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133. This is the Space Episode
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Simon & Adrian review the hit science fiction comedy, Project Hail Mary, from directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Plus, Adrian finally watches Raiders of the Lost Arc & reviews Zootopia 2; while Simon raves about the third season of HBO’s White Lotus. Additionally, they examine the recent trailer and release date for HBO’s Harry Potter series and all the baggage attached to the project. They also express their surprise for the new Netflix price increase and discuss Disney’s venture into AI user generated content.
This episode was recorded in Canada on April 2nd 2026. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on April 21st for Episode 134.
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Directors and Projects Spotlight
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But Adrian, aren't all potatoes kind of poo potatoes because of the composition of fertilizer? This episode, we review director Phil Lord and Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan. chris No, no, no. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's science fiction comedy, Project
Hype Around HBO's Harry Potter Series
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Hail Mary. We examined the hype surrounding HBO's Harry Potter TV series. i don't know why you sound like that. And we discuss AI's continuous effect on the film and TV industry.
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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. Welcome to episode 133.
Humorous Take on 'Poop Potatoes' and Artemis 2 Discussion
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You didn't answer my question about the poop potatoes. Well, you dove right into it. You want me to answer it? I guess. I don't know, man. I don't understand how potatoes work.
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Okay. Cue the music. no
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you watch the Did you watch the Artemis 2 launch, Adrian? Did you watch the rocket take off from the... No, I'm scared of space and all things related to it. Actually, I did watch it, but I don't know where they took off. I'm assuming they took off from Cape caraal Canaveral, right? So that's where they always take off, right? Brother, I right i have no idea. I feel like there was there hasn't been much, um what's the word I'm looking for, focus on on this Artemis 2 launch.
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No one's talking about this. This is a big space trip. They're going to the moon essentially again. You know why? well Why? Tell me. It's got to be because of the internet, right? The internet's a mess.
Information Overload and Space Media
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it's ah It's a disastrous information overload. Everyone's over always overloaded with information every single second. They're like, the TikTok is trying to get your attention. you know there's not like That's why things are kind of not so super great. I feel like it's part of the reason. Everything's vying for your attention. and And one of those things that that should theoretically be very interesting would have been the Artemis II launch. But alas, it it wasn't. It was in Florida. man There was the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is where it lifted off from. Launch complex 39B, according to Google Gemini.
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But I did watch it. I watched it. um I kind of didn't really watch. I was kind of listening to it. I was i was like in between driving and going to a store. So interesting but it was pretty cool. I don't know. It's pretty exciting. I'm very excited for Starfield comes out on April 7th. That's exactly the date.
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Apparently when the when the Artemis 2 is going to hit the moon, like not hit it, but go around. and moon like they're're They're destroying the moon, dude. Splody. No, they're going to destroy the moon. it's going to get to the moon at that on that day. And I feel like Bethesda Games Studios, Bethesda Games, I think that they planned this on purpose because there's like very, like it's a NASA set aesthetic with Starfield. I don't think it was ah an accident. I think they they sent something with one of the astronauts to the International Space Station, I think at one point. Anyway, it's a NASA aesthetic. It was very cool. I'm
Adrian's Space-Themed Media Interests
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very excited. Like I love these kinds of space things. I think more than I i maybe even realized, like I'm very into for all mankind as an example, which is about the, you know, the space race back in the in the sixties and onward. And I don't know, I'm kind of, I'm into it and that's kind of why I'm so hyped for Starfield too, I think. But, but yeah, it's cool.
00:03:33
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Yeah. I didn't, uh, I was, i was wondering if you watched it. I was going to ask you yesterday when we were playing marathon together, but Speaking of space, dude. Yeah, we've been playing a lot of marathon. lot of space things. This is a space episode. This is the space episode. Name of the episode. This is the space episode. I'm just writing that Yeah, we started with this is. This is the space episode. Noted. Okay, cool, man. This is the space episode. That's the name of the episode. We're done. All right, wrap it up.
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Wrap up the show. It's over now, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. to continue. Yeah. um Okay, man. Well, well that's good. Good, man. That's good. do do you have anything else that you want to know before we just move on? We can just get right into it. Get right into what we've been watching this week, Adrian. Just really kick it into high gear. yeah you know what? Let's dive into what we've been watching.
Indiana Jones: First Impressions and Nostalgia
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I'm going to go first. I'm just going to jump into something, okay, Simon? Because you brought up Bethesda.
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yeah i've i've been played or I played through, I actually just finished it, a Bethesda published game. Published, yeah. Called Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Yeah. Right? And you might be wondering, you might be thinking, hey, you you've never watched Indiana Jones. You've mentioned it on this podcast, Adrian, that you've never watched Indiana Jones. That's what you've said to me.
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Yeah. That's what I think you're going to say right now. That's what everyone's thinking. gosh, you've never seen it. Yeah, and that would be not true anymore, Simon, because I watched the first Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. No, in the and the something in The Rock, and there's a spooky rock. No, there's no there's no Dwayne The Rock Johnson in Indiana Jones and –
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Indiana Jones and and the Lost Ark. rate rating rating ah Raiders of the Lost Ark. Oh, you did it. raiders The Raiders of the Lost Ark. Cool, I got it. It only took me two minutes and 32 seconds. So that was pretty good. so You got it though. You got there. Do you even look it up? How did you even get there? It's amazing.
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um You only watched it once. I only did watch it once and it was about two weeks ago. Two weeks to the day. So what did you think? It's a classic. It's a classic blockbuster.
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I thought was pretty good. It's interesting. Like going into this movie without obviously any nostalgia for the franchise. I do like Harrison Ford. I like adventure sort of stuff in the video game form of, you know, your Uncharted or your Tomb Raider, which I'm sure both of those took a lot of inspiration from Indiana Jones during their development process.
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um Uncharted specifically. And yeah going into this movie, I found it. Pretty interesting. The one thing I didn't know about Indiana Jones. So I feel like maybe I've already talked about it. I'm like, there's supernatural elements in this universe, which I i was like, I feel like there is, but I can't remember if there is. So like going into it. Yeah, there are.
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There's supernatural elements to kind of get that going. But the biggest thing that surprised me about this movie, Simon. Yeah. Is that this movie is not for children. I thought this was like a kid's franchise all along.
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This is like this is for like teachers at least teenagers, like adults. And now yeah, I found it kind of crazy going into this. And you see a guy get stabbed. And well, you see the aftermath of a guy being stabbed through the back of the head by these spikes. And there's blood pouring out of his face. And that's like the first like seven minutes of the movie. And I was like, damn, that's I wasn't expecting that. And then people's faces melting off. I'm like, damn, dude. Yeah. If I was a kid, this would scare the shit out of me.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure. I don't know. I'm assuming the reason why I thought this was kind of for kids is is the same reason. Like. when you think about star Wars, like star Wars is for kids. And I just always associated these two franchises for a couple of reasons, but probably I guess Harrison Ford's in both of them.
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But, um, I was just associated these two franchises as very similar in tone and they're not really, I mean, kind of like, you know they're, they're, they're Indiana Jones is far more campy, I think. Um, and yeah like, uh,
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You know, there's a lot of good elements to that. And again, it's a swashbuckling adventure. I guess not really swashbuckling, they're pirates. But it is like ah an adventure, but it is far more mature.
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um And I just, again, i simply was not expecting that. So that actually... Kind of shocked me going into this movie. And I decided again, i only watched that first one. Then I decided to jump into the Indiana Jones game, which takes place, I think, a year after. So I was like, I don't have to watch all the Indiana Jones movies. I can just watch that first one and then leads into the game. And I just thought, um like, as a whole, it's.
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It's really like it it it still holds up in a lot of ways just because a lot of the effects are practical. um Yeah. There are obviously, you know, some moments where you're like, OK, I can see its age.
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I think the writing is pretty good, especially for its time. It is interesting. There's literally one woman in the entire movie that has like anything that that speaks essentially. and i kind of noticed that by the end. And it's like ah Indiana Jones kind of love interest.
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I feel like during this time, there was a lot of um you know Harrison Ford with with younger women. yeah I think of Blade Runner. There's that rapey scene with the with the um you know the the robot. And then this one, like she's like, you left me. you know And they're talking about sleeping together. And she's like, I was just a kid. I'm like, whoa.
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You know, how what's the what's the age difference here? Because they never touch on it. So I'm like, man, Indiana Jones taking advantage of a young woman. I think they mentioned that there's about a 10 year age gap between them at and ands at some point in the movie. So I don't know. i found it kind of a kind of interesting. There's obviously some dated stuff.
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In particular, like that that sort of stuff that I just today don't think would fly. the dating is dated. ah Indeed, that's that's good. But all in all, I can see how a lot of people like this franchise, especially if you watched ah at a younger age and, you know, kind of grew up with it.
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Me again, not having any of that nostalgia. I still liked it. Again, I just didn't love ah I definitely don't have as much love appreciation for it than the average person that, you know, grew up watching it, if if that makes any sense.
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That's fair. And I kind of feel like that about the game, like going into it. The game is enjoyable. I had a lot of issues in my my my playthrough, which kind of added up by the end of it, where honestly kind of became frustrating because I know you had a much smoother experience with the Indiana
Indiana Jones Gaming Experience
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Jones game. You didn't run into any glitches. I had a lot of bugs. I literally had one like today. I was ah nearing the end and I launched the game and it just got stuck on the.
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opening screen and I had you know, shut down the game and re reboot it. The AI is, I think just, just atrocious. Like ah initially I thought it was like campy and and charming. Cause I'm like, Oh, they're just trying to go with, you know, the, um,
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You know, yeah yeah you know that that like campy nature of you know these dumb Nazis. But it's like, no, it's actually just bad. And even like your companion that's like kind of following along with you. There's like a moment where she literally is like talking to me and then moonwalks around a corner. I'm like, I don't think she was supposed to moonwalk there.
00:10:51
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And just little things which took me out of it from like an immersion standpoint. But I don't hate it. I liked it. I thought it was enjoyable. I beat it. i don't think going to like.
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get all the collectibles or anything like that. I think I'm done with I'm going to move along. But um yeah, that's my experience with Indiana Jones, man. I'm two Indiana Jones movies technically in because Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is very cinematic. There's like, I mean, the last cut scene is like 20 minutes long. it's It's literally like a, like an episode of television.
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So. Good stuff. Cool. Good stuff. That's sweet. Are you planning to watch any other of the other movies then? Are you at this point having played the game and almost finished it? You said you finished it are you just about finished it? beat it today, yeah. I beat it today. Oh, you did beat it. Yeah. That's cool. Are you going watch Temple of Doom or The Last Crusade? I think I think I will. I'll get around to it. I just don't know when. It's not like okay urgent, but um I'll definitely watch them. Again, i I did enjoy it. I did enjoy it.
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I don't want to come off as like kind of a like, o you know, i don't want to come off as negative because I think it is good. It's just. Yeah. All right. That's cool, man. That's cool. All right. What else have you been watching this biweek, Adrian? This this two week period?
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Yeah, man, I've been watching space related because this is the space episode. So, yeah, there is one thing. There is one thing. There is one thing that we watched together that is space related. But I did watch a couple other things prior to that.
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yeah Yeah. Do you want to just jump in into the space related stuff? keep Yeah. Why not? Why not? Okay. All right. Well, we, we, we both went to the theater with our, I was going to say significant others, but that's not true. but I went with my significant other and then you invited another two gentlemen. I was surprised again that your wife didn't want to see this. I don't know why I was surprised. I think both me and my wife were surprised that she didn't want to, she wasn't interested, but it is a long one. That's for It is. This was a longer movie. The movie is Project Hail Mary. We went to the Cineplex Theater near us. We saw it on Ultra AVX.
Review and Critique of 'Project Hail Mary'
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So for the full sound and kind of epic experience, which is cool. And I guess not full because we didn't see it in IMAX. but um
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no And it was, yeah, it's a Ryan Gosling starring vehicle. it's ah Christopher Miller and Phil Lord ah directed it. And it's pretty cool based but based on a book by Andy Weir.
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ah called Project Hail Mary, where this guy has chosen to kind of go to space and and solve an issue of the sun being kind of eaten. Yeah. like That's kind of the premise. And ah he's kind of alone in space. And as the trailer shows, he meets a rock guy.
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Okay. i and then friend I don't know. Yeah. Like, I feel like that's a very crucial point point of the plot. And I honestly, I think I watched the first trailer many months ago and then I've avoided all trailers. So I knew there was a little rock guy, but I didn't really know where it was going to go. So I don't know how much I can...
00:13:47
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quote unquote spoil, like what what was actually in the trailer. So that was in the trailer for sure. But not only was it in the trailer, but this marketing campaign was rampant with the idea of Rocky being a big piece of it. So I'm not going to go into any more detail than that other than saying my opinion, I guess. But um yeah, so this is it's kind of science based movie. It's kind of similar to The Martian meets.
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I think you're almost like meets E.T. in some way. Meets School of Rock. Meets a little bit of Interstellar and so there's like these epic, epic moments. I feel like in terms of like ship, ship movement and stuff like that, like spaceship travel.
00:14:26
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um But yeah, I meet School of Rock. Yeah, I guess so. Maybe a little bit. I really liked this movie a lot. I liked how they did flashbacks quite a bit. I think that that was a really cool thing. i think how they, like the fact that he's kind of the, the trailer is like, he's kind of isolated on the spaceship. It's kind of the the premise initially in the trailer.
00:14:44
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I feel like the way that they did the way, like you, you see other people in the trailer and like, oh how would these people interact with Ryan Gosling's character? And I, I really like his character, and I think this was a really great movie. Ryan Gosling just shown like shown very brightly in this as a very charismatic soul. I think was he was very charismatic and very, very funny throughout. It's arguably a comedy in a large way, and I really liked it. I think the visual effects were awesome. I think it was very charming. I think the the science, like dumbing down the science of what's actually happening and how they're dealing with the situation and what, like, they have to kind of figure out the solution to in such a short span of time. Like, they were trying to show us the science and how it works in such a short – it's nots two and a half hours, but they could have maybe made this a series potentially and kind of drone drawn it out. Did you read the book?
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I didn't know. Did you? Okay. Yeah. No, no, no I did not. ah As you know, I don't know how to read. I was just curious because I'm i'm curious about how different the book is from the movie because it does feel – Even though it's two and a half hours, there are these moments again, like, as you mentioned, it dumbs down the science and it gets to the point relatively quickly. I'm curious if it's kind of more drawn out in the book.
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OK, you know, I'm assuming it is. Yeah, there's ah even just kind of like this, this communication aspect um I feel like it was relatively quick, um which which again, I think it lends to. Yeah, that's in the trailer as well. Communication between Rocky and Ryan Gosling's character, Grace. I feel like that, I agree with you.
00:16:25
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Yeah, that that was an issue, but that's that's kind of leading into my actual overall issue with it as I feel like some of it's unrealistic But also in like they kind of it's almost they're too frivolous with it. Like some of the plot points, it feels a little bit too ridiculous at times. And it's strange because some of ah the other signs, some of the other signs, it feels way more in depth. But even like the way...
00:16:47
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there's kind of like these elements of like spacewalks as a space movie. And like, there's things like that. I feel like it's almost too trivial a little bit. So, cause like his character is like, as it's shown in the trailer, he's supposed to be like a school teacher going to space. It's like, it's, it's kind of interesting. Cause I don't know. It's, it's a weird, that's the only thing I didn't love about it is like, you're, you're right. I think that's exactly what you're saying. It's like, it feels like it's too trivial. Like how would you learn a full alien language in the time span? Could they have, you know,
00:17:16
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di dove deeper into showing how that would actually come to be. It feels like maybe they had scientists consult in the film, but maybe not language, ah you know, like linguists. I think that would have helped them to kind of show bridging the gap between very different languages, I guess. Yeah. But yeah, it's interesting. I don't know. I guess like when you're making a movie like this, you got to find a balance of like pacing, obviously. like Make it boring.
00:17:45
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Yeah, yeah. Like you could add and another 30 minutes of them trying to figure out how to communicate. But then at a certain point, you as the audience are probably gonna be like, I don't give a shit. Just get to the point. So, yeah, I think I think they did a good job with the pacing. If you are able to kind of again, take a step back and understand that, again, this is a movie.
00:18:05
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You know, we're not watching like a a realistic recreation of events. um Yeah. and And you just kind of got to accept that. im I do think the chemistry between this little rock and Grace Ryan Gosling's character is is awesome.
00:18:23
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Some very like heartfelt and emotional beats. And there's ah like this the sense of loneliness. during the first, you know, what hour of the movie pretty much before that they finally, you know, meet up and and start like creating a friendship for lack of a better term. um And I just I think what this movie nailed is the tone.
00:18:46
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I really think they just got like this. It's like fun, good time, like kind of going with it with a lot of these like, again, heartfelt, emotional beats. There's The way the story is told is I mean, you mentioned it. There's a lot of flashbacks. So we're seeing Ryan Gosling's character on on this, presumably a spaceship, um or it is a spaceship.
00:19:06
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Again, I don't know what they reveal in the trailer. So so I'm just kind of ah talking in in circles a little bit. But yeah, he's on a spaceship. And then he doesn't really remember what's happening. And I think there's the these flashbacks. And the way I viewed it was every time there was a flashback, that was him getting his memory back.
00:19:25
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um or pieces of his memory back as opposed to just, you know, showing the audience more um context of the situation that was going on. um i you You mentioned the the visual effects. I assume a lot of this was practical.
00:19:42
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I know that the little Rocky guy, a lot of it is practical. And I just think it makes for a very like visually stunning movie. all in all. Um, yeah, but I, I really liked this too, man. I think we're, we're kind of on the same page. It's not my like favorite movie of the year by any stretch, but, uh, yeah, I kind of disagree with you on the tone thing only in the aspect of like, I feel like they, they nailed the tone until they go off way too far.
00:20:06
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That was kind of my issue. It's like i ah not not this is a bad example because obviously you think it's way too far in general. But that was my point. Like they kind of go too far with the science and like they're skipping stuff. But you're also going too far with the the hilarity of it. Like the see the humor aspects. It's like, okay, you didn't have to go there.
00:20:23
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it almost felt like not even close because this movie goes further than this, obviously. But Thor Love and Thunder, it's like you had Thor Ragnarok and then you have Thor Love and Thunder. It's like, well, let's not veer into Thor Love and Thunder territory. You don't have to go crazy with it. because there's it's funny enough without going too crazy. And so it it almost takes itself not seriously enough at times. And that's where I feel like the tone, I'm like, oh, you're you're veering off a line here. Like, you know, you're like, they're they're on a tightrope and sometimes they they like kind of stumble.
00:20:51
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And so I don't love that. That's the only thing i I kind of, that's my main criticism. The science part is like, it feels like it kind of ran out of time. I agree that that the language thing was, that was actually an issue in the trailer. It's funny. I was watching the trailer and I'm like, I know I'm going to have a problem with this. I don't know why i could just figure that that was going to be an issue. and And sure enough, unfortunately, they didn't do quite enough to convince me that this could happen like this. But yeah. But yeah, um but yeah again, it just makes me even more excited for Starfield. It's cool. It's really, it was it is pretty visually stunning. it's It's pretty cool. The music's good too. It's by Daniel Pemberton, actually. Yeah. Actually, it's interesting. like That name that is ringing a bell, but I'm not sure what he's done. Let me tell you.
00:21:30
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I it's funny that you mentioned the music because i like I never thought about it really after I left like watching the movie. I'm like, oh, this is good. But I don't think it's got really a memorable soundtrack. No, anyway, that compared to like an interstellar, you know, it jives well. That was kind of my thing. It's not as, yeah, it's no interstellar at all. Yeah. I feel like it just jives well with what they're doing. And it made me, the emotional bit beats kind of felt like accentuated because of the music at times and stuff. But you're right. I can't, can't place the, like the main theme or something. It's no, there's no, it's not like the cornfields, ah like, uh, like, uh, I think it's called the cornfields for the soundtrack for, for interstellar for Hans Zimmer score. Um, but yeah, I'm looking at Daniel Pemberton stuff. He did this into the, into the spider verse movies.
00:22:17
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Oh, okay. It's funny. Again, it's another another sound. Like, i remember some of the soundtrack of Into the Spider-Verse, but i don't really remember the music. I think I the score do remember.
00:22:30
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It's like that. It's like that one song. You know what I'm talking about for the Spider-Verse? No, no. It's been a while since I watched that. It gets, like, really wacky. Yeah. Oh, he also did the music for the drama.
00:22:43
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Oh. That's out ted tomorrow technically. he's a composer for Slow Horses. Oh, that's awesome. I love Slow Horses soundtrack. Interesting. Love his score.
00:22:55
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It's cool. Oh, and Eddington. Wow, he's just like. This guy got range. This guy got range. Oh, and and Concord. The hit. I'm not even kidding. Video game. franch The hit video game franchise. It's an episode of the great show Secret Levels.
00:23:12
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He's a, kind he's a Concord composer. That's crazy. That's rough. Great. Great. All right. Cool, man. Well, yeah, I really liked it. Uh, on my letterbox, I gave it a four out of five.
00:23:23
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I think I'm with you. Four out of five. Again, really enjoyable. It's crushing at the box office. Pretty big budget. I think it's like $200 million dollars budget. And I think it's tracking or tracked.
00:23:35
Speaker
Wait, what was the, I think it like hit over a hundred million within the first weekend or something like that. Right. Um, not not tracking because it's been a week since, it's been two weeks since it came out, right?
00:23:47
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I just realized something else. And I remember this, that I didn't write this down. The the Ryan Gosling, very charming in He's awesome. He's great. He's really funny. he'ss he's He's just, again, just oozing charisma. Oh, I forgot to say, Hewler, Sandra Hewler, I thought was really good as well in this. Yeah. Her character and how she plays off of Ryan Gosling's character. I think that that's a really cool relationship in what's going on there. I thought that was really neat. The whole that whole arc is really cool. um but I was going to say, though. Oh, my goodness. Oh, Ryan Gosling.
00:24:17
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gotta say again don't want to spoil anything kind of looks too good in this at times i'm like i don't know about that he's a handsome fella he's a handsome fella you know what i'm saying though like i'm like uh like you what your body what's going on with it like uh how is that possible um yeah actually that's a good point because they don't really explain it they the and interesting part though careful but Yeah, like, yeah.
00:24:41
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Oh, yeah. Fair. It's kind of tough to talk about. But yeah, he's he's fit, you know, like, yeah, he and and he's on a spaceship. There's no workout materials. We don't really see him working out. We see him zipping and sobbing, you know through zero gravity and stuff. So I yeah yeah i don't know.
00:24:57
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It's tricky. zero It's tricky. But there is like I don't think there's a spoiler. There's like A scene where, you know, they he gets injected with something. and I guess like my my thought process is is like maybe that's like vitamins and maybe like steroids or something. And that' that's that's why his body is like, OK, it might be a leak. But that was like that was the only way I could kind of rationalize um how he is um fit.
00:25:27
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Yeah, I don't know. that's But that's the same kind of through line of why, to me, this movie could have been even more excellent. i feel like i don't maybe I'm misremembering The Martian, as in the other Andy Weir like novel that was adapted. But I felt like The Martian... Well, first of all, The Martian's just...
00:25:44
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It's more grounded in reality. It's a lot more realistic. It's a mission to Mars and not a mission to a far off system. As an example, very far. There's technology in this that just simply doesn't exist.
00:25:57
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you know I'm saying? Whereas this one... This one, the technology is kind of wacky and there's like obviously an alien creature and they're developing a language between. So it feels like there's a bit more of a stretch overall. And so I feel like that's something too, but I don't know. That's my biggest criticism of it. I guess the tone is kind of off the rails at times. And then the idea of the science being a little bit junk junky. for me too junky for me for what it could be i feel like they could nail it a little bit more uh precisely despite a lot of it being kind of very science fiction versus the martian being more realistic i guess yeah um but i did like it overall and i was just looking at the rotten tomato score here it's 95 on rotten tomatoes for critics and 96 for 10 000 verified ratings that's really It's very, very fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, which is awesome. And I think it's definitely, definitely deserves to be fresh overall. Like we're, again, probably if we're in the same ballpark at four out of five, if we were on Rotten Tomatoes as a scoring team, I feel like we'd be an eight 10. That's way above that six out of 10. They require to make it fresh.
00:27:06
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Do you think this movie would have been better if it was directed by Ron Howard instead? And these guys were fired from it. So that's a great question. that's a great question but But from the flip side, I love that question. Did you did you see that tweet? somebody or somebody It was on social media. Somebody was saying, now this makes me wonder what a Han Solo movie called Solo A Star Wars Story would look like with not Ron Howard, but with the with Lord and Miller. These guys?
00:27:33
Speaker
No, I don't have Twitter. so Not Twitter. Social media. I don't use Twitter at all. No, didn't see nothing like that. I just know that these guys, they were fired off the Han Solo Solo movie called Solo Star Wars Story and Ron Howard took over. Yeah, I love Ron Howard.
00:27:48
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And I think his tone is wildly different overall for most of his movies. I don't think there's anything as comedic as this that he's diedve seen from Ron Howard at the very least. um I'm sure he's directed at least one episode or two of the Arrested Development.
00:28:03
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so Yeah, this is just way more. It's like laughs for minute. Arrested Development, I feel like, is more subtle humor in a lot of ways. You know what i mean? Yeah. um did he Did he actually? no I don't think he did.
00:28:14
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i don't think Ron Howard directed Arrested Development. A single episode? I don't think so. That's a good question because obviously he's the narrator in it. He's definitely involved and he is definitely the executive, like a not executive, well, maybe executive producer, but he's definitely a producer.
00:28:29
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Ron Howard direct. Are you typing it? Cause don't have to do it. If you're doing it direct, you got this. Yeah. I don't think he did. I'm guessing. this That's my, because i think I had checked this years ago when the rest of development was, was hot based on my search, which was ron Howard, arrested development direct.
00:28:46
Speaker
Okay. I don't think so. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think so. Which is, that's actually a good thing. You could have thought that it would would have been him. Not that I'm saying he hasn't directed any comedies. I'm sure there's some comedy adjacent movies directed, but I'm just saying in in comparison to this movie is like,
00:29:03
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Very funny the whole way through. That's also but why people love it, I think. is like There's not a lot of action, I guess, in this film. It's not billed in that way, but I feel like comedy kind of replaces action. and That's kind of why I think the Marvel formula is so popular because you got this like blend of action and and in comedy that is like keeps audiences engaged, whereas this movie, very science-heavy, and then throws in the comedy as like the the piece that pulls everyone together. Yeah.
00:29:32
Speaker
But yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, we were talking about um Ron Howard taking over for the Han Solo movie called Solo, a Star Wars story for these guys. So the idea here is like, what what what would the Star Wars movie have been? Isn't that weird? Like, it seems cool. that It seems like it would have been a cool movie to see the Han Solo movie. I don't know if it would have made sense with...
00:29:50
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Han Solo necessarily. Yeah. But i feel like I i can see, i can see the trappings of what they did before Ron Howard took over in some way. I can kind of see it from remembering the Solo movie, but it would have been interesting to see.
00:30:05
Speaker
Really? I remember the ending. You do remember it? I remember this the ending. Yeah, that stupid scene. Yeah, the bad scene. The scene that doesn't make any sense. I don't really remember much else of that movie. I remember how he gets his name as well. Yeah, yeah. anyway It's been a while. We watched that in theaters and I haven't i have not watched that since then. so Yeah, it's kind it seems almost more like a tale of two directors, but I'm curious what they would have done with a Star Wars movie now.
00:30:30
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Yeah, it's it's like you can kind of look back and be like, oh, man, the Han Solo solo movie called Solo Star Wars Story would be so much better if these guys directed it. Look at what they did here. But at the same time, I mean, like, i don't know, maybe they learned a lot from that experience and then brought a lot forward and, you know, toned down what they were trying to do. I think this movie is not the same tone as Star Wars either, right? Just because they're both kind of sci-fi, you know, space stuff. I don't think they're perfectly – related for lack of a better term. So again, it would be interesting to see what they could have done in that star Wars universe with that movie specifically. But I don't think, again, there, there are like, yeah I don't think this movie proves that they would have done a better job than Ron Howard.
00:31:14
Speaker
If that makes sense. Oh, no, 100% no. Yeah. Yeah, of course. I'm just, it makes me curious though. Yeah, very curious. Just curious what they would do in a Star, like directing a Star Wars film.
00:31:25
Speaker
But yeah, it's cool. Ryan Gosling is going to be in Star Wars soon. So yeah. Who's directing that Ryan Gosling Star Wars movie? The Netflix. Oh, okay.
00:31:35
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Netflix's Stranger Things director, Sean Levy. Deadpool, Deadpool 2. Yeah, Deadpool. Sorry, Deadpool 2 and Deadpool 3. No, just Deadpool and Wolverine. That's it. Oh, he didn't do Deadpool 2? That was the the other guy?
00:31:48
Speaker
The first one was Miller. What's his name? I'm forgetting the the guy's first name. The guy did Secret Levels. Secret Levels is the first guy. And then the second one.
00:32:01
Speaker
Was that the John Wick guy? Wait, is that the second one? Maybe I'm mistaken. Let's just look it up. Deadpool director. I'll check Deadpool. You check Deadpool 2, yeah? Tim Miller. Tim Miller directed the first Deadpool.
00:32:11
Speaker
Oh, Deadpool 2. He left Deadpool 2. David Leach directed Deadpool 2. David Leach. oh and then sean levy directed deadpool and wolverine tim miller wanted to keep the small budget i think and then ryan reynolds was like i don't know about that we should probably try to go bigger that's what the kind of the rumors were and then david leech of of john wick fame comes in and bullet train i guess bullet train was after uh but then he does deadpool 2 and then sean levy came in for deadpool and wolverine Yeah.
00:32:40
Speaker
Good stuff. Cool. All right. That's that's for that movie.
Theater Etiquette Issues
00:32:44
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Pretty great. I was happy to see that in theaters. It was a good one to see in ABX too. i thought that was pretty cool. Oh, one thing to say about that. We saw it on a cheap night. It's Tuesday nights is cheap nights at a Cineplex. Cineplex is the biggest theater chain. probably in Canada, I think. Yeah. Across Canada.
00:33:01
Speaker
I know it's, I know it's cheap night, but the tickets were still like $14. Oh, not even cheap. It's crazy. Yeah, AVX. Yeah, yeah. My point was, we went there on the least expensive day of the week, and and ah my theory still stands. The people in the theater, when they buy tickets on cheap night, are very disrespectful.
00:33:22
Speaker
They're very disrespectful. There's people beside me that were like literally on their phone. The one guy was like, it was basically a a couple. So it was like the guy and the girl and the guy's like, basically he's just telling this girl the plot points while she's on her phone, like not paying attention to the movie. Like, first of all, I don't,
00:33:38
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This is the representation of our issue in our society in some way. Like not to say like back in my day, but still you can't be off your phone for two and a half hours. That's that's just too much to ask. Yeah. Like they were definitely younger than us. They they like we saw them get in a car and leave and um driving. They were young. They were stupid.
00:33:58
Speaker
They were loud. That was the issue. They were very loud. Very dirty looks ah while as we were leaving the theater. And then in hindsight, I was like, I'm a white dude staring these not white people down. They were like, this guy's when racist as shit.
00:34:12
Speaker
They were probably looking at me like this racist fucking piece of garbage. I'm like, no, I don't care what race you are. I care that you didn't shut the fuck up in the movie theater. OK, right. And you're sitting beside me and I was was while the guy every time the guy like was chiming in was pretty loud. He thought he was being quiet, I guess. But he was he was basically toning down. was whispering more when it was quiet moments in the in the movie. But then when it was like a loud moments, he was like kind of tired, trying to talk over the movie to his girlfriend. I'm like, guy. I would look at him in the eyes, but he would never make eye contact. I was trying to make eye contact and be like, are you going to do like kind of give him an eye movement? Like, are you going to do this the whole time? Are you going to? Are you actually? But he didn't look. You should have said something because there was people directly in front of us.
00:34:54
Speaker
Yeah. um So it was it was you, your wife, me right in the middle. Yeah. My pal David and my pal Jackie. Right. Yeah. And that the there's two people directly in front of David and jack Jackie. And same thing. These guys weren't talking, but the one guy just kept on pulling out his phone brightness to the max, just shining, and shining brighter than the frickin film screen. And David literally like after like half hour in the movie, he literally leaned forward like get off your phone. Jesus Christ.
00:35:23
Speaker
And then the guy who went off his phone for the rest of the movie that he he would open his phone randomly. There was one point like an hour and a half in where he opened his phone, opened his Apple wallet, scrolled through his cards and then turned off his phone. i'm like, what? Yeah, it's an addiction, dude.
00:35:38
Speaker
That's what I'm going to say. It's an ADHD addiction. It's a problem. It's seriously an issue. No, the problem with me doing that is kind of I had to lean past the girl. this guy's dating because the girl wasn't saying anything.
00:35:49
Speaker
So it's like I would have to be like, well, tell her to get off the phone. But no, her phone wasn't that noticeable. I only noticed her, her phone was dimmed. She was responsible in that regard, at least. I was just annoyed with it because it's just like, I was like thinking about our society more so. i wasn't worried about the brightness. The brightness wasn't visible. It was just, she was on her phone at very low brightness and then he's like talking really loudly at her. And I'm like, you need to do this? It seems unnecessary. Anyway.
00:36:13
Speaker
I didn't want to lean over and say, can you shut up? also want to create an I feel like should that back though. I like we bring back. I feel like we should be able to lean over and tell people to shut the fuck up. I feel like we got to bring that back.
00:36:25
Speaker
You're going to take the ends next time. i'll I'll let you do it. I'll i'll take depend on the end. If it's ridiculous, then I'll do it. but that That was ridiculous. Because they eventually did move. But the funny part is they moved to the other side. So they moved next to like my pal Jackie. So it worked. My staring worked. And then they just fucking kept on talking next to Jackie for like ah the last hour of the movie. Did they say something over there? Did Jackie tell him no ah Jackie killed them after actually. Here's my reasoning here. He planted a bomb in the car that they sat in.
00:36:54
Speaker
Oh, Jesus. No, you did not. ah here's Here's the reasoning. The problem is is i have this theory about cheap night, and it's like you you tell one person to stop, and I don't know if the people behind me are doing the same thing. It's like, am I the only dick here? You know what i mean It's like that picture in Fargo of like all the fish going the wrong direction, and it's like, yeah but if what if they're right and I'm wrong? It's kind of like that. no it's like I'm like, i know what I'm not certain the vast majority of cheap night people, because if you're not going on cheap night, let's say we're going on the opening night of Avengers Doomsday, okay?
00:37:24
Speaker
Like it's not cheap night. And I think just largely most people are so are generally, generally respectful. But these guys like around me, i like, I'm going to tell this guy to shut up. And then what if he, ah what if he has a problem with that?
00:37:38
Speaker
This guy could be some idiot. He's going to fight for his, like the right for his girlfriend to be on their phone or something. Cause he's not here for the right reasons. Did he, did he steal the ticket? Did he even come in legally? That's the thing. Like when you're in the country,
00:37:52
Speaker
and just To the theater. I Why is it because they're brown? Huh? Well, I did. You did that. Oh my goodness. You did that racist. I comment that i did.
00:38:05
Speaker
I did stare at them with hatred in my eyes and they definitely thought I was racist. hundred percent. Right. um But I swear to God causing an issue with a neighbor. You know what I mean?
00:38:16
Speaker
I think if there's like a level, right? Well, for a neighbor, it's different because a neighbor, you're living next to them for for a long while, right? But that's the same thing with the movies. Like, I don't want to be the guy who calls it out and then it's got to be really egregious. There was five of us. We would have won that fight.
00:38:31
Speaker
I'm telling you right now. But I don't want to fight in a theater. It's packed. I'm trying. you i pick my battles is my point I'm making. You got to pick the spot where it's like, I'm going to look at him in the eye. And if he caught my eye, I may have said something if he got even worse. But to you for me i kind tuned out. You would have waved finger at him.
00:38:47
Speaker
It's all about the picking your battles. Anyways, let's not. Belabor the point. What else did watch this? I've you want people to shut up in theaters before. Good for you. i was When I was watching Barbarian specifically, yeah there's this woman in the back, like directly behind us.
00:39:02
Speaker
Again, we were in a large group and she was just, just talking like oh my god this girl's so stupid like literally just kept on like talking about that for all the decisions the person was making and then we got to like maybe 45 minutes in and i literally turned around i was like can you please be quiet for the rest of the movie and she's like oh okay i'm sorry and then she was oh wow okay yeah interesting yeah suzy talker or whatever the suki snapper What was it?
00:39:32
Speaker
The Suki Snapper, Sally Soundtrack. Sally Soundtrack? What's Suki Snapper? She's the one with the phone. where She's taking pictures. Oh, she's taking photos. Yeah, she's taking pictures.
00:39:45
Speaker
Selfies. Suki Snapper. Sally Soundtrack. All right. that's She's Sally Soundtrack. Yeah. Cool, man. What else did you watch this week?
'Zootopia 2' and Cultural Themes
00:39:54
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o i've watched a couple Speaking of racism, I watched Utopia 2, Simon. okay and this this movie yeah This movie is about ah racism diversity and gentrification.
00:40:05
Speaker
OK, not really a joke. It kind of is. It kind of is the premise of the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is really good, though. I really, really liked this movie. It takes place pretty much, ah you know, within year ish after the first Zootopia. um You got Judy Hopps, the rabbit.
00:40:22
Speaker
You got. Jason Bateman as a fox. I forget his character, ah his character's name. And they are police officers now. They're both on the police force. But but there's never been there's never been a fox and a rabbit as a as partners on the police force. This seems this seems off, even though they solved a huge crime and conspiracy in the last movie. People are still like, I don't know about these two, you know, and then um they essentially, you know, are trying to stop another conspiracy about where where a.
00:40:54
Speaker
A hundred years prior Anyways, you know what? Why the fuck am I explaining the premise of this movie? Who cares? It's just really good. and Okay, cool. It's just really good. It's it's it's wholesome. Again, ah they have a little snake guy played by Ki Hui Kwan, and he's fantastic. i I really like him in this movie, and I am going to actually explain kind of that what the premise of the movie is. So 100 years ago, Simon. Oh, my God.
00:41:24
Speaker
Go on. the the the The lizards, the the the reptiles, and the mammals were living in harmony, right? They were having a good old time. But then a snake murdered a someone. I forget, i like a sheep or some shit. A mammal. A snake murdered a mammal.
00:41:44
Speaker
um And at that point, they pushed all the reptiles out of Zootopia. Right. And now the family that essentially runs Zootopia is trying to expand Zootopia and take more of that land in there. And Judy Hopps is like, I think the snakes are going to try to stop them. I think I think these snakes are going appear and cause an issue um and maybe try to kill someone. There's this tome of secrets. um And i the snake might want to take this tome for whatever reason.
00:42:14
Speaker
And gosh darn it, Judy Hopps is right. And yeah her Fox and her Fox friend, Jason Bateman, they they you see the snake come in. I forget the guy's name. i But you know, you didn't also didn't say the actor's name who plays Judy Hopps. Jennifer Goodwin.
00:42:29
Speaker
you you go There you got it well there go. You like it? You're trying to get me. You're trying to do a gotcha. A little bit. But you didn't. Because you don't know Jason's character's name. I got you. You're like flipping them. You're like flipping. Well, on one side, you only know the character's name on one side. Anyway, go on.
00:42:43
Speaker
Yeah. Come on Yeah. And um anyways, long story short, they find out that, you know what, maybe the reptiles, the snakes, maybe they didn't actually do the murder and they were framed for something. And so the conspiracy is actually like a twist. It's like a double conspiracy because now Judy Hopps is with the snake and she's trying to figure out what really went down.
00:43:06
Speaker
Is this trip? Is this in the trailer? Are you spoiling this movie? I've never watched the Okay, we'll turn it to spoil it. Okay. This is the first 20 minutes of the movie, okay? Okay, but that that doesn't matter. This is the first 20 minutes of the movie. I don't think that matters. I don't think it matters if it's in first five minutes.
00:43:20
Speaker
Then they go on a fun adventure. Okay. And it is about racism and gentrification. Right. Okay. um And yeah, I really loved it. I loved it. It's a shame.
00:43:31
Speaker
It's a shame that they're all anthropomorphic animals and and that the internet has ruined this. i don't know if you've seen the random memes about people over-sexualizing Judy Hopps.
00:43:42
Speaker
and it's Oh, no. It's unfortunate. um because People are fucking crazy, dude. People are crazy online, and they ruin they ruin something good and wholesome. Right.
00:43:52
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. That's unfortunate. Yeah. Okay. But yeah, I really liked Have you seen Zootopia too? Zootopia? No, no. i should I should see it. I haven't had Disney Plus in a while.
00:44:03
Speaker
So I got to come back in. And when I just I watch. You're going to get it back for Daredevil? Daredevil? Yeah, eventually. Eventually. Yeah. Nice. That's the plan. Have you been watching Daredevil? No, I watched the first like 20 minutes of the first episode and and I was like, I don't have um the attention span to just sit and watch something by myself right now.
00:44:21
Speaker
So i i I stopped watching it. I did the exact same thing with the first episode of Invincible season four. I watched like 25 minutes and I was like, I don't I can't sit still. I literally cannot sit still and watch something when I'm by myself.
00:44:33
Speaker
ADHD brain. we' We're talking about that. I have. Yeah, I can't. Girl, you're like that girl. But you could you didn't put you go on your phone while you're watching. need to be in a controlled space to consume media at times.
00:44:49
Speaker
and Okay. light Like I typically need to watch something with someone or at a specific place. So, you know, if I'm watching movies at home, I'm typically watching it, you know, with my wife or with a few of my friends. Like I watched the next movie I watched, Simon. Ta-da, transition. So I had my buddies come over. I was hanging out with my pal Jackie, Aaron, and and and my pal Sinan. We're all – And we just kind wanted to have a casual night and watch a movie. So we decided to watch the Chainsaw Man movie Reze
Review of 'Chainsaw Man'
00:45:20
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arc.
00:45:20
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I watched the Chainsaw Man anime. They released a movie that takes place again after that first season. And I assume they're still making a season two, I hope. Yeah. And um this movie is great, dude. This movie really damn good. It's.
00:45:37
Speaker
You know, it it is still an anime movie. There are still these, like, tropey elements. You know, the main character, Denji, is like – he's a horn dog. He's a 16-year-old guy, and he just – you know, he just wants to get laid, man. And, you know, and and his he wants to bang his boss, Makima. Oh. And I think she's in her 20s, though, so kind of problematic.
00:45:57
Speaker
Right. But, you know, they – anyways. I'm going off off a tangent, but this movie is essentially about him meeting another another girl that's closer to his age named Reze and how the relationship blossoms and kind of um what happens from that point on. Chainsaw Man, kind of the setup of it from the first season is a guy named Denji. He gets killed. He has this little devil puppet dog um that saves his life. As you do.
00:46:25
Speaker
Yeah, and and makes him become kind of a half devil person into Chainsaw Man. He's got chainsaw arms, right? And a chainsaw head? He's got chainsaw arms and a chainsaw face. Yeah, that's right. That's what I remember.
00:46:38
Speaker
And he just goes... And it's a bop, dude. I really love the show and this movie. I think it's just... It's so well paced and really well...
00:46:49
Speaker
written actually again a lot of these like really good emotional beats and it takes its time building the relationship between these two characters um you should obviously watch the show before going into this movie yeah if you ever plan to watch it uh because again it takes place immediately after the first season there are some references there are characters from the show in this as well obviously yeah um This movie did really well in theaters. That was this year. That was earlier this year, right? That's the movie that thought about going to. Late last I thought.
00:47:19
Speaker
okay. I think it was either like mid to late last year. And I was going to go, but then I didn't. Yeah. So I watched it on Sony Pictures Core, Simon.
00:47:31
Speaker
Oh, nice. Sweet. I bought it on there. Oh, wasn't free. No. With the 100 movies. Because I have the PlayStation Plus premium subscription. You get movie credits. Yes. yeah Oh, yeah. Well, you just use movie. Oh, you just get movie credits. I think you get 100...
00:47:46
Speaker
Movies that rotate through. You get a bunch. Yeah. So you get a bunch of movies like in a catalog that you can stream. Yes. But when I bought the premium during boxing. week They gave you credits.
00:47:57
Speaker
They give you five movie credits that you can use towards movies. So I own 28 Days Later on there. I own 28 Years Later on there. And then I own Chainsaw Man Reza Arc and Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.
00:48:10
Speaker
Cool. Those are the four movies I own on. Sunny Pictures core. Sweet. Okay, cool. Yeah. All very similar in tone. Yeah, of course. Yeah. but else Anything else you you dabbled in? Anything you watched? Enjoyed?
00:48:25
Speaker
This year, two weeks? Period? No, man. That's really it. That's it. That's all, dude. I've watched a couple... Many things, but nothing too crazy. The Valley's back, baby. The Valley. Yeah.
00:48:38
Speaker
Exciting. Yeah. You love your reality TV. I do indeed. i do indeed. So. Yeah. But yeah, what else did you watch, you son of a gun? The one I'm going to mention here, because I always kind of watch a little bit more than I mentioned, but this is an honorable, like ah not honorable mention, but I mentioned that I feel like it's worth saying for sure.
Praise for 'White Lotus' and Future Speculation
00:48:56
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And um I started watching on Crave, an HBO show called White Lotus. i don't know if you've heard of it. I'm kidding. But there's lot obviously a lot of people that watch the show. It's very, very popular. White Lotus season three is is what I'm on. i've I've watched the other two seasons. I might have talked about them, I feel like, on the other 100 episodes of the podcast because it was, that that I think, that long ago. um This cast for season three, yeah, it was a while ago. But this, even the I mean, even this season was a little while ago at this point. It was a year ago, I think, from yeah almost from from when we were recording this. Actually, I'm trying to think, was this at the Emmys this past year or was it the year prior even?
00:49:34
Speaker
It would have been at this past year. Yeah. Okay. Okay. They were there. They were there. They swept. Remember? Didn't they take all the acting? They had like 15. They had like three acting best actresses in the drama category. think you're right. agree you're You're right. Yeah. forgot about it. Did they win one?
00:49:48
Speaker
Who won? Didn't they win? They lost. Isn't that what happened? I don't remember. i feel like yeah ah best actor was Noah Wiley. So for the pit. Right. That much remember. Yeah. But it was the actress award though that was like stacked. Yeah.
00:50:04
Speaker
um the You know what's crazy? I didn't, this is such a weird thing. So Mike White created created the show, right? Mike White was on Survivor. Did you see this? yeah He was Survivor way long ago though. And he was returned for this recent season.
00:50:19
Speaker
i was like, whoa, okay. I don't know. I just don't know enough about Mike White. Well, Mike White can sure make a TV show. I am not the biggest fan of White Lotus season one and two. I don't think they're bad at all. I think they're great.
00:50:32
Speaker
But this season, it feels like it hit its stride. Now, I'm not sure if it's like a kind of like a recency bias thing because I just went on vacation. And so like yeah I have like ah like a connection. You know what i mean? I like to have the synergy. you know I like to play so Starfield while watching Project Hail Mary and For All Mankind. you know And so this is kind of the this thing. I'm wondering if I'm getting a synergy of I've just went on vacation at a resort and I'm watching White Lotus and now I'm getting this – like I have this – vacation vibe going. I just feel like the cast really, really, they drive well together. They work really well to go.
00:51:07
Speaker
Shoot. my Sorry. um Are you okay? but I'm excellent, but they did it like they did it such a good job with the casting and the, the overall writing and the way that they work off of each other in this one that I feel like it's better than the others. I also think the music is even, it just works. It's always been the same composer.
00:51:26
Speaker
um But it just seems like it works all together in ah in a more synergistic way. It just feels, I don't know, I really like the season. I'm on the last episode. I'm on the finale, which is very long. It's an hour and a half.
00:51:38
Speaker
And I just, I think that everything is coming to four, like everything everything is coming to like the kind of the climax in such a cool way. I also think like, i don't know. i um Walton Goggins is just, he's killing it. I think he's he's, he's having a moment recently with fallout in this, this show as well.
00:51:59
Speaker
Yeah. And it's interesting. Cause I feel like Walton Goggins is in so much and has consistently been in a lot of stuff, but now it's kind of, I don't know, people are like really noticing him, and at noticing him especially with, again, as you mentioned, Fallout season's in fallout and um yeah again White Lotus. and But yeah, he's been so much prior to them. He was in like ah Vice Principals, Eastbound and Down. He was in a lot of Quentin Tarantino movies. He was in Sons of Anarchy. like he's he's He's been consistently in a lot of things. And again, he's also in Invincible.
00:52:33
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Just the one Quentin Tarantino movie, right? Oh, yes. i think I think you're right. The um yeah the shack in the middle of winter. hey for yeah the um But I feel like I think that nothing is as mainstream as those two things combined.
00:52:48
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Like Fallout's capturing one audience and White Lotus is capturing another. And they're just such huge shows. I think the combination of those two things is why he's kind of blown up in this way.
00:52:59
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Because like Sons of Anarchy was pretty big, but I don't think it was as, I think, as zeitgeist-y as White Lotus and Fallout together especially. um But and he's not really that deep. He's not a main player in Sons of Anarchy, is he?
00:53:13
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He's in it quite a bit. he is? He's not like a main cast, but he is in it quite a bit. He's a main cast in Justified. That's the first time I saw him. And I think Justified is a really great show. I love it. It's awesome. Cop show with Timothy Oliphant.
00:53:28
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um Just really neat. um But he plays kind of like an anti-hero type character. Pretty cool. um I do recommend that show to everyone. Not necessarily to you.
00:53:38
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but But yeah. Anyway, it's really cool. i really I like the season a lot and I'm really impressed with it. They lost the composer and I think that the music is really killer in this series in general.
00:53:50
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The composer decided to leave. I don't know if it we had like some kind of ah creative differences or some reason, but let me double check that. That was the one thing that was kind of Sad about because I feel like season four is I feel like the show I know if it's just hit again. I'm confused if whether the show is hit its stride just now or if I'm just I'm vibing with it in a different way. that is Is pushing you forward with it.
00:54:15
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Yeah, but it's really good. And yeah, I'm really excited for the finale. I just held off. i I was going to watch it today, but I didn't watch it today because there was an hour and a half and I wanted to be ready for the pod to record. And I just thought that hour and a half is too long. So I'm going to do it tomorrow on Good Friday.
00:54:33
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So we're recording this on Holy Thursday, Adrian. Yeah, Cristobal Tapia Devere is the acclaimed Chilean-Canadian composer. ah He would not return. He announced he had...
00:54:47
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conflicts so hes he's decided to leave uh not do season four which i think is like conhort like like scheduling conflicts not like conflicts on the set it's just his conflicts doesn't say scheduling why did he leave oh he had a feud with uh mike white so there's that so that's unfortunate okay Yeah.
00:55:12
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Oh, well. But yeah. Yeah, it's cool. It's ah yeah. The other like the. ah I'm forgetting all the names. I should have brought up the the name of the the actress in it because it that would have been smart. Amy Lou Woodward. I feel like the cast is overall very strong for Amy Lou Woodward. She's one of them.
00:55:30
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Amy, Amy Lou Wood is amazing. Wood. so She's really good. that That's ah actually that's a great that's a great call. it I feel like it's her and Walton Goggins. That combination is amazing. Amy Lee Wood. Actually, it's funny because I would have been the name. I would have remembered i mean that that. Yeah, she's really incredible. It's funny. What else is she in? Have you seen her in anything else? Sex Education is the only other thing I've seen her in. And OK, my other thing is the only thing I have seen her in because I haven't watched White Lotus season three. I've only seen the first season. so said that wrong. Right. um But yeah, she's in sex education. I really like her character. She's probably one of my favorite parts of that show. Yeah. Her expression in this show throughout, because there's a lot of wackiness in White Lotus, as you may remember from the first season. There's some wacky. theres It's kind of like it just like a it's a kind of ah a satire on rich people. but i guess that's really what the show is largely about.
00:56:24
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Like it's a satirical look at the rich um and like the, how they, they go like, that's, it's funny. Cause we're looking at this, this crazy resort and we went to a resort and we're like, this is nothing like the resort we were at. Like we were at a five star hotel in the quotations. It was good. It was really great. It was awesome, but it's nothing like what this is. This is some other level. and I thought five stars was the top. I clearly don't know my hotels, my hotel lore very much, but i just yeah the The way that Amy Lou Wood's character reacts to the the wackiness of some of the characters, like her facial expressions are golden repeatedly over and over again. it's She's probably the most entertaining person to watch in the entire episode.
00:57:05
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season she's excellent um but yeah i just think the overall like you know white lotus the first season like there's these storylines these these different storylines and they kind of merge with each other in like various ways they do that here too but the storylines all feel super interesting like all of them do it's just feels like they again they kind of nailed every aspect of this season it just feels like it maybe they'll fail in the in the finale because on the last episode but i really like it i guess i maybe i'll pull back next week if it's a disaster or it's incredible but anyway yeah that's what i've watched that's what i watched this this by week adrian are we ready now to move on to the montage my friend yeah i don't know how i've lost the document but i have it's missing
00:57:50
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Oh, there it is. I got it. Now onto the montage, a sequence of our show in which I briefly present at least seven of the bi-week smaller news stories as it as Simon delivers a brisk verdict.
00:58:02
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Number one, as announced by Assassin's Creed developer Ubisoft, production has begun on Netflix's Assassin's Creed TV series. The first season is set in ancient Rome.
00:58:14
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Cool. I do sometimes like playing Assassin's Creed, Adrian. It's actually quite ah it's quite fun. I just ah jumped into Assassin's Creed Shadows again. So hopefully this is ah hopefully this is good because that first effort with Michael Fassbender, not so good. I never watched it.
00:58:29
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Number two, according to publication The Hollywood Reporter, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Hollywood-centered series Wonder Man has been renewed for season two on Disney+. plus Excellent, because this is arguably the best show they have over at Disney Plus for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What a great show. Amazing.
00:58:48
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Wonderful. I got to get around to it. Number three, Apple renewed its alternate history space race drama for all mankind for a sixth and final season ahead of its fifth season premiere on March 27th, which is in the past. Yes, that's correct. It is now in the past from the date we're recording this. That show is also incredible. Again, this is the space episode, Adrian.
00:59:12
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Or this is the, is that the name of this show? well This is the space. This show is really good. It's on Apple TV+. plus People don't give the Apple TV+. plus Shows enough credit. It's so good. Production values are amazing. Go watch it. That's what I recommend.
00:59:25
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Except for you, Adrian. sounds good Number four, as publication Variety has reported, true detective actor Mahershala Ali has been cast alongside Mark Ruffalo in the second season of HBO's crime drama Task. Pretty cool.
00:59:41
Speaker
Pretty cool. We'll see how that goes. Mahershala Ali, very good in the true detective season. That's why I put that in there when I when i wrote this up. But I'm curious to see. Task is very popular. So I'm curious to see how it plays off with Mahershala Ali.
00:59:55
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Number five, late night host and Lord of the Rings aficionado Stephen Colbert will co-write the script for producer Peter Jackson's upcoming Lord of the Rings film, Shadow of the Past. This is one of two Lord of the Rings movies. They're making a, nut this is the second movie. The other one's the, what is it? The Search for Gollum? The Hunt hunt for Gollum.
01:00:18
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The Hunt for Little Gollum. You're right, so they got two going. I don't know, should they just reboot this as a series instead of, like, I don't know if they should double down on the... I love the Peter Jackson movies, but yeah, I don't know. this ah This is a question mark for me.
01:00:31
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Same. Number six, as reported by Variety, Fantastic Four First Steps actor Paul Walter Hauser has been cast as a series regular in Netflix's upcoming Scooby-Doo live-action TV series. this is looking kind of fun i'm curious about this we'll see how it goes the cast is looking neat i i don't know i don't know i don't think we know what paul walter walter hauser is playing in this yet we do not we do not okay number seven according to variety abc's lost actor sonja walger has been cast as freya in amazon's upcoming god of war tv series Cool. She's awesome in Lost.
01:01:13
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Hopefully she's great in this. I still think that that screen grab, bad screen grab, but I think this show has a lot of potential to be great, especially because of who's attached. I agree. Number eight.
01:01:23
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According to Deadline, Ryan Gosling has been cast in the next film set to be written and directed by Everything Everywhere All At Once directors, Daniel Scheinart and Daniel Kwan.
01:01:36
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otherwise known as the
Science Fiction Excitement with Ryan Gosling
01:01:38
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Daniels. Yes, the Daniels strike again. Have they made something in between Everything Every World Once in this film? I'm thinking not. I don't believe so. This is really exciting. Another science fiction thing with Ryan Gosling. He's just, does it say that or I didn't write that in? Oh, I think it's a science fiction film. Sorry, I didn't write that into the actual write-up. It's okay. Yeah, i didn't write it in either.
01:01:59
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I was going to throw the color in there when I actually presented it myself, but you took the reins. So I lost the document. I was trying to bring yank them back, but you just kept going. He lost the document. yeah But yeah, I'm pretty sure this is I think this is a space movie as well. I'm pretty sure it's like a science fiction, at least science fiction. So Ryan Gosling's in the new Star Wars. He was in Project Hail Mary and now in this.
01:02:19
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That's very exciting. Wonderful.
Casting Buzz in Upcoming Crime Drama 'Cockroach'
01:02:20
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And number nine, as Deadline reports, 30 Rock actor Alec Baldwin has been cast in Captain Fantastic director Matt Ross's upcoming crime drama Cockroach alongside actors Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton and Zazie Beetz. Stacked cast.
01:02:37
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Very curious. I think I saw a spoiler for this movie because it's based on a book. I think it was a spoiler or maybe it's just revealed in the first like minute of the actual movie or in the actual trailer.
01:02:49
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So i'm not 100% sure, but the premise of this film seemed very intriguing. So i'm very curious about it And that concludes the montage. Wow. How do you feel? How do you feel presenting the montage for the first time ever after 132 episodes of not doing it? I don't know, man. It felt pretty all right, I think. i think I did not half bad. All right. it Sounds good. I feel bad, though, for reading it because, like, you write all of this. I feel like I'm taking your credit, you know? little bit.
01:03:15
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good yeah just just a scidge i can i can take it one out of every 132 episodes yeah i'm i'm good with that i i appreciate you reading it fairly well though because it's less editing for me hopefully it didn't take too long though because you definitely read it slower than i than i read it so hopefully we make it in the time because the the montage music is only set for a certain amount so hopefully it fits i think i think we're going if it doesn't just just have this awkward silence moving like from that and then it's just and it's just a record scratch yeah just this is like awkward silence and then no i'd have to do it properly but i just uh maybe i'll cut out some of my words because i was a little bit lengthy too because i've never done that before i've never given my opinion on it
01:03:58
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There's been a couple of weeks where you just go in and you just kind of say, cool, just leave it at that. Yeah, it's fine. I don't really give a shit about Assassin's Creed. You know? Yeah. there's been many times in once you've done that. Yeah. Good times. All
Harry Potter TV Series Trailer Reactions
01:04:14
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right. Well, Adrian, it's now time to move into a trilogy of topical tidings, a component of our show where we discussed at least three film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over the past two weeks, Adrian.
01:04:28
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So the first, this one... is ah probably the biggest news of the week or the biggest like yeah thing of the week, I think. HBO has announced that the Harry Potter TV series will premiere on Christmas Day 2026. Although, it's funny enough, they previously said it was going to not come out this year. I think they said it was 2027. I thought that's what Casey Boyz said. I think they did, yeah.
01:04:48
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um So they basically... The announcement for the date was at the end of the first trailer for the series, which was pretty lengthy and pretty cool. i think they revealed quite a bit of like the sets and the the cast and things like that. um And then also, just another note on this show, Casey Boyes, head of HBO, had said that the production scale of the series is too large for annual releases, but the second season is currently being written.
01:05:15
Speaker
which is worrisome because obviously these these kids age. So unless they're going to try to de-age them a certain point. De-age children or not let them grow up. Yeah, yeah. They send them to Neverland in between seasons. It might might cause a bit of an issue. Or they'll just be like the Stranger Things kids and be way too old at the last season, which somehow I could just believe. It really didn't bother me that much, to be honest. it didn't bother me at all.
01:05:40
Speaker
I mentioned it because it was obvious if you like look at it. Like if you really look at the season, like season one and then look at, just look at all the seasons and look at the cast, like on a cast poster. Like, oh yeah, that's a 25 year old, you know, in the last season. But it didn't really bother me that much. But I think that they should try to do that, try to nail that here because it would be a little weirder in this because this is very school centric. Whereas I feel like Stranger Things became less and less about the school.
01:06:08
Speaker
You know what i mean? In the in later seasons. like yeah didn't You weren't like being drawn to it because you're not watching them like sit next to a bunch of students in a classroom very much in the last few seasons of Stranger Things. So I guess it didn't matter as much too. But like they didn't draw attention to like their age. They did it in a wise way, I feel like, the Duffer Brothers for Stranger Things. but So talking about this Harry Potter series, there is bit of hubbub about the trailer. it was kind of mixed feedback overall.
01:06:34
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I feel like there was a lot of people really hyped about it. And then there was a lot of people, of course, the internet's a very negative place. So there's a lot of people who didn't like it. I'm curious what you think, having seen it, maybe without even seeing the feedback, like what was your impression?
01:06:45
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I thought it looked pretty cool. um i I like Harry Potter a lot and it's cool to kind of see it come into life. There's this...
01:06:58
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how How can I word this? There's almost like an uncanniness to this trailer, though, in a weird way. And I think that's mostly because it looks very high budget, very high quality. The sets look awesome, but they also look very familiar. So you're watching it and it's like kind of like a memory in a weird way. So I don't know if uncanny is the right word, but...
01:07:19
Speaker
For me, yeah, again, that there is this like ah like just a little bit, you know, that's thrown me off while I'm watching it. It just seems like I'm almost like in an alternate universe where the like I have a memory of the Harry Potter movies and it's like this is the trailer for the first Harry Potter movie, but it's different.
01:07:35
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um Yeah, so I but but besides that, you know, without me like, you know, obviously bringing in that bias, um I think this trailer was really cool. There wasn't much.
01:07:47
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Like, I think, again, similar to how we kind of talked about the Lanterns trailer where I thought, like, you know, the reason there's not much green going on that lanterns trailer is probably because they didn't have the special effects ready yet. And I think the same thing with this, we don't see much magic going on. um You know, that's not really the focus. It's kind of just like, Hey, look at these kids, look at these actors, look at like these random little scenes. And I think that's the same thing. They probably just, you know, haven't put the visual effects in like the, the you know, the,
01:08:19
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Wingardia Leviosa or whatever the fuck. yeah I do think the Green Lantern, to be fair though, but the Green Lantern trailer, I do think part of it is like, they did want to ground it in more reality. So like they're trying to, I think they're trying to pull in a different audience, which is smart. Like there may be trying to pull in the true detective in the, you know, the, what's the the thing with Mark Ruffalo that I just talked about.
01:08:41
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hersial alle Yeah. The task audience, you know, you want to pull in like the, that kind of audience into this too, with a more grounded reality. And so i don't think you're going to do that with Harry Potter, but you're right. There wasn't a lot of magic, was there?
01:08:52
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There wasn't really a lot of, there's not, I feel like the magic is more, so it becomes more, I was going to say flamboyant. It becomes more like spectacle when it grows like through the season, like the, through the actual seasons. Yeah. It is going to be seasons, but through the books. like As the books grow grow, they're doing more complex and mature spells, and I feel like it becomes more, ah not too, so what am trying to say?
01:09:17
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ah Like really, you know what I'm saying? Like very aggressive magic, more obvious. Flashy. Yeah. um It's not the word I was looking for, but yeah, that's exactly my point. like Like, it became more flashy as it went on, whereas in the first – even the first movie, it's kind of like the wonder is in the in the set design in some way um more so. And there's, like, really subtle – There's broom floating.
01:09:40
Speaker
Right. The brooms. Yeah, exactly, which – So yeah, that's kind of an interesting thing too. But yeah, I agree with the uncanny thing a hundred percent. That's for sure. And you know what it is is about this? And I saw a lot of comments on, it was on on YouTube, i think maybe the comment section for YouTube, which is always going to be negative anyway. But there there was a lot of comments like, oh we already got this or or like, oh, this looks exactly like that. except It's like like a cheap version of of the Harry Potter movies. It's like, you know what it is? I think what's going to end up happening with this too is that as time goes on, we're going to just see these characters as the new Harry Potter cast. yeah Right now, it's hard to do that because we're so familiar with these very, honestly, very well-reviewed and very well-regarded and well-watched films that are very well done.
01:10:23
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which is kind of sometimes rare for adaptations. Like they're not always perfect. They're always great, but there's, that's a lot of movies, um eight movies. And they were all pretty great, to be honest. There's like, there's not, there's some criticisms I have for some of them, but I feel like overall it was a great set.
01:10:38
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And so consistent, like I think it's a consistent franchise. Like it always hits a specific level of quality. I don't think there's any like, so like so severe misses in that entire, you know, eight movie run. um Yeah. Yeah.
01:10:52
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But because we're so used to that cast, I think that's part of it. And I think as as we watch the first season, that that feeling will go away. I think that that was my point. You know what i mean? That will go away as as time goes on. It's like a time thing.
01:11:04
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yeah if they do a good job, if it's bad, then that's a whole other story. But if they do a good job, which this trailer, I i think, leads me to believe that they're doing an okay job here. It's going to be quite interesting to see. yeah There's also other black backlash about...
01:11:18
Speaker
some of the politics of it all yeah but that's a different story it is interesting though because like i am i was yeah so i'm up two minds about the whole like black snape thing i i don't care that he's black personally but i do find it like a odd choice that they chose to make snape the one black dude Right. And that the Jen like sorry, gender swap and Jesus, um you know race swapped him compared to, you know, the movie or I guess the books again, I never read the books fully.
01:11:55
Speaker
Just because it's like everyone's side-eyeing this guy. Like Harry Potter's like this this old black dude, he's the he's he's the bad guy. um And it it just, I feel like, I don't know, I feel like you could have done it with ah any other character without it being as as much of a you know, kind of weird situation. um I just find that an odd choice. As well as like they they also, um like Hermione in in particular, like she's,
01:12:22
Speaker
I don't know what race that that little girl is that's playing her, but she's not like just, you know, like white, like ah emma Emma Watson was. And it's like you changed her. And like one of the the terms that they always call her is mudblood. I'm like, why did you change like these two characters that it almost feels like it's an actual racism thing at this point, as opposed to, I don't know, like if you changed Harry Potter and Harry Potter was a black kid. It's like, ah I don't think that really would have impacted the story whatsoever. Yeah.
01:12:49
Speaker
But now and more people would complain about it, I'm sure. But 100 percent. That wouldn't have mattered at all. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I don't think it impacts it. But now it's like, OK, cool. Snape's the Snape's a black guy. And the Harry Potter, this little white kid, is looking at Snape as he's the villain. The one black professor is the villain. That's fair. But also his dad is bullying him.
01:13:10
Speaker
Like back in the past, it's like, again, is Harry's dad just like, I'm not bullying him because he's black. I'm just bullying him. because I don't like Snape. And it's like, you know, I just feel like you could have chosen different characters to make black, you know, make like a, like a Hagrid black or Dumbledore black. I don't think it would have caused issues ah at that point. So again, I'm looking at it from that perspective.
01:13:32
Speaker
It's a strange, it's a little bit strange. Yeah. Cause it's Snape, but to be fair, Snape is the bully of Harry Potter, right? Not his father, but obviously, but yeah, it it is the ah other way around. Like Harry Potter is not really bullying Snape.
01:13:47
Speaker
But he's side-eyeing. He's like – He's side-eyeing because he's treating him like shit. No, because he thinks that he's the bad dude. like Because Snape's being a dick to him right from the beginning. That was the whole reason. Yeah, He's being side-eyed by Snape. he's being getting He's getting the opposite of preferential treatment. He's being picked on by Snape. That's how it starts. That's why he doesn't like Snape right from the get-go. He's like, what what's wrong with this guy? why is he Why is he picking on me? I don't understand.
01:14:13
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yeah That was the kind of the whole idea. But the other bit is hard because like the the part with his father picking on him like i yeah there's some really wacky things that he does to the guy that are kind of... He fucking hangs him from like a tree.
01:14:26
Speaker
Which is terrible for the fact that he's black in this case. Exactly. It's just, I've said this before. It matters less if you really mix the cast in terms of the like, like the mix, the race of the cast. I feel like, but it but kind of feels like it's not really that way. Yeah. Yeah. They did it for two people again, Snape and then Hermione. And again, it was called a mudblood.
01:14:47
Speaker
Yeah. Who's called a mudblood. It's like, okay. Which is weird. Weird choice. I don't know why. Yeah. Why would they do that? That's an interesting choice for Hermione. But it is. She's mixed race. It looks like this actor. It's Arabella Stanton, I think her name is. It looks like she's mixed race. Like her real life mother and father, I think, are they're just like two different races. Which is kind of interesting because that's what Mudblood is. It's like a person with magic and not. But why are you so on the nose with It's just like weird. Why be on the nose with this? Yeah. And then it's kind of on the nose with the bullying too for for um Potter. What's the other – the elder Potter. I can't even remember his father's name.
01:15:23
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don't remember. Dad Potter. Harry Potter's that father. Yeah, you're right. James like why Potter, isn't it? James Potter is bullying him and then you could perceive like perceive it. If you're looking from the outside looking in, you don't know the story. You just see a clip. You're like, oh, this this this kid's being hung from a tree because he's black. You know what I mean? It is weird. It's crazy. But why? It's crazy.
01:15:42
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Why do that to yourself? You didn't have to. You're right. You might not make Hagrid black. Yeah. I feel like you could have honestly done any of the other characters except for Hermione and Snape.
01:15:55
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And like, again, people would have just complained for the sake of complaining. it But like the the points that I am personally bringing up right now, they would not apply. You got freaking what's his name?
01:16:06
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the The little kid. Oh, my God. I mean, guess they're all little kids. Neville Longbottom. His biggest fear. is Snape. what You know, when they have that wardrobe and ah his biggest fear is Alan Rickman as Snape in the movie, right?
01:16:21
Speaker
Right, yeah. That's problem too. Jesus. Now it's now Never Longbottoms, the person he's most scared of is the one black professor at the fucking Hogwarts. It's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy too. And also, I think my biggest issue I want to take what I said back for a second though. Sorry. I said, why don't we make Hagrid back? That's a stupid example. Just anyone.
01:16:39
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It could be anyone, as you said. I feel like that don't point out any, any one person. It's just that particular choice is the issue. It's not the flip side of any other professor is the point where I think we're both making. I is a good point. I don't think it will matter in the end, especially if they do it delicately, but it is, it's funny only. but I feel like it's more funny because what you said is that they're both, both of those characters were chosen to be,
01:17:04
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Hermione and it doesn't seem like they're again, i don't think another character that it would have mattered. That that's the thing. Would it have mattered with anyone else? Dumbledore, Filch, uh, like, uh, professor McGonagall, um, Ron Weasley. Well, Ron Weasley is a bad idea. Cause I think you got to give red hair and freckles. Yeah.
01:17:24
Speaker
yeah that's part of it you're gonna have like this this um they're gonna make another character black and i guarantee it's gonna be like peter pedigree or something the guy that uses to a fucking rat you know that and then at that point that's a pattern that's a pattern they're deliberately doing that and it's like dude what the fuck and but ah apart from all all this stuff i just think uh it's pop papa isidu yeah he's he's a he's far too handsome I don't know if he's a doctor. All I'm going to say is. Doctor Who.
01:17:55
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I've never watched Doctor Who. I don't think he's a doctor who. We don't. Isn't he? No. You're thinking of ah like who played the doctor? yeah At one point, there's like 15 doctors. So no, no, no. There's only been one black doctor and it was the guy that was also in sex education. I forget that actor's name. Oh, there's only one been one black doctor.
01:18:18
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Yeah. no Oh. Again, obviously people were upset he's spaghetti about But I think Papa Sidhu is he's far too handsome to be Snape as well. He's just like this really handsome dude.
01:18:30
Speaker
Why is that? Well, I guess it matters a little bit. A little bit. I feel like Alan Rickman's kind of handsome though, isn't he? dude ah Again, I don't want to be disrespectful to to the late Alan Rickman.
01:18:42
Speaker
But like, Alan Rickman's not. That's right. Like... Like I look at this Papa Sidhu guy and I'm like, this guy's like, he's a, he's an attractive dude. Like he's hot. Yeah. I can see. He's like Glenn Powell. Like Glenn Powell's hot. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm Rickman. I'm not looking at him like Alan Rickman's hot. He's just Alan Rickman's a guy. He's really young though. Isn't he? Papa Sidhu is quite, ah quite young too. That's an interesting choice. He looks young. In comparison to Alan Rickman when he played the role.
01:19:09
Speaker
That's a weird choice too in that way. I'm curious what they're, they're clearly choosing that on purpose. I all hope on purpose. Yeah, he's 35 years old, this guy. I don't think I've seen anything with him. oh I've seen Men. He's in Men?
01:19:22
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I don't remember him in Men. I feel like there was two characters in Men. Oh! He's the boyfriend. Or the husband. The boyfriend. Okay. Gotcha. He is.
01:19:34
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Okay. That movie's creepy as hell. I really like that movie. It's good, yeah.
01:19:40
Speaker
Yeah, okay. really yeah I don't think I've seen anything with him in it. Yeah. But anyways, interesting again. um And again, to point out, like, I mean, I'm sure you'll do great based on like what I'm looking at for his, his filmography. Like he's been in a lot of cool things. That's great. yeah I think he's known to be a great actor.
01:19:59
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I just, I, yeah, I, yeah, I can see where you're coming from. um yeah I can see where you're coming from. Again, they just got to make sure they're delicate with it, I suppose. just don't, I don't know. You wont don't want people to like kind of point things out like that because it's just, we're in a weird time. It's very, also very toxic internet time as well. So it it creates an issue.
01:20:18
Speaker
No, yeah, it's very, very sane right now. But yeah, okay. Yeah, I can see that. I'm not too worried about it, to be honest, but I know you've mentioned it before on this podcast as well. So, yeah.
01:20:30
Speaker
But anyways, I am excited about this. though I'll definitely watch it. um I don't know if my wife's really watched much of Harry Potter, so I think it's going kind of cool watching this and then she can kind of experience the story. your time What do you think the likelihood is?
01:20:49
Speaker
That they're going to complete. the The series. With all the shit that's going on and all the cuts going on. And again, like, what if it's bad? You know, like, I don't think it's going to be. It looks again from the trailer that they're nailing the tone. And I think the cast is looking pretty darn great.
01:21:07
Speaker
um But do you think there's like a high probability that this is not going to get finished? ah They're putting so much investment in the sets and stuff like that that I imagine they want to reuse. So I think a lot of the money will be up front in some capacity. so And I also think that like they've signed John Lithgow for a number of years. And I think that they're planning for the long haul, obviously. They think it's going to be really big. I think that if it's good in the first season, that's when we can predict it. If it's bad in the first season, then we could potentially be seeing a failure. they'll And I think at that point, it will end at season three or something like that, three or four.
01:21:48
Speaker
And it was that, but that's because of a failure. And I'm not seeing that from the trailer at all. It feels like they're getting the details. Correct. No. Interesting thing though. Like, I'm gonna go back to this.
01:22:00
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Open up the i trying to see like who Francesca Gardner. I'm not super familiar with. I'm surprised we didn't look into this as a deeper connection because for me I determine out people whether it's going to succeed based on who's involved this is the biggest thing the executive producer the showrunner the directors involved that's kind of what matters she was a consulting producer on succession she was involved in his dark materials another book series we we actually did talk about this I actually remember talking about this and killing my law being what she write
01:22:39
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She wrote, we definitely talked about this. She wrote man in the high castle, which is very well regarded. Yeah. His dark materials. Yeah. That was a little bit more mixed reception. I feel like I like that book series.
01:22:55
Speaker
Uh, yeah. Interesting. The directors though, that we talked about the directors. Yeah, we talked about Mark Mylod being... Oh, right, being part of it. Yeah. Mark Mylod's going to do a few episodes. yeah Yeah. I think he's just doing the first one. he's Yeah, I think we talked about that in the montage is that Mark Mylod is directing the first episode to set the tone, which is cool.
01:23:14
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. That's only director who listed here here, though, interestingly. ands see want anyone else Unless he's doing like a lot of episodes. It just says him for one episode. In in IMDb, maybe there's more detail elsewhere.
01:23:27
Speaker
But okay, cool. Yeah, i don't know. i i'm Then there's like the, obviously there's the whole JK Rowling controversy. That's just like, I feel bad for John Lithgow too, because like he he he considered quitting apparently. That came up in an an interview at one point because he was being like, he was being like threatened or like attacked online because of the fact that he was a part of this. It's like, how could you do this because of JK Rowling's J.K. Rowling's opinions, the problem with them is that they become more more crazy and they hurt she's actually funding anti-trans stuff more so yeah than she was before. like it Initially, it wasn't really about that. and so It is kind of unfortunate because she is an executive producer. Unlike Hogwarts Legacy, she is involved in this in a deeper way from my understanding.
01:24:10
Speaker
um She's always involved in this. She's going make money. That's for sure from this. Yeah. Which so sucks when you look when you take a look at the fact that she's going to use that money to fund bad things. like Chick-fil-A.
01:24:21
Speaker
For a long while, I'm not a big fan of Chick-fil-A because they they funded actual anti-LGBTQ things for a while. But then they toned that down, I think, recently. I always wonder, like...
01:24:36
Speaker
less so about people because JK Rowling a person, not a business, but I always wonder like about people like a CEO of a business or like people who run a bit like business or like the, any business donating to the causes or like contributing to causes that are incredibly inherently political. Like, I just think that you'll like about Elon Musk. It's like, guy, do you have to do that though?
01:24:57
Speaker
Like why alienate half the population when you're you're a businessman? That's your main thing. Like you want – that's your main thing is you want to make as much money as possible. to be fair, like back in the day, he was alienating the anti-LGBTQ people back in that that like 2018 because he was so pro like gay people and and like – Yeah, he just changed his mind.
01:25:17
Speaker
you know, LGBT, then don't buy my vehicles. And now it's like yeah yeah the exact opposite. Yeah. Right. The pendulum. swa So I don't know, man. i I think, you know,
01:25:30
Speaker
I mean, we've talked about this, I feel like, to death a couple times. i There's so many other people involved in this, and I know she like she is ah technically involved, but it's like this is creating hundreds of jobs for so many other people. It's bringing a lot of entertainment. She actually created the franchise, but I don't think like – yeah, I guess she's going to make some money off of it. But like so are a lot of other people. She owns the rights.
01:25:53
Speaker
um So it's one of those things like, again, you know it's not like she's fucking – Killing babies.
01:26:05
Speaker
Okay. Yeah.
01:26:08
Speaker
Yeah. I guess where do you draw your line? Is that the only line you draw? That's where you draw your line? Is that what you're saying? That's the next sentence after you said that.
01:26:21
Speaker
i guess is I guess it matters where you draw your line. like Yeah, but that my line is a little bit – it's in a different place. Yeah. I'll just say that. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah.
01:26:34
Speaker
I'm going to watch the shit out of this. I recommend people vote with their wallet if they're deeply they they they deeply believe in something. But I also think that – I don't know. There's a there's a there's this like – I don't think you necessarily have to be shaming people, especially John Lithgow.
01:26:48
Speaker
And will say this, and John Lithgow said this, the weirdest thing about this series and the weirdest thing about this book series is that it's incredibly inclusive. Yeah, that is it's it's known for that. That's the mudblood thing. And all that stuff was about discrimination and all this stuff, which is completely ironic considering what JK Rowling is backing now. It's very weird in that regard. I don't understand Why why do you why? Like you have to do this. Like just like try to.
01:27:19
Speaker
Create ah create a world for us all. It's very strange. I don't understand why you you create you did create a world for us all. You created a very diverse like fictional place, but then that one that's about equality and about like kind of you know standing up for the little guy, anti-bullying sentiments, yeah but then she's bullying.
01:27:42
Speaker
Now in real life. She just took it too far. And I think again, like she, she was, i don't know. She was probably pushed to that point as well because, you know, she made, that's not an excuse, but sure. And I'm not saying it's an excuse.
01:27:55
Speaker
I'm just saying like, she's, she's been pushed to that point and you know it's not like she's ever going to be able to come back. I don't think people are going to, yeah even if she becomes apologetic, there's always going to people going to be people that I think will hold it against her. and But come back, it's shitty situation. It's all relative, right? So you double down? That doesn't work that way.
01:28:16
Speaker
To me, that's really poor excuse for her. like It's like, okay, I'm going to go deeper into this hole because people online are being mean to me. You're a billionaire lady.
01:28:27
Speaker
Like you're a billionaire. Surround yourself with other people. Like don't look online. Online is a bad place. I wouldn't even be an and b i wouldn't even be engaging with it. X is a terrible place. That's where she initially got in hot water for her tweets in the first place.
01:28:43
Speaker
i don't know. That's great. it To me, it's crazy. I get what you're saying, though. it's hard for It's hard for anyone to come back from that in that way, in the in the public sphere. like who is ever gonna People don't forgive. This is a big big problem in our society. There's no nuance. so No one's going to forgive her ever, but she's got to have some kind of moral center. It doesn't really matter whether people forgive you or not, you kind of have to find a moral center that's not crazy. Like, this has gone off the beaten path. Because we talked about it in the very beginning when she made her statements. We were talking about it like her statements were actually kind of more centered than they are now. They're they're nowhere near right now what she was saying but in the beginning.
01:29:20
Speaker
She was very much for women and all that stuff. And then she they called her this whatever anti-trans feminist or whatever. Yeah, what is that called?
01:29:31
Speaker
I don't remember. But then she's like owned it. She eventually is like, I'm not that. And then she just owned it after. It's like, okay, why? So you just weren't truthful before or like, no, it's because she was pushed as you said, but it's like, that's, you have to moral center yourself. Like you, do you not have like a, you that like, i don't know. Yeah.
01:29:52
Speaker
Sway. I mean, it seems strange, to me but anyway, it sucks. I'm curious. That is, is something that's a little bit of a blight on it. um For me, even so, a little bit. i'm not i don't I don't know. I'm not i'm not not going to watch it. I'm going to watch it.
01:30:04
Speaker
so yeah In that sense, I'm voting with my wallet. At least she's not on the Epstein list.
01:30:12
Speaker
No, she wouldn't be on the Epstein list. Yeah. So we'll take our wins. It'd be cool if she was crusading. I wonder if she's crusading against the Epstein thing. That would be a good one to crusade for. I agree. Get her in people's good books.
01:30:28
Speaker
Oh man. I don't know. I don't know. try not to look into it anymore because he's it's just so depressing, but I really like Harry Potter and I like what's Harry Potter. That's the main thing. That's why I can vote with my wallet for this. In my opinion is because what Harry Potter stands for, what it's about is not, it's the opposite of what she's saying.
01:30:47
Speaker
So it's like, it's that to me, I think it it means a lot because it's not just some random frivolous science fiction story or some fun, you know, Medieval fantasy that's just random. It is something that is about that. It's about anti-bullying and about anti-discrimination. it's ah it's like there's though Those themes are throughout it. It's very strange. so that's yeah um yeah I don't want to belabor this either. but Anyway, I'm excited for this series and I'm curious to see how it turns out. because It looks like it's going to be good so far. And I'm happy that they pushed, like they kind of lied about the date and then gave us the Christmas date. Christmas is a perfect time for this show to come out. I think, i don't know, something about Harry Potter always reminds me about Christmas. It's those Christmas, those Christmas, I wasn't going to say episodes, but those Christmas moments in the movies that really always kind of, there' there's almost nothing like
01:31:36
Speaker
it's it's like it it's a personification of christmas in a deeper way than a lot of christmas movies in some way i don't know what it is the giant tree hogwarts castle it's a very christmasy place harry potter with his like you know his knitted scarf and the yeah the snowy owl flying over the snowy plains of the grounds and hogwarts castle it's it's awesome so yeah yeah okay cool Sweet man.
01:32:01
Speaker
Yeah. All right. Well, it's time to now move on to the next story here. Netflix has increased the price of all subscription tiers by $2 in the United States. I did not see anything about this in Canada. Maybe I missed it. But as of now, they did not increase the price in the in Canada.
01:32:18
Speaker
The craziest thing about this is that the price is $26.99 USD. We, as far as I remember, for the premium edition of premium tier, we pay for it at $23.99 Canadian dollars.
01:32:34
Speaker
If you convert that to American, that's like $30 or something. So how are they paying more than us?
01:32:46
Speaker
But if you convert like $26.99 American to Canadian, sorry.
01:32:52
Speaker
I did that incorrectly. I did the conversion wrong. $27 would be around 32 something, I think, dollars Canadian. But we don't have that payment here. Ours is like $23.99.
01:33:03
Speaker
So I'm not asking for them to increase the price. would $37.58 right now 30 what dollars? $37.58. Jesus. Canadian. Yeah. Okay. crazy. so That's expensive.
01:33:18
Speaker
It's expensive at $23.99. And I've been canceling and coming back to Netflix repeatedly because I don't think, unfortunately, their content is... good enough to stick around for the entire year. No one's content is good enough to stick around for the entire year at that price point, in my opinion. i just don't think that's worth it. With the fact that there is no more password sharing, that makes it impossible for me to do that because I can't share it with my my family, which I was doing for years and I can no longer do because of the crackdown on password sharing. Now, many people might say, well, you can get around it with blah, blah, blah. I don't care about getting around it. That's their policy. They made their bed.
01:33:54
Speaker
But that didn't seem to affect them. These in price increases, people seem to keep subscribing. And the question I have is why? Why aren't more people canceling and coming back based on their data?
01:34:05
Speaker
They seem to be improving year on year. They're not declining in quarterly quarterly. They seem to be doing pretty well. And they've got a lot of content. I don't have a lot of interest in, to be honest. But they have... Yeah. I don't know.
01:34:17
Speaker
There's a lot of problems. One of the issues is I use an Apple TV and the Apple TV app is not supported by Netflix and it makes it harder for me to discover their content. And I've said this many times. I don't know why they, they just, ah they're obsessed with doing their, they need to do their own thing.
01:34:32
Speaker
It's weird too. They're like, oh, we just got the cancellation fee from buying a Warner brothers. We just got this, whatever it was a billion dollars. What was the amount that they got? Wasn't it like $3 billion? or It was a lot of money. it was like $3 to $6 billion dollars with oldphon math through in that range.
01:34:48
Speaker
Right. we we We got that back, that money back, and we're no longer buying Warner Brothers, but suddenly we're going to increase it by $2 even though we didn't even create more value. like There's no more value than there was last year when there was another price increase last year.
01:35:01
Speaker
You tell me. I'm talking too much here. What do you think about this? It seems crazy. And do you think this is going to get translated to Canada because we're now lagging really far behind in that? I hope it doesn't.
01:35:12
Speaker
um obviously i i don't really want to pay more right now i have netflix but so my my my family pays for it and i was leeching it off them until they kicked me off and then there's like an eight dollar add-on where you can watch it like added at an additional household so that like i'm essentially paying eight dollars a month for my netflix subscription right now and um
01:35:39
Speaker
it's more than worth it for eight bucks a month. you know, it doesn't bother me, there but yeah, again, 26 99 absurd USD. Again, if it was like $38 Canadian, that's that's just, that's just bananas, man. I don't think the value is there anymore,
01:35:58
Speaker
but I think it's tough. I'm trying to like, how can I, how can I phrase this? I think that's still valuable to certain types of people.
01:36:09
Speaker
If you have like if all you're paying for is Netflix, there's a shit ton of content on there. You don't really play video games and all you do. You don't have cable and all you're doing is, you know, watching Netflix. I think the value is still there.
01:36:23
Speaker
But for someone like me and you who we have multiple interests, we don't just watch Netflix. You know, we play a lot of video games. We like other streaming services. You know, you're doing the thing where you're canceling and going to different streaming services. I'm doing a very similar thing as well.
01:36:39
Speaker
I just don't think that like paying that much is is worth it whatsoever for guys like us. um So, again, I'm trying to be, you know, add a little bit more of a balanced perspective.
01:36:51
Speaker
But again, I do think it's absurd. Um, But people are buying in. And that's what's so strange to me. Is it just because they're forgetting to cancel or is they just don't have the discipline to do so? Because there's a lot of streaming services. It's not just Netflix, you know? Yeah. I think that's a factor because, i mean, it's laziness. ah I've definitely fallen guilty in the past where I just let a subscription keep going because I just kind of forgot to cancel or I'm like, oh, I'll get around to it and you just keep on procrastinating.
01:37:20
Speaker
But also, I feel like canceling a service Um, so I, I upped my Disney, um, for, uh, secret lives of Mormon wives. I'm canceling it it again. And then I'll probably just like up it once stare devil's all done and like binge it or actually Vanderpumpville is coming out soon. so maybe I'll do it again for that.
01:37:39
Speaker
But when I was trying to cancel Disney plus, it literally is like, are you sure you want to cancel? And then you go, yes. Tell, tell us why you want to cancel. yeah Then you put put in the reason and I had to click cancel like five times before it let me cancel. So I think at a certain point, some people are also just like, well, well, maybe, ah okay. And then they just, you know, keep paying for it. I think there are people like that.
01:38:07
Speaker
Um, so yeah, again, I'm trying to, I guess, give a little bit more of a nuanced perspective, but, uh,
01:38:17
Speaker
it's pricey it's weird it's pricey and they're not really coming out with that much i feel like they don't i have crazy franchises anymore one piece i think is doing very well season two is rated incredibly well but i don't think that like they don't have anything on the level of i mean stranger things i think was the last like really truly big show they had but prior to that you know they had house of cards they had other shows that I can't think of off the top of my head. um You know, they have these like big, for lack of a better term, blockbuster TV series that everyone watched. Right. And now I feel like we don't have that anymore with Netflix. Like they don't have their next big franchise.
01:38:57
Speaker
i did I just think that they make so much and it's just not... I think about the discoverability of Apple TV, but I'm on an Apple TV box. So it's like, is it is it because their discoverability on Apple TV is good because they their their box is...
01:39:13
Speaker
like accentuating it. Is that what it is? Because I think about discoverability on Netflix and you're right. You can't even think of the shows that are popular enough. like Why is that? And I'm wondering if it's like, is it because it's all being drowned out by like the wrestling content, the boxing matches, the reality TV show content? Yeah.
01:39:29
Speaker
There's that, remember there was that random furries freaking reality TV show? Like what? Ugh. And then there's the good good ones you watched. You thought you were they were okay for the reality shows. like And there's like it's just a mix of stuff that's not really necessarily amazing, but it's yeah it's not bad. There's a lot of good stuff. I think Ozark's a great show as an example. Ozark's awesome. Again, i I like One Piece. Obviously it's great. um Beef is coming out soon with their second season. The first season's awesome. yeah like They have a lot of good stuff, and they still have some – TV shows like network TV shows that you can still access on there. But I feel like it's getting less and less as the years have gone on.
01:40:06
Speaker
Right. Because right so many different providers have created their own streaming services and and they're putting their backlogs on there instead of Netflix. So it is kind of interesting that the price of Netflix has been going up year over year. But technically, the value you're getting out of it, not because the price is just going up, but just just in general.
01:40:25
Speaker
is less than it has been before. I don't know that it's less though. This is the thing. Like, are they spending the same more money? And that's where the value is going. Like, that's where the price is going up. But the problem is that they just try to capture different audiences. And that doesn't make it worth it for me, though.
01:40:41
Speaker
The value is the same for Simon. And now the value might be if you're the the most eclectic taste ever and you're watching, you know, Squid Game to like you're watching other You're watching other maybe foreign TV shows as well as the ones that are more localized in the US and the movies that they're making like Frankenstein. And there's like the marriage stories and all that stuff. You're you're kind of looking at like this very roundabout eclectic taste.
01:41:07
Speaker
So maybe, well, well-rounded, I should say. I think maybe that would maybe make it more valuable, especially for discoverability because you're on Netflix all the time. But again, as you mentioned, we're on multiple apps. Like, are we not seeing it because we don't,
01:41:21
Speaker
It's just we don't watch random shit. That's the that we try to watch the good stuff because that's the whole that's the whole idea. I watch random. You watch the reality TV show. Yeah. Yeah. TV shows.
01:41:31
Speaker
I do watch random shit. Yeah, but I don't do that. I'm very, very specific. And so like to me, the value has kind of stayed the same. It's not bad. It's it's still pretty good. The problem is is that it's not better for me. I don't care about Jake Paul fighting some other guy he threatened. you know I don't care about him fighting Mike Tyson or whoever's next. i don't i don't That's not what I'm into, but I'm clearly paying for that.
01:41:55
Speaker
Right. I'm still going to pay for it. I know that's where like, again, i think Apple TV is my favorite streaming service. It's got the highest quality content per show. And there's not that many of them. It's not like I have to like sift through them to find a good one.
01:42:11
Speaker
I don't have to sift through them at all. There's no random network shows that they licensed on there. There's just the shows they make and they're all very high production values typically. Like from Dark Matter to For All Mankind to Shrinking to Ted Lasso. I can name them really quickly, rattle them off too.
01:42:28
Speaker
And so I don't know. I feel like that's kind of an issue they're facing. Yeah. I don't know. It's a strange thing that they seem to have going on there. And as it increases in price, I just can't really fathom, like it's going to be even less months than I'm going Netflix. And I can't, again, discoverability because they don't want to subscribe. They don't want to deal with Apple for the Apple TV apps, like kind of,
01:42:52
Speaker
Yeah. Up next feature. I don't remember when a new season even comes out because they don't, it doesn't show up on there. They think that they're like sitting pretty. And I guess they are because they are not declining. There's no declining. And I think people should vote for the, with their wallet. If they were upset about this price, why are you subscribing every month of the year? I also say this ice unsubscribed.
01:43:11
Speaker
And it says that I was a subscriber. The last time I was a subscriber was the time it says subscriber since it would be like member since this date. So it says member since 2026. It's like, I subscribed in it when it was the very original Netflix.
01:43:26
Speaker
They don't, they they're trying to like, they're like, what are you beating me down by giving the, you know what I'm saying? You don't talk about where it says member since the side. Yeah. Psychological warfare. They're trying to be like, not psychological. It makes me want to stay away.
01:43:38
Speaker
I'm like, oh yeah. You don't appreciate the fact that I spent literally, I i paid for Netflix for 10 years for my family. As soon as you did this password sharing thing, shit, I left. That's why I left it.
01:43:49
Speaker
So it's kind of a strange like what psychological I guess the psychological warfare is like it's almost like a you want to make me feel bad. I don't want to come back. It's like it didn't work backfired. So anyway. Yeah, it is a shame, though, um because they're not the only ones increasing their prices.
01:44:09
Speaker
Yeah. Like, like even in the video game space, I mean, we talked about it, like Microsoft increasing the price of Game Pass by literally 100%. You know, PlayStation has increased the price of their subscription. they're They're increasing the or they increase the price of all their consoles as well. That's a whole different story. That's Amazon. and You can root that back to something. What can you root back to value for the I mean, I guess it's the same problem. You can't really. Yeah.
01:44:32
Speaker
Amazon just increased their, like they're doing a ah price increase for their prime video. Now they're, uh, paywalling their 4k streams as well as ad free to a higher, like $5 a month tier now.
01:44:45
Speaker
So you got to pay like $5. This is Canada. I think it's just us, s man. Uh, We haven't been hit by a pi pay increase for Prime ever. It's crazy. Prime is an insane value. I love Prime. is that? fucking love Every time we see a price increase, it's always the States.
01:45:02
Speaker
It's not us. Maybe you're right. Maybe it's the $5 that's going to affect us. um But either way, i mean, point still stands. Netflix is just increasing it in the States right now. so um And Amazon did add the...
01:45:17
Speaker
Um, like where you got to pay money to get ad free for prime video in Canada. yeah That's okay though. Cause you get the 4k without, Oh, you're right. Starting April 10th, Amazon is increasing the cost for ad free pre prime video in Canada or Brian or Brian rebranding at his prime video ultra.
01:45:34
Speaker
Yeah. Extra $5 a month. It's not going to be 4k anymore. That is, that is annoying. Yeah. Yeah. But that's still the most value. I don't know what the hell that would be $15 a month then. How is it so cheap? Mm hmm.
01:45:46
Speaker
They have a lot of content. It's pretty crazy. technically less because it's like Prime is $100 a year, isn't it? ah Yeah, if you pay for the year instead of $10 a month. It's $10 a month.
01:45:56
Speaker
If we're going to compare apples to apples. Okay, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. Yeah. No, Prime's great, man. They just had that Crime 101 movie. I know. that's their That's their film. And their film is Project Hail Mary, so imagine right after it's done, it's run in theaters. Their best performing movie of all time in theaters. Yeah, that's cool.
01:46:16
Speaker
Look at me. hopefully Look at me bringing stats to this. Yeah, you sure did. I'm the stats guy this episode. This is the space episode, and I'm the stats guy, baby. Yeah. Okay. All right.
01:46:27
Speaker
All right. The third of the trilogy of topical tidings, Adrian, is the... That is a short one, probably. i don't know how how much you want to talk about this. OpenAI is shutting down their AI video generator, Sora. The reason why I'm bringing this up is because Disney had plans to have it built into their app for user-generated content using the Disney IP.
01:46:50
Speaker
So basically, Sora is a generative AI video app. Yeah. um He's a young boy that lives on Destiny Island. Yeah.
01:47:01
Speaker
And yeah that's also, that's a, yes, synonym, like a different definition of Sora. But Sora in this case is a generative AI that builds, creates videos based on your prompt as opposed to generative AI chat GPT that's going to answer your questions. It'll create a video for you.
01:47:21
Speaker
But Sora has been under a lot of scrutiny in terms of lawsuits, and it does cost a lot to operate Sora. like It just costs a lot. The operating costs are high.
01:47:33
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So that's kind of what was cited as why it got shut down, there's at least that's the general thinking for it. But I guess Disney's not doing this user-generated content. I guarantee you they are still going to do it. They're just going to find other suitors, right? Find Google.
01:47:51
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Yeah, other... other other ah AI video making platforms. So I don't think this is stopping Disney's plans. I mean, it's it's slowing it down definitely. But the the most interesting part about this, Simon, I don't know if you looked into this, but yeah, Sora was losing a shit ton of money. But the adoption rate of Sora as a platform, it was like 500,000 people.
01:48:13
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Oh, that's not a lot of people at all. You keep on hearing like AI, you know, everyone's using AI, yada, yada, yada. And then you kind of come to a realization. So actually, it's just like it's a very vocal minority that's spreading all this fucking garbage online.
01:48:27
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um So I thought that was honestly very interesting. So it makes sense that they're losing a shit ton of money because they're getting sued to oblivion. There's 500,000 people using it. It's less than the fucking population of Toronto.
01:48:40
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Yeah, it's crazy. Far less. you know it's a It's a bit nuts. I don't want Disney Plus to do this because that's going to increase my subscription cost. as we like Again, for something I don't use. It's actually directly connected to the story we just talked about with Netflix increasing their price. They're increasing their price because they added games, because they added wrestling. like I'm not playing those games. I'm so sorry, but I'm not. I know you're invested in the games. I'm not playing them on Netflix. You're not gonna but you're not going to play Hades on Netflix <unk> on your iPhone? No, I'm not. You're not going to play Oxenfree 2, the sequel to the first Oxenfree? Hades is a great game. And if I was going to play Hades, I'd buy it and give the developer their their due and not play it on Netflix in a streaming service. It's just crazy. I don't know. that That's the thing. So Disney Plus doing this, that was the biggest problem for me. It's like to each their own. Maybe someone wants that, but I don't want to pay for that because who foots the bill for Sora or any other generated like AI generated video, like user generated content platform on Disney Plus? Obviously the users, like the consumers are going to pay the pay the bill. Yeah. And I don't want to look at that. I don't want to see that tab. If there's an option to hide that tab, I will make sure that's ah available. I'm sure they're going to put it right in my face when I turn it on the app. I'm sure that's going to be the number one thing they're going to show me is all these stupid shorts made by somebody like where like freaking Elsa from Frozen is is fighting C-3PO in a bathing suit or some shit. You know what I'm saying? I don't want that.
01:50:13
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I'm good. Thank you. On Disney. pool Yeah, that's crazy actually. Yeah. I'm also curious is like, how quick are they going to break that thing open? um You know, users like going on and then we're going to see some very vulgar shit on there. Like, I just feel like as soon as you you allow people to to take advantage of something, um yeah they will. Especially if they, ah especially if they get Elon Musk's AI company to do was it. Wasn't Grok like throwing out child porn essentially for for like a little while? So maybe that's the next, maybe that's the next suitor.
01:50:43
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Maybe yeah Elon Musk is the... Yeah, it's Grok. Is it Grok though for the... No, they call it something else for the AI generated video specifically. Grok is the... Who the fuck cares? The chatbot.
01:50:55
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Yeah, I don't want this at all. rock It's crazy. So I'm sure you saw this. I don't know if we talked about this, but there's that DLSS 5. Yes. a Thing is DLSS 5. For those who don't know, it's an AI upscaler. It basically makes your games prettier. The whole idea behind DLSS in general was that it it's supposed to be it's upscales a 1080p like HD video to 4K without using the brunt of the GP to do it. That's the whole point of an AI upscaler.
01:51:20
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That's the idea of FSR, or at PSSR from PlayStation and DLSS 4.5 and below. But DLSS 5 is fundamentally changing what the game looks like. And it's like, what is NVIDIA just want to make their stamp and say, oh, we did something. It's like, you don't make games, NVIDIA. That's not your job. So it's very strange because when you look at it People call it the yassification of game games, which is very strange. But like they're printing up the graphics to to a point where they all look the same and they all look like AI so slop, for but lack of a better term. They look like the same AI thing we've seen time and time again.
01:51:57
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In some cases, it does look better. I think for Starfield as an example, I think the faces do look better. But that's not the point because the art direction direction went a certain way and then you're throwing DLSS 5 on top of it. it's just very We're in a very strange time of AI. And AI, as you mentioned about the PlayStation consoles, they increased in price because of AI companies buying up RAM. So like this is just creating...
01:52:20
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It's creating a whole bunch of problems for our society in numerous ways. So when Sora got shut down, i was like, okay, that's kind of good news, but it won't matter as you point out because something else will take its place.
01:52:31
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yeah So it's kind of a strange thing. Or maybe Disney will will learn this is not the way. Maybe they don't understand that people won't use it because Sora is not even being used anyway. So are you serious are you really gaining from having a contract like this? or is this I feel like there's a lot of yes men talking to these guys and they're like, yeah, yeah, the AI, is the ai boom, we got to do AI. Everyone's going to do AI. But when you look at the backlash for DLSS 5 as an example,
01:52:59
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People don't like it, I think, generally. Now, maybe the proof is in the pudding for sales. Maybe DLSS 5 will be popular. The craziest thing about DLSS 5 that's craziest for me is that DLSS was designed as an upscaler for upscaling when you have a weak GPU.
01:53:17
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This is for a weak graphics processor. This is for if you have 250 90s. I don't really understand. What's the point of this? Other than to make it look... all the same.
01:53:28
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So I think like the the reason they pitch this is because they do think, so a lot of people thinking that this is going to be big, but it's not actually large. Like nobody really cares about this. And so maybe Disney will bow out because they're going to see the backlash. I don't know.
01:53:43
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I have no interest in this. I don't know anyone in my life that has interest in it. That's anecdotal though. So I'm like, there's got to be people who are interested in it. Otherwise, why is Disney pursuing it in the first place? And that's kind of the question. Why is Nvidia pursuing it in the first place?
01:53:57
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Are we the minority? are Again, we're the fish going the opposite direction. Or are we the fish in the group? in the you know What if they're right and I'm wrong? That's what I'm trying to say. It's the Fargo poster. I keep thinking. go Go back to that constantly. Am I the fish going the wrong way?
01:54:14
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Well, I swear to God. You have numbers. you have the You're the stats guy. Is that what you're saying? Well, I just want to correct you. the The Fargo poster is what if you're right and they're wrong?
01:54:27
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What if that's what if you're right and they're wrong is the Fargo poster. I corrected you at the start of the episode as well when you said that. What am I saying? What if they're right and you're wrong?
01:54:39
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You're saying the opposite.
01:54:42
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Yeah, but it does apply here, to be fair. Yeah. yeah that Both ways work. Both ways. It goes both ways. for For the actual, right. The poster doesn't say that, but you know what i'm saying. Yeah, yeah. I follow you. No, I get exactly what you're saying I just wanted to protect you from from the many viewers. ferocious Fargo season one fans. The piranha-like viewers we've got. Yeah.
01:55:06
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But... um Yeah, what if I'm right and they're wrong is the poster? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Good riddance. Yeah, but it. Yeah. That's all I got to say about this.
01:55:19
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But no, i it's interesting. i think I don't think we're in the minority, man. I think um it's just a lot of people up high. I mean, like like in a lot of cases, the people with money that control everything, and then it's just a bunch of people jerking each other off up there while the rest of us down here are just getting fucking covered this shit.
01:55:43
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It's strange, though, because it doesn't usually happen. Is what we say. to this extent. Falling all over us. Anyways, yeah. It doesn't go this far usually, though it gets stopped eventually. It's not being stopped. Like NFTs and stuff. Yeah, like NFTs was like, ah I think a a prime example where people were like, no, this is fucking stupid. But it wasn't big companies. It was it seemed like it, was well, it was a little bit, but it was largely. There some big companies.
01:56:05
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It was largely though people like abusing other people like it was it was crappy investor like investor bros. They were trying to like abuse the situation. But this is like no, day much I think the key difference on board.
01:56:18
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Yeah, I think the key difference is that there is still benefits to a like NFTs are fucking stupid. No one really understood them and and they're valueless and they bring no positive. Whereas AI what what we're, you know, what we have, there there are still a lot of positives to it. So everything's kind of grouped together. And they're like, well, you know, like these people are are using AI to, you know, proofread their work and they they use AI all the time. So that's an AI user. So they must also be okay with generating Elsa in a bikini beating the shit out of C-3PO with r two d two and the Infinity Gaunt. C-3PO was in the bikini in my, in my...
01:56:57
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Okay. In my description. I was trying to make a PG here. Okay. But yeah, because I don't think they'll allow that. I think they'll start try to stop that. But to your point, how long before it gets broken open, as you said?
01:57:11
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i don't know. so Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know. This was more of a conversation than I thought it was. Sorry, I got carried away. but You said this was going to be the short one. Yeah, it's gonna be short one. We'll move on now, but it is kind of interesting. I'm curious to see what Disney does because now they've lost their partner, so I'm not sure what their plan is. but Maybe they'll launch themselves into fucking space. Those idiots. There was something I read about.
01:57:35
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was a headline though. So I'm not, I don't have all the details, but the new CEO was focused on Disney plus is like kind of the center of Disney. I think they were saying they're like looking at that as like a, you look at me away again from theaters.
01:57:49
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um Let me just double check. Oh, right, because that was a big center before. Disney Plus. Let me just see, because now I've said it. Disney Plus. I mean, even now, though, like I feel like theaters should be the focus. like I mean, Hopper's how hopper' box office.
01:58:03
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feel like that maybe be crushed it, didn't it?
01:58:09
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Um...
01:58:13
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Oh, okay. ah Now I'm wrong about what the that was state stated. So Josh DeMauro, the CEO said, this is what he was saying. According to the Hollywood Reporter, it was Disney Plus is positioned as the digital centerpiece of the Walt Disney Company. But that makes perfect sense.
01:58:28
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And that that leads me to believe, again, that they're going to look for another partner as well. They're not going to give up on this because that's part of it, I think. They're trying to make it the everything everything app for Disney, I guess, in terms of digital space.
01:58:40
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yeah That makes sense. Yeah. So it's not digital centerpiece is much different than being the full centerpiece. That's good to know. Cause I, parks is so important to them as well. And, and theaters is really crazy. I think it's blowing up again. You're right. Hoppers is a great example. And Zootopia was huge last year. Zootopia made a billion dollars. Avatar, the, the, the fire one. They killed. Last year, they murdered.
01:59:02
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People thought Warner brothers might take the cake for the best box office, but then Disney just swooped in and just destroyed. Cause Avatar and Zootopia came out after Warner brothers had their like great stuff.
01:59:14
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Yeah. come out. um But yeah, okay. Cool, man. All right. Is it time to move on? Yeah. All right. Now onto a segment of our show that I like to call A Look to the Future.
01:59:27
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A portion of our podcast where each of us present at least three of our picks for the TV series or movies that look most interesting to us that are releasing between the dates of April 7th and April 20th, 2026. Adrian, as this customer, you go first. What is your pick for first pick for movie or TV show coming out in this bi-week?
01:59:46
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My first pick, Simon, is the second season of Beef coming out on April 16th. I am quite excited for this one. I really love the first season of Beef. This is, again, new cast and everything like that. So, you know, maybe it won't be as as high quality as that first season, but I'm intrigued. I think this is a cool kind of, you know, different setup.
02:00:10
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Great cast, as I mentioned. i'm ah I'm stoked for this. I think I'm going to watch this with my wife. Okay. My first pick is Margot's Got Money Troubles.
02:00:21
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It's coming out on April 15th on Apple TV+. It stars Elle Fanning, yeah playing a character who's struggling with with money after having a child, and she decides to take a look at OnlyFans.
02:00:33
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Adrian looks pretty cool. The cast looks awesome. I believe it's Michelle Pfeiffer, and we got Nick Offerman in there, and obviously Elle Fanning, as we mentioned. um So it looks pretty cool. That looks very funny and interesting. I'm curious. looks great, man.
02:00:48
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I'm big El Fanning fan. Oh, yeah? i'm I'm fanning for fanning. Okay. Nice. Sure. Yeah. That's a good one. You know what? That's the name of this episode instead.
02:01:02
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I'm fanning for fanning. No more This is a Space episode. Yeah. and Even though we just talked about it for 38 seconds. My next pick, Simon, is...
02:01:14
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a movie coming out into the movie theaters on April 17th. It's Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Not to be confused with Tom Cruise, The Mummy, or Cruise, The Mummy.
02:01:26
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Tom Cruise, The Mummy. That's what it's called. Yeah. Or the ah old mummy movies with, with Scorpion King and all that stuff. Or thecom sequel or the with Brennan Frazier, which is but yet to release. So that why is also in the brand and phrase that one would be the one that people would be the most confused for, I think, because they know that one's coming. Some people know that's upcoming.
02:01:49
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But yeah, Lee Cronin's The Mummy, it looks really damn good. It looks spooky as hell. Lee Cronin Evil Dead Rise, which was fucking so good and awesome and terrifying. this This movie feels very Evil Dead-esque, like compared to that, or similar to the Evil Dead Rise movie. i'm a I want to watch this. I'm honest with you. I do want to watch this.
02:02:11
Speaker
Do want to watch this? cool um Not so much. Okay, I got to find someone else because my wife's definitely not not going to watch this with me. So I got to find other people. All right. But throw me invite. maybe i'll Maybe I'll change my mind. We'll see.
02:02:24
Speaker
And then I might say no. And you'll be like, okay, I'm going without you, you fool. You fucker. That's what i'm goingnna say. yeah How could you do this to me? How could you do this to me is what I'm going to say. I'm going yell. I'm going to be like, little but you betrayed me.
02:02:40
Speaker
You did this to me. I invited you and you said no. You told me to invite you. How could you do this to me? Is what I'm going to say. Anyway, sorry. There's a little bit of irony here because we're we're listing now. It's going to be two Netflix things. The next one is coming out on April 9th, Adrian. And it is a comedy from Dan le Levy called Big Mistakes. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. So I think it's his first big project, like at least from a producing so standpoint and like writing, producing, show running since Schitt's Creek.
02:03:13
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um And it's it's like a crime drama where he kind of plays like a pastor, but there's like crime going on i don't know if you saw the trailer, but it looks really wacky and pretty funny. Yeah, it looks really good good. It's funny that we're mentioning to Netflix things that look pretty good. maybe Again, maybe it's just a discoverability thing. I just don't, I don't know why i don't think of Netflix shows. What is it about their marketing that makes me feel less engaged? But this does look pretty great.
02:03:36
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um So yeah, and so does Beefs even season two. That trailer looked awesome. It looks really good. You know what? Let's keep on the the Netflix trend because there's ah there's a movie coming out on April 10th.
02:03:48
Speaker
Yeah. It's called Thrash. Oh. Remember that movie Crawl, Simon? With the Kaisco Delario. It's like a kind of like a hurricane, like a storm happens. And then like she, she, she's like, where's my dad? I got to go find my dad. And then there's alligators.
02:04:03
Speaker
Crocodiles under the. Yeah. Yeah. Did we watch that together or did I watch that? bump i I didn't, I didn't see it with you. Sorry. That movie was fucking awesome. I really liked that movie. This is the same kind of movie, except now it's sharks.
02:04:15
Speaker
It's a hurricane person's like, I got to get out of here, but there's sharks. Okay. So it looks fine, honestly. I like these dumb and fucking movies, man. Crawl was actually really good, though. like ah Like, it wasn't like dumb good. It was like genuinely a good watch.
02:04:31
Speaker
So i'm curious if this one's going to be a good watch or is going be dumb good? Or is it just going to be bad? That's possible, too. It's very possible. next to Next one on my list is not a Netflix thing. It's an Apple TV Plus thing. It's Jonah Hill's next movie. He's directing a film called Outcome starring Keanu Reeves, who appears to be like a big name actor who's like dealing with personal stuff.
02:04:55
Speaker
His name is a reef, reef Hawk. But yeah, it's Apple TV+.
Debates on Show Availability and New Releases
02:05:00
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plus is it Wait, it's it says Apple TV+. plus Here on this Wikipedia article, but it's really Apple TV. They're amateurs over here.
02:05:08
Speaker
It was announced in April 2023 that Apple TV+. plus Oh yeah, back then it was called Apple TV+. plus Fine, they're right. That's right, that's correct. um But yeah, they I think it's still going to be on Apple TV. They didn't lose the rights to this, right? Is it going to be in theaters though? Is that coming to theaters?
02:05:23
Speaker
Dude, have no idea. ah I'll look it up while you give us the next pick. What's your next pick? Okay, my final pick, Simon, is also coming out on April 16th. This is Disney Plus, though. Technically Hulu. It's a Vanderpump Villa, baby.
02:05:38
Speaker
Vanderpump Villa, season three. got Marciano. He's back. he had He had drama with the Mom Talk crew, the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives girls. Now Dad Talk from Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, the husbands. They they went to Vanderpump Villa.
02:05:56
Speaker
So they're going to be in at least one or two of these episodes. Is Stassi going to be there? I don't know. i haven't even seen the trailer for this season. who does I don't know. Anyways. right I don't know at all. and Outcome is streaming on Apple apple TV on April 10th. Actually, it's going straight to streaming.
02:06:14
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Interesting. Okay. Interesting.
02:06:18
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Cool. That's all, by the way. That's all I That's all you got? I've got a few other. I'll just i'll rattle them off here because we're usually picking three. um The Testaments, that's the c ah prequel, I believe, to, oh, sequel. Is it a sequel? Sequel.
02:06:32
Speaker
It's a sequel. Okay. It's a sequel it's a sequel to handmaid's tale do you ever read the book handmaid's tale do we ever talk about that margaret atwood's like the famous canadian author um no i've never read it very dark very dark very dark book but good a good book well written you read it uh it's margaret atwood of course it is i did read it i read it in school um and you i didn't watch the show i never watched the hulu you read that book and you're like man i wish the world was like this is what you were saying i definitely don't Did you ever watch the show? Is that why you're saying that? You know the premise, though. I know the premise, kind of. Okay.
02:07:05
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The Testament stars um Chase. One battle. Yeah, Chase Infinity. Chase something. Yeah, I was like. infinity is goingnna say It's not Infinity Chase. It's Chase Infinity. Yeah. There are two cars. Two car yeah car companies.
02:07:19
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yeah No, wait. It's one bank and a car. Yeah, i was going to say. so Chase Bank and Infinity. Chase Infinity. Yeah. But yeah, she's ah she's making it. That's cool.
02:07:31
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making it. Because I think Only Murders in the Building is her first big project, right? Am I wrong? It was her first big thing. What season of that? I only watched season one and two. Only Murders the Building. What am I talking about? It's a long title.
02:07:42
Speaker
After Another? don't want to talk. One Battle After Another, yeah. Okay. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Only Murders in the Building. Why did I do that? It's the same number. Is it the same number of words even? Yeah.
02:07:52
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One battle after another, only murdersing murders in the building. No one more. Ah, damn it. Hey, they both start with... Oh, yeah. I feel befuddled.
02:08:03
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a feel befuddled. There was a lot of like political topics, and i I wonder how we danced around them. We talked about like a Papa Sidhu, and then we talked about being cast in Harry Potter. Then we talked about J.K. Rowling's Weird Politics. We talked a little bit about Elon Musk. and i'm like, I'm just wondering how we dance these topics. that I feel like my brain is all asunder now. after that so that's why my i'm a little but this is a problem with anxiety is that now i'm like really high anxiety anxiety hoping i didn't say something idiotic hey um hey hey but listen to me yeah you definitely said something idiotic does that help What a nice guy you are. The next thing I can't believe you didn't mention because you just said, oh, I'm done, is The Boys Season 5 airs on April 5th, which is incredibly soon. And that's a huge thing. Too many shows, man. There's too much shit.
02:08:55
Speaker
um But that's ending. That's it. That's the last season, which is kind of exciting. they've They've talked, like a lot of the stars talked about how crazy the finale is. It seems like it's going to be interesting. The other show that looks great. Wait, that's coming out on the fifth April 5th, I believe so. Am I wrong? Oh, I don't know.
02:09:12
Speaker
But that' that's not April 7th to the 20th, Simon. Oh, shit. Oh, we missed the date. do We didn't talk about the boys last week, did we? Oh, maybe we did. but I don't remember. Maybe you did. Maybe. I'm throwing cheat at you for no reason.
02:09:25
Speaker
Oh, okay. yeah um Yeah, you're right. That's not April 7th. I don't know how I got caught up in that. Is that true? The boys is coming up before this episode airs? Can you check that up? Because I've got two others. It's April 8th.
02:09:39
Speaker
Oh, that's why. Because I wrote the wrong date. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's fair. So I was right. but But not right. I was wrong and right. All right. Cool. ah The other thing that's coming out, this is the last one, actually. I only have one more.
02:09:51
Speaker
Is The Audacity. Did you see this? No. It's from Jonathan Glatzer. He's one of the writers from Succession and Better Call Saul for a few episodes. What is it called? The Audacity.
02:10:07
Speaker
And it's like a crime drama in Silicon Valley, or not really a crime drama. It's like almost like a Silicon Valley comedy. It's looking at like the the craziness of this of Silicon Valley. Its trailer is really wacky. but It's like it's like kind of about like seems like corrupt CEOs and stuff like that. It looks pretty funny, but kind of just like a dark one. I feel like I have seen some of this. It's not rated particularly well so far.
02:10:32
Speaker
Oh, is it? Already rated? It's 60% with five reviews. so Oh, okay. Five reviews. It's supposed to come out on AMC on April 12th. Yeah. So Jonathan Glatz just kind of continuing his, I guess, AMC partnership a little bit. Billy Magnuson. He's the star. I like Billy Magnuson. I haven't seen him in too much, but I do enjoy him.
02:10:51
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Zach Galifianakis is in it as well. Yes. I like Zach Galifianakis. Cool guy. Seems like a cool guy. He lives in Canada now, pretty sure. Does he?
02:11:02
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Yeah. Pretty sure he lives in like BC or something.
02:11:07
Speaker
But yeah. Why? Okay, cool. That's it. That's it, but not it for our show because now we move on to the last segment of our show, Adrian, the new segment that we have called the trailer ah where we each present our favorite trailer of the week.
02:11:21
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What is your favorite trailer that you watched this week, Adrian? What is your favorite trailer? And it could be the one, I mean, we talked about earlier, I guess, because it was a pretty good trailer. It is a pretty big trailer.
02:11:32
Speaker
Um, no, it's not my favorite. I feel like we talked about that one enough. I don't want to bring it up again. The Harry Potter is what we're referring to. um yeah The one I want to talk about the most, man. Is Moana.
02:11:44
Speaker
Oh, dude. Holy fuck. I forgot about the Moana trailer. It looks like an insurance commercial. What? Yeah, like the editing. It just looks weird. Like the the color grading. It does not look particularly good, man. I'm not even trying to be a hater.
02:11:59
Speaker
doesn't look bad to me at all. I looked at the hate online. It doesn't look bad to me. I completely disagreed with the sentiment online. I was like, what's wrong with this? You're doing what you do with every one of these. I'm just not i'm not the target audience for this anyway. So what do I know, I guess? neither are you. So I mean, what do you know, I guess. But I don't think it looks bad at all. I think Dwayne The Rock Johnson is the only thing I saw criticism for. I didn't see anything about color rating. I just thought, oh, his hair looks crazy. He doesn't look right. It's like, he looks right to me. What's the problem? And it's literally. I don't think casting is the issue. i think it's just visually it looks weird. Like, again, you're you're you're calling it a live action remake. And I'm like, technically, it's a live action remake, technically, because they're live actors. But this is just another animated movie with live action characters in there.
02:12:44
Speaker
Like you're, you're doing CG the entire time. They're not going to be on set. They're not on a fucking actual raft in the water. it's It's like the Lion King live action movie. It's not Lion King live action. That's just another live Lion King animated movie, but it's not's not the same thing at all. That's like saying Avengers doomsday is an animated movie with live action actors.
02:13:04
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That's not, Well, it might be. I mean, I will i guess we'll see. I'm sure they'll be on set. No. Or The Mandalorian. It's a shot in the volume.
02:13:15
Speaker
don't know. I don't think so. The Mandalorian. That's coming out soon, ain't it? May. Yeah. I'm excited for that. It'll be really fun. I'm not excited, but I definitely want to watch it.
02:13:27
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Yeah, I'm excited. I'm not like, well, you know, but I'm like, I'll watch it. Sure. Sure. Maybe I'm going to. I just.
02:13:35
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Who cares? ah With Soul Trailer of the Week, for Adrian is not Moana. It is...
02:13:47
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The End of Oak Street. Oh, yeah. I sent that to you, man. yeah So this one's really it looks really freaking neat, dude. So it's by the director of It Follows, which is ah David Robert Mitchell.
02:14:02
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um J.J. Abrams name is plastered all over this trailer. like from J.J. Abrams, executive producer. And everyone's like commenting on the YouTube be like, what? wow, JJ, hope i hope we can make a good movie again. It's like, motherfucker, he's not making this.
02:14:15
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See, it follows guy. But this is like a really cool setup. So awesome cast to start. It has Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor um in it, for one.
02:14:26
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um They're like these parents and they live in this house at the end of Oak Street, apparently, or in Oak Street with their two kids. And one day they like wake up And you know they're like, what the hell? Something's off. And it's like their street teleported. It just like moved the entire street and yeah the surrounding area. and it's like, where did it go? And there's like yeah know they can get to the end of Oak Street and it's like it's just abyss. It's like something something's amiss.
02:14:56
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And then there's like – the trailer does such a good job because I have no idea what this movie is about really except for that you know brief premise. And then it just really hits the tone well. And then – there's a big old dinosaur walking outside.
02:15:11
Speaker
And as soon as I saw that, I'm like, man, I'm fucking, I'm so fucking sold for this great cast. I love Anne Hathaway. i love you and McGregor. i says Macy Stella is in the cast. Is that the, it can't be the daughter. Is it Macy Stella?
02:15:27
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She's in, she's going she just got cast in the, um, life is strange TV show. We just talked about that. She was in, um,
02:15:36
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Oh my God. Why can't I talk my old ass? Right. right So I think she's in it as well, according to this listing. But yeah again, i just think this trailer looks really awesome. It just sets the tone. I don't really know what it's about. It's coming out soon.
02:15:51
Speaker
I'm a hundred percent going to watch this. um You got a dinosaur, dude. Yeah. So come on. Cool. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. I'm going to rattle off the my my random ones because I feel like I shouldn't end with my favorite trailer.
02:16:06
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i Sorry, I shouldn't start with my favorite trailer. I'm going to rattle off some honorary mentions. You told me me to tell to say my favorite one. i had other ones. I didn't tell you to not do your honorable mentions first.
02:16:19
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You said talked our favorites. I'm just rattling them off. You're probably going to fit in your your pocket, too. That's all. I'm rattling them off. I'm not really talking too much. Star City, it's like an alternate.
02:16:29
Speaker
it What the hell? Why is there a thumbs up on the screen here? What's going on? It does that all the time, man. This is the second time I'm having this episode. Star City is the, basically it's for all mankind, but from the Russians' perspective, that looks really good. And I'm very excited for that. So we'll see how that goes. Wait, is it right after for all mankind? It's in the same universe?
02:16:48
Speaker
Yeah, it's just the other side. They're just showing what the Russians were dealing with instead. Oh. It's cool. Again, I really like for mankind, so I'm sure um'll I'll like this. I'm excited for it It's because this is the space episode. Obviously the Harry Potter one, we just talked about that. We talked about Moana. I didn't, that's not my favorite trailer of the week, but I thought it was fine. I just, I'm not that into the live action stuff. There's the Apple TV um series called Cape Fear. i don't know if you saw that trailer at all.
02:17:12
Speaker
No stars. um Oh my God. Names are all escaping me right now. Really bad. Great cast. oh Sounds like a great cast. I don't remember anyone in it. It's a, it seems like though, like this is serial killer guy who gets out of prison and he's like hunting this family and they're big actors and I'm just, Oh, Amy Adams. I got one.
02:17:30
Speaker
Okay. Okay. That's pretty good. She's in it. And then, oh my God, i can't remember his name. He's so good. He won Academy. of ear bar dam Javier Javier Bardem won an Academy Award for No Country for Old Men, I believe, right? He's so good in No Country for Old Men. It's crazy. Anyway, he looks like he's playing kind of not a similar character to that quite, but he's playing a psychopath again. Charlie looks pretty crazy. Patrick Wilson is in this as well.
02:17:53
Speaker
The trailer is cool because it's just very, it's a very dark and kind of wackily shot. Like it's, it's not like a straightforward trip. So I like that one too. But ah the Supergirl trail looks really cool too. Again, rattling off names, beef season two trailer. We kind of mentioned it earlier. Supergirl trailer looks really fun. I'm really excited for Supergirl. It should be pretty great. When's that coming out? June, right? Yeah. June.
02:18:12
Speaker
That seems right. But the trailer I'm going to give the the actual mention is my favorite of the week. It's going to surprise you, I think. And I'm wondering if you saw it. I bet you did. It's 824's Backrooms. I think this trailer looks freaking awesome. You know what? It's crazy because I don't know that I'm like going to love the movie. But this is a – this segment of our show, by the way, as we – it's the second one, second version of this segment that we've done. The second episode we've done this segment. Yeah.
02:18:38
Speaker
It's to honor the trailer itself, not necessarily the movie. The movie could be bad. It's possible. But I will say that this trailer is really, really cool. There's there's a control vibe about it. You know, the game, the Remedies control.
02:18:50
Speaker
you know You get that vibe? There's like a weird. Most definitely. It's just very wacky looking. And like this idea of like –
02:18:59
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Oh my God, I'm lose, completely lost my stuff. It's crazy. Cause I'm so getting used to this area. Uh, the, the director I'm not aware of at all. Kane. So the director, I know a little bit about him, um, based on research. So Kane Parsons, he's a 20 year old dude and he made the back rooms series on YouTube. Um,
02:19:20
Speaker
I know, but you do watch any of this. there' I'm trying to say, do we know if it's going to be any good is is kind of what I was trying to get. It's very ah critically like acclaimed. like People really like it. It's very popular on YouTube. I haven't watched it myself, but it's made like a bunch of like spin-off video games. and He essentially took that like liminal space and like made it very popular.
02:19:41
Speaker
so yeah um i remember hearing a lot about this back in the day. I, again, have not watched any of his stuff. Maybe maybe I'll watch his back rooms found footage stuff on on youtube so i kind of know what i'm going in for but um yeah this trailer looks fucking awesome the thing i was going to say though is like chiwetel edgy four is amazing and everything i've kind of seen he's been really good in everything i i feel like he's he's really good and he's the main actor in this which is pretty cool considering this ad director hasn't done that much that's of like giant repute but he got a pretty big name star i feel like
02:20:15
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ah for this. I don't know. It's haunting looking. it It looks like the budget can't be that high except for maybe the actors. um But I don't know. it's like just like I love the yellow tone of everything. But this central thing is it I guess it's just that it's a furniture showroom and and in the basement there's this room that goes on forever. There's just a bunch of rooms that are adjoined.
02:20:41
Speaker
And there's just like what's going on in there. And it's just this very so ah It's a horror, so we'll see how it goes. I'm sure it's completely up your alley based on definitely yeah your style of movie you love. but um The trailer, though, is amazing. whether there was a there was Way back, like 20 years ago, when Iron Man was coming out, almost 20 years ago now,
02:21:02
Speaker
my brother showed me this onion. There was like this, on the, the, on you know, the onion, like the the fake publication. He showed me this, like, it was like a review of Iron Man, like, but not Iron Man, the movie, but Iron Man, the trailer.
02:21:18
Speaker
And it was basically saying like, Oh, maybe they'll make a movie out of this trailer. Like the joke was like the trailer is first and then they maybe make a movie out of it. And so that's kind of what the segment is essentially. That's how I imagined it.
02:21:30
Speaker
We're reviewing the trailer itself, but we have no idea. what the movie could be terrible. It's like, you what trailer was a really amazing, Adrian, and I would have picked for this segment? The Suicide Squad. Not the Suicide Squad, but Suicide Squad trailer. That trailer is freaking awesome. Bohemian Rhapsody as ah as like an underlying piece of music behind it. Really great, but that movie, really bad.
02:21:53
Speaker
so I think Backrooms will be good, though, based on the vibes I'm getting from this trailer. Although I thought Suicide Squad will be good, too. so So you never know. But anyway. Yeah, I feel like a twenty four typically like they they have fewer misses than hits. Right. So I just think. um I mean, I think this has a lot of miss like actual miss, like the one that's like as nothing as bad as Suicide Squad. Certainly like I think we nothing like that bad. But I think about the unicorn movie.
02:22:21
Speaker
I know that didn't do particularly well. The unicorn movie. Death of a unicorn. That one's not as good as. That movie should have been way better. maybe should have been way better it seems like it could have been it was like on the verge of being way better great they just kind of missed yeah just missed the mark there' there's a lot of good in it but yeah anyways but even the trailer for that that wasn't as good as this trailer that's the key yeah yeah Oh yeah. Look, I'm looking at some of the clips from this trailer again. Oh my goodness. It just looks so haunting.
02:22:55
Speaker
It's like so cool. It's the way that shot to the way the lighting is in this basement. It just looks, yeah, it looks really great. Yeah. Anyway, that's my, but that's my choice. Yeah. He is. There's 22
02:23:08
Speaker
on YouTube that he's released so far in this backrooms, like franchise. The first one literally just called the backrooms. It's from four years ago. It's nine minutes long, 74 million views.
02:23:21
Speaker
and And then he has like these random things in there. We had 22. Maybe I'll just sit down and watch this tonight. Are you planning on staying up super late and playing marathon with me until like three in the morning?
02:23:34
Speaker
Not three in the morning. No. How late? I don't know We'll see. two I'm going to play it right after this, though, if we can wrap this baby up. Okay. How late but are you willing to stay up with me? i had the low The latest I'd probably stay up nowadays like two. It just ruins my sleep schedule. and it's like It's easier to sleep if you're not... like throwing your schedule asunder. But yeah, I'm, I think we're done. You got to do what I do, man. You got get a hard reset. So this is what I do. I stay up very late on days that I don't work, like the nights before I don't work, right? I stay up until like three, three 30, sometimes four.
02:24:10
Speaker
I go to bed, probably sleep until about 10 ish, 10, 10 30, right? Not, not a full eight hours, but then Sunday rolls along Simon. And then um I usually like, I,
02:24:23
Speaker
I smoke the marijuanas, as you know. yeah i usually only smoke like just before bed. Sundays, it's my little treat day. I'll kind of, I'll smoke in like the later afternoon. That way by like,
02:24:35
Speaker
nine, 10. I'm fricking sleepy. I'm sleepy as heck. And this is creepy. What you're doing with your hands there, by the way, it looks like there's like a weird finger spider. You're like putting it on the camera. No, no one can see this. It just looks. Sorry. Continue. That was rude. That was rude. No, it's okay. Don't worry about it, man. Don't worry about it. So I typically, and then I'll just, know, I'll, I'll maybe smoke a little bit weed earlier.
02:24:57
Speaker
And then, you know, smoke smoke weed just before bed. And then I'll just, I'll sleep like a rock and I'll sleep for like 12 hours. Yeah, well, I don't smoke weed. Not 12 hours, but like. That's a part of the plan that work. You are straight edge. Look at you, Mr. Straight edge.
02:25:10
Speaker
I'm not advertising it as like a thing that I'm doing this better than you, man. This guy's cool. He's just a straight edge. Do you know what I'm getting? Is that cool? is that cool? Do people think that's cool now? Is that cool? Is it coming back around?
02:25:21
Speaker
I don't think so. I have no idea, but I think it's cool. I think it's cool. All right. That's nice. Thanks. I think you're really cool. You're we're sitting here recording. I'm I'm I've been nursing a beer over the last two hours and 25 minutes talking to you and you're there. Never even had a beer in the past 10 years.
02:25:37
Speaker
that's right it's true you're a good guy true story i'm proud of you story dude you know what i forgot to tell you about we're moving on from the trailers right are we done we're about to close the show i was gonna ask you if you had anything else to say before we close i went to the juno's oh well that's something you watched with that yeah i went to the juno's um it was last sunday whatever day that was march something martin was it by me martin It was on the 29th, Simon. It was on the 29th. Right.
02:26:06
Speaker
It came around twenty ninth the 29th of March. Did you meet Mr. Carney? I did not meet Mr. Carney. He was there, though.
02:26:17
Speaker
People love that guy. People love that guy. That's good. Yeah. the The last guy who's not beloved. I'll say that. Gosh, no. I didn't mind him at all, but that wasn't other people.
02:26:29
Speaker
Hey, people were, i don't they made their whole personality. They hate for So I know, dude, I know. We're talking to the prime minister of the United, the United States. Oh my God. canada we're Prime minister of Canada. Just so we're clear for those who don't know, for the one listener, can appears board for now we're talking about.
02:26:44
Speaker
Yeah. He, he, he's boyfriend. They didn't like him. Um, no, Ultimately, man, I just feel like you shouldn't like any politician. They don't have your best interests in mind.
02:26:56
Speaker
Just vote for um vote for the the political party you you align with the most.
02:27:03
Speaker
I don't trust politicians. The candidate you align with the most, but yeah, sure. Well, in Canada, it's not really – I mean he's not even the most powerful person of our country. there's like three people ah above him.
02:27:15
Speaker
What? What do you mean? It's his agenda. Yeah, there's the general thing. I forget, dude. It's been like- It's his agenda. it's What he yes he wants is going to happen theoretically. He's leading the party, but it's changed. The same party is in power, but his policies are much different than the last guy for the same party. That's my point.
02:27:33
Speaker
yeah The guy you're voting for does matter in this. That was my point I was trying to make. Fair enough. Fair enough. Anyways. To get more into politics again. Yeah. To make me more stressed before we end this. just – I don't like – I don't trust any politician is my point.
02:27:48
Speaker
Anyways. um What was I saying? Oh, I was at the Junos. It was pretty cool. um This was my first award show that I was at, like in person. it was It was really cool, man. It's an awesome experience. There was a lot of love for Nelly Furtado.
02:28:08
Speaker
Because, ah I mean, she's Canadian. She's been, it was essentially, I forget what it's called. Like, just like, ah they gave her like kind of ah an achievement. um achievement um I don't know if it was a lifetime achievement. There's some sort of achievement award because they give the lifetime achievement award to, um God, what was her name? Oh my goodness.
02:28:27
Speaker
ah Oh my, whatever, dude. Who cares? what the fuck to it What the fuck am I even talking about? Louis Bertotto was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
02:28:38
Speaker
Okay, yeah. And they gave the Lifetime Achievement Award. Oh, my goodness. Lifetime Achievement Award.
02:28:49
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Junos. Adrian. Let's see here. Presented by your National Arts Center. Oh, Joni Mitchell.
02:29:00
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Joni Mitchell. I kept on writing Genie. Oh, that was the one that carney yeah Mark Carney was presenting. He presented it to Joni Mitchell, right? Yeah. He did indeed. And then she was like, she she like literally just kept on. She was like, i thank you so much. By the way, this our prime minister, he rocks. I really like him. And just kept on doing that. They would move the camera to him. And he's like, oh. That's it it was pretty wholesome um that's cool but yeah it was it was awesome dude rush was the opening of of the junos sweet which was fucking awesome the beaches played who i i really love the beaches our cows were there a bunch of other people that i haven't heard of um it's cool time i would definitely go i think it's in winnipeg next year though so i'm not going to winnipeg that's right but
02:29:48
Speaker
Anyways, sorry. I forgot about that. That's all right. All right. Well, that's fucking end this shit. Let's get out of here. You want to play marathon with me? You're begging me to hop on marathon with you now. At first, you just played marathon without me. You're like, I don't even want this guy here. And then I joined you a couple times. You have finally invited me. And you're like, wow, this guy's so good. This guy's so good at making friends on this game.
02:30:10
Speaker
oh i thought you're gonna say good at killing people no i'm not i'm not that good dude good at killing some sometimes sometimes i have a good streak yeah and other times i'm like i have not shot a single bullet and i i've been murdered 18 times i've had that yeah i've had a pretty good run of of of murdering too but i i'm just i don't know yeah all right i was i was playing a little bit today and uh bad streak Good streak. It was an idea. I'll be honest. can't answer All right, audience. Thank you for listening to episode 133 of Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie, and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my all-star co-host, Adrian Pinter.
02:30:49
Speaker
Please join us on April 21st for episode 134. Good evening to you and good luck. See you later. Goodbye. Yeah. Goodbye.
02:31:00
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Take care. See ya.