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April 11, 2025 37 mins
In this episode of On The Go with Jacob and James, the duo returns to discuss the latest buzz from CinemaCon, diving into exciting announcements like the upcoming Predator movies and the intriguing animated series on Hulu. They share their thoughts on the unique concept of "Killer of Killers," exploring how animation can bring fresh perspectives to familiar franchises. The conversation shifts to the much-anticipated sequel of the live-action "How to Train Your Dragon," and the bold move of announcing it before the first film's release. Jacob and James also tackle the mixed reception of the "Minecraft" movie, debating its storytelling and character development while reflecting on the audience's reactions at the theater. As they wrap up, they touch on the sneak peek of the new Superman film, discussing its whimsical tone and potential departure from traditional superhero narratives. With plenty of laughs and insightful commentary, this episode is a must-listen for fans of film and pop culture!
CinemaCon Highlights: (00:00)Minecraft Movie Discussion: (05:24)Superman Sneak Peek: (16:32)Clever Movie Marketing: (27:07)The Batman 2: (32:50)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I feel so damn good.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I got a boner.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Released a new episode today.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Listen to it.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
My Boner Boner.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Kind of wanted to talk about Cinema Coon the rest
of CinemaCon that we didn't quite cover last week, which
really isn't a whole lot, but we had we had
some reviews. Uh you know, I don't know if you noticed,
but uh, Predators getting a couple movies and like a
TV series on Hulu.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yep, I saw it.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
They both seemed very interesting. The animated one looks really cool.
I think it's like Killer of Killers.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, it's pretty much sim going traveling through time. I
like that.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I like that concept a lot. I think that's something
they had kind of discussed when Prey came out, because
you know, there was the reception of Prey was pretty good,
so I think that was maybe uh set in motion
from that, yeah, which I.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Think is better to do animated anyway than do it
I have extra version of it right. Well.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Also, you know, you spend less time filming a movie
for each era, right you can do like a thirty
minute forty five minute episode animated versus you know, two
or three movies over what six years or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, six years. It was all as I wish he
was in theaters.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh the animation, Yeah, I wish he was in theaters.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
That would have been cool.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
That would have been cool. That would have been really nice.
And it's it's it's the same kind of animation that
Spider Verse kind of did. I mean everyone's going to that,
right because they set up precedence now, so it's it's
a similar animation. So yeah, I think it would work.
But the movie sounds really cool to me where it's
a predator, he's on a planet, he's being hunted by
something bigger than him. I like that idea. I don't

(01:43):
really care for the human factor in there. I kind
of wish it was just like the predator on his own.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah. Yeah, you gotta have a human factor.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Monster movies, they always have to have a human to
kind of like explain the emotions of the monster. Like
you see it in Godzilla all the time. You know,
where the humans are like, oh, I got Dylla is
just trying the city because he's mad about whatever, and
he's fighting this monster because his monster wants to kill us,
or you know, sometimes they just question their own existence,
like are we the reason Godzilla is evil.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, because they're like they're the ones that helped the
story go. You know, right, of course Predator can't talk,
so it's just like you kind of you have to
have some time of human effic and then so honest there.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
And I mean I would I wouldn't mind like a
like just a standalone Predator movie. But that's just me.
So I get where the studio is coming from on
that one. So we also got some apparently there was
like footage of the Running Man remake, and you know,
some trailers drop, like Making Making two point zero. That
trailer dropped interesting directions? Are you taking that movie? I

(02:42):
don't know if you care for Megan at all. I
don't think you did. I don't think you liked Megan.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
I liked it a little fine. It was Finney, Yeah,
it was fine.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, So how do you feel? How do you feel
about them leaning into the the ridiculousness of the concept.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, it makes sense your minds. You might as well.
I mean, if you go, if you're going this fall,
you gotta leaning into it all the way. So I
don't have no problem with the trailer looks kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
A lot of people compared it to like Terminator two,
the Terminator Tutor.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
That's pretty much what it is. It's Terminator Too.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I think Nobody Too. Also got footage the Bob Odenkirk
movie Nobody, And then we got a trailer for Tron Aries.
They showed some fire Avatar fire and ash stuff. That's neat.
And the boldest thing I saw them do was announce
a sequel to the live action How to Train Your
Dragon remake.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, I mean I got kind of figured they would
give it a sequel. I mean, it's it's not To
Train Your Dragon, so I'm not not really surprised.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
This is right?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
That really a trilogy anyway, Is it like this a
two piece sequel? I don't think it's the Troops.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
No, it's a trilogy. It's a trilogy. And then they
have like a couple of TV show spin offs like
It's it's a popular series, so it does make sense
that it would get a sequel. But I was just like, wow,
that's really bold to just like, the movie's not even
out yet, it comes out in the summertime, so it's
really bold to just go, hey, we're definitely doing a sequel.
And it irked me a little bit just because you know,

(04:02):
you have films that come out and they struggle, like
opening weekend and already the studio is trying to rip
it down and throw it on the streaming true, whereas
you have this live action remake just like yep, we're
doing a sequel. It's like, oh, well, I guess look
a look at you.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Apparently they got like a full they was able to
watch the full movie and uh yeah, they said it
was it was pretty good about that. It tested pretty good,
so which I'm not. I'm not really shocked. It looks
like it's probably one of the better live action movies.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
It visually it looks great.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, it looks like it's kind of one of the
better ones, you know, So I'm not really surprised. I'm
I'm not anxious to see it, but I don't care
for How to Train the Dragon like that, but I'll
I will watch it though. This is see how how
I managed it up with the with the animated one.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, well, the the original the original director and I
think some of the original people from the animated movie
came back to do this one because they were like,
if you're going to bring it in the live action,
let us bring it into live action, because we did
it so well the first time. Let let us come
back do it the right way. You know, we're not
trying to create a soul with remake like Disney's been

(05:12):
doing quote unquote.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, which makes sense. So I mean, if you know,
if it tests to good at Cinema con Wing, hopefully
it tests good with oughties. Yeah, with the audience. This
is I tell everybody, you're American friends, now be left
so much.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Well, I'll give it to you. What do you want
to talk about first? What do you want to do?
Superman Minecraft? What's on your mind today?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
I mean, we just want to talk about the Minecraft
because it's kind of shocked everybody have how much money
it made over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, thankfully, like three hundred million or something.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, I saw it. It's not it's not a very
good film. I'm just real, it's just really not. I
did not enjoy this film at all. I didn't get
one laugh out of it, except at the end with
Jack Black's character Steve and the villain, And it was
like one little part in the film that I really
really enjoyed. That part was then that was it. The

(06:23):
rest of the film. I really did not enjoy.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Now, let me ask you this, do you do you
think that might be a generational thing because Minecraft has
been popular for a little while. But I think we
were pretty much adults by time Minecraft kind of came out.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
No, because I have I have a sense of humor
for a lot of stuff. I mean, I enjoyed Marl
Brothers and I enjoyed and Marl Brothers really didn't have
too much of a script to it either. They just
going forward to the video game. Yeah, there's been movies
that have There have been movie adaptations and TV adaptations
and video games where you can put together a good story. Uh,
this was just complete cash grab. It was it was.

(06:59):
It was trash. It was really trash. But for initial audience,
I loved it. Hey, congratulations to him. Got a good
movie out of it. I thought the acting was terrible
about Danielle Brooks, and I'm very I'm very surprised. You
never think that daniel Brooks would. They gave her probably
the most basic stuff out of anybody.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, she was kind of a surprise to see, doesn't
she play?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
She was in purple? Yeah, she was in color purple.
She's in suicide Squad as Mandawalla's daughter.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, Orange's New Black is where she really got picked
up from.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, she was. She was a very good actor. She
got nominated for an Oscar and they just gave her
some of the most basic lines and it was just
her delivery was terrible. It was it was just terrible. Uh.
The little boy that they put in the film, you
know him and the sister of moving to a new
town because the mother passed away. So you're thinking like, Okay, cool,
you'll get some type of some type of the emotional

(07:50):
story out of this, out of this art block, and
you did. It was just no story developing and all
with those two characters. Jason my Moore basically was a
man child.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
He was like a video game champion from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, video game champion from the eighties. And they about
to get rid of the store. They're trying to pull
the tuck strings that this guys are struggling now now
you've gotten older. He got a video game story that's
about to go under, so he's trying to find money
for that.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
I'm a little surprised they did so much backstory on
these characters to begin with.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
I mean, they didn't do too much backstory at all. Honestly,
they gave you, they give me just enough to know
who the characters are, but that's about it. After that,
we just get immediately started into the virtual world of
it all, and then that's when everything kind of goes
right then and there. There's no excuse for not having
a lack of story, and it's a cop out just
to sit there and say, well, it's the kids movie,

(08:41):
so you got to enjoy it for what it is.
Not for us, that's bullsh because we've had plenty of
video game TV AAG adaptations with Last of Us Twisted Metal,
we've got video game adaptations that have gotten they didn't
have a story or the stories were lacking, and they do.
Twisted Metals. Twist the Middle had no story. It was

(09:02):
just a car and a bunch of cars at fire Right,
and they were able to put a storylind and it
was really really good, very good. So and say the
same thing for Last of Us getting the season two
coming up. To see this take such a step back,
it's just a I don't know, it's kind of lame.
It's lame to see. Yeah, hopefully with the sequel that

(09:23):
they do a little better with it. You know, hopefully
put some character development in it, put some time and
carrying it. Well.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I read a quote when they were talking about doing
a sequel because obviously it made it made enough money
to where yeah, they're going to do a sequel.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, they're gonna do a sequel.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
And the director had made the comment though, like there's
so with Minecraft. There's so many different mods, there's so
many different maps, there's so many different things in the
game that like you could make movies off of you know, yeah,
I'm with you, like, hopefully they kind of put together
a real script for next time, but this was just
let's make a fun, dumb movie, let's make the money,

(09:59):
and then well we'll do something else with a sequel
if necessary.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, well, because I know Alex is supposed to be
in a sequel, because they ain't credit scenes, Alex coming back,
Alex being introduced.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
It's it's kind of weird because I read that it's
Kate McKinnon is the voice, but it's a different woman
as the as the actress, which is a strange thing.
It's like, you couldn't just have her do the line
or Kate McKinnon wasn't wasn't a valuable that day. It's
like a strange choice.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, it happened sometiming. I think I think it was
some movie back in the day, which it was. I
think it was a comfortable movie where they had a
certain actor and they when the sequel roll around, they
they totally changed the person who they wanted. So you know,
it happens. It happens every now and again. But uh, yeah,
it was a lackluster film for me. The people that

(10:51):
loved it this film.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
How was your How was your theater? Was everyone well behaved?

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, for the most part, it was fine. You had
a couple of teenagers in there hoot and hollering at
certain scenes in particular.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Would it be any different than a Marvel movie? You know?

Speaker 3 (11:07):
On how the crowd was acting was like a Marvel movie.
It's pretty much like end Gang. It was like it
was acting like in Gang, right, So that's how the
crowd was acting from the Minecraft movie. So it's probably
it's pretty much equal. It was pretty much. But it
wouldn't just you know, throwing popcorn and drinks in the
air like crazy like you've been seeing on social media, which.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I noticed there. Only it's always the same like two
videos that get shared around it. It reminds me of
the Wicked Uh debacle where they were they were saying,
a bunch of people were doing this, we were singing
the songs in the theater. But you know, the internet
is kind of like a microscope of what's really going on,
so it seemed like it was happening in every theater.
But it's it's isolated incidents.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, it's isolated incidents. And it was bad. I mean,
I don't getting wrong with the theaters were dirty. You know,
you had a lot of kids, a lot of teenagers
and stuff like that acting the fool. But I don't
think it was as bad as you know, the internet make.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
You believe that that that tracks because when I when
I first saw it, I was like, all right, this
obviously isn't happening everywhere. There's a couple couple of incidents.
Someone's dad bought out the theater for their for their kids,
and this is what happened.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, you know, it was a couple of times
where you know, the police had the pause movie and
stuff like that, which is never good because you know,
you got you got little ones in there and they
get rattled by noise they get easily rattled by people hollering,
which was how it was in my theater. So whenever
the teenagers were acting like jack wagons, and then the

(12:36):
kids will get rattled and they start yelling too.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
I don't know for for adults, it would be really
annoying to have to sit through that. And then also
people are still kind of on edge about the movie theaters,
you know, from the Dark Knight Rises shooting, you know,
so people that's still always in the back of people's
minds is anything could pop off at any moment, and
then when you have a rowdy theater like that, it

(12:59):
just it brings the anxiety up.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, so it is with me. I'm like it every
now and again too.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, pay attention. You gotta be careful with your surroundings.
And then like when everyone's loud and acting a fool,
you know, we're like, all right, well, what's about to happen?
Do you do you feel like this was a real
decision by Jack Black or was just like a paycheck
movie for him, or like because I don't think he
ever played Minecraft until he started filming this movie. I
read that he got real into it on set, like

(13:28):
he did like one hundred hours or whatever while filming
the movie. But I don't think he ever really played
it beforehand.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
I mean, well, Jack Black is gonna be Jack Black.
He's gonna do it for the love of doing it,
and he's been doing it. Like, I had no problem
with Jack Black because Jack Black was Jack Black. He
was today's's deed. He was all the characters you've seen
Jack Back play all rolled in one in this movie.
So I really had no problem with him. It was
a dompe story for him, for his you know, for

(13:55):
him himself Steve, which is this character that he's playing.
But I had no problem with him. He nailed he
didn't he nail this performance. He was all in. He
was all in. Like at this point, you know, you
get Jack Black for everything. If they just want to
do a kool aid Man, he could you can make
him a kool Aids man. He's done everything. Only movie
that that he's done that has not been a success,

(14:16):
that was a complete flop with bad Lands, The Borderlands.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Borderlands.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, he played clap Trap. That's the only movie. That's
the only video game or whatever ip that you could
think of that he did that was not of great success.
Everything else he's touched so far has been goals.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
How did you feel about Jason moo in this movie?

Speaker 3 (14:36):
I mean Jason Moore too, I mean Jason Moore, he
was all in like him and Steve him and uh
Jack Jack Black. Of course, they're going to have the
most lines and most stuff to say, so you're gonna
give them better scripts and more things today, have more
things to do. The rest of the three had nothing
to do. Like the sister and the brother was just there,

(14:58):
and the little boy was there just for the POV perspective,
you know, the point of view perspective. And then Daniel
Brooks character, she was just there, you know, as the
woman that sold him the house. And she also had
a second job of forming to having a form in
a car, you know, taking care of animals in a

(15:19):
car and stuff like that, so she had nothing to do.
Like the the other three cast members had nothing to do. Honestly,
I would have just done it without those three and
just did it with Jack Black and James.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Momore, right, because I mean, he's already a video game champion,
so you could just i mean have him get sucked
into the game or whatever, and then he saves Jack
Block it's like him and Jack Block on an adventure.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah. Yeah, you could easily just done it with just
those two and call her today. You didn't really need
the other three people because they added ugh no value
to the to the story at all. Yeah, you know,
you gonna forget who they are.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Going forward, right, I mean, if and obviously if they
do a sequel, they're not going to bring them back.
You might bring back You might bring back Jason Momoa
just because he's the name, and I mean, you're definitely
gonna bring back Jack Black A Steve, But yeah, you're right,
those other those other three will probably just you know,
get written out or not discussed or whatever.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
I'm talking about the I'm talking about the characters. I'm
not talking about the actors. The actors are the actors
they did, you know, I'm not talking about how they
were trash, but I'm talking about how they relate to
the story, and just how the actors had no story
at all. They just you know, they were just there. Unfortunately. Yeah,
but at least it is they got a paycheck out

(16:31):
of it.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
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Speaker 2 (16:38):
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Speaker 1 (16:55):
Tell me your thoughts on the Superman sneak peek. I
know you were super excited about it. Uh it played
before Minecraft, but they also they just dropped it for
CinemaCon anyway, which we kind of suspected they would do.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
I mean, it was just a little too many clip.
It was just a Crypto the extended clip of him
falling from the falling from the sky and Crypto just
carrying him off and carried him off in the Fortune
of Solitude. And I mean it was pretty much a
clip they obnestly didn't have to play at the trailer.
They could have just cut that off and just said,
hey see Superman July eleventh and theaters, you know. And

(17:29):
dam was good. In Twitter, he said he was doing
another trailer for a Superman which I'm pretty just gonna
be the Superman Day. It was fine, it it was good.
I liked it. I liked it a lot. I mean,
it'll give me no more hypper than I already was.
It's gonna be an awesome, awesome, awesome time to watch
this movie. It looked like it's gonna be kind kind
of fun for once.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
I hope. So, I mean I watched it as well,
and I thought the Crypto part with Crypto jumping on
him was a little silly, but also it's a comic
book movie. It's supposed to be silly.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, I mean from from the from the aspect of
what theater and when it when playing it in understood
because when they played it in the Minecraft, I'm like, okay,
well that makes sense because you're playing it with a
bunch of little kids.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
You know what, that's a fair thought.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
No one really understands that. But you know, looking at
the micro context of how how this stuff goes, like,
you get appealing the kids, so you have to kind
of keep their minds on track where the kids film.
You know, you don't want to show Superman getting his
butt kicked by a kaiju like that right away. You know,
you don't want to see them talking to Alex Luthor.

(18:35):
You know, that doesn't get you really excited as much.
So you know it might get us excited, but it
doesn't get it doesn't move the needle like it does.
You know, when I was in the movie theater and
they played that during Minecraft, the little kids were excited.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, that's a fair that's a that's a good thought.
I you know, I didn't think about that. When I
first saw this.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
I mean, it's like I said, it was just out
of out of context. It was just out of context.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, but now that you put it in context, it
makes a lot a lot more sense. What did you
think about the robots in the Fortress of Solitude?

Speaker 3 (19:04):
It's pretty much Yeah, All Star Superman, All Star Superman.
That's exactly the robots, All Stars All Star Superman. It
looks exactly like them. The capes, the numbers. Yeah, I'm curious,
curis on lot how we'll happen to a couple of
the numbers because they're not in order when I was
like fourteen, the other ones too, right.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
We also don't know at what point in the movie
this took place, you know, this could be this could
be the beginning, This could be towards the end. Maybe
a couple of them got taken out by an enemy
or whatever. It's also still kind of hard to tell
exactly what the plot of this movie is gonna be.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Which I love. I love Yeah, I love this so much.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
I like it too, And I said it before and
I'll say it again. I do. I still want this
to kind of be just like a day in the
life of Superman just like a series of events that
we see him go through and not so much like
your typical movie plot, right like where the big villain
has has a big showdown with him at the end,

(20:02):
but more or less like you see him defeating monsters
and interacting with the with the other characters throughout the film.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
So if you all know, well i'll know whether you
probably got there from read it, but you know, I've
read a couple hit pieces here and there, and you know,
take it with a grain of salt. But apparently you
know the screens and tesla and stuff like that. It's
been saying it. It's not there's no actual plot to
the movie. It's just him. It feels like an episodic

(20:32):
situation where it's just you know, hey, he's doing these
different things, you know, kind of like how you just
said it.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, that's what I said when the first trailer came out,
was it looked kind of like episodic, or I hoped
it would be episodic. So if that is the case,
then I'm even more excited for it.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
From what I heard was that's how it was.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Because also that's just different from your standard comic book film,
like it's It's different from you know, seeing the origin
of a superhero, or even like a sequel of a superhero,
where again you have ABC plot or whatever. So I
think doing a different look or a different take is
is a breath of fresh air.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well, I mean, like I told her, like I told
one of my friends. You know, it's like this movie
is not going to be for everybody because he's going
back to a time where and I don't know how
familiar you are with Superman comics are the Silver Age comics.
Silver Age comics were very, very whimsical. They very well
and they didn't really sell either in stores. You know,

(21:33):
That's why I have this is himself from Silver Age Comics,
and when he go to the Silver Age comics, Jay's
gunn he's you know, he said numerous of times he
loves silver Age. Silver Rage is when you had crypto
mix piclick, a lot of magic, a lot of wormholes.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
How you say his name mix mix piclick.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I think that's how you say.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Little something. I have no idea I think I've ever learned.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
You know, it gets very very wacky, you know it.
Silver Rage is very wacky, and it did not take
in the you know, Silver Rage was not a very
good time, so hopefully James Gun can kind of line
it up without making it too silly.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
You know.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, Jimmy also turned into a Kaiju, which I pray
to God that does not happen in this movie. But
he does turn into a Kaiju in one of the comics.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
You know, there is there is a monster in the trailer.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
There is there is, so you know, I'm praying it's
not that bad. But sil Rage is very, very different.
You know, if you don't like Silk Rage, you're not
gonna like this movie. You're not gonna like this movie
either way, because it's such a different contrast from Man Steel.
This night and day, complete night and day, very much, so,

(22:51):
very much. So you can tell, like I've seen people
post pictures from you know, Side by Side and Harry
Cavill and you know, and and James Work. It looks
night and day, night freaking day literally, so you know,
it's teach his own.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Man.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
It depends on what your sensibilities are. What are your
sensibilities for me personally, this is my this is my
type of sensibility. Fantastic four the same thing. Yeah, Fantastic
Four is a sensibility, the situation, and I like that
Matt Shakman, he already came out and said, look, don't
expect milk cameos. These guys that yeah, he said, no cameos.
He's the only heroes on this earth, on their own earth.

(23:31):
And what makes us good, what I like about it
is because of the simple fact that it's a self
contained story as a movie on its own. It's not
linking anything together.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Right. The only downside is it's the only one we're
gonna get and then they're immediately going to get folded
into everybody else. That's the only downside because you know,
I know you've said before, like the multi verse is lazy.
But the way Fantastic four First Steps is doing it
is the way they should have been a approaching it

(24:01):
four or five movies ago, and they haven't, and you know,
it is what it is. Maybe maybe this movie will
be a breath of enough fresh air to let the
studios know that like, oh, audiences actually kind of gel
with doing standalone different things.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Well, I mean, I don't think this movie's will be
well accepted, just like I don't think SuperM Man's will
be well accepted. I believe it's gonna make money. But
I don't think one of these movies we will accepted
because they're both are going back to a time where
a silver age of comics. And fran Jason Ford is another.
You know, you're going back to the sixties.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Going to a classic or more classic.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Look, yeah, you're going back to a more classical form.
And that's not what you like. And you like to
the two thousand and five version, then you're probably not
gonna like this.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Right or that it was the twenty fourteen version.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Twenty fourteen version, which no one likes that one. But
you know me personally, I just like old school. I
like I like I can adapt, you know, I like
all type of comics. I like the dark metal comics
when they did with Batman, and you know, I like
the lighthearted stuff. I like the corny, silly stuff. I
could do all comics. You know, when you go to

(25:14):
the comic book store, you see a plethora of all
type of comics.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, there's a wide array.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
That's a wide array. And you know better than I do,
because you've been to the comic book store and you
get all type of comics, you know, and they're all classic,
and they all have good stories something do anyway, But
for the most part, you know, Spider Man comes from
a very comedic, comical silly time.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
M hm.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
You know that's been some silly comics of Spider Man Man.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Of course, there's been silly comics about everybody.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
And everybody, you know, not everything it needs to be edgy.
You know, I don't need everything to be edgy. I
don't need Robin cussing out Batman. You know what I'm saying.
That's how I am personal, Like I believe that I
don't I don't need, but I also need spawn to
be Batman. I need spawn to be spawned. So it
just like I said, it's this whole thing is all

(26:08):
about sensibility. These two movies will be directly about what
your sensibilities are when it comes to this type of stuff.
If you like the edgier stuff, then you're not gonna
like these two movies.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
And I mean to be honest. Depending on how they
are received, it could change how the next few superhero
flicks go, or or how the next few superhero movies
pivot and change to be similar.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Right.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
If these campy, light hearted films really take off, then
we could see more light hearted, silver age type of
material coming to live action, that's true. Who knows, who knows?
Who knows what summer is gonna bring.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
I know he's gonna bring some money, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah right.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
I believe both of these movies gonna make money. I
believe Superman probably will probably make a little bit more.
But I believe both of these movies are gonna make money.
Oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
I mean they'll at least make it, make the budget back,
and you know, probably enough to get a sequel.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh yeah, most definitely.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
You know what time it is.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Able, tomdals Ye scripses. It's time for Jacob is a
local pactest. That's watch.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Let's let's move on to some uh marketing things. You've
sent me a couple of times actually where I well,
I guess I started with Novacaine right when Jack Quaide
was promoting novacane a few weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, when you had that was had all
that stuff on. I thought that was kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah, I guess like you had to send me a
post where he was at some basketball game and like
throughout the night he was getting more and more damaged.
I think I think it was like a court side
or whatever. So like every time the camera would cut
back to him, he's he's wearing another cast where he's
got like a headband on. That was smart, right, And
then you send me another post about this Drop movie

(28:20):
coming out and I guess like there was two people
at a at a basketball game holding up signs promoting it.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah, you know, the dude would sign and I guess
girl was sign. I guess it's his girlfriend. A girl
with sign and dude sign and they had like the
little eyes in the back and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, it was like Drop the movie, which.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
I like, I liked it. I liked that that he
did like that. You know, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
It's cool a marketing it is, and we we've covered
we've covered like en real life marketing before. You know,
we talked about like when it it was gonna come out,
like a year before they had the clowns come around.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
What's another movie with there's a Washington son the creator?

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Oh did they do they have some marketing for him?

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah? They're like little AI robots. That was at the
football game, Okay, at the ram game in LA. That
was kind of creepy interesting smile. Yeah, the people smiling
in different crimes in the crowd stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
You remember hearing about smile.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yep, that was dope too.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
And then I had brought up like the raw dogging
thing because I think there was a movie and some
kind of action thriller coming out based on that, like
the Wi Fi goes down in a plane or something.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, I thought it. That was too so a lot
of marketing. I like that they're doing. They're taking those
chances in the marketing now right.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
And something that came out recently that kind of made
my conspiratorial side and wake up was a scientists have
managed to de extinct a wolf that or read a
wolf that's been extinct for like thirteen thousand years. H
George R. Martin had a hand in this. And if you,

(29:59):
if you Reckon has the name. George R. Martin is
the guy who writes Game of Thrones. He wrote the
books and he's still writing the books. There's one more
book to go, and he just can't finish it because
he's too busy funding this other bull crap. I guess
he like funded this company to help bring back the
dire wolves because dire wolves are from Game of Thrones
or he had dire Wolves in Game of Thrones. So

(30:22):
they announced the other day that they brought back these
dire wolves and they're playing the audio and they're like
these cute little puppy dogs and whatnot. And my thought
process was pretty convenient for them to do this the
same year another Jurassic Park movie comes out, because people
are like, oh my gosh, they're like they Jurassic parked
these dire wolves and blah blah blah. I'm like, hmm, yeah,

(30:44):
isn't there another one of those coming out this summer?

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:48):
And also I looked it up. They they brought these
wolves back like five months ago, like they're they're five
six months old already. There's pictures of them. They're almost
like full grun adults. But like all of a sudden,
it's it's suddenly a story.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, it's cash.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah. So like my conspiratorial site is just like, I
don't know how real this story actually is, and I
feel like this is subtle marketing for Jurassic Park.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
No, it might be, it might be, who knows. I'm
pretty sure they can do some good marketing for Jurassic
Park too as well well Jurassic World.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
They might this might be the setup for it. And
because I'm looking at an article from USA Today where
George R. Martin was talking about how he was visiting
the libre Ats tar pits and that's how he got
the idea to use dire wolves in his book or whatever,
and I'm like, what else is found in tarpits dinosaur bones?

Speaker 3 (31:40):
That's yeah, it definitely sounds like either either he's doing something,
got some up his sleeve, or maybe it's like a
little marketing for Jurassic Park or the sly all the cool.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Right, right, they're just trying to distract you with a
Game of Thrones guy, So I mean, it is cool
they managed to bring back these wolves. It's it's pretty impressive.
Apparently they use like a tooth on a jawbone to
kind of like recreate the DNA and then you know,
of course, like like Drastic Park, they don't have the
one of the DNA, so they had to mix it

(32:12):
with you know, a regular wolves DNA.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I might have to google it and see what they
look like, because you know me, I never waited roster
Game of Thrones like that.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, they're pretty dogs. They're dude, they're pretty white dogs.
There's three of them. There's Romulus, there's Remiss, and then
the third one is Kalisi, named after a Game of
Thrones character.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, I'm got to look up and see what they
look like.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
It seems like they're real, but it's just a coincidence.
They dropped the story that, like what three or four
months before Drastic Park comes up.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
It's weird and it's expiracy.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Where in the shower with Jacob and James.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
I also saw two in the headlines that Rob Pattinson
said he might not be able to do Batman because
he's doing He's not to be in the new doing
the movie.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
He's gonna be in done three. Yep, jeez, they're getting
everybody in that film.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
It looks like I think it needs Golen, Kiss Gone
Cancer this Batman film.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, I mean, it's just it's taking too long to
make it, and I mean, unfortunately something that has to
do with the fact that the guy was going through.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
A divorce, but allegedly all you know, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
It doesn't take this long to make a Batman film.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
It doesn't. And then you know, Zach he told me
it's kind of like this is becoming like the blade
of a of movies. Now DC was coming Blade to
d C because it's like lose, this thing gonna come out.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
And it's funny because the Batman, the movie The Batman
was a pretty simple storyline, So I can't imagine a
sequel you would amp it up to make it was
to make the writing more difficult, right, I mean you
already you already kind of know where you're gonna go.
I would assume, especially after the Penguin series.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
It's upsetting. It's upsetting, it's a little and it's just
just just silly. This whole thing is silly. You know,
it's a counselor movie. And get us another badman or
you know, And that's why I think they need to do,
like at this point, just just cansel this movie, Just
get us another bad man if you're gonna take this
long to do a damn Batman movie. Divorce aside allegedly,
you know, we could have been at the script gun

(34:33):
way before the divorce, you know, if that's what was
going through.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Now thought I thought he did. I thought he like
decided to write it or something.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Man.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
I mean like if you like, if you're going through
family issues, like I get family issues, you know what
I'm saying, I get like health issues. That's understandable. You
know that that takes first priority of everything. But you know,
this alleged divorce and whatever, it's like, come on with dude.
You could have been at the script ready to roll out,
ready to roll out, you know, and you can't. You

(35:02):
can't keep asking these actors to stop and to do
your movie when you could have been had just done
by now.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Right. It's like Robert Pattinson's his career's his career is
doing very well right now, so he's not gonna wait
around to do Batman.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, it's starting to take off now. His career is
really starting to blossom. And here you are to the
BS and around with this Batman film.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
You know, come all, man, shame shame on what's his name, Reeves,
Matt Reeves say, shame on.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
The whole studios, honestly, Shame on Reeves. Shame on James
Gunns for not being able to put his foot down
on what he wants. Shame with everybody.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Same on their on their family, on their cow, on
their ancestors. Okay, okay, okay, hey man, kind of lighten
it up a little bit.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
They go out on a good note though.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, so all right, well I think that's I think
that's everything. Everything now, I think that's everything I got.
So hey, if anybody wants to email us their thoughts
on many of the things we talked about today, you
can email us at On the Go Pod twenty twenty
three at gmail dot com. You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube.
It's all on the Go with Jacob and James. You

(36:14):
can find us on Instagram individually at Jacob dantone dot audio,
and you can find James.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
At James Nice seven A four.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, and without further ado, I'm on the go, James
is on the go, and we are all on the go,
so alive.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
Listen to those guys talk about anything everything, the good
work being bot always gonna listen to you guys.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Why you get mother's sister your grandma tell you.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Damn camera, saf what's uph me up? Damn Canobby. I'll
be pleased to get it from you. Let's go to
the Bengo home.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
But this name the Bingo call on like damn cam
to me and say boot about
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