June 9, 2023 • 64 mins
Nic Cage is a survivor, Tom Holland is on a break, and Coke has a drink for real gamerz. Plus we talk about a whole bunch of other geeky stuff!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, party people, Welcome to the Large Nerdrug Collider, the
podcast that's all about the geeky stuff happening in the
world around us and how very excited we are about it.
I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always is the
amazingly wonderful Jonathan Strickland.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Everybody's got the right to be happy.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Truth.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Just don't just don't ask me where that's from, Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Is it a reference to a show later one of
the stories later on?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Not even a little bit. It's a reference to a
Stephen Sondheim musical that is rarely performed.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Gotcha, gotcha my my musical theater nerd Heads hangs its
head in shame. Uh yeah, we got a lot of
stuff for you this week. Despite riders strike, there's still
lunckeky things happening.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yep, and we well. I apologize for the fact that
you're dealing with a double load of episodes because I
got real behind on doing the last one. But I
already explained in the last one what happened, so I
won't I won't go over it again. But this is
also my apology to you, Ariel, for that having happened.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Listen, I'm not worried about it, and for our listeners,
you know, double your podcast, double your fun with doubleman go.
I don't know, It's all good because we're here to
have fun, and man, do we have a lot of
fun things to talk about, mostly fun things to talk
about this week. Yes, I guess we should just jump
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right into our thirty seconds or less then huh.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, And this time Ariel's got more to say than
I do, so we're going to have her go first.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes. The first thing is, I know you guys have
all been on pins and needles with as much of
as I've been talking about Diablo four. But earlier I
had mentioned that the first certain amount of people to
hit hardcore level one hundred or level one hundred in
Hardcore mode and Diablo four we get a special prize. Well,
the first person to do that has done so. This
(02:23):
past week, Woudijo hit the cap. They said that it
was hard, the last couple of hours are really grueling,
but they did it and it took them four days.
So you can. You still have the opportunity to hit
level one hundred at hardcore mode, but I don't know
for how long.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, And in case you forget that's when you're playing,
and when you're dead, you're dead.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You're dead, which I have. Okay, this is thirty seconds
to us.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, Okay, here we go. You might remember from a
few weeks back we talked about how Nicholas Cage will
be added to the Dead by Daylight, asynchronous competitive multiplayer game,
but we didn't know if he would be a survivor
or a killer. Now we know he's a survivor, which,
when you look back at the choices he's made in
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his acting career, makes a lot of sense. I mean,
you know, to still get work after the Wickerman. The
dude is a survivor for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Bees you've never seen the wicker Man.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Not the bees. Not the bees.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I've never seen it. Next is a thing that I
hope hits your happy geek spot. That sounds wrong. Rocksmith
Plus is coming to iOS and Android if you're not familiar.
Rocksmith is a game where you basically plug a guitar
into your game system and learn to play guitar by
learning various techniques and notes and fingerings and songs. And
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now they've got a subscription based rock Smith Plus that
you can do. But it's coming to your phone fifteen
dollars for a month, forty for three months, or one
hundred free year, and it will help you with tips
on how you're playing and tuning, and a whole bunch
of stuff. I really like this crossover of practical skills
and gameplay.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yes, the gamification of learning a musical instrument is a
cool idea. Okay. The Spider Man video game and the
Miles Morales offshoot from a few years back were both
big hits, and later this year, gamers will get a
chance to continue the story with Spider Man two. Now.
In this game, you'll encounter Venom, though it will be
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Eddie Brock underneath Craven, the Hunter, the Lizard, and lots
of other batties as you swoop your way toward victory.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
We I think my husband actually got really frustrated at
the first Spider Man game.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I really enjoyed it, but it was one of those games.
I know, we're going over, we do that, but it's
one of those games.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Fault.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, it's one of those games. It's like a big,
open world game, and I love those for the first
couple of hours, but they can often seem so big
and so filled with stuff. That it becomes overwhelming and paradoxically,
I'll put it down and never pick it up again.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I've done that with a few games. All right, Next
quick news item, This one will actually be quick. Captain America,
the new movie coming out Captain America, I guess for,
has a new title. Originally it was going to be
called Captain America New World Order. They have now changed
that to Captain America Brave New World, which I personally
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like better. And that's what it's still on track to
be released May third, twenty twenty four. That's what I
got to say about that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Okay, listeners, I'm going to explain to you why Ariel
likes that better, even if she isn't consciously aware of it.
It's because the phrase Brave New World comes from The Tempest.
The line is, oh, brave new World to have such
people in it. And in the Tempest there's a character
of an aerial type spirit and its name is Ariel.
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And that's why Ariel likes that title more.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I mean, I've also played Ariel in The Tempest. I also,
I feel like it's at least right now, at least
the way I'm feeling about the world right now, Brave
New World sounds a little more uplifting.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yes, yes, and after Secret Invasion, I think we're going
to need a brave New World. Okay, yes, We've got
a first look at the logo for the next Ghostbusters film.
It has the familiar no Ghost symbol, but this time
it's coded in ice. Sounds pretty cool to me. Maybe
it's because the movie is scheduled to come out for
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this Christmas, which to me is crazy because it only
just started shooting in March, so I'm really questioning whether
they're going to make a Christmas debut for this anyway.
The film has a working title Ghostbusters Firehouse, but that
might change by the time the movie comes out.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm I'm really curious if they are planning for Christmas,
if they'll make it with the writer's strike.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But we'll yeah, I ariel, like, I know we're blowing it.
I'm sorry, guys, my fault again, my fault. But I
when I saw that, I was like, this can't be right,
and I googled. I'm like, when does when's the next
Ghostbusters movie supposed to come out? And I kept coming
back with December twentieth, twenty twenty three, and I'm like,
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that can't be right. It has to be twenty twenty four, right,
but it kept coming back as twenty twenty three, and
I'm like, is my computer broken? Because they only just
started shooting that. There's just no.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Way unless unless they started shooting it earlier and we
just don't know, which is unlikely. But yeah, I yeah,
we'll see, we'll see it like there's about to be uh,
there's we'll get it, okay to thirty seconds or less
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one hundred points if you can figure out all the
various things I was going to say there. So the
next story is, despite the writer's strike and the possible
upcoming SAG after strike, we are getting Ahsoka still on
schedule per se. It's set to come out August twenty third,
And there's a new little clip that they've released begin
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It doesn't show too much, but it looks fun and yeah,
that's thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Okay, Well, here we go. While I personally don't get
the appeal of the Transformers movies, despite the fact that
I was an avid fan of the toys when I
was a kid, I am at Midley in the minority.
Variety reports that yesterday, which was Thursday, June eighth, for reference. Transformers.
Rise of the Beasts picked up nearly nine million dollars
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in previews, which is pretty impressive. But the bots are
about to go up against their toughest foe yet, Spider Man,
the Spider Verse, and.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Fine who yeah, fip flip Okay. I've heard good things
about both movies. Surprisingly not surprising on Spider Man, surprising
on Transformers. Uh. Next thing shocked. That musical that my
friend is in. Uh that when it first came out,
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Jonathan was maybe a little upset for all the corn
jokes is really popular. It got nine nominated for nine
Tony Awards, and now it is getting a West End
run in London next year. I there a bunch of
people are saying it's like fun at the funniest show
since original musical since Book of Mormon. I'm really surprised
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that it's getting a London tour because or London run
because it's kind of rock country music, and I just
didn't I'm so glad it's doing so well, but I
wasn't sure how a country musical was gonna pick up
right now.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So well, well, London is in a country. Hey, yes,
you all like country music. This one's from Algeria. All right,
oh hey, In that Transformer's Rise of the Beasts movie
that I mentioned earlier, there's an interesting easter egg of
a crossover, so skip ahead. If you do not want spoilers,
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this is your one warning, Ariel, you might want to
put your fingers in your ears. So in the Transformers movie,
a character comes across a reference of a certain secret
American military program called g I Joe. The filmmakers indicate
they do hope to do a crossover of these two
properties in the future, but they have no actual roadmap
formed yet. It seems like they're just like, let's wing
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it now, you know, and spoiling is half the battle,
all right.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Are people back? Okay? Last thirty seconds or less. Jeremy
Jordan is a actor and musical actor and gek actor.
He played Win in the super Girl television series on
the WV, and he was Jack in the filmed version
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of the stage play of Newsy's that Disney has out.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
He was in Little Shop of Horrors as Seymour. I
think last year or the year before, in the last
few years, and now he is coming back for a
limited run. If you're in New York or you can
get to New York, or you are planning to go
to New York, you can catch him July twenty fifth
through September seventeenth. I wanted to see him in Little
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Shop of Horrors when I went up to New York
last year and he was no longer there.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, I was confused because I thought Jeremy Jordan was
one of the green lanterns.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's hal Jordan, see, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You're right, okay, making me question question myself here.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Listen, Ariel, we know that I have that thing where
if two people have even remotely similar names, I will
swap them.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Listen, I do it too. I still have to pause
every time I say peace Maker.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
While while for our listeners it may have literally been
seconds since the last episode, for us it's been several days,
and that means it's time to chat about stuff, what
we've watched since the last time we recorded, And for me,
I haven't really been watching much other than I watched
a few more episodes of Muppets Mayhem. That's the series
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on Disney Plus that's following the Electric Mayhem. As they
confound a music producer who is desperately trying to get
them to record their first album rather than just perpetually
being on tour, and I have to say I'm still
loving it. It's interesting because the show the show will
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sometimes set up really big like cliffhangers, and then ignore
them in the next episode apologetically, and it's both infuriating
and hilarious at the same time. But I really, I
truly feel like it has captured the chaotic and yet
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innocent kind of humor of the original Muppets run, but
with updated jokes. The only note I would give to
I mean, who am I? But the only note I
would give is I feel that Doctor Teeth is I
think his personality has been dialed up a notch too high,
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Like Doctor Teeth is always kind of this groovy character,
but I feel like they punched it up a bit
more for this series and it gets a little old
for me. But every other character I have found endlessly
entertaining and hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That's awesome. It is on my list along with all
the other things that I have not watched yet. I
of course am still going through Ravening War because there's
a new episode every week on Dropout, which I'm quite enjoying. Actually,
I didn't the first season Crowd of Candy. I have
said this before was not my favorite of their series
or campaigns, but I'm really enjoying this prequel. I also
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watched the first episode of Fubar, which is that True
Lies esque family man Arnold Schwarzenegger action TV show on Netflix,
and that it was cute, it was fun. It was
a little cheesy, but I really enjoyed it. I like
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True Lies. I like all of those kind of like
fun action movies that we had back I guess it
was the nineties or two thousands when that came out. Nineties.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, I like it, but man, there's one there are
a couple of things about that movie that are not cool, but.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Sure, sure, definitely, but like that genre of movie. Yeah,
I quite enjoyed at the time, the.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Fun sort of like there's a little bit of tongue
in cheek but not to the point where it's an
outright comedy, but it's like your action with comedic undertones.
I love those too, Like, yes, a fun action film
is great, Like that's I always feel like that's what
the Expendables are trying to be, but they never get
there for me, Like the Expendables don't quite reach that level,
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but I can tell that's what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, foo bar. It is a little cheesy at times,
but it really hits that just like fun action. There's
some language, there's some violence, there's some gore, but not
too much. I just found it very enjoyable. It was
like a light, fun action watch. So I'm looking forward.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'll have to check it out because like I've been
craving something like that because a lot of the action
that's out there, it's essentially all like the postborn identity
style action right where everything gets way more let see
how many bones we can break, kind of crunchy, and
there's no shortage to that, like you have like the
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Jack Reacher stuff. You know, there's lots of different series
and movies like the John Wick stuff where it all
gets hyper violent and that becomes the hallmark of action.
And I do kind of miss the more cheeky, silly,
not outright comedy, but fun action movies.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah. Yeah, so this is a TV show, but if
you if you like that, you'll enjoy it. Yeah. Like
you said, some of the jokes are cheesy and some
of there is there is some action. It's not like
Game of Thrones level action and violence and gore. But
you know there's a little bit of it. You've got
to have steaks, so sure. So yeah, So that's that's
what I've watched. It's been a busy week. I had
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an exceptionally busy last weekend and this week has been
all ketch up.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, ketchup, and I broke myself. So yeah, that literally
has slowed me down.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah. Something that is not slowing down, though, is these
entertainment unions. I say these the entertainment unions taking steps
to better their work environment and residuals and pay. And
we had talked about SAG after, which is that the
actor union putting out a vote for a strike and
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that we didn't have the results for it yet, but
now we do. They have ninety eight percent unanimously, not
ninety eight percent, have voted yes for a strike if needed.
Doesn't mean they're going to a strike. But if they
can't get their if they can't demands, if they can't
come to an agreement with the other bargaining party on
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the changes they want to their contract by June thirtieth,
then it is likely they will call a strike. You know,
I want, I wish the writers were already out of
their strike, and I know the directors have a tentative deal.
I hope everybody can come to agreements soon because I
want folks to be able to make a living.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I do too. I want it like that. To me,
that all comes down to the studios, because yes, I
feel like the requests that are being thrown in there,
or demands, however you want to look at it, I
said demands, but really it's more like it's a negotiation,
and the things that the writers want and that the
actors want are important. They are important so that they
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can actually not just work, but make a living. And
as we have said many times that you know, while
there is this iconic kind of fantasy of the Hollywood
lifestyle where you're a jet setter and you're flying off
to can and then you're vacationationing in Greece and all
that kind of stuff, that's a tiny percentage of the
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people who are working in entertainment that most people are
there there, you know, professionals. Some of them may be
holding down a second job or maybe even a third
job on top of it, because depending upon what they're doing,
they may not be raking in the huge bucks and
these negotiations are very important in getting those considerations arranged
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so that people aren't taken advantage of and they can
make a living doing the thing they want to do.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah. No, I support the strike. I've said it before,
and it does come down to these production houses. Really,
I guess what I should have said is I hope
these production houses and the other bargaining parties that are
not the unions agree to stuff because, like you know,
I think we talked about IATSE is doing studies on
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how to use AI to benefit the industry, but we
also need protections against using it. We've talked about for writers,
for AI to write a script and then they have
to edit it, you know. And for actors, you're like, well,
how can AI replace an actor? And that's because you know,
a studio might be able to gain permission if you're
not careful with your contract, might be able to say
we can use your your image in perpetuity for however
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we want. And that's not cool because that means they
could put your face on anything anybody. Yeah, like they
could they could AI your They could c GI your
face on somebody else's body and use you in a
movie you didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Agree to and synthesize your voice.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
And synthesize it. Yeah, so that's really shifty and I
don't know how much that would actually happen, but like
that is one of the like the worst case scenarios
that people have been talking about with AI for the
Actors Union. So yeah, just all around better, better minimum
wage and residuals and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah. I mean, like when when Black Widow came out,
we had the big story about how, you know, Scarlett
Johansson was really upset because the her contract was predicated
upon the idea of it being a theatrical release film
and the fact that it went into streaming meant that
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it cut a huge amount of what should have been
compensation to her out of the picture and she didn't
have any say in it. And so it's incidents like that.
It's those sort of precedent incidents that lead into the
need for these negotiations so that there are there's an
understanding between all parties about how things need to be handled,
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so that you don't have these outliers where someone ends
up not getting what they are owed because of a
change in approach that they had no say in. So, yeah,
we've said it before. Like as Ariel mentioned, the vote
doesn't mean that they're necessarily going to strike. It just
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means that they already have the authorization. They don't have
to hold another vote if it comes down to that,
which ends up in itself becoming a negotiation tool because
the actors can say to the studios, we've already approved
at so if we're not able to make an agreement,
we already know where this is going to go. So
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that's that's a looming threat that can give more leverage
to the actors as they negotiate and hopefully it all
shakes out. I really want to see everybody get an
agreement that they are happy with and to be able
to move forward and you know, just figure out what
does it mean to work in entertainment in this era?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Like I said, I hope everybody
is able to come to agreement and get back to
work soon.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I think the hard thing for me is because I'm
an actor and sometimes I get to peek behind the curtain.
The things we talk about on this podcast are by
and large stuff that you can go and look up
on the internet and find the answers to. Right, we're
not talking about any big secrets. But I always slightly wonder,
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and I'm like, I'm not saying anything I should never.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I think you're fine, because I mean, like, we've certainly
seen very high profile people in these various organizations and
jobs come forward and talk about these things. And again,
like you were saying, Ariel, it's not like we're we're
not saying anything that's proprietary or secret. It's not like
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you're saying, oh, I know that out of these fifty
requests we have, it's only these ten that they really
care about, and if the other forty go unanswered, it'll
still be okay. Like it's not like we're saying anything
like that, So you know, all fifty gosh darn it,
all fifty have to be yes. Check those boxes.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yes. Moving on, moving on to some I guess some
funner maybe funner news, more fun news.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, funner is a great not word.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah. I have this thing. I found this article talking
about how Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon movie that's coming to
Netflix is going to be in two parts. I was like, oh,
maybe Zack Snyder's learning to edit down. That's not the case.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's exactly the opposite. Of that fact.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yes, So his script for Rebel Moon, according to Deadline
in some other interviews, is one hundred and seventy two pages.
That's a lot. Yeah, like three maybe over three hours
of content all told. And when they said, hey, Zach,
movies under two hours tend to do better on Netflix,
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he was like, well, I can't cut out that much,
so how about we just make it two movies instead,
with multiple versions of cuts. That's the part, like I
get saying I've got this big, you know, epic that
i want to tell, and so I'm happy to cut
it into two parts, especially on Netflix where you could
binge both parts, right, And like, as a consumer, I'd say, yes,
if I see something's two hours, I'm more likely to
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watch two hours somethings than one four hour something because
I know that I can stop in the middle and
there's a good place for me to stop in the
middle if I want, right. Yeah, but it's just the
multiple cuts. Figure out what you want to tell and
tell that story.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Not Yeah. I think maybe he learned the wrong lesson
with the whole released the Snyder cut thing, Like you
don't you don't need to set out to do that
from the beginning. So the what it boils down to
is that Snyder's plan is to have each film have
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at least two cuts to it, where one would be
the more generally accessible version of the movie and the
other one would be the deeper dive version for people
who want that kind of thing. And it's like, it's
like if someone were to from the beginning create a
director's cut version of the movie they were making, and
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technically both cuts would be director's cuts because they're overseeing
the whole thing. It's just one is different from the other.
And I don't know, Ariel, all of this just makes
my head hurt.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I mean, yeah, same, and I say that I even understand. Look,
it's an actor. When I get an audition script, it
takes me. I spend so much time going what perspective
is this person I'm playing, What are their goals? What
perspective do they have? And there's Look, there's entire cyclopedias
of like action words of like I'm trying to get
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this other person to do this, or I'm trying to
do this to the other person. It is hard. Sometimes
I'll have five or six different perspectives of a character
that I get, and I struggle to cut down. But
you know what, I'm only allowed to send two or three,
sometimes only one, and I have to. So like, I
get it. I get not being able to pick between
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all of your babies, but at the same time, you
have to hold yourself accountable to Yeah, yeah, viewership.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Don't shove that job on the rest of us. Come on,
I don't want to have to. I don't want to
have to decide which of your visions is the better one.
That's your job, Zack Snyder. But I'm not gonna watch
it anyway because I don't like Zack Snyder's work. So
it's fine.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I've liked some of his stuff, that is, but he's
also created the movie that I dislike the most.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So maybe maybe like I'd like it more if I
went back. And I've heard that the Snyder cut of
Justice League is like in every way superior to the
movie came out.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I don't agree with that.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, a lot of people that I follow have said
that sort of thing. I have not seen it, so
I can't comment. And I don't think I've ever watched
Justice League all the way through. I've seen I've scrubbed
through it. I don't think I've actually watched it all
the way through because I just never like the DC
movies that much in the Snyder era, but I could
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never get past the feeling that he was like smashing
action figures together and saying fight, fight, fight, and that
was the movie.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I yeah. So, like, I understand why people say that
the Snyder versus the Snyder cut is better than the
Josswhedon cut. I think that both cuts have talked about
this before. Both cuts made some improvements. But I also
think both cuts, like the inverse of that is, both
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cuts were lacking something the other thing the other version
really hit well gotcha? So like in the Snyder cut,
because I did sit through all what four six hours of.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
That I think three days technically, but yes, like I.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, there are some character moments that he cuts out
that I thought were integral to the relationships of the
superheroes to make them the superheroes that I grew up
with that I see all the time, and were like
moments of connection between what was happening on the screen
and me that Snyder took out and I missed those,
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and I like he took out some ones that I
really loved. Also, he put in uh, like, I don't
need to watch a minute and a half of women
singing as slow mo Jason Momoa runs into the waves
and they sniff his shirt creepily. I you could make
that a five second like this a five second scene. Also,
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it's like I think that scene mostly is like in
both cuts, but the music has changed, and in the
Joss Whedon version it's like this high action call to
action song, and in the uh in the Snyder version,
it's like this h Norris love ballad, all most creepy
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love ballad, And it's just I don't think it was
a better choice.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, without having seen it, and I feel like, I mean,
I probably commented on it too much already, like typical
typical geek nerd reaction, and by that I mean like
the stereotypical geek nerd who has an opinion on something
even if they haven't actually read it, seen it, whatever.
So I apologize to all of you, including Ariel, for that.
(30:27):
It's it's it just boils down to there are only
a couple of movies that Zack Snyder has made that
I have found entertaining, and the ones that I saw
that I did not like, I didn't like them so
much that it has turned me off of watching other
Zack Snyder movies. So totally, that's kind of where I'm
(30:49):
coming down, Like, it doesn't mean that any of the
movies are bad, even the ones I don't like. It
doesn't mean that those movies are bad, just that I
had a visceral negative reaction and did not enjoy it,
and that has since colored my perception moving forward. And
so I want to I'm trying to own this stuff
(31:10):
because I am so tired of people categorically saying something
is really good or really bad, rather than I really
enjoyed it or I didn't really like this.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, I mean, I get it, but I also get it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Well. I have one thing I wanted to insert that's
not in our show notes that I forgot to add,
but I thought we could just mention really briefly. It's
something that's actually in mainstream news. So I'm sure that
all of our listeners already know. But Tom Holland has
said he's going to take a year off of acting.
After he was in what was the Piece? He was
(31:47):
in the crowded room. He was in the crowded room,
and he said that the experience was taxing to the
point where he needs to take time off. So he's
going to take essentially a year hiatus from acting, which
I'm sure thrills Sony to no end and possibly also
mcu disney. But but hey, you know what, I say,
(32:11):
go for it if you if you've got that agency
to be able to do that, more power to you.
I would rather you take a year off and recharge
and come back with a new perspective and a new
enthusiasm than to slog through it and suffer over time.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah. I had actually missed that news item, but I'm
glad that he's doing it. Mental health is real important,
and sometimes you connect with things that are real hard,
you know, because maybe you're playing a character that's had
a similar circumstance to something that you've had to overcome
in your real life, and it can be very taxing.
I'm not I haven't watched a crowded Room. I'm not
(32:51):
super familiar with it. I'm not saying that's the case,
but I think it's good for actors to be aware
of their mental health and take breaks when they need it.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Agreed. Yeah, I don't know if it's the was the
content of the work, because I also haven't seen the
credit room, so I don't know if it was the content,
or if it was the shooting conditions, or if he
was paired with people that he just found difficult to
work with. I don't know any of the details of
what it was that was so challenging for him. I mean,
(33:21):
I do know that the actress who is hired to
play his mother in the piece is like only nine
years older than he is. But that's, you know, that's Hollywood,
good old Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I have things that I'd like to say on that,
but I can't, so I won't. Hey, yeah, age doesn't.
What I will say is your actual age doesn't doesn't
often matter unless you're a minor on camera. It's the
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age that you look in, the age that you can play,
or the age that the audience will buy. Yes, And
there are a plethora of reasons why you might cast
somebody with like disparate ages to the character they're playing.
They are a plethora of reasons, and some of them
are really good.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So yeah, I mean, we could if we were to
sit here and enumerate all the films and TV series
where you had actresses who were either barely older or
in some cases even younger than the co star they
were hired to play. As you know, mom to, we
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would be here all day and we would just get
more and more upset. So instead, let's talk about how
Miyazaki has, you know, a final film coming up before
Miyazaki retires, and they're taking a very interesting approach to
how they're promoting it.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah, I are you a fan of Miyazaki?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I am I Actually so I haven't seen all of
Miyazaki's work, but all the work that I have seen
I have found to be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Same, same, the interesting approach to these thinking. So, Miyazaki
went into retirement and then came out of retirement and
apparently is going back into retirement again. But before his
final movie comes out, which it's going to come out soon,
they are not putting out any trailers or TV commercials
(35:24):
or newspaper ads or marketing for it. And he says
this is because, like he feels, this is what moviegoers want.
They don't want the movie to be spoiled. And if
you put out three trailers, you know, Johnathan and I
have talked about this, then you know what the movie
is going to be. All the best parts are in
the trailer, and that happens more often than it ought to.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, and it happens when you bring in a marketing
company that ends up screening your film and then picking
out the parts that they think are going to really
appeal to audiences. And sometimes that means taking something that
really should have been withheld so that the audience in
the theater got to experience it for the first time
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as they watched the story instead of on a trailer.
See also Darth Maul and the double ended Lightsaber or
the ant Man sequence where the toy train derails, because
both of those were moments that I think I would
have totally delighted in had I first seen them in
the theater, but instead I was just waiting for them
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to happen because I had already seen them in the trailer.
So I fully respect this decision me too.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
You know. It's one of the things I liked about
the D and D movie is the jokes that were like, oh,
they ruined this unfunny joke in the trailer. It was
different in the movie. It was just different. It had
a different really well done Yeah, I'm fond of this.
I'm I'm honestly not familiar with How Do You Live,
(36:54):
which is the movie that's coming out. I'm not familiar
with the story. It's based off of a nineteen thirty
seven not novel by Jen Zibro Yoshino. I've probably not
pronounced that correctly.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
From whynders. From what I understand, it's very very loosely
based off of it. And honestly, I think the only
reason this approach works is because we're talking about Miyazaki.
We're talking about auteur who has a filmography of work
where it's he has a proven vision and approach to
storytelling where he can do this. Obviously, you could not
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do this with every movie because if all you had
to go on was a title of a film and
you had no real knowledge of the people behind it
or what the story was, it just wouldn't work. So
Miyazaki has the cred where he can do this kind
of thing, but a lot of other filmmakers wouldn't necessarily
have that same sort of ability, maybe like someone like
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Wes Anderson or something like that, Yes, but not not
most people.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
That being said, having articles out about the fact that
they're not putting out promotional promotional materials is promotional material. Also,
it comes out July fourteenth in Japan. I don't know
when it comes to the US, but there is a
poster for it, so you can get a shiny sneak
peak on that poster.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yes, we talked about a tiny sneak peek in our
previous episode when we talked about the nice opening thank you,
the opening title sequence for season two of Good Omens,
And now we have a full trailer and the thing
that Ariel said she wanted in that little sneak peak
turns out she must have wished on the correct star.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, they heard me and they answered my request. It
looks like season two in a decent at least a
decent chunk. You know, there's so much that went on
in season one of Good Omens, so many plot lines
that they had to pull together. But at least one
of the major plot lines for season two is Gabriel
kind of coming to Earth and not remembering stuff, and
(39:06):
then zerfl and Crowley trying to have to Crawley Crowley.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Curley Crawley, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Having to like fix that figure stuff out.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yeah, find out like why has he come to Earth?
Why can he not remember what he was? You know,
what happened? And uh, protecting him from the various powers
both above and below that seemed to be out to
get him for one reason or another. So it's kind
of like a mystery, which is great. And I don't know,
(39:42):
I thought the trailer was delightful.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I agree. I'm very excited for season two. I had
a like, I like, I have a lack of words
for how much I'm excited for season two. And I'm
also so excited because we're gonna get a lot more
like time jumping seeing them through the ages, the main characters,
so that'll be fun too.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, and it's they're obviously toying with the stuff that
fans have gone gaga over, specifically the semi romantic nature
of the relationship between a Zerofl and Crowley, where there's
this sort of winking acknowledgment of that in part of
(40:29):
the trailer. I do worry, you know, that it's perhaps
towing the line where they could be baiting as opposed
to actually saying something significant or sufficient. But you know,
with Neil Gaiman's involvement, I'm not too worried because I
have a feeling that he would want to not go
(40:52):
down that route in the first place. But yeah, It's
one of those things where there's been a lot of
entertainment that has sort of void with that and not
followed through, and that can feel like a rug pull.
So hopefully that's not going to be the case here.
But everything in this trailer looked really fun and John
ham looks like he's just going to have a blast
(41:13):
in this season.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah, yeah, I really enjoyed John hamm and comedic roles.
It's interesting because I understand the importance of what you
were saying about having a romance between the characters, but
I also feel like and they were definitely toying with it,
and I understand the importance of follow through in that
for many, many, many, many many many people.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
I also really like stories where there's like a deep,
like a deep familial best friend love, because I feel
like that also is not shown enough between men in media. Yes,
So like, yeah, I'm fine either way because I think
both of those aspects are very important to see.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yeah, I think well, and I think.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
It's probably an unpopular opinion.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
But the issue I have is that that if they're
toying with one depiction and then ultimately they say, oh,
it's this this platonic brotherly or or masculine love for
one another, but it's not a romantic or sexual love
for one another. The it feels like they're trying to
(42:25):
play it both ways, and that's where people get upset,
right where there's this this hint of what you see
on screen, but that it feels like it's again baiting
it's there. This was a big discussion back in the
Sherlock era, right between Sherlock and Watson. In the Benedict
Cumberbatch one that was a big issue that people had
(42:48):
was that it seemed like they were trying to have
it both ways, and it can. It can come across
as a bit cynical and an attempt to get an audience.
So my hope is just that they avoid that. However
they depict it, they do so in a way where
it comes across as genuine and it doesn't feel like
they were trying to do a bait and switch. As
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long as it's like that that, I'm cool. Whether it's
platonic or romantic, it just needs to be genuine.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
I one thousand percent agree, And like I said, I'm
totally fine however it comes out as long as it's genuine,
because I really enjoyed season one, and I'm expecting to
enjoy season two. We can see how it'll play out
because it premieres on July twenty eighth, so it's just
around the corner.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Next we have to talk about We also got like
a brief teaser for the Venture brother movie that was
coming out a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Venture Yeah, it's coming out soon. It'll be out on
actual physical media, which hey, yay if you're into that,
like I am, so yeah, the full Venture Brothers trailer,
you get a little bit more of a hint about
what's happening. Hank ends up going off on his own
(44:06):
for some reason, so that seems to be part of
the driving element of the plot. The monarch is obviously
up to the monarch's attempted nefarious dealings. The monarch usually
ends up being his own worst enemy, and Missus doctor
girlfriend is off on her own adventures for some reason.
(44:30):
Like you, you don't actually get a lot of feel
for what the story is. It's more like giving you
a sense of the tone and the kind of sense
of humor of the film, which I think is fine
if you're a fan of Venture Brothers, though chances are
you're already on board, and if you're not a fan
of Venture Brothers, this is just going to be very
(44:50):
confusing to you.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, more Venture Brother goodness for a
Venture Brother fans. We're also getting more what your goodness
for which fans? The Final or the We've got a
new trailer for season three of The Witcher. It looks
like the Witcher.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Yes, it does. It looks a lot like the Witcher.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah. I like, I'm surprised how much like the Witcher
it looks like.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
I was really you know, I was sitting there thinking
that we were finally going to get a Dune season
of the Witcher. But no, it's just more of the Witcher.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
I was expecting, like the the like my Little Pony
level of Diablo in the Oh.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
The Witcher is magic.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Yeah, yes, yes, I mean it looks good. It looks
like maybe the storylines because Jonathan, you haven't watched it, correct,
I have not.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Season one and two I enjoyed, but they very much
had storylines all over the place, and because I didn't
already know the lore, it was hard to follow. It
seems like they might be tying things together more in
this season.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, I will watch it. This is also Henry Cavill's
final season as the Witcher. We know that, like Liam Hemsworth,
is going to take over the part after this season.
You know, there was all this talk about this when
it was happening, and there was discussion that perhaps Henry
Cavill was leaving mainly so that he could pursue playing
Superman in the DC universe, which obviously that has changed dramatically,
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which you know, people are still sad about, including me,
because I think Henry Cavill made a great Superman. It's
just that he never got a chance to be in
a great Superman movie in my opinion. But I agree.
But the the other thing is that the other rumor
that was going around was that Henry Cavill kind of
wanted out because there was this perception that the show
(46:42):
was just creating storylines that aren't in the original material,
whether that's the books or the games, and that it
was becoming more and more of a chore to do
the show because it wasn't the vision that Henry Cavill had.
You know, he clearly has a very deep and abiding
(47:02):
love of the source material, and if in fact that
is part of the issue. I could see that being
a reason for him deciding that's time to walk away,
because if the thing you love is changing and no
longer being the thing that you fell in love with,
it can be torture to stick with that for like
eight or nine seasons until you finally quit the Georgia Renaissance.
(47:25):
I'm sorry I got off on a tangent there.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Listen, I'm gonna go on a brief tangent too. We
don't have a lot of time, so we're probably going
to speed up on some of these items. But I
watched the King of the Hill Renaissance Festival episode last night,
and it hurt. It hurt, It hurt me so much
that like my brain was oozing out my ear and
I had to multiple times have Tony pause the episode
(47:54):
of this dumb sitcom TV show from twelve years ago
so I could say, this makes no sense sense. They
wouldn't do this because this and this and this and
this and that doesn't what the I can't like. I screamed,
I frustrated, screamed through most of it. So yeah, I
don't think there's any problem going away.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
One.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
I don't think any problem with tangenting. Two. I don't
think there's any problem with going away from the source material.
But if you don't enjoy that, there's also no problem
in saying, hey, I think it's time for me to
step back.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Yeah, and some scars never heal. Next up, we're gonna
talk about a first look of a scene from Twisted
Metal where Anthony Mackie's character John Doe is in an
altercation with sweet Tooth, the psychotic clown who drives an
ice cream truck in the Twisted Metal franchise. They're fighting
in a casino. It's just a cute little moment between
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the two and you can see the interaction between the characters.
Sweet Tooth is voiced by Will Arnett. It is clearly
not will Arnette physically playing the character, but.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
It was is the the body actor, I think, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
And it was a it was a fun, goofy fight scene.
I don't know that it hit for me totally, but
I could see where they were going with it, and
I thought, this is a funny idea. I don't know
that one lands, but it's enough for me to want
to check it out.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
Yeah. Sorry, Samoa Joe, not Joe sma.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Oh, Samoa Joe. Yeah, former Well, actually, I guess he's
a current a wrestler. He's been a wrestler for years
and years and years.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
He's the body actor. I'm always impressed when you get
a good body actor and voice actor who really connect,
because that's that's hard to get everything down to such
a fine hair science of making both sets of emotions
and physicality matchup. And it looks really good in this.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
I see also David Prowson and James Earl Jones aka
Darth Vader.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
Yeah, or any buddy in Doom Patrol who doesn't show
their face, usually a robot man and a negative man.
I agree, it looked kind of cute and kind of fun.
I honestly felt the scene was a little long they
could have edited down some, but way more entertaining than
I anticipated it being.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
So I'm a twisted metal yeah.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Yeah, yeah, I'm also intrigued. I'm also very intrigued by
Justice League War Justice League War World. I almost said
warg World. That's very different, maybe yeah, because we got
a trailer for that. It's an animated Justice League movie
that spans kind of Western time and film noir and
maybe post apocalyptic and maybe medieval.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Yeah, they are transported to a world where they are
put into these different scenarios where they have to battle,
so it's essentially like a gladiatorial world. It makes me
think a lot of the for Ragnarok film like it.
It reminds me of that, Like it's a world where
these various heroes are being forced to be in these
(51:07):
scenarios and fight. But it looks good like it is.
And it's also fun to see characters up here in
different genres, like seeing Wonder Woman dressed up as a
Western you know, Gunslinger was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
Yeah, yeah, really cool. I expect a lot of cosplay
of that. Yeah, I not. I like a lot of
the Justice League animated movies. Some of them are so dumb,
but I enjoy a lot of them, and I think
this is one that I will very much enjoy. Something
else that almost I almost didn't add to our list, Yeah,
(51:45):
because I saw an article about it and then my
husband sent me the trailer and I'm like, well, now
I have to watch it, and now it's on our list.
Is the trailer for Sympathy for the Devil, which is
a new Nick Cage movie.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Yeah. I actually saw this trailer separate from making the
notes for this and I had the same sort of thought,
Like I was like, should I put this on our
lineup or does it not belong? It's bonkers. It's it's like,
you know, I made the joke earlier in the thirty
seconds or less about It's hard to tell whether, like
(52:21):
Nick Cage is obviously the survivor, because if you look
at his filmography, you're like, how could anyone still make
movies after making that one? This one feels like one
of those bonkers films where he's playing a some malevolent
character who's forcing this this this otherwise like average dad
guy who's played by the same dude who played one
(52:44):
of the characters in Suicide Squad. He was the.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
The is it is Joel Kinneman.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
Yes, Joel Kinneman. Yeah, he was like the minder, like
he was the guy who had to look after the
suicide Squad. He was flat character. That's it. Reflect I
don't remember names, so but anyway, he's like playing like
a dad and he ends up being hijacked by Nicholas
Cage's character. And like, even when I was looking at
(53:13):
the synopsis, these characters weren't given names. They were just
known as like the driver and the passenger, that kind
of thing. But Nick Cage comes across as he's unhinged
Nick Cage for this movie, like you wonder which Nick
Cage you're gonna get, that's the one you're getting for
Sympathy for the Devil.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
It's so two things really interesting about it. One At first,
I thought it was just a longer version of the
BMW films Beat the Devil with Gary Oldman and Denny
Treo and James Brown, where the main character chauffer's people
around in a BMW and in this case he's chauffeuring
around Gary, Gary James Brown. I don't remember anyhow. Check
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it out Beat the Devil. It's a short film from
a long time ago. But I thought it was maybe
a version of that. I don't think it is. But
the interesting thing for me is it feels it is
unhinged Knit Cage, but there's a level of menace or
sincerity to it that really feels to me like he's
(54:15):
leveled up in that kind of a role. Like usually
he's kind of wacky and he's so into it that
it's ridiculously over top the top, and this just felt like,
I don't know, there was just a groundedness to it
that I thought was really refreshing in this trailer.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
I mean, the trailer definitely made me wonder what the
heck is going on? Like what is what is the
thing that's done this? Like for a while I was wondering,
oh is this like is this title literal? Does it
turn out the Nicholas Cage is in fact the Devil?
And then it becomes like a like it becomes like
some sort of fausty end thing, and well, by the
(54:55):
time the trailer was over, I'm like, gosh, I don't know.
I mean, it's possible, but it's also possible that that
it's figurative and not literal. I don't know, and it
it is intriguing, Like I'm sure at the at the
end of the day, I'm sure it will be entertaining,
which to me is enough.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
If it's entertaining, then that's great. If it's if it
makes you think, that's a bonus. But I don't know
that this is gonna do that. But I think it's
gonna entertain you.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Yeah, I wonder if the point of the movie is
to wonder whether he's just a crazy like a psychopath
or the devil, But Yeah, it looks entertaining to me.
Like I said, I it's it's a level or tone
of acting. Uh, like a layer of acting is in
(55:44):
there that I'm not used to seeing Nick Cage do.
So I'm super interested to watch it for that. Uh.
You also got a full trailer for Poor Things.
Speaker 2 (55:52):
Yeah, Wes Wes Wes Anderson's Bride of Frankenstein movie. Yes,
except it's not Wes Anderson, but it looks like it
could be.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
The trailer plays exactly like a Wes Anderson movie.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
Yeah. Well yeah, complete with like unrealistic settings and buildings
and that kind of stuff. It feels like a Wes
Anderson movie and with like characters who are really quirky.
But it's from the same director who created The Lobster, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:26):
Which I never watched, but I do think I'm gonna
watch Poor Things. Emma Stone looks really like I like
the character to development She's done in the trailer for
her character who as one of the Frankenstein doctor who
(56:48):
who brought her about said something like her her mind
and body are not in sync, and she plays it
so well in the train.
Speaker 2 (56:54):
Yeah, and the music they paired in the trailer is
very unearthly and a little unsettling while also being whimsical.
So it does have this kind of like there's a
mixture of fairy tale whimsy and a little bit of like,
not just a little bit, there's some disturbing kind of
(57:15):
imagery and character design stuff going on too, and it's
the marriage of that where it you know, it makes
me think of early tim Burton. Not stylistically, it's not
stylistically exactly the same, but like early tim Burton, you
had this director who had a very particular vision, really
genuinely loved unusual characters and would make stories to have
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those characters play them out.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
Yeah. Yeah, and this one, I don't know. It seems
like it could have a happy ending.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
It could. I mean, we already know that if you die,
you can be brought back as long as that doctor's
still around.
Speaker 1 (57:56):
Yeah, like she it could have a very sad like
I've I've learned so many things about myself and this world,
like about societal norms and whether they are important or not,
and in this world view doesn't align with my view.
So it could be a very depressing end to a movie,
(58:18):
but it could be a very like self realization. I've
become a better person and I'm creating change in the world.
Kind of a movie, I guess we'll have to see.
Speaker 2 (58:27):
Yeah, one thing that you can see right now is
that the Summer Game Fest is underway. I'm just gonna
mention this quickly because we are running out of time.
But Summer Game Fest is by Jeff Keeley, who has
been involved in video games for years and years and years.
And there's no E three this year. E three was
canceled again. So this is kind of like a fan
(58:50):
facing event where all these different companies are coming forward
to talk about games that are coming out over the
next few months and yond, and they've already launched the event.
It started like the big kickoff event, happened last night
on Thursday, and it's continuing throughout the weekend and into
(59:11):
next week. So if you're into video games, make sure
you follow the Summer Game Fest because there's lots and
lots and lots of announcements and trailers and discussions about
the stuff that you're going to get to play in
the not too distant future.
Speaker 1 (59:27):
And if that makes you thirsty, you can drink your
gaming instead. Because Coca Cola has come out with a
ultimate Coca Cola flavored Coca Cola flavor subtitled plus XP.
It's supposed to take you canna ask.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
I don't know because I wasn't able to open this
news item, so I was like, I can't wait to
find out what the heck this is.
Speaker 1 (59:52):
Yeah, they've partnered with League of Legends to make like
it's supposed to taste like leveling up. What does that
taste like? You ask? Well, one person says it's gonna
be spoilery if you don't want to know, so give
me like ten seconds and then come back. One person
says it tastes like a quickly fading citrusy peach flavor.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
So I guess you drink that and then you say
ding and then you move on with your day. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
I have liked some of the limited addition flavors. I
liked dream World, I liked Starlight, I didn't care for Move,
but I when they said it tastes.
Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
It, Yeah, for a moment, my brain shut down, Aeriel,
because you were like talking about these things. I'm like,
I have never heard of any of this, and I
feel so disconnected with the world around me.
Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
So I have talked, We have talked about it. So
Coca Cola came out with like a Starlight flavor which
was supposed to taste like outer space and kind of
tasted like to some people's smores, into some people raspberry
and too me somewhere in between, and I really liked it.
And then dream World was kind of like if he
mixed Coca Cola with like a raspberry lacroix, which was
(01:01:08):
not bad. It was more fresh, and the Move was
kind of There were a couple other ones, and I
don't remember them all, but I think Move is the
most recent one, and it's a little too I don't know,
coconut marshmallows. I don't know. The flavor doesn't quite hit
me as well as the other ones. I don't like
it as much, but I'm excited to try this now
(01:01:32):
that I know. It doesn't taste like a sweaty keyboard,
because leveling up in Lega of Legends meant that, like
I was, just my hands were very sweaty and I
was hitting a lot of keys on my keyboard.
Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
So yeah, fair enough, well, and that wraps up our episode.
Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Yeah, if you have thoughts on any of the things
we've talked about today, you should reach out and tell
us we love hearing from you. Then how can they
do that?
Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Well, first, you're gonna go out and you're gonna buy
yourself a bottle of Seltzer water. And then you're gonna
go to the local farmer's market and you're going to
walk down the fruit aisle until you get to the cherries,
and you're gonna see one single cherry that is like
the ultimate example of cherry. Like you would think when
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you think of the word cherry, this is what you see.
And you just buy that one cherry and you bring
it home and you introduce the cherry to the bottle
of Seltzer water and buy that. I mean, you physically
bring the two close to each other and then introduce
one to the other cherry. This is seltzer water. Seltzer water,
this is cherry. You let things kind of develop from there.
Check in on them every now and then, but you know,
(01:02:45):
don't crowd them. They have to develop their relationship on
their own. And three weeks from that day, the Seltzer
water will be at the right point. The cherry will
just be gone. It'll be amazing, no like rotted cherry.
It'll just be it'll be gone. And the Seltzer water
will have absorbed just enough of the cheery essence to
(01:03:06):
now be the proper drink for you to chug in
one go, or it will not work and you chug
the whole thing and then you belch out your question
and I will show up around the corner and answer
it for you.
Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
And if you don't like belching, or you're afraid that
you might vomit and save belchin, I'm sorry. I even
said that. You can reach out to us on social
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us at large Nerdron pod at gmail dot com. We
love hearing from all of you.
Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
We love.
Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Getting to geek out with all of you. You are
really a part of the awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Community that we love. Yes, and until next time. I
am Jonathan, I swear that's how I think they make
Lacroix Strickland and.
Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
I am Ariel. Did you know that XP is the
same thing as like a squinchy tongue, sticky audy emoticon?
I wonder why?
Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Casting? The Large Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Casting
and produced, edited, published deleted, undeleted, published again. Curse That
by Jonathan Strickland, music by Kevin McLeod, having comptech dot
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com
Hey, party people, Welcome to the Large Nerdrug Collider, the
podcast that's all about the geeky stuff happening in the
world around us and how very excited we are about it.
I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always is the
amazingly wonderful Jonathan Strickland.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Everybody's got the right to be happy.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Truth.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Just don't just don't ask me where that's from, Okay.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Is it a reference to a show later one of
the stories later on?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Not even a little bit. It's a reference to a
Stephen Sondheim musical that is rarely performed.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Gotcha, gotcha my my musical theater nerd Heads hangs its
head in shame. Uh yeah, we got a lot of
stuff for you this week. Despite riders strike, there's still
lunckeky things happening.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yep, and we well. I apologize for the fact that
you're dealing with a double load of episodes because I
got real behind on doing the last one. But I
already explained in the last one what happened, so I
won't I won't go over it again. But this is
also my apology to you, Ariel, for that having happened.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Listen, I'm not worried about it, and for our listeners,
you know, double your podcast, double your fun with doubleman go.
I don't know, It's all good because we're here to
have fun, and man, do we have a lot of
fun things to talk about, mostly fun things to talk
about this week. Yes, I guess we should just jump
(01:51):
right into our thirty seconds or less then huh.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, And this time Ariel's got more to say than
I do, so we're going to have her go first.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes. The first thing is, I know you guys have
all been on pins and needles with as much of
as I've been talking about Diablo four. But earlier I
had mentioned that the first certain amount of people to
hit hardcore level one hundred or level one hundred in
Hardcore mode and Diablo four we get a special prize. Well,
the first person to do that has done so. This
(02:23):
past week, Woudijo hit the cap. They said that it
was hard, the last couple of hours are really grueling,
but they did it and it took them four days.
So you can. You still have the opportunity to hit
level one hundred at hardcore mode, but I don't know
for how long.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yes, And in case you forget that's when you're playing,
and when you're dead, you're dead.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You're dead, which I have. Okay, this is thirty seconds
to us.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, Okay, here we go. You might remember from a
few weeks back we talked about how Nicholas Cage will
be added to the Dead by Daylight, asynchronous competitive multiplayer game,
but we didn't know if he would be a survivor
or a killer. Now we know he's a survivor, which,
when you look back at the choices he's made in
(03:14):
his acting career, makes a lot of sense. I mean,
you know, to still get work after the Wickerman. The
dude is a survivor for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Bees you've never seen the wicker Man.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Not the bees. Not the bees.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I've never seen it. Next is a thing that I
hope hits your happy geek spot. That sounds wrong. Rocksmith
Plus is coming to iOS and Android if you're not familiar.
Rocksmith is a game where you basically plug a guitar
into your game system and learn to play guitar by
learning various techniques and notes and fingerings and songs. And
(03:52):
now they've got a subscription based rock Smith Plus that
you can do. But it's coming to your phone fifteen
dollars for a month, forty for three months, or one
hundred free year, and it will help you with tips
on how you're playing and tuning, and a whole bunch
of stuff. I really like this crossover of practical skills
and gameplay.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yes, the gamification of learning a musical instrument is a
cool idea. Okay. The Spider Man video game and the
Miles Morales offshoot from a few years back were both
big hits, and later this year, gamers will get a
chance to continue the story with Spider Man two. Now.
In this game, you'll encounter Venom, though it will be
(04:33):
Eddie Brock underneath Craven, the Hunter, the Lizard, and lots
of other batties as you swoop your way toward victory.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
We I think my husband actually got really frustrated at
the first Spider Man game.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I really enjoyed it, but it was one of those games.
I know, we're going over, we do that, but it's
one of those games.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Fault.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, it's one of those games. It's like a big,
open world game, and I love those for the first
couple of hours, but they can often seem so big
and so filled with stuff. That it becomes overwhelming and paradoxically,
I'll put it down and never pick it up again.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I've done that with a few games. All right, Next
quick news item, This one will actually be quick. Captain America,
the new movie coming out Captain America, I guess for,
has a new title. Originally it was going to be
called Captain America New World Order. They have now changed
that to Captain America Brave New World, which I personally
(05:37):
like better. And that's what it's still on track to
be released May third, twenty twenty four. That's what I
got to say about that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Okay, listeners, I'm going to explain to you why Ariel
likes that better, even if she isn't consciously aware of it.
It's because the phrase Brave New World comes from The Tempest.
The line is, oh, brave new World to have such
people in it. And in the Tempest there's a character
of an aerial type spirit and its name is Ariel.
(06:08):
And that's why Ariel likes that title more.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I mean, I've also played Ariel in The Tempest. I also,
I feel like it's at least right now, at least
the way I'm feeling about the world right now, Brave
New World sounds a little more uplifting.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yes, yes, and after Secret Invasion, I think we're going
to need a brave New World. Okay, yes, We've got
a first look at the logo for the next Ghostbusters film.
It has the familiar no Ghost symbol, but this time
it's coded in ice. Sounds pretty cool to me. Maybe
it's because the movie is scheduled to come out for
(06:48):
this Christmas, which to me is crazy because it only
just started shooting in March, so I'm really questioning whether
they're going to make a Christmas debut for this anyway.
The film has a working title Ghostbusters Firehouse, but that
might change by the time the movie comes out.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm I'm really curious if they are planning for Christmas,
if they'll make it with the writer's strike.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But we'll yeah, I ariel, like, I know we're blowing it.
I'm sorry, guys, my fault again, my fault. But I
when I saw that, I was like, this can't be right,
and I googled. I'm like, when does when's the next
Ghostbusters movie supposed to come out? And I kept coming
back with December twentieth, twenty twenty three, and I'm like,
(07:30):
that can't be right. It has to be twenty twenty four, right,
but it kept coming back as twenty twenty three, and
I'm like, is my computer broken? Because they only just
started shooting that. There's just no.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Way unless unless they started shooting it earlier and we
just don't know, which is unlikely. But yeah, I yeah,
we'll see, we'll see it like there's about to be uh,
there's we'll get it, okay to thirty seconds or less
(08:04):
one hundred points if you can figure out all the
various things I was going to say there. So the
next story is, despite the writer's strike and the possible
upcoming SAG after strike, we are getting Ahsoka still on
schedule per se. It's set to come out August twenty third,
And there's a new little clip that they've released begin
(08:27):
It doesn't show too much, but it looks fun and yeah,
that's thirty seconds.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Okay, Well, here we go. While I personally don't get
the appeal of the Transformers movies, despite the fact that
I was an avid fan of the toys when I
was a kid, I am at Midley in the minority.
Variety reports that yesterday, which was Thursday, June eighth, for reference. Transformers.
Rise of the Beasts picked up nearly nine million dollars
(08:53):
in previews, which is pretty impressive. But the bots are
about to go up against their toughest foe yet, Spider Man,
the Spider Verse, and.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Fine who yeah, fip flip Okay. I've heard good things
about both movies. Surprisingly not surprising on Spider Man, surprising
on Transformers. Uh. Next thing shocked. That musical that my
friend is in. Uh that when it first came out,
(09:22):
Jonathan was maybe a little upset for all the corn
jokes is really popular. It got nine nominated for nine
Tony Awards, and now it is getting a West End
run in London next year. I there a bunch of
people are saying it's like fun at the funniest show
since original musical since Book of Mormon. I'm really surprised
(09:45):
that it's getting a London tour because or London run
because it's kind of rock country music, and I just
didn't I'm so glad it's doing so well, but I
wasn't sure how a country musical was gonna pick up
right now.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So well, well, London is in a country. Hey, yes,
you all like country music. This one's from Algeria. All right,
oh hey, In that Transformer's Rise of the Beasts movie
that I mentioned earlier, there's an interesting easter egg of
a crossover, so skip ahead. If you do not want spoilers,
(10:22):
this is your one warning, Ariel, you might want to
put your fingers in your ears. So in the Transformers movie,
a character comes across a reference of a certain secret
American military program called g I Joe. The filmmakers indicate
they do hope to do a crossover of these two
properties in the future, but they have no actual roadmap
formed yet. It seems like they're just like, let's wing
(10:44):
it now, you know, and spoiling is half the battle,
all right.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Are people back? Okay? Last thirty seconds or less. Jeremy
Jordan is a actor and musical actor and gek actor.
He played Win in the super Girl television series on
the WV, and he was Jack in the filmed version
(11:09):
of the stage play of Newsy's that Disney has out.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
He was in Little Shop of Horrors as Seymour. I
think last year or the year before, in the last
few years, and now he is coming back for a
limited run. If you're in New York or you can
get to New York, or you are planning to go
to New York, you can catch him July twenty fifth
through September seventeenth. I wanted to see him in Little
(11:34):
Shop of Horrors when I went up to New York
last year and he was no longer there.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, I was confused because I thought Jeremy Jordan was
one of the green lanterns.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's hal Jordan, see, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You're right, okay, making me question question myself here.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Listen, Ariel, we know that I have that thing where
if two people have even remotely similar names, I will
swap them.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Listen, I do it too. I still have to pause
every time I say peace Maker.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
While while for our listeners it may have literally been
seconds since the last episode, for us it's been several days,
and that means it's time to chat about stuff, what
we've watched since the last time we recorded, And for me,
I haven't really been watching much other than I watched
a few more episodes of Muppets Mayhem. That's the series
(12:31):
on Disney Plus that's following the Electric Mayhem. As they
confound a music producer who is desperately trying to get
them to record their first album rather than just perpetually
being on tour, and I have to say I'm still
loving it. It's interesting because the show the show will
(12:52):
sometimes set up really big like cliffhangers, and then ignore
them in the next episode apologetically, and it's both infuriating
and hilarious at the same time. But I really, I
truly feel like it has captured the chaotic and yet
(13:12):
innocent kind of humor of the original Muppets run, but
with updated jokes. The only note I would give to
I mean, who am I? But the only note I
would give is I feel that Doctor Teeth is I
think his personality has been dialed up a notch too high,
(13:33):
Like Doctor Teeth is always kind of this groovy character,
but I feel like they punched it up a bit
more for this series and it gets a little old
for me. But every other character I have found endlessly
entertaining and hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
That's awesome. It is on my list along with all
the other things that I have not watched yet. I
of course am still going through Ravening War because there's
a new episode every week on Dropout, which I'm quite enjoying. Actually,
I didn't the first season Crowd of Candy. I have
said this before was not my favorite of their series
or campaigns, but I'm really enjoying this prequel. I also
(14:14):
watched the first episode of Fubar, which is that True
Lies esque family man Arnold Schwarzenegger action TV show on Netflix,
and that it was cute, it was fun. It was
a little cheesy, but I really enjoyed it. I like
(14:36):
True Lies. I like all of those kind of like
fun action movies that we had back I guess it
was the nineties or two thousands when that came out. Nineties.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, I like it, but man, there's one there are
a couple of things about that movie that are not cool, but.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Sure, sure, definitely, but like that genre of movie. Yeah,
I quite enjoyed at the time, the.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Fun sort of like there's a little bit of tongue
in cheek but not to the point where it's an
outright comedy, but it's like your action with comedic undertones.
I love those too, Like, yes, a fun action film
is great, Like that's I always feel like that's what
the Expendables are trying to be, but they never get
there for me, Like the Expendables don't quite reach that level,
(15:24):
but I can tell that's what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, foo bar. It is a little cheesy at times,
but it really hits that just like fun action. There's
some language, there's some violence, there's some gore, but not
too much. I just found it very enjoyable. It was
like a light, fun action watch. So I'm looking forward.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'll have to check it out because like I've been
craving something like that because a lot of the action
that's out there, it's essentially all like the postborn identity
style action right where everything gets way more let see
how many bones we can break, kind of crunchy, and
there's no shortage to that, like you have like the
(16:06):
Jack Reacher stuff. You know, there's lots of different series
and movies like the John Wick stuff where it all
gets hyper violent and that becomes the hallmark of action.
And I do kind of miss the more cheeky, silly,
not outright comedy, but fun action movies.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah. Yeah, so this is a TV show, but if
you if you like that, you'll enjoy it. Yeah. Like
you said, some of the jokes are cheesy and some
of there is there is some action. It's not like
Game of Thrones level action and violence and gore. But
you know there's a little bit of it. You've got
to have steaks, so sure. So yeah, So that's that's
what I've watched. It's been a busy week. I had
(16:47):
an exceptionally busy last weekend and this week has been
all ketch up.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, ketchup, and I broke myself. So yeah, that literally
has slowed me down.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah. Something that is not slowing down, though, is these
entertainment unions. I say these the entertainment unions taking steps
to better their work environment and residuals and pay. And
we had talked about SAG after, which is that the
actor union putting out a vote for a strike and
(17:26):
that we didn't have the results for it yet, but
now we do. They have ninety eight percent unanimously, not
ninety eight percent, have voted yes for a strike if needed.
Doesn't mean they're going to a strike. But if they
can't get their if they can't demands, if they can't
come to an agreement with the other bargaining party on
(17:47):
the changes they want to their contract by June thirtieth,
then it is likely they will call a strike. You know,
I want, I wish the writers were already out of
their strike, and I know the directors have a tentative deal.
I hope everybody can come to agreements soon because I
want folks to be able to make a living.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I do too. I want it like that. To me,
that all comes down to the studios, because yes, I
feel like the requests that are being thrown in there,
or demands, however you want to look at it, I
said demands, but really it's more like it's a negotiation,
and the things that the writers want and that the
actors want are important. They are important so that they
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can actually not just work, but make a living. And
as we have said many times that you know, while
there is this iconic kind of fantasy of the Hollywood
lifestyle where you're a jet setter and you're flying off
to can and then you're vacationationing in Greece and all
that kind of stuff, that's a tiny percentage of the
(18:50):
people who are working in entertainment that most people are
there there, you know, professionals. Some of them may be
holding down a second job or maybe even a third
job on top of it, because depending upon what they're doing,
they may not be raking in the huge bucks and
these negotiations are very important in getting those considerations arranged
(19:14):
so that people aren't taken advantage of and they can
make a living doing the thing they want to do.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah. No, I support the strike. I've said it before,
and it does come down to these production houses. Really,
I guess what I should have said is I hope
these production houses and the other bargaining parties that are
not the unions agree to stuff because, like you know,
I think we talked about IATSE is doing studies on
(19:42):
how to use AI to benefit the industry, but we
also need protections against using it. We've talked about for writers,
for AI to write a script and then they have
to edit it, you know. And for actors, you're like, well,
how can AI replace an actor? And that's because you know,
a studio might be able to gain permission if you're
not careful with your contract, might be able to say
we can use your your image in perpetuity for however
(20:04):
we want. And that's not cool because that means they
could put your face on anything anybody. Yeah, like they
could they could AI your They could c GI your
face on somebody else's body and use you in a
movie you didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Agree to and synthesize your voice.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
And synthesize it. Yeah, so that's really shifty and I
don't know how much that would actually happen, but like
that is one of the like the worst case scenarios
that people have been talking about with AI for the
Actors Union. So yeah, just all around better, better minimum
wage and residuals and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah. I mean, like when when Black Widow came out,
we had the big story about how, you know, Scarlett
Johansson was really upset because the her contract was predicated
upon the idea of it being a theatrical release film
and the fact that it went into streaming meant that
(21:01):
it cut a huge amount of what should have been
compensation to her out of the picture and she didn't
have any say in it. And so it's incidents like that.
It's those sort of precedent incidents that lead into the
need for these negotiations so that there are there's an
understanding between all parties about how things need to be handled,
(21:25):
so that you don't have these outliers where someone ends
up not getting what they are owed because of a
change in approach that they had no say in. So, yeah,
we've said it before. Like as Ariel mentioned, the vote
doesn't mean that they're necessarily going to strike. It just
(21:46):
means that they already have the authorization. They don't have
to hold another vote if it comes down to that,
which ends up in itself becoming a negotiation tool because
the actors can say to the studios, we've already approved
at so if we're not able to make an agreement,
we already know where this is going to go. So
(22:06):
that's that's a looming threat that can give more leverage
to the actors as they negotiate and hopefully it all
shakes out. I really want to see everybody get an
agreement that they are happy with and to be able
to move forward and you know, just figure out what
does it mean to work in entertainment in this era?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Like I said, I hope everybody
is able to come to agreement and get back to
work soon.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I think the hard thing for me is because I'm
an actor and sometimes I get to peek behind the curtain.
The things we talk about on this podcast are by
and large stuff that you can go and look up
on the internet and find the answers to. Right, we're
not talking about any big secrets. But I always slightly wonder,
(23:00):
and I'm like, I'm not saying anything I should never.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I think you're fine, because I mean, like, we've certainly
seen very high profile people in these various organizations and
jobs come forward and talk about these things. And again,
like you were saying, Ariel, it's not like we're we're
not saying anything that's proprietary or secret. It's not like
(23:27):
you're saying, oh, I know that out of these fifty
requests we have, it's only these ten that they really
care about, and if the other forty go unanswered, it'll
still be okay. Like it's not like we're saying anything
like that, So you know, all fifty gosh darn it,
all fifty have to be yes. Check those boxes.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yes. Moving on, moving on to some I guess some
funner maybe funner news, more fun news.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, funner is a great not word.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah. I have this thing. I found this article talking
about how Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon movie that's coming to
Netflix is going to be in two parts. I was like, oh,
maybe Zack Snyder's learning to edit down. That's not the case.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
It's exactly the opposite. Of that fact.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yes, So his script for Rebel Moon, according to Deadline
in some other interviews, is one hundred and seventy two pages.
That's a lot. Yeah, like three maybe over three hours
of content all told. And when they said, hey, Zach,
movies under two hours tend to do better on Netflix,
(24:42):
he was like, well, I can't cut out that much,
so how about we just make it two movies instead,
with multiple versions of cuts. That's the part, like I
get saying I've got this big, you know, epic that
i want to tell, and so I'm happy to cut
it into two parts, especially on Netflix where you could
binge both parts, right, And like, as a consumer, I'd say, yes,
if I see something's two hours, I'm more likely to
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watch two hours somethings than one four hour something because
I know that I can stop in the middle and
there's a good place for me to stop in the
middle if I want, right. Yeah, but it's just the
multiple cuts. Figure out what you want to tell and
tell that story.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Not Yeah. I think maybe he learned the wrong lesson
with the whole released the Snyder cut thing, Like you
don't you don't need to set out to do that
from the beginning. So the what it boils down to
is that Snyder's plan is to have each film have
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at least two cuts to it, where one would be
the more generally accessible version of the movie and the
other one would be the deeper dive version for people
who want that kind of thing. And it's like, it's
like if someone were to from the beginning create a
director's cut version of the movie they were making, and
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technically both cuts would be director's cuts because they're overseeing
the whole thing. It's just one is different from the other.
And I don't know, Ariel, all of this just makes
my head hurt.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I mean, yeah, same, and I say that I even understand. Look,
it's an actor. When I get an audition script, it
takes me. I spend so much time going what perspective
is this person I'm playing, What are their goals? What
perspective do they have? And there's Look, there's entire cyclopedias
of like action words of like I'm trying to get
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this other person to do this, or I'm trying to
do this to the other person. It is hard. Sometimes
I'll have five or six different perspectives of a character
that I get, and I struggle to cut down. But
you know what, I'm only allowed to send two or three,
sometimes only one, and I have to. So like, I
get it. I get not being able to pick between
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all of your babies, but at the same time, you
have to hold yourself accountable to Yeah, yeah, viewership.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Don't shove that job on the rest of us. Come on,
I don't want to have to. I don't want to
have to decide which of your visions is the better one.
That's your job, Zack Snyder. But I'm not gonna watch
it anyway because I don't like Zack Snyder's work. So
it's fine.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I've liked some of his stuff, that is, but he's
also created the movie that I dislike the most.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So maybe maybe like I'd like it more if I
went back. And I've heard that the Snyder cut of
Justice League is like in every way superior to the
movie came out.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I don't agree with that.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, a lot of people that I follow have said
that sort of thing. I have not seen it, so
I can't comment. And I don't think I've ever watched
Justice League all the way through. I've seen I've scrubbed
through it. I don't think I've actually watched it all
the way through because I just never like the DC
movies that much in the Snyder era, but I could
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never get past the feeling that he was like smashing
action figures together and saying fight, fight, fight, and that
was the movie.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I yeah. So, like, I understand why people say that
the Snyder versus the Snyder cut is better than the
Josswhedon cut. I think that both cuts have talked about
this before. Both cuts made some improvements. But I also
think both cuts, like the inverse of that is, both
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cuts were lacking something the other thing the other version
really hit well gotcha? So like in the Snyder cut,
because I did sit through all what four six hours of.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
That I think three days technically, but yes, like I.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, there are some character moments that he cuts out
that I thought were integral to the relationships of the
superheroes to make them the superheroes that I grew up
with that I see all the time, and were like
moments of connection between what was happening on the screen
and me that Snyder took out and I missed those,
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and I like he took out some ones that I
really loved. Also, he put in uh, like, I don't
need to watch a minute and a half of women
singing as slow mo Jason Momoa runs into the waves
and they sniff his shirt creepily. I you could make
that a five second like this a five second scene. Also,
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it's like I think that scene mostly is like in
both cuts, but the music has changed, and in the
Joss Whedon version it's like this high action call to
action song, and in the uh in the Snyder version,
it's like this h Norris love ballad, all most creepy
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love ballad, And it's just I don't think it was
a better choice.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah, without having seen it, and I feel like, I mean,
I probably commented on it too much already, like typical
typical geek nerd reaction, and by that I mean like
the stereotypical geek nerd who has an opinion on something
even if they haven't actually read it, seen it, whatever.
So I apologize to all of you, including Ariel, for that.
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It's it's it just boils down to there are only
a couple of movies that Zack Snyder has made that
I have found entertaining, and the ones that I saw
that I did not like, I didn't like them so
much that it has turned me off of watching other
Zack Snyder movies. So totally, that's kind of where I'm
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coming down, Like, it doesn't mean that any of the
movies are bad, even the ones I don't like. It
doesn't mean that those movies are bad, just that I
had a visceral negative reaction and did not enjoy it,
and that has since colored my perception moving forward. And
so I want to I'm trying to own this stuff
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because I am so tired of people categorically saying something
is really good or really bad, rather than I really
enjoyed it or I didn't really like this.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, I mean, I get it, but I also get it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Well. I have one thing I wanted to insert that's
not in our show notes that I forgot to add,
but I thought we could just mention really briefly. It's
something that's actually in mainstream news. So I'm sure that
all of our listeners already know. But Tom Holland has
said he's going to take a year off of acting.
After he was in what was the Piece? He was
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in the crowded room. He was in the crowded room,
and he said that the experience was taxing to the
point where he needs to take time off. So he's
going to take essentially a year hiatus from acting, which
I'm sure thrills Sony to no end and possibly also
mcu disney. But but hey, you know what, I say,
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go for it if you if you've got that agency
to be able to do that, more power to you.
I would rather you take a year off and recharge
and come back with a new perspective and a new
enthusiasm than to slog through it and suffer over time.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah. I had actually missed that news item, but I'm
glad that he's doing it. Mental health is real important,
and sometimes you connect with things that are real hard,
you know, because maybe you're playing a character that's had
a similar circumstance to something that you've had to overcome
in your real life, and it can be very taxing.
I'm not I haven't watched a crowded Room. I'm not
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super familiar with it. I'm not saying that's the case,
but I think it's good for actors to be aware
of their mental health and take breaks when they need it.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Agreed. Yeah, I don't know if it's the was the
content of the work, because I also haven't seen the
credit room, so I don't know if it was the content,
or if it was the shooting conditions, or if he
was paired with people that he just found difficult to
work with. I don't know any of the details of
what it was that was so challenging for him. I mean,
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I do know that the actress who is hired to
play his mother in the piece is like only nine
years older than he is. But that's, you know, that's Hollywood,
good old Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I have things that I'd like to say on that,
but I can't, so I won't. Hey, yeah, age doesn't.
What I will say is your actual age doesn't doesn't
often matter unless you're a minor on camera. It's the
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age that you look in, the age that you can play,
or the age that the audience will buy. Yes, And
there are a plethora of reasons why you might cast
somebody with like disparate ages to the character they're playing.
They are a plethora of reasons, and some of them
are really good.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So yeah, I mean, we could if we were to
sit here and enumerate all the films and TV series
where you had actresses who were either barely older or
in some cases even younger than the co star they
were hired to play. As you know, mom to, we
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would be here all day and we would just get
more and more upset. So instead, let's talk about how
Miyazaki has, you know, a final film coming up before
Miyazaki retires, and they're taking a very interesting approach to
how they're promoting it.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah, I are you a fan of Miyazaki?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I am I Actually so I haven't seen all of
Miyazaki's work, but all the work that I have seen
I have found to be fascinating.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Same, same, the interesting approach to these thinking. So, Miyazaki
went into retirement and then came out of retirement and
apparently is going back into retirement again. But before his
final movie comes out, which it's going to come out soon,
they are not putting out any trailers or TV commercials
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or newspaper ads or marketing for it. And he says
this is because, like he feels, this is what moviegoers want.
They don't want the movie to be spoiled. And if
you put out three trailers, you know, Johnathan and I
have talked about this, then you know what the movie
is going to be. All the best parts are in
the trailer, and that happens more often than it ought to.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, and it happens when you bring in a marketing
company that ends up screening your film and then picking
out the parts that they think are going to really
appeal to audiences. And sometimes that means taking something that
really should have been withheld so that the audience in
the theater got to experience it for the first time
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as they watched the story instead of on a trailer.
See also Darth Maul and the double ended Lightsaber or
the ant Man sequence where the toy train derails, because
both of those were moments that I think I would
have totally delighted in had I first seen them in
the theater, but instead I was just waiting for them
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to happen because I had already seen them in the trailer.
So I fully respect this decision me too.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
You know. It's one of the things I liked about
the D and D movie is the jokes that were like, oh,
they ruined this unfunny joke in the trailer. It was
different in the movie. It was just different. It had
a different really well done Yeah, I'm fond of this.
I'm I'm honestly not familiar with How Do You Live,
(36:54):
which is the movie that's coming out. I'm not familiar
with the story. It's based off of a nineteen thirty
seven not novel by Jen Zibro Yoshino. I've probably not
pronounced that correctly.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
From whynders. From what I understand, it's very very loosely
based off of it. And honestly, I think the only
reason this approach works is because we're talking about Miyazaki.
We're talking about auteur who has a filmography of work
where it's he has a proven vision and approach to
storytelling where he can do this. Obviously, you could not
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do this with every movie because if all you had
to go on was a title of a film and
you had no real knowledge of the people behind it
or what the story was, it just wouldn't work. So
Miyazaki has the cred where he can do this kind
of thing, but a lot of other filmmakers wouldn't necessarily
have that same sort of ability, maybe like someone like
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Wes Anderson or something like that, Yes, but not not
most people.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
That being said, having articles out about the fact that
they're not putting out promotional promotional materials is promotional material. Also,
it comes out July fourteenth in Japan. I don't know
when it comes to the US, but there is a
poster for it, so you can get a shiny sneak
peak on that poster.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yes, we talked about a tiny sneak peek in our
previous episode when we talked about the nice opening thank you,
the opening title sequence for season two of Good Omens,
And now we have a full trailer and the thing
that Ariel said she wanted in that little sneak peak
turns out she must have wished on the correct star.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, they heard me and they answered my request. It
looks like season two in a decent at least a
decent chunk. You know, there's so much that went on
in season one of Good Omens, so many plot lines
that they had to pull together. But at least one
of the major plot lines for season two is Gabriel
kind of coming to Earth and not remembering stuff, and
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then zerfl and Crowley trying to have to Crawley Crowley.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Curley Crawley, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Having to like fix that figure stuff out.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yeah, find out like why has he come to Earth?
Why can he not remember what he was? You know,
what happened? And uh, protecting him from the various powers
both above and below that seemed to be out to
get him for one reason or another. So it's kind
of like a mystery, which is great. And I don't know,
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I thought the trailer was delightful.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I agree. I'm very excited for season two. I had
a like, I like, I have a lack of words
for how much I'm excited for season two. And I'm
also so excited because we're gonna get a lot more
like time jumping seeing them through the ages, the main characters,
so that'll be fun too.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, and it's they're obviously toying with the stuff that
fans have gone gaga over, specifically the semi romantic nature
of the relationship between a Zerofl and Crowley, where there's
this sort of winking acknowledgment of that in part of
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the trailer. I do worry, you know, that it's perhaps
towing the line where they could be baiting as opposed
to actually saying something significant or sufficient. But you know,
with Neil Gaiman's involvement, I'm not too worried because I
have a feeling that he would want to not go
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down that route in the first place. But yeah, It's
one of those things where there's been a lot of
entertainment that has sort of void with that and not
followed through, and that can feel like a rug pull.
So hopefully that's not going to be the case here.
But everything in this trailer looked really fun and John
ham looks like he's just going to have a blast
(41:13):
in this season.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah, yeah, I really enjoyed John hamm and comedic roles.
It's interesting because I understand the importance of what you
were saying about having a romance between the characters, but
I also feel like and they were definitely toying with it,
and I understand the importance of follow through in that
for many, many, many, many many many people.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
I also really like stories where there's like a deep,
like a deep familial best friend love, because I feel
like that also is not shown enough between men in media. Yes,
So like, yeah, I'm fine either way because I think
both of those aspects are very important to see.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yeah, I think well, and I think.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
It's probably an unpopular opinion.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
But the issue I have is that that if they're
toying with one depiction and then ultimately they say, oh,
it's this this platonic brotherly or or masculine love for
one another, but it's not a romantic or sexual love
for one another. The it feels like they're trying to
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play it both ways, and that's where people get upset,
right where there's this this hint of what you see
on screen, but that it feels like it's again baiting
it's there. This was a big discussion back in the
Sherlock era, right between Sherlock and Watson. In the Benedict
Cumberbatch one that was a big issue that people had
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was that it seemed like they were trying to have
it both ways, and it can. It can come across
as a bit cynical and an attempt to get an audience.
So my hope is just that they avoid that. However
they depict it, they do so in a way where
it comes across as genuine and it doesn't feel like
they were trying to do a bait and switch. As
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long as it's like that that, I'm cool. Whether it's
platonic or romantic, it just needs to be genuine.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
I one thousand percent agree, And like I said, I'm
totally fine however it comes out as long as it's genuine,
because I really enjoyed season one, and I'm expecting to
enjoy season two. We can see how it'll play out
because it premieres on July twenty eighth, so it's just
around the corner.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Next we have to talk about We also got like
a brief teaser for the Venture brother movie that was
coming out a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Venture Yeah, it's coming out soon. It'll be out on
actual physical media, which hey, yay if you're into that,
like I am, so yeah, the full Venture Brothers trailer,
you get a little bit more of a hint about
what's happening. Hank ends up going off on his own
(44:06):
for some reason, so that seems to be part of
the driving element of the plot. The monarch is obviously
up to the monarch's attempted nefarious dealings. The monarch usually
ends up being his own worst enemy, and Missus doctor
girlfriend is off on her own adventures for some reason.
(44:30):
Like you, you don't actually get a lot of feel
for what the story is. It's more like giving you
a sense of the tone and the kind of sense
of humor of the film, which I think is fine
if you're a fan of Venture Brothers, though chances are
you're already on board, and if you're not a fan
of Venture Brothers, this is just going to be very
(44:50):
confusing to you.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, more Venture Brother goodness for a
Venture Brother fans. We're also getting more what your goodness
for which fans? The Final or the We've got a
new trailer for season three of The Witcher. It looks
like the Witcher.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Yes, it does. It looks a lot like the Witcher.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Yeah. I like, I'm surprised how much like the Witcher
it looks like.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
I was really you know, I was sitting there thinking
that we were finally going to get a Dune season
of the Witcher. But no, it's just more of the Witcher.
Speaker 1 (45:24):
I was expecting, like the the like my Little Pony
level of Diablo in the Oh.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
The Witcher is magic.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Yeah, yes, yes, I mean it looks good. It looks
like maybe the storylines because Jonathan, you haven't watched it, correct,
I have not.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Season one and two I enjoyed, but they very much
had storylines all over the place, and because I didn't
already know the lore, it was hard to follow. It
seems like they might be tying things together more in
this season.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, I will watch it. This is also Henry Cavill's
final season as the Witcher. We know that, like Liam Hemsworth,
is going to take over the part after this season.
You know, there was all this talk about this when
it was happening, and there was discussion that perhaps Henry
Cavill was leaving mainly so that he could pursue playing
Superman in the DC universe, which obviously that has changed dramatically,
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which you know, people are still sad about, including me,
because I think Henry Cavill made a great Superman. It's
just that he never got a chance to be in
a great Superman movie in my opinion. But I agree.
But the the other thing is that the other rumor
that was going around was that Henry Cavill kind of
wanted out because there was this perception that the show
(46:42):
was just creating storylines that aren't in the original material,
whether that's the books or the games, and that it
was becoming more and more of a chore to do
the show because it wasn't the vision that Henry Cavill had.
You know, he clearly has a very deep and abiding
(47:02):
love of the source material, and if in fact that
is part of the issue. I could see that being
a reason for him deciding that's time to walk away,
because if the thing you love is changing and no
longer being the thing that you fell in love with,
it can be torture to stick with that for like
eight or nine seasons until you finally quit the Georgia Renaissance.
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I'm sorry I got off on a tangent there.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Listen, I'm gonna go on a brief tangent too. We
don't have a lot of time, so we're probably going
to speed up on some of these items. But I
watched the King of the Hill Renaissance Festival episode last night,
and it hurt. It hurt, It hurt me so much
that like my brain was oozing out my ear and
I had to multiple times have Tony pause the episode
(47:54):
of this dumb sitcom TV show from twelve years ago
so I could say, this makes no sense sense. They
wouldn't do this because this and this and this and
this and that doesn't what the I can't like. I screamed,
I frustrated, screamed through most of it. So yeah, I
don't think there's any problem going away.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
One.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
I don't think any problem with tangenting. Two. I don't
think there's any problem with going away from the source material.
But if you don't enjoy that, there's also no problem
in saying, hey, I think it's time for me to
step back.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Yeah, and some scars never heal. Next up, we're gonna
talk about a first look of a scene from Twisted
Metal where Anthony Mackie's character John Doe is in an
altercation with sweet Tooth, the psychotic clown who drives an
ice cream truck in the Twisted Metal franchise. They're fighting
in a casino. It's just a cute little moment between
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the two and you can see the interaction between the characters.
Sweet Tooth is voiced by Will Arnett. It is clearly
not will Arnette physically playing the character, but.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
It was is the the body actor, I think, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
And it was a it was a fun, goofy fight scene.
I don't know that it hit for me totally, but
I could see where they were going with it, and
I thought, this is a funny idea. I don't know
that one lands, but it's enough for me to want
to check it out.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
Yeah. Sorry, Samoa Joe, not Joe sma.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Oh, Samoa Joe. Yeah, former Well, actually, I guess he's
a current a wrestler. He's been a wrestler for years
and years and years.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
He's the body actor. I'm always impressed when you get
a good body actor and voice actor who really connect,
because that's that's hard to get everything down to such
a fine hair science of making both sets of emotions
and physicality matchup. And it looks really good in this.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
I see also David Prowson and James Earl Jones aka
Darth Vader.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
Yeah, or any buddy in Doom Patrol who doesn't show
their face, usually a robot man and a negative man.
I agree, it looked kind of cute and kind of fun.
I honestly felt the scene was a little long they
could have edited down some, but way more entertaining than
I anticipated it being.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
So I'm a twisted metal yeah.
Speaker 1 (50:20):
Yeah, yeah, I'm also intrigued. I'm also very intrigued by
Justice League War Justice League War World. I almost said
warg World. That's very different, maybe yeah, because we got
a trailer for that. It's an animated Justice League movie
that spans kind of Western time and film noir and
maybe post apocalyptic and maybe medieval.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Yeah, they are transported to a world where they are
put into these different scenarios where they have to battle,
so it's essentially like a gladiatorial world. It makes me
think a lot of the for Ragnarok film like it.
It reminds me of that, Like it's a world where
these various heroes are being forced to be in these
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scenarios and fight. But it looks good like it is.
And it's also fun to see characters up here in
different genres, like seeing Wonder Woman dressed up as a
Western you know, Gunslinger was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
Yeah, yeah, really cool. I expect a lot of cosplay
of that. Yeah, I not. I like a lot of
the Justice League animated movies. Some of them are so dumb,
but I enjoy a lot of them, and I think
this is one that I will very much enjoy. Something
else that almost I almost didn't add to our list, Yeah,
(51:45):
because I saw an article about it and then my
husband sent me the trailer and I'm like, well, now
I have to watch it, and now it's on our list.
Is the trailer for Sympathy for the Devil, which is
a new Nick Cage movie.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Yeah. I actually saw this trailer separate from making the
notes for this and I had the same sort of thought,
Like I was like, should I put this on our
lineup or does it not belong? It's bonkers. It's it's like,
you know, I made the joke earlier in the thirty
seconds or less about It's hard to tell whether, like
(52:21):
Nick Cage is obviously the survivor, because if you look
at his filmography, you're like, how could anyone still make
movies after making that one? This one feels like one
of those bonkers films where he's playing a some malevolent
character who's forcing this this this otherwise like average dad
guy who's played by the same dude who played one
(52:44):
of the characters in Suicide Squad. He was the.
Speaker 1 (52:46):
The is it is Joel Kinneman.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
Yes, Joel Kinneman. Yeah, he was like the minder, like
he was the guy who had to look after the
suicide Squad. He was flat character. That's it. Reflect I
don't remember names, so but anyway, he's like playing like
a dad and he ends up being hijacked by Nicholas
Cage's character. And like, even when I was looking at
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the synopsis, these characters weren't given names. They were just
known as like the driver and the passenger, that kind
of thing. But Nick Cage comes across as he's unhinged
Nick Cage for this movie, like you wonder which Nick
Cage you're gonna get, that's the one you're getting for
Sympathy for the Devil.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
It's so two things really interesting about it. One At first,
I thought it was just a longer version of the
BMW films Beat the Devil with Gary Oldman and Denny
Treo and James Brown, where the main character chauffer's people
around in a BMW and in this case he's chauffeuring
around Gary, Gary James Brown. I don't remember anyhow. Check
(53:52):
it out Beat the Devil. It's a short film from
a long time ago. But I thought it was maybe
a version of that. I don't think it is. But
the interesting thing for me is it feels it is
unhinged Knit Cage, but there's a level of menace or
sincerity to it that really feels to me like he's
(54:15):
leveled up in that kind of a role. Like usually
he's kind of wacky and he's so into it that
it's ridiculously over top the top, and this just felt like,
I don't know, there was just a groundedness to it
that I thought was really refreshing in this trailer.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
I mean, the trailer definitely made me wonder what the
heck is going on? Like what is what is the
thing that's done this? Like for a while I was wondering,
oh is this like is this title literal? Does it
turn out the Nicholas Cage is in fact the Devil?
And then it becomes like a like it becomes like
some sort of fausty end thing, and well, by the
(54:55):
time the trailer was over, I'm like, gosh, I don't know.
I mean, it's possible, but it's also possible that that
it's figurative and not literal. I don't know, and it
it is intriguing, Like I'm sure at the at the
end of the day, I'm sure it will be entertaining,
which to me is enough.
Speaker 1 (55:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
If it's entertaining, then that's great. If it's if it
makes you think, that's a bonus. But I don't know
that this is gonna do that. But I think it's
gonna entertain you.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Yeah, I wonder if the point of the movie is
to wonder whether he's just a crazy like a psychopath
or the devil, But Yeah, it looks entertaining to me.
Like I said, I it's it's a level or tone
of acting. Uh, like a layer of acting is in
(55:44):
there that I'm not used to seeing Nick Cage do.
So I'm super interested to watch it for that. Uh.
You also got a full trailer for Poor Things.
Speaker 2 (55:52):
Yeah, Wes Wes Wes Anderson's Bride of Frankenstein movie. Yes,
except it's not Wes Anderson, but it looks like it
could be.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
The trailer plays exactly like a Wes Anderson movie.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
Yeah. Well yeah, complete with like unrealistic settings and buildings
and that kind of stuff. It feels like a Wes
Anderson movie and with like characters who are really quirky.
But it's from the same director who created The Lobster, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:26):
Which I never watched, but I do think I'm gonna
watch Poor Things. Emma Stone looks really like I like
the character to development She's done in the trailer for
her character who as one of the Frankenstein doctor who
(56:48):
who brought her about said something like her her mind
and body are not in sync, and she plays it
so well in the train.
Speaker 2 (56:54):
Yeah, and the music they paired in the trailer is
very unearthly and a little unsettling while also being whimsical.
So it does have this kind of like there's a
mixture of fairy tale whimsy and a little bit of like,
not just a little bit, there's some disturbing kind of
(57:15):
imagery and character design stuff going on too, and it's
the marriage of that where it you know, it makes
me think of early tim Burton. Not stylistically, it's not
stylistically exactly the same, but like early tim Burton, you
had this director who had a very particular vision, really
genuinely loved unusual characters and would make stories to have
(57:38):
those characters play them out.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
Yeah. Yeah, and this one, I don't know. It seems
like it could have a happy ending.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
It could. I mean, we already know that if you die,
you can be brought back as long as that doctor's
still around.
Speaker 1 (57:56):
Yeah, like she it could have a very sad like
I've I've learned so many things about myself and this world,
like about societal norms and whether they are important or not,
and in this world view doesn't align with my view.
So it could be a very depressing end to a movie,
(58:18):
but it could be a very like self realization. I've
become a better person and I'm creating change in the world.
Kind of a movie, I guess we'll have to see.
Speaker 2 (58:27):
Yeah, one thing that you can see right now is
that the Summer Game Fest is underway. I'm just gonna
mention this quickly because we are running out of time.
But Summer Game Fest is by Jeff Keeley, who has
been involved in video games for years and years and years.
And there's no E three this year. E three was
canceled again. So this is kind of like a fan
(58:50):
facing event where all these different companies are coming forward
to talk about games that are coming out over the
next few months and yond, and they've already launched the event.
It started like the big kickoff event, happened last night
on Thursday, and it's continuing throughout the weekend and into
(59:11):
next week. So if you're into video games, make sure
you follow the Summer Game Fest because there's lots and
lots and lots of announcements and trailers and discussions about
the stuff that you're going to get to play in
the not too distant future.
Speaker 1 (59:27):
And if that makes you thirsty, you can drink your
gaming instead. Because Coca Cola has come out with a
ultimate Coca Cola flavored Coca Cola flavor subtitled plus XP.
It's supposed to take you canna ask.
Speaker 2 (59:44):
I don't know because I wasn't able to open this
news item, so I was like, I can't wait to
find out what the heck this is.
Speaker 1 (59:52):
Yeah, they've partnered with League of Legends to make like
it's supposed to taste like leveling up. What does that
taste like? You ask? Well, one person says it's gonna
be spoilery if you don't want to know, so give
me like ten seconds and then come back. One person
says it tastes like a quickly fading citrusy peach flavor.
Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
So I guess you drink that and then you say
ding and then you move on with your day. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
I have liked some of the limited addition flavors. I
liked dream World, I liked Starlight, I didn't care for Move,
but I when they said it tastes.
Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
It, Yeah, for a moment, my brain shut down, Aeriel,
because you were like talking about these things. I'm like,
I have never heard of any of this, and I
feel so disconnected with the world around me.
Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
So I have talked, We have talked about it. So
Coca Cola came out with like a Starlight flavor which
was supposed to taste like outer space and kind of
tasted like to some people's smores, into some people raspberry
and too me somewhere in between, and I really liked it.
And then dream World was kind of like if he
mixed Coca Cola with like a raspberry lacroix, which was
(01:01:08):
not bad. It was more fresh, and the Move was
kind of There were a couple other ones, and I
don't remember them all, but I think Move is the
most recent one, and it's a little too I don't know,
coconut marshmallows. I don't know. The flavor doesn't quite hit
me as well as the other ones. I don't like
it as much, but I'm excited to try this now
(01:01:32):
that I know. It doesn't taste like a sweaty keyboard,
because leveling up in Lega of Legends meant that, like
I was, just my hands were very sweaty and I
was hitting a lot of keys on my keyboard.
Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
So yeah, fair enough, well, and that wraps up our episode.
Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Yeah, if you have thoughts on any of the things
we've talked about today, you should reach out and tell
us we love hearing from you. Then how can they
do that?
Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Well, first, you're gonna go out and you're gonna buy
yourself a bottle of Seltzer water. And then you're gonna
go to the local farmer's market and you're going to
walk down the fruit aisle until you get to the cherries,
and you're gonna see one single cherry that is like
the ultimate example of cherry. Like you would think when
(01:02:24):
you think of the word cherry, this is what you see.
And you just buy that one cherry and you bring
it home and you introduce the cherry to the bottle
of Seltzer water and buy that. I mean, you physically
bring the two close to each other and then introduce
one to the other cherry. This is seltzer water. Seltzer water,
this is cherry. You let things kind of develop from there.
Check in on them every now and then, but you know,
(01:02:45):
don't crowd them. They have to develop their relationship on
their own. And three weeks from that day, the Seltzer
water will be at the right point. The cherry will
just be gone. It'll be amazing, no like rotted cherry.
It'll just be it'll be gone. And the Seltzer water
will have absorbed just enough of the cheery essence to
(01:03:06):
now be the proper drink for you to chug in
one go, or it will not work and you chug
the whole thing and then you belch out your question
and I will show up around the corner and answer
it for you.
Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
And if you don't like belching, or you're afraid that
you might vomit and save belchin, I'm sorry. I even
said that. You can reach out to us on social
media on Twitter where llenc Underscore podcast on Instagram, Facebook
and discord were Large Nerdron Collider, and you can email
us at large Nerdron pod at gmail dot com. We
love hearing from all of you.
Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
We love.
Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Getting to geek out with all of you. You are
really a part of the awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Community that we love. Yes, and until next time. I
am Jonathan, I swear that's how I think they make
Lacroix Strickland and.
Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
I am Ariel. Did you know that XP is the
same thing as like a squinchy tongue, sticky audy emoticon?
I wonder why?
Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Casting? The Large Nerdron Collider was created by Ariel Casting
and produced, edited, published deleted, undeleted, published again. Curse That
by Jonathan Strickland, music by Kevin McLeod, having comptech dot
(01:04:30):
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