Marvel Won't Let Us Ignore The Eternals

Ariel and Jonathan cover the latest in pop culture news, lament about how the upcoming Captain America film insists we acknowledge The Eternals, and talk about how three upcoming schlocky horror movies could make the perfect Bad Movie Night.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger ner Droun Collider podcast,
the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in
the world around us and how very excited we are
about them. I am arieal Cast and with me is
always super fantastic. Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I watched a horror movie and I don't remember what
it was.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I mean, that might be because it was too scary
and your brain is protecting you from it.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Or it could be I want to say that I
had it on in the background and I wasn't paying
full attention, Like it was literally like it was playing
while I was doing other stuff and I wasn't really
focused on it, which is probably why I have no
real recollection of what it was I watched, which is
not a huge It's not kudos to whatever the movie was.

(00:54):
I'm assuming it was a movie. It could have also
been a TV series and I wasn't really paying attention
because you know, we always talk early on about the
stuff we've watched since the last time we recorded. For me,
the one thing I do remember watching is I'm continuing
watching Severance week to week, and while it comes out

(01:15):
on Fridays and we record on Fridays. I have not
watched the most recent episode. I don't even know if
it's available yet, but I've watched episode three.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I also haven't watched I don't know if it's available,
and I haven't watched the most recent episode yet, and
I'm traveling today, so I don't know if I will.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
No. Episode three was good.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Though Episode three was really good. I kind of knew
that spoilers Gwendolen Christie was going to be in it.
It's not really a spoiler because IMDb showed me her picture.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I didn't know she was going to be in it,
and I was pretty sure who it was when she
showed up, but it wasn't until later that it was
confirmed where I was like, Okay, good, I got that
one right, because you know me, I am not reliable
for identify people.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, I just I'm loving the show me too.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, this past episode involved goats. There was also a
moment in the past episode that I feel confirms a
fan theory that I've been hearing for a while. And
again it's one that I would not have arrived at
on my own because I wasn't thinking about the series
hard enough. But it totally makes sense.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Have you talked to me about what this theory is.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I haven't, but I'll tell you the bit that involves,
because I don't think the bit's a spoiler. So one,
they encounter some very odd people inside Lumen, which is
not in itself an unusual experience, like everyone inside Lumen
is weird. But they encounter a group of people who

(02:56):
are minding goats and one of demands that the and
by they I mean Helly and Mark. And we don't
know if Helly is really Helly or if Helly is Helena.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
But you know what, that's a fan theory too, although
Tony was wondering the same thing.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, I think it's well, I mean, if they reveal that,
it's actually.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Huge spoilers people, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's not spoilers. We don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah, but if people haven't watched the episode, they don't
know anything.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Oh but that's season one. Season one was like three
years ago where you find out, So really, no, all
you know is that Helly's audi's name is Helena. That's it.
That's all you know, right, That's all you need to know.
And we don't know if the Helly we're seeing inside
the Allumin offices is actually Helly or is Helena. I

(03:52):
think it is Helly just based upon her behaviors. It
may turn out that I'm.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Wrong, But so what made you think that it may
not be?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
That was just a that was just a one of
those fan theories that was going around. But the one
that I was referencing is that one of the goat
people they don't look like goat people. They are people
who mind goats. They aren't like people with a goat
head or anything. Well one of them is, but it's
just a headdress. But one of them demands that they

(04:21):
show the goat people their bellies. That is what ties
into the fan theory. Okay, because what's on your belly? Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:31):
But no, that's not the fan theory though. That's because
that's the rumors that Lumin spreads that we know about
from season one?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah? Because remember Macrodata Refinement had heard that the the
O and D had like a cannibalistic upraising, and in
season one, when Burton and Irving are joking, Bert says
that he had heard that all of Emmen MDR has

(05:02):
like a pouch that they keep a symbiotic parasite that
eventually eats them and becomes them.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I didn't remember that. See, I thought it tied into
a different fan theory that they wouldn't have belly buttons because.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
They would be No, they said no pouches. They said
no pouches. And that's because.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Okay, I missed that because I didn't in my rewatch,
I'd only got about halfway through season one, and so
I didn't go through like I was just getting to
where the art department was being featured, so I forgot
about that little pouch thing.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
But the goat person does say, see, no pouches, and
so that's.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Why I got it. Well, that then means that fan
theory has yet to be not It wasn't confirmed either way,
but it's yet to be substantiated in any way, shape
or form. So that's interesting to know.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
I don't think that fan theory is accurate anyhow, guessing
off of it. So apparently, yeah, we're both caught up
except for today's episode of Severance I.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Also watched, which may have confirmed or denied the fan theory. Anyway,
I'm sorry you also watched.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt you. We're in a
little bit of a hurry. Today. Sorry if that means
a bit more chaos than normal. I also watched Saturday
Night which is the movie about the first airing of
Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, that's the one that obviously has a bunch of
actors playing the part of the various comedians and producers
and such who were involved in Saturday Night Lives launch.
It's also the one that after Chevy Chase saw it,
he he told was it Jason Wrightman, He says that
you're you're stupid, and this is terrible, and he walked out,

(06:52):
which to me is just a confirmation that it's great.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
It was so, I mean, it's it's pretty raunchy because
you know, there's a lot of there's a lot of
drug use because that happened back then. There was a
lot of cocaine use. Yeah, you know, and there's a
lot of bad words in a bunch of irreverence just
because that's how a writer in the writer's room of
SNL used to be. And then Milton Burle is really

(07:21):
gross at one point.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
But well that's that's historically accurate.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, but I will say so most of the actors
cast looked pretty similar to the actors they were portraying,
but all of them had the mannerisms down like to
the millimeter. It was perfection, especially the guy who played

(07:47):
Chevy Chase. He was spot on with like smiles and
smirks and eyebrows and every tiny minute reaction and movement
was spot on. It was really good guy who There
was one guy who played two parts and I had
to look it up on IMDb to even realize it.
The same actor played Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, I heard that that was the case where they
got an actor to play both parts.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, very well done. But it it was very fast
paced for a movie. It was very hectic, which was fun,
you know, a fun ride. There were nice little moments
of camaraderie and like all of them obviously getting together
at the end to have this show being success because

(08:36):
it had to for us to still have it today
from the seventies was really actually heartwarming. As a person
who's been in productions that are like down to the wire,
it hit the right feels.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
So yeah, Yeah, unless you've been in some form of
show where like and it's almost always the case, it's
very rare that I've ever been in their production where
like going into performance. We all felt that we were
ready to go. It's almost always like if you're lucky,
you feel like you're ninety percent of the way there,
and if you're not lucky, you feel like you're thirty

(09:11):
percent of the way there.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, yeah, but you bad dress, rehearsal, great show. So yeah,
it was it was a delight. Someone that I've worked
with was an extra in that movie, and you got
to see them quite a bit. But they told me
at the end of at the end of working on
the project that it was a unicorn and everybody worked

(09:34):
so well together, which is kind of the opposite of
what happens in the movie. But it's it's amazing to
know that, Like, it was such a joy to work
on that production, on all aspects of it.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
So that's really cool. Yeah, how interesting, Like in order
to bring about a depiction of chaotic and somewhat messy situation,
the actual behind the scene of that ends up being
like nine and day.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah, yeah, I know. It was funny because Jason Wrightman,
who is the director, who's anyhow, he knew Dan Aykroyd
personally because he was a friend with his father from
like Ghostbusters and stuff, and so that was one of
his hardest casting choices.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, I can imagine that. I did remember what it
was I watched, Okay it was It wasn't a horror movie.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
It was Community.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
No, it was not Community either. It was I watched
High Potential. How it was Okay, High Potential? Was that
series ahead? Oh, what's the actress's name? I always think
of her as sweetde from Always Kaitlyn Olsen, Yes, Caitlyn Olsen.

(10:52):
She plays a woman who has a very high IQ,
has an obsessive, compulsive attention to detail, and is very
good at problem solving. But because of these mental compulsions,
it makes it very difficult for her to maintain relationships
or a job, and then she ends up getting becoming
a consulting like a consulting detective a la Sherlock Holmes

(11:16):
with the local police force. So it's very similar to
stuff like Monk or you know, Sherlock or any of
those things, and it's okay.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Got you. I also watched something that was just okay
with one of the always Sunny people. I didn't put
it on the list. By the way, thank you to
our listeners who were providing me psychological thrillers on discord.
You helped me in Pop Culture Jeopardy last night when
I was catching up you already know that, but great timing.
And I watched a couple of episodes of ap Bio

(11:54):
that has the guy who plays Dennis from Always Sonny
as the lead character. It is a little too gross
and raunchy for me. It is interesting because it also
has Patton Oswald. There are moments that are really funny,
but it's a little too crass for me. My partner
prefers ap Bio and I prefer Abbott Elementary.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
So yeah, I also, I mean, I'm not gonna really
talk about it because there's no way to do it
on a family friendly podcast. But I also watched the
full first season of a show called Blade, which is
actually an American remake of an Australian show. The Australian
show came out in like twenty eleven. Stephanie Sue plays
the lead character. She does great playing a truly reprehensible

(12:38):
person like her character would easily fit into It's Always
Sunny like you could easily see her being in that group.
But that's kind of the point. And I thought, as
the season was getting toward the end, there's only eight
episodes and they're like half hour episodes. As it was
getting towards the end, I was sure going to wrap up,

(13:01):
but no, uh, season one. I guess this is kind
of a spoiler, but season one ends in sort of
a cliffhanger, so indicating that there will need to be
a season two to resolve and answer like all the questions.
But I know I'm talking around it, but that's because
to talk about this show and go into the premise

(13:21):
and all that kind of stuff, it's it's just getting
into territory we typically stay away from in this show.
So if you're interested in that, and you are, you know,
a young adult or older. Sure it's not for kids, certainly,
but then with a with a title like Laid, you
would figure not. Also, they do an amazing their Their

(13:42):
theme song for the show is a cover of the
song Laid by James, which is one of my favorite songs.
Oh yeah you think you so pretty? Oh it's great,
it's a great song. But yeah, it's a really good cover.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
I had never even heard of this show, but as
soon as you talk to me about it, I started
getting ads for it. So, I mean it just shows
that everyone's listening everyone's listening. Well, people are gonna have
to listen quick because it's timed for that's a term
roal thirty seconds or less.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
And I go first. So here we go. Get ready
to head back to the bronze folks because Deadline reports
that Sarah Michelle Geller is expected to star in a
reboot pilot for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The report says
that Hulu is nearing a pilot order for the series.
No word on if any other Buffy cast or Scooby
Gang members will be part of the project. We do

(14:40):
know that Joss Whedon has no involvement in it, and
that Chloe Jao is directing and Nora and Lila Suckerman
of poker Face. Fain wrote the script.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Poker Face makes me hopeful Chloe Jao is not bad,
but also has eternals attached.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Yeah. The eternals is a bit of a black mark
against her record.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, okay. So Broadway has been struggling since COVID, but
apparently numbers aren't slightly on the rise. The twenty twenty
three to twenty twenty four season report says that ticket
sales or total emissions are like zero point four percent
over the twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three season.
There's still a long way to go, but that's.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Hopeful news Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the Odyssey continues to
move forward. The Hollywood Reporter says that Bill Irwin, Samantha Morton,
Jimesh Patel, and Elliott Page have all joined the film.
Matt Damon leads the cast, and other actors involved include
Zendia and her Main Squeeze, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lapita

(15:41):
Nyongo and Hathaway, Charlie's Thorn, John Burnhal and Benny Softy.
No telling which if any of those actors are willing
to get out and ask for directions. That's an Odyssey joke.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
I have mixed feels. Okay, The Great American Baking Show
is having a big game Super superb Owl special with
Paul Hollywood and Preu Leath and then Zach Cherry from
Severance is one of the hosts. So that's happening. It's

(16:16):
going to be on the Roku channel. It's got a
bunch of sports players and announcers doing some baking. I
really just left it in there because Zach Cherry is
a very funny person so well.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Apple TV Plus is revving up a series adaptation of
William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. Brianna Middleton, Callum Turner, and
Mark Strong have been named as series regular so far.
The novel tells the story of a couple of criminals,
one of them a hacker, another one an assassin, who
are hired to steal from a powerful corporation. You throw

(16:48):
in some Escape from New York type elements, and you
got yourself Neuromancer Baby.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Interesting. We talked a little bit about Greta Gerwing doing
Narnia thing for Netflix, and there is like some very
vague news that people are speculating off of, which is
apparently a casting notice leaked where they're looking for like
a tween ager boy and a tween ager girl, which
makes people think that maybe we won't be starting with

(17:16):
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but maybe Wardrop Wardrobe,
but maybe something more like the Magician's Nephew. I would
be okay with starting with a different book because The Lion,
the Witch, and the Wardrobe has been done a million times,
but time will tell.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, it's kind of like that we can skip the
origin story for Batman in this Batman movie type thing. Well,
Deny Guerrera, whom you might know from Black Panther or
perhaps The Walking Dead, has joined the upcoming toy car
line turned feature film Matchbox. Apple Original Films is behind
this project, which will also star John Cena, but I

(17:52):
honestly can't understand why they cast him. I mean, why
do people keep putting John Cena in television and movies
because you can't see him anyway. Now Deny can put
the pedal to the metal in Matchbox Cars.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Fun. Another fun news, we're getting a live action Gundam movie,
which has been in the works for a while, but
the news right now is that Netflix has picked it
up and Jim Nickel, who is the showrunner for Sweetooth,
which is a I haven't finished it, but what I
have seen a pretty good comic adaptation, is now attached cool.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, do you find yourself grumbling when you get to
a movie only to have to sit through twenty minutes
of ads and trailers? Well, Martin Looney, Senator from Connecticut,
also feels that way, and he wants to require movie
theaters to advertise the actual start times for the movies. Themselves.
Then you could show up in time for the actual
start of the movie and not the block of ads beforehand. Obviously,

(18:51):
this would have an impact on ad revenue, so I
will actually be surprised if this gains traction, but it's
an interesting story.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Metroid Dread developer Mercury Steam released little teaser for the
next game they're working on, but we don't know what
it's called yet. It's code name is Project Iron and
it's just like a little image of a hammer on
a table supposedly next to a forge because there's a
little bit of a glow. Maybe they're doing a Thor thing.

(19:28):
Maybe they've picked up data war who knows.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
If they're thor, they should apply ice and elevate.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah. Also it also says forge your legend, so yeah
that would Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Well, finally, get ready to tap those Man of cards
because Legendary Entertainment is partnering with Hasbro Entertainment to create
a movie and TV universe based around Magic the Gathering. YEP,
the card game that old timey RPG players like yours
truly dismissed as crack back in the early nineteen nineties
is getting the cinematic treatment. The plan is to release

(20:01):
the film first, then a TV series will follow, as
well as quote unquote other content. According to Nerdist, that is.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
All for our thirty seconds or less.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
We breezed through it that time.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
We did it is because we both have places to
do and things to be. Yes, that's no sure, I
intended that I didn't it.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
I didn't stop on it.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Okay, but it's almost gonna be like thirty seconds or
less because you added an article to the top of
our lineup that I hadn't had time to look at.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Hey, well this is just yeah, it's just quick. So
I came across an article again on Nerdict about television
series that have either been canceled or are wrapping this year,
and among them are Fraser, Fraser's not getting renewed, It's
got two seasons now, it's done or it will be done,

(20:55):
Moon Girl, and Devil Dinosaur has canceled after a couple
Yeah told me that that is her favorite Marvel product
so far, period, full stop. And I have not yet
watched it, and it's so I'm part of the problem.
But yeah, it sounds to me like that's one that's
going to upset a lot of fans. The franchise, which

(21:17):
is that one where it's kind of a behind the
scenes of a production company that's trying to make a
superhero film. Yeah, that's get canceled.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I'm sad, but I'm a part of the problem there.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
And Hysteria also got canceled. The nerdous article which she'll
be able to see in our show notes when Ariel
gets them up. Has other shows that are also ending
this year, but most of those were like kind of
known factors, like we knew that they had been renewed
for a final season, and at least in theory, the

(21:50):
showrunners had enough running time to be able to plan
and exit so that there will come a hopefully satisfying
conclusion to those shows.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
I'm really said about Hysteria. I haven't watched it, but
I did have a friend who is in it, and
so that's unfortunate. And yeah, I'll get show notes up
earlish next week but after Monday. But I haven't forgotten
we are up to date up to this episode, though.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
So Yeah, so our first big thing to talk about
is something that I'm sure everyone listening to this podcast
has seen at least once. I mean, it got two
hundred million views in the first day, and that is
the teaser for Fantastic four. It came out in the
middle of this week. You know, there was some guests

(22:35):
that we would get one during the superb Owl, which
we might get a new, longer version. Yeah, when that
comes out, But we already have the teaser and we
get to see everybody's powers except for mister Fantastic, which
is kind of weird.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, there's some there's some speculation that they cut his
stretchy power out of the trailer, maybe because it isn't
finished rendering yet, but it is interesting. So, as all
of our listeners know, I really wanted to be the Thing,
and I was okay that they cast Eben moss Bach
Rock instead of me, But now I extra know why.

(23:12):
So I or rather I don't know why, but they
put in like he's basically cousin from the Bear in
one of the scenes in the trailer where he's like
tasting food and like add more garlic, and I'm like,
is this the thing? This is I'm watching the Bear
in a different format, Yeah, it's in the same universe.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Having never watched the Bear, but knowing kind of what
you're talking about, I can understand that I thought the
trailer was fine. I thought it was interesting. We actually
get a glimpse and over the shoulder glimpse like her
reverse shot of Galactus.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
So stupid would you do that?

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah? It was. It was odd to see like his
galactus looking down on the Statue of Liberty. But we
didn't get to see like, there's no doom in the
t that I could see.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
I'd see the silver Surfer.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Didn't see the silver Surfer either. Most of it was
kind of stuff like getting a look at the world
where it is clearly and alternate. It's not Earth six
one six, right, which is where the main MCU universe is.
It's an alternate universe where and it's in like the
nineteen sixties because like all the architecture and the car

(24:26):
design and stuff kind of harkens back to sort of
fifties sixties era, but then you know, futurized, like back
when people were in the twenties and they were imagining
what the fifties and sixties were. That's kind of what
this looks like. I thought it was fine, nothing blew
me away, But at the same time, I'm like, this

(24:47):
is really just give me a flavor for the tone
and the esthetic.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I like the actors in it.
I'm sure it'll be fine. Not a huge fan of
the the style of the thing that they decided to
go with. I prefer when his the bottom half of
his face is more even with the top half of
his head. But it's a comic choice, so that is. Yeah,
it's sad styles.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, Like it's designed after like the early early design
of the thing where he has like that protruding forehead. Yeah.
I also was thrown off at first until I was like, oh,
this is like really classic the thing. Yeah. Yeah, you
get the feeling that we're not going to get like

(25:33):
this won't be an origin story for them either, which
is kind of interesting.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
There might be a little touch on it. We did
see John Malkovich will be in this movie, and there
are a bunch of fan theories as to who he
might be playing, but none of them are my fan
theory as to who he is playing.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Which is, you don't think he's the Red Ghost.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I don't. I think that he is a future Johnny
Storm because his eyes are the same his eyes are
the same shape as as Joseph Quinn's, and so I
looked at him like hell looks like the same face
to me for some reason. I'm probably wrong, but that's
that's where my brain went.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I thought Future Johnny Storm was Chris Evans, but you know.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
It's alternate universe six one six, Well it eight five
eight six seven five three oh nine.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, we're gonna move on from from nineteen
eighties hits that are very misogynistic.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Uh so ultimately, no, no, you're fine. It's I mean,
it's talking about finding someone's phone number written up on
the bathroom wall. That's what that song is about. But no,
it's funny. I listen, you can't talk about a nineteen
eighty song without it being misogynist. That's what makes it
a nineteen eighties song. I say that to someone who
grew up in that era. So what what was your

(26:56):
What was your ultimate take on the Fantastic four teaser?
Are you looking forward to the movie? Did it move
the needle in any direction? Or is it pretty much
holding steady? It's holding steady, same for me, same for me.
I wasn't turned off by it, but it didn't jazz
me up more for it.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I will see it, Oh, I'm.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Sure I'll see it too, It's just like there's certain
Marvel trailers that when you saw them for the first time, like,
or at least for me anyway, I would immediately be like,
oh gosh, I can't wait for that to come out,
Like the First Black Panther really was one of those. Yeah,
but there are other ones where you see the trailer
and you're like, I don't know about this. The Eternals

(27:37):
would be one of those. This one is somewhere in
the middle.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
For me, Yeah, I didn't. I hadn't paid enough attention
to the Captain America trailers to realize they're at Amantium Twist.
So I'm less excited for that, but I will still
go see it.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Well, yeah, that's how they're introducing adamantium into six one
six because you find out it's inside the stone celestial
that that was created at the end of Eternals, so
they have so it's going to take place a lot
around Celestial Island, which is, you know, the top half

(28:18):
of this celestial that was emerging from the Earth and
trying to seize control of Adamantium, which is inside of it.
That's an interesting way to introduce adamantium into six one
six but.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
It needs a way to get rid of Celestial Island.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
What also means that if you haven't watched The Eternals
Celestial Island, you're like, what is this? Where did this
come from?

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Were the tides not ruined?

Speaker 2 (28:44):
If you're like my partner, it means that I'm going
to have to give her the rundown to the Eternals
to kind of explain what the whole concept was. I
actually did this already because we talked about it for
what is Yeah, what if had stuff in it that
didn't make any sense unless you knew what the Eternals was.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, speaking of not making sense, We're getting a movie. Sorry,
I realized I am in the minority of geeks. We're
getting a movie called planked In the movie it is
a SpongeBob movie about the villain Plankton.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Yeah, and how he has to reluctantly be turned into
kind of a hero for the purposes of this movie.
So I was never a huge SpongeBob fan. Like I
watched a couple of episodes and stuff, and I thought
it was funny and weird, But I was not one
of those people who just got really into it, like

(29:44):
I think the college kids who were really getting into
SpongeBob were several years behind me, so I had already
gotten out of that face and I wasn't By the
time I saw SpongeBob. It was pretty much like a
thing to been out forever. This trailer looks fine, like,

(30:04):
it looks cute if you are a SpongeBob fan. It's
a lot of the humor and art style that you're
used to. And yeah, that's that's pretty much all I
have to say about it. Yep.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Same not as intriguing as a SpongeBob musical, That's okay.
I hope the people who enjoy it really enjoy it.
Just like Jonathan, I really hope you enjoy the next movie.
But I couldn't make it through the trailer.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
What it's it's a it's a story about a sweet
old man and his and his puppet full Poopy. The
movie we're talking about is The Rule of Jenny Penn,
and the sweet old man in this case is John
Lithgow playing a character who's English, so he's doing an

(30:51):
English accent, and he's appears to be in like an
assisted living facility along with other seniors, and he has
a puppet that he sometimes talks to and it appears
to be somewhat of a psychological thriller horror movie, and

(31:12):
I was like, huh, interesting. I haven't seen John Lethgal
play a part like this since Dexter.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Well, you know, Dexter's getting a resurgence, so can his
creepy killer.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
So you didn't make it through this trailer, huh.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
I watch bits and pieces of it. It's very close
to me for me to like animal abuse because it's
people who are relying on their care to other people,
so who are maybe a little less capable of advocating

(31:49):
for themselves, and it makes it hard to watch for me.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
So elder abuse and animal cruelty and cannibalism are your triggers.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yes, there's one other, Okay, do.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
I need to know? No? Because, like I was gonna
be making this movie about a guy who kicks puppies
while eating people and and and terrorizing old folks, and
I was gonna cast you in the lead role. So
now I know it's gonna be a little tricky.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, it will be. I mean, I can, I can.
I don't know. I don't know, Jonathan, Like I've auditioned
for horror movies, right, I have auditioned for horror movies,
and sometimes there are movies that I may not watch.
Sometimes they are I'm looking forward to a couple of
things coming out.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
So so, so you're a maybe on what's eating You?
The puppy kicking senior Stalker. Yes, okay, got it hard.
Maybe for Ariel. Let's just note that down, Jenny, all right,
Jenny's noting it down for me.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
No, ha, Jonathan, you cannot have a puppet named.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Jenny Ben Listen. I'm not allowed to call her a
puppet anymore.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
She's my assistant, Jenny with a pen on the block,
the block.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Listen from the block. She doesn't appreciate it when I
make jokes.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I was trying to go back to the eighties music. Okay.
We also got a teaser for Megan two point zero.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah. It's not much. It's I mean, honestly, it's not much.
It's it's a recreation of the dance sequence from the
first Megan movie, but done in like silhouette.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
I feel like they're trying to make her sexier.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, that's a problem. Yeah, she so, she looks like
she might be a little taller than like the actress
playing Megan. Looks like she might be a little taller
than the one from the first film.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
I mean it might be the same actress who has
just grown up some.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
It could be. And the character, the doll face character
does a wink at the end, which is really unsettling
because it's kind of like if you had one of
those baby dolls that had the blinking eyes, but only
one of them would blink and the other one was
stuck open. It's kind of like that.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
See. I feel like her face was so airbrushed CGI
that it looked way less realistic than the first Megan movie.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh, I agree, That's why I say have like like
I was thinking like very doll like yeah, CGI, doll.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Like, Yes, didn't like it. I know a bunch of
people are looking forward to Megan two point zero, where
Megan might maybe become slightly a hero. I don't think
that's necessarily a bad journey for this doll, because so
often evil dolls stay evil, but this chiler didn't do
it for me.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
It's also a question like, where does where does this
Megan come from? Because again, the end of the first
Megan was fairly definitive, but not that that ever stops
any horror franchise.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
I didn't, I didn't watch, didn't watch.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, well she she gets pretty pretty handled in the
first Megan film, So yeah, I I'm not interested in
this one. I didn't think the first Megan film was
really that good. So for me, the first Megan film
is the film equivalent of one of those quote unquote

(35:11):
museums that only exists to be a backdrop for selfies
where gotcha. It's not a museum that's actually housing anything
of cultural relevance. It's there to be to make you
look cute when you're doing your selfies. And Megan to
me is the same thing, but as a movie, gotcha.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
To make you look cute while you're doing movies.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Well, it's it's that like that dance sequence which went
viral obviously, Like that was like the big thing from
Megan that everybody was referencing, and like they did all
the TikTok replications of the dance sequence and stuff like
that was the thing that people remember with Meghan. The

(35:52):
actual movie I don't think was that, you know, innovative
when it comes to like a horror film, like I
think the original Child's Play is a better horror movie
than Megan.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Was yeah, Yeah, I'm just saying yeah because I haven't
watched either, but I will.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I will.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
I will trust your expertise, Jonathan as my friend whose
opinion I trust.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Well, I'm really curious if you actually watched the next trailer.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Look, so I watched part of it.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
This one was hard for me to watch. I like
horror movies.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
You do, and I'm surprised you didn't put up Please
don't watch this aerial on.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
I almost did, but I figured the title alone would
probably give you enough about it.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
I already get scared. So we're talking about Final Destination bloodlines,
first of all, and I already get scared from whatever
Final Destination movie it was where they're driving behind the
logging truck and the log falls off.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
I want to say, ask the second is that the
second one or the first one? That might be the
second one? I think the first one's the airplane crash
and the second one is the log truck. Which is
I mean, that is a horrifying sequence.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
I don't need to know about either of these. I'm
about to get on a plane and I'm still afraid
to hide drive behind log trucks. And I've never seen
either movie, but I watched part of this. I watched
the part where the chain got attached to the guy's
nose ring, and then I said, nope.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Yeah. So the trailer starts with a guy who's working
in a tattoo and piercing shop and he's just he's
closing and he's just finishing out the last appointment. He's
shutting down. He's wiping down the chair with the disinfectant
and all that kind of stuff. And the shop has

(37:44):
a ceiling fan that's slowly rotating, and it also as
just kind of like for decoration, has all these chains
that are that are in the kind of half arc
attached to the ceiling and in true final destination fashion
where you get into this kind of mouse trap situation

(38:04):
where a bunch of stuff happens in order to kill
someone who is supposed to already have died. A jug
of the cleaner opens up and starts to spill on
the ground. One of the chains gets loose, swings in
an arc, and then hooks onto the guy's nose ring,
and at first he's like, well, that's just a wild coincidence,

(38:27):
ha ha ha, until he realizes that the ceiling fan,
because it's turning it has catching the chain and slowly
reeling it up, and so he's panicking as he's trying
to unhook the chain from his nose ring, and then
a bunch of other stuff happens, and ultimately he burns
to death. That's all you really need to know in

(38:47):
the trailer. But like the bit that got me is
at one point he swings from the chain and I'm like,
that never would work. It would just the nose ring
would literally rip through the flesh of your nose. It
wouldn't support your weight, it would hurt like heck, and
it would be a nasty cut, but you wouldn't be

(39:12):
able to dangle from it.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
So I'm glad you. I'm glad you truncated to the
point where I stopped watching the trailer, mostly because I
was trying really hard not to disassociate during your description.
I mean, it's just it's a great, great podcast listening.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
It's uh yeah, it's it's very final destination, like it
is classic textbook final destination deaths, which are often like
they're meant to be convoluted, and in fact, most of
the deaths in the movies are handled in such a
way where you are led to believe you know how

(39:49):
it's going to happen, but it's almost always like a
there's usually at least one, if not multiple deaths that
are there's a red herring where you're like, oh, it's
gonna happen this way, and then it actually have it's
a totally different way, or it ends up affecting a
different character than you thought it was going to write.
So there's a lot of a lot of switcher ruse
and Final Destination movies. This one. If you like Final

(40:11):
Destination films, I actually have a real hard time with
them because they are they are particularly mean spirited when
it comes to horror movies. But if you like Final
Destination movies, this looks like it's going to be right
in line with the others in the series. Whoo.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
We also got our trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth. Were
getting a whole bunch of these trailers that we thought
were coming out for Super Bowl bul prior to Super Bowl,
and like you could be like, well, they'refore super Bowl,
but those tend to be like I'm saying that word
a whole lot that I'm not supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yeah, it's fine, no one cares.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Okay, so a lot of the ads that are for
the Big Game say Big Game on them or TV
Spot or something like that. So Jurassic World Rebirth did not.
It looks they were saying it would be more akin
to like the first Jurassic Park movie, and I think
it is from the trailer. Actually I don't. I don't

(41:13):
hate it.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
I thought it was fine, Like I haven't watched. So
here's the thing. I've only ever really watched the first
two Jurassic Park movies, and I have almost no memory
of the second one. I remember like the first one
I liked a lot, and all the others didn't really
interest me. So I never got into the Jurassic World movies.

(41:36):
And then the stuff I did see about Jurassic World
was so ludicrous to me that I could even think
to get into it. Not saying that they're bad movies,
but when I started hearing about it, I'm just like, well,
that just don't make no sense. Okay.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
The first Jurassic World movie was fun.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, but there was also there's also that sequence where
the poor innocent woman ends up being treated like a
cat toy between a couple of dinosaurs, suffers a terrible
death she's like the assistant woman. She gets like thrown
in the air by one and then gets chomped on
by the giant sea monster. And it's in the big park,
like all the dinosaurs are attacking. It's the same scene

(42:15):
that has Jimmy Buffett running around with a couple sargaritas.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
That's why, because I only remember Jimmy Buffett double fisting it.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah, getting wasted away again in Margaritaville while pterodactyls are
flying overhead. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Well this this Jurassic World is Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan
Bailey and mihrschel Eli are going back to the original
Jurassic Park island to get some DNA from dinosaurs from medicine,
like three in particular. And it looks like there's this
weird not dinosaur monster deep it down in the too
dangerous level, which I don't know what to make with.

(42:52):
But it looks fun, it looks exciting, and there's I think, Okay,
I have to preface this. I think Jonathan Bailey is
a nominal actor. He's so very talented.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
This is gonna be about how he says the word raptor,
isn't it.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yes, Because they're like, don't say they're raptors, and he's like,
they're raptors, and I like, I have to reward like
this is it's so mean of me to say because
I struggle with accent work and his accent's mostly fine.
But just the way he said they're raptors, I was like,
oh my goodness, what was that? And I just it
brought me joy actually, so I just had to watch

(43:27):
it like five times.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Yeah, I I thought it looked fine. I think Scarlett
Johansson is looks like she's playing the you know, the
the taciturn, you know, mercenary character. Really well, maybe this
would be one that I would really connect to. I
just I don't know, Like I said, the other Jurassic

(43:51):
World movies, the descriptions of them really turned me off,
Like especially once it starts getting into the military. He
wants dinosaurs to serve as like like like like foot
soldiers or whatever. It just makes no darn sense whatsoever.
But anyway, maybe I'd enjoy this one more. So maybe

(44:12):
I'll give this one a shot. But then again, like
I don't know, I think Jurassic Park is an almost
perfect action movie, and all the others I feel have
been have fallen short of that. So I'm just like, well,
I've already seen the perfect one. Do I really need
to see one that's not perfect?

Speaker 1 (44:31):
But we'll let you know, let you know how it
is when I watch it, because.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Okay, watch it. Well, what about Anaconda? Are you going
to watch that?

Speaker 1 (44:41):
The jury is still out because we haven't actually seen
anything from the movie. I did not watch the first one. Legitimately,
the only reason I would be watching this one is
for Jack Black and Paul Rudd to be in a
buddy adventure movie.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, the original Anaconda was not made to be a comedy,
but it was so such a cheesy horror movie that
it became one of those like like you could think
of it as like a midnight movie where not quite
at the room level, but certainly one of those came
a cult classic because of how cheesy it is. It's

(45:21):
always it always gives me pause when someone takes something
that was not great but was sincere in its attempt,
versus like someone's like, let's just make a comedy on purpose.
Those don't always work, but these are folks who do
have very strong comic sensibilities. So yeah, there was the

(45:43):
whole cast announcement, right.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Yeah, which Sanny Newton is also going to be a
part of it. In knar No not great canear? I don't?
They said, and this guy and I'm like, oh, I
recognize him and I don't remember what his name is
and I feel horrible about it.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Okay, then good story.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
No, so Danny Newton's shut up, You're so mean. Did
you watch it? Do you know what his name is?

Speaker 2 (46:15):
I didn't watch it.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
I just realized as we were going through the lineup.
I was like, oh, you know what, I forgot to
watch this one because I added most of the trailers
and I forgot that there was this one that was
nestled in the middle.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Yeah, okay, hold on, I'm gonna get there because there
are articles about it. So yeah, so Jack Black and
Paul Rudd, Steve's on.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Okay, another another person associated with comedy.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Yeah, and then Siltan Mellow and Daniella Milki or Daniella
was in the Suicide Squad and Roadhouse and then Ioni Sky.
So a bunch of fun people. They make it look
like it was fun to do, so I hope it's

(47:05):
fun to watch. I just might need someone to preview
it for me.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I mean, you could watch the original Anaconda no problem,
because it's so.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Like, would it make me afraid to swim?

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Oh, it's so bad. It's just like, okay, you know,
it's like think of think of like the the ripoff
movies for Jurassic Park, not Jurassic Park, but the ones
that tried to do something similar to Jurassic Park, but
they didn't have the same budget, so their CGI dinosaurs
don't look as good. It's kind of like that. The
CGI snake does not look great, especially especially with today's standards.

(47:44):
You watch that movie now and you're like, Okay, I'm
not scared of a giant cartoon snake coming after me.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Sure, sure, Well it's okay because I prefer cobras to
ana conda's anyhow.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
So right, and we got the trailer for season six,
Part three of Kobe Kai.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Yeah, and so look, I know a lot of people
didn't like how part two ended, and it was something
for sure, but this trailer made me excited. It hit
all of my nostalgia feels in the right way, as
opposed to be being like, oh, why are you so annoying?
I say that I love Cobra.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Kai, but so I watched this trailer, but because I
have not watched Cobra Kai, I had no idea who
anyone was or what was happening, apart from like, oh,
there's the bad guy from Karate Kid Part two. Oh
there's the girlfriend from Karate Kid Part one.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
So you know who Terry Silver is, then yes, I.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Know who the I know like, or oh there's the
bad guy from the Karate Kid Part three. Yeah, yeah,
I would see them. I'm like, especially the first three.
It's those. The only Karate Kid movies I've seen are one, two,
and three, the original trilogy. So watching these, I was like,
I was, I recognize the actors who are showing up,

(49:08):
and I know generally that it's like it's it's Daniel
Johnny and the bad guy from Karate Kid Part two
versus the bad guy from Karate Kid Part three. That's
what it looked like to me.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
I was like, the bad guy from Karate Kid Part two,
you're right, yeah, chosen used to be a bad guy.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Yeah, because he learned how to do the drum technique
to fight that guy because the crane kick didn't work
on him.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Let me tell you Chosen is like the best character
of the show. I love him so much.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
So yeah, I didn't know what was happening because I
haven't watched the series. That's not to say that it
was a bad trailer. It's just that if you're someone
like me who hasn't watched Cobra Kai, this trailer will
mean nothing to you.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
I guess minor spoiler, but they do kind of mention
it in the trailer. Somebody dies at a competition and
then everybody is still at each other's throats, but all
the previous enemies are working together and people need to
gain confidence, so you know.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
And apparently it's all going to culminate at another tournament,
and all looks like it's supposed to be the exact
same location as the tournament that ends the first Karate
Kid movie.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Yes, they say they have to go back to the
beginning and hopefully it will lead into the new Karate
Kid movie.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Yeah, yeah, there might be connective tissue. So if you
have been following the Cobra Kai series the whole time,
is it is ramping up to the finale and then
no more Cobra Kai. But again, that was something I
think everyone knew going into this season so that the
story could be you know, positioned to actually come to

(50:44):
a conclusion.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Yeah. The next chrailer we've got is for Gator Creek,
which I watched before you added to the lineup, and
then I forgot to watch again, and it's Gator's attacking
you in Florida and everybody doing the things you're not
supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Yeah, well, it just yeah, so like it's a group
of people who are doing some sort of low flying
air tour of the Everglades, and so they're in a
little plane skimming over the top of the tree line
in the Everglades, and of course something goes wrong and
they have a crash landing and then they the ones

(51:23):
who do survive the crash, are rapidly dispatched by alligators.
I saw a lot of people saying that it looks
like it's cocaine bear, but for alligators. I didn't notice
any cocaine. But I'm guessing that that's actually something that
is happening in one of the scenes, because there's this
one bit where a girl is holding out something to

(51:44):
a gater saying, this is what you wanted, And I'm
guessing that's cocaine. I don't know, but I thought it
looked incredibly dumb.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
I watched med Crocodile, so I'll watch.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Well, it looked dumb because, like you said, you know,
people were doing things that were that you're not supposed
to do if you are trying to evade a gator,
Like you don't run in a straight line, for example,
because gators can run really fast in a straight line,
like super fast, faster than people can. But if you
they don't corner so well, so so if you zigzag,

(52:20):
you're gonna be in better shape. But also, like gators
are pretty docile, they're not.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
It's the crocks you got to watch out for.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Crocs are much more aggressive than alligators are. The only
time I've ever seen an alligator get even a little
bit aggressed, well twice. Once was I was at ok
Fino and some people were hassling an alligator and that
was just dumb. But the other time is if you
get between like a mama gator and her nest, then

(52:50):
that gator can get pretty aggressive. But usually they're like
they don't want any trouble. You're too big to be
much of a temptation for them.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Yeah, so I've seen people kiss skaters on the nose
or feed them marshmallows or stuff or chuns. Yeah, and
I've seen crocodiles get super aggressive on escalators. They really
like to get wedged in there.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Right, you get your crocs caught in an escalator? Yeah,
I think.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
I meant to say kroc but I said crocodile. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
No, I got where you're going though.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Okay, cool, But.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Yeah, this looks dumb. It looks like a dump. This
looks like Anaconda. Dumb. This is reminding me of the
original Anaconda, which is one of the reasons I threw
it in is that it was like a monster movie
that hearkens back to movies like Anaconda. I don't know
that it'll be so bad that it's good. And I
try to avoid saying movies are good or bad, right, because,

(53:48):
like it's so subjective. But from my subjective perspective, this
does look like a bad movie. If we're lucky, it'll
be so bad it's good. Fair.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
You also added a trailer for a John Travolta heist
movie called high Rollers. You've equated it to money Plane,
which is not a movie I've watched. So I have
no basis. To me, it looks like a John Travolta
Ocean's eleven.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Kind of Okay, So money Plane stars a WWE professional
wrestler whose wrestling name is Edge, and the bad guy
at money Plane was played by Kelsey Grammer, a La
Fraser fame, and it is terrible. Money Plane is terrible.

(54:34):
It's a low budget action thriller heist movie. And High
Rollers also looks like it looks like a mid budget
heist movie with John Travolta as the star. And it
also makes me think of a type of movie that
Red Letter Media calls geezer teasers. So these are these

(54:54):
are movies that star like notable actors, but they are
clearly lower budget and the whole budget probably went to
paying that actor's salary, and they almost exclusively existed for
red Box, and of course red Box isn't the thing

(55:14):
anymore so, but this does look like a geezer teaser
to me. I watched this and I was just like,
this looks terrible.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Yeah, not great, So we're gonna move on.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
You don't have anything else to say.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
I really don't like John Travolta's plastic surgery is growing
on me.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Yeah. I put in a trilogy of bad movie trailers
back to back to back.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Yeah, so we're going from Money Playing to Bullet Train.
With the trailer for I originally read it as Flight
or Flight.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
It's fight or flight, flight flight, and as was it
Josh is Josh Partment Josh hart who was recently in
the m Night Shayama on Trap movie.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was it.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Yeah, which was not good either. I tried watching it.
I had to scrub thereat because it was so bad.
Fight or Flight also looks dumb. It makes me think
of movies like Bullet Train or Smoking Aces, where your
main character is given a task. In this case, it's

(56:23):
to escort a fugitive from one part of the world
to another aboard this flight. But it turns out that
almost everyone on that flight is like a bounty hunter
slash assassin who's also out for that particular person. Plus
I guess Josh Hartnet's character himself is a wanted man.

(56:43):
It's hard to say. It's hard to get it from
the trailer, but it does make me think Bullet Trained
because obviously it's very similar to that one with Brad
Pitt or Smoking Aces, which kind of I think started
us on this journey of let's have what happens if
you have a movie where all the baddest of the

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bad you know, Hitman slash Bounty Hunters all converged at
the same place at the same time, with the same goal.
So they're competing with each other over this. But yeah, like,
I think the point that made me go like, okay,
this looks like trash was when when a character stands
up and throws like a harpoon on a chain a

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la Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
You know, maybe there's something hidden in there that makes
that super logical and a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
How do you get through airport security so that you
can carry it onto the plane with you?

Speaker 1 (57:41):
You're the plane engineering, you build it into the body
of the plane.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Yeah, maybe I guess that makes us just as much
sense as anything else in that trailer.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Oh cool, Cool, We're gonna go from trailers set. Oh
don't look great.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Nothing to say about any of these.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
I really don't.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
I watched it and it immediately left my brain.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Ariel, you have to understand that when I edit this,
all I'm gonna see is an empty line on your part.
And okay, just me talking time.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
So no, what Jonathan really has done here is he's
given uh like, I did watch them and then I
was trying to recall them and I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
I mean, they that is exactly the kind of movies
these are.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Yeah, and and normally normally, look, it's been a busy
week for me, but also Jonathan has done everybody a
really good solid. If you like Bad movie Nights, you
have a new lineup and maybe they'll be great. But
if not, you've got a new bad movie night lineup.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Gator Creek, high Rollers and Fighter Flight. I mean, if
you can make it through high rollers to get to
fight or Flight after the other two, good on you.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
No, no, no, you start with high Rollers and then
you go to Fight or Flight, and then you land
in Gator Creek when the fight fight causes the flight.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
That's just way more sense. You're right, you know thematically
that does follow the track.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Yes, and then you get sucked through time into uh
Rihanna musical with Little Blue People. Yeah, which no, you
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
No, you go ahead.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
This one is what happens in the trailer for Smurfs,
which is going to be an amazing movie.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
I actually don't know.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
It is a musical.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
It's a musical. I think Rihanna voices.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Smurfet, Yes, she voices Smurfat.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
And uh and Nick Offerman voices Papa, Smurf's brother who
they meet. I guess in the real world because the
Smurfs get sucked into a portal by Gargamel and Gargamel's
also brother cousin.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Yeah, I think it's his brother, but like I didn't
know that Gargamel had a brother me neither. Yeah, this
trailer introduced me to a lot of things I didn't know,
like a lot of Maybe it's said they're actually introducing
new Smurfs into the classic lineup of Smurf, So I
don't know if this film is going to at all.

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I guess. I guess it's not connected to the previous
movies that came out with Neil Patrick Harris, wasn't it
who was in them?

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Was he or was he in a Garfield movie? I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
I thought Neil Patrick Harris was in the Smurfs movies,
but I didn't see them, so I don't have any
like first hand memory of them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
But yes, he was in a twenty eleven Smurfs movie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Yeah, I don't think that this one has any connection
to that. I think it's its own thing because again,
like you were saying, they exist in their own world
and they get pulled through a portal to land in
not the real world, like everything's still cartoons.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
No, they're like riding in a uber eats basket on
a moped.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Are they. Yeah, I wasn't paying attention.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Yeah, they go into the real world. But also I
will say the art style is super interesting. It's kind
of that two D three D art style, which I
totally grock.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's a I saw one YouTube thumbnail. It's
one of those grouchy white dude YouTube channels I guess
where it's like Smurf's trailer, worst Thing Ever, something along
those lines, And I'm just like, it wasn't that bad.
Like I didn't think it was bad. I didn't think
it was for me. But I thought like, if I
were a little kid and I saw that trailer, I'd

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probably think, like, that looks funny. I want to see it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, and I think it's for kids, So.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Yeah, it's not. It turns out this is just a
shout out to all my fellow old white dudes out there,
because I'm an old white dude, so I'm just shouting
this out to all of you other old white dudes
out there. Not everything is made for us. You feel
like it is, because for a long time, that's how
we treated the whole world, and some people are trying
to treat it that way again. But that's not true.

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Some stuff is made for people younger than you, or
of a different race or a different gender identity, and
that's cool.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Yes, it is cool. I was trying to think of
a I am unclever, but yes, it is cool. I
love the fact that we get a broad diversity. I
should just not try to be clever that we get
a broad diversity of stories because it makes life and

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it makes the things we can imagine much richer.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
So yeah, I am totally fine with this trailer. Like,
does it make me want to see the Smurfs? No?
But does it make me feel like, oh man, what
a huge waste of time and money?

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
I think it looks like it's entertaining for the audience,
that it's aiming for.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
What I want Smurfs to be is I want you
to turn it on the way I turned on Paddington too,
where I was like, this will just be background noise
and I'm not gonna like it. But it's the easiest
thing because it's already on the channel, and then you
fall in love with it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
Yeah. No, everything I have heard. It's that's on one
of my lists, like Paddington and Paddington two, that I
need to watch these because so many people whom I
respect have talked about their genuine love of those films,
and and it's enough for me to say like, yeah,
I'm sure I would really dig it. I just haven't

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done it yet.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
I liked the second Paddington better, but I think that's
because I saw that one first.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Yeah. Well, actually I think a lot of people say
the second. Oddly enough, the second one bucks the trend
of you know, the sequel is never as good as
the original, where people are like, no, the sequels actually
better than the original was.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
I don't know how the three will be, but that
either just came out or is coming out soon. We're
gonna move on. We got two stories left and we're
kind of running out of time, so we're gonna plup three.
These go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Yeah, So we got a promotional video for Out of Midnight.
Last week we talked about we got a story trailer
for South of Midnight that's an upcoming Vigia game that's
kind of it's set in the Bayou and it has
like magic and witchcraft and folklore all we woven into

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it and weaving as it turns out or spinning, and
we got a stop motion video. So this is not
done in the game's engine, but was produced as a
separate piece of marketing material in the style that you
see in the video game, which is an incredibly impressive achievement,

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like to take something that was first realized in a
virtual game engine and then to make a physical, stop
motion animated short featurette like it's not even a featurette,
but like a trailer almost. I was really impressed by
the artistry.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
Yeah, yeah, maybe I was about to say, maybe one
of the most impressive stop motion things I've seen.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Yeah, and very much in the style that was presented
in the trailers we've seen so far. This is a
game I'm really excited about because it looks just so
like the gameplay doesn't look that different from some other games,
Like it has some souls, like dark souls kind of
energy to it, but the setting and the characters are

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ones that you just don't typically see, or if you
do see, it's done in such a cartoonish way where
you don't really feel like there was much necessarily much
thought given to it. This looks like there was a
ton of thought given to creating that world. And so
I'm so excited to actually get a chance to play this.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Me too, Me too. I'll have to get a console
that plays at first. It's on my list of things today.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
Same here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Honestly, I have plenty of games I haven't played on
my existing consoles.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Is really the problem saying.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Yeah, but also very much looking forward to it. And
in the theme of this episode where I just let Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Talk and it's gonna be so depressing to look at
that edit.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
I'm so sorry, but it's gonna be a good episode.
You're you've got some great points.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Well, I just I feel always all right, So so
pulling back the curtain to our listeners real quick, and
then we will do the last story so we can
let Ariel get going and everything, like, uh, I know,
I talk a lot, I always have, Like it's just
been that's throughout the history of my podcasting career. I
talk more than whoever my co hosts are. I am
aware of this. As the editor of the show. I

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am acutely aware because I can see it on my
screen because Ariel's got her track, I've got mine.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
So sometimes I ramble.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Yeah yeah, but like every time, every time, I'm like,
at most we're like like sixty forty. Usually it's closer
to like seventy thirty because I talk too much. It's
not you aren't contributing. Is that I'm doing too much.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
I will, I will work on that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
I need to work on that is what I'm saying.
I need to shut up.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Well, maybe you should install some rooster Teeth tear.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Let's let's not go that way, because I don't think
you know where the name rooster Teeth comes from. I'll
tell you after. I'll tell you after we run.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
I think I can imagine. Okay, hey, yeah, so sit
down and watch the rooster Teeth. There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
You're if you remember last year round right around April
last year, April May of last year, Rooster Teeth was
shut down by Warner Brothers Discovery. The company had been
in operation for like twenty one years I think before
it was shut down. There This is the company that
made online series like Red Versus Blue. That's where they

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first hit big success, and then they also became known
for doing live action shorts. They did game shows, they
did a ton of podcasts that were really popular, and
then it all got shut down last year by Warner
Brothers Discovery, and employees were given a little bit of
a heads up, like they had like a few weeks

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leading into when it was all shut down, but it
was still a pretty rough series of weeks. Now news
has broken that Bernie Burns, who is one of the
original co founders of Rooster Teeth and who had left
the company several years back, like around twenty twenty, has
acquired the assets of Rooster Teeth. These bought them from

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presumably Warner Brothers Discovery, and is planning on relaunching the company.
There's still plenty of questions, like we don't know things
like timelines or the people who will be involved, Like
we don't know if any of the original folks from
Rooster Teeth to come back, Like a lot of them

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have continued on making their stuff, but they've done so independently, right,
Like they've created their own shows. In some cases it
shows with totally new branding because they didn't have the
rights to the older version of whatever it was. So
we don't know really the extent of this, like how

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much of Rooster Teeth's IP does Bernie Burns actually own
at this point? Is it everything? Is it just you know,
like Red Versus Blue and some other properties. We don't know.
But I wanted to bring the story up because Rooster
Teeth was one of those internet entertainment companies that was
really important to me in the early and mid two thousands,

(01:09:45):
and I had followed a lot of their stuff all
the way up to when they were shut down. So
it's exciting that some of that could be brought back,
assuming that they can get the right people in place.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. I haven't really watched much Rooster Teeth.
I did watch a lot of Red Versus Blue, not
a lot. I've watched several episodes of Red Versus Blue,
and it's pretty funny. I never played Halo, though, so.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Yeah, well, Red Versus Blue once you get past, especially
once you get past the first season, the Halo stuff really,
after you get past the first five seasons, if you're
being totally honest, the Halo stuff starts to take more
of a back seat, and it has its own kind
of lore behind it. It just so happens that they're using
the Halo character models and stuff in order to tell

(01:10:33):
their stories, but they ended up creating their own kind
of fiction within the confines of using those models and stuff.
But yeah, totally, Like if you're not a Halo person
and you start watching that first episode, they do make
reference to master Chief and like a couple of other things,

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and you might think like, oh, well, this doesn't appeal
to me because it never played the game, But ultimately
it does become more of a zany, weird comedy. Then
it becomes like a weird like anime inspired action series
for a while. Still has comedic elements, but not as much.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
It didn't watch the anime action thing. I did like
the comedy of it, but it could be a slightly
hard entry point. But I am really glad because I
know a bunch of people were sad when it was
shutting down, so I'm glad that those stories can continue
me too.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
So yeah, I'm wishing Bernie Burns the absolute best. I've
had the pleasure of interviewing him a couple of times,
so I really hope that this project comes together and
that they're able to make some great content.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
Me too. And I'm just glad that you took lead
on this story because in our spreadsheet it looks like
Bummy Bums.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
But it says Bernie Burns.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Right, it says Bernie Burns. But the R and the
N are so close together that it it's like bummy Bums.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
You know, I don't have my peepers on. So at
my point, I was like, oh, no, did I write
bummy Bums?

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
If you did, that would be your new name. No, no,
you didn't, but I would have misread it. So this
is why you should talk.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
More, only for stuff like this.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
Yeah. Yeah, speaking of talking more, Jonathan, we've reached the
end of our episode. So how do people reach out
to you?

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
Well, now you can't because no, I have erased my
presence on the Internet with the exception of this show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
And in the world. He's a digital ghost.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
I'm a ghost on the wind. Okay, So if you
want to get in touch with me, the honestly, the
easiest way is get in touch with Ariel and then
she'll get in touch with me. But if you want
to do it yourself, if you're like, no, I'm gonna
do it yourself kind of person. You're gonna need to
take a trip to New York City. You're going to

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have to go to the Continental Hotel. When you go
in there, you're going to walk up to the front
desk and you're going to need to hand over a
single gold coin to the concierge and say I'm here
for a meeting. They the concierge will say, ah, yes,
right this way, and we'll escort you to a lounge
that's off the main lobby area of the Continental. There

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you're going to sit down and watch as outside the Continental,
right there on the street, a whole bunch of different
professional assassins are going to be busy trying to kill
each other to varying degrees of success. And just as
that's starting to get boring, you're going to feel a
tap on your shoulder and you're going to turn around
and that's going to be aerial, and she's going to say, no,

(01:13:47):
this is still the only way you can do it.
Tell me how what you want, and I'll get in
touch with him.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
Yeah, So that's really it. And the way that you
can get in touch with me is you can reach
out on Facebook or threads or Instagram, Neurdron Collider on
Blue Sky where LLNC podcast. You can also reach out
to our email, which is Large Large Nerdron Pod at
gmail dot com. Honestly, Jonathan does have access to that,

(01:14:13):
but you know, sometimes he has a large number of
emails and sometimes he overlooks them.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
You can most of the time, let's be honest. Time.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
You can also check out our show notes on our
website www dot Large neurdron Collider dot com. Like I said,
those will be going up a little late this week
just because of my travel. And on our website you
can also find an invite to our discord where people
throw movies at me that I should watch, and post
fun memes and have discussions about books and TV shows.

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We recently had interesting one about Little House on the Prairie.
So yeah, we love that you listen, and we love
that you're a part of our geeky family. You know,
tell other people who might like to be a part
of our geeky family too. We appreciate you. Uh and
until next time, I am Ariel, I really gotta pee caston.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
And I am Jonathan. I'm also on Blue Sky Strickland,
Oh I didn't know that, Yeah she does. She follows me.
The Large Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
published again. Curse That by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin

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