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Everything Actioncast Ep 635 “He-Man, American Gladiators, Dead Reckoning Part One, TMNT and More”
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris discuss the death of the latest He-Man live-action movie, the return of the OG TMNT cartoon, the American Gladiators documentary Muscles & Mayhem, Sisu, Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One and more.
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Transcript
Introduction and Overview
00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to the Everything Action Cast, the official podcast of EverythingAction.com. Hello and welcome to the Everything Action Cast podcast for the week of July 17th, 2023. I'm Rio Zac. I'm your cohost, Chris.
Impact of Strikes on Comic-Con
00:00:28
Speaker
And we got a bunch of diving this week. It is seeing the comic con, although it's a little you did this year due to obviously the sag after a WGA strikes, but there's some news coming out of there. And we got some other stuff diving to later on as well. I saw a mission possible dead wrecking part one, so I'll talk about that later on, along with other stuff.
Ninja Turtles Revival on Streaming
00:00:49
Speaker
But let's kick things off with the news and at the Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem panel, which featured Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman,
00:00:59
Speaker
We got news that the original 1987 animated series is coming to Nickelodeon. They've gotten the rights back. I think there was some sort of issue where the original distributor, Fred Wolf Studios, had the rights still to the original animated series. But now Nickelodeon has the rights to those and they're going to start airing those on Nickelodeon and also the other ancillary Nickelodeon
00:01:26
Speaker
channels like Pluto TV and YouTube and some of the other places Nickelodeon owns. Is Paramount plus able to show it? That's I was I was in the I was looking at the article on like variety and stuff and there's no much apparent plus which is weird you think that would be a big like massive that'd be a huge boost apparel plus if they got the original turmeric turtles stories out there. That would make more sense to be there.
00:01:53
Speaker
But I know like Pluto TV already has like a turtles. I think it's like turtles forever or like turtles power like 24 seven channel. So now these now the original episodes will start airing on the on that like showing up on that channel and then like the official like turtles YouTube channel can start airing these old the original episodes again. And it's all it's all it's all 193 episodes of the original turtles cartoons are part of this deal so.
00:02:23
Speaker
I mean, I could finally finish the series. I am why as much as a big fan I was. I stopped watching for the last two season when they recruit. They had a friend like a a guy human that whenever he was like enraged, he would mutate into something like a mutate into a monster. OK. You remember that?
00:02:48
Speaker
I don't remember like, yeah, like the last few seasons of I can't remember. I can't remember myself watching Turtles, but like I definitely stop watching it before it like officially I did. And I thought, yeah, me too. Because it was because it ended in 1986 and I was firmly in like Power Rangers mode by then, like because Power Rangers was like started a few years before that. So. Oh, and plus it was hard to watch reruns of it. I had no idea when.
00:03:16
Speaker
any of the turtle shows would be on besides the USA block, the cartoon block. I mean, that's probably where it was because it wasn't on Saturday mornings anymore. It was not like ABC or anything anymore. And unless you're like local network syndicated it still, it wasn't airing. I think they did for for WB.
00:03:41
Speaker
WV 11 for me. Yeah, they just depending on what like what your local station was doing if they were like gonna pay for the turtles old turtles episodes there. Yeah, the more I think about insane it was to like get cartoons and syndicate syndicated material onto networks is just an insane negotiation. Thank God, I think it's a lot easier now for shows to not do that. Anyway,
00:04:10
Speaker
Yeah, on Nickelodeon. Yeah, yeah, Nickelodeon, Pluto, YouTube. It's going to be very, very easy to find the original series. Now, if you want to rewatch some of those episodes and not have to like buy the the crazy box set anymore on DVD or is that it's not Blu-ray. I can't remember if it's not. I think I can't Blu-ray as a boy, but. I know they had like the turtle van, like fancy collector's series set like a couple of years ago. I remember that.
00:04:40
Speaker
It looks just like the miniature one.
AMC's Reversal on Sightline Pricing
00:04:45
Speaker
So we also found this week that AMC Theaters, I think we talked about months ago, they were going to do this crazy plan where they were going to charge you based on where you were sitting in the theater. Like concert seating. If you wanted the premium middle
00:05:06
Speaker
middle section of the theater is going to cost you way more than the front row. And then the back row is going to cost a difference than the sides. They're calling it sight line. They're canceling that canceling that that's not going to happen anymore. It's going to be just normal, normal, normal, normal theater seating going forward at AMC. And it's unfortunate just because. Someone who sees movies very frequent
00:05:35
Speaker
I would rather pay a little bit to get a good view than the random assholes that would go and don't give a shit that they're like dead center and like prime view. I don't know, I'm kind of split. I also thinking in other countries, do theater seating for movie theaters? I don't know. I don't think they do like concert seating style where it's like you pay for the position you're in.
00:06:05
Speaker
And they did try this at some. Pilots theaters, I think. Some New York City theaters and maybe some other like AMC's around the country and apparently. Apparently they found out that some people were like most people were willing to pay more for premises, but no one was willing to pay like. For the front row, even if it was the cheaper, so the front row still would have been empty. Probably even if they like implemented this like.
00:06:37
Speaker
Initiative for AMC. I'm also thinking that pilot must have been super terrible for them to decide it's not worth it. Like, did no one go to that one figure then? They said there wasn't enough interest in the idea of offering a range of prices. Well, I get discounting the front row.
00:07:06
Speaker
Is that is I think the worst seat. Well, you already I mean you already have I think most leaders do like. Was it before 6 PM is matinee? That's that's that's all the discount you need, I think. Yeah, yeah, but if you're coming into the theater and all you have is the front row and you really need to see that movie. I can see just counting that front row. You know, like that should make more sense, because at least you'll get seats.
00:07:37
Speaker
Otherwise, yeah, no, I don't. Yeah, I don't. If it's just the front row, I probably just go out like get a refund or try to get a different time for the movie. I would not sit in the front row and watch the movie. The last movie I saw front row, and it was just because we got there late and there's no reserve seating was for Power Rangers. The new the movie. And it did not make the movie any better. Let me tell you that by being really close to it.
00:08:07
Speaker
Plus, I think that was right before the local movie theaters in my areas did reserve seating. So after that reserve seating, not a problem. I think the last time I was in basically the front row was maybe like Dark Knight Rises or one that like
00:08:26
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00:08:54
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for your body sandwiches and then see Cloverfield a little too close. I don't remember being front row, but I definitely remember being one of the first few rows and it just hurting my neck.
00:09:16
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But yes, when you want to worry about it anymore, AMC, they're just, they're reverting back. They were going to, they said taking off, they were going to implement it by the end of this year. But I was not going to do it anymore. It's the pilot programs canceled.
Lazarus: New Anime Series by Adult Swim
00:09:31
Speaker
We're back to just normal AMC prices, whatever that might be at your local AMC. So other news, Adult Sim is getting a new anime series.
00:09:47
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called Lazarus. And it's from Shachiro Watanabe, who is best known for Callaway Bebop, along with Samurai Champloo and Kids on the Slope. And it's also gonna feature Chad Stahelski, the director of the John Wick movies, is gonna be designing action sequences of the show. So it's basically gonna be Callaway Bebop with John Wick action sequences in it.
00:10:17
Speaker
And also, like Japanese jazz musicians and DJs are going to provide like, like, like a mix of a jazz electronic score. I guess, I guess probably like reminisce of a Kawaii Bebop score. Hmm.
00:10:36
Speaker
And we're gonna find out more on Saturday. There's gonna be a panel for it at Comic Con. So probably by the time you're hearing this, there's probably more information out there. I mean, maybe next week. If there's a trailer or something next week, we'll probably talk about it more next week. But there's a Saturday early evening panel for this show at Comic Con. And it's set in 2052. It's about a Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist who develops a drug called Hapuna.
00:11:06
Speaker
It basically cures everything, but then it has a side effect of it. It causes death three years later if you take it. That's what the Lazarus thing is. And there's some sort of like there's some sort of like special task force that's like assembled, I guess, because like maybe like. Maybe this thing I would develop this drug is like you was going to kill people and like put it out there like bevelently and then like there's like this team is like trying to stop him. I thought it was something where.
00:11:38
Speaker
Yeah, yeah more like a I knew it's not gonna be like spiritual combo be about I already put that idea in my head because even the follow-up shows They always want to make sure that their next thing is different from the last thing However music is incorporated is very important to the enjoyment of the story the visuals Even the voice acting
00:12:05
Speaker
The one problem I can see is that if they try to imitate the bebop style by just saying, yeah, let's go back to that again. Have you watched the original Cowboy Bebop anime yet? Some. I've seen the first couple of episodes of it. It takes a little bit to get into it. It's definitely a cult following with it.
00:12:34
Speaker
like by this, it's popular. You just got to give it more time. And in the right lens, it's very, um, like it's multiple visits to enjoy the show as the whole. But, uh, my, my problem again, is that basically people are putting on a pedestal really soon without knowing what the limitations are because
00:13:02
Speaker
We only know the director, or is it the original Cowboy Bebop director, right? Yes. But I think it's a whole ensemble that really brings that together. So it's like, it's cool that they are working, but no one saw Big O, which was I think the first project that adults or Cartoon Network commissioned and said, please make us a fun mech robot in a style of anime. And they're like, OK, but we're going to have budget cuts.
00:13:33
Speaker
And that was that's still like terribly underrated. They go. It was done by some of the veterans that did Batman the animated TV show or the animated series. Was it was Bruce Timon that or no, no, no, it was the no, it was just the animation team or like, yeah, like the like Asian slave shop side.
00:14:03
Speaker
Okay Because uh Paul Dini and and Bruce Timm, they did the character draft but then when it came time to animate they sent it off to Japan The first season is I think TMS was like the like the one the main like maybe they made series studios, right? So one of them like
00:14:27
Speaker
They'll all set up the leaders of like what you the animation is, but then between filler work and then the background and stuff like that, like they'll send to someone else to do. Yeah, because you could you could definitely tell. For like by my name is series like you could tell. Some of the episodes were like, oh, this is TMS is like top tier animation. Then some of the episodes were like, oh, this is the BT for the CC team.
00:14:58
Speaker
So it varies. Like animation is a cruel, cruel mistress. I was thinking I thought the same team also made. What's that show on? It's on Netflix, that anime about the Black Samurai. Oh, uh. Yasuke, I think maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is like Yasuke. I thought that was the same animation studio.
00:15:27
Speaker
And Yusuke got buried. I remember that was like a very popular. Hey, this is cool. This would be a great anime. And then it came out and then no one said anything. I think they're still trying to do a live action version of it, either like a movie or TV, like a TV series. I hope they do. I hope it's a really interesting story. The only problem is that the anime is this like, I don't know, crazy, crazy,
00:15:55
Speaker
fantasy version that it's the first episode seems like it'd be normal and then it just spins out of control and then it doesn't stop. Well, because it's supposed to be based on like a story like a story like actually happened and then but yeah, no, but like this must be like years later. And then it's sort of like in this fantasy world of Japan. And then they do this crazy concept about like magical people and stuff like at the end, you're like, there's no time like what is
00:16:25
Speaker
why they bring this back up again. And then it's over, and then you just left a lot of questions. And I don't think it did too well enough where there's a season two. No, I think it might have been one of those one and done Netflix shows. Either way, like, I'm excited for more anime. Yeah, hopefully, I mean, hopefully we'll hear more Saturday
00:16:55
Speaker
if you're hearing this. I mean, if you're hearing this, you might already know more info. And then if there's anything major, like if there's a trailer or like more like, you know, first look or any sort of thing, I'm sure we'll talk about next week. But we are getting, yeah, there's more details coming imminently here at Comic Con. So speaking of Asian action stuff, we also found out this week Netflix is getting a new movie from
The Shadow Strays: Netflix Action Movie
00:17:25
Speaker
Indonesian director, Timo Gijanto, who brought us The Night Comes For Us and also The Big Four. And he's got a new Netflix exclusive movie called The Shadow Strays. Which is going to be a big ensemble action movie. Not a lot of people that I think we're like, you know, American audiences are familiar with, but a lot of like Malaysian and Indonesian actors were up and coming like young
00:17:54
Speaker
in the donation actors. I mean, but I mean, no, but I mean, if it's even like half as good as like the night comes for us, it's going to be incredible because that's like such an just insane action movie, like one of those movies like last couple of years. What happened the night comes for us? It's. What's his name? I look up.
00:18:28
Speaker
Jotazlem from like the raid and Mortal Kombat and then way and then I think Jotazlem is like a former he's like an assassin or like a former assassin and or he's like a sort of like try to force her and he's trying to get out and then they're like no you can't leave and then they send the ego waited to like try to kill him oh this is a Netflix drawing okay yeah and like the final fight between Jotazlem away is like one of the craziest fights he's ever it's just like
00:18:58
Speaker
They're hitting children with boards with nails in them and using nail guns and also crazy martial arts. It's insane. If you have not seen that yet, go watch that right now on Netflix. It's definitely one of the best Netflix original movies they've had. I gotcha. This is definitely something I'm interested in watching. It's on the level of the raid. If you like to raid, you're going to love that it comes for us.
00:19:27
Speaker
And I haven't seen the big four yet, but I think that came up this year on Netflix. I think it's more of an action comedy. It's like this team of mercenaries. It's sort of like Expendables where it's like this team is on a mission.
00:19:47
Speaker
And I think he's made some other movies that haven't like come to the US or like are like aren't on Netflix, but like got maybe like let me release. He made a move called like made the devil take you. But just just recently comes that comes for us like I'm excited for whatever he's doing. And I don't really say that on that yet, but it's coming apparently sometime soon to Netflix.
Cancellation of Masters of the Universe Movie
00:20:16
Speaker
And speaking of Netflix, they also canceled their Master the Universe live action movie, which they've been working on for seemingly years. And they spent, apparently people are saying up to $30 million already on it, but it's not gonna happen anymore. So that's a pretty huge sugar change that's just getting flushed out of the toilet. That is weird. Why did they spend that much money at that point?
00:20:45
Speaker
I guess apparently they were trying to hold on to, it was like development costs and then trying to hold on to like the stars that were going to star in it and also the directors because they had Adam and Aaron Nee who directed The Lost City, the Sandra Bullock Chanuk Tatum movie were going to direct this movie. And then Kyle Allen was going to star as He-Man. And yeah.
00:21:11
Speaker
I think it's been through a couple iterations. I thought at one point like Noah Centineo was going to star as He-Man. That might have been when it was going to be like an actual theatrical Sony movie or something. And like John M. Chu was going to direct it. And then Mcgee was going to direct it. And then this new version was going to be a Netflix original movie. And they've been working on it since like 2019, I think, because they got the rights to 2019 for
00:21:39
Speaker
message universe. That's why we got like those other, we got the two animated series on Netflix that are message universe. But yeah, we are not getting, we are not getting a live action message universe movie on Netflix now. So yeah, that's the saga of like trying to like do a new message universe continues.
00:22:08
Speaker
That's kind of disappointing. Yeah, just just to have the just the just the Delflugger movie. That's it. That's the only year we're ever going to get. And it's an insanely popular franchise for the time. You know, like it was a cultural phenomenon and it's treated as if it's like. I don't know, like sort of. Lower than GI Joe.
00:22:35
Speaker
Jojo had TV cartoons, one-off cartoons, spent weird movies, but still generally regarded. And I think it just never got the nostalgia treatment that it deserved. Well, I think those
00:22:59
Speaker
I mean series are pretty popular Netflix like I mean I also like controversial cuz like people like some people hated the Kevin Smith one and then like the other one was kind of like a weird was it was the future and It was like younger he manned he was like a teenager I think or something that would the other ponytail I think he had ponytail and it was like I
00:23:26
Speaker
like kind of like they were like flying. It was like flying car that was like set on attorney and it was like flying cars and. Like robot Skeletor or something that. Whoa. I only because I remember leading up to the Netflix one they were trying to rebuild that nostalgia and it was doing a history of where you should start your He-Man journey like watching the original cartoon watching She-Ra.
00:23:54
Speaker
and then not watching Shira for this other part and then the reboot where I don't Shira is even in it it's just no there's one version of He-Man where he gets teleported to the future but it's it's set in the original theories but then there's another He-Man where Skeletor's face melts off like really early
00:24:18
Speaker
Well, there was a there was a follow up. If you're going back to like the 90s, like I think it was like early 90s after the original series, there was like a follow up, like the new Adventures of He-Man, which I think is what you're talking about, where he was showing different planets and it was like more like a Star Wars where he's like in space. I think there was a new villain, maybe, but Skeletor was still around. No, I think that's the one where
00:24:43
Speaker
He-Man gets asked to like go save another galaxy and they just recruit him. Mm hmm. I remember because Secret Galaxy did a review of it. The one where he has a ponytail is essentially is the one. Yeah, the new Adventures of He-Man. Yes, that was from the 90s. That was the one where He-Man it's a follow up to the original. Yeah. And he hangs out with space people and like a transformer, basically. Mm hmm.
00:25:13
Speaker
And then there was a reboot. There was a like mid early 2000s reboot, I think, on Cartoon Network. That one was the one where Skeletor gets horrifically like burnt and his face melts off. That one, I believe, was I'm kind of like real quick. I think just matches the universe was going to called He-Man.
00:25:43
Speaker
I was He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Then, 2001, there was the He-Man, Masters of the Universe, just a CGI TV series. Which... It's still going on. Last year, they released Season 3. I think people watch that at a spite.
00:26:09
Speaker
Because they didn't care for the relevations he man revelations. Yeah revelation. Well, it's confusing too because like They have revelations and then they have revolution and revolution is the more like kid friendly like future like they're like have laser laser swords and they're flying around in cars stuff Like is it It's called revolutions
00:26:35
Speaker
Oh, no, wait. Oh, that's what. Yeah, it's confusing. So revolution is the sequel is as the sequel series to the Kevin Smith. It's like it's basically the second season of like the Kevin Smith one. Oh, OK. So because the first season of Revelation, now we got revolution. And there was there was news. There's news at Comic Con this week that like Keith David's going to be Hordak on that on that season. Hordak is who again?
00:27:04
Speaker
He was the one, like, I think he was introduced in, like, She-Ra, but he was, like, the, like, basically, like, the new big bad. It's like, oh, you thought Skeletor was bad? That was Hordak and the Horde. Yeah, Hordak had a bat face. Yes. He essentially had the same look as Skeletor, but I stopped watching around then just because I wasn't a huge He-Man fan. Like, I knew of He-Man. I watched one or two episodes not understanding what's going on.
00:27:34
Speaker
But. Yeah, I just never really got into it. And then he man and the Masters of the universe is the it's like a siege. It's fully CG. That's that's the Netflix like more like it's it's teen he man and it's like all the heroes are teens and they're they're trying to defend that turning it from Skeletor. He's just like discovering his powers. He's just like just trying to discover like the.
00:28:04
Speaker
the power sword and everything. Yeah, leading up to the Relevations show, the comic of He-Man was cool. It was explaining the Eternia Kings and then the power sword and then He-Man's place in this cycle of being heroes and stuff. That was cool. Then they all let it fall apart by having it just, I don't know, from what I understand,
00:28:34
Speaker
having it be more of a message show than a like girls can be warriors too. All right, girls get done. Girls get it was a girls get it done show. And that's where I think it's our picking apart because it wasn't even it wasn't even the bloodline or anything at that point. It was all of you. If you had run towards the hero's journey, you'll be a hero yourself. But let's ignore the fact that
00:29:03
Speaker
He-Man sister or Prince Adam or Princess, whatever her name is, could also be She-Ra, but that was her alternate name. She had a name. It wasn't She-Ra all the time. Well, it was like Princess Andora.
00:29:24
Speaker
Because it's Prince Adam and Princess Andorra, I think, were He-Man and She-Ra. But there's also Tila, who I think Tila was the main character of Revelation after whatever happens in the first episode. Yeah, Tila is like, oh, she loved Prince Adam, but didn't know that he was He-Man. So she felt betrayed by that. That was a big thing. I kind of got it. I was looking into it and going, all right, this doesn't make sense for a character arc. It was just bizarre.
00:29:55
Speaker
uh like leap in in character arc like they just didn't focus in on the time on explaining things or just okay this is where i'm at now i'm sad okay but uh yeah either way that's sad that there's no he-man justice for this there's there's a lot there's a lot of animated content on netflix for he-man currently but
00:30:25
Speaker
We're not getting a live action movie anytime soon. In this day and age where a buff guy can't be here, man. What are we doing? There's gonna be a bodybuilder guy who's like having it like, you know, throw like a fest on, like run over the sword. We need that sword of sandals, like 80s style.
00:30:53
Speaker
like Conan movie to come back. We had, we had the Jason Momoa Conan, but like that was like the only one like the last what decade. Yeah. I have no idea when's the last time we had that maybe was immortals before or after Conan. I think, I think it was before. Yeah. And that's more like 300 in that, in that sort of genre. I don't know.
00:31:20
Speaker
Uh, yeah, it's fancy. It's got some fantasy. I guess I guess the Witcher is like the new like sword and sandal sort of sort of handle kind of thing. But but they're not sword and sandal. That's medieval. Yeah, that's more like I think Game of Thrones got supplanted and like that style supplanted like. But patrol. OK, so I'm trying to like there's like there's like high fantasy fantasy. It's fantasy. It's it's it's sort of sword and sorcery is fantasy.
00:31:47
Speaker
But we're looking at fire and ice. When's the last time we had fire and ice as a live action equivalent? Why isn't there a new fire and ice coming? I can't tell you like the new action. Yeah. But I think it it it tells the Ralph Batch story again. Just they can take its time. And I think there's a Red Sony movie coming up. That's true. See that that I think is more sword and sorcery because half the time in those adventures, they're traveling. And when you're traveling, you're just coming across sand.
00:32:18
Speaker
They're wearing sandals and whatnot. Yeah, and it's also what like I think I think Conan is low fantasy. Like, because there's there's high fantasy and low fantasy, and I think Conan is like the low fantasy is more like the like like grounded like Conan style and high fantasy is like elves like Lord of the Rings style.
00:32:46
Speaker
I'm surprised there's no elves in Conan. How is that like, not a thing? Now, Conan is, most of it is like, I think, well, there's like snake men and stuff, but it's mostly just like barbarians and other humans and they're like, they're like different tribes of people. It's mostly people. It's mostly magic. Yeah, and then one or two people that discover things. Yeah, that makes more sense.
00:33:13
Speaker
I get low fancies. There's no elves. There's no crazy beings. It's more cults and then. You could say it's before modern technology. But I mean the 80s is all about like low fan, especially post Conan, because he had like, you know, the barbarians. He had like all those like what was that? Was that she was that like readily amused? I was talking about like the something that it's like. Just like a whole like a whole series of them.
00:33:42
Speaker
There's like there's like multiple there was like multiple like knockoff series of like coded movies Barbarian brothers were in like one There's a beast master I guess was kind of like a like a coded knockoff Yeah, they're just small
00:34:07
Speaker
That genre died in the 80s like the 990s as soon as commando showed up. No more sword and sorcery. No more beast master. Deathstalker, that's that's that's that's the series. Well, they have like four deathstalker movies. I there was definitely a lot of stuff. I think the first one was trying to be.
00:34:36
Speaker
like a straight-up comedy movie, but then the rest of them were basically a parody of them, since they got really goofy and ridiculous. That's a series we should probably revisit one day. Anyway, yeah, He-Man. Hopefully maybe someday we'll get a new He-Man live action movie.
00:35:03
Speaker
That's that's more faithful to the the series and not just like a back a back alley in Los Angeles We talk about there's a music shop there's a gymnasium they can work in they get there's a Star Wars element Like all all your high fantasy favorites the the chickens the chicken restaurant The one street
00:35:31
Speaker
It's a band nerd that knows how to play the future. Citar that one. Yeah, like Goldor, the character who's not in this cartoon at all, who's like, who's supposed to Orko, but they didn't have Orko in there for some reason. They didn't have the rights. Super weird. Yeah. Can it films with this maniacs?
Anime Series Recap: Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen
00:35:55
Speaker
But anyway, that's it for this week, so why don't we jump into show and tell? And Chris, what do you watch over the last week or so here? So I haven't really watched a lot of movies lately. I've been watching a lot of anime, surprisingly, just kind of catching up on modern day anime. Did I ever talk about Chainsaw Man? Maybe briefly, I think. Well, I finished the first season. And it's good.
00:36:25
Speaker
Um, I remember reading the comic here and there and I see it, like I'll read in the store. Uh, the anime does a good job of just cramming all the volumes into one like streamlined story, but you lose out on all these little sub characters. Just because they want to focus on really just the main core of the story. So they just remove all the filler, but I didn't realize how much filler, um, means to a lot of people to all the sub characters.
00:36:54
Speaker
You know, like it's just like one episode. We'll just dive into this one part anyway, back to the main character. But if anime works that way where when it only has like 13 episodes, so they really try to use all that really efficiently. Where in the comic, they're just like, let's just keep pumping out like arcs and and side stories to fill in pages because there's nothing else to do. So it's a show that I think in order
00:37:23
Speaker
follow its appreciation like you watch you you watch a show then you read the comic or you read the comic then you watch a show is like a cliff note version but it's um definitely worth watching just because if you haven't really watched anime you're getting back into it or you're going to an anime convention or comic convention and there's just random ass cosplayers that you have no idea who they are and they're dressed like the men in black but anime style like 8 out of 10
00:37:52
Speaker
is most likely going to be a character from Chainsaw Man. It's a paranormal hunting unit. It's like a governmental demon hunting squad. And then the latest guy that he brought on is a demon guy who made a deal with a devil, or in this case a demon, that
00:38:12
Speaker
when he pulls a rip core that's in his chest, transforms himself into a creature with a chainsaw head and chainsaw arms. And then later on, he gets all these like upgrade stuff just because he gets more powerful. But it's just like not like it's one of those animes that it knows it wants to be violent and kind of weird and perverted. And it just goes, yeah, this is it. Like we know this section of anime fans. Let's just aim towards that hardcore.
00:38:40
Speaker
I do like a good violent anime. It's definitely not gross over the top, but it's one of those like visually you just let it go nuts and every episode tries to one-up it. I think I might have mentioned this in the episodes, but finishing the season, I'm ready for the next season. It's one of those like they throw a lot at you.
00:39:06
Speaker
And then they throw characters that you start to like, and then they just get rid of them. So it's, it's, it's, uh, I dunno, like I get why people say the comic book has more time to understand these characters, but because I've watched them like this, it just like, Oh wait, what happened to that? It's like, Oh yeah, like I, I'm there. Like some people are mad, you know, they're like, we just, they never covered that arc. But I recommend it.
00:39:35
Speaker
The second anime I watched was Jutsu Kenshin. Maybe I'm pronouncing that wrong. It's another anime that is about a governmental magic squad. And this time around, instead of hunting demons, they hunt like sorcery items. I think in Japanese, Jutsu Kenshin translates to like sorcery fighter or something like that. But
00:40:05
Speaker
This is about a kid who is a high school kid who stumbles into paranormal things because a group of his classmates discover an artifact of cursed material. And then basically, because of this artifact, he's able to witness the underworld and magical things. So he can see.
00:40:35
Speaker
um demons and stuff, but There's a whole like ranking system of demons and and whatever he gets possessed by An ancient being so it sort of follows like the Naruto rules where it's just a guy who's always been an outcast and no friends and then because he's like embracing his his like Outcast nature he becomes more popular and it's like the one thing he really wanted you know was just to have friends and
00:41:05
Speaker
So it's one of those animes. But the writing is really good. At least the American dub version. Because it straight up is making fun of other animes and other things. It there's like tropes that it follows. So if you watch a lot of anime, you'll notice it. But they do this, this side character who is basically just every generic mentor character and all these animes that is just doesn't give a fuck.
00:41:34
Speaker
You know, he's sort of like, um, the mature anime viewer that he, he's kind of aware, not like it's a parody, haha. Like, you know, wearing this sort of anime, the style of anime writing, but at least the dubbing is good enough where they'll say like, Oh, like, why is this person doing that? And the mentor character's like, just because she's crazy, like she's a crazy bitch. And you're like, what? So.
00:42:01
Speaker
It's funny like it's definitely I could see why more more it's very popular with older anime fans too and also younger ones but especially when it hits like a generational difference between a certain age group you know that that makes it more of a phenomenon I think it's like number two anime in like Japan in America you know just the the following but don't just make sure where people gonna watch this because I just watched it a bunch of places
00:42:32
Speaker
Kenshin is. Yeah, Crutcher Roll definitely, but I think maybe Netflix had it at one point. I think it's on. Yeah, Crutcher Rolls, the main series. Yeah, and then there's like there's the movie, which is not on like it's like it's like it's a rented like it's not a pay. It's not a streaming.
00:42:55
Speaker
Well, the movie is like a prequel to explain the first incident of when these demons came, like when someone had a recording thing where it's like, hey, we can fight these things. Also, Jusu Kenshin's on Disney Plus. Like, it's weird. I think internationally the distributing rights to other countries is Disney Plus for Jusu Kenshin. Maybe part of like Star, because if you're out there, you don't have Hulu, you have Star, and it's part of like Disney Plus.
00:43:25
Speaker
I'll do two cases also on Netflix sometimes and then. And then maybe on Hulu. No, not on Hulu. Just just just watch says it's on Crunchyroll and Funimation now. Hmm. It jumps around, I think I saw it on. One of them and I didn't watch it and then it's like it just pops up randomly like because anime rights just are weird. So. I recommend it, I definitely.
00:43:55
Speaker
I like the crazy setups to get to the monster fights, and it deals with a very... I mean, from the tone of it, you just think it wouldn't be that deep, but the message is, like, live a crazy life so you have a good death. That's the whole message of the TV series, because the main character, his grandfather dies in the first episode, and it's one of the things where he tells them
00:44:23
Speaker
before anything where it's like, hey, don't be like me. No one's around me when I'm dying. No one cares besides you. But then the grandson, the main hero, says, that's not true. I was there. I loved you. You still had a good death. And he sort of signs up to do this crazy shit because of how his fate is happening. The first episode,
00:44:51
Speaker
The reason why the main hero gets his powers is because he eats this cursed artifact that he absorbs it, then he gets partially possessed. So that's why there's this other demonic being in him. The thing is, as soon as he gets all of the pieces, the people he's hanging out with, they have a turn on him. It's like an agreement where
00:45:16
Speaker
He basically gets to live long enough to collect all these parts that are scattered all around Japan. So that at the end they can assemble, they can sacrifice him. So it's like they can get rid of him in one shot. Because if not, if they don't, then these pieces can eventually bring back the demon. So it's like messed up because that's what I'm saying. This is not a show that
00:45:43
Speaker
You should not watch as like a kid just because the idea is that you're like, we're all limited time on this earth. And the main character is already like a high school kid that understands that like concept fully. And he understood that before he got possessed. So when it just like clicked for him that he's just like, oh, shit, like this is how I want to go out, like I want to fucking fight demons and see what happens. It's like, what? So, yeah, that gets dark.
00:46:13
Speaker
real quick and then after once you're okay with that message then it gets back on track again to do zany things like hey let's go to like the arcade or oh let's let's do a side mission where we just don't really kill anything but just do b plot you know so like no fad on that just i mean no fad in chainsaw man because it's straight let's just do everything
00:46:39
Speaker
But I think due to tension, they want the opposite, where it's like, let's take our time and explore the things and build up slightly the world. I think because also these enemies came out like two years ago, so I'm catching up on this and watching this back to back. I know sort of back to back. I can see the fandom that made this this I can see like where it came from and that this isn't the typical.
00:47:07
Speaker
uh like Naruto or DBZ or just trying to be pretty girl or pretty cosplayer anime that is just geared towards selling like posters and cosplay gear like this was like oh let's try to have like a message uh and then i guess to top it off um i watched that muscles and mayhem documentary on Netflix about
American Gladiators Documentary
00:47:36
Speaker
I wanna watch the first four episodes, I think. I watched all of it. How many episodes are there? Is it only like five episodes? You're like one way from the end, but... Yeah, I got to the part where they just did the steroid thing, and they said, like, oh, did Titan ever, like... It's them trying to, like, say that they were doing steroids, and I think, like, almost all of them are like, yeah, I did roids. And the thing like...
00:48:04
Speaker
Well, Nitro is like so super open, like, oh, yeah, fuck, fuck, yeah, I did. Yeah, Nitro was awesome. That actor, stuntman, like guy, he I want him to see more things. He's very personable. He's very. He's super just like open and honest about like, like everything that happened. He's like, yeah, fuck, yeah, that happened. Yeah. Yeah, he's someone I want to hang out with, you know, like when I was watching that, I felt like I was friends with them. I was like, oh, man, Nitro, man, I just want to.
00:48:34
Speaker
I can get a beer and talk about other shit with them. Also, like ice seems super fucking cool, too. Like she's just like super, like super chill and awesome. I read something, right? The ice ice, she had like ice has like the tattoo, like a fuse, ice and lace or like. Yeah, so ice is the one with the tattoo that still has an amazing like.
00:49:02
Speaker
Post-career, like she, Ray is zap. Her and Blaze, they aged amazingly well.
00:49:24
Speaker
But yeah, it's it's it's super interesting. Like I love the first episode where you get to see like the super shitty pilot that they got. I I did not. I heard I've seen pictures but never saw it. And so it's like, where can I see this, like, cut terrible the equestrian horse like arena that like they barely jet the horses out before they started shooting it. And just like the terrible events like.
00:49:48
Speaker
I don't jump on trampoline and try to grab this phone before it like people are getting slammed in the trampoline. Oh, it's like everything was a hazard. I love it. And then even like the first the first 15 episodes where it was still they're still trying to figure out what the show is going on and they had like the executioner. So let's check on and like like and then like that was like. That all that's like Malibu getting like kicked in the face to like
00:50:18
Speaker
That was like the last episode of like that. That run like it was like two. It was like two chunks like 13 episodes each for like the first season. Yeah, the first season part one and then he never came back because they said like oh you do that. You get another like head injury. You're just yeah, I never knew that. Never knew that. Basically he was. I always thought he was there longer. Yeah, it was just for like the original 13 episodes and yeah,
00:50:47
Speaker
brought in like all the other they brought in like laser and everyone else. I do them at the second half when it's like the the cast I remember, I definitely picked up more interest in watching this. Mm hmm. And just like also have you gotten to like put the part where they're on tour or have you not seen the episode yet? I think that's what they're just doing. Next one. Because that sounded just insane. I'm like they went on this like 120 show tour after like the third season, I think.
00:51:16
Speaker
and that just it just it's just like pure like debauchery and like steroids and just like every everything there's like there's like home video footage and on the bus it's just like wow they were just like non-stop party like crazy this is like it's like basically a rock and roll show but like a rock and roll tour by the time they just scored around like doing like this like merry gladator show and then also like
00:51:41
Speaker
They were doing this tour and then they were like, it's like we have to perform every single night. And it's not like the show where you had like at least like maybe like a couple of days in between shows to like rest. It's like every night you have to like do like full contact at American Landers shit. And so they're like bringing like more gladiators on the tour that they were like kind of like became like Mainstays after that. But it's like like Tower was like got like introduced on the tour.
00:52:11
Speaker
Did did he come back for the main show? I just don't remember. Yeah, he from like 1991, 1994, but like he he joined the show, quote unquote, on the tour because they're like, hey, you're a bodybuilder. Come on. We need people like these guys getting injured out here. We need more gladiators. Yeah, I mean, it makes sense that they need a rotating roster to get people breaks, because if not, like guys are just going to.
00:52:38
Speaker
Basically fall apart and then they were that's why it's like yeah roids to maintain the look And there's to not die and there's a whole craziness about like they weren't getting they didn't get really any of them like merchandising like cut they didn't cut in any sort of cut-ins like the merchandising like their contract was terrible and
00:52:59
Speaker
Like they basically it was like a in perpetuity like this is what you get for the show. That's it. You don't get any certainly there's no no chance of it. You're like parry getting creased or like no you don't get any ties with the merchandise. No no publicity like no residuals like. Like I think I think at one point like they were like like Nitro and like ice numbers are like oh we were making like $500 a show. And meanwhile it was like they're making like shows make like millions and like toys and games and posters and T shirts and
00:53:30
Speaker
everything else. Yeah, it's it's crazy because. Just because merchandising rights aren't part of the deal. Once you sell your like things in, that's it, you know. Once you. The whole thing is like when they signed the contract, they're like they had no idea was going to be that gigantic. They just thought that was kind of small fun. Maybe like last like a season or two and then like they just blew up like this like global phenomenon.
00:54:00
Speaker
I know it's rough because basically you don't know what to do when you're that young and then. You're going to have greedy ass like business people that are like, yeah, we'll give you $100 for just this rights right now and we'll never renegotiate this ever again. Yeah. No, that sucks. And then you'll get to it too, but like there's a I think it's like the last episode or like when like make it into like.
00:54:28
Speaker
There was basically like a like a medieval times American later show in like I think Las Vegas or Orlando. That was like I think we watched a commercial about it, but I don't think. I we've ever heard of it, really, because what was that called? It was it was just like American later's live, I think, or something.
00:54:54
Speaker
But that that was basically that was like that was like the death of America. That's like all the gladiators are like, yeah, that was basically what that happened. That was like we knew like, oh, it was dead. Like when you're doing like a this like cheap dinner show with like fake gladiators, like we knew that that's what you knew. It was like, this is it's over like. So it's like a weekly American gladiators thing staple.
00:55:23
Speaker
I think it was nightly. I think it was like it was like a medieval times. Like you just just go and have dinner and watch sheep, sheep knock off regular editors. And I think some of some of them did like did do that for like they were like the dinner show for a little bit, but then all of them were like, but most of them were like, no, no way. And they all talk about like. We were like we were on tour at Madison Square Garden,
00:55:53
Speaker
And then we're going to be at this like shitty like dinner theater in Orlando. Just like the drop, the drop is was too much. I do wish they didn't get into it. I mean, it's not really a spoiler, but they don't get into like the kids version or like the like like the reboot at all. They kind of say when the
00:56:23
Speaker
Main original series ends is kind of when the documentary kind of wraps things up. Oh, OK. I really don't give a crap about the new American Gladiators because I wonder if it's like a one season. I would have liked to hear about like, like, because I think some of them did appear. They were like coaches on like the kids, like you just tell us about the kids version, which was like really weird because it was like it was all you imagine the same sex and drugs attitude just with kids. Just like, all right, kids.
00:56:53
Speaker
I'm going to tell you how to do the gladiium, but first let me go bang the other coach. Well, I think I try. I think nitro like some of the main gladiators like to coach it because because the kids were obviously weren't going as gladiators. They were like the gladiators like coaching them to like on the events. And then but then there was a weird. It was all about nutrition. So it was like you gotta climb the food pyramid like. Yeah, I get that you get like a one one.
00:57:22
Speaker
food group from each each yeah i get one of each food group on the on the pyramid and bring it back down to uh the the base here so it's like this like edutainment like and then like riding a seagrass was the host of it what when when did this come out it was like it was like it was like during like the main show it was like 1994 1996 was like the glad years 2000 like the kids show real and it was like i think it was
00:57:49
Speaker
It was like a Saturday morning or was like a syndicated like if you bought I think I think if whatever network like whatever like local network bought like gladiators they got like gladiators 2002 with it. And so a lot of like local affiliates like area like in like early Saturday mornings like Sundays on the weekends is like before like their main block like before like for like kids WB or like Fox kids like actual started is like oh it's it's it's like 7am it's gladiators 2000 now.
00:58:22
Speaker
But there's not, there's any talk about that. That would have been kind of interesting, but it's really focused on like the main original OG Bear Glider show. But yeah, it's super interesting and super entertaining. Like all the Gliders they talk to have like tons of interesting stories and behind the scenes stuff. There's a lot of great like behind the scenes footage, like a lot of like home video footage and
00:58:49
Speaker
stuff you haven't seen before for Merculators. So it's definitely if you're a fan of Merculators definitely like definitely worth checking out. So anything else Chris? So I saw a couple of things besides Muslim Mayhem. I saw Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1, the longest title of the summer.
00:59:18
Speaker
and another part like we're getting a lot of weird it's part ones are like the big thing this year because fast x is a part one across the spider versus a part one and now we have dead directing part one um and yeah the the seventh mission fossil movie um and i think definitely it's definitely still the same you know maintains the quality of mission possible especially if you're a fan of like the
00:59:45
Speaker
Christopher Quarry movies like Robyn Nation and Fallout. This is definitely still on that same level. Like just lots of huge stunt set pieces. I'm sure you've probably seen like the Tom Cruise like jumping his motorcycle off a mountain clip, right Chris? Oh yeah, like a lot of times now. That's in the movie it's even crazier.
01:00:11
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There's like, there's a seam, after he does, after he jumps, the motorcycle is like, you know, like he's like, like he's skydiving everything. He actually is like doing dialogue still. So you see like Tom Cruise's face is like, like flapping in like the speed of like the skydive. We still like delivering dialogue, which is like, it's just insane what he's doing.
01:00:31
Speaker
And then there's a huge cartridge in Rome, which is also... It's kind of weird because Fast X also had a huge Rome set piece, and Dead Wrecking goes to the same locations as Fast X. It's like the Spanish Steppes in Rome. They both do this... Actually, almost the same kind of gag, where a car is bouncing down these steps in Rome. So it's kind of... There's these weird coincidences between this and Fast X, and also...
01:01:00
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It like Indiana Jones down to say the big like on top of a train sequence and the mission boss with dead records at the top of the train sequence to like a big fight on top of a train. So all these movies are kind of like echoing each other weirdly this summer. Now is this supplementing that this is all in the same shared universe? Oh, maybe. Fastest next submission possible in the same universe.
01:01:25
Speaker
Well the crossover you didn't know just digitally edit both those movies together where it's like Fast X is happening this section and then this is happening then fuck it Jurassic World where they're all going Rome to Adopt was it domain in your head that scene. I don't know if those Rome I think there was a different that might be like a turkey or like Tunisia or something's Almost similar architecture just did you add it again add some raptors in there?
01:01:54
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Yeah, but the so the plot deadwrecking part one, which you find out in the first 10-15 minutes of the movie is that there is a rogue AI called the entity that is kind of like running rampant across cyberspace and like infiltrating government agencies and like intelligence agencies and like, no one can control it. But then
01:02:18
Speaker
There is there's these two keys that if you get both if you get both keys you can you can no one's sure what it unlocks but they they know it like whatever unlocks will let them control the entity. So they're not sure like where where like the keys go to or what it does like where like the lock is but they do know that like if you.
01:02:40
Speaker
get the keys then you can control like this entity which is like the most powerful cyber weapon ever devised like whoever controls the entity will basically like rule the world basically because you can like send it out to like infiltrate and destroy like anything you want cyber digitally and then it can also it can like impersonate people's voices and so like deepfake people and like erase data and like maybe like surveillance footage so there's this whole thing of like
01:03:08
Speaker
the entities out there and then you can't trust any sort of digital, like radar or surveillance or digital communications. So God's Eye again. Yes. Or it's like slightly more benevolent SkyNet because it hasn't gone like genocidal yet, but it's like on the verge of going genocidal because there's some sort of master plan it's trying to do, but it's not really clear what it's trying to do yet.
01:03:39
Speaker
And so there's like this whole kind of fun thing where like people are like like the CA is like is like forcing a bunch of people like like to hard copy their documents like there's like typewriters that people are typing up documents and they're switching but going back to CRTs and old satellites and analog like walkie talkies. So just like to try like make sure the entity is the entity isn't listening in or manipulating anything. And then
01:04:05
Speaker
The main villain, who's played by Simon Morrell, is Gabriel. He's like the kind of the human, like, avatar of the entity. Like, he's working for the entity. And like doing doing whatever it's like, trying to, like, get the entities planned, like, whatever it is, like, in place. Wait, is anything from the first few movies carrying over to this?
01:04:34
Speaker
I mean, I have a big spoiler. Well, I mean, the main team that's been like last few movies, so like Simon Pegg, Bing Rain, Rebecca Ferguson are back. And then also like Henry Cerny, who has not been seen. We haven't seen since the first movie, Kitridge. He's back.
01:04:50
Speaker
Which is fun. Like he, Harry's journey just like slips right back into Kittredge, like effortlessly. Like it's like the same, just like smarmy, like cocky, just hates Ethan. Like it's like super contempt for Ethan and everything he does. But like he's like, well, I hate you, but you get results. Damn it, Ethan. But obviously they go rogue. Obviously it's a Michelle Bob's movie. So like Ethan has seen go rogue again because they
01:05:20
Speaker
They're they're they're tasked with like getting like the keys and delivered to like the CIA, but then they think that no one should have the keys so they're kind of like they're like trying to get him for like in the keep them safe like away from everybody. Cause like no in order to destroy the entity because then no one should have the entity under their control because too powerful. Which I think might be like a kind of a plot kind of like. Kind of issue where it's like the entity is like too powerful a little bit. Maybe where it's just like it can like literally do anything.
01:05:50
Speaker
like it's a sort of like plot like mechanic you need to do it'll do like it can you know it'll it'll impersonate someone's voice or it even goes so far as like it can predict with an algorithm what's gonna happen so it's basically like telling the future so like people like like Gabriel like is like I know what's gonna happen Ethan I've seen it it's already we know what you're the choice you're gonna make so it doesn't matter what you do
01:06:20
Speaker
So that might be like a bit like an issue of like it's it's like it might be like this. Mcguffin is like too powerful. But I guess we'll get the whole picture in part two. I guess like I mean, it's obviously only part one, so maybe the part two will get like some sort of like. The whole picture of like what's what's going on with it and what like maybe somebody like negated or something. But right now it's basically like it's like digital God. I can just do whatever it wants. So it's a rogue AI.
01:06:50
Speaker
Yes, which so someone someone created it and then I think one of the camera is when intelligence made it or like there's like a base version of it, but then it got it got loose and it started like going and it got loose onto the Internet. Now it's just like out there. But then wouldn't the best solution just make another AI that hunts that AI? I.
01:07:16
Speaker
You know, like last day I convinced you know it's basically just making. Like. Vision to the Ultron yeah. Well, there's I mean there's another MacGuffin so there's the keys, but there's another MacGuffin that if you find that if you find the keys you can you can get to this thing and then that thing will let you control. Either you either control you take over the entity and like you control it or you can destroy it.
01:07:43
Speaker
So that's going to be the big thing of like two is like who who's going to get to like the entity and like what are they going to do when they get to it? But yeah, but this is that our component was all about the keys. It's all about like we gotta find the key like it's like this global hunt for the keys because like they they know where one it is. Team know where one piece is, but then we're trying to find the other piece and then Haley Apple kind of factors in because she's a thief and she steals the key.
01:08:12
Speaker
Oh, she she's not like an agent. She's just no. Which is this kind of fun twist is like she's not a part of like this IMF espionage world. She's just she's a really good thief. So then she gets kind of like pulled in over her head of like, oh, now I'm in this like crazy IMF CIA espionage, like, you know, fighting car chases, which I'm not like set up for. And I hate I want to get out of it as soon as I can. Wow. That did not see that come.
01:08:40
Speaker
And then that's like the whole dynamic of being her like top crews because they're basically they're they're the co-stars like they're they're in like almost every scene together. And then she's like trying to constantly trying to like get away or like like, you know, betraying him or like leaving him like handcuffed somewhere and trying to get trying to get out. And then he's like, finds her and gets the key back and then forcing forcing her to work with them.
01:09:05
Speaker
It makes sense. Wait, wait, it's because she stole the one key and you're like, oh, your skills are good enough and now you're part of our team. We're forcing you to be part of our team. Well, I guess they get into that too, where it's like everyone in the IMF. Was sort of like a criminal or they got like like basically Ethan was like on his way to jail and then it was like either you
01:09:29
Speaker
I like it like. It was like I recognize your skills, so it's like you either go to jail or join IMF. Flashback or he says that there there's a flashback and there's like ties like Gabriel has ties to like Ethan's past. Like they have a history together that's real in this movie. OK, which I'm hoping that hopefully there'll be more of that in the second one because it's kind of like they don't really get the introduce it, but they don't really get into it a lot in this one. Oh, they're just super vague.
01:09:59
Speaker
You I mean, you see you see how they're how they're connected, but then they don't really like get into it a lot like of like what? How did they know each other? Like, why? Why did Gabriel do what he did to Ethan in the past? Because I feel like secret brother wouldn't make any sense because it's that no, because Ethan already has a sister and he had his parents because they were going to take the farm. They're framing him in the first movie if you didn't come out of hiding.
01:10:31
Speaker
But yeah, it's just like, oh, surprise, Ethan, you're my dad. Like, wait, what? Yeah, I have a feeling hopefully we're like, there's probably going to be more like. Like it's hopefully more info about what like what Gabriel's deal is because he's he's pretty he's pretty like enigmatic in this movie. Like he's kind of like mysterious and like you don't really get a lot of info about why he's doing what he's doing or like why he's like fully on board with the entity.
01:11:02
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and like why he and Ethan ran to each other like had like this kind of like mysterious past together so hopefully they'll get into like more of that in the second one and then yeah the other thing like hell yeah it was great but like
01:11:17
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Because they have to like do this whole like it seems like she's very important to like this one and then probably the next one. So there's like they spend a lot ton of time with her and then you kind of like the other other members like the like established members team kind of get pushed to the background a little bit like you know like big rain sign peg with record Ferguson. They kind of like are not in it as much as like hell yeah well. So that's that's a little spoiler like there's still there's still around, but it's not like they're like certain certain points where there was like.
01:11:45
Speaker
Disappear, it's just it's just top crews in the haley. I will just like you know like in a car chase in like Rome or something So if you're a fan of like the like the main team It's a little this way because they're kind of like not in it as much as you would hope they would be But overall it's still still great like just great action All the stuff you come to expect from like mission like the current mission possible movies
01:12:16
Speaker
There's you know there's crazy mass double crosses and heist kind of like these heist setups like. Here's the plan to get. Here's here's our plan. Here's how it's going to go down and then it fails horribly and they have to figure out a new plan. I say. I will say I I think it's like between this and like dial destiny and I think even like fast X in general for there's all all all of them are like close to three hours long and then what they do. I see like what they're doing is like they're like making these like super sized action sequences like
01:12:45
Speaker
There's like the like the car chase in Rome and dead reckoning part one is like probably at least like 30 minutes 40 minutes long It's just and it just it just seems like it keeps going I was like non-stop. Yeah, which which I mean, I'll never say like oh less action, please but it's also like a certain point it just gets like almost like dulling or like it's just like you're like, I Don't know you just get like You get you get you get the gist of what they're doing and it's sort of like can you move on like next thing maybe?
01:13:14
Speaker
You want to get to the next thing because like there's only like there's only so much like you know car chase stuff you could like it's like I love car chase but like I've seen like we've been this car chase for like 30 minutes. So maybe something different now or something. Yeah, there's some some parts of action movies and I think 80s movies are doing that. They're all trying to be the bullet car chase sequence. Yeah, I think I wrote my review by I think I would prefer like
01:13:44
Speaker
you know, sure, like, I think I prefer like shorter acts because they're with an entire movie. So like, this is like two hours long. Perfect. Two and a half hours. I mean, there's definitely you definitely there's stuff you could cut in this to like, get it down to like two hours or around there. Like, I think John Wick does each segment as one nonstop different
01:14:06
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things really well, so three hours seem to be the perfect saga for it. I don't see Mission Impossible needing to be a saga movie. Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's definitely you could trim a lot of stuff in here. There's like there's quite a bit of like exposition of scenes of just like people like. There's like there's this opening scene of us like like Henry Zurney is like explaining like the entity and it's just like it's like it's just straight up exposition is pure exposition. There's nothing else to the scene.
01:14:39
Speaker
But I mean, there's some fun stuff in the city were like Carrie Elway's movie is like the like director of the intelligence for the United States. And then there's kind of fun Medicare like.
01:14:56
Speaker
Cause like it like here's very like reveals that like IMF exists and he's just like IMF. What does that stand for? He's like impossible mission for us. He's like, that's a stupid name. Like, tell them to the intelligence guy. Yeah. Cause cause apparently like no one was aware of IMF except for Henry Zurney who's like the director of IMF. They're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What happened? What about the last few directors? That's that's I'll try to figure it out too. Cause like is Henry Zurney is like what the like fifth fifth IMF director.
01:15:25
Speaker
I also feel like he was the CIA director first, wasn't he? Wasn't it just? Wasn't it Fallout? Wasn't it like like? Oh crap, what was it? Ghost protocol. Angela Bassett was it? No, Angela Bassett was the CIA director. I think Alec Bob was still around, but then he got killed in Fallout. So then he was the last IMF director.
01:15:51
Speaker
So Henry's ear must have stepped up and like I'm the director now of IMF and the CIA. So Angela get killed in Rogue Nation. It was fall. I'm looking at the fall plot description right now and like Bob was got killed in fallout because like that's it was part of it when like Henry Cavill got revealed as like the traitor and he killed a ball when like the tunnels. Oh wait, wait, wait. That was fallout. That was fallout. Yeah, OK. Because because fallout was like.
01:16:20
Speaker
Because you had Rogue Nation, then after they destroyed Rogue Nation, the people who were left after the Rogue Nation became the Syndicate for Fallout. See, I don't know why you call it Fallout if that wasn't really what happened or there's no project called Fallout, was it? Was it called Project Fallout 2? I think it was Fallout because they were going to detonate nuclear weapons across the globe. They had stolen a bunch of nukes that they were going to detonate and destroy the planet, basically. Gotcha.
01:16:52
Speaker
God, it's a little weird to think about the plot lines that the villains keep trying. Because I think Ghost Protocol was the only one where the villain's plan worked in the beginning. But it had also the villain that did the most work. Like the lead guy did everything. He was on the ground. He like two henchmen. It was mostly just him. Yeah.
01:17:22
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Yeah, I think if you if you like if you like mission possible. Like definitely dead reckoning, you're gonna get exact. You're gonna get like most pretty much what you expect from it. It's fun. The long but like most of the summer has been kind of too long, but I think this one is definitely. The pacing wise it definitely feels like not as long as like that. Destiny like I liked it, but like it definitely felt like it toward the middle was like wow, this is like drag it a bit.
01:17:51
Speaker
that recommend one doesn't like that never feels like it's dragging just feels like, wow, this is we've been here for a while. I mean, I'm still entertained, but it's like, we're still going. But yeah, so I saw that. Um, I also saw I finally saw Sisu, speaking of action movies, which I thought was pretty fun. Definitely. It's like it's like John Wick mixed with like glorious bastards.
01:18:21
Speaker
there's a lot all that like kind of like over the top job wick like kind of like brutal action but like also like the inglorious bastards kind of like heightened world war two stuff going on i do love that he like that um like a tommy like the main character gets like he gets like a john wick style like uh they find out like his like backstory and then there's this whole like the whole like john wick backstory like
01:18:46
Speaker
Oh, he's a one man death squad. He killed like 300 Russians. He's like, they call him like, whatever, like, the immortal, like, you can't kill him. Like, did you, did you appreciate how little he talks? He just, he never really talks until the end. But it's this, like, he is supposed to be this, like, just like,
01:19:15
Speaker
unyielding determination, where the beginning movie seems like it's just like, it's going to be him against all these crazy situations where he walks away on harm. But he should have been dead three times by the middle of the movie just by just injury wise. Yeah, I suppose when he gets hanged, like he's, he's, he's up there for like hours, it seems like and then he's like, he's like, somehow managed to like, like, survive getting hanged and then like,
01:19:44
Speaker
gets himself unhooked from the noose. But it's not like he grabbed the noose and was holding himself up. He was just dangling there for who knows how long. Then he just snaps back to life and is just like, I'm back. I'm going to kill these guys who are playing nearby.
01:20:07
Speaker
So that's I mean, there's some parts I can forgive it. You know, it's supposed to be. Yeah, it's all it's I mean, it's super heightened. I mean, it's not it's not supposed to be like realistic at all. It's like a very crazy is like is is realistic. It's very brutal. Yeah. But it's it's almost like a comedy just because the the way.
01:20:30
Speaker
The villains get killed is funny. Yes, like they get the guy gets thrown out of the truck and then gets thrown over by a tank and then there's that what like the scene like the minefield were like like like like a time like he like throws mines at them. He's like takes up a mine just throws it at him. Just so casually and then it also it also some cool like crazy stuff like when he is like killing those guys underwater like sucking the air out of their throats.
01:20:57
Speaker
It's really brutal. I mean, I watched that in Adobe quality theater and just hearing the bombs and the grunts and stuff is an experience. I'll tell you that. But yeah, super fun. That one is is like 90 minutes. That's very efficient. 90 minutes. You get exactly what you want from it.
01:21:22
Speaker
I appreciate the downtime when he's not killing. It's a lot of scenery and world building and atmosphere. I guess atmosphere shots just because it's usually him in a big wide shot. Either in pain or digging or hanging. It's also it's like a saying you don't really like you don't really get a lot of like Finland in like World War Two when like what was going on there in a lot of movies.
01:21:53
Speaker
Because they had their own totally different situation going on there. They started out fighting it with the Germans. And then they signed a deal with the Soviets. And then so much like, well, you have to kill all this. You have to get the Nazis out of there. And then we'll help you get rid of the Germans. Yeah. And then the Germans were doing their scorchers.
01:22:23
Speaker
binds and destroying every single village in fitlin basically uh what did you think about the main villain because i feel like it was he was evil but he was sort of not like on a fist fight level like it reminded me of like john wick
01:22:49
Speaker
first movie where the main villain could not really win in a one on one fight with the main hero. It's just like all right like after you fought your way and got into this level now it's the fight. Yeah they definitely could have either made him more like physically imposing or had like another like henchman who's just like this like you know crazy buff like just like like like the guy like like the guy from like Rangers Lost Ark or something. Yeah they didn't have that.
01:23:17
Speaker
Yeah, it was just like these like kind of normal looking like German guys. But yeah, I mean, I mean, it starts realistic where there wouldn't be a bodybuilder on their team. But the guys is a conniving, greedy dude. But yeah, but given like how crazy gets and like just like the overall tone, like having like a crazy
01:23:42
Speaker
it's like giant like Nazi that it's like the final boss or something would have been like totally in line with like what they're going for here yeah he's even at the animal he's getting whipped in the face like a chain yeah that that was brutal after he boards a plane by like slamming his like knife into it so like a pickaxe dude like attach himself to the plane from a motorcycle yeah i think the movie's problem is that it just didn't
01:24:12
Speaker
ring. It didn't have good marketing. It didn't tell no story. So it just sold action sequences, which worked for us. Yeah. But it's definitely gonna be a cult movie that I think when it came to streaming, people were like, holy shit, it was a good movie. Like when it when it came to digital. So it was just streaming. People were gonna be like, what the fuck? How do we miss this? But that's the problem of any like Finnish movie. Even The Dangerous Hunt was like that.
01:24:37
Speaker
The one with like Samuel Jackson. Oh, big game. That was a big game. That was that was the movie they made. I think they made right before this, like the director. No, no, before that was he made that. Then he made that express movie, the one where it's like. The holiday one where they hunt down like monsters and stuff. Well, there was I think I think he did rare exports, rare exports. There's three rare exports. Well, there's.
01:25:04
Speaker
There's a series. Oh, yes, there was. I think there's a couple of short films in that series, but like the main the main movie was like the first one that was like the first big movie. And they did the game and they did Sisu. So that's been his like three like feature films of our for Joe Murray, Hellander. And he did TV show called Perfect Commando. I mean, he knows what he wants.
01:25:37
Speaker
Yeah, have you seen all three rare sports big game and this? I think this is definitely my favorite one of his so far. I mean, big big game was pretty fun, but like this one is just like, yeah, like next level, but like the violence and like the tone and just like the way it looks and everything. Oh, yeah, I I've seen the big game and it's more fun character development and scenery shots. But this is like, what if we take that same comedy and tone and just actually add a shitload of gore?
01:26:09
Speaker
And it works. Yeah, and then and and German Tamila too is just like a great just like. Like you know, like you said, like no dialogue, but you can tell exactly what he's thinking. You think he's just so expressive with his face so that every scene is like you know. Just just like silent badass is like murder. When he when he fully just switches in like killing mode and you're just like, oh yeah, this guy, I totally believe this guy killed like 300 Soviets, whatever 300 Russians or whatever they say he did.
01:26:38
Speaker
I was like with his bare hands. Yeah. Yeah, so I saw that and then the last thing I saw is I saw the premiere of Justified Steve Primeval. The Return of Lillian Givens. Which it's going to be an eight episode limited series. And yeah, Justified is one of my favorite shows of all time, so I was I'm I was super excited that was going to be back. I didn't like I don't think I'm expected to like ever come.
01:27:06
Speaker
It kind of ended in like a really great way, like the main series. So it's like, I think that was, everyone was like, well, that's all we get. That's fine. Like, it's like, like, in a really great way. But yeah, but it is back. Based based on an Elmore Leonard book that did not have railing in it, but they just added railing into it. It's like, because it was like a different character in
Justified Series: New Setting and Dynamics
01:27:30
Speaker
it. And then they're like,
01:27:31
Speaker
Well, the universe, but then they just said it's it's railing givens this time. I don't I don't know if all I don't know if all the books are in the same universe, but it was it was a different it was it was one of his like, you know, crime novels then. But it wasn't like a because he's written a bunch of like railing books.
01:27:51
Speaker
And then it's like they took the main storyline of City of Prime Evil and then just made the character, made like detective in it, Rayland, and not whoever it was. Gotcha. But yeah, it's, but yeah, Timothy Alvin's back. He's in Detroit now. And he gets, he kind of gets roped into like, this hunt for, we're trying to take down Clement Mansell, who's the Oklahoma Wild Man, by Boyd Holbrook, who's like,
01:28:21
Speaker
Super violent super ruthless criminal. He for the first time he kills like a like a judge. And is also like up to like other. He's got some sort of like planned emotion. He's trying to like rob people and like he's whole string of crimes behind him and you know the railing and like this is a team. It's like a police detective. He's working with them trying to take him down.
01:28:45
Speaker
Um, but he also has like his daughter with him. Like Grandpa is like 15 year old daughter because he was trying to drop her off at like a camp or something because they're on like kind of like a road trip and then he gets like this like going to Detroit and then like he's stuck in Detroit with his daughter because they missed like getting her to camp on time. So now she's like, it's like, yes, they don't tell. Don't go anywhere. I gotta, I gotta, I'm working, but let's stay here. Of course, and of course she like disobeyed him and is like wandering around Detroit and like getting the mischief.
01:29:14
Speaker
Like Detroit's already a tough city and she's like a country girl and she's just like yeah, I don't listen to my sheriff father or Marshall Marshall, you know, yeah And uh, but yeah, she's played like uh, Timothy Evans like actual daughter like Vivian elephant So they have obviously they have like really great chemistry because their father daughter in real life. So And then yeah Boyd Holbrook is just Fantastic like he's just like fantastic villain like I think I think I mentioned
01:29:42
Speaker
when I was talking about Nia Jones earlier a couple weeks ago, where he was the main henchman to Mads Mikkelsen, but he didn't really get to be fully unleashed in Dial Destiny. He is fully unleashed here. He is just off the leash, crazy. But also really charming, but crazy. So he'll show up, and he's like, oh, this guy's kind of cool, and then he'll just murder someone. It's like, oh, OK.
01:30:10
Speaker
Did you you haven't seen Sandman yet, have you? No, not yet. So Boyd Holbrook is essentially the same character, except he's way creepier in Sandman. He's a serial killer in Sandman. He's supposed to be the like like an evil representation of humanity. Yeah. He goes around and kind of just brings out the worst of people and he murders them. But there is a big thing
01:30:41
Speaker
About this that just carries over, you know, it's just he has a look about being a charming Attractive killer, you know if he just wasn't any of those things it wouldn't what makes sense. Yeah, he's very charismatic but also like sadistic And yeah, just just a great like feel like antagonist for rayon to go up against and
01:31:05
Speaker
I mean it remains it's only been two episodes it remains like I don't know if he's gonna like reach like you know Walden Goggins level because Goggins is like God level unjustified but he he seems like he seems first episode he seems like a really great villain like definitely one of the best like justified villains so far. Just there hasn't been another cowboy villain has there? Well they really they I mean you had you had Boyd for like the whole show and then they had they had to kind of like the different like each season had like new villain
01:31:35
Speaker
Like yeah, like Michael Martindale for season two and like Neil McDonough showed up and then but like Yeah, but then Yeah, just like a lot of them were kind of like it's like it was like other they were like from different areas of like the hollers of Kentucky or like Harlan is like, you know, he had like
01:31:57
Speaker
Like my healthy Williamson was like in season three. He was like the like the like the the barbecue guy who's also like the crime boss and forget different area than like Rayland grew up in. Because like Rayland grew up in like the one part of Harlan, but then like there's like other other areas of Harlan that had like other like crime going on. And then you have like like the Dixie Mafia and like the actual mafia.
01:32:27
Speaker
But yeah, so far so far for me, although it's just Boyd Holbrook. It's it's it's basically it's kind of like it's like a one on one Rayland versus Boyd Holbrook. Gotcha. And definitely definitely an interesting change of pace too, because it's very urban. I was like, like, justified. It was like, you know, the backwoods of Kentucky for a lot of it. So it's just a change of pace and just like seeing like, you know, Rayland is like, you know, it's like cowboy hat is like cowboy attitude and like,
01:32:57
Speaker
like Detroit and like running off to like Detroit cops and Detroit lawyers and stuff. There's Detroit cops too that you have to justify. Not really like cops yet, but there's like one of the other main new characters like is like this defense attorney who's like is like constantly like kind of like like she's like representing like all she's like representing like Boyd Holbrook and like these other like criminals and kind of like interfering and like running interference for like unreal and like stopping you from like investing like
01:33:27
Speaker
It's like. Don't ask my client or I'm taking or like I'm going to put it like a restraining order on you or like taking a court like like like unless you have evidence like stay away from no talk to him. And they have like there's like a really like like we first get to Troy is like go like yes like go to court and then it's like he like it's like this like like arguing with like the lawyer. And she's like.
01:33:55
Speaker
because he does like he's like typical real thing of like, like, kind of like, beating out some like, you know, country justice on these like guys that like, ran into him, like, they basically try to like hijack him on the way to like, Detroit, he arrested him, brought him to Detroit. And then so he like threatened to like, throw him in the trunk and like, like, doing his like usually rail and like, you know, like tough country thing on him. And then like, because of that, like, this defense tree is like,
01:34:24
Speaker
My client was harassed by like Marshall Givens and then like we got the car just dropped and then so it's like they got like a really bad on the bad foot cuz like she's she's not like taking rail ends like country Kentucky justice Well, so
01:34:47
Speaker
And also like like Keith David is like is like one of the judges and like when he showed up like Keith David's on the show. What? That's awesome. Yeah, I did not know that I they just kept pointing that. Like I I believe they want to keep the. The story is sort of a mystery because they want to review all the all star cast just so soon. Yeah. I was like it's a little. I think it's going to take a little bit,
01:35:17
Speaker
just getting used to new characters. So it's like, besides like rail, it's like just a totally new cast. Like there's no, no one else like comes back from the main series. And yeah, because the main series has so many, so many, like outside like Goggins, they had like, there's like, like all, all the other Marshals were so great. Like, and just like all the other like colorful characters that showed up were great. So I definitely miss like, even like the, like the, like the other, like the rest of like the Marshall team, like there was like, you know, like Tim, who's like the, like the sniper Marshall.
01:35:46
Speaker
And it was just like just like the master just like deadpan like whatever Rayland like said or like did is just like Tim was just like reacting to just like the most like deadpan was like I don't I don't give a crap like I'm not impressed at all with what you're doing. And then like there's like like Rachel was like like the super like by the books like constantly just like running into like like just going up against Rayland like I don't think we should do it this way and then whatever I don't care.
01:36:22
Speaker
But yeah, I mean if you like justified, I mean. To the offline is just like awesome as he wasn't justified the main series. It's got the same kind of style and tone to it, so I'm excited. I'm definitely going to watch all like watch the whole thing. And I don't know if I don't. I mean, it's so it's so kind of like cut off in the main series. I think you could you could probably just jump in if you like you even if you haven't seen justified, you could probably just jump in and watch this.
01:36:50
Speaker
But I mean, just why it's so good, you should probably go watch Justified first and watch this if you haven't seen it. And it's it's it's all on Hulu. I mean, Justified and see if everyone are on Hulu. So it's no excuse to just jump into this then. Yeah, Justified is like top like up there with like, you know, Mad Men Breaking Bad, but I saw all the Americans for me like it was it was just such an awesome show.
Conclusion and Future Content Promotion
01:37:22
Speaker
But yeah, that's gonna do it for me this week, so I'm gonna wrap things up. Definitely head over to the site. We've got all of our usual news, trailers, features. I got a review of Fisher Possible. I also have a review of the new Muckenshire White movie, The Island, that comes out. If you're hearing this issue out in theaters and on demand and on digital right now, you can check out both those out. And I'm sure if anything big comes out of Comic-Con, like trailers or any sort of big news, we'll have it on the site.
01:37:50
Speaker
You definitely talk about next week probably as well. And what we're going to have next week also is when our the rocketeer commentary is going up so you can head back to site. Check out our commentary for the rocketeer. We watched that 90s classic. And I believe we're also going to have our July game box up soon so you can check out what games we played over last month or so here.
01:38:17
Speaker
Yeah, all that on the site. Check all that stuff out. And yeah, so for Chris, I am Zach, and we will see you next week. For more Everything Action, head to www.EverythingAction.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, at EVAction, on Facebook by searching for Everything Action, and follow us on Instagram, at Everything.Action. You can also subscribe and get more episodes on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.