February 2, 2025 • 51 mins
On this week's episode:
James and Jamie discuss the differences between the USA and Spain movie theater experiences, David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino's thoughts on digital and film moviemaking, Chris Evans and Harrison Ford MCU lies, Netflix releases 2025 film slate, and Boston area casting calls.
New England's film industry is booming with multiple projects constantly under production. Projects include commercials, television shows and full-length feature films. Jamie and James are hosts of The Hub on Hollywood, an iHeartRadio podcast.
The Hub on Hollywood discusses New England's growing film industry, as well as entertainment news and reviews. SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM & TikTok! Listen to new episodes of The Hub on Hollywood podcast on the iHeartRadio app!
James and Jamie discuss the differences between the USA and Spain movie theater experiences, David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino's thoughts on digital and film moviemaking, Chris Evans and Harrison Ford MCU lies, Netflix releases 2025 film slate, and Boston area casting calls.
New England's film industry is booming with multiple projects constantly under production. Projects include commercials, television shows and full-length feature films. Jamie and James are hosts of The Hub on Hollywood, an iHeartRadio podcast.
The Hub on Hollywood discusses New England's growing film industry, as well as entertainment news and reviews. SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM & TikTok! Listen to new episodes of The Hub on Hollywood podcast on the iHeartRadio app!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
your co host James Rojas. Jamie's back. Not only yeah,
not only is Jamie back for this week's episode, but
on this week's episode, we're talking about Chris Evans and
the rumors that he will be returning for another Avengers movie.
(00:32):
He's however, he's saying it's not as clear as it
as it looks as it appears to be, so we'll
get into that. It's also the battle of the directors.
David Lynch, the late David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino have
a strong opinions about what is the best way, how
is the best way to film a movie? Netflix releases
(00:55):
its late of movies coming up this year, two of
which I'm very excited for, and a view of dog Man, No,
not Batman, dog Man. But Jamie, as we mentioned, you
are back, Welcome back. We were telling our listeners our
viewers that you were out on assignments, and you were.
We sent you on a very expensive trip to Spain
(01:18):
on the very specific mission of comparing the movie theater
going experience over there to over here, and I can't
wait to hear your report and how things went.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, that's the only reason I went to Spain.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Right, Yeah, to watch one movie I believe budget.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, James and I have come back with a very
controversial report. Oh I love okay, at least to my husband.
So I was on a trip to Valencia, Spain. First
of all, the selection of movies on the airplane on
the ride over the international flight very good, very good.
They had both of your zero movies excellent a Froncia
(02:00):
Jones and Antonio Vendettas another very healthy selection. I got
to watch the Holdovers. I hadn't seen the whole film.
I got to watch the whole film at very long flight.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
How long is that flight?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, it was seven hours going over and then we
had to take a second flight to Valencia, and then
on the way back it was like eight hours. Yeah,
it was long, but so had it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
A couple moviest a couple movies.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Longest flight I've been on. But James, yes, when we
got there, right, we wanted to, of course experience the
culture and all of the cool history and the museums.
But one thing that I wanted to make sure that
I did not miss out on was the movie going
experience abroad.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Of course, I saw.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
The Original Avengers in Okinawa, Japan. That was one of
the coolest experiences of my life, Like when that first
came out, that was like in twenty twelve. That was
really awesome. So I wanted to make sure, Hey, I'm
in another country again, I have to get to the theater.
So we didn't and we took the whole family, whole
family international trip international theater. Were so excited. First of all,
(03:08):
there's a completely different culture around going to the movies,
Oh James. You go up to the theater, right, you
go into like your AMC or your cinemak or your
regal or whatever. You buy your ticket and say you
get there early.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, well what would you do?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I mean you just you show up, you go in,
you buy your snacks.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You hang out, right, yeah, sit down not so.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Over there not. So they do not let you in.
They don't let you physically into the theater building until
like twenty minutes before the movies start in the all start.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Building or like the theater like individual cinema.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So we went to a cinema called Cinema Lease Cine
Leise and it was actually a gigantic four story time
whole theater nice, and it had like a dozen at
least theaters in it, but they would only show movies
in certain blocks. Now you've heard of a siesta, right, James. Yeah, yeah,
(04:14):
So between like noon and four o'clock there there are
no movies.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
There are no movies. I think that they have some
morning movies and they have the afternoon movies. And in
the middle you're not allowed inside because everyone's on siesta.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That is crazy. So you couldn't like hang out in there.
It's like you got you there's no funny business. You
get in, you go see your movie, and you leave, okay.
But once we got in, once we got in, right,
they opened the doors and we went to the snack
the little concession stand, right, and it's not the same
or at least in this particular theater. They had popcorn, right,
(04:56):
they had popcorn. They had like candy, but it was
it like the packaged candy. It was like one of
those like self serve candy things, right, right, And then
they had like a handful of drinks, not a lot
of soda. And that was it.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
We're like, you know, we can handle this, we can
deal with this. We My husband got the popcorn because
he loves popcorn. I just got a water like there
wasn't really anything that I liked. There wasn't you know,
there's no impossible nuggets. There were no like fries and
burgers or anything like that. It was just, you know,
kind of sparse. But James that when we sat down,
(05:39):
we're getting ready to enjoy the movies and we are
digging into our snacks. We did get some candies, mostly popcorn.
My husband was affronted. He was angered, he was even sensed.
He was I don't have the words to describe how
upset he was. Like it was a slow build from
(06:02):
oh this is popcorn. Oh you know it's not it's
not that salty, it's not that buttery. Oh they don't
have a butter machine. They don't have salt, They don't
let you put anything else on it. It was a
slow build of anger. Raw pop corn, straight raw popcorn.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Are you sure like there wasn't like alt? Yeah, that
wild two.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Or three grains of salt. It doesn't appear to have
any butter. It was white. You know, there was no
butter machine. That was like nowhere where you could add
the butter. My husband got up. He's like, oh my god,
what do I do? Like?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So wait, let's walk back a little bit. So you
go to the concession stand. You you get your bucket.
Wasn't in a bucket or like a bag or what of?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It wasn't a bucket, It wasn't a bucket, It wasn't
a large bucket. It was just we got the lar
but it was more like a small what you would
get here. My husband appreciates American popcorn, So this is
what this is? Where where you know? I want to
bring you in a conversation. How would you react to
this type of popcorn. I don't know how much of
(07:15):
a popcorn person you are, but do you think that
it is a crime against humanity to have this popcorn? Raw?
No butter, no salt.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well, the answer is clearly yes, yes, it's raw. Every
popcorn experience should be should be had with butter and salt.
I think I would have noticed, though again, maybe maybe
I would have gone in preemptively, you know, knowing that Okay,
this isn't going to be the best popcorn just because
it's white popcorn. I can see there's there's no hint
of color or flavor on this, So I don't think
(07:49):
I would have been as surprise. I would have been
surprised immediately when they handed it over and then looked
around and not see a butter thing. But then, like
I think instinctively, I would, you know, throw in a
few in my mouth immediately, and so I think, yeah,
I would have been disappointed, maybe not as surprised after
seeing the product in my hand, but yeah, that's crazy.
I mean when I get popcorn, I don't add any
(08:11):
extra additional popcorn or whatever they call popcorn onto that.
I don't pour any other seasonings or whatever, so I
usually have it how they serve it, which already has
I'm sure way too much salt and butter than any
humans should be consuming at one point or in one sitting.
But yeah, I thought when you when you told me
that he had a terrible experience, I thought they're gonna
be throwing like, I don't know, some crazy wacky spices
(08:33):
on there or something completely left left field like jelly
or jam that'd been they would have thrown me off
and angered me probably more, but maybe maybe the other.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Huge difference, James, besides the fact that they were trying
to upsell you, like have more candy, have more of this,
have more of that, like you know, throwing the snacks
at you was the price? Okay, maybe this is where
maybe this is why there was no butter and no salt.
So between the the popcorn, the drinks and like one
(09:05):
box of candy in an American theater popcorn, drink, candy
we just went last night. That's like thirty bucks at
the least. Do you want to take a guess what
this cost us?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Four dollars, three dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You're not far off. It was five euros, which is
about six dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, for the large popcorn. I think I would pay
thirty bucks. Though for butter and for sauce, that's the difference.
I would actually be more than happy to pay them
that much for it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That's the premium, right is salt and butter costs that much?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Though you know you've got you just flew back into America,
so the prices are going up in case no one's
told you so. Probably now it does cost that much.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
But here's something that you'll like about the movie going experience.
Once you were in there and settled and ready to
see the movie, because something that you complained about all
the time that you hate are like the all of
the lead up to the movie, right that half an
hour of trailers and all of the like the three
(10:12):
or four mcu intro a mc intros or whatever, and
and and all the logos and things like that that
just never end. There was no pre show entertainment.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Excellent.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
As soon as the trailers started, the trailer, it went
from a big black screen to a boom trailer, no transition.
There were two trailers, two trailers, and then it immediately
went into the film. They were not it was not
stadium seating, you know how. Sort of all the theaters
here have like read cells and they had the stadium
(10:47):
seats and the big cushioned chairs. This was very flat,
very old school flat, tiny folding chairs, and so you
kind of had like really space yourself out. There was
no assigned seating, so you could kind of pick wherever
you wanted to sit and got to stagger yourself so
you're not you know, blocked by somebody's head. But yeah,
(11:07):
no trailers. Maybe there's a premium on that too, because
the ticket prices. Ticket prices with eight euros a person,
whereas here it's closer to like twenty dollars. Yeah, a
person now to go to the movies depending on what
time and day you're going. So it was significantly cheaper,
but it also kind of felt that way. But I
(11:28):
also did like in some ways it was it was okay.
It was more of like a a classical sort of
like an old timey like it was like when I
used to go to the movies as a kid.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Right, was it a culture shock for your kids?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
For my son in particular, who's you know, loves going
to the movies and it's always at the movie theater.
He's never seen a theater like that. He's never seen
the flat seats and the little folding chairs like he's spoiled.
He's always had the stadium seating in the cliners and
and all of that.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So we go in time on that plane.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, and what we kind of did with the time
difference and all that, Yeah, So it was that. And
then it was just funny watching the amount of movies
that they have that are all American movies that are
just dubbed over was really funny to me. I was
expecting to go over there and there be like just
a ton of Spanish movies, but it was a ton
(12:27):
of American movies that were just dubbed over which which
was really funny. Yeah, because where do you think the
movies come from? They come for right here for USA
and from New England where they film.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know, a ton of these, So if you can
give me a rating, So taking in and taking everything
into accounts, the price of the ticket, the theater set up, layout,
the way you know you are allowed to either you know,
walk in freely or not walking freely, seats assigned snacks,
all that, and accumulation like this overall theater experience. Joy.
(13:03):
How does a rank compared to the US on a
scale of like one to ten? You go, you can
start with the you can start with the US and
then Spain.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's tough because the US has the entertainment factor. You've
got the whole shmortgishborg of snacks. You've got you know,
pre show entertainment. You've got a ton of trailers, you've
got the stadium seating, you've got not only the snacks,
but you've got like T shirts and plushes and like
(13:32):
it's overall like the US, and you've got the bar.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Oh my gosh, like mcguffins.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Overall, I would sit right mcguffins right. Overall, I would
say that the movie going experience, as far as like
fun and entertainment coolness, I've got to give it to
the US. I've got to give it to us. I've
got to give it to the US.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
You know, you will say, right.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But as far as prices les go, I experienced a
significant amount of joy being able to go and see
a really good movie and not pay the premium. But
then you don't really get the premium.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Experience, especially butter rest, which I think.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And the butter and salt humanity. In my husband's eyes,
he's insulted forever. I don't think I'll ever be able
to get him to go back unless we like smuggled
in our own snacks, and it just didn't feel as inviting.
It didn't feel like a place that you could hang
out all day. Yeah, because that's what I did, you know,
growing up as a teenager or whatever. I would spend
(14:37):
all day at the movie theater with my friends. We
would see a movie and then we would play video
games because the ones near our place we had like
DDR and all the arcade games and and things like that.
So the cool and the fun factor definitely have to
give it to the US, I would say, like, but
the prices definitely take it down or not. So I
(14:58):
would say US e of ten, Spain six and a
half out of.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Ten, Okay, okay, and no, that's a yeah. I think
I would pay extra for the luxuries because I'm spoiled.
I'm gonna spoiled American and I can't get I watched
I forget which movie it was. I think it was.
I'm not sure if it was Dan Versus somewhere, but
my wife and I girlfriend at the time, we went
to go see The Last or the Rise of the
Sky Rise of Skywalker, and it was it was and
(15:23):
every theater was showing it. But the theater that we
were able to get was like one of the older
ones and so in the back and it was all flat.
And so that was like just so not only did
I watch a terrible movie, but like just the experience
and living. I was sitting in those like very tight
chairs compared to what we are in today, but those
tight chairs and also just like flat. It was just like, oh,
this is just a terrible experience. But really quickly, before
(15:45):
we get to our next topic, you said that you
watched the one of the Avengers or if not, the
first Avengers movie in Japan. I'm curious about the Japanese etiquette.
Like I've heard that they're very you know, not so
as boisterous as we are in America. But Avengers that
must be a crazy movie to see. I'm curious how,
(16:05):
like what was their reaction. Were there cheers, gears or
was it very silence?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Total silence?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Wow, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And I was a little like overly conscious of that.
So it was in English with Japanese subtitles, and I
was very aware that I was the only American in
that theater, and so I was trying to like not
make a fool out of myself. I was trying to
go with the flow. And there were some scenes that
(16:34):
I'm just like meah, you know, like because I loved
that movie so so much, but I'm looking around me
like no stoic, stoic. So I tried to contain my Americanism,
if that makes any sense.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh yeah, no, yeah, I imagined. I imagine you'd have
to or else or else stated. They wouldn't say anything
to you. They're just side on you and look at
you and like silently judge you bring.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Much gigantic theater, really beautiful, really pretty good snacks, really huge,
So that I mean, it was a good movie going experience,
except that I was like in Mortal Terror of like
embarrassing myself and shouting and being an obnoxious American.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah all right, well let's get into well, first of all,
if those who are watching or listening, if you've watched
a movie in a different country, of course, other than
the US, let us know what that experience was.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Like.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I remember watching Shrek, the first one, I believe in
Mexico when it came out, and even though it's like
an hour and a half movie is not long, it's
you know, it's Shrek, there was an intermission and so
that surprised me because there's a point where it just ended,
like what is going on? And then everybody just got
up naturally, went outside to the concessions, got whatever they needed,
went to the restroom. And I was like, whoa, this
(17:51):
is so weird. And so in Mexico, I don't know
if they still do it, but for the Shrek I saw,
you know, twenty five years ago or so, they had
an intermission for there, So you let us know. Down
in the comments, what's your out of country, out of
a US movie theater going experience? How does it compare
to how we do things, how we enjoy things in America?
But Jamie, yeah, we have a lot of stuff coming
(18:12):
going on here locally. I don't have to list in
front of me, but can you go over some of
the local cast and calls and some of the filming
events that we are expecting to see s sit here.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, one thing that we are hearing about and pretty
excited about here in the Dead Chill of Winter is
the Dead of Winter Horror Fest that is returning to Worcester.
That is going to be February twenty second to the
twenty third. Friend of the podcast, Julia Tutko Bayana is
(18:45):
actually going to be hosting a panel called Sleigh Queen,
a celebration of Women in Horror. Nice, so kudos to
her for that. That's going to be on Saturday. So yeah,
in Wooster February twenty seconds to twenty third. That sounds
like it's going to be a lot of fun. I
will try to be there for the Hub on Hollywood
(19:06):
because it just sounds creepy. There's nothing better than like,
you know, it's freezing outside, it's cold, You want to
snuggle up with your significant other and watch a horror
movie and oh, you just jump on the other person.
And you know what's better than that? Right, you're a guy.
You like it when girls do that, right? Yeah, it
is also that time of the year, James for Boston University.
(19:32):
Boston University puts out their annual casting call for people
who are interested in acting in their university films. For
their student filmmakers, they are looking for actors from age
eight to eighty, both union and non union, who are
flexible and dependable and would like to be a part
(19:52):
of some great up and coming filmmakers careers as they
go through Boston University. So if that sounds like something
you'd be interested in, send your headshot and resume to
be you Open casting call all singular at gmail dot com.
(20:16):
Just wrapping up this little local segment. It's awards season.
Awards season's been sort of interrupted by the fires there
in Los Angeles, but one of the awards coming up
are the SAG Awards Ye Screen Actors Guil. Yeah, we're
pretty excited for that. We're both SAG after members and
(20:39):
the New England chapter of SAG is hosting their SAG
Award party. It's going to be at the Somerville Theater
this year in Davis Square on February twenty third. So
if you are a SAG member, lookout for that email
RSVP on the union website. Uh, it's going to be
(21:01):
a party. There's going to be a red carpet. People
get to dress up. I remember when I did my
My Hands stint for Knives Out. That was sort of
my awards ceremony. That's where I got to kind of
celebrate myself. Yeah, and where a lot of our local
talent get to celebrate themselves and the work that they
(21:22):
do in the incredible films that get made here. So
maybe we'll see you guys there too.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Excellent. Yeah, shout out to Somerville Theater too, the great,
great establishment. We've done numerous stories for them or about
them with WBZ News Radio, and I'm sure we do
talked about them a million times here on the on
the podcast as well. Yeah. So yeah, SAG Awards. Let
us know if you are a SAG member locally in
New England. Uh, one, do you plan on going to
(21:48):
that to that event? Also, where are you leaning on
some of your votes? Any any category in particular that
you're most excited for that you want to give a
shout out to, a recommendation for who you're voting for.
Let us note down below, Jamie, you're talking about the MCU,
we're talking about the Avengers earlier, and you know something
something that we're gonna be talking about for Infinity Infinity
(22:09):
War forever. Yeah, and we could presume, we're presuming and
assuming that we're gonna be seeing Robert Downey Junior or
in every Avengers movie from from now on into perpetuity.
But someone that we may not be seeing coming back,
despite the rumors is Captain America, mister Chris Evans himself. Jamie.
I mean, I'm sure you've heard the rumors swirling about
(22:30):
him returning to the big screen, coming to to either
fight or join or what have you. But pretty much
be across from Robert Downey Junior, who will be portraying
Doctor Doom. But Chris Evans, he's telling Esquire Magazine that
that is not true. Quote, this always happens. I mean,
it happens every couple of years. Ever since Endgame. I've
(22:53):
just stopped responding to it. Yeah, No, happily retired. You
know what Chris Evans. I'm calling Yes, I am calling
you out. I'm saying I don't believe you. I can't
believe any Marvel actor, not just this is not just
a Chris Evans thing. This is an every MCU actor
kind of thing. We can't trust you anymore. Ever, it
(23:15):
existed before Spider Man three No Way Home. But since then,
especially with the whole Andrew Garfield lying to our faces, saying,
I have no idea, I don't know what's going on.
No one's contacted me. I will love to be in it,
but no one's asked me to. No since then, No,
So I believe Chris Evans will return as Captain America
(23:36):
or some sort of variance, whether it's in Avengers or
in some other MCU project. But Jamie, do you believe
Chris Evans? Do you believe any word that comes out
of these actors' mouths.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I believe that he's a really great guy.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
We're not talking about that. I'm talking about his lies,
his lies, his lies.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I know, No, what can you trust? What can you
believe anymore? Everything is an illusion, James, Nothing is real?
What what universe are we in?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Even your man, Jamie, even your man, Harrison Ford. He
has gotten such into the MCU web of lies because
even before the trailer came out for the New Captain
America Falcon America Soldier Man, a movie is coming out.
Before that trailer dropped, people were theorizing, Oh, we were
(24:32):
hearing word that you are going to be not only
the President of the of the United States in the movie,
but you're also going to be the Red Hulk. You're
gonna turn into the Red Hulk. And looking a reporter
dead in the eyes, Harrison Ford says, what is that what?
I don't know what that is? Red, I don't know
what that is. You're a liar, Harrison Ford, You're a liar.
(24:55):
The trailer you are wrong, James I can and has.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I don't care. He can lie to me all day.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I'm gonna make a thumbnail, to make a thumbnail where
I'm like pointing at Harrison Ford, because he always points
at everybody in all his movies. And I'm gonna put
put liar, a big picture of Harrison with a word
liar on his forehead.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Oh my god, don't do that. Don't do that to
my man.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I will. I'm already making it right now, as you speak.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Me in the back of the thumbnail, like knocking him
out with like a ball.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No, you're gonna be crying. You're gonna be tears flowing
down your eyeballs.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I'm gonna learn how to make these thumbnails out.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I could do anything with canava.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Look, you have to lie. They have to the Congress
contractually obligated, whatever those words are.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
You know what, I will do what I would. I
would because you know Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy fallon all
those Jimmy is you can't trust him. That's why I
go by James. You can't trust the Jimmy. But yeah,
they're always like on their talk show and Jimmy Alan,
Jimmy Kimmel, they're like, tell us, give us a spoiler,
or are you gonna do this? We heard you're gonna
be in the movie. We heard this character is gonna
(26:06):
come in like I would before the show starts in
the green room, I would grab those guys by their
by their tie. Go don't I'll be a Harrison Ford
be pointing my finger. Don't you dare ask me about this?
The people want to be surprised. Get off my plane.
That's what I'll do. And I'll say, if you ask
(26:27):
me any questions about a spoiler or whatever, I'm walking
off that set, i'd warn them. Yeah, but no, Chris Evans,
Harrison Ford, they don't have the cajones to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Mada. You gotta speak Harrison, okay. And if you can
speak Harrison, you know when he's telling the truth and
when he's like lying because he has to when he
does that fake like I don't know who was Like
you could tell, you could tell. I don't know about
Chris Evans, though I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
He's a really good actor. He's a very good actress.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
That they do, that's that, that is what they do.
But we can still love him. You seem like personally
offended though I am.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I am over it. And again, maybe I'm just expressing
my my inner frustration with the MCU in general because
I'm not excited for many of the projects. The only
two projects I'm excited for are the new Fantastic Film
movie and the I'm not even excited for Thunderbolts. I
think that's it. I think I'm just excited for Fantastic four. Yeah,
(27:29):
none of this is I've hit that wall. I've poted.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
There is something else to be excited about. There is
the March, Yes, March Dear Devil Reborn, starring Charlie Cox.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, I'm sure that's gonna be good. I'll have to
I will have to force myself to watch it. H
I love Daredevil, but I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I know everything else is like.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
My my spirit has been broken too many times by
the MCU. So maybe they'll maybe they'll turn it around.
Maybe this is the the upswing again.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Come on, come on, James's heart help you know he
don't be MCU fans out there, and that's what they're
trying to do. They want to bring back the ogs.
They're trying to bring back R D J Impossible.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
That's desperation to bring back that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That that initial love and people what people love James
is a big surprise. Doesn't it pay off for you
in the end when there's a huge surprise and the
person walks on the screen and everyone in theater is screaming,
doesn't imagine forgive them a little bit.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well, the thing is they don't have those surprises. We
all know the surprises, like the whole Spider Man Far
from No Way Home. We knew Toby and Andrew we're
gonna be on the We're gonna be there. So all
those scenes where they pop in dramatically and take a
pause for ten seconds so the live audience can like
have their reaction like, yeah, it was cool to see them,
It's really cool to see them back, but like there
(29:09):
was no surprise, and so surprise me, Kevin, if you
want me back, surprise me, surprise goodness or else. I
guess that's why I maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is
why Chris Evans and Harrison Ford should be lying. Am
I What am I doing? I don't know, I don't
know what. I've lost my mind? Uh, you know what?
(29:32):
What's gonna make me lose my mind? Hopefully if they're good?
Are these new movies that are slated to come out
on Netflix, which is terrible timing because I'm on the
cusp of canceling my Netflix. But the dissimming service just
unveiled its film slate for the year, But only two
movies have really peaked my interest. One stars my boy
(29:53):
oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordie Maya Goth and Christoph Waltz
in Frankenstein, directed by none other than Germo del Toro
del Toro.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You know that's going to be good.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You know it's good. Did you see the first picture
that came out like they showed like just a picture
of Oscar Isaac and he's just like pointing at something
vigorously and it looked good.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I did not see, but now I must ring a best.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, you have to check it out. Also, I'm planning
to check out and really excited for is the next
chapter of Knives out, Wake Up dead Man. An official
release date has not been announced, but it will be
coming out sometime in the fall. So if they can
be just as good as the second one, they'll be great.
If they're just as great as the first one, I'll
(30:41):
be ecstatic. But those are two movies I'll looking forward
to awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
And if people want to see the full slate of
movies that we are looking forward to in the year
twenty twenty five, we did that video, our New Year's video.
A couple of years, a couple of years, a couple
episodes back. Speaking of that, look, the.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Past two weeks have felt like years.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
They have every day has felt like an entire year.
And so that is why here on the Hub on Hollywood.
We have vowed to bring joy and happiness back into
your lives and smiles and hope for the future. And
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(31:25):
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if they still exist. Jamie Yes James, speaking about bringing joy,
I'm curious if this movie brought joy to yourself and
to the children of the world. Dog Man, Yes, this
(32:37):
is that looks interesting.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Dog Man. Dog Man is a film franchise, a brand
new film franchise based on the wildly popular books by
Dave pil Pilkney pill I'm saying that a little bit wrong,
but I.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Think that's perfect. You think that that's perfect.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that, pill Key, Pilky.
It's a little hard to say. And what I love
about Dave Pilkey, my son has been obsessed with these
books for about the last year. We own all of them.
And what's wonderful about him is not only does he
(33:25):
have like this really creative style, these really funny characters
that are super engaging and in the comics are like
super fun to read for kids, but he is a
person who you know, has ADHD and dyslexia, and he
struggled very mightily, you know, through school, and something that
(33:47):
he constantly got in trouble for was doodling and making
little comic books and famously had a tea. You know,
he would always be sat outside the classroom for making
trouble and not paying attention. And famously he had a
teacher that came up to him one day took his
little comics or ripped them up and said that there
(34:08):
was no future in drawing little pictures and that he
was never going to win mount to anything. And while
he dedicated the rest of his life to amounting to
freaking something. And the message behind this movie is just
so sweet, so adorable. I really really enjoyed it. In
an era of kids films that are dark, overly done,
(34:35):
sort of scary, I'm looking at you, Disney, like, what
the hell with all of these remakes that are actually terrifying?
This was pure fun. It takes the content from about
the first three or four books and condenses it into
a really beautiful film, keeping that style, keeping that comic
(34:57):
book style, but just making it a little bit f
re d, but so crisp and clear and easy to follow.
I just wanted to give you.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
The animation looks really fun. Is this a spinoff from
The Captain Underpants? Or like yes, the spin off is
from Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
So Dave Pilkey also the author of Captain Underpants and
this is one of his other projects, dog Man. So
same same universe, you might say. So A quick synopsis
of dog Man. It's ridiculous premise, but so much fun.
(35:37):
When a police officer and his faithful police dog get
injured in the line of duty, a hair brained but
life saving surgery fuses the two of them together, so
the dog's head gets put on the man's body, creating
dog Man. Dog Man has to learn to embrace his
new identity and stop the feline super villain ped the
(35:58):
Cat from going on a crime spreeze and taking over
the world and and whatnot. Really, Pete Davidson correct, Pete
Davidson plays Pete the Cat, which is the villain. And
you've got Real Howary as chief and he's just really hilarious.
(36:21):
A nice cast. Ricky Gervaise plays Flippy the Fish, who's
also an evil fish. Is it a part of that film? Really?
Boyd is in it too, There's a there's a great cast.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah. Wait, so I'm curious. I don't know. I don't
know if they covered in the in the film, but
dog man, So man's body, dog's head. Is the body
as a whole controlled by the dog or is there
still man in there? Like RoboCop where like his inner
(36:54):
man is still in there? Like like what what who's
in charge of the body? Like is the man gone?
Like how does that work? Am I thinking too much?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
You're thinking too much? There are many questions, there are
no answers. Body has dog head, it fights crime there,
it's got stitches. So the dog piano, it drives.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
So does the dog have to come to terms with
its new body?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Essentially?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I guess because that sounds like a human trait.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
It's kind of dark in the beginning. It's like you're
cutting the guy's head off, you're killing him.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah, Like it's like where it happens to like his brain.
Unless I'm probably thinking way too much about this dog. No,
But the end the animation looks really fun. Again, like
you said, I like how you said. It's very simple,
as in like it's not like it's not trying to
do too much or be too much than what it
is simple premise. And I heard that Pete Davidson does
(37:57):
a fantastic job as as the arch Nemesis cats.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yes, he does a really great job as the archin Nemesis,
And what's was surprising to me is that they did
have some themes in here to do with family trauma
generational trauma, where you know, PD the cat is evil,
but he's evil because his dad abandoned him and life
is terrible, and he creates a clone by accident who
(38:24):
becomes little Pet, and little Pet, you know, is calling
Pet his dad and he has to kind of face
this kind of like chain of trauma and despair because
little PD is the goodest do good around. He's like
he is what PD was. And so it actually, in
the course of this really silly and fun movies taking
(38:48):
on some heavier topics, but not in like a heavy
handed way, and not in like in your face or
on the nose kind of way, like in a really
natural and fun kind of way that I think would
help children deal with these kinds of experiences. And it's
got those nods to neurodivergency as well, and existing in
(39:13):
that world the robot. There's a robot called eight DHD
who helps a little PD. So it's just really endearing,
well done, not overdone in the least, great themes, really
funny jokes not just for the kids, and not like
(39:34):
forced jokes or whatever, like really really like authentically funny joke.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Parents will enjoy it too.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
That parents would enjoy also fun music, especially at the end.
So I give it very high pause up to pause
up to pically a human hand, So two thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I don't get this role. I need to watch this
movie to understand. I need to watch one of those
YouTube videos where they dissect the philosophy behind dog Man.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah, it would get too dark too quickly. I wouldn't
recommend it, just.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I need to know now that you just enticed me. See,
I'm now more excited for this movie than any other
Marvel mcu movie in the work.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
So yeah, I think you'll really like it. And once
your daughter is old enough to start seeing these movies
like this, this was really cute. This is one I
think that she'd really enjoy. I think you would really
enjoy it as well.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Excellent, excellent dog Man out in theaters right now. Go
check it out. If you have watched it, what are
your thoughts? Comment down below, join the conversation. We will
get to our last topic. But I do want to
give a shout out to those who did comment on
some of our last episodes or segments. In the episode
or the segment regarding the Brutalist and AI Artificial intelligence drama,
(40:53):
we have a little back and forth with a mister
Tim Starrocks and A Wrath in nineteen ninety nine going
over the pros and cons of using AI in movies.
Tim starr Rock says, honestly, who cares? It wasn't even
a big part of the movie. Wrath responds, actors should
be able to act. Maybe if they just tried a
(41:13):
little harder at doing an accent, they wouldn't need AI.
Then they had another back and forth, so check that
out in our comments on that episode. Also, we have
a comment on the controversy regarding which was this one?
Oh that was AI? We are looking at do oh
this one was a lot of people were giving love
(41:34):
for Conan O'Brien he was announced to be getting the
Mark Twain Prize award. One person goes blt forty eighty
four says Conan is the goats Spice and Sauce says,
a lot of funny people got Mark Twain Prize awards
before Conan, and what a travesty that is. So thanks,
(41:56):
so much. Those are just a few of the comments
comments as on on our page. Let us know what
you think, We'll give you a shout out as well,
and again trying to we did respond to several of those,
so now again, well, we'd love to give you guys
a shout out and acknowledge your participation. And so, Jamie,
I know we didn't. We did talk about David Lynch
(42:17):
passing away again, an iconic, incredible director passed away recently.
And you know this is when people start going into
the archives, started looking up old interviews with some of
these directors. And one video that's been spliced together interview
is one with the late David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino,
(42:37):
and it comes up. It brings up the debate of
that goes back to nineteen ninety nine, when the first
digital film was shown in theaters. Jamie, really quick, can
you guess which movie boy was the first digital film
to be shown in movie theaters? Nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
I'm going to make a well guess and say Titanic.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
No, I think Titanic came out in like ninety six.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I'm a few years late.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Okay, well a few years late. But Star Wars episode one.
The Phantom Menace was the first digital film. They used
thirty five millimeters, but they also used digital cameras for
that as well, So technically it was the first digital
film shown in theaters. But that's neither here nor there.
But since that movie came out and the adoption of
(43:30):
digital cameras to make movies, the debate goes back and forth,
what is better film, og film or the new thing,
the new tech. And we had this back and forth
between David Lynch and Quincy and again the Spice Together
interview and they both talk about their why they love
or hate, you know, each other's choice. And we can
(43:54):
start with Tarantino. Of course, we know that he loves
old Hollywood. All of movies are filmed with thirty five
millimeter film. He loves the classics, and he cannot dream
or think about ever shooting digital. And so he says
that he feels like he feels gypped when he goes
and sees a movie and finds out it was shot
(44:17):
on video. He says, it's a death rattle. He believes
in the magic of movies and that's and that the
thirty five millimeter experience is what makes movies magical specifically
because he says, when you're shooting on film, you're taking
a series of still pictures, but when you show those
pictures at twenty four frames per second, it creates the
(44:38):
illusion of movements, and that illusion is what's connected and
what creates the magic of movies. So there's Tarantino's take
on it, on why he prefers film. David Lynch, however,
he says he loves or loved digital, and he is
done with film. He says, even though he loves film,
(44:59):
it's a dinosaur. Everything about it is a dinosaur. It's
soon to be gone forever. Tape, analog all gone. It
can't even get a roll of tape anymore. He says.
Film scratches, it breaks, it's dirty, it gets dirt all
over it, and no two prints are the same. And
he lastly calls it a nightmare, saying that just hearing
(45:20):
the projector chattering in the background is a no go
for him. He says, you know, like many people, I'm
sure takes them out of the movie when you can
hear the literal machine projecting the movie on the screen.
I have mixed opinions on this, like many things in
this world, but Jamie right off the bat, what do
you feel like? Do you do you like the digital
(45:40):
or do you like film? You know, the classics?
Speaker 2 (45:44):
I was, I don't have a strong opinion one way
or another.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Have to make one right now, you have to pick
a side.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Jeez, fine film whatever, James picks. I picked the opposite.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
How about that? Oh goodness, Yeah that's good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Yeah we can just fight about it.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
But what I love about this back and forth is
David Lynch is a man who's been burned by film
what just way too many times. I just I loved
how he's like, if he's seen it, it's dirty. You
see the dust, it's all dusty, all of it. No too,
you know, no, no, no, two tastes are the same
or whatever, like no, two copies are the same. And
(46:25):
he was just it's it's over, it's done.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Like he's SOFFICI.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
It's a practicality thing. Okay, yeah it is. And and
Tarantino is obviously a romantic and that's the thing with romance, Okay,
it's it's the experience, it's the journey. But sometimes the
practicality and the details of that journey are just way
too much. You know to do, so you can absolutely
(46:52):
tell that one is just way romantic and one is
just pragmatic. Uh, And it's really funny. It's it's really
funny because those two kinds of people are usually married
to each other. Yeah, and it's just it's yeah, it's
hilarious to see this back and forth. What what do
you think, James, What's what's your opinion? What are your
strong feelings on this?
Speaker 1 (47:12):
So if I find out if I if I have
the option to watch a movie on film on the
projector I will see that movie. I will. I love
IMAX and you know digital and yeah, it's it's amazing.
But given the chance, I would be willing to go
to a smaller theater to watch something on film because
there's a warmth, a vibe there you can feel. I
(47:36):
will say it the magic of film and how it
projects onto a screen. I do understand when Quentin says that,
you know it adds to the illusion, these these single shots,
these picture frames, frames put together shown twenty four frames
(47:57):
per second to create the illusion of movement. I totally
get that, and I totally agree with that that movies
in general are an illusion. Their stories, they're made up
there make believe put on put onto a screen, and
being able to experience that is magic. It's incredible. If
you would have shown these to cavemen, they would have
gone ooga booga, and that would have been like, oh
(48:18):
my god, my mind's blown. And so I do agree
it's magic. But digital there's so many things you can
do with digital that you can't with film, and that is,
you know, you can get so many more takes, you
can try to get that perfect shot, but get that
perfect sequence in the more technical sense and the more
(48:38):
I think just the filmmaking sense in general, I think
it democratizes filmmaking because not everybody can afford film, that
everyone can shoot film, that everyone can develop and go
through the whole process of what it means and what
it takes to create a movie on film. However, shooting
(48:59):
digital that opens the door to literally everybody, from these
high end digital cameras to movies that are shot on iPhones.
It allows anybody to become a filmmaker. Opens that door,
opens that gate. And so that's one thing I think about, like, Yeah,
there is the romantic side, the magic side, the soulful
(49:21):
side that you get and you feel from film and
given the chance, I'll watch that. That being said, when
it comes to the entire industry as a whole, film
doesn't work for everybody, but digital does. And in that
sense though, of course there's room for both. But yeah,
there it depends who you are really at the end
of the day. If you have the capability, try film,
(49:43):
you may love it. Twisters shot on film, I believe.
Don't quote me, but I believe No Saratu is also
shot on film. It just adds to it, the aura,
the mystique to it. But yeah, I agree, digital opens
the door for everybody and allows everybody's a expression to
be put on display. So I too, like you, Jamie
(50:05):
am split.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Very eloquent, very well said, but I need you to
clip the part where you just go ooga.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Booga, ooga booga. My mind's I think that's how the
Caveman spoke back then. I think if they had film,
and they had filmed themselves in a way to record audio,
then that is exactly what it would have sounded like.
But let us know what you think. If those of
you who are watching listening to us on digital on
(50:34):
on the digital camera right here that's now on YouTube
or or being streamed online. What do you think? I
know again this I think it just depends. I think
this is one of those things where like the answer
is whatever you prefer. There's no right or wrong, it's
just what works for you. What is your Yeah? Can
you can you physically? Are you capable of doing film?
(50:56):
If not? You know? Yeah, let us know what you think?
Common down below? Who's right? Who's wrong? Who's is David
Lynch right the late David Lynch or is Quentin Tarantino?
You decide you picked thumbnail, battle it out, battle it
out exactly.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
So thank you for joining this conversation. And if we
if you're a caveman and we offended you, we're sorry.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
I don't take it back.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Join us my heart.
Speaker 1 (51:25):
My heart stands on caveman.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Here on Hollywood, and we will continue to bring you
the movies you love and the movies that get made
here in New England until next week. James, I am
Jamie Boga.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
I'm James Boga. We'll see you the next thing
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
your co host James Rojas. Jamie's back. Not only yeah,
not only is Jamie back for this week's episode, but
on this week's episode, we're talking about Chris Evans and
the rumors that he will be returning for another Avengers movie.
(00:32):
He's however, he's saying it's not as clear as it
as it looks as it appears to be, so we'll
get into that. It's also the battle of the directors.
David Lynch, the late David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino have
a strong opinions about what is the best way, how
is the best way to film a movie? Netflix releases
(00:55):
its late of movies coming up this year, two of
which I'm very excited for, and a view of dog Man, No,
not Batman, dog Man. But Jamie, as we mentioned, you
are back, Welcome back. We were telling our listeners our
viewers that you were out on assignments, and you were.
We sent you on a very expensive trip to Spain
(01:18):
on the very specific mission of comparing the movie theater
going experience over there to over here, and I can't
wait to hear your report and how things went.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, that's the only reason I went to Spain.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Right, Yeah, to watch one movie I believe budget.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, James and I have come back with a very
controversial report. Oh I love okay, at least to my husband.
So I was on a trip to Valencia, Spain. First
of all, the selection of movies on the airplane on
the ride over the international flight very good, very good.
They had both of your zero movies excellent a Froncia
(02:00):
Jones and Antonio Vendettas another very healthy selection. I got
to watch the Holdovers. I hadn't seen the whole film.
I got to watch the whole film at very long flight.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
How long is that flight?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, it was seven hours going over and then we
had to take a second flight to Valencia, and then
on the way back it was like eight hours. Yeah,
it was long, but so had it.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
A couple moviest a couple movies.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Longest flight I've been on. But James, yes, when we
got there, right, we wanted to, of course experience the
culture and all of the cool history and the museums.
But one thing that I wanted to make sure that
I did not miss out on was the movie going
experience abroad.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Of course, I saw.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
The Original Avengers in Okinawa, Japan. That was one of
the coolest experiences of my life, Like when that first
came out, that was like in twenty twelve. That was
really awesome. So I wanted to make sure, Hey, I'm
in another country again, I have to get to the theater.
So we didn't and we took the whole family, whole
family international trip international theater. Were so excited. First of all,
(03:08):
there's a completely different culture around going to the movies,
Oh James. You go up to the theater, right, you
go into like your AMC or your cinemak or your
regal or whatever. You buy your ticket and say you
get there early.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, well what would you do?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I mean you just you show up, you go in,
you buy your snacks.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You hang out, right, yeah, sit down not so.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Over there not. So they do not let you in.
They don't let you physically into the theater building until
like twenty minutes before the movies start in the all start.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Building or like the theater like individual cinema.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So we went to a cinema called Cinema Lease Cine
Leise and it was actually a gigantic four story time
whole theater nice, and it had like a dozen at
least theaters in it, but they would only show movies
in certain blocks. Now you've heard of a siesta, right, James. Yeah, yeah,
(04:14):
So between like noon and four o'clock there there are
no movies.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
There are no movies. I think that they have some
morning movies and they have the afternoon movies. And in
the middle you're not allowed inside because everyone's on siesta.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
That is crazy. So you couldn't like hang out in there.
It's like you got you there's no funny business. You
get in, you go see your movie, and you leave, okay.
But once we got in, once we got in, right,
they opened the doors and we went to the snack
the little concession stand, right, and it's not the same
or at least in this particular theater. They had popcorn, right,
(04:56):
they had popcorn. They had like candy, but it was
it like the packaged candy. It was like one of
those like self serve candy things, right, right, And then
they had like a handful of drinks, not a lot
of soda. And that was it.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
We're like, you know, we can handle this, we can
deal with this. We My husband got the popcorn because
he loves popcorn. I just got a water like there
wasn't really anything that I liked. There wasn't you know,
there's no impossible nuggets. There were no like fries and
burgers or anything like that. It was just, you know,
kind of sparse. But James that when we sat down,
(05:39):
we're getting ready to enjoy the movies and we are
digging into our snacks. We did get some candies, mostly popcorn.
My husband was affronted. He was angered, he was even sensed.
He was I don't have the words to describe how
upset he was. Like it was a slow build from
(06:02):
oh this is popcorn. Oh you know it's not it's
not that salty, it's not that buttery. Oh they don't
have a butter machine. They don't have salt, They don't
let you put anything else on it. It was a
slow build of anger. Raw pop corn, straight raw popcorn.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Are you sure like there wasn't like alt? Yeah, that
wild two.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Or three grains of salt. It doesn't appear to have
any butter. It was white. You know, there was no
butter machine. That was like nowhere where you could add
the butter. My husband got up. He's like, oh my god,
what do I do? Like?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So wait, let's walk back a little bit. So you
go to the concession stand. You you get your bucket.
Wasn't in a bucket or like a bag or what of?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It wasn't a bucket, It wasn't a bucket, It wasn't
a large bucket. It was just we got the lar
but it was more like a small what you would
get here. My husband appreciates American popcorn, So this is
what this is? Where where you know? I want to
bring you in a conversation. How would you react to
this type of popcorn. I don't know how much of
(07:15):
a popcorn person you are, but do you think that
it is a crime against humanity to have this popcorn? Raw?
No butter, no salt.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Well, the answer is clearly yes, yes, it's raw. Every
popcorn experience should be should be had with butter and salt.
I think I would have noticed, though again, maybe maybe
I would have gone in preemptively, you know, knowing that Okay,
this isn't going to be the best popcorn just because
it's white popcorn. I can see there's there's no hint
of color or flavor on this, So I don't think
(07:49):
I would have been as surprise. I would have been
surprised immediately when they handed it over and then looked
around and not see a butter thing. But then, like
I think instinctively, I would, you know, throw in a
few in my mouth immediately, and so I think, yeah,
I would have been disappointed, maybe not as surprised after
seeing the product in my hand, but yeah, that's crazy.
I mean when I get popcorn, I don't add any
(08:11):
extra additional popcorn or whatever they call popcorn onto that.
I don't pour any other seasonings or whatever, so I
usually have it how they serve it, which already has
I'm sure way too much salt and butter than any
humans should be consuming at one point or in one sitting.
But yeah, I thought when you when you told me
that he had a terrible experience, I thought they're gonna
be throwing like, I don't know, some crazy wacky spices
(08:33):
on there or something completely left left field like jelly
or jam that'd been they would have thrown me off
and angered me probably more, but maybe maybe the other.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Huge difference, James, besides the fact that they were trying
to upsell you, like have more candy, have more of this,
have more of that, like you know, throwing the snacks
at you was the price? Okay, maybe this is where
maybe this is why there was no butter and no salt.
So between the the popcorn, the drinks and like one
(09:05):
box of candy in an American theater popcorn, drink, candy
we just went last night. That's like thirty bucks at
the least. Do you want to take a guess what
this cost us?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Four dollars, three dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You're not far off. It was five euros, which is
about six dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Okay, for the large popcorn. I think I would pay
thirty bucks. Though for butter and for sauce, that's the difference.
I would actually be more than happy to pay them
that much for it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That's the premium, right is salt and butter costs that much?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Though you know you've got you just flew back into America,
so the prices are going up in case no one's
told you so. Probably now it does cost that much.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
But here's something that you'll like about the movie going experience.
Once you were in there and settled and ready to
see the movie, because something that you complained about all
the time that you hate are like the all of
the lead up to the movie, right that half an
hour of trailers and all of the like the three
(10:12):
or four mcu intro a mc intros or whatever, and
and and all the logos and things like that that
just never end. There was no pre show entertainment.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Excellent.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
As soon as the trailers started, the trailer, it went
from a big black screen to a boom trailer, no transition.
There were two trailers, two trailers, and then it immediately
went into the film. They were not it was not
stadium seating, you know how. Sort of all the theaters
here have like read cells and they had the stadium
(10:47):
seats and the big cushioned chairs. This was very flat,
very old school flat, tiny folding chairs, and so you
kind of had like really space yourself out. There was
no assigned seating, so you could kind of pick wherever
you wanted to sit and got to stagger yourself so
you're not you know, blocked by somebody's head. But yeah,
(11:07):
no trailers. Maybe there's a premium on that too, because
the ticket prices. Ticket prices with eight euros a person,
whereas here it's closer to like twenty dollars. Yeah, a
person now to go to the movies depending on what
time and day you're going. So it was significantly cheaper,
but it also kind of felt that way. But I
(11:28):
also did like in some ways it was it was okay.
It was more of like a a classical sort of
like an old timey like it was like when I
used to go to the movies as a kid.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Right, was it a culture shock for your kids?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
For my son in particular, who's you know, loves going
to the movies and it's always at the movie theater.
He's never seen a theater like that. He's never seen
the flat seats and the little folding chairs like he's spoiled.
He's always had the stadium seating in the cliners and
and all of that.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
So we go in time on that plane.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, and what we kind of did with the time
difference and all that, Yeah, So it was that. And
then it was just funny watching the amount of movies
that they have that are all American movies that are
just dubbed over was really funny to me. I was
expecting to go over there and there be like just
a ton of Spanish movies, but it was a ton
(12:27):
of American movies that were just dubbed over which which
was really funny. Yeah, because where do you think the
movies come from? They come for right here for USA
and from New England where they film.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You know, a ton of these, So if you can
give me a rating, So taking in and taking everything
into accounts, the price of the ticket, the theater set up, layout,
the way you know you are allowed to either you know,
walk in freely or not walking freely, seats assigned snacks,
all that, and accumulation like this overall theater experience. Joy.
(13:03):
How does a rank compared to the US on a
scale of like one to ten? You go, you can
start with the you can start with the US and
then Spain.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's tough because the US has the entertainment factor. You've
got the whole shmortgishborg of snacks. You've got you know,
pre show entertainment. You've got a ton of trailers, you've
got the stadium seating, you've got not only the snacks,
but you've got like T shirts and plushes and like
(13:32):
it's overall like the US, and you've got the bar.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Oh my gosh, like mcguffins.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Overall, I would sit right mcguffins right. Overall, I would
say that the movie going experience, as far as like
fun and entertainment coolness, I've got to give it to
the US. I've got to give it to us. I've
got to give it to the US.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
You know, you will say, right.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
But as far as prices les go, I experienced a
significant amount of joy being able to go and see
a really good movie and not pay the premium. But
then you don't really get the premium.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Experience, especially butter rest, which I think.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And the butter and salt humanity. In my husband's eyes,
he's insulted forever. I don't think I'll ever be able
to get him to go back unless we like smuggled
in our own snacks, and it just didn't feel as inviting.
It didn't feel like a place that you could hang
out all day. Yeah, because that's what I did, you know,
growing up as a teenager or whatever. I would spend
(14:37):
all day at the movie theater with my friends. We
would see a movie and then we would play video
games because the ones near our place we had like
DDR and all the arcade games and and things like that.
So the cool and the fun factor definitely have to
give it to the US, I would say, like, but
the prices definitely take it down or not. So I
(14:58):
would say US e of ten, Spain six and a
half out of.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Ten, Okay, okay, and no, that's a yeah. I think
I would pay extra for the luxuries because I'm spoiled.
I'm gonna spoiled American and I can't get I watched
I forget which movie it was. I think it was.
I'm not sure if it was Dan Versus somewhere, but
my wife and I girlfriend at the time, we went
to go see The Last or the Rise of the
Sky Rise of Skywalker, and it was it was and
(15:23):
every theater was showing it. But the theater that we
were able to get was like one of the older
ones and so in the back and it was all flat.
And so that was like just so not only did
I watch a terrible movie, but like just the experience
and living. I was sitting in those like very tight
chairs compared to what we are in today, but those
tight chairs and also just like flat. It was just like, oh,
this is just a terrible experience. But really quickly, before
(15:45):
we get to our next topic, you said that you
watched the one of the Avengers or if not, the
first Avengers movie in Japan. I'm curious about the Japanese etiquette.
Like I've heard that they're very you know, not so
as boisterous as we are in America. But Avengers that
must be a crazy movie to see. I'm curious how,
(16:05):
like what was their reaction. Were there cheers, gears or
was it very silence?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Total silence?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Wow, that's that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And I was a little like overly conscious of that.
So it was in English with Japanese subtitles, and I
was very aware that I was the only American in
that theater, and so I was trying to like not
make a fool out of myself. I was trying to
go with the flow. And there were some scenes that
(16:34):
I'm just like meah, you know, like because I loved
that movie so so much, but I'm looking around me
like no stoic, stoic. So I tried to contain my Americanism,
if that makes any sense.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh yeah, no, yeah, I imagined. I imagine you'd have
to or else or else stated. They wouldn't say anything
to you. They're just side on you and look at
you and like silently judge you bring.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Much gigantic theater, really beautiful, really pretty good snacks, really huge,
So that I mean, it was a good movie going experience,
except that I was like in Mortal Terror of like
embarrassing myself and shouting and being an obnoxious American.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah all right, well let's get into well, first of all,
if those who are watching or listening, if you've watched
a movie in a different country, of course, other than
the US, let us know what that experience was.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Like.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I remember watching Shrek, the first one, I believe in
Mexico when it came out, and even though it's like
an hour and a half movie is not long, it's
you know, it's Shrek, there was an intermission and so
that surprised me because there's a point where it just ended,
like what is going on? And then everybody just got
up naturally, went outside to the concessions, got whatever they needed,
went to the restroom. And I was like, whoa, this
(17:51):
is so weird. And so in Mexico, I don't know
if they still do it, but for the Shrek I saw,
you know, twenty five years ago or so, they had
an intermission for there, So you let us know. Down
in the comments, what's your out of country, out of
a US movie theater going experience? How does it compare
to how we do things, how we enjoy things in America?
But Jamie, yeah, we have a lot of stuff coming
(18:12):
going on here locally. I don't have to list in
front of me, but can you go over some of
the local cast and calls and some of the filming
events that we are expecting to see s sit here.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, one thing that we are hearing about and pretty
excited about here in the Dead Chill of Winter is
the Dead of Winter Horror Fest that is returning to Worcester.
That is going to be February twenty second to the
twenty third. Friend of the podcast, Julia Tutko Bayana is
(18:45):
actually going to be hosting a panel called Sleigh Queen,
a celebration of Women in Horror. Nice, so kudos to
her for that. That's going to be on Saturday. So yeah,
in Wooster February twenty seconds to twenty third. That sounds
like it's going to be a lot of fun. I
will try to be there for the Hub on Hollywood
(19:06):
because it just sounds creepy. There's nothing better than like,
you know, it's freezing outside, it's cold, You want to
snuggle up with your significant other and watch a horror
movie and oh, you just jump on the other person.
And you know what's better than that? Right, you're a guy.
You like it when girls do that, right? Yeah, it
is also that time of the year, James for Boston University.
(19:32):
Boston University puts out their annual casting call for people
who are interested in acting in their university films. For
their student filmmakers, they are looking for actors from age
eight to eighty, both union and non union, who are
flexible and dependable and would like to be a part
(19:52):
of some great up and coming filmmakers careers as they
go through Boston University. So if that sounds like something
you'd be interested in, send your headshot and resume to
be you Open casting call all singular at gmail dot com.
(20:16):
Just wrapping up this little local segment. It's awards season.
Awards season's been sort of interrupted by the fires there
in Los Angeles, but one of the awards coming up
are the SAG Awards Ye Screen Actors Guil. Yeah, we're
pretty excited for that. We're both SAG after members and
(20:39):
the New England chapter of SAG is hosting their SAG
Award party. It's going to be at the Somerville Theater
this year in Davis Square on February twenty third. So
if you are a SAG member, lookout for that email
RSVP on the union website. Uh, it's going to be
(21:01):
a party. There's going to be a red carpet. People
get to dress up. I remember when I did my
My Hands stint for Knives Out. That was sort of
my awards ceremony. That's where I got to kind of
celebrate myself. Yeah, and where a lot of our local
talent get to celebrate themselves and the work that they
(21:22):
do in the incredible films that get made here. So
maybe we'll see you guys there too.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Excellent. Yeah, shout out to Somerville Theater too, the great,
great establishment. We've done numerous stories for them or about
them with WBZ News Radio, and I'm sure we do
talked about them a million times here on the on
the podcast as well. Yeah. So yeah, SAG Awards. Let
us know if you are a SAG member locally in
New England. Uh, one, do you plan on going to
(21:48):
that to that event? Also, where are you leaning on
some of your votes? Any any category in particular that
you're most excited for that you want to give a
shout out to, a recommendation for who you're voting for.
Let us note down below, Jamie, you're talking about the MCU,
we're talking about the Avengers earlier, and you know something
something that we're gonna be talking about for Infinity Infinity
(22:09):
War forever. Yeah, and we could presume, we're presuming and
assuming that we're gonna be seeing Robert Downey Junior or
in every Avengers movie from from now on into perpetuity.
But someone that we may not be seeing coming back,
despite the rumors is Captain America, mister Chris Evans himself. Jamie.
I mean, I'm sure you've heard the rumors swirling about
(22:30):
him returning to the big screen, coming to to either
fight or join or what have you. But pretty much
be across from Robert Downey Junior, who will be portraying
Doctor Doom. But Chris Evans, he's telling Esquire Magazine that
that is not true. Quote, this always happens. I mean,
it happens every couple of years. Ever since Endgame. I've
(22:53):
just stopped responding to it. Yeah, No, happily retired. You
know what Chris Evans. I'm calling Yes, I am calling
you out. I'm saying I don't believe you. I can't
believe any Marvel actor, not just this is not just
a Chris Evans thing. This is an every MCU actor
kind of thing. We can't trust you anymore. Ever, it
(23:15):
existed before Spider Man three No Way Home. But since then,
especially with the whole Andrew Garfield lying to our faces, saying,
I have no idea, I don't know what's going on.
No one's contacted me. I will love to be in it,
but no one's asked me to. No since then, No,
So I believe Chris Evans will return as Captain America
(23:36):
or some sort of variance, whether it's in Avengers or
in some other MCU project. But Jamie, do you believe
Chris Evans? Do you believe any word that comes out
of these actors' mouths.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I believe that he's a really great guy.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
We're not talking about that. I'm talking about his lies,
his lies, his lies.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I know, No, what can you trust? What can you
believe anymore? Everything is an illusion, James, Nothing is real?
What what universe are we in?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Even your man, Jamie, even your man, Harrison Ford. He
has gotten such into the MCU web of lies because
even before the trailer came out for the New Captain
America Falcon America Soldier Man, a movie is coming out.
Before that trailer dropped, people were theorizing, Oh, we were
(24:32):
hearing word that you are going to be not only
the President of the of the United States in the movie,
but you're also going to be the Red Hulk. You're
gonna turn into the Red Hulk. And looking a reporter
dead in the eyes, Harrison Ford says, what is that what?
I don't know what that is? Red, I don't know
what that is. You're a liar, Harrison Ford, You're a liar.
(24:55):
The trailer you are wrong, James I can and has.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I don't care. He can lie to me all day.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I'm gonna make a thumbnail, to make a thumbnail where
I'm like pointing at Harrison Ford, because he always points
at everybody in all his movies. And I'm gonna put
put liar, a big picture of Harrison with a word
liar on his forehead.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Oh my god, don't do that. Don't do that to
my man.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I will. I'm already making it right now, as you speak.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Me in the back of the thumbnail, like knocking him
out with like a ball.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No, you're gonna be crying. You're gonna be tears flowing
down your eyeballs.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I'm gonna learn how to make these thumbnails out.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I could do anything with canava.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Look, you have to lie. They have to the Congress
contractually obligated, whatever those words are.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
You know what, I will do what I would. I
would because you know Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy fallon all
those Jimmy is you can't trust him. That's why I
go by James. You can't trust the Jimmy. But yeah,
they're always like on their talk show and Jimmy Alan,
Jimmy Kimmel, they're like, tell us, give us a spoiler,
or are you gonna do this? We heard you're gonna
be in the movie. We heard this character is gonna
(26:06):
come in like I would before the show starts in
the green room, I would grab those guys by their
by their tie. Go don't I'll be a Harrison Ford
be pointing my finger. Don't you dare ask me about this?
The people want to be surprised. Get off my plane.
That's what I'll do. And I'll say, if you ask
(26:27):
me any questions about a spoiler or whatever, I'm walking
off that set, i'd warn them. Yeah, but no, Chris Evans,
Harrison Ford, they don't have the cajones to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Mada. You gotta speak Harrison, okay. And if you can
speak Harrison, you know when he's telling the truth and
when he's like lying because he has to when he
does that fake like I don't know who was Like
you could tell, you could tell. I don't know about
Chris Evans, though I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
He's a really good actor. He's a very good actress.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
That they do, that's that, that is what they do.
But we can still love him. You seem like personally
offended though I am.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I am over it. And again, maybe I'm just expressing
my my inner frustration with the MCU in general because
I'm not excited for many of the projects. The only
two projects I'm excited for are the new Fantastic Film
movie and the I'm not even excited for Thunderbolts. I
think that's it. I think I'm just excited for Fantastic four. Yeah,
(27:29):
none of this is I've hit that wall. I've poted.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
There is something else to be excited about. There is
the March, Yes, March Dear Devil Reborn, starring Charlie Cox.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, I'm sure that's gonna be good. I'll have to
I will have to force myself to watch it. H
I love Daredevil, but I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I know everything else is like.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
My my spirit has been broken too many times by
the MCU. So maybe they'll maybe they'll turn it around.
Maybe this is the the upswing again.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Come on, come on, James's heart help you know he
don't be MCU fans out there, and that's what they're
trying to do. They want to bring back the ogs.
They're trying to bring back R D J Impossible.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
That's desperation to bring back that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That that initial love and people what people love James
is a big surprise. Doesn't it pay off for you
in the end when there's a huge surprise and the
person walks on the screen and everyone in theater is screaming,
doesn't imagine forgive them a little bit.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Well, the thing is they don't have those surprises. We
all know the surprises, like the whole Spider Man Far
from No Way Home. We knew Toby and Andrew we're
gonna be on the We're gonna be there. So all
those scenes where they pop in dramatically and take a
pause for ten seconds so the live audience can like
have their reaction like, yeah, it was cool to see them,
It's really cool to see them back, but like there
(29:09):
was no surprise, and so surprise me, Kevin, if you
want me back, surprise me, surprise goodness or else. I
guess that's why I maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is
why Chris Evans and Harrison Ford should be lying. Am
I What am I doing? I don't know, I don't
know what. I've lost my mind? Uh, you know what?
(29:32):
What's gonna make me lose my mind? Hopefully if they're good?
Are these new movies that are slated to come out
on Netflix, which is terrible timing because I'm on the
cusp of canceling my Netflix. But the dissimming service just
unveiled its film slate for the year, But only two
movies have really peaked my interest. One stars my boy
(29:53):
oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordie Maya Goth and Christoph Waltz
in Frankenstein, directed by none other than Germo del Toro
del Toro.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
You know that's going to be good.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You know it's good. Did you see the first picture
that came out like they showed like just a picture
of Oscar Isaac and he's just like pointing at something
vigorously and it looked good.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I did not see, but now I must ring a best.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, you have to check it out. Also, I'm planning
to check out and really excited for is the next
chapter of Knives out, Wake Up dead Man. An official
release date has not been announced, but it will be
coming out sometime in the fall. So if they can
be just as good as the second one, they'll be great.
If they're just as great as the first one, I'll
(30:41):
be ecstatic. But those are two movies I'll looking forward
to awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
And if people want to see the full slate of
movies that we are looking forward to in the year
twenty twenty five, we did that video, our New Year's video.
A couple of years, a couple of years, a couple
episodes back. Speaking of that, look, the.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
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Speaker 2 (31:02):
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I'm curious if this movie brought joy to yourself and
to the children of the world. Dog Man, Yes, this
(32:37):
is that looks interesting.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Dog Man. Dog Man is a film franchise, a brand
new film franchise based on the wildly popular books by
Dave pil Pilkney pill I'm saying that a little bit wrong,
but I.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Think that's perfect. You think that that's perfect.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Yeah, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that, pill Key, Pilky.
It's a little hard to say. And what I love
about Dave Pilkey, my son has been obsessed with these
books for about the last year. We own all of them.
And what's wonderful about him is not only does he
(33:25):
have like this really creative style, these really funny characters
that are super engaging and in the comics are like
super fun to read for kids, but he is a
person who you know, has ADHD and dyslexia, and he
struggled very mightily, you know, through school, and something that
(33:47):
he constantly got in trouble for was doodling and making
little comic books and famously had a tea. You know,
he would always be sat outside the classroom for making
trouble and not paying attention. And famously he had a
teacher that came up to him one day took his
little comics or ripped them up and said that there
(34:08):
was no future in drawing little pictures and that he
was never going to win mount to anything. And while
he dedicated the rest of his life to amounting to
freaking something. And the message behind this movie is just
so sweet, so adorable. I really really enjoyed it. In
an era of kids films that are dark, overly done,
(34:35):
sort of scary, I'm looking at you, Disney, like, what
the hell with all of these remakes that are actually terrifying?
This was pure fun. It takes the content from about
the first three or four books and condenses it into
a really beautiful film, keeping that style, keeping that comic
(34:57):
book style, but just making it a little bit f
re d, but so crisp and clear and easy to follow.
I just wanted to give you.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
The animation looks really fun. Is this a spinoff from
The Captain Underpants? Or like yes, the spin off is
from Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
So Dave Pilkey also the author of Captain Underpants and
this is one of his other projects, dog Man. So
same same universe, you might say. So A quick synopsis
of dog Man. It's ridiculous premise, but so much fun.
(35:37):
When a police officer and his faithful police dog get
injured in the line of duty, a hair brained but
life saving surgery fuses the two of them together, so
the dog's head gets put on the man's body, creating
dog Man. Dog Man has to learn to embrace his
new identity and stop the feline super villain ped the
(35:58):
Cat from going on a crime spreeze and taking over
the world and and whatnot. Really, Pete Davidson correct, Pete
Davidson plays Pete the Cat, which is the villain. And
you've got Real Howary as chief and he's just really hilarious.
(36:21):
A nice cast. Ricky Gervaise plays Flippy the Fish, who's
also an evil fish. Is it a part of that film? Really?
Boyd is in it too, There's a there's a great cast.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah. Wait, so I'm curious. I don't know. I don't
know if they covered in the in the film, but
dog man, So man's body, dog's head. Is the body
as a whole controlled by the dog or is there
still man in there? Like RoboCop where like his inner
(36:54):
man is still in there? Like like what what who's
in charge of the body? Like is the man gone?
Like how does that work? Am I thinking too much?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
You're thinking too much? There are many questions, there are
no answers. Body has dog head, it fights crime there,
it's got stitches. So the dog piano, it drives.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
So does the dog have to come to terms with
its new body?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Essentially?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I guess because that sounds like a human trait.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
It's kind of dark in the beginning. It's like you're
cutting the guy's head off, you're killing him.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah, Like it's like where it happens to like his brain.
Unless I'm probably thinking way too much about this dog. No,
But the end the animation looks really fun. Again, like
you said, I like how you said. It's very simple,
as in like it's not like it's not trying to
do too much or be too much than what it
is simple premise. And I heard that Pete Davidson does
(37:57):
a fantastic job as as the arch Nemesis cats.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Yes, he does a really great job as the archin Nemesis,
And what's was surprising to me is that they did
have some themes in here to do with family trauma
generational trauma, where you know, PD the cat is evil,
but he's evil because his dad abandoned him and life
is terrible, and he creates a clone by accident who
(38:24):
becomes little Pet, and little Pet, you know, is calling
Pet his dad and he has to kind of face
this kind of like chain of trauma and despair because
little PD is the goodest do good around. He's like
he is what PD was. And so it actually, in
the course of this really silly and fun movies taking
(38:48):
on some heavier topics, but not in like a heavy
handed way, and not in like in your face or
on the nose kind of way, like in a really
natural and fun kind of way that I think would
help children deal with these kinds of experiences. And it's
got those nods to neurodivergency as well, and existing in
(39:13):
that world the robot. There's a robot called eight DHD
who helps a little PD. So it's just really endearing,
well done, not overdone in the least, great themes, really
funny jokes not just for the kids, and not like
(39:34):
forced jokes or whatever, like really really like authentically funny joke.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Parents will enjoy it too.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
That parents would enjoy also fun music, especially at the end.
So I give it very high pause up to pause
up to pically a human hand, So two thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I don't get this role. I need to watch this
movie to understand. I need to watch one of those
YouTube videos where they dissect the philosophy behind dog Man.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah, it would get too dark too quickly. I wouldn't
recommend it, just.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
I need to know now that you just enticed me. See,
I'm now more excited for this movie than any other
Marvel mcu movie in the work.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
So yeah, I think you'll really like it. And once
your daughter is old enough to start seeing these movies
like this, this was really cute. This is one I
think that she'd really enjoy. I think you would really
enjoy it as well.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Excellent, excellent dog Man out in theaters right now. Go
check it out. If you have watched it, what are
your thoughts? Comment down below, join the conversation. We will
get to our last topic. But I do want to
give a shout out to those who did comment on
some of our last episodes or segments. In the episode
or the segment regarding the Brutalist and AI Artificial intelligence drama,
(40:53):
we have a little back and forth with a mister
Tim Starrocks and A Wrath in nineteen ninety nine going
over the pros and cons of using AI in movies.
Tim starr Rock says, honestly, who cares? It wasn't even
a big part of the movie. Wrath responds, actors should
be able to act. Maybe if they just tried a
(41:13):
little harder at doing an accent, they wouldn't need AI.
Then they had another back and forth, so check that
out in our comments on that episode. Also, we have
a comment on the controversy regarding which was this one?
Oh that was AI? We are looking at do oh
this one was a lot of people were giving love
(41:34):
for Conan O'Brien he was announced to be getting the
Mark Twain Prize award. One person goes blt forty eighty
four says Conan is the goats Spice and Sauce says,
a lot of funny people got Mark Twain Prize awards
before Conan, and what a travesty that is. So thanks,
(41:56):
so much. Those are just a few of the comments
comments as on on our page. Let us know what
you think, We'll give you a shout out as well,
and again trying to we did respond to several of those,
so now again, well, we'd love to give you guys
a shout out and acknowledge your participation. And so, Jamie,
I know we didn't. We did talk about David Lynch
(42:17):
passing away again, an iconic, incredible director passed away recently.
And you know this is when people start going into
the archives, started looking up old interviews with some of
these directors. And one video that's been spliced together interview
is one with the late David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino,
(42:37):
and it comes up. It brings up the debate of
that goes back to nineteen ninety nine, when the first
digital film was shown in theaters. Jamie, really quick, can
you guess which movie boy was the first digital film
to be shown in movie theaters? Nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
I'm going to make a well guess and say Titanic.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
No, I think Titanic came out in like ninety six.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I'm a few years late.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Okay, well a few years late. But Star Wars episode one.
The Phantom Menace was the first digital film. They used
thirty five millimeters, but they also used digital cameras for
that as well, So technically it was the first digital
film shown in theaters. But that's neither here nor there.
But since that movie came out and the adoption of
(43:30):
digital cameras to make movies, the debate goes back and forth,
what is better film, og film or the new thing,
the new tech. And we had this back and forth
between David Lynch and Quincy and again the Spice Together
interview and they both talk about their why they love
or hate, you know, each other's choice. And we can
(43:54):
start with Tarantino. Of course, we know that he loves
old Hollywood. All of movies are filmed with thirty five
millimeter film. He loves the classics, and he cannot dream
or think about ever shooting digital. And so he says
that he feels like he feels gypped when he goes
and sees a movie and finds out it was shot
(44:17):
on video. He says, it's a death rattle. He believes
in the magic of movies and that's and that the
thirty five millimeter experience is what makes movies magical specifically
because he says, when you're shooting on film, you're taking
a series of still pictures, but when you show those
pictures at twenty four frames per second, it creates the
(44:38):
illusion of movements, and that illusion is what's connected and
what creates the magic of movies. So there's Tarantino's take
on it, on why he prefers film. David Lynch, however,
he says he loves or loved digital, and he is
done with film. He says, even though he loves film,
(44:59):
it's a dinosaur. Everything about it is a dinosaur. It's
soon to be gone forever. Tape, analog all gone. It
can't even get a roll of tape anymore. He says.
Film scratches, it breaks, it's dirty, it gets dirt all
over it, and no two prints are the same. And
he lastly calls it a nightmare, saying that just hearing
(45:20):
the projector chattering in the background is a no go
for him. He says, you know, like many people, I'm
sure takes them out of the movie when you can
hear the literal machine projecting the movie on the screen.
I have mixed opinions on this, like many things in
this world, but Jamie right off the bat, what do
you feel like? Do you do you like the digital
(45:40):
or do you like film? You know, the classics?
Speaker 2 (45:44):
I was, I don't have a strong opinion one way
or another.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Have to make one right now, you have to pick
a side.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Jeez, fine film whatever, James picks. I picked the opposite.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
How about that? Oh goodness, Yeah that's good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
Yeah we can just fight about it.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
But what I love about this back and forth is
David Lynch is a man who's been burned by film
what just way too many times. I just I loved
how he's like, if he's seen it, it's dirty. You
see the dust, it's all dusty, all of it. No too,
you know, no, no, no, two tastes are the same
or whatever, like no, two copies are the same. And
(46:25):
he was just it's it's over, it's done.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Like he's SOFFICI.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
It's a practicality thing. Okay, yeah it is. And and
Tarantino is obviously a romantic and that's the thing with romance, Okay,
it's it's the experience, it's the journey. But sometimes the
practicality and the details of that journey are just way
too much. You know to do, so you can absolutely
(46:52):
tell that one is just way romantic and one is
just pragmatic. Uh, And it's really funny. It's it's really
funny because those two kinds of people are usually married
to each other. Yeah, and it's just it's yeah, it's
hilarious to see this back and forth. What what do
you think, James, What's what's your opinion? What are your
strong feelings on this?
Speaker 1 (47:12):
So if I find out if I if I have
the option to watch a movie on film on the
projector I will see that movie. I will. I love
IMAX and you know digital and yeah, it's it's amazing.
But given the chance, I would be willing to go
to a smaller theater to watch something on film because
there's a warmth, a vibe there you can feel. I
(47:36):
will say it the magic of film and how it
projects onto a screen. I do understand when Quentin says that,
you know it adds to the illusion, these these single shots,
these picture frames, frames put together shown twenty four frames
(47:57):
per second to create the illusion of movement. I totally
get that, and I totally agree with that that movies
in general are an illusion. Their stories, they're made up
there make believe put on put onto a screen, and
being able to experience that is magic. It's incredible. If
you would have shown these to cavemen, they would have
gone ooga booga, and that would have been like, oh
(48:18):
my god, my mind's blown. And so I do agree
it's magic. But digital there's so many things you can
do with digital that you can't with film, and that is,
you know, you can get so many more takes, you
can try to get that perfect shot, but get that
perfect sequence in the more technical sense and the more
(48:38):
I think just the filmmaking sense in general, I think
it democratizes filmmaking because not everybody can afford film, that
everyone can shoot film, that everyone can develop and go
through the whole process of what it means and what
it takes to create a movie on film. However, shooting
(48:59):
digital that opens the door to literally everybody, from these
high end digital cameras to movies that are shot on iPhones.
It allows anybody to become a filmmaker. Opens that door,
opens that gate. And so that's one thing I think about, like, Yeah,
there is the romantic side, the magic side, the soulful
(49:21):
side that you get and you feel from film and
given the chance, I'll watch that. That being said, when
it comes to the entire industry as a whole, film
doesn't work for everybody, but digital does. And in that
sense though, of course there's room for both. But yeah,
there it depends who you are really at the end
of the day. If you have the capability, try film,
(49:43):
you may love it. Twisters shot on film, I believe.
Don't quote me, but I believe No Saratu is also
shot on film. It just adds to it, the aura,
the mystique to it. But yeah, I agree, digital opens
the door for everybody and allows everybody's a expression to
be put on display. So I too, like you, Jamie
(50:05):
am split.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Very eloquent, very well said, but I need you to
clip the part where you just go ooga.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Booga, ooga booga. My mind's I think that's how the
Caveman spoke back then. I think if they had film,
and they had filmed themselves in a way to record audio,
then that is exactly what it would have sounded like.
But let us know what you think. If those of
you who are watching listening to us on digital on
(50:34):
on the digital camera right here that's now on YouTube
or or being streamed online. What do you think? I
know again this I think it just depends. I think
this is one of those things where like the answer
is whatever you prefer. There's no right or wrong, it's
just what works for you. What is your Yeah? Can
you can you physically? Are you capable of doing film?
(50:56):
If not? You know? Yeah, let us know what you think?
Common down below? Who's right? Who's wrong? Who's is David
Lynch right the late David Lynch or is Quentin Tarantino?
You decide you picked thumbnail, battle it out, battle it
out exactly.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
So thank you for joining this conversation. And if we
if you're a caveman and we offended you, we're sorry.
Speaker 1 (51:21):
I don't take it back.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Join us my heart.
Speaker 1 (51:25):
My heart stands on caveman.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Here on Hollywood, and we will continue to bring you
the movies you love and the movies that get made
here in New England until next week. James, I am
Jamie Boga.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
I'm James Boga. We'll see you the next thing
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