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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is the Hub on Hollywood and iHeartRadio podcast. I'm
your co host James Rojas.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm the other co host, Jamie Blanco.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
On this week's episode, Ryan Reynolds, he is coming to
Boston to talk about his new documentary on John Candy,
the Beloved Late John Candy, The Boys of Boston and
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck team up for a new
cop movie not filmed in Massachusetts, however, so we're gonna
dock a point from them. Kirsten Duntz talks about demands
(00:37):
for a Bring It On sequel, that and much much more.
But first, Jamie, yeah, I understand Massachusetts. You know, we're
known for being a battleground states, for being the place
the birthplace of the nation, and so it makes sense
that we would start the fight the rebellion against artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh yeah. Our union, the SAG AFT of New England,
has been very active in fighting for preventing AI from
overtaking our roles in acting. And so there is a
piece of legislation that's making its way through the Massachusetts
(01:17):
State House that they are reaching out to SAG members
right now and asking people to call, asking people to
support it. But it's all about AI, right, and the
way that they say it is right. This is something
to help prevent and protect actors from the reckless and
unregulated use of AI.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We hate regulations in Massachusetts, he said, sarcastically.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
He said sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, so it looks like yeah, there a couple bills.
One bill it is called the Artificial Intelligence Disclosure Act,
which would require disclosures for AI created media, while there
is an Economic Development Bill which would expand text credits
for digital interactive including video.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Right, And they held testimony for one yesterday. That was
the the act relative to the contracting of digital replicas
and James, this was a big issue here in Massachusetts
a year or two ago when they were filming I
Want to Dance with Somebody, right, exactly, an Easton biopic.
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Impossible to say the title without singing, but they were
filming this movie and they were all of these scenes.
This was this was like the tail end of COVID
also where they needed giant crowds of people, right, And
so they put out these casting calls. Come in, We're
going to digitally capture you and insert you in the movie,
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and we'll pay you your full day rate. Like, oh,
that's great, that's fine. It's only for the movie technology, right, right, right,
So the fine print was once they digitally captured you,
they owned your appearance were all time, and they could
use it in whatever film. So you get digitally captured
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once and suddenly you're seeing yourself in all of these
projects that you never filmed, that you never got paid for,
and that nobody asked you permission to use your likeness
for scanned. I was not scanned. I was booked for it.
I was booked to do it. For one reason or another,
I couldn't do it that day, thank goodness. But we
had an actress on last year, right, Nicole, who had
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was talking about finding herself in something that she never filmed.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Remember that, Yeah, she's said yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And she wasn't there. And so that's part of what
they are trying to prevent because that's that's money, that's time,
that's jobs that are taken away. That is your likeness
that is gone forever to be used to not only
be reproduced, but also to train AI to create people
that take people's jobs in film. It's a it's a
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big issue nationwide. But like you said, Massachusetts leading the way. Yeah,
so if you're a SAG or or not SAG, if
you are an actor, that's something to look into, reach
out to your lawmakers and and support.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah. So the state attorney General has also clarified that
existing consumer protection and anti discrimination laws apply to AI,
including its use within the film industry. We'll see if
these pass. I wouldn't be surprised if they do, just
because you know, Massachusetts it likes to likes to be
on the forefronts of new technology. Obviously we're the hub
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of a lot of different new evolving technology, so it
would make sense that we would try to live on.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Hollywood, the hubbing technology, the hubb on biotech, our next podcasting, Yeah,
the next couple of things to.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Get into legislation on this podcast, but we did. We're
breaking ground and you know it's also making waves or
breaking ground, not in a smooth transition way at all.
The Boston Film Festival. Yeah, so Boston Film Festival. If
you guys are big fans of attending that or watching
the latest films that pop in, I believe tickets are
(05:07):
on sale September eighteenth through the twenty second, that is
when it is running. Also a lot of local filming
We kind of touched on some of that stuff last week.
There was a is there a Matt Mark Wahlberg?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, so Mark Wahlberg's in town filming a movie called
Cheese Steak about a father and his autistic son. Boston
Casting is handling the casting for that one.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I wonder what it's about, cheese steak.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Cheese steak. Maybe it's the kid's favorite food.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You know. There was that Shia buff La buff Y, Yeah,
buff Shia labuff Shia buff I don't know. I never
know how to pronounce his name, but he was in
a movie called Like Peanut Butter Falcon HM with also
somebody who was on the spectrum or had autism or
I was had down syndrome. I never watched the movie.
But are they just picking foods in corporates these type
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of themes.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I think that sometimes people have very strong attachments to
a safe food.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
That may make sense. So did you watch that movie?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I did not. I did not, But just from experience,
people on the spectrum tend to have a handful of
safe food.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
If you eat one meal for.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
The rest, I call it Papa hole is, but it's
just rice of mes freehole is Because when I was little.
I couldn't say free hole is, but I would say.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So you mix your rice and beans? Yes? My wife
think it's the weirdest thing. I'm like, it's like a
burrito without a tortilla.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That's how you're supposed to eat exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I mix everything I mixed. Do you mix like mashed
potatoes and corn?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm not a big corn person. I don't know, but
that's fine. I don't judge you.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I'm a big mixture of My wife is very anti
mixing of foods when.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I moved from it. When I first moved up here,
this isn't a side and I was. I went to
Emerson College and I went to the food court and
they were serving rice and it was just plain white rice.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm like, whe where are the beans? Where are the
things that go with? Right?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Where?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I mean maybe some chicken? Maybe what goes with the rice?
Like nothing? There was nothing to mix in the rice.
I'm still mad about it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
But anyways, you mad too? Yeah, Yeah, that's a bummer.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
If I was not vegan, I would either have which
one would be? Oh, I'd get so fat so quickly.
I would have the chicken tortellini. There's a place back
in California in my hometown where this Italian restaurant they
had the chicken tortellini. Oh my, it's drowning in melted cheese.
The chicken is delicious, the pasta is amazing. I would
I would be so fat, I would get so fat.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So last meal like for some reason, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, I would definitely would it. My wife currently, if
I was gonna have another meal for perpetuity and perpetuity,
it would probably be she makes this really great like
noodle dish with like peanut butter sauce. It's bombed with
like some crispy tofu, like fry tofu. It's it's bomb diggity.
So probably have that, got it all right? What would
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do would forever meal be? I don't know what we're
talking about this, I d I d toured us off
off the topic. But what would your meal of every
day if you're forced to have one? Common down below
is the Boys of Boston.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The Boys of Boston.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I'm and Ben Affleck. They're gonna be in a new
film again, not filmed in Boston, not filmed in Massachusetts.
It's called The Rip, and the trailer just dropped. Yeah,
and it looks cool. You just watched the trailer. I
watched it, watched it a little while ago, and uh,
you know, it looks like a good kind of kind
of cop heist caper thriller film. Uh, basically it is
(08:37):
the The film follows a team of cops in Miami.
You're from Miami who discovered millions of dollars in the
stash house. You had millions of dollars in the stash house.
Once the officers begin to trust each other as they
fight about what to do with the money. It also
stars Stephen Yun who was fantastic, Teana Taylor, Sasha cal Kelly,
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and Kyle Chandler. Kyle Chandler, He's he's gonna be the
new Green Lantern. Really universe good. He's gonna be two
new main Green lanterns awesome. But yeah, the rep coming
on Netflix January sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yes, I saw the trailer and it's set, uh part
of it at least in Highalia, Florida, which is where
I was born.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You take issue with this?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I take issue with it only because in the trailer
everyone is speaking English, and that's.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
B s if they should.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
No, it's just that in Hialeah Florida. No one speaks English.
It is almost one hundred percent Spanish. So if I
watch this movie and I see everyone speaking English, I'm
just gonna be peeved. I'm just gonna be peeved. It's
just gonna be not like, it's just not authentic, guys.
So I just hope that they have the rice on the.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Cant the planet Oh my God, makes means there.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
But it's but the fact that you know, millions of dollars,
you know, and crime capers whatever in Miami, Like there's
so much dirty money. That part is all totally off.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, and great, Well, you know what else is great?
Speaking about green lanterns for Green lantern Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I think he wishes he wasn't.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
He wasn't, but he was, and he can't take that back.
What he is not regretting is his future trip coming
to Boston. That's right, Ryan Reynolds. He's going to be
here in Boston on October fourteenth. He will be appearing
at the Box Center Schubert Theater to host the screening
of John Candy I Like Me, the documentary that we
talked about last week, which you can also watch on
(10:34):
The Help on Hollywood. I love John Candy. Ryan Reynolds also,
I'm sure a stand up dude. So he's a stand up.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Dude, likes to film. Here, met his wife on set
in Boston. So yes, we love him and we're going
to try to be at this event.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah. So this is part of a nationwide tour celebrating
the life and legacy of John Candy, directed by Emmy
nominated filmmaker Colin Hanks. It shares behind the scenes footage,
before seen archive footage, personal stories, and highlights of Candy's
extraordinary career. I guess there's gonna be a screening and
then afterwards Ryan will take the stage and talk to
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folks about what is going on and maybe the best
thing about it, the net proceeds from the tour will
benefit Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Love it, love it, Love love, Ryan Reynolds.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Gotta love of his wife speaking. We're all a DC
train right now speaking about going back to Green Lantern.
James Gunn, Yeah, James Gunn. He is going to be,
of course producing and making I'm sure writing for the
new Green Lantern show that will starr Kyle Chandler. But
he's also talking about Superman Supermman just flew out of
(11:42):
theaters right now, having a respectable, respectable run at the
box office, but he is already talking about the plot
for part two, Man of Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Have you I love the title? Can I just say like, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
A very based off a comic and it's really good basically,
James Gunn saying it's a story about Lex Luthor and
Superman having to work together to battle against a much
bigger threat, adding that it's more complicated than that, and
it's as much a Lex movie as it is a
Superman movie. Because he relates to the character of Lex
(12:19):
Luthor a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm surprising that we're even getting these details, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, I mean again, I think there are only so
many secrets unless there are like many twists in stories
that they throw in there. Because a lot of comic
book movies are based off comic book stories, especially a
lot of popular ones, and so this one, people are
already theorizing that, you know, the big if you don't
want to hear, yeah, MUTI for five seconds, that the
big bad will be brainiac against the world, and so
(12:47):
Lex Luthor and Superman will have to team up together
to battle them. Yeah. So you know, there's only so
many secrets you can keep, and people are theorizing which
comic is going to be pulling from here or there?
So why not let him have little?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I think the brainiac is a great like villain name. Yeah,
if you had a villain name, if you were a
villain super villain, what what would be your super villain name?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I would be uh a judgmentor because I'd be judging
people silently for their choices.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Judgment for their life. I don't know if the hell's going.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
To anything really evil. Just in my head, I'd be like, I, G,
it's a jerk. I should have done that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Okay, I mean you already done.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
That differently, Yeah, super villain, I.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Would be the Holy, free Holy.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
The Holy for holy? Would your super power be? I
have no idea what free holy is? Just like shoot
out of your arms like web?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, No, I don't know. Maybe I'd give people gas.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
That that's deadly exactly right, exactly, So there you go, excellently.
Well that was this movie, Superman too, Man of Tomorrow
coming out film it next year and then coming out
in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Which is a short turnaround and that means.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I think what that means is that James Gunn has
a plan. This isn't one of those movies like the
New Star Wars movies where they make a movie without
no forethought or foresight into what's gonna be happening story wise.
They're just like, Oh, we're just gonna let new people
tell the story and take it in whichever direction. Here
you have one person, James Gunn, the pilot of this
(14:27):
ship navigating us into safe waters.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
I feel like, okay, yes, and in James Gunn we trust.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
In James gun we trust, And in Kirson Dunst we trust. Okay.
Have you heard that she's is funny? People say that
whenever Kirson Dunst speaks, she speaks truth and wisdom. Okay,
Like there we can look up like some of her
famous quotes. But somebody recently posted like a litany of
quotes from her through the years, and each one is
just so like not philosophical per se, but just wise
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and like on the money when it comes to different
topics everything. And so people are like, whenever she speaks,
you listen. Yeah, And she spoke recently about bring it
On because Jamie Brace herself, brace yourself, bracing, bracing. What
it is the twenty fifth anniversary of Bringing it on?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah, you know what we're bringing on? Geriatric Oh my goodness,
water wheels, chairs, No, it's not it's not accurate.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
This speak news. This can't be spake news. Exactly so,
but according to these reporters, where this year's the twenty
fifth anniversary of bringing on? She was asked during a
recent like red carpet events if she'd be interested in
a sequel, and she had a resounding no.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
She said, leave good things where they are. We need
to put on the cheerleading outfit. What would I do?
Be a coach? She says, that's not for me. So
well that you know what? Okay? Two oh, to be
fair and to not be fair. There are bring it
On sequels, just bring it on, to bring it on again.
I just brought it up again, like you know, it
was one, two, three, four five. However, she's not in it.
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So to be a true sequel, you would need to
have the original I forgot our name of their character
name and bring it on, But you'd have to have
cureson Dunce back in there. But she says, no, thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I appreciate that. I appreciate someone who knows when something
does not need to be remade, and where she can
just confidently say it done, already been brought in and
we don't need to bring it again. Yeah, and that's fine.
That's fine. They can remake that with new people and
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not force her to jump around a.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Stage when you said it should not be Broughton. That
remind me of that nine other teen movie quote. And
that reminded me of another parody a scary movie six
or seven's coming out. And I can't imagine all the
other horror since the last Scary movie, other horror tropes
that they're gonna be making fun of or parroting fun. Yeah.
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I want to bring up some some Kirsen Dunce quotes
because a lot of them are really good. Let's see,
wat watch I run into a really bad one. Okay,
to see here's some. This is our segment called Kirsten Dunces.
If you never control who you fall in love with,
even when you're in the most sad, confused time of
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your life. You don't fall in love with people because
they're fun. It just happens that that wasn't too crazy.
My mother told me that when I was born, a
wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that
I was destined to be an actress. Okay, that's a
little conceited. Maybe, let's see. I swear i've read some
better ones. People always tell me don't work so much,
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but I can't help it. I feel like all the
things I've done are important to get to this adult stage.
And now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working,
all right, All right?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
What's this? I would never cry over a boy. I
would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste
your tears on someone who makes you cry?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
If you never cried in the first place, then what
you can't waste tears on? Tears that they were?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's philosophicalphorical Jamie. No, it is a little confusing, but
I understand the sentiment. Let's see. I just want to
be a good friend to people, that's all. Yes, we
should all be a good friend.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yes, we should like like Loofy.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Like Loofy, like Loofy from Paddington.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh, like Paddington. Yes, that's also.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Patton never punches anyone.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Well, he doesn't have to well, I mean he hits
them with an umbrella.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Maybe like maybe like a defensive bonk.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay, and then he apologizes very politely.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
He's like, oh, bother. But yeah, so they got us
thinking about which movies also should not.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yes, go ahead, I just as far as the front
thing is. There's always room for you if you want
to be muffriend. We are, we are running cruise, we
are one Piece season two. I'm actually coming out next year.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Do you stop your drawings?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I did stop my drawings. My children used all the paper.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I think you bet me like twenty bucks or I
don't remember. No, no, no, you did it. You didn't
you didn't. No. Well that got us thinking, also, get back.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I can get back to the drawing.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Get to it. People love it, people demand it. That's right,
that's you're demanding it. But what also people are not
demanding are some pretty bad sequels to really popular films.
And I have a list of you know, just a
few movies that did have sequels, okay, not for the better, okay,
some that that should never have a sequel. So I'll
run down my list and I shouf you have a list.
(19:55):
But okay, okay, so your jaws Jaws. Don't need Jaws two,
Jaws three, Jaws four, The Awakening or whatever they call it, Uh,
just Jaws.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, just chose five. And then we got Sharknado. I
feel like that.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's just you know, you can have shark NATO's. I
don't mind the Sharknado's. Go crazy, have your Sharknado's, but
don't put Jaws title on that.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
On that. And then I agree with the second one
on your list here, Rambo. There's like Rambo five thousand.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, it never ends now. I would be
surprised because, like you know, like with with Rocky Rocky Balboa,
like I want to be surprised if like Creed had
a reboot now, you know. But Michael B. Jordan, he's
like he's Rambou now and now a new legacy of
people who kill people in the jungle.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
This one, I Do You do Over?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I kind of liked all the Hangover sequels, even though
they were done for me.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I think they're all the same. I think if you
left The Hangover alone as its own film by itself,
it would be considered an all time yeah, comedic classic.
I still think it does deserved that title, but I
think the sequels do diminish it just a bit.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I think they're really cool.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I don't know, it's like having a Planes, Trains and
Automobiles sequel, like Planes, Trains, Automobiles and scooters now, like, no,
you don't need that, but I do agree.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That at some point there's just you're you've just run
through all of the crazy things that they could possibly
go through, right, So, but.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, I like Gladiator. I was really hyped for Gladiator.
Uh you know it was named Paul mescal A Pedro
Pascale Washington.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
The ye, you mean Denzel Danzel. That's right, because he
was saying his name's not Denzel, it's Denzil, Denzil, right,
but that's how it was supposed to be pronounced.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
But it's not. But it's Stanzel. Sorry. Like Brennan Fraser,
like his name has been pronounced Fraser, but it's Fraser.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
He recently, in recent years started cract to people like, dude,
you should have told us like a while ago. Yeah, glad
eat or too. It wasn't terrible, but it was not.
It was very underwhelming.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And the Matrix Sie, the Matrix.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, that that should have been a one and done.
You kind of close it like kind of not necessarily
a cliffhanger, but you know it ends on a nice point.
Your imagination can fill the gaps movies that they should
not make a sequel for what I have, Et the Extraterrestrial,
we don't have to find out what at Et is doing,
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or ET's son or daughter's doing.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Cinematic perfection does not need to be touched. No, no,
no sequels, no remakes.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
No sequels, no remakes. Super Bad, see if it's super bad,
super bad, he is an all time classic. If they
had done a super Bad two and three like The Hangover,
then I think its reputation would be a little diminished,
but it wouldn't be a super bad. Fantastic film. Fantastic film,
and my last one on this list, Fight Club. We
don't need to fight clubbing.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
No, no, no. As much as I love what's his.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Face Edward Norton, Edward Norton so much, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Completely in love with him the best he is, But
I agree. So what do you guys think? What movies
were ruined by sequels? What movies should never ever have
a sequel? Reddit says, I'm I'm like, I'm not usually
pro sequel. But the one thing that I do want
to see the sequel for that is coming out soon
(23:27):
is Spaceball's Space Squel.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, I'll get that a pass. Most we'll see how
good that is, Donnie Darko. Someone on Reddit said, you
have a sequel? No, let's see. There are a lot
of Disney era movies, but a lot of those were
straight to DVD or VHS. Someone says Highlander Speed.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Speed did have sequels on a boat, like what boat? What?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
This can't keep happening to the same character and over again.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yeah, so, uh, Countu Reeves didn't return for the second one,
but Sandra Bullock did. And I think the villain was
what's his name, Oh, super famous. I'm blanking on his name.
He was the I'm blanking on his name, the Green
Goblin in Spider Man two in Spider Man movies. Yeah, yeah,
(24:19):
Will Dae. Yeah, it's the end of the week. My
brain is kind of fried. Other people were saying American
Psycho there is gonna be American Psycho remake, and I
think Awesome Butler is going to be don't quote me.
I think Austin Butler is going to be the new
American Psycho.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I kind of like him in Everything is Great. The
Princess Bride should never be read.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
No, No, No, No. Blues Brothers Blues Brothers Too was
really bad.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, unless you're like Brothers. The original is the best.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, another one Anchorman. Yeah, I didn't see a part two.
Dumb and dumber. They should not have made it sequel.
That's one of the best movies ever. Comedy films ever.
Super Troopers, I don't know. I haven't seen the second one.
Jurassic Park is a good example of a movie if
it was left alone.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
God, let the sleeping dinosaurs lie. Stop stop beating the
dead dinosaur please.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
In the Pennistate, that's a good one. Is like a fun,
kind of campy action film. And then they made Part
two and like, what are we doing here? That one? No,
thank you, let it be, Let it be. See the matrix.
What else we have? Starship Troopers, Gladiator three hundred, three
hundred and one.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Three two, three hundred and three.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
They were hiding in the way back. Now they're ready
to fight the ring. Yeah, this is some good ones,
fast and furious movies. I don't know people like those.
I let people have that Diehard. I don't know. Diehard
one is great, Diehard three is fantastic. I heard what
about Shrek?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
How do you feel about.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I'm okay with Shrek because Shrek two is amazing. Shrek
two is the Empire strikes back of the Shrek universe.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Okay, feelings about Shrek two.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It's fantastic. I keep trying to get my wife to
watch that movie. Oh my god, she hasn't seen the
first one.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Just like the holding Out for a Hero.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Everything's great about that. But that's like, it's such a
great climax, such a great third act.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I have a question, Yes, do you know the muffin Man.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The muffin Man, the muffin man who lives on Druliy Lane.
She's married to the muffin Man. Muffin Man Zeelander. Also,
all right, what are we watching? I'm continuing to watch
Alien Earth the last episode. So my wife was coming
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home from work and we talked on the phone and
I had just finished watching the episode, and she like, oh, wait, no,
what are you doing whatever? Like, Oh, I just finished
the latest episode of Alien Earth, and I just go
It's amazing. It's so good. It's such a great show
so far, Like every episode. It's each one is so solid.
So I'm having a really good time with Alien Earth.
(26:56):
New show I just started watching on HBO, Max Is
Task starring Mark Ruffalo. Okay, yeah, so this is about
the synopsis. In the working class suburbs of Philadelphia, an
FBI agent heads a task force to put an end
to a string of violent let a violence led by
an unsuspecting family man. Really good. I saw the first
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episode and I like that. Just like Alien Earth, there's
it's one episode a week. I like that pacing. Okay,
there are times where I like I'm on a binge.
But mm hmm, but some these streaming services know what's
best for me. He's it, slow it down, appreciate it,
soak it in.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Give you something to look forward to, you know, because
we don't have to much. Well I was going to
ask you, James, Yeah, which leads perfectly into if you
had to pick one comfort show. Because what I've been
watching besides Wednesdan. I'll get intent in a minute, but
I've been rewatching One Piece live action, and I've been
watching it in like Spanish, in English, forward and backward watch.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I don't even speak.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Walking watching reviews and reactions on YouTube like it is
my comfort show. I can put it on and feel
good in a time in a world where you know,
there's not a lot of feel good things going on.
What's your go to comfort show that you could put
it on? Watching a million times?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
A really good one? Good. My wife and I love
Psych with James Roade and deul A Hill. Uh have
you seen this show? Psych?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Psych is a fantastic show. I just got my wife
the DVD. We're going back to DVDs, but we got her.
I got her the big DVD box set of the
entire series and like the two movies they made, and
we have you bought this big binder and so now
we have a binder for of like you know the
CD spaces you put the DVD you know, you know,
you know what a DVD holder is. We got you
(28:54):
I know, I know, well, you know, back in the day,
we had these discs where you could store information and
you put them in a DVD play or PlayStation and
it projects pictures on the TV. The TV is something
that you're not actually holding on your in your hand.
It's on the wall, are on a setup. Psych Is
is a very great comfort show. They could watch a
million times, and the chemistry of the characters and the
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actors second to none. I would say, great, yeah, awesome, Yeah,
what's your comfort show?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Exactly? What is your comfort show? Let us know in
the comments below.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You did say you're watching Wednesday. When are you have
watched it?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Been?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
It come out all at once.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
They came out with the first half of the season
like ago, like four or five episodes, and then they
came out with the last set, so it's like they
chopped it in half. How many episodes, it's like eight
nine episodes?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Eight or nine episodes? When was the last The first
season came out like three years ago? Yeah, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
A lot of times that way too long, it is?
I agree, uh, And that's but part of why Looks
is doing that is production value, you know, and lining things.
It just it takes a long time to get these things,
and probably too long. Probably definitely too long exactly. But
I've been watching. I watched the finale of Wednesday season
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two and all of the remaining episodes, and I've just
gotta say it's it's all over the place. The writing
is kind of janky, the the rationale for things doesn't
quite make sense. The universe doesn't quite make sense, and
some things are just very predictable despite them trying so
hard to be really different. Some things are just like
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really overly predictable and not even plausible as far as
plot goes are, you know, it's just some parts of
it feel forced. There's definitely entertaining parts of it, for sure.
But one of the things that like peeves me about
Wednesday is the dynamics between the Adams family. One of
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my favorite things about the Adams family is that they
are in this together right. They're a tight that understands
each other to the core, and they've all got this great,
delightfully dark sense of humor and they love like trying
to murder each other but no one actually gets hurt.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah, and I just.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I can see why they've done this. But there's like
all of this tension between the family members. And that's
part of why Wednesday's abilities are not what they should be,
because she's got this tension with her family, and you
need to have that Adams family togetherness in order for
your powers to work properly. I get it, but I
don't want to see the tension and fighting between the family.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Powers is a new thing too, right, because like in
other Adams Family iterations, like they're just like people, like
normal people, but they have like access.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
To like murder and stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah. One thing I don't watch a show, but two
cos I have heard. One is that the writing feels
like it's AI generated because the way people talk is
not how humans talk to another human. And I think
there was an article that said that what's your name? Wednesday?
Jenn she actually wrote rewrote some of the scripts or
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her writing because she said it was just bad, and
so there was some lot of a lot of rewriting
or rumors about about it not being up to par
and so a lot of it's sounding just like AI generated.
I'm sure it wasn't, but that's what people are comparing
it to. And the second thing, there's a plot murder,
a plot like uh, it was spoilers, I guess, but
Wednesday's trying to solve a plot or solve a murder
(32:40):
or prevent a murder. Is the thing is she loves murder? Yeah,
like why is she trying to stop a murder? But
she loves murder.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Because it's one of her people. She doesn't it's like.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
She's trying to murder people like what, I don't get it?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Yeah, yeah, I think that. Yeah, I agree. I agree.
There's there's an inconsistency throughout the show plot wise, character wise, otherwise,
but if you can get past that, there are it
is entertaining and parts of it are really fun to work.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Fred Armison, who plays Uncle Fester, is the most entertaining
or best thing about this.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
He is and he's actually getting his own spin off.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Is he? Yeah? He spin offs. I don't know we
need a Fester show, Like, what's he up doing?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I don't think we need a Fester show.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
What he's doing?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
He is fun to watch as Fester.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I don't watch it so as no hair off my back,
But so I guess they want to keep making it.
Do you think there'll be a season three?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Absolutely? So.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
One other complaint I heard was that, you know, again,
the writing feels very it feels dumbed down, as in
like it feels very like Disney Channel way of speaking.
And a person who reviewed it who I watch, he
was saying, imagine this, people who watch the film watched
the show Originally, they're twelve years old, they're fifteen years old.
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Fast forward three years now they're fifteen years old or
eighteen year old or twenty one year years old. However,
the dialogue seems like it's dumbed down as opposed to
kind of growing with the audience that watched the first
season or who were likely to be have to have
been watching the first season, and so it feels like
a regression of like, you're not writing for the people
(34:26):
who really loved the show the first time and really
want to watch the second season because you're not speaking
up to their standards or up to their level. If
that makes sense. Yeah, does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
That makes perfect sense. That makes perfect sense. And also
it's kind of jilted, like there's like these mini plots
throughout the season where it's like two or three episodes
are about this, and two or three episodes are about that,
but then it has no consequence for the rest of
the show. It's like it made it seem like this
was the most important thing ever, and now we just
don't care about it at all. It's totally gone, and
(34:58):
then we're doing something else. You know, good things got
lost and they were loose ends and it just yeah, yeah, yes, yeah,
what do.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You recommend season two.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
If you don't care about those kinds of things and
you just want to like be entertained for a little.
It's fine, Artega, you just want to see Jenner Artega.
She's cool. Yes, But if you're looking for something that's
like deep and cohesive and smart, and maybe this is
(35:32):
not maybe it's not. Okay, I would recommend going back
and watching the movies, the Adam's Family movies because those
were a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah. I heard the animated ones are pretty good too.
The recent cg Ones.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Oh okay, yeah, I haven't seen those.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
All right, Well, let's see if we've seen these movies
that we're gonna play for cine quotes. All right, but
before we get that, get to cine quote. Thanks so
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are smart enough to win sen a quote.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
We're in a roll, right, we won last thirteen.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Game win streak thirteen. Baby. I don't know what number
of this is. Let me see what number this is
if you want to play along at home. This is
game one thousand and two. One is zero zero two.
We have five guesses up to five quotes to guess
the correct movie, and we'll see.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
If we are right.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Right, Okay, play the first one in three two.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I found.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
I'm gonna guess Top Secret. I don't think it is,
but I'm just gonna guess Top Secret, which stars Val Kilmer. Kilmer, right, yeah, no, okay, okay,
I kind of assume that, but we'll see uh number two. Okay, Well,
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now I'm asking you when we.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Like that last for three minutes if they're not backing
for well know, the Blackout.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
I think we need another quote.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Let's go next quote in three two one if it'll
go What are you saying for it? Well, I think
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Oh, I did was stir those tanks.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
What was that gauge reading before he hit the switch?
They don't tell me how to fly to damn cm right,
do a job. They asked me to stir the damn tanks,
and I stir the tank a little. A portion of
that sounded like Matthew McConaughey. One, maybe he goes I
did stir those tanks. Can't sound like Matthew McConaughey. I
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was first thinking Apollo Apollo thirteen, but they never go
crazy at each other and so like at first it
kind of sound like that, but then it derailed very quickly.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Strain the tanks. I don't remember that from anything I've watched.
Could it be like what's one of those other movies
where they saved the Earth and they they have to
go to outer space and stop the meteor and they
get a bunch of.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Army get in. Yeah, oh maybe arm get in.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Let's see the oil workers.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yeah, oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Let's see what the next quote is.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Okay, find out how to squeeze every amp out of
both of these goddamn machines. I want this mark all
the way back to Earth with time to spare. We
never lost an American in space. We're sure as hell
not going to lose one on my watch. Maybe maybe
maybe the ground crew, maybe the ground crew trying to
(39:30):
formulate a plan. We're going after each other. Apollo thirteen,
Oh my god. Yeah, well one of them did sound
like ah and what uh that actor's name let's see Apollo. Yeah,
(39:51):
it sounded like with his Ed Harris and Gary Sonise.
I was thinking, like, that sounds like him. But again
the arguing threw me off, but then I remembered, Yeah,
the space crew, like Tom Hanks and all them in
the Shuttle in the rocket never really fought, but down
in NASA headquarters when they're trying to solve and come
up with a plan, there's like, what are you doing
(40:12):
when you figure this out? Whatever? Whatever. Gary Sonise was
supposed to go in space character ken maddingly, but he
ended up staying down anyway. So yeah, oh yeah, all right, cool,
very cool. Did you get Apollo thirteen on guest number
four or better than us on guests two or three?
Let us know, jam packed episode. A lot of guests
(40:35):
were watching a lot of great stuff we're looking forward to,
including Ryan Reynolds, Philly to Boston, Superman, Man of Tomorrow
in two years, Men of two yearslet's see Boston Film Festival,
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, a lot of good stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah, and our real life fight to protect actors from
AI actors. Yeah yeah, and all of that. So if
you've got some strong opinions on that, we'd love to
hear from you too. But James, until next week, I'm
sure we're gonna have a lot more to talk about.
People should check us out. Then they should check out
old episodes. They should check out this episode. We shouldn't
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even like follow anyways until next week.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
I'm James, I'm Jamie.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Are you my friend? Are we lovedst I've got like
all the friends songs like