The Weekly Planet - 14 Best And Worst Movies Of 2013
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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Weekly Planet, official podcast of Comic Book Movie. My name is James, your name is Mason.
Correct.
Both of us are doing this podcast.
You know we're doing this podcast.
Did I say official podcast?
You did, official, yeah.
Good, okay.
Now this...
You got some sort of complex, I think.
We know it's the official podcast, it's fine.
It says it on the thing.
It says it on the thing, exactly, yeah.
How was your Christmas, Mason?
Pretty great.
Yeah?
You can see I'm still wearing my Christmas hat. You are wearing your christmas hat yep it's it's by the way it's
uh december 30th yeah it sure is i've been wearing this a long time i've been in a gutter
like four days i had a really good christmas we're actually recording this on our christmas
night we escaped our family and friends correct to sit in this room again absolutely because we
love it we love the featureless walls.
We love the humidity.
What's not to love?
Did you get anything interesting for Christmas
that you can tell me
or the listeners?
No.
I was going to ask you
if you got any kind of
pop-cultury kind of things.
Sure.
Are they real things
or are they fake things?
They're real things.
Okay.
I asked for the Lego Marvel game.
Yep, the video game.
Okay.
I did not get it.
Oh.
Because the funny thing is,
I ask for stuff
and people are like,
yeah, you know what?
It's,
I don't like that.
I'm going to get you something else.
But you know what?
I don't want something else.
No, you want exactly that thing.
I want the thing that I said.
Yeah, everything else is a waste, surely.
But the other thing is though,
like, I don't know about you.
Well, I know this for a fact about you.
We're at a point in our lives
where we can just buy anything.
Exactly.
We have real adult money.
Yeah.
I've reached that point, yeah.
I mean, obviously buy anything. Exactly. We have real adult money. Yeah. I've reached that point. I mean, obviously, within reason.
No.
You've seen my chest of Nazi gold, right?
Your chest of Nazi gold,
and I've seen your chest of jetpacks.
Yes, exactly.
One leads on to the other.
You get the Nazi gold,
then you get the jetpacks,
and then you get the women.
That's right.
That's how it works.
I got a book.
Who's that guy on the jet pack?
He's dreamy.
He's just throwing out Krugerrands to the crowd.
He's so intriguing.
I got a book.
I got a couple books.
One was, do you know Ian McEwan?
No.
My favourite author.
One of my favourites.
Is he like Ewan McGregor?
No.
Okay.
I mean, no.
I got no interest.
Continue.
I got some clothes. A slinky. What? No. Okay. I mean... I've got no interest. Continue. I get some clothes.
A slinky.
What?
Do they still make those?
Apparently.
And then a kid broke it.
It was a really good metal one.
And then a kid broke it immediately.
Like a kid in your immediate family?
Did you go out into the street and you're slinking it off like a gutter?
And it's just a kid in a Baker Boy hat.
It's like, hey mister, can I take a look at your slinky? And you're like,'re slinking it off like a gutter and it's just a kid in a baker boy hat it's like hey mister can i take a look at your slinky and you're like where's the harming snap broken that was pretty much what happened though but i was like one of those books you know those
books that are like enhancing your spirit i can't remember exactly what it's called but it's like
enhancing your spirit a guide to light what yeah some shit like that like i'm ever gonna read that
well i mean you're related to a lot of witches, aren't you?
So that would explain.
You know, it's all like, maybe you're not happy with yourself,
or maybe you could, you know, be the best this.
You know what you do?
You burn it in front of them.
You don't break eye contact.
You just put it, if there's a candle on the table Christmas lunch,
you just stick it right in that candle.
You don't say anything.
You don't bring it up.
You don't say, this isn't a good present.
Because the fire implies that it's a bad present
the fire implies it
yeah
now because we are
recording this on Christmas day
and this is going out
I think maybe
after New Years
I don't know
maybe
if only there was some way
we could count days
I know
into the future
oh well
no time now
I got a calendar as well
we have two calendars
are they themed?
are they
I never look at calendars.
Are they pop-culturally themed?
One's like, of the world.
Pfft.
And the other one I think is like a Superman calendar.
Okay, right.
But Superman goes around the world.
He sure does.
Yeah.
Anyway, so no news this week because obviously we don't know what news there is.
Maybe there's some amazing news that we don't know about yet because we're from the past.
But you know what?
We totally called it.
If there was.
We did.
Yep.
We absolutely did.
But what we are going to talk about this week,
recording it early because I'm going to be away and you're going to be...
Did we decide that you were dead?
Yeah, I'm going to be dead, I think.
Yeah, I'm going to go into cryogenic suspension and just save that week.
It's going to be really good.
Sounds good.
Yeah, yeah.
We're going to talk the blockbusters of the year.
Now, we've already talked about the big comic book movies of the year.
That's episode 8
of this show.
If you want to go back
and listen to it, Mason.
I don't like the sound
of my own voice,
but hypothetically,
theoretically,
I could do that.
Absolutely.
It's still there on the iTunes.
So basically,
we're going to go through
all the big movies,
all the movies that were
supposed to be big movies.
We're going to use
our classic rating system.
Why not?
Absolutely.
Best movie ever
or worst movie ever.
No in between.
Why would you?
A few of these,
I was looking through and I'm like
Oh man, I could really middle ground a lot of these
You can't do it
This is the cross for your own back, mate
We're going to start with
I haven't seen a lot of movies either, you?
No
Good
You know my track record at this point
You've seen like three movies
Okay, let's start with Gangster Squad
Didn't see it.
Me neither.
But the good news is, aside from what an amazing way to start, I've got one piece of trivia
for each movie.
Ooh.
Because I can't do more than one because there's a lot of movies.
Great, okay.
Do you want to hear this?
Yes.
Sean Penn went through three hours of makeup each morning for whatever character he played.
Probably Bugsy or Al Capone.
Is this based on true events?
I have no idea.
I think it might be.
Who else is in that?
Is Sean the Boof in that? Sean Gosling?
No.
Gosling's in it.
The Goose?
Yep.
There's a stack of actually pretty famous people, but apparently it's just a middling
kind of gangster movie.
Josh Brolin's in it.
Huh.
Guy Pearce?
Is Guy Pearce in it?
I think you're thinking of The Time Machine.
I'm thinking of
The Time Machine.
Yep.
That's true.
You know what he probably is.
I don't know.
That being said
I'm going to name it
Worst Movie Ever
because I didn't see it
because I think
if I would have gone out
to see it
then it would have been
worth seeing.
Good point.
That is perfect logic.
I'm going to go with
Best Movie Ever
because I remember
the poster
and it's got lots of nice suits on. They do have lots of nice suits. And I'm a fan of that. best movie ever, because I remember the poster and it got lots
of nice suits on.
They do have lots of nice suits.
And I'm a fan of that.
It looks very Technicolor, doesn't it?
Do you remember that?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, we've split the vote now, haven't we?
We sure have.
Yeah, boy.
What a way to start.
This is a controversial episode so far.
Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters.
Did you see that one?
No, why would I?
Do you want to hear the fact or do you want me to tell you what I think of that movie
first?
Give me the fact first.
Sure.
Adam McKay, who was the producer, he directed Anchorman and a bunch of other stuff. Do you want to hear the fact or do you want me to tell you what I think of that movie first? Give me the fact first. Sure.
Adam McKay, who was the producer, he directed Anchorman and a bunch of other stuff.
He said this in 2010.
He directed... Can I answer the griddle?
No.
Producer.
Oh, okay, right.
He said this in 2010.
I'm not listening.
It's very late.
It is.
Yeah.
He said it's sort of a hybrid sort of old...
No.
Sorry.
Start again.
It's a hybrid sort of old-timey feeling, yet there's pump-action shotguns.
Modern technology, but in
an old style. We heard it and we were
like, that's a freaking franchise!
You can make three out of those.
Fantastic. Well, that's...
Yeah. Not that it sounds
entertaining or... Look, I saw it.
It's okay. You could definitely not
make a franchise out of it. They should have learned
from Van Helsing. Absolutely. Yeah. It's okay. You could definitely not make a franchise out of it. They should have learned from Van Helsing.
Absolutely.
They should have, yeah.
It's a whole lot of, you know, it's just like mythological creatures and, you know,
shotguns that shoot stakes and whatever.
Absolutely.
Is it like Van Helsing in that the first ten minutes is really good?
Yeah, you know what?
It's got a pretty intriguing premise because it's Hansel and Gretel where they escape
and they grow up and they become witch hunters.
And Hansel's, what is he, diabetic because of all the food that he ate.
Yeah, okay.
And it's a pretty interesting premise.
And there's actually a lot of gore.
And there's actually a lot of swearing.
It's like an R-rated movie.
Well, I'm against it now.
Yeah, I know, right?
Yeah.
Not for the kids.
No, certainly not.
But you know what?
I would give it a middling rating.
Uh-huh.
But, boy's movie ever.
There you go.
Because I watched it, I think, at home. And I don't because I watched it I think
at home and I don't think I finished it
or I did finish it
can't remember though
fantastic I'm going to give it
it's got two Bond girls in it
and Gemma Artisan
best movie ever
Gemma Amputee
oh the legless Gemma Artisan
last stand
did you say the last stand with Schwarzenegger?
No.
You're three for three.
Yeah, I was.
Do you think I could...
How many movies do you think there are there?
If you had to guess, how many are there?
How many are there in that list?
Well, there's a few, but I would say...
I'm going to give you eight.
I'm going to say eight.
That I have seen?
Have seen.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, that's because we did all the comic book movies already.
So I'm taking all those out.
Okay.
Maybe I'm being a bit generous.
I think you're being incredibly generous.
Yeah.
I reckon I can go zero for whatever number you've put there.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's...
I think I'm also a good enough actor that even if I have seen a film, I can fake it.
Alright.
But I haven't seen it.
I want you to do that at one point.
Okay, cool.
Trick me.
Alright.
Using trickery.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's first lead role since Terminator 3.
He's popped up in various pieces
he was being a terrible
governor for a lot
of those years
and now he's back
and worse than ever
he's back
he said he'd be back
and now he's back
yeah
do you think there were
a lot of headlines
to that effect
like the Hollywood
Reporter or whatever
he's back
yeah
great
god he's certainly
not what he used to be
and I know age
makes fools of us all
or is that time that makes fools of us all be. And I know age makes fools of us all.
Or is that time that makes fools of us all?
Or is it being pantsed makes fools of us all?
It's being pantsed when the big game is on.
You know?
And you're like, they're finally going to give me a shot on the field.
Put me in, coach.
And the coach is like, oh, what is the rest of it? And the jock's like, yeah, put him on the field.
And you're like, yeah, I'm out.
And then they pants you.
You know?
Fools of us all.
Yeah, I would say this is the cinematic equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger being pantsed.
Even though it's not that bad, it's just not that good.
There's some interesting car stuff in it.
Car stuff?
Like, there's a fast car in it that's, like, faster than a jet.
And it's, like, a real car.
And if you like cars... Is that a plot point? Yeah. Does somebody steal a fast car in it That's like faster than a jet And it's like a real car And if you like cars Is that a plot point?
Yeah
Does somebody steal the fast car?
Yeah like the guy's trying to cross the border
And they're going through Schwarzenegger's town
And he's like
Not on my watch
And Johnny Knoxville's like
Woohoo
Oh Johnny Knoxville's in this
Of course he is
Worst movie ever
I agree
Yeah
He's good
I like him
I haven't seen Bad Grandpa yet
I don't want to see that actually
Is there Is there a lot of CGI car stars? No it doesn't seem to be he's good I like him I haven't seen Bad Grandpa yet I want to see that actually is there
is there a lot
of CGI cast
stars
no it doesn't
seem to be
there's a little
bit
but no not as
much as you'd
think
have you seen
that James Bond
film
yes
where
no
I think it's
Man with a
Golfer Gun
where they
drive a car
off a
bridge
it's a collapsed
bridge
and they
corkscrew it
in the air
and then they
land it
yeah
that's amazing
I know right
all CGI no no incorrect real yeah so I'm it's a collapsed bridge and they corkscrew it in the air and then they land it yeah that's amazing I know right or CGI
no
incorrect
real
yeah it's from like
the 70s
but I guess that's
the pinnacle of
that is the pinnacle
of practical stunt work
yeah I guess so
you can't really go
any further than that
no you can't
even if they did it again
I'd be like well
it happened in the 70s
well you know
then you look at
like Fast and Furious
do a lot of good stuff
well except for 2 which I think was a lot of good stuff. Uh-huh. Well, except for 2, which I think was...
All CGI.
All CGI cars.
Drive was pretty good.
That's true, yeah.
I think it's more about...
If you're going to do practical stunts, you've got to make it like...
You've got to up the stakes of everything else around it.
Yes, true.
Because otherwise, who cares?
You know?
Yeah.
Like, that car chase at the start of Drive.
Where he's, like, sneaking away and he's doing all this stuff.
That's very intense.
What a great scene.
Yeah, absolutely.
Anyway. Would you say that anything in The Last Stand stacks up to that? start a drive where he's like sneaking away that's very that's very intense what a great scene yeah absolutely anyway
would you say
that anything
in The Last Stand
stacks up to that
there's a bit
where Johnny
Knoxville
gets pantsed
no
no
not at all
Sif's in it
from uh
oh from Thor
Thor
okay
still
worst movie ever
yeah worst movie ever
okay
a mediocre return
from Schwarzenegger
I guess
he'll have to cry into his millions and millions of dollars. He'll be alright. Now this one's
not really, probably shouldn't have put this in. I'll talk about it quickly. Warm Bodies.
Do you know what that one is? No. It's the one where the zombie learns to love and becomes
human again. Actually human or just a zombie with some human feelings? Actually human.
It's based on a book which may or may not be called the same.
It's got the guy from Skins, the beast, Nicholas Holt, who's in it.
Oh, yeah, okay.
So he's the zombie, and it's based on Romeo and Juliet, but with zombies.
Who's that bald comedian who you really like?
Or is he a comedic actor?
He's in Children's Hospital.
Oh, Rob Cawdrey.
Yeah, he's in it.
Okay, all right, I'm on board.
Best movie ever.
There you go. I like that guy. It's alright, I'm on board. Best movie ever.
There you go.
I like that guy.
It's okay.
I'm going to say worst movie ever because it's just not that good or interesting.
I know, but it's fine.
It's Twilight with a...
No, that's not true at all.
It's not Twilight.
Oh, then best movie ever.
Yeah, there we go.
It's got a bit more of an edge to it.
We came around to a consensus.
We sure did.
Okay, so I'm zero for four at this point.
You're zero for four, yes.
Well done.
Okay, great. Excellent. Alright, do you want? You're zero for four, yes. Well done.
Excellent.
All right, do you want the trivia, I guess?
Yeah, I want trivia.
Sure.
Nora, the main character, was originally described as having dark skin and being half Ethiopian.
She was changed for the movie to a blonde chick.
Nice.
Got to appeal.
Yep.
To, you know.
Us. Yeah. Next one. Good day to die hard. got to appeal yep to you know us
yeah
ugh
next one
good day to die hard
why would I have seen that
yeah
well I turned it off
after the first ten minutes
that's five right
yes
great
what switched you off
at the ten minute point
was it a specific scene
nah
or was it just like
it was just a bunch of
middling crap
so I just turned it off
so and it was not
going to get better.
No.
And we've talked about this before.
Well, apparently it doesn't.
We've talked about this before, though,
and the next one actually sounds a lot better.
The premise.
You know, he goes back to Japan to get commended for his...
Oh, yeah, sure.
...thing that he did in the first one.
Not back to Japan for the first time.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Do you want a fact about Diehards?
Let's just assume from this point forward I want all the facts.
I'll tell you if I don't want a fact.
Okay.
If you start barreling forward with that fact and I am not interested in that fact,
I will slap that iPad out of your hands.
I will crack it on me knee.
Yeah, it's unnecessary padding, isn't it?
Yeah.
We've got a lot of movies to get through.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's the first Die Hard to be...
We've only got an hour for me to be zero for 20 or whatever it is, so let's keep them rolling.
It's the first Die Hard to be written
specifically as a Die Hard film.
Oh, because they're
normally like...
Yeah.
Die Hard 1 was originally
a sequel to Commando.
Yep.
Die Hard 4 was
a screenplay titled
WW3.com.
Oh, I see.
Yep.
And Spiddy,
there's another little
known fact,
was going to be
a Die Hard movie.
Oh, okay.
And that's a friggin' great movie. That makes perfect sense. That would have to be a Die Hard movie. Oh, okay. And that's a
freaking great movie.
That would have
been a great
Die Hard movie.
Yeah, yeah.
One of the
Die, they're
based on
cyber security
essays and
things like that.
Die Hard 4,
yeah, okay.
Yeah, there you
go.
Next one
has that
Christmas hat.
It's really good.
It's a little
rustly.
This one you
definitely save.
Do you want to
hear like a
Christmas cracker joke?
Do Americans have Christmas crackers?
Yeah.
I think they're called Christmas crackers.
Oh, okay, right.
So the same name and the same thing.
Yes.
I was going to say, do you want to hear a Christmas cracker joke?
Do I ever.
Okay, hang on.
Let me think of one that came out.
Okay.
What is a porcupine's favourite food?
Probably like ants and shit.
It's prickled onions, you idiots. How do you like that? Is that a real fact though as well? Yeah, it's favourite food. Probably like ants and shit. It's prickled onions, you idiots.
How do you like that?
Is that a real fact though as well?
Yeah, it's a fact, yeah.
I get Christmas crackers with facts in it.
Good, good.
Yeah.
I don't care for Christmas crackers.
Wow.
Merry Christmas.
This is, yeah.
This is controversial.
This one you've definitely seen
Jack the Giant Slayer
What no
Is that all
Is that a Dreamworks
Or something
No it's the
Brian Singer did it
It's got Nicholas Holt again
As Jack
But it's like
It's a sexy fairy tale
Fairy tale retelling
And like the beanstalk
And there's giants
And the giants are like
And Jack's like
So it's Jack and the beanstalk.
Yes.
Huh.
Ewan McGregor's in it as a knight,
and Ewan McGregor's character says at one point that he has a bad feeling about this.
Also, Die Hard, worst movie ever.
Oh yeah, good point, yeah.
What do you think about that movie?
It's directed by Bryan Singer, who's doing the next X-Men and the next man after that.
Should I see it?
I saw it and it's okay.
That's not a re-endorsement.
You're right.
Worst movie ever.
There we go.
Let's keep it moving.
But you know, the thing about Bryan Singer is he's a good director.
Now, people thought that was going to be a blockbuster.
Yeah.
Was it a blockbuster?
No.
I think it did okay.
Okay.
There's a lot of kind of okay-ish CGI.
And Ewan McGregor pretty much, he does his Obi-Wan voice and just kind of... And he's good. Ewan McGregor's always good. I like him a lot of, like, kind of okay-ish CGI. And Ewan McGregor pretty much, he does his Obi-Wan voice and just kind of...
And he's good.
Ewan McGregor's always, like, got to like him a lot.
I was thinking back on Bryan Singer's films today.
Before this, it was Valkyrie.
Yep.
Before that...
Quite average.
Yeah.
Before that, really average.
Serviceable.
Before that was Superman Returns.
So the last kind of three movies are just kind of middling.
Yeah.
It's on the way out.
I hope not or whatever
great
worst movie ever
next
yeah just send the next guy
Oz the Great
and Powerful
saw that
did ya
yeah
what did you think
I felt
see I'm happy that I got one
but I'm sad that I've broken the streak
because now I can't be zero
for you know whatever
uh
yeah good
I mean it was very
they had to telegraph
you know
a lot of the plot points
were really telegraphed
in the fact that you're like
well this person
has to become the wicked witch
of the blah blah
so you know
invariably
the plot has to go
in certain directions
but it was fun
yeah
I actually
I enjoyed that way more
than I thought I would
because I heard people
oh it's not very good
whatever whatever
and I was like
you know what
I was genuinely surprised by that
so I'm going to give it a best movie ever.
Best movie ever.
There you go.
And I'm going to tell you a trivia.
Okay, cool.
I didn't ask.
I just told you.
Yeah, that's right.
This is going to happen.
Zach Braff was, I enjoy Zach.
I enjoy the work of Zach Braff.
I thought he was so funny in that.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
But a lot of people hate Zach Braff, I guess.
They do.
But I really like Zach.
Because of that Kickstarter thing.
Yeah, yeah.
And because of his indie filmness.
Yeah.
Well, that, you know, looking back on, what's that one? and because of his indie filmness yeah well that looking back
on what's that one
his indie filmness
Garden State
yeah looking back
on that
that's a big bunch
of wank isn't it
it's a big bunch
of wank
but it's a
I like it
the soundtrack's nice
there's that bit
at the end
where they're like
good luck exploring
the infinite abyss
Zach Braff says that
then they go
good luck
to you exploring
the infinite abyss
nice
of a metaphor.
Yeah.
And he's like,
oh man.
That's dead.
And then he goes,
ooh.
Then Natalie Portman
puts on a wacky black helmet.
Yeah.
You know what?
It was a bunch of wank,
but I enjoyed it.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, it's fun.
There's a number of elements
from The Wizard of Oz
that are owned by Time Warner,
meaning they couldn't use
any character likenesses.
Uh-huh. So you know how the lion's in it briefly, or a lion is in it, and the ruby slippers
can't be in it, and they made the Wicked Witch, her skin, a colour that Disney considered
a significantly different shade of green.
That's interesting.
And they couldn't use the wart.
Right.
So they went out of their way to go, how can we do this?
And that's pretty much what they did.
Huh.
Yeah.
I want to talk about the Wizard of Oz just quickly.
Okay, please.
You know, the original Wizard of Oz, you know how this is all about his journey to being
a man and being a great bloke?
Uh-huh, sure.
The Wizard of Oz is a shit bloke.
Yeah, he totally is.
You know, at the end, first of all, he doesn't want to help anybody or see anybody.
So it gets to that point in his life.
Who knows how that happens.
Maybe he gets punched in the balls.
I don't know.
That's almost certainly that.
I don't know.
Somebody's like, he does everybody favours and he helps everybody out.
And then one day somebody gets an appointment with him and he's like, I want to see the wizard.
And they're like, come on in, anything you like.
And then punch in the balls.
Yeah. And it's not even the witch or anything. It's just a guy. It's just a guy, yeah. anything you like and then punching the balls yeah
and it's not even
the witch or anything
it's just a guy
it's just a guy
yeah
but yeah
at the end of the
original Wizard of Oz
you know he's like
I'm not gonna help you
and he's like
you know what
I will help you
and then he gives him
some bullshit
metaphorical gifs
yeah yeah
and then he's like
you know what
I'll take you back
to Kansas
let's go
and then the balloon
takes off
and then he's like
oh sorry bye
can't help you
and he just fucks off
like he doesn't make
any attempt to come back
she's trapped there
well she thinks
she's trapped there
and as far as he knows
she's trapped there
what a dickhead
yeah absolutely
yeah
yeah
Wizard of Oz
worst movie ever
absolutely worst movie ever
stupid MGM magic
ugh
I think I'm gonna get
your two for two on this next one
I don't like that
Jurassic Park 3D
Man, I've seen Jurassic Park
Yeah
But it's been a long time since I've seen it
So I've forgotten most of it
Remember, this fact will revamp your memory
Great
Harrison Ford turned down the role of Dr. Alan Grant
In the new one
Though we're just going to CGI him over the top.
Fantastic.
That'd be it.
Yeah.
Look, I didn't say it.
Get off my plane.
Dinosaur plane.
Dinosaur park?
Plane park.
Get off my park.
Great.
I'd say that. Yeah. Yeah, look, I didn't say it because I've seen Jurassic Park? Plane Park. Get off my park. Great. I'd see that.
Yeah, look, I didn't see it because I've seen Jurassic Park.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I like it, but why would I go and see it again?
And how much of Jurassic Park...
Because when they post-convert a movie to 3D,
surely they've made enough...
They've filmed scenes such as they can just convert them
and the action is... Yeah, well, that's the idea. made enough, they've filmed scenes such as they can just convert them and, you know,
the action is...
Yeah, well, that's the idea.
But how much of Jurassic Park works as a 3D?
Well, we don't know.
Well, apparently the 3D is actually quite good in this one.
Because, you know, most post-conversion stuff is really bad.
This one's apparently okay, pretty good.
And, you know, it's a big cinema experience.
So if you like Jurassic Park, I remember seeing the original of the movies it blew my mind
mm-hmm I read the novelization before junior novelization oh okay not like
nothing Michael cry did eventually a couple years later but yeah um I'm gonna
give it worse movie ever because fuck you
yeah yeah I mean if anything that's probably kick kickstarted or kind of revamped the franchise,
got people interested in the new movie that's coming out.
Who cares?
Next one.
I know you've seen this one as well.
We're nearly four for four here.
I don't like it.
This could be three for three.
Ugh.
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Star Trek
Into Darkness.
Yes. And?
I like it. I know people hate it. I know you hate it
because it wasn't Khan and then it was
Khan. Yeah. But I don't know.
I think... I hate it for more reasons than that.
Well, okay.
Do you not think it was a delightful romp?
It was a delightful romp, but as a Star Trek movie, no.
And I'm not even a big Star Trek fan.
Sounds like you are, though.
I'm such a big fan.
But...
You're doing the Vulcan salute right now.
You've been doing it since we started recording this part.
Like, from episode one, you've been holding...
It's been...
No wonder it's been such a mess.
You can't operate anything with the
two-handed Vulcan
salute all the time
yeah
I liked it
I thought it was fun
I think that
they've done a
very smart thing
in putting it
into a
parallel timeline
I agree
because then
us nerds can't
get upset
because they can be
like well
it's not the same
as that
well of course not,
because of the timeline.
We split the timeline.
If you're going to put it
in a parallel timeline, though,
at least do something different.
Don't just go,
oh, Khan's back again,
and he's white for no reason.
Oh, yeah.
Which, you know, whatever.
But there's a whole...
That is riddled with plot holes,
that movie.
I'll give you one,
and then I'll shut up
so I can talk about this
for, like, 50 minutes.
The bit at the end
where they're like,
we need Khan's blood.
We need his blood because his blood is the best blood
and we've got to bring Kirk back from the dead.
And I'm just going to let that slide.
Just for the sake of this.
Why do they need his blood specifically?
Why can't they crack...
They're all super soldiers.
And why are they in a rush to get Khan back as well?
Because you could just chuck what's-his-name in the pod,
which I think they do, the frozen guy in the pod,
leave him in there for as long as you need to,
defrost another guy, bring him back from the dead somehow,
and somehow he's radiation poisoned out.
And if it's, you know what, if it is a parallel timeline or whatever,
why switch the character?
Why just go, oh, this time Kirk dies,
and then bring him back in the same movie?
At least keep him dead for a film.
Right?
Yep.
And, oh, God, there's so many things.
There's something else just passed, I can't even remember.
I'm not going to get into it, but I want to talk about...
You're a real grump.
That's what I'm saying.
You know what I think it is?
I don't necessarily think it's a great film, but I think...
That's because it isn't.
No, yeah, yeah.
But I think that's because it isn't no yeah yeah but I think
the opening sequence
like
you mean that exact
Raiders of the Lost Ark
opening sequence
yeah that gave me
a lot of
that built up
a lot of goodwill
in me I think
so I've forgiven
everything else
I don't know why that is
I think
because you know
we're always talking about
how you know
we want to see
a superhero film
where you know
it starts
and the superhero
is just out there
superheroing
that's the kind of thing like superhero is just out there superheroing.
Yeah.
That's the kind of thing.
Like, they're just out there doing their exploring the universe and getting into wacky scrapes. Yeah, absolutely.
And I enjoy that to such a degree that I'm like, I don't care about the rest of the film.
I just enjoy...
Like, I would pay...
You know, like a movie's DVD's, like, Blu-ray's like 20 bucks.
Yeah.
I'd pay 5 bucks just for that scene.
Yeah, fair enough.
Like, it's just a DVD that's cracked into for that scene. Yeah, fair enough. Like it's just a DVD that cracked into quarters.
Yeah.
Yeah, look, there are some really good moments in it.
Don't get me wrong, like the space jump bit's really good.
Like there's a whole bunch of stuff that is really good, but I just, I don't know, man.
There's something seriously wrong with that movie.
But look, this is the thing I want to talk about.
There was an editorial called Star Trek is Broken, Here are Some Ideas to Fix It.
Did you write it?
No, I didn't.
But I did do a similar video.
Not about the whole franchise, just this.
Now, the writer of this, his name's Robert Orci, and he's co-written both Star Trek films,
The Island, Transformers, Eagle Eye, Now You
See Me, a bunch of other stuff.
A bunch of middling crap, put it that way.
Right?
He's not a bad writer by any stretch, but anyway, below this article, he put a bunch
of comments defending the film.
Right.
Which is a mistake.
Absolutely.
If you're a writer, why would you do that?
Bring out the wolves, mate.
Look, George Lucas, I think, all credit to him for never snapping.
That's true, yeah.
He just keeps doing the work.
Keeps doing it.
And, you know, regardless of most of that being terrible.
I think maybe that's because he's in a bubble and no one ever...
Because he wouldn't go on the forums, would he?
He wouldn't go on any forums.
Everybody in his office would tell him that he's doing a great job.
You've seen those Phantom Menace documentaries or whatever.
And everybody's just like, oh, that's amazing. But there's a scene where they run the first,
there's the first viewing, like in the, and people are just silent.
Yeah.
It's like, ooh.
Ooh.
Ooh.
Just let it run. It's fine.
Just let it run, yeah.
It'll make a billion dollars, who cares?
Anyway, do you want to hear what he said?
Yes.
I'm going to tell you.
Okay.
I think the article, I think the article above is akin to a child acting out against his parents.
Makes it tough for some to listen.
But since I'm a loving parent, I read these comments without anger or resentment, no matter how misguided.
Having said that, two biggest Star Trek movies in a row with best reviews is hardly a description of broken.
Ooh, hello.
Wow.
There's a whole bunch of other stuff that I'm not going to get into. And he got angry when somebody mentioned that, compared it to Raiders of the Lost Ark,
and he said that how Star Trek Into Darkness has infinitely more social commentary than Raiders in every universe.
And I say that with Harrison Ford being a friend.
Oh, hello.
So, is Star Trek Into Darkness set out to make some biting social commentary?
I guess so. But I mean, Raiders of the Lost Ark made a lot of important notions of social commentary.
Like, you know, who in the real world hasn't, you know, had like a treasure, like on some sort of pedestal?
Yeah.
And then you've got to take it off and replace it with a bag of sand.
Oh man, yeah.
You know?
You're right.
You're not talking metaphorically, you're talking literally. No, literally, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's And you've got to take it off and replace it with a bag of sand. Oh man yeah. You know. You're right. You're not talking metaphorically you're
talking literally.
No literally yeah.
Yeah yeah.
That's you know.
So I'm going to say.
Who hasn't had to
outrun the boulder of
life but also an
actual boulder.
You know.
Worst movie ever.
I'm going to say
best movie ever
because I know it
annoys you.
It doesn't annoy
me.
It kind of does.
I can see it.
I can see how there
are a lot of good
things about that movie.
I heard Star Trek Into Darkness is your favourite film.
What do you think about that?
That's fine.
But they pissed away so much.
When you're going to create an alternative timeline, don't just run with Khan again.
Hmm.
You know?
Don't just mirror a whole lot of scenes that you'd already done before.
Mirror Universe.
Good idea.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, let's do Mirror Universe in the third one.
Next one.
Fast and Furious 6. Didn't see it. Heard it was good. Really? Yeah. Ah, I thought you Yeah, you're right. Yeah, let's do Mirror Universe in the third one. Next one, Fast and Furious 6.
Didn't say it, heard it was good.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, I thought you saw this one.
No.
Now, the tank chasing this was originally planned to be created via CGI, but director Justin
Lin insisted...
Built a tank.
Yes.
That it be done practically, with some post-production enhancements.
What does that mean?
It means that they're literally...
Do they get breast implants for this tank?
Yes.
Yeah, look, I really enjoyed Fast and Furious 6.
One of those things, when those movies started, I'm like, I don't get this at all.
Yeah, I've come around to it since, I think, 5.
Have they evolved, or have you started losing brain cells?
In the sense, they're not so much about street racing as in, they're just heist films now.
Okay, right.
Which is good.
Were the first ones about the cars?
A little bit.
A little too technical?
They were mostly about NOS, I think.
Ah, yeah, NOS.
They're not annoying cars.
Yeah.
But, you know, I didn't really like them.
I remember at the time going, like, who watches these?
What's going on here?
Right, right, yeah.
But, you know, I'm okay with them now.
And just quickly on Fast and Furious 7, that's been pushed back from next year.
I think it's
June or July of 2015
after Paul Walker died.
Yep.
And they're trying to
salvage the film
with the footage
that they've got of him.
And there's a rumour,
I don't know whether this is true.
I think we mentioned this.
What?
That his brother?
Yeah, oh we did, did we?
I think we did, yeah.
CGI face over,
yeah, his brother.
Which is a bit weird.
Very.
I'm going to call
Fast and Furious 6 best movie ever, possibly the best blockbuster of the
summer.
Wow.
I'm going to agree with you.
All right.
Unless, of course, there's another one that I haven't seen that is really good.
You've definitely seen this next one, After Earth.
No, I haven't seen that one.
Me neither.
Great.
After Earth, producer Will Smith envisioned it as a multi-platform franchise,
including books, graphic novels, and interactive video games.
Isn't it weird that Will Smith was a producer on that?
Yeah.
And his sons all starred in it.
I never even made...
What an odd coincidence.
Did they come in different doors in the studio?
They ran into each other like,
What are you doing here?
What the?
How did I get this job as the producer of this film, and you, Jaden Smith, my son, independently
got a role in this film?
How the, was I away that day?
I don't know.
You're on the Will Smith hate bad way.
I don't care, he's fine.
Yeah.
He's done good movies.
He has, hasn't he?
Yeah.
There's a lot, the tide is turning on Will Smith, though, I think.
The people hate him.
Yeah, I think so.
Because he used to be...
Well, he still is a big draw card,
but I think maybe he's pushing his family a little too much.
Absolutely he is.
You know, so...
Yeah, don't buy your children careers.
Don't tell us.
Don't take your millions of dollars and tell us
that those two are charismatic in any way,
because they're not.
You're right.
He needs to, yeah.
I think as well, the difference between Will Smith and his son is, aside from everything,
is that Will Smith kind of has or had a lot of drive.
And he took a lot of steps to become what he was.
He was like a kid-friendly kind of rapper.
He shook the room.
Shook the room.
Yep.
You know, he did the Fresh Prince.
His parents didn't understand, but then he made them understand.
He Willeniumed.
He Willeniumed.
He went to Miami that time.
You know, he's very much a self-made kind of man.
And that's great.
He's like the giant robot tarantula of Hollywood.
You know?
Yes.
Yeah.
And I think you can't have, you can't just give your kids stuff.
And that's a lesson for anybody.
Don't give your kids anything.
We're going to, in the next episode.
Especially slinkies because they'll break them.
Oh, we're going to change the format next week.
It's going to be parenting advice.
From two people who know nothing about parenting.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
I'm going to say worst movie ever.
Same.
Even though I haven't seen it.
Same.
Because it looks terrible.
Yep.
And it's one of those movies where I think I will watch it one day just to see how terrible.
But right now, we're doing this podcast, so I can't.
We could take a break.
I guess we could.
Now You See Me.
I saw that one.
Oh.
Yeah.
That, I had a shock.
Wait, is this a trick?
Okay.
Keep rolling.
We'll see what happens, hey?
Okay.
Now, for this movie um
they were going to go
with an older cast
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jim Carrey
Hugh Grant
Sacha Baron Cohen
Colin Firth
they're all considered
and then they went
all younger
Facebook kid
redhead girl
from the Australian one
Eliza something
Isla Fisher
Isla Mishnah
yeah
um
the whole bunch of them
look for me
and I'm still sceptical
you've seen this.
See how we go.
It's an enjoyable little film.
The magic makes no sense.
And that annoys me in a film when there's magic, but it's clearly done using CGI.
Yeah.
There's a whole lot of CGI scars swooshing around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's not impressive.
It's jumping into a giant bubble.
It's floating away.
That's exactly.
And that's the good thing about...
Have I seen it or was that just in the trailer?
Are you going to tell me it's...
No, I saw it.
I actually saw it.
I actually did see it.
Cool.
That's the good thing about the Prestige.
Well, half of it until they get to the cloning machine.
Spoiler alert.
A lot of those magic tricks are done practically.
Right, exactly, yeah.
Or can be done practically.
Uh-huh, yeah.
There's a whole lot of 3D holograms and the twist at the end.
Spoiler alert for everything
by the way, is Mark Ruffalo set up the whole thing.
It's one of those things where if he knew about this whole thing, why are they showing
scenes where he's alone, where he's confused?
I mean, enraged and confused at these guys.
It's like he's carrying it on even when nobody's around.
It's one of those twists.
You could predict it in the sense that the mastermind has to be somebody in the film.
Right, yeah. So I predicted it in that sense, not in the sense that the mastermind has to be somebody in the film. Right, yeah.
So I predicted it in that sense, not in the sense that it added up.
Made any logical sense, yeah.
Like there's a scene where he's chasing one of the four horsemen down an apartment building
and the guy jumps in the laundry chute and then Ruffalo's like, oh, I've got to go down
the laundry chute now and why are you exasperated?
Like you knew this was going to happen
because you're literally 100 steps ahead.
Why would you even, you know?
You're right.
And it's also one of those situations
where he wants to get revenge
and he wants to repay all these people
for all the money they've lost.
Yeah.
At some point, it's got to be cheaper just to build a counterfeit money machine, you would think.
Yeah, you would think that, yeah.
And there's also so many pieces of technology-based magic where...
Where does he get all that money?
Well, where does he get all the money, certainly, but where they only make sense in the Hollywood mode
of where there's no depth?
Like, there's a scene where the four horsemen,
the police think they've stolen a big safe or something,
whatever it is, and they go into the building
and the safe's gone.
Yeah, there's a mirror, and there's a mirror
that comes down from the ceiling and it conceals the safe or gone. Yeah, there's a mirror and there's a mirror that comes down from the ceiling
and it conceals the safe or whatever. But that would only work if you stayed 30 feet
away from the mirror at all times. Like if anybody moved even 10 feet to examine the
room and you would because you're looking for a safe
in a room.
Yeah.
You would appear in the mirror and you'd go, oh, there's a mirror blocking the...
Surely it would make sense for there to be...
They put down a brick wall.
That would make sense.
Yeah.
But that's not magic enough.
No, it's not.
Because magicians, they use brick walls.
They use mirrors.
So they had to...
Yeah.
Do you like Jesse Eisenberg's Jon Bon Jovi hair?
It was pretty good.
Yeah.
I like elements of that movie, but none of it makes any sense.
Yeah, yeah.
Look, it's fine.
I'm going to say worst movie ever, though.
Because...
I'm going to say...
Yeah, I'm going to say also worst movie ever.
Cool.
Did we say after worst movie ever?
Yeah, I think we did.
Or was that implied for us tearing it apart?
I think so, yeah.
Cool.
Alright, this is the end.
I've included a lot of comedies on here. There's this and another one. They're kind of big budget comedies. Yeah, so, yeah. Cool. Alright, this is the end. I've included a lot of comedies on here.
There's this and another one.
They're kind of big budget comedies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like I didn't include Hangover 3 and Grown Ups 2 and whatever, whatever.
And Movie 43 or Movie 42, whatever it's called, with all those actors, which is apparently
the worst.
But anyway, this is the end.
Now, according to Seth Rogen, the plot that his character suggests in the movie about
Pineapple Express 2, that was his real in the movie about Pineapple Express 2,
that was his real idea for an actual Pineapple Express sequel.
Interesting.
Which I actually thought that at the time, because that could actually work.
Because Danny McBride, you know, he ends up being the drug lord and then they have to stop him and whatever.
Yeah, so, hmm.
I really liked that movie.
I also did, because I saw it.
Together?
Maybe.
Yeah, you probably did. So I can't trick you with this one.
I guess not.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah, very enjoyable.
I mean, that's it. I thought it was really funny.
I think it was one of the better comedies of the year.
Good cast. A lot of improv.
I thought it was great. Good premise.
A lot of world ending, a lot of apocalyptic
themed films. And we'll get to another one
at some point. We can't do to another one. Oh, right now?
At some point.
We can't do it right now.
Okay.
Well, there was also Rapturepalooza.
I didn't see that.
No, which had Anna Kendrick and also Chris Robinson is in that.
Did too.
Now, I've skipped over one here though.
Oh, best movie ever, worst movie ever.
Ah, let's go with best movie ever.
Me too.
I think it was one of my favourite movies of the year actually.
Yeah.
Also, the CGI demons were really good.
Yeah, weren't they?
Very, very high quality.
I've read today as I
was ducking away
during Christmas dinner
to put this podcast
together and gather
facts.
Where's James gone?
What's he doing?
None of your
fucking business.
That's right yeah.
Peace on earth and
good will to all men
but get out of my
face.
Get out of my face.
I would put these
two together.
Olympus has fallen
a White House down
because I wanted to
see if you could
tell me
which fact is this movie from.
Oh, okay, great.
Okay, I'm going to go.
Both of them obviously being about the White House being something.
Now, apart from a couple of second unit shots of Washington, D.C.
and one scene shot in a park,
all filming took place on sound stages in Montreal, Canada
with extensive blue screen techniques used to create the world around where each set required something.
I'm going to say that's Olympus Has Fallen.
I'm going to tell you that I can't remember which.
Great.
Great fact.
But I think it's White House Down.
Ah.
But I don't know.
Great.
And we'll never know.
We'll never know, exactly.
Best movie ever, worst movie ever for either of those. I'm going to go with White House know exactly best movie ever worst movie ever
for either of those
I'm going to go with
White House Down
best movie ever
Olympus Has Fallen
worst movie ever
because who knows
who's in that
White House Down
is Jamie Foxx
and Channing Tatum
right
best movie ever
and people are saying
that that is the
kind of die hard
that's the best die hard movie
the best die hard
of the modern die hard movie
I think Dan O'Brien
said that on Cracked
he's a good dude
but I don't know him at all.
You're making assumptions.
Yes, but he seems like a good dude.
So yeah, I agree with you on that.
Do you think there's going to be another...
Do you think there could be a White House Down sequel?
Do you think the President and Channing Tatum could team up again?
I think I mentioned this on a previous podcast,
but Olympus Has Fallen is getting a sequel called London Has Fallen.
Do you think
Jamie Foxx and
Channing Tatum
will be in that
I hope so
I hope so
me too
do you think
anybody would
notice
nah
yeah
okay
World War Z
did you see that
one
yes
what did you
think
good
I mean
I
I enjoyed
it
yeah
there wasn't...
There was a lot of...
It was missing a lot of gore
that you'd find in a lot of zombie films.
Funny you should say that.
I got another version of it
on home DVD,
Future VHS.
I don't know what I'm saying.
And it was all...
It was gory as hell.
Huh.
So there's an R-rated cut.
Interesting.
Because it was PG-13 of the cinema,
I believe.
Yeah, yeah.
They reshot the entire ending of that movie.
There were so many
production troubles.
People thought that
was going to tank.
And the director was
apparently fighting
with the studio
and with Brad Pitt
and he's not on board
for the second movie
because they're making
a sequel.
And there was a whole
other ending where
Brad Pitt gets stuck
in Russia and he's
made to fight in like
a Russian zombie war.
Interesting.
There's a whole other
section.
And what I love about that movie is... Were you going to say else i'll just cut you off and just start talking now but it builds and builds and then it's got this really low-key
but intense final 20 30 minutes oh yeah and then he has a pepsi or whatever happens yeah and i mean
it doesn't really make any sense how he'd just inject himself with, you know, whatever and, you know, and he could have easily died then or easily communicated which one of the viruses he could have used or whatever.
But, no, I really enjoyed it.
I feel that that, the last scene is intended to be incredibly tense, but it lost a lot of the tension because you know, you know the plan, you know how it's going to be carried out,
and he sort of does it flawlessly,
and so it's not really...
He does, I guess, yeah.
But that's interesting, the Russian war scenario.
That's a completely different take.
Did they run out of the budget,
or what happened then?
I have no idea.
I just know it went back for extensive reshoots,
and a big part of that was that really low-key,
small-budgeted ending.
Because there's not really any CGI zombies or any CGI in that last...
Yeah, yeah.
After that plane goes down, that's...
I mean, it's a whole series of lucky coincidences with him.
He does.
Everybody dies around him.
Everybody loses their hands or whatever.
Yeah, he survives a lot of...
Yeah, I think it's that Jerusalem gets, like, sacked.
Yeah, absolutely. Jerusalem lot of... Yeah, I think it's that Jerusalem gets, like, sacked. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, it is, yeah.
I can't remember.
Yeah.
But look, I don't have really a fact for this
aside from all those facts I just recited.
Uh-huh.
But when I saw this movie,
I went and saw it with my brothers,
and it was in Who You Know.
Yes.
Now, I...
I think one of them's great.
No, I didn't see this in...
It was in 3D.
Uh-huh. And I don't like 3D. No? I in... It was in 3D. Uh-huh.
And I don't like 3D.
No?
I hate being forced to see 3D.
But anyway, the movie wasn't starting.
They were like, we're having trouble with the 3D projector.
So it was like about 15, 20 minutes late.
And this guy behind me was like, oh, come on, this is ridiculous.
And you know what?
And I said this really loudly.
I don't normally snap.
That's not true.
Sometimes I snap.
But I'm like, oh, this is funny.
Your life is mostly a series of you snapping.
Well, like, look at this fucking Mr. Important guy.
Yeah, yeah.
He's got something so important that he can't wait 15 minutes for a fucking movie.
You know what I mean?
Like, what are you doing?
What's so important?
It just, that really, I don't know.
It just really annoys me, that kind of shit.
You can't just sit.
You can't just sit with your dumb fucking wife and shut your mouth. know do you have to make a big song and dance about it okay when it got
going did they play all the ads and all the trailers or did they just get straight in the
movie that's a really good question i think they might have got straight into it also another good
thing that happened they came out and said so we have to do the the 2d cut and here's a free movie
ticket love it so maybe that's why I think it's the best movie ever.
That's probably it.
Free stuff.
Yeah, absolutely.
God damn it though.
I hate people in the cinema.
You mention it a lot.
In real life,
on this,
you mention it to people
in the cinema.
Just really annoying.
Keep your fucking thoughts
to yourself.
Yeah.
You say it on a podcast.
I say it on a podcast.
I know. I just realised that. I'm going to say worst movie ever because I I say it on a podcast, I know.
I just realised that. I'm going to say worst movie ever because I would have liked to see that Russian War thing.
Maybe you will one day. No.
You're right. The next one.
Lone Ranger. Didn't say it.
I did say this and I'm going to
surprise you by saying
it's not that bad. So it has to be best movie ever?
I guess.
I can't say that. You have to though. What's your choice? Is it the worst movie ever? No it's not. Then it has to be the best movie ever? I guess. Oh no, I can't say that. You have to though. You've got, what's
your choice? Is it the worst movie ever?
No, it's not. Then it has to be the best movie ever.
Now, Jerry Brockheimer says
this movie's got to be considered a classic
in years to come, like Blade Runner
or John Carter of Mars, which
I have not seen. Did he really say that? He really said that.
That's not a joke statement. He listed a whole lot of other
movies, but one was Blade Runner,
one was John Carter of Mars.
He equated, and I just want to be clear, the film Blade Runner with the very recent, largely ignored, box office bomb, uninteresting John Carter of Mars.
Yes.
Huh.
I mean, I haven't seen it.
The one where John Carter goes to Mars.
I think that's the one.
Hmm. Interesting. I mean I haven't seen it The one where John Carter goes to Mars I think that's the one Interesting This is the first feature film of both Johnny Depp and Helen Bonham Carter
That's not directed by Tim Burton
I'm going to say
That I was largely entertained by this
And I am going to say
Best movie ever
That's on your head man
I'm going to get crucified
for what I say about
the train
do they do
is there an action sequence
on top of a train
yes
okay best movie ever then
it's fine
you love a train
yeah I love a train
love a train thing
I love that episode of Firefly
when they're on a
that is a good episode
fight on a train
you know what though
that movie
there's a lot of
it gets wrong
but I found myself
largely entertained by it
and maybe because I thought it was going to be horrible.
And I remember because I was with a group of people,
and they're like, let's see The Lone Ranger.
I'm like, I don't want to see it.
Don't make me see it.
And I was genuinely surprised.
Is it more a Tonto film than a Lone Ranger film?
Yes.
And The Lone Ranger's kind of a goof.
He doesn't really do anything.
You know what?
It is worse than the other.
Does he start as a goof and he becomes a hero towards the
end or is he always
a goof
he's mostly a goof
he's probably 98%
goof
that's a lot of
goofing
but entertainingly
yeah I guess
at any point
is he trying to
load a gun or
something and he
gets you know like
on a horse and
then he gets
bumped and he's
like throwing the
gun around
and maybe he's
riding the horse
backwards
yeah maybe he's
riding the horse backwards bits like he's riding the horse backwards
there's bits like that
oh I don't know
I'm going to have to
say worse words
okay fine yeah
good
um
Pacific Rim
saw it
enjoyed it
yeah you liked that
quite a bit
rocket fists
lasers
bad Australian accents
swords
yeah
there was a sword
yeah there was a sword
yeah there was a
yeah he had the
bone in the end.
It was like the secret sword.
Secret sword.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was a bit disappointed by this, to be honest.
Okay.
You were allowed your opinion.
Am I?
One.
You were allowed one opinion in an episode.
It's this.
Now, the giant monsters in this were always intended to be computer generated, but all
the designs were built around the notion that they could be
worn as suits like traditional kaiju films yeah okay so that's you know that's interesting i would
have liked one one frame like per monster fight where it just it just you know like in you know
fight club where they're like we'll splice in a porn frame and whatever the film just one frame
of just it switches and it's a guy in a cardboard robot suit and a guy
in a rubber monster suit.
And it's never...
Yeah.
Yeah, just to find in there.
A little Easter egg for the Blu-ray viewers, you know?
That'd be awesome.
I thought this was going to be like one of the best films of the year.
Uh-huh.
Because I like Guillermo del Toro.
Mm-hmm.
And I like all of his films that I've seen.
I haven't seen them all. And you like robots? You like robots, right? I like all of his films that I've seen. I haven't seen them all.
And you like Robits.
You like Robits, right?
I like Robits.
Mm.
Sure.
But I don't know.
There's just something about it.
I was just like, this just isn't that interesting.
All right.
Okay.
Good monster fights.
Yep.
Everything else.
Great Australian accent, though.
I can't even...
I haven't seen it in a while, so I can't even...
Does...
I was wondering, though, does anybody who's not Australian notice that?
They...
Actually, you make a good point.
Because all the reviews I read from overseas didn't mention it.
All the Australian reviews mentioned it.
Yeah.
I try not to read Australian reviews, because they're mostly idiots.
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm going to say...
I have to say worst movie ever, because I was disappointed.
I'm going to say best movie ever, because Rocket Punch is...
Yeah, there were little bits that were really good.
But yeah, yeah.
Fair enough.
World's End.
The World's End.
Uh-huh.
Now, this movie has a shit ton of foreshadowing.
You've seen this one, haven't you?
Yes, I have, yes.
The one, the Simon Pegg, Nick Frost.
What I think we've revealed here is that I only watch films when I'm being chaperoned.
Like, when...
Like, gun to my head, I'll go to a cinema,
but I don't really want to.
That's amazing.
Good thing I got you for this podcast.
Yeah.
It's great.
Yeah.
There's a whole lot of foreshadowing.
Like, at the start,
Simon Pegg says,
calls them the five musketeers,
and then they're like,
there's only three musketeers,
and at the end,
there's only three of them left.
Is that a... That's epic fore of them left. Is that a...
That's epic foreshadowing.
Is that deliberate?
Apparently.
These movies are riddled with foreshadowing, though.
Like, there's also the pubs are named after what happens in the pubs.
Ah, yeah, okay.
First Post, the first pub.
The Old Familiar, which is the second, is the same.
The Famous Cock is the one where he gets booted out because he was a jerk that time.
That's right, yeah, uh-huh.
The Two-Headed Dog, where they fight the two-headed woman.
Yeah, there you go.
The World's End is obviously The World's End and whatever.
But they all line up like that.
Isn't that interesting?
That is interesting.
Yeah.
I really, really enjoyed this movie.
Same.
Now, you like Hot Fuzz the best?
I do.
That's my favourite one.
Yeah, I think so.
Although, I've only really seen...
I mean, Hot Fuzz is the one I've seen the most.
I've only seen The World's End once. Yeah. I think that's definitely going to grow on me in repeat viewings, I've only really seen... I mean, Hot Fuzz is the one I've seen the most. I've only seen the world in once.
I think that's definitely going to
grow on me in repeat viewings, I think.
It's pretty good. I'm going to give it Best Movie Ever.
Let's take a movie
that's quite similar now.
Elysium. Yep. Wait a
second. You've seen
this. I've seen it. With me? Yeah.
Chaperones. I'm being... Yeah, I'm
upset that I've seen some of these. I've seen it. With me? Yeah. Chaperones. I'm being, yeah, I'm upset that I've seen
some of these. I'm so glad. You know what it is, start of the year, all that crap you
just didn't see. Yeah, yeah. And then it hits the middle of the year and you start to go
into the cinema. Yeah, yeah. Because it becomes winter here and, you know, we're cold and
we like to huddle up together in the cinema, don't we? Yeah, absolutely, yeah. That's the
Australian way. But it takes place in the year 2154 AD
which is the exact
same year
that Avatar
takes place
are there any links
no
are there any tips
of the hat
they're linked
in the sense that
they're not as good
as people think
right okay
that is a good link
actually
no look
I'd be lying
if I said I wasn't
disappointed by Elysium
it was good but I think that's lying if I said I wasn't disappointed by Elysium. It was good.
Yeah.
But I think that's only on me that I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
Yeah, okay.
Because District 9 was obviously amazing.
Uh-huh.
And this was just kind of, it's good.
Uh-huh.
Great world building.
Mm-hmm.
Great exosuit.
Great South African.
Great South African, yeah.
Great guy gets his face blown off. Yep, and lives. Great robot that lives. Great South African. Great South African, yeah. Great guy gets his face blown off.
Yep, and lives.
Great robot that lives.
Great robots.
Yep.
Great machine that cuts a laser circle in a car.
Yeah, just good pieces of technology they didn't have to explain.
I know, right?
There wasn't, he didn't cut through it and then the operator or whoever on the Y's, he's escaped using the laser cutter on the blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, that's it.
Or it was at the start of the movie and they were using it for something else.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They just take it for, it's a piece of technology they have, they're taking it for granted.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So maybe I will say best movie ever.
But you know what?
I've only said it once.
So I'm going to tentatively say best movie ever and then one day I'm going to come back and give my proper review.
Fantastic.
We've done something special here today.
We sure have.
What did you think, though?
I really enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed it, but I don't really have any desire to come back to it again.
Fair enough.
It's one of those films where I will probably watch it and just flick through every ten minutes.
Yeah.
Find a fun action sequence.
Yeah.
And that's pretty much it.
His next movie is called Chappy.
It's about a robot that becomes sentient or something.
And Shia LaBeouf is playing the robot.
Not really.
Okay.
Had me worried for a second there.
Yeah.
So I'm looking forward to that.
He loves robots.
Yeah. And I respect that a second there. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to that. He loves robots. Yeah.
And I respect that.
Next one.
Gravity.
My fact for gravity is that you said at the time it really gravitated your balls.
Correct.
From minute one.
Yep.
Very tense.
You were really into this.
Is that right?
No.
You were sort of into it. Is that right? No. You were sort of into it.
Is that right?
No, it's fun.
It was a fun film.
Yeah.
I wouldn't say it again probably.
Yeah, me too.
I think it's very much a cinematic experience.
Uh-huh.
But it's George Clooney's first feature film outside of the Ocean's franchise to break
100 million since The Perfect Storm.
Isn't that weird?
Big movie star George Clooney.
Uh-huh.
Like Brad Pitt's biggest grossing movie, for example, is World War Z.
Yeah, yeah.
And Troy, I think, is second.
So there's like the biggest movie stars in the world.
Their movies maybe don't pull in, well, they don't pull in like Avengers money or Avatar money.
That is interesting.
There's a list that comes up every year and you can just Google this and it's the worst value movie stars where you take their average salary
for a film and then you divide it by what their film takes in.
You go, well, he only, for every million dollars of salary or for every dollar of salary he's
paid, he gets, you know, it brings in cents or whatever.
Or dollars.
Dollars.
I think The Rock was the biggest one this year.
Makes sense. Yeah. And I can't remember who was second. I think it was was the biggest one this year. Makes sense.
Yeah.
And I can't remember who was second.
I think it was Robert Downey Jr. actually.
Okay, that makes sense.
Which would make a lot of sense.
The Rock probably did more movies.
I would imagine.
Just knock them right out.
Just knock them right out.
I didn't love Gravity.
I thought it was okay.
I thought there was too much exposition from Sandra Bullock telling you what was happening
as it was happening.
Yep.
And I hate that.
Yep.
Like, I get it.
I get it. I get it.
You don't need to tell me. But you are
an intellectual elite.
You're coming down from Ivory Tower.
You're like one of those people in Elysium.
You're living in your perfect little
pure white world.
I am like Jodie Foster.
And I am like
Sharlto Copley.
In my flying van full of guns and rocket launchers and such.
So anyway, my point is, as an intellectual release, which you are,
you don't need that.
But I would imagine if they want to get any kind of mainstream audience,
they're going to have to explain a lot of that stuff.
I completely agree.
Yeah.
And, you know, apparently a lot of the...
But what I would like...
What I would like what I would like
is a mora
and I think we probably
mentioned this
I want a moratorium
on people
and this isn't
this isn't in gravity
but if we're gonna
put our weird biases
onto this thing
of course we are
I would like a moratorium
on people explaining
what an electromagnetic pulse is
I think we all know
what it is at this point
just stop it speaking of cloning and oceans 11 you don't need we all know what it is at this point. Just stop it.
Speaking of Clooney
and Ocean's Eleven,
you don't need it.
People know what it does.
People get it every time, man.
Yeah.
Every time.
Every TV show.
And also,
they don't work
how they think it works.
Or they say it works.
But anyway,
I'm not going to get in on that.
I'm going to say
Gravity,
worst movie ever
because I would never see it again
and it wasn't as good
as everyone said it was even though I kind of enjoyed it.
Good CGI frog at the end, though.
Was it ever?
Yeah, okay, worst movie ever, you're right.
Cool.
This next one I haven't seen, Captain Phillips.
Let's go with best movie ever, because Tom Hanks is a delight.
He is a delight, isn't he?
Yeah.
Apparently one of the nicest guys in Hollywood, if not the world.
Hmm.
I've heard nothing but good things about that guy.
I don't know anyone who knows him,
but that's what I've heard.
Yeah.
The fact is,
Tom Hanks claimed
that all the interior lifeboat scenes
were filmed inside a scale model
that was actually on the water
at all times,
resulting in him being vomited on
by the crew members
in the cramped space.
Oh, he would have taken it
like a champ, too.
Absolutely right, he would.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I'm going to say best movie ever.
I haven't seen it, but apparently it's really good.
Cool.
I hear it's like Gravity, but in water
and with Tom Hanks being vomited on.
It's late, isn't it?
Yeah, it really is.
Escape plan.
Do you think Apollo 13 would have been better?
Yes.
If it was just Tom Hanks being vomited on his face
absolutely
CGI 1995 vomit
yeah like it's not
there isn't some sort of problem with the
the ship
it's just that everybody gets
it's like airplane flying high
where everybody's had the fish,
and he's had the chicken,
and the fish is bad,
and so all the rest of the crew just vomit on him.
And he's trying to fix little things,
and he's trying to steer it back to Earth,
but people keep vomiting on him.
Vomiting on the instruments.
Vomiting on the instruments.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Here's a little fact for you about Gravity, though.
Ed Harris was the voice of Mission Control, like he was in Top Gun.
I mean Apollo 13.
There we go.
So there you go.
It's pretty great.
Okay, next one.
Oh, sorry.
Escape Plan, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Who cares, right?
Don't even remember that.
Too late.
It's when they escape a prison.
It sounds like a fake one.
Is that one of your famous fake movies that you've invented?
It's 100% real.
Wow. It's called escape plan salone is an expert at breaking out of prisons probably like he is in real life yeah
you know he's the best at everything he's a tough guy yeah he's a tough guy yeah last week um and
he gets put in this prison to escape planet and schwarzenegger's in there and but actually it's
a trick to get him in the prison for whatever reason. And Schwarzenegger's like a mob boss and they have to work together.
But it's not 1995 and nobody gives a shit.
Right, exactly.
It still sounds made up.
It's real.
I'm going to say you're making it up.
I don't believe...
Don't give me...
Don't show...
I don't...
This is...
Because I don't want to look the fool and I say, hey, that sounds like a fun movie.
And then you're like, I made it up, idiot.
So I'm going to go... it doesn't matter what you say,
it doesn't matter what you show me
on your little internet box,
your fake IMDB page,
I'm going to tell you that's a fake film.
Alright.
Yeah.
That's an interesting choice.
Give him the finger.
Made up.
Nobody message him and tell him whether or not that's true or
not either. No, don't need to know. Just live with that forever. Anyway, in this movie,
which may or may not be real. Right. Sylvester Stallone. Definitely not real. Sylvester Stallone
injured a tendon in his right foot during filming a fight scene. He required 70 stitches.
That sounds like the kind of fact you would make up for a fake film.
Okay.
Yeah.
You don't need stitches on an injured tendon.
You need an ice pack.
You've messed up.
And this is Torrid.
This is one of those things where I was, well, I think Stallone is a liar, and he's not as
tough as he says he is.
I doubt.
I mean, just assuming that this is a real movie, that that's a real thing
that happened.
It's not. 70 stitches is a phenomenal amount of stitches.
I know, right?
Yeah. That's like if you get your armpit off by a dog, you get that many stitches.
Yeah, they should have probably picked a more realistic fact, I guess.
Yeah, when you're faking this movie, yeah. Okay, so what are you saying about this movie?
Best movie ever, worst movie ever?
I haven't seen it, but worst.
Okay, I'm going to say fake movie, so you know my...
End is a game.
Do you believe that exists?
Did that come out?
It did.
Huh.
Harrison Ford's in it.
Great.
Grumpy old Harrison Ford.
Grumpy old Gramps.
Yeah.
Grumpy Gramps, Harrison Ford.
Now, this movie, by all accounts, is okay.
It's the guy who directed Wolverine, X-Men Origins.
Yep.
Which is easily the worst movie.
Mm-hmm, sure. Yeah, I, which is easily the worst movie. Sure.
Yeah, I mean, I want to see it.
I just haven't got around to it yet.
Because apparently it's in space.
Yeah.
It sounds pretty enticing.
Yeah, space films, they're good, aren't they?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Orson Scott Card,
I don't know, because he's...
Notoriously homophobic.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know whether on a subconscious level that's why I didn't say it,
because I planned to say it, but I just didn't.
What about you?
Yeah, see, I don't know.
I don't know if I want to support that.
Yeah, I know, right?
And it's weird, though, because there's a lot of things...
I know I haven't read these books,
but apparently there's a lot of themes of being the best person you can be
and inequality and all these kind of things.
So all these themes that run throughout his books and, you know, and being the best for humanity and whatever.
And then it's just, he's just homophobic for no reason.
All right, great.
You know, and though to his credit, even though not really, because this isn't actually him
going back on what he said, they asked him about it recently and they said, what's the
deal with the homophobia?
What's the deal with gay marriage?
You know, what do you think about it?
And he's like, it doesn't matter. The battle's over. I gay marriage what do you think about it and he's like
it doesn't
matter the
battle's over
I've lost
so it's
finished
so I guess
he's accepted
it but still
why do you
care
I want to
get into this
but you know
what doesn't
matter
I'm going to
say worst
movie ever
because fuck
Orson Scott
you
I'm going to
say best
movie ever.
Okay.
Best in space.
And Grumpy Gramps Harrison Ford is in it.
And he's always at his best in space.
He sure is.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, he's a little bit of trivia.
In the early 2000s, when this movie's been in development for a while,
Jake Lloyd was one of the leading candidates to play Ender.
Oh, wow.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
What's he doing these days?
There's one really actually awkward interview of him online where there's a guy.
Recently?
Yeah, the last couple of years or so.
So he's grown up.
And it's real super tense.
The guy keeps asking about Star Wars and he kind of gets a bit snappy.
But I wouldn't say it's so much as well his fault.
The guy's kind of a bit of a prick.
Right.
But it's an interesting watch.
Is he still acting in any way?
No.
Works at a car wash? He's an editor. He's a film editor. Oh, okay. That's fine. Good on him. Right. But it's an interesting watch. Is he still acting in any way? No. Works at a car wash?
He's an editor.
He's a film editor.
Oh, okay.
That's fine.
So, yeah.
Good on him.
Yeah.
Next one.
The Day of the Doctor.
The Doctor Who movie.
Yeah, I saw that.
Yes.
Not on...
Yeah.
No, I didn't see the cinema.
You didn't see the cinema?
No.
We saw it at the cinema, though, didn't we?
No.
We didn't.
Now, I don't have any trivia for this, but I don't know if you know this, but I've caused
a minor internet flurry.
Oh.
Concerning this movie.
Did you do a What's Wrong With The Something Something?
I did.
I did.
Because you know how I've adopted the rating system, best movie ever, worst movie ever.
I'm aware of it.
And I just, I said, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great, it's great.
Worst movie ever because time travel is dumb.
Right, yep.
Uh-huh.
And a lot of people who are not aware of, you know, my reviews or whatever, which is most
of everyone.
Most people in the world.
Yeah, it's most people in the world, yeah.
Didn't appreciate that.
It's my most disliked and hated upon thing that I've ever done.
How many thumbs down, if you had to guess?
I think it's close to 200.
You know exactly.
I honestly don't know.
200 thumbs down.
But compared to like 130 something thumbs up.
And there's a few arguments in the comments of people like defending me
or whatever
which is very nice
but leave it
I don't care
so it's you know
it's weird though
that the
I don't know
that I guess
I thought people
would get that
no
maybe I'm that
because I'm that
intellectual giant
you're intellectual elite
that's what I've been
telling you
you can't say one thing
and then another thing
that's slightly different
that's true
you idiot
yeah so I'm gonna have to obviously say worst then another thing that's slightly different. That's true. You idiot. Yeah.
So I'm going to have to obviously say worst movie ever because that's what I said in my
review.
Oh, no.
Flip it around.
Okay.
Best movie ever.
There we go.
I did actually really enjoy it.
Yeah.
It was good fun.
There you go.
What did you think?
I enjoyed it a lot.
But then again, when it was pointed out, and it should have been obvious to me, but when
it was pointed out that it was clearly, John Hurt's clearly the Christopher Eccleston role.
Yeah.
And then he wouldn't come back, so they had to create John Hurt.
That was kind of a disappointment.
Yeah, it is.
I really think that would have been a fun, if it was the three modern day doctors, I
think that would have been a really super fun kind of event.
But there you go.
I hope they do more of them in the future.
Or not.
Or in the past.
Okay, yeah.
Have you watched Christmas special yet?
No.
Me neither.
I'm looking forward to that.
Oh, because it's Christmas.
I forgot.
For us.
Yeah.
Not the people listening.
No.
They're in the future.
Or in the past.
The next one is one I know you've seen.
You've seen a lot of these.
It's disappointing for me, really.
I love it.
The Hunger Games Catching Fire.
Great.
Yeah, I liked it too.
It's fun.
My fact for this is Kristen Bell.
Kirsten Bell.
Kristen Bell, yes.
Krypton Bell.
Wait, now you've confused me.
Kryton Bell.
Yeah, Kryton Bell.
She's half robot.
She's got a groinal socket.
Let's not get into it.
No.
I love Red Dwarf.
Do Americans love Red Dwarf?
Some do, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Back to four with those last ones.
I thought so too.
Are they going to do four or no?
I heard they are, but they haven't done them yet.
That was last year and they didn't do any this year, so make of that what you will.
Now, Kristen Bell, a huge fan of the Hunger Games books, actively sought the role of Joanna
Mason.
You know, the one...
Oh, the crazy one?
The crazy one, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
So, you know, that could have worked. Yep. But? The crazy one, yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay. So, you know,
that could have worked.
Yep.
But the girl who was in it was really good.
So, I really enjoyed it.
Kristen Bell
has broken with her tradition
of just being in
quite terrible films,
like, you know,
wacky road trip films
or whatever.
Yeah.
And she's going to be
in an indie film
called The Lifeguard
that's coming out pretty soon.
Oh, I've seen that.
Yeah, I've seen it.
I've seen the trailer, yeah.
Yeah, it looks fun
though she's in
I mean it's
there's some
Zach Braff wank
obviously
but
she's in
Beginning Sarah Marshall
oh yeah okay right
yeah
that's a good one
I like that movie
so yeah
I'm going to say
best movie ever
even though again
in my review
I called it
worst movie ever
ah flip it around
people won't know
what to think
one more
which we haven't seen,
because it's out Boxing Day in Australia.
What if I have seen it, though?
What if I've got a little cam version of the internet
and I know all the stuff that happened?
Interesting.
The Hobbit, the Desolation of Smag.
No, I haven't seen it.
Looking forward to this.
Booked in tomorrow to go see it.
Uh-huh.
Yep. What do you think of it
who cares
everybody else already knows
yeah that's right
are you still enraged
you filled with rage
no I don't care at this point
you've got past it
and by the time this comes out
no one's going to care about
well
we haven't seen it
so nobody's going to care
the two guys who haven't seen it
are talking about a movie
which they have seen like a month ago.
Right, exactly, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Here's a fact, though.
Orlando Bloom is two years older than Lee Pace,
who plays his father in the movie.
I thought you were going to say
Orlando Bloom is two years older than Christopher Lee.
I do know that Christopher Lee and Ian Holm
didn't fly to New Zealand for this one
because of, you know, they're quite...
They're hundreds of years old.
They're hundreds of years old.
So, yeah.
Which is understandable.
Are they in it, though?
Yeah, they're in it.
Have they done the...
You saw the first one?
Not really.
Well, no, I did.
No, you mean the first Hobbit.
Yes.
No, I didn't see it.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I'll get to it.
You don't have to.
Okay, I won't.
That's pretty much it.
Love it.
Is there any movies from the year that you would like to acknowledge as a really good movie?
Oh, Hobbit, best or worst?
There's a dragon, right?
Yep.
Best movie ever.
Agreed.
Yep.
Any movies you want to talk about just briefly or whatever, or for a really long time that you think are great.
Generally?
Yeah.
Blue Brothers?
It's a classic, isn't it?
Blue Brothers 2000, yeah.
No, no, no.
Don't bring in a kid.
Don't bring in a sassy kid.
Don't do it.
He'll break your slinky on Christmas.
Oh, you're right.
Ghostbusters, there's another one.
Yep.
I'm big on Dan Aykroyd films.
Then you must love Evolution with David Duchovny.
No.
You must love The Temple of Doom.
The film must love dogs.
Dan Aykroyd's in Temple of Doom.
He's in it at the start.
Oh, he is too.
You're right.
Yeah.
You must love Soul Man, the TV show with Dan Aykroyd, which also crossed over with Home
Improvement, set in the same universe.
Wow.
He rides a motorbike.
He's a cool reverend.
Ah, I do remember that.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah, that was pretty great.
Cool.
Any movies from this year, though, with or without Dan Aykroyd that you loved?
What are the odds that I've seen something that isn't on that list?
Pretty great.
I might have seen some sort of indie film.
Sure. I can tell you some sort of indie film. Sure.
I can tell you some
and you tell me
whether you enjoyed them.
Okay, I really enjoyed
The Kings of Summer
which is an indie film
which is a really,
really good movie.
Didn't say it.
You should say it.
It's about kids
who go live in the woods.
Cool.
It's really great.
I've got here
This is the End
I really enjoyed.
Man of Steel
I enjoyed.
World War Z
I enjoyed.
We may have talked
about these.
We did, yeah.
Why have you
written them down?
I don't know The Way Way Back
is really good
Sam Rockwell
I've heard that's good
Sam Rockwell is great
in everything
Alan Partridge
Alpha Papa
have you seen that
no but it's on my
iPad
because of
legitimate
reasons
that I
iTunes or something
that's a very very
funny movie
oh cool and if you like the series I bet it's a very very funny movie oh cool
and if you like the series
I bet it's a very very
solid comedy
absolutely it is
maybe I'll watch it
tonight I won't
it's late
the sessions
I really enjoyed
it's got
what's his name
he's Danny McBride's
brother in
he's bowing down
John something
John Hawks
maybe
yeah
it's about a guy
he's mostly paralyzed
he's disabled and it's about him going to a sex
therapist.
Oh, yes, yes.
Okay.
It's really, really good.
I haven't seen it as well.
Really, really good.
Okay.
And I think my favourite movie of the year, one of my favourite movies, it's called About
Time.
I've seen About Time.
What did you think?
Enjoyed it a lot.
I really loved that movie.
I thought the lead guy was really, really good.
It's very moving.
Great soundtrack.
Bill Nye, he's amazing.
Great ending.
Time Travel's a lot of the place.
Doesn't make any sense.
But that's okay.
What an amazing movie.
I think the Time Travel mostly did make sense.
Really?
Yeah.
Then why...
Okay, let me tell you this.
Uh-oh.
If you go back at any point in time, you would also change everybody else's kids.
Oh, good point. There you go. Magic, though. Oh, you would also change everybody else's kids. Oh, good
point. There you go. Magic though. Oh yeah. You got me. That's right. Yeah. No, that's
a really solid film. If you haven't seen that film, get into it. Definitely. I'm talking
to you, James. I just told you I have. No, if you haven't seen it, get into it, mate.
Do yourself a favor and see that film that you just recommended to me. Stop wasting time.
just recommended to me.
Stop wasting time.
On this very important podcast.
You got any movies that you'd...
Nah, didn't do any prep
for this one.
Tell what we can do.
I do a lot of prep normally.
We could pause the podcast
and you can look at some stuff
and come back.
Okay, cool.
Paused.
Got any?
I got one.
Alright.
Yeah.
I hope just when we came back
just then
that I put in a really cool transitional sound effect. Maybe we'll just take that one. Alright. Yeah. I hope just when we came back just then that I put in a really cool transitional sound effect.
Maybe we'll just take that one.
Yeah.
That'd be weird.
Yeah.
Ah, The Heat.
Did you see The Heat?
Yeah, I did see The Heat.
Yeah.
Melissa McCarthy, great in that.
Sandra Bullock, great in that.
She's having a renaissance, would you say?
Period?
Yes.
Both, yes.
All of that.
Yeah.
She can do it all.
Comedies
Films set in space
Speed
Speed
To cruise control
Never seen it
I think you're right
But what did you like
About that movie in particular
It is a delight
Yeah
It's
That's really well written
And it's not
Her character
The premise of that character
Is not
Hey look at me
I'm fat
Isn't that
No
Kind of thing Which is nice Yeah But solid film at me, I'm fat, isn't that the kind of thing?
Which is nice.
Yeah.
But solid film, a lot of good jokes.
A lot of good jokes, I agree.
Guest appearance by Tom Wilson.
Tom Wilson?
Biff from Back to the Future.
Oh, he's the best!
Yeah.
Have you seen the song that he sings about Back to the Future?
Yes.
That's a really good song.
I showed you that song.
Oh, you probably did.
Yeah.
No, you didn't.
I did.
How dare you?
Sorry, I apologise. If anyone hasn't seen it, the song is Oh, you probably did. Yeah. No, you didn't. I did. How dare you. Sorry. I apologize.
If anyone hasn't seen it, the song is called...
The Question Song.
The Question Song.
The question song.
It's called Biff's Question Song.
Biff's Question Song.
Look it up.
It's if he sings it all about Back to the Future and people asking him dumb questions about
Back to the Future.
Which we would do if we met him.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I would hound that guy for so long.
Yeah, yeah.
Until he beat you to death.
Seems like a super nice guy.
Mm-hmm.
All right, well, that's it.
I just also,
in that pause break,
I also looked up
that this will come out
New Year's Eve.
Uh-huh.
So, Happy New Year's Eve,
I guess.
Happy New Year's, folks.
Yeah.
Smooth.
What are you doing on New Year's?
Ah, going in the city.
Nice.
Going for drinks with some mates.
Ooh.
Yeah.
Delightful.
I'm going to watch
all my idiot friends
from school
kill each other.
In some sort of
Thunderdome?
Pretty much.
That's mostly my New Year's.
That's amazing.
I love all my friends
from school
but I love that
nobody's changed at all.
Yeah, absolutely.
Everyone's got
like proper jobs
or whatever.
Whenever I get together
it's just
pegging broken glass
and leaping from rooftops
and kicking doors
off hinges.
One year a guy put a canoe through a wall.
Oh, that's right.
Oh, there was that year that one of my friends climbed up on the roof, Barry, and another guy tried to help him down and Barry fell.
My friend caught him and dislocated his shoulder.
Yeah.
And then as he was waiting for the ambulance, he's going to me, James, can you pop my shoulder back in?
And I said, you know what?
I'm not going to do that because I'm just a humble karate instructor.
Absolutely, yeah.
And I don't want to do that. And then you've got another guy to do it and the guy grabbed
his arm and pulled on it.
It's the wrong thing to do. That's the absolute polar opposite of the thing that you should
do in that situation.
Quick shout out to my good friend Libra as well who listened to this podcast. My only
friend I think knows about it
so
and I want to say
hey
to him
great
keep on trucking buddy
yeah
yeah
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if you would like
to hit us up
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That's right.
And you can find Mason at this exact address.
No, don't tell them my actual address.
No.
But find us on those things and not where we live.
No.
Alright, that's about it.
Merry Christmas.
No, that happened already.
Merry fuck you, Mason.
Oh, wow.
Let's go out on that.
Let's go out on hostile. Happy New Year, everybody. Happy New Year, guys. Oh, wow. Let's go out on that. Let's go out on hostile.
Happy New Year, everybody.
Happy New Year, guys.
Thanks for listening.
Oh, shout out to Gabriel Bruton, the Brute.
Oh, I do that every time.
But it's great.
I love it every time.
Thanks, man.
Absolutely.
Happy New Year.
Thanks very much for listening this year.
We'll see you in the new year.
Yes.
Okay, bye.
Bye.