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If you're wondering where we were, what is this rerun slop in the feed? I did my regular job, but it was my regular job. I didn't have the safety valve coming in here and screaming. I was going to say next week we're talking about Joker 2. I'm excited. I'm genuinely excited. Don't go into it like that. Go into it with a big cool attitude. You're the expectation. Maybe when they do the big kick, I'll be like, I'll be like, I'll be like, that's going to be incredible.

I, like, I'm going to get into a couple of episodes kind of GO. Also on YouTube, lots of posted video store. Correct. And not only is that on your favorite podcast app, that is also on YouTube. You could have a lot. You can look at us. It's a full hour of us. Yep. Yap in a while. Yap in a way. Just flapping out gums. I'm just having a look at the views bigger than Keith Urban's episode. That's all I'm saying. Right. Bigger than a certain

Christopher Hemsworth's episode. That's all we're saying. And we haven't even promoted it yet. We're doing an air. We didn't even want to. We didn't want to. No, it was awesome. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah. Alex, he came down to Melbourne. Yeah. And it was good fun. And yeah, for the people who like, we want to look at us on video and go, wow, you guys look a bit weird. We know. And we love it. Yeah. We've called for it. Yeah.

We're really going for it. We're taking a big run at it. That's exactly right. And we're getting we're going to get weirder. Yeah. Look. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Should I be a Kravat guy? I think so. Yeah. I'm done my hair, Jeff. Black. I'm going back, myself. I spit on all. Nice. But white eyebrows. That's terrific. I'm going to look in sane. Speaking of, I'm incredibly jet lagged. I feel insane. And then I watched Megalopolis today.

And that did not help at all. Yeah. Now you desperately wanted to be the guy. Yeah. Who stood up in Megalopolis? But we're not really getting that in Australia. No. I just kept doing it. I just didn't I don't know what it was. So I kept getting up and being like, I don't drive us. I see us. Hey, hey, stop it. Tell me the truth about Megalopolis. You've been not turned your face into Megalopolis at one point. Did you kill your wife? Did he? We'll send the movie.

We'll talk about it. A couple of things to quickly promote. Jackson and Joel are like two wood with. We're through amazing from San Span. A lot of good boys. We did a couple episode of their video game episodes of their video game, Thumb Cramps, which was awesome. So that's on their their feed. And the other thing is we are doing some live podcasts this week. That's right. Well, not our podcast, but we're guessing. Well, I'm doing confessions with Will Anderson. Yes.

Posted by Sammy Peterson. It's the last episode ever. And then both of us are doing a live episode of philosophy. Those are both on Saturday evening. That's that's part of the cheerful, earful podcast festival. We were like, we do not have time in our lives to do this. And then people asked us. I guess I guess I'll be fine. I guess we'll be fine. So there are tickets available to a limited, I think it's a hundred may be a show to be in the actual audience that's in

Brunswick. But if you can't make it, it's also streams all around the world. You'll be able to check that out. It come down. So yeah, come down if you have to. That's exactly right. Which you might. So we got the news of the week, Mason, just quickly calling. So I met by the way, incredible. Him and Maisie came down. The first time. It was amazing hanging out with those dudes. He does the time codes when he edits this show. That's right. So we've got. Do you think they're

going to feel extra special now that you've met it? No. Okay. I think he was laid down. You get being like, you're a bad person. Yeah. And you know, he's not wrong. He's like, I'm still going to do the time. But my heart's not going to be. So we're going to talk about the passing of Dame Maggie Smith and John Cassidy. We're going to talk about a potential bane and death stroke movie and development. The future of the Mandalorian and how it's going to stop. A release date for

the Hellboy, that crook bloke. Trailers for the last of us part two and Ballerina. And then because of course we missed a couple of weeks, we've got some quick hot news. That's right. We're just going to fire off some topics. Rapid fire style. That's right. Are you ready for that? Yes. You've been keeping up with the news? Mostly. Yeah, man. And also we're going to talk about probably all the stuff where you have been watching. Absolutely. Yeah. I'm some big stuff. It's been some big stuff.

We've got some gaps to fill, don't we? Let's run. Luckily, we've got the rest of our lives. That's right. You okay with that? I guess. I guess I'm okay with having the rest of my life. Good, good, good. Let's start with this. Dame Maggie Smith has passed away at age 89. Damn. She, of course, people most famously know her as Professor McGonigall from Harry Potter. She's in hook if you're our age. You would know that. That's correct.

Uh, down to Abby, of course. She's had this illustrious theater career and television as well. Amazing spanning decades. By all the cancer, very funny, very charming, very nice lady. And people out there being like, oh, you know, you died and you're best known for being in a Harry Potter movie or whatever. But it's like for a lot of people that would have been their first answer. Yeah. She was great in those. And then maybe you'd go, what else is she been doing?

Not everything in Harry Potter is bad. That's right. Just that one person. Maybe some others. But you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. So her son's Toby Stevens. I didn't know Toby Stevens was her son. He's the villain in dying other days. Korean. Do you remember? Yep. Uh, and Chris, uh, Larkin, they released his statement. It is with great sadness. We have to announce the death of Dame Maggie Smith. She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning,

uh, Friday 27th of September, an intensely private person. She was with friends and family at the end. She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother. And, uh, just, just having a skim of like the work that she's done and Wikipedia mostly. She's also, she was did an amazing amount of charity work. Like, she helped raise money to repair the courthouse theater in Christchurch after the, uh, the huge earthquake.

She helped raise money for the global, uh, glaucoma association. She was also vice president of the Royal theatrical fund. That's, uh, provide support for, uh, members of the entertainment profession who can't work due to illness or injury. So yeah, she was a massive proponent for the arts. Uh, again, by all accounts, like a wonderful person and an incredible legacy. So yeah, 89. Pretty good innings. Pretty good innings. She's a catch. She was a cancer survivor as well. She

beat that, I think in the late 2000s. So yeah, amazing. Really incredible woman by all accounts. Uh, and also, uh, quite recently we had the, the passing of, uh, a noted comic book artist, John Cassaday. Yeah. Only 52. He had a tattoo. Yeah, it's really surprising. But I, I, I always been a huge fan of him. He was the artist on Joshua Dins astonishing X-Men.

That's a great run, which is a great run. And but to me, he's most best known for me and some incredible work on a series called Planetary, which was basically it was right, a Warren Ellis. And it's a, it's a team of people who explore the secret history of this particular world. And the secret history is like every crazy thing you can think of from fiction. Yeah. From like pulp heroes to like giant Kaiju on an island to like the ghost of a murdered Hong Kong

policeman back for revenge kind of thing. And the, he, he took this on basically because he was like, I want to draw something different every issue. Okay. Like it was, I, I want a new concept and a great idea like for every issue. Sounds very ambitious. It's very, it's very, it's very, it pulled it off. And it's, and it's also like it's notable for different, a different cover every issue with like a different logo. Right. Uh, there is also a

rep. If you want to check out one particular notable issue, there is a Planetary Batman crossover, in which the Planetary team get shouted through a bunch of parallel universes. And they find out that in every Gotham city except their own, there is a certain protector. And you see all sorts of weird variations of Batman. And it's a, also good fun. Okay. I'm going to check that out. But yeah, got to certain incredible stuff. He did a bunch of Star Wars comics. He did a run on

Captain America, which is really good. Oh, amazing. You have to do that way too young. Oh, but the other thing I was going to mention, have you brought your tickets? Your ticket yet for, oh, what was that thing? What are we buying for? Ah, so speaking of Alexi tolliopolis earlier. Oh, yeah. That's what I have them on my ticket for this. Well, it's all right. James is plenty of time. Oh, sorry. Because we're recording this. Yeah,

yeah. Cool. Now, looking now. Okay. For people who, uh, fans of Alexi tolliopolis, or Zach from Antidona, they're doing a some sort of theater production directed by Michelle Brazier in which they play Margaret and David famous Australian movie reviewers from the Telly, our syskano syskano, and they're doing them. They've written a play about censorship in Australia. And they're performing live in Sydney. There's a couple of dates, I think, left in Melbourne.

And we're going to, we're going to be at one of those because I'm really excited to see what that is. Absolutely. If you go to the comedy Republic, our website, the tickets will be available, I think. All right. Cool. Tell me again, which show that is because I can do something. I'm doing the 24th. You sent it to me when I was delusional. Oh, yeah. I'm still delusional. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm here now. It's called Refused Classification.

Oh, very good. All right. I'm definitely going to check that out. Nice. Nice. Nice. Yes. Bain and Deathstroke movie and development by a THR. Is that true? Yeah. No. As far as I know. So apparently, Bain and Deathstroke might be in a movie together. Okay. Those people who don't know, they're two Batman villains. One's famous for trying to kill Batman and the other one's famous for trying to kill Batman and shattering his back. Yeah, that's correct. Yeah. But they're both famous.

I know. I know. Very famous. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. It's going to be out in the public eye. It should be called Bain and Deathstroke. Well, it's most famous. Yeah. Maybe Bain and Deathstroke go Hollywood. Maybe. They're same in their Hollywood Boulevard. Yeah. Open top. We saw Batman got his started, didn't they? Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Pretty good. Like a Ben Affleck didn't show up. You think you're too good to be Batman? Well, not one of the live action acts.

No. You've got a bunch of the voices. What's actually here, which was clear. It's very clear. It was there and etc. Among others and so on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You probably want some more details about this, don't you? I mean, you're going to have to wait. But I do have some here. This is by Deadline. So I don't have to wait long. No, I'm sick. Some details. I can't remember. It says they say exact plot details are still uncertain. Great. Terrific. Is that hell? No.

It's more details though. I guess it is. Sure. And sources also stressed that the two characters would do it. I'm so stressed, but I'm going to tell you this anyway. Got him under the pump here. The details of the plot are this. We don't have any yet. It's unclear. I'm going to get fired. The two characters. I'm trying to get chat GPT to do it. Didn't do it. It's bad. No. Chat GPT is to work harder. I don't know what it's up to.

The two characters would be in the movie, but it's unclear if they'll be the central figures of the project. Incredible. So two guys in a movie. Bain and Deathstroke. They're not the main guys. And a lot of people like, is this like a Wolverine Deadpool kind of, trying to do a buddy thing? But this means speculation. The two Batman villains who could be buddies. Yeah. I mean, Deathstroke's not really a Batman villain. I mean, he is. He's, but he is. Is it Teen Titans guy? No, it's not.

Yeah. Of the two villains of the DC universe that could be buddies. They're not the first two I would think of. Who would you pick? The Redlar. Yeah. And Clu Master. Oh, very good. Yeah, they don't get along initially because Redlar's like, Clu Master, you're still my ship. You're doing mine. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But then they do? Then they do get along. Yeah, cool. God, what a multiversal journey that would be. I assume. Yeah, it's absolutely going to be a multiversal journey. That's right.

Oh, no, I've picked up the wrong riddle. It's done a multiverse on it. I've picked up the worst Clu Master, which is just the regular one. Well, there's speculation. I saw this on comicbookmovie.com that maybe it's a secret six movie. Could be. It's like the DC sinister six basically. Yeah, right. You know, they got to get one thing in first. They do. I, it also could be though. I think it's probably too early for this. It could be the Bane beats up Batman story, the Nightfall storyline.

I'm sure. Because it is Batman like a few years in. It's just Bane telling that story that Death's troke and the bar. Talked him up. Yeah, right. Should have seen it. Yeah. Had another guy to step in, had a mullet. Yeah, it was crazy. But also we did that movie already. It already happened. They did it in the Dark Knight rises. I sure did. I don't know. We'll see what this is. Super villain team up something. Again, the Batman is like, he's into his career. He's like three roppings down.

I think by the time, because they're doing Batman, what's one they're doing? Brave in the vault. Is it that one that one they're doing? It's one with Damian Wayne. Yeah, yeah. So that's his fourth rober. Fourth rober. Well, it's his fifth rober. If you count Stephanie Brown, who's the daughter of? The glueman. James Brown. Oh, yeah. Get on up. That's James Brown. That's James Brown. And that's a fact.

Yeah. Now, do you think they should continue the longstanding tradition of Bane has a stupid voice? Yes. Yeah, I think so. What do you think they should do? Stupid voice. I know like for years, what's his name? His Indian. His Indian. His Indian. His Dracks. David Tester. David Tester. Wanted to be Bane. But of course recently, he's lost a bunch of way because he's like, it's really difficult to be that big. Yeah. So, but like everybody's like, boo, just keeping being big. No, let him be.

Let him be whatever side he wants. Let him be whatever they say. No, I'm saying that's what people are saying. I swear, you're saying is it? No, no, no, no. I think he can do whatever he wants. That's what I think. He looks, anyway, he looks more like he goes around now. You think he should shrink down to the sides of a P? What? I mean, if he wants to. Okay. I don't think he should, but that's if he wants to. That seems dangerous actually, so yeah, that's equally as dangerous.

It's not more dangerous, I'll say. But yeah, he, I mean, people have been saying this for like, you go strained, right? Yeah, absolutely. A little glasses. Yeah. The King of the Little Glasses strikes again. The Little Glasses. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's back. Yeah. So, let's talk about this now. There could be a Secret Six movie. Yeah. Could be a famous five movie. Mm. Five Fight Bane and Deathstroke. It's a very short fight. Oh, no. Because they're children.

Yeah, they have to be there after them. Deathstroke has a sword. Yeah. Yeah. The Secret Five or whatever. They're famous five probably have like, I don't know, like a like a trickle like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like a conqueror. A string. Yeah. They've got a conqueror on a string. They'll kill you. Yeah. Put it away. Yeah, Deathstroke's got a gun. Yeah. It's got a lot of guns. It's got one eye, but it's not going to matter. No. It's not going to matter.

Yeah. You can regenerate from your hitting it with a conqueror. Mm. He's probably good. Yeah. Yeah. He's really, this is by Daniel Richman. Now, you know about this. Does a Mandalorian movie in the works? Like, Andy Lorry and Vs. Grogu. Yeah. It's the only Star Wars movie that's confirmed. No, I think it is filming or it's going to. OK, sure. But it's going to happen, it's saying. Yes. We've got the sets already. That's it. That's right. We've got the big screen. Yeah, we've got the big screen.

He's, Daniel Richman has confirmed that the Mandalorian movie will be the final chapter of the show, No Season 4, which apparently they were going to do at one point. OK. He will be another project after that, but the Mandalorian that's over. It's a concept. Wow. Fine. Did they factor in that they're going to have to come up with another concept? Yeah, they've got one. Which is? Star Wars. It's in the past and there's witches and ghosts or something. That's cancelled.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no. I thought they had two shows, Mason. They've got an andor, but you get to blin it over. That's over. By the death star. That's over. Yeah. That doesn't start up, but it is over. Yeah, that is definitely over. What else have they got? It's so over. They could do Obi-Wan Season 2. I can't. Obi-Wan fights Darth Vader again. Yeah. Obi-Wan this again. Yeah. It's both of them. Yeah. Didn't we? Yeah. Do you want to see everyone season 2? No. No, man. No, man.

No. So they've got other things probably in the world. They don't have any days. The only one is apparently a little bit delayed. It's cancelled. I don't know if it's cancelled. But the main load, I mean, Ahsoka. Because they're going to do the thrawn thing. They're doing that. They're doing another. They're doing skeleton proof. Jude Law is like. Yeah. You're worried. You're worried. Yeah. They've got another thing. You thought I was freaking out.

But I just took a minute to think of what that would do. They've got some other stuff. And I think it's actually good that we took us a while to think of that stuff. Yeah. Because it's worth it in the end. It was worth it in the end. Yeah. It's all the sweeter. Mandalorian, you're happy for it to be over. Yeah. Yeah. The Compadre El Pasquale is going to miss doing that voiceover work. No. Got that check. No. Ah. He's got other stuff going on. He's got a lot. He's doing a fantastic story.

Richard's. You know? He's missed it the last of us exactly. I'm Jack the last of us. Part two. We'll talk about that. Um, so yeah. I think it's time. It feels time. We're good with that being done. Some people will never be good with it being done. That we like. Let's do another Mandalorian. I don't know. They're locked in. This is their favorite thing of the start. They're like, this is the one thing that's we're good. He's still going to be around. Don't even worry about it. All right.

Will he be in a so-ca? Well, the time last. I would say so. Yeah. They're all five years after returning the Jedi. We know this. OK. Hellboy, the crooked man. It's finally got a US release date. In stimulus. Digital. Oh. I think it comes out here. I don't think it does. Doesn't it? I don't know, man. Let me check. OK. Hellboy 2024 Australian release date. October 31st. What do you want? Yeah. We'll definitely wait till October 31st for this movie that streams next week.

That's also its October 31st. It's just the one day. Yeah, you've got to get in quick. Well, a Halloween. Busy. I'm doing a Halloween. Yeah, you need to. I'm going to do a Halloween in my costume. J. What? I'm jet lagged. Don't worry about it. OK. This is not. I can say anything. It doesn't matter. No, that's true. Not in my right mind. Yeah, that's true. Shut up. Are you looking forward to Hellboy, though? Yes. Yeah. Apparently it's fine. I've been in the Hellboy subred.

A lot of people are like, yes. It's all right. It's all right. You know? You're not going to get objective reporting in the Hellboy sub. No, I know. If they're saying it's all right, then it must be all right. It must be pretty all right. Got a couple of trailers. You need to go to the subreddit that's like Hellboy. Let's be real. It's called Hellboy. Let's be real. Be honest with ourselves. Let's say you're good, hard-looking, the mirror.

And realize that it's very obviously diminishing returns. Yeah. Oh, you're a big fan of that third one. I am. It's true. All right. Try those at home, Aisin. Ah. Ah. Wow. You've been shopping in your vocal chords. I've been working on it. Yeah. God. What do you mean, shopping them with? That thing that you sharpen a knife with? Yeah. God. A wet stone. I've been swallowing wet stones for three weeks. Have they been passing or are you just filling up with wet stones?

I'm assuming they're dissolving. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Stones do famously dissolve very quickly. That's true, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think you just filled with chewing gum and wet stones. As you know, chewing gum stays in your stomach for a hundred years or whatever. That's so true. So we're going to trade them for the last of us part two. Mm-hmm. That's right. Look, it's amazing. Yeah, we've got a good look at Catherine Deva and Abby. That's right. Abby and Kay. All right. All your favorites are back.

The grimest bloke you've ever known. That's true. Bala Ramses' character. Mm-hmm. I recognize some stuff from the games, no doubt. Oh. Like the fence tipping over. You didn't play the second one, didn't you? No, no, no, no. Yeah. I didn't love it. I felt it very drawn out. I liked the narrative, but it felt really stretched. Look at that. Well, I recall a lot of people getting attacked by dogs. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, I think.

I think it's amazing sequences in it, but there is a lot of just walking and chatting, or just cut things. It's very, very long in an way that I did not like. Okay. Because some people say, how, how are they possibly going to... They're not. There's no way they could fit this into one season unless they like. I think they've talked about splitting it into two. Okay. So the last of us part two. In 70 years. Part one and two. One and two. Yeah. So that, yeah, it looks great. Mm-hmm.

I think there's a lot of things that you could, because you're not doing the gameplay. Uh-huh. That you can. Yeah. Because I think in a lot of ways, the, you know, well, not a lot of ways. I think the TV show and the first season tells the story better than the game. So maybe the ending, I think. Yeah, right. With least it's different in a way that is interesting. The bill episode is great. Like that's not in the episode where they meet the bill. Yeah. Hello, Redge. Hello, mate.

I've perfected my English accent, being... Yeah, I've noticed, yeah. Yeah, that was really good. What do you like to? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty good. Yeah, I know it's weird, because we're meeting people, and I'm like, I know you're English, but you're not from here. But I don't, I don't know where anybody is. I'm like, you sound different than everybody else. What's going on here? Sometimes I'll like, I'm Australian. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah. It makes me... It makes me...

It makes me Australian-guide England. Shlubbing around in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, classic. Yeah. Now, good stuff. Uh, do you go to any Australian themed things? I did not. I don't like doing that. Okay. It's always bad. Yeah. Did you do any of that while you were here? In Australia? Yeah. I was on. Did you go to Red Rooster? I've been to Red Rooster. Did you go while I was away? No, I didn't go while you were away. Thank God. Because it's bad food.

It's bad food in a depressing atmosphere. And if you're not distracted by someone else being there with you, you'd think about it too much. Yeah, you start looking at the walls. Yeah. There's nothing on it. There's nothing on the walls. TV's gone. It's just a bracket. You're looking at the bracket. You know? Uh, a manager definitely took it out on their last day. Yeah, absolutely. Just by it, and they just left it. Yeah. Uh, Ballerina though.

A John Wick spin-off, which I think is set between three and four. Oh. The last, I believe, cinematic appearance of Lance Reddick. This was filmed in 2022 before he's passing. Yeah. Uh, so it's Anity Amos, who of course was in John Wick chapter four. Did you have a cameo in that, didn't you? Did she? Did she? Did she? I don't think so. And I don't think so. I think she had a John Wick movie. You think he had James Bond? And I think you know what I might be thinking of James Bond.

She's Paloma in no time to die. You don't know anything. It's true. I'm jet lag, Mason. Yeah. What am I doing? I'm doing it myself. Uh, so yeah, it's, uh, and also, of course, we do get a little cameo from one John Wick. That's correct, yes. And if you look at like the marks that he has on his face, you could probably line up to a certain certain movie. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, he's just been thrown out of a window. Yeah, I'm not going to do that.

Yeah, but uh, we do also know that this franchise is continuing. Not just with this movie, but with John Wick five. When did he lose one of his fingers? Was that three? Yeah. One with Andy Armas. Yeah, of course. Yeah. That's right. Yeah, maybe. I saw this on Twitter this week. A fun little little quirk of John Wick. Is it when he's in like the city, firing his guns and he reloads, he just flicks the magazine away. But there's a moment when he's out in the desert.

Yeah. And he like, he changed his magazines and he puts it in his pocket because he doesn't want to spoil nature. But he's happy to kill everyone in the world. Yeah, all that. And like, and just throw it on to the stretch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the, the, you know, the coolest hell guy. He's cool. Yeah, you're right. John, the appearance is from the world of John Wick, Bellarina. There you go. Is the character of Eva Macaro. Right. Whoa. Okay, great. Mason. Hello.

We got to power through some stuff. Okay. Okay. I'll do some time for Hot Quick News. What? Ow! Too hot! You've been keeping track of the news, haven't you? Yeah, I love the news. All right, what do we got? Oh, geez. How about I start? Okay. Oh, here's one. Yep. Maybe Kyle Chandler has been cast as Hal Jordan. I think the lanterns, the TV series. I believe that is all but confirmed. Okay, there are a lot of people were proposed. They went through several men, including some people Josh Broller.

Josh Broller, Chris Pine. Yeah, Ryan Reynolds was maybe even considered. No, that was the word on the straights. Oh, okay. There's a fun little fun little bit. Yeah. Okay. Well, that would suggest. Matthew McConaughey. I don't know, I check his main player. I think they were like, we don't want to get on board a DC Universe. Yeah. And rightly so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is unproven, you know? That's true.

I'm wondering if the storyline might be something along the lines of, you know, Hal Jordan, the veteran, and then maybe he dies at the end of the first season, we pass it on to. Maybe John Stuart is going to be the main guy. It's, yeah, so it's the two of them and it's two detective style. It's just called lanterns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It involves a, like, there's a murder plot on Earth, but it might have interstellar implications. Oh, man, I've got to say, I sit down that way.

Yeah, you said two actors. Yeah, yeah. God, we're back in sync. We're back in sync. It's true. It's so true. Yeah. Yeah. People said three weeks, three way, eight way, eight way, eight way, eight would rule. Is that what they said? They said, God, I'm a doctor. They said, hey, three ways away. God, I'm a doctor. Are you talking backwards? Get away from me. That's happening. Anyway, they said that. They said that. But they're wrong. We're back. But better than ever. I like this idea.

It's got Damon Lindeloff involved. Tom King. There's another name involved. I cannot remember who I liked. Yeah. Is it Kyle Chandler from Friday Night Live? No, it's one of the creative people I can't remember which one. I think Kyle Chandler's a good choice. I agree. He's great. And you know, he's older. Yeah. Again, he's a veteran green lantern. Imagine him in, like a, like a, like a, like an Air Force leather jacket. Yeah, man. He's got a furry collar, you know? It's got a furry collar.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got some badges on it. It's got some badges on it. Shwarden on it. There's Michael Jordan's. Michael Jordan's leather jacket. And there's a sub-law that Michael Jordan. He's taken it personally. He's after. He needs to stop taking things personally. Man, you're the greatest athlete of all time. Yeah. I think that's enough. Sit down. Well, he was. Stand up. Stretch your legs out. You know? Yeah. I have looking forward to this.

There's still some names being thrown around for John Stewart, but that is, as of the moment, unconferring. Including maybe the guy, and maybe this is, this is just recency bias, but I've got the guy was in Rebel Ridge the other day. I downloaded Rebel Ridge to watch as I was away, and I didn't, because you recommended it. I did. Because it's the guy to Greenroom, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm going to get to that. Aaron Pierre.

So he's the thing about Aaron Pierre is, he's got very intense eyes. Oh, you could make them green. And when I think of John Stewart, I think of his version that we see in like Justice League Unlimited, the cartoon where he's always, he's got the petually glowing green eyes. That's awesome. Which is sort of unique to that, you know, that particular green lands. Yeah, maybe that would work. Maybe that would work. It's got the eyes for it. It's got the eyes for it. It's got the eyes for it.

Anyway, this has been Hot Quick News. Which, God, this has been so quick. It's been an up and here. Yeah, I've got a quiver. Yeah. And it's a literal fever, but it's also Hot Quick News. What else have you got, Mason? I can do one. That's all I have. Thunderbolts trailer. Oh, that's right. Now we spoke about this briefly a few weeks ago, because we saw the leaked version. It seems to be the same. It's mostly the same. They've added some big bold text.

They've added a tagline, which is careful who you assemble, which I think is a bit of fun. Careful who you thunderbolts. Exactly. It's a bit of a riff on Avengers tech. That's right. It's on the poster and impact font. Very, very last minute edition. Making the impact on us. There is some additional footage. There's more winter soldier footage. Oh, yeah. He's gotten back the gun from Captain America Winter Soldier, which is the gun that flies. It just goes into the back of the gun.

It just goes into the back of the gun. It just goes into the back of the gun. Yeah. So that's a bit of fun. Yeah. And we got the Thunderbolts poster. I don't know if you saw that, but it's some... I mentioned this one on the live shows that I did, because it was that theory that it's AI generated because of Bill Pullman. Bill Pullman? No. He's Bill Pullman's son. He's in Top Gun. Robert Pullman? Robert Bill... I don't think it's a bit of... The character's name is Bob Yes. Yes. I think it's a...

No, it's not. You can see that it's just framed weirdly. What is the term for this... Lewis Pullman. Lewis Pullman, there we go. What's the term for this sort of poster? Is it Baroque? Oh, cool. Because there's a Sons of Anarchy poster. Like one season of Sons of Anarchy, it was the same vibe. It's everybody's getting in there. Yeah, okay. What's the term for it? I'll never know. I'll never know. I'll never know what you're going to say. I'll never know. I'll never learn. It's good to not learn.

That's good. What do you think about Avengers Tower, etc.? What's my... What's going on? What's going on? I still think it's... I still think that the big reveal is going to be that it's... Okay, here's a couple of options. I said it's going to be owned by Willem DeFoe and Norman Osborne. That might be it. Someone I emailed in, I don't have the email right here, but they said it might also be Wilson Fisk. Yeah, okay. Because it needs to be a guy...

The reveal needs to be a guy who can go, ah, it's the guy. I think it could also be... There's an outside chance that it is Jeff Bridges. Oh, I like that. And then people might be like, didn't he die in that exploding fireworks factory at the end of Iron Man? One yes he did, but what if he didn't? What if he didn't? What if he just... And people go like, up from the first wave, he's back. And his son could be there, we get a Zekiel stain, and there's another thing there.

And he could just be like, I jumped out of the window. And I actually didn't die. I did a roll. Yeah. A roll behind the safety. Exactly. There's the... There's the sons of Antiqui Post. Oh, there you go. It's got Baroque, isn't it? Is that the term? Oh, yeah. I think it is. It's definitely a feeling. I also saw, apparently, in it, there's, like, plans for the centuries tower, which often sits on top of... Avengers tower. So it could be something to work out as well.

Yeah. Perhaps it's been there all along. Yeah, well, that's right. Because, of course, century, and you know more about this than I do, he's a character when they introduced him. He was kind of... He'd been white from history. So he'd always been in the normal life. So the idea behind the character is that he was new in the, like, the early 2000s. Yeah. The premise was that in the Marvel Universe, he'd been there for years.

And all the other heroes at large had forgotten about him for reasons that are revealed in the original mini-series. Yeah. And they also did a fun bit, a little bit where, like, you know, the editors of the book were like, I... We've had this character for years. I guess we opened a drawing. We forgot to give you a second. They were... I know. So how much of this is being used?

I'm very curious because he's in the comic books, in the comic books, he has the appearance of like a Superman style character. He's got a cape, he can fly, he's invulnerable, he's super strong, et cetera. But ultimately, his powers are like significantly more far reaching than that. It's just he's sort of chosen to give himself those powers. Yeah. He can actually sort of alter reality on a fundamental level and sort of create things like a far reaching way, like all around the world.

So how much of that he's going to be in this movie or how much of that is just going to be like, well, we simplified it and he's just a guy who can fly. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's probably going to be like a combination of Super Soldier, Serum and Gamma, Radiation. Sure, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. He seems to be the lab of growing, whatever's going on. Yeah, no, true, true, true. Huck-wink-noose, what yaa? Huck-wink-noose, what yaa? Huck-wink-noose, what yaa? Huck-wink-noose, what yaa?

Huck-wink-noose, what yaa? Damn. Yeah. I'm saying it now because of all the Huck-wink-noose. Huck-wink-noose. Huck-wink-noose. Now Joker, two, follow you. Oh yes. It's tracking pretty low. Oh. It's looking to have a 68 million U.S. opening weekend, which is far below the first one. Yeah. Can I make something? I've talked about extensively on the live shows, which if you were there. Oh yes. Which you were, actually. I was there. Thanks for coming. It was very quiet.

Yeah. And somebody had said the secret word I would have sprung up. Yep. And gone, Hazar. I think, do you know what I'm saying? I was going to say, do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. But it's what I'm talking about here. Yeah. So I think it comes down to, it's marketed weirdly. They're not committing to like, it's a musical. I don't think Todd Phillips even likes it. It's a musical. I think you like it at all. Well, the studio, no. It seems to be the way that they're talking about it.

Yeah. I think this is a very much a walk-in for any extent to a lesser extent. A lady Gaga, like lead production. Yeah. They were rewriting it on the fly on like napkins. Great song. And it's a jukebox musical. They released that song. Lady Gaga released that song. It's the Kath and Kim theme song. What's that? You know that she released a song and it's that Joker in the pack. Oh. The Joker is me. Okay. Right. Yeah, right. Funny if you're a stream because that's a very famous song. Yeah, right.

No, it's a, well, it's a very famous song, but it's from a very famous Australian sitcom. Yeah. And if you don't know what it's like, there's always a Joker in the pack and the Joker is me, etc. It's Joker related, which actually fits in perfectly with this move. Because this movie is about the Joker. It's mostly about the Joker. Well, it's about a guy who says his name is the Joker. Now, I'm not going to spoil anything because also I don't know. Have you read any of the leaks?

No. Yeah, okay, cool. Because it's out this week. I know. We go see it. I'm going to take my son. I know this big joke. You shouldn't take your son to go. Why not? Because he'll probably shoot Robert De Niro in the head again. You're a guy. Oh, okay. He'll be in real life. He'll be in his life. Yeah, he'll be inspired by a gun. I got to American shoes. I would hate my son to turn into the Joker and shoot Robert De Niro. I was going to say, yeah, that's the risk you run.

So yeah, but it's tracking low. It's not really. I think it's still going to do okay to probably break even a Nansom. Yeah, right. But the height behind this, I think if you love the first movie, this is very different. And I like the idea of them trying something very different. But it doesn't seem like they're fully embraced. It's embraced in any interesting way. I don't know. I mean, big Joker. Big Joker's in this. Right. And there's a double-steer kick. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

It's beautiful. It's a courtroom drama or something. But yeah, get out of here. Joker, we'll talk about you next week. So hot. Oh, right. This one. Apparently Sony are restarting production on Spider-Verse 3. We're delaying it. They're like, we're going to like this. So this is just scrapped and they're going to... Everything scrapped. Apparently. That's a lot of work. That's the story. I know. Wow. It's already late. It's supposed to be out six months ago.

Right. Yeah. At this point, we should have been like, we're satisfying into the story. Yeah. We're mad about it. We could have been mad for six months at this point. Exactly. Imagine how good that would be. Yeah. So yeah, that's... I don't know. I think that was still a rumor. I mean, Sony also... You don't know if you saw the story where there's a new contract apparently between Sony and Marvel where... So Marvel now have the rights to use any of the Sony characters.

Like, I think it's something like 30 days after the ghost of VOD, which means they can use like alternate versions of Craven or whatever. Oh, more obvious. Yeah. I'd say they probably... So if they like Craven... And why wouldn't you? And why wouldn't you? Or they don't like Craven. These are different to all the animals. Yeah, exactly. If they want to use like a Craven, then doesn't like animals, which is Craven. Oh, that's right. They can make their own version. Yeah. And the other version.

Yeah. The other stipulation is that Sony has to spend at least $75 million on their movies and release them in 2,000 theaters, which basically, we're saying, stop making low-budget, bad, villain, spin-off movies or whatever, or mad and web movies. Also, it has to be more than $75 million. And because otherwise, you can do what they do with the Fantastic Four movie in the 90s. You make a pile of crap, and then you don't release it all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You give it a really soft launch, and then you keep the rights. So it's basically a way to ensure quality control. Yeah, I'd give it some Warren Beaty rule. Yeah. The Warren Beaty vibes in the... Make a lot of us, don't you think? Like a Dick Tracy kind of... Let's not get into it until we get into it. Yeah. How about this? Oh, what yaa? What? What yaa? News! Ah! This has been so quick and hot. We bought too many whips.

We did tickle. Yeah. But I mean, you weren't the Judy free, and you know, you buy the whips on the way, you know. Yeah. And they said, do you want to dip it in all this carousine? Yeah. And I said, yeah. A whipping and dip it. Absolutely I do, for the flight. Absolutely. The Reds are the bottom of Intura Hawaii, and unfortunately, they didn't get a chance to grill. To grill.

So I train as well, so I train as well, as I'm not doing super well and it's U.S. Relief, so it hasn't been released in... I train in Europe. Yeah. So I think it... It only cost 75 million, so I think it'll probably be alright. Do you end up saying it? No, I'm gonna say it this week. Well, there wasn't out when I was in the UK, and my son, because he really wanted to say it's been out here a couple weeks, he wasted. He hasn't seen it yet. He hasn't seen it this week. Is it school holidays?

Yeah. So he'd be... Oh, these friends would be like... He's chomping with a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe like I'm gonna tell you, Dysonen. Yeah. And it's like, is it Optimus Prime? And they'd be like, yeah, always. You always guys. Absolutely. They bring you back. They bring you back. Yeah. God, so I might do a double bill of that in the Joker. Absolutely, yeah.

Joker too. Nice. Yeah. So anyway, Luezzo did one of Intura Sedanifs, you basically, that they finally figured out Transformers, and the idea was you can give them heart and personality. Who knew? Wow. We just every other... So it's been 30 years. Or whatever. How long has he been involved with this? This mess. It's an original live action. Okay, so 2008. That's why there's dudes in it all the time running around. Yeah, yeah. That's why they're Mark Wahlberg movies or whatever they've been doing.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's very obvious. We all knew that. We knew that, yeah. And catch up. You also sort of did it in Bumblebee. If you remember the movie that you made. That's right. You know? Yeah. Yeah, this should be more than unpleasant robots tussling with each other, you know? Exactly. So they've cracked the code well done. But... But now, these movies are less popular than ever. And they also said that, yeah, we're working on G.I. Joe, we're hashing it out.

Which if you saw the post credits of the Transformers movie the last one, that's what it felt like when they opened that empty room. Yeah. What's in here? Do you think? Yeah. What could be in here? Yeah. Ordeals. Are you surprised by that? That they still haven't figured out the G.I. Joe thing. Not at all. Yeah. I don't know, but it's not promising if this doesn't do well, though. Even that was really well received. Hmm. It's a bad brand in the cinema.

The very least at the moment, I think, because they just used up so much goodwill making five bad movies. Are you sure, dude? Yeah. Anyway, good job, so, good job, good job, good job, good job, and so forth. We got one more May, send. Go on. You're, uh, you found in the office? Yeah. Fan, fan, fan. What about the original, the UK office? Oh, blind me. Yeah. Why do only fools and orses work in an office? That's the thing. Good question.

Yeah. Anyway, there's been 13 or so adaptations and Australia is finally getting it. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Right on time. Right on time. And the trailer came out. Yeah. And a lot, I saw it. Look, it, it, uh, very quickly, you know, spread around the world through, you know, always there is Twitter, Twitter pages and so forth. And I saw a lot of comments that were like, this is the worst thing in the universe. Now, here's the thing. Yeah. I think it's got potential. I agree.

I think there, there are a lot of people involved who I like. Yeah. Well, on, here's the thing though. So on the one hand, we have Stin Riskoblis is a very funny comedian. I've seen him live a bunch of times, uh, in the gym role. And we've got Sherry Sevens who was great in a bunch of stuff, including the sapphires. Yes. Uh, as the Pam role. Yeah. Well, the dimmin, uh, the, the Tim and Dawn role. That's right. But here's the thing. It's a gym and Pam, Tim and Dawn thing. Exactly.

Like they haven't gone with a new thing. No. They're like, okay, well, the office formula requires the overbearing boss and the Tim and the Dawn. Yeah. I like Felicity Ward as well. Yeah. Uh, I mean, but that being said, like, don't get it twisted. I don't think this looks good. Okay. Um, I, again, I like a lot of people in it all have wrote, wrote on it. And I think also like the first season of the US office sucks because it's trying to do. Yeah. Well, that's the thing.

It's trying to wipe the original and then they got it their own vibe. So is this going to get a second season? Yeah. Or is the, is the, maybe the, I mean, surely like, I'm sure Ricky Jiveye says some input into this. I mean, maybe the, I mean, would that even be good? I don't know. But maybe the, I mean, maybe the, maybe they've done, you said they've done 13 adaptations and like that. Maybe 13 have been successful and the playbook has always been initially copy the British version.

Yeah. And then going. So maybe they're, maybe they're like, we're just doing it again in a little work eventually. Yeah. And also a lot of people have been like, they've looked at the characters we see in this and they've gone there too freakish. I don't feel about it. I know I liked it. They're kind of, you know, a bunch of on ducks. What I don't like is that it does feel very kind of, and this could just be the trailer. Like the reality is heightened.

Like there's a real Monday to the US one less so, especially as it goes. Yeah, that's right. But I think you kind of need to start it like a little bit more, like kind of more low-key. And maybe that's, you can't do that now because if people are so used to what the office has become. Yeah, I mean, some people have said, freaky, it's just, you know, because they're too kind of like caricature-like. Yeah, no, like, well, I'd never meet these kind of people in the office.

Yeah. Whereas especially with the original office, you like, well, I would meet these kind of, people like, they could be kind of ordinary. They're all of those people. It kind of ordinary. As some people have said in Australia, well, we don't need the office because we already have utopia. Very true. But to me, that is like saying, why did we need, it's always sunny and fill a delfie if we have cheers?

Like just because they're set, yeah, just because they're set in a bar doesn't mean they're the same thing. No, you're not, like utopia is about like talent, like, real bureaucracy and government. Yeah, it's like talented people who are trying to make the world a better place butting heads against their superiors are all dumbasses. Yeah. And the office is about finding little bits of joy in a mundane day-to-day existence. They're different things.

I definitely had that thought that like, there is a better version of this that exists than it is utopian, but you're right. It is there is room for other workplace shenanigans, exactly. I know I spoke to, excited to live confessions with, um, see a little bit of book, see a little bit of color and do a utopia. Who's in utopia? Who's in utopia and I said, have you seen it? Like, you said it, she's like, nobody had seen it. Even the people in it. This was like a month ago. Yeah. Hadn't seen it.

So I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what this is. Yeah. Like an all honesty. I'm going to give it a crack, though. Let's go in fair. Let's go in fair. And strong and bright. Fair and strong and bright. Our opinions are right. Anyway, that's hot quick news. Chash! What an effort, quicker than ever. What a shit. That went a while. Yeah. Because of how hot and quick it was. It just stayed like regular news. Right? We just kind of did that bit at the end.

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That's right. That's why we have to say the full title. We loved it. What? We're going to get into it. Whether we loved it or not. Okay, terrific. We just get a sec because it's an ad. I love it. So we loved it. I loved it. We loved it. We loved it. We loved it. We loved it. We presented a weekly plan of presents. We loved it. We loved it. We loved it. So it cost $120 million. This is a movie he struggled to get financed for like 40 years.

He ended up selling off part of his winery to self-fund this. Yeah, the grapes bit. The grapes bit. He hasn't directed them. He sold it off to Sunraja, Sultanas. Did he? They made Sultanas out of them. That's pretty good. Sold them for like 50 cents a box. 50 cents a box. Yep. Okay. That's pretty good. So the last movie he did was the Godfather I believe. It's not true. It's actually not true. He's done many movies between then and there. Oh yeah, he did Dracula. That was the last one he did.

Oh yeah. It's not. He did other movies. He did. Including surprisingly, the movie Jack. Oh yeah. He directed that with Robin Williams as a man who's also a boy. He did also the Rainmaker. Okay, sure, sure, sure. Was that the last one he did? He did something in... He did do one in like the 2000s. But he was not credited on it perhaps. Is that what I'm thinking? I don't know what he's up to. I don't know what a whole deal is. Anyway, it's cool guy and he's normal. Do you think?

No, I don't think that at all. No, so this was a rife with delays. Well, for many years. It was also he was going to make it around the 2000s and then 9-11 happened. And if you've seen this movie, which you haven't... I have seen it. No, you haven't. No, sorry not you. The people listening, most of them have not. Okay. Then that was delayed because of the events of 9-11. Yeah. It's been recast like multiple times. The production itself, when he was filming it was just...

We've talked about this riddled with problems. Kind of him kind of unsure of what he wanted, saying like, we just green screened and fixed it later. We're going to use the volume and it didn't really kind of work the way that he wanted. It was going to be Zendaya and Oscar Isaac. Oh, that at one point as well. Okay. I imagine probably for the lead roles. Yeah, that makes sense, I guess. It was also... Apparently a lot of the actors were told to improvise on set.

And you can certainly feel that in some of the scenes. Boy, can you. It's pretty fucking scattered in moments, Mason. Yeah. But we loved it. We loved it. We're in the sponsor. We're in the sponsor. We loved it. We loved it. We got to send him a now. Oh, did the set him a now, see the climax. See the ultimate experience. You could be the guy. You could be the guy. You asked the stupid question. That's right. Also, like, he's wife passed away during the making of this, which is tragic, obviously.

They asked us to put that in the sponsor segment. They did, yes. Also, he allegedly maybe gropeed a bunch of people during that. Which they also asked us to put in the other. And it's all right, because the people he grope with the other sex pests in the movie. So, yeah, it's fine. It always helps. It's a who's who of sex pests, Mason. And crook bloats. And crook bloats. Yeah. Anyway, box office. Bad. This is a fucking enormous bomb. I don't know whether that's a shame or not. He's fine.

He's gotten... Yeah, he'll be fine. He's got the rest of the winery that he didn't sell. All the machinery. Yeah, that's right. It probably won't clear... Like the little, the little tavern bit at the, probably at the side, where you can have a little while. Get a little taste. Get a little taste test. Yeah, but then we're going to go, oh yeah. I'll take one bottle, please. Yeah, he sold off all the spittoons, though. Did he? So now there's nowhere to spit. You just spit on the floor.

I heard he drank him. That's what I heard, Mason. Oh, yeah. So it probably won't clear $5 million in its US opening weekend. Well, luckily you were saying it only cost $5 million? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It cost a lot more than that. Oh, no. Oh, no, for him. $120 million is a big money. It's going to open 6th, and that's behind the wild robot. Yeah. It's behind very well, and apparently a lot of people like that one, yeah. I've read the first two books. Yeah. They're great.

Behind Beetlejuice twice, Transformers One, and then there's some other movies, which I don't know. This has got big, white man in the wasquantum area. A lot. That's coming from behind. Well, at least you got Beet by one of his favorite movies. That's correct. God damn. So there's all of that. Yeah. What do you think the story was? Oh, right. It's actually fairly straightforward this, but it's sold in a way that's upsetting. Yeah. No, not upsetting. Gourmet. Gourmet boring. Gourmet boring.

Oh, we out of the response. Boring. It's pretty boring. Okay. Not exclusively. Okay. So Adam Driver plays Caesar Catalina, which is an anagram of Francis Ford Coppola. And he is the world's greatest filmmaker. Sorry, I mean, architect. Yeah. And he wants to make, he wants to make the best movies. I mean, buildings in the world. Yeah. But there's all these people. They won't let him. They won't let him. They're getting in the way meddling. Oh, but he can't do. And he won't. He won't.

Over the end. He just does it. Yeah. And then at the end, he has, if they just left him alone. Back up. He'd be able to make the world's greatest filmography. I mean, a place called Megalopolis. Yeah. And then there's a little bit like that goop inside a lava lamp. Yeah. Really big. That's right. And you can get a ball to work. Yeah. Or something. But anyway, this movie is set in a place called New Rome, which is basically... It's New York. It's New York.

Because the Christ of the building isn't it? Yeah. The late 21st century. There's no real explanation to where... Where are the cargels? It's just a parallel universe. It's parallel universe. It's a parallel universe. It's a favel. So it doesn't matter. Yeah. We loved it. And we're not we're outside of the sponsor segment. Okay. It's a favel. So anything that's a little bit weird that you go, I don't know if this worked. It's a favel. Yeah. You know. Anyway, there's from other people in it.

All the people that are trying to bring him down, for example, Giancalo Esposito plays the mayor. Yeah. Who is like, you should... You'd stop building the best city in the world. I think people need a place to live in food and jobs and stuff. And a casino. And Adam Trive is like... Well, actually, no. Well, actually, they want my weird city. Well, actually, Shakespeare. Yeah. I'm going to say it's a Shakespeare. That's right. Have a very talling... Yeah. Don't you think? Yeah, yeah.

I'm actually the best and I'll be proven right. Yeah. But I'm not going to... You know, if you ask me about my process or anything that I... Yeah. That I'm... How I'm doing anything or how I'm going to achieve this, I'll just do a soliloquy at you. Yeah, that's right. And that'll make you think... That'll make you think that I'm very wise. Yeah. And maybe it is. Yeah. Maybe I'll date your daughter, which she does. Yep, and that's... That is... Her name is...

It's Julie up, but it's Natalie Emanuel, who's also recently in the remake of The Killer. Yes. On Peacock is also in the fast and furious movies. She's the game of thrones. She's the hacker and everybody's like, you can't be a hacker. You're a good dude. You're too much of a... Exactly. Exactly. That's right. Other people trying to bring him down include Aubrey Plaza as a wow platinum. Yep. Who's the money bunny? She is on a... Like a Fox News junker. Yeah. She works about money.

Yeah. She's his former mistress. Mm-hmm. She wants to bring him down. I was going to Dead Wife. He's got a Dead Wife. Oh, Lawrence Fishburn, re-taming with Francis Ford Coppola. First time since Apocalypse Now. When he was like 14. 14, yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. John Voite. John Voite. Shilabuff with one of the worst haircuts ever committed to film. That's correct. Definitely a front runner for Worst Hair of the Year. Absolutely. Warped Show at the end. Yeah, everybody's trying to bring him down.

Yeah. But fortunately he has some advantage. Just one. He's always right and he's the best and he's got the best imagination. There's one. Oh, we also invented something that can do anything. Well, yeah, he invented. He invented a miracle substance called Megalon, which it can... It's a great building material. You can use it to make like Harry Potter invisibility cloak clothing. Yep. It can make magic walkways. It can even do...

It can even turn into that first aid kit from Kings When The Gold and Circle, where it... It can fix you completely even if you shot directly through the skull. That's right. Yep. What else could it do? What can't it do? Well, there's a moment where someone's like, is it dangerous? And he's like, what if we all loved each other? Yeah. And no. It's not dangerous at all. It's not dangerous. It's the best thing ever invented. It's the best thing ever invented.

Oh, you can also maybe see the past with it, like visions of the past. Yeah. Unless it's also you can see your memories. Maybe Adam Driver can see the memories of his dead wife, because maybe she's in the Megalon? She might be in there. She might be in the Megalon. Also, he can stop time. Yeah, he can. But he never uses it. At any point where it might be handy or practical. Yeah. It really only uses it to pause the city and look down on the city and go, wow. Like going on. Like going on.

Oh, at last point though, he loses the ability to do it. Yeah. But then he can't again. Because Natalie Emanuel was like, what if you believed in yourself? Could you do it for me? I can. Also, I'm immune to it. Yeah, she doesn't work on that. Doesn't work on her. Yeah. I don't know. God. So I love this movie. It's like, you can't make a big cool city and he's like, yeah, but I want to. And then he does.

Yeah. And as long as you can, maybe you should, maybe you should build some new living quarters for people before you blow up their apartment block. No, I'm gonna die. I think I'm, I'm gonna die. I think I'm gonna die. Yeah. It's when it's done, it'll be good. Or it'll be like, oh, this terrible thing hath befallen me, Adam Driver. Oh, this person. Oh, my accounts have been frozen. And I've got a weird eye now. I've got a weird eye now. What's him, what's him a shell I do?

Or like someone on a plot against him. Oh. But then it's fine. That is fine. Every time it's like, ah, alright. This is the best. He's the best. He's the best. So he's like, oh, great haircut. No. They've all got that haircut. Why they've got, they'd seize a haircut. They've got the John Voitt has it. Yeah. Oh my God. Shall I look buff in this? Just fopping around. Let me ask you this, before we get stuff.

Before we get stuff, before we, before we chip away at everybody, what did you think of this movie? It's fucking insane. Is it a good way? Ah, it's look, it was boring. It was boring. But I did, there is something really compelling. Disagree. And this is what I hoped it would be. This was made by a lunatic. Yeah, I know. Like 100, he's lost his mind. It's so self-indulgent. And again, I know he's going through a lot of personal things or whatever.

But it's such an obvious and obvious allegory to a number of things like the perils of capitalism in his own personal life and career, whatever. But it's told just like, it's so, it's broken. It's broken. Like it does have fit together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there is something I think inherently interesting about that. OK. Like some of the choices just be watching going, oh my, real, OK. I think it is worth it for the conversation we are having now.

Yes. And like if people want to watch it with friends and have a conversation about it afterwards, but I do not think it is good. I think this is a terrible movie. I think I haven't seen Jack, I don't think. But it's of every, and as a man who's made many movies that I would consider great movies, I would say he's easily the worst movie. He's an I've seen. Yeah. And a lot of people said, like you mentioned, it's about his internal term, on what have you.

And his wife passed away and all that sort of stuff. And I saw someone say, well, it's about, it's about his, he's gone on record to say something along the lines of, you know, he's worried about the, the, the, the, the, the the world of cinema that he's gonna leave. And did he live in a better place or whatever. And I've seen people sort of conflate that in this movie and go, well, that's what this movie is about. It's about a man who wants to leave the world in a better place. But I disagree.

I think this is a movie built on a mountain of spite. I think this is a movie of like, it's, it's, it, he's taken stock of all the things that movie producers and, and studio heads and money men have said to him, oh, you can't do this. I maybe should cut this out. And he's gone, I'm gonna put it all in. Yeah. I'm gonna put every single thing that you've said I can't do. I'm gonna put it all in. And I'm gonna get every idea I've thought of for the past 40 years about this movie.

And I'm gonna put it all in. So I'm gonna, and there's nobody, because he wrote and produced and directed this. There's nobody to say, maybe you shouldn't do all this. Maybe there's, maybe some of this you think is innovative but it's been done before or maybe some of this you think is relevant but it's not relevant anymore in the world that exists now.

Like there's a subplot in this and like a lot of the subplots in this movie comes and then it goes immediately about this kind of we're just gonna do spoilers. Yeah, I guess. Yeah, well, I mean, it's, there's, there's a lot of things that come and then go and it's not really a spoiler but there's a, there's a subplot in this about a sort of underage kind of girl pop star. And her like, it's probably a 10 minute subplot.

Yeah, and her persona is that she's very pure and virginal and then and all these dirty old men, they pledge millions of dollars to her for being a virgin or something. But then she is sort of thrown into this like sex tape scandal with Caesar without a driver's character. And then it sort of hand-waved away. But it's, it's like, do you remember in the like the early 2000s, there was like Britney Spears just exactly.

And all these, and they were like, they were these, for people who don't remember, there were these sort of, you know, these young girl pop stars and they were all, people like the media was like obsessed with their virginity. Yeah, they were, they were singing songs written by Swedish, old Swedish perverts about that were kind of raunchy and risque, but their whole public persona was like, we're actually quite virginal and all that sort of stuff. And then and then the world moved on from that.

But this is, this is that. It's like, somebody should have told Francis Ford Coppola that this like, pop stars now are like their brass and their espresso and so forth. This isn't relevant. And nobody cares about this anymore. Absolutely not. And then it just, it just comes and it goes kind of thing. Well, it is because like, there's a video released and it's Shada Buffs character who's the cousin of Adam Driver's character. It shows them in bed together and it's doctored.

So that it's his huge scandal, Adam Driver gets arrested. He's released, but then it's immediately revealed that she's not actually underage, she's 23. And the video was doctored. And then he's like, but I can't use my powers anymore. And then that's the moment where she's like, well, what if you did and he's like, no, I'll do it. He also got beat up by those theory of people. I got beat up by the theory of people. And I thought that was why he lost his powers.

Oh, I thought it was because he, I'm maybe because of the scandal, but then, but then John Calo Esposito is like, well, maybe it wasn't illegal, but it was certainly immoral. But he wasn't there. No, exactly. He wasn't even there. And that's the problem. Look, that's the problem with a lot of this improv stuff as well. So look, earlier on Twitter, I wrote Francis Ford Coppola's Duke Newcombe Forever. And I stand by that.

And for two reasons, one, for people that don't know, in the early 90s, there was a video game called Duke Newcombe 3D, and it was very popular. And it boobs. It had all sorts of rude stuff. And then like innovative stuff, it like innovated on doom, a little bit. That crude humor. That crude humor. And then the studio that made it immediately went on to make or to announce Duke Newcombe Forever, which was in development health, literally decades.

Yeah. And the reason it was is because they kept trying to chase innovation. They were like, oh, okay, we've been working on it for two years, but then they made a new game engine. So we're going to throw everything away and we're going to start again. Or like this other studio made better enemy AI, so we're going to innovate on that, because otherwise we won't, whatever. And then it just kept going and going and going. And that's how this movie feels to me.

And when it came out, I was like, this is just fine. Yeah, barely. And I mentioned, and I mentioned the reason I could have walked. Chinese democracy. Chinese democracy. Yeah. I was going to say Francis Ford Coppola's Rebel Moon Part 3, the master of Megalon, but I figured I'll say Duke Newham Forever because it's also an old reference that you have to explain. That's right. And so much of this is old references. Yeah. So so much of this, it's Romeo. It's Baselun and Romeo and Juliet.

And nobody's told him they did that. They did that in the 90s. You might have even seen it. We're not shocked by, I actually went to his, like his list of 10 best, 10 favorite films. And it's not on there. And I'm like, well, you wouldn't, you wouldn't put it on there if you're going to rip it off. Would you? You'd say you'd never seen it. But it, and remember that Richard III, maybe with Ian McKellen, but it was Richard III, but it was also World War II. Like this isn't, this isn't innovative.

Like this isn't the idea of like, well, whatever was New York, but it's also Rome. We've just seen that. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. It's also I think, and there's nothing wrong with like taking on stories and like, not really, you know, not necessarily rehashing things, but building on previous ideas. But yeah, this doesn't feel like that. It feels tired and it's just presented in a very bizarre package. Yeah. It's almost slap dash, which it couldn't really be also.

Well, see, that's the thought, but you said you mentioned earlier and I learned this today as well, that some, a lot of this, the scenes obviously weren't improv because they built the sets and they did some of the sets and they did the costumes and all that sort of stuff. But a lot of the dialogue was in front of us. Oh, there's a moment where Adam Driver says, in the club. Yeah, yeah. That's fun. Yeah, yeah. Some of the deliveries were fun. Oh, yeah.

But it's also weird because like he, he's like, he's, he's, he's, he's denigrating these people for going to the club and then find his later. He's drinking and smoking a cigarette like a club. He said, the club. But I was going to say about the improv dialogue.

A lot of the scenes in this movie felt like improv performers, when they, they're not in sync and both of them, and like, when, when you see two improv performers trying to vie for supremacy, like they're both saying, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're determined not to listen to their scene partner and they're just going to say, they're doing their own thing. They're just doing their own thing at each other. Should I, the buff feels like that for most of this?

Yeah. And he's supposed to be like a thoroughly unpleasant character and he is, but like, God, just very painful stuff from him. Yeah. He's got a gang of hoodlums. And they're just like these foppish kind of like, woohoo. They're like, yeah, they're like Tim Burton, Batman hoodlums who obviously rip off of something else from something or whatever. Something else from something, no doubt. It's not, I, yeah.

Also, there's a moment in where, because he goes in direct competition without him driver's character. And he kind of rallies the people and against him. And it's like, well, actually, he is like in doing, building the city. He is oppressing people. And he is like, you know, he's knocking down their houses. He's not listening to anybody. And he's right. Yeah. But then at the end, he's wrong. He's just wrong. Because he builds the city and guess what? It's great.

And everyone was wrong and he was, and he didn't murder his wife. And he was shot in the head, but he's fine. Yeah, he's totally fine. He's a moment where. He's better now. There's a brain's probably better. There's a moment where, because he loves kids. If you haven't seen this, boy. Oh boy. There's a moment where Adam drivers character loves kids. He loves like conversing with kids. And that's how Natalie and Manuel's character is. Do we know that? It's just, it's been said.

Because that's how she gets to meet him. Because she tells him that she's a sixth grader that he met the previous week. And so he lets her up. Okay. And so this is kid who goes to him in the car and gets him to sign a book. And they're like, well, you know, Adam drivers character. He never refuses to, he loves talking to kids or whatever. And then the kid shoots him directly, like, point blank through the head. But luckily, he just doesn't die for the white along time. He has mega-opolis powers.

And so he gets his face repaired. But initially, just to be clear though, it's because the doctors have been given some mega-long, which is a miracle material. I can use it to rebuild his head and brain. Yes. He didn't use his time stop abilities at all. No, he did. No. I don't know about you, but if I had time stop powers, I'd be ready at a moment, notice. Yeah, absolutely. I'd use it for a bunch of stuff.

If I were a guy trying to build a wonderful city or whatever, I'd be like, time stop, now we'll build the city. And then I'll untie him stop. And everybody would see that I'm running. Also, like, I don't know if they're even real in this movie. Is it like metaphorical? Because he's always talking about time. It's a phabial science. It's a phabial science. And there's plenty of time. When you're an artist and blah, blah, blah, blah, actually, it seems like time stops.

Yeah. But that's what I meant. Yeah. It's a phabial, though. So any criticism we have of it is irrelevant. I don't have any criticism. That's terrific. Because we're back in the sponsor set. I love Megalopolis. It's a good movie. It's a trans-sport cop, plus Megalopolis at Fable. You might have heard some people say it's nonsense. Or end of flop. Yeah, maybe recently, even. Some people might call it Megaflopolis. They might. Yeah, not us, though. They might say it's a big pile of crap.

Anyway, we're out of the sponsor segment. Anyway, back to Megaflopolis, the big pile of crap. Also, there's an... Tell you a shy is in this. That was got like her. Also Adam drivers mum hates him. Mixes the devil, but then she doesn't. Then at the end she does the Mad Max walks away from the Citadel bit, where she just walks away in the crowd with a rice smile at her face. Like, she always knew you could do it. I always knew you'd do it.

There's a moment that is quite early on where this is unrelated to any of that. But there's a moment where Adam drivers talking to one of his underlings. And he says something along lines of, oh, what if the thing that carried the charge could also store the charge? And the guy's like, oh, that's genius. I'll go off and do that. Right. It's good stuff. Yeah, because he's an ideas man. Oh, yeah, because if you go into... That guy wouldn't have thought of that.

And the engineer guy would have thought of that. You could never. Because you go into the workshop. And it's nothing. It's buckets. Buckets and kids and gymnastics. But then you go through it and you imagine it. And then you imagine it. Then it's something. You just got to think about it. It's the lava lamp city. Exactly. Yeah. There's a moment where he's driving through the older parts of... Adam driving. Adam driving through the older parts of New York City.

Sorry. New Rome. And then the new Rome moment where there's a statue of Lady Justice. And she like, she's... She gets all sad. And she falls over. And there's a couple of... Oh my God. Look at that guy. No, wow. Look at this symbolism. Pretty good. Pretty good. Oh, yeah. What is going on with his wife? Because his wife is dead. Yes. And she might be stored in the Megalopolis equipment. She might be in the Megalopolis. Because then when Natalie... Natalie... The Megalopolis character goes to...

Is he surely? I think it's Julie. Yeah, whatever. And like a... Like a... A mausoleum thing. Yeah. And he's like braiding her hair and she's asleep. But then she's not really there. But then she... She's... Julia follows him in and she's not there. And he just... And then she... And she drove off a bridge because... But then he... Yeah, too many ideas. But Natalie Emmanuel goes into the room. Natalie Emmanuel goes into the room. And all she sees is Adam Driver standing by bed and she goes...

Oh, no. He still loves his wife. Oh, she's like a pulled. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I don't think she got the right scene instructions. No, it seems that way. She might have been looking at something else. But it's even weird that like... Because I can't remember specifically, but it's very vague about why she drove off the cliff. Oh, it seems like... I don't know when I'm giving about something. Yeah, he did too many ideas. Yeah, he did too many good ideas, I think.

He probably said, you know, the thing that carries the charge could also hold the charge. And she was like, how dare you? I'm going to drive him on this bridge. I'm driving on this bridge. Come and get me. Yeah. There's a moment where after Adam Driver is shot in the face. Yes. He's like a bandage on. He's sort of okay. He's like, he does that. Yeah. Does that really get some accounts for us? It needs to go to the bank and he's like, my cancer be frozen. And he takes off his fucking the bandage.

Yes. And it's this like mess ionic moment of everybody gets to look at his mega-lopolis impulsant head. Yeah. That he's gone. And then I'm like, oh, wow. Is he going to be like for the rest of this? Is this going to be the rest of the movie? No. No, next thing is on his eyes. It's all blind. It is. Yeah, because of mega-lop. Yeah, which we don't see. We don't see the birth of our baby. No. But it's weird seeing it cut out if you're leaving all the rest of this. Sure. Yeah. And then so, go on.

Anyway, so Aubrey Plaser's character in Shilobab's character. Absolutely. Thank you. And some else. Some of them are another guy. They are conspiring to, because she ends up marrying John Voic because he owns the bank. Yeah, that's right. He's the money man. And he loves Adam Driver. He loves Caesar. But Shilobab hates us. Because he's the best. And he's the best designer and he's always right. Yeah. And so, they conspire to take over the bank.

And in doing so, he has a stroke or pretends to have a stroke? Yeah. I think he pretends to have a stroke. Yeah. Yeah. So, and then he's lying in bed and then they come in. He's like, look at my bone. This is real. Okay, they come in and they're like, oh, we'll get one over him because he's had a stroke. But he's pretending. Yeah. And he goes, so many lives or whatever. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. And then he goes, look at, he says, what do you think of this boner I got?

Yeah. And you look down and it looks like he has a giant pointed boner. Yeah. But he's also dressed as Robin Hood. He was at a party. So then he takes off the cloth. Mm. And he's holding a tiny bow and arrow. Yeah. And it's very small. And he uses it to shoot all three flowers through the chest and kill her. And as Shilobab runs out, he shoots him in the bus two times with an arrow. Yeah. And he's like, no, it's going to stop me from being a banker.

I'm going to, I leave all my money to Adam Driver's character because he's the best. Yeah. And then he can build his megalopolis and then Shilobab gets strung up in front of an American dollar bill or whatever. Oh, yeah. And as he's just all the way to town on him. They turn on him. Just because he was like, these guys are unedig- educated and they suck and I hate them. Yeah. And it's- I'm using them.

Yeah, and it's this thing of like, I believe in Caesar megalopolis and all the work that he's doing. And I'm a money man, but I understand great creativity. Yeah, that's right. And so at the end, when it's revealed that the city- or people are at the walls of the city being like, we ate you Adam Driver, but he does a speech. And then the curtain comes down, they go, oh, this is great. On a one point of meteor hits. Oh, yeah. And at one point of meteor hits. On a certain set of lights.

It's not a bit too much in satellite. So it's that Soviet satellite, yeah. And everyone seems distressed including Adam Driver, but it's also the thing that he clearly wanted. And then it crashes down and there's some- It's fine, mostly. It's fine, it's fine. Yeah, and there's the one point where he, the moment where he's took- whether somebody asked him the question of screen.

Yeah. And he said and they say something like, do you think it'll be dangerous when the satellite crashes down and kills everybody? And he's like, you know what? Love is important, actually. Love is important. And also to be good if we all had a conversation. Yeah. I can't remember where, but there's a one point. He's like, you know what, we're the best- everyone having a conversation. I think that would be good. That's as good as- Doing anything. Doing anything. Yeah, it's probably better.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ideas. Ideas are good, aren't they? Coming from a man who's never taken on an idea of another person, by the way. Both the person who made this movie and the character. Yeah. But it's also at the end, because when they build the city and it's revealed, there is this kind of, I thought they were going to be like, what are the implications of such a world?

Like building this new utopia on top of an existing kind of, not only like literal structure, but also previous political structures. And the implication ends up being nothing. It's the best thing that's ever happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he did it. It was no downside. Yeah. It's just those people should have gotten out of his way. Yeah, get out of his way. Just get out, you should have- And he freezes time at the end, but he's- It all freezes for everybody except his baby.

Yeah. And then that's the end. The end, yeah. Which is the baby means- I skipped a few things, I think. I have we! I don't know. I don't know. Is this making sense? It's real. Did we put you real? I did watch this incredibly jet lag. Yeah, no. I watched it after work. Yeah. And it was- My result was the same. So I've seen people say on Twitter, if you didn't like this, that's probably because you're too used to Marvel movies in there that will that just happen.

And you don't- It's actually very funny and very good. And- I mean, it is funny. Not intentionally. Maybe when John Boy was sitting in that little Robin Hood outfit with a bow and arrow. And that was intentionally- That was very funny. Was it? Yeah. Oh, that was funny. I like it. But I've seen people go, well, if you don't love this, well, it's probably because you- You just love- You know, this is a real antidote to your- Your- Your franchises in your IPs and blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, that is the weakest like false dichotomy I've ever heard. Like, there's not fairly predictable, you know, Marvel superhero action movie and nothing and then wildly over budget like nonsense vanity project. Yeah. And nothing in between. Exactly. Like, you didn't say the substance yet. No, I really wanted- I sort of a couple of weeks ago, we mentioned we talked about- I was trying to be on the Alien Romulus episode.

But like, that's a great example of a recent movie that is about stuff. Yes. So it's about, you know, it's about, you know, people's expectations of, you know, a woman's beauty and aging and fame and the fading of fame and all this sort of stuff. But it's also really funny and like fresh and, and visceral. Yeah. And it didn't cost $120 million. It didn't cost $120 million and it's got like a central conceit that makes like the mechanics of it make perfect sense.

So you can have both of those things. You can have a funny movie. You're saying you can make good movies. I'm saying you can make good movies. There's a movie about- There's a movie about what kind of future you're leading. And maybe you thought you wasted your life. But actually if you present some wisdom to the next generation, that's actually good enough for this called Logan. Yes. And it's a really good movie. It's, you know, it's- It's not Deadpool and Wolverine. Oh, that's very true.

But that's also a cracking action movie. Yeah. You know, the original Sodaberg, I know I keep hammering on about this, but the original Ocean's a layer. Oh, here we go. It's about- Here we bloody go. It's about making a movie. Yeah. Because you need a guy with a bunch of good ideas, but you also need a good crew behind you. You need other people with good ideas. You need to have fun and etc. That movie's been made already. And it might come together. Yeah, but this time it didn't.

Yeah, but that's also a great funny action movie and it mostly makes sense. Yeah. But this one doesn't. You're saying it's crap. Megaflopolis. Yeah. I'm saying Megaflopolis is a big crap movie. I think I am. Yeah. I think I'm doubling down on that and saying I think it's bad. I think- I think if you like- If you like film and enjoying- Like you said this and you enjoy having conversations about film with people, then yeah, this is worth checking out.

Right. I think- Did you like the bit where Adam Driver- It's on the poster, but he holds up his big t-square. And he lights up and it's like creativity. You know? Yeah. I remember. Do you like all the weird scene transitions? Yeah, I liked it how he also- Just hung out in the sky a bunch. Yeah. And that was even- What do you think this movie needed? I think it needed an editor. I think it needed a guy to tell Francis Ford Coppill and know a bunch of times. I think it looks bad for a lot of it.

Yeah. Not exclusively. Because I think it's like inconsistent in- It's just inconsistent. It's wildly inconsistent across the board. From like casting to performances to the way it looks to the story structure to the dialogue. It's just- It's just so scatter- Baffling. Baffling. Yeah. So I think it's not baffling in a way that's like, God, it makes you think. Yeah. It's just stupid. Yeah, it's- Because the- The- The premise of this movie or the storyline- It is not stupid at all. Yeah, it is.

It's not stupid. The premise of this movie is that if you just let a guy alone, he'll make a perfect- Yeah. A perfect thing that works for everybody. Well, this- But it doesn't. No. He's wrong. Maybe it can. It needed a guy to come in. Maybe- You know what I'm always about this movie? Mm-hmm. Many things. I- I also thought about leaving a couple of times. Oh, wow. Which is rare for me. Yeah. I'll sit through almost anything. Yeah. It felt longer than I was.

Yeah, it felt really too hours if you take away- Out the credits. Yeah. But it's- Yeah. What a noise- What a noise me about this movie is it's got sci-fi elements by sci-fi fantasy elements By someone who doesn't really know anything about that sort of stuff and it's just like, yeah, whatever. Yeah. It's easy. Don't worry about it. It's tough to understand. No, it's not. Is it? No. Because we never learn the origin- No you're right.

We never learn the- We never- And again, you can hand-waver book going, it's a fable. Mm-hmm. But it's like you need a guy to be like, OK, megalon, what is it? Yeah. Where does it come from? Are you creating it from your mind? No, he mentioned that when he's wife fell off a bridge. Is it rare? Is it a fun move? He invented it when he's wife fell off a bridge. Oh, jeez, she did. That's true. He did think of it when he's wife fell off a bridge. It can float.

It should be called wife fell off a bridge, you. Don't you think? I think it should be called that. Yeah. Yeah. You need, is it, because there's no, and I understand we sort of falling into like, like more, actually, you know, more mainstream action movie tropes with this, but surely you'd be like, okay, is it, is it, is it, is it, is it in a reservoir of some sort, is it in a container, can somebody take it? Yeah. Can somebody use it, is a beauty? You can someone else make it.

Are you the only person who can control it? Yeah. Give me something and then, because it's all just people going up to him and going, I'm, I'm gonna take everything from you. Well, you haven't. Yeah. Okay. Well, we tried, didn't we? And I got shot in the bottom with an arrow. You need, you need, you need somebody to be like, why can't he just go time stop off the kids' shoes in the head? I don't know. I don't know. Why didn't he go time stop off of those theater guys beat him up?

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. It's also like, John Carlo Esposito's character was the figure and the father of the woman that falls in love with him. He's the mayor of the city, but he was also the prosecutor. The prosecutor's head in the prosecutor's. But killing his wife. Because it's implied that maybe he killed his wife, he didn't. But then he's like, you find out later on that he actually falsified some evidence to make it look like, because you did Carlos Esposito.

Yeah, to make it look like Adam's rather did murder his wife. And it was like, well, listen, I'll give you this information if you just leave my daughter alone, like step away. And then at the end, he's just like, and I do, it's all right, because I do love her. I mean, I've never, I'm completely called and I'm feeling, but I do. And then yeah, at the end, he's like, actually, you did a good thing. This is a good city. Again, it's just completely like, are you all right? I don't know.

And it's like, there's no reason that they, like if he's got this miracle material, and he can like, he can rebuild his own brain with it. Yeah. Why does nobody trust him? There's no, they just don't trust him because he's a creative guy. Is that what it is? Yeah, doesn't it? Surely there should be some element of like, well, isn't this maybe it's radioactive? Maybe it's whatever. Like nobody is, there's one question where someone's like, is it dangerous? And he's like, nah. I love that.

What have you got like a big conversation? She's thinking about it. Yeah. Like if there were, if he was building stuff with it and they're like, well, there's some safety concerns or whatever, and you, you don't understand it, but it's just, it's a thing that always, it always does exactly what you want it to do and it always works. I made a big leaf, whatever. Yeah. All right. Yeah. What's the movie ever? I think it was the worst movie ever.

Fast and man, but I don't even know if I would recommend you see it in a cinema. No, we don't pay money. I paid $49. Because you went gold clots. Well, I had to. That was the only, that was the other, and that has an effect in my review. I'm just saying, I'm just saying man. I've seen a double price. Yeah, I only want, and I bought a little pizza. Oh, gosh, very good. But I did pay $49. And that's a lot of money for a movie TV. That's embarrassing for me. Yeah. Yeah, I know.

I wish I could have seen an earlier one, but it didn't work out. I paid regular price. Damn it. That's why I had a good time. Some reviews of people saying, Russell Michael says, Megalopolis isn't ambitious film. It doesn't reach the highest heights, but it's a spectacle for the eyes. Some actors I didn't expect, most definitely best movie ever. Alexis Gentry, people might know from the first Instagrams and posts, who's fantastic.

She said, I think 90% of people are going to hate this movie, but I kind of liked it. As James said, a big swing from a lunatic. I do like the big swing from a lunatic album in office. James Bailey says, this is one of the most baffling films I've ever watched. Baffling's a great one. I've watched for words. Justin Potter says, I loved it. You're never going to see epic filmmaking like this again. I hope not. See, but that's it. And look, I agree. That is true.

Yeah. But that's because they're not going to let anyone, because nobody else is going to have $120 million money. James Cameron. But he's making movies. He's not going to make this. He's making movies that look incredible and structurally are not mind-boggling. Yeah. But they work perfectly in the medium of cinema. So I don't mean. People are going to come back and recommend it to their friends unironically. You know, I think there's this could have been something really, really good.

If he hadn't gone, I'm going to make, I genuinely think he was like, I'm going to make it like this to show all the Naysayers wrong. Well, he showed us. Yeah, he sure showed us. We weren't Naysaying. That's right. Brad Hendrickson said, what in the cinema toast shit did I just watch? What was any of that supposed to be? Right. The worst movie ever had the worst movie of the year. Holy shit. And Nicole Lee said, had to Google the plot of the movie after watching it.

Like, I get the overall idea of it, but there was an absolute baffling moment so I couldn't make heads or not what tail of. What an absolutely blithering, nonsensical, over what indulgent grandiose mess. Have we seen a worst movie this year? Well, we don't see everything. No, that's true. We don't. Maybe not. Now, you famously did not like the movie The Crow. What's worse? This. There you go. But this is more interesting than The Crow. I suppose it is, yeah.

Yeah. Again, I think it's interesting. Yeah. But it's not good. Yeah. Well, he's done, I think. That's probably it. It's just for co-op. Well, that's it. Well, that's it. Well, that's it. Yeah. Unless he goes to Netflix, and they give him $100 million to do a megapixel. No one's given this dude a hundred. You don't have to sell another winery, man. All right, so we move it along? Let's move it along. Two. What we read? Oh, what we gonna read. Oh, big segment. I'm doing the thing.

You know what, I wish I wasn't so fucking jet lagged during that discussion. I understand. I wanted to, I feel like I didn't quite convey. Yeah, right? It's, I mean. How silly it was. Yeah, you're not gonna wake up tomorrow, I got it. Also, I saw it today. I would have liked to like a week just to sit on it. Yeah, you only had a day. But I'm like, again, I just got back. Yeah. I mean, I don't think I would have said anything more insightful.

No, I mean, if anything, the, how this is gonna go for me is it's gonna go matrix sequel style where years later I go, oh, there was a little more in and then I thought, yeah, but I'm not gonna come to that result realization tomorrow. No. Tomorrow I'm gonna be like, oh, yeah, I paid $49 for that. Yeah. And I got a little pizza and it wasn't even very good. I brought my own little pizza. What are you reading? Oh, what are you reading? What are you bringing? What do you watch?

What is the section of the show where we talk about? Oh, no, Mason. Oh, no. Oh, no, it's midnight. It's the witching hour. It is. Speaking of witches, we'll get to that in a minute. Yeah. But a couple of things that I watched, the unrelated that you probably didn't watch. Right. I watched Drive Away Dolls. Oh. It was a great film. It's got Margaret Collie in it. And it's from one of the Cohen brothers. Oh, okay. It's kind of a fun road crime movie. What a lot of this cast. Oh, I like this cast.

Yeah, yeah. I didn't watch it at the cinema. I don't think you got a wide release in. It's on the show. It's on something. Yeah, it's on Foxdown right now, apparently. It's like right now on the regular TV. Yeah. That's great. I've been watching it in the other room. Cool. Okay. And I also watched Equalizer 3. Equalizer. Equalizer. How was it? It's good, man. Did he use a hammer? No, he did pinch your guys' nerve and he's wrist, though. Yeah, that's good. I don't think I saw two equalizer.

Okay. So, but I do enjoy, I did enjoy first equalizer. Yeah. But I've never seen Equalizer the TV series either. The original one. No, no. It's not weird that there's two equalizer, it's two pieces of equalizer media running simultaneously. It's good. Did you think I have a meat? No. Equalizer? No. The meat equalizer? Oh, that's meat equalizer. Yeah. It's really good. I wasn't aware that the equalizer movies were also directed by Anton Fuqua who did training day. Oh, I like training.

And I also didn't know. The reason I watched Equalizer 3 is I didn't know it was the first re-teaming of Denze Washington and Dakota Fanning since Man on Fire. Oh, yeah, of course. Of course. It was being a re-teaming Shalabuff and John Voight from the first Transformers movie. Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah, brother. Finally. Anyway, Equalizer 3 is good. Is he? He settles down in a little town in Italy. Yeah. Unfortunately, there's Mafia guys and he's got to kill the Mafia.

Well, he doesn't got a keys like, can you please not do Mafia stuff in this little town? Because I like it. Yeah. I will do the equalizer on you. I'm going to do the equalizer. I'm going to do the equalizer. And they're like, we. Do you mean the movie or the TV series or the original series they said? The movie's directed by Anton Fuqua. Oh, God. Who did training? They mustn't have seen them. Yeah, that's right. Which is weird because they're quite popular generally. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Maybe they didn't get a wide release in there. Anyway, you know, there's a reason Denzel's a movie star. He's got the source of this guy. And because he's an older guy and it's partly direction, but like you believe that this guy. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, there's a moment in it where he's like, you know, at the start where he's kind of sort of, he's on and out somewhat related mission, you know, before the real movie starts. And he's surrounded by guys.

And there's a moment where they're like, you know, any last words or whatever and he's like, you know, I'm, I've got, you know, you've got nine seconds to live or whatever. Yeah. And he's, and he gives them a little, you know, this guy's a little too close. So, you know, he's the first one to go. I feel bad for his family. Yeah. I think he straight up kills him all. And he's a lot of fun. I will watch two and then three. But I bet things we both watched.

We both watched the first couple episodes of Agatha all along. I watched the penguin. The penguin genes. No, I watched three of Agatha. You watched three? I've only watched the two. Very good. I think it's a little slow. I talked about this in one of the live shows, but it does that thing of like, it's in a TV show. Oh, yeah, it's not a real TV show. We've done this already. It's one division. But then when you get out of that, it becomes much more interesting. Yes. And she's great.

I think so too. She's so much fun. And look, I mean, it's interesting that, you know, this is, this is a full series that is based around a very minor. A very minor Marvel comic book character who was a supporting character slash villain in the first big Marvel MCU TV series from many years ago. Like it's such a tangential character and a concept to be given its entire, you know, given an entire show. But it's, you know, it's fun. It's worth it. Good, good, good supporting cast, I think.

I think Jackson said this from the wrong way, Jackson Bailey. Oh, yeah. Best friend, I am. Best friend. I think that you can forgive a lot of the Marvel stuff, especially that like if there's a really compelling like lead. And I think this is compelling like outside of like the lead. Yeah. But also Catherine Hartn is terrific. Terrific in this. Really good. She can do it. She can do, she can do comedy. She's got all.

Yeah. And then as well, you know, for slight spoiler for the first episode, you know, I'll, uh, one division where they were all trapped in, you know, various ears of sitcom. Yeah. This show starts out. She's in Maribase town. Yeah. Yeah, she's in a like a, like a, um, a sad, very political procedure. I didn't love that because I think again, you know what it is. Right. And the procedure itself wasn't very interesting. Like you know that like when she's going to kind of snap out of this.

Yeah. And again, when that happened, then I was like, okay. Right. And I enjoyed episode three as well, which I want to spoil for you here. The Penguin though. Yeah. Also fantastic. It felt like that could have been it. Just the one. I can just like really contain. It was like a movie compelling Colin Farrell's terrific. He's got his own little penguin helper running around with him. Yeah. I thought it was just terrific. You know what he's from. The Runaways. Oh, I never seen the run.

Oh, did I see two shows with that actually is a dinosaur in that. There was a dinosaur in the original comic books. I think there is in the show as well. Is a couple of things we've not watched. And maybe we should do some episodes on at some point. We didn't watch the runaways. We didn't watch cloaked dagger. Oh, too. We didn't watch. Agents of shield mostly. We didn't mostly watch Agents of shield. Also in humans. No, the hell long. Hellstrom. Oh, completely totally. It's all about that.

Disney Plus. We should watch some of those. I'm busy, but all right. Yeah, yeah. Pretty busy. Watch Agathor all along. I'm pretty. Maybe there'll be some links to Hellstrom. And Agathor all along. I don't think there will be. No, I won't be there. Absolutely. I don't think. No, it's kind of the thing where maybe. Anyway, the paint gun is great. Yeah, he's. He's Colin Fowell hated the suit by the end. Well, you would. Top it really like. I don't think I've ever seen somebody so unrecognizable.

Yeah. Like prosthetics and performance. Yeah. I just don't think I would pick it. No, if I didn't know. No. And it's great because the episode itself is, you know, he is. He's trying in a small way to, you know, reestablish some. Yeah. And some cred in this world and, you know, and, and it goes off the rails immediately. And the entire, the entire first episode is just him. Yeah. Trying to fix a terrible in the moment mistake he's made.

I think that's also really interesting because he's clearly like, he's not. Very intelligent because there's a lot of. Not like much more intelligent people who live within Gotham. Yeah. He's not charismatic or good looking enough to coast. So he just has to just compulsively lie his way and swindle and just kind of grub his way. Right. So he's way of operating in the world which he has learned as a survival technique. Uh-huh. He's, I think, very interesting. Yeah. Like he's not the best. Right.

He's one of many. Yeah. And, and everybody hates him. And yet, he's got a very likable. Oh, yeah, definitely. There's the moment in it where he buys a sandwich for the kid. And he's like, oh, there's extra pickles. They only get me one. They only get me two pickles. So normal pickles is one pickle and he's really, you know, he's good. It's good. It's fun. Uh, should we move it along then? Let me think. Anything else about the ping-in? The Batman's apparently not in it.

Well, that's what the Ben Soyan. Well, so that doesn't say it doesn't mean that Bruce Wayne won't be in it. Wow. I didn't know you knew comic book all my sense. That's right. Yeah. I would have asked you about that earlier. Batman's friend Bruce Wayne. That's right. Yeah. Very good. All right. Let's just bloody get on with it next time. Let's get on with it. Oh, that's right. We'll come back to that though. We'll come back to both of those.

Yeah. Not next week because we're going to talk about bloody that thing that we like. Yeah, that's exactly right. Anyway, time for letters. Yay! We're going to bring a brand full of letters. There he goes. The classic one was... Letters, letters. We love you. Jamisness. Yeah. Oh. Now that he right now, we're going to do letters. We want you to join London with letters and Joel, who she was lucky enough to have the honor of doing the letters thing. That's wonderful.

I should have sprung on him though. I shouldn't have told him beforehand. So you got that letters thing ready? Did we talk about them? Oh. I've just remembered. Megalopolis is probably better than Borderlands. Oh, there we go. Yes, you're right. That is true. The movie sucks. That's a horrible movie. Yeah. I mean, that is... I mean, if you... I think that's how he sees Marvel movies or whatever.

Yeah, I think if you were presented with a choice of movies like Megalopolis forever or movies like Borderlands. It'll be Megalopolis forever. Which is now... Which one if you had to rewatch one of them right now, which would you watch? Megalopolis. Yeah. Because there's no more to be gathered from another viewer. No, you're absolutely right. But I might... There's also... Did you notice there's a moment where somebody very obviously flubs a line in Megalopolis and they keep it in.

I think I know what you're talking about. So Natalie Emanuel's character has some friends and they're like, there's three women in the back. And there's a moment where one of them says something and then there's a long pause. And then she just says that she rephrases the same thing again. And it's very like... It's very obviously a flood line and he kept it in. It's good, isn't it? It's pretty good. Anyway, if you want to email us, you can go to weeklyplanapodotemail.com. Absolutely, you can.

Or hashtag weeklyplanapod on Twitter. It's great. Which look, it may be a dying platform, but you know. It's good to be back. It's good to be back. On emails. Yeah. I got this one from... I... Sorry, AJ Volanta, he says, hashtag weeklyplanapod. It'll be fun if you all watch the studio at the studio jiblin movies. James shared his expertise on all things anime with Mace. James sharing his expertise on all things anime with Mace. Or something evergreen, like the Don Bluth animated movies.

Stay prouder. We will. I recently watched my first Mace video. It was, how's my... The one about they go to the hotel or whatever. Hotel Transylania. Yeah, that's the one. It's terrific. Adam Sandler puts it, gives us stunning performance. What is it? Which is that one? They go to the Weed Ghost Hotel. Spiritoid Oil? Yes. I loved it. It's a good one, isn't it? Incredible.

You know, in an interesting twist of fighter James, you're not going to believe this, but a few years ago, it was like, oh, all the studio jiblin stuff is going to be on Netflix. And I just looked up. It's still on this. What? I think it's really how the curse works is we mention it. We go, we should watch those. And then they disappear off all the streaming platforms forever. You should watch Porco Rosso, which is about a pig and he's a world-world one flying ace. How to become a pig?

It's not important. I just looked and it's gone now. Yes, it's right. It's all right. Also speaking of curses, someone mentioned... Someone emailed us in a while back. I think we talked about the Ocean's 11 movies a while back, because we always do. And we said, well, I think I said Elliot Goulders dead. And the reason I would have said that, James James. Because if we were to say he's alive, he'd die. Yeah. Because that's how this podcast works. So he's not alive.

He's dead. Okay. Yeah. I agree. Yeah. He's shroding his Elliot Gould. God bless him. It's neither alive nor dead, really. He's in the Megalon. He's in the Megalon. The Inbetween zone. That's exactly right. Which is the thing it maybe can do. We don't know. I agree. He's an email from Nick Lane. Nick Lane. I'm like, hey, James and myself are in England. First of all, I'd be thinking of to, for you both, for all the shows and videos you've done. I've listened for many years now.

And last week I had the pleasure of seeing James and Birmingham. I was there. It was great to be surrounded by so many fans and we, my wife, my wife, Alicia and I, got chatting to a couple from Livingston, Scotland. We got along so well with, and it would have been great to stay in touch. Can you give a big shout out to Connor and Katie, who will be listening to the show? Connor and Katie. Check out the great mates group, whatever. That's right. I probably are all there.

I'm going to have to see you back in the UK with Mason and Toe, or maybe. Maybe that might happen. Hope Springs Eternal. That's right. Maybe we're back there next week. Just kidding. Oh, you don't want to do that? No. I just got back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think I can do that. I want to do my solo tour. We've got, we're going to do a different podcast next week. We don't know those live shows. Yeah, we're doing so many shows. Yeah. But then after that. Do you have the taste for live stuff?

Now, he loved it a lot. I do. I really, really enjoyed it. It was awesome. But also after next week, I'm going to need it to lie life for a bit. Just to reach out to all the crimes you did during the live. That's right. I feel good and I feel like I could keep doing it. Yeah. But I also know that like I should stop before I'm like, I hate this. Because when the tour ended, I was like, I probably do a couple more. But I think that's a good time to like, to stop.

I heard you brought listeners on stage and you played Russian roulette with them. Yep. The DMT stuff. Yeah, we killed several of them. Wow. Well, I forgot because you're supposed to take out some of the bullets. Yeah, you used it. And I worked that out and probably the fifth show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Good stuff. Yeah, they like a shot of the money. Yeah, I'm dead. Yeah. Nice. It was awesome meeting 70 people.

Because we had, because as I've said to a few people there, but like nobody cares here. But nobody cares at all. And then you go into it. And then they're like, you're like behind a door. And there's nobody there who knows you. And then you open the door and there's like 400 people and they know it's just very bizarre. And they all boo you. They booed me so much, Mason. We ended the show with a boo, which by the way feels great. I agree. You should definitely do that. Yeah, I'll leave it back.

It feels good generally in a live setting. Yeah. Set up a chance for just some guy. Somebody, let's pick one guy and be like, we're all going to chant for him. It's a good fun. You can make it me even. Yeah. What's next, Mason? Another email. Oh, yeah. That's right. This is from Samuel. Samuel. I love the podcast and the content you guys create. We love to create content. We do. I understand that everyone of the weekly planner has a black belt in certain fighting discipline.

Yep. And wondered if you'd like to share your thoughts on the movies and culture of the martial arts genre. I adore martial arts films from classics like Into the Dragon, Adiz Magick, like Bloodsport, the more full on action films like The Raid. I even love the so bad. It's good flicks like Samurai Cop. Oh, my amy connection. If you want to come to my tournament of martial arts, you'll each have to send me a video of destroying bricks with your bare hands. Every black belt can do it.

So you should have no problem. Easy. That's from Samuel. I've just wrote on my bricks. I'd have to get some more. I was going to say, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, martial arts movies. Yeah. I like him. I wouldn't say there's a particular like genre or era that I'm like fond of. Uh-huh. Like, um, it's not, it's not my thing, honestly, but I do, but I do, but I do like them.

Yeah. I mean, I think it is, I mean, it is, it's an era that, uh, the, the, the, the era of, uh, it's a certain era that can't come back just because there's too many safety protocols now. Yeah, absolutely. Like it's a beautiful era. Uh, there's, there's a bunch of Twitter accounts that just do post clips of like old martial arts movies from the 80s and 90s and et cetera. And there's ones that do like Hong Kong era and like all the martial arts movies Michelle Yozen from that era. Yeah, yeah.

And there's just some insane stuff. Oh, yeah. Where it's again, it's a standing no one died. Yeah. And that's, I, I would love to, again, it's, it is difficult to get them now. Yeah. At least, you know, I like on, on back. We're just name and movies that we like that martial arts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a cool movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think I need to watch more of the classic stuff though, you know, like your Bruce Lee and then like, you know, you know, you're stuck like the Hong Kong cinema from like the 80s and, you know, I think I need to do more research. Rumble in the Bronx. Rumble in the Bronx. Yeah. But again, there is a bunch of stuff on TV. That's right. Just, uh, it's free. Yeah, it is free. Uh, this one, Benson made his sister with the planet pod. So glad I got to see you live in Birmingham. Thank you so much.

I should have hung around, but they drive. I didn't, uh, I basically shot thereafter that one anyway. So you would have hung around for nothing. Uh, tell me so about the idea of humanizing the rock. Okay, I'll just quickly do this. So on the last show, you know, we did a plumbing the Death Star topic. Yeah. And that topic was, how would you humanize the rock? Uh, Joel had the idea to shrink him down, given the wavelength and surgery, but in reverse. Okay. He's the same, but he's little.

Okay. Yeah, he's compact. Yeah, he's compact, right? So then he's more like, he's not the biggest man in the world, you know, and I'm angry because he's more related because he's a small human being. Like the pebble. Yeah, that's right. Uh, Jackson had the idea to pretend you killed him with a rock and then three days later he returns and then you say, is the Messiah? Yeah, that would fix his ego problem. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I had the idea that you, and it was kind of long and involved, but basically you leave him on an island and you're telling it's for a reality show where the rocks abides on island and you give him all these human growth hormones and all these protein powders and whatever he needs. He doesn't need anything, James. He just needs, you got a coconut tree. You got a, you got a, you got a, you got to exercise. Exactly. So he has all that stuff stashed away.

Sure. So there's cameras there, but there's nobody there and he's just having the time of his life. Uh, and then after a month, when you're supposed to come get him, nobody comes. Okay. And then in the distance, you set off an explosion that looks like a nuclear bomb. Okay. The cameras go dark, but they're still running. Very nice. He thinks he's alone. Nice. And then you watch him slowly unravel. Now he's not dying because there's plenty of food. He's not dying.

But he deflates because he runs out of his supplements. You think so? Yes. Or you think he maybe wouldn't stay, you think he'd stay fit for the cannibals? No, there's nobody, there's literally nobody there. Right. So you watch his hair grow out. What kind of hair pattern is he working with? Okay, sure. Um, you know, he's stripped down to his core. And then after a few months, you just go get him and you just, and you see what he's like. I don't think he'd deflate.

I think he'd be like, I've got to survive this universe. I'm going to, no, because he's got to start rationing at his food. And then I think you come back and you've got a relatable story. And people might be like, isn't that cruel to torture the rock and set him on an island to have him think the world has ended? He'll be right, though. Yeah, exactly. And if Mr. Beast can poison children, why can't we do this? That's exactly so much. I think it's fine.

Yeah. Did you see there was an interview with Sean Evans from Hot Ones? Yeah, I mentioned this. This is how we cover up with the topic. Yeah, who said, for people who don't know, who said they've always wanted to get the rock on Hot Ones. But the rock's team was like, does he have to eat chicken wings? Can he eat salmon strips? Real salmon strips. No, come on, man. Eat the chicken. Yeah, I mean, what is, you know, how much is 10 bites of chicken going to cost you? You're enormous. Yeah, right?

Crazy. Yeah. Settle it. Come on, man. Are you afraid? Does he ever, is he afraid of chicken? He might be afraid of chicken. I think also at this point, he needs that show more than they need him. Yeah, it's like genuine. Yeah, maybe. Anyway, that's all my letters. You got any more? Yes. Is one more from Calum? Calum? How you guys long time from England? I'm from there. You were there recently.

I've been listening since my last year in primary school and I'm now about to start my finally of biochemistry. Yeah, man, I heard that a library person. It was very upsetting. Yeah, Cambridge, right? Not Cambridge, the bit people like. Oh, no. I've been listening since I was four. Yeah, now I'm a guy older than me. Now I'm a guy older than me. I was in a time vortex. Now I'm so... Broom. I've been bitching the series, Caravan and garbage, multiple times.

Has me curious as to what you guys think is the best and worst movie you guys have ever covered? You've covered a lot of classics lately, so I imagine the best would come down to a terminator alien or an Indian or Jones. As for the worst, I don't know if anything can beat some of the masked pixels or the original oceans 11. God, some of the masked is a... That's probably it. What do you think? Yeah. Because at least oceans 11 is like the original. Yeah. Like it sucks, but it's...

There's a lot to talk about. It's a very compelling... It is compelling. Yeah. It's right. Just having a look. Yeah. God. The Wolverine original... You didn't like Assassin's Creed very much. That is so dull. That's... I don't like Ghostbusters. Yeah, you were talking about the Ghostbusters movies. Yeah, you wouldn't. I like that one. Just going through Hunger Games. Yeah, they'll find. Greenhorn, it's kind of a waste. Yeah. Dick Tracy's not bad.

It's just... Yeah. No, Dick Tracy was definitely worth it. Yeah. Yeah, that was definitely worth a rewatch. It's... Again, to me, it is like... Pixels is terrible. An Assassin's Creed. Yeah, I think for me it might be... Supergirls terrible. Dungeons and Dragons is terrible. The original one. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. But I mean, Dungeons and Dragons was made with... Well, the killing jokes. Or fun. Yeah, that's awful as well. Yeah. I mean, but Dungeons and Dragons, the budget was like $1.

Yeah, true. So, to me, it's something like an Assassin's Creed. I mean, I would say generally to me... And I get, you know, and it is somewhat ironic that we just made fun of a guy for pursuing his passion project. His decade's long passion project with millions of dollars of his own money. But like the worst movies, besides Megalopolis, other ones that are just designed by committee have thrown a lot of money at it. Yeah. Just have its own, doesn't feel like anything.

An Assassin's Creed to me is that's... Yeah, fair enough. That's up there. What was the one that I said again? I can't remember. You said Pixels. Oh, I'll send it to the mask. I'll send it to the mask. It's the worst movie I've watched for this. Like it's not... Eugh, Mason. Yeah, Eugh is right. Yeah. Anyways, that everything? That's the whole show. We're back, baby. People said... People said... We'd never go back.

I was speaking of, never go back as late this week because I forgot to send one of the files over to Fidel. It will be up on Monday. We're looking at Jedi Knight. No Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight, which is Mason's favorite game of all time. And he knows so much about it. Just kidding, it's me. I know so much about that. What a great joke. I know. You should've seen me live, Mason. What a twist. You should've seen me up there. Wow. So it was... What am I going to say? Yeah, that's a big sandwich.co.

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We broke it the weekly planet. Brick or Brack store. That's right. What do we live in? Dr. Sus novel? No, he didn't write novels. Yeah, I didn't do things though. Yeah. It was a test. Did you pass the test? Wow, it feels great. That's right. Next week, Jokiter. Can't wait genuinely. It's exciting. God. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Will it be better than Megalopolis? Yes. That's my new yardstick. Some passion project that I'm going to say sucks all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good. All right.

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