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Brightburn
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Just a little after Halloween, we've got a horror-themed superhero movie for you to check out. What if Superman wasn't a wholesome farmboy but instead a twisted little bastard? That's the concept behind Brightburn, the movie we discuss. We gush over Elizabeth Banks, talk about the way this movie blends the horror and superhero genres together, and pontificate on why we don't see more horror-themed superhero movies.
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Promotions and Book Recommendations
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Hey, Derek, guess what? Hit me with it. We just got a promotion with Audible. Audible, fantastic. I love Audible. Do you know what the cool thing about this deal is? What's that? If our listeners go to audibletrial.com slash supercinemapod, they get a free trial with Audible. And do you know what they get with that?
00:00:22
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What do they get with that? Tell me. They get one free audiobook of their choice and they get two free Audible Originals, which is special content that Audible makes available free for all its subscribers. Are you kidding me? That deal is so good I may go myself and sign them. Do you think they let you keep the books after you're done?
00:00:42
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No, you're not gonna tell me they let you keep the books after you're done. Yes, in fact, you can go sign up for a trial and you can cancel before the trial ends and you get to keep the books you've already downloaded.
00:00:55
Speaker
Well, I don't see how you can beat that with a stick. Exactly, yeah. And you can, lots of great books, especially for fans of the show. You can listen to Super Gods by Grant Morrison, which is all about like how the superhero comics have changed and evolved over time. Or you can check out Marvel Comics, The Untold Story. Which is a terrific book. I have that both in hardcover and I listened to that on Audible myself in my car while traveling back and forth.
00:01:21
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And there's also another similar book that's called slugfest, which is about like the wars between Marvel and DC Comics. Oh, okay. So that's another one you got to check out too. So yeah, head on over to audibletrial.com slash super cinema pod and start your free trial right now. You got one free audio book and two free audible originals and you can keep them even if you cancel before it's over.
00:02:03
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Larm! Larm! Shkaro! Larm! Shkaro! Shkaro! Larm! Take. Larm. Take. Larm. Take. The. Brandon! Take. The. Take. The.
00:02:32
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Oh, baby. Baby. It got me. Oh.
00:03:27
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You're our son. What is this? Where did I come from? Listen, baby, I know it's been difficult for you lately that you feel different from other kids. You are different. After your dad and I got married, we prayed and prayed for a baby for so long.
00:03:53
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to God, to the universe, to anyone that would listen. And then one night, one... one perfect night, someone listened. We did not adopt you from an agency. You came here, arrived here.
00:04:24
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You were just a little guy, all alone. You could barely breathe, and so we took you in. And you have been a gift.
00:04:38
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I can't even imagine how overwhelmed you must feel right now. But you have to know that your dad and I, we believe that you came here for a reason. That you are special. And that you, you're gonna do incredible. You lied to me! We just wanted to take care of you. And we always planned. You lied to me! You lied!
00:05:02
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I hate you! You lied to me! You liars! You never did! You lied! I hate you! I hate this place! What's going on in here? What's going on? He found it. He found it. Take her. Take her. Take her. Take her.
00:05:30
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Take the world. Take the world.
Perry's Book and Universe Expansion
00:05:40
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Welcome to the Superhero Cinephiles podcast. I am half of your host, Perry Constantine. And as always, I am the other half of Perry Constantine. How are you doing today, Derek? I am doing quite well. How are you doing?
00:05:55
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I'm doing pretty good. Um, I got a new book coming up, which by the time people hear this episode, it'll all be already be available. It's, um, about it. Sure. It's Lucifer bound. It's the second book in the morning star series. And, uh, I started with a Lucifer rising and it's the,
00:06:14
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eighth book in the overall dark crossroads universe that I got set book series that I got set it up. So I had the six books in the Luther cross series and then the morning stars a spin off of that takes place after those. So yeah, I'm expanding the world a little bit with each successive book and it's been a lot of fun. So this one took longer than to complete than I would have liked, but I finally got it done and it's finally out there. And for those of you who have not
00:06:43
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picked up in your very fine books. Of course, I am biased. I admit it. But if my word means anything, then trust me, you could do a lot worse. Especially if you like that sort of urban fantasy
TV Series Reviews and Discussions
00:07:00
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type of stuff. I know it's very popular right now. A lot of people really like that urban fan. What's your mind? I'm meant to ask you something. Have you checked out?
00:07:08
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Okay, folks, here we go into the digressons. Right. We're not even five minutes into the damn episode. How's that house from? Have you seen that yet? I was gonna mention that. Yeah, I finished watching it a few days ago, actually. And it's not bad. Like, I'm biased because I love the
00:07:26
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Hellstrom Comics and everything. Right. And I know you're into that, you know, that whole urban fantasy. That's why I asked you, you know. Yeah. Like, you give me a show about demonic possession and all that kind of stuff. Like, I'm in. I'm sold. For the most part. So, like, I love Supernatural. I love Constantine and all that kind of stuff. I love Lucifer. So, I'm all in on that stuff. So, yeah. So, I was already, you know, baked into liking this. So, I dug it. It's a little...
00:07:56
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It's not the best, but I will say this, it's not the worst thing that Marvel Television has ever done. That honor still is reserved for Inhumans and the first season of Iron Fist. Oh God, yeah. Yeah, but it's far better than those. And it's on par with probably the better seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., I'd say. Which, by the way, you know, I still have not. I'm sorry, I cannot get through that first season of Iron Fist. I just can't.
00:08:25
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I've tried like two or three times. I just can't do it. Yeah. That first season was a bit of a slog. The second season got a lot better. It was much better than the second season. Yeah. I think that what I'm going to do is I'm just going to ignore the first. I said, you know what? Hell with it. Just skip to the second one. Because I'm never going to get through the first. I mean, have you seen Defenders? No, I haven't even seen Defenders. I've seen everything except the
00:08:53
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The last season of Jessica Jones, Defenders and season one and two of Iron Fist. I've seen everything else though. Oh, you've seen the Punisher stuff too then? Yeah, I've seen Punisher. Okay. So yeah, I'd say Defenders pretty much tells you everything you need to know about Iron Fist season two. Oh, okay. So yeah, I think you'll be pretty well caught up if you watch Defenders and then watch Iron Fist season two. Oh, okay.
00:09:23
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And Iron Fist season two, it was a big step up from season one. It still wasn't the best, but it was a step up. But yeah, Hellstrom, it was... The thing is, there's some good casting in it. I didn't really care much for the guy who played Damon though. I thought I would be... Because Damon's one of my favorite characters in the comics.
00:09:48
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you know, ready to be into that character. But, you know, just the guy that played him, the way he was written, it just didn't really do a whole lot for me. So he was kind of let down. They had a Sydney Lemon, who's Jack Lemon's granddaughter.
00:10:03
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She plays, yeah, she plays Anna Hellstrom, which is, you know, Satana in the comics and she's really good. And then you've got Elizabeth Marvel plays their mother and she's amazing. Like, cause half the time she's possessed by a demon. And like, she really plays like the possessed mother and like the regular one. Like she plays them as two very different characters and she does a really good job. Like even her voice and everything.
00:10:30
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So she's really good in it. And they, I don't know if you ever read the Hellstorm comics, but they had a character called Gabriel Rossetti. Gabriel, the demon hunter, the devil hunter, the demon hunter. He was also in Marvel's black and white horror comics back in the day.
00:10:47
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So they gender swapped him. So in this he, she's Gabriella Rossetti instead and played by really good actress. She was a, she was pretty fun to watch as well. I can't remember her name right now. And you might be interested in this because I know you like Joy Reid and Joy Reid's older sister plays a character in the, in the show as well. Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:10
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I had no idea that she had, I didn't even know she had a sister to act with. I didn't either, but it was earlier this week on the readout, she had this little get out the vote segment with all the actresses, all the main actresses from Hellstrom. And she introduced them one by one. She said, one of them is my big sister. And I'm like, whoa, what? I looked at her backwards.
00:11:33
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Oh, yeah. Well, okay. I do know that Joy Reid is a big comic book science fiction fantasy nerd. She is. Yeah. Yeah. Because she's always making references to comic books and, you know, superhero movies and stuff like that. So I know she's into that stuff. But I did not know she had a sister. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So her sister's in that and she's really good in it too. And then they got Alan Ui, who was in, he played Ariel in a few
00:12:00
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a few episodes of Supernatural. He's in it too. He plays the caretaker in this. Also they had a Mitch Pellegi had a cameo at the end as their father. So that was really cool to see and which really kind of pissed me off because the last episode was easily the best of the series.
00:12:18
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And in that episode, like, you know, Damon has the the flaming trident. There's this there's this like small little ancient dagger thing that they find that they that can kill them both and kill demons and they can use it. And when Damon has in his hands, it, you know, it turns into this flaming trident. So they give him the trident and that they got the symbol on his chest glowing and everything. And I'm like, why couldn't the whole series have been like this? Yeah, exactly. I
00:12:47
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And I've gotten into arguments with people like this about these TV series that, you know, where
00:12:53
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Okay, well, you really have to hang in there because it doesn't really get good until the, wait a minute, why do I have to slow through six to eight hours for it to get good? Or wait till the last episode of the first season and then, you know, I see what you should give me in the first episode. Well, you don't understand this characterization. No, it's not, it's padding. It's padding. You know, a lot of these TV series here, which is why I like series now, like Globecraft.
00:13:21
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Lovecraft Country? Yeah, yeah, Lovecraft. That hit the ground from episode one. Boom. That's it. You know, listen, I'm getting older. I don't have too much time left. I don't have time to sit around while you, you know, build up the way you get. Give me what I came for right from the start and let's go from there.
00:13:42
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And the nice thing about this is it's only 10 episodes too. So it's not a whole lot of stuff to slog through, but they do have some slow moments in it and everything. So yeah, Ariana Guerra, she plays Gabriela Rossetti and June Carroll is Joy Reed's sister. I mean, okay, I've got nothing against being slowly paced, but don't give me like,
00:14:11
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Okay, the first three episodes, everything happens. And then the next three episodes, it's just people sitting around talking. And then the last three episodes, everything happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry, I made a mistake. Alan Uey plays a friend of Anna, who he's a really good, does a really good job. But the guy who plays the caretaker is actually Robert Wisdom. So he's the one who was in Supernatural. He's been in a bunch of other stuff like over the years.
00:14:37
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But yeah, it's a it's a good show I dug it I enjoyed watching it. And, you know, I just, I am a little bit pitched because we did get this, this awesome cliffhanger with Mitchell edgy at the end playing, you know, Damon and Anna's father who
00:14:54
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originally was supposed to be Satan, but later it was changed to another demon who was just impersonating Satan. And I would have loved to see that second season where you've got Mitch Pileggi playing, you know, Mardukiros or any of that kind of stuff. That would have been awesome. So I'm a little bit bummed about that because we're not going to get a second season because this
00:15:14
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This was the last thing that Marvel Television did before it got, you know, it became defunct and all that television stuff from over to Marvel Studios. Hold on, wait a minute. They've already said they're not going to, they're not going to be inside the season? No, they haven't announced it, but it's pretty unlikely because this was the last thing for Marvel Television, right? Oh, wow.
00:15:36
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Yeah, because now they're doing the Disney Plus series and everything, like all of Marvel's TV projects, they're now part of Marvel Studios. Right. So all of the Marvel television stuff, that's why it's all ending, right? That's why Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ended. That's why Runaways and Cloak and Dagger, that's why they ended.
00:15:55
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all that stuff is being folded into Marvel Studios. And so remember they announced they're gonna have like a whole, they're gonna do several different like,
00:16:07
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you know, more like supernatural, more darker Marvel TV shows, like they had Ghost Rider, they had Hellstrom, they had a few other ones I think they announced as well. Right. And then they canceled all of them, right? All of them were like Ghost Riders, boom, stopped before they even, you know, did day one of shooting. All the other ones, you know, canceled. Hellstrom was already in production though. So they let Hellstrom finish and it's like a new mutant situation, right? Because,
00:16:34
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They've got this thing finished, but it came about just as they were transitioning. So New Mutants isn't gonna get a sequel. This is probably not gonna get a sequel either. Okay. Okay. See, here was my understanding.
Marvel Studios vs. Marvel Television
00:16:49
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My understanding was that because Disney has a piece of Hulu. Yeah, yeah.
00:16:57
Speaker
So my understanding was that like the time like more quote unquote adult sort of stuff, you know, Marvel series, like, you know, like the horror theme, the ones and stuff like that, like they were going to do that.
00:17:11
Speaker
and present those little Hulu, like the more family-friendly ones were going to be on Disney+. I believe that still is the plan, but it's just the production studios, right? Because it was all done under Marvel Television, which was separate from Marvel Studios.
00:17:29
Speaker
Right? Because way back in the day, Kevin Feige threatened to quit because Ike Perlmutter is an asshole. And and then in Disney's like, no, no, no, we can't let we can't let Feige go. But they also couldn't get rid of Perlmutter because part of the deal when he sold Marvel to Disney was that he gets to keep his position. So they said, you know what, here's what we're going to do. We're going to separate Marvel Studios out from Marvel Entertainment.
00:17:53
Speaker
So now Kevin Feige gets to control all the movies and stuff. And that's why the TV shows suddenly and the movies stop paying attention to each other. Yeah, yeah. Because you remember those first two seasons of Ages of S.H.I.E.L.D., they were heavily tied into what was happening in the MCU. But after that, it was just kind of like they were like completely separate universes. Yeah, there was a definite break, which actually caused me to stop watching it for a while. And I had to go back.
00:18:21
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and you know, catch up with what was going on with each of these. Cause I think I stopped watching with the whole, with the whole that you live thing. Yeah. That was like the worst season. Yeah. And then I got sick of the thing with, uh, what's her name was taken over the show. What's her name? Daisy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:39
Speaker
And the show became more about her issues and problems and stuff like that. So I stopped watching her for a while, but you know, some people like you included Bobby Nash, you know, a few other people said, no, no, you want to go back and watch it. You know, they bring it back, not to what it was, but it gets better. So it gets a lot better. Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:01
Speaker
Yeah, because you know what? I really did love agency shield. Like those first couple of seasons. Those first two seasons was, yeah. Yeah, I think it was around the midpoint of season one is when it really started to take off and it found its footing and then season two was great. Yeah. And then after that, it kind of like, you know, shit the bed because that was when the break happened and that's when, you know, Ike Perlmutter wanted to force the Inhumans as the new X-Men because he thought, oh, Inhumans and mutants are the same thing. It's like, no, they're not.
00:19:31
Speaker
And then what was it? That guy, you know, they kept bringing him back. He was going to be like the big bad in every season. What was that guy's name? Ward? Oh, Grant Ward. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. He kept bringing him back and bringing him back. I said, you know what? So yeah. So yeah, I had left for a while. And I said, you know what? You know what? I just can't. Yeah. It really got good when they brought in Ghost Rider.
00:19:53
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uh they had Ghost Rider come in for and they did they did some they broke away from the human stuff and they were starting to do stuff with like the dark hold and all that kind of stuff which is really cool like you know these deep pulling these deep cuts from Marvel continuity so so yeah they had some cool stuff going on there for a while um and uh but yeah and you know but you know they they separated this out and now
00:20:16
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Now Feige's got control of all over the TV stuff and Perlmutter's pretty much just got the comics now, which hopefully they'll be able to take that away from him too. Cause yeah, just, you know, fuck that guy. Well, really, I mean, you know what? That's really what they should just do. Just have one guy in charge of the comics.
00:20:38
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and another guy in charge of the movies and the TV shows. But you could even have somebody in charge of the TV shows as long as he's willing to work with the guy who's in charge of the movies. Right, which was originally what the plan was, just the Perlmutter ended up being an asshole about it. Yeah, exactly. You know, it's really, yeah, you know, you start playing the little politics and, you know, egos get into play, you know, that sucks.
00:21:08
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Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Movie Reviews and Casting Speculations
00:21:11
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So, oh, also just, you know, really briefly, I saw Trial of the Chicago 7 the other night too, which was amazing movie.
00:21:22
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And I have not gotten to it yet. I've been saying for the last two or three nights, I wouldn't get to it. Yeah, it's really good. You got Yaya Abdul-Mateen II plays Bobby Seale in it. And Sasha Baron Cohen plays Abby Hoffman. And like we were talking about before, that man is a freaking chameleon. I did not recognize him at all as Abby Hoffman.
00:21:47
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And again, I think I probably mentioned this. The guy is so baffling to me. I watched the Borat movie and, oh, I hate it. Oh, it was trash. One, you know, I don't know. I have just come to the conclusion that I have a very different sense of humor from most people because I did not see, well, I didn't see anything funny in the first Borat movie. And the only reason why I watched this one was because of the Rudy Giuliani thing.
00:22:14
Speaker
And I'm sitting there watching it and again, I'm looking at him and I'm like, wait a minute, how can he be so untalented when he's doing his own stuff, but when he's doing other people's work, he's brilliant. That's what everybody says about him.
00:22:33
Speaker
in this movie, they said that he's fantastic. Well, the thing I like about what he does when he does the Borat stick and all that is it's not so much that he's trying to be funny. It's more that he's trying to take down other people, right? And I like that when he's trying to expose like hypocrisy and that kind of stuff. So that's what I like about it. Right.
00:22:55
Speaker
Not so much that it's funny, like I agree, like the first Borat movie, there were some parts that I chuckled at, but a lot of it I didn't find funny at all. But I did like, you know, like when he was exposing hypocrisy and that kind of stuff. That's what I really took away from it. Yeah, because he does have a couple of bits that he does in there where he, you know, like really like pulls the cover.
00:23:22
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And he exposed it like a few things about some people, especially Rudy Giuliani, who as I keep telling people, this is nothing new, folks. We knew the man was a racist pervert back in the 80s. But now everybody's talking about, oh my God, the man is terrible. Well, duh, yeah, we've been telling you that for 30 years that the man is terrible.
00:23:45
Speaker
So do you see Donald Trump was ranting about Sacha Baron Cohen on Twitter and everything. And then Cohen responded. He said, he's like, well, you know, I'm always looking for racist buffoons to put in my movies and you're going to need a job soon. So let's talk.
00:24:01
Speaker
This is true. This is true. I'm willing. Yeah, so anyway, got some news this week as well. Yeah, just little bits of stuff that I saw around the internet. So one is some speculation. So Decker Montgomery from Stranger Things.
00:24:25
Speaker
There were, there was a, someone made like some fan art images of him as Wolverine, you know, like two years ago. And recently he posted it up on his Instagram, he posted that up on his Instagram and then instantly deleted it, like almost immediately after. So, yeah, yeah. So there's no official announcements about what's happening with, you know, the X-Men, the MCU, but, you know,
00:24:52
Speaker
Seems like Montgomery, and I haven't seen him in Stranger Things, because I've only seen the first season. Looks like he was in seasons two and three. Seems like he might be willing to play Wolverine. Also, Luke Hemsworth, brother of Chris, and who cameoed as Fake Thor in that play in Thor Ragnarok. He also wants to play Wolverine too.
00:25:18
Speaker
So we've got some, you know, different people jockeying for the role there, but nothing, and this fan art, like this looks pretty cool. This little image of him smoking a cigar and he, yeah, I can see that happening, but I haven't seen the, have you seen the stranger, have you seen him in Stranger Things? He played, what was his name? Billy Hargrove. You know what? I've seen Stranger Things, but that was so long ago. I can't picture him right now.
00:25:45
Speaker
Because, yeah, I've seen it. I think I'm having this fake image coming to my mind of who I think I know who he is. But I have to go back. I have to go back to find this fan art that you're talking about. So the plans to bring in the X-Men into the MCU would seem to be moving the pace. Well, I mean, this is just fan art, right? And him posting it up is just fueling internet speculation, especially because he deleted it really quickly after.
00:26:15
Speaker
you know, there are a lot of people who are interested in playing some of these characters. So Marvel's probably gonna end, you know, rumors are that with all the stuff happening with madness into the multiverse of madness and you know, WandaVision and all this other stuff happened that they might be messing around with some stuff and bringing in mutants pretty soon. So we'll see how that works out. I'm looking forward to seeing how they do it.
00:26:42
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I'm very interested in seeing how they do it. I hope they do it in a more organic way than just by saying, oh, well mutants have been around all this time. We just didn't know about it. And just, you know, bam. And all of a sudden they just show up. I think the way to do it is you say that mutants have been around, but they've been very small numbers. And, you know, you have like Xavier and Magneto spearing them away somewhere like Prokoa, which they're doing in the current comics or the Savage Land, which they did in the ultimate comics.
00:27:10
Speaker
And so they're like, you know, you're talking like, you know, one in one billion is like how few months there were. And all this, so that allows you to have like Wolverine and Sabertooth and Apocalypse and Namor and all these mutants who've been around for a long time. But then my idea is, you know, cause we saw that, you know, Wanda and Pietro got their powers from the Infinity Stone. So what if when Thanos did the snap and then
00:27:39
Speaker
And then Tony did the snap as well, right? What if that unleash of energy, it did something to humanity and it triggered. So people whose grandchildren may have been mutants, now they're developing mutant powers. So when there's suddenly like this huge explosion of the mutant population. That I think would be the, is the best way to do it. Cause then you don't have to mess around with like,
00:28:01
Speaker
bringing in different realities or like messing around with time travel. It's just a very simple, very easy explanation that fits into what's been established so far. Exactly. That's what you read in my mind. I want them to give me an explanation that fits into what is already been established. Yeah.
00:28:18
Speaker
feel like, okay, well, you know what, let's just pull this out of our ass. Right. Which is what every, like, apparently every, everyone on the internet wants them to pull it out of their ass. Cause everyone's saying, oh, WandaVision, you know, she should create mutants or something. I'm like, why are you going to, I don't know why you just want to make, want to have like an easy snap of the fingers and then have it happen that way.
00:28:37
Speaker
Well, that's because they don't want to have to think about it. They just want the experts. Yeah, yeah. That's all. Just give us X-Men. We don't care. We don't care. Yeah. So not really superhero, but the Fast and the Furious series is coming to an end, which I guess Vin Diesel is tired of pontificating about family for the 11th billionth time. Oh,
Fast and Furious Franchise Future
00:29:01
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please.
00:29:03
Speaker
it beats over the head with that in every movie. But you know what? As I said, I said someplace before the internet. Yeah, this'll last about like,
00:29:14
Speaker
four or five years until they reboot the series with Dominic Toretto's son with his old little crew. And you know, Dom is gonna be the old man, he's sitting on the porch and talking about how they get it back and how him and his crew get it back in the day. And he's still gonna be giving speeches about how important family is. Yeah. You know, that's all right. Either that or they're gonna turn it into an FX TV series.
00:29:42
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You know what though, I hope they continue with just Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham doing their Hobbs and Shaw stuff. Oh, absolutely. They could do that as long as they want to do it. That's one of them. I do know that they said, because at the end of the Hobbs and Shaw movie, that's Keanu Reeves, you know, the voice of- Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's Keanu Reeves. So they're supposed to bring him into the,
00:30:12
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series as the Big Bad. So yeah, so I think that that's a pretty good, I mean, you know, spin off. Whoa, did you know there's an animated there's a Fast and Furious animated series on Netflix? I've heard of it. I've heard of this is the first I'm just looking at the startle. This is the first I've heard of this with his cousin, Tony Toretto. It's called Fast and Furious Spy Racers. I had no idea this thing existed. Yeah.
00:30:37
Speaker
Oh, wow. You learned something new. I'm not, you never watched it though. I'm not, you know, the movies are good enough. Yeah, yeah. And you know what? And I remember when they, when they announced that the next movie is going into space, people are like, why are they doing that? I'm like, cause all this series does is over the top shit. Of course they're going to go to space. You know what? People don't seem to get it. The Fast and the Furious movies have turned to, first of all, I think it's amazing that
00:31:06
Speaker
a film series that started off as a knockoff of quick break of all things, has turned into this crazy James Bondian, you know, save the world, every movie, action adventure, big budget
00:31:21
Speaker
you know, mega-move, you know, every, I mean, they're going all over the world, they're fighting supervillains, they're science fiction weapons, there's, you know, there's mad scientists, there's, I mean, it's all over the top and every movie has to outdo itself. That's what it's supposed to do. Yeah, yeah.
00:31:41
Speaker
This is a film series that totally reinvented itself into something completely different. If you watch the first Fast and Furious movie and you watch the most recent one, you will say to yourself, and didn't watch any of the movies that's in between, you would say, holy shit, how did it get familiar today? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And I hated the first two movies. Never bothered with the third or fourth one. And I only came back with five because of The Rock.
00:32:09
Speaker
And once I saw that, and once I saw how they're just like, you know, they're turned into like this over the top, you know, extreme version of Oceans 11 and Mission Impossible, I was all in for that. Right, yeah. I always tell people, yeah, if you don't let me bother with the whole series, I said just go to, okay, just start with FAD 5. Yeah, yeah. Because FAD 5, yeah, that's really when it starts going into that, that if you so accurately put it, Mission Impossible slash Oceans 11.
00:32:38
Speaker
you know, type of thing. Yeah. And right from then on, you can just enjoy it from there. Because, yeah, like, especially Tokyo, Tokyo Drift always tell people you can't completely ignore that because it really doesn't have anything to do with, you know, the series. Right. Yeah. The only real connection it has is Han. Yeah. And you don't need to watch it to understand Han's character. No, you don't have to watch it.
00:33:03
Speaker
The second one is only, I only advise people to watch it because that introduces Tyreese Gibson. Which is why I recommend people don't watch it. Worst part of the series for me, Hanson. Who are Tyreese? I don't know what he's gonna do for a job with this. You know, once the series is over. Well, maybe he still wants, well, yeah, I mean, he's been, he's been threatening that he wants to play Jon Stewart as the Green Lantern. So, and everyone's like, no,
00:33:32
Speaker
Stop talking, stop talking, yeah. Yeah, good luck with that. But yeah, I mean, I don't know. People, yeah, I mean, listen, I got no problem with them going into outer space or other things. It's been, you know, it's a fun series. Yeah, yeah. And I enjoy it. Yeah. And so more stuff, we got Blade. It looks like it's gonna be a, you know, we were thinking it was gonna be a movie, but it looks like it might be on the, it might be a TV show.
Marvel's Blade and Henry Cavill as James Bond?
00:34:03
Speaker
And so this might tie in with what we were saying before that, you know, with Hulu doing, you know, more adult TV shows. So we got Mahershala Ali, right, playing the character that was announced last year. Can you help me out with something? Sure. Why am I more excited about this? I feel actually kind of guilty because I feel I should be more excited about the police that was going on, but I heard about it. It was like, I was like, yeah, okay.
00:34:29
Speaker
I wonder why too, because Marvel Studios is doing it, not Marvel TV. It's got Mahershala Ali playing Blade. And now it looks like they're on the hunt for people to write it. And yeah, they're looking for mostly black writers too, it looks like.
00:34:56
Speaker
I don't know why, but you know what, I read that story, it was either yesterday or today, it was this big story. Oh, we're going to have all black writers. And I don't know, for some reason, that made, I don't know, that just left a bad taste in my mouth the way that they liked. I don't know, maybe it's just me, I have to,
00:35:17
Speaker
I have to look deep inside myself on this. Let's move on. I'll come back to that. All right. So we got some more Zack Snyder cut stuff coming out. Joe Manginello looks like he's going to be coming back as Deathstroke. Well, there's never in. Well, this is so Manginello might be. It looks like he's coming back as Deathstroke. Who knows how much that will actually be in there?
00:35:43
Speaker
You know, I'm much more excited about that than, you know, the idea that Jared Leto was coming back as the Joker. But. No, I said I'm much more excited about Manginello coming back as Deathstroke than I am about Leto coming back as the Joker. Oh, yeah. I mean, like this, I mean, if they announce that what's his name is coming back as Lex Luthor, then I'm just like, nope, I'm done. You know, and and I don't know, apparently, you know,
00:36:14
Speaker
Uh, Jared Leto, he, you know, he had his fans, because apparently a lot of people there are excited about the posture that he's coming out. Which is baffling to me. I don't know. I don't know anyone who liked his Joker. Like, it was just, he couldn't even laugh right. And you know me, you know who I am. I am of the belief that if you take
00:36:40
Speaker
an established character too far from the core of what he is, that for all intents and purposes, you created a brand new character. To me, that's what he did. I mean, that was so far removed from any possible concept that we're familiar with.
00:36:57
Speaker
that's what joker goes that to me that was like a brand new character i mean he never even smiles not once in the whole thing he um he's his lap is terrible and so maybe you should have spent a little less time sending you know use condoms to your cast mates as part of your method acting and you know actually read a fucking comic book
00:37:19
Speaker
He had that thing where he did wear it instead of smiling. He has a smile tattooed on his hand and he could put it over his face. Which was so stupid. Yeah, which I didn't, you know, I don't, uh, yeah, I, and for those of y'all who think I'm being a hypocrite, no, I'm not being a hypocrite. When Sesame comes on HBO Max, I'm going to watch it because I consider it my duty to review
00:37:44
Speaker
or hit when it comes out. But I'm just saying that to me, this is a totally unnecessary project. And I think that they're only doing it so as to, you know, get more people to subscribe to HBO Max. Well, here's something else that adds, you know, add some fuel to the fire that it's, you know, it's not like gonna be some grand return of Zack Snyder to the DCU because guess who's not coming back for reshoots? Who?
00:38:14
Speaker
Henry Cavill. Oh, okay. So you've got Superman and like the whole movie is centered around him coming back to life. And he's not coming back to do any reshoots. You know, he says, no, I filmed all my stuff. I'm all done. They don't need me back. So seems to suggest that it's not gonna be this, you know, this grand return of the Snyder verse that everyone thinks it's gonna be. Well, you know what? My feeling is that probably Henry Cavill is going to hold out and try to snag
00:38:43
Speaker
James Bond. I have a feeling that's what he's holding himself for. He doesn't want to commit to anything.
00:38:54
Speaker
you know, he's just waiting, I mean, you know, for that call. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I would love to see him as James Bond, like after the man from uncle, like he, especially how you were talking, you posted this article not too long ago about, you know, floating the idea of rebooting the Bond franchise into the Cold War setting, which
00:39:15
Speaker
You know, I'm fine with a modern day bond, but I think that would be cool too, especially if you got Cavill or the other choice is Michael Fassbender because that first half of X-Men First Class, that was basically Matthew Vaughn and Michael Fassbender auditioning to do a Cold War Bond movie. Yeah.
00:39:37
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. As soon as I saw him, I said, oh shit, James Bond. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, but I've been saying that for five years. I've been saying that the best way to do James Bond now, because you've got Mission Impossible, which does James Bond better than James Bond now.
00:40:01
Speaker
And I'm talking about the Daniel Craig era. You've got the Fast and the Furious, which is doing James Bond better than James Bond movies. The one way to make James Bond distinctive is to take him back to where he came from, which is the Cold War era. Yeah. And I think that that would give the movies a distinctive look.
00:40:18
Speaker
you know, do, you know, start the series right from the beginning with Dr. No and, you know, do it all over. But you could also, I mean, since now we have the technology and everything like that, we could jazz it up a little bit. You know, it doesn't have to be strictly, you know, historically accurate. Right, right. You know, like a funky art, you know, like, you know, our man Flintish kind of, you know, James Bond, you know, kind of have a little bit of fun with it and stuff like that. You know, it doesn't have to be strictly,
00:40:47
Speaker
adhering to, you know, the policies or whatever the time was, you know, whatever. So I think, yeah, so yeah, I think that, and Henry Cabell looks like he belongs in that era. Oh yeah, totally. And he proved, and I mean, Man From Uncle, that was, he was basically playing a Cold War James Bond in that. Yeah. And he was, you know, that movie, it was kind of uneven, but he was amazing in it. And he was good. He was swab, he was charming. Like I bought him as a Cold War spy.
00:41:15
Speaker
Matter of fact, I'm gonna go so far as to say he was the best thing in that movie. Oh, easily. Hands down. Hands down. Yeah. And yeah, so I think that'd be great if he plays James Bond and if they do it in a Cold War setting. Because I'm okay with the modern stuff, but I disagree. Like some people said that you can't do James Bond in the Cold War because you'll lose the audience. I disagree. I think audiences now are much more open to period stuff than they would have been, say like 20 years ago.
00:41:44
Speaker
Of course they are. What was that show on? Of the Americans, right? That was all set in the Cold War in the 80s. You had that Red Sparrow movie with Jennifer Lawrence, Atomic Blonde, that was another one. Mad Men was huge and that was set during the 60s. That was set during the 50s. The 50s, sorry, you're right, yeah.
00:42:06
Speaker
Hey, you know what? I really have a hard time with people, you know, because when I float this theory and I said, oh, you just want Bond to be sexist and racist.
00:42:16
Speaker
No, I don't want Bond to be sexist and racist. Yeah, he is sexist and racist in the books. That doesn't necessarily mean that if you reboot the series, of course you're doing it now with a little bit more sensitivity to the time and the era. Of course, you're gonna have to go with, I mean, you can't completely change everything completely about that era, but yeah, you could be a little bit more sensitive. So Bond doesn't necessarily have to be a misogynist and a racist.
00:42:45
Speaker
When you look at Captain America, the first Avenger, right? That was, it was set in the past. It was set in the 1940s, but they didn't turn Steve Rogers into like what the ultimate comics did where they turned him into a jingoistic asshole. No, they made him, he was, because he was an art student for freak's sake. Yeah, I mean, people, I don't understand the mindset that people automatically say, oh, well, if he goes back there, he has to be racist. He has to be, no, he doesn't have to be.
00:43:15
Speaker
doesn't have to be that. If you have a certain amount of imagination and still in talent, as we have seen, like you said, we have some period pieces that have been done that dealt with racism and misogyny and stuff like that. And they have tweaked the characters and stories so as to make it more palatable without violating
00:43:39
Speaker
what actually was going on in countries at that time. Yeah. So I got a few more pieces I want to talk about just very briefly. So we got Moon Knight. Looks like we got a guy who looks like we're going to get Oscar Isaac as Moon Knight in the Disney Plus TV series. Wow.
00:43:56
Speaker
Now that's a get. That's a get, yeah. I mean, Oscar Isaac, man. And that's a really good idea, like recasting Moon Knight and Mark Spector and actually making him of Egyptian descent. I think that's a smart move. Yeah, that's a smart move. That's why I approve wholeheartedly of that casting, actually making him Egyptian. That's a nice little step.
00:44:22
Speaker
And it makes so much sense, right? There's no reason you gotta have a white guy playing that role. No, no. Yeah, that's one of those characters that, you know, I think that
00:44:39
Speaker
Okay, there are some characters that you may swap and you say, okay, well, why they do that? But Moon Man is one of those characters where you can do that, you know? Yeah. Yeah. And I think that, yeah, by actually making him Egyptian, that just makes him a stronger character. Well, and they got an Egyptian director too. They got Mohammed Diab is gonna be directing it.
00:44:59
Speaker
And the show writer, the showrunner is Jeremy Slater, and then Bo DeMaia was one of the writers. So yeah, this is shaping out to be something, and it looks like it might connect to the Blade movie, it looks like, too. Oh, really? OK. So it looks like they're doing some synergy here. So this is going to be fun. I'm really looking forward to this. I mean, I love Moon Knight, so I'm totally on board for this.
00:45:24
Speaker
Um, let's see. And one more thing, uh, it looks like we got, um, now this is, I thought this was really cool is Falcon and Winter Soldier is going to feature quote, a number of Marvel's early MCU characters.
00:45:39
Speaker
And so we already know, you know, Zemo is going to be in it, right? We already know that Daniel Bruhl is coming back and he's wearing the purple mask and he's got a, they got a Funko figure of him recently that shows off his costume. And it looks very much like, it looks similar to the comics costume, which is really cool. They also got Batroc coming back too. All right. Yeah.
00:46:01
Speaker
George St. Pierre is coming back as Batroc. And I loved it. He was so good in that, yeah. I was so pissed that we didn't get to see more of him in Winter Soldier, but I'm glad that we're gonna be seeing some of them in this. But yeah, this news that they're gonna be featured characters from the earliest Marvel movies, it makes me wonder who are they gonna have in it? I'm thinking you could easily see Thunderbolt Ross come back.
00:46:28
Speaker
that would be possibly Dugan, right? You could see like an old version of a dumb, dumb Dugan coming back. Right. Maybe Tim Roth is the abomination or maybe Samuel Stearns, maybe they could touch up on some stuff that we talked about last week that was leftover from Incredible Hulk. Incredible Hulk, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, this sounds really cool. I'm really interested to see what they mean by this and where it's gonna go.
00:46:59
Speaker
I mean, I think as much as I'm looking forward to WandaVision, I think just because I love the Captain America comics, I think I'm looking forward to Falcon and Winter Soldier even more. Yeah.
00:47:11
Speaker
I wasn't too sure about WandaVision until I saw this latest trailer that came out. When I saw it, I said, holy shit, yeah, I gotta see this. Yeah,
SHIELD's Potential Return
00:47:19
Speaker
yeah. I gotta see this. But I was always on board for, you know, the Winter Soldier. Yeah, same here. Yeah. You know, especially if they're going to go around, as you said, you know, cleaning up, you know, those certain characters that were left hanging from the Captain America, you know, films. Yeah.
00:47:40
Speaker
You know, I'm always, and I'm also hoping that in some form or another, they're gonna reestablish S.H.I.E.L. because I, you know, to me, Marvel ain't Marvel without S.H.I.E.L. Yeah. No, you're right, I agree, yeah. I think that might actually be what the Fury series that they're talking about will be about, was him like, you know, putting S.H.I.E.L. back together.
00:48:04
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. Because Sam Jackson is signed to do Nick Fury series. Yeah, yeah. So that'll be cool. I hope we get to see that coming back. And that was always something that was in the back of the agents of SHIELD because he appeared on there. And I believe the last time that
00:48:21
Speaker
he was on agency shield, he kind of like hinted that he was going to be trying to, you know, restructure shield or some kind of way, you know. Well, what he said, he came in the first season, he came in at the end of first season and he turned shield over to Colson. Right. And then of course, you know, the stuff diverged. They didn't really do anything with it after that. But now that agency shield is over, now it seems like the door's open for him to bring in back shield. Maybe even we get Colson come back, you know, who knows?
00:48:50
Speaker
And hopefully we get Melinda May back in some way too. Yeah, oh yeah, well she's too good a character to lose. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. Okay, so let's talk about this movie.
Brightburn: A Dark Superhero Tale
00:49:02
Speaker
So this, because we got Halloween coming up this weekend and I wanted to choose something kind of Halloween-y. So I chose Brightburn, which was produced by our good friend James Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy. Yep.
00:49:16
Speaker
And then this is going back to his roots because he started off in horror movies. So this was a little interesting thing. Like it's basically taking the Superman story and twisting it. So instead of becoming the savior of mankind, he becomes a messed up little sociopath. Yeah, but you know something? Okay, here's the thing that I didn't like about this movie. And yeah, you're right. I mean, this movie makes absolutely no
00:49:46
Speaker
I mean, that's one good thing that I like about this movie. It doesn't try to be cute or try to, you know, leave you little clues or fake you out. This is Superman. This is, you know, what would happen if Superman came to Earth was found by a kindly couple. And like you said, instead of becoming a superhero, he becomes a psychopath. But what I did like was that, okay, because as we all know,
00:50:10
Speaker
Children are horrible creatures. Just be honest. They are. Children are little shits. They are. They really are. I mean, we love them. They're adorable. They're cute. They have a lot of fun to be around. I love being around kids. But kids can also be some horrible creatures when they want to be. This movie gives this child an out by saying that it was the spaceship that turned him evil.
00:50:39
Speaker
I would have much preferred it if the kid had said, well, you know, he discovered he had these powers. And he says, well, shit, you know what I'm saying? I really don't have to listen to anybody now. I think that would have been a more frightening element that he just comes into his own realization that, well, there's really nothing anybody can do to stop. Because you already know what kids do already.
00:51:01
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, you got a good point there. I didn't have a problem with the spaceship thing, but I can definitely understand where you're coming from. And you're right, I think it may have worked a little bit better. Yeah, but then again, this isn't a movie that goes into the psychological ones, let's be honest. Right. All right, so, and you know what, I really liked this movie. It was like this, being a Superman fan, it's cool seeing this, you know,
00:51:31
Speaker
somewhat, you know, satirical take on on him in a way and it I and you know what I especially like is Elizabeth Banks is really good in this movie. Oh, yeah. Like she's, you know, it's it's cool to see how far she's come as an actress because she started off as you know, you know, she was a comedic actress. She did, you know, she did scrubs. She had the part in the 40 year old version where she plays the nympho and all that kind of stuff. And she was
00:51:57
Speaker
great at those and, you know, absolutely gorgeous. And then you see her in stuff like, you know, Power Rangers, where she's just eating all the scenery in sight. And then you see this where she, she plays a normal person. She's very down to earth. And, and yeah, I really felt for her character a lot in this movie. And she, you know what? And she's, yeah, she's, you know, like, okay, she's downright wholesome in this movie. Yeah. She's downright wholesome. She's appealing. I mean, that final shot is hard for
00:52:33
Speaker
I know he's not gonna do that. Yeah, he did it. That's it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So yeah, but she's very appealing. I actually liked her Charlie's Angels movie a whole lot, the one she directed. Okay. I wanna check that out, because yeah, I know a lot of people hated it, but it seemed interesting to me. And after all this stuff, I'm willing to give anything Elizabeth Banks is gonna try. Yeah, definitely watch it. I'll be interested to see it, because you know what? It's a good movie. Don't let anybody tell you that.
00:52:52
Speaker
Oh God, yeah.
00:53:02
Speaker
It only has one floor, but I'm gonna wait till you see it and then we'll come back to talk about it. And I'll tell you what, I presume it's the one floor, the one major floor of that movie. But to me, she's the MVP of this movie because she's kind of like the heart of this movie. And the whole movie really centers on her. It's really more about her trying to come to terms with what her child has become.
00:53:32
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's like Brandon Breyer, he's not really the star of this movie, despite what you may think, but he's just, but she really is the star, I think. But you know, I gotta give it to this kid, Jackson A. Dunn, he plays creepy really well.
00:53:52
Speaker
Yes, he does. Matter of fact, he's creepy even before he's supposed to be creepy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like in the beginning where he's creeping around the floor and he's whistling and his mother's trying to find him.
00:54:07
Speaker
Yeah. So what kid does that? He does a good job making you think that there's something off about this kid right from the job. Exactly. Yeah. So like you said, it is no surprise that he becomes twisted once he finds out he can do anything.
00:54:25
Speaker
And also David Denman, who plays the father, Kyle, he's pretty good. I liked how this is a very realistic take on what someone like him, you know, regular farmer might think when he finds out his son is superpowers. Like he probably wouldn't go the Jonathan Kent route. He probably would be freaked out by it. Yeah, yeah. I mean,
00:54:48
Speaker
This is a guy who apparently loves his wife very much and knows a lot. Because you just know she talked him into this shit. Oh yeah. You know she talked him into keeping his baby against his better wishes and he just went along with it because he just wanted to satisfy her. Because if you know this, just like any guy, his first inclination is to take the kid out in the woods and put a bullet in the back of his head.
00:55:10
Speaker
Listen, we ain't fucking around with you. She wants to talk to him. She wants to take up the people. Pops has loaded up his rifle. Nope. Taking them hunting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he does, he does a pretty, I do like his, the way they show, like he,
00:55:33
Speaker
you know, they don't make them out just to be like, you know, a dick of a father type of thing, right? He's a regular guy. He's a regular guy, yeah. And I thought he was, like, all the characters, it's like, they're really appealing characters. They do a really good job of it. And I think that's, there's a lot of strength in just this movie being like, doing that character stuff, especially Elizabeth Banks carrying so much of it on her shoulders, like she does.
00:55:57
Speaker
Yeah, what they do is a very smart thing in this movie in that, okay, they don't bring in any scientists. They don't bring in the military. This is just regular people dealing with a situation that is completely out of their depth. And it shows the consequences of a level of irresponsibility because of course, if
00:56:27
Speaker
The parents had turned the rocket ship over to the government or whatever like that. Well, a whole lot of people would still be alive by the end of the movie. Their desire for a child is so great, it overrules any common sense that they have. And as a consequence, a lot of people end up paying for that.
00:56:48
Speaker
There's also a lot of allusions to other, because this takes, you know, it takes familiar territory in horror movies and familiar territory in superhero movies, and it combines them together in a really cool way. And it makes it something that's, even though you know all the beats for both of those, you can see all the fingerprints all over it. It still feels kind of unique, right? Like you've got the whole thing about the demon child aspect.
00:57:16
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So you got the parents struggling with it, with one kind of in denial about it, the other one being like, no, there's something fucked up about this kid.
00:57:27
Speaker
you know these accidents that keep happening people all that is straight out of movies like the omen the exorcist all that kind of stuff right oh yeah yeah but instead of it being a supernatural origin it's a it's a superhero origin yeah so that's why i mean like and it takes the very familiar superhero origin story and it matches them together and
00:57:47
Speaker
Even though there's nothing original in what happens in either of those things, right? If this, if he were the son of a demon, right, this movie would seem like a total ripoff of the Omen or the Exorcist. But if he was, if this was just a straight superhero movie too, it would just seem like a ripoff of Superman. But the fact that they combine those two together, it makes it seem somewhat unique.
00:58:09
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Even though I'm sitting here and I'm watching it, okay. And it's the weirdest thing. I'm sitting here and I'm watching it and me and my wife are watching it. And even she got it. Like 15, 20 minutes into the movie. She said, this is Superman, right? Yeah, yeah. I said, yeah.
00:58:27
Speaker
He said, oh, okay. And he was always watching. And I mean, you can pretty much, like you said, you know the beats and you know when this one is going to be killed and you know what's going to happen with this one and you know what's going to happen with this one. But I mean, enough, I didn't care. I was just enjoying seeing
00:58:43
Speaker
how they were playing out the familiar tropes by combining the superhero and horror elements, as you say. It's a well-made move. It isn't a single surprise in this movie, by far, not for certain, but it's so well put together, I found myself not caring.
00:59:00
Speaker
Yeah. There's also an interesting bit with the difference between wasps and bees. So when he's talking about wasps, he says they're more aggressive than bees. They work in groups to attack. And that one species forces other insects to raise its young. And that basically is what his species has done. They force these humans to raise him. And even when he had, and then he kills them. And then even his mask, it has a wasp feel to it.
00:59:28
Speaker
Yeah. And I thought, yeah, I picked the one that got like an insect out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, but I knew it, but I knew when he went into all that detail about the wash and stuff like that and his classmates are looking at him and say, I say, yeah, I say, yep, he's that kid. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:51
Speaker
So, cause you watched this twice, right? What did you feel like watching it the second time? Anything kind of jump out to you the second time around? The second time around, I think, you know what, I paid a little bit more attention to like the performances and production value. I mean, like the first time, like I said, people took a watch, I just watched it really for the entertainment value, but watching it for this, I was paying a little bit more
01:00:19
Speaker
close attention to the performances and the production values and stuff like that. This movie really didn't cost a lot to make, but it looks a lot more expensive than it really is. I think they made it for less than $25 million. Yeah. Oh, the budget was $6 million. Oh, okay. So yeah. Yeah. You know, but it looks a lot more expensive than what it is. And special effects, you know, it's
01:00:46
Speaker
even though we don't really see the kid, okay. But what we see him do is effective enough to get the point across. Oh, yeah, yeah. And this movie doesn't skip on the gore either, like that. No, no. That scene when, when Elizabeth Banks, when Tori goes down to the shed to check out the ship and she sees,
01:01:11
Speaker
What's your name? Kaitlyn's mother torn apart and just like crucified on the wall. I'm like, holy shit, this kid is not messing around. Yeah, well, he, oh, his father, not the father, the uncle. Yeah, yeah. Oh my God. You know, he's dipping his finger in the blood and he's drawing these things and he got George falling off. I mean, yeah, I mean, but you know what? I appreciate the fact that
01:01:37
Speaker
They said, OK, well, you know what? We're going to show exactly what somebody with superpowers like this is capable of doing, which is why I go back. I think it would have been more frightening.
01:01:50
Speaker
to have the kid realize on his own that, yeah, well, you know, oh shit, nobody can stop me. I can do whatever I want to do. And you know, instead of, cause we do have that scene where he goes into the shed and he finds a spaceship and he turns red and everything like that. There's like some kind of command. Right. Take the light. Right. Yeah. So thank you. So, you know what? And like I said before, I feel like
01:02:16
Speaker
That's designed for us to say, oh, well, you know what? He really didn't have a choice on what he did. You know, it was the evil spaceship that made him do it, you know? Which I don't like. Listen, don't get the little shit out. He's just a bad seed. That's what, the playing is simple, but keep it right. I think they were trying to do that because of, I think because they wanted to say that,
01:02:47
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because I think they're worried, maybe they were worried that if they did it that way, it would have casted questions about how he was raised if he was able to turn into this little shit like that. So I think they wanted to try to avoid any questions like that. And they just wanted to make sure that Tori and Kyle are shown to be good parents throughout. I can see that because they are good parents. I mean, listen, flat out, they didn't deserve what happened to them. No, no, no. Okay, yeah, they were irresponsible.
01:03:16
Speaker
And they were selfish, but you know, listen, if everybody who, I mean, you know, got killed because they were irresponsible and selfish, there'd be very few of us left. They didn't deserve what happened to them. So they did raise this kid, you know, the best way they knew how, and they raised him right. And, you know, which is, I mean, the whole tragedy of this movie in that, you know, all these people just wanted was a kid to love.
01:03:44
Speaker
Yeah, that's all they want, you know? I mean, they shouldn't have to die for that. Yeah. Agreed, yeah. Okay. And I like the use of the, so they got, I like a lot of the little tropes that you like, the Brandon Breyer, right? The alliterative name, I like that. Just like Clark Kent and Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, like, I like that. Yep, that comes from as,
01:04:14
Speaker
When we were watching it and I was seeing the picture when, you know, when they said his name and I saw the BB and I kind of chuckled and she said, what's so funny? And I was explaining to her.
01:04:26
Speaker
Well, Stan Lee, when he was naming his character, so many of his characters have double initials because you said that was an easier way for him to remember what the name he was. And I said that was a nice little nod to that style of naming characters with the double. And also, it made for interesting
01:04:47
Speaker
that he made for himself. Yeah, and that was the nice thing about it too, is that the name of the town is Brightburn, right? Yeah. So it's not the name, which everybody thought that was the name of his character when the previews came out. But yeah, so that's a nice little, the double meaning of the BB. I like that too. Yeah.
01:05:08
Speaker
how can, and he can take the name. And that's like a way of him, you know, kind of taking the human heritage with him if he starts taking out the name Brightburn going forward. Well, I think that if they make a sequel, and I have no idea if they are gonna make a sequel, although, as you and I discussed, see, my idea is that this takes place in the same universe as the movie Chronicle.
01:05:37
Speaker
Okay, yeah. I remember we were talking about that a little bit last time. Yeah, because you know what? It's got that same feel of people that this is set in a universe where when people get superpowers, they don't automatically think about fighting crime. They think about doing whatever they want to do. And you could have a whole series of superhero horror movies set in this universe where people get superpowers and they turn into sociopaths. Yeah, yeah.
01:06:08
Speaker
you know they also have well they also reference uh this apparently takes place in the same world as super which was a superhero comedy that James Gunn wrote and directed with uh Ray Wilson yeah you mentioned that because because at the end of the movie uh during the credits they've got uh they show because this this also didn't do what i thought it would do right and they start to tease that they're gonna go in that direction with
01:06:32
Speaker
you know, Tori's gonna find some way to kill him and she's gonna succeed in killing him and taking him down, right? That leads you in that direction, right? She thought, she realizes the ship can hurt him. She takes a shard of the ship and then she's ready to stab him. And then right before she does, he catches, grabs her hand and then takes her and then kills her. And then at the end, you see the, right, you see he,
01:06:57
Speaker
the plane crashes, crash into the plane and brings it down and brings it down in his house. So everybody thinks that he's the survivor of this horrible accident. And he's just sitting there creepily eating cookies at the end. Well, yeah. And, and also, it also, again, shows you how the kid is thinking. That's a good way for him to cover up the mutilation.
01:07:20
Speaker
that he performed on his mother and father and his aunt, you know, because everybody wants to, well, they just got caught in cracks. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, they did a, they did a really good job with that. And, and then at,
01:07:36
Speaker
And then during the credits, right? You see the Michael Rooker has got a cameo as a YouTube conspiracy theorist. And he's showing all these images of these different other beings that are coming up. It's like a twisted version of the Justice League, right? Yeah. So you've got like a sea creature who's obviously a loser to Aquaman. Aquaman, yeah.
01:07:59
Speaker
a witch strangling people with ropes, obviously Wonder Woman. You also see this alien drawing or something, which is obviously Martian Manhunter. And then you see the Crimson Bolt, who was Rainn Wilson's character from Super, who's kind of like their Batman. So yeah, you got all these different characters in there. And yeah, that would be, I saw someone else, I was reading a review of this and someone else mentioned that too, that it'd be cool if this is, this spawns like a series of, you know, VOD, you know, superhero horror films.
01:08:29
Speaker
Yeah, I mean I could easily see that happening where we explore these horror tropes through the superhero lens. It's just another way of looking at superhero stories and seeing how these characters go in a twisted direction that of course we don't expect.
01:08:54
Speaker
What would the world like if we had a Superman who was a sociopath? Right, yeah. I mean, I mean, really, but we sleep at night, you know? Seriously. It's a fact. It really is a frightening concept, you know, with some things about that. And I think that this movie, uh,
01:09:13
Speaker
does a good job of conveying that sort of fear that, of course, we're automatically programmed to think that all superheroes are benevolent beings that are looking out for us and everything like that.
01:09:27
Speaker
But if 2020 is as short as anything about human nature, it's not always benevolent. Yeah, yeah, definitely. So yeah, so we've seen what ordinary people with ordinary power can do. So what would extraordinary people with extraordinary power do? And I think this movie does an excellent job of conveying that kind of fear.
01:09:52
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah, this is one of those movies that makes you glad that superheroes don't exist. Yeah, yeah. And as much as we love superheroes, right, I mean, I mean, I've always said like, if they had a
01:10:08
Speaker
Because you're thinking about, like, think about the X-Men. They always have the thing about, you know, registering mutants. And, you know, within the realm of the comics, you know, you look at that as a bad thing because you see it as a metaphor for, you know, rounding up people and all that kind of stuff. But in the real world, if someone can blow up a building with his thoughts, I kind of want to know about that. Yeah. Yeah, that seems to me that that's something that we should, you know, kind of regulate. Maybe.
01:10:38
Speaker
Yeah. You might want to know about a guy that could turn invisible or a guy that can fly or walk through walls or something. Maybe we should keep an eye on this character. Yeah. So yeah, I'd like to
01:11:00
Speaker
And that is a cool thing to explore in movies like this. And it gives you a chance to play with genres a little bit more, right? You get to play with both the superhero and the horror genres. And like we said, it gives you a chance to kind of show something a little bit new about it too. Now, let me ask you something. Why is it that you think that we don't have more superhero horror movies?
01:11:24
Speaker
You know what, I don't know. That's a good question. I mean, I could think of this. Okay, when you say superhero horror movies, the only things that come to my mind are the Ghost Rider movies, Chronicle, and this one. Yeah, also the Blade movies, you can put those in there. Constantine, kind of. You know what, the Blade movies, to me, they're more like action. You know, it's not really like, you know, like the vampire things, like a gimmick.
01:11:54
Speaker
to give him superpowers. Give him superpowers. It's not really money. So he'd be on an equal footing with them. Well, I don't know. The second one, well, that's Galerimo del Toro.
01:12:06
Speaker
Yes. You had a second word. Okay. Okay. I mean, I'm interested like kind of, you know, so I kind of, you know, cause you've got those horror movies that are more one-shot, like you have horror movies that are mostly comedy, right? And so I think that kind of the blade series, it's kind of like in the aliens predator vein. Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:27
Speaker
You got those. Those got vampires, so, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, horror. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, there have been some attempts, right? You had the Swamp Thing TV series recently that was first on DC Universe and is now on, what do you call it, The CW. They're re-showing those episodes. See, hold up. I can't let this go. Because when you talk about horror, I think of something that's
01:12:57
Speaker
trying to scare me. And the Blade movies don't scare me, you know? I mean, yeah, they have horrific things that happen in me, but it's not like, you know, like, okay, this movie where there are things in there that's designed to try to scare me. Yeah, yeah. This makes any sense. That's why, you know, when you say Blade of Heart, yeah, well, well, horrific things happen in it, but it's not gonna scare me. It's more like it's trying to thrill me. Right, yeah.
01:13:24
Speaker
I don't know if that makes sense. No, I get that. My thing is that I'm to the point where like pretty much no horror movie scares me. So I don't even really notice that stuff. Yeah, yeah. I mean, horror movies here are really, horror movies really don't, I mean, I don't know, I just wrote an article for Biff Bampow and I was talking about, I was relating the story in the article about when I first saw the original
01:13:53
Speaker
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, you know, it was a bunch of friends of mine. They made me get up and move because I was laughing, because I couldn't believe that anybody was taking me seriously. And, you know, I don't know, maybe, I don't know what it was, but it's not a lot of move. Okay, the horror movies that scare me is something that could actually happen to me, like Dool. Dool scares me because me and my wife take a lot of road trips, so I could see
01:14:23
Speaker
me conceivably pissing off somebody to the point, of course, with road rage and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that scared me. Requiem for a dream. Right, yeah, yeah. Because I work with drug addicts.
Horror Movies and Psychological Themes
01:14:36
Speaker
You know, that scared me because, you know, but stuff like, like Friday the 13th and all that kind of, and so on, all that kind of shit. You know, because that shit don't happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, so I,
01:14:52
Speaker
I kind of take horror just as pure entertainment. I'm not, you know, I mean, there are, there are movies that scare me, but it's not for the reasons that there's design disorder. Right. Again, if that makes any sense. No, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I get, I get what you're saying there. And, but yeah, I would like to, and also like, you know, I, one, you told me that one movie you introduced me to was, whatever happened to Baby Jane?
01:15:18
Speaker
Oh, see that shit scares me. That is a creepy ass fucking movie, yeah. Yeah. See that scares me. Yeah, definitely. Because it would terrify me to be incapacitated and at the mercy of somebody like that. Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah. Or there's another movie with, I think it's Olivia de Havilland, Lady in the Cage, where she's stuck in an elevator. She's trapped in an elevator. Oh, okay. And James Bond is in it.
01:15:48
Speaker
It's a home invasion. And he keeps getting the break into her house, and they're like torturing her while she's stuffing this element. Yeah, yeah. She's an invalid. Yeah, that's another, you know, that's, you know, that's another situation I could see myself in. Therefore, that scares the shit out of me. You know what movie I saw that I didn't think when I first saw the preview, I thought, yo, that's fucking stupid. And then I recently watched it. And I'm like, actually, that's pretty amazing. And it's The Purge.
01:16:18
Speaker
I'm not sure if you ever saw that movie or any of those. Yeah, do we have to talk about that? Well, you know what I liked about it is the class warfare aspect of it. Oh, yeah, OK. Because when I saw the preview, I'm like, this is the dumbest fucking idea I've ever heard in my life. But I heard people talking about it. I got curious. So I rented the whole series one day, and I started watching it. I watched the first one. I'm like, this is actually pretty brilliant.
01:16:46
Speaker
You know what, I can't get around. I can't get around that. Well, I don't know, maybe because I'm a materialistic master. But see, okay, that one night, I'm going to go hit me a Costco or... That was the thing, because all the people who are really doing all this shit, it's mostly the rich people.
01:17:07
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, you can see they're locking up all of this, you know, they're locking up all of this shit. See me, I'm planning to rob something. Yeah, yeah, but like those guys who come to their house, they're all, you know, rich kids.
01:17:21
Speaker
They're not, they're not, it's all the rich, the poor people who are on the run. And, you know, the rich older people are locking their doors and pretending they don't notice anything, but it's the rich young people who are going out and killing everybody. I just can't, you know, figure that, okay, all of a sudden one night a week, everybody is gonna turn into a homicidal maniac. Just go out and just, I'm sorry, I can't buy it. It's entertaining. I think I like to, what was it? Was it the sequel? What was the sequel?
Mark Miller's Concepts and 'Brightburn' Review
01:17:50
Speaker
um that was anarchy with frank grillo yeah yeah that was anarchy yeah that was okay now see i like that one because that one was like the best john carpenter movie john carpenter definition i like that one that was yeah okay um but yeah i they should do some more because the nice thing about horror movies you don't need a big budget
01:18:14
Speaker
So you can do something like, like bright burn. You can do other stuff like that. And it can be like, imagine you could do a Batman, like this kind of approach with Batman, with a Batman type archetype character, right? Someone who his parents die and now he's using his money, but he's like a homicidal maniac instead. Isn't that the purpose of that Warren Ellis
01:18:39
Speaker
Oh, you're Mark Miller, Mark Miller. Mark Miller, yeah, Nemesis. Nemesis, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then, oh, cause I heard something about that's gonna be like a TV series or a movie. Yeah, I mean, he's gonna be doing something like that. I don't know how that's happening, but yeah, I mean, you know, the thing about Mark Miller is I hate his writing, but his concepts are really good.
01:19:06
Speaker
Right? And his concepts make good movies. Like, you know, the wanted comic book is a piece of shit, but the wanted movie is great. Yeah. You got like a kick-ass, right? Me and my wife just re-watched that movie the other day. That's a lot of fun. What's the other one? The Kingsman movies. I love those. Like he's got these great ideas, but it's just him as a writer, he's terrible. He needs someone else translating his ideas into something that's actually, you know, watchable.
01:19:36
Speaker
So yeah, I'm hoping that the same thing continues with Nemesis, right? So if they do end up doing that, the Miller World stuff, and they do like a Nemesis, you know, TV series or movie or something, then yeah, that could be really interesting. Yeah, because I see the baby remember something, reading something that Netflix had brought up, the rights to a whole bunch of stuff, you know,
01:20:05
Speaker
I'd have to go back and look for it, because I re-took my shit on that one. But I seem to vaguely remember something. OK. All right. So is there anything else to really say about Breitbart? Because this is a short movie. It's only about an hour and a half. Yeah. I mean, listen, folks, we have not seen it. This movie is as complicated as a cheese sandwich. It really is. It's not a complicated movie. Excuse me, please.
01:20:35
Speaker
It's not a complicated movement. It's child layers to earth in a rocket ship by Charlie Parrish. Parrish raised him up to be a good person. Kid turns into a murderous psychopath and kills everybody in the path. It is. It's a very simple, uncomplicated movement. However, what it is, is a very well-made simple, uncomplicated movement with good solid acting. I mean,
01:21:02
Speaker
This is a movie that will never win any awards. But this is a movie, you know something? 20 years from now, people will still be watching this movie. Yes. I guarantee they will. They'll still be watching this movie. Yeah, absolutely. I think it's gonna be one of those, I think this is definitely, this is gonna become one of those cult movies that people are gonna be rewatching time and time again. Yeah, this is the movie, okay. You know what I like to say? This is a movie that gets like rediscovered every life.
01:21:32
Speaker
five to seven years. And if people say, oh my God, I feel like I've never heard about this movie, this movie is good. It's just that type of movie. And to me, a well-made movie, it doesn't have to blow me out of the water.
01:21:49
Speaker
It just has to do what it's designed to do. And a lot of people don't understand when I say this is that movies are designed to do different things. This movie is exactly what it's designed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. Well, it could have been so much better. Well, no, it doesn't have to be better than what it is. It knows what it is and it does it very well. And I appreciate that. Yeah, I appreciate that.
01:22:20
Speaker
Yeah, and this is a perfect little movie to watch on Halloween, right? I mean, it may not give you a lot of scares, right? Like at least it didn't for me, but I never even really noticed that anymore. There were very few movies that actually do.
01:22:35
Speaker
make me like jump or anything like that. But I mean, if you like slasher films, this is basically a superhero slasher movie. Exactly, that's what it is. And as we said right at the top of this discussion, if you are not a fan of Elizabeth Banks, watch this movie. I think it will make you a fan of Elizabeth.
01:22:54
Speaker
And you know what, in fact, I'm gonna say do this. Make it a two-part, make it a double feature. Watch this and watch Power Rangers. Because in Power Rangers, like she's just like, she plays the villain in that movie. And she just, she's eating all the scenery. Like she's just completely having a ball, playing a villain in that. See, there you go, folks. Okay, folks, there's your Halloween double feature, like Bird and Power Rangers.
01:23:18
Speaker
All right. Yeah, because Elizabeth Mac, she's very good in this. She's the heart and soul of this movie. And yeah, despite the fact that the movie is supposed to be about this kid, it's really about her and her relationship with this son that she's wanted and what he's turning into and how she's going to deal with it.
01:23:40
Speaker
And, uh, yeah, she, I mean, she pretty much carries most of the movie on her back. I think I really do. Definitely. Yeah. And she does an excellent job. I mean, like I said, I, I've always found her to be an appealing actress, you know, she does. And, uh, you know, she sells her role very well on this one. Yeah. Yeah.
01:24:05
Speaker
Okay, so I think that pretty much brings us to the end of Brightburn. I think we talked more about the news of the week than we talked about the movie. But you know what, as you said, I mean, this isn't a deep movie. It really isn't. Like, it's barely 90 minutes long. It's not a long movie. It doesn't go into heavy deep psychological things. Once it establishes
01:24:32
Speaker
his premise, which is, you know, an evil Superman, you know, what's his establishment? Well, then all we need now is just the mayhem and slaughter. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You know, which we do get. Oh, yeah. One of this, you know, I got to mention one scene that made me cringe was the eye scene.
01:24:50
Speaker
Oh yeah. When she pulls the glass out of her, I'm like, holy shit, that made my skin crawl. Yeah, anything happened to do with eyes. Eyes or fingernails, I can't stand those. I can see people's guts spilling out all over the place, but you show me someone getting their fingernails put out or something stabbed in their eye, I'm done, I'm done. And we should mention that, yeah,
01:25:20
Speaker
you know that one and the one where he killed the uncle those are some pretty grisly scenes to murder yeah yeah yeah you know this movie you said it you know it doesn't skimp no not at all yeah it does not skimp so if you're looking for gore and blood you're going to get plenty of that yeah but yeah but it's but it's not like a heavy you know movie it really isn't it's not a heavy psychological movie it's it
01:25:48
Speaker
Um, just as I said earlier, it is what it is. It's made, for one thing, it's made for scares and thrills and, you know, just go sit there and jump and, you know, go, oh my God, what do you do now? Yeah, yeah. Where is he, you know?
01:26:04
Speaker
That's what it's designed for, and it does it very well. Yes. It's directed by David Garrovesky. I don't know anything else he's done, but I really like his direction. Yeah, he did a good job. And written by Brian and Mark Gunn, and James Gunn's brothers, I guess. I'm not sure exactly, but some relation to him. This is a very crisp, clean directing. I mean, the guy knows how to keep the story moving.
01:26:33
Speaker
There is literally no lag in this movie. And there's not a lot of movies I can say that about. This movie is always, but it never feels like it's, okay, even though it's not that long of a movie, it never feels like it's Russian. You know what I mean? It never feels like it's Russian or there's stuff or that the director took shortcuts and everything like that. He tells precisely the story that needs to be told in the time
01:27:02
Speaker
in the way it is. You know what I think it is, is because I just looked him up on IMDB and it seems like he's mostly done like music videos and short films. So he knows how to pace things out really well. Okay, well then that's it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, this movie is pacing very well. Yeah, yeah. It doesn't waste too much time dwelling on, there's no filler in this, right? It's just completely, there's not an ounce of fat in this movie. It's just very,
01:27:30
Speaker
Right. Yeah, it's a very very lean Energetic movie, like I said, those exactly what it's supposed to be Yeah, you're you're not gonna be checking your watch while you're watching. No, I enjoyed it and Yeah It gets my highest recommendation for Halloween watching if you have not seen it already
01:27:54
Speaker
And you know, if you want to watch, cause you know what, it's either this or you watch, you watch Constantine or the ghost writer movies for the hundredth time. So, you know, this one's a nice little change of pace. Yeah. And it's a better horror movie than both of those too, I think. Yeah. All right. Okay. So that was my pick, my little pick for Halloween. So that means we're going back to you for next week. Yeah. And you know what? I had another movie all picked out.
01:28:24
Speaker
but then you made mention of another movie. And I think that it would be interesting to follow it up now that we've done this one, because it's a superhero movie that isn't exactly about superheroes. You know, just like this one isn't exactly a superhero. It is a superhero movie, but it isn't exactly. You mentioned the movie that kind of falls into the same arena as this one, and that's kick-ass. Oh, okay.
01:28:54
Speaker
So I don't even have to rewatch that. Cause I literally just watched it like two nights ago. Yeah. I haven't, yeah. I haven't seen it in, I haven't seen it in a while. So I'm looking for, and when you mentioned it, I said, yeah, you know, okay. You know, the weird thing is rewatching that movie is remembering that it's, it's got both Quicksilvers in it, right? Yeah. And just seeing it in that, like you, if you told me after watching that movie, Hey, both these guys are going to be playing Quicksilver. I'd be like, get the fuck out of here.
01:29:23
Speaker
Yeah, you would have said the police. And that shows like Aaron Taylor Johnson, and that guy has really grown into himself. Because you look at him in Age of Ultron or in Godzilla, and you look at him back in Kick Ass, you've got to squint to realize that that's the same guy. Yeah, I did not realize that was the same cat. I really did. And I said, holy shit, he transformed himself for real. Yeah, yeah.
01:29:53
Speaker
Okay, that's cool. So yeah, next week come back and we'll be talking about kick-ass, which also features...
Next Episode Preview and Election Reminder
01:30:00
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Another, because we talked about Spider-Verse, we had that awesome Nicolas Cage performance, Spider-Man-Nor, and then we get him doing his Adam West impersonation next week. Yeah, yeah. All right, okay, so thanks so much for listening. Please make sure to go to our Facebook group, Superhero Cinephiles, find us on Twitter, SuperCinemapod,
01:30:24
Speaker
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01:30:54
Speaker
Yay! Listen, listen. I shouldn't say this, but I do hope Avengers would. Just give me an excuse to watch it. I have watched it in a while, and I'm holding off, waiting to see if it's gonna win. Yeah, yeah, me too. Because I love that movie so much. That's like Avengers is like the culmination of my comic book life.
01:31:23
Speaker
You know, when I went to the theater and I saw that in Black Panther, you know what I mean? Those are like the two similar moments of like, I said, okay, this is what I've been living for. Yeah, yeah. Like I don't think there's, I've watched Avengers probably in the triple numbers of times. Yeah. Right? And it never gets old. I think when I bought the Blu-ray,
01:31:58
Speaker
You know, because we had we had to wait before it came out here in the theaters right and then and because it came out in the theaters in America in like May and then it came out here
01:32:11
Speaker
like in august or something something like that so we had so i'm like everybody's talking about it and i got the Thanos thing spoiled for me so i'm just like you know what fuck it so i i i downloaded a pirated scan version which was not that great but man i must have watched that damn thing on my computer or like a thousand times and then you know and then we went to and then when it came out in the theater
01:32:32
Speaker
um you know my girlfriend at the time she's like she's like oh so Avengers out in the theater i'm like yep i'm gonna go see it she's like but you've already seen it so many times i i'm like i know but i haven't seen it in the theater and yeah i haven't seen it in the theater and i think i think yeah i mean like but you know what even if i wasn't watching it i had it played
01:32:52
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I'd be sitting at my desk and I'm writing and stuff like that, and vendors is on. And my wife would scream and be like, will you turn that damn thing off? I'd scream like, no. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my wife comes in every now and then. She seems to be watching Endgame. She's like, how many times you watch it? I'm like, don't ask. Yeah, yeah. I know Patricia Longville got used to that.
01:33:17
Speaker
She said, you know, she said, well, how many times does he break it down? So it's great to see. Yeah. Yeah. I'm hoping that this movie becomes my daughter's favorite movie because then this is one of those movies that I won't mind rewatching a thousand times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. So again, thanks so much for listening and we'll be back next week to talk kick ass.
01:33:39
Speaker
Yep. Thank you very much for listening. And as always, stay safe out there and happy Halloween. Happy Halloween. Oh, and you know what?
01:33:48
Speaker
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01:34:17
Speaker
Okay. All right. Thanks so much. And we'll be back next time. Thanks for listening to the superhero cinephiles podcast. If you have any questions or comments about this or any other episode, or if you have a superhero movie or TV show you'd like us to cover in a future episode, you can email us at superhero cinephiles at gmail.com. Or you can also visit us on the web at superhero cinephiles.com.
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