The Weekly Planet - 14 Best And Worst Movies Of 2013

Episode Date: December 30, 2013

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Starting point is 00:01:04 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...
Starting point is 00:01:14 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
Starting point is 00:01:28 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
Starting point is 00:01:51 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?
Starting point is 00:01:58 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,
Starting point is 00:02:05 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.
Starting point is 00:02:12 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.
Starting point is 00:02:21 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,
Starting point is 00:02:33 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.
Starting point is 00:02:43 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?
Starting point is 00:02:58 No. My favourite author. One of my favourites. Is he like Ewan McGregor? No. Okay. I mean, no. I got no interest.
Starting point is 00:03:04 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.
Starting point is 00:03:14 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?
Starting point is 00:03:45 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.
Starting point is 00:04:00 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
Starting point is 00:04:09 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
Starting point is 00:04:16 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.
Starting point is 00:04:25 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.
Starting point is 00:04:33 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.
Starting point is 00:04:44 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.
Starting point is 00:04:59 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,
Starting point is 00:05:09 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,
Starting point is 00:05:16 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.
Starting point is 00:05:22 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
Starting point is 00:05:34 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.
Starting point is 00:05:46 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.
Starting point is 00:06:07 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.
Starting point is 00:06:15 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?
Starting point is 00:06:23 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
Starting point is 00:06:31 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.
Starting point is 00:06:38 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.
Starting point is 00:06:46 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.
Starting point is 00:06:54 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.
Starting point is 00:07:04 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.
Starting point is 00:07:13 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.
Starting point is 00:07:22 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
Starting point is 00:07:38 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.
Starting point is 00:07:53 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.
Starting point is 00:08:10 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.
Starting point is 00:08:17 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
Starting point is 00:08:29 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
Starting point is 00:08:44 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?
Starting point is 00:08:53 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.
Starting point is 00:09:00 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...
Starting point is 00:09:12 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.
Starting point is 00:09:21 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
Starting point is 00:09:31 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
Starting point is 00:09:38 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.
Starting point is 00:09:47 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.
Starting point is 00:10:07 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.
Starting point is 00:10:24 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
Starting point is 00:10:33 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
Starting point is 00:10:41 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
Starting point is 00:10:48 seem to be there's a little bit but no not as much as you'd think have you seen that James Bond
Starting point is 00:10:52 film yes where no I think it's Man with a Golfer Gun where they
Starting point is 00:10:57 drive a car off a bridge it's a collapsed bridge and they corkscrew it in the air
Starting point is 00:11:02 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
Starting point is 00:11:08 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
Starting point is 00:11:15 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
Starting point is 00:11:22 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...
Starting point is 00:11:30 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.
Starting point is 00:11:43 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
Starting point is 00:11:49 there's a bit where Johnny Knoxville gets pantsed no no not at all Sif's in it
Starting point is 00:11:57 from uh oh from Thor Thor okay still worst movie ever yeah worst movie ever okay
Starting point is 00:12:01 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.
Starting point is 00:12:27 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.
Starting point is 00:12:43 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.
Starting point is 00:12:51 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.
Starting point is 00:13:01 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.
Starting point is 00:13:09 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
Starting point is 00:13:25 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
Starting point is 00:13:33 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
Starting point is 00:13:41 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,
Starting point is 00:13:48 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?
Starting point is 00:14:00 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?
Starting point is 00:14:16 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.
Starting point is 00:14:27 Oh, because they're normally like... Yeah. Die Hard 1 was originally a sequel to Commando. Yep. Die Hard 4 was a screenplay titled
Starting point is 00:14:34 WW3.com. Oh, I see. Yep. And Spiddy, there's another little known fact, was going to be a Die Hard movie.
Starting point is 00:14:43 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
Starting point is 00:14:49 Die, they're based on cyber security essays and things like that. Die Hard 4, yeah, okay. Yeah, there you
Starting point is 00:14:55 go. Next one has that Christmas hat. It's really good. It's a little rustly. This one you
Starting point is 00:15:02 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.
Starting point is 00:15:11 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?
Starting point is 00:15:21 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.
Starting point is 00:15:34 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
Starting point is 00:15:47 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
Starting point is 00:15:54 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.
Starting point is 00:16:07 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?
Starting point is 00:16:25 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.
Starting point is 00:16:36 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.
Starting point is 00:16:46 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.
Starting point is 00:16:56 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
Starting point is 00:17:09 next yeah just send the next guy Oz the Great and Powerful saw that did ya yeah what did you think
Starting point is 00:17:15 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
Starting point is 00:17:23 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
Starting point is 00:17:31 so you know invariably the plot has to go in certain directions but it was fun yeah I actually I enjoyed that way more
Starting point is 00:17:38 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.
Starting point is 00:17:46 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.
Starting point is 00:17:54 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.
Starting point is 00:18:01 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
Starting point is 00:18:08 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
Starting point is 00:18:14 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
Starting point is 00:18:21 good luck to you exploring the infinite abyss nice of a metaphor. Yeah. And he's like, oh man.
Starting point is 00:18:26 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,
Starting point is 00:18:36 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.
Starting point is 00:18:44 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.
Starting point is 00:19:07 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.
Starting point is 00:19:18 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.
Starting point is 00:19:31 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
Starting point is 00:19:46 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
Starting point is 00:19:53 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
Starting point is 00:19:58 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
Starting point is 00:20:04 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
Starting point is 00:20:13 what a dickhead yeah absolutely yeah yeah Wizard of Oz worst movie ever absolutely worst movie ever stupid MGM magic
Starting point is 00:20:22 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
Starting point is 00:20:35 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.
Starting point is 00:20:54 Yeah. Look, I didn't say it. Get off my plane. Dinosaur plane. Dinosaur park? Plane park. Get off my park. Great.
Starting point is 00:21:04 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
Starting point is 00:21:24 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.
Starting point is 00:21:40 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?
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Starting point is 00:22:46 That's sunrisechallenge.ca 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.
Starting point is 00:23:04 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.
Starting point is 00:23:16 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
Starting point is 00:23:29 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
Starting point is 00:23:38 I agree because then us nerds can't get upset because they can be like well it's not the same as that
Starting point is 00:23:44 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,
Starting point is 00:23:53 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
Starting point is 00:24:01 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.
Starting point is 00:24:13 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,
Starting point is 00:24:31 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?
Starting point is 00:24:48 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...
Starting point is 00:25:02 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
Starting point is 00:25:10 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
Starting point is 00:25:17 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
Starting point is 00:25:22 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.
Starting point is 00:25:35 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.
Starting point is 00:25:48 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.
Starting point is 00:26:11 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
Starting point is 00:26:36 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.
Starting point is 00:26:50 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.
Starting point is 00:27:05 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.
Starting point is 00:27:18 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.
Starting point is 00:27:36 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?
Starting point is 00:28:23 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
Starting point is 00:28:45 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
Starting point is 00:28:54 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
Starting point is 00:29:00 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?
Starting point is 00:29:09 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.
Starting point is 00:29:21 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.
Starting point is 00:29:28 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...
Starting point is 00:29:41 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.
Starting point is 00:30:04 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.
Starting point is 00:30:14 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
Starting point is 00:30:27 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.
Starting point is 00:30:34 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.
Starting point is 00:30:42 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.
Starting point is 00:30:55 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.
Starting point is 00:31:14 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
Starting point is 00:31:31 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?
Starting point is 00:31:41 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.
Starting point is 00:31:54 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.
Starting point is 00:32:07 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.
Starting point is 00:32:23 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?
Starting point is 00:32:39 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.
Starting point is 00:32:53 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.
Starting point is 00:33:02 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.
Starting point is 00:33:16 Oh. Yeah. That, I had a shock. Wait, is this a trick? Okay. Keep rolling. We'll see what happens, hey? Okay.
Starting point is 00:33:23 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
Starting point is 00:33:31 they're all considered and then they went all younger Facebook kid redhead girl from the Australian one Eliza something Isla Fisher
Starting point is 00:33:39 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.
Starting point is 00:33:47 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.
Starting point is 00:33:59 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.
Starting point is 00:34:09 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.
Starting point is 00:34:20 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.
Starting point is 00:34:41 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
Starting point is 00:35:06 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.
Starting point is 00:35:29 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,
Starting point is 00:35:57 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.
Starting point is 00:36:27 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.
Starting point is 00:36:36 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.
Starting point is 00:36:46 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?
Starting point is 00:36:57 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.
Starting point is 00:37:07 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.
Starting point is 00:37:29 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.
Starting point is 00:37:44 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.
Starting point is 00:37:59 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.
Starting point is 00:38:10 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.
Starting point is 00:38:21 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
Starting point is 00:38:29 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
Starting point is 00:38:36 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
Starting point is 00:38:44 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,
Starting point is 00:38:57 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.
Starting point is 00:39:17 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
Starting point is 00:39:27 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
Starting point is 00:39:32 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
Starting point is 00:39:40 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...
Starting point is 00:39:53 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
Starting point is 00:40:09 I hope so I hope so me too do you think anybody would notice nah yeah
Starting point is 00:40:12 okay World War Z did you see that one yes what did you think good
Starting point is 00:40:18 I mean I I enjoyed it yeah there wasn't... There was a lot of... It was missing a lot of gore
Starting point is 00:40:27 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.
Starting point is 00:40:38 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
Starting point is 00:40:46 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
Starting point is 00:40:53 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
Starting point is 00:41:01 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.
Starting point is 00:41:34 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?
Starting point is 00:41:57 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.
Starting point is 00:42:15 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.
Starting point is 00:42:26 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.
Starting point is 00:42:37 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.
Starting point is 00:42:48 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.
Starting point is 00:43:02 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?
Starting point is 00:43:16 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
Starting point is 00:43:42 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,
Starting point is 00:43:53 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.
Starting point is 00:44:04 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
Starting point is 00:44:18 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
Starting point is 00:44:35 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.
Starting point is 00:45:01 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
Starting point is 00:45:19 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
Starting point is 00:45:29 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
Starting point is 00:45:36 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
Starting point is 00:45:44 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.
Starting point is 00:45:57 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
Starting point is 00:46:08 he's probably 98% goof that's a lot of goofing but entertainingly yeah I guess at any point is he trying to
Starting point is 00:46:16 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
Starting point is 00:46:22 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
Starting point is 00:46:27 say worse words okay fine yeah good um Pacific Rim saw it enjoyed it yeah you liked that
Starting point is 00:46:33 quite a bit rocket fists lasers bad Australian accents swords yeah there was a sword yeah there was a sword
Starting point is 00:46:43 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.
Starting point is 00:46:51 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
Starting point is 00:47:05 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.
Starting point is 00:47:31 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.
Starting point is 00:47:45 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.
Starting point is 00:47:52 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...
Starting point is 00:48:03 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.
Starting point is 00:48:17 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.
Starting point is 00:48:29 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...
Starting point is 00:48:44 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.
Starting point is 00:48:54 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...
Starting point is 00:49:05 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.
Starting point is 00:49:17 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.
Starting point is 00:49:32 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...
Starting point is 00:49:42 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
Starting point is 00:49:58 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
Starting point is 00:50:20 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
Starting point is 00:50:33 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
Starting point is 00:50:40 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.
Starting point is 00:50:52 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.
Starting point is 00:51:02 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.
Starting point is 00:51:18 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.
Starting point is 00:51:36 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?
Starting point is 00:51:49 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.
Starting point is 00:52:11 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.
Starting point is 00:52:24 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.
Starting point is 00:52:37 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.
Starting point is 00:52:46 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.
Starting point is 00:53:00 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.
Starting point is 00:53:16 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.
Starting point is 00:53:44 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.
Starting point is 00:53:53 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.
Starting point is 00:54:03 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
Starting point is 00:54:16 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,
Starting point is 00:54:38 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
Starting point is 00:54:47 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
Starting point is 00:54:56 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
Starting point is 00:55:06 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,
Starting point is 00:55:14 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
Starting point is 00:55:21 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.
Starting point is 00:55:36 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.
Starting point is 00:55:48 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
Starting point is 00:55:59 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.
Starting point is 00:56:09 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.
Starting point is 00:56:24 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
Starting point is 00:56:43 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.
Starting point is 00:56:58 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.
Starting point is 00:57:10 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.
Starting point is 00:57:19 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.
Starting point is 00:57:49 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...
Starting point is 00:57:57 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.
Starting point is 00:58:14 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
Starting point is 00:58:37 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.
Starting point is 00:58:54 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.
Starting point is 00:59:14 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?
Starting point is 00:59:28 It did. Huh. Harrison Ford's in it. Great. Grumpy old Harrison Ford. Grumpy old Gramps. Yeah. Grumpy Gramps, Harrison Ford.
Starting point is 00:59:36 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.
Starting point is 00:59:50 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.
Starting point is 01:00:02 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?
Starting point is 01:00:15 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
Starting point is 01:00:38 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
Starting point is 01:00:46 I've lost so it's finished so I guess he's accepted it but still why do you care
Starting point is 01:00:54 I want to get into this but you know what doesn't matter I'm going to say worst movie ever
Starting point is 01:00:59 because fuck Orson Scott you I'm going to say best movie ever. Okay. Best in space.
Starting point is 01:01:06 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.
Starting point is 01:01:21 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.
Starting point is 01:01:37 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.
Starting point is 01:01:46 He's a film editor. Oh, okay. That's fine. So, yeah. Good on him. Yeah. Next one. The Day of the Doctor.
Starting point is 01:01:53 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.
Starting point is 01:01:58 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?
Starting point is 01:02:08 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.
Starting point is 01:02:24 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.
Starting point is 01:02:36 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
Starting point is 01:02:46 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
Starting point is 01:02:54 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
Starting point is 01:03:01 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.
Starting point is 01:03:10 Flip it around. Okay. Best movie ever. There we go. I did actually really enjoy it. Yeah. It was good fun. There you go.
Starting point is 01:03:16 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.
Starting point is 01:03:30 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?
Starting point is 01:03:49 No. Me neither. I'm looking forward to that. Oh, because it's Christmas. I forgot. For us. Yeah. Not the people listening.
Starting point is 01:03:56 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.
Starting point is 01:04:08 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.
Starting point is 01:04:16 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?
Starting point is 01:04:24 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
Starting point is 01:04:40 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.
Starting point is 01:04:47 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
Starting point is 01:04:58 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.
Starting point is 01:05:04 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
Starting point is 01:05:09 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
Starting point is 01:05:16 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
Starting point is 01:05:22 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.
Starting point is 01:05:39 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
Starting point is 01:05:50 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
Starting point is 01:06:02 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,
Starting point is 01:06:13 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.
Starting point is 01:06:28 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.
Starting point is 01:06:36 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.
Starting point is 01:06:43 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.
Starting point is 01:06:53 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.
Starting point is 01:07:04 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.
Starting point is 01:07:15 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.
Starting point is 01:07:23 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.
Starting point is 01:07:35 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
Starting point is 01:07:46 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.
Starting point is 01:07:53 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
Starting point is 01:07:58 I enjoyed. World War Z I enjoyed. We may have talked about these. We did, yeah. Why have you written them down?
Starting point is 01:08:06 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
Starting point is 01:08:14 have you seen that no but it's on my iPad because of legitimate reasons that I iTunes or something
Starting point is 01:08:23 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
Starting point is 01:08:30 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
Starting point is 01:08:36 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
Starting point is 01:08:46 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
Starting point is 01:08:57 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.
Starting point is 01:09:07 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?
Starting point is 01:09:17 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
Starting point is 01:09:32 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.
Starting point is 01:09:51 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?
Starting point is 01:09:59 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.
Starting point is 01:10:09 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.
Starting point is 01:10:16 She's having a renaissance, would you say? Period? Yes. Both, yes. All of that. Yeah. She can do it all. Comedies
Starting point is 01:10:25 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
Starting point is 01:10:34 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
Starting point is 01:10:42 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.
Starting point is 01:10:49 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.
Starting point is 01:10:59 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.
Starting point is 01:11:05 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
Starting point is 01:11:15 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.
Starting point is 01:11:24 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.
Starting point is 01:11:31 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.
Starting point is 01:11:39 Going for drinks with some mates. Ooh. Yeah. Delightful. I'm going to watch all my idiot friends from school kill each other.
Starting point is 01:11:46 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
Starting point is 01:11:54 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
Starting point is 01:12:01 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.
Starting point is 01:12:18 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.
Starting point is 01:12:40 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
Starting point is 01:12:50 yeah yeah people listening if you would like to hit us up you can at weeklyplanetpod on at gmail
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Starting point is 01:13:03 on twitter and you can find me at wikipedia brown on twitter that's right and You can also find me at MrSundayMovies on Twitter. And you can find me at WikipediaBrown on Twitter. 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.
Starting point is 01:13:15 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.
Starting point is 01:13:26 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.
Starting point is 01:13:35 Absolutely. Happy New Year. Thanks very much for listening this year. We'll see you in the new year. Yes. Okay, bye. Bye.

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