LNC Asks Did Dropout TV Make a Rookie Mistake?

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Largener John Collider Podcast, the
podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
world around us and how very excited we are about them.
I'm Ariel Caston and with me is always is the
delightful Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rah rah rah Roma roma ma gaga oo la la
want your bad romance?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
So a baby who wants tomatoes is looking for love
at a sports game.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
You're gonna have to talk to the lady in the
meat dress to get more information.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Rah rah mama oogaga roma bad romance. Yeah, baby at
a sports game craving tomatoes and looking for love.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Maybe I I'm quoting that because our question of the
week this week is to talk about a bad romance movie.
Last week we talked about our favorite romantic movie, and
Ariel totally nailed the one that I had thought of

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and I had even after some searching for a working pen.
All this was cut out of the episode. I wrote
down my answer at Ariel knew exactly what it was
before even opening her mouth, so it was Princess Brian.
But I thought, what about a bad romance movie? And
that could in my mind, that could be one of
two things. It could be a movie that's intended to

(01:36):
be a romantic film, but it's just not, in your opinion,
not very good. I suspect Wuthering Heights would fall into
that category for me. Or a movie in which a
romance itself is bad or falls apart, like a relationship
doesn't work out. And sometimes those can be sad movies.

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Sometimes they can be melancholic. There could be comedies. So
is there like a bad romance movie you could think
of that you liked?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yes, mind spans both categories For me. I know I'm
going to catch some flak, but I don't think that
this is a new opinion on this show. Titanic.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh, the Leo DiCaprio Kate Winslet feature with mister Jimmy
Cameron on the director's seat.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah. Yeah. I watched it twice in the theater. The
first time I was like, oh, I love that. The
second time I watched, I'm like, no, wait a site,
this is horrible. Like the story itself and the romance
in the story are both bad.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Me to me. The fascinating thing about Titanic is how
so many people, myself included, were convinced that this was
going to tank James Cameron's career because it had gone
so wildly over budget that you just assumed it was
going to be like one of the all time flops.
And instead it goes on to become at the time,
the top grossing film at the box office.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
I mean, like it was impressively done. It was well acted,
and the cinematography was great. The way they did the
effects was really good. The poor Kate Winslet having to
stay in freezing cold water. But yeah, just like the
story itself is when you think about it.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
No, I just want to say, sure, Kate Winslet, but
Leonardo DiCaprio had to stay in freezing cold water longer
because she left him there. I mean, and there was
room on that door.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
That is true, That is true, But I mean, and
I don't know, I feel like she had to stay
on the door in the cold water longer than Leo
had to stay in the water next to the door
for filming actual filming purposes. Right, And then have you
ever I'm sure you have where you get into a
pool and it's cold, but then you get out of

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the pool and it's even colder, Sure, and you're wet
and you're freezing, like that's that's what she had to
go through. So maybe it was colder in fully in
the water, or maybe it was colder on the door.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I don't I don't envy any actor who has to
go through that kind of process. Like I I realize
that I often downplay acting, even as someone who's done
plenty of acting myself, I downplay it because I'm like, yeah,
you play pretend for a living crime a river, but
if you're like having to be in really tough conditions

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and put on a believable performance, that's tough.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
It is. I studied Udah hog In for a while
and I still I still use a lot of what
I learned. But one of the things that she taught well,
I mean, her big thing is like being familiar enough
with the environment around you within the scene and your
moment before, in your moment after and all of it
that like you're you're comfortable with all of it. You're

(04:57):
not thinking about anything, You're just in living it right,
which is what acting is. And she just has some
steps to help you. But one of the things was like,
if you're sick, think about how that affects you. Physically,
but you don't want to actually be sick. Think about
how you'd act if you're drunk, where you over enunciate
so you don't sound drunk, but don't actually be drunk.
And so like when it's like you need to be

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freezing cold in this water. I'm sure it helped her
get there, right, she's cold in this water. But sometimes
those physical effects distract you from the story going on
because you can't stop thinking about how cold you are.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
So yeah, I feel the same for like actors who
have to do a lot of wire work, you know,
because that's a very unnatural kind of situation to find
yourself in, and you have to Depending upon the situation,
you may have to you may have to act terrified,
which might not be much of an act depending on
how good the fly crew is, or you might have

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to act like you're in control. And you know, if
it's like a Marvel film where you're you know, you're
doing the epic rising off the ground and your eyes
start glowing. Moment, yeah it looks cool, but in the
moment it probably feels real uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, unless you're Cynthia Arrivo in Wicked,
part one because apparently she took to that like a
duck to water.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah. I mean, also, I guess it depends on the
rig and everything and your body type. It's a lot
of different factors.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well, I think that's a Titanic. I think is a
decent one. I mean, you know, we don't even have
to touch on what our opinions are of the decision
to throw the diamond into the ocean at the end.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Anyhow. And then a lot of my bad romance actually
goes to plays, but that is neither here nor there,
because you asked about movies. What is your bad romance movie?

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Mine is a little romantic comedy called Midsummer. Oh well,
it's about a relation that's a toxic, codependent relationship that
ultimately becomes like the source of a lot of horror
later on in the film, right, because you've got this

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woman who has experienced a devastating personal loss to the
point where, like the first time I tried to watch
Mid Summer, I had to turn it off because Florence
Pugh's performance was so viscerally tragic and upsetting that I
felt so much empathy I could not continue. It was

(07:34):
too much for me. But the relationship she's in. She's
in a relationship with a guy who you get the
feeling like he should. He feels like he should break
up with her, but he feels like he can't because
that would make him the bad guy, and so he
would He wants to avoid being the bad guy, and
so instead he just stays in this relationship he doesn't

(07:55):
want and continues to treat this woman poorly. I'm assuming
for the hope that she'll be the one to end
the relationship, so she'll be the bad guy. So it's
a pretty I mean, it's very toxic, and that's that's
the foundation for the horror that continues and the transformation
that Florence Pugh's character goes through. So yeah, I would

(08:19):
say that's a real bad romance.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Yeah. Yeah, we're going to talk about a couple more
bad romances in our at least one more bad romance
in our actual show notes today. Yeah, in my opinion,
but like a lot of like Romeo and Juliet, No,
that's not a great love story.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Well, but it makes sense though, in the sense of
like if you're if you ever had a crazy crush
when you're young, you know you can mistake that for
being deep abiding love, right, And so from that perspective,
like as an adult looking at Romeo and Juliet, you're like, yeah,
this is a tragedy because it's these two people who

(09:01):
have interpreted their attraction to one another as this deep love,
which maybe it could have developed into that. It certainly
feels more like it's a primal attraction based upon the play.
Maybe it could develop into a stronger relationship down the line,
but because you have this feud between these two families,

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it's doomed to start. And so I don't whenever I
read Romeo and Juliette, I don't get the feeling that
Shakespeare was trying to position Romeo and Juliet as truly
meant to be together. Maybe he was, but that's not
the interpretation I come to when I read it. I
come to two people who are just like really really

(09:46):
into each other, and unfortunately it's a situation where that
ultimately leads to the tragic end.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
I think my landscapers agree with you, because if just
decided to blow it outside my window. Yeah, so apologies
to our listeners they had moved on this morning, but
I think they just they really agree with Jonathan's viewpoint
of Romeo and Juliette.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
I mean it's I often have the same thing happen. Typically,
our landscapers come on Thursday for the townhouse area that
I'm in, but occasionally they come in on our Friday,
so I've been there too. And I don't think our
listeners will hold any grudges because we had no control.

(10:32):
I something we do have control over that I wanted
to talk to you about was what have you watched
since our last recording a full seven days?

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Hence, Gosh, what did I watch? Oh? I watched Good Luck,
Have Fun, Don't Die?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
What did you think?

Speaker 1 (10:49):
I really enjoyed it. It was At first I was saying,
it feels like a fresh sci fi, like a fresh
story that's not a rehash or redo. I know we've
had a ton of movies about AI, but it just
it felt fun, It felt original. The acting was great. Yeah,
you could tell a couple of the plot points in advance.

(11:11):
The interesting thing was from the trailer, I thought it
was going to be Bonker's Cuckoo with a ton of
like bizarre AI creatures and a whole bunch of stuff
like in the Network and stuff like that, and there
are definitely those things, but it just followed a slightly
different path than I expected. It wasn't bad, and I
didn't enjoy it less for that, but it did surprise me.

(11:32):
It was interesting because there were some teenagers sitting directly
behind me, and they kept talking during the movie, but
it was in response to what was happening in the movie,
like it was engaging them and they were excited about it.
So it was a little annoying, but I'll give it
a pass.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't like like, so, what are
we doing after this or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah. Yeah, like the time I went to Deadpool two
and the people behind us were talking about the foot
ball game on their phones loudly and drunk. Yeah, it
was not that. I've also watched a bunch of Shrinking.
I'm almost done with season two. You know, it's an
adult show, but it is fun and heartfelt and very well,
very well done. And I watched episode three of Fallout

(12:19):
season two.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay. I was hopeful that I would be able to
go and see at least a movie or two this
weekend because originally my partner was going to go out
of town, and I thought, oh, you know, I'll just
go catch a couple of movies because it can be
challenging for the two of us to find movies that
we both want to go see. Yeah, but it turns

(12:42):
out she's not going out of town. So unless I
do convince her to go see a movie, I'm guessing
I'm not going to get that chance. And there's quite
a few that I want to see, and I don't
even know if they're all still playing. But one of
them is the one you saw, which I still have
not seen. One of them is like Scream seven, although

(13:02):
I kind of feel like I need to see Screams
four through six first and again. I may have seen
Scream four, but I don't remember it. I know i've
seen one through three.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
It definitely feels like it's a continuation of at least
all the NEV Campbell vehicles.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, yeah, I need to There's another Heart. What was
the Oh Send Help? I don't even know if that's
still in theaters, but I really wanted to see that.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
I think it's in select theaters still.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Yeah, So there's quite a few things that are still
on my list, but I have not been to a
movie theater in about a month.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
But might be able to do good Luck, have fun,
don't die. It wasn't There was a little bit of blood,
but it wasn't too gory. Yeah, it wasn't too sexy.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
I was trying to convince her to go and I
might still be able to do it because I was like,
I was like, this is giving me vibes. I don't
think it's like the same thing, but it's giving me
similar vibes to everything everywhere, all at once, where you're like,
this movie is going to be entertaining in ways that
will surprise you. But she's not a Sam Rockwell fan,

(14:07):
and I don't know what's wrong with her.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
You know. I was trying to see it with my
friends in Florida, and one of my friends is also
not a Sam Rockwell fan, and I was just like, Okay,
he didn't like He didn't like it once he started
playing jerks.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
I just love Sam Rockwell. I think he's a very
great actor, and I love when he dances.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
What I will say is this movie gave Tony at
least more of a sorry to Bother You vibe than
a everything everywhere, all at once vibe. Okay, but better
than Sorry to Bother You? He liked Sorry to Bother
You more than me. It lost him later on me.
I just thought it was too arty.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Throughout.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
It was hard to follow the storyline because of it.
I appreciate it for what it was. It was well
done and there was I like the message, and there's
some really interesting stuff, but it was the composition of
it was not for me.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Got it well. The only thing I've really watched is
Becca and I finished Superstorey. We got through the final season.
The last episode is kind of sweet, kind of sad,
also kind of like you get the feeling that they've
really had to wrap things up pretty quickly the whole

(15:27):
final season. I'm not going to give them any much
away in case there are other people out there who
just haven't watched it but have been thinking about watching it.
The whole final season is a little challenging because one
of the important characters has left the show at that point,
so it changes the dynamics. But I still enjoyed the

(15:48):
final season, and I was still kind of bummed to
see it end, even though this show has been over
for years. But I enjoyed it. I thought it was good.
I need to watch the finale for a night of
seven Kingdoms. I have not yet done that. I just
haven't found the time, but partially because a couple of

(16:10):
games came out with updates that have consumed all my
spare time because I've fallen into those which games specifically,
well one of them, they're both older games, well one
of them technically is not even in full release yet,
and that's Fields of Mystery, which is very much a

(16:30):
Starduo Valley kind of clone, like to the point where
I'm like, y'all, this is like lifting so much from
Stardoo Valley but still kind of fun. And they did
an update where they're one update away from having the
full release of the game, so it's been an early
access for like years. But they introduced a whole bunch

(16:53):
of new new material on Monday or Tuesday. On Tuesday,
and I'm ashamed to say I've worked through almost all
of it already, oh wow, because I was like, my
character is at a very advanced level in the game,
so a lot of the quote unquote challenging things weren't
really challenging for me because I had played like so

(17:16):
far beyond what you need to play, like, I just
kept going. It's like, think of it like an open sandbox.
I just kept going and I didn't need to the
other one, I think was actually not a new game.
It's an older game too. It's Graveyard and Keeper, which
is also kind of Stardo like, but with a kind

(17:36):
of a grim twist. And I can't decide if I
like it or not. I've played a lot of it,
but I don't know if I like it because the
crafting system is so obtuse in that game.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Interesting. I did actually play some Minecraft with my parents
this week, so that's fun. I haven't done that in
a while.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
I haven't touched Minecraft in years.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
And they started a family server, which is delightful because
it means eventually my nephew can join us, though I
am worried he is young enough that he might just
destroy all of our stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I put a block of lava down at the top
of your building.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah yeah, well, yeah, he loves lava. And then I
watched some pit Tony has started Expedition Clare Obscura Expedition
thirty three, so I've seen.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
A little bit of the French JRPG.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yes, it's interesting. I'm trying not to watch too much
of it because I do think I'm also going to
play it.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
But yeah, I'm just not I'm not a fan of JRPGs. Like,
they just have never appealed to me. I can understand
their popularity with other people, but it's just one of
those where I've tried to get into them and it
just I don't know, it just doesn't work for me.
But that being said, like, I'm also, you know, obviously

(18:57):
a Starduo Valley fan. I'm really excited about the next
bad Epe game, the Chocolateeer game that's been in development
for ages. Take your time. I'll be glad to play
it when it comes out. I'm not one of those
people who's saying, like, hey, where is it, because Goodness Dows,
that guy gave us so much content through Stardow Valley

(19:19):
that I think he deserves a pass.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah for sure, Well that's fun. I do hope you
get to see some movies this.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Week, and yeah, maybe we'll see I mean, right now, Ariel,
you know what the plan is for this weekend. It's
to get together with some friends and do some singing.
For sure, whether or not we get to do it
is I mean, I'm not the one in charge. I
was just the one who asked that we do it,

(19:47):
but I'm not the one in charge, so I'm not
the one who's made like reservations or anything. And as
far as I know, no reservations have been made yet.
And the place we like to go to does private
karaoke rooms, so here's hoping there's availability.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I don't know about reservations. I
know that, like a final headcount was mentioned yesterday.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, and I don't think they were. I think they're
only open on maybe Thursdays, but definitely like Fridays and Saturdays.
It's one of those places that does not stay open
for the full week.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah. Yeah, but they are fun. They've got a good catalog.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, and you can connect through to YouTube. If they
don't have the song you want, you can use their
app and find a karaoke track on YouTube. You can
do it that way too.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
They used to not have that. They used to say
they had that and they didn't, but now they do
and that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah. All right, Well, then are you ready for us
to segue seamlessly into our thirty seconds or less section?

Speaker 1 (20:42):
As ready as I'll ever be.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
All Right, Well, I start off, and of course, what
story could we start off? With but this week Paramount
made an offer WBD couldn't refuse. That's Warner Brothers Discovery,
and Netflix has now chosen to walk away from the
proposed acquisition. In return, Warner Brothers Discovery, we'll have to
fork over two point eight billion dollars to Netflix for

(21:08):
canceling the deal. Paramount's acquisition still has a long road ahead,
but if this does go through, there are a lot
of uncertainties involved, such as the fate of networks like
CNN and HBO.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
On Paramount, though they are full into some Turtle power speak.
Is that right? Yes, because Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant
Mayhem's sequel will arrive on August thirteenth, twenty twenty seven.
You can still watch the first season series. It's a
little confusing on Paramount right now.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, I believe they actually moved that date up. I
think it was originally a little bit later in the summer,
So that's kind of cool. Adam Winguard, who was attached
to direct a sequel to the John Travolta Nicholas Cage
high concept action film Face Off, has exited the picture.
Amount has been trying to get a Face Off sequel
going since twenty nineteen. Windingard himself was attached to direct

(22:06):
since twenty twenty one, but for whatever reason, things just
haven't worked out, and it's back to the drawing board.
I guess to save base.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Second verse same is the first, a little bit longer,
a little bit hopefully not worse. We talked about the
television show Robinhood coming to MGM plus a little while
back on the show and now it looks like it
was super popular. They're getting a second season and it's
going to be expanded. That's great. At first, I was like,
these people are young to be playing Robinhood and made Marion,

(22:39):
But I realize that's just because in my brain when
I was a kid, robin Hood was always like forty
and these actors are like twenty nine, but then probably
be closer to the age they would be.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah in real life, Yeah, it's hard to be a
spry archer in your forties, trust me. Well, last week
we talked about how Ryan Coogler was actively casting for
his reboot slash reimagining of the classic sci fi mystery
series The X Files. Well, now Hulu has ordered a
pilot for this new show, which will feature Danielle or

(23:10):
Danielle dead Weiler as one of the leads. Dead Weiler
previously starred in The Woman in the Yard and I
saw the TV glow. No word yet if Jillian Anderson
will be involved, but fingers are crossed.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Tom Hanks is breaking new ground by playing an American president.
You'll be playing Abraham Lincoln in Oh Gosh, in Starburn
Industries Lincoln in the Bardo. He's also helping to produce
it. It is interesting because it's coined as a live action,

(23:47):
stop motion animation hybrid movie, which is interesting. He will
be live action, I'm guessing everybody else will be animated
stop motion, which is maybe how they'll make him seem
as tall as Abraham Lincoln was.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, now that I have to make him seem younger
because Tom Hanks is thirteen years older than Lincoln was
when he was assassinated. But anyway, in news that we
find a bit disheartening, we learned this week of another
company focusing on AI and animation. This business is called
AI Spasia, which claims to be quote pioneering the ethical
and artist driven use of artificial intelligence and animation end quote.

(24:23):
The founder, Jordan Goldnadle says he intends to keep animation
a human centric effort, just with the benefit of AI tools,
So we shall see.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
I guess maybe they'll have the person draw the thing
and then AI.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Help stitch the animation together.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Also, it would be great
if it wasn't taking up so much water and energy.
That would also help ethically. Sorry, I will reserve the
rest of my feelings to myself. Sony is thinking about
doing a new live action Spider Man movies, a some

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new live action Spider Man movies, and when they do it,
they will be doing new casts. That's interesting because I
do think that Tom Holland is slated for another Spider
Man movie.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
I don't think this is the Tom Holland Spider Man stuff.
I think this is the extra Spider Verse stuff like
Venom and Craven and that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, I guess it says that, Yeah, it'll be a
reboot to the live action Spider Man universe and it
will have a new cast. So I guess they're wiping
the slate clean and trying to do it again and
maybe learning some lessons. I hope so, because like the
Spider Verse stuff is really cool. It's animated, but it's

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really cool.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, we'll see and then we're getting the live action
Spider Noir, so like it's weird. I think the issue
is that Sony is like, it's really hard to do
Spider Man stories without Spider Man in them. Yeah. Yeah,
Stream seven just came out, and here we are already
talking about Scream eight. Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplay

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for Scream, Scream two, Scream four, and Scream seven, says
he and Nev Campbell had been brainstorming ideas for what
could come next, and apparently Nev had an idea that
got some traction. So if Scream seven does well, it
sounds like ghost Face will be back again.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Interesting. I think you've heard the last story. Yes, lastly,
there are rumors that Villain's Land at disney World is
going back to the drawing board and becoming more family friendly.
Among those rumors is that they're going to turn the
Maleficent Scary roller coaster into a more friendly Emperor's New

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Groove coaster, and that Melpica will be moving to a
different ride. And the interesting thing to me is that
the rumor also says that there's going to be a
Hades dinner show instead of a Madam Medusa dinner show, which,
according to the article, like I don't know anybody who
would make a Rescuer's dinner experience. Yeah, yeah, So this

(27:06):
is why I'm lumping it all in as rumor, because.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Like, yeah, there's also a rumor that they're going to
have a third ride that'll be more like a Carnival
flat ride that will be Ursula themed. If I had
to guess, I would hate to see this just because
it would be the fourth one in the park. But
I would guess something akin to like Dumbo.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
That's what this article says it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
But again, there's three of those already, because you have
Lad's Carpets, you've got Dumbo, and you've got the rockets,
the retro rockets, right.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, I mean, I was honestly kind of excited for
a slightly more YA and adult section to the park.
It's in Hollywood Studios.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah or no, no, this is Magic Kingdom. Okay, this
is Magic Kingdom.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
I can't understand why they would make it more family
friendly there, but I was looking forward to a slightly
more YA level.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
I can get that. I can understand that, and you know,
part of me is like, man, I would like something
with a little bit more of an edge to it
with Disney villains. But at the same time I can
respect that Disney, you know, like their their target audience
or families, and the Magic Kingdom, well specifically of the

(28:19):
Magic Kingdom. Yeah, but like I think, I think there
are a lot of Disney adults who and I use
the terms loosely, who are are really upset about this
because they wanted to have like something super dark and edgy,
you know, they wanted to have once upon a time
like that once show. They wanted to have, you know,

(28:39):
that kind of level of villainy and and and over
the top campiness and stuff. And I just don't know
that that that Magic Kingdom is the place for that.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
I agree. I mean, I did love the Alien experience
that they then replaced with the Stitch experience. I hated
both of those they then took out, but I understand
how it didn't fit the thing with villains, And I
understand Magic Kingdom is the park that is completely kid geared, right.
The other parks do have more thrill rides, they are
a little bit more geared towards older kids and adults,

(29:14):
but like, I have very little reason to go to
the Magic Kingdom anymore. I've done those rides, and unless
I'm feeling nostalgic, I prefer the other parks. Also, the
Disney villains are a little scary. I don't feel like
they're already more kid friendly around the rest of the park.

(29:34):
But I don't want to make them too sympathetic or
too kittied down.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Mind, I don't mind the goofy ones, right, Like, if
you have villains who are goofy and you because like
Gaston is mostly goofy until you get to like his
brutality toward the end of the film, right Or Captain
Hook is very goofy as well, even though he's intent
on killing Peter Pan, he's still ultimately kind of a

(30:05):
silly villain. Hades is silly, you know, Isma is definitely silly. Yeah,
So there's like there are certain ones that I feel
benefit from that. There are others like Ursula I don't
think is she gets pretty menacing, like scar is pretty menacing,

(30:29):
but and Maleficent is pretty menacing. But we'll see, Like
I'm not ready to write it off yet. I mean
I do kind of wish that there were a park
that was like the Dark Universe equivalent for Disney's Villains,
because I think that could be a lot of fun.
But again, I don't think the Magic Kingdom would be

(30:52):
the right place for that. It just would feel weird
to have a section of the park that was not
super welcoming for kids.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, I get I do get that. I get that.
My brain just keeps putting Villains Land in Hollywood Studios,
which would be great.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, they just Hollywood Studios just doesn't have the space
for it though, Like they don't have the ability to
expand quite as much as oh I thought they did.
I mean, they'd have to rip out some stuff like
employee parking and stuff like that to be able to
expand the park and then figure out where they were
going to put things. Like they they definitely expanded quite

(31:27):
a bit when they shut down the studio part of
Hollywood Studios. And there was a time, once upon a time, y'all,
let's go back into the wayback machine here where Hollywood
Studios was specifically called MGM Studios and it was a
working you know, live action studio space. But those days
are long gone.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I remember going through and getting a studio tour and
seeing them working on Aladdin. Yeah, yeah, said he knew
one of the animators.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
The animation the animation area specifically. Yeah, I remember seeing
them working on and a couple of different movies including
I want to say Lion King, which at the time
I was like, who's going to see this and it
turned out the answer to that was everybody.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
And they also used to have like a backlot tour
which has been turned into other stuff.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
But yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
But never been to Radiator Springs, so that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
That's yeah, that's out in disney Land.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Oh I thought there was one in They're not done
the car stuff at Disney World.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
They haven't built it yet. That's why the Car's Land
is also being built at Magic Kingdom. That's one of
the two lands that's expanding in Magic Kingdom as Cars,
which is where the Tom Sawyer Island used to be
and the Rivers of America used to be. They drained
the Rivers of America. They've done a whole bunch of
landscaping and building over what on what used to be

(32:47):
Tom Sawyer Island. That's going to be the Car's Land,
and then back behind where the Haunted Mansion is is
where the Villain's Land is going to be, So there's
still a lot of work to be done, but you know,
I'm definitely looking forward to it. I've been going to
the park since I was a little kid. Magic Kingdom
is still my favorite park. Like I recognize that, like,

(33:11):
if you want a thrill ride, you should probably go
to one of the other parks, unless you don't mind
the fact that Tron lasts like slightly longer than your
average sneeze because it's a thrilling ride, but it does
not last very long, you know. But that's not why
I like going to Disney World. I like going to

(33:31):
Disney World. You know. Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunt
and Mansion are my two favorite rides ever, like, not
just at Disney, but period, So I like to re
experience those, although I probably have gone a little too
frequently and it would probably benefit me from taking a
little more time off between visits just to be able

(33:51):
to appreciate it more.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, I get that. I get that. I remember when
I used to go to Disney on the occasion as
a young adult, and uh, it was like, these people
are not happy. I think my mom mentioned it this
woman looks so unhappy to be here. She doesn't have
to be here.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah. Well, it's one of those things also, right where
you feel like you're supposed to be having a good time,
but it's expensive. The weather can be very hot, it
can get very crowded, your family might be having struggles, like,
especially if it's really hot and crowded. Like, there's a
lot of things that can impact your time. And meanwhile,

(34:29):
the whole time, in the back of your head, you're thinking,
I'm supposed to be having the time of my life,
that's what this is all about. And that can just
sabotage your whole vacation. And it's unfortunate that the easiest
way to get around that is to be someone like
an annual pass holder where there's no pressure, Right, you
can just go and experience one or two things and

(34:49):
leave if you want. But such a tiny percentage of
the population is able to afford that, not to mention,
live close enough to make it practical, right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
As much as I love Disney World, I fully recognize
the limitations and flaws, like, especially when it comes to affordability.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
It's so expensive, yeah, and I know that, like, and
it's it was expensive back in twenty twenty, the last
time I went. Yeah, so I went February, right before
the world shut down. And then it's even more expensive now.
And I understand if you're going to go to Disney
a bunch, it's more financially reasonable to get a season pass,

(35:31):
but also.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
That's a huge, huge chunk of money and not every
like again, like we live in Atlanta, which is if
you're driving, it's a good seven eight hour drive away
from Orlando. If you're flying, then that obviously adds a
ton more expense to your trip. Then you've got hotel,
you've got food, like, all that stuff adds up. And

(35:52):
even if you can afford the annual pass being able
to justify all right, how many times do we need
to visit for this annual past to have made sense? Right?
We have to visit at least like seven or eight times.
And how realistic is that for most people? I don't
think it is. So it's hard.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
And then it's still several hundred dollars for hotel gas.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yep, unless you're unless you're insane and you're part of
the Disney vacation club. But what kind of crazy person
would do that?

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Me, Yeah, you've enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
It's true. I've used it. I've used it every year.
I have never missed using it.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
And they bring out look on the DVC nights, they
bring out all the characters.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Oh yeah, like I've met I've met power Line. You know,
I've met I've met Phineas and ferb and now.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
A few years back, I went with my friend's family
and we bumped up against a DVC night. We were
leaving as it was starting, and we got to see
like Monterey Jack from the Rescue Rangers.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Like, yeah, yeah, I've seen some of the characters from
Ducktails before, but we don't. That's the other thing, man,
I don't mean for this to become a Walt Disney
World DVC podcast, but as a member of DVC, often
I just don't see the notifications of when those nights

(37:14):
are happening. So for me, it literally ends up being
chance that I happen to be going while something is
going on, because they usually only do a couple events
per year. So like, again, if you don't live in
the Orlando area. First of all, if you live in
the Orlando area, I don't know why you would be
a DVC member because you could just commute there. But

(37:35):
if you live there, then you could take advantage of
these things more frequently. But if you live somewhere else,
you're like, am I going to plan a whole vacation
on this particular date just so I can maybe get
a picture with dark wing duck or something? Then? Yeah,
you know, I'm just not that person.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
So anyhow, off of Disney and onto things that fit
even listen to our podcast.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah, that's Mark on the section this week. First up
is a trailer for a movie called Is God Is,
which is an adaptation of a stage play.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Oh, I did not know that is the stage play
by the same name. Yes, it is about two sisters
who are charged by their mother, I guess, on her
deathbed to go kill their father because their father is
a horrible person who set their mother on fire and
apparently a little bit of one of the sisters.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Both of the sisters actually, but it's just that one
of them has visible scarring on her face and the
other one typically at least in the play, has scarring
on her back and arms. But yeah, it's in the
play from what I understand. Have not seen the play.
I've only read up on it. The sisters, who are twins,

(38:54):
do not realize that their mother is still alive. They
believe themselves to be orphans. They find out they get
a message that their mother is alive but is dying
and wants to see them. They go to visit her.
The mother says, your father's what is who did this
to us? And he deserves to die? And then the

(39:15):
sisters set out in a journey to find their father
and punish him for what he did when they were children,
assuming that that's all true, right, Like this is assuming
that the mother is telling the truth, and I don't
know if that's true or not, but it's a revenge movie.
And it's also complicated by the fact that their father
has now formed a life with a different woman and

(39:37):
that life looks much more stable. So it's like the
sisters are struggling with this reality that they had a
really super frickin hard life and this other family ends
up having like a nice life and they're like that
adds complications like why why why do they get that?

(39:59):
And we got what we got right and the meanwhile,
the whole movie, like the style made me think like
seventies grindhouse mixed with Tarantino.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Yeah, I got I super got kill Bill vibes from
the trailer. Yeah it's not a Tarantino movie though, No,
that's not. The cast is phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
No, it looks I mean it looks like it's incredibly
stylish and well done. Like again, I have not seen
the play, but the reviews I read of the play
were all very glowing reviews. And having not seen the
play and having not seen the movie, I can't confidently say, oh,
this is like a really good film adaptation of a

(40:40):
stage show. But that's what that's the vibe I'm getting,
and I'm hoping that that's actually what happens.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Me too, me too. Yeah it looks really good.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, it comes out May fifteenth.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Next, we have a trailer for Pretty Lethal, which is
like John Wick Ballerina, but if it's a bunch of
actual ballerinas and they are raised to be assassins but
rather fall into.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Kicking butt, kicking butt, or mostly kicking faces. But yeah,
I think it was originally titled I looked at this too.
I think the original title was something like Ballet Overload
or Ballerina Overload.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
But yeah, the plot is that there's this ballet troop,
and like the members of the troop are all kind
of frenemies, they're not. They don't all get along, but
they do perform together. And they're invited to compete at
this conference that happens in Budapest in Hungary, and on
the way there, their vehicle breaks down and they seek

(41:45):
shelter in this big old house and then for some reason,
people keep trying to kill them. And I don't know
what's happening, but Uma Thurman's there.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, yeah, and one of the girls from the Mean
Girls movie that came out recently, she's also, Oh is she?

Speaker 2 (42:01):
I did not know that. I just the only person
who I recognized was Uma Thurman doing a really weird accent.
Apparently that role was originally going to Lena Hetty.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Oh interesting, I think than is better for that. I
mean it again also vaguely killed Bill Vibes for some reason.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
It gave me John Wick vibes. But yeah, So anyway,
there this troop of ballet dancers. They're using their athletic
and dancing skills to try and fight their way out
of a kind of a hostage situation, and it looks
absolutely ridiculous, but it also looks like the kind of

(42:41):
movie that knows that it's absolutely ridiculous. Not that it's
like nodding and winking to the audience, but it's just
embracing that, and part of me really respects that.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah, yeah for sure. Other notable names are Mattie's Eigler,
who I think was a dancer for the Sia. She
was a dancer for and on one of the stance shows. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
So yeah, it looks bonkers, but in a way that's
meant to be really entertaining. It comes to Amazon Prime
on March twenty fifth, so you can just stream it
at home if you want. I might actually check this
out because it does look like ridiculous, but in a
way that was intentional.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yeah for sure. Something else that looks ridiculous is the
trailer for Influenced.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Yeah, this is a film that takes a character created
by comedian Jill Kargman. She created this character during the pandemic,
and it's this mom influencer type named Zanielle dz A
n I E l L E. Zanielle who who who

(43:54):
like curates this huge following online for her mommy influencer
content And she seems like pretty shallow and obsessed with
like fame and influence, and meanwhile it's possibly not actually
the best mother to her two children for sure. I

(44:14):
but it's a comedy.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
It is a comedy. It's got Jason Biggs in it,
so that gives you kind of the tone.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
And Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow both appear as themselves
in the movie.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah, there are some funny moments in this trailer. Overall,
I feel like it's probably one of those things that
I would enjoy more as a little social media clip
than a full guess movie.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Yeah, I mean, like I it could turn out to
be really entertaining. It makes me think a little bit
of like films that are based off SNL sketches, right,
Like sometimes those work not all the time, you know,
for every Blues Brothers or Wayne's World also get An
it's Pat or Stuart saves his family. So I'm not

(45:04):
saying that it's going to be a knockout of the park.
I will say, like, they just had a screening of
this here in Atlanta because it was part of the
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, and that was like two days
ago when we were recording this, so I know that
they're planning a wide or at least a wider release
for this film later in the spring, but I did

(45:25):
not see any actual dates.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Gotcha. I would say it doesneally it would be fun
to be and for sure.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that it's like if it
were for the fact that I have such frustration and
anger directed at some of the people in this movie
who are actually peddling the kind of stuff that's being
satirized in it, I might be more keen to go
see it, for sure.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
For sure, Well, are you keen to watch Sunny Nights?

Speaker 2 (45:55):
This one I'm curious about too. So this is a
series and it's an Australian series, but it features a
couple of American actors. That's got Will Forte and Darcy
Cardan as siblings who are wanting to start up a
spray tan business in Australia and they get wrapped up

(46:15):
in some weird criminal dealings for reasons that are not
clear in the trailer, but they do look very funny.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Yeah, it is a comedy. It's a dark comedy, but
it feels a little bit, I don't know, at the
same time more serious that I'm used to seeing. Will
Fortier Darcy cardin play. That's not true. They've both played
serious characters. But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
I mean, it looks like it's definitely more comedic than say,
Better Call Saul, right, get Better Call Saul. Has comedy
in it, but you would never call it a comedy.
This I would call a comedy.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
Yeah. I think it looks pretty interesting.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
I do too. It comes out on Hulu on March eleventh.
I think it's yet. It already premiered in Australia, so
our friends down Unda have already had a chance to
see it. If you are down Unda, let us know
what you thought of it. But make sure you turn
your email upside down because otherwise we can't read it.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Don't turn your email upside down. I've been able to
read your emails just fine.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Okay, Well, I'm just going to say it. I haven't
been able to read any of your emails.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
You are on our email.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Account, yep, but I've got a filter.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Oh. I do share them all with Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
So she does. I try to avoid it, but boy,
they get to me anyway.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
He loves that you're a part of our geeky community.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
I do. I'm just being a grouchy old man for
the fun of it. I don't mean what I'm.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Saying, I'm I'm just clarifying.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
But yeah, Sunny Nights looks like like it could be
a funny sort of crime series, a much more lighthearted
take than something like a Better Call Saul, or way
more lighthearted than The Ozarks, or.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
More lighter light hearted heist than The Christophers.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
The christopher is not really a heist.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
But it's not a heist, but it is a.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Con Yeah, it's another like kind of dark comedy drama film.
So The Christopher's is a movie that's coming out on
April tenth, and it stars Ian McKellen as an artist
who's kind of become increasingly grouchy and curmudgeonly and reclusive

(48:40):
since entering into his elder years. And it has Mikayla
Cole I believe as as a restore restoration artist, like
her job is to help restore paintings, but she's also
a talented forger, and she is hired by the artists
adult children James Corden plays one of them, to find

(49:06):
and complete some unfinished paintings that their father has done,
known as The Christopher's. It's a series of paintings, to
finish those paintings, to learn his style, finish those paintings
so that when their father inevitably dies, they're able to
make millions of dollars off of these works that otherwise
he's not going to finish. He has shown no interest

(49:27):
in finishing, And so it ends up becoming this interesting
story where she is hired on to be his assistant.
He is not completely fooled by what's going on. And
you also find out that there is a past relationship
between the two in that he did something in the

(49:48):
past that derailed her artistic career, so she has like
an axe to grind on top of all of these things.
I've read some reviews, and everything I've read says like
the interplay between the two leads is really the whole
reason to see this movie.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
It does look like they have a good chemistry playing
off of each other, for sure.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Yeah, And it's a film that explores things like, you know,
art and commerce and things like experience, ambition, how fame
can sometimes lead someone to torpedo people coming up behind
them for whatever reason. It might be out of you know,
concern that you're going to be displaced. It might be

(50:34):
just you know, kind of spite. It's interesting because like
it makes me think of like Simon Cowell on all
those talent shows where he would be super critical and
people saying, like, you know, you're like you might be
legitimately ruining someone's chance at a career and it's not
that they're terrible, it's just that you're getting you know,

(50:55):
karma points or whatever, clout points for being a jerk
on TV.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Yeah, because you know, some of those people may not
be there yet, but they might get there eventually, but
if you discourage them from trying, they never will.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Yeah, and then we're all poorer for it.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Yeah, this movie does interest me. It looks pretty slow paced,
but it does look pretty good.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Yeah. This looks like the kind of movie where if
I wanted to go see it, I would want to
see it in the right group of people. Like if
I went to a theater, I'd want it to be
a thoughtful audience. They are there to really see. I
could see me seeing watching this and say the Plaza
right like that kind of theater. But otherwise I would
just wait to be able to watch it at home.

(51:41):
It's not going to be a spectacle movie. You're not
gonna be like, man, did you see the part where
Ian McKellen's painting explodes. That's not going to happen.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
I mean, I don't know for certain, but probably.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
I feel pretty confident.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Well, that's all we have for things that don't fit.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Yeah, I guess it's time for you to grab six
extra arms and throw them on so that we can
blend in with all the spiders who live in John
Boys horror Hutch.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
You know, maybe I'll just go pee while you talk
about your whore stuff.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Curious if you watched any of these trailers.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
I I did one of them. I'm like, oh, I
wouldn't have put this in. It's gonna be hard to
talk about on our show.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Well, it's curious which one you're talking about, because touch
Me and teenage sex and death that tough.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
But the middle one, especially, I'm touched.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
That's more.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
That's more schmesy than I would normally put into our lineup.
But it's your horror Hutch. So well, I did watch,
but I did watch the trailers.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
I will, I will, I will justify my inclusion of
each of these. But first up, we have a teaser
for the back rooms. Now this is based off a
creekypasta meme from like twenty nineteen, where's this idea of
this extra dimensional space that looks like a bunch of
pretty mundane nondes script rooms with like industrial lighting that

(53:03):
just appears to stretch on forever, and if you were
like the implications that if you start to explore it,
you're going to get lost there and never be able
to find your way back. And there have been lots
of things that have been built around this idea, either
directly or obviously inspired by this idea, this whole liminal
space kind of thing. But now we're getting a movie

(53:24):
that is based off this idea. The teaser doesn't give
us a whole lot. We get some voiceover, and we
get a lot of shots of weird, increasingly weirder looking
rooms as it goes down level by level by level.
But the story I saw is that I think it's

(53:45):
a therapist or maybe a psychiatrist who's patient goes missing,
so she starts to look for him and finds herself
lost within the back rooms. As a result comes out
May twenty ninth. I mean, I have no idea if
the story is going to be compelling or not.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
I the trailer looks interesting. I'm scrolling through images from
Creepy because I'm not familiar with creepy pasta.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Really, yeah, it's creepy pasta is all so it's it's
kind of a taking the words copy paste and making
it creepy pasta because it's all about it. It's like
the internet message board era version of folklore.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Gotcha? I mean that could be interesting. I probably will
end up being too scary or weird for me, but interesting.
The trailer was definitely palatable.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Yeah, I don't know, like, if it's done well, I
might really enjoy it. But I the capacity for people
to do, you know, very half asked approaches to meme
based stuff is pretty high. Like slender Man is another
great example, right, Like it's you could make an interesting film,

(55:02):
but obviously reality also played a part in that, where
we had the real life tragedy around the whole slender
Man's story that made it difficult, if not impossible, to
make a good movie. I don't think they would have
made a good movie anyway, but definitely after that happened
and they changed the film that it had no chance.

(55:23):
Next time, we have a trailer for a truly weird
movie called Touch Me. The story is that you have
this couple of friends. There's a woman and a man.
Man's gay, the woman straight. They have a need to
relocate because the apartment they're staying in has had a

(55:45):
plumbing disaster and they need to live somewhere else while
that gets addressed, so the young lady says that her
ex has offered to let them stay at his place,
and the gay boyfriend gay best friend rather is like,
you had nothing but bad things to say about this guy,

(56:07):
but okay, but they go and stay and then it
turns out that the boyfriend looks human, but it's actually
an alien, not just an alien, but the tentacle kind
of alien, but looks human unless it's time for things
to get a little steamy, and then the tentacles come
out literally. And it also turns out that this alien

(56:30):
is able to through touch ease anxiety, like anxiety just
flows away. And so the gay best friend decides that
because he's very anxious, that he's seeking out that kind
of relief as well. He enters into a relationship with
this alien who's also a narcissist. And so it's a

(56:56):
story where it's got aliens, it's got co dependency, it's
got narcissism, it's got gore, it's got.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
The horror portion.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Partly, I would argue, yeah, the gore is probably more so,
but yeah, it looks very strange, and I included it
because I was like, this is the kind of story
that I can't imagine being made in any other format
other than a movie, Like like.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
I really make a manga.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Yeah, but I like I like when someone tackles a
project where you're like, oh, this needed to be in
this format as opposed to why did you choose this? Right? Like,
there's sometimes where you see something like, oh, this could
have been a series, or this could have been you know,
a comic book or whatever, and it would have been

(57:51):
better this. I feel like, man, this feels like this
needs to be this format to tell this story. It
looks weird, but the reviews I read sound like it
doesn't quite live up to its potential that it could
have been, like one of those truly weird movies that
stands the test of time to cause it so strange,

(58:12):
but doesn't quite stick the landing. It comes out March
twentieth for a theatrical release and April second for a
digital release, So I'm kind of bummed that the reviews
are kind of middle of the road at the moment,
because I think it looks like it had the potential
to be very strange. Fortunately, we also have teenage sex

(58:33):
and death at Camp Miasma.

Speaker 1 (58:36):
Which is very strange. It's looking it. I think it's
an art piece, much like the TV Glow.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Well, yeah, I saw the TV Glow. It's written by
the same person who did I Saw the TV Glow,
which is you know, we're going to keep mentioning that
apparently in this episode. But yeah. The premise is that
a filmmaker, young woman who is queer, has been given
the chance to erect a movie that's in a horror
film franchise, and the horror franchise is called Camp Miasma,

(59:06):
So it's like a Friday the Thirteenth kind of horror franchise, right,
And the filmmaker wants to to use the actress who
is in the first of those movies. She played the
final girl in the first of those films. She wants
to find that person and bring her into this project.
That character is played by Gillian Anderson, secondary now a woman. Yeah,

(59:31):
and but but then as they work together, things start
turning kind of dream like and then nightmare like. And
there's a lot of like psycho sexual imagery in this trailer,
Like it's not subtle. If you watch the trailer, you're like, yeah,
I see what you're doing here. It looks really weird.

(59:53):
And it comes out August seventh, and I am intrigued
because again, it's not your typical horror movie, like it's
weird looking.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Yeah, I'll be interested to hear your reviews on them
if you watch them. I'm not they are not for me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
No, this is not an aerial thing. I knew it
when I saw it. I was like, this is not
for Ariel, but I am intrigued. Also, I just want
to mention a couple of trailers that I watched, but
I don't plan to really talk about. Faces of Death
has a trailer out now, but we mentioned during the
teaser kind of an overview of that. Ariel sent me

(01:00:32):
a trailer for In a Violent Nature too, which I
never saw. In a Violent Nature, But this looks to
me like your very typical backwoods slasher film, like a
killer is stalking people. Yeah, killer stalking people in the woods.
Maybe I'm wrong about that, but that's what this looked like.
It didn't give me like there was nothing about it
that made me think, oh, this is a new take, right.

(01:00:56):
And then Refuge is one I saw just before we
started to Acord, which is a story about a group
of four men who go on a fishing trip together,
but then one of the four drugs and then binds
the other three and it turns out that his I
believe his daughter was killed and that he believes one

(01:01:19):
of these men was involved in that, and so he's
determined to get to the truth, and so it becomes
kind of a torture movie, like a torture hostage movie situation,
where he's trying to find the truth and like he's
been just driven to extreme violence and an effort to

(01:01:39):
find out what happened to his daughter. So those are
also those trailers are out there if you want to
check those out. But I'm not gonna chat about them anymore.
Let's talk instead about stuff that's actually in our show. Notes.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Well, I'm glad to run headlong out of your horror
hutch and into some slightly less horrific.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Need to take off those extra arms because those are rentals.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Oh they're already back.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
In the Oh, okay, cool, cool?

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
Do I have more? Do I have two sets of
extra arms?

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Crap? Those are just the spiders on you? Let me
just you know, I just it's fine, It's fun.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Okay. Anyhow onto slightly less horrific actual show notes.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Yeah, yeah, starting off with we got a little teaser
video that really just is a casting announcement for Wednesday
season three.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Yeah. It starts off with Lurch and Lurch light dancing
the tango to reveal all of the people that are
coming back to the season and all of the new
people that they've cast. Uh. Why Nona writers in the season?
She I don't think she's been in a previous season.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
She is not. She plays a character called Tabitha. Eva
Green is also for season three. She is aunt Ophelia.
She will be Mortitia's sister. Chris Sarandon was listed as Balthazar,
and I don't remember this because I haven't watched Adam's Family,
the film from the early nineties and so long. But

(01:03:16):
apparently Balthazar is referenced in that movie as a cousin,
and that Gomez and Mortitia met at Balthazar's funeral, and
that Gomez may have actually been responsible for Balthazar's demise,
but don't know if it's the same Balthazar.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Time will tell. It also shows that they show the
card for Enid, who is Wednesday's roommate and friend at
her academy, burning in a fireplace. I looked into this
and Enid will be in season three, but largely in
her Werewolf form, so that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Yeah. I have not watched any of the Wednesday series.
It's one of those things that friend of the show,
Shaye Lee, has told me that I probably should just skip,
simply because not because she thinks I would be upset,
but just that I would be frustrated, like I would
want it to be better than what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
Yes, season two is better than season one, but I
fully agree I wanted it to be better than what
it was.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Okay, Yeah, I'm sad because I like Jenna Ortega a lot. Like,
if if Jenna Ortega does just a couple more roles
that really resonate with me, I'm gonna have to make
her my girlfriend.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
No, she's too young. She's too young, Like I do
like her as well. I just I think that this
Wednesday show is not We're not the targeted demographic.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Yeah, which is fine again, but uh, we don't actually
have a release date for when Wednesday season three will
come out. Some people are suggesting that it may be
twenty twenty seven when this season drops. So it's kind
of funny to get a casting drop like this because
you're like, if it's going to be that long before

(01:05:16):
the series is ready to air, then was there a
real point to drumming up excitement this early. I guess
maybe to get people to watch the first two seasons.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Yeah, yeah, to try to get some more views on it. Which,
speaking of, we've got a trailer for All Mankind Season five,
and I forgot that there was a show called for
All Mankind, not to mention four seasons of it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
I didn't even I mean, if I did know, and
it's possible that I did, it had completely left my
mind because I was like, oh, wow, this show looks
really interesting. But man, it feels like they dropped you
right in the middle. And I was like, oh wait,
this is for five. They didn't drop me in the middle.
I dropped into the middle. Yeah. Do you know the

(01:06:08):
basic premise of the show.

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
Yeah, the space race never ended and now we're colonizing Mars.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Well, and the Soviet Union was the first to land
on the moon, not the United States, and so that
changes the entire geopolitical landscape and the development of both
the Soviet Union and the United States from that point forward.
So it's an alternate history kind of show. And each season,
from what I understand, takes place about a decade after

(01:06:39):
the previous season. So we're now up to the twenty
tens in season five, and at this point there is
a colony on Mars. It seems like the colony on
Mars is rebelling against the US government and its control
over the colony. Meanwhile, the US government is being like

(01:07:00):
real jerkfaces about it, Like it looks very similar, like
an analog to the independence, well know, the United States
declaring independence from the United Kingdom or England.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
I should say, I feel like maybe we have talked
about this, but it was I don't know. Being colonized
on Mars sounds more exciting than just this Russia landed
on the.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Moon first, I see. To me, I find it fascinating
because I have looked into the space race so deeply,
like there really was this incredible political push to be
the first right and it's a story that is in

(01:07:51):
some parts inspiring because it allowed scientists and engineers to
tackle tremendous problems and find solutions, which is really cool.
But in many ways it's very cynical because it's also
about displaying superiority against an opponent in a cold war,
And you're like, it kind of stinks that it required

(01:08:17):
this animosity for this incredible human achievement, Right, wouldn't it
be nice if if we did it just because we
wanted to do it, as opposed to we need to
do it before those other yahoos do it?

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
Yeah? Yeah, Or even if it were a we both
want to do it, let's come together, kind of like
the marsh the ending of the Martian.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Yeah. So I do feel like I should check this
out because I have a feeling that it would be
interesting to me. It's a little intimidating knowing that it's
already got four full seasons behind it, and there are
other stuff on Apple TV that I still need to watch.
But this season five comes out March twenty seventh. I
will say like, it looks like it's pretty well done,

(01:09:00):
and I don't think it looks the most compelling out
of all the Apple TV things I've seen, but it
looks it doesn't look bad.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
Yeah, it look's well done for previous seasons. Isn't as
intimidating to me because if my husband also wants to
watch it, we'll just plow through in like three weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
Yeah. Well, and it also seasons aren't the same as
what they used to be, right, Like, we're not talking
about twenty two to twenty six episodes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Yeah, unless you're the Pit. The Pit hit hits like
thirteen episodes a season, and I love that it's that long.
I wish it were longer, honestly.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
But yeah. Next up is what I'm going to let
my beloved co host handle because it involves one of
her very favorite entertainment outlets.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Yeah, so news dropped that News dropped that drop Out TV,
which is the college humor turned streaming platform making their
own content streaming service, and the aby C show The
Rookie are having a crossover where Nathan Fillion and his partner,

(01:10:11):
who are both cops, end up at the Dropout studios
because of some crime that happens there. And it features
a huge amount of like the Game Changer cast and
Sam Reich and who I guess is also cast but
he's also the owner of Dropout TV, working with the Cops,

(01:10:34):
Nathan Fillion and his partner. And I watched the trailer
like conceptually, I'm like, yay, more work from the Dropout
actors that I love, And then I watched the trailer
and it just felt to me like a weird mashup.
Like it didn't they didn't integrate seamlessly together. And that

(01:10:54):
could have just been the clip from the trailer. It
could have been that Sam rai delivery when he was
being interviewed just did not fit the tone of the
show and the rest of the trailer for me. I
don't know what it was, but it I hope that
people have a lot of fun with it. I hope
that it garners a whole bunch of more jobs for

(01:11:16):
those actors at drop Out that I love, because I
know at least some of them could use some more work.
And I don't know, it just it's a weird mashup
and it didn't grab me the way I hoped it would.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Yeah. The community has also had a pretty divisive response
to this because a lot of the community around Dropout
TV identifies as left leaning, and some of them identify
the Rookie as what they would call Kappa Ganda, as in,
it's a show that puts police in a particularly heroic

(01:11:56):
and positive light when the realities that we face often
that's a different experience than what people typically encounter. And
I can see that. I can understand that criticism. On
the flip side, you know, it is a show. It's
a show, so like, I get that too, but like,

(01:12:16):
I don't want to dismiss people's concerns out of hand.
And I also think that giving opportunities to a streaming
entertainment service on a you know, legacy broadcast TV series
is kind of interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Yeah, it is interesting. You know, I do understand both
sides of it. I I went down a deep rabbit
hole on the people who are upset about it and
the people who weren't and why they were or weren't.
And you know, some people are like, well, it's at
least in the Rookie the cops are trying to do
good things and be good guys and that's you know,

(01:12:55):
and like great, And some people are like, it's not
as bad as like a some of the other procedurals
that are out there that show cops doing bad things
that people are like, yeah, that's okay, they did that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
I mean, like you think of things like twenty four,
which glorify torture.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
And I enjoyed twenty four. And you know, as an actor,
I have auditioned for procedurals. I will audition for them
again because it's telling a story, whether it's a story
of what actually happens or a story of what I
wish would happen, you know. But really, I just hope
that the people who do want to watch it have

(01:13:34):
fun watching it well.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
And the show. The episode's titled Fun and Games, and
it airs on March second, so very soon next week.
And you know, I like Nathan Fillion as an actor,
and you know, I think he's a very funny person
as well. Also, just anecdotally, I know he enjoys improvisational comedy.

(01:13:56):
He would go to Dad's Garage theater here in Atlanta,
and he was guesting at Dragon Con. Because I remember
actually being in the in the audience when he was there.
I didn't know who he was at the time, and
I don't I don't think I saw him. I just
heard from one of the improvisers later, like, oh, you
know who was in the audience Nathan Fillian, and I'm like, wow,

(01:14:20):
who's that. Of course I know who he is now,
but back then I had no clue.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
Well, and it has Zako Yama, who I love, as
an improverb.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
So yeah, A couple of the dropout folks show up
in episodes of Superstore, which is kind of fun, as
as does a member of the State, as does a
well one of the one of the principal characters is
played by a member of Kids in the Hall, but

(01:14:50):
later on a separate Kids in the Hall performer is
in an episode, So there's a lot of fun comedy
people who show up in that show.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Yeah, there's a drop out I mean drop out people
show up everywhere in insurance commercials. Lisa Gilroy's in Twisted Metal,
Give Me a Befoornia is in a an elementary you know,
there's a bunch.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Of I saw Jacob Waizaki and something like a young
Jacob Waizaki in something like just a clip that played
for me on YouTube not too long ago, and I
can't remember what it was now, but I remember looking
and it was it might have even been Superstore. I
think it was Superstore, honestly, And I looked at him, Like, WHOA,

(01:15:35):
I think I know who that dude is.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I love it because I like
seeing people who make entertainment that I enjoy make more
entertainment that I will hopefully enjoy.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Right, Yeah, So here's hoping that that show brings people
entertainment and you know it doesn't ruffle to many feathers,
and that you know we're able to all kind of
pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and move on. Next
up is a trailer for something that I could not
get through. So I'm going to let Aeriel take this
one too, because this is this is Jonathan kryptonite what

(01:16:09):
you put on this So like the horror Horror Hutch
is Aerial kryptonite, this is Jonathan kryptonite you put on
this list.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
So a while ago, there was a TV show called
The Jury and it starred James Marston, I believe, and
it everybody. It was kind of a mockumentary about the
process of being on a jury and a trial. Lisa
Gilroy was in at too, and and everybody was an

(01:16:38):
actor except for one person who was was asked if
he would be willing to be on a be considered
for a jury for a documentary and agreed, and then
ended up being selected for the fake jury for the mockumentary.
And at the end he got treated really well and
he really enjoyed the experience, but then he was put

(01:17:00):
into a really bizarre like all of these actors had
like the office level personalities and encounters and like actions,
and the guy at certain times is like, this cannot
be real.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Yeah, So the whole idea is that the guy who's
the non actor is not told that this is all faked.
He's going into it thinking that he's part of a
real situation with real people, one of whom happens to
be actual Hollywood actor James Marshy James Marson.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Yeah, and I really enjoyed the series. There were some
very cringe worthy moments. But then watching the making of
it afterwards, because there's a whole episode about like the
behind the scenes. At the end of the series, everybody
really like the actors. One felt bad anytime they did
something that upset the non actor, for sure, and then
the crew was and the production company was super careful

(01:17:58):
to take care of the non actor's mental well being
and welfare.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
Yeah, which I think, honestly, you can trace this back
to an earlier prank show that used improvisers called Joe Schmo.
If you remember Joe Schmo from the early two thousands.
The idea was that he was invited to be on
like a reality TV competition show that was kind of
like a you know, sort of like a Big Brother

(01:18:23):
slash dating kind of thing, and everyone on that show
was an improviser except for him, and Kristin Wig was
one of the improvisers on that way back in the
day pre SNL Christin She got a concussion on that show,
but yeah, he It was one of those where it
was originally framed to make the one the person that

(01:18:46):
was being pranked. It was made to make him look
like a dufus, except that he was so genuinely earnest
and compassionate toward other players that it quickly became clear
that if they went down that route, they would all
be villains. Like yeah, the audience would detest everyone else.

(01:19:07):
So they pivoted and they turned it into a show
where they were making sure that he was gonna win
and that he was going to feel good because he
seemed to be an actual, decent human being. So I
get the feeling that the choices made in the Jury
were largely informed by previous shows that had a somewhat
similar setup where you've got a person who's not in

(01:19:29):
the know, and then everybody else is in on the joke,
and you don't want to make the person who's on
in the know feel like they're the punchline.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Yeah, and they definitely did not make in the original
Jury Duty the guy the punchline. You know, they put
him in a very positive light. They ended up all
really liking him, and I think he stayed in touch
with some of them afterwards. Like the way that they
treated the production made me like what I watched more.
The thing I this new one is a guy's hired
at a company to help with the company retreat. That helps.

(01:20:00):
Like with Jury, they had to be subpoenaed and put
away so they wouldn't be in touch with like social
media to get other people's opinions about which actually does
happen on Jury's It was just weird how it happened
in this show, because like they went out to a
restaurant one night and it was like a Margaritaville or something,
and it was really weird and it did things that
you wouldn't normally do on a jury, but if you

(01:20:20):
aren't informed, you may not know that, or you might
just be like, well, this is a special case or whatever.
I don't know how they're doing this. Again, this new
guy is hired at a company and his first job
is to help with the company to retreat to make
sure nothing goes wrong, and it feels a lot more
like the actual Office.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Yeah, there's a lot of like there's a lot of
cartoonish characters, like, yeah, there's the there's the CEO who's
who's preparing to hand the company over to his son,
and the son is like a total frat bro kind
of vaping jerkface sort of character, like like entitled jerkface

(01:20:56):
and again cartoonishly so. And meanwhile, the the CEO occasionally
is like a Michael Scott kind of character who says
dumb things and then is called out by like, you
really nailed it. It really is like the Office the
bits that I saw, But I bailed on this trailer
because I was like, I empathized too much with the

(01:21:18):
person who's not in on the joke, and I don't
find enjoyment in this because I don't like that the
whole entertainment is let's put someone in a truly absurd
situation without telling them that's what's happening, and see what happened.
I'm like this just I get that. You know, you
might be treating them well, they might have a good time,

(01:21:40):
but I can't get past the feeling that this is
exploitation and I hate it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
And that's reasonable. The main thing I want to know
is how they were able to pull it off a
second time without someone, especially in today's day and age,
being super like aware of what's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Yeah, I general you have trouble with pranks anyway. Most
of the time, I feel like most pranks, like ninety
percent of them just come across as really mean spirited
to me, Like especially those videos on YouTube where it's
maybe like a couple who are just doing a prank
war like those just always look so mean, and you know,

(01:22:20):
I get like, they're doing it for the views and whatever,
and they're making money and you shouldn't feel bad for
them whatever. I don't know. I just don't like seeing
that help in the world, y'all. I want to see
more nice things. And I get it, I get it.
I'm a wimpy gen x er, you know. No one
should listen to me. It would be a first time

(01:22:40):
for everything if someone did listen to a gen X
er for a change. But I'm okay, I.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
Didn't say any of that stuff about it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
No, no, no, you didn't at all. I'm just saying, like, ok,
gen X in general is like the overlook generation. It's
all boomers and millennials who never hear about gen X. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
I guess I hear about gen X a lot or
I have in my lifetime, but maybe I pay more attention.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
You're also friends with people who are slightly older than you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
That is true. Next, we have a teaser for the
Netflix Pride and Prejudice.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
Yeah, I didn't even know this was going to be
another thing, Like I didn't know that Prime Prejudice was
going to be adapted into yet another series. I'm like,
what the Colin Firth one. I'm like, no, those in
the nineties Ancient Dinosaur. This is a new one.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
This is one of those things that we talked about
in thirty seconds or.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Less and went, yeah, So Emma corn is playing Elizabeth,
Jack Loudon is mister Darcy, Olivia Coleman is Missus Bennett,
and Rufus Sewell is mister Bennett in this.

Speaker 1 (01:23:43):
Yeah, you don't get to see half of them in
the trailer.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
It still is a teacher. Yeah, yeah, it makes it
look like it's a little more it's laying a little
harder on the romantic longing aspect. Not that that's a
bad thing. Like I don't feel like this is going
full weathering heights, Like it's not triggering me to the
point where I'm like, this is clearly not actually an adaptation.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
The repression is what makes Pride and Prejudice. So yeah, yeah,
so I like Pride and Prejudice. I will give this
a shot.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
Yeah, I didn't write down when this comes out, so
I apologize. I did not check that. Are you gonna
look for me Aeriel while I can you look for
the release date for Pride and Prejudice? Because I like
I like the Austin stuff, you know, I like I
like these stories. I think that they're very witty and
they have a lot of insight, so I enjoy them

(01:24:40):
as well. Fall Fall, It just is fall. Yeah, all right,
Either that or it's just telling me that I'm gonna
trip in a minute, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
That's telling me I'm going trip. I'm the one who
looked it up. Geez, thanks John.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Sorry, Well, at least next time we can now talk
about a movie about a guy who has a real
problem making a decision.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
Yeah, another bad romance guy ga Tomato sauce. So we
had we had seen a teaser for this. It is Hamlet,
done I think by the BBC, and it's a primarily
Indian cast Pakistani Pakistani. Sorry, there's some Bollywood looking stuff

(01:25:25):
in there.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
Yeah, no, there's there's definitely some elements drawn from Bollywood
as well. But it's set it's Hamlet, but it's set
in modern day London. So this is not Denmark. It's
not you know, else, nor Castle or anything like that.
But it is the the story of Hamlet told with
a new approach and visuals and things like that. And

(01:25:50):
I don't know, I thought it looked I thought it
looked really interesting. Hamlet is my favorite of the tragedies,
and I have like very strong feeling about that play,
and I have very strong feelings about adaptations of that play,
and this one is intriguing to me.

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
Same same we did talk about the teaser when it
came out. I don't know if you're mem.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
I do remember that because I remember when the teaser
came out, because I remember one of the things we
mentioned was that at the time there were some very
distressing and racist comments left under the teaser. I will
say that, at least for the trailer that that I
selected the link I selected, that the most of the

(01:26:34):
comments that I saw thankfully did not follow suit.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
Yeah. Yeah, but this trailer does show us more of
like the beat by beat of the actual story of
Hamlet and every moment of it that they handle in
a unique way. I love, I am I have been
over Hamleted in my life, but I am super for this.

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
I like that he is doing the two be or
not to be speech while behind the wheel of a
car and contemplating driving into oncoming traffic. Like I'm like,
if you want a visceral depiction of Hamlet in his
existential crisis where he is contemplating taking his own life,
this very much shows that that's what he's saying, because

(01:27:20):
I think a lot of people have heard the words
and have no context as to what Hamlet is actually saying. Yeah,
they've all heard two b or not to be that
is the question, but they don't understand what it is
Hamlet's actually trying to process and what he's what he
is saying is is it better to be alive and

(01:27:41):
to endure all of the troubles that life throws at you,
or is it better to end your life without knowing
what actually comes next?

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
Yeah, yeah, it's a you know, it is a super
fun and difficult monologue to jump into.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
Yeah. I love doing that monologue. I think about every
five or ten years, I do a video of myself
doing that monologue just for my own purposes, and I
change how I do it every time, and it really
shows that as you age and get a different appreciation,
which is ironic because Hamlet's a young man in the play.
But as I get much too old to play Hamlet,

(01:28:21):
I have a different take on how I would do
that speech. At best, I could manage a Polonius or
Claudius these days.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Yeah, I mean it depends on the rest of the casting,
for sure. I mean I think it would be great
to have a gen X overlooked Hamlet.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
This version, though, comes out April tenth, it's already been
out in the UK. I should have looked to see
how it's been received so far, because I don't know
what the reviews have been, but it does come to
here the United States in April.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing it in April when
it comes over here. Get over here. When it gets
over here, there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
I found that's great, a fantastic segue, because obviously the
only way to follow up Hamlet is.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
With Mortal combat. I mean, he is trying to shuffle
off his mortal coils.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
So it's true. That's true. That's in that speech. Uh yeah,
so Mortal Kombat too. We talked about, you know, we
got an earlier, shorter trailer a while back, we got
a longer one, very much Johnny Cage centric.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Well, when you cast Carl Urban, you have to Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Well, let me ask you something. Did you notice something
that I noticed that was in very short supply in
this trailer. There's a there's a character from the first
movie who plays a pretty pivotal role, you might even
call him the protagonist. And he he shows up in
a blink and you miss it moment in this trailer

(01:29:59):
and other is not in it at all.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
I thought he gave like one line and then showed
up in the background in another moment.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
In the first trailer, he showed up and I think
three different little sequences and this one he's in one
where he appears to be sparring with Lou Kang, but
it's it's it's Cole Young, the protagonist that was created
for the original Mortal Kombat. In this one he's barely
in it at all, which is got some fans speculating

(01:30:30):
that Cole Young is not long for this Mortal coil.

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
Yeah, which is sad because I like the actor who
plays him, Lewis Tan. But yeah, just the story feels
so pretentious to say it, but the story in the
first New Mortal Kombat movie just felt like it was
trying way too hard to be way too many things.

(01:30:55):
I agree I needed to be was a fight movie.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
I feel sad for him because it's not his fault
that you know. Like I thought, it was a weird
choice to go with a new unknown character to be
the protagonist for Mortal Kombat when the last movie came out,
And honestly, I think it would have done better had

(01:31:18):
we been following anyone else, like lu Kang or Kano
or something, or not Kano but lu Kang's cousin or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:31:25):
But yeah, especially when you start off the entire movie
with the eternal feud between some zero and Scorpion, and
it's so amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Yeah, I mean they do. They do tag it to
Cole Young as being like the descendant of Scorpion. But still, yeah,
I I feel weird that they kind of sidelined that character,
Like it almost feels like this is It's Mortal Kombat too,

(01:31:55):
but it kind of feels like moratl Kombat one point
five where they're saying just ignore and we're kind of
start over here. That being said, I'll say this, the
action sequences in the trailer look like they're pretty kinetic
and fun and well choreographed.

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
Yeah. This, this trailer looks closer to what I loved
about the original Moral Combat movie. Yeah. I loved I
love the actors. It just the plot was trying to
be too plotty. Yeah, uh yeah, it should have taken
like the Street the Street Fighter trailer. Method of just knowing.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
What it was for me was Tuesday. Uh yeah. This
this movie comes out on May eighth. I think it
looks like it's going to be entertaining. It's just one
of those things where I feel like, oh, maybe this
is even the filmmaker saying our first film didn't quite
reach the heights we were hoping for, so we're kind

(01:32:56):
of doing a new one with Johnny Cage as the
audience insert slash protagonist.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
I'm gonna watch it because I want to love it,
knowing that I can fall back on the New Street
Fighter if.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
Not, I will say I identified with one part of
it where we see Johnny Cage clearly at a fan
convention sitting in the Hall of Fame, just waiting for
people to come up and talk to them. Because both
you and I have bid to Dragon con numerous times,
we know what that's like.

Speaker 1 (01:33:24):
Yeah yeah, And for my over sympathetic heart, it is
so hard to walk through the Walk of.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
Fame, yeah, or the or the human Zoo as read
letter media calls it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
Well, and also see people who are just sitting at
a table completely alone, because I want to go up
and talk to them, but then my social anxiety is.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
Like, yeah, you get You'll see certain people get like
this huge line and then like two tables over there's
just someone just kind of sitting there waiting for the
time to pass, and you're like, oh that sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Show love to those actors if you
see them and you enjoy their work. Yeah, even a
little conversation. Also, you know what you can find at
Dragon Con legos and Batman's. I was going to say
so many Batman's.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
That's true. You can find way more Batman's than legos, hopefully, but.

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
Sometimes you can find a Lego Batman cosplay.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
Yeah. And the reason you bring this up is why.

Speaker 1 (01:34:19):
Because we got a cinematic trailer from Lego Batman Legacy
of the Dark Knight, which I think is a game,
not a movie.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
Yeah, it's a video Lego Batman movie. Yeah, but the
cinematic is a recreation, not totally faithful, but pretty close,
a recreation of the scene from Tim Burton's Batman movie
where the Joker and his gang break into an art
museum in order for the Joker to menace Vicky Vale.

(01:34:49):
And it's set to what was my favorite song in
the original Batman soundtrack. I'm not saying it's a good song.
I'm saying it's my favorite party Man. By now, if
you don't remember, Prince did the whole like soundtrack for Batman,
the first Batman movie and bat Dance, I don't think

(01:35:09):
is a good song at all. And party Man, I'm
not sure is a good song, but I love it
so much.

Speaker 1 (01:35:15):
It is a fun little trailer. I haven't played a
Lego Anything game. I think it played like Lego Star
Wars a long time ago and got stuck. But yeah,
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:35:27):
It's they're deceptively difficult, like the the initial play, like
playing through one is not hard at all, But if
you want to unlock everything, Holy cow, maybe difficult is
the wrong word. It can get tedious because you'll be like,
I'm missing one thing and I can't find it in

(01:35:48):
any of these levels, and I know it's just one thing,
and if I can just track that one thing down,
I will unlock this thing I've been trying to. And yeah,
I have thrown my hands up in defeat numerous occasions
and Lego titles. However, you know the fact that they
were referencing that the Tim Burton Batman movie so directly

(01:36:08):
and playing that kick Butt song, I had to throw
it in here.

Speaker 1 (01:36:13):
Yeah, it was a lot of fun and a great
way to cap off our episode. We will put that
link if you want to watch it and don't want
to have to try to google it in our show
notes on our website.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
After this releases, yes, and that's it. Yeah, we're done.
Aren't you supposed to do like a whole outro thing anymore?

Speaker 1 (01:36:39):
No, we can. I Jonathan could.

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
Swear that last week we did a whole outro thing.

Speaker 1 (01:36:47):
I think you're in some liminal space where that's not happening. No,
we will do an outro. So, Jonathan, if people want
to talk to us about the things that we talked
about this episode, and they want to talk to you specifically,
how do they do that?

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
Well, they do have to track me down in a
liminal space. But here's the thing. It's called the front rooms.
So you got to find the front rooms, which just
look like a Starbucks. And I'm over in the corner,
and I mean, you can buy me a coffee too.
I always appreciate that it's not necessary, but if you know,
it'd be nice. But yeah, you can find me in

(01:37:21):
the front rooms, which will look like a Starbucks. Honestly,
what's weird looks like a Starbucks in Kansas City. And
I'm not going to tell you which one, but one
of the two Kansas cities, it's a Starbucks there. And
if you can just find me in the corner, you
can ask me your question. I'll be glad to answer.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
It sure, And if traveling to Missouri is not in
your or Kansas or Kansas is not in your cards
right now, you can reach out to us on social
media on Facebook and Instagram and threads. We're Large nursiurn Collider.
That's also our handle on discord. You can find that
invite on our website www dot Large nurtron Collider dot com.
You can also reach out to us for a longer

(01:38:00):
form conversation in email at Large Nerdron pod at gmail
dot com. We truly do love hearing from you and
the things that excite you and your opinions on the
things that we talk about. If you enjoy hearing from us,
tell your friends and family. If you don't, tell the
people you don't like too. We always love building our
geeky community and having more people and more views to

(01:38:23):
geek out with. So until next time, I am Aerial
all pride, no prejudice cast In.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
And I am Jonathan Toto. I don't think we're in
the back rooms anymore. Strickland The Large Nerdron Collider was
created by Aeriel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
published again. Curse that by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin

(01:38:57):
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