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132. Ready or Not: Here We Come to the Theatre
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Adrian and Simon review director’s Matt Bettinelli Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s comedy/horror film, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Plus, Adrian reviews director Ian Tuason’s sound-centred horror film Undertone and director Akiva Schaffer’s comedy Naked Gun. Additionally, the two pals discuss the 98th Academy Awards ceremony hosted by Conan O’Brien, Universal Pictures’ new theatrical release window, and Lantern’s writer Damon Lindelof’s recent controversy surrounding the colour green. To round-out the show, Adrian gets hyped for the 2026 horror film, Obsession, and Simon gushes about the recently released Spider-Man Brand New Day trailer.
This episode was recorded in Canada on March 20th 2026. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on April 7th for Episode 133.
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Introduction and Frustrations with Tech
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This episode, we review the horror comedy sequel, Ready or Not 2, Here I Come. We discuss the 98th annual Oscars award ceremony hosted by Conan O'Brien. And we examine the trailer for the Tom Holland starring Spider- Brand New Day. With new episodes airing every two weeks on Tuesdays, this is Split Focus, a film and TV podcast.
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I'm Simon Eadie. And I'm Adrian Pinter. Welcome to episode 132. Wow, really cool. Come on in, guys. It's podcast time. Welcome.
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Bye.
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Hello, sir. ah You know what really eats at me? You know what really eats at me? What? Apple lately. I got to tell you, Apple is driving me nuts. These big companies, man, they just they just walk all over us, I guess. I don't know. I don't know what it is. Nobody holds them to account. They get too big.
00:01:15
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I don't know. <unk> just ah It's baffling. I had to rewrite the entire document. That's why I'm late here today. Oh. had to rewrite the entire episode because they deleted my my stuff in Pages. The Apple Pages app just completely deleted everything because I didn't update my operating system a couple times. And then it didn't sync.
00:01:36
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the the The Pages document didn't sync up. So episode 132, throwing the garbage. So I've rewritten it in Google. I'm not going back to Pages. Goodbye, Pages forever. Apple screwed yourself, I guess. You lost one customer out of billions, I guess, but I don't think they care. um And so, yeah, that's kind of the thing. It's not just Apple. it's It's Microsoft. Microsoft Teams is one of the worst apps I've ever used in my entire life. they just Nobody holds these guys to account. they just People just give them money and they're like, yeah, we're we're great. I'm like, no, you're not great. It doesn't just work, Apple. It doesn't just work anymore. That's all going say. I'm frustrated.
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You can tell. I'm also
Indiana Jones and Gaming
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very sick. Came back from... my honeymoon and I'm just very sick. I'm i'm sunburnt. my My skin is peeling. I'm fired up, Adrian. I'm fired up. How are you? Did you, you already started recording?
00:02:26
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Yeah. yeah The audience is hearing you speak right now. Oh, yeah I didn't know. you You literally let me into the Zencast room and then I guess hit record right away and just start rambling. Yeah, I may as well. I may as well just get go get going right away. know This is going to be a chaotic episode. you send me the document? just rewrote the episode. I don't have the document. Can you share the document with Yeah, yeah. It's a Google Doc. This is ah we where this is raw. This is raw.
00:02:51
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recording here man yeah that's right well you know you don't really nothing in the document informs you of what the beginning of the podcast is anyway to be fair enough fair enough but yeah i'm i'm dropping in the chat but yeah i don't know i just i like being prepared i like i like knowing things well you have in the last couple weeks because Apple would just wouldn't it would not sync the document for pages for weeks because I had to completely ah change my operating system. I don't know why that's important. I just don't understand google Google just has Google Docs sync everything up in the cloud constantly and you don't have to change an operating system for it to work.
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dont I don't really understand what is the logic here. I don't get it. And then to find out after i I've updated the operating system, I open pages and it's deleted my entire like three weeks of work. It's like most baffling garbage I've ever heard of. It doesn't even make any logical sense. I was saving it repeatedly. I was trying to save the the the core file so that it wouldn't do that.
00:03:45
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Didn't do that. It just didn't save it. It didn't save it. it's It's three weeks back. It's since they started telling me that I couldn't sync it anymore with with you for the collaboration. Anyway, I don't want to bore the audience. This is a film and TV podcast, Adrian, not ah not a a bad tech podcast.
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So it is what it is. I've been using Apple forever. I have every Apple product under the sun in terms of categories, and and I regret it a little bit more now. This year more than ever, but the last five years, this to me, the software has gone downhill. that that was't that I mean, is Windows any better?
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Is Windows any better? Is is Windows software better? I have a Windows
Movie Reviews and Critiques
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PC. I don't really use my PC. I literally turn it on once a week once every two weeks when we record, typically. and um I mean, i I don't really use all its in and out features and everything like that, but I mean like Microsoft Office is, dude, I use it for work, it's atrocious. I hate Microsoft Office. I agree, that's why I use a Mac. Yeah, the calendar gets worse, every update, they're like, you know what?
00:04:41
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Hey, you like how that this is done? Let's make it worse. You like it? No, actually I don't, but thanks. Outlook, garbage. Microsoft Office, like the word, not good. So I don't know.
00:04:53
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um Yeah, no, that's the problem, though, right? And competition, like not having good competition makes it. you What are they competing against? Mac is better, 100%. But they're not they're competing against Windows who's been resting on their laurels for years. And their their operating system hasn't really been good over the last couple years.
00:05:12
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like Windows 11 is arguably not very good. and Then when you look at Teams, it's not very good either, but that's the number one I think it's the number one platform for for big companies for for communication between their teams, SharePoint and and all the Azure services.
00:05:28
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It's so much. I can't even believe how bad it is. And everyone's just like yeah, we're going to buy into teams. Like how much these sales, you know what? Microsoft's good at sales. Their sales team killer.
00:05:38
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They're just murdering out there. Yeah. But the rest of it, like their actual software, it's not what it, well, other than games, I feel like their games teams are are doing or killing it at this point right now, specifically.
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I wouldn't go that far. Playground games kills it. Um, I think Bethesda is a fantastic studio. Um, I think there's like a lot there. I guess they technically, I guess, I guess Bethesda they own, but I mean, like, i don't know. I feel like they're kind of operating relatively independently. I'd imagine we don't know for sure, but, um,
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I don't know. they've They've had more like considering the amount of teams they have. had They have like they they I wouldn't say they're doing well. I think Obsidian is a is stellar, though. Like they're i they're the only ones releasing games for them consistently. I feel like so. But but that's for us as well.
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Bethesda, I guess Doom and Starfield and yeah other thing maybe. Indiana Jones. thank you Indiana Jones. Hey, you want to know something now that you brought up Indiana Jones, Simon? I've never watched it Indiana Jones, as as you know this.
00:06:37
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You know what I'm going to though? What's up? going to watch the first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark. I'm going watch it this weekend. Oh. And then... I'm going to jump into the Indiana Jones games game single because that takes place right after the first movie, movie if I understand correctly, or shortly thereafter the first movie.
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Is that correct? I think it it it does. I Googled it. So I'm just going to say, yeah, um that that was my understanding that it takes place in between the first and second movie. So I'm going to do that. I'm telling you right now, going do that. oh No, the second movie is a prequel, so that's impossible.
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Wait, the second movie is a prequel? Yes. Goes back in time. Yes. Okay, shit. Then maybe I got to watch both movies. It doesn't matter. I'll watch both movies then. Let me check though, because I can't remember if the last, I think the last crusade is the last.
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I think it's before the last cruise. I'm trying to think now. Where does the Indiana Jones? game take place it says after it is definitely the temple of doom is 100% a prequel so that definitely the second movie in the in the series Indiana Jones is definitely the game Indiana Jones is after in the sorry in the great circles after those two first films but I can't remember if the last crusade takes place in 1937 between the Lost Ark and the last crusade yeah so that that's true I do I should watch temple of doom as well
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uh you can it's interesting because i don't love temple of doom i think raiders is awesome and i think lost crusade is awesome there's something about temple of doom and it's not to me as good but i do like it though i do like it okay i think the worst one is definitely for uh okay the crystal skull i think that's the worst one by bit of a margin it's just too you watch the dial of destiny i can't remember yeah i really like it it's on theaters with ken Oh, nice, nice, nice. he was dressed He was dressed up. He was dressed up to the nines as as Indiana Jones. And he yeah you looked good.
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and ah And it was a good movie. both enjoyed it. I think he'd already seen it before we went there, though. So he came and prepared. Second watching for him. but Okay. I'm going to watch those two movies, and I'm going to try the Indiana Jones game.
00:08:47
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Because – My library has it, so I'm just going to take it from my library. Excellent. It's very good. I really like the game a lot. like I think it's excellent. A lot of people do, man. It's well rated, so I feel like I'll probably like it.
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I predict you'll like it, actually. You'll predict it? I predict that right now. Too much pressure now. Now I'm going to hate it. I'm going to hate it just to spite you. It's very, it's like their version of Uncharted, but it's good. There's a, there's a quirkiness to it. That's unique to it as well as it being first person, which I think the first person aspect is fricking awesome. I think that that part, the thing that it got a lot of flack for when it was, uh, when it was an announced, like, wait, this is an Indiana Jones game and I can't see Indiana Jones.
00:09:29
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You know what's really cool about first person? Some first person games, they do a good job when they're first person, but then they do this thing where they do cut scenes in third. And even in in this game as well, there's also when you climb things, you're in third as well. When you use your whip to climb things and swing across things, you're in third. I think it's a really good balance, but the first person aspect makes you really feel immersed like you are Harrison Ford in this grand adventure.
00:09:53
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But yeah, anyway, it's really cool. really like it. I am Troy Baker playing Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones in this grand adventure, you mean? Yeah, right. Nice.
00:10:04
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That's awesome. Troy Bakison Ford. Troy Bakison Ford. Yeah. Right on. yeah i requested access, by the way. on that doc if you want to give me access i did it twice oh i don't do i it a third no i haven't i haven't used this i'll wait for him i'll wait for the guy oh dear yeah where do i even accept access i don't know probably your email man this is uh this is a message would it be your email i don't know about that uh should be but um
00:10:40
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Yeah, you're when you're ill, man. I mean, I asked you a couple questions about your honeymoon last time we spoke we because we did play marathon together. i had to invite myself to it. i I invited myself to play marathon with you.
00:10:54
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After all this time, you know, you didn't want me to play with you. And I just said, Simon, i'm going to play with you. Is that OK? And you said, fine, fine, whatever. So we hopped on to marathon, played a little bit. And i was like, oh, how was your honeymoon? You said, good.
00:11:06
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So elaborate now. Elaborate. Right. Give me some more. I didn't just say good. I did say more, but, but I mean, it's good for this podcast for me to say more now. Um, uh, it was pretty good. I enjoyed it. I got really burnt at one point, like really burnt. I use so much sunblock, dude. Am I the whitest person you've ever met?
00:11:24
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Maybe. Um, like personality wise or skin color? Either way, whatever you want. But I was talking about skin color. i'm just I can't believe it, dude. I can't believe how much sunblock I used. I was like bathing the stuff, and it was like burning. I'm like, am I still burning? I have so much SPF 50 sunblock on, and and it was not doing anything. Anyway, so that was annoying. 50 is not enough, dude. 50 is not enough. It was very chill. This was an all-inclusive. You got to go 100 i don't think that's the thing really though i think there's like a lot a limit there's like a lie there's like a there's like a there's like a actual it's like a diminishing returns or something like that for the number i don't know when i was in mexico i think i had 80 or 100 and did i get burnt simon i don't know i got slightly burnt just slightly though not not that yeah we were sunbathing too so there's that but you're sunbathing yeah i just try to bask in the sun a little bit i don't get enough vitamin d you know
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vitamin anyway we had a lot of food it was all inclusive it was very enjoyable we had a good time you pounding back those brewskis man yeah and back you know me skis you know me you love the brewing back brewskis no i know you're not much of a ah drinker mean you're not a drinker actually period full stop so which is good yeah it's good for you unlike me who enjoys beverages every weekend, typically.
00:12:43
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Is that too much? My doctor said I'm okay though. When I told her the amount I drink, she's like, eh, probably shouldn't drink that much, but you're you're not past the 10 drinks a week where cancer rates escalate dramatically, is what she told me. She said I'm not gonna make it.
00:12:58
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Sorry, i go ahead. that That sounds like it's made up, though. Like one study said that, you know what I mean? like you we Yeah. I feel like every week there's like, oh, you can drink lots of red wine and it's fine. And then the next week it's like, oh, no, you shouldn't drink any anything. It's like, okay, well, they can make up your mind, you know what i mean?
00:13:13
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like Yeah, like pick a lane. you Pick a lane sort of do. Yeah, like they don't know, i feel like is a lot of is a large part of it, but I feel like alcohol is kind of poison. Yeah. in some way but it makes you feel good which is the best part of poison you know yeah yeah i love it i i so is the sun dude it's true and the sun tries to kill you every day so sun does try to kill you but it also is useful for us for the vitamin d aspect so it's more useful than alcohol but yeah yeah man it's it's so funny like um You know, that like seasonal depression and how real that is. And like, you know, you're in like kind of a bad mood. And then the sun shining and you go out and it's like it's like you just did like a lineup blow or something. and You're like, wow, everything feels good.
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You know, you're just like, wow, this is amazing. And it's just it's nice. Yeah. Yeah. Not that I would know. But yeah. Presumably. About the blow part.
00:14:05
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Yeah. About the sun. No, about the sun part. I mean, I never got outside. Yeah. I've never gone outside. Yeah. um I am. i am indeed. Must be nice. I've heard about it. I've heard it similar to to when I do cocaine all the time. um So yeah. Right. Good stuff. Good stuff.
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um But yeah, dude, I'm glad that you enjoyed your time abroad with your wife and you guys had a pleasant honeymoon. ah um I'm happy for the two of you. It was nice seeing the two of you as well in human form. Yesterday, even though were a little little sickly, I missed you enough and i was like, that's okay. I'll spend time with you This is a perfect segue to talk about another marriage that, instead of going, well, went awry, Adrian, when we watched the movie yesterday about marriages.
00:14:53
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A marriage story. No, no. yeah Ready or not to Here I Come, which we saw in theaters together. And it is about marriages and in a large way, I feel like, you know, because that's what the first movie is about. And it's just continuation in every way. um But yeah we yeah, we should just do that. Let's just review that first. And then we can talk about what we watched independently after that, if that works for you.
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Dude, that works so well for me because I really loved this movie. I thought it was an absolute blast. um I love the um the the The first Ready or Not movie. I like every movie that is it Matt Bellapini.
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Matt Bellapini. Bettinelli Bettinelli Open. Yeah. it Tyler Gillette? that's hiring I don't know, man. not Now you're making a question. It is time to talk Tyler Gillette.
00:15:43
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Tyler Gillette. okay Gillette Proglide 3D shaving cream. The best a can get. Exactly. um i like every single movie these two have directed thus far that I've watched the first Ready or Not, um Abigail, Scream, Five and Six, and now Ready or Not 2. They are five for five for me, which I'm um'm very happy about. This movie is really awesome because it quite literally picks up exactly where the first one ends. And I know you're, I talked to your wife a little bit after the movie, she mentioned that she watched the first one the day prior. And she said that it was really cool how that transition worked out. It seemed like seamless, which is awesome to hear. Because it's been about a couple years since I watched Ready or Not, the the first one.
00:16:31
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I've seen that movie twice, I think once in theaters and then once with my wife just at home. And I think this movie does a lot of really cool stuff. It's interesting because the first one, there is like this level of like, oh, what's going to happen at the end? Because there's it's this weird, freakish, like satanic cult. And, you there's this whole aspect of, ah you know, the setup is, hey, if, you know, Samara Weaving, she's getting married to this guy.
00:16:56
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When they go to, um you know, the family house after the wedding, they have to, you know, pull a card. And she ends up pulling this card called Hide and Seek. And the premise is is if the bride or whoever's marrying into the family pulls this hide and seek card, they have to survive until dawn.
00:17:16
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And the rest of the family has to kill them. And if they don't, they die. And it's a matter of like, how does the family die? Like what what's going to happen? And obviously that's revealed at the end of the first one. And you kind of immediately think like, how are they going to top this in the sequel? You know, you already know what to expect with, you know, what happens if the family doesn't kill them. And it seemed almost not necessarily a rehash because it dives a little bit more into the world and spreads it out a little bit more and being like, Hey, actually it's not just this one family. There's this, you know,
00:17:45
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multiple families that are part of the satanic cult. And, you know, if if the one family fails now, they have to kidnap her and essentially do the same thing where it's like you have to survive until dawn again. We have to kill you um and kind of take it from there. And that's kind of the setup. and You know, I would have been happy if it was literally just kind of a rehash of the first movie. um Just, you know, a new cast and and having fun there. But it was cool because they do a couple interesting twists and turns by the end. And it kind of, you know...
00:18:15
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um does a pretty hard shift in that third and final act, which I really enjoyed. um And I just think all in all, you know, the cast of this movie's 10 out of 10, you know, Samara weaving. I really like, I think she's one of the, you know most prominent like final girls in movies or ah I guess final girls is what you'd call it. Like in like slasher movies that are are always in it. She's just this horror icon. Catherine Newton is a very welcome addition.
00:18:43
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And honestly, the entire at you know cast ah just gave it their all. I haven't seen Sean Hadassian a lot apart from The Pit. um But it's really cool to see him in this movie because he's playing a totally different guy and totally different character. um And yeah, I don't know. i'm I'm a big fan of this dude. He has a gravitas when he's on screen. um But yeah, again, high level thoughts there, man. What did you think of this movie?
00:19:10
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Uh, I am middling on it. I don't love it. It's fine. The plot holes are are egregious, very egregious. There's like too many eight to count almost. Um, so I'm just, I'm not a fan of that. Otherwise was a fun time, but I feel like tonally it's a little, little bit of a mess as well. It goes from like moments of comedy to like moments of like really like hardcore violence that I'm like, Oh, this is kind of jarring, uh, at times, which I, I, I don't know. I'm not i'm not a huge fan of of a lot of what it was doing. So I'm not i'm not the biggest fan of it. it was It was good, but the first movie is like tremendously better. like it and It's very, very focused, that first movie, whereas this movie is very complex. and they didn't ah The devil's in the details, in my opinion, in every movie you you write. But if you're going to make a complex plot, then you have to really focus on nailing down the details. It starts right from the beginning of the movie where...
00:20:00
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um'm Samara Weaving's character grabs a gun and the safety would 100% be on. And I was like, oh, that's a small detail. They just didn't didn't acknowledge. The gun just goes off and there's no safety on. It's like, okay, that's fine. That doesn't really bother me. That's not a plot hole. That's just, oh, are they really taking care of the the you know the little details? And no, they just don't take care of almost any of the details. They're just... Very, very clumsy in the way that it's written. And it's unfortunate because the the concepts are really cool. The skeleton's really cool. The the cult is really neat. Everything about the the overarching story, it reminds me of actually the the, there's like this kind of secret organization going on, as you described. And I i find that it kind of reminds me of John Wick in some weird ways. I kind of like that. But John Wick, they do get the details right from what I recall. Like they very rarely get the details. the little details of the organization wrong. And that's what I really don't like about this movie is just, they just don't care about the little things. And that, that's kind of my issue.
00:20:54
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And, um, yeah, so I, it's hard for me to believe it. It's the believability is, is gets lost. Um, in the sauce when there's a lot of hijinks and gore and crazy violence and in funny moments. And that's great. That's cool. But I think if you're going to make a holistically good movie, then you kind of have to work on all the little things, little details. And I don't think that they did a good job with that from my perspective.
00:21:15
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So mean, it's a two and a half out of five. So it's not ah not a very strong. So we're back to starring it now? Oh my goodness. Okay. I thought i thought we got rid of that. On Letterboxd. No, I'm never getting rid of it because I'm always using Letterboxd. I use Letterboxd for every movie I ever watch. So if I give you a star score, it's what my Letterboxd score is essentially. Oh, okay. Okay. I got to start using Letterboxd more often, but it's, it's interesting. I don't agree with you um personally. Like I think it gets a lot of the finer details correct. And Like, I don't know. I was able to follow along with it. I don't think it's plot holy. Personally, i understood, you know, I can't go over that. law Obviously, I know. I know. Spoilers. yeah Yeah. Yeah, of course. I have lots of them. So, yeah, we discussed a little bit beance on the way and she was she was she was mentioning to me and I was mentioning to her like before I even mentioned them, she knew them, too. So we were on the same page and that we we saw the kind of the holes they had.
00:22:03
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Yeah, fair enough. um Yeah, I didn't really see many, ah if any, personally. um i mean, maybe the yeah, again, the finer details of the gun stuff. I honestly didn't pick up. No, that's not one, though. That isn't a plot.
00:22:15
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Yeah, but again, I. From my perspective, I don't think there's many plot holes personally. i think it made sense. I think the logic adds up. um It is also like a little bit more.
00:22:28
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supernatural for lack of a better term this one because again like the the reveal at the end of the first one that you know that mystery is gone now so i think it can kind of uh explain itself because of that um i do I do agree, though. I think the first one was better. Like, I remember, like, coming out super hot of that first one. And when I rewatched, I was like, oh, yeah, this movie freaking fantastic. um And I think this one might be, like, Ready or Not Here I Come might be my...
00:22:58
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least favorite out of the five movies I've watched by them. But again, that's, that's not saying much because i love scream five and six. Like they are, i i think some of the best scream movies, if not the best scream movie in some cases, i I still think the original scream is, but I think five and six are close second and third in a lot of ways.
00:23:17
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I think Abigail was really cool because it's a similar premise to ready or not, but it's um again, it's very supernatural that when it's about a vampire, um And I loved that movie. And again, I think the first Ready or Not was such a pleasant surprise.
00:23:31
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And it's interesting that so many like since Ready or Not, there's been a few movies that have taken on this ah this premise in a lot of ways, um or at least very similar, or try to like match the tone. I do disagree with you ah as well on the tone aspect. I think the tone in Ready or Not 2, think it's fairly consistent. like it is It's wacky, it's zany, it's campy, it knows what it is.
00:23:55
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And yeah, there are these moments of like intense like violence where you're like, damn, this crazy. But again, it is kind there are these moments of laughter and um You know, it is a horror movie at the end of the day. So I'm always going in expecting the, you know, grotesque violence that, again, we got in the first movie as well.
00:24:13
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um Did you rewatch the first movie as well, like leading up to this with your wife? I did not. No. Okay. Yeah. I was curious if you had more of a fresher outlook of it. Cause again, it's been a couple of years for me, but like for me, I thought the tone was fairly similar to the first one from recollection. But again, it it has been a couple of years since I watched it. Um,
00:24:32
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Yeah, i I thought this movie was all around very enjoyable. i I really liked it. I love this sort of style of movie. I think horror and comedy is a perfect blend. You know, it gives you like these more intense like edge, you know you're on on the edge of your seat moments with – these, these moments of levity, which kind of make you be able to continue going through. Um, and I really, uh, I really enjoyed it. I thought this was awesome. I would, I mean, again, I don't have letterboxd. I have letterboxd. I just don't use it. But if I letterboxd it now, I'd probably do four out of five personally.
00:25:04
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Um, so, um, yeah, again, and to be fair, I know this isn't really your style of movie either. Like you're not a big horror fan. Um, I don't think you you love the the grotesque violence as much as I do.
00:25:19
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I like kind of the over to the top, you know gory violence. No, I like it, dude. have no problem with it. That's not the that's the reason. i don't like it. It has nothing to do with it. In fact, I'm just going to check my Letterboxd score right now. That's why you're looking at a very strange image. Yeah. On your screen. Yeah, I know. I'm seeing your...
00:25:36
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just a ah side note here you notice how my camera's just zooming into my face constantly and like i do yeah i don't know why it's doing that again it's like apple apple apple over and over again there's going to be error error after error today and i'm not sure isn't there like a little feature you can switch on a macbook to not do the um i forget what it's called when i had a macbook center stage but should i have to switch off that feature that's supposed to be a convenience feature adrian do you think Do you think that's Apple's intention?
00:26:01
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Because I feel like it's not. I think their intention is for me to use that feature. So if it's, if it's zooming into my face, ready or not the first ready or not movie. I, um, also, as you mentioned by Matt, but only open and Tyler Gillette. Uh, it, I gave it four.
00:26:15
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So I was very, very pleased with it. I really liked it. I don't think it's even close, but.
00:26:21
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yeah i think the best example um of why i don't like it i feel like it's kind of a oh no oh my god i'm having a bad day today because you had a bad day this morning and i was like i had a trouble seeing you said something and you're something and something oh man i hate that song you like this song no It's horrible. um but We're going to get copyright struck because of that. I fucking nailed it, dude.
00:26:50
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Yeah. Probably. I think one of the greatest examples, maybe they're not the best one, but a great example of why the how the movie doesn't do too well, um I think is, it it reminds me of Army of the Dead. These two characters, they're sisters and they're catching up and they're just like freaking yelling at each other in the middle of ah ah basically a war zone. People are hunting them and they're just like, stop. It's so unrelatable. like I couldn't have just kind of been...
00:27:15
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stabbed multiple times, by the way, you're aren't, you'd be completely bleeding out again. Tonally. It just doesn't make any sense. you You just can't, you can't get stabbed like that. You'd be bleeding out really badly. Um, it's just the way it is. Unfortunately, it's it's life. That's how human, the human body works. It is true. If you do get stabbed, you typically bleed. Yeah.
00:27:31
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yeah Yeah, And they're injured and they're just like, fine. Which is like, again, plot hole. But there's this idea that they're just arguing in the middle of the, like this place. It's like, okay, what are you, Dave Bautista and whatever that other actress actress was that he's like, he's arguing in the middle of like ah a tense situation. Like you...
00:27:47
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you kind of need to go. Like, I just think if I was in that situation, it wouldn't matter that I hadn't seen my sister for years. I would just completely be like, no, no, no, I'm focused. The adrenaline's kicked in. There's no way. Like, I just don't. It's like in the middle of a hockey game, just like stopping and saying, talking on the bench about life. It's like, that doesn't happen. And that's not a life and death situation. That's a hockey game. Like me having played um sports at a high level for a long time.
00:28:12
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um But yeah, so i just, again, there's lots of moments like that, but it's just very strange. like There's like, it's cool, you want to have these emotional moments, but I don't think it works in those those situations when there's just no, again, it just doesn't, it's not logical. And there's just there a lot of that in this film. And so that does not happen in the first movie.
00:28:30
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It's just, it's very, very, it's grounded in lot of ways. It can be funny. Still, things can be funny and tonally, and, you know, have the gore and the laughs as well. You can combine that together. But I just feel like it's missing the mark on the tonal shifts, I think. It's like, again, there's this really violent scene where someone's getting beaten and then just going to this, like, comedy. It's like, okay, Jesus, it's very jarring. It's very interesting. It's an interesting movie. For me, a 2.5 out of 5 is not a failure. It's just like one of those movies that's like,
00:29:00
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Literally, it's just a movie. fine yeah It's just fine. It's just fine. I think about it and I'm like, I really don't like this. I think about and I'm like, I really like this. is That's kind of where it lands. Whereas a movie like Wolfman, which is still one of the worst movies in my recent memory because of two two out of five is almost worse than one out of five. You know what I mean? like I like watching The Room. We talked about this before.
00:29:21
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It's entertaining. We can... trip it, you know, while we're watching it. But Wolfman was kind of like boring and it didn't have a lot going for it. This two and a half like I'm like, there's a lot has going for it. it's just it just doesn't nail the details. And that's kind of where my head's at. But yeah, that's fair. We can kind of move on.
00:29:36
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Yeah, man. Yeah, again, i enjoyed it. I recommend it. um I would go out to see it in the movie theaters because I did go out to see it in the movie theaters.
00:29:47
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But if I knew that I already knew about this movie and its quality, I would still go out to see it in the movie theaters. You know what i mean Yeah. I feel like you didn't have to say it throw that many words because you couldn't have known because you hadn't seen it yet. If you would like it, you know?
00:30:02
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Yeah. but yeah Ready or not here. I'm going to come. whoa ah All right. To the movie theater. All right. What else did you watch this week? Ready or not here? I'm going to come to the movie theater.
00:30:18
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Okay.
00:30:21
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ah What else did I watch? Dude, I actually watched a shit ton of stuff. It's kind of crazy. I was like looking at my thing. I was like, i didn't watch that much in the past couple days. and I was like, wait, no, I did actually. So.
00:30:32
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um While you were gone, while you're in a different country, I actually went to the movies once again without you. i went with a couple of friends and I watched a Canadian movie, Simon.
00:30:44
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A Canadian horror movie. That's labeled the scariest movie you'll ever hear. And it's a movie called undertone. Have you heard of this? I think you've seen the trailers maybe probably.
00:30:56
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So the premise is it's, I really liked this movie. I thought this movie super unique. So it's a Canadian movie. It stars Nina, uh, Curie and, um,
00:31:07
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Michelle Duquette. So I haven't really seen either of these and in in much at all. But the cool part about this movie is this entire movie is a bottle episode. It takes place exclusively in a house. And the only two people you see the entire movie are Nina Kearys, A.V. or Evie character. And then her mom, who is um like deathly ill, just essentially on her deathbed.
00:31:30
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And then every other actor you only hear. which is interesting. And the premise of this is, ah you know, Evie, she does a um like true crime, like horror podcast with her friend. And um they're, you know, starting to record an episode and her friend brings the, these recordings, these 10 different audio files to the podcast saying, Hey, I got these sent over. i want to kind of listen to these live. And as we go through the podcast and,
00:32:01
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um They start listening to it and it's about this you know this young couple from the sounds of it. You just hear recordings. um and weird stuff starts happening on these audio recordings. And the cool part about the movie is, again, you're not seeing it. You've got to visualize it. Use your imagination because you're watching Evie with headphones on, sitting at her computer, listening to this. But the cinematography is so good, and it constantly sets up the camera so there's blank space behind her, you know where you know maybe there's like a glass doorway. And throughout the entire movie, you're expecting, is there Something going to happen in that glass door is something there. And the way the cinematography um is throughout the entire movie, just slowly shifting. um And it just creates this like constant unease throughout this entire movie.
00:32:54
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um I don't really want to you know dive into plot details because at the end of the day, the plot is fairly thin. It's it's just they're listening to this podcast. Weird stuff starts happening on like these audio recordings and then weird things start happening in her actual life. But again, I do really want to give this movie credit. It's a shoestring budget of $500,000.
00:33:15
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um Bottle episode, the entire thing takes place in a single house, only two actors on screen the entire time. And I think it had a very satisfying conclusion as well.
00:33:27
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um I thought this ah this was a really, really unique and cool horror movie that um I highly recommend if you're a fan of like proper horror. This isn't like ready or not.
00:33:38
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where it's horror comedy. Like this is straight up like horror, terrifying. And it is really cool to see how the mystery is unfolding over the course of, you know, the brisk hour and a half runtime.
00:33:50
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My one criticism, my one criticism of this movie is the recording of podcasts, right? And multiple times when while they're recording this podcast,
00:34:03
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there' They have the – they're doing the first episode and then all of a sudden she's like, ah I'm feeling a little weird. And she's like, okay, cool. like Let's record it another night.
00:34:13
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And they do that ah i think on two or three separate occasions throughout the movie. And I'm sitting there. I'm like, what's your release schedule? It's not like – thought you were going to go there. That's what thought you were And then you That's really what made Chris's office. What's your release schedule? because it It seems inconsistent. Like the way you guys are recording this and when you're doing it. like And they're typically recording it at like 3 a.m., m like 3 in the morning.
00:34:39
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I assume like she's on the East Coast, maybe her friend's on the West Coast and that's, you know, they're recording it late at night. um But again, they they like there's days between these like different recording sessions. I'm like, when did you have time to like put this all together and I guess upload it? And then the weird part is like they record kind of the the final episode um where they're listening to the last two um like audio recordings. And then they're like, yeah, we're going to do it live with live Colin. So I'm like, but you didn't do it live the first few times. Like what, like where did you market that you're going to do the next episode live? When did people, when were people made aware of this? That is literally my own, like my, my only like major criticism of this movie. I was just sitting there. i'm like, this, this is inconsistent. I don't understand. You just release on any random day. Yeah.
00:35:23
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yeah like Do you just release it on any random day, dude? Like what's going on here? yeah um So yeah. that Nice. Yeah. as As absurd as that might sound. um No, it sounds great.
00:35:35
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Yeah. First-hand experience. Definitely. it is interesting though because – It's, ah it's, it's reviewed relatively well, 74%, but the popcorn meter is 51. And I'm, I'm genuinely shocked about that. I thought it was, I don't know. I really like unique things, things that are doing something different. And I think this movie really nailed it. And again, the tension is consistent. um I can see how some people maybe don't like the end, but it's like, i don't know. It's like, know, like it's a horror ending. Like it, it's meant to kind of end at a, at a certain point. And I don't know, like what, what,
00:36:08
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I find it weird that that that it is so negative. um Really good, though. I loved it. Canadian movie. Two weeks or two episodes back to back. I'm reviewing a Canadian movie, Simon. Look at me.
00:36:19
Speaker
Look at me, Canadian man here. Let it go. You love it, don't you? Yeah, and I do. How Canadian I am. Nice. Awesome. Anything else? Anything else you watched? ah I have. I have watched one other movie and then I watched. a ah I'll talk about this movie real quick because I don't have much to say about it. I watched the new The Naked Gun movie.
00:36:43
Speaker
Oh, nice. Like my friend has ah gave me their Paramount Plus account because my my wife's watching Canada Shore on it. Okay. And the naked gun was on there and we were just like, it was, i think last Friday, you know, we were just kind in the mood to chill out listen to a, or watch a comedy movie. So we dove into the naked gun and,
00:37:02
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It's great, man. It's really funny. Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson are fantastic in this. They have really great on-stream chemistry. ah Paul Walter Hauser, I really like him in pretty much everything he's in. It's super over-the-top slapstick. I never watched the original Naked Again movies from Recollection. I don't think I have. Maybe maybe one of them.
00:37:22
Speaker
But I definitely watched Airplane, which was you know Leslie Nelson's other like um movie that was probably very popular at the time. And again, it's very slapstick, over-the-top humor, very literal, ah very punny, um and just an all-around good time. And if you if you just want to be you know have an hour and a half, just quality comedy, absurd, over-the-top, get some really good laughs and really recommend that.
00:37:47
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Now, The last thing that i'll I'll properly review, I watched a bunch of other shit, but I'm not going to bore you with it all. um Last thing that I watched. Yes. That is a TV show that came. oh what the fuck am I doing?
00:38:00
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Oh, one second. Sorry. One second. i'm like using my my work keyboard instead of my proper keyboard trying to search this stuff up.
00:38:12
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There is a new HBO show. that has just released starring Steve Carell called ro Rooster. I don't know if you heard about this, Simon.
00:38:24
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It's Bill Lawrence, who is the creator of both Ted Lasso and shrinking now on the HBO right in the show. And it's really good so far. So there's only two episodes and the, the, the setup is quite simple.
00:38:40
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Steve Carell, um his daughter, is essentially dealing with a breakup of her, you know, longtime boyfriend, partner, um who cheated on her with a grad student.
00:38:58
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And like, she's kind of like spiraling out of control. So Steve, the the show starts off where, you know Steve Carell goes to the school that she works at because she's a teacher there along with her her partner or or her boyfriend. And it's just kind of there to make sure his daughter's okay. And that's really the setup. He's a like renowned, like author, um not like high, highbrow work. He just does like silly, like action, like drama, comedy movies, or sorry, comedy books.
00:39:27
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not not I guess not comedy, more so just like action. Like there's an agent and he's essentially like James Bond style stuff for lack of a better term, but that's not really the focus. And he goes to the the school that the dean or or one of the head guys played by John C. McGinley is, is you know, who runs the school, has been trying to get, you know, Steve Carell's character to get there for many, many years to like do kind of like a conference, like a book conference.
00:39:56
Speaker
conversation in at one of the classes. And you know he's constantly said no to it. But now that his daughter's like going through this, he says yes as an excuse to you know go there and you know hang out with his daughter. And that's really just the setup of the show.
00:40:09
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And it is very familiar in tone where there's obviously you know some emotional beats. It's dealing with some sad stuff. But it is consistently you know positive and uplifting like a lot of other Bill Lawrence shows, as in like Shrinking and Ted Lasso.
00:40:24
Speaker
And I thought the first two episodes were were pretty pretty darn good. I really like the setup. The one thing that I find a little bit odd about it, and I don't know, like, is it the Crave stream? Am I crazy?
00:40:36
Speaker
the The look of the show, it has like this weird filter to it. I don't know how to put it. Like when I watched the trailer, it didn't seem to have it. But when I'm streaming this on Crave, there's this like almost like – like a slightly darker, less like vibrant, like sort of stream going on. It seems almost like nineties in a weird way. Like it's shot um like that. ah Again, I don't know if that's just literally crave the way it's uploaded the episode or if this is like a creative choice, but it kind of caught me off guard because when we were watching it, I mean, my wife, the first episode, we're like, something seems weird, right? So we backed out and relaunched and it was the same thing. And then the second episode looks the same.
00:41:16
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Mind you, no other show I've watched on Crave has had this similar sort of streaming issue. So I don't know if it's independent to this or again, a creative choice, but um cool setup.
00:41:27
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I'm excited to see where this goes. It seems again, like it's going to be a funny, like sort of uplifting journey of this woman dealing with her, you know, breakup in a bad way. And again, more things kind of get added to the table in the second episode and and third episode or in the second episode, sorry.
00:41:46
Speaker
Um, And I just feel like this is going to be a fun watch. And I'm curious how they're going to continue the series. Is it going to kind of um you know fizzle out?
00:41:56
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Or is it going to maintain the quality of, you know again, shrinking and Ted Lasso, like how they've been doing for you know these three seasons that have been going on? So it's something I think you you would definitely enjoy because I know you're a big fan of both Ted Lasso and shrinking.
00:42:09
Speaker
No week to week for me. Yeah, that's fair, man. I like it. I'm waiting for roosters. I don't know. I totally 180 on that, man. I totally 180. love having something to look forward to every weekend. Yeah, I have a lot to look forward to.
00:42:23
Speaker
that's nice man i don't i don't okay life's a mess you do you 100% do that's my point i'm making okay life's a mess and and uh so many games coming it's a it's pretty you know well hey the week to week is is short form you know it's like that short form um instant gratification right or not instant but i guess short form gratification instant would be binge watching I mean, I do look forward to it every day. I come home and I watch the next episode of White Lotus or what, you know what i mean? Like, i I do have something to look forward to. I mean, that's to me a zeitgeisty looking forward to it. Like, that's not, I don't really care that much because this zeitgeist is kind of not really. It's nice having a schedule though, mind you know?
00:43:04
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No, i said I don't know. i that's what trying My argument has always been the opposite of that. I don't want to be beholden to a schedule. i don't want I have a schedule. I have got to go to work every day. I don't need to have a schedule that they're determining as well for me.
00:43:20
Speaker
I rather have my own ah going by the beat of my own drum. it's It's an easier way to do it. The way I watched Night of the Seven Kingdoms was incredibly ideal to me. I think it was just, it was way better. I feel like I got a lot more out of it. I remembered exactly what happened from start to finish because I watched it within two weeks, you know?
00:43:36
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So I get it from the zeitgeisty perspective. There's a water cooler talk aspect of it. That's the thing that I think is the only thing that can be appealing. But other than that, i I look forward to every episode i'm going to watch for the next show I'm going to watch. You know what i mean? So I'm already interested. I'm curious to see to see if I'm going to watch um Daredevil Born Again, which is airing.
00:43:57
Speaker
Week to week? Week to week, starting next week. Or this week, I guess, at the time of of this episode's airing. think it's the day this episode airs. Is it the Tuesday?
00:44:08
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. I wrote down April 24th in my what's coming out this week thing. so Oh, crap. I'm going be flying off ah by the seat of my pants for that segment because it's all deleted. Oh, damn. Yeah. Everything's the deleted. I forgot to do that part. So I'll have to, I can, I can probably hack it. um Cool, man. But yeah, it's okay. I got like six things written down. If you want, I can give you some of the stuff I have. Yeah. I'll just, I'll just say it all. I'm like, Simon, do you want to talk about this thing that's coming out on this day? And you can say yes or no.
00:44:37
Speaker
We'll do that. We'll rework it. We're good. All right. What what did you watch, man? What did you watch? that's pretty much it i watched a few things on the plane i finished invincible um on the plane i really like oh i really like that uh third season i think it's really good another thing that's going to mention that invincible season four is out last episode it's out yeah this this week i don't think so no it was it came out on the 18th i think the first episode i forgot about it i saw an ad i'm like oh it's out now i totally forgot yeah but Yeah, it was pretty good. I really liked the ending of that season. Jeffrey Dean Morgan such a good actor. He's such he's so interesting. That whole cast of that show, Invincible, like it it just killed it with the cast. like I feel like they just stacked it. Yeah. And like every episode, they're like, oh, there's frigging Aaron Paul. It's like, oh, it's... You know what I mean? like It's kind of cool. like They're just throwing in actors. They just... And it seems cool that these actors are all willing to kind of jump in and and and be in this too. So it's pretty, pretty good. I really like it. I think, I think that last episode was excellent. There's, there's an element of like, I like this idea of like having a fight scene as well. Like what they've done, they've done this many times in a midsible with that takes a whole episode.
00:45:46
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It's like, yeah it's almost a whole episode. There's something really epic about it. So i'm really into that. I really like it. I'm i'm almost curious. It reminds me of ah like almost like old school, like Dragon Balls, like, you know,
00:45:57
Speaker
anime that's right yeah like i just don't have a lot of dragon ball z uh like i don't have that kind of like pedigree because i haven't watched that much of dragon ball but i did i used to come home and and watch it um because it was beyond right after school um and so i would go home and watch it a little bit but i'm just not an expert at all so i just i don't mention it but that that that would have been the point of reference i i would have is that that was something that dragon ball did really well is that they just had these like epic fights and And everyone would talk about them. And then they'd play the PS2, you know, like the Budokai games. Oh, yeah, dude. Budokai 1, 2, 3. Tenkaichi 2.
00:46:32
Speaker
Yeah. That's Sorry, i interrupted you. You were saying something about the Invincible fighting game that's coming out? Yeah, Invincible versus. There's something interesting about it. Because there's this there's a narrative in that. Robert Kirkman, like the creator of Invincible and the Walking Dead, et cetera. But Invincible in this case, for for obvious reasons, we're talking about that. Yeah. But um Robert Kirkman was saying that if he was going to make any video game for Invincible, it would be a fighting game. And that he he was like pitched other ideas for video games in the past. But the one thing, the one video game he wanted to make was an Invincible fighting game.
00:47:03
Speaker
And now he's getting to do it, which is kind of cool. And it looks really good. I think i feel like the animation it seems pretty great. And i don't know. It looks like it could be pretty cool because they they had a beta, didn't they? Was the last weekend? I honestly don't know.
00:47:16
Speaker
I don't know. and I remember like late last year, they were doing kind of like tests or whatever. I just always assumed this was like a mobile game. Every time I saw it, I was like, is this just like a mobile game? Is this ah is this something legit? um i I think it's because I mixed it up. They had an Invincible like mobile game that also came out at some point last year, a couple years ago. And I don't It's kind of a shame. I don't like fighting games at all. Like I just, I don't, I can't be fucked to learn in like the controls and the, and all of that. It's like, I i just don't find enjoyment in that. and it's purely competition a lot of the time. And I think a lot of people get very into that, that like online sort of setting.
00:47:54
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are Sure. base I mean, we just referenced Budokai. You know what i mean? Yeah, but that that was different. That was like when I was a kid. And again, Boudicca had like a lot lot of story. And then there was even like. Yeah, that's what this is There's a story in the in the game. That's why I'm mentioning it. That's why I'm interested is that that aspect. that the other The other one that I would be interested in in maybe eventually dabbling in is Injustice just to get the story out of it Because apparently the Injustice games, like the DC game.
00:48:17
Speaker
I read the comic books. Oh, cool. I didn't know that. That's sweet. No, you're not talking about Injustice. Yeah, I know you read Invincible. No, I read the Injustice comic books as well. Oh, cool. Yeah. I don't know if I finished them. This was like five years ago, like six years ago. I feel like maybe even longer. I feel like maybe I was in university reading these. Yeah, I did read all of Invincible in university. That I knew, yeah. I caught up and then I was reading it like month to month until it finished.
00:48:46
Speaker
Same with The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead I read want to say like in grade nine or something, I started reading it. And then like the show came out around that same time. Cause I remember, I feel like i I was like, Oh, a zombie comic book. Like this seems like a good jumping on point. And then I like started reading it. And want to say like within like a couple of weeks of me starting it, they announced the show.
00:49:04
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was like, Oh, this is kind of convenient if I recall correctly. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. Okay. Yeah. Sweet, man. Yeah. Cool, man.
00:49:17
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Let's move on now, Adrian, to the montage, a sequence of our show in which I briefly present at least seven of the bi-weeks' smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict. Number 1 Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie is set to develop a new Conan the Barbarian sequel film called King Conan with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
00:49:37
Speaker
Oh, sorry, how what am I doing? Conan. It's like it's O'Brien. Conan the Barbarian called King Conan with Arnold Schwarzenegger set to return as Conan. Oh, that's that's cool. I like Christopher McQuarrie movies, but I have no attachment to Conan. That's fair.
00:49:54
Speaker
Number two, Atlanta actor Donald Glover has been cast as Yoshi in the Super Mario Brothers movie sequel, Super Mario Galaxy. Yeah, cool. I find this weird because they announced this so close. The movie's out in like a week or two.
00:50:08
Speaker
So I'm like, oh, okay. He just cast him. He was already cast. There's been so many different announcements for this, like constantly. The Nintendo Directs are crazy for this movie. It's hyped hyped up by Nintendo, eh? It's going to be a billion dollar movie, no doubt. Okay. Am I going to watch it in theaters?
00:50:23
Speaker
No. probably not Number 3. According to publication Deadline, Disney has greenlit a live-action Tinkerbell series from Friday at Night Lights writers Liz Heldens and Bridget Carpenter for streaming service Disney+. plus ah okay i mean i don't really care about this at all like ah cool Number 4.
00:50:42
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According to Deadline, Hard Eyes director this is something you might care about i do Christopher Landon has been hired on as director for an upcoming supernatural horror film called Final Boarding. Heck yeah, dude. I love Christopher Landon as a director. I think he's awesome.
00:50:58
Speaker
um Just to correct you, he didn't direct Hard Eyes. He wrote Hard Eyes. Oh, he didn't direct it. Oh, he didn't direct it. No. Oh, okay. He wrote Hard Eyes. i put Hard Eyes because because I knew you liked it. I was i had i love that movie. yeah he um I put in Drop initially, but then i was like, oh, let's put Hard Eyes for Adrian. I thought he was the director. Who's the director of Hard Eyes? ah It's like...
00:51:21
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do Josh Rubin. Okay. Josh Rubin is the director. but Yeah, he he wrote Hard Eyes with a couple others. And again, my my persistent theory is that ah he kind of reworked his Scream 7 script into Hard Eyes because it is very Scream coded.
00:51:39
Speaker
Gotcha. Yeah. Number five, Netflix has revealed that a new Will Ferrell golf comedy series is to be called The Hawk, Lonnie Hawkins, and it's set to premiere this summer. Oh, okay.
00:51:50
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Cool. Number six, Phineas O'Connell has been hired on as composer for Beef Season Two at Netflix. The new season launches on April 16th and stars Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac. Neat, man. I'm excited for Beef Season, the second season. Number seven, as reported by The Dish, a star is born director Bradley Cooper is in talks to direct, write and star in the upcoming Margot Robbie attached Ocean's heist franchise prequel film.
00:52:18
Speaker
Wow, cool. Will I watch it? Probably. i like Bradley Cooper. Number eight. As announced by Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Sarah Michelle Gellar on social media, the Chloe Zhao-led Buffy reboot TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer New Sunnydale has now been scrapped by streaming service Hulu. Yeah, and and I think she said that it was literally just one Hulu executive that canned it because he just simply wasn't a fan of the series.
00:52:44
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Number nine. An animated series sequel for the beloved science fiction TV series Firefly is officially in the works, with the original cast returning, but original creator Joss Whedon not involved.
00:52:55
Speaker
The series is set after the Firefly series and before the Firefly film, Serenity. Okay, yeah, I have no attachment to this franchise. Number 10. According to Deadline, Fargo actor Patrick Wilson and Matlock actor Jason Ritter have been cast in the upcoming season three of The Last of Us.
00:53:14
Speaker
Oh my goodness, who are they going to be? Did they say? Did they say who are they going to be? Not that I saw. Okay. And that concludes the montage. Yes, you. Yeah, it's interesting, like that Buffy the Vampire Slayer ah show, that that reboot, like the I guess the soft reboot sequel TV series, that has Chloe Zhao, like, you know, nominated and winning director, Chloe Zhao, um like Oscar nominated for Hamden this this past Oscars. um
00:53:48
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but She was attached as like, ah not a showrunner, but like as a ah as a director. and Joss Whedon wasn't involved and as soon as that happened I was like can this really do well though because I feel like Joss Whedon is kind of the heart and soul of that franchise same with Firefly but this is an animated show so it's an interesting thing like both of those things kind of happened within days of each other the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reboot, soft reboot got canceled while the animated show got greenlit with the entire original cast pretty much except for, um, what's his name? Glass. Oh, for goodness.
00:54:23
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First name. It's wrong. It is wrong. Glass. Uh, right. Wrong glass passed away. And, um, in 2016. But ah yeah, so like he's not in it, but the the rest of the cast is joined joined up, which is really cool. I love Firefly. I genuinely think it's amazing. I really, really love it.
00:54:41
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And the fact that Joss Whedon is not a part of this is disappointing for me. I know that there's allegations against him and all that stuff, but like it seemed to me like he was just a bad boss from my perspective.
00:54:51
Speaker
Um, he's kind of a dick. It seemed like it was kind of the issue. It's not like the, the crazy me too allegations that have gone around. Um, but it is what it is. i don't know I, I, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna pass too much judgment on the guy. Cause I don't know enough about it. Yeah. Um, I think it was just a lot of, yeah. Like, thankfully it's not like sexual harassment or anything, but I think there was like a lot of, yeah, like verbal bullying, yeah hostile work environment, all that. I think the most recent person that like really came out, um, um,
00:55:20
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And was like attacking him was Ray Fisher, who was supposed to be so or who was Cyborg in the DCEU. And he was like yeah saying how Joss Whedon was kind of unacceptable on the set and everything like that.
00:55:31
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I didn't that we talked about that for sure on this podcast. Yeah, that was the one that that was the conversation that I or the. The thing, i I don't know, the way Ray Fisher was talking about it, i don't know. That one was weird. I feel like the the worst situation was actually on Buffy, actually, from what I was kind of seeing. He like you seemed like a serial womanizer, and he kind of...
00:55:55
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He was a dick to his cast. And so that was kind of the issue there. But the Ray Fisher thing, like a lot of that stuff was kind of disproven, wasn't it? Like that that's a weird thing about that. Like the thing about like the the way the color grading was and stuff like that, is like, he was accusing you as a racist and stuff. was like, what I don't understand. where Where is this coming from?
00:56:13
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yeah that That didn't add up when we looked, like when you looked at it very closely. And so the problem with like accusing somebody, I feel like you have to be focused. Like, because you, if you're just all over the place, I feel like it throws what you're saying asunder from my perspective. um But who knows? It's a, he said, he said situation really um at that point for for that particular situation. Cause there wasn't a lot of corroboration. Although I guess some. Gal Gadot also said that. yeahdo Yeah. She also was not a fan.
00:56:41
Speaker
yeah so that he was like very like um they've talked shit about her career and everything yeah it's just like a it's like bad again dad boss vibes he power tripped people it sucks yeah it sucks it's unfortunate um not saying he's a good guy but you love him you love him and you and you wish he was back i love what he's made you love him specifically and you want him to be a part of everything I find it easier to like what he's made still to this day um over somebody like Kevin Spacey. Like it's hard for me to go back and watch a Kevin Spacey thing now because of what Kevin's, although the Kevin Spacey thing is crazy because he didn't get, he was in like multiple lawsuits and he he somehow got out of them. but um But yeah, it's just, I feel like watching Kevin Spacey on screen is harder than watching Firefly again.
00:57:27
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You get harder watching Kevin Spacey on screen. That's a weird thing to say, dude. That's a weird thing to say. More difficult. ah but but By the way, Patrick Wilson will portray Jerry, Abby's father, in the Last of Us series. Oh. and What?
00:57:44
Speaker
Yeah. and um Didn't... I mean... Jason Ritter from from the series Matlock, as you mentioned. He's actually played a clicker in a couple episodes, but he is going to play his own character, a character named Hanley, a WLF soldier. So I don't think Hanley was actually in the game. Didn't they already cast Abby's father?
00:58:06
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No. Wasn't she in season one? Yeah. Didn't they do something similar with The Last of Us video game, though? Didn't they change? They did, yeah.
00:58:19
Speaker
That was like they did the same thing with this that they did then because obviously he was I mean, i don't want to spoil anything, but she would have been in season one. That's kind of a weird. what weird all right whatever let me see i love patrick wilson in particular i really like his casting because i think he's great in everything he's in personally you are correct it's some guy named darren dol dolinski so he got recast interesting he did get recast it's funny that you mentioned that because they did like essentially did the exact same thing in in last us part one and part two yeah um
00:58:55
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I think they like changed how the character looked like entirely, which is funny because they're just doing it. I guess this is a a faithful re remake. Yeah. There you go. So shout out to that. Shout out to that. Jason Ritter, you know, i feel like it's obvious. You must know this because he also looks like a lot like him, but you know who his dad is.
00:59:14
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um His dad, Kristen Ritter. Yeah, right. You don't know based on seeing his photo. No.
00:59:26
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Oh. John Ritter. Yeah. From Three's Company Eight eightable Rules. Yeah. Interesting. He looks very much like him. So whenever I see him, it's funny because like when i think of the name Ritter, I do think of John Ritter because I think I really kind of, as a like as a kid, I used to watch Three's Company actually on like TV land or whatever. And then Eight Simple Rules, I grew up with that show. So like i feel like John Ritter is pretty cool. Pretty cool comedic actor. not related to Kristen Ritter either.
00:59:55
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I didn't think he was. Well, they have the same last name. So I think that's a fair thing to think about. But they don't look that similar either. But but Jason and John do look similar. um Anyway. All right. Well, Adrian, it's time now to move on to a trilogy of news, a component of our show where we discuss at least three. Oh, that's not even the name of it. Again, it got deleted because I got the stupid document.
01:00:17
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a trilogy of topical tidings. Let's into now, Adrian. A trilogy of topical tidings. It sucks if I have to repeat it It's so stupid already as the title. And if I have to repeat it, it's dumber. It becomes dumber, I feel like, than it already is. This is like a component of our show where we discuss at least three film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over the past two weeks, Adrian.
01:00:38
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And the first is the Oscars. I don't know if you watched the Oscars on Sunday, March fifteenth but... ah Conan O'Brien. Conan. conan ore Conan O'Brien was the was Conan O'Brien was the host.
01:00:51
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ah And ah director Paul Thomas Anderson's one battle after another won pretty big at the show taking home the award for best picture. Yeah. Many others. i ah I did fill out the Oscars ballot because i just wanted to I was curious to see how I would do. I didn't use any pre-knowledge of the actual... I didn't like go in and and look at research of what other people were saying this time. I just kind of did it. I did pretty well, actually, on on the ballot. I got a lot of guesses, right?
01:01:16
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Which is pretty cool. um But one bet after another, I did guess we'd win Best Picture, as you might have as well. I feel like you might have guessed that. I don't know what you if you and you were going to do the ballot. But yeah, i would have I would have, I guess, guessed that.
01:01:28
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but But yeah, I feel like there's something about that movie that overall, I feel like all the stars aligned for that one to win. But you watched the Oscars, eh? You did see the whole thing? Nice. I watched it just before I throw it to you here. i watched it in the airport.
01:01:43
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I watched it on the plane. I watched it in the airport and I watched it in the, in the Uber to my car. And then I, uh, and then I had it blaring through my speakers while I was driving home. And by the time I got home, it was done.
01:01:56
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and By the time I got home, it was finished. What do you mean you took an Uber to your car? Where was your car? would you call the part The park and fly? No, no park and fly. Oh yeah. Where'd you park it?
01:02:08
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It's a family member's house. Oh, okay. That makes more sense. i was like, where the hell are you parking? Just on the Toronto streets, dude. Just on the streets of Toronto? Yeah, just on the streets. The Mississauga, I guess. but i saying Yeah, so that's how I watched it it's funny because the moment we got home, it ended, which is so stupid. I did miss the monologue initially, and then I watched it after. One thing I'll say is, well,
01:02:29
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And this is a standout for me. And this is the reason why I was really disappointed that I was going to miss this, uh, this Oscars. Cause I haven't really missed one. And I don't no know, 10, 15 years. i feel like, I feel like, um, first of all, crave was clutch. Cause that's the only way I was able to do this. So thank God it was on crave. That's amazing. Awesome. I got to say this out loud. No one's going to hear this podcast because no one listens to this podcast, but I wanted to be very clear.
01:02:52
Speaker
Thank you, Bell Canada, for getting this, for putting this on Crave. You could have kept it on CTV. You did not. I really appreciate this. This is amazing. I pay for Crave. It's very expensive. It's one of the most expensive streaming services I literally pay for. Amazon Prime, by the way, has stayed at freaking $10 a month for some ungodly I guess, or godly reason, really godly, not ungodly. It's amazing how ah inexpensive Amazon Prime is. Crave is very expensive and to not have the Oscars on Crave for literally years when Crave has existed for years, owned by Bell, who also owns CTV.
01:03:28
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is absurd. So thank God they did this. Thank you, Bell, for doing this because it was hugely clutch for me. The other thing I want to say, I really, really like Matt Barry. I really like him. And when I saw that he was like a few days before that he was the announcer for the Oscars, I was like, I'm going to miss Matt Barry doing the announcements. His pronunciation, what an order.
01:03:49
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You know, what an orator. He's just like, actor. Antonio Banderas. It's so good, man. yeah He's amazing. The whole thing, I watched the, I have like this, there was like the super cut of all of the pronunciations for all of the actors going on stage or whenever they were, he was announcing something. It was like a super cut of him announcing in his specific way of announcing things.
01:04:11
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um And it's ah very entertaining. He did a great job. Conan O'Brien did a great job in my opinion too. But yeah, I'll throw it to you. What did you think of the overall ceremony? What did you think about the wins, the losses, the surprises, the snubs?
01:04:24
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The surprises. um Yeah, man. i I enjoyed it. I like watching award shows. it's It's like more of a recent within the last few years. I've just been getting in it. I just like sitting down and watching these things. It's a nice change of
Oscars Highlights and Criticisms
01:04:35
Speaker
pace. It's cool to see. I do agree. I'm glad that it's on Crave. To be fair, I could have just you know used Bell 5 and leeched it off my mother-in-law and watched it like that. But we we watched it on Crave. We even have Crave Basic, and it's still on Crave Basic because I got Crave Basic for free with my mobile plan. Yeah.
01:04:51
Speaker
just free which is really cool. Um, I thought the ceremony itself was really good. Conan and funny as ever, man. I really like it. You know, a lot of, he had a lot of really cool standup moments where he's just kind of standing there.
01:05:05
Speaker
You know, someone's trying to say like a thank you speech. And then like, they're literally like, take like, The mic is like moving down or whatever. and he just like, he literally comments is's like, wow, that's wild that you're doing that. And he just like stands there and just like stares waiting for the mic to go back up and let these like people like say their thank you speeches. He's a really stand up guy. I really like Conan O'Brien.
01:05:25
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see He seems fantastic. And I do agree with you, Matt Barry. um He's a delight to listen to. He does have a very, he has gravitas in his voice. Yeah, that's right. There you go. have Yeah. You just pulled off him, Matt Barry.
01:05:39
Speaker
yeah Not, not, not even close, but thank you. Um, yeah, I'm not, I'm not too surprised about one battle after another winning. Um, You know, it's definitely not my favorite movie of last year. Wouldn't have been my choice, but it is a phenomenal, like it's awesome. That movie, it's it's great. Like it's really, really great. So I'm i'm not too surprised there. are A couple of things that I really want to point out that I'm happy about, Michael B. Jordan, Best Actor for Sinners, that I was i was fairly confident in. Why?
01:06:08
Speaker
Why? Because I just think he was so freaking good in that movie, dude. i think he's fantastic. He's playing two roles. You can tell them apart. He's just doing such a good job. He should have won two Oscars.
01:06:19
Speaker
He should have won two. That's not the standout of that movie, though. I love that movie a lot. Like, it's excellent. But that, to me, is it's i'd never I never for some reason thought of it as like, oh this is a Michael B. Jordan standout performance. i I don't know. Interesting. It's interesting. I think he did a great job. I think he deserved the nomination, but I don't know. Who were you vying for? was kind of surprised. I got i gotta to i think i think it is Timothee Chalamet in this case. Interesting. I think he was really, really excellent.
01:06:45
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Yeah, speaking of Timothee Chalamet, huge snub. Marty Supreme didn't win a single thing, which was kind of shocking me. What I thought it would win, i really did think, I can't remember which one won this. And I put this in my in my ballot. I got it wrong 100%. I thought Matt, I almost said map barrry and Matt Matt Berry should have won. No, ah marty Marty Supreme should have won the um so when the editing.
01:07:07
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and I agree. I thought the video editing is it's one of its craziest things. And that's that that's Josh and Benny Safdie's, I feel like they're their thing, that they they really, really make you feel anxiety. And I think it's because of the way it's cut.
01:07:20
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and That's kind of the way I i see it. But then fact that they didn't win that, I guess. Who won that? Was a Sinners? One Battle After Another. oh Which is weird. I don't necessarily think it does. like i i don't like I remember like the cinematography and like how how the film like how Marty Supreme is edited together. I remember Sinners better as well. like Just the way it's like again all edited together with the you know music and everything going together. i just thought yeah i was I was kind of shocked about One Battle After Another winning. I wouldn't have chosen that. I can see it.
01:07:49
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I can see it from the edit. I do see it. Like there's, there's, there's elements there where they, don't know. I like it. It's a really well put together movie. One bad after another. I think it's really good. It's chaotic. Yeah. There's also chaotic kind of like Marty Supreme in some way.
01:08:02
Speaker
Yeah, it is. It's, it's a really great movie. Again, it it seems like i'm being negative on it, but again, I think it's fantastic. um Big surprise, which I was super stoked about Amy Madigan winning best actress.
01:08:15
Speaker
Or sorry, Best Supporting Actress for a role in Weapons. that yeah i I wasn't expecting that at all. I think she's remarkable in that movie. She's the best part about Weapons, arguably. I just didn't... You very rarely see like horror movies, you know like people getting nominated for horror movies or winning for horror movies. I think about... um ah Like Toni Collette for Hereditary.
01:08:43
Speaker
Yeah. um I think like she didn't even receive a like a nomination for that. So like I like and I just think that she's 10 out of 10 in that movie. So it's just one of those things. I'm like, oh, I wanted to like I was curious, like if.
01:08:59
Speaker
that that, like, you know, if she was even going to be considered. So she was nominated. I'm like, oh, that's really cool. No way she's going to win it. And then she just wins it. You know, Amy Madigan does. That's pretty cool. She was amazing. I do think that was the one where I thought Tiana Taylor, that that I thought that that was... It's interesting. Dude, I...
01:09:15
Speaker
I think she's good in in one battle after another, but at the same time, like, i just don't think she's that remarkable. Like I, she's not that big of a focus in that movie. and i just don't think she gets that much play. Like, I don't like, I think she's really good. Don't get me wrong. Again, I'm coming off as negative. That is. Yeah.
01:09:31
Speaker
I understand. She's not fair enough. lee yeah Touche. But again, I just think. Yeah, I just, I don't, like, I don't really think about her in that movie. You know, like, I think the stars of that movie are, are, yeah, Sean Penn, who, again, won Best ah best Supporting Actor, makes total sense for me. um Leonardo DiCaprio and Chase Infinity. Like, that movie is based on those three characters in my mind. But E.C.O. Del Toro, obviously, phenomenal in it, too, as, like, a, like, side character. But I just don't really think about Tiana Taylor that much in that movie, personally.
01:10:04
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. I agree. did I disagree on that. Yeah. It's okay, dude. That's the best part is that we can disagree on things. And we'll hate each other for it. Yeah, forever. It's the best part. There's like that movie, there's that iconic shot of her where she's pregnant and she's like shooting the machine gun. When I think about that movie, I think about that shot, actually. Yeah. It's like one of those weird, like it's like it's such a like visceral kind of shot. It's cool. But is that like, I mean, anyone could...
01:10:33
Speaker
be pregnant and shoot a gun. You know, that's not really the acting part. That's not the point. it's cool You're saying you don't even remember her and that you're kind of like saying that she's not really memorable. and She's very memorable. like she fair enough Even like working off of Sean Penn and obviously all the characters, they they think about her constantly as part of the, she's kind of a she's kind of in some way like ah a major piece for the characters in the, her character is a major piece for the other characters in the movie. Like they're just constantly talking about her, you know.
01:11:01
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man but Yeah. But yeah.
01:11:05
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But that's really good. And then I guess the, you know, Sinners winning best original score. My money was on that. No doubt in my mind. That score in that movie is fucking amazing, dude. That one I had. um And then again, a couple obvious wins as well. K-pop Demon Hunters winning best animated feature and best original song. The original song one, I don't agree personally, but that's just me. I really don't agree. I don't agree. but that That one, ah like that in Sinners,
01:11:35
Speaker
That song is li that moment is freaking iconic. And i think that that K-pop Demon Hunter song is the most pop song ever. i mean, it's called K-pop Demon Hunter. So I get it. But it's like that one.
01:11:48
Speaker
i don't know. That song I hear also every day working in like retail adjacent, like going into retail stores. Oh, it's playing constantly. And it's annoying. I don't like that song. It's fine. it's It's not, not saying it's bad at all, but it won best song. I don't know. I'm not not, I'd have to watch the movie maybe for, I'm sure it's a bigger moment at that moment in Sinners, you know, it's gotta be.
01:12:12
Speaker
I follow you. You do? You follow me? Yeah, yeah. I think the Sinners song is is significantly better. that That's what I would have voted for. I really like K-pop Demon Hunters, though. I think that song is bop. It's funny, I didn't even guess that K-pop one at all. Like, I checked it off like guys as I Lied to You. Because I think I Lied to You. at That moment is like the the best, single best moment last year in a theater for me.
01:12:35
Speaker
That moment. For sure. I remember when we talked about it, um i I think I literally told you, I'm like, am i watching a masterpiece like unfold in in front of me? Yeah, yeah. You did say that. think that was the phrase I used. Yeah, that's good.
01:12:48
Speaker
And yeah, I was, yeah, that God, I love centers, man. That might be slaps. We're lucky to go see it in IMAX. IMAX. I think that that was a big thing. Yeah. Yeah. The In Memoriam segment was actually kind of cool for this year as well. i feel like they did a pretty good job with like the the like the, like showing off, like the, there is a lot of legends that like Robert, I forgot about Robert Redford was this year. That's crazy.
01:13:11
Speaker
It's Too people dying, man. It bums me out. I dont understand that. I understand the point of it. it's It's fantastic that, you know, like remember these people, but I hate that part. It always makes me sad. And like, again, the Catherine O'Hara bit, I was like, oh man, like, why am I like, why why am I welling up right now? I'm like, it's it's just, it's really good. I understand the point of it, but it I hate it yeah it. It genuinely bums me out. So.
01:13:35
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yeah That's fair. yeah yeah Yeah. Jeff Keighley was bumped out because his father was not included. a i don't know if you saw that. Jeff Keighley, the Video Game Awards, Summer Games Fest. It wasn't included? Showrunners.
01:13:49
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Showrunner, sorry. No, he wasn't included because Keighley, we talked about this a couple of weeks back, but basically his his dad and mom like contribute greatly to the IMAX like cameras and the IMAX showings and the standards for IMAX like that. but i'm ex technology basically and he wasn't included they always miss somebody that's weird though don't they they always miss somebody in the memoriam sometimes it's really shocking though and people are like wait how did you miss this person because like it's very a front-facing actor or something and you're like wait what how did you i was really like a team of people who would you know not kind of miss that i wonder if they have to submit names for that or something is that and that how that's how it works but so many people died dude
01:14:29
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this last the year though was pretty big I feel like there's a lot his
Reality TV Drama
01:14:35
Speaker
it was really sad arguably too many yeah oh yeah okay what else do I got here um I also, i really like the sort so Sterling K. Brown skit with Conan. I thought the Casablanca sequence was really funny. And then Netflix came out recently and said, we don't do that.
01:14:54
Speaker
So basically, for those who don't know, that that's a sequence where Conan O'Brien was, he he was reenacting a scene from Casablanca. He's talking to the piano player who's played by Sterling K. Brown here. And he's basically... they're They're completely walking the audience through exactly what's happened in the plot of Casablanca and like I guess have been the middle of the movie. I haven't seen Casablanca. I don't know if you have you have. But but um but yeah, they're just kind of walking through the audience on on what happened in the movie, like repeatedly repeating the same thing over and over again because they claim that streaming services require you to repeat the same plot points over and over again in dialogue to make sure that if you're on your phone, you can keep track of the film.
01:15:33
Speaker
which Netflix claims is not true. they they They came out and said, oh, we were laughing about that in the at the Oscars, but we didn't that's not actually real. we don't We never asked anyone to do that. The weird thing is this rumor was created because Matt Damon and matt Ben Affleck made a movie called rip The Rip. Yeah.
01:15:51
Speaker
And matt Damon was on Joe Rogan's podcast and specifically said that they asked us to put a action sequence in the beginning of the movie so we don't lose the attention of the audience. And then he specifically said, we were told that we have to repeat plot points to to keep the audience in check for the, ah just in case they're on their phone, which is weird because it's like, well, who's right here? Like there's also obviously many different producers working at Netflix. So the head of one of the heads of the Netflix production team, um,
01:16:20
Speaker
may not know that somebody said that in his organization or that's not something they do. i don't know. It's kind of an embarrassing thing to admit though. That's for sure. who knows if it's true or not? I feel like, I don't know there. Yeah. Like it,
01:16:35
Speaker
A few things can be true at the same time, right? And there's so many cooks in the kitchen, so maybe someone does say it. I can i can tell you for a fact, any of the the reality shows on any of these streaming services the opinion are very much like that. It's it's literally like...
01:16:51
Speaker
okay, you know, let's let's do this scene of, you know, these two people being like, so how do you feel about the situation that just occurred two scenes ago? And then the people like start a lot. And it's a very like, like set it. So like, I mean, again, like, you know, if I'm watching secret lives of Mormon wives, which is a Disney, like it's on Hulu, it's very much edited like that.
01:17:09
Speaker
I mean, what dony secret lives of Mormon wives. It, Oh, wait, it's a Hulu show, right? It's not on network TV. It is a Hulu show. feel like all of these reality shows are probably like that because yeah I feel like a lot of people are on their phone for these types of shows because it is a good one for background. It's a good background TV, I imagine. I don't know if you watch it like that or you're sitting down with popcorn. depends on the show. Okay. Again, if I'm invested, I'll be watching it, but a lot of the time I'll be playing on my like PlayStation portal or something. Yeah. Like Vanderpump.
01:17:37
Speaker
vanderpump rules not this newest season i don't really love this newest season but like the original vanderpump dude i i started where i'm like gonna be on my phone i'm gonna play my portal and then like by episode three i'm like okay i'm into this and i was watching it like fully okay so yeah good stuff all right all right yeah the secret lives drama though dude crazy stuff i know i talked to you a little bit about it after um right after the movie so secret lives of mormon wives taylor frankie paul she's one of the main people on it mom talk is is what they're labeled as she's this mormon and she was going to be the new bachelorette for abc mom talk she's mom talk because she's she's a tiktoker that's she had a rise of fame yeah exactly mom talk is what they called it and and it's like based they're based in like utah obviously um
01:18:25
Speaker
Mormon mothers, for lack of a better term. And the the way that she blew up is this huge swinging scandal that happened back in, i don't 2019 or something like that. And then you know they they started making the show out of it. Disney owns Hulu that ah owns the show for Four Secret Lives and Modern Lives. And then they also own ABC that airs The Bachelorette.
01:18:45
Speaker
This is the first season of The Bachelorette where The Bachelorette was going to be someone out of you know the- The back the orbit. back The Bachelorverse or whatever they call it. I forget what it's called. Yeah, the orbit of the the regular Bachelor.
01:18:56
Speaker
team Is that, well, I guess that's not true in the very beginning. Did they always do that since the second season? They always pulled somebody from the rest of the, must have been outside in the beginning. yeah But it's the first one in recent memory. How many, yeah what season was this for the Bachelorette? 22. Oh, wow. I think. That's lot. 22, 23 maybe, I don't know. its it's in its twenty s Yeah.
01:19:19
Speaker
It's called Bachelor Nation. That's what I was trying to say before. Bachelor Nation. And so this was the first time that they were bringing in someone outside of the Bachelor Nation to to be the star of The Bachelor. When this was announced, I think I even said it. I'm like, this is going be a fucking mess. Like Taylor, Frankie, Paul, a little bit like I think.
01:19:37
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she must to have like mental illness. Like she must. Cause it's like, it's very extreme the way she, she reacts. She lacks empathy, all this stuff. So when they announced her, I'm like, okay, they're doing this for ratings. They're doing this for drama.
01:19:48
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Most recently, a lot of stuff was coming out about her, about her abusing her, her ex-boyfriend, Dakota. And yeah she also made allegations against him that he abused her. And a video leaked from back in that that was recorded, i want to say in 2023, where the first season, like when the first season was filmed and the the the first episode of season one of um Secret Lives of Mormon Wives ends with like the cops coming to Taylor Frankie Paul's door for this like domestic murder.
01:20:21
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charge and it and the video finally leaked investigators already had the video and it's literally her like beating the shit out of her like boyfriend dakota um like punching and he's like this is abuse like this is what it's called she like puts him in a headlock he's like stop it yelling at her and she literally like grabs like these like metal stools not pieces of poop simon as you thought when i talked about it earlier i didn't think that i saw the article and i thought He was throwing pieces of poop at her family. No. But no, you're saying metal stools as in chairs. Chairs, right? As in chairs, yes. As in chairs. And like she's throwing it at at him. And he's like, what are you doing? Like stop. And he's like recording it. She throws a second one at him. He's like, what are you doing? Like your daughter's right here. And then she throws a third one at him. And that one actually like hits her her daughter sitting on the couch as well. And her daughter starts crying.
01:21:09
Speaker
That was leaked. but The Bachelorette is supposed to air on this upcoming Sunday. And as of yesterday, in the 19th, we're recording this on the 20th. They said that they're not airing the season, which is crazy, dude. Like, yeah so like just immediate. I'm kind of shocked about this. This was filmed back in, I think, October of last year, October through probably, i don't know, November, early November, because that's when Secret Lives of Mormon Watch season four is taking place.
01:21:36
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And it's the lead up to Taylor going on on The Bachelorette. The interesting part is a lot of these like PR people are going out saying like, oh, you know, like Taylor, Frankie Paul is, you know, being mischaracterized, you know, like ah she's dealing with abuse from her ex-boyfriend, Dakota, yada, yada, yada.
01:21:53
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And it's like, they're trying to like avoid that. There's four seasons of television showing this woman being unhinged and incredibly toxic to her boyfriend. And like them trying to angle it, like X, like Dakota won't let Taylor leave.
01:22:08
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um his life and is like forcing himself back in and it's like throughout all these seasons it's her constantly reaching back out her constantly bringing them back in and like it's it's crazy it's like dude there's four seasons of evidence against this what you're saying online it's fucking nuts so Yeah, some of it's, I'm sure, like, when they're making it, they're dramat dramatizing it, too, for well definite a lot of reality TV show. But, yeah, and it was interesting because Macy, who's one of the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, um she's she's really, I like i like her as ah as a person. She seems like a good person.
01:22:41
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um Who knows if there are any of them are actually good people, but she seems like a good person. She even said that Taylor was given a really good edit for season four, that she was actually worse. And I'm like, oh, my goodness.
01:22:51
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That's crazy because she was awful. Anyways, that's the drama. It's crazy. like we We talked about this in the parking lot there. is just ABC is very, very careful about their reality shows from the Bachelor Nation, as you called it.
01:23:07
Speaker
they're They're very careful about who they cast. And they it's not wholesome, certainly. It's The Bachelor. But you know but they are owned by Disney. It's played up to be wholesome and real, right? And it's played up to be like, oh, these people are going to find love. And there are people that actually end up together and get married, right? Like a lot of these couples, they do break up after recordings finish, yada, yada, yada, or don't even make it to by the end of this you know the series airing. And you know by the reunion, they're broken up.
01:23:33
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But this was like the most evident situation where, okay, this is purely for marketing. they think This is purely to increase ratings again, bring people back in. Because I think it has been kind of reducing in ratings year over year. So yeah, crazy shit, man. It's interesting. I'm curious how, because they stopped filming season five of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, um or as they say, um Swam, Swam,
01:24:00
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slam
01:24:03
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Ah, right. The acronym. Slalom. Gotta love acronyms. Yeah. um So they stopped filming it. So yeah, maybe they're, I'm curious, are they going to just cancel the show? Are they going to keep on recording and just remove Taylor from it? I feel like they should continue it because the drama is going be nuts.
01:24:18
Speaker
like the drama is going be nuts. And it's like going to deal with the aftermath of her being fucking all this stuff. You remove her from the show and then just have all the other um people in the show being like, dude, what the fuck?
01:24:29
Speaker
you know ah Disney's got to make their money back somehow. know yeah from the bachelorette season being canceled it's crazy they probably spen millions on it yeah oh 100 for sure mean this show i think reality shows are pretty they're not very costly in the grand scheme of things when you look at other stuff like non-fiction but oh sorry fiction when you compare it to fiction but i mean they still probably spent a lot of money on this and they probably spent more a lot of money on her too actually because like they were like how are we going to drum up the hype they're worried about uh lagging numbers you know their ratings were low like that we're going to bring in this very controversial figure and then blew up in their face i wonder if she got paid because they get paid right the bachelor can candidates yeah you assume so i don't think they typically talk about it but you assume they get at least something
01:25:17
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Yeah. Yeah. I know. I wonder if it's it sometimes doesn't wonder if it's exposure that they're, that they're giving them Yeah. I mean, definitely that they might get some sort of small salary. and then I know typically like the ring that they get, if they like make it to the end and like someone proposes, like typically I think the engagement rings are in the tens of thousands of dollars. So they're not like some random, like.
01:25:40
Speaker
You know, a few grand one. It's like, no, it's like tens of thousands of dollars. Like the rings, you can look it up. It's kind of nuts. You got to win for that, that, that part, you know? Yeah, you got to make it to the end. And I think there there must be like a stipulation where if like the wedding gets called off, you got to give back the ring or something. you can't just sell it. I don't I'm sure that's something.
01:25:58
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so Okay. Anything else on the Oscars? i don't know how we got on this topic of reality shows. Yeah, have no idea. It doesn't matter. But Oscars, ah i want to I want to just say for the record, I do think Michael B. Jordan is amazing. Yeah.
01:26:15
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I think he was really good. i know everyone who was nominated is well-deserved. I wasn't trying to say that. I wasn't trying to take that away from him. I was a little bit surprised, although he was kind of it was it was between Timothy and Michael michael B. Jordan.
01:26:29
Speaker
You're first name basis with Timothy? What? yeah You're on a first name basis with Timothy? Timothy Schell-Me? yeah ah But yeah, between the two, I think that was what people predicted would happen. it would be either of the two.
01:26:42
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Yeah. um But yeah I'm really happy for Michael B. Jordan. I'm really happy won. Like, he's awesome. I think he's well-deserved for sure. I just, I was a little bit surprised is all I was saying. I think he's well-deserved. He was excellent.
01:26:52
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You hate him and and you wish that he lost. No. I actually prefer, to be honest, I actually prefer that he won because I kind of feel like Timothee Chalamet has got a little bit of a big head. i I don't know i find that on a if you find that too.
01:27:04
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He's a little bit cocky. yeah i like He would have been the youngest winner for for best actor. but I feel like he's doing it because like I think he's just doing a bit. like I think he's just literally doing a bit. He's like being his character.
01:27:16
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mean That was kind of the thing. like He's constantly just kind of like when he's talking in interviews, it sounds like he's almost like talking in character of his like Marty Supreme character. Have you seen him win though? When he's won awards, he's been on stage and he's been very like very cocky about it. Like he's, he's in, I get it. He's a very ambitious American dream chaser, but like he's, he's, you don't find that like he's really, really cocky.
01:27:36
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Not particularly, but i don't know. Interesting. All right. Yeah. He's good though. That's fair. come But yeah, well-deserved either way. ah But yeah. And then Best Actress went to Jesse Buckley, which I think is pretty cool. That one I did have down here, even though I hadn't seen Hamnet. I'm not going to watch Hamnet. That seems really sad, dude.
01:27:59
Speaker
I can't be fucked. You know, there's like certain movies where i'm like, this just seems like it's just not my cup of tea. I'm sure if I sat down and watched it, I would be like, wow. Wow, that's it that's art. But it's like sometimes I don't want to fucking watch art, okay? Sometimes I just want to see people exploding.
01:28:15
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Yeah, right? Okay. That's fair. And then I should, I would be remiss to not say this, remiss to not say it. Sinners winning cinematography, best cinematography. Yes, chef's kiss. i completely agree with that. That was awesome. I put that in my notes here too before. Oh, also first year for feet of and impressive casting or whatever, whatever they want.
01:28:34
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Oh, yeah. Best casting. Yeah. And one battle after another. That makes sense to me. That movie is crazy for casting. Did I put that one? I did. I did put that one. But that one's interesting because the cast of that has got a lot of big stars, but it's also got like regular people. There's like a a random guy from the military in the actual movie. Like he just worked in the army. He barely had any yeah other acting jobs before that.
01:28:55
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You know about that? There's a lot of like real people in roles in one battle after another. So you we talked about this before for like, um what was it? Good. When you have real people in roles and it doesn't always work out, but you think it kind of worked out in good. What's it called? Good fortune. Good fortune. Thanks for help.
01:29:16
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You're welcome. got you there. Good fortune. Like we had Keanu Reeves talking to a non-actor and I just was thinking it was too jarring. Like you could have nailed it. You could have just kind of really focused. sorry. He could have kind of focused on the direction in that moment and kind of got, got there where he, he definitely got there with master of none actors in master of none, where he has these really grounded performances constantly in master, a master of none, a master of none. It's the name of the show, right? On Netflix.
01:29:40
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and z son stories sure It's master of none. i Oh, there's no A. Okay. i don't what A. Point is, a one battle after another does this really well where there's like non-actors acting and it feels, it does feel natural. It is it feels really cool. um Or we talked about Kevin O'Leary and how good that performance came out of Kevin O'Leary for Marty Supreme. It was pretty great.
01:30:04
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Marty Supreme's outfit for the Oscars. Pretty weird. I was going to say that. Yeah. What does he have? Like a sports card on his freaking neck? I don't know. get it like ah Like a very expensive sports card.
01:30:18
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But yeah, anything else you want to mention for the Oscars before we move on? It was good show. I'm glad that I watched it live yeah on Crave. liked it too. And it's cool that we're going to get it on Crave for two more years before it's on YouTube for everyone.
01:30:30
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Oh, I also like the cold open, the the weapons cold open and the ending. Oh, yeah. and The ending, which you don't normally get in the Oscars. I thought that was a really clever ah spin on like how to end the end the show instead of just rolling the credits with like ah like confetti going everywhere. well One battle after another, like the cast and crew is really happy. they They showed they had another clip of Conan.
01:30:50
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um which I thought was great. I thought that was look, I think the production values overall were pretty cool. There's also like, there was moments where the the show was kind of sped up and slowed down. There was a tie, which was crazy as well. Yeah. the cail ti Camille handled that really well. I feel like he's a great job.
01:31:04
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I like him a lot. Yeah. He's great. And then they had something speed up. Oh, it was Kieran Culkin. Kieran Culkin's like, ah so Sean Penn, he's not here today either because he couldn't be here or he didn't want to be.
01:31:17
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I just thought that was really good. Kieran Culkin is just like, he just seems like such a like... He seems like a very normal dude in some way, but he's also kind of just like tired of it sometimes. Yeah. You know what i mean? Like he's a kind of a sarcastic dude. i don I don't know. I like him a lot. But yeah, Sean Penn's funny because like that sucks, man. you I feel like he's the favorite to win. That one I did guess. I think you might have as well. Isn't he in Ukraine?
01:31:43
Speaker
He is in Ukraine, but why? Just don't be ukraine in Ukraine then. He's doing activism. He's doing activism. Yeah, I get it. I know. But the Oscars happened once. I feel like if you're going to go to any show, you wouldn't go to the Globes. He went to the Golden Globes. He was smoking there live. Did do you see that clip of him smoking in the crowd? He's in the at one of the tables smoking. He's like, you went to the Golden Globes, you're not at the Oscars.
01:32:04
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah. It seems seems strange. If I was going to go to any award show, I might skip out on all of the award shows. If I was like as storied of an actor as Sean Penn, I'd go to the Oscars. That'd be the one I'd go to because it's the it's the big one, you know, that and maybe the Emmys. If I wasn't like a big show, you know what I'm saying? yeah yeah Yeah, I'm going to go to the Junos.
01:32:25
Speaker
That was a big win that makes sense, though. Do you agree? Like, Sean Penn's performance in that is crazy. Oh, I agree. yeah i think he's the best actor in that entire movie. for hes And that's the only one that they won, right? The only acting award they gave to one battle after to another actors. Oh, casting.
01:32:41
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so I guess they all won. Yeah. But casting's not really. It's the casting director. It's the casting director that gets the credit for that. It's not the best ensemble. It's the casting director. Ensemble. Yeah. Cool. Okay.
01:32:52
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Anything else to mention? You're done? No. You're done? I enjoyed that. Are we here? Let's go on to the next one. Let's move it. Let's go on to the next thing one. The next one, Adrian. Hopefully I wrote this well because I really scrambled this together just before we were going to record because it got deleted.
01:33:08
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lantern's actor Aaron Pierre has been cast as the Green Lantern Jon Stewart in director James Gunn's upcoming Superman Men of Tomorrow film. Production on the Superman sequel is set to begin on in April.
01:33:19
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And the second part of the story, which I kind kind of connected together, Meanwhile, HBO's Lanterns writer Damon Lindelof has come under fire for joking on a podcast that, quote, it's called Lanterns because we all agreed that the green was stupid. So now it's just Lanterns, unquote. And then the Green Lanterns comic books writer Grant Morrison was not pleased. He was not is not happy and he posted this big thing on, so I don't know where he posted it.
01:33:45
Speaker
sub stack or something about how he was very displeased with what happened. And then Damon Lindelof came out and said, I'm sorry, I shouldn't. I was very flippant with what I said. I didn't mean it. Something along those I feel like it's a joke, man. It's like a joke. Like, don't take it so seriously. And by the way...
01:33:59
Speaker
There is something to be said about that, though, just to be clear. That trailer has no green in it. That's where that came up. The trailer, the first trailer for HBO's Lanterns, and that's, I think, the connection. I think people were upset about that. that that There are fans who are mad.
01:34:14
Speaker
It's not just Grant Morrison being mad. he wasn't Grant Morrison wasn't really mad. He he had a pretty... so I think he had a pretty... even approach with what he said. yeah but But fans are upset that there's like the Green Lantern fans. I'm not a Green Lantern fan. I am more interested in this show. I think they're trying to pull in the average audience. I think. I agree.
01:34:34
Speaker
I agree. No, and also I feel like the show is called Lanterns. I assume it's probably because there's going to be other lanterns in it as well. It's not just going to be the Green Lanterns. I think there's going to be Red Lantern, Blue Land. I don't know the other color colored lanterns, but I'm sure there's going be other lantern characters in it. Now, remember last time we talked about this, I mentioned that Ken assumed that this was like a prequel, like set before Guy Gardner is a lantern.
01:35:03
Speaker
And I was, and you asked like, oh, why do you think that? And i was like, I can't remember. Or I said like, I don't know. I rewatched the trailer. And I think it's because, um What's his name? Kyle Chandler's lantern character says that he's the only, like he's the first human lantern and the only one.
01:35:20
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I think he says something along those lines in that trailer that he's the only green lantern, like human, human lantern or something like that. So i guess the assumption is is that it might actually be set before like Superman and stuff like that.
01:35:31
Speaker
Okay. That's cool. Yeah. I, I'm pretty sure that's what it said. I watched it like pretty much after that episode and i was Oh yeah, that's it. And I meant to text you and then I forgot. Yeah. Okay, cool. All right. so Good follow-up. Good follow-up. You remember now?
01:35:43
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I did. I did
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01:35:45
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remembers now. But yeah, that's cool. I'm glad that Aaron Pierre is going to be in this, an upcoming Superman, man, a tomorrow film. It's cool. I'm very excited about this universe. I'm very, I'm very bullish on this universe. Who knows? Maybe Supergirl is going suck and it's going to be- Maybe lanterns will suck.
01:36:02
Speaker
Yeah, but maybe. But so far, so really good, I think. Yeah, I think it looks good. I'm very excited about it. As I said, it was one of my top three most anticipated things of the year to watch. So I'm very excited. um um um Let me just pull up this quote because Grant Morrison was kind of throwing a lot of shave ah shade at if I can find it really quick because I don't want to take too long here.
01:36:28
Speaker
Oh, this is Damon Lindelof. I have upset... this So this is the latest thing, I guess, that came out. I have upset Grant Morrison, which means I have now pissed off most of the brilliant British-Scottish comic writers that I have grown grown up idolizing. To quote the bard Otis Redding, this is nobody's fault but mine.
01:36:45
Speaker
I mean, i of course he's going to... I love when this guy posts. It's so ridiculous. i made a dumb joke on a comedy podcast i'm not going to bob and weave about context the joke was dumb the fandom is not i owe them an explanation and a genuine reflection of my actual feelings the very first time i appeared on comic on a calmiccon panel was for the lost pilot back in the summer of two thousand and for i wore my favorite t-shirt as i had long grown grown out of my favorite underruse those being the uniform of hal jordan green lantern of sector twenty eight fourteen for a quiet
01:37:17
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uncoordinated kid there was nothing cooler than a hero whose superpower was his imagination and green is not stupid it is my lifelong favorite color and i have a questionnaire that i filled out in third grade to prove it green is fucking awesome more importantly It would be it be a betrayal to everyone I worked for and alongside and and alongside to say anything other than I was absolutely honored to be a part of the team that manifested the incredible construct that is lanterns. Because it was, I was sloppy and careless with my words. Ironic ironic considering I care so much about Hal, John, and the entire corpse. I can and will do better to be worthy of the oath. Until then, I'll let the show speak for itself and I can't wait for you all to hear what it has to say.
01:38:01
Speaker
that's a pretty That's a pretty good statement. Well done. trying to find the Grant Morrison thing, but I found the ending. I don't know. I feel like we'll go back in time if I do. it But Grant Morrison was not happy. He was kind of saying that Damon Lindelof As much as he's likely done good stuff, it looks like he didn't kind of watch too many things. He was kind of saying like, but why do, why are these executives think to hire these people who don't care about the subject matter?
01:38:25
Speaker
was basically what he was saying. m And I think this is a good response from Damon Lindelof because he does care and they don't know each other. So I think that as evident by that. statement by Lindelof. But anyway, so I am very excited about but Lantern still. But it was a little weird that there was no green in the trailer.
01:38:43
Speaker
It was strange a little bit, but I think they were saving it. I thought that that's the that's what I interpreted it as. I wasn't thinking, oh, it's missing. Oh, no. Who gives a shit? they They're not afraid of the green. they They literally have it in the Superman movie.
01:38:55
Speaker
yeah well My assumption is ah is that the the special effects weren't done. That could be joke. That was really my assumption. Yeah, that's the last thing that probably gets done. Yeah. Yeah, it's probably the last bit. So, don't know.
01:39:06
Speaker
I think it's... That's a good assumption. Yeah. I just... i don't know. I find it... don't know. It's fucking stupid that someone asked out for making a joke like that. I think that's fucking dumb as shit, dude. like But it wasn't interpreted as a joke, I think, by most people who listen to the podcast. I think that's why. it looked like... Because they were asking because fans were upset. And it's like, the problem is is that you don't...
01:39:27
Speaker
If it's a beloved property that's been around in existence long before Damon Lindelof came on the scene with Lost as an example, like you kind of you want to have it respected. And in there it's not come out yet. For instance, the God of War Kratos picture where he's like bending down, his mouth is agape, and his bald cap is showing. He's taking a It's like, I think the show could be really good. I just don't know why you would market it like this. And I think it's really stupid that you chose this photo.
01:39:51
Speaker
Because I think legitimately, I think Ryan Hurst is a good actor from what I've seen of him. i think he can do a great job. Yeah, he's great. Sons of Anarchy. Yeah. And I think the makeup and hairstyling team can do a good job and make sure that it looks realistic when he's not. And he's actually in motion, which is what a TV show is. In motion, not a photo. So that's, that's why it's frustrating. It's just like, you don't want bad press like this. It's just not not worth it. Your show hasn't come out yet. Let us speak to it for itself in some way. And you got to be a bit more measured. if It is helpful. Yeah.
01:40:18
Speaker
Be measured. Certainly with the photos you're put putting out for God of War. Because that's a tough, that's tough thing. People already have doubts that you can make Kratos look realistically like a demigod. Big man. You know, automatically that's already a problem. So anyway, same idea.
01:40:34
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. I think just fandoms are all fucking annoying. and That's true too. Yeah. Well, fandoms aren't measured at all. That's the problem is if you're a company and your job is to market, you have to be the one who's measured because the internet not measured at all. yeah No one is nuanced. Everyone is hyperbolic.
01:40:50
Speaker
You need to frigging measure it because that's the issue. I don't think it's acceptable. I think people need to become more nuanced, but our world isn't exactly becoming more educated. in many corners. So it doesn't help ah for this particular thing. But anyway, let's move on to the third in our trilogy of news here, Adrian.
01:41:10
Speaker
And the third story is this. Universal Studios is extending the theatrical release window to five weekends in 2026 and seven weekends in 2027. Due to the pandemic that began in 2020, they had shifted their theatrical release schedule to a minimum of 17 days. Not wrote days. um Yeah, this is kind of cool, I thought.
01:41:33
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five vaacons Yeah. And then it'll be seven weekends. Like they're committing to the theatrical release. See, that's what was telling you. i We were talking about like, who do we want? Who do you want to buy Warner Brothers? I chose Universal and I did it because of this. I was i was Apple and Universal. Those were the two I wanted to to potentially do it because they they have ah a tendency to respect the theatrical release. Same with Apple in some way with F1.
01:41:57
Speaker
Juan. But Universal, certainly. And I think the the proof of in the was in the pudding with ah the fact that they were able to court Christopher Nolan. That was the reason why believe that. So the fact that they're doing this and they have Christopher Nolan, they're like making the right moves. I mean, they can always you know change their leadership and then make the wrong moves. ah But it is kind of cool that they're doing this. And i don't want anyone to They can gobbled up by a different company.
01:42:21
Speaker
I don't want this. I don't want anyone to gobble up anyone. That was really, I always should always caveat that. with If I ever say I wanted somebody to gobble up someone else, I'm saying it. If we have to if it has to be a merger, then I will take this you know universal versus having Paramount by Warner Brothers as an example.
01:42:43
Speaker
But yeah. yeah Anyway. not so yeah and Thoughts? No, that's great. Again, know, you know And as I know, we both like the theater experience. I want there to be movies in theaters longer a lot of the time.
01:42:57
Speaker
i don't know. I think we're definitely above average and in regards to the amount of time that we go to the the theater. Yeah. um You know, like i I've gone almost like once a week this entire year, give or take a bit.
01:43:10
Speaker
Maybe missed a week or two. And it's just like, there's so many awesome movies coming out and I can't keep up with them. And then sometimes the movies, by the time I, you know, catch up, they're out of theaters. um And it's, yeah I don't know. I think longer theatrical windows are great.
01:43:25
Speaker
i I hope it continues. i don't want the theater industry to die. I know it's kind of ah a relic of the past. A lot of people say, I know it's expensive in a lot of ways, but again, I just, I just love that experience. There's something nice about going to the theater, eating a nice big bag of overpriced popcorn with butter.
01:43:42
Speaker
You know, I just, I fucking love it, dude. I love it. I live for it. I think about it. I miss it when I'm not there. We went there last night. It was great. I went there the week prior. It was great. I went there the week prior. It was even great.
01:43:55
Speaker
You know, it's, it's, it's just, I don't know i want, I want this experience to continue to go that. So, you know, maybe when my nephew's a little bit older, i can, I can bring him to see the hot new Pixar movie Hoppers 2, you know?
01:44:10
Speaker
Right. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, cou Coco, Coco 2. Coco 2. Let's get nuts. Or um I don't think that's the thing. I just, I don't know.
01:44:22
Speaker
I was just, I was just doing a thing. was just doing a thing, Simon. Don't give me that face. I was wondering if I didn't get your joke. No, it's like Cocoa 2, let's get nuts, like Cocoa Nuts. Gotcha.
01:44:33
Speaker
Gotcha. I'm just doing a play on where I'm trying to come up with ah title ideas here. Okay. I'm to come up with title ideas here on the fly with our, Oh, for this, this, this episode, you mean over a podcast? Maybe. Yeah. Do you already have one? I got a couple here, but I don't know if they're any good. Honestly, are they ever ready or not?
01:44:51
Speaker
Ready or not. I'm going to come to the theater. Is it come like CUM? Yeah. Yeah. That's terrible. All right. Okay. Well, yeah let's on that note.
01:45:05
Speaker
Cool. Now onto our segment of our show that I like to call A Look to the Future. portion of our podcast where each of us present at least three of our picks for the TV series or movies that look most interesting to us that are releasing between March 24th and April As customary, Adrian,
01:45:22
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twenty twenty six as is customary adrian you go First. What is your first pick? My first pick is something that we already talked about briefly. It's Daredevil Born Again season oh de on March 24th on Disney+. plus Exciting times, man. Exciting times ahead.
01:45:45
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I love. I really liked this like this first season back of Daredevil Born Again. I thought it was awesome. It was brutal. it was violent. We got Jessica Jones coming back. I think Daredevil is... ah It's great.
01:45:58
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And I'm very curious to see how season two is going to play out. We got Matthew Lillard in this season as well. I don't think we know much about his character. no he got Bullseye back doing things.
01:46:09
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ah Let's see it, man. Let's see it. I'm stoked. yeah i'm I'm sure this going to be a fun time. Yeah, it should be good. i'm I'm excited too. I don't know. Again, jury's still out whether I'm going to do week to week on this.
01:46:22
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I'm not sure. um But we will see. I kind of want to just because I want to be able to talk about it. But it, um yeah, it's interesting. I think I got more to talk about this a little later and and on our final segment of the show, Adrian. But my pick here is a movie by directed by Christopher Borgley called The Drama, Adrian. Yeah. It's a movie with Zendaya and Robert Pattinson.
01:46:47
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And it's kind of mysterious. I feel like the, well, maybe i didn't watch the second trailer, so I don't know. I watched the first trailer. And I was like, oh, okay. there's These people are in a relationship. Zendaya says something, the her character says something really weird to the friend group. And then like, that's what I thought. I feel like maybe there's more to the story than that, but they're about to get married. They're engaged. And she says something like a secret that they didn't know. Yeah, it was the setup is like, okay, let's just say the worst thing that we've ever done. And then, you know, like, like each of them say something and then Zendaya says something. something shocking.
01:47:18
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And, and it's cool because the trailer doesn't reveal that. So I'm excited to kind of go into this movie and figure what that is. And like their entire friend group is like, what the fuck? And again, Robert Pattinson, who's marrying her is like kind of confused and, and shot. Maybe there's more to it than that though. Maybe that's only part of it. That's why I was kind of confused about like watching the trailer. I'm like, this is pretty interesting. Like what say? sure there's more to it.
01:47:38
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I think that's, that's kind of the, the, the start, you know, like the yeah fuse that kind of lets everything else kind of develop throughout the movie. I think yeah that's kind of the play there. So, Yeah, it's cool. Looks really good. to me Looks really good. That was also on my list, my friend. The other movie that's on my list is a movie called They Will Kill You. That's coming out March 27th, starring Zazie Beetz. Similar, again, we were talking about Ready or Not, similar sort of premise, you know.
01:48:03
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she goes She's in a house. People are trying to kill her. It's almost like a hide-and-go-seek thing. and she's like she's actually She's got more fight in her than the people expect, she's she's beating them up.
01:48:14
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She's Zay-Z beating them up. Nice. I didn't don't think I said my date. My date was April 3rd for the drama. What was your date? Sorry, missed it there. March 24th for Daredevil, March 27th for They Will Kill You.
01:48:26
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Oh, 27th. I just completely missed. She's going to Zazy beat them up. Beats them up. That's going to be the title of the next episode if we watch that's right that That's going to be the title of this episode? and Next episode if we watch this movie. it's right oh day gave but Put in your back pocket. Put it in your back pocket, dude. We'll see if we remember that.
01:48:45
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Yeah, won't. yeah I don't see that on my list. like It's not on the the the website. I just look at Cineplex, dude. Cineplex has it. Are we sure that it's coming out You think Cineplex, the hit movie app, is is lying to me?
01:49:00
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You think it's lying They will kill you. Oh, it's right here. I'm just blind. That's why. I just didn't see it. They will kill Oh, because the picture also is kind of obscure. okay fucking um That's why. Okay, so the other movie that's coming out soon, we just kind of talked about it briefly there, is the Super Mario Galaxy movie, Adrian. comes out April 1st. It actually comes out on April first despite April fools man April fools all right not an April fools joke it is coming out that day pretty stacked cast lots of people in it I think still there's a mistake to do Mario Galaxy I think they should have done Super Mario World and then did Galaxy after that because they're inevitably going to do another movie after this one Super Mario Sunshine yeah maybe that'll be the next one but I feel like they're Odyssey
01:49:40
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Yeah, I think they're maybe banking on the idea that Super Mario Galaxy, they released that that combo pack for Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 on Switch. I think that might be why they're trying to get the you know the the synergy between cross-media.
01:49:53
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and The cross-media potential is high. But yeah, I don't know if I'll see this in theaters either. I did see the first one at home. I'm not that interested in this one. I don't think this one needs help either. that there's there's something There's a part of me that you know I buy video games sometimes and i buy i I go to the movies, the theaters. Sometimes I buy tickets because i think it will help them.
01:50:13
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You know what I mean? uh even if i'm not that interested i'm like maybe i can wait for the sale for a specific video game i'll just buy it like at launch because i'm like i know this will help them the most um but i don't do that that often because i'm i'm not a rich man but yeah i try i know i try to vote with my wallet is my point so this one i don't think it needs help so i don't i don't really need to to splurge on this one and go to the theaters but yeah what's your next pick sir My next and final movie that I had on my list of five movies is a movie called Something Very Bad is Going to Happen.
01:50:46
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This is actually a Netflix ah netflix ah original movie. It's premiering on March 26th, which is the Thursday. And um it's interesting. I watched this trailer a little a while back, and but the the Netflix description is a bride has a feeling that something horrifying will happen at her wedding. And the closer to the altar she gets, the worse it becomes.
01:51:09
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Okay. And um it seems interesting. It's like a horror movie kind of thing. I'm i'm very i'm very intrigued about this movie. I'll be honest with you.
01:51:20
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So that's my last one on my list. you I got two more actually. I sent you those. I sent you my list, by the way, because you didn't have it ready. Just just so the audience doesn't
01:51:32
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Where'd you send it? you You had it. That's what you're reading off of. This is where you're getting all your ideas from. I'm doing this on the fly. You're discounting what I'm doing here. That's not very nice. I'm not discounting shit, dude. You're discounting what I'm doing for you.
01:51:44
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and that you didn You do shit. Okay, whatever. i give Yeah, you're Anyway, i My next pick is For All Mankind, which is, I love this show. I've said this before. i love it a lot. I think it's great. I think it's like, other than House of the Dragon, it's the best show for time jumps I've ever seen. It's really great. Joel Kinnaman.
01:52:06
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He's going to be a really old man in this one. It's pretty cool. I really like it. It's season five we're on and it's it's airing on March 27th. I'm also more excited for season five of this show and really in anything in this universe because I'm about to play Starfield in the same vicinity. And so that that kind of crossed media for me because Starfield is a very NASA punk, they call it. the art like the Not the art style, but guess the time period, what they're trying to go for on the science fiction ah aspect. And For All Mankind is like, what would what would NASA look like? like
01:52:39
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within like this 40 year period, if they were really going hard against fighting the Russians who never gave up with trying to go to the moon. Um, so this idea of an alternate history type, type NASA and and still kind of being very realistic and grounded in reality. It's really, really cool. I love this show. It's really great on Apple TV. Plus if you have a chance chance and you have Apple TV plus, i I recommend people go give it a go. Not necessarily Adrian. And the last, uh, and the last thing I have got here is a movie that's on halo. And I,
01:53:09
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Halo. What the hell? This is the sickness talking. On Hulu, On Hulu that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I think it was on the last episode of our podcast, episode 131. The movie is called Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice. i don't know if you watched the trailer since I talked you it. did. i did actually. I did. Yeah. It looks very fun.
01:53:27
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Very looks fun. It looks like a fun time, doesn't it? Doesn't it look like fun time? That also comes out on the 27th on Hulu. That one I probably will watch because there's something really fun, fun looking about it. I just, it just looks cool. the alternate universe type thing. There's those three key actors, Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, and Isaac Gonzalez, Elsa Gonzalez.
01:53:47
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um I just think that combo is good. So, oh, Keith David's in it too. I think Keith David might be in something else. Oh, Ben Schwartz is in it too. Oh, okay.
Spider-Man Discussions
01:53:58
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I think Keith, Keith David though is going to be something in something else that I want to talk about in a moment. Before we move on, do you have anything else? Any other picks you want to mention? Any other movies or TV shows you want to talk about?
01:54:10
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no okay so now adrian we move on to a new segment of our show that is called the trailer because it's at the end because the trailer did you know about this trailers the trailer like movie trailers used to be at the end of a movie not in the beginning they trailed of a film they trailed it you knew that we talked about that right or you know that i feel like i knew that deep down in my heart yeah Yeah.
01:54:35
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um But we just all accept that they're at the beginning of movies now. They show at the beginning. But yeah, anyway, this is this segment is called The Trailer, and it's the final segment of our show where where we each present our favorite trailer of the week.
01:54:49
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And then we can, you know, we'll have room for extras, any any, you know, honorable mentions if we want. Yes. But there is one huge trailer this week. I'll let you go first because I'm curious to see what your pick is, and then I'll i'll pick mine second. What's yours? Yeah, dude. So my most excited trailer pick of the week is for a movie called Obsession.
01:55:13
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It is a horror movie directed by Curry. That's your favorite trailer of the week. Was is it even this two weeks? Yeah, it came out nine days ago, on this trailer. I'm surprised that's your trailer. They had teaser like a few months ago. Okay, that's fair.
01:55:25
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But it's a movie called Obsession. It's directed by Curry Barker, who is probably best known for his um YouTube like comedy duo series, like... ah like sketch channel called that's a bad idea. I've been following these guys for a few years and they've done a couple of horror shorts that they released on YouTube. And then most recently, like back in 24, like 2024 in the summer of 2024, he released about an hour long horror movie called milk and cereal.
01:55:55
Speaker
That is really fucking awesome. It's kind of like a found footage, like horror movie that they made again on a very minimal budget. That was Amazing, like genuinely awesome, like ter like so very spooky, terrifying, very well done. And the trailer for this Obsession movie just looks fucking over the top and awesome and so up my alley. I love horror. And I think what the setup of this movie is, is is is super cool and unique.
01:56:22
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um long story short, the premise is, know, there's this loser, like this guy, he's kind of ah a little bit of like, you know, awkward, has a crush on this, this girl and um gets given this like little box that it says like, you can make a single wish.
01:56:38
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And, you know, he's, he's worried about asking this girl out and telling him how he feels. So instead, like any logical person, he makes his wish that this, this woman loves him more then then anyone can love any anything, essentially.
01:56:53
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And what does that do? It makes this like woman, again, fall madly in love with him, the keyword on the mad. And it just kind of escalates from there. This trailer seems crazy, shocking. I'm so excited for this movie. This is is probably my, maybe my most anticipated movie coming out.
01:57:13
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I'm very, very excited for it. Yeah. I love horror, dude. You know me. I love horror. I think this is just like so up my alley. It just seems like a movie for me. So I'm very excited about this.
01:57:24
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Looks awesome. These are most anticipated movie of the year.
01:57:29
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That's wild. Maybe. the The one I'm like that i that I'm like so confident I'm going to love. You know, if that makes sense. one Like it's a movie that I know going to watch and be like, fuck yeah.
01:57:40
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Probably. Okay. I feel like it's going to be just as good as was that movie called now? I can't remember. It's not called The Monkey.
01:57:50
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What's it? The Monkey ah Clapping One. Oh, um I know what you're talking about. What's that called? can't remember now. It was Monkey Clapping The Monkey Clapping One. That's what it's called. Yeah.
01:58:03
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in the monkey clapping one but i mean obsession right now dude it's 97 on ron tomatoes 37 reviews because i think it aired at one of these like film festivals oh that's how they have the events reviews okay yeah so okay then cool all right yeah i wouldn't have predicted it would be your most anticipated movie of the year that's interesting but uh but yeah i've got i got two listed here um i got a couple others but But the the one that's obvious is the one that's beat Grand Theft Auto for views on YouTube. And that's the Spider-Man brand new day trailer. And that trailer is freaking huge. And it's amazing. And it's exactly what I want them to be doing. I am a Destin Daniel Cretton fan now after after watching Wonder Man. So
01:58:46
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i ah Yeah, I'm excited to see what he could do directing this film. i i I don't know. i I think this trailer is awesome. And it's funny because we were talking about – it was two weeks ago. We talked about how Bruce Banner is going to be in it. But we were talking about the Hulk being in Spider-Man Brand New Day. But we didn't really know. it might not even be the Hulk at all. And that's actually way cooler. I'd rather not be the Hulk. I want it to be – Bruce Banner. You know, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner the whole time and he's just doing science. That's kind of awesome to me. Yeah. Grounded.
01:59:16
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And then there's like a voiceover in it and there's like the various... villains, we like they're all grounded like street level villains. There's no Daredevil in it, but Jon Bernthal is playing the Punisher in this trailer as well, which is really interesting. But you got to think that Daredevil might be in it. When I saw the show, I'm like, Daredevil's got to be in it. He's fighting the hands.
01:59:35
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what I mean? He's fighting these ninjas that are are very prominent in the Daredevil Netflix slash Disney Plus TV show. So I think, which is canon, I believe, right? That that is whole show is is canon. Yeah, it is canon. So it's like,
01:59:47
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I think that Daredevil will be in it. But then Charlie Cox just went on Jimmy Kimmel Live and literally just said, because Kimmel always does this to everyone, because Kimmel's a comic book nerd a little bit too. So he asked Charlie Cox, so are you in you're in this you sir you're in the Spider-Man movie, right? He just does this thing where he like for pretends he's in it. He's like, and Charlie Cox is, no.
02:00:07
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He's like, no. And he's like and then Charlie Cox is like, but you know if if I was in it, I have to say no anyway. And then Kimmel's like, so you are in it. And he's like, no, no, no. I'm not i'm definitely not in it though. by But I am definitely not in it. And he sounded convincing. He sounded convincing. But Andrew Garfield was in that exact position in the same seat talking to Kimmel and he said the same thing. yeahp um But Cox sounded pretty convincing.
02:00:29
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and So i I don't know. We'll see. He's an actor. He's an actor. That is his job. Yeah. He's a, he's a good one at that. Uh, so yeah, it's really cool. Yeah. Sorry. I talked a lot here. What do what do you think about this trailer?
02:00:42
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and I think it looks cool. I mean, there's a lot going on in it. I'm curious. There's like this weird, almost like mutation going on yeah with Spider-Man himself. I actually reached out to Ken, a friend of the show, Ken, our good pal. And I was like, yeah, I'm curious. Like, what do you think about this?
02:00:57
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And then I mentioned like, what's the whole black eyes thing going on? And he predicts that it's, um you know, Peter Parker going under this like spider mutation and becoming man spider.
02:01:07
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which is, I guess, like a comic book thing. Yeah. um He mentioned that there's like a villain called tarantula in it. i'm Obviously, scorpions in it, the hands it. Wait, where is tarantula in it? I don't know. He said that one of the villains is tarantula.
02:01:21
Speaker
Based on what? Oh, he's just spoiling it for himself. Like you've looked online or something. No, no. He says in the trailer that there is a ah like a tarantula. It's not like an actual. The guy I don't think is an actual tarantula. I think it's like some ninja looking dude.
02:01:33
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He mentioned that tarantula was in the trailer. Oh, yeah. know. I think IGN even posted about it. Okay. so Good, good, good. I didn't want insider information. That's what I'm kind of hinting at. Oh, yeah. It's not insider information. The set photos. like I'm okay with like the things that get publicized by like the Hollywood Reporter and Deadline, but when it starts getting into detail, like, oh, there's a picture of Doctor Strange is it. Okay, cool. Interesting. So Tarantula. I don't know. I'm not familiar with that villain. Me neither, dude. I don't i don't know much about the comic books, Marvel comic books at up at all.
02:02:02
Speaker
um So yeah, it looks exciting, man. I'm curious how this is going to play out. It's cool to see kind of a depressed Peter Parker. Yeah. I like depressed Peter Parker. It reminds me of, um there's a ah YouTube movie called Spider-Man Lotus.
02:02:15
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Race Spider-Man. don't know if you remember. There's like controversy with the guy that was playing the Spider-Man. And it like him being like, I don't know, there was some like, I was saying some racist shit and that came out and then the movie kind of got like canceled or the actor got canceled. but They still released the movie and that movie is like essentially like a ah Peter Parker that's kind of sad and in the dumps and him trying to figure out like what it means to be Spider-Man again. And I felt like there was ah some parallels. That movie, not really good. It's pretty cool for like a YouTube movie that I watched, but no. Well, Spider-Man 2, I feel like Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 is a little bit down in the dumps too, i guess so too. Yeah, that's fair. I love that movie. that's one of the I feel like that was like when the golden age of superhero movies began, you know?
02:02:55
Speaker
It's like that movie in X-Men 2 that when they were like coming around that time period, that was when it's like, I feel like Tim Burton's Batman was just too weird. And then the Batman movies that went after it were like not good. Yeah.
02:03:11
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And yeah. And then Nolan came out with his his Batman and then sort of it just like lifted off from from there. But I love Spider-Man 2. Yeah. um Yeah, thats that's the that's the thing. like He's depressed Spider-Man, the depressed Peter Parker, but there's also this grounded element, which again, what we were afraid of two weeks ago when we talked about this. I just think that's really cool that they're going to the grounded friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. They're not going supernatural too much. the all the All the villains seem like they're somebody he could potentially take on himself. There was rumors that there's going to be like Sinister Six or something. I'm like, I don't think that's happening here. Thank God. I don't want them necessarily to do that unless he's going to get like completely overwhelmed. But he also doesn't seem like he has the same tech, which is cool, like he had from from ah Tony Stark.
02:03:55
Speaker
Yeah. um So it's cool. I don't know. I'm really into it. I'm i'm into this too. i'm I'm quite excited about it. I think it's going to be cool. and Also, cool thing to note, Punisher is about to say motherfucker. And then just before he says like the F-bomb, Peter Parker like airs Spider-Man like ah puts a web over his mouth, which is funny. Awesome.
02:04:11
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I like that. um'm I'm very intrigued about this and I'm curious because obviously they're going to try to bring back, you know, MJ and and and Peter and have that relationship um rekindle. You can assume. And like, how does, sorry, go ahead.
02:04:26
Speaker
Which their chemistry is like, I feel like amazing. that ah And they're dating in real life. Yeah. No, but it's not just that. I feel like, yeah because even it was, the chemistry was good in the first one before they were dating, you know, I feel like it's, it's awesome.
02:04:38
Speaker
yeah i agree but yeah i'm stoked for this man i think it's gonna be fucking awesome i'd be shocked if it was anything less than great so yeah yeah it's cool yeah it's really good yeah i'm very excited i'm really excited it's gonna be yeah i had another thought but i forgot what it was i didn't have any more thoughts Oh, okay.
02:04:59
Speaker
I can't remember what it was about. it I thought it was about Punisher because he said something and I had a kind of a follow-up, but I don't remember what it is. But anyway, it's fine. um yeah no Yeah, it's it's exciting. It's cool. The grounded Spider-Man, I'm i'm just looking forward to that and in general. We'll see what what happens. but i feel like Yeah, he's grounded by his his ah his dead mom and and and dead Aunt May and dead Uncle Ben and dead dad.
02:05:23
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I think he's grounded because nobody remembers him at all. that's No, he's grounded because he's he's in trouble. He snuck out. Oh, he's in trouble from his family. Yeah, he's grounded. His parental figures who he no longer has. Yeah. So, again, a bit of a walk to get there. it was Well, maybe if you fucking just understood it.
02:05:43
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you know maybe did anyone know Did anyone listening to this understand it? I guess we'll see. you ever been grounded as a child? Were you ever grounded, Simon, or were you too good of a kid? ah Yeah, I was grounded on occasion. Doing drugs. Not too often.
02:05:56
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Doing drugs on the city streets. I do drugs. No, I said, were you doing drugs on the city streets? And that's why. No, no, I wasn't. What do you for getting grounded? Ah, something stupid, I'm sure.
02:06:08
Speaker
Kind of fight with my sister, maybe. Not sure. But anyway. Okay. Let's. Cool. let's Oh, do you have any follow-up? So that was my favorite, definitely the biggest trailer of the week, I feel like, in general. So that's my my my trailer of the week for my pick. Do you have any follow-up, any extra honorable mentions that you want to talk about?
Upcoming Movie Excitement
02:06:29
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There's one I have that I think is excellent and I'm very excited about. Yeah, I got two. One is definitely the one that you're going to say, so i'll I'll talk about the other one. It's a movie called Our Hero Balthazar. don't know if you watched it. It seems pretty f freaking cool. It's about this kid that um
02:06:46
Speaker
essentially like finds this guy online, um, who seems to want to be like a school shooter. It's, it's played, he's played by Asa Butterfield, like so Solomon. And he's, um, again, like the school shooter shooter type guys kind of going off the rails. And then Jaden Martell, um, probably best known for the it movies.
02:07:09
Speaker
That's at least where I know him from. um, he's like this guy that has like an online presence and sees him and he's like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna try to stop this guy from being a school shooter. I'm gonna meet him in person and become his friend. Cause I think, you know, all this guy needs is a friend and that's kind of the setup of the movie.
02:07:25
Speaker
It looks really interesting. I thought that was really neat. um So yeah. Cool. That's my choice. The other one I'm sure is it's what you're gonna say. So take it away. What is it? I'm curious what you think I'm gonna say.
02:07:39
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Wild Horse Nine. There's that too. Yes. that that That is a big one. Wild Horse Nine is amazing. That looks amazing. Martin McDonough, the director of Three Billboards and Ebbing. Wait.
02:07:52
Speaker
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri. right Outside. Outside. Yeah. And Banshees of Inishirin. And Banshees of Inishirin, which is amazing. I prefer Banshees of Inishirin over Three Billboards, but I know that at the time when you watch Three Billboards, you love Three Billboards.
02:08:08
Speaker
Three Billboards was like by far my favorite movie that that year. That was one of my favorite movies. Like at that time, i was like, geez, there you go. So Fargo coded, which I love um for a couple of reasons. yeah But yeah, I just thought like Sam Rockwell's performance in that is awesome. I think the story is really good. It's so satisfying.
02:08:25
Speaker
And Wild Horse Nine has Sam Rockwell, which is yeah really cool. And John Malkovich. And that them playing off of each other in just in the trailer alone, every moment watching them is like, it's magic for me. This trailer is really well put together. So I'm curious to see how the movie will be. But knowing Martin McDonough, just based on the last two movies he's made, I'm in. i'm deaf This is one I want to see in theaters, actually. I do want to watch this. What did it say for the date? Did it give us a date for that? No, I think it said coming soon. said coming soon.
02:08:53
Speaker
That's at least in theaters, maybe on YouTube, it says something different, but one more trailer to mention. I've got a bunch. I'll just let mention actually just rattle them off here. There's the outcome trailer, Jonah Hills trailer for with Keanu Reeves.
02:09:05
Speaker
That looks interesting. i I don't, it's in the style of it is not maybe completely my alley, but it looks cool. There's a, this is a gardening show. don't know saw the Zach Galifianakis gardening show and on Netflix. It just looks wacky. And then there's In the Grey, which is another Guy Ritchie movie that looks pretty cool. There's like the the classic Guy Ritchie charm. The Malcolm in the Middle Life's Still Unfair trailer. i don't know if you ever watched Malcolm in the Middle. Was that ever a thing you watched growing up? ah Here and there. i didn't watch it like religiously, but, you know, it played on YTV when I was kid.
02:09:38
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Yeah, there is. This is still not the one I was thinking of as another one I was maybe going to mention, but the Hawk Lonnie Hawkins, which mentioned that earlier. Did you watch that really short trailer? It gives me the vibe of like, um, um, Talladega Nights.
02:09:52
Speaker
Like it's like a talladega Nights. It looks like it's going back to like the classic Will Ferrell, really crazy stepbrothers nonsense. Okay, I like that. Comedy movies, because he hasn't done one of those in a little while, I feel like. i don't i may Maybe I'm just forgetting, but I don't think he's anything like that wacky. It looks pretty cool from that perspective. It's a Netflix series, though, so i don't there's nothing but from Will Ferrell that's been like that, I don't think. like ah Ricky Bobby on a show level. It's worth it. It's only very, very short. It looks pretty cool. I'm curious to see if it look if it's any good. look
02:10:26
Speaker
And lastly, and this is a huge trailer, movie I'm very much excited for, but I got to read Dune Messiah, Dune Part 3 teaser, which oh yeah that was huge. That's a huge teaser as well. That was really, really cool. And i just, I don't know. I just love the cinematographer and the the cinematography in these Dune movies. I think it's just gorgeous.
02:10:47
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gorgeously shot and the music from Hans Zimmer is so good and like the combo of like you got Robert Pattinson in this teaser as well yeah did you hear about how like like there's there's a thing going around how he like got into this movie and apparently he was when he was filming the drama with Zendaya he's like you're in you're in like uh Dune right and she's like yeah and it's like can you get me one of those Dune movies and apparently she just brought it up to Denny Villeneuve and He got cast. I mean, that kind of makes sense. It's like if it's probably very an easy way to network it. It's like Robert Pattinson's amazing.
02:11:21
Speaker
it's like if you're always interested. Oh, yeah yeah. It's like I have a part for him for sure. Yeah, let's make him one of the really white people. It's cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's cool. Whatever those people are called.
02:11:32
Speaker
It's cool, man. Nice. Oh, did you hear about the thing that Euphoria, the Euphoria guy dropped out the Euphoria composer? i guess it's just Hans Zimmern Allen's. What happened? I don't know. i saw that pop up and he was talking shit. He was saying like, yeah, it's not what I wanted to do or whatever. And I don't know what happened.
02:11:50
Speaker
He was talking serious shit. He was like, he was lambasting the producers and the show itself online. Like he was really attacking it. I was like, what dude, what happened? Cause he was the composer the whole time for all yeah like the first two seasons.
02:12:04
Speaker
I don't know. Like, and then Hans Zimmer went on the project, which I thought was really interesting. Cause it's like, Kind of why in some way. But Hans Zimmer likes to collaborate with various artists when he's making certain... Like I think of... Hans Zimmer was involved in the Blade Runner score too, right? 2049? I can't say for sure. It was ah Benjamin Walfish and Hans Zimmer, I think, together.
Closing Remarks and Banter
02:12:27
Speaker
But anyway, are you looking up that or... Yeah, I'm looking into this. I guess, yeah, he he doesn't really say anything. He's just saying like, fuck Columbia, fuck Euphoria, I'm out, yada, yada, yada. It's so aggressive.
02:12:41
Speaker
And he doesn't really say why. was like, okay, this sorry. i don't know. Do you like the music in that show? You watched both seasons, right? i don't remember it.
02:12:52
Speaker
No, I've only seen season one. I got watch season two. Maybe me and my fiance will watch season two because season three is right around the corner. So I got to watch it still. All right, man. Well, that is episode 132. Do you have anything to mention the audience before we wrap this up? Do you like the trailer, the new segment called Trailer? Yeah, it's a great new segment called The Trailer.
02:13:13
Speaker
You like it? like it better. I feel like it's four months better instead of you listing off 10 trailers and being like, what did you think about any of these ones that I just listed? Yeah, that way we- tried to interrupt you. so you wouldn't list them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good. I think it's better because you get to talk about the ones you're really passionate about. I would never have guessed that Obsession would have, like, your most anticipated movie.
02:13:34
Speaker
Like, I could see it maybe being your trailer of the week, potentially, although this I think Dune and Spider-Man are huge hitters. too But you're not really that into Dune, really, and Spider-Man you're into, but you're a horror guy, so I guess that makes sense.
02:13:46
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, man. Well, I guess we'll wrap it up then. Thank you for listening, audience, to episode 132 of Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie, and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my...
02:14:02
Speaker
I never come up with an adjective in time. um Super intelligent co-host. That's not true though. that's just That just kind of feels mean because you know it's not true. All right. Fine.
02:14:16
Speaker
Relatively intelligent. What? You can say like relatively intelligent. To who? Is it? I don't know. That's the thing. Pretty intelligent. Kind of intelligent. My my horror aficionado co-host.
02:14:31
Speaker
Is it that good? I think it is good. I'll take it. I'll take it. i'll take I didn't think of it at the time. Now it kind of feels like a waste. I should have used it next time. ah Adrian Pinter. Please join us on April 7th for episode 133, the day Starfield comes out.
02:14:43
Speaker
Good evening to you and good luck. Wow. And I apologize for my sickness making this episode probably harder to listen to. Honestly, you sounded totally fine. Oh, thanks. I'll be honest with you. Thanks. You sounded totally fine. All right.
02:14:58
Speaker
All right. Ready or not, here's Starfield is going to come on on the release date of next episode on PlayStation. Not a good title, but yeah, it's true. That's the name of the title of this episode. No, it is not. Goodbye. Goodbye, audience.
02:15:11
Speaker
Goodbye.