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118. Long Story (not so) Short
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Adrian and Simon struggle with dates and names for over 3 hours. The two pals rave about the style and tone of Peacemaker Season 2. They also discuss Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s Long Story Short and the Duffer Brother’s Stranger Things Season 2. Additionally, they converse about about the films shown-off at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival; including A House of Dynamite, The Smashing Machine, No Other Choice, Frankenstein, and Bugonia. Plus, the two buddies take a closer look at the trailers of the week; such as Marvel Zombies, the Will Arnett starring dramedy film Is this Thing On, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story.
This episode was recorded in Canada on September 6th 2025. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on September 23rd for Episode 119.
Credit where credit is due: Cat, Screaming, A.wav by InspectorJ -- https://freesound.org/s/415209/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 (clearly, no cats were harmed in the making of this podcast)
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TV and Film Reviews
00:00:01
Speaker
This episode, we review the first three episodes of James Gunn's Peacemaker Season 2, re-examine Stranger Things Season 2, and creator Raphael Bob Waksberg's animated Netflix show, Long Story Short.
00:00:17
Speaker
I realize I definitely wrote that wrong. It should have been. And we also reexamine creator Raphael Bob Waksberg's animated Netflix. Anyway, it doesn't matter. why would we ri Why would we reexamine his long story short? We didn't even examine it. It's obviously written badly.
00:00:33
Speaker
You could see it. No, we reexamined Stranger Things season two. We examined. Oh, and created. You see? Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm sorry. On me. You're right.
00:00:43
Speaker
It's not really on you. I wrote it. But I read it. Although you didn't help. You didn't. Yeah. And you didn't help me. in Anyway, are we just continuing from here or? ah fuck it. Who cares? is This is going to go long though.
00:00:53
Speaker
just so Dude. You're extending it now. That's
Film Festival Discussions
00:00:57
Speaker
true. We also take a look, Adrian, at the announcements and critics review scores for various films that have come out of the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. We live near there, Adrian. It's crazy.
00:01:11
Speaker
Toronto. tiff dude and we get hyped for various upcoming video game film adaptations such as life is strange and god of war and my name is dean oh jesus are you gonna name more wolfenstein um fallout yes okay good fallout yep very good my name is falafel yeah falafel there's no There's no video game named Falafel.
00:01:41
Speaker
I mean, there might be. Some of these stores are inundated with. Jumping Falafel is definitely on the PlayStation store. Maybe on Steam at at the very least.
Podcast Introduction
00:01:50
Speaker
You know, there's some crazy shit on Steam right now. Anyway, my name is Simon Eadie.
00:01:56
Speaker
Adrian, dude. Falafel King Game, English version. Take a cue, bro. We're finishing this. And I'm Adrian Pinter. Welcome to Split Focus, a film and TV podcast episode 118.
00:02:11
Speaker
Falafel Restaurant Simulator on SteamCommunity.com. Right. This was the worst cold open I've ever, ever been a part of. Falafel Gameplay PCHD from five years ago. We get We get it. We get it. 1080p, 60fps. Cut to the intro music.
00:02:29
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la la bla laa la la la la la
00:02:47
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to be at august Simon, my cracker. How's it going? Whoa. Whoa, I'm doing well. How are you?
00:02:57
Speaker
I'm well, dude. Simon, have you ever been an uncle before?
00:03:03
Speaker
No. Well, shit, man. Let me tell you, I'm an uncle now, dude. Oh, wow. That's exciting.
Family and Life Decisions
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Speaker
Yeah, man. I'm an uncle. As of September the 4th, my sister gave birth to a child. His name is Philip. Oh, wow.
00:03:18
Speaker
I call him Philly Cheese. I see your, I see Dawn in the back there. Your fiance. Yeah, there she is. Just in the window. I'm waving to her through the camera. Good old French door, you know?
00:03:29
Speaker
Exciting. French door, dude. Congratulations on your unclehood. He's an uncle. He became an uncle, Don. It looks like she just said good and then left. Good. And then just walks away.
00:03:43
Speaker
But yeah, dude, I'm an uncle now, man. a little man named Phillip. I'm going to call him Philly Cheese for as he's growing older. You know what I did the day that he was born?
00:03:53
Speaker
Apart from visiting my sister in the hospital and meeting him. You bought a and ate a Philly Cheese Steak from Jersey Mike's. ah Almost. I did buy and eat a Philly cheesesteak, but I bought it from Filthy Philly's, which is a Philly cheesesteak sandwich place.
00:04:08
Speaker
I'll be honest. Did Jersey Mike's make Philly cheesesteaks? I don't even know this. Of course. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. I prefer the the cold sandwiches. so Me too. I've only had the cold sandwiches. The number nine is a classic at Jersey Mike's.
00:04:21
Speaker
But Filthy Philly's, I've had it a couple times. But I don't like the name filthy in the name of a restaurant. And I think we all know why. You know, I don't know if it really works. No, please elaborate. I have no idea why you wouldn't like that. No, no, no. I get where you're coming from entirely.
00:04:39
Speaker
i just feel like, you know, their their specialty is Philly cheesesteak. I'll be straight up with you. i had no idea that Jersey Mike's did Philly cheesesteaks. I love Jersey Mike's. The number nine, you showed that to me, actually.
00:04:49
Speaker
We went there, I think, after a beach day. Right? Was it after the beach? Me, you, my ex? yeah. Where did we go? Kitchener. No, the the beach.
00:05:00
Speaker
Which beach? I was like, oh, the Kitchener Jersey Mike's. Which beach did we go to? Either Wasega or Sobble. Sobble. Sobble. I was thinking it was Sobble, but then I was like, is that further away than I think it is? And we didn't actually go there. We did not go to Wasega.
00:05:15
Speaker
I know that. Yeah, then it was Sobble Beach. Cool. Yeah, you you showed me Jersey Mike's. But yeah so i got a i got I met my nephew, Phillip. F-I-L-I-P. That's how they're spelling it. They're doing the Balkan spelling.
00:05:29
Speaker
um Interesting. he's ah He's super cute, man. I was super worried. I'll be straight out with you. I told my sister this. i like i' so I was so worried I would have to lie and say that he's cute to you.
00:05:40
Speaker
Because like babies, let's be real, Simon. Babies, they're born usually pretty ugly. Pretty decrepit looking creatures. Let's be real. I'm not going to sugarcoat you Decrepit.
00:05:52
Speaker
He just he He genuinely an adorable baby. he's like He was like chubby. He had ah like a full head of hair. It's crazy, man.
00:06:03
Speaker
Yeah. Came out as a grown man immediately. He did. He did. Yeah. i Yeah, man. i I got kind of emotional. I'll be honest with you. I saw this little this little guy and I was like, wow.
00:06:14
Speaker
My eyes started welling up. You almost said creature. Yeah, I almost did say creature.
00:06:20
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um But yeah, so so pretty pretty cool, man. So I'm an uncle now. I'm excited. you know, in the next few years when he like gains consciousness and moves and, and has a personality.
00:06:34
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got stoked. I was like telling my fiance, Cassandra, I'm like, it's going awesome because he's going to like come in. I'm like, what's up, big cheese. Or what's up, Philly cheese. You know, I'm going to like yell that all the time.
00:06:44
Speaker
And I feel like kids love it. When you do that, hopefully I feel like he's going to like walk into my house. I'm like, what's up, big cheese. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. He's going to stoked. I feel like they hope they love it. Hopefully.
00:06:55
Speaker
Yeah. Very confident. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's exciting. That's exciting, man. Yeah, man. It's exciting. Congratulations. Thanks, dude. I didn't do anything. I brought my sister a bowl of ramen when she was in the hospital.
00:07:06
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I brought her. Congratulations for your foresight and bringing ramen to your sister in the hospital. Yeah, no worries, man. No worries. It was nice. I brought my sister's ah baby daddy. their they're They're her partner.
00:07:18
Speaker
they're They're in a relationship. They're just not married nor engaged. So just say the baby daddy. But and I brought him a steak sandwich. I mean, you say that if he was a husband. I feel like you could just say that as well. And it wouldn't, you know, be wrong.
00:07:30
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Touche. Touche. Yeah. um Yeah. Okay. That's cool. yeah that That's pretty cool, man. So I'm an uncle now. Blood related to this child.
00:07:44
Speaker
Kind of neat. Yeah. Kind of neat. Pretty neat. Are you going kid? Maybe this is too personal for this podcast. um no like i say No. like Realistically, I don't think I will. I mean, i'm I've never...
00:07:57
Speaker
i like i like Friends, children, like hanging out with them and being that that cool, like uncle sort of figure, cool adult, like what's up little man. But the idea of me having my own child, i I don't know. I've never been a big fan of it. My fiance, she doesn't want any kids either. Like she's been – she's fairly adamant.
00:08:16
Speaker
um where I don't think either of us are like never in a billion years. Like – But I think we're both fairly confident we don't want a child. like If she changed her mind, though, like if she was like one day like, and when I want to have a kid, I'd be like, ah okay.
00:08:30
Speaker
And i would I would do it. ah Flash forward fucking 15 years. i have a child. He's listening to this episode and he's like, dude, what the fuck? ah but i'm sure I'm sure lots of children will listen to this podcast, you know?
00:08:45
Speaker
Yeah, I'm referring to my child that that my hypothetical child yeah i'm sure they'll look back and they'll listen to this maybe maybe the episode after but pussy pop and peacemaker that's yeah that's the that's the stuff that's the stuff that dreams are made of that's a good name that's a good name for an episode i think not to mention that you know this this podcast is incredibly popular in new zealand but in canada i don't know about that not not so popular me neither i'll say that i don't know the stats yeah
00:09:18
Speaker
Yeah. Well, that's good. Yeah. Ignorance and no kids on my face is bliss. Yeah. Do you want me to ask you if you want to have kids? Because I'm going to. I'm going ask you right now. or Do you want have to have kids? You want me to ask you and then you ask me.
00:09:31
Speaker
Just ask. Yeah. No, probably not. Fair enough. Very likely not. ah Yeah. Kind of the same thing you said, pretty much. Yeah. But but yeah.
Comedy Show Experiences
00:09:43
Speaker
Yeah. Okay, man. That's exciting. Me as a friend. I'm pretty much a child. Yeah. Sure.
00:09:52
Speaker
Yeah. yeah Okay. Well, that's that's ah that's an exciting start to this podcast. Let's get into the film and TV part, shall we? Oh, right away. We're going fast. Seven minutes. What else do you have to say? do you have something else to mention? Anything else you want ah getting to get into before we get into the...
00:10:09
Speaker
I was thinking maybe I'd bring this up ah on things that we watch, but you know what? Let's bring it up right now. Have you ever been to a comedy show, Simon? Yeah. Like, uh, like which comedian? It was just a, it was like a small in, the in, in Guelph, Ontario, I just did like, there was like a small stand, like various local comedians showed up to the, nice, to the venue in downtown Guelph.
00:10:31
Speaker
Oh, that's cool. When, when was that? ah Years ago, like five years ago, six years ago, six, six or seven years ago. Nice. It would have been nice to be, be invited to that, but don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. It was a date, but, oh, okay. Fair enough. It would have been strange.
00:10:48
Speaker
It still would have been nice to be invited. I'll be honest with you, but yeah, I get it. I get it. I don't think I've ever seen like a, a Bill Burr or like a, like like a comedian in that sense in like a big venue. Is that you're about to say? You went to like downtown Toronto and you saw like a big comedian.
00:11:02
Speaker
I did for the first time. Cause I've done the, you know, those small shows like local comedians, nothing too crazy. You know, I went to one in Ottawa when I was in Ottawa once I would have been nice to be invited.
00:11:13
Speaker
Would have been nice to be invited. Yes. but Sorry, dude. Sorry. I should have invited you to the Ottawa trip one. Well, invited to this recent one either. I don't even know what you're doing. You set yourself up for this. I did. I did. I'm sorry. You're going shave me? and You're going to shave me and you're going to comedy specials every freaking week?
00:11:29
Speaker
Yeah, man. Every week? I'm sorry, dude. I'm sorry, man. It's a $1,000 suit. Come on. Come on. all right Yeah, sorry. I made a huge little mistake there. What'd you see? What'd you see? you You go see Jerry Seinfeld?
00:11:42
Speaker
No, I don't like Jerry Seinfeld. But, you know, who he's a pedophile. Let's be real. He dated like a 16 year old girl when he was like 40.
00:11:54
Speaker
Okay, all right. Go on. Move on.
00:12:00
Speaker
um and i don't even... Allegedly? like I don't even want to get into that. What did you see? Okay, here, let's Google it real quick. is that Jerry Seinfeld... signfeld Underage.
00:12:13
Speaker
Oh, sorry. It was a 17-year-old. Jerry Seinfeld's 17-year-old. That's what pops up. and Okay. I mean, it's she's a little harsh to call him a pedophile. 1993, as a 17-year-old high school student, Lonstein met then 39-year-old Jerry Seinfeld in Central Park.
00:12:32
Speaker
Okay. Shoshana Lonstein-Gruss. And they were dating at that time. They did, yeah. Yeah. Problematic. I would make an argument. Problematic. Problematic. just think thirty one the word pedophile is very loaded. yeah yeah kind of an assumption that he's like a f freaking sex offender. He's like, you know, abusing children. Right.
00:12:50
Speaker
That's not what's happening. So I feel like, you know, go a little easier on Mr. Seinfeld. You know what I'm saying? He just ate an underage woman, which is totally creepy and weird. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00:13:00
Speaker
um As long as we can agree on that. Yes. I agree. That's weird. Yes. Yeah. um So i saw John Mulaney this past week live. Oh, cool.
00:13:11
Speaker
He was in Toronto, I assume. In Toronto. Yeah. So he he has like four back-to-back dates and like, or maybe even five and they were all sold out. And then another one just popped up. I got it like a notification. Like what new show added for John, Jonathan Mulaney.
00:13:26
Speaker
And I was like you know what, I'm going to go to this. So me and my fiance went, I bought tickets for my friend Andrew Sinnott and his fiance for my friend Andrew's birthday that passed because he's a huge John Mulaney fan. It's his favorite comedian.
00:13:40
Speaker
So the four of us went there after work on on on Tuesday to see John Mulaney live. I'm not going to obviously talk about the jokes because I'm sure he'll release a special one day. But let me just say John Mulaney, phenomenal. I love John Mulaney as a comedian. I think he's generally here like genuinely hilarious. I love his Netflix specials.
00:13:58
Speaker
His most recent one. I did not love, but I think I just wasn't in a good headspace. It's a little depressing. It was a lot of him talking about his intervention and his time in rehab. And I was like, I'm not really in a good headspace to listen to this right now. So I never, I i watched like the first 30 minutes of it and I just never went back. I'm going to go back to it. I'm in a better headspace now and and I'm going to listen to it.
00:14:19
Speaker
But, um, it It was really good. And this was the first time at a comedy show where I saw heckling happen, Simon, for for a big comedian like John Mulaney.
00:14:32
Speaker
So have you been to many of these shows? Sorry, I don't know if you've said this. Never, never a big comedian like him. I've done like smaller scale ones with like local people. You know, maybe they're doing crowd play or whatever, but nothing no nothing where there's a heckler.
00:14:45
Speaker
You know, like someone actually yelling at the comedian. And the last place I would assume this would happen would be at a John mu Mulaney thing. He's super popular, right? He's he's crazy. And it happened two separate times.
00:14:59
Speaker
The first time some guy yelled literal gibberish. I don't think anyone heard what he said. This guy must've been shit faced. And he's like, blah, blah, blah. And yeah like John Mulaney was like, sorry, what was that?
00:15:10
Speaker
And he like so said it again. He's like, Yes. Yes. Sorry. What was that again? and then the guy yelled it again. He's like, yeah, I don't understand you, but honestly, I really appreciate the confidence. You know, you're, you're just yelling this in the middle of like my, my joke segment. It's honestly impressive. Like I'm not even upset. Like i I'm genuinely impressed that like you found this perfect moment to do it.
00:15:32
Speaker
Cause it was literally at the climax of one of his bits that each other, this guy randomly interrupted. um But again, John Mulaney dealt with it in grace. It was really funny. And then it happened a second time. Again, and he in in one of his ah jokes, again, don't want to like ruin any of his jokes, but he's essentially criticizing what's going on in America and um you you know like the the American government and everything.
00:15:56
Speaker
And this random guy literally, John Mulaney is, sorry. Yeah, I thought you meant the heckler. No, no, no. Okay. This guy that's heckling, and again, the reason I'm pointing these out is because these probably won't be in a special.
00:16:09
Speaker
So this is like very unique to the show. they usually They usually take multiple ah different nights and then they splice them together, right? Isn't that the way they do it? but I don't know. I've never recorded a comedy show, Simon.
00:16:22
Speaker
You tell me. I don't think you have to record a comedy special to know that, but i think that's the case. But they usually do it at the same venue two nights or three nights in a row, and then they'll kind of take – if there's a weird heckle situation, they don't want the heckler showing up in the special. So you'll never see it in the special yeah as an example.
00:16:39
Speaker
But yeah, okay. So was it the same heckler? No, a different guy because that first tackler got kicked out. Oh, he got kicked out. Yeah, they got kicked out because there's specifically – we did it at the Massey Hall in Toronto. That's the venue. I've been there before, I think. Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:53
Speaker
Incredibly uncomfortable seats. ah They're so tiny. Jesus Christ. But anyway, it's not important to this tale. And, ah you know, John Malia, he's talking about, like, you know, the American government and, you know, essentially things not going well and in the States. And this guy randomly yells, my cousin is trapped in the United States.
00:17:13
Speaker
Oh, and John Mulaney is like, what? what what like Sorry, what was that? in the guy's like, my my young cousin, he's trapped in the United States. He's stuck there. And then security comes, grabs him. And the guy's like being kicked out.
00:17:29
Speaker
This guy's with his, I guess, girlfriend, partner, fiance, another woman. And she's leaving with him. And, you know as the guy's leaving, he's yelling at John Mulaney. He's like, find my cousin. And John Mulaney's just standing up on stage.
00:17:43
Speaker
And he's like, I will. I'm going to find your cousin. And then he's just standing there with his hands on his hip, just nodding his head like, I will do that for you, man, as this guy's being killed.
00:17:54
Speaker
kick out of the venue which is genuinely hilarious and then he like kind of goes off and talks about he's like man just imagine being that you know woman that's with him like you know you're yeah here you're excited to watch the special and then your your boyfriend or fiance is getting kicked out and now you got to deal with it literally right after this and then he like pauses like imagine tomorrow ah And yeah, just kind of going off on that. So it was, it was really funny. I'm very glad I got to see John Mulaney live. He's one of my favorite comedians. He's, he's brilliant at what he does.
00:18:29
Speaker
Um, top tier stuff. So I'm excited for this special to, I assume be made into like a Netflix special or something and more people get to see, but yeah, very good stuff, man. I, I, I mean, his shows are all sold out in Toronto.
00:18:44
Speaker
Um, So you can't see it. I think they're done. I think he's going to this United States, but if he comes back, man, maybe I'll take you aside.
00:18:55
Speaker
Do you want to go, ah see the death stranding orchestra next March? Do you want to that? Okay. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I'm, uh, Is it coming to Toronto then?
00:19:07
Speaker
Yes. Who's going to be there? None of the, none ah like wood kids not going to be there. I don't, I don't know. I don't think so. I think it just, it's just labeled as the death stranding tour orchestra orchestra tour.
00:19:17
Speaker
Possibly. yeah i don't know. Well, take a look at the tickets and see how much they are. They're like a hundred and something dollars. Okay. Where is it? you know where it's supposed to be? Uh, Roy Thompson hall. I want to say, I'm going off the top of my head. I might be totally lying to you, but it is. All right.
00:19:32
Speaker
That's cool. Yeah. Yeah, possibly. yeah Okay. I'm still playing Death Stranding right now, finishing it up. Nice. Let me Let me know. Let me know. I get all those deliveries done, you know? Lots of deliveries. good stuff. I'm excited to jump back into Death Stranding at some point in a few years. Go back for that platinum. I don't want to do it yet. I spent about 100 hours playing that game. low Are you going to play it again?
00:19:52
Speaker
Like from from scratch? Because I feel like that's the only way I would go back in. I couldn't go back in and just make the delivery. It's very, it's quite exhausting to make try to platinum this. i'm I'm like,
00:20:04
Speaker
I finished the game about like 92 hours and I'm at 124 hours still trying to platinum it. It's a long process. I mean, you might have an easier time because you built the roads.
00:20:17
Speaker
I'm not a road guy. I'm a zip liner. So I'm a road guy. That's But but yeah Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, it's funny. When you said the John Mulaney story, you were talking about the ah the heckler. And then the I was like, imagine one of these, I was about to say, when you're finished, imagine one of these people who got kicked out had someone with them.
00:20:36
Speaker
And they did. it's like, imagine that situation, you buy tickets. And he literally made that joke. they own she's dude I know. That's why I'm saying like, I can't believe that you would do that because it just seems like such a waste. Like it's for a moment where you say my cousins trapped in the United States. Like what?
00:20:56
Speaker
to what end i don't understand they felt was amusing to us in the crowd but yeah yeah sure for the guy that paid probably more i paid so i had not great seats like to be straight out with you because it's like again i i got the pre-sale they were like 80 bucks and they were in the top this guy that got kicked out they were in the bottom like in the like straight ahead of the stage his tickets were probably 200 plus dollars Two of them? $400? Just walking out of there.
00:21:23
Speaker
Crazy. crazy Not worth it. That's what I would say. God, no. All right, Adrian. Let's dive now into some quick bites of news. A component of our show where we discuss approximately three to seven film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over the past two weeks. Because, of course, our episodes launch every two weeks on Tuesdays. Adrian, the first one.
00:21:48
Speaker
Speaking of video games sort of here, because we just talked about Death Stranding, the first thing is something you sent me, in a little article about Life is Strange becoming a TV series over at Amazon for Amazon Prime Video.
Video Game Adaptations
00:21:59
Speaker
It was greenlit by Amazon, much like the God of War TV series before it.
00:22:04
Speaker
Yeah. ah So Amazon yeah seems to be big into this video game space. They got Secret Level over there. They got Fallout. Yeah. Wolfenstein. Wolfenstein.
00:22:16
Speaker
Right. Wolfenstein was greenlit too. Yeah, that's on the way. So what do you think about this? Life is Strange is a big thing for you. You love Life is Strange typically, at least especially the the first stories like yeah with Chloe and those characters. Max. Yeah, Chloe and Max.
00:22:31
Speaker
Life is Strange 1 and Life is Strange Before the Storm. I'm not a fan of Life is Strange 2. Pardon me, sorry? Which is a prequel. Correct. Yeah, it's it's the Chloe prequel. And i love that I love both those games. It's eight episodes in total, like those those two.
00:22:46
Speaker
And those are together. Those are like, whereas Life is Strange is basically an anthology series in some capacity. Yeah. With some continuations and continuing... timelines but they're really more so anthology series you didn't love to and did you play the most recent which is kind of a continuation as i guess yeah double exposure which is a sequel to the first one and then the one just before that true colors which i really really liked as well i just i could not get into life is strange too for whatever reason i just i tried it two separate times did not click did not like the characters
00:23:20
Speaker
Yeah. um But I'm a huge fan of the Life is Strange games. It's one of my favorite games of all time. It just hit me at the right moment. Very emotional story about a young woman um that goes back to her hometown and meets up with her best friend that she practically abandoned, you know, as a as a kid when she left, like in her early teens, when her and her family left. And It was right after her best friend like lost her father and was dealing with a lot of stuff. that's That's the relationship between Max, again, the character that leaves, and Chloe, who's another one of the main characters. And Max goes back to her hometown.
00:23:54
Speaker
And really the setup for the the first game, not really a spoil a spoiler, because it happened in the first 10 minutes, is she goes back to her hometown, goes into school, and sees her best friend get shot and killed in the bathroom of the school that she's in by some guy.
00:24:10
Speaker
And then at that moment, she reverses time um and then finds out that she essentially has a superpower to reverse time. And that's really the setup of the story. And it goes, you know, quite deep into it. And it's about, you know, like what Max, who who is the person that can reverse time and what she's going to do with her power and her friend Chloe, who finds out that she essentially died and her best, her old best friend that abandoned her saved her life and what they're going to do with their time together.
00:24:38
Speaker
And it kind of plays out from there. I don't want to really dive into the story, but I love that series. The thing that gets me really excited about this, because there's been rumors of a Life is Strange TV series percolating for Fuck, man, I feel like since the game came out, like back in what, 2016, maybe even before that, don't even remember.
00:24:56
Speaker
um And the coolest part about this is that the showrunner for this show, ah Charlie Covell, is not only a big fan of the the game, but he made a amazing Netflix show called End of the Fucking World.
00:25:14
Speaker
I don't know if you've watched that. No. um Really great. Of course, I know about it. Okay, cool. yeah so I watched the first episode, actually, I think. Oh, and yeah and you didn't continue it? Just didn't get get the hooks in you?
00:25:27
Speaker
Oh, interesting. Yeah, it's ah it's a two-season show, and it's about um it's about this guy, that this kid, again, high school kid, which is um Life is Strange, I guess, takes place in like I guess, is it in high school I don't even remember. They're all like 18 years old, a lot of these kids. Life is Strange?
00:25:45
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Yeah, if I recall correctly. Oh, right. is it mean No, I don't think so. It's like a college, right? Yeah, it's like an early college. because like so Because they have dorms. going there for photography Yeah, they have dorms and everything. It's the first year.
00:25:58
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Exactly. Yeah. And end of the fucking world, I think it takes place in high school and it follows this kid who is, um, essentially has like these like urges to murder people and like, doesn't know what he wants to do. And then he like meets this girl that he of has a crush on and he decides that like, maybe he's gonna kill someone for the first time.
00:26:21
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And it kind of plays out from there. um awesome show. It's a, it's a really good, like, You're essentially following these two kids that are equal, like that are pretty fucked up, but like one is like wanting to be a killer and the other is just like a, you know, a young woman that's like kind of escaping the the norms of of society and she kind of just wants to leave everything behind. Yeah.
00:26:43
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I guess hence the name End of the Fucking World. um But it's not like an apocalyptic or anything like that. It's kind of a character study of like teenagers. um And I'm pretty sure it's a British show, if I recall correctly. It's like British kids.
00:26:56
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I think the main character is... I'm wrong about Life is Strange. Certainly, it's it's ah in high school. It's like a private high school. That's why they're staying in dorms. Yeah, yeah. I couldn't remember, but it looked like a high school when they're actually going to class. i was like, this is very high school.
00:27:11
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Yeah. Then when you think they're in dorms, then that's where it got confusing. Sorry. They're in high school, yeah. Yeah. I think they're the last year of high school, actually. Yeah, I think so. Because I'm pretty sure they talk about them being like 18 years old in the show as well, like specifically. So yeah, like and then like they're prepping for college. Oh, you're saying in the show, they talked about it in no sorry in in the- in the game.
00:27:32
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Yeah, my- Oh, okay. Cool. I didn't see much about the what they said. the the Did they say what the- I didn't see this actually. Did they say what the show was going to be based on? I'm assuming it's about Max Caulfield. I assume it's going to be Max as well. max and The Max and Chloe relationship, which ah which I think just kind of fits. Yeah.
00:27:47
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i But the cool thing about End of the Fucking World as well is it stars Alex Lothar, who you probably know from Andor. um He's in, I think, the first season of Andor.
00:27:58
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And he's in Alien Earth, which i'll I'll get into because I actually decided to start watching it, even though I mentioned last episode that I don't want to watch it. until it's done. um So I'm excited to get into that. But yeah, really great show, man. I highly recommend it. So I think this is like, this has potential to be something really special because although Life is Strange is kind of soran like it's a choice based game.
00:28:21
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It's not
00:28:23
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the The choices are kind of, I don't want to say um pointless because they're not really pointless, but it still follows the same sort of story regardless. And you're just kind of adding like color to it, ah for lack of a better term. It doesn't change.
00:28:39
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so dramatically based on the choices you make. So I think this is actually something that has a lot of potential, especially created or a show ran by someone that has a lot of love and care for, for the original um video game to be something really good. Cause I think it is honestly a really great story.
00:28:56
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The writing of the game is kind of cringy. It's weird. So I think they could probably kind of clean it up a bit and make it a little bit more modern and, and a little bit more, um, palatable for general audiences because i know a lot of people that played life is strange were probably turned off by by that cringy writing but don't know i kind of fell in love with it so i think there's a lot of potential for this i'm excited to see what the cast is going to be like um yeah i don't know i'm totally into this man i love it i love life is strange and i want there to be more um
00:29:30
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And after the most recent game, Double Exposure, which I'll be straight out with you, I didn't love. I thought it was kind of weird, some of their their like choices. um and i If I recall correctly, I don't think it sold well. So I don't know if we'll get any more Life is Strange. I am hoping that you know this TV show maybe reignites the passion for the series and maybe we'll get a couple more games out of it as a result.
00:29:54
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I know you played the original Life is Strange. Did you play any of the other ones? and think you played True Colors as well. played True Colors Okay. Yeah, it's just interesting what you were saying about like the choices not meaning anything. I find that interesting. like They don't, but they do. like it's ah interesting like There's like some really big things that happen or don't happen, whether you like choose them or not. i I feel like they mean something.
00:30:18
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They just may not mean something for the very ending. Yeah, that's what you mean. like Because there was like a huge there's like a huge moment in the in the first game that I thought was like monumental. It's actually what what stands out to me is as like the kind of like a turning point for me liking the game in the first chapter, I think, or the second one.
00:30:36
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Anyway, um but I don't know. It's interesting that that was something that I was thinking about with this. with the show, does it need to exist? I'm i'm wondering more and more. and I don't know that it matters as much. These adaptations are so interesting because I just don't, I don't know if any of them matter to me. It's it's kind of,
00:30:53
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they're kind of pointless, especially when they're very narrative heavy games. I think Fallout's the most interesting video game adaptation that's ever been made actually. Because Fallout, you can imprint your own story on a world that's very interesting.
00:31:06
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As opposed to following The Last of Us, which we already have The Last we have the last of Us. Why do we need, i really don't need it. But it's that's why I think I like season two more perhaps more than you. It's because they they change it in interesting ways and i'm I'm intrigued by the changes as opposed to just seeing the same thing. Because if I if i didn't, I don't need to watch it again. I could just play it. It's it's it's a masterpiece.
00:31:30
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The Last Us Part II is impossible to be topped. And so I think yeah strangest Life is Strange, Stranger Things, I almost said Stranger Things. Life is Strange is very much that way because it's it's a true it's a choice-based game that's very narrative heavy and there's not a lot of gameplay. It's mainly that idea of you choose your own adventure type of situation.
00:31:50
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And so that's the kind of the magic of it is making the choices. So I'm curious like if if this this makes the least sense to me in terms of yeah and intri they intriguing me, but lots of people do not play video games. So this is this is good yeah for that reason, which i you might be about to say.
00:32:06
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That's exactly my point, right? I think a lot of these adaptations aren't necessarily for the fans of the games. It's for, you know, bringing a narrative that is, in my opinion, spectacular to a wider audience. Because I think there's far, there's far I mean, not not I think, definitely there are more people that watch TV slash movies than play video games, right?
00:32:27
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Yes. Do you think that's true, though, that... That is the percentage of people that they're trying to to penetrate in terms of the market. Are they actually trying – They're going for the people who haven't played the game mostly or I think it's i think it's like an 80-20 split. They're going to grab 20% or 25% new people.
00:32:45
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But in reality, seventy five the 75% is the people who are already fans of it. That's how it builds up the hype that it already needs in the beginning. It's – so ah So maybe going to interrupt you, my friend. um But I think to, I guess, go against your point. I think Neil Druckmann, again, the creator of The Last of Us, when he was talking about the HBO show, I think he said two thirds of the audience were people that never played the game. I don't really know how they got that statistic. Two thirds.
00:33:13
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Yeah, i think that's what he said. How they know that? um And I think he talked about that in the um interview with Cole Moriarty on ah Sacred Symbols. And how would they know? There's no data. How would they get that data? That's my point is like, I don't know how he got that info.
00:33:26
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info But I think that's what he he said, something along those lines. HBO, though, I feel like HBO would be the place to get that. That's Ravitas, right? Yeah. that's fair yeah well i mean um let's think about fallout as an like i'm not a fan of fallout the games i've played them but i never fell in love with them and i watched the first season and i really like the first season or arcane as an example in the category of somebody who played the games though yeah fair enough touche because i have touched it but arcane um on you played league you played league
00:33:59
Speaker
Yeah, like very brief. I play the shit ton of teamfight tactics since Arcane, actually. But that was the purpose of, according to the guy who made Arcane. Wasn't it the creative director that said the whole idea, we're not making the money, we want people to come back for the game.
00:34:13
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That was the point, too. So they're doing both ways. They're trying to... Maybe it's 50-50 then, but two-thirds sounds ridiculous, ah in my opinion. I think like at least in the first first few episodes of the first season, you're marketing to like this is a prestige piece of ah video game history, really, for The Lost Miss as an example. I mean, hey, if I think about my family – Yes.
00:34:35
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But you got them to watch it because you i love it. Yeah. so there's an element. That's what I'm saying, I think, is what it is, is like you're you're you're kind of influencing it because you're your self you're the you're built in marketing. yeah I wonder, again, what these kind of marketing meetings look like in these executive offices. Like we're going to build these shows like God of War.
00:34:53
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God of War has like a huge fan base. So you get all like the all the players are like to their family. You got to see this. It's really great if it's good. yeah so are kind of like i Yeah, I guess it's like the they're making the show for the people that love the game to be champions to the people that have never watched. There's a built-in marketing tool. yeah and So in the beginning, it's not necessarily popular with non-gamers, but then over time, like when they see the maturity of it, like a Game of Thrones, like who was watching Game of Thrones initially?
00:35:20
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I'm sure that initially, the book lovers wanted to watch the show, but as the show was discovered to be this intriguing piece of of television art of television with lots of sex and violence but it automatically became you know sex sells adrian it does so and and i'm watching porn right now so what i'm watching porn right now oh man that's it's quite awkward but yeah and then they they hired a a lot of incredible actors for game of thrones and i love how your face just lit up coincidentally just now that was great timing
00:35:57
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Your face kind of changed as well. i was like, ooh, look at those boobies. All right. but Anyway. Wowza. Yeah, cool. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, that is – I guess we don't have those statistics. But that is intriguing that Neil said that. I forgot that he had said that because I listened to that episode as well.
00:36:14
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ah Neil you know being interviewed by Colin for Secret Symbols Plus. Yeah. But yeah, it's cool. But yeah, so I think out of all of them, Life is Strange, my point was, I don't know, i feel like it's the least interesting because it is so, it's a choice-based narrative with not a lot of gameplay.
00:36:31
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So you're you're kind of, you're mainly in the narrative camp. So you're just kind of, it's great. If they can nail it in terms of what that story was, i think it could be really good for those who haven't watched, who haven't played the game.
00:36:43
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I guess that would be the answer. So hopefully that's... Hopefully that's the case. And hopefully they nailed the narrative. But you said that do and end of the fucking world guy, Joe Renner, he did a great job for that show. Did he do anything in between? Because that was a while ago, right? Those two seasons are the beginning of the pandemic. No, let's find that out. Because i Charlie Covell. Actually, it might have been pre-pandemic and then post, right? The second season was in inside the pandemic and the first season was like 2019 or 2018. Am I my wrong?
00:37:13
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It's 2017 and 2019, I think. Oh, all before the pandemic. Charlie Covell is now. Oh, he did that. um
00:37:24
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Wait, am I? Is this a woman? I feel bad if i I. Oh, Charlie. Yeah, it could be. That's good Charlie Covell. Just assumed their gender, Adrian. Oh, I did.
00:37:35
Speaker
Yeah. the Oh, it is a woman. I apologize. I've been i've been just saying Charlie Covell is a dude. Well, actually, ah what are pronouns? you They use they, them pronouns.
00:37:46
Speaker
Okay. Sorry about that, Charlie. um They. Yes. They. Did. Charlie Covell. Another really good thing.
00:37:58
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Hopefully. No. On Netflix. It popped up. ah That chaos show with that got canceled um after one season with... um Jeff Goldblum as Zeus.
00:38:10
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Oh, yeah. That's cool. They were showrunner for that specifically? They were indeed. Okay. They were indeed. The thing about Life is Strange it's interesting too is that Life is Strange is an anthology series. And so in the counterpoint to what I just said, it would be interesting if they don't do Max and Chloe's story.
00:38:27
Speaker
But I think you would prefer that they do it because that's your favorite part of Life is Strange. Yeah. It would be neat though. If you could nail it. The thing is, is that life is strange. Doesn't have the name recognition of a game like fallout or the last of us. So, well, the last was a bad example. well Fallout is like very much again. They went off the beaten path and did their own thing.
00:38:44
Speaker
They just take a lot of the pure essence of what follow it is. And it's really what the follow games are too. Is it anthology series? Every game world, a different setting. Fallout's main character the world that it's set in as opposed to the characters.
00:38:58
Speaker
Yeah, but if you were making a Final Fantasy, as an example, you make a Final Fantasy live action show, right? I don't know if that's something you would want or not. But would you make... I feel like you'd make Final Fantasy VII, first of all, but theoretically, because it's the most biggest name or recognition for Final Fantasy. Probably, yeah. know if you were If you were building out a Final Fantasy show, would you just make...
00:39:16
Speaker
Or Resident Evil is another good example. No, Resident Evil is a bad example because they have a lot of the same characters and throughout the the storyline. But I think if you're making a Final Fantasy TV show, do you make your own Final Fantasy TV show that doesn't have any of the characters? Like a Final Fantasy 17, you just just take a bunch of – make up the characters. Does that make any sense?
00:39:37
Speaker
That's the problem. So with Final Fantasy, it's interesting because they did have Final Fantasy Spirits Within, which is like a movie that has nothing to do with any of the games. Crazy. So there you go. So they did try this with anime. That was the first. ah Bad.
00:39:52
Speaker
Not good. um Doesn't even feel like a Final Fantasy movie. Then they did Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, which is a sequel to Final Fantasy VII. Right. And then they did the Final Fantasy XV Kingsglaive movie, which is a prequel to Final Fantasy XV.
00:40:09
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And then they had a Final Fantasy XV anime show, which is, I think, six episodes, which led into Final Fantasy XV as well. Both of which... Not great.
00:40:20
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and Okay. Advent Children I loved. I watched that when I was young. I think i think it's fucking cool. And the remakes take a lot from that. um so So I think that's cool. But yeah, I don't know. It's interesting because there were a lot of – I think we talked about it on the show.
00:40:34
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ah Like rumors percolating of a Final Fantasy IX TV series. Yeah. Oh, that never came to fruition. And I thought that the banking on the audience 100%, I think that one but in particular, like, I don't get you get anything else.
00:40:51
Speaker
Well, it's like, what are you going to call the show? Final Fantasy IX? Like, it's like, you can't name a show Final Fantasy IX. It's tough, right? Right. But you can make name a movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children because that's what they call that movie.
00:41:04
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I think the moral of the story, and to to like close off my thesis here, is I think the best thing to do is just to balance it perfectly, if you can. And the but the ones that have done the best, first of all, they're written really well and they are produced well, like The Last of Us, as an example.
00:41:18
Speaker
And like the fallout show, I think is pretty great. Arcane is arcan brilliant. And so like you take those and you just make something good. And then you, you worry a little bit about trying to pull in the audience while you're making it, but don't worry too much. Cause you really, you just got to worry more about what making something good.
00:41:34
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Cause otherwise you get just a million resident evil movies that were not reviewed very well. Although very popular overseas, as you've made bank, you made bank. Yeah. And that Netflix TV show with Lance Reddick.
00:41:45
Speaker
And that's speaking of ah Lance Reddick. There's low. I see. But that's not the same. That made bank. No, no, that's not. It did very poorly. Right. But speaking of Resident Evil, actually, we may as well get into this for a brief moment because I have a quote here from Zack Greger. Did you see this? Like you talk to the double toasted, whatever that is, YouTuber.
00:42:05
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He said interesting things. I thought they were delightful, actually. I thought they were really... this is that this is the This is the stuff. This is what I think a creator making a video game adaptation. This is one of the avenues you could go and you could be very successful. Anyway, he said, quote, all I can say is that it is it it is true to the experience of the games. He said, it takes place in the world of the games, but most importantly, the journey you'll have as a viewer of watching this movie is going to be similar to the journey that you have as a player when you play these games. And that means...
00:42:33
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it it It follows one protagonist from point A to point B as they just descend deeper and deeper and deeper into hell. And as someone who's played it, I don't know how many thousands and thousands of hours of Resident Evil.
00:42:47
Speaker
I just feel like I know how that pacing can go. And it's inherently cinematic. And I feel like there's a great movie that can live inside of this world and inside of that sort of pacing. And I'm just really, really pumped ah about the story that we get to tell here.
00:43:01
Speaker
So I feel like I'm chomping at the bit to make this thing. Yeah. and End quote, which is that that quote. I'm like, that sold it for me. And that Zack Kroger has made two movies that are reviewed beautifully.
00:43:15
Speaker
And they're, they did really well at the box office. So, and Resident Evil really hasn't had anything good from a How dare you? Welcome Raccoon City is a good movie. I stand by it.
00:43:29
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I like that. How about anything great from a film and TV perspective? You know, like nothing, nothing, nothing is highly regarded as weapons. So this one I'll give you that much.
00:43:41
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Okay. So i'll give you that really excites me. And then I look at God of War. And i'm I'm so intrigued by God of War because it's such a – and same with Horizon Zero Dawn, the the two PlayStation games that are potentially being into – They're making that movie now though. yeah Which is worse. Which Yeah, but it would be be good on the budget. But God of War is really intriguing because Kratos is this big stature.
00:44:03
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There's this larger-than-life personality. there's There's like the father-son dynamic, which I think Ronald E. Moore, who took over – he's a showrunner of this particular – Amazon Prime show for God of War.
00:44:16
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He's very excited about the the the prospect of telling this father-son story. and I think that you can tell it in your own way a little bit because you can tell the journey as you go and you can kind of you can take a little bit of some liberties.
00:44:31
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I don't know. it's It's exciting to me because I want to see what it looks like. It could look like shit because it's it's it might be difficult to build Kratos. But you can do like forced perspective, like the the classic thing they did with Gandalf versus the the hobbits in Lord of the Rings where they make Kratos look much bigger than Atreus, his son, ah because because he's like seven feet tall or something.
00:44:52
Speaker
Yes, Kratos. um So it's it's cool. I'm very intrigued to see what Ronald D. Moore can do. I also really love Ronald D. Moore. I think that Battlestar Galactica is pretty great. And I really like For All Mankind. Like I think it's excellent on Apple TV+.
00:45:07
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So anyway. I was a bit of a sidetrack. But yeah, the Life is Strange thing, I'm just a little bit less interested if they're going to tell that story again because I could just play the game. And that's kind of the portion. But I don't – it's maybe not for me. And so I don't want to criticize it too much. But I'm just kind of kind of riffing on that idea, if that makes sense to you. I get where you're coming from entirely, dude.
00:45:26
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100%. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Okay. Cool. Okay, moving on. um Another piece of news. As announced by DC Studios head James Gunn on social media, the next film in his Superman saga will be called Superman Man of Tomorrow and is set to premiere in theaters on July
James Gunn and DC Studios
00:45:43
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9th, 2027. Wowzer.
00:45:45
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wow's This is another thing you sent me. Um, which the cool thing was James guns. He has that photo of like Lex Luthor in that green robotic suit. So he's going to like, as opposed to trying to, I don't want to spoil that the movie, but the, the suit for a Superman movie there, but yeah he seems to be like going on ah on a hands-on crusade against Superman.
00:46:08
Speaker
Um, But yeah, it's it's neat. i'm ah i assume I assume that's what it's about considering that's the one image that James Gunn released on social media. But what do you think about this? is there I'm surprised actually because they said it was going super family, the next super Superman saga film. It won't be completely a sequel, but then now it's called Superman Man of Tomorrow. So that doesn't seem to be true. i don't know if that was just incorrectly told before or something else happened. Yeah, i don't know. Maybe he's just kind of changing his tune or maybe he means that, you know, since we're going get a Supergirl movie, that Supergirl is going to be like a main character in this and we're we'll have crypto in this and all of that. Right. So yeah correct me if I'm wrong, Simon. Wasn't this the original name for the first Superman movie?
00:46:49
Speaker
No, it was called Superman Legacy. Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right. 100%. Yeah, Superman Legacy. um So this is interesting because Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow is the name of that movie, right?
00:47:02
Speaker
Right. That's where you're getting the connection. Okay, yeah, i'm I'm mixing it up. So this is kind of cool. Another cool ah thing to point out here is that James Gunn specifically said that Peacemaker Season 2 serves ah as a prequel to this movie as well.
00:47:17
Speaker
And I'm very curious about that because it's, again, totally very different. You can't. You can't bring in and like a 10 year old kid to watch Peacemaker. Let's be real. So he's a marketer, man.
00:47:30
Speaker
Yeah, he's a marketer. He's marketing it as I think it's like they're all prequel. He's going to sell them all as a prequel. Everything just comes out next. There's a lot of things coming up before this. And theoretically, i mean, it can't be a direct prequel because I'm imagining, well, maybe Supergirl a woman of tomorrow is.
00:47:46
Speaker
Oh, did they say the timeline of that? That's not going to be prequel to this. feel like Supergirl. that's beforehand. Maybe that's prior. Yeah, I think that's what it's going to be. I think Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow is going to be a prequel. Okay.
00:47:57
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To every episode. That's my assumption. I don't know. Again, I don't think he said anything. But I think this is great. And I mean, on on your point is that he's a marketer, I mean, that's probably why they're going with Superman Man of Tomorrow. Like that, like it's going to sell better by naming it Superman Man of ta Tomorrow as opposed to Super Family.
00:48:14
Speaker
All the super guys are here. There's some shit like that, you know? I was thinking though that it was going to just be not a Superman centered film at all. That's why I was thinking it was going to be like ah a film in the DC universe that had Superman in it. I thought I connected it. This is a bad connection potentially because that would that they rushed into this. But I connected to like Superman versus Batman versus Superman. John Don of Justice. That's what I thought of. like They're going to put in another character that'll actually be more of the focus. But this movie is called Superman colon Man of Tomorrow. it was like There's like no way that's the case now.
00:48:47
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So yeah yeah, I was thinking too, James Gunn, kind of similar. And this is strange. I just thought of this now. I don't know. Maybe I should have thought of this earlier. James Gunn's style of his social media posts constantly and his constant transparency and his constant on camera. He's doing a million interviews, it seems like.
00:49:03
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It reminds you of Ryan Reynolds in a weird way. was just thinking like it's a very like he's a man of the people. He's in it like completely with us kind of situation. where Yeah. Reynolds kind of did, ah he dropp he dropped the the trailer, like he leaked his own trailer for Deadpool before. Did you did you see how he finally admitted it? Yeah, everyone knew though. Everyone knew. everyone knew, but he i think he finally, he literally was just like, yeah, I did the wrong thing at the right time. Like he finally admitted it because everyone was like, it was him, but everyone was like, you No, it was i did the wrong thing for the right reason. Wasn't that it? Oh, oh yeah. Sorry. so he's like I did the wrong thing. I don't regret it at all because otherwise the movie wouldn't have been made because it pushed Fox because he leaked the footage, the test footage. pop Fox was like, oh, people like this because they can't see. I love this executive's idea that that executives can't see what's right in front of them. They just don't understand what the creativity is.
00:49:54
Speaker
Yeah, that's how you get a fucking Morbius. yeah Yeah, that's true. that That's a great point. yeah I'll say this too. James Gunn, didn't think about this too much until he was on SmartList recently being interviewed by like Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes.
00:50:10
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James Gunn was like pointing out how he's like one of the few, if not if if really the only um creative who's in charge of a studio.
00:50:22
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He's not a producer first. He's a creative. And that's pretty rare. It's a rare it's really incredible. That's a great choice by David Zaslav, I must say. And Zaslav is interesting because he James Gunn talked about Zaslav and he talks about Zaslav understands to step back.
00:50:38
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And he he gave, ah i don't know if you've you you've seen this on another podcast or another interview or something like that. And stop me if ah if you've seen it. But they like James Gunn was ah basically mentioning that he picked his lowest lane in Superman, like the actors. it was David Cornswit and Rachel Brosnahan.
00:50:55
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And he he he sent them he sent David Zaslav test footage of the two of them and said, these are the these are the the the guys. And he was James Gunn was kind of nervous because like what if he doesn't like it And then there Zaslav pulled some stunt where he's just like, he was on the phone with him and he's like, I got to tell you, James, you know, I'm not a creative and you know, you should not listen to me at all. You should not listen to my opinion.
00:51:19
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So I'm just saying you shouldn't listen to me, but I fucking love it. and i think It was something along those lines. So like, oh, that's really great. but that That's like a I don't know, because that people, there's people, a lot of people, I feel like on the outside looking into the and to Hollywood, especially into Warner Brothers, thinking that David Zaslav has done a bad job. and Even we have talked about how. Yeah, I'm a part of that camp. I think, I don't think he's done particularly well. And I i don't.
00:51:42
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Yeah. Sorry. Go on. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Like, I just don't think he's done particularly well. And I think there's been a lot of botched things because of him. I mean, that's why so many things have been cut. Like Batgirl, like we're never going to see the light of day, you know, written off.
00:51:57
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and Coyote versus Acme. You know what? That was essentially cut. But now it's coming back. But it was sold. That's. Kind of excellent. And it's being, I think it was just said ketchup because of ketchup. It's some, what is the studio called? Ketchup entertainment. Yeah. Okay. I was right. Okay. Okay. Because of ketchup and mustard and relish and mayo.
00:52:16
Speaker
Yeah. but I don't, you know, yeah, I know. Well, on the way level on the outside looking in, maybe it's just, it's weird, but he did appoint James Gunn and that is unique. It is intriguing. Cause why did he do?
00:52:27
Speaker
Cause they always want to medal these executives and all of these studios, not just not Warner brothers, just everywhere. Yeah. But there's this thing. I don't know. I've never been that low on David Zaslav. I just didn't. I don't know. I was always confused by. so what what's up?
00:52:40
Speaker
You OK? My door just like opened and that scared the shit out of me. Yeah, on its own. Is it? Is there a ghost? Am I going to? Oh, no, it's my cat. Oh, it's a cat. That makes more sense. i actually got so scared. i was like, am I about to get murdered? At least it's on footage and you could call the police.
00:52:56
Speaker
Yeah, I wonder if they would have dead. I wonder if they would have stopped because you're on on a call. Yeah. Would you have said I'm talking to a police officer? Please leave. Brother, get out of here. I'm talking to my pal Simon on on on our on our hit tv ah TV show and movie podcast, Split Focus.
00:53:12
Speaker
Split Focus, a film and TV Who that? Is that Philly Cheese? He's already walking walking around with that head of hair? He No, I'm not even being facetious. This this this baby, he's powerful. He's a powerful baby. He can already hold his head up.
00:53:27
Speaker
Wow. Oh, oh you the baby, the actual. the baby Yeah, the baby. With an F. i Okay. Gotcha. but Anyway, I think we were prematurely negative. I wasn't too negative on Zaslow, I don't think, from the beginning, if I recall. But I was always tentative because there's always something weird.
00:53:41
Speaker
there's There's some weird stuff. But people are also saying that Warner Brothers isn't doing well, but I don't really agree with that. They did pretty well this year. And Dune was like a pretty shining like beacon of the pandemic. I feel like it did fairly well.
00:53:54
Speaker
Yeah. Now, Superman did really well here. But yeah, you're right, though. They did cancel a few things. But maybe that... I wonder if that Batgirl... movie wasn't that good and I also think that they were trying to course correct the DC it's kind of DC universe it's kind of good that they didn't release it it's just muddling the you're just but at muddying the waters and I think there's maybe maybe James Gunn has something to do with it maybe he's like it's possible yeah it is interesting was he in talks or was he he wasn't hired yet I think he was not hired yet he was he was not confirmed at least but I'm sure he was because when Batgirl was cancelled that was was that around the time Black Adam was coming out or just before
00:54:31
Speaker
Because by the time Black Adam came out, James Gunn was essentially appointed behind the scenes, is my point. Because that that's the whole, like him having to essentially contact Henry Cavill, even though he had a cameo in in Black Adam.
00:54:49
Speaker
Again, some executive made that decision, but like the Warner Brothers Studios aren't. The Rock. That's the whole point, is that The Rock pushing He didn't make the decision though, that somebody let him do that, right? I see. Yeah. yeah um So like there's like, again, one hand didn't know what the other hand was doing.
00:55:02
Speaker
Yeah. Well, James Gunn wasn't even appointed, like announced yet, but they were in talks. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. We've talked about this for a while, but yeah. Anyway, I'm excited about this. I'm, <unk> it's great that this did really well. I'm really excited about the DC universe. We're going to talk about Peacemaker later. And honestly, I really love Peacemaker more than I even remember. Like me too. Yeah.
00:55:21
Speaker
And I think that James Gunn is just a gem. I think he's a gem and he knows what he's doing. And I, I saw him in some other interview recently. he was talking about how, again, the most important thing is narrative. And he just keeps saying that. And he was saying something that I keep saying, which is exactly what I think most people should believe is that like, he's very, he's very worried about the details of everything that is coming out of the DC universe. So anyone like writing a script. Rick Flagg senior's hair.
00:55:46
Speaker
Did you hear about why that was? The Rick Flagg Sr.'s hair is not gray? No. It's not white because um so ah Frank Grillo, like who plays Rick Flagg Sr., he was doing another movie at the same time.
00:56:02
Speaker
that's why and he said he's like they won't let me live it down like the internet is so mad about this like they're really mad about this and next time we do next time i'm in something i'll have gray hair don't worry they didn't want to not do that they just couldn't dye his hair because he was literally doing a movie at the same time he's literally filming party sitter and ah party city and just get the fucking white hair dye Like the city like, um, like Woody Harrelson in fricking let there be carnage.
00:56:32
Speaker
Oh my God, dude. Jesus. That was awful. It was a joke, man. That's not good. It's fine. He's got, he dyed his hair black. That's not that crazy. People have midlife crisis. He's, or they just like to dye their hair black.
00:56:43
Speaker
Look at all the actors in in Hollywood right now. You see the one time they have like grayish hair and then sometimes they have perfectly black hair like they never dyed it. looks perfect. No, yeah that's not that crazy. They would have dyed his hair black. That's not that insane.
00:56:56
Speaker
I don't know. It's kind of annoying on a continuity basis because obviously we saw him in Creature your Commandos and that didn't add up when you see that Creature Commandos is supposed to be a prequel to Superman and then he doesn't have white hair. But anyway, whatever.
00:57:09
Speaker
You'll have white hair. Don't worry. Don't you worry, Adrian. But yeah that's actually a piece that James Gunn was saying. Like there's some details that don't have to completely add up generally for for that type of thing. But in and general, like the big stuff, like you got to make sure that the – he was mentioning – I think he was mentioning like power metrics. so He was mentioning the hierarchy of character power. The hierarchy of the DC universe.
00:57:29
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. The hierarchy of the DC universe in terms character more than others. Black is the most powerful one I heard, yeah. Apparently. I'm sure James Gunn didn't agree with that. yeah Is there any chance that Dwayne the Rock Johnson would be God, no, dude. i From the sounds of it, it doesn't seem like they have a particularly great relationship.
00:57:49
Speaker
No. From the Happy Sad Confused podcast. I really want to see Henry Cavill be Batman. I'm doubling down on my ah my my hope my hope and dream from last last week when I mentioned this.
00:58:00
Speaker
It would be really cool if Henry Cavill came back as Batman. Because it's looking like Alan Richson, which everyone was like predicting was going to be Batman for some strange reason in some fan casting. Because he's fucking jacked?
00:58:10
Speaker
He's jacked, but he kind of looks the part. He could do it. He's not that old. He could. Oh, but they weren't old Batman. He's cool. I don't even know. He's Jack and he's cool and he was Thad Castle in Blue Mountain State, the hit TV series.
00:58:22
Speaker
It would be cool if he was it, but i think that's not going to happen based on what Richland said recently ah in in an interview. i think, I don't remember what movie he was. Anyway, next piece of news, Adrian. Please. And this is kind of related to The Rock, Dwayne The Rock Johnson.
00:58:37
Speaker
um the There was two film festivals basically happening at at some point in an overlap simultaneously in this. TIFF is one of them. I know that much. Yes. Toronto International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, which just wrapped up like a couple of hours ago from the the point we're recording this. We're recording this on a Saturday.
00:58:56
Speaker
um obviously this podcast airs on a Tuesday Tuesday but yeah so this is kind of intriguing I was just wondering if you had any thoughts about it I'll name a couple movies that they kind of have they they all have review scores now or for ah for the most part they do on Rotten Tomatoes and elsewhere which is interesting but films like Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein was at Venice Film Festival Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine got a like a 15 minute standing O And like the rock was tearing up next to Emily Blunt, is cool. Park Chan Wook's No Other Choice, which actually looks really great. We can talk about that a little later. i don't know if you watched trailer for that. No, I did not.
00:59:32
Speaker
There's Yorgos Lanthimos's Begonia was also at Venice. Catherine Bigelow's House of Dynamite. um And every one of these, I'm pretty sure, went like had rave reviews. They're all like above an 80% at the very least.
00:59:47
Speaker
So pretty cool. yeah i don't know if you have any thoughts. Toronto International film Film Festival kind of just started up. So it's not it's kind of early days now for that in terms of what we're seeing. It seems like um I think they showed off that John Candy movie with Ryan Reynolds.
Film Festival Highlights
01:00:04
Speaker
I didn't know that that's a Colin Hanks directed movie. That's a documentary directed by Colin Hanks. I had no idea about that either. But that John Candy movie kind of looks pretty cool. John Candy is a pretty cool dude.
01:00:15
Speaker
He was a pretty cool dude, yeah. Yes. ah Oh, and so the other thing that's interesting, at the at the Venice Film Festival, because it just wrapped up like an hour. It was like two hours ago these ah these awards got announced from when we're recording this podcast.
01:00:32
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ah The Golden Line was announced for the Venice Film Festival. And the winner of that is actually mother ah Father, Mother, Sister, Brother by Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch.
01:00:44
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which I don't think people predicted because I didn't see that come up. And then the silver line for best director was and ah was given to Benny Safdie for the Smashing Machine. o so But mother Father Mother Sister Brother has got a stacked cast.
01:00:59
Speaker
It's Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver. And that's another trailer that launched about eight days ago as well. I'm pretty was. Yeah, they didn't launch that, I'll be honest with There are so many trailers. We can pretty much just – because the next piece of news that we're going to talk about is the trailers we watched this week, but we can just kind of tie them in together, the things we watched in terms of trailers connected to the things at Venice Film Festival or TIFF.
01:01:21
Speaker
But anyway, any thoughts? Anything stand out to you? Did you see any any news about any of this stuff? over the last few days yeah no i saw some of the news i didn't watch all the trailers um but yeah apparently like it was interesting to see i think the rock mentioned like that he's glad that he could be a part of the smashing machine because he felt like he was essentially being typecast into a specific role and wanted to prove his acting chops and from all accounts he does an amazing job in the smashing machine so that's nice to see because it's cool to see these like
01:01:53
Speaker
These former wrestlers, you know, you have John Cena, who's now doing an amazing job in Peacemaker and, you know, obviously has like these awesome comedic chops in the movies that he's doing. You have your Dave Bautista, who again kind of started out in these like more fun, like – Action, you know, yeah, yeah, like action movies. And then as a rock he shows up in fucking Blade Runner 2049 for 10 minutes and does a impeccable job.
01:02:18
Speaker
You know what mean? Like it improves that his acting chops on top of, you know, the Guardians movies. And then now you have the rock coming in, who i arguably has been in the industry, like the acting industry, maybe the longest out of these guys. I could be wrong.
01:02:31
Speaker
And really just coming in and and doing a phenomenal job, it's not a surprise with the direction of you know Benny Safdie. um that he was able to, you know really highlight his great work. I'm curious about this. Again, we talked about this movie a few times because we see this trailer literally every single time we go to the movies, like six times before every movie, every single time.
01:02:54
Speaker
So they're really putting in a lot of money, but it looks great. The call out to that too is like the thing about the, what the rock was saying. I didn't know offense to the rock, but I don't quite buy that.
01:03:05
Speaker
He's, isn't even like one of the top, Top paid actors in Hollywood. Like, dude, make your own movie. Yeah. what are you talking about? Your typecast? you you have the You have the power to produce a film. Just do it.
01:03:18
Speaker
i That was the confusing thing to me. Yeah. But it is cool. Benny Safdie and like his brother. What's his brother's name? He's making the other that other movie, like the ping pong movie. but Because they're they're they made Unkept Gems together. My point is they they took Adam Sandler, although he's been in... Josh Safdie.
01:03:35
Speaker
Josh Safdie. Yeah. jo Usually Josh and Benny Safdie team up together to ah to ah direct a film. In this case, they split off. the the The one... as Josh is doing the movie with Timothee Chalamet. Do you see that movie? The trailer for that?
01:03:50
Speaker
Timothee Chalamet and... um No. Ping pong? Ping pong movie? piece the the The Remarkable Jimmy or something like that? I can't remember. It's something like that. Type in ping pong movie, Jimmy, Timothee Chalamet.
01:04:04
Speaker
it's And it's, um, Ping? Oh my God. What's her name? She play she was in Iron Man. she's important she's in She's in Romeo and Juliet. Frickin', I'm losing everyone's name now. Marty Supreme?
01:04:15
Speaker
Marty Supreme, exactly. Oh, yeah, watched this. um And it's, ah fuck, I know who you're talking about. ah um my God, dude.
Dwayne Johnson's Hollywood Journey
01:04:24
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You don't know her name either? Gwyneth Paltrow.
01:04:26
Speaker
Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, I was going to say soap. um Because she soap sells the word soaps. Oh, yeah. The vagina Yeah, the vagina soap. Vagina vagina bazz bedazzled stuff.
01:04:38
Speaker
Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, okay. yeah Yeah, no, she's great. This woke culture has gone too far. Yeah, so they split off. There's an A24 film that's coming in December.
01:04:49
Speaker
It's actually launching on Christmas Day. Both of these are films. which is Yes, but then Smashing Machine is coming soon. It's like this two weeks from now, three weeks ago. Oh, yeah. Four weeks from now. Anyway, I want to see the Smashing Machine because the the biggest thing in the review that with reviews consistently over and over again was how amazing Dwayne The Rock Johnson's performance was. And that...
01:05:10
Speaker
is really intriguing to me. I just, when he said couldn't do anything, I was typecast. I'm like, you're the top actor, like in terms of pay in Hollywood. whatever the fuck you wanted, man. That's my problem. He has so much money that he could, and it's interesting as well. has money that he literally convinced them to somehow bring Henry Cavill back for five seconds. You know what I'm saying?
01:05:32
Speaker
He's got so much clout that he's able to do that, but those movies were fun make. Well, the hierarchy the universe was about to change, Simon. Yeah. but He made it his own like marketing vehicle. like He wanted to be in charge of it.
01:05:42
Speaker
Yeah, and he was pissing in water bottles. Spend less time pissing water bottles and spending more if that's real, man. That's like a J.D. Vance like has sex with couches rumor. I'm not sure that that's a real...
01:05:55
Speaker
I don't think Dwayne the Rock Johnson pisses him. Chaney Vance is a big baby that definitely has sex with couches. We all know this. No, and no, he doesn't. But so i I think I don't know. It isn't also important to point out. Yeah. Like I think you're making a great point.
01:06:11
Speaker
If Dwayne The Rock Johnson wanted to do something, he could do whatever the fuck he wanted. And yeah just like he's making a shit ton of money doing these other things. And there was also the big man. Where did I remember hearing this?
01:06:22
Speaker
I'm kind of pulling this out my ass. So apologies if this is incorrect. But there was also a lot of things in his contract that when he filmed the movie, he could never lose a fight. Or if you yeah, or it would always have to be a tie like if he lost, he would have to have the exact same amount of hits on the like the other person as he had on himself and it would have to technically be a tie.
01:06:47
Speaker
I think there was a lot of stuff about that. ah And I think it's very, very similar to Jason Statham's like contract as well. So there, there was like times where him and Jason Statham were fighting and it was like, they would, if you counted it, they would have the same hits.
01:06:59
Speaker
I'm pulling this out of my ass out of memory. I might be lying to you and I might be a hundred percent wrong, but I feel like I remember hearing this. In 2024, apparently he was the top grossing actor, top paid actor at $88 million. dollars John Dwayne. Wait, hold on. Maybe that... The Rock returned to the top highest paid actors. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:07:21
Speaker
Top highest paid actors list after landing what is believed to be the largest fee plus buyout in streaming movie history. I'm reading from Forbes here. Because and he earned a crazy amount from Red One, apparently.
01:07:33
Speaker
Oh, the hit ah Christmas movie with Chris Evans and um J. Jonah Jameson. Yeah. Anyway. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. JK Simmons.
01:07:46
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Yeah. yeah Okay. So yeah, he gets paid a lot. So I don't, I don't, the yeah. Regardless of that, it was kind of, I feel like it was earnest. like He's crying. I, while the sending ovations happening for 15, 15 minutes, I probably get emotional too. Honestly, if that happened, there's something pretentious about watching people stand up for 15 minutes. I feel like dude that's the dumbest thing. I would so bored.
01:08:05
Speaker
Yeah, I know. It's so boring, but it's also like, come on, just stop. I would be like, stop, sit down. I'd be like, please sit. Thank you so much. After i like 32 seconds, I would be like, enough. Yeah. I'd get on the mic and be like, enough.
01:08:16
Speaker
Yeah, it's over. Thank you. I can't take this. I just don't like being the center of attention, to be honest. I don't walk out and pee and then come back. I would do the Avatar And then come back. Yeah, yeah, the whale. Avatar the way the water.
01:08:27
Speaker
We're just coming back to theaters, apparently, in October. Avatar the way of the whale. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. um ah Yeah. Cool.
01:08:38
Speaker
That's great. So you didn't see too much about – I don't think you knew that Venice venice Film Festival was going. am No, I don't live there. No, yeah. You don't have to live there. You have the internet. But yeah. I don't. That's the thing, Simon. I never have the internet.
01:08:53
Speaker
Yeah, right. Imagine that. Yeah, right. Okay, but – You mean the thing that we're talking through right now? Yeah, right. You don't have that, you son of a gun. Okay.
01:09:04
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ah Yeah, actually, so sometimes, i think Venice, sometimes the Golden Lion ends up kind of, didn't Nomadland win the Golden Lion? I think it did, right?
Catherine Bigelow's Filmography
01:09:14
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You might be right.
01:09:15
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Sometimes the like the Golden Lion kind of determines, like so you know kind of gives a little bit of an interesting prediction on what's going to happen during awards season. Like Oscars and Golden Globs? Yeah, most importantly, the Oscars for films. But yeah, I think she did win.
01:09:31
Speaker
Yeah, Chloe Zhao won Best Director. Yeah, for the Eternals, if I recall. that's right. For Nomadland. But yeah. ah So yeah.
01:09:42
Speaker
And Catherine Bigelow's House of Dynamite looks really entertaining. It's a 90% of Rotten Tomatoes. I don't know if you looked at a trailer for that. But let's talk about the trailers now. did not. She did the the Catherine Bigelow's Electric Bigelow, right? That one?
01:09:54
Speaker
What? Catherine Bigelow's Electric Gigolo, that movie, right? What the hell is that? I don't even get the reference. Oh, no. Isn't it Deuce Bigelow? Electric Bigelow or Gigolo? Deuce Bigelow. Deuce Bigelow. You mean the movie with what's his name? With Ron Schneider, who's a carrot? Yeah.
01:10:12
Speaker
Rob. Isn't it Rob? Yeah, whatever. Who cares? No one likes him. Ron Schneider, who's a carrot? Yeah. What does that mean? I don't know. It's a joke in – What is it from? Is it South Park?
01:10:25
Speaker
don't know. Rob Schneider is a stapler. And he's about to find out. What a stapler. I don't know. You know what I'm talking about? Obviously. I do. i'm I'm vaguely remembering this, but I didn't watch too much South Park. So let's take a look at the the films from the from the things I mentioned. The Stuff of Venice.
01:10:43
Speaker
Did you watch any of the trailers for these things? so Well, obviously saw The Smashing Machine 22 times at the very least in theaters. 22 to 48, yeah. The Frankenstein Frankenstein Frankenstein. Yeah, yeah, dude. I love the Frankenstein. You did that one time way back like 10 episodes ago. Frank, the Frankenstein trailer. Did they and did they release that yet?
01:11:03
Speaker
Like an actual full trailer that wasn't a teaser? i don't know. No, I got to watch that. I think they did because we watched the I remember the teaser trailer.
01:11:16
Speaker
Problem is, is like i I keep getting inundated with these. OK, so nothing yet. Netflix from the YouTube channel BFI. Yeah, I'm sure that's real. ah I'm sure that's real.
01:11:31
Speaker
I don't know. Honestly, maybe the 69th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express. Oh. It has like 700,000. I don't know. Who cares?
01:11:42
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It's probably whatever. Anyway, anything from the Venice Film Festival you saw the trails for that you're interested? Did you see the trailer for No Other Choice? No. Have you ever seen an Old Boy? This is movie i always wanted to watch.
01:11:56
Speaker
No, I haven't, but that's on my list. That's Park Chan Wook. Apparently, they're saying no other choice. And I watched the trailer. It's got the Byun-Hook. What's his name? Damn it. The dude from, ah man, we're just thinking of names the entire podcast. Yeah, it's really good. We're doing a really good job. Really great area. The Squid Game guy.
01:12:14
Speaker
Yes. yeah the the The face. I was going to say black face, but black black mask. Yeah. Yeah. Lee Byung-hun. Lee Byung-hun.
01:12:24
Speaker
Lee Byung-hun? libion bon hu I might be pronouncing it wrong, but yeah, Lee Byung-hin. Okay. He is the main character in this, but apparently it's a guy who's like, he's like going up for a job and it's like the job market like welling up and he's like, he's trying to kill the competition or something. It's some crazy shit.
01:12:42
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it's It's a South Korean film, obviously.
International Film Comparisons
01:12:44
Speaker
But then the neat thing is that people are comparing it to Parasite. Like it's like Parasite with more hijinks. Like it's like, it's crazier Parasite. Did you know me? I love fucking. high I am very into this.
01:12:55
Speaker
When I was looking at like predictions for who would win the Golden Lion this year, a lot of people were saying no other choice. And then a lot of people below them were like, no, this is an entertaining movie. It's not going to win. Like it's way too like fanfairy that it had too fun. It's not going to win the golden line.
01:13:11
Speaker
And it didn't. So there's that. But I am very interested in this. if the I don't think this will hit our mainstream theaters here in Canada. Like it won't go to Cineplex. I i imagine we'll have to go to like something like Princess Waterloo Cinemas.
01:13:22
Speaker
Yeah. But if you check out the trailer and you're interested, let me know and we can try to watch it if it hits the hits that theater. Those I'm watching it right now. so Okay. um It's like two minutes though. So can you do it later? It's 51 seconds.
01:13:34
Speaker
51 seconds? na No, no. I don't think so. This is the neon one. Okay. I'm not going to watch right now. We're doing a podcast. Why are you telling me to watch this right now, dude? i I told you not to. Anyway, any other trailers stand to you? going name a bunch of trailers and you can tell me any.
01:13:49
Speaker
Okay. Spit them. eat is that the name of a movie or spit them i've never heard this is a catchphrase you're going for okay anyway the the the trailer of the week for me by far was is this thing on uh we talked about that last week and literally but we'll talk about that in a second because you both saw that trailer there's a robin hood trailer which i didn't even know was being made sean beans in that it's an mgm plus show what the hell is mgm plus that MGM is owned by Amazon. They have another streaming service called MGM. but I have no idea. I think it's a streaming service with ads.
01:14:19
Speaker
I don't know why they would make another glad they're making another Robin Hood movie because it's been a solid TV show. It's a TV show, which is cool because there's not that many of those for Robin Hood. And there's the the low down trailer.
01:14:32
Speaker
By Sterling Harjo, who made Reservation Dogs um for Hulu. and There's a Marvel Zombies trailer, which looks pretty cool, actually. It actually looks really fun. i read that comic series.
01:14:43
Speaker
Yeah. And all episodes at once. They're not doing it week to week on Disney+, plus which is which is new for them. It looks really good. I read the Marvel Zombies comic, um which is written by... um walking dead walking dead robert kirkman robert kirkman um and i don't think this is following the exact same story as the comics there's some similar scenes from what i remember at least in the trailer but it's not identical marvel zombies yeah for marvel he worked for marvel at any point i had no idea yeah did he do that before the walking dead or after after oh wow there's comic that's great writer
01:15:25
Speaker
I read yeah Robert Kirkman he did that I was like oh am I mixing it up with the um the DC one but yeah no no he he did Marvel zombies from December 2005 to 2006 five miniseries Yeah, interesting i it's really good.
01:15:41
Speaker
It's really fun. So I'm actually very curious about the show. The trailer looked great. I do like that. um ah Florence Pugh seems to be kind of the focal point as Black
Marvel Zombies Series Excitement
01:15:51
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Widow.
01:15:51
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She's narrating a lot of the main actors coming back. That cast list at the end of the trailer. Pretty cool. It's really nice because I feel like in Marbles, Marbles, Marbles, what if?
01:16:04
Speaker
ah In Marvel's What If, they did not bring back a lot of the cast. They did. For that. But the problem is is that the ones that they didn't stood out, and that's the issue, I think.
01:16:17
Speaker
But yeah, they have, um yeah, like, Eman Vellani, she's coming back as Ms. Marvel. We got, obviously, Florence Pugh. Elizabeth Olsen's apparently coming back for this, which is crazy.
01:16:28
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um Randall Park. Hell yeah. Love Randall Park. David Harbour's in it, which is Simuli U. Like it's a yeah. And Paul Rudd's even in it too. um So pretty cool. Excellent.
01:16:42
Speaker
Yeah. According to this isn't too much like it's not too intensive. You know, you get them in there for a few days. like maximum maybe a few hours and it's over if you especially when you think about charlie cox's like contribution to expedition 33 like it's crazy that he's like i was in there for a day that's it it i don't feel like i did anything it's like you have a lot of voice lines in this dude like uh yeah is it really that easy i like if it's that easy that's why they were able to get you're the main fucking character like i know it's crazy
01:17:12
Speaker
Yeah, you're on all of the box art is like the main guy. and It's a strange situation. Yeah. But yeah. Okay, so moving through the other trailers here and then we can kind of circle circle back because again, I really want to talk about is this thing on? But 28 years later, the Bone Temple, temple and which is the next 28 years later,
01:17:29
Speaker
movie in the trilogy that they're making. ah Correct. And it seems like... yeah and it seems like they're putting a little bit more focus on Ralph Fiennes' character in this one. yeah It almost seems like he's the main character of this, which makes me very excited because I love him as a supporting cast member, supporting character in 28 Years Later. so I'm very curious...
01:17:49
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Because it it's still very evidently a sequel because they show all the all the characters from from the the show, but it it almost feels like, hey, this is this is taking place after, but we're following Ralph Fiennes' character, mostly.
01:18:02
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Um, yeah. Yeah. Well, it's called the bone, bone temple. So makes sense. Touche. Touche. If you see the first movies trailer, I feel like that kind of makes sense a little bit too. Yeah. I, I didn't really, i don't know. I didn't connect the dots before I saw the trailer and then Ralph Fiennes is in most of the trailer I'm like, Oh, okay.
01:18:22
Speaker
I really like him. So Ralph Fiennes is great in everything. Uh, you were, yeah, but it's pronounced Rafe. Um, from my understanding anyway thank you for letting me know but yeah the next uh we just talked about this but this trailer kind of intense it's like a nuclear bomb is going to go off or something a house of dynamite trailer from catherine bigelow catherine bigelow if you don't know out there directed hurt locker the hurt locker which beat famously beat out uh avatar in 2000 what was it 2010 for the 2010 oscars which is funny no uh avatar came out in 2009 no
01:18:58
Speaker
Yeah, sure. I believe you. You have a better memory than I do. Avatar release date. But the thing was is that Catherine Bigelow was married to James Cameron. i don't know if you knew that part.
01:19:11
Speaker
No, that's that it was Hurt Locker against Avatar for best picture. And then her Catherine Bigelow won. And she should have won because literally it's a better movie by a little bit of a margin. Have you ever seen the Hurt Locker?
01:19:24
Speaker
No, I have not. But Avatar is not that good. So I get it. I get it. Yeah. It's good though. It's fun. I can name 78 movies within a minute that are better than Avatar. I'm not going to do it, but I could. Sure.
01:19:37
Speaker
Yeah, but Herlocker's cool. Jeremy Renner, I think it's... ah ah no Yeah. ah yeah like jerry I think that's like one of Jeremy Renner's first big films. like That's where he kind of got his start. I'm pretty sure. like That's where Jeremy Renner's one of the main characters and he blew up from there.
01:19:55
Speaker
Then he was in a bunch of action films. and Well, he was in 28 Days or Weeks Later. Right, but that wasn't as prominent. Yeah, it did come up before.
01:20:08
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Anthony Mackie was also in that movie. Which? The Herlocker. Yes. Yeah. Ralph Fiennes was also in that movie. That I don't remember. He is? He's Contractor Team.
01:20:22
Speaker
Oh, okay. I don't know. That's all it says. I can't see the rest. so Evangeline Lilly was also in it. That's around Lost time. In this film, there's pretty good cast too Rebecca Ferguson looks like she's got a prominent role, um which is cool too. Big fan of Rebecca Ferguson.
01:20:37
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah, it's worth watching. Watch the House of Dynamite trailer because it looks it's an action movie, basically. It seems like I watch her right now. It looks. No, stop. OK. And then the other trailers, there's a lot of trailers this week. This week was packed. We don't have a lot to talk about because we didn't go see a film in theaters at the same time. So I thought we were going to be done in like an hour. But we've been we've been riffing about because of this, the film festivals that have been.
Upcoming Film Releases
01:20:57
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um Yeah, we've been even riffing about Deuce Bigelow, dude.
01:21:00
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Yeah, no, that's I would say but this is a long story, not so short.
01:21:06
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What? Long story not so short? Yeah, this this this episode. Long story not so short. Is that a reference to that? It might be. Stay tuned to find out. Wink.
01:21:17
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ah okay well i'm i'm um a captive audience so i'll be here probably nobody else yeah but uh other things that had trailers monster the ed gein story did you see this trailer this looks like a genuine horror movie jesus it just looks like a horror horror tv show did you watch say under the other monster movies the jeffrey domer one is very creepy and uh what's his name evans um ah Evan Peters.
01:21:45
Speaker
Evan Peters is really good in it. He's excellent. The second one is... That's about the gay brothers, right? Gay brothers? Are they sexually intimate with one another? Menendez brothers. There's like a weird thing. The way they showed that story is weird. I didn't like the way that they told the story. like the The way that the plot was structured, I wasn't on board. and then Near the end, I was like, I'm more on board than the beginning, but I'm not...
01:22:12
Speaker
This is all on Netflix, this monster series. It's the dude who made – he's a big anthology guy. He just keeps doing anthology stuff. He's American Crime Story and American Horror Story. What is his name though? This is again a Names and Dates podcast for the entire thing. That's what we call – that's the name of this episode. Names and Dates. long Names and Dates.
01:22:33
Speaker
American crime story creator. You don't know? You don't know this? Come on. Dude, of course I know it. That's what I was going to say. you didn't even let me say it. I literally just said, of course I know this. And then you interrupted me.
01:22:45
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Anyway, whatever. This looks cool. I i recommended Charlie Hunnam's playing Ed Gein. And the the way that they they introduce it, they like their their marketing vehicle for this is like, before Psycho,
01:22:57
Speaker
And before Silence of Lambs. Exactly. That's exactly what they did. Okay. I did watch this trailer actually. Oh, okay. Did it look good? I forgot about it, but I guess I did. Did it look good? Because i remember that. It looks interesting. I never watched any of these other monster shows.
01:23:11
Speaker
The thing about these shows, I find like the the best thing is like, The actors are allowed to like put on an acting clinic. like It's a perfect vehicle for them to potentially win an Emmy or get nominated for one, but I don't know that the writing's always as good. I did think the Dahmer one was was pretty cool. I just think it glorified him a little bit too much for my my case.
01:23:30
Speaker
It doesn't really. It doesn't really, but it it's a bit too... it's's It's a lot. It's a lot, but Evan Peters is amazing in it. It is potentially worth watching, but it's just ah it's very gross at at times. Yeah. What happened to – I feel like Charlie Hunnam hasn't been in anything in quite some time.
01:23:49
Speaker
He's been in a lot of – oh, my God, man. This is the Names and Dates podcast. That's not even false. ah He was in The Gentleman in 2019. Yes.
01:24:00
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That's what I was thinking about. He's been in – I think he was in a multiple. Wasn't he in multiple of –
01:24:07
Speaker
Guy Ritchie's films. Am I wrong about that? I don't know. Maybe. was He was in that one. He was in the King Arthur one. That was in 2017. That was a long time ago. you Is that it? That's the gap?
01:24:19
Speaker
He was in anything for... No. Apparently in 2022 he was in Chantaram. Was he in Rebel Moon? Yeah. He's like a main character in Rebel Moon. Really? Yeah.
01:24:30
Speaker
Did you watch Rebel Moon? No, I didn't. mean, I did not. That was viewed very, very badly. Yeah. And then they did the director's cut and apparently it's not good. and It's like, well, there's the two parts, right? they he Did he get to release the release to both parts or not? Yeah, he did.
01:24:45
Speaker
He did. And he said that this is going to be a huge franchise and I don't think they're making anymore, dude.
01:24:52
Speaker
It sucks because of all the everything was said about before. The director's is great much better actually. It's 53% opposed to 22. so That is much better. yeah but think about um what What do you mean a director's cut? It's on Netflix.
01:25:05
Speaker
I know. du You don't have to worry about that's the time for it because there's no seating arrangement. you don't have to worry about filling a ah theater with people. I don't know why you have to worry.
01:25:17
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There's no scheduling issue. Dude, the director's cut is over an hour longer. So Rebel Moon's two hours and 14 minutes. His director's cut is two hours and five, which is three hours and 25 minutes.
01:25:30
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Dude, I love Zack Snyder. Like yeah as a director, you know, big fan Batman v Superman. I like it A lot of his earlier stuff. I didn't like army of the dead.
01:25:39
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I didn't watch rebel moon part one or two. I don't watch his like animated show that he did either. Oh, is that it? That's, Oh, he's got style.
01:25:50
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He's got style, but I think, I think you actually said it to to me once and maybe I'm, I'm riffing on you. I think you should not write things and he should just do. It's mean though. It's mean though. yeah I don't like it. It feels mean spirited even coming from, like for I try to be nuanced. I don't want to say that about someone, but watching Army of the Dead, man, what is that? What is that writing?
01:26:12
Speaker
but But there's fun moments in that movie. Like Dave Bautista is cool in it as an example. i just Visually it's awesome, dude. It's cool. I know. Visually it's awesome. But the writing makes no sense. And so like that's ah the thing about Rebel Moon was it was supposed to be his idea of what Star Wars could be if he was to make a Star Wars movie. He pitched it to Lucasfilm. Wasn't that the point of Rebel Moon? That's what they said.
01:26:34
Speaker
believe so. And so that i they turned him down and I guess rightfully so. Yeah. He's like, I'm going to do an R-rated Star Wars. And then like, well, we got Andor. Right. We do. Which is our rating. We sure do. It's an adult server. Yeah.
01:26:46
Speaker
Yeah. God, Andor's so good. Yeah. Dude, I think about Andor, I'm not even joking, probably once per day. Wow. Like, randomly, I'll think about it and I'll be like, Andor's so good. Anytime someone brings up Andor, I'm like, I love it.
01:27:00
Speaker
I want to preach to the world for people to watch Andor. Anyways. Yeah. They should. but Yeah. They should. Yeah. All right. Okay. So any of these trailers that we didn't talk about you want to talk about here? Anything you saw that you were super excited about?
01:27:15
Speaker
No. I think we're good. I think we're good. I just want to say that is this thing on? is that It looks amazing. Will Arnett looks really great. It's directed by Bradley Cooper. We talked about this last week, but there was no trailer yet.
01:27:27
Speaker
yeah i just want to say that the trailer really got me. And I actually, I think i teared up if I recall watching it the first time because the very end of the trailer, Will Arnett's voice cracks. and Like, ah I don't know if you know what talking about.
01:27:41
Speaker
i was in an emotional place when I saw the trailer. But it was interesting because his voice cracks when, like, um what's her name now? God damn, Laura Dern. Thank God I found the name. Laura Dern's character is like, see she's like, are you okay? And he's like, yeah, I'm okay. And his voice cracks. And i'm like, that's just like, this guy's great.
01:27:58
Speaker
Will Arnett is excellent. And can't, yeah, I'm very excited about it. I think this is my most anticipated movie of this for the for the for the remaining months in the calendar year. After Downton Abbey, the final Downton Abbey.
01:28:13
Speaker
yeah Yeah, of course. um But yeah. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, that is this thing on again? i don't know if you looked into it at all, but again, it's about... I did. i watched the trailer. You sent it to me, dude. You sent it to me through text and I responded. so No, no, no, no. Like the history of it. like the Oh, no, I didn't look into the history.
01:28:31
Speaker
Oh, Fuck. i don't know but um I apologize in advance. You're probably going to hear a bunch of jingling in the background this entire episode. Because my cat Pesci has been so needy these past kids. I love this kitty, but he's like so extra needy and he's just like, bling, bling, bling.
01:28:48
Speaker
because he's got a little bell on him and he's just walking back and forth he's like literally right by my feet i'm petting him on the head and then just now he was walking past me and he his his back leg touched my foot and he got scared i didn't even move my foot i think you're apologizing in reverse though i don't think you're apologizing in advance because i think if you there was noise the entire episode then i mean you could fix the problem now so you don't have to apologize in You want me to That's really messed up about you. You can just close the door.
01:29:20
Speaker
He opened the door. i can't control him. He opened the door, Simon. What is he, a f freaking raccoon? He can open the doorknob? Put him outside and close it and click the door shut. Raccoons can open doorknob?
01:29:32
Speaker
ah Yeah, they're pretty smart. They can open like lids to garbage cans, etc. Lids? Yeah, they they can open the lid to a garbage can and get in the garbage. That's actually At my old place, i saw a raccoon getting into my garbage. And i was like hey, stop it. And he looked at me and he got offended. Like, you're going into my garbage, dude.
01:29:50
Speaker
Have you ever seen Guardians of the Galaxy? I mean, speaking of Bradley Cooper. the So the the idea behind is this thing on, with i was going to say, was it's – I didn't know this, but they actually wrote it with John Bishop because it's kind of loosely based on his his story.
01:30:08
Speaker
That's cool. But yeah, he's a comedian in in the UK. But yeah. Nice. It looks great, and I'm very excited about it. But yeah. Wonderful. Cool. Let's move on now. Are you ready? Okay.
01:30:19
Speaker
What are moving on to? Because I'm going to kick my cat out of the room and urinate. A little segment we like to call the montage, Adrian. Okay. Let me kick my cat out. I'm going to throw him outside. I'm going to murder him because you requested me to. And I'll be right back.
01:30:36
Speaker
I'm sorry, Pesci. got to do this. simon Simon asked me to kill you. And i love him so much. I love Simon so much. I didn't. No. Jesus Christ.
01:30:53
Speaker
All right, Simon, I'm goingnna back. Plot twist. I'm actually dead now. My cat killed me in ah in ah in a battle to the death. so and you're like a BT or something? or Yep. ah Yep.
01:31:04
Speaker
BTS. the hit Korean pop group. Of course. I was just looking up while you were gone. I was looking at, is this thing on again? Cause I'm just hyped about it. I was, i was wondering why it wasn't at the two film festivals that are happening this like two week period here. And the answer is because it's going to be at the New York film festival on October 10th. So that's when it will premiere. And then it's actually scheduled to release on December 19th of this year.
01:31:29
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For those who are interested as much as we are And Will Arnett in a depressed state like Bojack Horseman slash Flaked. He just does a great job in those rules. Just does a great job.
01:31:40
Speaker
It's also, i think we might have talked about this last week, but there's just this idea that Will Arnett is kind of underutilized in those kinds of rules. And that I feel like it's it's he's always almost always not the main character in like any major thing. Flaked is really tiny.
01:31:56
Speaker
Bojack Horseman is an animated thing that we know about. It's almost indie inie animation. um So although it's on Netflix, but you know what I'm saying? yeah Yeah. Yeah. So it's cool to see it in such a, like a, such a big like searchlight pictures film.
01:32:10
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And I hope it gets nominated. I hope it does. Well, maybe it's bad. Actually, it could be bad. We'll see, but. I'm excited. I'm excited for it. Anyway, let's move on now to the montage, Adrian, a sequence of show in which I briefly present seven of the bi-week smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict.
01:32:28
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Number one, according to publication deadline, Violent Night 2 is set to star the Suicide Squad actor Daniela Malkior and a Good Place actor Kristen Bell, alongside David Harbour's badass Santa Claus from the first film, the new Christmas action movie sequel is set to release in theaters on December 6th, 2026. That's amazing, dude. That's a, that's going to be a year to the day of my wedding.
01:32:54
Speaker
So a fantastic way to spend my wedding and anniversary. Honestly, honestly, I'm going to, that's what going to be doing. There you go. And I'm going to be watching it with just you. I'll leave my fiance. ah Oh, wow. My wife had that time. fine I'm just kidding.
01:33:06
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She's the best. Number two is obviously coming with us. to watch that what yeah i said that i'm goingnna bring my my my then wife with us yeah watch this hit movie no i got it i got it i just okay we're grammatical situation Number As announced in a press release, the Shawn Levy-directed Star Wars Starfighter will feature actors Amy Adams, Aaron Pierre, Matt Smith, and Mia Goth alongside star Ryan Gosling when the film premieres on May 28, 2027. It's a pretty wild cast, eh?
01:33:41
Speaker
Yeah. Pretty wild cast. Do you see the photo? Do you see the black and white photo they they showed? The set photo? No. Star Wars, Starfighter. Nothing came up in the images. Oh, well.
01:33:52
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Number three. As reported by publication The Hollywood Reporter, Long Legs director Osgood Perkins will begin production on a film called The Young People. This fall, which will star The Last of Us' Nico Parker and The Summer I Turned Pretty's Lola Tung. Perkins' next horror film, Keeper, will premiere on November 14th of this year. Awesome, dude. um I really like his last couple movies, so I will watch his next couple movies.
01:34:17
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Number four, as reported on by publication Variety, Captain Fantastic director Matt Ross is set to direct an adaptation of the William Lashner crime novel Cockroach, about an enigmatic outsider who rises through the ranks of criminals in New York City.
01:34:32
Speaker
The film will star Channing Tatum, Oscar Isaac, and Zazie Beetz. Nice! Good cast here as well, dude. I accidentally spoiled this, I'm pretty sure, this film for myself because I read a synopsis of the book like an idiot instead of reading like an actual, like just ah like a two-sentence thing. oh I'm an idiot. Well, spoiler for everyone here right now. The concept is really cool. If if this is exactly what they're doing, I think it's really cool. I'm not spoiling for anyone here.
01:34:59
Speaker
I'm just a dummy. Read that. And I'm like, oh man, that is so disappointing. Now I'm going to watch this movie and probably know the twist. and Unless... I'm wrong in the twist as shown in the beginning of the movie, but I don't think it will be. Anyway, number five, as announced at Disney 23 or D23, Ice Age Boiling Point is the sixth Ice Age film and is set to launch February 5th, 2027. Nice, Ice Age, directly referenced in Alien Earth.
01:35:23
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Not a joke. Number six, as also announced at Disney 23, Hexed, an animated film about a magical teenage boy is scheduled to premiere in November 2026. Okay.
01:35:38
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Number 7. As Deadline reports, Warner Bros.
Video Game Movie Competition
01:35:41
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has delayed the Mortal Kombat sequel film from its initial October 2025 release date to May 15, 2026 instead.
01:35:48
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The film is ostensibly done, and test screenings were reportedly strong. So the reason for the delay is claimed to be due to what is believed to be a historically low box office performance for films releasing in the month of October. Hmm, that's too bad, unfortunately, there.
01:36:05
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to be and frank and a bonus number eight as announced by legendary pictures and major distributor paramount the upcoming recently in production film adaptation of the street fighter video game series will take place in the 90s and is set to release on october 16th 2026 crazy dude the cast of this movie is insane genuinely insane i don't know if you've seen it yeah bananas looks great And that concludes the montage. blah
01:36:36
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Hold up, hold up. You got you understood where I was going with that, right? That... So number seven is Warner Brothers has delayed the Mortal Kombat movie because October is not a suitable time to release a film because of low box office.
01:36:50
Speaker
And then the counterpart movie, basically another fighting game directly competing with Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, is releasing in October the same year. So they're basically battling in the same year, but they chose to to release the movies apart. Yeah.
01:37:06
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the it Street Fighter, which has a bigger, crazier cast, is releasing in October. And they're like, they they just announced that. Yeah. It's a very strange thing. Yeah. I think they're putting it there so they can delay it to May of 2027, though.
01:37:19
Speaker
I think that's what they're saying. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Although it's Paramount versus Warner Brothers. So it is it is a competition in some aspect. aspect but Yeah, that's an odd choice. I don't know. is Is that true? I mean, I guess I don't know the history of the box office of October specifically, but I feel like, i don't know. I feel like horror movies do well traditionally in October.
01:37:38
Speaker
and i don't know. Mortal Kombat is rated It's not a horror movie, but it is like incredibly violent and gory. So I don't know. It's an interesting choice. That's reportedly what was said. Yeah. So I don't know. Maybe it's maybe it's maybe it was misconstrued or something. and But ah apparently the movie is done. And again, the screen tests were good. They for for.
01:37:57
Speaker
Mortal Kombat. They're just like, you know what? The screen tested way better than we thought. Let's just put it in a month. That's going to be. Yeah. Make it a bigger hit than. Carl Urban, dude. He's the, he's like essentially the main character now too, which is interesting. Yeah.
01:38:11
Speaker
That's cool. the trailer was really cool. It's funny because the main character of the first movie is kind of, he wasn't even based off a real character from the game and he he's still there. He's in it, but he's kind of like sidelined, which is a,
01:38:23
Speaker
Odd choice, I guess. But again, it makes sense. You're kind of going the route of like the Resident Evil movies. Like you're bringing Mila Jovovich playing a unique character and then eventually you bring in the game characters in the third movie, I think.
01:38:37
Speaker
When they bring in Jill Valentine or some shit. i don't remember. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Cool, though. I'm curious. I like the first Mortal Kombat movie. um Although I don't have any connections. Yeah, it's fun, dude. It's stupid.
01:38:52
Speaker
It's fun, though. yeah I'm not looking for a masterpiece for that shit like this. I just want to see people get murdered in unique ways. And yeah, it's enjoyable enough. And yeah, sure. I'll watch the Street Fighter movie again. Cast is crazy, dude. Cast is crazy for that. Yeah, yeah.
01:39:08
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looks cool. have Alexander Volkanovsky, UFC legend in that movie, dude. Oh, is that, that's the, that's the member of the cast that particularly stood out to you? Yeah. Because I'm a big UFC guy now these days.
01:39:19
Speaker
Right. Yeah. I'm like, I'm half joking, but I do watch UFC. Yeah, I know. So yeah, I get it. So you must be interested in the smashing machine for that reason too, no? Like the legacy of the the UFC.
01:39:31
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I got into UFC far later. Um, so I understand, but the to go back to the legacy of it is kind of interesting. No? Yeah. Yeah. I, it adds, it adds an intriguing element most certainly.
01:39:42
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. It's time now, Adrian, to move on to what we've been watching this week. We did not watch anything together. i have been playing a lot of video games. I've always watching TV shows, so I'm always watching something no matter what. That's why we do this podcast.
01:39:57
Speaker
I'm always watching something, but I haven't seen a lot of movies in the last month. Like I just, in the last like 30 days, it's just not been something I've been doing. Last film I think I saw was weapons, which is weird, but watched a lot of TV shows. Same. Same.
01:40:09
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Oh, it is. Okay. Yeah. So you, yeah you are the same way, just a lot of TV shows. So what have you been watching? I feel like you hinted at it throughout this hour and 30 minutes so already that we've recorded. Um, anything that you've watched that you want to point out, talk about? watched quite a few things, man, actually like a shit ton.
01:40:27
Speaker
Um, well, we did watch something together, I guess, but we watched it together, apart together, but apart. Yeah. right But I have watched quite a few things, Simon. So um again, we'll we'll just talk about it because we were alluding to it. We were talking about Will Arnett.
01:40:39
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um But, you know long story not so short, I've been watching Long Story Short, which is the new Netflix animated show by Bob Raphael Waksberg.
Animated Series Review
01:40:50
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but Sorry, Raphael Bob Waksberg. I mixed up his name. um And he is the creator of BoJack Horseman, which starred Will Arnett. And this is ah another animated show, but it's not like human animal things.
01:41:06
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It's a really cool premise because it essentially follows these three characters, three siblings over the course of about 40 years. And each episode kind of like a time capsule. It takes place in, you know, like 1988 or 1999 or 2010, all the way up until 2022. So me and my fiance, we've watched the first six episodes of the 10, if I recall correctly, or seven episodes of the 10.
01:41:36
Speaker
And it is... Spectacular. I freaking love this show, dude. It captures what made Bojack Horseman so great, yet tonally it's not identical. Bojack Horseman has a, although it's a comedy, a very evident layer of sadness throughout it um because we're following this down-on-his-luck, alcoholic, former actor,
01:42:05
Speaker
horseman that has, um you know, like that's just trying to live his life and, you know, capture, you know, what, what he once was from, you know, 20 years prior.
01:42:17
Speaker
Whereas this is a very focused family story. um And again, it's about these three siblings and the people they love um over the course of, you know, these years and what the show does so so spectacularly well, which Bojack Horseman also did is capturing, know,
01:42:34
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multiple conversations going on at the same time in a way that you can still follow. So, you know, like the family dynamic of, you know, family members arguing and yelling at each other and talking over one another while still picking up what everyone is saying and being able to follow along.
01:42:50
Speaker
It's very grounded in reality. It's very heartfelt and um wholesome in a lot of ways. And it, I think it, perfectly encapsulates, you know, that family dynamic where it's like, of course, you love your family, but there's so much shit wrong with it all the time. And, you know, you might be at each other's throats and have a, you know, poor family dynamic.
01:43:10
Speaker
And it's interesting because it's following a Jewish family, like yeah over the again, like they are Jewish over the course of, you know, these 40 years and the way the story kind of unveils itself over these 40 years and how every episode plays out is super unique and cool because it will, you know, show you like a, um,
01:43:32
Speaker
Like a snapshot of like when one of the characters are born and then jump forward like 15 years. And it's like, okay, what what happened here? Or it will show you like the start of a relationship between two characters.
01:43:46
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um And then again, like at the end of the episode, it will jump forward, um you know, 15 years. And it seems like these two characters aren't together anymore. And it's like, oh, what happened?
01:43:57
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And the way the story unveils itself over the course of multiple episodes while following different characters in each episode is super cool, man. And it again, it's it has that clever, witty writing that Bojack Horseman has.
01:44:13
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um Still has the amazing puns that Bojack Horseman has. you know like and They're not living in an anthropomorphic human No, they are not. human world Yeah. Oh, so let me get this straight. So please every episode is a different character you're following, but it's also a time jump in each episode. Is that correct? yeah Yeah. Yeah. Like they'll kind of show different. It's not always a time jump.
01:44:33
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No, it it it always is. Oh, okay. It's not necessarily a time jump in the sense of like, it starts in the 80s and then the next episodes in like the 90s and then the third episodes in the 2000s. It just, it jumps between times. So like, I think the first episode is like the early 2000s and then it ends in 2022. Then the next episode like takes place in the 90s and it just,
01:44:56
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You can kind of follow along each of these episodes and it's cool the way it unveils, again, these story elements as you're watching it because they'll mention something like, oh, this character passed away at some point, but they don't say how or when or or or you know what what what occurred. don't get there presumably if it's important enough. Exactly. And then it will be referenced in another episode in like a line of dialogue and like, oh, that's kind of sad or that's really well done.
01:45:23
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The cast is amazing. um It's Max Greenfield. He plays one of the the the brothers, yash Yoshi, Shwooper. The family is called the Shwoopers. Max Greenfield, probably best known for his character in New Girl. He plays Schmidt.
01:45:38
Speaker
in New Girl, if you're if you're familiar with New Girl, Simon. i don't know you've watched it. ah Ben Feldman plays the other, like, sibling, um ah ah Avi Schwooper. And then Abby Jacobson plays Shira Schwooper, which is, like, the the sister in the family dynamic, um who I haven't seen in anything, as far as I'm aware.
01:45:57
Speaker
um But it is... It's remarkable, dude. I genuinely love this. And it's finally, it like, I've been looking for a show that could capture the quality of what BoJack Horseman was.
01:46:09
Speaker
Um... in that same sort of style and form when that formats, not the right way. Cause again, it doesn't follow the same format as, as bojack as Bojack is typically just like a linear storytelling and there's the occasional flashback, but this is like, it'll say the episode starts 1988. This is what happened. And then it just says 2001.
01:46:29
Speaker
two thousand one This is like the relationship between these siblings. And then maybe they'll reference what happened at that period. Um, Um, but yeah, it's, it's cool. know It's like, it it does. And it's like, again, a very dysfunctional family that I think a lot of people could probably relate to, you know, like, i don't, i don't know. I didn't grow up Jewish. So obviously there's those elements. So if you were like a Jewish person that grew up, yeah, yeah maybe you'll relate to it a little bit more, but I think everyone can relate to a dysfunctional family to a certain extent, uh, you know, arguments you had with your siblings to arguments you had with your parents. And it really captures that so well.
01:47:03
Speaker
Um, And I truly, truly love it. I love it. And but my biggest issue is that it's only 10 episodes. So my fiance is like, oh, do you want watch the next episode? I'm like, I really do, but I want to savor this.
01:47:16
Speaker
I mean, I watched fucking seven episodes in the span of two weeks on top of a bunch of other things that I watched. And I'm so close to the end and it sucks knowing that i'm going to probably have to wait. Assuming it comes back, I don't know how it's going to end, if this is meant to be a mini series or if it's meant to like continue going.
01:47:29
Speaker
But it is kind of like, I i don't know if I, I don't know, it's going to suck waiting for the next season. because the quality is so good. I really like the animation style too.
01:47:40
Speaker
It's not the same as um like Bojack Horseman in that animation. It's pretty similar. It is similar, but I feel like it's a little bit more... ah I don't know. I don't really know how to word it.
01:47:53
Speaker
Messy? Not in a bad way, but I feel like Bojack Horseman has kind of like a clean look to the characters. They have like specific outlines. You know, it doesn't look as funky.
01:48:03
Speaker
um Whereas I think this has a little bit more like it's a unique art style. While still, again, you can, you can probably pick up. It's like, okay, cool. This is similar to Bojack. Yeah. Thicker lines in some capacity. It's interesting. It's similar, but it's not.
01:48:19
Speaker
Huh? Same, same, but different, you know? Yeah.
01:48:24
Speaker
And yeah, I really love it. And I'm so glad that, um you know, um Raphael Bob Waksberg has come back and made something this special. He did another show in between BoJack and this called Undone.
01:48:38
Speaker
And it was on Netflix. Sorry, on Amazon. My apologies. And I watched the first season. That was really cool. And it did kind of a rotoscope animation style. It had, starred Rosa Salazar and um Bob Odenkirk and a few others.
01:48:52
Speaker
And I really liked the first season. They came out with the second season, I think last year, but there was such a big, uh, break between the two that I kind of, I just never went back to it. So maybe I'm going to go watch these next, like those, go back and watch the, uh, both seasons.
01:49:07
Speaker
But, um, I really like this. I highly recommended it to you, Simon. This going to be my one recommendation to you, my friend, give this a watch, um, and watch it with Dawn. Cause I know Dawn, your, your fiance really loves Bojack Horseman.
01:49:21
Speaker
Um, maybe just as much as I do. So I think i think you guys we will both get a kick out of this. It's really funny too. Like it genuinely hilarious. Just like BoJack, while still kind of capturing those like heartfelt and emotional beats.
01:49:36
Speaker
um I haven't really like... I had a couple of moments where I teared up, but I remember like like vividly when watching Bojack, like the first episode that I cried to, was like, damn, like what the fuck? Cause it just kind of pulls the rug out from under you randomly. And you're like, Oh, this is the kind of show that we're watching.
01:49:53
Speaker
So I think like mentally I'm a little bit more prepared going into this show, knowing what, you know, Raphael Bob's, uh, Bob Waxford can like do with his writing. Um, Yeah, I love it, man.
01:50:04
Speaker
I'm so glad that we got something this good. i'm I'm excited to continue watching it. I probably won't bring it up again unless something revolutionary happens in the next couple episodes. But I do truly, truly love this show.
01:50:15
Speaker
I'm a big sap. I cry in everything lately. i don't know what's going on. I'm constantly crying watching Andor. I'm watching, you know, that yeah is this thing on trailer?
01:50:26
Speaker
and A little glimmer of of a spark in someone's eye makes me cry. know, just... ah You'll probably cry cry at this then. Because again, there was a like that there was one there's one moment, i forget which episode, where i genuinely teared up. I'm like, damn, this is kind of sad.
01:50:43
Speaker
Yeah, the bear gets me constantly. Bear is like yeah very emotional. I mean, Andor got me too. So yeah, and we're in the same. i didn't cry at a trailer, but you know I tear up. i just I think there's also there's a passion for it. There's times where i I've cried. like almost oh no No, not cried, but almost cried. like When I see the passion someone has for making something, know if you've ever had that.
01:51:07
Speaker
But I have like this ah on like a creative level. There's like, there's, I've been a few moments like that where I can see. Bo Burnham's inside. When you mentioned that, that actually reminds me. Cause, cause yeah, like his passion for creating that is so evident. And yeah and there are moments in it where, where it's kind of tear jerking, but yeah, that's what's a comedy special.
01:51:25
Speaker
like yeah like yeah The end of the day, it's a fucking comedy special that he did in a room. It's like a comedy special. Yeah. That for sure. Yeah. There's a, I just saw, I can't remember what it was. I didn't put it in the montage cause it was a little late, but there's like a, another, there's a Saoirse Ronan movie coming out where she kidnaps a child and she's a teacher. And they're like, they called it a drama comedy. And like she kidnapped a child and they're living in in her basement. And that's like um comedy. I'm sorry.
01:51:54
Speaker
I'm like, I have to look into that one. I can't remember what that one's called, but that some movie coming up. Um, yeah.
01:52:02
Speaker
ah To get sidetracked here. Okay, so anything else you've watched this ah this week, sir? before Yes, Simon. um So actually, to to jump off of a long story short, one of the main characters in it is ah Paul
TV Series Pacing Issues
01:52:20
Speaker
Reeser.
01:52:20
Speaker
he He's in it. Mm-hmm. And he is in Stranger Things season two, which and my fiance just finished the other day as well. um So we've been like going through Stranger Things. I've already seen the first four seasons. She's never watched it.
01:52:35
Speaker
And I really like Stranger Things season two.
01:52:40
Speaker
Very obviously the worst season, I think, of the show, even rewatching it in hindsight, or sorry, even rewatching it now. There's a couple of things that I kind of pick up on it where i'm just like, yeah, it's just, it's simply not as good as the first season. And I remember really loving season three and four. So I don't know maybe I'm wrong, but I think the biggest issue with season two is the pacing specifically in the first few episodes. It's very slow, actually, like kind of resetting everything up.
01:53:09
Speaker
Um, Not necessarily a bad thing, but considering how stellar that first season is and how like compact those eight episodes are and how it's just going, going, going while still giving you enough time to develop these characters. I think they stumble a bit in season two.
01:53:28
Speaker
It also has by far the worst episode of the entire series in that season. i don't know if you remember it, the Lost Sister episode. It's like an 11 centric episode where she kind of goes off.
01:53:39
Speaker
I didn't hate that episode, but fuck yeah I just, I feel like that whole will season meanders. Like it's like kind of like they didn't know what to do. They didn't know what to do. They're like, we don't have a plan. We actually didn't think of this and we didn't think we would get this far. It it feels like they only knew what they wanted the ending to be.
01:53:58
Speaker
And they're trying to figure out how to get there. Oh, for the ending of the whole Of season two. Of season two, sorry. I should clarify. Oh, maybe. I kind of felt like they didn't know they were necessarily going to make a season two, and then they just made season one.
01:54:12
Speaker
Did that feel like that? Like they could have ended it after season one, but then they put a little teaser at the end. Yeah. now like I feel like they added that later. Yeah. Because they like had something that was golden, and like, you you're going to make another season. that's kind of what and then after season two they're like we gotta plan this out and then it just gets really good I feel like that's that's what the impression I get who knows that may not be the Duffer Brothers actual plan it wasn't you that said that the Duffer Brothers moved to Amazon or something did you say that to me moved to somewhere Paramount or Paramount yeah yeah they moved on which is so weird because they're working on like multiple things with Netflix
01:54:47
Speaker
Yeah. but And um I think season two is still really good. Yeah. um But again, it it is noticeably worse than the first season. And again, that long lost sister episode is genuine.
01:55:01
Speaker
I'm not joking. I think it's an actual bad episode of television, like on my rewatch. It's not good, man. It fucks up the pacing because it, they, for whatever reason, when they released it, they chose to show that episode in between two episodes where the, the, the previous episode ends in a huge cliffhanger.
01:55:23
Speaker
That happens all the time in television though. That, that, you can't fault him for that. It does. You can fault him for the fact that this is incredibly boring and there's no, there's no, like whenever you see like, you know, there's like one-off episodes. I'm trying to think like, what's a good example. To be fair, Simon, like sorry to interrupt you. The bear that all the time. They do this like one off episodes and then you're right before something that you kind of, the story isn't.
01:55:44
Speaker
Then again, there's more cliffhanger. It's more cliffhanger in stranger things just because it is. It's a very evident cliffhanger. And I feel like that was a common thing in like 22 episode seasons. so But like when that season is nine episodes, like get fucked.
01:55:58
Speaker
I don't need this fucking filler episode. That sucks, dude. I think it's more common now. But okay. Like the weird weird filler, like even like Mythic Quest, like the, the create, but the filler episodes are amazing in Mythic Quest. So you, you, you forgive it because they're so good.
01:56:11
Speaker
Yeah. They did so their, their best episodes of Mythic Quest are filler episodes. That's true. that I give you that. They're filler though. That's about descriptor. it They're like background episodes or like, yeah, they the aron they add additional context. Whereas I think this episode honestly could not exist and you'd be fine.
01:56:27
Speaker
like Yeah, I agree though. that yeah that Yeah. I remember it being not that good, but people were really mad about it. Do you remember that? Like when it aired? I do. People really don't like it. I'm like, I don't care that much. It's fine.
01:56:38
Speaker
But then the problem is is, that when you look back on it, because season three is so much better and then season four is so much better than that. I just feel like the whole season just feels like it's a waste because they're doing the same thing. They're kind of just treading the same water as the first season from my remembering. I could be wrong. Really? worse than well It's similar enough.
01:56:56
Speaker
But like, I mean, like the main difference is you have additional characters that are introduced that add kind of. the yeah Yeah, I don't know. They add a nice levity like Bob, as an example. He's introduced in season two and he adds a lot of levity to the series.
01:57:09
Speaker
Yeah, I like Bob. I thought you were. Wasn't it you who said you didn't like Bob last week? Uh. Sean, what they do with the character. okay. Yeah. I'm okay with that. Spoiling too much.
01:57:22
Speaker
I don't like what the, the truth, what they do with the character near, in the end of the season. He's the most memorable part of the season from my, like that. And that weird episode, actually, those two things are things that I remember the most. Otherwise I felt like it was a retread again of, yeah. Like irish again, yeah. Like,
01:57:37
Speaker
I like Bob up and yeah. Anyways, again, I don't want to dive too deep. Yeah. Don't, they make a very dumb decision with, with this character near the end of the season where it's like, what the fuck dude? Um, and I really love the introduction of Max in that season. And,
01:57:53
Speaker
because I think she's just plays such an awesome part in season three and four. I forgot how mean everyone is to max though. So like watching it, like, oh man, i I feel really bad for Sadie. Sink does a really good job.
01:58:04
Speaker
And you're just watching like, oh man, this poor little lady, like, come on, dude. um But it's really fun. And dude, forgot. I meant to mention this last episode. I forgot how many episodes Sean Levy directs.
01:58:17
Speaker
Cause he's directing obviously. Yeah. yeah Yeah. He's directing Star Wars, Starfighter, obviously like Daredevil, Deadpool versus Wolverine. He directed that. He's done so much. I would say he's most known for Stranger Things in terms of recent years because he directed so many episodes of Stranger Things because we we kind of give him a hard time. i think we've done that on this podcast where we talk about how he directed like, what's that? The Adam Pro...
01:58:41
Speaker
No, not the Adam project. Oh, it is the Adam project. But there's a couple of those movies on Netflix that I'm like, ah, they're so, he did that's why I wasn't super excited about ah Deadpool versus, no, Deadpool and Wolverine. But then you think back and you're like, but he directed so many episodes of Stranger Things. Didn't he direct the pilot?
01:59:03
Speaker
I gotta look that up. But like he directed a lot of them. He directed a lot of the main episodes that that are really good. And then obviously the Duffer Brothers directed a bunch of them. And I think the Duffer Brothers... It's cool because like the episodes they direct, they also write.
01:59:23
Speaker
I'm wrong. The Duffer brothers directed the pilot. Okay. Yeah, I thought so. And it's it is cool because, again, the Duffer brothers really – like, they have a vision, and they're cool. But it is also interesting because the Duffer brothers have done nothing but Stranger Things. So it's like, what are they going to do outside of this universe? And I'm very curious about That's kind of like the Game of Thrones guys, though.
New Projects from Popular Creators
01:59:43
Speaker
Yeah, and they just moved around to five places. I just haven't watched them. yeah They got hired by like 15 different places. Like, oh, we're going to go do Star Wars, right? and then they're like, oh, no. Joke's on you. We're not doing that anymore. has just moved around. And then they did the Netflix show, Three Body Problem.
01:59:59
Speaker
which you didn't like, right? I think the writing's bad. but I don't know if the writing's bad in the book. The weird thing is that I'm sure people would be at my throat with that opinion. I'm sure people, I guess maybe people like it. I just think it the entity in the the main villain thing in this story to me doesn't make any sense. that like It's supposed to be...
02:00:21
Speaker
super intelligent, but it doesn't seem to be intelligent. like It feels like humans wrote it, which is not really... Like, wrote the the way it acts when it's trying to be this, like, hyper-intelligent being.
02:00:32
Speaker
And I don't think it's written properly based on that. it It does not seem like... It bothered me throughout the entire season. It's got great actors in it, um like great acting, like great production values. Like clearly Netflix put the money into this show.
02:00:46
Speaker
It's a huge series of books from like from China that have been popular around the world. um So it's it's it's huge in that way. The second season is coming. I'm going to watch the second season, it but it bothered me because ah' there's, again, I'm a big, my only problem is like,
02:01:04
Speaker
again we've talked about this a one hundred times but the logic of your world needs to make sense and if you don't make it make sense you gotta ask every scene does does this make sense in our world and i feel like there's many scenes you're like no i don't think this i don't think this tracks unfortunately and so that's my issue with it but but yeah okay cool so so how many episodes you you didn't finish stranger things season two year you're halfway through no we did that we did we literally finished it last week yeah So maybe we'll finish season three by next episode and then season four by the episode after that.
02:01:31
Speaker
Yeah. that's your right there Yeah. Getting an us ready for the November launch. Season five. Season five. But one episode. Strange things are so good, man. Love that show. It's really good. It's good. Yeah.
02:01:42
Speaker
I always forget about how good of a quality that show is. And then you're watching. know. and Yeah. There's a I feel like there's an element that of that oh overall, you know? Yeah. Like people are like, ah, Netflix doesn't have a good chance. Netflix has good shows. They did loot their shows with garbage, but they have lots of good shows. It's just the problem is they.
02:01:58
Speaker
Stranger Things is one of them. Probably one of their best shows. Ozark and Stranger Things are like probably their best. Good call. Bojack. Bojack Horseman. 100%. I think Flaked is excellent, actually. It's underrated.
02:02:09
Speaker
um but maybe it's not on the same Long story short now, dude. Long story short. Yeah, it's on Netflix. Arcane, dude. Arcane. Arcane. No, they have lots of stuff. They're just, again, diluted. Diluted. Yeah. Yeah. Love is blind coming back October or some shit. Oh boy.
Nostalgic Animation and New Series
02:02:23
Speaker
cares Let's stop. Let's stop there. um Anything else you want? Yeah, dude. Sir. Unfortunately, I've watched quite a few other things.
02:02:29
Speaker
I watched the first episode of Pokemon Concierge ah season one, part two. Cool. um I didn't realize that this is like they're labeling it it still in season one and it's the second part as opposed to season two because it picks up directly where sees it like the first bit ends off. So it makes a little bit more sense.
02:02:48
Speaker
Dude, I love this show. It's so cute and cozy. All stop motion animation with these little puppets. It's really cool how they have like different designs of the Pokemon. So you'll have Psyduck where he's like... The the model is like smooth.
02:03:04
Speaker
And then you'll have like you know a other Pokemon like a... um I don't know... I can't think of a single Pokemon. Pikachu. Pikachu. I'm going to name the original Charizard. Charizard. Charizard. Charizard, man. Yeah. Blastoise. Yeah.
02:03:21
Speaker
Where you have like the different textures of of the of the Pokemon as they're playing out. And it's just like, it's like a wholesome show. It's not like super stressful. You're in it for just like a cozy time. And again, the short episodes. Yeah.
02:03:34
Speaker
Yeah, like 20 minutes was this for that this first episode. And it's about, you know, you're following like this young woman who gets a job at this Pokemon resort where people like bring their Pokemon to for like a vacation, essentially.
02:03:48
Speaker
And, you know, she's like taking care of the Pokemon. And it's um it's just adorable, man. It's very cozy and fun. And like, if you have a love experience, Like, I don't love Pokemon anymore the way I did when I was a kid. You know, I love the first and second generations, but it's nice to kind of hop into that universe. And, you know, there's a little bit of nostalgia where you're like, oh, yeah, I loved Psyduck.
02:04:09
Speaker
I loved Pikachu. I loved insert Pokemon here. Oh, that's a newer Pokemon that I didn't really know too well. But, you know, remember I've seen it. It's cute. Mudkip, you little water Pokemon from, I think, the third generation or fourth generation. Like, there's a lot to love in in it And it is just a very comfortable show to watch um when you're when you're just kind of in it. So again, I won't won't spend too much time on that.
02:04:34
Speaker
The other thing that I watched, Simon, which I mentioned earlier in this episode, which last week last episode I said that I'm not going to watch until it's done, Alien Earth. I decided to jump into it.
02:04:45
Speaker
Cool. And I want to point out something about- Did you get the premium? i did I did watch it with ads. And I want to point out something with Disney Plus with ads. Most inconsistent ads- In a streaming service. And what I mean by that, not when it is placed in an episode, but I mean, i watched the entire first episode and there wasn't a single ad, the entire episode.
02:05:08
Speaker
And the next episode started and there was two ads, one right at the beginning and one halfway through. And then the third episode, I watched and there was four ads sprinkled throughout, but again, at very distinct points, like where the, where like a transition happened.
02:05:23
Speaker
So I've only watched three episodes. I think there's five out now. And yeah, Holy shit, man. This show's fucking amazing. I'm not joking. It's fucking oh so good, dude.
02:05:35
Speaker
Noah Hawley knows what's up. Another win. There is. It's cool because i'm I'm not like the biggest Alien fan. I like the Alien movies. I watched Alien, Aliens, Prometheus, Alien Covenant sucks.
02:05:46
Speaker
But, you know like I watched those. I never watched Alien 3 4. But, you know, I have enough and I love Alien Romulus as well. So I have enough love for this this franchise to be in it. But I'm not like dedicated to the lore and where the show takes place is prior to the first movie.
02:06:04
Speaker
So it's interesting the things that they're setting up in this. Right. So I'm not going to spoil anything apart from what's in the trailer. So the premise of this show is a Spacecraft. that in the trailer?
02:06:19
Speaker
and don't think that's in the trailer, is it? A spacecraft? premise? I'm sure there's a spacecraft. The setup. just don't think the premise is in there. The setup of the show. sorry, I should say. Do they have the setup in the trailer? I don't think so. I don't know what's going to happen. i watched the trailer a couple of times. I don't think I know what's going happen.
02:06:34
Speaker
It's actually kind the surprise. The most recent trailer. Beautiful surprise. Okay, then do you want me to be very – Okay, maybe I won't say anything. Be pretty vague if you don't mind. Because I was surprised. Because I didn't watch the last trailer leading up to the show. Yeah. So when I got into this episode, it kind of shocked me.
02:06:50
Speaker
But yeah that's kind of what I wanted to talk about. So now, oh my God, my cat's fucking pawing at the door. ah What is it? Why are you running away? I just opened the door for you. Come on, you coming in or what's up?
02:07:03
Speaker
Classic kitty. Look at him go. He's so needy, dude. He's so needy. He's so cute. I love him. He's so, yeah. yeah just You tried to kill me in a fight to the death that Simon told us to have.
02:07:15
Speaker
No, I did not. um So, oh man. Alien Earth. Yeah. The issue is like the things that I wanted to mention. I don't know if you've seen it because I don't know which you watched. don't know. that's fine. Whatever.
02:07:27
Speaker
Okay. I'll be, I'll keep it brief. keep it brief. Sounds good. This is revealed in the first 15 minutes of the first episode. Okay. Sure. So obviously the the the, the, the thing of the show is a spacecraft lands on earth.
02:07:43
Speaker
Yeah. Right. And it's a it's a spacecraft owned by Weyland Yutani, like the Weyland Corporation. Yeah. Which is like the big corporation in the alien universe. and And they were essentially bringing in like alien life forms.
02:07:56
Speaker
And that's what's on the on the ship. And it lands on Earth. And it's like, OK, what's going on here? Right. But while that's happening, where the ship lands is in an area because the world is run by corporations as opposed to governments. Right.
02:08:10
Speaker
And where that spaceship lands, which is a Weyland-Yutani-owned spacecraft, lands in ah ah a place on Earth that's owned by a company called Prodigy. And it's that company is run by this boy wonder type character, this trillionaire, super intelligent young guy.
02:08:26
Speaker
So when the spaceship lands, he's like, okay, cool. Fucking awesome. This is a Whelan-Yutani ship. There's probably billions of dollars of data, like research data on it. Let's send people on there and steal the shit out of this this ship without letting, you know, the Whelan Corporation kind of take over it.
02:08:41
Speaker
But while this is happening, they're kind of setting up this. they they've They've been spending decades building something wholly unique. Because in the alien universe, you know, you have cyborgs, which are like people with like cybernetic implants.
02:08:55
Speaker
You have your synth. Wait, they're not called synthetics. What the fuck are they called? ah Oh, man, I forgot the name. Alien synthetic synthetic.
02:09:11
Speaker
people. Synthetic ash. Are they called synthetics?
02:09:16
Speaker
san bla bla blahh Yeah, it is a synthetic. They're like androids or whatever. Yeah. um So there's that. And then they mentioned that in this alien universe, the the Prodigy Corporation has has been doing like testing where essentially what they're doing is they're taking like a synthetic body and implanting humans into it.
02:09:44
Speaker
So... There are these, essentially there's this young woman who's in the show, who's like sick, she's dying of cancer, and they put her brain into the synthetic.
02:09:56
Speaker
And that's kind of the setup of the show, right? It's like where it goes. The cool part about this, though, that's super interesting, is that this is technically the start of the alien universe, chronologically.
02:10:07
Speaker
Like if we're looking at the timeline, this takes place before the first movie. I didn't know that part, actually. Okay, it's revealed in the trailer. Yeah, that i I'd miss that somehow. I don't know why I thought it, because it's called Alien colon Earth.
02:10:21
Speaker
So I thought it has to be a sequel, because how could there be aliens on Earth? Yeah, so this takes place. And this alien. Yeah. The alien that we know, like from the from the core movies there.
02:10:32
Speaker
Yeah, it's not. So yeah, there's there's, anyways, I'm not going to spoil. So I won't talk about that. Just to keep it vague. It's interesting though, yeah. So you like it. I do. And it's cool because it makes the kind of thing. So as someone that, again, I'm not huge into the alien universe. I wouldn't say I'm a super fan, but I know enough about the lore. I really liked those movies, you know?
02:10:52
Speaker
Yeah. This is kind of the beginning, i guess it's post Prometheus, but pre alien, um, where this movie or where this show takes place is that they invented a technology that is never referenced again in any of the movies. And that technology is humans being implanted into synthetics. Um,
02:11:10
Speaker
Okay. So you're watching the show and at least me as a, as a person that has watched the other movies, I'm like, this seems like a very revolutionary science experiment that is never talked about.
02:11:23
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Right. So what happened with this? So it adds some. Exactly. So it adds this immediate layer of mystery.
Alien Franchise Expansion
02:11:31
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And I don't know, me as a viewer, I'm like, are they actually pushing, like, you know, putting these kids into a synthetic body? Are these kids just fucking dying and they're pretending that they're kids?
02:11:43
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What's happening? So like it adds a lot of these layers and it's super interesting. And it's essentially about this young woman Um, who again, like she's dying of cancer. Her father gives her to this prodigy corporation gets, you know, taken away from her brother. And when she's put in this synthetic body, she's but her, like her first instinct when she is back to life is where's my brother that thinks I'm dead.
02:12:08
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So she's like watching videos of her brother. And that's kind of where the ice age, right? Her father is Kyle Chandler, right? Um, yeah.
02:12:19
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Maybe. I don't think he's been in the show yet. I'm just kidding. it it It is literally Kyle Chandler. I'm pretty Oh, it is? Oh, the actor. Yeah, yeah. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, You're right You're right. I'm just joking. It's not. I don't think Kyle Chandler is in Alien Earth.
02:12:35
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He's not in it. I'm just kidding. That's who it is, right? That's the that's the yeah that's yeah what are the main character. Sydney Chandler. Is that her name? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. um And it's super cool because she is really awesome because it's a grown adult.
02:12:51
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Yeah. Sydney Chandler. And she's playing her. The character's name is Wendy. That's not the character's name when she's a kid, but that's what they name, like the synthetic person of her. Right. And,
02:13:04
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It's interesting to see this grown adult act like a kid, but not in the kind comedy way of, you know, your Will Ferrell movies where he's playing like stepbrothers, you know, where he's playing like a fucking big child. But it's like, no, like she's a kid and her personality is childlike and the way she reacts to situations.
02:13:23
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there's an element of that. And another thing we watched this year, well, Hideo Kojima production. yeah Yeah, actually, that's ah that's a great that's a great point. um So it's it's super interesting, and it feels very anime because of that.
02:13:38
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you know There's a typical anime trope where it's like, oh, it's a grown woman, but who's inside or a five-year-old kid? Or the opposite, where it's like, it's a little kid, but this kid's a thousand years old. you know So it's it's it's interesting. like I made that kind of comparison to anime tropes, but not not not important to the audience.
02:13:56
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That's just kind of an aside there. Timothy Oliphant though, in it. Yeah. Spectacular. He's so good in everything. He's so fucking cool. He's so cool. And there are these elements where I'm watching it because we know that predator badlands is coming out. Right.
02:14:12
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Yeah. Which is very clearly.
02:14:16
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connecting the alien and predator universes, right? And just connects what I just said a moment ago. Yeah. Actually. Uh, yeah. Yeah. Touche. Yeah. Funny. Yeah. El fanning crazy. Holy smokes.
02:14:28
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Um, so it's very interesting on that, but there's also an element where there's a lot of speculation online that the alien, the predator and the blade runner universes are all connected.
02:14:39
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And Timothy Olfant is playing this. Wait, guy was connected. Apparently, there's a lot of rumors online. I don't i don't think that's proven. yeah it's Yeah, it's not proven. But Timothy Olfen's playing this white-haired dude that looks very similar to the villain of the original Blade Runner movie. Obviously, this takes place, I think, in...
02:15:00
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one e 100 where i think the original blade runner takes place in the early 20 like 2000s like right timeline wise so they're obviously not the same character but there is like a lot of speculation and it's like oh that's interesting anyways i'm kind of going off on tangents here but dude holy shit the show's so good and the action in it like they don't pull their punches and the thing that i like about this is that the storytelling is very um
02:15:30
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methodic Methodical. like they're They're taking their time telling the story. But at the same time. They're not waiting to reveal things. They're constantly revealing things.
02:15:42
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stuff that's going on in the universe while adding additional mysteries while, you know, showing these two characters meeting where you're like, Oh, I feel like in like your traditional 22 episode series, like this would be an entire season plot line, but it's solved within like an episode or two.
02:15:59
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And it's like, it's, it's crazy how well Noah Hawley has balanced this almost like fast paced, moving forward storytelling with a, very well thought out tale that's just so tight.
02:16:14
Speaker
i don't know, man. It's very spectacular. I really, really love this. I'm excited to keep on watching it. I think the entire cast is amazing.
Ridley Scott's Eclectic Style
02:16:22
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um I think you're going to fucking love this, dude.
02:16:25
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um Obviously, as a fan of Fargo, and I know you, you're not a huge alien fan. I think you're kind of similar to me. We're not a huge alien fan. You like alien. You like aliens. You like I think aliens the best one. alien alien the first ridley scott film yeah yeah it's really good i love alien i love aliens as well i love prometheus yeah i love yeah alien romulus romulus is really good too yeah covenant sucks alien alien covenant fucking i didn't see that one that's you don't have to you know that's another really scott one though right because he came back for that one right unfortunately after prometheus yeah unfortunately
02:17:02
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Yeah. like
02:17:05
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But, um, Scott is such an interesting director. Cause he directs such a, like an eclectic, like group of film. Like there's such a huge his catalog of movies is so crazy. Like he'll make like a movie about some lawyer and then he'll make ah a biopic and then you'll like about Napoleon and then he makes alien and then he makes blade runner. And then, you know, he's made Robin hood with,
02:17:26
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um What's his name? Russell Crowe. Thank you. I almost said Kurt Russell. Obviously not correct. Yeah, some bro russell sometimes we save each other. You said synthetic and I'm like, I think it's called synthetic and you're like it's not that. i'm like, oh, okay. So I was just quiet.
02:17:42
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I was like, I guess it's not. I don't remember. It is synthetic. It is. Yeah, yeah. All right. um Yeah, okay. Really good though, man. I'm
Gaming Experiences and Anticipation
02:17:51
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going to watch it. I'm going to think I'm going to, because I don't have Disney Plus right now. i can't I'm doing a cancel comeback with Disney Plus right now.
02:17:56
Speaker
Um, because I've, uh, my, you know, other people who had it kind of dropped, like you can't use it now because of the password sharing rules and Netflix, I don't have either. So I think for, uh, probably for Halloween time, like getting nearing October, I'm going to jump into alien earth because it's kind of horror spooky adjacent.
02:18:16
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It'll be done by then too. And probably Tim Burton's Wednesday on Netflix, probably in that same similar timeframe. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Spooky season. yeah Spooky season kind of starts in September, September 1st.
02:18:29
Speaker
So I'm doing a little bit of spooky things. I'm watching, playing some spooky games. What spooky games? Things like that. I'm playing Alan Wake. So Alan Wake's spooky game. Oh, I saw you playing that. I'm so excited. You're going to play Alan Wake 2? I can't wait until you play Alan Wake 2. Did you buy because it's on sale? It was on sale for like 70% right?
02:18:45
Speaker
yeah i saw it on sale and i'm like maybe i should just play allen wake one yeah i don't like spooky i don't like spooky i'm like being spooked very spooked i get spooked easily yeah you know you're gonna fucking love it dude it's very scary but a masterpiece i don't like to use a yeah it's exciting it's exciting yeah it's like got you know lost to bald is gate three and i'm pretty sure i'm gonna be like how As someone that just beat Baldur's Gate 3, I do agree. How? I'm going to say how. I do agree. yeah but Maybe I'm wrong.
02:19:19
Speaker
Maybe I'm wrong. I'm really liking the first one. I think it's quite interesting. I think the comment is quite interesting. I'm spooked in that game, though, and I know that's less spooky. so it's like Yeah, that's more of an action game. To be honest, though, there's an element of like, I feel like the brightness level is too high in that game, actually, when it's default. And I lowered it, and it became scarier.
02:19:39
Speaker
Yeah, interesting. Like, it became scarier on my OLED TV because I'm like, oh, my God, i really can't see. And then every time these guys would sneak up behind me, I i would get, like, there would be jump scares because of the darkness. Like, it's really dark. It's partly a light and dark contrasty thing. So, it's going only be, like, three times worse for Alan Wake 2. So, yeah it won't be Silent Hill 2 level. I'm not playing Silent Hill 2, you know. I'm playing Alan Wake.
02:20:04
Speaker
You should. I'll let you borrow it, man. That I am not doing. Yeah, somebody was trying to convince me to play Outlast because I was joking around that I wouldn't play Silent Hill 2. And they're like, you should play it. and You should play Outlast. I'm like, no, I'm not doing that.
02:20:16
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I'm not playing these guys. Silent Hill 2 is spectacular, man. Holy shit. That's an interesting franchise that I wonder if they'd ever make that into... they announce that they doing Alan Wake movie? don't remember. i just like That's like primed for a movie. I'm kind of shocked that yeah like there's all these other things. Life is strange. Again, strange in comparison to Alan Wake. Alan Wake is like a cool... There's an element of it. like The narration is almost like Scorsese. He's narrating his like situation as an author. It's such ah an interesting concept.
02:20:45
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Alan Wake...
02:20:48
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And control film and TV confirmed. All right, we'll see. With Annapurna. I think that was hand-patch. who don't know, Alan Wake is a writer. He goes to a small town with his wife, and then his wife goes missing mysteriously, and he's trying to figure out what's going on. What the He's missing time.
02:21:05
Speaker
But he's narrating, and there's like a manuscript of pages he's written. It's just like this weird horror game. that It's very narrative-based, um which is really cool it's it's cool i really like it so far and the combat's really interesting because you have to use your flashlight to actually kill things which is like really kind of neat but i feel like i knew that a lot because that's in control the control dlc has this very yeah exact same mechanic uh because it's based on uh and it's in the same universe um but yeah okay anything else you watched sir
02:21:40
Speaker
It's been just Peacemaker or season. Let's get into it. You want to talk about these? And i mean, I can do mine quickly. The other one. You want to do yours before we talk about Peacemaker? There's not too much to be honest. Based on a true story. I finished the second season. There's two seasons on stack TV. It's a, it's a peacock show. I believe.
Critiques and Praise of TV Series
02:21:56
Speaker
Yeah. Peacock show. I don't recommend this actually. It's funny. The first season really wacky. It does this weird thing where these characters and I don't like when they do this in any show. Honestly, i feel like they I don't know why this is such a trope that's used so often when characters are just they're like in a weird way and then they imagine something.
02:22:17
Speaker
or they they they they see a ah person they're not supposed to see. like They're hallucinating. But if you were actually hallucinating in real life, you'd be crazy. And there's like there's nothing to come back from that. But there the characters aren't treated as crazy by the writers and by the audience. like We're going to believe that these people aren't crazy even though they're seeing something that's not there. Anyway, so these characters in the first season, it is a trope that happens so often it's crazy. They just keep imagining things that aren't there. And it keeps doing the same this weird thing where that that they're trying to trick the audience into believing that there's like there there there is a scene happening that isn't happening and i don't know why they use this like 50 times this exact same mechanic i i don't love that it's very strange it's strange and then the second season they did bad writing yeah in the second season they ditch it all together but i could know to the credit of the show that i gotta be real about it very well reviewed it was it was nominated for emmys last year and i don't people love it it's review like if i look it up right now based on a true story
02:23:17
Speaker
It's just a string. And then the so the new, then this season, not new, but this season now it it's aired already and it doesn't use them that, that, that trope anymore. It, that trope is gone.
02:23:29
Speaker
And so it's 78% on Rotten Tomatoes. And then they, the the first season is about them running a podcast. And the second one, they're not really, it's not really about that. It's like, oh what is this? This, the podcast is called based on a true story. And they kind of like, are just like changing up the mechanic of what, again, the what is the game? What is the game?
02:23:48
Speaker
Cause I'm saying mechanic. That's why I said game. But the, the, what is the story really about is the quite kind of the question. Cause it's supposed to be about a podcasters making a podcast with a serial killer. Yeah. talking about their crimes, but they, they're doing it anonymously. And like through like a shell, like through like weird IP hidden address. So the cops don't come and knocking. And that's that idea. The weird thing is it's like, there's too many weird things and too many stupid decisions made by various characters. And this is the funniest thing about this. I feel like the reason why you wouldn't like it is the characters are incredibly unlikable in almost every facet. I don't like any of the characters.
02:24:24
Speaker
Yeah. I just don't like them. They're not likable. And the problem is is they don't really have redeeming qualities. Like when I think about like Walter White and like Breaking Bad, Walter White isn't really a likable guy. He kind is, but he's he's kind of a dick. He's not good.
02:24:37
Speaker
He's doing a bunch bad things. Yeah, but he's doing it for a good reason. You can see the reasoning for what he does things. and he's easy i think it's the relatability that matters more so than likability. I don't like Walter White, but I i relate to him in some aspects. He's making human reactions. and and he You can see how he fell down this path, this this strange path.
02:24:57
Speaker
These characters are falling into traps that they're of their own making. and they're not really They're not really... They don't have no remorse. There's a weird... lack of forethought it's just strange they just don't make decisions that i really agree with and i don't like any of the characters in the entire show it's yeah i'm never gonna watch this it also got canceled after the second season hey oh it's canceled yeah it's all i didn't see that for season three oh okay it didn't get watched then i don't yeah i like the actors in it that was cool there were some good moments in it there's some funny dyers in it from stranger things
02:25:32
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And barely in it. Oh, yeah. But yeah, like, I don't know. I'm not. don't know. umm I'm not a big fan and big fan. It's not terrible, though. It's not terrible. I just think that it's.
02:25:44
Speaker
Not good. It's too bad. I feel like the concept is really great. I just think the execution was a bit poor. And and even even the characters are written pretty good in some aspects, but they make stupid decisions that they wouldn't make because it's just human beings. They're not acting like real humans. And that just throws me off of anything I ever watch.
02:26:02
Speaker
So it just doesn't work. the The logic, again, in the world, does it make sense? No, it doesn't. They built the world. It doesn't really make sense. It's our world. it' It's not really that... that different than ours. So anyway, not that great. It's fine.
02:26:14
Speaker
Uh, slow horse, the season four finished it. Hugo weaving's in it. Hugo weaving is amazing in it. The whole season is amazing. Gary Oldman's amazing in every season, but maybe Apple TV's best show. Not sure, but excellent.
02:26:25
Speaker
Jury's still out. Severance is excellent for all mankind is excellent. So is silo. Uh, but I really like slow horses. I, again, so good. Yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to watch slow horses when, um,
02:26:40
Speaker
Oh my God. Why am I forgetting the name of the show? ah Breaking Bad showrunner. New show. Oh, Parabolas. Parabolas. Parabolas. Yeah, Parabolas. Syllabus.
02:26:52
Speaker
I think it's just Parabolas. I don't know why you're still trying to riff the name. I think I gave you the name. Am I wrong? but you hear He keeps saying names. Yeah, Parabolas. That's correct. Yeah. okay scal becomes nervous Because I'm going to watch that week to week.
02:27:07
Speaker
Obviously, if I'm paying for Apple TV, I got to watch something. I'm going to watch.
02:27:13
Speaker
Horses that are slow. Do you I'm curious about this. I'm not going to try to sell you on this because Apple's kind of screwed up lately and especially with Siri, like they literally sold. iPhones on the concept that you've mentioned this already, but like for Apple AI, and they, and there's no Apple intelligence. Like it's just like the, the role that has been botched. And the only thing I care about for Apple AI, whatever, Apple intelligence is Siri being better because Siri sucks.
02:27:36
Speaker
And so it's the only thing I wanted and they haven't improved it. But what I will say is this, do you not have iCloud? I do. Oh, so you just pay for iCloud separately. Yeah. Yeah, but you don't you don't use Apple Music.
02:27:48
Speaker
So you don't double up with that. Okay, yeah. Never mind then. Because I was going to say, like, it's it's very affordable. the The overall Apple One account makes sense. because you How much is Apple One? Because they decrease Apple. expensive.
02:27:59
Speaker
It's expensive. but when you add up the three services together, it's basically... it's more than three, right? Because it's Apple. It's five. Yeah, it's a lot. yeah because there's news and news, fitness plus arcade, Apple TV plus Apple music and iCloud. But ah you if you don't use Apple music, it's not worth it because Apple music and um now Apple TV plus actually, but iCloud is are the most expensive.
02:28:22
Speaker
I share my eye, my whole account with all of my family. That's one that's not they don't care about where your household is. That's just not something they better not because if they do that, then it's canceled. That's canceled for sure.
02:28:35
Speaker
Speaking of which, over keep an eye out on your email because apparently YouTube is is cracking down on the fucking family sharing bullshit. It's crazy. Okay. It's fucking stu it's YouTube.
02:28:46
Speaker
Everyone watches YouTube on their fucking phone. Get fucked, man. It's crazy. I don't think Apple will do it because they have a limit of how many people there are. So they already the family's already kind of shared.
02:28:56
Speaker
um So my family's sharing. So does Google. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. yeah It's fucking dumb, dude. It actually drives me a little insane. This is just not a good it's not a good way to do it. I just don't think you got to create value, not like take it take it away.
02:29:11
Speaker
ah I don't know why they don't know that. It seems obvious. I know that they have a problem with people, I'm sure, sharing accounts who are not and like almost not related or like selling maybe selling accounts. But that guy that has to be really rare, like sarah is selling account passwords. I just don't think that's – it can't be that common.
02:29:27
Speaker
It just seems insane because it's yeah it's your whole Google account. You're not going to share your Google account. I don't know. It's just strange. you literally invite other emails to it.
02:29:37
Speaker
Oh, right. You're inviting. They're different emails. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't understand them. It's dumb. It's stupid. And fuck. It's greed. It's corporate greed. it's It's dumb. it's It's dumb as fuck.
02:29:49
Speaker
And I'm I'm at the dude. I watch so much YouTube. It sucks because there's just so many content creators. I just want to fall on there. I refuse to watch advertisements. There's like 800 advertising. Anytime I watch YouTube without we're with ads, I want to cut off my legs.
02:30:04
Speaker
Whoa. It pisses me off, dude. I'm viscerally upset right now. Let's end the episode. I'm just mad. There is some crazy stuff, though, with all of these. Yeah, i don't I don't understand. They're just that they're not getting it. They're just not adding value enough.
02:30:19
Speaker
They're just keep increasing the pricing and making it more restrictive. It's crazy because did you notice all of these different streaming services are trying to like, or at least Disney Plus is working with HBO Max in the States and working with Crave here in Canada. Yeah.
02:30:32
Speaker
It's like you're creating a cable ah network like because you're locking us in. right The idea is if you do that, it's a good value. I looked at the Crave plus Disney plus deal. It it is a good deal, but the problem is if you cancel one, you're canceling both. so You end up just being locked in forever. That's why they're trying to do this because they realize people are canceling coming back.
02:30:51
Speaker
I did the math and I'm just going to keep canceling coming back for each of the services. I did the math on where it's about a 25% value you save.
02:30:59
Speaker
but yeah, I don't It's a strange one. There's a lot of weird things. Did you notice as well? This
Streaming Service Challenges
02:31:04
Speaker
is the most, this is one of the worst things I had this ah in the, in my notes here for a banter topic at the beginning of the show. If you look on Apple, do you use the Apple TV plus app to look up shows and where they are? Okay, perfect.
02:31:15
Speaker
I hate that Apple allows Amazon to do what it does. I hate so much. Who likes that? So when you, for context to to other people listening to this podcast, if you're listening, two hours and 30 minutes in here.
02:31:29
Speaker
if you have your like you If you look up a show. So let's let's say a look up. What did i look up this morning? I looked up. um Oh, I know what exactly what it was. Because this show is really well reviewed.
02:31:41
Speaker
And I'm so happy that it is. The paper is 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Above 90%. Yeah. Incredible. But it's on Peacock. We don't have Peacock here in Canada. So therefore, it has to be moved some streaming service. have Peacock, but I don't have Peacock.
02:31:55
Speaker
You pee on it? No, out. Okay, yeah, good. Yeah. Good. Well done. I just, I piss in the air so falls back on it. was wondering, like, what kind of sicker are you? How you that? Yeah, anyway. It's impressive, honestly. The paper...
02:32:10
Speaker
Really well reviewed. It's on Peacock, obviously, because it's NBC, Universal. So, it has to be on their own streaming service in the States. We don't live in the States, we in Canada. So, therefore, it has to be put on one of the streaming services here. And in the streaming services that chose it, in this case, is, of course, my least favorite one, Stacked TV, which isn't even a streaming service that's connected to Amazon Prime Video.
02:32:29
Speaker
So, I looked it up on Apple TV Plus thinking, oh, it's available on Amazon. Great. Click. Watch episode, which is at... It literally says it in the Apple TV Plus. Watch episode. I click watch episode, opens it up and says you don't have a subscription to the Stack TV.
02:32:42
Speaker
Then why are you telling me to watch the episode? like it That's not how it should work. How do they not know this? And then the thing is is that Apple sells... episodes on their own thing.
02:32:53
Speaker
Apple sells streaming services in their own. They they sell it out of their app store. they They allow you to subscribe to their app store and they allow you to buy episodes and seasons through Apple TV Plus.
02:33:04
Speaker
But they still point to Amazon You can go rent a movie on Amazon. Why would I go rent an a movie on Amazon when I would just use Apple? it doesn't make any sense. I'm on the Apple TV Plus app.
02:33:15
Speaker
How is Apple, the monopolistic Apple, letting this happen? That's my question. I don't get it Yeah, it's... It doesn't make sense. It's dumb as hell, dude. They're pointing to another store.
02:33:27
Speaker
Why would you point to another store? I'm on your store. Like, I'm not going to buy... I have a collection on Apple. I'm not going to buy on Amazon, but don't tell me that I can watch it. Because yeah what happens is if you can't watch it... Let's say I don't have the streaming service. Let's say, I don't know, Lady Snowblood. I looked up Lady Snowblood this afternoon.
02:33:43
Speaker
I don't know what the fuck that is. I'll be honest with That's a samurai movie. I'm gearing up for Ghost of Yote. I'm gearing up. It's a revenge story where this... it's like a it's a samurai movie made in japan oh dude sorry sorry sorry watch blue eye samurai leading up to ghost of yote watch okay that's netflix right yeah it is blue eye samurai is that the samurai jack guy no that's a different no no no it's it who's this who's the creator of this um i don't know what they've done prior it's a it's a wife and husband um i think the wife is japanese and the husband's a white dude
02:34:14
Speaker
um The reason I'm watching Lady Snowblood is it's one of the recommended movies by Sucker Punch. they have that They have that film festival going on that that at Alamo Draft House.
02:34:27
Speaker
Yes, Alamo Draft House. It's like our version of Cineplex VIP here. Basically, Cineplex monopolizes the entire theater industry here, basically. um yeah Whoa, whoa, whoa. We've got amazing landmark cinema that people go Yeah, that's true. We have the Apollo cinema that think But they're doing the same thing Cineplex is doing. It's not like – Alamo is is ah really doing VIP exclusively. They're doing them what VIP does here is that you can buy drinks and buy food and and watch a movie. and It's like a dinner They're shit-faced.
02:34:55
Speaker
Yeah, it's cool. But yeah, so Sucker Punch basically, you saw that, right? They have like a list. They have like yes these movies they're playing and then they you can go to Alamo Drafthouse and they have these like cool popcorn buckets with the symbol for like Ghost of Yote, the upcoming PlayStation Studios exclusive.
02:35:09
Speaker
So it's cool. Anyway, what was I saying? Oh, I looked up at Lady Snowblood and then it said, it didn't say go to Amazon. It claimed buy or rent. and like, okay, yeah, buy or rent. why Why is it doing that with Amazon where I can click it? Usually will say buy or rent if I can't get it on a different streaming service.
02:35:23
Speaker
In that case, Lady Snowblood, not on Amazon. But anyway, the point is Apple needs to get their shit together. That is one of the yeah biggest peeps on and Apple devices right now. other than the The issue as well with the paper exclusively, i looked it up because I remember I looked this up a couple days ago prior to it releasing because I was curious.
02:35:40
Speaker
Yeah. And it gave me two suggestions before it's on Amazon prime. Oh, cause now it gives me Amazon prime video. It also gives us tell, tell us TV plus what the fuck is that?
02:35:50
Speaker
um Oh my God. Another one. The two that popped up before that are still here are river TV, live TV streaming. What is that?
02:36:01
Speaker
And global TV watch full episodes in live TV. Are they on there? Is the paper on there on Global TV for free? It could be. Global's interesting though because Global, they take their episodes off I think after a short time. So you have to kind of get in right away in this ads.
02:36:17
Speaker
I don't remember exactly. Our streaming services in Canada are really shitty because again, they're monopolized by the our big three here. um Like Bell, Tellus and Rogers. Not Tellus as much as...
02:36:28
Speaker
as Bell and Rogers, but Bell and Rogers owned the TV networks as well. There's just like a crazy monopoly and Bell and Rogers are obviously our telecom carrier carriers or sell us TV. And they're just, it's just so bad here because the streaming services are so stuck in the past.
02:36:43
Speaker
Like CTV is the worst one. You can't get CTV global. I think you can watch and they'll just show you ads. And the global app is on various, like various platforms. I don't know if it's on PlayStation. I don't think so. I know you use it. It's not. Yeah. Yeah.
02:36:55
Speaker
and stop yeah but i have I have the opportunity on an Apple TV. I own an Apple TV so I can log in on there. but yeah i really Amazon Prime also, I must say, like Amazon Prime has one of the worst user interfaces. It's just like a kind of a mess for me too. It's very convoluted. i think I don't think it's necessarily bad.
02:37:13
Speaker
It's not terrible, but it throws everything at you. And like, yeah it'll be like, oh, it's like new to Amazon Prime Video. So like i open Amazon Prime right right as you were talking about it because i was curious.
02:37:24
Speaker
And says new movie release. And it shows together, which unfortunately we didn't watch in theaters or I didn't watch in theaters. It's rent. You got to rent it. it's like rent or buy. I'm like, okay. Yeah, it's a lie. It's like garbage.
02:37:35
Speaker
I'm on Prime, dude. They're just trying to sell you stuff. trying to sell you stuff. I hate that. I wish you could filter by things that are on Amazon Prime. Crave is funny. Crave is actually better than this. Crave does the same thing in that you can buy various... I find Crave is easier to navigate in that regard. Although Crave has only French versions of English movies.
02:37:57
Speaker
Twilight is actually one one example. Of of french you can only watch french you try to watch twilight recently no but it popped up okay out of curiosity because it was on there and i was like oh twilight i'm gonna watch all the i told you that story about uh heat like the al pacino movie that was really bad that really pissed me off because obviously michael mann made the movie in english why are people watching this with an english dub or sorry if Yeah, sorry, a French dub. Why in Quebec would you watch a French dub? Actually, Twilight's still in English for whatever.
02:38:33
Speaker
I swear to God, I looked at Twilight and it was only in French, but I guess I'm wrong. And then sometimes they have the French title art, like the cover art. Yeah, dude. And then it's in English.
02:38:44
Speaker
I don't know what Le Petit. you know They got to get their shit together over at Crave. But again, it's owned by Bell. So what are we going to do? now can't do anything anything I can't complain too much because I get Crave for free. my bill i always I think the most frustrating thing is when see when the when I find something on Apple TV Plus pointing to, like I'm looking at Apple TV Plus app. Because the Apple TV Plus app, as much as it's a streaming service, if I didn't explain this properly, it points to whatever you're, it you can literally look at every single movie or TV show that it ever existed and you can find it somehow.
02:39:12
Speaker
So when you type in the paper, which is an on Apple TV+, it will point to wherever it's available. That was what I was trying to say before. But yeah, there's an element of it where you can search. ah I don't even remember. I lost my train of thought. whatever Regardless, let's move on.
02:39:26
Speaker
I'm actually looking at the paper now on Apple TV+, plus and
Peacemaker Season Predictions
02:39:28
Speaker
I can't even see it. It's not even on here. It doesn't show up at all.
02:39:34
Speaker
that's apple search though that's just apple search lately it's not good yeah okay are we ready to move on to the last thing i watched or peacemaker what are you doing uh i think so yeah let's move on sorry i was looking at crave i'm like fuck great not good it's free i got Oh, that was the other thing I was going to say is that oftentimes i look at Apple TV Plus and it points to the CTV app for something specific. my God, dude.
02:39:58
Speaker
What are you talking about the CTV app? I don't have the CTV app. First of all, and second, I think it thinks it's free or something. I think that's why it points to it. The weird thing about it is that it, why is the CTV app exists?
02:40:11
Speaker
Crave exists. Bell owns both of them. Just put them on Crave. Put the shows that are on CTV on Crave. Why would you not have... I pay for Crave. and It's $21 a month. It's not cheap.
02:40:23
Speaker
Anyway. Okay. That's the end of my rant. That was fun 45 minutes on...
02:40:30
Speaker
I don't know how long we were talking about this, but I don't know, man. It doesn't fucking matter. We're just here to talk to each other at the end of the day. Yeah, that's true. No one's listening to this anyway. Okay. um So now ah the the only last thing I watched, I will say I just watched the episode nine of studio, the studio men, they love wonders.
02:40:44
Speaker
Yeah, dude. Yeah. Crazy. You had a crazy episode. I love Brian Cranston. it He's, he's really funny. And yeah, it was good. Good episode.
02:40:55
Speaker
Good episode. Good show. I'm going feel a little sweep at the ah at the comedy part of the Emmys. We'll see. Comedy TV show part. Maybe. This year. That's next week, actually.
02:41:06
Speaker
Is it? Emmys. Next Sunday. Yeah. Cool. I can't wait for you to tell me about the wins and losses. We're going to talk about it together. I'm not going to probably watch it because I can't watch it. i just i can't I can't be bothered. Unless you're gonna put it on a streaming service, again, Crave has the rights.
02:41:22
Speaker
Because Bell has the rights. Just put it on Crave. Like Disney's putting all the Oscars on it, right? And in a few years, it willll be on the Oscars will be on YouTube, apparently. Presumably.
02:41:34
Speaker
We don't get it in Canada, though. Yeah, because again, Bell will own the rights, most likely. Well, I mean, they might do another rights agreement. Maybe they'll just renegotiate. Okay, Adrian.
02:41:45
Speaker
Now to talk about Peacemaker. Yeah. ah Peacemaker. Super bad, eh? It sucks. Yeah, sure. We watched season two, episode two and season two, episode three.
02:41:57
Speaker
Yes. ah I loved both of the episodes. I think the whole show so far has been excellent. We talked about that at the top of the show. So we really liking it.
02:42:08
Speaker
But yeah, there's ah there's one thing actually i want to get to, but i don't know if I'm going to really do that here because I feel like it's kind of a spoiler. But I have a prediction for this. Oh, Okay. I was going to say, I think you can spoil spoil specific elements to this in regards to what is canonized, if that makes sense.
02:42:31
Speaker
What? a so in episode three specifically it makes certain elements of not the suicide squad but suicide squad the fucking david ayer movie canon that are like directly referenced it's kind of interesting and they kind of recontextualize don't know what you're talking about and in episode three no i don't know what you're saying really It's canon from.
02:42:59
Speaker
Yeah. No, they reference Suicide Squad, David Ayer's Suicide Squad in episode three. Well, I mean, the Suicide Squad references Suicide Squad. So that's not that crazy. you have two sha shit Yeah, fair enough. I just don't remember exactly do what thing you're talking about. But yeah.
02:43:14
Speaker
Yeah, about a specific character and a relationship with another character that's within that movie. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's vague. Anyways, yeah sorry, I interrupted you. That's not what I'm talking about. I have a prediction about where the show is going. I thought they were actually going to reveal it.
02:43:28
Speaker
and Since the first the first episode of this series, this season two, I had a prediction about what's going to happen. And I think it's coming true because exactly what I thought was going to happen has been happening in terms of like, there's like dimensional work in this and the way that the other dimension is. I wonder if you already picked up on this and you already predict this. I'm sure lots of people predicted it at this point because it seems incredibly obvious.
02:43:52
Speaker
And if it's not true, I would be shocked, but it would be, Yeah, I'm not going to say it because I think it would spoil show. Just say it. No, no. Well, say it to you right now and I'm going to bleep it out. I'm going to type in bleep.
02:44:04
Speaker
Okay. Okay, Adrian. So here's the thing about this show. There's a second. Yeah. My belief is that he keeps saying how good. So good.
02:44:18
Speaker
Peacemaker does. But really, Peacemaker likes it right now. But in the end, what he's going to realize is that this is a freaking.
02:44:27
Speaker
People.
02:44:30
Speaker
I've looked very carefully. There is not a single. but The entire time. And I think that's why, because that those people are. His family is a bunch of.
02:44:43
Speaker
That's the whole show. I guessed it in the first episode, because when they see them, I'm like, well, wow, how can these people exist? And he keeps saying how good this. got How good.
02:44:55
Speaker
entire thing and if you look at because they keep flipping between the in this in that one episode constantly and there's lots of when they switch the other one there's not been a single holy shit dude i didn't even pick up on that that's fucking that's good that's good i think that's what is happening but i thought of it in that first again because like robert patrick's character who i love i think he's great and he obviously learned to dance Because yeah his his intro is good too. um
02:45:27
Speaker
But anyway, that's that's my prediction. My prediction for this season. I like that. He keeps saying over and over again. Oh, this is the best place ever. ah love this place. Yeah.
02:45:37
Speaker
Okay. So yeah. That's a good idea. We just bleeped it. There's no more bleeping. Dude, you're so intelligent. And regardless of what the reveal is going to be, you were right.
02:45:48
Speaker
Right now, what you just said, this is proven to be right. I thought you would have already picked up on it though. That's why I was thinking there was an element of it. Like when I watched the first episode, i just said that to Don cause we've been watching it together.
02:46:01
Speaker
And I said, this is what I think is happening. And then we've been checking, we've been tracking it each episode. We're like, is this, is this what's happening? That's good. i like that. I like that. And then, yeah, it's so far as tracked, but I'm like, it's it's, it's, thrown off by literally one spotting, like one sighting of what I'm saying automatically throws it.
02:46:22
Speaker
My, my theory off, but it's so, that was a long, that third episode takes a lot, a lot, like a largely in the setting that we were talking about just a moment ago. And it's, there's a lot of people in it.
02:46:33
Speaker
So you can kind of look at them all. And, and Don just like looks at these persons like, Nope, No, we're just like, look and then there's somebody turned away from the camera and they're like, wait, wait, wait, that extra over there. Is that, and but that's what doing the entire episode. Anyway. um Yeah. i don't want to spoil it, but this that this season's like crazy.
02:46:51
Speaker
I think eagerly was there like a shining so beacon and see episode two. Dude, dude, the introduction of Tim Meadows. That's what I wanted to point out. answer was ah Dude, I fucking love Tim Meadows. I love his style of comedy.
02:47:06
Speaker
But holy shit, i was i was laughing so hard. Like I was wheezing in both the second and third episode with his lines of dialogue because it's so absurd yet somehow works in universe.
02:47:19
Speaker
Yeah. yeah It's so fucking funny, dude. Again, I guess I don't want to spoil like the bit that he does, but goddamn, is Tim Meadows just a – he's a legendary comedic figure. figure Everything he's in, i think about his character in Brooklyn Nine-Nine as the cannibal.
02:47:36
Speaker
So fucking good, dude. um Obviously, in um his the one sketch on I Think You Should Leave. where where it's his daughter's wedding. ah Brilliant. um The oh man, what's that movie? And anyways, he's he's amazing in a bunch of shit.
02:47:52
Speaker
But yeah, I think his addition in Peacemaker just fits so perfectly. God, I love Tim Meadows, man. It's interesting too. I feel like the the the darkness of the comedy and like the where they go with Tim Meadows' ass jokes as well. There's like a there's like a almost an anti-woke. like You know what In the way that people are like, there's like, oh, people are so sensitive now. But James Gunn, I think, is it kind of a progressive individual. I think as a person, I would argue. yeah It seems seems like it.
02:48:21
Speaker
And like Superman somehow panned for wokeness. And it's like, you just shut the shit up. You know what i mean? It's just garbage. And it's just interesting because the comedy just goes everywhere, especially Tim Meadows. The nicknames he gives people in particular are just crazy and offensive.
02:48:35
Speaker
But it's like the offensiveness is just, it's just fine in the show. There's so much offensive nonsense in it. Like, you know, and just naked bodies everywhere, you know Oh my God. bretol lord a It's crazy.
02:48:47
Speaker
It's just, ah it's cool. I really like it a lot. And again, i think that the, I think that maybe they even improved on Eagly's like CG in some aspect, but the Eagly fight scene is really cool.
02:48:57
Speaker
So really appreciate it. Yeah. I appreciated that a lot. I do. I do agree with you there. Yeah. There's, I feel like in the first season, as much as I loved the first season, there were moments that could kind of take you out briefly. Yeah. um ah But yeah, I don't think that is existent in this um second season. and I also, again, I loved him in the first season, but Adrian, I know it's my name. Simon, it's me.
02:49:24
Speaker
Yeah. Vigilante. Yeah. Vigilante. His character is so amazing. Good, dude. I love his, again, the comedic elements because he just plays... like there's there's the the top like the pants the pants in the in this oh amazing it's just so good but he's just so weird he's just a weird guy and he's kind of got like this like he's got like a serious serial killer vibe to him yeah really like he like goes around and murders people because he doesn't seem to know he has no his moral center is like freaking askew
02:49:57
Speaker
yeah He gets embarrassed by things that... It's literally like super autism in like ah way where it's just... But he is socially aware, but for the wrong things that don't make any sense. yeah That's what's so weird is like he's got some reverse... like I don't even know. He's got yeah yeah right like, he gets, he feels guilty and embarrassed for things that we would never feel embarrassed about. And then he murders people and he's not embarrassed about that at all.
02:50:23
Speaker
It's bizarre. His deepest, darkest secret. Yeah. It's crazy. It's so, dumb dude and again it's a lot of stupid stuff in this show general but it's so great it's works just like the just honestly feel like the intro sequence just sets the tone for the entire show agreed i do i one thing that we didn't actually mention because we didn't really talk about the intro sequence in last episode yeah like i i do i like it it's worse but i it is yeah it's just not as good as they don't seem like they're in sync sometimes
02:50:55
Speaker
I agree completely. That's my issue. And it's throwing me off. I feel like the first one was so well choreographed and I feel like they they had such a focus on it. And then in the second one, it's like they did it maybe a few times and they're like, all right, you know what? This was probably the best take we could do, so fuck it. But they the actions they're making are good, but they have to be perfectly in sync. You're filming it, so you got to do it perfectly. you can't You can't miss a beat at all.
02:51:19
Speaker
Yeah, I think that the first time they might have taken it more more times because they thought we have to nail this because it's so ridiculous in the first place. And then they already did it the first time so that the second time when they changed it up, they yeah didn't have they took some liberties.
02:51:31
Speaker
But I would say though that James Gunn has said that Robert Patrick had the worst dancing the first season. His one moment is actually one of the best moments in that entire dance sequence because apparently he worked really hard at becoming a better dancer because he was embarrassed.
02:51:48
Speaker
he does like a, he does like a, almost like a pirouette. Like he does like a contemporary dance, like move in the, in and then he rips off the mask. It's really cool. Cause they're all in like basically in it. They're just like, even though they're wearing masks, they're there.
02:52:02
Speaker
Yeah. I'm pretty sure all the actors that have masks on are, are the characters that should be wearing the mask as an example. But yeah. Yeah. I got Tim. I, my one note was like Tim Meadows here.
02:52:13
Speaker
ah So good, dude. I love his addition in the show. I fucking love Tim Meadows and everything. yeah Yeah, he's great. Mean Girls, dude. Come on. The first time I was exposed to... it might have been Mean Girls, actually. oh yeah.
02:52:25
Speaker
I think that the main exposure I had to Tim Meadows initially, though, was like Craig Ferguson's show. He would always have him on constantly. Because, as I may have mentioned before, I love like... um The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson because it doesn't follow any of the tropes of a regular talk show. that He would have guests on and rip up the card and then not talk about their what they were promoting.
02:52:45
Speaker
and so People didn't literally like being on his show because he wouldn't do the promotion part of it, which is why some people, some actors and whoever it would be, going on late night shows, they really were just there for that.
02:52:56
Speaker
So the fun part about it is you just talk about literal garbage. So Tim Melders was perfect because he's just, he's just an improv, like in some ways a comedian, but he's like very improv, like centered. So like it always worked with Craig Ferguson because they're just talking about shit.
02:53:11
Speaker
it's just And then they have like the robot, again, the gay robot skeleton off to the side, chiming in every once in while. It's great. It was great stuff. So yeah, I liked him. It was a lot. He's cool. He's cool.
02:53:21
Speaker
And he's a, he's a great addition. There was a moment I was worried that he wasn't going to return in season three. That's right. Episode three. i was like Oh no, I think you know what i'm talking about. Yeah. And then they were like, oh thank God. He's, he's still, he he is going to be in it in some capacity. So it's exciting.
02:53:36
Speaker
Oh, there's also Michael Rooker's addition. Yeah. Where he shows up and he's playing essentially like a, like a fucking native American. person like weirdly like a white person pretending to be native american and you're like attending yeah yeah like dude what It's crazy. that Also, the fight sequence. We got to mention that. The fight choreography in the third episode is literally incredible. And so, again, there's an element of what ah James Gunn really cares about not doing the same thing twice. i don't know if we talked about that in Superman or or Gardens of the Galaxy. the he
02:54:12
Speaker
In his choreoographyography choreography, he he takes this time. He look he must write it. He must write what happens in these choreographed events. Because there's there's elements like with the pencils and the photocopier. The photocopier is in the trailer.
02:54:25
Speaker
Yeah. actually I looked over to Dawn. I was like, oh, this guy, he's going to get crushed by a photocopier. And she's like, a what? yeah see like look on real She's like, a what? A what?
02:54:38
Speaker
And I'm like, a photocopier. And two minutes later, the guy gets crushed by but And she looks over like, what? what did you know that? Are you psychic? I'm like, I saw it in the trailer. I saw it in the trailer. I'm not psychic. i just thought it would be funny if I pointed it out before it happened.
02:54:57
Speaker
yeah just the jump with the fucking gun in the mouth is they're like around the neck as well it's like just oh man it's amazing yeah it's really good it's really really good it's badass and peacemaker that was a really i don't remember that many moments in the first season because they go really supernatural in the first season i don't remember that many moments where you get to really see peacemaker in action like you see him more in action i think in the first in the first time we see him and in the suicide squad yeah I don't think you see like, this is a really good sequence. It like, I like how like bottled it is. And like, he's fighting people who are potentially good at fighting, but they're just not, they're no match for him. And I think it's cool to see that because you can actually see what he can do.
02:55:35
Speaker
And so I really appreciate that quite a bit. Yeah. But yeah, no, i loved it, man. This is a really great show. It's again, you mentioned earlier, like totally different from Superman. It's crazy. No kids should watch this, obviously, but it's just, it it's, I'm so excited about the DC universe because the man running the DC universe is the man who made this show.
02:55:56
Speaker
yeah it's just like, he just, he went balls to the wall with the rest of, he just doubled down on what he had in the first season. And he just, don't know, he's just like letting his freak flag fly, you know? Yeah, it it is very interesting because, I mean, ultimately so far, everything in the DC universe was made by James Gunn.
02:56:18
Speaker
Everything. Yeah, that's what's scary. Yeah, like the Suicide Squad, which is technically canon. Him. Peacemaker. Him. That one's not in it. Creature Commandos. Suicide Squad is not, doesn't...
02:56:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I guess Suicide Squad. Suicide Squad. Yeah. Like. the Yeah. Tech. Yeah. I guess that was David. Can't assert the creature commandos is what I'm saying.
02:56:40
Speaker
Yeah. So like, I don't know. It is interesting. Cause yeah, it's. I mean, I guess we'll find out next year with super woman. or yes super super girl woman of tomorrow or whatever like is that gonna be good are we gonna get like an immediate flop i doubt it i doubt it come on come on man yeah yeah really good man we're eating good dude i love peace though it's just a joy to watch it's like popcorn this like perfect popcorn tv i just get excited every time i i get to watch it like i'm like what's gonna what is he gonna do now
02:57:16
Speaker
There's also that there's like that PSA. Did you watch the PSA on, on, uh, you didn't see the P actually. I didn't send that to you and I don't think you sent it to me. So maybe you never saw it. There's like a PSA for a Tim Meadows character.
02:57:28
Speaker
No. oh go on James guns. Uh, Instagram. It's really great. It's awesome. Oh my goodness. It's just so stupid though. There's like an element of like, they know it's stupid.
02:57:41
Speaker
That's what's good. It's like, we're all in on the joke. It's like a ridiculous, these are ridiculous people. I also like Economos actually ah quite a bit. I think he like brings a lot to it. The man is also a giant. Like he's huge.
02:57:53
Speaker
The man is like the the actor. He's a huge guy. Like it's like he's a huge guy. And I like the idea that he's like this gentle guy. He doesn't really have any ability. He's got – didn't he see like he has sciatica or something? He's got like – he you can barely move. He's not really moving around. But he he's a really good comedic presence.
02:58:12
Speaker
It's funny because I think this is just the guy who James Gunn is a friend. There's a little bit of like nepotism in James Gunn stuff. Oh, yeah. but But honestly... Like Jennifer Holland and stuff.
02:58:23
Speaker
Yeah, it was great that it's his wife. Yeah, she's amazing. great There's a level of... don't know. I don't want to say this. can It sounds really mean. I don't want to say it. Oh, no. No, I really like Jennifer Holland, but I'm like...
02:58:36
Speaker
oh ah Whatever, I'm going to say it. I already brought it up. He's not going to watch this. um and No, I feel bad saying this. Never mind. Okay. like yeah No, fuck it. I'm going to say it.
02:58:47
Speaker
If he ever watches this, I apologize in advance. But there's like a level cuckness to it. Oh. Yeah, like does he want to watch his wife get fucked? you know um But that's not really yeah that's not really fair, though. Yeah, I can see that, but I don't know...
02:59:07
Speaker
Yeah. That's like, you can say that about what, what was the, wasn't there a movie directed by what's his name? Oh my God. I mean, it's like Mike Flanagan, his wife is in so many things as well. I don't, or do but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think that's true. but Like I, I, obviously it's not true probably, but like, I, I don't really, i don't see, I always, I thought about that too. It's hard to ignore that, but it's like, yeah is that just because we're just noticing something that's there?
02:59:33
Speaker
I don't know. that because what it was it Dave Franco's movie, wasn't he didn't even make a horror movie and then had Alison Brie. Yeah. Oh, man. What was that called? I watched it. Pretty good. It's like a Cabin in the Woods type movie. Yeah.
02:59:46
Speaker
Right? but Is that what he's doing there too? like You know what I mean? Yeah. That doesn't really work in that context. like I thought about this too. And there's also like John Cena is a like a you know, big beefy guy and all everything. And he's also writing the show, which is also like the awkwardness of this ah element of it. But,
03:00:05
Speaker
I don't know. It's like strange that you could also say that about any characters that mean that James Gunn has to be in the, in the show to, to date someone, to date Jennifer Holland. She's obviously like, I feel like she's an attractive woman. They're going to probably, yeah, she's a very attractive woman. There's But they're going to probably have her dating someone at some point.
03:00:21
Speaker
So like anyone that she dates then is then cuckness. Does that work? You know what im saying? I, I understand where you're coming from though. Cause I thought about this too, because like it's John Cena, but it's like, I feel like,
03:00:32
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. But yeah, no, Jennifer Holland's character. But yeah, like, I guess my point, aside from that, is like, there is that nepotism angle, but it's not to the detriment the content. I don't give a shit.
03:00:48
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, no, never. yeah Yeah, it like, I love Sean Gunn and everything he's in. I feel like Sean Gunn like adds He's gotten better, I think. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. So like, I think- If it was like a genuine detractor where it's like, imagine like you Jennifer Hollins in this and she sucks at acting and it's it's clear.
03:01:06
Speaker
there's There's the things about um um fucking Amazon guy, bald bald Amazon evil villain. Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos um about how he wants his wife to be the next Bond girl.
03:01:17
Speaker
And he's like super adamant about that. Did you hear about that? Oh my God, that would be bad. Yeah. And it's like, he's a that's like nepotism. Like, i don't even think she's a fucking actor, dude. No. Isn't she like a reporter? is that She was a reporter once upon a time.
03:01:31
Speaker
<unk> like ah Or like a news news anchor or something. I think so. Jeff Bezos wife. Yeah, no, I don't care about it at all The thing is is that it's just strange a little bit because when you look at the overall industry, but James Gunn just pulled what he has been doing for years when he was making small films like Slither. You know what I mean? like He yeah just continued to put his friends in things because that's what he likes who he likes to work with. And I don't think that's a problem because there's so many DC movies and TV shows coming that he's not even a part of.
03:01:59
Speaker
That's, ah again, leading back to your other point of what is it going to be like? Because he's he set the tone, but he hasn't. He's tonally shifting it to various... different mediums Creature Commandos is quite a bit different, even it's closer to Peacemaker, certainly, but still tonally it's different from Superman and Peacemaker. agree.
03:02:15
Speaker
Yeah. so I think I think the most similar is the Suicide Squad and Peacemaker like those tonally feel very, very similar. Yeah. But yeah, like I do agree with you.
03:02:28
Speaker
And I don't think it's just because it's animated. Like I genuinely believe like creature commandos does have a different tone compared to Peacemaker, compared to Superman, compared to Guardians of the Galaxy even. Right. Like, yeah, yeah. i don't know.
03:02:40
Speaker
It is cool. It is cool to see. Yeah, it's super exciting. i'm i'm i've never i feel like this is one of those things where James Gunn has repeatedly said, it doesn't matter. ah like There is no such thing as superhero fatigue. There's just like bad movie fatigue, basically, is what he was saying. Again, I've agreed with him from the beginning. I've said the same thing. i find it annoying when people are like... oh, another superhero movie. That's so annoying.
03:03:02
Speaker
It's not annoying if it's entertaining and it's well-written. And I think that i'm I've never been more excited of about superhero movies than now, maybe. agree. Because he's at the helm and he's doing this incredible work. At least he sees superhero movies, yeah. Specifically, yeah. Like Lanterns, I am so excited about Lanterns. I can't i cannot wait.
03:03:21
Speaker
So I'm very, that's probably on a perspective of like what's been announced so far for next year. i think that's my most anticipated show for next year maybe um so far that I can think of.
03:03:33
Speaker
um And this For All Mankind does end up coming back next year. I'm not sure what's got what's happening with that. Well, there's also Severance, but I feel like that's five and a half years out. Yeah, that's coming out 2048, think. yeah Yeah, that's right.
03:03:45
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Okay. All right. i think it's time to move on. We loved Peacemaker. It is really good. I can't wait. I hate it. I i don't know if you could tell, but I hated It sucks. I hate that I'm doing week to week, though. Man, I still don't like it, but it's fine.
03:03:58
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it's It's kind of worth it because there's a bunch of...
03:04:02
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Especially if the thing we bleeped out earlier ends up coming to pass and that everyone already knew the answer because I was able to predict this. It's actually one of the few moments that I feel like there's a possibility that I've actually predicted a plot point that's major.
03:04:16
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But yeah, we'll see next week. Pretty cool. Dude, that's a really good thing. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. Okay. I hope you're right. Yeah, me too. So I can say I predicted it.
03:04:27
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Because my friend told me. That's what I'm going to say. Yeah, yeah. Well, you kind of, you you you now can predict it if you think that's also true. If you follow my trick train of thinking, like, line of thinking.
Upcoming Releases and Anticipations
03:04:39
Speaker
Okay, now into a segment of our show that I like to call a 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 September 9th, 2025 and September 22nd, 2025.
03:04:56
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twenty twenty five Adrian, as his customer, you go first. What is your first pick for... This Simon, like i only have four things that I picked up on this week. So so maybe I won't even have a full three, depending on what you choose.
03:05:10
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The first thing that I'm going to go with, because I want to leave one for you that I think you're going to say. okay but the thing that I'm going to mention is the Stephen King adapted film, The Long Walk, release releasing on September 12th.
03:05:25
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by the director of ah the Hunger Games movies, I think, if I recall correctly. um It's about people. They're doing a long ass walk. um And whoever ah stops walking, they get fucking shot.
03:05:40
Speaker
Mark Hamill's in it. yeah um Looks good. It's getting really good reviews, actually. Last time I checked, it was 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The long whack.
03:05:51
Speaker
It's 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. cooper hoffman's in it um cooper hoffman 57 reviews 95 that's really good shit we should watch that you want to watch i have 10 things written here and somehow i missed that one crazy oh fuck well i should have chosen something else i was like you definitely have this one i gotta pick the one you definitely have what's wrong with me oh i see what you're doing oh i see you're trying to but you you said you were leaving one out so you have five things
03:06:23
Speaker
No, I only have four things. Okay, well, you're screwed. I'm probably screwed now, so don't pick the ones I have on my list, okay? I'm going to pick more obscure ones, okay? Ready? Yeah.
03:06:33
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but I think this one you're going to say, so I'm going to say this one. A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey. You got that Fuck, that was on my list. That was straight. No! Why'd you choose that one, dude? Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie starring this love story, question mark, and not sure? Musical?
03:06:50
Speaker
Musical? No. Oh, right. Did you hear about that? Colin Farrell sings in it. i don't think it's a musical though. Yeah. He does sing in it. And then Margot Robbie said, you should sing. He's like Zac Efron from High School Musical. Yeah, but he says you should be in musicals. So I don't think he's actually, he can sing. Oh, so this is not a musical. Not a musical.
03:07:06
Speaker
But it's like this, like it's like a heartfelt story that, you know, this they're going on this journey and that two people meet by happenstance and they travel the world together or something. I'm not 100 percent sure. I've seen trailers for this multiple times. Did we watch it in theaters that we see trailers trailers for this in theaters? No.
03:07:22
Speaker
Okay, I don't know why I keep seeing trailers for this then. I don't know why you did either. but yeah Colin Farrell is really great. i like I feel like in a weird way he's underrated. Is that a fair thing to say or no?
03:07:34
Speaker
There's a strange thing about him like where he just kind of he does so many different things. It's kind of like, I was thinking about somebody else recently who's just in a lot of different things and they're not like, They're not like prominently out there kind of thing.
03:07:48
Speaker
Like, um, like Margot Robbie actually is a good example of somebody who's rated. Like, I feel like she's in a lot of things and she's great in everything she's in, but she's like, she's and like, you know She's everyone knows Margot Robbie, but Colin Farrell like, a wilson Patrick Wilson, I think is a prime example of that as well.
03:08:04
Speaker
Yeah. Like he's in a bunch of shit. He's in the conjuring movies. He's in Fargo. So good in Fargo. Yeah. And it's like, he's an Aquaman. He is. He's Aquaman's brother. As for some the guy who looks actually like Aquaman, for some reason they made him look like Aquaman does in the comics, but they did like making a, they're poking fun at.
03:08:24
Speaker
Anyway. Yeah. Your pick. Good movies. I only watched the first one. I don't even remember. I don't like it. No, he's got long hair in the second one though. Like, isn't that like the Aquaman thing?
03:08:37
Speaker
I have no idea, dude. I didn't watch. Oh, not long hair. No, he's not in that long hair. But he's got blonde hair, though, specifically distinctly blonde hair. Yeah, right. But Patrick Wilson doesn't. So his version looks like Aquaman.
03:08:49
Speaker
I follow you, dude. Anyway, go on. Your story. Your your pick. Next pick I got for you is the hit Netflix TV series that I'm pretty sure i was going to save for you. But then you chose something that was on my list that I wasn' wasn't. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
03:09:03
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My other pick.
03:09:06
Speaker
What the heck, dude? You didn't let me say the name. That's what I was going to say. It's coming out on September 18th. The hit limited series, Black Rabbit, starring Jason Bateman and and Jude Law. You don't know if it's going be a hit?
03:09:19
Speaker
Yeah. Well, it's going to be a hit between the two of us, maybe. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Anyways, coming out. Thanks for ruining it. I don't want to talk anymore. I'm done. I'm leaving. We're the I was yeah trying to see if I could predict what you were going say before you say it. You did predict it, man. You did predict it.
03:09:36
Speaker
Sorry. Okay. Black Robert's exciting. Yeah. Jason Bateman's directing it. He's in it. Jude Law's in it. theyre they They own a restaurant slash nightclub. Will it succeed when I don't know and Jason Bateman's characters a bit of a screw up?
03:09:49
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Next one I'm going pick here is ah little, a little, a little, a little show called the morning show, which has a season four premiere on Apple TV plus starring Jennifer Aniston. Reese Witherspoon comes out on September 17th.
03:10:09
Speaker
The first episode. That's crazy. I don't even know that show still went. Oh, Really? Yeah, I thought it just... Apple barely cancels anything. They just only make make quality and then they rarely cancel anything without finishing it.
03:10:24
Speaker
Actually, there was one example of something they canceled, I think, but that... Yeah. There's not... Whoa, that's in that, actually. Did you know that? Just briefly? In Morning Show?
03:10:36
Speaker
Yeah. He plays an agent. No, I did not know that. I think they're adding in this one, they're adding... Who was it they're adding in this one? Oh, Jeremy Irons is a huge addition to the cast.
03:10:49
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And Marion Cotillard. And Boyd Holbrook.
03:10:55
Speaker
Hmm. Exciting. Anyway, what's yours? Interesting. I still watch that show too. Apple TV. So it's from Reddit from five months ago. Apple TV plus cancels a lot of shows. So they canceled in 2019. Truth be told, everyone heard of it. 2020, they canceled home before dark, little voice, amazing stories, mythic quest.
03:11:12
Speaker
No, they didn't. That wasn't 2020. This doesn't matter. This Reddit fucking tale is wrong. They don't cancel as many as Netflix or any the other shows. They canceled that Mr. Corman show that I remember with Joe Gorlev.
03:11:26
Speaker
Mr. Corman show. Yeah. He's like a teacher. It's Joe Gorlev. There's one season. I never watched it. So it doesn't matter. They also canceled the After Party show after the second season.
03:11:39
Speaker
That's true that they did. Yeah. Anyways, that's all i got for that one. I'm wondering why that happened. Actually, I don't know. Yeah, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just ah full shit.
03:11:51
Speaker
You want to go for the bathroom break now? No. Okay. Okay. Okay. The third and final thing that I have, I must be missing a bunch. There must be more, but ah this is all i got.
03:12:03
Speaker
Yeah. The third and final thing I have on my list is haunted hotel, which is an animated Netflix show, uh, starring Will Forte. Uh, yeah. It's like, ah about like this, this guy that, um,
03:12:17
Speaker
Or this woman that inherits like a hotel from her dead brother. And it's like haunted. And there's a bunch of ghosts in it. It starts as, yeah, Will Forte, Eliza Coop, who I'm not too familiar with. Skylar Gisondo.
03:12:31
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September 19th.
03:12:34
Speaker
Haunted hotel. you Like, why are you picking these weird... this is what I find, Simon. what What are you using? Yeah. I understand. My brain. Well, at least you got all your picks in.
03:12:47
Speaker
Good you, right? Yeah, got all my picks in. Yeah, that's all I got for you. Spit it out. What do you got? I got so many. ah Okay, spit them out, dude. i You got all picks that I didn't have, except for Black Rabbit, which is cool. You remember Black Rabbit was there.
03:12:58
Speaker
Yeah. um This is a funny one because you've referenced it a million times at this point, so I'm shocked that you didn't say it. Downton Abbey, the grand finale comes out on September 12th. You're insane, dude.
03:13:09
Speaker
I don't know what's going on here. you read You keep referencing it like it's my favorite. You reference it in a text message to me because I'm like, oh, I'm really excited about yeah is this thing on? It's probably my most anticipated movie of this year. and then you're are you sure? It's not.
03:13:23
Speaker
And then like, I think you did another text. It's not Downton Abbey, the grand finale. I'm like, no. I literally referenced it this episode. and Yeah, you did it again an hour ago. had it on my list. I deleted it though. i don't know.
03:13:34
Speaker
Okay. Anyway. Okay, cool. Another one. That one wasn't that important. I just thought I would say it because I don't really care about Downton Abbey that much. But another movie that I'm shocked you didn't say. ah i don't know who the director of this is, but I feel like I should, but it's definitely produced by Jordan Peele.
03:13:49
Speaker
Him, ah a horror film in which sports ah occur. It looks like a concussion cautionary tale. um Right. That's a movie you kind of maybe were vaguely interested in. i think Yeah, I have that on my list. Yeah, that's yeah it's about ah football Jesus.
03:14:08
Speaker
Football Jesus. What? I've never heard that reference, I don't think. I don't know. i just I just made that up because it's the guy and he's like, Like he's like, it's like he's on a cross and he's he's on holding two footballs.
03:14:23
Speaker
Yeah. The trailers for that are really excellent from my remembering. That was the best thing. i hope it's good. I actually have written here funny enough the Emmys because it comes out on the 14th, September 14th, but that's not really that important. There's also the movie directed by Robin Wright with Olivia Cooke in it called The Girlfriend. It's coming out to Amazon Prime. know you saw a trailer for Is that Oh, is it?
03:14:46
Speaker
I think it's a movie. thought it was a show. ah but but but but but but It's a show. Yeah, yeah. September 10th. It's a show? Yeah. Oh, shit, man.
03:14:57
Speaker
The coolest part about- You know it's show, but you don't know it's coming out now. Yeah. No, no. The coolest part about this, dude, i don't know if you watched it. They released two trailers. And yeah the first trailer is the perspective of the girlfriend making the mom look crazy.
03:15:13
Speaker
And then the second trailer is the perspective of the mom making the girlfriend look crazy. That's awesome. It's really cool. Yeah. Yeah. Look look at this. Robin Wright. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:15:24
Speaker
I think that's neat. Is there anything way so this is Robin Wright directed but it's Robin Wright. I don't know. No, I don't look this up. This is interesting. She stars in it. Yeah, she's the mom. She stars in it as well, but she directs some of the episodes because I saw it was directed by her and whatever I was looking up.
03:15:39
Speaker
So it's like, does she direct the whole thing? Is this a limited series? Um,
03:15:46
Speaker
I'm pretty sure maybe she's not the director. I have to check now because I can't. She's definitely producer. The girlfriend TV series.
03:15:57
Speaker
Does it say the director on the Wikipedia page? That's the question. Directed by Robin Wright, who also stars. But does she direct every episode? There's six episodes. Maybe. It's only six episodes. It's not that crazy. It's a lot of work. But yeah she's definitely executive producer. She says she directs it. Maybe she directs the whole thing.
03:16:13
Speaker
That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Interesting. I like love Olivia cook though. She's good. Yeah. Okay. All right. I also have here Futurama season 13 airs on September 15th.
03:16:26
Speaker
The first episode of that. This is a weird one. I didn't see coming cause I don't think I saw a trip. trailer that gave a date for this gen v season two the boys dude i film yeah i forgot about that i actually had that on my list as well the the college basically superhero college show yeah that's interesting i i was like this first season enough i don't like that much I think there was a lot of plot hole elements. I think a lot of convenience elements. It is unfortunate that um Chance per Perdomo, who plays one of the main characters, he passed away between seasons in a motorcycle accident.
03:17:03
Speaker
It's unfortunate because his character is really good and he does a really good job acting in it. But I do think this show... unbelievably overrated like it's crazy like it's an i think yeah 97 on rotten tomato 77 popcorn meter but i think really you really didn't like it eh now man it i think it's worse than all the seasons of the boys and i i didn't really particularly like season three or four of the boys that much but would you say you liked do you like gen v though ah like our Like or dislike type situation. Do you like it? If I had to choose one, I guess I liked it. Sure.
03:17:39
Speaker
it was enjoyable enough. I just think the writing was sloppy. And again, it fell into the same trap as I think season three of the boys. We talked about it quite deeply.
03:17:49
Speaker
So plot conveniency. And they would be like, oh, how are we going to get out of this situation? Oh, this guy likes fucking holes. And it was like. And it was like okay, cool. That was great.
03:18:01
Speaker
I thought that was dumb, man. i like Again, we talk about the stupidness in Peacemaker and how it makes sense. In this, it just it was just kind of shoehorned in to get out of a situation.
03:18:13
Speaker
i don't know. It pisses me off. There's no setup. Wait, the stupidest doesn't make sense in Peacemaker. Well, you realize the stupidness is set up. It's just funny. Yeah, this is set up to get out of a situation that's going to occur later, as opposed to getting at a a situation because of a stupid element that is now randomly brought up.
03:18:35
Speaker
Yeah, there's also ah elements of like Peacemaker is a comedy, whereas I don't think the boy the boys is funny, but it's not really a comedy. It's like a well, it's over an hour, so it can't be a comedy. Yeah, that's right.
03:18:48
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. ah cor it Case closed. Yeah. All right. I have one more here that you don't care about. But Tulsa King season three is coming out on September 21st.
03:19:00
Speaker
That is the Sylvester Stallone starring crime drama TV show. But this time, this is the season star Samuel Jackson. So you got two big hitters in it, which is pretty cool.
03:19:13
Speaker
So that's a neat thing. cause Because Samuel L. Jackson from Tulsa King is getting his own spinoff. And he hasn't even been in the season yet. He's getting his own spinoff show, which is so weird. Isn't that it risky? Like you're gonna spin off a show. I mean, it's Samuel Jackson. though I feel like if you're going to spin off something and you have Samuel L. Jackson in and I'm sure it'll be good.
03:19:32
Speaker
be like making like the tv Like the hit Saw movie, Spiral, that did incredibly well starring Samuel L. Jackson. It didn't do well. That's my joke. sam Isn't Samuel Jackson like one of the top highest grossing in terms of like the movies, the movies he's been in, the movies are highest grossing films almost ever. I think he's like, I think he fell off a little bit. So Harrison Ford's up there. I think Scarlett Johansson's up there actually.
03:19:57
Speaker
I think she was the ah best paid actor of last year.
03:20:04
Speaker
Not paid. We're talking about like the gross gross of the films. Oh, maybe. you know i'm talking about? Like that how much the movies make. So like if you were in Avatar, it's like Sam Worthington's up there, even though Sam Worthington's not in that many things somehow.
03:20:17
Speaker
It's crazy because yeah, Sam Worthington is just, apart from Avatar, he's not in anything big. And even in a Avatar, he's not really that popular. But I like Sam Worthington. Yeah, what's wrong? What happened to him?
03:20:29
Speaker
I don't know. Maybe, does he kill a man? So he was in a a Netflix series following the the Unabomber. like It was about the Unabomber. It had um Paul Bettany in it.
03:20:40
Speaker
And he's the main character. Sam Worthington's the character. He's not the Unabomber. He's an investigator. um But he was good in that too. I was like, he it what's wrong with this guy? like why It's called Manhunt Unabomber, think.
03:20:52
Speaker
It was good. watched that My fiance and i watched it. Wow. It was good. I don't know why is't he was in the hit movie that never released Horizon, an American saga chapter two.
03:21:05
Speaker
Right. They're trying to figure out how to release it Yeah. Yeah. That yeah was crazy because they did the first movie and the second movie is supposed to release the next month. And they're like, actually, we're not going to release this. And it just has not come out.
03:21:19
Speaker
It didn't do well. They're trying to figure out the distribution distribution because they have to like kind of flip the bill, I think. Yeah. You know what's a good movie that Sam Worthington's in? It's like, ah it's from 2007. It's called a Rogue.
03:21:31
Speaker
It's an Australian horror movie about this killer croc. Oh. It's really fucking good. Is Sam Worthington Australian? Yeah. Yeah. He is.
03:21:42
Speaker
Oh, I don't know if I've ever seen him in with an Australian accent. I must have never seen this guy like do an interview. Yeah. Yeah. Because again, he's not in anything. This motherfucker, he literally does not have to work apart from Avatar. he's This guy is so – like why would you?
03:21:57
Speaker
Wait, wasn't this the movie – wasn't his role the movie that Matt Damon turned down? Like the role that Matt Damon turned down? But Matt Damon was also offered like like yeah like an actual percentage of the the gross or something like that?
03:22:11
Speaker
And Matt Damon was doing the Bourne movies? Which honestly are better. He did –
03:22:19
Speaker
We got a zoo or whatever the fuck it's called. No, it wasn't We Bought a Zoo. It wasn't that. It was Bourne movies. It wasn't Bourne movies. Because he was he was they were spurring up the franchise at the same time. Imagine it was for We Bought a Zoo.
03:22:32
Speaker
Oh my God, that would be so bad. Isn't that bit that they did on Jimmy Kimmel? like that Oh, kimmel's caught because Kimmel's constantly busting his balls because there's a fake feud between them that's hilarious.
03:22:43
Speaker
Constantly, every night pretty much every night, he just mention mentions how much Matt Damon sucks. he He recently said something about like, that's the most unrealistic thing in science since ah Matt Damon was an astronaut in the eye in the Martian.
03:22:57
Speaker
Or something like that. He's so like, signed oh, because he was talking about the healthcare care system and how RFK Jr. is like gutting like science and taking away vaccines. It's like, that's so so that's the stupidest thing in science since Matt Damon was ah was an it was somehow an astronaut.
03:23:12
Speaker
The stupid Matt Damon was an Growing fucking potatoes on Mars, dude. That's a great movie. I love that movie. You hate that movie. I don't why. It's crazy. don't hate it. I think if you watched it again, you'd like it, I think. Maybe I would. What is that? Maybe it was a Headspace thing. I really like that film. That's another Ridley Scott film.
03:23:27
Speaker
Another weird, like, different type of movie. He did, like, Alien, but he also did The Martian. Like, he did a grounded space movie, and he did... It's great. and the mart Alien being the more grounded one.
03:23:38
Speaker
Yeah, of course. 100%. Oh, one question about Alien Earth before we go because we're done. um I will. For Alien Earth, one of the things that really kind of irked me about the Alien franchise is the way that they handle technology.
03:23:53
Speaker
I find it to be Like they don't know what they're doing because the technology in alien one, the first alien movie by really Scott in the seventies, like that film that has technology that is old. It's like retro futuristic. It is retro futuristic. Yeah.
03:24:10
Speaker
Oh, in alien earth. Okay. Yeah, they do. so they Yeah. Cause when you get the green screens, the green computer screens with the blue, blue, blue, Yeah, yeah, yeah, good. Because Prometheus, they go to like this ridiculous technology. It's like, what has happened? but And Prometheus is a prequel. It takes place like 50 years prior, I think. Which makes less sense. Exactly. yeah That's the problem. Yeah. they regressed somehow in technology.
03:24:35
Speaker
How did happen? Yes. because it Because it is seriously advanced. But the reasoning somebody gave is because they were claiming that because Wayland more expensive ships that they they have for the science team, there this is just a ah higher class of ship or something.
03:24:51
Speaker
I just don't i don't buy that because it seems really advanced in comparison to what was in. Alien 1. Anyway. Okay, good to know. All right. I'm excited for it. I'll watch it soon. great, dude. You're going to maybe like it a lot. It's eight episodes, right?
03:25:06
Speaker
So it's almost done? I don't know. Okay, well, it's actually done. I think that that seems right. But don't Because you said you're five episodes in, right? I only watched the first three so far, but they are five episodes in.
03:25:18
Speaker
Okay. Well, time flies. i don't even remember it. How is it aired for that long? Okay. Cool. Well, that's pretty much it. I guess I can wrap the show up, eh?
03:25:30
Speaker
you have anything else to say before we go?
03:25:35
Speaker
Are you looking up Alien Earth? Yeah. Okay. There are D-Day episodes. There are D-Day episodes. It's almost done. three Three weeks and it's over. So by the time we record next week, next next episode, sorry, it will be just about to finish.
03:25:50
Speaker
There will be one episode left. Yes. Okay. that's how time works Yes, that's correct. Because we are our episodes of split focus every two weeks on Tuesdays. Adrian, what do you have to say to the audience before we wrap this guy up? Um,
03:26:11
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you know,
03:26:15
Speaker
I don't. That's why I asked, it but oh that's fair. Anyway. Okay. well Well, audience, thank you for listening to episode 118 of Split Focus, a film and TV podcast.
03:26:26
Speaker
My name. is Simon Eady. And it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my delightful and uncle, uncle-ist co-host. I am an uncle-ist. Adrian Pinter.
03:26:37
Speaker
Please join us on September 23rd for episode 119. Good evening to you and good luck. See ya. Goodbye. Take care. Goodbye.