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134. They Know What They Are & They’re Proud
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Adrian & Simon take a look (from the outside looking in) at the 2026 CinemaCon announcements! They dive into CinemaCon based announcement discussions on Paddington, The Hunt for Gollum, Avengers Doomsday, Resident Evil, Godzilla Minus 0, Coyote VS ACME, Disney’s Infinity Vision theatrical format, Dune 3, and Disclosure Day. Plus, Adrian reviews the romcom Regretting You and the first two episodes of season 5 for Amazon’s superhero drama, The Boys; while Simon reviews FX's Fargo Season 5. Additionally, they get a little concerned about the upcoming Warner Brothers Paramount merger; while also getting hyped up for Invincibles director Brad Bird’s upcoming Netflix animated movie Ray Gunn.
This episode was recorded in Canada on April 19th 2026. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on May 5th for Episode 135.
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CinemaCon Announcements and Industry Implications
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but were boom What are you, a frog? Let's go. don't know. Let's begin. This episode. It's more like it. We examine the recent announcements that came out of CinemaCon. Oh, is that similar to SawCon? No, we're not doing this. Okay.
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We're not doing this. Not not today. Okay.
Review of 'The Boys' and Narrative Concerns
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We briefly review the first few episodes of the final season of Amazon's The Boys, as well as FX's Fargo Season 5. And we get a little worried about the impending Paramount Warner Brothers merger.
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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.
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Welcome
Introduction of Hosts and Discussion Themes
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to Suck On. To Suck On these nuts, you son of a gun dude. Damn it. Welcome to episode 134. Jesus. Welcome to episode 134. boom wow won
Manga vs. TV: Attention Span and ADHD
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Oh, howdy there, Simon. Do you read? i can read. Yeah. I read on occasion some books, but very and on occasion lately because there's just so much other media that I consume.
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Yeah, man. Yeah, man. There's so much media out there these days. I've been ah i've been kind of consuming a lot of media over the last you know couple weeks since you and you and I sat down in different forms, actually. Yeah.
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And I know you always say that I don't know how to read. You always point that out, that I don't know how to read. But that's that's not true, actually, Simon. oh Because I started reading yeah the Berserk manga.
Social Media's Impact on Attention Spans
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You ever hear about Berserk? I know about Berserk, yeah. i have ah It's a manga, though. That's the thing you're reading, is the manga. Because you're going to give me something like a Charles Dickens novel you're reading or like, you know.
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Never met the man. Yeah, don't know. He's never given me any of his books. You're reading a comic book. It's, it's, yeah. Yeah, it's intense, though. I hear that Berserk is very intense. It's pretty dark and intense and gritty, but I'm not much of a manga reader. I did back in the day when I was maybe in...
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Elementary school and high school and stuff, but kind of fell off of it. um You know, read some comic books in my day, but this was at my local library, Simon. Right. As you know, I've been going the library a lot. I'm typically just getting games from the library, video games. Yeah. But I saw this in their catalog. I'm like, I'm actually going to get a book this time. Wow. I'm about but halfway through. This is the deluxe volume.
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It's many ah pages. I'm about halfway through. i um I read like pretty much half this novel, 346
TV and Film Reviews: 'The Pit' and 'For All Mankind'
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pages in like one sitting. Again, wouldn't call it a novel, but it is cool. Yeah. the Picture novel with with beautiful art. Yeah. And yeah, it's it's fantastic, dude. I really got into this and it ah made me like kind of think about like my attention span, right? Because like sometimes I can be locked in.
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Right. You know, yeah if i'm I'm reading a book, but like when it comes to TV shows, yeah I can't like I can't I literally can't sit there and watch it for whatever reason. If I'm playing video games, I'm doing something. I'm in it. I'm in it. You know, if I'm watching a movie with my or a show with my wife, I'm OK.
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But whenever I'm by myself, I can't do it. So I'm trying to figure out what's what's up with this brain of mine that I can sit here in silence and read a book and Again, there's a bunch of pictures and stuff, but I can't sit and just watch TV.
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Right. And I was questioning this all week as I was watching a lot of TV. But the way I was essentially consuming it is I was having it playing and I was constantly doing stuff. You know i was making dinner. I was like chopping vegetables while watching my shows. I was ah maybe eating food, eating dinner while watching this stuff. And I just, I realized like I got to be doing something with my hands. Right.
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to to be able to be fully engaged in something or be in a very specific setting to be fully engaged. Oh. You know, because if I'm just sitting watching TV, I can't do it. But with the with this book, there's a, you know,
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Okay, I was trying to make the paper sound. Yeah, you got a prop. He's holding the the na the the manga Berserk. And it's like, with this, I'm i'm i'm i'm the one you know turning the pages. So I'm like, am I focused because I'm holding something in my hand, I'm turning the pages, I'm doing something? and I'm just trying to figure it out.
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Interesting. Yeah. So you get you got like a specific brand of ADHD probably guess caused by phones. I had this when I was a kid as well, though, to be fair. Oh,
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and Interesting. Yeah. Huh. I actually, um, I got like I went to the doctors once and ah yeah, they essentially like I did like the ADHD test thing. Yeah. And they're like, yeah, you got it.
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my My old doctor, Dr. Morishita, God rest his soul. um He passed away. Yeah, he passed away over a decade ago. Great doctor, though. He was my family doctor growing up.
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Yeah, he was a guy. You got it. But never, never got medicated on it ever. So, huh? Anyways, OK, not really important. Interesting. my well that is Interesting nonetheless.
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But yeah, this a problem I feel like in the modern age though, for imagine kids growing up now with cell phones and social media, TikTok, TikTok especially, they're like this attention grabbing applications, these these attention grabbing applications like Instagram and TikTok that just want to keep your attention for as long as possible. It's a scary world out there, in my opinion, for for young kids. And there's some, like, I feel like there's some lawsuits going on in the U.S., I'm pretty sure, in the U.K. right now, to try to ah stop kids from using social media like during a certain group. Up to a specific age. Yeah. Up to a certain age. I feel like I remember something about that. I think Australia did something, like, banning social media for kids.
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Yeah. Up to the age like 16 as well. Social media. They're working on it or they've done it. One of them is, I think, working on it. I think it's the UK. They're working on trying to to study it, certainly, but also trying to ban it in some to some extent to to avoid you know the the brain harm.
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Yeah. Hey, funnily enough, Global News, Ontario education minister considering social media ban for under 16. So this is actually something that they're working on. right now in our area.
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But it was Australia enacted a world first to ban on social media for children under 16, which officially came into force on December 10th, 2025. this was recent. i was i was right about that. The Australian thing.
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Yeah, cool. So pretty cool. Pretty cool. Sweet. they have a they have a They have Berserk other media, right? they've got where They have a video game?
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No, they don't have video game. Not yet. They must have shows. yeah right yeah They do have shows. so My original plan was to watch the the the the anime. yeah um but like When I was looking, there's multiple different like berserk animes. And like, it was, I, I, when I was like kind of researching it, I just got bored, but I was like looking into it and like specific ones are good. And then other ones are really bad. And I just didn't know which one I should watch. And I also didn't understand. I'm like, is this covering,
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the first arc or is this just a random arc? Cause it's like, i don't know. It's like whatever golden circle arc. I don't think it's called the golden circle arc. I'm just saying it. Yeah. And um yeah, so I was kind of confused and I was like, you know what? This is at my library. So I'm going to read, I'm going to try reading. The issue is though, Simon, is that they only have this one at the library.
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I think there's like 17 deluxe volumes or whatever. Whoa. so Give or take a bit. And they only have the first one. And they're like about 50 bucks each. So whoa I'm really liking it, though.
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So I'm like, do I start buying these? yeah and Do I start yeah purchasing them? Because I want to. It's done now, right? They're not making more of that. That's older. Yeah. So the original author, Kentaro.
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ah Where is his name? Kentaro Miura. He passed away, I believe, in 2020. There's something around those lines. And I think they so like maybe is like protege continued the story. And then they they had volumes releasing up until 2021. But i think this started back in the ninety s Yeah, so it's pretty old for my pretty older, I guess. It's strange they're called the 90s old.
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yeah That would make me old. You are old. so Oh, thanks. You are old, and so am I. gee But you're older. Thank you. so I am older. Yeah. That's true. All right, Adrian. I just want to start this episode off with a little correction here. That's not really a correction because we weren't incorrect, but we're now incorrect.
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And the the time in which we recorded the last episode, the space episode, to when it aired, the Hollywood Reporter reported that Project Hail Mary actor Ryan Gosling had dropped out of the Everything Everywhere All at Once director's next science fiction film. I think it was like the same night that Yeah, you texted me.
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Yeah, I think I said, well, shit or something like that. yeah Because we just recorded and he then dropped out, which kind of sucks. I was kind of looking forward to him collaborating with the Daniels.
00:09:53
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You know? Yeah. ah Daniel Sheinart and Daniel Kwan. on Was it scheduling conflicts? cause I can't remember, right? Was it scheduling conflicts? I think so. I don't know if they went into too many specifics at the time. Maybe there's more now. out But I think it was like scheduling. But scheduling conflicts is like it's like's like creative differences. Those two things, they're so broad. yeah What does that mean exactly?
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But like was there also like scheduling conflicts, but also I don't want to do it. I read the script. You know what I mean? i I don't know. Like I decided to do this other project instead because I like this better. I don't know. I want i always wonder about that. Those two things.
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Because I feel like and they're not really going to tell us. Yeah, unfortunately. It's convenient to say creative differences. I'd love to know the drama. Yeah. come anyway So that's kind of sad. I'm looking forward to this next movie because this is their next film. I'm pretty sure.
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And I love everything everywhere, everywhere all at once. It's one of my favorite movies. So it's my top, top movies on in general, but on Letterboxd, et cetera. so Oh, okay. Yeah. really like I do really love that movie as well. It made me, ah made me cry.
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Yeah, and laugh for me too. There's some moments in there where just like, I can't believe it. It's ah it's it's a roller coaster. It's great. It's great. yeah Did you ever watch Swiss Army Man? I feel like I've asked you this before. I didn't. You did, right?
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Yeah, I did. It's really good. yeah It's really good. That one's unique. in ah I mean, so is everything everywhere all at once. But yeah, Swiss Army Man is very unique as well. It's it's quite quite humorous.
00:11:23
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Indeed. mean, the premise is humorous as a start. Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe. Yeah. It's cool. It's good stuff. Good stuff, dude.
00:11:35
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All right. Well, let's just get right into it to what we've been watching this week, Adrian. What have you been watching this by week, my friend? Yeah, man. So I've watched a good chunk of things, actually, um as I mentioned to you earlier in this conversation. But we didn't watch like any big movie that came out this week. There's a...
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I wanted to go, I just had a busy couple weeks. Just constantly doing stuff. and And honestly, work's been quite draining. So I wasn't really in the mood to like go out, unfortunately. So apologies. they're Kind of likewise, honestly, other than the busyness.
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The draining. The draining. I've been drained. yeah. so they were I guess the feeling is mutual, but you've watched stuff at home. I presume I have indeed watched thing at home, a few thing at home. And one of the thing I watched at home is a movie called regretting you. Are you familiar with this movie? I think came out last year.
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um stars Remind me. i definitely It definitely rings a bell. Yeah. So it it stars um McKenna Grace, Mason Thames, and then Dave Franco and Alison Williams. and Yes. And the the the setup and the premise, it's also shown in the trailer, is that Dave Franco's girlfriend and allison williams is Alison Williams' sister. And Alison Williams' husband – So Dave Franco's girlfriend and Allison Williams, his husband, they die in a car accident and they're they're together in the car. And it's like, whoa, why are they together? And it's because they've been having this affair.
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And that's kind of the the thing. And it's like the mystery of the movie. However, again, it was shown in the trailer. yeah and But that's kind of like the setup of the movie. And it's about, you know, Dave Franco's character and Alison Williams, um you know, kind of almost rekitle rekindling an old friendship and romance that they had. So they're like, oh, sweet. You know, our significant others are dead. Maybe we can get together now.
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And, you know, Alison Williams' daughter, McKenna Grace, is, you know, just going through just, I mean, hardship, you know, her her father just passed away, her aunt just passed away. She meets Mason Thames and, you know, they're ah they're building a relationship.
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You know, fairly paint by numbers, you know, it's it's predictable in in all the ways. It's fine, you know, it's a movie. I don't regret watching it. watched it with my wife. She was in the mood for it, right?
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But the thing I wanted to talk about in this movie that drove me fucking insane, dude, actually insane you know, so Alison Williams is character and McKenna Grace, again, her daughter, they're, they're at, you know, at each other, you know, that they're fighting all the time. McKenna Grace is, you know,
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going to see mason thames's character and he's a bad boy that the mom doesn't really like and she's like you shouldn't be doing that right and there's been multiple times in the movie where mechanic race kind of runs off and also someone is like where's my daughter and she pulls out her phone and tracks her daughter's location okay and finds out where she is multiple times early in the movie then halfway through the movie, McKenna Grace again runs off for the 14th time in this movie.
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As well as like, I don't know where my daughter is. Where is she? Not pulling out her phone and checking the location. And I'm sitting there and being like, why the fuck are you checking the location? I'm like, oh, maybe they'll, they'll explain that. So they had a conversation, a heart to heart where there's trust and she's, you know, doesn't want to track where her daughter is or something.
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Right. But no, because in the latter half of the movie, McKenna Grace disappears again. She's like, where is she? And then she tracks her location on her phone. You set up this plot point or this this tool for for the mom to track her daughter right at the beginning. You've used it. Then halfway through the movie, you refuse to use it. She's like, I'm freaking out. I don't know where my daughter is. Pull out your fucking phone that you will literally use in another 25 minutes. And dude, pissed me off.
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It pissed me off. That inconsistency. it It just made me think, you guys don't care about what you're making. The writers don't care about what they're doing. They're just doing this movie. They're just trying to make a quick buck and doing it. And it it just, um it frustrated me.
00:15:55
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Sounds like a companion level plot hole right there. Yeah, yeah. You know, good like companion, great movie, good movie. But the plot hole kind of made it go from great to good. You know what I'm saying? For me, at least. I know you you can go look past it. It's very entertaining. Good music choices. Pretty funny at times, you know. Quite humorous. Good horror at at times, you know, thriller horror. But alas, the plot holes pissed me off.
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That's what this sounds like. That would have annoyed me. i I definitely would have noticed that. i definitely would have noticed. It's funny that, you know, You would think that it's like, I often play video games, you know, and then find like a weird bug.
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Yep. And I'm like, did you play test your game? It's constantly my kind of my thing. Like, how could you not have seen this? This is so obvious. And it's, is this the same thing here? Like, did you watch the film?
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Or do you know, yeah like, how did you, yeah how did you arrive at this problem? You would think you would like then add a scene or something, but you can't even fix that because they went back and forth. They went. Yeah. You know, I feel like I would have been almost okay with it if they didn't go back to the phone tracking thing. Right. Yeah. you but they did and Maybe they cut it out. Maybe there's a scene we missed, but that's fair because we did not go to see their whole lives, you know?
00:17:10
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Anyway. Okay. But good to hear. Good. Good to know. Yeah. It's fine. I don't really recommend it. But you don't regret it. No, I don't regret it. yeah I don't regretting regretting you. I don't regretting you.
00:17:21
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I know you. You said I don't regret it earlier. I thought you were going to do a little punny thing with it, but you didn't. So I tried to line it up, but didn't really work. No. I was starting to think about myself.
00:17:32
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yeah Sometimes it doesn't work. Anyway, anything else you watched, my friend? I did. I did watch a few other things, Simon. and I did watch a few other things. I wrote them down. Tell me about that.
00:17:44
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The other thing i I did watch is The Pit, season two. It's done. wrapped. I finished the episode. The season? Yeah, the the season. yeah Oh, you finished the finale.
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Yeah, the finale of season two of of The Pit, as I've been watching. And I've been i've been quite critical on the show of this show. you know i just I enjoy it. i so I was saying I do enjoy it. But again, it's just there's a level of of absurdity, especially with the first season.
00:18:13
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Yeah, that is just like, man, so much going on. Season two, I almost feel like it toned it back or i just got used to it and stopped paying attention to it as much. It's one or the other. But I am going to tell you something, Simon, and it kind of pissed me off a little bit, not about the show, but about myself is there was a scene in the last episode where I started tearing up and I'm like damn it. I fell for it.
00:18:35
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I fell for it. I got I got too invested and my eyes started welling up and I was like, damn it. They got me. It took it took them 30 episodes, but they got me and I. You know what?
00:18:47
Speaker
Shout out to the pit season two. It's good. I enjoy it again. It's very on the nose. I've been making a sandwich during that scene. You should have should have been making some goulash or something, you know, with your hands. You use your hands more. You might not have turned up.
00:18:59
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Yeah, it's it's possible, man. It's possible. But um it is quite enjoyable. Again, it is like very intense and it, you know, like there's always something going on. um But the acting is, is honestly genuinely superb. I think the writing at most times is pretty good.
00:19:18
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It is very on the nose with its messaging a lot of the time. Just, just very much on the nose, I think, but that's okay. I don't think that makes it bad.
00:19:30
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It just, um, made for a slightly dumber audience, I guess, in that case. I feel like it's like, hey, just so you know, this is a bad thing. Here's the message in this situation, by the way. Right. Let me let's let me tell this other character that is rolling their eyes at the situation why they shouldn't be doing that. It's very much like that.
00:19:52
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um But again, it's good, dude. It's good. I can't talk shit about it. I talked enough shit about it. I i enjoyed it. I watched 30 episodes of this fucking thing. Am I going to watch season three? Most definitely. So yeah who the hell am I? You know, I can't make a show like the pit.
00:20:05
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Right. Why am i even critiquing anything? I can't do any of this. What are we doing here? Yeah. Why are we here right now? What is going on? We're so unqualified for this.
00:20:16
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Yeah, it's absurd, man. It is true. It's funny. It's always funny to me. It is a thing in general. Like there's all this like there's there's a whole industry out of reviewing movies and video games and TV shows like I'm not making a friggin movie. I can't even do that. Why would i be able to review It doesn't make any sense review, especially a video game. Like how complex that is. is great Well, I guess the complexity could be seen as similar, but in some aspects. But anyway, it's it's interesting.
00:20:44
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But I mean, there have been a few like reviewers that have gone into the movie industry. Like Chris Stuckman most recently, he's like a big reviewer on, on, on the YouTube and he made his like Shelby Oaks movie, which I've been meaning to watch.
00:20:57
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Um, damn yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. But a couple other things that I watched again, I don't want to take up too much time here. ah The boys season five, the final season is here. I'm watching it.
00:21:11
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I'll be honest with you, man. I'm just over the boys. I'm going to finish this series. It's like the sunken cost fallacy. You know, I've i've watched four seasons of it. We're going to the end. Yeah. um Yeah. I just got to, I got to finish this, but yeah.
00:21:23
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I feel like I was pretty down on the show in season three and in season four, and that hasn't really changed in season five. And it is just so I guess kind of like the pit in in a weird way. It's just very on the nose.
00:21:37
Speaker
It is just – like with its parodying of you know the current United States has been administration and everything like that, it is crazy just like – they don't give a fuck. They're just being like, yeah. It's almost like not a parody because the shit that's going on in the real world is just as absurd if not more absurd in some cases. And it just – I'm over it, man. I don't fucking care about this like – all this i just I just want to watch something sometimes and not be reminded of everything else that's going on. And it is kind of annoying. But I don't really remember this in the earlier seasons with the boys, but I feel like season five is like tonally inconsistent in a lot of ways.
00:22:16
Speaker
They like it's always been kind of wacky and zany and everything like that. um But I feel like I remember there being a lot more heartfelt moments in the first few seasons that weren't immediately like undercut with comedy.
00:22:33
Speaker
OK. And I feel like season five is just simply not. giving any room to breathe when they try to do these like heartfelt emotional moments. They like try to do something and they're going for it. And then all of a sudden it's like dick joke or, you know, big.
00:22:50
Speaker
Yeah. It's just, it, and it's just, it's just, i don't know. It's just so I'm over it, dude. I'm fucking over it. I'm going to finish it, but I'm not really like enjoying it. I don't know, but I just, I got to know how it ends.
00:23:03
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And um there's something interesting about the boys. I felt like because of the stakes and because of the the boys as a team of humans, largely, humans trying to fight these supernatural beings, they're trying to defeat the superheroes because they're evil in this yes universe, right? That's the whole premise of the show.
00:23:25
Speaker
It's kind of odd when they said, oh, it's ending after season five. I'm like, but I mean, it could have ended at any point. Like what they're so outmatched the whole time and they were constantly put in their place at the end of every season that they're never, you know, and there's the not much as there's a lot that develops. i don't want to spoil anything. There's a lot that develops, but in some way they're kind of in a similar boat because it's Homelander is so goddamn powerful.
00:23:51
Speaker
And you see that right in the first episode of the show of of the boys season one. So I'm like, you could have ended at any time. So now I'm wondering, like are they just rushing this to the end? That's what we like. So you're saying there's the heartfelt moment. Don't feel like the beats hit.
00:24:05
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And I'm wondering is that in that maybe because they they have to now end it, but they've got a lot to tell because it's a full season of television. And now you got to you got to kind of escalate the stakes even higher to try to end it.
00:24:16
Speaker
Because now that's what I'm thinking is going to happen. I didn't watch it yet. I'm i'm i've caught up to season four. I'm just waiting because it's week to week as usual in my classic thing.
00:24:27
Speaker
I'm just going to watch it when it's all done. But I yeah, that's what I kind of felt like when they said, oh, it's ending out our season full four five. I'm like, really like has there been a development that would allow them to like to to win or lose i don't know I guess to lose they could always lose so I'm not even sure but I mean yeah it's something interesting I feel like the show that's one of the flaws of the show is like I would never have kind of felt like Things moved forward, but they kind of always took lots of steps back. It's kind of the weird premise of the show and the way that it's built. Because again, Homelander is so powerful.
00:25:00
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And there's like there's almost like more stakes, like more like stacked against the team as the seasons go on in some way. um So yeah, I feel like they're running out of time now. So unless it's going to be longer a longer runtime, unless there's more episodes this season, I feel like the heartfelt wont moments will just not be as important as the moment-to-moment big plot points because they need to finish the season and they got to make it really entertaining the whole way through. And I'm sure there's going to be lots of deaths and like... lots of things that will make people sad, like from an audience perspective that their favorite characters are gone, but it's ending. So it's like, what does it matter? And I feel like that's just what they're going to do. Like there weren't, I mean, yeah, I don't want to spoil anything for the rest of the show, but I just find that interesting. I don't, we'll see what happens, but and don't if you feel the same way.
00:25:46
Speaker
No, no, I kind of do feel that, that way. um Yeah. Just, i don't know. It's, it's weird. And like, yeah, yeah I mean, you talk about Homelander being so powerful and it's just,
00:25:59
Speaker
Like he's been around these characters so much in all four seasons prior to this. And then he is still around some of these characters in season five. I'm like, you could fucking just kill them.
00:26:10
Speaker
Right. Like, yeah, you could just do it. Like you could just add part of the thing. And you just kind of got to accept that. Hey, it's like, it's for the plot. Like he's not cutting in everyone in half.
00:26:21
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And, you know, he's like, yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. Cause I think with season five specifically, like he can literally get away with anything at this point. Cause he's essentially running like the world. He's just like a superpower. Nothing's going against him. He's, know, the big corporations back in him. It doesn't matter. He can literally do whatever. And he has in previous seasons and just gotten away with it. So like, why don't you just fucking murder these guys quick?
00:26:48
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Because you could. I think the the element that's holding him back, which is interesting, and I think it's a kind of a character study on who he is, is like there there's this element of him. his There is some humanity there. he He has this like he needs people. There's a sense of belonging. He's like he's got um FOMO.
00:27:04
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yeah it's got serious I was going to say for lack of a better term, but I could have thought of something better, but it is kind of true. like he's got to He feels like he has to belong much like we as humans kind of, he's not a complete sociopath.
00:27:20
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He is a sociopath, but he's not completely there because he he still needs people. And so he there's like there's a connection with humanity. He's not a psychopath, i guess. Yes, but you don't mean this agrees. He's on the spectrum. It's kind of what I'm thinking. So I think that's what holding holding back. But to your point, this is actually why I really didn't like Far Cry is a weird thing to say Far Cry 5. I don't know how far you played in Far Cry 5. Not far. But the whole premise of Far Cry, and I'm i'm i'm sure this would carry into the show on FX that Noah Hawley... No, it's not Noah Hawley.
00:27:51
Speaker
It is. It is. Noah Hawley and Rob Mack are making. um I think that that's the weirdest thing about Far Cry is like there's this person you're playing in the game. You're playing like i got like an ordinary Joe who who is put into an extreme position of survival. And he's got to survive against like huge greater forces, typically like ah some kind of a despot, some some kind of a dictator, it's a crazy person, or some somebody who's leading an area, a region of a country, or the country itself, and they're basically controlling everything, including you, and they taunt you consistently, and then they capture you consistently,
00:28:28
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But they don't kill you consistently, which is very odd. And this happens in almost all the Far Cry games, but it happens a lot in the in the fifth one. And I was always like, just kill me. You have me here. What are you doing? I've destroyed. I've killed hundreds of your people. What are you doing? I killed your siblings, you freaking idiot. What are you doing? It doesn't make any sense.
00:28:51
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Because you're in Far Cry 5 are going up against their family and they're all bosses. So it's like and then they keep capturing you and then talking to you like, oh, hey, buddy. oh you killed. You killed Sammy. OK. You have me tied to a chair and then they let you let you go each time.
00:29:08
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They always put you in a position where you get to go. I'm like, why are you letting me go? It doesn't make any sense. Anyway, that's what I kind of feel like with Homelander. It's like, guy. These are arcanic nemesis. is No one's going even know. they don't People don't even like these people. What are you talking about? They don't even like this team, the boys. They think that they're domestic terrorists. Like, it's just fucking murder them. right You're fine. You are literally getting away with genocide. And it's like, and no one cares. Like, everyone's cool with it. It's just just fucking it. You're like bugs, though. He's playing with his ant farm. I think that's what it a little bit, too. But I think...
00:29:42
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I think there's some element of, again, he's got some of his humanity. I think that's the cool, that would be, that would be, i kind of hoped that as the seasons would go forward, that maybe he would they would tap into that a little more and like make humanize him more potentially. But I don't know if they really did that to the extent that I wanted. And again, I don't want to spoil anything, so I'm not going to go into too much detail. But yeah, anyway.
00:30:02
Speaker
homelander is really powerful so we'll see what happens i'm very curious to see how it ends um i don't mind the political stuff personally i don't really care that much it doesn't really bother me but i completely see where you're coming from um yeah it's like again uh it's just annoying dude like it's just it's so overt it's just so in your face and i'm just like i i understand that this is a parody i get it but it's like man Let's just move on.
00:30:27
Speaker
We've been dealing with this for fucking a decade, essentially, you know, like in real life. Yeah. And it's just like, just fucking move on. Okay. But i don't know. They, I feel like they doubled down on it in season four and it's like, you can't like backtrack now.
00:30:42
Speaker
Right. And it's just, they're like, okay, well we got to go even further with it. And it's just like, dude, yeah dude, I'm tired, boss. You know, I'm tired, boss. Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:56
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Yeah. But anyways, that's, that's pretty much what I, what I've watched. um I'm watching invincible, but I think the season finale this week. So I'll talk about it next episode. And great I've also been watching one piece season two and, but I'm, I'm only like four episodes in. So I'll talk about it once I finish that.
00:31:13
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So sounds good. What about you, man? What have you watched? um First, I just want to say Artemis 2 mission. I'm just completely, i don't know, i guess inspired is a weird or weird word, but I'm inspired by it in some way. And I'm also like, it's so cool. I just love that they went to the moon again. i know they didn't land. I just think that it's really, really neat. And they so they they they did the splashdown last week.
00:31:37
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And it was just, it's just, a it's awesome. I just think it's really cool that we're going back to the moon. And I think there's a funny thing where people are like, oh, why would we waste the money? was like, I don't actually agree. Because I mean, money is pointless.
00:31:50
Speaker
let's, let's, yeah let's actually explore the universe. What should we not discover what's out there? I think this is really important. Money money is useful, obviously, but it's like we, we put money on such a pedestal. Now mind, mind you, I feel like you shouldn't go trillions of dollars into debt to fund things necessarily. You should be fiscally responsible, but I do think part of that is exploring the cosmos and finding out what's out there. And,
00:32:15
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Um, potentially that could set us up for the future as well by discovering what's out there. So I am really a fan of this mission to the moon. I'm very excited to see what happens in 2028. See them land on the moon again.
00:32:25
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um ah and And I guess to segue from that, I started watching For All Mankind again. I'm watching it from the beginning, though. I'm starting it over because it's just so good. It's one of my favorite shows, I think, ever. It's really, really great. It's on Apple TV Plus if you haven't seen it. It's ah basically about the idea is um the Russians...
00:32:45
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make it to the moon first and the space race never ends because the U S just can't live it down that they lost the, the, the moon landing. They didn't, they didn't make it to the moon first. And so they keep the moon, the moon, like the space race going. And it's what happens with all the politics of it. And,
00:33:01
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It's Joel Kinnaman in the starring role. it's It's a really, really good show. It's an alternate universe, an alternate ah alternate future, but they don't need they don't change everything. They just change these subtle changes to make it kind of happen. Star City comes out at the end of May, which is the Russians' perspective of the same story. And so they they're doing the season one of that, which I'm also very excited for. I'm just, I guess, enthralled by this space situation with Artemis. So we jump back into that. And I'm playing Starfield on PlayStation, which is when if it finally came to PlayStation. So i'm I've got this like ultimate synergy going with the things I'm watching. um That's only been one episode, though. I finished White Lotus season three. I talked about it last time. I think that the finale was great.
00:33:45
Speaker
So i'm i'm I'm a big fan of season three. I think it's as the best season. I think it's just – it's cool. It's like very focused on the human tendency of obsession and like the inability of people to let things go. And I think that there's themes of that in the entire season. I think it's a very cohesive season because it it kind of follows very similar themes across – of course, it's always about, you know, like – not eat the rich, but the idea of like these, the, you know, the trappings in the satire of, of the rich yeah at a, at a vacation resort and how they treat the staff and stuff like that. That's always been the case with white Lotus. But in this season, I feel like the theme is like this human tendency to, to be obsessed with certain things and the inability to let things go. And and you're following each character and you're like, oh will they let this go or not? And it's really cool. I really liked the season a lot. It's my favorite season of white Lotus. So really, very, very good.
00:34:37
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But the thing I watched the most this bi-week, Adrian, is Fargo season five. Very, very good season of Fargo. This is, a lot of people call it a return to form because the season four, people thought that they tripped a little bit. They faltered.
00:34:54
Speaker
I don't think they faltered. necessarily in season four, but I do think it's the worst season of the five. I think it's good though. Really good. And there's one episode of season four. That's probably the best episode of the entire show in some aspect. There's what it's one of the top three, I think, you know, the end of the season for season four, you might know what it is when you, when you catch up and jump back into Fargo eventually, but season five, I watched the whole thing really good.
00:35:20
Speaker
Really, really good. And it's cool because it seems like Noah Hawley's got this formula. He like tries to follow a specific formula for how to make a Fargo thing. Like how do you make Coen Brothers Fargo spinoff?
00:35:34
Speaker
Because he nails it every time. It always feels like Fargo, like the original Fargo movie. And I don't really get it because he changes so much every season. But he still nails it every single time. The tone, the way it looks, the way it feels. And he jumps all over the time. time Like he jumps into different, as you know, different time timelines, like different years. So he'll do one in the like the first one. i don't know.
00:35:58
Speaker
First one was more modern. So the first one was in the in the two thousand and ten s I believe. Yeah. Yeah. Second one, they went back to like the 80s, right? If I recall correctly um on time, on on year, it took place. And then the setting goes to and the third season goes kind of more modern. It's a 2000s again, some somewhere in there. I think it's the early two thousand s that time. Yeah.
00:36:19
Speaker
Or it's vice versa. I want to say. Maybe, yeah, maybe 2020, 2000s and then 2010s. But yeah, this one is modern. This one takes place in 2019. And to your point, actually, maybe you won't like it as much because it does deal with modern, the modern politics because they've always dealt with politics in Fargo, but they don't deal with it in in too overt a way that it's kind of more of a setting and not the focus. And i think you'll like that aspect too.
00:36:45
Speaker
More than you like it in the boys because you were complaining about that aspect of the boys. But I think that they're not doing it in a very overt way. And actually actually, most of the characters are are kind of right wing. So it's not they're not really lambasting it. they're just kind of it's this Again, it is a setting. like You're inside. You're inside it as the audience like from the outside looking in.
00:37:04
Speaker
Jon Hamm plays a villain in this. And he's terrifying. He's awesome. He's so good. So, so good. yeah The whole thing. I'm really, really a fan. I was going to look up. There's one actor and i actually i haven't seen in anything.
00:37:19
Speaker
He plays a character called the Swede. Do I actually have a way to access this? Oh, didn't actually load in. I was trying to look at the the cast list here, but it's tough because there's so many seasons and everyone's... there's ah it's always For those who don't know, this is an anthology series. So this is a a series in which they change the cast every single time. It's following the idea of Fargo, the the movie, but it's not exactly... It's not the movie really at all. It's just following the tone and the way it's built. But every season is different. And sometimes there's little details that carry over, but for the most part, it changes every time.
00:37:53
Speaker
Oh, man, his name is buried. Oh, boy. Yeah, I don't know. IMDb is tough. I don't like IMDb as much as I did before. But anyway, there's one character in it that's just really, really interesting.
00:38:05
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um he He plays a a character called Ole Munch. And I'm trying to find out is this actor's name because I, oh, so Sam Spruill. and Oh, man.
00:38:17
Speaker
it's He's so good. Juno Temple's really good. She's basically the main character in this one. Okay. um Yeah. She's excellent as well. It's Jon Hamm, Juno Temple. I haven't seen her in too much. Like, apart from Ted Lasso, I don't know if I've seen her in much.
00:38:30
Speaker
But she's awesome in Ted Lasso. Yeah, this one so this one's really cool. It's funny because the way it starts, you're like, oh, it's it's quite similar to the movie. And then it's just like, like no. They always, again, they always go off. They they take these like trappings of what Fargo the movie is, and then they expand and change it in various ways. But you always feel like it makes sense as Fargo, despite...
00:38:55
Speaker
Again, setting changes and lots of changes. Again, Noah Hawley must have this like formula that he just like he hits these little checkboxes and it always works. As long as you get these parts correct ah in the way that it's plotted, it works. And so I don't know. This is really good season. It ends really cool. like The whole thing is entertaining. It's such a dark... these these This one is really dark. like I feel like this one may be one of the darkest ones. And I feel like it deals with darker subject matter in some aspect. um But it it I don't know. You can change like so many themes within these these seasons. And yet, again, you're still Fargo.
00:39:31
Speaker
It's really cool. I recommend it a lot. I would still again to anyone watching Fargo, the show, i would watch all the seasons, but you can watch any season first. It doesn't really matter. I do think you get something out of watching them in order.
00:39:44
Speaker
um because you have these little connections, those little tendrils that connect the other seasons together and even the movie. yeah Again, you don't have to. You could kind of just, if you're like, oh, I love Jon Hamm, you should watch this. Jon Hamm, don't know. I see a lot with Jon Hamm and I feel like Jon Hamm doesn't always play two different roles.
00:40:01
Speaker
I think this is his most different role that I watched of him. I haven't watched everything with Jon Hamm in it. But Mad Men is kind of the one that, the most Jon Hamm I've seen. He's not like the Mad Men carry. He's not like Don Draper pretty much at all. And it's really cool. It's really cool to see. And he was really impressive. Jonah Temple's really Jonah Temple's really good in this as well.
00:40:22
Speaker
That's it's great. It's funny. Fargo doesn't get as much attention as I feel like it should. i feel like it's one of the most underrated shows on TV. but Maybe I'm just looking at the wrong places on the internet. yeah I just feel like it's just not doesn't get the amount of love it deserves because it really is just a fantastic TV show. No one talks about it that I know except for you.
00:40:40
Speaker
yeah that's That's it. and And now my wife, because we both watched it together and watched the the whole thing again. We watched it from start to finish up until season five. But it's on Crave, Adrian. If you ever have the hankering to go back to it. I do. It's really good.
00:40:55
Speaker
I do indeed. It's just a matter like me and my wife, we watched the movie together, which she didn't love. But she's like, yeah, it's it's good. And then we watched the first season together, which again, she liked, but didn't love. So like diving into season two, she was like, yeah you know, maybe let's watch something else first. And now it's been like a year. So I don't know i don't know if she'll ever come back with me. But um I really like I think seasons one through three, which are the the three that I watched are immaculate. I love Fargo. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. So.
00:41:27
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I've only heard really good things about season five. One of my ah one of my other buddies um that you know, he actually watched season five and said that it was good. He just skipped season four because he heard that it wasn't that great. And then just watch season five.
00:41:41
Speaker
um But yeah, i was bu he watched all the seasons except for season four. i think so. I don't know if he watched season three. but I feel like he did. I feel like he did. um yeah I'm going to watch season four, obviously. But it's great. It's great. don't know. Like, it's just not as good as it was. I think there's an element of like it was reviewed by critics more negatively because the hype is so high for the other three seasons. It is the most different in some way, too, I think.
00:42:12
Speaker
Because it's kind of like a gang war and it goes further back in time than all of the other seasons. Yeah, because that's in the 60s, if I recall correctly. I think it's the 50s. Oh, 50s. Okay, damn. Let me double check that. But yeah, it's the furthest back and in some way has the least trappings of Fargo, but it still feels like Fargo. There's elements that definitely.
00:42:31
Speaker
Fargo season four. I'll get into it. I'll get into it. Just a matter of when. 1950 to early 1951. early ninety fifty one
00:42:42
Speaker
anyway Cool, man. That's it. That's what I've watched. Nice, dude. that is Nice. Now, my friend, it is a time to move on to the montage, a sequence of our show in which I briefly present at least seven of the bi-weeks smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict.
00:42:59
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Number one, the sequel to director Mel Brooks' Star Wars spoof comedy film Spaceballs, Spaceballs the New One, is set for an April 27th, 2027 release date. The date coincides with the 40th anniversary of the original film. Wow, 40 years.
00:43:15
Speaker
I never watched the original. Number two, director Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part 3 has already sold out IMAX showings in some theaters. The Warner Brothers produced Dune Part 3 premieres in theaters on December 18th alongside Disney's Avengers Doomsday. Whoa, what do you think the chances are that this does better than Avengers? oh Yeah, I agree.
00:43:34
Speaker
I agree completely. Number three. As revealed in an interview with Collider, Thunderbolts and Beef director Jake Schreier has revealed that Beef showrunner Lee Sung Jin and the Bear co-showrunner Joanna Kahlo are currently co-writing a script for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's upcoming X-Men film. Wow.
00:43:53
Speaker
The X-Men are coming to the Marvel movies? What? Number four. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Alien Earth showrunner Noah Hawley is gearing up to direct a remake of the 2017 Argentinian horror film Terrified for Warner Brothers. Crap.
00:44:09
Speaker
What this guy do? What the heck? He's doing so much. it would be cool to see him do movie again. because There was that one movie he made and it didn't do great too hot. Movie no no good. Critics. In in Critic. man Yeah.
00:44:23
Speaker
Word. Word. Number 5. According to Deadline, Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage has been cast in FX's Alien spin-off TV series, Alien Earth. Whoa! Hey, that's Noah Hawley.
00:44:35
Speaker
He's the showrunner. It's true. Number six, as reported by Deadline, a sequel to the 2005 Nicolas Cage drama Lord of War has just wrapped production.
00:44:45
Speaker
The new film Lords of War will star Nicolas Cage and it actor Bill Skarsgård and is set for a 2027 release date. Wow. I feel like i don't I don't even know Lord of War oh as is a movie. Maybe not.
00:44:59
Speaker
Let me look at it. okay Number seven, HBO's Steve Carell starring comedy Rooster has been renewed for season two. B'gock, dude. B'gock. You know? I'm watching it. It's pretty good. Cool, cool. Season one. Number eight. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter and or star, Adria Arjona has been cast as Alien Queen Maxima in the upcoming DC Universe film, Superman Man of Tomorrow.
00:45:23
Speaker
Nice, dude. Shout out to her. She was awesome in Andor. Bix. She's Bix in Andor. What a great character. What a great show. Number nine. As reported by Deadline, Stranger Things actor David Harbour has been cast as Rambo's mentor, Major Trotman, in the upcoming John Rambo prequel film.
00:45:43
Speaker
Street Fighter actor Noah Centenio is set to star as the titular Rambo. Wow. Very cool. I never watched Rambo movie, I don't think. Oh. I think you told me that section.
00:45:53
Speaker
Yeah. And that concludes the montage. um That was a shaky montage. I apologize. I should have proofread that. I did, but I didn't do it very well. I must have skimmed it. Hey. But yeah, I don't know if the audience will even know because I'm to edit the heck out of it to make it.
00:46:10
Speaker
Just leave it in Just leave it in. Just leave it in. But anyway, we're now going to dive in, Adrian, into a trilogy of topical tidings, a component of our show where we discuss at least three film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over the past two weeks.
00:46:29
Speaker
The first one is a big story. But it may may or may not take much of our time. it I don't know. It depends on how much you looked at in terms of this.
00:46:39
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But I'm just looking to throw you know this into the ether to talk about the interesting headlines from CinemaCon 2026 from the perspective of us outsiders who obviously did not attend CinemaCon.
00:46:52
Speaker
Is that similar to SawCon? I knew you were going to do that. I knew i knew it I knew for sure. Anytime there's a con in there, you're going to talk about SawCon. and I try getting people on a marathon when we play with that, but then you always ruin it. You're like, oh no.
00:47:08
Speaker
Oh geez. Okay. Next time I promise you when we play marathon, the video game on PlayStation ah from Bungie, we're going to, I'm going to not do that. And then we'll see if it works ever. Cause I don't think it's ever going to work. You're never going to get anyone. Actually, no. Didn't one guy get you.
00:47:24
Speaker
Um, didn't he get you on a D's nuts thing or something or something like that? He didn't really get me, but he like he he essentially like reverse like did like an Uno reverse card.
00:47:36
Speaker
Yeah, and whatever reversed you on it. And I'm like, hey, that's fair. That was good. That was good. Yeah, good for that i guys are best friend, whatever his name is. your best he met we We played with him for one match for 30 minutes, and now he's our best friend, apparently. Yeah.
00:47:50
Speaker
Okay, CinemaCon, did you look at the headlines for CinemaCon? I looked at some of the headlines for CinemaCon, not all the headlines for CinemaCon because there so many. have lot of little tidbits and I can just run through them and then i can pick out the ones that I am interested in. But you if you can just stop me when it's kind of, I guess, you're keen on it, if that works. Yeah. um I'll kind of leave some of the best for last and then cool kind of go from there because I have three points, three things that I kind of want to talk about, I think. Okay.
00:48:19
Speaker
Maybe three or four. All right. um ah Everyone kind of showed up in force. It seemed like a lot of the the big studios showed up at CinemaCon to talk to the exhibitioners. And this is about kind of what's going to be at the movie theaters in the next year, the next 365 days, which is pretty cool. Cause I feel like, again, a lot of people showed up. One of the people who showed up, which was really cool was, Oh, actually this is one of the points i was going to talk about, but I guess I can just talk about briefly here, but Steven Spielberg showed up for disclosure day for universal.
00:48:49
Speaker
i know if you saw this, no but I just want to say this one thing. This is really cool. I think. He said that he apparently convinced Universal to not show any footage from the third act for Disclosure Day. Oh, I did hear about this. I'm lying you. I did hear about this. yeah That's pretty badass.
00:49:05
Speaker
And gutsy. And Universal, that's what I was trying to say before. We were talking about who would we want... We don't want anyone to buy Warner Brothers. This is absurd. It will be stupid. It will be bad for the industry.
00:49:18
Speaker
But if we had to choose somebody, I still think it's Universal for me. It's obviously going to go to Paramount if they can get the the merger to go through. um But I just find it interesting that Universal, like again, they quartered Nolan, who loves the exhibitionist industry. He loves theaters. And then they Spielberg just asked them to do this and they say, yeah, which I think is pretty cool. Disclosure Day,
00:49:40
Speaker
Just because of that, because I find trailers spoil everything now, it's really annoying. I really want to go see this in theaters in the first couple weeks, if you don't mind. I think i think you're already interested in would like to.
00:49:53
Speaker
I'm very interested in it. Yeah, I would like to. Most definitely. This is one of those ones I think I definitely want to go see. Spielberg is classic. He's such a good director in general. I know you don't like everything he does. ready I like the vast majority of things he does.
00:50:06
Speaker
and just don't like ah one movie that he does. Yeah, just that one. um We saw the post in theaters, I feel like, in the first week, too, which I thought was we did. That was a great movie. It's not it a huge headliner movie. It's not like not a lot of excitement, but it was really good. oh dude, they come out with so many headlines at the post.
00:50:23
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, good. Oh, dude. that's it that's not bad That's not bad. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. I really still hear all your, all week. Oh, episode. Oh, for the hour. All time with you.
00:50:36
Speaker
Yeah. All right. ah The other thing, Spider-Man came out apparently. I don't want to talk about this. there's some plot details that I feel like I didn't want to know about. And they talked about those. So we can skip on that by that. Just give me a thumbs up or like give me a hand up hand up so it' I can stop if you want to talk up about something that I'm talking about here. But J.J. Abrams came out with, ah talked about Great Beyond with ah with Glenn Powell and Jenna Ortega, which I thought was, oh, it's already stopped.
00:51:03
Speaker
Okay. Glenn Powell. Love that guy. Continue. Heartthrob. Heartthrob. Heartthrob. Yeah. J.J. Abrams movie, though, this first movie he's directing since Rise of Skywalker, I believe.
00:51:16
Speaker
So there's that. Yeah. I just don't think I'm going to see this is because of that. I'm going to see it because of Glenn. Sorry. Okay. Okay. I don't think I'm going to it in theaters. Well, we'll see. We'll see. Maybe if it gets really yeah good reviews, I'll be like, okay, maybe J.J. Abrams is back in back in action. I don't know.
00:51:35
Speaker
ah Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part 3 showed out there a little bit for Warner Brothers. Cool. Which is cool. I'm excited. Bradley Cooper it was confirmed as director for the Oceans prequel. We talked about it, how he was in the talks to do the Oceans movies, like Oceans 11, 12, whatever, the prequel film for that. Yeah. He's directing it, and he's going star in it, and Margot Robbie's in it. She's already been attached for a while. So that's cool.
00:51:59
Speaker
Not much to talk about about there other than the fact that I think that that was confirmed there. Sean Baker's TMO was announced to be coming in 2027. So Sean Baker famously won Best Picture for Anora.
00:52:12
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So he's he's got his next movie. His next big movie is 2027, which is neat. This one's an interesting one, but i don't know if you have much to say about it. I don't know how much. I can't remember how much of a Lord of the Rings fan you are, but the Hunt for Gollum cast was announced. There was like a little bit of a press release that left CinemaCon, like the people, regular regular Joes like you and I could see. And they showed the cast as having Andy Serkis, obviously. yeah He's directing it as well. Andy Serkis is obviously- Because he's a Gollum.
00:52:42
Speaker
He is. have been funny if he's directing it and he's not in it. Yeah. He's like, no, I'm going to recast. I don't want to direct myself. happened. feel like Andy Serkis must love putting on that weird suit and just hobbling around. He's probably like, this is, this is, he lives for it.
00:52:58
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You know? He is excellent at it regardless. um He's also excellent outside of the suit. Yeah. And you're going to season one. Yeah. He's so good at Andor. It's so crazy how good that, that whole arc is. It's crazy. um Andor, everyone should watch Andor, not related to this cinema con, but everyone should watch Andor. Most definitely. and Everyone should watch Andor.
00:53:19
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ah But anyway, other cast members are Kate Winslet's in it, Ian McKellen, ah Leo Woodall, Lee Pace, Elijah Wood are returning. Lee Pace was in The Hobbit. Elijah Wood's returning as as the other Hobbit.
00:53:33
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Yeah, the other Hobbit, Frodo. And then Jamie Dornan is cast instead of Viggo Mortensen as Strider, as Aragorn. That was the most interesting news out of the whole thing. do you remember ja You know Jamie Dornan, yeah?
00:53:48
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i've I've never met the man, but I know who he is. Yeah. Okay. That's an interesting one. I'm curious to see how they're going to do it. Are they going to try to make him look like Vigo? Are they going to bother? i don't know.
00:54:00
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Yeah. What's So what is the deal with this movie as well? isn't Doesn't this like take place? technically during the Lord of the Rings movies and like a brief period of time or something.
00:54:11
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Isn't the hunt for Gollum between the Hobbit and Fellowship? Maybe um I have no idea, dude. I have no idea. That's why I'm asking you. I thought it takes place in between like the actual Lord of the Rings movies like a specific part where there's a time jump or whatever.
00:54:26
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ah During the 17 year gap in the Fellowship of the Ring. Okay. What does that mean? Yeah. Okay. The story follows Aragorn's quest to find Gollum, spending the time after the Hobbit and before Gollum surfaces in the Mines of Moria. Okay.
00:54:41
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Yeah. So but between the Hobbit and the Fellowship, the 17-year period. So Aragorn's going to be a big piece of this. This could be interesting, actually. Actually, I'm kind of cool. this is going to be cool. As long as I don't split it into three movies again. The Hobbit should have been two.
00:54:56
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I know my brother was like, no, it should have been one. That's every time I talk to him about this. I'm like, I'm okay with the being too. I'm okay with them expanding as ah to exact letter of the, of the book, but three, are you okay?
00:55:09
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See you. Yeah. I got like massaging your jaw. My area. Okay. My ears getting irritated listening to your dumb voice. I'm just kidding, dude. You're all You're all right. I'll speed this up. I'll speed it up.
00:55:25
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Any interest in the hunt for Gollum, though? You interested in that or no? Sure. like I'm not a huge Lord of the Rings guy. I enjoyed watching those you know the original trilogy in my youth. I never even finished the Hobbit trilogy. I watched like the first two.
00:55:39
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yeah Um, and then, uh, you know, I played some of the, yeah honestly, like my, my biggest attachment to the Lord of the Rings series is the Lord of the Rings, the two towers, the PlayStation two game, one of the great couch co-op games ever.
00:55:55
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I played the shit out of that with my best pal, Peter. We played it all the time. So fun. I love that. Um, that's probably where I spent my most time in, in the Lord of the Rings universe, but yeah.
00:56:07
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Yeah, I played that in the Return of the King. I also played Fellowship, but Fellowship was very hard. There was like a stealth bit in the very beginning of it. And it it wasn't co-op. It was very difficult. I just bailed. Like, I'm not doing this. I was i was i was a young young boy playing PS2. But yeah, Two Towers I played quite a bit co-op as well with my sister.
00:56:25
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And I also played Return of the King. i think my with my brother and sister? I can't remember. But man yeah. There's a cool it was a cool mechanic where you can like knock the ladders off the I think it's in both for Two Towers and Return of the King where you have to knock the ladders off. You're being like, again, sieged to Helm's Deep.
00:56:45
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um And Minas Tirith. I think i remember distinctly, but you have to like knock the ladders off so the orcs can't get you. Climb up. Yeah, it's cool. And I love the the element of like, because they do this in the movie and it's kind of video gamey actually. In the movie, Legolas and Gimli are counting how many orcs they kill.
00:57:02
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Which I really was entertained by because it's very video game, like competing with your friend, your coach, co-op buddy. And they they show you how many orcs you kill, specifically each match in Two Towers anderson and Resend of the King. And I thought that was really clever o they in both both places, both mediums in the movie. Yeah. Those movies are excellent. The trilogy is really, really amazing.
00:57:23
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like Yeah. what are the rings i got I got to rewatch it as an adult. Yeah. i don't know why. Yeah. watch the Did you ever watch the full, like the the three and a half hour versions, like the special editions? No, never. So I feel like i got to do that.
00:57:36
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Yeah. There's a lot of stuff that's like some of the cut stuff is kind of shocking, actually. There's in Two Towers. No. Or is it Return of the King? There's one part that i'm like, wow, they cut this out. I'm kind of like surprised that that wasn't in the theatrical cut. My brother always insists that I watch, that we watch that. We we used to, we we did like a marathon one one day.
00:57:57
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We did a full day and watched all of the the movies in a row. Not obviously The Hobbit, but just the the trilogy. Yeah. the Return of the King went Best Picture. It's crazy to think that that happened because it's so rare for a genre film like that to win Best Picture.
00:58:12
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So anyway, it's cool. But it did. It did. It did indeed. did It's kind of cool. Yes. Moving on. Coyote v versus Acme, buddy. Coyote. Why do you say like that every time? I don't know. i don't know what's wrong with me. Coyote. Coyote versus Acme. The poster We got to watch this week of like, I want to support Ketchup Entertainment for bringing this movie back from the dead. It's crazy that this was just a write-off movie. It was just thrown into the bin and shed out to ketchup.
00:58:45
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um Great condiment, great movie the team for picking this up and releasing. Yeah, and Will Forte for kind of being an advocate for it too because he was very disappointed when it got canceled.
00:58:58
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Yeah. And John Cena's in it too, I think, right? it's a It's a cool cast. I'm excited for this. Me too. Coyote. Coyote. I know you saw this because I think you liked it on Instagram. Studio Canal canal was there at the CinemaCon and they announced that Paddington 4 is coming and there's an animated Paddington movie coming as well.
00:59:17
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There is indeed, my friend. There is indeed. i'm I'm quite excited. I love the Paddington movies. I think Paddington 1 and 2 specifically. Paddington Peru is pretty darn great as well. but Paddington two is like one of the great movies of all time. And I'm not even being facetious. And one of my favorite things is going to the theaters, watching, um, that Nicholas Cage, Pedro Pascal movie.
00:59:41
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Um, The unbearable weight of massive massive talent. Exactly. And there's like ah there's a joke about, you know, um Petro Pascal's like favorite movie of all time is Paddington 2. And they like sit down and watch it. And I just remember going into that. I'm like, thank God they brought this up. Because like I feel like it is so...
00:59:59
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it is It is immaculate, start to finish. It is like genuinely, I think, a perfect movie, like Paddington 2. And again, I love the first one with a passion. I just think it's it's just heartfelt. It's funny.
01:00:10
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makes you cry. It's just, ah man, I love it. I love it so much. And um yeah, you know... i know um
01:00:20
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I know, ah oh man, what is the guy's name? is it and I want to say it's Andy King, but I don't think that's the director's name of the first two movies. Paddington. Oh, Paul King. Paul King. Paul King. i know he like he's I don't think he's attached to these next ones. He wasn't attached to Paddington in Peru, but again, that that movie was still really awesome. and So I have pretty good faith in um you know Paddington 4 and this animated flick. I'll definitely watch it.
01:00:48
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What's something that's interesting about this too is they don't really, they don't pound it into the ground. Like they're not constantly releasing these so close together. Like it's not like Sonic. I feel like between now, between the time, it didn't, I mean, I think Sonic was before.
01:01:03
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but no it was after. It was after Paddington 1 aired. I'm pretty sure the first Sonic movie. And then we've gotten already four of them in a TV show, but Paddington, they've kind of ruled it out slowly and taken their yeah time and and put some care into Yeah, it was after Paddington 2 even. It was 2020, 2022, and then 2024.
01:01:22
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four Whereas the first Paddington is, I think, 2015.
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01:01:25
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Yeah, 2015. Paddington 2 is 2017. And then Paddington in Peru was 2024. Technically, last year for us.
01:01:34
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They're in the same category, those those movies. You know what I mean? like Yeah, 100%. I'm sure. i didn't see Sonic, so I can't be 100% sure. I watched the first Sonic movie, and honestly, not bad. Yeah, cool. It's fine.
01:01:46
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Sweet. But yeah. Okay. Moving on. The Social Reckoning was shown off. That's Aaron Sorkin's next film. um It stars. Oh my God. I forgot his name.
01:01:57
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Jeremy Strong. Yeah, Jeremy Strong. Thank you. How the heck did I forget his name? Jeremy Strong stars as Mark Zuckerberg in this one. And um
01:02:08
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wait, isn't Jeremy Allen White also in it? I have no idea, dude. Is it Jeremy Allen White? No, maybe I'm confusing. You might be. now Because those are both Jeremy's. Yeah, you you're forgetting. Because Jeremy Allen White, he's playing Jabba the Hutt's son in Mandalorian and gro Grogu. That's why you're confusing it.
01:02:25
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They're very similar movies, so it's fine. They're very similar similar people. Yeah, yeah. Search of Reckoning cast. Let's see. Oh, it is Jeremy Allen, right? It's just two Jeremy's. And Mikey Madison's in it as well. And Billy Magnuson.
01:02:39
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Yeah, okay. Oh, and Betty Gilpin. Cool. All right. Well, that's something. So yeah I don't know if I don't, there's not much to talk about there. I want to see this because I really like the social network. If you haven't seen the social network, because I think you have it, right?
01:02:52
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No. It's really worth seeing. Plus the the score is really good from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. So that's another reason to watch it, just to get geared up even more for Intergalactic the Heritage Prophet because those guys are freaking awesome. that that As a scoring team, I'm not the biggest Nine Inch Nails fan, but as a scoring team for films, I think they're they're like they're up there with Hans Zimmer for me. I just really agree, man. they're Honestly, ah like Challengers, this the score in Challengers good. yeah It's crazy. I feel like it was, that was like just snubbed. and
01:03:27
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Absolutely. Like I feel like it got no attention. And that score is one of the great scores of anything ever. I'm not even joking. It's it's immaculate. It's it's immaculate. Yeah. um ah They also did Soul, like the the ah the movie from...
01:03:42
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Yeah. From Pixar. Yeah. ah Alongside, it wasn't just them though, which was cool. It was John Batiste. I think he like shortly after, shortly before that, he won.
01:03:53
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He won the Grammys for his record. I'm like, wow, this is like a combo. But yeah, Regis and Ross have won for things for sure. But nice. It's ah it's cool. I was thinking about this recently. i don't know if we talked about this, but we, we both listened to a podcast called sacred symbols and they, they always mentioned Trent Reznor, but never Atticus Ross. I know they're talking about nine inch nails. I'm like, what's happening here?
01:04:16
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Why is that happening? like I get it. Trent Reznor started nine inch nails and Atticus, Atticus Ross came in later, but, but why are you ignoring that this guy, plus Atticus Ross then scored Shogun himself with his son.
01:04:28
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so I'm like, what? Like there was like a combo like score again, but it was Ross Reznor's not there. And Shogun's score is really good too. I was very confused. I was like, why? They mentioned both of them.
01:04:41
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The two, two of the hosts at the very least, they never meant, well, no no one ever mentioned Sadikas Ross. I think all three of them mentioned Trent Reznor like multiple times. i don't know. i thought that that was weird. yeah out there This is a weird,
01:04:53
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sidetrack from this CinemaCon thing. But anyway, um the next thing to talk about here is the Disney showed off. Now, this is one actually that we could talk about in more detail, but Disney showed off Doomsday, a Doomsday trailer to the audience. We didn't get to see it yet as an audience. I'm i'm sure as soon as this air, just before this airs, the trailer will be released. Yeah. Because we're recording this on a Sunday and the episode on Tuesday. I feel like i already know everything that happens in this fucking trailer, though, because it's just headline after headline. They're like, oh, this thing happens in it. I'm like, okay, fucking cool, dude. i would I would have been nice to watch it. But no. We're going to see. I love knowing exactly what happens because of a headline.
01:05:33
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Get fucked. IGN specifically. Oh, I see. It's IGN. God. But yes, Doomsday, Avengers Doomsday comes out at the end of the year in December. Yeah. And it was a very starry presentation, which was cool. i don't know if you saw this. This was the coolest part for me. They had like they had the Russo brothers on stage, the directors of the film, directors of Endgame and Civil War and Witch Soldier. They were on on the stage with Kevin Feige. And then- Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans were on stage too again. So they're going like this is head to head aspect that they were kind of like foe threatening each other on stage or whatever. Like they kind of did with the Civil War campaign, which I thought was cool because Robert Downey Jr. of course is playing Dr. Doom.
01:06:13
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Chris Evans is coming back for some reason revealed. I guess they revealed it so they can have him on the stage. So he can be a part of the marketing. i Again, i hope there are surprises. That's the key element.
01:06:25
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Because revealing Chris Evans is coming back as Steve Rogers in Doomsday, very, very publicly revealed here. um It's kind of disappointing for me because I was hoping to... It's cool to have something in the ether like, oh, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire are coming back as Spider-Man, but not knowing because Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield are interviewed many times and they say, no, we're not in it.
01:06:45
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But yeah, any thoughts on the other than the fact that it was spoiled, that has spoiled the trailer as well as the trailer going to spoil probably more yeah for you. So it's going to be multiple. It's going to be compounded spoilers for this particular segment. just But yeah, man, it's it's funny because I feel like I should be stoked for this because like I think mean, both you and I, we've watched every MCU movie, even post Endgame. And I know a lot of people that kind of just fell off after Endgame.
01:07:09
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yeah So, and I've enjoyed most of the movies since, you know Guardians three is amazing. i loved a Thunderbolts. Fantastic four was pretty darn great. So like, great there's a lot of excitement that I should be feeling leading up to this flick, but for whatever reason, probably because they keep on revealing fucking everything about it. yeah I just, I lack excitement. I'm almost more annoyed about it. Every time I hear about it, I'm like, shut the fuck up.
01:07:35
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Yeah. Shut the fuck up, dog. You know, like, um, right. And, uh, yeah. So again, I am like deep down, i am excited about this. i I do want to watch it. I will a hundred percent go to the theater either day one or within the first few days. Cause I love that experience, but.
01:07:53
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I can't, I can't pretend to be excited about it just because I'm just more frustrated every time something comes up about this. Like genuinely, I feel like I get annoyed and angry. I saw because they revealed somebody had filmed it. i don't know if it was official or not.
01:08:06
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the The stage presentation and they showed some of that and that made me excited because I didn't see the actual trailer and I didn't look at the, when they started describing the trailer in these articles, they just, nah, not going to read that. I'll watch it. Yeah.
01:08:18
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But I i just, i I don't know. something about Downey and Evans like being on stage and they're kind of like, it's it's really good for the the theater industry as well. And speaking of that, to segue off of that, Disney announced Infinity Vision. Did you see this?
01:08:33
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Yeah. What is it? ah Because I saw they announced this. I'm like, what the, like, what is this? Like, are they creating their own theaters to go with this? I'm very confused. So please explain it to me.
01:08:46
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It's a standardization process similar to like where we we go to see AVX or IMAX. The thing is, it's their own standardization, which is weird. The thing that's interesting about this is, so we talked about it earlier in the montage.
01:09:04
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du Dune part three from Denis Villeneuve is going into theaters and on the same day as Doomsday, which means that Dune will be in all the IMAX theaters.
01:09:17
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But Disney hasn't budged on Doomsday And they would have to be the ones to budge because apparently theaters have sold out of the tickets for IMAX for Doom Part 3.
01:09:28
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So Doomsday would be the one to leave. Like they would have to vacate that date so they could have their movie in. Why would you not want to be in IMAX? it's ah It's a premium format. It's a huge movie. Wouldn't you want Doomsday to be in theaters?
01:09:42
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and In IMAX, sorry, into the big format theaters. And that's kind of the question is that these theater companies are going to have to make a choice. But who's going to be building this? So this is the idea is there's a standardization process. So they yeah you can get it approved as a – I was going to say Disney Infinity. Where's the name of this?
01:10:00
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Infinity Vision. Infinity Vision. disney you know Disney Infinity Vision. Disney Infinity Vision is what it is. um But they you have to be approved for it. it's specifically like laser projection. It's just a few things, certain size of screen. They they just standardizing the process. So we get a very big screen, sound, overall picture quality experience as the audience, which is cool.
01:10:26
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But there was an article I was reading that was kind of talking about how it's It's going to compete. That's how it's going to have their own big format that they're going to be supported by for Doomsday because Dune is obviously taking up the IMAX screens. and I'm like, are they going to be building these theaters? Like we've just had ah an AVX theater, which is again, a big, large, a large format theater open up near our house, another one. So we have an AVX on one side of Guelph, Ontario, we live in Canada.
01:10:54
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And then we have another one that just opened up. Is that one going to become the Disney Infinity Vision? is that Is that what they're going to do? ah It's kind of an – I don't know. I'm not sure what's going on with that because it's a laser projection and that's a laser projection AVX, whereas the other one don't think is on the other side of the world. No, it not. The other big theater. So maybe that was being maybe prepped to become Dolby – I keep saying Dolby. Dolby Vision, it's getting confusing. There's Dolby Vision as well. But Infinity Vision, will that theater that just got the laser projection become –
01:11:28
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<unk>s I'm thinking maybe they were prepping it because they knew that was coming, but they didn't actually have a name for it and they hadn't been announced. Because if you're going to build these theaters out, it's going to take a long time to build. But i didn't even think that that theater was large enough. We've got to go to that AVX because we don't even know what that is. Is it going look cooler or we don't even know?
01:11:44
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i don't know. I don't know. Because, yeah, I was thinking about maybe watching Project Hail Mary there. But then I think it was just the the show time was like off Yeah, we couldn't do it for the straight time. But we we have lots of movies to see. we could maybe could We could try to see Brand New Day in there. or The Super Mario Galaxy movies in there? The Odyssey?
01:12:03
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The Odyssey? I'm sure the Odyssey movie. like Nolan filmed with IMAX cameras, so we really should go see that in IMAX. Yeah. That's a Super Mario Galaxy movie. You want to see that?
01:12:15
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No. I'll watch it at some point, but I, I, I will too. I'm not going to see that in theaters and it doesn't need her help. yeah Obviously. Gosh, very well box office. Very good for super Mario galaxy movie. Yeah. uh, I'm very surprised because they seem to fall into the same trappings of doomsday in some way, but I'm hoping again, doomsday is going to have more reveals that we didn't see yet in all the trailers. Um,
01:12:39
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There's been no Doomsday trailer, by the way. I wanted to say that there's only been teasers and they revealed so much in just the teaser. So imagine what the trailer is going to reveal anyway. ah But, but my point was super galaxy revealed so much stuff. And apparently there's not many twists. Like the only, the ending kind of has a twist. Like there's like a end credit scene or something. I feel like it's really weird that they revealed Glenn Powell, a star Fox. I feel like that would have been a bigger headline if they didn't.
01:13:02
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tell everyone beforehand. like they they They publicize all of like, all here are all the characters that are going to be in it. All these characters you had no idea about. It's like, I don't know if you needed to tell us. I feel like you could just held back. But again, this is a this is the current <unk>ome world we live in with trailers that just reveal everything. So hopefully- Well, I just feel like, don't know, that movie is like definitively a children's movie.
01:13:24
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like So it's like, i don't know. Are kids like online looking this stuff up I mean, probably, I guess. And kids are like, wow, Star Fox. I remember Star Fox from the hit Wii U game that came out.
01:13:37
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That was bad. I think it's for Nintendo game fans and it's for kids. And I think that people do see it because it's on social media. They're revealing it everywhere. Especially that because it was on a Nintendo Direct. They did multiple Nintendo Directs to reveal the reveal. It's so bizarre. Imagine Sony from like making PlayStation like directs and just like, here's the Uncharted movie. Here's Tom Holland. He's been hired as he's been hired as Nathan Drake. They all also they all all the Nintendo Rex. The voiceover guy is always like, this is this is Tom Holland as Uncharted's Nathan Drake.
01:14:17
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I don't know why why they all sound like that. Anyway, um moving on. i don't know know what we were talking. Oh, infinity Infinity Vision. Anything else to talk about that? I guess the only thing to point out is that they also did mention that they're re-releasing Endgame into theaters, and apparently they're adding additional footage that's going to connect it into n you're sorry into Doomsday. I'm kind of confused. I'm like, okay.
01:14:40
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I'm like, is it actually, are they actually going to do something? Imagine it's like a 30 second, like end credit clip or something. And they're like yeah, it's new footage. And then you just sit through another, like yeah a two and a half hour long movie, which is great. Mind you. It's awesome. I freaking love that movie.
01:14:53
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Three hour long movie almost. And then it's just like a little quick clip. It's like, look at this. Wow. Wow. Right. or There's going to be one line of dialogue where Thanos goes, you know, like, I'm the biggest, baddest guy. But actually, there's one guy worse than me. It's Dr. Doom. He's coming in Doomsday, by the way. He's in the next movie. But anyways, I'm the bad guy right now.
01:15:16
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And that's what they do. And he looks like Robert Downey Jr. yeah are Revealed. Yeah, he's like beating the shit out of freaking Iron Man. And he's like, I've seen you before, but you were actually Dr. Doom. And you're coming out in the sequel Avengers movie, Avengers Doomsday. Why think that could be real, though?
01:15:37
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Yeah. hey That actually isn't a bad idea because Thanos would have probably met him in some universe because he said that is a Thanos from a different universe. Yeah. i don't want to get into it too much because I want to spoil it. I mean, how you can, can you really spoil end game at this point? because so many how many people saw it.
01:15:53
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If you haven't seen end game at this point, I mean, but I'm not going to, you probably don't want to. I genuinely believe like if you had any want to watch it, maybe you would have watched it. But yeah. Yeah. That's actually, you might be right. Cause they, they might be like, yeah, I've seen you before.
01:16:08
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Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. You were different. You were Dr. Doom in the, in the new Avengers movie coming out this year. Yeah. But you know, yeah, it is a, yeah, it is a thought. Okay. Yeah. i' Moving on to oh what was next?
01:16:22
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What is that? Oh, I wanted to, oh, I should have maybe did this off the top, but this, some of what I've written here, just want to give the credit where credit's due, is supplemented from information from James Hibbard's CinemaCon Winners and Losers Hollywood Reporter article. I just wanted to give credit where credit was due. James Sinners. It's just topper at the bottom, but I put it for some reason in the middle of this. Don't know why. What was his name? James Simmers. James Hibbard.
01:16:46
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James Hibbard. James Hibbard's. No, no it James Hibbard says an apostrophe S. It belongs to him because he wrote it. Okay, so his last name is just Hibbard. Exactly.
01:16:57
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Shout out to you, James Hibbard. Top Gun 3, Adrian, is apparently being written. I like we might have known that, but it is being written, um which is cool. And ah Mr. Tom Cruise was there, but not for Top Gun 3. He was there for the Digger movie.
01:17:14
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Don't do it. Don't you dare. Yeah. He looks really old in this. Alejandro G. Enri, too. He's directing this. And he looks apparently really, really old. Tom Cruise looks really aged up for this, which is interesting.
01:17:31
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um People are thinking that's pretty cool, but they're not sure about the footage because they don't they don't know. It could be could be bad. It could be good or something like that. There there was a little bit divisive, I guess, the footage, but it's just trailer, I think. um But it is cool. Tom Cruise looks like he's aged up. Anyway, any interest in this film or no?
01:17:48
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I don't really know much, of if anything, about it. so Okay. well No interest as right now. I'm a big Revenant fan and Birdman, so that's why i'm interested. I do like those two movies.
01:18:00
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Yeah. I do like those two movies. We talked about Doomsday. People were talking about, especially this Hollywood article, Hollywood Reporter article. Where was DC?
01:18:12
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Was what James Hibbert was asking. Because DC didn't show up in a big way. They showed up for Supergirl a little bit. But for largely, if you compare it to the Doomsday presentation and even Disney's presentation with all the various fanfare. um Doomsday seemed to be like really hyped and apparently on stage DC wasn't as hyped according to James Hibbard here.
01:18:31
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so Interesting. I guess it worked actually that I'd mentioned James Hibbard beforehand to talk about this because that was his point because I wasn't there. I was obviously not at CinemaCon and we didn't see CinemaCon in any way other than the snippets and the articles. So that is an interesting aspect because dc is just a a fledgling thing. Now it's the DC universe is just starting out and it's kind of funny that they're starting out and it's such a big fanfare of last year. It was a huge year with Peacemaker and Superman. And there's not really, it doesn't feel as hype this year. It seems like event, like the Avengers thing and everything from Disney is kind of,
01:19:05
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for the Marvel Cinematic Universe is kind of dominating the news cycle with Spider-Man Brand New Day and and all that stuff, which is interesting because they do kind of have some good movies coming out this year. Or I guess it's just movie. Is it just Supergirl this year? Am I missing one? It's just Supergirl, yeah. Lanterns is coming out, but that's an HBO show. And I think Creature Commandos.
01:19:23
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I don't know it's confirmed. Are they a second season, dude? Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah, they're doing a second season. They also announced... um I didn't see that. What's her name? Is it Sydney Chandler? Kyle Chandler's daughter.
01:19:34
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yes sit Yeah. Cindy Chandler. That she was just cast as Oh, man. Who the fuck is she? I didn't know she... They were doing another season. Chandler. Huh.
01:19:45
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Okay. Creature Commandos. These are shows, though. so again, they wouldn't be at CinemaCon, so it's not maybe... Maybe that's why. They're having bigger a bigger show, TV show year, TV series year than they are movies, maybe. That's kind of why they were more of a muted presence. Yeah.
01:20:02
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And Adria Arjona being cast as as Maxima, that was it that was ah was an announcement made outside of CinemaCon, by the way. That was an announcement that happened in the last two weeks, but it didn't. It was it happened actually while CinemaCon was going, but it had nothing to do with CinemaCon. um yeah Yeah. There was a lot of there was speculation that Adria Arjona would be cast as Wonder Woman.
01:20:25
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You see that before we might have. talked Yeah. actually Yeah. And then we talked about that on the show. There was a lot of speculation about that, which honestly I could see. me too I don't really know much about this Maxima character, but yeah, again, Maxima DC.
01:20:40
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She's been in a lot over the like last little bit and she's been great in everything she's been. Yeah, I know she was with Glenn Powell and and hit man, that movie. Yeah. That movie is awesome.
01:20:51
Speaker
Yeah. She's very good. Yeah. Okay. She was with Glenn Powell on that one. I know. you're a crush. Your main crush, Glenn Powell. Yeah. All right. Moving on.
01:21:03
Speaker
Johnny Depp took the stage. Do you see this? No. He took the stage for Ty West's Ebenezer film. Oh. I don't know if knew it was Ty West.
01:21:14
Speaker
Me neither. That's interesting. Because Ty West, he did Maxine, right? Like, yeah. Yeah. X, Pearl, and Maxine. So I saw that. I'm like, did I not know that he was directing this? I guess not. But anyways, he's directing the Ebenezer a Christmas Carol movie and ah Johnny Depp is playing Ebenezer Scrooge in it.
01:21:31
Speaker
And it got a warm reception and he kind of got a pretty good applause during his the presentation while he was on stage, which is cool. He might be back, I guess. I guess Johnny Depp is back. We'll see. Who knows? I don't know.
01:21:43
Speaker
Maybe. It's a controversial figure at this point. so Yeah. Yeah. yeah i Yeah. Again, it's um not a... I feel like as a society, we're just too okay with letting bad people stay in the spotlight. And I know so i know there was a lot of issues with him and Amber Heard. And like it was kind of a two-sided thing.
01:22:08
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yeah And like obviously, I think they were both very much in the wrong. um And there were again, like Amber Heard was crazy. He's at office. i think I think so. I think there was a lot of information out there that they they seem to both be very much in the wrong. And I mean, Amber Heard is, mean, she's gone, right? Like, i don't I don't think we've heard a single thing from her. So I i guess Johnny Depp, obviously a bigger actor and everything like that than her. But I don't know. I just,
01:22:39
Speaker
anyways, whatever. It doesn't really matter. That's an interesting perspective because i I kind of see it as the flip side. Largely. She wasn't gone. There was a huge trial and he was completely lambasted and removed from projects and he never, yeah he just was gone. He was gone from the industry altogether. And she was in Aquaman and she was still in it.
01:22:55
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She didn't didn't even take her out. so it was like, i don't really agree necessarily whether she gets hired again is an interesting thing, but he he seemed to struggle to get anything for for years.
01:23:06
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He's back. Yeah. I don't know. I don't want to wade into this because there's no, the it's a pretty weird, we talked about this in depth. so Yeah. I don't think that, do we know that he did what he, which he was alleged and do we know that she did? It's very strange. It's like a he said, she said thing that was very aggressive.
01:23:27
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah.
Hollywood's Handling of Controversial Figures
01:23:28
Speaker
you might You must have a different opinion than but I don't know. um I don't know. I think it's different than Mel Gibson, personally, but I don't know. I think Mel Gibson's... Or like getting into Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey's even crazier.
01:23:39
Speaker
like It's just like there's a spectrum to be on. and like that was a They aired their dirty laundry in public for a thing that they their relationship was bad. I don't really understand. This is very unusual. I don't really get it.
01:23:51
Speaker
um they If there was violence in the relationship, it went both ways. So I'm like, I don't know... like Who started what? What was there? We were behind closed doors. It's like, why are we even, they were against each other. It's like, did he, and then his, his other spouses came out and said, no, he's not like that.
01:24:08
Speaker
So it's like, yeah okay. so we're going to just say he's, he's, condemned oh, you're condemned now. Your bad relationship means you're condemned forever. It's like for her too. I don't really care. I don't know. I'm not sure she did it either. I'm i'm not going to say either way, but this is like a weird, why did you air this? What what was the point of that?
01:24:24
Speaker
And that was the kind of the, my question at the time and still is now. And I think it's different for like somebody like Mel Gibson, who's on tape saying like being incredibly antisemitic and we let him in really easily. Very unusual. Yeah. He came back in force. I'm not sure what the deal was with that, but I mean, he took years to come back to you.
01:24:45
Speaker
But yeah, even then, I'm not, I'm not like saying he can't be in forever, but he just didn't seem very remorseful when the mill gifts inside. That's just for my perspective. But again, I don't want to, they're not, he's not in jail.
01:24:59
Speaker
So straight to jail. We're not letting Harvey Weinstein make movies anymore. You know, that's true. That's a, that's a daum more cut and dry. That's a cut and dry one. Yeah. You know what? That's totally fair.
01:25:11
Speaker
maybe Maybe I'm being a little bit too harsh. yeah I'm kind of going off memory and I just feel like they were both kind of in the wrong, but you are right. It is just their own relationship. That's the weird thing. It's like, what?
01:25:22
Speaker
It's like, he didn't go around and abuse multiple women. And they were like, Oh yeah. It's like, no, nobody else says that this happened except for her. And yeah it's like, okay. Like that's why, and I don't think anyone has said anything about her, like in her past relationships. I'm like, what was going on here? Why, why didn't you decide to ruin your careers over this? It seemed like nobody won here. I didn't feel like it was a complete waste. And at the time when we were talking about it, we were like, why are they doing this? I think that was the main thing we were like, yeah but why? i get it. It was really bad for both of you, but I don't, I get it, but it was between you.
01:25:55
Speaker
So maybe, And a lot of it, I'm sure, was like drug fueled and everything like that. Drug and alcohol fueled as well. but Possibly, Yeah, you know what? You're right. You know what? Maybe I i don't know. Maybe I'm just being in and a a little bit of a pessimistic mood and just and trying to be ah an ass about it. But yeah you're you're not wrong. You know what? Yeah. It's just the spectrum of things. yeah we We always talk about this. Like, we we try to be nuanced here. It's just like, I feel like, I don't know. We don't know. We don't know a lot of it. Even Kevin Spacey, apparently. Yeah. somehow he keeps getting off for for all of these charges right and all these lawsuits is like maybe he didn't do it don't know it's a lot of allegations i'm not sure um you know what i mean that one's a tough one i feel like i have a hard time watching baby driver which is one of my favorite movies yeah now nowadays but um but again he got off multiple from multiple lawsuits are you looking that up
01:26:44
Speaker
Yeah, there's a something as recent as this March. Kevin Spacey settled out of court civil sexual assault claims brought by three men in the UK alleging abuse between 2013. Yeah. what does What does that mean?
01:27:00
Speaker
That's the thing, right? It's like when you settle things out of court, it's just, i don't know. Signed an NDA. Yeah. Yeah. hey Okay.
Paramount-Warner Bros Merger Concerns
01:27:07
Speaker
I don't know, man. i don't know but he's gay there but that's a crazy move that's a crazy move by him that was crazy yeah i don't remember fucking diddling this kid when i was in my 20s but i'm gay but by the way i'm like what brother why would you do this who thought about that man what anyways do you have a publicist i don't know if they should be your publicist anymore i'm not i'm just saying i'm not don't know yeah i'm the professional publicist but i feel like that was That was a move that I wouldn't have made.
01:27:40
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. All right. Let's move on. How do we get here? Oh, Johnny Depp, Ty West, Ebenezer film. Okay. Moving on. ah Last thing. No, two things. So second, last thing, Resident Evil.
01:27:53
Speaker
I know if he saw this Resident Evil movie comes September 18th. I don't know if I knew that was this close for one thing. That's this year. knew it was this year, but that's pretty soon. First look is described by somebody. I don't remember what article this was. or maybe this was just quoted from somebody who watched in the theater, but it's described as a horror Mad Max Fury Road, which is, whoa, okay. That's cool. um but But yeah, Zack Greger has a few things coming. Other than that, Warner Brothers announced that that August 11th, 2028, he's got a movie called The Flood.
01:28:26
Speaker
And then the Gladys film is also coming, I think the same year in 2028. So the Gladys is the the weapons prequel film for Gladys, the character in weapons. Yeah. Actually, Amy Madigan won Best Actress for Best Supporting for that role. role thats pretty cool um But yeah, zach the Zack Kreger information, i i wish we saw the trailer that they everyone else saw. i'm just I'm so curious about this and how it will play and the fact that it doesn't have the Resident Evil characters, like the mainstay characters from the series and how... that will go over with fans and how it will nail the tone because he's such a fan of the games and you are a huge fan of the games so you're more of an expert certainly than i yeah what did you make of this did you read anything about this no no i'm just kind of waiting for for the trailer to drop i have full confidence that zach craig is going to make something great and i'm more than okay with it not being
01:29:18
Speaker
you know centered around a plot of the game and just being in the universe. I'm sure there's going to be Easter eggs and references to what's going on. And I'm curious. I don't know if they mentioned it. I think they they talk that this is kind of set like ah during the downfall of Raccoon City.
01:29:35
Speaker
if I recall correctly, which is right around, you know, when two and three are taking place. Okay. um So I feel like there, I'm sure there's going to be some references and nods to, to it also.
01:29:46
Speaker
I'm very intrigued. I'm stoked for this movie. I think it's going to be great. um I mean, who knows? Maybe I'll be wrong, but. There was one image that was really creepy. It was like a woman. There's like, she was wearing the face of a person.
01:29:58
Speaker
Yeah. I was really, don't know if you saw that very creepy. Look Yeah. Okay. ah Last thing, and this completely segues into the next story. Wait. David Ellison. Oh, you got more?
01:30:10
Speaker
ah Yeah. I'll talk about ah one one brief thing give it up that it seems like you you won't be bringing up. Godzilla Minus Zero was also yeah at CinemaCon. They released ah like about a minute-long teaser for that movie. It's coming out later this year.
01:30:26
Speaker
three Very excited about that. Godzilla Minus One's awesome. This movie is, I think, set two years after. I think that's what the trailer says. And it's like something else is coming. There's like a new danger or whatever. And I'm very curious. And it also looks like it's going to be partially set in America because I think there's like the Statue of Liberty and in one of the final scenes.
01:30:48
Speaker
So I'm very... very intrigued about this one it's a 40 yeah 48 yeah um 48 second trailer so yeah like there is the yeah the statue of liberty at the end of the teaser i'll pull it up right here for you you see that cool like the the the the godzilla monsterverse films go to japan and they go to obviously they go to um, the U S God.
01:31:13
Speaker
I got a lot of watching it. Monarch Japanese film being taken place in U S. You know what I mean? yeah I got to finish Monarch season two. I watched the first episode and I was like, I'm goingnna get back to this. i think it's wrapping up. Yeah. It should be close now to the end. Um, so the thing I'm going to talk about paramount, uh, paramount's David Ellison.
01:31:30
Speaker
He was on stage and everyone's kind of doubtful because a CinemaCon and it's all about the theatrical experience. And there's this worry that because Paramount is going to merge with Warner Brothers, Paramount's buying Warner Brothers, that the output would decrease, meaning the job losses across the industry is obviously that's a worry for a lot of people, but it was also a worry for exhibitionists because they're worried about less theatrical films coming.
01:31:55
Speaker
And so... So he promised that a combined Paramount and Warner Brothers output would be 30 theatrical films a year, each with 45-day theatrical release release windows at the very least.
01:32:06
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um So that's kind of the big thing there. i don't know if you had anything to say about that, but I just thought that was interesting because that's what everyone's kind of worried about now. And so think they even had – hold on.
01:32:21
Speaker
Oh, I see. That was a separate story. um But yeah, yeah. so So that's kind of the interesting thing there. So I'm curious to see, like people were kind of very skeptical, but his speech kind of went over okay, according to, again, this Hollywood Reporter article. Yeah. They were kind of just saying like, oh, well, maybe people are like okay with it if this, what it actually is the combined output, because it would seem like that would be the most. But the problem is, is that one year? Like, are we going to do one year? And like, oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no, we're going to make all these job cuts. Oh, no, it's 20 years, 20 films year. Because they they promise all this stuff initially. It reminds me of the Xbox merger with Activision. It's like, exactly okay, we bought Activision. Oh, yeah, we promise all these things are going to happen. And then they just back out of it later because everyone forgets after the, you know, yeah after the FTC hearings or whatever that, yeah whatever happens there. So anyway. Hmm.
01:33:05
Speaker
Yeah. So the only thing that I kind of want to point out about that specific number is I just don't understand how that can be financially viable for your business. If you're essentially competing with yourself, there's 52 weeks in a year, yeah you're releasing 30 movies. So that's essentially one movie every two weeks, less than like technically less than every two weeks. more Yeah. um And you're doing a 45 day theatrical window. You're just eating into your own
01:33:34
Speaker
Movies. I just i just don't – I can't see this going over well. So I think you're right. Like they're promising this. They're going to do it one year. Then they're probably just going to say this is what isn't financially viable. It's not actually bringing in the revenue that we expected. and then they're going to cut it down.
01:33:48
Speaker
People are going to get fired. And that's exactly what's going to happen. yeah So I think you're on the money there. Yep. It sucks. It That's why we never wanted the merger in the first place and nobody should. nobody Nobody out there should be like, yeah, this is great.
01:34:01
Speaker
Netflix should buy them. Like, no, Netflix should not buy them. Nobody should buy them. It's not useful. At least of all two big studios who constantly do theatrical releases, at least Netflix doesn't already do them and they're going to promise to put the things in theaters, but that still would have been a disaster for its own issues.
01:34:16
Speaker
the The other story but before CinemaCon was that big name Hollywood talent. So this is so kind of the second of the trilogy of topical tidings here. Is that the big name Hollywood talent have signed an open letter condemning the Warner Brothers and barr Paramount merger. The claim is that the merger will hurt the industry as a whole due to ah due to few fewer projects getting greenlit.
01:34:36
Speaker
And released, and the quote from this letter is, quote, our industry is already under severe strain in large part due to prior waves of of consolidation we've witnessed a steep decline in the number of films produced and released alongside narrowing of the the kinds of stories that are financed and distributed Increasingly, and a small number of powerful entities determine what gets made and on what terms, leaving creators and independent businesses with fewer viable paths to sustain their work. We are deeply concerned by indications of support for this merger that that prioritize the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good.
01:35:13
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The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised." unquote I agree. Yeah. Hear, hear. Yeah. yeah yeah I agree. All right.
01:35:25
Speaker
Number three. I'm just kidding. That's it. We kind of all culminated in that. It's interesting to show up on stage. You would have to, if you're, you're going to buy Warner brothers and you're David Ellison from Paramount, you'd have to show up on stage, but show up on stage and say, Oh, wait, promise. I'm like, yeah, I'm sure you do.
01:35:42
Speaker
Cause you need the merger to go through and hasn't gone through yet, bro. Yeah. Do you think that might be one of the reasons why DC was fairly underplayed at cinema con because the future of it is now uncertain with this merger.
01:35:53
Speaker
Oh, geez. I think it's what I said before. I think the the Hollywood reporter, James Hibbard, there was kind of being a little harsh because I think they only have one big film coming this year. Yeah. And I think the next Superman movie will be ah more hyped rather than Greg Gillespie's Supergirl movie, which looks awesome. It looks pretty great. Yeah, I'm very excited about it. You go see that in AVX.
01:36:14
Speaker
Go see that in the AVX laser laser projection. um Well, we can see Mandalorian and gro Grogu. Oh, yeah. yoda That's next month. That's soon. Yeah. Yeah. When's when is Supergirl? June? June.
01:36:28
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june
01:36:31
Speaker
Is that a yes? June. Yeah. End of June. Okay. Oh yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So yeah, it's, it's bad. We, we've been talking about the merger forever, but this is the, it's cool that people are are speaking out about it. Cause it kind of puts them in a bind. There's two major studios. Like i think Pedro Pascal signed on. It's like, Oh, You're taking a bit of a risk there. I think Damon Lindelof wrote a little article, a little thing on Instagram about how he also signed on. He's like, I almost didn't do it because I'm like, is this, I was afraid.
01:36:58
Speaker
Like I'm going to lose like like work. I need to work here. I work for Warner brothers right now. Like I've worked for them for a while. It's like, do I do this? since it's like, I decided to do it. Cause I realized it is important that people are going to get shafted and it's not worth not saying it's, it's kind of worth reading his post on Instagram and social media. But um yeah, anyway,
01:37:18
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. and Anyway, let's move on. You're right.
Anticipation for New Films and Theatrical Strategies
01:37:22
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ah The next of the trilogy of Topical Tidings is... And I had this in the montage, but I skipped over it because I wanted to talk about it here because it looks really cool. and I think it's worth talking about it in a bigger setting. As announced in a press release, Ratatouille director Brad Bird is deep into development on a new animated noir detective science fiction film for Netflix and Skydance animation. The film is to be called Ray Gun, is scheduled for a 2026 release, and is set to star Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, and Tom Waits.
01:37:50
Speaker
This looks really cool to me. i don't know if you looked into this at all. No. Was there a trailer? There's no trailer. It's just a press release and I'm going to drop it into the chat here from Netflix. And the animation looks really cool. It's Brad Bird not working at Pixar anymore, clearly ah for this one. And I think that's, I don't know. i I think it looks really cool and looks like it has a cool cast. And it's like he, it's a detective.
01:38:16
Speaker
It's like a science fiction detective film as I kind of alluded to there. i yeah I'm into this. if you look at the pictures, like the the images there in the press release from Netflix. It's weird because this was outside of CinemaCon. Not that weird because Netflix doesn't like theatrical releases. I wonder if they're going to double down on that now.
01:38:34
Speaker
You know? They're promising, oh, we don't have theatrical. We we like it. And then and they're not going to do they're gonna even do less in theatrical releases now on Netflix. They're like, now we're not going to do any.
01:38:46
Speaker
Sue us, bitches. You know? bitch. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, you see it there. See the images. Indeed. i do indeed see it. There's like three stills here. I'm quite excited about it.
01:38:58
Speaker
Yeah. I think it looks great. I'm curious. um I'm Brad Bird. I feel like he doesn't miss. Has he missed ever?
01:39:10
Speaker
Genuine. Has Brad Bird ever missed? Let's type in Brad Bird into IMDb and determine if he missed. Brad Bird movies. We'll find bad one. Actually, Rotten Tomatoes. Let's just do Rotten Tomatoes. It's even easier. Incredible. He did Mission Impossible. guess Tomorrowland.
01:39:25
Speaker
Tomorrowland would have been the miss. ah He directed Tomorrowland? That's what Google AI just told me. Is it true? Is it true? Tomorrowland 2015 film. It is... is It was this movie after it is. It is directed by him.
01:39:46
Speaker
Brad Bird. Yep. And it has a story by Bird Lindelof and Jeff Jensen. Interesting. I think this movie fucking it's not critically well reviewed, but I don't think it also like I think it did fairly bad commercially as well.
01:40:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Gross. 209 million worldwide and was considered a commercial failure for losing Disney 120 to 150 million at the box office.
01:40:16
Speaker
I remember watching the trailers for this and being like, i don't want to watch this. Yeah. I remember. I was like, I just, I'm not going to watch this, but they worked for them again right after with Incredibles two. That was a hit. Yeah, that's true.
01:40:28
Speaker
That's true. Yeah. Yeah. All right. cool Cool, man. But no, i'm I'm curious. Again, I think Brad Bird is a phenomenal director. He's made you know the great movies. like I love Incredibles. love Ratatouille.
01:40:43
Speaker
um I like Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol. you know So like i'm i'm I'm into it. Why the heck not, dude? Why the heck not? This is releasing this year, which is interesting.
01:40:54
Speaker
um with no trailer. This is straight to Netflix, I'm i'm guessing, or are they going to do you like a little theatrical thing? That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking they're going to double down on the no theatrical thing. like we didn't buy The only reason I ask is because the potential of winning best animated at at the Oscars, right?
01:41:13
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, but they'll do the tricky thing they always do, you know? Oh, it's in there for two weeks at these three theaters. Not to worry. Yeah.
01:41:24
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Ray Gunn will stream in 2026 only on Netflix. So, yeah. This is from that article. You're right. Maybe they're going to try to angle for the the award. So they'll put it in for two weeks.
01:41:36
Speaker
Whatever the window is that the Oscars requires. Yeah. That's what they call it. All right. Okay. cool Adrian. Adrian. Now let's move on to a segment of our show that I like to call I Look to the Future, 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 21st and 2026.
01:41:57
Speaker
and may fourth twenty twenty six Okay, you go first. As is customary, which films, TV show, trailers are you... Oh, sorry.
01:42:08
Speaker
No, not trailers. That's the next segment. Which things are you most excited for that are releasing between those dates? Yes, Simon. There's a few things that I'm excited about. Good. But one that I'm probably most excited about is the horror movie called Hocum.
01:42:25
Speaker
Oh, how come it's coming out? May 1st stars Adam Scott. Yeah. This trailer spooky, really interesting. I'm stoked about this. is Um, I, uh, I watched the first trailer and it like, it showed me enough. I'm like, this seems cool.
01:42:43
Speaker
And I know they released one within the last couple of weeks that I like started watching. And I watched like the first, like five seconds. I'm like, why am I doing this? I'm going to watch this movie regardless. So I just yeah turned it off.
01:42:54
Speaker
Okay. Okay. So very intrigued. Looks really, really, really good from, again, that initial trailer that I witnessed. Spooky. Spooky times. Sweet. My first pick is the Anne Hathaway Meryl Streep starring The Devil Wears Prada 2.
01:43:10
Speaker
also Also premieres on May 1st. Nice, In theaters. Adrian looks cool. Looks cool I liked the first movie. It was good. I was just going to ask if you watched it. No, I've never watched it. It was a buzzy film for many reasons. People liked it. like People went to watch and i think it got nominated for a few awards at the time. Yeah. back Way back then. It's a long time ago, the first one.
01:43:31
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Yeah. I love
Critic Reviews vs. Oscar Nominations
01:43:32
Speaker
Anne Hathaway. Like, I genuinely, I think she's one of the great actors. I think she's awesome in everything she's in. um Meryl Streep, though, little overrated.
01:43:41
Speaker
But anyways. Nice. Okay. I was wondering if you're going to mention Meryl Streep because you like went out of your way to say Anne Hathaway, one of the great actors yeah and not Meryl Streep. That's great.
01:43:53
Speaker
It's a joke, by the way. i just want people understand. Yeah, I really like Meryl Streep more than I feel like. i understand. like I don't know if people really think she's overrated other than that one guy, the crazy guy who said that. um But there's something about the humbleness of Meryl Streep in that she's kind of in random stuff a little bit. She's in really cool roles, but she's also in like – she was in the Lemony Snicket – movie the the you know what i'm talking about the unfortunate events or whatever yeah is that what a series of unfortunate events series of unfortunate events she was in that film with jim carrey i was like that's pretty cool she was in only murders in the building for a lot of it she's in it quite a bit and she's great in it she's just great in everything and she's really cool that she's in she's not just like like you know i won't be in tv shows like liam neeson says for some strange reason
01:44:46
Speaker
I can't imagine why that is. I won't be in. Wait, was he did he end up doing anything for Kenobi? I can't remember. i have no idea. i don't think he did it.
01:44:57
Speaker
I can't remember, but he just doesn't like being TV shows. He was like being snooty on an interview at one point. I'm like, don't know, dude, come on, man. So I appreciate that about Meryl Streep. She just, she's she just picks interesting, interesting roles and she's, man she kills it. She's also in the post, which we talked about earlier. like Yeah, I know. Yeah.
01:45:14
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah, that's true. Okay, your pick. Yeah, my next pick. Actually, sorry, quick aside. I was looking because I'm like, what else has she been in? was in Don't Look Up.
01:45:28
Speaker
I didn't realize Don't Look Up is like actually pretty poorly reviewed. It's like 56% on the tomato manor. Meryl Streep is in Don't Look Up. Yeah, she's the president. Oh, yeah, of course.
01:45:39
Speaker
Yeah. yeah um I didn't realize it was that poorly reviewed. And the popcorn meter is like 78. And that was like a best best picture movie. So makes you like wonder a little bit.
01:45:50
Speaker
How'd these movies get in in the best picture? Some of them. No, I like. That's not what I wonder at all. Because those are different audiences, right? So if you look at the Oscars, the Oscars are, are they're not reviewers. The Oscars are are picked by the people who make movie the Academy.
01:46:06
Speaker
And then the people who make movies are part of the academy and that's how they choose. But the for this is reviewers. It's not like the video game awards where it's like the reviewers are choosing and then the reviewers are writing the reviews on Metacritic.
01:46:18
Speaker
like Those are the people voting. But in this case, that's why I think that's happened. And that's happened a few times. um there's like There's times where the Razzies get... There's movies in there for the Razzies. The Razzies the one where it's the bad the bad awards, like whatever the worst. yeah Yeah, right. So like that's happened where a Best Picture nominee Or not even Best Picture, but this Best Category at the Oscars. they they I think it was ah Glenn Close was nominated for an award that she was also nominated for at Razzies. And she was nominated for Best actors like Supporting Actress and Best worst Worst Actor at the Razzies. I think that happened in the same... movie i think it was the movie about jd vance though you know but oh the ah ron howard movie yeah about his life the the based on the book what's it called i don't know hillbilly elegy yeah yeah i think she was nominated for both which is like really weird but again the people who make movies thought she was good and glenn close is really great and everything pretty much so so anyway um but okay
01:47:23
Speaker
Whose turn is it? Mine? Me. oh um My next pick is on the topic of Anne Hathaway. Yeah. Mother Mary releasing on April 24th.
01:47:35
Speaker
and This is an interesting little trailer here. It's not a horror movie. I think it's not a love story. It's um the trailer is really weird. I think this played before.
01:47:49
Speaker
Project Hail Mary, did it? Maybe not. um But it's Anne Hathaway, ah Michaela Cole, Hunter Schaefer's in it. And it's ah apparently a musical, which is interesting.
01:48:05
Speaker
Huh. So i don't know why I don't know. Psychological drama thriller. don't know. It's a whole thing. Okay. I'm curious about this one. I don't know if I'll watch it, but I'm curious about this one. um I do.
01:48:20
Speaker
Again, I like the cast. I really like Anne Hathaway. I really like Hunter Schaefer as an actor. I think she's awesome. Yeah. So.
01:48:28
Speaker
All right. Anyways, my next pick is Widow's Bay. Adrian comes out in April 29th. don't know if you've seen the trailer for this. Stars Matthew Reese. It's an Apple TV Plus show. It's supposed to be a comedy, a horror comedy, and it's show run by a Parks and Rec writer.
01:48:43
Speaker
yeah. um And then directed by, i don't have the person's name, which is stupid. I don't know i did that. And directed by Hiro Murai from the direction of Atlanta.
01:48:56
Speaker
Like he's the Atlanta Mr. and Mrs. Smith director. Okay. Why don't I have the showrunner? Because it's more important so in some sense. um I'll look it up. But World Widows Bay, it looks, the trailer's cool.
01:49:10
Speaker
I'm curious to see how it does because I don't know. I always wonder about Apple TV shows. How many people are watching them? You know? Yeah. Because they they're great.
01:49:21
Speaker
Like they're largely great. So ah yeah, I don't know. I'm hoping it does well just or it is good and then does well if it is. ah Oh, it's Katie Dippold, who's a writer on Parks and Rec.
01:49:34
Speaker
Interesting. Okay. And then directed by the Atlanta director. hira morei Anyway, so that one should be should be cool. Interesting. Yeah, Apple TV is interesting because they consistently release quality content, but I feel like if you're just not paying attention, you're not going to hear anything about it. like i i just they They have maybe like a select few shows that they do a lot of ads for. like I think Margo's Got Money Troubles most recently.
01:49:58
Speaker
like i saw a lot of trailers just naturally like online and everything. Same with them All Your Friends and Neighbors. But it's like Apart from you watching Slow Horses, like i I never came across Slow Horses. Ever. no Single time.
01:50:12
Speaker
Just you. Right? um like so i They're kind of picky and choosy about what they advertise for, which is interesting.
01:50:23
Speaker
But... Maybe I'll watch it. yeah I wonder though, are they actually advertising and we just don't notice like it's, it's on, it's hitting people in different ways because they're still on iPhone.
01:50:33
Speaker
You know i mean? Like how many people own an iPhone? They kind of have the best platform for advertising, but I don't know how much they're going hard with the ads because I see all this stuff and I'm talking about it. I saw the Widow's Bay ad like a while ago, like like a short one.
01:50:48
Speaker
I don't know. Maybe, yeah I don't know. i Yeah. I hope people watch them because they are great. I think they they just announced recently that they have the next season of Dark Matters in August or something like that. And Dark Matters really great too.
01:51:01
Speaker
Anyway, it's really good. Yeah. Interesting. um Cool. um And then, wait, did I just go or did you just go? I just wanted to sort of be. Okay. Last thing
New Series and Trailers Discussion
01:51:12
Speaker
on my list is a movie called ah Deep Water.
01:51:15
Speaker
um That's coming out May 1st. That's with um Two-Face. Why am I forgetting the actor's name now? And Ben Kingsley. um Two-Face.
01:51:26
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Oh. We saw this trailer in theaters because I remember you being like, oh, that's Aaron Eckhart. That's what said. Oh, right. Yeah. um Great.
01:51:39
Speaker
That's exactly what you said and how you sounded. And that's like, they're like, it's like a plane crashing into the ocean. And guess what? There's a shark. There's shark and it's going, nah. I'm going to kill you.
01:51:50
Speaker
It's killing people. Nah. yeah um ah This one's a tough one. I'm not sure which one to pick. I guess I'll just pick this because it's the most interesting trailer I saw recently. and One of the more interesting trailers. I want to give away the next segment. ah Apex.
01:52:06
Speaker
You see the trailer for this? No, I have no idea what this is. April 24th. This che It's a show. Oh, no, it's a movie. It's a movie. It airs on April 24th. It's Taron Egerton, and he's a psycho. And Charlize Theron is trying to get away from him, the Australian ah Outback. She's in the wilderness trying to get away from this crazy guy.
01:52:27
Speaker
And he's just trying to survive. It's a good trailer. It's really well done. I'm not sure whether it will be um good when it comes out, but it's imminent now. April 24th, this coming, with the week this our episode of the podcast airs. So yeah, this one looks cool. I was intrigued by this.
01:52:45
Speaker
Looks cool. um i did I did watch the trailer for this. This looks fun. It does. Two honorable mentions here. Half Man, ah an HBO show. It's a limited series from Baby Reindeer's Richard Gad.
01:52:58
Speaker
It's about two brothers going through some shit, like their relationship. This one's, again, April 23rd on april HBO. Richard Gad made, again, Baby Reindeer, which was a big hit on Netflix. ah Really dark show, but kind of fun. if Not fun, I guess. Funny would be the word. Not really fun at all. But it's ah it's about a stalker. Do you ever watch Baby Reindeer?
01:53:19
Speaker
No, I just know the premise. It's like about ah yeah like a woman that stalks like a man and then kidnaps him, essentially. Not necessarily, but you should watch it. Okay. um It's cool.
01:53:31
Speaker
It's good. Anyway, and then the other one I've got here is is Stranger Things Tales from 85, which airs on April 23rd. The Netflix so animated show, which I think is bringing back quite a bit of the cast.
01:53:44
Speaker
I'm pretty sure. i I thought no. I thought they were Isn't that true? Oh. I thought they replaced a lot of the cast. Well, that's weird. Why would I watch that? Treasure things. They literally replaced all the cast, dude.
01:53:59
Speaker
Did they? Yeah. Like every single person is replaced. Oh, shit. Yeah, then I'm watching that. Yeah. Huh. I wouldn't have watched it anyways. i just don't really. I must have saw the flip side of that as it has it as a headline. Like, they replaced the cast. Unless they're running the other way.
01:54:16
Speaker
And it's just, i I can't be, I just don't care. I love Stranger Things. I love that show. I think season, again, one and four are immaculate. I like the way it ends enough. would they do this if they're going to replace the cast?
01:54:28
Speaker
I don't know, dude. If you can get the Marvel cast to do, like, freaking what if. Like, largely. Yeah. You know what i mean? Yeah, some of them didn't come back though, to be fair. Dude, there are so many actors in that. It's crazy. I know. I No, I agree. That's what i thought was happening with this. I thought it was mostly, that's why I said mostly, but they mostly didn't get any of the cast.
01:54:48
Speaker
It's the opposite of what I said. They didn't get a single one of them, don't think, dude. Not one? i don't think so. Oh, okay. That's pretty. Could be wrong. maybe Maybe some like minor characters. Yeah. So that' that's why I wasn't part of. None of the main cast is is the three movies and TV shows. I was excited for, I guess. Yeah. I started there. Okay. um Cool.
01:55:08
Speaker
There's also the Michael Jackson biopic movie coming up, but i don't give a shit about that. Okay. 24. Gotcha. gotcha yeah Now on to the trailer, Adrian. The final segment of our show, where we each present our favorite trailer of the week. Yeah.
01:55:22
Speaker
I'll throw it to you first. Cool, man. So there's a few trailers I kind of want to discuss, but you know what I'm going to talk about? I'm going to talk about- The Dog Stars. Did you see the trailer for this one, man?
01:55:35
Speaker
The Dog Stars? don't think so. This is the Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley starring movie directed by Ridley Scott.
01:55:46
Speaker
He's coming back. um Josh Brolin is also in this movie. It's kind of like this post-apocalyptic movie. I'm very curious what the setup is and everything like that, but it's... um Jacob Elordi. He's sad. I'm um' bummed, man.
01:56:02
Speaker
You know, I presumably lost my wife when this apocalypse happened. And now I'm just kind of doing my thing. And it's, i don't know. It looks kind of fun. I like apocalypse movies, though. And i like Jacob Elordi. don't know if you saw, he had a recent interview where he talked about his favorite video game.
01:56:17
Speaker
You want to know what he said? What? Kingdom Hearts. Guy's a man of culture. Guy's a man of culture. I want to say something about Jacob Elordi. I've been've been like saying that I don't like Jacob Elordi for like pretty much a year.
01:56:32
Speaker
Yeah. Because he said that thing about Superman. He said he couldn't be in Superman because it was too dark. He was clearly joking about that. But I'd seen that regurgitated in so many different ways and I hadn't seen the original source.
01:56:45
Speaker
And this is a lesson to me that i already know, but it's a lesson to everyone. Always go to the original source. I didn't know he was joking. He was clearly joking. He just didn't want to be in a franchise film, I'm pretty sure. He wanted to to branch out and make sure he could not be stuck in a contract. I think that's... And that was perfectly fine.
01:57:01
Speaker
But my concern was he said that Superman was too dark. Meanwhile, he was starring in Euphoria in that Elvis Presley, very creepy Elvis Presley film. yeah Priscilla. So I'm like... How could that be? and it really bugged me a lot, but I don't think I ever, i think I heard it regurgitated to me and I never actually, or I read it. I can't remember even how i sourced that, but somebody had said that to me and I thought that was so absurd.
01:57:23
Speaker
that I literally kept saying it. And now i don't have any problem with Jacob Elordi. I kind of want to watch Frankenstein now. I feel bad. He was good, though. He was really good in that Emerald Fennell. I didn't watch that. Brightburn. No, not Brightburn. Saltburn.
01:57:39
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, no, I like Jacob Elordi in everything I've seen him in. Like, I think Priscilla is pretty good. Like, I think he's awesome in that. I, I, again, I think he seems like a pretty cool dude again, just because he loves King of hearts and that's his favorite game. Shout out to him. But I remember during the, like the the press tour or something for Priscilla, when they were talking about like, Oh, like what did you do to, you know, learn more about Elvis and everything like that. And he, he talked about like, he didn't really know much about Elvis before being cast. Like the most he know knows about Elvis is from Lilo and stitch.
01:58:14
Speaker
um but because because there's like the the part where Stitch dresses up like Elvis and does like this stuff so like I don't know shout out to him shout out to him Kingdom of Hearts fan oh yeah all right um what about you pal I'm still kind of... the I got like a lot listed here.
01:58:39
Speaker
yeah I'm kind of decided. um I'm trying to figure out the first one I wrote here because I'm not sure what it is. You can only have one. say more than one You get shot. ah Yeah, I know I can have one.
01:58:50
Speaker
I'm just trying to figure out what this last the first one I wrote here is. because the The problem is I write this over the course of two weeks. like and then i I write things down and I don't write what they are. i don't remember what it is. Oh, this is a kind of a cool...
01:59:04
Speaker
Is this a TV show? I love Apple TV shows. I still don't know whether it's a TV show or a movie. Anytime they announce anything, do you do you have that problem with them? Because i have this problem every time. Every time they announce anything, i'm like, is this a movie?
01:59:15
Speaker
And then I have to look to the end. i always just assume that it's a series. Like 100% of the time. Well, they have lots of movie assume. I know. That's the problem. I know they do. I just assume. 100% the time. This one was a good trailer, but I'm not going to say this one. Oh my God, are you serious? I'm going to go with...
01:59:32
Speaker
What? was like You're talking about this Apple TV Plus trailer for like the past 30 seconds. And you're like, yeah, this was a good trailer. I'm not going to say going leave mystery. You still don't how another one. You're going to shoot me in the face. I didn't say I was going shoot you. I just said that you will get shot. I don't want to get killed. I want to live a long life. The Burroughs is the Netflix show that is speaking of stranger things that looks pretty cool.
Podcast Conclusion and Final Thoughts
01:59:54
Speaker
The Burroughs? It's a retirement home. And these guys are trying to escape some kind of supernatural something, but you don't really know from the trailer. They actually kind of keep it a secret, which I kind of appreciate. It's a new series from the produced by, but not made by the Duffer brothers. It was announced ye ages ago. um And I've, was kind of excited for it, but I also was excited for because i thought the Betford brothers were going to make this show, but they're not actually show running it. They're just producing it, which I think we knew for a while because they, they moved their, their, their base of operations to where did they go again?
02:00:28
Speaker
do you remember? Not HBO. Paramount. Oh, right. Paramount made their deal. And so now they're not working for Netflix anymore. But this is this show is being produced by them.
02:00:39
Speaker
And it looks cool. It's like a really, really, really cool cast. It's Alfred Molina. Alfred Woodard. um Bill Pullman. Bill Portman. Yeah.
02:00:51
Speaker
I'm forgetting the others. Sorry. But yeah, it looks good. It looks really cool. And that trailer looks pretty cool. i'm I should watch this. I don't even hear about this. So that's my trailer of the week. I picked the other one I was going to pick. i know just Actually, I don't know. Okay, that's it. Well, that's it,
02:01:08
Speaker
it's good tell me tell me' that's it That's it for episode 134. Do you have anything else to say before we leave? Are you serious? You're going to do this? I can quickly list them. There was a trailer for Punisher. Punisher, one last kill. Looked pretty cool. yeah There was...
02:01:23
Speaker
and Trailer for Runner. i i love Owen Wilson. I love when Owen Wilson's with somebody more capable, like a fighter. There's something about Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Nights that I just really like. you know Owen Wilson paired with somebody like Jackie Chan, in this case, Alan Richson.
02:01:39
Speaker
and he They're like trying to get this organ from to save this this child, and they're being attacked. And Owen Wilson's wisecracking while Alan Richson's beating people up. It looks cool. Anyway, We also have Young Washington, which I thought was interesting. They're showing like the the history of the United States and like George Washington. And then Street Fighter was literally the one I was going to say instead of the Burroughs, but I chickened out and I said the Burroughs because I thought that was more interesting as an answer. I think Street Fighter looks really cool. I think the trailers they've shown for this, it could be bad. this is the The Street Fighter trailers remind me of what I felt like a little bit, not quite as much. But how when i when I watched the Suicide Squad, no, just Suicide Squad trailer. back in the day because that Suicide Squad trailer with Bohemian Rhapsody is such a good trailer but then the movie was bad and so the Street Fighter trailers both of them have been very good and I feel like they nail kind of the tone of Street Fighter in a lot of ways and it's exciting I'm more interested interested in this than Mortal Kombat personally
02:02:34
Speaker
Yeah, I watched the first Mortal Kombat movie. it It was pretty fun. Like, it's a fun movie. I'm going to watch the sequel probably. But yeah this this Street Fighter ah trailer, it really reminds me of um the One Piece show in a way. in the sense of like that it is just it's sticking with the campiness, the corniness of the original content and just kind of bringing it to live life and live action.
02:02:57
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I feel like there's there's no sense of shame or embarrassment about it. you know, just going all in into the source material. They know what they are and they're proud. Exactly. And yeah like, it gives me that similar vibe with the one piece show. Cause again, like I think I'm again, I'm watching one piece season two. I didn't want to talk about it just cause I'm, I'm fairly early in it, but they don't give a fuck about how ridiculous some of the plot elements are and everything like that. They're just going all in with the wackiness, the zaniness, these crazy costumes and the cinematography in the one piece show.
02:03:28
Speaker
I'm telling you, it's amazing. It's just so unique. And it just, it feels so fresh watching it. Oh, cool. really good. It's really good. But yeah, the Street Fighter trailer does look really darn fun.
02:03:40
Speaker
i'm I'm very much intrigued, even though I have no real attachment to the... I was going to ask, did you ever play any Street Fighter games as a kid or or recently? A little bit. But no, like i'm not I'm not a fighting game guy, dude. I could never get into them. I tried, like when I was a kid, again, I played some of it, you know, the arcade machines as well, like with Street Fighter and random things. But I just...
02:04:00
Speaker
I could not get into them. It's they're too. They're not fun. Like for me, like I don't like I don't find joy about like yeah remembering button prompts and specific orders to do specific moves.
02:04:15
Speaker
And like, i don't know, just they just I never found any enjoyment in fighting games. But i I see the appeal. I can see the appeal. The appeal is just not there for me. Street Fighter 2 was a big thing for me. Super Nintendo, we played it a lot. Like my brother and i we played it a lot in there and then Soul Calibur after that. But Street Fighter specifically is like, and that having played Street Fighter 2 so much on Super Nintendo, like I see the trappings of like, they're beating up the car at one point. And one i don't know which trailer was, this first or second. The Game Awards trailer, I think they showed that. It's cool. It's really good. i'm I'm excited to see how this does, especially because it's in the fall, which Mortal Kombat was like, no, we can't go in the fall because no one's going to watch it.
02:04:53
Speaker
again they're very much the same genre in almost every capacity so like no we're gonna go in the fall yeah and i think this will be the better one maybe but we'll see we'll see how gets reviewed and people like it or not but anyway because yeah this this one isn't rated r though right i don't think street fighter is whereas mortal combat is a rated r movie That kind of fits though, because Street Fighter is rated T for Teen, I think, for the ESRB ratings. I'm pretty sure on games, but I know that like like just like Tekken, but then you've got Mortal Kombat's definitely rated M. Definitely. That's one of the that's probably the one of the deepest rated M games from the perspective of gore that I've ever seen, I think.
02:05:34
Speaker
The finishers in that are unbelievable. Unbelievable. It's great. Satisfying. like They think they they take pride in the art form of the finisher. yeah you know what You know what it is? They know what they are and they're proud of it. Yeah.
02:05:47
Speaker
They know what they are and they're proud of it. Yeah. For the game. But the Mortal Kombat movie, I don't know. We'll see. i was see all The first movie, I don't think they really knew what they were. and they i don't think they were super proud of it because they made some random character.
02:05:58
Speaker
like It was almost like an Isekai adventure. It's like, I'm just some guy. I don't know Mortal Kombat. And they're like, no, you're special. You're Mortal Kombat, the guy. And then they had to all the other Mortal Kombat characters. Someone gets cut in half by a hat.
02:06:11
Speaker
It's pretty cool. Nice. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's it. Anything else you want to say to the audience or to me before you leave?
02:06:21
Speaker
but the most recent one that came out like within the few days. it. I'm kind of like, I'm actually kind of excited about it. So I was about to turn it on yesterday and I was like, nah, it's funny, man.
02:06:32
Speaker
I like the first couple trailers. I'm just like, eh, I'm just, you know, I, I didn't love Mandalorian season three. did. It was so good. I know. i know. I know. i know. Yeah. But yeah, I didn't love the third season. So like, you know, those first couple of trailers I watched, I'm like, eh, you know, it's fine. This, this trailer, there was something about it where I was watching. I'm like, I'm,
02:06:51
Speaker
actually kind of hyped about this. Like it's kind of nice to be hyped about a star Wars thing again. Um, after, you know, the, the amazingness of Andor, I like, you know, it's very different tonally, but, uh, I'm curious about this. I'm, I, I definitely want to watch this. We'll bring Ken along. If Ken wants to come, Ken likes us.
02:07:11
Speaker
what date is it what day in may may 24th i think okay good because i'm going to new brunswick on a trip for work what are you doing there and so i'm just doing like a retail building out uh like big a big section they threw away our section so i got to go in and set it up so i'm in four shores may 22nd by the way yeah so that's way before i'm i'm leaving coming back way before thank goodness yeah it's cool o Okay, my friend. That is that is it Anything else you want to say to the audience before we wrap this guy up?
02:07:47
Speaker
No, not really. No, but you know what I'll say to you, man? You know what I'll say to you? You're all in the space mood. You're all about the moon. Pragmata?
02:07:59
Speaker
it especially italian moon i think It's on the moon. It's really good. i know. It's really, really, really good. Pregmata the newest game from Capcom on PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.
02:08:13
Speaker
It's not on Xbox, right? Is it this game? No, it's on Xbox. And Xbox. Yeah. Yeah. It's yeah. Yeah. It was always supposed to be space because it was ah it was I think he was more astronaut like in the first very first trailer. And then he became the suit became a little bit less astronaut, like classic astronaut and more modern like not modern, but more futuristic. It's like cool, like almost battle armor looking style. Yeah. Yeah.
02:08:37
Speaker
That's cool looking. Yeah. You like it though, eh? It's really good, man. It's awesome. I'm loving it. Like genuinely loving it. It's so cute. It's like shockingly adorable and like wholesome. and Because of the companion you have with you. Yeah. There's like this little like ah AI like girl that follows you that you call Diana. Right. And it's just she's just like honestly so adorable. And the relationship between your character and her is great. I think the story is – it's not – the story is kind of like there's a setup and it just kind of – jumps in and it's now it's kind of like you're trying to figure out like what the hell's happened on the moon. Yeah. And that's really kind of the thing. But it's, think the best part about it is just the relationship between this little AI girl and and the character you're playing.
02:09:19
Speaker
It's just, it's genuinely adorable and it's so fun. The combat is so unique. It's, it's cool to play something that is so, Different? Fresh. Different. Unique. And yeah, new IP.
02:09:31
Speaker
And um highly recommend it. got it physically. So if you do want to borrow it, you can you can borrow Okay. Anyways. Maybe. Not yet, but. So would you say that they know what they are and they're proud of it? i think i think they know what they are and they're proud of it.
02:09:44
Speaker
I'm really getting. i'm I'm sailing this title home because I don't have another one. So I had another title, but I forgot about it. Maybe you'll remember it after after I close the show. Thank you for listening, audience, to episode 134 of Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie, and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my gamer professional co-host, Adrian Pinter.
02:10:06
Speaker
Please join us on May 5th for episode 135. Good evening to you and good luck. Take care. Goodbye.