? He was in the war. that We saw him during the opening montage.
00:51:39
Speaker
He's on the cover of Time magazine. The hero. all that stuff. He can't quit, man. He's like General Patton. But like he'll die without war. chris pratt is like okay we're gonna pretend you're my mute sister so you don't fuck this up whatever but jancarlo has proceeded to immediately is like michelle green hello and he's like uh she's like she says something she's like there's no robot here and he's like you can talk oh let's stick into your story dude he starts listing all of the things that she has now that she's now being arrested for
00:52:11
Speaker
and Chris Pratt's like Jesus fucking Christ yeah because it gets down to like was that Grand Theft Auto I heard theft government theft government property or something but but like in there it's like truancy and I'm like you could drop that one right that you're gonna stick with that one that's how they actually get her much like Al Capone not paying his taxes she gets off on everything except for we got it for truancy man But we get it again. Chris Pratt like, I'm stunned you would say i I'm harboring robots. In fact, I'm shocked.
00:52:40
Speaker
But Giancarlo Esposito is not stupid. Yeah, that he that real fucking quick. He Chris Pratt right in front of him. And this gun that he has is pretty cool, even though we don't really see it get used beyond this.
00:52:52
Speaker
He shoots it down the aisle toward Herman. Oh, he uses it lot. But we don't see this. It like pulls all the shelves in towards it. It does do. This little grav bomb we don't see.
00:53:02
Speaker
Yeah. That's pretty cool. Every time he drops it, it focuses on it. And then I'm like, why is nobody picking up this fucking gun? It's coded to his exact fucking a robot finger.
00:53:14
Speaker
i so I saw that. Like, it would power down. And then as soon as you pick it up, it would power back You still pick it up and get it away from him. Yeah, kick it across the room.
00:53:24
Speaker
but like they They try to escape. They get into this mine cart thing, get it started. And of course, you know what's going to happen because as they're escaping... That was Hitler's favorite way to travel, mine cart.
00:53:35
Speaker
Chris Pratt flips them off as they're going and I'm like, well, you're stuck, you're fucked now. It's the slowest fucking cart. I know, what do you think you were gonna get away? Like, ah we're gonna get away from you slower than we could walk. This fucking droid just running. She's like, should we just run at this point?
00:53:52
Speaker
Why do you have so many keys? It was picking up steam. why is But he's like, I'm a very important man. Why does he have so many fucking keys? To unlock a lot of stuff.
00:54:03
Speaker
He's got all his shit his secret shit locked up. He's got drop boxes and stuff. Oh, yeah. But like I feel like this is a missed opportunity for an action scene. It's like we almost had a fight, and then Chris Pratt talked to him, and then we almost had a mine cart chase, and then we get blasted off the thing. It's like, you spent all this money. Give us some action scenes.
00:54:20
Speaker
Yeah, we end with Milly Billy Bobby Brown going and fucking tractoring him into the wall. yeah that's That's the action of that instead of anything else. Not trying to say make it longer, but make it that instead.
00:54:33
Speaker
We'll replace some of the endless exposition with action in your action movie. It's a movie about a war between robots and humans. You can't CGI me some action?
00:54:45
Speaker
The most action we got was in the exposition of three minutes of the war. Yeah. and then And then the last last act. yeah But even then it cuts away all the time to Stanley Tucci sitting, Millie Bobby Brown crying. You know what's to be riveting in this action scene?
00:54:59
Speaker
A fucking close-up of the Tucci wearing a helmet. Do it. Yeah. So they get in there. They get into the exclusion zone, but the cave collapses. It's another trap there.
00:55:10
Speaker
There's no possible way out, even though they'll be out in about 20 minutes. It's impossible. Which really bothered me. like We'll get there in a minute. We'll talk about it. But they do I do like...
00:55:21
Speaker
So this Herman Anthony Mackie's robot is like a construction droid or drone. Not droid. This isn't Star Wars. Damn right he's not. he's got different size suits that he can like.
00:55:33
Speaker
So it's like the gigantic one we see at the end that's like for probably putting up big steel bars or whatever. And the smaller one that's for doing like. no And then this version that we see most of the time, the normal size one.
00:55:45
Speaker
And then we find out at the end and there's another one. It's kind of Let me say your 8 inches. Yeah, I like it yeah I've never seen your 8-inch model, and I'm being generous on the 8.
00:55:56
Speaker
It's a cool idea. Yeah, I like it. now that's and That's what I was getting at earlier. like Not the actual showing of the droids, but the the thought behind them is pretty fucking cool. And you you can feel the the Marvel style writing, like the post-Joss Whedon Marvel style writing. Because like this next thing, when Chris Pratt's like, what, you think that Herm is just going to put all of us in that broken down Volkswagen Beetle, put us on his shoulder and walk down the street? That's insane.
00:56:21
Speaker
Or bus, Volkswagen bus. And then cut to... that exact thing happening yeah that was funny like almost 20 years ago yeah it's not now um we do get a little bit of background about them like basically herm saved him during the war because he felt bad for him for you almost getting executed and then chris pat pratt tried to save herm and then the soldiers tried to kill him and so they escaped together and now they've been on the run Now they're more than just friends.
00:56:52
Speaker
Secret lovers. you If you like robo-coladas. If you like robots and anal.
00:57:02
Speaker
I don't know which one's the top. um We have a couple of CW actors show up here as Tucha's assistants.
00:57:13
Speaker
Oh, yeah. The one guy from your your zombie girl show. ah Oh, he was the doctor from iZombie. And then the other guy, Michael Trucco, was in like Fire Country and Good Doctor and a bunch of that yeah stuff.
00:57:29
Speaker
He's someone I recognized, and I was like, well, I haven't seen any of these things. I guess I did watch some Good Doctor. I do recognize him, but not from the things you just said. I'll have to go through when I feel like it and just fucking... He plays a douche. He was in Next with Nick Cage, but that's one I haven't watched for my marathon yet. I do know that. He's Jessica Biel's boyfriend, I believe. and Okay. And he gets a punch in the face.
00:57:49
Speaker
Yeah, he always plays a douche. Yeah. I this don't know if he's playing. Right here, we find out that like the data transfer rate of the network is going down because Christopher's gone.
00:58:01
Speaker
But then in an hour and a half, they act like it's a big reveal that the network is run through Christopher's brain. hmm. I'm like, yeah, because hold us at the beginning of the movie. That was ah his math was there. Now he's not there to math for them. Yeah. But I mean, with people with only half of our brain.
00:58:18
Speaker
Yeah. That's the thing. They're treating the audience fucking stupid. Yeah. Because it's like. yeah we explained it here, but we didn't really spell it out. So we'll come back later and spell out exactly what's happening.
00:58:30
Speaker
Like how making fun of these people for being all plugged in. But here we are in my fucking room, yelling into a light. Go out and fucking make some friends.
00:58:42
Speaker
Do what i do. Live life, man. We were with you last night. I know, I know. We were definitely ah mixing particles.
00:58:52
Speaker
And now, like ah much like an STD, we are together forever. I did get a small laugh out of their thing about, like, it's like, we'll be screwed three ways from Sunday or whatever. And the guy's like, well, Saturday. Friday. My company's going to be gone Saturday. Okay, Friday. And the guy's like, it could Saturday. could be Saturday.
00:59:13
Speaker
It's fun little back and forth. I like me a Weasley little, I don't say henchman, but I'm going to say it. Yeah, that's what they are. They know what's going on. They're science henchmen. Anybody who works for this company that knows what's going on is evil.
00:59:24
Speaker
Yes. There you go. yeah yeah And that's why Data left. Wasn't Stanley Tucci a bad guy in them Hunger Games movies, too? and No, he I don't think he was a bad guy. He was an announcer or a TV guy. Oh, OK. A personality.
00:59:39
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Yes. OK. He's a bad guy in Undercover Blues.
00:59:45
Speaker
We're going to watch it. There's a scene that has Giancarlo Esposito in person, which is pretty cool. Sitting at desk. Well, he gets summoned to talk to Stanley Tucci and the Internet, so he sits at a desk.
00:59:57
Speaker
But then in the little Internet room, it's actually Giancarlo Esposito standing there. And I do like he does a good little bit of acting, and I guarantee you this wasn't directed by Russos. Tucci is standing on the water.
01:00:09
Speaker
like on top of water like Jesus and Giancarlo Esposito like steps into the edge of the water and realizes he stays on top too but before he walks out he's like slowly putting his foot out and testing Because you wouldn't put it past this guy to like no I'm God I walk on water you stay in the land.
01:00:24
Speaker
Fuck off. That's exactly what from that. I was waiting for Tooch to log out and then he just plummets into the water. That would've been great. That would've been fucking tremendous comedy. I was waiting for their hands not to actually meet up.
01:00:36
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yeah
01:00:38
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Basically, the thing here is Tucci's like, hey, I know you're trying to capture this Cosmo robot for the government because it's a robot. But actually, if you capture it and bring it to me, ah something, something, I don't even know what he offers them. Money, power,
01:00:52
Speaker
You can just let me take care of it. He'll probably give him some upgraded suit. Oh, he does tell him to help him get his droid back, and all he does is help him log in remotely and break out of the rocks. I'm like, get him a new one.
01:01:06
Speaker
That's exactly what I thought. yeah It's got a big old ding in its camera. So they they get out to this mall. I like that Chris Pratt was like, that's 300 miles away. We'll never get there. 20 minutes later, here we are because we have tall robot. so We're here. um but so This mall...
01:01:24
Speaker
is a real mall. It's one of the movie malls. It doesn't exist anymore. It was demolished in 2024. This movie was filmed in 2023 and then took two years to do special effects. Well, there's a lot of them to do.
01:01:36
Speaker
Yeah. A thousand different people trying to figure out what's going on. but You only have, what, ten working people? A thousand ten people, actually. lot of them are sitting down. I'm pretty sure they're all sitting down.
01:01:47
Speaker
Well, some of them have standing desks. Some of them have a stand desk. Yeah. But this is the same mall that they used in ah in Loki. I think probably in the post-apocalypse or the okay other world he goes to. Yeah, the nothing. Oh, in the series?
01:02:02
Speaker
Yeah, the nothing. Yeah. it's it's That's not what it's called, but... Something like that. Yeah. It was in Cobra Kai, the Fear Street series, Civil civil War. So, oh, this is what it was. then This mall was used in Zombieland, too. So there's your connection. Gotcha. Get into Twinkie.
01:02:19
Speaker
I knew there was a zombie. They should. and that's where the Twinkies are. see Yeah. Hey,
Trivia, Humor, and Robots Introduction
01:02:23
Speaker
fuck. It all connects. Dude, this trivia is going to get so many thumbs up. We are going places, dude.
01:02:31
Speaker
I'm just going to start submitting all the stupid shit we say as trivia and see how yeah popular it gets. I think you should. Start a bad movies, worse people, IMDB.
01:02:41
Speaker
ah We're introduced to- BMIMBD. I don't know I'm going call it BM. BM-IMDB. BM-IMDB. It's actually just like it it's like the weapons IMDB or the car IMDB, but it's only for toilets and star in ah movies. How are you doing today? Oh, man, I got the BMWP. I got bowel movements with pain.
01:03:05
Speaker
Now, we're introduced to a bunch of new robots at the mall. ah ah Perplexo is like a fortune-telling bot. Or something played by the the magician.
01:03:17
Speaker
Yeah. I always thought of it as ah i always. When we were watching it, I was thinking of ah the robot, the the toy from Big. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, I know the fucking name. Like the fortune the fortune teller. Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:32
Speaker
um But perplexed, though, voiced by Hank Azaria. So another actual voice actor. Hence anna welcome not greg welcome not recognizing his voice. Yes, and a welcome welcome back. back couple times.
01:03:44
Speaker
Godzilla. Godzilla. Godzilla. Oh, God. He was in something. Heat. Heat. Yes. Thank you. I was like, he was playing a fucking douchebag. Are you eating on a podcast? How unprofessional.
01:03:57
Speaker
Yeah, she is. i I ate mine before I got here. I was like. wow I put little pockets of it in my cheek. You just drop a little bit down every now and then. um We also have ah Joe Russo doing another cameo ah playing the skeevy bot he's credited as.
01:04:15
Speaker
o The one that's like, hey, you want some juice? Like, yeah. Oh, OK. We got ah Rob Gronkowski playing Blitz. Oh, shit. OK. I definitely recognize I didn't care to that.
01:04:29
Speaker
I just I saw it. I was like, that's a name I know because he went to the way. Yeah. That's all I got. He plays for somebody ah big, important football. I think tired again. Is he? Okay. Yeah.
01:04:41
Speaker
I did notice one of these robots is reading a West Coast Avengers.
Speculation on Russo Brothers and Marvel Movies
01:04:45
Speaker
oh That's cool. That's actually not. That comic usually sucked. But hey, it's cool it's there. Yeah. Oh, wait. Weren't the Russo brothers supposed to do a West Coast Avengers movie?
01:04:58
Speaker
Possibly. Maybe that's the reference. They're coming back to Marvel. There's way anybody could possibly care. I'll say it now. I was going to say at the end, but since ah we brought up them doing Marvel movies again, they're coming back to do these Avengers, whatever is coming up, secret infinity doomsday stuff.
01:05:14
Speaker
um Secret infinity doomsday. I don't know the names. awful They keep introducing new names. I'm like, which of these is an actual movie? What am I going to see? I'm going to see it.
01:05:25
Speaker
I'm treating Marvel like Star Wars now. Once I see a trailer. Yeah. But it I feel like because after seeing this and I never saw the gray man, but I heard nothing but bad things about it. It was fine. I mean, there was I had some cool scenes, but it wasn't great.
01:05:40
Speaker
I heard it was much less much like this. Just very empty of any kind of care. Very feeling. very Gray is the perfect fucking adjective. um I feel like they are perfect directors for Marvel movies.
01:05:56
Speaker
Yeah. Because the Marvel movie directors don't really direct, they are there to do technical stuff, but all the action is done beforehand by somebody else in a computer. So they're just there to do the talky scenes in between.
01:06:10
Speaker
which are so few talkie talkies yeah so because i think you were telling me like they give them the they give them previs and shit like that like this is already done you have to work around that yeah exactly um i did like the two robots in the background that was like uh like signs and one of them just said like human scum and the other one's like take it easy louise i like that that was fun i got a laugh out of me Somebody working in some visual effects studio was like, ha.
01:06:37
Speaker
I got a zinger for you Definitely. I like all the different, seeing all the different robots, you know, the the fucking barber stylist. Oh, the hair chair? hair Yeah, hair chair.
01:06:48
Speaker
I was like, okay, cool. So Chris Pratt's getting a haircut at some point. Yeah. Absolutely. Knew that was coming. I did like the one robot that when he tells her to fuck off and the one robot's like, he does need a haircut, though.
01:07:00
Speaker
See that fucking thing? Yeah. i can't poke fun at long hair uh but them being there basically like gives since humans are in the exclusion zone now they broke the treaty so something like that america can bomb the exclusion zone so all we had to do is have a human go into the exclusion zone and we could have wiped out the fucking robots yeah yeah that's what it doesn't make any sense because like then the military giancarlo esposito just sent a fucking dude in there Yeah. i think that's all you If that's what it takes, just fucking send send some fucking idiot working for you.
01:07:34
Speaker
Like, hey, do me a favor. Go to these coordinates. I understand if your robots went out or if you had humans coming in and like smuggling robots out or there was some kind of Right. The robots are staying in their area. Yeah. What the fuck does it matter? Anyway, I don't know.
01:07:47
Speaker
I'm sure the book is better. so on i Well, I don't know. It would have to be. ah But they find out that Dr. Amherst was there, but Mr. Peanut was like, well, he was a human, so I told him to fuck right off.
01:08:00
Speaker
I had to ask him to leave. he was boiling my nuts, I tell you. Now, can you do the Southern lawyer played by Woody Harrelson? oo i don't know if I got a good Woody.
01:08:15
Speaker
I don't know if i could do the Southern lawyer with Woody. I got to hear Woody first.
01:08:20
Speaker
Here, I'll help you get in the mood. Ready? Oh, well, I'm a bit surprised by that myself. No, I just just got Southern. Man, look at Chris Pratt back there. He looks great. He's he's got a little William Forsythe going.
01:08:36
Speaker
Fuck you, pig. That wig gets worse and worse, though. Like, it started out, and it was like... it's Where did she get a paintball gun? i' say Why did she get a paintball gun? She had it she shot out light on it. She shot a robot with it at some point, question mark. Yeah, she hits one of the sentries. yeah Oh, no, you cannot be shooting robots in the mole.
01:08:55
Speaker
But she has to stay behind, or she has to stay. She wants to leave to go find her brother. She's like, cool, you guys can't help me. Go fuck yourselves. But they're like you don't want you don't want to go out there after dark. I kind of want to see what happens out there after dark.
01:09:07
Speaker
We do, the scavengers. Yeah, kind of. I mean, we see what they're afraid of. yeah We were introduced to the scavengers earlier. They're robots that kill other robots and take all their parts. Yeah.
01:09:19
Speaker
She's like, what do they do to humans? He's like, it's I would not want to know. Toy Story. It's it's the it's Sid's room in Toy Story. Except for these are actually evil and those were just trying to make new friends.
01:09:30
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Yeah. Literally making new friends. Creating them.
Characters and Humorous Takes
01:09:37
Speaker
But yeah, we meet Penny Powell, played by Jenny Slate, who does a lot of voice acting. ah I mean, my introduction to her was Parks and Rec. She's fucking terrific in that. And if you go back and watch Drunk History, her episode about Coca-Cola,
01:09:50
Speaker
It's fucking great. She's like, man, they were putting like cocaine and like codeine and all this great shit in their soda. I was born in the wrong fucking era. Right? Same, man. Go to the fridge and crack off a cool one.
01:10:04
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That means something completely different today.
01:10:08
Speaker
and she plays She's in Bob's Burger. She plays Tammy, who's like the blonde girl. yeah She's in Big Mouth a whole bunch. She was she was in The Secret Life of Pets.
01:10:19
Speaker
She was the titular Marcel in Marcel the Shell with Shoes Oh, a terrific fucking movie. I mentioned that because I knew you liked it. I haven't seen it. I've never heard it. Oh, man, Whitney.
01:10:30
Speaker
We saw trailers for it, but that was more than five minutes ago, so she doesn't remember. Whitney's going to fucking have all the feels about it. Watch it and have all the feels. No. Yes. Make me. It's got Isabella Rossellini in it.
01:10:42
Speaker
Okay, you made me. All right. ah But there's the Penny Pal is a ah U.S. postal bot. Gives her a letter from Amherst.
01:10:52
Speaker
Oh, she's great. tells them can Keep it down because I'm not supposed to be helping you. And I'm already in trouble for helping you. Just even talking to you. I mean, I gave you this letter. I'm not supposed to give it to you. It's not like you didn't sign for it or anything. um Also, I know exactly where that's at. I can't take you, though, because that would be helping you.
01:11:10
Speaker
But I do know exactly where that's at. I wish they didn't do such a non-regional accent, you know? Give me like a little tomei. All right, keep it down, because I know right where this is, but I'm not supposed to help you, okay? sh sures you're yeah You're yelling, okay? I can hear you.
01:11:28
Speaker
And like the address that they give, 2201 Pinnacle Peak Road, I was like, that's a real road in Phoenix. So I Googled it. It's a we've driven right by wherever yeah this park is supposed to be. It's right between Lake Pleasant Brewing and Front Porch Brewing.
01:11:42
Speaker
Really knows how to set a landmark, doesn't he, folks? I'm just saying, yeah guys. Go check out Lake Pleasant Brewing. He knows his audience. He knows his audience. And then we meet Pop Fly. That's his name, played by Brian Cox.
01:11:55
Speaker
Brian Cox. Picture him for me. Super Troopers is probably the best for you. He's the yeah yeah the chief in Super Troopers. Oh, little shenanigans then, eh? I believe that with me. Shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet. There you go.
01:12:09
Speaker
Say shenanigans one more time. Were you pretending to cough or yawn while you shove cheese in your mouth? You know we can see you. ah Whistle, motherfucker.
Military Speeches and Voice Appreciation
01:12:21
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he also alright He also plays ah um Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter.
01:12:28
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Michael Mann's Manhunter. um like Michael Manhunter. they He's in a couple episodes of Frasier, too. He's on that show Succession. it's supposed to be pretty good, and but I never watched it. Oh, and he's in X2.
01:12:41
Speaker
X-Men United. yeah He's Colonel Stryker. Yeah. I would literally forgot we were talking about and then I came right back to it. All right. Yeah, with the the the Sentinels. More robots. Uh-huh.
01:12:54
Speaker
Put that in your IMDb. Well, like, oh, he has his... Oh, God. Let's write it down. He's got like a military like Patton style speech, but it's all like baseball euphemisms about about like fighting the scavs.
01:13:07
Speaker
But I do like his one. He's like, ah they want to eat you whole and poop you out raw. And I'm like, I don't know what that means. I don't like it. It's a line that stuck with me, though. Yes. And he finishes with tighten your butts and loosen your nuts.
01:13:20
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. He's pretty awesome. I'm only talking to the robots, by the way. Very clearly, I don't want the humans to do any of that. Like, you can tighten your butts by clenching. Don't loosen your nuts, because that makes it seem like you're going to start jizzing somewhere.
01:13:34
Speaker
And I like his... God, he's leaking. I like his voice performance because they let Brian Cox sound like Brian Cox. Yeah. Everybody else is super modulated, including Woody Harrelson, even though you can hear Woody Harrelson in there. You can barely. I only knew Anthony Mackie was playing Herm because I read that Anthony Mackie was playing. I wouldn't have picked that one out without the IMDb for sure.
01:13:53
Speaker
But this sounds like Brian Cox and Brian Cox has a fucking commanding voice and it's great. That makes this character awesome. um And if you if you're watching on video, you saw, ah and and I'll also post that video on our social medias, but you see his character shooting ah baseballs at a bunch of robots out of his mouth. It's pretty cool.
01:14:12
Speaker
I do like how he falls asleep, though, but during his speech. Is he going to do that in the middle of you know war? Because that seems... Oh, God! So off they go in the peanut mobile.
01:14:22
Speaker
Quick, to the peanut mobile! They get to this carnival thing. They get attacked by the scav robots. But what scares the scavs away?
01:14:33
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Good vibrations. Oh, so oh, oh. I did Chris Pratt's like, I'm not dying to Marky Mark. Like, oh, bro, I'll be a fucking great anthem for your battle. Stop beating robots.
01:14:43
Speaker
Just look, here's the thing, pretend they're all Asian. You gotta think of them as robots. Start beating them. Get that guy's baseball bat. but Do some real damage with that. I was laughing so hard. I was like, this is the most I've related to this movie. Is Chris Pratt screaming, I'm not dying to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
01:15:00
Speaker
For serious? And somebody's like, I kind of like it. Oh, bro, thanks for the compliment. It's a perfect movie to smash robots up to. Yeah. Also, what's that robot up to? Where were these robots made?
01:15:11
Speaker
Was it Asia? Was it made in China? I'm going to hit them until they're blind. Oh, no, that one's got no face. you already blind. Job done.
01:15:22
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But we find out that Christopher from Dr. Amherst, who we do meet here, ah we find out that Christopher is in Seattle at Center's Island Complex. I'm like, so you sent them from question mark town somewhere, California, probably.
01:15:36
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Well, I guess they would have had have been east. Probably. It's like the west is the exclusion zone, the southwest. So California is in there, too. But yeah, you sent them from from whatever town in the to Phoenix, Arizona, so they can go to Seattle.
01:15:52
Speaker
to rescue the robot or to rescue the kid. They were probably in New York. And they mentioned that- What a fucking trek. One of them mentions that Seattle is 1,230 miles away. I'm like, you went about 800 miles out of your way.
01:16:04
Speaker
From wherever you were, if you just went north instead of south, same direction, you could have just reached Seattle. Yep. Put that in know the fucking robot's head. He put the location in the the Cosmobot's head.
01:16:17
Speaker
But he thought he was going to be there. but he But he also did never want them to take the system down. Yeah, he was, you're right, he was just trying to send Cosmo to the robot mall to live with all the robots so that Christopher could have somewhere to to have a family. Have friends, have family. Yeah, you're right, all right.
01:16:37
Speaker
I guess it makes sense. Family. verbly This is where we find out again that they're using his brain to make the telecasters work.
01:16:47
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In case you didn't get it the first time, we're using the kid's brain.
Moral Dilemmas and Chaotic Battles
01:16:51
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It's like a calculator, but better. Yeah, he's so smart that they can run this entire network that plugs every human on Earth's head into his head. Into his head.
01:17:00
Speaker
I guess. ah But at some point he was comatose and at some point he woke up and that's when Ki Hoi Kwan was like, oh shit, what we're doing is wrong. Not when it was just a kid who was in a coma, but as soon as he became a real life boy again. I'm a real boy.
01:17:15
Speaker
Oh, I'm a real boy. And I'm going to whoop some robot ass. But the Tooch threatened to kill him if he disconnected Christopher and he kicked him out of there. ah But we don't have time to talk about this either.
01:17:27
Speaker
Oh wait, we did meet PC also, by the way, which has Kihoi Kwan's voice. I do like Why does he sound like you? Yeah, dude. Mr. Peanut's pissed. He's like, why the fuck did you make that robot sound like you? Uh, excuse me. Where was that fucking computer made?
01:17:39
Speaker
Gotta ask. Sounds a bit Asian to me. If it's got a face, I can punch it. That's a rule I've had. That says Toshiba, dude. What kind of fucking name is Macintosh? Sounds Scottish.
01:17:50
Speaker
Don't believe it is. We don't like the Scottish in Boston. You saying Fuji's more than just a fucking apple? ah Isn't that that water I like? Oh, that's Fiji.
01:18:01
Speaker
Oh, damn. Luckily, I can't spell. Fuji? Fiji? Who gives a shit?
01:18:06
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ah But we don't have time to talk too long because Esposito Bot is at the door. Ding dong. breaks in and has a a fight with Mr. Peanut. Sorry. It's a weird thing. Giancarlo Esposito fights Mr. Peanut in this movie. Yep.
01:18:19
Speaker
And it's a weird thing because Mr. Peanut is is holding his own. He's got a sword cane. Well, his cane. Yes, he has a cane, a sword in his cane. I'm like, who gave this robot a sword?
01:18:31
Speaker
He did. He's like, hey, I can think of myself, and I think I need a cane with a knife in it. Now, my thing that I think Jack needs in his life is a Brandy walking cane.
01:18:47
Speaker
Yeah, she told me about this. And I was like, I invented one of those in high school. And she's like, no, they've been around for like the 1800s. My life has no meaning. yeah But also sword. Over here drinking out a hollow leg for no good reason.
01:18:59
Speaker
She mentioned that to me too and I was like, but why would he need a cane full of little tiny flasks? You use the cane at home, you just go get the bottle of whiskey and drink it. mean Eventually my foot's going to get bad enough that I'll have it out and about. It's inevitable.
01:19:13
Speaker
Oh, I've got to take my medicine. Give me one second, please. Oh, pardon me. I've been walking for quite a spell. My dogs are, in fact, ah barking. Let me see if I can just have a little nip of the cane. When you start drinking...
01:19:28
Speaker
whiskey out of a cane, you automatically get a southern accent. Oh, sorry. I'm born and raised in Tucson. But recently, I've been drinking brandy from a cane. oh Sorry, boibin. What a nice, sweet boibin.
01:19:42
Speaker
And so ever since I started drinking from the cane, i have had this accent. Or it could be a pirate accent. You'd be like, argh, I got a brandy in my cane. I've got a brandy in me cane, I do. I saw it that night. And your peg leg. With me one good eye. I'll peg you with me leg.
01:19:59
Speaker
That's why I carved it the way I did. See the head at the bottom? Ribbed for his pleasure. but So the bunch of the drones drop in here, literally, they have helicopter heads. They got Inspector Gadget heads.
01:20:13
Speaker
Yes, they do. Well, it's actually coming out their backpack. I know, but when they first drop in, I thought it was like Inspector Gadget heads. i'm like, oh, I couldn't be happier. Right? I could have been happier.
01:20:23
Speaker
This is where Penny Pal rips out one of these robots' hearts, much like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which also starred Ki Hoi Kwan. as sure I do like the explanation. Like, what the fuck does a postal service need that for, Dobermans?
01:20:36
Speaker
So real quick, a friend of mine's co-workers house just got raided. ah It's DEA SWAT and the postal SWAT service.
01:20:48
Speaker
ah Wrong house, by the way. it was the neighbor's house they were supposed get. that's because that's what they got the postal service for to make sure they didn't get the right house. Right? Well, no, it's for like fraud. Oh, it's one street over. on Whoops. it Oh, shit. This is where we've been delivering the packages to that address, too.
01:21:03
Speaker
They opened up, because she had cameras in her house, they opened up the door, threw in the flashbang. The dog right in the face just. Oh, poor little puppies.
01:21:13
Speaker
Lawsuits. Mm-hmm. We're getting a new robot dog. ACAB also includes the postal service, apparently.
01:21:25
Speaker
See, the Postal Service is just a government agency, dude. Sleeper cells. That's where they taught their robots to do the heart pull. We saw it. They're kind of fighting some of these drones. ah Some of the drones are heading to the mall. We don't see what happens. We see the aftermath, but we don't see what happens there. Yeah. Because that would be action.
01:21:42
Speaker
we don't We don't need any gunfire in this movie. ah Amherst and so Kihoi Kwan and Giancarlo Esposito have a standoff. And he's like, well, you're not allowed to kill living things. and You're going to have to kill me if you want to get to Cosmo.
01:21:56
Speaker
And so Stanley Tucci just comes in and fucking blasts this dude. And Kihoi Kwan is right out of the movie. Bang. You're dead. Just as fast as he was in. Yeah. Yep. Bummer. and And this is to cheese. It's like he was in violation of the treaty. And this when we see Giancarlo Esposito like, oh, shit. It was at this moment that I was like, oh, he's going to turn. Yeah. Like, maybe not fully, but we're at least going to get a neutral character now.
01:22:20
Speaker
So the drones zip off with Cosmo. ah We find out that they destroyed them all. Most of the robot. Excuse me. Most of the robots are dead. Yeah. They torch that except for the haircut bot. So so Chris Pratt gets a haircut.
01:22:33
Speaker
Leave her. Trust me, Chris Pratt's looking really shaggy. Leave her alive. And then I'm going to give you a mullet in Seattle at the base. As he goes to see Tucci, he's like, you know, what the fuck did you told me I was hunting a robot? I was actually hunting a little boy. That's fucked up.
01:22:50
Speaker
And we have to just thing that would be poignant in a better written movie where he's like, well, what's that old saying? And he points at himself and says, father, he points at Christopher and says, son, and he points at the VR headset and says the Holy Ghost.
01:23:02
Speaker
That line fell like another wet noodle. Yeah, it would be a pointed metaphor if anything had led up to it. Yeah. Right. The one I did like, though, is when Esponcito's giving him the biz, and he's like, how can I put this?
01:23:17
Speaker
I don't care. Yeah, because Esponcito says, you might not be right in the head. I don't care. don't care. I don't care. And he ends the conversation. Yeah, again, who cares?
01:23:28
Speaker
Yeah. um Chris Pratt gives a motivational speech to Millie Bobby Brown. So she comes back into the movie because she was out for 30 seconds being sad. Well, she lost her brother bot.
01:23:39
Speaker
and She just found out she had a brother bot. They figure out that if they remove Christopher from the system, all of Center will collapse, which is the third time we've heard this.
01:23:51
Speaker
like Because we're all dumb. Yeah, I mean, the first one was 45 minutes to an hour ago, so I had to repeat it. But then the last the second one was two and a half minutes ago. It's almost Friday. We got to get going. I mean, this this company is going to collapse on Friday, maybe Saturday.
01:24:07
Speaker
and Maybe, if you're lucky. don't know. I've been looking at the data. ah It's probably Friday. and like the We get the don't stop. You should have been one of those guys.
01:24:17
Speaker
We get a don't stop believing needle drop while they truck off to Seattle. And ela suddenly. I wanted one. it's Sorry. I wanted another needle drop just because of Nicolas Cage and gone in 60 seconds.
01:24:32
Speaker
Let's roll. Lowrider. Donnie. Lowrider. Lowrider. Donnie. Donnie. Well, and it's not. Taco lowrider. It's not traveling music. like Yeah. like Like mother isn't the music to introduce Chris Pratt. I love it. Don't Stop Believin' travel I'm with Whitney on that though.
01:24:49
Speaker
I'm with Whitney on that though. Like it's just like, I'm a bad guy. Get keep your kids away from me kind of thing. This is a fail all around on this one. I mean, I guess because it's got- I mean, don't stop believing that we're gonna get this done.
01:25:02
Speaker
I guess because the video of it has people on a train. because i guess she's she in fact the small town girl from a lonely world? Oh, it's because she's from South Detroit. There you go. Melissa's going to love it. That's why we were talking about Kid Rock.
01:25:17
Speaker
That's why they knew who Kid Rock was. Saying, dude, we're doing some work that they might not have done. Golf clap, boys. Let me get my Pepe and Sylvia board out out about this and start connecting why red yarn. Okay, Charlie.
01:25:32
Speaker
But yeah, suddenly we're 1,200 miles away in Seattle, even though there was no way to get out of the X zone. That was help without help from the robots, I think, is the only thing I think of Well, they have it's this giant wall with missiles pointing inward.
01:25:46
Speaker
all over the All around the top of the wall. They got construction bots. They got digger bots that can termite right under it. Maybe. They do. don't I wrote it. It's in my fan fiction.
01:25:58
Speaker
It's in my headcanon. And then we got Herm and the bigger bot just tossing cars at the fucking center facility, which is, again, pretty funny because the lady's just walking by and a car just hits the window and she's like, the fuck?
01:26:12
Speaker
What's that? I know. She runs towards the window. Did just that? Yeah, I wouldn't be running toward a window that a car just hit. I looked at Derek and was like, and would you run towards the window? He's like, I'd be running the other fucking way. have calmly and coolly power walked to the nearest elevator, gone to the lobby, called for help, and then gone home.
01:26:30
Speaker
Yeah. I would have called me and Cooley shit my pants.
01:26:37
Speaker
I'd just like, hey, look, can you just pick up my car and throw it away from this place, please? I got to get home. The wife, the missus is going to be pissed if I miss another dinner. I can't have any traffic.
01:26:48
Speaker
Just throw me right over I-10. Yeah. And it's another needle drop breaking the law. Breaking the law. This one is diegetic. This one's in the movie because Herm is playing it while he's tossing cars at the building.
01:27:02
Speaker
He could have been fucking doing like, in cars, woo. I mean, they already had, oh no, they didn't have talking heads for Billy the Bass. The Fear Factory cover of Cars. That would have been a good one There you go. yeah That would be a fucking great little needle drop.
01:27:19
Speaker
Because, I mean, you're breaking the law already. You've you've been out of the exclusion zone. Also, they got all the way from Arizona to Seattle. no Nothing happened in between. No. Why would anything happen? one noticed this posse of robots. yeah
01:27:33
Speaker
They are Transformers. Who's driving through Idaho? yeah Idaho's over there. Yeah, they went desert-wise. They stayed away from people. They took the long want to make this longer? Oh, they went up through the middle of Nevada where we drove down that one time. yeah There ain't nothing for fucking buck seven hours.
01:27:50
Speaker
There you go. ah But some some of the drones attack... ah uh herm and chris pratt while millie and pc sneak into the facility uh i do like the one little like they they have the show only only show it once but the drone that attaches itself to the big herm droid yeah and blows itself up like suicide bombs was like why aren't there more of these yeah i guess they're probably expensive Yeah, I mean, it seems like these these drones would be expensive because it's kind of like once they get knocked out, we don't really see reinforcements. You know, it's not like, all right, I'll get another fucking drone. Oh, that one's gone. I'll get another drone.
01:28:26
Speaker
Yeah, it's not. Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah, the golden people whose names I can't think of from Guardians the Galaxy. Goldar. Did you say Goldar? Martha.
01:28:37
Speaker
ah Why did you say that name? Most of the CG in this looks better than Goldar from that Power Rangers movie from like 2017 whatever. Oh, I forgot. I've seen that.
01:28:48
Speaker
It's a big gloop. Gloop. Goldar. That's the movie that's like an hour and a half in the first hours. Them not getting powers. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, it's pretty sweet. That's cool. Because, I mean, Power Rangers has been running for 35 years, so there's no way the kids seeing that movie are and it familiar with it at all. Right.
01:29:05
Speaker
It's not like you obsess about it. Write your own comics.
01:29:09
Speaker
um So we have a robots fighting the drones. ah The taco robot that's attached to a piano is playing Ride of the Valkyries. Kill the wabbit. Did you notice the ah um Arrested Development ah Easter egg?
01:29:27
Speaker
No. I don't know if it's a robot or if the robot is using the billboard, but there's a billboard that flies over and hits someone and it says Barry Zuckerkorn. He's good. Oh, that's fucking awesome.
01:29:40
Speaker
And like the middle is all faded out. So presumably that's where Henry Winkler's picture would be. But like the top and the bottom has the words. We'll make this joke, but we're not paying Henry Winkler. the The billboard sign guy, the words guy, also, i forgot what it said, but he was having messages throughout the whole war thing. Oh, I didn't even notice.
01:29:58
Speaker
Just inspirational quotes like, live, laugh, love, rip their heads off. Exactly. Live, lash, lungs. Love that.
01:30:10
Speaker
Slash, stab, smother. So Millie has to plug into the network. She's never done it before, so she can get to Christopher. ah So she goes into... She's the one.
01:30:23
Speaker
i know Kung Fu. I see code now. It's just, no.
01:30:32
Speaker
So she goes in there to talk to him. Stanley Tucci pulls out his big black headset from his secret case. Yeah. It's like a room ah big black headsets. Oh, he's got the one that's like in the secret case, though. that Yeah, you know it's important.
01:30:46
Speaker
It's got John Travolta and ah what's his name? Samuel Jackson going after it. Yes, it does. Yeah, he opens it. There's a yellow glow on his face, even though the headset is black and the room is dark. Are we good, man? Yeah, we're good.
01:31:01
Speaker
um And it connects him to this super drone that's slightly bigger and stronger than the other ones, but we don't really see much of what it does. Well, it's got way better weapons on it. We see that because it takes down that big fucking cat with one shot.
01:31:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah. the The big one of these guys that's in this picture. One of these yeah goons running around. But, yeah, I think it it looks like it could take a lick in and keep on ticking. Well, because we see somebody hits it. Was it? Oh, Chris Pratt hits it with this gun that's been just EMPing on everybody. So, like, it shuts him right down.
01:31:34
Speaker
Not this one. He's got this gun that shoots like the, you know, the little viewfinder. Yeah. It has like it shoots those a little fucking discs that you have in there. Yeah.
01:31:45
Speaker
He's like, here's Disneyland. to Take Mount Rushmore. butby But this is when Esposito turns. He's talking to Mr. Peanut. Sorry, it's still just funny to say. He has a heart to heart with Mr. Peanut.
Existential Conversations and Sibling Dynamics
01:31:59
Speaker
where not And he's like, are you ready to die? And he's like, well, we'd have to be alive to die, wouldn't we? Oh, you're right. You would have to be alive. Why did you decide to help us?
01:32:11
Speaker
I finally met someone less human than a robot. ah ba wall No, don't bam. That's wet noodle. That's kaput. I know. that' he he droped He in turn drops his headset like a mic, but it's, yeah. it's a what It's a wet noodle of a line.
01:32:31
Speaker
Yeah, it is. Couldn't even whip somebody with that thing. Cook spaghetti into a lock.
01:32:38
Speaker
You tried to push a chain up a hill?
01:32:43
Speaker
oh Sorry, I gotta make jokes about something. Yeah. This movie didn't. and Speaking of floppycock, we're going to finish this movie. So so Millie plugs into the network and she goes and meets with Chris and she's like and he's he's like, everything's my fault. i saw the world and it's all fucked up and it's because of me. And it's like, yes, it's 100 percent your fault because yeah it's all your fault purposely got kidnapped. Plug yourself into the system.
01:33:08
Speaker
Right. You made that deer run in front of us. I know. Yeah. There was a thing earlier, like a flashback to him on the beach. And she's like, touch the sand. Are you OK? Everything feels real. I thought it was going to come something here.
01:33:22
Speaker
But I think it was that he's going to be he was going to be ah they were going to make him more autistic. Or what's another spectrum that he could be just like having a panic attack and freaking out or something.
01:33:35
Speaker
Okay, I thought it was gonna come to something and doesn't come up here at all. I think it's just showing that she calms him, she takes care of him, she was the big sister. Yeah, maybe. It's trying to establish an emotion connection.
01:33:47
Speaker
Okay. And you just don't care. What do you mean you're not sad? go Think of the scene on the beach. and She was telling him to touch sand, it was fucking great. Think of that scene where they're like cuddling and it's really weird. It's um it's a little more weird than Star Wars.
01:34:04
Speaker
It's a little more, because the actor's like, oh man, there's a pretty girl with her head on my lap. That's but involuntary at this point. Dude, what siblings are like this though? the The weird ones.
01:34:16
Speaker
The homeschooled ones? The Lannisters. Okay, so they're not from Detroit. They're from Arkansas. Well, they left Arkansas to go to Detroit where no one knew they were related. I did like when they do the movie scene in the mall again where he's like putting on a cartoon. Oh, yeah, he projects the show. And all the robots are just like...
01:34:34
Speaker
We can actually be friends. We didn't mention it. That's Mr. Peanut's moment of like, oh, these people aren't so bad. Yeah. yeah The human factory finally made a good one. Yeah. yeah But he reveals that his so his relationship with Center is symbiotic. So without him, they die or the system dies. But without them, then he'll die.
01:34:56
Speaker
she's going to have to pull the plug. was shocked. It's shocking. I was also shocked that he was like, hey, um I can't use that robot anymore. There's just, you know, I'm locked in here.
01:35:08
Speaker
Shocked. Yeah, they they closed my peephole into the real world or something. And I'll be shocked one more time later. Shocked. ah The big Herman Mech was taken down by the exploding robot.
01:35:21
Speaker
The second big Herman Mech gets taken down by Stanley Tucci. Yep. ah Mr. Peanut sneaks into the base. and Mr. Peanut has Stanley 2G at knife point from his cane.
01:35:33
Speaker
Yeah, and he's like, I'm here to renegotiate the treaty. Yes, sir, we are. I believe that it is my time to shine. Excuse me, Mr. Lincoln, but I'm here to renegotiate. It is six simple Tyrannus, Mr. Skate.
01:35:50
Speaker
And somewhere along the line, I don't think we saw it, Herman gets hurt killing one of these robots. No, we see He's protecting Chris Pratt. Yeah. Oh, okay. He but like takes one for him.
01:36:02
Speaker
And he's he's like a... He's like pulverizing this droid. And it's like a it's a long like death scene. It's very emotional for Chris Pratt. I love you. More than a friend.
01:36:14
Speaker
He's used to watching CG characters die. He's worked with raccoon. He's good it. Yeah. So it dies. And if I'm going to do this scene and you really want me to emote, can you see what Sean gun is up to? Just have him sit there. donald He does. He does have that thing where he's like, how are you still alive?
01:36:32
Speaker
Because of you. Damn right. And then the whole thing shuts off. and I'm getting too old for this shit. But don't worry, because Chris Pratt gives this really long, drawn out, sad speech right after she shuts everything down.
01:36:48
Speaker
I missed when you were sleeping. I'd use your finger in my butt. I never told you I did that, but I miss it. was like Because she shuts everything down, which we'll talk about in a second. But he's he's giving this speech, but it goes on and on and on.
Critiques on Pacing and Conclusion Themes
01:37:01
Speaker
Forever. And was like, oh, goddammit, there's a smaller one inside, isn't there?
01:37:05
Speaker
Yeah. You could tell because they're trying to build it up with all this emotion. And he's like, we're we're friends. We're more than friends. And without you, I have no. And I do like his mention of of like, what am I going to do Get the band back together. Those guys are all married. Like he actually means a band. That's like, wait, you heard a band? It's it called Mouse Rat.
01:37:26
Speaker
But yeah, a little eight inch Herman comes out and he's like, it's for detail work. Cook. Cook. Cook.
01:37:33
Speaker
It's a fucking all-in-one bot, dude. I love him. Don't worry. He lived forever. Do you think he's got a smaller one? Like ah a single inch? Yeah, he just threads screws.
01:37:45
Speaker
I believe it. Like, oh, you stripped that screw. Let me fix it. It's for when you drop something in your fucking engine bay. He can just go down in there and get it. and He's magnetic. i don't need one of those sticks those sticks with a magnet on the end. I got a robot. I got fucking one-inch robot. bit ah Well, it seems like overkill, but he came inside the eight-inch model, which came inside the three-foot model, which came inside of the six-foot model, which came inside of the 20-foot model.
01:38:10
Speaker
yeah Which came inside of the 80-foot model. I'd like to come inside a 20-foot model.
01:38:16
Speaker
I feel like you have. Not 20 feet. But like with Millie Bobby Brown, she's telling him like, I'm not going to I'm not going to pull the plug on you. I can't do it.
01:38:26
Speaker
And he's like, because she says, I don't want to lose you. And he's like, well, you can't lose me, meaning I'm already gone. But you can lose them. oh Please feel something. and And because, it yeah, it beats you over the head with It's like, you can't you lose me, but you can lose them.
01:38:41
Speaker
I never got to say goodbye. Well, you'll never have to like just Fucking kill your. I'm going to pull the plug on myself here soon. um but Right before this, right when the battle was starting, we had to pause the movie.
01:38:55
Speaker
And I was at that point, I was like, this isn't that bad. It's not good. It's it's soulless, but it's it's a spectacle. It's it's colorful. It's fun to watch. Yeah. We paused the movie. There was 37 minutes left.
01:39:08
Speaker
Yeah, but lot that's credits. Yeah, there are like 12 minutes of credits. I was like, this movie is not that long. How could there possibly be almost 40 minutes left? Like, I literally was thinking like, okay, it's not good, but it's not that bad. It's He's like, a whole nother fucking episode of a show. Yeah, I was like, I could watch fucking, do you just watch Righteous Gemstones instead?
01:39:28
Speaker
Ooh, we finished it. Finally. So much baby Billy Dick. I ain't asking for the fucking world's won $2 million dollars in an eight ball.
01:39:38
Speaker
Chris, i dude, I love when he runs out and he's just like, cocaine! Ain't nobody a thousand years old.
01:39:47
Speaker
ah So, yeah, Chris dies. The drones all drop out of the sky. All the center things shut down. The world goes into a panic. um It would be pandemonium.
01:39:58
Speaker
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it would be. People wouldn't know what to do. People would... I just think of Ready Player One. Cats marrying dogs, pandemonium. A lot of this makes me think of Ready Player One. yeah It is just big CG spectacle. that's not I liked the book. The movie was okay, but just it again, it didn't have any emotion to it. it was this very like it's It's made to be flashy and pretty, which is fine. that Those things need to exist, too.
01:40:23
Speaker
But like i do it's so then they're beating you with it again because now Stanley Tucci's like, oh, great. So what do I do now? Die? yeah Peanut? No. We live.
01:40:37
Speaker
Also, it's a better punishment because someone like Tucci, he's not gonna wanna fucking face the the courts that's gonna fucking put him in jail and yada yada. yeah and And that's what I was gonna say. like So the world does start going into chaos.
01:40:48
Speaker
People are panicking because all the shit's unplugged. We have an ending exposition. But, yeah, then during the the ending montage, everybody finds out about Christopher and the human experimentation and all that stuff.
01:41:00
Speaker
So suddenly they're like, Oh, actually, you know what? I'm okay without the, ye the fucking Frankenstein VR headset thing that I was using. Can I, that's actually really cruel. And you so hooked a child's brain up to the world.
01:41:12
Speaker
Can I still masturbate online? Is that, that's still okay. all right, cool. Society's fine. Yeah. You can still use your Oculus. but they got They got VR porn, dude. Yeah. With a wetsuit. Oh,
01:41:25
Speaker
Any suit I wear where gets what gets wet. I'm very messy. That's not sexual. yeah I do. i do kind of like Joe. Joe Russo has a cameo here. He did at the beginning, too. He's in the CNN Crossfire thing. He's the guy with the mustache. Yeah, because he was also in he had a cameo in Endgame.
01:41:43
Speaker
He was the gay guy that was leading the recovery or that was in the recovery group thing that Cap was never thought. You never saw Endgame? Okay. um You literally tell people all the time about how that's the only time you've seen me cry at a movie.
01:41:58
Speaker
Shut up. So, speaking of soulless things, I shouldn't crying at that.
Personal Movie Experiences and Preferences
01:42:03
Speaker
But I liked the first one, the first montage. He's arguing with some robot, and he's like, my toaster breaks, I get another toaster. Fuck you, robot, you're a piece of shit. Yeah, I unplug it. That's murder! And now this last one, he's like, hey, you know what?
01:42:16
Speaker
Fuck Stanley Tucci. Robots are people, too. Yeah.
01:42:21
Speaker
Turns out me and my toaster had a talk and man, my life has changed. Yeah. I think we're getting married. Me and my toaster had a talk. I finally gave my toaster a voice box and said, oh are you happy now? i finally made the toast right.
01:42:37
Speaker
It's not even burnt. oh Deborah bought. Oh, God. The conclusion of the movie is Millie Bobby Brown gives a speech to the world all about the stuff I said earlier. It's all about and unplugging from the system and connecting with people and all this stuff.
01:42:55
Speaker
And it's your conclusion to a streaming movie made out of 90% CG and AI with guys that don't want you to leave your house to go to the movie theater. Yep. So it just feels so disingenuous. It's like...
01:43:08
Speaker
And if you don't know all that, maybe it's not. that that's why a lot That's why it's got the 68% from you know the viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. A lot of people don't know that stuff. But if you do know that, it's like, go fuck yourself.
01:43:20
Speaker
Yeah. so I mean, you can't fault somebody for enjoying it. I have ah well it's a friend of ours that she just loves... turning her brain off and watching movies, which is why Gerard Butler is one of her favorites, old Jerry Butts.
01:43:37
Speaker
Yeah. Well, like I said, you know, I, I, I can sit here and shit talk this all I want, but I still enjoy watching Marvel movies. And whenever a new one comes out, I still see them even with the declining quality. Like, yeah, I'm going to be there because I, sometimes you just want to shut your brain off and watch things go bang.
01:43:54
Speaker
Uh, but we get the worst. Oh my God. I, Whitney can tell you, The movie ends. We're in a junkyard. There's the big claw full of garbage. It drops the Cosmo bot into the garbage pile. And I was like, don't you fucking do it out loud. i was like, don't you fucking do it. Oh, I knew as as soon as you see it, i was like, well, there we go. I wanted it to go more horror movie and have its fucking robot hand, like just up over the fucking pile. And its eyes just glow red from under the rubble.
01:44:20
Speaker
Like, oh shit, this summer, Christopher's back and he's pissed. He's pissed. The Electric State 2. This is the bag head Christopher. Electric boogaloo. This robot's gonna give you a robotomy.
01:44:33
Speaker
Frontal lobe. one has bag head Christopher. the next one, he gets the mask. but the next one in the next one, ah ah Corey Feldman's gonna kill him. So one after that, we have Doug or Ron or whatever that guy's name was. I always call him Doug.
01:44:50
Speaker
Troy? but Roy. Ron? Roy. Roy. I was close. One fucking letter. but I'm the one who likes those movies, and I always... Doug? He just feels know, but Whitney's always the name person. Always.
01:45:03
Speaker
but Unless it's Star Wars. Yeah. in the room Then you remember numbers. You see in a reflection of this pool of water, Christopher's standing there. So he's still alive.
01:45:14
Speaker
Now this movie has no consequences. Zero. Zero. Should have had a needle drop there too. oh Unless it's not really Chris. It's somebody else. Stanley Tucci.
01:45:25
Speaker
No, it's ah ah Dr. Amethyst. Amherst, yeah yeah. Same thing. Oh, because he didn't want to be a hard drive anymore?
01:45:35
Speaker
He upgraded. He's like, now I actually can kill. That was kind of a funny scene when they're trying to break in to save Christopher. He's like, do you think you take those guys? He's like, no. So it just puts like she gives him a fire axe.
01:45:47
Speaker
He's red face now. And he's like, kill, must kill human, must kill human. The one guy runs out. The other guy just stares at him. So he like just lunges at him. And the other guy's like, nope. I mean, I know I could probably take it in a fight, but it is swinging an axe. It just needs one hit.
01:46:02
Speaker
Yeah. And then we get the last needle drop of the movie, flaming lips. And I like this song. So it's a cool way to end it, even though it has nothing to do with anything. well As soon as I saw the first credit, I turned it off.
01:46:14
Speaker
ah You said it it reminded you of a song that should have been in Scott Pilgrim versus the world. Yeah. Well, they're welcome back because they're in the Batman Forever. You hate your boss at your job. Oh, yeah, that's right. In your dreams, you can blow his head off.
01:46:32
Speaker
Look, it's your challenge coin. Sorry. It's very illuminated to me now. I know. tried make it prominent back there. Oh, that's nice. Thank you, Taker Tom. Yeah, Taker Tom gave us. I get to stand next to this challenge coin, and I get to challenge people. I'm going to challenge every movie on this box.
01:46:47
Speaker
I'm going to walk over there and beat you. It's life-changing. Yeah, Taker Tom, one of our loyal patrons, gave us these challenge coins from his military group. I got to find somewhere my wall to put it, or somehow.
01:47:03
Speaker
but like Yeah, the what right behind me, yeah it's Pier Paolo Pasolini challenging Werner Herzog to a film off. You're not going to want that. um But yeah, that's it for this episode, the inaugural episode of the Month of Action.
01:47:19
Speaker
Shazam. Shazam. Big Tam. We'll do our recommendations in a second, but if you're watching, you can see on the screen, the names of all these podcasts and, and i take a little screenshot of that for yourself.
01:47:31
Speaker
Yeah. And I'll be sharing it on social media. Check some of these guys out or check them all out. So of them like, uh, the, the brain buster video that Whitney pointed out last time, those guys make like collector's edition VHS tapes, modern VHS tapes of things that.
01:47:46
Speaker
don't have whatever. It's pretty cool. They did one for a B action movies, one year anniversary, which they're giving away um to someone on their feed there. But all these guys are going to be involved this month.
01:47:58
Speaker
There's a lot of fun. There's already episodes out. So go check these guys out. Yeah. Do yourself a favor. They'll all be tagged in the description below. So, ah but now we'll do recommendations.
01:48:10
Speaker
So we'll start with wife. Honestly, i had fun. Good. Good. That's the point. I didn't hate it as much as Mr. Person over here.
01:48:21
Speaker
Man. Mr. Man. Mr. Man. Mr. Robot. He's Robot Man. um he's just a robot he's robot man I liked when they dropped mother! I was singing, i was having fun. Yeah, yeah, it's a good song. a lot of the emotions fell short, but fuck, dude, that hurt.
01:48:40
Speaker
You know exactly what part I cried at. Oh, absolutely. like I was just like... Anthony Mackie's dying and she's over there crying and I'm trying not to turn over to her and just laugh. Derek's got tears rolling down his face and trying not to laugh.
01:48:55
Speaker
I'm sitting there like, just don't cry. He'll be back in two to five minutes. That's exactly how I felt though when they were turning the buttons off for Christopher whatever.
01:49:06
Speaker
was like, he's going to be in that robot. yeah I know you said there's no way, but... you knew You knew as soon as those strings. like this He did a wonderful job composing that.
01:49:19
Speaker
And it just played at my little heart string. So I didn't hate it. think if you have nothing to do, watch it. You don't even need any of Jack's caveat. I didn't of Jack's. it like full recommend or a soft recommend?
01:49:32
Speaker
It's a soft recommend. Like a cook noodle in a lock. Like, um... A sword made of mashed potatoes. Yes.
01:49:45
Speaker
ah Jack? It is even softer recommend, but there is ah merit to it. Turn your brain off and just want to watch something kind of shiny. Don't expect to laugh. Don't expect action out of this action movie.
01:49:57
Speaker
um I think most of the people here are criminally underutilized. You did touch on Millie Billy Bobby Brown. I think she's good. She's doing what she can. Chris Pratt wasn't terrible. But, man, it's a lot of heartlessness.
01:50:10
Speaker
lot of heartlessness. So it's like the softest. I didn't drink during this because I was going to die. But plenty stoned, and that definitely helps. It didn't feel as long as I thought it would, like you. Because I didn't pause.
01:50:22
Speaker
So maybe that's why. I just kept it rolling. Yeah, and so, I mean... I could give it the soft recommend in the sense of like, if you just want to watch something mindless, but also it's hard to recommend it because it just, like you said, there's no action in this action movie. Like it just, I watched it and I'll never watch it again.
01:50:44
Speaker
i Yeah, i would be my life will be fine if I don't ever watch it again. I mean, I could say on Letterboxd, I gave it one and a half stars. There's a half star for Ki-Hui Kwan. There's a half star for Millie Bobby Brown trying to do something.
01:50:56
Speaker
And there's a half star for Giancarlo Esposito's first ah two-thirds of this movie. h Because those three all did what they could with what they had. really just that last scene.
01:51:09
Speaker
Yeah, and and it's kind of just peas all over the rest of the movie there. Yeah. And I mean, like you said, Chris Pratt's fine because he's he's small doses of Chris Pratt in this. He's yeah in a lot of scenes, but he's not jawing the whole time. No, he's not. This movie a tire fire and an ocean full of piss.
01:51:26
Speaker
Yeah. So mentioned at the beginning of the episode two, that we have a digital code to give away for the running man in 4k. Oh, so remember comment on, you can comment on the episode if you're on Spotify, cause I can see that on other sources. I, it doesn't necessarily show me. So you can comment there, comment on social media.
01:51:44
Speaker
If you're on Patreon, comment there or send us an email at bad movies, worst people at gmail.com. Tell me you want it on this raffle and I'll enter you in the raffle. If you're a patron, ah You'll get two entries.
01:51:55
Speaker
Everybody else gets one. And then I'll just do a randomized pick at the end. And then also for the month of action, i will be guesting on two other podcasts and we will have a guest on one of ours as well.
01:52:08
Speaker
Fun stuff. It's going to be funny when you guys hear what's happening. this is It just lined up weird because it didn't work the way I thought it would. But I will be on i will be on Bucket of Chum with our friend Steve talking about USS Indianapolis Men of Courage.
01:52:22
Speaker
ah Nick Cage movie. I wish I could be on that one. I mean. It's a World War II movie. I don't know. I don't need to be. I'll watch it on my own. No, I'm like, you probably can. I'm trying to think what day. i don't remember what day we're recording, but I'll start my own fucking podcast. ah shut um But i'll I'll be guesting with him on there because that'll be one of his month of action movies.
01:52:43
Speaker
And then I'll be over on B action talking to Dustin, Charlie and Mickey. Talking about Double Impact. oh so Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jean-Claude Van Damme. He's wearing silk underwears.
01:52:57
Speaker
I know. I know Jack is going to that one. We're going to do that one. ah we'll do it. It's just going to have to be like a year now. I wanted Jack to join me on that one as soon as he showed me what movie it was. But we're going to be recording it on a Sunday afternoon.
01:53:10
Speaker
Yeah. Jack will be at work. So we will have Dustin from Flicks and Friends and B Action and I believe Baron's Hideout. He's on all of those.
01:53:21
Speaker
He will be joining us on deep blue sea later this month, which I, the reason I said it's funny is because we've got Steve from bucket of chum in this crossover, but we don't have him on deep blue sea. I was like, I'm not gonna make him talk about that again.
01:53:34
Speaker
No, no. it I guarantee you, I know he did an episode with the B action guys a while back ah for his podcast about deep blue sea. And I guarantee you he's guested with other people about deep blue sea. yeah That is like a shark fin. Yeah.
01:53:48
Speaker
But you can check all those out. I'll be guesting on those. I'll post links to that. So you'll hear me trying to be funny without Jack's assistance. I got you. You get like an earpiece. I'll be at work, just fucking whisper.
01:53:59
Speaker
Now hit him with the Marky Mark. They'll never see it coming. and You'll be my Cyrano de Bergerac. Yeah. No, no, no. Ray Romano's deeper in the throat. You got to really get back there for Ray.
01:54:10
Speaker
That's what Deborah said. Deborah. It's in the back of your throat, Debra. At least it would be. I need an eight inch model. So next week, I'm so fucking excited, you guys.
01:54:22
Speaker
We continue month of action with our first ever.
01:54:29
Speaker
With our first ever Cynthia Rothrock movie. You guys. Undefeatable. am so fucking excited. This movie is also really stupid. Whitney, but it has great action. Are you coming over? This is a caveat movie.
01:54:45
Speaker
you're coming over. It is available to stream for all you folks at home. it's on It's on Prime for free in HD. Or you can rent it for a dollar. Free on HD. You could rent it for a dollar or buy it for $3 on Amazon, but it's SD, so I'm like, just watch it on Prime. Yeah.
01:55:03
Speaker
In HD. Or, i don't know if they're still available, but you could buy this sweet-ass 4K that I got from Vinegar Syndrome. I think he's in love with her There's like three people listening like, yeah, I will do that. Everybody else is like, what the fuck is he talking about? Trying to get my Cynthia Rock off. Look at the back of this slipcase. Like, look at that. That is just action.
01:55:23
Speaker
That does scream action. That screams action. There's two shirtless men, one with a mullet and ah Cynthia Rothrock with a bloody sword. I mean, it looks like a really cheap version Mortal Kombat.
01:55:34
Speaker
Not the movie, the video game. Yeah, kind of. All right, well, get your jetpack on because we got a boogie. Sonya Blade was based on Cynthia Rothrock in the Mortal Kombat games. Nice.
01:55:45
Speaker
And then they got Veronica Vaughn to play. him i got my jetpack on. Oh, Veronica Vaughn. And then, of course, you can check out our Patreon at patreon.com slash worst people where you get a bunch more content. We have, you know, bonus ah mental health movies every month. You get a newsletter. You get a vids.
01:56:04
Speaker
You get lot of kids at the three dollar level. You get the the mental health episode. You get the newsletter. You get access to our archive and you get Han took shots first episodes early and uncut when I can get them out early. But they are ad free.
01:56:17
Speaker
Um, and at the $5 level, you get latchkey vids and you get ah ad free versions of all of our episodes. So for our mental health movie this month, we're doing long kiss. Good night directed by Rennie Harlan. Probably the best movie he made.
01:56:30
Speaker
ah it ties into one of our other movies. You can drop that. Probably. It has been decades since I've seen this. Cliffhanger's pretty cool. No, this is better. I've watched both of these in the last, I would say, 12 months.
01:56:41
Speaker
This is better. and And we are doing another Rady Harlan movie this month, which is why we chose that. We gotta have Bleep on for Cliffhanger because he found that shit boring. We will be talking about Deep Blue Sea, which is another Randy Harlan movie that I do like, but it's not good.
01:56:56
Speaker
I also have it in a big thing up here, but I can't reach it. You could have Mrs. Bleep on for that one. She hated it. du She's wrong. ah miss I got Mrs. Bleep to agree to doing Showgirls.
01:57:07
Speaker
Oh, yeah. You can't stop her from that. Which also have on four k ah But Long Kiss Goodnight is available on Fubo, which I think is one we've mentioned before. Some free some service where it's free.
01:57:18
Speaker
Or you can rent it on Amazon, Apple for four bucks. Buy it for eight. For Latchkey Vids, we're doing Cop Rock Episode 7, Cop-Aphiliac. Woo! A very racially charged episode for a very silly name.
01:57:32
Speaker
Oh, that's right. We did we did record that. I was like, I can't wait to see what that's about. I don't remember it. I can't wait to hear us Of course you don't remember. You don't listen when we're speaking.
01:57:43
Speaker
And of course, that's available on YouTube for all you folks out there. um Like I said, we have a different intro and outro right now with the voice provided by Mickey. of the B action movie podcast. So we appreciate that, but I'm still going to thank evasion for giving us our usual opening and closing music because we've been using it for three years now and we're going to continue. we're going to continue using it.
01:58:04
Speaker
So thank you guys for tuning in. And don't forget to check out everybody else on the month of action. I've been Derek. I'm Whitney. I'm Jack. And I'm not dying to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
01:58:16
Speaker
Ow! Oh, bro. That was one hell of an action sequence, soldier. I haven't seen shooting like that since the Battle of New Hope. The month of action couldn't have done it without you.
01:58:30
Speaker
Mission accomplished.