Damn You Hollywood: The Naked Gun (2025)

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Whorad for Hollywood, where stars are living large ken mansions
with their servants and their credit cards and charge with fame.
That's fleeting, but the egos never change. Where everyone's a
genius except the ones.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Who really arrange.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hooray for Hollywood, where the scandals always sell, Where every
whispered secret is a new tabloids to oh, how we
adore the unless red cockpit, the law, toay for how
it was well less?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
There is always more.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages.
You are listening to a rat Religion broadcasting premier podcast.
Damn you, Hollywood, and here's your host, Robert Winfrey. I
have a question, Zach. Yeah, were you trying to meet
doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget? And if you were, you

(01:36):
turned way too soon? I was, I was, I was
gonna do the like the mister Claw thing, and I
was waiting for to go I'll catch you next time,
gadget next time. And then you know, you turn around
and go, oh my god, it's Zachary's trouble. That was
the cat you definitely needed. If you're going to do

(01:57):
like doctor Claw, you need a cat, needs a strong word.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Next time, mark next time.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
There it is all right, Robert, this is your I
splitting headache right here. And it's uh, what is it
is that I have a headache this big and it's
got et cetera and written all over it?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Is?

Speaker 4 (02:20):
That?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Is that how that goes?

Speaker 4 (02:22):
I think that's how I think that's how that goes. Yeah,
you know, uh, I used to remember the referral point
for over the right eyebrow. It's on the back of
your neck. I can't remember where it is, specifically, off
the top of my head.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, if it involves me getting hit in the back
of my head to make this guy away, I'll be
glad to be. You know. You take take a Halliburton briefcase,
you know, or a steel chair, whatever, whatever gets the job.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
It's less impact and more like, okay, here we press
on the soft tissue. Maybe get something to scrape, so
we break up some of the fibrodic connective stuff. That's
not good.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I would absolutely love it if someone pressed on my
soft tissue right now with lead. Hey, what are you
doing tonight, Robert.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Talking your suicide radiation?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Apparently Robbie and Ronnie Adam is here with the hot take.
No one needs a cat, dude. I went to my
girlfriend's house like maybe less than an hour last week,
and I'm pretty certain whatever exposure I had to the
cat dander in the air got me sick for a week.
I'm just now getting over it.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
That's unfortunate.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, well maybe later, but not now.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
I miss you, Zach.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
I do have two cats around the house, so if
one of them comes over, we'll stop.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Threatening me with cat dander. It's only funny if I
want to kill myself when other people want to do it,
it's not so funny. And here is Ronnie Adams again,
Mark's soft tissue? All right, Robert for the third time.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Well, since this is Mark's therapy session, Mark, are you
doing tonight?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Just duck you? You please get this move on with this.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Well, we've also got Zach with us. You've heard him
a few times how you doing, Zach?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Very good? How are you?

Speaker 4 (04:10):
I imagine this was your kind of movie.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I wrote half of it.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
It felt that way to me sitting there in the theater.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
You're gonna tell me what we're doing at all? Like
like proprie. Would someone in my life please stick to
a schedule in a format? Anyone? I'm begging anyone in
my life to stay with the schedule in a format.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Well, Mark, it's only been four and a half minutes.
We are still well under time. Take a take a breath.
No tonight, everyone, we are discussing the reboot slash sequel
slash remake of The Naked Gun starring Liam Neeson and
Pamela Anderson's also featuring really cheap acting talent in the

(04:50):
form of people signed to TKO in some some former fashion.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
The Naked Gun is a twenty twenty five American crime
action comedy film directed by Akiva Schaeffer now to be
confused with the Kiva Goldman I Wish I.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Did Last Week to My Apologies.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
And will Never let You live It down by Shaeffer
and written by Shaffer, Dan Gregor, not Connor McGregor, and
Doug Mann. It is the fourth film in the Naked
Gun franchise. It certain Liam Neisen in the main role
with the aforementioned Pamela Anderson. The Oscar snubbed Pamela Anderson
as I've been referring to her.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
She was arguably snubbed on the nomination side, but no
further than that.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I totally agree with that. Kevin Durant and Danny Huston
starring in supporting roles. It follows the son of Lieutenant
Frank Greben, who must succeed his father father this footstep
ship event, the closure of police squad. So Zach, you
asked to be here, and this is you. This is
not your your bag usually this is like this said

(05:47):
the second time this year, Like what what gives you
the right, sir? What makes you think you could just
waltz on any old podcast that isn't a cartoon? Who
the hell you think you are?

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Alexis Well, I just I wasn't planning to see this
mone but then I realized it was full of puns,
had weird al in it, lots of cartoon humor, and
I thought that sounds awful, But I must be I
must see it. And that's why, that's why, that's why

(06:17):
I'm here.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Have you seen the previous Naked Gun movies?

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, I have the first one on VHS because that's
that's how I roll. And uh, I don't have it
as a prop because everything's in storage right now.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
God, but.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I did get this cool poster at the school poster
at the local.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Showing my my daughter has one of those, because so
funny thing about that. I you know, I take a
picture of my kids using in front of the movie poster.
But when we go to the a MC brand and
there's usually a an Imax poster that we take most
of our photos in front of the US or second
to that, we'll go to the Dolby and there's usually
a poster in front of that one. In this particular case,

(07:02):
we went to. The earliest showing I could get them
to was the one in Rear Review, which is really
great if you for those people who live in Tampa
and nobody else. But we'll keep going with my tourism talk.
So I take him to the Riverview AMC and there's
no poster outside for the Naked Gun so big it's
got to be one inside. And I say to the
young lady, this young chippy, I say, you young gen

(07:24):
Z person, where is the poster for the naked gun?
And she went back right here, boss, except one of
the posters. And I'm like, that's not what I said.
And this is why I don't talk to people or
leave my house. So anyway, that's how Lily ended up
with a poster. So we took a post. We took
a picture of her with the poster and my son
standing in front of down to Abbey because that would
be funny for my ex wife. Two steps later, two

(07:49):
one two, there was the big cardboard thing of Liam
Neeson doing the Van Damn split right there. And I
looked at my kids and I said children and they
said father And I said children, like all them children.
I said, should we retake this photo or should we
keep the one of Lily holding the naked gun poster
in front of down to Abbey? And they went, we're
not your monkeys. We've already taken this picture. We will

(08:11):
get we will go have our seats now, done with
you and your foolishness, and they stormed away. That's how
they talk.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Bring us the popped corn.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yes, buttered popcorn, father, that is what we're on about now,
and not if you have photography and your foolishness.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
I dare you want to actually create memories or document
things for yourself in your later years when your brain
turns to putting.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yes, I have seen the original. I have seen all three.
The original is my favorite. I'm not a fan of
the second one. There one's a slight improvement from the
second one, but the first one will always I think
it was. I think it was like good, like going
from like it's obviously the same world as like hot

(08:58):
shots and plane that kind of.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I just never read that. I put it up before
I even read read the comment.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
You haven't you learned your lesson about that yet?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Mark, not Pat, So you know I had faith.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Like he's the only one who'll do that to you.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's fair.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
But yeah, I really like it because I felt like
it was good at going from like seeing location and
and I like it. I like that it was like
trying to be one of those like old school detective
show movie thing, but it was. But that was kind
of the charm of the Naked Gun series is that
everyone was kind of playing it straight. I'm like, yeah,

(09:41):
I mean, there are there they know they're in a
silly movie, but it's like they're gonna play it super straight,
and I think I'll get more into this, but I
mean that's also part of why this movie works.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
So a couple of things where now is in all
of these By the way, he's in the first three
Naked Gun movies and he's in this one too. Yes,
so that's a fun thing that they kept. But yeah, short,
we talked about this on the Long Road to Ruin
that this was The Naked Gun was a send up
of the old black and white fifties and sixties style
cop show, you know, cop movies, James Cagney type things,

(10:12):
And it's actually one of the things I talked about
in on the TikTok of this review, which I don't
want to get too far ahead of us, but this
felt more like in a spoof of modern action movies
and less like that, which made it feel very different
than what The Naked Gun I think was ever intended
to be. But we'll get more into that in a
little bit. I actually disagree with you. I think the

(10:33):
second one is better than the third one. The first one.
Nothing is better than the first one, including this movie.
But I would tell you, but I preferred the second
one to the third one.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
That's because you are strange.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Well, the reason I really didn't like the second one,
and it's this is kind of a me thing. And
this is kind of one of spoilers, but I mean,
these movies are like forty years old. The thing is, like,
I don't like it, and like in the first one,
they like the romance between between Lesley and Nielsen and

(11:07):
Elvis's wife, like they just I don't know why I
couldn't remember that, but at least yeah. But the thing is,
it's like when they do a movie where it's like
they try to get them in love and they have
good chemistry. And this is part of the reason I
don't like Ghostbusters too too. But then it's like the
next movie, like in between movies, they break up and

(11:29):
then they're trying to get back together. I know. Yeah,
that's that's part of the reason why it stops the
second one from being better than the third one. In
my opinion, that's that might be a me thing, but yeah,
that's fair.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Just real quick, have you seen Idea of the Airplane movies?

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yes, And I have to remind myself there's a second one.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
It's not good one's good.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
That second one is really but in space William Shatner's
William Yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right, and then let my
last question for you. This is more having just to
do with zazz you know, the Zucker Brothers kind of thing.
Have you ever seen the Kentucky Fried movie?

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yes, I have.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Cathol High School Girls in trouble.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Mark made me watch that. We did.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
I made him do a live reaction to the Kentucky
Fried movie.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
I've seen all the movies. They're they're great.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, I know, well that in the back of my head,
like I was gonna ask you anyway, just to make conversation,
but I I was like, why would Zach want to
come up with Then I'm like, oh, he's probably like
because he's a big mel Brooks fan. And if you're
a mel Brooks fan, you're probably a Zucker Brothers fan.
And if you're you know, and it's that you just
like comedy, parry that sort of thing. So this is
this is well within your wheelhouse.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, it's like, I like, I like the mel Brooks
and Sucker Brothers, Jimmy Abrams, Pat Croft, all those movies.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yep, all right, you can say you passed the tame.
All right, Robert, you want to tell us in fifty
were Les's what the plot of this thing is? Yeah? Really?

Speaker 4 (13:04):
So we follow Frank Dreben Junior played by Liam Neeson,
and we open with him foiling most of a bank robbery,
but Kevin Durant takes a break from beating his chest
and acting like a gorilla to get a plot device,
literal plot device, and pass it off to Danny Houston,

(13:27):
who is the guy you get if you can't get
Brian Cox.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
He's been playing a lot of the devil lately.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
He is. Danny Houston is a first rate, second class
player of bastards. Yeah, if you can't get an a list,
top of the line slimeball, Danny Houston is the first
guy you call on the beat.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Here of that kind of character makes sense, keep going.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
So again, if you can't get Brian Cox, you get
Danny Houston. How that goes? So he's now got the
plot device and they're threatening to shut down police squad
because of course they are, And because it's a modern movie,
cch Pounder is our captain. Because if you can't get
Viola Davis, he gets cch Pounder. That's just the rules.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
They really did get the ready for primetime players for this,
didn't they.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
No, they did. Fine, that's a different I'll go I'll
go to that joke later if you feel so inclined.
But uh. And he starts investigating, but because he handles
things badly, gets busted down to investigating traffic collisions, so
naturally goes to one where somebody drove off a cliff
and he's ready to declare it a suicide, but then

(14:46):
Pamela Anderson shows up and says, no, it was my brother.
He never would commit suicide, and he goes, all right,
maybe it wasn't. We'll have a look around, and eventually
he connects that back to the bank robbery because the
guy who drove who was killed in the car works
for the guy who hired the bank robbery and the

(15:08):
guy who had the bank robbery against Danny Houston. And
he is playing our Elon Musk slash Jeff Bezos slash
Bill Gates stand in because that's the only villain archetype
we know how to do anymore. And he says, look,
the world was better before before all this technology, and

(15:30):
I invested so much time and energy into clean energy
and making this world a better place, and all it's
done is go down the toilet. Most relatable thing I've
seen a villain do in a long time. And he goes,
you know what we're gonna do. I got the plot device,
and it will make everyone kill each other. So what

(15:51):
we're gonna do is we're gonna gather all the best people.
We're gonna stick them in a couple of bunkers and
we'll listen to weird al and maybe the Black Eyed
Peas and we'll have a good time. And then in
about ten years, when everyone else is dead, we'll come
back out. We'll repopulate and we'll make it a better place.
And everyone's sitting around the boardroom table with him and goes,
you know, this isn't insane. Let's go along with it

(16:14):
doesn't sound too bad as long as the enemy doesn't
get a bunker differential. Sorry, that's a weird reference, Doctor
Strange Love. One of the last things George C. Scott
says before there was supposed to be a pie fight.
Can't let the Soviets get a bunker gap when we

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have to repopulate the world anyway. So that's the basic
setup there, and Frank investigates there's stuff. He almost gets
killed he has to escape from a deranged smart car.
He crashes a UFC event after getting the plot device
back from the New Year's Balls them get it.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
Along the way, he and Pamela Anderson fall in love.
There's a threesome with a snowman and I couldn't help
a thinking of Mark the whole time.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Thank you. I'm very pleased. But that's the best thing
I've heard all night, is it? Yes, that's it. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
Ultimately, of course, he is successful. He stops Danny Houston's plot.
He and pam Anderson get together, and police squad is
saved from turning into a spirit Halloween store. And yeah,
that's it. That's all there. Look, there's not a plot here, people,

(17:41):
There's a there's a deep there's a bones of a
story and a lot of really well thought out gags.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
All right, speaking of thought out gags, who are you, Zachary?
What did you think of this movie?

Speaker 1 (17:55):
I really liked it. I thought it was It was
probably the second most troll movie ever made. First one
will always belong to dead Pool and Wolverine. But it's
just a move. No, no, seriously, think about it. It's
like all this money thrown to a movie that is
really about nothing. It's just about jokes. Like any joke

(18:16):
mm hmm is thrown and it it just doesn't care.
It's like, oh you didn't laugh at that joke. Well
we're on the next joke already.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Well, like, I don't I want to help you. I
don't want to. I don't I don't want to interrupt you.
I don't want to take over your time. But you're
saying something and I feel they need to make a point.
So give me this, hand it all the way back
to you. I'm gonna need Robert to take a Xanax
for this, because there is a point that we made here,
and I don't really don't want to get into a

(18:45):
side argument. Some of the stuff, not all of it.
Some of the stuff in Barbie was funny because it
was specifically making fun of a well known a well
known trope, specifically the bit where all the guys are
all the all the Kens are sitting in a circle

(19:06):
on the beach and they're all singing push. Because it
was because it was a very because if you because again,
I've known guys like this, I've seen guys like this,
I've seen this happen I've been a part of it
where the guy trying to impress the girl has to
play her and acoustic guitar and she has to feign interest.
You know, they're well, he's being serenaded by this guy

(19:27):
who thinks he's being romantic, and the and because it's
Barbie and because everything had to be absurd, they were
all doing the same thing. Like that's the difference between
the original Naked Gun and this one is knowing what
the tropes are, the very that people are very familiar
with and love, and kind of attacking them with humor.

(19:52):
That's that's It's a subtle difference, But that's kind of
the difference between this Naked Gun and the first one.
Where the first one very intentionally knew what it was
making fun of, this one doesn't. And I'm using, Like
I said, that's why I pointed to Barbie as a reference,
with Barbie very specifically knew what it was making fun of
and went after it, and it for those that got it,

(20:13):
got a huge reaction. Keep going back.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, Anyway, what I liked about the movie is it's
just I liked it because it was a nice change
of pays. Like I thought it was like because I
know we've talked about this. I won't go too much
into this because we've talked about this in other reviews.
Like no one is going to the movies anymore. That's
why move, That's why a lot of movies coming out.
It's like, oh, dude, you got to see this movie.

(20:36):
It's a really big event. The world's gonna blow up.
And that's why, Like every movie is like a Marvel
movie now, right, But I like that this movie like,
or at least Marvel steakes like in their movie. But
this movie is it's just a I miss variety. I
miss that. It was what this movie was like. This
was a movie, like I said, a movie really about nothing.

(20:57):
It was just a bunch of jokes and but it
had but the studio, like Gate treated it like because
I went to New York like about two weeks ago
and I saw marketing for this on buildings, on science
it was everywhere, so obviously they had a lot of
faith in this movies like dude, just come see her
a silly movie and just laugh at it. And that's

(21:18):
what I really and that's what I like. It's just
it's just it would I mean, I'm gonna I'm not
gonna say there was no effort obviously, like the shots
like we're funny. It was funnier because it was like
it was shot like a modern movie. It wasn't because
I went back and watched a lot of the old
Naked Gun movies and they're very bright, they're the cinematography
isn't really taking any risks. But that's what I like

(21:41):
about this movie because I mean, it is have shots.
It is shot like a real movie, like with dark lighting,
and that's what I think updates it and makes it
a lot, makes it a lot funnier. I mean, it's
still got the fast paced jokes and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
But I saw someone say this, this movie is shot
like a almost like you know, uh John Debont or
Michael Mann almost, Yeah it is.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
I did like that Liam Neeson like obviously he knows
he's in a silly movie, but he is giving like
a million percent, like I.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Feel this feels less like a Naked Gun more like
a taken parody.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
No, it does, and it's and it feels like like
even when like there was like a I'll make I'll
give an example from a movie like there's a scene
where like he fits a team. He's like, why would
you plug in the ethernet cord into my TiVo. It's
like I'm like, okay, that's a little funny, but then
like it just it goes on. It's it feels more
like a family guy thing, which I know Ceth with

(22:41):
Freeman produced this, but it feels like it goes on.
But it's just it's the bit is not funny, but
he is. It's fun but it's also funny because he's giving.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
So much right every creating it seriously.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Deadly, seriously, but he's still but you could still sense
he's having fun, right. The only thing I mean, Like
I said, the humor is very Zach related, like a
lot of puns, a lot of props, a lot of
which I know nothing about.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
By the way, he didn't step on the brakes before
he went over the edge. Drunk a little bit, but
it's just enough to get my head going in the morning.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, I like it. It really like the filmmakers really
did have a respect but did want to update the
style of the Maga gun. The only thing I would
have done, but it does kind of counteract is the
movie is also immersivelly short, like it's I don't even
think this thing cracks like ninety minutes, it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
And I short and I even stayed during the credits
because I like the music.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
But the thing is, But the thing is, it's like
which is which is? Like, I don't think there has
been a movie in like the past fifteen years that's
been like eighty five minutes that hasn't been animated.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
That's true, went straight to Netflix or some ship.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, and I'm glad this didn't go to Netflix.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
I'm glad you want to know if you want to
know why. Part of the reason somebody mentioned this and
I can't unsee it the Netflix Original Filming part of
their studio. With what they do, the first thing they
took was comedies and low budget action. They removed an

(24:29):
entire like middle class of film from the theatrical experience.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
We had it talking about the last ten years now.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, but it got put in starker relief with this
movie getting a theatrical release. If you need like a juxtaposition,
Happy Gilmour two went straight to Netflix. Yeah, same weekend
pretty much.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
And Sandler has a deal with Netflix, so that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Oh yeah, I know why. I'm just saying, like there
was a time when Big Gilmore Too is a theatrical
release along with this, and it's been forever since we've
seen a legitimate comedy go to go to go to
the theatrical route, in no small part because Netflix just
kind of swallowed a lot of that. And now it's

(25:15):
lost in the algorithm in the infinite shelf and nobody
sees it or talks about it.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, But to wrap up my thoughts, what I did
was it was great to get it. Were just like, hey,
come see this movie. Like they market it like just
not like an epic comedy, but like like just a
really funny comedy that you should go see in a
theater and laugh with other people. And I like it.
My only thing, My only criticism, which it does kind
of counteract with my first thing, is you're not supposed

(25:41):
to care about this movie, and like you're not supposed
to care about the characters, the plot, and like I
didn't even care. Like they're like, oh, the police forces,
Like that's why I said, like there's a plot to
this thing, Like there's like I didn't know when when
they shut down. He's like you're off the force. It's like, oh,
it was gonna be back in two scenes, like I knew,

(26:01):
I didn't care, I was I was just waiting for
the next joke to come. But the only thing is
it does become a little overkill, Like it would have
been nice if there was like at least a little
bit of an arc or or at least some depth
to to Frank's character. But you know, I know that's
not type of movie or once. It was meant to

(26:22):
just be and look, and that's good once in a while.
I mean, it'd be annoying if there were all these
silly movies that were all about nothing. But you know what,
it was a great change of pace. I really liked it. Yeah,
I recommend it.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
There was a trailer right before this came out where
it was like the PSA. It was like please, you know,
like an acknowledgement that comedy has gone straight to straight
to streaming and that this was trying to get interest
back in you know, comedy in the theater, which which
was which made me laugh. And I remember like I
was sitting there with my kids who didn't know what
half of these movies were, and I had to ask

(26:59):
me if they were like real things. I'm like that
these were the real comedies in the movies. It's actually
really funny that The Naked Gun and Billy Madison two
came out Happy Gilo Whatever, Happy Too, Happy Gilmore Too

(27:20):
came out at the same time, because it really is
kind of a fun little experiment to see because like
you know, in an alternate universe, Flipper Coin and Happy
Gilmore goes to the theater and the Naked Gun goes
straight to streaming, Like like, I haven't seen Happy Gilmore
Too yet. I've I've been told I should see because
m Jf's in the movie and I like that sort
of thing, will you I liked it AnyWho. I'm doing

(27:44):
a lot of shrugging tonight, But uh, I think I
could go out and a lemon say, you could have
swapped these and nothing would have been lost. Like the
quality wise, I think they're probably about the same.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
I think it was better than a late stage Adam
Sandler project.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
I'm just gonna say that out loud so you can
see it on the screen, because I have a thing
now where you can just put the comments strictly on stage.
Happy Gilmore Too is way better than what people have said.
And MDF is good and thank you Ronnie is good
in anything, but so I talked to I talked about
this in my TikTok review. I'll just kind of touch

(28:24):
on it. I laughed. I thought it was funny, not
as funny as the First Naked Gun. There are things,
I mean, like I'm not looking. This was definitely a
turn my brain off movie. And if I and if
I saw funny colors and jingling keys, I was gonna
react to it, which I did. I actually really liked
Pamela Anderson in this. She's not doing a Priscilla Presley impression,

(28:46):
which is good. She's being herself, but she's definitely she
more than anyone else in this movie was going for
the hard boiled detective noir trope. Nobody else really was.
She was doing it, and I think she was doing
a pretty good job of, you know, being the mysterious

(29:07):
dame who gets the plot going. So and she has
good chemistry with Liam Neese and I think their romance
sequence with the Snowman who cracked me the fuck up.
Like I laughed hard during almost all of that.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
I mean it's funny.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, they really did like and like Pamela Anderson, Like that.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Scene feels like something that they is tacked on because
oh crap, our movie's only eighty minutes.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, I mean like little things like when she's like
take a seat, no, thank you, I already have furniture,
and then she's pissed that he won't take the case
of whatever.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
I will take a share.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
I think I will take a share like she she's
she's got funn of your comedy tops since she probably
gets credit for because she's only known. It's the same
thing with the last show Girl. It's like nobody ever
wants to give nobody ever wants to give Pamela Anderson
credit for what she can do because they only see
what she does do, and it's like she's more than
she's more than a body, she's more than a pretty pace.

(30:02):
I mean, you know again, she's she's she's not you know,
fade done away. But she's perfectly serviceable in a lot
of these roles. So give Pamela Anderson her flowers. As
the kids say. I think my biggest complaint about the
Naked Gun, and I talked a little bit about this
on TikTok is it doesn't feel, like I said before,
the Naked Gun was very purposely sending up old old

(30:26):
cop and detective noir movies dramas, and that's what makes
especially the First Naked Gun, that's what makes it funny.
And here this does the same thing that a lot
of movies do nowadays, and they don't know why things
we used to work, They just do kind of an
impression of them. So this isn't like scary movie bead

(30:49):
or anything like that, like that series of movies where
those all those are just just referenced palooza. That's not this.
This is just what, you know, what's what are some
action comedy tropes? What are some you know what are
some buddy comedy, uh cop action movie drama comedies that

(31:10):
we can make fun of. We'll just do that and
we'll have Liam Neeson. He isn't really doing like the
you know, he's They kind of do a little bit
of the hard boiled detective thing, and then they get
away from it again and he's doing other stuff and
it's like, oh, you don't really commit to any one
thing in this, You're it feels like it was a

(31:31):
slave to this is a comedy. We're really banking on
come back to the theater for comedy. So they went
out of their way to just create kind of surface
level laughs instead of committing to something like sending up
a particular trope or a or a you know, a

(31:53):
type of character, which I think is unfortunate because it
makes this movie a lot flatter and a lot more
shallow than it could have been. If you don't like
Seth MacFarland humor, you're not gonna like this movie. I
think that goes without saying this is the I think
my my so my son watches a lot of Family
Guy now and we used to watch as a family
Family Guy together. It was kind of our Sunday night routine.

(32:14):
So my kids are well versed in the Seth MacFarland
style of humor. And that was the first comment we
all like as we're getting up and leaving the theater,
or like, what Lily Jonas, father, what did you think
of the movie? And we all went it was very
Family Guy, and we went, yeah, all right, let's move
on and go do something else. Now. I can't not

(32:35):
bring this up. Good effort for trying in, I guess,
but the fact of the matter is theatrical exhibition now
really is the place of events, and this wasn't an
event picture. Like I said, you could have watched this
on streaming, you'd have lost nothing. They didn't do anything

(32:55):
with the opportunity. It was just it was almost like,
we're gonna just do this movie and we're gonna put
it in theaters and you're gonna like it, and that's
all there is to it. It's like, no, no, no, no,
you actually have to put effort into this. You actually
have to try. You have to kind of, you know,
reach for the brass ring, as it were, and you
don't really do that. Here you you twenty years ago.
This is enough. Now it's not. This isn't This isn't

(33:19):
worth going to the theater for, which was the whole
point of making the movie. It's like, we're gonna give
you a comedy that's so funny and so so full
of depth that you're gonna want to come to the
theater for this. Like you did not achieve that goal,
which is unfortunate. Which sounds like I'm complaining a lot
about this movie, But like I said, it was funny.
I was entertained. I could have just as easily watched

(33:40):
this at home. And the only reason I saw it
in the theaters is because we do this show. So
outside of that, the other cast of character. Cch Founder
plays you know that character, that character just as well
as the police sergeant from the original Beverly Hills cop.
Same god damn character, Paul Walter Houser. He's funnier in

(34:03):
other movies. They wasted him here like.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
Heah, this is kind of his ceiling.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
He No, he's a better actor than all that. And
like I said, you didn't watch Kobra Kai. He's hilarious
in gober Kai.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
I refuse to believe that.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Gonna fight me on everything tonight. Okay, So anyway, Paul
Walter House is actually a lot funnier than they let
him be in this movie, which is unfortunate. So the
risk of continuing to argue with Robert for no good reason.
Robert your thoughts.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
Look, I laughed. I had a pretty decent time with it.
There's some funny stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Did you like this more or less than Fantastic four?

Speaker 4 (34:52):
More?

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Do you like this more or less than Superman?

Speaker 4 (34:58):
Like? Purely subjective? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:01):
More interesting? Okay? Did you like this more or lesson?
I know you did last summer.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Oh, come on, this might wind up in my ten
best of the years, mostly because I have a boatload
of empty slots. Mm hmm, Sorry, I mean nothing from
August is going in there. I've looked at the schedule.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Did did you see the schedule I sent you and
just and started writing your resignation letter.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
No comment. I'm not required to tell you the answer
to that question.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Oh, I can't wait till next Monday.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
It's gonna be short.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Most unintentionally funniest comedy I've seen this year so far.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, we'll get back. We'll get back to the ritual
suicide next week.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
All right.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
You were saying, on a purely personal level, there's a
couple of things about this movie that took me out
of it, one through no fault of the movie itself.
One that I think is kind of the movie's fault,
but you also kind of have to be me for

(36:16):
it to bother you. The first one is when they
go to their foe UFC event, and I was reminded
that the reason satire is dead is because you can't

(36:38):
distinguish between satire and reality anymore. Here we are at
the Ponzi scheme dot net arena. I swear on a
stack of bibles they've been to like the crypto dot
com location or the blockchain or blockchains are us or whatever,

(37:00):
like they've been to the arenas that are basically the
Ponzi scheme. And then you get the overhead shot of
the UFC canvas and it's like a NASCAR car, not satire,
that's what it looks like.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
So there was at one point the Ford Amphitheater here
in Tampa was the one eight hundred as Gary Amphitheater.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
Yeah, like that's a thing, So you can't satirize it
because it's real life is just a self parody at
this point, and then kamaraw Usman actually threw a combination
that was reminded, yes, this is clearly fiction. And the

(37:41):
one time Daniel Krmier might have been appropriate as a
figure on the UFC broadcast team, we don't have him
here because he doesn't acting dues. So that again, but
you kind of have to be me for that to
bother you, or like, I'll have a lot of experience
with the MMA space these days and how depressing it is.

(38:03):
And then there's the one that really took me out,
and this is again you have to be me, but
owls don't poop.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Okay, I'm gonna cut you off there because I meant
I meant to say this before the final showdown between
Lee East and Danny Huston. I was really expecting them
to pull out lightsabers when they did the exact same
plot point from the first Kingsman movie. I was expecting, uh,

(38:39):
free bird. I was expecting them to do that scene,
like I was waiting for it, like if you're gonna
do the exact same thing where like we're gonna use
the device and make everybody hate each other and there's
be a joint fight in a crowd. Well, you have
to do the church scene now from the Kingsman, right,
and like, okay, so this is making fun of action
movies of the past ten year, twenty years. So that's

(39:01):
so that's like the most famous scene in Kingsman. Do
that scene. That'll be funny. You know, people elbow each other.
I remember that, that's Kingsman. Oh they're even doing a
free bird nothing they like a really great opportunity to
lampoon something familiar, to have that that Barbie push moment,

(39:22):
and they don't do it. And then again like we've
had Star Wars now since twenty fifteen. Again, you know,
it's very much in you know, the the cultural lexicon.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Yet is it.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Kill you tonight like both of us like Frodo, like
fucking Frodo and Gollum. That's how it's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
Just no, No, that's not the appropriate reference for what
this is. You and I are gonna do the World's
Worst Pro Wrestling spot with like Johnny with Johnny Gargano
and Adam Cole off the top of.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
The I Love you ah.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Off the top of the cave.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Yeah. Anyway, I was expecting them to pull out lightsabers
and then like animate them and you know, like do
the do the bit for like like spaceballs. You know
I'm talking about Zach where like you like you clearly
see their stunt doubles stupid ship like that. I was, yeah, like, well, again,
it's been a long enough time that they can reuse

(40:21):
the same joke and it will still be funny, and
I can elbow my kid and go ahead. They're doing
a hot shots and they don't do it. Instead, he
punches them. He punches Danny Huston once and he goes
down and he's like, oh, you have hit me in
this soft belly. And now what's a joke about whether
or not this nerd has ever been in a fight,
and I'm like, this is what we're doing. Why do
you run away from obvious jokes that still would have

(40:43):
like this is my god, this is again. Uh, just
put the title on Lex Luger. No, we're gonna we're
gonna do it. We're gonna go with the other direction
and fool everybody some vern expectations. It's like, why we're
all waiting for it? It would have been funny back
to you. So sometimes you just you just got to

(41:07):
put the title on Cowboy David. I had his name Cowboy,
not Bob Orton. Help me James Storm, ha got it
without help from YouTube knits.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
James Storm was the swerve.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
No, they were supposed to put the title on James
Storm and they didn't.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
And then they were supposed to put the title on
Robert Rude.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
And they didn't. They've done this twice, then let's keep going.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
It's TNA. They do it every other weekend.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
They still do it.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
Who's the TNA Champion? Trick Williams, Because that's what we're
doing these days.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
A bad enough what I make a wrestling reference, one's
going to get.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
That is true? Speaking of reference wrestling references, Yeah, Cody
Rhodes is here.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Briefly, they don't do anything with him either.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Well, they put him in a high enough collared shirt
to hide his godff of neck tattoo.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Jonah's album I Can Still see his Can? I can
still can?

Speaker 4 (42:15):
It's still there.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Yeah, they didn't hide that well at all.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
It wasn't a full turtleneck, which is kind of what
he needs. Again, there's plenty of jokes here. I think
the big thing I took away from this is my
renewed appreciation for proper comedy. Uh in the following way.
For the last like fifteen years, comedy movies have been

(42:44):
reduced to we're gonna hire a bunch of comedians, we're
gonna do eighteen improv takes of every scene, and we'll
sort of cobble together something and that almost never works.
But it's been the industry standard for again over a decade,
to just throw him out there and they improv works

(43:11):
for Bill Murray, right, well sort of, but you ain't
Bill Murray. And here Seth MacFarlane talked about this like
when we wrote when they wrote this, like he's just
producing it. He looks at the script and he goes, Okay,
we hire zero comedians zero, Hire actors. Believe in your writing,

(43:37):
hire actors, and it works. And again, this is structured
and it makes sense and everything kind of flows the
way that a movie should. They made a movie here. Again,
they didn't stitch together some Frankensteinian abomination of improv sketch

(43:57):
comedy from people deeply un talented and it works, so
thank you for that. Uh, there's not a bad performance. Again,
there's nothing here like Liam Neeson is the guy carrying
the whole thing, but that's not surprising. It's pretty good.

(44:18):
Like again, I have no major complaints about this. Fun
was had, Jokes were laughed at. We brought back a
literal rag doll at one point, which I was so
happy to see because rag doll physics are hilarious. So
getting a rag doll that Liam Neeson like blocks bullets
with that used to be a guy and then he

(44:39):
throws it in the middle of them and they all
keep shooting it and shoot each other because it goes
in the middle of them and they're idiots.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
Yeah, there's a lot to laugh at. There's a lot
of fun to be had. You know, I'm not the
biggest comedy guy, and we always kind of struggle to
review comedies here because the Ultimate Acid Tests just did
you laugh, right, But this is a reminder that comedy
can actually, like be written and not just improved loosely

(45:11):
then rewritten so that you still have a writing credit
and it's not you know, for SNL people screwing around
together on camera, Paul fig looking directly at you in
your non direction, So yeah, you know what. Thank you
to this movie for reminding me that comedy is not

(45:33):
completely dead, though around two thousand and nine we sure
did try to kill it.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
It reminds me of our the line from the song
or rather your which was your line from the the
Worst Movies of twenty twenty four. He was like this.
Doing this show made me question whether comedy was still
was still a thing. That is a line I said, Zach,

(46:00):
anything else before we go? You know, I've said a lot,
Robert said a lot. I don't know if you were
preparing your your counter.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
There was something when I forgot, but I'm sure it
will pop in my head long after this.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Reviewers over good, very timely. All right, Well, if that's
the case, then let's move on with the show. Ladies
and gentlemen, here comes whatever little money there was with this.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
I hope we don't go in the corner.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
It comes the money, yes, now all right? Hit on
a budget of forty two million, this thing is made
twenty eight point five million.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
It's kind of struggle.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Yeah. As of August third, twenty twenty five, The Naked
Guns grow sixteen point eight million in the US and
Canada one point five million in other territories, for a
worldwide total of twenty eight point three In the US
and Canada, the film was released alongside The Bad Guys Too,
and was projected to gross fifteen million at the domestic
box office during its opening weekend. It grows six point
three on the first day, including one point six million

(47:15):
on Thursday night previews. It opened a seventeen million domestically,
finishing in third behind fellow new release The Bad Guys Too,
and slightly ahead of Projection. So that's good. We'll see
if it's got any legs at all. It means it's
not like it's okay. Whoever that is, lower your volume
or do something else. Thank you that said, yet, fantastic

(47:40):
four first Steps. It's still the number one movie of
the WEEKENDOUM.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Sixty seven point one percent drop. Yikes.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
Okay, we got to talk about this for a minute.
By all means, so one, there was an overly alarmist
take from the people who make money off of clicks
on this crap. Somebody did the oh, there was an
eighty percent drop for Fantastic four from Friday to Friday,

(48:20):
which is true. But your Friday opening to your second
Friday always has a pretty serious drop. So again it
was a little bit alarmist. But if you paid attention,
it was actually set and not just the headlines for
sensationalism's sake. It meant that the projected drop from week one,

(48:43):
from opening weekend to the second weekend was close to
the seventy percent mark. That was the story, not oh,
it's Friday didn't do well. Of course, It's Friday didn't
do well, So a sixty seven percent drop is real
bad for this movie. It opened a little soft, little

(49:04):
they spent the farm on it, and it's with this drop.
It's worldwide take at the end of the year is
probably five hundred ish million dollars.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
So I saw an interesting sat today that this is
the first time since The Dark Night an iron Man
came out in the same year that a DC movie
has made more than any Marvel movie released in a
single year. That's a heck of a stat Yeah, Like,
every year since The Dark Knight in Iron Man, Marvel
has beaten DC head to head, and this is the

(49:40):
first year it didn't, which I think tells you and
you know, and it's there's a lot going on with
uh with with Superman and Fantastic four. Some of the
stories are the same, some of them are a little
bit different. You know, Superman is struggling internationally, Superman apparently
not that popular of a character overseas. The Marvel brand
in and of itself is startling. Every single movie this

(50:03):
year has, if it didn't outright bomb and underperformed.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
They have. The other random stat is this is probably
the first time that multiple Marvel movies in the same
year are money losers. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
I mean, if you think about not that I want
to go through the short history of phases four and five.
But you know, in a year that saw two movies
that underperformed, they were still Guardians of the Galaxy, which
was somewhere near that, you know, that which did eight
hundred million.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
I think when it was all said and done, you
still had Multiverse of Madness, which did almost a bit,
which did like a billion.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
It didn't do a billion close though, it was eight.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
To nine hundred million again around there, that is correct.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yeah, I think Love Thoro, Love and Thunder did six
or seven hundred million.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Which was a pretty wild underperformance, and that movie is
unwatch but sure.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
But the point is like there was always something that
Marvel could point to. And even last year, you know there,
you know, I was beating a drum saying dead Poe
and Wolverine wasn't an actual Marvel movie. It was a
Fox movie. True and and but but again there's a
lot of intellectual dishonesty out there or just plain ignorant
or both. So everyone's just like, oh, you know, Marvel

(51:25):
finally has a hit. Marvel didn't have a hit. Ryan
Reynolds had a hit, Marvel got the trade on his name,
and there's all the credit you're gonna get out of
anyone who pays any kind of real attention to this.
And actually like knows the facts. True, But the actual
Marvel movies, like I said, they had a lot of misses,
but they would occasionally, do you know, like like the
Black Panther movie did really, really well. It doesn't matter

(51:47):
if you.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Liked it or not.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
It still did well.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
It coasted on emotional manipulation because it's a terrible movie.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
But Doctor Strange underperformed, but not by much. Just didn't
hit the target it was supposed to hit. And like
I said, like you know, in a year where the
other two movies didn't do well, Guardians did do well
and did well enough that it didn't really matter. Yeah,
you're right. This is the first year where not a
Brave New World, not Thunderbolts, and not Fantastic Four. And

(52:15):
the other problem with Fantastic Four is this is supposed
to kick off Phase six. It's supposed to we said
this on the review. It's supposed to lead into doomsday.
It failed every as the guy on the panel last
week who said he liked Fantastic Four a lot, it
didn't much like this movie. And I want to make

(52:36):
a point of saying this because it's the kind of
argument that we get into in our group chat where
people don't understand that words mean things. I can say
I like something, I can say something is good. Things
can make more money than the average movie. It doesn't
change the other side of the equation, which is if

(52:57):
you know, if it underperforms what the target was, or
if it fails to do things it's mission objective was
that was embedded in the movie release. Fantastic four is
supposed to get you excited for doomsday. It didn't do that.
It failed. There was nothing about this movie that got
me excited for the next Avengers movie, you know, Like
I said, at the end of Age of Ultron, when

(53:18):
Fannus grabs the Gauntlet, everyone was like, holy shit, Like,
I can't wait for the next Avengers movie. How many
years away is it? It was three years away by
that point, because I believe Age of Ultron was what
twenty fifteen, and we don't get Infinity War until twenty eighteen.

(53:41):
It was three years away. But everybody at the.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
End of it, at the end of Age of One, well,
well we did get Civil War, which is kind of
Avengers two and a half.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Everyone was chopping at the bit to see the next
Avengers movie. Yeah, is anyone chopping at the bit to
see this next Avengers based on what we've gotten so far? Nope?

Speaker 1 (54:01):
There chopping to be had.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
There is a lot more chopping to be head. So
that's a big problem. From Fantastic for and then you
then they're like, oh, you're beating a little You're beat
a little too harsh on the beaver. Let's talk about DC.
Superman is supposed to kick off that universe. Is anyone
excited for any besides Alexis Is anyone excited for anything
coming out of DC at this point based on Superman?

Speaker 4 (54:22):
Well, because super Girls Next is kind of confirmed at.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
This point with with Timu Sidney Sweeney. Yes, I'm sure
people are excited for that because hot blonde acting acting
like a drunk college girl. But I think generally speaking,
there's not a lot of enthusiasm on either side if
we're going by interest level in terms of box office
for either one of these movies. That's the point that

(54:46):
I'm making.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
That's a relevant point, and I need to do the
following because it started to come up a lot. The
cognitive dissonance going on with the Marvel fans right now is.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
Can you, okay, if you're gonna go deep dive into Twitter,
because even I don't know what you're talking about, I
haven't I don't know, I don't know what this is.
So set it up properly, Okay.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
So Fantastic four comes out, and the Marvel apologists and
hardcore community sees it and goes, this is great, this
is great. Everyone should see it. Marvel's back. Look at
the scores on Rotten Tomatoes. This is their line for
the opening week the opening weekend. And then the drop

(55:40):
hits now, and then everyone yells that the eighty percent
Friday to Friday score is deeply disingenuous. It is, and
it's overly alarmist, and it is framed poorly because again
this is all headline clickbait crap rather than people actually
engaging with the substance of what's being said. Then the

(56:00):
actual drop hits and it's sixty seven percent, and the
pivot now is I'm sick of the box office discussion
around film. It's toxic to the movie industry.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
That is such a bullshit, fucking gaslighting term. It really is.
That is people not being able to handle the thing
they like, failing. Yep. And I know this emotional intelligence,
The lack of emotional intelligence of the average person, especially
anyone touting that line makes me wish the meteor would

(56:36):
hurry up already.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
The number of people who say that if there's a
venn diagram between people saying that about Fantastic. They say
it about Thunderbolts too, Like I don't get it. These
were both great. Thunderbolts isn't great, it's not awful, it's
not great. But we had the last two Marvel movies.
They took chances and they did something slightly new and different,

(57:02):
and they should have been rewarded. You'll never be a
flop in my heart, and I'm sick of the to
talk about money. Can't art just to be art. These
are the same idiots. Then diagrams a circle between people
saying that and people in twenty nineteen going shut up, Doomsday,
Shut up. Endgame is the biggest movie of all time,
and this means it's good because it made over two

(57:23):
billion dollars. You can't have this both ways. People, look
the mcu as we used to know. It's dead. Get
over it, morn fine, it's gone. Whatever they do going
forward is not gonna be the same. That's just where
we are. The culture has shifted, the studio has shifted.

(57:47):
It became way too much about Kevin Feige's ego. And look,
I'm sure the Spider Man movie will do fine. I
don't think it's gonna flop entirely.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
But this is not what it used to be.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
It's never gonna be what it used to be. And
that's just where we are. But stop with the disingenuous
bs around. But it's art. Can't art just be art? No,
they spent Here's the other thing, like, no one should
care about the financial side of this is asinine, childish thinking,

(58:27):
especially when these movies cost a gross de medic the
GDP of Costa Rica and Guatemala to make. Let me
reshoot and promote.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Let me throw a caveat in there. You can absolutely
not care what a movie, how much money a movie makes,
it is. It is there for you to enjoy or
not enjoy. No one you're allowed to just go into
a movie and go but I liked it.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
No one here, especially me. No one here is saying
you're not allowed to say but I liked it, And
that's all that matters to me. What you're not allowed
to do is then participate in the greater conversation of
what this means to the culture. And it's the whole
reason we do this segment, the reason why Robert and
I spend upwards of thirty to forty five minutes talking
about box office news is because that stuff does matter.

(59:16):
It may not matter to you the individual, And I said,
have fun enjoying what you enjoy and not enjoying what
you don't enjoy, spending time with your family. Go in peace, brother. However,
the rest of the world still has to move on
and still has to deal with the with the consequence
of the fallout of movies doing poorly. And just because

(59:39):
it makes a lot of money doesn't mean it did well,
because well is defined by did it meet the projection.
If the projection was when it was greenlit seven hundred million,
and it does more than seven hundred million, then it
did well. If the projection was seven hundred million when

(01:00:01):
it was greenlit and it did five hundred million, it underperformed.
And if it did two hundred million, it fucking bombed.
This isn't complicated.

Speaker 4 (01:00:12):
Yeah, and look, you're getting a little bit of the
same line from the DC people, And we're talking now
about you know, Superman's underperforming might not even break even
when you actually break down the math, and they get
their backs up, like, yeah, but it's art and it's important,
and I liked it, and like, look, man like what

(01:00:32):
you like? I am not here to convince you. Otherwise
everybody at.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
A twenty four neon must be laughing their ass off.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
I would be.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
That's there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
Yes, So that's where we are with the Again. The
a giant chunk of the Marvel fandom is Jorgos.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Lathamus is outside the fucking you know Fantastic four going
oh you like auctory, you should come see four Things,
and they're like, no, not that kind of art.

Speaker 4 (01:01:04):
Yeah. He and Refin are just like having PSA petitions
signed for oh you like art? All of a sudden
you no, do you like?

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Do you come? I have something to show you?

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
Yeah, So it's it just it started to grind my
gears a little bit because they're this isn't just denial,
like we're at the We're at the like the transition
between denial and anger where you're just pissed off but

(01:01:38):
you can't actually process it and start moving on towards
bargaining depression and acceptance.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Right, we need to move on. So yes, Fantastic for
huge drops almost seventy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:51):
Hey did any of us, We've we've got the projections
out now for these other movies that are reasonably going
to be reasonably accurate. Did any of us say that
that stupid Jurassic World movie was gonna be the one
of the July Juggernauts that actually might have taken me?

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Every time? Which is why I get angry and angrier
that you pick fights with me. You do they end
up being right eight out.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
Of ten times six and a half. I keep track
of this.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
No, you don't. You lying at person here?

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
I know I keep track of this. I have a spreadsheet.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
What were talking about. I don't know if it's just
like a running joke, but Mark Bout seems very dinosaur
about this.

Speaker 4 (01:02:33):
We also do need to mention that the Jurassic World
franchise has followed a very predictable pattern. Each movie makes
about three to four hundred million dollars less than the
previous one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Well, hopefully then they'll stop now, one would hope. The
Bad Guys Number two debuted two. Naked Gun debuted three,
which is not great.

Speaker 4 (01:02:53):
No, it's gonna this movie is gonna struggle to hit
it to make its budget back, depending on what the
deal is for streaming. I mean, the original Naked Gun
was not a big hit in the movie theaters. It
was a much bigger hit on VHS and DVD, well
more VHS in those days. But you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
I mean well, it also wasn't budgeted very much and
it made like ten times its budget.

Speaker 4 (01:03:15):
Yeah. Well again, some of this is also like where
does its big cultural footprint come from? Yeah, and that's
a lot more back because back in the day, your
home video footprint could be quite large. And Naked Gun
had a big.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Superman dropped from two to four. Jurassic World dropped from
three to five together, which will be reviewed tomorrow by
Alexis Jason and Robert That which my son wants to
go see on streaming.

Speaker 4 (01:03:47):
You're come on, go with your son to watch the
body horror movie. It'll be great.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
I don't have time. I have shit to do. Six
a debut at F one. The movie drop from four
to seven. I know he did last summer sixty eight SMURC.
That's won.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
The movie doing really good and like the only original
property this year.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Like low key one of the bigger hits of the summer. Ye,
Patitoring Your Dragon drop from seven to ten. Cat Video
Fest twenty twenty five debuted at thirteen. Nothing surprised to
tribute that Low architect On debuted twenty three, solely main
Story thirty one, the re release of the Night of

(01:04:29):
the Juggler thirty two, Oh Baby, The reckonings in theaters outstanding.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
The mother was shot on location.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
They can't well know for sure if we see that
line of a disclaimer from the Germaine Society about animals
being harmed on set.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Can't let it go. The Story of Robert Winfrey debuted
thirty four, The Fall of Artroar thirty six, and debt
was the weekend debt was. Hundreds of Beavers is still
in theaters.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
Why why not?

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Why is that back in theaters again?

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
I'm gonna ask you again?

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Why not? Anyway? Not a whole lot of movement here.
Nijah still just under two billion, Lee Loans, Ditch still
just over a billion, Minecraft still just under a billion.
Jurassic World Rebirth has cleaned the number four spot at
seven hundred and sixty six.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
Million, and that's about It's not going to hit eight
hundred million at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Yeah, how to train your dragon? Stalling out at six
hundred and eighteen mission impossible? Stalling out of five ninety
four Superman might might get Yeah, I mean maybe it
gets into six hundred million, but it doesn't get to
seven hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:05:40):
It's not good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Yeah, it's not getting seven man, that's a fucking bomb.
It's sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
Yeah, given what they spent, this needed seven plus and
it's not gonna get there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
No, that's not good. And like I already hear like
the you know, you guys are just haters. It made
so much money, it didn't make enough to justify the
budget that was spent on it or the investment in
James Gunn. For god's sakes, I don't understand why this
is complicated.

Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
One more time for everybody in the back. Here's the math.
We do this simply. It's more complicated in reality. But
here's the math. They're admitting to two hundred and twenty
five dollars million dollars in production, probably more than that.
Those are always under reported, especially when the budget's that big.
Then your marketing budget is going to be something like

(01:06:30):
fifty to eighty percent of your production budget, depending on
how much you believe in the film and how much
you actually promote it. Guess how much they promoted Superman.
How much a lot? So let's just say, for the
sake of argument, eighty percent of two twenty five, you're
north of one hundred million at that point by a

(01:06:52):
non trivial margin. So you're what one seventy one eighty million,
So let's add to twenty five and one eighty gets
you to three point fifteen. You need to double what
you spend on the movie to break even.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Right, so you need to comfortably hit seven hundred million
in this case.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
That's where I would be rounding if I'm if I'm
pitching this, if I'm doing the studio math, if I
look at Superman, Here's what we're spending, here's what we're
here's what we're spending to make it, here's what we're
spending to market it and advertise it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
And here's the thing. If you're just making one of
these and then you're going away to do something else,
you can probably live with seven hundred million and everyone
gets a nice, you know, bonus check at the end
of the year, when your whole thing is this is
part one of a multi part story. I'll of the
MCU connected universe, and it only does seven hundred million
in the year of our Lord twenty twenty five, and

(01:07:49):
there's some massive failure that is them real I guarantee
you they're gonna let James Gunn make Supergirl, and then
I don't know if they're gonna continue if Water Brothers
has any consistency and that they're inconsistent, and I almost
guarantee you after Supergirl, James Gunn goes away quietly, like
maybe he gets his clay Face movie because idea.

Speaker 4 (01:08:10):
The Clayface movie is one low budget and low stakes, right,
so it's low risk what.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
I'm saying, Like all his big plans, I think this
stuff's gonna start unraveling.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
I mean, there's there's a reason that they already announced
the date in like two weeks for Superman to be
on HBO HBO Max. Like we know the date, they've
seen it, they know the projections they're punting.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
Yeah, uh f. One of the movies at number eight
at Captain America is still hanging on ninety well, the
Inner in a Row, Captain America, Thunderbolt, and Fantastic for.

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
All three money losers.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Yeah, the punt Doomsday into like twenty until like twenty
thirty at this point, and Help the World Ends before that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
There they are counting so hard on the Spider Man
movie saving this and I don't know that it will.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
I mean, spider Man kind of like Deadpool is its
own thing. And if they you know, and if they're
doing if the rumors are true, they're gonna put Daredevil
at like the actual Daredevil in there. They're gonna put
Punisher in there.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
Daredevil's not there, but Hulk Punisher. And what's the other one?
I figure what the other one is?

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
But Batman?

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
Yes, no, oh yeah, Scorpion's gonna kind of be the villain.
The number of people doing these see I told you
that post credit scene would go somewhere from eight years ago.
I laugh at you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Again. Stop doing post credit scenes that don't pay off
until a decade later, when you know, the entire generation
of kids that sort of now become angry adult that
don't date.

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
Yeah, seriously, like get out of the movie theater?

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
Who get this?

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
The custodio staph, the popcorn on the floor, ridiculous, they
got another show?

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
So we are into fuck you? It's August, boy, are we?
And and I just went on it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:16):
Normally that's the studio saying it to the general audience.
That's kind of the general feel around August. Mark decided
to take that and aim it at me personally this year.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
I told you stop giving me a hard time, and
you won't listen.

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
You think this is gonna help.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
So this Friday, it's, uh, we've we've got a fight
between freaky Freaky Friday. It's just getting a lot of
play out there. And then this seems like the kind
of thing that you know, mothers will take their daughters to.
And that's about that, if that at all. And then
Weapons from New Line Cinema, so you so you've got

(01:10:57):
a horror movie for the horror people. And then you've
got a Disney movie, you know, you know, legacy sequel.
So there's that. That's this Friday. A week from this Friday,
you've got uh, nobody too, you know, a sequel to
a movie that came out like post COVID. And that's

(01:11:18):
about it as far as anything like decent in the theaters.
A week from that, you've got Oof. I'm just gonna
read these to you, okay, Honey Don't, which actually looks
fucking awesome by the way, Honey Don't look really good.

(01:11:40):
But it's a twenty twenty five American neo nowar dark
comedy directed by Ethan Cohene from Focus Feature no one's
seeing this except possibly me and my son. You've got
Eden from Vertical, directed by Ron Howard. You've got another one,
Splitsville from Neon.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
Directly from this movie.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
Yeah yeah, directed by Michael Angelo.

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
I imagine it gave you some PTSD, A.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Little bit movie. We think of the people that did
the substance in a movie called Lurker Coming Out, which
is a twenty twenty five American psychological drama written and
directed by Alex Russell. So yeah, no one's going to
see any of those. And then we end, we end,
fuck you. It's August with a remake of the War

(01:12:25):
of the Roses just called the Roses from Searchlight, and
The Toxic Avenger, which is a year old and it's
just in theaters now.

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
So you all understand all those movies, Mark, just rad Off,
we're reviewing none of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Them, that's correct, not a one. No, we were doing
the Toxic Avenger.

Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
Okay, that's right. We are reviewing Toxic Avenger, the others not.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
Instead, Mark decided, you know what, here's all the movies
that came out on streaming that look like dog shit.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
I'm not making you do red Sonia, I fucking I
fucking hit Heavin Bevans with that one, You're not like,
why do you do you think that helps night always comes?
Will be fine?

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
You and I have very different definitions of fine.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
My god, I'm gonna replace you with Mick.

Speaker 4 (01:13:26):
By all means.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
So anyway, So that's so. Now we get on to
Suptember and we have the conjuring age of Ultron, We
have Townsend Abbey.

Speaker 4 (01:13:41):
The Grand Finale.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Yeah, when the September come between SHO October.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
Yes, we've got him, which we are reviewing, and I
don't like Jason refuses to look at the schedule.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
You know why Jason doesn't look at the schedule? Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
And then we finally get to the end of September
where we're doing a movie that's probably gonna end up
being nominated for an Oscar and it's one battle after
another from Paul Thomas Anderson and that's it. Then we
finally get to October. We're gonna start seeing decent movies again,
Smashing Machine, Tron, Uh, the Black Phone, Mortal Kombat two,

(01:14:21):
and then we're you know, and then it doesn't matter anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:14:23):
Then, Can I just tell you that's three months where
there's like nothing I'm looking forward to that. You just
you just listed out October, and boy am I not
looking forward to any of.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
That looking forward to Halloween. I've already seen decorations.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Yes, it was really funny TikToker so earlier. You know,
it's the trend is people using the uh jump around
sound and put there's like a squeaking that goes on
and using somebody being dread across the floor, and so
the caption is nobody cares about your fucking Halloween decorations.
And then somebody pushes a skeleton set to the sound
to jump around, and it's giving the audience the finger,

(01:15:03):
which I appreciate.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
So anyway, no one likes telling their audience to piss
off quite as much as you, which is odd because
you'd think it would be me. But it's really mark.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
All of that to say, why why did I read
off all of those movies from fuck you it's August
in September, Because these movies that we've been talking about,
Naked gunn Superman, Fantastic Four have somewhat of a chance
over the next month for however long they're gonna much
longer they're gonna be in theaters to make any kind

(01:15:34):
of money, because it's not like they have any competition
at all, not zero, not a sick Look, there used
to be a peach dragon. There used to be a
peach dragon in August.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
Robert who came out? Is that when Dumbo came out too?

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
No, Dumbo was a Spring movie.

Speaker 4 (01:15:52):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Do you remember in the halcyon days of Damn you, Hollywood,
when come with they take my hand and Zach and
let's you know, let's join with Robert Let's walk over?
Rememberation Bridge when Reese Witherspoon turned into a Romayne leaf
of lettuce. Those are the days. Did you ever think

(01:16:19):
we'd get to the point where you'd miss Reese Witherspoon
turning into a leaf of Romaine lettuce. I don't miss it, right,
I miss it too? What happened to this world?

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
I could do without that movie having ever existed.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Those are fun days back then.

Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
Well, now next week we're going to be yelling. We're
gonna be talking about ice cube looking at a computer
monitor for two hours.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Ice Cube, But that sounds silly.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
An actual ice cube would have given a better performance.

Speaker 4 (01:16:53):
I have no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Interesting choice for old ass ice Cube to play National
Security person.

Speaker 4 (01:17:04):
The World's the absolute worst adaptation of War of the
World's humanly possible.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Like almost an on purpose.

Speaker 4 (01:17:12):
The If you'd told me that was the parody and
Nicked Gunn was a real movie, I'd believe you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
I cannot wait to talk about this next week. I honestly,
it's been a while since I look forward to doing
Danue Hollywood. I can't wait like I cannot wait to
do Damn You Hollywood next week and talk about War
of the World with you, because we haven't had a
good Mark and Robin hate fuck it on a long time.

Speaker 4 (01:17:39):
We're gonna break out the shovel and pitchforks and we're
gonna go burying.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna be drunk.

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
Then we're gonna do the Night also comes, which I
will happy or always come. I will happily bury that
in the backyard too.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Oh it'll be fine. It's look, there's no possible way
The Night Always Comes is worse than War of the World. None.
I refuse to believe that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Okay, I yes, but my standard for you requiring burial
in the side of the mountain is not War of
the World.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
I could say your your your standard for burying things
is like on the ground, all right, Zach wants to
get out of here at some point, So let's let's
move on with the show. Here, ladies and gentlemen, they're critical.

Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:18:32):
I said.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
No, God, no, God, please, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (01:18:47):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
I was not prepared, damn it. Yeah, let's just look
at all these movies, strange harvest very where are you naked?
Ooh ooh, there it is. Hey, it's a suspense that

(01:19:24):
gets me. All right. It's ninety on the Tomato meter
and seventy six percent on the fan meter. We go
to top critics, it drops to eighty six and all
audiences negligible, say seventy six or seventy five. Yeah, it
can almost guarantee you a lot of the audience didn't
really get this. Probably probably wasn't enough. Like family guy,

(01:19:47):
leave me some gravelly gravitas. Proving to be a perfect
fit for Frank Rebens deadpan buffoonery, The Naked Gun revives
the original trilogies daffy sense of humor, like it never
went out of style. I don't believe any of that.
That that is absolutely written by Ai.

Speaker 4 (01:20:02):
Well, of course it is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
It's weird. Ai joke.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Nick Johnson a von Yulancaz, I love reading his stuff.
So yeah, sorry, your your review should not start off
the way I speak to check GPT. So yeah, Leslie
Nilsen can rest easy. Frank DuMond Junior can fill the
shoes and pick up the slack, hopefully for ten more
of these. No, no, no, no no no, this was
fun to do one, so let's not do this again.

Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
Yeah, I don't I would struggle with another one of these, like,
I'm glad it exists. I if the whole group wants
to get back together for a different project, Okay, but
I don't need another one of these.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
Well, there's already thirty three and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:20:46):
That's correct, that's true. Hang on, so technically it would
be thirty three. Five would be thirty six and half
and a third is five sixths sure.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
Marlon Wallace from The m Report in with the Virtual
Signaling Award of the Night, A lot of the humor
comes from Frank being excessively violent, which isn't good der heap,
considering that he's a police officer. In fact, he's constantly
being reprimanded by his boss for his aggressive and violent behavior,
which he sees no problem, sir. In the original they
get gun fucking Leslie Nilson. My daughter thought that they

(01:21:28):
should take away his license because he kept running people
over with his car.

Speaker 4 (01:21:33):
How do you miss the point that badly?

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
Good God, this is why, like you should, we can't
have nice things. It really is speaking of we can't
have nice things. Doug Walker Channel also a movie that
cheerfully reminds you parody films can still be funny.

Speaker 4 (01:21:53):
Yeah, that's true. It is true, especially considering how bad
parody got the last decade.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Free Harris a four and one mania dot com speaking
of things that got bad over the last decade. Ha ha,
I do that to annoy Robert. The best Naked Gun
can do is rehash jokes that other movies did better
decades ago. It cannot even be proper It cannot even
properly put together a great opening credit sequence, and it
only plays a muge to the original version using stock footage. Yeah,

(01:22:21):
my son was like, they didn't do the siren thing.
That sucks.

Speaker 4 (01:22:24):
They did it in the closing credits.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
Yeah, and I think they actually reused old footage almost certainly.

Speaker 4 (01:22:30):
Yes, so.

Speaker 1 (01:22:35):
Want too much money.

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
Beyond the trailer, Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson's commitment to
this comedy makes it a joy to watch. Sure, the
humor is stupid, but it's also very Naked Gun and
very family guy cut from the same cloth. Fans of
Seth McFarland's animated comedy will also love this.

Speaker 4 (01:22:52):
Yeah, Seth macfarland's sense of humor is a bit too
pervasive for my taste.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
And a bunch of this stuff, uh let's see Scott
Mendelssohn of a sub stack of some kind. With little
reliance on nostalgia and plenty of can't get this anywhere
else entertainment value, This Liam Neeson starring action comedy is
content to just be consistently hilarious. You know what might
have also helped if this has been rated R.

Speaker 4 (01:23:18):
Probably I think going for PG.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Thirteen because you're trying to get like a bigger audience
might not have done this movie a service.

Speaker 4 (01:23:27):
I mean, don't we don't need to go like way
into the R territory, But you could have gone a
little further.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
Speaking of go a little further, Carlo Vernando, the Curvy
film critic, did we really need a reboot of The
Naked Gun?

Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
Not enough?

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
Oh sorry, I made up that last part. Probably not,
but I really needed all the laughter in Shenanigan's provided
by its castlet by Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson. What
a pull like?

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
How unhelpful is that?

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
Uh? I'm surprised you saw a movie staring white people
speaking of white people. Kurt Loder of Creator Syndicate.

Speaker 4 (01:24:09):
I had to think I was gonna say, I'm glad
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
Pretty much a bullseye reboot of the nineteen eighty eight
comedy hit which featured the blissfully inane and now departed
Livesling Neils. And you did not rewatch any of those
movies and just went on what you remembered.

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
Look at all the potatoes. Not my last stand up special.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Right right? Russ Simmons of KKFIFM. I may be the
grinch on this one, but The Naked Gun is a
minor misfire.

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
Ha mixing your metaphors there, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
Speaking of mixing metaphors, Rachel hoe Of exclaimed the brilliance
of The Naked Gun in its ability to take everything
that was good with the spoof genre and the franchise
without being corny sanitized. Are cruel. Oh, we wouldn't want
to be cruel.

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
Now, no, you don't. That's kind of the point, and
this movie isn't. That's the other thing that killed comedy
is comedians going for applause instead of laughter.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
Speaking of she likes applause and not laughter. Carla Hay
of Culture Mix. Not all the jokes are great, but
The Naked Gun is a worthy continuation of comedy franchise
and the story of a police detective, Frank Tremen Junior,
investigating a mystery a mysterious death. The puns and psyche
gags range from goofy to raunchy. I could not have
been a more plain review, by the way, like.

Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
GBT write that that is very much like review writing.
I would can't even say like one oh one, like
remedial review writing. This is what you saw, this is
how you say it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
I'm gonna do one more of these because they really
have to pee. Jeffrey Lyles of Lyle's Movie Files. The
jokes that connect really land. Others come off like everyone
associated with this updated The Naked Gun is trying really
hard at times, way too hard to make it very funny.
That's fair, well, folks, Robert's gonna tell you about all
of his nime stuff while I peek.

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
Uh actually, huh oh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
I thought you said you don't gonna peep, but I
think you didn't go anywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:26:14):
No, there it goes. I why don't you start, Zach,
So tell us about the things you do.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
I enjoy coke, the great taste of No, I'm not.

Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
If you want, this is your time to plug whatever
you want. If you want to shill for the Coca
Cola corporation, that is entirely your choice.

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
Well, I stole this one from nineteen eighty six.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
So that's not the cherry Coke logo from nineteen eighty six.
I don't know. I wasn't alive, so anyway I was,
and I feel old.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
Anyway, do you like to laugh? Well, it's not. You
should still you should still put my books on Amazon.
This is my latest book. It's called Blob and Crillion.
It is that I will read it to you. Look,
there's me on the back. Isn't that cool? But besides

(01:27:09):
the front cover and the back cover, the story inside.
We try to make it read like and look like
in like a nineteen nineties two thousand's Disney film, because
lord knows that Disney's not even trying to do that anymore.
But but if you like this book, which if you do,
you're awesome. I have plenty of other books on Amazon.

(01:27:32):
Just go to amazon dot com. I know no one's
ever heard of it before, but if you go there
and type in Zachary's Strobel you will find and if
you want to be really specific, you type in Zachary's
Strobel books, find some book. We got great books for
kids between five through twelve. They're not expensive as all.

(01:27:57):
They're not expensive at all, so you can buy like
twenty of them and you can give them to all
your friends or even your enemies.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
You know. Yeah, all right, Mark mentioned it. But yeah,
next week we're reviewing the ice Cube War of the
World's movie. It's on Amazon Prime, and it is not
worth the time of your life that it will take
to devote to consuming that absolute pile of crap. If

(01:28:25):
you want the full burial'll come back next week where
we lambassed ice Cube his failed career, and we always
remember that iced Tea is the infinitely superior actor of
the two.

Speaker 1 (01:28:37):
Not even the eyes. I don't know, I couldn't think
of anything.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
Else, So I'm trying to bring something up that I
would like to talk about and Okay, as pretty fucking usual,
my computer is fighting me every chance it gets. Are
you guys both? Do you guys both finish a blugs?

Speaker 4 (01:28:56):
No? I haven't really done mine yet, but oh I
went to you first for that reason. I moved to
Zach because he's the guest and he gets to go first.
I will start mine while you see if you can
get your thing up.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
So that's what she said, Dick.

Speaker 4 (01:29:15):
I knew I should have phrased it better as soon
as I got done saying it. I just walked right
into it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
And I'm actually ready. I'm actually ready. You actually babbled
long enough that I'm ready to go.

Speaker 4 (01:29:25):
Now, Okay, go for it. Oh, this is what I do.
I fill airtime so you can get to what you
want to get to. That's why you keep me around.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
Very much. All right. Uh, I would like to show
you something that I'm very proud of, but you're going
to have to stand far back this. So I did
a thing. I just now realized what you did. So
I did a thing I have been working for the

(01:29:54):
past a little bit on this. This is Fraudyavlo spelled
indirectly on purpose. Recipes for the Damned. This is a
various metals genres, slightly leaning towards death metal album of
songs that blend metal tropes with recipes, food recipes of

(01:30:21):
various kinds. This came out on Sunday at midnight. It
is now available. I have it up on the screen
and it is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, wherever
you download your music. You can now listen to Fraudyavlo
Recipes for the Damned. I am quite proud of this.

(01:30:42):
I hope you will give it a chance. If there's
it's a blend of different genres. We've got Italian folk metal,
there's industrial in here, there's stoner rock. I've got kind
of my own ode to over sexed eighties metal. I'lla
steal anther with a song called butter my Buns. Yes, sir,

(01:31:06):
So everyone like hawks, their books and their jewelry and
their MMA coverage. I'm hawking my album, Fradyavlo. Not since
my children have I've been proud of anything. So I'm
but I'm proud of this and I hope you will
all give it a listen. This is like the culmination
of all the years of me doing a metal podcast.
Kind of formulating into all and also paying off a

(01:31:28):
inside joke between a friend of mine and I. You said,
death metal is so like like people who listen to
death metal death metal and of itself you would it
wouldn't matter if you were just reading ingredients out of
a cookbook or recipes out of a cookbook. No one
would care. And that's what this is. This is me

(01:31:50):
taking that idea and turning it into an actual album.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
So generative. Hey, look, generative technology has allowed you to
pay off a long running gag.

Speaker 2 (01:31:59):
What better you for the generative technology should there be?

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
You've been working on it a long time. I'm glad
you've led a cook for this long.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
All right, back to you, Robert.

Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
All Right. I cover mixed martial arts and professional wrestling
over at four one onemania dot com, ww SmackDown on Fridays,
UFC events on Saturdays, and yeah, so we just had
Summer Slam, two nights of it, and apparently it was
better than WrestleMania, But I didn't watch because if I

(01:32:32):
don't get paid to watch for wrestling, I tend not to.
So it's my stance on that at the moment. This
last Saturday was the UFC on ESPN seventy one, a
slap dash card from the UFC warehouse and it turned
out okay, at least two good fights. And uh my

(01:32:54):
full report is in the MMA z own to four
on Onemania dot com and we uh then there there's
a if you want a more in depth discussion of that,
the fallout and my thoughts on the news as it
relates to combat sports. This weekend it's the four one
one Pound MMA podcast. I'll reve you that card. I
preview this coming card, which is worse. We're still in
the warehouse and it's it's not a good card. I

(01:33:17):
also talk about the proposed legislation the federal level, because
who doesn't love a you know, billion dollar company getting
customized legislation at the federal level to import their monopolistic
practices from MMA into boxing. So if you're interested in

(01:33:39):
my thoughts on the Muhammad Ali Boxing Revival Act, which
is an amendment to the Muhammad Ali Act, it's just
an excuse for the UFC to exercise unfair and competitive
business practices in MM in boxing because they can't actually compete.
Uh yeah, So I talk about that, give that a listen.
I also talk a little bit about Cornor McGregor. I

(01:34:01):
don't want to bought a couple of things happened with
him that made it newsworthy, and I rather he died
in a bus accident or anything similar. Uh yeah, so
there's that. I'm a busy boy. This week Tomorrow, on
a impromptu damn you Hollywood, Mark already mentioned it, we

(01:34:21):
will be reviewing together. That's it's going to be me, Alexis,
Hana and Jason Teasley will be talking body Horror, Neon
and the lesser Franco but the less problematic Franco. So
you know, I think what you can get there. Then Thursday,
on the Long Road to Ruin, Mark and I will
be talking about twenty eight days later, twenty eight weeks later,

(01:34:43):
and twenty eight years later. So yeah, tune in for that.
When I get to talk about something I actually like,
and that usually means the podcast goes badly.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
Wednesday, Alexis and I will be doing the second season
of Monsters, the Eric and Menendez Story, which I just finished.
What a weird season of television that was. Sunday, Jesse
and I are doing a source material. We'll be looking
at the Crow, which we've We've already done all the movies,
so why not finally get around to the comic The

(01:35:16):
Butcher of Paris and The Many Deaths of Layliss Stars
or three books for your listening pleasure.

Speaker 4 (01:35:23):
Will make your daughter's best of list.

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
Now week from tonight. We've mentioned it a bunch of times.
Now the best podcast we're gonna do this year by far.
More of the world's twenty twenty five starting ice Cube,
then another double dose of Damnuel Hollywood. This time Weapons
It'll be Alexis, Jason and Robert Again. Alexis will be
reviewing Stranger Things season one with Jesse, assuming I am

(01:35:53):
back from Virginia in enough time, we will be reviewing
the final season Thank god, the West Wing season seven
look no more, making me review twenty episodes of television
a season for Fox sake, I You'm busy. I don't
have that kind of time.

Speaker 4 (01:36:06):
But the mark the longer seasons of television were when
it was really at its best. If you say so, no, no, no,
The West Wing last few seasons suck out loud. I
mean structurally in general, not the West Wing in particular.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
What to thak Zach for inserting himself in tonight's podcast,
Always a.

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
Pleasure, animated Snowman, I'm a sleepy boy.

Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
Be well, be safe and behavior

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