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- 0:10Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nerd on Collider, the
- 0:13Speaker 1: podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
- 0:15Speaker 1: world around us and how very excited we are about them.
- 0:18Speaker 1: I'm Ariel Castin and with me as always his the
- 0:21Speaker 1: phenomenal Jonathan Strickland.
- 0:23Speaker 2: And intro so nice. We did it thrice?
- 0:27Speaker 1: Was it only three times? It felt like a hundred. No.
- 0:31Speaker 2: One of those was Ariel's fault and the other two
- 0:34Speaker 2: were mine.
- 0:35Speaker 1: So fault or genius. Yeah, I had this quirky idea
- 0:39Speaker 1: that I was gonna do like an ASMR intro. But
- 0:43Speaker 1: Jonathan and I are both fighting off a little bit
- 0:45Speaker 1: of a cough. Mine is like a lingering thing, and
- 0:48Speaker 1: I think Jonathan's is an oncoming thing. Yes, So I
- 0:50Speaker 1: couldn't get more than like five seconds in before I'm like,
- 0:53Speaker 1: I'm gonna cough. Nope, I'm gonna.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Laugh, gotcha? Yeah? Yeah? Well. And also I mentioned to
- 0:59Speaker 2: Ariel in the wake of that that attempt that if
- 1:05Speaker 2: she were to do asm R, I would probably fall
- 1:08Speaker 2: asleep because I'm so wicked tired. I literally landed in
- 1:13Speaker 2: Atlanta this morning, came straight to my house and began
- 1:17Speaker 2: researching for this episode and it went straight into recording
- 1:22Speaker 2: and I am so sleepy.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Thank you for doing this episode. The sleepiness, I'm sure
- 1:29Speaker 1: we'll only add to the Zadi bonkers.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some weird stuff we're gonna be talking about today,
- 1:35Speaker 2: so yeah, yeah, I'm excited actually to talk about this stuff. Also,
- 1:40Speaker 2: I believe correct me if I'm wrong, Ariel. Are we
- 1:43Speaker 2: missing next week? Is it missing?
- 1:46Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I'm heading down to Florida for a little
- 1:50Speaker 1: mini vacation on Thursday, so I will be unavailable to
- 1:54Speaker 1: record on Friday. I will miss you all, but but
- 1:59Speaker 1: that's neat a a vacation for me. Everything I've done
- 2:02Speaker 1: this year, I've taken time off, but it's always involved
- 2:04Speaker 1: like doing stuff with other people or four other people,
- 2:06Speaker 1: and I love it, but I am so tired.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Yeah, now, you are well deserved to take a vacation.
- 2:13Speaker 2: I wanted. That's one of the reasons why I want
- 2:16Speaker 2: to make sure we recorded this week, so that we
- 2:17Speaker 2: wouldn't have to skip two weeks in a row, you know.
- 2:21Speaker 2: And I knew I was flying back early enough from
- 2:24Speaker 2: New York to be able to record. I was literally
- 2:27Speaker 2: just up in New York for a day. Not even
- 2:30Speaker 2: I don't even think I was there for a full
- 2:32Speaker 2: twenty four hours. No, I wasn't. I wasn't there for
- 2:35Speaker 2: a full twenty four hours. Flew up, landed at around
- 2:40Speaker 2: twelve thirty or one o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and
- 2:43Speaker 2: then I left by nine so at nine am. So
- 2:47Speaker 2: but that was a work thing, and now I'm back
- 2:51Speaker 2: here to do our fun thing and one of the house.
- 2:54Speaker 1: It was at least fun.
- 2:56Speaker 2: It was fun. I was there for a launch party.
- 2:58Speaker 2: I met Questlove so awesome. You know. It's kind of
- 3:03Speaker 2: one of those things where it's just like, oh, okay,
- 3:05Speaker 2: that's that happened. But we like to start off these
- 3:10Speaker 2: episodes with a question, which we did come up with
- 3:12Speaker 2: about five seconds before we started recording. And in the
- 3:17Speaker 2: wake of all the superhero stuff we've had over the
- 3:20Speaker 2: last you know, fifteen twenty years, there's still some heroes
- 3:24Speaker 2: who stubbornly have not really made a big debut on
- 3:29Speaker 2: the big or small screen. So my question to you, Ariel,
- 3:32Speaker 2: is that are there any heroes or a particular hero
- 3:37Speaker 2: that you would love to see a show up in
- 3:39Speaker 2: either a TV series or a film.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Yes, the goofy answer is, Ariel, who I know that
- 3:50Speaker 1: is a name that Kitty Pride goes by sometimes in
- 3:52Speaker 1: Kitty Pride has been in movies and TV shows. This
- 3:55Speaker 1: is a mutant alien from a glamorous planet who can
- 4:01Speaker 1: create doorways and teleport through them, and she joined the
- 4:04Speaker 1: Fallen Angels at one point. She's super obscure and the
- 4:07Speaker 1: only reason is because every superhero mutant super villain I've
- 4:11Speaker 1: wanted to play has hit the screen so far, and
- 4:13Speaker 1: I'm like, well, this one has my name, so maybe
- 4:15Speaker 1: I could play this one. But the real answer is Jubilee.
- 4:21Speaker 1: She has shown up very tangentially in a movie. I
- 4:25Speaker 1: think I don't know has she showed Was she in
- 4:28Speaker 1: New Mutants? Am I forgetting that?
- 4:31Speaker 2: I honestly can't remember if she was in New Mutan
- 4:33Speaker 2: I never saw New Mutants, so everything I know by
- 4:36Speaker 2: New Mutants is through osmosis. I know, I know my
- 4:39Speaker 2: girlfriend was in it. Don't tell her she's my girlfriend.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. On New Tailor Joy Like, I really
- 4:46Speaker 1: like Jubilee, and the reason why is because she had
- 4:50Speaker 1: such a great character in the X Men cartoon, right,
- 4:53Speaker 1: and even in the New X Men cartoon, x Men
- 5:00Speaker 1: and any Amp, But she hasn't had that I can
- 5:04Speaker 1: remember like a very large role. She has shown up
- 5:07Speaker 1: in some stuff, but she hasn't had a very large
- 5:08Speaker 1: role in any TV or movies. And you can definitely
- 5:12Speaker 1: write in and correct me if I'm wrong, because I
- 5:14Speaker 1: needed to go back and rewatch stuff. So yeah, those
- 5:16Speaker 1: are my answers.
- 5:17Speaker 2: What about you squirrel Girl, Yeah, she was supposed to
- 5:21Speaker 2: get her own animated series but that got canceled.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Yeah, Malania Binchob was supposed to play her, who would
- 5:26Speaker 1: have been perfect for it. Yes, Actually she has done
- 5:29Speaker 1: some voice work for squirrel.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Girl, I believe so, but the series that she was
- 5:35Speaker 2: doing got canceled. It. They may have made a couple,
- 5:38Speaker 2: but the it didn't last. But I would actually like
- 5:43Speaker 2: to see squirrel Girl realized in live action. I don't
- 5:47Speaker 2: know how you can do that in a way that
- 5:49Speaker 2: doesn't just come across as as goofy as the character is,
- 5:53Speaker 2: but that's kind of part of the charm. Like you
- 5:54Speaker 2: could do it in Deadpool. I think you could have
- 5:56Speaker 2: a Deadpool movie where squirrel Girl shows up, and that
- 5:59Speaker 2: would be okay because Deadpool is also a very zany
- 6:03Speaker 2: kind of comic book franchise.
- 6:06Speaker 1: So I just don't want to know what he would
- 6:09Speaker 1: do to the West Coast Avengers.
- 6:11Speaker 2: Yeah, well I also want to you know what, I
- 6:14Speaker 2: also want to see the West Coast Avengers because they're
- 6:17Speaker 2: all a bunch of screw ups. Well, I want to
- 6:19Speaker 2: say that squirrel Girl was also I think there was
- 6:21Speaker 2: briefly like a Midwest branch of the Avengers, which was
- 6:27Speaker 2: even more jokey than the West Coast Avengers were, right,
- 6:31Speaker 2: and DC has sort of done this too, Like they
- 6:33Speaker 2: had the Justice League America, which was like their A team,
- 6:37Speaker 2: and then they had Justice League International, which was kind
- 6:40Speaker 2: of the B team. Well, Justice League International was that
- 6:44Speaker 2: was in the nineties, and they had characters like Booster
- 6:47Speaker 2: Gold and Blue Beetle and.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Are you talking about comics or the cartoon comics? Okay,
- 6:53Speaker 1: in the cartoon I think they just changed that to
- 6:55Speaker 1: Justice League Unlimited.
- 6:56Speaker 2: Yeah, that was. It was a lot of fun. That
- 6:59Speaker 2: title was much more had a lot more humor in it,
- 7:04Speaker 2: although Guy Gardner was such a jerk, which I think
- 7:06Speaker 2: Nathan Fillian perfectly captured in Superman and also that one
- 7:12Speaker 2: episode of Peacemaker. So yeah, squirrel Girl is my answer.
- 7:16Speaker 2: There's probably if you ask me tomorrow, I would probably
- 7:18Speaker 2: come up with a different answer. There's some characters I
- 7:21Speaker 2: would love to see adapted for the screen. They've had
- 7:25Speaker 2: adaptations in the past, but either I think that the
- 7:29Speaker 2: adaptation is dated or it's somewhat somewhat flawed. So like
- 7:34Speaker 2: The Shadow is an example, Like I actually kind of
- 7:38Speaker 2: like the Shadow movie, but it's not great. I just
- 7:41Speaker 2: like it because it's very stylish. Or The Phantom, which
- 7:46Speaker 2: I also kind of like that movie, but I think
- 7:49Speaker 2: it could have been better. Both of those would be
- 7:52Speaker 2: fun to see a new adaptation. I just don't know
- 7:54Speaker 2: if there's an audience for it, so there might not
- 7:56Speaker 2: be any Like, there might not be a business reason
- 7:59Speaker 2: to do it right, Like I don't think I don't
- 8:02Speaker 2: think they movie theaters are like what would make Jonathan happy?
- 8:06Speaker 2: I don't think that enters into their conversations as much
- 8:08Speaker 2: as it should.
- 8:10Speaker 1: Really, I think they're talking about it all the time.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Well, if they are, they're doing a real crappy job.
- 8:17Speaker 2: At least Marvel is.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Well, maybe they'll get better. They're working on it.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Well, what what stuff have you watched this last recording?
- 8:27Speaker 2: So I'll get mine out of the way. I haven't
- 8:29Speaker 2: seen anything. I am behind on Fallout now, so I
- 8:33Speaker 2: need to watch episode five, but all the travel and
- 8:38Speaker 2: everything kind of threw me for a loop and I
- 8:40Speaker 2: haven't really sat down to watch any programming. But what
- 8:43Speaker 2: about you?
- 8:45Speaker 1: So I am also behind on Fallout. I have not
- 8:47Speaker 1: watched episode four or five. Just bad bad timing and
- 8:53Speaker 1: like the level of brain you need for different shows, right, Yeah,
- 8:57Speaker 1: And part of it is like my serious brain is
- 9:00Speaker 1: all being taken up by The Pit. So I'm continuing
- 9:05Speaker 1: to watch The Pit. I didn't watch the episode that
- 9:07Speaker 1: came out last night. I tried, but it came out
- 9:09Speaker 1: at nine, which was too late for me to catch
- 9:10Speaker 1: it before I had other plans. But yeah, so I've
- 9:14Speaker 1: I've started season two of The Pit. Love it. Something
- 9:18Speaker 1: I didn't realize and I only realized through like interviews,
- 9:21Speaker 1: is that The Pit does not have a soundtrack, Like
- 9:23Speaker 1: there's no music because when you go into the er,
- 9:27Speaker 1: there's no music.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Yeah, right, so when you go into the when you
- 9:30Speaker 2: go into the oar, there could be music, yeah, because
- 9:34Speaker 2: I requested it.
- 9:35Speaker 1: But in the er there there's generally not music playing.
- 9:39Speaker 1: And you know, the show tries to be very act
- 9:42Speaker 1: and succeeds at being very accurate and amazing, just like
- 9:47Speaker 1: they're dealing with all this heavy stuff, but is such
- 9:49Speaker 1: a good watch, Like it never feel bad after watching it.
- 9:52Speaker 1: I can feel sad. There are sad moments I've cried,
- 9:55Speaker 1: but like, I didn't expect it to be a vengeable show,
- 9:58Speaker 1: and it was one hundred percent for me. I watched
- 10:00Speaker 1: the entire first season in less than a week.
- 10:03Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
- 10:04Speaker 1: But episode one of season two starts with a song
- 10:08Speaker 1: as the main character, doctor Robbie, is riding a motorcycle
- 10:12Speaker 1: into the hospital and it's by the Clarks, who are
- 10:15Speaker 1: very very popular in sell out arenas in Pittsburgh, but
- 10:19Speaker 1: have had very little to know radio play anywhere else.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Nobody else knows about them, and they're phenomenal. So I'm
- 10:24Speaker 1: so happy about that because I hope that they get
- 10:26Speaker 1: like this new nationwide resurgence because their music is so fun.
- 10:31Speaker 1: And I put Fallout on here, but then I didn't
- 10:35Speaker 1: watch it. I thought for sure I was going to
- 10:37Speaker 1: watch it, and then I started glad Lands, which is
- 10:40Speaker 1: the new dimension twenty mad Max where everybody helps each
- 10:43Speaker 1: other series. I love it. That's great and more important
- 10:49Speaker 1: than me loving it, my husband loves it, and he
- 10:51Speaker 1: doesn't love actual plays like they much like podcasts or
- 10:55Speaker 1: radio theater, the things that I love to do, they
- 10:59Speaker 1: put him to. But this one he was super into.
- 11:02Speaker 2: So that's awesome. Yeah, I gotta check that out. I
- 11:05Speaker 2: haven't watched any of that yet.
- 11:08Speaker 1: That one had never stopped blowing up like Chef's Kiss.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Yeah. So okay, well, hey look at that. We're not
- 11:17Speaker 2: even fifteen minutes in and we've already done our first
- 11:19Speaker 2: two things.
- 11:20Speaker 1: I can add more stuff if you want.
- 11:22Speaker 2: I thought you also watching.
- 11:25Speaker 1: I'm also watching Dowton Abbey and task Master Australia. I
- 11:28Speaker 1: won't go into that, gotcha.
- 11:30Speaker 2: I remember, I remember the other day I sat down
- 11:33Speaker 2: to watch a horror movie. I was just in the mood,
- 11:35Speaker 2: but I can't remember for the life of me if
- 11:37Speaker 2: I even started one. If I did, I don't think
- 11:39Speaker 2: I finished it. So I don't think I had a
- 11:42Speaker 2: successful horror movie experience. But it might have been one
- 11:45Speaker 2: of those things where I went into one of the
- 11:48Speaker 2: streaming services, didn't see anything in the horror department that
- 11:53Speaker 2: caught my attention, and I just didn't care enough to
- 11:56Speaker 2: go to the next streaming service. You know, I need to.
- 12:00Speaker 2: I need to have like my TV kind of does
- 12:03Speaker 2: an aggregate sort of thing where it has suggestions based
- 12:06Speaker 2: upon what I've watched in the past. I need to
- 12:08Speaker 2: pay more attention to that because that might be a
- 12:11Speaker 2: more effective way for me to find content, as opposed
- 12:13Speaker 2: to hunting through every single streaming service I'm subscribed to.
- 12:18Speaker 1: You can watch mighty nine, because that just keeps getting
- 12:21Speaker 1: bloodier and more horrific every episode.
- 12:24Speaker 2: I don't know, I keep thinking I should get into
- 12:27Speaker 2: those things, like I like all the people involved, and
- 12:30Speaker 2: I like watching the excerpts I've seen, like I've watched clips,
- 12:34Speaker 2: but I've never sat down to watch a full episode
- 12:37Speaker 2: of either the actual play. Well, I did watch the
- 12:39Speaker 2: very first episode of the first season or first series
- 12:44Speaker 2: of The Critical Role.
- 12:49Speaker 1: So something they're doing we might have talked about on
- 12:51Speaker 1: the show, so you might already know, and I'm sorry
- 12:53Speaker 1: if I'm just repeating information. Is they recently came out
- 12:56Speaker 1: and started releasing paired down episodes of the actual plays,
- 13:03Speaker 1: so it so being the whole four hours or cutting
- 13:05Speaker 1: it down just to the plot, so that might be
- 13:07Speaker 1: an easier entry point. I highly recommid men watching the
- 13:12Speaker 1: cartoon Vox Macna. At least it's a lot of fun.
- 13:14Speaker 2: Well, The thing that you miss out on on the cartoon, though,
- 13:19Speaker 2: is the cross talk like goofiness that happens at the
- 13:26Speaker 2: table between just players, right, like the stuff that's not
- 13:31Speaker 2: in character. It's a player goofing on another player or whatever.
- 13:35Speaker 2: You miss out on that. Yeah, but otherwise, yeah, I might,
- 13:40Speaker 2: I might see if I can check that out, or
- 13:42Speaker 2: at least check out the somewhat annotated and edited down
- 13:48Speaker 2: actual play sessions, because, like I said, I like, I
- 13:51Speaker 2: like the compilations. I see. You know, there were ones
- 13:55Speaker 2: that I just found delightful, like the ones largely Laura
- 14:01Speaker 2: Bailey just being a dufus, like the ones of her
- 14:05Speaker 2: all the sending messages, those are just so much fun.
- 14:09Speaker 2: They're so silly because she just somehow feels compelled to
- 14:12Speaker 2: fill up all the words. Like the point is that
- 14:15Speaker 2: sending messages have a limit of twenty five words. I
- 14:19Speaker 2: think it is, and she took that as they need
- 14:22Speaker 2: to be twenty five words, not that they could only
- 14:25Speaker 2: be up to twenty five words, but they have to
- 14:27Speaker 2: be exactly so she just rambles until she fills it up.
- 14:31Speaker 1: I mean, why waste why waste magic?
- 14:34Speaker 2: No, it's great, I guess dote donuts yeah.
- 14:38Speaker 1: I mean, are you pooping? Yeah, I think I do.
- 14:42Speaker 1: I do enjoy that. I will say like the mighty
- 14:43Speaker 1: nine cartoon is very well done, and I am enjoying
- 14:46Speaker 1: it the further along I get into it. But it
- 14:49Speaker 1: does lose Voxmachin is ridiculous and goofy, and they put
- 14:52Speaker 1: a lot of the jokes in there. But the Mighty
- 14:56Speaker 1: nine does lose a lot of the humor it, at
- 15:00Speaker 1: least at the very beginning, because they're doing stuff out
- 15:02Speaker 1: of order and kind of more plot focused.
- 15:06Speaker 2: So well, let us move on then, before I end
- 15:10Speaker 2: up losing my voice before the end of this episode
- 15:14Speaker 2: to our thirty seconds or less? Did I give myself
- 15:19Speaker 2: the first one? Or did you Okay? Here we go.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Fans of the Wicked films will get a chance to
- 15:25Speaker 2: see two of its stars live on stage if they
- 15:28Speaker 2: happen to be in London. Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey
- 15:31Speaker 2: have been cast as the leads in Sondheim's Sunday in
- 15:34Speaker 2: the Park with George at the Barbican Theater. I'm curious
- 15:37Speaker 2: about this because it means Arianna will play a young
- 15:40Speaker 2: woman in Act one and a ninety eight year old
- 15:43Speaker 2: woman in Act two, but I'm sure the show will
- 15:46Speaker 2: be popular.
- 15:50Speaker 1: I've never seen it. Godzilla minus one made headlines one
- 15:56Speaker 1: for being a huge hit and two for winning a
- 15:59Speaker 1: flip and oscar, which is the first Oscar that Godzilla
- 16:02Speaker 1: has ever won in its seventy year career. And we
- 16:05Speaker 1: are in luck because Godzilla Minus zero, it's sequel, is
- 16:08Speaker 1: coming out this year on November sixth, right after it's
- 16:12Speaker 1: released in Japan on November three. I still need to
- 16:16Speaker 1: watch the first one. I just need to find time
- 16:18Speaker 1: to watch it by myself because I don't mind subtitles
- 16:22Speaker 1: as much.
- 16:23Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Amazon is developing a TV series based off
- 16:27Speaker 2: the popular God of War video game franchise, and now
- 16:29Speaker 2: we know who will be playing Kratos in the show.
- 16:32Speaker 2: It'll be Ryan Hurst, who, funnily enough, provided the voice
- 16:35Speaker 2: of Thor in God of War Ragnarok. Hurst is also
- 16:39Speaker 2: known for his roles in Sons of Anarchy and The
- 16:41Speaker 2: Walking Dead. Also, just before we started recording, I saw
- 16:44Speaker 2: that Teresa Palmer will also be in the series, possibly
- 16:47Speaker 2: as Sith.
- 16:49Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember who Teresa Palmer is.
- 16:53Speaker 2: I didn't write down anything else she was in because
- 16:56Speaker 2: I knew I was bumping up against thirty seconds at
- 16:59Speaker 2: that point.
- 17:01Speaker 1: More Godzilla news, because you're gonna keep taking us away
- 17:03Speaker 1: and I'm gonna bring it right back. We are getting
- 17:08Speaker 1: a new Godzilla monster piece theater for issue comic series,
- 17:14Speaker 1: starting with Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla with a mini
- 17:19Speaker 1: story of Robin Hood and the Monster of Nottingham. So
- 17:27Speaker 1: I am looking forward to that.
- 17:29Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I don't know if you can, if
- 17:32Speaker 2: anything will live up to the hilarity of the title.
- 17:35Speaker 2: Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla. I think that's better. I
- 17:40Speaker 2: think I think that's even better than Pride and Prejudice
- 17:43Speaker 2: and zombies, right, Yes, I think so.
- 17:45Speaker 1: But it could be funnier. Yeah, Romeo and Juliet and
- 17:47Speaker 1: Godzilla and a baby.
- 17:49Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, and the candlestick Maker and his wife.
- 17:53Speaker 2: It's probably no surprise that twenty twenty six looks like
- 17:56Speaker 2: another year with a lot of horror films in it.
- 17:58Speaker 2: The Hollywood Reporter put to other a list of anticipated
- 18:01Speaker 2: horror movies, some of which we will chat about later.
- 18:04Speaker 2: I am excited to learn more about films like Hocum,
- 18:07Speaker 2: which we did talk about briefly in a previous episode Obsession,
- 18:11Speaker 2: Ditto Evil Dead Byrne clay Face Resident Evil and they're
- 18:17Speaker 2: vote plus. You know we'll get tons of smaller ones
- 18:20Speaker 2: throughout the year too. So boot.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Studio Canon or sorry Studio Canal is coming out with
- 18:29Speaker 1: a movie Elsinore, which follows the actor in Charleson as
- 18:33Speaker 1: he prepares to play Hamlet for the National Theater in London,
- 18:39Speaker 1: all while dealing with HIV and AIDS. It's got an
- 18:43Speaker 1: insane cast. It's got Olivia Coleman, Andrew Scott, Billy Piper,
- 18:49Speaker 1: which is the news. Billy Piper just got added, Luke
- 18:52Speaker 1: Thompson from Bridgerton, and many many more. It is. It
- 18:57Speaker 1: is really interesting because that actor that the story is
- 19:00Speaker 1: following had HIV in eighty six, died from AIDS in
- 19:04Speaker 1: nineteen ninety and asked that after his death the cause
- 19:08Speaker 1: of his death would be announced to help publicize the condition,
- 19:12Speaker 1: and he was one of the first celebrities to do
- 19:13Speaker 1: that so in the UK at least, so I think
- 19:17Speaker 1: it's it sounds kind of like the very serious and
- 19:20Speaker 1: sad version of I Hate Hamlet, but an amazing cast.
- 19:27Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be very well told.
- 19:29Speaker 2: Screenwriters Donya Jimenez and Hanach mcmichon, then K Pop Demon Hunters.
- 19:36Speaker 2: So what's their next project. Well, it's a really big project.
- 19:39Speaker 2: It's like fifty feet tall big because it's the remake
- 19:42Speaker 2: of the classic B movie sci fi film Attack of
- 19:46Speaker 2: the Fifty Foot Woman. Tim Burton, who is probably the
- 19:49Speaker 2: perfect director to tackle fifty's era schlock, will direct. I
- 19:53Speaker 2: am hopeful that it will be cheeky, fun and filled
- 19:56Speaker 2: with feminine rage.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Sounds delight. Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as the president
- 20:04Speaker 1: of Lucasfilms, but the presidential ness will not go far
- 20:10Speaker 1: because Feloni, who is currently the COO and Executive Vice President,
- 20:14Speaker 1: and Lynn when Brennan, the president and general manager of
- 20:19Speaker 1: Lucas from the business, will be taking over the role.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Kennedy will be staying on as producer's producer for the
- 20:25Speaker 1: upcoming movies that are coming out.
- 20:28Speaker 2: One of the concerns Hollywood has about the proposed Netflix
- 20:31Speaker 2: acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery has to do with theatrical
- 20:34Speaker 2: release dates. Originally, we heard that Netflix plan to implement
- 20:37Speaker 2: a seventeen day window between theatrical and streaming releases. However,
- 20:41Speaker 2: The New York Times got a quote from Netflix's Ted
- 20:44Speaker 2: sarandus that the window will actually be forty five days
- 20:48Speaker 2: and maybe that will ease some of those fears and insights.
- 20:53Speaker 1: I you know, I'm definitely on Netflix, like I'm rooting
- 20:58Speaker 1: for Netflix to get Warner Brothers Discovery, especially after this news.
- 21:01Speaker 1: A forty five day window is a much more.
- 21:06Speaker 2: Like, yeah, a month, it's a month and a half.
- 21:09Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's pretty standard for movies nowadays anyhow, So, uh,
- 21:14Speaker 1: I am hopeful with that with that information, especially on
- 21:19Speaker 1: light of some other news that I didn't put in.
- 21:21Speaker 1: But I've started subscribing to some dailies for industry news,
- 21:26Speaker 1: specifically to help me in the business side of my career.
- 21:29Speaker 2: And uh.
- 21:32Speaker 1: One, there are several networks that are like pushing for
- 21:35Speaker 1: pilot season again. And then also Ben Affleck and Matt
- 21:40Speaker 1: Damon did we talk about this already that they are
- 21:43Speaker 1: the first for their their new movie The Bet is
- 21:45Speaker 1: the first to get back end payment from Netflix is
- 21:49Speaker 1: the rip? Sorry? Yeah, yeah, yeah, So usually Netflix flicks
- 21:55Speaker 1: plate pays a little bit more upfront and you don't
- 21:57Speaker 1: ask about how many people have watched it or how
- 21:59Speaker 1: much they've made residual crappy, but that Athletic in Matt
- 22:04Speaker 1: Damon have made a deal for their entire cast and
- 22:06Speaker 1: crew crew to get paid on the back end numbers
- 22:09Speaker 1: and to make that more transparent. And Netflix isn't going
- 22:13Speaker 1: completely to that model, but they've said they're open to
- 22:15Speaker 1: other deals like that, and I think that's fantastic.
- 22:17Speaker 2: So yeah, well, and you know, you could do documentaries.
- 22:21Speaker 2: I don't know how many people would watch it, but
- 22:23Speaker 2: you could do documentaries about Hollywood accounting and how much
- 22:29Speaker 2: trickery goes into that in an effort for studios to
- 22:33Speaker 2: not pay people things like residuals, because you know, like
- 22:38Speaker 2: like it's it's kind of an open secret that studios
- 22:41Speaker 2: will leverage numbers in such a way to make it
- 22:45Speaker 2: seem like every movie lost money. Like they want to
- 22:48Speaker 2: be able to crow about record box offices, but they
- 22:52Speaker 2: also want to say, oh, that film lost money, because
- 22:55Speaker 2: that means they don't have to pay out, you know,
- 22:58Speaker 2: if if the if the movie's not profitable, they don't
- 23:00Speaker 2: have to pay out. It's kind of like the producers.
- 23:04Speaker 2: But yeah, that's kind of like this ongoing issue. So
- 23:08Speaker 2: if Netflix is transparent, that would be nice. It would
- 23:10Speaker 2: be a nice change of pace from the rest of Hollywood.
- 23:14Speaker 2: But yeah, it's one of those things that is inherently
- 23:17Speaker 2: different with the streaming system of delivery as opposed to
- 23:23Speaker 2: traditional box office.
- 23:25Speaker 1: Well and the last after strike did adjust that a
- 23:28Speaker 1: little bit. So there is information out there on like
- 23:32Speaker 1: what series on Netflix and other streaming channels are getting
- 23:35Speaker 1: the most watch or the least watch or most popular.
- 23:38Speaker 1: So there is some metrics because they're working with ruters
- 23:41Speaker 1: now and there has been work to make that more
- 23:44Speaker 1: generally transparent, but it hasn't completely trickled into the payment model.
- 23:49Speaker 2: Yeah, because that's also tricky, right because you're talking about
- 23:51Speaker 2: subscription versus paying per like piece of content, right, So
- 23:57Speaker 2: then you're like, okay, if if we break it down
- 24:01Speaker 2: by percentages, like what percent of viewers are watching this
- 24:07Speaker 2: particular piece of content, how do we factor that into payouts,
- 24:11Speaker 2: like when we're looking at subscriptions as opposed to buying
- 24:15Speaker 2: per view or buying per piece of content. I am
- 24:19Speaker 2: glad I'm not the one who has to figure that
- 24:21Speaker 2: out because I think I think it's got to be
- 24:23Speaker 2: a huge chaotic headache.
- 24:26Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I've also found it hopeful beyond like that
- 24:30Speaker 1: kind of news, Like just because streaming has been struggling
- 24:33Speaker 1: so much. Taking a step back and going to what
- 24:34Speaker 1: we know has worked in the past heartens me, even
- 24:37Speaker 1: though it means there's technically less work, because streaming is
- 24:40Speaker 1: just when it was in its heyday, everything was being
- 24:42Speaker 1: made all the time. Is I get a list weekly
- 24:46Speaker 1: of the movies and how much they cost to make
- 24:48Speaker 1: versus how much they've made so far, And usually those
- 24:51Speaker 1: lists are at least since I've signed up, have all
- 24:54Speaker 1: been they've made some amount of profit.
- 24:57Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and yeah, that was like a big message
- 25:00Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five was that, you know, films were
- 25:04Speaker 2: starting to do better, and part of that was that
- 25:08Speaker 2: we saw a lot more low to mid budget movies
- 25:11Speaker 2: as well, which I'm all in favor of. Like, I
- 25:13Speaker 2: love a big budget movie if it's done well, but
- 25:16Speaker 2: I really like some of these smaller budget projects that
- 25:20Speaker 2: are telling stories that just there's no reason for it
- 25:23Speaker 2: to be a big budget movie, right, but the stories
- 25:26Speaker 2: are really interesting. So I'm totally on board with that
- 25:30Speaker 2: me too. Yeah, Well, let's let's move on to talking
- 25:33Speaker 2: about stuff what we could put in our show but
- 25:36Speaker 2: typically don't put in our show because it don't fit
- 25:39Speaker 2: so good. But these are a fitting enough for us
- 25:41Speaker 2: to talk about. That's what this segment's called.
- 25:44Speaker 1: I feel like to this this week, fifty percent could
- 25:48Speaker 1: possibly have gone into our show notes.
- 25:50Speaker 2: Agreed. Yeah, no, there's stuff in here where it straddles
- 25:56Speaker 2: a line. First up, we've got a full trailer for
- 26:00Speaker 2: the comedy series The Burbs, based off the film that
- 26:06Speaker 2: came out that I think was a surprise to Ariel
- 26:08Speaker 2: the last time we chatted about this.
- 26:10Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know it was based off of it.
- 26:12Speaker 1: I never watched the original film.
- 26:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I had Tom Hanks and then I think and
- 26:18Speaker 2: Carrie Fisher, Oh did it?
- 26:20Speaker 1: I can't play Tom's wife, yeah, I which I only
- 26:23Speaker 1: know because my husband loved the movie The Burbs as
- 26:26Speaker 1: a kid. I found out yesterday when the trailer for
- 26:28Speaker 1: the full trailer for the TV show came onto YouTube
- 26:32Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, hey, that's based off that
- 26:34Speaker 1: old movie, and he's like, I loved that movie, so
- 26:36Speaker 1: that's cool.
- 26:37Speaker 2: Yeah, this one. Keky Palmer is playing sort of the
- 26:42Speaker 2: lead character, and I love her. I just love her delivery,
- 26:45Speaker 2: she's I find her very funny. And Jack Whitehall is
- 26:50Speaker 2: in it as well. Mark Proch, who is the energy
- 26:54Speaker 2: vampire from what we do in the Shadows. He's in it,
- 26:57Speaker 2: and Julia Duffy, whom a lot of people my age
- 27:02Speaker 2: might think of as from the New Heart Show, but
- 27:05Speaker 2: I think of her as the princess from Wizards and Warriors,
- 27:09Speaker 2: which lasted like six episodes. But Julia Duffie's in it.
- 27:14Speaker 2: Haley Joel Osmond has a recurring role in it.
- 27:18Speaker 1: He's very funny.
- 27:19Speaker 2: Yeah, this all eight episodes, So there's eight episodes. All
- 27:22Speaker 2: eight episodes drop on the same day on Peacock on
- 27:25Speaker 2: February eighth. So what did you think of the full trailer?
- 27:31Speaker 1: I thought so, I know, the first trailer, the style
- 27:34Speaker 1: of or the teaser, the style of comedy was a
- 27:37Speaker 1: little bit disjointed for both of us. Some of it
- 27:40Speaker 1: was very like slapsticky, blatant over the top. Some of
- 27:43Speaker 1: it was more nuanced, and it just felt disjointed. I
- 27:46Speaker 1: feel like this trailer feels a lot more connected. It
- 27:51Speaker 1: also looks makes it look a little bit creepier and
- 27:53Speaker 1: more suspenseful, not in a bad way or in a
- 27:56Speaker 1: drama full way, but it does deep in the story
- 28:00Speaker 1: that they're going to tell. I think I also had
- 28:03Speaker 1: missed that it was being done by Seth MacFarland, which
- 28:07Speaker 1: if if anybody has proven that he can do zany
- 28:10Speaker 1: plus serious, it's him with the Orville.
- 28:13Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I almost look at the Orville as
- 28:18Speaker 2: being the exception to otherwise what is the rule of
- 28:22Speaker 2: his work.
- 28:23Speaker 1: Well, I'm hoping this follows that trend.
- 28:26Speaker 2: Me too, Me too. I mean, I agree one hundred
- 28:29Speaker 2: percent with what you said. Like I do remember when
- 28:33Speaker 2: we watched the teaser, like a lot of the humors
- 28:35Speaker 2: seemed kind of obvious and not It's almost seemed like
- 28:39Speaker 2: it had the cadence of a joke without actually being
- 28:41Speaker 2: a joke. Right, this felt better, And part of that
- 28:47Speaker 2: again is I think due to delivery. They've got some
- 28:50Speaker 2: really good actors and even if the lines themselves like
- 28:55Speaker 2: it kind of reminds me of when I did the
- 28:58Speaker 2: Renaissance Festival and I was in the Shakespeare parody and
- 29:02Speaker 2: I would get there on day one to do a
- 29:04Speaker 2: read through of the script with the fellow actors in
- 29:06Speaker 2: the parody, and as we would read, we'd like, none
- 29:11Speaker 2: of this is funny, Like this is just all of
- 29:13Speaker 2: these jokes are just dead on the page. But then
- 29:16Speaker 2: you would find ways of delivering it where it was funny.
- 29:19Speaker 2: I almost feel like like the performances are doing a
- 29:22Speaker 2: whole lot of work to make this entertaining. I think
- 29:27Speaker 2: with better material they would be even better. But I
- 29:30Speaker 2: think it's good enough, Like it's good enough for me
- 29:32Speaker 2: to want to check it out.
- 29:34Speaker 1: Yeah I will, so I don't normally. Peacock is one
- 29:37Speaker 1: of the services that I don't usually have. I get
- 29:39Speaker 1: it around Thanksgiving every year to watch the parade, and
- 29:42Speaker 1: then I keep it for a month or two to
- 29:44Speaker 1: try to catch up on stuff. But it's it's we've
- 29:47Speaker 1: actually paired down our streaming services a lot, and this
- 29:52Speaker 1: like the second half of this year, which doesn't help
- 29:55Speaker 1: me for the acting side of it, but whatever. But
- 29:59Speaker 1: Tony is also interested. He did say he felt that
- 30:02Speaker 1: the trailer was a lot less zaany than the original movie.
- 30:06Speaker 2: Yes, it's true, well, at least what we see in
- 30:08Speaker 2: the trailer, it looks like it's more so it kind
- 30:13Speaker 2: of gives me it's not exactly the same thing, but
- 30:15Speaker 2: it kind of gives me pushing Daisies vibes where it's
- 30:20Speaker 2: it's that mixture of heightened realism, like the heightened stuff,
- 30:23Speaker 2: where it's it's not truly realistic, it's not as grounded,
- 30:27Speaker 2: but then there is more grounded stuff. But like again,
- 30:30Speaker 2: the delivery is what sells it, Like when Kiky Palmer says,
- 30:33Speaker 2: why am I always murder adjacent? I need to know
- 30:37Speaker 2: more about that?
- 30:38Speaker 1: Yes, yes, for sure, for sure. Yeah, I'd watch it
- 30:42Speaker 1: for her alone. She's very funny, like he said.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Yeah. Next up we get a Big Bang Theory spinoff
- 30:47Speaker 2: called Vanished, where Penny is trying to find out what
- 30:51Speaker 2: the heck happened to Leonard. Also, I might have watched
- 30:55Speaker 2: this video on two time speed, so maybe I missed
- 30:58Speaker 2: some of the nuances.
- 30:59Speaker 1: I mean, I was gonna say where she's trying to
- 31:01Speaker 1: get a big bang, but.
- 31:04Speaker 2: Then that fizzles out when her when her date disappears
- 31:08Speaker 2: off the train they're on.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so it's Kaylee.
- 31:13Speaker 2: Cuoko, Kaylee Cuoco, Yes.
- 31:16Speaker 1: Thank you. I didn't I don't have her name written
- 31:18Speaker 1: down and I don't have the trailer open right now.
- 31:21Speaker 1: Is going on a trip with her boyfriend and they're
- 31:24Speaker 1: on a French train and he disappears, and so she
- 31:26Speaker 1: goes and tries to find him and learns about secrets
- 31:29Speaker 1: and intrigue and all of that, and everybody's like, well,
- 31:31Speaker 1: maybe he just ditched you. She's like, he wouldn't be
- 31:33Speaker 1: that way. It looks like a generic mystery actiony thing.
- 31:38Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of looks like there might be some
- 31:40Speaker 2: crime elements. There's some spy film type language in the
- 31:45Speaker 2: like cinematic language in the trailer. I don't know if
- 31:49Speaker 2: it will turn out that he's a spy or if
- 31:51Speaker 2: it turns out that he's a criminal, or maybe both.
- 31:54Speaker 2: I don't know. But this this series comes out February
- 31:57Speaker 2: first on MGM Plus here in the United States. For
- 32:00Speaker 2: folks who are in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK,
- 32:05Speaker 2: it comes out February twenty seventh on Prime Video. So
- 32:08Speaker 2: I say to you, gosh, darn it, because I don't
- 32:13Speaker 2: have MGM.
- 32:14Speaker 1: Plus, do you want to watch this one?
- 32:18Speaker 2: I mean, I'm curious about it. It's not really my thing,
- 32:22Speaker 2: like I can enjoy these kind of mystery shows. Nothing
- 32:27Speaker 2: about this trailer really made me think, oh, this is
- 32:31Speaker 2: one that I need to watch. But I do like
- 32:34Speaker 2: Kaylee Kuoco as an actor, Like I actually like her performances.
- 32:39Speaker 2: So I was curious about it. But yeah, I don't
- 32:42Speaker 2: know that it's enough for me to I think I
- 32:44Speaker 2: could technically pay for MGM plus through Amazon Prime, but honestly,
- 32:50Speaker 2: I just don't want to add more sub subscriptions to
- 32:54Speaker 2: my Amazon Prime subscription.
- 32:56Speaker 1: I get that. I get that. The next one we've
- 32:58Speaker 1: got is a trailer for a movie called Misdirection, and
- 33:01Speaker 1: that really, like it is such a generic heist crime
- 33:05Speaker 1: kind of a A is a film or a TV show?
- 33:09Speaker 2: I think it's it's a film. It's a film film.
- 33:11Speaker 1: The only reason I added is because it's got Frank
- 33:13Speaker 1: Grillo in it, and I just find it heartening that
- 33:16Speaker 1: he is still making these generic heist movies when he's
- 33:19Speaker 1: also in the DCEU.
- 33:22Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, a man's got to eat. Uh yeah. Yeah.
- 33:26Speaker 2: So apparently, like in this film, there's a couple and they,
- 33:32Speaker 2: you know, the couple who steals together, stay together. I
- 33:34Speaker 2: guess they are. They are hoisting, not because they want to,
- 33:39Speaker 2: They are hoisting a target who I guess is Frank Grillo,
- 33:43Speaker 2: And it turns out that he has a past with
- 33:45Speaker 2: the woman in the couple, and also that he wants
- 33:48Speaker 2: to kill them, and maybe it was a trap the
- 33:51Speaker 2: whole time and not like like it's hard to say
- 33:54Speaker 2: based on the trailer because there's not a lot of
- 33:56Speaker 2: details given. It does come out February tenth, so it's
- 33:59Speaker 2: not gonna be very long before it's out. This one also,
- 34:03Speaker 2: like like you said, it does feel pretty generic, like
- 34:08Speaker 2: there was nothing about it other than Frank Grillo being
- 34:10Speaker 2: in it that really caught my attention. So I don't
- 34:13Speaker 2: necessarily think I'll be checking this one out. I'm sure
- 34:16Speaker 2: it's fine.
- 34:18Speaker 1: Well, and like to be fair, while I think Frank
- 34:21Speaker 1: Grillo does a great job in Peacemaker, in the DCU,
- 34:24Speaker 1: everywhere that he's been used, everything I've seen of his
- 34:28Speaker 1: prior to that has been pretty generic.
- 34:31Speaker 2: Yeah, even that Time Loop movie. Did you see that
- 34:34Speaker 2: one where he's Okay, are.
- 34:36Speaker 1: You talking about Slooper? I did watch Looper.
- 34:38Speaker 2: It's that Looper. Although you maye think that you were
- 34:41Speaker 2: Ben Bowlin there for a second, because Ben and I
- 34:43Speaker 2: have this ongoing joke of oh, it's like in Looper
- 34:47Speaker 2: and neither of us have ever seen Looper.
- 34:50Speaker 1: Sweet, I don't mind that comparison.
- 34:52Speaker 2: Okay, but yeah, no, no, it was. It was more
- 34:56Speaker 2: recent than that. It was like a post COVID. It
- 34:58Speaker 2: might have been made during COVID, but like a post
- 35:00Speaker 2: COVID movie where he's in a time loop situation. Uh
- 35:06Speaker 2: and uh, he's like a he's like a law enforcement
- 35:10Speaker 2: officer with a kind of an estranged son that he's
- 35:15Speaker 2: trying to connect with. And the son's like, you know,
- 35:18Speaker 2: like elementary school or maybe middle school age, and it's
- 35:24Speaker 2: very like it's it almost feels a little bit like
- 35:26Speaker 2: bullet Train or smoking Aces, Like they're all these wacky
- 35:31Speaker 2: assassin characters that he's having to navigate through and he's
- 35:35Speaker 2: constantly being killed, and the day restarts and he has
- 35:38Speaker 2: to go through it again trying to not get you know,
- 35:40Speaker 2: get a little further into the day. Even that was
- 35:44Speaker 2: felt a little generic and also felt very video gamey.
- 35:48Speaker 2: He was fine in it, but like I watched that
- 35:52Speaker 2: movie look of a cast. Oh yeah, no, the cast
- 35:55Speaker 2: is great. Was the film called Boss Level?
- 35:59Speaker 1: No? Is it Boss Level? I think the thing I
- 36:04Speaker 1: have Michelle.
- 36:05Speaker 2: Yo, and yes, I had Michelle Yo. And Michelle Yo
- 36:11Speaker 2: is in it for like two scenes. Mel Gibson is
- 36:14Speaker 2: in it for like one scene.
- 36:15Speaker 1: So it's called Boss Level. Yeah.
- 36:17Speaker 2: Yeah, it's okay. It's it's not great, but it's okay.
- 36:22Speaker 2: It's kind of entertaining. I think Misdirection will probably fall
- 36:26Speaker 2: into a similar category it's okay, yeah, and then we
- 36:31Speaker 2: have a trailer for a film called Sweetness. This one
- 36:34Speaker 2: I argue, I could argue should be in our full
- 36:36Speaker 2: lineup because it has to do with fandom.
- 36:38Speaker 1: It has to do with fandom, and also, uh, it's
- 36:42Speaker 1: it feels like a real love letter to Stephen King's Misery.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Yeah, it does have a little bit of misery vibes
- 36:51Speaker 2: to it. So the basic premise is there's this young
- 36:55Speaker 2: young woman, like a girl essentially who's a fan of
- 36:59Speaker 2: this male pop star and she ends up kind of
- 37:05Speaker 2: like scheming to end up being in his car by
- 37:09Speaker 2: jumping in front of it, essentially getting hit by his car. Anyway,
- 37:13Speaker 2: she discovers that he is addicted to drugs, so she
- 37:17Speaker 2: decides it's her job to save him by essentially kidnapping
- 37:21Speaker 2: him and holding him against his will so that he
- 37:23Speaker 2: can detox from drugs. And so it has to deal
- 37:28Speaker 2: with things like parasocial relationships, and it does have the
- 37:33Speaker 2: kind of misery vibes in the sense of like I'm
- 37:35Speaker 2: helping you and the guy just wants to get away, I.
- 37:38Speaker 1: Mean, but also in very literal in Misery, the writer
- 37:41Speaker 1: is handcuffed to a bed and this pop star gets
- 37:44Speaker 1: handcuffed to a bed. The writer is taken in after
- 37:48Speaker 1: a car accident where the nurse hit where Caddy Bates
- 37:51Speaker 1: hits him with their car. The girl meets him because
- 37:55Speaker 1: she gets hit with his car. Like a lot of similar.
- 37:57Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of parallels. Yeah, it comes out March seventh.
- 38:02Speaker 2: I think it looks like I mean, it's exploring stuff
- 38:06Speaker 2: that we've seen before, but from a different perspective, so
- 38:09Speaker 2: it might be really interesting. I thought it's pretty bold
- 38:13Speaker 2: to have a thriller slash horror film where the antagonist
- 38:20Speaker 2: is a young woman, right, and she's not overtly sinister,
- 38:25Speaker 2: she's just very much obsessed with this particular pop star.
- 38:30Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, there's definitely things in the trailer that make
- 38:33Speaker 1: me interested in the story, but it might be too
- 38:35Speaker 1: scary for me. There's a lot of blood and I
- 38:39Speaker 1: don't know where it comes from.
- 38:41Speaker 2: Well, don't worry, I know exactly where the blood comes from,
- 38:46Speaker 2: because from The Bluff, which we will talk about later,
- 38:48Speaker 2: because that movie had so much blood in it, they
- 38:51Speaker 2: had plenty to spare.
- 38:53Speaker 1: But the thing is, like the Bluff trail. We'll talk
- 38:55Speaker 1: about the Bluff trailer at least I couldn't see where
- 38:57Speaker 1: it was coming from, so it was a little bit.
- 39:00Speaker 2: Coming from everywhere everywhere, Like at one point I thought
- 39:04Speaker 2: I had to wipe off my screen. But yeah, we'll
- 39:06Speaker 2: get to that later. Oddly enough, that movie is not
- 39:10Speaker 2: one of the ones that's in John Boys Horror Hutch.
- 39:16Speaker 1: No, it's horrific, but it's not a horror.
- 39:19Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh so. First of all, huge thanks to Ariel
- 39:24Speaker 2: because she found half of the movies that are in
- 39:27Speaker 2: John Boys Horror Hutch this week.
- 39:29Speaker 1: I would wager to say the two I found are
- 39:31Speaker 1: way cooler than the two you found, but that's probably
- 39:34Speaker 1: not the case. I've only watched the two I found
- 39:36Speaker 1: because the other two are related to Saw all right.
- 39:40Speaker 2: First of all, the second one you found is not cooler,
- 39:43Speaker 2: trust me, We'll get to that. But the first one,
- 39:46Speaker 2: first one, I think is the coolest one of the
- 39:48Speaker 2: ones that you that I grabbed this week, and that's
- 39:51Speaker 2: for the Mummy. This is written and directed by Lee Cronin,
- 39:56Speaker 2: is not connected to any of the former Dark Universe stuff,
- 40:00Speaker 2: and this mummy is a mummy. It's not an Egyptian mummy,
- 40:04Speaker 2: which I think is I think in general, storytellers have
- 40:08Speaker 2: tried to move away from doing Egyptian mummy stories because
- 40:13Speaker 2: it comes across as disrespectful to burial cultures, right, Like
- 40:18Speaker 2: that seems to be passing. It's framing the Egyptian, the
- 40:24Speaker 2: ancient Egyptian practice of mummification as a monstrous thing. It's
- 40:29Speaker 2: othering another culture, and I can see why it would
- 40:34Speaker 2: be better to have it'd be about mummification in general,
- 40:38Speaker 2: not mummies like ancient Egyptian mummies. I get that this one.
- 40:45Speaker 2: The log line is the young daughter of a journalist
- 40:48Speaker 2: disappears without a trace in the desert. The shattered family
- 40:52Speaker 2: is stunned when the girl suddenly reappears eight years later,
- 40:55Speaker 2: But what should have been a joyful family reunion quickly
- 40:58Speaker 2: turns into a true and horrifying nightmare. This trailer is creepy.
- 41:05Speaker 1: Yes, I was mentioned about to shake my head like
- 41:08Speaker 1: nobody can see that aerial. Yeah, it's creepy. Visually, there's
- 41:13Speaker 1: a lot of like suspense, there's a lot of like
- 41:15Speaker 1: just scary imagery. And also they did the thing that
- 41:18Speaker 1: twenty eight years later did where the soundscaping for the
- 41:21Speaker 1: trailer is chilling.
- 41:23Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a lot of really creepy sounds. Actually, I
- 41:26Speaker 2: really like that that's becoming a bigger thing undertone. Obviously
- 41:30Speaker 2: we talked about that last week. That's the podcast horror movie. Yeah,
- 41:33Speaker 2: that's like all about soundscaping. Bring it on. I say,
- 41:37Speaker 2: this movie comes out April seventeenth. I'm definitely intrigued. So
- 41:42Speaker 2: I had no knowledge of this movie before you sent
- 41:45Speaker 2: me the trailer.
- 41:46Speaker 1: I didn't before I found the trailer. But yeah, I
- 41:48Speaker 1: am intrigued as well. I did not watch the Evil
- 41:52Speaker 1: there rises, but I might try this one.
- 41:56Speaker 2: Well, the next one that I have to talk about
- 41:58Speaker 2: is the other one Ariel Sen. She claims it's cooler
- 42:02Speaker 2: than the other ones that I have, and that's for
- 42:04Speaker 2: Gail g A L E. Yellow Brick Road. Yeah, no,
- 42:10Speaker 2: I disagree that this is cooler. Okay, So the basic
- 42:15Speaker 2: premise is it follows Dorothy, Gail's granddaughter as in the
- 42:20Speaker 2: main character from the Wizard of Oz. It follows her
- 42:23Speaker 2: granddaughter Emily, who's dealing with some creatures and manifestations from
- 42:30Speaker 2: Oz that have a horror kick to them. This was
- 42:35Speaker 2: actually based off a YouTube short horror movie. The YouTube yeah, well, hey,
- 42:41Speaker 2: they can be good, they're just usually aren't. But this
- 42:45Speaker 2: YouTube short horror film was titled Gail Stay Away from
- 42:49Speaker 2: Oz and so they essentially they took the basic premise
- 42:53Speaker 2: of that short horror movie and expanded it, but they
- 42:57Speaker 2: also changed things, so it's not like it's just that
- 43:00Speaker 2: story but longer it's it's different.
- 43:04Speaker 1: I no, go ahead, continue on.
- 43:07Speaker 2: I was just gonna say it reminds me a bit
- 43:09Speaker 2: of some of the other public domain ips that have
- 43:13Speaker 2: been turned into horror movies recently, stuff like Popeye and
- 43:16Speaker 2: Steamboat Willie and Winnie the Pooh and all that kind
- 43:19Speaker 2: of stuff, Peter Pan.
- 43:21Speaker 1: This one, this one, to me feels a little bit
- 43:23Speaker 1: more logical because I know so many people who watched
- 43:30Speaker 1: specifically things like Return to Ozma was like that was
- 43:33Speaker 1: actually I didn't find it scary when I was a kid,
- 43:35Speaker 1: but so a lot of my friends did, like with
- 43:38Speaker 1: the Langeleer and the the you mean the wheelies, the
- 43:42Speaker 1: wheelies well, and then the woman who could like change
- 43:44Speaker 1: her face her head right.
- 43:46Speaker 2: Or maybe the fact that that Dorothy had to undergo
- 43:49Speaker 2: shot treatment.
- 43:51Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And so there's a lot of imagery in
- 43:54Speaker 1: the books of like the series of Wizard of Oz
- 43:57Speaker 1: as well that can be really creepy. So to me,
- 44:01Speaker 1: it makes sense to have a story where Dorothy Gale
- 44:05Speaker 1: is now older and like, oh, you don't want to
- 44:07Speaker 1: go there, you know, and trying to protect her from it.
- 44:11Speaker 1: I also really like the character design. It's of like
- 44:15Speaker 1: the Scarecrow. It feels very Labyrinthian to me.
- 44:20Speaker 2: I don't know, it just didn't hit me the same
- 44:22Speaker 2: way it hit you. Like I saw it and I
- 44:24Speaker 2: thought it looked like I mean, it probably is a
- 44:28Speaker 2: low budget movie, but it looked low budget to me.
- 44:31Speaker 2: That doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. It just like it
- 44:35Speaker 2: also has that color grading and kind of filter to
- 44:40Speaker 2: make everything look darker than what it should, and it's
- 44:47Speaker 2: applied in a way where I noticed it, and that's
- 44:51Speaker 2: a problem, right, Like when you notice something that's an
- 44:54Speaker 2: effect to in order to change like the appearance of
- 44:58Speaker 2: what you're seeing on screen that's distracting. And I just
- 45:03Speaker 2: it probably is a reflection of the budget. It's probably
- 45:06Speaker 2: not their fault. But also I'm not familiar with the
- 45:09Speaker 2: original short film. I just saw that it was based
- 45:12Speaker 2: off this thing. Maybe it'll be much better than I
- 45:15Speaker 2: give it credit for. It comes out February eleventh, so
- 45:17Speaker 2: if people are interested in seeing a horror movie that
- 45:21Speaker 2: revisits ideas from Wizard of Oz. I didn't think the
- 45:24Speaker 2: wheelies were from the books. I thought that was invented
- 45:28Speaker 2: for the movie Return to Oz. But I could be wrong,
- 45:30Speaker 2: but they do have a wheelie in the trailer.
- 45:34Speaker 1: Well, but in the book. I think the wheelies were
- 45:38Speaker 1: in the book or something similar because I remember illustrations
- 45:43Speaker 1: of them.
- 45:45Speaker 2: But also I know that they were also included in
- 45:48Speaker 2: the Wizard of Oz role playing games. So it's very
- 45:50Speaker 2: possible that they were in the book, because otherwise you
- 45:52Speaker 2: would have rights issues with the film because like while
- 45:56Speaker 2: the original books are in the public domain, the Return
- 45:58Speaker 2: to Oz movie.
- 45:59Speaker 1: Is yeah, wheelers is what they are, and yeah they're
- 46:06Speaker 1: they're from Ozma of Oz.
- 46:09Speaker 2: Gotcha.
- 46:10Speaker 1: But there was also the woman that Dorothy comes comes
- 46:13Speaker 1: across who changes her head. Artsy actually had a script
- 46:16Speaker 1: about her, uh more similar character at one point where
- 46:20Speaker 1: you just changed the heads based on your emotion.
- 46:24Speaker 2: Yeah, well Man has that with Manny Faces.
- 46:28Speaker 1: So there fair okay, And to be fair, the next
- 46:33Speaker 1: two horror movies are going to talk about I just
- 46:35Speaker 1: simply didn't bother to watch because I saw they were
- 46:37Speaker 1: related to saw.
- 46:40Speaker 2: Okay, well, neither least one of.
- 46:42Speaker 1: Them, but the two links are the same, so they
- 46:44Speaker 1: will both looked, Oh.
- 46:46Speaker 2: I must have accidentally pasted the wrong link into one.
- 46:48Speaker 1: Of them is related to saw and I.
- 46:52Speaker 2: Know, yeah, we'll need to we'll need to fix that
- 46:55Speaker 2: before we before you uploaded as the show notes, just
- 46:59Speaker 2: so that way people aren't going to the wrong thing.
- 47:02Speaker 2: But the okay, excellent, So Twisted is it's about a
- 47:06Speaker 2: couple of hustlers, a couple of scam artists, and they're
- 47:09Speaker 2: running like a real estate scam where they are renting
- 47:14Speaker 2: out properties that they don't actually own, Like it's kind
- 47:19Speaker 2: of like the whole selling you the Brooklyn Bridge kind
- 47:21Speaker 2: of scam. But they end up trying to pull that
- 47:25Speaker 2: on a guy who's a surgeon, and the surgeon turns
- 47:28Speaker 2: the tables on them and captures them and plans to
- 47:30Speaker 2: do some medical experimentation on them, presumably with the intent
- 47:37Speaker 2: on expanding medical knowledge. But you know, it's one of
- 47:43Speaker 2: those things that's limited by the fact that we have
- 47:45Speaker 2: these pesky ethical laws that prevent us from doing those
- 47:48Speaker 2: kind of experiments on human subjects. So he's just going
- 47:51Speaker 2: to bypass that and do it on the these scam artists.
- 47:55Speaker 2: So if you're into like medical horror, that kind of
- 47:58Speaker 2: thing like something that was in Saw or the human
- 48:04Speaker 2: caterpillar or human cynipede. That's a incynipede. I don't know
- 48:07Speaker 2: if it goes that extreme. I don't know what the
- 48:10Speaker 2: medical process procedures are because that's not really revealed in
- 48:14Speaker 2: the trailer, but there is like surgical horror associated with it.
- 48:17Speaker 2: So this comes out February sixth. Not really my thing.
- 48:22Speaker 1: Yeah, not mine either. I feel like medical stuff, if
- 48:25Speaker 1: you have to go through it is scary enough on
- 48:27Speaker 1: its own. I don't need to add another layer of.
- 48:31Speaker 2: I just medical horror just never really appealed to me,
- 48:34Speaker 2: Like that's just not my brand of horror that I like.
- 48:36Speaker 2: I like ghost stories, I like really atmospheric ghost stories.
- 48:40Speaker 2: I'll watch other types of horror as well, but medical
- 48:44Speaker 2: horror was just one of those where I'm like, if
- 48:46Speaker 2: it's really well done, I'll watch it, but it's not
- 48:49Speaker 2: something I seek out. The last one is this is
- 48:53Speaker 2: not a test. This is a zombie movie, which you
- 48:56Speaker 2: might say, aren't we over zombies at this point, and
- 49:00Speaker 2: my answer to you is apparently not. It's called this
- 49:04Speaker 2: is not a test because it's about a group of
- 49:06Speaker 2: students who I believe are trespassing on school property when
- 49:10Speaker 2: there is a zombie outbreak, and then the students are
- 49:13Speaker 2: trying to work together to survive the zombie apocalypse. This
- 49:17Speaker 2: is actually an adaptation of a novel, which I did
- 49:19Speaker 2: not know until I was looking into it further. The
- 49:22Speaker 2: novelist is Courtney Summers, whom I'm not familiar with, so
- 49:26Speaker 2: I don't know anything about the book other than it exists.
- 49:29Speaker 2: This movie comes out February twentieth. I don't know. I'm
- 49:35Speaker 2: kind of over zombies, so it didn't look like it
- 49:39Speaker 2: was badly done. I just don't know that I find
- 49:41Speaker 2: zombie stories that interesting, and maybe this one because at
- 49:47Speaker 2: least the zombies are the actual threat, and it's not
- 49:50Speaker 2: something where the zombies only exist so that we can
- 49:52Speaker 2: learn how terrible human beings are to each other, because
- 49:55Speaker 2: that's like every other zombie story, right, It's like, Oh,
- 49:58Speaker 2: it turns out the zombies aren't really the problem, it's
- 50:00Speaker 2: all the other humans. Can we maybe have stuff where
- 50:04Speaker 2: people band together and help each other bust back to
- 50:09Speaker 2: glad Lands, because y'all, I can look out the window
- 50:13Speaker 2: and see the world falling apart. I kind of need
- 50:16Speaker 2: my fiction to be a little more hopeful.
- 50:19Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. I I do like the thing
- 50:26Speaker 1: where the zombies are the real bad guys. I like
- 50:29Speaker 1: stories like that a lot better, especially if they're cheeky.
- 50:32Speaker 1: Was this one cheeky at all?
- 50:34Speaker 2: A little bit like it? Certainly it doesn't go as
- 50:37Speaker 2: far as something like hot Sean of the Dead. It
- 50:40Speaker 2: doesn't go that far, but you know, it had like
- 50:45Speaker 2: little moments. It just it feels like it leans a
- 50:49Speaker 2: little harder on horror than comedy. But there is some
- 50:53Speaker 2: humor in there too.
- 50:55Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I was just asking because one of my
- 50:58Speaker 1: friends reminded me of The Holiday of Anna versus the Apocalypse,
- 51:02Speaker 1: which apparently was a really great zombie movie and a
- 51:05Speaker 1: really great Christmas musical.
- 51:07Speaker 2: I was about to say it's also a musical. I
- 51:09Speaker 2: did not know it was a musical when I started
- 51:10Speaker 2: watching it, Like I knew it was a zombie movie,
- 51:13Speaker 2: but I did so when the when the musical thing started,
- 51:16Speaker 2: I was like, what the hell is happening?
- 51:19Speaker 1: Did you enjoy it?
- 51:21Speaker 2: No? I did not. I did not like it like
- 51:24Speaker 2: I wanted to like it. I watched the whole thing.
- 51:27Speaker 2: I wanted to like it.
- 51:28Speaker 1: I did not, but I mean I do like Yeah,
- 51:32Speaker 1: so I like stuff like Hot Fuzz or Shanna the Dead.
- 51:35Speaker 2: So you did the same thing I did. I said
- 51:38Speaker 2: hot Fuzz first too.
- 51:39Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't finish Daybreak, but I enjoyed Daybreak. Warm bodies,
- 51:44Speaker 1: Yeah stuff that any warm bodies. The zombies weren't necessarily
- 51:49Speaker 1: the villains.
- 51:50Speaker 2: But yeah, all right, Well let's move on to stuff
- 51:54Speaker 2: that's actually in our lineup. We've got a decent number
- 51:57Speaker 2: of them this time. Some of them also dip into
- 52:01Speaker 2: the horror hutch area, but they were ones that Ariel
- 52:04Speaker 2: felt confident she could watch, so we concluded them on
- 52:07Speaker 2: this side. Though I didn't ask you about the Dreadful
- 52:09Speaker 2: before I put it in there.
- 52:11Speaker 1: No, that's that's fine. I have thoughts and it was fine.
- 52:16Speaker 2: Well, total we start. We start off with yet another
- 52:19Speaker 2: Avengers doomsday teaser, because you know, they just kept keep
- 52:23Speaker 2: coming out to keep to keep blood pumping in Avatar,
- 52:27Speaker 2: fire and ash Uh. This one features characters from Wakanda
- 52:33Speaker 2: as well as a foursome that are pretty fantastic, although
- 52:37Speaker 2: we only see one of them.
- 52:39Speaker 1: Yeah, the the other the other trailer teasers kind of
- 52:47Speaker 1: made me feel like, why are we showing this. This
- 52:49Speaker 1: one actually shows us. It looks like something from the movie.
- 52:53Speaker 1: But the thing it shows us from the movie I
- 52:55Speaker 1: think would have been better as a reveal in the movie.
- 52:58Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know that I would care. I didn't
- 53:01Speaker 2: care in the teaser, so I don't know that I
- 53:02Speaker 2: would care in the movie.
- 53:04Speaker 1: I mean, like, I am excited about seeing more of
- 53:07Speaker 1: nay More. I liked the design of the culture.
- 53:14Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind seeing more of Inmbaku.
- 53:17Speaker 1: Yes, I love Imbaku. Winston Duke is amazing as that character, Like,
- 53:23Speaker 1: seriously my favorite character of the first Black Panther movie
- 53:27Speaker 1: because I like cheeky people. Yeah, yeah, so I'm excited
- 53:34Speaker 1: to see him, and I honestly think seeing Imbacu and
- 53:38Speaker 1: Ben Grimm together is brilliant. But I would have loved
- 53:41Speaker 1: that excitement as a reveal in the movie. That's where
- 53:45Speaker 1: I'm at.
- 53:46Speaker 2: Well, that's a bummer. That's a bummer, Like it's not
- 53:51Speaker 2: something that I was looking for, Like I wasn't like, gosh,
- 53:53Speaker 2: I sure hope we get a no some screen time
- 53:55Speaker 2: with these two characters interacting with each other. Like I
- 53:58Speaker 2: honestly couldn't care us It's just my disenchantment with Marvel. Like,
- 54:06Speaker 2: I'm not one of those those jerks on YouTube who
- 54:10Speaker 2: just immediately bemoans everything about Marvel. I'm not that bad,
- 54:15Speaker 2: but I certainly am. You know, I'm not excited about this,
- 54:21Speaker 2: like I wish I were. Maybe I will be when
- 54:24Speaker 2: we get closer to release, but really, honestly, so far,
- 54:28Speaker 2: I'm just like, yeah, a lot of people we know
- 54:30Speaker 2: are in this movie. Yeah there's another one.
- 54:37Speaker 1: Yeah, which is kind of also how I feel about
- 54:40Speaker 1: the Netflix's what Next little clip they released.
- 54:45Speaker 2: Yeah, I felt like this. I felt like we saw
- 54:47Speaker 2: something similar to this toward the end of last year,
- 54:50Speaker 2: where it was again just a bunch of quick looks
- 54:54Speaker 2: at various upcoming films and series that Netflix is going
- 54:59Speaker 2: to feature in twenty twenty six. In this case, it
- 55:02Speaker 2: was done with a little framing device, like through narrative
- 55:07Speaker 2: of a young woman being having her fortune told and
- 55:10Speaker 2: finding herself being plunged literally plunged into the different stories
- 55:15Speaker 2: and worlds like usually thrown around like that. I can
- 55:19Speaker 2: only imagine what that shooting schedule must have been like
- 55:21Speaker 2: for her, where she's like, Okay, we're gonna dangle you
- 55:23Speaker 2: from this harness and we need you to flail your
- 55:25Speaker 2: arms and legs and scream like a lot.
- 55:29Speaker 1: Well also, and just from a technical standpoint, they had
- 55:33Speaker 1: a lot of actors and sets from all the other
- 55:36Speaker 1: shows yeah, in there that were specific to that show. So,
- 55:39Speaker 1: like they got Millie Bobby Brown as Inola Holmes, Sorry
- 55:43Speaker 1: Millie Bonnie bon Jovi, she changed her name when she
- 55:46Speaker 1: adopted her her baby. They they had her as in
- 55:53Speaker 1: Nola Holmes interact with this girl. They had I think
- 55:56Speaker 1: Anthony from Bridgerton interact with this girl.
- 55:59Speaker 2: So I'm curious if Killian Murphy actually was on set
- 56:04Speaker 2: with her or if that was a composite shot where
- 56:07Speaker 2: it was literally taken from an episode of Peaky Blinders
- 56:09Speaker 2: and they just inserted her in there, because I was like,
- 56:13Speaker 2: I mean, I guess if Killian Murphy's deal included a
- 56:17Speaker 2: requirement that he'd do that, he would do it, but
- 56:21Speaker 2: it seems so beneath him.
- 56:23Speaker 1: Yeah, there were one or two moments that could have
- 56:25Speaker 1: been composite, but there were several that obviously were not.
- 56:29Speaker 2: Yeah, but we we got lots of quick shots of
- 56:31Speaker 2: things like Bridgerton one piece, Peaky Blinders, Sesame Street. Sesame
- 56:37Speaker 2: Street included an adorable moment where she gets transformed into
- 56:40Speaker 2: a puppet.
- 56:41Speaker 1: I love it. I just it was fun. But it
- 56:47Speaker 1: was just a lot of like little moments, like I
- 56:51Speaker 1: know that show's coming out. Sesame Street was maybe the
- 56:53Speaker 1: most fun bit.
- 56:55Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. We also got a trailer for an Apple
- 57:00Speaker 2: TV series, the second season of Monarch Legacy of Monsters.
- 57:05Speaker 2: Did you start watching the first season?
- 57:08Speaker 1: I have been trying, So I watched the first two
- 57:13Speaker 1: episodes on a plane a couple of years ago, because
- 57:18Speaker 1: it's there's been a big break because of everything between
- 57:21Speaker 1: season one and season two of this show on Apple,
- 57:24Speaker 1: so much so that I didn't think we were getting
- 57:25Speaker 1: a season two at the time. I didn't have Apple TV.
- 57:30Speaker 1: But I really enjoyed it because it gave me It
- 57:34Speaker 1: focuses more on the people than the monsters, which I
- 57:40Speaker 1: really liked, and it gave me kind of like a
- 57:44Speaker 1: a lost vibe, but in a good way, not in
- 57:49Speaker 1: a I just threw a bunch of darts at a
- 57:50Speaker 1: board full of story ideas way. So I have been
- 57:55Speaker 1: trying to get I want to watch it, and I
- 57:58Speaker 1: can watch it by myself, but I'm like, why not
- 58:00Speaker 1: make my partner sit down and watch it? With me.
- 58:03Speaker 1: So I've been trying to get him to watch it,
- 58:05Speaker 1: and you'll watch it at some point. We just haven't
- 58:06Speaker 1: found the right day or time to start it, but
- 58:09Speaker 1: it is on my list. I love the fact that
- 58:14Speaker 1: they cast Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell is the same character.
- 58:19Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of cool throughout time.
- 58:22Speaker 1: That's just brilliant and amazing, and I bet it's wonderful
- 58:25Speaker 1: for them too if they ever get to act together,
- 58:27Speaker 1: although they might never share the set together knowing how
- 58:30Speaker 1: filming schedules go. The season two looks really good. They're
- 58:35Speaker 1: introducing a new monster, which looks really good. The effects
- 58:40Speaker 1: in the show are really good, so I'm excited for it.
- 58:43Speaker 2: Kong shows up, Kong shows up.
- 58:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I just don't know how because it's done by
- 58:50Speaker 1: the same group of people. Essentially, the movies can be
- 58:53Speaker 1: so crap, and this TV show can be so intriguing.
- 58:57Speaker 1: Maybe it's because they focus on the people.
- 58:59Speaker 2: Maybe. So this will launch on February twenty seventh. Yeah,
- 59:05Speaker 2: you like You see a little scene in the trailer
- 59:07Speaker 2: of a rift opens up between Earth and a world
- 59:12Speaker 2: of monsters, and that's where the monster kind of invades
- 59:15Speaker 2: into Earth and then apparently Kong lays down some smack
- 59:21Speaker 2: at some point. So, yeah, if you're into monster stuff,
- 59:24Speaker 2: like Ariel is this, this could be something for you
- 59:27Speaker 2: to check out. I've never been a big monster movie
- 59:30Speaker 2: kind of dude. I did like that Godzilla movie we
- 59:35Speaker 2: mentioned earlier. I did like that one, and I like
- 59:39Speaker 2: the original King Kong. I never saw Peter Jackson's version.
- 59:43Speaker 2: I never saw any of like the Skull Island stuff.
- 59:45Speaker 2: I haven't seen any of that. So this is not
- 59:48Speaker 2: my that's just not my bag.
- 59:50Speaker 1: I like the character of King Kong. I like the
- 59:52Speaker 1: idea of King Kong. The movie King Kong is heartbreaking.
- 59:56Speaker 2: Well yeah, that's the point. Yeah, it's a try. It's
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: a tragic Beauty and the Beast kind of story, like, yeah,
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: it's meant to make you sad.
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't like it, but I do like
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: the concept of the character.
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: Its succeeded in what they tried to do, and I
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: hate them for it.
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: Yes, yes, But but now I wonder if you would
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: like this show, knowing the things that you did, like.
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: Maybe I'll check out. Like, because I've got Apple TV,
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: I can always sit down and watch like an episode
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: of the first season and see if it resonates with me.
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: I should do that and see, because it may be
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: that's one of those things where it's like, man, I
- 1:00:33Speaker 2: shouldn't have been holding out, or maybe I'll think, man,
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: I'm glad I held out because now season two is
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: coming out and I don't have to wait three years
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: or whatever.
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: Well, if you do watch it, I am interested to
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: hear your thoughts on it, because I know if I do.
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: Play sure, sure, well, it's kind of like if I
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: made you watch you know, some of the horror movies.
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: I like. You know, there's things that I genuinely find
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: entertaining that you would probably like not enjoy, And you know,
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: I can't expect you to enjoy it just because I'm
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: willing it super hard, right that that doesn't really work.
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: But we'll see. This might very well be one of
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: those things where I find the characters really compelling and
- 1:01:15Speaker 2: I want to learn more about them and see them
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: interact in this you know, weird environment with all these
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: giant monsters and stuff. We'll see. We'll also see if
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: I will go and watch Scream seven Legacy. If I do,
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: I feel like I need to do some homework because
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: I think i've mentioned before. I don't think I've seen
- 1:01:34Speaker 2: any Scream films after the third.
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: One, which is the best one, so.
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: It's Ariel's favorite. I think my favorite is still the
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: first one because it was just such a surprise. It
- 1:01:46Speaker 2: was such a great surprise. But yeah, I haven't. We
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: saw the trailer now for Scream seven Legacy. We had
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: talked about this one before because we got a teaser
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: not too long ago. But the basic premise is that
- 1:01:59Speaker 2: I'm new ghost Face Killer has targeted Sidney, that's Nev
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: Campbell's character, Sidney's daughter, and is saying that he's going
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: to kill the daughter or hurt the daughter, but not
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: until Sidney is there to witness it happening. So very
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: sinister and you know, psychotic. And I've heard that lots
- 1:02:25Speaker 2: of actors from the previous screen movies are going to
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: show up in this, like Matthew Lillard, and I'm thinking,
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: who's he gonna play. He cannot possibly play the character
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: he played in Stream one because that character died like
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: dead dead, and Matthew Lillard playing a teenager then was
- 1:02:46Speaker 2: a little bit of a stretch, but now would be
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: an enormous stretch unless you just say, oh no, it
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: turns out he lived.
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: Yeah, it's because I was about to say it could
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: be in a flashback, but he has aged quite a bit.
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: He still looks great, but he does. Yeah, he doesn't
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: look like he can't pass.
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: I mean, it would be funny if they just did
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: it without even trying to explain it away. And he's
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: just supposed to be a teenager. That would be that's
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: like wet hot American summer style jokes there.
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he is no longer thirty passing as seventeen.
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: Yeah, but I have no idea what any of the like.
- 1:03:22Speaker 2: I think David Arquette is supposed to be in this too,
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: and I'm pretty sure his character got killed in one
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: of the I never saw that happen because he was
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: still alive at the end of Screen three, but I'm
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: pretty sure he got killed in one of the screen
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: movies too.
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I've heard as well. Yeah, I'm super
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: interested to see what happens.
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: Yeah, it comes out February twenty seventh, so where I
- 1:03:45Speaker 2: got a little bit of time to watch those other
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: movies so I can at least at least have an appreciation.
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: I know, there's not like a ton of continuity from
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: film to film. But I think what watching all those
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: movies helps you do is it helps you say, well,
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: they've done this kind of twist in this movie, and
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: this kind of twists and this other one, So it
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: kind of helps you eliminate possibilities because you're like, they're
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: surely not going to repeat themselves.
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I was supposed to watch Scream
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: four this Halloween and that didn't happen.
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: But oh wow. Then we get a full trailer for
- 1:04:24Speaker 2: One Piece season two. Now, I never watched the anime
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: and I have not seen season one of the live action,
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: but I will say after watching this trailer, I kind
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: of want to change that because it's so bonkers.
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: It is bonkers. So I tried watching season one of
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: One Piece the live Action on Netflix, and the first
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: couple of episodes felt very like kitty and cheesy, which
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: I expected, but a little more kiddy than I expected.
- 1:04:51Speaker 2: Huh.
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: However, this trailer looks great, and the trailer at least
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: the characters are not acting in the way that annoyed
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: me at the very beginning of season one. So I
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: want to go back and finish season one so I
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: can watch season two and not just because David Destmalian
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: is in it.
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: Well, the fact that there's a character who at one
- 1:05:10Speaker 2: point has a wig that's hiding a series of cannons
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: in it just made me go, like, what I mean.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: The main character can stretch out like mister fantastic, It's
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: it is a bonkers show.
- 1:05:22Speaker 2: Is it ever explained how he can do that? Or
- 1:05:26Speaker 2: I don't know? Okay, so I ask.
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: I have been interested in One Piece and for a
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: long time, but by the time I got interested in it,
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: by the time it came across my radar, the comic
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: books and the anime cartoon were both so far in
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: there was no way. There was no way I could
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: do it.
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: That is I have heard like, this is like a
- 1:05:47Speaker 2: really long running series, and one of the things that
- 1:05:49Speaker 2: prevents people from getting into it is just that you
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: feel like like if you were to get into it now,
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: you would only be watching old stuff. For you, it
- 1:05:59Speaker 2: would take you forever to catch up, Like it's just
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: it's been going on for too long.
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: As of early twenty twenty six, the One Piece anime
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: series has over one and fifty five episodes.
- 1:06:11Speaker 2: Yikes. Yeah, that's like a prison sentence.
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: Again in nineteen ninety nine, which great. Great that they've
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: been so long running and that people like it so much,
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: that is awesome.
- 1:06:23Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, it is intimidating to figure out where do
- 1:06:27Speaker 2: you jump in do you go from the beginning, because like,
- 1:06:30Speaker 2: if it's if it's your typical series, there's gonna be
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: people like okay, so it's not gonna get good until
- 1:06:35Speaker 2: you get six years into it. I have.
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: I have almost burned some friendships by being like, no,
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: you have to watch Lost with me. It's so much fun,
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: but you have to watch past the first ten episodes.
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: Yeah, because she knows I dropped off before that. I
- 1:06:53Speaker 2: did not get that far.
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: Well, like the end, a lot of people didn't like,
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: so I don't push it anymore.
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: But yeah, well, One Piece Season two launches on March tenth,
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: and this is a Netflix show, so if you have Netflix,
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: you'll be able to catch it there. Next we finally
- 1:07:09Speaker 2: get to the whole bloody affair. We got a trailer
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: for the bluff we had talked about this This is
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: the pirate movie, apparently set in eighteen forty six, which
- 1:07:21Speaker 2: confused me again because I think I read somewhere it
- 1:07:23Speaker 2: was supposed to be in the late eighteen hundreds, and
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: that's the mid eighteen hundreds. But at least explains why
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: one of the characters is carrying a revolver, because those
- 1:07:33Speaker 2: were invented around eighteen twenty three, so at least it's consistent.
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: But yeah, this is the one where it's the pirate
- 1:07:42Speaker 2: slash mafia revenge movie that we talked about last week.
- 1:07:47Speaker 1: It is interesting because even though it is set in
- 1:07:50Speaker 1: the past, there were certain moments that felt a little
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: modern for me.
- 1:07:55Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, well, I forget, what's the name of the
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: guy who plays the captain who's coming after her? Country
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: music Australian country music singersread, oh like Carl Urban, right,
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it to you two episodes
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: in a row. Yeah, Carl Urban plays a captain who
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: is seeking his former captain, whom he thinks has betrayed
- 1:08:24Speaker 2: him and stolen treasure that was rightfully the cruise or whatever.
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: And then it turns out that this former female captain
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: is very capable of protecting herself and her family through
- 1:08:38Speaker 2: the use of extreme violence. This was possibly the bloodiest
- 1:08:45Speaker 2: trailer I've seen in a really long time.
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: Yeah, there was there was one particular moment in the trailer,
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: So there's a lot of scary stuff, and there's a
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: lot of scary stuff that happens to her, and so
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: I feel like the extreme violence that she did felt justified.
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: She's also trying to keep her daughter safe. Right, hard
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: to watch, similar similar to how The Hunters is hard
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: to watch the TV show about hunting Nazis in the
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: seventies because it's it's very violent and there's a lot
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: of like just upsetting stuff that happens. But I did
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: find it intriguing. Uh. And there was one particular moment
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: that I thought was especially visceral, and it's when she
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: attacks a guy's leg by cutting up.
- 1:09:31Speaker 2: It and oh, yeah, she's got a knife shoved into
- 1:09:35Speaker 2: his leg in the lower thigh and she's pulling the
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: knife up the thigh, so she's cutting, she's cutting length
- 1:09:43Speaker 2: wise up the thigh, and yeah, it looks it looks
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: incredibly brutal.
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: I am very thankful that at least in the trailer,
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: and I hope in the TV show that they don't
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: show like a close up of that. You see it
- 1:09:57Speaker 1: happening from a distance, so it's not Yeah, it is
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: visceral and it's upsetting, but it's not super gory.
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're the camera is set on the opposite
- 1:10:07Speaker 2: side of the guy's thigh, Yeah, the side that doesn't
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: have a nice sticking out of it at the moment. Yeah,
- 1:10:13Speaker 2: the whole fight sequence looks like she's got some real
- 1:10:17Speaker 2: Jackie Chan kind of moves on her too. But she
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: also seems really good at picking up practically anything and
- 1:10:24Speaker 2: using it as a lethal weapon, you know, whether it's
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: a machete or a rock. Yeah, so, yeah, definitely, it
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: looks visceral. I will probably check it out because I
- 1:10:37Speaker 2: love pirate stuff and I'm not bothered by extreme violence
- 1:10:41Speaker 2: on cinema. Usually there are exceptions. There have been a
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: few cases where I'm like, wow, that was too much
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: even for me. But this comes out February twenty fifth,
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: so I'll be checking it out.
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: I think I will also check it out. Yeah, there's
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: a lot of violence in some of it I might
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: have to turn away from, but it didn't look like
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: they were glorifying in any of it too much, if
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: that makes sense.
- 1:11:03Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it'll be easier to say once we get
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: a chance to actually watch it, whether it feels like
- 1:11:08Speaker 2: it's just really violent or if it's actually glorifying violence,
- 1:11:12Speaker 2: you know. I mean we both also come from an
- 1:11:15Speaker 2: era where the glorification of violence was hand in hand
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: with action movies, right, Like that was how action movies
- 1:11:21Speaker 2: were made.
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: Yeah, which I think is one why I feel like
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: the violence in the trailer for the Bluff hits a
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: little harder because again it's rough, but it's what would
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: you do in that situation? You would do anything you
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: could to survive it, right, right, Yeah, so it feels
- 1:11:36Speaker 1: a little bit almost more real. But also, yeah, it
- 1:11:42Speaker 1: looks very interesting to me. I'll probably watch it as well.
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: What about The Bride? We got a full trailer for
- 1:11:48Speaker 2: the Bride. This is the one that Maggie Jillenhall is directing,
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: and it's I wrote Bonnie and Clyde meets Bride of
- 1:11:55Speaker 2: Frankenstein in my notes Bonnie and Bride, Bonnie and Bride. Yeah,
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: Bride and Clyde, Bride and Clyde.
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: I think this trailer sells it a little bit better
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: because it gives a slightly better through line on the plot. Yeah,
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: of like this, this main character did not want to
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: be turned into the bride, but then she does, and
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: she kind of embraces it after a while it seems
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: like I'm still it still feels a little disjointed. It's
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: still I don't know, it still hasn't grabbed me.
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: I'm wondering if Maggie Jillenhall was like kicking herself when
- 1:12:34Speaker 2: Pretty Things came out, because it's giving me out Poor Things. Yeah,
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: it's giving me. It's giving me some echoes of Poor Things,
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, this is kind of like Poor Things,
- 1:12:45Speaker 2: but it looks like it's flashier and not as interesting
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: to me. Not that it's done poorly, but I thought
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: Poor Things was more intriguing from the trailer versus The Bride.
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: Did you end up watching Poor Things?
- 1:13:00Speaker 2: I haven't watched it yet. I've learned more about it
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: since then, where I'm like, I'm gonna need to be
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: in our particular headspace to watch this movie.
- 1:13:08Speaker 1: Yeah. I watched it simply because I learned about how
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: Emma Stone had to film it and I wanted to
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: watch her acting process. Yeah, because it's super impressive and
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: I thought it would be great from a standpoint of
- 1:13:24Speaker 1: like learning the craft. But the story was a lot.
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: Well, and again, like just based on trailers, I found
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: the Poor Things trailers to be much more like they
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: grabbed me more than the Bride trailer has the Bride.
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: I don't know. There's kind of like a surface level
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: of flashiness that makes me think of things like Sin City.
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: Not that it looks anything like sin City, but sin
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: City was so stylized it was more style than substance. Right,
- 1:13:54Speaker 2: this feels like it's a little better balanced. It doesn't
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: feel like it's sacrificing all substance for the purpose of style,
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: but definitely feel stylized, heavily stylized.
- 1:14:05Speaker 1: I so I love noir, and I love that era
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: of like gangster, old timey gangster kind of story. It has,
- 1:14:14Speaker 1: it has I said, this is when the Teezer came out.
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: It has everything I should love in a movie. It
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: has so many things I love, and it just doesn't
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: put it together. It feels like all style and no
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: substance to me.
- 1:14:27Speaker 2: Okay, well, maybe we'll get another trailer that'll change our minds. Like,
- 1:14:31Speaker 2: I don't think it looks bad and it may be
- 1:14:34Speaker 2: very entertaining. It just again doesn't It didn't capture my
- 1:14:38Speaker 2: imagination the way Poor Things did, But that that doesn't
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: mean that this is bad. It comes out March sixth,
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: I will probably watch this because I am curious if
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: they can make this into some sort of Bonnie and
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: Clyde kind of horror story.
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: Possibly it would be successful.
- 1:15:00Speaker 2: Yeah, possibly with Bonnie turning against Clyde at some point
- 1:15:04Speaker 2: in this version. Next, we've got a trailer for a
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: gothic horror film called The Dreadful, which also serves as
- 1:15:12Speaker 2: a reunion to two Game of Thrones actors, because Sophie
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: Turner and Kit Harrington are both in it.
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so you got to get past the fact
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: that they played cousins in.
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: Game of Thrones and actually they were siblings.
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: Siblings, kind of half siblings.
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: They weren't. It turned out they weren't. They were cousins,
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: but they thought they were siblings. Siblings. Well spoiler for
- 1:15:39Speaker 2: Game of Thrones.
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: Sophie Turner plays a woman whose husband has gone away
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: and her mom is into some shady stuff.
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: Yeah, her mom is like or her mother in law. Really,
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's her husband's mother who
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: is possessive and paranoid. And then she encounters a man
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: who was friends with her husband, someone she knows that's
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: played by Kit Harrington, and it turns out that her
- 1:16:13Speaker 2: husband apparently has died in the war, and Kit Harrington
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: survived and comes back, and the two of them begin
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: to kindle a relationship very much against the wishes of
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: the mother in law, who does not want that to
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: happen at all, And you get some pretty crazy stuff. So,
- 1:16:31Speaker 2: like the little description I pulled was set in the
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: fifteenth century, during the Wars of the Roses, Anne and
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: her mother in law Morwin, exist on the outskirts of
- 1:16:43Speaker 2: society when someone from their past re enters their life,
- 1:16:47Speaker 2: which is like the most vague description I've ever seen.
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: And you watch this trailer and you're like, hey, whoa,
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: there's some crazy stuff happening here.
- 1:16:55Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently it's based off of in nineteen sixty four
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: Japanese historical trauma.
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: Wow, interesting to me. I did not know that. Well,
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: I'll say, the trailer looks like like this film was
- 1:17:09Speaker 2: well made. I Yeah, I'm a little curious because it
- 1:17:14Speaker 2: definitely feels more like a psychological thriller than like it doesn't.
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like it's a supernatural horror. It feels
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: like it's a psychological horror kind of film.
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it looks interesting to me. I don't mind
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: dark medieval stuff, right, it is fifteen hundreds of medieval.
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: Sure, I mean well in England. Yes, Like you could
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: argue the Renaissance didn't arrive till because this is fourteen hundreds,
- 1:17:40Speaker 2: fifteenth century, fourteen hundred, so this is this is before
- 1:17:44Speaker 2: you get you know, Henry the seventh winning out over
- 1:17:48Speaker 2: Richard the third. So that's and England came to the
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: Renaissance late because it's separated from the rest of the
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: continent by the English channel.
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so so yeah, I don't mind dark medieval stuff.
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: But it does look really scary.
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it looked pretty intriguing. It comes out
- 1:18:10Speaker 2: February twentieth, so this might be one I check out.
- 1:18:13Speaker 2: It's all of the ones that I'm interested in. This
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: is kind of like at the bottom of the list,
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: not that it doesn't make the list, but it's not
- 1:18:21Speaker 2: like I won't prioritize it. In other words, you're.
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: More interested in the bluff than the dreadful.
- 1:18:27Speaker 2: I think I am okay, I think I am Yeah.
- 1:18:31Speaker 2: I'd love pirates, man, I love pirates, and I love
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: movie violence. I don't love real violence, but movie violence
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: is okay. Next up, we've got a trailer for a
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: Netflix series called How to Get to Heaven from Belfast,
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: which I think is from at least some of the
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: creators of Welcome to Dairy not Welcome to Day Dairy Girls.
- 1:18:57Speaker 2: Dairy Girls be amazing, though it would be, it would be.
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: This was my Keith Urban moment, and I told Ariel
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: she should take advantage and make fun of me whenever
- 1:19:09Speaker 2: I do this.
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: Yeah, we're too So we have this and then one
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: other thing to talk about. So I did my faux
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: pot at the beginning of the episode, and you ragged
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: me through the entire thing.
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: Yeah, I saved mine for the end.
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: He saved years for the end. And how the heck
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: am I gonna? Okay? So, yes, this story is about
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: Penny Wise chasing after some people from Ireland.
- 1:19:36Speaker 2: It's good.
- 1:19:37Speaker 1: It's going to be our next smashup.
- 1:19:41Speaker 2: The military has a truly crazy plan for Ireland. No,
- 1:19:46Speaker 2: it is Dairy Girls, not Welcome to Darry Yes.
- 1:19:49Speaker 1: Yes, And it follows these women. I think they're in
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: their thirties. I have a friend die and they go
- 1:19:55Speaker 1: to her funeral and then they realized that did she
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: or did she? It turns out to be a miss.
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: There might be some supernatural stuff in there. They try
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: to figure out what happened, and they go on this wild, crazy,
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: mad cap adventure to figure it out.
- 1:20:12Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks it looks it's a mystery comedy series,
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: and it looks wild because like the village they go
- 1:20:19Speaker 2: to is just apparently completely populated by weirdos. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: but yeah, it's a thing about like one of them
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: opens up the coffin that their friend is going to
- 1:20:31Speaker 2: be buried in and realizes that the body inside the
- 1:20:35Speaker 2: coffin is not their friend that they all believe to
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: be dead. So now they're wondering, like maybe she's actually
- 1:20:40Speaker 2: still alive, so they're trying to solve the mystery. This
- 1:20:44Speaker 2: comes out February twelfth. It does look like it's going
- 1:20:46Speaker 2: to be very funny. You might want to watch this
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: with subtitles on if you're not particularly good at sussing
- 1:20:55Speaker 2: out the Irish dialects, because they are pretty strong.
- 1:20:58Speaker 1: The kind of like the little teaser line for it
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: is cracking. This mystery will be some deadly crack, which
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: crackin Irish means fun.
- 1:21:08Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quite crack.
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: I mean it has a few meanings, but that's one
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: of them. And that's I like that word play.
- 1:21:15Speaker 2: So yeah. And then we have Send Help the Sam
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: Raimi Experience, which is really kind of a behind the
- 1:21:24Speaker 2: scenes short film, not even a short film. It's a
- 1:21:27Speaker 2: little behind the scenes video of the making of Send Help,
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: and also just the actors in Send Help talking about
- 1:21:38Speaker 2: what it's like making a movie with the legendary king
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: of schlocky horror, Sam Raimi, and it's fun. It's a
- 1:21:46Speaker 2: fun little insight into Sam Raimi's weird process.
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so Send Help. Did you talk about this
- 1:21:55Speaker 1: in your horror hutch at all?
- 1:21:56Speaker 2: We talked about it in a previous episode, because this
- 1:21:59Speaker 2: is the one where it's the CEO of a company
- 1:22:02Speaker 2: and one of the staff members of his company that
- 1:22:05Speaker 2: both get shipwrecked on an island, and on that island,
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: she turns the tables because she's the capable one and
- 1:22:11Speaker 2: he's injured. So then he's still trying to treat the
- 1:22:16Speaker 2: situation like the power dynamic from the office is still
- 1:22:20Speaker 2: in play, and she's like, oh no, that's not happening. Now,
- 1:22:24Speaker 2: that's not the world you're in. Now, we aren't in
- 1:22:26Speaker 2: a world where you're in charge. That's and then it
- 1:22:29Speaker 2: becomes kind of like a battle first a battle of
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: wills and then an actual battle between the two characters.
- 1:22:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I it's one that you talked about, but it
- 1:22:40Speaker 1: didn't like stick in my memory like a lot of
- 1:22:43Speaker 1: horror movies. But I do you like Rachel McAdams a lot.
- 1:22:47Speaker 1: This This little teaser thing does its job, though it
- 1:22:50Speaker 1: kind of makes me more interested in it just I was.
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: I was interested in this because I love the fantasy
- 1:22:57Speaker 2: of seeing someone who's fairly low on the ladder being
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: able to turn the tables on someone who otherwise just
- 1:23:05Speaker 2: makes their life miserable at work.
- 1:23:08Speaker 1: And I liked the idea of actors being like, yeah,
- 1:23:12Speaker 1: he does a lot of weird stuff, but it's very
- 1:23:14Speaker 1: collaborative and he gives us a lot of power in
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: the power to be creative in on set. And I
- 1:23:19Speaker 1: think that's wonderful because Sam Raimi has done some stuff
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: that I know has been uncomfortable for actors, like in
- 1:23:26Speaker 1: the Evil Dead TV show. Yeah, he did that right
- 1:23:29Speaker 1: where Bruce Campbell had to drown in so much fake blood.
- 1:23:35Speaker 2: Well, like I want to say that when they made
- 1:23:38Speaker 2: the first Evil Dead movie, Bruce Campbell at one point
- 1:23:41Speaker 2: showed that he could do a full flip and land
- 1:23:45Speaker 2: on his back right like a full front flip and
- 1:23:47Speaker 2: land on his back. And they decided to incorporate that
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: into the movie, which meant they had to do it
- 1:23:52Speaker 2: over and over and over again while they were getting
- 1:23:54Speaker 2: the shot. And that's when Bruce Campbell was like, Yeah,
- 1:24:00Speaker 2: don't show Sam what you can do unless you're able
- 1:24:02Speaker 2: to do it without injuring yourself, like a billion times
- 1:24:06Speaker 2: in a row. Send Help comes out January thirtieth. This one.
- 1:24:11Speaker 2: I'm actually really interested in this because I think the story, like,
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: I know, I'm going to be rooting for the psychopath.
- 1:24:18Speaker 2: I'm going to be rooting for the worker who has
- 1:24:23Speaker 2: like has the opportunity now to be the one in charge,
- 1:24:29Speaker 2: and she takes it to extremes, like it becomes clear
- 1:24:31Speaker 2: that she has kind of lost it. But I'm I'm
- 1:24:36Speaker 2: so like, let's eat the rich that I'm on her side.
- 1:24:40Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it looks fun, it looks good. I don't
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: think I will go to theaters for this, just because
- 1:24:46Speaker 1: I don't know if I'd be able to handle it.
- 1:24:48Speaker 2: This would be hard for me too, because like Sam
- 1:24:51Speaker 2: Raimi's recent stuff, I've watched, but I've only watched at home.
- 1:24:55Speaker 2: And I don't know how I would have coped in
- 1:24:59Speaker 2: the theater. Drag Me to Hell, for example, which is
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: not recent, that's from like more than a decade ago now,
- 1:25:06Speaker 2: but it's it is hard to watch in points, like
- 1:25:10Speaker 2: it's just so horrifying for me. Some people no problem
- 1:25:14Speaker 2: with that, But that one was like really intense in
- 1:25:17Speaker 2: certain parts, And I don't know if I would have
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: been able to comfortably endure that in a theater as
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: opposed to watching it at home, where I could pause
- 1:25:25Speaker 2: it if things got too intense and I could take
- 1:25:27Speaker 2: a moment to gather myself before it continued.
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I mean Doctor Stranger in the Multiverse
- 1:25:34Speaker 1: of Madness was perfectly fine to watch in a theater.
- 1:25:36Speaker 2: Yes, you know, one of his well known horror movies.
- 1:25:41Speaker 1: I mean it was one of his horror movies. It
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: happened he was so scary.
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: That wasn't Sam Raimi. That was the Coen Brothers.
- 1:25:54Speaker 1: It shows up on his I know that Multiverse Madness
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: was Sam Raimi, but it shows up in his IMDb. Oh,
- 1:26:01Speaker 1: because he was in the cast.
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: Yeah. I was about to say, Sam, There's no way
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: Sam Raimi directed Hudsucker Proxy. That's a Coen Brothers movie
- 1:26:08Speaker 2: like Raising Arizona.
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: This, Hey, audience, you already if you listened to us,
- 1:26:12Speaker 1: you already know and you're in the same boat. But
- 1:26:14Speaker 1: this is why you need to fact check and not
- 1:26:17Speaker 1: trust Google AI.
- 1:26:18Speaker 2: Yeah, because otherwise you start saying things like how to
- 1:26:20Speaker 2: Get to Heaven from Belfast was made from some of
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: the people from Welcome to Terry, And the more I
- 1:26:26Speaker 2: think about, the funnier that is.
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I can't see. I can't make fun of
- 1:26:32Speaker 1: you now because I just said the Hudsucker Proxy was
- 1:26:33Speaker 1: a Sam Raimi production.
- 1:26:34Speaker 2: No, no, no, but that that one is, like, like,
- 1:26:38Speaker 2: the only reason I know that it's a Coen Brothers
- 1:26:41Speaker 2: movie is because I really like Hudsucker Proxy. It's an
- 1:26:45Speaker 2: outlier for the Coen Brothers. I don't think it's one
- 1:26:47Speaker 2: of their better movies. Like, I don't think I love it.
- 1:26:51Speaker 2: I love the movie. I love it. It is whimsical
- 1:26:54Speaker 2: and strange and fun and it has one of the
- 1:26:59Speaker 2: best for what's what's the actresses at Jennifer Jason Lee,
- 1:27:02Speaker 2: who's in it, but she plays a the actress Okay,
- 1:27:06Speaker 2: she plays a reporter and is doing a mid Atlantic
- 1:27:10Speaker 2: accent and just firing away at such a fast cadence.
- 1:27:15Speaker 2: She is so good. Bruce Campbell actually in an interview,
- 1:27:18Speaker 2: talked about how incredibly good she was and that it
- 1:27:21Speaker 2: intimidated him. He's like this, this actress who's like younger
- 1:27:25Speaker 2: than I am. She shows up and she knows her
- 1:27:28Speaker 2: lines and she performs at a level that is just insane.
- 1:27:32Speaker 2: It was scary, and I'm like, that's awesome. But but
- 1:27:36Speaker 2: like I think, in the great Canon and Cohen Brothers movies,
- 1:27:40Speaker 2: it isn't one of their best. Like I think, Oh,
- 1:27:42Speaker 2: Brother Where Art Thou is a masterpiece. You know he's
- 1:27:45Speaker 2: in Arizona.
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: I think Brother Where Art? That is the apex of
- 1:27:51Speaker 1: all of their creation.
- 1:27:52Speaker 2: Uh. No Country for Old Men is really good, but
- 1:27:56Speaker 2: it's not based on an original idea, right, That's an
- 1:27:59Speaker 2: adaptation of a novel. But it's a great movie.
- 1:28:03Speaker 1: I would also say that one's not fun, and I
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: like their funner stuff.
- 1:28:07Speaker 2: That's fair. It is not a fun movie. No Country
- 1:28:09Speaker 2: for Old Men is incredible, but it is not fun. Yeah,
- 1:28:15Speaker 2: I mean, Raising Arizona is fun, Oh Brother Art All
- 1:28:18Speaker 2: is fun, The Big Lebowski is fun. Burn After Reading
- 1:28:23Speaker 2: is fun, but not one of their better movies.
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: I only watched Like. I bought that when Blockbuster was
- 1:28:31Speaker 1: going out of business, so.
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: It was like fire sale kind of thing.
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it Blockbuster Either that or I bought
- 1:28:40Speaker 1: it in a five dollars bit at Walmart. Either way,
- 1:28:42Speaker 1: I bought it and then had it on my shelf
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: for years and only watched it in like the last
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: three Yeah.
- 1:28:49Speaker 2: I mean I like most of their movies, not all
- 1:28:52Speaker 2: of them, but most of them. But yeah, Hutsker Proxy
- 1:28:55Speaker 2: holds a special place in my heart because it is
- 1:28:57Speaker 2: it's so unlike their other movies. It's much more childlike
- 1:29:03Speaker 2: in its approach. And you know, I don't know that
- 1:29:08Speaker 2: it's a perfect movie or anything, but it is. It
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: is a lot of fun. How did we get off
- 1:29:12Speaker 2: on talking about Hudsucker.
- 1:29:14Speaker 1: Proxy, Because I was trying to say that Sam Raimi's
- 1:29:16Speaker 1: stuff was very scary in the theaters, Oh right, Madness
- 1:29:20Speaker 1: or Hutzarcker Proxy or the Spider Man's Yes.
- 1:29:24Speaker 2: Spider Man, Spider Man's Like watching watching Wats's face do
- 1:29:28Speaker 2: a disco walk down the street was terrifying.
- 1:29:31Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, uh no, I I very much appreciate what
- 1:29:35Speaker 1: he has done for Hollywood and storytelling.
- 1:29:39Speaker 2: So well. I was convinced before we started this episode
- 1:29:44Speaker 2: that it was going to be one of our shorter ones,
- 1:29:47Speaker 2: And technically I think there's about ten minutes of stuff
- 1:29:49Speaker 2: at the beginning that I'll be cutting out because that
- 1:29:51Speaker 2: was our our failed intros. But once again we stretched
- 1:29:57Speaker 2: it out to more than an hour and a half
- 1:29:59Speaker 2: of our actual recording time. I know the episode will
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: be some a little shorter than that.
- 1:30:04Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, so that was fun. You know, it heartens
- 1:30:08Speaker 1: me that we have so much awesome stuff, potentially awesome
- 1:30:11Speaker 1: stuff to talk about for the new year already, Jonathan,
- 1:30:16Speaker 1: do you want to tell them how to reach you
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: this time?
- 1:30:19Speaker 2: It's pretty easy. You just need to go to New
- 1:30:21Speaker 2: York City and find whatever building Questlove is leaving in
- 1:30:25Speaker 2: a hurry, and chances are I'm inside that building and
- 1:30:28Speaker 2: also the reason why he's leaving it in a hurry.
- 1:30:31Speaker 2: So that's how you do it.
- 1:30:34Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you're wrong and Questlove tells the authorities
- 1:30:38Speaker 1: that you're chasing him.
- 1:30:41Speaker 2: No, no, Questlove is leaving, you need to go into
- 1:30:43Speaker 2: the building he is leaving, So you're not following Questlove.
- 1:30:46Speaker 2: You're actually going in the direction that's opposite the direction
- 1:30:49Speaker 2: Questlove is going.
- 1:30:51Speaker 1: But Are they going to have to stalk him to
- 1:30:52Speaker 1: find where he's going first?
- 1:30:54Speaker 2: They're going to have to find out where he is
- 1:30:55Speaker 2: where he is first and then go to where he
- 1:30:57Speaker 2: isn't Yes.
- 1:30:59Speaker 1: Yes, well if you don't want to do that or
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