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131. A House of the Seven Thrones
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Adrian & Simon review HBO’s first season of Game of Thrones spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Meanwhile, Adrian reviews both director Kevin Williamson’s Scream 7 and director Matt Johnson’s Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. Plus, the two pals take another look at the Warner Brothers merger saga; with Netflix having dropped out of the deal and Paramount emerging victorious. They also discuss Amazon Prime’s very odd (and quite internet-controversial) God of War set photo with Kratos actor Ryan Hurst; and they get hyped for Amazon’s upcoming Life is Strange TV series after the announcement of casting for characters Chloe and Max
This episode was recorded in Canada on March 8th 2026. Episodes air every two weeks on Tuesdays! Catch us on March 24th for Episode 132.
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Introduction and Movie Reviews
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This episode, Adrian review. I'm Adrian. Oh my God. I review Scream 7 and Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie.
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I'm so sorry. I wrote Adrian. i don't know why i didn't write.
Media Industry News
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I'm sorry. Anyway, we also discuss Paramount's winning bid to purchase Warner Brothers as Netflix drops out of the running, while also acknowledging the God of War bald cap fiasco over at Amazon
Game of Thrones Spin-off Review
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Prime Video. And we review the first season of HBO's Game of Thrones spinoff, A Night of the Seven Kingdoms. With new episodes airing every two weeks on Tuesdays, this is Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. I'm Simon Eadie. And I'm Adrian Pinter. You're goingnna change your name for a second.
00:00:45
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You should i have. You should have. And I'm me, the guy that reviewed Scream 7 and Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie. I like that. Welcome to episode 131. Hello. Hello. Hello.
Travel and World Events Discussion
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boat
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So, uh, Adrian, World War III has started. Oh.
00:01:20
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so adrian world war three has started um oh We're starting this off on such a good note. It's crazy man out there, man. What a, what a, what a mess. I, um, I'm going on vacation as you know, I do know this. I'm going on my honeymoon.
00:01:36
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Um, what are you going on yours? Just as a side note, before I get into my story here, we were going, we were planning for end of may. Oh, okay. And, uh, we a couple of things planned, okay but now it's kind of, um, I dunno, like, do do we still go?
00:01:49
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do we just wait and see? What's the situation? You know, what's the situation here, man? What are you waiting and seeing? Sorry, I'm confused. The world explodes. Oh, oh. you don't want to pay for a ticket if if the world has exploded. Well, where were you going to go? what do What do you mean? I mean, you can just go to Canada. Like ah like go to BC or something. Go to Banff. Yeah, no, we're going to Europe. Banff. I've never been to Banff. Europe, you should be okay, no? Maybe.
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Maybe not. Who knows? Yeah. If it's a world war, Simon, that's the world. I see. Europe, last time I checked, was in the world. Right. Canada, also in the world. Well, I'm going on my honeymoon imminently. Yeah. Going in the next 48 37 hours. I don't remember how much time. But regardless of that. 48 to 37. Okay. But point I was deciding between three places, right? And were booking this at the beginning of January.
00:02:35
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At the very beginning. Yeah, you were planning on going to Iran, Israel, or what what's the last one? Venezuela. venez Venezuela, yeah. No, no, no. we But that's the story, though. There's three options, and one of the options was ah was Cuba. Oh, yeah. that oof The other one was because you don't know what's going to happen there. ah cu But right now it's crazy because Cuba was like, we're looking at that because my ah a member of my my wife's family had recommended Cuba saying that it was the best vacation place to ever go. Like there there was their favorite place. And the interesting thing about this individual is that they've been on so many trips to so many different resorts, so many cruises. So they're the one to trust theoretically. So we were seriously looking at Cuba, like for real. And then, but they were looking at the like fuel shortages, shortages and like food shortages were just happening there. They were just beginning. There weren't,
00:03:28
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as they are now. Now it's crazy. But we didn't know that at the time. We're like, well, shortages, they're always having fuel shortage shortages. It's kind of an issue overall. What do we what do? Well, maybe we'll not do Cuba. Then we were looking at Mexico like, oh, maybe we can do we're going to go to Mexico? And that one, I could not have predicted because that has nothing to do with the U.S. administration at all. Yeah. Well, maybe it does in some weird way. But the the, yeah, like that cartel leader got killed or whatever. And then there's like a disaster there. It's like, OK. And then the third one was Dominican Republic. Yeah. And then and those people. yeah kept on seeing memes how it's like, man, Erica Kirk should learn how to mourn people properly. Like take a note from the the Mexicans. What? I didn't see that. Oh, no. based on that
00:04:13
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Charlie Kirk's wife. Erica, Erica Kirk. Yeah, no, I know that. I know who she is. Yeah. Like, so she was essentially just, you know, he gets fucking sniped, murdered brutally, awful. And then she just immediately starts partying. Oh, going up on stage, fireworks going on. And it's like, okay, she took like no time at all to, you know, mourn this, mourn this man. You kind of feel sorry for him.
00:04:35
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Oh, and then ah cartel leader dies. They're freaking out. she She could learn a thing or two. Oh, they're freaking out. Yeah. The cartels, I mean. Yeah, the cartels. Yeah. Right, right. They're They're mourning the loss of this guy. So yeah, I saw like Erica Kirk could learn a thing or two about mourning people
Entertainment and Gaming
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from the- I see. That was like ah quite a travel. That was are quite the road to go down to understand what you meant. Yeah, i i don't know why. I thought you'd understand it all right off the bat, but I guess you're not ah as as- Learned? Chronically online as I am. So that's fair. That's fair.
00:05:08
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right. Well, anyway, so we lucked out because the Dominican Republic so far, not not bad. It is kind of scary because I hope nothing goes wrong. We only have a few days before we're on a flight. ah But yeah, um at the time of this recording, obviously, because we're time travelers when we record this podcast. Anyways, so I lucked out. But World War III, the Iran thing is crazy. Man, I don't know what to say. I don't know. It's insane. What's going to happen tomorrow?
00:05:33
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I was going to say something incredibly offensive and then i decided not to. so I saw your smirk. You should probably not. Yeah, not going to. So what have you been up to, dude, over the last couple of weeks? We record this podcast every two weeks. So what do you, what have been doing? I haven't seen you much. man, I've i've been, I've been keeping busy, Simon. I know, again, and like you, I know you mentioned to me that you were quite busy over the last like week or so. So I haven't seen you since, since last time we recorded.
00:05:58
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um Yeah, I think so. Yeah. We, we played a little bit of that marathon, server slam for like yeah yeah an hour oh yeah we did yes that was an hour and a half but apart from that haven't seen you did you pick up marathon i saw you playing okay okay yeah i thought you were gonna message me about it i saw you playing i'm like oh i guess he doesn't want to play with me it's fine well you didn't seem that into it and i i felt bad i don't i don't like making people buy stuff i just think back at the time when uh there was a big group of us where somebody had said oh we're gonna buy elder scrolls online and And then I got convinced to buy it and I played it for less than an hour. Yeah. And I was kind of miffed by And I just didn't want to make, put you in that position. But if you want to play it, um I'm down. I just felt, cause you didn't really seem like you were that into it when we played the server slam and I felt bad. I didn't want to, if you were more into it, i would have been like, oh yeah, let's do it, dude. But I i felt kind of weird. i don't know. I don't like asking people for things to be honest. That's kind of my, well, hit here don't tell me to buy, just be like, Hey, I bought it.
00:06:54
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You know, if you want to play, right come on up. But you didn't even do that. You know, that's all you had to do. You didn't you don't have to tell me. you could have just been like, hey, I'm playing if you want to join. Up to you, though.
00:07:05
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and Yeah, but it feels like there's like a weird social like contract there. Like i I'm kind of setting you up like, well, if I don't buy it, I kind of said I was going to buy it if he buys it. That's what you said. You said, I guess I'll buy it if you buy it. But I'm not that into it. I'm like, well, that's not like good. Like then the pressure on me, then I have to play it more often. If I don't play it enough, then you're like, well, that was a waste of $50 Canadian Canadian. Yeah, I think it's it's fine. But yeah, i I'll think about it. you're I mean, you're gone. So I'm not going to now for now. Don't get it. Yeah. So don't know. We'll see.
00:07:37
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But um yeah, it's just not necessarily for me. I don't know. It's like I like this. Like it feels really good, but it's it is also, again, very competitive. I played i played a little bit of our graders last year, which I really enjoyed. That's more collaborative, right? Like it's not like shoot on site right away.
00:07:52
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A lot of the times you will kill people, but that one was like a lot of fun social interactions. And I feel like Marathon, I mean, we played for what, an hour or two. ah give or take a bit and didn't hear a single soul. No one talked.
00:08:04
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Ever. um No one talked? Yeah, no one talked when we were playing online. You and me? No, no, like obviously you and I were speaking to each other. But like nobody talked. Like we didn't run into people that were talking. Whereas like. Yeah, let's give some context. I guess Marathon's an extraction shooter. It's coming from Bungie, the guys who made Halo and Destiny. For those of ah of you who are not gamers who are listening to this podcast, which is Ken. so Yeah.
00:08:28
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And your mom. A mom, I guess. Yeah. ah but But it's cool. It's very, very, the science fiction is really, really cool. the The vibes of it, the music, I just can't get enough of the vibe of it. And there's ah there's a good story on ah a lore perspective. I prefer the story much more than i than I like the Destiny story. And there's not, it feels like the story is more hands off than Destiny.
00:08:48
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Still way better for me. I don't know what what it is about Destiny. It's just very generic from my perspective. So I really like this from that angle. Destiny is just a copy of Kingdom Hearts. Let's be real. Done worse.
00:08:59
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yeah Yeah, we came to that conclusion. We were playing destiny at one point. That's the new team. And we kept trying drawing parallels as we were playing some ah some strike. We were just like like, wait, this is like that. And this character is like Sora. It's so crazy.
00:09:17
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That's nonsense. Good stuff. it's good. I really like it. I will continue to play it. That was one of the reasons to like to not tell you. I was worried that if I play it and I'm like, maybe I'm bored of this. But i haven't so far, i've been really into it. And I've been playing it solo. And I've been jumping into it with random random players on occasion or playing it solo. And then I have some colleagues from work that jump in as well. So it's it's been interesting. the the Playing with other people, though, has been interesting. It feels like this might be what you experienced with Helldivers, too. I never actually did that with teams of three. I just kind of went in on my own or with you.
00:09:49
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Um, and so it's, it's, I feel like hell divers is kind of like a, it's like extraction shooter light, you know? Yeah. in a way Yeah. No PVPs, just PV. Yeah. PV. Kill your guys. Yeah.
00:10:01
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Yeah. but yeah i really like it it's cool vibes this is something i would be curious to see this would be something that would be great if it was popular enough i'm not sure it will be it will depends time will tell i think i think it might get more popular as they maybe launch something like a raid i feel like that's imminent with a studio like bungee potentially not a raid but something like that and they're they're supposed to be like a marathon ship uh you go go to and it's supposed to be like really for just high level gear So that could be cool, but it would be cool just to segue to film and TV. This is something like fallout where I think they could nail a story inside marathon, much like the original games from the nineties, I guess, but like taking a spin on it 30, 40 years later kind of thing. Yeah. I think they could create a cool storyline for a film and TV or TV show in that marathon universe. Yeah.
00:10:51
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in ah in a substantial way kind of this is very loose kind of like fallout's kind of loose because it's kind of an anthology series for fallout for all the games so i think it would be kind of cool it'd be kind of the vibe is just is amazing i just think the music by ryan lott is amazing too that's kind of my but it joy draws me in and i they kind of i don't know i like the loop so far but anyway when i get back from my trip we can discuss it then I won't exclude you if you felt like I did. I'm sorry. I didn't didn't mean to do that. It's okay. I'm over it.
00:11:17
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I'm over it. I'm weird in social situations sometimes. I apologize. It was non-intentional. I was not trying to slight you. I don't want to play with my pal Adrian. I'd rather. It would be cool to play with people. It's kind of fun. I just want to talk with them once every two weeks. That's what you said. that's it. You got to keep you at bay. It's too much. It's too much. We didn't go see any movies either.
00:11:39
Speaker
Well, you were busy all week, right? I know. I was busy. Man, this was the busiest I've ever been at this job. Yeah. Even last weekend, you were super busy as well. So we didn't have time last weekend. Did we? and Where are you going?
00:11:51
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What was the weekend before? I can't even remember. don't know. Oh, yeah, know. I had a freaking, had yeah, I was running, I was hosting an event the week before. And then I hosted two events actually the week before. And then I hosted another event this, during this week. It was, that one was even crazier. So that was, it's been the most, like the most time I've spent in this job, like 44 hour weeks. Cause not supposed to go over the 44 hour There was time there, but it was cool.
00:12:18
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but But yeah, we didn't go see anything, but we did watch some stuff on our own. So this is my segue to what we've been watching. Adrian, I don't know what kind of TV shows or movies. Oh, you're gone.
00:12:29
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Missing in action. Just your chair slowly spinning. towards you Oh, you too. All right. Sorry, I was letting my cat out. Gotcha. Cool. what What did you watch this week?
00:12:39
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What did you watch this bi-week? So I watched a few things. I actually did go to the movie, Simon, twice. without Twice? didn't invite me to that, speaking of inviting people. but Again, you were gone. You were busy. You told me specifically. you little east I don't know. When I messaged you, you're like, oh, is there anything you want to watch? I think you texted me like, yeah, I'm going to be busy all week, but maybe maybe yeah Friday or Saturday is you said.
00:13:03
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Oh, you weren't free on Friday or Saturday? You didn't go see that? No, didn't go to the movies on Friday or Saturday. That's my point. Oh, I see. i didn't go to the movies. I was doing other things, Simon. Do I remember what? No.
00:13:15
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Even though it was yesterday. Yesterday was an errands day. It doesn't matter. Who cares? I made a lasagna in my family. You have multiple errands, you know? i've I've won. have one errand, I know. No, know multiple errands.
00:13:28
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Yeah, sorry. ah Stupid me, dude. Yeah, it was an Aaron day yesterday. And i did actually spend time with my friend Aaron, funnily enough. Oh, on that day?
00:13:38
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Yeah, yesterday. Wow. Yeah, actually, not even joking. I hung out with my pal Aaron, he came over. It was an Aaron day and an Aaron day. they Exactly,
Game of Thrones Series Analysis
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dude. Look at us making jokes.
00:13:53
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god watch um So, yeah, I went to the theater for two things, but I'm actually going to start off with a show that I actually watch a lot of TV. It's kind of tough.
00:14:05
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um I think I talked about Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Yes. Briefly. I just can't remember if I talked. i think it finished after we recorded like the the finale. And let me just say, man, this show is amazing. I really, really loved it. I think this is such a nice change of pace.
00:14:23
Speaker
for, um you know, like a Game of Thrones style show. There are moments like it's, there's a lot more levity sprinkled throughout. I think I made like the comparison. It reminds me of the, you know, subplot of like Tyrion and Bronn kind of going on a, on a journey um in that sort of more like comedic style that the first, you know, couple seasons of Game of Thrones had.
00:14:44
Speaker
um for that, but again, particular story. And that's kind of the vibe that this one was. um But this is, ah you know, six episodes, each episode's, you know, between 30 to 40 minutes, so quite short, which makes it seem like it's not that much content.
00:15:01
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But you do also have to consider that this show, unlike um House of the Dragon and... um ah Game of Thrones itself.
00:15:12
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We're following one. thought I had to help you with that for a second. I was like, do I have to help you with this? It's the main franchise. Yeah, it's what is it's what it all comes from. It's you like when you're comparing A New Hope and ah The Last Jedi with, you know,
00:15:31
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Star Wars as a whole. He's got pause for a second. Sorry, I shouldn't have said New Hope because that kind of that broke me yeah because that was literally the example I was giving. I was building tension, Simon. Oh my goodness. But yeah, um it's interesting because ah like unlike those other shows, this is following really just one or like two characters that are together consistently, right? It's it's following you know Sir Duncan, which is he's like a hedge knight and then his new squire, Egg.
00:16:01
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And the way the show kind of plays out is, is really remarkable. And it does remind you that it's still set in the game of Thrones universe, despite it being again, a lot of, you know, almost like slapstick comedy at, at times.
00:16:13
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And I just thought, you know, this is like six episode series, like finishing it off. I was like, this is, This was great. Like, I really loved it. um I definitely liked it more than, you know, season two of House of the Dragon. I definitely liked it more than the you know last few seasons of Game of Thrones.
00:16:28
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So like, i don't know, I feel like this is really awesome. And I know they confirmed the next season for next year because I think they're already filming it, which is awesome. Um, the little kid that plays egg is, is an absolute delight. I think the casting of the entire show is really great. And again, the aesthetic is awesome and it's just, it feels kind of like a bottle episode in a way,
00:16:50
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but Bottle six episodes in a way, because it's all takes place at this, like one tournament that, you know, Sir Duncan, he's like going to this tournament because he wants to you know be a proper night because is, you know, the night he squired for, you know, passes away right off the bat.
00:17:06
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um Like it's literally the first scene in the in the show where he's like digging a grave for, for his night that he was squiring for. And it's just him going there wanting to be like a proper night and winning this tournament. And that's essentially the setup of the series and how the six episodes take place.
00:17:22
Speaker
I think the next season is going to be a little bit more like, cool, we're we're on like a little journey. um and And I'm curious as to where it will go. But I really love this season of television. I thought it was fantastic.
00:17:34
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um and And I truly recommend it. ah Monarch is also back. Monarch, the legacy of monsters. So I'll just stop you there. I've watched all but it's the last episode of Night of the Seven Kingdoms. oh i I think it's awesome. Maybe the best Game of Thrones show. And that Game of Thrones, the original Game of Thrones show, I felt like was kind of uneven. And that's kind of its issue. So this show could easily be uneven because the next season, we don't know what it's going to be, what what it's even going to be. So it could be bad after that. um But it's interesting because, yeah, House of the Dragon second season, I like it, but I feel like it's just not as good. It doesn't struggle it doesn't move forward the story at all. I feel like it ends where it begins.
00:18:14
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Yeah, it's it's not as good as the first season, certainly. The first season is like one of the best seasons of Game of Thrones ever. I agree. So, yeah, maybe this Knight of the Seven Kingdoms could be similar. It's interesting. It's very... um very grounded in the way... Or not grounded. Grounded is not the right word. It's like everything is in a very... small It's like a slice of life movie yeah type situation with with this show. It's really cool. And then also Game of Thrones characters, I cannot name...
00:18:42
Speaker
more than one that I think is a good person. Like the the people are bad. Everyone's a dick. And so it's kind of nice to follow a kind of some characters that don't seem like they're dickish. There's like, there's a wholesome vibe of this show. That's very, very much so. It's kind of strange. Like there's like these characters care about each other and they show each other love. And it's like, oh, that's nice because the political intrigue of Game of Thrones in general,
00:19:07
Speaker
It feels like that just lends itself to people backstabbing each other. so there's like, it's kind of like little fingers at the top for the worst people. And then it kind of goes this way down, you know? And there's some people that are nice. There were, but usually they't they don't, last they don't last long. And this kind of sucks, but it's kind cool. you don't Game of Thrones, you die or whatever they say in the first season of Game of Thrones.
00:19:27
Speaker
Yeah, right. ah But yeah I just, I love that. And I would agree that the casting is completely spot on. I feel like it's amazing. I think that it's Peter Claffey plays the Knight of the Sandman Kingdoms.
00:19:40
Speaker
And then Sir Dunk. And then Dexter's soul Ansel is crazy. I think he's amazing. The kid is amazing. He's amazing. If you've seen clips online on TikTok or whatever, um that's him the whole time. He's really, really incredible. He's going to have a crazy career unless something befalls him.
00:19:57
Speaker
Like he's, he you know, the fame hits him hard or some shit. Oh no. But not, not, not, not like, you know what I'm saying? Oh my goodness. Like, you know, ah some of these child actors like Haley Joel Osment don't, you know what talking about? Yeah, no, no, I follow you. I follow you. They don't always like, they kind of hit a path that doesn't really suit, like, you know, they i don't they decide they don't like acting or any anymore or they do drugs or some shit. I don't want that to happen because this kid looks like he's going to be, he's going to go far.
00:20:23
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ah He's awesome. I think that whole dynamic is amazing. It's very buddy buddy comedy. It is that in many ways. The one thing I would kind of like kind of push back on a little bit from your assessment of both this week and the week and two weeks ago when you talked about the show was the slapstick moniker. I don't feel like it's slapstick.
00:20:44
Speaker
It's like the definition of what slapstick is because I was expecting it to be way more like way deeper physical comedy. And I don't feel like there's one moment in the first episode that definitely is that. Just that though. But the rest of it's not really. i don't find it to be that.
00:21:01
Speaker
It's funny. um It is kind of a comedy in some ways. It's the closest to a comedy we've gotten, certainly in Game of Thrones. But i don't know about Slapstick's a deep... it's like I feel like that's like three stooges. It hits me when somebody says Slapstick. That's what think about. but But otherwise, yeah, no, I agree with everything you said. Dan dan Romer's score, the the music in this show, is also so good. I've been humming it. and my I was doing those events last week. I've been like whistling it and humming it while I'm working.
00:21:28
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um it's It's awesome. I just, I don't know. I really, really like it. There's also still like a Seven Samurai vibe in it. There's this like, you know, like, yeah you know, i'm talking about like the Magnificent Seven. You we watch that movie.
00:21:39
Speaker
You don't talk seven Samurai like Magnificent Seven just basically is seven Samurai. But OK, in Western, basically, seven Samurai is better. And yeah, well, actually, have I seen Magnificent Seven, the original?
00:21:49
Speaker
No, maybe not. Maybe I've only watched that remake, which is definitely worse. um I can't remember. I've seen yeah that one's worse but the hundred percent ah but yeah i gotta see the magnificent seven the the kind of the remake kind of storyline in in the west but the seven samurai vibes you know i'm talking about in this in in in this show and that is something yeah kind of like it's you know like it's they're they're trying to set up a crew like get a crew yeah together for the this tournament piece or like oceans it's like an oceans aspect too that's what's i feel like oceans 13 oceans 11 12 whatever they kind of follow in that same idea is like collecting a team of people and you're like how are we gonna get the the right number of people that will make this happen it's like and they're like this is underdog story of seven samurai that's really present in this as well you're like are these are these ragtag
00:22:39
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people going to work. Also, the Baratheon, like all the houses and the way they show up in this are freaking ah amazing. And like the, oh yeah, there's just, I love this like tiny vibe of not trying to have to jump around to all of these these different storylines, keeping it condensed and contained in this smaller thing with characters that you can root for actually, and and you actually care about. By the end of Game of Thrones, I was like, who do I even care about here? And to to your credit, when you've said this many times, although I don't always agree with it, you say, you know, the things that draw me in are the things that I can not that you can. Well, definitely the ones that you can relate to, but the characters that are not assholes, like when the characters are complete assholes and you can't relate to them in any way. It's hard. Like you didn't like James Bond in Daniel Craig's James Bond because he's kind of a dick. in Casino Royale. you're like, i don't I don't really like this guy. He just seems like a dick. So I can't i can't relate to him and therefore I can't relate to the story. Game of Thrones is kind of like that. There's a lot of intrigue, but there's a lot of just dickish care characters. There's something about this show that makes me feel uplifted. And Game of Thrones didn't really uplift me almost at all. Neither did House of the Dragon. There's like, they talk about incest in Game of Thrones. In House of the Dragon, like it's it's pretty on display. it's You're following the Targaryens who are known for incest. You're like, okay guys, I got... I don't like you. You know what i mean? It's kind of crazy. I don't know.
00:23:58
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It's cool. is They're retelling a story in ah in ah in a dramatic way for House of the Dragon. And it's following this grant, these grand ambitions of a story, a giant story. This is a very boutique little, beautiful little story. And I like it so far. I'm on the finale. So we'll see how that goes. Maybe it will be disappointing.
00:24:15
Speaker
And that's a great finale. I loved it. so I loved it. And I think you will as well. That's cool that you watch. I had no idea. had no idea. Maybe if we were playing marathon together, you would have told me, but hey, don't worry about it. You're not going to let it go.
00:24:28
Speaker
All right. um But no, I'm glad that you like it. um Yeah, this is but you know just great television, and i'm I'm glad that it's back. And again, it feels like they're going to release these at ah at a decent clip.
00:24:40
Speaker
So again, because i they they confirmed season two for next year, it's already filming, I believe. So it's really nice. You know, the other thing that struck me about this show, just before we close off, and I'll throw it back to you for the other things you watched, is that I'm really impressed that this show is good and the House of the Dragon is good.
00:24:59
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But I think that the idea of these these spinoffs being good is is really neat and how unique they are. House of the Dragon is kind of similar to Game of Thrones, but this one, The Night of the Seven Kingdoms,
00:25:10
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These creators who made this show, they really had a vision and they clearly saw it through, which I'm really impressed by. Spinoffs don't always have that. They're always, to me, not always, but very often, kind of a shadow of the original.
00:25:28
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In many ways, not always, but in many ways, I look at The Walking Dead, which is one of those things that just has like 50 spinoffs. And I feel like nothing is quite as good as the original series. But then, well, maybe that one that that the Rick Grimes one, apparently that's good.
00:25:47
Speaker
But it's kind of crazy because it seems like they're going through the motions. Like, we're going to do this cash grab. We're just going to go through the motions and make sure that we create, like, spinoffs because we we know it's popular so we can make money off of it. I wonder how good Yellowstones are and whether people think that they're as good as the original Kevin Costner series. as any That's, like, the not the other one that has, like, freaking 50. different spinoffs it's insane how many spinoffs there are for yellowstone yellowstone is one of those shows is landman also a spinoff or is that just its own no it' separate it's just another taylor sheridan thing but it's not related from my understanding um but yeah anyway so i'm really impressed to the fact that another seven kingdoms could you could even say that this could be your favorite game of thrones like that's such an interesting thing that they're able to build something that You could even maybe even argue that it's your favorite one because the pace that they're making these Game of Thrones shows and this future movie we're going to talk about it in a second. um
00:26:42
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Like it's it's crazy because if's they they're they're making them at a pretty fast clip because they know that there's money in it. Obviously, like the executives care about that aspect, but the creatives that are lined up for it are passionate clearly to make something really good. And that's that's kind of what I'm also impressed with. Anyway, yeah, it it is interesting. Like Game of Thrones was on such a high and i feel like they missed out on a lot of these opportunities to expand it during that time. I'm glad that, you know, they they are doing it now. But like you think about it, there was a couple of Game of Thrones games like the Telltale Game of Thrones like season, which I actually really love. I think it's awesome.
00:27:17
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um ah But they didn't make like a crazy like open world Game of Thrones like RPG, which it's like. I feel like this franchise is begging to be made into like a very dark, gritty video game. um So, yeah, it's kind of weird that even now, I mean, like, dude, Game of Thrones ended what? How many years ago? There's two spinoffs going and there's no word of a Game of Thrones game apart from some like random mobile stuff, I feel like.
00:27:42
Speaker
You'd be cool. like i think it would be neat at the if somebody was looking at this like a big publisher, like big developer, was looking at this from afar and looking now at the spinoffs and then seeing a Night of the Seven Kingdoms and and thinking, ooh, I can kind of see. Because that you would be the player. So you're not really. The political aspect is what's so interesting about the original Game of Thrones series. I think feel like feel like that's the main the main draw.
00:28:05
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in this case, This is like the the, again, you would be playing somebody like Sir Duncan. And that's kind of a cool idea for a game in that I was i was looking at this and I've been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and I've been kind of drawing parallels. Game of Thrones is amazing because it's not crazy overbearing from the angle of ah the magic aspect. I really like that original original aspect, that the original concept of that, more original concept is that you got dragons and you got magic, but they did it in a more subtle way. It's not...
00:28:36
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It's not like a mirror of the Lord of the Rings universe, like Dungeons Dragons or something like that. You know what i mean? That's one of the reasons i I said before, I'm not that super interested in the Baldur's Gate three like video game, but certainly the show, because it's like all right, it's just a repeat of of of Lord of the Rings. You're just taking the same kind of tropes, the dwarves, the elves, whatever. Game of Thrones doesn't do that. They keep it grounded in that it's about humans. And there are different kind of races of people, but they're more subtle and they're mysterious. and like You don't really understand them fully, even throughout Game of Thrones. Like the giants, I'm like, how does how does that work? like what what is What are they about? We don't really know. And so I think that's really cool and mysterious and interesting. There's unique aspects of this, but it is dark and gritty. You're right. That's like really...
00:29:17
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great draw to make a really cool video game. I think people looking at night of the Southern kingdoms might draw inspiration and then maybe make a game after that. i don't know. Games take five years to spin up, dude. So if they haven't started working on it yet, we're, uh, they have that one game. Didn't that come out yet?
00:29:33
Speaker
I think it was a mobile game. Wasn't it? Oh, it was like, yeah. I don't know. Anyway, it's weird, but whatever. What country what else else did you watch? Yeah. Um, again, now I'll just talk about it very briefly. um Monarch little legacy of monsters. It's back on Apple TV. I watched yeah just the first episode. I think they they released the second episode the other day. Um, it's great, man. I love this show. I think it's awesome. I love this like Godzilla, you know, this legendary pictures universe. It's very inconsistent, but this show is, you know, more in line with the original like Godzilla movie grounded gritty.
00:30:07
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um super just super interesting i love that like kurt russell and wyatt russell play the exact same guy just at two different times like and they do like the flashbacks and i don't know it's it's just really cool i think the special effects as well in this show fucking out of this world dude it's it's out of this world man you're watching and you're like oh my goodness like this is a tv show and and it literally like surprises me consistently it's it's It's awesome. I'm glad this is back. going to keep watching this week to week.
00:30:41
Speaker
Now, another show that I watched that I, it's on Amazon Prime. It is the Mr. and Mrs. Smith TV show.
00:30:53
Speaker
Oh, nice. Have you watched the show, Simon? No. Okay. going to honest with you. I don't like it. actually, meet me and my, my wife, we watched, I think three episodes and we were watching the the fourth and we literally like got halfway through it. And like both of us were like, I'm just not really vibing with it. So we quit and then went back to slow horses. So now we're watching slow horses. Season three. I love slow horses, man. It's so phenomenal. But my issue with um Mr. And Mrs. Smith, it's,
00:31:26
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oddly paced. I'm like very confused about it because so the the setup is, you know, you got Donald Glover. I think the show, this show was created by him as well. He was show running it. He was originally going to make it with Phoebe Waller bridge. They had, I guess, creative differences and had like an amicable split.
00:31:44
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And so Donald Glover takes over the show. My Erkson comes in as, as the Mrs. Smith. And, you know, it's essentially these two guys that, You don't know much about their history because that's kind of the point of the show is like they don't talk about their past too much. They took this job as Mr. and Mrs. Smith and they're like spies and they got to do, you know, these missions.
00:32:07
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um And it's essentially about how their relationship grows. But my biggest issue with the show is that their relationship goes from not knowing each other at all to like they're in love within like three episodes. And I don't know how much time passes between each episode because like each episode's like, oh, here's your mission. This is what you got to do.
00:32:32
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And it kind of plays from there. And I just feel like it's not earned. If that makes sense. I don't believe these two as a couple. And i don't know, maybe the, maybe the, like the, the twist of the, you know, the show later is that they're playing each other and like, they're, they're actually not together. They don't like each other or whatever, but like at least going in I just feel like the pacing is far too quick. And i don't really like these characters that much.
00:32:59
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They, they, there's this weird amount of jealousy between them. But again, like, why are you guys, why are you jealous? Like I, I, you guys don't know each other. It's just, it's weird. It just doesn't fit. And I don't like the tone. There are like a couple of laughs here and there, but it's not really played as a comedy.
00:33:16
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Um, which is a shame because I really liked Donald Glover. Um, like in what he's created, i only watched the first season of Atlanta. I watched that when it was airing, loved it. I thought it was awesome. i got to go back to that show. Um, and you know, obviously I love him in community.
00:33:29
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um So i was I was looking forward to you know kind of diving in. I was like, this is you know a show that I probably will like, and I'm i'm excited to go into it. But yeah, we we were watching it. I'm like, honestly, if going to watch a spy show, I'm going watch the better show in Slow Horses.
00:33:45
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And it makes me also think like, man, how good – would the show have been if it was Phoebe Waller-Bridge doing it? Because I think she's amazing at what she does. um ah Again, I think Fleabag is like two of the best seasons of television out there. And I'm super looking forward to Laura Croft show coming out in the next year or so.
00:34:07
Speaker
Yeah, that's her a spy show. Yeah. Because I feel like Laura Croft has ah some spy elements to it, you know? Yeah. It's like 20% spy and then 80% dungeon diving. Dinosaurs.
00:34:19
Speaker
shooting dinosaurs was that a yeah now 79 dungeon diving 1 shooting dinosaurs yeah that's true just 1 but um so i'm excited about that show and kind of what she's going to do it's interesting because like i kind of went down the rabbit hole i'm like man um people are bridge hasn't really done too much but everything that she has like show run or ran is all like quite well liked she did um a show called, man, it's, it has the same name as that Pete Holmes show that you like.
00:34:55
Speaker
It's on Oh, Crashing? Crashing, yeah. She made a show called Crashing. It's one season, which I think is relatively well liked. i think six episodes. She show ran that. She show, she was the showrunner and creator of the first season of Killing Eve, which I know is very well liked.
00:35:09
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um At least that, you know, the first few seasons, I think the last season kind of went down. And then I delve dove into that show a little bit because I was curious about watching it. It's interesting because each that has four seasons, each season is a different show runner. Emerald Fennell, director of, you know, Promising Young Woman, most recently, Weathering Heights. She did season two.
00:35:28
Speaker
i was like, oh, that's super interesting. I feel like I knew that more so than the I don't think I knew the Phoebe Waller-Bridge thing. Yeah. So I kind of want to watch killing Eve, but I think it ends poorly. So I'm like, ah, it's too bad.
00:35:41
Speaker
It's too bad. But a if the first few seasons are good, then maybe. But anyways, so yeah, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, not for me. don't like it, unfortunately.
Film Reviews and Gaming Culture
00:35:52
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um But ah yeah, a lot to look forward to with Lara Croft. Now, Simon, to talk about two films that I watched.
00:36:05
Speaker
I'll talk about this one first. i watched this most recently. I think I went on Tuesday evening with a couple of buddies. Yeah. And it's a Canadian movie called Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie. It's a comedy movie. It's rated incredibly well.
00:36:21
Speaker
um It's by these two guys that um I think they did like a YouTube channel for the longest time and then, you know, had their own show. And then now they made a movie, which is like, you know, 17 years in the making.
00:36:33
Speaker
And it is a really wacky movie because it's shot kind of mockumentary style in a way. Um, and everything is like super serious, like the situations they go into, but they're really the only actors technically. And then everyone else that is surrounding them are just like regular people on the street or like, you know, they'll go into like a Canadian tire and talk to the worker and they're like kind of filming like around the corner. It's interesting. Um,
00:37:00
Speaker
It's tough to talk about this movie because, again, it is a comedy and it has a lot to do with time travel, funnily enough, and just these wacky stunts. All I really want to say about this movie is watch it. Like, go watch it.
00:37:16
Speaker
I love that this movie, like a movie like this was even made. It's cool that it's Canadian and it's crazy that it even had a theatrical release. They actually like do like a fourth wall break um where the guy, you know, says like, hey, if you're watching this in theaters,
00:37:30
Speaker
That's crazy. Like who would have thought this would be a theater. So it's kind of, it was really cool. Um, I had no history of the, like of these two guys. I never watched like their YouTube stuff. I'm getting a lot of like YouTube videos pop up now, like algorithmically of their stuff. So i'm kind of, you know going back into that, but the show is, uh, or sorry, this movie Nirvana, the band, the show, the movie is remarkable. And it's a, again, it's a really just top tier comedy, awesome jokes.
00:37:58
Speaker
Um, And incredibly wacky. And incredibly wacky. And the way they do the effects are super interesting.
00:38:10
Speaker
Because, again, this movie takes place in 2008 for part of it. There's like time travel like a time travel aspect. And the way they pulled that off in Toronto is so... room Like, it's it's just brilliant. it It kind of reminds me... not like they're not same tonally, but the creativity aspect of it, you know, like Bo Burnham's inside um that he like filmed during COVID, you know, like it's just like these, this creator that, you know, put all of his, you know, thoughts and ideas into this amazing, you know, hour and a half, you know, long thing.
00:38:47
Speaker
And it's just, it's just incredibly creative. And I, again, I really loved it. it's It's tough to talk about though, because I don't really want to spoil the plot or tell, like talk about the jokes, of course, but yeah, I really liked it, man. I really liked it.
00:38:57
Speaker
It's cool. Canadian movies. thunk? Who would have thunk? And the last thing I watched, Scream 7. I watched that on opening night. i went with my wife. It's good. um It's not getting great reviews.
00:39:12
Speaker
It's doing incredibly well at the box office. This is kind of, I would say it's probably the weakest scream movie, if not one of the weaker ones, you know maybe down there with like three, um but it's not bad. i think every scream movie hits like a certain level of quality and it's just, it's just an enjoyable time. It's a fun romp and it's cool to see, you know, like Neve Campbell back, you know, her being kind of the main character. And it's almost kind of like a passing of the torch because, you know, her daughter is kind of the main focus of the movie.
00:39:44
Speaker
um I just think there is it's it's it's a weird they do some weird story choices, which I wasn't like a huge fan of.
00:39:55
Speaker
um And, you know, i talked a little bit about ah the wait a lot of the one a second. Yes, sorry. go jeff Campbell's daughter in it as her daughter. No, no, Sorry. Like the character. Yeah. Sorry. Sydney, Sydney's daughter, it like switches the focus to her. from the make but Yeah. No, no, no. Sorry. Sorry. The way I said that.
00:40:15
Speaker
I was going to look it up. I'm like, I may well just ask you. Yeah. i don't know if I would have been the only one who was confused. Yeah. Sorry. That's on me. um Yeah. It's, it's fun. i was talking a little bit about it um either last episode of the episode before where it's like,
00:40:31
Speaker
A lot of the fun of the Scream movies is trying to, you know, it's figuring it out. Like who's the who's the person that did it? Like it's a whodunit, you know, murder mystery. yeah I think the issue with this movie is it's quite predictable on like who the murderers are.
00:40:45
Speaker
Like I kind of guessed it very quick into the movie. um They do a lot of cool things though. um And it is incredibly violent and brutal.
00:40:58
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i'm And again, it still has that like charm, that scream charm, that like kind of meta commentary stuff. it It does make me wonder though, like what this movie could have been with, you know, Christopher Landon still at the helm. And, you know, we, we probably would have still had Melissa Barrera and General Ortega, a part of this one. And, you know, maybe how it would have all worked out. Yeah.
00:41:20
Speaker
Again, I have a running theory that I think Christopher Landon took a lot of his ideas from Scream 7 and put it into his heart-eyes script, which is yeah an awesome slasher movie. But – Yeah, like I don't necessarily think like you got to rush out to see it. I know you're not like a huge Scream fan. You've watched the movies, but you don't I don't think you love them as much as I do.
00:41:40
Speaker
um But it it is it's still worth watching. It's still worth watching. And I'm i'm certain there is going to be an eighth one based on not only how the movie kind of ends, but also.
00:41:52
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It's doing, yeah I think it's the best performing screen movie at the box office, which is interesting because there's like a lot of like kind of protesting about that movie based on like the, like Israel Palestine stuff. Cause Melissa Barrera got fired for just pointing out that genocide's bad. Who would have thought yeah that's antisemitic. It's crazy.
00:42:13
Speaker
It's crazy. yeah. so But really good. ah Not really good. It's good. It's fun. I liked it. I really enjoy these movies. Yeah, to reiterate, I feel like that firing aged poorly.
00:42:27
Speaker
But yeah, I know. Dude, feel like people don't. Yeah, because I mean, initially there was like, oh what are you what are he talking about? But there's also like, i don't know, people were kind of on both sides. I don't know, like based on how it developed over there. ah ah Since she said that, because a lot happened in Gaza, like after she made that statement.
00:42:50
Speaker
So yeah, it's crazy stuff. But yeah. Okay. Yeah. I was looking at the box office here. They're at worldwide $149 million. dollars I don't know how the other ones did. That's cool.
00:43:02
Speaker
Interesting. Yeah. I don't know. If you're saying it's the weakest one, I probably won't go see this in theaters. I'll see it after. But yeah. Because I'm not not a big scream guy. but But yeah, I think two was my, lead if I remember correctly from my Letterboxd scores, it's two that was my least favorite. Because it was a rehash. If I remember correctly, it was a rehash of the first one. And it kind of worse. And like there was plot holes that I didn't really respect.
00:43:26
Speaker
I never respect plot holes, but I respected these even less. So anyway, that was kind of what i remember anyway. Because then three is the one with Hayden Penn and Dier, right? No, that's four.
00:43:37
Speaker
Oh, what the hell is three? Three is like the the the movie where they're like making the movie. Oh, yeah. yeah i kind of like that one for whatever reason. That was a weird one. That was strange. Yeah, that one is weird. I like three quite a bit. um Three is probably, again, it's interesting. Like three is, I think it would, like if I were to rank them off the top of my head, three would have been the worst, like the lowest on the on the list for me. But yeah I still like it. Again, they're still fun. That yeah.
00:44:03
Speaker
you always mentioned the meta aspect. Like that one's really meta because of the, that's what I was remembering too. Cause it gets the move. They were make filming a movie about the situation. It's like, wow. So yeah, it's cool. Yeah. All right.
00:44:16
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Cool, man. All right. Well, that's it for what we've been watching. Are you ready to move on? Oh, did you not watch anything else? You just watched night of the seven kingdoms. I, uh, yeah. the Seven kingdoms. That's what I just called it.
00:44:27
Speaker
So that's the house of the seven thrones. Yeah. Yeah. Like, um, Yeah. Yeah. Not really. like I've been playing a lot of games. Uh, so I just kind of haven't watched as much. Usually we have like a one movie we kind of saw together.
00:44:46
Speaker
ah but then when we didn't finish. Didn't we just finish something? Don and I finished watching something else before we jumped into night of the seven kingdoms, but i can't remember what it was. Something I talked about. Certainly, uh, the last all your friends and neighbors.
00:45:00
Speaker
No, that was a long time ago. Okay. I don't know. It's just your friends and neighbors, Adrian. No, it's all your friends and neighbors. All yours. All yours. yours Yeah, mine. Yeah. All your friends and neighbors. You're watching friends and neighbors. Right. Yeah. Yeah. yeah I was just watching. You're watching them outside your window.
00:45:16
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You said that you're weird socially, so you just watch people. Yeah. I'm a garaphobic. Yeah. Looking out the window. Out the rear windown window. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's cool, man. So again, you're playing a bunch of video games, eh?
00:45:30
Speaker
Yeah. Marathon, I heard you're playing. Yeah, playing Marathon Kingdom Come to Deliverance 2, as I mentioned. I finished the DLC for for Yuffie and Final Fantasy 7 so I can delete that from my console, which I did. It's cool. It's exciting. is This is like this year stacked. This year stacked. Every time I look at the the list of games coming out and movies, to be honest, it's like on a I know it's relentless. How much great film and TV and movies are on sorry film TV and video games that are coming out. It's crazy. Yeah.
00:45:57
Speaker
I see how I avoided the use the word content. We use it. There's nothing really iy about that word. It's icky. I don't like it. like It's it's icky because of like how um these like big CEOs use it, but we can take it back.
00:46:14
Speaker
we can take out that word back. I guess I'm going to take that word back. But yeah, all right I, um, speaking of video games, dude, and I'll tie this into a movie technically kind of a little bit, but, um, I played through resident evil nine requiem.
00:46:29
Speaker
Nice. God damn, that game's good, man. That game is awesome. I played through it three times. ah I got the platinum. Nice. um Really enjoyed it. Terrifying, but also like super fun and action heavy at times. so Sweet. there's it's it's so It's a remarkable game, and it makes me like super excited for Zach Kregor's Resident Evil movie because I feel like that this could be – you know, some next level stuff. I love the tone of Resident Evil, the campiness while still being able to have like these terrifying moments. And I know he's not adapting any of the games, but he said like, I'm, I'm, you know, basing it off like the tone and the feel like this is going to feel like a Resident Evil movie, despite it not having like you know Leon S. Kennedy as the main character or whatever.
00:47:14
Speaker
I'm just so intrigued about what this guy's going to do. Like, is he going to make it like, like a truly terrifying movie and then have these like kind of wacky scenes sprinkled throughout, which you kind of did with like barbarian, I think is like a prime example. I'm like from that, like I, and I don't have the context. So I guess you'll be the judge when we go see it in theaters, but like, what is he going to do from a lore perspective if he doesn't have these characters, which have kind of been mainstays throughout the the run of resident evil? That's what's interesting. Because he's they've introduced new characters, but they haven't introduced too many new ones in in the most recent. Like they introduced new characters, but there's always a mainstay character pretty much in most of these at some point, right? What's the last one that they introduced only new characters and didn't have mainstays?
00:47:56
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They always kind of draw, they always kind of like link them. They like daisy chain them with the, like a a different character. Cause it's not really an anthology. Like they have, yeah. Kind of. They're all set in the same world, but yeah, like, I mean, Resident Evil seven is the closest one Because like they they eventually bring in like ah one of the mainstay characters, but it's honestly like right at the end of the game, like literally in the last minute of the video game where you're like, oh oh, there's this guy. so like And then the DLC.
00:48:28
Speaker
is like with one of the, the, the mainstay characters. So right I don't know. It's interesting. feel like you can just, you just match the tone. It's set in the world. you know, there's so many, i mean, it's, it's just, it's kind of set in our world with like a different corporation. I just think you can do a lot.
00:48:44
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um You know, maybe you're setting it. You draw it. You make sure the corporation's in there, I guess. Yeah. like wimb Not all this, the, this whole series doesn't take place in record city. Does it? No.
00:48:55
Speaker
Right. It's way outside. So would they start? I feel like that's the, wouldn't you start in Raccoon City or no? Depends where it's set. Sorry, when it's set. I know, but the question is what lore is he going to draw on so that fans aren't upset? There's ah there's an element of like, will it look like discount Resident Evil if you don't nail down some of the the the greater points? Because it is, it's like playing, like doing a Final Fantasy movie. What does that look like?
00:49:21
Speaker
Like you if it's not related. it They made it. They made it. Final Fantasy is Spirits Within. It's not connected to any game. it's So it's its own thing. It's a travesty. bad They don't like it. See, there you go. yeah that's That's why I'm curious. But I mean...
00:49:35
Speaker
I don't know. Again, i think cra because of what Resident Evil 7 was, because it's a different area, again, very minimal like connection to any of the mainline games or whatever. like I think, i don't know, you can just make a fucking scary ass thing at a random, literally, like in the swamps.
00:49:54
Speaker
It's not set in Raccoon City. It's not even set close to Raccoon City. You're just some guy. trying to find his wife that's been dead for a while. He's like, ah where's my wife? She's in the swamp area and it goes in a spooky house and the shit goes crazy. You know, like... Yeah, so you're just saying that they could just nail down the tone it would be fine. I'm just wondering, like, at what point will it look like it's, like, frickin' Cloverfield? It's like, at and the end of the movie, it's like, Resident Evil. It's like, oh...
00:50:19
Speaker
Is it? It's like, you know what i mean? Like Cloverfield Lane is like, that's how is that Cloverfield though? Like what makes it Cloverfield? What makes it resident evil? Like a horror movie. There's like 20 a year that launch in theaters. That's where the lines, that's the question is how they do it. You're not going to it in first person, which sometimes the games are in third person. So it's like, there's, there's, there's that too.
00:50:40
Speaker
So where that's my curiosity. Yeah. you'll You'll be the judge when it happens. because So far, everything from Resident Evil has kind of drawn into the games, right? They've all not done a great job, but they have the same characters from the games, and they don't do good job sometimes with actually making them seem like the characters in the games, like the original Evil movies. Yeah, which is criticism of the last Resident Evil movie by Johan Roberts or whatever.
00:51:07
Speaker
I like that. You thought it wasn't connected enough. That one, you feel like it wasn't true enough. Is that the problem with it? Yeah. Like the representation of like oh Leon as an example is very different in that movie, but it's like, don't know, a certain point,
00:51:22
Speaker
I'm definitely a hypocrite when it comes to this because, again, my biggest issue with The Last of Us Season 2 is like I'm like they diverted too much from the source material material and I didn't like the changes. Whereas like with Resident Evil, I'm not as attached to – I love the franchise. you know I love – I played Resident Evil 2 remake, 3 remake, 4 remake, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. I played all of those in a couple of the spinoffs.
00:51:45
Speaker
But I don't know. I'd still – I think what that movie nailed, even though it didn't nail the characters exactly, it it nailed the tone and and the vibe. So – i don't know.
00:51:57
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I think that's all ultimately, you know, as I think that's what Zach Kruger is going for, like nailing that toenail and the vibe. I'm sure there's going to be some connections to, you know the umbrella corporation or something along those lines. Sure. You're going to see some, you know, weird zombie, you like the mutated zombie things. You know, I think if, if he draws enough from that.
00:52:16
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Yeah. I think he can nail it. I think he can nail it because he's two for two in my books with weapons and barbarian. So. Yeah, for sure. Okay. All right.
00:52:27
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All right, buddy. Now let's move on to the montage. A sequence of our show in which I briefly present at least seven of the bi-week smaller news stories as Adrian delivers a brisk verdict. Number one.
00:52:39
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The BAFTA Awards were presented on the 22nd of February. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another picked up the most awards with six, including Best Film. Director Ryan Coogler's Sinners won three awards, and actor Robert Arameo took home the Best Actor award for his work in I Swear, beating out both Timothee Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Interesting. I honestly didn't even hear about this I swear movie. And I kind of looked into it. It it seems like it's good.
00:53:06
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about a guy with Tourette's. I feel like you heard about it. And then a guy with Tourette's yelled the N word. I guess you heard about then. Yeah. Or is that the only, you didn't you realize you didn't connect those? What do you mean? You didn't connect those things. The I swear? It's about that guy. Yeah.
00:53:18
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yeah okay okay yeah i connected it but after that oh you didn't hear about it before it yeah exactly oh before the baftas yeah yeah exactly exactly yeah i think this is in the next year because i swear it came out this year i think and the baftas are on a different schedule um so their awards will be different so the it won't be eligible i don't think for oscars this year that's why i didn't get nominated yeah i'm fairly certain cool number two Emily in Paris star Lily Collins has been cast as Audrey Hepburn in a film about the making of the 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany's. Wow, cool. Number three, Netflix's Addams Family spinoff series Wednesday is officially in production for season three. Wonderful. i never watched the show. Number four, Tom Hanks has been cast as Abraham Lincoln in the film adaptation of the novel Lincoln in the Bardo.
00:54:06
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The Duke Johnson directed movie will be created with a mix of both live action and stop motion animation. Wild. yeah. Number five, as The Hollywood Reporter reports, Hulu has greenlit a pilot episode for Sinner's director Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot.
00:54:25
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The Harder They Fall actor Danielle Deadweiler has been cast as one of the core detectives for the new series. Nice. I don't really have any attachment to X-Files, really, but um I'll check this out, man. Ryan Coogler.
00:54:38
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kills it. Number six, according to Deadline, Apple has canceled the Kristen Wiig starring comedy Palme Royale after its second season. Oh, OK. Too bad.
00:54:49
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So sad. Number seven, as Deadline reports, Netflix's House of Cards showrunner and Andor screenwriter Bo Willimon has been tapped to write a Game of Thrones film for Warner Brothers. The film is set to follow the first of the Targaryen kings, Aegon the First. Nice. I mean, good job attaching a storied writer onto this. Number eight. According to publication deadline, Minari director Lee Isaac Chung has dropped out of the new Oceans franchise prequel film that he was developing with Barbie actor Margot Robbie. I honestly forgot this movie was even being made, so it's okay. Number nine.
00:55:26
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As announced by the Bear actor Jamie Lee Curtis in a red carpet interview, the FX restaurant drama The Bear is set to end after its upcoming fifth season. It's kind of sad that it is, but I can see why, based on how season four ended. Strangely, it didn't look like it was announced in any other way before she did that.
00:55:44
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So I don't know. That was the strange part about that announcement. Just let it slip. I don't know. Why wouldn't you just say it out loud if you were the showrunner? I don't know. I don't know. Number 10. As reported in an interview with Pixar Studios head Pete Docter in The Wall Street Journal, a Monsters Incorporated sequel film Incredibles 3 and Coco 2 have all been greenlit. Oh, nice. Cool. I um i like Pixar and Pete Docter.
00:56:10
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And that concludes the montage. wow That Hoppers movie doing well. Doing really well, yeah. Beaver Avatar? Beaver Avatar movie? It's doing very well. Beaver Avatar. Yeah, that's right. That's what it is.
00:56:24
Speaker
It's Beaver Avatar. It's Beaver Avatar. Yeah, it's good cast. I want to watch it. It looks it looks really cute and fun. It does, yeah. but I mean, Pixar rarely misses, you know? I feel like they haven't had the the box office successes that they've had in the past, but they don't miss from a creative level.
00:56:39
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well i don't even know about that man i mean that elemental movie like it came out wasn't reviewed particularly well and it made like a billion fucking dollars so like they're they're still doing well but yeah i know that movie wasn't well huh it was like 70 ish on ron tomatoes like oh that's so good i'm saying they don't they never they don't have a fail it's very rare yeah you know no no below 60. yeah that's true that's true i just feel like you i mean they were on a on a stretch where it's like a hundred percent I know, they were killing it. Coco, I love. Coco probably the one I'm most anticipating. From this list here, the one I most anticipate. Because I really like i think Coco was amazing. the art The art in it was crazy. The amount of detail in the city. Oh, the music was amazing. no That was amazing. That was one of the few Pixar musicals, right? Yeah. There's not that many...
00:57:28
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Pixar movies that are musicals, but that was really good. Yeah. Yeah. Incredibles two. i I, think is the only, the only movie I struggled to stay awake in, in recent memory and and any memory in theaters. Oh, why? couldn't stay awake. I don't know why i was dead tired. I was awake. I stayed awake, but I just, I don't think it was an indictment of the movie. I feel like it's just me. I was just really exhausted from work and stuff. Yeah.
00:57:54
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There was that movie we watched so long ago, All the Money in the World, I think it was. Right. where like That movie, I literally was like, I'm going to fall asleep in this movie. I kept on going to call.
00:58:05
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Oh, really? Yeah. That's so rare for me. I don't know how often that happens to you, but it's so rare. Yeah, very rare. Have you ever fallen asleep at a movie theater? No. i I have once. Oh, it was um I went and rewatched The Force Awakens. I think I was just so tired.
00:58:24
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And I like I remember like there's this. Yeah, like I'm like watching it. And then, you know, all of a sudden it's like the last like 20 minutes of the movie. I'm like, dude, I passed out. I passed the end. like Yeah. like bull I like blanked and I'm like, damn. Not me. Not me though.
00:58:39
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You know, the force awakens. It's not me. Yeah. That's true. It's true. Yeah. All right. Uh, yeah. What are we moving on to here? I think we're about to dive into Adrian, a trilogy of topical tidings, a component of our show where we discuss at least three film and TV industry news stories that have been somewhat zeitgeisty over the past two weeks. Yeah.
00:59:02
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The first one is a, is a doozy. I think, I think it's going to be fun conversation. I was curious about you, what you thought about it the whole week here. But anyway, um prime video, ah Amazon prime video is making a God of war TV series made by creator, Ronald D Moore, who made Battlestar Galactica, Outlander. he's He's had a hand in Outlander and for all mankind, which he's an executive producer on And the God of War series is fast approaching at this point. They seem to be like well into production at this point of recording this this this podcast. So they've they've cast a lot of the actors that need to be in the roles for the of the God of War characters like Kratos and Atreus, Odin, and Thor, and all these gods essentially. It's cool.
00:59:48
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But there was a... Actually, before we get to that, I'll just say, I guess, publication Variety reported that Game of Thrones actor Ed Screen has been casted a cast as Odin's son, Balder, in the upcoming God of War TV series, which is interesting. um I don't love that because i I'm a big fan of... Oh my God, Daniel...
01:00:09
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no Daniel Faraday. Daniel Faraday. Oh my God. how it loses my I just had his name in my mind and it slipped. Where did it go?
01:00:19
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Where did it go? um It is Jeremy Davies. Thank you, Jeremy Davies, who I think did a brilliant job in the God of War game. so I was hoping that he would be cast in this because he's motion captured in the game God of War 2018, God of War Ragnarok.
01:00:35
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ah No, not God of War. Well, whatever. He's in God of War 2018. But yeah, so I thought he did a brilliant job in that. I was hoping that he would be in in this, but they seem to have cast someone else. And I'm not, I don't dislike Ed Screen, but don't know. He's fun.
01:00:54
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i He's just, he's like an actor that's, he's he's I've seen him in stuff, but I've never been like, oh, yeah I want to see Ed Screen on screen, you know? I've never said that. Yeah, Game of Thrones, he was a recast.
01:01:07
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He was recasted. Yeah. He was just he he left. he He was a recast. No, he was... He was he recasted. Oh, that's right. yeah He was Dario or whatever.
01:01:19
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And then they changed that character the next season. And he and when I say you they changed that character, i mean, like they literally changed that character's entire personality and everything.
Criticism and Set Photos
01:01:29
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I remember watching that show being like, wait, who the fuck's this guy?
01:01:32
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And like, oh, remember that? Remember that episode where I was at screen like last season? I was like, no, because you have a different personality, man. In this season, it doesn't matter. Yeah. Anyway.
01:01:44
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So, yeah. So, ah that's something. i I don't know if you cared much about that. I did care about ah casting Jeremy Davies, but it didn't happen. Would nice. so that's too bad. Yeah, it would have nice. really want Bear McCreary. There was two things I wanted from this show. was Bear McCreary do the score, because I think his score is amazing. like for For God of War Ragnarok and God of War 2018. And I wanted Jeremy Davies to play...
01:02:09
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Because i'm i'm I'm a fan of Jeremy Divies. Like, I just think that his role in Justified and even in Lost, but in Justified in particular, he's amazing. He's really, really cool. So I was just disappointed that he wasn't. But oh well, it is what it is. But the main thing I wanted to talk about here was that they released a first look photo of that series.
01:02:26
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Yeah. And it's getting a lot of negative vibes online. Well, I mean, it's online, so it's always going to be negative in some yeah summer spin. Of course. But in this case... Could it be warranted? Adrian, do you what do you think about this one shot? This one shot of Kratos and his son, Atreus. His son, Atreus, is shooting a bow.
01:02:45
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Kratos, played by Ryan Hurst, he's doing the the the dad dad watching his son play soccer vibes. and He's got his hands on his knees and he's looking at him. What do you think about that? Are you bringing up the photo just to make sure you can read?
01:02:58
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I got right there. Okay. I'm going to bring it up to you just so that we can reanalyze it, you know? Yeah. ah So this was posted by Amazon. They chose to post this. This is no leaked photo. This was chosen as a marketing beat.
01:03:09
Speaker
What you think? Yeah. ah I think it looks kind of wacky. I'll be honest with you. That initial glance, it just looks a little weird. I think, ah I don't know, like in one of like, ah we do like a video game draft and I think our our our mutual friend, Phil, he like posted the photo and he's like, kind of looks like ai And I,
01:03:28
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I don't necessarily want to say it looks like AI. It just seems like bad Photoshop. Like it doesn't seem like this was them outside taking a picture. It almost looks like they they were planted on this image and then someone like kind of Photoshopped it and made it look...
01:03:43
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like this And what kind of adds fuel to the fire um for for my that perspective um is that like Ryan Hurst actually went out and like made a statement saying, don't believe everything you see, which was really weird considering. Is that the statement? Don't believe you everything you see?
01:04:01
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Yeah, but he said that. Yeah. and And I was like, that's kind of a weird thing to say, considering Amazon. This is the official Amazon thing that they posted. So I don't know. I just found it looked a little odd.
01:04:14
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um Atreus looks super young as well, which is not not an issue, but hes he's just he's like a super tiny kid. um so I'm curious how that's going to kind of play.
01:04:27
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in the show um which has already been greenlit for two seasons so what i just find it i don't know i don't necessarily like this image that much pardon of me what does that mean don't believe everything you see on the internet kids what why would you send that was yeah but you your show they marketed this image this was the choice thing yeah it was very confusing when i saw that okay And again, that's why I assume like this isn't an actual like legitimate photo. I feel like they had like a costume like prep thing or whatever. And they were like, cool, let's Photoshop these guys into like a and into the this. this these Oh, that's what you I don't agree. I don't think that's what he's saying.
01:05:14
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yeah i think what What do you think he's saying? No, I think he's... he's I think what he's saying is photos of a set are a bad indicator of what the show will be because it's moving pictures. and when So when you pick... like Let's say you're watching a show right now. like right you're watching Let's say you're watching Game of Thrones, right? Yes. And then you stop Game of Thrones randomly. You pause, hit pause.
01:05:38
Speaker
And then you look at the images of of the image on the screen. Probably one of the actors is going to look weird. That's what I'm thinking. This is not a Photoshop. This is a bad image because they picked a really bad image of the actual actors in motion. When I saw this image, I thought, why did they pick this image? That's the thought I had. I didn't think it's AI. I didn't think it looked fake. I think it looks real. The problem is is that you're doing something. youre You're filming on set, right? And you have these actors are filming on set. And then a photograph a set photographer comes by and then takes a snaps a photo.
01:06:11
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And this is the photo they chose. And to me, I just think that who's the market who was in charge of marketing here? Because those people did a bad job. But it doesn't necessarily determine the show will be bad, but you have to question some of the creatives involved. If Ronald D. Moore said, yeah, I approve. What are you approving that photo? My issue is, I think it's real. I just think he's, what Ryan Hurst is trying to say is,
01:06:34
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Don't believe this because this is not what moving images in a TV show look like. Here's my issue with them choosing this photo because I think it's real. So that's establishing that.
01:06:46
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I think the costumes are fine. People are like saying their costumes are bad. I don't agree. I think it's great. Yeah. I don't have a problem with that. I think the costume looks great. I think they look good.
01:06:56
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I think the kid looks fine too. Actually, I don't care about the kid. My issue is theoretically with this, Ryan Hurst is about He's a big guy, but he's not like eight feet tall, which I think God of War, like Kratos is very tall. You kind of have to do some tricks with forced perspectives to kind of make him look big.
01:07:16
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I would argue to make him look, you know, like they did with Gandalf and the Hobbits. Like how they made ah right Ian McKellen, Serene McKellen was sitting on a, you know, platform next to Elijah Wood to make him look bigger when he was on the carriage in the first, you know, that the, the, the buggy, the horse and buggy in the, in the very beginning of fellowship. Yeah.
01:07:34
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So I think you have to do some forced perspective. and i don't This is the opposite of forced perspective. he's He's standing at the back. He's a very small child, obviously. And he's standing at the back and he's bending over.
01:07:46
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And it's like, well, that's not going to make him look bigger. It's going to make him look smaller. But this is your first image you're choosing. Then if you look at his ah his brow, he's furrowing his brow and his mouth is agape. He's like...
01:07:57
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Why is he looking like his, why is his mouth open? It's just, evil it's just, if you look at any, again, you you pause anything you're watching. You're watching the pit season two, you know, you hit pause. I did that for yeah my wife.
01:08:09
Speaker
Cause just in case you listen to this, cause he's watching this season two of the pit right now. wow which by the way i just want to just side note when i when she turned on season two episode three or something like that of the pit it still says max originals how is it possible that they're still advertising max instead of hbo max i don't understand that but anyway what oh yeah i actually didn't even notice bizarre bullshit but it's crazy because that animation looks pretty awesome there's like a lens animation they do with the little dot in the middle of max like the the circle in the middle of the a anyway it looks it it looks cool but it's like why does it not say hbo anyway it's not doing but yeah my point here is how are they they're not really doing forced perspective his mouth is gape he doesn't look imposing and the scar doesn't look quite right and he's his his his head is like he's like furrowing his brow yeah people are saying that he's he's wearing like a bald cap yeah it's very evident so ryan hearst i looked into this because i i know i'm like man and yeah it does look like he's wearing a bald cap is he and ryan hearst is uh
01:09:11
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Like for religious reasons, he can't shave his hair. Because I believe yeah he. Yeah. wouldn't have casted him then. Sorry. Sorry, dude. Personally. so i don't I don't know if you're a allowed to do that. Like not cast someone. but Are you not? He's an actor.
01:09:25
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Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. The black man who just applied audition for this role, he had a great performance. I guess we're going have to cast him. Like, no, you have to cast people who do the thing you need them to do. yeah They don't look like Kratos. You can't literally cast him. It's not possible.
01:09:42
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So i'm pretty sure you can just say, no, I'm sorry. That's part of the rules. I mean, it's, it's shaving your head. So maybe not for that reason. You can do a bald cap that's realistic. So if that's fair, then should people have that criticism. Good.
01:09:55
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That's good. Cause that is a problem. It's, you can see it cause he's, he's the way his is um he's got like wrinkles on his forehead, which people do. And so does Kratos to be fair. Oh, then I'm kind of worried, actually. I'm a little bit more worried about this then.
01:10:10
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I didn't realize that thing about the ball cap. I didn't think it was a ball cap. I couldn't tell. And it's too small of an image. Like the image, just I'm zooming in, just kind of see. yeah People had that criticism. I don't know. I don't know. I've not really seen too much with Ryan Hurst in it. I thought he did an amazing job as Thor. So I like like there a sense of anarchies I didn't see Sons of Anarchy. So for me, I don't have a like a perspective in that way. And the fact that he said now it's throwing me off. He said, don't believe everything you see. What are you talking about? It's literally what we're seeing.
01:10:39
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It's like is like Donald Trump starting a war with Iran and saying, we're not calling this a war. I'm like, it's a war, you dumbass. What are you talking about? You know I'm saying? How could that be?
01:10:51
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So like, it's the same idea. Like, don't believe everything you see. He's like, what is Are you saying that this is a faked image by Amazon Prime? I don't think so. It's not. So he's trying to say that the... the video is going to look better. But I don't know. He just doesn't look like he's selling. He's not selling it. Neither of them are selling it.
01:11:05
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So I don't know. Not sure. But you can kind now I'm believing it's, now I can see all the problems with the bulk. Yeah, I'm sorry I pointed that out, but I noticed it and I'm oh, that's a shame. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. i'm I'm so even keeled, like I'll wait for it because you don't know the marketing people made. Maybe Ronald LeMond didn't have have have anything to do with approving it. yeah But I do kind of think you should do some tricks with forced perspective to do this show, to to actually make it.
01:11:33
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I think that would have been smart. Yeah, I'm i'm still – I'm going to be optimistic about it. Again, just because it's one image. It's one image. One frame of a show that's, what, 24 frames per second, you know?
01:11:49
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Yeah. How many, how many seconds are there going to be in the first episode? You know, it's like, it's, it's, it's like a percent of a percent of a percent. Right. So yeah again, now I'm, I'm going to still be cautiously optimistic. I do agree though. Like this is a bad first look.
01:12:02
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Um, yeah, you, I, it makes me like wonder sometimes where I'm like, who's made, yeah, again, like you said, like he was making these decisions. Was there no one in the room being like, Hmm, the internet's so volatile that everyone's like always upset about everything.
01:12:17
Speaker
Gaming culture, internet, the internet gaming culture is so volatile. It's so gross. I hate it. It pisses me off every single time. So for me, it's like, it doesn't make me offended necessarily on just like the, the, the existence of it, but it was like, you didn't think that people were going to be upset. They're upset about everything.
01:12:34
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everything they're going rip you apart on every single goddamn thing and it's one image you can you have time to massage it to make it look brilliant you didn't think that would be important no you're going to have him do a dad pose like leaning over he's also not yeah i don't have work like creator david jaffe was uh talking how he's like it looks like kratos is taking a shit in the woods and i don't think it kind of does unfortunately david jaffe is a bit too extreme i don't know i feel like he's a bit jealous i gotta i got i he strikes me as a bit jealous don't know about you, but I just, I listened to a lot actually Sparta specifically that, that really throws me off. Cause he's like ripping into it. Like guy, it's honestly not a good game, dude. I, I, I bowed out. I just, I gave up. don't really like my, my, that's not, is that a fair assessment?
01:13:18
Speaker
I just think the story's actually really bad too. The voice acting is not particularly great. I don't care about the story. I wasn't intrigued. I just, I don't think it's a good game. I'll be honest with you. Not for me. Not for me at all.
01:13:30
Speaker
Okay. Well, it's a 70 on Metacritic. So to be nuanced, to feel like you're not David Jaffe, but I don't know. Maybe, maybe you agree with him. I'm definitely not David Jaffe. I think he is definitely extreme, but I think that's the problem with him. music you You can say you don't like it without ripping into it. So, so hard. He didn't even play it. And he's ripping in. It's like guy. He did play it.
01:13:48
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he played the whole thing by the time he he he's reviewing it online there was only one one hour between he the game got released it was like a date and then he's like ripping into it's like jesus christ in that video he relax like explicitly said he played it for like two or three hours at that point and it was just like i don't know if that's enough for you to just like just destroying it again this is the internet culture right like nothing gets a click unless you you attack like a full-fledged Yeah.
01:14:15
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Velocity. So, but, um but i do agree with him. It kind of does look like Kratos is taking a shit in the woods. So, yeah. I don't He's like watching his son pull, pull that bow back, get ready to shoot that arrow, man.
01:14:30
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a deer. And he's shooting one out from the other side.
01:14:35
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Boy. Yeah. Right. Oh boy. Got a big turd coming here. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. All right. Yeah, I don't know. um know No, David Javry. No, wait, hold on. David Javry doesn't like 2018 God of War. No, he doesn't like it. That's saying. He strikes me as jealous. No, he likes God of War 2018. I thought you said he didn't like it.
01:14:54
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No, I distinctly remember that. He didn't like it because you this isn't god this isn't Kratos. He was saying that. Yeah, he ah he was a lot more vocal about Ragnarok and disliking Ragnarok story beats. um But no, he would like he he he still likes ah God of War 2018. He does feel like it's not his like version of Kratos. He doesn't like the evolution of the character, but he said that it was a good game like and that he enjoyed it. i don't know. Yeah.
01:15:18
Speaker
is like He kind of didn't like all the versions since he's been gone in a way. but Well, again, he talks positively about God of War 2018. It is interesting because the way he discusses Kratos as a character is that he like Kratos is built to be like a comic book character. Like,
01:15:35
Speaker
the status quo is going to stay the same, just like a Batman or a Superman. Right. And that's the way he always visioned his character, his creation. and So I think like him kind of seeing growth in that character when in his mind, it's like, well, you don't yeah have like a Batman comic book where Batman's like you know, changing who he is as as a person. That was kind of his argument. I'm doing a bad job explaining.
01:16:05
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But no, again, I listen to a lot of his content. I quite like him. Again, I think he's very extreme a lot of the time and I disagree with him a lot. But I don't think his opinion is important considering he is the creator of it.
01:16:18
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So. You know, OK. All right. Moving on to the next story here.
Media Consolidation Concerns
01:16:25
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Netflix has dropped out of their bid to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery. This saga is continuing. After Paramount has submitted what Warner Brothers Discovery, the Warner Brothers Discovery board has called a superior deal.
01:16:37
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It sounds like... because there's no other opposition, this is going to go through. It will be Paramount second that buys Warner Brothers. So this is kind of the end of the saga, theoretically, unless somehow this gets stopped.
01:16:53
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I don't think it will. Considering the relationship between David Ellison and Donald Trump. Yeah, David Ellison and the president. I don't think it will, but yeah there's there's still a chance. it is There's a couple of interesting tidbits about this story as well, because Paramount is paying Netflix's like, what what is $4 billion dollars like um yeah fee. Like can't like ah what is it called? Cancellation fee contract fee thing. So that's super interesting.
01:17:23
Speaker
um And the list, like, I guess a more positive outlook about Paramount beating Netflix in this. Paramount is still all in on the theater industry. like They still release movies. They have you know big blockbuster movies that they will put out there. and so I think this is probably better for the theater, like the cinema um future of Warner Bros. compared to what Netflix was going to do, even though they did say that they're still going to bring movies to theaters and stuff.
01:17:51
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To be, again, more nuanced and give a positive about Paramount beating Netflix ah ah over this. I think, though, as like ah as a whole, I think this is much worse.
01:18:02
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um Than Netflix doing it. Yeah, than Netflix doing it. i Again, really the the the only benefit is is chances are the theatrical run times are going to be either the same or or definitely not longer. But they're going to stay more committed to the theatrical releases compared to what Netflix would have done.
01:18:21
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um Apart from that, though, not really ah not really stoked about it, personally. I don't know about you, man. Not really stoked about it. In a perfect world, I feel like it it would have been nice if just this simply didn't happen. you know Huge companies gobbling up other big companies, and eventually we're going to be at a point where – There's like two or three companies, which is pretty much what we're already at. But it just like we're watching it happen right before our eyes. um So I don't know. i'm I'm not stoked about this. I'm curious what it's going to do, because Paramount is I mean, David Ellison is far more.
01:18:57
Speaker
He's right wing. He's conservative, right? he's He's more of a conservative guy. you know Paramount is more of a conservative network from the looks of it. They will now own CNN. Not to say like CNN does good reporting or anything, like you know but they're they're the they're the the opposite of the Fox News where Fox News is very like right wing. CNN is in the middle.
01:19:18
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and Why does everyone believe that CNN is so left wing? I don't really understand that. If you look at the spectrum of the news networks, that okay Fox is on the very far right. yeah NBC is more left wing.
01:19:29
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And then CNN is closer to center. from my Every time I've looked this up, this was so so weird. I don't know. There's a perspective, certainly, that CNN is very far left. yeah Yeah, i just very much so. i But the perspective is is incorrect.
01:19:42
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No, I'm going to say facilitated by the right wing. Isn't that true? they They bash in every day. Anyone who disagrees with the president of the United States is therefore left wing. It's just the nature of it, unfortunately.
01:19:55
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Any right wing Republican who disagrees with him for not releasing the Epstein files is now a rhino, as they call him. a Republican in name only. That's not really, they're not, they are more Republican than Donald Trump. Donald Trump's flip-flopping on every opinion he has. He doesn't do anything he says he's going to do even. Yeah, man. I mean, well, I guess he does. Well, no, he doesn't because he went to war and he said he wouldn't. He's both said things he's going to do that are horrible and he's done them that people thought were jokes. And he's both, he's also done the exact opposite of things he said, which he said he wouldn't do. No wars and he's gone to war. So I think that if you look at CNN, just type in news networks and where they land on the spectrum. They're little bit more left-leaning, but ultimately they are more centered than anything else. I feel like the American...
01:20:44
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the culture is incredibly right wing anyway. Like the politics are all right wing. They're not, there's almost nothing center. So there's also that element too. And that, um, I guess it's more left leaning for American politics, but it's ultimate. I think NBC is the closest to like being left than the CNN, but I don't know. I could, I could, I'm not a, I'm not a news network expert by any means, but that's, there's a idea that CNN is bad and Donald Trump carries that opinion.
01:21:15
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and Any opinion that Donald Trump has, I'm like, hmm, I should look into this. i mean Maybe it's not correct to what I think it is, um what the actual fact is.
01:21:26
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But anyway, yeah. Yeah, no, no, that is something. chat con canadian Your point, though, is right. Yeah. 100% though, right? CNN will get shut down. They obviously don't like CNN, regardless of whether, like David Ellison's buddy-buddy with Donald Trump, so does it get shut down?
01:21:42
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That's the question. I don't know. In a normal world. Or they're just going to repurpose it, fire people, bring in more. right wing folk make it a conservative network. That's definitely a possibility as well. The thing is, like how does it get approved that you can't, how are you allowed to own this?
01:22:00
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that Netflix doesn't own a news organization. So doesn't that makes sense that you can approve that. How would you how do you like say, oh, this is this is acceptable, CBS and CNN. CBS News and CNN will be owned by the same entity. How does that work?
01:22:15
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It just seems like that should be illegal. like There is a conflict of interest. And having more voices in the space is better than less voices. yeah um CBS was pretty centered too, actually.
01:22:26
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and Not anymore. though but Not centered as much as it was, certainly. and It will continue to grow to be more right-wing because that's what's happened so far.
01:22:37
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that That's that is' factually what happened. There's been weird things that have been censored, like that wouldn't have been censored before because the like the right wing Republican Party, like basically it's Donald Trump asked them to censor it. I guess. I don't know why it happened otherwise. Why did it get censored? Why? Why do certain reporting like report reports not go on air? Why do they get delayed and then get released later? It's I think that that why was Stephen Colbert canceled when he was the most popular late night, late night show? He literally has the best ratings. He's the best ratings and the other ones exist ah still to this day. and
01:23:12
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Yeah. Stephen Cabrera's canceled. That's of May. So it's a mystery why that happened. He can only guess because we're not behind closed doors in the executive offices. But is... ah Is David Zaslav genius, Adrian?
01:23:27
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That's the question I have to present here. Because he got them to do this. The bidding war is freaking crazy. Paramount's initial bid, by the way, was $19 per share. And the final offer, $31 share. Yeah, it's crazy. Is David Zaslav a genius? Because he seems like a business genius to me. How did this happen?
01:23:46
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It's crazy. Yeah, he knows how to make money, I guess. Like I think not got about that Netflix and David Zaslav won out big. And I think Paramount lost so like a lot. They're going into serious debt. I imagine. It's crazy. yeah I don't even understand.
01:24:01
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Again, I'm no I'm no money guy, Simon, but it's just like I don't even understand how it's how you can even go into that much debt. It's like billions upon billions of dollars in debt. And it's just it's confusing that this can just happen. You're just buying it.
01:24:15
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But you're not really buying it. You're buying the debt of it as well. It's just, I don't know. Again, I'm i'm not not intelligent enough to really understand the the complexity of this this purchase. ah But I just find it like crazy. It just makes no sense to me.
01:24:30
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And i i'm it makes me also wonder, like, how do you – How do you gain a profit from this? How long until you get a profit from this? Is yeah is it going to be stripped down for parts?
01:24:43
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Likely. Are thousands of people going to lose their jobs? Probably. Definitely. And it's just – it's so confusing. And i just find it incredibly interesting. It almost seems like, yeah, Netflix – is winning in this situation. Chances are Paramount buys them. Then going to start stripping them down for parts.
01:25:04
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um If they don't, you know, start making a profit, maybe Netflix can just go in and start buying the stuff that they actually want instead of buying the full package. Like, okay, cool. You know what? We'll take this off your hands. We'll take this off your hands um and add to it. I just feel like
01:25:18
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Ted Sarandos and Netflix kind of won from this i know this situation. And then obviously, I mean, Warner Brothers is and David Zaslav is winning fucking big. This guy, it's confusing. Like the the the shit this guy gets away with, you know, he buys, it know, comes in from Discovery, gets Warner Brothers, then like splits them off again. And now is selling it, making billions upon billions of dollars. It's like, dude, what the fuck's happening?
01:25:42
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What the hell is happening? And everyone's cool with it. Except for, well, not everyone's cool with it. Everyone's yelling about it online. Not cool with it. But it doesn't matter what we think, Simon, because we don't have money and and money controls everything. And um world leaders are pedophiles and they eat people on an island.
01:25:59
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All of them? You're going to group them all or is it just the the one guy? world World leaders. i mean I mean, there weren't that many world leaders in there, to be fair. Yeah.
01:26:10
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and the In the list. Yeah. Our leader wasn't in there. Thankfully. Yeah. That's cool. I don't trust any politician, man. don't like any politicians.
01:26:22
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don't trust any of you. I don't trust any of you. You know? Yeah. I feel like the – Yeah. I think – But again, there's not – Politicians weren't wasn't the names in there.
01:26:36
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A businessman. is Simplifying it. Yeah. Businessmen. There's not that many politicians in comparison to other, like it's just powerful people. who Yeah. People with monies. Politicians is not people with people with money. Well, one of the most powerful people in the world who is technically a politician is definitely on there and was definitely raping kids. And now ah all the people that stand that are supposed to be diehard Christian, good people are cool with, with, with child rape all of a sudden. So yeah. Yeah.
01:27:03
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Yeah. Fuck those guys. Yeah. but's me Yeah. But don't worry, Simon. There's a good reason they don't want to release it because it would would upset the balance. Get fucked.
01:27:14
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Anyways, i don't want to dive down this hole. This all sucks. Everything sucks. The world sucks. And... um Resident Evil 9 was really good though. So bright side of everything. That's nice. bm But yeah. I'm curious. David Zaslav, kind of a business genius. that's that Those are my notes. That's what I got here.
01:27:34
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um I'm looking at the the media bias. It looks like CNN is is is definitely left, but they're just just left of center. Okay. Fox is strangely though on this list is just right of center, which I feel like, i don't know. It feels very, very right. What else is on that list? Newsmax is the furthest right.
01:27:56
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Okay. i don't As an example. There's so many news organizations. It's kind of crazy. Let me pull it up here. So you can we can just quickly briefly talk about it. NBC is the same as CNN apparently according to this. I don't really agree. CBS is shown to be the same as well. I don't i don't know why that's that's interesting because I never found that to be the case. I mean, this is just one source and where they they put the media bias.
01:28:19
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In the middle, we've got Forbes somehow. ah What? And then there's like... Market watch? No, these don't seem at all.
01:28:30
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BBC News? No, I agree with that. BBC News that always struck me as pretty center. Wall Street Journal? There's no way the Wall Street Journal is is center. Who is this? hey don't agree with this. it something called all sides? I don't know what that is. I'd have to look into it.
01:28:47
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I'm looking at the media bias chart real quick. Version 5.1.
01:28:52
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We got Info Wars all the way to the right. Yeah, that makes And all the way at the bottom of less reliable. Yeah. Okay. They're turning the frogs gay. We're CNN on this list.
01:29:07
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Left. Oh, it is left. Skews left. It's under the skews left. Skews. Yeah. Skews left. Sure. If you say so. If you say so.
01:29:18
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Whatever. It's not as extreme. Don't believe everything see. Okay. but but don't don't be ever don't believe you everything you say on the internet, kids. um ah Yeah. Including the set photo that we literally revealed to you as a marketing beat for our our our show.
01:29:35
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Show game. like Now I'm really confident. Real confident now. Okay, cool. Super confident. All right. Yes, yes. Let's move on now to the story three, Adrian. know there was Tropical Tiding. As Variety reports, my old ass actor Maisie Stella has been cast as Chloe and Broadway star Tatum Grace Hopkins has been cast as Max in the upcoming prime tv prime Amazon Prime TV series adaptation of the video game Life is Strange.
01:30:02
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Thoughts? yeah i know you're a big fan of this series, especially this part of the series, that Max and Chloe's story. So what do
TV Adaptation Excitement
01:30:09
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you think? Yeah, i I'm excited about this, man. I saw this pop up and I was curious. Tatum Grace Hopkins, i don't even know if she's done any movie or TV stuff. Definitely haven't seen her in anything. Maisie Stella, though.
01:30:25
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I did watch my old ass and I did see her in that. And she is awesome in that movie. I can definitely see her kind of taking the, the role of Chloe and, you know, bringing it to the live action screen. I thought, I think that's really good casting. Genuinely. I think my old ass is a phenomenal movie. She does a great job in it.
01:30:41
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And um yeah, I, I really like life is strange. Life is strange is a neat kind of like choose your own adventure video game where it is, you know, it's, the main character is Max and she kind of leaves her hometown and leaves her best friend Chloe behind when they, when they're kids at, you know Chloe's darkest moment of her life.
01:31:01
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And then comes back years later um to go to kind of like a specialty school for, for photography and, you know, meets her old best friend, Chloe again, who is looking for her,
01:31:16
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you know Chloe's looking for her friend that kind of disappeared like a ah few months prior. um the the The neat part about Life is Strange, though, is it's kind of... and It's not superhero, but like Max finds out that she has the ability to reverse time, and it kind of plays from that point on.
01:31:33
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I don't want to really spoil any of the you know any ah of the events of the game, just in case people care, but I love this series, and I think... It's going to be interesting to see how it's going to be adapted because the the first game, for as much as I love it, it's very awkward. you know It is like very cringey. Max is definitely like autistic, I would say. like she's she's kind of like She's on the spectrum for for sure and like is a super awkward individual. um
01:32:04
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And I really hope they keep that because it's it's part of the charm of the series um is, you know, Max as a character and then Chloe being kind of this punk rock chick and yeah their relationship developing um yeah as their young adults. So I'm very i'm I'm very intrigued about this and I'm curious, you know.
01:32:25
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Because the the game is choose-your-own-adventure. So you know I had my own experience kind of what what I picture the story and how it plays out. And you know there's it leads to a specific point in the end where it's you know one of two choices. And I'm curious which choice they're going to lean into. i think I already know deep deep down which choice they're going to go to. –
01:32:49
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Yeah, I wonder how this is going to be adapted. Because this is, again, it's not like just a, like like The Last of Us, where it's like, yeah, you can do different things in the game, but the story plays out the same way regardless. You don't have choice. Whereas in this, like i mean, Life is Strange, it is about making choices.
01:33:04
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All the games are about making choices, even the more recent ones. So I wonder, I wonder, I'm i'm cautiously optimistic. I think, again, at at the very least, they casted a great Chloe so far.
01:33:15
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So yeah. How do you feel about this, man? I know you played the game. You're not as big of a fan of it as I am for sure. But um yeah what what what what are your thoughts on this, buddy?
01:33:28
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Seems cool. Seems cool. We'll see how it goes. I don't know. It depends on Amazon Prime is a pretty good track record with video game adaptations so far. So it'll be interesting. I don't know. They've got to two in the works simultaneously right now.
01:33:41
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So we'll see how it plays out. We were just talking about that. Got it. yeah i'm just i feel like the god of war thing gives me pause i don't know now i'm kind of confused i'm not i'm not again on off board or anything like that just throwing me off so this this is interesting i'm curious about it i just kind of put this in here for you mostly because i know you're big into this and so i thought it was a good good kind of main story to for you to yeah sink your teeth into because definitely some of the other i mean other ones yeah I think Amazon's doing a good job of adapting a lot of things. Like, I mean, I know the boys that's based on a comic book and a lot of people say that the the show is better than the comic book invincible, um which I love that graphic novel. And like, they're doing a stellar job doing that ah adaptation. And I know it's obviously different creators for all of these shows, but it seems like they got a pretty good um quality metric that they want to hit.
01:34:32
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And as much as I don't really care too much about fallout, I started season two. I watched the first episode. i'm like, I'm not really in the mood for this right now. um So I might go back to it eventually. But like by all accounts, that is good and you know, it's well rated. So I'm feeling pretty confident. I'm feeling pretty confident.
01:34:49
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Okay. yeah That's good.
01:34:52
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All right. Okay. So I guess we are on to, if I'm not mistaken, Adrian, a segment of our show that I call a look to the future portion of our podcast, where each of us present at least three of our picks for the TV series or movies that look most interesting to us that are releasing between the dates of March 10th and March twenty third 2026. Yes.
01:35:16
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yes As is customary. You go first. What? Yeah, man. i got a couple of big ones that I'm excited about, but I'll list off the one movie that I would say I'm most excited for. That's coming out and it's coming out on March 20th.
01:35:33
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And that's a ready or not to here. I come. I'm very, I'm very excited about that. I love the first ready of or not movie. I think it's really fun. Um, I think Samara weaving is, is phenomenal in that. And it's cool. Cause it seems like this movie picks up exactly where that, that first one left off. So, um, I'm stoked about this.
01:35:51
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I'm curious what they're going to do with it. You know, we got Catherine Newton joining the cast, um, as Samara weaving sister. And, um, yeah, I guess we'll see how this one plays out, but, uh,
01:36:04
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Really good stuff. I think it is the same directors, if I recall correctly. I could be wrong, though. I think so. believe so. could be wrong.
01:36:15
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But I think it is. and Two people, right? is it Yeah, it's it's it's two people and... Oh, my gosh. And something? I can't remember now. I'll look it up, too. But ready or not, here I come for this information from Rotten Tomatoes.
01:36:35
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I don't know. know matt bettinna len Matt Bettinelli, Olpin, and Tyler Gillette. Gillette. And they did that Abigail movie a couple years back, which starred Melissa Barrera, which was really cool too. Really fun time. So they're two for two in my books.
01:36:55
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They're two for two in my books. Excellent. My pick here is Project Hail Mary, the Ryan Gosling movie where he's in space. Based on the... They also did Scream and Scream 6. I totally forgot about that.
01:37:08
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And I fucking love screaming Scream and Scream 6. There you go. So they're they're four for four in my books, Simon. They're four for four in my books. Scream 5 and 6 they did. Matt Bettinelli. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:37:22
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They called it Scream. Yeah, was five. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Project Hail Mary is my pick. Ryan Gosling. Ryan the Goose Gosling. And directed by... ah Oh, I have a headache.
01:37:35
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I can't remember any names. It's the dudes in Spider-Verse, 21 Jump Street. Phil. Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. Yeah. yeah See, I got you, man. It's Phil. It's because we know a guy named Phil.
01:37:49
Speaker
Phil reminds me of Phil Lord. Me and Phil are on a first name basis. Miller. But yeah, seems cool. There's an alien. Ryan Gosling deals with an alien space. For some reason, this school he's a school teacher and he's the only one who can do this mission.
01:38:03
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Whoa. Yeah. Is there an alien? It's the same author who did The Martian. It's based on book. the same author did The Martian, which is a movie I really love. genuinely love and I know you don't like it. But the novel by Andy Weir. I thought there was a movie.
01:38:18
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It's a great movie. Oh, I'm stuck on Mars. I'm building potatoes. I'm building potatoes in the ground. I guess you don't want to see this either. don't know. I'll watch it. Maybe i'll like this time maybe I was in a bad mood for The Martian. Who knows? I don't know. Will I rewatch that movie? Probably not. I don't really... That and Ready Player One. I understand you're not liking Sausage Party, but we've agreed mostly when we go see movies together. I feel like we're like kind of on the same page. But Ready Player One and The Martian are the two notable ones that I can remember that we get out of the theater and we're just completely on a different spectrum of what we thought of the movie. Sausage Party was also that way, but I was not i was like on the positive on that, but you were on the really negative. so it was like It's still a big swing, but that one's a comedy, so I'm not as befuddled by that one. The Martian
01:39:03
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I don't understand your dislike. Ready Player One, I kind of do. I understand it in some aspect. But Sausage Party, I definitely understand. i There's no doubt I understand it. But ah but The Martian, i I still to this day, I i would put it on that when we worked at Best Buy together. but To be fair, The Martian is a comedy as well. so It's also cool. that's a It's a comedy, but that's not really. I don't mean facetious. I'm joking.
01:39:30
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Yeah, that's Ridley Scott. I'm the comedy right now, Simon. Yeah, very good. Ridley Scott's got like this crazy portfolio of movies though. Like if you look at like the range that he has of different types of movies, he's also not always hit.
01:39:42
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Like he has failed far more than like somebody like a Steven Spielberg or like a Scorsese or... I mean, yeah, yeah i think Ridley Scott deserves the kind of the the grace of me putting them in in the same, the listing of like a Tarantino.
01:39:58
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and really Yeah, I think so. Spielberg and Scorsese. I think Ridley Scott's pretty great. but But yeah, he's always hit hit every single time. Tarantino's pretty much hit every time.
01:40:10
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I think every single time maybe. i'm not sure if there's anything that I've watched that he's made that I didn't like. I i i didn't watch the double feature. I never watched that. The one he did with Rodriguez. I never watched, like, the what's it called?
01:40:23
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The really, really campy movies. so like the Oh, the they're called like Grimehouse movies or whatever. forget what that is called. Grimehouse. Grimehouse? Grindhouse. Is it Grindhouse? Grindhouse, yeah.
01:40:34
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Yeah. I said grime, but I think it is Grindhouse. Yeah, grindhouse. No, roundhouse. Like the kick. Roundhouse kick. Like Leon S. Kennedy from the hit ah video game series, Resident Yeah, grimehouse kick.
01:40:48
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Grimehouse kick. Wacha. Everyone knows that. Dude, is fucking badass being able to roundhouse kick zombies. Just like, come In Resident Evil 9?
01:41:02
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Yeah. Oh, and Resident Evil 4. Okay. And 6. All right. Good. You can't really do it in 2. All right. But you can shoot them in 2. What are you to play now? your year's off yeah I think I'm going to play Mafia, the old country. Post Platinum Depression.
01:41:20
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Yeah, ah my PPD as I call i think I might play Mafia the Old Country. I'll give that um give that a go. cool I got it for $30 off like, um you know the second turn auction site?
01:41:32
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Yeah. yeah I got it on there i saw it. I like put in a bid that I totally forgot about and I got an email saying, hey, you won. I was like, oh. For $30? Yeah. yeah Is that a good deal? I've only seen it go on sale for like $50 digitally.
01:41:45
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And maybe maybe it's like $30 It's only regular price. Yeah. Isn't it like a, oh. I play it at once and I can just trade in the the disc. Wait, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's 79. It's 65, right? Am I wrong? I think it was 64.99. Yeah.
01:42:02
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I feel like it's bound to drop in deeper sales, but 30 is okay. Probably. Yeah. That's cool, man. That's cool, man. I mean, that developer pissed me off. hangar 13 it's 69.99 actually which is weird they remastered it or whatever they put it on ps5 or whatever it was for uh mafia 3 and then they never fixed the trophy bugs that were clearly in the game i played the you have to play the game twice to get the trophies like you can't get the platinum without playing it twice i played the third time like an idiot to try to get the trophy that's it that's a disease trophy hunting
01:42:36
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I've been doing it way less since because of that ah element. you You love it. I've never seen anyone at the pace you're on. We're not at the same pace at all. I think you're on the exact same pace as the last years. don't think you've declined at all. I don't think. Yeah. Not that I've been noticing. Yeah, I've gotten a few this year, man. I got like a few back-to-back as well. Yeah, you both. Yeah, I don't know. I've had, what, five this year so far, I guess? There's a lot. I have zero.
01:43:04
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Yeah, proud I don't know. ah like I'm good with that. I won't platinum at every game, but like there are games where I like I'll look. I put them six games actually this year. Oh, good for you.
01:43:16
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Where I'll look at something like Metal Gear Solid Delta as an example. Like I played through that and I like, this is fun. not going to bother with the the trophies here. I'm just going to play through it because I've never played it before. And I not really.
01:43:26
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i thought it was great. um You know, Diablo 4. I briefly played. God of War, Sons of Sparta, not doing that. But yeah, I don't know. I will admit, Red Dead Redemption, which I played late last year, it's like I i knew i wasn't going platinum it. I just kind of wanted to play for the story. So i don't know. I'll pick and choose yeah on occasion. Sometimes I'm like, this trophy list is fun or I'm really enjoying this game. Like Resident Evil 9, I'm like, I'm going to platinum the shit out of this. It's fun as hell.
01:43:52
Speaker
I speed run it, dude. Two hours and 52 minutes on Insanity. No big deal. That's no big deal. Is that the world record? It's not. It's not even close. i think it's like an What's the world record? Like at an hour 50 or something like that.
01:44:04
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It's not on YouTube. Wow. But it's fun. Yeah, I don't know. The Platinums, I feel like, but benefit me most when they are for a big game where you kind of, it encourages you to see everything.
01:44:14
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And then the the difficulty is not absurd. Like Grand Theft Auto V, Trophy List is horrible. So i I've always kind of said that as I get balancing that out where it's, it's reasonable and it encourages you to see like ah open world games, I think are the best example where you have choices and you can kind of go down these paths and it doesn't try to force you as well to go down a certain path with the trophies is also beneficial. So it's like, just encourage you to do things, just to participate at the, at the fullest extent of what you could participate in without forming your choices because the trophies exist. That's, That's kind of what I look for. but And that's just encouraging like a second playthrough where you play it drastically different. it will be It will be a drastically different playthrough. Then I'm into that too. But the open world games like a Skyrim or like a Cyberpunk 2077, even Kingdom Home Deliverance 2, I think those are kind of good trophy lists. Whereas Red Dead Redemption 2, which I did platinum, I don't know if it was worth it because I think that it's just an unfairly hard platinum. But it did encourage me to play a lot of it. I think they were they're mocking the trophy hunters in a way in that game. Mm-hmm.
01:45:13
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Marathon trivia list a okay for me awesome very reasonable almost too easy I think it will be interesting but this is not a video game podcast let's move on Adrian to your second pick what are looking forward to within I was gonna list off other things I was thinking about trying but it's fine don't worry about don't worry yeah we're not trying who cares yeah like I was gonna play maybe try pick up other games Oh, the games I asked you what you're going to play. that's Oh, I thought you were done. No, no, no. Let's move on. well No, just just say it.
01:45:45
Speaker
It's fine. Well, i was thinking about playing Marathon with a friend, but I think he already picked it up and didn't want to play with me. so Look, man, you went to two movies that I got no invites. So I don't know. You told me you were busy. I didn't say I was blanket busy forever for the rest of my life.
01:45:58
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I could have easily made it for Scream 7. We watched it on open an evening and I know you were busy. seven I was not busy. And then you told me specifically, I'm busy all week. Maybe Friday or Saturday we could go to watch something.
01:46:10
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it This is what you have said to me. So you went out of your way to choose the day I'm. I went out of my way to watch a movie that we discussed that or that we didn't discuss watching together on the day that I did go to the movies without you.
01:46:23
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Okay. disgusting We didn't watch Nirvana the band the show of the movie together. We we weren't going planning on even watching it. And i was like, I'm just going to go watch this because there's other movies you want to watch. You went to see that on your own.
01:46:36
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What Nirvana the band the show the movie don't think so and I watched it with two friends I said that yeah I know why why do you know this you follow me you freak you freak you followed me there you said it you said that you were busy but you still followed me there I'm just look it's just a reciprocation you're gonna blame me for not including you in marathon I'm gonna blame you for literally doing what you do marathon the opposite thing i was just like I was concerned for your wallet. I was actually thinking about you with the Maripop. Oh, yeah. Wow, what a good guy this You have to pay 50 bucks. I'm not going to get you to.
01:47:09
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. It's okay. you You don't think I can afford a $50 game zero and when Paramount's going $4 billion dollars in debt or however many billion dollars in debt? I can just go billions of dollars in debt. It doesn't matter.
01:47:22
Speaker
None of this matters. Money is not real. No, because that's not how it Money is not real. The rich and powerful do dictate the terms. And if you go into that much debt, you'll be on the street.
01:47:33
Speaker
No. Yeah, i'm pretty sure. I'll be a CEO of a company. I don't think that's how it works. That's literally how it works. But I don't think i I know that's not how it works. All right. Your pick. Your next literally how it works. OK, so you don't want to hear about the games that I was thinking about.
01:47:47
Speaker
Didn't you already give me them? I can't even remember. I said the one I just said the so enjoy it Jesus Christ. You said marathon. You did. You said marathon. You gave to OK, you don't have off the old country. I'm the only one paying attention here. What what else you got?
01:48:01
Speaker
I don't know.
01:48:04
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Okay, excellent. Pick the upcoming releases. March 10th to 23rd. What do you got? I'm thinking about maybe trying that Fatal Frame 2 remake because apparently that's super scary. Crimson Butterfly? whatever Crimson Butterfly. Maybe I'll play that. Crimson Desert's out in like a week or two, isn't it? Are you going play that?
01:48:21
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Assuming it runs well on console. Yeah. that's I would hope so. In 11 days. Those guys are feisty, eh? Yeah, they're sassy little bitches.
01:48:32
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They're like oh they could you were like, oh, you're hiding this. you're putting it only You're only putting out PC footage. Why are you doing that? And they're like, um relax. or This is something like you don't have to worry about this.
01:48:45
Speaker
ah we're gonna we're we show we We're not hiding anything. That's what they said. I think that's what they said. We're not hiding anything. It's like, okay, sure to relax. no well I guess we'll see if you pull a cyberpunk when the game comes out. but Yeah.
01:48:57
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I'll wait. I'm not going to buy it at launch unless again. I'll wait for reviews. Does it run well on PlayStation 5? Yeah. I'll buy it. It's supposed to use PSSR 2, dude.
01:49:10
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yeah pi PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution the second. The second. Nice, dude. The second iteration. Oh my god, that's why Resident Evil 9 looks so fucking good, dude. it's It's actually stupid. How good that game looks. I was like, why like oh my god. Ray tracing?
01:49:25
Speaker
Now this is ray tracing is what I said out loud. But um good stuff. So yeah, maybe I'll play a Crimson Butterfly Desert. Both of them. i don't know We'll see. home We'll see. There's other side things that I was thinking about doing. I was kind of ah I was in the mood for more weeb stuff. So I might jump into. um Withering waves.
01:49:47
Speaker
No, no, no. I don't want to do like a gotcha. I want to actually play like a like a like a game that has an end. What is that called? i don't know. Who cares? It's like a Japanese game. It's j JRPG.
01:49:59
Speaker
was going play it. I mean, you can. Grand Blue Fantasy Relink is what I was going to play. Oh, OK. So I might play that. It's not connected to a gacha game.
01:50:11
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oh Is it connected to gacha game? I thought it doesn't happen. No, it's it's that has a big MMO as well. My run. It has a fighting game. Multiple fighting games.
01:50:23
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Maybe I'm wrong. maybe think you something I don't know. If it does, i don't give a shit. I'm not playing the gotcha game. I'm just going to play this one. Yeah, that's right. Exactly. All right. Well, to go you got more to list here or?
01:50:35
Speaker
No, not with your attitude. Jeez. Well, we're not a video game podcast. I try to keep us on track. You know, that's part of your man here. Sure. You're just worried about talking about marathon ditching me, but it's fine. Get it. March 13th. I'll be playing it tonight.
01:50:52
Speaker
I'm not going to. As as done editing this podcast. I'm not going to do You're going to buy it tonight? Nah. Stop complaining.
01:50:59
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I'm really into it. I'm playing it a lot. That's great, man. That's great. Yeah. I'm so happy. I just invited you earlier on in the show. I said I would like to play it with you. That's cool. I just didn't want to force you to do it. I'll think about it. I'll think about it. I'll get back to you.
01:51:14
Speaker
I'll get back to you on that. Okay, great. No, when you come back, I'll pick it up when you come back. Maybe. Yeah. I'll, I'll think about it. Yeah, maybe. All right. i'll think about it. March 13th. There's the A24 movie. It's called undertone. It's like, what if, what if it's the ring, but it's a podcast?
01:51:34
Speaker
Huh? Okay. So I don't know if that's actually listening and they get sucked into the podcast. No, no. They're like, yeah she's like yeah i'm I'm doing a podcast is what she says. having to be a loser. I'm having to be loser. dude
01:51:50
Speaker
To put it up podcast in 2026 and think that anyone's going listen to it. Yeah, I know. Imagine that. Fucking dweeb, dude. What a loser would do that. What dweeb.
01:52:02
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But anyways, it's like, oh, look look at these tapes. And if you play these tapes, there's spooky things that are going to happen. And everyone's like, this is the most scariest movie of the year. so spooky and scary. Wow. Looks good. Say 24. And it's a horror movie. so Nice. Why the hell not?
01:52:17
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I'm going to watch this one without you, though. Okay. Because I feel like you don't want to watch it unless it gets really good for reviews. The Nevada movie I might have seen if you didn't invite me, but this one, you're right. I'm i'm okay with it.
01:52:31
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Okay. It's cool. It's cool. Super cool. what's your What's your choice? My next pick is a show. We talked about this earlier and I kind of hinted that I was going to mention this. It's funny because I could have skipped this a thing completely.
01:52:43
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But the mo the show is called The Madison, which looks like it's a very different tone from Yellowstone, but it is a spinoff of Yellowstone. And it's again, just like all the Yellowstone shows, they have an all-star cast. Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Matthew Fox, whom I don't know where that guy's been. I don't know about you, but Matthew Fox, i um that guy seemed like he was going to blow up after Lost, dude. I thought he was like, oh, dude, this guy's killing it. I know exactly where he was. He was in that one scene in World War Z with Brad Pitt.
01:53:14
Speaker
He's one of the soldiers. That's exactly where he was the whole time. I thought i personally thought, like as much as ah and but Evangeline Lilly's career kind of blew up a little bit, she was a Marvel for a bit.
01:53:25
Speaker
i feel I felt like, especially, just even if you just think at look at the the monologue in the first episode of Lost, I just think that it's too bad. It's too bad that he didn't make it make it bigger. But maybe he'd intend it. but To be honest,
01:53:39
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Maybe that's his choice. And that's perfectly fair. Actually, that's actually a fair thing to say, too. Some of these actors don't want to do some crazy thing, you know? Maybe they kind of want to spend time with their family.
01:53:50
Speaker
You know? It's like there's more to life than your career, certainly. Although that's not necessarily the belief in the United States and that the American dream is a big thing there. But... And in here, the American dream is here, really. But the way we think about things is kind of similar mentality and in a lot of ways. But anyway, yeah, Matthew Fox is in this. It's totally way different. It looks like a very heartfelt, it almost looks like this is us.
01:54:14
Speaker
You know that Milo Ventimiglia? yeah I watched the trailer for this. I'm like, is this the tone of Yellowstone the whole time? Like, im like, do I not understand what Yellowstone is? Then I watched the trailer for the first like Yellowstone trailer, I think from like 2018 or whatever, when that show was launching. I'm like, no, I understood Yellowstone was. This is just drastically different. I feel like I got to watch Yellowstone, like the first, first, like the actual in initial show. There's like so many. How is it this popular? It's crazy. yeah I pulled it up. So they had the, they had a 1883 prequel.
01:54:46
Speaker
Yeah. 1923 prequel. Yeah. That one is the other one I want to watch because it's Harrison Ford. Oh my God. What's her name? Take it your time. you you You're going wait for me to guess it?
01:54:58
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you know what You know what I'm talking about though. Yep. um He's amazing. Helen Mirren. Yeah. There we go. You got it. You got it, man. Good. I knew it. Cool.
01:55:09
Speaker
Sweet. I was like, do I even give you the first letter of the first name? Yeah, I got it. I got it. My head is really hurting, though. i don't know what's going on the last few days. Oh, man. And this didn't help me. The frigging clocks, dude. The clocks freaking. Oh, that's what we got to talk about at the top of the podcast. The clocks freaking moved forward. It sucks so bad. BC. British Columbia removed it. Yeah.
01:55:27
Speaker
So this is the last time they ever have to do this shit. Yeah. It's gets people in the car accidents. It sucks, man. I know. It's going to be very confusing with the BC thing because like my entire life, it's like they're three hours behind. Me too. I have people there too.
01:55:40
Speaker
Yeah. There's going to parts of the year now where there are only two hours. do you have a lot of people in BC like deal with? To deal with? No. Oh, I do. I have a colleague, but I also have like my boss's boss works there too. So his his time is all going to be weird. It's going be a two hour difference at some points of the year.
01:55:58
Speaker
Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. The Marshalls. Yeah. I don't know. Yellowstone seems good, but at the same time, nah. Oh, you just said the Marshalls. Yeah. The Marshalls, the other show. This isn't the Marshalls. I was saying the Madison.
01:56:13
Speaker
Wait, the Madison. The Madison's the show I'm referencing, not the Marshall's. The Marshall's I talked about two weeks ago. Yeah, the Madison's comes out March 14th. um Not even on that list. What are you looking at? What list? Is it old? Oh, sorry. I thought you were talking about... Yeah, they moved to the Madison River or whatever. It's like basically this this family from New York City, they moved to like the country and it's Kurt Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer. And the the the the honestly, the trailer is incredibly ominous. I did not watch the show, full disclosure. It kind of seems like Kurt Russell dies because he's barely in the trailer at a certain point you're like wait is kurt russell's character gonna survive because there's something about it i'm hoping he does because i love kurt russell i think he's great and that's why one of the reasons kurt and white russell are the main reasons i'm really drawn into the old monarch legacy of monsters that that dynamic is really cool and they look very similar to each other so playing each other playing the same person is really cool um i think but anyway The Madison, a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River Valley of central Montana.
01:57:16
Speaker
Yeah. So this is set in the Yellowstone universe, but it's not really like ah it's its own standalone series. There's not like ah any sort of, it's not like a, like a spinoff in in the same sense. It's just like in the universe, which is interesting.
01:57:32
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. It's funny because like it's in the universe, but isn't that just like, or normal that life isn't that just like regular fucking you say earth for a second did you say earth yeah yeah isn't that just like earth ah yeah yeah that's right because the yellowstone is just grounded in reality so i feel like yeah that's good point okay okay what's your next pick uh my next pick is dooo do
01:58:01
Speaker
coming on march 12th okay The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, baby. Season four. I'm stoked. Going to re-up my Disney Plus subscription for it this Thursday, baby. I'm excited.
01:58:12
Speaker
Genuinely. And you know what? i' This is going to just lead right into my fourth pick, even though I'm i'm doubling it up here, man. March 22nd. The Bachelorette starring Taylor, Frankie, Paul from okay The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. She's the Bachelorette.
01:58:28
Speaker
Wow. Crossover. Some connections. Crazy. And I've talked about this in the past. It's going to be interesting. It's going to be a shit show. Good stuff. but But a good show, though, to watch.
01:58:39
Speaker
yeah It's very entertaining. It's entertainment. So good. Put the shit back in the butt. Fine show. Put the shit back in the butt.
01:58:49
Speaker
No shit. No shit. No shit in. Shit out. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what I'm even talking about. I'm going move on to my pit next pick. more March fifteenth My writing's a little too small here. March 15th is the Oscars, Adrian. Yeah, I have that on my list.
01:59:09
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Academy Awards. I'm going to try to rock that thing, right? Yeah, Conan again. Nice. Conan's doing it, which is awesome. Yeah, I'm excited about that, man. It's also going on Crave this time.
01:59:23
Speaker
Yeah, Conan's a good choice too because I feel like he's a little bit more unifying in that they're trying to maybe pull in more of the country and that he doesn't really want to make jokes about the political environment, which is kind of interesting. I feel like it's helpful for for many.
01:59:37
Speaker
I don't mind either way personally because definitely the Hollywood is definitely left-leaning. um Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's going to just got to keep it agnostic, which is cool. I'm sure he will. Cause it's just kind of, I love Conan. He's really great.
01:59:56
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um He's great. Yeah. yeah Do you have any other picks? um There is a movie called reminders of him coming out March 13th.
02:00:07
Speaker
Okay. Don't really know what that that's about though. All right. Yeah. All right. Well, I got lots. I'm going to rattle them off here. Imperfect Women, an Apple TV Plus series based upon ah the Araminta Hall novel.
02:00:21
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It's following three women whose lifelong friendship falls on hard times when a serious crime occurs. Elizabeth Moss stars in this. Kerry Washington stars in this. Kate Mara stars stars in this.
02:00:32
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Corey Stoltz stars in this. Kate Mara. right, right? From the hit movie, Fanfortastic. Yeah, yeah. I think we're more in House of Cards.
02:00:44
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But anyway, and and Joel Kinnaman is in this as well. he's ahs They're borrowing him from For All Mankind. Oh, for women mankind, I forgot what to talk about this. Oh, I forgot the trailers again. There's just some trailers we can talk about. did forget? I keep putting the trailers at the end of the podcast by accident. I i got to write trailers into the goddamn document. We'll finish this first and we'll get to it because there are some really cool trailers. I saw three, two really good ones, one to just mention, but um two, one is really interesting.
02:01:14
Speaker
that you sent me. But yeah, other than that, ah i also got the Peaky Blinders movie. They're bringing Cillian Murphy back, even though there was like talk about that never coming back and again. Again, they're making a movie. Peaky Blinders, The Immortal Man last stars on ah launches on Netflix on March 20th. Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson, Barry Keegan.
02:01:33
Speaker
Looks like he's the villain in this one based on the trailer. Pretty cool. Peaky Blinders is a show I always wanted to watch. Honestly, I really do kind of want to watch it. I think it looks awesome. There's a lot of really great actors in it.
02:01:44
Speaker
I'm a huge Tom Hardy fan as well as Cillian Murphy. So to see Tom Hardy kind of, I think they go head to head or they're friends or something. I don't even know. I don't know. I make love. action but Tom Hardy's great. So I'm sure he's great in this. And i also have a ah little show here that I'm shocked you didn't mention called One Piece. One Piece season two comes it back on March 10th on Netflix. So March 10th, Netflix, One Piece. That's Tuesday.
Fandom Preferences and Time Jumps
02:02:09
Speaker
There you go that' this is Why don't I think we don't talk about... Oh, yeah. There's the first day. Yeah. It's literally written right in this document. Because we didn't talk about last week, the last episode. Yeah, right. And it's your thing. I'm very You're a One Piece fan.
02:02:22
Speaker
Yeah. live action fan i never watched really watched much anime yeah so i do want to be totally transparent there tough three like buers like a real into one piece because there's so many episodes the actual anime but that's okay i mean like if you're enjoying it it's not necessarily about you know reaching the end it's just about enjoying the ride you know yeah that's right let's join the ride or make moral of life you know Yeah. Yo, I don't know if you noticed this with Zencaster.
02:02:49
Speaker
It, the recording shows three hours and two minutes. It like jumped like it was, it was going to hit two hours and it jumped to three hours. Oh shit. Yeah. That's gotta to be a daylight savings thing. It's gotta be.
02:03:01
Speaker
Right. We were talking about daylight savings. Like, oh yeah. Oh yeah. but That's, that's how you feel about daylight savings. Let's add an hour to your recording time. Boom. Yeah. Don't, don't talk about it again. Maybe we'll mess up. I hope it doesn't get messed up. That's crazy. Three hours.
02:03:14
Speaker
Huh. We, we, yeah, we I know for a fact, i was like, man, we started at four. Yeah. I was like, we're at a brisk pace. Like we're going to be done under two hours. I feel like at a certain point. And then, drama with marathon yeah yeah exactly and no it really wrong with all the movies you saw without me without inviting me one time no invites well you're busy you're busy and uh you know we we had a conversation about the days you were busy so i know don't want to talk about this again but i do want to about trailers specifically if you hey if you mess up marathon but hey who cares doesn't matter
02:03:45
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I have three trailers listed here, but there might be more.
Spoilers and Upcoming Releases
02:03:48
Speaker
oh oh, by the way, not related to the trailers because we haven't got a trailer for this yet. But just so you're aware, this is a crazy thing. I know facts about the Spider-Man brand new day thing. I know literal spoilers because I freaking I was at an event like a show, like a like a showcase kind of thing. Yeah.
02:04:05
Speaker
And they freaking showed toys. They had toys apparently for it. They didn't have them. couldn't show them because it was against the rules. It was like you weren't allowed to show them. But the guy who was showing off the toys for for various things, I think it was Lego.
02:04:17
Speaker
He's like, yeah, I can't really show ah this toy, this toy, and this toy because they haven't been any name, the names of the toys because they haven't really talked about these characters yet in in Spider-Man brand new day. I'm like, did you just spoil the movie? What are you doing, dude? What a jerk. how It's kind of pissed off actually, but I'm sure it'll be in the, in the, In the trailer. Because the trailer hasn't aired yet. It's so weird. They haven't put the trailer out for brand new day. So nobody knows that these characters are in it. One of the characters was shocking. I had no idea this character was in it it at all. I'm pretty sure in unless I've forgotten.
02:04:47
Speaker
It's going to be Scorpion. Scorpion was one of the, I don't want to say, but they get basically Scorpion. There was villains that people have kind of claimed online that exist. So Scorpion is one of them.
02:04:58
Speaker
um So that one, like I feel like is is possible, but I didn't, that one I had not, I'd seen, I'd seen as a rumor, as an example. I'd seen that already as a rumor. um He named some other random characters, but one of the characters I'm like, I i didn't even see any rumors, but unless I'm mistaken,
02:05:17
Speaker
can you tell me and cut it out no not cutting it because that's more work for me you ask me to do more work you text it to me then at least i'll tell you later ask me later if you remember oh dude i'm not gonna remember i can't remember things you know this about me but we're all gonna be done in like 10 minutes so the next thing we're gonna talk about here's the trailers because i forgot to put them at the end of the news segment of trilogy of topic topical tidings whatever sure um whatever three trailers that i distinctly recall Mortal Kombat 2 trailer, which is fun. I can skip over that. It looks fun. You have another one. It's fun. You know, you got Carl Urban. It's interesting with this Mortal Kombat 2 trailer because the first Mortal Kombat movie, it was like, was just some guy, right? Like it wasn't like a character from the game. It's like, oh, it's like kind of like an isekai adventure. This, you know, like here's just a regular dude and he's now connected to these Mortal Kombat folks. Yeah. That guy is like non-existent in this trailer too. And they're, they got Carl Urban being Jonathan cagey.
02:06:11
Speaker
Yeah. I know it's, I know it's John, sea kate John, Johnny cage. um But yeah. Jonathan cagey. Yeah. So I'm, I'm curious if that guy, the main character from the first mortal combat movie, they're just going to be like, we're going to fucking kill him.
02:06:25
Speaker
We're going to kill him brutally very quickly and just kind of make Carl urban the main focus. So. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. and Okay. Yeah, that's cool. ah Yeah, i didn't watch the first movie, so that's why I'm less interested in this. I'm actually more interested in the Street Fighter movie because I want to say that first trailer was badass. I thought they did really good job. They beat up a car.
02:06:44
Speaker
Yeah, like they do in the games. Yeah. You ever play any Street Fighters? When I was a kid, I played like Street Fighter 2 like on whatever console, but i I don't like fighting games, man. Not for me. It's too complex. i don't i don't need to I don't want to learn buttons.
02:06:58
Speaker
Oh, okay. Yeah. yeah All right. Well, the other two here, i'll so I'll go with the one that you might not have seen, and then we can go talk about the one you definitely saw. And the one you might not have seen, i don't know if you saw the trailer from Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice. You watched this trailer?
02:07:11
Speaker
No. It looks pretty great. It's Vince Vaughn and and in yeah um James Marsden and Isaac Gonzalez. And there's like a weird like multiverse version.
02:07:24
Speaker
That's why it's two Nicks because this' is like a multiverse version of Vince Vaughn. And they're like, they have to go kill the second version of Vince Vaughn but in the trailer. And i don't, they, they don't succeed. It's, it's just a strange, here's what it says on IMDb. Two friends navigate the dangerous world of organized crime, testing their loyalty and survival skills as they get deeper into the criminal underworld.
02:07:45
Speaker
This comes out on March 27th on hulu I'm kind of into it, to be honest. It's worth watching the trailer. It looks like fun, a fun, fun adventure there. I don't know. I'm interested in it. also think the title is really good and the title is very bold.
02:07:59
Speaker
And I think that because the child, this is why the God of War, this this is sums up my whole thought on this episode of of what we' we've kind of been talking about. that this This, in contrast, and the way they're marketing this movie, in contrast to the way they're marketing the God of War TV show, right? Look at the God of War image they chose. like Do you have any idea what you're doing when you
Exciting New Shows
02:08:21
Speaker
release that image? Whereas ah like this movie, Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice, is like, why would you title it that? You're you're just so bold. and and you know It's even like Marathon as a game. Very bold.
02:08:33
Speaker
Oh, really? You're bringing up Marathon again? Yeah, sure. We've talked about this before about the bold, you know what I'm mean saying? Bold choices. They have a vision and they follow it through. a a great example of this, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. like It's not the Game of Thrones. you know you It's not your grandpa's grand Game of Thrones. They're doing something very different. And they're doing a heartfelt tale and all this stuff. It's it's really interesting. and I don't know. It's cool.
02:08:56
Speaker
So ah anyway, so yeah, it could be good. And the last thing, the last trailer that was definitely of note, and I'm very excited for the show. Like just genuinely really, really excited. And you know what the trailer is? It's Lanterns, Adrian on HBO, coming out fast approaching. Chris Mundy's the showrunner.
02:09:10
Speaker
Damon Lindelof's the writer on it. ah It's got great cast. Aaron Pierre. Kyle Chandler, they baly barely show any powers. It reminds me actually of the Wonder Man um press beats because it's like Wonder Man is like just again not about powers. It's it's about everything else. and The thing that really stood out to me about the HBO's Lanterns trailer, the first one I believe we've seen other than teasers, is in the first 20 seconds, there's an F-bomb, like right away. And I'm like, wow, here we go. There's a rated R Green Lantern TV show where they don't focus on the powers. They're focused on the like the gritty, true detective nature of this like dynamic. I thought when they're saying true detective you know space cops, I thought they're going to be in space. They're not even in space in the trailer, which is really weird. They're hanging out.
02:09:59
Speaker
They're just hanging out on Earth, and they're solving crimes on Earth. It's Earth. I'm hoping that if this show develops they move on to future seasons, that they will go to space, but they didn't even show Nathan Fillion, which I'm pretty sure it was confirmed to be in this. So he, he, he is confirmed because again, I i brought up the, like how he said, like he said more F bombs in that show than he's ever said in his entire career, like combined oh for peacemaker. Yeah. Oh no. For lanterns. No, no. For lanterns specifically. Oh, okay. Yeah.
02:10:27
Speaker
Interesting. Yeah. yeah cool so yeah did he say any F but was there any F-bombs Peacemaker for him at all he was saying some vile yeah not vile he was in like one scene right he was only really in that one scene at the start I can't remember yeah I'm sure he did say so some goofy shit that was definitely rated R if I remember correctly But yeah.
02:10:51
Speaker
Okay. I'm very excited about Atlantis. Anyway, yeah. You're hyped for it, I assume? Yeah, man. Obviously. um i um I like this universe. I like the creators attached to this. I think it's going to be interesting. and I'm curious as to timeline.
02:11:04
Speaker
I sent this to our mutual friend, Ken, and he thought that like based on how like how the trailer played out, that this is like before... um what's his name guy gardener gets his ring so like like now we go why do you think that interesting i think yeah just based on like the timeline or whatever he did i elaborate too much with him but he did mention that i'm like oh yeah that's an interesting perspective maybe that is the case i don't know for sure i'm curious when it does take place and all that um there is obviously a clear lack of green in the trailer
02:11:38
Speaker
um which I guess is a choice. I was curious if like, maybe they just didn't have all the special effects done and they're like well, let's just make it look grounded and gritty. Or if they're actually just going to kind of avoid the green kind of wacky looking power stuff. I'm curious. Yeah.
02:11:52
Speaker
Yeah. I'm more intrigued, man. Yeah. Why the hell not? but This is again, bold. Like you seem like they're, it's just so interesting. You're making a superhero thing. The first introduction of green lantern in, since Ryan Reynolds, you know, in ah in a live action form, pretty much and that Superman did.
02:12:08
Speaker
well superman right but that's not really a good yeah you're right you're right 100 but you know i'm saying like in a bigger like there i guess the title card you're making a lantern it's a green lantern thing versus superman is obviously not about green lantern who's it about i don't know it's cool i mean it's not about his legacy let me tell you um it's no longer the title But yeah, I, yeah, I don't know.
02:12:35
Speaker
I'm very excited. This was the, my kind of one. I think we, when we listed our most anticipated stuff coming this year, it was one of my top three, I think if I recall correctly. I don't recall at all. So what, what the list was? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Conclusion and Farewell
02:12:51
Speaker
All right. Well, it's time to wrap this show up, Adrian. That's all true that we need to talk about today. If there's anything else you want to say, now and now's the time. if you want to insult me more about Marathon. No, dude.
02:13:03
Speaker
It's not an insult. It's just the truth. you It's fine. Anything else you want to get out in the air, in the open, ah feel free to do that now because we're going to wrap this show up now.
02:13:14
Speaker
so Anything? No. No, I don't think I got anything else to say. I can't think of any other trailers. I can't think of any other things releasing. um Oh my God. I just, i don't know.
02:13:25
Speaker
I just simply don't know my friend. So great. That's okay. Oh, the boys, the boys, a final trailer, final season. I didn't see it. I didn't watch it. That's a good point. It's more of the boys.
02:13:35
Speaker
It's more of the boys. It's more of the boys. Yeah, that's cool. hopeful Hopefully it's good. there's There's a brief scene where it shows Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, and Misha Collins together. Oh. Bringing back this the Supernatural trio. Okay. Which is cool.
02:13:49
Speaker
Sweet. Eric Kierke, the showrunner of The Boys, was the showrunner for Supernatural and the creator of Supernatural through seasons one through five. so Wow. I like that little fun little fun fact. Look at that. He did like the oscars the Oscars thing. Leonardo DiCaprio, last won an Oscar for his role in...
02:14:07
Speaker
The Revenant, you know? Good. true. Thank you for that. All right. I wanted an Oscar for that. He did. Thank you. I almost said customer. Thank you, customer. Thank you, audience, for listening to episode 131 of Split Focus, a film and TV podcast. My name is Simon Eadie, and it has been a pleasure to host you alongside my very strange co-host, Adrian Pinter.
02:14:29
Speaker
Please join us on March 24th for episode 132. Good evening to you and good luck. See ya. Goodbye.