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Episode 171
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This week we talk WrestleMania 41, we review the Andre The Giant documentary (2018, HBO/Max) and the Ric Flair documentary Nature Boy (2017, ESPN+), we give our reactions to new episodes of Dark Side of the Ring, Mobland (Paramount+), The Studio (AppleTV), The Last of Us season 2 episode 2 (HBO/Max), we breakdown the Andor season 2 premiere episodes on Disney+, we talk Celtic City episode 8 (HBO/Max), we breakdown the second half of the Netflix series Clubhouse: A Year With The Red Sox, for our final baseball movie this month we review the movie The Babe (1992), we review the 2005 comic Luthor and finally we ask the question…what happened to Christopher Reeve’s Superman in the late 1980s? We breakdown Superman III (1983), Supergirl (1984) and Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987)
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Introduction and Topics Overview
00:00:31
Speaker
Keeper. Where we talk about it all. From superheroes to wrestlers. We stand tall. We're and Kevin. The dynamic duo inside.
00:00:42
Speaker
Keeper.
Breaking Kayfabe in Wrestling
00:01:25
Speaker
Hey, going on? Eh. Nothing.
00:01:31
Speaker
So, got jam-packed show. Watched a lot of stuff. lot of wrestling stuff, because last weekend was WrestleMania. That's what we're going to start the show off with. First of all, want your opinion on this show that was announced that's going on Netflix called WWE Unreal, um where they are breaking open kayfabe completely, and it's going to be a behind-the-scenes of the writer's room, how storylines are put on television,
00:01:54
Speaker
ah starring all the writers, starring Triple H, everybody. They're going to have full scenes of how WrestleMania was set up and how storylines are set up throughout the whole entire year. um What are your thoughts on Breaking KFA? We've been talking a lot about that lately, actually.
00:02:10
Speaker
Uh, looks interesting. Does look interesting. I think at this point and in the internet era, I mean, especially when podcasts came out, Breaking K-Fabe kind of was the next evolution of how wrestling was going to be in this in this new digital world.
00:02:25
Speaker
um I don't think there was any way to avoid it, especially when bruce's Bruce Pritchard's podcast came out. he he just He just unloaded on everything. 200 episodes or more.
00:02:37
Speaker
um and Plus, with him being in the WWE now, Triple H being a huge part of breaking kayfabe way back in in the 90s with the curtain calls. Yeah. um yeah This will be out sometime in the summer on Netflix. It'll be a part of the Netflix ah stuff that they do
WrestleMania Weekend Recap
00:02:53
Speaker
over there. so um But last weekend was WrestleMania. started off on Friday night with the Hall of Fame.
00:02:59
Speaker
the big The big inductees were Lex lu Luger. um if you're If you know, there's the WrestleMania logo. If you know WCW back in the day, Lex Luger was huge.
00:03:11
Speaker
I'm not saying he killed Elizabeth, but killed Elizabeth. There was an Elizabeth episode. Was there ever a Lex Luger episode of the Dark Side of the Ring? I don't think there has been. No, there hasn't been. um I assume there will be. I mean, yeah, he's, yeah, he's took a downfall turn for the worse. Yeah.
00:03:29
Speaker
20 years ago, this guy was as big as Hulk Hogan is was back then. Huge muscles, big, huge guy. least he's walking again, right? He's walking kind of, he kind of got out of the wheelchair and stood up for his whole entire speech. He's doing a DDP yoga, I believe he is. Yeah. DDP did the introduction introduction, right? He did. Yep. Yep. Yeah. they wanted sting, uh, AEW wouldn't allow it. That's a whole other story.
00:03:51
Speaker
Um, CM Punk inducted the match, that the the first time they inducted a match into the Hall of Fame, the WrestleMania 13 Stone Cold and Bret Hart match.
00:04:02
Speaker
um Both of them showed up. Bret looked pissed off when Triple H shook his head. So did Austin. They both were just like, eh, this guy. I didn't like the statue that they gave and gave them, though. it looked really cool. They're actually selling that on WWE Online for like $2,000 if you want to have that on your shelf. But...
00:04:22
Speaker
um Triple H, the big headliner this year, um he did not want to be put in the Hall of Fame, but Stephanie McMahon and HBK made him be in it.
00:04:35
Speaker
um I think that was also a thing from Vince McMahon too. I think he didn't want him in the Hall of Fame right away. But there was a lot of changes when Vince left. lot of things happened in WrestleMania that don't think have happened in Vince's time in the company. Correct. But we'll get into that in a minute. But yeah, ah great Hall of Fame class.
00:04:56
Speaker
There's not a lot of big names left in the Hall of Fame that we grew up with. They're going to start getting into the John Cena's and Randy Orton's and when when he starts to retire probably this year or next. But...
00:05:09
Speaker
um the show itself this is the first card for for night one there was two nights it's going to be the the standard going forward for wrestlemania but the card on night one was decent the main event was the best match of the night best storytelling match of the night um you had you had rollins reigns and cm punk in this first match ever mean ah main eventing wrestlemania um and pulled out all the stops um um You knew Paul Hammond was a snake. You knew he was probably going to turn on CM Punk.
00:05:40
Speaker
He ended up turning not only on CM Punk, but on on Roman Reigns and joined forces with Seth Rollins at the end of the night, which was great. um And then the Raw following, I'll talk about it now, um Braun Stoker, whatever his name is, whatever his name, don't remember his name.
00:05:58
Speaker
Braun Breaker? Breaker, yeah, that's it, Braun Stoker, whatever. um he also joined this faction. So that's pretty cool. like I have two yeah new Paul Hammond guys setting up a whole new storyline. i love Ron.
00:06:11
Speaker
Yeah, I do He's great. um He's so fucking fast. When he does when he does his um his charge to do the spear, it's just ridiculous how fast he is. but That was night one. Gunther and Jey Uso was good. Jey Uso was so over. It's crazy because...
00:06:26
Speaker
If this was back in 2000, I don't think we would... There's no no real way to compare it. Maybe The Rock, the reaction The Rock was getting back then... But the crowd reaction to to his theme song, the yeet and everything, it's just crazy. but um Night 2, the big main event was John Cena versus Cody Rhodes.
00:06:49
Speaker
ah The undercard was good too. AJ Styles versus Logan Paul. um the triple the The four-way inter Intercontinental Championship match with Dominic Mysterio won was great. um Randy Orton.
00:07:02
Speaker
The whole mystery of this show was who was going to come out and answer the challenge to Randy Orton. And I told you about five minutes. you will up appear and That's exactly what I told you five minutes before. and we were like, who the hell is he going to fight? and say Oh, shit.
00:07:16
Speaker
Yeah. Joe Henry. That was an obvious answer. Obvious. And this was not supposed to be the case. Kevin Owens got injured. Triple H called him a week before and said, hey, you want to go to WrestleMania?
00:07:28
Speaker
And he thought he was kidding with him. He thought he was fucking with him. But no. um He really did show up. It sucks for Owens. Yes. Because that match probably honestly would have been the match of yes the night. Probably.
00:07:43
Speaker
Because Owens would have carried the fuck out of that match. It would have been amazing. It would have been great. yeahp yeah um Because i think I think we don't have much time for Randy Orton. um Especially with him setting up a match with him and John Cena. Which is what happened on Raw.
00:07:55
Speaker
ah We don't have much
Wrestling Documentaries Reviewed
00:07:56
Speaker
more time. Speaking of John Cena... He did the impossible, the non-impossible, which really was going to happen. um James Gunn had a whole entire beef with the WWE last week.
00:08:09
Speaker
um And this is his this is his Instagram story last week when John Cena won the title. Mr. Peacemaker himself but saying, that's right. um ah All in all, I watched every single minute. This is probably the first WrestleMania I watched both nights actually at time this year. Yep. um I thought it was really good um compared to a couple. I think last year was really good, too, because that's when Cody won. um Yeah, Cody won was awesome.
00:08:35
Speaker
The year before was when Austin had a match, which was decent, but a little too late. But it was this year was pretty good. ah Great ending to some stories, great starts to some next storylines going forward, especially from the Raw the night night after. but Can we just not have it on Easter weekend? That'd be great. Thanks. On Easter Day. what That's crazy.
00:08:55
Speaker
yeah yeah I had shit to do the night before, so I didn't even get to watch the night one until like Monday or Tuesday. So yeah. Yeah. Night two was the better night as far as that last match of night one was great, but night two was the better night.
00:09:09
Speaker
um We're in wrestling mood, so watched two documentaries I've been putting off for a couple of years now. um First one is Andre the Giant. This is an HBO documentary that came out 2018. It's on Max now if you want to watch it.
00:09:21
Speaker
um It's great. So great. And talking about his whole entire career, not wrest not only wrestling, but going into the movies, Princess Bride. um His friendship with referee Timmy White.
00:09:32
Speaker
um I've heard about that for in so many other documentaries, but um he was he was a big part of this as well. um He was kind of the guy who wrangled him when whenever Andre had to travel.
00:09:44
Speaker
um Vince Sr., realizing the attraction that Andre the Giant was, um took him on, and and the way they said it in the documentary, they they kind of hired him and rented him out to other territories before Vince McMahon Jr. took over the whole entire territory aspect of the United States, but Um, he was a, he was definitely the attraction of the country, probably the most known wrestler in the seventies, eighties until Hulk Hogan came around.
00:10:10
Speaker
Um, and speaking of Hulk Hogan, WrestleMania three, the electricity of that match, which I've seen multiple times, but seeing it in a documentary like this, being, being broken down and just, just realizing Andre was at the end of his life and he kind of knew it too. He knew he giant. and He knew he didn't have much ah time left on the, in the, in the world.
00:10:30
Speaker
um So he he gave Hogan this one last shot to kind of be the top guy. Kind of gave him a nod like, here, this is what you got. I saw this movie in 2018. So that was before I probably saw Infinity War and back when Star Wars was still going to movie theaters. So it's been a long time.
00:10:47
Speaker
Yeah. um Is this a documentary where they talk with the big show, Paul White? and He talks about how... Okay, because i know the part of it. In one documentary that he talked about how...
00:10:59
Speaker
He was able to get the surgeries and just weren't available to Andre at the time to fix his like giantism and stuff like that. They did talk about that. um and Andre refused to get that surgery. They did talk about that.
00:11:10
Speaker
um And yeah, that's crazy because he could have lasted a few more years if he had if he had gone through those surgeries to get that done. um I was surprised to see the entire cast of The Princess Bride come into this documentary.
00:11:22
Speaker
yeah um Rob Reiner, um remember the director. Billy Crystal was a part of it. Robin Wright. Everybody was there um talking about Andre and how he was on the set.
00:11:33
Speaker
um Of course, that's that is iconic. um and then The documentary talked about his final days dying in Paris or in France somewhere. um and They just found him in a hotel room, which is a crazy way to see someone like that die.
00:11:46
Speaker
um But yeah, he right till the end, he was, he was, he was working, seeing the last pictures of him that were posted, i think from a couple of days before the dinner, looked he just looked awful. um You could tell he was kind of like a walking corpse is what it kind of looked like to me. But um great documentary about the life of Andre. I know this is WWE produced as well. This is before, during the network time. um This is an HBO done by ah the guy who did Celtic City, you said, right? Yeah. um yeah was bill ah Bill Simmons. Bill Simmons.
00:12:13
Speaker
Bill Simmons. Yep. um Great documentary. And I wanted to watch this other documentary I heard about a while ago. It was a 30 for 30 ESPN documentary. I actually randomly watched it last night also. Oh, oh awesome.
00:12:25
Speaker
I don't know if you mentioned that you would watch it, but I was going through 30 for 30s since I'm into those because they're fucking really good documentaries. Yeah, you totally me that before. And this was like the second one I watched. um Yeah, great documentary.
00:12:37
Speaker
Yeah, very good. And talked about all talk about how he heavily rose up to fame. um Yeah, just great. Muhammad Ali comparisons, that I didn't really think about until I watched this documentary. It was like, yeah, he's got the same type of mannerisms talking to the audience as Muhammad Ali did.
00:12:54
Speaker
The Four Horsemen, we're to talk about that in a little bit with our obituary this week. um Living your gimmick. I think out of every wrestler that had a gimmick, he lived it outside of the ring more than anybody.
00:13:07
Speaker
um The 10,000 women that he slept with, which is a crazy number. It's like Wilt Chamberlain numbers. um Matches with the Dragon Steamboat. Those were amazing matches.
00:13:18
Speaker
Only showed a few clips of it, but it's something I want to deep dive into more. um Going into the WF in 92, I know it and one of the rumbles, right? and That was the rumble for the title. yeah that was one of your Is that one of your favorite rumbles you've told me in the past? That is my favorite rumble by far. Your favorite one? Yeah, I thought so. That's a great rumble.
00:13:36
Speaker
ah The commentary from Heenan all the way through is some of the best commentary of all time. Yeah, I got go back and watch that because i haven't watched it like you have. um I watch it like every year. It's like my Die Hard of Royal Rumble's.
00:13:49
Speaker
Okay, yeah, that makes sense. um He retired at the age of 59 versus Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania. We saw that. ah Great match. Retired, and then he came back with TNA and ruined it. But the retirement match in WWE was so great. The way it ended was just fantastic.
00:14:05
Speaker
um Reed, his son, talked a lot about that at the end. and I actually teared up at the end of this documentary talking talking about Reed and how Charlotte had no...
00:14:17
Speaker
ambitions to be a wrestler until Reed died and she kind of took his place. um Interesting story. Continued his dream to be a wrestler and look where she is now. um Main of eventing WrestleManias and everything. but ah Great documentary. This is on ESPN Plus right now.
00:14:33
Speaker
um yeah ESPN. If you want to watch it, it's very good. Only an hour? Maybe less than an
TV Show Discussions: The Last of Us & Andor
00:14:37
Speaker
hour? That's a good thing about the 30 for 30s. Hour, hour, 20 max. um The other one I watched last night because it was on draft day was... um The one about Dan Marino and the 83 draft.
00:14:53
Speaker
um And that's a really good one. Elway to Marino, it's called. Elway was picked first. Marino was picked last in the first round. And they had the same agent. So, like, the agent was going back and forth trying to represent both them at the same time, trying to get them both in the right spot.
00:15:07
Speaker
Very good documentary. I love all the 30 for 30s. They're all, like I said, hour, hour, 20. They're all excellent. So, yes definitely recommend the Nature Boy one. Yeah, very good. Yep. Dark Side of the Rings, getting into the last thing wrestling for the week.
00:15:21
Speaker
um Episode on Superstar Billy Graham. Had no idea about this guy. Had no idea that Hulk Hogan ripped his whole entire persona, moveset, everything. Hulk Hogan was Superstar Billy Graham 10 years later. Basically, Billy Graham came 10 years too early because he would have been Hulk Hogan.
00:15:38
Speaker
yeah It was weird, though, listening to Jericho... um do this documentary, though they never brought up that whole situation with Billy Graham and Jericho, but Billy Graham went on like an epic rant, like 2007 about how Jericho was like the most overrated wrestler of all time. It was pretty, I had no, pretty, I had no idea. I no idea. That's funny that he did that.
00:15:58
Speaker
let's see if I can find and send it to you. But yeah, this is a great episode. We're halfway through this series. Um, I can't remember what's next week, but we'll talk about at the end of the show. I do have a written down. Um, have you started mob land yet?
00:16:11
Speaker
No, I think I might wait for it all to be out or all of us on this weekend. Yeah, we're halfway through episode four. Very good. I'm not going get into it too much, but very good show starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren.
00:16:22
Speaker
ah Very, very good. um The studio, another great show. This is on Apple TV every Tuesday night, Wednesday. um Very good. Seth Rogen, his writing partner, everric go Evan Goldberg. I think they wrote and directed most episodes. How many episodes episodes are left?
00:16:36
Speaker
Three? Three. Three, I think, yeah. Maybe maybe less. i don't I don't know. I think i think Apple stays with between like... We haven't gotten Zack Snyder's episode yet, though. don't think so. No, no. Looking forward to that.
00:16:47
Speaker
um This week had Johnny Knoxville. Yes, that's right. Johnny Knoxville was it. Yeah, that was a good episode. And the episode that everybody's been talking about of television this week, which we're going to get into heavily.
00:17:01
Speaker
Spoiler, if you don't know, if you don't know, I haven't seen this episode yet. You're waiting for the series to air. oh there is a big spoiler in this episode of a character that is not returning ever again. Maybe in a flashback, but The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 2 is where it happened. And Pedro Pascal has left the show.
00:17:20
Speaker
Andrew has left the building. In close fashion of what happened in the game as far as show to game comparison, um i have seen the comparison videos. I didn't play the game, um but I have seen the comparison. The only difference that I noticed was instead of batting his head in with the golf club, she stabbed him through the neck with it.
00:17:41
Speaker
That way it was a definitive ending to his character. Two big differences going forward is that it's Dino was there with him instead of his brother.
00:17:52
Speaker
Okay. Um, in the game, it's his brother. Um, and it drives his own, um i don't know. I guess it's going to be weird how they play it. Cause like with his brother being there, his brother has to carry around the guilt of not being able to stop it.
00:18:07
Speaker
Right. Um, versus Dina. And I'm not going to go into what happens after this, so we'll talk about it probably next week as far as why Dina might be there instead. Because I want a future spoiler for you. Okay.
00:18:23
Speaker
okay But yeah, that to me was the biggest thing. And um I did enjoy, though, the fact they showed... What they did they took Tommy and they made him do the whole like saving of the town. Yeah. Was that part of the game at the same time? No, it wasn't. Okay.
00:18:36
Speaker
No, because cause like I said, Tommy was with Joel. That was just... That never happened. In the game, the zombies are running are chasing them as they get to Abby's place in the game. Okay. Where in the show they did it, the the zombies went attacked the Jackson Hole town. They came out of the snow the same way and everything. They were like hidden under the zombies. Yeah, very similar. That was really cool touch. I like that.
00:19:01
Speaker
um Yeah, great episode, great show. It's on Sunday nights. And they showed... you've not seen any watch The other thing too about his death is they show it a lot more in the show. In the game, it's literally... Yeah.
00:19:12
Speaker
You also don't know, this is what's kind of pissing me off, is in the game, war one of the driving forces was you don't know Abby's motivation, and there was way too much exposition in this episode about that to me.
00:19:23
Speaker
um i think it would have been better going forward if you just didn't know anything. Yeah, which has been an issue since the first episode of this show. But yeah, it was much more brutal in the show.
00:19:35
Speaker
Where the game is literally, she hits him once, and then... Then you take over what's-her-name, and then you find them, and he's pretty much dead, and then she hits one more time. Okay, okay. Yeah, I know the show has to explain a little bit more than the game does.
00:19:48
Speaker
The game you're playing through, whole yeah episodes and um series of events. but Yeah, great show. Sunday nights if you want to watch it. um We had a debut premiere episode, three episodes of Andor.
00:20:02
Speaker
Um, each week for the next four weeks to be tackling a year in the life of Andor. Going into rogue One is where the fourth week's going to lead up to, but, uh, the first three episodes aired this week.
00:20:14
Speaker
Great, um, great return to the series. Um, the only thing that I'm going to say is, when did Star Wars get very rapey? Ha ha ha ha.
00:20:25
Speaker
um I know that's a contention for a lot of people right now. yeah I have no problem with it because that stuff happens during rebellions. yeah yeah Yeah.
00:20:36
Speaker
And I mean... there's been a lot of, um, star Wars people, YouTubers that have an issue with this. And it's the same people who just want to bitch about Disney, um, and what they're doing.
00:20:48
Speaker
They complain when Disney doesn't give us good product. then when they give us a good product, they find something else to complain within that good product. So, um, this show is fucking fantastic. I have no problem with the rape. Visually, visually great. The whole beginning scene when he steals a, uh, uh, tie fighter was fantastic.
00:21:05
Speaker
Um, um yeah and then this whole third episode was so much tension with i can't remember her name um it's like a three-letter word i can't remember her name but she she's kind of in cahoots with andor yeah she's on this farming ah farming world farming area planet it or somewhere but um yeah she gets attacked by one of the officers from the empire and It's crazy. Crazy how they depicted it.
00:21:29
Speaker
I don't know if George Lucas would have done that 10, 20 years ago. I don't think it would have. I think he is more like, this is for kids type of thing. But they're making it for adults, the people who grew up with Star Wars. This is what this is for pretty much. Yeah.
Sports and Film: Celtics & Babe Ruth
00:21:43
Speaker
um So next week we'll talk about chapter two, episodes four through six. That comes out on Wednesday. We'll talk about that then. um Penultimate episode of Celtic City. Talking about the 2000s into the 2008 championship where they actually became world champions for the first time in what, 16 years? so No, no longer than that, 20 years? Yeah.
00:22:07
Speaker
ye um Great episode. Talked about the Paul Pierce stabbing that they left off with an episode before. um Rebounding from that, pun intended. um You wrote this. I don't know what what this is. Why Weck Grossback? He's the guy that bought the team, right?
00:22:21
Speaker
Yes. They talked about Wick buying the team. um a lot of people think Wick is like the main owner. um He's not. I think he only owned like 6% to 10%. But when you buy a major team like this, um you need...
00:22:34
Speaker
You need somebody that the league can back, so to speak. And Wick was from the area. He was very well-known businessman in the area. So he was kind of the the figurehead for the the ownership that bought them because they wanted the local guy to be a part of it. um And that's why...
00:22:51
Speaker
They interview Wick and like he's kind of made out to be like the big owner when he really actually owns less than a lot of the other owners okay as far as his stake in the team. I just wanted to bring that up. Talked about Doc Rivers, who was the coaching force behind the winning team.
00:23:07
Speaker
uh, the, the coach, um, 2006 rest in peace to red Arbok. This whole, this whole series was all about red up until 2006, six when he passed, um, big, huge loss.
00:23:19
Speaker
They dedicated the championship they want to him. Um, and after he, after he died, um they kind of started going to a rebuilding process for the Celtics. They hired Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, who we just talked about when we end during when we were doing basketball movies with He Got Game. He started in that. I think it was where he debuted.
00:23:39
Speaker
yeah when When we talked about he Got Game, he debuted in the movie... But he was drafted in the Supersonics or one team. He was drafted, yes. I think he was... Rookie year, maybe?
00:23:51
Speaker
ah think he filmed the movie before his rookie year. Or after his rookie year. It might have been year after his rookie year. But it was around that time, yeah. Yep. Yes. He was a big, huge part of the new big three is what they were building um between him, Pierce and um Kevin Garnett.
00:24:08
Speaker
Yeah. um Who's got a Kevin Garnett. I had no idea, but this is all new stuff to me. This is all stuff that you've known for years. Kevin Garnett, such a life force of this team back then.
00:24:18
Speaker
Yep. um Ubuntu. Yep. yep Big, huge yeah thing that they used to say. Yep. Rondo, I've always heard that name. I've seen the jersey with Rondo.
00:24:30
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Celtics versus the Lakers for a new era in the 2008 World Championship. Mm-hmm. And they won that, beat the Lakers and Kobe. Great to see that. We just, so much, so much of this of this stuff is going back to the winning time and everything that we've been watching in the last, like,
00:24:46
Speaker
two months now since this documentary first premiered but um next week is the finale uh getting into the new era that's current with uh i know you've been talking a lot about the coach yeah i hope they have some good stuff on missoula because that guy is a fucking lunatic i love him yep and We're going to talk all about that next week, the the current teams. That's great.
00:25:07
Speaker
um Clubhouse, second part. this came on This is on Netflix. We watched the first part last week. This is the second part. um Duran, putting him into the All-Star game. That was a great moment for him.
00:25:19
Speaker
I think it's the second episode that we watched was all about the the trade deadline. and They're talking yeah about the AAA teams um and the Seadogs were a big part of the beginning of the episode.
00:25:32
Speaker
um tyler o'neill i thought he was a great player he got traded at the end of the team at the end of the year um because the team did not do great um yeah they they did not make they didn't even make the wild card um and duran had a huge controversy as well calling calling one of the fans in the crowd and the f word not the fuck word in the other one um but yeah uh I think he got suspended for like two two games. I i remember, and and after I watched it, i remember that happening last year.
00:26:02
Speaker
His post, when he came back, he yeah he wore a shirt with the Red Sox logo on it, but it just said, fuck your feelings. He did a post-game interview after he came back from his suspension.
00:26:14
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i like that I like that guy a lot. Not because of that, but I just like his story, yeah his mental his mental health story. He's an interesting character. yeah yeah yeah um Yeah, but next week, i don't that's it that's it for that. That was the finale of that.
00:26:27
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yeah the team The team was not good. um Now, we'll talk about it a little bit because were not we haven't talked about the current Red Sox this year. um Do you think the team has turned around in the offseason? I know they they did some trades. They did they did get rid of O'Neal.
00:26:42
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Yeah, mean, they're better. They are better? Okay. They're better team. Because going into this, the team did not look good. It did not look as fluid as it did back when I used to watch 20, 30 years ago but Right.
00:26:54
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um Speaking of baseball, speaking of Red Sox baseball, um the last movie for baseball this this month is going to be The Babe. Came out in 1992 starring John Goodman. Never watched this movie, um but talked about his whole entire life story and becoming the leader of the...
00:27:13
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New York Yankees pretty much, and that's where everybody knows him from. um I'm not sure how great John Goodman did, because I don't know much about Babe Ruth other than he was kind of a drunkard, but yeah um it to me, it did hit did seem that he played the role well.
Superman Film Franchise Analysis
00:27:28
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Yeah. Talked to a lot about his womanizing and and yeah alcoholism and all that, so um yeah, I thought it was a great movie. um Yeah, it's very good. And this was right during the rise of Roseanne, so he was just right in the in the thick of it, so...
00:27:42
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Great movie. um We're going to get into the year of Superman this week. It's going to be very heavy because there's three movies I want to talk about. Kind of all in one pitch. um But first we're going to talk about a comic book.
00:27:56
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um You recommended this to me a couple months ago. Luther. yep Originally called Luther Man of Steel. Five issues. Came out in 2005 I believe I've written here. um but Those are the five issues on the right there.
00:28:08
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um the covers for him, and that's the the graphic novel issue on the left there. but Talking through a lens of Lex Luthor for the first time, actually seeing through his eyes um how he sees Superman in the world kind of as not just a menace, but...
00:28:26
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um yeah yeah menace i guess an alien an alien menace that he wants to kind of protect the world from yeah something that be controlled right everything he kind of wants to do for good in his eyes that's kind of what the comic book kind of made me think of um there was as you can see in the cover there for issue three there was a batman bruce wayne cameo um where he tries to sell him kryptonite it's it's kind of a crazy story um where with him he also creates a ah being robot being this kind i think her name is hope and uh and she kind of tries to he kind of tries to take over the superman mantle with her kind of weird um to kind of create and control that but
00:29:11
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um good story good story not the best comic book i've read five issues very quick just but it's very quick read yeah it's a good very quick i think i think like you mentioned to me it took me like an hour to read but yeah um and this leads us up to this kind of the end of the 80s and what happened the big question is what happened to christopher reeves superman after superman 2 Why did those movies fail?
00:29:36
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Why wasn't there a movie again until 2006? And why did it go right straight to television after this? um And that's pretty much what we're to talk about this week and how the Salkinds kind of fucked up everything.
00:29:47
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um Starting with Superman 3, we talked about Richard Donner distancing himself completely. And Richard Lester came in for for the second movie and he came in to direct the third one as well.
00:30:01
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The biggest movie star in the comedy world at the time was Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor went on The Tonight Show one time, talked to Johnny Carson and told him, and an open kind of open call to W Warner brothers and the Salkines.
00:30:16
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Hey, hire me for Superman. Kind of been a joking manner. The Salkines did not take it as as a joke. They called him immediately and hired him to be in Superman three. And that's the poster for that. Superman saving Richard Pryor over the grand Canyon, flying with, it um,
00:30:34
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Richard Lester directed it, like I mentioned, it it was very goofy slapstick, a parody of the movies that came before, especially the opening segment in Metropolis, which was Superman going through with a slapstick comedy that's reminiscent of like Leslie Nielsen in the Naked Gun movies.
00:30:52
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Just so many accidents happening, so many so many crazy scenes happening in Metropolis in the first 5-10 minutes of the movie. Um... And yeah, Richard Pryor working alongside Christopher Reeves.
00:31:05
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Richard Pryor as Gus Gorman. He was paid $5 million. dollars to be in this movie. on Money well spent. Yes. um This came out in 1983.
00:31:18
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At one point, Superman stops a nuclear meltdown by freezing a frozen lake and taking the lake and lifting it and putting it onto the nuclear the nuclear meltdown to bring to cool it down.
00:31:31
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It shows Clark back in Smallville meeting Lana Lang, who's played by Annette O'Neill, O'Toole, who was Martha in Smallville.
00:31:43
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She came 15 years later for that, 17 years later. um Rounding up. this This movie is all about rounding up the change and taking that change.
00:31:55
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that's richard pryor That's Richard Pryor's great idea. Which ended up being a part of Office Space. They actually mentioned Superman 3 by name. It's a big huge plot of that movie.
00:32:06
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um And yeah, Richard Pryor ends up finding this change and he adds up too much of it and ends up having like a check for $20,000 and gets in trouble for it. but um That was the big plot point of this. The bad guy there is... I can't remember his name. Robert Vaughn. Which you've seen in all those commercials back in the day for the insurance. i can't remember who the insurance guy was, but...
00:32:26
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Um, most of the cast returned. Margot Kidder cameoed. Um, Gene Hackman, who we talked about before, did not come back for this movie because that he had he did not like the Salkinds and Richard Lester.
00:32:40
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Um... Robert Vaughn is the main villain. He uses Richard Pryor's computer savviness to reprogram a weather satellite to to manipulate the weather in the movie.
00:32:51
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Aaron Smolenski, who played the young Clark Kent, the cart the Superman penis in the first movie, um he cameoed in this as a kid in a photo booth with Superman.
00:33:02
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um That's him right there, a little few years older. Um, let's see what else i want to talk about. Um, in this movie, the big plot point is Gus creates a kryptonite knockoff, um, by kind of trying to find out what kryptonite is made of, but he doesn't know the missing ingredient.
00:33:20
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He's smoking a pack of cigarettes and on the ingredients on the cigarettes, he sees tar. So the missing ingredients he just puts in the computer is tar. And that's what creates the personality evil Superman split in this movie. And that's basically what the main story at the end of this movie is about is Superman becomes evil with this is kryptonite. It looks like kryptonite, but it's made tar.
00:33:41
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It's nuts. And that's evil Superman sitting in a bar drinking whiskey or something. um and And Christopher Reeves let his beard grow. So he's got a five o'clock shadow.
00:33:54
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um He takes the Leaning Tower of Pisa and he straightens it out. That's his evilness in this movie. um yeah And then in in this weird scene, there's no explanation of why it happens, but Clark Kent separates from his body and ends up having a fight in a junkyard with Superman to the death.
00:34:16
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and the And the end of it, Clark Kent wins out and evil Superman dies and Clark Kent becomes Superman again. Very, very strange There's no plot to this movie. There's no sense to this movie.
00:34:27
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It just happens. This is the third movie. The final boss... This movie was supposed to be a... It was supposed to be a Brainiac movie. We're going to get that minute.
00:34:39
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But this is the half-computer, half-woman cyborg that we get the very last five minutes of the movie. Played by Robert Vaughn's sister. um it's It's a weird fucking plot point, but...
00:34:50
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Superman saves the day, destroys her, destroys the computer, arrests Robert Vaughn's character, and for some reason does not arrest Richard Pryor, who is the criminal mastermind of this whole entire project. He puts him into like the workforce. Very strange plot point of this movie. $39 million dollars budget, made $80.2 million, so made double the budget back for that time.
00:35:14
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um Richard Donner confirmed decades later that he'd be interested in writing at least two more Superman films, um which he intended his writing partner Tom Mankiewicz to direct. um Brainiac was going to be the villain of the third movie.
00:35:28
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um It would have changed this whole entire story completely, and I think they were always... i think i think salkin were always having a hard-on for Brainiac. um And we're going to get into that in a second here. But in 1980, the Salkinds wrote a treatment for a film that included Brainiac, Mr. McSixiplex, and Supergirl.
00:35:47
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um The treatment was released in 2007. I had no idea about this. There's actually a I think it was three-hour video of this whole reading of this script of what this could have been, Superman III, written by Salkind, and he wrote the whole entire treatment for this.
00:36:04
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um Mr. McSixipless was portrayed and outlined as a... kind of different from his counter counterpart in the comics. He was more... um His abilities caused chaos.
00:36:17
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Dudley Moore was the first choice to play the role. um Brainiac was in the movie. This is the strangest part of it. Brainiac was going to be the adopted father of Supergirl. Kind of like the Kents to Clark.
00:36:30
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um However, the script found him falling in love with Supergirl, his daughter. um she didn't reciprocate um She didn't reciprocate the feelings because be she had fallen in love with her cousin, Superman.
00:36:43
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um super supergirl and superman would eventually have married in the fourth film um the climax would have used time travel ah yeah the the climate climax would have used time travel to bring back um um the fight into the middle ages with brainiac um superman and supergirl would have defeated him and left brainiac lost in the past don't know how that would have happened with time tap time travel mechanics um the studio quickly rejected this idea um because it was complex and And the budget would have been astronomically high in nineteen eighty s standards.
00:37:14
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So, that did not happen. We got Superman 3, Richard Pryor, blah, blah, blah. You know, the rest of the history going talk about in a minute. The rest of the history. but um It was originally intended to be titled Superman vs. Superman.
00:37:26
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um They were being sued by the the producers of Kramer vs. Kramer, which a big movie at the time. um So they had to change it to Superman 3. um At this point, the movie did not do well.
00:37:39
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um Not as well as they hoped it would be. Not as well as the first two movies. So at this point, they were questioning the salcons are questioning the sale of Superman rights due to the high budget needed to produce these movies.
00:37:51
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But before they did, they already had another movie in production.
00:37:56
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And that was Supergirl. Oh boy. this this is a This is a hard watch. And I watched it this week, just to talk about it briefly, but... um helen slater coming in as cara she was in i believe she was in a lot of the stuff later on she was smallville and i think she was in the arrowverse too I think she was Kara's mother in Arrowverse. I can't remember. Maybe, yeah. yeah um Mia Farrow, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole. You're talking about three iconic names, actors in this movie.
00:38:26
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um And a cameo for Mark McClure, who played Jimmy Olsen. He had a cameo in this movie as well. um Directed by a French director, J'Nai Schoer. I don't know his name.
00:38:37
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um But he directed Somewhere in Time, and he also directed Jaws 2. We just talked about him a few months ago. um Original plot was a rescue mission where Supergirl had to save Superman. um But after Christopher Reeves read the script, he abruptly abruptly left the picture early on, um causing them to rewrite the whole entire thing um and hopefully refresh the franchise.
00:38:59
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um Set in Argo City in the beginning, Argo City is compared to the city of Kandor. the two surviving cities of Krypton. Um, Argo city was kind of like there's there's it's kind of a weird history. Argo city was a bubble that came off of Krypton kind of like a little asteroid, but everything in, in the city survived, including the people, including the city itself where Kandor was a shrunken city stolen by Brainiac.
00:39:29
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Argo city was kind of lost in space. um after the failure of superman 3 the studio eventually relinquished the distribution rights and tristar was actually the one tristar films actually the ones who released this film um the budget was 35 million dollars looked horrible for that much money only made only made 14.3 million dollars so huge huge failure um and in 18 1980 standards that's huge failure um And the failure led to the Salkinds selling their Superman rights finally to a B-movie studio called the Cannon Group in 1986. They sold it for million.
00:40:11
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dollars wow So the next movie was not released. I think it was it was distributed distributed by Warner Brothers because they still owned the character. Right.
00:40:23
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But the canon group released Superman IV The Quest for Peace. This came out in 1987. Oh, boy. um But the Salkinds kind of had no part of it.
00:40:34
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um Richard Lester didn't want anything to do with it. So they brought back Gene hack gene Hackman and Margot Kidder came back. um They brought in John Cryer to play Lex Luger, Lex Luthor's cousin or nephew or something. I think he's a nephew, yeah. um Meryl Hemingway, she was kind of the love interest. She took over the Daily Planet and it's kind of weird, weird story.
00:40:59
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I've got some pictures from it here. I'll put a couple of them there. but um yeah They tried to replicate the scene with Lois and Superman on the... on the in her apartment.
00:41:11
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Um, that's John, that's John Cryer right out of Pretty in Pink, I think a couple years after that. And that's him with his, uh, with his uncle, Lex Luthor. Um, not good movie.
00:41:23
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Not a great movie. Not even, the word, my god, this, this right here, let's talk about this. Number one, Christopher Reeves wanted, wanted creative control. And the big thing that he wanted um was in exchange to return for not only a large amount of money, he got paid a ton of money to be in this, um but he wanted creative control. And most notably, he wanted to put this nuclear disarmament story into this movie.
00:41:50
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That's why in the movie, he goes in front of the in front of the world leaders And tells him, I'm going to go to every country. and i'm going to steal all of their nuclear nuclear weapons, their rockets, and I'm going to destroy them all.
00:42:03
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The picture on the far the top right there is all of the nuclear weapons from the world put into a net in space. And he ends up flinging it into the sun. um The problem with that is it creates the villain of the movie, which we'll get into in a minute. But...
00:42:18
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um Oh, boy. um And the picture on the right left there, going talk about it right now. Muriel Hemingway gets stolen by the villain of the movie, and that's her that's Superman saving her. She is full out in space, flying around in space off of this off of the world, breathing just fine, no problem. that's That's an actual picture from the movie of her flying through space with Superman.
00:42:42
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Wes Craven. was originally hired by Canon Films to direct this film. what's a russian choice What did Wes Craven do before this? It in 1987. He was still doing softcore or hardcore. like At that point, he had done Last House on the Left.
00:43:00
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Okay.
00:43:04
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When did come out? 87. So he would have already done two Nightmares. yeah He was still a horror director at the time. That was their original choice.
00:43:14
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um But he and Christopher Reeves did not get along, and Reeves demanded that a new director be brought in. That's why we didn't get a Wes Craven Superman movie. um we Reeves directed some of the second units unit shots, um but he was deemed too inexperienced to take on the full director's duty.
00:43:32
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um And due to the canon group having huge financial issues before production even kicked off, um major budget cuts took place in the middle of production. um It was originally budgeted for $35 million. dollars During production, it was cut in half to $17 million, dollars right in the middle of production. 45 minutes of the films were deleted and lost due to the poor screenings of this.
00:43:57
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And the villain of the movie was a clone created from a hair strain Superman that was in a museum that Lex Luthor stole. And he created a clone using that and and a whole bunch of other stuff and nuclear power. And when he sent these nukes off into the sun, it created nuclear man.
00:44:17
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Just going to let that just let it breathe on that for for a few minutes. Was this guy a failed pro wrestler or something? I don't know who he is because he wasn't even he wasn't even in the cast credits. The voice was done by Gene Hackman.
00:44:30
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um Gene Hackman did the voice of him because... and In the movie, if you've seen the movie, um he's kind of like the father of him, and he created him, so it's kind of like Lex Luthor being the superhero, but it's kind of the... mog and magly mac um Yeah, whatever of that. um Yeah, that's them fighting on the moon.
00:44:51
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Not good. Box office was was originally... It was $36.7 million, so it made double of what... I mean, but from standards of what this movie was, the critics just did not like it. Nobody likes it.
00:45:03
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um It's the film that killed the theatrical movies until 2006. It's what Christopher Reeves just left it. Everybody's like, oh, this movie sucks. He was chris originally supposed to do the fifth one and direct it, I believe. They were talking about getting ready for that, right?
00:45:20
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i have I have it right here. ah um Christopher Reeves got in his accent in the mid-90s, but he was always talking about Superman 5. um And it was originally going to be called Superman Reborn.
00:45:31
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It's going to bring it back the whole entire... The Salkinds ended up buying the Superman rights back after this movie failed. And then the canon group went into bankruptcy. The Salkinds bought the franchise back.
00:45:42
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Um, but they didn't get the proper pieces together before Christopher Reeve's horse riding accident. And that's why this movie didn't happen. But, um, it would have shown the death of Superman and resurrection way before the comic book story happened.
00:45:54
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Um, and the main setting was going to be in the bottle of Kryptonian city of Kandor. Um, it would have given a proper fitting ending to the character. Brainiac would have been the villain and Christopher Reeves and Margot Kidder had shown interest. Christopher Reeves talking about it in a lot of interviews before, um he was doing like, um, um, interviews on TV and interviews with, with, um, fan and band conventions and stuff talking about this, um, and how it failed. And this is before his accident, but, um,
00:46:22
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Yeah, what could have been? It could have been a great fitting ending to him and and the character, but I don't know. With the Salkinds being back in charge, I'm not sure. I didn't have i don't have a lot of faith in them. so I'm not sure what that would have been in 1990s standards, but... um Yeah, what a what a weird ending, too. Such a great... where It started in the 70s, 1978, and in in nineteen even 1980 when they did Superman II, even though the directors changed, it was still a decent movie. um The Donner Cut's better, but kind of a weird ending to Christopher Reeves, but...
Upcoming Movies and TV Shows
00:46:54
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Um, so that's it for the eighty s Next, next month, we're going to talk about Superboy, um, the series. We're also going to talk about, um, most of the new adventures of superman but the big comic book read next month is going to be the death of superman i wanted to bring that up because i know you're going back to work and if you have to read that um to get into it but uh yeah death of superman the big huge event that happened and everybody in from time magazine to new york times everybody was talking about it because they killed superman um with doomsday we'll talk all about that next month but um with that being said let's get into the news
00:47:31
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And it's not a new segment, but trail around it.
00:47:36
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and it's not a new type of both trail around
00:47:41
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I've got a new trailer for Wednesday coming out on Netflix sometime this year. I believe it's July. got the dates here. Yeah. July, I know August 6th for part one, September 3rd for part two. I liked the first season. So I'm looking forward to this on Netflix.
00:47:55
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Um, got a new, the final, the, finally the trailer for this Pee Wee Herman documentary where it comes out as gay, um, in the most known, unknown history of this character ever.
00:48:08
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But a two-part documentary coming in on May 23rd on Max called Pee-wee as himself. um The trailer looked great. um I cannot wait to watch this. I love documentaries like this. um I liked Pee-wee Herman growing up, so interested in this.
00:48:21
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ive Got the new trailer for What You Did Last Summer. This comes out July eighteenth It gives me a couple months to watch these two movies prior. um So I had no idea what I was watching other than seeing Freddie Prinze Jr. for the first time in 20 years.
00:48:35
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And what's your name? Jennifer Love Hewitt. um Earth Day was this week. We got two new posters and a little teaser for Alien Earth. ah Comes out this summer on FX. Looked great. Didn't see much of it other than the alien being born on Earth, as you can see in the first poster, and the alien eating Earth in the second poster. But um All alien all the time. We got the Predator Badlands trailer finally, which looked fantastic. Yeah, it does. um It looks really good. And and seeing the seeing seeing the Predator being an alien. Also seeing Al Fanning as an android that works for the Wayland Company.
00:49:13
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um interesting so it is connected to the alien universe um kind of maybe hinting that maybe there could be an alien versus predator part of this somewhere in the future yeah it looked really really cool I liked it a lot um this trailer kind of surprised me this week comes out July 2nd on Amazon I believe maybe in theaters too Starring Idris Elba, John Cena, Jack Quaid. Heads of state.
00:49:39
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John Cena plays a president. Idris Elba is kind of his um
00:49:46
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secret service agent that protects him. Jack Quaid is somebody. I don't know who he is in the movie, really. But um he has got a gun. i like that picture that I put in there. But, yeah, it comes out on July 2nd. going to theaters. PG-13. So, yeah, we'll have to wait see.
Hollywood's Streaming Influence
00:50:00
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Um, Weekend Box Office last week, Sinners, great movie, uh, $45 million. Um, the Minecraft movie made another $41 million. Uh, Kings of Kings, the animated, um, Easter movie, $17 million.
00:50:11
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Uh, we didn't talk about this, the Amateur, $7 million. This is the new, uh, uh, movie with Rami Malek. Uh, looked pretty good in the trailers that i saw a few months ago. Uh, it's made $7 million. And Warfare made $4.8, which was good too.
00:50:26
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Um, Rest in peace to Mongo McMichael. um I don't know. You probably know him more as a wrestler like I do because you weren you you weren't alive with a bit when he was working when he was playing for the Bears. but Right. um I remember him from WCW. I was watching yeah stu heavily heavily at the time. Big part of the Horseman back then, um along with Chris Benoit, which I don't have the picture of him there.
00:50:48
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I have the one with Malenko. um But, yeah, Mongo, huge part of WCW. Yeah. um I know a lot of people know him from his time in the Bears, but I knew him from WCW. But rest in peace to him. he was ALS at the end of his life. He was very frail.
00:51:03
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I don't think he could even move or talk or anything. He was bedridden. It sucks that a lot of wrestlers went and visited him and posted all their pictures with him online because he looked really, really bad at the end. But rest in peace to him. I'm going to get your take on this. Ted Sarandos talked this week about movies in Hollywood and going to theaters, saying that the streamer is saving Hollywood and believes that theater going is an outmodeled idea for most people.
00:51:34
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In other words, why go to the movies if you can go to see it at home? People are buying bigger TVs, having louder sprint have or lot having louder speakers, being able to see this stuff at home. Which is funny. This came out the same week that we had an episode of um that TV show there that we just talked about.
00:51:51
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um studio that basically tackled this this idea. Which is pretty funny. um But yeah, fuck this guy. If Saving Hollywood is giving directors $100 billion dollars more than they need to make a movie and then it getting a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes is Saving Hollywood, I don't know what to tell you.
00:52:13
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yeah yeah they Netflix has some good content, but It's like 25% of it um as far as movies go.
00:52:26
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um They throw money at everything. They literally have no, yeah, they have no like quality control. It's all just throw, throw, throw. Yeah. Yep. um But people watch that shit and that's what they're looking for. And they make more money than any other media conglomerate right now.
00:52:43
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You're talking 220 million subscribers. Paying on average of probably $12 a month. You add that up a monthly, what they're making in the billions every year, it's ridiculous.
00:52:54
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I don't know what they put into content. Probably at least $50 billion, you would think. but Yeah. yeah um In weird news, they're creating a... They're creating a Toys R Us movie kind of on the lines of Night at the Museum.
00:53:11
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Set in the eighty s um It's to be live action. Kind of like they're saying Night at the Museum, Back to the Future, big, where a toy store kind of comes to life. um Inspired by Jumanji and Barbie and all this other stuff. But um i don't Other than that, don't know much more about it.
00:53:32
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I love Toys R Us. I probably would watch this if it's nostalgia-based. But, yeah, I don't know. We'll have to wait and Got new posters for John Wick.
00:53:44
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um Spinoff Ballerina with John Wick and Anna D'Armas. um Comes out June 6th. I cannot wait for that. I did like those John Wick movies. I liked her character briefly when we saw her in John Wick 2, so I cannot wait.
00:53:59
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um Coming right out of the studio, we just talked about it. Bill Hader is going to co-write and potentially star in the Jonestown series development in development and HBO.
00:54:10
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yeah If they don't call it Kool-Aid, they're missing out on an opportunity here. are Yeah, the studio just tackled this two weeks ago. It's kind of crazy. Yeah. Speaking of TV shows that are going to be in the works, The Holdovers, we just watched at Christmas time, is going to be in the works. show based on that is be in the works. I love that movie. That's all we know about it so far. But yeah, came out of Variety this week. Got the first picture of Malcolm in the Middlecast returning to production this week last week.
00:54:39
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Malcolm and his parents, of course, Bryan Cranston. um Announced this week... Fortnite. Star Wars Galactic Battle. Gonna be a brand new map showing up on Fortnite with a whole bunch of Star Wars inspired portions of the map.
00:54:57
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You got pictures of that right there. Tatooine inspired. Hoth inspired. So yeah. um Don't play Fortnite. I've got into it a little bit but it's not enough for me. not my I'm not a big fan of fighters.
00:55:08
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um The Nintendo Switch release. Switch 2 came out yesterday to a lot of problems. If you tried to pre-order it you probably didn't get it a lot of sites were down lot of sites sold out in minutes um they were asking a lot of money for this system uh first for a Nintendo system more than any other Nintendo system prior um but they've Nintendo released a new commercial with with Paul Rudd um reprising his role from the Super Nintendo commercial from the 90s looking exactly the same because Paul Rudd doesn't age but I want to say that mentioned that
00:55:42
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um This was announced today. I don't know anything about Split Fiction, but it's a movie adaptation. Sidney Sweeney was signed on to star as it, as the main character, directed by Wicked director John Cho, John M. Chu.
00:55:55
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um nothing I don't know anything about it. A lot of people are not liking that John Chu is directing it. Right. um I don't i don't really know anything about it. um so It sounds like an interesting idea for a movie, so we'll see.
00:56:08
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Yeah, we'll have to wait and see. um Jesse Plemons has been cast as Plutarch Heavensby in The Hunger Games Sunrise of the Reaping. um That character was originally played from by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the original Hunger Games movie.
00:56:21
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um I like Jesse Plemons. Speaking of Jesse Plemons, I wanted to bring this up when we talk about Star Wars. um Five major actors have reportedly turned down offers to star in Sean Levy's Star Wars Starfighter movie.
00:56:33
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um The one that we heard about last week was Mickey Madsen. She's going to be a villain. Jodie Comier. Jesse Plemons is one of them. ah Greta Lee. And Sarah Snook.
00:56:45
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She's going to be the main character's mother. um The only thing I heard this week about this movie was that um Ryan Gosling was going to be... It wasn't his son. It was like his nephew or somebody. His ah nephew or cousin or something. Yeah, something like that. He's going to take him on as a Padawan or something.
00:57:01
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that's what I heard. I'll have to wait and see on that. um Didn't mention this with the the Darth Maul animated series, but this is the main character of that series.
00:57:12
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um It's going to be an apprentice to Darth Maul. A female apprentice. The original idea was created by George Lucas. Maul's going to be training his apprentice.
00:57:24
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um and If you know George Lucas had done his sequel trilogy, this character would have been one of the villains of the movie. Dave Filoni is writing that. and they're I think it's going to be airing soon. i don't know really when. but um Speaking of Dave Filoni, he's wrote all episodes of Ahsoka Season 2.
00:57:42
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um I think they began filming this week. Anakin Skywalker is going to officially return. um ro Rory McCann took over um the the role of Balan's Skrull after Ray Stevenson died I do you have a picture of him here in character it looked really really cool i've got some first look at concept art for Ahsoka season 2 Um, Admiral Ackbar also returning to Ahsoka season two. He's going to be going head to head with Admiral Thrawn.
00:58:10
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Um, and they announced that Celebration is coming back in two years to Los Angeles, right around the time the new movies start, uh, coming out again in April, in April of 2027. Um, it's to be stateside again.
00:58:23
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kind of weird they were in Japan, but, um, yeah, that was the end
Comic Crossovers and Audience Farewell
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of Celebration. So let's talk about some swag that was announced this week. Swag! stuff we all get.
00:58:35
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Come on, son. You know that's right. Brand new McFarlane figure. Um, we're getting it again. Probably in the next month, we're going to be getting a lot of new, um, merchandise for the new Superman movie. This is one of them. um This is a statue of Superman. David Cornswit Superman from Superman.
00:58:53
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Looked really, really cool. We also got a tease of what the Hot Toys Superman figure is going to look like. That's all they've released so far. um I'm sure we're going get this probably in the coming weeks as well. um speaking of superman supergirl in production um david cromsholt um i believe he's playing cara's father yep earthbound father i think i'm not really sure um but he posted this on instagram a new logo for supergirl um speaking of supergirl this is a real video i actually did see this one um lobo um fighting um very grainy but i do have a shot there on the bottom of a lobo
00:59:28
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i Still not a clear view of what he's going to look like. Either Supergirl as well, but very excited for this movie. Cannot wait for it next year. um And Paul Ben Victors. If you saw Entourage, he's been a lot of yeah stuff. i say he's He's the classical, like, oh, I know that guy. He's been in a thousand things. I just don't know his name.
00:59:46
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He's the classic a Kind of Italian mobster type that type of guy. um He joined the cast of Lanterns. He's going be playing a character called antin Anton, an extraterrestrial devoted to exp exploiting exposing the truth and exacting vengeance against those who wronged his people.
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The rumor that he's playing the leader of the Red Lanterns. Did you see that? Yes. um And this is all a ploy to get the fans to not not no see that yet, but um that's what the rumor is.
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um Garrett Dillahan Hunt. i'm only gonna bring this up briefly because it was debunked, but he posted this picture on the internet. thought it was pretty funny. It was, and everybody thought, is he playing Green Arrow and Green Lantern?
01:00:30
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Not the case. ah James Gunn actually went on there and said, no, that's not going to happen. But he actually, I think he went on, he was on Instagram today too, talking about he didn't mean to get the fans up in an uproar. He was just joking around. and It was like a Halloween costume from back in the day.
01:00:46
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But he's a huge he's a huge comic book fan, so understandably. um I want to mention this too. This comic book looks really, really cool. Predator kills the Marvel Universe.
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um It's going think, a four-issue series where Predator kills every single character of the Marvel Universe. um Kind of up there like the Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe type of story. But it looked really, cool really cool.
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Um, we didn't mention it last week burton during Daredevil Born Again, but the finale, but Superman's theme was played in the finale. Sorry, Spider-Man. Um, and yeah, I mean, we know vigilantes are a huge part in New York.
01:01:25
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Um, we knew we know Spider-Man cannot be in this show, um, I guess we'll have to wait and see if that happens if they make deals, but, um, huge absence. I will say that, um, especially when vigilantes in New York are being hunted by the mayor.
01:01:41
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Um, the biggest one can't be used, but also in the fantastic four trailer, uh, um There was a quick nod to Timely timely Comics and a on a billboard or a signage of a building.
01:01:54
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Timely Comics was what Marvel Comics used to be before they went before they changed their name. They even had the the the symbol of Timely Comics back in the day there as well. um So yeah. um Matt Fraction is writing a Fantastic Four comic book coming out right around the time of Fantastic Four First Steps. It's going to be in the world. I'm not sure if it's a comic adaptation of the movie or just like a prequel. It's the first comic tie-in to any MCU film.
01:02:23
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Yeah, that's what it's gonna say I was going to say. I think it takes place right before, is if I were to guess, it would take place right before the movie. um But yeah, that's the cover art to it there. It looks really, really cool.
01:02:35
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um We got the pictures of what the leader would have looked like, should have looked like in Captain America Brave New World. um What they chose to do was ridiculous. I think this is kind more comic accurate. This is probably what they should have done. But for some reason, they pivoted and did the weird brain-looking They should have done a combination of the two.
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all But yeah, this looks way better. It does look way better. and do you ever watch Have you watched Captain America Brave New World yet? Oh, yeah. I saw the day it came out on streaming. Okay, what did you think of it?
01:03:05
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It was alright. Yeah. I thought so too. It was too too late. um It should have came out on the heels of the show. Like it should came out like the next year. Yeah, for sure. probably It just felt like was too little too late and it felt kind of dangerous.
01:03:18
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But yeah it was okay. Better than they said. A lot of it was dated because it was a sequel to the old one of the oldest MCU movies that's still in canon. um And finally in news, Miles Canton. katon We want to talk about him because we're saying but I don't know what his name is.
01:03:35
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he's a star of sinners um remember that name miles caton miles cat c-a-t-o-n remember that name you're gonna we're gonna know him a lot and probably in the years to come um but he's a huge comic book fan and he put his he put his feelers out to the mcu and says i want to play miles morales his namesake miles i want to play miles morales and spider-man in the mcu and He was great in Sinners. We we talked about him he talked about him last week. I don't know where they found him. he's if that's him singing, which I believe it is.
01:04:05
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It was. It was, yeah. it was amazing. He did an incredible job. He was very talented. Very talented guy. Ryan Cooler did an amazing job finding him and bringing him in there. but um That's it for the show this week. ah Next week, the beginning of the month, we're going to show and tell um Dark Side of the Ring, Episode 6, all about Eddie Gilbert. you know anything about Eddie Gilbert? I don't know. nothing a little bit.
01:04:26
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little bit he he was the I believe he was the booker in ECW when that first started. Okay. So yeah, that should be an interesting one. I believe yeah he killed himself.
01:04:37
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Okay, that's great. That's a great story. um Mobland episode 5. Yeah, uplifting story. Mobland episode 5, studio episode 7. Lost of Us episode 3, see where that story goes.
01:04:50
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um Celtic City finale, looking forward to that. um coming out on coming out on Thursday night I'm going to go see it Thunderbolts I'm going to review that um there's a lot of spoilers going out for that which I'm not going to get it into now but I'll talk about it in full next week on Friday um the month of May not a lot coming out in May um yeah Final destin Destination kind of reboot Final Destination Bloodlines coming out the 16th Apple TV a Murder Robot this is a movie starring Alexander Skarsgård
01:05:22
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um Trail looked pretty good. Comes out on Apple TV. um On the 23rd, Mission Impossible Final Reckoning. I need to watch the last couple of Mission Impossible movies before we get to that. um remake Live action remake of Lilo and Stitch comes out that day.
01:05:37
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um John Krasinski on Apple TV starring in a show called Fountain of Youth or movie. I'm not really sure what that is but looked really good. Reminded me of Indiana Jones.
01:05:48
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um And on the 30th, Karate Kid Legends. Still have no idea what this is connected to, Cobra Kai, or any of the Karate Kid before it. Pretty sure it's just connected to the movies beforehand.
01:06:00
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Okay, yeah, that's what it seemed like to me. but um The Year of Superman, going tackle the 1998 Superboy, Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman, and The Death of Superman and Return of Superman, ah the big phenomenon surrounding that.
01:06:13
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um And The Road to Fantastic Four, Tim Story's first movie in 2005, we're going to tackle that. And I'd like to read Life Story this month. I do have that. I have it in hand now. so Thank you everyone for watching, listening, whenever wherever you get this in your ear holes.
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