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130. Marty Supreme Fries
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Simon & Adrian review director Josh Safdie’s ping pong drama, Marty Supreme. They also review Disney+ series Wonder Man and Netflix’s People We Meet On Vacation. Plus, they examine HBO’s bold claim with respect to their upcoming Harry Potter TV series, Apple’s potential expansion of the Severance universe, and the unique nature of the Nicholas Cage starring Spider-Noir series on Amazon Prime Video. Additionally, the two pals acknowledge the onslaught of trailers that were launched over the past two weeks and Adrian gives his expert opinion on sports as the Olympic Games come to a close.
This episode was recorded in Canada on February 21st 2026. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on March 10th for Episode 131.
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Film and TV Highlights
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This episode, we review director Josh Safdie's ping pong centered film, Marty's Supreme Fries. We examine HBO's bold claims about the potential success of the upcoming Harry Potter TV series.
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We get excited for the future of the science fiction TV franchise, Severance, under Apple's new acquired ownership. what he Are you making it so that people have to play it at two times speed so that they can make it regular speed? Maybe. I don't know. You're so you're adjusting you're pre-adjusting the speed of how they're listening to the podcast? Is that what you're doing? i was just winging it. oh There's no purpose. Wow. It was really good. There's no thought behind these eyes. It was... So good. Wow.
00:00:49
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So good. Thanks, dude. Wow. That's really nice of you. So good. Wow. You're so good at this. You're so good. He's really good. You know, remember that scene in Camp Rock? No. You ever watch Camp Rock? I never saw Camp Rock.
00:01:02
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No. Oh, my God. so there's a scene in Camp Rock where like the the one character, she's playing music like be but be blabat it's like the worst sound in like music. OK. And then it like cuts to Demi Lovato. And she's like, wow, she's really good. And like our like my friend group just constantly references that scene. It's sarcasm, right?
00:01:20
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It was sarcasm. No, she's. No, she's serious, just like you He's being earnest. Okay, well, I was being sarcastic. I just want you to know that. I just want you to know. I know the audience knows because it's very obvious. I was really emphasizing the sarcasm.
Canadian TV and Film Insights
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But anyway, with new episodes airing every two weeks on Tuesdays, Adrian, this is Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. I'm Simon Eadie.
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Hello. Earth Adrian.
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how long is this clip This is an intro. We're doing a cold open here. Yeah. She's really good. Excellent. That's it.
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I'm Adrian Finner. Oh my God. Welcome to episode 130.
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Bye.
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Adrian, I know you love sports. The Olympics, the Olympics are in full swing, buddy. Are you excited about it? Are you watching the Olympics? I'm not. The Winter Olympics? no No, I watched a little bit of it when I was at Chuck's Roadhouse the other night getting half-priced appetizers. Oh, what'd you see? I don't remember. oh because that would have been it would have been over, so it would have been all replays because it's in Italy, so. I think it was the replay of the women's hockey. Oh, that's sad. Canada losing to the United States of America. Yeah, that sucked. Yeah, i know. like We hate Americans here. We hate the United States here. No, we don't. ah No, we don't. not I don't even hate Americans. i hate their administration. Hate's a strong word. I don't like it at all.
00:03:09
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It's bad. I hate all of them. I hate everyone except for your me and you. Yeah, it's crazy because our podcast is incredibly American-centric. it's It's so out touch. It is? Isn't I don't know. Yeah. I guess so. Yeah. i mean, this isn't a podcast strictly about Schitt's Creek. You know what I'm saying? we We don't have that much of a vibrant Hollywood. It's about heated rivalry. Type of equivalent here.
00:03:32
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He did rivalry, rivalry, right? Yeah, that's very popular. Yeah, that's Canadian, I guess. did cool Did your wife watch that? No. Did yours? He did rivalry? No. Yeah, of course. did Did you all the women? I've seen some scenes of it. OK, every time I walked into the room, it was like a dude getting railed. and i was like, oh, my goodness. you Oh, wow. It's very like sexual. ah Obviously, my my
Valentine's Day and Movie Chemistry
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you know, i I was probably just walking in at the worst time. It's like, you know, when you're I mean, you never watched anime, but like when you're watching anime as a kid and then there's that like brief moment of like fan service where it's like.
00:04:05
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zooming in on the anime girls titties or whatever and then like your parents walk you're like what are you watching right yeah it was kind of like that situation but for my wife she's like i feel so dirty watching this yeah but hey man it's a love story let those guys fuck yeah let them do it it's really nice yeah i'm a big fan yeah i have no problem i'm a fan of dudes fucking that's not netflix right that's a netflix show that's probably why my wife hasn't watched it i think she no it's on crave dude it's a crave original crave Oh, shit.
00:04:32
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Yeah. It's a Crave original, but it's been blowing up all over the world, though, isn't it? Correct. Yeah, it's a Crave original. A lot of the the the hockey scenes were actually filmed in Guelph at the Smirnoff Center or whatever.
00:04:46
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Yeah, but a lot of Hollywood stuff gets filmed in Canada, too. I didn't know that it was like purely in Guelph, Ontario. It's produced by Canada. Yeah. Okay. It's filmed in Hamilton and Guelph, Ontario. A lot of the show. That's pretty cool.
00:04:58
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Yeah, it's pretty cool. Wow. Pretty neat, man. i But no, I didn't watch it. I don't know. Like, it i I don't know much about it. Apart from that, it's like a hockey hockey boys. And it's like the two captains on the hockey team. And they're like in love. But they can't they don't want to come out.
00:05:14
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for No, they' it's two different teams though, right? two Yeah, two different captains against each other. yeah Yeah, exactly. One guy's a Russian. Hence the rivalry part. Yeah. One guy's a Russian, one guy's Canadian or something. Oh, okay. Man. Wow.
00:05:25
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Incredible. romance, dude. Yeah, it sure is. I love romance. That's good. Me too. I'll be talking about a romance flick later, man. oh Oh, romance, the genre. The genre. So maybe you should watch it.
00:05:37
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You should watch a rivalry. You're missing out. Yeah, i don't know. I'm not going to just watch it on my own at any time. time I don't really watch too much TV by myself, to be fair. But like maybe like if my wife does a rewatch before season two, i'll maybe I'll watch it. Who knows? Maybe I'll like it. Gotcha. Maybe I'll like it. Maybe. Well, you may as well just jump into what we've been watching. It's a good segue, I guess. Okay, let's do it, man.
00:05:56
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Do it. Do it. up All right. All right, man. Let me tell you what I've been watching, what I've been seeing on the Netflix. I watched a movie with my wife called People We Meet on Vacation. Have you ever heard of it, Simon?
00:06:11
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Yeah. Yes, I have. Yes. Yeah. It's ah based on a book. Um, and it's just like, i don't know. It's like your typical sort of like rom-com, you know what I mean? But with a unique little twist and it's, you know, the the setup is like the two main characters played by Tom Blythe, who I only have seen in the Hunger Games prequel, Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. And then yes Emily Bader, who I've not seen in anything as far as I'm aware.
00:06:42
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And they're the two main characters and they like meet when they're younger, like in college to drive back to their hometown. And like, they don't really know each other and they go on like this little road trip together and then kind of grow a friendship and then make like a pact that every year we're going to go on a vacation together and, you know, like see if we can, you know, just have a good time.
00:07:05
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The title is like a little bit odd because it's not really about the people they meet on vacation. It's about their relationship. So it's a little bit of – it throws you for a loop there. Did they meet themselves? Did they first meet on vacation when they were children maybe? No, no. They didn't.
00:07:22
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They met in college because they're driving back to their hometown huh where they're both from but they don't really they never knew each other. Strange. Strange. Yeah. And, you know, the the the setup is is pretty much that like, yeah, we're going go on vacations all the time. And then there's like a jump forward, I think, like nine years or 10 years before or like ahead of time. I can't remember the exact. Maybe it's like eight.
00:07:45
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Who cares? Time doesn't matter. And it's like at that point in time, their relationship is split and like they're not friends anymore. And it's like, oh, why? You know, what happened? And then you go back and it shows like a few summers, a few vacations that they've been on.
00:08:00
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And like, you know, they talk about their partners that they were with at those times and everything like that. um And, you know, ultimately it's about like, well, they won't they, you know, are they going to end up together or not? These two.
00:08:12
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And it's honestly, again, it's just like a fun Fun time. It's quite funny. It's like wholesome. Every once in a while, I just like a good rom-com. You know what I mean? It's not my favorite you know genre. It's always predictable, but it's not necessarily about the ending. It's about the journey to get there.
00:08:29
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And I don't think it's particularly... You know, it's not like a spectacular movie, but I really enjoyed it. I had a good time and I'm glad that I watched it. I watched it on Valentine's Day.
00:08:39
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Wait, did I watch it on Valentine's Day? I'm lying to you. Let me just double check when I watched it. The 14th Saturday. Is that a Saturday? Yeah, I did watch it on Valentine's Day with my wife. So it was a nice little like Valentine's Day thing.
00:08:52
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Nice. My wife got me a little ice cream cake, which was really cute from DQ. little heart ice cream cake, red velvet. Delicious. Nice. Yeah, but what I wanted to bring up about this movie that I found really interesting is, so Tom Blythe, again, I don't remember, did I talk to you about Songbirds and Snakes, Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the Hunger Game movie? I think you did, briefly at some point.
00:09:15
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Okay. Yeah. and I don't know if I mentioned it then, I feel like I must have, how I felt like the main characters in that movie, like Tom Blythe's character and Rachel Ziegler's character, had like absolutely no chemistry.
00:09:26
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Like, I felt like I think you did something. that Yeah. Yeah. Like, I was like, something's off. I'm like, it must be the guy because I saw Rachel Ziegler in that. um
00:09:37
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Musical movie. Singing Spielberg. Yeah. Yeah. God. The story. West Side. West Side Story. Yeah. And she was like with anse engelhort ana Ansel Engelhort. Engelhort. What's his name?
00:09:53
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Dude, I'm I'm. Ansel Anglehort, baby driver. I know what you're talking about. That's his name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. if he's in Tokyo Vice. I'm just going to type in Tokyo Vice and it'll come up. but why dude from The dude from Ansel Anglehort. That's Elgert.
00:10:11
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Ansel Elgert. That doesn't sound right, though. Ansel Elgert. Okay, so I wasn't too far off, fair. No, you weren't actually that far off, but it threw me off. It's like when you say a word too many times and it doesn't sound like a word anymore. It's weird because Ansel Elgert is not in anything, really, as much anymore. There's a controversy.
00:10:30
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Yeah, yeah. But I don't know what happened, if he got sorted or not. But I mean, Baby Driver is amazing. That's his my favorite role that he's played. But anyway. Oh, yeah. That's maybe the only role I've seen.
00:10:41
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West Side Story. Except for West Side Story. Yeah. Good point. I was literally just talking about that movie. Anyways, I'm going up. We're on a roll here. Yeah, dude. We're doing a really good job. And I was saying like in West Side Story, like Ansel Elgert and Rachel Ziegler, like they have like really great chemistry.
00:11:00
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Yeah. So when I watched Ballad of Songbirds and Sing, I'm like, it's not Rachel Ziegler. It's this Tom Blythe guy. But then I watched people we meet on vacation and the chemistry between Tom Blythe and Emily Bader batter bater was phenomenal.
00:11:14
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And like you you got the full buy-in. And i was like, oh, this is great. So I just think like Tom Blythe and Rachel Ziegler, their chemistry don't match. They didn't connect. Maybe the director didn't help them. Maybe there was some circumstances on set that didn't work out. Maybe they didn't like each other privately. Who knows? It's possible. But hey, man, Stefan um and Elena, those actors from Vampire Diaries, they didn't like each other in the first season, but they still got chemistry in that first season of Vampire Diaries.
Canadian TV Goes Global
00:11:41
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Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. It's the good stuff. I didn't know they like each other. you you know the you know all the deets, eh? Yeah. I know all the deets, dude. My wife just finished Vampire Diaries like the last episode.
00:11:55
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Last few episodes. She's going to watch the spinoffs? No. I don't think she wants. She's not? I don't think she cares. No. She doesn't really like the originals because like they have like the arc of the originals and then they had that spinoff. She's like, i don't care about any of these characters. I'm not going the originals.
00:12:08
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um One of my favorite characters is the the one brother, the level-headed one. i can't remember his name. Oh, yeah. Klaus is not level-headed. Yeah, no, no, no. It's like Emmett or something. yeah it's with an e uh not edgar uh it's like an old-fashioned name i'll look it up while you talk okay cool but um yeah all in all like yeah people we meet on vacation just like a fun little rom-com good chemistry between the two main actors elijah elijah i knew it was an e i knew it was an e biblical
00:12:41
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um And yeah, it was just, ah it's ah it's a good time. I think like it's a really cute movie. I don't know. i honestly don't know if your wife's like into like rom-coms really. I know she likes Grey's Anatomy, but that's not really a rom-com. That's more of a medical drama. I mean, she watched Emily in Paris. She likes Bridgerton.
00:12:57
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You what I mean? show is mostly, but she's watching a lot of shows, like not a lot of. movies in general, I guess the for movies, she likes the seems like the bombast, the spectacle, you know, of like a, like a, the monster, kaiju movies, the monsterverse type situation.
00:13:14
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Definitely. Well, that's great. That's great. I'm glad. I'm glad. But yeah, if you guys you know want to have a nice little romantic evening, in the two of you, put it on if you got Netflix.
00:13:25
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To be fair, though, like we do watch a lot of stuff apart, her in particular. Do you find that your wife watches a lot of stuff apart? Actually, I don't know that quite the answer. Because like we didnt you and i the thing is we fill up our our spare time when we're not – with our respective wives playing video games. And this is kind of a a thing. Like I I've probably watched the, like I'm in like a low period for watching movies and TV shows because of the number of video games I'm trying to play and catch up on. This is such a big year for gaming. I feel like there's a lot of games I'm really excited for. so I'm just trying to, trying to like kind of get out some of my, my backlog for platinums and things like that out of the way and and just enjoy gaming while I can. i'm trying to, I don't know. i also try to not fill it with social media. I try not to scroll social media. I'm i'm cutting that out more and more this year. and see if See if I can cut it out the most I've ever done. But specifically, movies and TV shows, we don't maybe watch them apart from our wives because we're playing video games, whereas they might watch it on the side. like My wife right now is moving through Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel like because they kind of work off of each other, the spinoff there. and so she's going through that those again and that's what kind of what she does in her free time she watches a lot of tv shows so for your wife i don't know what does she do in her free time does she basket weave does she she does basket weave um i don't know yeah uh she she scarves for my cat um right yeah
00:14:51
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You're going for all the boring ones. i try to mix it up because I don't know. It goes to the shooting range. Oh, whoa. Okay. That's extreme too. Skydiving is pretty extreme though.
00:15:02
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Yeah. like That's a pretty extreme hobby. Yeah, no, she she watches, i mean, again, she was watching Vampire Diaries mostly by herself. Like, I would sometimes hang out with her, and maybe I would pull out, like, my my PlayStation Portal and play next to her or something like that, for, like, depending on the game that I'm playing. But, yeah, we do spend a lot of time, part. Really, yeah, again, I don't watch too much things too many things alone.
00:15:25
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But she doesn't really know what she wants to watch. Again, she watched Heat of Rivalry owner by herself. Yeah, yeah. talked about that too. and Vampire Diaries by herself. She's watching Canada Shore by herself.
00:15:35
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The yeah reality TV show. And I simply can't. I just can't. I can't. I'll be honest with you. yeah It's like now like, I bowed out after like episode two. was like, I can't do this. This is actually frustrating to watch.
00:15:48
Speaker
It's interesting. That's two Canadian, very Canadian shows. That's kind of interesting. You know, there hasn't been that many very popular Canadian shows. I wonder if like Schitt's Creek sparked the industry a little bit here more or something like that. Because it just hasn't, there's never been that many mainstream, seeing heated rivalry blow up.
00:16:05
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i i I don't know how I didn't know that was like a Canadian. I should have known that because the like Prime Minister Carney. I think he was in like a photo with one of the the main actors from He Did Rivalry. I just, I didn't connect that. I just thought it was a hockey connection because he's ah a fan and I thought it was just filmed here. I didn't think, and so it's, I don't know. that that's That's awesome. So I'm curious to see if it sparks a deeper root, like more deep,
00:16:30
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movie kind of production here in Canada in in a deeper way. As heated rivalry is really popular. Schitt's Creek went like cleaned up at the Emmys that one year. It seems to be like growing. i hope hope that's happening. That's kind of cool if that happens.
00:16:44
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Yeah. I mean, even back in the day, like Trailer Park Boys, I think Trailer Park Boys is still very popular. I'm kind of out of it, but that's a Canadian series. um I don't know how popular. Isn't like one of the actors like embroiled in like a huge controversy right now? Yeah, the Bubbles guy Mike something.
00:17:00
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yeah Yeah, there was there's a couple of controversies. Like back in the day, like sexual assault and like battery allegations. And then I think those kind of faded away. And then they just got brought up again, like other ones, which is a shame.
00:17:13
Speaker
I really loved Trailer Park Boys back in the day. i've I've kind of fallen off a bit over the, I don't know. It went on Netflix. I watched, I think, the first two Netflix seasons. And then the one I watched, the last one I watched, I was like, this is actually really bad and and I don't like it. And then the actor that played Jim Leahy passed away. And i was like, okay.
00:17:29
Speaker
I think this is like a proper time for me to just kind of bow out. Yeah, that's fair. Which was a shame. um But yeah, it was it was a it's interesting. There are some other like TV, like Canadian TVs, but yeah, I guess like none of them have really exploded to the level of, again, a huge rivalry or a shit's freak. Yeah.
00:17:49
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Like blown up to like actually be shared with the United States. Usually it goes the other way, like for the most part. Or they'll film a lot of stuff in Canada in like the Vancouver area and the BC and sometimes in Alberta with like The Last of Us and and
Apple TV and Series Reviews
00:18:04
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stuff like that. That's obvious like because of the the credits, I guess, that the government gives Hollywood. But yeah, it's just rare to see it to go the other way. But yeah, it's cool. I'm hoping to see it grow more. that would be kind of awesome. but But yeah, okay. Anything else you watched? or Anything else you want to say about
00:18:21
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Oh, no, no. and There's not much else to say about people we meet. I'm like, people we meet on vacation. i don't know why I just like randomly had an accent there that it was just coming out of me, man. um The other thing that I watched, Simon, which is actually like a nice surprise. So taking a little we're taking a little break from Slow Horses. We love Slow Horses. Finished the first two seasons. I still got Apple TV because of... um I forget, why why do I have Apple TV? What's coming out week to week? Shrinking. And then Monarch's coming out soon as well, so I'm just going keep it on.
00:18:51
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Right. And again, we're watching Shrinking week to week. I'm not going to say much about it. Same with House, ah sorry, Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Dude, the last episode Night of the Seven Kingdoms, I think the the fifth, it's the penultimate episode of the season.
00:19:05
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amazing like top tier shit yeah there's only six and again they're short too so i would i would highly recommend uh you pop in there because i know you like uh the game of thrones universe and this is so okay then don't worry about it um but yeah it's it's fantastic and i'm i'm excited that the finale is tomorrow as of when we're recording so i'll definitely watch it but i don't know if you remember me talking about the TV series Platonic starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. don't know you remember.
00:19:37
Speaker
Yeah, I did not like it. I was not a fan of season one. I thought both Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne's character were so frustrating and unlikable. that I just could not get into it. And I didn't think the show was funny enough to kind of keep me hooked that entire time. And I think there was a lot of issues with it. And I just didn't think the writing was particularly great. And there was just like a lot of, i don't know, there's a lot of things that i just really disliked about I can't think of them all off the top of my head, but i don't know you can listen to our review from whenever it was.
00:20:08
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. but And it's good to point out, I guess, that the audiences did seem to like it fairly well. like Yeah, I was in the minority. think you pointed out at time you thought yourself to be in the minority. Because it's not it's not like review. I don't... Wait, why isn't coming It's reviewed very well.
00:20:22
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I think it was like over a 90. Yeah, 96. Yeah, it's reviewed very well. um So we went into season two because it's all done and we're like, we'll give it a try. We want like kind of something quick, like half hour episodes. And we completed all of season two.
00:20:38
Speaker
Oh, wow. And I want to say, i don't know if I got to go back and rewatch season one. Maybe I was in a mood or whatever. But yeah we both actually really liked season two. um I think it got a lot better. It's interesting because they kind of, i think the characters had a lot of growth. And and ah this is, again, me assuming. But I feel like maybe the writers realize, like, we need these characters to be a little bit more likable and more um or I guess less grating and like constantly like, woe is me. Like the first season, like I'm doing a shitty thing and I'm getting, you know, shit back and I got to feel sorry for this character. And they kind of got rid of that in season two and then make them kind of better people.
00:21:21
Speaker
Again, they still have their flaws like any characters. And then they give a little bit more attention to like Roseburn's husband in the show and kind of more tertiary characters. And I thought it was just a lot better. It was incredibly funny this time around. Again, maybe just because I'm i'm more into the characters.
00:21:38
Speaker
The season's kind of set up with like Seth Rogen's character. He's going to get married to this woman that he met at the end of the the first season. And Rose Byrne is like doing a wedding planning company, and she's like planning the wedding.
00:21:52
Speaker
And I assumed this would be the full arc of the show, like the the season two. And I was pleasantly surprised that it's not. It's actually like only the first like four or five episodes. And then it kind of goes off from there and like focuses in ah a lot on like Roseburn's family, particularly her husband kind of struggling with like his work and stuff. And they do like a lot of visual gags with him, um which I really appreciated. Like there's a there's like a fedora bit that just is.
00:22:21
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once brought into the show, just consistent throughout the series or the season. i don't know. Fedoras are so stupid, man. And it's like, they know it. And um if you wear a fedora out there.
00:22:36
Speaker
You better be digging for treasure in the jungle, you know? Yeah. Yeah. That's when that's when it's cool. I think. Yeah. You know what? I'll allow that. I'll allow that. Very situational.
00:22:48
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um But no, he's wearing a he's wearing a fedora and it's his like writing hat when he's like writing a story and he just keeps on putting on this fedora and it's just absurd. That's cool. um He's alone. Yeah. Comfort of his own home, you know.
00:23:01
Speaker
Yeah, guess so. um But yeah, it just goes in like a lot of unique places and, you know, it kind of keeps you on your toes. And it is really, it's just really funny. And there are these like more like heartfelt moments. Again, like it seems like a very real relationship between Roseburn and her husband, far more so than in the first season where – again, Rose Byrne was just a shitty wife to him the the entire time. And there's like this brief moment of like, oh, he did one bad thing. So now we got to side with her, even though she's been doing a a bunch of shitty things the entire season.
00:23:32
Speaker
And I just felt like it was kind of, don't know, it wasn't as well balanced. And then this season, their relationship is a lot more balanced and they're both kind of, you know, going through the motions and going through things and, you know, kind of being there for each other, which was nice. And, um,
00:23:48
Speaker
I just thought this season was but significantly better
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00:23:52
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than season one. And i'm I'm glad that I watched it. And it is cool because I checked they did renew it for season three.
00:23:59
Speaker
And they set up the third season in the end. Very similarly to how they set up season two at the end of season one. So, yeah, i'm I'm intrigued. I'm in. I'm back into the show. i'm I'm excited about season three. Hopefully, you know, they maintain this momentum for me.
00:24:13
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um Because, again, I know i was in the I was in the minority of that first season.
00:24:20
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cool i'm disliked that first season know but yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah anything else you've watched my friend no man no again just things i'm watching week to week which i'll talk about more when when when completed but yeah yeah no okay what have you watched have you watched anything solo apart from what we watched together ah Yeah, well, I watched not really solo, but with with my wife here, we finished Fallout season two. Pretty good. I like Fallout quite a bit.
00:24:50
Speaker
I think it's good. Well, well built. really like it. Justin Theroux kills it as Robert House. Really good. Robert House. Isn't it at Andrew House? No.
00:25:02
Speaker
Oh, I never watched this season two. I just thought the character Andrew House. Although I do think we said Andrew House last episode or the episode before. um i don't know if it was you or me, but yeah maybe Andrew House is not a guy. I don't know if that's a fiction fictional character or something else, but I couldn't find him. House, he is a guy. He's national security and government. He's a lawyer.
00:25:23
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guy. I just said fictional character. 2010 to 2015 as chief of staff to successive ministers of public safety and emergency preparedness, working with his team to manage some of the most critical files facing the government of Canada in areas of national security policy.
00:25:41
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You know what I think it is, though? Policing, sorry. You what is? Borders and trade and disaster response. So there's Robert House, right? And then he's like ah kind of a figure. He's like this genius kind of figure in the Fallout universe. Like he's from the games.
00:25:54
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And he's important in like Fallout, New Vegas and things like that. um But there's also another character in a different game who's also kind of a genius character who also kind of has a similar thing where he's like pulling strings. he's like a string puller, like a puppeteer type dude. It's kind of similar to Robert House in a way. And it's Andrew Ryan.
00:26:11
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So I'm wondering if that's maybe where the confusion comes from. Um, from Bioshock. Cause I was trying to figure it out. I looked up Andrew house. Cause I remembered in my, my car, I was listening to some other podcasts and somebody said Robert house. i'm like, yeah, it is Robert house. Isn't that what I think I've been saying Andrew or we just said it on the podcast. It was like right after we recorded the last one. I'm like, I remembered that we, we said Andrew house. Anyways, there's Robert house and Justin Theroux is just kills it. Like he's, he's literally a scene stiller.
00:26:39
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What Andrew drew in the house. Robert in the half Yeah, Robert in the house. Did you just mess it up again earnestly or did you do that as an accident? i't I understand. I did it as i Don't worry about it. Continue. or i guess in not Robert in the house.
00:26:56
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As a joke. Cory in the house. Disney's Cory in the house. Anyway, right I understand. and just understand I what you're going with this bit. I'm not sure it's good. But Robert House is really, really compelling. I just think he's very, very fun to watch. Him and... um Oh my God, I'm losing all my names today.
00:27:14
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The dude from Justified. Timothy Oliphant. No, no, no. that that The other main character in Justified. Walton Goggins. Thank you, Walton Goggins. The ghoul. He's the ghoul, right? Yeah, yeah. He's also a scene stealer. It's a good cast. I really like it, and I like where they're going with it, and I like how it progresses. like It consistently moves forward. They also have Macaulay Culkin in this season. It's good. I really like it. Anyway, the point is, good production values. I'm surprised with Amazon. Amazon's got like kind of...
00:27:42
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they're kind of like Apple in that they throw a lot of money around. It seems like in comparison to other streamers, which seem to be kind of dialing back sometimes. Like if you look at Squid Game and look at some of the CG, you're like, well what? And you're like, why is this happening? But when you look at these shows, I feel like including Little Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power show and this show, and they're making the God of War show. And they've got like a lot of crazy like projects that will cost a lot of money in post-production, I imagine. So it's pretty impressive that they're they're kind of willing to spend the money. So Amazon's interesting in that way. They're like a weird, they do have like bad shows too. And like a lot of, you know, not slop, but like, it's just some of the stuff is just not as this summer. I turned pretty.
00:28:22
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don't know. Some of the stuff is not as focused. Although that was very popular, right? The summer. I think it was, yeah. I think it did pretty well, but, um, they're not always, or like, I think the best example of this is the wheel of fortune show. I just felt like the quality of that. Whenever I saw a trailer, I was like, eh, is this wheel of fortune? Wheel time? No. Yeah. Wheel of Time. Thank you. Thank God you caught me there. Wheel Fortune. It really costs so much to make that game show, dude. You don't even know. No.
00:28:50
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Wheel of Time, yeah. The Wheel of Time and adaptation wasn't ah wasn't ah as well regarded. And every time I saw a trailer, I'm like, this kind of looks cheap. I'm not sure. The Lord of the ring Rings Rings of Power Show looks good, I think. I think it looks pretty great. I hope so.
00:29:03
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Yeah, but people don't think it does. hundreds millions Isn't it part of the problem for people? I don't know. I thought they i thought people would just complain about the writing. No, they make fun of the armor. They make fun of the casting. They make fun of everything. Everything's made fun of every single thing. or The armor in particular. like the armor of the like Some of the characters are like, oh, wow, this armor looks cheap. Look, this was from 2005 the show like Lord of the Rings. like Peter of the Rings. like okay it's different that's cool it doesn't look worse i i'm just it's confusing to me i don't agree um it's better than the ball sack armor from the witcher no or the ball sack armor yeah yeah that's unique i didn't mind it either actually it was okay i don't watch either of these shows by the way i'm just going off just i'm just riffing here
00:29:47
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Yeah, yeah. Where am I going with this? Anyway, Fallout's good. I like it. The other show I watched and I finished, so i finished two shows and the other show is Disney Plus' Wonder Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wonder Man show.
00:29:59
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It is spectacular. It is so good. It's so mature and maturely built. It's like they don't, care about how big of a swing they're taking and that this is nothing like is anything in the mcu it's like barry cross watchman cross uh like um the studio the studio those three like like mix and match of that kind of vibe of this old hollywood type of feel even though it's kind of modern hollywood they've got an episode in there that just kind of goes off the beaten path like a mythic quest episode type type thing where mythic when mythic quest was best they they go off the beaten path and do like a flashback to something that's completely unrelated. And they do it so boldly and confidently. It's such a confident TV show. It's shocking that they held it back for a year ah before they released it because it's also so drastically different from everything else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. um Yeah, I don't know. I think it's awesome. It's well-directed. It's well-shot. It's well-written. It's well-acted. I think it should get nominated for Emmys if any MCU can get nominated for Emmys, which WandaVision did get nominated. I think it may... Did another show get nominated?
00:31:04
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not sure, but I know WandaVision did. It was the first kind of year of the Disney Plus Marvel shows. It got nominated for Emmys, like for best show, for best drama for WandaVision. This should get nominated for best comedy. And I think arguably Yahya Abdul-Mateen should get nominated for acting as well. Ben Kingsley kills it as well. It's also a very emotional show. It's it's a character study. It's just a character study of an actor or an actor is trying to make it in Hollywood. Ben Kingsley is essentially playing Trevor Slattery from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and he's mentoring um Simon Williams, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen And it's it's kind of, again, it's very heartbreaking
00:31:45
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what wrenching it's it's it's it's i don't know not heart-wrenching i guess it is a comedy but so it's very it's some some ways heartwarming but it's definitely an emotional tale and it's they're very like vulnerable at times it it's excellent it's refreshing it's maybe the best thing i've watched this year in terms of tv that's short nice i mean it's only it's only two months in so it's not my saying that much fair enough but if Just to add on here, Loki did get nominated for Emmys as well.
Gaming and Film Crossovers
00:32:12
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this is brain. I think even X-Men 97 was as well.
00:32:17
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Yeah, Emmys, I'm saying more so it should also get nominated for Best Comedy, though. Like, Loki, did it get nominated for Best Drama? Like, they're all going to get nominated for something. There's so many Emmys. There's, like, an Emmy category for kind of everything.
00:32:30
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um Yeah. So in that way, there would be some category that it hits. But I would give it for writing. Even, like, the titling sequence, as said this before, it's just an incredibly...
00:32:41
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Confident. um Anyway, i I recommend it to anyone who, though this was something it' that's interesting too. My brother, when we came out of the Dark Knight, because he had already seen it and we went to go see um The Dark Knight together again in IMAX. And when we got out of the theater, he he was like, you know, something I was thinking about recently is is The Dark Knight would be a good movie without Batman in it.
00:33:07
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Like where some like big IP, big franchise films, they don't, they kind of rely very heavily on the characters in their films. Like they rely on Spider-Man, the Spider-Man movies to kind of pull the audience in. um But the Dark Knight is very thoughtful and thought for provoking and very well-written and well-directed and well-acted that it could be, a movie about someone other than Batman and you know, you have to change some things and it would still be very good. It's like, it reminds me of Andor and or the same thing replace, you know, make it a different brand of fascism, make it not star Wars, switch, switch out some of those elements.
00:33:41
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And you have ah still a really, really excellent TV show um that's very good. And it's good apart from Star Wars. It doesn't it it could stand alone as as something that's just excellent. You should watch it regardless of whether you like Star Wars or not. That's the same thing with this MCU, like Marvel Cinematic Universe show in Wonder Man. It is excellent on its own. You can watch it and really get something out of it without knowing anything about the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
00:34:05
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it's It's rooted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but there's the bombast and the spectacle is not the focus. I really love it. It's excellent. um Oh, yeah. Cool. So I recommend it to everybody. But it's kind of nice to hear. I'm I'm I'm curious about it I'm going to get Disney Plus next month for Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season four. Nice.
00:34:24
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So maybe I'll watch it during that time. And I guess we'll coming back next month as well. Is it next month? Maybe it's April. I will say this. Actually, I don't recommend it to the people who have really their expectation is that they're going to just see another thing that's in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
00:34:41
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This is the most this is this Marvel thing is the least like the Marvel Cinematic Universe formula that they've ever done. And it's least like a Marvel show that they've ever done. So if you're a big superhero fan, you're just in it for the action. Maybe don't watch it. But if you like shows like Barry in the studio, um then I think that kind of the indie 1970s kind of Hollywood flavor will draw you in and you'll be interested in it if you're looking for like a tale of characters.
00:35:10
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growing okay alongside each other. Anyway, which I think you do, but I'm just saying for the audience, because I'm not recommending it to you either, Adrian, because I recommended it to you in Glorious Bastards three and a half years ago now, I think, and you never watched I don't know I mean, I bought, I bought Claire Obscure Expedition 33, just saying. Amen. So you didn't necessarily recommend this to me, but I did buy Pentiment based on your i didnt you I think you would like it. I think you said, i think you would like it.
00:35:35
Speaker
ah So, okay. Yeah. And I did buy it. And I, dude, I am loving it. I am really loving it. we we talked about this a little bit off air, but like I finished the first act and I was like frustrated. I like, man, what the fuck?
00:35:49
Speaker
I'm like, man, I feel like I made a mistake. I feel like I made the wrong moves. I didn't like I almost defeated. was like, OK. And I like took a day break and I'm like, I'm just going to jump back into act two. And I beat act two in like a two nights, I think.
00:36:03
Speaker
just like back to back i'm like enthralled it's it's funny because i'm not much of a reader i don't think you're much of a reader either like i know you can read but i mean like straight up like reading books and shit i don't read i read way more when i was younger i feel like you've got to get back into it but just haven't been there's just too much other media now it's insane exactly apart from social media which i do not consume again at at large volumes it's just video games movies and tv shows that i'm largely looking at but Yeah. And I was like thinking, cause there's no voice acting in this video game. It's all reading.
00:36:33
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Right. Yeah. And I was like thinking, I'm like, why can I just like easily sit down and like read this story as it's unfolding it ahead of me. And it's like, it's probably because there's like audio like going on to like set the stage, you know, the sound editing is phenomenal. It's artistic. So my brain is like, it's, it's firing on all, on all so cylinders so I can actually read. But if I'm sitting in silence, reading a book,
00:36:56
Speaker
I cannot fucking do that. I'm telling you right now. oh you can't do it at all. It's not like a choice. You just can't. Oh, that's not my. I can't focus. I will. I'll be reading words and my mind will wander and then I'll finish a page and be like, i don't know what the fuck I just did.
00:37:09
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i don't remember anything that happened. But like with Pence, I'm all in. I'm in. Interesting. And yeah, I just, I finished act two last night at like 3 AM. m Like it was like 3 AM. m I think when I finished and I was like, intense oh my goodness, I need to go to bed. But I was like, I was just enthralled. I like, I need to see how this unfolds. And the end of that too, I was like, no, I'm like, oh my God, dude. Like what a crazy finale. Phenomenal. i I can't wait. i'm going to play more of it. Maybe I'll beat act three tonight.
00:37:35
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I assume that's the final act. I think that must be the intention. They make you really feel uneasy after act one. And then they kind of, they're like, they ask for patience. That's what Wonder Man does, by the way. It's a show that asks for patience. That's what's so interesting about it is that it's, it's made in a way that,
00:37:50
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Again, it's not trying to just pull you in through excitement, constant laughs and constant like big fight sequences. That's not the focus. And so interesting that Kevin Feige greenlit this because they're they're having a weird it's a weird time for the MCU. Honestly, I'm really impressed that they did this because I was kind of criticizing Kevin Feige's current attempts to be fair.
00:38:12
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He greenlit this like years ago. I feel it wasn't this done back in like 2023 and they just ended up releasing it now. I mean, that's when they were struggling the most, though, isn't it? Yeah, fair enough.
00:38:23
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Fair enough. Because they kind of recovered. The last couple years has been in a recovery. Like, they've been okay. Like, the movie's been... I love Fantastic Four First Steps. I think it's pretty great. It's pretty good, yeah. Yeah, I enjoyed it quite a bit. And I think Thunderbolts is happy, too. I love that one. Yeah.
00:38:38
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So it's like, I feel like they kind of what about Captain Four America?
00:38:45
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capture is Not good, right? Yeah, they yeah and that's not full recovery. Yeah, strange. No, I think there's, I don't know what it is. It's like he's not looking. There was this idea that like he he can't pay attention to everything. Maybe he didn't even pay attention to Wonder Man, but he gave Dustin Daniel Cretton, the director of Shang-Chi in The Legend of the Ten Rings, the reigns to make this. He's he's largely ah like a very important part in the, it's Andrew Guest written in show run, but he, the Marvel shows I find are interesting because they're, the directors take a more prominent role when the, like when the show is talked about, I find. i don't know if you find that. i don't know if you notice that, but when they talk about the the Marvel shows, they often just talk about the director, which is like ah kind of like the movie system. The shows are also shorter typically.
00:39:27
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ah They have been like six episodes, largely. Not this one. This one's eight. Okay, cool. But yeah, they talk about Destin Daniel Cretton. He didn't even direct all the episodes, but he he guided it. I always find the first director for these types of shows, they really guide the process.
00:39:39
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It will be, I'm sure, guided. Like for the God of War show, it's being um directed by ah Frederick E.O. Toy, I think it's... name is he's producing as well and and he's actually funny because he's he he he's directed a lot of Amazon stuff like I think they just love him at Amazon he did the boys like episodes of the boys he also did fallout they're both on Amazon boys the boys is another example of another Amazon show which has a pretty good budget because that looks awesome that show looks great You know?
00:40:05
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Yeah. Yeah, it does. just looks really realistic. Like, it's like, what what is there even? You can't even tell the CG, it seems, at times. It's just well done. That's coming back next month, isn't that too?
00:40:17
Speaker
Yeah, I think um Carl Urban was just like teasing It's going be like, there's no one, no one is safe, which is fair because it's the last season. so So you can just kill anyone off. Anyway, i recommend Wonder Man, but it does ask for any, any viewers patience. And I and i appreciate that Kevin Feige greenlit that. It's awesome. It's great. Because yeah, Daredevil is end of next month. I don't know if I mentioned that. um That is confirmed March 24th. Invincible is also next month. Another Amazon show.
00:40:47
Speaker
Great. Awesome. The boys next month. um Secret Lives of Mormon ah wives next month. The Bachelorette with Taylor Franke. um Taylor Franke Paul Taylor Franke Jones.
00:41:00
Speaker
So Frankie Paul oh from Secret Lives of Mormon wives. She's in it. Oh, it's crazy. So much stuff in March. March is a popping month, dude. Indeed.
00:41:11
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It should be exciting. We should move on now to what we watched together, Adrian. We both watched Marty Supreme, the Timothee Chalamet starring Josh Safdie directing.
00:41:23
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Directed. Marty Supreme. Fries. There you uh okay but yeah uh we watched it together in theaters we saw it a little bit late i was really pleased that they left it in theaters for so long it's pretty cool it must be doing pretty well it must be sticking around because they they're selling tickets which is pretty neat think it's isn't it a24's best performing movie of all time i think isn't that uh the moment no it is the moment that one I don't know. I feel like the moment must be pretty popular. No?
00:41:55
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Because she's like Charlie XCX. That's what she goes by. She goes by Charlie X. I feel like she pulls in crowd. Marty Supreme Fries is its best performing movie beating out everything everywhere all at once and Civil War.
00:42:10
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Oh, okay. Good. yeah Good for them. All right. Awesome, man. Well, we watched it together. i really liked it. I thought it was amazing. um it's It's funny how it's almost not about ping pong for like most of it. Yeah. Really at all. And in some aspect of like what it's about actually, which is cool because it is a movie about Timothee Chalamet playing Marty Mauser, who's ah like a ping pong champion in the US, but he's also like ah a full on personality and he's got a He's got a lot of character flaws and you can kind of see them come to the floor. He's a real piece shit. Yeah. He's a self-involved, like self-indulgent, selfish, just garbage person, man. He really sucks. And he takes advantage of everyone constantly.
00:42:55
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um But that doesn't make this movie like any less entertaining. You're kind of like, man, fuck this guy. And like, I don't know about you, but I was rooting against him. I was like, I don't want this guy.
00:43:07
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to be successful i don't want him to win you suck dude you know and it's uh it is interesting how well that is balanced he's a again an incredibly flawed character as you were mentioning um and but again then he comes across shittier people like kevin o'leary's character and you're like oh man he kind of sucks like he kind sucks more arguably in conch you can't compare and contrast it's all relative adrian it's all life is all relative you know Yeah.
00:43:35
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I mean, it's interesting because I feel like most of the characters are kind of shitty. Well, a lot of the the main cast, they're they're kind of shitty people. Like even Adessa. ah Sorry, I'm forgetting her name. She was in. Yeah. Adessa Zion. That seems right.
00:43:51
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um Like even her character has like a lot of flaws and and everything like that. it it is um It's a unique, unique movie. And I think. You know, Josh Safdie, like he he does an incredible job of, you know, building that like tension and anxiety throughout it. Yeah. Like an Uncut Gems that he did with his brother. ah And yeah, there's just like this like, you know, constant noise like throughout this movie that yeah drives you slightly insane. But again, it keeps the pace moving.
00:44:23
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And you don't mean sound. You mean like it's just constantly... Yeah. Yeah. Like noise. It's like a nervous noise. Like you were feeling like this. Like it's the way it's cut. I think it's the way it's edited. And it's just, it never lets up though. that's ah It's just like Uncut Gems in that way. It never lets up. He's always doing something to scramble to fix his issue that he just created that then he creates. It's like a web of issues that he's created. Yeah. Marty's Mauser. He just keeps making issues after issue after issue. And then one issue creates another issue. It's like a domino effect that never stops moving.
00:44:57
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And you're like, oh my God. And there's been many, there were many times, I think it was this movie. I'm just trying to remember now. i was like, Jesus Christ. I said it out loud. Because it was like, there's shocking moments. You're like, what? yeah What are we talking about here? there It's just crazy. Oh, I know what that moment was. There was a moment at a gas station. I was like, Jesus Christ. Yeah, man. What are we doing? This is insane. And it's just constant like nonsense the whole time. And ah as I was thinking, I think, in the middle of the movie. I was like, oh, this is not...
00:45:30
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It's not the ping pong movie I thought. Oh, actually, when when it ended, you said, oh, I guess this isn't the Queen's Gambit with ping pong. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, because that's what we talked about it. That's how we talked about it on one of our episodes. But it is, it is, it does have that feel in that they nailed the They definitely nail the the details in the set design and the costuming and what people are is that how they sound, what they look like.
00:45:54
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All the little details. There's so many little details. And there's one detail, actually. I'm not going to spoil what it's about. But there's one detail when Marty Mauser, and this is like a detail that completely lends itself to the plot. But it makes you feel immersed. Like you are in this situation. Like they thought of everything. Marty Mauser goes to like a hospital and he grabs a chair and there's somebody's coat on it.
00:46:14
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I just think if there's something about that, like who thought like, let's do that. Like that's just such the tiny details, right. That make you believe it. Like the make you believe in the plot. And that's just so brilliant. It's amazing. It's an amazing movie. I love it.
00:46:26
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Yeah, it is. It is super interesting because, again, they set up the entire movie of him being a selfless, like a selfish piece of shit that he doesn't think about others so often. Right. And it's like, yeah, that's what that's what a selfish person would do. I'm just going grab this chair. There's someone's fucking jacket on it. Obviously, someone's using this, but he doesn't care. He does it not think about others.
Future of Fantasy Series
00:46:45
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Yeah. Most people, let's say like he's he's very, yeah, again, just self-involved. But I think, yeah, like the entire cast is is is stellar. Like I think ah Tyler, the creator, like him, I've never seen him in an acting role. I don't really listen to his music much. ah Tyler Gregory O'Connor is, I think, ah like his is his legal name.
00:47:07
Speaker
And he's awesome in this movie as well. Like, I really like his character. And, you know, like, it's just, it's cool to see people coming from different backgrounds and just kind of fitting in immediately yeah um to like an acting role. And there's like this sense of, um,
00:47:28
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realism, I guess. Like it just, it seems human, like very human, like the, the, the performance is going around. Like there are moments, I don't know. Like I, you talked to how you didn't really like it in um good fortune, but there's like, that's the situation, which i I think it didn't work though. I, what I was going to say to that was like, my issue with that one was that it became a distraction. And I don't think yeah in this movie, I'm already supreme. I think that the way it was utilized, it didn't become a distraction. Like it was really, really well designed.
00:47:56
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But I think that if for me, it wasn't a distraction in in that movie. And I think Aziz Ansari does that quite consistently, even in um Master of None, like but brings in like just people that aren't necessarily actors and it just fits. It works again. Very different tones. Very different tones.
00:48:13
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I feel like it works better in Master master of None, though. I think there's an element of like that one moment. I think that that guy wasn't even being natural. The the guy in that scene with Keanu. Keanu played off of him pretty well, but it wasn't terrible. But it I think it became a little too much of a distraction. I think it should have been re-shot. yeah, like...
00:48:33
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But yeah, like I think Marty Supreme does that incredibly well and and like kind of keeps it it going. And even like someone like Kevin O'Leary, who doesn't have any acting, he's just kind of a piece of shit um in both the movie and assuming and in real life. I think the the quote was like Josh Safdie, like told Kevin O'Leary is like, the reason I hired you is because you, you suck. not i'm I'm not saying it verbatim, but it's like, you're kind of an asshole. Just be the asshole that you are.
00:48:57
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And, you know, be be in this movie. Yeah. And I mentioned it to you. There's, there's really one moment in this movie where I felt like it, where it took me out of it. like Like you're mentioning in, in good fortune with, with that guy. And it was actually Kevin O'Leary at this, just one scene in the movie when he's like sitting in the car and Marty's like knocking on this window. I'm like, Oh, I feel like you're, you're unnatural. You're acting here.
00:49:19
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Um, but apart from that, I think everyone kind of nailed it. And, uh, you know, um, Knocked it out of the park, as as they say, to bring in a sports reference here for a sports movie. Because Marty Supreme is a – Marty Mauser is a professional athlete, okay?
00:49:34
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Right, yeah. And a real piece of shit, um by the way. He sucks. He sucks. He's a bad guy. Like, he he's – Like, I would hate this human being in real life. But it doesn't – But again, like, it makes for entertainment. Because again, it's just – Because he's doing these bad things, he's being put in situations and he's always scrambling to get out of it. And there's like this eagerness in him. um It just works. It just really works.
00:50:00
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All the actors kind of fall into the rules really well, though. They feel they all feel naturally their characters. to the point It's very much an ensemble. like Nobody's necessarily stealing the the scenes. they They're all playing off of each other in a really strong way. Timothee Chalamet looks like he's in almost every shot of the movie, basically, because it's about yeah his character. But he...
00:50:21
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He's very believable to the point where I'm like, he's very committed to the role. He's really impressive. He's an interesting, he's an interesting actor and in this role, especially like, I think he did he did, an amazing job and I think it kind of,
00:50:34
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It's cool that he's winning awards for this particular role because I think he' it's well-deserved because he if he just feels like he is Marty Mouser, which is neat. yeah I think he did a great job. This ah this is the best role that i I think I've seen Timothy Shalemay in. I think this is this is the his best acting, personally, from what I've seen. Yeah.
00:50:51
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He's pretty good in Lady Bird. I think that's the first time I saw him. Interstellar is, I think, the first time I saw him. But again, it's such a minor role. Is it? Yeah. I guess so. Because Lady Bird came out after that. So it has to be interstilllar yeah so Interstellar. Yeah. Lady Bird's 2017.
00:51:06
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But yeah, like Lady Bird was the first time where I feel like he was a a he significantly prominent character. He's barely in Interstellar. He's really in it very much. Yeah. Yeah. um But yeah, no, I do agree with you. I feel like that's when I first noticed him. It was Lady Bird. And then obviously, you know, he's in Dune and yeah doing to you tune um and then now this and i mean he's been in other stuff as well that uh yeah it's cool but i do agree with you i think he's awesome in this i wouldn't be surprised if he takes away you know best actor at the oscars you know yeah he's a relatively young guy give him that oscar why the heck not wish he's by conan o'brien is gonna be on crave for us here simon i know that's so exciting for oscars for the oscars
00:51:48
Speaker
No, I'm getting Crave in March because ah last week tonight started in the middle of February. So I'm just going to get at the beginning, like ah Crave at the beginning of March so I can keep up with last week tonight for the rest of the year, most likely until it maybe goes on hiatuses. We'll see. And then I'll watch all the other Crave stuff. I'm just being strategic. I'm being strategic with my subscriptions, which I really recommend everyone does.
00:52:09
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I think you're doing that too, kind of in some way. I just think it sends them a message and it sends them the right message. I think there was an element of like, I really sent them a message and I'm really happy I did with Disney Plus. Like when I got Disney Plus, I literally immediately started watching Wonder Man. And I think I'm like, thank goodness, because it's like, that's that that is the message want. That's like getting Disney Plus and watching Andor.
00:52:31
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Um, yeah you know what I mean? It's like, that's kind of like a, like, this is why I got this. It was worth it for this and or is a masterpiece. Um, anyway. So yeah, so I'm glad i did that. But yeah, that's what I've been doing with streaming services. So Crave, I will get in the beginning of March. So probably March 1st. We'll see. I'd like it. It's nice and poetic if it's the really right in the beginning.
00:52:52
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And they'll catch up on some other stuff. I think I'll start watching Fargo season five potentially as well, which is super exciting. Maybe some White Lotus, throw some White Lotus season three in there. Night of the Seven Kingdoms. You want to watch that?
00:53:04
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Oh, yeah. Of course. Night of the Seven Kingdoms, which I didn't know was only six episodes. Now I'm kind of disappointed. 30 minutes, six episodes. What's going on? Yeah, 30 to 40 minutes each episode. Interesting. It's perfect, though. Like, it's perfectly paced. Like, it it doesn't feel like I'm missing anything. And it's just, God, it's spectacular. And again, again c good like episode five, sorry, was just, like, remarkable. And I'm i'm very excited to see this last episode.
00:53:28
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Because there's some really cool reveals. And it just, again, the pace is going. um I compare it to, we sorry, like comparing it to like House of the Dragons season two, which I feel like kind of meandered the entire time and ends the exact same place where it begins essentially with a very minimal like change.
00:53:44
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where I feel like that was almost time wasted. Like in hindsight, the further we've come from it, the less I like season two, whereas I felt like the first season House of Dragon was remarkable. So, you know, I hope season three learned from season two and is ah it's going to move at a you know brisker pace because that is confirmed to only have four seasons. So like season three and four, and then then we're done of House of the Dragon. Whereas Night of the Seven Kingdoms, I think there was something where one of the showrunners or the showrunner mentioned I could be a little bit off about this, but they had an idea of doing like three seasons, waiting 10 years for like the actors to grow older, doing like another three seasons, waiting another 10 years and doing like a final three seasons. So you could like see them grow and like where they are at, at a different point in time. And I feel like that would be really cool if they chose to do something like that. But, um,
00:54:39
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Yeah, the thing is, is that what I find, I've been thinking back on this because I don't know why it just came up my mind randomly. But House of the Dragon season one is remarkable because of its time jumps, though.
00:54:50
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It's like there's the only other show that does time jumps better, in my opinion, is From Mankind, like that I've seen. I just think that From Mankind does them brilliantly. it's It's unique. Like, I don't know other shows that like jump. almost the full 10 years each, each season. But in house of the dragon season one, there's time jumps inside the season and they, they pace it so incredibly well, despite huge time jumps.
00:55:12
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And so it's, it's, I feel like it kind of takes away from that brilliance because that's, I don't know if I've ever seen anything quite do that so well. Like it it's telling a story and they don't care about skipping huge swaths of time because they're just going to give you a detailed like action packed part in that history for yeah for
Industry News and Streaming Strategies
00:55:33
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the Seven Kingdoms. or for I guess for King's Landing. But I don't know. I feel like that that would be gone if you did that. Because three seasons then would have been with Millie Alcock for three seasons. It's like, would you have had enough time?
00:55:47
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it would' have been cool to do one season and then take a break and then come back. um Maybe do the entire season with Millie Alcock and then move on to the... You know what I mean? Yeah. yeah Yeah.
00:55:59
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But yeah anyway. Yeah, I do like that element, which would have been lost if they did that. Okay. Should we move on now, Adrian? Are you done with Marty Supreme? Anything you'd like to say about done. Marty Supreme Fries.
00:56:13
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Good stuff. Very good stuff. Yeah. my favorite movie I watched this It's four and a half of the fire for me, that matters anymore. we're doing it now. Last time we didn't do it. On Letterboxd. I'm just saying on Letterboxd. Okay. Okay.
00:56:26
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You don't have to do it. We can skip over it. I'll do two out of five. The reason, again, we talked about why scores suck is because my score changes. That's the only reason I don't like scores. I like scores, actually. I think they help, actually. Because I think that one of the biggest problems in media now is there's a lot of YouTubers and they're like, oh, my opinion matters. They're random, random people, just random hobos. They're popular and their opinion is the only opinion that matters. An aggregator is useful.
00:56:55
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But our aggregation is not. I just wanted to give my score because I already gave it on Letterboxd. Yeah, sure. i'll I'll give it. i'll but I'd probably give it it like a 4.5 as well. Maybe a 4. Oh, well. 9 out of 10. That's pretty good.
00:57:05
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Yeah. That's good score. It's not my favorite movie that I watched this year. It's my second favorite movie that I watched this year What was your favorite one that you watched this 28 years later, but The Bone Temple. Oh, right. Yeah. Is that a 5 out of 5 for you? I can't remember what I gave it.
00:57:18
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Right now? If it was a four and a half, probably it still makes sense. Because you could still say it's it's just a about and neck above in the four and a half range. My favorite that I watched this year, although it didn't come out this year, this thing on. Yeah. Yeah. That's right.
00:57:31
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is is this thing ona yeah Yes. Yes, indeed. Okay, well, 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-week smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict. Number one.
00:57:47
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Chucky actor, Kalem Vinson, has been cast as Atreus in the upcoming God of War TV series on Amazon Prime. Wow. I don't know. ah I don't know this guy.
00:57:58
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Good for him. I should have said Kratos' son, Atreus, to give clear clarity. But anyway, yeah, it should be interesting. We'll see. Number two, according to publication Deadline, Haunting of Hill House showrunner Mike Flanagan is writing directing a film adaptation for author Stephen King's The Mist novella. Oh, OK, cool. I really like Mike Flanagan as a creator. He's I think he just wrapped the Carrie TV series like a little while ago that's coming to Amazon.
00:58:23
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He loves Stephen King, apparently. Yeah. Number three, Aquaman actor Jason Momoa has been cast in the Helldivers PlayStation game film adaptation from Sony Pictures.
00:58:34
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The film is also set for a November 2027 release date. Damn. Okay, cool. He's doing like a lot of video game movie stuff. It's interesting. He has um Street Fighter. He has Minecraft. Yeah. Now he's got Divers. Indeed. Cool. Number four.
00:58:49
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has announced that an F1 The Movie sequel has been greenlit. Wow. one I wonder if they're going to call it f two Oh. and They're going to call it I dare say no.
00:59:03
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Considering the first movie is called F1 The Movie for, I'm sure, licensing reasons. i don't think they're going to do f two F2 The Movie. Yeah. Yeah. Number five, heel actor Stephen Amell has been cast as Hobie Buchanan in Network Fox's upcoming reboot of lifeguard drama Baywatch.
00:59:23
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The 12th episode for a season is meant to begin production in the second quarter of 2026. Wow. Did they bring Baywatch back like not long ago? The movie, right? With Zac Efron and The Rock? Yeah, they just did a one movie type deal. yeah with um alexandria daddario right she was also in indeed who was the rock's son a daughter she was the rock's daughter in the hit movie san andreas remember that yeah yeah i do don't do it don't do it number six Number six. Mad Men star McKenna Grace has been cast as Daphne in Netflix's upcoming eight-episode Scooby-Doo live-action TV series. Awesome. Good for her. She's kind of blowing up even more and more.
01:00:05
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mean, she's she's been in so many movies as a kid, but now as a young adult, she's in more. I dare say this is kind of perfect casting, though, if you like think of Daphne, the character from Scooby-Doo, and then think about McKenna Grace and what she looks like. I feel like it's a really good choice. I agree. Dye her hair red and Bada boom, bada bing. Number seven. According to publication The Hollywood Reporter, House of Lies actor Kristen Bell has been cast as character Amy Rose in the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 4.
01:00:33
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Whoa, crazy. Number eight. As reported by Nexus Point News, Barry creator Bill Hader's next stint in the director's chair will be a horror film called They Know.
01:00:45
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Hader will write, direct and star in the upcoming film, which will feature Hader as a divorced dad who is suspicious of his ex-wife's new beau's influence on his children. Okay, I will watch anything that Bill Hader does because he's cool and he's a really great creative. And that concludes the montage.
01:01:06
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Yeah, yeah. So exciting. So good. So good. So good, man. It's now time, Adrian, to move on to a trilogy of news, 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. The first, Adrian...
01:01:28
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Maybe just a short conversation because we did talk about this the
Harry Potter TV Series Speculations
01:01:31
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last episode. But a Harry Potter TV series will be, quote, the biggest streaming event in the history of HBO Max and arguably in streaming period, unquote, says Warner Brothers Discovery CEO and president of streaming J.B. Parrot.
01:01:48
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The series, as a reminder, is set to premiere in early 2027. Adrian, what do you think about this very bold claim by J.B. Parrot? I wonder who told her to repeat that.
01:02:03
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Get it, dude? You gotta admit, that's a good joke. You got to admit. That's a good one. that was That was a good joke. Okay. Yeah. Anyways. It might have been their own quote, you know?
01:02:15
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Yeah. It may have been. Yeah. Maybe it was just a double a double a double said, like a Jacob Tutu situation. But yeah, i yeah yeah you what you what do you what are your thoughts? what Are you excited? 2027 still strikes me as odd because I thought, wouldn't you try to get this done? These kids are growing up and they seem like they're the right age now when they show the photos of the actors. Like the kids, not obviously the Dumbledore. John Lithgow, can you know he doesn't age. Yeah. He hasn't aged for 30 years since I was a kid and he was on freaking third rock from the sun. I, he, he has an age that he looks the same to me. I don't know.
01:02:52
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But, uh, but yeah, anyway. So yeah, any thoughts on that? um I think, yeah, I mean, there's definitely potential to just make this claim is is kind of wild. I know Harry Potter is a really huge IP.
01:03:04
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yeah I mean, um Hogwarts Legacy was the best selling game of of the year that that released. So, again, I think there's definitely potential. But, you know, there is a large vocal issue.
01:03:17
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presumably minority online just being like, I'm not going to watch this man. Yep. Why is Snape black or whatever they're fucking complaining? oh Oh, you think for that reason, not the other vocal minority on the opposite side of it. So the,
01:03:31
Speaker
Oh, because of the JK Rowling trans stuff as well. I think that's more controversial and actually more influential in this particular case than the Snape being black. But I don't know. that That's crazy. Are you seeing that a lot? that the The people are really, there's a lot of back like backlash because Snape is black. That's so stupid. Because you've mentioned that a couple of times on this, but I thought mostly you were joking. Is there anyone you've seen online, you've seen that on Instagram or other social media sites? I've crossed paths. Not that I really care, but I don't think it's that frequent. I'm just i'm just listing an example that I've heard. Yeah.
01:04:03
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So maybe they're going to hurt both sides. Yeah, it's possible. um' Extremes on both sides. I'm definitely going to watch this. I really like Harry Potter. I like I love the Harry Potter movies.
01:04:13
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And again, it's like, yeah, J.K. Rowling's kind of going off the deep end. She's saying some wack wacky stuff, doubling down on these things. um But it's like, i don't know, man. It's an IP. Like it's she's not fucking Hitler.
01:04:25
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You know, like I'm not reading Mind Come for watching a Mind Come TV show. Like this is this is like. It's just ah an amazing universe that impacted so many, you know, children, like our generation specifically. Like, you know, I grew up watching a lot of these movies and like kind of going back to them as an adult and understanding like, wow, this is really good. And the the ability to expand on this um even further and, you know, like a eight to 10 episode series is is exciting, man. And again, like I'm sure they'll have a big budget. I'm sure it's going to look great.
01:04:55
Speaker
i am i'm i'm I'm excited about this. It's going to look the best that they've ever, if they, if that's their expectation, this has got to be one of the most expensive shows in history. Theoretically. I mean, it might not top the Lord of the Rings show because they spent so much ton money on the licensing for that, but because they, and Harry Potter, well, do they own the licensing already? Like, how does that work? I wonder the Warner brothers did make the movies. I actually don't know the answer to that question. They must own the licensing.
01:05:22
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Yeah, oh, they must because they also made, obviously, Hogwarts Legacy. So they they must own the license. Yeah, they own the IP. Yeah, so but it's their IP. So they if this is going to be – they're going to spend the money for sure. So it's going to probably look incredible. And if it doesn't, I mean, then you can clown on it.
01:05:37
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But it's crazy, though, because, like, you mentioned a great point, like, Hogwarts Legacy – it got backlash before it came out, but then that didn't amount to anything. I'm not sure what it amounted to because it was the best selling game in 2023. Like it legitimately was, it didn't win any awards like from that perspective, but that game is also well composed. If you make a good show like the, like Hogwarts, like I see was a reliably good game that people really enjoyed. I didn't like it. I'll be honest with you. Like I played it for maybe five, 10 hours and i was like, I'm just not, it didn't hit the mark for me. I don't particularly like those kinds of games to be fair. Yeah. Not Harry Potter games, but like the open world kind of meandering stuff.
01:06:12
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Yeah. So it didn't click for me, but. My biggest issue with that game is I feel like it's narrative was the issue. They got the details right in the world detailing, but that's what I was hoping very much so in a sequel. It'd be also awesome. Like they can be firing on all cylinders, Warner Brothers with with the Harry Potter, because they, if they launched the second game in the next three years, yeah two years, theoretically, no, three, three years.
01:06:37
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I mean, even next year, your dude, like it's not. No, sorry, it wouldn't be. Because that's four years. That's a four-year dev cycle. If they release it kind 2027, get that cross-media potential, I think there could be a big pop. Are they going to be able to do that? I don't know.
01:06:50
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But you you would you would think you could because a lot of the a lot of the the outlines built, right? Like you you built Hogwarts. You don't have to rebuild Hogwarts. You just got to kind of add to the world, kind of expand it a little bit.
01:07:07
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Ah, that's a good question. i feel like there's a, there's an element that they probably want to rebuild
Severance Franchise Potential
01:07:12
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some of it. Like I would think that they would try to do a different time timeframe because they did it like whatever, a hundred years before Harry Potter existed or something like that. It was years before Harry Potter. That's why where Hogwarts legacy takes place. So I imagine you would kind of want to change Hogwarts a little bit. so you want to kind of invoke the exploration that you had in the first game, but in a kind of a different way. That's kind of a tricky thing, but you're right. They have a lot of that, at least like the way that the,
01:07:38
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like the spell crafting, work like the spells work and all that stuff. Like, I feel like you have that. So you just build upon it, like kind of like how God of War Ragnarok builds upon God of War. Yeah. So it would be cool. i I just want them to spend the time on the narrative. Just make sure the narrative is their, it's like their number one thing that they spend the time on. But you know, it's crazy. It's crazy. Again, it's Warner Brothers. I'm not sure they learned, right?
01:07:59
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They might just decide to do a live live service game and ah it it might not be a single player game. There's no announcement about Hogwarts Legacy 2. That doesn't exist currently according to press releases. so That would be bad.
01:08:15
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They wouldn't do that. Would they though? when they don't know I don't know. probably Because there was reports that came out that said that – it was in the reports that were saying that they they need to make – right after Rocksteady's game failed, Suicide Squad killed the Justice League. After that had failed, they said, oh, we need to make games that keep building ah like revenue over time with microtransactions.
01:08:36
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I feel like they came back out and said that Hogwarts wasn't going to be that. But i don't again, I don't know for sure. It's just – I don't know. like I love the video game industry, obviously. um But – it's It's tough to be so all gung-ho about it when you're seeing all these studios make or publishers make these like incredibly weird decisions consistently. Right. None of them are learning from one another. Anyways, I don't want to off on a tangent. Or from themselves.
01:09:00
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Yeah. Yeah, Jesus. Which is the real issue because some of these publishers own so much and they don't seem to learn from themselves. Like they, they see the success that they have with Hogwarts Legacy and then immediately, and then Rocksteady's game comes out and then two months after Rocksteady's failure with Suicide Squad to Kill the Justice League, they say, we just got to make a Hogwarts Legacy of this live service. It's like, yeah well,
01:09:23
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Maybe you can make it on the side, but should you really that should that be the choice? i We'll see. but yeah It's not exact quotes, so we'll see what ends up happening. but there was There was inklings of that at one of the investors' calls for Warner Brothers um after Suicide Squad had failed, which is unfortunate. Yeah.
01:09:40
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Which, by the way, is not, I don't think, inherently a bad game. Like, at its root, I'm not sure how bad Suicide Squad is. its Its worst parts are its live service elements, like the way that its it gets you to get new gear. But, like, it feels like a Rocksteady game in many ways, and I feel like it's not, i yeah.
01:09:59
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It's not perfect by any means, but it's no it's not a 68, which is rated as a Metacritic for me. I don't know. I think it falls in that, like, seven-ish camp. and think that's fair.
01:10:11
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Oh, interesting. We didn't even finish it. That's not my. That's the thing, right? Like, I feel like if we really thought this was ah amazing, we would have kept playing. But at the same time. Yeah, I just don't play. I don't play. I don't play a lot of co-op games. That's that's the problem. I know.
01:10:23
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Like, that's that's the that's a negative, but I wouldn't give it a negative number because I. like a lower score. Thing is game scores, they land at a higher level than everything else for some reason. Like there's not a lot of in between for game scores. You find that it's weird that you get like a 30 and below and then there's like a maybe 55 to there's like their other range is like a 55 to a 70. And then it's like everything's above a 75 kind of thing. It's like there's like a weird there's just not a lot of like below 70s. It's just not. and And when it is, it never really kind of dips below 59.
01:10:57
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And then if it does, it's a mind size situation. And then it's below a 40. And then you're like, it's just, it's a strange thing. I feel like movies, there's like, they use the full skill constantly. Like it's, it's all over the place. You never know what get. Maybe it's just the way that the aggregation works and games are longer. So it's harder to review them. So you're more likely to kind of like certain elements of a game as well, whereas some you don't like, but that kind of raises the score ceiling. Maybe. I don't know. Not sure. But yeah.
01:11:25
Speaker
Okay. Well, where were we even talking about? Yeah. Harry Potter will be the biggest streaming event in history. Okay, cool. The other thing that's kind of strange, John Lithgow has been coming under fire. Did you see this about the JK Rowling thing?
01:11:36
Speaker
It's very annoying, but ah ah he's like, people are like getting upset with him. Like they're like, why would you take this role? It's ridiculous. You're not, are you not an ally? You know what i mean?
01:11:49
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to the LGBTQ plus. I hate the gays is what he said out loud. But his argument, and I really appreciate this, is like, that's not Harry Potter. yeah Harry Potter, the actual Harry Potter universe is incredibly accepting. That's what's so bizarre about J.K. I think he says this exact thing. Like, that's what's so strange about J.K. Rowling's opinions now is like, that's not really the world she built. She built a very welcoming environment for everyone.
01:12:15
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So it's like, and it and it does dive into that largely. Like they they kind of, it's kind of strange, even blood specifically with John Lithgow's character, which is a strange thing. And I feel like that's like...
01:12:28
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what's going on here like you i don't know i don't know it she kind of went off the deep end so i'm not sure she did she did make a racial slur for the universe which is cool and mudblood right right that's the other thing too like talking about fear of the other and kind of going into that it's it's terribly ironic actually yes this is so strange like she created like Because it wouldn't have existed in our world, obviously. Mudblood is to do with like mixed race people, mixed magic, and and and regular human. And that that's something you created. It's such an interesting thing. You created fear of the other in this universe that didn't already exist.
01:13:06
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And yet, you don't seem to understand why your rhetoric... It could cause hate everywhere in the world when you're such a like a public figure. It's such a strange, is the weird weird world we live in, honestly. what ah Did this person like like get somehow? She like took a medication and she suddenly became... Like what happened? It's a very strange world. Yeah, I don't know. I think people just get, um and not to go off on too far a tangent, but you know people like start being pushed to more extremes when even if you have a relatively mild opinion about something and then you get dogpiled on for this very mild opinion and just reaction wise, you're like, you know Actually, fuck you. I'm going to actually go deeper, like go off the deep end of this. Because i do like I do think like her original statements,
01:13:55
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Yeah. they were that I don't think they were that crazy, man. Like I, and then it's just like, and then I think people just fucking, you know, killed her for it or tried to destroy her for it. And she's like, you know what?
01:14:07
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Actually, fuck all you. going actually triple down on this and now go worse. Go, go way, way too far. And it's like, ah, man, it's always this like vocal minority. That's like, I don't know the cancel culture thing. And again, it's, it's constantly still though. Let's be real.
01:14:23
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Oh no. Yeah, definitely. No, definitely. It like your team became a team sport. Like, oh, now I'm against you forever. Yeah. That's what she became. It's silly, man. Yeah. I don't know. I remember reading her statements in detail when she wrote them because people were really outraged. I'm like, well, let me see what she's saying. like Like, let's give her a fair shake. And I read them. I'm like, hmm, it's not.
01:14:42
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. i that's That's not hate. that's not It's not inspiring hate at all. But now, if you look at her statements now, it's like, what happened to you? Like that's not what you were saying before. Chill fuck dude. Chill. Like you've just gone way too crazy. It's like, there's nothing there's there's nothing redeeming now about what she's saying. It's like, but that's not what you were saying initially. So like, couldn't you have stayed focused and nuanced? Everyone becomes ah hyperbolic extreme eventually, I guess. Is that what it is? It's so depressing. Like you had a nuanced opinion somewhat and then you made it into something that's horrendous. So anyway. Oh, well. and Yeah, it is also interesting because you'll see people online that will maybe say, like, you know, something not necessarily edgy, but, you know, like –
01:15:30
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that that people will assume is like crossing the line. And then again, it's relatively moderate. And then all of a sudden they're like super right wing. Right. And it's like, you can assume like, okay, cool. They got, you know, these right wing, you know turning point or fucking, I don't know, whatever Ben Shapiro's company, they'll like pay big money and like, okay, cool. You're to be like a right wing pundit now moving forward. But she's so rich. She didn't need that. Like, it's not like anyone's paying her do it. She just decided to do that on her own. And it's,
01:15:55
Speaker
yeah sweet again it is it is it's it's weird right um it's a shame it's a shame but again separate the art from the artist she's not fucking raping babies or something like genuinely appalling right she's giving bad opinions but she is funding things though i think that's the problem and she's putting her money as you mentioned she's rich like it's awards programs that kind of it make it harder to be trance so that's the issue it's like i don't know it's fine it's not fine at all but I think Harry Potter though is fine because that's not what you wrote like there's nothing in there at all that's discriminatory so it it sucks that she's making a paycheck I guess that's the issue is that that's the problem is that you're giving her money but I just I don't know if I care that much about this you're right she's not or her her opinions and what she's doing are not
01:16:44
Speaker
She's not in the Epstein files. No, thank God. Thank God. That would be weird though. Yeah. You know? Yeah, it is. Yeah. Very strange. Again, I mean, like there's definitely some like, I don't want to say problematic, but you know, some of the writing is like a little bit like, oh, maybe she's just kind of ignorant, you like Cho Chang is like kind of a weird name. like you're using like two different surnames one character from different Asian backgrounds. And it's like, okay. But again, I think that's more ignorance than anything. Yeah. And then again, people like kind of grasping at straws and you know, saying like the goblins are are meant to be like Jewish people or something like that. i'm like, okay, that seems you pointing that out makes it seem a little bit more racist than her. Just, you know making this like, but yeah, I don't know. It's, it is. Yeah. I don't know about that, but yeah.
01:17:28
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yeah Because there there are like... It's a caricature. I don't know. That one one, I'm not sure. But I don't think she did it on purpose, though, as well. Again, I think it's just ignorance. ignorance yeah if if it If it's anything.
01:17:41
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But yeah. um but yeah Yeah. I don't know. It's a strange world. I just i excited i wish you could just level yourself off. like Somebody could just kind get back into her backdoor her corner and and tell her, like did you realize you're saying... but These are your initial statements.
01:17:55
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Can you kind of... reel it in? Like, yeah, you think you're on the right side of history for real? Is that really what you think? This is the question. I just feel like at a certain point, there's no coming back. So you just yeah stay there.
01:18:08
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like you think, I mean, Yeah. I mean, like even Elon Musk, man, like fucking 2018, he's talking about, you know, like if you don't like the LGBT, then don't buy my vehicles. And then like what? Like within like a few years, he's like fucking the opposite. And it's like at this point, I mean, he's just a loser. Like nobody likes him on either side really too too much. um But it's like you can't come back. Like you took it too far and like people won't accept you back, which is a shame. Yeah.
01:18:37
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He's not literally a loser. Like he literally is a winner. I know he's he's the richest man in the, in the universe, but I mean like, the that's the problem. Yeah. Yeah. Like, but like, I, I, I'm not saying like a loser, like literally I'm i'm saying like, you're like, you're ah you're a, you're fucking loser, you know? Like, you know what? You're not cool. You're uncool. It's, it's weird. Yeah.
01:18:57
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It's yeah. Yeah. and That was a good tangent. Yeah. That was good, that was a good tangent. But yeah. Yeah. Okay, the second thing that we were going to talk about here is, according to publication deadline, Apple's Apple Studios has officially acquired the rights to the Severance IP. Season 3 of the hit science fiction Apple TV series will start filming this summer, with Season 4 planned to be its final season and an opportunity for in-universe spinoff,
01:19:23
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film of sorry, spinoff TV series or films, et cetera, is likely or likely. What do you think about this? I don't know if you saw this news or you're seeing it for the first time, but I am seeing it. Um, Warner brothers owned this IP prior to this, right?
01:19:38
Speaker
No, is that no, that's, that's Ted Lasso. Oh, Ted Lasso is shrinking, right? Okay. Severance IP was owned by like an independent joint. I can't remember the name of them. Severance IP ownership change. Let me look it up. But other than that, what do you think? But that's cool that they, I mean, again, severance is arguably their biggest, well, I guess not their biggest anymore after Pluribus.
01:19:59
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but it is, you know, one of their biggest shows. I mean, I think that's a smart move to to own this. It is phenomenal. Like I love severance season one and season two. um It is a shame that we got to wait so long between every season. Like, cause you know it's going to be at least two years since we get until we get season three from the release of season two. And I mean, who got who knows how long fucking season four is going to take at this point, maybe another two years after that.
01:20:25
Speaker
Yeah. I do. the The most interesting part is the opportunities for in-universe spinoffs. And the reason find this interesting is because like, we're like we're where do you go with a spinoff? I can't really think of spinoff ideas. I guess it's just like a big corporation. I guess you could dive deeper into the corporate side of things and kind of see what the higher ups are doing and what the board is.
01:20:50
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Now that I'm talking about it out loud, actually, there's quite a bit of ways to go. Never mind. Disregard my previous statement. You know what it is, though? I feel like, and I and i have the same reaction you do. and no i wasn't going to say that, but I feel like there is an element like,
01:21:03
Speaker
This show of could go anywhere in season three and I'm not sure where it will go. And so the mystery of that element alone, it kind of makes me think like, where could they go with spinoffs? Cause I don't even, I can't even imagine what they would do with season three. Like a season three could be a spinoff. I have no idea. I have no idea what they're going to do That's kind of my, my thing with this show. I don't know. It's it's interesting. The, the name of the production company that had owned it before ah it' it's called fifth season. So it's not like a big, it's not like Warner brothers or something. the irony so they kind of they had to get rid of it because they're only doing four seasons yeah yeah great good joke good joke hopefully you heard before i didn't talk over it ah it's so good anyway um yeah i'm really excited for season three i'm curious i i think it still weighs out though so we'll see what happens yeah um i don't know it's a it's a mystery
01:21:59
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but I mean, season two seems like a lifetime ago, and that was just at the beginning of last year. Yeah, the other thing is this show is incredibly expensive. So I'm sure owning it is going to help them maybe in some way.
01:22:12
Speaker
I always wonder, though, like, how are some of these shows so expensive? Like, a lot of this show, like, there's not crazy set pieces. There's not too much action. It's just a lot of scenes in fucking white rooms. I'm like, like, I always wonder, like, where is all the money being spent? I guess, obviously, production, crew, you're paying the actors, the writers, everything like that. But I'm like, how can it be?
01:22:37
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How can it be that expensive at the end of the day compared to something like a Monarch Legacy of Monsters where it's like you got fucking Godzilla. got a King Kong CGI.
01:22:49
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Real, real King Kong destroying buildings. like Again, like that I can see as expensive. Rings of Power, which I haven't even watched, that I can see as expensive. you're You got people in armor, all that.
01:23:02
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In New Zealand. These guys are just wearing suits. Yeah. Yeah, maybe it's the location they're filming on. Maybe they built the entire a Lumen building. It's possible. I don't know.
01:23:13
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All the spinoffs are just different parts of this building. It's like, we built the entire thing. We got to use it. For spinoffs, it would be really cool if they could do like a different country. How Lumens influence other places and what what that looks like potentially or like where – I don't know. I'm curious about – because this is the problem with this show, actually. This is an issue I brought up when we reviewed it. The more I thought about it, the more I'm like – I believed it more in season one. I feel like season two, they branched out but then kept it small at the same time. It's like too big for its britches kind of thing. Yeah. It's ah kind of expanded outside of its container. And I can't see, like, I don't really quite understand what does the rest of the world look like? What are other companies in the world?
01:23:55
Speaker
Like, you know what i mean Does Apple exist? Like what what other companies are huge in the in this world? Like, is it Lumen versus, it would be cool if there's, there must be another company also doing severance. There's no one else competing with them.
01:24:06
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They're trying to do something different. they're It's strange. there There's an element of like it being a small universe syndrome in a weird, strange way. You know you you get that impression? Like what what else exists in this place?
01:24:17
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Like it it strikes me as like a very empty, it's a very empty world. Cause a lot of it's like, it makes sense in the first season because you're following a character inside it, like an isolated vacuum. So you you don't have to wonder too much, but then they start going outside of that. And then like, even there's like a train scene, a scene in season two, but somebody is getting on a train and then like, I'm kind of like, wait, do they own the train? Does Lumen own the train? Like what's going on with this? There's some, like, where is he going?
01:24:40
Speaker
I don't understand this. Like what is the Lumen town, a place like that is specifically owned. Does his sister live in this Lumen town sort of, or like, does she just live close by? That's not in it. I'm assuming it's not, but it's also like, what do they own? Do they own part of the country? I want to know the financials. I want to know the economics of how this works. yeah There's just so much there.
01:25:04
Speaker
Cause like, do they even talk about like the government or anything in, in, in severance? I can't. Where's the government. what does they They do in the first season, remember? Because they were they were lobbying congresspeople to stop Lumen.
01:25:16
Speaker
But then in the second season, they just don't talk about this. And it's very weird. It's like, are you not going to approach this from that angle? You're out. Your outie is out. Why wouldn't you try to go to like Congress to try to figure this out? like Do they own law enforcement?
01:25:28
Speaker
Do they own part of the government? like What is this? Is this a weird se fascist government that we can't... This is the problem with this universe from my perspective. And I'm really hoping season three... They realize like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's take a step back. Take a look on what's the bigger picture because the bigger picture is kind of missing.
01:25:45
Speaker
And they they did take a step back in season two, but then they don't show the full picture. like There's like big puzzle pieces missing. So that's kind of my thing with Severance. like They need to do that. So a spinoffs would be cool if you could show off like what a Lumen world looks like. What is it actually?
01:25:58
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yeah How different is it from our world that we live in? that was kind of my biggest problem with season two i don't know if i articulated when we reviewed it but i did i think i talked about it briefly but i didn't go maybe as much definitely possibly pretty sure Yeah. really now that It was a year ago. So, yeah.
01:26:15
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But um yeah, I don't know. It is interesting because, yeah, i feel like the more we talk about it, I'm like, yeah, the spinoffs could be super interesting because maybe you'll do it like maybe it'll follow the, you know the government trying to stop, you know this big corporation from, you know, monopolizing everything. Maybe. Yeah. Again, like you mentioned, it'll be like a different country. Yeah.
01:26:34
Speaker
You're rocking like China, you know? And I don't know, like, it's like a sweat shop in China that Lumen owns. And it's like, what's going on there? Just little things like that. I feel like there are a lot of really unique ways that you could take it. And maybe that was a, maybe I'm giving too much credit here, but maybe that was a creative choice. They're like, let's keep everything else a mystery. So when we make these spinoffs, we can expand on it.
01:26:55
Speaker
That's kind of a bad one. Yeah. I know. I'm just trying to, hey, hey, hey. That's financial reason though. You know, yeah well we're going to hold this back because we're going to, and that's not something they typically do, which is cool. Like as you pointed out on our our spoiler cast, like you you point out like they keep the pace of mystery, like questions and answers keep going. Like they keep asking questions and they answer them like really quickly after that.
01:27:19
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So I think, I hope not. I hope they don't keep that back for season three. Like they got, maybe they can go into that and then maybe build up a spinoff based on what they start asking. That would be cool.
01:27:31
Speaker
As long as you answer enough of the questions that are core to the core series. um But yeah, it's cool that they have a season number in mind for the core reason, for the main reason that like,
01:27:42
Speaker
Well, that's good. do you have a plan that's going to end? that If you know it's season four seasons, like this is a thing that there are very few things except for Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul that can build a plane as it's flying through the air and and land the plane.
01:27:57
Speaker
like good this I don't know of anything else except for those two things. It's Vince Gilligan's deal. what What else has done that so masterfully? Star Wars certainly didn't, you know? And especially a mystery show like this. And Lost, actually, i don't love how it ended. I don't think they built the plane as it landed like as it was flying through the air perfectly. I think it could have been a lot better. And I think so when yeah Damon Lindelof got a second bite of the apple and he got got to do it again with the leftovers, I think he had a better plan of how he was going to end it. And it ends amazingly. That finale for the leftovers is incredible.
01:28:27
Speaker
Damon Lindelof being, of course, the writer for Lost and yeah wrote The Leftovers for HBO. But anyway, yeah. So yeah, I hope that they can try to – I hope that they know, I should say, what the ending is already because that awesome. If they planned it already, it's pretty badass. Because Fallout – Oh, man. Fallout's like that, actually. Fallout, they – I don't know if you watched season one. Fallout does this thing where they they talk about the government and they talk about how it works before the fallout.
01:28:57
Speaker
And they talk about various time timelines and how structure of society works in those timelines. And it does it really well. It's actually my favorite thing about the Fallout TV show because I played the game and it doesn't really dive into like, what would what did it look like before the the bombs fell? That's what they do and fall in Fallout. And it's really impressive.
01:29:13
Speaker
And it's it's cool. they They actually dive into that in a pretty deep way, especially in season two. I was like, this is pretty cool. Like, I'm very intrigued by this because it's such a weird, wacky universe. It's their strange 1950s technology and everyone's kind of, but it's in the future. it doesn't logically make sense.
01:29:29
Speaker
If you're aware of the fallout kind of timeline, like I don't think my wife actually understands this. Like, it's like, it's like year 2100 or 2200. It's like way in the future, but it's, they're using old tech. It's just a strange, really cool, like vibe.
01:29:42
Speaker
from Fallout in general. And so they kind of nail, trying to explain the various, like, how do politics work in this universe? Like, how does it how does this work? Why did the bombs fail? Like, why why did this happen? How did that happen? Like, what what's going on? Like, what is the structure of society? Anyway, that's cool. Hopefully that Severance does it. But to speak to Fallout, that's what I was about to say, Todd Howard was recently recently in an interview with Kind of Funny Games. And he was saying, and he was saying, I'm always watching Todd Howard because I'm waiting for Starfield. but but ah but but And I like Todd. He's cool.
01:30:13
Speaker
but Todd Howard was recently saying that they have an idea for a certain number of seasons. Like he's got, they have an idea of how it will end pretty much. Like oh kind of a, kind of a bit of an idea. Like he, and he doesn't really want it to go forever, which is like, cause you don't want to stay. You're welcome is what he said. I'm like, dude, you're saying all the right things for a TV show. That's exactly what you want to say. You don't want to, you don't want to be fricking the walking dead season 11. Like you don't want to be, some of the seasons are good.
01:30:38
Speaker
You don't want to Skyrim. But they didn't. Living forever. Yeah. Releasing on everything. That's not us saying you're welcome though. Yeah. People want it. People are buying it. What was it? The quote was like, we'll stop ah re remastering it when you when you stop buying it. When stop buying it. Yeah. On Amazon Echo.
01:30:56
Speaker
Yeah. Which is. It's crazy. but But yeah. It's cool. I guess the the last thing that that I want to mention about this as just a spinoff idea that I think actually would be really cool.
01:31:08
Speaker
is how they created the severance program. Just go back in time. yeah How did they get to the point of developing this technology? you know what What hoops did they have to go through to allow this to happen in the first place? I think that'd be a really awesome idea. There's a lot of history there. So again, the more we talked about this, the more I'm open to these spinoffs. Because I was like, what what do you do?
01:31:30
Speaker
Hey, this is why I have you around, Simon. Me and you spitball back and forth. ping pong, like Marty Supreme fries back and forth.
Film Role Preparation
01:31:39
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Oh, that's another thing you mentioned about Marty Supreme.
01:31:42
Speaker
He clearly learned but some pretty competent ping ping pong, right? He can play freaking Timothy Chalamet can play table tennis but fairly well. It's really cool. I think about that sometimes, like these actors are doing these things. They're actually doing them. Like they're falling into these roles and learning skills, like learning how to play an instrument to play like a,
01:32:01
Speaker
Like a musician or whatever it may be. It's cool. it's It's kind of neat. like He seems very common. I'm like, I i did a lot of ping pong in in high school just like as an after school thing ah just for fun just because my my buddies wanted to do it. So i was like, all I'll do it with you. And I never got that good. I never got that good. I had a ping pong table in my basement at one point. We got a really, really cheap one.
01:32:23
Speaker
Like, so I could practice because it was really bad. And I got better, certainly. But he must have played like a lot. Like he must have played, i feel like at least a thousand hours to get that good. I don't know. Wasn't there like a story or something that he was playing it like ah like he he would spend a lot of the the time on the dune set to like play ping pong he was like playing it with like one of the security guards or something oh was that it that's cool i remember reading a story maybe it wasn't on the dune set it was it was on something but like he was just constantly playing playing it and like he i think one of the security guards on set played a bunch ping pong so he'd always just go play ping pong with the security guard constantly that's cool that's sweet i don't know maybe i'm making the story up but i swear to goodness i read this somewhere
01:33:05
Speaker
Okay. All right.
Spider-Man Noir Discussion
01:33:06
Speaker
Well, let's move on to the next, uh, next in our trilogy of topic, topical tidings, Adrian, our trilogy of news. Oh, wait, I didn't write that into the title. That's no longer the title here. I just noticed that it's called the trilogy of topical tidings, but I called it a trilogy of news. Oh, well, I'll change that. Hey, no, edit it.
01:33:23
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Fix it. but I did it for you. Cause you like alliteration. Sorry. Call that a trilogy of topical tidings just for you. Just for you. Fix it in post. But yeah, the the third of the tri trilogy of Tropical Tidings is the Nicolas Cage starring Spider-Man Noir is being launched this spring and it'll have an option to watch in either color or black and white. This is actually, I put this in first before I saw the trailer because then the trailer came out after they talked about this. But I thought it was enough for for a main story or like a kind of a part of the trilogy of Tropical Tidings because that trailer looks freaking awesome. I think this show looks amazing. I'm so excited. Speaking of Amazon again, this is a look at the budget they must have to have Nicholas Cage do this. And they have Nicholas Cage swinging through New York City in black and white. Like that's pretty impressive stuff or not in black and white. If you watch it, want to watch it in the, yeah what do they call it? The fabulous hue or of color is like something that. That seems right.
01:34:17
Speaker
I don't know. What do you think about this? This looks awesome to me. Yeah, this looks really neat. I'm curious um about because watching the trailer, I don't think there's any reference to into the Spider-Verse because obviously Nicolas Cage, he played Spider-Man Noir in the Spider-Verse animated movies. So I'm curious, if like is this actually like a spinoff of that?
01:34:39
Speaker
is this maybe a prequel of that? Is this just its own thing? um I'm okay with it not being connected, but again, just, just a curiosity if there will be any um connection or reference to it, but yeah, this looks really cool.
01:34:51
Speaker
I, I like Nicolas Cage. I, you know, I don't watch everything he's in, but I do think like he always gives it ah his all. And I think this is like a really cool tone and premise.
01:35:03
Speaker
And um what ah I think the tagline is of this is like with no power. Yeah. With no power, there's no responsibility or something along those lines. So i'm like – Which I don't know what that means because doesn't he have and that That was my thing. I'm like, I'm confused. Like, is he – We'll learn when we watch it.
01:35:20
Speaker
Yeah. Maybe he just has the the tools and he's just like solving stuff. Is this going to be kind of more detective show? Like, i don't know. it It's cool. Like the trailer, I feel like it showed you a vibe of what this show is going to be, but it didn't really reveal what the story is going to be about or what anything is going to happen.
01:35:39
Speaker
Um, so I'm, I'm curious about this. This is, this definitely has piqued my interest. I'll definitely watch it unless it's like, know, I watched the first episode and it sucks and like everything around it is awful, but.
01:35:51
Speaker
Admittedly, I don't know enough of about Spider-Man noir, you know? So I don't know. Does he not have powers? Maybe he just says like web sling. I'm not sure, but he's supposed to be detective. I don't know. There's, there was a cool thing where Nicholas Cage said something along the lines of like, or somebody said something about Nicholas Cage.
01:36:07
Speaker
Was it the director? I don't remember. Somebody has said something where Nicolas Cage was, he said something along the lines of, I'm ah i'm a i'm a human, i'm ah I'm a human with, I'm a spider, sorry, trapped in a human's body is how he approached the role.
01:36:23
Speaker
And then he said something like along the lines of, he was like 30% Humphrey Bogart and then like, or it's like 30% Bugs Bunny and 70% Humphrey Bogart. Like, this is like, this is awesome. Yeah. This combination of things is so cool. It's so strange to think that they greenlit this. Again, another one of those things is like a dream that they would have actually greenlit, that it would actually happen. And Nicolas Cage would reprise his role from the animated, very popular Spider-Verse film. Whether it's connected, I don't think they're going to make a reference to it personally because i don't i think it would be beforehand anyways because that's a wacky thing to get pulled into in another universe. um So I don't know if they'll, I doubt they'll ever acknowledge it, even if they go multiple seasons, but I'm really impressed that Amazon prime, like could fund this. They're like, yeah, we're going to do this.
01:37:09
Speaker
Sure. We're in. Yeah. Sony will buy it from you. It's so cool. And we'll, we'll, we'll he show up in, in a spider verse movie that eventually crosses over into live action. Well, will they do, they got to do a spider verse live action eventually with,
01:37:26
Speaker
like a Miles Morales actor, right? Like in the, in like the Marvel, Marvel cinematic universe slash Sony universe, they, they gotta do it soon. But i don't know who knows, man.
01:37:37
Speaker
Will this be the, the first property that Sony has worked on from Spider-Man in the last like 10 years? That's actually good though, that they, that they made themselves. You know what i mean? Well, that's the thing is like, are they really making it themselves or did they just kind of license this out to Amazon and have the, like those creators? Yeah.
01:37:53
Speaker
I think Sony's doing it. So Sony TV is pretty vibrant. Like silos. a Sony TV show is an example. Yeah. um Excellent. Pluribuses as well. Yeah. There you go.
01:38:04
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They make great things. Sony pictures makes awesome. And their, their family of studios, like making good great things. It's a Spider-Man that they can't get, they can't get right at any point. Yeah. um But yeah, Spider-Man war show.
01:38:20
Speaker
Spider-Man Noir. By the way, he does have powers according to Google AI. Well, he's he's swinging in the trailer. Yeah, and apparently it's organic webbing. something What?
01:38:32
Speaker
Oh, so he's even more So yeah he's like Tobey Maguire. Crazy.
01:38:39
Speaker
Let's see. it's It's produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios. So it's doing both. So it's a question of whether who who has more say. Is it Avi Arad? You know, does he have a connection to it? His name isn't here.
01:38:55
Speaker
I'm looking at it here. It's not here. So maybe that could be it. is this that but That is kind of the link that makes it not good. It's not always not good. ah Developed by Oren Uziel, Steve Lightfoot, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal.
01:39:11
Speaker
Okay. So, I mean, with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller being connected, mean, there is potential that it is kind of all connected. So. Yeah. To be fair, Amy Pascal also had had her hand in a lot of the Avi Arad stuff as well.
01:39:27
Speaker
yeah I feel like I'm pronouncing the guy's name wrong. Avi Arad. ah rad That would be Arad. That's what I thought it was. Arad. But yeah, he's the direct. It's like you saw.
01:39:38
Speaker
Yeah. I'm looking at Uzil because I think he's the showrunner. Oren Uzil. But I'm having trouble actually finding what. this is his first go.
01:39:52
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It's possible. Hmm. think it's first go?
01:39:58
Speaker
He's involved in films, but I'm i'm trying to see what they're known for. What, Flix? A screen reader. A screen reader. A screenwriter.
01:40:10
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ah Co-wrote Mortal Kombat Rebirth, which I'm not familiar with. That's not the that's not the new Mortal Kombat movie that I watched. No.
01:40:21
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Eventually released... Oh, wrote the screenplay for the science fiction horror film God Particle, which was eventually released in February 2018 as The Cloverfield Paradox. Oh.
01:40:33
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I remember hearing about that. wrote the script for 22 Jump Street. That makes the connection between Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
Sony's Cinematic Setbacks
01:40:41
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Yeah. Man, that Cloverfield universe... Weird.
01:40:45
Speaker
Yeah. what like What were you doing? The first movie, pretty great. 10 Cloverfield Lane obviously like shit wasn't really connected to it. And then all the, you know, the, the ending it is. And, but again, awesome movie Cloverfield paradox. What was that?
01:41:02
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They like shadow dropped that movie as well. Isn't that like the super bowl 2018 Superbowl or something? I wonder how well it did. Cause it was a shadow drop.
01:41:13
Speaker
I think it did very well in viewership at wise, but yeah. it did do well viewership wise i just didn't get review okay the reviews are not great i remember watching it being like this kind of is um not good not good right i didn't see it i didn't see any of the cold field movies though i haven't seen any of them dude 10 cloverfield lane is awesome like a genuinely awesome movie Wasn't like Cloverfield kind of like shoehorned into it though?
01:41:44
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It was the idea of Cloverfield connection. Yeah. The ending is essentially where it gets kind of shoehorned in and you're like, oh, okay. Sure. But it's still, it works. It works. Cause it's the way it's written. Like it does kind of fit. It does feel shoehorned in, but at the end of the day, I feel like it could have just been anything.
01:42:02
Speaker
It just happened to be Cloverfield. Yeah. It's just like how the movie really good, man. Is it kind of like how the movie Life really should have been a Venom movie? Oh, man. I'm still kind of upset that that wasn't a Venom prequel. That would have been brilliant. crazy because it would have been so cool because that whole universe is so broken. They just couldn't ever get any Spider-Man villain movie off the ground. There's so many of them. It's insane. We just stopped watching them.
01:42:30
Speaker
After Morbius, we were like, no, we're checked out. I didn't watch Venom, the third Venom. Yeah, that was because of Morbius, isn't Yeah. Morbius checked us out. We like, no, I don't think so anymore. Yeah, was okay, fuck this. We didn't Kraven Hunter.
01:42:43
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Kraven the Hunter is a great cast. It's Russell Crowe. It's freaking, what's his name? Aaron Taylor Johnson. yeah Yeah, Aaron Taylor Johnson. They CGI'd a woman's lips to move.
01:42:53
Speaker
when they added the the dialogue into that one. Right, yeah, you showed me that. Yeah, what a mess. And then there's Madame Web, which was arguably the worst one, apparently, according to some. I kind of want to Madame that the worst reviewed one?
01:43:05
Speaker
You want to see it? yeah I'm just so curious. Yeah, that interesting. The cast of that is like so good, too. You got, you know, like... um I literally I just blanked on literally every single person in that movie. You have Sydney, Dakota Johnson, Dakota Johnson. I mean, yeah, you have. um Oh, my God.
01:43:26
Speaker
Why am I forgetting her? I want to say Thor the Explorer. She's fucking Dina. and Oh, Isabella Merced. Yeah, Isabella Merced. That's not ah inaccurate. Yeah. ah um Yeah.
01:43:39
Speaker
Like it's a good cast. Ten percent of Rotten Tomatoes. Crazy. It's the lowest one, I think, because i think Craven the Hunter, which came out after. And then they had the Bad Bunny. That would have maybe done really well from a viewership perspective because Bad Bunny is so popular.
01:43:55
Speaker
Yeah. Did you watch the Super Bowl um at all? Did you watch the just specifically? did we talk about this last time? No, we didn't because it was. No, no, couldn' I know. I watched some of it like clips, but I didn't go out and watch. i don't really give a shit that much.
01:44:11
Speaker
I just watched the the halftime show and I thought it was amazing. I legitimately think it's awesome. Did you watch it at all? Again, I just saw some clips. The production value is freaking incredible. It's like 17 minutes. He runs a one-er.
01:44:24
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Yeah. he He's doing a one-er in the beginning of the thing. He's like got multiple set-up people that he's talking to. Well, he's not talking to, but communicating with while he's singing. It's just awesome. I'm not ah i'm not a bad Bunny fan at all. i don't i don't care for it i don't I don't know if I've ever heard a single song he's ever made. That doesn't matter. it's it was The production value is f freaking awesome. It's the best halftime show I've seen, personally.
01:44:48
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There's a lot of cool ones. There was that Star Power one where they had like all the rappers all all at once. do you remember that? Like Dr. Dre showed up. Eminem was there. Oh, yeah. have said That one was crazy, really cool. But this this was amazing. Like from a production standpoint, it felt like if it was very cinematic, it was very, very cool. I recommend it.
01:45:07
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It's excellent. But anyway. Cool. Okay. Bad Bunny from the hit movie, Bullet Train. yeah also He is in Bullet Train. And then after that, he was supposed to star as... What was the name of the character?
01:45:19
Speaker
El Muerto. El Muerto, right. Muerto, Simon. That's what he was supposed to do. boxer. Which could have been... It could have been a hit. but if If anything was going to be a hit, it would probably would have been that one. Just because... From a...
01:45:31
Speaker
Box office. Marketing. don't know. I don't think. I don't know about the writing. Criven the Hunter is 15%, so Madame Web wins. Crazy. Speaking of low scores on Rotten Tomatoes, there was a movie, and remember the trailer looks really good for this movie.
01:45:47
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Yeah. It's called Psycho Killer. And have you heard of this movie, Simon? Have you seen the trailer? and I don't think so. Why? It looks really cool, right? On the poster, all over it, it's like from the twisted writer of Seven, the producers of Barbarian and the producer of Weapons, right? This movie, 22 0% on Tomatoes.
01:46:08
Speaker
Zero. Zero. Zero. I want to watch this movie really badly. I'm like, how bad is this? Is this so bad it's good? Or is this just like a bad movie? Oh my God.
01:46:19
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There's not that many reviews though. Yeah. It's a little sample size. Yeah. the How is this possible? Yeah. I'm so curious about this. like I want to watch it just because of that. It does make sense to be zero because it's just the one or zero response. I guess that makes sense. If it's 22 reviews, it will go up. If it gets 50 reviews, 100% it will be 1% at the very least. No, sorry. It will be 2% at the very least.
01:46:43
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um Right? Yeah. yeah That's crazy, though. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Remarkable. on All right. Cool, man. Yeah, I'm really excited for Spider-Man War. I'm very excited. That trailer is so cool.
01:46:57
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he He's looking. Nicolas Cage is so Nicolas Cage in this, and he's also so Spider-Man. He looks badass. I'm so. What was this supposed to come out? Launched this spring. Did they have a date? Maybe in the trailer? I wrote this before.
01:47:11
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um before they launched the trailer because they they they were put a bunch of photos out and they did like press like press stuff like Rotten Tomatoes was like oh this movie's coming and they didn't say when the trailer was coming and then the trailer came a few days later May 27th is when it's ah releasing ah apparently on Prime Day that's soon yeah Amazon's killing it good for them Yeah. And great ah cast in this as well. Like on top of Nicolas Cage as well.
01:47:41
Speaker
Yeah. For sure. love me some Lamorne Morris. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. new girl. Yeah. Indeed. From Game Night. You know the quote that I always say? Baby I fell.
01:47:54
Speaker
I love that. That's from Game Night? Yeah. Baby I fell. Yeah. That's Game Night. I didn't know that. oh shit. That's him. He he falls over.
01:48:05
Speaker
At one point, he's like climbing on boxes, and then he falls over. He's like, baby, I fell. Okay. I really like Lamorne Morris. Again, he's he's Winston in in New Girl. He's like my favorite character, probably. Honestly, New Girl is such a good show.
01:48:19
Speaker
It's a great show. I miss it.
01:48:23
Speaker
Sorry for your loss. All right. Now onto a segment of our show that I like to call a look to the future portion of our podcast for 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 the dates of February 24th and March 9th, 2026.
01:48:41
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Adrian, as a customer, you go first. Which movies are you excited for? Slash TV shows. Are you excited for in this coming two week period? Simon, I got a couple for you, my friend. A lot of these are coming out on February 27th. But the first one I'm going to start with, Simon, is one of my favorite horror franchises, Sequel.
01:49:04
Speaker
The sixth sequel, making it the seventh movie in the franchise. Scream 7, baby. Oh, yeah, um almost, almost. Scream 7, man. im I'm very excited about this one. i think it's interesting because the fun part about a lot of the Scream movies is that it's a whodunit, right? Like there's murderers, but you're like, oh, who could it be? It's a slasher whodunit meta movie. um And in this one, it seems like we already know who the killer is.
01:49:37
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Or we can assume who's pulling the strings. So I'm i'm curious... how they're gonna how this movie is going to feel with the knowledge of you already know who's pulling the strings, unless they pull the rug out from under you and and and it's not going to it's not going to be that. so That's what I think. That's what I think, yeah. Trickery. Yeah, trickery. Yeah, I think it is a shame what happened, the whole Melissa Barrera situation. I think that's fucking absurd and obviously Jenna Ortega then leaving. and i just I feel like it sucks...
01:50:11
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to not know like what could have been, especially, you know, with Christopher Landon coming in as well, who I think would have been a really awesome, you know, choice as a director and writer for that movie. um But again, I'm, I'm still excited about this. I hope it's good.
01:50:25
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I think honestly, all the screen movies are fairly good and fun to watch. I like all of them. um So I'm excited, man. I'm excited. Are you excited?
01:50:36
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ah Not really. Okay. Yeah. I'm not not excited. um Okay. Do you want me to invite you to this if I go? Isn't it the same day that Resident Evil Requiem comes out? That's a good horror day.
01:50:49
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it is indeed. so I'm thinking, I'm thinking, Simon. Horror combo. Thinking we watch Scream 7 on Thursday. And then I go home and I play Resident Evil at midnight.
01:51:02
Speaker
Right. Yeah. It's going be spooky. And then I'll work on Friday. Do I want to work? No. No. I never want to work. No.
01:51:12
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Will I work? Yeah. No, you're to play Resident Evil. Oh, okay. for for For the lawyers, yeah, you're definitely going to be working that day. I will be working that day. You're going to working. You won't be on PlayStation. Most of that day, I will be working.
01:51:26
Speaker
You won't be on PlayStation. Eight hours of that day, start to finish, I will be working. Of course, of course. 100%. All right, cool. ah My first choice here is The Bride. Maggie Gyllenhaal's, or Gyllenhaal's, like ah ah Frankenstein's Bride movie.
01:51:42
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It airs on March 6th. That's not a streaming service, right? That's going to theaters. Is that a, oh, I should have probably checked that is a That is going to theaters, right? I think so. I'm just curious if it's a wide release or not, because we're in The Bride. think is a wide release. Release date.
01:51:59
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But yeah, Christian Bale looks awesome in it. Yeah. got ah Jesse Buckley? Jesse Buckley. Hot off. Hamnet, you know?
01:52:10
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Hamnet. Hamnet.
01:52:12
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Yeah. Where they catch hams with nets. Yeah, it's true. Good old. It's true. They just catch running pigs with a giant net. What?
01:52:23
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wow Good stuff. March 6th. Did I say that? Yeah. That is what you said, man. That's what you said. It's an IMAX on March 6th. oh Good for her.
01:52:35
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Good for Maggie Gyllenhaal. Good, good. Maggie Gyllenhaal. Maggie Gyllenhaal. All right. Well, that's exciting. I don't know. I didn't watch the Frankenstein movie on Netflix. I don't know if I'm interested in this. I'm not not interested in it. I definitely want to see it if you're interested, but you also didn't see the Frankenstein movie either.
01:52:52
Speaker
Are you just not into Frankenstein? Is that what it is? um like my favorite frankenstein movie is like alvin and the chipmunks the the frankenstein one okay which i was a fan of cool i had that on vhs i watch it all the time so technically i am a fan of frankenstein but again i need um i need some chipmunks with them dude that's fair what's your next picture My next pick, Simon, is a television show premiering on Apple TV Plus on February 27th. It is the second season of Monarch, the Legacy of Monsters, or Monarch, Legacy of Monsters.
01:53:33
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I'm very excited about this, man. I'm stoked. I like the first season a lot. This season seems to be going even bigger with more Godzilla. They got King Kong in there. Who's tight next? What is this thing?
01:53:46
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What is that creature ah in the in the sea? You see those tentacles destroy that boat? Yeah, that's crazy. That's fucking CGI right there, dude. That's real life.
01:53:57
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That's real life. It looks like God shows fucking awesome, dude. So let's go. Yeah, yeah. So it's just a bunch of white rooms.
01:54:09
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and know i don't know there's a lot of on location like stuff in season two for severance i was gonna say that before that that could be part of it i just it just doesn't seem like it could be the most expensive show though it's so much yeah yeah it's crazy it is crazy anyway All right, my next pick is a TV show on HBO called the DTF St. Louis Adrian to Comedy. It stars David Harbour, Linda Cardellini, Jason Bateman, with Sacred Life of Walter Mitty writer Stephen Conrad as showrunner. This looks pretty interesting. I'm curious to see how well this is reviewed and does. I don't think there's reviews yet for this, but it launches on March 1st, if I didn't already say that. Yeah. So that's premiere. This is a comedy show.
01:54:54
Speaker
It is a comedy. Interesting. think as I did not get that vibe when I watched that trailer. I was like, this does not seem funny. oh Did you not like the trailer? Did we talk about this trailer before? I don't know if we did. i liked the trailer. I was like, oh, this seems interesting.
01:55:10
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Did not take this as a comedy, though. Yeah, yeah. You know, I completely forgot about the trailers. We didn't talk about the trailer. We can do that at the very end very briefly if you have any opinions on them. But there are so many trailers in the last two weeks. It's insane. I can list them off at the end. But let's get through this segment first and then we'll go through that. What's your next pick?
01:55:28
Speaker
um My next pick is a new Pixar movie, actually, Simon. It's it's Hoppers, which is Avatar, but animals. That's what it seems like. Does it?
01:55:39
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, I didn't get that impression. Yeah. That's March 6th. Yeah. It's like they keep going into like an animal body to communicate with these animals and like the Oh, I don't know if I've seen a trailer for this. and It's John Hamm.
01:55:54
Speaker
John Green Exenham? john No, John Hamm is playing one of the main characters in this. Well, this is a movie about bunnies, not pigs, so I don't understand. it' so It's not even a about a bunny. It's a beaver, dude.
01:56:07
Speaker
Oh, it's a beaver. Why is it called hoppers then? You think I fucking know? You think I wrote this? I literally didn't see the trailer. i I thought I did see it. Am I crazy? I thought I saw this trailer. I feel like we saw it in theaters at some point.
01:56:22
Speaker
No, I don't know. I feel stupid. I don't know. Whatever. Hey. yeah john Hey. John Hamm is in it though, right? He is in it. Yeah, yeah, he is in it. Sorry, i'm I'm being... Yeah, he is it.
01:56:33
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Okay, good. Is this something you're interested in? Dave Franco. Oh. hoppers Okay. So is Bobby Moynihan.
01:56:43
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Bobby Moynihan is in it as well. Good. Very good. Why did you say it like that? um
01:56:52
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I feel like I was referencing something and I don't know what I was referencing. Yeah, that's what I'm asking you. Bobby Moynihan might be in Grand Theft Auto. Did we talk about that? No.
01:57:03
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It looks like he's even motion captured. Which they tend to do at Rockstar. Am I thinking of fucking BoJack Horseman? Did they do like a Bobby Moynihan reference to BoJack Horseman? I don't know. I don't know. Bagel. Anyways.
01:57:19
Speaker
anyways Okay, my next pick ah is a is a is a a is a TV show also on HBO because I just did HBO again before. But for ah this this show is called Rooster. It's Steve Carell, Bill Lawrence comedy, stars on March – it premieres on March 8th. Did you see this trailer?
01:57:37
Speaker
You did, right? Yeah, that's yeah that's with Steve Carell's daughter. She's like a teacher at ah a school, and then her husband cheats on her with a grad student. That's like the setup. Yeah.
01:57:49
Speaker
It looks pretty cool. I'm just interested in it because of Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence. And I think Bill Lawrence is going to have, is on a hot streak. So, cause shrinking is phenomenal. And so is Ted Lasso. So I feel like he hasn't missed in a bit. And this being on HBO, pretty good hope for it being pretty excellent. So that's my, my next pick.
01:58:08
Speaker
Anything else you've got for me? I got one more. It's a movie called in cold light. This is, uh, It's coming out February 27th as well. It stars ah Micah Monroe. Trailer seems pretty neat.
01:58:22
Speaker
Premise seems pretty good. It's not reviewed particularly well. Unfortunately, it's 52% on Rotten Tomatoes. But again, it has Troy Kotzar in it as well. Nice. It seems interesting because I think it's, yeah, like Micah Monroe, she like gets out of prison. Yeah.
01:58:41
Speaker
and gets framed for a murder and then like it's kind of on the run okay so it seems interesting i really like micha monroe as an actor like she's just in a lot of things i really really enjoy know she's not like a like a huge like actor and like big blockbusters but again like everything i see her and i'm always like fuck you're awesome dude Like, I mean, most recently, Longlegs, I think, is what we watched her in, where she's amazing in that movie. Prior to that, I watched her in Watcher.
01:59:13
Speaker
No pun intended. um It follows, of course. um There's that movie Villains, which I really love. Again, she's just like really good, just consistently great in everything I see her in. so Cool.
01:59:28
Speaker
Yeah. I got one more random miscellaneous pick and it's, I picked it because I, at the end of the trailer, I was befuddled. The, the trailer is for a Netflix movie with Alan Richson called war machine.
01:59:43
Speaker
And when you get to the end of the trailer, I'm like, is that a Deathbringer from Horizon Zero Dawn? And that's why I was confused. So it may be worth watching the trailer. It's not War Machine as in the MCU's War Machine. That might be why you looked a little puzzled there, it maybe.
02:00:00
Speaker
but it has nothing nothing to do with that. It's no MCU connection, no Marvel cinematic universe connection, but it's Reacher actor, Alan Richardson. And he's like, he's like getting fit in the beginning of the trailer. And then it takes a turn where it's about aliens. It looks like I'm like, Whoa, wait, what is this?
02:00:13
Speaker
And then when you see the fricking machine, I'm like, that is very much a death bringer. Like I just played horizon zero dawn again. It's funny because Netflix was going to make horizon zero dawn a TV show. So I'm like, is it, is there any connection with the CG that you've done on zero dawn or did you not get to that point? Cause that would have been post-production.
02:00:34
Speaker
I don't think they got that far at all ah for that show, but I just thought it was funny because it does look like a Deathbringer from what I see. In the way that it shoots as well. I'm like, oh, it's kind of strange. But Deathbringer is in like a lot of the machines and in horizon the Horizon universe, of the video game universe. like They are very alien in a way, the way they're built because it's like it's science it's a science fiction show and so is this movie, it seems. Yeah.
02:00:57
Speaker
Yeah, that War Machine movie comes out March 6th. I have a bunch of other things written here just to throw out there. Young Sherlock looks kind of cool. Also Amazon. It's directed by Guy Ritchie and it has a pretty crazy supporting cast. Like the main actors are younger actors, so they're not as well known. But frigging, what's his name? is in it ah Colin Firth. this is like That's awesome. Like Oscar winner Colin Firth this is just in this Young Sherlock. TV show. There's a show Marshalls on CBS. It's a Yellowstone spinoff about Marshalls in the Yellowstone universe. And then there's also Bridgerton season four, part two, which is February 26th. Sorry, Marshalls is March 1st, but Bridgerton season four, part two is on march on February
Reboots and Toy Story Discussion
02:01:38
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26th. And then the Scrubs reboot is airing on February 25th. I never watched Scrubs. Did you ever watch Scrubs? I i've i ah tried to watch the first episode and the pilot is atrocious.
02:01:50
Speaker
Oh, like it's really bad. Like I could not get through it. It's that bad. Oh, okay. So I know it's, I know it's very well regarded, but the pilot's just a bad episode of television. So.
02:02:02
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I'm going to throw out names of trailers to end our episode because I just completely forgot to put that into the the trilogy of news. a Trilogy of Topical Tidings. Cool. And just just, I guess, don't stop me, but maybe put your hand up if you want me to talk about something specific. They just showed off the Toy Story 5 trailer.
02:02:20
Speaker
Woody's Going Bald. How's the Dragon season 3 trailer? Stop, stop, stop. Okay.
02:02:27
Speaker
Yeah. Like, why are they why are they making him go? I understand it's a toy trailer. ah Going one to start with. Yeah. I understand that it's a toy and you know toys fade away, but yeah i don't know, man. Do we really need that? Do we need Woody going bald, man? like I don't know. it's There's something so sad about that.
02:02:49
Speaker
It's representative. There's something so sad. the exact storyline they're trying to play at here. Yeah. Because of the fact that, you know, tablets are taking over kids time and they're not playing with traditional toys. So I think it's kind of cool. Now, like the thing is, is that in Toy Story 2, there's that dude who's got like, who like fixes up the toys. Yeah. So he could have it fixed up, but the problem is, is that the time of toys is ending so that people like that, like,
02:03:11
Speaker
craftsmen like that probably don't really exist so i think that's the sad it is supposed to be sad i think that's the whole idea we'll see how they tackle it i don't know toy story 3 was really a high point it was really top to uh it was really tough to top that in in the second at the fourth movie story uh and i don't know that they're going to be able to top that in this fifth one i don't know we'll see no yeah i hope that they could but i like toy story 4 by the way like i think it's phrase a real standout i think yeah i mean key and peel also in it like yeah really really great yeah um right yeah it is uh i don't know it's it's cool like i'll i'll watch this like it's fucking toy story dude like i grew up watching toy story of course i'm gonna watch this but i am curious like is this it must be good right it must like you can't you can't not be great
02:04:08
Speaker
You can't. You just can't. So it'll be good. It's Pixar. Pixar's got a really good track record. Even when Pixar is bad, it's not really bad, I find. So it should be good. Anyway, ah moving on. House of the Dragon season three trailer. We kind of talked about House of Dragon. Yeah, it's good. I'm excited. Yeah. yeah There's the normal trailer where Bob Odenkirk plays.
02:04:26
Speaker
Stop, stop. my God. Yeah. Yeah. This one seems fun. I like this. This is a town called normal. Shit's not normal there. Bob Odenkirk action movie star. I like this a lot. I like. I love that. He's just an action movie star in a different franchise that also starts with an N and just is one word and it's kind of confusing. like It's also by the same creator. It's like, is it the same?
02:04:48
Speaker
It's the same team director. Really? Isn't it? Um, Was it David Leach, right? Is it not? No, David Leach never even did. or Not nobody. Oh, man.
02:05:01
Speaker
Is that also? Didn't do nobody. What the fuck am I thinking of, man? Derek Kolstad. Is it Derek Kolstad? Sorry. Oh, Derek. Oh, it's a writer. Writer, yeah. Maybe. Yeah, because Derek Kolstad wrote Nobody, I think, and Nobody 2. I'm just going into his commentary. And he wrote the first John Right, he did write Normal.
02:05:20
Speaker
Oh, okay. So there's an affinity, Odenkirk. Bob Odenkirk has a crazy number of projects that are coming out. Wait, Bob Odeckerk? Oh, not Bob Odeckerk. Sorry, kt Derek Kolstad. I'm looking at the wrong thing. Sorry, yeah. Derek Kolstad has a lot of projects coming out um in the near future. But yeah, interesting. Yeah, he wrote Normal. You're right.
02:05:38
Speaker
But Derek Kolstad also wrote Splinter Cell. Splinter Cell TV series. I love that that exists. So funny because they won't make a game. Anyway, ah moving on. Looks good. ah You're going to definitely comment on this. We talked about Spider-Man Noir, so I'll skip that one. We just talked about Hoppers, so I definitely watched the trailer because otherwise i wouldn't have written here. Minions and
Trailer Reviews and Predictions
02:06:00
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Monsters.
02:06:02
Speaker
Do you have any interest in that? you see the trailer? No. Scream 7, we just talked about. That was there as well. I think it was at the Super Bowl or after it as well. Project Hail Mary, the final trailer, looks crazy. Looks really good. I'm really excited about it. I watch it.
02:06:17
Speaker
It reveals too much. Don't watch it. Okay, yeah. That's what I that's what i heard. i was listening to um like a podcast and they said, like hey, like don't watch any of these trailers. Apparently, even the first trailer revealed some stuff.
02:06:29
Speaker
It's stupid. What it is. and this But we're going to see Definitely don't watch the second one. We're going to see in theaters. We have no choice. That's the problem. well I'm not going to close my eyes. I'll close my eyes. All right, you do it. And my ears. Sorry, the one I thought you were going to comment on was Over Your Dead Body. Did you watch this trailer?
02:06:44
Speaker
think you did. Yeah. Which one is that? Over? Yeah. That's yeah Jason Segel. I did. i did see that. This one looks really cool with Samara Weaving and Jason Segel. And freaking Timothy Oliphant's randomly in I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What?
02:06:57
Speaker
I thought I understood what was the premise here. And then it just goes wacky and crazy. i'm like, I'm interested in this. This looks good. i This one i'm i'm I'm very intrigued by. Yeah. This one seems super fun. It seems like a fun premise because ah it's the, um oh my God.
02:07:13
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Who is,
02:07:15
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Whatever. Continue. The creative team behind they're married. They're at like a dinner table and they're they're like discussing killing each other. Essentially, you're like, what? What's going on? And then shit hits the fan and there's like all this action and like people shooting guns and it's like, what is going on here? like It's insane. um So yeah, it's cool.
02:07:34
Speaker
I leave in the best to last because this the trailer that I thought is the craziest one. But I'll keep going until I get to that point. Mandalorian and Grogu. They had ah a Super Bowl trailer that I thought was badass. Really, really cool. Not like anything else. It was like a car commercial. Like i'm pretty sure it was. um Oh, yeah. It was.
02:07:50
Speaker
Yeah, it was a voiceover by um Sam. What's his name? You know I'm talking about? classic yeah sam elliott western yeah similarly awesome it looked like a freaking chevrolet commercial or something i thought that was awesome and then they did another it would be a ram commercial simon a ram commercial that's oh yeah it's ram yeah yeah the dodge ram ram reins or whatever yeah yeah good good call i don't i don't watch a lot commercials lately but anyway uh yeah okay like just sit there watching commercials
02:08:24
Speaker
I don't sit there just watching commercials. this is just I just know this. Not to offend. I didn't mean to offend. I don't just sit and watch commercials, man. There's another Supergirl commercial. There's another Disclosure Day commercial. They all look... I'm not saying commercials because of you. trailers Trailers. Disclosure Day looks awesome. I'm really excited for Disclosure Day.
02:08:43
Speaker
Me too. It's really cool. looks intriguing. We were talking when we were watching Marty Supreme fries because they were playing the trailer ahead of time. And you're like, oh, I wonder what this is. Like, are they shapeshifters? was like, i didn't I didn't get that. But then you pointed out a scene where I'm like, oh, maybe they are shapeshifters.
02:08:58
Speaker
that's not what I was saying. Well, I was kind of saying that, but you missed my point. I think it was it was loud. Okay, what were you saying? You know what's crazy? You just like glitched out when you were making that weird noise and it looked like you were just dying or something. Like a bomb went off in your your building. it like You're like... oh up And then it froze. I'm like, is he alive?
02:09:17
Speaker
No, you're alive. Thank God. Anyway, disclosure, I was thinking that what it was, not shapeshifters. It was shapeshifters, but my idea was that they're... their consciousness of the aliens are in the people and they don't realize and they're sleepers. So they're like, they're like Cylons.
02:09:31
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So that's why they can shape shift. Cause they, they could always do that the whole time, but they don't actually, they're not really humans, but they're somehow believe that they are humans until disclosure day or some, some event causes them to like turn. So then that they they basically they are awakened. It's like, you know, like spies when they hear a keyword like ah a Bucky Barnes and winter soldier, you know I'm saying?
02:09:51
Speaker
Yeah. They become, yeah. Okay. That makes a little bit more sense. That makes a little bit more sense. Cause I don't know. I thought, yeah, I thought it was like a possession movie. Like the aliens are possessing the animals and stuff. I think. Cause see like the deer walking and like the, the little bunny hopping.
02:10:05
Speaker
I thought maybe the animals are also like, they are also the aliens because they can shape shift to anything. But I, but the, the moment where they show Emily Blunt's character and it becomes, is Laura Linney in this movie? Was it Laura Linney to Emily Blunt or am I crazy? Yeah. They do like ah like ah basically a pan around a person standing in front of Emily Blunt, and then it goes from one actor to become Emily Blunt. So I'm like, is this not what this is? like these These people are changing their their face. It could be whatever they want, yeah but i don't know.
02:10:36
Speaker
But what is there a possibility that it's not aliens? No, it has to be aliens, right? I was thinking what if it was like aliens, but it was like AI. They're like communicating ones or zeros. That's what the clicks are. I don't know. That would be funny if it wasn't aliens because they don't show anything coming down.
02:10:50
Speaker
So it'd be funny if it it was a twist. You're all thinking that they're aliens, but they're actually like a, like a, kind of interdimensional species or something or like what's the word I'm trying to say like they're living between time and space yeah they come out or they come out of the woodwork from from somewhere else like they're living deep in the ocean it would be cool if they're not extraterrestrial like outside of earth but inside of earth somehow people I don't know that'd be kind of cool because that's not really done that often That'd be funny if I predicted that by accident because they're because they're clearly making it look like it's aliens. Like that's clearly the intent. Anyway, it looks good. The last trailer I want to talk about here before we close the show off, Adrian. And this trailer is the craziest trailer I've seen in a while.
02:11:31
Speaker
And it's the boldest one. And it was at the Super Bowl, which I think is just insane. The Adventures of Cliff Booth. Did you watch this trailer? Oh, yeah. At the Super Bowl. What a nutty trailer. It looks awesome. I think it looks so cool, but it's like bold and very, very unique. There's not, like you're not really getting your point in point across this seriously perfectly. And for the Superbowl, it's an interesting choice of trailer, but they like, they also keep bolding, like bolding. Sorry. They keep um blurring out ah people's like ah their, their mouth, like using the F word or whatever it may be. It's kind of weird.
02:12:04
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ah It's, it's really neat. I'm curious about how this will definitely intrigued about this one. looks, it looks cool. I really like Tarantino. script in a david fincher direction is the most intriguing part for me but sorry this one is coming to theaters as well i think it's having like a at least a limited theater release oh right yeah because it is not don't know maybe they're gonna do it really hard because they want to prove they want to prove how much they should own warner brothers You're like, look oh, look.
02:12:35
Speaker
No, no, no, no problem. We always do theatrical releases. See Cliff Ruth here? Brad Pitt. yeah Big screen. Ask her best friend, David Fincher. Yeah.
02:12:46
Speaker
Well, his yeah his last few movies haven't really been in theaters in any big way. Mank was in theaters in very limited release, I think, in Canada here. It was like two weeks before it went on. And that's that's because they wanted Mank to win awards at the Oscars. That was the whole idea. But it was ah in theaters for a brief time before Netflix. And I don't even know if The Killer was ever even in theaters at all.
02:13:09
Speaker
I feel like it was a limited release. I feel like i remember it being in like Princess or some shit like that, but not like Cinellus. Who cares? Yeah. Yeah, cool, man. all right. Yeah, that's the trailers. There was a lot of them. I think I missed a couple
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02:13:20
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too, but the Adventures of Cliff Booth was definitely the most interesting trailer because it's just the most unique. And I feel i feel like it didn't necessarily sell itself. It was very, again, it's very confident.
02:13:28
Speaker
It reminds me of Wonder Man. Like, here's this thing that we made. It's really cool and very creative and really like looks very indie in a lot of ways. Do you like it? If you don't like it, oh, well, I don't know. I just think that it's really neat.
02:13:41
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So yeah, i'm very excited for that. but yeah, okay. Well, that's it. Do you have else to say before we close this show off? No, man. I think this was fun. Look at us, brisk. We're just going through it. Today, I think both of us were high energy. We were ready to chat. We were ready to we were ready to talk about things.
02:13:59
Speaker
Yes. And did. We did indeed. It's incredible. Incredible We did it. All right. Marty Supreme fries, baby. Yeah. Thank you audience for listening to episode 130 Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my beautiful co-host, Adrian Finter. Thanks. Please join us on March 10th for episode 131. Good evening to you and good luck. Take care, guys. Wow.
02:14:31
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Goodbye.