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125. Toe Sucker McGee
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Simon & Adrian take a hard look at the recently announced Netflix & Warner Brothers merger from multiple angles. Will Paramount be able to stop the merger in it’s tracks with it’s aggressively priced hostile takeover bid? Time will tell. The two pals also get real baffled by legendary director Quentin Tarantino’s weird hot-take regarding skilled The Fabelman’s actor Paul Dano. Plus, the two fans get hyped for director Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl film, the upcoming movies in the 28 Years Later trilogy, and the upcoming Ready or Not sequel. In addition, Adrian reviews Now You See Me and the FX comedy series Adults; while Simon reviews Stranger Things Season 5’s first 4 episodes.
This episode was recorded in Canada on December 12th 2025. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on December 30th for Episode 126.
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Netflix and Warner Brothers Acquisition
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This episode, we talk in-depth about the industry-shaking Netflix deal to buy Warner Brothers and billionaire David Ellison's attempts to stop the deal from happening in favor of his newly-owned studio, Paramount Skydance. We review the hit FX show Adults, the first two films in the Now You See Me trilogy starring all-star casts.
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and the beginning of Netflix's Stranger Things season five again. And we discussed director Toe Sucker McGee's bizarre beef with the Batman actor Paul Dano and the recently greenlit third installment to the 28 Years Later trilogy.
Podcast Introduction and Hosts' Personal Stories
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With new episodes airing every two weeks on Tuesdays, this is Split Focus, a film and TV podcast I'm Simon Eadie. And I'm Adrian Pinter.
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Welcome to episode 125.
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no bone
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I'm married, bitch. wo Whoa. Whoa. What's up, Simon? Nice to see you, man. Thank you for joining me today. and betrothed. On our podcast that we record at at an appropriate time. Yeah. After 5 p.m. on a weekday. Of course. Of course. And we we'd never do anything different. it would be That would be unprofessional, theoretically. it would be. um You know, sun is slowly setting over here in the dark Canadian winter.
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in Ontario. And yeah, Simon, I got married, ah ah you know, this past weekend. So yeah, last week, last last episode, I was engaged this episode. You were I'm a married man, you're a husband. And then you are getting married this weekend as well, which is super exciting.
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Yeah, it is exciting. Yeah, man. And it's it's amazing, dude. i I love being married. It's cool. It's really just a label. You know, I've already been ah living with my now wife for a while, but the wedding was wonderful. I got a wedding band on, as you can see. Look at that right on my ring. I don't know if the quality is coming through on Zencaster, but...
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lifes Life's good, man. Happiest day of my life. Happiest day of my life. I was- oh is that so? Is that so? I was going to ask, how do you feel? how did you feel that the event, the day went? Do you think it went excellently? Do you find that it it was all, it all went without a hitch and it was, it was delightful? um There were some hitches, but it's okay, man, because it's you just got to roll with the punches and enjoy life, you know? And that's exactly what we did. And again, I had a wonderful time, friends, family.
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You were there. i was. You and your fiance, soon-to-be wife, was there. Yeah. um You know, it was it was just wonderful seeing people. I cried a lot. Yeah. um I couldn't hold it back. The priest literally had to come over to me and pat me on the back and say, hey, it's okay.
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Oh, that's nice. And that was nice of him. Yeah, consider it. Yeah, he he was a really nice priest. I know he was sassy to you apparently, but he was he's a nice priest. He was sassy to me. He was sassy to a friend of mine during in the rehearsal ah as well. was kind of funny.
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Everyone liked him, though. liked Yeah. He seemed like a cool dude. it's just he was It was weird when and we were entering from the parking lot. There was multiple entrances to this church. Pretty nice church in Guelph. Probably the the most well-known church in Guelph if you live there.
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It's a cathedral. It's very nice. um But yeah, we we entered one of the entrances and then when we were opening the door, noticed the sign to the right of the door said hall. And there's like a bunch of children in there. And we're like, oops, I guess that's not that's not the that's not the entrance.
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And then the priest is walking, you know, sauntering on by and he's like, yeah, that's not the church. That's not the church. The church is over there. He like points over to the, i're like okay, dude.
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Cool, man. Yeah. And we didn't know that was going to be the the actual priest. Who officiated. That's what they say, right? Officiated. don't know. I was going to say who married me.
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Who married you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and now you're married to a priest. Now I am. It's a throuple. You're married to God. And that bird flew in as well. So it's a quad quadruple. Ah, bringing it back.
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Bringing it back, to baby, from last episode. But yeah, man wedding was great. Wedding was awesome. I'm happy. I'm married. I'm a married man. You're going to be a married man soon. It's going to be awesome. Look at us being adults. We're just like, yeah. yeah yeah I will say thank you very much for the invite. It was a delightful, delightful time. The the choreography in the in the actual, in the church. I've never been to a church wedding before. Pretty cool. I thought like the spacing of people walking down the aisle was like on point. Like exactly to the, it almost to the felt like to the,
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to the centimeter in some capacity its capacity in terms of how you know people were spaced out as they walked down the aisle. It was pretty cool. And then, the yeah, the event itself was cool. You played a lot of video game music during the during the dinner. did. Only video game music. Actually, I don't know why said a lot. You only played video game music ah during the dinner.
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Not only. Didn't you? There was there was um a song from Your Name as well, the hit anime. I had a feeling I recognized Your Name at some point, but I was like, but that wouldn't really meet the theme. So I was like, I wasn't.
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ah Yeah, I put that in because I love that. It's like the instrumental. It's like the date song. And was like, oh, that's kind of nice. okay I feel like it works. I missed that. I must have missed that one. I thought it was like there was a couple I didn't recognize. And I was like, i I feel like one of these is in an anime.
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yeah and Yeah. Your Name. And then there were. There was also um Mr. Blue by Catherine Feeney, which is the ending song of BoJack Horseman as well in that term musical list. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I didn't hear that one.
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I missed it. But lot Final Fantasy. There was some Kingdom Hearts in there. Yeah. There's some Death Stranding. Most definitely. We walked out to Kingdom Hearts. We walked out to Simple and Clean, the orchestral version. which Yeah. You know what's crazy?
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yeah Yeah. It was cool. Yeah. It was good. I look over. I look over. at the the i'm at at the table with a buddy of mine who I – like ah kind of grew up with because we went to high school together, Phil.
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And I look over to him and and he says, he looks over me he's like, Disney. I'm like, Disney? I mean, it is it's a it's a brand of Disney. there's There's a flavor of Disney, but it's it's very much not just Disney. you know It's a certain brand of nerd that likes Kingdom Hearts, I think. There's like a specific line there. And he loves Kingdom Hearts, so i was like, Disney, why all people do you not know that this is Kingdom Hearts, Phil? Come on.
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And then I'm like, this is Kingdom Hearts. He's like, oh, yeah. I'm like, Jesus. What's happening to you? It's the, it's the simple and clean, like orchestral kingdom version. Like when you're, I think it's like when you're going to um like Mickey's castle. And I think. Right.
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The second game of ours game, I believe it was. is i don't, I don't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't remember where it was. Sorry. Yeah. But yeah, it's, oh man, what a good song. But yeah, played that as, as our walkout song.
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Boom. Got a lot of, yeah. Again, I had a lot of Final Fantasy music on there. Death Stranding, as you mentioned. i had ah Red Dead Redemption 2. I don't know if you heard Red Dead Redemption 2.
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I did. last I Last Us. did place that one too. Yeah. Last of Us easy one. That was the easiest one to place.
Netflix's Impact on Film and TV Industry
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Actually, I didn't place it. my i didn't I wasn't tuned in to the music at that point moment. And my fiance looks over and she's like, this is The Last of Us. And I'm like, what? i was like, where? where And I was like, oh yeah, the music. We were guessing the music. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's cool.
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There was another thing I was going to say about the, about the music. I don't remember. No, lost it. I'm sure I thought, oh, well, but yeah, it was cool. Yeah, that's cool. The food was good. I made up banging. playlist. I'll be honest. It was awesome.
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I feel like it flowed well. Right. That was the question was going ask. So you got to choose the playlist, presumably. I found it interesting. So you chose the dinner playlist. You know, some people wouldn't have been the wiser. have been like, oh, this is potential elevator music. Oh, it's lounge music or something. They could have thought that potentially. Some of the music was more like...
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I feel like theme based, you can kind of tell, but I feel like most of it, you can kind of get away with it. But I will i will say this, you you came out to Simple and Clean, as you said. Here's the thing. You're married to someone who is, you know, plays a few games, plays a few games from what I understand here and there, but is not necessarily a gamer with a capital G like yourself. So what How did you convince her to do that, to come out to the Simple and Clean? Because there's no way I would even try to get my fiance to do something like that. My wedding's not like that. We're not even doing that type of thing. It's just a small dinner at the end of the like the wedding ceremony with family. So we won't have that presentation. But I'm just curious, like what...
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What's going on there? like how did you i the whole me The music for the actual dinner makes sense. but the you're like I asked and she just said yes. She didn't have any argument. there's no like it yeah She knows how much I love Kingdom Hearts. She she likes the music from Kingdom Hearts because I play it. like I genuinely listen to Kingdom Hearts music.
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Like quite frequently, it's on my playlist. So she's she's familiar with these songs as well. I see. um She's not seen me play Kingdom Hearts, but she saw me play a lot of like Final Fantasy. Obviously, Last of Us, we played together. She's not not seen Red Dead. But again, she's she's heard a lot of this music before.
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So she was more than open to walking out to it because I was like, this is a really beautiful song. you think it's like, yeah, it is. Like, I know how much you love. the song like and then I was like can we walk out to this and she's like of course it was that easy of course that was that easy she just didn't have it well I would have thought she would have had an opinion of what she wanted to walk out to that's what my that's right like she kind of like it sounds like you just kind of because there were certain things that specifically told me about I don't know if you told me on on this podcast but there were things that she picked that you had no choice in the matter yeah but that was not important which I thought is interesting because that to me is like a big moment you know mm-hmm
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Yeah, no, it's a, I mean, it's a banging song. So why the heck not? You know? Yeah. Right. why Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, no, she was amazing. Again, she's my wife. um And yeah, again, we're, you know, she, she's my best friend. She's, she's my partner and you know, she's okay with that. And we, I mean, we compromised on a few things. She wanted that dessert table at the end of the night. Right. I did not.
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We still got the dessert table. I enjoyed it. There was Oreos. I enjoyed it. Which was sick. i Dude, I still got wedding cake. You want some wedding cake? You want to come over after this recording? I'll give you a slice of wedding cake.
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Yeah. You have a lot? like a I got like maybe a third of the base left, like enough to feed probably 10 people confidently. Probably more than 10. Yeah.
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It's tasty. I'm glad that you liked it. So if you want some, I'm not even joking. This is not a joke. This is me being totally serious. If you want to come by, I will give you a nice big slice. we got ah We got to plan, like um I guess this is a segue to the film and TV podcast that we're actually running here. But I feel like we still got to plan that Bo is Afraid day. I feel like you should come over to my house. We should watch Bo is Afraid.
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We should do that. i Okay, I would love to do that with you. Yeah. Just watch the movie and then I kick you out. Okay, sounds good. I'll bring you cake. simple. Wedding cake. Yeah, just bring the cake. Yeah. um Wait, what was going to Actually, I guess to go into our podcast, unless you've got more to say actually because it was a big day. It was very exciting.
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Anything else you want to talk about to the audience here? No, it's all good, man. You know, i'm I'm glad that you came. I'm glad that I had so many close friends and family coming, you know, and and, you know, people that,
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I love there. It was it was wonderful. i really like that Ken was able to come out. um he's he's like I think he still listens to our show, but again, he's a close friend of ours. and Even though he has like a lot of persistent health issues, he was able to at least come to the church ceremony. As soon as I saw him, I honestly started crying.
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ah He like came in and I like gave him a big hug. and I was like, oh my God, I'm crying seeing... you know, one of my good friends, I'm going to bawl my eyes out when my wife walks down the aisle, which is exactly what I did. um so yeah, again, it was, it was awesome, dude. I'm so happy. I'm excited for you to get married and, uh, you know, be with your, your family and be with your wife.
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Yeah, that'd be cool. That'd be cool. Indeed. Super cool. Indeed, dude. Yeah. Okay. I would just wanted to say something briefly. You talked, You talked last week about, i don't know how this came up now. now um i should have written a more detailed note. I didn't.
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But you said something like about how we're not cinephiles. Yeah. um And you didn't like that word because it's pretentious. I would agree with you. i I just thought about it after, but now I don't remember the context. So it feels like it's less meaningful, which is so which sucks. But I just feel like that is kind of a good – I feel like a good – I feel like that's a good note to even start this any any episode of this podcast to say. It's like we're just not cinephiles.
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We're big fans and we're like – looking at the industry constantly, we're like into the film and TV industry and we're constantly looking at it. But I wouldn't consider myself a cinephile either because of the pretentious nature of it. And this idea that like, oh, I'm a cinephile. There's a lot of people I know that are actually like that, that I come across in my business and like my work every day. I'll be like, somebody will come up to me like, They're either a gamer with a capital G or they're specifically the really intensely a film lover. And then they're very opinionated to like a maximum degree. I feel like we're opinionated too, but I just don't think that that's the focus of the show. Also, our focus is split between many things. Obviously, we do not get paid for this podcast. We're doing full-time jobs. You're potentially at your full-time job right now. I mean, you're just- I'm not, dude. It's 5 p.m., man. The clock's done. The weekend's here. Of course.
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So anyway, I just, I just thought that was a a good call out. I appreciate you doing this with me as well. I appreciate that we get to sit down and talk about this every two weeks on Tuesday. Well, we're not talking about it on Tuesdays, but we're, you know, talking about film and TV every two weeks and recording this because it's fun and it's good to hang out with you. And ah yeah, I feel like, I think maybe it was after I thought about what you had said about the cinephile thing and ah in the context that it was at. And I saw you kind kind of you know, crying at your wedding and all that.
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It's very like, It was a little emotional rousing. And I was like, it's nice. It's nice that we get to do this week on week. you know I love you, man. And I appreciate you coming to this. hanging out here on occasion. I'm not the most, I feel like I'm the most anti-social butterfly person lately. I'm just i'm more of a homebody. I kind of stay, stick stick at home mostly. And it's kind of just the nature of my job as well as being very social. And I feel like I appreciate you coming to kind of my neck of the woods in in a way that you might not have wanted to necessarily socialize this way because you're a very social person. You hang out with people in your house. You invite them constantly and you do social things. I'm just not a social outing kind of person as much anymore and i appreciate that we can do this so it's good anyway i just thought i would throw that in here at episode 125 because we're 25 episodes into this new reboot the soft reboot of split focus so anyway that's nice man i love you too dude i love you too i appreciate your friendship i love spending time with you i love shooting the shit with you
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um you know Obviously, you know i am ah i am a i am a social butterfly, I guess you would you would say. you know i do need my recharge days and stuff like that, but you know I do – like hanging out with people. I like – Yeah. I like that communal experience. Like, I mean, last night with the game awards as well, you know, I would have loved for you to come by, um, had a couple of friends come over a little charcuterie board action. You could have had some good cheese, man. You could add some good cheese, but you know, it's okay. I and i understand, man. I totally get that. And again, no no worries there. I'm glad that again, you and I can do this one-on-one. I mean, to follow this up though, um,
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New Year's. I don't know what you're up to. More than welcome to come by to my place on New Year's. Maybe do like a little New Year's potluck. So far,
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I've only messaged my one friend and I got to put it in to a group chat that I have other friends in. See if they'll come. gotcha My one friend and his wife will be coming. So.
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Okay. We'll see. We'll see. I'll talk to my fiance. Actually, we'll be wife, I guess, at that time. Oh, my goodness. About it. And then, but actually, by the time this episode airs, because we're recording this on a Friday, we'll be married.
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That's true. It's kind of It's true. So, anyway, yeah, yeah. I'll discuss that. We'll we'll we'll look into it. But, yeah. but I appreciate you understanding my my you know, my experience.
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How I just, I'm not, I've just, i don I just don't go places. Although we do hang out though. Be honest. We, we go a lot of, to a lot of movies that you just sent me a message about Cine Club, how they had that promotion. Do you actually want to go try that on Monday and see that's it? down, man I'm down. If you are, cause I don't think I'm, I might be down. We'll see. Cause this is the day after the wedding. So we'll see. But yeah, i might, I also might have to drive my uncle to the airport cause he's going back home to to to Serbia. So.
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What time was that? So Cine Club, just so the audience knows, because I feel like we sometimes don't give context. Actually, I'm listening to a podcast lately that doesn't get ah give enough context constantly to the point where I'm kind of annoyed. I don't know if you find that. We listen to the same podcast.
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And it's like they just don't give context to what they're talking about. And then it just – I never understand what they're talking about for like 30 minutes. I'm like, are you going to explain what you're talking but You're talking about some kind of outfit you're wearing on your face? You never explained it one time.
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This is an audio form. This is literally a podcast. So I don't understand. You're talking about – are you wearing a fake mustache? I have no idea what you're talking about. That was like half the episode. I felt like – I was like, what – this 40 minutes in. You've been talking about this shit for – Anyway.
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oh Yeah, yeah, no, I know exactly what you're talking about. yeah that was for the visual, like you needed a visual cue to understand what's going on there. of It's not a very visual medium, just ah on a baseline. You can do a video video version of it. That's cool. But anyway, point is, when i' we're talking about CineClub is a subscription in – I think they used to have something similar in the States. i don't know if they have that anymore. But CineClub is basically pay monthly as a subscription to Cineplex, and then you get money. You get money. That would be incredible.
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It's a pyramid scheme. No, get you get you get tickets every month that you can then spend to go see a movie, but they give you various perks like, you know, cheaper popcorn. It's already ridiculous, expensive, and it's still expensive, cheaper with, with that deal, but regardless. And they also give you sometimes an option to go to a pre-screening of a film that hasn't come out yet, which has been a new perk that we've just discovered that really didn't exist until this year.
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So the last time we got invited to do this was Eternity, the, the movie with Elizabeth Olsen, where she's in, in heaven and she's got like two suitors cause her, her husband dies and then she remarries, which is a crazy plot line. I kind of still want to see eternity. Um, I don't know if I'll end up seeing it in theaters, but then the next one is on Monday or Tuesday. that It is on Monday. Yeah. it so It's on Monday. and The 15th. Let me up that email.
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let me pull up that email but think I screwed didn't get it. That's the thing. I didn't see it this time, which was weird. I couldn't find it.
Podcast Review Segment: Shows and Films
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I have to look again in the app, but maybe it just didn't show up for me. So yeah, I'm i am i'm considering it for sure because it would be cool. But there are a few movies and when we go through what we've been watching to sorry what's coming up, the look to the future segment, we can talk about what movies it could be because I feel like it could be a different film than you think. You thought it might be, is this thing on? But I have a feeling that it could be another three movies because i have a feeling that they could do the 20 the december 25th films and there's a lot of them have theory which one it might be anaconda maybe that's exactly right that's why i thought because it's such a crowd pleaser i think that that might be such a oh sorry yeah my my guesses again i want it to be is this thing on but my my honest guess is
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would probably be like the housemaid or something like that. That's the other one. Yeah. I'm sitting because I feel like you keep this for more of a, um, like, like niche movie as opposed to something that is going to draw people in.
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So then is this thing on as a good choice then actually, then would be more likely. Exactly. Because like Eternity is kind of more, not an indie movie, but you know, it's not like a blockbuster whatever. Right. Yeah, exactly. So that's why I'm kind of thinking maybe, maybe it's that.
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So I don't know if there's a potential chance. i don't know where, like, where, let me find this out. Cineplex. Cause I looked at the screenshot I sent you and doesn't say anything.
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What the film
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Get tickets. So I have to actually click the campaign here. I don't know why it's not easy to find. This is the one criticism I have on this particular part of the service. I don't really understand why I can't just quickly look for it on my Senate club. This kind of half spoils it because it tells you what the length of the movie is.
00:20:58
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Oh, good. So we can figure it out. It's two hours and 22 minutes. That's what it says. Yeah. The funny thing is, is we're also recording this again on Friday and we would have watched this film before this episode, this podcast episode comes out. So we wouldn't be spoiling anything to any, any possible person listening to this that has Cineclub.
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Yeah. How long is it? Sorry. Two hours and 22 minutes. The housemate is two hours and 12 minutes. So my guess is it's the housemate. Oh, you think they're just giving a random.
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a different time. Like they're defudging the time. i don't know Maybe it's like they're saying, Hey, it's 10 minutes longer. Song sung blue. That's the 25th. That's two hours and 12 minutes as well.
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Hmm. Marty Supreme. Let's see. I had another, and yeah had another ah theory. Well, how long did you say, how long did you say it was? Two two hours hours and 22 minutes. Oh, 22. So the closer, the closer amount. And I thought that it might be this movie is no other choice. Actually.
00:21:52
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Hmm. That's the other one. That's more artsy. So if you have that theory that it's not, That's a kind of a good bet too. Also, did you look up Marty Supreme? Did you say that one already? Yeah, it's two hours and 20 minutes. Oh, so much closer. one So that one's that was more likely.
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Two hours 30. Oh, so it's probably not that one. Yeah. Because they wouldn't want to overestimate. I have no idea. Who knows? Yeah. I love what we just went through the, you look to the future segment.
00:22:21
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Yeah. And we're going we're done at the end. Yeah. well We won't do that at the end now. Yeah. All right. So, sorry, Simon. One minute. I just got to pause here real quick. Oh, this real quick. another call quick A call after hours call.
00:22:35
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An after hours call. One of my coworkers is asking so um, dude, dude Yeah, he was trying to get this over the line by the end of the day and the guy's just not answering. So um I'm gonna call him now that it's after hours, maybe from a different phone number and be like, hey You know?
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Cool. All right. So I'm very The clock starts now.
00:23:00
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right, I'm back. Sorry about that. All right, we're back. What were you smiling at? You watching a funny video? Yeah, I was watching some videos on YouTube. There's a crazy Trump clip where he was at a rally somewhere and there was like a – he was like – don't know if you saw this. Is this one where he said the Democrats are retarded?
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No. He said – he's like, ah do you minors? love minors. Yeah. But the crazy thing is he's talking about minors as like the job, but the closed captioning person messed up and they wrote minors and they spelt it wrong and then they delete, delete, deleted it and then re rewrote out minors, M-I-N-E-R-S instead of O-R-S. So they wrote out minors.
00:23:45
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Which is pretty funny because obviously there's ah there's a controversy with the Epstein situation. yeah anyway I was just watching The Daily Show. But anyway, yes. Well, we've ah we've you know you've you've taken your after hours call. We've professed our love to each other before that. And we talked about how we're not experts, but relatable film fanatics, right? So now we're going to move on to the review segment of our show.
00:24:10
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So onto the thing that we, the stuff we've been watching, I'll throw it to you first as is customary. here I've changed the the the format. I feel like this makes more sense. It's kind of the meat and potatoes of the show. I think this makes sense, at least for what I understand. I think that's also in the document. Yeah.
00:24:25
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So not to worry. I didn't just throw it, throw you ah Well, you know me, I don't know how to read. so this is this comes with the supplies to me. It's coming with the supplies to me. Sure. But anyway, yeah. So now we're going to do the review segment We're going to see how this works. I think this is going to go well, I think. Because I like to put the montage in the middle of the show. i think this still works in that capacity because the montage is a quick flow. Everything goes very quickly.
00:24:49
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Okay. Anyway, I'll give it to you first. Anything you've been watching, anything you want to talk about that you saw this week. We didn't go see a movie this week. We've been very busy. You just got married. yourself And I've been really working on getting married as well. So like like earlier today, I was... like I drove, we had like these little gifts for family members who are coming to the dinner. And so I, I drove that to the the venue this morning and it's been busy. It's been a busy time. So we didn't watch anything together, but I'm sure we watch stuff apart. I'm sure you have, especially what have you seen? What have you watched? What have you enjoyed? I've,
00:25:21
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So I've watched a few things, my my good chap, my good pal Simon. So the one that I want to start with, so obviously i have Disney Plus. I got it back for Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. I forgot to cancel, so I got ah charged for another month. So I'm like, okay, cool. i'm going to watch some stuff on Disney Plus while I have it.
00:25:39
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yeah And me and my now wife, we decided to watch a Hulu original, FX original. It's on Disney Plus here. Original series called Adults. Have you heard of it, Simon?
00:25:52
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I have. Yes. yeah It's like, it's basically they were calling, we talked to about it on the podcast for the, I think so, for the look to the future. I think people were calling it Friends, but in 2025. Kind of. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's, it's in, it's akin to your friends, your, how I met your mother. And now again, you have, you have adults and it's about, you know, these five friends that live in a house together and it is a awesome, awesome comedy, genuinely hilarious. And that they're all like, you know, Gen Z, you know, mid twenties and just trying to get through life. Like how, like, what do I have to do to be a, be an adult?
00:26:26
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But the fun part about this show is it's very, um, Absurd, obviously, but it is also kind of grounded in a way where it you hear these conversations between these 20-something-year-olds. And it's like I've had very similar conversations with my friends, and they say some offensive stuff and you know when you're just kind of riffing with your buddies and you know you you say some ridiculous shit. And it feels very relatable in that sense.
00:26:53
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Nice. um There's not much of a setup. like Again, it is literally five friends living in a house together, and they're all very close. And it's just kind of, you know, like a sitcom, different antics, you know, happen in each episode. But there are a few episodes with guest stars, Charlie Cox, actually. Yeah, being in a few episodes of the show. I saw the clips of that.
00:27:16
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Yeah. And let me tell you, there is one. So I think the entire show is hilarious. Amazing. I actually loved it. I'm so glad it's renewed for a season two. I can't wait for the new season. This is actually something I'm going to re-up my Disney Plus subscription for once it starts releasing because both me and my fiance loved it.
00:27:33
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um But there is a dinner party episode and there's something special about dinner party episodes and TV shows. You know i think of the bear. i think adults.
00:27:45
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adults and I think it is the prime setting to make some of the most absurd yet hilarious things occur. And I'm not even lying to you where I was laughing so hard. I was genuinely crying at times in in that episode. It is so good. Charlie Cox in particular is so amazing.
00:28:08
Speaker
in that episode, it's fucking awesome. And again, it's it's tough to talk about because there's not really much of a story. It's literally, again, five people living in a house together and they're all really close friends. you know There's you know from different walks of life, but at the end of the day, they're Gen Z you know Americans living in the Bronx.
00:28:29
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I think that's where they they live in the Bronx in in New York City, but it's very obviously filmed in Toronto. like super obvious. So like you can pick up on a lot of things, just the housing, how it looks like you're Oh yeah, that's Toronto. I've been on the street in Toronto.
00:28:43
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And um yeah, it's really good, man. I, I, I genuinely, I recommend this to a lot of people that i just want a good laugh. Cause yeah, again, I was, I was wheezing at times. It's,
00:28:57
Speaker
It's nice to have kind of a sitcom. I wish, you know, there was more than just the eight episodes. That's really the one thing I kind of miss about it. Cause I miss the days of, you know, those 22 episode comedy shows where every season had, you know, 20 plus episodes. Like again, how I met your mother, friends, new girl, things like that, where, you know, the the shows went on longer, but typically, you know, first seasons tend to be a little shorter and a lot of those shows. So I'm hoping maybe the second season will be picked up for a little bit more than eight episodes. Um, I haven't actually looked into it to see would feel like streaming service shows, though, that's not really the case, eh?
00:29:30
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Yeah, so that's, yeah, I know. It's weird because it's technically an FX show, but even FX, I think traditionally will do about 10 episode seasons, even for for their comedies. So don't know. It's not like linear network like ABC and NBC, ABC. You know what I mean? Like CBS, like those, Fox, they're going to do like Last Man Standing and they'll have like 20 episodes sees it or the office on NBC but it's not really common on like those networks as well like AMC doesn't do it either AMC might I don't know if any AMC comedies actually not that I think about it I don't know but that's another one it's AMC and FX I think of are kind of similar they're like cable networks that are yeah from my understanding they're similar yeah I think yeah that's actually a very fair comparison like those two
00:30:16
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So, yeah, um but I truly loved it. Like genuinely one of the funniest shows I've watched. And it's kind of unfortunate because although it's different from i Love LA that I've been watching week to week.
00:30:30
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I think this show is is, I think, like a lot better. They're going for a very similar audience, you know, Gen Z living in, insert town here or city here. And like, kind of what are they doing with their lives? But I think adults kind of masters the the character. Like they know their characters really well and put them into ridiculous situations. And it is...
00:30:51
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really about all five of them and how they get along together in this house. Whereas I love LA, it's a little bit more segmented. um And I, I still really like, I love LA. My issue with, I love LA though, with the most recent episode in particular is um Rachel Senate's character specifically gets kind of shittier as the season goes on.
00:31:14
Speaker
It's still funny, but you're kind of like, Oh man, like don't do that. It's like your your boyfriend, Josh Hutcherson is so nice. Like you you got to calm down a bit. Why are you acting so crazy sort of thing? um So again, I still really love I Love LA. There's a couple of really good jokes, but I think watching adults so close to it, it kind of made me realize like, oh you know what? Like actually adults really hit the mark um and did this style of comedy a little bit better.
00:31:40
Speaker
um But again, very different people because i love LA is, you know, based in Los Angeles and they're all like influencers. Like I'm, you know, rich and ditzy sort of thing. Whereas adults is like, we live in New York. We're poor. We live in a house together of of five people. It's, you shit's going crazy. And again, i think that's a little bit more relatable, at at least for, you know, someone like myself.
00:32:02
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Yeah. um Yeah. Genuine love. It's probably my favorite thing that I watched this week. And then watched two other things, Simon. Okay. I watched, because it's leaving Netflix like actually in like two days.
00:32:15
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Now you see me and now you see me as well. Now You See Me 2. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You almost said Now You Don't, but that's the name of the new movie, so that would have become confusing. So then you stalked yourself? Is that what that was? Okay. Yeah, and that's why I said as well. This is like the third one for some reason. they didn't They didn't think of that somehow for the second one.
00:32:38
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me Now You See Me, Now You Don't is not, for some reason, an apt title for the second one. They decided to call it Now. Yeah. Um, these movies are interesting. So I'll, I'll kind of talk a little bit about the first one more. Have you seen these? but I think I asked, I saw the first one. I didn't see the second one. I saw it very recently. I saw the first one this year.
00:32:55
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oh okay. yeah I think the first one is the perfect definition of a popcorn film. It's nothing. it's got special. pothdoles It is riddled with like a lot of plot holes, actually. Especially once you get to the end, you're like, what?
00:33:10
Speaker
But it is it got a good cast. The cast is exactly all star. A shockingly good cast, dude. It's crazy how good the fucking cast is. Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman. Like, yeah, come on, dude. What? um It's weird because it's a magician's movie again. And it's got Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine in it. Because isn't the prestige?
00:33:29
Speaker
yeah prestige has both of them wait no no is morgan freeman not in that one freeman's not in in the prestige i don't think but michael kane definitely is no i'm confused yeah sorry i'm thinking of batman dark knight i guess yeah because nolan reuses his actors in a lot of things i thought for some reason that okay never mind so but but um never mind i'm not even related at all it's one actor but a both movies about magicians.
00:33:55
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But um yeah, I think that the, you know, the first one is really fun. It just, it, it's wacky. It's a little bit over the top. And the most interesting part about it is like the main cast who you think that you're going to follow, you know, your Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher. And um why am I forgetting?
00:34:14
Speaker
oh my goodness. ruffalo No, bald. Did you see Mark Ruffalo? I know, but I'm talking about the main forecast, the magicians, Woody Harrelson's. Sorry. i don't know why I was saying Bruce because you said Mark Ruffalo because Bruce Banner. Anyways, yes, Woody Harrelson. And like yeah going into this, I was like, oh, yeah, these are the main characters. But actually, they're not. They're kind of the antagonists all throughout the movie. You're actually following Mark Ruffalo's character in this French Interpol agent.
00:34:44
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And like, yeah, they are chasing them down. It's weird based on that. And again, it is it is just kind of like this fun movie. And it I think I asked you this on another episode because I was like, are now you see me like are they actually just like actual magicians or are they like yeah wizards? Are they mages? oh you know and But kind of. The first one...
00:35:08
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they They do a really good job explaining everything that happens. And you're like, okay, I can i can believe that. Kind of. But that's my issue with the first movie, though. I feel like if there's like there's like a twist at a certain point that I'm like, I don't buy that you you didn't you told the actors the twist that you'd planned this the whole time. that That was kind of the problem for me. is When I got to the end of the movie, I'm like... are you sure though that you, that you plan this the whole time? Cause I think back on it. Cause if you think back on the, a great example is the prestige and you look back on every little thing that was chosen. It was clearly, if you watch that a second time, you're seeing all the Easter eggs of what exactly they reveal is occurring. Yeah. And, and that that's part of the,
00:35:48
Speaker
theme of the movie is are you watching closely that's kind of the whole idea yeah and like the first shot is like the i think the first shot of the procedure one of the first ones is the hats in the in the field of the you know or the cats or whatever and and you're like are you watching closely like here's the we're hinting it constantly are you gonna figure it out or not and so this is the thing with with this movie i don't think they do it that well but you're going to say that the next movie that they basically are using magic Yeah. Because they don't explain it. Once you get into it, now you didn't see the second one. No, they the the weird part is is they still kind of explain it, but it is way more far-fetched the second time around. Oh, okay. The second movie is is demonstrably worse. like It is a noticeable step down. And it goes from you know the first one being like, this isn't a great movie, but it's fun to – This movie is longer than the first. It's more boring than the first, and it's nowhere near as fun. And then they also don't have Isla Fisher in it. They replace her with ah Lizzie Kaplan.
00:36:43
Speaker
um Oh. And she's a different character. oh she's just – She's a different character. and then she shows up and she's like, I'm now part of the Four Horsemen as well with you guys. And it's like there are events that happen in the movie that reference the first one. And they're like, I wonder if you guys remember me. And she's just there and she's like, I do.
00:37:04
Speaker
but Not actually, she doesn't say for like, you know, out loud, but like I was following you guys for a while since you, you know, betrayed me in the first movie. And she's like, she's like, yeah, she's just like nodding along. I'm like, but you weren't there. Like this guy has actually no vendetta against you specifically, Lizzie Kaplan. You actually just showed up two days ago. And it's like, I think they literally realized because I i looked into this. Isla Fisher wasn't able to come back because she was pregnant at the time.
00:37:32
Speaker
So I think they wrote the movie with Isla Fisher in mind. And then they're like, oh, she can't make it back. So we're just going to add this one scene at the beginning to change her character to be a little bit different and then adjust the dialogue to be a little bit more quirky.
00:37:46
Speaker
And add in some random romantic subplot with his character. And it just does not work as a whole. But they so they are filming Lizzie Kaplan. They know she's in it. So all of those scenes, just write them better. Maybe rewrite them a little bit more efficiently. yeah I feel like like what do you that doesn't make any sense to me. I have to see it. yeah Or should I? Because it's a 34% on Rotten Tomatoes. So i'm not sure that's worth it. ah Dude, if you if you think... Let me, again...
00:38:12
Speaker
I think I'm a little bit more forgiving for a lot of things like plot holes and stuff like that. As long as I'm having a good time, this movie wasn't that much of a good time. So I think you are going watch it and be like, yeah, this is just a bad movie and not see as much in it. There's also an element of it like being worse. If I go to the theaters to watch it, you know I mean? Like if I'm seeing bottles and I went to the theaters, like there was an element of like, I know I'm going in for a bad movie and I'm going watch it. And it's like, I know it's bad. It's a 34%. I think I'm less forgiving on a movie. Like,
00:38:40
Speaker
Companion because i I feel like companionship. Sorry. Companion. No, it is companion. Just companion. Companion. Sorry. Yeah, but Companion, I love it. i like It's so so good and the idea is so good and there's so many great things in it, but then it's ruined by things that shouldn't, just just shouldn't. They're just so easy to write out of it. like You can write it better than that and you wouldn't have that issue, but you just were lazy and that that's kind of like, that annoys me more because of the production design, the music, the acting was so good in that. that And I went to see it in theaters, I bought a ticket. But if I'm at home, I'm like, this is a 34% on Rotten Tomatoes, I'm just going to eat some popcorn. I'm going to put some Orville Redenbacher in my
00:39:16
Speaker
microwave microwave chill you know I mean that that I can kind of forgive it I think expectations of the thief of joy you know so you kind of have to yeah where your your head's at also matters too but i mean it wouldn't affect my score i'm sure it would still give it a two a one or something but mean it'd be fun yeah i mean you can watch it it goes off um netflix on the day that you're getting married so just watch it tonight or tomorrow yeah watch it on the day i'm just not gonna go to the i'm not gonna go to the chapel yeah you can skip it that's fine yeah so just just do it up um
00:39:50
Speaker
But yeah, again, it's not awful, but it's it's really not good. You know what it kind of reminded me of in a weird way? um It kind of reminded me of – remember that – just because you brought it up, you know, like going to a theater for like a bad movie that is, you know, rated poorly. Remember that – what is it called? The Circle? Yeah.
00:40:08
Speaker
Oh God. like <unk> Yeah. Remember that movie? That was yeah bad. That was a bad movie, right? Crazy cast though. Crazy cast. Crazy cast. And that's similar to now you see me too. Crazy cast movie riddled with plot holes. Not that good. The circle way worse.
00:40:23
Speaker
Way worse. But again, it, it, it, it kind of, it kind of reminded me of that. So the circle's crazy. Cause it has Tom Hanks in it. I don't think Tom Hanks makes bad decisions with his movie choices. Like ever. Like I, I just very rare. I wouldn't say it's ever, but it's, it's rare.
00:40:38
Speaker
I find more rare. He like, he's, I think i don't know. I wouldn't want to say he's choosy, but I feel like, I mean, Marvel, do you think Marvel tried to get him? I feel like they did. And he's like, nah, probably, you know, it's, it's Tom Hanks. Like you can probably get him as like a general or something, you know, but yeah, they don't have him on the cast. General Grievous in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Very well known actor, sorry, character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, General Grievous.
00:41:05
Speaker
Mm-hmm. yeah and um okay so yeah i watched that cool and then again final thing because i've only watched three episodes of it but again i got disney plus i'm like what can we watch on disney plus and cassandra brought this up to me my wife my wife cassandra not sure if you know i'm married um yeah she she's been wanting to watch the the show scream queens for a while oh yeah cool you you hear about that it's emma roberts Yeah.
00:41:30
Speaker
In it. She's like the main, one of the main characters along with Glenn Powell, my guy, my boy, Glenn, he's in it. So that, that's all I needed to hear to watch this. And Scream Queens is really good.
00:41:43
Speaker
Actually. It's, it's very over the top and campy and also like slapstick in a lot of ways, which I wasn't fully expecting. It's like,
00:41:55
Speaker
The in-between – so like Scream, I think, is like just genuinely amazing movies, but it's also pretty funny and it's, you know, like a murder mystery whodunit. And then you look at a movie like Scary Movie, the first one, that is a parody of Scream, but like going super far into that like absurdity and like, you slapstick humor. And I would say Scream Queens falls kind of in the middle of those two movies, maybe leaning a little bit more towards Scary Movie. Yeah.
00:42:22
Speaker
but not as absurd. And it's just, it's a vibe. The interesting part, Simon, is this is a comedy. There are hour long episodes. There are 44 minute long episodes. Whoa.
00:42:34
Speaker
What the hell? yeah That's crazy. so I know. So I, I think by definition, it can't be a comedy, but that's what they say. That's what they say. Okay. But yeah, it's um pretty much the premise is you know, it's a, you know, a sorority,
00:42:50
Speaker
um And all of a sudden the, the sorority sisters and people like in the sorority house start getting murdered by ah essentially the school mascot. The crazy part about this show is again, it's a pretty darn good cast with Emma Roberts, you know, being quite big. Glenn Powell being super big now, super handsome now. Not then though. Certainly. Yeah.
00:43:12
Speaker
And not then. um But now, he now he's big. And then Jamie Lee Curtis, she's like one of the deans, like she's a major character in it as well, which I had no idea. um So again, pretty stellar cast there. um And it's just like a fun little watch, but not nothing spectacular, but really enjoyable. And I'm vibing with it. I'm in the mood for something like this. I kind of wish we watched it closer to Halloween, but you know, it's kind of nice leading up to the the Christmas season, watching a horror comedy like this.
00:43:41
Speaker
But anyways, sweet that's all I've really been watching. I'll talk about it. Welcome to dairy when it's done next week, but okay I don't want to be redundant. Sounds good.
00:43:51
Speaker
Yeah. Sweet. All right. Well, I just watched, I've watched a few things, but I'm just going to talk about one, one. And it's, I basically got caught up on all four episodes of stranger things season five. Nice. And, uh, it's, uh, it's very good.
00:44:05
Speaker
Very much like it. I very much like it. It's funny. I never, I never drew any comparison. Um, between Stranger Things and although it is kind of similar in some, like in many aspects, I just didn't think about it like this, but I feel like the Stranger Things connection to Harry Potter, I never really thought of. And I feel like it's the boy who lived. It's kind of the like a major plot line. And I'm like, oh yeah.
00:44:25
Speaker
shit and ah And there's an element of like Noah Schnapp kind of, he doesn't act that dissimilarly to ah to Daniel Radcliffe. I'm like, yeah. So I'm like, I don't know. This is interesting. I really like that that the fifth season so far. The really annoying gap between the episodes because there's just not that many of them. But the cool thing about it is that the episodes are longer. They're like mini movies, which I think you mentioned when we talked about it a few weeks ago. So it's cool. It's great. and ah Something that's interesting, Frank Darabont, know if you saw this, directed the second episode, I think it is, which is crazy because I don't think he's directed anything since like ah since The Walking Dead.
00:45:06
Speaker
I'm pretty sure. yeah Yeah. I mean, that it's... lawsuit Yeah, that episode for one is is ah remarkable. It's such a good episode of television, but it is just really cool to see him come back to it. I mean, he arguably has directed one of the greatest movies of all time with like Shawshank Redemption.
00:45:22
Speaker
You know, like a lot of people consider that to be one of the greats. And it's like he came in. I'm going to direct an episode of Stranger Things. I noticed that right away. And I pointed that out to my now wife. i don't know if you know I'm married now, Simon. Yeah, but it's crazy. I pointed it to to my now wife and i was like, oh, my goodness, it's Frank Dearborn. She's like, oh.
00:45:39
Speaker
Like, do you know who that She's like, no. Why'd you say oh and not ask? She's like, oh. I think sometimes she just doesn't care that much. She's like, i just want to watch this and enjoy it, which is fair. That's fair. um yeah so Yeah, man, I really love those first four episodes. I'm glad that you enjoyed them as well. I don't think they're as strong as season four because I was watching it so close, but I still really am intrigued as as to where it's going. And again, as we talked about previously, Stranger Things does such a good job on the unlikely pairings.
00:46:14
Speaker
And what they do in this season with, with, you know, specific characters. are Yeah. And I, I don't know. I really loved it, man. I really loved it. It's great. Yeah, there's that. I think there's some, especially in like the last couple episodes, I feel like there's some potential plot holes or like some like weird gaps in thinking for the characters that I don't really enjoy. I'm kind of like thrown off by it.
00:46:37
Speaker
I'm like, I don't know if they would have made this decision. They're so careful. and Now they're going to do this. that That's what there's a there's an element of that, especially with like David Harbour. I'm like, come on, man. Are you sure?
00:46:47
Speaker
your character, Dick Hopper, is going to make that decision here? at I'm not sure. it's it's just It just seems a strange. like there's little bit There's some leaps in logic that I'm not a big fan of, but I don't think there are holes that really break anything, especially when you get to the end. It seems to seems to work out in the way that it's it's it's it's plotted by the end of it. but yeah I really liked it a lot. and I'll also say there's something interesting actually that happened and it's going to be completely related to our, what we're like we're going to go into a next segment, although it's going to be split up now. So i don't know. We'll see how this format works. But they, so the Duffer brothers said something interesting when the, when the episodes came out, did you see what they said? and Maybe they said something else that you saw too, but yeah I'm not too sure.
00:47:30
Speaker
They said that, yeah They were basically recommending certain TV features to shut off and turn on so that you get the ah best the best color grading for the actual episodes because they put so much effort into making the their Netflix TV show look as good as it could be. So essentially, the director's intent, okay?
00:47:53
Speaker
There is a specific way that you can get the director's intent that's pretty perfect, actually. It's the only way that you can ensure that the re director's intent is relayed to the audience. Do you know what this is? You do. It's a trick question. It's an easy question, I guess, but you're drinking water.
00:48:08
Speaker
Turning off motion flow? No. you No, that won't just fix it. The colors are going be whack. They're they're like cinema. color They were about color grading. They were concerned about color grading. and No, no, no. There's a way that to get to deliver the the most accurate picture to an audience. Oh, calibrating. The simplest way. play No, the simplest way to get it.
00:48:28
Speaker
I feel there's so much pressure to see that exactly what you made in the most simple way possible without having them because they're not tech savvy enough. They're not going to be able to know what to do. They're just not going to click anything. They don't know what to do.
00:48:41
Speaker
And this is something that Netflix currently doesn't believe in. They might decide that they believe in it, but currently they don't believe in it. It is going to the theaters. And they don't believe in going to the theaters. And I think it's so ironic that the Duffer brothers are like, oh, you're going there and and click. They're not going It's a granny. They don't know how to do it. Or it's a it's a young child. They don't know. Nobody knows how to go on their TV and completely calibrate. Or it's not even about not knowing. They don't have the time. People are busy. That's the point of Netflix. So I think it's terribly ironic that Netflix doesn't seem to care about delivering the director's intent or thinking, i like, I guess –
00:49:16
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ironically, that people would just get it the best experience on a phone. Actually, phones would probably give you the better experience. If you're watching on an iPhone, the calibration of True Tone and and giving you like Dolby Vision on an iPhone, actually in the current like lineup of newer iPhones, it actually does get deliver potentially a good color rating experience. But when you're on most TVs, especially because they're shipped out of the box in standard or but or vivid mode,
00:49:39
Speaker
No one knows what to do. it's the Even to this day, I'll be fiddling around. I'm playing The Last of Us Part II, right? and the And the HDR implementation on that game is a pretty immaculate. It's really good. And so I can go in and like mean i'm like I'm realizing, like well, my TV is a little bit not bright enough here. And I'm trying to make sure that it is as calibrated it should be, not just for The Last of Us, but I thought The Last of Us is a good kind of high watermark so that I can then trickle it down to...
00:50:05
Speaker
you know, games that don't have the best HDR implementation. And so that's, that's something I care about because I'm an enthusiast, but that's not everyone. That's me. That's potentially you right with yeah a nice TV. You just, you just purchased on new TV. Yeah. I spent, you know, probably an hour setting up the picture quality for yeah different settings and making sure it's connected to my PS5 properly. All that I was watching a HDTV test.
00:50:28
Speaker
Awesome YouTube channel. like i really liked that guy and he'll break down best settings for specific TVs. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey man, it's because we're, it's because we're not cinephiles. That's why we do it.
00:50:40
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not making my argument from before, obviously. So I get your joke, but yeah. So the point I'm making is I think it's hilarious that they would even, even bother. Cause I'm so sorry. You chose Netflix like, and weirdly their finales in theaters, which I think that's probably why they left Netflix.
00:51:01
Speaker
Because we put all this effort into the color grading. the Funny thing is I was watching the first ah two episodes of ah of Stranger Things. And my TV, I had toned down the the highest highest brightness level of my TV. And i was i was I had been playing around with it. And I was just trying to get it right. So it was exactly, again, close to the director's intent as possible. And i realized i had something wrong because I was watching the first episode of Stranger Things, season five.
00:51:24
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And I had to have lights on in the room because we were eating at the time. And and like... I didn't have the quite the right color, like not the color grading, but the brightness because it was too dark to see like, that's not the way they wanted it. There's no way the Duffer brothers wanted it to be too dark to see. they, I remember that they had said that on some interview that they were like, Oh, you know, turned, turn off. They, but to your point, you said motion flow, right? Turn off motion flow.
00:51:49
Speaker
yeah That's called something different in everything. They, they were, they were railing against the soap opera effect, which is caused by those technologies. Yeah. where it smooths the frame rates to make it look, I don't even know what the point of doing that is. It's ah it's useful to make it look worse, but pretty much it just makes it worse than everything except for sports because sports, it helps because it it's, it's bridging the frame. So the puck going across an ice or a ball across the sky and football or something, or, or a golf ball, you can kind of see, you can kind of see it um in more detail if you have a TV that can do it, but it's really not useful overall.
00:52:21
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umm because it again, it creates a soap opera effect. So they were saying, turn that off, but mainly the color grading was what they were focused on because they were worried that people weren't going to get the best effect. I think they were worried that their show was too dark Which is a fair thing to worry about because I did have that issue myself. And then I was like, oh, I don't don't have it in the right spot.
00:52:37
Speaker
And the fact that they care about it that much made me know they put the effort in. I know that if I make my TV look good here on this show, the next show I watch on, I don't know, if I'm watching a show on Amazon Prime Video that that wasn't necessarily, they didn't take the the care it.
00:52:52
Speaker
ah to to make sure the color grading was right, that every other show is going to look as good as it should. And so that was yeah that was the idea. But we'll get to that in a second because we're going to talk about the theatrical experience when it comes to Netflix shortly.
Critique of Business Acquisitions and Industry Ethics
00:53:04
Speaker
ah Before we do that, let's move on now, Adrian, to a segment. that we've been doing forever. Now on to the montage, Adrian, a sequence of our show in which I briefly present at least seven of the bi-week smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict.
00:53:21
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Number one, according to publication deadline, Shogun Emmy award-winning director Frederick E. O. Toy has been hired on as director for Amazon's upcoming God of War TV series adaptation from For All Mankind creator Ronald D. Moore. Wow, they're getting some good talent attached to this show. Indeed. Renewed for two seasons, or like yeah renewed for a second season already as well.
00:53:45
Speaker
I think that was already that was news from a long while ago, right? they they They've been greenlit for two seasons, um like months back. I don't remember. I think so. I think we talked about that. Cool. But yes.
00:53:56
Speaker
Number two, according to publication The Hollywood Reporter, Fast Five director Justin Lin has been hired on to direct the film adaptation of the PlayStation video game Helldivers 2 for Sony Pictures. Wonderful. That seems okay, maybe. We'll find out, I guess. Number three, Paramount has greenlit a mystery Sonic sequel film to air after the March 19th, 2027 release of Sonic 4. This new Sonic movie is scheduled for a December 22nd, 2028 release date.
00:54:24
Speaker
Oh my goodness, who who could it be? You think it could be a Shadow sequel, Simon? Keanu? Do you think it could be a Rogue the Bat? Keanu's, I feel like, a crowd pleaser. He is. I feel like Shadow. Because he's playing, he played Shadow, right? Yeah, he is. He plays Shadow. That's not a bad idea. Even in the game. Those movies sold a lot. It's crazy. And he's in the game, yeah.
00:54:43
Speaker
Number four. According to Nexus Point News, and backed by publication Variety, Jojo Rabbit star Scarlett Johansson is in talks to star in the Robert Pattinson starring The Batman Part II. For director Matt Reeves. Oh my goodness. That's awesome. I hope, I hope she plays Mr. Freeze.
00:55:00
Speaker
Yeah. That's so great. Mr. Freeze, one of the most grounded i was Batman villains in this universe. I feel like he could do something really cool with that. I don't i don't know. Do you think he's going to go wacky? Yeah. ah you I mean, maybe you don't even go wacky. You just go like a guy that has his dead wife frozen and he's trying to resurrect her and he's going crazy. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can do a spin on it. Yeah. That's a good call. Yeah. Number five, HBO's Game of Thrones spinoff A Night of the Seven Kingdoms has begun production on its recently renewed season two.
00:55:29
Speaker
Season one releases January 18th, 2026, while season two is scheduled for a 2027 release date. Dude, I was just saying, hopefully them renewing it early means that we don't have to wait two years. Yeah, which is awesome. With my luck, though, it's going to release in December of 2027. So practically still be two years, but whatever. Hey.
00:55:47
Speaker
At least it's something. Better than nothing. Number six, as reported by publication Variety, Paramount is working on a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live action film that is set to release on November 17th of 2028. Wow, that's awesome. and I think this is going to still exist.
00:56:03
Speaker
like at the same time as the mutant mayhem universe which is that seth rogan universe that that he was creating or heading you're saying they're just making them they're going to keep making both is that what you mean yeah yeah yeah i think they're still making a sequel to that mutant mayhem movie but they're not related i think that's next year they're not like they're not Exactly. Yeah. Like two separate running in tandem. Gotcha. Number seven, Disney and ABC have extended their contract with Jimmy Kimmel for the longtime host to continue hosting the ABC late night TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live through 2027. Well, I mean, it makes sense. Who are they going to hire for Jimmy Kimmel Live except for Jimmy and Kimmel?
00:56:39
Speaker
Come on, Yes, but he could retire. you You know what I'm saying? Number eight, the Golden Globes nominees were recently announced on December 8th, with the most nominees going to director Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with nine nominations. The Globes will air on January 11th, 2026, with comedian Nikki Glaser hosting. Wow, pretty cool.
00:57:02
Speaker
We'll see what happens. Number nine. Avenue 5 actor Hugh Laurie has been cast as an archaeology professor in Brooklyn Nine-Nine creator Mike Schur's upcoming archaeological excavation comedy series, Dig.
00:57:14
Speaker
The Peacock series will also be written by Only Murders on the Building writer Jay Philbin and will star Parks and Recreation actor Amy Poehler in a starring role. Oh, okay, cool.
00:57:25
Speaker
Pretty interesting. Peaks my interest. And that concludes... The montage. without
00:57:34
Speaker
All right. We did it. We did it. All right. Okay, cool. So this format just completely jugged juggled around, jumbled up. So our next segment, Adrian... is to dive into a trilogy of news, a component of our show where we discuss at least three film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over the past two weeks.
00:57:55
Speaker
Before we get into that, I'll explain why I jumbled this, actually. You know what's funny is that a long while ago, way, way long ago, like when we're on episode 70 of the first run of this podcast, your mom actually criticized the podcast because we didn't get into reviews soon enough.
00:58:09
Speaker
And it's like, that's kind of the meat and potatoes. So I was like, oh yeah, that's a good idea. So when when I rebooted it the first, when we re reboot rebooted it and then we kind of went back on it, I think I put the reviews in the beginning, but then it kept getting shuffled because I would put like a tiny quick bites of news in the beginning.
00:58:25
Speaker
And then the quick bites of news kept getting larger and larger and larger segments. And I just kept pushing the reviews to the middle or the end. And I was like, no, I'm just, I'm going to move it legitimately to the beginning now because I think that's a good idea.
00:58:38
Speaker
Anyone who's maybe tuning into this, you know they can tune out if they're not interested in us. Maybe they just want to see the reviews. this is ah I mean, this podcast, Split Focus on Film and TV podcast is on the Just Another the Review YouTube channel. Let's get to the reviews after the banter. That's the strategy. We'll see if it works. I don't think it will really matter in the end, but i think I think it's a good strategy. So it's really your mom.
00:58:58
Speaker
Your mom did this. Shout out to my mom. From like literally three years ago. Right on. It was suggested like two or three years ago. Anyway, so the first bit of news in this trilogy of news, Adrian, is a huge one. This is probably the biggest news story we've probably ever talked about in in this, at least the first, this like 25 episodes of this hundred and like past the moment we rebooted, we self-rebooted here. And it's that Netflix won the bidding war to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery and will finalize that deal at $83 billion dollars in order to secure the merger in the coming months, which is predicted to take at least potentially 18 months to finalize. Maybe longer now though, because there's something else that has a little wrinkle. But ultimately, many important organizations in the film and TV industry were very skeptical about this particular deal, the Netflix buying Warner Brothers
00:59:50
Speaker
And they were worried about the deal going through in the end. And they wanted regulators to take a hard look at it, including the Writers Guild of America, who was really, really against it. And then a bunch of like other unions and things like that that were kind of scared about what would happen. The theater industry is scared too. We'll talk about that in a second.
01:00:09
Speaker
um But yeah, in general, the Writers Guild of America was largely criticizing the deal. But then a few days later after that, billionaire David Ellison and his company, Paramount,
01:00:19
Speaker
So Paramount Skydance. They believe that they haven't lost this war for this bidding war. They were they were basically in a bidding war with Netflix. It was Netflix, a Paramount, and Comcast. Comcast is NBC, Peacock, those guys.
01:00:33
Speaker
So Comcast obviously wasn't even – Comcast is like, oh, we lost. Oh, oh well, better luck next time. and And billionaire David Ellison, I guess, isn't used to losing. And so he decided that he would – do a hostile takeover and take his bid of $108 billion dollars directly to Warner Brothers Discovery shareholders and just go past the board altogether. That was their strategy.
01:00:56
Speaker
And their different deal here is that they're taking over the entire company, including CNN and that whole Discovery portion. Whereas the deal from Netflix, from my understanding, was going to split off CNN, and which would land in the Discovery portion, which would be theoretically sold off separately or exist on its own.
01:01:13
Speaker
So that's a different deal in general, but they're bringing this giant deal, which is one of the biggest potential hostile takeover offers ever in history.
01:01:23
Speaker
So yeah, ah i we we haven't talked about this too much. Obviously, this happened just before your wedding, um pretty much. like It was a few days before and there was not much to we i mean, we saved it for the podcast, but I think this deal also happened like right after our last episode aired or day it aired or something. So there's there's been a big gap of time where things have happened and there's been lots of discussion about it and people saying, oh this is not going to work out or what's going to happen to the theater industry. So I'll just let you pick at it from whatever angle you want to first and we'll go from there. But what do you think about this situation? And then what do you think about David Ellison? Maybe we'll go to that after. i Well, just do it wherever you want to go, whatever you want to talk about first. Yeah. So I don't know. This is pretty crazy because yeah, like I was kind of confused about, because I think Netflix also mentioned that they didn't value Warner Brothers gaming division at all in their $83 billion dollar
01:02:15
Speaker
bid which is weird considering Netflix themselves has their own gaming division. Like they own studios. You can play video games on Netflix. You can play red dead redemption on Netflix right now on your iPhone, you know? Yeah. So but it was kind of confusing that they, you know, said that out loud and said like, Oh yeah, we weren't really valuing the gaming division as anything. Whereas paramount, they don't, I mean, I guess skydance has like a gaming division to a certain degree. Um,
01:02:45
Speaker
Yeah, they do. They are. they Yeah. guess and They do in tandem. Yeah. Yeah. So like, i don't know it it is it is an interesting idea about that. And yeah, again, David Ellison kind of going past the board and doing this hostile takeover with the the most frustrating part about all this.
01:03:03
Speaker
Yeah. I'm just like a back end point of view is they are bidding money that they don't even have. Both of these companies, they don't have $83 billion dollars to spend. They don't have $108 billion dollars to spend. They're leveraging you know on the back end and just taking over these companies or buying these companies with money for nothing. And then ah I guess paying it back over time through profits that they're getting. It makes no sense to me how they're spending this much money and somehow – still making money.
01:03:35
Speaker
You know what I mean? Again, I'm not i'm no financier and I don't have a full understanding of that. I just think it's it's pretty bananas. Well, they would just loan it. They would just loan it the bank, theoretically, or from other entities.
01:03:47
Speaker
Exactly. But again, it's like, how are you going to make back $80 billion dollars in profit over how much time? you know it it just i don't know. it just I just find it so weird that we can even do this, that businesses can even do that.
01:04:01
Speaker
and just go into billions upon billions of dollars in debt. And you have people on the streets asking for a $10,000 loan and getting denied. it's It's stupid and it's frustrating. And I, I don't know. I just, I hate. Well, I mean, it's all based on proven yeah track record. like Fair enough.
01:04:17
Speaker
Netflix is making lots of money every year. And Warner Brothers just had a $4 billion dollars year year at the box office. So so theoretically they're making a lots of profit. Who knows how long it would take to, make back. But yeah, it is. i mean, decades here, presumably it would take it. Yeah. It would take a couple of decades.
01:04:35
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Put people on the street. They can't get a $10,000 loan because they have no credit. That's what the point of a credit check is. If you can't pay it back, how can you take a loan kind of thing? Warner Brothers, theoretically, Netflix would theoretically be good on it. You're right, though. It isn't fair. Assuming. To poor people. Assuming they're going to stay profitable in 20 years. society is rigged against poor people in general.
01:04:55
Speaker
Yeah. just That's the way it is. But yeah. So I don't know. It's kind of frustrating watching this unfold. And i don't know, man. At the end of the day, I think this is kind of a lose-lose situation. What I found super interesting, though, is when the deal went through, quote unquote, with Netflix.
01:05:09
Speaker
Did you get an email? from Netflix being like, welcome Warner brothers to the Netflix family. you know, we're going to start adding HBO content onto, onto Netflix. I was like, this is crazy, man. No, they said it's not changing today.
01:05:22
Speaker
They said nothing changes today. That's what they specifically said. Oh yeah. But they, that plan to add HBO content onto Netflix in the future. Didn't they say that? i mean, I can know what email. I thought they were kind of bring it up if you can, because I thought I was trying to say that we're not things changing today, but we're excited to see what we're like this content goes. I thought they were saying for now, HBO, HBO will exist on HBO, which is weird because we don't have HBO.
01:05:46
Speaker
So I think they were kind of saying get ready for it, but they weren't really, i know you correct me if I'm wrong. I, maybe I don't remember it. Yeah, no, I think you are right. Cause it just says like, we, we announced that Netflix will, so I'll read this, the whole email just just just to add it into the context. So hi, Adrian, we recently announced that Netflix will acquire Warner bros, including its film and television studios, HBO max and HBO.
01:06:08
Speaker
This unites our leading entertainment services with Warner Bros. iconic stories, bringing some of the world's most beloved franchises like Harry Potter, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Casablanca, Game of Thrones, and the DC Universe together with Stranger Things, Wednesday, Squid Game, Bridgerton, and K-pop Demon Hunters.
01:06:28
Speaker
What's changing? Nothing is changing today. Both streaming services will continue to operate separately. We have more steps to complete before the deal is closed, including regulatory and shareholder approvals. You'll hear from us when we have more to share. In the meantime, we hope you'll continue enjoying watching.
01:06:44
Speaker
We hope, sorry. We hope you'll continue to enjoy watching as much as you want, whenever you want on your current membership plan. Okay, so yeah, maybe I misread it. Maybe I misunderstood at the time. So yeah, you're definitely correct. I guess they're not adding it right away. Well, they can't. They have to wait for it to close anyway. So it's just like when Activision was purchased by Microsoft, there was no Call of Duty deal until it closed. Then it was Call of Duty was suddenly on Game Pass Ultimate. But here's the thing.
01:07:12
Speaker
That didn't work out. and That's a great example of a deal that just went through. Huge tech conglomerates bought each other, right? Like we have Microsoft by Activision, huge. Video game developer, publisher that makes so many games, but the most important one being Call of Duty. And Call of Duty costs billions of dollars to make, essentially. Yeah.
01:07:31
Speaker
Year on year on year. So it's insane. So you buy all that stuff. And then what ends up happening is typically, and this is happens every single time. We talked about why we didn't want to merger in the first place a few weeks ago. And probably last week and the week before that, I don't remember. But every every episode we keep talking about it. Because there is no, on a consumer perspective, we don't win. i know that Ted Sarandos can talk about how, oh, it's Netflix is going to get better. it's like But Netflix is going to go up in price. You're going to make only the IP that makes you the most money. That is the money that is the IP you're going to make. And you're going to fire a bunch of employees because you're going to have a bunch of redundancies. there's going to be less people employed at the biggest companies that make the biggest films, Netflix and Warner Brothers.
01:08:10
Speaker
I don't know where they're going to make the cuts. They're going to make them. Like, i think that's ah inevitable, honestly. And then there's, ah ah I think the problem is Netflix buying the IPs like the DC universe is shitty because it doesn't end up helping like,
01:08:25
Speaker
their independent IP, like stranger things come to the float to the top. Stranger things is completely new IP, not new now, but it was new when they made it. They did develop it themselves, which is really cool. Uh, and that that's really a neat idea is creating new ideas and then making a show out of it is really cool. Man on the inside, a popular comedy show, like name another 15 shows squid game. Like there's so many big Bridgerton, huge original.
01:08:49
Speaker
They're all original. And this Bridgerton was a book. Was it a book? Actually, that could have been true. That one, I'm not sure. Squid Game, I'm pretty sure it was separate. Anyway, the point is is that there's so many of these big shows. And that's awesome, but they made them themselves because they didn't have the IP. But now they got hbo now they have HBO content. They have all these different relationships. So are they going to to keep making the same amount of content? No. They're not going to probably do that because they want to make money.
01:09:11
Speaker
so they're going to make less. But they're going to make it work on their platform. And they're probably going to cut shut down HBO, which is worst choice for us. Like in some way, like, cause then you have to buy Netflix. It's a $40 a month. It'll be $40 a month. Let's be real.
01:09:27
Speaker
Like HBO max is how much money crave for us. It's so much. I assume for free, but yeah, HBO content won't be on crave anymore. I assume that will be the case that, that probably has to be. It's funny though, but cause like then what content will crave have the the odd crave original? Like it it'll just, it'll so devalue.
01:09:49
Speaker
it But yeah, but I mean, it'll just dev value this existing service to such an extent. And then what? They're just going to decrease the subscription price? It's like, no. you know like I guess they'll have stars.
01:10:01
Speaker
But I don't know. They'll have to. They're going to shut down. yeah Yeah. They're going to sit down. They'll have stars, but the stars isn't even a part of the main service. You have to pay for it separately. Yeah.
01:10:11
Speaker
Crave is for those who don't know, Crave is a Canadian streaming service. We just have here in Canada. We don't get HBO max here. That's why we're talking about it. But yeah, I will say this. Something else is really funky, right?
01:10:23
Speaker
Apple licenses a lot from Warner brothers. F one, the movie weird one, but very popular. one. For one, the movie came out this year. Huge box office success. Awesome.
01:10:36
Speaker
It's a Warner Brothers movie. that's That's the studio that they they basically licensed it from, which is awesome. That's not the only Warner Brothers thing that Apple TV is involved in.
01:10:47
Speaker
Shrinking. Two notable ones. Ted Lasso are the two big ones. Right. And so Ted Sarandos seemed to insinuate that they're going to continue that deal.
01:10:58
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with Apple and other other streaming services because they had that existing deal in place. And the interesting thing is that if I can pull up the name of the gentleman, but there's ah there's a person who used to be an Apple exec, sorry, yeah used to be a Warner Brothers exec ah like I'm saying literally every single studio. Why don't just say Paramount and then also Compass? No, it's a Netflix exec. Ted Sarandos worked with this guy. He basically, he's working over at Warner Brothers now. and Now you'll be both Warner Brothers and Netflix, I guess. But the idea is that they basically bought this guy and this guy was the guy who was licensing content to Apple.
01:11:35
Speaker
So Ted Sarandos was like, I like the job this guy's doing. We're going to keep it. We're actually good with it. We were never doing this business before. We never made content and gave it away to anyone else. We weren't big enough. Why would we do that? doesn't make sense. Warner Brothers, that was their business because they didn't they weren't in streaming until kind of more recently. HBO Max wasn't really that big or didn't exist. Netflix existed long before anyone else. And they basically single-handedly won the streaming wars, I guess, in comparison to everyone else. I think Disney's doing very well, though.
01:12:04
Speaker
I'm trying to find this guy's name, but I can't find it. So that part is safe. That was what I was worried about as well, because I want more seasons of shrinking and I don't want them pulling it from that service. There's something about shrinking in Ted Lasso that feels quintessentially Apple though. I don't know. like they They clearly put effort into figuring out that this was going to be a show that would work on their service.
01:12:23
Speaker
So it's like, I don't know. that that's I hope that stays, but there's a question of like, there is the Phil Spencer of Microsoft Xbox saying a bunch of things when that deal was going to go through to the FTC or whatever, yep when they were going through that deal, when they were buying Activision and there was a lot of scrutiny,
01:12:43
Speaker
There was a lot of like, oh, yeah, we're going to do this. Oh, yeah, our price isn't going up for a game pass. Not to worry. It's gone up ah a tremendous amount. It went up 33%. No, 50% this year. Yeah, it a 50% increase. Yeah.
01:12:55
Speaker
Right. Which is remarkably high. And there's a reason why that is. is And to be fair, it's got it from from that lawsuit, it's actually higher than 50%. Like from that FTC situation, it's it's higher than that.
01:13:07
Speaker
Because it went up, I think, twice prior to this huge increase. Or at least once prior. Right. Yeah, with FTC. So the argument was, we're not going to cut make cuts. We're not going to increase the price. And they did those things. So like there's obviously, they lie to get ahead. Of course, they are going to do that because there's no consequences.
01:13:26
Speaker
It's just, oh, why wouldn't they do it? You're not going to hold them to account. They've lied and no one cares. What Elizabeth Warren in Congress in the United States is like, wait, they lied? yeah i think she did that when they when they increased the price. She's like, what is this? And nothing came of it.
01:13:39
Speaker
Because first of all, that Congress, I feel like is just kind of built for big business. They just want billionaires to become... trillionaires so they don't yeah i don't think they care there's like did you hear about this they're shutting they're cutting down ai regulation they they want to cut down yep you read this it's crazy man it makes no sense how can this be helpful for the consumer i don't don't know man all they care about is going off on a high because they're all gonna die in a few years anyways because they're all old and fucking stupid And they're going out rich and then ruining everything else for everyone, which is super awesome. yeah
01:14:15
Speaker
Shout out to them. Shout out to them. hi Yeah. Oh, boy. bye yeah I want a few tangents there, but there's a lot of weird things to unpack. So that's just the Netflix Warner Brothers deal.
01:14:27
Speaker
Ted Sarandos also said that he was actually, this is really weird. Oh, i' will wait, hold on. That's why I'm not reading it it properly in this article, because it's not the article I thought I was reading.
01:14:38
Speaker
This, oh didn't open properly. Ted Sarandos also recently said that he believes in theatrical releases sort of now because he's like, we didn't own this business before. So now we understand it and we're going to do it. any We're going to do it. I'm like, I think you're a liar.
01:14:50
Speaker
yeah i dont like I think he's a liar because he said, yeah, we're still going to do theatrical releases, but we're also going to shorten the amount of time that it's out in in theaters. Kind of, but this is more recent. I don't know if you saw this more recent one. Let's see if I can open it. Tell me. What is it?
01:15:07
Speaker
Read it to me. Let me see. Ted Serrano tries to assuage fears that Netflix Warner Brothers merger will collapse theatrical. We didn't buy this company to destroy that value. So the worry is if you take out Warner Brothers, you're like losing like 30% of the the market. This year, it was one of the top box office studios in the film and TV industry.
01:15:27
Speaker
ah Sorry, film industry, obviously. Whereas Disney actually just edged them out at at the end there because of Zootopia 2 and Predator Badlands. But Warner Brothers was doing very well until those movies came out.
01:15:38
Speaker
So let's see if I can find a quick quote here. ah In this transaction, we pick up three businesses we're not currently in. So we have no redundancies currently, said Sarandos. This is a deadline article.
01:15:51
Speaker
One of them is a motion picture studio with a theatrical distribution machine. Okay. We're deeply committed to releasing those movies exactly the way they would release these movies those movies today, said Sarandos, about staying true to the theatrical release model once the streamer snaps up the 102-year-old motion picture studio, according to Deadline.
01:16:10
Speaker
Okay. All three of these new businesses, we want to keep operating largely as they are. he just specifically said that again. And then theatrical business, we talked a lot about that in the past, about wanting to do it because we've never been in that business. When this deal closes, we are in that business and we're going to do it. is the i Here's the problem.
01:16:30
Speaker
We've talked about this before. Sarandos doesn't believe in theatrical belief because he says we bring the movies to the people. They don't want to go to the movies. They don't want to go see them in theaters. And the thing is, is that That is sort of true. He's not actually wrong about that. They do want to go so to the theaters. There is a theatrical experience. It's fun. it's an event type idea. But there's a large number of people that are growing that's growing in size. There's ah this large group of people that are buying big screen TVs. Big screen TVs have become cheaper and cheaper.
01:17:00
Speaker
can create a great home theater experience. It will never be as good as a theater. It would just not. it just Even the smallest, crappiest theater in your neighborhood is likely better than your your TV, unless the sound is broken like that one IMAX theater is that we went to go see. That was terrible. The the the speakers were crackling like shit for Dunkirk.
01:17:18
Speaker
ah But that's that's a different situation. That largely wouldn't happen because they'd fix it because they're a business. But the idea is his belief was we're going to bring bring the film we're gonna bring the films to where people are. That's the idea. they're not It's not popular. Theatrical is is dying out is his argument. The problem is he's creating a chicken and the egg issue. If you don't bring your movies to theaters, you – nobody's going to go see them in theaters because they're not in theaters. So it it doesn't work that way. So you have to kind of think about that. There is another reason and this is the Duffer brothers reason. And this is the thing that I was trying to say earlier.
01:17:50
Speaker
The Duffer brothers care about the creative intent, the director's intent. They created something with exactly the right color rating, exactly what they what they want it to look like. That's an art reason though. That's not a business decision.
01:18:03
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If Ted Sarandos... cares about artists. He cares about creators. He brings them the option to put things in theaters and he leaves it there, but that doesn't necessarily make you a lot of money.
01:18:15
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It does. It does in a lot of cases. Like if you look at Nolan's movies, but a lot of the art house films, they're not making a ton of money. it's It's better to take marriage story. I guess that's why Noah Baumbach is doing that. his His deal with Netflix continues with Jay Kelly as an example. Yeah.
01:18:30
Speaker
you know what i mean? And Marriage Story, but he he didn't do much of a theatrical release for either of those because that's not really, people aren't watching them in theaters, but that's not the best color grading and it's not the best experience still.
01:18:41
Speaker
So Noah Baumbach largely probably just accepts it, but he would probably want to have his movies in theaters. I mean, his wife does, you know? Yeah. Greta Gerwig. force them to put Narnia in theaters for a longer window than they'd normally do. Narnia's not coming out until, I don't know, it next year? The year after. I i honestly don't even know.
01:19:01
Speaker
But she cares about that because she wants to create not just a big screen experience, but she wants to create a director's intent experience because you can control the experience in a theater. And so I think, I wonder if Ted Sarandos...
01:19:13
Speaker
He doesn't care about it because he cares about shareholders and he cares about making the most money. There is situations in which you make a lot of money, like in the Minecraft movie, but these big blockbuster movies make a lot of money. But we bring the Irishman to theaters for a longer period of time. Movies like that, if it was made under the Warner Brothers umbrella, or do you really... You slowly...
01:19:32
Speaker
Just make it so that theaters aren't important to you again. And that's what I think will happen personally. Yeah. i Start this thing. Yeah. Business is what matters, right? It's how much money can we make? Because we are a business. If we can't make more, we don't. Especially because you're going to be billions of dollars in debt and you got to make that money back.
01:19:50
Speaker
Right. So like the Activision deal for Microsoft is the the the best example ever because it's almost the same amount of money. It's $70 billion. dollars It's not that far off. It's also one of the biggest acquisitions in history.
01:20:01
Speaker
So like, and this one's 80 billion. yeah So, so it's crazy. It's crazy. So that's kind of my whole thought process. I think, yeah, I believe he'll do the theatrical releases in the beginning.
01:20:17
Speaker
But he's kind of right that he's bringing it where people are because in reality, people are humans are people humans are creatures of convenience, Adrian.
01:20:27
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This is why digital games sell better, even though physical games are often cheaper on an average. It's kind of in a weird, wacky thing. I was looking at Oblivion Remastered recently. You buy Oblivion Remastered in a store, regular price, not not on sale.
01:20:41
Speaker
The deluxe edition is $50. The deluxe edition on the digital store not the retail, like not at a Walmart, at ah a digital store, is $80. How does that make sense?
01:20:53
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There's also a lot of moments where there's like, there are $3, there's like a $3 surcharge you can find on certain games digitally. I'm like, what what is the $3 surcharge? It's $89.99 for games yeah in stores and it's $3 more. It's like $93.50 for stores on the digital store. That doesn't make any sense. They're printing a physical good. It should be it should theoretically be at least, at the very least, the same price. It it doesn't make any sense.
01:21:16
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um but people buy it because they know there's, again, people are creatures. of The whole point of making is humans are creatures of convenience, but with the creatures of convenience idea, the, the, the large amount of people were buying big screen TVs and whatever they're buying projectors, whatever it's going to be. They're never going to have the experience in a theater.
01:21:34
Speaker
And eventually, it might theaters might die completely. There will be no theaters. And there'll be like a boutique theater, like the Princess Twin or something like that. And then people are going to be like, huh, I kind of missed that. what happened to Whatever happened to the set? Those are going be the same people who bought a TV and said, I just watch it at home. It's convenient. and I don't want to leave my house. And those are the same people that in 10 years, they're going to be like 20 years. and but Oh, man, I miss that. you know There was used to be more to do in town. There used to be more to do it here. It's because those people that are always so vocal about it just like complaining. They don't care about what they're complaining about. They just want to complain about the new thing to complain about.
01:22:07
Speaker
and be that's outraged about something. So but I do agree with you, too, though. I think that they all do care, but they don't realize they do. There's a lot of like, I think that's like a Steve Jobs mentality. Like Steve Jobs, his mentality was like, they don't know that they want to that yet.
01:22:21
Speaker
I'll show them that they want it. And that's yeah that's kind of an interesting idea. But Ted Serrano is going the opposite direction. I'm like, he's like, he's going, he's leaning. I'll show them that they'll miss this. I'm going to show them that they'll they'll miss this.
01:22:34
Speaker
Yeah, but I'm not going to bring it to them though. I'm not going to give them theaters. Actually, he might do it. Maybe he'll kill theaters and then make his own. Maybe. You know, he'll make his own theaters. He'll make his own IMAX. He's like, this is my own format. It's called Ted Max, you know? Yeah. That's a good one, Ted Max. No, like Ted Sarandos largely though. He does care about creators on his platform. I do think that actually based on what I've seen. Yeah. I can't prove that. I've never worked with Ted, but obviously. I have worked with him and he seems like that kind guy.
01:23:05
Speaker
He loves Ted Maxing. I've heard him talk in interviews and I've heard he was on Smartless and Will Arnett's worked with him several times or he's met him several times because his projects have been on Netflix several times like Arrested Development and Flaked and various others. Bojack Horseman.
01:23:21
Speaker
They respect him. They respect the model but that business model is the advantage of Netflix being separate from Warner Brothers is that you get two business models that are distinct. And Warner Brothers is doing something very different, and that's awesome. Netflix doesn't believe in it that's awesome. But when you merge them together, one of them one of the things is going to win, and I think it's going to be convenience. I don't think it's going to be the Warner Brothers business model where they respect storytelling.
01:23:49
Speaker
pretty drastically. It would have been neat if Comcast won the bidding war. I think that was the best of the three, in my opinion. I don't know what you think. But of the three, i would pick well i pick zero, but I would pick Comcast. Universal, specifically, there's a reason Christopher Nolan went to Universal. So I would definitely pick Comcast. Of all those three, I would definitely not pick Paramount. You know why, Adrian?
01:24:17
Speaker
No, tell me. Here's the issue, and I don't know if you saw this story because you didn't mention this yet. So Paramount, you you made a great point earlier. You said, how can they afford this?
01:24:28
Speaker
They can't, Adrian. They can't afford it because they're they're teaming up with literally the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, Qatar. fantastic.
01:24:39
Speaker
And the United Arab Emirates, the UAE. So the worst of those probably being Saudi Arabia. Yeah. yeah Anyway. I mean, yeah. Qatar is not let's fear the best either, to to be honest. I think UAE is okay in some ways.
01:24:55
Speaker
I don't know. i' not I'm not up on the politics of UAE, but Saudi Arabia, not a great combo. So it's Jared Kushner. Don't kill journalists. Right. So Jared Kushner is basically a part of this deal with David Ellison, and he's working with these sovereign wealth funds, the same type of deal that EA is being purchased over because the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia just bought up EA, or they're at least at least trying to initiate that deal. Whether that ends up happening or not remains to be seen, but it sounds like it's going to happen because Jared Kushner is, of course, married to Ivanka Trump.
01:25:29
Speaker
So it seems this this hostile takeover actually might happen. do i Who do I want to win? for Netflix, a homegrown American company, or Saudi Arabia.
01:25:43
Speaker
It's not like it's a Saudi Arabian company. It's literally Saudi Arabia. with In which his government is really scary. I'll just just say that. It's yeah terrifying. $24 billion dollars are from those funds. so yeah I think i might think it's okay to say that.
01:26:01
Speaker
i like I genuinely believe like you know if you're in Western society and you don't agree with that statement, I just find i just don't really ah understand how. I think it's okay to say that, yeah, their government is terrifying, man. they They'll kill journalists. Yeah, because Shogi was murdered. It's it's terrible. that They had the freaking crown prince in the when the White House, and they they shut down a journalist trying argue that this was maybe a bad idea to whine and dine the guy who murdered another journalist. It seems – and mean yeah How is this happening? It's very strange. It's very weird world we live in right now.
01:26:34
Speaker
Yeah. They'll kill you if you're gay, trans, whatever. that They, they're soft launching, um drinking alcohol now. i don't know if you saw that, but if you're poor, you can't drink.
01:26:45
Speaker
Great. Of course. Like under a specific like market gap, you're not allowed to drink alcohol. So they'll just, yeah they'll they'll, probably just kill you. It's, i don't know. Again, I think it's okay to criticize, uh, the government, um,
01:26:57
Speaker
I mean, fuck, dude, i I criticize my own government. I criticize most governments. ah' So I don't know. I think that's okay. Well, I criticize it because again, they they murdered an American journalist too. So what yeah are we doing? How do you let this guy just be in your White House being din it dined and wine? It's strange. it's It's very strange. like what's so How does that relationship work exactly? So obviously they like them now over in the United States government. so And the thing is, is that Trump is going to, apparently he's going to approve one or the other of these deals as it goes through.
01:27:30
Speaker
So which one's going to be more likely to go through? David Ellison explicitly said, well, ours is going to be the most likely to go through. Paramount's guidance is smaller than Netflix.
01:27:42
Speaker
And therefore it's going to be easier for it to get approved. It'll be easier to get approved because you got fricking Jared Kushner involved. So there's that. So automatically there's that problem. But I just think that $24 billion dollars coming from these sovereign wealth funds, pretty bad news. I don't let,
01:28:00
Speaker
I'd rather not like whitewash this. this is There's no point. Why are we doing that? It's absurd. i Again, i do not want anyone to get it. But that's not the world in which the United States lives in right now. They're going to approve one of the deals. They're going to because they only care about the rich getting richer at the moment in that current government. i think that we can agree on that. didn't they get they just They just removed the healthcare care subsidies for like 20 million Americans or some bullshit.
01:28:25
Speaker
I don't know if you saw that. That's why the government shut down. And then they folded. So it's, it's pretty bad. So anyway, so yeah, I don't know if I, I just delivered that news to you, but that, so which one are you going to pick?
01:28:40
Speaker
Which one would you pick? Huh? I don't know. Maybe suicide. No, no, you can't. There's no other way yet. This is like a, would you rather situation? Would you rather? your out I guess in Netflix.
01:28:51
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. American company, homegrown American company. I know we're not, we're not American. We're Canadian, but yeah. Fuck it. Netflix. Yeah. It's not just that, though. There's also this element that they they are they do care about creatives. and i David Ellison's a billionaire. I think he's main...
01:29:07
Speaker
his main argument is to be make himself richer. Like I, where did he just come up with $108 billion? dollars on It's just as absurd. Like you you're going to willing to also just break all the rules to just get in. Oh, yeah Oh, this is the other thing that's crazy. He's they're buying CNN, right? They're buying the full thing.
01:29:23
Speaker
And they claimed there's claims. There's rumors that they're just going to shut, make CNN, uh, another right wing media outlet. You know how many right wing media outlets there are in the States? Uh, Like it's crazy. It's not just Fox news. It's OAN. It's fricking what what's on one American news or whatever. And there's like news max. There's a lot of them. If you look at them up, there's a lot.
01:29:42
Speaker
Like, I don't think you need another one. And CBS is slowly becoming a, like, no, they were very center and they're just becoming a, like, cause they hiring people who are very right wing to, to run, like to be in an ombudsman. Sure. Or run the actual news outlet. So that's another issue too, is a CNN is just going to become a, like a,
01:30:01
Speaker
a branch of the government, I guess. I don't really know. That was seems to be one of the promises because they're going to do whatever they want. They can just do it. Sorry. Do whatever they need to, to close the deals from either side. Anyway, anyway, cool. Anything else you want to add? Anything else you want to talk about?
01:30:18
Speaker
but no I think you honestly covered most things and and talked about it very well. i don't think I can add anything of value to this. I've been thinking about this for two weeks. It's, it's, it's very annoying to me. Yeah.
01:30:31
Speaker
like I think, again, we we agree that there's no good world in which why we want one company or two companies fighting each other. It's just not useful for consumers. I think that that's the moral of the story. You can get into the complicated politics of it, but that's not the point. i think i'm I'm so disappointed because when they announced that Netflix was doing it i was like, oh, I really thought that there was a chance that they wouldn't take any deal. But I'm like, how can I think that?
01:31:00
Speaker
There's a bidding war. They want this badly. They obviously want it and shareholders want money. There's no like there's no middle ground of like, I like ethics, says like you know whatever the Morgan Stanley investor says.
01:31:17
Speaker
58. That's not a thing they care about. they They want money, obviously. So the ethics of it, not necessarily in the in the running here. It would have been cool to keep the one of the most storied studios in film industry's history alive and well and separate.
01:31:36
Speaker
But yeah, I think what it relies on is a government that is willing to just say, no, you can't buy Activision, Microsoft. No, you can't. It's better for consumers if they have choice.
01:31:48
Speaker
Let's leave it separately. But this isn't a government that cares about checked capitalism. They're they're into unchecked. yeah So yeah, I'll leave it on that. And we'll talk about it again. I'm sure it'll come up in two weeks because we're going to see what's going to happen with the the Paramount deal. And might maybe they'll choose the shareholder to be like, you know what? I want that.
01:32:09
Speaker
I want that extra cheddar. $25 billion dollars spread. Yeah, but it's for more though, to be fair. But I mean that the the discovery portion was kind of drowning. So I'm not sure that I don't know what it's worth. Is it worth $0?
01:32:25
Speaker
I don't know. If the game division is worth nothing, according to Ted Sarandos, then you're right though. That was a great call it, by the way. we didn't really talk about that. The game division part.
01:32:37
Speaker
What's up with that? i don't know What's Like what's going to happen? Like Hogwarts legacy made them a lot of money. By the way, Ted Sarandos did say something about that. I looked that up when i the headline said he didn't, they didn't factor it in, but they do see the value in the studios.
01:32:52
Speaker
They, and they were like, Oh, there's lots of people doing cool things. Like the Hogwarts legacy was very popular, whatever they mentioned it, but I'm curious to see what that becomes of that because it's their division there. I mean, they're one of the weakest,
01:33:07
Speaker
publishers right now. It it wasn't the case yeah a few years ago. Big publishers, big ones, AAA. Yeah, no, I think you're right about that because I can't think, I guess, I mean, obviously the last game of Consequence was ah Hogwarts Legacy, which did Gangbusters. It was the best-selling game of 2023 or whatever year it came out. 2022?
01:33:27
Speaker
Three? 2023. Okay. Yeah. the bestselling game of that year. But apart from that, you know, all of their big heavy hitters were either flops or didn't, you know, um, have the legs on them as long as they they typically do. Like the new Mortal Kombat game as ah as an example, I think people liked it enough, but again, it just, it's not really talked about as much and kind of died on the vine there. I think they're not even doing any more like DLC or anything like that for it. Um,
01:33:55
Speaker
Suicide Kill the Justice League, torn apart online, you know still sold very well, but lost them you know hundreds of millions of dollars. Gotham Knights losing the money. I think really- no you know Gotham Knights made them a ton of money.
01:34:10
Speaker
Oh, did it? Gothamites was actually very, very popular. Wasn't that thing? was just, I guess, that negative press online. Just not good. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I think that one actually did okay. The problem is is it could have done better. Well, maybe not, actually.
01:34:23
Speaker
But it was just number two on the sales chart and its charts in October 2022. But that was way way before. Gothamites sold 1.5 million. I guess that's not good.
01:34:34
Speaker
It's not bad. I mean, it's not bad, but I don't think it's particularly great for a Batman game. Yeah. I'm sure they spent many dollars on it. This is Google AI, so who knows? Maybe this is wrong. I don't trust it.
01:34:47
Speaker
yeah I don't think the numbers were announced. But that game did well compared to other options. like certainly But Hogwarts Legacy came out the year after, and then it just destroyed. like That's one of the top selling games ever.
01:34:58
Speaker
I think you know the Lego Star Wars like did it incredibly well as well. I'm sure this new Lego Batman game is going to be doing really good. so They still have a lot of good there. and Again, if you...
01:35:11
Speaker
you kind of mold it a little bit better. I think there's a lot of potential. um Right. But again, they also closed down, you know, Monolith that did the Lord of the Rings games ah that were working on the Wonder Woman game.
01:35:23
Speaker
right? you know, they created one of the most revolution, well, what a lot of people consider to be one of the most revolutionary, like gameplay aspects with the nemesis system. Then they trademarked it, said no one can use it. And then the studio that was using it shut down.
01:35:36
Speaker
So, you know, that it's, it, they, they made some pretty awful decisions with Warner brothers. And I'm curious, like, is this going to benefit Warner brothers gaming, or is this just going to make it worse and kind of let it die? I'm, I'm very curious on how that, cause that that's,
01:35:52
Speaker
as much as I'm curious how it's going to do for the larger like movie industry and everything like that, I think that's a little bit more predictable as opposed to what the gaming division is going to go in the direction. yeah It's also shorter form. The problem with gaming, like you can't,
01:36:07
Speaker
you make a game and it takes so long to make and you even spin it up. Like it's a movie can be shot pretty relatively quickly. So it's like, it's hard to know, even if they decide to go a different direction, we wouldn't know what that direction is until like four years from now, five years of that, like games take so long to make. So it's like, it's hard to really know what they're even. Yeah. Up to that. They might just sell off that part of the business, but they would sell off the IP and then they'll just license the IP to other companies who are looking like developers. Yeah, that might, that, I mean, that is pretty lucrative. Disney's doing it more and more. I feel like with, especially the Marvel and star Wars stuff, it's been like a lot. yeah I mean, that's their main IPs that they would start was being announced yesterday.
01:36:49
Speaker
I know that looks so good, but only problem with that. I didn't like the way, so the game awards were yesterday from the day we're recording this. The the weird thing about it was that they didn't, they showed that. And I was like, Oh, I'm getting a flashback of when they did the trailer for the,
01:37:04
Speaker
like the Knights of the Old Republic remake because they they didn't show any gameplay. I'm like, are we waiting five years for this then? Is this just started? I'm kind of annoyed with that. i don't I don't really want to know anything about it unless it's like two years out.
01:37:16
Speaker
Like that's that. That's that. It's like Grand Theft Auto 6. It's very irritating. Like stop telling me about it i don't care. Stop telling me about until you're ready to go. You're not even ready remotely. I don't want to know. I think within two years, it's fair game. I prefer within one year. i prefer within six months, but that's not going to happen because you've got you gotta to market things.
01:37:34
Speaker
So like, that's really annoying is there's no gameplay in that trailer. It's very exciting. Cause this a guy who like made the original mass effect and, and nights of the old, victoriaia nights of the ultimate public game. So that, that is really cool.
01:37:46
Speaker
Um, but yeah, keep licensing more and more. There's not, that's not, I don't know if that was even the one you talking about. There's a pod racer game too. That looks really awesome. I don't look sick, dude. Burnout, like a burnout game, but it's Star Wars pod racing. That's a day one buy for me. Like, no offense. Is it called the Galactic Racing or something? Something like that. Galactic pod racing. Now, this is podcasting.
01:38:06
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. Okay. All right. We can move on now. But yeah, cool it's cool. Big, big story. Big story. Super awesome. I'm so excited to figure out what's going to happen. I can't wait for all of this to go through. It's going to be great.
01:38:19
Speaker
Yeah. Shout
Tarantino's Criticism of Actors and Directors
01:38:20
Speaker
out. Wow. Shout out to get unchecked capitalism, you know? It's honestly the, that's so sick, dude. I love it. Yeah. I love. consumers Yeah, man. I'm honestly a big fan of billionaires getting richer.
01:38:33
Speaker
Oh, I love it. They're like a brother to me. All, all billionaires. Oh, oh who yeah all of them. All billionaires are like brothers to me. they you know They don't give me anything and they don't even think about me.
01:38:46
Speaker
But I think about them. Vlad Putin? And love them. Putin? Yeah. He's definitely a billionaire. He's just unmarked. like They don't tell you how much he's got. Cool guy.
01:38:57
Speaker
Cool guy. Oh, boy. I feel like I backed you into the corner and you just decided to- going to stick to the bit. You know, just paint yourself as well. You painted yourself in there and painted- right over yourself okay we're gonna go uh we're gonna go into the next news story here adrian we're gonna look at this is a fun one i a few saw yeah i did quentin tarantino called paul dano actor paul dano of the batman and um obviously there will be blood because we're about to talk about it in that context uh fame and various other things he's
01:39:30
Speaker
Yeah, I'll get into it what I think of him in a second. But he they call he called him the weakest actor in SAG, like ah Screen Actors Guild. SAG after him. Yeah. On the Brett Easton paul Ellis podcast, when Quentin Tarantino was a guest on that podcast, that's what he said.
01:39:46
Speaker
He was specifically referencing as well, Dan was a performance in the Paul Thomas Anderson film, There Will Be Blood, which he called Weak Sauce. Adrian, you haven't seen there will be blood unless you going to change. Okay. No. Uh, yeah. I think maybe you're going to tell me, Oh, I actually watched that this week or something. Um, I love there will be blood.
01:40:05
Speaker
Um, But in general, you know, Paul Dano from lots of things. He's also in that movie where he's, he plays a dead body and he like farts to get it across the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Swiss army man.
01:40:17
Speaker
i love that movie. I'm trying to think, I've seen him in so many things, but now I'm non blanking on what they are. Batman, obviously he was in. Yeah. He's good. So good as a Riddler. Oh, Okja. Yeah. Yeah. He's in Okja, which I really like.
01:40:29
Speaker
That movie's sad. so would you think Do you think he's one of the weakest actors in SAG or is it Quentin Tarantino is actually the weakest actor in SAG? What do you think? Because he's in SAG. I'm sure he's in SAG. So it's like, what are you doing? Aren't you worse than Paul Dano though? i think.
01:40:45
Speaker
I feel like that's a weird thing to say. Yeah, i don't know. it It sucks because it's just like, you know, an incredibly talented director talking shit about an incredibly talented actor. So I also want to point out he talked short about Matthew Lillard as well.
01:40:59
Speaker
And so I forgot forget someone else. Someone else. um I can't remember who I feel bad. But i don't know, man. It's just, I just feel like it's a shitty thing to do. Like why why talk shit about, I guess they're not necessarily your peers, but you know, people in the industry and just say that they suck, like, and call out these people by name, especially when you have so much power. Like you, again, you can't talk shit about Quentin Tarantino's directing because he made some of the best movies out there.
01:41:27
Speaker
um And he is again, an incredibly talented director. it's I just think this is a lame thing to do. something it's It's lame that he thinks he has to make 10 movies and he's not making any movies. He's he's just kind of complaining lately.
01:41:41
Speaker
Yeah. he's I feel like he hasn't been sucking on enough toes as of late. It's probably getting to him. Oh, boy. He hasn't been sucking on enough dirty feet. That fucking freak, dude.
01:41:52
Speaker
That foot fetish motherfucker. Oh, boy. But no, like legitimately, i just I just feel like, i don't know, it's just a shitty thing to do. I don't think you should yeah do that. he It's not like Paul Dano's out there being like, Quentin Tarantino sucks.
01:42:05
Speaker
yeah Matthew Lillard isn't out there being like, ah you know Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Bastards movie is sh- so well acted but the directing is fucking awful and i just couldn't get through it you know it's just i just don't think it's a nice thing to do and i feel like there's not enough kindness out there with everything that's going on why even do this man stop it you're not being nice you're not being nice you have weird ass looking fucking freak sucking on toes with incredible talent you know why like why do that oh my god woen wilson is the third person he oh yeah owen wilson who might love come on
01:42:41
Speaker
I like all three of those guys. Actually, me too I think they bring something to the table for all three of them. But to be quite honest with you, you watch there will be blood and you don't tell me that's an impressive impressive performance.
01:42:54
Speaker
By Paul Dano. He plays two characters as well, doesn't he? Yes. He's playing twins. He's f freaking awesome. I don't know what he's talking about. It's literally that movie is obviously Daniel day Lou is like a big Daniel day Lewis vehicle, but Paul Dano is amazing in it as well. And it kind of makes the movie in some way. I, yeah I don't really understand. He doesn't post much on, on social media, but he literally came out and said, Paul Dana was like an awesome person to work with. I'm i'm not saying something like that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think he actually said anything. i think his team, the, the, some, some ah journalists reached out to his team and then they,
01:43:30
Speaker
They kind of just confirmed what what a fan account of Daniel Day-Lewis was saying about Paul Dano. That's, I think, what it was as far as went. I think it was like a People a people Magazine story that i I was reading. I was like, oh, okay.
01:43:43
Speaker
People.com. But yeah, this is a very weird. I don't just say that. i just I just don't agree with it at all in any way. So I just think it's absurd. absurd the old The other thing that's crazy is Paul Thomas Anderson is kind of a legend. Like he's a really great director.
01:44:00
Speaker
And you're kind of just throwing shade at Paul Thomas Anderson. Yeah. Like that's not really – you're not really just throwing it at Paul Dano. You're throwing it at Paul Thomas Anderson because he's ah he's playing two people in the film.
01:44:12
Speaker
And there's not that many characters in this film. Like it's really – it's Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano is the a lot of the movie. So it doesn't even make any sense. Like I, I'm, it's very confusing. He also said that he, he thought that it should have been Austin Butler, which wouldn't have made sense on a timeline perspective. Cause I think Butler would have been too young.
01:44:30
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So I don't, that was another weird thing about it It didn't make any sense. Have we seen anything with Austin Butler in it? I can't remember ever seeing anything with Austin Butler. What was he in?
01:44:41
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We watched something. He's in once upon a time in Hollywood. Okay. Oh, yeah. That's why I never remember his role in that. to be You've seen all the Quentin Tarantino movies that he would have been in, though, because he would have been too young otherwise.
01:44:52
Speaker
Okay. You know? but yeah Yeah. He was good in that, but he's barely in it. I don't remember. Man was in it a lot. Like he's in, there will be blood a lot specifically. um The thing that I was going to throw in here just quickly though, Mattson Tomlin, the screenwriter for the Batman came to his, like not to his rescue, but it came to his defense. And lots of people came to his defense online because it's a stupid take. That's why they did that because it's not only mean, it doesn't even make any sense, but he specifically said he defended Dano, like Mattson Tomlin, who's also written and the Batman part. Oh, sorry. It was, I think he wrote both the Batman and the Batman part two.
01:45:26
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which is obviously Batman the Batman part two is yet to come out but he said quote I am really pleased to see so many people cheer on Paul Dano this week not only is he a terrific actor this is the cool thing about this but he's also an astonishing director who exudes control and tremendous empathy check out wildlife if you haven't seen it in the studio they call out wildlife because Paul Dano's Dano's in the studio and he's taught and and um I don't know if you remember this, but Seth Rogen's character is like, oh, I saw wildlife. It was so good.
01:45:56
Speaker
Wildlife is like over a 90% of Rotten Tomatoes. I almost like in support of Paul Dan, I just didn't have time. I almost just watched wildlife. I'm like, I'm going to rent this right now because I'm like, because it's apparently amazing. It's the only thing he's really directed, but it's cool that he's, he's such a good director too. And it's funny that like,
01:46:12
Speaker
I don't think Quentin Tarantino is a very good actor and the things he's in. He's not bad, but he's not Paul Dano. I'm so sorry. No, no, no. It's absurd to say that. So you're yeah you're going to comment on him being the worst actor in SAG? Dude, come on, man.
01:46:26
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Come on. You're a really good director, but you're not that good of an actor. He's a remarkable director. Yeah, like he's yeah he's a genuinely remarkable director. Sure. Yeah, it's like, yeah, acting is in his forte. He probably acts better than I do.
01:46:37
Speaker
Sure. It sucks on toes better than an i ever could because I just couldn't bring myself to do it. But, you know, you don't even know if he does that. Maybe he's not even doesn't even have a fetish. Hmm. You're looking at me it's with this such disbelief.
01:46:49
Speaker
I love sure about that. no You sure about that? I don't know. I'm just trying to, know. I'm just trying to defend all, man. You're right. There's not enough kindness. I'm not saying Quentin Tarantino is a bad dude, but I think it takes her shit lately.
01:47:03
Speaker
They've just been shit lately. I'm not sure what's going on. He's constantly got opinion on every podcast around. Like, he's just like, oh, I don't like this. Like, this is bad. This is great. Some weird, obscure movie is the best movie ever. And then there's like, you're going to call it. There will be blood is having one of the worst actors ever.
01:47:17
Speaker
No, get out of here. Make a movie, dude. Make your freaking movie and maybe be passionate about movie keep making movies again. make Make more movies. It seems like to me he's not passionate about movies enough.
01:47:28
Speaker
That's what think. At least making them. I just feel like there's too much pressure. ten It's too much pressure. Yeah, he created it himself. Yeah. I think that's silly. He did this so early in his career. Just fucking like go back on it.
01:47:40
Speaker
Like, never mind. He's like George Rowe or Martin, for God's sake. Yeah. Are you just procrastinating? Like, what's going on here? I don't know. I like J.R.R. Well, I'm not even, g g i almost said J.R.R.
01:47:53
Speaker
J.R.R. Tolkien Martin. J.R.R. Martin. He seems cool enough. I haven't read the books, but of Thrones seems like pretty cool source material for the shows. It seems great, but I'm like, I don't know, man. like Are you really going to spend this much time?
01:48:07
Speaker
The joke is he'll die before he ends. He already wrote it all. It's ready to go. And he's just going to wait. And then maybe he'll like eventually, you know, in 20 years, when he 30 years, when he passes away, they're going to release those books. So he can't like see the criticism of, of, of the books.
01:48:24
Speaker
Cause it doesn't want to know. Hmm. Maybe. i don't know. This is something I just made up on the spot. I don't think he's doing I think it's hard to write a book. And it's surprising to me that he wrote such tomes.
01:48:34
Speaker
Like he wrote such huge books before and he can't seem to get this one out. It's a little strange, but I'm not going criticize him because it's really Tarantino. Did you see like the Zach Woods f freaking bashing of Tarantino online?
01:48:47
Speaker
No, no. I love Zach Woods. So I would love to see them. You bashed him twice. And then the first time you bashes him and then he goes in the second video and he's basically apologizing first and he bashes him some more instead.
01:48:59
Speaker
It's worth watching. they're a bit It's a bit too harsh for my taste. But I think when he was doing the when he was bashing the, speaking of the the Saudi wealth fund. Like when he was like bashing the like the director the comedians in a very sarcastic way for like, yeah yeah, this is fine. You could just go there and that's how he speaks actually. yeah You could just go there and no problem. You should just whitewash their society. It's okay that they just murder journalists in the street. It's fine. Don't worry about it
01:49:31
Speaker
Don't worry about it. But yeah, anyway, I really like ah Zach Woods. He's, he's genuinely hilarious person. his's brand of comedy he's this very is like straight man weirdo.
01:49:42
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Yeah, it's unique to him as well. always think it's also weirdo. He's like straight man, but he's not really straight. Like normally as in like he's not the comedy. Yeah, he's a straight man. He's not, but he's not not quite.
01:49:54
Speaker
He's just something is something really off about him in every character you play. You're not quite sure what it is until like a little later. And you're like, okay, that guy's psycho. All right. Sounds good. Yeah.
01:50:05
Speaker
Yeah, again, he does. Yeah, again, not not to go off too much on a tangent, but yeah, every role that he's in, I just love it. I mean, we brought up Avenue 5 earlier. There's the line in the season one finale.
01:50:16
Speaker
i don't know if you know the about the seven year war or whatever. oh yeah. Yeah. Just the delivery of that line specifically is just immaculate. Again, everything he does. I'm big fan. But yeah, amazing. Did you see? I'm sorry. guys Did you watch the after party season two?
01:50:32
Speaker
Because he's a big starring. Oh, I didn't know that. I should watch it. Yeah, he's in it. It's an anthology, right? Because I remember the first scene that kind of ended. Huh? Yeah, it's an anthology, basically. It's kind of an anthology. They carry over characters from the person Yeah, because they know Sam Richardson's in it, right? Yeah.
01:50:47
Speaker
In both seasons. so Yeah. Is Tiffany Haddish in both seasons? Yeah. Okay. I should watch it. I know they canceled I'm forgetting that. It's got canceled, but that's okay because it kind of just wraps, the seasons wrap up. You get the mystery solved.
01:51:03
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good mystery. Apple TV Plus, everyone. Check it out. All right. Sorry. Did you say you want to say something else about that? There will be blood. There will be blood weak sauce. No, no, no. Just be nicer.
01:51:14
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Be nicer to people. I think Matthew Lillard, Owen Wilson, Paul Dano, they're all great actors. I think Quentin Tarantino is a fantastic director. Love sucking feet. um And yeah, you know.
01:51:25
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Let's just say, like it's kind of weird to shout out Matthew Lillard, too. He's pretty good in what he's in, but he's also a pretty – he's not in that much stuff. I know. When he's shouting out that guy. What an asshole thing to do. Owen Wilson's in a lot of stuff, and he's got a very distinct personality in the things he's in. I love him and everything he's in personally. I think he's awesome.
01:51:44
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It's like, well, you're just taking shots like in the dark. Well, what's going on here? Not the little Lillard though, felt like it didn't belong in those two. Cause Paul Dano is, he's in a lot of, he's worked with so many big name,
01:51:57
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like directors and done a very good job in every single role. And there's a reason why huge directors are hiring him like Paul Thomas Anderson.
01:52:08
Speaker
So that's a different, that's like a, you were basically went for the guy in the artsy films that is making really crazy performances that are eligible for Oscars. Often. I think Paul Tom, didn't Paul Dano get nominated for an Oscar for there will be blood. I think that also might've happened.
01:52:24
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Hold on. Okay. Okay. But otherwise, like it feels like Owen Wilson is also in a lot of blockbusters. In contrast, in contrast. Oh, yeah. He got nominated for a BAFTA for There Will Be Blood.
01:52:38
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Okay. The Golden Globe for Love and Mercy. ah Primetime Emmy. he Oh, this show. oh I always wanted to watch this Ben Stiller's direct. like When he started to really direct dramas, I feel like, in a bigger way for the show Escape at Denimora.
01:52:52
Speaker
I forgot he's in that. you know what that is Um, and oh, and Steven Spielberg cast him in the fablement. Like you think he just did that by accident?
01:53:04
Speaker
No. And he's in little miss sunshine, which is one of my favorite movies, i love them by the way. And he's so good in that too. again I have, again, can't even understand. This is absurd. I'm just going to stop talking, but let's move on to the next thing.
01:53:14
Speaker
Are you looking something up before I move on? Yeah. i never heard about this escape from Denimore. We talked about it at one point. It's got, I think it's, wait, is it? it's what's her name from Severance? um Patricia Arquette, Benicio Del Toro, Paul Dano. Yeah.
01:53:28
Speaker
Right. Interesting. Yeah. Benicio Del Toro is so good. Oh my God. So yeah, this is something I wanted to watch, but it wasn't really on anything from what I remember. is Do you see it? Are you looking at it at it on the Apple TV app to see where it could be? Because I kind of remember what it was on. song It was hard to find the actual place to watch it. But once, once like the Severance before it was coming out, I was like, oh, it's Ben Stiller. I'm like, oh yeah, he's, he's a big director, but I'm like, he isn't really directed that many dramas.
01:53:56
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And I was like, oh, escape. then I learned about escape at Dunamoro. I think in the, in between, between the episode 100 and, Episode 101 for us. so
28 Days Later Trilogy and Future Expectations
01:54:06
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we just kind of didn't talk about And then we brought it up, I think on this run of of shows because we talked about severance specifically.
01:54:13
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um But it might have be just been in passing. Okay. Anyway, you ready? Yeah. what are you looking at? No, no. I was just looking into the the cast and stuff. i was like, what is this show about? How did i miss out? But yeah, here. I'm sorry. I just really got to go to the bathroom.
01:54:28
Speaker
Oh, quick break. Sounds good. Quick pre-break. I'll be right back. P-break. I'm going power pee. You can ramble. Goodbye. Hey-ya!
01:54:42
Speaker
Hey, I'm back. All right, you're back. Good stuff. I got to get going here because I got to go to Costco. I got to go to Costco. Yeah, so I got to get going. I got to move this, get the show on the road. Okay, i apologize, man. That's my fault. They talk too much about Netflix. Netflix and Warner Brothers here. Okay.
01:54:58
Speaker
Cool. So we're going to move on now to the third story real quick here. As Deadline reports, the third installment in the 28 Days Later, sorry, 28 Years Later trilogy has been greenlit with 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy set to return to the franchise and writer Alex Garland currently writing the screenplay. The second installment, 28 Years Later, The Bone Temple, is set to be released on January 16th, 2026.
01:55:22
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Adrian, you sent me the story. That's part of the reason why it's in here. I'm also very excited about this too. We saw 28 years later, the first installment, which has no subtitle this year. And it was very good um at the beginning of the year. i wonder if it's still your favorite movie this year, actually.
01:55:37
Speaker
I'm curious. i think Possibly. Possibly. got to look at my list, but I think it still is. I love the bone temple was rumored. I don't know if it was confirmed or not, but rumored to have killing Murphy in it too. Yes. I believe.
01:55:49
Speaker
So we'll see what this is. But yeah. What are you thinking about this new, uh, new, the last movie in the trilogy being greenlit. And I'm very excited about this soon. And the reason June, June 16, 2026 is soon bone temple too.
01:56:04
Speaker
Yeah, January. January 16th. Yeah, 2016. Did I say June? Sorry, January. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm very excited about that. it's It's awesome, dude. um So this is really cool because i think – I'm trying to remember. I think it may have been on the actors on actors conversation. or Sorry, not actors on actors. Creators on on creators conversation. Creators creator. Yeah. Yeah, that one.
01:56:23
Speaker
Between Neil Druckmann and Alex Garland, where Alex Garland talked about, obviously, 28 years later coming out and how they wrote 28 years later, the but or how how he wrote 28 years later, The Bone Temple. And in that conversation, I think he mentioned that, you know they were going to do these two movies and ideally, you know, they'll be able to make enough money to fund the third one.
01:56:46
Speaker
So there was this potential that this, the third, the finale of this trilogy wouldn't happen depending on how well Bone Temple does. Right. So i I found this like super interesting because when I saw it, that's exactly what I wanted to bring up in this conversation because now regardless of how the Bone Temple does,
01:57:06
Speaker
We're still going to ideally get, you know, the third and final movie in this trilogy, which is sweet. And the reason why I was a little bit worried about the third one not happening is because I've been seeing a lot online that people don't even realize that 28 years later, the bone temple is a sequel to 28 years later.
01:57:26
Speaker
I don't think it's common knowledge. I think there are people out there that literally are like, oh, 28 years later, didn't that just come out? And aren't putting two and two together. So I was almost just worried about, you know, this movie just not doing well. And as a result, we wouldn't get a finale in this trilogy. But, you know, I'm very curious about how this is going to do because I think the rumblings around the Bone Temple are very positive that it is like a very well done movie.
01:57:50
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Yeah, the screening specifically. I think it's testing really well. Yeah. So i'm I'm stoked for this, man. i'm I'm very excited about this. And I'm glad to hear that, you Cillian Murphy is obviously coming back.
01:58:03
Speaker
But also, again, seeing how it's all going to fold into it, because like, is this going to feel like like small universe syndrome or is there going to be a purpose to bring them back and how how these characters are going to connect? And don't know. I'm just so curious how this is all going to play out. It's super exciting because, yeah, 28 days later, sorry, 28 years later is is my um favorite movie of the year. from Again, off the top of my head.
01:58:26
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um yeah cool so yeah man uh again what what do you think about this are you excited about this i know you really like 28 years later as well just maybe not as much as me i'm super excited and it's also super close january sixteenth it's like like i know Hip and a scop. Hip and a scop?
01:58:44
Speaker
What the hell? A hop and a skip. Hop and a skip away. So it's soon, which is exciting. And yeah, it is cool. And I'm glad it's being it's testing well because this is not being directed by Danny Boyle. And that's why I was kind of worried. Because Nia DaCosta, from my experience, I mean, DaCosta...
01:59:04
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directed Candyman, which has been really well reviewed Hedda, which is really well reviewed, but I didn't watch that one. And I really don't like the Marvels. I'll like, I really don't like it. Like, I think the Marvels is not good. Um, I don't know if the Marvels is a direction i issue either though. Like, I think a lot of it has to do with just like,
01:59:21
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Having to fold this into this universe and having like such inconsistencies. i I genuinely don't believe that the creators have full control when they're making a Marvel movie anymore. ah like I don't know. i just I get that feeling. So I don't want to really blame her. you think James Gunn had control, though?
01:59:37
Speaker
Guardians 3, I think he did. But again, the key thing is that movie- Guardians 2? Well, that too. Yeah, sure. But again, i feel like it, they, since it was kind of set a little bit aside and not like fully connected to you know, the big events that were happening as much.
01:59:54
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um I
Diverse Film and TV Reviews
01:59:55
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think he had a little bit more creative control. But Guardians 3 has more connection to the rest of the MCU. Yeah. Yeah. don't know. To a certain degree. guess like where it ends. I feel like they're doing inconsistent things constantly with the MCU that don't make any sense. Actually, speaking of the Marvels, in Captain Marvel, the thing with Nick Fury is so stupid and infuriating. It's so dumb.
02:00:16
Speaker
So it's like, I don't really... Aiding. Infuriating. So it's very irritating. So like, it's like, are they even careful? They're not even that careful. So like, why it even matter? I don't know. I'm not sure. You're right though. She probably, she's a newer director, relatively speaking. She hasn't made as many blockbusters, so they maybe could push her around more. So that's maybe the problem. And she she couldn't say no enough. If you have like somebody like...
02:00:38
Speaker
James Gunn now, you're like, you're not really to push that guy around. That's why it's cool James Gunn's in charge of the DCU because he's going to give creative control. And he's he's been the other side. He's been on the in the in the shoes of the director trying to do what they want to do.
02:00:52
Speaker
But anyway, Hedda's reviewed well, but the ah the audience score is not good. That's what i was about to say. It's 56%. So that's why I'm concerned. It is about lesbians. I think it's what it is. Oh yeah. It could be bias a political bias. Yeah, that's It's interesting. True. It'd be false. Yeah, that's a good poll could call out. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it's, I know. That's too woke for people. It's interesting because the new Spartacus show to go off on a little bit of a tangent, the new Spartacus show, I looked into it and at least when I checked it out, it was a hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
02:01:23
Speaker
was like, oh wow, that's crazy. Audience score. Very bad. Not good. I think it was in like the low fifties. And I was sitting there wondering out, cause I looked into it a little bit because ah essentially this new Spartacus show frustratingly is not a sequel to the Spartacus show that, that we got many years ago. It's a, what if it's like, what if this character didn't die?
02:01:48
Speaker
And they, yeah, exactly. Yeah. and And they they're they're now running the gladiatorial, like Spartacus gladiatorial ring thing. And that that was the the premise. And I was like, oh, that's why it's reviewed poorly. And then I looked into all the reviews and it's just a bunch of people being like, they're making Spartacus woke, this show that was for men, they're making it for girls or whatever. And I was like oh, okay, nevermind.
02:02:11
Speaker
um Yeah. So that's a good idea. 91% high though, dude. Yeah. And again, for me, like I was, I wanted to watch it again. Yeah. 42 popcorn meter.
02:02:22
Speaker
I, but I wanted to watch it, but after hearing that it's a, what if I just, I was like, nah, I'm out. Because like, I don't know. yeah Even if it's It feels less meaningful. Exactly. Even if it's good, it doesn't matter because technically it doesn't exist in the universe I liked.
02:02:36
Speaker
You know, it's it's a weird feeling. And again, I'm not going to stars for this fucking show. so Right, yeah. Stephen S. DeKnight, though, returned, right? That's the big thing. Yes, he did.
02:02:47
Speaker
As executive producer? Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Stephen S. DeKnight, also the guy that did Daredevil season
02:02:57
Speaker
Did he do two and three? Or was it just the first season that he did? ah One. Okay. Yeah, i think so. I don't think he could return for three. think i was somebody else again. Yeah. I think they they swapped him out each time, I think, that showrunner.
02:03:12
Speaker
I'm pretty sure. I'll just say this, just really brief. The Game Awards were on were yesterday as the day of recording this. We said this already. The Last of Us won. was just going to say that because you said creator creat creat um creator to creator. The Last of Us won Best Adaptation, which I thought was very interesting because people like the Splinter Cell show and various other things that were nominated for the Best Video Game Adaptation.
02:03:34
Speaker
And The Last of Us, i thought was... i thought Largely, was season two, which is the one that won this this yeah year, I thought largely wasn't as beloved as season one, even by critics. So I thought that was very strange.
The Last of Us Adaptation and Game Awards
02:03:49
Speaker
Yeah, I think the bar is kind of on the ground for that in the sense of like, I don't think people are watching all those adaptations, a lot of the cases. And I think the last was part two, although, or sorry, season two, although wasn't as beloved, everyone watched it. You think...
02:04:05
Speaker
You think that they're not they're voting without seeing it? They're they're critics. You don't think they're big publications? Nobody in their entire publication watched it? I would assume most of them would have probably watched you know just The Last of Us and been like, yeah, we'll go to The Last of Us.
02:04:21
Speaker
That's my assumption. um Oh, I see. They watched the one. and Yeah. don't know. Yeah, I will nominate that then. The end of the video game award sucks because that that yeah that can't happen in general. Well, dude, you about last year with- I abstained from voting. Fallout. Fallout's a great choice.
02:04:39
Speaker
Fallout's amazing. But over Arkane Season 2, and it's like, again, like i think Fallout's great. Don't get me wrong. But I think more people watched Fallout versus Arkane Season 2. Because I think if you watch Arkane Season two Come on.
02:04:50
Speaker
There's no contest. that The quality is is so different. Fall is pretty good. It's a different type of show, though. so It's hard. it's hard they're in ah They're in the same category, and they're very different. Yeah, more popular. Yeah, that's true. I don't know. yeah Yeah, that's that's a fair thing, but that's a really unfortunate thing. Because again, the audience doesn't vote largely for the Game Awards. It's publications. It's giant outlets. That's how it works. So like if they're not doing that, then they have no journalistic integrity at all. And I i would argue they do. I know that people believe... That's an annoying thing that I have arguments with people every day. Honestly, it's so annoying. It's like, what do critics matter? They're just making up. They're just taking money and they're just voting. like I'm like...
02:05:30
Speaker
That's not how it works. Largely, I don't think that's how it works. And if that's how it works, I don't think Jeff Keighley do that way. Yeah, maybe small publications, if anything, that are looking to earn a quick dollar or whatever. Some of them will. Yeah, sure. I mean, there's bad actors in every industry, for sure. Exactly, it's exactly. But that's I don't think it's...
02:05:47
Speaker
largely governed by that. I think that it's largely governed by people with journalistic integrity. I believe personally. So that's why I'm thinking that that's not true. But here's what I'll say. I like The Last of Season 2. The reason I'm bringing this up I'm playing part two again. And I got to the beginning and you're, there was this belief that they, they introduced Abby too quickly. And i completely agree with you. I did agree with you before. Like on I was like, Oh, it's just different.
02:06:14
Speaker
I know why they did this though. They did it. It was what I said, but you're, you're, I can see why you don't like it completely. I completely relate to what you were saying across the board because it's just, They're dumbing it down, not on the perspective of dumbing it down. They're dumbing it down because that you can't, you, you lose an audience. I do think that there's a chance you lose an audience if you don't find little tricks, but I think they're HBO.
02:06:36
Speaker
You take the swing. I just think you take the swing for the fences. Now, I don't think a season two is bad. I still don't think it's the same belief I had before, but I'm just like, I'm playing it again. i'm like, man, if you left the mystery alive about Abby right away, there's like this, there's this element. It's the first shot of the season. So like, you're not really got me insane it's it's so interesting because you're like you're so worried about about keeping ah the audience but it's like but you know who wasn't worried about keeping the audience adrian you know who wasn't care didn't care about it neil druckman when he made the game and it's like he didn't care and like he and and it and it obviously didn't pay off in some aspects people were pissed off people were so are so mad about the game and i think they were like how do we fix that
02:07:21
Speaker
How do we massage it? We have another crack at it in a different medium. It's different. It's also plays differently. You're not playing the character. You don't get to inhabit that person. You don't get the, there's a different aspect.
02:07:31
Speaker
So if you can do it, should we do it a different way to see if we can grab the audience in a different way to make them? Cause I mean, season two is a 94% of Rotten Tomatoes. So critics do like it.
02:07:46
Speaker
right? 92%. Sorry. Yeah. They love it, dude. Yeah. So it doesn't, it's not a surprise that it won because it's the best reviewed show probably of of the lot that won at the vegan morts. But I, again, completely see where you're coming from. Just to kind of relate to what you're saying. It's like, dude, it's like, just do it because you, I know that it's tough, but it would, how cool would it have been. Um, but yeah, it's different. The way they did it is different. I think it is genuinely a worse way to tell the story, but I mean, yeah,
02:08:15
Speaker
I feel like we knew that already because The Last of Us is is immaculate. I'm playing it again and I can't believe how amazing it is again. I'm like, this is this particular part two in particular and the way the gameplay works within the narrative is so freaking awesome. The way it ties itself together, is it's insane. I'm like, I think 20% in or something. Anyway. Okay. Okay, let's move on.
02:08:36
Speaker
I said I have to go and then I'm wasting time here. Okay, that's good. Talking about The Last of Us, which is many, many months
Upcoming Trailers and Series Anticipation
02:08:43
Speaker
ah back. So let's go through the trailer roundup real quick. Anything stand up to you? There were actually some big trailers that came out. I'm going to list them here and you tell me which ones and you just talk about the ones you want. But I watched Ready or Not, Here I Come trailer, which looked pretty great. Supergirl trailer, which was hyped up and looks awesome as usual. It's crazy because it's Craig Gillespie, which if correct me if I'm wrong, but he's I, Tonya director. We've talked about that before, but that's still really cool in my opinion, because it's a pretty cool director to have directing a superhero film. And then Street Fighter was shown at the Game of Awards, which was a great way to show that off. I thought that was awesome. i thought that was one of the
02:09:19
Speaker
It was a so in some way. I mean, there's a lot of highlights of the game awards, but that was a crazy, crazy moment with all the entire cast on the stage. Makes no sense. Why'd you do that? It seems like that logistics were insane. And then the hijacked season two, which I'm assuming you didn't watch, but that now I don't even know why they're making season two.
02:09:34
Speaker
So he's on a train. He's on a train. and Hijack Idris Elba is on a train now. Yeah. Maybe I'll watch the first season just for shits and gigs. It seems like a fun show. It's okay. Yeah, it's it's okay. I've i got other shows, I would say, or watch. but Okay, maybe I will. Who knows?
02:09:50
Speaker
I won't tell you. Okay. um Yeah, so let's start with, I mean, Supergirl, you talked about it, Craig Gillespie. um Yeah, this looks great. This is awesome. And it's really cool how they're like portraying you know Supergirl's character, like Kara Zor-El or whatever, and how different she is, obviously, from Superman. um She seems way more real, like,
02:10:14
Speaker
I guess where where Superman is a sign of hope and optimism, she's a realist and far more pessimistic and also loves fucking getting hammered and doing drugs, which you can respect about a you know, 20 something year old woman, you know, she's got a beautiful dog with her, um, crypto and just, yeah, you know, wants to party and is just kind of like everything sucks. And it's obviously because of, you know, how she was presumably raised and everything that she went through and how she's a tortured soul where Clark had the,
02:10:45
Speaker
um you know, the the privilege to land in the United States and be raised by a nice farm family. And like show them you know that humans are are... That you should be kind to people and all that stuff. And he was raised as a human, whereas Supergirl was not. So I think this trailer looks really fun and really cool.
02:11:06
Speaker
um i like I don't know who all the other characters are. Obviously, there's a brief glimpse of of Jason Momoa in that trailer as Lobo, which is awesome to see. But I don't know who that little girl with the katana is that she's kind of taken care of. And I love these sort of...
02:11:20
Speaker
buddy cop sort of um movies as as, as you say all the time, it seems like it's going to be, yeah. Like it seems like it's going to be a really fun time and really um interesting. And it's awesome that this is kind of the, this is the second movie of the DC universe technically. And I'm curious how it's all going to play out um soon.
02:11:41
Speaker
Yeah. too It's spring six months. So I really liked it. What do you think about this trailer? I think it looks awesome. And I'm like, i don't know. I think like they have the opportunity to start really strong. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Cinematic Universe started pretty strong too. So, yeah.
02:11:57
Speaker
But it's, I don't know. I'm curious what the flavoring of Craig Gillespie is in this. That's why I'm very interested. Cause it kind of looks like guardians in some way. Yeah. I got a serious guardians vibes, but she's like, liked it. What you called out there. It's like,
02:12:11
Speaker
She's messy. She's kind of more relatable in some way, you know, because like people are not like as as as pristine as Superman as much as they, you know, even... Well, I think that's one of the cool things about Superman is that he's not perfect. And I think that they show that too. Like he's... He is...
02:12:25
Speaker
he's human in, in, in a very strange way, even though he's not, I think that this is a different side of that. There's like a, she doesn't give a shit, you know? Yeah. Like she's a cynic. She's very cynical. And she's like, this is bullshit. This is a, and like, it's kind of like our world now in our real world.
02:12:41
Speaker
Like it's like a kind of how I feel like i'm like, this is, there's a lot of shitty stuff going on. Like there's a lot of things I can't control that governments and big companies are controlling that are, it feels like it's all, it's all like shit sandwiches kind of thing. Like it's just not ideal. Um, so I think that's cool. I think that's a great thing to do a flip side, do it opposite. It's weird to do it as a second movie because you just did Superman. That's what's strange. I wonder if lanterns will come out first.
02:13:07
Speaker
I don't know when, where that's in the slate. Like I imagine. They just did the HBO, like coming to HBO sizzle reel and there wasn't a date, but they did have like a brief, like 10, 15 seconds of lanterns. So it'd be cool if it's first, yeah because this one looks like it's in space as well.
02:13:23
Speaker
So would there be a crossover somewhere in some some aspect? Because they're kind of, well, a big universe, to be honest, probably not. It'd be almost cooler if they don't do that yet. They just kind of hold off because they the first movie, Superman, like, already kind of has all the characters in it. So it'd be cool if you can kind of, like, introduce us to Lanterns, like the Green Lantern corpse and all that stuff. I don't know. Honestly, it's one of the few the things I don't, I feel like I know the least. They're very popular characters in the Justice League. I don't know enough about the Green Lanterns.
02:13:50
Speaker
But I love the idea of Space Cops, True Detective style HBO so show. I think that I'm sure it's supposed to be fourteen a or like 18A, isn't it? Yeah. Is that right? Didn't didn't Nathan Fillion say something about like it's ah he it's one of the properties that he's worked in where he's dropped the most F-bombs or something like that?
02:14:09
Speaker
Oh, I didn't see that. Cool. I swear i swear that that there was something like that. That's awesome if that's true. That's great. Yeah, that, oh man, that's so exciting then. And I love Damon Lindelof and I think that, what's his name?
02:14:20
Speaker
Mundy, it's Chris, I think, Chris Mundy, the Ozark creator. That's this just that's like a combo that's kind of match made in heaven. So that's very exciting. So, yeah, I was right. Nathan Fillion, he who plays Guy Gardner, ah revealed that he was dropping more F-bombs in the Lanterns project than in his entire career.
02:14:42
Speaker
That's highlighting. That's so awesome. Yeah. Well, that makes sense for his character, too, because he's an asshole. That kind of makes sense to you. Cool, man. Yeah, that's great. That's Supergirl. Any of the other trailers stand out to you? You want to talk about?
02:14:55
Speaker
Rudy, you're not here. I come super excited about that. Looks awesome. I love that it's picking up immediately after the first one, which is such a concept. Cause it's like, it kind of ends final, like there's pretty a final ending on that in theory. And then you're like, no, no, no, there's, there's more in that. Like the idea, the concept behind how there could be more, i think is pretty cool.
02:15:14
Speaker
Exactly. Where it's just, oh, it's like, it's not just the one family. This is like a big cult that like goes, you know way bigger. And there's a bunch of rich families that do this crazy game, yada, yada, yada.
02:15:24
Speaker
And yeah, I really liked that. I thought it was funny. I'm curious, ah Catherine Newton. It's Catherine Newton, right? Yeah, Catherine Newton. yeah Yeah, she's in it. Yeah. She's, she's also in it playing a Samara weaving sister, you know, two, two final girl actors kind of going at it. So that's pretty cool. Um, I'm curious how it's going to all play out. I'm, I'm, I'm quite excited about this one. Um, I thought the trailer was pretty good.
02:15:49
Speaker
feel like it kind of revealed a couple of, you know, big things, which hopefully I'll forget about by the time the movie comes out and yeah, just really enjoy that. Um,
02:16:00
Speaker
Street Fighter, cool. I have no real attachment to it. Good cast, I guess. It looks cool and it looks like my favorite thing about the Street Fighter movie is that there's like this crazy cast of various big name actors and also big name stars for other things like wrestling and and shit. Yeah, wrestling, about comedians. like It felt like they didn't care about putting full on makeup on them and like just hiding them. They they really wanted to embody the make the character real.
02:16:29
Speaker
yeah I think that that's the, cause the way it's shot, the trailer is really cool. It's a teaser, but I thought that teaser i was like, I'm kind of impressed with the way this is done. It looks, seems very brutal. And i just, I, I don't know. I think it's really, they're kind of going for it. And it looks like it's a street fighter fan who made it. If I'm to say I'm not the biggest street fighter fan. So maybe I'm not the one to say, but I feel like it looks, that's what it, that's the impression it gave me.
02:16:53
Speaker
But that cast being on stage and calling out Mortal Kombat, was like, what is going on here? There was also an element of like, was this scripted? Some of it felt like it wasn't even scripted. I think it was, but there was an element like they showed the crowd at one point and they were like, what?
02:17:09
Speaker
Their faces were like deadpan. was like, this is really entertaining for me. I'm like, what's going on here? He's like, why isn't this as funny for you as it is for me? Quite strange. But yeah, that pretty Yeah, cool. There was a very charismatic cast, it seems like.
02:17:23
Speaker
They're very hyped about the the movie they're making. So that's awesome. That was the movie that got shifted, right? It was a Street Fighter. No, or immoral Mortal Kombat was shifted and then Street Fighter is taking the same place, but next year. Yeah, exactly. yeah They're like, don't give a shit. It's like ours is in October. Mortal Kombat moved from October of this year because were scared because of what might happen to the box office. Anyway, okay.
02:17:47
Speaker
Cool, man. Anything else you want to mention? No, no. no The hijack thing, I'm just annoyed by it because he's on a train now and there's a hijacking on the train. And I'm like, how did this happen by coincidence? And the trailer kind of shows that it did happen by coincidence. I'm like, what?
02:18:01
Speaker
Oh, actually. I'm like, that's kind of what it's insinuating. I'm not really sure from the trailer. And I'm like, this is bizarre. Like, how would this have happened again? unlucky individual. I thought they maybe hired him as a negotiator or something because he was good at it. But he's a lawyer. He's not even a, he's not like a hostage negotiator.
02:18:16
Speaker
He's just a lawyer. He's on a plane. you I didn't realize that's what it down hijackers, but but he's really good at negotiating. So he is able to do it. that's kind of the idea. It's like how Donald Trump is, is like solve 15 wars because he's a great negotiator. The art of the deal, man. That guy's fucking awesome, dude. Shut up.
02:18:33
Speaker
That's, that's, that's the same thing. Anyway. Okay. We're going to move on now. Let's do this segment pretty quick. Cause do have to go to Costco and I, I feel like my fiance's, getting mad back there. so You got to get the rotisserie chicken, dude. Yeah, let's get it.
02:18:45
Speaker
We should. Okay. Here's what we're going to do. I'm just going to announce segment, which is ah segment of our show called, or I like to call, A Look to the Future. portion of our podcast where each of us present at least three of our picks for the TV series or movies that look most interesting to us that are releasing between the dates of December 16th and December 29th, 2025. Awesome.
02:19:08
Speaker
awesome Okay. My most anticipated movie of the year, Avatar, Fire and Ash, December 19th. Can't wait. Who cares? Not me. Great, great, great, great, great. Yeah. Speaking of the the game award for best adaptation, Fallout Season 2 premieres on December 17th. Adrian on Amazon Prime Video. Are you excited? are you excited? Much better than Arcane.
02:19:31
Speaker
They say it's better than Arcane. That's what That's wrong. That's wrong. This is cool, though, because it's got frigging Macaulay Culkin. Yeah. curious. It's true. I haven't seen him in too much since. They got Justin Theroux.
02:19:42
Speaker
um Oh, yeah. Justin Theroux. Great. Yeah. i'm I'll watch it. I like the first season. I think it's grossly overrated, though. But I liked it Well, for to win that award, yeah.
02:19:54
Speaker
I guess so. um The other movie, based on a childhood amazing comedy flick coming out December 19th as well.
02:20:05
Speaker
The SpongeBob movie, ill Search for Squarepants. Nice. Going out the December 19th. Are you going to watch that one? Excited? um No. I haven't watched SpongeBob in quite some time. I loved SpongeBob as a kid, though. I think SpongeBob defined a lot of people's love of of specific styles of comedy.
02:20:25
Speaker
Right.
02:20:27
Speaker
Gotcha. I love SpongeBob. SpongeBob. Le ponge de spudge. Okay. My next pick, Adrian, is a a movie. I'll let you guess this one. It stars ah stars Iron Man star and a star of a recent movie in which there is a guy who's singing songs.
02:20:51
Speaker
And it's blue? Is he singing it in blue? Blue? is that? Yeah, song sung blue? I don't know what that reference is. It's a movie called Song Song Blue coming out December No, no, no, no, no. no this This movie is a guy who plays ping pong and it's called Marty Supreme. Comes out December 19th.
02:21:10
Speaker
Oh. Who's in it from Iron It stars Timothy Chalamet. Gwyneth Paltrow is in it. Oh, yeah. She doesn't even know she was in Iron Man. How the fuck am I supposed to know? That keeps coming up, eh? She doesn't know who Tom Holland is. How's that possible? Yeah, it's so random.
02:21:24
Speaker
What's going on? All right. yeah She's probably fucking zooted all the time with her. It's like what's that? It's like when you're just like out of it. like what's going on oh i thought you're thought it was like a drug suggestion okay i mean no i mean maybe it's all the chemicals that she's one of the smartest people he's ever met but she doesn't she's like she doesn't know anything about the marvel cinematic universe or something along those lines she doesn't give a fuck so confused she'd be so confused sometimes that you'd be like what what is going on here shout out to her good for her for not giving a single flying fuck
02:22:01
Speaker
There's something really interesting about Robert Downey Jr. playing a villain in the next Avengers movie and seeing Tom Holland's, like that combo, that particular combo. We talked about like the the pairings of various characters. The Peter Parker and Robert Downey Jr.'s version of whatever character he's playing, it I don't know if he, he's probably going to look identical to Iron Man. But that the idea of him meeting, like that's, I feel like that's the most interesting combo.
02:22:27
Speaker
Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe he's not even going to take off the mask the entire time. Yeah, that would be crazy, wouldn't it? That'd be so funny. He's just voice actor. I think that's part of it. i think they're to, if they don't play into it, then that that's stupid. I feel like that's dumb because you didn't like it in the beginning, but i I feel like this is why I like it is because if you can spin it and then keep using him, who Robert Downey Jr. is just a great actor in general. He's got so much charisma.
02:22:48
Speaker
Please. Yeah. Tom going to be like, hey, you're like Tony Stark. here You were my idol. You helped me. And then he shoots him in the face with a gun. Yeah, he just fucking blows his fucking spider. He just takes out a revolver and shoots him like, because the mask will be similar to Squid Game. He just shoots him. He's like Russian roulette style. Yeah.
02:23:06
Speaker
Yeah. That'd be sick. It's just like there's blood everywhere. It's like, yeah this is now a Tarantino movie. Yeah. Yeah. and then he starts sucking on people's feet. Anyways. And then Paul Dano is immediately fired.
02:23:19
Speaker
yeah Yeah, exactly. Speaking of sucking on feet, the housemaid coming out December 19th. Jesus Christ. i don't know, man. I don't know. i just saw an opportunity. I regret saying it.
02:23:31
Speaker
I regret saying it. that a reference to? I don't know. Okay. I don't know. I wish I didn't say that. Sidney Sweeney is only already very sexualized. you know I'm not sure what what other connection could we be making here? Brendan Sklenar from 1923? Yeah, I was talking about the Sklenar guy.
02:23:49
Speaker
Yeah, Brendan Sclinar of 1923. Brendan Sclinar. He's going to be the the new Batman, I heard. You're making fun of that, but he was in 1923, and i think that's where he really like started lifting off. People love Yellowstone, dude.
02:24:02
Speaker
They outla love it. So that I know you were making fun of it. You're like his publicist is going out there and saying this. Who is saying this? His publicist. I get that. I i understand. There's a chance, though. He doesn't not look the type of Batman.
02:24:15
Speaker
And he's yeah, he's buff. Did you see the trailer for this? You you definitely did for this movie. The housemate. Yeah, of course. Jacked. I'm like, you need to be that jacked for this movie or is it another reason? It's not maybe not that crazy.
02:24:27
Speaker
Or maybe he's getting jacked on purpose so his publicist can go out and say, look, this guy's a Batman type. look He's a Bruce Wayne type. Look at who Jack is. Yeah. don't know. They should just make Glenn Powell Batman.
02:24:38
Speaker
That would be cool too. Yeah, that'd be great. I want Henry Cavill to be Batman. I genuinely think that's a great choice. I think if they do that, that would be earth shattering and it would also sell tickets because people love Henry Cavill. And I think that that that whole situation was weird and it bridges the stupid, like the the crazy people who's still going for the Snyder verse, you know, like, oh, this...
02:24:59
Speaker
did you Did Ken tell you this? When the Netflix deal thing happened, they're like, oh that means the DCU will be shut down and they're going to they're going to bring back the Snyderverse. Did you hear about that? Ken apparently has got his ear to the ground on that. He said that that's happening, that the people are excited.
02:25:15
Speaker
Yeah. Because of the connection with Snyder, I guess, in Netflix. yeah Even though Snyder's not making it, like has all of his projects canceled now from Netflix, I'm pretty sure. They're not doing Rebel Moon, this the rubb more Rebel Moon.
02:25:28
Speaker
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Just write the thing for him and then get him to direct it because he's a good director. He's a really good director. I don't want to say he's a bad writer because I think that's mean.
02:25:39
Speaker
yeah I'm a bad writer. I just don't think. I would say yeah he's an inconsistent writer. And just get a good writer to write it for him and then he'll make something brilliant. It will be incredible. He can maybe chime in, you know, with ideas, maybe create the skeleton of it. Maybe I just don't.
02:25:53
Speaker
Dude, it would be so cool because I like his, his writing. Cause didn't he not write, he didn't write, um, spartacus Spartacus, the Spartan movie. What's it called? twenty three hundred what 2300. 300. Why is it such a low number for me? 300 writers.
02:26:09
Speaker
Whose turn is it? Is it mine? i don't know. Yeah, I think so. I said it's my turn. I'm going to go and then while I'm doing this. He wrote he wrote the screenplay, but alongside Kurt Johnstead and Michael B.
02:26:20
Speaker
michael b jordan That can't be the same guy. Okay. Michael B. Gordon. I'm so sorry. I used the J. and the Why keep keep confusing j J's and G's today? Okay.
02:26:31
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know who that is. But anyway. george Plus he didn't really write that because it's written by Frank Miller. So that's not really. Frank Miller. In reality, it's a comic. So that's ah that's a bad example.
02:26:43
Speaker
Anyway, yeah that's my point. I just wanted to not. Cool. And then then he can make good stuff. Anyway, cool. Cool. Shut the hell up and move on. The next one is Anaconda. It comes out December 25th, Adrian. It stars Paul Rudd and Jack Black. And they're fighting an anaconda for real, even though they were trying to make a movie about a fake anaconda. And it goes awry.
02:27:01
Speaker
It goes awry. And that's the movie i still kind of feel like is the movie that is airing this Monday in advance. But I'm hoping pretty much for every other movie in some. Well, maybe not The Housemaid, actually. I don't care about The Housemaid.
02:27:13
Speaker
i watch I kind of want it to be no other choice. Marty Supreme definitely is this thing on. Yeah. When's that coming out? That's the December 19th. That's this week. Okay. Limited release though.
02:27:25
Speaker
That's the problem is limited release. That's what I'm thinking. It could be that because I think eternity was also limited to release. Wasn't it? Correct. Correct. Anyways, my next thing is, is is this thing on?
02:27:37
Speaker
It's coming out December 19th. It's a limited release. I'm not sure but and that' sure if you heard of it. Yeah. It stars Will Arnett as a comedian, a standup comic who wasn't initially a standup comic, just a divorced guy hes ah who's in a bar and tries to get in cover free.
02:27:56
Speaker
Yeah. It's stranger things, stranger things, Christmas day. Some of the episodes up until the finale. Boom. There's another one. I don't have stranger things written here. I'm insane. kind I didn't put it right. I didn't write it here. Emily in Paris. Another Netflix thing, just like stranger things comes out December I don't know if you've watched this.
02:28:14
Speaker
Are they not? I have no idea. I just said that. I think my fiance watched Emily in Paris. She's in Rome now. I think.
02:28:24
Speaker
Again, are you lying? Are just making that up? I have no idea. i'm just understanding. So why are you saying that? I don't know. Why are you laughing? You're like, I have no idea. And then you double down on the joke you made previously. it Usually you cut it off and then it's over. and And then now you're going to say, oh, I think they're in China now. No, she's actually in Qatar.
02:28:41
Speaker
ah okay yeah they're in saudi arabia yeah she went to saudi arabia yeah she actually held never mind i'm not gonna go there anyways don't worry about okay uh my next choice well because you went twice in a row i think is no other choice yeah See what I did there?
02:28:59
Speaker
Dude, that's such a good joke. I'm going to fucking shit my pants. That's so good, dude. You're really making fun of me. All right. Well, that's ah that's a movie by old boy director Park Chan-hook, which it comes out again December 25th. That movie, lot of Oscar buzz. That will be obviously an international. I think it's obvious that it'll be an international Oscar contender. What is it called? International feature?
02:29:22
Speaker
I don't the name of that category. You know I'm talking about, though. Yeah. a Movie not made in America. But this is the one where the guy, he's like losing his job and he' like he's going to murder a bunch of people or something.
02:29:35
Speaker
I don't know. I haven't watched the trailer yet. I feel like I shouldn't, though. Or maybe i did. haven't seen the trailer either. Okay. We should watch this at Princess Twin. Let's go in blind. I don't want to know anything about it. Abruptly laid off after 25 years of the same company.
02:29:46
Speaker
What? i just said like, let's just go watch it at Princess Twin. I don't want to hear anything about sorry. I'm sorry. and yeah Abruptly laid off. No, no, part i already explained it. I already said it. I already said that part. yeah got Okay, cool. sure It's only one sentence. you don't want to hear the sentence?
02:30:03
Speaker
I don't want to hear the sentence. I'm worried about what the sentence says. Fine. We won't go in with the same knowledge. Thanks a lot. You're welcome. The other thing is crazy is I literally talked about this like months ago.
02:30:14
Speaker
Well, dude, I don't have a good memory. i don't have a good memory. i could just say it and it would be fine. No, i have that I have a good memory if watching it in like a week, two weeks, three weeks. All right. Well, that's it then. That's all the movies coming out. I'm pretty sure. That's everything ever releasing Did say The Housemate?
02:30:29
Speaker
You said The Housemate, yeah. Yeah, because did that weird foot joke about Brendan Sklenar. I'm sorry, Brendan. Right. Yeah, sorry, Brendan. Yeah, right. It was about Brendan Sklenar. Yeah. Sure.
02:30:41
Speaker
Okay. What do you mean, sure? What the fuck do you mean? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Nothing. I mean, nothing. I mean, nothing. Okay. We're, we're done now. This is Tarantino sucking on dirty feet. That's going be the name of the episode. Boom. We're done. It's locked. Are you serious? Yeah. Okay. Cause I had, I had ain't, ain't unchecked capitalism grand.
02:31:02
Speaker
Is that as a, but you like the controversial ones that are. Yeah. Quentin Tarantino. What if he sues us? We have no money. Okay. ah Ain't unchecked Quentin sucking on feet grand.
02:31:16
Speaker
No, no, no. We're not going to combine them. They're not necessarily good together because they're not necessarily good apart. So you may as well just do yours. you know Quentin sucking on feet. It could just be any Quentin.
02:31:31
Speaker
Quentin sucking on dirty feet then at that point. Quentin sucking on dirty feet. All right. ah I don't want to visualize this anymore. I'm going to just ah i close the show off. Do you have anything else to other than feet conversation?
02:31:48
Speaker
See you later. Okay. jesus Take care. Get Costco, baby. There's a freaking document in front of your face. You can see what it is. What? You know I have to close the show. Okay. Anyway, I'm going to do it now.
02:32:00
Speaker
Closing. i scroll I forgot to scroll down. I'll be honest with you. all right. Jesus Christ. Thank you for listening to episode 125 of Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie, and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my recently betrothed the co-host,
02:32:16
Speaker
betrothed, sorry, bad pronunciation there, co-host Adrian Pinter. Please join us on December 30th for episode 126. Good evening to you and good luck.
02:32:28
Speaker
Take care. Bye. Goodbye. Watch out for those toes. Oh, geez. They're coming at your mouth. I think that's so gross. Goodbye.