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- 0:10Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large R Drunk Collider podcast,
- 0:13Speaker 1: the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
- 0:15Speaker 1: the world around us and how very excited we are
- 0:18Speaker 1: about them. I'm arial casting and with me as always
- 0:22Speaker 1: is the ever festive Jonathan Strickland. Let it go, Let
- 0:28Speaker 1: it go. I can't hold it back anymore. What what
- 0:32Speaker 1: can't you hold back? Jonathan? Well, I'm frozen. Oh your
- 0:37Speaker 1: video is frozen? Or are you speaking about the fact
- 0:39Speaker 1: that it's very, very cold out in Georgia, which is
- 0:41Speaker 1: a little uncharacteristic. Yes, fair enough. Yeah, so, uh, it's
- 0:51Speaker 1: pretty chilly here in Georgia. So maybe there's a slight
- 0:54Speaker 1: chance we'll actually get some winter weather, even though I
- 0:57Speaker 1: likely won't be here. Yeah, it looks it looks like
- 1:00Speaker 1: we're not gonna get any precipitation, but it will be
- 1:03Speaker 1: uh below freezing for Christmas evive, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
- 1:10Speaker 1: So if we were to get some precipitation, we could
- 1:13Speaker 1: actually stand a chance of getting a winter wonderland, white
- 1:16Speaker 1: Christmas kind of thing, which is unheard of in Georgia.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Often are our temperatures are closer to the forties and
- 1:25Speaker 1: sometimes even the fifties. We we usually get a cold
- 1:28Speaker 1: snap early in the year as opposed to early in winter,
- 1:33Speaker 1: right like December. Typically it gets chilly, but it doesn't
- 1:37Speaker 1: get freezing until you start getting into like mid to
- 1:40Speaker 1: late January into February. That's when you really start to
- 1:43Speaker 1: see winter weather rear. It's ugly head in Georgia. And
- 1:47Speaker 1: of course we don't get anything like the winter weather
- 1:50Speaker 1: you see in other places. We realize that we're not
- 1:54Speaker 1: we when we say it's cold, it's cold to us.
- 1:58Speaker 1: We understand wherever you happen to be, it's colder, and
- 2:02Speaker 1: we have no appreciation. And you would be out in
- 2:05Speaker 1: shorts and flip flops out in the weather that we
- 2:08Speaker 1: have in Georgia. Good for you. Were so proud, you
- 2:13Speaker 1: know what, I don't mind it. I used to be
- 2:15Speaker 1: that person. Also, Uh, every once in a blue moon
- 2:19Speaker 1: will get a little bit of snow on Christmas. I
- 2:21Speaker 1: think there have been one or two in my years
- 2:24Speaker 1: here in Georgia. I know we've gotten snow on Easter,
- 2:27Speaker 1: so yeah, I remember that. And we've got snow opening
- 2:33Speaker 1: weekend of Fair One. I was just about to say
- 2:35Speaker 1: I remember that opening weekend because I was not working
- 2:38Speaker 1: fair that year, and I sat there and saw the
- 2:40Speaker 1: snow coming down. I thought, man, it sure does feel
- 2:43Speaker 1: good to be inside right now. I got sent home
- 2:46Speaker 1: with like the very beginning stages of frostbite and hypothermia.
- 2:50Speaker 1: So well, I'm not surprised you were playing a kissing
- 2:53Speaker 1: wench and uh, you know, sorry, we've told this story before. Yeah,
- 2:59Speaker 1: but I mean it's a funny story in a way.
- 3:01Speaker 1: It funny now. I I definitely have rehearsed down at
- 3:06Speaker 1: the Renaissance Festival when it snowed. I remember sword fighting
- 3:10Speaker 1: on King's whole stage in the snow, which was kind
- 3:14Speaker 1: of like super cool in that way where you're getting
- 3:18Speaker 1: to live out of fantasy, but also incredibly uncomfortable because
- 3:22Speaker 1: rehearsals would stretch for like six or seven hours. Also,
- 3:26Speaker 1: King's Hall stages wouldn't so I would imagine it'd be
- 3:28Speaker 1: a little bit slippy. It wasn't too bad because we
- 3:31Speaker 1: were there as it was starting to fall, so it
- 3:33Speaker 1: hadn't really accumulated yet. But uh, it does also start
- 3:38Speaker 1: to really affect the your ability to hold a sword
- 3:40Speaker 1: effectively if you're not wearing you know, warm gloves. Yes, certainly, certainly, Well,
- 3:46Speaker 1: the cold weather is not going to stop us from
- 3:48Speaker 1: talking about some news. Some of this might be a
- 3:51Speaker 1: little bit older. We're recording this a couple of days
- 3:53Speaker 1: after we initially intended to, but you still get to
- 3:56Speaker 1: hear our opinion on it, Lucky you. So we're going
- 4:00Speaker 1: to start off this episode the way we do the
- 4:02Speaker 1: last several, in that we're gonna do a thirty seconds
- 4:05Speaker 1: or less segment where we talk about some stories where
- 4:10Speaker 1: you know, maybe we just have some minor details or
- 4:14Speaker 1: just a kind of a light dusting of news and
- 4:18Speaker 1: it's not early enough for a full discussion, so we're
- 4:22Speaker 1: gonna we got a bunch of them this time. So
- 4:24Speaker 1: there's no no mashups in this episode. I'm gonna say
- 4:27Speaker 1: that upfront, because we had so much news to cover,
- 4:30Speaker 1: it just seemed like it would be ridiculous to add
- 4:33Speaker 1: a mash up on top of it. But I am
- 4:35Speaker 1: going to begin our thirties seconds or less. I have
- 4:39Speaker 1: my timer up. You are aerial? Are you good for
- 4:42Speaker 1: us to to jump into this segment? Okay? Good, here
- 4:46Speaker 1: we go. Alright. First story is Avatar The Way of Water,
- 4:51Speaker 1: premiered this past weekend. It is on track to have
- 4:55Speaker 1: between a hundred thirty two hundred fifty million dollars in
- 4:58Speaker 1: domestic box office and somewhere around a hundred eighty million
- 5:02Speaker 1: global box office on top of that. This, however, is
- 5:07Speaker 1: much much much lower than what it was tracking as
- 5:11Speaker 1: before going into the weekend. So the question is will
- 5:15Speaker 1: it have the legs to match Avatar? One? Done? Okay,
- 5:19Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna leave it there. I could,
- 5:21Speaker 1: I could pose it on it, but it's thirty seconds
- 5:23Speaker 1: or less. Are we ready for the next one? Yeah,
- 5:25Speaker 1: go for it and go. Okay, So the Tony's, you know,
- 5:31Speaker 1: the Big Broadway Awards show usually tapes on like Broadway
- 5:36Speaker 1: itself or or nearby, and this year they've chosen a
- 5:39Speaker 1: new location location I don't believe they've done before, which
- 5:43Speaker 1: is the United Palace in Washington Heights. Um. I think
- 5:47Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. Apparently it's a really cool venue. I
- 5:50Speaker 1: look forward to watching the Awards there, though you would
- 5:53Speaker 1: think they should have would have done it closer to
- 5:55Speaker 1: when in the Heights came out. That's good? Yeah, all right,
- 6:01Speaker 1: well same, I am not going to comment on it.
- 6:03Speaker 1: I will move on to our next story and we'll
- 6:06Speaker 1: just see how long it takes me to break down
- 6:09Speaker 1: and comment on stories. I bet it'll only you take
- 6:12Speaker 1: another story. Okay, here we go. I am gonna go.
- 6:17Speaker 1: So we're getting a film adaptation of Hideo Kajima's Death
- 6:23Speaker 1: Stranding video game video game that's very difficult to describe
- 6:27Speaker 1: to people. Setting a cataclysmic post apocalyptic future. Uh, there
- 6:32Speaker 1: are these creatures that feast upon the dead. Uh, there
- 6:36Speaker 1: are rains that will make you age and decay quickly.
- 6:41Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't know if we need it, don't
- 6:44Speaker 1: know if it will be good, but it's coming the end.
- 6:48Speaker 1: That is the entirety that in a question from them,
- 6:51Speaker 1: actually is the entirety of my knowledge on Death Stranding.
- 6:55Speaker 1: H Yeah, I could. I mean, the only other thing
- 6:57Speaker 1: I would say is that in the game you play,
- 7:00Speaker 1: you play as Norman Das you play, you play as
- 7:04Speaker 1: a character who is a courier, and you're bringing supplies
- 7:07Speaker 1: to distant uh settlements, and the couriers are are the
- 7:13Speaker 1: only ones really brave enough to go out there because
- 7:16Speaker 1: it's so dangerous outside of the small pockets of civilization.
- 7:21Speaker 1: And that's really all I can tell you because I
- 7:23Speaker 1: haven't played the game, but I know it's weird. But
- 7:26Speaker 1: then it's Hedeo Kajima, so of course it is Ariel.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Are you ready for your next one? I am go? Okay,
- 7:33Speaker 1: this story is also about Norman Redas. He is joining
- 7:36Speaker 1: the cast of Ballerina. If you don't remember that what
- 7:38Speaker 1: that is. We talked about it briefly last week, which
- 7:41Speaker 1: is a spinoff from John Wick. Uh. It's featuring Annada
- 7:46Speaker 1: Armas and then a bunch of other people, you know,
- 7:48Speaker 1: all star casts just like John Wick. Lots of action,
- 7:51Speaker 1: just like John Wick. But they promise you it's not
- 7:54Speaker 1: going to be just like John Wick, that it's gonna
- 7:56Speaker 1: have like some different kind of action and story and viewpoint.
- 7:59Speaker 1: And we don't know who Normous read it. Norman Retas
- 8:01Speaker 1: is playing the end Wow, perfect, you you nailed it. Yeah,
- 8:05Speaker 1: Angelica Houston one other person who's in that. Okay, this
- 8:10Speaker 1: one's going to be short. Uh and here I go.
- 8:14Speaker 1: So we mentioned that there's going to be another Princess
- 8:17Speaker 1: Diaries movie, Princess Diaries three, and now we know that
- 8:21Speaker 1: Julie Andrews says she is quote probably not end quote
- 8:26Speaker 1: coming back for that film. She was obviously a big
- 8:29Speaker 1: part of the first two, but not gonna be in it.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Which means that we know this movie will not be
- 8:35Speaker 1: practically perfect in every way. I'm done. We got like
- 8:38Speaker 1: six seconds so you hathaways going to be in it though,
- 8:42Speaker 1: and that's going to be delightful. So okay, well then
- 8:46Speaker 1: we're moving out to the next story. Told you we
- 8:50Speaker 1: got a lot we're only we're not. I think this
- 8:51Speaker 1: was gonna make us get halfway through once Ariel does
- 8:54Speaker 1: this one. So we got a lot of stories and
- 9:00Speaker 1: go okay, so uh Rhean Johnson came out and said
- 9:05Speaker 1: that he is super happy to make so many more
- 9:07Speaker 1: Knives Out movies, but he is not going to give
- 9:10Speaker 1: us any prequels. He really wants to keep that mystery
- 9:14Speaker 1: of Benwell le Blanc I think is the name of
- 9:16Speaker 1: the of the detective um and he feels that, you know,
- 9:20Speaker 1: doing a prequel would probably uh defeat that mystery, but
- 9:24Speaker 1: he says that it's really hard not to fall into
- 9:26Speaker 1: that trap. I look forward to watching whatever he makes perfect. Yeah,
- 9:31Speaker 1: I think it's just been wall Blanc, but yeah, I
- 9:34Speaker 1: agree with him. I think I think keeping the mystery
- 9:37Speaker 1: is far more interesting. If the Star Wars prequels taught
- 9:41Speaker 1: us nothing, it's that you don't need to try and
- 9:45Speaker 1: explain everything. Okay, too many exactly, I'm on the same page, Aerial.
- 9:52Speaker 1: All right, here is my next one, and I am
- 9:55Speaker 1: gonna go. Netflix has in development a live action adaptation
- 10:02Speaker 1: of My Hero Academia. For those who don't know, that's
- 10:06Speaker 1: an anime series. It's set in a world of superheroes
- 10:09Speaker 1: where people develop powers called quirks. Quirks are all kind
- 10:14Speaker 1: of unique. You're not likely to have one that's saying
- 10:17Speaker 1: similar to someone else. It follows a protagonist who doesn't
- 10:20Speaker 1: have a quirk, but then meets a hero who gives
- 10:22Speaker 1: him his quirk and then shenanigans the end. WHOA, yeah, yeah,
- 10:31Speaker 1: have you ever watched My Hero Academia? I haven't. Um
- 10:35Speaker 1: it's it's in that pile of anime that I know
- 10:39Speaker 1: I ought to watch. Yeah. I I'm just not an
- 10:42Speaker 1: anime kind of person. My wife likes some anime, but
- 10:45Speaker 1: I have not really apart from Cromarty High, which is
- 10:50Speaker 1: a ridiculous anime series, I just haven't really watched any
- 10:53Speaker 1: Okay and Ariel get Ready, Gets Set and Go. So
- 11:00Speaker 1: if you were one of those people who watched the
- 11:02Speaker 1: first Dude movie, you know, uh, Space Desert Politics, this
- 11:07Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and we're going, man, that that ended
- 11:10Speaker 1: on an unsatisfying note because it just ended like in
- 11:13Speaker 1: the middle of a sentence pretty much. Well, you're in
- 11:15Speaker 1: luck because Dune two has just finished filming, so yes,
- 11:18Speaker 1: we're still getting it in November to make the shallow
- 11:22Speaker 1: May posted a like a picture from set um so
- 11:24Speaker 1: that's fun, all right. Yeah, you know sand who doesn't
- 11:32Speaker 1: love it besides Anakin Skywalker. Okay, here I go. We
- 11:40Speaker 1: got a teaser for Screen six is the one that
- 11:43Speaker 1: isn't gonna have ms Campbell and she said that she
- 11:45Speaker 1: wasn't getting offered enough money, and good for her for
- 11:49Speaker 1: knowing her own value, so she did not come back
- 11:51Speaker 1: for this one first film not to have her in it.
- 11:53Speaker 1: It is set in Manhattan. The teaser is set aboard
- 11:56Speaker 1: a subway, so I'm calling it ghost Face takes man Manhattan.
- 12:00Speaker 1: And we all know that slasher movies set in Manhattan
- 12:03Speaker 1: are always the best ones in these series. See also
- 12:05Speaker 1: Fight the Thirteen and Done. Okay, I'm gonna say jennat
- 12:10Speaker 1: Ortego's in it, and I'm really say it takes place
- 12:11Speaker 1: at Halloween. I'm really sad she's not dressed up as
- 12:13Speaker 1: Wednesday Adams, although I completely understand it. Also, Um, it's
- 12:18Speaker 1: extra scary because our transit system, Marta just uh unveiled
- 12:24Speaker 1: some new Marta trains and the teaser takes place on
- 12:28Speaker 1: a subway train, so it's a little scary. Honestly, it
- 12:32Speaker 1: looked like it was a Maarta train too, Like I
- 12:34Speaker 1: don't know if they shot that in Atlanta, since so
- 12:36Speaker 1: much stuff does shoot in Atlanta. But it little more
- 12:39Speaker 1: like a Marta train than a New York subway train
- 12:41Speaker 1: to me a little bit. Which the new Marta trains
- 12:45Speaker 1: look really cool. Um, you'll be able to walk between cars,
- 12:48Speaker 1: which is interesting. Yeah, that's new that you never used
- 12:53Speaker 1: to be able to do that, at least not you
- 12:55Speaker 1: weren't supposed to. Okay, Ariel, are you ready? Yes? I am,
- 13:00Speaker 1: and go okay. So we are getting a sequel to
- 13:05Speaker 1: the Night of the Living Dead. Amazon MGM got got
- 13:09Speaker 1: the rights. It's being directed by Nikiyachu Juicu. I'm probably
- 13:14Speaker 1: slaughtered her name, but she did a previous um for
- 13:18Speaker 1: a movie called The Nanny that One awards its sundance. Um,
- 13:21Speaker 1: it looks really good. It looks like the Romero the
- 13:24Speaker 1: Romero family is really on board for it. You should
- 13:27Speaker 1: be pretty good. Cool. H Yeah, Nither Living Dead. Fun fact,
- 13:33Speaker 1: it's a film that's in the public domain because they
- 13:36Speaker 1: failed to register the copyright properly when that movie came out,
- 13:41Speaker 1: So you can actually legally make as many copies of
- 13:45Speaker 1: Nither Living Dead the original film, and do whatever you
- 13:49Speaker 1: like with them, and it's fine because it's in the
- 13:51Speaker 1: public domain. All right, here's my next one and go okay.
- 13:58Speaker 1: So Mythic Quest, which is a comedy series kind of
- 14:01Speaker 1: like The Office. It's about a video game development company
- 14:04Speaker 1: that makes this massively multiplayer on my role playing game
- 14:07Speaker 1: called With the Quest. Uh. They're getting a spinoff series
- 14:10Speaker 1: called Mirror Mortals. It's going to be kind of like
- 14:13Speaker 1: in the same sort of vein as the concept of
- 14:15Speaker 1: DLC for video games. Cool idea. This is a series
- 14:19Speaker 1: I've not seen because I don't have Apple TV. That's
- 14:21Speaker 1: what the show is on, and that's what this spinoff
- 14:25Speaker 1: wul beyond. But I've heard great things and done. It's
- 14:29Speaker 1: also show that I haven't seen, and as soon as
- 14:31Speaker 1: I can get around to getting Apple Plus, I'm gonna
- 14:33Speaker 1: watch it. It's it's like one of the top shows
- 14:35Speaker 1: on my list. From there because I also like Rob Gilani. Yeah, yeah,
- 14:40Speaker 1: that one. That one's up there, ted Lassos up there
- 14:45Speaker 1: Shmega Dune, which is coming back for another series. I
- 14:48Speaker 1: saw that Ccessily Strong as leaving Saturday Night Live. You're
- 14:51Speaker 1: getting some bonus news right now, folks, for no charge.
- 14:54Speaker 1: We're not charging you for any of this, really, but
- 14:58Speaker 1: we don't charge them ever. Yeah, but specifically we're really
- 15:02Speaker 1: not charging you for this. Um. Yeah. But Cicely Strong
- 15:05Speaker 1: is you know, she's not coming back for She's leaving
- 15:08Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live. Um, and in fact has left, I
- 15:11Speaker 1: believe because I think they did their last one of
- 15:14Speaker 1: the season so or the before the end of the year.
- 15:17Speaker 1: But yeah, she's going to be in shamigadon season two
- 15:20Speaker 1: and then Severance. That's the other one that I really
- 15:22Speaker 1: want to see. Um. I haven't seen any of these,
- 15:26Speaker 1: and it's because I don't have Apple TV. So one
- 15:28Speaker 1: of these days our Apple Plus it's one of these
- 15:30Speaker 1: days I'll get that. And Mythic Quest is definitely one
- 15:34Speaker 1: that I want to see. I like a lot of
- 15:35Speaker 1: the people involved in that show, so I suspect it
- 15:38Speaker 1: will appeal to me. Okay, we've got one last thirty
- 15:42Speaker 1: Seconds or Less story Aerial go well to make up
- 15:47Speaker 1: for the time that we took on Mythic Quest. Uh
- 15:51Speaker 1: Real Steel. It was a movie about boxing robots, kind
- 15:54Speaker 1: of rock and Songha Robots or Iron Giant meats Rocky
- 15:58Speaker 1: and they're getting a TV series is on Dizzy Plus
- 16:00Speaker 1: and it's going well. That's all we know. It's going well.
- 16:03Speaker 1: But I'm excited. I liked Real Steel. Okay, yeah, I um,
- 16:09Speaker 1: I never saw Real Steel. I did see was it
- 16:12Speaker 1: robo Jocks? I think it was like a really kind
- 16:15Speaker 1: of cheesy robot fighting movie from like the eighties. Um,
- 16:20Speaker 1: so that's the closest I've ever been to seeing that series.
- 16:25Speaker 1: But yes, that was our thirty seconds or less sequence.
- 16:28Speaker 1: We do have a couple of other little news stories
- 16:30Speaker 1: that I didn't have time to throw into thirty seconds
- 16:33Speaker 1: or Less that I'll mention. One is that there's been
- 16:37Speaker 1: some footage, some some shots from Loki season two that
- 16:40Speaker 1: have come out, so they shows like Tom Hittleston and
- 16:43Speaker 1: Owen Wilson together. We're looking forward to that. Um. I
- 16:47Speaker 1: don't know about Ariel, but I really enjoyed the first
- 16:50Speaker 1: season of Loki. Arials nodding, which is great audio podcasting.
- 16:55Speaker 1: It's been a week. I thought the beginning was a
- 16:57Speaker 1: little slow, but I did enjoy it quite a bit.
- 17:00Speaker 1: I knew some people in it too, so yeah, I
- 17:03Speaker 1: knew one person who was like, are a couple of
- 17:06Speaker 1: people who were in the background because one of those
- 17:08Speaker 1: shots when they're when they're in the Renaissance was shot
- 17:12Speaker 1: at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, Like we're there at a
- 17:15Speaker 1: resonance fair that was supposed to be in like Michigan
- 17:17Speaker 1: or something, but it was the Georgia Festival and there
- 17:20Speaker 1: were a few people in the background. Yeah. But but
- 17:23Speaker 1: don't get me started on again, because I'm like, why
- 17:25Speaker 1: didn't I get an audition to be the Renaissance Festival
- 17:28Speaker 1: speaking person? Now I know some people who weren't in
- 17:30Speaker 1: the Renaissance Festival scene, so um yeah, I know one
- 17:33Speaker 1: of the agents. Yeah. I remember watching it and thinking
- 17:38Speaker 1: that's not the right sign for that shop. Like my
- 17:44Speaker 1: my frustrations with that scene are only outweighed by the
- 17:47Speaker 1: sadness I have that I didn't get to be in
- 17:49Speaker 1: that scene. Um yeah, well same. I mean I would
- 17:53Speaker 1: have loved to have done it too. I didn't know
- 17:55Speaker 1: anything about it till after it had already been shot.
- 17:58Speaker 1: So uh. The other thing I was mentioned is that Invincible,
- 18:02Speaker 1: the animated series that's based off the comic book of
- 18:05Speaker 1: the same name, is coming back for season two to
- 18:08Speaker 1: Prime Video next year. If you are unfamiliar, Invincible follows
- 18:13Speaker 1: a character the son of the world's greatest superhero, who finally,
- 18:20Speaker 1: late in his adolescence, develops his own superpowers discovers those.
- 18:24Speaker 1: Dad isn't everything he thought he was, and it is
- 18:29Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say hyper violent. If you
- 18:33Speaker 1: watch the first episode, you might get lured in. That's
- 18:36Speaker 1: like this cute, sort of coming of age kind of
- 18:38Speaker 1: story until you get to the last scene of the
- 18:42Speaker 1: first episode, which is one of the most horrific displays
- 18:45Speaker 1: of violence I've ever seen in an animated form. I mean,
- 18:49Speaker 1: it was very violent the show. The show is a
- 18:51Speaker 1: violent warning. If that's not your sort of thing, don't
- 18:54Speaker 1: watch it. Just yeah, So that's all the quick stuff.
- 18:57Speaker 1: Now we're ready to really dive into the meat of it.
- 19:00Speaker 1: And by the way, we have if you're thinking, wow,
- 19:02Speaker 1: they did a lot for thirty seconds or less, they
- 19:04Speaker 1: may not have very much for their full discussions. Oh oh,
- 19:08Speaker 1: contraire Mollan frere. We have plenty, although some of this
- 19:13Speaker 1: might be like thirty seconds or less two so yeah,
- 19:16Speaker 1: which is fine. So first up, we've got some more
- 19:20Speaker 1: news to talk about with the d C EU, the
- 19:25Speaker 1: the fallout of rebooting that, some more news about what
- 19:31Speaker 1: James Gunn has planned and people who may or may
- 19:35Speaker 1: not be involved. So one thing we learned definitively is
- 19:40Speaker 1: that James Gunn is developing a new Superman movie because
- 19:45Speaker 1: he said that Superman is clearly an important character for
- 19:49Speaker 1: the d C universe. However, Henry Cavill, friend of the show,
- 19:54Speaker 1: will not be returning as Superman. So we got that
- 20:00Speaker 1: right sweet video where Henry Cavill was talking about how
- 20:05Speaker 1: excited he was to return as a hopeful, positive Superman.
- 20:11Speaker 1: That's not happening. Apparently, they did talk about him potentially
- 20:16Speaker 1: playing some other unnamed role, but not Superman, so at
- 20:22Speaker 1: least not now, because because the new movie is going
- 20:26Speaker 1: to be Superman earlier years, so I'm guessing more like
- 20:30Speaker 1: Smallville level Superman um and you know, Henry Cavill is
- 20:35Speaker 1: just too old for that. He wrote a really nice
- 20:38Speaker 1: like Instagram post where he was very honest, like he
- 20:41Speaker 1: was very honest and genuine like I'm sad that this
- 20:43Speaker 1: isn't happening, but that's you know that show bisbabe, uh,
- 20:47Speaker 1: and just being like it's okay to be sad about it,
- 20:49Speaker 1: but then we move on because there are other opportunities.
- 20:51Speaker 1: It was a really good message. There were people who
- 20:55Speaker 1: popped on Twitter and like, well, James Gunn is firing
- 20:57Speaker 1: Henry Cavill because he doesn't like him, and someone's like,
- 20:59Speaker 1: James Gunn want to respond to that, James Gunn is like, dudes,
- 21:02Speaker 1: that's false. We had a really good conversation. Yeah, well,
- 21:05Speaker 1: and we heard similar things about like Patty Jenkins right
- 21:08Speaker 1: that that he must have had some problem with her
- 21:10Speaker 1: and uh, and Petty Jenkins came forward and said no, no, no,
- 21:14Speaker 1: everything's fine and and James Gunn said, yeah, like every
- 21:17Speaker 1: every interaction we've ever had with her has been very
- 21:21Speaker 1: pleasant and professional and that there was no like hard
- 21:24Speaker 1: feelings there. We've also heard, or at least I've heard,
- 21:29Speaker 1: that Henry Cavill's cameo in the Flash film has been cut,
- 21:35Speaker 1: which may have been there to try and set up
- 21:39Speaker 1: a future Superman movie, so maybe that's why it got cut.
- 21:42Speaker 1: But also I read just before we started recording that
- 21:47Speaker 1: Galga Dot's cameo as Wonder Woman has similarly been cut
- 21:52Speaker 1: from the Flash. So so, on the one hand, I'm
- 21:56Speaker 1: sad about that. On the other hand, I completely understand
- 21:58Speaker 1: it because there's it's frustrating when you're a fan of
- 22:03Speaker 1: something and you watch it and they set up something
- 22:05Speaker 1: else that never comes to fruition, right, Yeah, And so
- 22:09Speaker 1: sometimes it's better just not to include it. You know,
- 22:11Speaker 1: those those actors still got paid for their time on
- 22:13Speaker 1: set and their time you know, recording or taping or
- 22:17Speaker 1: acting or rather, you know, they may not get residuals
- 22:20Speaker 1: for it, but they I don't I don't actually know
- 22:23Speaker 1: that last bit, but they did get paid for it. Um. Also,
- 22:26Speaker 1: I'm going to say the Snyder verse tries to fit
- 22:30Speaker 1: so much into every DC movie that if they're streamlining it,
- 22:33Speaker 1: I'm also not too upset. Yeah. I also don't know
- 22:38Speaker 1: if the Superman cameo in the Flash would have really
- 22:43Speaker 1: reflected that optimistic positive side as much, because that seemed
- 22:49Speaker 1: to me like that was going to be something that
- 22:51Speaker 1: was a fairly recent decision, right. It felt like that
- 22:55Speaker 1: was fairly recent, at least before James Gunn came on
- 22:59Speaker 1: that Um that maybe, like maybe the cameo in the
- 23:04Speaker 1: Flash was going to be a hint of that, but
- 23:07Speaker 1: he certainly didn't come across as being super optimistic and
- 23:10Speaker 1: positive during the Snyder saga of DC movies. So, uh,
- 23:17Speaker 1: it's kind of sad that we're not going to get
- 23:19Speaker 1: a chance to see his final appearance as Superman. That
- 23:23Speaker 1: his final appearance is apparently going to be that cameo
- 23:26Speaker 1: in Black Adam. But maybe they'll be extras in the
- 23:30Speaker 1: DVD for the Flash when that comes out, that you'll
- 23:33Speaker 1: be able to see the cut scenes of Superman and
- 23:37Speaker 1: Wonder Woman appearing in the movie. Yeah, well if and
- 23:40Speaker 1: if you want to watch that cameo Black Adams now
- 23:42Speaker 1: on HBO Max. Um, you know, here's the thing, and
- 23:47Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say this is gonna happen. It's not likely,
- 23:50Speaker 1: but it could. Um, you know, if they're focusing on
- 23:55Speaker 1: a younger Superman, if they're trying to do like the
- 23:59Speaker 1: the the pre origin to Superman again, Um, when that
- 24:04Speaker 1: Superman grows up, it could be Henry Cavill. The rumors
- 24:08Speaker 1: that have been circulating or that whatever character they were
- 24:12Speaker 1: talking about with Henry Cavill appeared to be a different
- 24:15Speaker 1: one from Superman. But who knows, because there's so many
- 24:18Speaker 1: rumors that have been flying around, Like we've heard that
- 24:22Speaker 1: supposedly um Jason Momoa is considered to play Lobo, that
- 24:28Speaker 1: he would no longer be Aquaman, he would be Lobo.
- 24:31Speaker 1: These are things that we've heard, But as far as
- 24:33Speaker 1: I've seen, I haven't seen any like confirmation from James
- 24:36Speaker 1: Gunn about those rumors, which would make sense, Like why
- 24:38Speaker 1: would you give away that stuff so early? It really
- 24:42Speaker 1: makes you wonder where the source of all these leaks
- 24:44Speaker 1: came from. But yeah, also, like here's the thing I
- 24:48Speaker 1: was I was chatting with my husband about it because
- 24:51Speaker 1: I want a more optimistic d C. D C does
- 24:54Speaker 1: have some really dark stuff, but it's also got some
- 24:56Speaker 1: really incredibly uplifting stuff in it. And you know, with
- 25:00Speaker 1: the New Joker and the new Batman coming out, and
- 25:01Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about the New Joker and
- 25:04Speaker 1: later in this episode, Like that's all super dark and
- 25:07Speaker 1: I don't necessarily want those characters to be my Batman
- 25:10Speaker 1: in My Joker. But Lobo, he's a fun character. He
- 25:15Speaker 1: should not be a first ring like a first run character.
- 25:19Speaker 1: They need to do a lot of setup before they
- 25:21Speaker 1: introduce Lobo. In my opinion, maybe yeah. I mean, like
- 25:24Speaker 1: at least to set the tone of the DC Cinematic
- 25:29Speaker 1: universe moving forward, right, Like you want to be able
- 25:32Speaker 1: to establish what that tone is before you start introducing
- 25:36Speaker 1: characters like Lobo. On the other hand, like we all
- 25:40Speaker 1: know these characters. There have been no shortage of movies
- 25:44Speaker 1: with these characters in them, So it it's it's like
- 25:48Speaker 1: where do you pick up what what point do you
- 25:50Speaker 1: pick up at? And how much establishing do you do
- 25:54Speaker 1: before you start jumping into it. On the one hand,
- 25:56Speaker 1: you don't want to make the same mistake as the
- 25:58Speaker 1: Snyder era where you tried to to do the Marvel
- 26:04Speaker 1: thing without doing the legwork that Marvel did to establish
- 26:09Speaker 1: the cinematic universe before throwing everybody together. They just started
- 26:12Speaker 1: throwing everyone together in Justice League and you know Batman
- 26:15Speaker 1: versus Superman, and that had limited effectiveness. On the other hand,
- 26:21Speaker 1: you don't want to tell the same origin stories that
- 26:24Speaker 1: we've seen countless times with some of these characters like
- 26:27Speaker 1: Superman and Batman. Hey, did you know that Batman's parents
- 26:31Speaker 1: we're gunned down in crime alley after they attended a
- 26:36Speaker 1: either film or the opera, I did, you know, I didn't.
- 26:40Speaker 1: I could just imagine though, like a strand of pearls
- 26:44Speaker 1: breaking and falling on the street, and that's that's a
- 26:47Speaker 1: great image. We should we should definitely commit that to film,
- 26:52Speaker 1: because I don't think I've ever seen that before. You know,
- 26:56Speaker 1: I've never seen that, and I've never seen whatever happened
- 26:59Speaker 1: to Spider Man uncle, which, hey, props to the m
- 27:04Speaker 1: C you for just skipping that right, like amazing. So yeah, again,
- 27:13Speaker 1: it's always bad idea to second guest James Gunn he is,
- 27:16Speaker 1: he's got a very good instinct for these things. But yeah,
- 27:21Speaker 1: we will just have to wait and see how this unfolds.
- 27:24Speaker 1: It's also possible that all this rumor, wongering and speculation
- 27:28Speaker 1: will in turn change the course of where they go.
- 27:32Speaker 1: They may decide like, oh, you know what, maybe we're
- 27:34Speaker 1: gonna do something else, So we'll see. Um and of
- 27:37Speaker 1: course the Warner Brothers Discovery budget will end up playing
- 27:40Speaker 1: a big part that too. Like we didn't put it
- 27:43Speaker 1: really in our notes, but holy cow, there been even
- 27:47Speaker 1: more cuts and more um a little bit, a little bit. Yeah,
- 27:53Speaker 1: one thing that we did here, a friend of the show,
- 27:56Speaker 1: Henry Cowell, is that he is uh. He is attached
- 28:02Speaker 1: to executive produce and star in an adaptation of Warhammer
- 28:07Speaker 1: forty thousand, or as I always called it, Warhammer forty K.
- 28:12Speaker 1: But keep in mind I never played Warhammer, so I
- 28:15Speaker 1: don't know if that's I don't know if if it's
- 28:18Speaker 1: is it Do you know in the hobby, if it's
- 28:22Speaker 1: ghosh to call it Warhammer forty k or does everyone
- 28:26Speaker 1: just call it Warhammer forty THO. I've heard Warhammer forty k,
- 28:31Speaker 1: but that might have been from you. I don't know.
- 28:33Speaker 1: I've never played Warhammer. Um. I like it, and we
- 28:36Speaker 1: have friends with the former King of the George Renaissance
- 28:39Speaker 1: Festival loves Warhammer. Um. But but it's a very expensive
- 28:45Speaker 1: hobby and I've always put my money elsewhere. So it's
- 28:47Speaker 1: it's like D and D, but you do a bazilion
- 28:50Speaker 1: miniatures and you do, like uh, war mapping out and
- 28:54Speaker 1: plotting and things like that. If you're not familiar, it's
- 28:57Speaker 1: more war gaming than it is role playing. Right there.
- 29:00Speaker 1: There's lore. There's a lot of lore involved in Warhammer,
- 29:04Speaker 1: but it's not so much you take on the role
- 29:06Speaker 1: of a character like you would with D and D.
- 29:08Speaker 1: It's it's actually more like the games that D and
- 29:11Speaker 1: D was spawned out of. It's it's the strategy based
- 29:15Speaker 1: war games where you have manatures to represent your various troops,
- 29:19Speaker 1: and people spend countless hours and develop incredible skill painting
- 29:25Speaker 1: these managers. Henry Cavill himself is known to have a
- 29:30Speaker 1: gargantuan collection of Warhammer figurines. Yeah, so while there's no
- 29:35Speaker 1: like writer, there's no really big uh, there's no like
- 29:41Speaker 1: definitive pieces in place for this film. Impossible film in
- 29:45Speaker 1: series is what they're saying. You know, they've got the
- 29:48Speaker 1: rights and Henry Cavill is very passionate about it. So
- 29:51Speaker 1: you know, he's not going back to the Witcher, he's
- 29:53Speaker 1: not playing Superman, but he does have this new project.
- 29:56Speaker 1: If you're big, Henry Cavill fan to to just really
- 29:58Speaker 1: pour all of his passion and like outside of acting
- 30:01Speaker 1: passion into as well, which is really cool. I actually
- 30:04Speaker 1: don't know if they have the rights yet. I know
- 30:06Speaker 1: they were really close. Maybe they've got them by now,
- 30:09Speaker 1: but they were, Oh well, they probably I mean when
- 30:14Speaker 1: I wrote this this headline, it was last week and
- 30:16Speaker 1: it may be this point they've secured it, but it
- 30:20Speaker 1: sounded to me like it was almost a sure thing anyway.
- 30:23Speaker 1: So if if the ink has not yet dried on
- 30:27Speaker 1: that agreement, it's going to be any day now. It
- 30:29Speaker 1: sounds like so so So the Hollywood Reporter says, which
- 30:33Speaker 1: you know, put into that however much Uh wait, you
- 30:37Speaker 1: put into the Hollywood Recorder, that Amazon has secured the
- 30:39Speaker 1: rights for the table top game, and that that the
- 30:44Speaker 1: Vertigo Entertainment and Cavil and Natalie Scuso have teamed up
- 30:48Speaker 1: to or they teamed up to secure the rights and
- 30:52Speaker 1: deliver them to Amazon. Awesome, Okay, well that's great. Uh
- 30:56Speaker 1: that that's good news, especially for Warhammer fans at least.
- 31:01Speaker 1: I hope that the Warhammer film and series fairs better
- 31:07Speaker 1: than the Warcraft one did. Okay, let's see next up,
- 31:12Speaker 1: we're talking about that Joker's a sequel that Ariel mentioned.
- 31:16Speaker 1: It's it's a it's called Folly. Let's just the subtitle.
- 31:23Speaker 1: This is going to be the one where they introduce
- 31:26Speaker 1: Harley Quinn played by Lady gu Yeah, and it's going
- 31:31Speaker 1: to be a musical, because that's that's what I felt
- 31:35Speaker 1: like the Last Joker. I actually haven't watched the Last
- 31:37Speaker 1: Joker movie. My husband did he said it was very good,
- 31:40Speaker 1: but that I would not be for me. I could
- 31:42Speaker 1: watch it, I'm sure, I just haven't felt like being depressed.
- 31:45Speaker 1: But yes, a musical, that's exactly what that franchise needs. Yeah,
- 31:50Speaker 1: I have some issues with the first Joker film in
- 31:53Speaker 1: that well. I mean, the character of the Joker already
- 31:58Speaker 1: perpetuates the the stereotype that mental illness and violence go
- 32:05Speaker 1: hand in hand, which is a tough stereotype. Like, there
- 32:09Speaker 1: are lots of people who struggle with mental illness who
- 32:12Speaker 1: are not violent, they're not a danger to themselves or others.
- 32:16Speaker 1: But we've got this this kind of idea in culture
- 32:21Speaker 1: and society that equate those two things. And that's bad.
- 32:27Speaker 1: It's not a great thing to perpetuate. But that's that's
- 32:29Speaker 1: an issue with pretty much all the comic book, especially
- 32:32Speaker 1: all of Batman's comic book villains. Right, they're almost all huh,
- 32:38Speaker 1: some form of mentally unwell, and they are violent and
- 32:42Speaker 1: deranged as a result of that. That's why they get
- 32:44Speaker 1: put away an Arkham Asylum, some of them get into
- 32:49Speaker 1: Black Gate. I guess I would say I feel like,
- 32:51Speaker 1: regardless of their mental state, if they're a danger to society,
- 32:54Speaker 1: they just get put into Arkham, like I feel like
- 32:57Speaker 1: if you're a super villainy but they just seem seems
- 33:01Speaker 1: like a well, it's just another example of how corrupt
- 33:04Speaker 1: Gotham is. But yeah, anyway, anyway, and that's one of
- 33:08Speaker 1: the issues I have. Another one is that it felt
- 33:12Speaker 1: to me like Joker was almost kind of a um
- 33:16Speaker 1: a A a guide book for angry dudes who feel
- 33:22Speaker 1: like they've been that they're owed something and have been
- 33:26Speaker 1: mistreated by the world. It's just it's done too ludicrous
- 33:30Speaker 1: extremes and Joker. Uh, it's very well acted, it's very
- 33:34Speaker 1: well shot. It is it is technically a very well
- 33:38Speaker 1: done film. Uh, some of the messaging, some of the
- 33:43Speaker 1: subtext is what I I have some objections to. But
- 33:48Speaker 1: then that's also going to be the case whenever you're
- 33:50Speaker 1: doing a film that is all about a villain, someone
- 33:55Speaker 1: who's usually an antagonist and you're not. You know that
- 34:00Speaker 1: it's the protagonist or her film, but he is a
- 34:02Speaker 1: villain in the larger scope, I guess you're always going
- 34:07Speaker 1: to run into that. So, you know, I don't know
- 34:10Speaker 1: if I'm going to see the sequel. I also think
- 34:14Speaker 1: it's odd to make it a musical, but I'm intrigued.
- 34:18Speaker 1: I just don't know if I'm going to put myself
- 34:19Speaker 1: through that again. Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't think
- 34:23Speaker 1: you're always going to run into that with villains. There
- 34:25Speaker 1: are villains who have other motivations where they just viewed
- 34:29Speaker 1: the world a different and I would usually say wrong way,
- 34:32Speaker 1: but it is rare. Um. I feel like mental illnesses, maybe,
- 34:37Speaker 1: while understandable and relatable, often an easy way out for
- 34:42Speaker 1: writing why your villain is who they are, and it's
- 34:45Speaker 1: not always as um engaging as it could be. On
- 34:52Speaker 1: Too Happy News, we got a bunch of Spiderman news, uh,
- 34:56Speaker 1: mainly about Spider Man across the Spider Verse. Um, we
- 35:00Speaker 1: know who the villain is going to be for one,
- 35:03Speaker 1: and we got a new trailer for two. Yeah, I'm
- 35:08Speaker 1: really excited about this. Spider Man into the Spider Verse
- 35:12Speaker 1: was one of those movies that heard about and everything
- 35:15Speaker 1: I heard was good, and I did not see it
- 35:18Speaker 1: in the theater, And for that, I I'm very upset
- 35:22Speaker 1: with myself because it was just such a fun movie,
- 35:28Speaker 1: one that that was really joyous and dramatic and sad
- 35:35Speaker 1: at points. It was just it was one of the
- 35:37Speaker 1: best Spider Man movies I have ever seen, and I'm
- 35:41Speaker 1: glad I finally did watch it. I just wish I
- 35:43Speaker 1: had seen in the theater. Now we know that the
- 35:45Speaker 1: villain in the next Spider Man UH Spider Verse film
- 35:50Speaker 1: is the Spot, with Jason Schwartzman providing the voice, and
- 35:56Speaker 1: the Spot is known for being able to open portals
- 36:02Speaker 1: across dimensions. Now in the comics, the Spot is not
- 36:06Speaker 1: not really seen as being a particularly powerful villain. He's
- 36:11Speaker 1: kind of kind of a joke. But especially in an
- 36:15Speaker 1: era where everything Marvel has to do with like the
- 36:18Speaker 1: Multiverse and Spider Verse in particular, really jumped into that
- 36:23Speaker 1: before MCU did, it makes sense. I'm looking forward to it.
- 36:27Speaker 1: I think it's really cool because the whole the whole
- 36:29Speaker 1: uh plot for this part two, I guess because this
- 36:34Speaker 1: is going to be it's a two parter um for this.
- 36:37Speaker 1: First part of the two parter um is that all
- 36:40Speaker 1: of these Spider Man's meet in the multiverse and can't
- 36:44Speaker 1: figure out how to solve this problem, and they all
- 36:46Speaker 1: have different ideas on how to solve problems, and so like,
- 36:49Speaker 1: just you know, he could be the villain just by
- 36:52Speaker 1: putting all these Spider Man's together. Who disagree um and
- 36:55Speaker 1: Spider and and not just Spider Man's, they're Spider Women's
- 36:58Speaker 1: and Spider others. If you if you felt sad that
- 37:05Speaker 1: your favorite Spider variant was not in the first Spider
- 37:11Speaker 1: Man of these of this series, don't worry. There's even
- 37:15Speaker 1: one with a paper bag on its head in this
- 37:18Speaker 1: upcoming movie. Yeah, that's the one. That's the one who
- 37:21Speaker 1: he didn't have his his Spider Man mask and he
- 37:26Speaker 1: temporarily joined the Fantastic Four and had to put a
- 37:28Speaker 1: bag on his head to keep his identity secret. Yeah,
- 37:31Speaker 1: everyone knows about bag Spider Man. We have to get
- 37:35Speaker 1: Spider Woman and Spider Punk and sperm and. And it's
- 37:44Speaker 1: also interesting because originally, like Ariel was saying that they
- 37:47Speaker 1: were going to call this Spider Man Across the Spider
- 37:50Speaker 1: Verse Part one, and they were going to get part two,
- 37:53Speaker 1: but actually part two, their title has changed to Spider
- 37:57Speaker 1: Man Beyond the Spider Verse, so you have into the
- 38:00Speaker 1: Spider Verse, Across the Spider Verse and Beyond the Spider
- 38:03Speaker 1: Verse for the three films in this trilogy. I think, well,
- 38:09Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to the other two films because
- 38:12Speaker 1: like the first one was such a delightful surprise, and
- 38:16Speaker 1: I love the animation style too. I thought it was
- 38:18Speaker 1: so creative and so engaging that it was a real
- 38:25Speaker 1: breath of fresh air. It was like one of the
- 38:26Speaker 1: first non Disney animated films in a very long time,
- 38:31Speaker 1: like non like mainstream Disney animated films in a very
- 38:34Speaker 1: long time. That caught my attention and really uh delighted me. Yeah.
- 38:40Speaker 1: I agree. These movies kind of have been under the
- 38:44Speaker 1: radar as far as marketing goes um, and still pretty
- 38:48Speaker 1: popular and really cool. I like that they're mirroring the
- 38:52Speaker 1: Homecoming Far From Home No Way Home naming convention as well. Yeah, yeah, no,
- 38:57Speaker 1: it's it's it's fun kind of synchronicity between the different
- 39:01Speaker 1: Spider Man projects. Um. Yeah. So on a related note,
- 39:07Speaker 1: we also learned about Donald Glover getting involved with a
- 39:12Speaker 1: Spider Man uh project. Now you may remember Donald Glover
- 39:17Speaker 1: appeared briefly in UM, the first of Tom Hollands Spider
- 39:21Speaker 1: Man movies. In fact, in the deleted scene, it was
- 39:26Speaker 1: indicated that he might have been Miles Morales, his uncle,
- 39:29Speaker 1: which would have potentially meant that he was the Prowler,
- 39:32Speaker 1: though this has nothing to do with that, so he's
- 39:34Speaker 1: not going to be the Prowler. No, he's going to
- 39:37Speaker 1: be the Hypno Hustler, yes, no. Or is he gonna
- 39:40Speaker 1: be Spider Man with the Hypno Hustler. No, he's gonna
- 39:43Speaker 1: be the Hustler I think. Okay, Yeah, so Hypno Hustler
- 39:48Speaker 1: is another joke villain um who you know, this is
- 39:54Speaker 1: just like plays hustle music. Yeah, disco, Yeah, this was.
- 39:59Speaker 1: This is a character that emerged in the seventies during
- 40:02Speaker 1: the disco era. And y'all, if you weren't into comic
- 40:07Speaker 1: books in the nineteen seventies, or if you've never gone
- 40:10Speaker 1: back to look at what comic books were like in
- 40:12Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies, they were zany. You had a lot
- 40:16Speaker 1: of really wacky comics. You also had some some of
- 40:20Speaker 1: the darkest ones, like there were certain eras of the
- 40:23Speaker 1: seventies where that's where you started to have Batman turn
- 40:27Speaker 1: really dark again. Like Batman's gone through crazy shifts in
- 40:32Speaker 1: tone throughout its history. But in this case, Hypno Hustler
- 40:37Speaker 1: Uh is part of a band. They played disco music,
- 40:40Speaker 1: and he can hypnotize people with the power of his music.
- 40:43Speaker 1: So yeah, that need I can't wait to see this. Yeah,
- 40:50Speaker 1: it needs to be a full out cheesy seventies style musical. Um, yeah,
- 40:55Speaker 1: I don't. I really wonder because, like Donald Glover is
- 40:58Speaker 1: also incredibly talented at bringing stories to the screen that
- 41:04Speaker 1: combine surreal, absurd humor and real, genuine, earnest human emotion.
- 41:11Speaker 1: That is true. That is true. Um, well, we'll have
- 41:14Speaker 1: to see. It's definitely gonna I'm gonna watch it. Even
- 41:17Speaker 1: if it gets like more morbid time panned, I'm still
- 41:20Speaker 1: gonna watch it. Hopefully it won't because Donald Glover is awesome. Uh,
- 41:25Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna dive into a little bit of Disney,
- 41:27Speaker 1: which is Um. The first is that we are getting
- 41:31Speaker 1: a Witch Mountains series. Then Bryce Bryce Dallas Howard will
- 41:35Speaker 1: be starring in it. Yeah. Have you ever seen any
- 41:38Speaker 1: of the Witch Mountain movies? I think I watched like
- 41:42Speaker 1: the like the first two, um way back in the day,
- 41:46Speaker 1: but it wasn't one of the ones that really stuck
- 41:49Speaker 1: with me. Like it was one of the one of
- 41:50Speaker 1: the ones that I half watched and half ignored as
- 41:53Speaker 1: a child. So yeah, these are the the movies are odd,
- 42:00Speaker 1: like they're they're very strange. It's a it's a science
- 42:02Speaker 1: fiction series. Ultimately, when you hear which Mountain, you might
- 42:06Speaker 1: first think it's like some sort of horror or maybe
- 42:08Speaker 1: fantasy based series. It's more science fiction. It's like alien stuff,
- 42:13Speaker 1: little kid aliens who um are trying to find their
- 42:16Speaker 1: way back to this mysterious place that's calling out to them.
- 42:21Speaker 1: And yeah, it's um. I haven't watched them since I
- 42:25Speaker 1: was a kid. I remember as a kid, I really
- 42:28Speaker 1: liked them, like I was really into it. Uh, but
- 42:32Speaker 1: I haven't watched it since then. And as we have
- 42:34Speaker 1: already established earlier in this episode, I'm pushing fifty, so
- 42:39Speaker 1: remembering things from when I was a kid is increasingly
- 42:43Speaker 1: challenging to me. But yeah, it's uh, it's a series,
- 42:46Speaker 1: and Bryce Dallas Howard is going to be starring in it. Uh.
- 42:50Speaker 1: In the series or in the originals, it's it's kids
- 42:52Speaker 1: who are the real subjects of the story. So presumably,
- 42:57Speaker 1: unless they're doing something where Stylea's Howard is playing a
- 43:02Speaker 1: character who was a kid in these other versions of
- 43:05Speaker 1: the story who was now grown up, she will be uh,
- 43:08Speaker 1: not one of the little alien kids around. But yeah,
- 43:13Speaker 1: interesting that they went with this because it's a title
- 43:16Speaker 1: where I guess for certain people there's definitely some nostalgia there,
- 43:20Speaker 1: like they've heard of it or they've seen it, and
- 43:22Speaker 1: they have an attachment to it. But it's not one
- 43:25Speaker 1: of Disney's best known properties, so it was a little
- 43:30Speaker 1: surprising to me. Yeah, I mean it gives them more
- 43:32Speaker 1: freedom to play with it, I think. Um. Other news
- 43:37Speaker 1: is that Strange Worlds is coming to Disney Plus this month.
- 43:40Speaker 1: I am. I am sad that it is coming to
- 43:45Speaker 1: Disney Plus so quickly, although I know I am part
- 43:48Speaker 1: of the problem because I never ended up seeing it
- 43:49Speaker 1: in the movie theater, and I guess a lot of
- 43:51Speaker 1: people didn't. Yeah, I also did not see that. I
- 43:55Speaker 1: didn't know that it was a movie until it was
- 43:58Speaker 1: because I went to go see the menu, which everyone
- 44:01Speaker 1: remembers from a previous episode I absolutely loved, And as
- 44:05Speaker 1: we were leaving the theater, I look over and I
- 44:08Speaker 1: see the poster for it, and it was the first
- 44:10Speaker 1: I had ever seen anything about that movie. I didn't
- 44:13Speaker 1: know it was a film until I saw the poster
- 44:16Speaker 1: as I was walking out of the theater. I could
- 44:18Speaker 1: have sworn that you and I chatted about it on
- 44:21Speaker 1: Ellen C. Jonathan, Yeah, but I don't listen to you.
- 44:26Speaker 1: I just wait to stop talking so I can talk. Yeah. Um, so,
- 44:32Speaker 1: I mean I get it. I do the same thing
- 44:33Speaker 1: to you. I don't even know what I said, but yeah,
- 44:39Speaker 1: So if you didn't watch Strange Worlds, you can watch
- 44:42Speaker 1: it now. Um that's I would have more to say,
- 44:46Speaker 1: but I haven't watched it yet. Again part of the problem.
- 44:49Speaker 1: And I hate it because it looked like it had
- 44:50Speaker 1: such amazing world building as a part of it. So
- 44:53Speaker 1: I've heard good things. It's one of those where everything
- 44:56Speaker 1: I've heard, it's like, it's a shame this didn't get
- 45:01Speaker 1: better marketing behind it. It almost from most people I've
- 45:05Speaker 1: heard from say, it feels like Disney just didn't know
- 45:08Speaker 1: how to market this movie and it suffered as a result.
- 45:13Speaker 1: Uh But like I've seen, like there's spent several Disney
- 45:17Speaker 1: films that I've found really entertaining recently that I just
- 45:21Speaker 1: didn't think had been marketed super well. Like in Conto,
- 45:26Speaker 1: I think succeeded despite marketing. Right, Like, there was some
- 45:30Speaker 1: good trailers, but that was about it. It wasn't until
- 45:34Speaker 1: we don't talk about Bruno ended up taking off like
- 45:38Speaker 1: crazy on social media. Then that's when you know Disney
- 45:43Speaker 1: ended up getting like this big boost because their own
- 45:47Speaker 1: fans were promoting the film more than the company was. Yeah,
- 45:51Speaker 1: that in content was one of those ones where I
- 45:53Speaker 1: was like, I thought this was a straight to d
- 45:54Speaker 1: plus uh Disney plus release, but it wasn't. Um, but
- 45:59Speaker 1: it was good. Ah, this fantastic. It was fantastic. Um.
- 46:05Speaker 1: But you know, every every streaming service is trying to
- 46:09Speaker 1: figure stuff out right now, you know, and box office
- 46:11Speaker 1: stuff trying to figure stuff out. HBO Max is doing
- 46:16Speaker 1: some more figuring out put air quotes around that for
- 46:19Speaker 1: people who can't see through their podcast service. Yeah. So
- 46:27Speaker 1: for example, we knew that West World wasn't getting another season,
- 46:30Speaker 1: we knew that it was canceled, but then it also
- 46:34Speaker 1: got removed from Max entirely, as have other original series
- 46:42Speaker 1: on the streaming service. So several series that were made
- 46:46Speaker 1: specifically by HBO for HBO Max or We're being carried
- 46:50Speaker 1: on HBO Max are no longer available there, and the
- 46:53Speaker 1: word is that Warner Brothers Discovery is working to get
- 46:59Speaker 1: those licensed to third parties like some other streaming service,
- 47:05Speaker 1: some other channels where they will free supported by ads
- 47:09Speaker 1: or ads supported. Yeah, free free streaming services that do
- 47:13Speaker 1: ads is what they're looking at. So yeah, so it'll
- 47:18Speaker 1: be weird because these things that have been associated with HBO,
- 47:21Speaker 1: which you know, HBO for the last thirty years has
- 47:26Speaker 1: really kind of established itself as uh as sort of
- 47:30Speaker 1: this premier production company for really high quality series and
- 47:38Speaker 1: to see them kind of get shoveled off to other
- 47:41Speaker 1: places now, um, it's kind of a real shock to
- 47:45Speaker 1: the system. But again, this is part of Zaslov's approach
- 47:48Speaker 1: to cutting billions of dollars of debt from the emerged
- 47:52Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Discovery. I really wonder what the heck is
- 47:56Speaker 1: going to be left when all of that cutting is done. Yeah, well,
- 48:00Speaker 1: at least with this, you will still be this And
- 48:03Speaker 1: I think Sesame Street I read, but I can't confirm.
- 48:06Speaker 1: The Nerdest article says a Sesame Street also got dropped
- 48:09Speaker 1: from hbox. You'll still be able to watch it elsewhere.
- 48:12Speaker 1: You just might have to watch ads with it, so
- 48:13Speaker 1: like Crackle and Voodoo and stuff like that. Um, but
- 48:16Speaker 1: you know when that happened when they took West World off,
- 48:18Speaker 1: and they took it off so fast because I hadn't
- 48:20Speaker 1: seen the final season yet. Again, part of the problem,
- 48:24Speaker 1: even though I think like it was time for that
- 48:26Speaker 1: series to end. I feel like they were done. Um,
- 48:30Speaker 1: it's at least better than like I've I've completely lost
- 48:33Speaker 1: my train of thought. But it's at least better than
- 48:35Speaker 1: like the Batgirl movie, where you just can't access it anymore,
- 48:39Speaker 1: you know, yeah, or you never get a chance to
- 48:41Speaker 1: see it at all. Period. Yeah, it's yeah, it's tough.
- 48:46Speaker 1: I mean for the people who work on those series.
- 48:48Speaker 1: I'm sure it's extremely tough. Like the things that we've
- 48:52Speaker 1: read have all been very diplomatic, Like everyone seems to
- 48:56Speaker 1: be very understanding, which is better than what I would manage.
- 49:00Speaker 1: If I had been in their position, I would be
- 49:03Speaker 1: having hissy fit after hissy fit. Listen, if I agree,
- 49:08Speaker 1: if they take Watchman off, I better have another way
- 49:10Speaker 1: to view it, That's all I'm saying. And they better
- 49:12Speaker 1: not take Watchman off Watchman and do Patrol. They just
- 49:14Speaker 1: need to keep they just yeah, yeah, we already know
- 49:18Speaker 1: we're not getting more Watchmen, so at least keep the
- 49:20Speaker 1: ones that are on there. There. Uh, we also are apparently,
- 49:26Speaker 1: or at least there's the possibility that we're going to
- 49:28Speaker 1: get another spinoff of Game of Thrones. Obviously we've got
- 49:31Speaker 1: House of Dragons which is a prequel series. But now
- 49:35Speaker 1: there's the possibility of another spinoff series of one for
- 49:40Speaker 1: that would be centered on one of the characters from
- 49:44Speaker 1: the Game of Throne series, and that should pretty much
- 49:48Speaker 1: narrow it down who it could possibly be about, because
- 49:50Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all know this, but by the
- 49:53Speaker 1: end of that series there weren't a whole lot of
- 49:55Speaker 1: characters left. But you know, it's not about brand who
- 49:58Speaker 1: is now on the Iron throne. It's it's about John Snow,
- 50:03Speaker 1: the saddest character of all the characters. Apparently will just
- 50:08Speaker 1: continue to be sad, right because at the end of
- 50:12Speaker 1: spoiler alerts for anyone who's not watched or read, I
- 50:16Speaker 1: guess watched Game of Thrones, because it's not like George R.
- 50:18Speaker 1: Martin has written the other books yet um or at
- 50:21Speaker 1: least not published them. The character of John Snow ends
- 50:25Speaker 1: up being sent back to the wall, and you're like,
- 50:28Speaker 1: come on, come on, this guy like I grew up
- 50:35Speaker 1: thinking he was someone did not realize that his whole
- 50:39Speaker 1: life was based on an actual deception, then ends up
- 50:44Speaker 1: having to kill the woman he loves, then is punished
- 50:48Speaker 1: for that despite the fact that he had to do
- 50:50Speaker 1: it or else she was going to destroy everything. He
- 50:52Speaker 1: gets punished for that and sent back to the Wall,
- 50:54Speaker 1: where he had spent ages of time trying to fight
- 50:57Speaker 1: off white Walkers. Are you kidding me? No? This the
- 51:02Speaker 1: series of it. It does the second love, his first
- 51:05Speaker 1: love also dies. That's true. That's true. He loses the
- 51:09Speaker 1: love of his life twice. I just yeah, I don't
- 51:14Speaker 1: know if unless it's like really, I won't. I don't
- 51:17Speaker 1: think I want to watch it, but I do kind
- 51:20Speaker 1: of hope. It's just like almost like a SMR television
- 51:23Speaker 1: of just this sad boy in a fur coat kicking
- 51:27Speaker 1: snow kicking the less maybe a gir Ellen Poe is
- 51:33Speaker 1: there in the corner too. Yes, yes, it's the sad Yeah. Yeah,
- 51:40Speaker 1: because I mean, like they killed the White King, right,
- 51:42Speaker 1: they killed the the head of the White Walkers, so
- 51:46Speaker 1: presumably those are going to be a problem anymore. Although
- 51:49Speaker 1: I guess there could be like a resurgence. I mean
- 51:53Speaker 1: I think that, like things, things always come back, maybe
- 51:56Speaker 1: the giants will invade. Maybe, but that seems like that's
- 52:01Speaker 1: less of like the White Walkers were like a very
- 52:05Speaker 1: definite bad guy. I can't say that the giants are
- 52:07Speaker 1: definitely bad guys, maybe I'm wrong. Um, I didn't watch
- 52:11Speaker 1: enough Same, Same, so I'm sure it'll do well because
- 52:16Speaker 1: kid Harrington's dreamy. Well but you know, yeah, I guess
- 52:23Speaker 1: he is if he he kind of is. Um, but
- 52:26Speaker 1: he really just should cast his cares away for another day,
- 52:33Speaker 1: save his worries for another day. Yeah yeah, Why are
- 52:39Speaker 1: you quoting the Fraggle Rock theme because we're getting a
- 52:42Speaker 1: second season of it for Apple TV? Um. Also random
- 52:47Speaker 1: side fact, there's a woman who used to run a
- 52:50Speaker 1: photo scavenger hunt who has a family member who wanted
- 52:54Speaker 1: daytime Emmy for it, And I used to be a
- 52:56Speaker 1: part of that scavenger hunt. So cool, like three degree
- 53:00Speaker 1: use of Kevin Bacon or whatever. One a daytime Emmy
- 53:03Speaker 1: for running a scavenger hunt, that's weird. No, no family
- 53:07Speaker 1: what a daytime Emmy for working on Fragile Rock. Okay,
- 53:11Speaker 1: see the way you told that story, it sounded like
- 53:14Speaker 1: the daytime Emmy was because of a That's why I
- 53:17Speaker 1: was confused. Why can't you just follow my random brain logic, Jonathan,
- 53:23Speaker 1: because I'm a dumb man. No you're not. I'm like
- 53:28Speaker 1: that was twelve twelve points of data with no connective
- 53:32Speaker 1: tissue that I just threw you. It's totally anyhow. Uh.
- 53:36Speaker 1: Fragile Rock, unfortunately, is another one of those ones that's
- 53:39Speaker 1: on Apple TV. But I desperately want to watch it.
- 53:42Speaker 1: My friend has Apple TV and she has watched it,
- 53:44Speaker 1: and I'm a little bit mad that I wasn't invited
- 53:46Speaker 1: over to watch it with her. I'm not actually mad, um,
- 53:48Speaker 1: because she listens to this. I'm not mad at um.
- 53:51Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I I was a huge fan of
- 53:54Speaker 1: Fragile Rock when it was on on HBO way back
- 53:58Speaker 1: in the day, wasn't it um? And I loved the
- 54:02Speaker 1: original run of Fraggle Rock that was back when Jim
- 54:04Speaker 1: Henson was still alive, and he voiced one of the
- 54:08Speaker 1: couple of the characters um I. Although they were like
- 54:12Speaker 1: recurring guest characters, he wasn't like playing one of the
- 54:16Speaker 1: regulars throughout the series, but I really enjoyed it. I
- 54:21Speaker 1: remember distinctly an episode of Fragile Rock where Red and
- 54:26Speaker 1: I want to say, um, which one is the grumpy one.
- 54:32Speaker 1: It's not boober No, not no Gobo's Gobos the leader.
- 54:38Speaker 1: It's the green one with the hat, like the flat
- 54:40Speaker 1: cap hat, who's all kind of like down in the
- 54:44Speaker 1: dumps all the time. I can't remember his name and
- 54:46Speaker 1: I'm sure listeners are screaming right now because escape his
- 54:51Speaker 1: name is Boober. No wait, Wembley, Wembley, Wembley, Wembley. Yeah,
- 54:56Speaker 1: Boober was the yellow one, right, so no, Boober is green? Okay,
- 55:01Speaker 1: Boer is the right one. Then Boober is the one
- 55:03Speaker 1: the one I was thinking of. Wimbley is the goofy
- 55:05Speaker 1: yellow one, and Boober was the green one. So yes, um,
- 55:09Speaker 1: Red and Boober, I want to say, are trapped in
- 55:12Speaker 1: a cave in in one episode and they both are
- 55:14Speaker 1: convinced they're going to die, and they have this very
- 55:17Speaker 1: sad song they sing to each other before they're rescued.
- 55:21Speaker 1: And that damaged me. Yeah. Yeah, Fraggle Rock did a
- 55:28Speaker 1: lot of things and a lot of good things. Um,
- 55:31Speaker 1: And this new season of Fraggle Rock is really going
- 55:33Speaker 1: to focus on the Dousers and the Fraggles and then
- 55:37Speaker 1: the Ogre's Ghosers, the ghos that's it. Isn't that A
- 55:46Speaker 1: isn't that a Ghostbusters Ghostbusters villain? No, the the Ogre things. What.
- 56:01Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, I know this. I'm very tired. Both
- 56:06Speaker 1: we both struggled in this one, So it's okay, they're
- 56:09Speaker 1: gonna have to it's because I don't have Apple TV
- 56:11Speaker 1: to remind myself. Um, they're all going to have to
- 56:13Speaker 1: work together and learn how to like work together even
- 56:16Speaker 1: though they live in this already like functioning ecosystem. You know.
- 56:19Speaker 1: I guess they're going to have to learn to be
- 56:21Speaker 1: friends or something. Yeah, because like the show demonstrates, like
- 56:26Speaker 1: from the beginning, that these these characters that have there
- 56:30Speaker 1: are these races or species that have very different relationships
- 56:34Speaker 1: with another, are interdependent upon each other, although they don't
- 56:39Speaker 1: necessarily realize that themselves, right, because the gorgs grow they
- 56:44Speaker 1: I think it's radishes, and then the Fraggles like the radishes,
- 56:50Speaker 1: but the users build, They make building materials out of
- 56:54Speaker 1: the radishes, which the Fraggles also like to eat. And
- 56:58Speaker 1: without one of these different components, you start to have
- 57:02Speaker 1: issues with the holy ecosystem. So yeah, I think this
- 57:06Speaker 1: is just going to bring that into a sharper relief,
- 57:09Speaker 1: so it's less subtext and more text. Yeah, speaking of
- 57:14Speaker 1: issues with ecosystems, we're getting a new sci fi film
- 57:17Speaker 1: that's all about that. Yeah, it's called sixty five, which
- 57:22Speaker 1: makes you wonder how you missed the first sixty four movies.
- 57:25Speaker 1: And it's about Adam Driver getting old. Yeah, it's actually
- 57:30Speaker 1: about Adam Driver. He plays himself and uh, he's for
- 57:35Speaker 1: some reason picked pilot a spaceship. No, he's playing him, um,
- 57:41Speaker 1: a crew member on this starship that is traveling through space.
- 57:47Speaker 1: It's got a cargo of folks in stasis, which is
- 57:51Speaker 1: you know, pretty standard sci fi fair like this is
- 57:55Speaker 1: this is you're hearing this and you're like, I've seen
- 57:58Speaker 1: this movie lots of times. But in this case, the
- 58:03Speaker 1: they ship passes through an asteroid belt that it did
- 58:07Speaker 1: not have on its charts, gets damaged. Adam Driver has
- 58:11Speaker 1: to try and crash landed on a planet. Of course,
- 58:15Speaker 1: there's only one survivor from the the cargo of all
- 58:19Speaker 1: the people in staces Yeah, as far as he knows anyway,
- 58:23Speaker 1: And they find out that they are on a planet
- 58:27Speaker 1: with Dino Sawas and it turns out it's Earth. It's
- 58:31Speaker 1: Earth million years ago. Whether or not they came from
- 58:34Speaker 1: Earth and somehow went into the past or these are
- 58:37Speaker 1: aliens who landed on Earth and they just happened to
- 58:40Speaker 1: look very human, we don't know. But yeah, it's a
- 58:45Speaker 1: space and science fiction in Dinosauras it feels like it
- 58:50Speaker 1: should be a Shark Nado level movie, but they are
- 58:53Speaker 1: very much taking it seriously. Yeah. I watched this and
- 58:58Speaker 1: I was like, man, I don't know how I feel
- 59:01Speaker 1: about the because, like you were saying it like the
- 59:04Speaker 1: when you give the synopsis of the plot, it does
- 59:07Speaker 1: kind of sound like a super schlocky science fiction and film.
- 59:10Speaker 1: Adam Driver clearly elevates it because the guy has been
- 59:13Speaker 1: in some, you know, pretty noteworthy dramatic films in the
- 59:18Speaker 1: last few years. If you just you know, close your
- 59:21Speaker 1: eyes and forget about the Star Wars sequels, He's been
- 59:24Speaker 1: in some really good stuff. He was fine with what
- 59:28Speaker 1: he was given in those. Oh yeah, you know, I'm
- 59:35Speaker 1: gonna have to wait to see a second trailer. I
- 59:37Speaker 1: don't know what they could put in a second trailer
- 59:39Speaker 1: that they didn't put in this first one. But I
- 59:42Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to drive me to the
- 59:44Speaker 1: movie theaters for this one. I'll probably watch it when
- 59:46Speaker 1: it's on TV. Yeah, Veloci Pastor, Veloci Pastor is one
- 59:53Speaker 1: of the best movies ever made, and I will not
- 59:55Speaker 1: hear you bad mouth Veloci Pastor. Um. So yeah, I agree, though,
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: I watched this trailer and it actually didn't think it
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: was particularly interesting or enticing. Like I didn't. I didn't think, oh,
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: this is something I want to see, which is kind
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: of sad, because I mean, I could tell that a
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: lot of work went into the film. It just didn't
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: appeal to me. But then maybe the next trailer that
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: comes out will hook me, because that sometimes does happen. Yeah. Um,
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: I know one teaser trailer that did hook you, even
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: though there's actually very little about plot or anything in
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: it is the trailer for the Barbie film. The trailer
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: that I've heard so many people say. I was not
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: at all interested in this movie, and then I watched
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: the teaser. Yeah. See, I was already interested in this
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: movie because I suspect well, yes, first of all, it's
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: Margot Robbie, and uh I love her and she is
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: beautiful and flawless and amazing and very very charming to
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: watch on talk shows. But but also like everything I
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: was hearing made it sound like this was going to
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: be maybe a bit sardonic, maybe a bit satirical, probably
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: not not like like heavy handed satirical, because it's still
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: a Barbie movie. You feel that, you know, Mattel would
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: be really protective of their their I P. But it
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: felt like things were going to be a little like
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: maybe I'm thinking like like the themes of things like
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: Spice Girls or Um or Josie and the Pussycats, you know,
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: kind of have that sort of tongue in cheek, kind
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: of self aware sort of feel to it. This teaser, Uh,
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: the majority of the teaser is a total parody of
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: two thousand one, a Space Odyssey. And that blows my
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: mind because anyone who's of a Barbie age will have
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: no idea what this is referencing because they have not
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: watched Stanley Kubrick's two thousand one. Anyone who has seen
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: two thousand one is not likely seeking out the Barbie teaser.
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: I mean it's so it's obviously not necessarily a kids
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: just a kid's movie, right, Um. And I know a
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: lot of adults who still collect Barbies, and a lot
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: of adults who have a very fond remembrance of Barbie,
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: because yes, even though she was created with like actually physical,
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: like physically not attainable body forms, yeah, she was a
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: really cool doll. She was, as the teaser says, you know,
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: different for her time and held a lot of cool jobs,
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: and not every Barbie was a win somewhere very big mrs.
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: But um, you know, it's definitely a subject matter that
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: can span through through adults. I had some friends say
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: it felt very Kubrick esque. Well, I mean it was.
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: It was like almost shot for shot of a Barty
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: of of the famous ape sequence, briefly forgot that he
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: was the director, So I thought. I thought the teaser
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: was very very funny, like, it was a very clever,
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: funny thing. It shows you almost nothing of what the
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: movie is actually going to be, which is totally fine
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: because this is either something you're going to be sold
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: on or you're not. Another movie. I would kind of
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: compare this too, based upon the feeling I get is
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: the Brady Bunch movie like, because that was clearly a
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: very self aware, self referential, self parodying kind of movie.
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: I feel like this is going to be the same.
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: And you know, it was one of those things where
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: when I first heard there was going to be a
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: Barbie live action film, I didn't have any interest in
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: it whatsoever. But the more I've heard about the more
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: I'm like, this could be kind of like the Lego movie.
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: It could be a fun, semi subversive kind of comedy.
- 1:04:08Speaker 1: I'm not expecting anything like truly groundbreaking or um wild
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: or crazy, but it could be fun, same way that
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: the Barbie has been treated in, like the Toy story movies,
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: that kind of fun, quicky way. I am. I hope
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: it's a little bit better edited than the Lego movie.
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: I felt like the Lego movie was too long, it
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: had a little it was it could have been tightened
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: up a bit. Um. I can't disagree with you. I
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: feel like I feel like it was a little too
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: pleased with itself. But you know, also, I never ever
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: ever need to hear everything is awesome ever again that okay,
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: not even that version. Um. That, however, brings us up
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: to the conclusion of this week's episode of Large nurderun Collider.
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: Our apologies that it kind of spans a couple of weeks.
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: We will not be doing another one until maybe we'll
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: squeeze one in before New Year's but we're not sure yet.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: It all depend upon schedules and stuff. Um. But chances
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: are if obviously, if we don't do that, then we'll
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: be doing one fairly early on next year. Hard to
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: believe you sneeze and it's gone. Yeah. Well also it
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: lasted an eternity. We don't know how both of those
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: things can be true at the same time, but somehow
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: they are. And we're also you know, is gonna be
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: a big year, Like for one thing, I think Marvel's
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: got seventeen movies coming out, so we love plenty to
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: talk about. Yeah, yeah, and we look forward to talking
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: about it with you. Um. You know, if you want
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: to reach out to us and and you know, tell
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: us about your cool, fun geeki holiday stuff, you can do.
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: So you on Twitter as long as it's around, We're
- 1:06:03Speaker 1: gonna always put that preface with that. It's LNC Underscore
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- 1:06:13Speaker 1: Enner drawn collider. It's a couple of people on there, um,
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- 1:06:33Speaker 1: if they didn't like it, you know, you're just you're
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you're channeling the holiday spirit. You
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: kind of sound like die Hard or Home Alone or something. Now, Okay,
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: first of all, die Hard is not a Christmas movie,
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: but I think we've had that conversation before. Okay, back
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