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135. Apologies to Ken for Talking Aboot Video Games
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Sick Adrian and fact-confused Simon discuss the upcoming slate of video game film & TV adaptations! They dive into speculation regarding Warfare writer/director Alex Garland’s Elden Ring film, Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley’s Far Cry series, and Weapons writer/director Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil film (or vilm, if your a weirdo). Plus, Adrian reviews horror film, Oddity, from Hokum director Damian Mc Carthy and Simon raves about Apple TV comedy, Shrinking. They also question the reasoning behind Sony’s release of the first three pages of the Spider-Man Brand New Day script and Simon tries to make ‘New B’ happen.
This episode was recorded in Canada on May 3rd 2026. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on May 19th for Episode 136.
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Review of 'Oddity' by Damian McCarthy
00:00:00
Speaker
This episode, I review director Damian McCarthy's horror flick, Oddity.
What makes a good video game adaptation?
00:00:09
Speaker
a We ponder on what it takes to make a good video game adaptation while discussing the upcoming Elden Ring movie, Far Cry TV series, and Resident Evil film.
00:00:22
Speaker
Film. Resident Evil film. Thank you for pointing that out. Film. Film. Yeah.
Discussion on Spider-Man Brand New Day screenplay release
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Speaker
And we question the release of the first three pages of the Spider-Man brand new day script. You could say it's a brand new script for the brand new day. Hmm.
Introduction to 'Split Focus' podcast
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Speaker
Script. With new episodes airing every two weeks on Tuesdays, this is Split Focus, a film and TV podcast.
00:00:46
Speaker
I'm Simon Eadie. And I am... Pinter. Welcome to episode to episode 135.
Humorous chat about New Brunswick
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Speaker
mom bomb um moderning around
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no one
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Speaker
You ever been to new B my friend, huh? Where new B? I don't know what you're talking about. New B, you know, the kids, that's what the kids call it. and New B, you know, dude, I'm going to be honest with you. I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Genuinely zero clue. You just, you just ain't hip.
00:01:37
Speaker
You just ain't hip then. I guess. I don't know that the kids. Yeah, I guess not. I'm going to new B this week. It's exciting. What, what is new B? Are you going to elaborate? Are you just going to keep on saying this? Moving on. So movies, Adrian. No, I'm kidding. ah New B is New Brunswick. I'm going to New Brunswick for work.
00:01:53
Speaker
Everyone knows that New B is New Brunswick. Come on. Everyone knows that. Everyone. Everyone. New Brunswick is a province in Canada. I've never heard that in my entire life. I thought you were saying like a newbie. You know, like him the noun. yeah i guess I guess New Brunswick is also a noun.
00:02:07
Speaker
but um Yes. Yeah, it's exciting. Why are you doing this? Exciting times for a week. By the time this airs, I will be in a different province than I live normally, which is Ontario. That's crazy, dude. will be in New Brunswick. It's exciting. I've never been there.
00:02:20
Speaker
How long are you going to be there for? a week. A week. A whole week? A whole week? Yeah, I don't want to go simultaneously while also wanting to go. Yeah. I get what you mean. It's a good change of pace for work. Is your wife coming with you?
00:02:33
Speaker
No, because it's just work. lot I don't know. I don't know. Maybe she would just hang out in a hotel room. You ever take your wife on work trips? No, I haven't yet. But I mean, I i would. Okay, that's cool. I would have if she was available to.
00:02:45
Speaker
so So going to newbie, as you say, for your- No one calls it that. I've never heard that in my life. Okay. I'm trying to make it a thing here. aunt Nice, man. So you're going to newbie for work. What are you going to do there apart from work? Obviously, you're going to work. Nothing. But what else are you going Gonna hang out at the hotel, eat food, probably nothing else.
00:03:05
Speaker
It's gonna hang out there. Bring in your PlayStation or or just your portal? I might bring the portal. Might play some games. We'll see. We'll see how it goes. Nice. Hotel Wi-Fi. Yeah. Hotspot your phone. Well, I guess that's the problem with the portal in this specific scenario because the Wi-Fi has to be good. And you don't know what you're gonna get with hotel Wi-Fi, do you? You don't. You never know. You never know what you're gonna get with hotel Wi-Fi, even when they tell you. No. still don't know. Nope.
00:03:29
Speaker
You know? You never know. You never know. Okay, man.
Health update and symptoms discussion
00:03:32
Speaker
Well, should we just move into it? Should we get into it? Should we do um get into this podcast, the film and TV podcast, Split Focus?
00:03:39
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but yeah I mean, we could. I'm a little sick. I don't know if you can tell, Simon, but I also told you that I'm a little sick yeah prior to this meeting. So I'm a little congested. I'll do my best to chat with you.
00:03:52
Speaker
to get through this conversation with you. I'm actually feeling pretty okay today, thankfully. That's good. That's good news. That's good news, yeah. so Yeah, i woke up with a really bad headache, which is a the couple of sick boys doing this podcast. There's a couple of sick boys, dude. Sick boy podcast, my favorite, dude. Sick boys. Sick boys in the house.
00:04:14
Speaker
Indeed. Different houses. Yep. Yep. incredible Nice, nice, nice. Okay. okay Absolutely
Unavailable yet heavily marketed movie
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Speaker
incredible. How's your week been? What have you been up to? What have you gotten gotten up to this week?
00:04:25
Speaker
ah Lots of video games, you know lots of work, lots of lots of watching occasional TV shows. We almost went to a movie and then we didn't go to a movie because for some reason it doesn't air anywhere, even though they show this movie everywhere and market it to me constantly and everything I'm on, which I'm not. Why are you marketing me this movie if you can't I can't watch it because it's not available in any theaters near me? I don't really get it. It's like very far away. I think it's like an hour away.
00:04:49
Speaker
No, they have it in Kitchener. Oh, Kitchener. I didn't say that. See that? Yeah. when I checked. I think the vip the VIP theater, as they say. Oh, that's cool. I could be lying here.
00:05:00
Speaker
but It's bizarre that we have two theaters, like two big cineplexes in, like there's the same chain, like the same chain of theaters, the biggest theater chain in Canada. There's two of the same theater type theaters.
00:05:13
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And most of honestly, dominates Canada. There's very few other theaters, but there's two of them in, in Guelph, Ontario, where we live. And they both didn't pick up this movie. It's like, what are you playing instead? Are you all playing Super Mario Brothers like 15 times? I think so. That and Michael, you know?
00:05:28
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mikhail yeah as they say crazy yeah it's unfortunate we're talking about hokum by the way um good thanks and thanks for the context appreciate it yeah we can't we want to watch
In-depth review of 'Oddity' by Damian McCarthy
00:05:38
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the adam scott movie called hokum the horror movie about a witch or some shit we wanted to see it actually don't really know what it's about takes place in ireland ireland adam scott american in ireland I can't do an Irish accent.
00:05:53
Speaker
Yeah, man. I mean, ah it's directed by Damian McCarthy and um i'm I'm very intrigued. The trailer looks really good. And you know what I did, Simon? Last night. m while i While I've been sick, I decided to watch another Damian McCarthy movie.
00:06:09
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And that is the film Oddity, Simon. it's It's the movie that came out prior to this back in 2024. I think it's like second movie. He has another movie called Caveat as well, which I haven't watched.
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But I watched Oddity last night. And this movie is stellar, dude. This is top tier horror stuff. So also takes place in Ireland. This one. I'm assuming this guy's Irish.
00:06:36
Speaker
based on this and oddity really the setup is is quite simple okay twin sisters one is blind and she's like super into like the supernatural she owns like a little like antique shop with these like haunted stuff and her twin sister gets brutally murdered at the beginning of this movie And she is now on kind of a revenge quest, like her sister, to find out who killed her sister. She thinks she knows. And she's doing this weird supernatural stuff to, again, get back at the person that killed her sister.
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And that's really the setup of the movie. And it is so good. It is so creepy. The vibe is just like, oh, my God, like it just sends shivers up your spine.
00:07:24
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um And it's like a pretty neat mystery of how it unfolds. So it really just kind of, again, starts off. And I think it has one of the best openings in a movie where it's literally just the, you know, the twin sister that that gets murdered.
00:07:38
Speaker
She's like in her house and in Ireland waiting for her husband to come home. And someone knocks on ah her front door and she opens it. And it's just this guy there. And he's like, hey, when you walked out to your car, I saw someone run into your house.
00:07:55
Speaker
Let me in. and And that's like the the start of the movie. And she's like, I don't know. Like, I don't trust this guy. And he's like, no, please. Like someone ran into your house.
00:08:06
Speaker
And they're going to kill you. So let me and I want i want to protect you. And that's kind of, again, that's how the the movie starts off. And then it cuts. And um by this point, I think it's a year later, jumps forward. She's dead.
00:08:18
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your The sister, the twin sister who's blind is like in her antique shop. And then her sister's husband shows up to the shop. And they have a little bit of a conversation.
00:08:29
Speaker
And, um you know, essentially just about like, oh, you know, it's been a year. It's been tough. we should get together sometime, um you know, ah like maybe on the year anniversary of her death.
00:08:40
Speaker
And, you know, the blind twin sister says like, okay, sure. And then shows up at his house a week later. He's already, you know, he already has a new girlfriend. They're living in this house. And then just spooky stuff starts happening. And it just kind of plays out from there. I don't really want to dive too into it. I just want to say it is so well done. And it makes me even more excited now to watch Hocum because I know what Damian McCarthy can do. i want to go back and watch Caveat as well.
00:09:05
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And he just like nails it from a, um you know, like just like creepy eeriness, like vibe perspective while like, again, having this like mystery through line throughout the entire movie. And it's terrifying and intriguing.
'Good Boy' horror movie review
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Speaker
And there's this weird wood man that is, that sits at the table and it's, and it's, it's creepy and really fricking good. And I highly recommend this. And I'm just so curious how Holcomb is going to be, because I've only watched that initial trailer and then I just kind of been,
00:09:36
Speaker
You know, not going to look at it. Not going to look at anymore. Yeah, that's cool. Very cool. Yeah, man. man Did you... i mean, I know you haven't watched Oddity, but did you like look into any of Damian McCarthy movies? like Were you familiar with what what he came out with prior to Hocum? No.
00:09:55
Speaker
Where you just kind of like, or I'll watch this movie. I don't really want to watch horror stuff. Just generally. Generally speaking. I don't want to play horror stuff. I don't want to watch the horror stuff. i don't find...
00:10:06
Speaker
i don't find I don't know. They're like, there's a genre that I'm just not that into personally, but I'll do it. I'll do it. I'm not, I'm not opposed to it, especially if it's excellent.
00:10:18
Speaker
Yeah. Well, oddity is excellent. Like it is genuinely amazing. Um, it's very well rated. I think it's like a 97 on rotten tomatoes. So I would, um, I would say it's a good watch.
00:10:32
Speaker
Very good. It's just a high quality horror flick. So why are you agreeing to watch Hokum? what Why did you, I guess, agree? It's nice to go to the theaters.
00:10:42
Speaker
mr Nice to see something. You asked me to go. i'm I'm into it. I'm okay with it. I mean, it's going to be very, very, very scary. It might be. it Wasn't there like a ah clip of Adam Scott saying that somebody peed themselves or something?
00:10:56
Speaker
On set? They watched it. Oh, when they watched it. Okay. i was gonna be Yeah. I'm not going to be on set there, Adrian. I'm going to watch the movie. I'm not worried about ah acting in it. Although that would be kind of scary too, if you're not, you know, yeah you're just there. You're just pissing your pants.
00:11:14
Speaker
It's like working as a as a set person. yeah so Yeah, that's what they call them. That's what they call them. Yeah, I don't know. I'm just ah I don't know. It's just not it's not the genre that I am drawn to. It's not like I wouldn't do it ever.
00:11:29
Speaker
It's like I do it all the time with other things, too. There's like horror adjacent even video games that I play. There are horror in some some vein, but it's just it's just not the the genre that you know right you know that gets me gets me going.
00:11:44
Speaker
I'm more into every other genre, pretty much. I don't know. I'm think, is there a worse genre? I guess I don't really like like the teeny bopper high school yeah drama, like like the like the the the photo booth or something like that. that that I'm not into those movies either, i guess. Mm-hmm.
00:12:05
Speaker
um like just your yeah they're like teen rom-com sort of thing yeah the teen rom-com if it's very good though again i'll get i'll get into i'll get into it it's just it's like am i gonna go watch the grudge thrive or what or which hasn't come back actually it's funny that's they did a grudge reboot didn't they like um oh was it successful within the last decade they did ah and it was it with um john choe
00:12:32
Speaker
grudge yeah 2020 90 though and is that cragger it was not i feel like that cragger's been killing it too i'm just saying for like hokum like hokum and get out and those types of movies i feel like i'm into that especially get out i feel like jordan peele's horror movies aren't that scary at all they're just creepy and they're not really they're like horror but that's almost like a different genre of horror in ah in a way yeah you know what i'm saying so yeah no i get where you're coming from it's not like you're that too but yeah yeah i'm into it and plus i gotta i get to see my buddy my pal every once in a while you know we get to go to the theaters i'm not just talking to you through this this this this box here this new this rectangle you know this rectangle on a screen a rectangle within a rectangle
00:13:16
Speaker
you think I'll be in Guelph this week? Maybe? i don't think so because I just looked at every day when you brought that up again and it's not. And it might not even be in Kitchener after Friday so because there's no more showtimes. so Were you also marketed to for this movie though? Was Holcomb coming up in your likester Instagram feed? Advertisers on YouTube. Well, not YouTube. Yeah.
00:13:36
Speaker
but like uh yeah other places like yeah yeah instagram is a good example isn't that weird maybe it's because we looked it up somehow and then we it came up where we clicked it when they hit it they hit us with an ad that we could click clicked it or or hovered over it long enough and then they just kept sending it to us because there is an interest there yeah a lot of my instagram ads are trailers for movies actually okay that must yeah that must be just be based on you how you how you interact yeah okay which is good oh yeah great segue by the way to just what we've been watching because we're in that segment we didn't even announce it it's incredible what else have you watched what else have you watched this week i watched another horror movie as well as as one does when you're sick you know no you might think it's an oddity to watch horror when you're sick
00:14:22
Speaker
But it ain't. it wouldn' have to It's just, it's it ain't odd. to Horror odd. Not that. Anyways. Is this Oddity 2? Oddity 2 the musical. oh Wow.
00:14:35
Speaker
Okay. I did watch another horror movie, though. It is the horror movie called Good Boy, Simon. We talked about this actually on the pod many months ago. Yeah, it's a cool concept.
00:14:46
Speaker
It is a horror movie from a dog's perspective. So it's pretty cool. So um it's essentially, you know, this... The dog, Indy. Indy the dog, who honestly should have been nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars. but Oh, yeah? who am i Honestly, phenomenal job. the the dog is like The dog is a paid actor, I think, literally.
00:15:09
Speaker
um Wait, I don't understand. Isn't it the perspective of the dog, though? So isn't it the dog... Like the camera is the dog? No. The first person with the dog? No, no, it's not. The camera isn't the dog, dude.
00:15:22
Speaker
You see the dog a lot of the time. It's just it's just following the dog. Like the dog is the main character. It's not like Hardcore Henry. So not really the perspective of the dog. But the dog's the main character. It's like you're we're following the dog.
00:15:35
Speaker
Right. Okay. yeah Gotcha. We say no like that. That's what perspective means, dude. Yeah, whatever, dude. We're not talking hardcore Henry here, okay? We're following the dog as the main character. It is you know a horror movie from the dog's perspective. I mean, it is kind of from the dog's perspective, even if it's third person.
00:15:54
Speaker
Yeah, and the setup and ah you know the setup is Indy and then his pet, who's the human. um It's actually not the pet. I'm just doing a little joke here, Simon. But yeah, Indy and his owner, um they um go to like the guy's grandfather's house in the woods.
00:16:14
Speaker
um He like owns like this old house and that grandfather, you know, passed away a few years ago and Indy and this guy are going, you to this house. And when they get there, creepy stuff starts happening.
00:16:25
Speaker
Very but long lives. So I guess it makes sense that his uncle passed. yeah Did the dog drive? The dog did drive, yeah. He went to see his uncle. yeah He was actually drinking and driving at the same time. It's kind of crazy.
00:16:39
Speaker
um Yeah, it's just unbelievable. And yeah, okay um he ran over 16 children in that start of the movie. And the dog's uncle had died yeah after a long life of 10 years.
00:16:54
Speaker
Exactly. um And yeah, that's that's it. That's the movie. We're done. We can move on. No. um But again, the movie is quite simple. It's just Indy and his owner. They go to the owner's grandfather's like old house in the woods. He passed away.
00:17:10
Speaker
recently and you know um the the owner's always talking to his sister on the phone and uh you know she's like oh yeah that house is cursed like you shouldn't go there it's it's all fucked up like don't go there and he's like no it's fine i'm sick and it's fine um and then they're there and again creepy shit starts happening you know there's weird ghost spirits there's weird mud men there's there's forestry around them and it's really great I think this movie is just like it's wholly unique you know you don't really come across a movie like this apart from like I don't know not not a horror movie but like Homeward Bound you know what I mean um remember those movies yeah but those dogs talk Indy does not talk you know we're just following him
00:17:58
Speaker
and watching all this stuff unfold and, you know, Indy being essentially worried about his owner who, who seems to be going through it um with all the weird stuff that's happening. It's just very cool the way it all plays out. And again, just following this little dog around it, there's like a, like a level of, you know, cuteness in this movie, despite it being a horror movie, but at the same time, it's still like quite frightening. There's a couple, you know, like jump scares. I think like as a movie as a whole, know,
00:18:28
Speaker
It's not particularly like amazing. I think it gets a lot of points simply due to like the the the premise and and it's its uniqueness.
00:18:38
Speaker
um But it's a really good watch. It's ah ah only like an hour and 14 minutes as well. like I think it it goes by at a brisk pace. um I would think like this movie and this kind of setup would probably be better as a shorter movie, funnily enough.
00:18:53
Speaker
I know it is quite a short movie, but I feel like it would have been really good as like a short film, you know, maybe like 20, 30 minutes. Cause it does a lot of interesting things, but I feel like it doesn't run out of ideas, but it is just a lot of like, we're just watching this dog run around this house and bark and, you know, be kind of scared. And, you know, the owner doing weird shit and it kind of it doesn't wear thin, but I just feel like, um,
00:19:20
Speaker
I mean, I guess it does wear thin. I just feel like, yeah, again, it it is a it is a good movie, though. I did really enjoy it. And um they do this really cool thing pretty much the entire movie where you never see, like, a person's face.
00:19:36
Speaker
properly Like, so again, it's just the dog that you're seeing. And anytime it shows like a person, they have their face kind of obscured. Maybe they're, you know, further back into the distance and you can't see it. And it adds this extra like creepy factor because since you're not seeing anyone's face, it's like, okay, there's something walking up.
00:19:54
Speaker
And it's like, is that the owner? Is that, you know, some weird apparition? Like what's going on? And I think they did a really good job with that. The cinematography in this movie is also fantastic.
00:20:04
Speaker
there's a lot of low angle shots, obviously, because again, it's like in line with where the dog is. And um it makes it adds to like, i don't know, a creep factor, um simply put. And um yeah, I really like this. I thought this was a, yeah, again, a very interesting movie.
00:20:22
Speaker
And I think, again, he was snubbed for best actor at the Oscars, Indy the dog. And um he he should have, he should have won. He should have won. um beat out whoever won best actor at whatever movie and i forgot what jordan did this movie come out last year i think it did yeah he i think indy the dog was better than not only michael b jordan but leonardo dicaprio better than timothy chalamet he was better than all of them well yeah assuming if he won he would have to beat out everyone else yeah yeah that's interesting that's how it does work um Yeah, I realize. I'm sorry. You were describing the story and you said the the grandfather died. I don't know why I heard uncle.
00:21:05
Speaker
It's a joke. Fell flat. You didn't even react. But I feel like you're wrong well, I was trying to just go. I was trying to riff with you. ah thought I was just trying to riff with you and let you have it. So and don't want to, like, you know, bring it to a standstill. And now now you brought it up.
00:21:17
Speaker
So now it's like this awkward conversation we're having right now. Well, maybe nobody knew what I was talking about. I was, not i thought that because I don't think you specified. Maybe you did that. The, the, the dog, it wasn't the dogs, and the dogs, family member that died.
00:21:30
Speaker
And so I was just making a riff on that. And then you just said that many children died or something. Anyway, it was bad. The dog drunk drove and killed 16. It was bad. And now it's worse. So yeah anything else you watched for this by week? Anything else that was great?
00:21:48
Speaker
Nothing too crazy.
Introducing 'Big Mistakes' on Netflix
00:21:49
Speaker
I actually, I watched the first two episodes with my wife of the Netflix show, Big Mistake, or Big Mistakes, I think is what it's called. It's the um then loveby um Dan Levy and like Dan Levy created show. The one thing I didn't know about this going in, it's not just Dan Levy that created it. Rachel said it. Rachel said it.
00:22:11
Speaker
Yeah. And I don't know how I missed that. but that um If we did, I totally forgot about that. She's not in the show. Dan Levy is the main character and we're following him and his like sister. and It's like this kind of like crime comedy show where he's like a ah a pastor, i think. and Then you know his sister is...
00:22:32
Speaker
you know, just it's his sister. seems like, you know, prior to the show starting, they're kind of estranged. They're all together because their grandmother's dying. um And then, you know, they go to this store to, um you know, get a gift for their dying grandmother. And the sister steals this net ah necklace that's in like this pawn shop, essentially, like this convenience store.
00:22:56
Speaker
And, um, that's really the kind of starting point of the show. And then the guy that runs, owns that shop, you know, comes and finds them and is like, I need that necklace back. You, you know, you got to give it back to me. You don't know what you just took.
00:23:09
Speaker
And that's kind of, you know, the, the inciting event of where it goes. It's pretty funny. Um, I think again, it's very like quick, you know, witty humor and it's also very anxiety inducing with the music and just kind of the pacing.
00:23:23
Speaker
It's very just like, boom, boom, boom. Um, And I really enjoyed you know the first two episodes. I think it's eight episodes as a whole. i'm going to continue watching it. And um yeah, I'll probably get back to you on on on the quality of the show once I finish that.
Reflection on 'Invincible' season
00:23:37
Speaker
I also finished the final season of Invincible. Sorry, this last season of Invincible, not the final season. Fantastic, dude. Invincible is awesome. I love Invincible. Yeah.
00:23:50
Speaker
The animation is a lot better this season, season four, compared to last season. The story is super intense. I read the graphic novels, but again, this was like over a decade ago. So there's a lot of new surprises and they change a lot of, you know, little things compared to the graphic novel. And I think they're all welcome changes.
00:24:13
Speaker
And I think they've consistently done this since the beginning. And there's some like crazy like fight scenes and brutal moments. And um it's just it's awesome, man. It's a wholly unique and arguably the best like superhero show on TV.
00:24:30
Speaker
um i think he is. It wholly unique. That seems a bit of a stretch. No, I mean, there it takes a lot of It takes a lot from things that have come prior, but again, like they are willing to continuously change the status quo where I feel like a lot of superhero, like comic books or superhero shows, there's a status quo that you almost always have to go back to, right? Like you you think about like a show like arrow or, or the flash or whatever, there's never been like something that is so world changing,
00:25:04
Speaker
um And I feel like Invincible is willing to not just like kill off characters here and there, um But also, again, like change the entire dynamic of, you know, what's what's happening in the show, like having like a crazy invasion happen and, you know, change the landscape of things, you know, in the world, you know, murder millions of people, things like that, where it's just willing to take it that extra step further.
00:25:31
Speaker
And um yeah, again, I think it's unique because of that. um But did you watch this most recent season yet or no? No. No. Yeah. It's done. So you don't have to wait for it. It's good. ah What did you mean when you said the animation's better?
00:25:47
Speaker
that That's something i was I picked up on. I don't really understand what you mean. Like there' is ah there's a quality difference you find from from season to season in general. And then in particular, this its fifth season, right? This fifth season versus the fourth. Yeah, I don't remember.
00:26:01
Speaker
Yeah, I think it's just a better animation. I feel like there was a lot of like... choppy or i don't want to say lazy. Cause that's kind of rude to say. Um, cause again, there's people, you know, putting their blood, sweat and tears into this, but there is like just way more intense animation in this. The fight scenes are like, go that extra level.
00:26:22
Speaker
Um, instead of it just being kind of like how last season it was really just kind of the season finale where it like, you know, takes it to that, you know, like they, it looks like they put in all their time and effort into the like kind of final fight scene of the season. This one, there's multiple large fight scenes that continue like making that animation look smooth and intense. It doesn't seem as like,
00:26:45
Speaker
yeah again i feel i feel bad saying lazy but there's just a lot more still shots in the previous season with like you know just like basic mouth movements whereas this season it seems a little bit more dynamic um you know characters moving along and having those conversations and yeah again i think it's ah i think they've done a better job with the animation this season compared to last season four was the most recent season season five is 27 so okay cool good to know All right, then anything else, sir? You've watched lot. You've been busy. You've been watching lots of things. You you have been.
00:27:20
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Yeah, I have. I have indeed. But no, that's it. What what have you watched, man? Uh, I've, I've been going through for all mankind season one, starting it again, getting to moving, moving from there to season, season five. Now I'm confused if that's season five.
00:27:35
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I'm pretty sure it is. So just, uh, only getting through season one so far. So it's not, not, not too much to report on. And then just, uh, getting through shrinking, which I think is awesome. Just like makes you cry, makes you laugh. It's just such a good show. Harrison Ford.
00:27:49
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What a treasure. He's just so good. He's just so good. And every scene that he's in, he, yeah and honestly that whole cast is fantastic shrinking is amazing apple tv their shows are just really good just in general and bill lawrence's shows he seems to be on like a hit streak yeah with shrinking rooster and ted lasso so scrubs as well yeah scrubs was many years ago though yeah is he not a part of the reboot the scrubs reboot is it well i thought scrubs oh is he i thought the scrubs reboot was not good actually so maybe maybe i'm wrong
00:28:22
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Isn't it bad? I don't think so. I think it's well rated. 8.3 on IMDb. I don't know what about... oh yeah. It's an 89%. It's even better than the first thing. Is he a part of this?
00:28:33
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I thought so. well he came back. Oh, cool. Yeah. Right. Okay. I don't know why. I saw negative... content as Of course. It's the internet. I saw negative reception online, but it must have just been a biased take.
00:28:46
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Yeah, course. Yeah, it's very well reviewed. yeah That's great. right. Awesome. That's good. Yeah, he's on a hit streak. He's doing really well. So yeah, it's really good. I really like ah the current season. Season three of Shrinking. it's It's cool. I'm curious to see where they go with it. There's there's talk of it kind of changing directions in season four. Did you want finish it? For Shrinking, yeah.
00:29:06
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Yeah, I did. I did. Okay, cool. Did you finish it as well? No, no, no. Okay. Yep. That's it. That's it for me. That's all you watched. Just those two? Yeah.
00:29:17
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yeah Yeah. I mean, we've five seasons of a show to go through. I'm not going to be watching anything else. The one show that I'll be going back to for sure is, ah I think that's the next one for me is going to be Daredevil Born Again. the The ratings on it are not good for viewership.
00:29:33
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for a viewership so Oh, really? It's not good. It's not good, apparently. that's what the that's what the That's what the people say. That's what reports are saying. So that I'm more accurate than on the crow scrubs thing. I think that one's real.
00:29:46
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But the scrubs thing, I thought for sure, was less well regarded. It's more well regarded than the previous seasons somehow. But ah but yeah, this apparently the reporting says that the the the ratings are maybe not as good as they had hoped.
00:30:00
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isn Like viewership ratings. Review-wise, it's very well reviewed. Doesn't matter, right? it All that matters is the the ds on eyes on screen.
00:30:12
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Yeah. I've only watched the first episode of this season. um Oh, you stopped. And yeah, i don't know. I just not that I wasn't vibing with it. I thought it was really good. and It's just that I think I just kind of i I felt I was spreading myself a little bit too thin. I was watching like four shows all at once because i was like catching up on the boys, then Invincible, then The Pit.
00:30:36
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and whatever else. And then watching, you know stuff with my wife. And I was like, okay, I got to cut. um I was also watching like one piece as well. And I was like, I got to cut something out here. um And I was like, I'll just cut Daredevil out, catch up on everything and then jump back in. I think the season finale is in the next week or two.
00:30:52
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So I'm going to, maybe I'll just sit down and binge it. um Yeah. Let's catch up. Cause it's really good. Matthew Lillard is in it. um He was in the first episode and i really like Matthew Lillard as an actor. He was saying something.
00:31:06
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absurd the other day um saying like people don't actually like him they just like are nostalgic for him and that's why like a lot of people like him and it's like dude shut up you're you're actually a great actor I feel like the Quentin Tarantino thing he's like putting him down and he's getting a little bit self-conscious like no you're great man you're actually really awesome in everything that you're in He's a self-deprecating. He's a humble guy, maybe. I don't know.
00:31:30
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He seems humble. Yeah. He see he just seems like a really good person. I was i was watching the... Oh, man, what's the... It's that YouTube show.
00:31:41
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It's kind of like Hot Ones, but it's not Hot Ones. It's like The the Last Meal, where it's like a guy. and And it's like essentially he'll like cook, like make a bunch of... like He'll interview like a guest for 45 minutes to an hour.
00:31:56
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and, ah you know, make their last meal that they asked. And it's like just a bunch of stuff. So it'll be like, you know, like a McDouble from McDonald's and then like a steak from the keg here. You know, it's just they they like list off a bunch of stuff. So we'll either buy it or recreate it.
00:32:10
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And the the episode with Matthew Lillard was... Honestly, a tearjerker, like, like shockingly, like a tearjerker. He just seems like a very wonderful human being. And um it's great. I, I, I, if you like interviews with celebrities, I think that's like a really good one to watch.
00:32:29
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Not a big YouTube guy. You watched a lot. Jeez Louise, you're constantly watching stuff. and This was a while ago. I watched this. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's a first we feast, I think is like the the YouTube channel.
00:32:42
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That's the same as ah Hot Ones, right?
00:32:46
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Maybe. That seems right. Maybe it's all together. yeah same Same network? Yeah, maybe. My last meal. Let me just Google this, really.
00:32:57
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Last meal.
00:33:01
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Mythical Kitchen, sorry. It's from Mythical Kitchen. First Me Feast is the Hot Ones one, yeah.
00:33:08
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Okay. All right, Adrian. Unless there's more from you, it's now time to move on to the montage. A sequence of our show in which I briefly present at least seven of the bi-weeks smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict.
00:33:21
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Number one. Production has begun on Netflix's Scooby-Doo live action series, and Netflix has announced its title to be Scooby-Doo Origins. Wow, what an amazing name. Incredible.
00:33:31
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Number two. As publication deadline reports, Oldboy director Park Chan-wook is working on a film in the Western genre that is set to star Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler, and Matthew McConaughey. The film is set to be called The Brigands of Rattle Creek and is being written by Bone Tomahawk writer S. Craig Zahler. Neato. That's a good cast, I think.
00:33:52
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I've actually... Did I... Have I seen Austin and Butler in anything? Dune. I've seen him in Dune. Have you seen him at all in anything? Yeah. Yeah. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Oh, I forgot him. I don't. Dune, yeah as you mentioned. Yeah. And most recently, Eddington. Number three. Oh, yeah. As reported by Deadline, Amazon's The Boys spinoff TV series, Gen V, has been canceled after its second season.
00:34:14
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The Boys spinoff, Vaught Rising, is set for its pilot premiere in 2027. Yeah, I'm honestly not surprised. i think I mentioned it. I watched the first episode of Gen V and i was like, I can't be fucked watching this and jumped off. I imagine that was a lot of people. Number four. According to Deadline, Fight Club actor Helena Bonham Carter has dropped out of HBO's White Lotus season four due to creative differences.
00:34:36
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And Jurassic Park actor Laura Dern has been cast in her stead. Oh, OK. Awesome. I love Laura Dern. So cool. Creative differences. So weird. Number 5 As announced by actor-director Donnie Yen on social media, production has begun on the John Wick spinoff film following Donnie Yen's blind assassin character Kane. Cool.
00:34:57
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I feel like this is going to be probably pretty good. Number 6 As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Mission Impossible director Christopher Macquarie is set to write and direct a film adaptation based upon Electronic Arts multiplayer video game series Battlefield.
00:35:11
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Academy Award winning Sinners actor Michael B. Jordan will reportedly produce and star in the film. I mean, that's some great talent attached to a property that is just war. So, number seven.
00:35:23
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As reported by Deadline, DC Universe CEO James Gunn has claimed on social media that the DCU film The Authority, based upon a morally grey superhero team, is not going ahead because they don't have a script and the premise doesn't currently work in the current DC Universe. The initially announced Paradise Lost and Booster Gold TV series are still in the works, though. Okay, cool. I feel like James Gunn shouldn't have done that initial video talking about all the projects.
00:35:53
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Number eight, according to Deadline, working man Jason Statham will star as a man with no name in End of Watch director David Iyer's upcoming action thriller John Doe. Nice.
00:36:05
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Number nine, Apple has announced that season four of their hit comedy TV series Ted Lasso is set for an August 5th, 2026 premiere date. Cool. I'm excited. I'm curious how this is going to play out. Number 10.
00:36:18
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The Antoine Fuqua-directed Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, has broken box office records as the best opening weekend for a biopic, with its $217 million dollars opening weekend worldwide. Wow.
00:36:30
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A lot of people like that guy. Antoine Fuqua. Specifically. Yeah. And that concludes the montage. Wow.
00:36:41
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Nice. All right. All righty. Rue. Yeah. All right. Cool. All right, man. Now, what do you want to talk about? Let's dive into a trilogy of topical tidings, Adrian, a component of our show where we discuss at least three film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over
Cast reveal for Elden Ring movie
00:36:59
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the past two weeks. The first being...
00:37:02
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Actually, the first two kind of very video game related. um Nice. Kind of a representation of how I've spent my time over the last two weeks, I feel like, too. ah But number one is that the cast of Civil War director Alex Garland's Elden Ring film has been revealed.
00:37:18
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The movie will reportedly cost around $100 million dollars and launch on March 3rd, 2028. And this cast I will list off right now for you if you didn't see it.
00:37:29
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ah Kit Conner, who I believe is also in, is that the same guy? Civil War? He's in Warfare. Yeah. Oh, he's not in Civil War yet. He's in wolf for Warfare. That's correct. Kaylee Spaney, who is in Civil War. Ben Whishaw is in it as well, um who's in the James Bond franchise. Nick Offerman from The Last of Us.
00:37:49
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tom Tom Burke, who I'm not super familiar with, I don't think, but I feel like I'll recognize him if I see his face. furos if He's in Furiosa, Mad Max Saga. Senoya Mizuno from Ex Machina. Jonathan Price from The Crown.
00:38:02
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Havana Rose Liu. from Bottoms, roby a Ruby Cruz from Bottoms, John Hodgkinson from Dear England, Jefferson Hall from House of the Dragon, Emma Laird from A Haunting in Venice, and Peter Serafinowicz from Guardians of the Galaxy. Anyway, nice it's being written by obviously and directed by Alex Garland. It's based on The Elden Ring, very, very popular video game.
00:38:28
Speaker
From FromSoftware, the guys who made Dark Souls and Sekiro, Shadows Die Twice, etc. What do you make of this cast information and the information that they're going ahead with this? We talked about this, I think, pretty briefly in general before about how this is being made.
00:38:44
Speaker
You played Elden Ring for, what, 50 hours approximately? 80, I think. Never beat it. lot of hours. yeah Finish it. 80 hours. That's a lot hours. I'll go back to it at some point. Our our mutual friend Phil still has my copy. Uh-huh.
00:39:00
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A year and a half ago. I haven't been going back. I did not get close. How long did you play for? What, 20 hours? 30. 30, okay. And you just didn't want to get good,
00:39:13
Speaker
Nope. That's fair. That's fair. nope Nope. And that's maybe my outlook for the foreseeable future. and just don't want to bother. It's too much. There's too many good things to play to spend so much time banging your head against the wall.
00:39:28
Speaker
Honestly, I don't need to prove to anybody. It's just kind of like why I don't like do karaoke. It's the same thing. It's not really that fun. It's like, well, for you, I'm not getting better at it. It's not like a skill I'm i'm learning, you know, it's like, I don't care. Like I'm not, I'm not cooking or.
00:39:42
Speaker
playing the guitar. I'm fighting somebody with a sword with very, very jerky animations that are not that good, in my opinion. I feel like this is not that refined. It's not a refined enough gameplay style and definitely not a refined enough story for me to be interested. But the world building is kind of interesting in this universe. I said before on a recent podcast episode that I feel like the best thing about, feel like the easiest way to make adaptation of a video game is when you have a story that's very loose. So you you can kind of like imprint your own version on it. This is not like that. It's kind of in the middle. I kind of find yeah you can kind of middle from I should specify between follow it and the last of us.
00:40:24
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The Last of Us is easy to adapt if you do it, especially just try to do it like really close to what it was. And Fallout is not really doesn't really matter because the's an anthology series. So you kind of can just do whatever you want and make your own characters in that universe and it will work really well because it has a really unique vibe. And so the Elden Ring is kind of in between because there's there's a lot of lore in it, but the story is not the focus, I would argue. i don't know if you would argue differently, but I feel like it's just not really what the game's about. It's really about discovery and the and the ah like the way it looks is beautiful and looks really unique in that way. But it's it's kind of the gameplay first situation, even though I don't love the game.
00:41:05
Speaker
gameplay for me but that's not the case for millions of other people tens of millions basically but yeah what do you think about the cast and what do you think about the overall idea that they're making this adaptation and it's Alex Garland which whom we love so yeah I'm a big Alex Garland fan um and again I really enjoyed my time with Elden Ring ill I'll probably go back to it one day but that don't know it's interesting because I again played it for 80 hours i couldn't tell you a single thing the finger like man the it's you're tarnished.
00:41:36
Speaker
there's a There's a lady that talks to you. She's a weird ghost lady and she's like, hey, tarnished. You're going to do stuff. you're gonna move around this place. But I straight up, I have no idea what the story of Elden Ring is. I know there is one. I know there's lor I don't care enough to look into that. So I'm, I'm super curious how Alex Garland is going to bring it to life. He is a, i mean, clearly he he likes video games. He's a big nerd. And again, I think he consistently creates and writes some very amazing stuff.
00:42:07
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um So I'm, I'm very intrigued what he's going to do with this. The cast is phenomenal, dude, in this movie as well. um I think this is going to be, excuse me.
00:42:20
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um Yeah, I'm i'm i'm just – I have no perception of what the story is going to be, how this is going to play out. And I don't think Alex Garland would take on something like this without a really good idea.
00:42:35
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um So i'm I just – I can't even, again, begin to guess of how this movie is going to play out or what's going to happen or – Who's what character or anything like that? Because I, again, I just don't really know what the fuck Elden Ring's about. Despite playing it for so long. So like, I don't know. What's your opinion on this, man? Like, what do you think this is going to be like a I don't know. I just, everything Alex Garland's made that I've seen in the last, like, I feel like 10 years, I don't think there's been one thing that I didn't like. And they're all pretty unique things.
00:43:13
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Like, except for, I feel like warfare and civil war are kind of similar in some way. They're probably the most similar between them. But even that, it's not. Not really. Not really, yeah. Yeah, it's like, but there's guns. In comparison, because they came back to back, though, they are the most, like, Ex Machina is so different from men, as an example. Men is like, what?
00:43:30
Speaker
Dude, man, it's crazy. And then... Yeah, he obviously wrote Annihilation. oh and No, I guess twenty eight the 28 years movies are are similar. They're the most similar to each other, obviously, because they're they're sequels to each other. Annihilation is crazy.
00:43:46
Speaker
Yeah, so good. Yeah, I'm a big fan. I really like it. I also like that he likes these games. like It's cool that he likes The Last of Us. like he He thinks that it's like ah it was a game-changing game. changing game It pushed the envelope on video game storytelling, as he's told Neil Druckmann in that interview. So I i don't know. It's it's cool.
00:44:06
Speaker
i i just don't. I'm so curious why this in some way. i do I think I almost want to play the game because he's doing this because I'm like, what could you do here? And the question I have, too, is are they going to speak with that stupid language?
00:44:23
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<unk>s Like, it's like always joke around. I see the finger lakes because there's like the finger, the finger something. There's like this stupid thing that they they always repeat. And they're always speaking in this like flowery Victorian lingo. And it's just very like English accents and like, but that's okay. But they they're speaking like these weird, they're trying to do like a Shakespearean tone almost. Yeah. it's like, I don't, but why are you doing that?
00:44:45
Speaker
It's poetic, but I don't really get it because i don't i don't feel and i don't feel compelled by any characters in that universe. That's why I just stopped playing it. Because if you could make a hard game and you can make the characters really compelling, I'm in, actually.
00:44:59
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I would play... if you There's a trophy as an example for PlayStation trophies that's an achievement that is is asking you to play it on the hardest setting to get the platinum. I'll probably actually just do that. If if the storyline is really...
00:45:13
Speaker
Awesome. if if if i can If I can feel myself being ingrained in that universe. But when you, again, i just don't find that it's very interesting. It's funny because George like ah george R. R. Martin, yeah, he wrote the premise of Elder Ring. And I think they scrapped, they didn't use ah some of it or something like that. Like Miyazaki kind of wrote his own story on top of the premise, I guess. yeah um Which is interesting that it was written by George R. R. Martin. Railroad.
00:45:42
Speaker
Yeah. Railroad. That's what it stands for. But yeah, I don't, I don't know. i'm I'm curious about it. It's cool that he got, he pulled together a pretty good cast. So a lot of the cast he's worked before with, yeah which is cool too.
00:45:54
Speaker
It's just, it's fascinating. It's just a fascinating thing. Who's going to be the big jar? You came across the big jar, right? Maybe Nick Offerman's going to be the big jar.
00:46:05
Speaker
That guy didn't really speak in riddles or or Victorian. He's just like, I'm a big jar. Help me out. Well, maybe I never came across the pot. Maybe I'm just ah knowing. I know it because it was like the in the marketing materials to lead to lead up to the game.
00:46:18
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i don't know if I came out, came across the big jar, the the walking pot thing. But yeah, no, the art style is really cool, though. It will be interesting. It's hundred million dollars makes sense because if you're going to try to pull this off,
00:46:31
Speaker
But are you going to the characters somehow going to be compelling? And then is it out really Elden Ring then? Like if you're going to speak, you're going to speak maybe you're speaking English, English accents, right? But you'll you'll speak normally.
00:46:42
Speaker
Or are you going to do it in the poetic fashion? What do you think? Will he will he try to do that poetic language? You got it here. The next story, actually, I'll ask you this question and then we'll get the next story. It's kind of related to this kind of idea.
00:46:55
Speaker
OK, the plot is really important in in a movie and TV show, whereas it's not necessarily as key in a video game. And we'll get to that in a second. But what do you think? do you think they're going to use this flowery language first? And then I'll get to the next story and we can connect it.
00:47:09
Speaker
Maybe i think maybe they'll tone it down a little bit so it's not as like slow and plotting. um But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if
00:47:19
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Yeah, would yeah, they're probably going to use some this flowery language and make it like... Don't you think they'll put people off, though? Because you can't relate. How you relating to this? You can relate to people in Shakespeare, sure, but they're speaking in such a monotone way, too. It's like in the game, I don't really... I don't feel like... I don't give a shit about you. I just don't care about any of these people in this world. I just don't care about any of them.
00:47:42
Speaker
There's like a very... They're not... they're not I don't care about them. i think I don't know if that makes sense. They're not endearing. I don't i can't listen a single endearing character. That was like, oh yeah. sponsor Yeah. run you sell jar guy punman I remember him.
00:47:57
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. There's a werewolf dude. i think I think he's like a werewolf. He stands up on the thing and then you talk to him and he's like, I'm like that guy. Okay. He was all right. I remember there's a rainy the witch.
00:48:10
Speaker
Yeah. I forgot the fuck she does though. But yeah, it can't just be a simulation of a story. They have to actually create characters that you feel connected with. And then i will go to the next. So on that note, we'll go to the next story.
Noah Hawley on video game adaptation challenges
00:48:23
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And the Far Cry showrunner Hawley is perceived by some like online fans as ah to have been thrown.
00:48:30
Speaker
Oh, oh, sorry. but he was Noah Hawley was in an interview and he was perceived by some online fans to be throwing shade at video game storylines in general, but specifically the Far Cry storyline. um because Noah Hawley is making a Far Cry adaptation, an anthology series.
00:48:46
Speaker
ah with Rob Mack from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. And so Far Cry 4 game director Alex Hutchinson is upset about it, apparently. Okay. Which, that's the reason I'm bringing this up. But what he said was, and I'll just read the quote so that you just know what he said, and then we we can kind of talk about it in a deeper way.
00:49:05
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He said, this is a statement that Noah Hawley said. So Noah Hawley, Alien Earth, Fargo. He's really, he's not a stranger to adaptations. He's adapting Far Cry 4. Mm-hmm.
00:49:16
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Which network is it? FX as well? Yes. Okay. Anyway, this is what he said. FX and Hulu and or Hulu. Combo. Yeah, that makes sense they're Disney on us both.
00:49:27
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Quote, one thing that really attracted me to the Far Cry franchise is that it is an anthology and every time they release a new game, it is a totally different story. That's how I approached Fargo. And it was an exciting idea that we could build an anthology athology game adaptation where each season is a different story about civilized people thrown into situations where they have to become increasingly uncivilized. I'm not specifically adapting any of the games that they've put out. I'm saying much as I did with the Coens or X-Men um or Alien.
00:50:00
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Let me have a dialogue with this franchise because this is what I think Far Cry story is. We can have a larger conversation up about the strengths and weaknesses of adapting video games specifically because games are built in a way that doesn't make for the best drama. When you play a video game, you only really move through forward through the gameplay section. And then you have these cut scenes that you can skip. So when you go to adapt these games, you have to be aware i'm where that makes the human drama kind of irrelevant to the storyline.
00:50:31
Speaker
That is death death for a TV show. This was from Deadline. Interesting. The controversial part was the last part. When you play a video game, only really you only really move forward through the gameplay section, and then you have these cut scenes that you can skip. So when you go to adapt these games, you have to be aware that makes that that that makes the human drama kind of irrelevant to the storyline. That is Death Row show.
00:50:52
Speaker
that's the That's the main thing that people are in arms about. What do you make of this statement? We can connect it to Elden Ring afterwards, but what do you make of that statement? Because I i thought about it in depth over the last couple days. Yeah.
00:51:05
Speaker
and Like while I was driving my car for work. Cause I had no, yeah, I miss this. I miss this news article here. I don't know. It's tough to say. Cause like, i i I mean, at the end of the day, video games are, are meant to be played and it does move forward because you are,
00:51:23
Speaker
playing it right a lot of the time but to kind of have this like almost blanket statement where it it almost seems like the cut scenes don't matter i feel like that's that's wholly untrue um i don't know again you think of like the last of us um or again even in like some of the far cry games i never played them too deeply but
00:51:46
Speaker
It's interesting. I don't know. This is kind of a tough one to break down. i don't necessarily think he's like talking shit about it though. I think he's just kind of acknowledging that these are two different forms of art and you can't make it the exact same way as you do in a video game.
00:52:02
Speaker
Again, ah I'm just kind of going off the cuff here, but that that's what I take from it. What's your kind of perspective perspective of this since you've been thinking about this for years? Years.
00:52:13
Speaker
Years. Time travel. I don't know about that. ah I think that the the online sphere blows everything out of proportion. It's very annoying.
00:52:25
Speaker
It's very annoying. It's stupid. There's like no nuance. We've talked about that before, but this is exactly that as well. This is a generalization he's saying. He's saying it kind of generally, but he's also not being specific enough that you should be critical of what he's saying. like He's not...
00:52:39
Speaker
He's not saying that gay video game stories are bad. He's saying that are not important to the game. But I think that if you look at the overall idea that you could skip the cutscene, that people would be moving forward through the gameplay, you could do that. You're never going to do that on a TV show.
00:52:55
Speaker
Ever. I don't know anyone in my life that skips the the plot of people having a dialogue and going to the action sequences. That's just not something that happens. So that's, that is because it is possible in a video game, it causes a potential issue because you have the option to skip things. I mean, maybe don't make the option available to skip. if you've not seen it for the first time in the game, and that would solve that problem. But I think it's just a generalization overall that he's kind of saying this is something that's more important. Also, this is kind of the Craig Mazin thing. Craig Mazin overcorrected though. Craig Mazin adapted The Last of Us
00:53:30
Speaker
And the problem with The Last of Season 2 is he kind of – he takes the main story of The Last of Us Part 2 in the game, in my opinion, what his issue is is. He takes it and he kind of makes it a little bit too much for the TV audience because it's broken up into chunks and broken up and for time. In a video game, you can't – you're not breaking things up. And so he makes – very palatable, too much so perhaps, and it makes it not as compelling because he gives away parts of the plot that were given away later in The Last of Us video game, Last of Us Part II. Specifically, he gives it away earlier because he's worried about how people are going to perceive certain characters or how they're going to look at it. I think that's an overcorrection.
00:54:13
Speaker
um Noah Hawley is really good at adapting ah though adapting anything, so I think he's going to do a good job. I'll also say this. Far Cry in particular, Far Cry 4, I'm sorry, Alex Hutchinson.
00:54:25
Speaker
No, you didn't like the statement from Noah Hawley, but I don't like Far Cry 4's story. I think it's the worst. It's not good. It's fine. So it's like the fact he's the game director. He's not the narrative lead. So like, yeah, I am not.
00:54:38
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I'm not going be too critical of it. It's OK. It's an OK storyline, but it is for for the the American one. No, that's for five. I don't like that one either. That's my point, actually, is that it's for the John Carlo Esposito one.
00:54:54
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No, Troy Baker. Wait, what? OK, who cares? Continue. It's a very forgettable overall. The writing isn't good from my perspective. It's not not the compelling part of that. It's Pagan Min is the name of the villain. Yeah, okay. But I just don't think it's... It's not that compelling. And especially Far Cry 5 is crazy. that That plot makes no sense at all.
00:55:17
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And it's like you yeah That is exactly like the gameplay dictates the action. and the Sorry, the the dict gameplay dictates the plot in some way for that game um for Far Cry 5 and Far Cry 4.
00:55:29
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That's kind of the issue. And if you're making a TV show, you need the the plot to dictate the action as we all we know, we we believe. I a lot of people think gameplay first is important in games. I'm immersion first. And I think that also is plot first in some some elements, depending on the game. Like if I'm playing a game like Sorrow, so Returnal or Resogun, that's all from the same guy guys. But like I think that that that is gameplay first in many ways. And that's OK. Yeah. um But that's why I think like immersion first is my my my mantra for why when I like a video game the most is that's where I i get the most kick out of it. But in a TV show or movie,
00:56:07
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There is no action first, in my opinion. That does not exist. there There is no world in which that works for me. It works for you potentially, Adrian. Yeah. Because you like certain movies for the action. But I do think plot first is what drives things forward and makes it endearing and compelling for me overall. And I'll never put something that's action first.
00:56:29
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even Even John Wick's storyline, I feel like there there are roots in the plot line that make those good movies and that they actually didn't make – there's not many plot holes in the John Wick universe. And like that is very action first in some way, but it still isn't a broken plot. It it works.
00:56:47
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It all works together because the skeleton holds it together. Even the world's compelling. like the The hotel, they've got the – they've got Lance Reddick at the desk. It's just something compelling about that overall. Rest in peace. Yeah.
00:56:59
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Yeah. Anyway, I kind of just gave you word word jargon in some way, but um like a word sandwich. But you understand what i'm where I'm coming from? I feel like Noah Hawley is not outside what the realm of what I believe. I feel like that what he's saying is is is exactly a good thing because you can't yeah can't be making an action show.
00:57:21
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here You got to work within the confines of building a story. And the beautiful thing about Far Cry is that it's Fallout. it's It's this broad perspective of the this is the story. is that That is what the games are. a person is a fish out of water.
00:57:38
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They're thrown into a situation that's really dire. And they have to survive in that situation. And the question of morality comes up. What will you do if you were in that situation? You're kind of in the perspective of this person. um And it won't be first person for the for the for the show, unlike that dog movie.
00:57:57
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which also isn't first person. But you know what I'm saying? Like, I feel like you're they're going to do the perspective of trying to show off this person and what they're going through as best as possible. And they they, thank God they're not following a plot of one of the games, which we already kind of knew.
00:58:12
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Noah, Holly wouldn't do that. He'd just make his own plot, just like Fargo, the Fargo TV show. He's the king ah of adaptations. No one has has had more success, in my opinion, doing adaptations in some way.
00:58:24
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From X-Men to Fargo yeah to and like to Alien. I think just the sheer number of seasons is is the advantage. Oh, this is the thing that was crazy. Did I have that that quote from Alex Hutchinson?
00:58:38
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I don't know. Alex Hutchinson said that ah Alien Earth is just basically ah is basically Peter Pan with a dog. He didn't really nail it or something like that, something along those lines. He didn't like Alien Earth. I'm like, come on, man.
00:58:52
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I don't think Far Cry 4 has a good story. I'm sorry. It just doesn't. I don't know. This is so crazy to me that he would latch onto this quote. But sorry, pull up what you may. I've talked for too long. What do you think about this and what I've said? and maybe just whatever yeah it's interesting. I feel, yeah. I mean, obviously, i guess Alex Hutchinson just, you know I didn't take the time to really understand what Noah Hawley was saying. And it's just like, oh, you hurt my thing. I'm going to talk shit about your thing. It seems kind of juvenile.
00:59:22
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um But no, again, I think i think you you make a good point. And it's kind of what like what I said, right? It's two different art forms. You can't you can't do the same thing. um It just doesn't work.
00:59:34
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So, um yeah, I'm curious what he's going to do with this show. Again, Far Cry, it's just – I'm not a big Far Cry guy. I played a few of them or a couple of them. I never beat any of them.
00:59:46
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The story's never been really the – the main draw for me, um, nor was the gameplay. I don't really care for the gameplay all that much. Um, but yeah, it is just, I think this is easy to adapt and create something new because it really is, as you mentioned, yeah, fish out of water story. It's just,
01:00:05
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regular person put in a dire situation. What are they going to do to get out of it? And I think you can kind of create a lot of cool ideas and characters from that simple premise alone.
01:00:18
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um So yeah, I think Noah Hawley, I mean, he doesn't really miss TV show wise, at least. So i'm I'm curious what he's going to do. I think it's also true when you play a video game, you only really move forward through the gameplay section because you're in control. That that is part of the, whoo that is the idea.
01:00:41
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Like you are you are in control then, but you're not in control in other spots. People are antsy to get going potentially in those situations. It's, I don't think he's insinuating that they're bad.
01:00:52
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I think he's probably a video game fan. i don't know. We'll see. um i mean, potentially, yeah. i don't really know much about Noah Hawley apart from his work.
01:01:04
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So. Alex Hutchinson said, this is kind of pissing me off and I like Noah Hawley's work. Oh, was an interview with i idea. i i just kind of missed that.
01:01:15
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Okay. I was, I was on the IGN webpage, but it didn't actually give me the quote looking for. Um, I think in certain genres, a lot of people skip cut scenes, says Hutchinson.
01:01:26
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ah Certainly the player story takes primacy, but story is a complex topic in games. Theme, setting, character are all key to story and are certainly drivers of player engagement. So even if they're skipping some cinematics, they're deeply engaged in narrative as they occupy a role and move through a designated space. I'm not much of a cut scene. Oh, wait, hold on.
01:01:50
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that actually a quote? No, that's just the person writing it. The best Far Cry game to me is a fish out of water story. You saw Hutchinson dropping the player as a normal person with limited knowledge into an extreme situation with a bunch of toys and challenges. Then the story acts as both act, both acts as both asking the player questions and then providing reactions based on the player's input. My biggest problem is Holly's dismissal of the game's story as pointless.
01:02:19
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His position isn't without merit and his adaptations of Alien and Fargo also basically threw away history. This worked well in Fargo, but less well. He's not like bashing Alien completely, but he's saying it's left less well in Alien, which turned into a kind of weird Peter Pan gets a dog story instead of remaining true to the best elements of the brand. Remaining true to the best elements of the brand is what I think...
01:02:44
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but fault with because i'm like well i feel like he kind of nailed it but he's doing a different part of the world that's called it's called alien earth they never show that really as much in the rest of that franchise it's not very focused on what's going on on earth so it's like you kind of have to do something else what do you want them to do another space story it's another alien romulus again like they're all those stories alien romulus i love that movie but i also think it's the same movie again It's like a star Wars Phantom Menace slash rise of Skywalker situation. It's kind of the same movie for the, like the fourth time.
01:03:19
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you know what I mean? Um, yeah. Or at at least the second time. I get that perspective. Yeah. But Romeo, Romulus is amazing. And that's like, there what's, I mean, it's excellent. And there's like the moment to moment, like thriller horror aspects that are really good. So I have nothing against it, but at at the same time, it's not wholly unique. You know what saying? Yeah. Yeah. Um,
01:03:41
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Yeah. I don't know. I feel like that's, I really like alien earth. So I think that this is a weird thing to say, but I also think that he's not dismissing game stories is pointless. Like at all. agree. I think, I think this is a gross misunderstanding of what Noah Hawley said. Um, I, I just, I just, I think, yeah, you're just missing the point.
01:04:02
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Um, which is fine. Telephone of the internet, dude. That's what it is. I think. The irony is like, dude, you what, Alex Hutchinson was interviewed by IGN? Or got this quote from IGN?
01:04:15
Speaker
Yeah, it was. Alex Hutchinson was interviewed by ah IGN. Okay. It's like, dude, the the same website... as a story again, I guess they're quoting the variety thing with Noah, Holly, but like, dude, you're on the same website. You could just look it up.
01:04:28
Speaker
Just look up the quote. Just get, get a, and I Uh, that's good. Yeah. It's anyways. Yeah. But anyway, to go back to the Elden Ring thing, I guess, uh,
01:04:42
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that is that is a move That is the game in some way. I skipped all the cutscenes. Oh, really? I didn't. No, I never skip a scene. Actually, I never skip any cutscenes. It's the thing about me gaming.
01:04:54
Speaker
But I didn't understand what was going on, so I'm like, checked out. I was definitely checked out. Elden Ring is one of the most checked out games from a story perspective I've been checked out of while playing it for 30 hours that I've been checked out of in for 10 years. like Because I just don't know what they're talking about. I just, what are you talking about? i don't care. It's so annoying. And it's like, you want to be so flowery. It's because I think you have nothing to say. And that's why I'm worried about the Elden Ring movie, because I don't think they have anything to say.
01:05:22
Speaker
But I don't know. Because you're system it's a setup to get to the next gameplay segment. it it It is what Noah Hawley is describing, which I think is funny because it's what Elden Ring is. So in some way, games, again, they vary. they they They have been flow. Some games are very gameplay oriented and some are very plot oriented and with a mix. But typically, gameplay does push forward because you are in control. And that gameplay could be a choice. In a game like Mass Effect, you are making choices. That is gameplay.
01:05:54
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in some way. So those cut scenes are blurring, that's blurring the line of what a cut scene actually is.
Critique of Noah Hawley's interview
01:05:59
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And I think if you, the funny thing is I went to the Noah Hawley interview and I was trying to find out like, if he did he say anything else? Like, ah why are we expanding on what he's saying? Like he's saying something very so kind of,
01:06:10
Speaker
more general. like he's not He's not going into huge depth with what he's saying. is and why do we want to infer more than what he said? It's so strange. I'm like i'm like looking and there's no other quote. I'm like, all right, that was it. That's all he had to say. I'm like, why why are we guessing that he's saying that video game stories are pointless? like how did you get here so i if it was just the internet blowing up i would have been like fine but it's alex hutchinson blowing up because he's taking offense for fans because of his game far cry 4 which in my opinion is not a bad story but it isn't a good one it's just fine it's just like you're going through this like it is again a fish out of water story it's cool the the story is kind of a
01:06:51
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um ah No, a cat or like a shell. like ah It's like a skeleton for why you're doing it.
Far Cry 4 and 5 story analysis
01:06:56
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Well, yeah. I mean, it's there to push you forward to get you to the next gameplay segment. Which is perfect. It's perfect for Far Cry. It is a great example of what Far Cry is. But I think Far Cry 5, I said this, I think on this podcast, but Far Cry 5 is crazy because of the fact that they just put you, the villains capture you like multiple times and you've killed their family members and they're just like, oh, going to capture you again and give you a lecture. And then they throw you out again and then you go back and you kill them and then you it's like because they're all villains it's almost like a martial
Reality TV show comparisons
01:07:30
Speaker
arts movie you're going after this family and like but why are you letting me live it makes no logical sense so like these stories have never impressed me but i didn't play far cry 3 to be fair which arguably the best one um i think though interestingly noah holly's saying that he's not telling a specific story kind of rules out having uh what's his name from yeah yeah yeah yeah but yeah from better call salt nacho vark uh actor what's nacho uh it's sorry mando michael mando right yeah yeah you might see michael mando this year maybe yeah michael mando okay i was right nice uh yeah he's in um spider-man right yeah he might be yeah he might was he not on the trailer no i was he
01:08:17
Speaker
I don't remember, dude. Who cares? I don't think so. There was a lot of wacky things in that trailer, but that wasn't one of the things. like that the The hand was in there. Yeah. Jared O'Shea was going to be in this movie. Jared O'Shea was going to in it, right? You're bringing in the hand, dude. Punisher's already in it.
01:08:35
Speaker
I think it depends on where the Daredevil movie ends up to though. Sorry, the Daredevil show, the season again, like where where it ends up in the season. i so lots like I was saying this before. I just, I got to jump in and go with my my wallet. I don't have Disney plus. I'm going to subscribe. It's the next show I'm going to watch alongside the From Mankind after shrinking. Dude, you could watch um you could watch a Vanderpump Villa.
01:08:58
Speaker
They just released the reunion for season three. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff.
Explaining 'Traitors' format
01:09:04
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Speaking of reality TV shows, just completely side note before we get to third third of the trilogy of topical tidings.
01:09:10
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The did you see the the cast list for a Celebrity Trader? Because you watch Traders, right? Mm hmm. Yeah. Did you see the new cast list for the new season? Oh, it's like a pretty stacked cast list.
01:09:22
Speaker
Bella Ramsey is literally called Celebrity Trader. Celebrity Traders. Wait, you don't know what... oh is this the first season? No, they had another season of this before. Wasn't that the one where... What's his name from Iron Man 2 is in it? And the wrestler?
01:09:35
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What's his name? Oh, is this in the u k Yeah. the Okay, I don't know. I didn't watch the UK version. I've only watched the US one. Wait, I thought that... Oh, I see.
01:09:48
Speaker
I see. but Look at this look look at the the list, though. It's pretty badass. Richard E. Grant is in it somehow. Yeah. Do you, there's no celebrity traitors in the US. I'm just so out fish out of water with speaking of fish out of water. That's cool.
01:10:02
Speaker
Reality TV show. It's pretty good cast. Hey, yeah. I don't even know what the premise of traitors is. Is it like big brother? It's a, it's secret Hitler essentially. Oh, but is it like happen quickly? Like, is it only within like a short... Every day. So it's like essentially the the entire season's over the course of, i think like two weeks.
01:10:22
Speaker
And it's like every day. they're trapped house like Big Brother though? Exactly. Yeah. yeah oh And then they have like... And then they do like a survivor sort of like game where they all go out and then they earn money to the total pot. And then it's either...
UK vs US 'Celebrity Traitors' differences
01:10:37
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And then like, then you have like ah kind of like a courtroom session and you have to vote someone out and they'll let you know if they're a trader or not. And then eventually you get all the way to the end and it's either you, like if a trader sticks around, they win the entire pot.
01:10:53
Speaker
And if there's no traders than the other people, they just get money and then they split it between them all. Okay. Yeah, but it's essentially like Secret Hitler, but like a game.
01:11:05
Speaker
Just for audience, interesting, because when you said celebrity trader, I was like, they're all, like, in the US version, everyone's a celebrity, technically. Already. Yeah. Oh. So I guess in the UK, they have, like, regular traders and then celebrity traders. Maybe the original traders, what was the original traders, it was from Britain? Not celebrities. I think No, it was from them. They started it. I think so. I could be lying to you, but.
01:11:30
Speaker
the u.s s had to go harder so they're like ah we're gonna put make it celebrities yeah we're gonna have um we're gonna have um the real housewives on there yeah oh i see okay that makes sense we're gonna have we're gonna have tom sandoval from vanderpump rules on there see michael sheen's in this oh that's crazy this cast is pretty impressive Yeah, yeah.
01:11:53
Speaker
I don't know how good it's been on the American side. Has it been pretty... but but That's the one with... What's his name? The guy who plays the wrestler. There was controversy with him. but He was on the American version, obviously.
01:12:06
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know what wrestler you're referring to. The wrestler. The movie The Wrestler. He was nominated for Best Actor for The Wrestler. He's in Iron Man 2. Mickey Rourke.
01:12:17
Speaker
mickey roke ah Was he in one of those seasons? Traders, right? I've only watched season three and four. oh okay i think you're like kicked out because he said something like really untoward toward one of the people and then on the show like he got kicked off the show it's like a big controversy
Spider-Man screenplay release strategy
01:12:34
Speaker
i don't remember it michael rapacore was in uh season four and that guy's a fucking mad man he makes for good tv though okay but god that guy's crazy
01:12:47
Speaker
Oh, Ramesh Ranganathan is in this too. And I just watched him in, um we watched a few weeks ago. We watched, oh, what's it called now? Last One Laughing on Amazon Prime.
01:13:00
Speaker
Oh, I remember you talking about that. I love that show. Second season. They did a second season with pretty cool. But yeah, he was in that. He was great. Yeah, it's cool. All right. Anyway, that's a sidetrack.
01:13:12
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tri Trilogy. The trilogy, Adrian, the third of the trilogy of Topical Tidings. The third one here is, as an announced in a press release, rightit well, that's that's last time. Sorry.
01:13:22
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In a somewhat rare move, Marvel and Sony have collaborated with Publication Entertainment Weekly to publish the first three pages of Spider-Man Brand New Day's screenplay with annotations from director Destin Daniel Cretton.
01:13:34
Speaker
Spider-Man brand new day is scheduled to hit theaters on July 31st, 2026. Perfect. We were just talking about Spider-Man. This is crazy to me that they did this. I'm like, why? agree it's It's okay. Cause it's only of the first few pages, but I don't really think it's necessary. And I was kind of happy that they were kind of keeping it really spoiler free. Cause with their trailers, they just didn't, they weren't even talking about it until like, really, it's, it felt like the 11th hour to even get a first trailer. Cause this movie comes out in July.
01:14:00
Speaker
So what, because we just got the trailer, like, what, two weeks ago? Something like that, that seems right. maybe Give or take a bit. But
Spider-Man Brand New Day trailer excitement
01:14:07
Speaker
yeah, anyway. A month ago, What do you think about this? i didn't read this, by the way. I'm not going to read it. I'm going to it. don't want read this. Yeah, no. I like the annotations aspect, though. I thought that was really cool. Like, it's his script. That's the coolest part about it for me. That's almost what I want to read first, because i' like that's the only thing I want to read about it. Maybe I would read it at the end, of after the movie airs, but...
01:14:26
Speaker
What do you think about this? Like, is this stupid? I kind of think it's stupid. Why are you doing this? Don't worry about anything. Stop it. Stop it. Yeah. I don't really get why, like, why you would do this, but I don't know. I guess it dr it's it's weird.
01:14:39
Speaker
Because I was just going to say, like, I guess it draws more people in. But, like, dude, this this trailer broke records. Like, everyone's going to want to watch this movie. It doesn't matter. So, it's just, I don't know. I think this is kind of neat. But, yeah, i i I'll go back to this post us watching the movie.
01:14:55
Speaker
But I just don i don't want to know how this movie opens up. I just want to go in and have a good time. And I like surprises. I've been i've been way more.
01:15:05
Speaker
What's the word I'm looking for? um evasive. i don't even know that's the right word. i don't feel good.
01:15:15
Speaker
I don't feel like Simon. I'm sorry. Anyways, that's the side.
01:15:22
Speaker
But yeah, like I, I, I've been so like, just, I'm always just trying to avoid any sort of like thing. If I know I'm going to like something, I just kind of want to go in without any knowledge.
01:15:33
Speaker
um You know what I mean? Like, um like most recently, like Sauros, like I think I watched like that first trailer and I'm like cool. i I know i'm going to like this. And then I've just avoided everything since. And there's a lot of awesome surprises and I'm really enjoying it so far. And it's the same thing. Like, I know I'm going to watch this fucking movie. There's no way I'm going to miss this movie. I know I'm going to like this movie.
01:15:52
Speaker
I don't need to know how it opens up and then use my imagination. I've watched a lot of the Soros marketing though and I didn't find that it spoiled anything. Not that that's I recall.
Marketing strategies for Spider-Man and others
01:16:01
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um Yeah. That's like surprises.
01:16:04
Speaker
I just like surprises, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I don't know. I think this is cool that they did it, but I just feel like just do it after. release it after the movie or on the same day after.
01:16:17
Speaker
yeah I guess so. yeah I guess so. They're just trying to drain it more hype. But to your point, like um I was looking at the exact number for the views. It's like it was released on March 18th. So way longer than I thought it was. It was like two months ago. almost But anyway, it garnered 718 million views in its first 24 hours, which is crazy, which broke the record that dead Deadpool and Wolverine had held.
01:16:41
Speaker
It reached 1 billion views in just four days, which is pretty crazy. That's crazy. Good for them. Good for them. How many views does it have now? I'm looking on YouTube. I'll leave that to you.
01:16:54
Speaker
Opening YouTube right now just shows 33 million, but I guess that's like just the one thing. Yeah, I think they count all of the, there must be some kind of connection because I've always wondered how they track it. They must give out the trailer to like places like an IGN or like a variety or like these places like the Hollywood Reporter or wherever wherever it lands. Like the marvel the Marvel YouTube versus the Sony YouTube versus the PlayStation YouTube. Like it was on very bear a lot of places. And so I imagine they count all of views, but how do they track it? It's always been my question like because that's that's been a thing.
01:17:26
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Like they think for because I get it, I would track it on linear TV because you're directly giving out the license. But imagine how many people you gave this to. If you're
Speculating Spider-Man's multiverse future
01:17:35
Speaker
giving it the IDN, it's like an entertainment website that is mostly talking about and video games. You gave it to a lot of people. I guess it is on like and how do you know, like how how do you track it if somebody you like ripped it off? Like you gave it to somebody. Are you tracking the people who like just put it on their YouTube that isn't wasn't authorized to do so?
01:17:55
Speaker
Or maybe you're shutting those down so you don't count them. I don't know. Not sure. It's cool though. don't know if it's like a AI algorithm that just tracks or do they actually somehow They just know. Yeah.
01:18:09
Speaker
I'm not sure. Michael Mando is in the trailer. Oh, he is. Okay. Yeah. Two minutes in. Yeah, it's kind of good. like we The one thing that's kind of good is like I can be still surprised sometimes if I don't see the trailer repeatedly because like I just forget it if I haven't watched it. but Because we' we're exposed to so many trailers for other things that it kind of goes out of my mind. But then again, we're going to see this trailer like seven times in the movie theaters before this comes out for sure. There's like no way we won't just because this is like going to be one of the biggest movies of the year for overall viewership.
01:18:42
Speaker
certainly It probably will be the biggest movie of the year, eh? I think, I don't know. Do you think Doomsday won't pull in more? i don't think so. I think Spider-Man is going pull Especially if Spider-Man appears in it, which we don't know yet because that was not announced.
01:18:57
Speaker
like that That was one of the things they didn't announce and I'm wondering if it's ah that's ah the actual like. We'll find it in the after credit scene. I wonder if he's not going to be in it though, because that's like the plot of like, people don't know him.
01:19:09
Speaker
Like, you know what i mean? Like who who's going to pull this random guy in the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man into the thing? Is that going to get adjusted? and i don't want to spoil the previous movie, but like, you know what I'm saying? Like people, like he's not a known entity right now. So it's like, are you going to, yeah, I don't know.
Discussion on Nicolas Cage's roles
01:19:25
Speaker
That's it. I mean, they know Spider-Man. They just don't know who Spider-Man is. are How much ah are they going to lean in Doomsday into the the idea of the multiverse? Like, are they going to do ah a lot and um of multiverse stuff or is it mainly going to be for Secret Wars, like the second in this yeah potential trilogy? i don't know. They said that it may be a trilogy instead of two movies for the next two Avengers movies. But do you think they will try to do?
01:19:49
Speaker
I'm curious. i'm I'm curious how much multiverse stuff. because Because if you have multiverse, you can have multiple Spider-Man. You could do the Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse is what I'm trying to say. You could have Nicolas Cage in this.
01:20:00
Speaker
You know what I mean? six day That would be so awesome. Also, like Nicolas Cage almost was Superman, you know, and he he kind of is a big comics nerd.
01:20:11
Speaker
So to see him like to see because he wanted to really be that role and he was cast. Right. But yeah. the The cool thing is is like he's such a fan. he's true like He's kind of perfect for Spider-Man War. It's kind of really cool. And so yeah it's neat. he got He finally got to be a superhero, I guess, that's actually going to maybe be popular. I mean, Ghost Rider.
01:20:31
Speaker
then That wasn't a great movie. I guess two movies, but and I wasn't a big fan of that movie. No, I don't. I think I watched it. At least one of them. That was, this is an interesting fact about me. the i I just realized, I think now the ghostwriter first ghostwriter movie with Nicolas Cage.
01:20:49
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I think that's the, one of the first movies that I can remember where I really had an issue with a plot hole where I i realized how important tightening up your shit is for specifically for plot. Like having the story makes sense and not just be like willy nilly, even though it's a superhero movie. i I felt like that was really important and they did not nail it.
01:21:10
Speaker
There was a huge problems and gaps in that plot that were so obvious that I couldn't believe no one caught them because I was a teenager. you know what I mean? Like, why am I telling you what to do here? I'm not a writer. I'm just like im a student in sciences at at a high school. what are you doing? So like that was one of the first ones I can distinctly remember. I'm like, this is bad. I did not like that movie. It's like low on my list because plot holes are so glaring.
01:21:36
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Anyway. Yeah. Okay. So cool. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. I thought it was weird that they did this. This Sony did this because I thought they were tight. They had everything really like, we're going to just drop very select trailers and we're going to, but it's only the first three pages. So I do appreciate Like here's a little sneak peek.
01:21:53
Speaker
Well, yeah. i want to see but Hopefully they're not dropping whole fucking thing, dude. you know like Imagine they drop. That's what I thought it was initially. And I was like really worried it had gotten leaked. So I was like, oh now I got to avoid this. Because there was there was some website that was like, oh, the the reading the screenplay for a Spider-Man. Like reading the screenplay. What are you talking about? Is this leaked already? The plot line's already out. That would be such a disappointment.
01:22:15
Speaker
Oh, man. Imagine. That doesn't happen very often that the entire script gets leaked for... That I recall for these big movies, eh? Like, that doesn't... That doesn't happen, which is awesome because I'm thinking about like how The Last of Us Part 2 was completely leaked beforehand. And it really was disappointing because the whole plot was like leaked and we had to kind of dodge bullets. Like we were just like. Yeah, dude.
01:22:36
Speaker
I'm so grateful I didn't get any of that spoiled for me. I'm so grateful. I'm mostly off social media now too. So it's even more helpful for me now. But yeah, it's so crazy that it happens so often in games. Yeah.
01:22:51
Speaker
Yeah, it does happen quite often in games, eh? I wonder. Yeah, it sucks. What are they doing? What are they doing in there? I know. In the games industry? Who's leaking things? Yep.
01:23:03
Speaker
Yeah, everyone's going to be clamoring to get the leaks of friggin' Grand Theft Speaking of leaks, dude, I want to briefly touch on this. i I feel like I meant to bring this up last episode, but maybe i i forgot about it. Whatever. The Avatar The Last Airbender movie?
01:23:17
Speaker
Yeah. Like Avatar The Legend of Aang? Some guy leaked the entire fucking thing online. Oh, no. And it makes me very sad. Like Paramount, so this was originally supposed to be released late last year.
01:23:29
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was supposed to be theatrical. Then they delayed it a full year and then said, we're not doing it theatrical anymore. We're just going to go on Paramount+. plus And then some guy just leaked the entire movie online.
01:23:41
Speaker
and So like I have friends that have watched it and I like, I really want to watch this, but I just like, i want to support the creators. I love, I love Avatar, the last airbender with a passion. And like the idea that this movie just kind of got released and it's just like, this was a theatrical release. It was supposed to go to theaters or was initially. Yeah. And then, and then Paramount pulled back and said, it's not going to theaters anymore. We're just going to release it on Paramount plus.
01:24:05
Speaker
And then this guy leaked it online, like a few months later. oh it Oh, I see. It wasn't a reaction to the leak. It got leaked after they decided to put it on streaming.
01:24:17
Speaker
Correct. But it's not it's not going on streaming until like October of this year. Oh, it's been leaked that long. That sucks. It's a shame, man. I'm very excited about it. put it out now.
01:24:27
Speaker
I know. Let me buy it, dude. Let me buy it. I would actually um yeah um would actually pay money right now. I'll buy it for $25 just to support like the people that made it. like it's Is it unfinished in some way? like Why would you hold off now at this point? because it's done now Now, because it's been leaked, like you're already screwed. So just release it right now. yeah Like, oh, actually, we're going to release it right now. We're moving it up. And they just put it on there, have people watch it on Paramount Plus or or able to rent it or buy it.
01:24:54
Speaker
And that's just a solution. like yeah What else are you going to do? you already Piracy is going to be a thing. I don't know. Piracy, i wonder what the numbers are showing for piracy right now because the streaming services keep going up in price. I feel like...
01:25:09
Speaker
It's definitely going up. I feel like it's definitely going up um compared to how it was. Like, I feel like back in the, I don't know, like 2010s, it was like at an all time high, you know, the the late aughts, early 2010s at an all time high. and Then you have all these streaming services coming out and like, oh, actually, this is ah affordable and convenient.
01:25:28
Speaker
Right. Like I'm willing to pay for convenience. And then now it's just kind of escalated to 15 different streaming services that are way too expensive. You got to pick and choose. And it's just, people are like, all right, fuck it. Then I'm just going to either. Yeah. Look online on like look movie or whatever. have buddies that always watch stuff just online on like a website or like things.
01:25:50
Speaker
Yeah. I don't have anyone. I don't know anyone that does that. I have people who use that box, you know, the classic box. Yeah. That's the most common thing. Yeah. Okay. I didn't know that.
01:26:02
Speaker
All right. I had like a IPTV thing, but honestly I only used it for UFC. Oh, cause I ain't paying for that. I ain't giving Dana white my money.
01:26:13
Speaker
I see you guys. You think that these guys getting beat to the hell out of them and and taking many years off their life is not worth your, your, your money. Yeah. You don't want to pay them.
01:26:24
Speaker
No. They don't deserve to deserve it. Yeah. ah Yeah. Okay. Okay.
01:26:35
Speaker
Cool. Can we pause here? Oh, yeah. just got to go to the bathroom. Okay. PP time. I am unwell. I am unwell. Adrian, PP time.
01:26:49
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Adrian PP time Pinter.
01:26:54
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Goodbye. Okay, bye. He's left the room now. He's closing the door. He's now gone out of the room. I'm looking at his blank room.
01:27:07
Speaker
Okay, this is a waste of air time that you don't need. Goodbye.
01:27:16
Speaker
Let's see. I'm back. I'm back. i got a big old cup of lemonade. oh Oh, lemonade. Maybe the vitamin o C is going to help, you know?
01:27:27
Speaker
Sorry, what's going to help? The vitamin C. Vitamin C. There's vitamin C in lemonade? Yeah. Is there? Yeah. Lemons have vitamin C. What are you talking about? Do they? Yeah.
01:27:38
Speaker
It's a citrus. It doesn't mean they vitamin C, though. What? Oh, they are. But they they are they are a source of vitamin C. Yeah. I looked at this recently for lemonade, though, and I and i found that there was no vitamin C in the lemonade. I was like i looked at the back of it, and there was very it was like a very low vitamin C content. I don't know. Was it lemonade? i think it was.
01:28:01
Speaker
Obviously, we want to just have lemon. Was it brisk lemonade? No, no. No, it wasn't like fake lemonade. But yeah, i'm looking this up and yeah, they do our excellent source. What the hell am I thinking of? Man, I'm bad takes this episode. of Bad memory moments here. You're fired.
01:28:17
Speaker
You're fired. yeah i was i was better in the middle of the podcast, but now we've gone back to it after you turned. the beginning when we just met each other on this podcast, we just started talking this episode and then i was really bad and then I got better. And then now I've gotten bad again because you left to go pee. It's all your fault really. Cause you went pee on the plus side. I've been bad the entire episode.
01:28:36
Speaker
Oh, well, madam that's debatable. All right. so you're bad You're better than me. It's time now, Adrian, to move on to a segment of our show that I like to call a Look to the Future, a portion of our podcast where each of us present at least three of our picks for the TV series or movies that look most interesting to us that are releasing between the dates of May 5th and May 18th, 2026.
01:28:58
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twenty twenty six yeah Adrian, as is customary, you choose first. What is your choice for TV series or movie coming out in the near future? I'm going to start with the thing I am most excited about, Simon. Do it up. We talked about this a few episodes ago.
01:29:13
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Yes. It's coming out on May 15th, and it is the movie called Obsession, directed by Curry Baker. baker sorry curry baker yes um Wait, is it Curry Baker Barker? I'm questioning it.
01:29:27
Speaker
I was just talking about how fucking off my game I am. So who cares? I'll get it. You keep talking. He is part of this, you know, sketch comedy duo on YouTube that I've been watching for quite some time called. That's a bad idea. Big fan of this guy. He came out with a like horror movie on YouTube.
01:29:45
Speaker
It's about like just over an hour long called Milk and Cereal. He's had some horror shorts. This guy is this guy's really good at what he does. And he also has another movie coming out.
01:29:59
Speaker
i think next year with Aaron Paul. You know what I'm talking about here called Anything But Ghosts, I think is what it's called. Anything because let me just double check that. So Curry, first of all, Barker. OK, I was right. And um it's It's with um Aaron Paul called Anything But Ghosts. And Aaron Paul made a ah post on Instagram, I think, talking about how impressed he is with Curry Barker and saying that he's like one of the greatest directors he's ever worked with.
01:30:30
Speaker
And he's like so excited about this project and everything like that. I'm like, oh, that's crazy, dude. It's like this guy, this kid's a visionary, yada, yada, yada. and I'm like, oh, man, that's awesome. So i'm I'm very excited about this project.
01:30:43
Speaker
Anything but ghosts movie as well. um But again, yeah. Obsession. May 15th. I cannot wait for this movie. I'm so excited about this. i' I'm very excited about this movie's.
01:30:56
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Simon. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah. It's cool cast. Bryce Dallas Howard's in Yeah. Apparently. Okay. Yeah.
01:31:07
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. I had a brain fart about who Aaron Paul was in the middle of that statement. Oh, really? what sort it out sorry I don't know why. Because, yeah, you gave me a look.
01:31:18
Speaker
You gave me a look and i was like, look and I thought it was because you were like, Aaron Paul worked with frickin Vince Gilligan. Like, what are you talking about? And then I realized now you just didn't know who Aaron Paul was.
01:31:33
Speaker
Well, he doesn didn't only work with Vince Gilligan. i would know that. He's only worked with Vince Gilligan. Speaking of Aaron Paul, didn't he drop out of Invincible because he thought that the character was too dark or something? What happened with that? Did he drop out of his character? made some random statement, but to be fair, that character doesn't come back, so Oh, okay.
01:31:50
Speaker
The character's not even in in in you know what the show anymore. So the Invincible Versus game came out, right? Yes. This fun game. I'm kind of interested in um in it. i'm not really ah I don't play too many of these fighting games, like one-on-one fighting games. But i do I do dabble in them, and I've dabbled them in the past. I think I've said that to you. But I will say the one thing I would be interested in is there's a unique story in it, apparently, because it looks like it's almost like an alternate universe-type situation they're trying to do. yeah.
01:32:15
Speaker
I would almost want to play it, but i it turned me off of it because a lot of the cast didn't come back for it. It's true. And a lot of it did, but a lot of it didn't. Like the key ones, like Steven Yeun's not in it, which is so weird. But J.K. Simmons, I was thinking about this yesterday.
01:32:31
Speaker
J.K. Simmons is an amazing actor and he's ah he seems like a generous guy because why is he in this? Why was he in freaking Mortal Kombat? what Why is he in these things? He's an Oscar winner.
01:32:42
Speaker
He's so cool and it seems like he's so above it all in some way or maybe they just didn't want to make the other deal and they only made his deal. I don't know, but it's really cool that J.K. Simmons... He plays Omni-Man in Invincible. If you don't yeah i don't know that. J.K. Simmons is Oscar winner for Whiplash. He's so good. I just like J.K. Simmons. I think J.K. Simmons might be one of my favorite actors, like just like living today. He's just great.
01:33:04
Speaker
You know, i don't know. He's just good. He's really good. He's everything he's in. He elevates like for real. That's what I believe. Even Red One. I saw that Santa Claus where he plays Santa Claus. It's not that good of a movie. It's entertaining enough. It's fun enough, but it's good because he's in it.
01:33:18
Speaker
He's the best part of that movie, I think. And he's not even in it for that much. He's in it, but he's not really one of the main two actors. um Is that the Chris Evans doing the Rock Johnson one?
01:33:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Crazy that he just pees in water bottles. You keep saying that. Why are you so obsessed with this? don't know. I just like to be mean sometimes, I guess. I just want to J.K. Simmons is great. I'm sure Dwayne the Rock Johnson's a nice fella.
01:33:45
Speaker
Sure, he's a great guy. am i being like that? Why do you think they couldn't make the cast come back? Because they were already in the booth. Just get them to... Fine, Aaron Paul is not going to come back for his character. That's fine. But the other characters... It's so weird to me.
01:33:58
Speaker
They got Ross Markand. He's in it. yeah They had some recasts in the show as well, to be fair. Yeah. Okay. um Even Gillian Jacobs is in it.
01:34:11
Speaker
Yeah. It's Gillian Jacobs. Which I think is... Oh, I always say Gillian giian because of the way it's spelled. I'm a fool. That's Gillian. Yeah. I do. I interchange it in my brain. I constantly do that. i'm like God, it's obviously Jillian Jacobs. Anyway, who's great as well. She's not as big as Steven Yeun, to be fair. I just keep, that I keep going back to Steven Yeun. I'm like, that the crazy thing is that there's this actor, Alex Lee, Alex Lee is in it.
01:34:34
Speaker
And he sounds like he does a really good job with the voice. He's the closest one because I heard him before. and I'm like, Oh, Steven Yeun came back. He did not. He's the one I was like, I thought he was in it. He's not.
01:34:45
Speaker
um But JK Simmons is like iconic. So, yeah as on anyway I might play that game but I just won't play it now there's too many games to play and too much stuff coming out yeah I'm not I'm never playing that game I'll just watch the story. You do just lower the difficulty and get the story out of it. I don't give a fuck. I'm i'm not going to play it to not have fun. I just don't like fighting. You're going to have fun You don't but you don't even play these games. How do you know? you don't maybe don't remember. it's like I've tried many a time, Simon. It's not like I'm just saying I don't like fighting games. I didn't like mushrooms.
01:35:15
Speaker
And then you just tried them. Mushrooms. I'm saying you might have acquired the taste over time. Oh, thought were talking about like the drugs, mushrooms. i'm like No, no. Yeah, the hallucinogen. No. I'm saying you didn't like cooked peppers, and then you just tried them recently. I love cooked peppers now, dude. Actually, like cooked peppers. it in everything. Exactly. That's why my point is you might I ordered vegetarian pizza yesterday, Simon. You know what I had on it?
01:35:39
Speaker
Onions, peppers, tomatoes. Delicious. Unbelievable. Yeah. Delicious. You're becoming a new man. Anyway. Yeah. You get what i'm saying? I do sausage and peppers sometimes as well.
01:35:50
Speaker
Get the Costco like sausages and I caramelize some onions, throw them some peppers, dude. Sausage. you ever have the pickled peppers? They're so good. Oh, dude, I love pickled peppers. Oh, you like those? Oh, yeah. i love pickled peppers. They're so good.
01:36:04
Speaker
They're delicious. Like banana peppers and stuff like that? ah Oh, those are good too. But I'm talking just like bell peppers and like they're pickled in like a, that's like a very like my Eastern European thing. Exactly. thats so should Yeah. the say Yeah.
01:36:17
Speaker
Yeah. I, um I'll be honest. I haven't had that since I fell in love with peppers again. So I'm sure I would. yeah we yeah or like i've had or ajvar as the canadians would say but the ajvar it's like the the the pepper sauce it's like red bell peppers and like a it's like a pepper sauce sometimes spicy and then you put it on like don't know you eat it with like chabopi okay yeah i love that pickled pepper since like my mom passed away it was like years and years and years ago it's so crazy i just thought of that now like i i swear i have not because my grandmother i think
01:36:55
Speaker
No, I could just get them at Costco. I got to do it. I just don't know which ones to get necessarily, but I do. I do. And and also, it's a big jar and I kind of have to have my wife want it. I can't just not.
01:37:07
Speaker
I can't just get it for It'll last forever. again It's true. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good call. yeah come hello Anyway, okay, let's move on. What are we talking about? Does your wife like peppers? ah Yeah.
01:37:18
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's one thing she doesn't dislike. She doesn't like mushrooms, though. No. I learned that you you told me that she doesn't like beans the other, i don't know, like a couple months ago. Yeah, that's unfortunate.
01:37:29
Speaker
That's crazy. I feel like the bean is such a versatile ingredient. I love burritos. I love them. She doesn't like burritos for the beans. I just, I like, i I think I've said this before, but have a Chipotle that opened near my house and it's like, yeah I didn't know Chipotle was good. I always thought it was like, it's just like the thing you would get, but I'm like, I really do like it. It's pretty solid. And I just love burritos and beans is a huge, obviously ingredient and she won't go get, she won't go there with me for, cause she's not into it. And while she will actually, she will do it. But I'm like, no, let's get something you like. i We're not going to just do it for me. That sucks. Yeah. So I just, I always go there when, when we're eating kind of eating separately, like on the, I'm on the road or something. Anyway. yeah
01:38:10
Speaker
You were mentioning that a lot um to me when we were playing marathon. i said said it more than a few times yeah say a lot to me yeah you said it a lot to me i only talk about a burrito burritos yeah man like yo just kill this guy on here but yeah you haven't played marathon in a little bit i want to go back into it i was just on a time crunch with pragmata like i was like i need to beat this game and platinum it before saros and i did it right well actually i platinum did the day saros came out so but i'm i'm cool to hop back into marathon anytime it's
01:38:44
Speaker
It's still one of my three games. I have a three three game rule. As you know, I can only play three games at a time. Marathon is still one of them. I left it. I left it there. Soros, Marathon, Starfield. Very science fiction. Yeah.
01:38:57
Speaker
Very Tau Ceti in some way for the Starfield and in the Marathon. You want to play Pragmona? I feel like I've asked you this, but do you want to play it? Not right now. One day. But like one day within the next month or two?
01:39:08
Speaker
No, not within the next month. If want to let it to someone else, you can. Or oh you're going to sell it. I would have probably just traded it back in otherwise. Okay, just trade and I'll play it another time. I will play it though. I've looked at it more and it does look really cool. It looks cool. It's awesome. I realize don't play a lot of Capcom games in general. I was thinking about it. I barely play Capcom games and Capcom's killing it. Like killing it. don't know what they're doing, but they're just freaking smash hit after smash hit in some way. Even like Monster Hunter Wilds are like, it was a failure. It's like 10 million copies sold. I'm like, shut up. Yeah, it was one of the best selling games of last year, man.
01:39:43
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. But it was all of that stickiness. Yeah, yeah. It's a lot of stickiness. Yeah, yeah. But um this is becoming, is this the video game episode? I apologize to Kenneth Statenbauer for talking about video games. But anyway. Yeah.
01:39:58
Speaker
ah What are we talking about? Oh, the things that are coming out. Mortal Kombat 2, speaking of video games. yeah in May 8th is the launch date for Mortal Kombat 2. I'm not necessarily looking forward to this. I didn't end up seeing Mortal Kombat 1 in theaters or on streaming. I saw on Crave now, I believe, right now. I could probably watch it if I wanted to. I'm more interested in Street Fighter because it's just the campiness, the craziness of the like the trying to pull the vibe off of what Street Fighter's been for years is kind of more appealing to me.
01:40:25
Speaker
Uh, but I do like Carl Urban's like spot, like the, the, I've seen a few like clips of him in, in this Mortal Kombat two, movie and it you know is appealing. But anyway, that's a movie adaptation coming out May 8th.
01:40:40
Speaker
What's your next pick? My next pick, Simon, is Punisher, One Last Kill, coming out May 12th. This is the um one episode, like, limited event thing um directed by Jon Barenthal, written by him, starring him, um that I guess will technically lead into Spider-Man in some way.
01:41:05
Speaker
And ah yeah, I'm curious about this. It looks good. It looks good. It's a shame that he's not in Daredevil season two, because I feel like he was such a great part in that first season. But I guess this is we'll figure out what he's been up to during that time.
01:41:19
Speaker
Indeed. This time I gave you a look because you did make a mistake. He is writing it, but Rinaldo Marcus Green is the director. He's not. Okay. I don't think John Bernstall is directed anything. I'm dumb.
01:41:31
Speaker
I'm not sure. Maybe he's directed an episode of the bear or something. I don't know if he's directed anything, but I'm not sure. But anyway, he's not directing this. Cool. You're not dumb. Don't put yourself down. You're a highly intelligent individual. I myself down.
01:41:48
Speaker
No, don't do it. Don't do it. Okay. My next pick is a, is a interesting one. And this is one for you. I feel like a one for you on this one, the terror devil and silver.
01:41:59
Speaker
You see this dance eagles is starring in this like a psycho almost. No, not psycho. I was like, I guess it's a psychological horror, but it's, it's, ah it's, it's almost like one flew over the cuckoo's nest in terms of like the horror vibes it gives you, i guess One Floor Over the Cuckoo's Nest is considered a horror, right? am i I'm not crazy. I don't know. I never watched it.
01:42:21
Speaker
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that's more of a drama. I'm not am thrill forgetting now. But anyway, he's the guy's trapped in this in a in an insane asylum, and he's he's struggling. And he's in the same song for like no reason. And it's just a bunch of like, it seems like the doctors just want want to keep people there. And there's some weird shit going on. It looks pretty interesting, actually.
01:42:43
Speaker
It's directed by Karen Kusama from the the invitation fame. She directed the invitation. She's director for this. The invitation. That's not a good movie. Oh, no.
01:42:55
Speaker
It's reviewed well. No. Oh, wait. I'm thinking of something totally different. Never mind. I feel bad. What was that movie called? I thought it was also called The Invitation, but it's- Isn't there an invitation from M. Night Shyamalan?
01:43:10
Speaker
Vampire. The Invitation 2022. No, there is a movie called The Invitation. It came out in 2022, and it's um ready or not, but but with vampires and not good.
01:43:21
Speaker
Oh, okay. No, the invitation I'm talking about is Logan Marshall Green from 2015. Okay. get the stars Logan Marshall Green, but again, Karen Krasama is a director. Anyway, apparently that's good, but you haven't seen it. A horror movie you haven't seen. There's so many horror movies. Great. That's crazy.
01:43:38
Speaker
It's crazy. I'm going to be honest with you. There's probably hundreds of horror movies. I feel like there's like 50% of them are bad. You know, like not good. Like they're exciting. They can be like scary. But I feel like the like Saw movies aren't necessarily good as example. The first one's pretty good.
01:43:53
Speaker
Yeah, but there's like five or six. How many are there? There's a lot of them There's over 10. What? Yeah. No way. I did no idea. Okay.
01:44:04
Speaker
Well, it's really high. Anyway, yeah what did say? Yeah, anyway, this might be something up your alley. This is on AMC+. I don't know. I'm curious if you... You don't really watch a lot of horror shows. Did you watch all of the Mike Flanagan shows or no?
01:44:16
Speaker
ah Not all of them. I watched ha a Hill House. Yeah. And then um Midnight Mass and then his other one. Bly Manor? No, not Bly Manor, which I do want to watch.
01:44:29
Speaker
But, oh, man... uh house of usher the fall of the house of usher oh right yeah you don't know that one so good dude that one's phenomenal midnight mass is really good too he's doing carry tv show i think for amazon yeah think we talked about that yeah yeah don't know when that's coming out but I'll watch that. All right.
01:44:51
Speaker
What is your next pick? Arguably, your last pick. It's coming out in October of this year, that Carrie show. I'll watch it. All My next pick, Simon, is coming out on May 8th. It's the Hugh Jackman starring for some of it movie called The Sheep Detectives, where it's- I think he's starring for a lot of it, actually.
01:45:11
Speaker
Okay. I think he's, because you can see in the trailer, like obviously, he potentially dies. Yeah. But I think that's what they're showing. But I think they're going to do flashbacks. I think that's why he's like a leading actor. Because i'm like, why is he in this if he's in it for five seconds? But I think they're trying to like do like they're trying to discover his life through flashbacks. I think that's the.
01:45:30
Speaker
OK. Yeah, it's essentially he reads like ah murder mystery stories to his sheep. He gets murdered and then his sheep are like, we got figure out this fucking murder, dude. It's very well rated. This seems like just such a fun time. Yeah.
01:45:47
Speaker
We'll watch this when you get back from Newbie.
01:45:52
Speaker
You want to see this in theaters? Yeah. Just seems like a fun time. Oh, okay. You don't want to watch this in theaters? Well, I figured you got Obsession. You're obsessed with that. I feel like you want to watch that first. That's the following week. That's May that's may fifteen Right, that's true. But Hokum, I wonder what that is.
01:46:12
Speaker
remember Do you want to watch Hokum really bad? Because if you don't, then maybe I'll just go by myself to can it if you want. That one I'm almost more interested in. the Obsession doesn't strike me as very unique.
01:46:24
Speaker
it It looks good though. The trailer looks good, but Hocum looks genuinely, Hocum got me like the the witch vibes kind of situation, but modern. um It's interesting, but either way, you can do you on this because you're the horror aficionado.
01:46:39
Speaker
So i'll I'll give whatever you prefer. If you want to go watch Hocum without me, do it up and then maybe I'll watch it at home. Maybe, maybe, maybe not. You should watch ah whatever, whatever, whatever it works out.
01:46:51
Speaker
No, but that is the following week anyways, because I'm going away and then I'm coming back. That is the following week. I'm back. When are you coming back? week ah the like the The end of the week, Fridays, Friday.
01:47:02
Speaker
This Friday. Yes. Unless you well you're always busy on weekends. So I figured that you wouldn't want to go see it. Anyway, we can go see sheep. Sheep. I thought the sheep detective movie came out already on like Easter.
01:47:14
Speaker
I don't know why I thought that. So it seems a very Easter vibe to it because there's a nature of the. Because because the because of the Easter sheep, the hit. Why am I going novel character? Is that weird to you?
01:47:26
Speaker
I connected that. I don't know why I connect that in my brain. But he comes to your house and leaves eggs. The Easter sheep. Okay. Okay, the next pick for me is ah this is an interesting one. i got a few. I'm just going to rattle off after this, but just just for the sake of it. But Good Omens is coming back for season three for one episode, apparently. Michael Sheen and David Tennant is like three years later, May 13th. They weren't able to make a full season. I think it's this one one episode, which I'm pretty sure is correct, unless my notes are wrong.
01:48:02
Speaker
Yeah, it's ah as a 90-minute special rather than a full season. Yeah, because they had a problem. I think it's because of Neil Gaiman. Yeah, what happened with that guy? There's a lot of right? There's bunch people that came out, yeah.
01:48:16
Speaker
um which is crazy. It sucks for everyone who's involved with his shows. He is like a brilliant like author. Like he's made a lot of really cool works. So it it sucks. There's so many projects that were being adapted simultaneously, including Sandman, which did that come out? That's the next season of that. That season kind of was shaky, even though people, I think they liked it, but I don't think it was again. It's all about the ratings of the actual viewership.
01:48:44
Speaker
There was two seasons. Did finish. That was two? Did it get canceled after to thatder Yeah. okay Anyway. Whatevs. I thought that was interesting. I have a few things. Unless you want to rattle off some of yours. if you have any action i have i have one more on my list that I haven't mentioned. It's the Is God Is movie.
01:49:04
Speaker
oh Which seems interesting. But at the same time, I'm very confused about the tone of this movie. The trailer just kind of I don't know. It's weird. Like it's like, it's almost supernatural. It almost seems kind of funny, but it also seems like kind of like a horror.
01:49:20
Speaker
It's just like, i don't know. It seems like a big mix of, of stuff. And again, it it just seems like kind of a, it seems kind of wacky in, in a good way.
01:49:32
Speaker
And I'm curious how. Yeah. It will do because it's essentially, I think it's about like two sisters that are on a journey to kill their, either their father or their stepfather who like was super abusive to their mother or something like that. But then it ah is also like talking about God and everything like that. So I'm very confused.
01:49:56
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah. May 15th for that one. Sorry. All right. Anyways, that's all. I just have few to rattle off. The Citadel, Citadel season two from like, ah I think it was a Russo brothers produced this. I'm pretty sure. May 6th is the premiere for that. MIA and May 7th released like a premiere for the Bill DeBuc.
01:50:17
Speaker
deb book I've seen that. Bill DeBuc is the Ozark co-creator. And this is a peacock show about a South Florida, like it's like a South Florida cartel drama where she's like, there's woman like taking revenge on this ah cartel that kills her family or something. Anyway, there's that. And then there's Dutton Ranch, which I am just baffled by. And that's why I'm mentioning it here. It's May 15th premiere.
01:50:44
Speaker
It's another spinoff for Yellowstone. how How is it the sustainable? How is this sustainable? How is this profitable Frito-Lay? I don't understand. That's three this year.
01:50:56
Speaker
Yes. Because they had the Madison Marshals and then now there's Dutton Ranch. Yes. Stars ah Annette Bening this time and Ed Harris. I think they're not main actors, but they're just the biggest named actors. that I was like, wow, these this series gets like really great talent. It's awesome. It's crazy. This one looks cool. It looks like more of a direct spinoff from like the original Yellowstone versus like the Madison is very.
01:51:22
Speaker
It seems like a very different tone overall. And then the Marshalls. Oh, the Marshalls might be a dark spinoff too, but it looked like a crime drama, that one, from what I saw. But this one looks like, it's like a ah some of the side characters from Yellowstone, they went off, or like main characters, they went to a different like place, and then they're living their life in this Dutton range somewhere else. And then there's like draw drama and issues.
01:51:44
Speaker
But anyway, that's yeah. I really like Ed Harris, so that's kind of what drew me into the talking about this. Anyway, that's it. Adrian. It's time now for the very final segment of our show that we call here The Trailer, where we each present our favorite trail trailer of the week.
01:52:05
Speaker
Yeah. You pick one. I pick one. You go first. I mean, already know what going to pick, dude. You already know what I'm going dude. I do. Yeah, it's pretty obvious. Yeah, it is Zach Kreger's Resident Evil teaser trailer. Keeping the video game theme alive.
01:52:20
Speaker
Apologies to... Ken Staddlebauer. Ken Staddlebauer. Anyway, what do you... It just it looks really good.
01:52:31
Speaker
So it's been critiqued online for various things. that you've Have you seen this? like I saw some people saying it's not very Resident Evil, but i just I don't necessarily agree with that. It's like, yeah, okay, it doesn't have the same...
01:52:47
Speaker
like like your main characters. It doesn't have your Leon. It doesn't have your Chris. It doesn't have your Claire. It doesn't have your Jill. It doesn't have your Sherry Birkin. It doesn't have your Sheva. It doesn't have your inser additional characters. Yeah, there's a lot of big cast members in that series that people are attached to, but what... That was the question I had because I watched the trailer and like, this looks really cool, but what makes it Resident Evil from my perspective? I saw like the the cre we creepy monsters like Stellan Skarsgård in the sewer or whatever. That was cool. And theres that I feel like there's a vibe of it.
01:53:18
Speaker
Like i can get I got the vibe a little bit having not played any Resident Evil games. Mm-hmm. I got the vibe that it is like resident evil in some ways yeah from the vibe.
01:53:28
Speaker
But otherwise I'm like, there's not even a mention of raccoon city. And I think that that might've thrown people off a little bit too. Like there's no, it is a teaser. There's no, the corporation that they, did they tease like an Easter egg for the corporation umbrella? or um I didn't see any umbrella iconography.
01:53:44
Speaker
There's apparently a green herb at one point in the trailer, which I saw circulating online, which is like a healing item. Um, it it It does, again, like it does feel like a, I don't know, it's like kind of like a zombie like horror movie, but then there's like the weird like mutant looking monsters and stuff. ah My argument against people being like this doesn't seem very Resident Evil is Resident Evil 7 didn't really seem very Resident Evil when that came out either. Yeah.
01:54:11
Speaker
It was, you know, it's that, that one was set kind of the bayou and you're just some guy going to and into a house and there's these weird wacky people there. Right. And that was really it. i get it. But here's my argument against that. What you just said, please, please, please, not a resident evil guy.
01:54:27
Speaker
If you look at movies, there are a lot of horror movies, right? yeah And there's a lot of horror movies that like Capcom is still making Resident Evil Village and they, you have those trappings of it. It feels like it to play.
01:54:39
Speaker
There's also the element of you're playing it. You're not watching it. So like there's so many horror movies. Why does this set it apart as a horror movie in the Resident Evil? That's the, that's more of the question I think. Cause like why put your name on that when do you need to put Resident Evil on it? Or can you make a really cool horror movie that feels like Resident Evil?
01:54:57
Speaker
just by like by a byproduct of, of being something that was inspiring. Zach Craig, you know what I mean? I feel like that's because the games are different because Capcom still making it. It does feel like resident evil play. I imagine. Right. Am I am i wrong on that? No. like we have a Very different because it was first person.
01:55:15
Speaker
Right. But now you got resident evil nine and there is first person too. And yeah. But again, like at the time when resident evil seven came out, there was no first person resident evil. But going through it, you there was no connections to the world and like that that didn't feel like that. Not until the end. You're like, until the end. Okay. So it didn't feel like it. That's interesting. I guess. i just There's not that many horror games in that kind of – I'm saying like does it feel like that from a horror perspective because there's just not that many horror games like that. there's just They just don't do that. But you're right. It is first person.
01:55:45
Speaker
So it is different in that way too. Okay, that's good. That's good to know. But you know what I'm saying? like We just talked about horror movies. There are so many horror movies. It's ridiculous because they're very popular. They do really well in theaters. So they're just going to keep churning out.
01:55:58
Speaker
So it's like, it you do you put Resident Evil on the title here and go? go Even like weapons. Weapons is directly, literally makes a reference. I swear to God, it had to have been to The Last of Us.
01:56:09
Speaker
Like he's making it direct. It's like, it's not The Last of Us though. You know what i mean? yeah This kind of related and the most and obscure way, but it's not. So it's like, you know, that's why I'm kind of where I'm going with that. but But I'll get that. That's fair. Again, I think, again, this is also just a teaser trailer. You know, I'll wait until we get closer to it. Zach Krieger has said that this movie is kind of taking place parallel to when Resident Evil 2 takes place, which is the late ninety s um So I don't know. i'm I'm curious. Like, I'm sure there will be references.
01:56:43
Speaker
Again, there's that big... big ah Dune looking guy at in the, in the, in the sewers there. But at the same time, there's also, he kind of looks like the merchant in resident evil village specifically um in in some ways.
01:56:58
Speaker
got sound yeah Is that the merchant? No. Yeah. Look up the resident evil. No, I'm just saying, do you think that's likely? i think he's going to run from that guy. You think he's going to talk to him? That guy doesn't look like he's going to get a sell goods.
01:57:12
Speaker
Yeah, probably not. Probably not. But again, he he kind of looks like the guy. I will say this too. like The imagery in this is like very unique. i don't know I don't know if maybe I've not seen enough Resident Evil footage, but it's like the the hands and the feet going across the door thing is bad. That's so cool. is there a...
01:57:32
Speaker
Is that a thing in Resident Evil or is that just really cool and unique to this trailer too? Because I don't think I've seen that in like a movie trailer. Like what a a cool idea. The way it moved those, the way the feet, the legs move to like cover the, like the door frame is, it's really, really well done on a visual effects perspective. Like they did a great, this trailer looks awesome. Like it looks incredible.
01:57:55
Speaker
That's why I don't really care because I don't care for Resident Evil anyway. I'm kind of intrigued by it just because it's Zach Kregor and it looks really cool. Like the people falling from the freaking buildings. and Yeah, that was awesome.
01:58:07
Speaker
And the sound mixing slash editing with the freaking beeping of the phone throughout the entire trailer. It's just an excellent trailer. If you didn't pick it here, I would have picked it as the trailer of the week for me just because the trailer is good. And that's really the essence of this segment is like we're pointing out a trailer. The movie could be shit, but in the end, the trailer was excellent.
01:58:28
Speaker
you know Yeah. I know. I know. That's why you picked it. Yeah, that's why I picked it. I'm very excited about it. I like the franchise. I like Zach Krega.
01:58:39
Speaker
i like ah I like the trailer. So what, sorry, just to go back to really briefly, yeah what was it that drew you as a Resident Evil? What what strikes you? Because I want to know. I'm i'm curious.
01:58:50
Speaker
Like the merchant thing potentially making a side reference. Yeah. you have The green herb. Okay, yeah. The green herb. Yeah. um Again, which I didn't notice the first time, I'll be honest with you.
01:59:03
Speaker
And again, again, there's infected, but I think he's going more into instead of it being just like the typical zombie, the more mutant looking things. Again, this is a teaser trailer, so I expect that we'll get another trailer that's going to reveal more. We'll see a little bit more connections. I'm sure we'll see like a liquor or something like that.
01:59:21
Speaker
um And ah yeah, again, i'm i'm um I'm optimistic about this. He hasn't missed yet. it's two for two. Final question. Do you think this will be ah better than Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City?
01:59:36
Speaker
Probably. I mean, if I'm being serious, yeah, probably. I do love Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City, though. I genuinely do. I think that movie's fun. There's a lot of good elements in it. It's fine.
01:59:49
Speaker
It's fine. i think the the joke about that movie, though, is the fact that you just mentioned it for at least 70 episodes of our podcast. So like how how much you like that movie and you think it's good. That's really the issue. Is it okay? Yeah, it's okay. But you just... Man.
02:00:06
Speaker
you knew It's great movie. It's arguably the best movie ever. All right. My choice for trailer of the week. Actually, i thought i had a tough one with this one. But I feel like I just got to give it to this one because I think...
02:00:20
Speaker
Oh, this one was good too. Man, there's but it's a good week. Spit it out. Actually, I'm just going to go with Coyote coyote versus Coyote. Coyote. This is exciting. It's so exciting. They're finally doing it.
02:00:31
Speaker
And the trailer looks really fun. It looks really good. And there's this, there's the, obviously the who framed Roger Rabbit aspect of the Looney Tunes being in the world, which they've done before. swear we talked about this last episode, didn't we? But it's, it's exciting.
02:00:45
Speaker
um Didn't we talk about this last episode? Yeah. We talked about it yeah. Because they talked about the date. Because it was CinemaCon. CinemaCon. But they didn't have the the trailer. Is that different resolution from SawCon? We talked about Resident Evil last time. Yeah. about yeah You're right. You're right. like This exact same thing. These but were both at CinemaCon. We didn't get to see them because we weren't at CinemaCon. And then they released them to the public afterwards. You're right. so like Anyway. You're right.
02:01:08
Speaker
Okay. You're right. That's it. yeah That trailer looks great. I'm very excited about that as well. Yeah. We're going to watch this. We're going to support it. Day one. That's like that first weekend at the very least. It's crazy. Like this trailer has 8.5 million views in 11 days. That's kind of, that's very impressive.
02:01:27
Speaker
Oh, it's good. Okay. Yeah. 8.5 million, dude, for like relatively niche thing, dude. What about Resident Evil? what What was the... Let's see what's Resident Evil at. This is the official, I'm assuming you' looking at the official YouTube.
02:01:41
Speaker
Okay. Resident Evil 3.5 million in three days. Okay. I don't know. Yeah. It's a gap of what? Three, four days, but a gap of ah eight days.
02:01:53
Speaker
oh I'm sorry. I didn't hear the first. Okay. Well, that's it. Any other trailers you want to just mention in passing? oh I usually do this and I feel bad because I don't give you the the the chance. So yeah, I'll mention yeah this is great.
02:02:08
Speaker
ah You watch the trailer power ballad. It's the Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas trailer. This looks fun. yeah it It seems like kind of a feel good movie, but also kind of comedy.
02:02:21
Speaker
<unk> I'm intrigued about this one. It's intriguing. that ones Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? That's it. No, no, no. That's all I got for you. There were a few, and I wrote them down early, and sometimes read a note, and thank God I do that because I don't remember the full trailer, but I wrote down because I thought the trailer was impressive. One you sent me for sure, and so I watched this because you sent it to me.
02:02:43
Speaker
Clayface. That's kind of a cool- fuck, dude. yeah I forgot about that. yeah. yeah that So the DC Universe like Clayface movie, which is like a body horror, where the guy's face is very Clayface. It's funny because Clayface is like a blob guy. So I'm like, is he going to become the Clayface we know from the comic? Or is it going to be more grounded in reality? like how How far are they going to go with this? And how how ingrained is this in the regular DC Universe, which is pretty wacky and lot of powers? I think this Yeah, James Gunn was talking, this is the first, I think like if we're looking at it from like, yeah, no, like Clayface takes place before all the stuff so far, like before Creature Commandos, before Superman, all of that stuff. Yeah, but there's still wacky stuff in the world, right? Yeah. Is he suggesting that this is when the wacky stuff starts happening or you're just saying it takes place before the timeline? No, no, I'm just saying that, yeah, this is like the first in the timeline of the DCU technically, I think.
02:03:37
Speaker
Gotcha. So I'm very curious about this. This looks awesome. This was written by Mike Flanagan, if I recall correctly. I don't think he directed it, but he wrote it. Okay. So you're excited for this?
02:03:47
Speaker
Yeah, very much so. This looks fucking awesome, it's coming dude. This year, right? This October? Is that? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's actually what I wanted to bring up because we, I think last episode we made the mistake of like, is there anything coming out in the DC universe apart from Supergirl? And we both said no.
02:04:01
Speaker
And this trailer literally released like two days later. I'm like, oh man, idiotic. I think that's my bad too because I think this was a CinemaCon in a very muted way. I think it was there. It was part of that, that I think it was the Hollywood Reporter article. They mentioned it, like but it wasn't like a big showing. Because Doomsday, was like they made a huge spectacle out of it. It was the DC versus Marvel thing that we were talking about last week yeah last episode. um ah The other thing I have here, and I don't remember the trailer exactly, but I do remember it being kind of very interesting. It's like a crime drama.
02:04:32
Speaker
Samara Weaving stars in Carolina, carolinaline Caroline. Did you see this? No. It's worth seeing the trailer. It looks pretty cool. Ted Lasso season four obviously is coming back. That's how we got the date. That looks really cool because that show is just excellent. And I'm really hoping they nail it because the first three seasons are really great. I just hope they're not just returning to it to for the money money, the cash grab.
02:04:53
Speaker
But it does look pretty great so far. A lot of returning cast. It looks looks good. And then lastly, more Spider-Noir.
Brendan Gleeson's villainous role
02:05:00
Speaker
They showed off the villain from Brendan Gleeson. And it's so wacky ah and in campy and and cool. I really like this. And yeah, i this is one I feel like I got to watch day one because I want to show it support because now I'm worried about Daredevil Born Again. So
Commitment to weekly series viewing
02:05:20
Speaker
I feel like this may be in a similar situation. I want them to take swings like this. I want them to take risks. like This is such a wacky idea.
02:05:28
Speaker
So I will try to watch this week to week. Although I don't like week week week to week. That's why I didn't watch Daredevil porn again because I was waiting for it to finish. That was the whole point. Okay. Anyway, that's it. Any other trailers you want
Preview of 'Carolina' trailer
02:05:40
Speaker
to know? That's it. That's all baby. Are you watching the trailer for Carolina, Carolina? No, I loaded it up though on YouTube, so I'm ready to watch it after this episode. Okay, yeah. It seemed pretty interesting. It's 100% on Rotten
Pitfalls of sharing incorrect facts
02:05:51
Speaker
Tomatoes.
02:05:51
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Well, that's it. Adrian, anything else you want to say to the audience, to me, before we leave? Not particularly. I don't feel good, but I'm fine. I'm sorry to hear that. Thank you for... don't feel good. I'm sorry that I feel like I was off my game this episode.
02:06:06
Speaker
I feel like I was off my game this episode. I was on my facts game. Somehow I like, it's funny. I always criticize people for reading half facts and then saying them as facts. Although I did kind of, I always prefaced it with, I'm not sure this is true. And then it was not true, which is fair. You know, I wasn't like sure. The problem is confident, showing confidence when the fact is wrong is a super dangerous thing in our society right now.
02:06:28
Speaker
You look like a
Humorous one-eyed blinking
02:06:29
Speaker
doll. Like one of those dolls, you know, that's weird. Like dull actually dolls in general, just horror, you know, he's blinking as at one eye while keeping the other one open folks.
02:06:38
Speaker
That's what I'm describing. i'm I'm looking at. Okay. Anyway, well, that's it. Thank you for listening to episode
Episode 135 wrap-up and farewell
02:06:44
Speaker
135, a split focus of film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my charming and very sick co-host Adrian Pinter.
02:06:54
Speaker
Please join us. on May 19th, 2026 for episode 136. Good evening to you and good luck. Have a safe trip to newbie. Yeah, to newbie. Newbie. It's an odd way to say it. To newbie I go. Or I'm there now, actually, technically. i'm I'm technically right here, right now, as I talk on this podcast. As you listen to me, I've been in newbie and maybe already got left. Or maybe I'm there now. I don't know.
02:07:21
Speaker
It's a good question. Goodbye. time travel