The Weekly Planet - 380 The Biggest Movies Of All Time
Episode Date: April 12, 2021Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.It's time to Bridge-Out this week with the biggest movies of all time...! We're covering the box office of the 70's, 80's and 90's! Plus we talk more delays (but not dismays), WB movie news and the Justice League Exposé, the new Netflix Sony deal, Spider-Man 4 rumors, Black Widow's release, Indiana Jones 5 and trailers for Loki, Jupiter's Legacy, Space Jam 2, Ghost-busters Afterlife. Thanks for listening!Confessions of the Idiots with Mr Sunday Movies - listen here.Re-AniMates Podcast with Nick Mason - listen here.00:00 The Start05:03 Delays But Don't Dismays09:11 Warner Bros Movie News12:07 Justice League Exposé14:56 Indiana Jones 516:47 Loki Trailer18:45 Jupiter's Legacy Trailer26:05 Space Jam: A New Legacy Trailer31:28 Netflix Sony Deal33:38 Ghostbusters: Afterlife Teaser38:02 Spider-Man 4 Rumour40:21 New Transformers42:30 Black Widow Release43:06 Biggest Movies By Decade (70s, 80s, 90s)01:05:50 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:20:03 Letters, It's Time For LettersJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrown Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymovies TWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanet TWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGH Amazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGj T-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows.
My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday.
With me as always is my co-host, Nick Mason.
I was going to put something in the middle.
I couldn't think of it.
I mean, there's still time.
I'm at 40%.
You know that.
That's true, yeah.
40% is me saying and remembering your name.
Anything beyond that.
Imagine the power you would wield if you're up to like 45.
I think of a funny thing in the middle.
You could have put a funny thing in there.
I probably used to have done that.
You know what I mean?
That's true.
Like in my heyday.
Not now.
Mason, I love podcasts.
It's true, yeah.
So much so that every now and then I'll guest on a podcast.
Oh, yeah, that's nice.
I recorded this a while back, but now it's finally come out.
Thank goodness.
You've been on the show.
It's called Confessions of the Idiots with Sam Peterson.
Yes, with our friend Sammy P.
It's a fantastic podcast where you basically go on
and he finds the most horrendous confessions from Reddit
and then he reads them out and you have to.
Make fun of them.
Make fun of them.
You don't have to make fun of them.
You should make fun of them.
Everybody who goes on the show chooses to make fun of it.
So I went on with Jess Perkins, who people might know from Do Go On
and various comedy things, comedy stylings, would you say?
She's got many comedy stylings.
That's right.
She's been around the traps and it was just a hell of a lot of fun.
It came out last week.
So that means it's out like right now.
It is out.
I listen to it.
It's great. Thank you. Thank you very much. You're of fun. It came out last week. So that means it's out like right now. Yes, I listened to it.
It's great.
Thank you.
Yeah, thank you very much.
You're very welcome. It's a great show, genuinely.
Please listen to it.
If you want something to listen to.
The podcast appreciated, Mason.
That's what you would have put in there.
That's right.
You're operating at 45%.
And you could listen to – you've done an episode.
Yeah.
Weird Al, I think, is – or was it Pauly Shaw did an episode?
Sorry.
Oh, my God.
Either way.
I think it's Pauly Shaw, yeah.
Okay, well. Okay, well.
Yeah, yeah.
There's a bunch of other people that you recognise or maybe not recognise,
but it's a terrific show if you do want to check it out.
He did quite a – oh, he did Stephen Tobolowsky.
That's right.
Yeah, yeah.
I haven't listened to that one yet.
I've got it queued up.
What about you, though, Mason?
I was also on a podcast this week.
You never told me this.
You never – you told me before.
I told you earlier.
I told you earlier.
My friend Lisa is doing a podcast called Reanimates where she is going,
her favourite actor of all time is a noted character actor,
Geoffrey Combs.
My goodness.
Who we would probably know best as the voice of The Question
on Justice League Unlimited.
Yep.
He's been the voice of the Scarecrow.
He's been the voice of Brainiac, I think, in Injustice.
I didn't know he did so many DC things.
But he's been on Star Trek.
He's been on Deep Space Nine.
Like he's in Reanimated.
Yeah, he's in Reanimator, sorry.
Yeah.
But we watched a movie called Dr. Mordred, which is a –
it's from the 90s when Marvel were broke and were like licensing
out all their characters for nothing and they licensed Doctor Strange
out to a company called Full Moon Features,
which is like a B-movie production house.
And before they could finish.
Is their logo a big round butt?
Yeah, it is.
Full Moon, so go on.
Before they could finish writing the script, the rights lapsed.
So instead of doing a Doctor Strange movie,
they did a Doctor Mordred movie.
And it's fascinating.
I've never heard of this.
This comes up in the episode.
It's fascinating that they didn't manage to write a script in time
because the movie's like an hour long.
Yeah.
You're not good on the weekend, mate.
Yeah, exactly.
This logo, not good, is it?
This full moon features.
It looks like a program you accidentally open on Windows mate. Yeah, exactly. This logo, not good, is it? This full moon features. It looks like a program you accidentally open on Windows 95.
Yeah, yeah.
And then you're like, oh, why would I need this?
Should I uninstall it?
I'm not sure.
Can I?
Will it crash my whole system?
That's right.
Great stuff.
But if you want to listen to that, search on your podcast capture device.
Reanimate with the hyphen in the middle there.
Terrific.
Where's the hyphen?
Who knows?
It's up to you.
Yeah.
That part is in your hands.
That's right.
And God's in a way.
Mason, we've got big news this week.
We've got more delays but not dismay.
We've got some behind-the-scenes Justice League stuff that came out about the Justice League movie
that was like, ooh, this Joss Whedon stuff is not looking too good.
Oh, from that.
More of that.
More of that.
Good Lord.
Indiana Jones news. The Loki trailer, Jupiter's Legacy trailer,
a Space Jam trailer, Netflix, Sony deals, other Gus Busters.
Gus Busters.
Gus Busters.
They're out there.
They're like the opposite of storm chasers.
Gus Busters.
They've got a big truck.
Yep.
And it's got a big.
It's got a big.
Funnel.
It's got a big funnel. What does it a big funnel. It's got a big funnel.
What does it do?
It catches gusts.
Catches gusts.
Very good.
And then we're going to talk about the biggest movies of all time, aren't we?
That's what we're going to do.
But not Avatar because, quite frankly, I'm sick of talking about Avatar.
Well, it'll come up.
It'll come up.
Well, I'm conscientiously objecting to talking about Avatar.
Wow.
I didn't know your new character, man who conscientiously objects to Avatar,
would be showing up in this episode, Mason.
Yep, he is.
Yeah.
And that mispronunciation of the middle name is deliberate.
That's why we both did it.
It's not that we're bad at talking.
It's not that.
It's not that.
Time codes, Collings puts them in every week
if you do want to check them out.
But first of all, delays but not dismays, Mason.
Here we go.
Top Gun Loser, or Maverick as it's being officially called,
has its sixth delay.
I forgot this movie existed.
It exists, Mason.
It's gone from June to November 19th.
Can we really be sure that it does exist and it's not like an ad
for leather jackets or Bud Light or something?
It is an ad for leather jackets and Bud Light.
That is true, but it's also a movie.
A thing can be two things.
Are you cracking open a Bud Light over there? No, I it's also a movie. A thing can be two things. What are you, cracking open a Bud Light over there?
No, I am, so I can pour it all over this leather jacket.
I want to get that sheen, that leather jacket sheen,
you know what I mean?
That wet sheen?
Yeah.
Sort of smell like a bad beer all day, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
That moves Mission Impossible 7 from that date to May of next year,
which pushes Mission Impossible 8 from November next year to July of 2023.
God.
And Dungeons and Dragons.
Just skip one.
Just cancel Top Gun.
We don't need it.
Who cares?
Top Gun, people like Top Gun, I think, don't they?
People love it.
People are like, we love this weird homoerotic movie.
I can't wait for the BuzzFeed article.
It's like, we rewatched Top Gun and it's actually pretty problematic.
Is it?
That movie from the 80s?
Is it?
I think you'll find that they're actually flying fighter jets
and that promotes war and we're not on board with it actually.
I bet that kicked off a lot of careers of guys who wanted to be fighter pilots
but ended up being the dudes who wave the sticks.
Yeah, stick waders.
Which is a very notable profession in itself. Yep. But, you know, it's probably not the dudes who wave the sticks. Yeah, yeah, stick wavers. Which is a very noble profession in itself.
Yep.
But, you know, it's probably not where you go in the game.
Sure, yeah.
That's all I'm saying.
If you're one of those aircraft carriers right now
and you're waving those sticks.
And you're listening to us.
Just walk off the edge.
Because the other option is revealing to your superior officer
that you're listening to a podcast where you should be swapping a deck.
And you've got those big noise-cancelling earmuffs on,
but we know what you're really up to.
Yeah, that's right, yeah.
Also, probably would have kicked off the careers of a lot of people
who wanted to be fighter pilots, but instead they're the guys
that fill up the balloons.
Oh, yeah.
The big balloons.
Yeah, yeah, okay, like when you want to do a tour of Melbourne.
Yeah, early in the morning.
Yeah, but get here at 3 a.m.
Get fucked.
Absolutely not.
If I wanted to see the city, I'd look at a fucking picture.
I don't need none of that shit.
Get it out of my life.
Get it out of my face.
Guess what?
Google Earth exists, so we don't need you anymore, balloon guys.
I think I've given those vouchers to two of the city to two separate people
and neither have used them.
I'm pretty confident that happened.
They spat in your face.
Seems that way.
Not cheap either.
But you know what?
I don't blame them.
Whatever.
It's your voucher.
Do whatever the fuck you want with it.
The important thing is I didn't have to do it.
The important thing is you converted your goodwill towards these people
into money and then you converted that money into a voucher
they'll never redeem.
Correct.
Yeah, I should have given them cash.
No one wants cash though.
I want cash.
I think cash is fine.
Yeah.
People say it's impersonal, but it's fucking cash, man.
Put a funny note on it.
Yeah.
Like the fiver, because it's purple.
That's a funny note.
Australian money.
Dungeons and Dragons moves from May of next year to March of the year after.
That's a long time for a movie.
A movie, yeah.
I was surprised when they were like May next year.
I'm like, when was that ever going to come out?
Right.
That surely wouldn't have happened.
Intriguing.
We still don't know any details about that movie.
Yeah, we know who's in it, whatever, but you're right.
Dick, you say this every time.
And then I say, we do, but then I realise we don't.
You're right.
We don't know.
And in other news.
Give us a little some, like don't.
Is it the real world?
No, but that's the problem with all these delays.
They should tease us out with a little bit of extra information
every time they do it they're like well um mission impossible eight is you know
going to be delayed but uh tom cruise says he's going to run along the underside of a plane as
it's flying he's not going to he's not going to have a safety vest on or anything how's he going
to do it we're not sure we're not sure this is definitely the one that's going to kill him
yeah it's but it's you know it's delayed sorry but you're in for a treat when it comes out.
Because a man will die.
But what would they do for Dungeons and Dragons then?
Do the same thing?
Tom Cruise runs under them.
We could have a fighter jet or whatever.
A dragon.
Yeah, Tom Cruise though.
Yeah.
Not as exciting though because dragons are not real.
They're fictional.
Well, he's in his lab.
Yeah.
He's manufacturing a dragon.
He would have a lab, wouldn't he?
Yeah.
So I don't know what's going on there. But here's good news, and you'll love this, lab. Yeah. He's manufacturing a dragon. He would have a lab, wouldn't he? Yeah. So I don't know what's going on there.
But here's good news, and you'll love this, Mason.
Okay.
The Snake Eyes solo movie has actually moved up from October of this year
to July 23rd of this year.
That's a big move.
If you want to get your Snake Eyes on that,
you can lock your Snake Eyes on it like this.
Yeah.
Finally, we'll have another movie in the snake eyes saga, of course,
starting with the Nicolas Cage movie.
Correct.
Very good.
Very good, Mason.
And you might have heard this as well because Warner Brothers
are returning to a tentpole film release schedule in 2022.
What does that mean?
That means that they're not doing that HBO Max thing anymore.
I see.
Right, right.
Because movies make money sometimes again.
We'll talk about that a bit later.
But the box office is back just in time for Snake Eyes,
which is really good.
But off the back of this also,
Deadline reported that Dune might be getting a strictly cinematic release.
That's out in December.
Do you remember when they –
An SCR?
Yes.
When they initially – Guys, we've... An SCR? Yes. When they initially...
Guys, we've got an SCR on our hands.
When they initially announced Dune for the release on HBO Max,
the director, Denis Villeneuve, came out and said,
what, no, ah, boo, no.
Ah, nuts, he said.
But I think it must have, you know,
it turns out they want to keep him on side.
They probably realised he'll probably make more money cinematically.
Also, if you want to build a franchise,
it should probably go to cinemas, I guess.
Yeah.
Like for something that expensive.
Otherwise it's just going to feel like an episode of something.
Something bad, yeah.
But I'm really looking forward to it.
Me too.
Dune, very exciting for Dune.
I'd definitely watch that in cinemas.
Hopefully we'll get a vaccine.
But you know what happened with the vaccine in Australia, Mason?
What happened?
Prime Minister said forgot to order it.
He forgot to order the vaccine.
And you might be thinking this is a weird bit that you're doing.
It's not even that funny.
It's not a bit.
It's a thing that happened.
He's like, called them today.
Secured 20 million doses of the vaccine.
Also, not enough for everyone.
Because you need two, yeah.
Terrific.
Thanks, man.
Really good.
Thanks, Scotty.
Yeah, and I know, look, the virus is contained here.
We'll get off this in a second.
This might not even make it to the episode.
Maybe not.
But tourism can't happen then.
You can't open up tourism if people aren't here, aren't vaccinated,
because if someone brings it here, it's just going to blow out again.
It's great stuff.
But mining can continue.
Oh, thank God.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The smaller industry.
The money none of us see.
Yeah, that money.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It goes to like a handful of individuals.
Yeah, the already billionaires.
It's really good.
I love it.
It's really good.
Anyway.
Speaking of delays.
Could be worse, I guess.
Yeah, right.
What if there's someone worse in?
Yeah, imagine. What if there's someone worse in? Yeah, imagine.
Imagine that happening.
I can't think of a worse thing at the moment.
I'm in a war, I guess.
Just a big turd in a seat, you know, just in the big chair.
Big turd in the big chair, you know?
Yeah.
I'd vote for a big turd.
He's got a bit of zip to him, you know?
Anyways, the Hollywood Reporter had this huge expose this week.
I don't know if you read it, where it went into a number of things,
including Ray Fisher's involvement in the Justice League movie
and what happened with him and Zack Snyder, but it went beyond that.
So it talked about how he didn't want to say the Booyah line
and that it became this whole big thing.
And then when he came in, Joss Whedon was all like,
did like a Shakespearean quote to get him to say it.
It was like, speaketh the line.
You know, Joss Whedon's like, he does that shit, whatever.
He tilted his hat to a rakish angle and he's like, speaketh the line.
Whatever he said.
It goes into Ray Fisher's initial reluctance into the investigation behind it.
Now the person they hide was somebody who'd worked for Warner Brothers before
and it wasn't something that was going to be even-handed.
It also talked about how apparently Joss Whedon threatened Gal Gadot's career.
Apparently he was saying, shut up and say the lines,
otherwise I can make you look incredibly stupid in this movie,
or that was like implied.
I don't know if you remember this, but a few months back she said,
I had my issues with Whedon and Warner Brothers,
but it was handled in a timely manner.
So that's what she's talking about.
That's what she's talking about. That's what she's talking about.
And also in this article, Jeff Johns mentioned that apparently,
this is allegedly, oh, this is allegedly, I should point that out.
Except for one thing, which is definitely true.
That's up to the listeners.
We'll never tell which one it is.
I didn't want Superman's grandfather in the TV series Krypton
to be played by Regé-Jean Page, who's from Bridgerton.
Bridgerton, super handsome man.
Yes, because he's black.
Yeah.
But again, it's that situation of like it doesn't matter.
Also, it's like a different universe.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah, right.
And also he could still be a white Superman and him be his grandfather.
Like you could do it for various reasons or just do it and just be like,
who cares?
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter. We don't even see Superman in that fucking show. cares? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
We don't even see Superman in that fucking show.
Like it literally doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It's not like the Man of Steel universe or whatever.
It doesn't matter.
Anyway.
Did you know, based on this, I learned Rebecca Hall, you know,
from Godzilla vs. Kong.
Sure.
African American heritage.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
My goodness.
See, it worked.
That's how it, you can't tell.
It's the thing. The Superman thing. The Superman thing. Yeah. My goodness. See, it worked. That's how it, you can't tell. It's the thing.
The Superman thing.
The Superman thing.
Yeah.
Right?
I saw Krypton, like some of it, and it's not a terrible show,
and the guy they cast, you know, he was fine, to be honest, like he was.
But, yeah, they wanted someone more like Henry Cavill.
But that actor came out this week and was like,
hearing about these conversations hurt no less than they did back then.
And the clarification almost hurts more, to be honest.
Zero's doing my thing.
Still we do the work.
We still fly.
So he's in the new Dungeons and Dragons movie also.
So by flying he's going to run under the wing of a dragon, I think.
Cool.
That's really exciting.
Is it cold in here, Mason?
No.
I'm cold.
You're wearing a little hoodie.
No, but my ankles are exposed, Mason.
I don't have socks on.
Turn your little heater on then.
No, Mason, I'll be fine.
I'll just sit here and whinge.
Okay.
Which that's the Australian way, isn't it?
And, you know, that's how this podcast goes.
True.
How excited are you for July of 2022?
Depends what's happening in July of 2022.
Indiana Jones 5, the fifth one.
You are excited?
Yeah.
Did you hear this week?
A couple of things.
John Williams is back to score.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge joins the cast.
Yeah, female lead.
That's right.
Who's she going to be?
Is Indy going to have a daughter?
Maybe.
Because he's like, well, Mutt didn't work out.
He says that in the movie?
Yep.
Mutt didn't work out.
We all saw that.
We all know what happened there.
Lucky I have a backup kid.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, it could just be like an assistant or whatever.
It wouldn't really matter.
But it's clearly, well, I hope so, not going to be a love interest
because you don't, it's at the point in his life
where you do not need to give him a love interest anymore.
He's nearly 80.
He got married anyway, didn't he, or whatever.
Oh, he did, didn't he?
He got married, Mason.
Are we pretending that last one didn't happen?
I don't think so.
They're all canon.
Young Indiana Jones is also canon.
It's all canon.
Okay.
So she was also in Solo, interestingly, which she's the robot,
which is Harrison Ford.
It's not Harrison Ford.
You know what I'm talking about.
I do.
I do.
Yeah.
We don't even have to explain it.
Yeah, good.
Just imagine all those concepts in your mind.
Yeah.
Works out, doesn't it?
I didn't like that character, if I'm honest.
But I do like her a lot, so I think this is a good move.
And she's written some of the Bond film, the new one,
or distanced herself at this point.
Sure.
She's been like, I sort of, I don't.
I want to be very clear that my parts of the Bond movie
I wrote very quickly.
My part of this disaster of Bond movie,
I knocked it out in five minutes flat,
and I can do that with all future projects.
You know it's true.
I'm abandoning this albatross that's around everybody else's necks.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Bridge out.
Bridge out.
Bridge out.
Bridge out.
James, you're at at least 50% right now.
I'm made up there, mate.
I think my cold feet are giving me that edge I need.
Did you see the Loki trailer?
Yes.
And?
Looks good. Did I do a trailer trailer? Yes. And? Looks good.
Did I do a trailer breakdown?
No.
No, I was away for the week, Mason.
Perfect.
You know what I mean?
I mean, I was away and I could have done it because I was still working, but I didn't
have any of my recording equipment, so I didn't do it.
And I don't think anybody asked me, so that's good, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yes, that's correct.
But it looks, it continues to look good.
You could have popped down to the general store.
I don't know.
You could have got a new tackle box and some podcasting equipment
down at the general store.
Could have done that.
Some worms.
I didn't.
You know what?
And some memory cards.
It was down by the beach at a friend's beach house or parent's beach house
and I did not see the ocean and I'm okay with it.
Because I looked at the photo on my computer.
Was it behind you and you steadfastly refused to turn around?
That's what happened, yeah.
I will not look at it.
I'm just going to not look and whinge.
Unless it's 36 degrees, I don't need the ocean.
I don't need it in my life, all right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Looks good.
Black Widow might be in it, or maybe not.
Did you see the Jupiter's Legacy trailer, the new Netflix series?
You know the comic Jupiter's Legacy by Mark Millar?
I was going to say, speaking of the Loki trailer,
we've got a few confirmations.
One, Owen Wilson is playing Mobius.
Yes.
Because I don't think he's, maybe he isn't named,
but the subtitles say that he's called Mobius.
Yeah.
And also it seems more like he's working for them.
Yes.
He's being tasked with rectifying various temporal things.
That he did.
Potentially, yeah, maybe, yeah.
Yeah, because isn't it every time the Infinity Stone is taken
out of a thing they create an alternate timeline or whatever,
so he might be fixing all that shit.
Yeah, yeah.
I also like there is one moment in the trailer where it looks
like he and Mobius are getting a selfie while Pompeii erupts.
It's pretty good.
I didn't give it a good enough look, but that's fun, isn't it?
It is fun.
That's really fun.
July, that's coming up.
Very soon.
And a year after that, Indiana Jones 5.
Two things to look forward to in July.
July is different Julys.
Jupiter's Legacy, did you see that trailer?
July Surprise.
Oh, my goodness.
I did see the Jupiter's Legacy.
Bridge out!
Stop doing that.
I've been rereading Jupiter's Legacy. It's good. doing that. I've been re-reading Jupiter's Legacy.
It's good.
It's good, isn't it?
Yeah, it is good.
So we've got Josh Duhamel.
Yes.
And we've got that lady from Iron Man 1.
Yes.
Whose name escapes me every single time.
I'll look it up.
She's good at things.
Lady from Iron Man 1.
Thank you.
So the premise of Jupiter's Legacy is that-
Leslie Bibb.
Leslie Bibb, there we go.
Many years ago, a group of-
Explorers?
Yeah, explorers, acquaintances.
One man has dreams where he's like, I've got to go to this island,
I don't know why, and he gets a crew together and they're like, okay,
we believe in this dumb thing.
It's the 30s and we don't care.
We have nothing to do.
Then they go to the island and then they emerge later mysteriously
with superpowers and they become the greatest heroes the world has ever Yes. And they become the greatest heroes the world has ever seen.
In fact, the only heroes the world has ever seen.
Yep.
And then they become incredibly long-lived and powerful and then they have kids.
Yep.
And they're just bloody influencers, aren't they?
They're just bloody social media superstars.
They're bloody layabouts, you know what I mean?
Some of them are knockabout lads.
That's right.
They're too busy with their bloody flat tummy tea endorsements to do any superheroing, you know what I mean? Some of them are knockabout lads. That's right. They're too busy with their bloody flat tummy tea endorsements
to do any superheroing.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I agree.
It makes you think, doesn't it?
Yes.
Apparently a large chunk of the movie, of the show,
I think they said half.
I think I read half somewhere is in the 30s.
Okay, cool.
And the original run.
Yes.
Because there are spin-off comics where it explores.
Yes, Jupiter's Circle is the prequel.
Yes, which I don't think I've read, but I have read Jupiter's Legacy.
It doesn't really explore much of that stuff, does it?
No, it's sort of deliberately left untold for, I guess,
spin-offs and prequels and et cetera.
I think maybe I started it, but I wasn't that invested in it.
But I did really enjoy the comic, and it's a definitive finished run.
It's like family orientated, but it's very violent as well.
I could see there would be like comparisons to The Boys
but I think it's more earnest than The Boys.
It is, yeah.
And I think it has the potential to be very good.
It's also one of Mark Millar's because, you know,
Netflix now own his world.
Millar World.
Whatever it's called.
Explain yourself, Mark Millar or Miller.
See, here's the thing.
I know it is pronounced Miller, but we've said Miller too many times
to go back now.
And there's an A in it.
So we can't do anything about that, can we?
That's exactly right, yeah.
That's the slogan, though.
It's Millar World.
It's pronounced Miller World.
That's the tagline.
And when it says Miller World, it's still A.
It's not helpful.
Yeah. But there's a number of properties. It's not helpful is the second still A. Yeah. It's not helpful. Yeah.
But there's a number of properties.
It's not helpful as the second tagline.
We know it's not helpful.
I'm subverting expectations, lol.
There's other things coming.
I can't remember what the other things he's working on.
I always wanted to see a nemesis.
Yeah.
I think somebody else owns a nemesis at the moment,
but the rights might revert.
But he, of course, like if you've seen Kick-Ass.
Well, there's the King's Man is coming out at some point.
But I think they're not Netflix.
They're part of a separate thing that he's individually sold off.
I would like to see like a better adaptation of Wanted.
You need to update a bunch of Wanted because there's some weird shit
in that comic.
Yeah.
Like the main character looks like Eminem.
He wouldn't look like Eminem these days.
No, he would look like Machine Gun Kelly.
He would look like Machine Gun Kelly.
Or a better rapper probably.
You know what I mean?
Just pick somebody else.
Yeah.
No, but see, that's the thing because like the premise of the character
is that he is just like a nobody who works in like an office
and nobody respects.
He don't get no respect.
But like can you imagine like Post Malone working in an office
just doing copies with entire faces tattooed?
I mean, they could CGI it off, couldn't they?
Sure, yeah.
I did not like that movie.
And that was before I'd read the comic and I still didn't like it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Because that was when they would just be like,
this won't work, let's make a bad thing instead.
Yeah.
But, I mean, that's why Mark Millar, Miller Millar, seems seems to have gotten such a you know foothold i think in hollywood because
because he hasn't become like a guy who's like i will not compromise my artistic vision for
anything or anyone like he's clearly got uh he's got a lot of good ideas and he but he also has
an attitude of well here's my creative vision in the comic and if you want to tweak it for the
movie or completely change it for the movie you can comic and if you want to tweak it for the movie or completely change it
for the movie, you can do that if you want,
which has worked out for the better, I think.
For example, Kingsman I think is a lot better on screen than it is
in the comic book for various reasons.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yes.
I don't want to say the reasons,
but I'm sure I've mentioned them in previous episodes.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
It's the art.
It is, yeah.
But it's a solid idea, which is why that first movie works really well.
But I also think like it would be like doing a novel,
like a parody of the Bond novels as a novel.
Yeah.
Like it would be hard to do that in prose form.
And it's the same where it's more difficult to do a parody
of Bond stuff in a comic form.
But if you do it in the – like there are more visual signposts
in a Bond movie that you can parody in another movie.
So I think that's why it works better.
Completely agree.
I'd really like to see them adapt to Superior,
which has got a Shazam-esque kind.
If you haven't read Superior, you should read it.
It's really good.
I haven't read Superior.
Not you.
No, I know you've read it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
But it's about a boy who has cerebral palsy who – palsy, sorry.
I think I said that wrong.
But he then gets like Shazam-esque Superman powers
and the people like that don't exist in the world as often they are
in these universes.
We've never seen a superhero before or whatever.
But it's really good and it's got a lot of heart to it.
But he, of course, becomes a Superman character
who exists as a fictional character.
Yes, that's right.
And the guy who, he looks like the movie star version
of that character.
So there's the guy in the real world running around
who still looks exactly like this guy.
I maintain they should get maybe Jon Hamm.
I think he would be a good one.
I think they should get Hugh Jackman.
Nice.
Because that was also a guy who's like about 50 and he'd done them
for a while and now we're kind of winding up.
Oh, sure, yeah, yeah, okay.
But Jon Hamm would be perfect for that also.
But what I guess you could do is you could have your Jon Hamm
or your Hugh Jackman playing the actorly version who'd be kind
of rugged and his age, but then you could sort of glossy
up the fictional version, I guess.
Yeah, absolutely.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Gosh, these movies write themselves.
But I don't know.
I probably shouldn't say this, but we had a conversation on Twitter
like five years ago.
I remember it because you never stopped talking about it.
Do I?
No, you mentioned it once.
Okay, good.
You don't mean me and you.
You mean you and Mark Millar.
Yes.
Or Millar World. Yes. I don't speak to him
at all except for this one time.
And he was just basically telling me about a bunch
of stuff that they'd had in the works and
he told me some things about Superior, which I guess I
can't really say. You certainly cannot.
Even though it's probably changed at this point.
Yeah, it was cool.
We've received a number of emails because
of course we do Falcon and Winter Soldier recaps.
Yes.
And people have emailed in and tweeted at us.
Apparently we had some sort of hot scoop.
Oh, yeah.
About the production of that TV series.
Oh, we're going to have to find out.
And they're like, are you guys going to reveal what it is?
I can't remember what it is.
We're going to have to go through that.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know anymore.
It must have been significant if we mentioned it though.
Yeah, maybe.
If it happens, maybe we'll remember.
And if it doesn't, we'll pretend that we don't know what people are talking about.
What we'll do, James, what we'll do, we'll just wait for the biggest revelation.
Yeah.
And we'll go, that was it, folks.
We called it.
That's what we were talking about.
Exactly.
Speaking of calling it, we just missed out on this last week.
And thank God because it's given us time to gather our thoughts
about the Space Jam 2
Space Legacy trailer.
And I think, look, on the count of three,
one, two, three, this sucks.
It sucks, it sucks, this trailer sucks.
It looks bad.
A lot of people have mentioned on Twitter
this appears to be a new genre,
which is just a company...
Ready Player One. Yeah, a company just gets all their IP, like all the characters.
We just did the Iron Giant in a thing.
And just put it all in and be like, you like this, don't you?
No.
No, we don't.
I don't.
Look, also, this is not for us.
No.
It's a kid's movie, I guess.
But also, who did you see in the crowd?
The Droogs from A Clockwork Orange, those wacky rapists.
Sorry.
You know?
I don't know.
They're just there cheering on the bad guys.
They took out Pepe Le Pew.
Hooray.
They took out Pepe Le Pew.
It's madness.
It's madness.
Maybe it'll be amazing.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
It doesn't look amazing.
No, it doesn't.
You're trapped in the cyber world.
Also, we didn't even see any Matrix people in it.
Maybe they're saving that for the second trailer.
That's what I was hoping for.
I'm like, where's Neo?
Where is he?
Where's Neo?
Yeah, so I don't know, man.
I don't know.
Is it even about basketball?
I mean, it is, but it's also about tumbling through different movies.
And it's about grandmas doing kung fu.
We couldn't go without a grandma doing kung fu or big leaps or whatever.
Wasn't that a trope that we got sent must have been a few weeks ago was like a grandma doing a rap or
grandma doing karate or something yeah you know it was it might have been like a grandma doing
a thing you wouldn't expect yeah yeah but yeah and i mean look and i understand the the initial i
think the initial success of this would have been the lego movies but the idea behind those is it's
a kid yeah smashing all their Legos together
and being like, hey, I've got Batman Lego and I've got, you know,
all the other Legos.
Also, it's not like.
Star Wars Lego.
Yeah, there's a bunch of cameos in that, but they all serve a purpose.
Yeah.
And it's also, there's not a million.
Yeah.
And everybody you see you get a little kind of moment with.
And maybe this will be.
Maybe they'll have an amazing clockwork orange.
We're the Droogs and we've changed our ways.
But it's like that thing.
Malcolm McDowell, that's what I'm thinking of.
Do you think they got Malcolm McDowell?
Surely not.
Do you think they just.
I don't think so.
Own his likeness right somehow?
He's like a million years old.
He's like a million years old.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe it's like the Indiana Jones 5 situation where he's still doing it. He's still out there. Yeah. Didn't they cure him or something? I can't remember. old. I don't know. Maybe it's like the Indiana Jones 5 situation where he's still doing it.
He's still out there.
Yeah.
Didn't they cure him or something?
I can't remember.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't even know if I've seen that movie.
I just know all the Simpsons references.
Jack Nicholson Joker's in there.
See, it's happening to me already.
I didn't even see it.
He's in there.
I watched this once and went, absolutely not.
But we will watch it.
All right.
That's right, Mason.
I guess we will.
And we're going to do a Caravan of Garbage on the first one
because you've never seen that one either.
I've never seen it, yeah.
Yeah.
But, you know, I think they should really focus on building
up the Looney Tunes characters.
Yeah.
As opposed to, like, everything else in the universe.
You know what I mean?
Yep.
Kind of breaks focus a bit.
It really does, yeah.
Maybe they've figured it out.
Yeah.
Maybe they've figured it out and they're doing this out of an earnest love
for all the stuff that they've produced in the decades of cinema
or they've got some sort of device in everybody's seat.
So when you see the Jack Nicholson Joker, you go, ooh,
and then they get more data and then they go, ooh,
time to bring back the Jack Nicholson Joker in a series of webisodes.
No, they'd bring him back for real, definitely.
Speaking of Jack Nicholson Joker.
Go on.
Exactly the thing you were talking about.
Is it him or is it a guy dressed as him?
It's too hard to say.
It's too, well, I mean.
Because you'd have to pay Nicholson, wouldn't you,
if you got his actual likeness.
Yeah, I think it's probably generic enough.
I mean, he still gets kickbacks from Batman 89, doesn't he?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dude is like so rich from that movie.
Yeah, yeah.
My God. Because he got a percentage of the yeah. Dude is like so rich from that movie. Yeah, yeah. My God.
Because he got a percentage of the gross.
A percentage and a massive like payout.
Did Harrison Ford get a percentage of the gross for one of the Star Warses?
Probably, yeah, like The Force Awakens.
Oh, I meant an earlier one.
Maybe.
I think he got it for Empire or something.
Well, he probably did because he wasn't signed on to Empire.
Yeah.
He was the only one of the main cast who wasn't.
Because I remember thinking, like when I – I think I remember reading that
and then thinking to myself, that's a very impressive feat, you know,
that early in one's career.
Yes.
Okay, so –
Maybe it's not true then.
Yeah, and 500,000 Return of the Jedi, 100,000 of Empire,
and 10,000 of the original Star Wars.
But it doesn't say – do you have any royalties?
It doesn't say. Do you have any royalties? It doesn't say.
Well, good on him for all his success, I say.
I agree.
He's got all that money.
Yeah.
But I'm pretty sure you've got to kick back for the new one.
Yeah, makes sense.
Because the Force Awakens doesn't exist really without him in it.
Really?
I know there's other people in that movie.
Disagree.
I mean, the Droogs are in it, obviously.
The Iron Giant's in the background.
The granny does a cartoon or whatever.
Yeah.
Good stuff.
Did you hear about this Netflix Sony?
There's a Granny Grievous in there.
Oh, my God.
Grandma Grievous.
It's General Grievous, but she's got a big beehive grey wig.
And the lightsabers are knitting needles.
Yes.
Perfect. Balls of wool on the are knitting needles. Yes. Perfect.
Balls of wool on the end, obviously.
This is really good.
Did you ever see my General Kenobi Winnie the Pooh crossover video?
I think I did, yeah.
Good stuff, Mason.
Look it up if you haven't.
Okay.
I can't remember what it's called, but just Google that.
It'll come up.
I think a million people have stolen it.
Or they already thought of it.
I can't remember.
But Netflix and Sony do about this deal.
Netflix will obtain first pay window rights to titles following their
theatrical and home entertainment windows.
So that means basically all the Sony stuff, which includes Morbius,
Uncharted, Jumanji, Bad Boys, the Spider-Man movies,
and I guess Venom and Morbius or whatever.
I said Morbius, didn't I?
You did.
I'd already forgotten about the movie Morbius,
a movie I thought for a second I'd already seen.
It has not come out.
A lot happened in that one sentence, didn't it?
So they're not going to, say, Disney+,
which you'd think maybe they would because Spider-Man.
And they're not going to PlayStation Channel.
No, which is not a thing.
So Sony's one of the few distribution movie making companies,
whatever you want to call it, who don't have their own streaming service.
Yeah.
Which is probably a good idea because there's too many.
There really is.
I'm not paying for another one until I do, until I inevitably do.
I got them all, but it's only because it's written off.
I'd cancel a lot of them if I.
And you're regularly written off. Yes, that's true. I'm at 30% when I'm written off, but it's only because it's written off. I'd cancel a lot of them if I... And you're regularly written off.
Yes, that's true.
I'm at 30% when I'm written off, mate.
That's right.
Which is still quite good.
You get drunk and then you're like, I'm going to do something wild.
Watch out.
I'm going to sign up to another streaming service.
Can you imagine if I was at 100% and then I was drunk and then I was at 90%?
That would still be better than what I function on a day-to-day basis.
Do you think one day you'll reach those heights again?
No, Mason.
Wow.
You get older, it can never happen.
What if, how about when the kids go off to college?
Yes.
Yeah.
Apparently I'm very nice when I'm drunk, apparently.
This is what people have told me.
I mean, I like to think I am, but, you know,
you don't really know because you're drunk.
But I don't know.
It's good to know that I have, like, a backup personality
who's probably nicer than my regular personality.
Colette says that I'm much nicer when I'm drunk, like I'm less surly.
She's like the real you comes out, the real friendly you
and I'm like get out of my face.
Oh, because you're not drunk at the time.
Get out of my face, Colette, get out of my face.
Don't talk to me until I'm drunk.
So what do you think about that, Netflix, Sony?
What a pairing.
They've done it again.
Partners in crime and entertainment.
Wow.
Speaking of partners and Sony, Ghostbusters Afterlife.
We didn't get a trailer.
We got a little featurette.
In the tradition of things that you know from the 80s being turned
into baby things, stay puffed, which I found out this week. There's a t on the end of things that you know from the 80s being turned into baby things, Stay Puffed, which I found out this week,
there's a T on the end of that.
Welcome to the club.
Wow.
Oh, my God, you're handing me a gold robe.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm finally going to be not surly to you.
That's all it took, James, is to know that Stay Puffed had a T in it.
You knew this?
Two Ts, not together.
No. You knew this, though? Correct, yes, I did. Wow Stay Puft had a T in it. You knew this? Two Ts, not together. No.
You knew this, though?
Correct.
Yes, I did.
Wow.
We didn't get them here.
So what are they called?
The Stay-
I don't think they're real.
No?
Look it up, but I don't think they're real.
I mean, they will be now because they'll have-
Sorry, I've written Stay Puft Marshmallow Boys here.
I think they made them up for the movie.
Okay. You're probably right. You him up for the movie. Okay.
You're probably right.
You're out of the club, James.
Fictional Ghostbusters, blah, blah, blah.
You're out of the club, James.
You're right.
Oh, man.
I'm taking this golden robe back.
Do I have to hand back the golden robe, Mason?
Yes.
Okay.
I don't want to.
Wow.
He just looks like a dude that I thought would exist in the 50s.
Where they're like, this is your favourite mascot.
He looks like the Michelin Man.
He's the Michelin Man.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe they tried to get the Michelin Man.
But then when he explodes, he wouldn't have marshmallow anymore.
And what would Sigourney Weaver keep in her fridge?
The Michelin Man.
Spare tire.
Cool spare tire.
Yeah, nice.
New York City, those streets can get hot in summer.
That's true.
Put a cool Michelin tire on your car.
The streets.
Oh, I just remembered.
She doesn't keep the marshmallows in the fridge.
The eggs were in the fridge.
Oh, where are the marshmallows kept?
On the counter.
So the ants can get them.
Yeah, I guess.
You'd want to keep them in a packet though, wouldn't you?
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry.
Well, that crypto group is going off.
My brother just messaged.
Which one?
The one you don't like.
Of course.
Just muting that crypto group.
And mute your brother as well.
Block your brother.
Oh, and my brother says, hey, what bitcoins do you have?
Which type?
They're not called bitcoins.
One of them is called bitcoins.
And I have zero bitcoins.
Whoa.
Actually, that's not true.
I have.0000005 bitcoins.
Whoa.
Because this podcast has been mining bitcoins since it started.
This whole thing has been a scam, folks.
It's true.
Every time you download our podcast, we get a little bit of bitcoin.
I was given $5 worth of bitcoin on sign-up and it's now worth $13.
Whoa.
So I should have bought a bunch of – well, I can't buy a bunch
because they're like $70,000 a piece.
What am I doing?
I don't know.
I'm talking about crypto, Mason.
You've gone crypto, man.
I have, haven't I?
Sometimes, James, I am on Twitter and I run out of Twitter.
So I go to the search tab and inevitably it's like trending Bitcoin
and I'm like, no, thank you.
I'd rather close Twitter and then immediately reopen Twitter again.
But clearly you're becoming a guy who's like, ooh, trending Bitcoin.
I don't look it on Twitter.
Anyway, we were talking about the Ghostbusters trailer. What do you think
about cute baby things from the 80s?
Wielding Bunsen burners and
little blue torches and such? Yeah, like Baby Yoda and
Baby whatever. There's other baby
things, aren't there? It's the only one I can think of.
Baby Groot, he's not from the 80s.
I'm more wondering what is the origin
of these little Stay Puft, because obviously
the Stay Puft
in the original is a manifestation of.
Dan Aykroyd.
Ray's deepest fears as produced by the demigod Zuul.
Yes.
So where are these little marshmallow men coming from?
Do you think it's residual energies?
Maybe.
Yeah.
Or they'll never explain it.
And they'll be just like, remember the big one from the last thing?
Little one now.
I liked it though. It was fun. I thought it was really
fun. Maybe it's just because Paul Rudd was in it.
There was somebody else in there.
If it was like, let me think.
Bob Odenkirk. That would be good.
Have you seen Nobody yet? I haven't seen it yet.
But people are saying it's good.
Like you said, it's good because he's in it.
But beyond that, it's like, this is are saying it's good. I've heard it's, like you said, it's good because he's in it. But beyond that, it's like, this is fine.
But, you know, that's good.
I saw a little, you know, he's the, he is, I'm talking about all my famous roles,
trained for two years for that movie.
Yeah.
He's doing like chin-ups.
On a tree.
On a tree.
On a tree knot.
Yeah.
I can do chin-ups.
Do you know that?
Do you know that?
You're doing chin-ups while you look at your Bitcoin?
This is what you're turning into? I can do a one-arm chin-up, but I don't want to get into how many chin-ups I you look at your Bitcoin? Is this what you're turning into?
I can do a one-arm chin-up,
but I don't want to get into how many chin-ups I can do, Mason.
It's neither here nor there.
Often I do it at the end of the gym, which is probably not a good idea
because I don't know how many maximum I can do.
So, you know, I can't do as many.
But if I do them fresh, mate, I'm doing so many chin-ups,
you don't even know.
Listen, Mason.
Go on.
We're going to talk about giant freaking robots rumor from this week.
Oh, what is that?
They said, massive rumor.
Okay.
But they said there's interest in Sony bringing Spider-Man 4 back
with Raimi and Maguire.
Whoa.
The Raim dog and the Maguire dog.
The Maguire dog.
Who's let those dogs out?
Who did it?
A couple of dirty dogs.
That's a good question.
A couple of dirty dogs productions.
That's their production company.
Apparently there's got to be.
Just like passing references to the MCU because, of course,
he's heavily rumoured, unconfirmed, but probably in the next Spider-Man movie.
And so they're going to do another one.
If this isn't true, this rumour, because I think there's no way
that they have not talked about this.
And I just think there's a very real chance this will happen regardless.
What's the last thing Raimi did?
Good question.
Samuel Raiman.
While you're looking that up.
Raim Dog.
That's right.
Of Dirty Dog Productions.
Don't forget to put that in.
A couple of Dirty Dogs.
While you're talking about that, we were discussing earlier for our
BigSandwich.co what commentaries we might do in the future.
Yes.
And if this comes to fruition or it is confirmed,
perhaps we could do Darkman one day.
Oh, Darkman.
I'd love to do Darkman.
Sam Raimi's audition for superhero movies where he got Liam Neeson as a.
Well, he's doing Doctor Strange.
So we could just do the next Doctor Strange.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
Or we could make it up to Spider-Man.
We could just do it.
What did he do?
We could do Amazing Spider-Man 1, Darkman, Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Haven't we done an Amazing Spider-Man?
No, Mason.
We did the Raimi trilogy.
Huh.
We did an episode when it came out.
Right.
And I think we were pretty like, yeah, it was all right.
Huh.
But I want to watch that again and be like.
We've not done a commentary.
Oh, no, we did a commentary.
Sorry, I'm talking about Caravan of Garbage.
Sorry, we've confused you.
You're at 40%.
I am.
The last one he did was Oz the Great and Powerful in 2013,
which I maintain was all right.
I remember that movie.
And then before that was Drag Me to Hell and before that was Spider-Man 3.
But the next one, of course, is Doctor Strange 2022.
But he has been working on some TV stuff.
We, of course, know for a fact.
He did some stuff for Quibi.
He did some stuff for Quibi.
He also worked on, let me see, Reach Out.
Fifty States of Fright.
Oh, Ash vs. the Evil Dead from 2015 to 2018.
That's what he's been doing.
Yeah, of course.
Okay, so he hasn't been doing nothing.
He is a little news, unrelated to most things.
A lot of people sent this to me this week.
Hasbro has a new Optimus Prime that transforms by itself.
Oh, yeah.
I want to be transformed by myself, though.
I don't know if I'm ready for that.
What do you think?
What you could do, I guess, is you could set it to transform,
say, from truck mode to robot mode, and while it's doing that,
you could fight it to transform it back.
Then everyone has fun, right?
That is true.
I would have a lot of fun doing that.
Just really trying to push the hands back in.
The beach house I was at last week, they had a bunch of Transformers
and stuff from the 80s and even like some Beast Wars stuff.
My son went crazy.
He was like, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
And I'm like, that's probably true.
But they had those Transformers from the 80s,
they're much better than the ones now because the ones now,
they're so complicated.
They cannot be done, a lot of these.
You've seen them.
Some of the ones my son's got, they're insane.
They're either really simple where it's three or it's 500 movements
and bits come off and then you look at the packet and it says,
like, this can come off and supposed to come off.
Why?
Because I've mentioned to you I have a couple of the masterpiece
transformers, like an Optimus Prime and another one,
and I've transformed them once and then you just put them up on a shelf
because otherwise you've got to get the instruction manual out.
Like a Rubik's Cube, Matt.
Get it out of my business.
Also, you Google it, like you're on YouTube
and there's like a million variations to try it.
But it's a guy who's like, so this is the Optimus Prime edition,
this is from 2018.
And then you're looking and you're like, it's the same one as mine.
It's got a different colour scheme but then
I don't know, I don't know. It's like, okay, so
I got this from, and then I got it online
and it's like, and then you've got to watch like six minutes
of YouTube before he goes and then he does it
in a second at the end and then you're like, god damn it!
I watched
a video recently, it's
a Blitzwing from the movie
Bumblebee. Yeah. There's
like a version of that and it took him like 40 minutes to transform it.
It's like a 40-minute video.
You would love it.
I would not love that.
Yeah.
Wasn't that Starscream?
No, James.
Why did they have the Starscream color scheme then, Mason?
Good question.
Thank you.
And also if it was Blitzwing, it should have turned into a tank as well.
That's a great point.
Maybe it could. Yeah, maybe.
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Ah.
So, you know, we'll see.
Yeah.
It's still going to streaming.
A dog's barging its way in, isn't it, Mason?
Come on, Ollie.
Come on.
You can do it.
I believe in you.
Yeah, you got it.
You got the door.
She ran before full fucking tilt into that glass door.
Yeah, it was crazy.
She was all right, though.
It was really like it was loud.
Yeah.
She hit it so hard.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's good, I guess.
But on the back of that, Godzilla vs.
Kong is approaching 365 million worldwide, which people are saying,
this heralds the cinema's back, baby.
Cinema's back, baby. Don't forget to go to the cinema, people are saying, if yous the cinema's back, baby. Cinema's back, baby.
Don't forget to go to the cinema, people are saying, if you can and it's safe.
That's right.
So as we mentioned, even though we're way too far into this, let's do a topic, Mason.
Okay.
That being biggest movies by decades.
We're going to start from the 70s and we're going to make our way up to the 80s and then
we'll come back to it and never, we'll forget about it.
Okay, cool.
All right, well, the 70s and 80s.
Like those last two Harry Potter movies.
We'll get to them.
Look, if they release that fantastic Beast movie, we'll do it, all right?
I think it's supposed to be coming out next year.
Or if J.K. Rowling has an even bigger meltdown.
We'll do it.
We'll treat ourselves.
We'll capitalize on that.
We'll treat ourselves to the last two movies.
I think they're pretty good.
Okay, I'm excited to see them for the first time.
So do you want to start at 10 to 1?
And we're not going to talk about these all the time for the whole thing.
Okay.
But number 10 was The Exorcist, then Saturday Night Fever,
then Kramer vs. Kramer.
This is the era when a movie like that could be in the top 10.
Yeah.
It's wild, right?
That movie like that would never, ever.
I mean, you say that, but, well, also here's the thing.
I've never seen Kramer versus Kramer.
I know.
Who wins?
The audience.
Wow.
Right?
And the box office.
Also Kramer.
Also Kramer won.
But also, I don't know, like, obviously for about a decade,
we got Michael Crichton,
you know, Pelican Brief-esque.
Yes, okay.
Kind of, you know, yeah, yeah.
Is that what Kramer vs. Kramer is?
It's a legal drama.
I know it's like a court case about a-
But I don't think-
See, that's the thing.
I'm thinking-
Isn't it like a divorce or something?
I don't know.
I'm going to look that up.
Okay.
I'm pretty sure it is.
All right.
It tells us about a couple's divorce, the impact on their young son,
the subsequent evolution of their relationship views on parenting.
So I think they're both Kramers and they're trying to get, like,
it's about their son or whatever.
Right.
Okay.
So it is a courtroom drama of sorts.
But also, like, the advantage of, like, your Pelican Brief is there's action
within and beyond the courtroom, obviously.
It sounds like just a lot of stenography. There'd be, like, a moment where somebody has to go back to the courtroom, obviously. It sounds like just a lot of stenography.
There'd be like a moment where somebody has to go back to the courtroom
and they've had some action the night before and they've got a bit
of a black eye and they're like, what happened to you?
And he goes, don't even bloody ask me about it, mate.
Don't even ask me about that.
But this obviously is not going to have that,
so it's obviously just going to be a number of people being very stoic
until the end.
That's right.
And then shouting a lot in the courtroom.
Well, it's Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman.
So there's a bit more nuance there.
Then we've got Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Then we've got Animal House, which I have not seen,
but is mostly about rapists.
Then we've got Smokey and the Bandit,
which was an insanely huge franchise for a very long time.
Right?
Yeah.
So it's Burt Reynolds and a monkey.
No, that's Every Which Way But Loose, which is Clint Eastwood and a.
But what's Smokey and the Bandit?
It's just a.
The Bandit's the car.
Okay, right.
This is not our wheelhouse, all right?
No, very much.
We were not born in this era.
We know some of these.
Like we.
The first.
What was the first one you said?
Because I remember thinking.
Exorcist.
Yeah, I've seen the Exorcist.
This is going to be.
Oh, we're going to have a great time in the 70s.
Yeah, we certainly are.
And then you said the second thing and I'm like, nah.
Nah.
And then we had Grease, which I think it's time for Grease 3.
Oh, yeah?
It won't be good.
Grease Control.
Yes, Grease Control.
Another movie that's, there's a lot of rape stuff in that one as well.
Jaws. Yeah, all right. The Birth of the Modern in that one as well. Jaws.
Yeah, all right.
The birth of the modern blockbuster.
See, this is it.
This is, yeah, this would have come out and people would have been like,
wow, kiss your Kramer versus Kramer goodbye.
Get out of here.
And there would have been a lot of people being like, no,
the Kramer versus Kramer model survived well into the 2010s.
Well, it didn't.
And then we've got Superman.
You've got Pelican Brief, you idiots.
Superman.
And then, of course, Star Wars, which is like nearly $100 million more
than the second biggest movie.
But there's some other ones in here worth mentioning,
which is like Amityville Horror, The Godfather, Every Which Way But Loose,
which is Clint Eastwood boxing with an orangutan around America.
They go around in a truck together.
There's a sequel called Any Which Way You Can.
I've seen both of those movies.
And there's also a rip-off as well, I think.
There's like a TV series rip-off.
Is it called What Are You Doing?
Look at This Monkey or something?
Yeah, it's called What Are You Doing?
Look at This Monkey, yeah.
So they do, is it karate kicks instead of punching or something like that?
Oh, certainly, yeah.
Rocky II, of course.
Star Trek The Motion Picture, Apocalypse Now.
Oh, the misfired was Star Trek The Motion Picture. The St Now. Oh, the misfire that was Star Trek The Motion Picture.
Oh, The Sting.
I love The Sting.
Yeah, there you go.
Jaws 2.
There's some other ones in there as well.
Moonraker.
I would have thought that would have been higher.
So there you go.
So what you can see here, if you don't mind me saying so,
it is the birth of the modern blockbuster.
And you can see, like, the trend towards, you know,
huge summer releases starting with jaws and then really
culminating in star wars a couple years later which then became like the model for literally
everything for merchandise for movie universes for eventually books and comics and spin-offs and all
those kinds of things so that's cool isn't it mason do you want to hear the worst thing in the
world that i've just read about about the movie every which way but loose and it's sequel any which way you can it's about the monkey right it's the worst thing i've just read about the movie Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel Any Which Way You Can.
It's about the monkey, right?
It's the worst thing I've ever read on the internet.
Okay.
Yes, obviously.
Folks, if you don't want to hear this, it's not a good story.
Tune out for like 30 seconds.
Skip ahead 30 seconds.
Okay.
Near the end of filming the sequel Any Which Way You Can,
the orangutan was caught stealing donuts on a set,
brought back to the training facility
and beaten for 20 minutes with an axe handle.
What the fuck?
He died soon after of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Because they hit him with the axe handle?
Yeah.
Why did they do that?
Because he stole the donuts, James.
It's a fucking orangutan.
They shouldn't have left the donuts out.
That's crazy.
This is madness.
God.
I'm glad those movies went out of vogue, quite frankly.
Well, they had to because they beat the orangutan to death.
Yeah.
Oh, my God, that's awful.
Right?
Wow.
With an axe handle.
It says three and a half foot axe handle.
20 minutes.
20 minutes of beating an ice.
The animal doesn't associate those things together. It wouldn't go, oh, it's because I stole the donuts. It doesn of beef. Also, the animal doesn't associate those things together.
It wouldn't go, oh, it's because I stole the donuts.
It doesn't know.
God.
God, that's really horrible.
I don't like that.
No, I don't like it at all.
I don't like what you've said.
No.
It's a bit of the worst thing that we've talked about on this podcast,
but it's certainly up there.
Yeah.
Yeah, great stuff.
It's incredible.
Do you want to know, do we move to the 80s, Mason?
Yes, as quickly as we can.
Any Which Way You Can is on here.
Oh, good.
I can't see it.
I don't know if it is.
Let me check.
No, it's not.
Good.
I apologise.
What have we got here?
Okay, so at number 10, and you're going to love this.
Oh, yeah.
And every now and then people...
Oh, this is the 80s.
This is our wheelhouse, James.
Yeah, sort of.
Well, we were born in this era, but we're not.
No.
A lot of this stuff I watched in the 90s.
Yeah, so we've got Crocodile Dundee 2.
First one didn't get a look in, apparently.
It comes in at number 27.
Now, this is US box office, I assume.
This is box office the world over.
It made $239 million.
Good God.
And the first one made $174 million.
And Dundee 2 is the one where they go back to Australia, right?
Yeah, it starts in New York and then they go back to Australia.
People say it's not as good.
I think it's in some ways better.
Whoa.
But in some ways, maybe none of those movies are good.
There's a charm to them.
What about the very fabulous Mr. Dundee?
I did watch that recently.
And you liked it, right?
I said it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be
and there were some good jokes in it.
Okay, great.
But it's mostly like cancel culture.
Well, like.
Crocodile culture.
Exactly.
Then we had Return of the Jedi, then Coming to America.
I still haven't finished the sequel.
Have you watched it yet?
And you had 10 minutes left, right?
It's 15.
If it was 10, maybe I would.
But 15 is insurmountable.
Have you factored in credits, though?
Maybe it's only five minutes.
That's a good point.
And there's ten minutes of credits.
I'm not going to factor anything in.
Then we've got Look Who's Talking, which I forgot was a massive franchise.
I thought you were going to say I forgot was a movie.
Like maybe you thought that was part of your life or something.
Is Look Who's Talking 2 with the babies again and Look Who's Talking 3 is the dogs?
Yeah, maybe.
And this is the thing that kind of people are like Travolta's out
because he's doing these ones.
I think it's him and Kirstie Alley or something, isn't it?
Look who's talking is just one baby.
No, I mean like they're the parents in it.
Oh, I don't know.
Yeah, let me check that because I think one.
Okay.
Isn't one of the babies Roseanne and the other one like Bruce Willis maybe?
Yes, Bruce Willis is the baby in the first one, yes.
Okay, so the first one only has one baby.
No, George Segal is Albert.
Sorry, Bruce Willis is the voice of Mikey
and Joan Rivers is the voice of Julie under the pseudonym of Baby Guess.
Great.
I don't know what anything is anymore.
No, right?
But of course this.
I mean if anything is going to set a precedent,
obviously it's the sequel being named 2TOO.
Yes.
Which I'm absolutely on board with.
Okay.
So we're just going to quickly jump over to look who's talking to from 1990.
Okay, great.
Does anybody care about numbers?
No.
We don't know what we're doing.
This podcast is nothing but a series of tangents where, I mean,
first of all, a scam to get to some Bitcoin for us,
but also obviously we just wanted to get to look who's talking too.
Absolutely.
It's taken so much manoeuvring.
It's just good to be here.
God, it's just relentless superhero stuff.
We've had to pretend to be enthusiastic about it for years.
It only made $47 million the second one.
Not very good.
No, real bomb.
Making a moderate success.
There you go.
So it was Bruce Willis, he's back as Mikey.
Yeah.
Roseanne Barr, she's joined the cast as Julie.
Yep.
Damon Wayans as Eddie and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet Man.
Is that a commercial?
I don't know.
Wow.
What's going on?
I think it was a talking toilet.
I know.
Or a toiking toilet. A toiking toilet? Yes. Is that what a was a talking toilet? I don't. Or a toiking toilet.
A toiking toilet?
Yes.
Is that what a baby says?
Yeah.
Oh, my God, a toiking toilet.
Why does anything exist?
I don't know.
It shouldn't, as far as I'm concerned.
Civilisation went too far, as far as I can tell.
I just want to check out the cast of Look Who's Talking 3.
Okay, great.
I know nobody wants this, but I need to know.
And there's a reboot coming maybe?
Oh, Tony Danza took over Baby Mickey.
Whoa.
The first two films inspired an ABC sitcom called Baby Talk,
which featured Tony Danza as Baby Mickey.
Ah.
So there you go.
Samantha, Agatha.
Do you remember that?
Yes.
Sorry, but no no there'll be like
one person who gets that
yeah so David Gallagher
played him
played Mickey
in the third one
that's really interesting
and he's
he ended up being in
uh
seventh heaven
Charles Barkley
is himself
there you go
incredible
hot off his defeat
of Godzilla
obviously
I think this was
made 10 million
at the box office
of a budget of 22 yeah okay my goodness gracious so what you're saying Obviously defeat of Godzilla, obviously. I think this was pre-defeat. Made $10 million at the box office.
Look who's talking, three. 22, yeah.
Okay.
My goodness gracious.
So what you're saying, right for a new one.
Never make that movie.
Then we had Who Framed Roger Rabbit,
which is one of those things that surprises me.
They were planning on a sequel,
and I even think up until Bob Hoskins died there was talk of this.
Yeah, yeah, uh-huh.
But that'll happen, right?
It'll eventually happen? I mean, maybe he'll be obviously. Yeah, yeah, uh-huh. But that'll happen, right? That'll eventually happen?
I mean, maybe he'll be in Space Jam, new Space Jam.
He might be in new Space Jam.
Look at me.
I'm Bob Hoskins.
Is that who you're talking about?
Oh, yeah.
They've gotten.
I'm back from the dead.
They didn't have to pay me.
Josh Gad is doing the voice.
Of course he is.
Terrific stuff.
Then we had Back to the Future 2, then Rain Man, then E.T.,
massive family hit.
I don't think a movie that family friendly could be in the top ten anymore.
How do you mean?
Like E.T. now wouldn't be in the top ten, a movie like E.T.
What about like a Minions movie or something like that?
E.T. and Minions are not the same.
E.T. has like cops chasing kids with guns and shit.
Like there's no way.
With radios, James?
No, they changed it back actually.
Did they?
Yes.
To even bigger guns.
Bigger guns, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, Spielberg was like I shouldn't have done that.
Even bigger guns and smokes coming off them
because they've recently fired all the guns.
And then above that we had Batman.
Yeah.
But this surprised me.
I did not know this.
The biggest movie was Indiana Jones.
Which one?
Temple of Doom.
Last Crusade.
Really?
$474 million.
Temple of Doom made $179 million.
My God, that's like nowhere near as big.
And Raiders made $212 million.
So it took a massive dip with Temple of Doom,
not a massive but a pretty significant dip,
and then more than doubled for the third one.
When the fuck has that ever happened?
Can't think of one.
But I bet there's tons.
I bet there's been many.
I bet there's been many.
There's probably been several in the last ten years.
Do you think it's because you couldn't get kids into Temple of Doom as well
and it probably built that cult following?
Why couldn't you get kids?
Because they tear the heart out of them tearing the pulling the guy falls into
crocodiles love that stuff yeah but you can't take a kid to that like i wouldn't take my kid to that
i would show him none of them in the moment but i probably wouldn't start with that one would you
start with young indiana jones no because it's boring and he'd be like this isn't this is
edutainment he knows he knows exactly what's up yeah yeah kids can spot edutainment. He knows. He knows exactly what's up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kids can spot edutainment from a fucking mile away.
I don't want to learn nothing, he'd say.
Yeah.
And I know I said nothing, and that's incorrect,
but I don't care, Dad.
So, yeah, there's some other ones in here that are worth mentioning, though.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
Yeah.
Lethal Weapon 2.
Ghostbusters.
Beverly Hills Cop.
Dead Pilot Society.
Raiders, we mentioned.
The first Back to the Future.
Empire Strikes Back, Rambo 3,
which also lost money, I think, Fish Called Wanda, Tootsie,
Tootsie, Tootsie, never said, Top Gun.
Hoffman's Back, yeah.
Hoffman's Back, Cocktail, Three Men and a Baby.
Oh, it's just people and babies, isn't it?
But of course, Three Men and a Baby.
Three Men and a Baby obviously was dedicated to the brave
Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan.
I don't know if you know that.
See, what that was there was me not paying attention
to anything you were saying and just biding my time waiting
for a movie that doesn't deserve that.
Did you know you were waiting for that the whole time?
Yeah, the whole time, yeah.
Then you got Lake Platoon and other various Rockies.
I think Stallone is recutting Rocky III at the moment.
To what end?
To make a different Rocky movie.
Huh.
Like a similar.
From the perspective of the robot?
Yes, of the robot.
Did he have the robot in III?
Yes.
Yeah, okay, right.
But it might have been IV.
Yeah, yeah, that it really took centre stage.
Yeah.
But what is missing?
Because I would say III and IV are kind of more cartoony. Yeah. For what is missing? Like, because, like, I would say three and four are kind of, you know,
more cartoony.
Yeah.
Do you think maybe he's editing three to be more in line with the first two?
I think so.
I think that's what he's doing.
So I saw a clip of him, like, remixing the sound, I guess,
maybe to, like, take the punches down.
It's from Rocky IV.
Don't email me about the robot from Rocky, please.
Also, like, that's barely a robot, really. It's a Rocky IV. Don't email me about the robot from Rocky, please. So, like, that's barely a robot, really.
It's a serving tray with lights on.
Yeah, exactly.
Like, they don't have anything even, like,
close to that now that you can get.
You know what I mean?
We've been promised robots for too long.
I mean, they have an Optimus Prime that transforms itself
while you attack it.
Doesn't bring you anything, though, does it?
No, just joy.
But whatever.
If I wanted joy, I'd have more kids, Mason.
Are you going to have more kids? No. Okay. So, no,? No, just joy. But whatever. If I wanted joy, I'd have more kids, Mason. Are you going to have more kids?
No.
Okay.
So no, I don't want joy.
It's summery.
It seems that way, doesn't it?
Yeah.
So there you go.
We've certainly listed some movies that came out years ago.
We've got more.
Okay, I'm ready.
But it says, though, the top grossing films of the decade,
and the top one was E.T., but the height, sorry, that was Worldwide.
I'm doing Worldwide list, by the way, so just so people know.
Should we move to the 90s?
Let's do the 90s and then we'll save the remaining decades
for another episode, I think.
Freak out.
Bridge out.
No, no, it's not going to work.
It's already worked.
Okay, well, that's your new catchphrase.
It's already the biggest hit of the summer.
Wow.
Okay, I have to mention number 11 because it's Terminator 2 Judgment Day.
And this is some shit.
519 million and that's the 11th biggest movie.
The 90s were massive.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And below that was Ghost, which fun Paul Hogan fact.
So this is 12.
This is 12.
Paul Hogan was offered the lead role in Ghost and he turned it down.
Yeah, there you go.
He said he took the minor role of that big pile of clay.
He kind of looks like a big pile of clay, doesn't he?
Sure does.
Number 10 is Armageddon.
Wow.
Wow.
A big year, a big decade for just we would watch anything really.
It was, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Okay, I've just figured out why they keep making Men in Black movies.
Number 9 was Men in Black. Yeah. It made $589 million. Yeah. Okay, I've just figured out why they keep making Men in Black movies. Number nine was Men in Black.
Yeah.
It made $589 million.
Yeah, that'll do it.
That's why they keep doing it.
Okay.
It's not for a love of the game.
It's not a cult classic.
It was a giant box office hit.
Okay.
All right, that makes sense.
Obviously, it's partly the reason Men in Black International came out
was because the people that watched the first one became of age
to write a new one and were like, I love those and I'll write another one.
But also you're right, it never would have gotten greenlit
unless the first one wasn't a huge success.
Also, we didn't mention Commando in the 80s.
I only said that because we've got a Commando commentary up now.
That's our commentary of the week, isn't it, mate?
That's right, commentary of the week.
Is it this week or next week?
I don't know.
Commentary of next week.
I'll spill some water.
Then we had The Lost World Jurassic Park, the sequel to Jurassic Park, the movie.
Then we had The Sixth Sense, a sequel to Jurassic Park, the movie,
followed by Forrest Gump, the sequel to Jurassic Park, the movie.
Did you ever hear about the sequel book to Forrest Gump?
I am sort of aware of that, yeah.
And they were talking about the movie.
They could probably still do it.
Gump's in space.
Doesn't it?
He goes broke or something?
Maybe.
And maybe invents the Apple Macintosh accidentally.
I can't remember.
Well, at the end of the first one, at the end of the first movie,
he invests in Apple.
Yeah, but I think maybe the book ends before that maybe.
I can't remember.
I don't know.
Who cares?
People hate that fucking movie though.
Have you noticed that?
We've got Forrest Gump now because I think it also beat Pulp Fiction at the Oscars.
Oh, I see.
And people are like, it's smaltzy and it's whatever.
But it's like.
But it wasn't a achievement at the time.
Yeah, it's like a breezy like.
And he's talking to the president.
He's talking to the president.
How'd they do that?
How'd they get the president back?
How'd they get the president back?
The president was shot. He was shot. They shot him. Right? How'd they get him back? I to the president. How'd they do that? How'd they get the president back? How'd they get the president back? The president was shot.
They shot him.
Right?
How'd they get him back?
I don't know.
How'd they get him back?
Then we have The Lion King, which is not a surprise.
Your favourite movie.
Not true.
Followed by Independence Day, your favourite movie.
Actually true.
Followed by Jurassic Park, which was a sequel to Jurassic Park.
Oh, James.
I don't know what I'm doing.
We still haven't recorded that commentary.
No, we haven't.
A little peek behind the camera.
We haven't recorded it yet.
We're going to do it after this podcast, yeah.
Star Wars Episode I, The Phantom Menace,
which nearly cracked a billion with $924 million.
But then you know what number one is, I assume.
Look who's talking for.
Secret of the Years.
Titanic.
Oh, the Tiny Tanic, sure.
Tiny Tanic. They made it tiny Tanic, sure. Tiny Tanic.
If they made it tiny, it probably wouldn't hit nothing.
That's what I'm thinking about.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What are you thinking about?
It would have pinged off harmlessly from the iceberg.
Exactly.
That made $1,843,000,000.
Bearing in mind there was also re-releases and whatever,
but it cracked well over a billion at the time, which is, it was just,
it was crazy.
You remember Titanic Fever?
I remember Titanic Fever.
It was so hot.
You couldn't get away from it.
And I maintain it's a pretty good movie.
I know people are like, you know, they kind of rag on it because of,
you know, it's Titanic.
It was like the biggest movie of all time for quite a long time
and still is one of.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's pretty good, man.
It's a pretty good movie.
It's got a nightmare behind the scenes thing where everyone hated James Cameron.
So it was cold and wet all the time?
Yeah, and the catering was someone poisoned the catering.
What?
Yeah.
On purpose?
Yeah, it made a bunch of people sick.
On purpose?
On purpose, yeah.
Why?
Because they hated it.
People hated it.
It was a nightmare.
It was an absolute nightmare.
They thought it was going to bomb like a Titanic.
Yeah.
The sequel to Jurassic Park.
And yet it succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations like a Titanic.
It was a movie.
They didn't know.
Yeah.
They used the wrong metaphor.
They did, didn't they?
Yeah.
So they thought it was just this like like, sweeping epic pile of crap.
Who poisoned the catering?
I don't know.
It's a secret.
I don't know.
The cast swore themselves to secrecy.
Yeah, I'll find out.
In order to get James Cameron or just to get everyone?
Everybody.
Wow.
Let me find out.
See, that's a fact.
I thought we were done with Titanic facts, I thought.
Titanic catering.
There we go.
Between 60 to 80 crew members were poisoned on the set of Titanic.
But not the cast.
Interesting.
Yeah, because they have different food.
Do you think it was a member of the cast?
Do you think it was Billy Zane?
It sounds like something Billy Zaney would do, Mason.
That's right.
Yeah, yeah.
During a catering lunch on set of Titanic between 60 to 80 crew members.
Billy in Zane.
It was clam chowder, indulgent clam chowder.
That's your fucking problem right there.
Why would you eat clam chowder from a buffet?
Yeah, I know that.
I mean, also, what are you going to do?
Maybe it was only clam.
Maybe it was clam chowder day.
It was clam chowder day.
They just rolled in some big troughs on wheels full of, like,
some, like, orangey clam chowder with a big skin on the top of it.
You had to spoon through the skin to gety clam chowder with a big skin on the top of it.
You have to spoon through the skin to get to the chowder.
You're like, oh, I guess so.
Otherwise it's going to get sandwiches down the road.
I don't want to.
Unless I see the water from where I'm eating seafood, I do not eat it.
I don't eat it.
Do you eat it?
Yeah.
That's a pretty good restaurant.
Yeah, no, agreed.
But, you know, I'm not doing none of that, Mason.
I'm not doing a goddamn thing.
So, Titanic, fascinating movie.
I would love to cover it for Carrier Out of Garbage.
There's so much stuff about that movie.
We could do half of it, then do the symbolic DVD flip over.
Oh, we could, couldn't we?
That's not a bad idea, actually.
That's a pretty good idea.
Maybe we'll do it this year.
We've got some time.
We've got some time.
Anyway, we'll come back to this, won't we?
Yeah, we will.
We'll do the 2010.
Oh, there's two left, isn't there?
There sure is. Do we have to wait a decade?
I guess we wait a decade, right?
So we're going to wait a decade.
Wait until 2030.
Okay, and then we'll do the year 2000 and up to 2020.
So nine years.
Okay, so we'll do that and then we'll do some Harry Potter stuff.
Yep.
Then we'll do this again.
You'll be, and I'll be close behind you, nearly 50.
That'll be fun.
No, not nearly because it's nine years.
But we'll be there, won't we?
We'll be in our 40s.
We'll be men in our 40s.
Great.
It's a time for reflection, isn't it?
No.
It's a time to freak out.
Bridge out.
Did you laugh a little bit there? I loved it, James. Yeah. It's a time to freak out. Freak out. He's laughing.
You laughed a little bit then.
I laughed at James.
Yeah.
Do you know what it's time for?
Is it time for our famous segment, What We're Reading?
Yep.
Then what are we going to read?
That is the time.
Whoa.
That is the time for it.
I'm doing a thing. I'm putting my foot down, James.
You can either keep having that or you can switch over
to your new little bit, Bridge Out.
You can't have both.
I nearly said Bridge Out.
Wow.
But you didn't want to sacrifice the thing you insist on doing every week.
We get messages.
I thought about how many messages and tweets I'd get and I just...
Have you ever considered that maybe the reason mentally you're at 40%
is because you have to do these mental calculations every week?
Like you have to...
Every week your brain is constantly calculating
how much more humour value there is left
in saying a word over the top of this segment for some reason.
That's why.
That's why you're falling to bits.
How long have I been doing it for now?
Decades, I think.
I don't even know.
When did Westworld Season 3 finish?
I reckon at least a year ago.
Let me check.
Yeah, May of last year.
Yeah, I've been nearly doing it a year.
It's coming up.
It's an anniversary.
Well, I'll get you a cake.
What do you mean, Ryn?
I was going to say it'll have, you know, the guy from Breaking Bad.
What's his name?
Aaron Paul.
Aaron Paul.
But I nearly said I'll get you a cake with Jake Paul.
Maybe I will.
Maybe I'll get YouTube star Jake Paul on a cake for you.
That's funny, I know.
Yeah, it is funny, yeah.
Yeah, good stuff.
Jake Paul shaped cake.
Oh, it's a Jake Paul shaped cake.
That's going to bring the budget up a little bit.
I want you to go all out.
Okay, great.
Like just his head or his entire body?
Shoulders up. Okay, great. Like a bust. or his entire body? Shoulders up.
Okay, great.
Terrific, yeah, cool.
Get Ralph from Cake Boss.
Oh, yeah.
We sort of know him.
He'll do it.
Yeah, yeah, he'll do it.
I mean, for money.
You'd have to pay him.
I'm not paying him.
You pay him.
Okay.
All right, what have you been reading?
Well, I watched the first episode of Bird Girl,
the new Adult Swim cartoon.
Is that a Harvey Birdman spin-off?
It's hard to say.
Okay.
It's a bit all over the place.
I mean, there's no continuity in any of that stuff, is there?
No, but this seems even less so.
Because he had a late-night talk show or was on.
Yeah, that was Space Ghost.
But he was on it, wasn't he, somewhat?
I can't remember.
Yeah, anyway.
But Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, was very good.
I agree.
Look, this is a bit all over the place.
Maybe it'll settle in. But I law, was very good. I agree. Look, this is a bit all over the place. Maybe it'll settle in.
But I thought it was pretty fun.
It's sort of about a bird girl is the son of a –
a bird girl is the daughter of a –
A bird.
No, of a man.
Okay.
Who is the head of this law firm and she's in –
she's got to manage being the new head of this law firm
but also dealing with life as a superhero.
But it's also she's all over the place.
Because in Harvey Birdman he does zero superheroing.
Correct, yes.
He just does a Hanna-Barbera character comes in with a weird legal case
and then he solves it.
This seems to have more of a narrative thrust but I don't.
I don't want any of that.
No.
It should just be, anyway, it's its own thing.
We don't know yet.
Whatever.
But it's got a fun voice.
Like, Padgett Brewster is the voice of Bird Girl.
Who's Padgett Brewster?
You will know her from, if you've ever listened to the podcast,
you haven't, but if other people might have listened to the podcast
Thrilling Adventure Hour, she used to do a show with Paul F. Tompkins.
Oh, I know Padgett Brewster.
Yes, yes.
She's also in Criminal Minds.
Yeah.
She's done a lot of stuff.
Yeah.
Her comedic talents were wasted on Criminal Minds,
one of the least funny TV series ever made.
Absolutely.
But she's good and there's other people also who are in it
whose names I cannot recall off the top of my head.
I'm going to give this a shot.
Yeah.
Let me know what you think because it's kind of like it really felt
to me like, oh, it felt to me like they built this from the ground up for,
hey, stone people will watch this and laugh at it.
Oh, okay.
But maybe I should give it another shot.
Maybe you should make more weed, man.
Yeah, baby.
Also I watched something that I have had on my list for a while,
Arch Enemy, the movie with Joe Manganiello.
Oh, yeah, I saw that on Amazon.
I was like, I should buy that or whatever.
What's it like?
I enjoyed it.
So for people who don't know nothing about it.
What are you doing?
It's like an indie superhero mystery movie.
And so the premise basically, it concerns like there's two siblings,
there's a brother and a sister, like they're teenagers I think, and one of them wants to be
like a Hunter S. Thompson, like gonzo journalist,
like getting in the trenches and breaking the big stories.
Sure.
And the sister is sort of like at the ground level
of like the drug trade, the city's drug trade,
because she wants to get enough money together
to send her brother to college.
Right.
And, of course, the drug, the whole, you know, the crime
and the drugs, that starts getting out of control.
And the brother encounters this guy.
He's living on the street.
His name is Max Fist.
And he will tell anyone who listens or who will buy him a drink
that he is from the city of Chromium, which is like an advanced city
from an earth in a parallel dimension where he was a superhero
and he could fly around and he had all these amazing cosmic adventures,
but through the machinations of his archenemy,
he's ended up in this earth and he's at a loose end,
but he wants to have a mission and as all this crime stuff bears down on him,
he's like, I'm going to take on this crime because that's what I'm kind of built for.
Is it good?
Yeah, it's good.
I think it's a bit muddied in terms of like I'm not sure the writer-director
was entirely successful in like what they set out to do kind of thing.
Like it's a bit muddled in terms of like.
What's it called again?
What is this about?
Arch Enemy.
Arch Enemy, that's right.
So like what's it – is it a metaphor for something or like is it a –
you know, is it about crime or heroism or whatever?
But I think just as like a kind of superhero-ish narrative
like brought to screen, I think it's pretty good.
Joe Manganiello is good and I think all the performances are good.
There's a couple of surprise cameos in it that I won't spoil.
Oh, okay.
I do want to watch this so I think I will watch this.
And it did keep me guessing as far as is this a man who is just deluded
in terms of like.
It does answer it though, right?
Yes.
Good.
It does it.
Don't tell me.
Okay.
But is it a man who's actually deluded or is he a real superhero?
It wasn't one of those ones where you start the movie in like first line
and you're like, I know where this is going to go.
Like, I was kind of, I was basically on the hook, you know,
until basically the end where I'm like, is this, who knows, kind of thing.
Okay, great.
Again, not 100% successful, but I thought it was really good.
Cool.
Okay.
I will watch that soon.
What have you been reading, James?
Are you familiar with the PS Vita?
Yes, I'm familiar with the outmoded system, the PS Vita.
It's not outmoded yet, Mason.
Okay.
Soon to be, though, because you may have heard they're closing PS Vita
in the PS3 stores.
Whoa.
And that put me on a bit of a PS Vita kick.
Okay.
Bloody tear, mate.
Okay.
Claire bought me one back in 2012 whenever it came out.
Yeah, yeah.
And then it arrived, but then I didn't have a memory card,
and then the town flooded I was living in,
and then I had to wait because they weren't accepting any mail.
I had to wait two weeks for a memory card.
But then I played a PS Vita, and it's pretty good.
But then they stopped developing games.
But it is a pretty good little indie device until the Switch came out,
which is like the PSP, but it's Vita, but it's much better.
There's way more stuff on it, right?
But I went back, and I just bought a bunch of stuff
that I always wanted to play that I'll probably never get around to playing.
And so you bought it online?
No, I got the stuff that I bought the original Metal Gear Solid,
not the original one, the portable ops or whatever.
No, no, no, sorry, the one from the 90s, the original PlayStation one.
I've never played it.
Because there's Metal Gear before. Because I've never played it. Yep. That one.
Because there's Metal Gear before that, isn't there?
Yeah, there was Metal Gear.
There was the original Metal Gear on the Famicom.
Yep.
And then there was like a cut down version on the NES.
Yes.
And then there was a couple of sequels to those, yeah.
And then there was Metal Gear Solid many years later, yeah.
And I bought physical copies. If you like a game where you're an 8-bit man smoking a cigarette.
Punching a dart.
That's right. Having a durry. Then an 8-bit man smoking a cigarette. Punching a dart. That's right.
Having a durry.
Then play an original Metal Gear game.
Cool.
Just sucking on those menthols.
There's a Metal Gear pack which comes with Metal Gear 2 and 3.
Okay.
I want to play 3 because 3 is really good, right?
Snake Eater?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the prequel one where you're a big boss.
That's right.
There's a sniping battle or whatever.
You can play that one?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then I also. There's a sniping battle but whatever. You've played that one? Yeah. Yeah. And then I also.
There's a sniping battle but you can just wait because he's really old
so you can just wait for him to die.
Yeah.
Just switch off your machine for a day or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I went back and I've started playing through Killzone Mercenary.
I love the Killzone games, right?
Was Killzone the one where it was set in World War II
but aliens were invaded?
No, that was Resistance.
Okay.
But I could see how you'd get that confused because it was one of brown and gray brown and gray yeah
but there was the ones where they look like they got the nazi helmets with the glowing orange eyes
yeah yeah so it's basically it's in the future and there's a nazi planet and whatever and but
it's it's more complicated now what i've always enjoyed the kill zone games but i bought this in
2013 and i never finished it i played like a lot so i've been playing it through it's fucking you've
always felt like a loser. Yeah, I have.
But it's fucking great.
It's a really good.
It would have been at the time the best portable first person shooter like by far without question.
Now you could argue like because Doom gets ported,
the Wolfenstein games.
You could argue that.
But I like how it's just like.
Obviously the best portable game is Doom on the TI-82 graphic calculator.
Yes, that's right, exactly.
Look, side note, I love the idea that whenever any piece of technology
is invented, somebody puts Doom on it.
Yeah, it's really good.
I think it's a great...
It's a fun little meme for reality, you know?
I saw one for a pregnancy test.
Yep.
The guy actually, he'd switched out the computer on it.
He just made a little screen.
I'm like, that's not what you said it was, this thing that you did.
Boo.
Boo to that man.
Killzone games are great.
And it's just like they're very kind of linear missions, which I like.
I don't like open world first person stuff, especially when it's like it's a shooter,
but go anywhere.
I'm like, ugh.
Can I just go places where I can shoot people?
Yeah.
Thank you.
It's really solid.
It's really good. But then I'm probably going to end up playing the go places where I can shoot people? Yeah. Thank you. It's really solid. It's really good.
But then I'm probably going to end up playing the first Killzone
on the PlayStation 4, which I never played.
But I played Killzone 1, Killzone 2, Killzone 3,
Killzone Liberation on the PSP, which is an isometric game.
It's incredible.
It's an incredible game.
I love the Killzone games, Mason.
Anyway, that's what I've been doing.
Killzone 5, Grease Control.
I think they've killed Killzone because Guerrilla,
who worked on that, now do the one where you fight giant dinosaurs
that are robots.
Horizon Zero Dawn.
Yes, they do those now.
So I don't think we're going to do Killzones any time soon.
But, I mean, we will because, you know,
classic Boomer with his nostalgia over here will bring it back, you know.
He'll be like, why are there more Killzone games?
Did you hear they were going to remake The Last of Us this week?
Did you see that?
Wow, that was quick.
Yeah.
2013.
Yeah.
But they wanted to, which it makes, okay, we'll quickly talk about this.
We're going to talk about how we're running out of nostalgia?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're reaching peak nostalgia?
But basically what happened is there was this Jason Schreier article
where he talked, he was like a really awesome video game journalist,
where he talked about how Sony are basically only aiming
for huge AAA video game properties and everything else else beyond that, like get rid of it.
So that's just like anything Last of Us Uncharted,
like the Guerrilla Games, whatever, the Horizon, Spider-Man,
stuff like that.
Right, right, right.
And so basically they were getting –
But how would they then do anything untested?
Yeah, exactly.
It's just like we will – I guess it would just be a money thing.
Like we won't put any less than $100 million into this.
It seems that way.
And so their first idea was to remake Uncharted, the original one.
Yeah.
But they realised it was going to be too expensive
and also just make a new one.
And also people are sick of like waist-high walls.
We're sick of them.
I love them.
I love them.
I don't love them.
They're okay.
Okay.
Speaking of Uncharted Golden Abyss on the PS Vita,
pretty solid game as well if we're talking PS Vita, Mason,
which we are.
And eventually –
I can't wait for your new segment, Vita Talk.
It's going to be great.
But eventually they got shifted to make a Last of Us –
not a remaster because it was remastered for the PS4
because it's a PS3 game, completely remake it from the ground up
so they can then package it with The Last of Us 2,
which also makes sense because then you can release that
at the same time as the show.
Yeah, okay, right.
And they would sell like five, ten million copies again.
I wouldn't buy it again because I have it twice already.
Yeah, right.
But I don't really want to play two again because it was very harrowing.
Yeah, right. But, yeah, I get to play two again because it was very harrowing. Yeah, right.
But, yeah, I get it, but it's also kind of disappointing.
These franchises and these companies don't start huge.
Like the first Uncharted, it wasn't a massive, like it made money.
It was a moderate success, but they got immediately better.
Like the lessons learned from the first game because they killed,
do you know Days Gone?
Yes.
That zombie game where you're on a bike or whatever.
That team wanted to make a sequel and they were like, nah.
And so apparently that game's like, it's free as well if you've got PS Plus.
So I'm all over the place.
What percentage do you think you're on?
I'm 100% of the Bridal Base.
Whoa, he's far and all cylinders.
No, I'm like 25%.
It's slipping.
But they can't make a sequel, which would probably mean they tighten everything up and make it like a much better game
even though the first game is still quite good.
So now they have to work on a different thing.
It's kind of a shame where you don't get the chance to
kind of find your feet.
I understand it monetarily, but I also think
you're boxing yourself in at the same time.
Do you know what I mean?
Those are my thoughts on those things that I vaguely remember.
Good stuff. I was also going to mention,
speaking of Arch Enemy, I learned also that there's a movie, the writer-director
made a movie before that.
It's got Patrick Schwarzenegger in it.
Yeah, I saw that.
It's called Daniel Isn't Real and it's like a similar thing
where it's about a man who is having delusions
and we, the audience, are not sure.
Is it a delusion or is there something supernatural or real happening?
And the director apparently has said that he would like to do a third movie
that kind of ties it all together.
So I would be on board with that.
Have you seen Daniela's in Real?
No, but I'm probably.
Very highly rated.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I think it's on Shudder, so maybe I will watch it.
I like Shudder.
I don't have Shudder at the moment.
Letters, it's time for letters, Mason. I mean, you're going to get drunk and get Shudder though. You know it. That's right. I like Shudder. I don't have Shudder at the moment. Letters, it's time for Letters, Mason.
I mean, you're going to get drunk and get Shudder, though.
You know it.
That's right.
It is time for Letters.
I'll do the Letters theme.
Okay.
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.
Is my brain misfiring?
Maybe.
You were rocking back and forth and I couldn't tell if it was
because you were rocking out to the letters theme
or you were just like just a man wrapped in a little blanket.
I was listening to it, but for a second I thought that song
like slowed down quite a lot, but I think that was just my brain.
I think it might have been your brain.
Yeah, it was your brain.
If you don't want to reach the show, hashtag WeeklyPlanetPod
on Twitter or WeeklyPlanetpod at gmail.com.
Just like C-Ray has said.
He said, with all the Marvel, oh, hashtag weeklyplanetpod,
with all the Marvel content coming to Disney+,
which DC properties do you think would work better as a series
instead of a feature film?
Should Warner Brothers even try?
Loving the content per usual.
Best pod ever.
I think anything can lend itself to a series better if the budget is there.
You can make a better version of anything with the money.
Like I think if they were going to do an Injustice,
that would be a series.
But again, you don't want to see it cheap.
No.
Because it's all the big guns of the DC universe doing just world-shattering stuff.
Everybody's in it and it goes everywhere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Time and space and dimensions and you don't want to.
You need to set a lot of it in a farmhouse.
Yeah.
Like a Smallville or Lois and Clark situation.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean HBO Max are doing Green Lantern and whatever so.
Yeah, I mean I'd be interested to see what they're going to do
with Green Lantern but.
Yes.
I don't really know.
I'm really liking Lois and Clark. Lois and Clark?
Superman and Lois.
That's right.
Superman and Lois and Clark.
Clark, that's right.
Grease Control.
Grease Control.
But it's only five episodes and they stopped
and there might be more coming later or something.
So that's annoying.
I thought we were going to get like ten at least.
Yeah.
Anything else you'd like to see?
Would you take like a minor character?
Like would you do, I was going to say Green Arrow,
but they did that for 10 years.
10 years, that's right, yeah.
What about a, I would love to see a Blue Beetle Booster Gold sitcom maybe,
something like that.
Yes, yes, yes.
Who knows what they're going to do with those characters.
Yeah, I think why the MCU works as well is even though you don't get
a Thor movie every year, it's all connected.
It's one thing.
Yes.
And the DC movies don't feel as connected, which I don't necessarily think is a bad thing,
but it still feels like a one connected television serial kind of at the same time.
Does that make sense?
Which one are you talking about?
So basically you don't feel, okay, so I feel like with the Superman character, you suddenly
see him like-
Superman?
Yeah, you see him like, it feels like, and it's not true, but like every five years you see him.
Yeah, right.
You know what I mean?
The movie one.
I see what you're saying.
I know that's not true.
So even if like there isn't a Thor movie, you see a Marvel movie
and you're like, oh, Thor's probably around somewhere.
And they mention it or whatever.
Yeah, right, right, right.
Yeah, and I think that's the advantage of a television show
because you see them more.
Because, you know, things – Sin City, you wait and then people forget
and then the second one sits on Mason's iPad and he never watches it.
Yeah, that's right.
An iPad is very rapidly becoming just a block of plastic.
Soon it won't work at all.
That's right.
Strange days.
Very.
What have you got in terms of letters?
Oh, yeah, okay, let's do some letters.
Or we can do an audio letter.
Here's a letter.
It's from Phil. It says, I also had a dream about M some letters. Or we can do an audio letter. Here's a letter. It's from Phil.
It says, I also had a dream about Meso.
We had a discussion about this.
You were like, I don't like dream letters, but I love them.
No, I don't like dream stories, period.
But that encompasses dream letters.
You'll like this one.
I love them because they say more about the person having the dream
than what they're dreaming about.
Dr. Phil over here.
That's right.
You love Dr. Phil. I do, yeah That's right. Okay. You love Dr. Phil.
I do, yeah.
Do you?
No.
I love this Phil.
Because he sucks?
Yeah, he sucks.
That's why.
But not this Phil.
No.
Because he had this great dream.
Last night I had a dream that I went to Maiso's house with a gift.
The gift was like a dog cage but for babies.
Maiso was so happy to see me he made a TikTok about it. He had a beautiful wife and they both invited me in for babies. Mesa was so happy to see me, he made a TikTok about it. He had a beautiful
wife and they both invited me in for dinner.
The food was wonderful but I never
got to see the baby. I'm starting to
wonder if he was lying to get gifts.
With this email, I would like to thank
Mesa for his hospitality and delicious
food but show me the baby next time.
See, you're loving this,
James. That is pretty funny.
That is a great dream. I'm going to put a moratorium on dreams. Oh, alright. Oh, you're loving this, James. That is pretty funny. That is a great dream.
I'm going to put a moratorium on dreams, though.
Oh, all right.
Oh, you like the dreams.
I'm going to say one last hurrah.
Folks, if you happen to have a dream about either one of us.
We don't want no made-up dreams either.
Yeah, we don't want made-up dreams.
We can tell.
We can tell a lot of things.
We can tell.
Yeah.
Because this one's freaky, so we know it's real.
Free gifts like a baby cage?
No, it's freaky, I said.
No, no, but you wanted free gifts in the dream.
No.
Oh, I did.
Yeah, it seems that way.
And you wanted a baby cage?
Well, I mean.
What are you up to?
I think that the context of this is I've maybe called this guy and said,
hey, I've had a baby.
Bring a gift.
Bring a gift.
Yeah.
Hey, I've had a baby.
Bring a gift. Bring a gift. There's a registry I've had a baby. Bring a gift.
Bring a gift.
There's a registry.
That's right.
Mostly cage stuff.
Anyway, it's good stuff.
It is good stuff, and I cannot argue with the pros or cons
of the things that you've said.
That's right.
I've got one here from Lachlan who says,
Hashtag Luke Monopod.
Hashtag it.
If you wanted an open world Marvel game,
wouldn't Guardians of the Galaxy be a good one?
Just like Outer Worlds but with Marvel characters and locations
I guess it depends on whether you like Outer Worlds
Or if you know the difference between Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds
Which we do not
I don't
I mean, it's hard with Guardians because you are going all over the galaxy
That's so much space to cover
Yeah, but then again, if you look at something like Jedi Fallen Order
Also going across the galaxy to different levels,
but also the levels that you go to aren't like city hubs.
Yeah, they're wilderness mostly.
Yeah, not always.
Or battle stations.
There's like facilities and whatever.
So I guess you could do it.
I don't know if you – I don't know whether they could flesh out a universe
enough that it would work or whether it would end up being like a weird empty.
What if they did it No Man's Sky style where it's like procedurally
generated worlds and every time you show up it's like,
hey, there's an aim base.
You've got to blow up the aim base.
It takes like three years to get better.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
People are loving that game now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's a good idea but I think the logistics of making it
might not necessarily work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, I mean, you were speaking about AAA titles like a Spider-Man.
Yeah, but that's because you just build New York.
You just build New York.
You know what I mean?
But in Guardians you'd build so much stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You just need to do some galaxy exploring.
That's right.
I've got an email here.
I would like to see a game for Guardians game.
What have you got?
It says free donuts inside.
This is from Mitch.
He says, hi, boys, I tricked you. There's no donuts here. I knew. I didn't know. I was like to see a game for Guardians game. What have you got? It says free donuts inside. This is from Mitch. He says, hi, boys.
I tricked you.
There's no donuts here.
You guys.
I knew.
I didn't know.
I was like, maybe.
Who knows what technology is up to?
Tochnology.
Tochnology.
Tochnology.
Yeah.
My name is Mitch from Ontario.
Been listening since 2014.
Yesterday they announced another four-week stay-at-home order for all the province due
to rising COVID cases.
I'm going a little bit insane.
We had that.
Yeah. For some time. We had that cur bit insane. We had that for some time.
We had that curfew.
We had that for a really long time.
A really long time.
It felt like six months.
I think it was.
So first of all, hold tight because afterwards.
Bridge out.
Wow, you get the freedom to say truly, truly.
Inane.
Inane things.
Oh, my God.
You can live large and just operate at 40%.
If you stay at home for a year, you go a little bit.
You bridge out.
It's not quite right, are you?
That's right.
Mitch says, I was wondering what a good go-to movie to watch with your family is
as I will be trapped with mine for the foreseeable future.
Wow.
What's a can't miss for you, James?
Let's pick something that has a sex scene in it.
Yeah, nice. The first Terminator has a sex scene in it. Yeah, nice.
The first Terminator has a sex scene in it for no reason.
Yeah, you're great.
Well, not for no reason, John Connor.
Yeah.
It's actually a very good reason.
Maybe the best reason.
It's probably the best reason.
Best reason in all of cinema.
Is that how James Cameron framed it at the time?
This is actually the best reason?
Because he's JC Jesus Christ.
Did you get it?
That's a metaphor?
I didn't.
I never thought about it.
Maybe it isn't. I don't know. A lot of people say it is, but maybe they're wrong. A lot of That's a metaphor. I didn't. I never thought about it. Maybe it isn't.
I don't know.
A lot of people say it is, but maybe they're wrong.
A lot of people say a lot of things, mate.
He's the saviour of humanity in more ways than one.
That is true.
Yeah.
Family film.
Did you know James to pitch it?
He went into the meeting, the pitch meeting,
and he had a big whiteboard written on it,
sex scene, but then at the end he put a dollar sign.
That's just the aliens pitch. It's the aliens pitch, but sex scene. Yeah then at the end he put a dollar sign. That's just the Aliens pitch.
It's the Aliens pitch, but sex scene, dollar sign.
Family, I mean, it's not a young family.
It doesn't say.
Presumably he'd be at least a teenager, probably older,
or a teenager.
Or a man.
Or a man.
With children, it doesn't say.
We don't know at all.
So what are you recommending?
I think it might be watch with your family, meaning parents maybe.
Yeah, okay.
Okay.
What did I watch the other day?
Something.
It's great.
I watched Raya and the Last Dragon again the other day.
Okay.
My son.
It's a good family movie which I enjoyed.
Okay.
Did you enjoy it yet?
I haven't seen it.
You can enjoy it.
I'd love to enjoy things.
You can wait till...
I'd love to one day enjoy things.
Can you imagine to enjoy a thing again?
Yeah, I can imagine it.
What about the Look Who's Talking trilogy slash Tony Danza television spinoff?
Yeah.
What do you think of that?
Yeah, I love it.
Let me check.
Family movies I'm going to get like kids stuff
and I don't think that's what he's going for here.
Films for all the family.
Yes.
E.T., there we go.
That's one.
Big.
Big.
Princess Bride, right?
Perfect.
Can't miss.
What about, oh, we've got here,
there's just a picture of Dr. Doolittle, the movie.
Paddington series, one and two.
Yeah, okay, people like those.
You could do the Paddington
duology. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What about a Bond? Golden Compass.
That's what you think. I like where you're heading to. That's exactly right.
Yeah. Daniel Craig, breakout role.
Whatever he is in that. Some sort of
adventure or airship pilot, probably.
He's probably got a fob watch.
Probably got a fob watch. He's fobbly got a
fob watch. He's probably got a fob watch.
Yeah. His famous catchphrase, it's. He's probably got a fob watch.
His famous catchphrase, it's fobly time to go, he says,
to get the golden compass.
What did you say I should Google?
I don't know.
Whole family movies or something?
No, I didn't say. You said the exact phrase or something.
I do not think I did.
But I was like, yep, that's where it's at.
All the goonies, no thank you.
I'm not going to bond.
The families love bond movies.
Casino Royale. There's a reason that bond movies get played at Christmas All the Goonies, no thank you. I reckon a Bond. The families love Bond movies. Casino Royale.
There's a reason that Bond movies get played at Christmas.
You know what you do?
You want a family-friendly one?
Yeah.
You want something for the whole family?
You do Skyfall.
Yeah, okay.
It's like there's no one getting whipped in the nuts.
That's true.
I think it's the one.
But do you want, James, for a family, you want an uncomfortable scene.
If you're going to be watching it with a family, you want
a scene. You're right. You're absolutely right.
You want absolute scenes. What about this?
Yes. Lion King. Okay.
2019. Yes. What do you think of that?
Yes.
It's got a picture here that just says movie time.
Maybe you just go... Just get your family
to look at a JPEG of
the words movie
time. Can you bring that up on the screen?
Yeah.
So I've got something really exciting for you guys to watch
and then can you, what was the listener's name?
Mitch.
Mitch, just put up a JPEG that says movie time and tell us how it goes.
You don't have to.
What about Die Hard?
Yeah.
I think that's a good family movie.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's, you know, it's not, you know, Alan Rickman, you know, gets what he deserves in the end. Alan Rickman. Yeah, yeah. And it's not, you know, Alan Rickman gets what he deserves in the end.
Alan Rickman.
Exactly, yeah.
That's right.
You mean how he died in real life?
Is that what you mean?
That's exactly what I mean, yeah.
That's a terrible thing to say.
It's not super gratuitously violent.
Nah, it's fun, man.
It's a good movie.
What about Shrek?
No.
What about the movie or TV show Leave It to Beaver?
No.
What about Studio Ghibli crap?
I don't think they're crap.
Yeah, pick one of those.
Yeah, those are good ones.
Good stuff. There you go. There's some or none suggestions. Perfect. Pitch perfect.
There's one.
Yeah, those are pretty good. Family, whatever.
First two are really good. Yep.
I've only seen the first one. Jumanji.
Any of them.
Yeah, for sure. Not Zathura.
No.
It's all right.
Anyway, let's do the next thing, which is an audio letter.
Okay, let's do it.
You got your email headphones?
Yep.
Okay, here we go.
Line it up, dudes.
The me.
Yeah, do it.
I'm doing it.
Do it, dude.
Close my Gmail.
Sweet baby Gmail.
Here we go.
Hey, James and Mason.
Just wanted to say hello from North Carolina of the USA
and express how great you guys have been,
especially when I'm stressed out.
If I turn you guys on, you're really chill,
and I love hearing you guys interact with one another.
So thanks for that, guys,
and I hope the rest of your year goes really smooth.
My goodness, what a friendly Gmail message that we got.
That was just a nice one.
There we go.
We weren't tricked at any point.
No.
That was good.
It was just a nice man saying a nice thing.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
There's no questions, so thank you, and we hope you're just having a-
Hope everyone's having a nice time out there.
Chill time.
That's right.
A chill dude time.
That's right.
Is that what you think?
Yeah.
Thank you very much, James.
Should we go to the last segment of the show?
The end?
Yes.
Okay, terrific.
Folks, James is going to clap me out.
Thanks, folks, so much for listening.
Will it throw me off?
Let's find out.
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We appreciate it.
James, you got any little reviews?
Got a couple of five-star ones here, Mason.
My goodness.
This says, huh, huh?
Five stars from Cold World.
This one says, this is from Nick, who says,
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If you think it's the one you'd think, but the podcast is good regardless
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Give it a listen.
Nick.
I will.
Thank you. I will not watch Dumb and Dumber. It just looks bad and I don nonsense. Give it a listen. Nick. I will, thank you.
I will not watch Dumb and Dumber.
It just looks bad and I don't want it in my life.
What do you think?
You've seen it?
Yeah, but you don't have to.
Thank you.
And I refuse.
Can you conceive of two men wearing tuxedos,
but they're not the colours of tuxedos you would expect?
No, I can't.
So I guess I'd probably need to see it.
Probably should see the movie then.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whereas oddly, I can imagine that, but I have seen the movie,
so redundant ultimately.
That is very redundant.
Isn't it though, yeah.
What's next though?
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I'm laughing because I'm just thinking about saying bridge out,
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Are you going to wait until the perfect moment?
I'm not even going to say it for the rest of the show.
And you think that's going to be like a fake out,
but I'm genuinely not going to say it because it's played out at this point.
No, see, what's going to happen is it is a fake out,
but you've rebranded the fake out as the bridge out.
That's what's happening here.
I can tell.
I know how your mind works.
I wasn't thinking that. Wow. Maybe I'm going to do it. What's next here. I can tell. I know how your mind works. I wasn't thinking that.
Wow.
Maybe I'm going to do it.
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I think it's something.
Something's out.
It was supposed to be Mortal Kombat, but it got pushed a week.
That's right.
I'm looking forward to Mortal Kombat.
Me too.
Yeah.
Don't think I didn't hear it.
I heard it.
I heard it.
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