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- 0:10Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger Drug Collider podcast, the
- 0:13Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky stuff happening in the
- 0:15Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about it.
- 0:17Speaker 1: I'm Ariel cast it and Whicky is always is the
- 0:19Speaker 1: amazing Jonan in Strickland.
- 0:22Speaker 2: All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go if.
- 0:26Speaker 1: The darn plane would just stop going to and fro.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Ariel and I have both been experiencing weird motor sounds
- 0:38Speaker 2: outside of our homes, and we don't live anywhere close
- 0:42Speaker 2: to each other.
- 0:43Speaker 1: No, no, like thirty minutes away, so it's not horrible.
- 0:48Speaker 1: But also, like the plane I am hearing, Jonathan would
- 0:51Speaker 1: not be hearing.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm not sure what I'm hearing. I don't
- 0:55Speaker 2: think it's a plane, but it's this like oscillating motor sound,
- 1:01Speaker 2: and it's far enough away where I actually stepped outside.
- 1:04Speaker 2: I told Aerie old this. I stepped outside to take
- 1:05Speaker 2: a look around and see if I could figure out
- 1:07Speaker 2: what the heck this noise was because I'd never heard
- 1:10Speaker 2: it before, and I still don't know. My guess is
- 1:13Speaker 2: there's some sort of construction project happening on the other
- 1:18Speaker 2: side of the railroad tracks from where I live, and
- 1:21Speaker 2: I just can't see that that's what it is, at
- 1:24Speaker 2: least that's my guess. Either that or you know, maybe uh,
- 1:29Speaker 2: maybe the aliens are here, just like Spielberg is indicating.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Maybe, Or it could be mad Max Thunderdome.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Could be it could be a very small track because
- 1:39Speaker 2: it's it's like it's like yewww, like that's the frequency.
- 1:45Speaker 2: So like either a very small track or those cars
- 1:49Speaker 2: are going super fast, that turn is super tight. It's
- 1:53Speaker 2: so you.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Had some new neighbors move in and they are the
- 1:57Speaker 1: like they are the Thunderdome, like motorcycle drivers at a circus, and.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Or or they're transformers. Maybe that's that.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Yeah, you could. I mean I don't know. A transformer
- 2:10Speaker 1: might be a really bad neighbor.
- 2:13Speaker 2: I mean, all depends on whether they're an autobot or
- 2:15Speaker 2: a decepticon, I guess.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Or did you mean like actual transformers?
- 2:19Speaker 2: Oh not like not like an electrical transfer you met,
- 2:23Speaker 2: like the if one of those goes off, then you
- 2:25Speaker 2: will know. Yeah, have you ever this is not the
- 2:28Speaker 2: question of the week, y'all, but have you have you ever?
- 2:31Speaker 2: Have you ever been present when an electrical transformer blewe.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean like not touching one or staring right
- 2:39Speaker 1: at it. However, I live in a big tree like
- 2:41Speaker 1: Big Tree Preserve area, So anytime we have a big
- 2:45Speaker 1: storm or a big snow or a big wind or
- 2:48Speaker 1: butterfly sneezes, yeah we we have. I have transformers go
- 2:53Speaker 1: out regularly. I hear them pop at least.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Yeah. I uh. The first time I ever was present
- 3:00Speaker 2: for one going off, I was in the family car.
- 3:05Speaker 2: I was a kid, like a teenager, sitting in the backseat.
- 3:08Speaker 2: We were going through Atlanta. We didn't live in Atlanta,
- 3:12Speaker 2: we lived up in Northeast Georgia, but we were in
- 3:15Speaker 2: Atlanta for something. And as we were going through, there's
- 3:17Speaker 2: this massive storm and then it sounded like a shotgun
- 3:21Speaker 2: had gone off right next to the car, and sparks
- 3:23Speaker 2: flew everywhere, and I didn't know what had happened, but
- 3:26Speaker 2: my dad hopefully informed me that it was a transformer
- 3:31Speaker 2: that exploded, and then hopefully explained that no, it's not
- 3:35Speaker 2: the more than meets the icon. And I've seen a
- 3:39Speaker 2: few since then, and yeah, if you want an experience
- 3:43Speaker 2: that'll make your heart jump hearing a transformer go off,
- 3:47Speaker 2: if you're like even a few hundred feet away can
- 3:51Speaker 2: be a pretty darn dramatic experience.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I think part of it for me
- 3:59Speaker 1: is I live on the river, and so things that go.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Not many people know this, but Ariel lives in a
- 4:06Speaker 2: van down by the river.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Listen, I would if I could. I love the water
- 4:14Speaker 1: so much, I would just sit in front of the
- 4:15Speaker 1: water all the time, exception of when I'm doing stuff
- 4:18Speaker 1: like this. But but so transfer informers going out are
- 4:26Speaker 1: very loud. Fireworks are very loud. Car backfire from like
- 4:30Speaker 1: exhaust pipes, which is less common nowadays, Yeah, but it
- 4:36Speaker 1: still happens on occasion because some people drive classic or
- 4:38Speaker 1: older cars. A lot of people do because they're affordable.
- 4:42Speaker 1: And then also occasionally gunshot gunshots, Like I don't live
- 4:48Speaker 1: someplace dangerous, but you can hear a gunshot anywhere.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I was once looking at a house, like we were
- 4:56Speaker 2: looking at a house as a sort of getaway house
- 4:58Speaker 2: for weekends, and we were looking like within a two
- 5:01Speaker 2: hour radius of Atlanta, and one of the houses we
- 5:06Speaker 2: looked at was actually just over the state line in Alabama.
- 5:11Speaker 2: And as we're being shown the house, we can start
- 5:14Speaker 2: hearing the crack of rifles in the background, which like
- 5:19Speaker 2: hunters obviously, or shooting practice or something. But as we're
- 5:24Speaker 2: sitting there, I'm like, this is I know people like
- 5:27Speaker 2: Atlanta has a reputation, but I heard more gunshots in
- 5:31Speaker 2: that like fifteen minutes of looking at that house than
- 5:34Speaker 2: I have living in inside the city of Atlanta for
- 5:38Speaker 2: ten years. Yeah.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Yeah, And that being said, the bigger thing is maybe
- 5:44Speaker 1: I haven't heard any gunshots here, but because I live
- 5:46Speaker 1: by the river, they all echo reverberate similarly, and it's
- 5:50Speaker 1: really hard to tell the difference.
- 5:51Speaker 2: Apart could be. Well, let's move on to the actual
- 5:55Speaker 2: question of the week. Now. Last week I asked you
- 5:58Speaker 2: about your favorite mad character, right, And you know why
- 6:02Speaker 2: I asked you that question. I'm guessing the March, not
- 6:07Speaker 2: because of the IDEs of March, but because of a
- 6:09Speaker 2: certain I was going to say, a certain basketball event
- 6:12Speaker 2: that we can't name because it's like the big Game.
- 6:15Speaker 2: You can't it's a no, no, it's fine, no one's
- 6:18Speaker 2: going Maybe I will bleep you out if I remember,
- 6:23Speaker 2: but yeah, that's why I asked you. So what was
- 6:25Speaker 2: your question that you had for us this week?
- 6:27Speaker 1: What's your favorite weather related movie?
- 6:30Speaker 2: Now, initially My answer for this was going to, well,
- 6:36Speaker 2: let's see if it's the same as yours. My answer
- 6:37Speaker 2: was going to be Wizard of Oz. Was that your
- 6:41Speaker 2: answer hopefully not? Okay, okay. I decided against Wizard of
- 6:45Speaker 2: Oz because I thought, while the tornado is like the
- 6:48Speaker 2: inciting incident for the movie, it's really just that one moment.
- 6:54Speaker 2: You don't really you know that weather does not play
- 6:56Speaker 2: a big part in the rest of that film. We'll
- 7:00Speaker 2: come back to Wizard of Oz though, later in this episode,
- 7:03Speaker 2: So ultimately I decided that doesn't count. And then I thought, man,
- 7:06Speaker 2: most weather related movies I hate, like the ones I've seen,
- 7:11Speaker 2: like The Day After Tomorrow is so stupid, Twister is
- 7:16Speaker 2: kind of schlocky fun, and I almost put that, but
- 7:19Speaker 2: instead I chose the nineteen I thought about snow Piercer,
- 7:24Speaker 2: but that I don't think is really a weather movie.
- 7:27Speaker 2: That's a train movie. But I instead chose the nineteen
- 7:32Speaker 2: eighty version, the John Carpenter version of the Fog, because
- 7:38Speaker 2: that is a weather event and it's central to the
- 7:41Speaker 2: plot of the movie. And I don't think it's one
- 7:43Speaker 2: of Carpenter's best films. But even a not great Carpenter
- 7:48Speaker 2: film is still better than a lot of other movies
- 7:51Speaker 2: in my opinion. So I say the fog.
- 7:56Speaker 1: Well, by your reasoning, I have to take out Jimunji.
- 8:01Speaker 2: Look, just because there's weather in the movie doesn't mean
- 8:04Speaker 2: it's a weather movie.
- 8:06Speaker 1: Poseidon adventure.
- 8:08Speaker 2: Yeah, there are a lot of a lot of weather. Like,
- 8:10Speaker 2: if you're thinking weather movie, it tends to end up
- 8:12Speaker 2: being like natural disaster, doesn't it. Yeah.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Yeah, so I have two One is a cheat and
- 8:20Speaker 1: one is real. Twister is my probably my favorite.
- 8:23Speaker 2: And that is because it's a fun movie.
- 8:26Speaker 1: I never watched Twisters. But when I saw Twister, it
- 8:29Speaker 1: was at a double feature at the Starlight Drive in
- 8:32Speaker 1: in Atlanta.
- 8:33Speaker 2: That's the perfect place to see it.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Yes, with Jimungie and I was in a convertible and
- 8:45Speaker 1: there was a thunderstorm in the background.
- 8:47Speaker 2: Yeah, perfect, perfect time and place to see it.
- 8:50Speaker 1: Like if I had just watched it on my TV,
- 8:53Speaker 1: it would not have been my favorite movie. And also
- 8:54Speaker 1: as young, so like I was scary, not being too scary.
- 8:59Speaker 2: I still think Twister is a perfectly legitimate, entertaining film.
- 9:03Speaker 2: There's some great performances, there's people in there, like you're
- 9:08Speaker 2: you're thinking, that's a schlocky like disaster action movie. But
- 9:12Speaker 2: there's so many actors in there who have been in
- 9:16Speaker 2: like critical Darling films. Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think, isn't
- 9:21Speaker 2: it carry Elle, wasn't it? I mean, it's a it's
- 9:23Speaker 2: it's a good movie. Yeah, yeah, it's it's silly, but
- 9:27Speaker 2: it's good.
- 9:28Speaker 1: It's fun, and honestly, I think it inspired one of
- 9:32Speaker 1: my nieces or nephews to be a weather chaser.
- 9:36Speaker 2: That's cool.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's a it's a dangerous but
- 9:39Speaker 1: needed job. But the other one, it's it's kind of
- 9:44Speaker 1: a cheat because it really doesn't have to do with weather,
- 9:47Speaker 1: but with anything but the title.
- 9:49Speaker 2: But singing in the Rain we yeah, it's yeah, I agree,
- 9:53Speaker 2: it doesn't have anything to do about the title, but
- 9:55Speaker 2: Singing in the Rain is a masterpiece. I still find it.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Understand why it's there, but I still find the ballet
- 10:04Speaker 2: segment in the middle of it, the one that goes
- 10:07Speaker 2: to beautiful girls and all that stuff, that to me
- 10:10Speaker 2: is like, well, I'm going to get up and make
- 10:12Speaker 2: some more popcorn. I'll be back in ten minutes.
- 10:14Speaker 1: For sure that that could have used some judicious editing,
- 10:19Speaker 1: but I get why it didn't because those movies had
- 10:22Speaker 1: all had spectacle, and then.
- 10:24Speaker 2: That was part of it. Yeah, And I mean it's
- 10:26Speaker 2: it's a first and foremost it is a musical, and
- 10:29Speaker 2: it features a world famous dancer, so clearly there's going
- 10:33Speaker 2: to be some big dance numbers in there, even if
- 10:37Speaker 2: they don't necessarily tie into the rest of the movie.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Yeah. But I mean I really watch it for two characters.
- 10:45Speaker 1: I don't even really care about the plot. But I
- 10:47Speaker 1: love Lena Lamont I can't stand it.
- 10:51Speaker 2: Yeah, she's great, She's so good.
- 10:53Speaker 1: And I used to have a crush on Cosmo, so like, yeah,
- 10:57Speaker 1: not real time because obviously there is a huge age gap,
- 11:00Speaker 1: but like he was acuity in a goofball and that's like.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Yeah, and like make him laugh and Moses supposes hisses
- 11:09Speaker 2: or roses are both like such great comedy numbers. Yeah. Yeah,
- 11:15Speaker 2: And and good Morning is just a feel good musical number.
- 11:19Speaker 2: It's if you have not seen Singing in the Rain
- 11:21Speaker 2: and you like musicals. I mean, I get that some
- 11:25Speaker 2: people just detest musicals, and you know your opinions are valid,
- 11:28Speaker 2: you know, you do you, But if you like musicals
- 11:31Speaker 2: and you haven't seen Singing in the rain. It's gonna
- 11:33Speaker 2: feel a bit different from modern films. It's not paced
- 11:36Speaker 2: the same way or anything. But it is so charming.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but yeah, but that that's why I like it.
- 11:44Speaker 1: The story's fun, it is charming, it's very cute. So
- 11:48Speaker 1: that's my answer.
- 11:50Speaker 2: Great answers, Yeah you too, thank you. All right, Well
- 11:55Speaker 2: let's talk about stuff what we've watched since the last time.
- 11:59Speaker 2: First of all, I I acknowledge our last episode went
- 12:02Speaker 2: out super late, and that's entirely my fault. I had
- 12:05Speaker 2: a lot of hectic Yeah, I had some very hectic
- 12:08Speaker 2: travel over the weekend and it almost didn't happen because
- 12:11Speaker 2: of weather conditions and stuff here in Atlanta. But it
- 12:15Speaker 2: was a big deal. It was a trip to celebrate
- 12:18Speaker 2: my mother in law's eightieth birthday, so luckily I eventually
- 12:22Speaker 2: made it. Everything went well, the party was great, she
- 12:25Speaker 2: was thrilled, and then I got back. But yeah, it
- 12:29Speaker 2: just meant that everything got kind of delayed because of that.
- 12:33Speaker 2: So I apologize for the episode going up so late.
- 12:36Speaker 2: Hopefully this one I can turn around much faster. But
- 12:40Speaker 2: since then, the only thing that I can remember watching
- 12:45Speaker 2: almost I tried to watch The Running Man on the flight,
- 12:48Speaker 2: but that didn't work out for me, so instead, the
- 12:51Speaker 2: only thing I watched was the first episode of The Urbs.
- 12:55Speaker 2: You know, I mentioned last time that I had started
- 12:57Speaker 2: it but hadn't really gotten very far. I watched all
- 13:00Speaker 2: of the first episode and I really am digging it.
- 13:06Speaker 2: I haven't gone any further after the first episode, but
- 13:09Speaker 2: I like what I've seen. Kiki Palmer is battling to
- 13:14Speaker 2: become another girlfriend, but I realize my chances with her
- 13:19Speaker 2: are really low because she likes guys with hair and
- 13:22Speaker 2: she kind of flirted with Sean Evans of Hot Ones,
- 13:25Speaker 2: so I think she's allowed her one bald guy and
- 13:28Speaker 2: now it's over. But she is brilliant and everyone's good.
- 13:35Speaker 2: Everyone is good in that show. But you know, the
- 13:40Speaker 2: show mostly rests on her shoulders, and she is so good,
- 13:43Speaker 2: she's so entertaining. And there also is a very fun reference.
- 13:50Speaker 2: I won't call it an easter egg because it's way
- 13:52Speaker 2: too front and center, but there's a fun reference, a
- 13:56Speaker 2: wink and a nod to the film The Birds.
- 14:01Speaker 1: I should watch the film then first.
- 14:04Speaker 2: Well you would know because you would see this moment
- 14:07Speaker 2: in the first episode and go why is that there?
- 14:11Speaker 2: And then you think, oh, because it's referencing the fact
- 14:14Speaker 2: that there was a movie called The Urbs.
- 14:16Speaker 1: Okay, I do suggest watching The Running Man the new
- 14:21Speaker 1: one with Yeah at some point, because it is very good.
- 14:24Speaker 1: It's so well done.
- 14:26Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't realize that it was on the flight
- 14:28Speaker 2: on my way up until we were landing, so I
- 14:32Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to watch it on the way up,
- 14:33Speaker 2: and I thought i'll watch it on the way down.
- 14:35Speaker 2: I flew standby and the seat that they were able
- 14:38Speaker 2: to put me in didn't have a scream Oh no,
- 14:41Speaker 2: So I couldn't watch anything on the way back, but
- 14:44Speaker 2: I got back, which is the important part.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think it might turn you around
- 14:48Speaker 1: on Glen Powell. I know you're you're starting to come
- 14:50Speaker 1: around to him, but maybe maybe it's someone else. I
- 14:54Speaker 1: know he does super well.
- 14:55Speaker 2: It's gotta be someone else because I still find him like, like, uh,
- 15:02Speaker 2: I guess you wanted a younger Bradley Cooper, like I like.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Him better than Bradley Cooper. Don't don't tell Bradley Cooper.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper's fine, but.
- 15:10Speaker 2: I won't tell him. But I have talked to him.
- 15:12Speaker 2: I know.
- 15:16Speaker 1: Jonathan occasionally gets to talk to cool people.
- 15:20Speaker 2: It's because cool people came into my office. Well the
- 15:23Speaker 2: office I work at, not my office. Yeah.
- 15:26Speaker 1: I have worked with cool people, you know, on sets
- 15:29Speaker 1: and at dragon Con, but like I don't. We live
- 15:33Speaker 1: in Atlanta. There are tons of cool people who just
- 15:36Speaker 1: live here. I never see anybody. Despite everything that films
- 15:40Speaker 1: here and has filmed here, I never see anybody.
- 15:44Speaker 2: Yeah. If I if I ever do see someone, I
- 15:47Speaker 2: don't realize it. Yeah, Like there I have been at
- 15:52Speaker 2: places where people said did you see so and so
- 15:55Speaker 2: was there? And I'm like, I just walked through there
- 15:57Speaker 2: and had no mostly because I'm not paying tension, but
- 16:00Speaker 2: also I'm not good at recognizing people outside of you know,
- 16:05Speaker 2: where I expect to see them, like if if it's
- 16:08Speaker 2: if it's someone that I've only seen on screen, I
- 16:11Speaker 2: will not expect to see them in meat space.
- 16:15Speaker 1: So yeah, and then usually I'm like, you're going about
- 16:18Speaker 1: your business. I'll leave you be unless there's a reason,
- 16:21Speaker 1: like and it is some some cool people. Like when
- 16:25Speaker 1: people come up and like, hey, I think you're really cool,
- 16:27Speaker 1: have a great day.
- 16:29Speaker 2: I just yeah, yeah, struggle. It's it is tough because
- 16:33Speaker 2: you know, you know that for you this is a
- 16:37Speaker 2: unique experience, and you know, for them, it's something that
- 16:39Speaker 2: happens literally every day of their lives. So yeah, I
- 16:42Speaker 2: get it. It's why when I heard What's Who's the
- 16:48Speaker 2: singer she did the voice for Rapunzel Entangled? Oh, Mandy Moore,
- 16:55Speaker 2: Mandy Moore. Uh So, my office used to be in
- 17:00Speaker 2: a place called Pont City Market here in Atlanta, which
- 17:04Speaker 2: was this big abandoned building for years and years and
- 17:06Speaker 2: years got turned into mixed use, so there was like
- 17:09Speaker 2: restaurants and shops and then offices and then loft space
- 17:14Speaker 2: expensive she she loft space, and it's where they would
- 17:18Speaker 2: put up a lot of actors when actors were in
- 17:20Speaker 2: town to shoot different projects, right, And occasionally I would
- 17:26Speaker 2: see them, like when I was going to the gym,
- 17:29Speaker 2: I saw Hugh Jackman at the gym. Dude looked like
- 17:31Speaker 2: he could pick up the whole damn machine. And I
- 17:34Speaker 2: saw Hanka's area at the.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Gym, he could pick up the whole machine.
- 17:40Speaker 2: He I mean, he had some serious guns. He was
- 17:42Speaker 2: doing curls right next to me, and I'm like, I'm
- 17:44Speaker 2: not going to bother him, Like it's gym etiquette. Don't
- 17:47Speaker 2: bother people at the gym. So I was like, if
- 17:50Speaker 2: he asked me to spot him, I'll do it. Won't
- 17:53Speaker 2: comment on it, that's it. He did not, But I
- 17:58Speaker 2: was in I was up in our office and I
- 18:02Speaker 2: saw a tweet from someone I knew who worked at
- 18:04Speaker 2: a shop down on the street level of pot Cita Market,
- 18:07Speaker 2: who said that Mandy Moore had just walked through the shop,
- 18:14Speaker 2: And so then I tweeted out. I was like, I
- 18:16Speaker 2: just heard that Mandy Moore was going through a shop
- 18:20Speaker 2: near my office, and I'm kicking myself that I didn't
- 18:23Speaker 2: immediately run down there to try and convince her to
- 18:25Speaker 2: sing at last I see the light from Tangled. So
- 18:31Speaker 2: it was just me being silly tweeting that out, and
- 18:33Speaker 2: she liked my tweet, and I was like, oh, it's
- 18:35Speaker 2: almost like we did. That was back when I was
- 18:39Speaker 2: still on Twitter those years and years and years ago.
- 18:42Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, years ago, when the birds still saying in
- 18:46Speaker 1: the sky.
- 18:47Speaker 2: Yeah, well they do.
- 18:49Speaker 1: I have a little cardinal.
- 18:50Speaker 2: Oh that's nice. I have a cardinal too. I think
- 18:54Speaker 2: he's trying to become the next Pope.
- 18:57Speaker 1: He's got a ways to wait, hopefully.
- 19:00Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we don't want to be like going through
- 19:02Speaker 2: them like tissue all right, well we have answered the
- 19:07Speaker 2: question of the week. We have talked about Oh wait,
- 19:09Speaker 2: you haven't talked about the stuff you watched. I'm so sorry.
- 19:11Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
- 19:13Speaker 1: It's totally fine. We don't even need to.
- 19:16Speaker 2: We do need to. This doesn't it's already I had
- 19:20Speaker 2: talked so much. I'm so sorry.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'll go through it pretty quickly. I have
- 19:26Speaker 1: caught up on Shrinking, so it's still going on. They're
- 19:28Speaker 1: releasing new episodes, but just much like The Pit, I'm
- 19:30Speaker 1: stuck to once a week, So watching Shrinking once a
- 19:33Speaker 1: week and The Pit once a week. Still loving both.
- 19:36Speaker 1: They both make me laugh, they both make me cry.
- 19:38Speaker 1: They're both very well written and entertaining and incredibly well acted.
- 19:41Speaker 2: Love them.
- 19:42Speaker 1: I highly recommend. I watched all of Bridgeton's.
- 19:47Speaker 2: Season four, the Cinderella season, the straight.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Up Cinderella season, Like, how do you? How do you? Just?
- 19:54Speaker 1: I guess there are plenty of authors who just write
- 19:56Speaker 1: books that are simply skins of Cinderella.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so many different retellings of fairy tales.
- 20:03Speaker 1: It's not yeah, but it's fully Cinderella with dad dies
- 20:09Speaker 1: leaving daughter to the step mom with her two daughters
- 20:13Speaker 1: who turns her into a maid, and then classist stuff.
- 20:18Speaker 1: What I will say is the acting was very good Benedet.
- 20:25Speaker 1: It focuses on the son Benedict and Sophie Peck, who
- 20:29Speaker 1: is his love interest, and that Benedict has never been
- 20:35Speaker 1: my favorite character. His acting was superb and there was
- 20:38Speaker 1: some really amazing acting throughout the whole season. So even
- 20:43Speaker 1: though I find it often a little cheesy or silly,
- 20:47Speaker 1: I thought it was very well acted. So that was
- 20:49Speaker 1: really cool. Yeah, so enjoyable, even if a bit predictable.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Incredibly predictable. I also once finished that started one.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Piece, Okay, cool, what are you thinking?
- 21:05Speaker 1: The fight scenes are better than I anticipated. This is
- 21:09Speaker 1: the live action, live action one Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 21:12Speaker 1: so the fight scenes are better than I anticipated. So
- 21:15Speaker 1: I had started watching it a while ago and it
- 21:17Speaker 1: just gotten through like the first third of the first episode.
- 21:20Speaker 1: I think it was really tired and I just couldn't
- 21:23Speaker 1: So I'm revisiting it now, and uh, the fight scenes
- 21:28Speaker 1: are better than I anticipated. Now I'm one and a
- 21:29Speaker 1: half episodes in. Uh, the acting is pretty good. The
- 21:38Speaker 1: main character, it's it's a little weird to get used
- 21:41Speaker 1: to because he's playing such a I think, like a
- 21:47Speaker 1: goofy character with a dark underside that it feels a
- 21:51Speaker 1: little wobbly at times, but that's probably on purpose.
- 21:55Speaker 2: Kind of like a little odd tonally wise.
- 21:59Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Like he's very go lucky in Goofy and well,
- 22:03Speaker 1: you can do anything you want and that's totally fine.
- 22:05Speaker 1: I like, there is backstory there. I don't know it
- 22:08Speaker 1: because I haven't read the the manga or.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Watched the billion billion episodes.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, the twelve thousand episodes or whatever it is.
- 22:19Speaker 1: But but the acting is very good. The writing is
- 22:24Speaker 1: not great. But part of that is just just the
- 22:29Speaker 1: fact that when you translate manga into English, it it
- 22:34Speaker 1: sometimes feels a little stilted and cheesy.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I imagine that translation process must be tricky
- 22:41Speaker 2: because you can't just go literally because there's gonna be
- 22:44Speaker 2: there's gonna be references or idioms or whatever that are
- 22:48Speaker 2: unique to the culture. So then you have to figure out, all, right, well,
- 22:52Speaker 2: how do we interpret this so that we get that
- 22:55Speaker 2: same meaning across to say, an English speaking culture. And
- 23:00Speaker 2: I imagine that's where a lot of that kind of
- 23:02Speaker 2: comes out as well. This is the best we can
- 23:06Speaker 2: do without like taking a larger interpretation, which might take
- 23:11Speaker 2: us further away from the intent.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but you know, you watch it for the bizarreness,
- 23:17Speaker 1: and I think that's really good, so I'm going to
- 23:19Speaker 1: keep with it. And then my husband and I started
- 23:24Speaker 1: Ponies PO and I Persons of No Interests with Amelia
- 23:28Speaker 1: Clark and the girl from Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't
- 23:34Speaker 1: Die and who is the other main character. I can't
- 23:38Speaker 1: remember her name at the moment, and Vic michaelis.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Right, yeah, this is the one that's set in the
- 23:45Speaker 2: then Soviet Union, right, where it's the wives of people
- 23:50Speaker 2: working for the US government and the two husbands die mysteriously. Yeah.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Yeah. They are full our length episodes pretty much, so
- 24:03Speaker 1: it's not it's not like a quick watch. So I'm
- 24:05Speaker 1: watching through it slowly. I'm like shrinking, which I can
- 24:07Speaker 1: watch five episodes in a day. But it is good,
- 24:12Speaker 1: it's it's not It deals with a lot of serious
- 24:17Speaker 1: stuff and serious moments, but it's not as serious as
- 24:19Speaker 1: something like Breaking Bad. There are also comedic moments, but
- 24:22Speaker 1: they aren't it's not a comedy, so there's not a
- 24:26Speaker 1: lot of them.
- 24:27Speaker 2: So there's there's humor, but not like comedy.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so it's not just a slog. It is
- 24:34Speaker 1: very interesting. I have no idea what's going on. It is.
- 24:38Speaker 1: It is almost jarring at times because Vic Michaelis plays
- 24:42Speaker 1: a secretary and they are just fully being themselves as
- 24:47Speaker 1: a secretary or at least any the which is what
- 24:51Speaker 1: you're supposed to be. You're supposed to be yourself an
- 24:52Speaker 1: imaginary circumstances as an actor. But it is, it works,
- 24:57Speaker 1: and it's they're doing an amazing job. But it is
- 25:00Speaker 1: interesting to see, like, oh, this is how they're playing
- 25:04Speaker 1: the character as opposed to like putting on a skin
- 25:07Speaker 1: like Gary Oldman does.
- 25:09Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's whereas like I mean, it's it's cool
- 25:14Speaker 2: that you get to see them in a slightly different,
- 25:17Speaker 2: well very different context than say drop Out TV. But
- 25:21Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this. Did you hear
- 25:23Speaker 2: the Dropout TV is doing a tour.
- 25:25Speaker 1: They are They're coming to Atlanta in April, and I've
- 25:30Speaker 1: got tickets to it.
- 25:31Speaker 2: That's amazing. I'm so happy for my friend Dariel because
- 25:36Speaker 2: I know she's going to have the best time.
- 25:40Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun. I
- 25:44Speaker 1: my husband called it the B Team, but I really
- 25:46Speaker 1: like all of it. I think I'm guessing that the
- 25:49Speaker 1: cast's probably changed based on who's available and who's off
- 25:52Speaker 1: filming something like apparently Vic Michaeli's Four Ponies auditioned like
- 25:58Speaker 1: five times in one week and was touring the coast
- 26:00Speaker 1: and she had to jump on a plane to go
- 26:02Speaker 1: start filming and didn't get the full script till she
- 26:04Speaker 1: was on the till they were on the plane, and
- 26:06Speaker 1: like had to just bring the backpack worth of like
- 26:09Speaker 1: two weeks of clothes that they had and then like
- 26:11Speaker 1: buy clothes there.
- 26:12Speaker 2: So I know that they also, so I know there's
- 26:15Speaker 2: a film. It's a it's a queer identity film, and
- 26:21Speaker 2: Vic was in a short film version of the story
- 26:25Speaker 2: that's now being turned into a feature length film. I
- 26:29Speaker 2: wish I could give you the title. I don't have
- 26:31Speaker 2: it on me. I just remember seeing this earlier this week.
- 26:34Speaker 2: And I imagine that that's also a bit assuming that
- 26:37Speaker 2: Vic is involved in the feature length version of this movie,
- 26:42Speaker 2: I'm sure that's also a big demand on their time.
- 26:44Speaker 1: Yeah, so like they aren't listed, so but I'm sure
- 26:46Speaker 1: even with like because it's like Kimia before Jeremy Coolhayne
- 26:50Speaker 1: who does SNL, and Jacob Woizaki and kurk w anyhow,
- 26:57Speaker 1: they're the ones listed and then other people, so I'm
- 26:59Speaker 1: sure it the casts will change out based on who
- 27:01Speaker 1: is available for each city date. But they are all
- 27:04Speaker 1: amazing and do wonderful improv, so I'm excited for it.
- 27:09Speaker 2: Yeah. I get it when people might associate very specific
- 27:13Speaker 2: personalities who tend to be big, big personalities on dropout
- 27:19Speaker 2: and say like, oh, but they're not like brettan Lee
- 27:21Speaker 2: Mulligan or Vic or you know a few others who
- 27:25Speaker 2: are zach Oyama who are just kind of deeply associated
- 27:29Speaker 2: with that. I can understand seeing those names and thinking, oh,
- 27:33Speaker 2: this is but every single one of those people are hilarious.
- 27:37Speaker 2: They're they're insanely talented, and they have great chemistry together.
- 27:42Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you know, I need to see more improv
- 27:46Speaker 1: in general, but it is it is fun watching groups
- 27:51Speaker 1: who have worked together for so long because there's just
- 27:53Speaker 1: a flow there.
- 27:55Speaker 2: I have seen so much improv and I can't tell you.
- 27:58Speaker 2: I mean, all right, I will say when improv is
- 28:02Speaker 2: like truly spectacular, there's nothing like it. But even when
- 28:06Speaker 2: improv bombs beyond comprehension, it's interesting. Yes, it might not
- 28:13Speaker 2: be it might be more entertaining in the retelling than
- 28:17Speaker 2: it was in living it out in the first place.
- 28:20Speaker 2: But that's one of the things I love about improv
- 28:23Speaker 2: is that even the failures can be really interesting.
- 28:27Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's harder when you're on the failing side
- 28:33Speaker 1: unless you just embrace.
- 28:34Speaker 2: It, which it is. Oh, it's it hurts so bad.
- 28:39Speaker 2: I have, Oh I have. If you ever have one
- 28:42Speaker 2: of those moments late at night before you go to sleep,
- 28:45Speaker 2: where suddenly your brain is like, oh, I see you're relaxing.
- 28:47Speaker 2: How about I pull up this memory so that you
- 28:49Speaker 2: can obsess over it for the next half hour. Some
- 28:53Speaker 2: of my improv bombs come right up to the top.
- 28:56Speaker 1: Yeah, but when when you embrace it? And I say
- 28:59Speaker 1: this for like dramatic improv as well. Right, So, if
- 29:03Speaker 1: you're in a script or like my actual play, not
- 29:08Speaker 1: last game, but the game before, I kept making perception
- 29:10Speaker 1: roles and they were so bad that my character ended
- 29:14Speaker 1: up not knowing how houses work. That's a door, it opens,
- 29:19Speaker 1: That's what you get, and if you embrace it, it's
- 29:21Speaker 1: so much more fun.
- 29:23Speaker 2: That's true. Well, something else that we must embrace are
- 29:27Speaker 2: a bunch of brief observations about the News of the
- 29:31Speaker 2: Week and Ariel gets to go first this week.
- 29:33Speaker 1: I do so Doctor Who fans rejoice. BBC unearthed a
- 29:39Speaker 1: couple and restored a couple episodes of Doctor Who that
- 29:44Speaker 1: had been missing, Nightmare Begins and Devil's Planet, and they
- 29:47Speaker 1: will be releasing them, so that is awesome. They're a
- 29:51Speaker 1: part of the third series of the I'm reading a
- 29:55Speaker 1: sci fi epic entitled The Dalek's master Plan.
- 29:58Speaker 2: Yeah, for those who do I don't know. The BBC's
- 30:01Speaker 2: normal operations were. Once they were done airing shows, they
- 30:06Speaker 2: would tape over old shows. They would just use the
- 30:10Speaker 2: same tapes over and over again. And it's one of
- 30:13Speaker 2: the few reasons why we still have money Python is
- 30:15Speaker 2: that Eric Idol demanded that he get possession of the
- 30:17Speaker 2: tapes so that they wouldn't do that. Okay, Well, Elijah
- 30:21Speaker 2: Wood recently hinted that we might see him back as
- 30:24Speaker 2: Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings prequel film,
- 30:27Speaker 2: The Hunt for Gollumn, which will both be directed by
- 30:30Speaker 2: and star Andy Serkis. While Wood would not confirm it,
- 30:34Speaker 2: he teased sir Ian McKellen for letting quote the cat
- 30:37Speaker 2: out of the bag end quote at a convention last summer,
- 30:41Speaker 2: and that he'd rather no one else play Frod as
- 30:44Speaker 2: long as he is still breathing and able to do it.
- 30:47Speaker 1: I don't blame him. More on the Circus Circus, Kate
- 30:53Speaker 1: Winslet will be playing a role in Lord of the
- 30:57Speaker 1: Rings Hunt for the Red Gollumn. Now for Gallum. We
- 31:03Speaker 1: don't know as who maybe as Gallomet, I don't know,
- 31:09Speaker 1: but yep, she'll be in Met.
- 31:12Speaker 2: The last time we saw Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan it
- 31:15Speaker 2: was in the nineteen eighty four film Conan the Destroyer.
- 31:18Speaker 2: Now forty two years later, he's boised to return as
- 31:24Speaker 2: King Conan. Christopher mcquarie, who directed the foremost recent Mission
- 31:28Speaker 2: Impossible Movies, is attached to write and direct the fantasy film.
- 31:31Speaker 2: Arnie also recently hinted as returning to the Predator franchise,
- 31:36Speaker 2: as well as a sequel to the eighties action film Commando.
- 31:40Speaker 1: Interesting. Speaking of Predator, I need to watch Predator bad Lance.
- 31:42Speaker 1: It's available at stream ACWM. You say Conan, I say Conan.
- 31:49Speaker 1: I'm probably wrong. In Mario news, Donald Glover has been
- 31:55Speaker 1: announced as the voice of Yoshi in Super Mario Galaxy.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Move be super Mario Galaxy movie. Watching the most recent trailer,
- 32:04Speaker 1: I don't even know that Yoshi speaks. He just makes
- 32:06Speaker 1: little Yoshi noises, so it feels weird.
- 32:08Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, after creating several projects for Netflix, director and
- 32:13Speaker 2: Stephen King officionado Mike Flanagan has signed a TV deal
- 32:17Speaker 2: with Amazon MGM Studios. The deal means flan again will
- 32:20Speaker 2: develop and produce original TV series for the studio, while
- 32:24Speaker 2: his film work is not covered under this agreement. This
- 32:27Speaker 2: may mean we'll get more creepy, atmospheric horror series on Amazon,
- 32:31Speaker 2: and that ain't a bad thing, and I wonder.
- 32:33Speaker 1: Where that puts.
- 32:34Speaker 2: Dark Tower.
- 32:37Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live UK is launching. I think we talked
- 32:41Speaker 1: about this a long time ago and I completely forgot
- 32:43Speaker 1: it was going to be a thing. They've announced their
- 32:46Speaker 1: cast and now they've announced that on which that on
- 32:50Speaker 1: March twenty. First episodes will be available on Peacock the
- 32:54Speaker 1: day after they air in the UK. I am super
- 32:57Speaker 1: interested in this. I do like British humor. I wonder
- 33:00Speaker 1: how much I'll get since it's all like based on
- 33:03Speaker 1: at least in the US, it's based on current events,
- 33:05Speaker 1: but I'm interested to try.
- 33:08Speaker 2: In a recent episode, I talked about how Screen franchise
- 33:11Speaker 2: creator Kevin Williamson sat down with Nev Campbell to talk
- 33:14Speaker 2: ideas about a potential eighth film in the franchise before
- 33:17Speaker 2: Scream seven even hit theaters. Well. In an interview with
- 33:21Speaker 2: Scream website, Hello, Sidney, Williamson indicates he will step back
- 33:26Speaker 2: from writing and directing the next entry if there is
- 33:29Speaker 2: to be one. So mixed messages, I guess.
- 33:34Speaker 1: Maybe what is not a mixed message is that Seth
- 33:38Speaker 1: McFarlane is King Midas when it comes to making cartoon
- 33:42Speaker 1: shows that get picked up. Because we're getting a two
- 33:47Speaker 1: seasons so far spin off of Family Guy called Stewie
- 33:52Speaker 1: about the baby. I don't like Stewie, so I'm not excited.
- 33:56Speaker 2: About Stewe's my favorite character, and I'm also not excited
- 34:00Speaker 2: about this. Last year, it was announced that Jenna Ortega
- 34:05Speaker 2: and Taylor Russell will star in a remake of the
- 34:07Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two thrower Single White Female, itself an adaptation
- 34:11Speaker 2: of the novel SWF Seeks Same. It's now going to
- 34:15Speaker 2: be called Single Female, and we know that Sarah D. Lapp,
- 34:18Speaker 2: who wrote Bodies, Bodies Bodies, will write the script. And
- 34:21Speaker 2: it's about a landlady who becomes increasingly stressed as her
- 34:24Speaker 2: tenant starts to copy everything about her while being super
- 34:27Speaker 2: duper sus fun.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Also in fun news, Netflix has finally closed the deal
- 34:34Speaker 1: for directors Maggie King and Chris Apple Hans to come
- 34:38Speaker 1: back for K Pop Demon Hunter's art due they haven't
- 34:42Speaker 1: started work on it. They'ren to wait till after the
- 34:44Speaker 1: Oscars because they might win some Oscars, And right now
- 34:49Speaker 1: we don't have a release date, but it might be
- 34:51Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine.
- 34:53Speaker 2: Yikes. Also, I think the Oscars are this weekend. So
- 34:58Speaker 2: among those who are wary of the paramount Warner Brothers
- 35:01Speaker 2: Discovery merger are the Teamsters. That's a labor union that
- 35:04Speaker 2: represents a wide range of workers. Deadline reports that the
- 35:08Speaker 2: Teamsters have called on the US Department of Justice to
- 35:10Speaker 2: block the deal unless quote substantial and enforceable safeguards are
- 35:14Speaker 2: put in place to increase domestic production and protect jobs
- 35:18Speaker 2: end quote, which sounds reasonable to me.
- 35:20Speaker 1: It sounds reasonable to me too. Last week we talked
- 35:24Speaker 1: about the fact that Quentin Tarantino was putting a pause
- 35:27Speaker 1: on a film to do a stage play, and now
- 35:29Speaker 1: we have a little bit more news about that. So
- 35:32Speaker 1: the play is going to be called The Popinjay Cavalier.
- 35:35Speaker 1: It will debut in the West End in twenty twenty seven.
- 35:38Speaker 1: It's a swashbuckling comedy set in eighteen thirties Europe. I
- 35:44Speaker 1: kind of hope that this is lighthearted and fun all
- 35:47Speaker 1: alike Pirates of Penzance and not like a Quentin Tarantino.
- 35:50Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently he's adapted his very first screenplay to be
- 35:57Speaker 2: like Apparently his first screenplay was the Story. But interesting,
- 36:03Speaker 2: I had never heard that before until I saw that
- 36:05Speaker 2: same article. David Ellison, one of the billionaires behind the
- 36:09Speaker 2: aforementioned Paramount acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery, indicated that once
- 36:13Speaker 2: this deal does go through, the plan is to bring
- 36:16Speaker 2: together the streaming services HBO Max and Paramount Plus, though
- 36:20Speaker 2: it remains to be seen how that would actually work.
- 36:23Speaker 2: As the Hollywood Reporter points out, HBO Max has more subscribers,
- 36:27Speaker 2: but Paramount Plus has a larger library. Either way, MY
- 36:31Speaker 2: response is.
- 36:32Speaker 1: Ick, yeah, well that is not a high note. No,
- 36:37Speaker 1: I'm kidding, that's our thirty seconds or less. We mostly
- 36:44Speaker 1: kept to it mostly.
- 36:45Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a little bit of commentary to add
- 36:48Speaker 2: here and there, but I think I think we did
- 36:50Speaker 2: a decent job. In general, we've been keeping to that
- 36:55Speaker 2: thirty seconds or less. Aerials thirty seconds or less sometimes
- 36:58Speaker 2: come in at fifteen second because I don't have much
- 37:01Speaker 2: to say, which is fine, that's fine. I don't. I
- 37:05Speaker 2: would rather you. I would rather you keep it short
- 37:07Speaker 2: and sweet than pad it out. Yeah, you don't. You
- 37:09Speaker 2: don't need to do Jester's thing of I got to
- 37:12Speaker 2: fill out all the available space.
- 37:14Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna Now, I'm gonna hit a timer and
- 37:17Speaker 1: I am going to do that. So you should call
- 37:19Speaker 1: it net media in thirty seconds.
- 37:22Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I think the way you do it
- 37:25Speaker 2: is just fine.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Uh, this is a thing I don't know.
- 37:28Speaker 2: Dode here, here's the Yeah, I mean that's legit. Like
- 37:32Speaker 2: sometimes sometimes we like our our lineups are usually a
- 37:36Speaker 2: commodation of both of us doing independent research. Uh. Some
- 37:41Speaker 2: weeks it's more one person than the other, but it's
- 37:45Speaker 2: always a combination. But that sometimes means that the stories
- 37:48Speaker 2: in thirty seconds are less Like this week, I think
- 37:51Speaker 2: I put in more stories than you did. But we
- 37:54Speaker 2: like to go back and forth, so it means I
- 37:57Speaker 2: have to assign aerial stories that I found and she
- 38:00Speaker 2: didn't find. Which one means she may not have had
- 38:04Speaker 2: the time to read into it as much as I did,
- 38:06Speaker 2: and too she might not care because she didn't add
- 38:09Speaker 2: it to the lineup.
- 38:10Speaker 1: I've done that to you before too, I have in
- 38:13Speaker 1: the past, and I promise to get back to it.
- 38:16Speaker 1: Sometimes aligned our lineup, that's the word I need to burp,
- 38:23Speaker 1: and I'm trying not to. So sometimes I do work
- 38:26Speaker 1: on the lineup and I have assigned you stories and
- 38:27Speaker 1: I know sometimes you haven't cared about them either, or.
- 38:30Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's just the way that it's just
- 38:32Speaker 2: the way the format works. So this week we so
- 38:37Speaker 2: we don't have as many things in our lineup, but
- 38:41Speaker 2: we do have quite a few and stuff that doesn't
- 38:43Speaker 2: quite fit. Or maybe it's about an equal numbers. It's
- 38:48Speaker 2: one of those weeks where we didn't have as much
- 38:49Speaker 2: geek news as I would prefer. But there are quite
- 38:52Speaker 2: a few things in the stuff that doesn't fit, some
- 38:54Speaker 2: of which are kind of border cases where you could
- 38:57Speaker 2: make an argument.
- 38:58Speaker 1: First up, you're calling her segment welcome to the Borderlands.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, uh yeah, this is this is gonna be
- 39:09Speaker 2: Jack Black as a robot is going to walk us
- 39:11Speaker 2: through all these so First up, we have a Guy
- 39:16Speaker 2: Ritchie movie called In the Gray. We got a trailer
- 39:20Speaker 2: for this. I felt like this feels remarkably similar to
- 39:28Speaker 2: the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, partly because Henry cavill is
- 39:32Speaker 2: in this and was also in that movie.
- 39:35Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I haven't watched that movie, but the
- 39:37Speaker 1: vibes I'm getting from both trailers are the same. It
- 39:41Speaker 1: stars Henry cavill as Jonathan Said and Jake Gillenhall. I
- 39:44Speaker 1: love that. The very basic, like when you google search
- 39:47Speaker 1: it synopsis is two agents and a woman team up
- 39:50Speaker 1: to get ahold of millions of dollars in stolen money.
- 39:52Speaker 1: Two agents and a woman.
- 39:54Speaker 2: I know, right. Eliza Gonzalez plays the wonder woman, who
- 39:58Speaker 2: is also, by the way, the one who's charge of
- 40:00Speaker 2: the two dudes. But she's just the woman. Yeah no,
- 40:06Speaker 2: they won't even get me started. Yeah, she's like the
- 40:09Speaker 2: one who's the face of the group, right, Like the
- 40:13Speaker 2: other two are being treated like the menacing muscle slash guns.
- 40:20Speaker 2: The trailer very high energy. What did you what did
- 40:23Speaker 2: you think? Did you? I mean, I thought it looked
- 40:25Speaker 2: like a Guy Ritchie movie.
- 40:27Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's spies, but the cheeky ones. Yeah,
- 40:31Speaker 1: it looked enjoyable enough. Like I remember having more thoughts
- 40:36Speaker 1: on it when I watched it, but they didn't stick,
- 40:38Speaker 1: So that should tell you something.
- 40:40Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I rewatched it before we started recording, and
- 40:44Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, this it feels like I said,
- 40:47Speaker 2: it really does feel like the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare,
- 40:49Speaker 2: which simultaneously feels like a very guy Ritchie movie but
- 40:53Speaker 2: also feels like it's a guy Ritchie movie that's missing
- 40:56Speaker 2: something because like, if you look at early Guy Richie movies,
- 40:59Speaker 2: they have so much attitude. There's so much vibe going on.
- 41:03Speaker 2: I'm not saying that they're deep films, but they're memorable.
- 41:09Speaker 2: These are like they're action films. There's nothing wrong with it,
- 41:14Speaker 2: it's just there's nothing that I can sink my teeth into. Really,
- 41:17Speaker 2: I would say.
- 41:18Speaker 1: Maybe like a step above generic action.
- 41:21Speaker 2: Like sure, well they're not bad action. They look like
- 41:25Speaker 2: they're well made action movies, but they don't look like
- 41:27Speaker 2: they're It doesn't look like there's anything really of significance
- 41:31Speaker 2: there other than they could be very entertaining to watch.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Yeah, some a little bit of good comedy and some
- 41:37Speaker 1: good chemistry between the actors.
- 41:39Speaker 2: Yeah, those talented people attached to it. So it comes
- 41:43Speaker 2: out May fifteenth. Next up, we have power ballad. Do
- 41:48Speaker 2: you want to take a shot.
- 41:50Speaker 1: At explain what this is again? I can tell you
- 41:54Speaker 1: what the Google synopsis is, because this one explained less
- 41:58Speaker 1: to me I feel like than the previous one.
- 42:02Speaker 2: I can take a shot if you prefer.
- 42:05Speaker 1: No, go ahead.
- 42:06Speaker 2: You know you're going to lunch into it. Please.
- 42:09Speaker 1: It is a songwriter and a wedding singer who tried
- 42:11Speaker 1: to write a song and it doesn't play super well.
- 42:14Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of kind of. So Paul Rudd plays this guy.
- 42:20Speaker 2: This is not done as a comedy, by the way.
- 42:21Speaker 2: This is a drama. Paul Rudd is a kind of
- 42:25Speaker 2: a never was, right, not a has been but it
- 42:30Speaker 2: never was, who is working as a wedding singer and
- 42:35Speaker 2: he meets a guy played by Nick Jonas who is
- 42:39Speaker 2: fittingly enough, a former boy band member who's kind of,
- 42:45Speaker 2: you know, wallowing in the troughs of celebrity, where like
- 42:51Speaker 2: his famous days are behind him because he's no longer
- 42:54Speaker 2: part of this boy band group. And while they're bonding,
- 42:58Speaker 2: Paul Rudd's character share with Nick Jonas's character this song idea,
- 43:04Speaker 2: like he starts playing this piece they never really finished.
- 43:09Speaker 2: Nick Jonas's character then goes on to finish that piece
- 43:12Speaker 2: and it becomes like the centerpiece of his comeback. So
- 43:16Speaker 2: he ends up having huge success largely on the back
- 43:19Speaker 2: of this song that he did not initially create. And
- 43:22Speaker 2: Paul Rudd's character wants credit. He feels like that song's
- 43:27Speaker 2: been stolen from him, that it was unfair for this
- 43:30Speaker 2: guy to take that without his permission and to make
- 43:34Speaker 2: that like the cornerstone of his successful comeback. So I
- 43:39Speaker 2: wrote that Essentially this is the same story as Headwig
- 43:44Speaker 2: and The Angry Inch, except there's no botched sex job
- 43:48Speaker 2: or sex change operation. There's no romance between the two characters.
- 43:54Speaker 2: But otherwise that's the plot of Headwig.
- 43:58Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, honestly, like, I like both Joe Jonas and
- 44:03Speaker 1: Paul Rudd as actors. I think they're both very talented.
- 44:05Speaker 2: What about Nick Jonas that one, because because he's the
- 44:08Speaker 2: one who's in it, I mean, Joe Jonahs, sure, that's great.
- 44:10Speaker 1: But yeah, make sure think of the right one. Yes,
- 44:15Speaker 1: I like Nick Jonas as an actor as well. Okay,
- 44:17Speaker 1: I think, okay, I think they're both very he was
- 44:21Speaker 1: I think in Jimunji. Yes, I think he's a very
- 44:27Speaker 1: good actor. I get their names confused because I was
- 44:31Speaker 1: never a Jonas Brothers fan. There were slightly after me.
- 44:33Speaker 2: You're talking to the guy who changes names all the time,
- 44:36Speaker 2: so I have no room to criticize.
- 44:38Speaker 1: Anyhow, Nick Joe Jonas Nick was a really good actor,
- 44:44Speaker 1: and so is Paul Rudd. But it just I don't know.
- 44:46Speaker 1: It feels like a.
- 44:47Speaker 2: Yeah, it comes out June fifth, but yeah, I couldn't
- 44:50Speaker 2: shake the fact that this was the basic story of
- 44:53Speaker 2: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but done without all the
- 44:57Speaker 2: headwig stuff. But that doesn't mean it's going to be
- 45:02Speaker 2: poorly done.
- 45:03Speaker 1: That is true. Next, we've got a trailer for a
- 45:07Speaker 1: TV series called Bait about an actor who auditions for
- 45:12Speaker 1: like his dream role and then spirals out of control.
- 45:15Speaker 1: And it looks very good, but it also hits really
- 45:18Speaker 1: close to home because when you get a big role
- 45:21Speaker 1: that you audition for and you really want it, who
- 45:23Speaker 1: it's rough after it's rough to let it go.
- 45:26Speaker 2: Riz Ahmed plays the lead character. He's also the showrunner.
- 45:29Speaker 2: I think on this show. It's for Amazon Prime Video,
- 45:33Speaker 2: and what seems to happen is that he's rumored. Whether
- 45:38Speaker 2: or not this has any basis in fact in the series,
- 45:40Speaker 2: I don't know, but he's rumored to be considered for
- 45:42Speaker 2: the role of James Bond, and that just kind of
- 45:44Speaker 2: spirals his life out of control once those rumors start
- 45:47Speaker 2: to circulate. And meanwhile, like he's a struggling actor. It's
- 45:52Speaker 2: not like he's someone who's been successful and then is
- 45:55Speaker 2: being considered. In fact, we don't know if he's actually
- 45:57Speaker 2: being considered for the role of James Bond, but that
- 46:00Speaker 2: starts to circulate and it really impacts his life. It
- 46:04Speaker 2: looks very funny, and for someone who is not a
- 46:09Speaker 2: professional actor, I didn't have any any emotional or psychological
- 46:14Speaker 2: hangouts from watching this. Uh. It comes out March twenty fifth,
- 46:19Speaker 2: and I might check this out because, like the trailer's
- 46:23Speaker 2: very charming and over the top.
- 46:26Speaker 1: Yeah he is sorry. Rizamett is also the person who's
- 46:31Speaker 1: playing Hamlet in the New Hamlet. Jonathan and I are
- 46:33Speaker 1: both excited about.
- 46:34Speaker 2: Yeah, and there I want to say, there's things like
- 46:38Speaker 2: the reactions to him playing Hamlet are also informing some
- 46:44Speaker 2: of the comedy in this because you can tell like
- 46:46Speaker 2: there's like this whole like reaction of wait, James Bond
- 46:51Speaker 2: supposed to be a white guy like, which is exactly
- 46:54Speaker 2: the reactions we saw with initial release of Hamlet trailers, right,
- 46:59Speaker 2: So I feel like he's taking some of that experience
- 47:03Speaker 2: from the reactions people had when they found out he
- 47:06Speaker 2: was playing Hamlet and used that to help inform and
- 47:10Speaker 2: present it in a comedy. But still it's like it's
- 47:13Speaker 2: commenting on that reaction, and I'm like, how brilliant because
- 47:17Speaker 2: the way to do that through comedy it pokes at
- 47:22Speaker 2: the inherent absurdity of racist reactions.
- 47:26Speaker 1: Yes, it also has a couple other geeky fun actors,
- 47:28Speaker 1: Guz Khan who was in Task Master the UK version,
- 47:32Speaker 1: and Redo Ariya who was in Triangle Agency. So it
- 47:39Speaker 1: just looks like fun. It looks like fun and maybe
- 47:42Speaker 1: for me anxiety inducing, but mostly fun.
- 47:45Speaker 2: Yeah. I look forward to checking this out because when
- 47:48Speaker 2: I saw the trailer, I found it very engaging, So
- 47:52Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that. There's a trailer now that
- 47:55Speaker 2: was just added immediately before we started recording this, and
- 48:00Speaker 2: there's one other at the end which was even even
- 48:02Speaker 2: after that. This one is a trailer for a mini
- 48:06Speaker 2: series on Netflix called Something Very Bad Is going to happen,
- 48:12Speaker 2: which spoiler.
- 48:14Speaker 1: Yeah. It honestly, it kind of feels like ready or not.
- 48:19Speaker 2: Maybe. Yeah, there's definitely some ready or not vibes going
- 48:22Speaker 2: in because it's about it's about a couple that gets
- 48:24Speaker 2: engaged and it is about to get married like super fast,
- 48:29Speaker 2: and there's a whole segment with like I am assuming
- 48:32Speaker 2: the male fiance's family that is very unsettling and off putting.
- 48:39Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of ready or not get outish, but
- 48:43Speaker 1: it's done by the creative team behind Stranger Things some
- 48:46Speaker 1: of them.
- 48:47Speaker 2: Yeah, some of them, so not all of them. Yeah,
- 48:50Speaker 2: I love that. I read the logline for this. It
- 48:54Speaker 2: talks about how it's a couple whose wedding is derailed
- 48:56Speaker 2: by something very bad, and like, well, I mean in
- 49:00Speaker 2: the title there's like that. The trailer looks very atmospheric
- 49:06Speaker 2: and like the trailer's cut in a fast paced way.
- 49:09Speaker 2: I have no idea if that's what the actual series
- 49:11Speaker 2: is going to feel like, but it comes out March
- 49:14Speaker 2: twenty sixth, So you can watch the first episode of
- 49:17Speaker 2: Bait on the twenty fifth, and then something very bad
- 49:20Speaker 2: is going to happen on the twenty sixth.
- 49:22Speaker 1: Yeah, the next trailer is for Big Mistakes, which is
- 49:25Speaker 1: by the Shit's Creek Team. It's about a brother and
- 49:28Speaker 1: a sister who get caught up in crimes.
- 49:32Speaker 2: Yeah, Dan Lee Levy and Taylor or Tega play the siblings.
- 49:37Speaker 2: By the way, did this at all make you think
- 49:40Speaker 2: of Sunny Nights, which was the that's the Will Forte
- 49:46Speaker 2: Darcy Cardon series that whether it's the brother sister who
- 49:49Speaker 2: get caught up in crime in Australia.
- 49:52Speaker 1: It didn't. But now that you've said it, I can
- 49:54Speaker 1: totally see it.
- 49:55Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just like, Okay, it's two different series about
- 49:59Speaker 2: sibling who have a rough relationship with each other, both
- 50:04Speaker 2: getting caught up in organized crime. And I'm like, is
- 50:08Speaker 2: this just one of those weird things where you get
- 50:09Speaker 2: deep impact in Armageddon at the same time?
- 50:13Speaker 1: Maybe maybe or or The Illusionist and the oh, the Prestige,
- 50:21Speaker 1: the Prestige, I would say, the Magician, that's not right.
- 50:23Speaker 2: Yeah, the Prestige, it's the Turn And so yeah, Levy
- 50:28Speaker 2: plays a priest in this who's an unconventional priest, I
- 50:33Speaker 2: would say, And I mean it looks funny, it looks compelling,
- 50:39Speaker 2: but yeah, the fact that it's another show about siblings
- 50:44Speaker 2: getting caught up in organized crime just struck me as funny.
- 50:48Speaker 2: This one comes to Netflix on April ninth. Next up,
- 50:52Speaker 2: we got a trailer for Everyone Is Lying to You
- 50:56Speaker 2: for Money. This is a film slash kind of documentary
- 50:59Speaker 2: about cryptocurrency and how, within the opinion of the filmmaker,
- 51:04Speaker 2: cryptocurrency is mostly smoke and mirrors that's perpetuated like a
- 51:08Speaker 2: giant pyramid scheme where early adopters and influencers get rich
- 51:13Speaker 2: at the expense of everybody else. And all I can
- 51:17Speaker 2: say is personally, I agree with that, Like, I feel
- 51:20Speaker 2: like that's pretty accurate in many cases, maybe not all,
- 51:24Speaker 2: but enough for it to be relevant. What I think
- 51:28Speaker 2: is interesting is this film was made by Ben McKenzie. Now,
- 51:32Speaker 2: if that name doesn't sound familiar to you, if you
- 51:34Speaker 2: watched the show Gotham, he played Commissioner Gordon, So he's
- 51:40Speaker 2: actually the guy who's making this He's not just appearing
- 51:43Speaker 2: in it. He's making this movie. He's a cryptoskeptic. He
- 51:46Speaker 2: also wrote a book, and this movie's partly based off
- 51:49Speaker 2: that book. The book is titled Easy Money, Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism,
- 51:53Speaker 2: and the Golden Age of Fraud. So a celebrity who
- 51:58Speaker 2: was one of the few who did not end up
- 52:01Speaker 2: endorsing some sort of cryptocurrency. So I just thought that
- 52:04Speaker 2: was interesting. It comes out April seventeenth, so it does
- 52:06Speaker 2: have a geek connection, both in the form of cryptocurrency,
- 52:11Speaker 2: which I think is pretty geeky, and it was made
- 52:14Speaker 2: by a guy who was the central character in a
- 52:18Speaker 2: geek series. But that's not the only documentary we have
- 52:22Speaker 2: on our list this week. We also have another one.
- 52:25Speaker 1: It's called It's Dorothy, about the Wizard of Oz and
- 52:31Speaker 1: the cultural phenomena of getting to play Dorothy Gale in
- 52:34Speaker 1: The Wizard of Oz, told from the perspective of a
- 52:36Speaker 1: bunch of different actors from a bunch of different backgrounds
- 52:39Speaker 1: who have all gotten to play her in kind of
- 52:41Speaker 1: like the cultural aspect, the social aspect, the as racism
- 52:47Speaker 1: aspect that some of them have encountered.
- 52:50Speaker 2: Yeah, the personal impact on their own lives. Yeah, there's
- 52:56Speaker 2: one version of Wizard of Oz that I despise and
- 53:02Speaker 2: is not the fault of the actor playing Dorothy. But boy, howdy,
- 53:07Speaker 2: are you sure.
- 53:07Speaker 1: It's not because you also haven't liked that actor in
- 53:09Speaker 1: the past.
- 53:10Speaker 2: I'm talking about the Muppets.
- 53:12Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you were talking about ten Man.
- 53:14Speaker 2: No, I'm talking, well, okay, did they Is Zoe in
- 53:18Speaker 2: this one too? Is Zoe in this documentary? No? In
- 53:21Speaker 2: the documentary, I didn't see her name listed. So that's
- 53:25Speaker 2: why I wasn't worried about that, like, because I don't
- 53:26Speaker 2: think they're gonna talk about ten Man much. I do
- 53:29Speaker 2: hate that very much. And Zoe Deschanel played Dorothy or
- 53:34Speaker 2: I think DG is what they called her in the
- 53:37Speaker 2: mini series. But I do hate that mini series because
- 53:39Speaker 2: I felt like it was a total missed opportunity. But no,
- 53:42Speaker 2: I was talking about the Muppets version of Wizard of
- 53:45Speaker 2: Oz because that was in like a low point in
- 53:49Speaker 2: my opinion for Muppets output. That and Muppets from Space
- 53:53Speaker 2: were like two projects that just to me were total misses.
- 53:57Speaker 2: I also admit, like I am a classic Muppets kind
- 54:02Speaker 2: of guy, and so that's probably part of what informs that.
- 54:06Speaker 2: But uh, again, I don't want to blame the actor
- 54:08Speaker 2: who played Dorothy in that. It's just not a good move.
- 54:13Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's not one of the stronger Muppet movies.
- 54:15Speaker 1: It's I didn't hate Muppets from Space, but I did
- 54:19Speaker 1: see it with a bunch of kids, so their enjoyment
- 54:22Speaker 1: colored my experience because I took my summer camp to
- 54:26Speaker 1: see it when I was teaching to hear. But also
- 54:31Speaker 1: I watched the recent like It's a Wonderful Life Muppet
- 54:37Speaker 1: Christmas movie, and that was so weird. Everything seems good comparatively.
- 54:43Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like the high heights of Muppets are amazing.
- 54:48Speaker 2: The low lows of Muppets are also amazing, but not
- 54:53Speaker 2: in a good way.
- 54:54Speaker 1: No, no, but it does look like an interesting and
- 54:58Speaker 1: interesting documentary.
- 55:00Speaker 2: Yeah, comes out June seventh.
- 55:02Speaker 1: Yeah, and last, I added this very last minute because
- 55:05Speaker 1: we have talked about it before. I just need to
- 55:07Speaker 1: say one thing. We got another trailer from Malcolm in
- 55:10Speaker 1: the Middle. Life is still unfair. It looks funny, but
- 55:13Speaker 1: I am amazed how much the new Dewey actor looks
- 55:18Speaker 1: like the old Dewey actor. Like I had to go
- 55:20Speaker 1: on a deep dive to determine if it was in
- 55:24Speaker 1: fact the same person.
- 55:26Speaker 2: I get that, Like, when I saw it, I was like, oh,
- 55:28Speaker 2: this guy. I mean, because it was one of those
- 55:30Speaker 2: where I started questioning it where I was like, maybe
- 55:32Speaker 2: I'm thinking of a different project where when the actress
- 55:36Speaker 2: wasn't middle or something. Yeah, that would have been the
- 55:39Speaker 2: one that I would have guessed, because, like I was
- 55:42Speaker 2: glad to see a lot more of Brian Cranston in
- 55:44Speaker 2: this one.
- 55:45Speaker 1: A lot more.
- 55:46Speaker 2: Yeah, now you see a lot more of Brian Kranston.
- 55:51Speaker 1: Like in the original series he was kind of noted
- 55:54Speaker 1: for walking around in his tidy whiteies. This was Yeah,
- 55:58Speaker 1: I guess they had bit the bull because they weren't there.
- 56:04Speaker 2: Yeah, no, there's I mean, it's some gross out humor too.
- 56:07Speaker 2: If you if you have issues with Harry Dude's getting deherrified, Yeah,
- 56:13Speaker 2: I mean.
- 56:13Speaker 1: You don't see anything untoward.
- 56:16Speaker 2: No, but it's like it's so it's not just implied.
- 56:21Speaker 2: I mean it's overt. It's just that you can't see.
- 56:23Speaker 2: It's like it makes me think of like the Austin
- 56:28Speaker 2: Powers movies where they would have the series of jokes
- 56:30Speaker 2: where something is just conveniently blocking what would be nudity.
- 56:34Speaker 2: It's like that.
- 56:36Speaker 1: Yeah, but it does give you a good reason to
- 56:38Speaker 1: be like, oh, I see why Malcolm doesn't want anybody
- 56:41Speaker 1: to know about his family. I get it.
- 56:42Speaker 2: Yeah, but then his girlfriend is like so deeply upset
- 56:49Speaker 2: that he has not told her that he had brothers.
- 56:52Speaker 2: Like that's a great moment. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like
- 56:55Speaker 2: it's going to be a fun revisiting of that series
- 57:00Speaker 2: and like being very true to the spirit of the
- 57:03Speaker 2: original series, which is cool.
- 57:05Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a few things coming out on Hulu that
- 57:07Speaker 1: I'm super excited for.
- 57:09Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, all right, well you know what time
- 57:13Speaker 2: it is. It's time for us to turn down this
- 57:17Speaker 2: dark and dusty hallway to go to John Boy's horror Hutch,
- 57:23Speaker 2: which I'm told this time is filled with spider man.
- 57:28Speaker 1: Oh well, I can deal with that.
- 57:30Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because they're all man sized spiders.
- 57:32Speaker 1: All right, No, no, as long, No.
- 57:37Speaker 2: That's I don't know what else you I don't know
- 57:39Speaker 2: what else you were thinking.
- 57:40Speaker 1: I mean, like Andrew Garfield, and.
- 57:43Speaker 2: One of them is named Andrew Garfield, like a person
- 57:47Speaker 2: in Oh no, he's not a person. No, I mean.
- 57:49Speaker 1: Hopefully has left all of their web shooting outside, because
- 57:52Speaker 1: you still don't want to walk through their webs either.
- 57:55Speaker 2: Last time I saw him, he was eating chicken with
- 57:58Speaker 2: all eight arms and on a date with this very
- 58:01Speaker 2: charming comedian from England. But anyway, all right, here we
- 58:05Speaker 2: go into john Boys horror Hutch, and first up, first
- 58:07Speaker 2: of all I have to ask Ariel, did you watch
- 58:09Speaker 2: any of these trailers? I tried, Yeah, these are these
- 58:13Speaker 2: are a lot. Okay.
- 58:15Speaker 1: So the first one I made it halfway through and
- 58:17Speaker 1: then I was like, I gotta step away.
- 58:19Speaker 2: Okay. So the first one is for a movie called
- 58:21Speaker 2: Broken Bird, which is actually based off a short horror
- 58:27Speaker 2: film it's like thirteen minutes long titled Sibyl, came out
- 58:32Speaker 2: a few years It's actually available on YouTube. But be
- 58:35Speaker 2: warned if if you seek out the short horror film
- 58:38Speaker 2: sybyl on YouTube in case this sort of thing squeaks
- 58:41Speaker 2: you out or it's just a thing that you don't
- 58:43Speaker 2: want to. There is full frontal nudity in that in
- 58:49Speaker 2: that horror short, and it's a it's a dead dude,
- 58:54Speaker 2: so just let you know. But it follows this character
- 58:59Speaker 2: named Sybil who as a child lost her family in
- 59:03Speaker 2: a car accident. She was the only survivor in a
- 59:05Speaker 2: car accident. As an adult, she works in a mortuary
- 59:10Speaker 2: and finds that she is able to connect better with
- 59:13Speaker 2: people after they have passed than living people. But it
- 59:20Speaker 2: goes further than that, as she develops kind of a
- 59:22Speaker 2: fixation upon the corpse of a young man she kind
- 59:27Speaker 2: of becomes enamored of this dead guy, so kind of
- 59:33Speaker 2: has like a necrophilia thread running through it, which I
- 59:36Speaker 2: find dead boring.
- 59:39Speaker 1: I just I find it squiky.
- 59:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I figure that this would be bordering on the
- 59:45Speaker 2: cannibalism thing for you, bordering.
- 59:47Speaker 1: On cannibalism, but also like it's there's no consent there.
- 59:53Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. Yeah, so guy's dead tired.
- 59:56Speaker 1: Because she wants to start a family with him.
- 59:59Speaker 2: Yeah. I it it's, you know, a psychological horror film
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: where it's she is, she is not mentally well. It
- 1:00:09Speaker 2: has a kind of art house sort of appearance to it,
- 1:00:12Speaker 2: like very independent horror film kind of look to it,
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: but high budget, like not not like Scrabbling or anything.
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: Comes out April twenty fourth. I don't know that. I
- 1:00:24Speaker 2: mean it looks interesting. Maybe i'll see it. I did
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: watch the short horror film, so maybe I'll watch this too,
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: because the short horror film is I mean, it gets
- 1:00:33Speaker 2: its point across, but it's but it's short. It's thirteen minutes,
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: and I'm curious what this full length feature does and
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: how much of a departure it is from the material
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: that was the the you know, the core of the idea.
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: It sounds like you have more hope for it than
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: you did for Night Swim, So that's.
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: Yes, yes, this is well. It's also like it's also
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: a short horror film that I feel is way more
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: disturbing the Night Swim was. Next up, we got a
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: full trailer for Obsession, which we talked about the teaser
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: a while back, where it was a guy sitting in
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: his car on the phone with tech support for this
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: wish making novelty he had purchased. So this is the
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: story of a guy who is shy. He's developed a
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: very strong crush on a young woman, but he cannot
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: muster up the courage to just talk to her and
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: to see if maybe there's a way of like seeing
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: asking her out, like he just doesn't have the guts
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: to do it. So he ends up buying this little
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: novelty wish thing that turns out it actually works, and
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: he makes a wish that she loves him more than
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: anyone else on the planet. And yeah, which is why
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: it's called obsession, right, Like, at first, it seems like
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: it's the perfect world, like this young woman now loves
- 1:01:59Speaker 2: him wholehearted, but it starts to come out in psychotic ways,
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: so the unintended consequences. You know, to be careful what
- 1:02:06Speaker 2: you wish for a story. It looks like it's really
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: well made and really dark, and I am here for it.
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: It comes out May fifteenth. It's my kind of movie.
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: It does feel a little cheekier. I think of the
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: horror trailers this week, that is the one that shows
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: the most promise to me.
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: It definitely has elements of humor to it, whereas the
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: other ones don't. Really. Yeah, so this is my kind
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: of horror movie, but the next one is really my
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: kind of hardes movie.
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: Say this next one's gonna be your faves and.
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: Very much not Ariels, not anyone. Maybe I can get
- 1:02:46Speaker 2: friend of the show shay Lee to go see it
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: with me. Actually I did tell her. We went on
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: a walk with my dog earlier this week, and I
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: was like, promise me that you won't go see Hokum
- 1:02:56Speaker 2: without me because I need someone to see it. So
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: we are talking Hocum. We talk about a teaser trailer
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: about this earlier. This is the movie in which Adam
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: Scott plays a man who travels to Ireland in order
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: to scatter his parents' ashes. His parents always wanted to
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: visit Ireland that they passed away. He's going to scatter
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: their ashes there, and he books a room in a
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: place that very well may be haunted. Also, the people
- 1:03:22Speaker 2: are really weird, in that classic horror way where you
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: go to a small town and everyone seems a bit
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: off and suspicious. It's got lots of scary and creepy
- 1:03:33Speaker 2: imagery in it. I held out hope that this movie
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: is going to have a lot of Irish folklore elements
- 1:03:40Speaker 2: to it, but I'm starting to get the feeling that
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: if there is any, it's going to be a light dusting,
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: which is kind of disappointing to me. Maybe I'm wrong,
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: Maybe there's way deeper Irish folklore elements woven into this
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: than I suspect.
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: I mean, it is called Hocum, so it might just
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: be a giant con.
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be very well could be. That would
- 1:04:04Speaker 2: be The M also kind of makes it look like
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: it's I mean, you know m's and upside w's are
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: the same thing, but it looks like it might be
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: an upside W on purpose, like it could be like
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: to stand for a vivich or something. But I don't
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: know if there's gonna be that much Irish folklore in it,
- 1:04:22Speaker 2: but I kind of hope there is. It comes out
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: May first what maybe it is a giant con but
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: this trailer.
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: Sold me are Puka's Irish folklore.
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: Okay, that's why I was thinking that it's a possibility,
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: because there is a rabbit headed.
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: Visions terrifying. Yeah, it's it's worse than Donnie Darko. It's terrifying.
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: It should be, but it is.
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: I'm I am on board. It looks atmospheric, af and
- 1:04:50Speaker 2: that is my That really is my kind of horror movie.
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: And then finally not my kind of horror movie, and
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: we're just gonna take a moment to talk about it
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: is thrash, which I think that the name of this
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: film changed like twice before it got to the stage.
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: But basic plot is a hurricane hits a coastal city,
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: the city gets flooded, sharks starts swimming through the streets.
- 1:05:15Speaker 2: The protagonist is a young woman who's pregnant and she's
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: determined to keep her unborn baby safe. And also I
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: think maybe goes from unborn to being born. If the
- 1:05:24Speaker 2: trailer is anything to rely upon, that happens in the
- 1:05:26Speaker 2: course of the film, and it looks kind of like
- 1:05:29Speaker 2: Shark Nato, but without the Nato. You know, this seems
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: to be based upon a bunch like after every massive
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: storm that hits a coastal city, you tend to see
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: these images of what appeared to be sharks swimming through
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: the streets. But in every case besides one, it's been
- 1:05:49Speaker 2: proven to just be photoshopped hoaxes. And in that one
- 1:05:54Speaker 2: other case, it was never positively identified to be a shark.
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: It could have been a large fish, but there was
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: a fish that had been swinging around someone's backyard. So
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: you know, it's interesting that it's taking this idea that
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: has never been proven actually happened and turned that into
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: an animal attack. Movie comes out on Netflix on April tenth.
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: I will probably not watch it because I had to
- 1:06:20Speaker 2: watch Shark Nato and I'm still recovering from that.
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: This feels closer to like meth Gator is what it's.
- 1:06:26Speaker 2: Called, which I guess was was like Cocaine Bear that
- 1:06:31Speaker 2: was coming.
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: In before and a little more serious. Meth Gator wasn't
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: funny at all. It was just about flooding that happened
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: in all the Gator in Louisiana, and all the gators
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: came and attacked and got on meth I am interested.
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: I'm not interested in watching thrash, but I am fascinated
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: that they got a couple of big name actors. Phoebe Denver,
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: who was the star of the first season of Bridgerden
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: and then I think you pronounce his name, Jaimen Hansu,
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: who has done all kinds of stuff including like Guardians
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: of the Galaxy.
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: Are both yeah, yeah, I and hey, if this is
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: your thing, embrace it. It's just not my thing. I
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: watched this trailer and I was like, Okay, it's like
- 1:07:19Speaker 2: a serious Shark Nado. It's like it's not done. It
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: doesn't look like it's a movie made by committee the
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: way Shark Nato clearly was. Yeah, but that doesn't mean
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: that it that it appeals to me. It just means
- 1:07:32Speaker 2: I don't resent it the way I resent Shark Nado.
- 1:07:35Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. Well I don't want to resent any
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: of your lovely spider tenants. So I think maybe I
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: need to leave your.
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, well you can. Hey, hey, Andrew, can you
- 1:07:47Speaker 2: get the door for us? Thanks, Bud? Okay, all right,
- 1:07:52Speaker 2: well now we're out. Well we can talk about the
- 1:07:54Speaker 2: stuff that's just on our lineup.
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: Yes, And the first thing we've got is a trailer
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: for a I honestly don't remember if it's a movie
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: or a series, because I'm very bad at that.
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: It's a movie. It's a movie that's an adaptation of
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: a book, which is what if.
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: A Nola Holmes was too grown up for you?
- 1:08:17Speaker 2: Yeah, like I wanted to enjoy a Nola Holmes, but
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: I was really hoping that Nola would be like ten ten.
- 1:08:23Speaker 1: Yeah. It's called Flavia, and it's about a girl whose
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: dad gets whose dad is Martin Freeman played by Sorry
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: played by Martin Freeman, and guess framed for murder, and
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: then she gets to solve it, which is something she's
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: keen to do.
- 1:08:40Speaker 2: Yeah. She's a precocious young lady who loves chemistry and
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: mood or more precisely, solving murder. She's a child detective.
- 1:08:51Speaker 2: And other people who are in this besides Martin Freeman
- 1:08:54Speaker 2: are Jonathan Price and Toby Jones, and I love all
- 1:08:57Speaker 2: three of those actors.
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks cute.
- 1:09:02Speaker 2: Yeah. The book series is by an author named Alan Bradley.
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: Uh and it comes to Sky Cinema and now in
- 1:09:11Speaker 2: the UK on April fourth. Not sure when we in
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: the US will get our dirt, dirty, little grubby hands
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: on it.
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: I hope, I hope we will get a chance to.
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks it looks like a cute family film,
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: Like it's the kind of family film that comes out
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: of a place like the UK because it's centered around
- 1:09:29Speaker 2: the premise of solving a murder, something that family films
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: in America typically would avoid. Yes.
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: Yeah, The next trailer we got is for a film
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: called right Remarkably Bright Creatures.
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: Yeah. Also also an adaptation.
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: Yeah. And it is about uh, I think she's a
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: janitor at an.
- 1:09:51Speaker 2: Aquarium, Yeah, a grieving widow too.
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: Yeah, whose son has gone missing, like for a long time,
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: and the giant Pacific octopus that helps her solve that mystery,
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: named Marcellus, Marcellus, not Marcella Shell.
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: No, not to Marcellus. Yeah. And it's the gag in
- 1:10:15Speaker 2: the trailer is it's Marcellus thinking that some human beings
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: can be remarkably bright creatures, not that the octopus is
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: a remarkably bright creature, but that that most humans are dumb,
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: but a few are remarkably bright. This is based off
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: of Shelby Van Pelt's novel comes out on Netflix on
- 1:10:35Speaker 2: May eighth. The trailer is really more of a teaser,
- 1:10:39Speaker 2: but it is cute.
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: It also stars Sally Field in Colmini.
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, Sally Field plays plays Tova, the main character
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: or the main the human main character.
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: Yeah, just just a whole bunch of of good actors.
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: Who is it that's the voice of Marcellus. I remember
- 1:11:00Speaker 2: it's an actor of renown, and I don't remember who
- 1:11:02Speaker 2: it is.
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: I don't it's not.
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: I remember looking it up and I forgot to write
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: it down.
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: I don't remember, because like Cole Meeni is in it,
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: Lewis Pullman's in it, Dan Payne is in it, but
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: none of them are credited as Marcellus.
- 1:11:23Speaker 2: Oh, Alfred Molina. Oh yeah, so an actor of some renown.
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: Yes, I mean those other ones I mentioned.
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: Are two, Yes, they are. I was just saying specifically.
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: The actor was as Marcella's is someone I had heard of.
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: But I mean it looks cute. I know. I tend
- 1:11:41Speaker 1: to stay away from animal movies and OCTOPI this is
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: an elderly octopus. By the way, they don't live very long,
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: so it does make me worried that he's going to
- 1:11:49Speaker 1: die before he can see the resolution. I don't know,
- 1:11:52Speaker 1: I've not read the book.
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: I just I fear Yeah, because their life spent tends
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: to be like two to three years something like that,
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: and they are remarkably bright creatures. Yeah.
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: I always think this one has lived far longer than that,
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: so it's not entirely based in reality.
- 1:12:07Speaker 2: Yeah, but I love the videos of people who like
- 1:12:10Speaker 2: divers who have encounters with an octopus and then on
- 1:12:15Speaker 2: subsequent dives, the same octopus will come up to them
- 1:12:18Speaker 2: again and again. I'm just like, that's just cute. I
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: don't know what's actually going on here. It may not
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: be as benign as it appears, but our perception is
- 1:12:28Speaker 2: that there's a bond forming I have all.
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: I mean, they're incredibly bright creatures. There's tons of like
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: if you were going to say that there was an
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: alien living on Earth that those in dolphins.
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: Right, there's a reason that Cthulhu looks the way Cthulhu does. Yeah.
- 1:12:43Speaker 1: Yeah, but I have a lot of friends who like,
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: won't eat They'll eat klamary because it's good, they won't
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: eat octopus because they're too smart.
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: Yeah, I won't eat octopus because I'm like, I might die.
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: But also I think I've only ever had it once
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: and that was before or my allergy had developed it,
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: before it had evolved into its final form.
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be like you getting Caught in that
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: Town and the TV show.
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: From Yeah, that's about all I know about from is
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: that it's a series. That's the premise is that there's
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: this mysterious town and once you go into it, you
- 1:13:20Speaker 2: can't get out, Like if you try to leave, you
- 1:13:23Speaker 2: find yourself looped back to where you start from. And
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: also at night, dangers emerge from the woods and will
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: kill you if they catch you out. That's all I
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: know about this series, but it's coming up for season four.
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: That's a lot of the series. I watch season one
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: because it was free or I watched like the first
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: four episodes of season one. It is very good. I
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: think you would very much enjoy it. I didn't continue
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: watching it because it was on Stars and I didn't
- 1:13:50Speaker 1: have a way to watch that at the time.
- 1:13:52Speaker 2: Yeah, and well now it's on MGM Plus, which it's
- 1:13:55Speaker 2: one of the many services I don't subscribe to. But
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: I agree with you, like based on the trailer and
- 1:14:00Speaker 2: the premise. It is incredibly intriguing to me. It's just
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: frustrating that I don't subscribe to that service. Well.
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: And so it stars Michael from Lost, and it's also
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: done by some of the creative team behind Lost. The
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: first The first at least the first half of the
- 1:14:16Speaker 1: first season deals with like people accidentally wander into this
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: town and then they can't get out. It's there's not
- 1:14:22Speaker 1: like really warning signs because there's something supernatural going on.
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: The creatures that come out at night. This is it's
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: not a spoiler because one season four and it's it's
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: very really revealed very early on. They take the form
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: of people that you know to try to lure you out,
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: and the town has a curfew on it because you know,
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: like if you aren't home and you leave your kids
- 1:14:47Speaker 1: in a house that's unlocked, it's likely they're going to
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: be got. The murders are gruesome. It's not so gory
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: that I can't handle it, but they are. It's not
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: it's not like somebody secks your soul and you die
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: peacefully in your sleep.
- 1:14:59Speaker 2: Right, It's it's gotcha. Yeah, there's violence.
- 1:15:01Speaker 1: There's violence, there's creepy, there's intrigue, and then there's also
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: the like it's one of those shows that makes you
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: talk because like it starts with a family getting stuck
- 1:15:14Speaker 1: in this town and trying to get out, and now
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: they have to be placed, and like obviously, even though
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: everybody in this town is stuck in a similar situation,
- 1:15:23Speaker 1: whether they want to be or not, Like, there's politics
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: going on, so how do you keep the peace? And
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: then there's a dad who like is really struggling with
- 1:15:34Speaker 1: everything and gets drunk and missus curfew and because he's
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: not home, his wife and his kid die and then
- 1:15:42Speaker 1: they he can't leave town. They can't throw him out
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: of town and he's a danger, So what do you do? Right,
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of like moral quandary.
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: Yeah, like a like a little mini society has to form,
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: and then they have to figure out what their rules are.
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean it's harder because like you could say,
- 1:16:02Speaker 1: you're a danger to this town and we've asked you
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: to clean up your act. You need to leave, but
- 1:16:06Speaker 1: they can't. So in jail forever, do you I won't
- 1:16:10Speaker 1: spoil what they do in case you do watch.
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: It, do you lash them to a tree and let
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: whatever comes out? At night get him or yeah.
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: I mean he was the cause for two people to die,
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: one of them being a kid. It's very interesting. I
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: think it's very well done. We definitely had interest in it,
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: and I might eventually, when I decided to switch over
- 1:16:32Speaker 1: streaming services watch it again because I do very much
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: like it.
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: I figure I'll just wait around long enough for all
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: media companies to eventually be one media company, and then
- 1:16:41Speaker 2: it'll be on whatever streaming service is available. I say
- 1:16:45Speaker 2: that only partially facetiously. I mean I would totally check
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: this out if I had him GM plus, I just don't,
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: and if I ever decide, I'll probably make it like
- 1:16:55Speaker 2: an add on to an existing because I think it's
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: one of those where you can add it on to
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: Amazon if you wanted to. I do that. I think
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: the only thing I used to do that was Shutter,
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: but I finally stopped because I just hadn't watched a
- 1:17:07Speaker 2: horror movie in so long. Uh. I do that with
- 1:17:11Speaker 2: a Broadway and British shows. I have those as add
- 1:17:16Speaker 2: ons to my Amazon. But it's one of those again
- 1:17:19Speaker 2: where you're like, how many of these am I going
- 1:17:21Speaker 2: to add on? Until I'm like, I can't financially justify
- 1:17:25Speaker 2: having this many streaming services.
- 1:17:26Speaker 1: Right now, I have Peacock because we got it for
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: Super we got sorry, the Big Game, the Big Game,
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: not not not the basketball game that we also can't say.
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: Yes, okay, Jonathan, future Jonathan, Now you have to beep
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: her twice.
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: Yes, I'm sorry, but we kept it for Ponies and
- 1:17:47Speaker 1: the Burbs. But like we are, we are bouncing around
- 1:17:50Speaker 1: more so we've got to get Hulu.
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: And have you watched The Burbs yet?
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: No?
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: Okay, well I think Ponies first. I think you're gonna
- 1:17:58Speaker 2: dig it. Well, I really like the first episode. I'll
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: be curious to hear what you think. If you don't
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: like it, you don't like it, that's fine. But like
- 1:18:05Speaker 2: I'm like excited by what I saw.
- 1:18:08Speaker 1: But an Apple is an add on on Amazon for me,
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: because that's just how we got it.
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: I have that as a standalone.
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't have any Apple products.
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: So neither do I. But I want ahead and do
- 1:18:20Speaker 2: it anyway.
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: But I love their TV. I really like their TV.
- 1:18:24Speaker 2: The things that I've watched as far, I've very much enjoyed.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: They make good stuff.
- 1:18:28Speaker 1: Yeah, but I want to get but I'm two things
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: I want to get National Theater because the things that
- 1:18:38Speaker 1: I want to watch there I can't figure out how
- 1:18:40Speaker 1: to rent individually. Because I want to watch the The
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: Sleeping Beauty Opera next. I think it's called Text and
- 1:18:51Speaker 1: then from is a series that I liked enough that
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: I might just buy that series.
- 1:18:58Speaker 2: Next, that's gonna be the one that's like a high
- 1:19:00Speaker 2: Hello High yes song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that
- 1:19:04Speaker 2: song so much. I saw a very critical review about
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: that musical, but that doesn't necessarily mean you wouldn't enjoy it.
- 1:19:13Speaker 2: It just means the person Mickey Joe Theater did not
- 1:19:16Speaker 2: like it.
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: Well, I will look up his review to help inform
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: on whether I should go down that route. I mean,
- 1:19:21Speaker 1: National Theater does a lot of stuff that I find
- 1:19:23Speaker 1: interesting in clips at least.
- 1:19:25Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, there's a whole nepotism angle to it too
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: that you'll need to like. Maybe they wouldn't have done
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: that show if it weren't for the fact of who
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: was running the theater at the time kind of thing. Okay, cool,
- 1:19:38Speaker 2: but still it's still interesting to look into. You should
- 1:19:41Speaker 2: do a deep dive in Mickey Joe Theater anyway, because
- 1:19:43Speaker 2: he's entertaining I'll.
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: Give myself some full disclosure before I dive in.
- 1:19:49Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also good to it's good to be informed
- 1:19:52Speaker 2: before you make another streaming purchase. Right But Yeah, from
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: Season four comes out April nineteenth on MGM Plus. And
- 1:20:01Speaker 2: now we'll talk briefly about we got another full trailer
- 1:20:04Speaker 2: for Disclosure Day. The only reason I included this, because
- 1:20:07Speaker 2: we have talked about Disclosure Day a couple times before,
- 1:20:10Speaker 2: is that I feel like this trailer finally gave us
- 1:20:14Speaker 2: the basic premise for the film, which is that you
- 1:20:17Speaker 2: have this man who comes into possession of information that
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: shows the US government is aware of the existence of aliens,
- 1:20:29Speaker 2: and he decides that this information needs to be disseminated
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: around the world, whereas the US government and the aliens disagree.
- 1:20:40Speaker 1: Yeah, that's about it. It still looks interesting to me.
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: I'm still looking forward to it.
- 1:20:44Speaker 2: Yeah, I like this trailer the most out of the
- 1:20:47Speaker 2: three that we've seen, Like one was a teaser and
- 1:20:50Speaker 2: then we had a different full trailer. But this one
- 1:20:52Speaker 2: I felt sold me better on the film than the
- 1:20:55Speaker 2: other two did.
- 1:20:56Speaker 1: It gives you a little more idea, but it still
- 1:20:58Speaker 1: doesn't tell you, like you can't piece it together.
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want any more than what I've got.
- 1:21:04Speaker 2: I'm just saying like, this is the one that made
- 1:21:05Speaker 2: me feel like, Okay, I do want to make sure
- 1:21:07Speaker 2: I check this out. And it feels like a spectacle
- 1:21:10Speaker 2: movie in some regards, so I feel like seeing it
- 1:21:13Speaker 2: on the big screen would be better than watching it
- 1:21:16Speaker 2: at home. It comes out June twelfth.
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay. Now we get two trailers that gave me
- 1:21:22Speaker 1: very much like Charlton hestoncore.
- 1:21:25Speaker 2: Yeah, the historical epic saga type films, right.
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: So like Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Her kind of stuff.
- 1:21:32Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, totally. First one is a movie called Desert Warrior.
- 1:21:37Speaker 2: This movie, by the way, they've finished shooting this movie
- 1:21:40Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two. Yeah, had a very very long
- 1:21:46Speaker 2: post production process, and then it took a while to
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: get a distributor, and it's all start.
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: Coming out at a very interesting time for the story.
- 1:21:55Speaker 2: Yeah. It stars Anthony Mackie as a warrior slash kind
- 1:22:03Speaker 2: of bandit kind of character named Hanzala, and the premise
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: is it's taking place in seventh century Arabia and an
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: emperor has taken notice of a princess and decides he
- 1:22:17Speaker 2: wants that princess to be his concubine, which would be
- 1:22:21Speaker 2: all prickly. No way, that's porcupine. Yeah, that's a that's
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: a Blackadder joke, a prickly pair. I stole it from Blackadder. Okay,
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: so don't don't at me. I know I stole that
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: joke anyway. Anyway, this emperor wants this princess. The princess
- 1:22:38Speaker 2: objects to the concept of being a concubine, and Anthony
- 1:22:42Speaker 2: Mackie's character comes to her, aid, looks like there's a
- 1:22:45Speaker 2: lot of epic fight sequences and like battle sequences and stuff.
- 1:22:51Speaker 2: Comes out April twenty fourth, What did you did you
- 1:22:55Speaker 2: like this trailer at all? Or did you leave you cold?
- 1:22:59Speaker 1: I did like it, Like I said, it gave me
- 1:23:03Speaker 1: very ben like Ben her Lawrence of Arabia kind of
- 1:23:08Speaker 1: feels say that I've only watched bits of Lawrence of Arabia.
- 1:23:13Speaker 2: But it is it's a you gotta dedicate a lot
- 1:23:16Speaker 2: of time.
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: Yeah, and and I do like that. It's it's interesting
- 1:23:20Speaker 1: that we're kind of going back to that. I mean,
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: we've always had some historical dramas and action movies, but no,
- 1:23:28Speaker 1: I did. I did like it. It is interesting.
- 1:23:32Speaker 2: Yeah, and it doves dovetails pretty nicely with the next
- 1:23:35Speaker 2: one on our list, right, Like, it's two movies that
- 1:23:37Speaker 2: feel like they are tonally and somewhat thematically linked.
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: Yeah, I would probably watch both Desert Warrior and Rise
- 1:23:47Speaker 1: of the Conqueror. Not conan, but yeah, yeah.
- 1:23:53Speaker 2: So Rise of the Conqueror is the other film that
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: we wanted to chat about. Another epic historical saga based
- 1:23:59Speaker 2: on history, actual history based off the life of Amir
- 1:24:04Speaker 2: Timur also known as Tamilin, who became an emperor had
- 1:24:10Speaker 2: an entire empire named after him in the fourteenth century.
- 1:24:15Speaker 2: Timor was of Turkish and Mongol heritage, and he considered
- 1:24:20Speaker 2: himself to be the appropriate successor to ginghis Khan. Khan,
- 1:24:26Speaker 2: of course, was emperor in late twelfth early thirteenth century,
- 1:24:32Speaker 2: so this is happening several centuries after the story in
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: Desert Warrior, but also has like big epic battle sequences
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: and Timor Not to give any spoilers, but historically one
- 1:24:50Speaker 2: of his great achievements was that he never lost a conflict. Ever,
- 1:24:55Speaker 2: he was known as a brilliant military strategist. However, his
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: empire also collapsed essentially after his death. He didn't have
- 1:25:06Speaker 2: a successor who could keep it together the way he did.
- 1:25:08Speaker 2: But yeah, this is a story about his rise to power.
- 1:25:12Speaker 2: Comes out on April fourteenth on all digital platforms, So
- 1:25:17Speaker 2: historically the events happen after what we see in Desert Warrior,
- 1:25:22Speaker 2: but by release date, it comes out a week and
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: a half ahead of time.
- 1:25:26Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I'll probably check out both of these
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: at some point if I remember.
- 1:25:32Speaker 2: That's so important. The trailers look, I mean, especially if
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: you are into that kind of epic storytelling. These both
- 1:25:41Speaker 2: look like they are well made movies.
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: Yeah they don't.
- 1:25:44Speaker 2: They feature, Yeah, and they feature. They feature stories about
- 1:25:48Speaker 2: people that, at least in Western cultures, we don't see
- 1:25:51Speaker 2: represented that frequently.
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: Definitely.
- 1:25:53Speaker 2: So yeah, very interesting.
- 1:25:56Speaker 1: Did you watch the trailer for the last.
- 1:25:58Speaker 2: Thing I did? Pizza movie? I started watching it and
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: I was like, why did you put? Oh?
- 1:26:08Speaker 1: It gets real weird. So it stars getting Mattazaro. It's
- 1:26:13Speaker 1: just butchered his name, I'm so sorry.
- 1:26:17Speaker 2: Known from Stranger Things.
- 1:26:19Speaker 1: Yeah he's Dustin.
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: It's awesome. Who did he play? Oh he was in
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: a production of Sweeney Todd as well.
- 1:26:26Speaker 1: Yeah, he's and I think Limz and a bunch of
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: other stuff. He's done a lot of Broadway and Sean Giambroni,
- 1:26:35Speaker 1: I'm not as familiar with him. As college roommates who
- 1:26:39Speaker 1: take a they're called mints, but they're a drug of
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: some sort. Yeah, and they have a wild, trippy adventure
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: and then they learned that the only way to avoid
- 1:26:51Speaker 1: that is to get pizza.
- 1:26:53Speaker 2: And then they go on like you're supposed to You're
- 1:26:57Speaker 2: supposed to eat pizza if you take the men's otherwise
- 1:27:00Speaker 2: you will have a terrible trip according to a video.
- 1:27:04Speaker 2: So they had only watched the beginning of the video
- 1:27:06Speaker 2: apparently before they ate their mints.
- 1:27:08Speaker 1: And so then they have to go on this wild
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: like dude, where's my car? Harold and Kumar go to
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: White Castle level adventure.
- 1:27:19Speaker 2: Yeah, which apparently is being delivered to their dorm. So
- 1:27:22Speaker 2: literally all they have to do is walk down two
- 1:27:24Speaker 2: flights of stairs. But because of the crazy experiences they're having,
- 1:27:30Speaker 2: that might as well be in Mordor.
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: Yeah. It also has Sarah Sherman in it and then freakin'.
- 1:27:38Speaker 2: Daniel Radcliffe as the butterfly. Butterfly, we don't even know
- 1:27:43Speaker 2: if Daniel Radcliffe has lines. We don't know if the
- 1:27:46Speaker 2: Butterfly actually speaks, which, by the way, totally totally in
- 1:27:51Speaker 2: line with Daniel Radcliff's choices, and I am here for it.
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not normally one for Stone. I mean I've
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: said this on the show before, for Stone humor. This
- 1:28:01Speaker 1: looks goofy and kind of fun.
- 1:28:05Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I Also, I also tend to never even
- 1:28:09Speaker 2: bother watching. There's so many movies that, like we're part
- 1:28:13Speaker 2: of the zeitgeist that I just never saw because I
- 1:28:16Speaker 2: didn't have any interest in it. I'm not a stoner
- 1:28:18Speaker 2: movie kind of guy, so like I've never seen Dazed
- 1:28:21Speaker 2: and Confused or Pineapple Express or any of those movies
- 1:28:24Speaker 2: like this just doesn't interest me. This one, though, looks
- 1:28:28Speaker 2: so bunkers that that it caught my attention. Comes out
- 1:28:34Speaker 2: April third on Hulu, so I will be able to
- 1:28:37Speaker 2: watch it.
- 1:28:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna seek it out,
- 1:28:40Speaker 1: but definitely if it runs across my feed, I'll be like, oh, yeah,
- 1:28:43Speaker 1: let's give that a shot.
- 1:28:45Speaker 2: I think I've got to watch it. It just looks
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: so crazy, like I at least like that they're taking
- 1:28:54Speaker 2: a big shot, a big swing, right, Like whether or
- 1:28:57Speaker 2: not the movie works, I can't say, but the sway
- 1:29:00Speaker 2: is impressive.
- 1:29:02Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and I encourage, you know, big swings because
- 1:29:06Speaker 1: that's how you get new fun stuff as opposed to
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: remakes and sequels.
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: Yeah, remakes, reboots, new adaptations like this is. Yeah. I mean,
- 1:29:14Speaker 2: if you are someone who wants more original material out there,
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: then you you definitely hope for big swings and hopefully
- 1:29:22Speaker 2: those swings work. Like I get it, like I don't
- 1:29:25Speaker 2: want to support half assed entertainment, even if it is
- 1:29:30Speaker 2: like a totally original idea. I want it to be
- 1:29:33Speaker 2: an original idea, but I also wanted to be entertaining
- 1:29:36Speaker 2: and good, and hopefully this falls into that category.
- 1:29:40Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I think we've been seeing more trailers
- 1:29:43Speaker 1: for smaller, more original stuff, so I hope that trend continues.
- 1:29:48Speaker 2: I mean yeah, like be good, have fun, don't die
- 1:29:51Speaker 2: like good luck, good luck, have fun, don't die like that.
- 1:29:54Speaker 2: I always mess up that title, like who would have
- 1:29:58Speaker 2: predicted that, you know, three or four years ago and
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: it got made.
- 1:30:04Speaker 1: The only thing I just like about that movie is
- 1:30:06Speaker 1: I used to say good luck, have fun, don't die
- 1:30:09Speaker 1: as like a farewell nothing to do with the rise
- 1:30:15Speaker 1: of virtual reality or AI, And now I feel like,
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: I can't say it without being a part of the problem.
- 1:30:22Speaker 2: That's fair. I don't, but I don't think that many
- 1:30:24Speaker 2: people saw the movie, so you're still okay.
- 1:30:26Speaker 1: That's sad. It's a very fun movie. I highly recommend it.
- 1:30:29Speaker 2: I still want to see it. I just haven't. Yeah,
- 1:30:32Speaker 2: found the time.
- 1:30:33Speaker 1: Highly recommend. It's a lot of fun.
- 1:30:35Speaker 2: I need to have that time travel device that Sam
- 1:30:37Speaker 2: Rockwell has so that I can go back in time
- 1:30:39Speaker 2: and watch the movie.
- 1:30:41Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. I don't think you want to
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: live in the world that he is in to have
- 1:30:45Speaker 1: that time travel device.
- 1:30:46Speaker 2: I got some bad news for you, Ariel. We're already theresh.
- 1:30:52Speaker 1: Well on that very depressing note. Oh yeah, it's not all.
- 1:30:57Speaker 1: It's it's very interesting. That is the end of our lineup. Wow,
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: I need to go have some introspection about my week now.
- 1:31:10Speaker 2: I need to have lunch.
- 1:31:11Speaker 1: I also need to do that. So, Jonathan, if folks
- 1:31:15Speaker 1: want to reach out to us, how do they do that?
- 1:31:18Speaker 2: Well, what you're going to have to do is you're
- 1:31:20Speaker 2: going to have to take on all the tech bros
- 1:31:24Speaker 2: And all the AI companies out there, and you need
- 1:31:27Speaker 2: to take them down because, like if science fiction has
- 1:31:30Speaker 2: taught us nothing. It has taught us over and over
- 1:31:35Speaker 2: and over again. Then over reliance upon technology in general
- 1:31:39Speaker 2: and AI in particular leads to our downfall. No matter
- 1:31:42Speaker 2: what the intent was of the creators, and I got
- 1:31:46Speaker 2: news for you, The intent of the creators for this
- 1:31:48Speaker 2: generation of AI is to make as much money as
- 1:31:51Speaker 2: fast as possible. It is not better mankind. So take
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: it down. Once you do that, then I'll make time
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