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Episode Date: April 8, 2019

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Do you know him? Very well. Intimately. Red hot comic book movie news. Shooting up your butthole. Welcome back everybody To another episode of the Weekly Planet Where we talk movies and comics and TV shows My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday

With me is always my co-host Nick Mason He was giving me a quizzical look That's because we had really funny banter Before the show And then I laughed I's because we had really funny banter Before the show I don't like this forced joviality I laughed because we had such good banter There was silence, I want to be clear We pre-recorded some ads

For financial purposes And then there was some silence We said nothing Then you hit record You had a blank, dead-eyed stare And you hit record, then you're like And I'm like, did something funny happen behind and then you're like, ha, ha, ha. And I'm like, did something funny happen behind me?

It's going, but there wasn't. You, Matt, you. I was just trying to bring some atmosphere, some levity into the show, you know what I mean? Kick it off with the bang, you know what I mean? You know when sometimes you'll see like a Today show or a morning show? Yes. And the camera zooms in and they're chatting to each other.

Like, what are they talking about? What are they talking about? And they turn, they're like, anyway. I don't know, anyway. What are you talking about? What were they talking about anyway anyway what are you talking about what were they talking about anyway in our case nothing absolutely nothing silence and all and what a thing that gets me is when it when like there'll be like a talk show like that and they'll be like and here it's this guy and and they'll be like nice to be here and there's a hand you were were there already. Yes. That guy should be like, yeah, yeah, I was here. You said hello before.

What if they didn't know? What if that's how they do it? Oh. Aren't a lot of talk shows, like late night shows, they do the interview prior? They do like a pre-interview. Some producer comes in. We're going to ask you these questions.

Yeah, yeah, sure. Because you don't want any dead air. No, you don't want any dead air. They're like, okay, we're going to ask you the story about your dog. Yeah. And ask the story about your ex-wife. Tell us about the new season of whatever crap you're in. Tell us about that, yeah?

Oh, yeah. Tell us about it, yeah. It's on FX probably. Yeah. Whatever it is. Yeah. They do some good stuff probably. You know, I also have some good stuff, Mason.

Oh, I'm ready. Here we go. What a segue. You're all about forced joviality and excellent segues this week, which I appreciate. Ryan Johnson, who has directed many things that you like, and one thing that you didn't. I'm, of course, talking about Looper. You're the only one in the world who doesn't like that movie.

Is it the fake Bruce Willis nose on Joseph Gordon-Levitt? No, that's the one redeeming feature of that movie. When he turns and he's got that hawk-like snooter. Mmm, delicious. See that hairline recede through time. I was going to say, the bit where they're cutting through time and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is getting older and then it's just Bruce Willis in a wig. That's right.

That's the best part. That is the best part. He goes into a change room at a clothing store as Joseph Gordon-Levitt and then he comes out as Bruce Willis. That's brilliant. That's the best bit. Anyway, he said he's excited to see what jj abrams does in episode nine kind of like he was talking about how he's excited to see the story taken whatever whatever direction that can kind of he wants to be happy if he's up

expectations subverted etc etc do you think he's involved much in the episode nine storytelling absolutely not yeah it seemed to be the other way for episode eight as well it was kind of like just do whatever you want, Rian Johnson. Yeah, right. This is where we're at. Luke's on an island. Han Solo's thrown into a pit and the planet exploded. Do what you want with that.

Exactly. That's right. And again, that's my biggest fear, I think, for this Episode 9, is he just goes, people want mystery boxes. Here we go. I want a mystery box in the very last movie in the trilogy. You know what I do want in this, genuinely? Next week is Star wars celebration it's going to be all star wars all the time and probably four

minutes on the whole new hellboy movie okay depending on how that goes yep but actually i'm looking forward to that a lot hellboy uh but did you see that actually there was a trailer this week for that it was just an old red band trailer because it's r8 i didn't say that seems rude heads pulled off and apparently in i don't know if this is true but you know there's the same you know when they go into the secret headquarters and there's the lady in the shop yeah that's gary oldman's sister really yeah larry oldman larry alderman woman yes yeah interesting okay she's she's an actor i guess so there you go yeah could be larry gary Oldman himself, though.

He's a chameleon, isn't he? It's true. He was Winston Churchill recently. He was like, this war's... I can't... We're going to do it. That's my Winston Churchill. Was that not just a recording of Winston Churchill's famous speech?

We're going to do it? We're going to do it. He's a chameleon is what I'm saying. He could be Larry Oldwoman. You better believe it. Well, I didn't know that. There you go. But what was I going to say?

Something you want to see in Star Wars. Yeah. Oh, I want it to... You know how the original trilogy ends well? Yes. The prequel trilogy ends badly. I would very much like this one to end badly. And then we have to wait 20 years.

And then we come back in 20 years. And the galaxy is just fucked. Again. Yeah. Because why not? And it's the second order. It's the second order or whatever. They're the same. 20 years and then we come back in 20 years and the galaxy's just fucked again yeah because why not and it's the second order it's the second order or whatever they're the same but what if kylo ren has been the darth vader for 20 years or whatever oh yeah like what what happens then do you know what i mean good question because otherwise again you come back for a new trilogy

in 20 years what's the new threat it's the empire's back no it's those worms what worms the big worms in the asteroids there's only one of those guys. No, there's heaps. Really? Yeah. Okay. There's one in every asteroid? Yeah. That's quite a lot, really.

That's what I'm saying. How do they get there? How do they get out? I guess they don't. Do you reckon they grow to the size of the hole that they're in, like a goldfish? Yes. My friend Joe has a goldfish, right, and a turtle? Not anymore.

He just got married. Oh, yeah. That's right. Kiss that goldfish goodbye, Joe. His wife beat him to death. Ow. Yeah. But this gold, I think because the turtle would eventually eat the goldfish.

So the goldfish is continuing to grow. Because, you know, they normally grow to the size of their tank. This one will just keep growing, I think, as a defense mechanism so the turtle doesn't eat it. So it's like this football-sized goldfish. Is that true? I don't think that's true at all. About just growing to the size of the tank.

I think it is. Why wouldn't it be true? For many reasons. Well, yes. Why would that be true? I feel like that's... Why would it be exclusive to that species? Other species do it, probably.

Well, people don't do it. Dogs don't do it. Some dogs do it. Let's test it let's get your dog a really big dog house dog's already grown dog's seven years old this year that's what i'm saying yeah they don't get bigger now i forgot what we're talking about grine johnson oh that's right this is a goldfish movie joe's goldfish yeah joe's goldfish do you think the goldfish is gonna eat joe eventually probably that's that might be it maybe they're gonna team up and eat

him yeah anyway uh what do you what would you think about that, though? Like the trilogy ends badly and then we just have to sit on it for 20 years. Oh. Ooh. Ooh. I know. Because that's how the new trilogy starts. Not the original trilogy.

Like the original trilogy, sorry. It starts where it's like everything's bad. That's true. Everything's bad, man. But don't you want closure for some of these characters? Yeah, but you can have closure and also. Well, that's true. Yeah. man don't you want closure for some of these characters yeah i'll take yeah but you can have closure and also well that's true yeah so you want close would you would you they won't do it just bear in mind it's not gonna happen but yeah would you hope for closure for like uh layer and chewy and c3p on r2d2 and then trouble for the new guys sure why

not okay yeah whatever i don't know man i'm know, man. I don't know anything about this. Well, we'll know next week when there'll probably be a new trailer. Anyway, Mason. Yes. Rian Johnson also mentioned that after he finishes with Knives Out, which will be out this year, it's his new movie, he's going to be head back to work on his new trilogy. Star Wars trilogy.

Oh, his Star Wars trilogy. People are like, he's definitely fired. He's not coming back. It seems like he's not fired at this point, but it's Star Wars. Why would he be fired, though? Because some people didn't like half probably didn't like it or whatever. But still made a billion and a half. But he's not being fired.

It's not like he's on retainer at Disney. He's not on 10 bucks an hour at Disney. There's a, if you type in right. Which, I'm'm gonna do something good otherwise the boss is gonna get mad at me mickey's gonna uh mickey's gonna call me in his office what have you done this financial quarter i don't look if you type in kath kathleen kennedy ryan johnson into youtube it's just all the videos are just like they're both being fired

for whatever reason. Yeah, right. Anyway, here's someone who hasn't been fired. Taika Waititi is directing Akira. Oh, yeah. He mentioned this a few years back that he would like to make Akira and what he said about that was he's going to take it back to the books and also use unknown Asian teenagers as the lead,

which I think would be an amazing way to do it. I think that would be great. Yeah, so it would be truer to the source materials and I think it would also bring a bunch of new actors into Hollywood and such. I may be very wrong here, as I am most of the time when we talk about anime, but I feel like the animated version really isn't that different from the original, the manga. Well, I have you know, Mason, that there are many distinct differences.

Name one. No, I don't know. Okay. But I'll have you know that. I'm saying I know that. Yes. But you don't know because I'm more of a bit of an auteur than you, obviously. Yes, exactly.

Yeah. So I know that there's differences. Yeah. Well, there are differences. Yes. It's true. But I feel like the original anime. Well, there are differences. It's true. But I feel like the original anime packed a lot in. Right. When was the last time you saw Akira?

I couldn't tell you. I don't even know if I have. Okay, right. So the biggest difference I feel like in the movie, spoilers for Akira, a movie that came out in 1986 or whatever, I'm going to Google that because we'll get messages. You better believe it. movie spoilers for akira a movie that came out in 1986 or whatever yes 88 uh i'm gonna google that because we'll get in messages you better believe it uh at the end of that right uh everybody's always everybody's talking about akira was akira what's got what's going on right and at the end of

the the movie akira shows up and that's basically the end like he destroys tokyo again and and that's basically the end but in the manga uh he sticks around and him and Tetsuo sort of rule Neo Tokyo together for a bit just for a bit just for a bit just for a long weekend yeah cool okay like a four day or a three day uh like a four day we're talking Friday to Monday we're talking Saturday to Tuesday Thursday what yeah that's right it's Neo Tokyo okay I forgot rules don't apply Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday back to work on Monday that's right. It's Neo-Tokyo, man. Okay, I forgot. Laws don't apply. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, back to work on Monday. That's not a bad weekend.

That's right. I think it should be a three-day weekend. Who the fuck said five days of work? It's outrageous. Oh, you mean in life? Yes. Wow. It's ridiculous.

Wow. You should gain incredible psychic powers and lead a revolution. It should be at least four-three, at minimum. Yeah. What are we doing? I don't understand it. Our lives have been locked into this cycle of 5 and 2. I agree.

And not only that, one of those should be on Wednesday. You just get Wednesday off. Nice. So then you do two days day off, two days weekend, baby. Nice. That's pretty good. Yeah. That's sick.

And the occasional Neo-Tokyo weekend, a four-day weekend. Yeah. Well, yeah. Occasionally your city explodes. Yes. You know. And you get the weekend. But that's pretty good. Yeah. That's sick. And the occasional Neo-Tokyo weekend, a four-day weekend. Yeah. Well, yeah, occasionally your city explodes. Yes. You know. And you get the weekend. But that's the thing, like, because the Akira manga is literally thousands of pages long. The fact that they packed so much into, you know, the movie is actually quite incredible.

Yeah, but... So does that mean they're going to... Does that mean this new version is going to have that extended bit? Are they going to have the long weekend at the end? Yeah, that's interesting. Because all I know is there are distinct differences between the versions. Weekend of Tatuos. Yes.

There are distinct differences between the versions. You are aware of the distinct differences. Definitely I am. CinemaCon happened, Mason. I can't wait for all the emails. Like, you don't, you've never seen or read Akira. I said I haven't seen it or may not have seen it. I definitely haven't read it.

No, no, they're for me. They're for me. No, I know you've seen it. Yeah. I think you used to have a VHS of it. I did have a VHS of it. I knew that. Yeah, you know.

Now everybody knows. Oh, what? Oh, no. CinemaCon happened. It's where the movie studios bring out journos and go, what do you think of Terminator 6 or Terminator 3, whatever it is? And they're like, we like this one. And everyone goes, what do you think of Sonic the 6 or terminator 3 whatever it is they're like we

like this one yeah and everyone goes what do you think of sonic the hedgehog footage and everyone like it looks pretty good i guess so anyway they showed we dare and say anything else this looks pretty good so they uh they showed a bunch of new stuff uh one of the there's a few things of note disney mentioned that they're working towards because've folded all the Fox stuff in. They've got plans for Alien, Avatar, the new Avatar movies, Kingsman, Maze Runner, Planet of the Apes, Deadpool. So they're going to fold all these back in. They also said in the 2019 slate of movies, New Mutants was in that. So we're definitely getting it this year.

Cinema release. I didn't say that. Some kind of release. It'll be put on your phone like that U2 album you won't be able to escape it and you'll never be able to delete it

just 5 gig just dump 5 gig on your phone when you're asleep yeah so there you go what about any of those properties

that you are particularly well there's a few that interest me Maze Runner yeah I thought that was done they went to

the scorch they got the death cure they did that they got the death cure so in whatever order those movies happen exactly and planet of the apes but we i guess in the planet as we haven't got the astronauts come back yet story exactly yeah do they dare do that again daren't they daren't they who who in the in the current uh hollywood elite would look good in that loincloth? You know what I mean? They'd get too ripped now. It's not as cool. Yeah, exactly.

It's not as funny. You need someone who, you need like Jim Halpert before he started working out, before he Jack Ryan'd it. You know what I mean? Yeah. You want the kind of man who's did a lot of boxing in his youth just to survive on the streets. Yeah, right.

And then just smoke cigarettes just the streets yeah right and then just smoke cigarettes just 40 years for after that and then you make the movie mickey rourke yeah he'd probably do it i'm just assuming that's what charlton heston's fitness oh yeah that's probably true yeah uh-huh yeah uh here's an article 14 things you don't know about akira if you never read the manga so apparently there's 14 differences yeah that sounds that sounds right to me oh you wrote this article i see that's right Yes, that's right. Okay, cool. All right. Seems like clickbait, but at the same time, I've clicked.

So who's the fool? I believe it's groundbreaking animation for the time. For the time? And even for now. Would you say it holds up today? Yeah. There's some techniques there. Yeah, right.

You know what I mean? In the era of He-Man, just garbage animation. Akira stood above it all. There's an Ultraman series on Netflix right now, so I'm excited to check that out. Me too. Are you? No, I probably won't watch it.

What about this, Mason? They showed new footage and we got some new images of the new Terminator 3. I did see those photos, yeah. Linda Hamilton, Arnie's back. He's back. Do you get it? Yeah, I get it. But he's an old man again.

I think he's a human. I don't think he's a robot. You think he's a regular human man. Yeah. I think they're going to do the, he was the template. Yeah, right. Situation. So Sergeant Candy is out of continuity officially.

That's right. Can't have your cake and eat it too. You really can't. Yeah, but apparently the footage looked amazing. Candy cake. That's good. Beef cake. Beef cake, yes. the footage looked amazing. Candy cake. That's good. Beef cake. Beef cake, yes.

Beef and candy together in a cake. The new footage they showed, Sarah Connor's blowing up Terminators on a bridge or whatever. In the future? In the modern day. Okay. I don't know if there's a John Connor in this. I've heard that they're using Edward Furlong's likeness for flashbacks. Okay.

That's what I heard. I don't know whether that's true. Does that mean he's dead in this universe? Well, that's what I was thinking. What if the saviour of humanity is Sarah Connor? She's like, well, now I have to be the saviour of humanity because John Connor's dead or whatever. I'm good enough.

She seems better than him anyway. I also like the fact that she refers to her dead son as John Connor. John Connor's gone, so me, Sarah Connor, I'm going to be the John Cutter, if that makes sense, everybody. And they're like, who are you? Like, lady, who are you? Yeah. I've just come out of the mental asylum again.

It's me, Sarah Connor. But it's interesting that all of the bad Terminator films don't have her in them. That's true. Except for Salvation, she does a voiceover at the start, but I don't think that really counts. You mean Linda Hamilton specifically? Yes.

Not Sarah Connor, yeah. But there is apparently the new Terminator is a split in half Terminator. He splits in two and he's like, now there's two of me. And they're like, double the trouble. That's what they say. Oh, yes. It happens. Every time.

Every time. And it happens a whole bunch. And towards the end, they're in like, you know, they're in a steel mill and they're all bloodied up and like wounded and they're staggering. And he splits in half and they're like they're all bloodied up and like wounded and they're staggering and he he splits in half and they're like oh double trouble i guess this is double trouble again i guess here we go yeah and then he goes twice the fun yeah now who is it it's is it's a familiar face i cut it's the ghostwriter guy yes from agents of shield it's that guy yeah his name i name. I cannot remember. But now he's huge. Now he's huge.

He's got real big. There's footage on Instagram of Arnie training and being like, more biceps, less biceps. I'm kidding. More. Obviously. Yeah, right? Yeah.

So that's exciting. I'm looking forward to it. Me too. Should I be? Don't know. We don't otherwise know many plot details, do we? We'll probably get a trailer in the next week. Is it set now? Is it is it set now i think it's set now that's sick yeah is it yeah it's pretty sick so like most movies set now you think that's pretty sick pretty sick name a movie that's set now i can't

it's pretty sick i've stymied you and that in itself is pretty sick this is my new attitude everything's pretty sick i don't like this nah The fact that you don't like it's pretty sick. That's probably true. Avengers Endgame sale tickets went on sale, I should say. Did you get your tickets? Did you just snap them up, Mason? No. Like a crocodile devouring cinema tickets?

No. No. You gonna? You probably just go to the movies. Probably just go to the movies, I guess. Fair enough. Might check my phone earlier. Yeah.

Is it sold out before i get there it's not go get what if you have to sit at the very front shout out to uh senior constable mcguire who i was in a i was in a kebab shop late at night like 2 a.m he roughed you up it's not important he did yeah but i was getting my kebab and i was leaving i got a tap on the shoulder i turned around and went oh no it's my time they found me and he's like love the show really yeah yeah get the fuck out of here and he's like did you get your end game tickets yet and i went yep you lied to a cop yeah that's right i don't even care what i do you know he listens sick right no you're in trouble now oh my god oh you're right and as

soon as disney buys the victorian Department, I'm going to get arrested. I'm calling triple zero right now. Don't do it. Don't do it. That's our 911, everybody. Yeah, it is. Is it true that in Australia if you call 911, it diverts? Let's try it now. Do you want me to?

I'll do it. No. I'll do it. I don't give a shit. Wait, then I'll go to jail also. That's right. I guess we can record from jail. This was all a ruse.

Me and McGuire cooked it up to send you to jail. Anyway, I did get tickets. My brother got tickets, I should say. We're doing Gold Class on the morning it comes out, on the Wednesday morning. Oh, la-dee-da. Simply for the shut-up factor. Because people will spoil it immediately, yeah.

Well, that. I mean, there's way less people in that cinema, in the Gold Class. Oh, that's actually a good point. And there's 1,000 in them. Yeah. And you won't get any, like, when there's a thousand in them. Yeah. Yeah. And you won't get any like when there's a sick action sequence and there will be. There won't be cheers in the audience.

There'll just be a small golf clap. Yeah, I'd say that. From some of the seats. And then there'll be somebody being delivered food in front of me and I can't see half the screen. Exactly. That's right. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway. And there'll be a big reveal and somebody's monocle will pop off and land in your drink. I do like... He thinks he's better than all of us i don't think i've ever bought an actual gold class ticket for myself right my brother bought me this one as an early birthday present but i used to get a lot as when i was a teacher i used to get a lot of gold class tickets mason in exchange for straight a's yeah okay cool i'm calling the police no no yeah that's right uh I'm calling the police on you. No, no. Yeah, that's right. I'm calling the reading, writing hotline. That's how you rant at a teacher.

1-3-double-0-6-triple-9-0-6. Like the jingle. You remember that? Is that it? That's pretty good. It's a really difficult number to remember if you're bad at reading and writing. Yeah. It should be one. But maybe you're good at numbers.

That's a good point. So, you know, those things are not always mutually exclusive. That's true. It beat the previous pre-sale record of The Force Awakens in just six hours. Bloody smashed it, mate. How long did The Force Awakens take to get to there? Like one day, I don't know. I think it's like first day or something.

Losers. I don't know, man. I don't have all the information. Okay uh they did show avengers footage at cinema con there is some there was some new footage uh there was that small trailer this week which you haven't watched and i watched once yep uh there's not there's a little bit more information in there but you probably don't want to go over it i don't know not really is there anything when you say a little bit more information, more plot information? Yeah, a tiny bit.

Nothing I think that would blow your mind. Okay. But, yeah. How many more theories and YouTube videos do you think you're going to get out of it, though? Out of me? Yeah. I don't think I'll do much on this again. Okay.

How many are going to exist on YouTube, though? Oh, millions forever. Terrific. Now, leading up after. Okay. tube though oh millions forever yeah terrific now leading up after yeah okay does it still does that does that uh trailer does that that does that also hold true that they it's probably only the first 10 minutes or 20 minutes seems pretty close to that yeah the one thing i have seen from that is uh again spoilers for a trailer i haven't seen yeah or it's it's a still frame it's um

hawkeye has a really really big sleeve tattoo i love it we were talking about before the show yeah what's he doing what's incredible what's his end game oh thank you that's right yeah face tattoos is his end game tears neck to face yeah yeah it's tears for all his family who were killed good yeah and then they come back at the end and he's like oh god damn it and his wife looks him up and down he's like what did you do you're out of the house yeah yeah so he's got a tattoo a sleeve tattoo of a ronin on his arm okay that means his family died presumably and then he went out and said i'm gonna do four different tattoo sessions at this tattoo parlor over a series of months yeah i'm gonna put a ronin on my arm because i'm ronin now that's what i do i can't use this arm for like a few months because

they'll be tattooed can't use my bow arm or a sword arm can't use a pool can't use any of those things yeah yeah so there you go uh it's a bad look a whole bunch of ninjas crashing in his apartment he's just rubbing that that tattoo cream yeah the ointment on him guys i'm ointmenting and they're like, all right. Give him a minute. I feel like- Somebody has to say something to him in the movie, right? My hope is, my feeling is that he has spent the last couple of months going undercover

in some sort of triad crime syndicate kind of situation. And that's why he's got the tattoos. He's deep undercover and the haircut. Yes. Every terrible decision he's made, I'm going to say it's because he's gone the tattoos. He's deep undercover and the haircut. Yes. Every terrible decision he's made, I'm going to say it's because he's gone undercover. Because anything else is embarrassing? Everything else is embarrassing.

I'm hoping for a scene where they all get back together and Black Widow's like, oh, you must have gone undercover and that's why you have all the stuff. And he's like, yep. Yeah. Yep. That's why.

That's why I did it. Yeah. Anyway, let's why. That's why I did it. Yeah. Anyway, let's take my sports car to the next destination. I'm not going through a midlife crisis. This is fine. Don't worry about it. The Russo brothers also confirmed there is a three, it's just over three hour runtime.

So there you go. Yeah. We all feel we can get through that. Yeah. I'm not going to drink anything the night before and then wake up and then not drink anything. And then you're going to look dehydrated and ripped. I'm going to look so ripped, mate.

I'm going to look amazing in that cinema. Yeah. With my horrible body with holes in it. Yeah, that's right. Actually, it looks pretty good. How are you feeling this week? Much better. Okay.

You know, I should have taken last week off, but I couldn't bear the thought of you having another episode over me. Oh, that would be incredible. Lording over the thought of you having another episode over me. Oh, that'd be incredible. Lording over the two or three year ahead of me on the show. Yeah, that's right. That gave me the strength to push through. But no, I feel much better this week.

That's good. So it looks like it's going to smash all sorts of box office records. Probably, I would say at minimum, it'll be the third highest grossing film of all time. How many tweets opening day are going to be, oh my God, I was watching Endgame and a guy next to me pissed in a bottle? How many of those do you think there's going to be? I mean, it could, it'll trend. You better believe it. Hashtag Avengers Endgame pissing in a bottle.

Avengers Endgame piss bottle. Yeah. And if you're going to piss in a bottle. Avengers Endgame piss bottle. Yeah. And if you're going to piss in a bottle, take it out with you. Don't leave it for the staff. Don't leave it for the staff and the cinema employees. Also, don't piss in a popcorn because that's not going to... It's no good. It's paper. It's just going to go right through, all right?

Don't be doing that. Don't piss in a cinema. Let's just... Why don't we keep it at that? Why don't we leave that as the general... And they have definitively knocked back intermission. There's not going to be an intermission? No intermission.

You've got to get as many people in as you can. Okay. As long as you can. Guys, start training now. Yes. Kegels. That's right. Learn to survive with a minimum amount of water.

Definitely. Yeah. I ration out my water so if I'm like, okay, I've got an hour left, I can definitely make this. Then I'll crack the water. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah've got an hour left, I can definitely make this. Then I'll crack the water. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how I do it. Kameo Nanjiani is said to be joining the Eternals movie, apparently.

Oh. Who you will know from comedy and podcasting and now famous movies and TVs and such. That's correct. So, yeah, there you go. And that episode of The Twilight Zone, which is apparently out now, but we can't watch because it's regionally. I have watched it. How'd it go? It's fine.

Okay, good. It's kind of of you know what you know i'll talk about what we're reading okay cool yeah all right i didn't hate it and i like him so i'm glad he's in this it's funny because he used to because these what's the podcast used to do ah the indoor kids kids yeah with uh his wife emily v gordon they used to talk about all this stuff you know and and now he's actually in them it's pretty cool it's pretty cool it gives it's hope for us that one day we can have a sleep tattoo and being that's true do you think that's a possibility absolutely this could be us

let's get sleep tattoos now good excellent yeah no this is as high this is as this is as successful as we get okay good yeah good yeah i couldn't handle any more success i don't know i'm honest i wonder if him being in that kind of informs the uh the kind of take there like is it going to be a more light-hearted because it's also said that angelina jolly is going to be in it this is going to be a comic relief is he we're talking about the eternals of the tunnels again okay right how's the twilight zone light-hearted and fun no okay but you know he's a comedian and he's one yeah yeah oh he's a comedian in the show yes yeah i'll talk about that all right we'll talk about that all right but uh so the eternal,

do you think it's going to like having him and is going to inform, is it going to be like a wacky team? Is it going to, is he going to be a good question? Whenever you're going to get ripped and it's going to be a serious situation, right? Yeah.

Cause it's always, whenever you, whenever a comedic actor gets cast, you're like, okay, are they going to be the comic relief or are they going to, are they trying their dramatic chops? Yeah.

That's right. So we don't really know. We don't know who's directing this. We don't really know we don't know who's directing this we don't know when it's out we don't we don't know what character is playing yeah once again i can't remember what any of the eternals do yes that's right i've forgotten again that's very good but i'm excited because it's cosmic me too are you excited for this david harbour hellboy's own yes uh and rachel weiss uh they are joining black Widow, the movie, the Black Widow movie that's filming this year. That's pretty cool.

Okay. All right. Again, it's one of those things I don't know what this is going to be. Hopefully fun or not fun, spy stuff. Just spy stuff. Make a good spy movie. I'll take a good spy movie. Yeah.

So, I mean, she got those masks that you can. Yes, that's true. Uh-huh. Yes. Yeah. So there you go. What else did she have? That's it. Sticks. Two sticks. She got you can... Yes, that's true. Uh-huh, yes. Yeah, so there you go. What else did she have? That's it.

Sticks, two sticks. She got sticks? Two glowing sticks that she'll... Like that. How do they go again? That's pretty good. Sitting you on the head with them. Yeah.

What kind of hair she got? In Age of Ultron, she had that electric situation. Oh, yeah. She had like electric punches and whatever. Yeah. And that's disappeared. Yeah. Bring it back, I say.

Yeah. One of my favorite moments in Endgame is the bit where they fight that... Do you mean Infinity War? Shut up, all right? Just shut up. Okay, good. One of my favourite moments is the bit where they fight

one of Thanos' children. Just say, one of my favourite moments in a movie. In a movie. And then from the context of what you're saying, we'll get what it is. Yeah. But the bit where... One of my favourite moments in a movie in a movie and then from the context of what you're saying we'll get what it is yeah but the bit where one of my favourite moments

in a movie is when James Bond does that loop the loop in the car I do like that and the slide whistle noise why they do the slide whistle I don't know

it kind of takes it away from the start I feel like if they were to do a remastered version of that movie they should take the slide whistle definitely yeah

but they won't no they're not going to remaster any of those but so yeah you know the bit where they fight the three of them fight the so, yeah, you know the bit where they fight, the three of them fight the, what's her name, in the Thanos'

You are giving no information here. They're in Wakanda. Yes. It's Avengers Infinity War. Yes. She like wipes out Scarlet Witch and she's going to kill her. Yes. And then like Black Widow's standing behind her.

Yeah. And then they beat the shit out of her. Yeah, that was good. I think that's an amazing bit in that movie. It is. Yeah is yeah sure so anyway i'm excited for the whatever that movie is going to be also suicide squad is what is up with this okay here we go joel kinnaman is back apparently so that is rick flag and robocop and robocop yes in robocop remake failure viola davis is also back the amanda waller amanda walla okay i think both of those guys are great i agree in other things yep and so i think this i don't think it's a mistake

bringing them back no yeah viola davis probably does more than joel kinnaman does in that movie joel i like him in that movie well he should be that i mean he should be he should be the the character focus in that movie like he should be the character focus in that movie. Like, he should be the point of view character because it's his girlfriend that's gone mad and is looking for redemption and being saved or whatever. So he should be in that more, but he's not. He's just like, hey, guys, I don't trust you like this.

This is Katana. She's got a katana that can steal your soul. She's got my back. You watch it, all you boomerang men. That one of you that's got a boomerang. And the other one is... And Slipknot's back. They put his head back together.

Backwards. Idris Elba is not dead shot. He's a new character. Shot dead. He was killed before the start of the movie. Correct. So I don't know who that means he's going to be. I mean, there's plenty of people that he could be.

That's very true. But only one he will be. Yeah, so there you go. So this is, he's just keeping the cast, it looks like, for the most part. So there you go. All right. I think it's a good cast.

It was a good cast then. It's still a good cast. Still a good cast now. There you go. Will Smith, not back. Not back. Okay. He's doing something. I screenshotted this earlier. then it's still a good cast still a good cast now yeah will smith not back not back okay probably something i i screenshotted this earlier he's doing some sort of movie where he is it's it's it's modern day will smith dude versus 23 versus 23 year old will smith yep character which is

interesting but also will smith has aged aged so well that it's not... I think you just make him lankier, like Fresh Prince lanky. Well, it's Fresh Prince era, isn't it? Yeah, so I think that's kind of the extent of it. What's it called? The Gemini Man or something? Something like that. Okay, all right.

Apparently Sean Connery was up for that role. The Gemini Man? Yeah. Recently? Yeah. He, no. I thought he's like dying somewhere in Scotland or something. Well, we can hope so, but if he isn't, he could be doing Gemini Man.

Really? Okay. Yeah. But that would work because you've got, again, like, I guess we're in a de-aging frenzy era. It's hot stuff. Exactly. Imagine that. Current day, whatever's left of Sean Connery versus James Bond era Sean Connery.

Yeah. Okay. Like, like Dr dr no era it's a it's ang Lee's clone thriller Gemini man okay so there you go all right an elite assassin becomes a target of mysterious young operative who can seemingly operative who can seemingly predict his every move oh my god initial release 3rd of October, brackets, Russia. Okay. Russia only. What does that mean? How nice.

Yeah, so there you go. They're testing it on people locked up in Siberia. Yeah, good. If they enjoy it, wide release. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Mason, in other DC News before we talk the topic of the week. I am ready.

The Joker. Oh, just Joker. Just Joker, yes. Just Joker. Put on a happy face please do it's got a brand new trailer we were talking about it briefly before the show um i don't i don't i don't know we still don't know anything about this movie are we i know what it's about yeah we're a teaser and a trailer in right the teaser was just him in makeup yeah right okay

so we're we're a trailer in i can't tell whether this is going to be good or horrible. I really can't. And that's based on, I think it looks, it's a good trailer. Yeah. But based, like, I've never seen Todd Phillips make anything close to this. Can he make, can he pull off something like this? Is this going to be just a weird Scorsese knockoff? Is it coming, you know, is it like years too late for something like this?

Is there too much Joker? Are people not going to like this new origin? Is there too much weird underpants? There's so many weird pairs of underpants in that trailer. I think he's definitely going to do a good performance because when does he not really, Joaquin Phoenix? I guess that's true. He doesn't really turn in shit work, even in not great films.

But remember that time he went mad for two years for no reason? I remember that. Maybe it's for this. Could be for this, yeah. Maybe he was cast and Todd Phillips is like, so do you want to go crazy for a couple of years for this? And he's like, nah. Not this time, mate.

Not this time. It didn't really work out too well. Yeah. What did he go crazy for again? The documentary about where he was going to be a rapper. It was based on him like a fictionalized version of it was that thing none of us saw i'm not really here or i'm not who you are or whatever it was cool yeah he went on lederman and lederman like made fun of him and yeah whatever yeah i don't know what that was casey affleck directed it or something as well sure yeah and nobody saw it and apparently wasn't

that great but um okay anyway i've got a trailer breakdown for this for many of my thoughts and whatever what did you think of this i'm more interested in what you think it's i don't know like i mean i would like it's that's the thing because i would like to see a superhero or super villain movie in the style of a scorsese yeah man Yeah, man. I think that would be interesting. But at the same time, if it's just sort of taxi driver, if it's just a man goes mad and then he puts some clown makeup on and causes a bit of mayhem and there's some obscure references to the Waynes and Ark arkham whatever the version of

arkham is in this trailer yeah that's not anything right i think it can be it's just a man going mad we've seen man i've seen falling down yeah so dude his cheeseburgers are too much or whatever exactly his cheeseburgers were too much so but yeah i don't but i'd be okay if it's a breakfast was over oh that's right. At the fast food restaurant. So the cheeseburgers weren't too much. No, no, he didn't want a cheeseburger. I thought he was being very unreasonable.

Me too. It's the staff. They don't run. Don't yell at the staff. Don't yell at the staff. Write a letter to the corporation. Go to the corporation's headquarters. Or tweet them now.

Yeah, that's right. Make fun of their social media person, who's the equivalent of the person working behind the camera that's right exactly so look uh yeah but i i think that's okay i think why not you could do a joker scorsese movie and it's got it's tangentially linked to the to the universe or whatever i'm okay with that i want to see different interpretations i i do too but but I also feel like if you're going to make it the Joker, I want to see more superhero-y stuff. I'd really like to see a Batman movie in the style of a Scorsese movie where it's the criminals on their downtime,

just sitting in chairs in a dark back room, just talking about their lives or whatever. That's kind of interesting. And then Batman steams in. They're not just anonymous flunkies. They have lives. I think your mic is going down away from you. It's escaping.

From my opinions, from my bad opinions? Good. All right right no matter how much you pay for a microphone stand they always do it yeah don't worry we're getting brand new maybe that's where the money is we pivot this podcast to a crowdfunding campaign for microphone stands that don't sink now that we've said that somebody's already made they've already manufacturing it and they'll beat us to market wow we'll edit this bit out there we'll let this out i was watching the thing about the guy who invented the um i can't remember i saw this on youtube it's it's basically it's a it's like the end of a

headphone jack and you put it into your phone yes and it's just one button and you allocate it to a function on your phone could be like your torch could be pause button whatever and so he crowd funded it all but by the time he kind of got around to putting it out there like some giant in the chinese marketplace had just mass produced it already huh i think using also his designs and already put about because he would have put up like here's a video of my my plan i think they even like they use the same factory that's him or something there was there's a few that they did it about it might have been someone else that was actually on that video but yeah so if you're going to crowdfund something make sure you've got you got the means to make it as quickly as you can before you put

those ideas out there happened to the guy who invented the coat hanger as well is that true wire hanger really he worked at a wire factory what was it before that what did they used to just throw them on the floor like fence yeah fences no like i know like throw on fences no like i guess they would use wooden hangers. Oh, okay, right. But he invented the wire hanger. That makes so much sense. Because he worked at a wire factory, and he's just like,

I don't have a place to put my coat. I'll just get a bit of wire, and I'll make that. And then his boss stole it. Yeah. His coat. Yeah, he stole his coat. Put it on a fence. Climbed over the fence.

And he's like, my coat's ruined. And he stole my idea. What are we talking about? Wires. No, the joker. The wire. I've never seen it yet. It's a great show. I've heard good things. It's a great show. and he's like my coat's ruined and he stole my idea what are we talking about wires no the joker wire i've never seen it yet it's a great show i've heard good things it's a great show but even season two which people don't like is still good no people love season two okay that's what i heard too we both heard the same thing the joker sorry you were saying something i don't know i would see that's the thing like it's not if it's just if it's just a man descending into insanity with some vague notions

of the dc universe yeah and then he puts on clown makeup that could be anything you could make a movie that's sort of crime related and at the end he puts on some weird makeup and kills people yeah that's not a superhero movie yeah it's just a movie with a lunatic in it yes okay you know i mean it's the same as taxi driver it's a man who goes mad and then he shaves the sides of his head sure and then he shoots some people yeah it's not a superhero movie that's true that's hawkeye's role in endgame exactly that's right yeah what's going on there yeah i don't know i think it's going to be a little bit more does that what i said does that make any sense yeah are you just saying no you're not i don't disagree with you at all i'm hoping it's a little

bit more than than than that though the other thing is because we were talking about this before because there's already memes that are like, this is a real comic book movie and fuck everything everyone else has ever done. This is how you do it. First of all, it's not out, so we don't know. But you know what? I want it to be great. Because if it's great, then we get more, just do a different thing.

Exactly. Yeah. And we'll get more superhero period pieces. Yep. Give us a punisher-esque movie set in the 70s exactly right because i've like i still i know there's so many modern interpretations that punish you but i still when i think of the punisher i still think of like his first appearances from the 70s where he's wearing like the white gloves and the white boots

and he's got the you know it's he's not he's not just a dude to punish your t-shirt with a trench coat yeah he's like a he's like a shield dude to punish a t-shirt with a trench coat. Yeah. He's like a... He's like a shield outfit or whatever. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. And I'm with you, man. Yeah. Well, that was...

Because that Daredevil movie that we were going to make before it went back to Marvel, it was going to be... It was Joe Carnahan who did Wolf Fight. Yep. He was going to make a 1970s-esque, like, taxi driver Daredevil movie. Yeah, right. That was his idea. Yeah, so...

Yeah. So, give us a good one of this, whatever it is. And then everything's set in the 70s. Yeah, forever. Or 80s or whatever it is and then everything's set in the 70s yeah forever so whenever exactly yeah but this is i thought you would also like it's it's got the shit new york it's not new york it's got that shit new york that you love i kind of do like that yeah everything's dirty everybody's smoking everywhere don't touch anything people are smoking in diners yeah trying to get your eggs and people are ashen out of them that's right it's like that we ghostbusters universe, you know, where everything's horrible and grimy or whatever, yeah.

Any other thoughts about that? He's got his sick old – is that his mother? Yeah, his mum. He's bathing his mother? Yeah. Okay, all right. Yeah. Is he a man who was always mad and was always mean

and then he got tipped over the edge? By society? Yeah, or was he going to do it regardless because cheeseburgers were not for breakfast all the time. Someone ashed into his eggs at the diner. Maybe. There you go. He just gets beat up a lot in this trailer, doesn't he?

He seems to be, yeah. He gets hit by cars, beaten up, yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. All right. A lot of people are saying his physicality, though, is very Joker-esque. Yeah, definitely.

Because he's a floppy looking, he's all floppy and dangerous. And you give that dude, is very Joker-esque. Yeah, definitely. Because he's a floppy looking... Yeah. He's all floppy and dangerous. And you give that dude like a straight razor or whatever. Exactly, yeah. Just let him flop around with a straight razor. Yeah. Wouldn't want to meet him in a dirty 70s subway car.

Definitely not. You're trying to get through and he's flopping him out with his razor blades. I'm fairly confident I could beat that guy up. Joaquin Phoenix? No. Oh, Arthur Fleck. Yes. He's still Arthur Fleck?

I mean, everyone else is. Yeah, he's still Arthur Fleck. Huh. Interesting. Did you see anyone not beat him up in that trailer? No, everybody beats him Fleck. Yes. He's still Arthur Fleck? I mean, everyone else is. Yeah, he's still Arthur Fleck. Huh. Interesting. Did you see anyone not beat him up in that trailer? No, everybody beats him up in the trailer. Also, I'm not sold on the costume. What's the 70s or 80s or whatever it is?

Yeah, I know. Yeah. I think I said 80s in the trailer, but it might be in my video, but it might be the 70s. Just make him purple and green. It's the Joker. It's like the Cesar Romero suit. It's a Kings of Comedy kind of throwback.

It's a King of Comedy throwback. It is a King of Comedy throwback. You've seen King of Comedy? Yes. Yeah, I watched it recently for this. It just looks like the King of Comedy. It does. It really does.

Yeah. I didn't look at his page of jokes. I did. Yeah, they're not good. Okay, good. There's one I couldn't look at his page of jokes. I did. Yeah, they're not good. Okay, good. There's ones I couldn't even think of. But yeah, I don't think he's going to be a good comedian, which is kind of the point.

Yeah, for sure. It's very The Killing Joke. Yes, definitely. Does that mean we're going to get more of... Because Bruce Wayne's a kid in this, presumably? Yeah, he's in the trailer, I think. Okay, all right. All right. All right in the trailer, I think. Okay, all right. All right. All right, all right, all right.

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Yes. That's what they were raging against. They were raging against exorbitantly priced mattresses. Oh, really? Yes. Man, well, that's good because we do spend one third of our life sleeping and you want to be comfortable on a mattress that isn't exorbitantly priced. Again, rage against the machine, Lewis.

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I mean, not another one. You live in a bad neighborhood exactly so you know it comes in a box easy to carry and maneuver and get it wherever you need to be and then you open it up and it unfolds like the lyrics to a rage against the machine album yes very good the cover when you open it up and you read oh you read the lyrics oh yeah i get it now i see what you're saying they still do that i don't think you get lyrics in it. Or CDs. People don't buy CDs anymore.

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Go to casper.com and put it in the upper- Get them. I feel like this is going to be one of those ads they make us do again. Oh, yeah. Will Anderson's new comedy show is currently happening at this very moment. Probably right, currently right now. It probably is. They're good value for money there.

You get some good value in there. Definitely. He's a friend of the show. He obviously does many a podcast and radio show and TV show. He's a professional. He does it all. One day we'll be like him. No.

One day we'll be as tall as him? Maybe stacked on each other's shoulders. Yeah, okay, there we go. His new show is called Will Informed, and I need to stress this. It's only going until April 21st. I need to stress this. That's not a typo. It's not ill-informed.

What did I? It's a pun on his name. Oh, no, that's right. It's Will Informed. Stress that also. We need to stress this. That's not a typo. It's not ill-informed. What did I say? It's a pun on his name. Oh, no, that's right. It's will-informed. Stress that also. We're stressing two things. So April 21st, that's only two weeks from now. You know what I mean?

So bloody get on it. It plays at the comedy theatre. Also, it's an incredibly popular show every year. Buy tickets now. That's right. Don't wait. That's what people do. They wait.

They're like, oh, comedy festival's on. We'll wait a couple of weeks. We'll get tickets on the Saturday. It's the last Saturday at Comedy Festival. It's going to sell out. You're going to miss out. Buy now. Exactly.

Buy now. Plan your night ahead. Yes. That's what I'm saying. Go on a weekday. Yeah. Treat yourself. You can actually, if you're thinking of buying them, which you are, they're on sale at comedy.com.au.

Oh, yes. Obviously, people will know him from Tofop, The Gruen Transfer. Willosophy. Willosophy. Triple M Hot Breakfast. That's right. Just being on TV in many things. Yes.

You'll see him on a thing. Yeah, it's his 23rd Melbourne Comedy Festival show. He's got a great reputation as a human being. Yes. But that's not important at this juncture. Forget that. Forget about it. Put that aside.

Yes. Oh, excuse me. I'd just like to buy some tickets to see a man be a good bloke. Just like some tickets. Get out of here. Shut up. Shut up. He sold out his shows for the last 11 years.

What happened those first couple of years? He's no good. Oh, no. Yeah, but those last 11 years. Sick. But that's incredible, right? Yeah, it is incredible. 11 years of sold-out shows.

And probably also very well-sold shows prior to that. There's a bunch of very glowing reviews. I haven't seen a negative one at all. The one here I've got is a masterclass in comedy. He may be one of our biggest comedy exports with a national profile on radio and television, but flying solo on stage is where Anderson truly shines. The man is on fire. Again, not literally.

Not literally. Don't buy tickets if you're expecting him to be on fire. But he is doing that on his last show on April 21st, I believe. That's what he's promised us. Getting quick while you can. That's comedy.com.au. Get it while it's hot and he's not on fire. Get it while he's not on fire.

Yep. All right, I'm in the show. Mason, it's a big he's not on fire. Get it while he's not on fire. Yep. All right. I'm going to show. Mason, it's a big week for DC though. Yes. Because Shazam. Shazam. Yes.

Shazza. Yep. She's got a new movie out. It's called Shazam. No, it's David F. Sandberg. It's going to make 51 million, they reckon, around in the US. Who's that? Who's David F. Sandberg?

The director of this movie. No, but I mean, what else is he doing? Oh, I did look this up recently, and then I immediately forgot. Cool. I think he did a... What was that horror movie he did recently? Oh, before we get to... He did Lights Out and Annabelle Creation, which is apparently a good one.

Okay. Before we get to that, there's one more piece of news that Yana has informed us of on Twitter at Rewrite the Day. The cats in Cats will be the size of cats. Yes. So we've discussed this before. There's some sort of live action plus CGI movie version of the musical Cats.

Which everybody hates. But it's been on Broadway for 400 years. I saw Aveda recently, which has been on Broadway for 400 years. You hated it. It's terrible. Good. It's a terrible musical. Yeah.

And they changed stuff up? Like they changed the life of Evita? Is that right? I don't know. I don't want to talk about it. Okay. I love musicals, Mason. You know that.

Yeah, I know you do. Yeah. And I did not like this one. And also the acoustics were really bad, so I couldn't understand what anyone was saying. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah. But my question was, because the cats in Cats, the musical, are regular people in bizarre-looking cat costumes.

Yeah. And I said, are they going to be like, in the movie, are they just going to be animated cats that look like real cats? Cats. That sing. Yeah. But. Here we go.

The cats will be the size of cats. Okay. Oversized sets, which will make the actors seem feline size in comparison They will They will not be made to look like cats through makeup The movie is using motion capture graphics instead Motion cat Oh

Did they write that? It still doesn't say what they look like though I think it's humanoid cats Okay alright I hate this Yeah everyone does Yep Everyone hates it

Yeah But this is It's gonna be amazing Signs point to the use of CGI All right. I hate this. Yeah, everyone does. Yep. Everyone hates it. Yeah. But it's going to be amazing. Signs point to the use of CGI in the creation of the cat. Yeah, we know. No shit. Yeah. Still doesn't say, though. Show us a picture of the cat.

There was that thing because Gordon Ramsay's in it. But are they going to be cat-coloured? Because in the play- They're different colours. They're like purple and whatever, yeah. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Yeah. Ridiculous.

It's recatulous. Thank you. Thank you. The character Rum Tum Tugger is going to be played by... James Corden? Jason Derulo. Jason Derulo. Jason Derulo.

Jason Derulo. No word yet on whether he'll sing. He'll sneak some stuff in. What are you talking about? He'll sneak some stuff. Well, it says no word yet on whether he'll sing or He'll sneak some stuff in. What are you talking about? He'll sneak some stuff. Well, it says no word yet on whether he'll sing or rap, as in the London revival, this Rum Tum Tugger raps, apparently. Great.

Then he'll do that. Yeah. Jason Derulo, Rum Tum Tugger. That's what he's going to say before he'd number. They'd be like, can you stop doing that? He's like, no. Well, Tom Hooper directed this, who did Les Mis. He did King's Speech.

He's got some, and I really like Les Mis, the movie. I think that's as good as you can kind of do it, except they shouldn't have cast Russell Crowe because he's not very good. Well, I've not learned anything from this except for the Jason Derulo issue. I think it's going to be humanoid cat people. Okay, good. Yeah. Yeah, because I guess they'd want a traditional,

like they'd want the musical look, right? You want that look, Mason. You want that look, yeah. I mean, yeah, they're not going to do like that Tim Burton Planet of the Apes cat makeup, are they? No, that's true. We're kind of past that at this point. Yeah, I guess that's true.

All right, anyway. Shazam. Shazam. Yeah, $51 million US weekend. That seems low. Yeah, it's a bit low, but it's still really good considering the budget is anywhere between $80 to $100 million. Cheap?

Yes, apparently. But this definitely looks... I wouldn't have thought it was cheap. No, it looks better than Justice League, despite costing probably about a third. Yes. Yes. That is wild. But it's going to...

I'd imagine on word of mouth alone, this is just going to carry. I think so. This is going to do pretty well. You call it spoiler alert. It's a good movie. I liked it a lot. It is a good movie. I agree.

It might be my favourite DC movie. I think it might be mine as well. Yeah. Do you remember what the story was? Oh, no. You got me, didn't you? You bloody got me. Yeah, what have you got?

There's a little boy. Yep. He's not that little. He's like 14. He's 14. He's a teenage boy. Billy Batson. And he's an orphan.

He's sad. Yes. So he's running away from his families they're like we love you and he's like nuts to that i'm gonna get in here put my bindle on my back and i'm gonna get out of here i'm out of the town find my mother i bet she's still alive yes find her um and then and then he meets a wizard yep the wizard's like do you want to be shazam and he's like not really not really oh yeah Shazam? And he's like, not really. Not really. Oh, yeah, all right. This is a weird situation.

You put me in. I'm in a cave. Will you let me go? I don't know how to get here. You've got to touch a staff and be magic, I guess. I don't like this. Yes. But then he's Shazam.

And then he's Shazam. He lends his powers and his hero. Is he using them for good or for financial gain? Both. Bit of both. Yeah. Yeah. What I didn't like about this is the trailer between the trailer and that new 52 run the entire movie is laid out right so if you and also a lot

of the jokes so if you so if someone were to say what comic book run should i read in preparation for shazam none of them don't do not read the new one because it will did you read it did you read it prior i read it years ago it's good because it's good yeah yeah yeah but you're right it does yeah the trailer reveals a lot about this movie but there is a few what i also like there's there's some kind of jokes that they cut out in the trailers in in between jokes which i it's pretty funny it is funny overall it's a pretty funny movie yeah i just i just wished a lot of it i hadn't seen you can see where they kept the budget down as opposed to like aquaman because they didn't have It is funny, yeah. Overall, it's a pretty funny movie, yeah. I just wished a lot of it I hadn't seen. You can see where they kept the budget down as opposed to like Aquaman because they didn't have to pretend to film underwater

and everyone's got CGI hair. That's true, yeah. You used to have two guys screaming in an alley at each other for a lot of this stuff. That's true, yeah. For a lot of it. It keeps the cost down. That's true, yeah.

And the teenage character, you pay him less as well. You pay him less. Pay him less. Exactly. But I didn't feel as much from that there is that disconnect between shazam and when he's billy as i did from the trailers yes i felt like kind of that was a concern of mine going in and they kind of that gap between those two characters feels more organic yeah than what i was led to believe yeah what i took from it at least yeah yeah yeah

anyway yeah we're led to believe very early on that he's like that holy moly like the old the old school billy batson like oh boy yeah i'm just here to be a fun old fun fun have find my mom and be a fun little kid but then it's like quite quite quickly dispelled and he's like he's a cynical teen because he's an orphan and he's been moved around all these foster homes yeah but then like when he gets that when he gets that when he's all shazammed up yes you know he glammed up when he gets glammed up he kind of like that sense of wonder sort of overtakes yeah as it would absolutely would yeah i thought uh zachary levi was really good me it was really funny he kind of in the same way i mean this is obviously a big homage for them and there's a piano it's a number you know it's it's big with superheroes basically but it captures that kind of wonder of if you're

a kid or anybody really who you were suddenly given these given these abilities that's true and not only like what you would do with it but how would you how you react the kind of panic that would set in yeah right you know what you'd use it for and you know and yeah and also if you actually got in a real fight with an actual adult yes like how you would yeah you would react to that exactly okay here's a question for you is this the best superman movie it's not a superman movie it's not exactly i don't mean that in a bad way no that was our fear i think is that well our fear but i think it was a concern that the best superman movie would be a movie that doesn't have Superman in it at all. Yeah.

But... I feel like this is very much its own character. Yeah, absolutely. And I also, I mean, even if you put aside the powers and abilities, I mean, a lot of his powers are kind of Superman-esque. Yeah. But if you put that aside, the character itself is very different from Clark and Superman. But I think like in terms of like thematically in terms of like, you know, you've got all these powers. Are you going to do good?

Are you not going to do good? What are you going to, you know, how are you going to affect the world and how are you going to, that sort of stuff. And it felt structurally, it felt very... It felt kind of Superman-esque. Yeah. Because we've got a Superman-style hero and we've got a Lex Luthor-style villain in Doctor Sivana. Yeah.

Probably the best Lex Luthor we've seen. Yes, exactly, right? Yeah, even though it's not a Superman movie. Yeah, look, again, I don't... Shazam doesn't feel like... Shazam, the character, doesn't feel like Superman, but I feel Dr. Sivana is a way better Lex Luthor than we've seen in any of the movies thus far.

And his father is also a Lex Luthor. Oh, he's Lionel Luthor. He's Lionel Luthor, yeah. That didn't even twig until that point. He was Lionel Luthor in Smallville, and now he's Mr. Sivana Senior. It's crazy, because in the New 52 run, you know the bullies that are in this? Yes. They've got a father, and he's mr savannah senior it's crazy because in the new 52 run the you know the bullies

that are in this in this yes they've got a father and he's only in the comics and and he's also like a rich bully and he's like you kids are no good or whatever you're scumbag teenagers yeah right he looks exactly like lino luther like they've clearly modeled him off oh interesting that guy yeah right interesting so they got that guy for this. But, sorry, what were you saying? Did I cut you off then? No, no, no. You have in the past, but this time you did not. Let me get out my full thoughts.

No, I'm just saying that I think, yeah, this is a great Lex Luthor, even though it isn't Lex Luthor. Yes. Even though the character was clearly modelled on Lex Luthor back in the day. Yeah, absolutely, definitely. But, no, I think I do wonder. Or wasn't. it's probably a coincidence i don't know well because he was after superman but then didn't he then overtake superman

in sales and then they then they sued then they sued force of comics and then eventually they got him in like the 70s or something yeah they they so for anybody who doesn't know uh uh this character in the comic books is originally called captain marvel so there's a kind of a running gag in the movie as to what this character's name is because again if you become a superhero how do you name the character yeah and also these powers of the powers and the look and the uniform have all been sort of thrust upon him he hasn't built the character from the ground up so he has an idea like he's not batman he's like well i'm a bat so i guess i'm so so there's a running gag in this movie like what do we call the character? And as we go through the movie, the characters,

but he and Freddie Freeman put up some videos on YouTube to sort of increase his notoriety. And he's like, and each time they give him a different name. So the character originally in the comic books was called Captain Marvel. So the character originally in the comic books was called Captain Marvel. And then when DC prevented Fawcett Comics from publishing that character anymore, it went away. And then DC purchased that company and the character. And by the time they were ready to release, like put that character in stories again, Marvel Comics came into being. And so And so they got the trademark for characters with –

they got the trademark for comic books with Marvel in the title. Yes. So Captain Marvel – DC's Captain Marvel couldn't be called Captain Marvel in his – like on comic book covers anymore, so they had to call him Shazam. But they still kept Captain Marvel until like 2012. Yeah, the character can be called Captain Marvel in the comic books, but they just can't use the – they can't put Captain Marvel on the cover.

So it's always Power of Shazam or whatever. Anyway. That's a good story, though. That's a good old story. But in 2012, they officially just went, yeah, we're just going to, it's Shazam. It's Shazam. Which I think it works better now,

considering everything else that's kind of, everything else that's called Captain Marvel at the moment. It's true everything else. It's kind of, you know, everything else is called Captain Marvel at the moment. It's true, yeah. It's a lot. What I did really like about this was his family. I thought they were really well fleshed out. His foster parents and the other kids in the group home, yeah. Which, again, exactly from the comics.

Like, where they're all from as well, they look identical. It's pretty bloody dead on. But that was they look identical it's pretty it's pretty bloody dead on but that was a really it's pretty sick it is pretty sick mason it's a pretty i thought it was a really interesting dynamic and you care about them and they all got their own personalities and whatever and i think they you'd hope so well you think that's the thing you'd think as a bare minimum for a movie each each character would have their own personalities but some movies don't reach that but i just mean because there's so many of them. Yeah, that's true. But you do definitely get a sense of what each one is like.

And they don't get a hell of a lot of screen time each, but you know what each of them is like from that. But I guess one of the set of villains we won't spoil. Yeah, that's fair. Speaking of that villain though, what I did like about him, he kind of brought this kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark, kind of 80s Ghostbusters kind of spookiness to him that's true he did yeah like that kind of danger and magic and judge doom judge from roger rabbit yeah that's right yeah there's definitely a bit of that and you know you see someone touch a door and they kind of burst into flames or

whatever and which is a bit indiana jones and yeah uh and there's like a ghostbusters demon dogs kind of homage. That's true also, yeah. No, I thought he was, like Mark Strong's done a few comic book movies now. Some better than others. Kingsman 2. He wasn't in Kingsman 2, was he? Yeah.

Didn't he die in one? He got hit with a rocket launcher? No. Yes. That's Kingsman 2. Oh, sorry, I'm thinking of Kick-Ass. Yes. But he did get hit with a rocket launcher in Kingsman 2 or a mine.

Yeah, similar to mine, yeah. Yeah, sorry, yeah. Mark Strong would-Ass. Yes. But he did get with a rocket launcher in Kingsman 2, or a mine, or whatever. Yeah, it's a mine, yeah. Yeah, sorry, yeah. Mark Strong would have been a good Lex Luthor. I agree. He needs to be, because he's this guy. Well, I mean, maybe this is the new DC superhero franchise. Maybe Shazam's going to kick off in a way that Superman kind of hasn't yet. Yeah, I would definitely say so this this also

feels like and i don't mean this in a bad way it's dc's response to deadpool i didn't feel that at all but go ahead in a kind of it's it's self-referential it's aware of what it is uh not not in these like he's winking at the camera and and whatever but it's i think deadpool kind of paved the way for this kind of silliness yeah i don't mean i don't mean it's a rip-off that's not what i'm yeah i mean this in the best way you're saying it's a direct rip-off of deadpool deadpool who was also himself a direct rip-off of another character yes but i feel like that opened the door for this yeah i guess that's true and it's also it's this this movie is definitely a reflection of the savviness of the comic book movie fan because we've got, in the movie, Freddie Freeman, his foster brother,

he's mad for superheroes, as you would be in a world that has superheroes in it. He's got a replica Batarang. He's got what is supposedly a bullet that bounced off Superman. Yeah, uh-huh. And I think that's a good, that's off Superman. Yeah. Uh-huh. So, and he, and I think that that's a good, that's, that's a really good mechanism.

Yeah. He's a good, he's a fun character and he's not as annoying as he could be, which is nice. Yes. And he's a good mechanism for, okay, well,

if you're, if you've become this superhero, how do we figure out what your deal is? Yes. Because he's such a big fan. He knows what powers people have and he knows how to sort of how to how would you bring those powers out yeah absolutely yeah that's a fun montage of them trying to trying out different things and he's pretending power was one thing and then he'll

he's doing a different test at the same time he doesn't have the wisdom of solomon that yeah that's true yeah yeah supposed to be one of his powers. He never gets it at any point, does he? No, he doesn't. Yeah. I think, though, in the comic, maybe it's different in the New 52 version, his wisdom is more like magical wisdom, but he doesn't really have that either. He definitely doesn't have that.

He has no idea. I haven't really read that many appearances of Captain Marvel. Maybe something you access, like the way you access the lightning powers. Like, he didn't know he could do that. That's true. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because in the comic books, it's more like the versions I've seen, it's more like he'll recognize like a scepter or something like that. He'll be like, oh, that's the scepter of blah, blah, blah. They still use that in comics. The scepter of blah, blah, blah. Yeah, the scepter of blah, blah, blah. I thought it was out of continuity. Right.

It's interesting as well. They brought it back. Yeah. I thought it had a few kind of pacing issues though go ahead i think it kind of there were moments where it kind of it kind of meandered and it kind of took its time to kind of really i think it was a bit long in in spots where it was because it was kind of i don't know the arc that it took and it kind of i don't know it felt like the pacing it was off i couldn't even say specifically how but there were moments

where i just felt like we can move this along you know what to me it felt like it was very much it was very enjoyable for me but i feel like and i wouldn't say it was by the numbers necessarily but i think it hit all the beats that a superhero like in this style should have hit yeah and i guess if you are if you've had your fill of that sort of thing you might be like pick it up we know how this works. And maybe that was also because I kind of knew where it was going based on the things that I'd known. Actually, you're right in the sense that he does have this,

the arc of Billy Bats and Shazam in this is that first, initially he just wants to use the powers for like to personal gain and kind of show off and that sort of stuff. And I think there's maybe one too many beats of him and and freddie freeman having an argument of like well you should use this for good and he's like but i just want to be cool shoot atms or whatever yeah yeah so maybe you're right in that sense yeah there is even like the final battle was a bit kind of like and now we're over here and now i'm back as billy and now you're over here and i'm over here and let's go over here like i thought it was a bit kind of yeah right now you're over here and I'm over here and let's go over here. Like I felt it was a bit kind of, and now you're over here.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Yeah. Yeah. But it did have heart. It did have heart, yeah. I think in a lot of ways probably Wonder Woman was probably the last one that did it as well. That had heart? Yeah.

I think this has more heart, quite frankly. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah. Because I think, and it wasn't, I quite like the ending to this. There's a kind of one fight going on and there's another fight going on relatively near. And one I enjoyed more than the other, which we'll talk about that more in spoilers. But it's definitely better than the Wonder Woman finale of Fire and Smoke. Absolutely it is.

It's none of that. Although it has, but it's some of it. We'll talk about it in spoilers. Okay. Definitely not as much. No, absolutely not as much. I was also going to say, I think a lot of people, you can feel... It's better than Aquaman

is what I'm saying. It's better than Aquaman. You can feel people's enjoyment in the cinema. I saw it on like a Thursday afternoon at just a regular cinema. It wasn't packed

by any stretch of the imagination, but at the end, people applauded. Ah, really? Like just regular, but like, good. I like this one.

Fine. Thank you. Finally. And that's been happening. Like I've been sent a few tweets of like, I was in the cinema the end people applauded yeah like just regular but like good this i like this one so finally and that's been happening like i've been sent a few tweets of like i was in the cinema people applauded yeah so well that's fun yeah uh what did you think of the action though ah i thought it had better action than batman superman uh i mean there's some good action in batman superman but i'm thinking of like the Batman Superman actual fight, which I thought was pretty weak. It was so weak and dumb. And also, if an action sequence in this movie is dumb,

I'm... Because he is dumb. He is dumb. I'm willing to believe that a 14-year-old boy who is barely in control of weird lightning powers that he just got doesn't know what he's doing. But I'm not willing to believe that a 50 year old super batman doesn't know how to fight somehow yeah absolutely but there's a bit the first confrontation he has with dr savannah i quite liked like the reactions

he had i thought were quite genuine uh-huh yeah you know what i mean where you know he kind of sucker punches him at one point, which I quite enjoyed. But yeah. Maybe we'll do spoilers. How about that? Okay, I'm going to say best movie ever. Definitely. Do we have any thoughts about any other...

What do real reviewers talk about when they talk about a movie? That's a good question. We talked about pacing. We talked about performances. We talked about special effects are good. That doesn't look like a cheap movie. I like the costume. I also like the costume.

I know it's kind of over the top and down. Yeah, uh-huh. But that's why I like it. Yeah. Because I didn't try to make it like- Edgy. Like, I can't talk about it. There's about other costumes in the DC universe, which I don't like.

Yeah, right. Which are highlighted in this movie. Okay, that's all right. But, no, I think it's intentionally kind of garish and bright and gold and dumb. He's wearing gold moon boots. Yeah, and I think it's great. I think it's really, really fun. And they even acknowledge it.

He's like, well, maybe you didn't get to pick his costume or whatever. Yeah, right. So this weird terrycloth bloody cape that he's got or whatever. Yeah. I think this one's very enjoyable. I don't think it's like amazing. I'm not like this is the best comic book movie ever made,

but it's fun, man. And it's a fun standalone. Yep. You don't have to know anything going in. It's a movie where the people in it know Superman and Batman. Yep. Which versions? Who knows?

Who knows? You don't have to be up to date with Aquaman and blah, blah, blah. You don't. If you've got a vague awareness of it, you don't even need that. You really don't. It's good for kids and adults alike. Yes. Kids at heart.

Kids at heart. Kids who fart. All right, steady on. All kids. Wow. You've really lowered the tone of this. Thank you. Spoilers.

I like the reveal that his mum is kind of a deadbeat, and he has that realisation that... That he has to do everything on his own. Yeah, because it's kind of heartbreaking, but then you kind of see where he goes, well, I don't have this, but I've got this. My real family. My real family, yeah.

I thought that was really nice. That was nice, yeah. And there's not a lot of movies... They did the Mark Wahlberg-Foster movie, kids' movie. Instant family! Yeah, which is apparently quite fun and whatever. But you don't... You've lost me forever, Cade Jaeger.

It's not your fault, but it kind of is. But he did too. He did do too. Yeah. You don't get to see really movies, mainstream movies about foster families or whatever that much. That's true. I mean, you might get an indie whatever,

but I think it's good to kind of make this kind of movie for general audiences because, you know, kids being adopted or whatever that much. That's true. I mean, you might get an indie whatever, but I think it's good to kind of make this kind of movie for general audiences because, you know, kids being adopted or whatever, or their parents are not conventional parents or whatever, it's a good message. It's something good to see. If we're in spoilers, here's my biggest thing, issue. He doesn't get a name in this movie.

Well, if he says Shazam, he'll change back. That's what I'm saying. So he can't say his name. Yeah. But in the comic books, he's still Captain Marvel. Yeah. So what's his name? name. Yeah. But in the comic books, he's still Captain Marvel. Yeah. So what's his name? I really think they should have done a gag where they just go,

I'm going to call myself Captain Marvel. You know? Maybe they couldn't. Like legally. Yeah, maybe. I guess that's true. But it kind of bugs me that he doesn't have one. Yeah.

You know? Well, Aquaman didn't get a name, did he? Oh, they call him the Aquaman, I think. Yeah, they do. I think Affleck says it to him at one point. Yeah, Lex Luthoraman didn't get a name, did he? No, they call him the Aquaman, I think. Yeah, they do. I think Affleck says it to him at one point. Yeah, Lex Luthor should have given him a name. He just shows up at the end. I was surprised.

He goes past in his yacht. He's like, you're Captain Marvel. I bet you can't wait to see a worm, Dr. Zavanna. Mr. Mind. And yeah, and also bloody- Black Adam? Lex Luthor standing next to each other. Yeah. Skidding for Mr. Mind. And yeah, and also bloody- Black Adam? Lex Luthor standing next to each other. Yeah.

Skidding for Jesse Eisenberg. Ah, so good. Yeah. I'd forgotten who Mr. Mind was, but it turned up. It was one of those moments where I'm like- Did it blow you, Mr. Mind? No, I was like, I don't get that at all. But also, it's having-

I skimmed through the comic again because I did an Easter egg video. Mitch edited it. Thank you, Mitch. But it's the end of the comic it's the exact ending yeah right mr mind comes up and is like you want to do some evil stuff or whatever i'm glad i didn't read it in advance no you you definitely benefited from that yeah but um okay so you know what one bit i didn't particularly like the fact that he didn't get a name at the end i agree yeah both of us agree with that but that didn't bother me, actually. I thought it was kind of fun. But...

They've got to give him... What are they going to do? They've got to call him Shazam and he can just never say it. That's what it's going to be. But how would they know? Someone else will say it. Also, they all say Shazam. Yeah.

So, are they all called Shazam? Like his family. Yeah, because like... I like the... I didn't know Adam Brody was going to show up in this. That I really enjoyed. He was also the Flash. He was going to be the Flash in Justice League Mortal. Oh, right. Uh-huh. So, because I like the Adam. I didn't know Adam Brody was going to show up in this. That I really enjoyed. He was also the Flash. He was going to be the Flash in Justice League Mortal.

Oh, right, uh-huh. So that was cool. And someone from Riverdale, like the Asian dude's Riverdale, the guy from Riverdale. Yeah. That was really fun, seeing the family get all the superpowers. So they all, in the 52 version, they all have one power each? In the 52 version i'm fairly

confident they just divide his powers right okay so it's kind of diluted but this they make mention that one of them's got speed and they all seem to have one power each so adam bro adam brody can fly yeah and yeah the rest are split up but i don't know if that was really clear because they all could still punch a lot and that's true yeah whatever yeah yeah so i don't know yeah because yeah captain punch a lot captain punch a lot there we go yeah because one had the zappy powers and but who's got wisdom like what do you get i think mary marvel had wisdom okay because she seems to be the worst at fighting oh yeah because she was just consumed by a by a big demon yeah okay i didn't like the demon designs i thought they were kind of generic and sameyy. Yeah.

But you can remember some of them, right? One was a big mouth. One had wings. One had four arms. Maybe. No, definitively. Maybe, Mason. It eats Lionel Luthor.

Cool. Yeah. But I couldn't tell you the rest of them. I love that bit where we're in the boardroom and he just pitches that guy at the window. I enjoy that a lot. It's good because I think these kind of, because it's a kid's movie, sort of.

I think this kind of element of a little bit scary that it felt like it felt like batman 89 when the joker shows up at the the mobsters meeting and he's like i'm gonna kill all of you yeah and he does he does he murders them all i liked i like that savannah's whole like he'd spent years i really enjoyed that he'd spent years trying to find his way back to the Rock of Eternity. Yeah. That was fun. And he did. He did it. He's a winner.

In a way, he's a winner. Yeah, he's a winner. But I also enjoyed how he gave Billy Batson the powers just because he's like, I just have to give it to someone. Yeah, right. And it's you, I guess. It's you, I guess, yeah. Yeah, because I guess there is no perfect person. Because even the previous person that he gave him to turned out to be shit.

Yeah. He really built a rod for his own back, didn't he? He certainly did. Yeah. That bloody Jumon Honsu is really good at dying in comic book movies. Boy, is he. He was an aquaman for four seconds as a fish man. There's a minute in the movie where we see a guy.

He looks maybe... I think it's maybe during the first fight with Savannah, we see a man who looks maybe like a homeless dude or a rough-looking dude, and it looks like the wizard Shazam, but like in civilian clothing. And I thought that would come back at some point, but it never does.

I'm like, that looks exactly like Shazam. It's not the guy. It looks like the guy. It's not the guy? But it wasn't, It never came up again. Never came up again. He's probably still alive. Yeah, he probably is.

Do you think that, well, the wizard, I know in the New 52, I think he's dead. Or he definitely dies in that run. Oh. But in other versions, he's still alive, isn't he? Correct. He's like in a super Illuminati. Yeah. With some of the other.

He's in like, they're called the Quintessence. Yeah. And they're like a super Illuminati that are always like there's danger approaching let's not do anything it's one of those one of those guys and he's also like superman will go up to him be like what are you doing yeah giving powers to what are you doing give it stop it stop it yeah boy okay so superman's in this he's not really, though, is he? No, it's not. It's not him. Yeah.

Like, they obviously didn't get Henry Cavill. Do you think he's still Superman? I don't know, but I think he should have been. Like, I mean, he doesn't owe them any favours. No. They put him in some bad movies and didn't really do justice. Some people loved them. Whatever.

That didn't really do justice, as it were, to that character That didn't really do justice as it were to that character. But he could have been in it for five minutes. Come on. Not even that. He could have done that. What he could have done is they could have put the suit on him. He could have walked on set, sat down, stood up again and left. Yep.

And that would have been it. Also, they definitely have a scan of his head. They could do it without his permission. And not only that, like I mentioned this in the Easterter egg video they've definitely got green screen footage of him yeah right like 100 they could have used him so i think but maybe if you put him in what if he sat down he had the full mustache on did you see that leaked image yeah yeah i mean i'm sure finally finally looks good yeah he looks great just let him have a mustache if they If they had to Lois I think this looks good It's weird

I've been in I've been I've been dead for a bit And only my moustache grew Don't I look good Oh They could have just If they had given him a beard

It wouldn't have been a problem That's what I'm saying Yeah It wouldn't have been a problem They would have just made that Creative decision If you're gonna do Moustache

And then like heavy stubble Heavy stubble Would have looked great That's what he pretty much had in Ghost Protocol. In Fallout. Yeah, exactly. There you bloody go. Yeah, so I don't know if he's Superman though.

Yeah. Because I think they would have used him otherwise, like with just a scan or whatever. Yeah, right, right, right. I don't know. I mean, maybe he is, but it just seems odd that. Yeah. It's also kind of a gag that you don't see him,

but it felt like I saw it with one of my brothers and he was like, that really kind of ruled the area. This, like this weird. Yeah, right. That suit is fucking horrible as well. That Superman suit. That's what I was going to say before. It's just slick and gross.

Yeah, right. Slippery. Yeah. It's no good. It's no good. And it's not the one they, it's not the Justice League one that they kind of. It's the Batman v Superman one. Yeah. of it's the uh batman v superman one yeah the dark miserable one yeah the gross one dogs at the door dogs at my feet do you think

they're gonna do it like are they affleck's obviously gone do you think they're gonna for now no he's out forever but do you think they're gonna do a justice league with these characters the ones that people like and henry cavill i would i would be keen to see i would be keen to see some sort of superman shazam team up where but even that even that like that makes sense in the in the comic book universe where it's like you know know, Superman who's been doing it for years. Like, he's doing the superhero game for years and years. And then he has to mentor, like, a guy who's just as powerful as him. Yeah.

But he's a little boy. That would be fun for them to go on adventures. But also, Shazam is not a murderer. That's true. I mean, who's teaching who is what I'm saying. Yeah, exactly. That's right, yeah. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah. You're right, it wouldn't work. Yeah. Okay, now, Billy, just snapped this guy's neck. But he's just robbed a bank. Is that fair? Is it?

You got the next one. Yes. I enjoyed that bit where they were fighting in the sky at the end. Yeah. And he's doing the supervillain speech. Yeah. Too far. Because I guess he doesn't have super hearing or whatever.

I guess he doesn't. Or maybe you can't access it yet. Yeah, exactly. It's a wisdom doesn't have super hearing or whatever. I guess he doesn't. Or maybe you can't access it yet. Yeah, exactly. It's a wisdom of Solomon situation. That's right. What were you saying about the, you thought it was a bit smoky and CGI fire or whatever? Well, they're just, they're big grey demons, aren't they? Yeah.

Yes. I don't like that. Yeah. They'll kind of just like look like poo monsters. They did look like poo monsters, yeah. Yeah. But I did enjoy the, he kind of tricks the demon out of him and. Yeah, right, right.

That's slightly different in the comics. He doesn't have the, that comic actually, it's based, the villain is Black Adam. Right. And then there's Savannah who's got an eye that can see magic that's also killing him. And then you've got the seven deadly sins separate from that again. Oh, they're separate, okay, right.

And they're also, they've been trapped in human form and they also have distinct looks. They don't just look like, just look like a gross poo monster. Yeah, right. They look like things. Okay. Yeah. We got no Black Adam post-credits sequence.

No. Which I thought was interesting. I mean, he's definitely, I'd say, off the success of this. Yeah, right. I think even if this doesn't crush the box office, I think they'll still make another one based on how well it's been received by people. As they should. Yes. Yeah. It's nice. It is nice. It's a nice fun movie. It's nice to like nice things. make another one based on how well it's been received by people as they should yes yeah it's

nice it is nice it's a nice fun movie like nice things it is like it's nice it's nice situations nice people that's right nice movies man this guy should be the lex luther though yeah i know right yeah he's he's got the skills he's got the head he's got the head for it looks great bald he does look good bald he always has a great leather jacket does have a good he's got the head. He's got the head for it. He looks great bald. He does look good bald. He always has. He's got a great leather jacket. He does have a good jacket. He's got a weird suit. Yeah, he's got that fur-lined collar maybe. There?

Yeah. I thought the Santa Claus running gag wasn't great. Yeah, I didn't think that was good either. Yeah. Anyway, all in all, go and see it. Good fun time. Or see a different movie. Got some reviews here from people who...

You may have some more thoughts, Mason, and you're welcome to share them in the meantime. Todd Steele says, Just saw Shazam. It was pretty good. I feel like Mark Strong was meant to make up for Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor. Best movie ever.

Vanjie says, I love Shazam. Kudos to DC for showing us the Marvel family in action. Like what's Lex Luthor's power in the DC universe? He's rich. He's got a boat. He's rich and he's got a boat like the kevin spacey one yeah i know yeah good and introduce characters without spelling out who they are the noticeable homeless guy in the crowd when shazam catches the bus is talky tawny right uh i thought that was a talking tiger it is yeah okay right i thought that was a real because you know when at, yeah. Okay, right. I thought that was a... Because, you know, at the end, they're in the...

I think that also saved this movie from being kind of grey smoke monster ending as they put it in a fairground. It was nice to be in a real place. Yeah, right. Things were... People were running into things. But at the end, they're in the prize booth. Yeah.

And he gives the little girl the tiger. And he's after a tiger at the start. I think that... And he's also got tigers on his suit. Ah, right. The things connecting his cape, the little tiger heads. The tigers. And he's after a tiger at the start. I think that. And he's also got tigers on his suit. Ah, right. The things connecting his cape, her little tiger hands. Oh, the tigers.

Okay, that's a fun. Dan says, Shazam is truly delightful, though I wish I would have gone without seeing the trailers, which give away many of the best jokes. Also, the sky-high hype surrounding it made me feel slightly underwhelmed, which is unfortunate

because it's not the movie's fault. And Nick Key says, she says they finally made a movie where every single line was a witty meta quip. Also, does this mean that everyone in the world can be Shazam now? Because that means if you say the name, you can change into Shazam. But I think you have to have the powers to. Yeah. And I think the magic was destined for him and his

family right i don't think just anybody could do it but i think he can transfer it to whoever oh i say right because he told the staff and i guess so yeah just split it among the world we all get a little bit oh that's pretty cool we could all charge our phones forever oh that's the power i want because this movie is all about, if you could have flight or invisibility, which power would you choose? Which phone would you charge with it? Charge my own phone. That'd be incredible.

I wouldn't have to carry around one of those little battery packs anymore. You'd explode it every time. I'd explode it every single time. But everybody would get it, you know. You'd go back to the Apple store and you'd be like, I exploded this and the guy would be like, yeah, I exploded a few as well. I'll give you a new one.

We all have that power now. We all do. Anything else? There's seven deadly sins. Yep. And there's seven chairs in the thing. So the seventh guy is Black Adam. Is that the rule?

On the Rock of Eternity, there's seven of them. I don't think any of them are Black Adam. I think they gave their powers to Black Adam because they had that montage, you know, the bit where he goes, and we gave it to this guy, but then he killed a bunch of people. Oh, that's Black Adam. With it, yeah.

Right, okay. I believe so, yeah. Right, okay. We're going to be getting that movie in a few years' time. I hope so. Me too. And you know what it's time for? What's it time for?

What we're reading. Oh, what we're going to read. I'm doing a thing. I'm doing a thing. to read i'm doing the thing what are we reading today we just had a funny little quip during that uh we didn't there was no break there was no break james has edited in the the the theme but there was no pause so there was no i might edit in some banter in post just just some old banter from maybe the first episode of the show uh what are you reading mason uh i've been actually watching a friends of the show stupid old studios yes how you as we know have a show called gamey gamey game

with that and now that i'm back in the world of gamey gamey games you bought one game calm down yeah i bought one bloody nintendo boy over here that's right that's you well i figured i'd get back into that show. It's great. It is. It's good. It's got a great team. It's often Evan, Evan Munro-Smith.

Often. Often. Always. Always. Always. But often Ben Russell, Naomi Higgins. Often. Often them.

Yep. Mark Bernano. Yeah, he's good. Marty Donner's on there. Yeah, it's really good. It's a good show. People should watch it. You told me that you were going to make Evan put you back on that show.

I said I'd ask nicely. You said make. I said I'd ask nicely. Because there's maybe Mortal Kombat 11 is coming out. I'll probably buy that and play it. 23rd of April, we looked it up before the show. You also mentioned before the show that you were going to recommend some comedy stuff. Well, if you're in Melbourne.

Will Anderson, obviously, Mason. Yes, obviously. Yeah. But here's some people who didn't pay us. Just be clear will anderson didn't pay us no it came comes through a separate organization he's not paying us out of pocket to promote his show no that's true because we've done a bad job yes but anyway here's some shows i've already seen yep and some i haven't seen but i'm going to recommend anyway uh who are part of the planet broadcasting network got it and have live shows yes our friends alistairair and Andy from Two in the Think Tank,

they have a show called Magma at the Comedy Festival, which is an engineering presentation about magma. It's really smart and incredibly dumb. I've seen it. I love those guys. I loved the show last year. It's such a good show. It's really good.

You should see that. Danielle Walker from Batch Bitch has a show called Myths and Legends, which is about myths and legends, some of which are real, some of which are not, some of which are not. And it's really funny. I've seen that one. Fantastic. Josh Earl has two shows.

He has Josh Earl Talks, which is a show. He's not doing any guitars. He's not doing any... There's no gimmicks. There's no gimmicks to this show. Oh. You like some gimmicks, though. No, don't.

There's no train cakes. It's a story about his... A story that happened in his life. It's an amazing story. I've seen that show. It's really good. He also has Don't You Know Who I Am on the weekends, which is just his podcast live.

Great guest. You should definitely see it before he has to edit out all the scandalous bits, which happens often in the live show. He's like, well, that's not going in. Our friends over at Do GoOn are doing live podcasts. They've got a couple left. Of course. I might be on one of them.

We'll see what happens. Okay. Matt Stewart has his show, Bone Dry, which is great. We've been getting very good reviews. Get in quick for that one. He sells out a lot of the time.

Our friends Vic and Em, they're comedy gems. They have some live shows. Comedy gems. Yesterday's show had Dilrok Jayasena and Guy Montgomery from New Zealand.

Great show. Comedy. Yep. Emily Tressida has a live stand-up show also. Get on that. Comedy. But also our friend Tommy Daslow, he's got a live stand-up show. Comedy.

What's his show called this year? It's called Balding Cherub. Oh, that's right. I think it's the funniest show he's ever done. Really? Yes. But you don't like his comedy. I know.

That's the twist. That's the twist. Chimpcop is a sketch comedy duo. Not a duo. There's four of them. There's two duos. They're is a sketch comedy duo. Not a duo. There's four of them. There's two duos. They're funny every year. They've got a show that's great.

Friends of the show, Becky Lucas, Cameron James, have shows that are also great. Cameron James from Finding Drago. Michael Williams. I'm going to see his show tomorrow night, Monday night. Yep. So if anybody wants to come along, say hi. Absolutely.

And purchase a ticket for his show. We'll all see it together. Do it. Let's sell out his first show. When's Say hi. Absolutely. And purchase a ticket for his show. We'll all say it together. Do it. Let's sell out his first show. When's this coming out? I don't know. Okay, good. Monday.

All right, cool. All right. Well, if anybody's hearing this on Monday and in Melbourne, it's on at like 9.30 or something. Yes. Let's all go to that. You did a live show, but is that being released as a... Oh, I did a show called Big Deal. Yes.

Our friends over at Sandspan's Radio did it. It's a big deal yes friends over at sans pants radio did it it's a nightmare quiz show and i think it was being filmed so that might come out on youtube i'll let you know if it does i'll let you know if it does how about that anyway what are you reading um i haven't seen any comedy yet because i ran home with holes in me oh you did that happened you had that medical issue yeah yeah i'm not medical issue. But I did watch the first two episodes of The Twilight Zone. First two, you say? I had them sent to me, which was nice. Oh.

But basically, if you don't know The Twilight Zone. If only I had someone who could send them to me. You don't. But basically, it's a spooky time. Oh, yes. And the first episode is about a comedian, but maybe he bloody bit off more than he can chew, whatever. And then everyone dies at the end and he wants to wants to just read but then he breaks his glasses that's right yeah what happens in the second episode i don't know wow i just couldn't bring myself to

watch it too spooky you were spooked the second one was that was that the the play on the gremlin on the wing one was it really but it's not that okay but it is it is it is plain focus i didn't really like the first one. I thought it was kind of flat and kind of predictable. And you know when you see stand-up in... In TV shows and movies. And it's not really supposed to be good, I believe, the stand-up. Yeah, right. Because it's just kind of saying anything and people are loving it.

But that means you have to watch bad stand-up. Yes. Also, is the premise of the first episode that he makes some sort of deal and he's the funniest man in the world? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, along those lines. Yeah, but then at what cost, et cetera. And I just think it was... And I think my problem with The Twilight Zone is,

and I shouldn't have a problem with... There's no... Diversity. Diversity is a huge problem for me. But not only that, there's no... White people. Yeah, I'm not a fan, but there's no... There's no um white people yeah they're not a fan but there's no there's no final solution it's all right i've run out adam scott's in the second one but uh yes which i enjoyed a lot more

i enjoyed the second one a lot more there's no explanation for anything ever it's just like what a weird thing that's true yeah right yeah that's true yeah but but i think you just got it that's the twilight zone isn't it? That is true, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't need a like, and then this happened and this is the moral. Like, it's more moral based than... Yeah, okay.

Do you feel like this version of the Twilight Zone has been influenced by, say, Black Mirror? Yes, definitely. Really? Except they don't explain anything. Yeah, right. Yeah. With Black Mirror, it's like, it's an app! Do you get it?

But too far. Too many apps. Yeah, but I think it's, I mean, because it's an anthology, it's up and down, obviously. That's true, yeah. And I enjoyed the second one a lot more, which also had a podcast in it because, you know, it's an app. But too far.

You better believe it's an app, but too far. Yeah, there we go. That's good. Okay, maybe I'll watch some episodes. Maybe someone will send them to you. Oh, is it you? I don't two. Yeah, there we go. That's good. Okay, maybe I'll watch some episodes. Maybe someone will send them to you. Oh. Is it you?

I don't know. Oh, God damn it. What's next? The next is letters. So we're going to do a letters theme. I'm going to put it in. The classic one was letters, oh letters. We love you, some letters. They're only a take my way.

I know they're here right now. We're going to do letters. Now, I deliberately didn't say anything then because as this comes out live, just to prove there was no banter while the thing was happening. There's none. Silence. And then we do more of the episode.

We are doing more of the episode. It's the latest segment. If you want to reach the show, hashtag weeklyplanetpod on Twitter or weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com. Mason also sometimes dips into the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates group.

That's a really good group if you want to talk about a discussion about a current movie or a podcast or anything that you're doing or up to. If you want to post a meme,

there's a meme thread. Put it in the meme thread. Yeah, don't not put it in the meme thread. Put it in the meme thread. Look at all the memes. You'll make Eleven's upset. Is that what you want?

Look how many memes are in the meme thread. Yeah. All the meme thread. Look at all the memes. You'll make Levin's upset. Is that what you want? Look how many memes are in the meme thread. Yeah. All the hot memes. All the hot memes. Hot fresh memes. It's Levin's birthday. It is too. Happy birthday, Andrew Levin.

Don't make him go crazy with memes. Yeah, that's true. Unless you find a great birthday meme. Then post that 100 times. Post the meme 100 times. Mason, what have you got in terms of letters? Oh, this is from Twitter today. Okay.

This is from Amit Gitar. I don't think that's how you pronounce it. That's right. What's the most inappropriate film you could make action figures or toys for? Spotlight. Now it's your turn. Oh, man. Let me think.

You don't have to say that one. That's a good question. I find sometimes you see like weird action figures for like... Sometimes it's ironic. Yeah. Sometimes it's like, you know, the informant action figures. Yeah, yeah. You know?

But sometimes they'll be like an obscure... It's not even... It's more collectible figurines and action figures for like... It's like, why is there an office space figurine? That's true, yeah. Stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. But yeah. Good question though. Good question. Well, you've got the best figure eight? That's true, yeah. Stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. But yeah.

Good question, though. Good question. Well, you've got the best answer, mate. I did, yeah. Yeah. I don't have any answers to that. But to tie it into that, though. What's the least action-packed movie there is?

Because that's the point of the action figure, is you smash them together. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What's the least action-packed movie? Yes. So no, does that mean even like drama even? There's not even that dramatic element?

Oh, no, that would be fun. Okay, yeah. Like you could pick a movie like The Family Stone where like it's about a family getting together, but do they really get together? What about Inside Llewyn Davis? And it's just, you get your, somebody make an Oscar, get your Poe Dameron figure and turn it into Llewyn Davis

and just have him like shuffling through the snow, just shivering, getting to gigs that get cancelled. How about this one? It's a multi-pack. It's that movie where seven different actors play Bob Dylan. Oh, I'm not there. It's the Cate Blanchard version. It's the Christian Bale version.

Yeah, that's pretty good. They just do them all. That's great. Great, thank you. I like that a lot. Great and thank you. And, that's pretty good. They just do a ball. That's great. Great, thank you. I like that a lot. Great and thank you. And because they can never interact. They're all Bob Dylan.

Or there's a Bob Dylan action play set. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They kiss. Nice. And they have like a Justice League style table, like round table. With BD in the middle.

With BD in the middle, exactly. Stands for Bob Dylan. Stands for Bob Dylan, yeah. And nothing else. Yes. Great. This is kind of related. Dan Isaac says, hashtag We Who Plan A Pod,

is there any old toys from the film, TV, or comic book world that you wish you had or wish they made? Something you ever look back on and go, man, I wish I had all the original Star Wars stuff. Yeah, right. I mean, that's not an option for me. You know, I've always wanted the Transformers, the movie, the old one, the animated one. RC, who was the one girl Transformer.

Oh, yeah. Did they make that one, though? There's an unofficial one. Oh, there is? There's like, and it's really good. Yeah. Like a new one or like one from then? No, it's quite recent.

It's like a couple of years ago. There's like, there's apparently like a whole grey market of knockoff Transformers toys where people are just like, they didn't make that. I'm going to make it. I'm going to make my own one. I'll do it.

I'll do it. I'll do it. I might do it. No, don't do it. You had the Turtle Bloom, didn't you? I did have the Turtle Bloom. Oh, you son of a bitch. You had the Turtle Bloom.

But you bloody loved it too, didn't you? I did. Yeah, you would. Because it was a really good toy. That's probably why you loved it so much. That's why love it put all my ninja turtles on it yeah yeah i remember i knew a guy who had it and he had it like tied up to his roof no it wasn't you we didn't know each other when we were when we were little little we're still pretty little but littler yeah uh but he was like it was always up on his roof he's like i can't bring it down because it

deflates when you bring it down i'm like like, that's bullshit. You think I'm just going to wreck it? And guess what? I will. I will wreck it. You created a ruse to get him out and then you threw a knife at it. That's right, yeah. Oh, look, it's deflated, but it's still up there. That's weird. How do you explain that?

How do you explain it? I just want to be clear because I had it. It did not deflate. Never deflated. He lied to me. He lied to you, yeah. So do you blow it up when you get it? Yeah, you blow it up when you get it.

It's not a Casper mattress. You've got to blow it up manually. You don't open the box and it's like... But then if you wanted to pack it away, you could deflate it, I assume. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had the van. Turtle van was good.

Yeah. And the skateboard that had the foot underneath it. Oh, that's sick. Yeah, but two of those are no turtle blimp. That being said, the turtle blimp didn't float. No. Unless somebody filled it with helium. I was going to say, filled it with helium would probably float.

There's probably a drone version now that does fly. There definitely is a drone version. That would be great. You know what I like? Batman 89. Proper utility belt. Is that a real thing or is that just something that you... No, that never existed.

Yeah, right. With like a flippy out batarang. Yeah. Throw it at your dad. Not at my dad. When he's trying to escape on a helicopter, throw around his leg, falls to his death. He has to go for dinner.

He's got you. Yeah. You got him. Yeah. Yeah. Let me think. There's nothing really recent. I do look at those like sideshow collectible stuff and be like,

I would love all of these. But I just cannot justify $400 a pop. No, exactly. I think I'd like an Iron Man at some point, but which one? Which one? There's too many. I'd get the suitcase suit. That's my favorite one.

I like the look of that one. That one can't fly, can it? It doesn't seem to be able to. I can't get it then. I got to get something. Just tie it to the roof. No like the look of that one. That one can't fly, can it? It doesn't seem to be able to. No. I can't get it then. I've got to get something. Just tie it to the roof. No, because I don't want that. I can fill it with helium.

That's true, yeah. Yeah, okay. Maybe like one of the... See, that's the thing, because I'd like one of the obscure armors. Yes. Like from Iron Man 3, but then I'd have a collectible from Iron Man 3. Oh, right, yeah. That's a good point.

Yeah, okay. Maybe Avengers era. Yeah, sure. Avengers era Iron Man. That's a good suit. I like that one. Okay, okay. Maybe Avengers era. Yeah, sure. Avengers era Iron Man. That's a good suit. I like that one. Okay, I like that one. I would love to have like an Iron Man armor.

Not like a real, I mean a real one, sure. But like, you know, like a really good cosplay one that like fits me properly. I'd never use it. No. But it would just be good to have. Just keep it in the closet. Because I know if I ever wore it out, people would be like, why do you fucking have this? Exactly.

Because it's cool. That looks really expensive. Yeah, exactly. I couldn't justify it no i wanted the ninja like remember when we were kids the ninja turtles were impossible to get yeah you could not get them anywhere yeah and then there'd be a rumor that they would came out for four minutes and then they were immediately gone or whatever i remember yeah now they mass produce everything get everything on ebay or whatever doesn't really matter i feel maybe i've told you this before but when i was a kid before the the the day before the week the weekend before the cartoon came out here i had i had insider knowledge because i read the archie comics you ninja turtles and i went to kmart and they're all there and i was like grand can you buy me ninja turtle and she's like

those are hideous i'll not buy those for you get them another time yeah and then the the cartoon hit big and then i couldn't get any ever. Damn it. They were just gone. I mean, I could have bought them on my own. Could have not leached off my grandmother, but whatever. What money did you have then? I didn't have any money.

I was going to say. Exactly, yeah. Yeah. But then she bought me the turtle blimps. That's fine. She should have. That's a fair compromise. That's right, yeah.

Yeah. Got one more tweet here. Charlie Newman says. Yes. Hashtag WimpyPlanetPod. What stupid thing do you suspect they might do with the Joker movie, a la the Joker killing the Waynes, killing young Bruce, or driving him insane, et cetera?

Just a lazy subversion of people's knowledge for the sake of shock value. That's a very real possibility. I would put money, not a lot of money because I don't have a lot of money, but I would put a small amount of money on the idea that he drives Bruce Wayne to become Batman. Okay. By killing his dad? Yeah.

Yeah, for sure. And then that's the- Not just like motivates him. Like, you can do it. Yeah, right. This is something that you're destined to do and I believe you can do. And I can see them doing it like it's a fresh, edgy take,

even though it was in the 1989 Batman movie, obviously. It's pretty edgy, though. It's pretty, pretty. And fresh, I should also add. It's fresh and edgy, exactly. It's been 30 years. It's pretty sick. 30 years.

Yeah, right? 30 years this year. It's true. We should do a Batman 89 commentary before Joker. Joker. Okay, let's do it. We probably won't. Because we've got to do Endgame and Wolverine Origins.

You mean Infinity War. Shut up, Mason. Okay. Yeah, I think they Shut up, Mason. Okay. Yeah, I think they'll... Yeah. They'll do something. Because they need to tie it into a DC universe of some sort. Again, otherwise it's just Taxi Driver.

Yeah. So I think they're going to do something that they think is a fresh, hot, edgy take. But it'll just be something we have all seen a million times before. Well, that's what I want. What do you want? I hope that he inspires somebody to become Hawkman. Right? Bruce Wayne.

Fresh. That's fresh. That's very fresh. Yeah, that's good stuff. Is that the show then? Oh, I got one more. One more. You got one more?

This is from My Name is Jeff. Have we been asked this before? It's pretty good though. If they could make a five-member Avengers-like team with only Tom Cruise characters, which five would you select? Sounds like something we'd do, but I'd do this again. Obviously, his character from The Mummy. Yep, I was going to say his character from The Mummy, yeah.

Jack Mummy. Jack Kiss You to Death. What's his name? Yeah, yeah, that guy. Yeah, yeah. Jack Reacher, obviously. The man-mountain Jack Reacher. Yes, yes.

The unstoppable freight train that is big man jack risha i think you've got to go last samurai yep okay for the swords and such swords and such um ethan hunt two number two with a minority report how many is that he's too sad because of his son that's probably true he hasn't got future powers no that's true he's got a very weird jet pack sometimes that's true what about top gun what about got a very weird jet pack sometimes. That's true. What about Top Gun? What about? Got a jet. What about?

It's an 80s jet. Cocktail. What is it? So they get back to base and he's like, here we go. No, he's doing it on mission. Pouring drinks? Pouring drinks, exactly. Are they chemical cocktails to destroy enemies?

No, they're complicated cocktails that take 20 minutes when you're like six deep at the bar, you know? I love those. And everybody's like espresso martinis and you're like, oh God, I just wanted something simple. Just wanted a water. Can you serve me first? We have an express lane, please. There never is.

Yeah. Espresso martini. Okay. For real though, no guy from The Mummy. Oh, you probably should put him because he's got the powers of... He's got the powers of The Mummy. I don't like it, but he's probably in there.

Exactly, yeah. Jack Reacher. Mission Impossible 2, Tom Cruise. You know that's the same as the other Mission Impossible Tom Cruise. No, it's not, Mason. The distinct characters? He's way more indestructible than the other ones. Well, then why wouldn't we just use...

Couldn't we just have Ethan Hunt 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6? No. Really? All right. 1's too kind of espionage-y and sad. All right. Okay. 2's the best one.

Yeah. Not as a movie, but objectively like action-wise. Yeah, he's unstoppable. That's true. Yeah, that's true. You know what I mean? Huh. Are you looking up other Tom Cruise characters?

I can't because my internet is dead in this dead zone. Okay, I'm going to look up Tom Cruise. Okay, good. Yours also might be dead. Days of Thunder. Okay, I'm going to look up Tom Cruise. Okay, good. Yours also might be dead. Days of Thunder. Just a car. Yeah, but what a car. It's just a car.

How dare you. How dare you. Yeah, I know. Tom Cruise, but he can jump on couches. It's just Tom Cruise jumping on couches. I don't know about that. I think he did more harm than good. That's true.

To be honest. Also, the last Samurai one, I'm going to take that one out, because he just got machine gunned. That's true. To be honest. Also, the last samurai one, I'm going to take that one out because he just got machine gunned. That's true. He's not machine gun proof, is he? Barry Seal from the movie American Made? No. He's a gun runner.

Or cocaine dude, isn't he? Edge of Tomorrow guy. Pretty good. He's got the skills. He's got the skills, doesn't he? And he can see into tomorrow. That's true. Can he still do that though?

Depends when you pick him out. It's true. Oh, we're pulling them out of time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or maybe he's the linchpin. He's the linchpin. Yeah. He's driving it all.

Whatever character he played in Night and Day? No. No, it's true. A Nazi from Valkyrie. That's a good one. It's a good one, isn't it? We only want Han, though. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, not him. Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder? No, fuck him. And also, that's not very funny, that bit. I know everyone's like, it's hilarious. Do you get it?

Yeah. Because he's... No, it's not a good joke. Dead Beat Dead, Ray Ferrier from War of the Worlds? Shit film, and no. Okay. Vincent from Collateral. That's a good one.

He's unstoppable. He'd be the villain. Okay. All right. He's the villain. All right. Cool. All right.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay.

Austin Powers. So the version of Tom Cruise that played Austin Powers? Powers, yeah. No, because he's still actor Tom Cruise. Hideously scarred David Ames from Vanilla Sky. Nah. All right. Also not real in a construct.

Spoiler alert. Frank from Magnolia? I haven't seen it and no. Okay, right. Super pervy man from Eyes Wide Shut. I don't know if I've seen all of it and no. Jerry Maguire. Is he on the team?

He sucks. But is he on the team? No. No. Show me your evil plans. He's persuasive. He thought he was leading a revolution of marketing and management. The vampire-less stat.

Yes. Okay. Yeah, because he's a vampire. You get a vampire and a mummy, come on. That team's unstoppable. Yeah. Throw Jack Reacher in there. Yeah, that's right.

You know? Mitch McAdeer from The Firm. No. All right. One of the few good men from a few good men. Hmm. Persuasive again. I guess it depends what kind of team.

It's the Avengers. Yeah. All right, okay. That's kind of your Captain America, isn't it? You said no to this earlier. Yeah. The character from Days of Thunder, but of your Captain America, isn't it? All right, you said no to this earlier. Yeah. The character from Days of Thunder, but were you aware his name's Cole Trickle? Does that sway you either way?

No, he's not in. He's not in. All right, fine. Charlie from Rain Man. I mean, he's mean. That's true. But no. His brother would be better.

Yeah. Because he could fund them. That's true. With casino monies. Yeah. Because he could fund them. That's true. With casino monies. Yeah. Legend? I was going to say every character he played from 1983 onwards. So how about this?

Final lineup. Joel from Risky Business, Stefan from All the Right Moves, Jack from Legend, Maverick, and Vincent from The Colour of Money. All very good. That's the team. I've got to watch Colour of Money. Yeah. It's the Paul Newman segment.

It's the Paul Newman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't seen it. That is a team. That's a team that is going to run rings around you. It's the Paul Newman sequel. It's the Paul Newman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't seen it. That is a team. That's a team that is going to run rings around you. They're going to hustle you, that team. You better believe it, mate. Yeah.

At volleyball, at pool. Cocktails. Cocktails. Football, probably. Probably football. Yeah. Being a legend. Being risky.

Being risky. Yeah. But knowing your business. These are all good. Yeah. Great. Is that the show? I think that's the show, actually. Thanks, everybody, your business. These are all good. Yeah. Great. Is that the show? I think that's the show, actually.

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