July 27, 2025 • 57 mins
The terrific things about "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" and non-spoiler review. Adam Sandler takes a big swing with "Happy Gilmore 2" but is it a big miss? Air Bud Returns, 90s kids movies that should get a remake, George Lucas visits Comic-Con, and Pedro Pascal hates shaving his face!
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The Hub on Hollywood, hosted by Jamie and James, delves into the thriving film industry in New England. The podcast explores the production of various projects, including commercials, television shows, and full-length feature films.
The podcast insights into New England’s growing film industry, as well as entertainment news and reviews. Subscribers can access the podcast on the iHeartRadio app and follow the hosts on Instagram and TikTok for updates.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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, the Fantastic Four is having a
fantastic opening weekend. A non spoiler review is coming up,
Happy Gilmour giving it another Sweet Beacon. Yeah, as the
Adam Sandler legacy sequel, it's Netflix Blue Blood spin off
with a Boston angle is in production, and much more.
(00:37):
But first, Jamie, as you know, as we will talk
about in this episode, I watched Fantastic Four. Yeah, I'm
not going to get into it right now, but before
we got into the movie, of course, there were ads. Yes,
there were commercials, there were trailers, you know, the whole thing,
the whole spiel. They actually gave us an exclusive Avatar
(00:57):
Fire and Ash, the third Avatar movie. I think James Cameron, okay, saga, Yes,
he's creating and and so a lot of people I
was expecting, you know, I'm luke warm on the Avatar films, Okay,
but and I think I thought there are more people
that were very excited and jazz for it. But when
the surprise trailer popped up before the movie started, Crickets.
(01:22):
There was like no no reaction. No one was like
ooh or like ah or yeah or anything anything like that.
It was just yeah, yeah, And so that was like
kind of surprising for me. Now I'm not one of
the ones who would be like, yeah, Avatar, but I
thought there were.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
James Cameron and all of them. So, I mean, it
was a very good first movie. The first one was amazing,
the second one, you know, visually, visually stunning and incredible, right,
but it wasn't maybe the best movie of all times.
I just don't know that we need this many.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We're getting five more. I think we're getting a lot more.
We're running out of elements, sky, water, fire, like, I
think those are all the elementals of the of the.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Planet, and start going with heart. So we're just going
to do the We're just gonna do the planeteers.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Like imagine if Cameron just decides, you know, this is
actually a big, long game journey to eventually introduce the planet,
the planet, planet planet, Yeah, that'd be the the punk,
the prank of the century. But yeah, so nobody very
excited for Avatar, Fire and Ash. But one thing I
think a lot of people are buzzing about online is
(02:36):
the return of one of the golden gods of our youth,
and that is Airbud. Airbud returns, this is so random,
but Airbud returns a teaser poster for the long awaited
I'm assuming movie theater released. Film of that Golden Retriever
(02:57):
with a Heart of Gold was released, and I guess
it's coming out next year. I saw more buzz online
over that film than than Avatar the third one.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, and I love how you know when you told
me about this story, You're like, I can't wait for
the popcorn buckets the pup Yeah. Yeah, And I'm like,
don't you mean the popcorn.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The big budget Hollywood? Yeah, and the buckets could is
what's kind of my play on basketball? Get it? How
creative we are?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
What do you think the what do you think the
popcorn bucket's going to look like? Do you think it's
like going to be like the puppy, like looking into
the bucket with like maybe the.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Pause now that. Yeah, So I think the bucket would
be a solid like a like a can, but it
would look like a you know, a net, a basketball net,
and then you'd have like a doggie maybe peeking out.
So you have the paws peeking out and and him
doing that. But let me give you a quick trivia.
Let me ask you really quick, how many because a
(03:56):
lot of them after the first one just went straight
to VHS to DVD back then that many air buds
and this includes air buddies. How many are there in
the air bud verse?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh? Boy? Five? Maybe six?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, we're not talking about James Cameron over here. This
is business, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Three.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
No, no, no, no, I'm in the opposite direction. Oh god,
air bud James Cameron has nothing on this franchise.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Straight to VHW. Many fourteens, You've got to be kidding.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Fourteen, This includes I believe, yeah, five how do they
break it down? But yeah, the majority are air buddies.
So you have like the baby, the puppy, Golden Retrievers,
you know, going to space or playing baseball or I
don't know what's the othernother Olympic sport, high diving, what
have you? And so yeah, so you have all these
(04:47):
but this one appears to be a theatrical release. I'm
excited for that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't know, Wow, that'd be I mean happy Gilmore
is not even getting at the edge I know that's impressive,
but I mean I get that they're capitalizing on nostalgia,
especially for us, you know, nineties people, nineties babies that
are are you know, Yeah, but heir Bud isn't one
(05:13):
that I would have anticipated or expected that they would
want to redo, you know what I mean. Yeah, Like,
just thinking about all of the movies that came out
back then, I don't know what weren't there some other
properties that you might want to see more of. I'm
thinking like blank Check.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Blank Check has its problems if you rewatch it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I haven't rewatched it very long.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
There's some inappropriate behavior between adults and child in that film.
Remember that end of that movie?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
No, don't remember that blank Checked the Kid?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
For those for those who haven't watched blank Check in
a while and now as an adult, go back in
that scene. There's a scene with the little boy the ladies.
Oh no, no, heck, oh my gosh, straight to jail. God.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
What's the other one? There was a movie that We're
a girl who had an imaginary friend and at the
end of the movie, like she kisses the imaginary friend
at the end on the lips and it's like he's
like just a guy. He's just good a dude.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
A lot of nineties films are just weird and.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Don't yeah, they're just not They did not age well yeah,
but Airbod did.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, age as well. Everybody's appropriate.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Godly, this makes me go back.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I hate to further disturbingble movies. But there's a movie
in twenty eleven. I looked this up yesterday because I
was listening to a live stream of some gamers and
they're talking about this film that came out in twenty eleven,
and it's basically, here's the synopsis. I'm gonna find it
in a minute. But the synopsis is and this is
way off track. This is blowing its way up. No, no, no, no.
(06:56):
I I find this very interesting too. In twenty eleven,
the movie came out and about a woman who befriends
a dog. You know, seems nice, rescues a dog. However,
at night that dog turns into a man and it's
love at first bark, no, please stop, I'm not God.
I thought these guys were joking on this on this stream,
(07:17):
so I googled it and it's a real movie. It's
a real movie. Are you googling it right now?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
No, I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You don't want that on your phone. No, let's see
you if you let's see what was it?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Hold on here, guys, we have to do this research.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
This needs to be while you're looking that up now, Yeah,
let me do this. Twenty eleven movie Dog by Day
turns into a man at night Love on a Leash. Yeah,
so Love on a Leash. I don't know if it's
streaming anywhere, but it also starts a golden Retriever. Love
takes a furry twist in the slice of a romantic comedy,
(08:00):
a young woman falls for a stray dog with a secret.
By night, it becomes a man. Follow the journey of
the golden retriever and the friend that gives him a home.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Listen, there's a very important distinction that needs to be
made here. Is it a man that got turned into
a dog or is it a dog that got turned
into a man?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Let me ask you a question. Does it matter?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
What makes me feel like slightly less icky?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Right? Like a beauty in the b situation?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, a man is a man, but he's like enchanted somehow,
and like.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't think I can do that.
I don't think I can do that. I can live
with that.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
No. Drop Dead Fred, by the way, is the name
of the movie with the imaginary friend.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Drop dead Freend. Okay, yeah, I heard of that, but
I've never seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, okay, I really liked it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Do that. No, I don't, Okay, you don't want that.
I was just I was thinking about another nineties movie
that I think would be a good one for today's generation,
today's kids generation. Dustin checks In. Do you remember that one? No,
basically and this tangent are going on. But basically, there's
this kid, his father's like the manager general manager of
this fancy hotel at New York City or somewhere, and
(09:08):
one of the guests shows up, a jewel thief, I believe.
He shows up and in his big luggage, like in
all this big you know, cartoony kind of like travel
like box luggage, he has a rangutang, a rangutang that
he uses to commit said jewelry heists and and and
eventually like it gets loose somehow, the kid run runs
(09:30):
into it. The monkeys, the apes, the great apes name
is Dustin. And so then the dust and Dustin and
this kid run, you know, a muck and run into
hijinks in the hotel and then finally at the very end,
you know, they they catch the bad guy and find
the jewels and yeah, YadA you see.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But movies like that they make you feel good, Yeah,
you know, really friendly. They make you feel good.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The problem is, I feel like if they did remake
that they would have to not that they would have
to that they would use a C. G. I. Gabe
And nothing beats nineties like real animals, like trained animals
that are treated well, that are treated well. I don't
want any of that stuff, but like like they don't,
we don't do it in the arts. We've lost that
artwork of using real animals, trained animals.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Of trained animals. But yeah, there's a lot of pushback
in Hollywood on that. But yeah, I mean, I I yes,
I agree, Yeah, I agree. A couple of other movies
from the nineties, we're just completely going on the stand.
There were a lot of great baseball movies.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Angels in the Ltfield, Angels in the L Field watched
his arm someone I was thinking of.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I think that's like rowing Gardner. I don't remember the
name of the.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Most valuable player, valid you something like that? Yeah, yeah,
we're like he falls.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And he's something of the year, player of the year.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I think that's player of the year.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, yeah, that was a really good one.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's a good one. Yeah. Fine.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So I think that we need to bring heartback. We
need to bring family friendly Americana back, like just just fun,
chill movies. I think that there's just been even with
the kids movies. It's so like dark and things are
like the stakes are too high. The stakes are just
way too high. We just need fun back.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
So but exactly a real dog, This better be a
real dog. That would be a huge controversy. Yeah, I
think if they use like a CG dog.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, here's another point to that Superman, right, they had
a CGI dog, but it was really really well done.
It was if it was a dog like that like Crypto,
would you be satisfied with that or so?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Because GM is a real dog playing basketball. If you
if you have a CGI dog playing basketball, like okay,
that that that I don't know that that's that's going
too far. But if you have a real dog, like
all right, that dog is is really dunking and going
for a layup like that's part of the movie that's
at the heart of the film. I want to see
that snow it hit that ball ball? Yeah, okayeties kids
(12:03):
and friends and part of the Hub club members, what
do you think about this air bud returns and what
nineties you know, kids friendly movie would you want to see,
maybe not get rebooted necessarily, but a similar movie, you
know the part style exactly brought back.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
All right, Well that was a great tangent.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, yeah, you know what what we need more of?
We need more filming in Boston, more casting.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And more Boston filming, more movies, more TV show, more.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Blood, more blue Blood, more blue Blood.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So it's all right, it's all right. You shouldn't be
drinking this early, James. Sorry, no, I'm kidding. But yeah,
So we're getting a Blue Bloods spin off that has
started filming now. It's going to be called Boston Blue.
Uh so, let me just read the synopsis here for you.
(12:57):
Join NYPD officer Danny Reagan played by Donnie Wahlberg as
he relocates to Boston, joining the Boston Police Department and
partnering with Detective Lena Peters, the eldest daughter of a
prominent law enforcement family. Together, they navigate the tight knit
community of civil servants, echoing the values and bonds of
Danny's New York routes. So, Danny Wahlberg reprising his role.
(13:23):
This is going to be filming in Boston and Toronto,
primarily in Toronto, but they're going to be doing all
the exterior shots and some other things here in Boston.
Boston Casting is in charge of that. For a background,
If you want to hang out with Donnie Wahlberg, maybe
get a Wahlburger. I don't know. Well, while you're out there,
(13:46):
head over to bostoncasting dot com. Sign up for free,
get those notifications when those casting calls come down.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So I want to hear a Canadian Boston accent. I
want to hear a Canadian doing a Boston accent like
this one like this. We should watch a couple episodes
when this comes out. Yeah, and rank like, let's.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
See thistle wicked pissa.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
A wicked pissa. My wife was saying, like wicked pissa
means like wicked good like good?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah? Yeah, so I think I misused it once and
people were not happy.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's okay, that's all right, James. Sorry, we're both transplants
here here to Yeah. The New England rejun but but
we love it, so I feel like a new England exactly.
We've been here long enough. Yeah that's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, speak about who's been here long enough? Not long enough,
but has been here for a long time. And his
legendary is mister George Lucas, the brain behind Star Wars,
the Star Wars franchise which has spanned decades and inspired
countless millions of people young and old to do better
and be their best. Well, he will be trying his
(14:49):
best at Comic Con in San Diego this weekend. This
is his first comic Con appearance ever, ever, ever, which
insane because at the first Comic Con, Star Wars was
obviously already had already been a big hit, and you know,
people were cosplaying or you know, things of that nature, uh,
were present at the first comic Con and throughout the years,
(15:11):
of course, everyone loves dressing up by merch, selling merch,
doing all this stuff. And this is the first time
that that the Star Wars Grand pooh bah will be
there in person. Yeah, So question for you, because you
know they do a lot of Q and a's in
the halls and whatnot. If you know that they're passing
down a microphone down the down the road that you're
(15:32):
sitting in and the spotlights on, you give you the
micro and they say, all right, we have time for
one last question, and so let's make sure it's a
good one. Uh, Jamie, you have the microphone in your hand,
George Lucas during this once in a lifetime opportunity.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I need more than a few seconds to But I'd
be like, George, Well, here's the thing. There are questions
that I want answered, but that would not be polite,
and I don't want to be rude.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, my whope, I'm Lucas right now, my whope, and
I'm started doing another quession. My whole fan my whole
fan base has been very rude to me, So you
can have You cannot hurt me anymore than I've already
been hurt. Continue.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I feel so bad, George, George Lucas, you thank you
for Lucasfilms and Industrial Light and magic and for you know,
stuff and junk.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
How you how's your vacation? Are you retired yet? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
There are a lot of things that I would like
legitimately want to ask, but I'm not to his face.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I think my and I think this would already have
been asked before the Mike got to me, But I
would ask before you sold lucasfilm to Disney, because he
apparently had a whole plan for the following three films,
So what was your plan? And I think he's already
spoken out about how it would have been drastically different.
He hasn't gone into details about what it would have been.
(17:07):
So I would want I would want to find out
what would your you know, your following three films be,
What would Luke be doing, what would lay Up be doing,
what would Han be doing, what would Chew he be doing,
and and all that stuff. So that'd be my safe.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Okay, So here's my question. I would be like, Hey,
any plans to take it back from Disney? Pretty please?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I don't have enough billions of dollars to buy out Disney.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's unfortunate. Is that how he talks going back.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
To my plane, my star fighter plane.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Don't look at me, I you know, because he's had
such a I want to say cantankers, but he's had
a love any relationship with the fan base, because the
fan base can be a little intense, no, So I'm
surprised I'm surprised after what almost fifty years later. Wow, actually,
(18:04):
you know, doing his very first appearance, does he feel
like the heats died down enough?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh? Yeah, I don't think heat. I see his soul
and his and his and everything has just been sucked
out of him. So he's I think it's just like
a husk of a man. And he doesn't take offense
anymore to these kind of things.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, I don't under I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, okay, but he's going to be there too, not
only you know, talk to fans or see fans, but
also the preview the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art that's
opening up next year in Los Angeles. So here's a
fun fact. Here's a fun ef fact. I was actually
there at the groundbreaking. I was a reporter in Los
Angeles when they broke the ground for the where where
they're building the museum. George Lucas was there, Steven Spielberg
(18:44):
was there. Wow, And I got some awesome pictures if
I find them. If I if I'm able to find them,
I'll post them right here. If not, it's just my
hand that's facing the camera. But yeah, so I was there,
and I want to say, maybe I'm maybe I'm misremembering this. No,
it's a different time. But yeah, George Lucas and Steven
Spielberg were there for the ground breaking.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Did you get to ask him questions?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
No, we didn't get to ask questions. They kept us
gett they kept the media behind a rope and so
we can make it close. Also that that that just
spurred a memory. I was there when Mark Hamill got
his star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Wow, I
was reporting also, and so Mark was there, Harrison Ford
was there. They had stormtroopers. R that's all your man.
He's looking good, looking good, looking good, smelling Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Smelling good, smelling good, smells good.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, if you go to my YouTube maybe I'll put
a link somewhere. But my my own personal YouTube channel,
I have like news reports on what and what not,
and and I have I believe a portion of that
of him and Mark and and Harrison talking. So and
it was crazy because I know we are going on
site tangents. But the best part about the Hollywood Walk
of Fame. So you know, celebrities left and right, artist, musicians,
(19:49):
they get stars, you know, and usually it's a big deal.
You have like maybe on an average, depending who the
artist is and level of celebrity, maybe forty people show up,
like fans show up, fifty fans show up. People kind
of like block the sidewalk, you know, and they coordinate
off and then they do the ceremony. They literally had
to close off like Hollywood Boulevard or Sunset Boulevard where
(20:11):
the Walk Fame is. And hundreds hundreds of people showed
up for Marik Hamill's star unveiling like it was the
most anybody had ever seen. It was incredible, Like it
never gets that big. But for Mark, he deserves the universe.
He deserves the universe, the galaxy far far away and
(20:32):
nearby and nearby and all around all of them. All Right,
are you going to Comic Con? Are you watching this?
If you do, ask George Lucas. Wanted to ask Lucas,
let us know common down below, send some pictures. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
And also we're going to be a fan expo Boston, Yeah,
coming up. That's like in what two weeks or something,
August ninth, yeah, August eighth or nine that weekend. Yeah, Oh,
we're going to be there. So if you want to
geek out here a home in the New England region.
We're going to be there and we love interviewing people.
(21:05):
Every year we look for the best cause plays and
things like that. So if you're going to be there,
look for us and maybe you get to be on
the Hub on Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
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(21:35):
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(21:58):
of support, you know what's a great support system family
family and you know what fow me Low does it
in diesels say we're family, We're family fan but the
first family in the mcu is now on the big screen.
A Fantastic four just came out and a lot of
(22:21):
people are raving about this. I watched it yesterday and
this so this would be in my non spoiler review,
but I really enjoyed this film. This is if you're
a DC fan, if you're a Marvel fan, this is
the blockbuster summer you've been waiting years for, because how
often do we have not only a really good Marvel
movie but also a really good DC movie. I unheard
(22:44):
of sound very rare, but we got it this summer.
Superman was fantastic and Fantastic four is terrific. I really
am so confusing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I know, isn't the Superman fantastic? Isn't the other? Okay exactly,
I've had trouble with this.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
We we will help you, we will solve this. But
the problem there are no problems for the cast of
the Fantastic Four because the people are coming out in
droves to watch this. I watched it in Imax and
by the time I got a ticket, there were like
three seats left, and I was able to get one
in a good spot, like just in the middle of everyone.
(23:20):
So that was fully packed. All the show times for
every other movie theater like Imax or Dolby or even
like the small thirty seat theaters at the at Assembly
Row packed filled to the gills with people really excited
for this film. I think great word of mouth is
an elite to even more people watching. This film has
(23:42):
a great box office opening. I think already it's projected
to get around or to earn around one hundred and
ten million dollars in this debut weekend, just maybe inching
or you know, you know, a little bit more than Superman.
But again, if you're a comic book fan, this is
great for you. So.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I heard a rumor about why Galactus has targeted the
Earth and whatnot, and I wanted to have a good trailer.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So if you don't want to, if you don't want
to watch the trailer.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You know, I was just hoping you could like maybe
clarify this one rumor for me that Galactus came to
destroy Earth because he's tired of seeing Pedro Pescal and everything.
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Well, honestly, he hasn't seen this movie because he would
not feel that way after watching this film. Yeah. So,
and I will get maybe not in the into spoilers
because if you want to go in fresh, don't watch
the last trailer because it basically says Galactus wants this. Okay, thanks,
I mean it doesn't ruin the movie. You find out
in kind of like the first ten minutes. Yeah, so
it's not you know, it's not a big thing. But yeah.
(24:42):
Fantastic four directed by Matt Shackman, who directed Wanda Vision,
who also had that those episodes that had the retro
sixties fifties vibe. Yeah, so that was really quit in
all the several other decades that they included in that show.
But we have Pedro Pascal as Reid Richard's Mister Fantastic,
Vanessa Kirbys sus Storm, Eben Moss Backracks as Ben Grimm
(25:05):
aka The Thing, Joseph Quinn is Johnny's Storm, Julia Garner
is Shalla Bell aka Silver Surfer, and Ralph Innocent as
Galactis this guy. If you haven't heard this guy's voice before,
google Ralph Innocent on YouTube. He was most recently in
Nosferatu with Nicholas Halt, who was in Superman. But like,
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this guy's voice is so deep and the treble to it,
you feel it in your chest, and was the perfect
choice for this galactic you know, Eater of World's character.
So I think the casting was great. The story this
is about the Fantastic Four in the Multiverse eight two eight.
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They must defenn Earth from the ravaging cosmic threat Galactus
and his herold Silver Surfer, while navigating the complexities of
family and newfound powers in a retro futuristic nineteen sixties
inspired world. Jamie first, visually, Yeah, trailer wise, like when
you first saw the images about this, what was going
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through your head?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
The aesthetic, like I can't wait, Like it just my
eyeballs couldn't get enough. It was so beautiful, clean lines,
you know, nice contrasting, simple colors, but like that that
great sixties futuristic idealic, you know, sort of design and
aesthetic like I just I want more, I want more.
So how did it end up looking on the screen?
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Did it stay that way?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah? It's a perfect movie, and it takes place on Earth,
of course, but because there's the space aspect to it
as well, you know, at a point and the Fantastic
Four go into space and then you see like this
the cosmic beauty of so you have like the real
world kind of nineteen sixties retro feature like Jetson's kind
of mix nineteen sixties and Jetsons vibe. But then you
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go into space also, and this is some of the
best space visuals that we've seen in any Marvel movie
or any real movie, you know what I mean when
I say real movie, but any movie. So like, visually,
it's a it's a it's a it's a delicious delicacy
for your eyes. Yeah, So that's one great thing that
that really stood out about this film. Like Superman, I
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like how they get right into the world, the world
building and basically kind of mid story, you're given this
kind of dropped in. Yeah, you're like, you're given you
you're brought up to date. This is four years into
the Fantastic Four, kind of like Superman was three years
into being Superman. This is four years into being the
Fantastic Four. And so they give you this kind of
like old fashy, old timy newsreel, kind of like the
Fantastic Fall. They're they've been in town, they're hot in town.
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You know who they are. They're gonna rescue you and
p a smile on their face and a and a
piggy in the air or whatever. Yeah, and so so
you get caught up really quick, which I love and
I told you last week with the Superman movie, it
feels like a like a comic, it feels like a
Justice League and Limited uh cartoon episode because you're just jammed,
You're thrown into the mix, but you're not confused. You're
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introduce the characters. This is who they are, this is
what the problem is, and you're just you're you're running
as soon as you get into the movie. Yeah, and
so I love that because we don'tate all these backstories
and they give you the backstory but in a very short,
you know, minute, and you're you're up to speed. So
I love how they do that, and I love how
they really give We haven't had a good MCU villain
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in a long time, okay, because we had Jonathan Major's
as as king, we had I don't know who else.
I mean, there are other other people that you just
can't really think of the one from the Marvels. Did
you see that one who thought miss Marvel and and
Kamala Lacan and all that stuff like these these villains
are not standing out.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
There wasn't anything really after thanos.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
No No, but Galactus is a real threat, a real
planetary threat, and Silver Surfer they feel dangerous, and so
that's one one thing I love about this film, where
you know they can't They're very hard to defeat. But
in this movie there's a way to easily defeat them,
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but by doing so would be much worse than the latter.
If that makes sense, I don't want to give him spoilers,
all right, all right, So basically there's a simple way
they could solve this problem of Galactis coming to Earth
to devour it, but in doing so, they would have
to do something unthinkable.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Right impossible choice, impossible choice kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Are you the protectors of this world?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yes, we are.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Your planet is now marked for death. Your world will
be consumed by the devourer. There is nothing you can
do to stop him, for he is a universal force,
as essential as the star.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Hold your loved ones close.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
And speak the words you've been afraid to speak. Use
this time to rejoice and celebrate, for your.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Time is short. I herald the beginning.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I herald your end.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I herald.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Galactus. I like how in this in this film, you
know Pedro Pascal isn't playing the type cast kind of suave,
cool guy. He's cool, but he's not like cool in
that kind of way, because Read Richards is one of,
if not the smartest man in this universe on Earth,
and so he's always constantly thinking about like the potential
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things that could go wrong and how to solve them
with technology and using his brain and his mind to
do so. And so when problems arise, you you can
kind of see him becoming like kind of neurotic to
a point where he's getting very flustered and kind of
frozen in place with what to do because this is
like an impossible, seemingly possible problem to solve. But then
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you have like two Storm but played by Vanessa Kirby,
who is probably the biggest standout in this film. I
was surprised by how much of heart and how much
you know, weight of this film she carries on her shoulders.
She plays a great counter to Read Richard's and he
has kind of like kind of nervousness or kind of
like a fear of the unknown. And yeah, so we
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can go into that really quick. So Pedro Pascal great
casting as mister fantastic. Evan Moss rack Back as the thing.
He's great he's strong, but he's sweet, he's he's smart.
He doesn't have the same anguish as previous things have had. It.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, I was gonna ask, how do these iterations of
these characters compare to like the last cinematic versions we got,
was it.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Meant Fan for Stick? The one that came out like
ten years ago with with Michael B. Jordan and some
other Do you remember that one, the one that was
like dark and great that no one remembers that one.
It was a bad fantastic formula movie. But the one
with yeah, Chris Evans, with Michael Chickliss in those films
and even in like the one that we won't mention
Fan for Stick, Yeah, the thing there because you see
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the origin. You see them right when you know these
characters get their powers and for the thing, he turns
into this rock being creature. And in all those other
films you see the anguish and the pain and him
being angry that he's become this thing, and and everybody
feels sorry sorry for him. Read Richards feels guilt and
he's anguished. But in this one, you know, again it's
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four years in and you see a thing. I keep saying,
the thing but you see a thing that is, you know,
accepting of who he is. And he's loved by everybody,
like children love him, people love him in his neighborhood,
in his community. And again he's smart, he loves to cook.
He's like kind of like a like a homebody kind
of guy. Yeah, And so it has a big difference
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compared to the previous iterations that I because you know,
the sad thing is very kind of just played out.
You know, we need a different version of this, So
this is what we get. Joseph Quinn is Johnny Storm again,
one of the more surprising casting choices of this film
and the one that I thought may have been the
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weakest link going into the film, but he ended up
being a lot more, a lot more pivotal in this film,
and a lot more I don't want to say smart,
because I guess the Chris Evans version is a lot
is a lot more like hot headed, loose and lucy
goosey and doesn't take things too seriously. This one is
kind of a jokester, but there are moments where he
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shows true intelligence, true bravery, and he has a very
a good number of standout moments where you're like dang,
this is a good Yeah, this is a good so.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
It feels more real, not like I'm a superhero, like
very dismissive.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, there is there is one character writing issue about
about about Johnny Storm that I didn't quite like, just
because it didn't really fit the tone of the scene
or the moment. And that's how credit that to the
attribute that to the writing of it. So maybe in
spoilers down the road we can talk about it. But
there's there's a little part between Johnny Storm and another
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character ros like, really, this isn't the time for this, Johnny,
and you know this, this is like a really serious
business right now. Stop it. Other than that, it was great.
But like I said Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, the
best thing about this if you have a young child,
like I like I have a young child, she stands
out because and I don't think this is a spoiler,
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because it's in the trailers and we've seen a baby,
and you've you've seen a baby in the trailer, and
so there's a baby in this film, and you get
a lot of that motherly love and strength and protection
and protection and their mostness and the fierceness, and there
are parts of this movie where I'm tearing up just
by the sheer tyranny of will that Sue Storm is
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willing to do and to commit to to to save
lives and save you know, her child and stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
It's amazing how your perspective changes. Oh yeah, you have kids,
and how movies that you didn't really care about before
like totally wrecute. Oh yeah now, And it's just so
it seems like that's maybe maybe one of them.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You know, you know, this isn't a help on Hollywood
podcast if I don't talk about Paddington. But I was
telling my wife about this film and at about some
of these moments, and she doesn't care, so I'd just
spoiled everything for her. But I was telling her about like,
you know, these heart wrenching moments between you know, a
mother and child, a father and child, like you know,
a newborn or a young child. And she brings up like,
do you remember when you cried during Paddington too? And
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I had seen Paddington two already numerous times at this point,
but this was after shortly after our daughter was born.
And there's a scene in the opening where it shows
how Paddington was rescued by by Aunt Lucy and his uncle.
And during this scene, I'm like, I'm like crying. I'm like,
I tell my wife, like, if Maya ever falls into
a river that's going over a waterfall, you have to
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save her. She's like, I know, I will. I'm like,
but it it gets to you.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And so ever seen a little princess?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Have I seen a little princess?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
This?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It's a movie?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, okay, So World War two, this little girl gets
sent to a prep school and like France or something,
her father's off at war and then he supposedly dies
and they this prep schools like, well you have no
more money anymore. Now you live in the attic and
you're a servant, and like she loses everything. And then
at the very end she sees her father again. He
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had lost all of his memory. He was in he
had amnesia. He was like just a war veteran being
taken care of in a home. And she's yelling for him.
She's screaming for him like daddy, remember me, Daddy, remember me?
And he didn't remember her. Oh my freaking god, Like
I don't, like, I'm tearing up right now just thinking
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about it. Like, yeah, things like that, Like I don't
feel like would have affected me as much before I
had kids, but now like, oh.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, completely mess now I'm a mess now.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, Like it's a good thing. So during so during
this film, I don't think you need to have kids
to appreciate those moments. You maybe just think about your
own mom or your own parents during those during these
like climacting moments in the film. But for me, I
definitely hit and it worked. I got more teary eyed
in this movie than I did Superman. Now that Superman
was very This has more emotional weight. Superman more lighthearted
in that other film, but this one has a lot more. Again,
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the family bond, the the complexity of the relationships between
each other. One thing I like about this film, also
compared to other Fantastic Four movies, is that no one's
really like angry with each other or there isn't like
confusion or like, oh, you said this and I'm gonna
I'm gonna misinterpret it and not ask you what it
meant when you said this thing, and and then for
for you know, deviceive purposes in the plot. It doesn't
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this isn't need that kind of film. You have real
conversations and real moments of like uh and maybe not
debate is the best word, but like back and forth
about situation, what to do and one not to do
and you had and you feel like this is like
you know, how you would talk to your wife or
but it's not a fight, but it's a hard conversation
to have. And so they have this real realistic interpretation
(38:08):
of a family in this dynamic that that these have
so very impactful scenes of Vanessa Kirby against Steals the movie.
She's fantastic action sequences. A lot of action sequences stand out,
including as I mentioned, the space scenes. There's an entire
sequence in space and it's like it's thrilling. It's so
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thrilling with the Fantastic Four with a silver surfer, like
you're I'm at the edge of my seat. And there
are scenes where like it gets about to get dark
and like oh crap, and then you know, things happen.
But the entire like space sequence, I don't want to
give anything away just because you have to go in
there and appreciate it yourself. But that was a great stuff.
I love how it shows the film during the battles
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and fight scenes, how the characters work together as a team.
It shows that you know, they've they've been doing this
for a while. They know calm bone moves, and so
storm a storm could do this, and then this other
character can bounce off of that or vice versa. And
so everybody is doing their part and they're all using
their own personal strengths, but together they're all stronger together
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like a family.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
How did the animation look? How did the CGI look
with their abilities?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
That?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah, so the abilities looked good. I will admit there's
some scenes with the baby because you know, you can
only film so much with a baby. Yes, and so
there are some parts of where and there's some parts
were like that. For example, the thing he's fully CGI,
he's holding the baby and like you're just kind of
looking at him and like these are two CGI things
holding each other right now?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Okay, so how does the Oh yeah, that's true. Yeah,
So how does this baby compare to the green baby
and Superman?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
It looks better, but again, this is a human baby
aquare as opposed to a green, little round baby. How
about don't say twilet and twilight though it's a bar
on the ground. But yeah, this this there are some
moments where it looks kind of wonky, but overall they
do use a real child, like a real infant, and
so like this as they can, as much as they can,
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and so you kind of understand that kind of you know, suspicion, disbelief.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
And they didn't throw a baby into outer space.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
They did not throw a baby into outer space off
a rocket. Let's see villains again. Julia Garner as Shlal
as Shalla Ball aka the Silver Surfer, very imposing figure.
You know, she lets the world know that you know,
I'm here, my leaders come in. You guys are doomed.
There's no way around it. And Galactus kind of a
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matter of fact also kind of saying like he doesn't
say things, he just decrees things. He says, I'm going
to do this, I'm doing this, you are going to
do this. And so he has that again he's like
basically a god in the Marvel universe. And so having
him his imposing, literal like imposing figure and that booming
voice again, it just works perfectly. And a lot of
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people were saying, I hope they nail this because a
giant man in a purple suit could look ridiculous. Sometimes
it looks ridiculous in comics, yeah, or in cartoons. I
think they nailed it. I think they did a very
good job.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
And with him. I don't know if you know how
comic book accurate this is. I'm gonna go see this
on Sunday with my sister in law who is a
big Fantastic Four fan into the comics and stuff like that.
Have you heard about how accurate this might be to
some of the storylines in the comics.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
I would say pretty similar. I yeah, I would say
there there are comics that this movie pulls from and
some storylines that this movie pulls from that I think,
you know, those who are big readers of it would
would Okay, oh they're putating from this and this and this.
I think so.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I think that, you know. And the other thing I'm
really happy about are my pants. Yeah, because we're talking
about comic books left and right, all these great comic
book movies. I've got, like the comic book panels.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
I don't want to force you to show off your pants,
but can you stand up for a second.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Yeah, so this is see it says like pop zips,
what boom? Yeah, So like comic book panels. There some
slight Clothing dot com is where I got that, so.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
A re sponsored by them.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
No, but we we will be will be soon after this. No,
but yeah, I think that this is the time for
people to go out and get their nerdy gear and
go out and support all these great fantastic movies that
are coming out.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Somebody dressed up as a Fantastic four, not the comic
version or this movie version, but I think it was
like a maybe a video game version of Sue Storm.
So somebody went in and like, and A, it's not
a leo'thard, but it's like a one piece. Yeah that stretch, Yeah,
I kind of like that. So it's like a white
one with like kind of weird stripes. She's I started
going up with the escalator. I'm like, that's weird. And
then then when you go in, you just see like
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everybody kind of like you know, with the Fantastic Four
merchant and then like, oh, you're here for the movie,
so random, like why is that person worrying that?
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Like thought like she was just like an astronaut or
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Is weird thing? Like, oh, you're here for the movie?
Got it makes sense?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Have you decided what you're gonna wear for a fan
x Biboa be Superman.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah, I think you gotta be. I gotta be. I
gotta make up for a lost time. Okay, but you
know what, Fantastic four again. I had a great time
watching it in Imax. I think you should watch it
in theaters very soon. A lot of people are watching
it in theaters. As I said, it's it's opening preview
day on Thursday twenty four point four million dollars. Expected
to make between one hundred and one hundred and ten
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during this debut weekend.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Yeah, so it just beat out the Superman preview by
maybe like two million earlier this month. So neck and neck,
I guess, not a competition. But movies are great if
you are a fan of DC Marvel comics. I think
this is a great month to go to the movies.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
So wonderful era and to finally have these coming out
at the same time, and I think they find they're
finally like getting that formula down what really connects with people,
and it's it's.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Yeah, yeah, my last final things. I would stick for
the post mid credit. The biggest cheers I think of
the movie, really the movie happened during that post credit,
so there's a very end credit. You don't have to
stay for that. It's a fun little thing, doesn't really
further the plot or future movies. This is a fun
little like thing. But stay for the post mid credit
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scene that tells you exactly what's gonna happen next, or
you know where where we're going next, but where we
are going next. I do want to talk about Happy
Gilmour too in just a second, but speak about Pedro Pascal.
He's been doing a lot of press, of course, so
he actually said, did you watch Wonder Woman nineteen eighty four? Yes,
so did you notice anything weird about Pedro?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
A weird how?
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I don't know. When I didn't watch the movie, I
watched the trailers and I thought, God, like, he just
his I don't know if it's clothing at the time
or whatever, but.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
I kind of like over the top.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I just thought he looked weird, And apparently he thought
he looked weird too, so much so he says he's
never shaving his face for an acting role again. He
says that he was so appalled by the way he
looked and won Woman in nineteen eighty four. He says
he loves the movie, but He says that he will
never shave for a movie unless it were completely necessary.
Ever again, and I think a pedro with al facial hair,
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he looks very different. And I guess he just didn't
like how he looked on screen. You know, his face
twenty feet high, twenty feet tall, wide, blown up on
a big screen. He says that if he was asked
to be clean shaven for The Fantastic Four and they insisted,
he would have done it, but fortunately nobody asked him
to good good look.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
But listen, he is a beautiful man with or without
a beard. But I am in the pro beard camp.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah, I know, that's kind of I think it looks.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Very good on him and on most men. Pro beard
go beards.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Go beards, no beards. Should we go? We go swinging away?
Should we go for another round of golf? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:51):
I think we should. But you know, speining beards though
beard trimmed nice meat, not like happy Gilmore. Yeah, so
happy Gilmore too. Adam Sandler reprising his one of his
most memorable iconic roles. What was the word you used?
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Like?
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Legacy, legacy sequel, legacy sequel. We've been seeing a lot
of these lately. It is out now on Netflix. Films
here in New England, primarily in Rhode Island. And the
one thing that I always like to mention that I
really appreciate about Adam Sandler is he films a lot
in New England and he has tons of background. He
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provides so so very many jobs. Whenever he puts one
of these movies together, so much love, much appreciation, and
I think that people should go show their support by
watching this film. That being said, James, whether or not
you're going to enjoy this film depends on whether you
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fall into one of two camps. Either you love just
pure nostalgia and fan service and rehash you know, of
the classics and you just want those beats that you
loved before and you want to see them again. You
want to see you know, you just want them almost
(47:17):
exactly how they were. Right, You'll be happy, I think
with Happy Gilmore Too. But if you're looking for a
sequel that like progresses the plot or introduces new characters,
or moves the story forward in a meaningful way that
is new and different, and then you might not like
(47:41):
this one as much. Happy Gilmore Too is the most
fan service I have ever seen in the history of
fan service. I feel like, and we're not going to
go into deep spoilers here. This is just you know,
very light smattering and just just you know, just giving
you the general idea. But so many flashbacks to the
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original film, literal flashbacks, literal literal flashbacks to the original
film and callbacks. Almost the entire original cast is back
with some additions. Right, this is a number of years later,
twenty twenty five years later. It's happy in his children
(48:27):
and a new adventure. Let's say, and I think that
this is out in the trailers, so it's not a spoiler.
But the plot is that he has five children, four
very rowdy, rambunctious, aggressive boys who are like him, and
one daughter who is a ballerina wants to go to
(48:49):
this ballet school. She's been accepted into this prestigious program
in Paris, and he needs to be able to afford
to send her. And that's what drives him back on
to the golf course.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
So is this happy? He kind of like he's retired
from golf and he's lost money. Is he like in
the dumps? Like like, yeah, we find him, because it
seems like.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
We find him in a low place without giving too
much away. Yeah, we find him kind of in a
low place. He doesn't have any money, like the family's
poor but happy man. Right, but then he just finds
that they're in a place where he needs. He needs
to make the big bucks again in order to give
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his daughter a chance to achieve her dreams. And you know, yeah,
go for the big time. And he has to dust
the rust off, right, He's got to shake off the
rust and he's got to get back up to ship shape.
And that means bringing back every single person from his
past to help him do that. Yeah. So, like I said,
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if you love nostalgia, if you love all the callbacks,
if you love all the fans service, uh, this movie
is gonna make you happy. It's gonna make you smile.
I feel like either way, is it the most profound
movie ever? Is it gonna like change your life? Is
it the best thing that was ever?
Speaker 1 (50:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (50:14):
But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
It's Netflix, It's straight to It's on Netflixlix. But you'll like.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
I feel like people are are gonna like it.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
I know, Bad Bunny and Eminem are in there. Do
they have.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yes, fun cameos, So there are fun cameos. You are
going to smile. I think that there's something for everybody
in this in this movie. The jokes, they're playing on
the generations too. They're making fun of the different generations.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
But we do it this way now with science. Well
we do it over here with the elbow grease.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Right and all the all the the the lingual differences.
I know we had a meltdown last episode over like
the skibbty oh no and the tung Tun Tun sahor
and all that stuff like. So, I mean, they're just
they're playing on those sorts of of of generational differences.
So that's always fun too. And of course you know
there's there's a happy ending. I mean, it's a happy
(51:13):
meal more. It's a comedy.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
So I'm not sure if you want to mention this,
but you sent a video your son try to explain
the world. So maybe we'll say I'm about to get onto.
But I think I understand it now. This is a story.
I thought these are just like words people are saying
in sentences now, but these are like characters in an
ongoing story.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
They're legit like, they're like characters that are made in
our digital and that sometimes have interconnecting stories. But I
don't know that there's one cohesive narrative. There's just various
stories that like go in a million different directions, but
there are some that connect. And I feel like some
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of what my son made up, like they feel like
he made up some of that. I couldn't follow it
for real, like so my yeah, my my ten year
old was going on a tangent like oh, well tun
Tun tun Sahor is married to ballerina Cappuccina and then
they have a baby, this and that and the right
and going through like all the characters and how they
were generated are all AI generated like TikTok videos that
(52:18):
are you know, disturbing to me, but the kids love it.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Do you think a movie can be made from this?
Speaker 2 (52:24):
Absolutely? You know that they're making a skibbity toilet, you guess.
I know we talked about that last time. I have
no idea how the.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Plot at this point where the kids think it's lame
because like, oh, that's so lame, that's so a year
ago skibbity toilet.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean I feel like they
still like the skibbity thing is still there, but it's
dying out, like the Italian brain rod is.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
Going down the toilet drain.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
What's the other thing? That was another thing too? Oh
oh oh those ugly dolls from China.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
Yeah, sorry about it. Never wound up doing it, but yeah, La.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Boo boos and the like. There's La boo boo ai
videos now too. So it's just, yeah, I hear a
lot of things in my house, you know, downstairs.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
They're like I mostly try not to think about it
too much.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah, and I'll be upstairs and I just hear lah
boo boola boobo. Or we went to Canopy Lake Park.
We were at the theme park and there's like teenagers
walking by going ballerina cacina.
Speaker 1 (53:26):
That I don't get. That I don't get. So, like,
this is a story, these are characters. Why are people
randomly saying it?
Speaker 2 (53:34):
But look, James, so here is no But it's called
memetic epidemiology.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
You stop that.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
It's it's look, it's what happens when people connect and
like things travel between people in small groups or large groups.
For example, I went to an anime convention in Baltimore,
win time. There was a dude outside who was selling
water and he had a slogan, he had a song,
he was singing ice cool water and it's only one
dollar ice ice cold cold. And slowly that jingle trickled
(54:09):
throughout the entire convention center within a few hours, thousands
of people inside of the convention center, We're all singing
the same thing to each other back and forth through
the hallways. This is something that has always existed, and
I challenged that you have done it too. Growing up.
Do you remember the Chappelle Show. Yes, every single week
(54:32):
that The Chappelle Show came out and then I went
to school, they were shouting in the hallways the new
thing for that week, So the okay, what what like
whatever it was that week, you could hear it in
the hallways passing through. But we didn't have TikTok. We
didn't have YouTube, you know, we didn't. They couldn't make
it into weird creepy AI videos. But it just happens
(54:54):
to be that now the new thing are the weird
creepy AI videos. And they see it and it gets
passed around, so like every single child and teenager within
a certain age ranger all saying the same thing. So
it's just interesting and it's called and this is where
the word meme comes from. It's called mimetic epidemiology.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
Thank you very much on Hollywood to learn to learn,
I don't know, so confused, I don't know, I get it.
But do you suggest people watch Adam Sandler's new Happy
That's what we.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
Were talking about. I do. I think it's fun, whether
you you know, whether if it's your thing or not.
Like I think there's something in there for everyone, even
if it's just you want to see Eminem dressed call
for in the weird thing that he does in the film.
I it'll make you smile. There are parts that I
think that everybody can enjoy. So yeah, head over to
(55:47):
Netflix watch Happy Gilmore Too, and maybe keep your kids
off TikTok oh.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
Yeah, that sounds great all around excellent. Well have you
seen Happy gil Moore Too? What are your thoughts on
the film the Legacy sequel? Do movies owe us a
better story after so many years of being able to
work on a very good story? Or are you just
there for the callbacks? For the flashbacks comment down below.
Also comment down below. If you've seen Fantastic Four, what
(56:14):
are your reviews? What are your skippity doo dah reviews
for the Fantastic Four stick. Was it lit lit? I
feel like old to my goodness, I don't know my goodness.
Speaker 2 (56:23):
Eat it ate in their minds, an I don't have.
We're dropping it dropping, okay, well we're talking about after.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
What we're not dropping is our appreciation for you those
watching The Help on Hollywood and for those listening wherever
you get your podcast. Thank you for joining the Hub club.
We're inching towards six. Yeah, and again once once we
meet another big mile, so maybe one thousand, and do
an even bigger merch giveaway. We gave one. We gave
a shirt and a T shirt away last time, so
(56:54):
when we reach one thousand, we're going to go all
out for another big merch merchant. But yeah, Jamie, it's great.
Are gonna watch Fantastic four? You said soon?
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yes, I'm gonna watch Fantastic four this.
Speaker 1 (57:04):
Weekend, ring tissues?
Speaker 2 (57:06):
Oh no, okay, all right, I will, and then I'll
watch Superman after as a palate clemser.
Speaker 1 (57:12):
Excellent, fantastic Well, thank you so much for joining us.
As always, we are the Hub on Hollywood. I'm James,
I'm Jamie.
Speaker 2 (57:19):
Until next time, Tulu.
Speaker 1 (57:22):
Bye excimity, bye bye tongue tongue.
Speaker 3 (57:29):
Were cooking.
Speaker 1 (57:31):
Oh no, no chat. What do we do no chat?
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, the Fantastic Four is having a
fantastic opening weekend. A non spoiler review is coming up,
Happy Gilmour giving it another Sweet Beacon. Yeah, as the
Adam Sandler legacy sequel, it's Netflix Blue Blood spin off
with a Boston angle is in production, and much more.
(00:37):
But first, Jamie, as you know, as we will talk
about in this episode, I watched Fantastic Four. Yeah, I'm
not going to get into it right now, but before
we got into the movie, of course, there were ads. Yes,
there were commercials, there were trailers, you know, the whole thing,
the whole spiel. They actually gave us an exclusive Avatar
(00:57):
Fire and Ash, the third Avatar movie. I think James Cameron, okay, saga, Yes,
he's creating and and so a lot of people I
was expecting, you know, I'm luke warm on the Avatar films, Okay,
but and I think I thought there are more people
that were very excited and jazz for it. But when
the surprise trailer popped up before the movie started, Crickets.
(01:22):
There was like no no reaction. No one was like
ooh or like ah or yeah or anything anything like that.
It was just yeah, yeah, And so that was like
kind of surprising for me. Now I'm not one of
the ones who would be like, yeah, Avatar, but I
thought there were.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
James Cameron and all of them. So, I mean, it
was a very good first movie. The first one was amazing,
the second one, you know, visually, visually stunning and incredible, right,
but it wasn't maybe the best movie of all times.
I just don't know that we need this many.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We're getting five more. I think we're getting a lot more.
We're running out of elements, sky, water, fire, like, I
think those are all the elementals of the of the.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Planet, and start going with heart. So we're just going
to do the We're just gonna do the planeteers.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Like imagine if Cameron just decides, you know, this is
actually a big, long game journey to eventually introduce the planet,
the planet, planet planet, Yeah, that'd be the the punk,
the prank of the century. But yeah, so nobody very
excited for Avatar, Fire and Ash. But one thing I
think a lot of people are buzzing about online is
(02:36):
the return of one of the golden gods of our youth,
and that is Airbud. Airbud returns, this is so random,
but Airbud returns a teaser poster for the long awaited
I'm assuming movie theater released. Film of that Golden Retriever
(02:57):
with a Heart of Gold was released, and I guess
it's coming out next year. I saw more buzz online
over that film than than Avatar the third one.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, and I love how you know when you told
me about this story, You're like, I can't wait for
the popcorn buckets the pup Yeah. Yeah, And I'm like,
don't you mean the popcorn.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The big budget Hollywood? Yeah, and the buckets could is
what's kind of my play on basketball? Get it? How
creative we are?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
What do you think the what do you think the
popcorn bucket's going to look like? Do you think it's
like going to be like the puppy, like looking into
the bucket with like maybe the.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Pause now that. Yeah, So I think the bucket would
be a solid like a like a can, but it
would look like a you know, a net, a basketball net,
and then you'd have like a doggie maybe peeking out.
So you have the paws peeking out and and him
doing that. But let me give you a quick trivia.
Let me ask you really quick, how many because a
(03:56):
lot of them after the first one just went straight
to VHS to DVD back then that many air buds
and this includes air buddies. How many are there in
the air bud verse?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh? Boy? Five? Maybe six?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, we're not talking about James Cameron over here. This
is business, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Three.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
No, no, no, no, I'm in the opposite direction. Oh god,
air bud James Cameron has nothing on this franchise.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Straight to VHW. Many fourteens, You've got to be kidding.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Fourteen, This includes I believe, yeah, five how do they
break it down? But yeah, the majority are air buddies.
So you have like the baby, the puppy, Golden Retrievers,
you know, going to space or playing baseball or I
don't know what's the othernother Olympic sport, high diving, what
have you? And so yeah, so you have all these
(04:47):
but this one appears to be a theatrical release. I'm
excited for that.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't know, Wow, that'd be I mean happy Gilmore
is not even getting at the edge I know that's impressive,
but I mean I get that they're capitalizing on nostalgia,
especially for us, you know, nineties people, nineties babies that
are are you know, Yeah, but heir Bud isn't one
(05:13):
that I would have anticipated or expected that they would
want to redo, you know what I mean. Yeah, Like,
just thinking about all of the movies that came out
back then, I don't know what weren't there some other
properties that you might want to see more of. I'm
thinking like blank Check.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Blank Check has its problems if you rewatch it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I haven't rewatched it very long.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
There's some inappropriate behavior between adults and child in that film.
Remember that end of that movie?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
No, don't remember that blank Checked the Kid?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
For those for those who haven't watched blank Check in
a while and now as an adult, go back in
that scene. There's a scene with the little boy the ladies.
Oh no, no, heck, oh my gosh, straight to jail. God.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
What's the other one? There was a movie that We're
a girl who had an imaginary friend and at the
end of the movie, like she kisses the imaginary friend
at the end on the lips and it's like he's
like just a guy. He's just good a dude.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
A lot of nineties films are just weird and.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Don't yeah, they're just not They did not age well yeah,
but Airbod did.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, age as well. Everybody's appropriate.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Godly, this makes me go back.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I hate to further disturbingble movies. But there's a movie
in twenty eleven. I looked this up yesterday because I
was listening to a live stream of some gamers and
they're talking about this film that came out in twenty eleven,
and it's basically, here's the synopsis. I'm gonna find it
in a minute. But the synopsis is and this is
way off track. This is blowing its way up. No, no, no, no.
(06:56):
I I find this very interesting too. In twenty eleven,
the movie came out and about a woman who befriends
a dog. You know, seems nice, rescues a dog. However,
at night that dog turns into a man and it's
love at first bark, no, please stop, I'm not God.
I thought these guys were joking on this on this stream,
(07:17):
so I googled it and it's a real movie. It's
a real movie. Are you googling it right now?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
No, I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You don't want that on your phone. No, let's see
you if you let's see what was it?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Hold on here, guys, we have to do this research.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
This needs to be while you're looking that up now, Yeah,
let me do this. Twenty eleven movie Dog by Day
turns into a man at night Love on a Leash. Yeah,
so Love on a Leash. I don't know if it's
streaming anywhere, but it also starts a golden Retriever. Love
takes a furry twist in the slice of a romantic comedy,
(08:00):
a young woman falls for a stray dog with a secret.
By night, it becomes a man. Follow the journey of
the golden retriever and the friend that gives him a home.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Listen, there's a very important distinction that needs to be
made here. Is it a man that got turned into
a dog or is it a dog that got turned
into a man?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Let me ask you a question. Does it matter?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
What makes me feel like slightly less icky?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Right? Like a beauty in the b situation?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, a man is a man, but he's like enchanted somehow,
and like.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't think I can do that.
I don't think I can do that. I can live
with that.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
No. Drop Dead Fred, by the way, is the name
of the movie with the imaginary friend.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Drop dead Freend. Okay, yeah, I heard of that, but
I've never seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, okay, I really liked it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Do that. No, I don't, Okay, you don't want that.
I was just I was thinking about another nineties movie
that I think would be a good one for today's generation,
today's kids generation. Dustin checks In. Do you remember that one? No,
basically and this tangent are going on. But basically, there's
this kid, his father's like the manager general manager of
this fancy hotel at New York City or somewhere, and
(09:08):
one of the guests shows up, a jewel thief, I believe.
He shows up and in his big luggage, like in
all this big you know, cartoony kind of like travel
like box luggage, he has a rangutang, a rangutang that
he uses to commit said jewelry heists and and and
eventually like it gets loose somehow, the kid run runs
(09:30):
into it. The monkeys, the apes, the great apes name
is Dustin. And so then the dust and Dustin and
this kid run, you know, a muck and run into
hijinks in the hotel and then finally at the very end,
you know, they they catch the bad guy and find
the jewels and yeah, YadA you see.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
But movies like that they make you feel good, Yeah,
you know, really friendly. They make you feel good.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The problem is, I feel like if they did remake
that they would have to not that they would have
to that they would use a C. G. I. Gabe
And nothing beats nineties like real animals, like trained animals
that are treated well, that are treated well. I don't
want any of that stuff, but like like they don't,
we don't do it in the arts. We've lost that
artwork of using real animals, trained animals.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Of trained animals. But yeah, there's a lot of pushback
in Hollywood on that. But yeah, I mean, I I yes,
I agree, Yeah, I agree. A couple of other movies
from the nineties, we're just completely going on the stand.
There were a lot of great baseball movies.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Angels in the Ltfield, Angels in the L Field watched
his arm someone I was thinking of.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I think that's like rowing Gardner. I don't remember the
name of the.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Most valuable player, valid you something like that? Yeah, yeah,
we're like he falls.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And he's something of the year, player of the year.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I think that's player of the year.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, yeah, that was a really good one.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's a good one. Yeah. Fine.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So I think that we need to bring heartback. We
need to bring family friendly Americana back, like just just fun,
chill movies. I think that there's just been even with
the kids movies. It's so like dark and things are
like the stakes are too high. The stakes are just
way too high. We just need fun back.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
So but exactly a real dog, This better be a
real dog. That would be a huge controversy. Yeah, I
think if they use like a CG dog.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, here's another point to that Superman, right, they had
a CGI dog, but it was really really well done.
It was if it was a dog like that like Crypto,
would you be satisfied with that or so?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Because GM is a real dog playing basketball. If you
if you have a CGI dog playing basketball, like okay,
that that that I don't know that that's that's going
too far. But if you have a real dog, like
all right, that dog is is really dunking and going
for a layup like that's part of the movie that's
at the heart of the film. I want to see
that snow it hit that ball ball? Yeah, okayeties kids
(12:03):
and friends and part of the Hub club members, what
do you think about this air bud returns and what
nineties you know, kids friendly movie would you want to see,
maybe not get rebooted necessarily, but a similar movie, you
know the part style exactly brought back.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
All right, Well that was a great tangent.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, yeah, you know what what we need more of?
We need more filming in Boston, more casting.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And more Boston filming, more movies, more TV show, more.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Blood, more blue Blood, more blue Blood.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So it's all right, it's all right. You shouldn't be
drinking this early, James. Sorry, no, I'm kidding. But yeah,
So we're getting a Blue Bloods spin off that has
started filming now. It's going to be called Boston Blue.
Uh so, let me just read the synopsis here for you.
(12:57):
Join NYPD officer Danny Reagan played by Donnie Wahlberg as
he relocates to Boston, joining the Boston Police Department and
partnering with Detective Lena Peters, the eldest daughter of a
prominent law enforcement family. Together, they navigate the tight knit
community of civil servants, echoing the values and bonds of
Danny's New York routes. So, Danny Wahlberg reprising his role.
(13:23):
This is going to be filming in Boston and Toronto,
primarily in Toronto, but they're going to be doing all
the exterior shots and some other things here in Boston.
Boston Casting is in charge of that. For a background,
If you want to hang out with Donnie Wahlberg, maybe
get a Wahlburger. I don't know. Well, while you're out there,
(13:46):
head over to bostoncasting dot com. Sign up for free,
get those notifications when those casting calls come down.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So I want to hear a Canadian Boston accent. I
want to hear a Canadian doing a Boston accent like
this one like this. We should watch a couple episodes
when this comes out. Yeah, and rank like, let's.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
See thistle wicked pissa.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
A wicked pissa. My wife was saying, like wicked pissa
means like wicked good like good?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah? Yeah, so I think I misused it once and
people were not happy.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's okay, that's all right, James. Sorry, we're both transplants
here here to Yeah. The New England rejun but but
we love it, so I feel like a new England exactly.
We've been here long enough. Yeah that's fine.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, speak about who's been here long enough? Not long enough,
but has been here for a long time. And his
legendary is mister George Lucas, the brain behind Star Wars,
the Star Wars franchise which has spanned decades and inspired
countless millions of people young and old to do better
and be their best. Well, he will be trying his
(14:49):
best at Comic Con in San Diego this weekend. This
is his first comic Con appearance ever, ever, ever, which
insane because at the first Comic Con, Star Wars was
obviously already had already been a big hit, and you know,
people were cosplaying or you know, things of that nature, uh,
were present at the first comic Con and throughout the years,
(15:11):
of course, everyone loves dressing up by merch, selling merch,
doing all this stuff. And this is the first time
that that the Star Wars Grand pooh bah will be
there in person. Yeah, So question for you, because you
know they do a lot of Q and a's in
the halls and whatnot. If you know that they're passing
down a microphone down the down the road that you're
(15:32):
sitting in and the spotlights on, you give you the
micro and they say, all right, we have time for
one last question, and so let's make sure it's a
good one. Uh, Jamie, you have the microphone in your hand,
George Lucas during this once in a lifetime opportunity.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I need more than a few seconds to But I'd
be like, George, Well, here's the thing. There are questions
that I want answered, but that would not be polite,
and I don't want to be rude.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, my whope, I'm Lucas right now, my whope, and
I'm started doing another quession. My whole fan my whole
fan base has been very rude to me, So you
can have You cannot hurt me anymore than I've already
been hurt. Continue.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I feel so bad, George, George Lucas, you thank you
for Lucasfilms and Industrial Light and magic and for you know,
stuff and junk.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
How you how's your vacation? Are you retired yet? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
There are a lot of things that I would like
legitimately want to ask, but I'm not to his face.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I think my and I think this would already have
been asked before the Mike got to me, But I
would ask before you sold lucasfilm to Disney, because he
apparently had a whole plan for the following three films,
So what was your plan? And I think he's already
spoken out about how it would have been drastically different.
He hasn't gone into details about what it would have been.
(17:07):
So I would want I would want to find out
what would your you know, your following three films be,
What would Luke be doing, what would lay Up be doing,
what would Han be doing, what would Chew he be doing,
and and all that stuff. So that'd be my safe.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Okay, So here's my question. I would be like, Hey,
any plans to take it back from Disney? Pretty please?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I don't have enough billions of dollars to buy out Disney.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's unfortunate. Is that how he talks going back.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
To my plane, my star fighter plane.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Don't look at me, I you know, because he's had
such a I want to say cantankers, but he's had
a love any relationship with the fan base, because the
fan base can be a little intense, no, So I'm
surprised I'm surprised after what almost fifty years later. Wow, actually,
(18:04):
you know, doing his very first appearance, does he feel
like the heats died down enough?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh? Yeah, I don't think heat. I see his soul
and his and his and everything has just been sucked
out of him. So he's I think it's just like
a husk of a man. And he doesn't take offense
anymore to these kind of things.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, I don't under I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, okay, but he's going to be there too, not
only you know, talk to fans or see fans, but
also the preview the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art that's
opening up next year in Los Angeles. So here's a
fun fact. Here's a fun ef fact. I was actually
there at the groundbreaking. I was a reporter in Los
Angeles when they broke the ground for the where where
they're building the museum. George Lucas was there, Steven Spielberg
(18:44):
was there. Wow, And I got some awesome pictures if
I find them. If I if I'm able to find them,
I'll post them right here. If not, it's just my
hand that's facing the camera. But yeah, so I was there,
and I want to say, maybe I'm maybe I'm misremembering this. No,
it's a different time. But yeah, George Lucas and Steven
Spielberg were there for the ground breaking.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Did you get to ask him questions?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
No, we didn't get to ask questions. They kept us
gett they kept the media behind a rope and so
we can make it close. Also that that that just
spurred a memory. I was there when Mark Hamill got
his star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Wow, I
was reporting also, and so Mark was there, Harrison Ford
was there. They had stormtroopers. R that's all your man.
He's looking good, looking good, looking good, smelling Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Smelling good, smelling good, smells good.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, if you go to my YouTube maybe I'll put
a link somewhere. But my my own personal YouTube channel,
I have like news reports on what and what not,
and and I have I believe a portion of that
of him and Mark and and Harrison talking. So and
it was crazy because I know we are going on
site tangents. But the best part about the Hollywood Walk
of Fame. So you know, celebrities left and right, artist, musicians,
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they get stars, you know, and usually it's a big deal.
You have like maybe on an average, depending who the
artist is and level of celebrity, maybe forty people show up,
like fans show up, fifty fans show up. People kind
of like block the sidewalk, you know, and they coordinate
off and then they do the ceremony. They literally had
to close off like Hollywood Boulevard or Sunset Boulevard where
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the Walk Fame is. And hundreds hundreds of people showed
up for Marik Hamill's star unveiling like it was the
most anybody had ever seen. It was incredible, Like it
never gets that big. But for Mark, he deserves the universe.
He deserves the universe, the galaxy far far away and
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of support, you know what's a great support system family
family and you know what fow me Low does it
in diesels say we're family, We're family fan but the
first family in the mcu is now on the big screen.
A Fantastic four just came out and a lot of
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people are raving about this. I watched it yesterday and
this so this would be in my non spoiler review,
but I really enjoyed this film. This is if you're
a DC fan, if you're a Marvel fan, this is
the blockbuster summer you've been waiting years for, because how
often do we have not only a really good Marvel
movie but also a really good DC movie. I unheard
(22:44):
of sound very rare, but we got it this summer.
Superman was fantastic and Fantastic four is terrific. I really
am so confusing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I know, isn't the Superman fantastic? Isn't the other? Okay exactly,
I've had trouble with this.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
We we will help you, we will solve this. But
the problem there are no problems for the cast of
the Fantastic Four because the people are coming out in
droves to watch this. I watched it in Imax and
by the time I got a ticket, there were like
three seats left, and I was able to get one
in a good spot, like just in the middle of everyone.
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So that was fully packed. All the show times for
every other movie theater like Imax or Dolby or even
like the small thirty seat theaters at the at Assembly
Row packed filled to the gills with people really excited
for this film. I think great word of mouth is
an elite to even more people watching. This film has
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a great box office opening. I think already it's projected
to get around or to earn around one hundred and
ten million dollars in this debut weekend, just maybe inching
or you know, you know, a little bit more than Superman.
But again, if you're a comic book fan, this is
great for you. So.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I heard a rumor about why Galactus has targeted the
Earth and whatnot, and I wanted to have a good trailer.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So if you don't want to, if you don't want
to watch the trailer.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You know, I was just hoping you could like maybe
clarify this one rumor for me that Galactus came to
destroy Earth because he's tired of seeing Pedro Pescal and everything.
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Well, honestly, he hasn't seen this movie because he would
not feel that way after watching this film. Yeah. So,
and I will get maybe not in the into spoilers
because if you want to go in fresh, don't watch
the last trailer because it basically says Galactus wants this. Okay, thanks,
I mean it doesn't ruin the movie. You find out
in kind of like the first ten minutes. Yeah, so
it's not you know, it's not a big thing. But yeah.
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Fantastic four directed by Matt Shackman, who directed Wanda Vision,
who also had that those episodes that had the retro
sixties fifties vibe. Yeah, so that was really quit in
all the several other decades that they included in that show.
But we have Pedro Pascal as Reid Richard's Mister Fantastic,
Vanessa Kirbys sus Storm, Eben Moss Backracks as Ben Grimm
(25:05):
aka The Thing, Joseph Quinn is Johnny's Storm, Julia Garner
is Shalla Bell aka Silver Surfer, and Ralph Innocent as
Galactis this guy. If you haven't heard this guy's voice before,
google Ralph Innocent on YouTube. He was most recently in
Nosferatu with Nicholas Halt, who was in Superman. But like,
(25:28):
this guy's voice is so deep and the treble to it,
you feel it in your chest, and was the perfect
choice for this galactic you know, Eater of World's character.
So I think the casting was great. The story this
is about the Fantastic Four in the Multiverse eight two eight.
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They must defenn Earth from the ravaging cosmic threat Galactus
and his herold Silver Surfer, while navigating the complexities of
family and newfound powers in a retro futuristic nineteen sixties
inspired world. Jamie first, visually, Yeah, trailer wise, like when
you first saw the images about this, what was going
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through your head?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
The aesthetic, like I can't wait, Like it just my
eyeballs couldn't get enough. It was so beautiful, clean lines,
you know, nice contrasting, simple colors, but like that that
great sixties futuristic idealic, you know, sort of design and
aesthetic like I just I want more, I want more.
So how did it end up looking on the screen?
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Did it stay that way?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah? It's a perfect movie, and it takes place on Earth,
of course, but because there's the space aspect to it
as well, you know, at a point and the Fantastic
Four go into space and then you see like this
the cosmic beauty of so you have like the real
world kind of nineteen sixties retro feature like Jetson's kind
of mix nineteen sixties and Jetsons vibe. But then you
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go into space also, and this is some of the
best space visuals that we've seen in any Marvel movie
or any real movie, you know what I mean when
I say real movie, but any movie. So like, visually,
it's a it's a it's a it's a delicious delicacy
for your eyes. Yeah, So that's one great thing that
that really stood out about this film. Like Superman, I
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like how they get right into the world, the world
building and basically kind of mid story, you're given this
kind of dropped in. Yeah, you're like, you're given you
you're brought up to date. This is four years into
the Fantastic Four, kind of like Superman was three years
into being Superman. This is four years into being the
Fantastic Four. And so they give you this kind of
like old fashy, old timy newsreel, kind of like the
Fantastic Fall. They're they've been in town, they're hot in town.
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You know who they are. They're gonna rescue you and
p a smile on their face and a and a
piggy in the air or whatever. Yeah, and so so
you get caught up really quick, which I love and
I told you last week with the Superman movie, it
feels like a like a comic, it feels like a
Justice League and Limited uh cartoon episode because you're just jammed,
You're thrown into the mix, but you're not confused. You're
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introduce the characters. This is who they are, this is
what the problem is, and you're just you're you're running
as soon as you get into the movie. Yeah, and
so I love that because we don'tate all these backstories
and they give you the backstory but in a very short,
you know, minute, and you're you're up to speed. So
I love how they do that, and I love how
they really give We haven't had a good MCU villain
(28:22):
in a long time, okay, because we had Jonathan Major's
as as king, we had I don't know who else.
I mean, there are other other people that you just
can't really think of the one from the Marvels. Did
you see that one who thought miss Marvel and and
Kamala Lacan and all that stuff like these these villains
are not standing out.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
There wasn't anything really after thanos.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
No No, but Galactus is a real threat, a real
planetary threat, and Silver Surfer they feel dangerous, and so
that's one one thing I love about this film, where
you know they can't They're very hard to defeat. But
in this movie there's a way to easily defeat them,
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but by doing so would be much worse than the latter.
If that makes sense, I don't want to give him spoilers,
all right, all right, So basically there's a simple way
they could solve this problem of Galactis coming to Earth
to devour it, but in doing so, they would have
to do something unthinkable.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Right impossible choice, impossible choice kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Are you the protectors of this world?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yes, we are.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Your planet is now marked for death. Your world will
be consumed by the devourer. There is nothing you can
do to stop him, for he is a universal force,
as essential as the star.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Hold your loved ones close.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
And speak the words you've been afraid to speak. Use
this time to rejoice and celebrate, for your.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Time is short. I herald the beginning.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I herald your end.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I herald.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Galactus. I like how in this in this film, you
know Pedro Pascal isn't playing the type cast kind of suave,
cool guy. He's cool, but he's not like cool in
that kind of way, because Read Richards is one of,
if not the smartest man in this universe on Earth,
and so he's always constantly thinking about like the potential
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things that could go wrong and how to solve them
with technology and using his brain and his mind to
do so. And so when problems arise, you you can
kind of see him becoming like kind of neurotic to
a point where he's getting very flustered and kind of
frozen in place with what to do because this is
like an impossible, seemingly possible problem to solve. But then
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you have like two Storm but played by Vanessa Kirby,
who is probably the biggest standout in this film. I
was surprised by how much of heart and how much
you know, weight of this film she carries on her shoulders.
She plays a great counter to Read Richard's and he
has kind of like kind of nervousness or kind of
like a fear of the unknown. And yeah, so we
(31:25):
can go into that really quick. So Pedro Pascal great
casting as mister fantastic. Evan Moss rack Back as the thing.
He's great he's strong, but he's sweet, he's he's smart.
He doesn't have the same anguish as previous things have had. It.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah, I was gonna ask, how do these iterations of
these characters compare to like the last cinematic versions we got,
was it.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Meant Fan for Stick? The one that came out like
ten years ago with with Michael B. Jordan and some
other Do you remember that one, the one that was
like dark and great that no one remembers that one.
It was a bad fantastic formula movie. But the one
with yeah, Chris Evans, with Michael Chickliss in those films
and even in like the one that we won't mention
Fan for Stick, Yeah, the thing there because you see
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the origin. You see them right when you know these
characters get their powers and for the thing, he turns
into this rock being creature. And in all those other
films you see the anguish and the pain and him
being angry that he's become this thing, and and everybody
feels sorry sorry for him. Read Richards feels guilt and
he's anguished. But in this one, you know, again it's
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four years in and you see a thing. I keep saying,
the thing but you see a thing that is, you know,
accepting of who he is. And he's loved by everybody,
like children love him, people love him in his neighborhood,
in his community. And again he's smart, he loves to cook.
He's like kind of like a like a homebody kind
of guy. Yeah, And so it has a big difference
(32:57):
compared to the previous iterations that I because you know,
the sad thing is very kind of just played out.
You know, we need a different version of this, So
this is what we get. Joseph Quinn is Johnny Storm again,
one of the more surprising casting choices of this film
and the one that I thought may have been the
(33:17):
weakest link going into the film, but he ended up
being a lot more, a lot more pivotal in this film,
and a lot more I don't want to say smart,
because I guess the Chris Evans version is a lot
is a lot more like hot headed, loose and lucy
goosey and doesn't take things too seriously. This one is
kind of a jokester, but there are moments where he
(33:38):
shows true intelligence, true bravery, and he has a very
a good number of standout moments where you're like dang,
this is a good Yeah, this is a good so.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
It feels more real, not like I'm a superhero, like
very dismissive.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, there is there is one character writing issue about
about about Johnny Storm that I didn't quite like, just
because it didn't really fit the tone of the scene
or the moment. And that's how credit that to the
attribute that to the writing of it. So maybe in
spoilers down the road we can talk about it. But
there's there's a little part between Johnny Storm and another
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character ros like, really, this isn't the time for this, Johnny,
and you know this, this is like a really serious
business right now. Stop it. Other than that, it was great.
But like I said Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, the
best thing about this if you have a young child,
like I like I have a young child, she stands
out because and I don't think this is a spoiler,
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because it's in the trailers and we've seen a baby,
and you've you've seen a baby in the trailer, and
so there's a baby in this film, and you get
a lot of that motherly love and strength and protection
and protection and their mostness and the fierceness, and there
are parts of this movie where I'm tearing up just
by the sheer tyranny of will that Sue Storm is
(34:57):
willing to do and to commit to to to save
lives and save you know, her child and stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
It's amazing how your perspective changes. Oh yeah, you have kids,
and how movies that you didn't really care about before
like totally wrecute. Oh yeah now, And it's just so
it seems like that's maybe maybe one of them.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You know, you know, this isn't a help on Hollywood
podcast if I don't talk about Paddington. But I was
telling my wife about this film and at about some
of these moments, and she doesn't care, so I'd just
spoiled everything for her. But I was telling her about like,
you know, these heart wrenching moments between you know, a
mother and child, a father and child, like you know,
a newborn or a young child. And she brings up like,
do you remember when you cried during Paddington too? And
(35:37):
I had seen Paddington two already numerous times at this point,
but this was after shortly after our daughter was born.
And there's a scene in the opening where it shows
how Paddington was rescued by by Aunt Lucy and his uncle.
And during this scene, I'm like, I'm like crying. I'm like,
I tell my wife, like, if Maya ever falls into
a river that's going over a waterfall, you have to
(35:59):
save her. She's like, I know, I will. I'm like,
but it it gets to you.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
And so ever seen a little princess?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Have I seen a little princess?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
This?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It's a movie?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, okay, So World War two, this little girl gets
sent to a prep school and like France or something,
her father's off at war and then he supposedly dies
and they this prep schools like, well you have no
more money anymore. Now you live in the attic and
you're a servant, and like she loses everything. And then
at the very end she sees her father again. He
(36:32):
had lost all of his memory. He was in he
had amnesia. He was like just a war veteran being
taken care of in a home. And she's yelling for him.
She's screaming for him like daddy, remember me, Daddy, remember me?
And he didn't remember her. Oh my freaking god, Like
I don't, like, I'm tearing up right now just thinking
(36:53):
about it. Like, yeah, things like that, Like I don't
feel like would have affected me as much before I
had kids, but now like, oh.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, completely mess now I'm a mess now.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, Like it's a good thing. So during so during
this film, I don't think you need to have kids
to appreciate those moments. You maybe just think about your
own mom or your own parents during those during these
like climacting moments in the film. But for me, I
definitely hit and it worked. I got more teary eyed
in this movie than I did Superman. Now that Superman
was very This has more emotional weight. Superman more lighthearted
in that other film, but this one has a lot more. Again,
(37:24):
the family bond, the the complexity of the relationships between
each other. One thing I like about this film, also
compared to other Fantastic Four movies, is that no one's
really like angry with each other or there isn't like
confusion or like, oh, you said this and I'm gonna
I'm gonna misinterpret it and not ask you what it
meant when you said this thing, and and then for
for you know, deviceive purposes in the plot. It doesn't
(37:46):
this isn't need that kind of film. You have real
conversations and real moments of like uh and maybe not
debate is the best word, but like back and forth
about situation, what to do and one not to do
and you had and you feel like this is like
you know, how you would talk to your wife or
but it's not a fight, but it's a hard conversation
to have. And so they have this real realistic interpretation
(38:08):
of a family in this dynamic that that these have
so very impactful scenes of Vanessa Kirby against Steals the movie.
She's fantastic action sequences. A lot of action sequences stand out,
including as I mentioned, the space scenes. There's an entire
sequence in space and it's like it's thrilling. It's so
(38:28):
thrilling with the Fantastic Four with a silver surfer, like
you're I'm at the edge of my seat. And there
are scenes where like it gets about to get dark
and like oh crap, and then you know, things happen.
But the entire like space sequence, I don't want to
give anything away just because you have to go in
there and appreciate it yourself. But that was a great stuff.
I love how it shows the film during the battles
(38:51):
and fight scenes, how the characters work together as a team.
It shows that you know, they've they've been doing this
for a while. They know calm bone moves, and so
storm a storm could do this, and then this other
character can bounce off of that or vice versa. And
so everybody is doing their part and they're all using
their own personal strengths, but together they're all stronger together
(39:13):
like a family.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
How did the animation look? How did the CGI look
with their abilities?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
That?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah, so the abilities looked good. I will admit there's
some scenes with the baby because you know, you can
only film so much with a baby. Yes, and so
there are some parts of where and there's some parts
were like that. For example, the thing he's fully CGI,
he's holding the baby and like you're just kind of
looking at him and like these are two CGI things
holding each other right now?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Okay, so how does the Oh yeah, that's true. Yeah,
So how does this baby compare to the green baby
and Superman?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
It looks better, but again, this is a human baby
aquare as opposed to a green, little round baby. How
about don't say twilet and twilight though it's a bar
on the ground. But yeah, this this there are some
moments where it looks kind of wonky, but overall they
do use a real child, like a real infant, and
so like this as they can, as much as they can,
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and so you kind of understand that kind of you know, suspicion, disbelief.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
And they didn't throw a baby into outer space.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
They did not throw a baby into outer space off
a rocket. Let's see villains again. Julia Garner as Shlal
as Shalla Ball aka the Silver Surfer, very imposing figure.
You know, she lets the world know that you know,
I'm here, my leaders come in. You guys are doomed.
There's no way around it. And Galactus kind of a
(40:35):
matter of fact also kind of saying like he doesn't
say things, he just decrees things. He says, I'm going
to do this, I'm doing this, you are going to
do this. And so he has that again he's like
basically a god in the Marvel universe. And so having
him his imposing, literal like imposing figure and that booming
voice again, it just works perfectly. And a lot of
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people were saying, I hope they nail this because a
giant man in a purple suit could look ridiculous. Sometimes
it looks ridiculous in comics, yeah, or in cartoons. I
think they nailed it. I think they did a very
good job.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
And with him. I don't know if you know how
comic book accurate this is. I'm gonna go see this
on Sunday with my sister in law who is a
big Fantastic Four fan into the comics and stuff like that.
Have you heard about how accurate this might be to
some of the storylines in the comics.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
I would say pretty similar. I yeah, I would say
there there are comics that this movie pulls from and
some storylines that this movie pulls from that I think,
you know, those who are big readers of it would
would Okay, oh they're putating from this and this and this.
I think so.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I think that, you know. And the other thing I'm
really happy about are my pants. Yeah, because we're talking
about comic books left and right, all these great comic
book movies. I've got, like the comic book panels.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
I don't want to force you to show off your pants,
but can you stand up for a second.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Yeah, so this is see it says like pop zips,
what boom? Yeah, So like comic book panels. There some
slight Clothing dot com is where I got that, so.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
A re sponsored by them.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
No, but we we will be will be soon after this. No,
but yeah, I think that this is the time for
people to go out and get their nerdy gear and
go out and support all these great fantastic movies that
are coming out.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Somebody dressed up as a Fantastic four, not the comic
version or this movie version, but I think it was
like a maybe a video game version of Sue Storm.
So somebody went in and like, and A, it's not
a leo'thard, but it's like a one piece. Yeah that stretch, Yeah,
I kind of like that. So it's like a white
one with like kind of weird stripes. She's I started
going up with the escalator. I'm like, that's weird. And
then then when you go in, you just see like
(42:43):
everybody kind of like you know, with the Fantastic Four
merchant and then like, oh, you're here for the movie,
so random, like why is that person worrying that?
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Like thought like she was just like an astronaut or
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Is weird thing? Like, oh, you're here for the movie?
Got it makes sense?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Have you decided what you're gonna wear for a fan
x Biboa be Superman.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah, I think you gotta be. I gotta be. I
gotta make up for a lost time. Okay, but you
know what, Fantastic four again. I had a great time
watching it in Imax. I think you should watch it
in theaters very soon. A lot of people are watching
it in theaters. As I said, it's it's opening preview
day on Thursday twenty four point four million dollars. Expected
to make between one hundred and one hundred and ten
(43:22):
during this debut weekend.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Yeah, so it just beat out the Superman preview by
maybe like two million earlier this month. So neck and neck,
I guess, not a competition. But movies are great if
you are a fan of DC Marvel comics. I think
this is a great month to go to the movies.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
So wonderful era and to finally have these coming out
at the same time, and I think they find they're
finally like getting that formula down what really connects with people,
and it's it's.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Yeah, yeah, my last final things. I would stick for
the post mid credit. The biggest cheers I think of
the movie, really the movie happened during that post credit,
so there's a very end credit. You don't have to
stay for that. It's a fun little thing, doesn't really
further the plot or future movies. This is a fun
little like thing. But stay for the post mid credit
(44:13):
scene that tells you exactly what's gonna happen next, or
you know where where we're going next, but where we
are going next. I do want to talk about Happy
Gilmour too in just a second, but speak about Pedro Pascal.
He's been doing a lot of press, of course, so
he actually said, did you watch Wonder Woman nineteen eighty four? Yes,
so did you notice anything weird about Pedro?
Speaker 2 (44:37):
A weird how?
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I don't know. When I didn't watch the movie, I
watched the trailers and I thought, God, like, he just
his I don't know if it's clothing at the time
or whatever, but.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
I kind of like over the top.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
I just thought he looked weird, And apparently he thought
he looked weird too, so much so he says he's
never shaving his face for an acting role again. He
says that he was so appalled by the way he
looked and won Woman in nineteen eighty four. He says
he loves the movie, but He says that he will
never shave for a movie unless it were completely necessary.
Ever again, and I think a pedro with al facial hair,
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he looks very different. And I guess he just didn't
like how he looked on screen. You know, his face
twenty feet high, twenty feet tall, wide, blown up on
a big screen. He says that if he was asked
to be clean shaven for The Fantastic Four and they insisted,
he would have done it, but fortunately nobody asked him
to good good look.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
But listen, he is a beautiful man with or without
a beard. But I am in the pro beard camp.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah, I know, that's kind of I think it looks.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Very good on him and on most men. Pro beard
go beards.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Go beards, no beards. Should we go? We go swinging away?
Should we go for another round of golf? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:51):
I think we should. But you know, speining beards though
beard trimmed nice meat, not like happy Gilmore. Yeah, so
happy Gilmore too. Adam Sandler reprising his one of his
most memorable iconic roles. What was the word you used?
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Like?
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Legacy, legacy sequel, legacy sequel. We've been seeing a lot
of these lately. It is out now on Netflix. Films
here in New England, primarily in Rhode Island. And the
one thing that I always like to mention that I
really appreciate about Adam Sandler is he films a lot
in New England and he has tons of background. He
(46:36):
provides so so very many jobs. Whenever he puts one
of these movies together, so much love, much appreciation, and
I think that people should go show their support by
watching this film. That being said, James, whether or not
you're going to enjoy this film depends on whether you
(46:56):
fall into one of two camps. Either you love just
pure nostalgia and fan service and rehash you know, of
the classics and you just want those beats that you
loved before and you want to see them again. You
want to see you know, you just want them almost
(47:17):
exactly how they were. Right, You'll be happy, I think
with Happy Gilmore Too. But if you're looking for a
sequel that like progresses the plot or introduces new characters,
or moves the story forward in a meaningful way that
is new and different, and then you might not like
(47:41):
this one as much. Happy Gilmore Too is the most
fan service I have ever seen in the history of
fan service. I feel like, and we're not going to
go into deep spoilers here. This is just you know,
very light smattering and just just you know, just giving
you the general idea. But so many flashbacks to the
(48:03):
original film, literal flashbacks, literal literal flashbacks to the original
film and callbacks. Almost the entire original cast is back
with some additions. Right, this is a number of years later,
twenty twenty five years later. It's happy in his children
(48:27):
and a new adventure. Let's say, and I think that
this is out in the trailers, so it's not a spoiler.
But the plot is that he has five children, four
very rowdy, rambunctious, aggressive boys who are like him, and
one daughter who is a ballerina wants to go to
(48:49):
this ballet school. She's been accepted into this prestigious program
in Paris, and he needs to be able to afford
to send her. And that's what drives him back on
to the golf course.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
So is this happy? He kind of like he's retired
from golf and he's lost money. Is he like in
the dumps? Like like, yeah, we find him, because it
seems like.
Speaker 2 (49:10):
We find him in a low place without giving too
much away. Yeah, we find him kind of in a
low place. He doesn't have any money, like the family's
poor but happy man. Right, but then he just finds
that they're in a place where he needs. He needs
to make the big bucks again in order to give
(49:32):
his daughter a chance to achieve her dreams. And you know, yeah,
go for the big time. And he has to dust
the rust off, right, He's got to shake off the
rust and he's got to get back up to ship shape.
And that means bringing back every single person from his
past to help him do that. Yeah. So, like I said,
(49:54):
if you love nostalgia, if you love all the callbacks,
if you love all the fans service, uh, this movie
is gonna make you happy. It's gonna make you smile.
I feel like either way, is it the most profound
movie ever? Is it gonna like change your life? Is
it the best thing that was ever?
Speaker 1 (50:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (50:14):
But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
It's Netflix, It's straight to It's on Netflixlix. But you'll like.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
I feel like people are are gonna like it.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
I know, Bad Bunny and Eminem are in there. Do
they have.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yes, fun cameos, So there are fun cameos. You are
going to smile. I think that there's something for everybody
in this in this movie. The jokes, they're playing on
the generations too. They're making fun of the different generations.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
But we do it this way now with science. Well
we do it over here with the elbow grease.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Right and all the all the the the lingual differences.
I know we had a meltdown last episode over like
the skibbty oh no and the tung Tun Tun sahor
and all that stuff like. So, I mean, they're just
they're playing on those sorts of of of generational differences.
So that's always fun too. And of course you know
there's there's a happy ending. I mean, it's a happy
(51:13):
meal more. It's a comedy.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
So I'm not sure if you want to mention this,
but you sent a video your son try to explain
the world. So maybe we'll say I'm about to get onto.
But I think I understand it now. This is a story.
I thought these are just like words people are saying
in sentences now, but these are like characters in an
ongoing story.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
They're legit like, they're like characters that are made in
our digital and that sometimes have interconnecting stories. But I
don't know that there's one cohesive narrative. There's just various
stories that like go in a million different directions, but
there are some that connect. And I feel like some
(51:54):
of what my son made up, like they feel like
he made up some of that. I couldn't follow it
for real, like so my yeah, my my ten year
old was going on a tangent like oh, well tun
Tun tun Sahor is married to ballerina Cappuccina and then
they have a baby, this and that and the right
and going through like all the characters and how they
were generated are all AI generated like TikTok videos that
(52:18):
are you know, disturbing to me, but the kids love it.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Do you think a movie can be made from this?
Speaker 2 (52:24):
Absolutely? You know that they're making a skibbity toilet, you guess.
I know we talked about that last time. I have
no idea how the.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Plot at this point where the kids think it's lame
because like, oh, that's so lame, that's so a year
ago skibbity toilet.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean I feel like they
still like the skibbity thing is still there, but it's
dying out, like the Italian brain rod is.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
Going down the toilet drain.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
What's the other thing? That was another thing too? Oh
oh oh those ugly dolls from China.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
Yeah, sorry about it. Never wound up doing it, but yeah, La.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Boo boos and the like. There's La boo boo ai
videos now too. So it's just, yeah, I hear a
lot of things in my house, you know, downstairs.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
They're like I mostly try not to think about it
too much.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah, and I'll be upstairs and I just hear lah
boo boola boobo. Or we went to Canopy Lake Park.
We were at the theme park and there's like teenagers
walking by going ballerina cacina.
Speaker 1 (53:26):
That I don't get. That I don't get. So, like,
this is a story, these are characters. Why are people
randomly saying it?
Speaker 2 (53:34):
But look, James, so here is no But it's called
memetic epidemiology.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
You stop that.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
It's it's look, it's what happens when people connect and
like things travel between people in small groups or large groups.
For example, I went to an anime convention in Baltimore,
win time. There was a dude outside who was selling
water and he had a slogan, he had a song,
he was singing ice cool water and it's only one
dollar ice ice cold cold. And slowly that jingle trickled
(54:09):
throughout the entire convention center within a few hours, thousands
of people inside of the convention center, We're all singing
the same thing to each other back and forth through
the hallways. This is something that has always existed, and
I challenged that you have done it too. Growing up.
Do you remember the Chappelle Show. Yes, every single week
(54:32):
that The Chappelle Show came out and then I went
to school, they were shouting in the hallways the new
thing for that week, So the okay, what what like
whatever it was that week, you could hear it in
the hallways passing through. But we didn't have TikTok. We
didn't have YouTube, you know, we didn't. They couldn't make
it into weird creepy AI videos. But it just happens
(54:54):
to be that now the new thing are the weird
creepy AI videos. And they see it and it gets
passed around, so like every single child and teenager within
a certain age ranger all saying the same thing. So
it's just interesting and it's called and this is where
the word meme comes from. It's called mimetic epidemiology.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
Thank you very much on Hollywood to learn to learn,
I don't know, so confused, I don't know, I get it.
But do you suggest people watch Adam Sandler's new Happy
That's what we.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
Were talking about. I do. I think it's fun, whether
you you know, whether if it's your thing or not.
Like I think there's something in there for everyone, even
if it's just you want to see Eminem dressed call
for in the weird thing that he does in the film.
I it'll make you smile. There are parts that I
think that everybody can enjoy. So yeah, head over to
(55:47):
Netflix watch Happy Gilmore Too, and maybe keep your kids
off TikTok oh.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
Yeah, that sounds great all around excellent. Well have you
seen Happy gil Moore Too? What are your thoughts on
the film the Legacy sequel? Do movies owe us a
better story after so many years of being able to
work on a very good story? Or are you just
there for the callbacks? For the flashbacks comment down below.
Also comment down below. If you've seen Fantastic Four, what
(56:14):
are your reviews? What are your skippity doo dah reviews
for the Fantastic Four stick. Was it lit lit? I
feel like old to my goodness, I don't know my goodness.
Speaker 2 (56:23):
Eat it ate in their minds, an I don't have.
We're dropping it dropping, okay, well we're talking about after.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
What we're not dropping is our appreciation for you those
watching The Help on Hollywood and for those listening wherever
you get your podcast. Thank you for joining the Hub club.
We're inching towards six. Yeah, and again once once we
meet another big mile, so maybe one thousand, and do
an even bigger merch giveaway. We gave one. We gave
a shirt and a T shirt away last time, so
(56:54):
when we reach one thousand, we're going to go all
out for another big merch merchant. But yeah, Jamie, it's great.
Are gonna watch Fantastic four? You said soon?
Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yes, I'm gonna watch Fantastic four this.
Speaker 1 (57:04):
Weekend, ring tissues?
Speaker 2 (57:06):
Oh no, okay, all right, I will, and then I'll
watch Superman after as a palate clemser.
Speaker 1 (57:12):
Excellent, fantastic Well, thank you so much for joining us.
As always, we are the Hub on Hollywood. I'm James,
I'm Jamie.
Speaker 2 (57:19):
Until next time, Tulu.
Speaker 1 (57:22):
Bye excimity, bye bye tongue tongue.
Speaker 3 (57:29):
Were cooking.
Speaker 1 (57:31):
Oh no, no chat. What do we do no chat?
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