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where we talk movies and comics and TV shows.
My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday.
With me as always is my co-host, Nicholas P. Mason.
It's me.
Oh, my God, it's The Weekly Planet.
This is exciting.
We're back.
It feels like it's been a long time, but it hasn't.
It's been precisely one week.
I feel like you say that every three weeks.
You're like, it's been a long time.
Well, because every second week I black out a little bit oh yeah well that's not that's not inaccurate yeah have you been doing anything
exciting that would cause you to black out like a bunch of drugs no it's just what are you doing
with your life then should i be doing drugs is that is that i just thought you're one of those
amphetamine tram drivers or whatever keep going won't stop you know what i mean is that more of
a truck driver truck driver I think, yeah.
Okay.
Because I guess you're not in a rush to get anything anywhere, are you?
No.
The people of Melbourne can wait because safety is more important.
Safety is paramount.
Safety is very important.
Very true, Mason.
You know where safety wasn't paramount?
And that's on the bloody Titanic.
And I'll tell you why, Mason.
Oh, here we go.
Because it hit an iceberg and it sunk and a lot of people died at the time.
And now it's kind of like this thing that people go, i see jokes about jokes about i see exactly where you're going whatever
yes and in in saying that mason james cameron has acknowledged finally as he should yes his defeat
that uh endgame has sunk titanic i enjoy it when a company does this i love a bit of corporate
banter i love it yes but it's more i feel like it's interns bantering with other interns.
Definitely.
Because it's not like James Cameron made this himself, is it?
Surely.
Do you think he commissioned it or he just looked at it and went, fine, or didn't look at it?
I think he did commission it because it's in line with some other stuff that's happened in the past, I think.
In James Cameron's life?
I think there's one.
I think.
There's a Jurassic World one. a there's a Jurassic World one
there's a Star Wars one but there's one I think it's Star Wars and Titanic which is very similar
which I think is I think it's the Star Wars characters jumping on top of the Titanic
yeah it's them being uprooted by Titanic or something like that so I think maybe he's just
remembered that one and he said do it the same uh do it the same in turn do you there was one when titanic probably up on his wall and he's probably like that one do it
like that do it like that one do you think he he sent himself one when avatar beat titanic it was
it was a navi like cramming the titanic into their mouth or whatever that movie was about
what i picture is every time one of his movies beats uh you know a super blockbuster movie he
demands one of his interns makes this thing.
And then one day Avatar beat Titanic,
and his intern rushes in with Avatar beating Titanic,
and he just stares this intern down.
And the intern slowly realises what he's done,
and he realises that James Cameron's reaching for the button on his desk
that opens the floor up and the spikes.
It's like, what have I done?
He demands this, but he know not what he demanded.
James Cameron. So what he demandeth James Cameron
So what he's written is
And it's all
It's all good natured fun
And ribbing mason
An iceberg sank
The real Titanic
It took the Avengers
To sink my Titanic
Imagine if the Avengers
Really
Like a group of superheroes
Really sunk the Titanic
In real life
That's what happened
That would be remembered differently
Wouldn't it
That would be a very different movie
Post end game
Captain America goes back in time.
And in order to achieve his mission, he has to sink the Titanic.
He's like, well, got to-
I want to marry DiCaprio's wife, so I'm going to-
Got to maintain this timeline.
Clang.
Everyone here at Lightstorm Entertainment salutes your amazing achievement.
You also talked about how Captain America was in the iceberg.
Because he was, Mason.
Yeah. Pre-World War II. Pre-World War II, exactly two it's time loops and whatever i don't know man send us your end game theories please we want them all we want them all uh but i'm sorry say
the thing again he was talking about how it's good that people are you know get the amount of people
that they're getting into the cinema and keeping it alive and whatever. So, yeah. I mean, it's only a matter of time before Avatar steals this back.
It's true, yeah.
What does it matter?
It's going to have the double biggest opening of all time.
It's going to get $300 billion.
Right.
So where is Endgame now?
It's not the greatest earner of all time.
That's still...
It's the quickest.
That's still Titanic or that's still Avatar?
That's still Avatar.
But it'll probably catch it eventually.
Yeah, right.
It depends. I think it's going to. But it'll probably catch it eventually. Yeah, right. It depends.
I think it's going to be...
We'll talk about it later.
I haven't got the numbers in front of me.
But I think it didn't beat Detective Pikachu this week.
That makes a lot of sense, actually, yeah.
Yeah.
What do you mean?
What are you saying?
What do you mean by that?
Because kids don't like Pikachus.
Speaking of Pikachu...
I'm speaking of...
We put out a video about Pokemon, the first movie.
And I'm going to say...
I mean, we talked about it and
then ben edited it well that's true yeah yeah we talked about a movie we watched once and somebody
else did the bulk of the work but clearly vindictive pokemon fans have sunk our titanic
it wasn't big no it wasn't it was the company that was the company that owned the good people
of whatever that company's show po yeah yeah Showpo the way it works is
if anybody cares
you can skip ahead
there's time codes
but they claim something
you say no this is mine
I've got this
scripted copyright thing
that's like
this is under fair use
because it's review
and criticism
or whatever
which is true
it's legally
you can do this
you can't upload
like massive chunks
of movies
obviously
but this you can do
and then they say no we still believe it's ours.
And then you say, well, then why don't you bloody do something about it?
And then the next step, and I wasn't familiar with this, maybe some companies can do it,
some can't.
They said, well, they still think it's theirs.
So you can take it down.
Double, double dare.
We're going to give you seven days to take it down.
And if you don't take it down, you get a copyright if you get three copyright strikes they remove your channel by the way
or three strikes of any nature yeah right and then i can appeal after i get the strike
that's good so that video that video when the power that one million subscribers lets you wield
so wonderful but uh you know well i mean after they've double dead you can physical challenge
yeah so if you can get the other end of a maze without getting slimed, you get the video back.
I think I should be able to fight the guy who's making these claims as well.
Yeah.
Because, look, I don't know this person, but I think I could beat him up.
I think you'd probably take him.
For sure.
Well, I've got to come down to that.
And you're there, you're cracking your knuckles.
You're like, I'm ready to go.
And then they're like, Chopo has decided to send in their champion.
And it's just an enormous mountain of a man.
It's just there to, like, challenge copyright claims.
Yeah, they just keep him on the books for that.
Yeah.
Yeah, so it'll result in a strike and then I'll counter that.
And then the video will probably be up in two months and it'll be so buried in my feed that no one will ever see it anyway.
Well, I mean, Detective Pokemon will still be out.
It'll still be making waves.
Don't even worry about it.
Yeah, it'll definitely make us money.
So, yeah, Dove, that's over.
But anyway, we've got more news, Mason.
I'm ready.
Trailers ahoy this week.
Do you want to talk about Spiderman?
Should I find a trailers ahoy?
Some theme music?
Could it be the Captain Pugwash theme music?
No, people sent in.
I don't want big Pugwash coming after us, Mason.
You think that's not a powerful organisation?
All right, well, while you're searching on your phone.
Look, the only thing better than a trailer theme being played out of my phone
is a trailer theme being played out of my phone halfway through the segment.
Spider-Man Far From Home got its...
This is from Fairfuse.
Hang on.
Here we go. This is Mason Trailers Ahoy.oy this is on youtube i don't know what it is mason trailers ahoy i just said that
i know it's crazy how did he make that so quickly it's insane yeah that's a little less than i was
expecting but it's also not a theme that's not a theme really is it there's i thought you were
gonna go for a foghorn which we could have just done you could have just i could have said trailers ahoy and you could have
done a foghorn right but people were kind enough and now that guy's going to come after us yeah
for using this material it's going to take the whole podcast taken out well look we'll do a
trailer and then i'll do the second one that's here okay well we've got twice as long fyi
two foghorns maybe uh so spider-man far it's the third or so trailer but what this one does
and spoilers for Endgame
and also Spider-Man Far From Home probably
yeah
there's actually a trailer
breakdown on my channel
if people want to check it out
it's linked below
it's pretty bloody extensive
there's some stuff in there
don't worry about it
bits of stuff
but it reveals
the aftermath of Endgame
and Tony Stark is dead
and Spider-Man's like
I wish I could be
I need a new mentor.
Maybe this mysterious man will be my mentor.
That mysterious man, Happy Hogan.
Yes, that's right.
Do you think he'd be a good mentor?
No.
He'd be great for lunch.
He'd take you to a good lunch.
He'd definitely take you to a good lunch.
Then he wouldn't listen to any of your problems.
Then he'd send you on your way again.
Absolutely, he would.
Then he'd try to sleep with your aunt.
Is that happening, actually?
Seems that way.
Yeah.
Well, you know, everyone's got needs.
Everyone's human, you know what I mean?
She was at Tony Stark's funeral.
That's true.
Met him like twice that we know about.
That's true, exactly.
He's a slippery eel, that one.
He really is, yeah.
So what did you think?
Shows us a lot of the movie, doesn't it?
Yes.
Apparently there's more secrets to be held.
I don't think there's that many more secrets,
but I guess we felt that way about Spider-Man Homecoming.
We did know most of the plot beats going in,
but we still enjoyed it.
We enjoyed that one a lot, yeah.
I mean, it kind of gives us a reveal that MJ probably knows
that Peter Parker's Spider-Man.
Yep.
What else is it?
It makes sense that she'd figure it out because she's on holiday
and then Spider-Man shows up.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
And all you have to do is go, well, it's obviously not.
It's obviously the one who has the same height and build as Spider-Man.
And he's not here.
Yeah, right.
He's the one that is constantly like, yeah, you'd have to be an idiot.
Yeah.
So also talks like Spider-Man.
Very much so
he's got that voice modulator
but he never uses it
never uses it
yeah
yeah
it's okay
so there's that reveal
there's also
there's the big hullabaloo
about Mysterio saying
it's from a different dimension
right
there's a separate clip
where he says
this Marvel Universe
is Earth 616
right
and it's not Earth 1,000,000
which the MCU
the comic book universe is Marvel 616.
The movie universe is universe 199,999.
Yes.
So, I mean, who knows?
We're not at that stage of the Marvel cinematic universe
where all the universes have been numbered.
It might just be a number that he's pulled out of his ass.
That's right.
Also, he's a notorious liar.
Yes, well, exactly, yeah.
I said this in the trailer breakdown.
The internet seems to have taken on the idea wholesale
that he is definitely from a parallel universe,
and I don't think he is.
See, here's the thing.
I think he could be, but I think he's definitely lying.
There's a bunch of stuff he's lying about.
I'm just not sure which.
He could be lying about all of it.
He could be lying about some of it.
He's definitely created those monsters or brought them with him.
Yes, right.
Or whatever.
Or people have said, is it Chameleon even?
Because there's rumors of that character.
He might be in there, yeah.
Or whatever.
Yeah, I think he's, no, he's not.
He's Mysterio.
He's Mysterio.
He's known for his lies.
He's a bad and petty man.
Well, I think because, I think we mentioned last week,
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has an Agent Coulson from a parallel universe.
He seems to be some sort of inhuman hunter crossing the parallel universes.
And then in Endgame, we have the revelation that there is something akin to parallel universes.
So I think those are the real deal.
And then this is the fake one. Right. Like, those are the real deal and then this is the fact this is the fake one right
like those are those are setting us up so we go well parallel universes that's the that's the
that's the name of the game right now and then in this one so if you want the real story you're
gonna jump on over to agents of shield season five six six get on there get on there you got
your abc is it last season i don't know, I think they've renewed it until seven, maybe. Okay, right.
There you go.
People are loving it.
I should get back on board.
I haven't, but I should.
Apparently the new season is also set before the snap.
Right.
Initially, at least.
Okay.
So they'll probably bleed into that at some point.
Yeah, cool.
Yeah.
New Spider-Man suit.
He's got a couple.
He's got your stealth one.
Yep.
Iron Spider's back.
He's got the black one and he's got the wings.
The other one has the wings, but that one also has the wings.
This one even more so.
Even more so.
Do you think Tony Stark has left him a suit?
It's probably on that plane.
That's what I'm thinking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you think we're going to get a Stark cameo?
Or even a voice recording or a phone message or something like that.
I kind of hope we don't.
Just to let it sit for a bit?
I think because we got the big finale in Endgame.
Yeah.
And I don't really want...
I don't want this to be more of like, okay, well, he's just going to...
Spider-Man, he's going to live in the shadow of Tony Stark forever.
I just want him to be his own superhero for a bit.
I don't disagree with you, but if you can cast your mind back,
and spoilers for the movie Spectre.
Oh, yes. Everyone thought Dame Judi the movie Spectre. Oh, yes.
Everyone thought Dame Judi Dench was gone.
Oh, yes.
But then someone slides a laptop across Bond's table,
and lo and behold, Dame Judi Dench.
There she is on the screensaver.
She's the dancing baby, except it's Dancing M.
And he's like, what's this?
And they're like, just shake the mouse.
Just waggle the mouse, and the screensaver will just waggle the mouse.
Yes.
There it is.
Okay.
So it wouldn't surprise me because apparently the Russos were saying that he,
Robert Downey Jr. wasn't keen on letting it go.
Right.
Because he still enjoys being this character.
Which is fair.
He seems like he's been having fun for 11 years.
Yeah, right.
Which is why I think.
And getting paid.
And getting paid.
I saw a video on YouTube a couple of days ago from Architectural Digest.
YouTube.com?
Yeah, YouTube.com.
And it was a tour around his windmill house.
So I think he's just enjoying buying houses, buying unusual houses.
Where's his windmill house?
I don't know.
Is it a modern windmill house?
I'm thinking like...
No, wait.
Maybe it's a lighthouse house.
He would have.
It's a lighthouse house, I think, actually.
I tell a lie there.
Did he buy the lighthouse from Around the Twist? Yes, he did, yeah. That's a lighthouse house i think actually i tell a lie there did he buy the lighthouse from around the twist yes he did yeah it's a very specific reference but don't worry
about it everybody he got all the ghosts shoot out of the lighthouse i visited that once that
lighthouse did you it sucks because i thought there was like stuff inside it's not a functioning
lighthouse i think it might still be right but they're like do you want a picture in front of
the like there's a board of pictures from the tv series they're like, do you want a picture in front of the, like, there's a board of pictures from the TV series Round the Twist.
Like, do I want a picture in front of the pictures of the cast of Round the Twist?
Yeah, right.
Uh-huh.
No.
Okay, right.
Don't want that.
Anyway, it's a beautiful area, though, wherever it is.
Yeah.
I can't remember.
Ocean Grove, maybe?
Anyway.
So he wants in.
He wants back in as many.
Let's get rid of the dog.
Yeah, I'm going to let the dog out.
She's only going to come back.
Yeah, I know. All right. But yeah, you keep talking, Mason. I rid of the dog. Yeah, I'm going to let the dog out. She's only going to come back. Yeah, I know.
But you keep talking, Mason.
I don't want to.
Well, you have to.
I only respond to the things that you say.
I can't speak on my own.
I'll lift the door ajar so she can come on back if she needs to.
So bloody.
So lighthouses.
Yeah, I mean, what's your favourite?
Castle Rock Entertainment.
Yeah, definitely.
You know, that one.
I know the one.
It's in the logo.
They've probably modernised it. It probably looks great. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that one? I know the one. It's in the logo. They've probably modernized it.
It probably looks great.
Yeah.
It's probably sending out tweets.
Yes, it definitely is.
Instead of lights, it's sending out tweets.
It almost certainly is.
Yeah, so I think that there's more,
because we made that video about theories and how people can return.
And there's a lot of like, just let them die.
Not everyone has to come back.
I agree.
I would be fine if these actors were happy to not come back.
Yeah, right.
It's completely up to them.
But I just don't think we're in a scenario where that is likely.
Like monetary-wise, all parties involved,
I just don't think it doesn't make sense
to never, ever, ever, ever bring any of them back.
Well, that's true.
And I think Sony especially would be like,
look, if we pay Robert Downey Jr. a couple of million dollars
to show up for five minutes and just say some words of wisdom,
we put that in the trailer,
and then this movie sells like gangbusters because he's in it.
I think I read that he did three days' work on Homecoming,
and he got paid $5 million or something like that.
Yeah, right.
Three days.
Wow, that's pretty good.
Man.
You buy a lot of lighthouse houses with that. bet he bought a couple at least bought a couple
of is it a modern lighthouse or is it one of the old ones where you're going to change the globe
every six months or whatever because the new one i don't think there's any law i don't think i don't
think in purchasing the lighthouse house he has to maintain the job of being the lighthouse that's
ridiculous well then what are you buying it for because clearly somebody put it there for a reason yeah and they just use tweets now you just stay away from the rocks yeah
that's what it just says hashtag stay away from the rocks it just says at you you're a ship's
captain and you just have to look at your notifications every once in a while and it
just says at uss american spirits stay away from the rocks. And you're like, whoa, I'm too close to the rocks.
Hard to port.
Hard to port.
So I think, well, Mysterio is probably going to be,
like Spider-Man's looking for a new mentor.
Yep.
And Happy Hogan's bloody off with his bloody ass.
Yeah.
So maybe he's looking to Mysterio because he's like, yeah, he'll do.
He's slightly older than me.
This guy in a cape.
Yeah.
Wearing the evil villain colours with a fishbowl on his head.
Shooting green smoke out of himself. Yeah. Yeah yeah so i guess my question is how mechanically
are uh not the illusions yeah but how how is it that fury and maria hill have been fooled by this
guy well the idea is that they've because they were snapped for five years they're out of the
game so they're out of the game.
So they're kind of trying to catch up on everything.
Yeah, right, right, right.
And it would also kind of make sense to me if he was from another dimension,
because this technology is beyond, if this is all illusions and whatever,
it's kind of beyond anything that anybody has built.
Except to say, I don't know, Iron Man.
But a giant monster that can throw hundreds of tons of water.
But it's not throwing it.
I mean, it could be like... Yeah, but you see Peter Parker get like...
It could be a hose and a hologram.
That's what I'm saying.
It's a hologram and a wave machine.
It's what it is.
And there's a big molten monster knocking down a bridge or whatever.
But yeah, it could all be fake.
Yeah.
But I think...
They're using the technology from Now You See Me 2.
It's very possible.
But if you're flying in, I'm presuming one of the last ones is the big molten monster yep it's you would you if you'd seen three
earlier and they're all holograms you wouldn't care oh i said if you're going into battle you're
like this is a pretty real molten monster yeah right yes but i'm thinking maybe like let's take
the water monster i reckon it's just like it's a it's a it's a spout and then he puts sort of he sort
of holograms around the edges yes so it looks like a man yeah but realistically it's just a
big wall of water yeah and when you're in the wall of water you're not like i don't think those hands
look particularly real to me yeah that doesn't have fingerprints on it so i think you'd be like
well the last one i fought it and hit me with a ton of water this one's gonna hit me with a ton
of lava no fair point anyway i think he's just a guy I'm not ruling out the idea that there are parallel universes
There are
They've said that there are
But I'm saying this is the fake out
Okay
I'm putting a small amount of money on it
Okay
I will put no money on it
Alright
Would you put getting the Hawkeye haircut on it?
Um
No
Absolutely not
Although friend of the show Beck Petratus
Yes From Stupid Old Studios She's got the Hawkeye haircut Yes I don't know Um No Absolutely not Although friend of the show Beck Petratus Yes
From Stupid Old Studios
She's got the Hawker haircut
Yes
I don't know
She likes to bloody
Have a muck around with her hair
Sometimes it's rainbow coloured
Sometimes it's all over the place
Is it the exact haircut?
Yeah
I'll find it
Fantastic
I'll find it for you
Good on Beck
She's a superstar
Yeah
She's really lovely
Check out her podcast
Kentucky Fried Chattin'
Yeah it's good
It's fun Do you like fun things? I like fun things well then you can check it out too yeah yeah uh
next bit of news sure we gotta move it along okay let's do it universal is considering a charlie's
theron a fast and furious spin-off film presumably where she's good again or what happened who was
she in the last she stole vin diesel's baby she was jason statham's sister right yeah no she wasn't
his sister was she I don't know
I don't think so
doesn't matter
doesn't matter
but she's going to be redeemed
and then she's going to get
her own solo movie
and then they're going to
team her up with Meryl Streep
yes
did she
wait not Meryl Streep
the other one
the other one
the other one
Carolyn Mirren
Carolyn Mirren
there we go
didn't she shoot
the mother of
Vin Diesel's child
dead
yeah
nah redeem her it's fine I don't care well that's the thing the fact that we're struggling to remember Didn't she shoot the mother of Vin Diesel's child? Dead. Yeah.
Nah, redeem her.
It's fine.
I don't care.
Well, that's the thing.
The fact that we're struggling to remember what happened in the previous one. Yeah.
It's a real Resident Evil situation.
It really is, yeah.
What happened in the last one, it doesn't matter.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's all I have to say about that.
All I remember from the last three Fast and Furious movies is Jason Statham shooting all
the guys on the plane while protecting the baby's precious ears.
And at the time they drove the car off the top of the building in Dubai or wherever it was.
That's all I remember.
That was the previous one.
Yeah, three movies.
Yeah.
Those two things.
That's it.
You haven't seen all of them anyway, have you?
Like there's some in the middle that you've missed.
I haven't seen.
I don't think I've seen three.
No, I haven't seen Fast and Furious, I don't think.
Yeah, I saw that one. It's not great. I I haven't seen Fast and Furious, I don't think. Yeah, I saw that one.
It's not great.
I've seen like one, six, seven, eight, I think.
Well, that's all you need.
Yeah.
People tell me Tokyo Drift is the hidden gem.
I bet it's not.
Scott introduces Han, though.
Yeah, right.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, and he'll be back soon, probably.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Also, I saw this bit of news this week that Charlize Theron was offered the role of Wonder Woman's mother. And she was like, what the hell, man?
Hippolyta.
Yeah.
I mean, it also, look.
I'd rather have the role of a woman who's inexplicably attracted to Seth Rogen again.
Again?
Remember the one with Katherine Heigl?
Oh, I thought you meant she'd done it before.
Oh, right.
Yeah, that's what the movie's about.
It's about a woman who was married to Seth Rogen for a while
and then divorced, and then she's attracted to him again.
Maybe I like him.
Maybe I do like him again.
Yeah.
That might actually be what it's about,
because they were friends when they were kids or whatever, isn't it?
Oh, yeah, maybe.
Apparently it's really funny.
I really want to go see it.
But, yeah, I mean, they're ageless on that island and whatever.
But it does feel like,
don't you think you could have offered her the role of Wonder Woman
or talked to her about that
because you probably
I mean I like Gal Gadot
I think she's a great Wonder Woman
but coming off Mad Max
think about it
don't you think
she would have made it
also a good Wonder Woman
pretty good yeah
and you look at like
any of the action movies
that she's done
she did Atomic Blonde recently
that was a good one yeah
look I haven't seen it
but I've seen the Stairwell Fire
it's like it's just John Wick
I've seen the whole movie
it's good
yeah but I'm saying it's like she can do John Wick stuff
or stuff in the sand, whatever.
Yeah.
She can kiss Seth Rogen.
She'll do anything.
She'll do anything if the bloody money's right, eh?
Ooh.
Yeah.
She could be Artemis, the replacement Wonder Woman
from time to time.
Yeah, sure.
Anyway, I just thought that was worth bringing up.
Wait, and what happened?
If Ben Affleck can be Batman...
Then anything's possible in the universe.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, he didn't really bother getting in shape for the last time.
Like, I just...
Why not?
Just wear a rash guard t-shirt.
Just do that.
It's fine.
She's been doing action movies forever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway.
What are we talking about?
Wait, what's the resolution to that story?
I don't even know.
I thought there was going to be some sort of...
Fast and Furious twist?
No, well, any kind of wonder...
Like, they offered her the role of Hippolyta and she stormed out.
She was like, what the...
She was like, taking it back.
And I'm like, what the hell, man?
Yeah, right.
Next up, though, it's Trailers Ahoy, Mason.
Okay, here we go.
Here's a Trailers Ahoy.
Okay, here we go.
If this is Trailers Ahoy and then two foghorns,
I'm going to leave legitimately.
All right.
And I'm going to come back
and I'm going to give you the Hawkeye haircut.
Mason trailers ahoy.
Mason trailers ahoy.
Ahoy.
Mason trailers ahoy.
Ahoy.
Mason trailers ahoy.
Ahoy.
Mason trailers ahoy.
There we go.
That's some good stuff.
That might be the official Trailers Ahoy theme now.
That's from Mime With A Mouth on YouTube.
So thank you for that.
Not to discount the previous Trailers Ahoy theme.
But that one was better.
It Chapter 2.
Yeah, all right.
As a trailer.
Yeah, okay.
It's a teaser trailer.
It's just a short one.
The bulk of it is a clip from...
Have you read it?
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The book?
No.
I have.
Let me tell you all about it.
Based on what I know of the book,
is this taking some departures from the book?
I don't know until it gets to the end
and whether he becomes a spider.
Okay, right.
Yeah.
Right.
Because I have seen some of the mini...
What was the TV movie or the miniseries or whatever it was.
And I know there's a giant spider at the end of that.
Yes, there is in the book.
It's not really a spider.
I'll do a trailer breakdown.
I'll talk all about it.
But I don't know whether...
You're already sick of talking about this. No, no. i'm happy to talk about it i just don't want to repeat
myself i don't um i i don't know i demand you repeat yourself there's there's dimensional stuff
which i don't know from the book that i don't know they're going to touch upon well there's a
i believe there's a isn't there a good version of it yeah it's a turtle there's a giant but it
doesn't come to worth and like do good deeds good deeds. Yeah, right. It just lives out in space.
Yeah, okay, right.
In the macroverse or whatever.
Yeah.
And I believe also the Pennywise, in the first movie anyway,
Pennywise is pretty much, the It is pretty much always Pennywise, right,
in the last movie?
It doesn't really transform into much else. You might be right.
But in the-
I know, it's like a zombie and it's like a creepy homeless man.
That's right.
And it's half a kid or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, well, I'm proven wrong very easily.
That's okay, Mason.
In the book, isn't it a whole bunch of stuff?
Yeah.
It's mostly not a clown, if I recall.
It's mostly a clown, but it does other...
It favours being a clown.
But what it does is like...
And a vampire approached me, but it wasn't like It favours being a clown. But what it does is like, and a vampire approached me,
but it wasn't like a TV vampire.
It was way scarier.
Like it's all like that.
And then this werewolf came up to me,
but it wasn't like a movie werewolf.
It was much scarier than a regular werewolf.
If you can imagine.
There's a lot of that.
Yeah, I think we've talked about this before,
but it's very much in the H.P. Lovecraft style of describing.
It was unimaginable.
Indescribable horror.
I couldn't even describe it if I tried.
Think of the worst thing you could ever think of.
It was scarier than that, I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you, don't even.
Oh, yucky.
Yeah.
Yucky.
So it's a lot of that.
Anyway, the book's good, except for some key elements that are not good.
And it also goes forever.
It's a very, very long book and the
the book the book intercuts the time period right it's the it's the 50s or whatever and then it's
the 70s 80s right but this this we're doing kids yep uh segment the 80s and now we're doing modern
day correct in the second one okay that is 100 that's a creepy lady in that in that boy is it
yeah is that in the book yes that whole sequence is in the book pretty much okay verbatim so pennywise the clown yeah
that's not it's the clown hasn't become the being right the it being it's it's just based
its appearance on pennywise yeah all that i talk about it i hate repeating myself well too bad
uh that whole story about the backstory and my father came to the town and whatever.
None of that's true.
Okay, right.
Yeah, there may have been this circus that existed and he kind of maybe got some ideas from it.
Oh, because he can alter reality and stuff.
Sort of, like to an extent.
The powers are vague and it can pretty much, it can look like anything.
It's, and yeah, but.
But it's not baseball bat proof bat but it can only be like
yeah exactly well it's yeah if if you don't fear it you can beat it up which yeah which i really
enjoy yeah that was my favorite part of that movie and again i talked about in the trailer
where they just they just rally and beat him up it's really beat him up and scrapped him. It's really funny. Yeah, cool.
Are you looking forward to it?
I am.
Everybody's looking good.
I didn't... I missed the last one because I was overseas
and you did it with the Two in the Think Tank guys.
That's right.
So I haven't actually had a chance to talk about this movie.
We're all still spooking from it.
Yeah, spooking.
I don't think it's a particularly scary movie.
No.
It's like a level up from Stranger Things.
Yeah, right.
But it's more kind of off-putting.
It's unsettling, isn't it?
Yeah.
Also, I made the mistake in the trailer breakdown of saying that its eyes kind of go askew occasionally.
Like one of them will like dive off slightly.
And I was like, that's a great CGI thing.
And every comment is like, the actor could really do that.
Okay.
He can also unhinge his whole face.
Is that true?
Lift the whole face off and then he's just got dozens of rows of teeth.
Really?
Yeah, that's true.
He's got those weird golden lights in his mouth.
Why did he go into acting?
I guess to do this one.
Yeah, do this one specifically.
Retiring after this?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But also, I think in the books, and I don't know if Pennywise has ever come back after the It book.
He's referenced i'm in the
stephen king multi yeah but i think there's a chance that you could bring him back if you
wanted to do this again yeah right but um yeah i'm really looking forward to it i think it's
going to make a lot of money also like the last one did and people like it premium horror
that's all that things that we're doing isn't it yeah that is all those things we're doing yes
correct uh i've got another trailer coming up not just yet mason i just i'm just getting you ready but
i realized that i looked at it but i didn't really look at it so i'm okay uh it's a watchman trailer
we can talk about it now let's talk about it yeah you're gonna do that because we're still in the
trailers we're still in it so don't even worry about it i need to do it yeah no it's okay uh
a lot of people are saying like is it a sequel this watchman trailer what is it they've said
it's a sequel, right?
I believe they have, yes.
Yeah.
Cool.
It does look cool.
The only character I recognised is, well, the hundreds of-
Ozymandias, maybe?
Yeah, Ozymandias and the hundreds of people pretending to be Rorschach.
Presumably being set 30 or so years after the original Watchmen.
Yeah, right.
Rorschach's diary got out of what happened.
Yeah, right.
And the squid was a bloody...
We're going with squid in the TV version?
I can't remember.
I think it'll be comic-based.
Yeah, right.
Do you think that'll confuse people?
No.
No.
They probably won't even show it in its entirety.
They'll show a ruined New York City.
It was indescribable, this squid.
You wouldn't believe it.
You wouldn't even believe it.
Bloody New York.
Imagine a squid, but you couldn't really look at it properly
because it was so gross.
Imagine a tentacle that goes all the way down bloody Times Square.
What colour was it?
I couldn't even tell you, mate.
It was indescribable.
Imagine the colour purple, but way scarier than purple.
You know what I mean?
It's just a spooky purple, you know?
Ooh, yucky.
Indescribable.
Oh, I couldn't even describe it.
I tell you what.
Yeah, so it looks to be the police are being attacked as well.
So the police are masked now.
Because the idea, and spoilers for Watchmen, but you should read it.
Yeah.
Yeah, the idea of the plan was to drop in the indescribable squid.
Yeah.
It was very indescribable, actually.
Yeah, it was a big old squid.
You can see it.
There's pictures of it.
All right.
That it would unite the world against this interdimensional force that didn't exist
Yes, so rather than the Soviet Union and America blowing each other up nuclear style
They would instead team up and there would be a world peace
Because they'd be like, well what if
What if there's another squid
In the movie it's what if Dr. Manhattan comes back and destroys us all
And in this it's what if there's another squid
What if there's another squid what if there's another squid?
What if there's another squid? What if there's another squid?
An even bigger squid.
An even more indescribably scarier.
I couldn't even begin to think about it, Mason.
Oh, my God.
They're like, the president gets on the TV and he's like,
you know how we couldn't describe how scary this last squid was?
What if there was an even bigger, even more indescribable squid
than the last time?
Anyway, we're teaming up with Russia.
Can you imagine?
Yeah.
But in this, I guess the, yeah, so the Rorschach's diary that revealed the ruse has come out.
I do love that idea behind the original Watchmen.
I guess that's the point.
Because maybe what he did was a good thing for the greater good, you know?
Ozymandias.
Yeah, and in Rorschach undoing it, this is the fallout.
What would the world have looked
like if he hadn't have told everybody that yeah right that the squid was yeah but I feel like
that the plan was doomed to to fail someone would have looked at it and gone yeah and also based on
earth currently in the real world I think they'd be like I think a lot of politicians would be like
yeah but what are the odds it happens again you you know? Don't even worry about it.
I'll be dead by the time it comes back.
Exactly.
So don't even, just forget about it.
And if it does, I'll be able to describe this one.
Don't you worry about it.
What if we keep using single-use plastics
and other indescribable squids are going to come down and kill us all?
Nah.
Nah, it's all hype.
You've seen those bloody scientists?
They're being paid by big indescribable scary squid.
Let's make it seem as if
what about both sides
yeah
exactly
what do we get
two people
yeah exactly
so I don't know
looks good though
does yeah
it's got
either Crockett or Tubbs
from Miami Vice in it
alright there
Don Johnson
he does have Don Johnson
he's a serious actor now
is he
doing serious things
well he was in
Hateful Eight
or one of them
or the other one
yeah right right
the other one Django yeah I, right, right. The other one?
Django? Yeah, I think it was that one, yeah.
Alright, cool. Yeah.
He was also in Nash Bridges.
As Nash Bridges.
He was Jeffrey Nash Bridges. Yes, yes.
Good. Is Bo Bridges in
Nash Bridges? He wishes
he was in Nash Bridges. I bet he does. Bo Bridges
wishes he was in Nash Bridges.
I'm not familiar with Nash Bridges. I was like a I know what it is. I've heard of it. It was him and Was it in the 90s. I bet he does. Bo Bridges wishes he was in Nash Bridges. I'm not familiar with Nash Bridges.
I was like a cop show.
I know what it is.
I've heard of it.
It was him and-
It was in the 90s, I assume?
It was-
Yes, it was him.
It was a cop show,
and it was him and Cheech Marin from Cheech and Chong.
Oh, okay.
Taming up.
They were a mismatched cop duo.
Wow, went for five years.
Yeah.
These guys are an unlikely duo.
You better believe it.
There's a video called Nash Bridges,
then and now, 2018. Oh, hello. I can't it. There's a video called Nash Bridges Then and Now 2018.
Oh, hello.
I can't wait.
Oh, I'm excited.
Here we go.
I'm sure there's a lot of big Nash Bridges fans.
I talk about the bill.
Bridge build, as they call them.
Do they?
The big fans of Nash Bridges.
Bringing people together.
Yeah, exactly.
I appreciate that.
Anything else?
I don't think so.
What else?
It's kind of indescribable, this trailer.
It's indescribable.
So there's another, there seems to be a whole bunch of Rorschachs.
Yeah.
And there seems to be one particular one who kind of has a silvery mask.
Oh.
What's that guy's deal?
I don't know.
We don't know.
It's a mystery.
It's intriguing, though, isn't it?
It is.
It's indescribable how silvery his mask is, in a way.
I think you nailed it.
Okay, cool.
Thanks.
Yeah.
And there's another, there appears to be new superheroes have risen up in whatever of have risen up in yes but no i'm really looking forward to this and because this is the guy did
the leftovers it could be good yeah and it'll be that i mean again i haven't finished the
leftovers but it's a it's a series that had a leftover for some of the leftovers
oh i don't mind if i do eat those up in in the morning. Yeah, I get you. Fabrecchi, season of Leftovers.
But that was three seasons, right?
It was beginning, middle, and it finished, right?
So with any luck, this is a series that will finish.
Exactly.
We're out after Watchmen.
Watchmen's back.
DC Clock.
DC Clock.
I'm not up to date.
I think I'm going to...
You know what?
It was a series that I'm like,
this is going to be the one I get every month.
I'm going to get this every month.
No, because it's every two months.
Whatever.
Yeah, but what I'm saying is the reason was because
every time I read one, I've forgotten the previous one.
I have no idea.
Yeah.
I don't know if it's good or bad.
I don't know.
I've read it.
I think from what I've read of it,
elements have been good.
A lot of stuff's been really good.
I think, and we talked about this, I kind of wish it was just a straight sequel.
Watchmen story, me too.
I think that combining with the DC characters is not so great.
But anyway, when the trade comes out in five years, I'll read that, I think.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Michael Rooker is apparently in negotiations for King Shark.
He says that's not true, but it makes me think.
That it is true?
Probably is.
Well, he's good friends with James Gunn,
doing the Suicide Squad.
He'd be a big CGI shark boy.
Do you think it'll be a different CGI shark
from the one in The Flash?
What kind of shark is it in The Flash?
It's like a regular shark.
No, it'd be a hammerhead.
Hammerhead shark?
Definitely a hammerhead.
Rook is a hammerhead, for sure.
He really is, yeah.
And then he can do some solid headbutting.
Definitely.
And he can look around corners?
Yes.
Or he can only look around corners. Yes. Or he can only look around corners.
Yes.
And he can't see what's directly in front of him.
In front of him, yeah.
Like the monsters from Riddick.
The first Riddick.
Do you think they'll give him little horse blinkers with mirrors in them?
Oh, that's not a bad idea.
So he can look forward?
That's a really good idea.
That's what I'd do if I was a hammerhead shark.
I'm sure they have an excellent range of vision, Mason.
Yeah, probably.
Yeah.
Thank you.
They are some of the world's greatest predators, I guess. The world's greatest. Haven't they ever seen Man, the world's greatest vision, Mason. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Thank you. They are some of the world's greatest predators, I guess.
World's greatest.
Haven't they ever seen man, the world's greatest predator, Mason?
You better believe it.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, you could beat one up.
Yeah, yep.
Yeah, cool.
I mean, on land.
Even then, I don't know.
It only has to get one lucky bite in.
Yeah, one.
Yeah, it actually would take me a while to beat up a shark barehanded.
I think so, yeah.
It would probably die. No, it would definitely die of lack of water. Asphyxiation, one. Yeah, it actually would take me a while to beat up a shark barehanded. I think so, yeah. It would probably die.
No, it would definitely die of lack of water.
Asphyxiation, yeah.
Before I beat it to death with my bare hands.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But then you could take the credit.
Who's going to know?
That's true.
Well, everyone.
Because people would figure it out.
That's true.
Nothing else on that, though, I guess?
That's about it, I think.
Then we've got to talk about the new Disney slate.
Okay, let's do it.
You ready for this?
Yes.
Okay, so they've announced movies from 2020 to 2027.
Okay, cool.
That's a lot, isn't it?
That's a lot of movies, isn't it?
That includes, how many Marvel movies does that include?
Well, here we go.
I can start with that.
There's two Marvel movies next year rumoured to be The Eternals and Black Widow.
All right, cool.
And then in 2021, there's three.
And then in 2022, there's an additional three.
So what do you think of that, Mason?
That's more Marvel movies.
So if you thought they were slowing down, if anything...
It's about the same.
It's about the same, if not more some years.
So over the next three years, there will be, yeah,
however many I said, eight.
And we'll probably get a lot of...
Like, there's your Doctor Strange twos and your Black Panther twos,
but I'd imagine we're going to get some...
Guardians 3s.
Yeah, exactly.
But we're going to get some weirder stuff, I feel, as well.
Shang-Chi might finally get a look in.
I think that's the way it's going to go.
They've talked about Power Pack and some other stuff.
Yeah, right.
This Comic-Con, Mason.
Yes.
This July.
I think one of the things about Power Pack, though, if I may,
because a lot of the time Power Pack does contain Franklin Richards,
who's Reed and Sue Richards' kid.
Right.
So maybe they do Fantastic Four first.
Oh, yeah.
Power Pack.
Okay.
Or maybe they do, you know what they could do,
is they could do Power Pack because it's super-powered little kids.
Yeah.
They could do Power Pack and then they save the world
and then his parents come and pick him up
and it's Reed and Sue Richards.
Then you do a Fantastic Four movie.
Excellent.
Have you seen how the new Reed Richards looks exactly like John Krasinski in the
comics? No.
Is that... Is it wishful
thinking? Is it wishful thinking or is it one of those...
Because it worked for Nick Fury.
It did. Is it wishful thinking or is it an artist
who just traces a lot? I'd be very curious
tonight. Could be both.
Could be both, yeah.
Do you think that... I mean, that could be...
Again, it did work for Nick Fury.
Like, the ultimate Nick Fury did look exactly like Samuel L. Jackson.
So maybe they could do this to lure people in.
They've definitely talked to John Krasinski.
I mean, they spoke to him about Captain America.
That's true, yeah.
X number of years ago.
I mean, what if they were like, listen, how about Reed Richards?
And he's like, I don't want to be in the Fantastic Four.
And then they're like, give him this.
Send him the latest issue of Fantastic Four.
Look how good you look in the costume, in your adventures.
Send him a picture of Robert Downey Jr. in his lighthouse,
but Photoshop his head onto it.
And then you send a photo of John Krasinski, but he's in a coffin.
And then it's like, but see how you look in that.
Make your choice, Krasinski.
He'd do it, right?
Yeah, I think he'd do it, sure.
Jack Ride or whatever. Yeah, for sure. Why not? And he's long, Krasinski. He'd do it, right? Yeah, I think he'd do it, sure. I bet he's Jack Ryan or whatever.
Yeah, for sure.
Why not?
And he's long, like Reed Richards.
He's long and lean.
So there you go.
Yeah.
I mean, they're not going to get back
Yo and Griffith.
He's long and loose and full of juice.
Acting juice.
You know?
He's ready to...
I was going to say something.
I'm still going to say it.
All right, cool.
You want to know the updates for Star Wars?
Yes.
The Rise of Skywalker will be the last Star Wars movie
until December 2022.
Okay.
And we're going to get 2022, 2024, 2026
for the new trilogies.
That means we've got a three-year Star Wars break,
which is good for you, right?
Oh, so good.
But do you think it's going to stop the endless barrage of news
and also entertainment that we're getting on other services
including Disney Plus?
Absolutely not.
And do you think we're going to not talk about those things, Mason?
No, I think we are going to talk about those things.
That's right.
So just don't get ahead of yourself, all right?
Don't think that you're getting out of Star Wars news.
I didn't think even for a second that we'd be somehow bereft of Star Wars news.
Okay.
I think they're just going to spread it out.
It's going to be like, oh, my God, look at the space age utensils at the cantina in this Star Wars news. Okay. I think they're just going to spread it out. It's going to be like, oh, my God, look at the space age utensils
at the cantina in this Star Wars set.
Look at them.
They've released stills of the cutlery.
Delightful.
Every week it's going to be that.
We're going to have to have an opinion on the cutlery.
And here's Blue Milk Nerds.
What do you think?
It's a different shade of blue this time.
What does it mean?
Have they mixed it with the milk from that weird planet
that Luke Skywalker drinks the milk?
Have they mixed the milk?
They might have mixed the milk.
Some people do different variations on milk, you know?
That's true, yeah.
I know Matt Stewart enjoys a half almond milk,
half soy milk on his cereal.
That's wild.
That is wild.
I'm going to do that one day.
I think I could.
All right.
But here's the interesting thing.
There were two series of Star Wars films that were announced.
One was Rian Johnson and one was David Benioff and Debbie Weiss.
The Game of Thrones guys.
Game of Thrones guys and The Last Jedi guy.
Guys, John Campion, who's a guy who used to work for Collider,
now he does his own thing,
says that he heard from an inside source that Rian Johnson is out
and they're going with the Game of Thrones guys.
I wish it was the other way if i'm honest well look if i if i may i've i've heard a number of times this week people saying like that exact sentiment like because again i haven't quite i'm
not up to date people hate both that's true yeah some people were like i wish it was michael bay
nobody's nobody's ever said what are you saying i don't know are you drunk, I wish it was Michael Bay. Nobody said that.
Nobody's ever said that.
What are you saying?
I don't know.
Are you drunk?
Yes.
I wish it was Michael Bay.
I want to see him driving in the ground.
Yeah.
I mean, a lot of people, having not caught up with Game of Thrones this season yet.
But you will.
Because there's two episodes left, right?
Yeah.
At time of recording.
I've heard a lot of people being like, this is the worst season yet.
Yeah, we'll talk about it either next week or week after.
Yeah, right.
There is still some good stuff in it, but yeah.
See, and that's the thing, because I got the sense, again, being not a huge Game of Thrones fan,
I'm like, well, this season will be the best for me, because it's got the fewest number of characters.
And it's going to get to the point point yeah well then you might very much enjoy
enjoy this one yeah it's not it's not bad it's still better than most television yeah right
but yeah anyway we'll talk about it when we do our game of thrones the got boat bros will return
for the final time until the prequels george rr martin said there's like three other series in
development at the moment even though they've cancelled eight of them so all game of thrones
related so i assume so, yes.
So this would be pre
winter is coming Game of Thrones.
I think there's one with Naomi Watts
which is about the long night or something.
Game of Thrones Summer Special.
Hawaiian. Game of Thrones
goes Hawaii. Game of Thrones Swimsuit
Special. Remember the
Marvel Swimsuit Special, that comic?
Why did they do that do i don't know they
tried to they tried to do one release recently it was the marvel summer special but it got
cancelled quite recently that's why i thought i thought about it there was a there was solicitation
for it in like the you know all the all the comic book stores order in advance it was solicited it
was like you can order this and then they were like we're cancelling it now so who knows what
about that is any you is if you want to see
any of those characters
naked kissing anybody else
any other fictional character
you can just google it
there's no call for this
I guess that's true
you're absolutely right
I'm for it is what I'm saying
but there's no market
no that's an odd thing
to put out nowadays
but I think it'd be
more tongue in cheek now
you're probably right
yeah exactly
it'd be Wolverine
but he'd have sand in his claws.
Yeah, exactly.
And you can see his dong.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
So what would you rather see, though?
I mean, you're not up to date on Game of Thrones,
but where you're at with Game of Thrones,
what would you rather see?
I'd be way more inclined to see a Rian Johnson trilogy.
Because he's going to try some more stuff.
Again, I think we'd both rather a big swing and a miss than same old, same old.
I mean, that's not to say, I mean, because a lot of Game of Thrones is quite good.
Yeah, that's true.
That's not to say that either can't be great.
But I think if it's not Rian Johnson, we're never going to hear the end of it.
How the fans, the true fans won and whatever.
Yeah, right, right, right.
I'm not interested in that.
That's true, yeah.
We're never going to stop hearing about it.
Next up, we've got Avatar has been pushed back until 2021.
Okay, all right.
I saw a tweet.
Well, that's because he wants to factor in pre-sales, you know.
He wants to get $3 billion worth of pre-sale tickets
before it comes out.
Well, that's true, but also then you can intersperse them
between Star Wars films.
So we're going to get a December of Avatar, Star Wars, Avatar, Star Wars.
Yeah.
Until one of them tanks.
And it really could be either.
Yeah.
Like I, yeah.
But I saw a tweet from somebody that it showed every year that Avatar was set for release.
And it's nearly every year since 2014.
Avatar 2.
Yeah, right. It just keeps getting pushed back.
It's amazing.
But again, you can't rule out James Cameron.
It could be amazing.
It's true.
Yeah.
This is fantastic.
On the X-Men front.
Oh, yes.
Gambit is dead.
Again.
Well, officially.
Or the character is dead.
No, I mean, just.
The Marvel editorial were like, we're sick of this.
Just say he's dead
i've had a bloody gutful so that's interesting isn't it uh and not surprising and i thought it
was dead but same i thought i thought everybody was out the last time we checked in on this but
now they're double out yes i mean then again you never know maybe it's one of those marvel movies
but why would they do just Gambit?
Maybe.
Yeah.
I mean, that's what they did with the cinematic universe to start with. That's true, yeah.
It was like, what do we have left?
That's a really good point.
And in this instance, we can't do Phoenix twice.
No.
We can't do it for a third time, so let's do Gambit, just Gambit for once.
I think Marvel would just go, yeah, we'll do Phoenix again,
but we'll do it properly because they did Spider-man again that's true they did yeah anyway i guarantee that we won't
be seeing gambit for a while mason hello what if what if they just bring him in and they're like
okay guys um in the in the marvel cinematic universe mutants can only telekinetically
charge up playing cards that's all they've got. That's it. It's me, Professor X.
Like all the characters are the same.
Magneto's still around.
He was a prisoner of war.
Still got the helmet?
Yeah.
He was in an internment camp,
a concentration camp in World War II,
but he escaped because he could charge up playing cards.
It's all just a big conspiracy by...
You know what? If I could think of the name of that playing card company man what you would have nailed that oh my god this would
have gone viral you could have made a video out of it would have just gone i would have gone gang
busters we're gonna we would have got sponsored by that playing card probably right you know
thanks a lot mason oh no i should have boned up on my playing card company trivia definitely
should have uh the other bit of fantastic news is you're Googling that playing card company.
I'm happy to pause for that.
Okay.
Wolverine escapes from Weapon X just playing cards.
Just playing cards through the gates.
Because there's a scientist there just shuffling a deck of cards next to him
when he's in the tank.
Yep, exactly.
Bicycle is the name of the most famous playing card company.
Just Bicycle.
They're called Bicycle playing cards.
It's spelt like bicycle. Bicycle, yes. That's most famous playing card. Just Bicycle. They're called Bicycle playing cards. It's spelt like bicycle?
Bicycle, yes.
That's confusing.
No, they're good cards.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was probably invented, though, that company,
in a time when the bicycle was new.
And they're like, the bicycle is hot and fresh.
It's exactly.
We need a hot and fresh name.
Exactly.
Bicycle.
Yeah.
The New Mutants has been pushed back until next year.
Just bin it.
Enough with the charade.
Come on.
Yeah, uh-huh.
Do you think we're going to see that movie theatrically from Disney?
No.
I don't know.
Is it worth putting out?
Would it do more harm than good?
You might recoup some losses, but also Disney didn't pay for it.
That's true, yeah.
So they don't need to make any money back on it.
That's true, yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
Look, I don't know.
Playing cards come through the wall, you know.
We're in a spooky house full of exploding playing cards.
Spooky house full of all the ghosts of playing cards, yeah.
Yeah, nice.
Here's the other thing, and people aren't too rapt about this.
Yes.
But Disney are only going to release something like five to six Fox movies a year.
So the output of, you know, know like your aliens and your whatever whatever else
they do right i looked back at previous years and recently it's about 10 to 12 so there's also
there's jobs associated with that exactly as soon as they merge their fights and people also i heard
this that apparently you know even though fox have never been particularly great as a company
apparently if you're a you're a cinema owner and you call them up or you email them
and you say, hey, we'd like to run, I don't know, a screening of Die Hard
or something like that or Alien because it's the anniversary,
they'll send you a print.
Oh, really?
But Disney are really bad at that.
If you're like, hey, we'd like to screen The Lion King,
they're just like, absolutely not.
And maybe it's just because they're merging now and communications are's a bit, you know, communications are a bit down.
Apparently that's happening now.
You'll be like, hey, Alien Screening, you know, it's 40th anniversary.
Can we get a copy of that?
They're like, no.
So that might be a bit of trouble.
Because there's a lot of, there's a great cinema in Melbourne called the Aster.
Yes.
And they do, they're like a repertory cinema and they do like, you know,
bold films and every night's a different film kind of thing.
A different film. Every night's a different film kind of thing. A different film?
Every night's a different film.
Yeah.
So, you know, that's a shame if Disney are now putting everything in a vault.
Don't put Die Hard in a vault.
Put Die Hard 5 in a vault, you know?
Is Die Hard even at 20th Century Fox?
I think so.
Okay.
I believe you.
All right, do it.
Apropos of nothing and the lies you tell.
Thank you.
I guess we'll get the Apple guy here.
Look how nice that bicycle playing card looks.
That's a slick card.
It's a slick looking card, right?
Good font.
Standard.
A standard card.
What year are they from?
They're from all over the place.
No, what year are they from?
Like, when were they invented?
Yeah.
I'll find out.
What do you think I meant?
What year did they release?
No, I mean, what year?
What did you think I meant?
I thought you meant, like, what year is that specific card from?
Why would I give a fuck about that?
I don't know.
1885.
There you go.
The bicycle was hot.
Yeah, nice.
It was the dabbing of 1885.
Absolutely it was.
They were trying to beat out Penny Farthing playing card company.
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Maybe that's true.
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Just exasperated.
While we're on ad break, Mason.
Yes.
Something happened.
Something magical.
Yes.
Who knows how.
But Andrew Levins is here from many a podcast.
From the Hey Fam podcast.
From the Serious Issues podcast.
From the All the Small Games podcast. From the Mitchinam podcast. From the Serious Issues podcast. From the All the Small Games podcast.
From the Mitchin podcast.
Have I named all the podcasts?
I lost count.
It's on me if you did.
And also the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates group where you were one of the admins.
The admin in charge of that group making it happen.
If that microphone is annoying, you can adjust it at any point.
Or get rid of it completely.
Just throw it away.
Just yell from the corner. Yeah, that's annoying. You can adjust it at any point. Or get rid of it completely. Just throw it away. Just yell from the corner.
Yeah, that's fine.
We're in such a great sound acoustically safe place.
It's beautiful.
Last time I came here, you didn't have this studio.
No.
It's still got a ways to go, but it's good.
If you could shout directly into the acoustic tiles.
If you talk around it, we're going to get a lot of echo.
You should be very
proud of yourself they're actually on the wall now yes that's right we did move some out somewhere
on the table i thought i was gonna get here and you're like you're gonna be like there's your seat
levin's and it'll be a pile of soundproof tiles it very nearly happened yeah because i was like
we should put these up i'm like i want to put them up can we just rest them against chairs forever
let's sleep on them yeah that's right maybe that's the life hack. Maybe the professionals just leave a pile in the corner.
You just unbox the pile and leave them.
Absolutely.
You ever see a stand-up gig and the stand-up comedian's just like,
we're not going to use a microphone.
We're going to put it to the side.
That's when your body readies itself to not laugh.
Exactly.
I'm going to tell them how it is.
Why would anybody do that, though?
What's the point of that?
No, usually if
it's a small crowd it seems weird if it's just like them and a microphone and three people but
isn't it weirder though if they nod at a microphone because then it's just a yeah it's a miscalculation
guy just like yeah hammering away it's bad it's like having a one-sided conversation where you're
not allowed to talk and they're telling you stuff about how stuff is oh really stuff you know
speaking of detective pikachu it's funded into cinemas like lightning like a like a pikachu Stuff is stuff. Oh, really? You know? Speaking of, Detective Pikachu,
it's funded into cinemas like lightning,
like a Pikachu.
Here we go.
Yeah.
This guy knows his stuff.
I know my stuff.
Well, first of all,
do you want to just recap where everybody is with Pokemon?
What's their knowledge?
What's their fandom?
Where are we at?
I've seen Pokemon, the first movie.
Yes.
That's it.
And? And you loved it.
No, I hated it no i hated it people would
know that if they were one of the few people who watched the video we did on it before it got uh
destroyed youtube yeah that's right what about you levin i created pokemon whoa
it is so you have to restore that video yeah actually i was the one who took it oh my god
i mean i'm actually here today to serve you a subpoena.
It's all been leading up to this.
Were you the right age for this when it started?
I was just a little bit older, but I went on a,
you know when you're just a little bit too old to go on a family holiday?
Yes.
And so I was in middle high school and went to,
my family used to save money by going to a,
used to go, let me finish.
You shouldn't have taken a breath, Lemons.
We used to go to a beach club in winter.
Okay.
We would go to a beach resort of the coast in like July.
They weren't tricked into a timeshare,
were they?
No,
no pyramid schemes.
But,
so my sisters...
Was this in New South Wales?
Yeah,
yeah.
My sisters would
go to the kids club
all day
and I'd be like,
I don't want to go
to the kids club.
Yeah.
And one of the younger kids
had a Game Boy
and so I just spent
like an entire week
in a hotel room
playing Pokemon Red
when it came out.
What did this kid do?
He was in the kids club.
He was having fucking mud crab races with Froggy the Clown.
I don't understand any of that.
All the younger listeners can relate.
Wait, so this clown character.
Froggy the Clown.
Froggy the Clown.
He was a famous clown?
Or was he a creation of the hotel?
Was it like a franchise?
Like you could lease out the name?
So like you would go to the kids club and it was just run by Froggy the Clown,
who I assumed during the summer months was like a surfer.
And then as soon as it got cold, he was like, oh the clown suits back on that's how clowned up was he
like always every day every single day he was hit in the surf he was we thought we were once we were
out to dinner outside of the resort one night and froggy the clown was there outside of makeup
and the magic was gone i bet it was that's why so many surfers are after that endless summer
they travel the world yeah because if winter catches up with him they have to put the clown
out for exactly as soon as they have one day up with them, they have to put the clown out for you.
Yeah, exactly.
As soon as they have one day without a barrel.
They don't even put the makeup on.
It just appears on.
They need the ocean to wash it away.
I get it.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
So you liked it, obviously.
Froggy's Clown Club?
Yeah, you're into it.
Yeah, no, Pokemon Red, that was the first game.
Obviously, you had two games.
You had Pokemon Red, Pokemon Blue on the original Game Boy.
And that was like my first ever RPG I played.
Okay, right.
And yeah, it was one of those games that like,
because I think they were airing the anime on Cheese TV in Australia at the time.
And that didn't appeal to me at all, but the game I loved.
Yeah.
I think a lot of people fall into that category though.
I think the game has surpassed
they always have they always released them in pairs it's always been yeah so now it's gold
and silver is the uh the next one's coming out fire and not sword and shield that's right but
then there's and they'll have a third one so the original was like red and blue and then a little
bit later was yellow in which you had Pikachu with you the whole time but now
there's going to be
sword and shield
and people think
that it's going to be called
Pokemon Gun
which I hope is real
are there guns
in the Pokemon universe?
no there's no Pokemon
that looks like a gun
I'm probably wrong
or even just guns
this probably one
looks like an old timey
cannon or something
Team Rocket
is like just
packing heat.
Just cut a gun, yeah.
It's Pokemon Sword Shield,
and then that screen they put up at horse races,
and then you put a Pokemon behind it and you shoot it
if it breaks its leg or something.
Pokemon Glue Factory.
So Pokemon, all the games, is it like an RPG?
So you go from town to town and you don't fight?
Yeah, and then you just find other kids
who have been finding wild animals
and you fight their wild animals.
Cool, nice.
That makes sense.
I played a little bit, not as much as you, it would say.
I mean, I've only finished...
I played Pokemon Red
and then I played a few years later on the DS Heart Gold,
which is a remake of Pokemon Gold and Silver.
Okay, right.
And then I've played the most recent one
that they put out on Switch last year,
the Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu.
Yeah.
Or Eevee.
I've got Eevee.
I've got Eevee.
Because Angus, who I do HeyFam with,
demanded that he gets Pikachu.
Yes.
Which is a totally normal thing for a co-host to do.
Definitely.
You guys know you're both adults, right?
You could both buy the Pikachu one, right?
For the good of content, I wanted to let our listeners know
if my version was better.
And you know what?
I think Eevee is a bit cuter than Pikachu.
What are the differences between these games, though, generally?
Is it an aesthetic thing?
There's different Pokemon in each game.
Yeah.
And, like, I don't think there's much more.
Like the map's the same.'s much like the maps the same no
they're all they're all the same i've never actually played you know both of each color
at the same time okay yeah fair enough some fan you are they've also played like a ton of the
spin-off games there's a bunch of i loved pokemon snap and nintendo 64 which is like a yeah i played
a photography game yeah i played well we did play a ton of that, that arena fight of Rock, Paper, Scissors one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Was that one called?
Really simple.
That game used to cheat, though.
I just thought Pokemon Arena or something like that.
Yeah.
You say that like I'm supposed to remember.
No, I remember because I remember getting furious
that it would, like, it would always roll
or get the thing, whatever it needed,
and I would always get thumps.
Oh, yeah, nice.
And I think it cheated.
I don't know that.
Two years ago ago i got addicted
to a free game that they put out on mobile phones called uh magic carp jump oh i thought you're
gonna say the other one that everybody was playing no not pokemon go i played that for like a day and
i was like no this is this is this crashes too much and like i i walking somewhere with i had
a guy in my apartment building who used to get in his car and drive really slowly up and down the road
because it would register him as walking
so he could hatch eggs or whatever in Pokemon Go.
So he wouldn't walk?
No.
That's great.
He wouldn't get like the one benefit
out of playing this game.
I bet in China there's an industry in that.
There's like a dude
and he's got like 50 phones in his car.
Oh, no, absolutely.
And he just drives real slowly down the freeway.
And then swipes across it.
There is an amazing image.
I think he's in Korea and it's an older guy
who has like all of these phones like strapped to him.
Yeah.
Like Mary Poppins.
Who's that guy?
Dick Van Dyke.
Dick Van Dyke and Mary Poppins.
But instead of instruments
he has Pokemon Go
mobile phones
for other people I guess
and he also has a Cockney accent
yeah he's great
brilliant
not Cockney
is it Cockney
I think he's a Cockney
I mean it was the worst Cockney accent
ever committed to film
but it was Cockney
yeah for sure
we can all agree
Magikarp Jump
was like this game
where you play like
the most useless Pokemon
the fish who and you just had to try and jump as high as you could but it was like this game where you play like the most useless pokemon yeah the fish who
and you just had to try and jump as high as you could but it was like this cycle like you would
jump until you couldn't jump no more then it would be like okay you retire now magic up time to go
get a new magic up and then your magic up would like slowly jump a little bit higher as it
replaced the other one right did it ever evolve uh, but if it did, it evolves into a dragon
that I will never in my entire life know how to pronounce the name of.
Gar-a-dos?
Gary, Gary Doss.
Gary Doss.
Inventor of Doss.
Yes.
So, but then what happens to the game then?
When you evolve, it's like, oh, no, your magic cup evolved.
Better choose a new one.
And, like, I just got stuck in this loop
I was like I've got to beat this
you have been punished
for success
yeah
is it like cookie clicker
yes
very close to one of those
they're like
what they call like
passive games or whatever
yeah right okay
okay so have either of you guys
played detective pikachu
no
the game this is
allegedly based on
this movie
well isn't there a particular
version of the game
that it is based on or something
yeah so it's like a story based
3ds game where yeah you play a boy who's lost his father and
found a talking pikachu and together you try and solve the crime because we copped a lot of flack
i think initially because we're like well this guy this this movie isn't you know people were
like is this going to finally be the movie that breaks the video game curse and you said and i
said well this is i said this isn't really based
on a video game because i didn't know detective pikachu existed as a game i'm like well this is a
you know it's a it's a weird variation of pikachu the game with the rpg and the thing and your
mentions lit up my menchies listen here my poor menchies um and so but yeah so this is based on
this game but i i'm curious to know how accurate it is.
I guess there's a boy with a missing father,
so that's something.
Yeah, I meant to read the plot of the video game
before coming here to see,
because when we do talk about the movie,
I was like, was this in the game?
Yeah.
Is there a point where you have to threaten Mr. Mime
by miming setting him on fire?
For a minute I'm like, is this movie Robocop?
What is happening?
This is horrendous.
Anyway, we all saw this movie.
Before we get into it, even though we are already into it, I guess, in a way.
Box office, I do this every week.
I don't know why.
Does anyone care?
I love stats.
Thanks, Levins.
I'm the numbers guy.
Because Mason's always like, I don't know, yes or no.
That's not to say I'm not interested.
I'm fascinated every week he gives me a figure
and then he tells me whether that figure is good or not
because I genuinely don't know because it's so much money.
Yes.
Regardless.
It's $170 million worldwide and it's $58 million in the US.
That sounds like a lot.
You confirmed Levens beat Endgame.
Yeah, yeah. I think only in America
yeah
they toppled
only in America
you know
yeah
okay so there you go
I'm not really surprised
by this I mean
wait is it good or not
that's good
what's
no that's good
okay good
I mean you know
I think
beat Endgame
it beat Endgame
in its third week
so that's
that's good
but yeah I think
because I saw this with my two nephews.
Oh, wait, hold on.
Whether or not it tops Walt Disney's Avengers Endgame for the weekend,
maybe it hasn't yet.
Okay.
Damn you, Forbes.com.
God damn it, Forbes.com.
Mason, I'm going to ask you, though.
What do you think the story was?
That's right, Mason.
Wait, before we even get into this, I'll save you.
Thank you.
If you have not seen this movie yet,
obviously don't listen to the spoilers if you care about it,
but be like me and go into this knowing that it's a Pokemon movie
in which Ryan Reynolds is a voice
and don't look at the cast beyond that
because I was so surprised when a certain cast member showed up
and then to see the extent of his role in this movie.
Right, okay.
We'll get to this in a moment.
I'm trying to think of who that is.
We'll get into it.
Back to the thing that you were saying.
All right, hang on.
Okay, so it's a magical Pokemon world.
It's Rhyme City is where the humans and the Pokemon
live together
but then
there's a guy
and he's
he's a kid
and his dad's a detective
oh yeah
he's a real estate agent
yes
what is his
how pathetic
where's his dad
he's an insurance adjuster
where's
where's his
where's his dad
where's his dad gone
he's gotta go to Rhyme City
to find out
but then he meets
Pikachu but it's a token Pikachu what a world we live in what a world Where's his dad? Where's his dad gone? He's got to go to Rhyme City to find out. But then he meets Pikachu.
But it's a talking Pikachu.
What a world we live in.
What a world.
But only he can know the Detective Pikachu, the one that can talk.
I liked Justice Smith in this.
Yeah, he was great.
I didn't like him in Jurassic World 2, Fallen Kingdom 2, whatever.
He was that guy.
Yeah, I didn't like that at all for that movie.
I love that movie.
Why do you love it?
What are you doing?
Okay, the first half of the movie where it's, you know,
like escape the volcano island.
Like, whatever, that's fine.
The second half movie where it becomes...
Dinosaur auction.
Dinosaur auction horror movie.
Horror revenge movie.
That rules.
That was so much fun.
Here's my hypothesis.
I've floated to james he hates
the idea all jurassic park slash jurassic world movies are about the same in quality that's my
hypothesis the first one is like near perfect and he hasn't seen two or three so he says that
apropos of missing out on a bunch of several actually i have a soft spot for jurassic park
three even though i know yeah i like two and three as well i don't like two yeah but uh jurassic world 2 i thought was fucking awesome
i disagree greatly but i like the director i just don't like that as a person yeah he seems nice
hey look i just i just i don't like you i'm a fan of you it's not the thing you've done you're very
personable yeah but no i thought the the very few human characters
they're in this because it's like it's more pokemon focused obviously that's what people
are there for but yeah i thought i saw some people say yeah he's not really a lead he doesn't really
carry it well but i thought he was really good and really funny i think the banter between him and
and pikachu was quite good actually and they had ryan reynolds on set for a lot of this didn't they
well so yeah it's been so funny that all the press for this movie
has been Ryan Reynolds.
Yeah.
And it's like, was he actually on set the whole time?
I've seen some times he was, but yeah.
It feels like he could have recorded all his lines
in like three days.
Definitely.
I saw an interview with him
and apparently a lot of it was over the phone.
Like he would just be in a city doing something else
and they'd have a studio there and he'd be like, all right's today's lines he'd be making gin videos with hugh jackman or
whatever yeah right exactly that's true yeah well that's okay well i understand that but you do even
though there is that you do get the sense that some of it is improv you know what i mean like
the banter feels natural a lot of the time no you didn't feel that really like it felt like there
was like 10 different takes okay right of like different variations of the one joke.
And they were like, yeah, we'll go with that one.
Okay, fair enough.
Yeah.
Well, I thought it was the thing I said.
You just want a new Anchorman, don't you?
You just want this generation's Anchorman.
That's very much so.
But it's okay, I thought, in general.
I didn't love it.
You being a huge Pokemon fan.
I'm enormous.
The biggest fan in this room.
Far more so than Froggy's clan.
Sure, if you had to choose.
That series fell off.
Detective Froggy was shit.
Winter's here.
There's been another murder at the beach club.
Someone stole all the hermit crabs.
What are we going to race tonight?
I think you definitely get more out of this as a fan of Pokemon
because my nephews, and I don't think this is just a kid's thing,
they just loved seeing the different Pokemon.
And every time there was a different one,
he turned to me and named what the Pokemon was.
And I was like, shut the fuck up.
No, I didn't say that.
It was great.
I saw it with just randos, just at a regular screening.
And it was just a bunch of kids who didn't seem to enjoy it at all.
Like, it was just...
It's a weird middle ground, you said to me, right?
Well, yeah, I mean, they didn't seem to react at all.
Like, they reacted at some, like, you know, fart jokes or whatever.
There was at least two of them.
Yeah, but they didn't seem to...
They didn't like how he liked coffee?
No, they didn't like that.
They didn't like that adult concept of enjoying a beverage they've never had before so yeah no i don't know how did it see i think i think the banter between
justice and and ryan reynolds characters was good but what was we had we had a uh i feel like that
was like a little bit tongue-in-cheek and a little bit like this is a bit self-aware and you know
it's pokemon it's a bit silly but we're having fun but then i feel like we had the the roving reporter character who felt very much again based only in my experience of
seeing pokemon the first movie felt very much like this is your classic pokemon character who
just has weird like headstrong aspirations of being a yeah and just kind of like these weird
like a lot of declarations about i'm gonna be the best reporter in the city kind of thing like
i don't think she worked at all, that character.
Well, only because they didn't do much with her.
I thought she was great when you meet her for the first time
and she sees Justice's character come home to his dad's apartment
and check his mail and she like, you know,
like does her little monologue at him.
I thought that was really funny.
Doesn't do much else.
Yeah.
I mean, she was the owner of Psyduck.
That was her
character oh yeah that that duck yeah yeah well i need him later but that actor's really good
have you seen big little lies i haven't no yeah yeah okay what's her name i don't know
psyduck yeah okay well that makes sense but you know what is great about this movie though it
looks spectacular
All the Pokemon
And the creatures
Look great
And you look at like Sonic
And that's why
You don't look at Sonic
Do not look at Sonic
Both video game movies
Sonic had to design
One character
They had to do one character
James Marsden
Yes
And they nailed it
He looks great
Yeah
But every one of these Pokemon
Looked
First of all you recognise them
But they also didn't look Weird and monstr of all, you recognize them, but they also
didn't look weird and monstrous.
Well, you only recognize them because someone in your cinema was calling out.
No, that's true.
He recognized them.
Yeah.
I should say.
But they're cute and they seem, you know, they fit in this universe.
Yeah.
Whenever the camera zoomed out and you saw like, you know, all the little details of
like, you know, certain Pokemon like flying in the sky together or huddled in like a street corner somewhere yeah that's when
or you know when you first see the city and you've got like that match up dude uh directing traffic
yes and shit like that and a snorlax yes i know pokemons um that that was why that was like when
the movie felt strongest to me yeah um i agree with that and i especially enjoyed like the first
half of it um and then i like the first half of it um
and then i enjoyed the second half of it for entirely different reasons mostly because it
became it went from like a pretty good movie to an extremely fun bad movie okay sure was that
because like you said to me mason it's just holograms telling people answers to questions
i don't understand why in a pokemon movie they also were like also we've got hologram technology yeah this is going to become a bigger plot device than pokemon yeah it's the future or
something isn't it is this set in the pokemon pokeverse the movie universe so they referenced
20 years ago when mu was created which a lot of people think actually just my friend jordan my
friend jordan uh who who texted me that he gasped when he first saw a Ditto Transform in this movie.
Whoa!
Gasped?
Did he like it?
Yeah, he just yelled out, gasp!
But yeah, he was thrilled.
He now thinks that this movie is canonically in the same universe
as the first Pokemon movie.
So what do you think that means, though, for going forward?
Why don't we talk about them more in spoilers?
Well, yeah, I want to talk about how I mentioned earlier,
I didn't know who the cast was.
So I didn't know Bill Nighy was in this movie.
No, I didn't know that either.
So when he shows up, I was like, oh, shit, Bill Nighy's in this movie.
And Bill Nighy is an actor who has tricked the world
into thinking that he's an actor of calibre.
Because he's British.
Yeah, but he is.
But you just think that he has some classic,
highly regarded movie that he's been in.
But if you go through all of his filmography,
it's beyond Edgar Wright's movies.
Love Actually.
I mean, that's not a good movie.
The Boat That Rocked.
Yeah. He hasn't really been in like
he's just
he is this like
Witch Hiker's Guide
yeah
anyway sorry guys
he is this like
he's a character actor I guess
yeah
in pretty
you know
mainstream British movies
but he hasn't got that like
you know
he's a TV actor first
yeah okay yeah
I don't even know
I don't even know before
Pirates of the Caribbean as well.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
He was good in that, I think, probably.
The squid.
Yeah, all squidward.
Yeah.
But, yeah, so when he shows up, I was like,
oh, my God, Bill Nye's in this movie.
Oh, my goodness.
To be, like, obviously when you first meet him and he's like,
you know, he's the father of this guy who hates Pokemon
and he's dedicated his life to Pokemon
and people living in harmony together.
And then when you learn more about his character
and the things that Bill Nighy has to say
in the final act of the movie,
I just found that so enjoyable
on an absolutely bad movie level.
And I've been hearing
a lot of people say
it's broken the curse
it's the first
good video game movie.
I think it's fun
and I think this is a good movie.
I think Tomb Raider
the new Tomb Raider
is better than this.
And you hated that
didn't you?
No, I thought it was fine.
I think it's fine.
Yeah.
Have you seen it?
No.
Okay.
It's not brilliant.
It takes a really hard turn into like fan service right at the end. Yeah. Which I think that one's pretty good. Yeah. No. Okay, yeah. It's not brilliant. It takes a really hard turn into fan service right at the end,
which I think spoils it a little bit.
Like right at the end, she gets the two guns from the video game.
I'll take two guns, she says.
Like the Game Tomb Raider.
One for each hand.
Yeah.
But yeah, the problem with this movie, I think,
is that the plot we get, the detectiving plot, is too complicated for little kids, but it's also too simple for adults.
There's a lot of...
Again, it's just walking to a location and then some exposition happens that explains what they need to know.
And then they move to another location.
They get some more exposition.
And then the final act
is off the wall bonkers
yeah exactly
yeah
like I think
jump the shark
and now I don't know
how they would continue movies
yeah
in this universe
doing another one
yeah
they kind of wrote themselves
into a corner
should we talk spoilers then
I guess
sure
look I'm gonna say
look for me
worst movie ever
I think
I liked it
but I don't care
so i guess it's best but i think if you're a pokemon fan you'd enjoy this a lot more than
someone who knows next to nothing about pokemon yeah i'd be interested to know people could email
in if they're huge pokemon fans did they enjoy this because i feel like i know some people don't
like it for that reason they're like well this well, this isn't really Pokemon. This is just Deadpool.
I think to be a genuinely good movie,
you need to be able to say that it's a good movie
without saying if you're a Pokemon fan.
I think from that point of view,
I don't think this is a good movie.
Okay.
As a Pokemon fan, what do you get out of this?
Is it seeing the Pokemon you love on screen?
It takes you so far though right
you get diplo djing a pokemon battle which is what all pokemon fans okay i mean am i allowed
to do the just a movie rank you can do whatever you want okay i'll take just cool yeah all right
that's probably just a movie thank you that's probably the most accurate okay spoilers the
time codes people want to skip ahead but uh yeah so he to... You said it's the plot of Zootopia.
Was that you who told me that?
Zootopia.
I've not seen Zootopia,
but everybody has tweeted me.
It's just Zootopia.
I'm willing to agree with them.
I don't know.
Zootopia is really good.
You should have watched that
instead of Aladdin Lifeline.
What did you think of Aladdin?
I like Aladdin.
Okay.
Don't spoil it, Mason.
All right, okay.
He did.
He liked a lot.
Yeah, so what did you
It felt like that character should have been James Cromwell
Like it felt like
If you've seen iRobot
Where like a scientist rolls in
And tells you what's what in the universe
And things aren't what they seem
James Cromwell can't have every role though
You know what I mean?
Leave some for the Bill Nighy's of the world
So did you pick him as the as the villain when he showed up yes yes i was a little i was
like i thought oh his son's gonna be the villain but then when the guy looks exactly like milo
yiannopoulos yeah that's uh for anybody who doesn't know that's chris gear he's in a show
called you're the worst i don't know if you've seen that it's very good what's it about it's
about a couple that get together and they're the worst oh you've talked about that it's a good show it's like five seasons
it's real real good okay um but yeah they do the old switcheroo and it turns out that uh bill nye's
character is the one who wants to for pokemon people to truly live together in harmony they
have to be together in harmony and so he wants to combine people with Pokemon. And so the final act is him inserting his mind into a Mewtwo.
The V-Mewtwo.
The one from Pokemon the first movie.
Same universe.
They've had in captivity.
What's he been up to?
Just getting ripped, working out.
Yeah, nice.
Get those thighs, those powerful thighs.
Just thigh and upper body workout.
No core exercise.
I don't know what that's called.
Very weak in there.
So it's Bill Nye.
I just love this old, accidentally well-respected actor.
He's got a certain charisma.
He does.
But I just love him showing up to set.
And it's like, okay, so no camera work for you today bill but
we are going to need some voiceover work i'm going to need you to okay in this scene you are
of course the uh very powerful 150th pokemon mewtwo um weirdly mew is 151 but mewtwo is 150
what um but uh don't worry about that for now bill what I need you to focus on is your line which is
you fool
a Pikachu is not powerful enough
to take down a Mewtwo
and while you're saying it
I want you to say it as if you are
flying through the air
but you are not the Mewtwo
your body is lying helpless
with a headset on
in a luxurious uh mansion apartment
did you does he have to have that on the whole for the rest of his life apparent seems that way
but can't he merge himself maybe i don't know we don't know yeah that would have been the first
thing you do yeah this is this is from the guy this is from uh his interview in the garden i
read this this morning too. I love that.
I'm glad you're bringing this up because I was like,
he phones in a lot of his performance.
What do you hate Bill Nighy so much? You do hate Bill Nighy.
We all got to learn things about ourselves sometimes.
At least I learned something during Detective Pikachu.
You try to sneak it in as well.
You're like, well, you know, Bill Nighy's been in some good stuff
and some not so good stuff. And then like three sentences later you're like, you know it's bill nye he's been in some good stuff but some not so good stuff and then like three sentences later
you're like so you know how bill nye is the worst hack and nobody respects it when i was eight he
ran over and killed my dog okay right he ran over your winning hermit crab just as he was about to
cross the line so this is this is from uh his interview it says i did a crash course in pokemon
lore and bought every book available including the deeply impressive pokedex oh my goodness.
Please keep going.
I love the collecting.
When I get around to it, I'm going to download the Pokemon Go app and go to Strasbourg.
Someone told me they went Pokemon hunting in Strasbourg, which made an impression on me.
I think maybe he thinks you can only do it in Strasbourg?
I don't know.
That's the Pokemon capital of the world.
Now he talks excitedly about a number of extremely rare Pokemon items,
including a limited edition Pikachu,
presented to him by the CEO of the Pokemon company.
What's going on here?
Now in his cellar he has multiple stones.
Yeah, he has even bought hefty Pokemon pieces home to decorate his house.
His character had a palatial office with blah, blah, blah,
ancient Pokemon wall hangings.
I now own them.
Punched out an ancient stone. They are absolutely enormous. They weigh a ton. relational offers with blah blah blah ancient pokemon wall hangings uh i now own them punched
down an ancient stone uh they are absolutely enormous they weigh a ton they're in my cellar
at the moment because i have to find a wall strong enough to hold them what like most fans nai also
has his favorite pokemon the ancient view was probably my top top favorite because he's just
majestic and he was the very first he was elegant and powerful what's going on here is this real
this is from the guardian this is an No, it's not an Onion article.
Bill Nighy loves Pokemon now. He's so into it.
But he didn't seem into it in the movie.
Yeah, right?
He was just yelling his lines.
Maybe you don't know what you got till it's gone kind of situation.
You're like, I love that girl and I let it go.
It's the same for Pokemon.
Because I feel like he's reached that stage like your...
James Cromwell.
I was going to say like your Anthony Hopkins
who's just in a Transformers movie all of a sudden.
He's just like, hey, do you want a lot of money
to just be like, I'll destroy you, Pikachu, kind of thing.
He's like, yes, absolutely.
Why mess with the formula I've had for the rest of my career,
being a hack?
According to Levitz.
According to Levitz.
Whose dog I killed.
We've had so many great,
you know,
very well thought out
villain performances,
like, you know,
especially recently with Endgame.
Yeah.
And like, I don't know,
like Last Jedi,
like, you know, obviously.
Well, that's just,
that's a lot of people
that are not fans of Last Jedi.
Everyone loves Kylo Ren
at the very least
um but it was so funny just to stick you know between this and like this is like i would on
par with venom last year this movie that like is just a mess by the end of it but i still enjoyed
it yeah how stupid it was yeah right but particularly like from a villain point of view
like yeah like his character is just such a like it feels like such a 90s movie villain.
Yeah.
Like the end of Street Fighter.
Yeah, or like Three Ninjas.
Yeah.
It felt to me, it felt at this point,
especially towards the end,
it felt like when the ditto is involved and whatever,
it felt like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Did you gasp?
Yeah, of course I gasped.
I was like, oh, just like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Because I remember at the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit,
there's Judge Doom and he turns out. That's the best. Yeah. It felt like this. I'm like, Framed Roger Rabbit. Because remember at the end of You, Framed Roger Rabbit, there's Judge Doom. Yeah, he gets rolled over.
And he turns out.
That's the best.
Yeah.
It felt like this.
I'm like, ooh, weird eyes.
Weird eyes and transformations.
Ooh, I'm on board.
But they didn't really make anything of it.
Like it transformed a couple of times
and it was kicked off a roof or whatever.
I don't even remember what happened to it.
That'll get you.
The Milo Yiannopoulos knocks it off a roof.
Okay, cool.
Excellent.
Good on him.
He comes back.
He's doing good.
Oh, and then Justice Smith gases it using the same gas and then it just dies
okay like the gas that makes yeah the gas that enrages the pokemon so they can be
merged with humans yeah just kills it instead okay good yeah good cool right what about the
big twist of the movie that detective pikachu actually Justice Smith's dad, Ryan Reynolds?
Yeah, the whole time.
I did like points for the scene with Justice Smith and Pikachu when he's talking about his dad and he's crying.
Yeah, there were really nice moments between them.
Yeah, I totally agree.
That's a great scene, yeah.
Probably didn't seem like he did that over the phone.
Much better scene than when real life Ryan Reynolds hangs out with his son at the end of the movie.
And they're like, hmm, what should we do to make Ryan Reynolds look like a dad?
Glasses.
Skimming glasses.
A weird puby beard.
Okay, sure.
And then, well, should we put him in dad jeans?
No, no, just put him in like the tightest jeans imaginable.
Cool guy jeans, yeah.
I've never thought about him as a dad for a second.
It's so bizarre.
Even though he is a dad.
Yeah.
Look, I didn't see that twist coming, but I did...
Like, over the course of the movie,
you do see flashbacks and holograms of the dad.
Yeah.
And he looks like this...
He looks little.
I kept seeing him and picturing Phil Collins,
like modern-day Phil Collins, just sort of like...
Phil Collins, the...
The singer.
Just kind of like, you know, like just a dad,
like an old dad kind of like... Yeah. You know, just hunched over and kind of bald and kind of like, you know, like just an old dad kind of like,
you know, just hunched over and kind of bald and kind of like.
But then all of a sudden, boom, Ryan Reynolds.
It probably wasn't the same actor.
They Spider-Man Homecoming'd us.
We were like, oh, mixed race couples aren't a thing in Hollywood yet.
And then, oh, they were.
They got us.
But it wasn't because of like that that got me.
I was just like, I just can't imagine Ryan Reynolds as a father.
Yes, same.
And so I was like, oh.
He is a father.
Yeah, he is.
Yeah, sure, I know.
He's not a good father though, Mason.
No, by all accounts.
He's on his Instagram, yeah.
Why, what does he do?
No doubt, he just jokes about his kids, how he hates them or whatever.
Oh, classic.
Good stuff.
That'll be good until the divorce,
at which point it'll be used as evidence.
I thought, yeah, it was going to be like his father as his Pikachu,
but I thought that only when he is Pikachu
does he have Ryan Reynolds' voice.
I thought it was just going to be some actor.
Why didn't he recognise his father's voice?
His dad's voice, yeah.
I guess he's a dart.
Hold on a minute.
Deadpool?
Wait a minute. on a minute Deadpool? Wait a minute
Hal Jordan
Guy from Blade 3
Whose name I can't remember
One of the two guys
A girl and a pizza place
Is that you?
Is it Bert is it I want to say?
Yeah that was strange
And it also leaves the universe in a weird place
The guy from Waiting
When he was a waiter
Is that you? Definitely maybe What are you doing here? Strange, and it also leaves the universe in a weird place. The guy from Waiting? When he was a waiter?
Is that you?
Definitely maybe.
What are you doing here?
So going forward, there is no Detective Pikachu anymore because he's been separated.
And also, did they have to get his son back
so he could separate them?
Did he need the DNA of the son to rebuild the dad or something?
Yeah.
My brain had checked out by that point.
That's what Mwtwo said mewtwo wanted
mewtwo wanted pikachu dad to bring bring the kid back and that would allow him that's what the
movie should be called no he gives it away you can't call the pikachu dad you idiot yeah it'll
be in like in like korea or something it'll be called pikachu or something. It'll be called Pikachu Dad.
Sorry, yes.
Well, I don't know.
Then he needed to use his magic for some... That's why he needed to come back.
Yeah, okay.
I don't know why, though.
Because he was Pikachu Dad.
That's not how you put on a tie.
Hobbs and Shaw, apparently, in Japan,
is called Super Combo.
Oh, that's the that's great
it's a great title
it's terrific
but yeah so
he's not Pikachu Dad
anymore going forward
but they could just
like what's gonna
if they do a sequel
it'll just be
they need his
detective skills
but also he needs to be able
to sneak into a small area
like a small
like a box
like a box or an air vent
or something like that
so they'll use the magic
or the whatever
to combine them again.
Or maybe Pikachu Dad again.
No, I reckon the next one will be someone else gets the technology,
takes over Mewtwo, and accidentally combines Justice Smith and Pikachu,
and it's Ryan Reynolds teaming up with Pikachu.
Oh, that makes so much sense.
Okay, that's cool.
All right.
Yeah.
Anyone could be the voice of Pikachu Dad.
That's a good point. We could all be the voice of Pikachu Dad. That's a good point.
We could all be the voice of Pikachu.
Collectively.
Collectively.
I'd even go on set.
I don't mind.
See, if they went with Pikachu Dad,
they could call the sequel Pikachu Son.
That's true.
That makes a lot of sense.
Yeah.
But I also feel like that this movie leaves it open
for a whole world of Pokemon that they're going to explore.
Like, I don't think they're...
What are you being paid by the Pokemon company?
No, I'm being...
You've got to deal with the Pokemon company.
I'm currently being crippled financially.
It's like you've got...
They've sent you a message under the table.
They're like, all right, we'll give you a video back.
If you're like, no, I just think there's a whole world of Pokemon out there.
But there is.
I mean, there's video games, certainly.
There's a new one coming out.
There's a whole just...
As Lemon said, one of the most interesting parts of this movie is the the universe they build the
best thing about it is the world yeah that this that this movie set in and like yeah i mean i
think the problem is though like people know this as the world of detective pikachu yeah like cinema
goers i guess i mean not like the world of pokemon exactly yeah but they established like there's
battles and didn't you know i guess they were well, there's no battles in the city,
but then we can go out into the wilderness.
Yeah, there's all sorts of small towns and things
where people can be insurance men.
And there's the three-mile limit in the ocean
where no rules apply after that.
Is that the same in this universe, though?
Do you know that?
I don't know that for sure.
There we go.
That's what I thought.
What was the weirdest thing for you?
Because there's a few like...
Besides Mr. Mind being set on fire.
You'll check in with him again.
Well, yeah.
They never cut back to him.
That was a good scene.
That was funny.
They did too much of it in the trailer though.
But then they set him alight.
Then they did set him alight.
There's nowhere to go there, yeah.
Is he just...
Because there was no post-credits.
I would have hoped
for a post credit scene
where he's just like
dragging himself out
of the warehouse
you know
you hung around
for the post credits
no I didn't
I did
I was like
surely there's going to be
something that wasn't
you went to the
Sydney screening
or whatever
with the big Pokemon as well
we met the same big Pokemon
yeah
I think we actually
met the same one
because that got shipped
I asked them
they shipped it from Japan oh wow or something yeah did you get the um the cat at captain marvel
premiere i didn't go to that we didn't go to that no but i think it was there yeah i saw your photos
yeah yeah yeah it was a cat what do you think of the cat yeah loved it was beautiful beautiful cat
they'd have to be wouldn't it they had to get a real docile drugged up. No, he was very docile. Yeah. So for me, like the weirdest scene,
it's a tie between like the bizarre, enormous tortoise.
Oh, yeah.
When they're like jumping the tortoise,
tortoise Pokemon enclosure.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What the fuck those ones are called.
And then they're just suddenly on the back
of these enormous ones.
So they experiment with the size.
There were a lot of, not a lot,
there were a couple of action sequences
that didn't really have any payoff beyond.
That one especially.
We've got to just move you somewhere else
and somebody has to be injured or like.
And they kept building up the like psychic blast of Psyduck
and then it didn't really stop the Greninjas from getting him.
The scene as well, like when he first,
when, and I guess it's supposed to establish
that the serum is dangerous,
but when Justice first arrives and i guess it's supposed to establish that the serum is dangerous but when he
when justice first arrives at his dad's office and then the little pokemon attack him for a bit
and then he runs away and then he his pants fall off and then then they just fight again and he
just goes back up to the office like i feel that was there's a better way to do that than just like
what is it then come on mason his pants fall all the way off because he's full dick.
Yeah, that is better.
Yeah, see, that's what I'm saying.
That's a really good point.
For me, the weirdest scene easily though
is the Diplo DJing the battle scene with Charizard.
As a DJ yourself.
I mean, that's what all DJs hope to achieve
at some point in life
is a Pokemon movie cameo.
Yeah.
That's his Secret of the Ooze Vanilla Ice moment.
Yeah.
He had talking, he had like multiple lines in the movie.
Like he's like, okay, it's Pikachu versus Charizard.
It's just so weird.
I know him quite well.
And so it's a very funny scene.
Did you know he was in it?
Yeah, I knew he was going to be in it.
I just thought he was going to be DJing in the background
because he's in 22 Jump Street. Oh, yeah. He's been in it? Yeah, I knew he was going to be in it. I just thought he was going to be DJing in the background because he's in 22 Jump Street.
Oh, yeah.
He's been in a few movies, but this was like,
it was just so funny seeing him in a kid's movie with Pokemon.
Is he a nice man?
Yeah, yeah.
He and I actually started a charity together.
Did you really?
Is it called Heaps Decent?
Oh, yeah.
No, I do know that.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
You can check it out.
We used to do, it still exists. I'm just a board. Yeah. You can check it out. We used to do... It still exists.
I'm just a board member now.
Okay.
But it's like we used to do...
He helped set up this charity where we go around Australia
doing music workshops in juvenile detention centres
and community centres in rural Australia.
That's awesome.
I'll link that below then if people want to check it out.
Yeah, he should have given Heap Season a shout out
in the Pokemon movie.
It would have been great.
Absolutely.
He should have.
What a selfish prick.
I can't believe he's a friend of yours.
Yeah.
I can. Before we move on move on though to another thing uh do you want to spruik some things I mentioned them
up top the things that you are on and like yeah well you've got hey fam obviously which is yeah
if you if you ever listen to weekly planet and think man I love what James and Mesa do I'd love
to hear them do it worse. But earlier.
And with more swears.
Yeah, I've been pretty well behaved this episode so far.
I needed to make a formal apology.
The last time I was on, when you had to do a warning for me dropping the C-bomb, I felt so bad. No, no.
Look, honestly, it's fine.
You can say literally whatever you want.
I just know it's subcultures.
Oh, of course.
No, no.
It's fine.
I just wanted to give people there's this weird phase in my life where i would be like cool i'm gonna go on this podcast better have a couple bottles of wine and then almost always led to
me doing a version of batman that drops the c-bomb repeatedly um but uh so sorry about that
it's to you and your listeners this fine family show
Mason do you accept
the apology
because I'm fine with it
but obviously
yeah
you're alright
thank god
cool
hey fam I've heard
described by
people in the
planet broadcasting group
as weekly planet
but fucked
and or weekly planet
no
the mean version
of the weekly planet
yeah that's not inaccurate
it's very funny as well like both of you work really well together and you're often no the main version of the yeah that's not inaccurate it's very funny as well
like the both both of you work really well together and you're often in the sports bar
but sometimes you're in a different we've actually we've as of this year no more sports yeah we used
to record at this awful sports bar in sydney and they would have the cricket on really loud and we
would just have to yell over like classic rock while we recorded great atmosphere you never got
hit for copyright or anything on that no i guess you wouldn't yeah um what by by the board of cricket okay i meant the songs more but yeah
our podcasts are pretty different for example i'm i'm a i'm a dad who works for himself
and um my co-host works for the government and doesn't have kids
couldn't get any more different.
But also you've got your comic book podcast, of course,
which is now monthly.
Yeah.
Serious Issues is also on Planet Royal casting.
With Siobhan.
With Siobhan.
We're recording an episode of that tomorrow.
It's good.
Now we do monthly,
there's less pressure to just read books
because I feel like I have to.
Yeah.
You enjoy them more.
Talking about books we love.
Yeah.
Are you reading the new Watchmen at the moment? Where are you to on that are you caught up uh what's it called doomsday
clock yeah i'm reading it out of i started that when i read everything yeah and it's actually
it's still enjoyable yeah i don't know what the point of it is yet but but how many issues are
there to go it's 12 all up so yeah three but like i think this is going to be like a comic book
event that goes for like four or five years yeah I feel like I'm a few issues behind that,
but I feel like if the point hasn't been established
by issue 9 of 12...
Well, only because I feel like all the main DC stuff
has been very slow.
Since Rebirth happened, it was like,
oh my God, that was such a great issue,
the Rebirth thing that Geoff Johns did,
where Dr Manhattan's at the end of it
and Batman finds the Watchmen card.
And nothing from that issue has paid off yet. is that the one where he's beaten up by the
evil flash is that the one you're talking about that happens like after that okay right okay
i know he's back i don't know button starts with b and i like words that start with c
hey did you talk about the Far From Home trailer earlier?
Yeah, we can go back to it.
I have a really far out theory that is definitely not it.
But you know when you go for the most out there thing
and imagine if I get this right?
Yeah.
So I reckon...
Bearing in mind, there's a rule on this show.
If you put this theory out and it's not true,
James has to do a shot of poop. Wait a minute. Is that true make no i don't make this a scoop this is a predict all right no that's fine yeah if you get a prediction wrong you get the hawkeye
haircut that's the right okay yeah um so i reckon that mysterio you know he's like you know did you
talk about how like you know the the multiverse exists? Yes. But he could be bullshitting.
I reckon he's revealed that, yeah, he's been bullshitting.
But then, actually, he's been programmed to be a liar
because Mysterio is a Doom bot.
And then this is how we get Dr. Doom.
That would be incredible.
As I said this out loud, I was like, this is not going to happen.
You've practiced in front of a mirror
a few times before you got here.
And you're like,
no, this seems good.
They've got LMDs,
so it's not that far from that.
Yeah, okay.
Interesting.
Does that mean there's a real Mysterio?
Well, there is no Mysterio.
I don't know.
Because there's also,
isn't there supposed to be
like chameleon in this?
I don't know.
It's your dumb theory.
It's not my dumb.
What, what, what, what?
I don't care, Rio.
Do you think there is though something to the
maybe there is no Mysterio in this at all?
That there's somebody behind him?
Yeah. How good would it be if it was Doctor Doom?
Maybe it's the bloody
Mandarin again. He's such a great actor
this time.
That's how it comes. We're working out like
oh, it's the Mandarin again.
But this time it's Bill Nye, other British character actor.
Yeah, Mewtwo is behind Mysterio.
I love it.
All right, anything else?
Or should we move it along to the next segment of the show?
Yeah, a brand new one that you invented just for me being here.
Definitely.
Thanks for coming along, Levins.
We really appreciate it.
There'll be a video up this week on the channel
that you were also in.
Oh, I can't wait to record that.
It's going to be fun.
I also can't wait to find out what it's going to be.
Me too.
I haven't really decided yet,
but it's going to be great.
Mewtwo.
Hashtag Mewtwo.
Just all of us doing our best Bill Nye
and Detective Pikachu impersonation.
Fantastic.
Yeah, so thanks everybody for listening.
It's not the end of the show,
but thank you.
Levins.
What am I reading?
Oh yeah,
absolutely.
What are you reading?
I just finished all of one punch man on the manga.
You've done the whole thing on the,
on the plane over here.
What'd you think?
It's really,
really good.
I know you've watched it.
Yeah.
I've only watched a couple episodes in the first season,
but I,
if you,
the Shonen jump app, which is where all these shows,
like your Dragon Balls, One Piece, like Naruto,
and then more recent stuff like One Punch Man,
they all start there as manga, weekly manga.
They come out and then they turn them into shows.
And it's all in the app.
Yeah, it's like $2.99 Australian or $2 American a month
just to have their entire back catalogue.
Do they read backwards?
Yes.
Oh, man.
You get used to it.
I don't want to.
I'll read it in front of a mirror.
That'll work.
And you also read all of One Piece as well.
Yeah, like 940 chapters of One Piece.
Wow.
I highly recommend doing that.
What's it about?
It's about a pirate who wants to be the king of the pirates.
What is the One Piece he's referring to?
It is the greatest treasure of all.
Oh.
Yeah.
Wow.
Is it meant to?
Well, to be king of the pirates means that you will be the freest person that ever lived.
But you're also in charge, aren't you?
You've got responsibility.
There's a lot of flaws in Luffy's idealism.
All right, then.
It's a fun book, though.
It's good, though?
Yeah.
Would you like to see it? The One i love that i've been watching i've seen a few episodes of
the new season which i quite like but like because it was it started out as like a japanese web comic
and then then got turned into a manga and um and then an anime but um the first like it's very it
feels very much like a strip comic when you first start reading it all right and so i got a garfield
yeah exactly yeah like one punch man hates mondays eats lasagna i bet he does um but uh the you know It feels very much like a strip comic when you first start reading it. Oh, right. Like Garfield. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, like One Punch Man hates Mondays, eats lasagna.
I bet he does.
But, you know, the main gist of it is that he's a very,
very strong hero who can kill any enemy with one punch.
Fantastic.
And he's bored.
Yes.
And he wants a challenge.
But it's kind of like it's very joke of the week, you know,
each chapter.
But then like in the middle like actually
let's just make this
a proper like
battle manga
okay
and so it gets
quite gripping
towards
and I'm up to date
and it's gonna come out
every week now
how far is the
seasons behind the
manga
they're about like
it's about the first third
of what's come out
of the manga
okay sure
alright cool
excellent
alright thanks again
Levens
thank you
and we'll see you
at a different
see you next time
yeah yeah yeah yeah I love your different thing. See you next time. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah!
I love your catchphrase.
See you next time.
I'm doing a thing.
Mason, it's in the What We're Reading segment.
We're in it.
Get out of here, Levens.
Yeah, Levens.
Get out of here, if indeed you were here at all.
This was all recorded on the one day and Levens came and went, didn't he?
Yep.
Yeah.
What are you reading and what are you going to read?
Well, I watched Dead to Me on Netflix, which is the Christina Rappel-Gate.
I was there too.
Linda Cardellini.
I'm like, no, I saw every episode of that.
What did you think of it?
It was good.
It's pretty good, right?
Yeah.
It's way grimmer than the trailer.
Yes.
You know when it auto plays the trailer and you're like, oh, it's a couple of quirky people
and they've had a bit of tragedy, but they're having a bit of fun.
It's grim.
Dark.
It's grim and dark.
Like the leads.
Yep.
I like the cast in general.
Summer of Linda Cardellini.
It really is.
She's doing all sorts of stuff.
Yeah.
This.
A little bit of end game. End game. thing a third thing yes yes it's been an endless
summer you know but it's 10 episodes yeah and like all things on netflix it'll get another
series and then they'll cancel it yeah i read somewhere recently that apparently
season the way they produce episodes on net, three seasons is financially viable, but more than that isn't.
Why is that? Because the cast gets expensive?
Yeah, I think it might be that, yeah.
Okay, fair enough.
So a lot of stuff gets cancelled at three.
Okay, fair enough.
And we're currently at that point with a lot of stuff.
Santa Clarita Diet.
Santa Clarita Diet.
Yeah.
Okay, very good.
No, I enjoyed that.
It's got James Marsden as an unlikable dude. Yeah, he's very unlikable. Very, very good. No, I enjoyed that. It's got James Marston as an unlikable dude.
Yeah, he's very unlikable.
Very fun, yeah.
But he looks great.
How does he not age?
How is he younger than me now?
What happened to that?
Because I remember when I first saw him, I was at school.
But now it looks like he's at school.
He's at school.
And I'm his dad.
And you're the fool.
And you're his dad.
Exactly.
I'm picking him up from school for some reason.
That's right.
You're berating him for his poor grades.
But he is smart.
He just doesn't apply himself, you know?
That's his problem, Mason.
Yes, exactly.
That's his exact problem.
What are we going to read, though?
Well, okay.
Something else is coming out.
There's something I've been reading that's two issues in.
It's called Spider-Man Life Story.
It's by Chip Zdarsky.
I like that, Chip Zdarsky.
Yeah, but that's by Mark Bagley.
It's basically Spider-Man, but if it started in the 60s and then it just uh and then it jumps in every
decade so it starts like vietnam he's aging normally yeah so it's vietnam era like he's
like should i sign up because you know this is captain america's thing gonna do it and iron man's
there or whatever uh-huh and then and it's the 70s and then it's like well 10 years on from that
and what happened and what's captain america doing now and what am i doing now okay now it's the 70s, and then it's like, well, 10 years on from that, and what happened, and what's Captain America doing now,
and what am I doing now?
Right, okay.
Now it's the 70s, and there's different things happening.
Oh, different things, you say.
I wasn't there.
I don't know what happened in the 70s.
Right.
And I don't have a phone to check, but so I can call my dad and ask him.
That's what I'm saying.
Disco-themed playing cards.
That's right, yeah.
But, yeah, it's really good.
Okay.
And I highly recommend it.
Mark Bagley is kind of the classic Spider-Man artist.
Did he do Spider-Man Blue and those ones?
I don't know, but he was the amazing Spider-Man artist for, you know,
late 90s, early 2000s.
They even get the Harry Osborn, normal Osborn hair from the 60s.
Okay, good, great.
There's a lot of sweet callbacks.
But, no, I definitely recommend that.
Yeah.
And Chip Zdarsky is who he is and writes amazing
things so do you remember did you ever read alias the the comic with the jessica jones i read like
the first two volumes okay right so if you remember the the the present day stuff was kind of more of
photorealistic style and then we went back in time it was kind of that kind of that's right
prototypical archetype archetypal kind of comic book art that That's Mark Bagley. Oh, okay.
He's kind of the classic, like,
if you want a straight down the line Spider-Man.
I don't.
Oh, well then.
Why are you reading like this, man?
Yeah, it's very good.
You really not doing anything else?
I don't know.
What's coming out this week?
Well, I think John Wick.
So I think next week is John Wick and maybe Game of Thrones
because what I was thinking of doing,
maybe recording the bulk of the episode, like we
sometimes do.
Yes.
And then we'll watch Game of Thrones together.
We might do it.
What, eight episodes?
No, no.
You've got to watch the rest.
Come to my house, we'll watch it.
I'll watch the last episode.
And then we'll slot it in.
Or we'll just do it the week after.
Oh, yeah, cool.
Nice.
All right.
John Wick 3 is actually releasing at the same time as the rest of the world in Australia.
Unlike the last two.
Which were months behind or something.
Maybe like four months minimum.
Yeah, right.
It's because people here don't just steal everything off the internet.
Yeah.
They do is what I'm saying.
They really do.
We do.
We do.
I'm proud to admit it.
I don't want...
Look, it's way...
We're a nation of convicts.
That's true.
Well, it's not...
I don't want to steal anything.
But when something's unavailable, you kind
of back what you're going to do.
Sometimes I want a Ferrari, but they're just not available.
And I would download a car if I could.
Absolutely.
Are you kidding me?
A free car?
A free car?
Yes.
Especially when you download the car, the car's still there.
We both have a car.
We've both got a car.
Yeah.
Nobody loses out.
And I'm not going to buy a Ferrari, am I?
No, exactly. But I'll download one. Yes. For a dick. Yeah. All you have to do is touch a car. We've got a car. Yeah, nobody loses out. And I'm not going to buy a Ferrari, am I? No, exactly.
But I'll download one.
Yes.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah.
All you have to do is touch the car.
You've got your own car.
That's what I love about it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anything else that you're reading?
No, I think that's about it, really.
You're on any comics lately?
No.
You wouldn't, nerd.
No.
When are they going to release a colour Kindle?
Not a tablet.
Yeah, right, right.
But an actual Kindle that the battery lasts forever and it's only for
reading. I guess there's no call for it, but I would love that just for comics. Yeah, for sure.
Yeah. And it'd also be great for kids' books. The two things that are in my life that I read,
the only two things. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. That would be good. I mean, there's-
Apparently, I know the technology is kind of behind on that and it's more difficult.
But still, if anybody has some ideas for that, because my iPad, the one that I have, which I normally would use for...
I try to read paper copies now, but anytime I get comics, I'll read them on the iPad.
But my iPad now is so old that some just websites don't load anymore.
The browser's so old.
So I'd be interested to know if anybody out there
has a good recommendation for like a tablet,
not an iPad, but like not a crazy expensive thing,
like a kind of like an 11-inch, 10-inch, 11-inch thing
that is good for comic books.
Because a lot of Android stuff doesn't have,
there's no comiXology app for Android, I don't think.
You can buy comics on your black and white Kindle.
Yeah, right.
And that's great if I'm reading The Walking Dead.
Yeah, for sure.
Which is a black and white comic, but I don't want to watch...
Or an old-timey comic from the olden days.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Some old newspaper strips, some old Beatle Bailey strips.
If I want to look at a playing card from 1885.
If you want to read some bloody footrot flats from 1988.
Maybe I do, Mason.
Maybe you do, yeah.
They had an animated movie.
I remember.
Slice of Heaven.
Rocket Man.
Wait.
Robot Man. Robot Man. And he was Heaven. Rocket Man. Wait. Robot Man.
Robot Man.
And he was replaced with an alien.
Yeah.
Remember for a bit?
Yeah, I remember.
Robot Man.
Yeah, Robot Man was good.
Anyway, if anybody has any recommendations, that'd be good.
But he hates Mondays.
No, I get it.
You're thinking of Garfield.
No, Mason.
You're thinking of Garfield.
All right.
If anybody has any recommendations, that'd be great.
Some sort of tablet that's good and handy. And if I accidentally snap it in half, I don't
mind so much.
And the battery lasts forever.
Battery lasts for a while, yeah.
Something with a good...
Something I only use Comixology on.
No weird glare on it.
No weird glare on it.
Nothing I have to buy from China.
Yeah.
And then jailbreak myself.
Fair enough.
Let's do letters.
Let's do letters.
I'll do a letters theme
Wait no
That's the wrong one
I've clicked the wrong one
Mason you fool
I know
What else is going on?
Mason
I'm not going to bail you out on this
Okay fine
This is your job
You're going to let me
Stew on my own juices
Is that what you're doing?
Wow
Alright let's do some letters then
The classic one was
Letters
Oh letters
We love you
Some letters They're only a day away.
I know they're here right now, we're going to do letters.
Nice.
Good themes all around.
Yes, I agree.
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It can be anything.
You can still send them.
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Here's one.
This one says hot scoop.
Okay.
And the sender.
Often these aren't hot scoops, I just want to point out.
They're just made up things.
Often it's hot scoop and then a thing that somebody goes,
well, I think the Mysterio's this.
Well, look, here's the thing.
I will leave you, because I'm sceptical.
Okay.
I will leave you to determine whether this is true or not.
Why is it up to me?
Okay, we can discuss it.
Let's discuss it like men.
I was going to say Mason, yeah.
Let's discuss it like men.
So this is from someone who doesn't want his name revealed okay uh okay uh he lives in la he's a
bartender surrounded by writers who drink and talk he's heard something from one who interviewed for
the upcoming disney wandavision show that might be plausible has this sound okay uh the show uh
hang on okay apparently the show is based on Wanda's reality-altering abilities,
and each episode will be based on a sitcom in a different decade.
50s, 60s, 70s, and so on.
So maybe it's an exploration of what Wanda could have had
had Vision not died.
Ah, okay.
What do you reckon about that?
I think that's really interesting.
Yeah.
Well, they did say that 50s thing.
Yeah, right, right.
Like a 1950s kind of aesthetic yeah so that's
so that's what that's what he's heard it's maybe an american styles 50s domestic sitcom
then that's the first episode yeah and then they move it up so like in the 80s it's family tie
style or whatever no i want to see bloody al bundy you want to see married with children oh yeah that
would make more sense actually yeah i want to see step by Step in the 90s. I want to see Malcolm in the Middle.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Oh, they have to do Big Bang.
They have to do Young Sheldon, don't they?
I've never seen it.
Maybe it's amazing.
All right.
Okay.
So is she altering reality or is she going between dimensions?
We don't really know.
No.
Well, it says reality altering reality or is she going between dimensions or we're not we don't really know no it's well it says one it says reality altering abilities uh each episode will be based on a
sitcom in a different decade so maybe it's an exploration of what wanda could have had i want
to see a ricky ricardo style yeah right for betty yeah yeah okay a wonder yeah that's that's
interesting and different i like quite like that, yeah.
I mean, we'll find out whether this guy's a liar or not in time.
Well, he said his stage name is Zardoz McAllister,
but we've got his real name here,
so if it doesn't turn out to be true... We're doxing you.
Exactly.
We're going to track you down.
Definitely, yeah.
Yeah.
Also, we're not going to dox anybody.
Doxing's not cool.
Don't tell anybody where anybody lives, specifically me,
because if you come to my house,
I'm going to hit you in the head with a plank of wood.
Just straight up.
Straight up with a plank of wood.
Wow, all right.
Wow.
That's reasonable, right?
Yeah, I think so.
Once they're on your property,
you can hit somebody with as many planks of wood as you want.
And I have a lot.
You can set up your whole house Home Alone style.
Yes.
I quite like that,
and I like that it's not like anything we've seen.
And I guess it's Legion-esque,
like it's a little bit off-kilter.
Yeah, well, exactly.
Yeah, I mean, that's a nice way to put it.
And again, if we're getting a whole bunch of these series at a time,
and they all seem to be like,
they're travelling the world,
and maybe they'll find some trouble, and maybe they'll realize their true purpose in life or
whatever maybe they'll be captain america maybe they won't this would be a nice change of pace
i think i'm going to break it up you know let's all have fun with the things that we watch yes
let's do that it's a revelation i hope everybody's stuck around long enough to learn that to learn
that lesson uh hashtag weeklyag Weekly Planet Pod.
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Anything you loved as a kid but you don't want to revisit because it'll suck?
I try not to go back to any original Transformers episodes.
Yeah.
Because they're not good.
We talked about that recently in that Pokemon thing.
Yeah, we did.
The audio is still available, though.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
I also cut out the bit about the Burger King toys that kill children.
Oh, right, yes.
Because it's a really tragic thing, and I was kind of like,
I don't want anybody to perceive this as,
ha-ha, this killed some kids, because it was awful.
Anyway, now I'm bringing them up here.
Will I cut this out?
We'll find out, won't we?
We certainly will.
Well, you won't.
I will never find out, no.
I'm kind of reluctant to go back to the first Ninja Turtles
because I always talk about how I really love it.
I saw it again like 10 years ago.
Yeah.
It's good, right?
I mean, look, the production value was really high at the time.
They were technically very well put together
and it's based on the original Mirage comic storyline,
which was cool.
Which they weren't really doing then either.
No, they were doing their own versions.
They were doing the cartoon.
They were doing the Archie comics.
I just meant even adaptations of anything.
Oh, yeah, right.
They were doing their own versions.
That's true, yeah.
They're generally not as good.
Let's re-watch it.
Okay.
Let's find my VHS copy.
We can do a commentary.
My green VHS.
You know, I can rent it online or whatever.
No, let's find a television and a VCR.
And I want all the ads
from the day there
yeah that's
exactly
yeah
okay
yeah
yeah no
I would love to re-watch that actually
let's do it
anything else that you
don't really want to visit
can't even remember
what I liked as a kid
man
I know a lot of that stuff
is no good
like Dino Riders
yeah right
Thundercats
Mask Mask Voltron's bad Toxic Crusaders is probably terrible, the original Ninja Turtles cartoon, except for the opening episodes, they were quite dark.
I'd like to re-watch Earthworm Jim, the cartoon series.
Oh, yeah.
I think that's getting a remake, the video game.
It is.
They're doing a third one or whatever they're up to.
By all the people that, I guess they got the rights back or or whatever but I think I beat the first two of those
maybe on an emulator
yeah right
in like 2002
when I had time
those were good creative games
they were fun
I agree
you hit that
you whipped that cow
you jumped the cow
and then later
yep
at the end
I won't spoil it
if you want to go back
and play Earthworm Jim
they did do a 3D Earthworm Jim
do you remember at one point
I do not
yeah
is he the size of an earthworm
or the size of a man he or the size of a man?
He's the size of a man
I believe. How does that work?
Radiation.
So he had that before he found the suit?
Like he got radiation? No, there was radiation
in the suit. The earthworm crawled
into the suit because it fell to
earth and then the earthworm went into the
suit and then the radiation turned him into earthworm Jim.
There is that level as well where you don't have the suit and you're just the earthworm
yes that's good it's a good game yes uh anything else on things that you don't want to revisit oh
uh i think dark angel holds up no but it didn't hold up at the time do you think it does or doesn't
mason it doesn't do you think everyone should get a tattoo of a barcode yeah because yeah because
they're slaves this is where all slaves to society, aren't we?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What about this?
This is from Hellboy News.
Ooh.
This is going to be a hot update.
Actually, it might be.
Ooh.
Yeah, this actually makes sense.
What do you guys think about the Dark Horse slash Netflix deal?
What do you want to see adapted as a TV series or film?
It's interesting that Dark Horse stuff is going to Netflix.
You saw that?
I didn't, but that's interesting.
Apparently they're already preparing to release TV shows for Sin City,
Briggs Land, Mysticons,
and also a handful of comic based movies,
including a Time Cop reboot.
Oh yeah, that's right.
Cause Dark Time Cop was on, was the Dark Horse comic for a while.
Yeah.
For some reason.
Yeah, okay.
Well, Hellboy's out.
Yeah, too expensive.
Yeah.
You could do a Hellboy spin-off, like set in that universe.
Oh, you BPRD, yeah.
But would anybody take a risk on that now?
Yeah, probably not.
Yeah.
Where is Black Hammer going?
Because that's Dark Horse, right?
That's a very good question.
Does Jeff Lemire have his own?
I'd like to see him own that.
Yeah.
He might.
I don't know.
Because I believe that has...
Hasn't he already had some sort of development deal?
Oh, with Black Hammer?
Yeah, you're right.
He might actually...
Yeah.
Yeah, you might be right.
Okay.
Good question.
I'm trying...
That's the thing, because whenever I think of Dark Horse now... I mean, they did Aliens as well. Yeah, you might be right. Good question.
That's the thing, because whenever I think of Dark Horse now... I mean, they did Aliens as well.
Well, yeah, they did all the Alien vs. Predator stuff.
That's what I think of.
Disney had that.
When I think of Dark Horse, I think of that,
and I also think of Comics Greatest World,
which was the superhero thing they did in the 90s
that had barbed wire in it.
Oh, yeah.
So I'm trying to think of like modern era Dark Horse stuff.
Let's have a bloody look.
So I'd imagine the alien stuff the same way that Star Wars was taken from Dark Horse.
Aliens will also probably be taken from Dark Horse.
Yeah, right, right, right.
I'd imagine.
Yeah.
Let's see what we got.
Oh, also Googsland.
Give it a bit of a Googs.
Googsland.
Titles.
The Goon would be good.
Oh, yeah.
They've been talking about The Goon for years.
They have been talking about The Goon for years, yeah.
Do you know Black Bat?
No.
I'm not familiar with it.
That looks like a real one.
Umbrella Academy is probably not very famous.
Sherlock Frankenstein, which again ties into...
Black Hammer.
Black Hammer, yeah.
A lot of Star Wars stuff.
Conan.
They're still doing Conan.
And they're still talking about, I mean, the comic,
but also they're talking about that movie still.
Yeah, right.
I think they should do it.
And they are, I guess.
Scotland Yard?
No idea what that is.
Grendel?
Grendel.
I haven't thought about Grendel for years.
Yes, absolutely Grendel.
It's Spawn.
It looks like he's Spawn, but he's got a fishbowl thing.
Okay, so Grendel is basically, he's like an assassin.
He's like an assassin?
He is an assassin.
Just say he's an assassin.
He's most like an assassin that you could possibly be.
Grendel's a good one, actually.
He's fought Batman on a number of occasions.
Yeah, who cares?
So here's the two-parter with Grendel.
Okay.
Is that there's the modern-day Grendel who's an assassin.
He's not like an assassin,
but in the way he's 100% like an assassin because he is one.
He's like a gentleman assassin.
Yes, yes, yes.
And he had bloody action and violence and romance,
but in the future, in the same universe,
there's like a dystopian future where his image has been,
like it's been used by a religion
and then it's this weird like cult of like super soldiers and there's time travel and there's all
sorts of crazy stuff so there's a so in the modern day it's like a like a like a romantic assassin
like hitman kind of james bondy sexy james bondy kind of thing and in the future it's like this
weird super high techtech insanity stuff.
Interesting.
And so Batman's fought the original Grendel,
and he's also fought Grendel Prime, who's the cyborg version,
who went back in time to retrieve the bones of Grendel.
What for?
Religious stuff, I guess.
Yeah, that's cool.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
The mask.
The mask is Dark Horse, yeah. That's due for something, right?
Yeah.
Look, give us a really gross version of that.
I don't think they would. I think they'd just be like, remember Jim Carrey? I don't really gross version of that i don't think they
would i think they'd just be like remember jim carrey i don't want that though i don't want it
either i don't like that movie no apparently i'm the only one in the world that doesn't like that
movie but it's no good yeah uh look here's some okay but we were talking about comics great as
well there's also ghost which is ghost ghost was part of the superhero line she was a uh
she was a woman who believed she was...
A ghost.
Yeah, a ghost.
That's easily disproved.
I know, right?
Ridiculous.
But she could turn invisible and walk through walls and stuff.
Oh, okay.
Well, then I retract that.
Okay, good.
Ghost was good.
Yeah, look, I would say Grendel for sure and the mask, definitely.
Okay.
Give us a gross version of the mask.
That'd be like a super violent one.
Yeah, okay.
Because that's what it was.
I like the original, the Jim Carrey one.
No, you don't.
I do.
Talking of things that don't hold up.
Yeah, I bet it doesn't hold up.
Well, that's something that I'm not going to go back to.
But yeah, just the original comic books were just so violent and just weird.
Yeah.
And cartoony that I reckon that's that's ripe for her give us that
who is ninja turtles uh it's still um it's image i think yeah so it's it's the guys who invented it
i guess yeah right kevin eastman peter laird yeah i mean they probably still have the rights as well
yeah no it is you're right and idw idw do it to the present. Cool. All right. Nice.
All right.
Cool.
Cool.
Apparently they're doing a reboot of that anyway.
Yeah.
Cool.
Cool.
Okay.
Well, that's the show, Mason.
Unless you've got another letter.
Nope.
That's all I got.
Then you're going to have to wrap up the show.
I'm going to wrap up the show.
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