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Episode 175
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This week we talk about new episodes of Mobland (Paramount+), The Last of Us episode 6 (HBO Max), Dark Side of the Ring episode 9 on WCW Star Daffney, The Studio season 1 finale (Apple TV+), Ray gives his reaction to the new series Murderbot (Apple TV+), we review the new documentary Untold: The Fall of Favre (Netflix), we revisit Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, we talk Mission: Impossible Fallout and Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1, Kevin reviews Final Destination: Bloodlines and finally we continue our road to Superman with the 1993-1997 ABC primetime series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
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Introduction and Topics
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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
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Keeper.
Mob Land Episode Discussion
00:01:25
Speaker
Hey, Not much, man. Not much. Yourself? Doing alright. jump right into the show got a lot of stuff we're gonna talk about when we watch this week um start off with quick uh reaction to mob land this week great show great episode two more episodes left um next week and sunday and then next sunday it'll be over um great show i cannot wait to see uh number one if this is gonna be picked up for a second season and where the season is gonna leave off um I think a lot of people are watching it. I'm i in hearing a lot of people talking about it. They're usually pretty good about picking up second seasons.
00:02:01
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, they are. Yeah. um Maybe not third seasons with Halo, but... um Last of Us, last weekend, episode six, the penultimate episode of the season...
00:02:16
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um In the beginning of the episode, we get a flashback of young Joel and Tommy way back when they were kids in 1983. And there the swordsman from the MCU who was in Hawkeye, just in Daredevil Born Again, he played their father. and he was a police officer. He's the big bad of Better Call Saul also. Better Call Saul, yep. That's right. laswell um But it's kind of great to see where Joel got his fatherly instincts of um he's going to be a better father.
00:02:43
Speaker
Going grow up to be a better father. um And he kind of passed that on to Ellie in a way too. at the end This whole episode is all about flashbacks. It's all stuff that filled in the void of a lot a lot of complaints from this season so far. I know from the game compared to the TV series are stuff missing.
00:02:59
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And this episode pretty much filled that spot in. um We'll talk about the the scenes and then you can give your reaction to what what the internet's saying. cause I haven't really kept an eye on it this week, but...
00:03:10
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Um, the flashbacks were all around Ellie's birthday and Joel, when they end up in the sanctuary town in Jackson, where's, where are they? Yeah. yeah Um, and it's a year to year going through her birthdays and she's, I think she's 16 in the first one. And then she's older.
00:03:27
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um yeah, it's like time first birthday in Jackson. And then it's just like two years yeah or something. The first one, Joel makes her a guitar from scratch, um takes a bone and puts it the guitar. don't know what the meaning of that is. i guess it's something to do the guitar making. I don't know.
00:03:43
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um The next birthday is the Science Museum scene, which is, from what I hear... shot to shot exactly the way they did it in the video game and i think that's what the video game creator said that like when you do this scene they have to be exact this is something that the fans of the video game need to see on screen they can't be any different um next scene a year or two later um ellie's coming of age and she's she's scissoring in her bedroom and joel walks in on her she also And she also has a tattoo this time, and Joel's kind of upset in the beginning, um but realizes it's covering up the bite mark that she had on her arm. And in a prior birthday, she tried to burn it off buy it with a hot pan.
00:04:26
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um So Joel wasn't really too mad. In the beginning, it was mad, but he kind of got over it, realizing why she did it. um And she's also starting to question...
00:04:37
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Joel about Salt Lake City and what happened in the end of the first season and how he saved her. She didn't know that, not until the end, but she does find out. But it also is a flashback to Eugene.
00:04:48
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who is the who is the husband of Catherine O'Hara's character, the the psychologist. And you find out that he was bitten in the woods. This was a couple birthdays before, a couple years before.
00:04:59
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um He was bitten in the woods, and Joel had to make the decision to shoot him in the woods. Even though he wanted to go say goodbye to his wife, he had to make the decision to shoot shoot him in the woods. um And promised Ellie he wouldn't do it. He would give him time to go say goodbye to his wife, but he did it anyway.
00:05:14
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And the same look that he gave to Ellie... When he promised her that he was going to let him go see his wife is the same look he gave to Ellie um when he promised he didn't he didn't make any damage during the Salt Lake City trip in the first season.
00:05:29
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So that's when she kind of knew that Joel was lying to her from the very beginning. And then he's fast forward about I think it's nine months later. It was the night of the first episode of this season during the dance.
00:05:42
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And the last thing we knew is there's that guy that called them dykes. Joel protected Ellie. Ellie yelled at Joel was like, don't fucking protect me. I don't need you. And then we get the flashback scene later on that night when when Ellie's like, I don't know if I can ever forgive you, but I'm going I would like to try.
00:06:03
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Very heartbreaking because we know what it happens later on that next day. yep um And I know from what I've heard, very kind of ah very ah video game accurate too.
00:06:15
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um This whole entire like flashback sequence is going yeah going in. um There's one part of it I don't think was completely accurate and that was... didn't she ask and She asked Joel...
00:06:27
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um what is Is it possible... that Were they going to make a cure... And Joel says yes. And I don't think it was ever told in the video games that the cure was absolutely possible.
00:06:42
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And I think the creator came out this week and said that, yeah, that was that was always what we were kind of hinting to. He was like, yeah, the the cure was definitely going to happen. And, like, people are coming out saying um that the creator doesn't even know his own story and stuff like that.
00:06:56
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Okay. I don't know. I guess they have different interpretations of the game. I always just assumed that there was going to be a cure. They just don't right make you know that for certain yeah in the game, believe. But it seems it seems like the creator put his input into the show and said, yes yeah, this what the game meant. like, so the way the last season ended, like, I feel like that was the gist of it is that there absolutely was going to be a cure. And then Joel goes and kills everyone.
00:07:19
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Right. Yep. Um, but overall great episode, uh, leaving off Ellie back in current time kind of gives her emotional, emotional state going in there into this last final episode when she's in
Wrestling Focus: Dark Side of the Ring and WCW
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Seattle.
00:07:33
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Um, and that's where we're going to leave off next week. Um, two things, um, The creator of the show, craig Craig Mazin, I think is the guy who did the game too, um has indicated that a fourth season of this of the show is probably going to happen. It's going to be essential.
00:07:50
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Quote, hopefully we' we'll earn the keep we'll earn our keep enough to keep come back and finish it in the fourth. um That's the most likely outcome. and I haven't played the game. I don't know where we are time-wise.
00:08:02
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Neil Druckmann is one that did the game. Mazin is the showrunner. Mazin did i the chernel Chernobyl show, I believe. Right, okay. I know the game is half Ellie and half... um What's her name?
00:08:14
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Abby. The Abby shit is boring, too. so and they're And they're saying that the next quote that came from Catherine O'Hara in interview this week is she confirmed that season three... It's going to focus on Abby's story. so Yeah, a lot of the second half of the game is Abby.
00:08:29
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Okay. From what I recall. So I'm sure it'll be but flashbacks. It'll be her during this time of being hunted by Ellie and all that stuff. So um that's probably why she hasn't been in this season much besides the episode that she was in. But um yeah, great show. Cannot wait for the finale. We'll talk about it next week.
00:08:45
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um Dark Side of the Ring, Daphne. um I don't know if you were watching around this time WCW like I was. I remember Daphne. I remember Daphne. Yeah, we were kind of watching back and forth, back and forth at the time.
00:08:58
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um This is also the time when they changed the logo of WCW and Vince Russo was in charge. So there's a lot of crazy shit happening in WCW at the time. But I do remember Daphne. She was huge.
00:09:09
Speaker
She ended up winning like the Intercontinental, not the Intercontinental, the Cruiserweight title or something. too She was yeah winning men's men's titles too, but that was also Russo thing. You can't put too much. But a great story about her...
00:09:21
Speaker
um came up not really just wanting to be in entertainment did her did a little vignette sent it to wcw heads and they saw it and hired her immediately no wrestling background uh no real knowledge of wrestling and uh they just taught her to the ropes brought her in to be a valet and the rest is history and she became a big huge part up until the end when w wwe bought the company um And then she kind of had nowhere to go except for the Indies. She went to TNA, a little, little stint in TNA, but um really she was just Indie after that. And it kind of took a toll on her mental health.
00:09:54
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And they did a great job in this episode talking about that. So another great episode of Dark Side, learning about her and her family. Who's next week? ah Next week is the finale, and it's Muhammad Umsan.
00:10:06
Speaker
Another great story. yeah This man wanting to get and go ahead against the Iraq War and bring in in a pro-Arab character who is Italian, I believe. yeah um And he was awesome, too, from what I remember. I was kind of out of wrestling at that time, but I've heard nothing but great things about him. so Great wrestler, great promos, but great. he had another guy that was with him that did the promos. Yeah, his manager was awesome, yeah. ah Daivari, wasn't he? And he's one of the writers or one of the um matt also producers now.
00:10:38
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He's also a very good wrestler. Did we see him at Ring of Honor? Or maybe I just saw him on tape in Ring of Honor. I can't remember. possibly Possibly. I know he was around that time, yeah. Mm-hmm. um The studio had a finale this week.
New Series and Documentaries
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What a great show. So glad to get another season. Yeah, me too. And a continuation of last week's episode. I'm so glad they brought Bryan Cranston in this show because he is just so fucking funny. They weakened at Bernie-ed him.
00:11:03
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They weakened at Bernie-ed him. That was the greatest part of this this episode. um ah Yeah, they went to CinemaCon, had their had their thing at the end, and they completely went went off the rails like they we kind of figured it would.
00:11:16
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um And Seth Rogen tried to turn it around as much as he can, but it left off kind of like, ah did it really? Did it really yeah make the crowd think that the studio is in good hands? But yeah, um yeah it's going to be picked up for a second season.
00:11:30
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And we will talk about that again when it comes when it airs again. ah Speaking of Apple TV, another show, i don't know if you had a chance to watch any of the episodes, very quick to get through. um Actually, one came out today. I had time to watch it. There's three episodes of Murderbot.
00:11:45
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From what I gather, i think this is based off a series of books or a book. um And Apple TV bought the rights to it, created a series, hired our Alexander Skarsgård to play this robot.
00:11:58
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um And he's a robot in the beginning of the in the beginning of the show. And he learns how to take off any inhibitor chips or anything and becomes kind of sentient. um He's an AI robot, kind of, and he can control his whole entire um well-being and in robot ways. And the whole show is about that, him kind of becoming aware.
00:12:18
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um Very good. ah twenty I would say 22-minute episodes. There's only three far so far. Yeah, very quick to get through. a little bit of comedy, ah the way he plays the character. It's more of a dramatic sci-fi role, though, but it's really good. really good It's on Apple TV+, plus if you want to watch that.
00:12:36
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um Let's see. Oh, another documentary. This came out on Netflix Wednesday or Monday Tuesday. Very good. the and Untold, The Fall of Favre.
00:12:50
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All about Brett Favre and how he became the darling of the NFL. It was him and and Brady were kind of the yeah poster boys for for the NFL at the time. And like Manning and Breeze, yeah. Manning, yeah.
00:13:03
Speaker
But every like for me outside, I was DeFarge. yeah um And he just went off the rails. And it was all had all had to do with um sexting dick pics, unsoliciting, unsolicited dick pics to Jen Sturger, who was a...
00:13:21
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Sideline analyst for the Jets. um She came out of Florida State. um I know she's a comedian now. I know she has a podcast. actually listen to the podcast every once in a while. Nice. um But yeah, she' she's coming out.
00:13:35
Speaker
She brought in all of her text messages, um voicemails, um the dick pic itself, which I know has gone around the internet for the last 10 years. I don't know how the guy who who created this article...
00:13:47
Speaker
think Deadspin or one of those. He created the article. I don't know how they he they got to him, but he had all this stuff released at all. um And they tried to take down Brett Favre. And it's kind of like, how are you going to take down somebody who is so beloved in a sport that he's just dominant on?
00:14:06
Speaker
Um, and that's what the documentary is about is like, uh, the NFL was not taking any, um, they weren't doing anything to Jen's church. It just kind of throwing it under the rug saying, uh, we don't have really any proof or we can't really, we can't really do anything about this. And then,
00:14:22
Speaker
um Statue of Limitations. don't know if they talked about it documentary, but she's talking about it off the documentary where Statue of Limitations ran out the day that they decided that there was nothing wrong with it, so they kind of waited and stretched it out until the very end of the Statue of Limitations.
00:14:38
Speaker
um Crazy story. bret And then the other stuff I had no idea about. I remember hearing little, little things about it when it happened, but the whole welfare scandal. Yeah, i forgot all of that. I thought this was to be only about the dick pics. I completely forgot about the welfare stuff.
00:14:52
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Yeah, and that's that's a whole other that's a whole other thing of him fucking around with welfare money. He's taking it for himself, um denying all of it, but he had millions of dollars coming into his own foundation and his own personal gain.
00:15:05
Speaker
um And then the the welfare, was it Mississippi or wherever he's from? Something like yeah Something like that. They found out about it and just like, holy shit, you stole this much money from from poor people? um It was the biggest like welfare in that state, that in the welfare welfare scandal in history.
00:15:20
Speaker
um and i And I really had no idea about it until we watched this documentary this week. But great. It's on Netflix. I wanted to bring up one other thing. um Yeah.
00:15:32
Speaker
There's a soccer game on, apparently. like oh ah The second I saw Mike Vick on this documentary. Yes. I forgot to put it in the notes. Yes.
00:15:43
Speaker
but The only football player they had in the whole documentary about how it's easy for some people to, like, get a pass. and Yeah. I'm like, bro should still be, he should have, like, another 25 years left in his sentence for dogfighting.
00:15:55
Speaker
Right. Yeah, he should be in jail. But yeah, that was crazy. It was the only football player they had in this documentary. They asked Brett Favre to be a part of it. Of course, he denied it. but Obviously.
00:16:06
Speaker
Obviously. um But yeah, Brett Favre, kind of a creepy guy. um Kind of. Especially when you see what's in his c closet. Yeah. um So we talked about Andor the last month, however long that show was on Andor season two.
Rogue One Retrospective
00:16:21
Speaker
um So I wanted to jump in and talk about Rogue One this week. Kind of see where where we stand as far as this movie is now after having what we had from Andor, which ended off in a pretty great state with Andor leading up to this movie.
00:16:38
Speaker
um Before this movie and before this show, this was my favorite Disney Star Wars thing so far. um And it still stands. I still love this movie.
00:16:50
Speaker
um Andor's character definitely developed into this movie so much more because there was so much more weight to it. yeah And, of course, the end of it when he dies – spoiler if you have not seen this movie – when Andor dies with Jyn Erso on the planet when it's being destroyed by the Death Star, you realize that there's so much there's so much hope in that moment.
00:17:15
Speaker
the sacrifice The sacrifice for the Rebellion and everything that he puts forward in that moment. And with stuff that he doesn't even realize. he doesn't even realize he has a child. He doesn't even realize Bix is alive, the woman he fell in love with for for years. Right.
00:17:28
Speaker
And all of that stuff, he does all of that for them. And he doesn't even really realize it, but he does it for everybody. The Rebellion, Hope, everything. It's just a great story. um As far as this movie is concerned, do you know the history of behind it? I know Tony Gilroy wrote this.
00:17:45
Speaker
um Who was the director Rogue One? It was Gareth Edwards. Gareth Edwards, okay. And then Gilroy did all the reshoots. all Right. Edwards got pushed off the project. yeah This is a very quietly... um The first time that somebody got pushed off a Disney Star Wars project. Yes, and it happened a lot after that.
00:18:04
Speaker
yeah the big The big one was Solo, the Star Wars movie, which I've only seen once. And they brought in Ron Howard because the the Millard and Lord were kicked out. like Because they hired Lord and Miller to make a movie like a Lord and Miller movie would be. And then they realized that's not the way they wanted to do things, I guess.
00:18:23
Speaker
Right, yeah. It's probably not there's probably not their style to do Star Wars. It's more comedic. Star Wars is, most for the most part, taken seriously. but I would have loved to see what they did, though, with it. My favorite... I kind of realized as I was watching it, the reason why I like this so much, i think it's a lot of reason why a lot of people don't like it... The Force nostalgia?
00:18:42
Speaker
The Force nostalgia, yeah, but the whole reason why I liked the prequels was the same reason why I would go to the prequels every year, every other year to see those movies, is because they were connecting to... stuff in the past. They were connected up to all the original trilogy stuff, and that was kind of what was happening here. There's, I mean, R2-D2, C-3PO being forced in there, yeah, I could see that being a problem, but having stuff that was known in lore, like the kyber crystals, like Jedha, which nobody really knew about, but it was a Jedi sanctuary, it was a Jedi, like, holy holy planet, where that's where the kyber crystals were being being mined.
00:19:17
Speaker
Um, nobody really knew about that. was cool to see that and the Jedi mythology of everything and seeing the big, huge Jedi stone statues, gigantic statues out in the desert. it was really cool. Um, and actually seeing the Death Star being made, being completed, um, and hunting down the plans. We all, we, know that's all stuff we know about, but it's actually seeing that happen.
00:19:38
Speaker
And putting those puzzle plate pieces together is why I was so attracted to this movie, why I still am. Also, Mustafar. We've always heard about Mustafar being the planet of Darth Vader, seeing that for the first time. Seeing Darth Vader in his sanctuary, it was just great to actually see that. Wasn't the last battle in Episode 3 on Mustafar?
00:19:57
Speaker
Yeah, but actually seeing the castle, scene that's oh yeah seeing like where he lived. He grew there. he He was made there and he grew his old empire there. It's kind of and interesting to see that's where he stayed.
00:20:09
Speaker
I have a question for you. what's up? um How did you watch this movie this time? What do you mean? I watched it in 4k, like on Disney plus or the, well i but i but i I bought it. Yeah. and i too guys wow Cause I've had this forever. Cause, um, I got the Blu-ray when it came out.
00:20:27
Speaker
Um, and I watched it on that, but i was just wondering if, uh, Disney has, uh, fixed or made the CGI on Leia's face better. That was just yeah like they did to Mark Hamill in, uh,
00:20:39
Speaker
and that way That is the one problem I have for this movie. And it was in the very very beginning when you see Leia at the end of this. Very early stages of doing that. Right. Very, very early stages. And Great Marth Tarkin had the same problem. Right. You could tell it was CGI. You could tell it was forced. I want to know went back and fixed it up.
00:20:56
Speaker
um or um I don't know. i never heard anything about it. I might just go on Disney and scan through or maybe go on red it yeah it's something it's something that they should do but they don't do that stuff with movies too much unless you're george lucas back in the 1997 you're doing the special editions they don't usually change stuff like that um you also see tantive for the escape i know a lot of people don't complain you've mentioned it too where it's darth vader porn at the end of this movie pretty much oh yeah But it's exactly what you want after after after seeing Vader in the original trilogy, seeing him act the way he was, even seeing him in the prequels.
00:21:36
Speaker
um And knowing that he's going after these very important plans that could destroy the and Empire, destroy a portion of the Empire very quickly. um and doing it in post haste was incredible and remarkable and the scene is only like less than five minutes but him just going in there murking motherfuckers with lightsaber with a lightsaber remember seeing that in the theater each time i saw it's like holy fuck this is just incredible um chasing all the way to the point where not a can of four is escaping and then leads right up to a new hope of course but
00:22:08
Speaker
Great movie. um The final battle over Scarif, they used archived, deleted footage from 1977, remastered um of all the fighter jets, all the fighters that were in in A New Hope.
00:22:22
Speaker
um And Red 5 was the big one. Red 5 was a character. I think they brought in for this movie a new actor. But of course, if you remember A New Hope... when so Luke Skywalker became a fighter pilot, he took on the name of red five. So the red five before had to die and he died in this movie. it was kind of a quick, cool nod.
00:22:39
Speaker
Um, I want to mention a couple of things. Ben Mendelsohn, I don't remember him from anything before this, but I know him from everything after. um Great actor. Bringing him in as director Krennic was awesome. He's kind of a villain villainous character.
00:22:53
Speaker
um He's been in everything from Marvel to everything. But he he also came back for Andor. Very, very cool. Donnie Yen.
00:23:04
Speaker
I don't think I'd ever seen it in anything. I know he had those other movies. um I don't remember what they're called, but has those other kung fu movies. Yeah. But being the blind guy who's in here, isn't he blind in those Kung Fu movies too?
00:23:18
Speaker
Yeah. are they Is he in the Rage series? poor i can't I can't remember the name of his series, but itp it's like something. I believe if he was blind in whatever one he was in, yeah.
00:23:29
Speaker
Yeah. IP Man? Is that it? IP Man, that's what it was. He was in like four three or four of those. But um coming in is a character called Sherot. Um, and he, there's no force, there's no Jedis. We're in the post Jedi world, of course, the beginning of the end of the empire, kind of a beginning of the rebel rebellion.
00:23:49
Speaker
Um, but he still, he, he lives in this, he lives in Jedha, which is a, which is a, um, Jedi mythology based planet. Of course, is where the myth of Jedis come from. It's like the whole religious part of it.
00:24:05
Speaker
He's part of this religious sect on Jedha who still believes in the Force and uses it even though he's not really he's not particularly Force-sensitive. He doesn't have a lightsaber, but he is blind, and he can fight being blind. and and that could be just just like dar It could be like Daredevil where you can just read people's heartbeats from while you're fighting and stuff. But it was really cool.
00:24:26
Speaker
K-2SO, Alan Tudyk, great in everything. yeah Yeah, I love him. I already talked about the Darth Vader massacre chase scene. It was awesome. Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor's sacrifice for the Rebellion.
00:24:40
Speaker
um The whole Rebellions are built on hope was in this movie at first, and they brought it back in Andor. This whole quote where it came from. um That's what Cassian tells Jyn Erso.
00:24:51
Speaker
um And did Endor series enhance the experience? I think it did. I think it definitely did for Endor's story. yeah yeah yeah and um I'm glad we watched it this week. And a year from now, we'll talk about Star Wars again.
Mission Impossible Series Review
00:25:03
Speaker
When we watch Mando and Grogu. Yes. Mandalorian and Grogu. I know a new movie came out this week in theaters. I did not see it. Probably not going to see it in theaters. I may. I don't know. But I did want to talk about Mission Impossible.
00:25:19
Speaker
The two movies I have not seen. You just watched Dead Reckoning a couple weeks ago, you said? Probably like... was it It might have been last week or the week before, yeah.
00:25:31
Speaker
um I had not seen Fallout, which was the movie before that. Fallout's fucking great. I love Fallout. Fallout was really good. That's the one that where Henry Cavill came in with with a beard yeah and had to go into reshoots with Justice League with the beard, and they had the CGI of the beard. that's the whole reason, for because of this movie.
00:25:47
Speaker
Well, to be fair, on it actually, um Warner Brothers was told that he was allowed to shave. And they just chose not to. So that's on Warner Brothers being fucking dumbasses in 2016. Yeah, that's even that's even dumber.
00:25:59
Speaker
That's even dumber then. Fallout, great movie. This came out probably five years ago, maybe even longer. i don't remember the year it came out. But great movie. um There are some stakes to the whole entire team.
00:26:12
Speaker
one of the One of the people i don't want to get into spoilers if anybody hasn't seen this stuff. It took me a while to get through it. But... um Yeah, the team his team kind of comes back together in this movie. um It's a team it's like very much a team movie.
00:26:25
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um And you realize, the further along you get in these franchise this franchise, Tom Cruise is getting older and older. yeah And it's done the stunts are getting crazier and crazier.
00:26:35
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And that doesn't stop in this movie. Getting into Dead Reckoning, which I thought was a fantastic fucking movie. um You liked Dead Reckoning? I did. I liked it a lot. I thought it was just okay.
00:26:46
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um I wasn't huge on it. It was kind of a clutter mess, but I also was just like... I sat on it for like two years in my fucking iTunes folder, for Christ's sake. Well, yeah, I haven't watched it either. thought it was had really great action in it.
00:26:59
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Lots of great action. Lots of great action, lots of great character development. I think there's a lot of nods to the original Mission Impossible from the past, which I i was kind of getting confused with the bad guy of this movie and who he was.
00:27:13
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yeah on There's a little quick flashback of him fighting him when he was first getting into the MI program. Other than that... um It leaves off with the huge cliffhanger, which we already knew this is a part one.
00:27:25
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um But yeah, I liked it a lot. And I liked the whole the and whole end of this movie set in the train where they're trying to escape the train. It's just falling off the cliff car by car by car. Yeah, the action man is really good.
00:27:36
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Yeah, that whole entire set of how they had that train I thought was really, really cool, and they had to climb through the train by car to get to before they fell down into the the ravine below. By the way, that whole scene reminded me of Back to the Future Part III in the ravine. Yeah, but um yeah great movie, um and I kind of cannot wait to see the next part. From what I hear, everybody loves it.
00:27:57
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Definitely a definitive ending to the series, so... speculation is already a ah ah while that is this Tom Cruise? Did he die? Did this his character and Ethan Hunt die in the movie? I have a feeling they're billing it as that so they get a little bit extra money because none of these movies, even though they seem like they have a huge following and are pretty successful, have never even, I think the last one cracked 800 and that's the highest they've ever gone.
00:28:20
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Wow. Like you would have thought there would be $1 billion dollar film in this in the series, but um they just haven't reached that mark yet. so i wouldn't be surprised if the marketing is set around it being Tom Cruise's last movie. And they look but donenning so they were his mixty so right they look stunning, so they must cost a lot of money to make, too. so Yeah, the new one was $400 million dollars because of all the practical stunts.
00:28:42
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Yeah, so that's crazy. And it's all practical. um the The scene in this last one where he's where he's flying off, he he's jumping off the bike off of a cliff, and then he parachutes off the cliff. All real fucking practical stunts. It's just ridiculous. yeah I was thinking while i was watching this, I know the Oscars are going to be adding a stunt category.
00:29:02
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If he's not the first presenter for the stunt category, why do they even have it in the Oscars? Right. but yeah um Yeah, it just came out. The new one came out, debt ah Final Reckoning. And we'll probably talk about it in the future sometime. But yeah, it's opening up against Lilo and Stitch, which just did a huge numbers last night in previews. So yeah probably not going to win the box office for the weekend. but ah You watched the movie. You went to the theater today. You did not see Thunderbolts. You did not see Final Reckoning.
00:29:31
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But you did see Final Destination. Hmm. um Yeah, give me your thoughts. I'm so far behind on the Final Destination world. 1 and 2 I may have seen. That's as far as I went.
00:29:44
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fuck cla great This is probably this probably the third best one. I haven't seen 2 in a while, but re-watched 1 and I watched 5 for the first time. you know the twist in 5? No, I haven't seen past two, I don't think. Okay, okay. um Twisted V is pretty cool.
00:29:58
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The movie itself, I was kind of underwhelmed with. um That was also the one they filmed for 3D. So all the deaths have that... Oh, this is supposed to be seen in 3D.
00:30:08
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Which is really fucking annoying in the year in the big 2025. But this new one's really good. um okay Basically, the premise is the in the nineteen fifty s This woman basically had the premonition just like Devin Sawa did in the first one and saved hundreds of people's lives by evacuating the building.
00:30:32
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Usually it's like five or six people and then death comes back for them. So these people went on to have lives. They all had kids. um But deaths are coming for them and their generations afterwards.
00:30:44
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ah calm Basically throughout the last like whatever 70 years it's been or whatever it is. um So basically... She's like kind of holed up in this like cabin thing.
00:30:56
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And like, she's just like living just, she knows all the signs of death and stuff like that, but she's basically a hermit and stuff. But her granddaughter, um, who's never met her, starts having this nightmare and it's the same Vision that she that her grandmother had um, and it just so happens to be at the same time Her grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. So eventually death did get to her just not in a violent way So she meets the grandmother the grandmother gives us this like book like all these crazy stories She tries to tell the family about it blah blah blah.
00:31:27
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Um, and then death starts coming for them. Um, it has one of my favorite final destination death scenes um involving a vending machine and an MRI machine and a Prince Albert.
00:31:42
Speaker
i've heard I've heard about the um MRI machine. I heard it was gruesome. it wild It's bad. It's fucked up. Okay. But this movie was excellent.
00:31:54
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Tony Todd, of course. Yep, nice movie. His last film, um, and they let him, um, improvise his dialogue. And, uh, I got a little teary eyed, uh, during that scene.
00:32:07
Speaker
Cause I fucking, I grew up on, I grown up on, uh, his movies. Um, the one where he had the hook there back in the day at candy man Candyman. I was like, I saw that when I was like eight years old.
00:32:18
Speaker
Um, and it's probably why i have a fear of bees to this day. um, But yeah, that scene was very emotional, and I love how they tied it in. They tied him into the vision in the beginning, is all I'll say, which I thought was really cool and creative.
00:32:34
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um And yeah, RIP Tony Todd. I'd give this movie... I hate doing right out of the theater because I literally got into this movie like two hours ago, but it's a solid like four. It's definitely the third best.
00:32:47
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Like it's right up there with one and two in the final destination movies. There was ode to every single final destination movie ah in this. Um, and in all the previous ones, Tony Todd's always talking about, I've seen this before, blah, blah, blah.
00:33:02
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Um, and you, they give you a good reason as to why he's seen it before. It's really, really cool. Um, I really enjoyed it. Um, overall, um, I forgot who wrote it, but it was somebody we've talked about on this podcast a lot. I feel like, um, he's in like our lexicon of stuff. Um, and I'm blanking on his name, but, uh, he like wrote and produced or something, but, uh,
00:33:23
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Yeah, 15 years after the last Final Destination movie. And I thought this was a really interesting concept to bring it back where where where they go after the the kids, basically. And of course, the way death works is you have to, it goes in order of your death, right?
00:33:38
Speaker
So that's why the old lady was like one of the last ones, because in the vision, she was the last to die. um Okay. So that's why it's like everyone, then it starts going after her family.
00:33:49
Speaker
All right. So yeah, excellent movie. Cool. Definitely recommend it. And with the way movies theaters are working now and Mission Impossible, Lilo and Stitch will probably be available online within the next month, I'm guessing, even though it's it's doing really well for being a horror movie.
00:34:05
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Right. Yeah, Sinners comes out. It's not this Tuesday. June 2nd or 3rd. Tuesday after, yeah. What would have been my mother's 80th birthday. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your mom and my dad are the same age. My my dad just turned 82.
00:34:18
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Um, yep so we are now officially less than two months away from Superman. I know you're excited. I know I'm excited.
00:34:29
Speaker
I'm excited and cautious about my excitement at the same time. Um, yeah. Muted. I muted every word I could think of this week on Twitter.
00:34:40
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So, But we are in the 90s. We've been talking about the 90s. We talked about Superboy last time. This week is my bread and butter. This is the show I used to watch every Sunday night on ABC.
00:34:55
Speaker
This show is so 90s. It's so 90s. It's so 90s. um and This was on ABC. It came out in 1993. After all the movies, after Selkines lost their rights, Warner Brothers and ABC that decided they wanted to create Lois and Clark.
00:35:11
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The New Adventures of Superman. They hired two relatively unknowns to play Lois and Clark, Dean Cain and Terry Hatcher. who Terry Hatcher was in Desperate Housewives after this. She was in a whole bunch of stuff after this.
00:35:23
Speaker
This was her break, yep. Dean Cain has been locked into this role for the last 30 years. um And typecast, and he hasn't been really in anything else besides this. Maybe in a couple B-movies and Hallmark movies.
00:35:36
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um More known for his political stance now than anything in his Twitter... but He was lucky, though, because I'm sure the residuals for this show, when it was when it first came to DVD, probably paid for a couple Christmases. Have you seen his house in Vegas? It's goddamn beautiful. It's so beautiful.
00:35:52
Speaker
Yeah, I can imagine. yeah He definitely made all of his money off of this show. yeah But this was made for a new generation. Well, it was made for me because I watched it when I was a kid. I loved it. Right. You were like nine or whatever when I started.
00:36:07
Speaker
But it was primetime on ABC. Yeah. And the all the promotion art was something you would see on a fucking soap opera magazine. This was made for the housewife generation. This was made for the soap opera, women this watching soap operas in the middle of the day. That's one reason why I never saw it, because my cousin watched it, and she was always into those, like, I just saw it as like a ah show for like chicks that just happened to have Superman in it, is how I viewed it growing up.
00:36:34
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Yeah, it was definitely Lois and Clark-esque. Superman took a backseat to a lot of the stuff. He was in in the tights, of course, as you can see there. But it was all about the relationship. And and i' I haven't seen the new show that you've watched last year, clara ah Superman and Lois. I haven't seen that.
00:36:52
Speaker
so But this does the best best depiction to me so far of what I've seen of Lois and Clark as a couple. And their relationship and everything they they had to go through through their relationship. um from falling in love to Lois becomes a clone in the third season and Lex Luthor creates a clone of her.
00:37:11
Speaker
Marries Clark Kent, but the marriage becomes void because she was actually a clone at the time. lot of weird stuff you would see in soap operas at the time or in the eighty s But it was all love, intrigue, the villain of the week, all created for the show. not Not too many comic book villains. There's a couple, but um but it was definitely the Superman generation for the housewife.
00:37:33
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um yeah And i was I was hooked on it every single Sunday night at 8 o'clock. I remember sitting and sitting in my living room when I was a kid watching this show religiously.
00:37:44
Speaker
um This was the title card. This is what it looked like. But yeah, these right here, these are all the promo pictures. It was all focused on Lois and Clark the whole entire show. um And their dynamic together was just incredible for the time.
00:37:57
Speaker
um But this is what you would see in the beginning of the show, Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. um That is his mom and dad. um The big difference between this and everything before and everything after it,
00:38:08
Speaker
The whole entire series, Jonathan and his mother, Martha, are both alive the whole entire time. Yeah, which makes sense because they were starting to do that in the comics at the time where Superman would have his living father. And I mean, i love that change because I love his conversations with his father in the comics.
00:38:26
Speaker
Right. There's two things that happened. In the 80s, the comics changed. The whole story of Superman changed. We talked it, I think, last week, the week before. Yeah, right after Crisis in 85 or 86. Right. Right after Crisis, everything changed. So they wanted to make this TV show, they wanted, number one, get it all the way out of the Selkine's hands after Superboy and everything fucked with the movies.
00:38:45
Speaker
And they wanted to take it into themselves and to make it more more on brand to what their comic book was doing on on the shelves at the time. That's why we got the show. It was also around the time, which we're to talk about next week, all around the death of Superman was going on at the same exact time this show was out.
00:39:02
Speaker
And that was the biggest thing in Superman lore in 50 years just because of the the amount of news press that was being taken over by that, which we'll talk about all that next week. But... um That's lewis that's um Martha and Jonathan.
00:39:16
Speaker
That is also her making his first suit in Smallville. There is a scene in of Smallville in this show throughout with there and where their house still being there. um And they fly they fly in and out of Metropolis all the time. but um This is the original first season cast, and that is who played Lex Luthor in the first season, John Shea.
00:39:36
Speaker
Um... They end up going in after the second season. John Shea only did Lex Luthor for the first season. He came back, I think, three or four times through season two through four, just for guest star moments. Like I mentioned, in the third season, he created a Lois Lane clone.
00:39:52
Speaker
um And he did come back for that. He was bald in that, but he had hair throughout the whole entire first season. The end of the first season, that he ends up merit and trying to marry Lois Lane. um And a big, huge thing is he falls off the the top of a skyscraper and Superman doesn't save him, and he ends up supposedly being killed.
00:40:10
Speaker
And then of course, soap opera trope, he comes back two seasons later, bald headed and injured. But, um but the, the other thing that they changed there, you guys, you can see there in the cast, there's two members. There's cat who was worked at the newspaper and there's also a Jimmy Olsen.
00:40:25
Speaker
um When the second season came along, they got rid of cat and they changed Jimmy Olsen to a brand new character, brand new actor. um and they The reason for the change was they wanted to be more hip, more more more and more ninety s and more teenlike more kid-like. and the other that Jimmy's got the Sean Hunter haircut going on Yes, of course, and he's got yeah he looks like Sean Hunter.
00:40:49
Speaker
um He calls Clark Kent throughout the rest of the series, he calls him CK for short. yeah um But that's all I remember from that. But talk about a few episodes. I don't know. hey Do you have a chance to watch any of this week that I recommend? Okay.
00:41:01
Speaker
I watched that plus and then some once I started getting into it because it brought me back into the nostalgia of everything. We'll talk about a little by little, but... um the tempest episode was always my favorite um tempest fugitive came out in second season towards the end um tempest was a criminal from the i think say 200 years in the future um and hg wells yes that hg wells from the time machine um i don't know i i meant to look it up i forgot i don't know where this came from as far as the show is concerned
00:41:32
Speaker
I don't think it's part of the comic books at all, but H.G. Wells comes in with a time machine and brings this fugitive from the future into current-time 90s Metropolis. And, of course, you bring him into Metropolis in the current times, and he and he just goes crazy and and becomes a menace. And Superman has to stop him. Lois has to stop him. There's a whole bunch of time-travel fuckery that happens in this.
00:41:52
Speaker
um A lot of tropes to ah Back to the Future. There's actually set set pieces that look like Hill Valley. but and You're talking 1993. So you're talking 1994, just a few years after Back the Future had already come out. but um ah Here's some pictures of Tempest and H.G. Wells.
00:42:14
Speaker
And him holding ac Wells hostage in the time machine and, of course, the time machine there as well, right directly out of the movie if you've ever seen back in the day. um That was a great episode.
00:42:24
Speaker
The end of that season, a couple episodes later, is where Clark reveals to Lois, well, actually, he proposes to her. And Lois already knows that he's Superman and she takes his glasses off.
00:42:36
Speaker
um This was the season finale. i remember watching this the night it came out. um And she she realizes that he's Superman in that episode. And then the next next episode, when it comes back for the third season, um they're they're flying up in the sky in the and the Superman classic going through the clouds scene. um And they end up embracing and kissing in the sky and all that.
00:42:58
Speaker
um And then we get into the end of the third season. And there's a whole entire four-episode arc that everybody talks about. It's the New Krypton story. If you know comic book lore, New Krypton was part of Krypton that came off before it exploded, one floating through space. is mostly comic book acronym, except for one part.
00:43:20
Speaker
came Came off of space, and... ends up going to Earth, and they try to recruit Kal-El to be the lead their leader for New Krypton. These two Kryptonians come on in the end of Season 3, and they're trying to recruit Superman to be their leader, but can take his Kryptonian roots and become their leader. and But they're also being chased down by a Kryptonian character that's very much on par with Zod, but I don't think they wanted to name him Zod because of the movies. I think they wanted to change it.
00:43:52
Speaker
So they ended up naming him Nor, K-N-O-R-R. um But there was a four-episode arc, two episodes at the end of season three, and it ended in the two episodes at the end of the beginning of season four.
00:44:03
Speaker
um And Roger Daltrey was one of the villains. That's him in the middle there, um the the lead singer of The Who. He came in as a guest star, as one of these characters that was kind of a mimic character who could create the person that was fighting. He could...
00:44:18
Speaker
fight them and every time he would fight them he would gain more become more like them and and learn their weaknesses and and and mimic them I can't remember his name Tez was his name but yeah he was an assassin and as as you can see they took over Smallville and Superman had to save the day and save Smallville and send them off planet I believe they ended up killing with a but they Kryptonian bomb or something nuclear bomb um And then after that was all cleaned up, Lois and Clark, after that, I think it's episode three, um they finally did get married in episode three of season four.
00:44:59
Speaker
um And, yeah, iconic. I remember seeing that that night, too. Iconic scene. And later on that season, Christmas episode, is when they brought in one of the first...
00:45:10
Speaker
comic book characters mr mcsixiplix mr mcs picks mcsix pedalix as they call him in this um but played by howie mantel who was who was huge in fox at the time he had that show um bobby's world he was doing the animation for the the voice for oh yeah i forgot he had he was and he did bobby's world that's right big in comedy big and big in just comedy in in at the time But they hired him to be Mr. McSixiplex, and he took over during Christmas, and it created almost like this Groundhog Day for Superman, where he's the only one that was aware that the the day was repeating itself, and because there was no tomorrow, there was no hope, and everybody was kind of turning against Superman and hope for the world, and then he had to save the day.
00:45:53
Speaker
um That was a pretty good episode. But the show ends in 1997. It wasn't supposed to. It got canceled. Writings went down. People weren't watching it. um Kind of like the time at this time, comic books weren't becoming that popular either. They were they took a dive and in sales as well.
00:46:09
Speaker
They were supposed to do season five, but what's-her-name got pregnant. Lois got pregnant in real life, and it was a difficult pregnancy, so they decided to just stop. But it did end on...
00:46:21
Speaker
Superman and Lois having trying to have a baby, talking about having sex all the time throughout the end of after they got married. It was all sex all the time with Lois and Clark. I remember that. um But they find out in the in the season finale that they cannot have kids because he's Kryptonian and she's a human.
00:46:37
Speaker
But the end of the episode, a baby just miraculously shows up on their doorstep. Um, and I have a picture of that right there. and that was the end of, that was basically the end of the series is that, is that scene with Lois and Clark holding the be baby, showing it to her parents and his parents.
00:46:55
Speaker
Um, and that was it. Um, the show was supposed to leave off on a season five. Um, and you were, and they were going to, the baby was going to be a Kryptonian baby sent to them. Um, and then that story was never finished, never, never completely told what what was going happen, but.
00:47:10
Speaker
um The show was known for villains of the week, but also guest stars of the week. And there were a ton of them. I have some of them here. um Bronson Pinchot from Perfect Strangers.
00:47:22
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um James Earl Jones played the the mayor in one of the episodes. Jonathan Frakes from Star Trek. um um herman Sherman Helmsley from The Jeffersons.
00:47:34
Speaker
um Adam West played a really quick cameo in a courtroom. um ah to to do Frank Gorshin from the original Batman series also. Ben Stein, huge. Ben Stein money at the time was huge.
00:47:47
Speaker
um she ah Jack Larson, the original Jimmy Olsen, played a cameo in this. Penn Jillette, huge at the time, magician. um Drew Carey had this really cool, weird ghost episode with him and Mimi from the Drew Carey show. Bruce Campbell, Peter Boyle, um and the original Lois Lane, Phyllis Coates was in this. There's a bunch of other ah character actors that you've known and seen before that were in this too. but um yeah I love this show.
00:48:15
Speaker
i've I used to watch it all the time. I watched the series just about 20 years ago. I watched the whole series from beginning to end. um And it was good to go back and do it this week. On DVD? On DVD. I still have them.
00:48:27
Speaker
um It was good to go back and kind of re-watch the best parts that I remembered when I watched that back in the day. did all I watched all those episodes this week. um So next week, um we're going to hit the end of the ninety s We're going to talk about two things.
00:48:41
Speaker
One, we've been talking about the death of Superman, the return of Superman, all this stuff, that the the the media storm for that. ah We'll briefly talk about the Nicolas Cage movie that failed and and didn't happen.
00:48:53
Speaker
And that's kind of where the 90s did. Superman kind of just died right there in a couple of different ways. but And then next month, we'll get into all the 2000s stuff, which is just crazy. Um, but yeah, Smallville, Superman Returns, all that stuff's going cool to get into.
00:49:09
Speaker
um so with that being said, let's get into news.
00:49:19
Speaker
And it's not a news time without the trailer roundup.
00:49:23
Speaker
Got a full trailer for The Predator Killer of Killers. Killer of Killers. Nice. Comes out in just a couple of weeks, June 6th on Hulu. ah This trailer looked really good. um do you know if this a series or a movie that's going to be an anthology movie? I think it's a series, question mark.
00:49:42
Speaker
Yeah, i'm not I'm not sure either. um But I know they're going to tell the Predator story through history and the Predator going to Earth. That's why assume going to be a series like one each week will be a different time period.
00:49:55
Speaker
ah the The two that I remember, the Samurai, and there's also a World War I, World War II one. I think it's World War II and there's fighter jets, fighter pilots and stuff. um but yeah i'm very interested in that cowboys i think too it may one of them i can't remember but um yeah very interested in that and we're gonna get the new predator movie at the end of the year too so uh great time to be a fan of all that stuff and the rumor this week was that alien is gonna be the alien xenomorph is gonna play a part in this series too in one the episodes i guess some some somebody saw something in the trail that made them think that but
00:50:26
Speaker
Jurassic World. We've got a new trailer. I believe... I'm not sure if tickets went on sale this week. Is that why the trailer came out? I think that may have been why. But we've got some new posters.
00:50:37
Speaker
These are the first two 4DX Real D 3D. We've got Dolby Digital and we've got some Screen X ones. Looked really, really cool. No IMAX. They're not getting an IMAX. Yeah, theyre they are not getting an IMAX. Because of F1, I believe. Yep.
00:50:50
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Yep. um But we also get some new looks and design ideas for the new the new dinosaurs. ah The one on the left is the D-Rex. It's designed inspired by a mix of T-Rex, Rancor from Star Wars, and the Xenomorph from aliens And we've seen the pictures of that. We've seen it in the posters. It's kind of the mutated looking Tyrannosaurus Rex.
00:51:12
Speaker
um And the other one is a Mutadon, who is a kind of a flying dinosaur, as you can see there, but it's definitely mutated and looks more like a bird. But yeah, I'm not sure. I'm kind of, I've always been less than 50-50 on these movies.
00:51:26
Speaker
um There's only one good one. Jurassic Park, Jurassic World. Yeah, yeah. Lost World I liked when I was younger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, honestly, there's only one great movie, which is the first one, and there's one good movie, and there's a bunch of mediocre to bad slop.
00:51:44
Speaker
Yeah, and and we had our feelings the last The last one was pretty fucking bad. Oh, yeah. The Locusts, yeah. It doesn't matter if people show up because they like yeah sweet dino action.
00:51:56
Speaker
Yeah, and it seems more and more, now that we can now that we can make dire wolves, it seems like this is more and more of a possibility the further along we get into the science. But, yeah. um This is also the popcorn bucket, the incubator, dual container.
00:52:10
Speaker
um It's going to have a cup It's going to have a cup built into the popcorn bucket, which cool. I like that. I'm exclusive to Regal, so we probably get that if we want it. Got a new trailer for It.
00:52:21
Speaker
Welcome to Dairy. Comes out this fall. We see Pennywise for the first time. Looks really good. Looks really good. I gotta grab some water here. ah Does look really good. i've Also got the new trailer for Caught Stealing.
00:52:33
Speaker
this This looked really good, too. i don't know you ended ended up seeing or not. I did, yeah. um But it is it looks really, really good. Darren Aronofsky, Austin Butler. doesn't look like an Aronofsky film, which is what i did does not at all what i appreciate about it. It looks like a Coen Brothers comedy to me. Yes.
00:52:52
Speaker
Yep. But you got Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith paint playing this punk-like character. Yep. Leo Schreiber and ah Vincent D'Onofrio, who are there dressed as rabbis.
00:53:06
Speaker
Yep. That's them there. But they look really good, and I cannot wait to see that. Um, and Tires. i don't know if you watched the first season. It's on Netflix. I do not. Uh, very good, and the second season comes out on June 5th. They released a new trailer for that. I'm not the biggest Shane Gillis fan, so... Yeah, it's hit or miss for a lot of people. I understand that.
00:53:24
Speaker
Um, very good. Uh, new documentary on the Titan submersible sub, uh, sub that came, that, uh, exploded, imploded last year. coming out on Netflix on June 11th.
00:53:34
Speaker
Um, they're gonna be doing some, uh, unseen footage. The hunt for this and what happened in the aftermath, of course. But, um It comes out on June 11th. It looked really good for that. um Weekend box office last week. Final final Destination won the box office with $51 million.
00:53:51
Speaker
ah Thunderbolts had second place with $16.5 million. And Sinners had third place for $15.4 million. If you have not seen Sinners, out of all all the movies in the last month, Sinners is the best movie that's been out probably in the last year.
00:54:03
Speaker
um Very good movie. You should see it in the theater before it becomes digital. I think it was probably my favorite movie since we saw Dune 2, which was a year ago. Yeah, it's definitely... From Dune to that, I think that was my favorite movie.
00:54:15
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yeah Yeah, definitely the trajectory of movies, I think you're probably right. but yeah um Rest in peace to George don't know if you're a big, huge Cheers fan. um For this area, huge, because Cheers is in Boston. tried it a few years ago. um That show is very dated in the beginning in the early years.
00:54:33
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you didn't watch it You didn't watch it when you were younger. See, I watched I was younger. I haven't well i't currently watched in current times. I'm wondering yeah I would feel the same way. so I watched it when I was a kid all the time.
00:54:44
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I saw a few re-runs here and there, but it wasn't like my thing. like Seinfeld became like my thing. Yeah, but Norm, ah George went. Rest in peace to him. Died at 76 in his sleep this week.
00:54:56
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It's on the anniversary of the show ending. Yeah, I remember how big that show was in the end. And we went on a field trip, I think, at the end of that year, 93. ninety three And we went to we went to Boston. Yeah, we went to Boston. i think he may have been the Science Museum or somewhere.
00:55:12
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right, we did. And I remember driving by Boston thinking, oh, yeah, this is where Cheers is, isn't it? It's the first time I went into Boston. That's why I remember it.
00:55:23
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Um, the first time I remember going into Boston at least. Have you been to the cheers bar? But I've, I've only driven by it. I've never been inside. Have you been in? Yeah. I wondering, uh, when my sister first got married, her husband wanted to go. So we did a okay trip down to Boston.
00:55:37
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Um, it's basically like, it obviously looks nothing like the show. cause it's filmed on a soundstage whatever, but it was like, one side is like all merch. Like they have like the coolest merch store. If you're a cheers fan.
00:55:50
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And then the other side, there is the, the bar itself. Yeah. Yeah, so rest in peace to him. Norm was it was a huge part of that. um Him and Norm and Rassenberger, Cliff, ah huge people always. Woody Harrelson. Woody Harrelson, huge on that show.
00:56:07
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Ted Danson, of course. Rest in peace. um And I don't know, you may be able to explain this a little bit. I was trying to read articles about it, trying to figure it out. But this Warner Brothers Discovery credit rating cut um went from went to junk bond status.
00:56:24
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um As far as I know, it's kind of, I don't know if you know anything about this i read anything about it. i It's confusing. I'm not smart yeah I want to know i want to know more about it. so What it sounds like is that um they said that you you're so bad off that you should not split.
00:56:44
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That's how bad you are. If you split, you're going to be failing both both splits of the company. um That's as far as pretty much as what I know of it. But everything else in the article is confusing. all had to do with stocks and splitting and splitting the company. It's like trying to figure out the stock market, to be honest. I mean, they have movie that comes up that does a billion dollars and the fucking stock goes down. I'm like, how's that work?
00:57:04
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but Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but yeah, that that was a big, huge article this week. I didn't really understand any of it. i I'm wondering if you knew a little bit more. but um Carrie Mulligan has been cast in the Narnia movie. We found a little bit more about the Narnia movie as well.
00:57:21
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um Greta Gerwig, right after Barbie, coming in to do these Narnia movies on Netflix. And the first one is based off of the sixth book in the series. So it's not even The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
00:57:33
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But it's actually prequel. The sixth book is a prequel that goes back before The Lion, the Witch, and the road Wardrobe. it's about this And it's about this mother who is Diggory's mother. Diggory must be the main character. And Carrie Mulligan's coming in to play her. And it's all about um the White Witch going into London.
00:57:53
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Which is kind of cool because we always go into the wardrobe and see Narnia and all that stuff. They actually bring in the White Witch white witch into London. And then Aslan has to come into London as well. And if it's a prequel, I'm guessing they're just going to go in chronological order instead of starting off with the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe is what they've done.
00:58:10
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in every adaptation so far. It's just kind of cool. I'm interested to see what they do with these Narnia movies. I was obsessed with those books when I was younger, um the BBC miniseries we watched in school, so interested to see where this goes, and the movies that came out with Disney were okay. um ah yeah um ah Deadline reported that there's going new movie with Denzel Washington, Kevin Bacon, and Pauly Shore.
00:58:35
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um A thriller called Get Out of Our Way coming out in summer of 2026, summer of next year. um Pauly Shore being in a movie after all of the shit he came out with in the 90s and being cast now is kind of crazy, but in a movie with Denzel Washington nonetheless. but um Speaking of movies I don't understand, Michael Bay is officially directing the Skippity Toilet movie. It's now in production.
00:59:00
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Yep. Oh boy. yeah Speaking of Michael Bay. What the hell is Skibbity? It's like a dude's head in a toilet. like that's the if that became it's say It's a youtube bunch of YouTube shorts and Skibbity Toilet came from that.
00:59:14
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And then ask kids, ask anyone under the age of 15 what it is and they'll know exactly what it is. um But yeah yeah, it's just some sort of a kid thing of these YouTube shorts. That's what kids watch nowadays. They don't watch TV.
00:59:28
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They watch YouTube. um Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem sequel has been delayed almost a year September 17th, 2027. Not the only delay we got this week. We'll talk about that at the end. Certainly not.
00:59:40
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ah Elizabeth DeBecky, who was in, she was in, was it Royals? She played Princess Diana. she's also in She was also in and Wolverine. She played the she played that ah dead um wo fuck Professor Xavier's sister.
00:59:59
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um Or no, that's not who I'm thinking don't know who thinking of. um But she's going to she's an in-star to talk, ugh. In talks to star in David Fincher's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel with Brad Pitt.
01:00:11
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um Other than that, we don't know much more about it. um Yeah. Last couple of weeks, I've been talking about how great The Bondsman is. I love that show. Yep. I was like, well, leaves off in a great cliffhanger if they do a season two. Well, it was announced right after I finished the fucking series that they got canceled.
01:00:29
Speaker
um After season one, that Kevin Bacon went online talking about it. He was kind of shocked about it too. But ah yeah, they just don't have time for for a week's shit. And number one, it wasn't promoted. and I barely found it myself. I found it right after it had already aired a month after it already aired. So...
01:00:45
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It was a great show. I think it had a lot of potential, but it just wasn't picked up it wasn't picked on for people who were watching it. but Everybody I saw it loved it, so I don't know. um You sent me this article, and a lot of people are going out and saying it's fake, but Department of Homeland Security are considering a pitch for U.S. citizenship a competition in reality show.
01:01:06
Speaker
There must be a goal going on. Yeah, it's his favorite teams in the championship, so it's like his Super Bowl. Okay, Super Bowl. I know how that feels with WrestleMania. um But yeah, we allt get into political stuff, so won't bring that up. I will bring this up.
01:01:20
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ah Hulk Hogan's Real American brand, his Real American beer, reportedly made a bid to acquire the restaurant chain Hooters. Um... Hulk Hogan buying Hooters seems about right, maybe for the 1990s time.
01:01:36
Speaker
I'm not sure about now. I'm not sure. I guess that beer is doing pretty well. um But, yeah. Sesame Street found a new home on Netflix. um I believe at the end of the year, it's going to be on Netflix, and they created a poster with Cookie Monster coming in and eating the N from Netflix.
01:01:54
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um Big, huge part of childhood for everybody, pretty much. It's good that they brought it on to something. and They left Max at the end of the beginning of the year. so um Kieran Culkin is cast in The Hunger Games' Cesar Flickerman, who was a part of The Hunger Games played by sta Stanley Tucci back in the day. um He's going to be playing a younger version of him, Kieran Culkin.
01:02:13
Speaker
Big name now in TV and movies. Brother of of a Macaulay, of course. Younger brother. Yeah. ah Emma Darcy. i did not know I didn't see this article until yesterday. I don't know how old it is. But Emma Darcy has been cast in the movie and untitled movie starring Tom Cruise.
01:02:32
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um And she played Rhaenyra, the older Rhaenyra in House of Dragons. So, yeah, it'll be interesting to see her and Tom Cruise act together next year. Sometime next year coming out. um Zach Braff.
01:02:45
Speaker
don't know if you were big fan of Scrubs back in the day, watched any of the episodes. I was not, but I know who this guy He's been with Zach Braff and a whole bunch of other stuff. Wasn't he an Idiocracy? ah No, you're thinking of Dax. Dax, I think of Dax. Yeah, I can't remember his name. It's familiar. Dax Shepard, yeah. they look Yeah, Dax Shepard. They look exactly alike. You're right.
01:03:07
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But they're going they're gonna be doing a reboot of Scrubs, and he has signed on to be a part of that, coming back into the hospital where he got famous. So, yeah. um and Announced yesterday.
01:03:18
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i don't know you're i don't know if you're a big fan of the um the Dan Brown books, the Dan Brown ah Da Vinci Code books and all that story. The movies were Tom Hanks. yeahp um But they're gonna be doing a series.
01:03:31
Speaker
i guess he has a sixth book coming out in the fall. And they're going to adapting the sixth book into a series. They've only done three movies. They haven't done the last the other two books, but they're going to jump right to the sixth book, which comes out in the fall, and are going to do an adaptation of that.
01:03:45
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So, yeah, all about ah the harvard Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks. i don't know if he's coming back for this or not, but we'll wait and see. um Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin has joined the production of an animated Hercules movie.
01:04:01
Speaker
um This is his latest extracurricular activity that's not working on Winds of Winter. um yeah George R.R., what are you doing? Finish that fucking book.
01:04:13
Speaker
Got a new poster for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. a New season comes out on July 9th. Them and a Philly cheesesteak. Looks really, really cool. i've Got also another look of Naked Gun, which comes out August 1st of this year.
01:04:28
Speaker
Leslie Nielsen and Pamela Anderson. Can I wait for that? ah Hunter Doen has been cast in Evil Dead Burn. He was in Wednesday. He was just in Daredevil Born Again. He played Muse in that. i don't have a picture of that.
01:04:43
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um But yeah, he's going to be part of Evil Dead Burn. It comes up next year, in July of 2026.
01:04:50
Speaker
um I'm not sure if they're filming the the spinoff of Reacher or if they're filming Reacher season 4. But Reacher and what's her name were in the crowd of a club Cubs game this week. Yep, I saw that. Filming a scene there.
01:05:05
Speaker
um I know Neely. they're know They're doing a spinoff of Neely. And they're filming that currently. So that's probably what what he was a part of. But I cannot wait for that. Came out this week. This is kind of interesting. They are doing the Street Fighter movie.
01:05:19
Speaker
And some casting stuff. Casting news came out. um Andrew Koji and Noah Santino, I don't know who they are, um but they're in talks to stars Ryu and Ken in Street Fighter.
01:05:30
Speaker
Also in talks to star, not sure who they're going to be playing, but Roman Reigns and Jason Momoa to be two characters in Street Fighter. in talks. don't know who they'd be playing, but interesting. I think one them's going to be Balrog. Is that the name of the character, I think? Or Baraka? Is that what it is?
01:05:50
Speaker
Maybe. Something like that. can't remember. It's been so long since played Street Fighter. Same. But yeah. Conan O'Brien is going to be voicing a character in Toy Story 5. And Jimmy Kimmel is going painting a character in the Smurfs movie.
01:06:04
Speaker
I guess late night wasn't paying him enough, so they had to go into animation and doing voiceovers. um Highlander Reboot. I did not know this, but it moved to Amazon ah because Lionsgate didn't believe in Henry Cavill. Did you see this article at all? I did.
01:06:22
Speaker
i did. did not hear about that. It's nothing more than a hit piece. Okay. It's a hit piece. By a certain fan base. But I mean, honestly, has he ever been in anything that wasn't already a built-in IP that was successful?
01:06:34
Speaker
Right. Right. The Immortals maybe. And that was before Superman. Right. Right. um But yeah. um Alex Garland was officially added on as the director of a live-action film adaptation of the video game Elden Ring, which I know is huge.
01:06:51
Speaker
Interesting choice. A24 movie. Bandai Namco is going to producing it. He just did more a Warfare. Of course, he did Civil War last year, so interesting.
01:07:04
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ah Based on a mythological story by George R.
Movie and Merchandise News
01:07:07
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R. morton Martin, which I didn't know Elden Ring. Yeah, he wrote that. I had no idea. um and like announced yesterday devil's where where's prod is to have a sequel coming out may 1st 2026 with no competition now um and that's gonna be a follow-up to the whole entire movie it was big huge hit in 2006 um anne hathaway coming back and i believe um and what's her name coming back to um fuck i guess i'm just looking right at her i guess i didn't think of her name um yeah i'm blanking on it too uh sinners coming out digital on june 3rd uh 45 days after its theatrical release um it made 300 million on a 90 million budget so it did great ah we loved it everybody talks about how great it is when they've seen it but just people aren't going to the theaters as much as they were before covid so um let's talk about some popcorn buckets talk about this one first karate kid legend i believe comes to come out next week
01:08:01
Speaker
I think so. though Well, they're going to have a popcorn bucket where you can karate chop it open. And they had they had up some some pictures of it. They also have some new cups there, new popcorn tins and things.
01:08:12
Speaker
um Also got some new, I believe there's a Cinemark popcorn buckets, TRX shaped bucket. um We got some pails and cups and toys and plushies, whole bunch of other shit.
01:08:24
Speaker
um how you How to Train Your Dragon, we got some better pictures of that as well. The Toothless Popcorn Bucket and Cup and all that stuff. um And we also got the F1, next big movie coming out June 27th, Apple TV movie.
01:08:37
Speaker
um But yeah, ah let's talk about some Swag. swag stuff we all get. Come on, son. You know what that's right. i don't know if this is the first time. Has there ever been a Watchmen figure? and I don't know this is the first time they've made them.
01:08:53
Speaker
But we got Dr. Manhattan and we got Silk Spectre. Nice. he' a I might get the Dr. Manhattan. I like that kid. Does look really cool. um We got a deluxe theatrical edition figure, which is the first time I've seen a picture of this, um of David Korn's Sweat Superman.
01:09:08
Speaker
And Crypto. looked really cool. We also got some pictures of the Burger King exclusive toys are coming out with Superman. James Gunn posted this this week. um All the characters, all the main characters of the movie.
01:09:21
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to out Where are we at? We got some better pictures of Baby Joey and Baby Kaiju, which are going to be a big part of the storyline with Lex Luthor and LexCore Lab.
01:09:33
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So yeah, there's that. ah We also got this one. We talked a lot off-pod about it. But Fenway Park in Boston is going to be having a Superman night on June 30th. And they'll be giving away these really cool bobbleheads. Have you heard anything else about these bobbleheads?
01:09:49
Speaker
I want one. Really bad. science Besides putting your feelers out there for anybody you know in Boston who may have access to these. I've texted a few people I know. We'll see what happens. Here's something you may be able to get if you want to invest in some gold.
01:10:03
Speaker
Superman coming up with official coins, official U.S. currency, um ah silver medal, and also a gold-proof coin, a 24-karat gold-proof coin. Superman looks like Smallville, him sitting on a fence in a Smallville with a pocket in the background. Looked really, really cool.
01:10:21
Speaker
Probably expensive, but they're they're investing. If you want to buy some gold, you can do that. They're coming with a certificate of authenticity, I believe, too. um Got a new picture of Superman. Came out in a Fandango exclusive preview this week.
01:10:36
Speaker
Why wasn't that the first look at the suit? Yeah, it should have been. I heard that. i heard that but i honestly don't think James Gunn gives one flying fucking iota about the first look of something. Right. Because it doesn't honestly mean anything.
01:10:50
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Yep. And also this, ah we found out that there's going to be a preview of Superman coming out. ah Amazon going be doing it. Coming out June 7th. Early previews. Like four days early.
01:11:03
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um then You can sign up on Amazon and you can get your ticket for 7pm for that night and you have to be there at a certain time. I'm not sure, probably in all the big cities going to have this. but Also get some new posters for Superman and Clark.
01:11:17
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um and uh and james gonna release these this week so um very very much looking forward to that movie cannot wait um this week uh he got he got all hyped up with the superman stuff we forgot to mention the actors playing um ma and pa kent she showed a picture of them on twitter this week talking about um how excited he is to see them on screen so so am so am i um um I'm not even going to bring that up because I think that's all fake.
01:11:45
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But we did get a first look at Galactus. ah This came out of a promo image. I believe Snapple released these. This is the first picture picture of Ralph Ennison as Galactus.
01:11:58
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um We got a full picture of him here. Full look. And, of course, them looking over the Fantastic Four. We got some more promo shots of Reed Richards stretching and the whole team together. and looked really, really cool with Herbie.
01:12:10
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Um, cannot wait for that movie. Uh, we got Johnny and Reed in, in, uh, in space. Uh, looks really cool. Um, and finally in news, couple of pieces we're to talk about. They had this Disney blockbuster consumer products panel, um,
01:12:26
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It was all for people pretty much toy fat toys and for merchandising. But they had this promo shop for Spider-Man. um And there people are saying that it's speculating that that could be the official look of what Spider-Man is going to look like in the new Spider-Man trilogy or Spider-Man series.
01:12:41
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Um, and also, uh, in that thing, it was announced that Scorpion, Boomerang, and Tombstone are going be a part of that movie, Brand New Day. And, uh, the, I guess whoever attended that thing said that they were mentioned in the panel and and pictures of them were shown, I guess, figures or something. I don't know.
01:12:57
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I'm not sure if they're the main villains, but definitely part of it. Um, Tombstone, a huge part of the video game, Scorpion as well. we'll have to wait and see on that. Also another shot of Doom. Doctor Doom is shown there as well with the Avengers. It was all part of that panel as well. um We didn't hear anything about the toys from that. But um ending the show, big huge news this week or yesterday was Doom's Day and Secret Wars had both been delayed.
01:13:20
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um we're only getting one Marvel movie from between now and uh and then and Dune's Day which has been pushed 7 months to the December 17th or December 2026 it's supposed to come out next May and Avengers Secret Wars also pushed 6 months to uh from to December 2027 and
01:13:39
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um So, yeah, they're giving it more time, which makes sense. i mean, the movie's coming out in a year, um and they're still in production, so it makes sense to give them time to finish. And so much at stake with these movies. They don't even have a finished script yet, so it definitely makes sense.
01:13:53
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It makes perfect sense. And also, the other thing is Avengers Doomsday is coming out the same exact day as Dune Messiah. So Avengers Doon's Day is what everybody's calling it.
01:14:05
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Doon will move. And Doon will definitely move. Yeah, because IMAX will fuck up everything for sure. um Also, they removed a whole bunch of movies from the untitled Marvel movies.
01:14:19
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ah February 13th and November 6th of 2026 were moved from the schedule. And November 5th, 2027. And they added three movies to the 2028 schedule. are going three Marvel movies as far as right now is concerned in 2020, starting in February, May, and November. so um that's it for
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01:14:36
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the show this week. Thanks, everybody.
01:14:38
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um Next week, we'll talk about Mobland, the penel penultimate episode. ah Last of Us, the finale is this weekend. We'll talk about that. The finale of Dark Side of the Ring, Muhammad Usand's next week. We'll talk about Murder Robot, Episode 4, Murderbot.
01:14:52
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Fountain of Youth, a movie on Apple TV, came out today starring John Krasinski, Natalie Portman. That came out today on Apple TV. I'm gonna watch that this weekend. It also came out today on HBO hbo Max, Pee-wee as himself, a documentary.
01:15:07
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I'm going to watch that and talk about that. um In theaters, Mission Impossible Final Reckoning. ah Friendship came out today. Everybody's talking talking great about that and how how funny it is. The funniest movie ever made. I don't know about that.
01:15:20
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But the big thing next we're going get some homework to do, is The Death and Return of Superman. Yep. Talk all about the all about that. of Read the comics, that at least the death of Superman. We'll talk about him returning, the long black hair, the black suit.
01:15:35
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We'll talk about all the characters that brought up from Superboy to Cyborg Superman to Steel. All of it trying to to try to become Superman. Who is the real Superman was a big thing. We'll also talk about the Nicolas Cage Superman Lives movie.
01:15:49
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briefly talk about that. We'll talk about the documentary. We'll bring that up as well. So if anybody wants to watch it and learn more about it, they can. But ah thank you, everybody. And we will talk to you next week.
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