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[00:01:48] Unofficially the official podcast of Denver Comic Con 2019 and beyond, I am a co-host, Brad. With me is Zach. And we have a special guest again. Corinne! Has returned for another episode of Reel Nerds. You all didn't kick me out. What do you about to? Oh, nothing much.
[00:02:08] Just creating blacklist lists? Yeah, I was telling them before the show started that I wrote this like 7200 word essay about the blacklist and comparing Red and Liz as a potential couple to other May, September pairings in books and movies. And they got a good shot.
[00:02:29] Basically, is what it boils down to. And how did you calculate that? I don't know what a May, September calendar. Basically it was like where the guy is at least 15 years older than the girl or the woman and more so they were like 20 years older.
[00:02:47] But some examples was like the Phantom of the Opera and Christine from Phantom of the Opera. And then there's the night lane Emma from Emma. Mr. Jarn Dice and Esther from Bleak House. So they're just kind of all over the board.
[00:03:04] Just a lot of different shows I've seen. So based on other fictional data you processed that this too has a good shot. Yes. Alright. Side note, Brad what do you think of my T-shirt? It says for those of you listening at home Midtown School of Science and Technology.
[00:03:24] Nice. Which is a reference to... Spider-Man Homecoming. Yeah! That's right. Eat it, Ryan. Ryan would be... If Ryan was here he would have known that. I did not pay that much attention to the movie. You don't know the name of the school in Spider-Man Homecoming?
[00:03:39] What the fuck are you doing here man? Get your shit together. I'll leave. You guys finish up. That was a terrible impression of Ryan by the way. Well thanks for wearing that Ryan's honor.
[00:03:48] Ryan can't be here because he is doing his job and James can't be here because he is also doing his new job. Being a husband. Being a husband. So yeah. I hope we go to that apartment and he's in an apron dusting the house.
[00:04:03] He's going like, oh come on in! Well you know what Brad? Guess what since you're hosting the show today you get your own T-shirt! Oh man. What the heck? Yeah. Wow. Dang. Ryan though right? I'll wear it proudly. Yeah. So generous.
[00:04:21] Yeah see Ryan if you had been here you could have gotten a T-shirt. But the shirt was too size. And it's the same one that I'm wearing from the midtown school thing from Spider-Man. I figured he would enjoy that.
[00:04:36] I want you to wear that now every show to rub it in his face. I will. It's a badge of honor. I told you it was bringing treats but I also got you guys some things.
[00:04:47] Smaller things because I didn't find any T-shirts I figured you guys would like. Yeah there's no Jack Benny T-shirts readily available. I have refrigerator magnets. This one says who gives a fox. Nice. With a picture of a fox on it. Is that a fantastic Mr. Fox?
[00:05:03] I don't know probably. Hipster, a fantastic Mr. Fox. This says T-Rex detection method 100% effective and it has the little thing of water from Jurassic Park. Scientifically accurate. And then this one says make it so with Jean-Luc Picard on it. Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
[00:05:22] So you guys are welcome to those and I got one for James too. And then I also have some Ant-Man things that I got at my movie that I don't want. So you guys are welcome to that too. Was that the IMAX ticket? Yep.
[00:05:34] I was thinking about getting that one Saturday. I don't know why they gave it to me. I didn't go to the IMAX. I think I initially said oh I'll take the 11 o'clock and then I was like oh wait it's $18 no I'll just go to the 2D showing.
[00:05:47] Well it was six away from being the last one in this set so you just be lucked out. I don't care. You know most of the time like a week later they have a stack of those that they're just like please throw these away. We don't want them.
[00:05:58] Not enough people bought tickets. You should just go up to them and be like what's in it for me. Nice. What's your shirt size? Because I think you should get a real nerd shirt for bringing us all these goodies.
[00:06:09] Oh well this is a small adult small men's small probably. Women's sizes are bonkers just don't even try. The thing is we have like I don't know a ton of them left over from the con because all the women bought men's sizes. Yeah it's way easier.
[00:06:25] So yeah so you wouldn't mind taking a medium I guess. We have them. Yeah. Alright I'll bring that next time around. If the shirt fits. Wear it. Wear it? Yeah. I'm fairly sure that I did not do that joke correctly but you know what no one's perfect here.
[00:06:45] But hey this is a comedy podcast. This is a movie podcast and every week we go see a new movie and we podcast that experience of the world. This week we saw Ant-Man and the Wasp so stay tuned to the end of the episode and
[00:06:55] we'll tell you if we liked it or not and if you should go see it. And we will swill the movie after the trailer. But before then let's figure out what's going on around town. Brad what's going on around town? Brad what's going on around town.
[00:07:10] I can't do the song cut. Ryan why aren't you here? Although if this did become a podcast where you guys just like opened up goodies I think that that could work. That's what the greatest generation does.
[00:07:22] Like they talk about Star Trek for half the episode in the middle they start just opening a fan mail and then I get really bored and we want to do that. We need fans to do that.
[00:07:32] What are those things called that you can like buy and they come in like the nerd box and it just has a loot crate yeah. Maybe you guys could just loot crate it. A real nerd crate. A real nerd crate.
[00:07:44] We just assemble our own junk and then open it for each episode. Here's the screwdriver up in my house. Well that's basically what we just did so. Here's an IMAX ticket from Brad from this week from the Ant-Man and here's
[00:07:54] a pack of gum that Zach ate half of. Yeah. Yep. By half you mean like I bit half of each stick and then put the rest in the pack. I'm a terrible human being. Here's some old tops trading cards with a petrified piece of gum inside.
[00:08:13] But what is going on around town Brad? Hey film buddies follow me around Denver. This week July 13th and 14th the Esquire is showing the Beatles yellow submarine. It's the 50th anniversary apparently. And then next the following week they haven't announced yet so stay tuned.
[00:08:44] Maybe it'll be yellow submarine forever man you ever think of that? Every weekend is yellow submarine for the rest of the year man. That would hurt because I would never go back to the Esquire.
[00:08:55] But what would you say if I told you I was being followed by a yellow submarine? And then the drive in is doing Ant-Man. And the wasp. And the wasp. Darn it. And the hornet. The green hornet. Yeah. I gotta look it up I totally forgot.
[00:09:13] The wasp like Ocean's 8 and Deadpool 2 or Incredibles 2? Oh yeah it's Ami and the Wasp, Incredibles 2 and I think Ocean's 8. Okay. So alright cool. Check that out. Yeah that's it. It's a slow week. Sweet. Unless you're going to the Alamo. What's going on in the Alamo? Hello.
[00:09:38] Hi I'm Kevin Smith. Hi I'm Leonard Maltin. Hi I'm Mark Hamill. Hi I'm Elijah Wood. This is Seth Rogen. I'm Chris Thurman's boss. I'm Mark Star. Welcome to the Alamo Draw Night. A lot because we haven't talked about the Alamo for a little while.
[00:09:52] If this comes up in time you can catch out So I Married an Axe Murderer in Littleton. It's one of their movie parties coming up. They haven't announced what they're going to give out as one of their props but
[00:10:01] I hope it's an inflatable axe because that'd be hilarious. You can also go to a Quota Long of Labyrinth on the 14th. Littleton's Denver Film Club will be doing That Summer which I know nothing about.
[00:10:13] They did one that I wanted to see last week called Lowlife but could not make it. Kids Camp is going to be doing Monsters vs. Aliens, the Dreamworks film. 37th Chamber which is a monthly Kung Fu series is going to do Mad Monkey Kung Fu
[00:10:26] which I hope is just a bunch of monkeys doing Kung Fu but it probably won't be. It'll probably be like a movie. And then Video Vortex is going to be Empire of the Dark which I know nothing about.
[00:10:36] I can't even remember if I saw a preview for it before any shows in the recent weeks. They're also going to be showing a hook for the Aspen Grove Family Film Night which is the outdoor thing that they do.
[00:10:51] They're going to be showing a hook for the Aspen Grove Family Film Night which is the outdoor thing that they do. So you can check that out. And yeah, that seems to be all that's really going on around this particular area.
[00:11:07] Not a lot of Sloan stuff going on. So anyway, that's the Alamo. I'll jump ahead and tell you that August is pretty big because they have a sort of double feature going on at the Sloans Lake location for some John Clive and Dan movies.
[00:11:20] So I'm going to go ahead and show you the movie. I think we have a sort of double feature going on at the Sloan Lake location for some John Clive and Dan movies.
[00:11:29] I heard that we've got to go get back into our mode of kumite for the screening. Throw down the kumite. And jump into a river at one point. We've got to do that. Have you ever seen Bloodsport, Corinne? I have not. It's an amazing experience.
[00:11:47] He converted me to Brad. It's probably Van Dan's best film. It's really ridiculous and wonderful. And that man can kick really fucking hard. Honestly, I don't think I could tell you a John Claude Van Dan movie. Wasn't he the one that was like Submarine?
[00:12:04] Like it was Die Hard but on a Submarine? That's under siege with Steven Seagal. Oh, okay. Then I don't know. Come into my submarine and ruin my submarine. Anyway, I think it's August 26th at five o'clock they're doing Hard Target and then 7.15 they're doing Bloodsport. Nice.
[00:12:22] They should have a Q&A with you at the end. It's just asking like what you think of this John Claude Van Dan movie? That one's okay. Next question. None of them are as good as John Claude Van Dan's Dan Van. Watch it on YouTube.
[00:12:35] And then throughout August they're showing all the Rocky movies like I assume in preparation for Creed 2. Oh fuck me, Ronan. That's awesome. Yeah, because I think that comes out in September right? That makes sense if they're showing them all that close.
[00:12:48] I haven't even seen Creed and I've only seen like one or two of the Rocky movies but that looks awesome and I really want to see it. Maybe they're doing it like November and Christmas but this was the only time that they could do it in the year
[00:13:00] because October is horror. November's generally like they back off on their programming for November and December because of the holidays. I don't know. I mean they can do what they want. But anyway it's like I don't know what the days are but they're not like close together.
[00:13:18] They're spread out but each day it does two of the movies. There'll be one and two, another day is three and four and then I'm bummed because five and six is the same day of the High Plains Comedy Festival and Bliss Fest.
[00:13:30] So the one I want to see the most is five and I can't. Because you don't have a ticket for it? Because it lines up over stuff I'm already doing. No well I know but why is it five the one you want to see the most?
[00:13:41] Because it's like the most hated one I guess. I just didn't know if it was like a turtle situation like you don't have the ticket for it yet. I don't have the ticket for any of them so I was hoping to do all six
[00:13:53] but now I'm gonna have two and I guess I have Balboa from 2006 already. I'll go but I'll just post a bunch of Instagram photos of me like taunting you about it. I might just buy the ticket and not go.
[00:14:05] I'll pick it up and then yeah I'll have it but I won't have it. I'll buy the one right next to you and I'll be like yeah my friend couldn't make it because he's a poser. Correction Creed II comes out November 21st. Wow. Hot damn who was right.
[00:14:21] Okay Steve the Mad Genius is scheduling so I'm sure it makes sense to him. Oh my god Steve the Mad Genius, the set. That's his wrestling name now. I was gonna text him and ask like who do I have to sacrifice
[00:14:35] to get you to change that Rocky V date. If he says my name you know what? Done deal. It has to happen. Easy. Yeah. Have you heard the news? The news. What news? What's in the news? The babe. Huey Lewis. What babe? Babe with power? Power of love.
[00:14:57] It's a curious thing. He's trying to like impress me with his Huey Lewis knowledge because he knows I'm a Huey Lewis fan but it's not working. It's hip to be a square. Keep telling yourself that square. Who? What's the news? Show us the real news.
[00:15:09] Let's pull that real news, that's the one. It's real news. We're gonna get a couple deaths out of the way actually. Sad. First off Robbie Muyer not Robbie Muller because I'm having a hard time pronouncing it. Was a cinematographer for Vin Vendors,
[00:15:32] Lars Ventrer and Jim Jermusch and he died at 78 today. Or this week. Yeah, he shot Paris, Texas dead man, dancer in the dark down by law. A lot of people liked his work and whatnot. He also did William Freakon's film to live in Dyan LA
[00:15:48] which is a beautifully shot film. So hats off to Mr. Muller for giving the world a beautiful image of itself. This just came out of the wire today. A choreographer and film director Alan Johnson passed away and he's not particularly well known within film
[00:16:11] but he did do two films that are of interest to both me and possibly you since you're a how-to-discut-made listener. He directed the remake of 2B or Not 2B which starred Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft and he also directed the movie Solar Babies.
[00:16:26] He also choreographed every dance sequence for Mel Brooks movies. He also worked on tons of Broadway. He was an enemy award winner. It's a shame. He was a very talented man. His remake of 2B or Not 2B is actually the first
[00:16:46] World War II based film to acknowledge homosexuality as part of the Holocaust. Thanks to you we all know who he is. Yeah exactly. People knew in the biz the show biz. But obviously the biggest death of the week is Steve Ditko
[00:17:05] the co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange passed away at the age of 90. A lot of love poured out for him too. A lot of the Spider-Man that I read probably was after Ditko moved on from that character except for any sporadic back issues.
[00:17:25] But I know this probably hit Ryan Hardist and I'm sure he would have loved to talk about it. It would probably be cool if we have him call in and talk about it. But he was a very iconic artist. He gave us the look of Spider-Man.
[00:17:40] Without him we don't have that suit. We don't have the way the web shooters work. We don't have him coincidentally drawing Green Goblin looking just like Willem Dafoe in his first appearance. I'm just saying they look very similar. We also get Doctor Strange which I like that character.
[00:17:59] He also did a lot of stuff for DC actually and he did the Michael Yuslin on his Facebook page talked about the question or something like that. Oh yeah the question. Which is like and I guess I didn't know this about Steve Ditko
[00:18:15] because I don't know why I would have but I guess he was into Ayn Rand's philosophy so that and the question is apparently like heavy into that scenario. I heard that influenced Rorschach for the Watchmen. Oh I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah questions very much about conspiracy theories
[00:18:32] at least from his appearances on the DC animated universe. I would not want to hear Alex Jones's obituary for Steve Ditko then because I'm sure. I wonder if there was ever trouble with Dick Tracy's breathless because they're kind of like the same character design.
[00:18:47] I don't know that might be a question for Ryan or some of the more hardcore fans but hats off to Steve Ditko. He gave us two indelible characters and more importantly was just like worked in that era before you really got the credit you deserved
[00:19:05] and like pushed forward like he kept creating I guess like they found stuff in his apartment he just kept creating up to his death so. It's a terrible shame he will be missed. Moving on to regular news though
[00:19:20] did you watch the movie that Sony accidentally uploaded to YouTube? No. Collie the killer was accidentally uploaded to YouTube as the entire film on the Sony YouTube page and it brought a lot of people like flashbacks of the 2014 Sony hack and whatnot I guess in the news.
[00:19:41] Did they take it down right away? They took it down. When I saw the link I pulled it up and then they had already gotten it fixed because someone called it out but there was like a window of like an hour or two hours
[00:19:52] where if you clicked on the link and it was still there you would still be able to watch it. Any chance this is a publicity stunt? No, I think it's an intern who clicked the wrong button before going home for Fourth of July weekend.
[00:20:04] You got to pick that file out and put it in the upload box. I don't know, was anybody really like gung-ho about watching Collie the killer? I had never even heard of it. That's why being a publicity stunt seems a little more plausible but whatever.
[00:20:19] Yeah, you know, whatever. Top Gun Maverick news, Miles Teller is going to be The Son of Goose, which I kind of want the movie down to be called Top Gun Son of Goose. Son of a Goose. And he announced him accepting the role Miles Teller did
[00:20:35] by saying I feel the need on Twitter and posting a picture. So, you know, good for Miles Teller. Yeah, fanservice right there. I hope Tom Cruise asks him if he was rushing or dragging on that plane. I don't know how that would work. Wolfman's Got Nards,
[00:20:55] the documentary that Andre Gower and Ryan Lambert did that Ryan saw at Comic-Con released their trailer for the documentary. So I guess like, I mean, I guess it means we're getting it soon. The trailer looks fun since I didn't get the chance
[00:21:10] to see the movie and I don't know, I don't think you did either. So, but I like the Monster Squad so... I haven't seen the actual movie so... Yeah, but yeah there's no official release date but hopefully it can come to us soon because that would be awesome.
[00:21:28] And hopefully that interview will be up soon. Yeah, that's right. We've still got Comic-Con interviews from Comic-Con 2018 that you hopefully be hearing soon. So, the Sopranos prequel movie which I didn't even know was happening called The Many Saints of Newark is going to be getting into production
[00:21:49] and what's more it has a director, Alan Taylor who was the director of Thor the Dark World. Any of you guys Sopranos fans? No. I love the show and the way they're describing it it's kind of like a build up to
[00:22:02] the early days in the 60s and stuff like what was going down within that crime syndicate. So, they're not going to take characters from the show? Because I mean without Tony Soprano I mean no offense to the other actors but I feel like that was part of the...
[00:22:19] use the central character of the show, right? Well, I mean it's... That's probably because I understand it. That show was so big that you could feasibly go in several different directions. Is it like about his family? Like earlier generations of his family or something?
[00:22:35] I imagine it'd be like Gotham where they take some other character and then... Here's the description as according to the rap. It takes place in the 1960s when riots swept through Newark, New Jersey and conflicts between African-American and Italian residents were at their worst.
[00:22:53] Characters from the Sopranos are expected to appear in the film though it's not clear which one's yet. So, then they ask the questions like a young Tony Soprano or younger versions of his parents or his Uncle Junior? Perhaps!
[00:23:05] So, but yeah, but Alan Taylor actually has a history with the show because he directed a lot of episodes of the show and actually won an Emmy for directing one of the episodes. Did you direct the one where it just cuts off at the end?
[00:23:18] You know I actually don't know, I'd have to look that up. Did they ever explain what that was about? Because I know that that was really big when it first happened. Yeah, it was intentional. It's ambiguous. So the creators never said like, oh yeah, because he died or...
[00:23:34] It's up to you. Actually, for Uber fans there was a secret commentary where David Chase said like, fuck him, I don't care. I don't know why he did that laugh, it's just what he did. So anyway, Ryan will like this news. Chucky's coming back to the big screen
[00:23:53] because there's going to be a child play remake. MGM's at the forefront of it. This actually kind of sucks in my opinion because I like what they're doing with Chucky right now with the direct DVD stuff or the direct digital, whatever you want to call it.
[00:24:08] Like, even like Brad, I know you saw Curse of Chucky or not Curse of Chucky, Cole to Chucky with me and Ryan and whatnot not even being like a follower of it you enjoyed yourself enough with it, right? No. You didn't? Oh, I thought you did. No.
[00:24:26] I think so. I barely remember at this point. Well, I like what they did with it and I like what they did with Curse of Chucky, the one prior to that. So I don't know, it doesn't say anything about the original creator Dom Ancini being involved.
[00:24:43] And that would really suck. Also, apparently Brad Dourif will not be reprising his role as Chucky for the remake, which does make sense to a degree because otherwise what makes it different than any other child's play movie in the linear context. But yeah, then like what's Freddie Krueger
[00:25:05] without Robert England, you know? Well, that's always been a debate in my head because I don't think you need, I think you need Robert England for that but if you're really trying to reboot it and introduce it to people who have no idea
[00:25:19] what the hell a nightmare on Home Street is, it does make sense to recast. That being said though, I think a lot of people who wanted to go wanted to see Jokester Freddy, they didn't want to see Jacky Earl Haley star of Little Children doing a very serious
[00:25:33] and dark take on that role, even though the first one's dark. So, like I never, like I don't know when those people was like, oh, only one person can play this character but it is like one of those things where like
[00:25:46] you want to see that person play that character because they did it so well. So, it's hard for it to like not see Brad Dorough. And this is gonna sound a little disingenuous to people who do the masked killers like a Kane Hodder
[00:25:59] but like theoretically within that whole genre, like if you've got a masked killer you don't necessarily need the original person who donned the mask on the set the first time. Because they had like no personalities. Well, yeah, I mean like or no personalities
[00:26:16] that were verbal or expression filled. It's like done through movement. But like Freddy Kruger is in a mask. So, but like a skin mask but it's like it's a character, it's a burned up character. So, I see where people want Robert England
[00:26:32] but like I also keep in my mind of like I can't remember how old he was at that point but I think he's now in his 70s and whatnot. Like I'm sure Freddy and Jason, Freddy Furze and Jason kicked his ass physically
[00:26:43] even if he wasn't in like each shot and whatnot. You know, you still have to put on that makeup for hours. So, but I don't know. We'll see how that all works out. And then the last piece of news I guess there was a Twitter exchange
[00:27:03] between Christopher McCrory and Ryan Johnson regarding last Jedi or directing Star Wars in general and basically Christopher McCrory said that after seeing all the vitriol and stuff like that and the hate or the hateful tone that the Star Wars fans are going towards
[00:27:22] that he would never be interested in directing one. And Logan's director James Mangold is essentially kind of warming against that extreme fan backlash. So it's just another case of Star Wars being a topic of I guess like for some reason debate.
[00:27:43] Like it's a movie about people who have space lasers that go pew-pew. I don't understand why it has to be this way. But I mean, here we are. I mean Mangold said at the point when working with writing and directing big franchises has become the emotionally loaded equivalent
[00:28:02] of writing a new chapter of the Bible then a lot of bolder minds are going to leave these films to hacks and corporate boards. So I guess there's your bottom line there. If you're gonna complain about nothing like being original and unique
[00:28:21] like if you're gonna complain about that happening then you really have no reason to argue with the choice that Ryan Johnson makes in the case of the way he wants to tell his story that he got hired by a company to do.
[00:28:35] I mean if you want it made by committee you could have done two things. You either said okay we'll get a director that does not have any like unique vision or B, we could have kept it with George. So you know like that's not a thing against George
[00:28:50] but those films were made by a different type of committee and his own head. I guess that's it. Sorry, I'm just checking on the remake, the last Jedi bullshit. And I know I've said this before on here but I honestly don't understand who these people are
[00:29:08] who hated this movie because in my own circle of friends and family I think maybe one or two people I know my dad hated it and like I think somebody else said they didn't really care for it but everybody else thought it was great.
[00:29:23] I mean I love the... Like they hate on The Force Awakens for being too safe but then they hate on The Last Jedi for taking too many risks. Or having women do things, I don't know. Well you could say that about The Force Awakens too
[00:29:36] but yeah I don't understand where is this coming from. Sure there are plot holes and you know things that's like okay I think you know the whole side plot with Rose and Finn could have been tighter or some of the logistics with them running away
[00:29:51] from the First Order fleet should have been handled a little bit differently. But those are the nitpicks that you'll find in every movie to the end of time. You could probably do something equivalent for that with Infinity War.
[00:30:06] At the end of the day, I listen to a new podcast now called We Hate Movies and one of the things is even though they're picking apart and nitpicking the details they're doing it with a sense of humor as opposed to a sense of vitriol.
[00:30:18] Like there's humor flowing through it. These guys just flat out are angry about it or at least their online personas are. Like Mangold's response to a nameless internet user on Twitter who said they already have taken over or owned the filmmakers involved.
[00:30:38] Mangold said if you feel that is the case, if you feel that the filmmakers are just corporate tools and powerless then why bitch it us? In the case of Ryan Johnson and Chris Bakoury I assure you these cats are not owned.
[00:30:50] They actually fight your battles behind the scene. And... I mean like JJ, he was a huge Star Wars fan. I mean he still is and as far as I understand like Ryan Johnson is likewise a huge Star Wars fan.
[00:31:04] I feel like this is just a case of people who really are trying to keep up an internet persona and then are just like they automatically bash against anything that has even remotely like any form of change or like progression in it. I know.
[00:31:26] You want your pizza made the way you've always had it made. You don't want to try to add a different ingredient on it or something like that. Like I don't know, like that's the way you don't move on. I guess I just don't.
[00:31:39] I know a lot of people... And also that was probably a bad analogy. I don't know, I'm just trying to like... Yeah, I know that a lot of people were upset with a lot of the changes to the lore and it's like
[00:31:47] but that's what Star Wars is about. They're always changing and adding in things and you know like originally in Empire Strikes... Before Empire Strikes Back you could not move things with the force. That was something that was added in an empire.
[00:32:01] And then of course you know the prequels added in this idea of like you know prophecy that someone is destined to... Blood diseases. Midichlorians, somebody's destined to balance the force and I know a lot of people were upset at that. People hating sand. But honestly I think midichlorians...
[00:32:18] I'm gonna defend midichlorians y'all. Not in terms of like the concept but in terms of like the logistics because I think a lot of people tend to have this idea that like the force can only be like in these certain people.
[00:32:33] Like whenever Rey was introduced and everybody started theorizing like oh is she related to Obi-Wan Kenobi? Is she related to the Emperor? Which honestly I kind of like that theory. But the idea of the midichlorians is that anybody can have an overabundance of midichlorians and be force sensitive.
[00:32:50] It can occur in any race among any people and that's what you see in the Clone Wars series is that it just kind of occurs naturally. It's like the mutants on the X-Men. You know it just happens, it's a mutation. It's random.
[00:33:03] I've always tried to like put it in a different context and it might be a defense of the prequels to a degree. But like it seems like throughout the entire prequel series everyone kind of has their own opinion in the Jedi Council
[00:33:18] of what constitutes the will of the force or for that matter like who the chosen one would be. And it seems like of all the people like talking about it Yoda is the one who could give less about midichlorian levels
[00:33:31] so I have this feeling that like midichlorian count and stuff like that is just like it's one system of belief within the Jedi Council. It doesn't make it the end all be all. It just might be like Qui-Gon Jinn's reasoning for saying
[00:33:44] like no, we should train this whiny boy. You know like I don't know but like again it's a fucking movie about space wizards. We need to stop bitching. If you don't like it don't show up. Apparently you didn't do it for solo anyway so.
[00:34:01] It's such a huge part of the cultural zeitgeist now like it's imbued in people's you know oh you know the prequels ruin my childhood or you know whatever that people get really offended because they feel like they're being personally attacked
[00:34:16] when something they love that exists in their own head in this way exists in you know culture and media this way and then they get all upset. The issue that I ultimately have with it is that like if you don't
[00:34:30] like a movie fine and you can and you can express that opinion but when you're sending death threats or verbal abuse or like fucking like flat out bullying to the stars whether it's Kelly Marie Tran and her taking off her Instagram account
[00:34:46] or as I've learned recently Ahmed Best who played Jar Jar Binks being driven to nearly committing suicide like that's just fucking sick. Like that's that is like the attitude and the like motive like the actions of a sick individual
[00:35:02] if they're gonna send a message that is so hurtful that a man who's actually a really decent voice actor beyond Star Wars would want to take his own life like I'm sorry like that that to me is just your flat out
[00:35:18] like you're you're beyond reason at that point. Anyway. Yeah. Sorry we went off on a Star Wars. I just thought it was interesting because Logan the guy who directed Logan is doing Boba Fett so you know like this this was an interesting little
[00:35:34] crosshairs of directors going like yeah man everybody sucks here's something that doesn't suck though it's just kind of a rumor but I wanted to talk about something happy to finish off news Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg will work together again it's just a matter of when not if
[00:35:49] in a recent interview with Simon Pegg that's what he said exactly I don't care what it is I just want to see them work together again I mean that was a given but you know there's no projects in the pipeline so as far as we know
[00:36:00] you keep waiting also in the news I understand Brie Larson wrapped shooting for Captain Marvel oh yeah they just she just posted that photo of the slate and it it was awesome I cannot wait for Captain Marvel I'm so excited especially after seeing our movie of the week
[00:36:15] so but anyway that's news. Alright let's find out what Blue Rays are coming out. Oh crap we have to hear more of my voice fuck DVD releases from Blue Rays I'm just getting all the Zach out of the way so we can
[00:36:33] oh I see how it is enjoying most the show yeah we don't want to hear about what you watched this week oh gosh I watched these flowers grow what documentaries it's okay I watched documentaries so coming out to 4k and Blue Ray a quiet place
[00:36:49] John Krasinski's breakout horror hit one of the best movies of the year in my opinion too that I will never see why because I don't like horror movies I'm like James it's more of a thriller it's a thriller eww
[00:37:02] the monsters aren't scary it's the tension around it that's scary I don't know maybe one day the monsters are kind of scary I hear good things though yeah and I'm lying the monsters are kind of scary they got big ass ears it's awesome also though
[00:37:18] and actually there's a steel book I meant to mention that looks pretty neat because it looks like it's been clawed through so but anyway you can go ahead and get a quiet place if you haven't gotten it yet also if you don't have the equalizer on 4k
[00:37:31] you can get that now so yeah that's pretty neat we've also got some criterion releases Bull Durham the Ron Shelton film with Kevin Costner and Dragon Inn which is a film from 1967 that I'm not truly familiar with also from this year you can get Chapaquiddick
[00:37:52] which had Jason Clark playing Ted Kennedy so if you wanted to see what was behind the whole Chapaquiddick incident or what it was for that matter you can check that out Lean On Pete the A24 film with Steve Buscemi and a boy with a horse
[00:38:09] is getting its Blu-ray release so you can check that out that's like one of two boy with a horse movies that came out at the same time the other one is like the Rider the Rider I don't remember the Rider one
[00:38:19] I knew Lean On Pete because they were pushing it hard at Littleton but I just never had a chance to get it to check it out I'm not interested unless it's the horse and his boy from Chronicles of Narnia oh yeah a boy and his horse
[00:38:33] Keenol Lobors putting out some classic films David O'Sel's Next The Adventures of Tom Sawyer which I have never seen I've heard it parodied several times from the period it was released so I'd like to check it out just out of curiosity
[00:38:49] and also John Barrymore's film with Katherine Hepburn a Bill of Dwarf's Mint from 1932 you can check that out we've got oh we've got a third big fat liar movie guys called Bigger Fatter Liar coming out to Blu-ray so I'm not sure which one
[00:39:09] it's getting dipped in blue ink this time but if you remember Big Fat Liar and you said I want to see more of that I think you're the only person yeah I could give a shit wait was that the first one was the one with Frankie Munez
[00:39:24] or something right? Frankie Munez and Amanda Bynes and Paul Giamatti Paul Giamatti blew himself in that movie Blue is in the color well arrested development guys some people out here might not have seen it we don't want them having preconceptions about Paul Giamatti
[00:39:46] and what he does in his free time oh god I blew myself also one good cop with Michael Keaton which is a Michael Keaton movie I've never even heard of before so that might be worth checking out I guess I was watching the Dumbo trailer
[00:40:03] I think it had Ant-Man and it has Danny DeVito and Michael Keaton in it and like oh Danny returns reunion wha wha wha if they're on screen together I want people to say that out loud in the theater I hadn't seen that trailer before
[00:40:17] until I saw it on Saturday when I went to the movie I was just very confused I'm like I don't remember this much happening in Dumbo yeah the original cartoons like Niven an Hour or something 63 minutes I remember something about him being taken away from his mom
[00:40:35] and then there was like psychedelic elephants and then there were racist crows I'm pretty sure that's the whole movie oh and he flies with his ears it would be interesting to see what they add to it stereotypical crows the crows themselves weren't racist
[00:40:49] I don't even remember any people in that movie other than maybe in the background I remember seeing the bottom halves of clowns that were going to ask their boss for a raise oh I do think there is a scene where clowns all pile out of a car
[00:41:01] I don't remember I haven't seen Dumbo since I was like 5 it's really fun or is it it's really racist well I mean yeah I can't change what Walt Disney did 70 years ago very true I wish I could yeah I don't know
[00:41:23] I tell Greg Toland to go fuck himself and we wouldn't have a song of the south that would be it yeah I think that trailer played back to back with Christopher Robin just milking our nostalgia for money and you know what they can do it all they want
[00:41:37] because that movie looks amazing and I cannot wait to watch it what Dumbo or Christopher Robin no no no no no I'm mad about Dumbo I like Tim Burton but I don't like what he's done lately so yeah many there anyway that's Blue Rays
[00:41:55] you didn't have a problem with Beauty and the Beast though oh no I don't want to see them do any more remakes until we get a rescuers down under I need the Mara Houta scene you want a live action rescuers down under yes
[00:42:11] you don't even want the first rescuers first no just rescuers down under because everyone knows that one's better oh the first one's a quiet little film I like it it's a very popular I don't know if Dumbo is very popular
[00:42:25] and also I don't want to see them do that little film I like it it's very sad it's so dark what is it with Disney and really depressing movies it's almost like he's hiring Tim Burton although unfortunately we won't have George C. Scott to voice McLeach
[00:42:43] what else you got Zach no that's everything as far as I saw on the blue ray dot com yeah um yeah I mean there's a lot of other stuff not terribly notable two and a half two if you're a Nicholas Cage fan he's got like some movie called 2 1 1
[00:43:05] which is probably some emergency line that's not as emergency there's no Frankenstein created bikers this week no that I saw no Frankenstein created snowboarders there's no way Brad can we make that movie please yes Frankenstein created snowboarders sure Zach God please no shaft factory stuff
[00:43:29] there's an arrow go to hell bastards oh yeah it's a detective bureau detective bureau 2 3 go to hell you bastards but yeah no I think we're getting actually a lot of shout stuff in the coming weeks because
[00:43:41] I know we're getting in the mouth of madness coming out on the 24th so and we're gonna be getting something else too I think some steel books are coming within August so alright well that takes us to what we've been watching so
[00:43:57] yeah this is the stuff we've been watching Corinne what have you been watching not too much stuff um I did finally get to go see Incredibles 2 on Sunday you're one up on me I haven't seen it yet um
[00:44:13] granted it's been a while since I saw the first one but I think I like the second one better hmm hmm I don't know I thought the action scenes were really dynamic I liked seeing everybody use their powers also I thought the score was fantastic
[00:44:29] especially in the final scene um I don't know how to I don't want to ruin it for you Zach so yeah I agree that animation uh you know is amazing I mean I saw something where compared because the new movie takes place right after the first one ends
[00:44:45] and they recycle some of the same parts of the movie but they change the shots so they're more dynamic um so that was pretty impressive like the scene where um Violet I think it is um talks to the one kid at the sports practice whatever
[00:45:01] like they just they changed the camera angles and obviously all the models are more detailed and it's pretty impressive like you wouldn't notice it unless they were side by side but yeah yeah and they even had like a little thing at the beginning
[00:45:13] where they had some of the actors and the creators Brad Bird was on there and they said we know it's been 14 years since we made this first movie but y'all need to shut up we were working really hard but we weren't trying to make one
[00:45:27] for a lot of those years um so really good movie I actually really liked the um like the design of the villain and just like the look of screen slaver I don't want to ruin it for him it's who's the screen slaver is the mystery
[00:45:51] what's a screen slaver? why do you children yelling about and I also I don't know like I said I spent a while since I saw the first one but I realized like all the technology is set in like the 1950s and 60s and I really like that because
[00:46:05] then it's like you're not losing it the further and farther away you get like we watched movies from the 90s we're like oh my gosh like dial-up internet that was so old but you watch movies from the 50s and you're like oh it's so
[00:46:17] classy you know like phone boots and car phones and things like that you know we don't you know somehow it seems more timeless if it's like 50s 60s technology whereas if it took place later it would feel dated kind of like a weird like timeless
[00:46:33] zone like kind of like shape of water does with where it's got really high end security cameras but it's set in the 60s actually I thought the security cameras were low end that's why they could move that one they look pretty modern I don't know
[00:46:47] it was a 30 million dollar movie I'm not going to complain anyway but yeah I like that too that it felt like it was grounded in a reality just not necessarily our reality nice and it kind of harkened back to like the silver and gold era
[00:47:03] of comic book superheroes so I recommend everybody go see it Incredibles 2 take your kids I want to see Frank Miller's The Incredibles I got to watch it again because I saw it at the drive in it was a busy night so I had to
[00:47:17] get a far away spot and there's a little bit of attachment when I can't be right up against the screen so yeah yeah go see it in the theater so I also have been rewatching Sherlock by the BBC the one with Benedict Cumberbatch Martin Freeman
[00:47:33] you're already caught up right yeah I've seen all the episodes I have no idea why I just like saw something I was like oh yeah Sherlock that's a really good show I should go back and I just rewatched part of one episode
[00:47:45] and then I was like I'll just rewatch like any of the ones I feel like so just I think I actually started in like season 4 or no I started season 3 then I went to season 4 now I'm back at season 1 so I'm just like and then now 2
[00:48:01] and so I'm skipping around all over the place some of them are not very good but some of them are like amazing yeah I dropped off after he jumped off that building oh that's in season 2 season 3 it explains it as well as you can
[00:48:17] from a modern context with it's based on Conan Doyle's canonical work I think season 3 jumps a weird shark it's not like a shark that ruins the series but I think it's a shark that I wasn't expecting and it's one that I think kind of frustrated me
[00:48:35] but at the end of the day I didn't care that much what's that? it involves Watson's fiance and her whole role in that final episode of the season but then like they kind of revert they revert in an interesting course kind of like clean that situation up
[00:48:53] and then they say Mori already back with that like text message that says but I haven't seen season 4 or the I don't know where it goes from there okay I was just about to say season 4 um the Vomitable Bride I just re-watched that last night and it is
[00:49:09] weird parts of it are really good and then it just kind of I don't know how to explain it without giving it away there are a lot of things going on and until you know the full context it won't make sense and even when you do you're like
[00:49:27] ohhhh okay this is going to take some brain power to like okay maneuver I like Sherlock Holmes enough that I'll watch it eventually and then the I haven't seen the first episode of season 4 in a while that was one I was intending to re-watch but
[00:49:43] I don't remember it being very good the second one is pretty good and the third one is good but I don't like the character they introduced to be the bad guy mmhmm so yeah it seems like it's the most I want to tell you without ruining it
[00:50:01] I feel like it's kind of hard for them to keep a consistency with that show because of the actor schedules at this point they probably should have either ended it at 2 or 3 but like I'm glad that they're trying to keep it going
[00:50:13] because I do like watching them interact but I do wonder at what point will it become stale cause like that's like anything with a BBC show unless it's Doctor Who like space is so amazing because it doesn't like wear on and drag on
[00:50:27] drag on for years you know I think the concept of that show helps too where you can the Doctor regenerates and so you can bring on a new actor to play the Doctor or you can bring on a new companion
[00:50:41] and you can tackle different subjects with Doctor Who like it's a little bit more open and in that regard you can go into the future you can go into the past you can go into other planets you can go into those on your own
[00:50:53] and you just kind of have to work from set in the modern day you have to have these actors and you have to work from this Arthur Conan Doyle canon more or less well I mean like you could step out of it
[00:51:07] but I think the issue is if you step out of it you risk it becoming unwatchable by diehard fans I think casual fans don't care
[00:51:19] But like one of the things that I will say one of my favorite episodes in season two hands down is their adaptation of hound of the Baskervilles because I did not I
[00:51:27] Love that story a lot, but I did not I didn't think you could do it in a modern context per se because it's so like heavily influenced by that like like that ghost quote-unquote Gothic feel the Gothic feel and what they did with it with the with
[00:51:43] Infrared or I guess I have the green the green bit we call that the green vision like For war and whatnot like the heat vision stuff is pretty amazing. So It's just just night vision night vision. Yeah, sorry You look at it for good
[00:52:02] It seems like the ones that are the better episodes tend to be the ones that are closer to the original canon And the ones that in my opinion are weaker are the ones where they stray away from the canon
[00:52:13] The way they handled Irene Adler and that in season two is actually really intelligent like I I Like Rachel McAdams one in the show in the Robert Downey want junior ones because I think that's a good way to treat the character
[00:52:26] but the way they do it on Sherlock is much more intelligent because it It kind of like it fills in a gap that I didn't think I wanted from a study in Scarlet So because I just think like it's a story Right
[00:52:41] So the last thing I watched this week was the good place. Oh Have either of you seen the good place. This is the Ted Danson Kristen Belcher, right? I watched the pilot and I really liked it in that situation where Ryan be really beneficial right now
[00:52:55] Yeah, I know he's seen it because I know we've talked about it before but have you seen it Brad? Okay, so you've just seen the pilot then yeah So I know the like the basic premise which Kristen Bell goes up to
[00:53:08] Heaven I guess it's been a good place. Yeah, the good place. They don't like say heaven because right that's actually pretty intelligent to do that But she wasn't supposed to be there and so it's her adjusting to life in the good place and Ted Danson's
[00:53:22] I can't remember Ted Danson an angel or is he the God like he's the Architect of that neighborhood that she lives in so he's kind of like an angel Like he's he's basically like the show's equivalent of an angel
[00:53:35] Okay, and that he is in charge of this neighborhood in the good place that she lives in Okay, yeah, but like I said, it's been a while since I've seen the pilot So well you should watch it all of season one is on Netflix hot damn
[00:53:49] I cannot wait to watch Ted Danson's forehead do things again. So I pretty much rewatched all of season 1 and 2 It is a really quick show to watch. I think I watched how many seasons are there? There's two right now. They're gonna release three here in September
[00:54:06] Are they still making that show? Yeah, so it airs on NBC first season's on Netflix I think they're probably gonna get the second season here. Hope hopefully soon And then season 3 will start airing in September. I think on the 27th But it's a really really good show I
[00:54:25] Don't want to talk about it too much more than Zach already has because honestly I think it's a show where the less, you know going into it the more you'll enjoy it
[00:54:35] Does it manage to move beyond like the the premise itself in an intelligent way? Yes. Okay, yes All I know is that they cleverly Sensor the swearing. Yes. Yes holding mother forking shirt balls Yeah, so just to convey to you how much I love this show
[00:54:59] Well, first of all, it's created by Mike sure who is also co-creator of Parks and Rec Which I love and Brooklyn 9 9 which I enjoy I don't was he a creator on the officer was he just a writer and he's like a co-creator Okay, I know he was sure
[00:55:14] I know he works on SNL at 1.2 But I know he was like co-creator on Parks and Rec and I love Parks and Rec and He also co-created Brooklyn 9 9 which I also enjoy not as much as Parks and Rec, but
[00:55:27] You're the reason it got canceled so I think you got brought back to yeah, it's gonna be on NBC now. I guess nice, but This show You know, I like I think James likes to say this a lot like this is a show that was made for Corinne
[00:55:44] Because it's it's so intelligent, but it's also so funny and it at least for me I feel like it's made me think about my life and about ethics and philosophy and
[00:55:57] The concept of the afterlife and like what do I believe is gonna happen after I die or any of us die, right? You know, it's like if a good place or a bad place existed
[00:56:07] Would I go to the good place would I go to the bad place like? It's it's so good you guys okay So my favorite show of all time TV show is the Twilight Zone the original one with Rod Serling Rod Serling and not the ones from the 80s
[00:56:25] So that's my number one hear that force Whitaker no one likes you Number two is 30 rock number three is Parks and Rec Right now just counting season one and season two The good places number four nice. That's how much I love this show it is
[00:56:44] It's it's bright. It's witty. I think it asks and answers a lot of good questions and It makes I don't know. It's like teaching me things like you don't realize it's teaching you things what it does and So I also happened upon the good place podcast
[00:57:03] Which you can find on like the iTunes store. Is it an official one? There's no podcast online except for ours don't Misinform people it's hosted by one of the guest stars Mark Evan Jackson. I Johnson is mark Evan Jackson. He plays Kevin on Brooklyn 9 9
[00:57:23] He guest starred a couple of times on Parks and Rec. He was in Jumanji or welcome to the jungle. Yeah, he played the principal okay, sure Didn't see it but he is one of the kind of reoccurring characters on the show and
[00:57:39] He hosts the podcast in the very first episode They have Mike sure on and they have him talk about kind of the creative process of what went into it
[00:57:47] What you know happened with the pilot and the casting of Ted dancing and Chris and Bell and so they go through Each episode correlates to an episode of the show
[00:57:56] So like the pilot was the so that they talked about the pilot in the first episode the second episode of the podcast They talked about the second episode of season one Third episode they talk about third episode everything correlates everything for a week. Yeah, and it's ongoing
[00:58:13] So they just released their sixth episode of the podcast And I'm partway through episode three. So really good, but do not listen to it until you've seen Season one and two of the good place
[00:58:27] They spoiled the heck out of it because they talk about things that go on in the show No, you should find out for yourself when you watch the good place And if you haven't seen it get off of this podcast right now and go watch it you turds
[00:58:41] All right. Well, that's this week guys. Thanks for coming on Korean. We're gonna go watch the good place, I guess Maybe we'll revisit Ant-Man next week You know I want the print ad to say get off your fucking ass
[00:58:57] Yes, cuz they say yeah, yeah, do it with the clever Say ash hole and not Yeah, I've I've loved that show too much. I've seen every episode at least twice probably at least three times for most of them
[00:59:12] So good everybody go watch it. Okay. I'm gonna shut up now. I think I'm like sure like they can't credit people as creators of the American office because technically Because it was a brilliant created the original one so they're really just developers
[00:59:29] Yeah, he's like there with great Daniels and whole bunch of that mini Kaling and BJ Novak Like they're all just developers of gotcha. Yeah. Anyway Yeah, you just applied on the quest to find the Holy Grail. I mean, oh wait, I did
[00:59:43] He has been a part of so many successful shows especially for NBC that basically how it came into being was NBC said you can do whatever you want We'll run 13 episodes and so that's how he came up with the good place. He just said I can do whatever
[00:59:58] I want cool. I'm gonna write a show about the afterlife And he did he got the Seinfeld ticket like you can do anything. Oh really? Yeah, that's Seinfeld didn't do anything. Yeah, exactly But but Mike sure did something cool cool Brad would you watch?
[01:00:19] Brad, what did you watch? Hi? I'm Brad. I watched Turtle Movie. It was great I watched a ton of stuff so the less you derail me the faster we can get through this okay I watched Highlanders for the first time
[01:00:33] The best thing I could say about it is the Queen soundtrack Is Sean Connery in that movie? Yeah, okay, but like he's not like the biggest part of it. It's it's really Lambert's film Yeah, I
[01:00:45] Think I can't remember how this game made did their episode on Highlander or Highlander to the quickening I probably would think the quickening I don't think it matters because in high school I saw Highlander endgame and I'm not like I
[01:00:57] Don't know much of anything about Highlander other than like you kill each other and there can only be one left standing And you have to take off their heads to kill them So it's like the Hunger Games But I guess more Yeah
[01:01:12] More more on point like narrowed down to its bare essence of you know, it's not really a game so much as So there's Christopher Lambert is I guess some Scottish dude karma cloud of the Klamma cloud. Yeah He finds out one day after fighting the Kurgan
[01:01:31] That he is to a Highlander because he did not die when he was stabbed and then Sean Connery shows up and explains to him Basically in an Obi-Wan Kenobi role you like you have a power
[01:01:41] And this is how you harness it and he does and then Conner McLeod lives for a bunch of years And then the Kurgan kills Sean Connery And then chases every other Highlander throughout the world and down to Conner McLeod and him or the last ones
[01:01:55] Which can't be true because they made three sequels And Then they fight and it's it jumps around a bunch and it feels long as hell And I was like wow how did this game cult following because it's enjoyable enough not deep
[01:02:12] It's a lot of disjointed scenes that don't It's got to be the Queen soundtrack because it makes the movie seems so much more badass than it really is Like the fights aren't even that like that interesting. It's a lot of people just like banging swords together
[01:02:29] And then there's lightning And decapitations until you said Queen soundtrack all I could think was the room So like how about you just jointed scenes? Yeah So yeah, not impressed Not for everyone Then I also watched Let's see
[01:02:50] Do the news stuff for the old stuff. I'll do the really old stuff so I guess Amazon I've never really dug into my Amazon Prime video account before but they have a bunch of schlocky 80s and 90s sci-fi and horror films. Hell, yes that are on prime
[01:03:04] Stuff like the toxic toxic Avenger movies attack of killer tomatoes a lot of trauma and later on stuff Yeah So I think at some point I'm gonna do like you guys are doing like you have a Clint Eastwood series
[01:03:17] Henry has his white coats and our ass has well, I think I'm gonna do a series called prime cuts. I'm just gonna go through all these supposedly terrible movies And see if there's any gold in there And so far I've watched two
[01:03:31] Well, I watched all the the toxic Avenger ones but I talked about those a while back Not all of them are trash though. I mean like they're trash, but they're like the first toxic Avengers charming
[01:03:42] The second one I actually have to revisit I fell sleep halfway through three is as ridiculous and kind of unentertaining as to and then four is actually better, but it's so offensive Right out the gate. That's citizen. Toxy, right? Yeah, that is hard to like endorse it
[01:04:00] Mm-hmm like the first scene is a special ed class and it's much like not actually special ed people acting like they're mentally challenged and then a street gang I think they're called the diaper gang. So it's a bunch of like murderers dressed up as you know babies
[01:04:18] come in and just murder a bunch of the kids in the class and then Sean guns in it and he plays like a Stephen Hawking type person so he's you know doing his Horrible impression of Stephen Hawking and it's yeah, it's like it's awful not a good look
[01:04:35] But it like the thing is it's like I expect that out of trauma You know like I don't expect them to be politically correct under any circumstances whatsoever Yeah, I'm not surprised but I'm like wow like if you watch I'm sure in 2001 when it came out
[01:04:49] It was like oh little harmless, but now it's like oh man It's like that movie the ringer with Johnny Knox. I can take it But I don't know if the rest of the world could like it's pretty subversive at this point
[01:04:59] Yeah, and then also watched a drive-in massacre which I think is from the very early 80s and and It's so bad like there's So there's a murderer at the drive-in like there's just people in their cars and then out of nowhere they get stabbed through the window or
[01:05:19] Like the door flies open and their throat gets cut and they just dangle out and just like gush blood and then Two detectives show up to the drive in the next day and they interrogate the owner And then there's some like janitor there who's like a little slow
[01:05:31] And so they merely think it's him but the scene where they interrogate him goes on for like feels like half an hour I've like one wide shot of like two guys opposite one other dude
[01:05:42] Yeah, it's like so slow and boring and then later on there's like a chase through a warehouse Because the cops are on the trail this one guy, but it's it's a totally unrelated incident and The whole chase amounts to an escaped mental patient who just kidnapped his daughter
[01:06:00] But they make you think leading up to it that it is the killer from the drive-in Like who's kidnapped? Yeah, it's it's awful I'm trying to make a drive-in movie and I'm just like, oh this is not the stuff
[01:06:10] I need to inspire that so would you prefer instead of the movie you just described a movie wherein people massacre anthropomorphized drive-ins Like a walking talking Like the screen can just get up and walk away Yeah, that might actually be more interesting
[01:06:28] I if you like the iron giant, you know, it's just like morph like a transformer and they just like what a radio Fire down on each of the cars and what a radioactive bomb hit the drive-in it came alive
[01:06:40] And then yeah, and then I watched a movie that I think Ryan talked about before called chopping mall Which is also how this game made episode. Yeah, those robots are interesting. Yeah, totally misleading There's no slasher in it. It's no one gets chopped
[01:06:55] There's a small they implement the science security system that consists of three Stay there robots that will like tase you if you commit a crime at the mall and everyone who works them all gets a badge
[01:07:07] They would scan and you'd be you know impervious to the robots, but then lightning strikes them all and Turns all the robots evil and they murder the security yard And most of the murders involve them like sticking out a robot hand and like pinching their throat
[01:07:23] And then there's a bunch of like teenagers who stay at the mall overnight to party Like in the mattress door, and they all bone each other Yeah And then the robots show up and start murdering all of them and just rolling through windows and
[01:07:43] You know if any of the kids when I have to get cigarettes You know the robots attract them down and they're like these short dumpy like Johnny five type robots With very limited mobility, but somehow get around the ball like really quickly and easily
[01:07:56] And there's a lot of just women screaming sound effects like constantly To make things more interesting but annoying to me Recycling I didn't realize that was on prime I want to rewatch it now because I haven't heard how to just get made do it
[01:08:11] And obviously the kids are all stupid on how to fight these things like there's like shotguns and AK-47s at the mall So they arm themselves with that and even though like no bullet ever damages the robots. They still shoot at them One else
[01:08:26] You know the smart thing would be and it doesn't happen till the end of the movie though The one girl who survives like tries to lay down what it matters to like fly paper
[01:08:35] But for like so she makes she finds the hardware store and starts mixing a bunch of chemicals together and then basically creates like a paint sticky sticky paint situation there the robot kind of slips up So that's like something that I would have done way early on
[01:08:50] You know instead of like getting all my friends murdered just by shooting guns at the clearly impervious to bullets robots who also shoot lasers But even though they're robots, they're terrible shots
[01:09:01] So they'll be like three guys staying next to each other and then the little laser will just fly through them Like 20 at a time and not hit anybody. Yeah, it's terrible Not fun. Yep Let's see So that's that and then I watched Some documentaries
[01:09:23] No, it's one documentary. No two One is awesome because it's about Nintendo There's this guy Who is a gamer and his buddy is making a documentary. He's like hey You're big Nintendo guy. I think you should go around the country. Don't use eBay
[01:09:39] I want you to find all 673 original NES cartridges and you have to do it in 30 days and own them all and So that his friends like cool, I'll do that And so the documentary starts out what's it called it's called Nintendo Quest, okay
[01:09:57] So they start to giving you like a little backstory and like Nintendo and their rise to power in like the early 80s with the NES console and then Like rather gate. They tell you, you know, there's like six or set nut
[01:10:11] Maybe like 15 cartridges that are like really hard to find or they're really expensive So the holy grail find is called stadium stadium stadium stadium events. It's a game by Bandai that was like
[01:10:25] Some like it it wasn't the game that came with the power pad, but it like highlighted the features of it, right? But there's so little of them Out there so on eBay they show you if you bought it would be like 77 thousand dollars
[01:10:41] Yeah in the box and everything or it might have been out of box on that one But yeah, so it's super rare and you know if he's gonna complete the quest He's gonna have to somehow get that for a really cheap and then
[01:10:55] There's another called little Samson which is also rare. So it's like three thousand dollars or something, but not as close But anyway, so as you go along you kind of like right
[01:11:10] He takes out a bunch of them like right away and then like I think the last 20 days or so is like going like he's in He starts in Canada. He lives there and eventually goes like I think as far south as Georgia or Texas
[01:11:21] Going just like mom-and-pop game stores trying to find everything. It's it's cool to see the different collections that people have as some people In Canada like he mostly goes to his friends first to have big collections
[01:11:34] So you get to go down the basement and see everyone's like personal stuff and just like wow all this Nintendo memorabilia and and then as you go along you find out like His
[01:11:48] Personal history and there's like this sad part where he talks about like how his dad was an asshole and Then he dies. They have a heart attack and he almost like the kid doesn't Care or feel anything for it because the guy was such a tyrant
[01:12:04] So that's like a sad part of the story, but yeah the I guess the real drama is as he gets closer and closer to the 30-day deadline He comes across stadium events twice
[01:12:15] And has a deal going that is like, you know the guy wants him to pay him over the internet before he sends the cartridge out Obviously he's not gonna spend like The guy wants a 4,000 for it. Obviously he's not just like give up four thousand dollars
[01:12:30] And then he finds this other collector guy who has two copies of it And the guy you know he just goes there to see the collection. He doesn't like say like oh, I want to Get this from you
[01:12:41] But when he does get there he's like, you know, I'd like to buy all these other games But I mean you have two copies of this I'm also be right honest like I just want to get if nothing else I just want to get this one thing
[01:12:52] so anyway it's pretty cool to see all the different Nintendo history things and like they're written like the stories behind some of the games that are like more important than There's an like why right and actually the last one on this like top 20 list I have
[01:13:07] So I'm pretty excited that team teenage mutant industrialist tournament fighters Apparently is a rare find I an eBay is like a hundred sixty seven dollars This makes me feel even worse for not
[01:13:19] Grab it like making sure that I got those games for you that I found at work I feel like I swear like I Wouldn't say I swear but when I was working to game stopping your game crazy
[01:13:29] I think stadium events did come through and this is like 2000 2001. So I'm pretty sure like the rarity wasn't that Right, like well known yet. Mm-hmm. I think it came through and like oh It just looks like such a it's a sports game like most sports games
[01:13:42] Don't have any value but it would have to do within the production line or something Something like some industrial element of it. Yeah, I forget why it's like it was so like they explained why it was so few produced
[01:13:54] Because like they ended up rebranding it as something else. I thought I read this on the rights or something like Like band I made it but Nintendo didn't give permission to do it
[01:14:03] Or less because the official then tend to seal equality was like a later adopted thing that was really important because so many people are making like You know bootleg games Super Dari Arjun without going through Nintendo. So So yeah, it's interesting. The only thing is like
[01:14:20] The people in it aren't that compelling like the kid is you know, it's cool. He's doing this, but he's not like Like this you say a kid. How old is he? I actually he's probably like 30
[01:14:31] But like he's he's just like not a professional. He's like a musician. So it just kind of feels immature You know any but somehow access to a ton of money to buy like this whole collection Many has to learn how to negotiate because he doesn't just
[01:14:49] Initially starts out buying everything for sticker price, but when he realizes, you know He's got to like pace himself. He you know tries to he does learn how to like be a good negotiator and Talk certain stores and be like, you know, I'm buying like 20 of these
[01:15:01] Can I just get like 10 bucks off or something so I can like continue my quest? Does it say at the end how much he ends up spending? I don't think they know I think they did the whole total, but he does
[01:15:13] he'd I guess let's boil it he doesn't complete the goal Until like after so in 30 days, he's missing like 20 of the games But then there's like a ps where he does You know a couple months later
[01:15:28] He does have them all because he eventually just use the way to get them But there's like a story connected to the state and events how he acquires that which is likes the special part nice Also watched Clifford Which is like a Martin Short movie? Oh Animated
[01:15:47] No, no the Martin short film. Yeah, I've never seen this but I've heard Things yeah, I grew up like I got some friends that were like This was one of their like favorite movies
[01:15:59] But I think I watched it once and then I it came up on my radar again because Alamo I guess is doing it and they just happened to be on prime. So it's like oh, I'll just skip to the you know, yeah, give the Alamo and That's like
[01:16:14] It's a tough movie to watch because Martin Short plays this He's playing a boy And it's cleverly framed so that you know this old man older man Like he's probably in his 30s, but like when it came out
[01:16:29] But he you know, he looks short compared to like Charles Grote and everybody else. So it's like Shot cleverly But like the whole story is that Clifford is like this really spoiled brat Who wants to go to dinosaur world and he like subverts a plane flight
[01:16:44] by almost crashing the plane to get his parents to drop off his uncle Charles Grote and who is You know trying to redesign the LA transit system and also On the Virgin Mary Mary Steen virgin And she's upset with him because he's like oh, you know
[01:17:02] You have made no signals that you like kids or enjoy kids So he's like oh this opportunity that my nephew is in town presented
[01:17:08] You know, I'll prove to her that he I can be you know a dad and then of course Clifford is out to sabotage any attempt to go for He's out to He wants to go to dinosaur world and he gets his uncle to promise to take him there
[01:17:23] But obviously work gets in the way you can't take him and then Clifford just seeks revenge on anyone who crosses him So he's like this really shitty kid and he does like horrible horrible things to people or I'm just like
[01:17:35] Like there's not really like anyone to roof or and eventually, you know, he drives Charles his uncle insane And he starts doing bad things to people, you know to get back at Clifford
[01:17:46] So is this a comedy or drama? It's supposed to be a comedy, but it's like so mean-spirited and it's like just I feel dirty Like a dark comedy. Yeah, and it starts out like it starts with Clifford's in the future as a he becomes a priest
[01:18:01] And some kid like screws up and he's like, you know Let me tell you a story of you know why you should be a good person But yeah, it goes back to him being this little shit
[01:18:09] And then you know it the promise that takes like a near-death experience for him to like turn around and like He makes no progress throughout the movie until then So it's just like it just feels disingenuous
[01:18:24] Like oh, well, we seem to wrap this up and make him a good person But like there's no other string of events that like convinces him to he falls in love with Mary steam virgin So he's you know trying to sabotage that relationship
[01:18:38] It's like it's I think he's a 12 year old boy as a character. It's like oh, that's gross Yeah Yeah anyway anyway and then The newer stuff I watched I rewatched plays of glory which is a lot of fun that the Will Ferrell and Napoleon Dynamite skate movie
[01:19:02] This is really silly, but I like it's fun and I got to watch Baywatch the Went from last year. Mm-hmm, which was you know It's just there It's it I don't know to me
[01:19:17] It's like it's trying to be 21 Jump Street and it doesn't know how it's it's equal parts like to tame But also like really raunchy at the same time so the tone is all over the place And the story just isn't that compelling
[01:19:31] So yeah, and then it's fucking lifeguard detectives like you can only stretch it so far. Yeah, and it is It understands like what it is because of the movie they talk about like
[01:19:42] What's his name high school musical in Zachary from yeah, he's like saying like he was making the case like why are we doing all this? Like we're just lifeguards. Yeah, but Trying to solve a murder his character is the most intelligent entire movie
[01:19:55] I like there are parts of Dwayne Johnson's performance that I really do enjoy in that film But like it yeah, yeah And then after I was done watching that prime it like showed you can also watch the extended cut. I'm just like oh
[01:20:09] I would just watch that to begin with to get it all out of the way So yeah, and then last thing I saw was Jaws was at the Esquire midnight last week And I hadn't watched that and I know since the mid-2000s
[01:20:22] And that was pretty good. It's definitely people talking constantly. How does it hold up? Um Like I wasn't like oh, this is like a great movie to begin with but it was entertaining for what it was
[01:20:34] Are you afraid to go swimming in the ocean are you afraid of Roy Shire? My name of your freedom for each other. You're afraid of Robert Shaw No, have you seen the film theory about that? Yeah, that Jaws that
[01:20:50] Something about how the shark is all in his head because he's a recovering alcoholic or something He's like drunk off his ass through most of the movie. No because I don't want to think about dumb theories
[01:21:02] I want that I want to I want them to realize it's a shark. It's there. How do they explain? Well, not like Richard Drys face in Robert Shaw's. The shark is totally in his head I don't remember. It's been a while since I saw the theory but
[01:21:15] Something about how his drinking makes it seem like it's a bigger issue than it really is That makes that that's interesting Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing this yeah Cuz like it's a cool like it's cool idea if because that would make sense
[01:21:32] But this the fact that the rest of the town is in on it Because they want that sweet tourism and three people died so Like I guess it's all the final conflict was in his head or something. Yeah
[01:21:50] I didn't remember well, so it did transpire like different like I was like You know the my memory of the movie was going and then it was constantly subverting it because I thought Richard J Fas died at the end
[01:22:04] Yeah, I thought they got I both thought they both got eaten but clearly it isn't so they did they I mean they have HD now They're at the Esquire had the print look like it was it just like straight up like blu-ray quality and whatnot
[01:22:14] Yeah, I think it was a digital copy so let's look nice the first 15 minutes that movie still look amazing like the better quality It gets you know I was taking it back how all the scenes the Spielberg directs it so People are constantly talking over each other
[01:22:29] Like stuff going the background is so all the audio jumbles together But that's like so shooting it like it's actually happening as it would in the real world Like no one's really Like I guess there's very little space in between. Yeah, I guess this four X
[01:22:47] Is like it kind of I guess diffuses the exposition because it feels like people are just they're not telling you to the audience They're telling it to each other because they're in that moment. They yeah, they're not they don't have to go into expository dump. Yeah Yeah, yeah
[01:23:03] Sweet There's a crack.com it's a the scarier story you missed in the background of Jaws cracked so that's probably a joke That's cool Basically saying how the main guy is an alcoholic. Yeah, well, I mean yeah, there's that one scenery
[01:23:24] Basically drinks all the wine brings over. Oh, yeah I'm getting something but anyway, yeah, that's what I watched this week And now we get to talk about it man on the watch this week we watched Would you watch that? Oh Sorry, I was falling asleep from Brad talking
[01:23:47] Actually not a whole lot But there are two things I wanted to bring up from last week that I did not mention I put out the new Clint Eastwood article
[01:23:54] And they discussed two films because we're basically playing category catch up so that we can get to the westerns and finish this sucker once and for all So the first film was breezy, which is a film he directed
[01:24:05] But did not star in and it has William Holden who was a Matt and a idol in the 40s and 50s and Kay Lenz who was a 70s star He in the 1950s version of Sabrina. I believe so. Yeah
[01:24:18] Matt and a I think they had like an affair or something him and Audrey Hepburn I'm not particularly familiar with that story, but anyway William Holden
[01:24:29] Is in it he plays an older man who falls in love with Kay Lenz who's a younger hitchhiking woman in the early 70s It it's it's a it's a it's a what do you call it?
[01:24:40] Like it's one of those made September romances quote-unquote or I guess I would say like Like even further than that like summer winter kind of spring and winter romance because she's really young But it it's it's basically about him learning to be happy again, and it's okay
[01:24:58] It's not it seems that it doesn't live up to any potential It could have given the time that it was made and since this is like amongst the first films He ends up directing as a director seems like Clint Eastwood is trying to push something
[01:25:13] But doesn't know how to do it whereas in his directorial debut play misty for me He knows exactly what he wants to do to push this like true tension and terror But with this story, I don't think he knows exactly how to do it
[01:25:25] And this film was shelved for a couple years before universal finally released it so I Mean like that would give you a sense of it. It's not terrible like it's not unwatchable But it is like it's slow and it is incredibly 70s so It dates itself at times
[01:25:43] But the other one I watched was mystic river and mystic river is still a fucking masterpiece like that if he did nothing else Like if he was never a an actor if he was just a director and he only did
[01:25:55] The films that he's done without acting in them like he'd still be amongst the greatest filmmakers for mystic river because that is genuinely a wonderful horribly depressing film about grief and loss and it's Incredibly entertaining and watch and watchable if you've never seen it, it's a
[01:26:14] It's about three friends who are a childhood something happens to them in their childhood That tears them apart and then they're brought back together by another tragedy when Sean Penn's wife dies and so it's it
[01:26:29] If you've never seen it before it would be unfair for me to tell you what happens within the first 20 to 30 minutes exactly because it sets the stage for a lot of
[01:26:42] introspective views on grief and loss and stuff like and you have to kind of go on the journey like it would be unfair for You to know something like prior. It's like it's a big spoilery issue
[01:26:52] Like knowing Sean Penn's daughter dies is not even the half of it. So But it's wonderful, I mean I Could care less about Sean Penn, I guess I'm not like vitriolic against him like Ryan is I guess sometimes but
[01:27:08] I he's great in this film Tim Robbins is like steals this show as the person who's like the The one to like look out for I guess in this scenario Kevin Bacon's great in it to Lawrence Fishburne's in it as well And it's beautifully shot and it
[01:27:25] Like I said like it and I put it in the article if Lord of the Rings return to the king Or I like like hadn't been the film to win that year It would have gone to Mystic River because it's that like solid a film But on the
[01:27:40] Other things that I've watched this week. I got a criterion of his girl Friday The Howard Hawks film from 1940 with Kerry Grant and Rosalind Russell So I put that in I hadn't watched it in a while and I love that movie
[01:27:53] But the one where his like he's doing a thing with like his ex-wife Like that's her she's his ex-wife and Kerry's like trying to recruit her to work for him or something Kerry Grant plays Walter Burns the editor of a
[01:28:07] newspaper and his ex-wife Rosalind Russell is trying to leave the newspaper game and get married and live in Albany with Ralph Bellamy But they get she gets pulled into a story
[01:28:19] Of a man who's about to be executed and basically like the whole movie is centered around trying to find out how this guy could Be innocent or at least like reprieve from death and it's a screwball comedy, but like also
[01:28:31] It's based on a play called the front page Which was a big hit back in its day in the 20s and it's and the play itself is loaded with a lot of political
[01:28:41] And social commentary of the time some of which while you can still watch his girl Friday It is in there is a lot of incredibly dated Stuff happening in there like that like
[01:28:54] It's not exactly relatable to today in terms of its specifics, but in terms of his overall tone and theme It is incredibly relatable still What's interesting about the criterion release which they did a beautiful job of cleaning it up
[01:29:08] Is that they also included the film the front page which was adapted in 1931? By Lewis Milestone and Howard Hughes and they did a 4k restoration on it And I just finished that today and the difference is is that in the original play
[01:29:24] the Roslyn Russell character in his girl Friday is actually a man and In the front page version. He's played by Pat or Brian who was a frequent co-star of Jim Jimmie Cagney And Adolf Monjoo plays the Kerry Grant role in this original one
[01:29:41] What's interesting about like watching them side-by-side? I guess is that his girl Friday is like a well respected well regarded Like screwball comedy it's like immensely watchable and it like moves at rapid pace
[01:29:54] So like it's entertaining to watch the front page of the earlier adaptation by Milestone is Is ten minutes longer than his girl Friday and incredibly indulgent? But I love it for On the same level as I love his girl Friday, but for completely different reasons
[01:30:13] It's almost like watching someone do a Michael Bay version of the play and then watching someone do like a Quentin Tarantino Version of the play because one is much more dialogue heavy and like lingers on stuff and actually has interesting camera angles Whereas and movements for that matter
[01:30:29] But also on the other end you have one that moves at a rapid-fire pace and things happen in a much more action-heavy Momentum so it's it's it's pretty interesting to watch them back to back and kind of like Because like I love his girl Friday unconditionally, but
[01:30:45] The front page might be one of the most interesting Howard Hughes productions and one of certainly one of the best Well Lewis Milestone films I've ever seen And like it was actually a treat to watch it for the first time
[01:30:56] Like I like it when there's a film from that period that I have not seen and there are plenty That I can watch and be like oh wow. I can't believe I never knew this existed
[01:31:05] And the criteria is great they've got great features on Howard Hawks who was a genius director who? Gave the world Bogart and Bacall and whatnot. There's a bit on Rosalind Russell commentaries are great So yeah, I mean I tried to watch his girl Friday a couple months ago
[01:31:22] Mm-hmm I think I got maybe 20 minutes in and I was like I can't do it. I can't do it anymore It was just because they were talking too fast or well
[01:31:30] It was the dialogue was just so weird like I love old movies and I love Kerry Grant like he is talented And handsome but more so talented. Yeah, but yeah, I think it was just especially like between him and Rosalind Russell Rosalind Russell's character
[01:31:52] They kept saying each other's names like every line Like I don't remember what their names are but it's like well. What do you think Jenny? Oh, I think you're a Turd Smith. Ah, well Jenny. I think you're the worst burns and
[01:32:05] Had um Hildy yeah, which you'd think I would be able to remember it since they say it every other line But you know, it's funny. I think that like this is the Kerry Grant movie where Kerry Grant is
[01:32:17] Technically an unlikeable person at least for the majority of the first half because he is like Ralph Bellamy Has never won anything ever in the history of Hollywood in terms of like his care the characters he plays and
[01:32:35] Because he's always played like the best friend or like the third wheel who gets screwed over Like he was really good at that character and watching him in his right girl Friday again
[01:32:45] It was a constant reminder it throughout the film of like Ralph Bellamy was fucking talented and Kerry Grant's really talented To and I love him to death in his girl Friday though. He is like very present for the first
[01:33:00] 20 to 30 minutes of the film then disappears for a big majority and then comes back in and so like he almost feels Intrusive at points, but it's understandable because we are really trying to follow Rosalind Russell at that point
[01:33:12] And I think maybe that was another reason I didn't really like the first part of it was because he just seemed so pushy He was just trying to like insert himself into their life
[01:33:23] Yeah, break up that marriage and keep her on the paper and whatnot and and the whole concept of the front page itself And like that story and how however you choose to tell it is really interesting and it's it's pretty fascinating So but yeah, I if you
[01:33:37] Criterions doing a whole sale at Barnes & Noble this entire month So if you want to pick up a fun screwball comedy with plenty of features, I would check out his girl Friday
[01:33:45] I mean, I know Ryan watched this week too. I really wanted to talk to him about it, but Or maybe I'll just buy Casablanca No, well actually this is not something I watched by started reading the this book called will always have Casablanca
[01:34:00] Which I love like anything related to that film And what I love more specifically is like as anniversaries come up new information seems to kind of like surface and stuff because People then are like oh, I'm about to die. I guess I'll talk
[01:34:13] And this one's like pretty like reflective of like what the legacy of that film is at this point I'm not too far into it yet, but I like it like so yeah check it out. Anyway, that's all I watched this week
[01:34:27] Cool this week we watched Ant-Man the Wasp Corinne should people watch Ant-Man and the Wasp Like here's the thing about this movie in my opinion I had fun
[01:34:42] I didn't walk out of the theater like that was such a waste of time, but I think this movie has problems and it We've had a lot of really great Marvel movies recently we had Spider-Man homecoming Thor Ragnarok Black Panther We had you know amazing Marvel's
[01:35:03] Avengers Infinity War All those in my opinion are fantastic movies. This is very middle of the road especially for a Marvel film and Again, I haven't seen the first Ant-Man in a while, but it feels very much like the first Ant-Man there's
[01:35:21] How the lack going for it? I think their writing has problems. I think the pacing and the editing has problems but it has a tremendous cast and It has good moments of humor and I think actually the special effects were pretty good
[01:35:37] So if you just want like a popcorn flick or if you like the first Ant-Man Yeah, go see it, but if you expect more from your Marvel movies then Maybe just wait till Captain Marvel Zack I'm in the opposite camp although I see
[01:35:56] Corinne's point. I think you should see it. I I haven't seen the first Ant-Man since the theaters when I saw it in Costa Mesa three years ago and
[01:36:06] It was nice to re-enter that world that they set up in the first one without feeling like I like missed anything Paul Rudd's great in it. Eventually, Lily's really good in it I was actually surprised how
[01:36:18] How great Michael Douglas in this film is compared to what I remember of him being in the first one because he's a little more Emotionally invested in this film in my opinion and the whole cast across the board is great
[01:36:30] The the Galop plays ghost is pretty fucking good although I do Do have a problem with that villain and we'll talk about it later, but and the visual effects are fucking awesome So yeah, I think you should I mean
[01:36:43] Yeah, I mean yeah, and there's a post-credits sequence that you absolutely should watch so why not go see this movie? I Enjoyed it. It was fun. I didn't like it as much as the original Ant-Man and I'm saying all this with the caveat that
[01:36:59] The screening I went to feature the return of snort The guy who constantly like snorted through tag the preview of tag that I saw he followed you back
[01:37:11] I don't know if he wasn't following me, but he's coincidentally. I can't believe I went to two screenings with this guy Just when you thought the night where it was over Yeah, so it is Snork Or does he just have like
[01:37:28] Problems yeah, he must have some kind of like yeah some Sceptum so probably scientist thing science infection. Yeah And he doesn't apologize for it So he's a strong independent sinus infected man and he don't need no one to tell what to do like it's so obnoxious I
[01:37:49] Don't know how other people get through the movie. It's anyway. I was completely distracted a lot of the time I went from having a great seat right up front in the middle to Moving all the way off to the left side as far as I could get Anyway
[01:38:05] So yeah, there's it's fun and Paul Rudd in the jokes I'll make it entertaining the story though seems very weak to me and It's also there's some for professionally There's a lot of weird edits which means mean there's some bonus content that you know
[01:38:22] We'll probably end up on the DVD but a lot of scenes and in weird places The story jumps around To times we're just wondering okay. I guess they're just doing this next So some it's confusing and then yeah the
[01:38:38] The post-credits thing is pretty pretty sweet, but I think we all saw that coming so it's The surprise isn't as strong as I think it would be had another movie not come out ahead of it. Yeah So should be interesting to see where it goes
[01:38:52] Let's roll the trailer for Ant-Man and the wasp so how long have you been at me again? Not long I just sort of happened I seem to mess it up almost every time Maybe you just need someone watching your back Like a partner
[01:39:27] Like a pin I actually heard what happened to you You open up the quantum realm. That's when this crazy could be close to like walks through walls and stuff. It's only a tech And I'm supposed to take over the world or whatever
[01:39:42] Who would have believed that in your hour of need you would turn to us out me Because we robbed you do you remember? That's us The only chance you got There's both of you Man in the wasp teaming up follow my lead She seems More intense
[01:40:19] You go low I'll go high I have wings. Why would I go low? Hey what I miss we were just tiny I was partners with Hank on a project called Goliath. How big did you get my record? 21 feet you 65 feet 65 If you two are finished comparing sizes 65 I
[01:41:13] Want to get my problem with it out of the way My if I haven't my issue with this film ultimately is that They stuff in too many villains and in weird places
[01:41:26] As much as I really like the idea of ghost and like this being a personal vendetta issue because like the That would kind of align with the first ant man to a degree because if you just have the Walton Goggins character
[01:41:40] Like as your main villain throughout the entire thing it would be like weak sauce So having her works But I don't like the fact that like it turns into this three-way chase for everything because it makes that final action sequence no matter how
[01:41:55] Well choreographed and executed it is It's still confusing because I'm I'm trying to focus on ghost because I'm more emotionally invested in her But I also know that Walton Goggins's goons are gonna give me more of a fun action time
[01:42:11] So it's like it's splitting my attention in a weird way and also I think a lot of the problems with this movie are Incorporating all those storylines into the plot because you have to have the scene where ghost
[01:42:25] Explains why she's doing what she's doing then you also have to have the scene where The southern dude Goggins character, you know where he goes to interrogate um
[01:42:39] Paul Rudd's friends with the true zero. I was hoping for Louise stories and the way we got Louise stories was amazing Yeah, I think this movie had way too much going on in terms of the plot Which I know sounds weird considering we just came off of
[01:42:57] Infinity War where we had like 800 billion storylines But that movie was way longer and we built up to it a lot more I think this should have just had ghost in it I didn't need the Goggins dude character like ghosts and Them trying to get back
[01:43:14] The old wasp Michelle Fiverr's character Plenty of stuff going on. I don't need Ant-Man's new company that he's setting up with his friends I don't need the southern dude trying to get a billion dollars for quantum stuff This I think it's such a short movie
[01:43:32] You could have a lot more fun with the characters you already have than trying to pack more in it is true And if you stick to just it being about him making up for screwing Hope and Hank over
[01:43:46] By going to Germany with cap in Civil War and making that your through line a little bit more That would have helped but there's a lot of like padding here that may not have been needed
[01:43:57] That's not as confused about it's like the movies called Ant-Man and the wasp and there's really There's no really conflict of dynamic between The trailer has the most of it where she's like upset that he didn't include her is it like in that mission
[01:44:11] But aside from that like the rest the movie is really just like trying to rescue Janet van dyne Like that's really the story And the other frustrating thing for me was like ghost really can't wait five minutes while they like rescue Janet
[01:44:27] Van dyne who might have powers that can help her So that just feels like a little anticlimactic of like, you know There's no reason for her to be like I understand she's upset that she's gonna die like within a few days
[01:44:43] But that timeline isn't the same as like we like we have to rescue Janet within the next 15 minutes So I don't understand why she can't wait like this is feel so forced and then when they finally do rescue her
[01:44:55] It's just like all this arbitrary like Janet van dyne has powers dealer No, no, I know I know it's complete fantasy like a lot of the powers of people in the Marvel movies
[01:45:05] But that just seems like you know really out of left field. I think they should have rescued her earlier In the third act I think the third actually started with them getting her out of the quantum realm
[01:45:17] Then she could have been a part of the final action sequence with just ghost versus Because like ghost has like the coolest powers ever she's like the Martian manhunter I always wanted right like I really want a Martian manhunter movie you guys
[01:45:32] But I would have loved to have seen like maybe ghost has like some goons or something but anyway like a final action sequence where you can use Janet's powers Against ghost and ultimately figure out. Oh wait, I have the key the tools that she needs to
[01:45:51] Keep be healed or whatever it is I appreciate it and like kill her off or anything like she might even be like part of their team in a future movie So that's like a nice change of pace. Well, if she doesn't have her powers then
[01:46:04] True but I mean she has that suit so they might be able to modify it to I Mean whatever Janet I'm sure Janet Maybe she can be the powers Powers better. I feel like this film has the like it's two-fold it one. It has the unfortunately like
[01:46:22] Like daunting task of following up what we got with infinity war and it's got to make it as fun as possible so I think I'm not sure what was left on the cutting room floor story wise or scene wise, but maybe there's a more extensive
[01:46:39] Film version of the film out there. Maybe I'm not gonna fall into the hole bring back Justice League's Zack Snyder cut thing, but you know like if This film probably had to be poppy and light and as fun as it was quote-unquote to like get you over that
[01:46:57] Infinity war postpartum thing. Well, it's always it was always gonna do its own thing no matter what Yeah, it's just But like I appreciate that it like I don't feel like it doubled down on the humor
[01:47:09] I think I had the right tone of humor that it needed to have in the same with the first one did where it's still a Marvel movie, but it is funnier than most yeah
[01:47:17] I think that's the best part of it is Paul Rudd always try and get get back to being under house arrest to prove These so they're like those are the most clever and fun parts for me Yeah
[01:47:27] And then of course with his daughter those exchanges like a movie starts out great with the whole like he built a cardboard like adventure house and Then it leads into explain like oh he's been under house arrest. That's why it's so elaborate But then yeah like
[01:47:45] Yeah, after that just it jumps around so much of like Of just things people just explaining away things like you know He falls asleep and he wakes up and like the tracking cuff is on the ant
[01:47:59] And then they're jumping between the lab here and then goes to place and it's just like I don't know no confused. It just feels like there's there's connecting scenes missing In the edit to me really like the action scenes in this movie which
[01:48:15] So it was a lot of the Marvel movies recently their action scenes have felt kind of boring or just very rote Like okay, and we're gonna have this again
[01:48:23] But just seeing the interaction of the powers and like seeing things shrink or seeing the like the pes dispenser get bigger Like that was a lot of fun. I don't understand the gag of him abandoning the giant suit
[01:48:36] It was to distract them so they could get away or something But they'd already gotten away like I don't so they need to shrink the building remember on the wharf Okay, they needed to shrink it so they could take it away. Oh
[01:48:54] So they make the giant man because you can see in like that one shot how like the wharf was like way over there But the suit was over here and all the FBI go to where the suit is because they think it's you know
[01:49:05] Man, and they're gonna arrest him But then the suit like deflates and then shrinks and they're like oh wait That's not a man and then the like at the same time in the background. You can see the building shrink too. Okay
[01:49:19] That makes sense as far as I remember Speaking of the FBI in this film though. I like that the agent I can't remember his name a Randall Park I think his name is he's really funny in the film his whole His whole frickin
[01:49:36] Explanation to Paul Rudd's kid why you like he's qualified to talk to turn like a almost a youth pastor And this I feel like the Stanley cameos get better for me each time because they make him say more ridiculous things
[01:49:50] But I liked this one a lot from an adult perspective like well the 60s were fun and now I'm paying for it I Will say it's the movies called Ant-Man and the wasp
[01:50:02] And when the movie started and we kind of got the scene of like the whole backstory with Janet shrinking and this kind of connection of Hank and hope are going to look for her and then also Paul Rudd needs to be there because
[01:50:17] It's a man in the wasp But I thought wasp was gonna have more of the focus and it seemed like she did that first third But then as the movie went on they got farther away from that. I felt like So, I mean
[01:50:31] Had his own movie. I wanted to see the wasp kind of have her own movie I mean, I know Ant-Man has to be there but like the movie could have been like Ant-Man colon quantum realm
[01:50:41] Because like the movies about trying to get to the quantum realm and rescuing her mom But it's a man in the wasp like it was kind of a miss misleading to go and like oh It's gonna be about them figuring how to be the best team possible
[01:50:53] And they don't really accomplish that Yeah, but I also like how they kind of like I said like feels like they delve more into Hank's regrets in this film in a way that I was
[01:51:05] Actually happy to see because like in the first film like they touch on it, but it's It's not as like it's not as big a focus as like even it Evangeline Lilly is like
[01:51:16] Frustrations with her father and stuff and like it but it's like so it's one central regret But in this one, you know like it's the point is made in an intelligent way that Hank Pym's not a great guy or at least
[01:51:29] He's not a partner. He's not a great partner and like and it which I think isn't more And tell this was a more intelligent way to do it than to make him a wife Peter like he is in the comics
[01:51:38] So I'm glad that they've sidestepped that while still making him an asshole so I'm also really surprised that they did not kill him off I thought they were gonna go at the end whenever, you know, they're trying to come back from the quantum realm
[01:51:54] I thought they're gonna go the how to train your dragon to route where the mom comes back into the picture But the dad dies and I thought oh, you know that scene where like Janet comes out of the pod thing and hugs
[01:52:06] Hope and then you don't see Hank or like where's Hank did he die and then he pops out like I don't know. He like cares about me over here. I'm fine I actually thought they were probably gonna kill off Michelle Pfeiffer right away with like the ghost element
[01:52:18] But like thankfully they did not I think she should have been in this movie more I know she's a big name and she's probably got other things going on but murder on the Orient Express too. I I think she should have been in the movie more
[01:52:32] Yeah, well, it doesn't matter which one of us thought who should die because we should talk about that post credit sequence For a quick second. I knew it was gonna happen before it happened. I knew it too, but Leaving him in the quantum realm
[01:52:48] raises a question like or I guess possibilities for me like Knowing how they're gonna reverse some stuff because they mentioned something about time molecules or something like that Something that was supposed to help their friend to help ghost but Also
[01:53:04] Like I said, it's been a while since I saw the first Ant-Man How is it that he was able to come back from the quantum realm, but she wasn't Maybe something happened to her suit. It was an older model suit. So yeah, I think the new suit that
[01:53:18] Scott gets I think Is this it's somehow is a little more advanced so he's able like reverse it. Okay, whereas. Yeah, I guess when Hank and Janet were Those characters didn't have that option. Okay. Why does he need the tunnel to go back then?
[01:53:33] It's theoretically it was theoretically a safer way to do it because you can put in that That that shrinking car Or shrinking like scuba machine whatever it is
[01:53:46] But he doesn't do that. He just goes in his suit. Nobody goes inside the little like but he gets but he travels to that point inside his little like Underwater thing like that. He the shit thing. Yeah, no, he's just in this suit
[01:53:59] Hank Pym. No, I'm talking about Scott No, Scott just doesn't in the suit. Yeah. Yeah, I'm talking about Scott Yeah, but you're asking why they need the quantum tunnel the quantum tunnel is only in this one
[01:54:09] It's not in the in the first one right? That's what I'm saying is why does he need I know why Hank needs the pod thing but why does Scott need the tunnel to go into the quantum realm when the in the first movie
[01:54:25] He just did it using his suit. He just used the little the shrunk himself so tiny. Yeah, I don't know Also, does that mean he can just get out of it if I mean that's how he came back in the first movie
[01:54:37] Maybe it's more complicated than that. I don't know. That's another fun thing is I appreciated star wise His suit malfunctioning so much like set up some fun opportunities for scenes Honestly when they did that scene at the school where he steals the thing back from his
[01:54:54] From his daughter I thought that they were gonna have like the kids come in and there was gonna be like a whole gag With that but I was actually kind of glad that they just kind of moved on to the next thing
[01:55:04] And I'd like the interaction in the van of like you want a juice box. How was school today? Reminded me of the baby leg scene from Deadpool 2 Yeah, cool that might have been the funniest part of the movie for me Also that and when
[01:55:19] Michael Pena's character like kind of recounts They're all Did they make out like that in the first movie? I don't remember I think you might have exaggerated. They're like, man, you're gonna find the one like dude. We're gonna be best friends Where's Scott?
[01:55:37] Well, I can tell you where he's at emotionally one of the funniest things I see literally yeah One of the funniest things I've seen this year is Evangeline Lilly talking Physically but Michael Pena's voice Cool. Well I next week. I think we're seeing Hotel Transylvania 3
[01:55:57] Skyscraper or skyscraper. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to guess I mean, I might not be here. So We're not be here. Yeah, I gotta shoot a movie you should in the movie. Yeah, what's it? Was it called trauma trauma? Sure trauma
[01:56:14] What better than twombly too? Yeah, I don't know I didn't give you permission to take over my story You lost the rights when you went to LA What I've lost the rights to my brain
[01:56:30] Yeah, okay well enjoy Hotel Transylvania or skyscraper or both. Thanks for coming on again, Corinne. Sure. Thanks guys. Thank you very much, Corinne