April 4, 2025 • 30 mins
We discuss some recently released movies!
A Minecraft Movie
Death of Unicorn
Companion
One of Them Days
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A Minecraft Movie
Death of Unicorn
Companion
One of Them Days
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mac. A debate broke out during our last news dump
between you and I, me and you of who the
better swimmer is. So I asked the Mac and Goobers,
the Goo crew to head over to x sight unseen
because they've never seen us. This is a real theater
of the mind. Who is the better swimmer? Mac or Goo? Somehow,
(00:24):
some way, over sixty percent of the people think Mac
could outswim.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Goo one hundred percent. One of us obtained the highest
level of rank of swimming in summer camp flying fish.
That would be me. You just got a pool.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I have a pool. I taught myself out to swim
and I have yet to drown.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, you just know how to not die. I know
how to swim.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I feel like that's what swimming is, don't die. So
what I did is I would like the Mac and Goobers,
the Goo crew, that's what I call them, so way
in on these next couple because I went and I
googled odd Olympic sports, I would also like you to
respond to this. Who do you think would win this
(01:10):
odd Olympic sport? Mac or do okay? Tug of war?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You're definitely stronger compared to your body weight. But I
weigh more than you, so that would be an interesting one.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You have a thicker base than I do, though.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's true. That's true, that'd be an interesting one.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You also have real creamy hamstrings, and you might fall apart.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I would tire out before you did. But I don't
know my weight, might even it? Know, that'd be a
good one.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Plunge for distance, how deep we can dive down? That's
what I assume it is, and we'll just go with that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I don't know if I've ever dove down more than
like fifteen.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Feet, I'd be too afraid to. So you can win
that one, okay, all right, don't trust the ocean rope climbing.
I'll give myself the nod on that one.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yep, yep, you got that one.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Hot air ballooning.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think I would manage it more than you. I
would manage it better more than you would.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You are better with fire. You play with it on
a daily basis. You also know the rule of if
your hot air balloon lands on someone's lawn, they have
to present you cheese, bread and wine.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I might just yeah, I might have a little more
for ness in my hot air balloon game. You I
would make love to it, you would fuck it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Also, look out for the electric lines. They're a bitch.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Race walking.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Feels like you should win that, but I don't know
that'd be an interesting one.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Trampoline, I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Know if I would have anything more than trying a backflip.
I could do a front flip. I could try a backflip.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Even trying any of those flips, you're gonna beat me. Really,
I fear injury, So no, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, all right, Art, I'm trying to remember if you
were a good, good at drawing. I feel like you're
not gonna.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Say I did do those portraits of il jaqu Kovalchuk
and Carl Everett back in middle school. I don't know
if that sways you one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You know what I used to do all the time
as a kid is doodle all the sports logos. Try
to copy them every sport.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Actually, I will give you the nod on this because
I have so my son likes to draw now he's four.
I will draw with him, and sometimes my wife can't
tell who drew what. BMX.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think I would crush you in BMX if you're
afraid to get hurt you'd get you would have no chance.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, you'd be out there doing ghost rides and won
eight wheelies.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We once in the neighborhood where I grew up. It
was a real long parking lot in the back, and
we set up a broken picnic table as a ramp
at the end. Nice and we used to just jump
off of it and land on a hill. There was
no real landing spot. It was very dangerous.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
One time I went out riding bikes with my friends
and my mom said to me, Hey, you have to
wear your helmet, and I said, all right, sure, So
I put on my helmet, got down the street, took
off my helmet, and then who drove by me? My mom?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Love that? Love that?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Oh man, I was in such trouble. Cannon shooting, that'd
be a real crapshoot. Have you ever fired a weapon before? No,
that's the same. I might have a little bit of
an edge. I have one day of weapon firing experience.
I would kill you. In handball, I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Know about that. My shoulders fucked up, though, so maybe
you would.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, that was by far, that was the best game
in gym class.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Handball was great.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Handball was really good motor boating.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You might get that. You might get that on me.
You know what I loved in college and I actually
played it as an adult, like intramural and one of those,
like BSc leagues too, was inner two water polo. I
was a dominant force in the center of the of
the pool.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I was sorry after the last Olympics and I saw
water polo being played in the Olympics. I was like,
I want to join a real water polo league. They
don't have any.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, you have to do intertube water pool.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I don't want to do an intertube one because I
know how to swim and I can throw a ball.
I would like to do regular water polo.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think you're really really underestimated how hard it is
to tread water for that long while still being able
to play handball.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I can play handball for days.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well, I guess it's handball and water.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And then finally pistol dueling.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I think I got you on that one.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'm fucking dead right, I think I got you that one.
Let me ask you the where are you shooting? Do
you shoot for the head?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No, I'm going to center mass. I'm just coming right
of center mass.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I think it's gentlemanly to like, you know, you want
to shoot in the chest so they have a chance
to live, but they can't shoot you back.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Plus you've got you want to get like one final
word in once you smoke them too, you get to
walk down the road back towards them and be like, surprise, motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
One good three, Yeah, job three. King of Queen Mall Street,
D Goo and I'm and we are the Mac and
Goo program. We bring you friendship. Today we are back
(06:04):
with our award winning totally original. We didn't take this
from anybody. If anything, people took this from us. What
have you been watching lately?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What have you been watching?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What have you been? My chin? What have you been?
My chin?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And today we got a mount rushmore of movies we've
seen recently. That is just the most recent. Four movies
we've seen one at new in theaters this week, one
new in theaters last week, and then a couple that
were well reviewed early on in the year that we
finally got one is hot to streaming, Hot to streaming.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I will say this though, is while watching these movies,
I said to myself, do I like movies? Again?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh? Really?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
How's a little burnt out at the end of last year.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You turn in the corner here, Okay, Yeah, I think
I'm falling into a lot of at least this year,
a lot of mets of meh. I haven't really hated anything,
and I haven't really loved anything this year. So we'll see,
we'll see how we feel about these necho.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But we're also too and we just get excited about whatever.
The first movie of the year is, so.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, and then a big loll into an Avengers movie,
then a big loll to the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All right, So speaking of an Avengers movie, a big
tent pole movie that should make a lot of money,
not being reviewed extremely well, but kind of what we
expected is a Minecraft movie. It is hitting theaters this
week right now, a fifty one percent critically on Rotten Tomatoes,
which that's right where you expected it, right.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I honestly, that's a little higher than what I expect.
I was expecting like thirties maybe forties, and then audience
at like eighties maybe eighty five. So this is a
little encouraging that the critics are fifty to fifty on it,
that they're like, you know what, this is good enough.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
A forty seven Metacritic is low, though correct it is.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, it's not great, but we weren't expecting to get
a high Metacritics score.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Here and Minecraft, we have misfits who are suddenly pulled
into a mysterious portal into a bizarre Cubic wonderland that
thrives on a mad nation. To get back home, they
need to find a mcguffin, put it with another mcguffin,
and then destroy a big battie who actually has a
pretty funny kill scene. So credit to them.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I have a question for you. Yes, if you had
to choose things, you can't choose cube because that makes
too much sense. If you had to choose a world
where everything was something shaped, what shape would you pick?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
My first thought was inappropriate?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, I was thinking cock.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I would you choose a cock world?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Just dick everywhere?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I was gonna say, but oh, okay, all right, all right,
let's get back to this.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
This is directed by Jared Hesse. I believe he's a
Napoleon Dynamite, or it's the production company that's Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It sounds right, yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
It is written by Chris Bowman. Hubble Palmer and Neil
Widner the stars. The only two that you really need
to know is Jason Momoa and Jack Black. And I'll
say this is if you like Jack Black. Every time
you see him on the screen acting like this, his
mouth like that, and his eyebrows, his eyebrows always crooked down,
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this might be the movie for you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Now. Is the same sort of jump off here like
it is in Jumanji, where in the real world they're
one person and then in Minecraft or difference.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
First, no, it's the same person. In the real world.
They're all kind of losers, but when they go to
the other world they get to use their imagination and
show the heroes that they are. They thrive, all right,
all right, But I have no connection to the Minecraft
video games. I've only played it for roughly an hour.
I think it's for wieners. My kid had a good time.
(09:43):
My kid thought that Jason Momoa looked cool. I can't
argue that Mamoa is always cool. And actually some of
the early stuff with Momoa as a down and out
nineteen eighty nine video game champion is pretty funny. Also
in this, Jennifer Coolidge, I don't understand. It's almost like
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they felt they needed to fill time, and they said,
how can we do this without incorporating this expensive Minecraft world?
How about Jennifer Coolidge is just doing her own thing
as the freshly divorced principle of this high school.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
One of the reviews I read is that she's chasing
around one of the like Minecraft characters the whole time
to fuck them.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So not to give anything away, but she hits one
with her car and she she then offers, as you know,
I'm sorry to take him out to dinner.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's like a misery situation.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
It's it's something I'm It's like I could see if
a kid is watching this, there's like, let's fast forward this.
If you're an adult, you just say, ain't it bizarre?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Just that song?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I want to play, really really want to play Minecraft.
Now that he's seen the movie.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
He hasn't asked to play it again, but we bought legos.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
All right, yeah, similar, similar. Now I feel like this
is more for kids in like the eight to twelve
range that like have really played the game for a
couple of years and like are really into maybe some
of the nuances of the game. But I mean, ultimately,
if your four year old son enjoyed it. That's all
this movie is really shooting for.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, and it is. It's really quick, stupid humor, but
it knows that it's dumb. It knows that the storyline
is dumb. It knows that what they're looking for is dumb.
So it's playing into like, hey, we don't really have
a storyline. Yeah, thanks for coming.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, that's about as good as you can do for
a movie based off a game that's based off building
shit with cubes.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So if you have no connection to the game and
you are looking to bring your child to a movie,
it's it's good enough.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Does its job? I guess, yeah, I guess hot Dog wise,
what are you thinking?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Twenty two to twenty three?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Okay, so sinks for like an adult, but good enough
for a kid.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, I'd say so.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Okay, all right. Next up is a movie we have
both seen. This debuted last weekend. Death of a Unicorn
made five point seven million dollars on its opening weekend
on a fifteen million dollar budget. I think it's gonna
get close to maybe making its money back. But this
was This was advertised quite a bit in the month
leading up to it, so the advertising budget was probably
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a good twenty million as well. This is an R
rated comedy, fantasy, horror, and thriller, and I think what
they were going for was something like Jurassic Park with
a little less seriousness, maybe bringing in something like Gremlins
with that, like Classic A twenty four gets bumped up
some seriousness. I think it did an okay job mimicking
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some of that stuff. It just didn't crush it on
any of it, Specifically the comedy part. This should have
been way funnier. This has a runtime of one hundred
and seven minutes, so it's not long. You don't really
feel like it's wasting your time.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Long To me, it felt really yeah, okay, I didn't
have Dragon by the end.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
On Roddy T's fifty four percent from the critics, seventy
eight percent from the audience on Metacritic of fifty two,
I'm closer to the audience on this one. I would
understand why the critics haven't loved this, but I thought
it was enjoyable enough. This is written and directed by
Alex Sharfman, first feature length credits in both of those
writing and directing, so a first timer tasked with like
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a little bit of a thing here since you have
like a cgi unicorn is one of the main characters
of your story. Synopsis father daughter duo Elliott and Ridley
hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to
the wilderness retreat of a mega wealthy pharmaceutical ceo. The
cast here is great and maybe that's why you're definitely
let down. And I'm a little let down here. The
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promise was much higher than what was delivered. You have
Jenna or Tega as Ridley, Paul Rudd as Elliott. That's
the father daughter duo. Anthony Kerrigan is Griff. You'll remember
him as NoHo Hank from Barry. He's like the rich
family's butler for lack of a better term of Richard E.
Grant chewing up the screen. Tao Leoni as Belinda, Will
Poulter as Shepherd. He's their son. Sunita Mani and Steve
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Parker the two doctors that have brought into this whole thing.
So essentially what happens here Once the unicorn dies, they
start to figure out it's blood slash Horn have these
like magical healing powers and this big rich pharmaceutical family
instead of maybe utilizing it to like cure cancer or whatever.
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It turns into a little bit of like a social commentary,
and they're just gonna use it for their you know,
on their behalf and for their on their friend's behalfs
And tied into that is Ortega has this like connection
with the dead Unicorn and there's like a little bit
of sci fi stuff brought in there. I like, I
get what it's going for. It really wanted to be
like a social commentary on class systems like capitalists.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Pharma, and it really bashes you over the head with it.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, and it just lacked anything other like a beast
story or something else to push against that that was
just front and center, and since the comedy wasn't good enough,
that really just looms large over you. I just simply
should have been funnier, like with Rudd and Ortega. Like
Ortega is doing her classic like Yo Moody teams.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
She's playing the same character that we've seen her play
in a lot of other things.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, and she's good at it, and Paul Rud's very good.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They just I don't think Paul Rudd is good in
this though, or I think Paul Rud is fine in this.
Paul Rudd is not funny in this though. They don't
play into Paul Rudd's strengths.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
They don't let them loose, they don't let Anthony Kerrigan loose.
Like they just should have been. This movie should have
been less scripted and more let's hey, here's the idea
for the scene. Let's do some improv whatever take we get.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Here is this ludicrous idea for the movie. Let's play
around with it a little bit. I thought that Will
Poulter was hilarious in this. He was funny throughout the movie.
He is the only funny character in the movie. Though,
So when you say comedy, it lacks in comedy. When
you say horror, yes, it does have that uh raptor
in the kitchen slash good like b.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
More movie horror type stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And as a similar feel to like a cocaine bear,
where there is there is threat, but it's almost silly threat.
I do like one of the jump scares slash kills.
I thought like, oh, that's pretty fucking sweet, but beyond
that a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Like an alien thing at points too.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I wasn't blown away by the horror. So when you're
giving me a horror comedy and neither play up to
what they should be. I'm disappointed, and you give me
a bunch of actors that I love and none of
them really stand out outside of Paltz. Disappointed as well.
I also thought the end of this movie was stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh see, I kind of liked the end. I didn't
mind the end. I bought into like the fantasy and
horror aspects of it. I didn't mind it. It wasn't
like terrifying, but it was scary enough at points. It
just needed to be funnier. And that's really That's really
what I came away thinking.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's everyone's review of this podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
So Gil, I think I got this at like thirty
hot Dogs thirty thirty one. I like that sea range.
I enjoyed it enough. I didn't dislike it. It wasn't
tremendously disappointed. I was just a little letdown that it
wasn't funnier based on what we got, and honestly, with
the scape of movie so far in twenty twenty five,
I think that might be my second favorite movie of
the year.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I have it at twenty five hot Dogs, and I
understand why they kind of hit it in the middle
of April.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, that makes sense or March.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Sorry came out in March.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, Mac.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Let's move on to a movie that I really enjoyed,
and it came out back in January.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Question Mark February.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
February, early February, first week of February, February tenth. I'm
gonna say and that is Companion, a rated R ninety
seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Genre it played so it is labeled as horror. There
is no horror to this, which I'm perfectly fine with.
It's a bit more of suspense thriller and there is
a lot of comedic beats where like Jack Quaid, we've
seen him play characters like this in the past, like
in Scream six. So Roddy T ninety four critic eighty
(18:02):
nine from the audience on meta, it is a seventy
and I don't want to give away anything about this movie.
I will say that it is a weekend getaway with
friends at a remote cabin that turns into chaos after
it it is revealed that one of the guests dot
dot Dot not filling in the rest. Because the less
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that you know going into this movie, the greater the
jaw drop pants tent sixth sense moment.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I mean, I agree with you, But don't they reveal
that in the very first trailer too, Like isn't the
cat out of the back.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
At It plays with it, It plays with it. But
a lot of people I feel they have not seen
the trailer either. I'm saying, go into this as blind
as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
This is directed by Drew Hancock, written by Drew Hancock,
very singular vision. It's also a great job of like
they're only in like one location and then the surroundings
of that location with five to six characters, so it's
it's just following them. The main stars of this, like
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I said, Jack Quade and then Sophie Thatcher, who's a
great in this. I have this, and this is with
me having prior knowledge of what would be happening at
like thirty three thirty four. But I could see if
you don't know what's gonna happen, because it's also only
ninety seven minutes. It's fucking toy like a twiger.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That strikes me like it might be your favorite movie
of the year, So.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Oh it is. This is easily my favorite movie of
the year, all right, But I would say that if
you don't have the background in this movie, you'll enjoy
it more.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. So I know
what the whole background situation is. So I am looking
forward to seeing this. I'll probably watch it within the
next week or so. When we first saw it, because
I think we first saw this trailer like right after
or it came out right before we did the movie draft,
I want to say right after. Yeah, and I was like,
oh fuck, this trailer makes it look really good. But
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it also let the cat out of the bag.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's a real nice, like just a small scale, small event,
fun movie.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Okay, well, let's move on. Then the next movie. Also,
what is Companion streaming on?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
By the way, it's nothing right now you have to
pay Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Another movie that is on streaming but for free on
Netflix is one of them. Days. Yeah, this made fifty
million domestically, another one and a half million worldwide on
a fourteen million dollar budget. So absolutely smash success.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Buddy comedies, let's go. I love buddy comedies. There's a
formula in the nineties. You have one person that you
wouldn't want to see a movie if they're by themselves.
You have another person you wouldn't want to see the
movie it's them by themselves. You put them together fun.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Don't talk about Kiki Palmer like that. This is an
R rated comedy like Goose in a buddy comedy. Run
time in ninety seven minutes, it's brisk, You're in, You're
out on Rodney T's ninety three percent from the critics,
ninety percent from the audience on Metacritic of seventy one,
so really similar scores to Companions. So I'm interested to
see how you felt with these two. Written by Serena Singleton.
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You would know her as one of the writers on Insecure,
The Ister Ray Show. Directed by Lawrence Lamont, this is
his first feature film. He's done a ton of music
videos over the last ten fifteen years. Synopsis. When best
friends and roommates Drew and Alyssa discover al Lissa's boyfriend
has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going
to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid
eviction and keep their friendship friendship intact. This movie stars
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Kecky Palmer as Drew Sizza as Alyssa.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
May pause you right there. I would like to apologize
what I said earlier. You are absolutely correct. Both of
these characters are extremely charming. I was just talking more
about the nineties formula Buddy. These two extremely charming and
very very likable.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, that's I Honestly, I don't want to give away
my ratings just yet. But as much as I liked
these two characters, I don't know how much I really
enjoyed the movie because it was like a little bit
of retread of everything you've seen in the nineties. You know,
it has like Friday vibes. Obviously, you have Joshua David
Neil as Keishaw and the Boyfriend, and then you have
(22:10):
like a laundry list of characters that Poppy kat Williams
plays Lucky like a homeless dude. Mot Apatow plays someone
in the same building as Bethany. I don't know. I
was just like you knew exactly what was gonna happen
the whole time. Keey Palmer and Scissor are fun, but
there was nothing hilarious in this And like, the journey
wasn't that fun, but they're back and forth was fun.
(22:32):
I have a hard time really rating this movie.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I agreed to completely. I thought it was consistently chuckles funny. Yeah,
like every scene at least had a chuckle in there.
I didn't have any belly laughs. So when you're comparing
it to like two comedies that popped out to me
over the last couple of years, joy Ride, which I
thought was consistently funny and had a couple real big laughs, yeah,
and then No Hard Feelings, where I didn't love the
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entire movie, but there's twenty minutes in there that fucking kill.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Those movies are both better than this. So I think
I have this right around thirty Hot Dogs as well,
like like a decent buddy comedy, and I want more
movies like this, But I just didn't love this movie.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Bring it back, Baby, bring it back. And I would
say that I have this at about thirty I'd say
thirty hot Dogs. That's right around where I am. And
I think I now have a goal in my life
that if I'm ever able to act in anything, I
want to be the Honky. I want to be the guy.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
That liked Apatow.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, like like, hey guys, what's what's going on over here?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah? I love us. She leads it. She's a really
good actress, you know here, she's good, she knows what
she's doing. She leads into the role. You get little
rel howery too, Like I actually wanted a little more
as much as we get like five or six characters
who you've seen in other places. I wanted a little
more of that because those were the funnier moments, like
them trying to sell the Jordans, and just there wasn't
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enough hijinks. Oddly enough, there just wasn't an comedy, I guess,
and it's funny like Death of a Unicorn. I have
a thirty hot Dogs, completely different movie. This movie right
about thirty hot Dogs, completely different movie. And my main
criticism is that they just weren't funny enough.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Oh gee, Willickers, who ate all the Mannies? And then
everyone gives me one of these?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
But that's streaming for free, you know, I'm interested. And
this also, this movie also came out of nowhere, so
I'm wondering if like people went in with really really
low expectations and then this exceeded that greatly and maybe
that played into all those scores too, a little bit
the same with Companion, but two of the higher scoring
movies on the year so far, and uh, yeah, I
just didn't love it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, I like rap music too. I have will t
k on vinyl.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
See I could do this, Yeah, you definitely could.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I can get jitty with it.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You could be what's the guy from a White Boy
and the Steve High Towers Show?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh that was not bullet heead you could be bulleted.
And then what I also liked about that show is
that out of nowhere they had there, they had you know,
they had bullet Head, they had Lori, Beth Dimberg, and
then every once in a while Keenan and Kel would
pop up as like the younger kids were looking for mentors.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I think I called it the Steve Hyde Tower Show.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
By the way, well it's.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
High Tower.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah right, you have Cedric the entertainer. You have. I
forget who his wife is in the show, but the.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Last time we talked about the show, I spoke and
I fully mean it. Cedric the Entertainer's love in your
Snut show. I've had a crush on for twenty five years.
I love that woman, whoever she is.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I loved how she called the principal boss lady.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That was a great show.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Good show, good show.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I used to watch it on the CW.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That's right, Oh, I think it was a WB back then.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, let's get into Max and maxach could be anything.
It could be a boat and Mac as I continue
to try and post more stuff on our social media
as videos put in the effort to, you know, grow
this show as one does. When you do that, you
(26:08):
are going to get people that are not gonna like
what yours. Sure, so let's call this segment it's working title.
We'll change it later. Shit talk, all right, all right,
And we just posted our video. It's a two and
a half minute a video that goes all over the
place about Shrek us with disdain toward people that don't
(26:30):
like his look. Now, then we get into you owning
the movie Shrek two on the game Boy Advance. Then
we talk about DVD menus. So it's a real journey.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, but some.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
People didn't care for our tone slash like this. This
one person thought that we made up this entire storyline,
saying that no one is saying this, and then they
called us clout chasers.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Well, people care about Shrek goo. You know you can't.
You can't shit on their Shrek and then not expect blowback. Now,
I didn't know that until four days ago, but apparently
I guess we should have known that when we were
talking about that that people were that upset about minute
changes in an animated Shrek and a Donkey. They were
that upset about it, like to the point, like, you know,
(27:18):
we all remember ugly Sonic, not Irip because he came
back in Chippendale. But those criticisms fair changes and updates
to Shrek and Donkey. Criticizing those I don't think is
very fair.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Sonic also made fun of Shrek. Yeah, I'm not going
to read this entire thing, but they this one says
literally just boomers talking about something they didn't grow up with.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Just a couple goomers, you and I.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So we talk about in this video having the movies
on DVD.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, we're not even really talking about the changes.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But also this is us talking about growing up with Shrek.
We are the people that grew up with.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Actually, our opinions matter more than yours? Does you guys
seen that?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
How it should be said that? So off of this,
I was telling my wife earlier about it, and she
barely cared about the conversation. But her response was, well,
what did you say back to these people? And I'm like, oh,
the one that called us boomers? I put three laughing
(28:25):
face emoji, and she goes, why would you do that?
I'm like, well, I'm kind of laughing at him. She was,
that's not what it means. So her response was, why
don't you give Mac the password to your account and
you let him respond to everybody because you're the only
person that cares for social media discourse.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I don't want that because then I'll be invested in
a horrible internet argument at like one am on a
Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Mac is gonna be addicted to responding to I don't
respond to anybody because, quite frankly, I don't really care, sure,
except when they hurt my feelings.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
When I was in my sport debating era, way back
when in my early twenties, I once just outlasted a
guy all night on Twitter. We were debating whether Alex
Smith was a good quarterback or not. Spoiler he wasn't,
never was. I just stay I Basically his final response
was basically like, I've had enough on this. I'm going
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to bed. That's a win. That's a win.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You could win every conversation for us, So I'll keep
trying to post stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I don't know sure? Why not?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
All right, Mac, where can the folks find us?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You can find us on Twitter and Instagram, X and
Instagram at Mac and Goo podcast that's uh, I already
fucked it up, Goo, No fucked up.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
You just started every.
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Speaker 1 (30:08):
Te Public dot com merch We'll come out your next
week top of the week with a news dump. We'll
finish off whatever the news was from Cinema Con.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do more con and uh, if
you watch these movies, any of these movies, let us
know how.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You Yeah, let us know how you feel. I know
that some more stuff is starting to leak from what
was shown at Cinema Con. So I'm hoping that by
Monday they'll give us. They'll just show us every day.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, that'd be real nice.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So Tuesdays or Goosdays. I abuse Kangaroosburton.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Please flip the cassette over to side B to continue
the adventure. Now it's time for girls jumping on trampopalines.
Mac. A debate broke out during our last news dump
between you and I, me and you of who the
better swimmer is. So I asked the Mac and Goobers,
the Goo crew to head over to x sight unseen
because they've never seen us. This is a real theater
of the mind. Who is the better swimmer? Mac or Goo? Somehow,
(00:24):
some way, over sixty percent of the people think Mac
could outswim.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Goo one hundred percent. One of us obtained the highest
level of rank of swimming in summer camp flying fish.
That would be me. You just got a pool.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I have a pool. I taught myself out to swim
and I have yet to drown.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, you just know how to not die. I know
how to swim.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I feel like that's what swimming is, don't die. So
what I did is I would like the Mac and Goobers,
the Goo crew, that's what I call them, so way
in on these next couple because I went and I
googled odd Olympic sports, I would also like you to
respond to this. Who do you think would win this
(01:10):
odd Olympic sport? Mac or do okay? Tug of war?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You're definitely stronger compared to your body weight. But I
weigh more than you, so that would be an interesting one.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You have a thicker base than I do, though.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's true. That's true, that'd be an interesting one.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You also have real creamy hamstrings, and you might fall apart.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I would tire out before you did. But I don't
know my weight, might even it? Know, that'd be a
good one.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Plunge for distance, how deep we can dive down? That's
what I assume it is, and we'll just go with that.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I don't know if I've ever dove down more than
like fifteen.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Feet, I'd be too afraid to. So you can win
that one, okay, all right, don't trust the ocean rope climbing.
I'll give myself the nod on that one.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yep, yep, you got that one.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Hot air ballooning.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think I would manage it more than you. I
would manage it better more than you would.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You are better with fire. You play with it on
a daily basis. You also know the rule of if
your hot air balloon lands on someone's lawn, they have
to present you cheese, bread and wine.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I might just yeah, I might have a little more
for ness in my hot air balloon game. You I
would make love to it, you would fuck it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Also, look out for the electric lines. They're a bitch.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Race walking.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Feels like you should win that, but I don't know
that'd be an interesting one.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Trampoline, I don't.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Know if I would have anything more than trying a backflip.
I could do a front flip. I could try a backflip.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Even trying any of those flips, you're gonna beat me. Really,
I fear injury, So no, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, all right, Art, I'm trying to remember if you
were a good, good at drawing. I feel like you're
not gonna.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Say I did do those portraits of il jaqu Kovalchuk
and Carl Everett back in middle school. I don't know
if that sways you one way or the other.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You know what I used to do all the time
as a kid is doodle all the sports logos. Try
to copy them every sport.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Actually, I will give you the nod on this because
I have so my son likes to draw now he's four.
I will draw with him, and sometimes my wife can't
tell who drew what. BMX.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think I would crush you in BMX if you're
afraid to get hurt you'd get you would have no chance.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, you'd be out there doing ghost rides and won
eight wheelies.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We once in the neighborhood where I grew up. It
was a real long parking lot in the back, and
we set up a broken picnic table as a ramp
at the end. Nice and we used to just jump
off of it and land on a hill. There was
no real landing spot. It was very dangerous.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
One time I went out riding bikes with my friends
and my mom said to me, Hey, you have to
wear your helmet, and I said, all right, sure, So
I put on my helmet, got down the street, took
off my helmet, and then who drove by me? My mom?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Love that? Love that?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Oh man, I was in such trouble. Cannon shooting, that'd
be a real crapshoot. Have you ever fired a weapon before? No,
that's the same. I might have a little bit of
an edge. I have one day of weapon firing experience.
I would kill you. In handball, I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Know about that. My shoulders fucked up, though, so maybe
you would.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, that was by far, that was the best game
in gym class.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Handball was great.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Handball was really good motor boating.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You might get that. You might get that on me.
You know what I loved in college and I actually
played it as an adult, like intramural and one of those,
like BSc leagues too, was inner two water polo. I
was a dominant force in the center of the of
the pool.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I was sorry after the last Olympics and I saw
water polo being played in the Olympics. I was like,
I want to join a real water polo league. They
don't have any.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, you have to do intertube water pool.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I don't want to do an intertube one because I
know how to swim and I can throw a ball.
I would like to do regular water polo.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think you're really really underestimated how hard it is
to tread water for that long while still being able
to play handball.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I can play handball for days.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well, I guess it's handball and water.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And then finally pistol dueling.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I think I got you on that one.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'm fucking dead right, I think I got you that one.
Let me ask you the where are you shooting? Do
you shoot for the head?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No, I'm going to center mass. I'm just coming right
of center mass.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I think it's gentlemanly to like, you know, you want
to shoot in the chest so they have a chance
to live, but they can't shoot you back.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Plus you've got you want to get like one final
word in once you smoke them too, you get to
walk down the road back towards them and be like, surprise, motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
One good three, Yeah, job three. King of Queen Mall Street,
D Goo and I'm and we are the Mac and
Goo program. We bring you friendship. Today we are back
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with our award winning totally original. We didn't take this
from anybody. If anything, people took this from us. What
have you been watching lately?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What have you been watching?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What have you been? My chin? What have you been?
My chin?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And today we got a mount rushmore of movies we've
seen recently. That is just the most recent. Four movies
we've seen one at new in theaters this week, one
new in theaters last week, and then a couple that
were well reviewed early on in the year that we
finally got one is hot to streaming, Hot to streaming.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I will say this though, is while watching these movies,
I said to myself, do I like movies? Again?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Oh? Really?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
How's a little burnt out at the end of last year.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
You turn in the corner here, Okay, Yeah, I think
I'm falling into a lot of at least this year,
a lot of mets of meh. I haven't really hated anything,
and I haven't really loved anything this year. So we'll see,
we'll see how we feel about these necho.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But we're also too and we just get excited about whatever.
The first movie of the year is, so.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yeah, and then a big loll into an Avengers movie,
then a big loll to the holiday season.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All right, So speaking of an Avengers movie, a big
tent pole movie that should make a lot of money,
not being reviewed extremely well, but kind of what we
expected is a Minecraft movie. It is hitting theaters this
week right now, a fifty one percent critically on Rotten Tomatoes,
which that's right where you expected it, right.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I honestly, that's a little higher than what I expect.
I was expecting like thirties maybe forties, and then audience
at like eighties maybe eighty five. So this is a
little encouraging that the critics are fifty to fifty on it,
that they're like, you know what, this is good enough.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
A forty seven Metacritic is low, though correct it is.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, it's not great, but we weren't expecting to get
a high Metacritics score.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Here and Minecraft, we have misfits who are suddenly pulled
into a mysterious portal into a bizarre Cubic wonderland that
thrives on a mad nation. To get back home, they
need to find a mcguffin, put it with another mcguffin,
and then destroy a big battie who actually has a
pretty funny kill scene. So credit to them.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I have a question for you. Yes, if you had
to choose things, you can't choose cube because that makes
too much sense. If you had to choose a world
where everything was something shaped, what shape would you pick?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
My first thought was inappropriate?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, I was thinking cock.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I would you choose a cock world?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Just dick everywhere?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I was gonna say, but oh, okay, all right, all right,
let's get back to this.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
This is directed by Jared Hesse. I believe he's a
Napoleon Dynamite, or it's the production company that's Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It sounds right, yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
It is written by Chris Bowman. Hubble Palmer and Neil
Widner the stars. The only two that you really need
to know is Jason Momoa and Jack Black. And I'll
say this is if you like Jack Black. Every time
you see him on the screen acting like this, his
mouth like that, and his eyebrows, his eyebrows always crooked down,
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this might be the movie for you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Now. Is the same sort of jump off here like
it is in Jumanji, where in the real world they're
one person and then in Minecraft or difference.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
First, no, it's the same person. In the real world.
They're all kind of losers, but when they go to
the other world they get to use their imagination and
show the heroes that they are. They thrive, all right,
all right, But I have no connection to the Minecraft
video games. I've only played it for roughly an hour.
I think it's for wieners. My kid had a good time.
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My kid thought that Jason Momoa looked cool. I can't
argue that Mamoa is always cool. And actually some of
the early stuff with Momoa as a down and out
nineteen eighty nine video game champion is pretty funny. Also
in this, Jennifer Coolidge, I don't understand. It's almost like
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they felt they needed to fill time, and they said,
how can we do this without incorporating this expensive Minecraft world?
How about Jennifer Coolidge is just doing her own thing
as the freshly divorced principle of this high school.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
One of the reviews I read is that she's chasing
around one of the like Minecraft characters the whole time
to fuck them.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
So not to give anything away, but she hits one
with her car and she she then offers, as you know,
I'm sorry to take him out to dinner.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's like a misery situation.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
It's it's something I'm It's like I could see if
a kid is watching this, there's like, let's fast forward this.
If you're an adult, you just say, ain't it bizarre?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Just that song?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I want to play, really really want to play Minecraft.
Now that he's seen the movie.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
He hasn't asked to play it again, but we bought legos.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
All right, yeah, similar, similar. Now I feel like this
is more for kids in like the eight to twelve
range that like have really played the game for a
couple of years and like are really into maybe some
of the nuances of the game. But I mean, ultimately,
if your four year old son enjoyed it. That's all
this movie is really shooting for.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, and it is. It's really quick, stupid humor, but
it knows that it's dumb. It knows that the storyline
is dumb. It knows that what they're looking for is dumb.
So it's playing into like, hey, we don't really have
a storyline. Yeah, thanks for coming.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, that's about as good as you can do for
a movie based off a game that's based off building
shit with cubes.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So if you have no connection to the game and
you are looking to bring your child to a movie,
it's it's good enough.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Does its job? I guess, yeah, I guess hot Dog wise,
what are you thinking?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Twenty two to twenty three?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Okay, so sinks for like an adult, but good enough
for a kid.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, I'd say so.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Okay, all right. Next up is a movie we have
both seen. This debuted last weekend. Death of a Unicorn
made five point seven million dollars on its opening weekend
on a fifteen million dollar budget. I think it's gonna
get close to maybe making its money back. But this
was This was advertised quite a bit in the month
leading up to it, so the advertising budget was probably
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a good twenty million as well. This is an R
rated comedy, fantasy, horror, and thriller, and I think what
they were going for was something like Jurassic Park with
a little less seriousness, maybe bringing in something like Gremlins
with that, like Classic A twenty four gets bumped up
some seriousness. I think it did an okay job mimicking
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some of that stuff. It just didn't crush it on
any of it, Specifically the comedy part. This should have
been way funnier. This has a runtime of one hundred
and seven minutes, so it's not long. You don't really
feel like it's wasting your time.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Long To me, it felt really yeah, okay, I didn't
have Dragon by the end.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
On Roddy T's fifty four percent from the critics, seventy
eight percent from the audience on Metacritic of fifty two,
I'm closer to the audience on this one. I would
understand why the critics haven't loved this, but I thought
it was enjoyable enough. This is written and directed by
Alex Sharfman, first feature length credits in both of those
writing and directing, so a first timer tasked with like
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a little bit of a thing here since you have
like a cgi unicorn is one of the main characters
of your story. Synopsis father daughter duo Elliott and Ridley
hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to
the wilderness retreat of a mega wealthy pharmaceutical ceo. The
cast here is great and maybe that's why you're definitely
let down. And I'm a little let down here. The
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promise was much higher than what was delivered. You have
Jenna or Tega as Ridley, Paul Rudd as Elliott. That's
the father daughter duo. Anthony Kerrigan is Griff. You'll remember
him as NoHo Hank from Barry. He's like the rich
family's butler for lack of a better term of Richard E.
Grant chewing up the screen. Tao Leoni as Belinda, Will
Poulter as Shepherd. He's their son. Sunita Mani and Steve
(14:08):
Parker the two doctors that have brought into this whole thing.
So essentially what happens here Once the unicorn dies, they
start to figure out it's blood slash Horn have these
like magical healing powers and this big rich pharmaceutical family
instead of maybe utilizing it to like cure cancer or whatever.
(14:29):
It turns into a little bit of like a social commentary,
and they're just gonna use it for their you know,
on their behalf and for their on their friend's behalfs
And tied into that is Ortega has this like connection
with the dead Unicorn and there's like a little bit
of sci fi stuff brought in there. I like, I
get what it's going for. It really wanted to be
like a social commentary on class systems like capitalists.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Pharma, and it really bashes you over the head with it.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, and it just lacked anything other like a beast
story or something else to push against that that was
just front and center, and since the comedy wasn't good enough,
that really just looms large over you. I just simply
should have been funnier, like with Rudd and Ortega. Like
Ortega is doing her classic like Yo Moody teams.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
She's playing the same character that we've seen her play
in a lot of other things.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, and she's good at it, and Paul Rud's very good.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
They just I don't think Paul Rudd is good in
this though, or I think Paul Rud is fine in this.
Paul Rudd is not funny in this though. They don't
play into Paul Rudd's strengths.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
They don't let them loose, they don't let Anthony Kerrigan loose.
Like they just should have been. This movie should have
been less scripted and more let's hey, here's the idea
for the scene. Let's do some improv whatever take we get.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Here is this ludicrous idea for the movie. Let's play
around with it a little bit. I thought that Will
Poulter was hilarious in this. He was funny throughout the movie.
He is the only funny character in the movie. Though,
So when you say comedy, it lacks in comedy. When
you say horror, yes, it does have that uh raptor
in the kitchen slash good like b.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
More movie horror type stuff in there.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And as a similar feel to like a cocaine bear,
where there is there is threat, but it's almost silly threat.
I do like one of the jump scares slash kills.
I thought like, oh, that's pretty fucking sweet, but beyond
that a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Like an alien thing at points too.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I wasn't blown away by the horror. So when you're
giving me a horror comedy and neither play up to
what they should be. I'm disappointed, and you give me
a bunch of actors that I love and none of
them really stand out outside of Paltz. Disappointed as well.
I also thought the end of this movie was stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh see, I kind of liked the end. I didn't
mind the end. I bought into like the fantasy and
horror aspects of it. I didn't mind it. It wasn't
like terrifying, but it was scary enough at points. It
just needed to be funnier. And that's really That's really
what I came away thinking.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
That's everyone's review of this podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
So Gil, I think I got this at like thirty
hot Dogs thirty thirty one. I like that sea range.
I enjoyed it enough. I didn't dislike it. It wasn't
tremendously disappointed. I was just a little letdown that it
wasn't funnier based on what we got, and honestly, with
the scape of movie so far in twenty twenty five,
I think that might be my second favorite movie of
the year.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I have it at twenty five hot Dogs, and I
understand why they kind of hit it in the middle
of April.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, that makes sense or March.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Sorry came out in March.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, Mac.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Let's move on to a movie that I really enjoyed,
and it came out back in January.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Question Mark February.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
February, early February, first week of February, February tenth. I'm
gonna say and that is Companion, a rated R ninety
seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Genre it played so it is labeled as horror. There
is no horror to this, which I'm perfectly fine with.
It's a bit more of suspense thriller and there is
a lot of comedic beats where like Jack Quaid, we've
seen him play characters like this in the past, like
in Scream six. So Roddy T ninety four critic eighty
(18:02):
nine from the audience on meta, it is a seventy
and I don't want to give away anything about this movie.
I will say that it is a weekend getaway with
friends at a remote cabin that turns into chaos after
it it is revealed that one of the guests dot
dot Dot not filling in the rest. Because the less
(18:23):
that you know going into this movie, the greater the
jaw drop pants tent sixth sense moment.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I mean, I agree with you, But don't they reveal
that in the very first trailer too, Like isn't the
cat out of the back.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
At It plays with it, It plays with it. But
a lot of people I feel they have not seen
the trailer either. I'm saying, go into this as blind
as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
This is directed by Drew Hancock, written by Drew Hancock,
very singular vision. It's also a great job of like
they're only in like one location and then the surroundings
of that location with five to six characters, so it's
it's just following them. The main stars of this, like
(19:08):
I said, Jack Quade and then Sophie Thatcher, who's a
great in this. I have this, and this is with
me having prior knowledge of what would be happening at
like thirty three thirty four. But I could see if
you don't know what's gonna happen, because it's also only
ninety seven minutes. It's fucking toy like a twiger.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That strikes me like it might be your favorite movie
of the year, So.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Oh it is. This is easily my favorite movie of
the year, all right, But I would say that if
you don't have the background in this movie, you'll enjoy
it more.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. So I know
what the whole background situation is. So I am looking
forward to seeing this. I'll probably watch it within the
next week or so. When we first saw it, because
I think we first saw this trailer like right after
or it came out right before we did the movie draft,
I want to say right after. Yeah, and I was like,
oh fuck, this trailer makes it look really good. But
(19:58):
it also let the cat out of the bag.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's a real nice, like just a small scale, small event,
fun movie.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Okay, well, let's move on. Then the next movie. Also,
what is Companion streaming on?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
By the way, it's nothing right now you have to
pay Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Another movie that is on streaming but for free on
Netflix is one of them. Days. Yeah, this made fifty
million domestically, another one and a half million worldwide on
a fourteen million dollar budget. So absolutely smash success.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Buddy comedies, let's go. I love buddy comedies. There's a
formula in the nineties. You have one person that you
wouldn't want to see a movie if they're by themselves.
You have another person you wouldn't want to see the
movie it's them by themselves. You put them together fun.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Don't talk about Kiki Palmer like that. This is an
R rated comedy like Goose in a buddy comedy. Run
time in ninety seven minutes, it's brisk, You're in, You're
out on Rodney T's ninety three percent from the critics,
ninety percent from the audience on Metacritic of seventy one,
so really similar scores to Companions. So I'm interested to
see how you felt with these two. Written by Serena Singleton.
(21:08):
You would know her as one of the writers on Insecure,
The Ister Ray Show. Directed by Lawrence Lamont, this is
his first feature film. He's done a ton of music
videos over the last ten fifteen years. Synopsis. When best
friends and roommates Drew and Alyssa discover al Lissa's boyfriend
has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going
to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid
eviction and keep their friendship friendship intact. This movie stars
(21:31):
Kecky Palmer as Drew Sizza as Alyssa.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
May pause you right there. I would like to apologize
what I said earlier. You are absolutely correct. Both of
these characters are extremely charming. I was just talking more
about the nineties formula Buddy. These two extremely charming and
very very likable.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, that's I Honestly, I don't want to give away
my ratings just yet. But as much as I liked
these two characters, I don't know how much I really
enjoyed the movie because it was like a little bit
of retread of everything you've seen in the nineties. You know,
it has like Friday vibes. Obviously, you have Joshua David
Neil as Keishaw and the Boyfriend, and then you have
(22:10):
like a laundry list of characters that Poppy kat Williams
plays Lucky like a homeless dude. Mot Apatow plays someone
in the same building as Bethany. I don't know. I
was just like you knew exactly what was gonna happen
the whole time. Keey Palmer and Scissor are fun, but
there was nothing hilarious in this And like, the journey
wasn't that fun, but they're back and forth was fun.
(22:32):
I have a hard time really rating this movie.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I agreed to completely. I thought it was consistently chuckles funny. Yeah,
like every scene at least had a chuckle in there.
I didn't have any belly laughs. So when you're comparing
it to like two comedies that popped out to me
over the last couple of years, joy Ride, which I
thought was consistently funny and had a couple real big laughs, yeah,
and then No Hard Feelings, where I didn't love the
(22:57):
entire movie, but there's twenty minutes in there that fucking kill.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Those movies are both better than this. So I think
I have this right around thirty Hot Dogs as well,
like like a decent buddy comedy, and I want more
movies like this, But I just didn't love this movie.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Bring it back, Baby, bring it back. And I would
say that I have this at about thirty I'd say
thirty hot Dogs. That's right around where I am. And
I think I now have a goal in my life
that if I'm ever able to act in anything, I
want to be the Honky. I want to be the guy.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
That liked Apatow.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, like like, hey guys, what's what's going on over here?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah? I love us. She leads it. She's a really
good actress, you know here, she's good, she knows what
she's doing. She leads into the role. You get little
rel howery too, Like I actually wanted a little more
as much as we get like five or six characters
who you've seen in other places. I wanted a little
more of that because those were the funnier moments, like
them trying to sell the Jordans, and just there wasn't
(23:57):
enough hijinks. Oddly enough, there just wasn't an comedy, I guess,
and it's funny like Death of a Unicorn. I have
a thirty hot Dogs, completely different movie. This movie right
about thirty hot Dogs, completely different movie. And my main
criticism is that they just weren't funny enough.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Oh gee, Willickers, who ate all the Mannies? And then
everyone gives me one of these?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
But that's streaming for free, you know, I'm interested. And
this also, this movie also came out of nowhere, so
I'm wondering if like people went in with really really
low expectations and then this exceeded that greatly and maybe
that played into all those scores too, a little bit
the same with Companion, but two of the higher scoring
movies on the year so far, and uh, yeah, I
just didn't love it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, I like rap music too. I have will t
k on vinyl.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
See I could do this, Yeah, you definitely could.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I can get jitty with it.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You could be what's the guy from a White Boy
and the Steve High Towers Show?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh that was not bullet heead you could be bulleted.
And then what I also liked about that show is
that out of nowhere they had there, they had you know,
they had bullet Head, they had Lori, Beth Dimberg, and
then every once in a while Keenan and Kel would
pop up as like the younger kids were looking for mentors.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I think I called it the Steve Hyde Tower Show.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
By the way, well it's.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
High Tower.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah right, you have Cedric the entertainer. You have. I
forget who his wife is in the show, but the.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Last time we talked about the show, I spoke and
I fully mean it. Cedric the Entertainer's love in your
Snut show. I've had a crush on for twenty five years.
I love that woman, whoever she is.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I loved how she called the principal boss lady.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That was a great show.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Good show, good show.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I used to watch it on the CW.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
That's right, Oh, I think it was a WB back then.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, let's get into Max and maxach could be anything.
It could be a boat and Mac as I continue
to try and post more stuff on our social media
as videos put in the effort to, you know, grow
this show as one does. When you do that, you
(26:08):
are going to get people that are not gonna like
what yours. Sure, so let's call this segment it's working title.
We'll change it later. Shit talk, all right, all right,
And we just posted our video. It's a two and
a half minute a video that goes all over the
place about Shrek us with disdain toward people that don't
(26:30):
like his look. Now, then we get into you owning
the movie Shrek two on the game Boy Advance. Then
we talk about DVD menus. So it's a real journey.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, but some.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
People didn't care for our tone slash like this. This
one person thought that we made up this entire storyline,
saying that no one is saying this, and then they
called us clout chasers.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Well, people care about Shrek goo. You know you can't.
You can't shit on their Shrek and then not expect blowback. Now,
I didn't know that until four days ago, but apparently
I guess we should have known that when we were
talking about that that people were that upset about minute
changes in an animated Shrek and a Donkey. They were
that upset about it, like to the point, like, you know,
(27:18):
we all remember ugly Sonic, not Irip because he came
back in Chippendale. But those criticisms fair changes and updates
to Shrek and Donkey. Criticizing those I don't think is
very fair.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Sonic also made fun of Shrek. Yeah, I'm not going
to read this entire thing, but they this one says
literally just boomers talking about something they didn't grow up with.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Just a couple goomers, you and I.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
So we talk about in this video having the movies
on DVD.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, we're not even really talking about the changes.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But also this is us talking about growing up with Shrek.
We are the people that grew up with.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Actually, our opinions matter more than yours? Does you guys
seen that?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
How it should be said that? So off of this,
I was telling my wife earlier about it, and she
barely cared about the conversation. But her response was, well,
what did you say back to these people? And I'm like, oh,
the one that called us boomers? I put three laughing
(28:25):
face emoji, and she goes, why would you do that?
I'm like, well, I'm kind of laughing at him. She was,
that's not what it means. So her response was, why
don't you give Mac the password to your account and
you let him respond to everybody because you're the only
person that cares for social media discourse.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I don't want that because then I'll be invested in
a horrible internet argument at like one am on a
Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Mac is gonna be addicted to responding to I don't
respond to anybody because, quite frankly, I don't really care, sure,
except when they hurt my feelings.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
When I was in my sport debating era, way back
when in my early twenties, I once just outlasted a
guy all night on Twitter. We were debating whether Alex
Smith was a good quarterback or not. Spoiler he wasn't,
never was. I just stay I Basically his final response
was basically like, I've had enough on this. I'm going
(29:19):
to bed. That's a win. That's a win.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You could win every conversation for us, So I'll keep
trying to post stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I don't know sure? Why not?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
All right, Mac, where can the folks find us?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You can find us on Twitter and Instagram, X and
Instagram at Mac and Goo podcast that's uh, I already
fucked it up, Goo, No fucked up.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
You just started every.
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We're on Spotify. But more importantly Apple podcasts. Get on
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Te Public dot com merch We'll come out your next
week top of the week with a news dump. We'll
finish off whatever the news was from Cinema Con.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do more con and uh, if
you watch these movies, any of these movies, let us
know how.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You Yeah, let us know how you feel. I know
that some more stuff is starting to leak from what
was shown at Cinema Con. So I'm hoping that by
Monday they'll give us. They'll just show us every day.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, that'd be real nice.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So Tuesdays or Goosdays. I abuse Kangaroosburton.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Please flip the cassette over to side B to continue
the adventure. Now it's time for girls jumping on trampopalines.
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