Hollywood Weekly Ep. 18: CinemaCon Reactions and Best Directors

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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We back on the episode back in two thousand and seven.

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you think you're fat? Let's rock, Let's rock today. You
guys want to keep singing.

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I'm gonna it's about all I know from the song.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
So uh well, with that, we bring you in. Welcome
to Hollywood Weekly. Everybody big episode. It is Christopher Kidd
Anderson Hurst. My name is Jackson Feltz. We are three
sports radio producers who finally have a podcast to talk
about something other than sports. This is Hollywood Weekly, where
we talk all things movie in television. Damn, this studio
is hot. If the door has been closed for all

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of one minute and it's already feels like eighty degrees,
open the door. Can we keep it open? How do
you turn the heat on in here? There's no switch?
Can we you prop this? Can we?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh? I think it's just way too hot in here?
Like Anderson, put your hands right?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, what do you can put your hands here? Anderson,
What are you what?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
No? Do it? Come put your hands here and you
literally reach to like your groin area. That was the
weirdest thing you've ever done.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Wow, that computer is kicking off some serious should we
should we be in the studio.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
We'll just see if it blows up, then we get
workers comp Right, if we're alive, I mean, I guess
are why would get it? That's what really matters. And well, yeah, okay,
all right, let's uh, let's get going. This is a
big episode. We're going to do a really cool draft,
something that I think we've been talking about since the start.
Not only is it you could say best directors, but

(01:58):
I think that I want to frame it is as director.
When you see a movie either come out or come
on and the trailer and you know that a certain
director is doing that movie, you stop it and either
you buy tickets, you go to the theater, or you
watch it because that director is running that project. Effectively,
it's a best director draft.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
But I have a few different ways to frame it.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
I usually go by that kind of standard, but there's
a couple of them that maybe, like if I hear
they're the ones doing it, that I don't necessarily need to.
But then I look at their catalog and I'm like, oh, yeah,
I like all their movies. You know, Yeah, I think
it'll be a fun draft because there's because you know,
we obviously had the Christopher Nolan draft, and that was
our first draft.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
You know, that was our very first draft. See the
first thought I had.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
So yeah, he's I mean, he's definitely on my list,
So it'll be a fun draft coming up. We'll, of
course get to what we're watching. I think we got
to start with all the news. Cinema Con is in
full swing this week, and honestly, there is just too
much of cinemacn news to actually talk about the po podcast.
I just wanted to pick out a few things. The
first up was that I believe two nights ago and

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this is what Thursday the third, so a couple of
days ago. In the evening, Tom Cruise got up a
special sort of like yes we have Mission Impossible, but
also a special tribute to Val Kilmer, a big rest
in peace to Val Kilmer, one of the great actors
of our time. Obviously, so many great roles Tombstone, and
I think that Tom Cruise is obviously up there because

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of top Gun him playing Iceman Batman. Of course, Valkilmer
passed away and very very sad. So that was that
was cinema con took some time to honor him, but
then just so many other things. I know it was
before CinemaCon, but the Avengers Doom Day cast got revealed
in a six hour long live stream. Did you guys

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see that?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
With this?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
And how?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
So Marvel decides to go live on YouTube for over
the course of about six or seven hours, and every
ten to fifteen minutes they keep pulling back a camera
that reveals another director's chair that has a name on it,
and over the course of these six hours they reveal
twenty seven cast members of Avengers Doomsday. Damn by the way,

(04:10):
only five women in the twenty seven cast members. Interesting,
I will say, clearly, and they've already teased this. The
twenty seven are not the all only people and this.
They're gonna do another row of chairs at some point,
but Avengers Doomsday and I don't know for me as
a Marvel geek on the biggest Marvel geek of the
three of us. Yeah, like that was a cool reveal

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way to do it because you're watching a live stream
every ten minutes you get another name and it's like,
oh shoot, oh shoot them him him, him him. They
reveal all the original X Men are going to be
in there. From Patrick Stewart Ian McKellen, that was I
think a really interesting way to unveil a cast instead
of just putting it on like Vanity Fair, We're gonna
do a live stream. We're gonna keep people hyped up

(04:51):
for six straight hours. I thought you can be excited
about the news or not. The way that they did it,
I thought was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, I mean it's milking it. Yeah, because like there's
a lot of ways you can get people excited about
a movie in the movie not being good.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
So it could be terrible. Robert Downey Junior is back
for probably no good reason.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
That's that's my biggest complaint with it. But it is
what it is. If it's good, it's good. I'm gonna
be the complete cynic of this entire episode, So I
apologize in advance, but yeah, yeah, and I'm ah about it.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Eh. Well. In other superhero news, Superman got a big,
big look at CinemaCon. A new five minute piece got
revealed that has lots of interesting things from the movie
coming out in July. Christopher, I know you saw it
for me as somebody who dressed up Superman like Superman
for Halloween as a kid. I can't wait for this.

(05:43):
What do you think I'm excited for it.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
I don't know much about all the stuff that they're
talking about in the comments, but it looked intriguing to me,
and it just got me thinking, oh, wow, this could
really be a hit. This could really go really well
for Warner Bros. And they need it right because much
of the discussion is if this flops, what do they
do next? Because exactly silence. So this, from what I

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saw in that four minutes, I was like, Okay, we're
getting something special. And anybody in the comments is like
talking about stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
I had never heard. Crypto, the dog. I don't know
about the dog, but the build whatever, they went that structure, Yeah,
Superman's Highway in Antarctica. Whatever, do you know what it's called? Sorry,
it's okay, I'm I'm a Superman fan, but I'm not
I'm a Superman.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Just reading the comments and people talking about that, I'm like, Wow,
basically like his home. Yeah, but anyone's like amped up?
It looks so freaking Yes, thank you, and just never
heard of that until reading the comments. I'm like, wow,
this must be a really good movie then just based
it does look good just on that four minute clip.
So that has me excited because all the fans are
just like, for instance, like if all all three of

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us are Marvel guys, when we see something, we're like, oh,
that looks great. Someone that's like, yeah, I kind of
want to see it, but I don't know. Now they're
banking on Jackson, Anderson and Chris are all really excited
about it.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
So this must Thursday Night.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Okay, yeah, I mean now that I'm putting two and
two together here. For just of Solitude, I I played
Injustice Too, which is an awesome video games like this thing.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Uh have you played Mortal Kombat before, either of you.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, it's like it's like one v one fighting game basically. Yeah,
it's it's well, that's what the really disgusting kills. Yes,
and it's DC's version of that. Oh cool, and it's
really cool actually, but they have one of the places
they go is the Fortress of Solitude. I had no
idea whatever meant when I played it, but hey, it's
Superman's Layer, so you know, and second thought, we can

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get kind of I guess transition, and I don't know
if you have any more news.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
But lots of news, all right, keep going that, We'll
go through it really quickly.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Beatles are having biopicks coming out next year. There's going
to be four movies. It's like biopic or biopick, biopick,
bio picture and ask.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Me, I'm looking it up.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I always as I've always.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Pronounced biographic biography picture. That could be wrong anyway, regardless.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
So they're doing four movies about each cast member. They've
they've put big people in big roles. Who cares about that?
That are you know, your normal big stars. But the
interesting thing about this that I wanted to bring up
is that they're designing this for all four movies to
come out in one week spans, so that what you
can then do is you can see it one by
one if you want to each week, or you can wait,

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and then they're gonna set up with theaters a binge
able movie experience. So they're setting this up. Oh right, biopic, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
So sorry.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
So they're setting this up for the first ever time
apparently to be able to have a bingeable theater experience
where you watch all four Beatles biopicks in a row, uh,
and then just kind of like, I don't know how
long it's gonna be. Maybe if they're an hour and
a half each, it's a six hour thing, but like
a bingeable theater experience. I've heard that for like special

(08:53):
events for like Lord of the Rings, right, but I've
never seen anything that's specifically designed movies for this. It's
kind of interesting idea.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's a lot of time in the theater. That's a
lot of time in the theater.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
So I have looking at it. I mean they have
to split it up, right, like one movie and then
we're gonna do a fifteen minute break bathroom whatever, food,
another movie. So I guess I don't know, hour and
a half each fifteen minute breaks. It's a it's a
seven hour commitment to watch all the Beatles by that.
I don't know if that's gonna work. Guys, I couldn't
do it. I don't know if that's gonna work.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, I mean I'm a big Beatles fan, not a
huge Beatles fan, but I mean their story is very
interesting to me, so I'm surprised that they haven't done
like a more Hollywood version of like their story and
how they become a band, and then even going into
like after the band broke up and kind of eat

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their each individual careers and everything, and then the death
of John Lennon and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
So to me, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
If a theater binging experience is the way to go.
I think there's a fantastic show in there somewhere, Yeah,
like a mini series or even a full on series.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
You could.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
There's a ton of content there. So I don't know,
but I'm I'm intrigued by it, but I'm not necessarily
thrilled about going, Like I'm not going back to back
to back.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe gonna do that, Maybe do.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
One like you know, you do John's first, and then
you go to Paul's and like Another Day and just
take him as individual movies at that point. But I
guess if you watch them back to back to back,
you get a little more tidbits and stuff. I don't know,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's it's just interesting to me that they would design
something like that, and it's just I just wonder how
if they could even fill up a theater try and
you know who.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
The Beatles are, right, Chris never heard of him. I mean,
he didn't know who. Wait, no, he knows the Beatles
are Yeah. I was gonna screw it, but he didn't
know who Bob Dylan was.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
So oh wow, that's gonna come up later in the
show as I watched a complete unknown finally, but we'll get.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh yeah, okay, I'm curious about that.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
All right, more news really quick, and this time Andrews
won't be the only oneing this. The Hunger Games is back, gentlemen, Sunrise, No.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
No, no, you got the third one.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Hunger Games Sunrise on the Reaping. It's the story of
Woody Harrelson's character when he won the Games. Woody Harrelson's
character is Image and the the og Not Trilogy. It
was four movies, right.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, it was a trilogy.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
The third one is part one.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know that's four movies. Thanks, I don't care anyway.
So it's his character's origin story essentially, And I think
we're all going to generally have the same take on
the Xanders. You want to start us off on the
take that we're all gonna have.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, I'll kind of get the cynicalness out of the way.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
For We're gonna share it.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
I actually really liked The Hunger Games originally, like the
first two movies were really really good, and I really
wasn't a fan of the making the third movie into
parts one and part two because there's just not enough
content there. So they absolutely but that one.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
You're not wrong.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
I couldn't decide if I wanted to go fall on
like loud or if I was just gonna like slip
it in there. You know, I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I mean, they really screwed it up on that. And
then and then Songbirds and Snakes. This last one was
was wait, I haven't seen it. Yeah, so they did
another one wait on the origin story of Snow, So
that was it was fine. Whatever, Like, it's just it's
not a great evening to put that on. There's much
better things to watch. But they're doing it again. They're

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doing a fifth movie, and.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, like come on and saying anything that I'm thinking,
you like the first two, I'm trying tory like the
first two. And then it got to a point, okay,
now what same thing.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well, and my sister was a huge fan.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
My sister was a huge fan of the books, and
I never read the book so I can't really like
comment on how well they fall the time.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
With Harry Potter. I read the books, but I've never
watched that a movie. Oh really, wow, you like the books.
I love the book books really good. Like that's really
really good.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Like my mom was like all that.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
You seriously, I've never watched the movie. Just didn't pique
my interest. You need to because if you like the book.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
When I was reading the books, I was also in
like sixth grade, seventh grade.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
Harry Potter does a very good job of sticking to
the story and trying to put as much again as
me as a teenager.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
As an adult now, I'm not I don't care about magic.
Give me dinosaurs, not Jurassic Park. What.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
You're an adult now and you want dinosaurs? Like, who
are you?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
I think dinosaurs is way more core than magic.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Each their own.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, that's an interesting back to Hunger Games though, Just why.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
I would just like, we had enough? What? What? What
from Songbirds and Snakes made you think that this was
the good idea to do it?

Speaker 4 (13:38):
To make money? Yes, that's how it made That's I'm
asking how much did it make it?

Speaker 2 (13:43):
It made plenty of money. That's how they're doing it.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Hunger Game, Sommers and Snakes finances, let's see, because I
also want to see what it costs to make. So
a production budget was one hundred million dollars.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
What year did it come out?

Speaker 2 (13:57):
A couple of years ago?

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Twenty one?

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
How much to make.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Three hundred and forty nine million? There you go, way,
there you go.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's so that's if they make them. Same with Fast
and Ferios.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
I mean Fast and Furious. You watch so hold On.
It earned one point one hundred and sixty six million domestically.
The whole series is now up. The whole series is
now up to three point three billion. So you look
at the reason, you look at the numbers and you
realize whether they're making a fifth one exactly, they're probably
gonna be a sixth one, probably already. No, yeah, I

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know this is the sixth one. Sorry, Songberys, because it
was a four to start and then Songbirds and Snakes
five five.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
This is six okay, So I can't.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
I just still can't get over that mocking Jay was
two parts.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
But yeah, it was terrible.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Ye Anyway, I do you know what I'm gonna end
up watching all of these just to see the rest
of them because now I'm curious.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
But more could they add Harry Potter or Hunger Games.
I'm not starving Harry Potter. Just do it. Just watch
you read the book? Good? It is good. The book
I don't even Likerry Potter, and I don't even remember
what I read.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
I just remember I enjoyed it as a sixth reader
or seventh grade whatever, middle schooler.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I was like, what's the one where there's the try
wizard cup which fire. That's an awesome movie.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Awesome everything after episode or the second movie is really good.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
The third one is my all time favorite. Great who
plays Gary Oldman.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Gary Oldman plays not Severus Snape's see. I don't know
Harry Potter that enough, but it's like his uncle, right.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
No serious, black serious. I'm literally reading the books right now,
so I should know this.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
But yeah, but yeah, I mean Gary Oldman, freaking Gary
old an Oscar Award winner, plays the uncle Harry Potter,
and he's excellent. Yeah, the movies are really good.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
I agree with Christopher that the books are better, but
I mean literally they were well.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
I personally, I can't don't know. I'll go off what
you're saying, because you did both. But then again, I
can't even tell you what the first book was about
because I've read that almost fifteen years ago.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Since you've read it, watched the movies now, and I
might go back and re reading the books the low.
I'm a reader everything. You want to read the books
but not watch just watch them. It's like an underpand
you can't get tired of that. This is Hollywood Weekly, Christopher.
You watch movies.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
We're gonna start a book club, but reading with Jackson
Anderson and kid.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
You couldn't pay me to be in a book club,
you know what. Listen, there are so much more Hollywood
news and that of coming out of CinemaCon. I don't
like I have so many things on this list, just
rapid fire.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
We won't react.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Let me just let me just wrap with this. Keep
this in your minds for the next year and a half.
I know move I'm excited about, but go ahead. Project
Hail Mary. You have a very interesting sci fi story.
It was written by the same author who did The
Martian Uh, and it's a new movie. Ryan Gosling plays
this ad a school teacher named Rylan Grace, and basically

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it's a story of this guy waking up on a
spaceship that's hurtling throughout her space. He has no idea
why because he has amnesia, and he figures out the
pieces of why he's there and what he has to
do to save the planet. That it's an amazing book.
Happy to share it with you, guys. That's one of
the few books I've read in the last few years.
Read it when I had COVID and it was awesome.

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And it's by the same guy who did The Martian
and the Martians, one of the best sci fi movies
to come out of this entire Secur wrote it. Yes,
book wrote the book, and the two guys in charge
of it, I'm not sure if you're seeing the two
guys in charge of it are the same guys who
do into the Spider Verse and all the Spider Verse movies.
So this could be a very very cool movie. Uh,

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just keep it in the back of your minds, because
I think as we start to see the trailers, it
got enormous, like, oh my god, what exists? Yeah, everybody
centamm Con didn't seem like they were aware that this
was happening, and it kind of blew people's minds when
they showed the trailer, which has not hit the internet yet, shockingly,
but it's gonna be a huge hit next year.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
It sounds intriguing. The one movie that I don't think
you'll mention Predator. They drop a new Predator and look
from any slate for later this year. It looks it
has me going huh. I know, everyone's like.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
What could they possibly do? Now? The dude's been to Earth,
He's killed Aliens? What next?

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Is Arnold Schwarzenegger's in it?

Speaker 2 (18:12):
What? I don't know? You're kidding.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
I'm literally seeing it right here.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Arnold Swarzenegger is in Predator.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Predator bad Lands.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Oh my, I didn't know that part.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
But I'm curious for the trailer because it's supposed to
come out this year.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Actually they tred it two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
I think that's a fan made one because this is
only at connal Con, because it's not nothing's getting leaked
out of CinemaCon. It's crazy. I've never seen it. Even
like with Comic Con, things leak on Reddit and on
the Internet all the time, Like Fantastic Four. When that
trailer came out at Comic Con last year, it was
on Reddit and it was on the internet everywhere with
a thousand copies, like within the hour, CinemaCon trailers. Nothing

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is coming out like it's it's wild.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
And I couldn't find it for Predator bad Lands. But yeah,
I think that's a fan made one and they got
you and I just on Google.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
I didn't even look at it.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Later this year there might be something out for it.
There might be if it has Arnold in it. No,
it doesn't have Arnold. It says Ellie Fanning, that's it
or l L Fanning. Yeah, it's the only cast member
they have available right now. Well, I'm going to bed.
No trailer yet it's available. We know that. James Cameron
took the stage today to talk about Avatar, Fire and
Ash and kind of gave what the storyline of that's

(19:21):
going to be interesting, like the Ash people are going
to be ones who have forsaken their god and are
kind of like the atheist of the people. Very interesting.
Uh Yeah, anyway, there's big, big stuff. There was an
exclusive look Chris, I'm not sure if you've seen it

(19:42):
of Jurassic World Rebirth, so I'm not sure if I
hit the internet, but I'm good.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
I know, I know you hate that I'll probably see
it on my illegal streaming, but we'll not go pay money.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, so there's a there's been a hundred different things
on CinemaCon. It's been a crazy big week and it'll
probably only continue into Friday. I'm not sure what the
whole schedule, but CinemaCon is absolutely taking over. Let me
just quickly run through the things that I've been watching
as we transition here or Andrews, did you have something
else you wanted to get to before? Go ahead? All right,
really quick. White Lotus, we're on the season finale this week,

(20:15):
sort of coming around to being I think a good
not great season of White Lotus, but continues to be
one of the most inventive Just mind, what the hell
do they think of shows that are out there? Righteous
Gemstones on also on Max is also one of the
grossest shows on TV. What's interesting is they play back
to back on Max and the White Lotus has Walton Goggins,

(20:39):
who's also in Fallout and he plays a very very
good role in White Lotus this season, and then he's
Walton Goungus is also in Righteous Gemstones. So the episode
of White Lotus this week, this last Sunday ended with
him kind of having this look on his face, this
interesting scal look on his face, and then the Righteous Gemstones.
The first shot. The first ex thing you see of

(21:02):
this week's episode, last week's episode Last Sundays is his
penis a close up on it flapping around while he's
jet skiing. So you close one episode on his face,
and you open the next episode on his penis, and
then a sixty nine scene as well. Oh yeah with
John not John Goodman? Is it John? With John Goodman
and Rod?

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Is this Righteous Gemston?

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah? Righteous Jempstones is a six show. But it's so
brilliantly written. It's one of the funniest shows. But god,
it's gross. Yeah, I saw.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
I saw those exact clips on Twitter. Someone was like,
what is this show? And then I'm clicking. I'm like,
what in the world.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
He showed Walton goggins penis on Twitter. Oh yes, I'm
so sorry you had to say it.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Then they showed the sixty nine scene and I'm like,
John Goodman, I'm like, this is insane.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, this is an insane show.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's an insane show.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
It's it's a legitimate andres it's an insane show.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Like like that is a show. It's it's really well written.
And the daughter. I don't even know the actress who
plays the daughter, but she is so freaking hilarious. Okay,
it's I don't even know if i'd recommend it. I
don't even know if it's worth watching, right, but I've
had a good time with it, and this last week
was very interesting because of how they used Walton Goggins
in each of them. And then finally I'll move on

(22:19):
to a complete unknown, which I've been looking forward to seeing.
It's obviously the Timothy Shallowmey biopic of Okay, it's it's
it is the musical biopick on Bob Dylan. And just
some quick thoughts, I think it's a little bit too long.
It runs about two and a half hours, and I
feel like they could easily cut about a half hour

(22:39):
from it, but they had to complete an arc, and
an arc that they only started about an hour into
the movie. It kind of kind of felt like aimless
until there's a certain song the Times They Are Changing,
which which starts about an hour into the movie, and
at that point they kind of begin the arc of
Bob Dylan. But you kind of for a long time

(22:59):
I'm wondering, where the hell is this movie going. And
at the end of the day, it feels a movie
that he kind of just didn't have direction throughout. But albeit,
you look at a film and you can kind of say, yeah, sure,
the movie was fine. The performance of Timothy Shallome is
Bob Dylan is insane. Really, it's just he sings. He

(23:20):
actually is the singer for the role, and I mean,
I love people who can do that and say I'm
gonna just you know, I'm gonna because he learned how
to do harmonica, he learned a bunch of the songs,
he learned kind of how to sing and speak in
Bob's style, who has a very very distinct style and
shallow may I mean, I don't know if he deserved
to win the Oscar or not for Best Actor, but

(23:40):
but he certainly deserved the nomination and he deserves all
the recognition because it was it was a really really
cool movie specifically for Timothy Shallome.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, so like what I'm hearing it, I haven't seen it,
but from what I'm hearing from you, is it Like
story wise, it wasn't super compelling, but just kind of
watching him beat Bob Dylan was Yeah, okay, very okay.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Because it's such as Bob Dylan himself. I remember singing
here in Seattle b Wims ten years ago. He's a
horrible performer. Yeah, just a terrible, terrible performer. It's just
the worst time going to one of his concerts. But
you can't help but respect his songwriting. He's also just
old that point, well even then, I mean, he's always
been a bad performer always. He's just he isn't very

(24:24):
engaging with people. He doesn't give a crap about what
people think of him, so he's just get up. All
he cares about is that's the second time that all
he cares about is just simply you know, singing his lyrics.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
And and Timothy Shallome in that vein did an awesome job.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, he's about as close as there is.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Like they always compare musicians and artists to poets, He's
about as close as it gets to a poet that
just happens to be doing his poems and music. Yeah,
and I think that's just what he is. I think,
like I don't know, I don't know the full stories.
I don't know him his life that well, but he
got a Nobel Peace Prize and he just like was
like all right, cool whatever.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah. He all he cares about is the writing.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, that's just who he is, and I kind of
admire that about him. I've heard some criticisms of the
movie are that it doesn't get too deep into his
post folk life.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
No.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Five, the movies five years. Yeah, ages twenty to twenty five,
that's it. It's kind of like, which.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
I can understand because like his folk music when he
was younger is kind of what made him who he is,
and then he starts to kind of veer off from that,
and people actually give him a lot of crap for that,
but again it's just he doesn't care.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
The interesting thing is that's where the movie ends, Like
right as you get to gone to the meat.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Of like kind of what would be interesting, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
They cut off the movie right there, and it sort
of makes you wonder why.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yeah, I mean, like similar discussion with the Beatles is
like there's so much content there you wonder like what
part are you going to focus on? Right? You could
you could do the early part of how he became
who he is, and then you could go from like okay,
just is the meat of his uh, performing life and
then or you can go into him transitioning after it, right.

(26:08):
I always thought the biopic that did the best job
of this was Walk the Line, the one about Johnny
Cash with Joaquin Phoenix and with Reese Withers.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
While also saying himself as Johnny Cash.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yes he did, and it was really, really, really good.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
It kind of balanced the Okay, you kind of see
the beginnings of his life, but it kind of it
goes through that pretty quickly and how he became a performer,
but the interesting stuff about him dealing with a drug
issue and then getting into like, you know, him and
his wife and how they kind of so good, so
damn good, and it made me like Johnny Cash like

(26:44):
a whole lot more so.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
I was a big fan of that one.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
And Johnny Cash is in a lot of a complete unknown.
He was very heavily they around the same time, and
very heavy influence on on Bob Dylan, and.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
It sort of just makes you I did have that
kind of thought after watching of like now I want
to watch you should have Walked Oh yeah, okay, I
wanted to watch it after because I'm like, yeah, that
movie had so much better like story than.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
This, Like I said, it balances it really well because
there's a lot of these artists and like, I'm curious
to see how to do it with the Beatles. Uh.
They just have so much about them that you can't
really like skip through their whole life and that you
won't get a good story. You have to you have
to pick like moments.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, it's really really hard, but I think Walk the Line.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
And then the other one that I really liked was Rocketman,
the one with Terry Egerton is all John. I think
that's the best musical pick ever. Yeah, musical biopick. Yeah,
I'm I'm with you, Terry Niggerton, right.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, yeah, aryon Nickerton from the from the what is
the kind of the it is young James Bond.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
East Yeah, the Kingsman, Kingsman, that's right. I always forget
the name of that, but yeah, No, those are my
probably my two favorites.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, excellent, all right, And watching.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
I'm still catching up on and Or as you I
was literally doing as you guys were walking in the
room waiting for you guys to kind of get going
there before the new season starts. That's that's a big
one for me. I rewatched for the third time now
Paradise with my mom this time, yes, because like she
was a little slow to get on board, and then

(28:14):
she finally like we spent a couple of days together
because we were moving recently, and she's.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Like, oh, you know, I'm on episode five now.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
And we just watched five and six, so literally she's
on seven now, So I'm waiting to hear her response
for that one. But she's starting to put pieces together
and all that stuff, and she's having a good time
with it.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
So there's that one.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
But I'm this is kind of my break time because,
like I've mentioned last episode that I'm going into both
and Or and Last of Us, and I'm gonna be
diving full on headfirst into both of those series and
kind of going from there.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
I think I've decided for Last of Us, i just
don't have time to rewatch it. I'm not going to
do a full rewatch. I'm gonna I'm going to do
what I'm going to do. We planned this out because
because my wife and I have talked about this, we're
going to look up kind of you know, the YouTube
to have to have a big twenty minute season.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh yeas here we're.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Going to watch the full twenty minute recap of the
first two episodes. We're gonna pause it. We're gonna watch
the Bill and Frank episode, one of the best episodes
of TV in a recent memory. Then we're gonna continue
to watch the rest of it. We're gonna do it
probably on you know, the Sunday morning of the night
that it comes out up because of what is it,
I assume it's a Sunday that it comes out.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
Right, Yeah, usually Max is Sunday. Yeah, so soaplus is
like Tuesday, Wednesday something like that.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
We're gonna take it, and we're gonna do like that.
We just don't have time to go through all ten
because I'm also going through and Or right now and
almost done with that, but like questions, just there's just
not enough time to you know, get back up to
speed on all these amazing shows.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
There are some shows that and I feel bad because
I still haven't finished Arcane, but I have to get
myself back very much back burner, and like I said,
because it was so much time in between, it's like
I've already started these other things. Anyways, upon second watch
of and Or, is it better for you worse than you,
because I know there's those types of shows where the

(30:05):
first time you watch it will never live up to that.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
That's Westwold for me.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Every time I go back and watch it, it's not
nearly as good. And now and Ors I think better
the second time I go through it. I don't know
what you think one.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Hundred percent agree. Really, I already had it number fifteen
on my rankings, it's now at ten. It jumped the
Mandalorian on my second watch. And the thing is, like,
and I love Mandalorian and even where it gets totally
fan servicey. You know, I love fan of service. I'm
I'm an Endgame Over Infinity War guy, so like, I'm
involved by the fan service. So I love Mando. But

(30:38):
on the second watch of and Or, I kind of
come away saying, these ten episodes of and Or, I
get it where it's like it's like a fourth of
what Mando put out, but it's just perfect.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Are you at all worried that it will not live
up to it? Of course too, of course do you?
How can you not be worried? Yes, the trailer is amazing,
but we're talking about one of the most perfect seasons
of TV.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Ever. Yeah, for.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Maybe I am. I'm gonna be completely flum mixed by this.
I know it's Disney running it and they've screwed up
Star Wars so much since they took it, but it's
the same show owners, it's basically the same cast. They
know they have to basically end it. Gilroy, right, Yeah,
Tony Gilroy. He does a really good job. They have
a budget for it, so I'm almost I'm almost not

(31:28):
as worried about it not living up to my expectations.
And I don't know if you saw but Diego Luna says,
what as soon as you watch season two of and
or you have to watch Rogue one directly after that.
That's kind of how it leads into it. Oh yeah,
that's interesting. Yeah, Well, because we know what they're doing
is it's twelve episode. They're releasing three episodes a week

(31:49):
from four straight weeks starting on April twenty second, And
the idea are you.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Gonna watch all three episodes at once?

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (31:58):
I think I need more time to think about that question.
That's a big question.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
I probably won't, to be honest, unless it's like a
binge worthy like I need to watch the next one
man depends on how good it is, because it's a
movie a week for four straight weeks, and theoretically what
you could do, but he wants you to.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
He says watch it immediately.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
Well no, I think he's just saying, like timeline wise,
but like once season two is finished, yea, watch your
watch Roge.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Because my thought is this is that if you watch
it in one three hour stretch, if you do it
all on one night, you can stretch it out. We're
for five straight weeks. You do go episodes one through three,
episode seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and then that
fifth week you watch Rogue one. Yeah, I mean that's
five weeks of Star Wars bliss.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then after Rogue one, then you
just go right, yeah exactly. You could go from there.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Oh my gosh. As I'm not even a huge star
I'm a more of a Star Trek guy, but like
and by the way, CinemaCon Star Trek Strange New World's details.
But anyway, regardless, I'm just I'm a bigger Star Trek
fan gap, but as a Star Wars fan, I am.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
This is awesome.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
I'm so massive good.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Chris hasn't said a word in like ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
I know you guys are doing your things, alright, what
have you been watching, buddy?

Speaker 3 (33:13):
So still watching Daredevil. It's just getting better and better,
really you like it? Don't know what to tell you, guys.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
I've heard it so much worse than the original series.
I'm I'm on the opposite spectrum. Me and my wife
love it.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
It's getting crazy new villains and he's back to whooping ass.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
That's good ratings, actually has really good ratings.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
What we're looking at eight point six and IMDb, which
is actually really hot and eighty seven percent of Rotten Tomatoes.
Jeeves Like, if.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
You're looking for a new show to start, listeners, give it,
give it a shot. It's definitely My issue is the
barrier at entry, Chris, because I haven't seen any of
the original Daredevil series, so that I mean, yeah, so
for both of us, tell us why we shouldn't be
thinking of this as such a huge barrier.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Of entry, Like, did you have you seem to Devil
before this? That original movie hmm?

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah, no, the original series that came out like five
years ago. Yeah, I was.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
I was watching that then, right, and then they took
a break. So because the Netflix and Disney stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
But I don't have time to go back and watch
the four or five whatever seasons of the original Dare
Devil show. So you don't want to watch it? No,
I don't have the time, Chris. I think you can
make time. Okay, I have we have Last of Us
and we have and Or coming out. I'm on the
rewatch finished my reality shows, survivor basically when you finish
and Or you slide there devil in So okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
That's tenderly what you would do? You just fill the
void of another show, maybe in the summer. Maybe, Yeah,
you can do it.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Do you want? No, you don't want to, that's I don't.
I don't want to give that much extra effort to
hand there something else that is such a barrier of event. Okay, yeah,
you don't.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
You don't have to, but I think I know you
both would enjoy it. Tell me this is there a
barrier to injury?

Speaker 2 (34:51):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
So you can watch it and not have seen anything
about it before and you know what you're doing. Yes,
I've never seen anything there Douvil in my life.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Well, actually there is, Like I saw the Ben Affleck movie.
That's it.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah, but that's not it's not even comparison because now
you get his full story.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Did you watch the twenty fifteen series or no?

Speaker 3 (35:10):
So I lied, Yeah, you have to watch the first
season just because there's a bunch you wouldn't know, like
his relationships, friends like to put on the list. But yeah,
so if you watch it just jumping in, you be like, well,
who is this guy?

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Maybe in the summer?

Speaker 4 (35:23):
So wait, is the original? Is it technically two different shows? No,
it's just the rebirth because they I mean, I get
what does that mean? Because a word, he stopped being
the Daredevil. Things had gotten so bad that he you know,
friendships becoming an issue because when you're a superhero people
know about it. It's kind of a tough secret.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Like if Anderson is a superhero, how long can we
be friends with Anderson before it's like, bro, you know
we're still your friends?

Speaker 2 (35:50):
And he's like, yeah, I know, but it's just a challenge.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Even with Spider Man, right, you saw his relationships and
how they affected him.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
So Daredel was having it. He's having that memories, you know,
he's having that rift.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
And of course everything that happened with Netflix and and
Disney ended up counseling for years. And that's why it's
also called me Bird because now he's back in it,
and yes there's still crime, but he's like, yeah, I'm
not doing that no more. I'm going to focus on
my craft. So with that being said, if you did
jump in, you would have a lot of questions because

(36:21):
there are still some answers that are revealed.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
And you see you're saying you only need to watch
the first season.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
I would say, if you watch the first season, you'd
be fine because you get you get fisks. There's three
seasons of the original show, which is a lot, which
is well, I get it, it's a lot.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
It's not like you know, I thought that was five,
so but it's still a lot. I get it. You're
not You're not You're not wrong. You have a lot of.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Shows you're watching, same actor, right, Yeah, so the cast
is all back.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Yeah, you just get new villains. It might be a
workout show. I'm going I'm going through Superman and Lowis
right now. I don't have time to you know what,
I am to find time in the summer. In the summer.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
I'm intrigued with it.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
I just I think they stopped just stop there, you're
intrigued with it, and go with it.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Just take your intriguer explaining why you don't even have
to This is a podcast, bro, I'm talking.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
I don't even have to. You don't even have to.
I want you to go on your first intuition, which
is I am intrigued, and that's the sentence I am intrigued.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Next, but there's no butt. But no, you are intrigued.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
But when you write your article, I am entreated about
the sounders and.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
You hear of all writing. If that's the only sentence
he read.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Well, followed up by they finished with a three and
oh week, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Yeah, you got to give them more. You gotta get
the people more.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
World are they going?

Speaker 3 (37:36):
But this is for you. You are intrigued that we're
not promoting this on the KJR, that's for sure. And
the last thing, maybe if we get healthier without the injuries.
The last thing I watched is that you guys probably
know I'm a big seafair Blue Angels guy.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
So they did a documentary on the Blue Angel Oh wow,
and it's on Prime Video. It's about an hour and
ten minutes. It's not too long, but you learn a lot.
For instance, I didn't know that when they started in March.
They're getting better at each show. And what I mean
by getting better is you know that when they do
their diamond formation the four jets, they start off at

(38:16):
about maybe eighteen inches apart. As the season progresses, it
gets tighter and tighter, so it goes from eighteen inches
all the way down to I think maybe six inches apart.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
You imagine being not flying man.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
And you get to see the conversations while they're in
the jets. And I didn't know that they were staring
at the other person's jet while they're piloting their own.
So basically, if Jackson's flying above me, I'm not looking
straight ahead. I'm looking at Jackson. And then when he turns,
you turn, and then I'm following Jackson jack and I'm
just like okay, and Jackson's telling me all right, the
winds beat and all this other information that I you know,

(38:50):
I'm calculating, but I'm literally watching AKA the Boss and
we're just.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
We're all more calculating.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Wow, I see who you did that. But it's a
cool look. Actually it's actually called the Blue Angels. Don Prime.
I will quickly say Tomato meter from Fan Tomatometer from
critics is eighty three. Audience popcorn Meter ninety eight. Wow, Well,
because I think everyone likes the Blue Angels. It's very rare.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Like you have who doesn't like the Blue Ink One
of my best friends hates them. He's like Chris, I
hate this time song.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
How can you hate them?

Speaker 2 (39:19):
He has too much noise. He's also not a fan
of like the Fourth of July, you're plugs noise canceling headphones.
It doesn't enjoy with how they look at it. He
could care less.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
He is.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
He is like anti. It's a short thing. Yeah, nothing
crazy about it. Awesome, but it's really good. It sucks
that Seattle gets like thirty seconds because they go through
each city pretty much and they show you what they're
doing and whatnot. Seattle gets like thirty seconds, and it's
just it's just really cool that they give a deep
dive on it and you get to go in the
debrief room where they're talking about the show and what

(39:50):
they want to execute. From when it's really cloudy to
a beautiful sunny sky. You get an in depth look
at what it's like to be a pilot for the Navy.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Blue en, I love it.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Glenn Powell obviously top Gun a producer on it. Also
Jj Abrams a producer on it. Yes, and he knows
how to capture jets and objects so.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Well, actually you might have noticed this in this year's Seafair.
There are seven jets this past Yeah, so that seventh
jit was actually the cameraman. So when you're watching you,
when you're watching this, you're like, holy moly, he was
shooting for that. That is crazy because you're winning where
they get the shots from. Well, yeah, they had a
seventh jet that was just trailing and you're seeing it.

(40:32):
So when you watch this, you're like, if you remember, like,
holy moly, that's pretty cool because I wouldn't. I wasn't
thinking that when they're doing I thought maybe it was
someone in training, whatever the case may be. Well, it
was actually filming. So it's a really cool documentary. Another
workout show for.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
You just to know that's that's sit down and like,
will excuse me, that's that's sit down and take time.
And so that is kind of what I've been watching.
And a recommendation as well, such a very cool recommendation.
I had no idea that was even a thing. Well, done, Chris, cool,
that's fantastic. Okay, let's get into it. Let's do it.

(41:08):
So basically, there's a lot of different premises we could
do here. Ultimately, the first pick, the basic one is
best directors. I like the way we phrase it of
like when you see a project, whether it's on TV
or you know, CinemaCon was just happening, they're unveiling all
these details. When you see a director is tied to
a project, you have to watch that project because that

(41:31):
director is involved. That is the draft here, effectively, best directors.
I'm best director drafts. So we of course go to
our random number generator. We give you one out of three.
We'll start with Anders and hit the generator button. Andrews
gets the third pick. Chris, you get the first pick.
I will get the second pack.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
We all know who he's picking. Goddamn, do you do
we do?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Do we? Actually? I do?

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (41:55):
I want you to tell me where I'm going.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
We're going No One, number one.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
No, I don't think Sarantino number one.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
I'm going Now you guessed it right, Yes, I will
take Quentin Tarantino. It's funny that you mentioned that because
Jackson and myself were having a discussion about Tarantino and
Mark James MG in the Midday to new host, He's like, oh,
he has a bunch of misses. And me and Jackson go, okay,
well can you name him? And he's just like befuddled.

(42:22):
He's like sin City who he didn't even direct some
and my immediate responsibles he did not directions. Yeah he did, Chris,
he did. I'm like, I'm on Wikipedia, I'm on IMDb.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
That's more. What do you say the words were?

Speaker 3 (42:34):
He said, it's incredible, incredible ye, And I'm like, no,
Wikipedia is husually right, and he was like no, I'm kid,
You're wrong, and I'm like okay, And then Jackson's like
he directed a scene and then then he got really quiet.
So then we're like, yeah, okay, he's done nine movies
and he had, according to you, one miss where else
is their missus? And he just got really quiet, and

(42:56):
I'm waiting on him to explain, like the other misses,
Let's just say he couldn't find another film that was
he did.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Jackson told me the one he thought was a miss Oh,
which one was it?

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Jackson once upon him and Hollywood, That's what it was,
he said. He said, it's a terrible movie. And I
just I the moment he said that, I just stopped listening.
But AnyWho, that's sorry. Mark.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Quentin Tarantino is my pick from Django Unchained to Inglorious Bastards.
When you see his name behind tied to a movie.
For me, I am going to go see it today.
The last film I haven't seen yet, and that's just
I'm just being lazy. But up to that point, I
had seen every film with his name attached. There's one

(43:35):
that I'm drawing a blank with Samuel Jackson, Groggins, Goggans.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Excuse me, what's the name of it? Oh they're in
the pulp fiction.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, Oh my gosh, yes, oh
my gosh.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Classic classic. You don't that better than Chango.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
For me?

Speaker 4 (43:54):
No, Melius Shango Unchained pulp fiction. It's tough because I
take Once upon a Time, One upon a Time, and
HO take Once upon a Time and Inglorious Bastards and
both hay Fleay and Django above pull Piction, I'll.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Put Hatefully is number five for me. You know what,
it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Quinton as my first I like him that much, but
like he he has a but like when Jackson's premise
of the show further for our draft, when you see
his name, you just say, I gotta go see it.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
That's how I feel, speaking of well. Number two pick
is Christopher Nolan. Number one, Yeah, Christopher Nolan is I
think the very.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Obvious picture because you you just look at his projects
and and he by the way, he's now the the
Some shots have leaked of the filming location for the
Odyssey Uh, his newest movie coming out next year of
Matt Damon plays uh Odessus Odysseus, thank You, and that's

(44:54):
gonna be incredible. But like, yes, I think he missed
a little bit. I would even I guess I I
liked Tenet when I had the subtitles on. I need
to have the subtitles on. But I thought it was
once I understood it, and once I like read the subtitles,
I got it much more. But you just look at
over all the category and you look at Offenheimer an
Interstellar Dark Knight inception, it just goes on and on
and on. The dude doesn't miss like big time. He

(45:18):
doesn't have a big miss And sort of at Chris's point,
like when you see a director who doesn't have a
big miss you have to see their project because you know,
at least even if even if you aren't completely blown
out of the water, you're not gonna come away from
the experience saying, well, that was crape. And at the
end of the day, like when I buy a ticket
for a movie, I'm just really hoping that I don't

(45:40):
come away from it saying well that was crap. And
you know that every single time you see a Nolan movie,
you're either gonna say that was great, that was good,
or that was okay. And I'm never going to hit
the floor with Christopher Nolan, and most of the time
I'm going to say it's great. So it has to
be the number two pick.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
Yeah, I probably would have taken this with my first
pick as well. There is something to be said about
a volume, but and he he has a good volume
at this point, but he's still pretty like i'd say,
middle of his career right now. Definitely, so that is
a chance to kind of rise I'm gonna have. I'm

(46:16):
gonna pick someone who's maybe a little bit towards the
end of their career, towards uh when I when I
get my picks here, but I think that's a good pick.
He's the definition of what you said when you see
that he's attached to a movie, I don't care what
it's about. And the funny thing is when I hear
that a movie is coming out or a project is

(46:38):
coming out, there's two things that I think about. Number One,
who's directing it. Number two what is it about? And
I don't really care about the the cast that much.
That's kind of secondary to me. I care about kind
of like, okay, what's the premise more often than not,
like take away Nolan and him as a director, But
all of the stuff he does is like super interesting
to me. Batman is really interesting, the Oppenheimer, I love

(47:01):
the nineteen or the Dune, Dunkirk, just so so many
different interstellar like.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Use of time and all of these that you've mentioned.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Right, inception and like all these things that are like
super like take away that it was Nolan doing it
these super interesting topics. But add in that, you know
it's someone who is really good working with these types
of movies. You know he's gonna have a good cast,
you know he's gonna have a good score. Yeah, he's
the definition of what this is like as soon as
you realize that he's attached to the movie, you kind
of have to go see it.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
So I'm worried though that because right because I will
say my number two is very very close, really, and
I'm worried that you're gonna take him here with the
back to back.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
I think I am, because my my first round pick
is Deneville News, son of a bit. Yeah, yeah, okay,
but I I'm glad I get to talk about him too,
because it's it's a little bit less volume as Christopher Nolan,
but a kind of similar type of filmmaker. I would
say the News a little more. I guess they're both

(48:02):
pretty you know, what's the word I'm looking for. Not
exactly traditional, I should say non traditional. Ville Neuve's projects
are super intriguing. But you just take Dune one and two,
those are those are absolute just nails like that gave

(48:23):
him the title of who he is now. Basically, I
think before that he was like, Okay, he's had some
really good stuff. He's had some like decent stuff, and
then some stuff you don't really hear about as much. Uh.
But with Dune one and two, with bloyde Runner, I
love Sakario and my god, if a Rival isn't my
Arrival is my contact? Uh, I know you is awesome.

(48:45):
I think that was kind of the first thing that
put him on the map for me. It's just such
a well made movie. His his So I think Nolan
does a great job with time. Uh ville Neuve does
an awesome job with sound and this sound design and
both Dune, Blade Runner Arrival even Sakario, which is kind

(49:06):
of a more traditional just like shoot him Up Gangbusters,
but although there's a little bit extra stuff to that way,
he shot them exactly, So I mean he can do
it all. So I love Dnievil nouve He. I can't
wait to see what he does after he finishes Dune.
I want to see what more he has in the store,
because I think his career is just getting started.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
By the way, I'm just looking up news on Dnevilaenuve.
And by the way, as of two days ago, Arrival
is now streaming on Hulu.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
You just check it out. It's if folks haven't watched
Arrival to it. It is. It's kind of the modern contact.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
It's contact for the It's contact for the twenty first century.

Speaker 4 (49:47):
Yeah, with a little more like I always I don't
get super enthralled by the full on sci fi stuff,
so like the alien that you guys like with Ridley Scott,
who also might be later on this on this draft,
I don't get super enthralled by that stuff. But I
love how Venuve kind of connects it into the modern world,
adds a little linguistics element to it, like how to communicate.

(50:10):
That's kind of the main topic. And then I won't
spoil anything but the aspect of connecting it to the
human condition as well as awesome.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
So tremendous.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna whoa I have about rap round.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Oh it's all okay, you're gonna take mine. I probably won't.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
I'm gonna go a pretty safe pick here in Steven
spiel Yeah, number five. This one is a more volume
pick for me. There are some of the he just
has so many, like a plus both franchises and movies. Uh,
you look at Jaws, you look at Indiana Jones, you
look at Et, you look at Jurassic Park, you look

(50:49):
at Schindler's List, you look at Saving Private Ryan, you
look at and then more recently you got West Side Story.
Who I what I actually really like, I know, you
guys aren't the biggest musical brands. Great things about west
Side His story is an awesome, awesome, awesome movie, a
little more miss than Hit recently. Actually, Tintin's really good.

(51:09):
Not like I didn't a lot of people really like it.
I'm not a huge fan. Can I tell a quick
story about Tintin? Go ahead?

Speaker 2 (51:14):
So I was really interested in seeing it, So I
go to the theater to see it. This was in
twenty and eleven. Eleven, excuse me eleven. So I had
a girlfriend in twenty ten. She left the state and
then came back in after after going to school away
for a while, and we're we said, let's just go
to a movie together, you know, because because we've broken up, Like,

(51:35):
you know, let's just go see a movie together. So
we go see Tintin and I'm enjoying it. And halfway
through the movie, she just like gets up and leaves,
and I'm like, okay, you're going to the bathroom. Thirty
minutes later, I'm like where is this girl? So so
I'm like at that point, like I'm like, all right,
I have to leave this movie. I'm like distracted. I

(51:57):
don't know what's going on. I'm really enjoying it, but
I have to leave the theatre her, so I like
go out to like start looking for her, and eventually
I'm like in the lobby and she comes out and
she was doing drugs in the in the women's bathroom. Okay,
she couldn't stay like enthrolled by Tintin. She had to
go do drugs in the women's bathroom. So I'm like, really, like,
this was a good movie. I was enjoying this movie.

(52:18):
I think A Tintin was interesting.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
I think it's a fun movie.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
She took away from my enjoyment of Tintin. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's my story, all right.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
But I mean there are some stuff that he he
does that's not great. I think the Post was good.
Uh oh yeah, BFG could have been a whole lot
better than it was, because I actually loved that book.
Bridge of Spies was Lincoln was boring. I know a
lot of people like it. Not a fan. Warhorse a
little too dramatic for me, and so it's all about,
you know, how is the horse gonna die? Is it not.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
War the world?

Speaker 2 (52:49):
I like, is the tom Cruise one?

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (52:52):
It was okay, it's fine. The Terminal is actually awesome.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Tom Hanks.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
Yes, spectacular movie, very very good movie. And it's like
kind of catch me for cans also awesome. Uh so
he has he has some really good stuff.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
Again, not everyone is a hit for him, but just
he's another version of where you hear he's attached to something,
you're like, oh, okay, let's check it out.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yeah. Absolutely, I think it's a great pick. All right.
For my second pick, we're only doing three picks, by
the way, we go. No, I'm just gonna go three.
Damn we can do four. I'm gonna leave you Jordan Peele.
I don't I don't need Jordan Peele. And and he's
not he's not next up on my rankings. I was
taking on I get him, then on on my next

(53:35):
and I get Jordan Peele too. Uh you know, screw,
I'll just go I don't think. I don't think you're
gonna go my next guy. I'm gonna get and if
I if you do, then I'm going to talk about
him hate myself. But I already mentioned Jordan pel Jordan Peel. Okay,
because again, very small catalog. He's coming out with a
new movie called Him later this year, which I can't wait.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
In terms of the description of what you said, when
you know he's attached to a movie, yeah, you're going
have to see it.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Yeah, Like Nope, I had literally no idea what Nope
was about? Nope, And like literally then coming out of it.
I'm using the word literally actually accurately right now, and
I just use the word actually correct, not of planet Earth. Nope,
had no idea. The movie was about aliens, and oh

(54:24):
my god. But it's the way he shoots that. Obviously
there's get Out, Obviously there's Us, and like get Out.
When he's attached to a project at this point, you
just have to see it because it's a dude that
clearly he understands comedy at a very high level. But
now we're understanding he understands drama, suspense, just the way

(54:45):
characters can interact with their environments. He's a spectacular director.
And when you mentioned Spielberg right end of his career,
peels just at the start of his career. I mean,
the dude's forty six years old. Guests, he's gonna spend
the next twenty three years making great movies like this.

Speaker 4 (55:02):
So do we all agree that Getouts is best. Still
I liked Nope, you like nope? Okay, what about you Nope?

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Because I'd like to get Out more?

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Okay, I like get Out more too. Guess the budget for.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Actually probably small, really small. I would guess yes, Like
I would guess forty million, lower, twenty million, lower ten million?
What is it?

Speaker 1 (55:25):
Four and a half million?

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Actually I might take us you like us want and
get Out I think might be great.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
Anyways, Guess how much he made at the box office
forget Out?

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Yeah, I would guess three four hundred million to fifty five.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
But still to fifty five after having a four and
a half million dollar budget.

Speaker 4 (55:43):
That is it? Talking about that is a great film,
but just knowing what to do with what you have,
like so damn good.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
He's a he's a visionary and he's just at the
start of his career really directing and and for me,
like to the definition of what we're doing when he's
a attached to a project, I am going to put
my button a theater and see it.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
Yeah, I totally agree.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Chris, back to back all right, I will go ahead
and give me the Russo Brothers just because they there
was probably two or three films I never heard of.
But when they came on the scene with Captain America,
they just want to roll, all right.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
It was a consistent like.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Oh oh and then within you know Avengers Infinity War,
you know, but since seats okay, yeah, there's so bout
you know the name, all right, So that's so really quick.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
I'm going to test you on this because they just
directed The Electric State, which came out on Netflix. Yes, yeah,
me and you see it. We're about to watch it.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
Actually, we're gonna watch it this weekend on Sunday, all right,
because for me looked intriguing. That trailer had me going like, Okay,
I want to see this. You guys are interesting. You
were like, no they did you me into pre Actually, no.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Way, I actually love that. Yeah, God is that when
Wilson Yeah, and Michael's good. That's good. All right, Well, Chris,
I'll be interested to see if you if you like
the Electric State, because that's a true Russo Brand Brothers
fan would still see The Electric State despite the trailers. No,
I hear you on that.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
My third pick give me Mikael Bay Michael Bay oh
Man dropped you talk about action movies. He don't miss Okay,
start off with Bad Boys nineteen ninety five, nailed it. Okay,
The Rock a classic film with rest in Peace, what's
his name? The old guy that played James Bond, League

(57:36):
of Extraordinary Gentleman Sean Connery passed Away, Armageddon Okay, not
much action, but the story, oh classic, Timeless Pearl Harbor
one of like, yeah, classics.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
Yeah, you know, you add it all up. I was
a little bit more judgmental because you think of Michael
Bay just as the Transformers Explosions director. He's a lot
more than No.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
He did a lot of Transformers, but he also did
six Underground, which is an underrated film, I think, but
it's really good.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
I love the.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
Casting of it. But you know, Bad Boy stands alone.
Like those two films, man, those are just for me.
Growing it was like, yo, I gotta go see it.
And then you see Michael Bay, You're like, yeah, this
is gonna be great. And he lived up to it.
And then he kind of got crazy with Transformers. But
you know, they what it is. People are are watching listen,
so he's gonna keep making that.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
He is the one that we can credit for giving us.
And I think we're all in the right age group
and anybody listening forgiving us the Megan Fox where her
stomach is as wet as when any of us jump
into a lake and it is just dripping as she
leans over them with a motorcycle or the car or whatever.
And that scene made me feel things. I tell you

(58:47):
what that was. Fifteen year old Jackson felt saw Meghan
Fox leaning over that car with bir chest and that
was So did he do the something.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
Michael Bend do the purche he's showing up?

Speaker 4 (59:00):
He did?

Speaker 3 (59:00):
He might have just done like his name was on
it or something. Yeah, he wasn't the director of okay director,
but he's looking oh yeah he produced it. Okay, all right?
So yeah, I mean, I don't know if we consider that.
I mean, sure, you know saying it, but when he's
editing and he's a director, like, yo, this is the
cast I want?

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Those are the movies I think that. I just when
Michael Bay says you got some can.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
I react to Russo Brothers real quick? Or was it
go back to that before we get to Jackson's pick
or is it my pick? No, it's Jackson's pick.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
You guys can just talk. I don't even go ahead.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
So the Russo Brothers are interesting because they're one of
those directors when you look at their catalog, like they
absolutely nailed their their MCU movies. I think Cherry The
Gray Man. I forgot about those two films. Cherry's on
Apple Stellar, The Gray Man Elite.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
This is Michael Bay Still.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
No, No, this is Ruth brother because they actually directed
that film.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
I heard horrible things about The Gray Man.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
For what it's worth.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Have you seen it? Yes, they like it. It's so good.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Oh my god, it was. It was like it was
without soul.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Without soul, sometimes without souls.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
It just it just did it just didn't have any
character or feeling.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
To it, is what I was anyways, what I was saying. Regardless,
back to Russo Brothers, like, I think most of what
makes me like them is the projects that they've done
more than the actual director. But but there are I
I do give them a lot of credit for nailing

(01:00:36):
the projects that they did, because there's a lot of
examples where directors have been given these projects and ips uh.
Example would be the DC Universe where they'd absolutely fumble
it and it's it's not nearly as good as it
could be. And I think they got the absolute most
out of the MCU that they possibly could, both for

(01:00:59):
hardcore fans that are fans of the comics and for
casuals who had never seen anything Marvel before. So that's
a that's a positive I put on their book. I
just don't see them as like if they're attached to
a random movie that I've never heard of, I have
to go see it sort of situation.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
At least, that's that's that's me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Uh, Chris, I'm really shocked you didn't select Ryan Kugler
because we were talking about Ryan Cougler when we came
up with the idea for this draft, and you know,
considering you know, Centers, which comes out here what next month,
later this month, I mean, and he's one of those
right now that's kind of building up his his repertoires
as pretty ridiculous. I mean, he also has Space Jam

(01:01:39):
New Legacy came out a few years ago, so that
was so bad. And that's interesting because as I had
my final, he wasn't a director on that, so it
wasn't he was I believe a producer on there. So
he definitely let me look it up for you. Well,
it's it's sort of interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
He was a producer. Yep, he didn't. He wasn't directing it,
but you know, having here, but it's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
It's one of those things where where as I have
I have my final pick here as I kind of
think through like if a director has had a big
miss or if a director has done something that made
me just turn off from them so much like I
think that one year ago, if we were doing this draft,
I would have gone with Martin Scorsese here, but I'm
not because at the end of Killers of the Flower Moon,

(01:02:19):
he literally gets up on a stage and as Martin
Scorsese and says basically just this big speech of here's
why I did this project, and here's why it's important
to me. And it's like, Marty, buddy, you don't do that.
You don't do that. I've already been watching this movie
for four and a half hours. I don't need to
see your old ass get up and tell me why
you made it. I understand that. It's like, it's a

(01:02:40):
very interesting movie and you very clearly put so much
of your soul into making this. You don't need to
come on my screen and tell me why it matters. Yeah, Like, buddy, Marty,
so who are you picking? I'm going to pick, uh,
listen to vill Villainov is the best sci fi director
going right now. My favorite sci fi director is JJ

(01:03:01):
Abrams because Jj Abrams is just what he's done. I mean, listen,
he's directed for me my number two favorite movie of
all time, Star Trek in two thousand and nine, and
the opening scene in that, the opening five minutes with
Chris Hemsworth and everybody else is maybe the best movie
opening Quantum of Solace. James Bond is up there, but like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
But what is way better?

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
That's also a great opening. But I'm just specifically talking about,
like I guess, movies like get you going, like I'm
so amped right now.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
Ours episode three, Revenge of the Sith, that whole space
fight scene.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
There are certain openings that just get you revved up.
And the Star Trek two thousand and nine opening that
just revs your motors as it's the ultimate sacrifice of
James T. Kirk's dad comes back to it and it
all comes back exactly like you know, like your your
your dad saved how many lives you know as a
captain in five minutes? Show me you can do better exactly.

(01:03:57):
Spoiler Sorry, I mean, it's just so anyway, that's my
second favorite movie of all time. Star Trek O.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
Nine It's awesome, it's so do you like sci fi? Yeah,
you need to watch Star Trek O nine. Absolutely watch that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
I have a picture that explains how pissed I was
that my dad wanted to watch that film. It was
a holiday season and he was I want.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
To watch the Star turn I watched that. I was not
the old body buddy or the new one. I'll show
you the picture.

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
Nine.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
You couldn't even tell. I was mad, but my dad
wanted to watch it, and I had no interest in it.
It's how Abrams took that. And just because I'm not
a Star Trek guy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
No, but I know, but I need to be. I'm
not either, And that's one of my favorite movies ever.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
It's it's and it's because I think of JJ Abrams.
It's because I think of the way that he crafted
this story together. He did such an exceptional job. But
then you add in Mission Impossible three, which I think
was where the series really started to take off. Super
eight such an underrated movie that's so good, such a
good and his best friend to go see that. Then

(01:04:59):
I mean lick listen. We we talked about Star Wars
a couple of weeks ago. I loved Force Awakens, and
I credit Force Awakens to JJ Abrams because it's the
only good one I think of that series. But also
he directed my favorite TV show of all time, Lost
Lost is something that I absolutely swear by. Uh and
and he was such a huge part of Lost in

(01:05:20):
that first season, which is the best season. So jj
Abrams had to be on my team as my favorite
sci fi director for Lost, for Star Truck, for everything
else he did Alias two by the way, Yeah, for me,
I had to. I had to have jj Abrams on
my team.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
I unfortunately lost a lot of interest when you said
that you like Force Awakens.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
So I liked Force Awakens. I think it's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
But do you remember what other movie he did in
that what Rise of Skywalker?

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
No he didn't, Yeah he did. No, he didn't, Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
He did.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
So okay, no, no, no, in all serious, he didn't. Really
Yeah he did, JJ Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
So is that the last movie he's ever because because
it's funny, he hasn't directed movies for the long time.
Directed in twenty nineteen, correct, Son of a Bitch. JJ
get back in the game, buddy, you gotta erase that.
That's horrifying. After I just got done saying if the
director's had a big miss, that was about as big
of a miss, about as half.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
But I, in all seriousness, most of what you said
I totally agree with. I think most okay, from from
the whole Star Wars perspective. I think if they had
allowed JJ to have all three movies and not given
the second one to Ryan, it would have been a
lot better, a lot better.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
But you still chose to have lay a fly through space. Yeah,
that's a terrible decision.

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
Well that's Ryan.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Was that Thember two was that?

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
That was so it was eight Jedi, that was eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Oh okay, then JJ, you're you're you're more clear, But
you still chows them to kiss. And I can't forgive
you for that. That's choosing choosing Kylo w Ren and
Foreven forget Ray Ray choosing for their characters to kiss
randomly at the end of nine like it is one
of the most disgusting decisions in Star Wars history.

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
First of all, the entire sequel trilogy isn't Star Wars
to me. So I go one through six and I
stop it at the Return of the Jedi. It's that's
that's where it ends. Force Awakens. Although wasn't that bad
when I first saw it it. I liked it as
a standalone movie, But then when you watch the other
two movies, it makes the Force Awakens worse.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
It makes it worse.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
But I think, like to credit to JJ here, I
think a lot of that has to do with him,
with them just kind of like switching directors in way
through the trilogy and going in different directions.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
So Ryan Johnson is just like I don't know a
lot of people.

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
I don't know why I got that project, and I
will never forgive him for what he did to it,
so horrify. Yeah, and I realized he did the glass
onion or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
And those are good. Stick to that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Yeah, yeah, don't do it all right? My turn?

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Yeah, your last pick, the last pick.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
Since I am the last pick, I'm gonna go through
a couple of my honorable mentions before I give my
my pick.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
I have three as well, so we go through yours.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
Ranis Ford Coppola probably directed three of the best movies
of all time, just not as big of a catalog
and less of a uh uh, like, when he's on it,
I have to watch it. But when you do Apocalypse
Now and Godfather one and Godfather too, it's hard to
disagree with.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Yeah, but Megalopolis that movie that just came out and
it last year.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
Okay did he do that?

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Yeah? Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
AnyWho.

Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
I think Apocalypse Now is one of my one of
the best war movies.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Maybe the maybe maybe the best war movie.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Draft idea war movies.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Put that on the.

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
Book that's going in there. Put that on the book
sending the text. Now, we got to make sure it's
in writing. But Apocalypse Now is awesome, Like so damn good.
Anyone who hasn't seen it, please please check it out.
Clint Eastwood honorable mention. Not like that's more of a
actually you know what in terms of the qualifiers that

(01:09:14):
we talked about, when he's attached to a movie, I'm
immediately intrigued, So I I almost picked him here. Same
thing with Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson's fantastic when he comes
out of the project, like you're interested, You're immediately piqued. Like,
no matter what it is, Matt Reeves, Damien Good, Damien.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
This was this was gonna be probably my fourth pick.
Damien was next on my list. I'm gonna be the
fourth rounder, but.

Speaker 4 (01:09:41):
The one I'm gonna go with, I'm wondering if he's
even on your list.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
I have one guy left that I haven't mentioned.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Probably Edgar Wright.

Speaker 4 (01:09:48):
No is awesome Baby Driver, Baby Driver. He has the
three flavors cornetto. I don't know if you've seen those
movies Sean of the Dead, Sandal, fuzz Old, and So.
Did you know that that's a trilogy? By the way, Yeah,
of course, okay, good? Uh so, Yeah, it's he He
has some fantastic movie.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
He's coming out with a new movie called The Running
Man with Glenn Powell signed me.

Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
It looks really good. Baby Drivers one of my favorite
movies of all time. It's opening scenes that get you
going bingo bingo, bingo bingo. So I'm gonna go Edgar Wright.
His dialogue is so tight. The way he makes a
movie is less like a I'm gonna take you and
make it super grounded and realistic.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
He knows you're here to watch a movie and he's
there to entertain you. But it's just so like art
artistically done that I love his style and anything he touches.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
I'm a big fan of such.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
A good pick. I'm mad that I didn't even think
about that. But like, I don't know if he's had
a big miss. Not really, he's had such.

Speaker 4 (01:10:54):
Like I liked Last Night and soho. No, I mean
it's it's a horror movie. I'm not even big horror
fan or thriller fan. But he did a good job
with that one. What was it The Sparks Brothers. I
haven't seen, but it got super high ratings. I need
to check that out. World and a good pick Scott
Pelgrim versus The World is awesome awesome, uh and then

(01:11:14):
a fist full of fingers. I haven't seen.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
That was his first movie he ever made, nineteen ninety five.
I'll check it out sometime.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
But Edgar Wright's a great pick. Only the other one
on my list was Jon Favreau. But that was that
was the bottom of my list, Huz, that would be
my next pick. And then and then Edgar Wright didn't
even think about it. That's a great pick.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Any others that you met, we messed that. We're on
honorable mentions.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
James Cameron, Yeah, should be mentioned. The fact that we're
talking directors, like maybe the highest grossing director of all
time should get mentioned here. Yeah, Zack Snyder, he was
on my list. Okay, Clint, he's what as you mentioned,
and then I.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Think Clint East would I should have put a little higher.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
But I'm a horror guy. So James Wand he's the
guy that stands out. Yeah, when I see that he's
dropping a new Conjuring, I'm like, he also did Fast
and Furious for a while, didn't he. That's a great question.
I believe he did a couple of them. Yeah, uh,
that's that's that's a good pick because he really is
the top horror guy are going right now? I think, yeah,
he's one of them for like he is Jordan Peel's

(01:12:11):
like a psychological but that's horror guy. Like like like
James Wand feels more of like stab stab horror.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
He did Sow Okay, So he did Saw. Okay, he
did the first Saw. He directed the first Saw, Dead,
Silence and.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
Horror.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
The Conjuring series is just like I was gonna watch
The Conjuring.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
For for me, like watching movie. I think I think
that's for me. Watching Megan Fox Lean over the Hood
of a Car is like Chris watching something to get
murdered by James Wand's direction. No, it's not, well, you
know stuff. There's just something about horror. You know. I

(01:12:53):
blame my mother, you know, as a child, she would
put on you know, Alien, and I'm like five, and
I'm just watching it with her. You know.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
I like because it's kind of otherworldly in terms of
horror movies. So I like those ones, even other worldly.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Hey, we're wrapping the podcast right now. I can't talk
right now. Bye. Yeah, I didn't hear that. They're literally
Oh the thing wasn't on say that? It said that
one more time. I'm I'm doing the podcast. I'm just
wrapping and I'll call you back in ten minutes. Oh now,
she hung up. She didn't want to be on the podcast.
All right, let's let's wrap this, Chris, go sorry, go ahead. No,

(01:13:28):
I just I just got a thing for horror films,
and I'm not upset that people are like, oh I
could never it's just not my cup of tea, because
I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Yeah, yeah, I get it, Like who wants to be scared?
Like who literally wants to go a lot of people do,
But when you think about it, no one's like I
want to go see a movie that's gonna happen me
up all night if it's going to keep you up.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
It was like, oh, that was so good.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
Not you know, I'm afraid to close my eyes because
something could kill me.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
You know, that's otherworldly.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Stressed me out too much.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Well, yeah, I think that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Teams, teams, teams, Chris, you got him written out of course.
One of the teams.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
I got Quentin Tarantino, Russo Bros. And Michael Bay who's
number two, Met Jackson, Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peel and JJ
Abron number three.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
I don't know how to say these. Dude's name an evil.
And then Steven Spielberg and Edgar Right, that's a great
that's a great team. I think Andrews is gonna win
this draft because he covers all fields. What I think
he Yeah, yeah, hit.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
To all fields, baby, Mark James, hit me up. Let's
go three for twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
My last pick.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
I think we're gonna have Anderson. We're gonna we're gonna
have Anderson. Drop the poll and we'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
All right, everybody, thank you for listening to Hollywood Weekly.
We're about to come edit the heck out of this
last hour fifteen minutes. Hope everybody enjoyed, have a very
good week. We'll be back soon. Christopher kids see Kid
two o six Anderson Hurst at anders Hurst Jackson on
radio for me. We thank you for listening. We'll be
back soon. And once again to end the show.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
I'll do.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
Don't kid, that'll do.

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