LNC is Part of the Furniture

This week, we talk about that teaser for Avengers: Doomsday, a trailer for The Odyssey that probably plays better on the (really, really) big screen, and a film in which Juliette Lewis has a Freaky Friday style body swap with . . . a chair???

Plus, the story Jonathan was trying to remember regarding a plot to have a fake kidnapping was The Fantasticks. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the large Ner Drunk 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 these always is
the amazing Jolly Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I solved today's crossword puzzle in eleven minutes.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I thought you were about to say eleven seconds, but
eleven minutes is still really impressive.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah. It's the New York Times crossword puzzle, so yeah,
I have a subscription to The New York Times, so
I play the crossword puzzle every day. Now. It's the
way that I initially unwind and then gradually become very angry.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
You know, I'm really sad because they had the mini
crossword that was free to play.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Is it now part of the subscription thing? Yeah, because
I played that one too, But because I'm subscribed, I
don't know which ones are which I have.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I have a different like I have a crossword app
on my phone that pulls a bunch of them in
and some of them are like big important crosswords, but
it's it's too many a day.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah. Well, the New York Times also like I hadn't
played the crossword since I was maybe a teenager, and
I didn't realize that they've added like additional rules and
stuff to their crossword where you can have multiple letters
in the same box. Oh yeah, so you'll be like
You'll look at and you're like, huh, it's like seven

(01:43):
letters long, and you're thinking, I can't think of any
word that's seven letters long that fits that. And then
you think, well, if I were doing a short phrase,
it would be this, but that's like eleven letters. That's
not going to be And then you find out, oh,
it's because one of those boxes has multiple letters in it,
both for vertical and horizontal, so it might be something
simple like and a recent one was the the the

(02:10):
all the letters the multiple letters spelled out tree names,
like there was palm and ash and oak, and like
I said, they fit both horizontal and vertical. And then
one of the questions was where you can find the
prizes hints are in the multiple letters or above the circles,
and it was under the tree because they were all

(02:32):
tree names.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
So I like, I've played games like that. Whenever I
go traveling, I get with like the big puzzle books
that house all the different kinds of puzzles in it,
and they definitely have the crosswords where you have to
put multiple letters in each. I hate that because I'm like,
I'm just I'm just trying to figure out the words.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, and and they're not always clear that that's a
thing that can Like the first time I had that,
I encountered that, I was like, I had never seen
it before, and there was nothing about the puzzle that
indicated that that was something that could even happen. So
I just sat there staring at it feeling stupid until
I think I looked at a hint eventually, because I
just I was like, I cannot crack this. Nothing I

(03:12):
can think of fits this, And then when I saw it,
I'm like, well, no, wonder you're cheating.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, I also don't. I also don't like the crosswords
were like in the title, they're like, oh, this is
being cheeky somehow, and then none of the answers actually
match up with the clues in any logical way.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah. I've had a couple of those too, where or
like the cheeky thing is uh, yeah, some of the
answers are there, but they're misspelled. I'm like, well, you
can't do that. Yeah, the puzzle depends upon you knowing
how the word is spelled so that you can salt.
Oh anyway, I could go on for crossword about crosswords forever,

(03:55):
but until we get Gilly and Jacobs on this podcast
to be a guest, I don't think.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Oh is Gillian Jacobs said?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Huge? Huge? So there's a clip from a game show.
And if you don't know who Gillian Jacob says, she
was Brita on Community.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
She's also the voice of Adam Adam's Eve on Invincible.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, so great actress. But she was on
a game show I think, along with some of her
other Community co stars, where it was it was one
where you were trying to determine who was telling the
truth and who was telling the lie. And they had
two people up on the stand and they were both

(04:42):
claiming to be the editor for the New York Times
crossword puzzle, and so she said, can you say the
following sentence? And she gives the sentence and each of
them did, and she's like, all right, I know who
it is. And everyone stares at her and she's like,
it's because he's on NPR and he has a segment
on mp are where he talks about the crossword every
week and I'd never ever ever miss it.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Amazing, it was very cute.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah. Well, since we're talking about geeky things and geeky interests,
it leads us to this week's question, which I wrote,
which is what was a geeky thing that you wanted
for Christmas as a child. It could be something that
you got or something maybe that you never got.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
So I don't I don't fully remember what I asked
for as a kid. Maybe I asked for a Nintendo
or something like that, or a computer. I honestly don't remember,
but I do remember some of the cooler gifts I got.
I got one of those Fisher Price four and one

(05:48):
three in one pool table, ping pong table, air hockey tables,
and that did me a lot of good for many
many years. I also got a bike, which was cool,
and some nice lego sets which was a lot of fun.
Oh maybe it was the creepy Crawler machine. So for
anybody who's too young to note who listens like you,

(06:08):
remember like easy bake ovens. Yeah, they also had one
where you'd get like the metal the metal trays and
you'd put like plasticcene in it, like different color plastic
goose and create like squishy rubber like spiders and beetle.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Oh yeah, I seem to like. I The reason why
Ariel's talking like this is because she saw me with
a confused look on my face as I was trying
to figure out what she was talking about. But now
as you describe it, I do remember those things.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, so I had that, and I also had the
It wasn't an easy bake oven, but it was basically
like a candy making set, kind of like that where
you would melt down chocolate or gummy stuff and make
like gummy bears and chocolates. And that's kind of what
started my whole love of like baking and candy making
and things like that.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
So that's cool.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, I think those are maybe the things that I
asked for that I got. I'm sure there were other
geeky things, but I don't remember. My mom might be
able to tell me. She may not remember either. Whatever
the fans were that year, my Little Ponies, I loved
my Little Ponies. I still have my My Little Ponies.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
And then they came back around a couple of times. Yeah,
yeah for me, Well, I mean I got a lot
of geeky stuff when I was a kid because my
parents are both science fiction and fantasy fans, So like,
I mean, lots of years I would get stuff like
Star Wars action figures or he Man action figures or

(07:42):
playsets that kind of thing. But the thing I always wanted,
but I don't think I ever asked for it. I
don't remember asking for it, but I wanted it because
I saw the commercials. I was just like, Wow, that's incredible.
Was the tomy Omni bought two thousand. Oh Wow, had
a little programmable robot that came out in nineteen eighty four,

(08:06):
and it had a cassette tape so you could have
it do different actions and record the commands on the
cassette tape so that you could have it playback that
specific sequence if you wanted to. But this thing cost
a fortune, So keep in mind nineteen eighty four, the
retail price for this thing was six hundred dollars, So

(08:31):
if we would if we adjust for inflation, which I did,
that would be around one thousand, eight hundred and fifty
bucks today. So I never asked for this thing. I mean,
it was just this astronomical price right, and both my
parents were teachers, so there was no way they'd be
able to afford it, So hopefully I didn't ask for it.

(08:52):
I don't remember asking for it, that doesn't mean I didn't,
especially when I was very little and didn't have a
great appreciation for what money and cost it are. So
but yeah, also turns out I don't tend to stick
with stuff all the time. So my biggest fear is
that they would have sacrificed a ridiculous amount to be

(09:15):
able to give me this thing, only for me to
abandon it like two weeks later. So I'm glad I
never got it.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, I mean there's also like, so one of
my biggest shames is not really a big shame. I
got a butt. I got rid of a whole bunch
of toys when I moved down to Atlanta when I
was seven, But I had a bunch of like Star
Wars action figures that I'd play with. But I also

(09:41):
was I had a really bad habit of chewing on everything.
My teeth are paying for it now. I got a
bunch of little microfractures from chewing on pencils and pens
and those little plastic pacifiers that were cool in the
nineties and two thousands and all that stuff. So I had,
like I had like the layout with the helmet on
from Return of the Jedi, I.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Think, yeah, where she was posing as a bounty hunter.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, and I chewed that helmet all to heck and back,
and like I was a kid, and I played with
them and I enjoyed them so like they wouldn't have
been mint condition, but man if I if I had
held onto them or taken care of them, it'd be
worth something I had.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
I had dozens of Star Wars figures. I don't know
if you ever saw them, but they had like these
big carrying cases that look like Darth Vader or C
three Po and you would you know, they were probably
you know, I don't know, twenty four inches tall or so,
maybe more, and you would open them and it'd be
a case that you could fit figures into, and you
could even put stickers with the figure names and stuff

(10:46):
on there. I had Darth Theater and C three Po
and they were both full on both sides. Like, I
had so many figures and I played with them a lot,
so fortunately those did get a lot of use. I
also had several of the Star Wars vehicles, like I
had the Millennium Falcon. I never got the standard tie Fighter,

(11:10):
but I had the Taie Interceptor from Return of the Jedi.
I had a snow Speeder from Empire Strikes Back. I
had an X Wing. Yeah, I had a job of
the huts little placet with a trapdoor and stuff. I
really thought those toys were great, and like it was
proof of George Lucas having genius as far as marketing

(11:36):
and merchandising ghos, right, Like, you can argue that the
quality of the films went down after Empire, and I
would not argue against that. I would say, you're right,
But he sure as heck knew how to create creatures
and characters that would appeal to kids who wanted the
toy for sure.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
You know, I think maybe I'd talked about this on
the podcast before, Like I have a friend who had it, who, like,
in the last ten years, introduced their kid to Star
Wars right because their kid was getting old enough for it,
and they started with the prequels, which by the time
they came out, you know, you and I weren't super
big fans of them, but for a kid getting into

(12:18):
Star Wars. They work really well despite the fact that
they're all political and stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah. The first one's about trade disputes.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah. Yeah. So you're right, very good at appealing to kids,
and it's always so interesting because when I watch back now,
I'm like, I like, I enjoy Star Wars. I enjoyed
the original trilogy, but I watch it now and I'm like,
I enjoyed that as a kid.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, Well, I mean that the stuff that was made
for children when we were kids tended to be less
dumbed down and saccharin than a lot of stuff that's
made today. That's not to say that everyone who makes
children's programming is into the same traps, but it is common.

(13:04):
And you know, you look at like I look at
stuff that I watched as a kid that was, you know,
in some stuff that got like a g rating or whatever,
and it's got more edge than a lot of things
that come out today that have maybe PG or even
PG thirteen. So we were a little less precious, both
for good and for bad. Like I don't want to

(13:25):
say the stuff made for us was just inherently better,
because there was plenty of really terrible stuff made for
kids too. When we were growing up, Like again, I
collected he Man characters. That cartoon was just a commercial
for toys. It had no redeeming quality.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
The new Kevin Smith he Man's cartoon Both Seasons is
quite fun. We actually just recently sold off all of
our so we have this room in our house called
the Sometimes it's called the Closet of Broken Dreams and
sometimes it's called the Closet of Childhood dream I prefer
the latter, And it's where we keep all of like

(14:02):
our old toys and stuff like that, and old computers
and things like. We still have a Commodore sixty four
because it just has It's not mine, it's Tony's, but
that model of computer has a lot of sentiment to me.
That's how I met my very best friend and who
I've known since I was too And so we have

(14:23):
this closet. He recently just sold all he got all
of his he Man he Men stuff, he Men he.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Man's Masters of the Universe.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
He got all of his Masters of the Universe stuff
down from Pittsburgh and decided that there were other people
who would enjoy playing with it more, and so just
leaving it in the closet.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
So yeah, that's kind of how I was too. Ultimately,
I was like, you know, I guess I could go
to the whole eBay thing, but honestly, like, I don't
really have an interest in that. It's also a lot
of work, you know, just making sure you've got the
right addresses and everything, all the trips of the post all,
it's all that kind of stuff. And I would rather
like donate to like a second hand shop, especially one

(15:04):
there's one in our area where the profits go to
animal rescue centers. So I'm like, well, if I'm gonna
donate anything, it's going to be there. Yeah, so that
I know that not only might someone else be able
to find something that they want, like either want for
themselves or want to give to someone else and bring

(15:25):
joy to that person's life, but also the profits go
to help animals. I'm like, that's a win win win.
I'm going to do that.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
It is. Yeah. I have gotten rid of some stuff,
like I don't have any of my barbies anymore, but
I still have several of my stuffed animals from when
I was a kid, just for sentimentality. I've got my
lego and the better blocks that used to like flex
and bend and like you can put them in a circle.
I have all of the big green cases of the

(15:51):
National Geographic Animal Cards. I have all of those. Still,
I have some cuties, I have my my little ponies,
I have all of my legos. So I have a
harder time letting go of that sentimental stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well, I had to clear out a lot of space
for all the laboo boos.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
No, no, it's fine, it's it's I just we've seen
it before with beanie babies, yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Oh yeah, and with Cabbage Patch Kids. I'm old enough
to remember when that was a big thing. Or Tickle
Me Elmo, Like yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Mean like Cabbage Patch Kids and tickle Me Elmo. You
can still get and there's still fun toys. I mean
like the collect the collectibility of it.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah. We Cotch Patch Kids for a while was kind
of viewed as collectibles because each one was unique and
came with its own adoption certificate and everything. So you
couldn't really collect collect because the idea was that no
two would be the same, right, But you could have
a collection of Cabbage Patch Kids.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
You've been to cabbage Patch Land, USA or whatever it is, Yeah,
to watch a Cabbage Pats to be born.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah. Yeah, Oh gosh, why can I not remember the
name of this now It's General something. Yeah, it's in
It's it's up in North Georgia. Yes, I have been there.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
It is grip Babyland General, Babyland General.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yes, I was like I knew that General was in there.
So my dad used to teach at true at McConnell College,
which is in the same general area of Cleveland, Georgia,
which is where Babyland General is. So I have been
to Babyland General multiple times. Not as an adult. I

(17:38):
don't even know if it's still open, but as a
kid I went several times.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
I believe it is. I was never big into cabbage
patch again. It was more care Bears, Rainbow Bright glow Worms,
sure Storks, Teddy Rouxman. I loved Teddy Roxman. Babyland General
is still open.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
What do you know? I honestly I did not know that,
But now I kind of want to organize a group trip,
not to and I would not want us to be disruptive,
but just to take in the spectacle and the catch, right,
Like I am not one of those people who's like, hey,
let's all let's all go and act up at this

(18:20):
place that we clearly don't really have an interest in
because there are people there who are actually trying to
enjoy themselves. Don't be a jerk.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, you know, I I don't know if it would
hold up, but it is really interesting.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, I think as I think as a fifty year
old adult, I'd be walking around going you know, this
just doesn't live up to my expectations anymore. Man.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I feel like I'm tripping on yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah, yeah, no, tripping would be the right word. Yes, yeah,
But let's let's move on. We've spent like twenty minutes
talking about this, haven't even gotten into the stuff we've
watched this last time.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
But we don't have a listener reach out to us
and share some of their Christmas music. By the way,
I am finishing putting finishing touches on a Christmas playlist.
I'm putting on a Spotify because that's what I've got
access to. But I'll try to make a list in
case that's not the listening tool you use as well
of all of jonathan My favorite kind of geeky fun
holiday songs, and I'll add the ones that people share

(19:22):
with us as well. But our listener who wrote in
and shared their favorite songs. Also said they loved our
bands so excellent. We're good, We're good good.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, that one person at least is gonna be okay
with it. All right, Well, let's talk about the stuff
we've watched. This is the last time we recorded. I'm
gonna go ahead and go first because it's pretty quick.
So I watched a little bit more of Superstore, but
I have to take that slowly because the cringe element
of it is so high that it hits my threshold
pretty fast. I'm still enjoying it, Like all the performances

(19:54):
are great, but man, they'll further I go the cringe
er that show gets watched several episodes of Stumble, which
is that cheerleader show that we had talked about about,
kind of done the style of the Officer Parks and rec.
I think that Stumble is a funny show. I think
the performances are great. I think it is incredibly rushed,

(20:19):
Like the first episode takes place over six weeks in
one like half hour episode. Yeah, and so a lot
of stuff happens in that one episode where they essentially
have to skip forward, and like I'm sitting there thinking, wow,
I would have liked to have seen how this came about.
Like there's a whole thing where the main character needs

(20:41):
to put together a cheerleading squad of ten and on
the first time, first day of tryouts, only one person
shows up. But instead of showing like how they gradually build,
it'll be like skipping ahead two weeks and now they've
got six people on the team or whatever, And I'm like,
but I wanted to see how each of these quirky

(21:01):
people came about to join the team. That kind of thing.
So I get the feeling that it's because it's a
short season, so in order to get from the point
where they start to where they wanted to be at
the end of that season, they needed to take a
bunch of shortcuts. But to me, like, that's a strike

(21:23):
against the show. I still enjoy a lot of the jokes,
which are corny and silly, and that's why I like
him so much. So I'm not yes, oh yeah, oh yeah, no,
I would say it's much better than that. I mean,
one of the dumb jokes, and I've told you this already, Ariel,
is that the college where the coach used to work
before she gets fired is named Sammy Davis Senior Junior

(21:47):
College and the head of the school. His last name
is Martin, so he's Dean Martin of Sammy Davis Senior
Junior College. And every time they would just rattle off
Sammy Davis Junior College, I chuckled. I'm a simple man,
so I'm not saying that that's great humor. I'm saying
it works for me. But anyway, I enjoy it. So

(22:11):
I haven't finished the episodes that have already been launched,
but the ones I've seen I've liked. And then I
watched the first episode of Fallout season two, which I
also really enjoyed, but I'm not going to talk about
because I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Give spoilers and not watched it yet.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
So I very much liked it, and I watched. I
am one episode behind on plural Us, so you are
one episode ahead of me. But I did watch because
we're recording today on a Monday, because we had other
stuff going on at the end of the week, but
we didn't want to go too long without the episode,

(22:49):
and because of the holidays, it's really kind of making
things a little more complicated.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
You. So the last episode you saw, I had the Jungle.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, it was the cap.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
That was the last episode I saw was the Gap.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Okay. I also watched Ploribus, so I did watch one
episode ahead. It is so you didn't watch a lot.
We talked about this, and I'm sorry, I have been
running on a little sleep. I baked two hundred and
like sixty cookies over a day and a half.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, it was supposed some of those days she didn't
have a working oven.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Well that's the problem is it was supposed to be
over like three days and I didn't have a working oven.
And then I had to go get an oven Thursday morning,
bring it into my house, install it, move the other
of an out of fence are heavy, you guys to
bring up steps when you've got a bad back, especially,
And then I had to bake all the cookies between

(23:45):
Thursday and Friday so I could get them in the
mail Saturday, so that like the people who like Tony
has several family members that we give them a big
batch of cookies for like their holiday parties, and we
do that whether we go to Pittsburgh or not. So
I wanted to make sure that they got him in
time for Chris in Christmas Eve. So Saturday was like
the end all be all deadline, so my brain is

(24:06):
not fully here. But like in Lost, the first nine
episodes deal with the people who have crashed on the
island and surviving on an island as a plane crash victim, right,
and then on the tenth episode, things get weird and

(24:26):
interesting to me, Like the tenth episode is where things
really pick up. Porbus has been picking up all along.
Like the first episode was super interesting to me. The
second and third I had some friends who felt like
it the plot didn't move quite enough for them, and
I can see that. Though I quite enjoyed it, this
episode felt different in a good way, like it still

(24:49):
had the same vibe. It was still the same show.
It wasn't like they took a hard left turn, but
it definitely felt really cool and intriguing to me. I
don't want to oversell it because I don't want you
to be super excited for it, Jonathan and then to
be like, oh, this is poop, But.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
I appreciate it, like it's so it's on my list,
and you know, this is a show I watch with Becca,
so I have to wait till we're both available and awake,
and it's hard to do because she has she has
late hours, so we just haven't had the time to
do it. But that's on my list. There's also Red

(25:28):
Letter Media's Christmas Best of the Worst came out over
the weekend, so that's on my list too. I love
I love their Christmas episodes. They're always insane. I mean,
not usually not as crazy as their Halloween episodes, because
that's when, at least in the past twice people got
black out drunk. But the but the Christmas ones, they

(25:49):
usually have a gimmick like they'll have a whole bunch
of different movies wrapped up and it'll either be a
Christmas movie or something else. So like one year it
was Christmas or meaning that Canon pictures, so like Chuck
Norris movies and all these like schlocky action films of

(26:10):
the eighties and early nineties were possible options. Or you
might get a really bad Christmas movie. Another one was
Christmas or cats, one was Christmas or Crocodiles, or one
was kickmus or it was either going to be a
Christmas movie or a movie that on the cover has
someone kicking on it nice nice and they're like, oh,

(26:31):
so it could be a kung Fu movie, or it
could be the Rockets.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I also watched mighty nine more of it, still way
behind on it, but I'm enjoying it more Task Master
New Zealand. Again, this is just it's been such a
crazy year and especially a crazy last quarter. So like
being able to just put on something dumb that is
both entertaining and new and doesn't take too much brain
power has been kind of our our go to.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
I did watch Wake Up dead Man.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
What did you think?

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I quite enjoyed it. I was really impressed that I
couldn't guess the plot.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
How it happened. Yeah, so you surprised? Were you surprised
at how long it took for Blanc to be part
of the story.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
No, because you told me it took him like a
good portion of the movie and then all of a sudden,
IM like, oh, he's already here. I was expecting him
to come in much further because of what you had said.
But I really I thought all of the performances were stellar.
You know, it is it is a a movie that
deals with It takes place in a church, so a parish,

(27:45):
so you know that can go a few ways, but
I thought it they handled that topic very well.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah. Actually, I thought they were very respectful.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, yeah, like so you know, as a person of faith,
they there was a line in the movie. Sorry I'm
not going to get preachy here, but there was a
line in the movie where someone's like, well, we need
to we need to condemn the wicked or whatever and
and bring him to justice. And then the lead character, Judd,

(28:19):
who's this guy who used to be like a fighter
and is now a priest, is like, no, we need
to serve the wicked and bring them to mercy. And
like so that kind of encapsulates a whole lot of
what I feel, and you know, what my faith is about.
And going in, like, I fully expected it to completely
pan stuff, and you know, I just I just if

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I anticipate that, then it's not a shock, you know.
But yeah, it was handled very respectfully.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Well, I mean specifically, you know, you know, Blanc is
an atheist, so and since he is like the smartest
man in whatever room he goes into, you figure, oh,
so the whole movie is going to be saying his
point of view is the right one, right, Like, you
just assume that the movie is going to send you
the message of whatever anyone else believes. Blanc is the

(29:11):
one who's right. But this movie takes the issue of
faith in a very different direction, and Blanc himself sort
of washes his hands and backs out of that entire
conversation out of respect and like, to me, the moment
where Blanc makes that decision was probably the most powerful
moment in the movie.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
It was really cool. It was really cool, and I
think like it's a very regardless of if you believe
in a god or God's or whatever or not, a
greater power in the universe, Like it isn't that this
movie actually had an important message, which is you have
to love the other people around you. You have to.

(29:53):
I don't know, it just felt it felt like treat
people with mercy and grace because you don't know where
they're coming from, and maybe you can help them.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. I thought, to me,
this one comes up probably right after Knives Out. I
still think Knives Out is my favorite of the three,
but that largely is because of the joy of discovery.
You know, that's the first time you get to see
Blanc and see him in action, and so by the
time you get to wake Up Dead Man, you kind

(30:25):
of know Blanc's approach and it doesn't make it less good.
But you know you're not discovering it, you already know it.
And I thought the performances were all great. I thought
the mystery itself was fun.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
I thought everybody's motive was believable.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
I thought the explanation for what happened with the mystery.
Not to give spoilers, but I thought the explanation made sense,
which yeah, which I can't always say for like, Glass
Onions still feels a bit like like it depends very
heavily on coincidence, whereas Knives Out and Wake Up dead

(31:05):
Man both feel more grounded to me.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah, yeah, I mean glass Onion was ridiculous. I mean
it's it's also harder to like relate to an island
full of rich people for me personally.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Yeah yeah, same. I Also I also am not rich, So.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Not that people who are rich or unrelatable, but like
those are circumstances that I haven't outside of, I haven't
encountered outside of like daydreaming or role playing maybe like yeah,
So to to the to the point where like I
was getting the cast of glass Onion and don't blink,
uh mixed up, which don't blink was the Channing Tatum

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one about a bunch of people going to a rich
guy's island.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Right, right right, I haven't seen that one. Did you
actually watch that or you just mix it up from
the trailer.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
I just mixed it up from the trailer because it
felt so similar from the trailer to me. And like
I was like, Channing Tatum was in Glass Idiot. No
he wasn't. That was Ed Norton.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
But like, yeah, but I can see how because again,
like you say, it's they both involve plots where a
rich person is bringing people to a private island and
nefarious things happen, like that's yeah, that's the end. So
I could totally see how. And they both came out
in pretty close proximity to each other, like, you know,

(32:24):
within a year or so, so I can totally As
someone who mixes up names constantly, I totally get where
you're coming from.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, But I just I thought this was a really
strong It wasn't the one I was most excited for,
but I very much enjoyed it. I just thought it
was a very well written movie. And then while I
was baking cookies, I watched a whole bunch of Christmas stuff.
So when I put up my Christmas tree, I watched Scrooge,
and then over the course of my baking cookies, I
watched National Lampoon. I watched em Otter's Jug Band Christmas.

(32:56):
I watched Charlie Brown Christmas, and then like the auto play,
put on Red One, which is fine. I enjoyed that
movie last year, and I enjoyed it again this year,
and then it put on It's a Very Merry Muppet
Christmas two thousand and two, which I had never seen before.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Is that the one with the letter to Santa One?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
I don't know. It's Whoopi Goldberg. I think plays God.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Oh, I don't think I've seen this one.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
It's it's kind of It's a Wonderful Life m because
I think Kermit says it would be better if the
theater is going under. They owe Joe and Cusack a
bunch of money, and she wants it on Christmas Eve,
and at one point, like Kermit keeps trying to fix
it and feels like everything keeps swalling apart, He's like,
they just be better without me, And so they get

(33:50):
to go around and see what life would be like
for everyone without him, and David Arquette plays like his
Little Angel who his little Francis Clarence Clarence, Thank you
Francis Clarence. But it was weird. At one point, Scooter
was cage dancing and I had no idea what was happening.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
I have not seen this, and I'm not entirely convinced
it's real and that you didn't just have a cookie
stress induced hallucination.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
I would agree with you, but I did look it up.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
I mean, like, I watched the Fraggle Christmas one. We
talked about that one previously, and that was cute, and
I've watched There are a couple of other Muppet Christmas specials,
like there's one where there was one with John Denver
way back in the day that I loved as a child,
and then there was one where the gimmick is all
the muppets are visiting Fozzy's mother's house, but Fozzie didn't

(34:50):
tell his mom and she's getting ready to go on
a tropical vacation. She's like, ah, I got a Christmas
to myself. I'm going to go. I'll spend it on
an island. And then all these muppets show up and
crash at her place, and so her plans are completely
you know, waylaid. But that one's really cute too. And

(35:11):
then there was there's one that's about a letter to
Santa that takes place like it starts off in a
post office or something. And I tried watching it, and
as much as I love the Muppets, I got maybe
seven or eight minutes into it and then I just bailed.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, I dare you to try this one.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
This one sounds like a fever dream.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
It is a fever dream, you know, still on my list?

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Or Gremlins fantastic movie. Not a Christmas movie. I mean
it happens at Christmas.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
It happens at Christmas, and it starts off with baby,
Please Come Home. So we might try A Big Christmas
which came out a couple of years ago but we
never watched. And then if I'm feeling really dumb, I
might try Dear Santa, which is the one where it
with Jack Black, where kid writes a letter to Santa
but misspells it to Satan.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah, it's just I've heard that that's terrible though.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Okay, so maybe I won't try that.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Like, I've just heard lots of negative things, like not
even like terrible in a way that's entertaining, is what
I've heard. But I say that as someone who has
not seen it, so.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
I conceptually, conceptually, I find it amusing.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Yeah. Actually, I think today, in our discussion of some
of the stuff we're going to talk about, I think
there's at least one instance of a movie that, in
my opinion, is probably one of those that's best as
a concept, but that once it exists, people don't care
about it anymore. I' lah, Snakes on a Plane. Like
that's the perfect example, right, Everyone wanted Snakes on a

(36:40):
Plane to exist. No one cared once it did because
it flopped.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, although it gave us some wonderful music.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Yeah. I did watch that movie, but me too. You
know again, I was like one of the few because
it was one of those things where everyone's like, oh,
of course this should exist. No, I'm not gonna bother
to actually watch it. Now.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
I kind of checked out when there was a snake
on a Snake on a plane.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
I got you, I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Yep. That's when I checked out in that movie. But
I still love the I'm.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Gonna leave that comment in its somewhat ambiguous place and
move on to thirty seconds or less. Sound good to you?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Sounds perfect?

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Okay, I believe I start? Am? I correct? Yes, okay,
here we go. In the ongoing battle over who gets
to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, the wb D board officially
rejected Paramount's hostile takeover bid for the company. Now, Warner
Brothers had already signed on to be Netflix's dance partner,
and some analysts believe Warner Brothers rejected the Paramount bid

(37:45):
in order to push Paramount to make an even larger offer,
which is understandable since if Warner Brothers does pull out
of the deal with Netflix, they will owe two point
eight billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Whoof Okay, we have so Man of Tomorrow, which is
the second Superman movie by James Gunn, is slated to
start filming in January in Atlanta, boop, and they have
just cast their brainiac. Lars Eidinger, will be playing Brainiac
in Man of Tomorrow. He has done a bunch of
stuff I haven't seen, including Babylon, Berlin, All the Light

(38:20):
We Cannot See and White Noise.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeah. I think it's great because I don't think he's
that well known in the US, which is almost like
casting an unknown for your film, and I much prefer
that then watching a movie where the whole time I'm like, Wow,
that's Willem Dafoe all right.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Anyway, he looks kind of like, I can't remember the
after's name, Sean Austin Green or Austin Sean Green or
something like that. Scot No, no, no, okay.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Well, but hasn't shared any concrete plans for Fallout five.
Development chief Todd Howard did say that the events of
Fallout the television series will be considered canon in game
War Movie forward, but he also said they don't know
where or when that game will actually take place, and
seeing how that seems to be fundamental information, I would
guess we're at least several years away from the next game.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
As kag Elephant wants, saying, there ain't no rest for
the upstanding and right now this just we got, apparently
spoilers that Captain America's specifically Chris Evans as Captain America
is returning to Avengers Doomsday. I wanted to let them,
I wanted them to let him just retire. I thought

(39:34):
he wasn't coming back. I'm sad about it.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
I'll give you my theory about Doomsday once thirty seconds
or less is done if you remind me. All right, Okay,
since we're in the realm of comic books, Archie is
getting another refresh. Archie Comics will partner with Onny Press
to release monthly comics in late twenty twenty six following
the continuing adventures of Archie's Gang, plus Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,
Josie and the Pussycats, and more. Indie comic writers artists

(40:00):
will contribute, and one of the titles is Archie in Hell.
So this should be pretty darn While.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Beauty in the Beast is doing their guest on live
action spinoff, which this is one of those villains that
Jonathan and I both agree does not need an origin
story necessarily. I don't even think he's a character in
the original Beauty and the Beast. He's a Disney original.
It is being the latest draft is being written by
Dave Callahan. Yeah that's it.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah, fair enough, That's all it deserves in my opinion. Well,
way back in June twenty twenty four, I mentioned a
developing spinoff of the Meghan sci fi horror series. This
one was called soul Mate, with the number eight in
there and it would be about a grieving man who
gets a companion android before things go wrong. Universal had

(40:52):
slated the film for release on January ninth of twenty
twenty six, but after the box office failure of Megan
two point zero, it appears the studio has lost all
confidence and has pulled the film, shopping it to other distributors. Ouch. H,
we are.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Getting a lot boo boo movie. I believe that Paul
King is going to be directing it. He has previously
done Wonko, which I finally watched over the holidays over
Thanksgiving and it was okay. It was better than I anticipated,
but it wasn't good, and Paddington, which is phenomenal, So
I have no idea what this movie will fall. He
is producing it with Department n M and WEX and

(41:31):
she and the only reason I think this is interesting
is because the late Ladder did Wish Dragon in a
Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which feels right on point,
and the former did the Hand that Rocks the Cradle remake.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Wow. On February fourth, it'll be time to play the music.
It'll be time to light the lights, because Disney Plus
will unveil a new The Muppet Show event special with
very special guest star Sabrina Carpenter. Yay. The show will
debut on The Muppet Show's fiftieth anniversary. And as someone
who watched the original series when it was on TV,

(42:05):
all I can say is whoof, I'm.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Gonna have to get distant plus again, I guess to
watch that anyhow. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that hits you
in the fields. Last Samurai Comic Standing has been renewed.
It's not a comedic show. Last Samurai Standing has been
renewed for a season two it Netflix. That's pretty cool.
I haven't watched the first season. I really want to,

(42:31):
but it takes a brain power to watch a show
with subtitles, and I don't know if it's dubbed.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Yeah. That's the Battle Royale style samurai movie or series
that came out well back in two thousand and seven,
Brian Fuller's creative and quirky series Pushing Daisies hit television screens.
In that series, a sweet natured purveyor of pies has
the magical ability to bring the dead back to life.
But if a reanimated person is alive for more than

(42:58):
a minute, some other life will extinguish to keep the balance. Also,
there was singing in it. Anyway. It only lasted two seasons,
but Fuller has recently said there are hopes for a
long delayed season three. I sure hope it happens.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
That's really cool. Remember like a few episodes ago, a
handful of episodes ago, when you asked me what I
would like to be turned into a Broadway play, a
Broadway musical pushing Daisies, that would be good. Yep, Last
in the thirty Seconds or Last Sony, which already had
a share of Charlie Brown, has bought a lot more

(43:37):
of Charlie Brown, to the tune of four hundred and
sixty million dollars. That got them a forty one percent steak, which,
including with their already owned steak in the property in
the Peanuts property, get put them up to eighty percent,
with the Schultz family owning twenty percent. Hope they treat

(43:58):
it right. Please don't more be a my snoopy.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
I'm just amazed that they spent nearly half a billion
dollars because I thought you could get it for peanuts.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah, that's your write up of Sody pays way more
than peanuts for Peanuts was pretty brilliant. I meant to
mention it, but I really like the Peanuts I yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Mean like a lot of the Charlie Brown. I read
the comic strip, but a lot of the Charlie Brown
specials are in my favorites too, Like I Charlie Brown
Christmas is always going to be a classic, Like that's
just and Charlie Brown, Halloween, the Great Pumpkin. It's the
Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, that one. Even the musical You're
a Good Man Charlie Brown is I still love that musical. Yeah,

(44:47):
it's I've got a soft spot in my heart for
the Peanuts property. All right, you want to hear my
Avengers doomsday?

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Gary, I had my fingers quat crossed to remember, and
I was going to completely forget.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
So yes, okay, So have you seen Fantastic four?

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (45:04):
So you saw the stinger at the end of Fantastic four, Yes,
which was not a surprise. There's going to be some
spoilers here, folks, So if you have not seen Fantastic four,
you might want to skip ahead, like a minute or two. Okay,
So at the end of Fantastic four you get a
little shot where the Fantastic Four coming to their big

(45:26):
apartment area and they see that a Doctor Doom is
bent over the crib of Franklin, the baby of Sue
and Reed Richards, and that's it, Like it's just a
it's a tease for Doctor Doom. And so in the

(45:47):
teaser that was shown before Ash and Fire Avatar ashen Fire,
you get a look at Chris Evans on a it's
like a motorcycle. Chris Evans is on it. He comes
inside this house. The same house is at the end
of Avengers End Game where they have the memorial for
Tony Stark and he looks at his do it here?

Speaker 1 (46:09):
I think, oh, never mind.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
He look says costume, but he closes it in a
chest so he's not picking it up, and then turns
around he picks up a babe. So you've got a
baby with Captain America. He got a baby with a
Fantastic Four. You saw she Hulk, right, Yes, Hulk's got
a son.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
You've got two kids of Wanda's.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Running around young Avengers.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
No, no, Doctor Doom's going to be stealing hero babies.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Oh, that might be possible. They also probably are setting
up for Planet Hulk and Young Avengers.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Sure, sure, further down the road. But but first, hero babies.
So it's gonna have us. It's gonna have a circus
train full of hero babies, babies. It's gonna be a
reference a direct reference to Batman Returns where the Piguin
has all the babies in the in the circus cages.
It's gonna we're gonna see doctor.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yes, it's also a great Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
That's true. It does take place during Christmas. Also got
Christopher walking and that is a great character.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
Christmas Christmas for walking. No, that is a very I
hope that happens, because that would be hilarious, especially if
they do like a look who's talking to kind of
a I.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Have a feeling hero babies are gonna take a be
part of it. I don't know for what to what end. Honestly,
I hope that's I hope I'm totally wrong about that theory.
I hope i am, because I don't feel that that's
big enough. Well, it needs to be like a threat
to people beyond just the heroes.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Well, also, several of those are not babies, so like
Wanda's kids are not babies.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
That's true, not a bibit.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yeah, I was hoping that you were going to say,
and then you were like, oh, and then he saw
his uniform, his costume, whatever it is, his out of it.
It was like, oh, he's not really Captain America. He's
actually the Flame, the Flat, He's Johnny Storm of the

(48:21):
Human the Human Torch.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
He would he would most likely be no mad in
this if he was going to take up a hero
thing again, because that's what Steve Rogers did. Also, I
forgot four adopted a daughter in the last Thor movie.
So I'm just saying, like, lots of these Avengers characters
have kids now.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
I mean, they are setting up young Avengers and Kate
Bishop is going to lead them.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
All, so I'm assuming they're still doing that. I don't know.
I honestly don't know where Marvel is going at this
point because I don't know. It feels to me like
they've lost a lot of their confidence. And part of
that is because like their plans got totally put sideways
with the whole Kang thing, Like, yeah, that was a
big issue. But another part, honestly, I think a big

(49:09):
part of it is that when they were building it,
the first time, Like originally with Iron Man and the
Hulk and Captain America. When they were building it the
first time, it was not yet a huge success, and
they were taking their time and building up these characters
and introducing them and giving them traits and letting the
audience know who these people are. Then those get really successful,

(49:33):
you start getting the team movies, all that works great,
Then you essentially have disbanded the team at the end
of Avengers Endgame. What really needed to happen, I think
is essentially a repeat of what they had done to
begin with. But I felt like they were kind of
taking the shortcut with characters and stuff and just saying like, well,

(49:57):
you loved everything else, you're gonna love this too. They didn't. Yeah,
I don't feel like they took the right steps, and
the ones that they did try and do just didn't
work for me. Like the Eternals just did not work
for me, even though like some of the elements of
the Eternals still play out in the movies that follow up,
like the last Captain America movie, the What If.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
I liked that what If episode.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Yeah, but I was mostly thinking of Captain America because
they had the celestial that had turned the stone in
the ocean.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
It's hard to it's hard to ignore that. I you know,
I I'm glad that they're taking their time. I understand
that they've lost some of their confidence. I mean, even
when they were building up with the King before all that,
before they let that actor go, they were still kind
of whiffin though. Because thor Love and Thunder didn't get

(50:49):
great reviews, the Multiverse of Madness didn't get great reviews.
Ant Man Quantum Mania did not get great reviews. I
watched them all. They were all enjoyable, but they definitely
were on the weaker side of the Marvel universe.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
So yeah, yeah, no.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
And I thought She Hulk was too just because they
made the episodes too short.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Yeah, I I I think I don't think all the
series are great, like all the streaming series are great,
but I think the great ones are better than the movies.
Post end game, like I think, you know, WandaVision is
better than any of the film's post end game. I

(51:31):
think Hawkeye is probably as good as the best post
end game.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
I quite enjoyed that.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
I really like She Hulk. I know that's a divisive one,
but I really liked it.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
I liked it again, they just kept ending in a
place where it it felt too short and they felt
like not good cliffhangers for each episode.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
I was okay with it, but I also you know,
I thought Falcon and the Winter Soldier ended pretty well,
but I felt it was a fairly weak arc, and
I don't feel like it was explained well enough, Like
I understood what was going on kind of, but I
felt like you needed to have a little bit more

(52:15):
reflection about what would happen to the world if half
of its population just disappeared instantly, and like this whole
idea of people like, now there's enough space for everybody
who's left behind, but then what happens when those people
come back? You know? And then you know, there was

(52:36):
a lot of it was dealing with something pretty complicated
and also kind of relevant to certain areas of the world,
but it was so light touch with it. It didn't
say anything interesting. Really.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Yeah, yeah, Secret Invasion was a big miss.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
I didn't even I watched the beginning of it, Like
the very first part of the first episode I thought
was promising, but I didn't. I never watched beyond that
because it was just one of those things where I
had to stop for some reason and I never went back,
and then everything I heard about it was negative.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
I watched two episodes and had no interest in more.
I was just I can't care Echo. I really love
the character. I feel like the series was I don't
know if written poorly is wrong, maybe disjointed or paced
poorly for what it was like, the pacing was weird.
I really enjoyed Moonnight. I know I'm in the less group.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
I liked Moonnight a lot. Yeah, but I also felt
like that's going to be a one off that never
comes back, and.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
The new Daredevil series is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
See, I have to I still have to watch all
the old stuff first, because I never I never watched
all the seasons of The Daredevil plus all the Defenders ones.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
So you need to watch the first season of Daredevil,
the first season of Jessica Jones. Although Jessica Jones gets
pretty upsetting.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
I have seen that one.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
I have seen that one, the first season of Luke Cage,
the last the last five minutes of the second season
of Iron Fist, the last five minutes I've said this before,
the last five minutes of the second season were what
I wanted out of that show and then it ended.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
But it's not gonna tell me who he is.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
You don't really need to know.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
He's a guy who punches stuff hard.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
And the Defenders is okay, Like, yeah, the Daredevil series
does kind of pick up where Dary Devil left off.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
What about The Punisher? You left off the Punisher.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
I watched the season of that, I didn't watch the
second season, and I was completely able to follow what
happened in the New Daredevil without having watched the second
season of Punisher. And I really like John Barenthal.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
But it just.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
The second season. I don't know, it was just it
just didn't straight me.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Well, that's because you weren't on set. If you've been
once that, you've been struck a lot of.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Times, why you got to rub it in, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
I just know it's a very violent show as all.
I was just make a good joke about violence.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
No, it's true. Until I get my back fixed, I
probably shouldn't do too heavy of stunts.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
I would recommend against it. Well, we got tons of
stuff to talk about. We're almost up to an hour
all around. How about we're going to be a week episode? Yeah,
and we're going to be like, I don't know if
we're going to be able to record. I should be
able to record. I think it's January twod is the Friday. Yeah,
I should be able to record then. But all right,

(55:42):
let's let's talk about stuff what we shouldn't talk about,
but we're gonna do it anyway. That's what we call
this section.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Yeah, and the first is for a movie called Breakdown
nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
It's really more of a documentary series.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Oh, documentary series. I So I wasn't alive in nineteen
seventy five, so that was the view.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
But then right, oh my gosh, okay, let me take over.
So I was born in nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
I did watch the trailer.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Yeah, so this is it's a documentary that's about the
film industry in the mid seventies. It's honestly, it's not
just about nineteen seventy five, because they mentioned a couple
of movies that weren't released until seventy six. So that's
on you, documentary, But it's about how the film industry
was changing in the seventies. You started to get these

(56:37):
filmmaker tours. You also got the birth of the blockbuster
because Jaws was like the first big summer blockbuster came
out the same week I did. And then but you
had lots of other movies like One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest Tommy, like the film movie version of The
Who's album. Barry Lindon The Man Who Would Be King

(57:02):
came out in seventy five. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
came out in nineteen seventy five. So this is a
documentary where you have a lot of talking heads, folks
that are like filmmakers, actors, comedians. Patton Oswald is one
of them who are seth rogen. Yeah, they're commenting on
the time, the political culture, all that kind of stuff,

(57:26):
as well as what was going on in film. I
read a review about this and it sounds like Decider
Road a review and on Decider, whomever it was that
wrote the review, I should have written down their name.
I apologize for that. But their biggest criticism was that
they don't really spend a lot of time on any
one talking point. It's one of those things where you're

(57:48):
hit by a lot of different stuff one after the other,
so you get a lot of information, but it's pretty shallow.
They're not diving deep, but they still said it's worth watching.
Just don't expect it to be like super insightful. It
might be more like, oh, here's a conversation starter or
something where you see something and you're like, oh, I

(58:09):
want to learn more about that. But you know, I
had to put it in here because it was it's
about nineteen seventy five. It's my birth year, and I
do think that films in the nineteen seventies took a
pretty big change. Like that was you know, you're talking
about the death of the studio system, which had been
dying for like a decade at that point, and this

(58:33):
idea of filmmakers who had a vision and were able
to execute it. That was a big thing. So I'm
interested in it. I have not yet watched it.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
I want to watch it too, because the topic is
important to me, even though I've not seen many of
those movies. I've never seen one that flew over the
Cuckoo's nest.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
You've seen Jaws.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
I have seen Jaws.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Had you watch it?

Speaker 1 (58:55):
I've seen Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yeah, it is. It
is interesting to see the way that life shapesy in
the film and entertainment industry. And vice versa. It's just
it's really interesting. So yeah, I think it'll be one
of those things that I'll run across when I have

(59:16):
no time to be like, oh yeah, I wanted to
watch that, unlike the next thing, which I absolutely want
to watch, which is a biopic called Jimmy about Jimmy Stewart.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Yeah. I had to put this in for a friend
of the show, Shay Lee, because she's a huge Jimmy Stewart. Stan.
I watched this and kJ Appa is playing young Jimmy Stewart,
specifically around the time of World War Two, where Jimmy

(59:49):
Stewart is determined to enlist in the armed forces even
as people within the entertainment industry are calling for him
not to do that. Uh so, yeah, I want to
hear more about your your take on this because I
don't want to I don't want to influence your your thoughts.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Uh. Just uh kJ Appa is uh he plays I
think rich Archie in Riverdale.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Oh Diddy, maybe, Yeah, he plays Archie. I never watched Riverdale,
so I am blissfully ignorant of that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
Yeah. So he played Archie in Riverdale. So if you're
a CW geek, that's where you would know him from.
So like, I I enjoy some Jimmy, you know, I
enjoy Harvey. I enjoy it's a wonderful life stuff like that, Right.
That's that's I think kJ Appa in the trailer does
a very good job of playing him. I I like

(01:00:51):
there was there was a moment in the in the
trailer where you know, everybody's trying to tell Jimmy not
to go to war, and he's like, but I play
these roles all the time, and I want to actually
do some good. That I just thought thought was really
moving and that's what made me want to see it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
That's good. Yeah, I so I have a different opinion
or a different It hit me differently, but I'm happy
to hear that that's how you feel for me. I
felt that it was a little more schmaltzy, a little
more saccharine, a little heavy handed. Now it is true,
Jimmy Stewart did enlist in the armed Forces. He ended

(01:01:31):
up serving in the Air Corps. He uh was he
had to he had to go to great links to
get to a point where he would be put on
the front lines because uh and he was really worried
that his celebrity was going to mean that they would
constantly just put him in like desk jobs or something
where he would never make any impact. And he went

(01:01:56):
to great links to get promoted to a point where
he had to be as put into action and he
flew several missions during World War Two, So he really
was determined to help serve for his country. He came
from a military family, so he saw it as a
real you know, like an honor and a privilege and

(01:02:19):
an obligation to some extent to do this. So all
of that is true. And like the the feel I
get from the preview is that everyone's like trying to say, hey,
you provide a great service. You end up bringing joy
to people and they need that in this time, and
you're a source of entertainment and that's that's something that

(01:02:41):
we can't dismiss, like that kind of thing. Whereas I'm thinking, like, no,
those studio guys are going to go like money, you
make us money and.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
They're going to couch it in something more.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Yeah, but it doesn't like the trailer makes it come
across like that. That feels like that's supposed to be
the messaging all the way down, And I'm like, no,
I'm way too cynical. This is not working on me.
This is one of those Christmas specials where they try
too hard and they lose me. So that's sort of
my feel for it now that I'm glad to hear

(01:03:16):
it hits differently for you, because I think that's important.
I think there should be people who really do take
this and they see it as something that will be
uplifting and informative and entertaining. I just it doesn't work
on me because I'm I have a heart of coal.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
I get it. I get it, you know, It's just
I I didn't I honestly didn't know that Jimmy Steart
served in the military.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
He eventually he eventually reached the rank of brigadier general.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
Yeah. I didn't know that much about him. I know
I enjoyed his acting. I think that's really cool.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
It's it's kind of like Bob Ross, you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Know, yeah, yeah, or or sometimes apocryphal stories about Fred Rogers.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Yeah, who did a lot of good. It was a
really great guy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
But yeah, but not a sniper. Yeah. Jimmy Stewart. This
this biopic of Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy comes out November sixth
of next year. So maybe we'll see another trailer and
I'll change my mind about my reaction here, But right
now I'm leaning toward, Uh, this looks a little too

(01:04:33):
sugarcoated for me, but again, I'm a cynical jerk.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
Yeah, got you. I mean I also was wondering if
it might have been because it's you know, it's definitely
playing the period piece, so it's got that very fifties
kind of black and white movie kind of The next
trailer we've got is for Normal. We're talking a lot
about these movies What not fit.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Yeah, what not Fit do?

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
But that's okay. Normal is uh far Fargo but with Bob.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Odenkirk, Yeah, or Nobody, but Bob Odenkirk is a sheriff
instead of a former like Black Ops, auditor.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
Like Fargo, and Nobody had a baby.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Yeah, And honestly, the team behind this is the same
team that did Nobody. In fact, this was a story
that I think they had started to put together before
the Nobody movies, and then the success of Nobody and
Nobody Too gave them the chance to be able to
make this. But Bob Odenkirk plays a character named Ulysses,

(01:05:39):
who is the interim sheriff. He's brought into normal Minnesota
and he discovers that they're the sleepy little town is
actually a hot bed for crime and apparently explosions.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Yeah, it feels very same old you see, I'm amused
by it, but it feels very same same to me.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
I'm amused by it because I'm still wondering who decided
Bob Odenkirk should be the action movie star it is.
But then I probably I felt the same way about
Bruce Willis when die Hard first.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Came out, So I mean, yeah, I guess so like
die Hard was kind of my introduction to Bruce Willis.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
I hadn't really Oh, I was a big Moonlighting fan,
so I was thinking of him for the moon Lighting day.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
I was about to say, Honeymooner's I've never watched like
I have watched moonlight Lighting, but I don't think it
registered in my brain.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Well sure, if you weren't like a regular viewer or anything.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Yeah, I mean I think Bob Odenkirk probably is like
I want to do action movies, and he's built up
enough of a reputation and uh a network in Hollywood
that would be my guess. I don't know, because he's
also a good actor. I think, like better calls freaking.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
I think I think he's a great I think he's
a great actor. It's and he doesn't like in this trailer.
It's not like he looks like he's Superman, right. He
doesn't look like he's just undefeatable or anything like that.
So I don't think of it as like a vanity project.
You know, there's I mentioned Red Letter Media earlier. They

(01:07:17):
have this theory called the blank the black tank top theory,
which is where you get someone who ends up being
like the writer, director, star of a low budget action movie,
and they're always wearing a black tank top and they
make themselves out to be like the most capable, sexy,
powerful character, right, and it's all just sort of juvenile

(01:07:41):
male power fantasy turned into a movie. I don't think
that's what Odin Kirk's doing. He doesn't come across like
that to me. This movie comes out April seventeenth, and
I'll tell you the bit that makes me the most
excited is Henry Winkler plays the mayor.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
Yeah, that is I mean the bit that made me
most excited by nobody was Christopher Lloyd playing like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
The slash Grandpa.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Yeah, so I totally get that. I love Henry Winkler.
He's so good.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
Yeah, such a good actor, seems like it seems like
a super nice guy too.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. The next thing we've got is
a trailer for Ponies.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Yep, it's a series.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
It's not about horse girls.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
No, it is a series on peacock ponies. It's it's
the pluralization of p O n I, which stands for
a person of no interest.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
Is that like an actual term?

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Well, po I is usually place of interest or person
of interest. I've never heard pony before. That was the
first time I heard. Because you wouldn't use a name
for something you don't care about.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I was asking. So the story is, uh,
it's Amelia.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Clark and Hayley lou Richardson, Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
Our wives of agents who both presumably die in Moscow
in Russia, in Moscow. Yeah, and so the wives want
to take up the mantle and I wiltrate the KGB.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
Yeah, they want to investigate their respective husband's deaths. This
is also a period piece. It takes place in nineteen
seventy seven. It comes out January fifteenth, And I thought,
I thought it looked it looks entertaining, like there's I
don't think of it as a comedy, but there is

(01:09:33):
a lot of humor in the trailer.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
Yeah, I think it looks interesting and fun. I will
give it a shot if I have Peacock at that time. Yes,
I'm like the next.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Trailer, Oh, this was the one I was most excited about. Really, Yeah,
this looks amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Really yeah, I can't tell if you're being genuine or not.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
No, I don't think it's going to be a rate movie,
but I do think, like when I saw this trailer,
I thought this might be the closest thing I have
seen to like performance art in film form in a
long time. It is super high concept, absurd, weird. And

(01:10:21):
it is a film titled by Design, b Why Design,
And it stars Juliet Lewis, who plays a woman who
switches bodies with a chair.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
And everybody likes her better as a chair.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
And I mean, like, I get, I get what they're
saying about about how how women are perceived, right, but
it's so weird.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Yeah. So Juliet Lewis, while into a showroom, sees a
chair thinks that she wants to buy that chair, but
then she somehow does a body swap where she is
the chair and the chair is her, so she her
body is now no longer walking around. It's just kind
of motionless. It's just sort of in her apartment, you know,

(01:11:20):
bent over the bed, and that's where you know, the
people in her life encounter her body and seem to
like her more this way than she was when she
was herself. And meanwhile, she her consciousness is embodied within
a chair that is subsequently purchased by a man who
becomes increasingly enamored of the chair. And it comes out

(01:11:45):
on February thirteenth, I actually have the here's the the
log line that I took. I copied and pasted it directly.
Camille Juliette lewis a woman who's never been particularly jealous
of other women, upon a gorgeous chair in a show
room and realizes that she truly envies the life of
a perfect piece of furniture. Camille in this chair exchange

(01:12:07):
forms and everyone likes her better as a chair. Yep,
it's freaky Friday. If one of the characters was a chair.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
It's freakyse.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
Shase Long.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Oh is it Long not Shay's lounge.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Oh yeah, no, it's l O n g u e Long.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
I always said its lounge because you lounge on a shase.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
You are not the only one. Okay, yeah, this this
looks so high concept. I have read some reviews because
people have seen it at film festivals, and a lot
of the reviews I read were like kind of saying,
it doesn't really stick the landing, but it is very

(01:12:52):
strange and interesting, and I just think, like, what a
crazy swing for this to even be made.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
There is also a part of being so at one point,
you know, there's this guy who falls in love with
the chair, right, so which is the person soul inside
the chair? I guess maybe he just fell in love.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
With you, or maybe it could just be these in
love with the piece of furniture.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
Yeah, but at one point in time they show him
licking the chair, and there is a part of me
that goes that feels embarrassing to do, even as an actor.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Yeah, which again is why I think it's interesting. Like
it's interesting doesn't mean good or bad, It just means huh,
this isn't something I've seen before.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Yes, I will, I will want to hear your opinion
of it when you watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Sure comes out February thirteenth, so that sounds like a
good time to me.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
Very appropriate for Valentine's Day. We also got a trailer
for something called untitled Home Invasion Romance, which feels almost
on the order of like scary movie.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
But there it's a plot that I know I have
seen somewhere else before, but I can't quite remember what
it was. But the idea is that Jason Biggs plays
a character named Kevin. Kevin's marriage is falling apart. Kevin
and one of his friends come up with this idea

(01:14:21):
that his friend is going to play the part of
a home invader, and Kevin's going to come home and
rescue his wife from this home invader, and that is
going to rekindle the love in their marriage. But Kevin
is kept from getting home in time. His car ends
up unable to get traction and so he can't He's

(01:14:45):
not able to get home at the appointed time to
stop the invasion. So his friend, moving forward as if
this is the plan, ends up encountering Kevin's wife, who
then kills the intruder because to her it's a home intruder.
Her life is in danger, and then there's an ensuing

(01:15:05):
investigation to find out who is this intruder, why, what
was the goal, all that kind of stuff. Was Kevin involved?
And so it just becomes this escalating problem where Kevin's
trying to disentangle himself from the plot so that he's
not implicated in what happened, and meanwhile still trying to,

(01:15:25):
you know, win the love of his wife who is
sort of falling out of love with him. And again,
I am sure I've seen this plot before about someone
comes up with the idea of pretending to be a
threat so that another person can be the hero. I
know I've seen that. I just can't put my finger
on what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
Yeah, I don't know offhand what I mean. It does
sound for it. It certainly sounds familiar, It looks entertaining enough,
and it does have a geeky cast in it. So
it starts Jason Biggs from the American Pie movie Justin
h Men, who was in Umbrella Academy, Megan Rath who
was in Being Human, which was about a were wolf,

(01:16:08):
a ghost in a vampire all living in a house,
odd couple style. And Anna Conkle, who's stuck done a
bunch of stuff, but I know her as Libibi from
Murder bot Son Si Kiki Yeap.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
It comes to digital on January twenty seventh, so it
doesn't sound like this is getting a theatrical release. I
thought it was very funny that they settled on the
title untitled Home Invasion Romance because it did have a
different title, I think while it was in development, but
they decided it wasn't right, and I guess they just
never were able to come up with something better.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
Next, we have a trailer for a series called The
nowhere Man, based off the book The nowhere Man. I
have not read it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
It looks like is it based off a book? Maybe
it is?

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Well, either that or there is a book.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
There is a book called nowhere Man, but I think
it's a different story, is it. Yeah, because this this
is a series that came out in South Africa, and
one of the things I read on Reddit was someone
who saw the series and was disappointed that it was
not an adaptation of the novel. Ah. Okay, There's been
like multiple things that have been called The nowhere Man,

(01:17:17):
which makes us very confusing. But this was a series
that originally aired in South Africa and now on January
sixteenth is coming to Stars and it's six episodes.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
But yeah, it looks like an interesting So I'm sorry
I said it was about a book. The internet. The
quick Internet search led me wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Totally understandable because like I had the same thought.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
Yeah, yeah, it looks like a good action thriller. It
doesn't look there's nothing exceptional that stands out to me
in it. Yeah, but it looks well done.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
Yeah, it's the basic premise is it's a guy who
was a former Special Forces soldier who's trying to lead
a quiet, you know, introspective life, but then gets pulled
into a violent lifestyle again when he helps a woman
who is being attacked by home invaders. He happens to
be there and so he comes to her aid. Funny,

(01:18:14):
I didn't mean to put this back to back with
home Invasion Romance, but yeah, he comes to her aid
and then gets pulled into this whole kind of like
crime thing that's going on where it's very similar to
a lot of other stories where you have extremely capable
hero getting reluctantly pulled into pulled back into a life

(01:18:38):
that they thought they had left behind. We've seen that
multiple times. So I agree with you, Ariel. I think
this looks like it's well done. But it also looks
like it's a well done story that we've seen multiple times.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Yeah, and it's also the story of our next trailer.
Now I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Yes, The Traders. You know that series that Ellen Cumming
hosts where a bunch of former soldiers beat the crap
out of each other.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
No, it's it's a bunch of former celebrities uh ranks
on each other.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Sometimes it's not even celebrities. Uh yeah, No, it's it's
it's this whole it's it's a game show essentially, kind
of a reality game show thing where you've got someone
who is a Trader and a bunch of other people
who are all supposedly working together toward goals. But uh,

(01:19:25):
I don't you know. I have never a full disclosure,
I've never watched a series of The Traders, but this one.
I watched the trailer and I thought, oh, I recognize
some of the people in this because they just looked familiar.
Most of them I didn't know who they were, because,
like there are people who were in shows like Big

(01:19:46):
Brother or Survivor or Dancing with the Stars, but I
recognized Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski the the Olympics figure skaters.
They're in it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
I saw Johnny wear I miss Tara Lipinski.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Yeah, she's in it too, and as is Michael Rappaport,
who I used to ep a show that he did,
so I recognize them right away. But then also Travis
Kelce's mother, Isn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
And then the one person that I would actually watch
this for if I were to watch it, Ron funchs Yes,
I love.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
Ron Funch's I also like Money Exchange. She's in it
as well. She does, but she did Dungeons and Dry
Queens on draw.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
Uh got you? Gotcha? Yeah? So yeah this, You know,
Alan Cumming is really camping it up in this I've
always seen in every single trailer I've ever seen for
The Traders, Alan Cumming just seems to be having the
best time, being way over the top, and this trailer
is no exception.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
It's still weird. Most of the things that I watch
him in he doesn't have his Scottish accents soever. He's
just talking in his Scottish accent. It always just takes
me a second.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
To It's kind of like David Tennant right, just.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
Yeah, yeah, although David Tennant and all of a sudden
I can't remember her name, huh, Donna noble red hair,
Catherine Tate, Catherine Tate. There there, I'm not botherid Skit
is still one of my favorite things ever. And he's

(01:21:27):
Scottish in that, so that helps.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Yeah. But are you English though? Are you English though? Yeah? Uh?
And next up we have something that Ariel added to
at a point where I was unable to watch the
trailer before we started recording. It is for the deb
and uh, the little bit I did see was something

(01:21:50):
so don't you tell me about the deb So.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
The deb is. It's a it's a musical movie directed
by Rebel Wilson. I'm just going to read the log
line for it. The high school outcast Taylor Simkins in
a small town farm is desperate to redefine herself at
the debutante ball the deb and gets help from her
cynical cousin city cousin mayve and circumvent expectations and find

(01:22:18):
self acceptance and all that stuff. It feels kind of
mean girls Heathers, but more in favor of the maybe
not popular kids. It's Australian, so it's very cheeky. Jonathan
got to a song that was f my life. I'm
editing for the sake of our podcast listeners. But the

(01:22:42):
Collider liked it. Apparently it came out in twenty twenty
four in Australia, but it's coming to us now. It
looks like a fun afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
I would probably check it out. I like musicals, and
I'm not the biggest Rebel Wilson fan, but the bits
that were in the trailer were amusing to me. I
definitely feel like it isn't nearly as edgy as something
like Heathers Rights. It's nowhere close to as dark as

(01:23:16):
Heathers is, and.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
I maybe a little bit more grounded than Mean Girls.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Yeah, I'm not talking about Heathers the musical. I'm talking
about the original movie Heathers because I have yet to
see the musical.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
I've never watched the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Oh it's it's a lot, Aeriel, it's a lot. I
mean when not a writer is great in it, Christian
Slater is creepy as all heck in it, there is
there's a lot. I don't know that I could recommend it.
It's certainly I would say that it definitely has not

(01:23:51):
aged gracefully in some parts.

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
For sure. For sure, I am aware of that. Okay, well, uh,
let's go into some even scarier stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
Ah, yes, let us open the door to John Boy's
horror Hutch. Oh good. That means I don't have to
find a sound effect. Ariel did it for me. So
first up, we've got a trailer for Hokum. I am
assuming you didn't watch any of these trailers.

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
I watched Hokum and I watched Dracula.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Oh you watched Hokumb? What did you think?

Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
I regret it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
It's creepy, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
It's scary. I was like it started off with a
very like Donnie Darko vibe and just went terrifying from there.
I'm I I watched it. I'm pretty sure that I
disassociated it several points because it was terrifying.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
I think it looks amazing. I'm really I don't want
to overbuild this. I like the trailer a lot. I
thought it looked super creepy, and I really want to
see the movie. It stars Adam Scott. He plays a
writer who is traveling to Ireland to spread the ashes
of his two parents and he.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
That's how much I disassociated. I didn't know it was
Adam Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Uh, I want to say. I want to say, Becca
when she saw it, thought it was David Tennant first,
because because it doesn't like that, you only get like
a short shot of Adam Scott face on, so most
of the time you're seeing him from a distance or
in profile in this trailer. But yeah, it turns out
the place he rented may very well be haunted. And

(01:25:35):
you made the reference of Donnie Darko. The first thing
you see after you see you know, there's a shot
of him laying on his side on a bed, and
it's kind of a creepy establishing shot, and then there's
suddenly it's a cut to a a person with like
a distorted rabbit head staring into the camera, kind of

(01:25:59):
squatted down and very very unsettling shot, very unsettling visual
and to the point where friend of the show Shay
Lee said, maybe it's supposed to be a poo cup,
which is a typically a rabbit or hair like creature
in Irish folklore, which maybe it is, but there's also
witchcraft stuff going on. They mentioned witches in the trailer.

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They also mentioned that it's from the studio and producers
behind films like long Legs and Weapons. But I'll remind
everyone that's like studio level stuff, so don't take that
too seriously. But it does look pretty darn creepy. Comes
out May first, so I definitely am interested in this.

(01:26:44):
It may be that subsequent trailers will change my mind,
but initially, right now, I would totally go see this.
It looks super super weird, it looks interesting and well done.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
It just looks way too scary for me.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for for really scary movie,
but I don't know. We'll see. And then two movies
that I don't think looks scary, but I do want
to talk about briefly, Killer Whale and Grizzly Night. These
are two animal attack movies. So first up, Killer Whale

(01:27:18):
looks dumb. It starts off. The trailer starts off with
a group of young adults maybe maybe they're supposed to
be late teenager years, breaking into kind of like a
SeaWorld type establishment, and while they're there, a janitor gets
all ate up by a killer whale in captivity and

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then we scooch ahead where the young woman who is
part of that group is on a vacation in a
tropical destination and is convinced by her friend and the
guy she just met to go to a remote location
in the ocean and swim around and be all sexy
and stuff. But then the same killer way that wasn't

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captivity at the beginning of the movie shows up and
totally eats the dude, and then the two women are like,
they're not close to land, They're close to rocky outcrops,
but not to a beach, so they go to the
rocky outcrops to try and stay safe from the whale,
and it then becomes something similar to The Shallows, which

(01:28:25):
was not a good movie either. Anyway, I think this
film looks like it's made by The Asylum. It's not,
but that's the feeling it gives me. Except it's clearly
on shot on better equipment, and the sound is captured
by better equipment than you would find in a film
from the Asylum. But the visual effects are pretty bad.

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There's lots and lots and lots of green screen stuff
going on and it is not well done. Now, maybe
that'll be improved by the time the film comes out
on January sixteenth, but I wouldn't count on it. Grizzly
Night is slightly different. It is based off a true
story of a night in nineteen sixty seven at Glacier

(01:29:10):
Park in Montana where there were two separate grizzly bear attacks,
and it was two different bears, and two women died
as a result of those, one each. And that's about
as far as I can tell. The similarities go between

(01:29:31):
what really happened and what's going on in the movie
and the movie. It's at least in the trailer, the
bear attacks are presented almost more like a slasher movie
would be like a specifically a Friday the Thirteenth movie,
because think of like Jason stalking campers in the woods.
That's the feeling I get from this trailer, except instead

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of Jason, it's a grizzly bear. If you are curious
about this actual event, there is a book titled Night
of the Grizzlies, which is no relation to the nineteen
sixty six film The Night of the Grizzly And there
was also a PBS documentary about this incident that came
out back in twenty ten. So yeah, this looks weird.

(01:30:15):
Comes out on video on demand on January thirty. If
I am not gonna watch this, I feel like, I
feel like it's a weird way to tell the story
because it definitely feels like they're leveraging a real life
tragedy into a slasher movie kind of entertainment feature, and

(01:30:35):
that just feels gross to me. Yeah, and then we
have the other trailer for Dracula, And we've talked about this.
This is Luke Basson's Dracula picture. We've talked about this
a few times about how the initial trailers felt like
they were almost copied directly from Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula
movie from the nineties. This trailer, I can at least say,

(01:31:00):
doesn't look to be as much of a copy of
Copola's Like we see some other stuff in this that
makes it look different from Coppola's film.

Speaker 1 (01:31:09):
Yeah. Yeah, Like just like, I want to reference another movie,
but it's not a movie I've seen, so it's probably
an incorrect reference. It's gonna be like it's kind of
like the Notebook where Dracula and his love chase each
other across time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
No, I mean you're not You're not entirely wrong there.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
I watched Notebooks.

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
But yeah, Chris, there's a lot more of Christoph Waltz
in this trailer as well, and he's not Van Helsing.
He's essentially a stand in for Van Helsing. They don't
have Van Helsing in this version of Dracula. It is
wild to me because this this tells me Luke Bassan
has never read Dracula. What Luke Bassan has done is
he's seen Nosferatu and he's seen Francis sport copelas Dracula,

(01:31:53):
and he's like, why not both? And that's that's kind
of what this makes me think of. But it does
it is I would be shocked to hear that Bassan
ever read Dracula.

Speaker 1 (01:32:04):
I will say, Caleb Landry Jones, who plays Dracula, looks
creepy as all get out.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Yeah. I've read a lot of reviews of this as well,
from people who have seen it at various either film
festivals or they saw it in France because it came
out in France already, and they said that it's not
very good, but his performance is possibly the best component
in the movie. It comes out February sixth. I will

(01:32:31):
not be seeing this because I don't want to support
Bisan in his work after I learned about him being terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
So yeah, yeah, which is always a shame when people
put in really good performances.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
Yeah, no, I hate that other folks, like, you know,
they put in good work, or they put in or
at least work, maybe not good work, but at least work.
But you know, seeing as how it ultimately has Bisan's
name like attached to the movie, that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:33:02):
Yeah, onto the things that actually fit though. Dracula kind
of fits in all areas, and some of this stuff
already did. That's always the case. We've finally got a trailer.
I'm honestly kind of surprised we got it already for
the Odyssey.

Speaker 2 (01:33:17):
Yeah, because we knew that there was gonna be like
IMAX versions of trailers and prologues and stuff shown at
screenings of Avatar, but for it to be released to
YouTube was kind of a surprise. What did you think
of the trailer?

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
I really like Matt Damon playing Odysseus.

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
Is he playing Odysseus? I couldn't even tell it was him.

Speaker 1 (01:33:46):
Uh yeah, that's the main character. Yeah, yes, yes, he's
playing Odysseus. I really you're right, it was hard to
tell it was him, but I also feel he's got
like the right amount of heart in his performances to
play that character. You sadly don't get to see a
lot of that in the trailer. Most of what you

(01:34:08):
see in the trailer is five hundred level like landscapes
with a bunch of people.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Yeah, this this trailer was giving me like Zack Snyder vibes. Yeah,
like Zack Snyder three hundred like I was. I was
starting to think like, oh, Christopher Nolan, is it Christopher Nolan?
Please please don't be like Zack Snyder. Please don't make
this a movie where it just feels like someone smashing
action figures together over and over.

Speaker 1 (01:34:35):
Yeah. I love the story of the Odyssey. Albeit Clash
of the Titans is like my favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
Which is not which is not Odysseus.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
No, it's not Odysseus, but it's Perseus. Rant always complains
some I like the Odyssey. It's not epic, which is
the movie or the musical that was written on TikTok
about the Odyssey. Unfortunately, it's it's got a great cast.
It Yeah, it feels not only does it feel kind
of Zack SNYDERY just made you be pretty I'm sure

(01:35:08):
we don't. We don't get to see a lot of
the acting, we don't get to see a lot of
the interaction.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
No, it's a lot of the big, the big like
spectacle shots, which again probably works great on IMAX but
less so on a YouTube screen.

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
And any any sort of like mythological creature that you
encounter in the Odyssey you don't really get to see
except for in shadow. And I think that's maybe smart,
because yeah, you don't want to just give that away,
but it also.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
You get like a silhouette of Polyphemus the Cyclops.

Speaker 1 (01:35:41):
Yeah, but at the same time, I I kind of
feel like they made it seem like it was going
to be a boring plod.

Speaker 2 (01:35:54):
You know what, I don't disagree. I feel the same
way like as I watched it. So I have not
really been anticipating the Odyssey that much, Like I haven't
been looking forward to it because I've read the Odyssey.
I had to read the Odyssey so many times in college,
so as a literature major that I don't really have

(01:36:19):
any interest in seeing it told any other way. Like,
it's just not something that ever resonated with me. And
I'm also one of the rare people who I'm like.
Greek mythology never really interested me as much as other
types of mythology. I learned about it, and I appreciated
some of it, but it just didn't It didn't grab me.

(01:36:41):
I'm one of the few individuals out there who doesn't
think of the Roman Empire multiple times a day, in
case you were curious. In most days, I don't think
about it at all. This, however, it makes me think
Christopher Nolan thinks about Roman Empire a lot, even though
I know the Odyssey is Greek. If we want the
Roman version, that would be called Ulysses, I know. But yeah,

(01:37:04):
I it didn't do much for me. But again, I
think that's partly because I'm watching what are clearly meant
to be these impressive epic shots, but on a little
YouTube screen, so it doesn't you know, it's not going
to have that effect. And no one would say that too.
I mean, no one shot this thing on imax, right,
like that's this is meant to be experienced in a

(01:37:27):
totally different way. So I wish there had been some
more of those little like acting moments, because that's what
would work better on YouTube screen. Yeah, you know, whereas
you may not want a whole lot of acting moments
on IMAX because you're like, oh my god, Tom Holland's
face is five stories tall. I do think it's nice

(01:37:47):
that Tom Holland ends and Daya are both in it.
That's cute.

Speaker 1 (01:37:51):
Yeah, yeah, that is really nice. I bet, I bet
it was fun to work together on that.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
I don't know if they ever got a chance to
because she plays Athena and he plays Telemachus, So I
don't know that they share any scenes like they might.

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
They might have been on set at the same time,
maybe depending on what they were filming, which.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
Days, maybe at least in the same country.

Speaker 1 (01:38:12):
Yeah. So I do feel like the Odyssey is more
interesting than the Iliad personally.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
Yeah, I do too, And I like I.

Speaker 1 (01:38:25):
Like the Odyssey. It was not a movie that I
was super like, Hi, I need to see this movie.
There are parts of it that are dry, there are
parts of it that I absolutely love. I I hope
I think the acting will be phenomenal, and I hope
that they pace it well.

Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
It'll be rough because making Odysseus someone that you don't
absolutely detest, for the fact that he spends a full year,
fullig around with Circi, and then seven years fully around
with Calypso before getting back to his home, like he's
gone for ten years. Eight of those years are him

(01:39:04):
messing around with women who are not his wife. Meanwhile, meanwhile,
she's doing her best to stave off all the suitors
who want to take her as a wife.

Speaker 1 (01:39:15):
So I thought that was going to be by his choice.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
Calypso less so Seriously, it's his crew who have to
convince him to leave. They're all like, hey, Odysseus, I
understand why you're okay with all this, but the rest
of us don't have Cirrus, and we'd kind of like
to go home.

Speaker 1 (01:39:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
Yeah, anyway, this movie comes out June twelfth, and oh,
I'm sorry, July seventeenth, I was thinking I was looking
ahead at the wrong movie. July seventeenth is when it
comes out.

Speaker 1 (01:39:48):
I want to say, that feels so soon because we
didn't hear about it that long ago. But also like
used to be that we didn't hear about movies super
super Far in advance.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
Well it depended right, like, but yeah, with YouTube in general,
we typically when we're getting trailers, it typically means that
we're like a month or two away from release. But
then look at Avengers Doomsday. We're a year from that
coming out and their first teaser has already been out.
But I would argue, honestly, the other thing I should

(01:40:18):
have said about the whole teaser thing with Doomsday. I
suspect that them releasing the teasers is more to do
with them trying to get more people to go see
Avatar than it is about actually building up anticipation for
Avengers Doomsday. And I think it's a shame that they
started with Chris Evans as Captain or well, maybe not as

(01:40:41):
Captain America, but you know, Steve Rogers of him being
in the film, I think it's a shame that they
revealed that. I think it would have been better if
it had been a surprise when you're watching the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
You mean, like in Brave New World where they revealed
the Red Hulk immediately.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
Or like in The Phantom Menace where you see both
of Darth Maul's double bladed lightsaber in the trailer. Yeah,
I think that that would have been a more powerful
reveal in the film itself. So I think it's a shame.
I understand. I can't I can understand reasons for doing it,
like one is that Marvel again is trying to right

(01:41:18):
the ship and wants people to get excited for this,
and honestly, the build up has not been great. Like it.
You don't feel the same sort of build up that
was heading into Avenger's Infinity War because they haven't. Doom
has only shown up in one film and only in
the post credits scene, so you haven't really seen him

(01:41:41):
or heard much about him. You haven't heard anything about him,
You haven't, You've only seen him once. Yeah, so there's
they're they're trying to overcome a lot of challenges. So
I get that, Lowell, Let's pull out the big guns.
We've got Robert Donney Junior coming back, so we're going
to do a teaser with Doom. And we've got Chris
him Worth coming back, so we're going to do a

(01:42:01):
teaser with Thor. So let's also do a teaser with
Steve Rogers. But I would much prefer a teaser that
gives a hint as to what the frickin' movie's about
for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
Well, speaking about big guns, and I might I might
say that we need to speed up a little bit
because we're gonna hit two hours and i'd probably need
to stop around then.

Speaker 2 (01:42:22):
I don't understand, Like, I'm fine, but then I've also
taken vacation toward today, so I.

Speaker 1 (01:42:28):
Am working today and it's a little bit more flexible today,
but I also have to get my husband to his car.

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
Yeah. So we've got a trailer for the next Steven
Spielberg movie, Disclosure Day. It's a sci fi film and
it involves UFOs or aliens, et cetera. Why do you
think of this trailer? Because I thought it was also
kind of unsettling.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
It was unsettling, it was interesting. It gave me like
very Close Encounters of the Third kind kind of vibes
in like not really understanding what's going on. Yeah, but
that's the problem. I don't really follow the plot very well.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
Well, yeah, they haven't all over the place. They haven't
really said. Like the logline essentially is if you found
out that we are not alone in the universe, how
would that affect you? That's kind of what the movie
is exploring. But what we see in the trailer is
animals are acting in a peculiar way, as are meteorologists

(01:43:31):
or maybe just Emily Blunt. So animals and Emily Blunt
are acting weird?

Speaker 1 (01:43:37):
You call it Emily Blunt animal.

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
No, I'm just saying that she's also acting weird. There's
she's playing a meteorologist in Kansas City, and apparently her
her weather report suddenly gets like based on the trailer,
it looks like it gets transmitted around the world, and
she starts speaking, but then quickly is reduced to just
making these very weird clicking noises, which may or may

(01:44:03):
not be alien language. That's the part that was really
unsettling to me, Partly just the idea of someone. I mean,
this has happened to me where I became incapable of
speech when I had my blood pressure issue. So part
of it is that it reminds me of that happening
to me. I wasn't making clicking noises. I was just
unable to speak. But also the I kind of have

(01:44:26):
mesophobia or mesophonia where I don't like mouth sounds, So
it really bothered me. Because I had my headphones on,
I just couldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:44:35):
It didn't bother me as much. I thought it was interesting,
but I also like, I was like, is she the alien?
Is she just an antenna? Is she?

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
Yeah? I got the feeling that she was the more
like the antenna thing that I don't know. It's the
movie's also got like Colin Firth and Coleman Domingo and
Eve Houston and Josh O'Connor in it comes out June twelfth.
I honestly did not even know Spielberg was directing a
movie this year, So that has me excited. And the

(01:45:07):
fact that he's going back to science fiction that's really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:45:10):
Yeah. Yeah, I was about to say, even though I
don't really know what's happening in this, this movie, like this,
hearkens to all the things I love about him, and
it doesn't feel like a rehash of something else to me. Yeah, yeah,
so I am excited.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
We also got a trailer for The Artful Dodger season two.
I remember I started watching the first season, but I
don't think i've maybe I only finished one episode.

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
Didn't you say it was like darker and more serious
than you anticipated or something?

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
Yeah, Well, because it's it's Dodger has has sort of
cleaned up his act. Dodger's from Oliver Twist. He was
one of Fagan's thieves, but he's clear cleaned up his
act and become a surgeon working with the Royal Navy,
and then he has posted to Australia. Fagan ends up
in Australia because he's a criminal and the English like

(01:45:59):
to they're criminals in Australia for a while, and Fagan
is still very much in the crime world and kind
of pulls Dodger back into it. Well, meanwhile, Doctor's trying
to make a respectable life for himself but finds himself
kind of unwillingly pulled into these criminal feats. Season two

(01:46:20):
is more of that. Fagan looks like like David Thulis,
who's playing Fagan, looks like he's having the time of
his life, and I'm here for it. Like, I loved
the bits I saw of Fagan in this trailer because
he just Thullis seems like he's having the time of
his life playing this charming but reprehensible character. But apart

(01:46:41):
from that, I couldn't tell you what the heck is
going on. I read up on season one and Oliver
Twist shows up at the end of season one and
I'm thinking, Okay, the world is huge. Australia by itself
is huge. How do these characters just run into each
other like this?

Speaker 1 (01:47:01):
Yeah, Yeah, that is interesting. Colin Firth is not in
The Artful Dodger, but he was gonna make good segue
and it didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:47:14):
It does come out February tenth, with all eight episodes
available upon launch, just in case you're curious.

Speaker 1 (01:47:19):
Yeah, sorry, I had a brain fart, so skipping the
Artful Dodger. Colin Firth is you said in Disclosure Day? Yes,
and he's also in Young Sherlock. Okay, I did it.
I did it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
Yeah, you just had the leap frog over the one
I put in the middle.

Speaker 1 (01:47:37):
Yeah. Now, like the Artful Dodger looked interesting to me,
then it feels like this trailer feels like a different vibe,
but it still looks interesting. I just never got to
watching it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:46):
Yeah, yeah, what'd you think of the Young Sherlock trailer?
This is done by Guy Ritchie, by the way, so
that would tell you that this version of Sherlock eventually
grows up to be Robert Donney Jr.

Speaker 1 (01:47:59):
Yeah. Well, it's also a Finds kind of vehicle because
there's Joseph Findes and Hero Finds. Tiffin are both in it,
and they're both related to Ralph Fines Finds. I mean
it looked fun. It looked a little better than a
teeny bopper version of Sherlock Holmes to me, but not much.

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
You know what, It looks better to me than Young
Sherlock Holmes, which is a movie that I did enjoy,
often cited as one of the first films to feature
CGI animation in it, I think it looks better than that.
But I agree with you. It feels It doesn't feel

(01:48:41):
like it's particularly special. It doesn't elevate outside of its
basic premise, and it does something that I despise, which
is that it makes Sherlock and Moriarty friends at the time,
that they're both like young men, like coll aged men,
and that I hate that so much. Like in the books,

(01:49:08):
Moriarty is someone whom Charlock gradually becomes aware of. He
only shows up like twice in the Arthur Conan Doyle books.
And because Watson is the one who's telling these stories,
Watson's not close to Moriarty. He sees him from a distance,
so you don't really learn much about him, but you

(01:49:29):
do get the feeling that he doesn't have a history
with Sherlock Holmes. So to do it this way where
it's like it's like Smallville where Clark and Lex Luthor
are friends and they keep making comments that are foreshadowing
that ultimately they're going to be antagonists to each other.
It's very easy and cheap in my mind, so it

(01:49:52):
doesn't appeal to me. However, I'm a snob, so I
could just be a wet blanket here. I do know
there's gonna be eight episodes, just like Artful Dodger. All
eight drop on day one, which will be March fourth,
So if it works, then you'll be able to binge
the whole series in you know, a couple of days. Nice.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
The next is a trailer for the Sheep Detectives.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
You sound thrilled.

Speaker 1 (01:50:22):
I don't like animal movies.

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
These are cgi they aren't even real animals.

Speaker 1 (01:50:27):
I still like. I watched it. I watched the trailer.
I like Hugh Jackman, who plays briefly a shepherd.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
Yeah, okay, so Ariel doesn't like animals. We've established this.
She likes to stand outside of butcher shops and say,
kill more of them.

Speaker 1 (01:50:47):
Just keep going.

Speaker 2 (01:50:50):
Yeah, Hugh Jackman's a shepherd. He dies this. He first
of all, he reads murder mystery novels to his sheep
before going to bed and he doesn't know that the
sheep can understand him. They they can talk to each other.
But this is not a movie where animals can talk
to humans. It's just that the animals are able to
understand one another, and they decide they want to find out.

(01:51:14):
They assume that he's been murdered. They want to solve
his murder. It's also got Emma Thompson in it. I
think who's I think she's the lawyer who's reading out
his will. And it's got a whole bunch of famous
people who do voices of various sheeps. So you got
like Julia, Louis Dreyfus, Brian Cranston, Chris O'Dowd, Regina Hall,

(01:51:36):
Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, Brett Goldstein, and Rhys Darby. And
it comes out May eighth, and as we have established,
Ariel will not go see it unless she can be
assured that all of them will be turned to mutton
by the end of the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:51:53):
I I know, I know our listeners know that's not
the case. I don't want to see sheet Like. I
didn't even watch Wild Robot, which I hear is amazing,
and those are cartoon animals. I don't like watching animals
in distress, real or fictional, unless.

Speaker 2 (01:52:13):
They are animals in debt dress.

Speaker 1 (01:52:15):
I mean, yes, and animals in animals in clothing are
adorable unless those animals are creepy spider aliens that come
from the center of the earth, like in our next trailer,
World Breaker.

Speaker 2 (01:52:27):
Yeah. So a rift opens up on the surface of
the earth, monsters crawl out. The monsters if they the
log line I read said that if they scratch or
bite a man, that man has the chance of becoming
a quote unquote hybrid, which sounds like they essentially become

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under the control of the monsters. And so armies of
women formed to fight off the monsters. And also they
discover that the most effective way of killing them is
to decapitate them. So these armies of women are arming
themselves not just with like guns, but also swords. And

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also Mila Jehovivic is billed as starring in this, but
from what I understand, she's in like two scenes.

Speaker 1 (01:53:17):
You know what I was watching on social media. A
director he auditions AI actors to show where the pitfalls
are in using AI models as actors, right, and he
does one with a woman for like an action movie

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and the AI actor can't stop singing for some weird reason,
and then he calls it Mila Jejoseovic and gives her
direction and she's phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (01:53:47):
Well, I'm glad to know that she's a step above
AI for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:53:52):
For sure. Honestly, this looks like a I love that
she has been able to make a career out of fun,
kitchy sci fi action type movies. A lot of them
are like B level to me and not things that
I necessarily seek out personally. This feels like a higher

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quality level. It is done by Brad Anderson, who did
The Machinist, which got some high acclaim and also some
good horror. He did a psychological horror called Session nine
that I think, Yeah, I got a really good cult following.

Speaker 2 (01:54:29):
Yeah, this one comes out January thirtieth. I am not
super optimistic about it, but you know, maybe I'm maybe
I'm just being again cynical sourpuss pants.

Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
It does look creepy to me.

Speaker 2 (01:54:45):
I don't know. Did you see that I put in
the trailer for the Beauty here?

Speaker 1 (01:54:49):
I did?

Speaker 2 (01:54:50):
I Like.

Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
This came up for me after Hamlet and I was like,
is this AI?

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
It's weird? It's It's a series that's produced by Ryan Murphy,
who's kind of anything trashy on television. Ryan Murphy is
part of it, essentially like the American Horror Story, American
Crime Story, all that stuff was it? The All's Fair.
That one's also one of Ryan Murphy's. This one is

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an adaptation of a comic book slash graphic novel about now.
In the graphic novel, the story is there's a sexually
transmitted disease that makes you look more attractive if you
catch it, but then it also turns out it's deadly wampwomp.
In this trailer, it looks like instead of it being

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an STD, it's a drug manufactured by you know, a
soulless pharmaceutical company headed by Ashton Kutcher, and that the
drug makes you look attractive and younger, but also probably
kills you I'm guessing.

Speaker 1 (01:55:55):
And also maybe turns you into a spy. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
Yeah, there's also an there's an a sad in this.
I don't know what the assassin's gig is. Evan Peters
is in it, playing and a federal agent. But then
of course Evan Peters is in it. It's a Ryan
Murphy project.

Speaker 1 (01:56:11):
I think like Peters, I do Great Quicksilver.

Speaker 2 (01:56:14):
I like Evan Peters, I like Sarah Poulson. I just
wish they could find stuff besides Ryan Murphy projects to
be in.

Speaker 1 (01:56:22):
If I mean, honestly, this one kind of gives me
Sin City vibes.

Speaker 2 (01:56:26):
Well, yeah, the trailer definitely has that kind of feel
to it. I agree. Anthony Ramos is also in it.
You know, he was in Washington in the Heights and Hamilton,
but he's the assassin. He's the one eyed assassin in
the show. It comes out January twenty first. Uh, yeah,

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I don't know about this one, y'all. It's I mean,
it's Ryan Murphy, I have he has such a huge
hill to climb in order for me to get on board.

Speaker 1 (01:57:00):
I'll wait for the reviews for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
Yeah. Oh no, I was just going to say, next,
we have another, you know, the final trailer for Anaconda.
And really the reason I put this in here is
because it starts off spoofing the font for Avatar, So
it makes it seem like it's going to be, oh,
this is going to be a trailer for Avatar, because look,
it's talking about how there's one movie you need to
see this Christmas season. And then there's the rug pole

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moment where it's Anaconda when Jack Black and Paul Rudd.

Speaker 1 (01:57:29):
Yes and surprise at the end of the trailer. Also
ice Cube, who is in the original Anti Conda.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
Which I feel was also meant to be a reveal
in the film that probably didn't need to be in
the trailer because it was meant to be a big like, oh,
that's cool moment in the movie. But I also feel
that they probably have lost confidence that people will go
see it because this is the movie I was talking about,
like Snakes on a Plane just so happens. It's also

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another snake movie where I feel people thought the idea
of an Anaconda reboot was funny, but they won't necessarily
take the effort to go and see it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:08):
Yeah, should I have not mentioned that that, Oh no.

Speaker 2 (01:58:11):
It's in the trailer. It's in the trailer. Yeah, it
would be like if you didn't mention Darth Maul's doubly
a lightsaber after the trailer of Phantom Menace, like that
was the one thing everyone talked about.

Speaker 1 (01:58:24):
Great. I don't know, I still might enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:27):
Well, it comes up Christmas Day. So if you find
yourself with the lack of things to do, I will.

Speaker 1 (01:58:32):
Not have a lack of things to do over the holidays.
There's always too much. But I might watch it. It may.
I may not go to the theater for it, but
I might. I might watch it. Next we got a
trailer for glad Lands, which is the next Dimension twenty
D and D actual play. Actually, I don't know if
they're using D and D.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
They're using a home brew system.

Speaker 1 (01:58:51):
Okay, yeah, a home brew system. Glad Lands. It's nice Mad.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
Max, Yeah, Mad Max. If everyone was polite and helpful
to each other.

Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Yeah, my friend worked on this one. I'm very excited for.

Speaker 2 (01:59:04):
It comes out January seventh. It looks very silly, and
of course they're going to find ways for it to
be action packed and everything, but the the basic premise
of imagine a post apocalypse but everyone's actually pretty nice
to each other. That's kind of a funny premise. I've
heard some people suspect that maybe this is an offshoot
of dad Lands and the maclroys will show up fighting

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over a throne by the end of it.

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
I would love that it also has uh, it has
Jacob Boiesaki, It's got Kimmia Bifora, who I love, Zach Yama,
Zach Oyama with classic dad antics, Are You My Dad?

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
Alla?

Speaker 1 (01:59:43):
Fantasy High just just a really great, a really great
cast of people. Ali Beardsley, I don't remember the other
player all of a sudden, oh, Vic Michalis. Yeah, it's
a good it's a good cast of people. I think
that group of people will do really well at playing
politely chaotic, so I think I think it's a perfect table.

Speaker 2 (02:00:05):
Yeah, it looks like it'll be quite silly. So that'll
be on Dropout TV starting January seventh, and then finally
before just before we started recording, really, Ariel came across
this trailer for Hamlet. It's another take on the classic
Shakespearean tale of Hamlet, this one being a modern day

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interpretation of it, with Riz Ahmed playing the title character.
A lot of Indian English actors in this cast, so
it's got a lot of that cultural influence in it.
Timothy Spall is playing Polonius. Small's been in like if
I were to list his his resume, we'd be here

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for another two hours. But he's been tons of stuff.
Geeks probably know him best as Peter Pettigrew slash worm
Tail in the Harry Potter movies. He's playing my favorite
character of all time, Polonius. And yeah, this trailer, I
thought it looked really interesting.

Speaker 1 (02:01:06):
Yeah, yeah, I like. I like that the Hamlet family
is uh is South Asian. That's really yeah cool.

Speaker 2 (02:01:16):
I like that there is some uh Anti Elson or
graffiti on the wall at one point that made me laugh.

Speaker 1 (02:01:25):
Yeah, it it's it's modern. I will say. It gave
me like Romeo plush Juliet vibes in like kind of
the pacing, but a thousand bazillion times better, Like I'm
super interested.

Speaker 2 (02:01:37):
Well, yeah, it's not not as frantically edited as Romeo
and Juliet was. Like Baz Laarman's editing style is such
that I have difficulty watching Bazz's films because they're there's
they feel disjointed to me because of all the quick edits.
This didn't feel like that. But it definitely is stylish,
and it is you know. I don't know if they

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are totally just using the original language or if it's
going to be a mixture, but everything I heard in
the trailer was something that was in the original play.
I think there might be combining some characters though, because
it seemed to me like they had combined Horatio and Ophelia.

Speaker 1 (02:02:19):
Maybe maybe Yeah, Yeah, Well, so it says that Joe
Alwyn plays Horatio, and there's definitely an Ophelia character.

Speaker 2 (02:02:28):
Yeah, it's as he's talking to her about his father,
and it was it seemed like it was early enough
in the play where but maybe it was him supposed
to talk to Aphelia. It has been a it's been
a hot minute since I reread Hamlet, so I could
be just misremembering or mischaracterizing.

Speaker 1 (02:02:46):
Yeah, and I want to say that that's that's a
huge nod to the at least the trailer of this
version of it, because it's also been a long time since,
Like the most recent thing of Hamlet I saw was
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which is not you know,
ham Yeah, but I've seen Hamlet a lot. I've been
in Hamlet, so I haven't touched it in a long time.
It doesn't normally excite me anymore, and this excited me.

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I very much want to see this. The performances look amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:03:12):
Yeah, I'll also say that just despite my fears when
I looked at the comments on this video. They were
overwhelmingly positive, which was a nice change of pace because
I was worried I was going to see some of
the worst stuff on the internet on there.

Speaker 1 (02:03:30):
Yeah, yeah, I'm very excited for it. When does it
come out?

Speaker 2 (02:03:33):
Jonathan uh February sixth, Ariel, I'm excited. Yeah, not long.
We'll have to wait too long. So that's it. Those
are all the stories and because we have topped over
two hours. Yeah, once again, if you want to get
in touch with me, get in touch with Ariel and
she'll get in touch with me. Ariel, how did they
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at gmail dot com. I will be up at dating
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I will be sharing the holiday playlist later today, which
doesn't matter. It depends on when this episode comes out,
but it will be shared before the holidays. If you've
got holiday songs you like, Adam or Delmian, I'll Adam.
Thank you again for being part of our geeky family.

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We love you guys so much. We wish you the
very happiest of holidays, whatever they may be for you.
And until next time, I am Ariel.

Speaker 2 (02:04:46):
To be cast In, and I am Jonathan. Now I
want to see Juliette Lewis make a movie about an
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