The Weekly Planet - 438 Jurassic World: Dominion
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Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of The Weekly Planet. The Weekly Planet.
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.
Hello there.
Wow, what a time to be in a podcast time.
Isn't it, though?
They said we couldn't do it, you know?
Who said that?
Who's saying stuff? They said James has lost his touch.
They said James, you know, he doesn't have the passion
for comic book movie news anymore.
They said James, you know.
I'm a shill?
Yeah, they said James was a shill.
They're saying all sorts of bad stuff about us.
Some of those things contradict, though.
Like if I've lost my passion and I'm a shill,
I guess you could do that, though.
That'd be, that's fine.
They say James is cheating on his taxes.
What?
Yeah, yeah.
Who said that?
They're just saying it.
But nobody knows that for sure, do they?
No, they're just, they're saying someone's talking.
It's not even worth looking at because it's a rumor, isn't it?
They're saying somebody's talking to the ATO.
They're saying somebody on the inside at Weekly Planet Industries.
I don't think you need to worry about that.
That's a vicious rumor and not even worth even entertaining,
quite frankly.
Yeah.
Mason, it's a big news week, obviously.
It is a big news week, yeah.
And it's a big Jurassic World week.
Oh, absolutely.
As it has been six times throughout our lifetimes.
Six plus whatever Camp Cretaceous is.
Yes, and various video gaming.
Video games, sure, yeah.
And books and et cetera.
Remember that time we lived a life as a velociraptor?
I do remember that.
In that Mega Drive game.
Oh, I thought you meant when we put on that costume
and I was the head and you were the legs and we ran around the park.
Sure, yes.
That's exactly what I meant, yes.
Okay, good.
If people want to jump to that, that's fine,
because Collings, who edits this, puts time codes in the description.
We'd lean in in our costume and be like,
hey, kids, you want to play a Mega Drive game?
Get away from us.
In addition to that, we've got a bunch of news.
We've got some more Spider-Man news.
Some more Spider-Man news.
Some more Spider-Man news.
We've got some Thunderbolts news.
That's right.
What else have we got here? Some Netflix gaming-Man news. Small Spider-Man news. We've got some Thunderbolts news. Oh, that's right. Yeah. What else have we got here?
Some Netflix gaming news.
Ooh.
Some Duke Nukem news.
Trailers Ahoy.
Duke Nukem.
Duke Nukem.
Trailers for Prey, Black Adam, and The Sandman.
Joker 2, The Boys Season 4, and, of course,
a much-requested update on the Seth Green NFT.
Has it really been much-requested?
Much-requested.
Or have you decided you have an enemy out there in the world of entertainment
and you're like, I'm going to get this guy?
Yeah, it's both.
Yeah, great.
I mean, why not?
Two birds with one stone.
Exactly.
Also, just want to quickly mention.
Two birds with one stone.
Wow, look at him.
He's saying anything.
Mason, we've got a Weekly Planet Clips channel now on YouTube.
Terrific. How do you find it've got a Weekly Planet Clips channel now on YouTube. Terrific.
How do you find it?
You search Weekly Planet Clips?
It doesn't have its own URL as of yet because you've got to build up to it
and whatever, and I've got to think of one.
So, yeah, so there's going to be highlights from this go up,
plus older clips as well.
That is in addition to, of course,
Sarabi is taking care of the Weekly Planet on TikTok as well.
Oh, goodness.
There's so many platforms.
So please, if you are interested in hearing things that you hear here, but with some visuals.
Hear, hear, hear.
Oh, my God.
You're in for a treat.
Mason.
Yes.
After the success of the Morbius re-release, Sony are at it again.
And by that, I mean, they clearly were like, we need to make some money back on that Morbius
re-release.
Oh, is this?
Can I guess what this is?
Go for it.
Is this they're putting Spider-Man No Way Home back in cinemas?
They said, you wanted more Spider-Man and you got it.
Hashtag Spider-Man No Way Home.
The more fun stuff version swings into movie theatres
in the US and Canada September 2nd.
More countries to be announced soon.
There's going to be some additional deleted scenes.
Remember they did that for Avengers and it was like a weird Hulk preview?
Yeah, it was the Hulk animatic where he's like, oh, I'm off.
I'm checking the mail.
Oh, nothing in my mailbox.
I saw an image of that and went, I hate that.
And I didn't go back to theatres.
And I'm also not going back to theatres for this.
Absolutely not, no.
Is this going to be interspersed in the movie or is it just going
to be the regular movie and then you get to the end and it's like here's some deleted scenes.
Surely interspersed.
I wish it was at the start.
Look, based on Twitter scuttlebutt also, I read about that
and apparently all these deleted scenes were promised on the Blu-ray
and they just didn't do it.
Oh, yeah, they took it off, didn't they?
That's right, yeah.
Great.
That's fun.
That is fun.
Good work, Sony.
So, you know, they're doing good stuff.
Nobody can deny that.
I think there's this backlash, like, because people were mean to them
and made them re-release Morbius.
Wait, which part is the backlash?
I don't know.
They're re-releasing it and taking him off.
No, because they took it off the Blu-ray before that, didn't they?
Do you think that was pre-punishment?
Yeah, they do already.
People hate us.
Let's get ahead of this.
Yeah, they're putting out memes, but I don't think they're making fun of us.
Yeah.
Let's get them.
One of the good things about Disney Plus is they have a bunch of extras
and deleted scenes in there.
Come on, man.
What are you doing?
Who's going to see this?
Not me, certainly.
Probably, you say that now, but probably another $500 million worth of people.
No, I don't reckon.
No, mate.
You can get it.
I know, but people want to see it at the big screen again.
Yeah, but people can just film those clips and watch them on Twitter or whatever.
That's true.
Which is what will happen inevitably.
Anyways, good luck to Sony.
God bless you.
We love you and we support you.
Don't we, Mason?
Yes.
Are you excited for this news via deadline?
Gosh, this feels like a trick.
But yes.
Good, because it's the Thunderbolts movie, Mason.
I was right.
He was right.
Yes.
But it says specifically here they want to make a bad one.
So in a way you're excited for a bad movie.
No, I don't want to see a bad movie.
No.
But I've put all my cards on the table now and I threw in my full support for it.
That's right.
Well, what do you do?
Guess I better be relentlessly positive
about it, even if it turns out to be bad.
So Jake Schreier is going to be
directing this movie.
He's the director of Paper Towns and
Robot and Frank. Now, Paper Towns
I'm aware of, but I don't know what it is.
Cara Delevingne something, is it?
Is that right? I think it was based on a book of the same name don't know what it is. Cara Delevingne something, is it? Is that right? Okay, maybe.
I think it was based on a book of the same name.
Okay.
Is it the sequel to Elizabethtown?
Yes, absolutely it is.
Terrific.
Peppertown's, yeah, Cara Delevingne and the guy from Hereditary.
Ah, great.
So there you go.
Anyway, that was in 2015.
I think that was the last movie he directed because Robert and Frank
was before that. Robert and Frank I really enjoyed from 2015. I think that was the last movie he directed because Robert and Frank was before that.
Robert and Frank I really enjoyed from memory.
I have no memory of that.
It was where the old guy trains a robot to do a diamond heist with him.
So it's a real steel spin-off.
It's exactly that, yeah.
It's terrific.
Now here's a little bit of news.
I don't know if you have it on there.
But Kurt Busiek, who created the Thunderbolts,
or he at least, so for people who don't know.
This is your one bit of news.
This is my one bit of news.
So for people who don't know, the Thunderbolts arrived
in Marvel Comics.
They were like all the heroes had disappeared into a shameless
cash grab in a slightly different universe called Heroes Reborn.
Yes.
And in the meantime, New York City was missing,
didn't have any heroes.
So this new team of heroes showed up called the Thunderbolts.
But then at the end of the first issue,
it is revealed that, in fact, they are all sort of rebranded villains
led by Baron Zemo who decided to pretend to be heroes,
insert themselves into New York's public consciousness.
That's right.
Behail as the heroes and then they can do some evil crime.
But then, of course, a bunch of them are like,
I actually like being a hero.
I love this costume.
Yeah.
That's enough to sway me.
Exactly right.
Were they new heroes or were they like, I'm the new Captain America?
No, they were all new heroes.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
So Baron Zemo was Citizen V, I think was his name,
and he was like sort of – he was quite a European-looking villain, a man with a big scimitar,
but he also had like an American flag cape.
Oh, nice.
That's all American.
But like there's a villain called Screaming Mimi,
and she became Songbird.
The Beetle became Mark One.
He became the Beatles.
Good, good.
We're here to save New York.
We're not the Thunderbolts. Oh, Ringo's fallen down a storm drain. Oh, no. Oh, good. We're here to save New York. We're not the Thunderbolts.
Oh, Ringo's fallen down a storm drain.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
He's going to be eaten by those New York alligators in the sewers.
Oh, no.
Rico, no.
But so that team was created by Kurt Busiek, who was the writer,
and Mark Bagley, who was like a long-time Spider-Man artist.
And Kurt Busiek, he was the writer, and Mark Bagley, who was like a long-time Spider-Man artist. And Kurt Busiek on Twitter, he pointed out that he
and Bagley have a deal with Marvel.
Like so they will get some money off this.
This isn't one of those things where.
Was that them just like being.
So just to be clear.
Yeah, I think so, yeah.
There is an existing deal in place.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe they haven't contacted us yet and have forgotten.
Oh, maybe, maybe.
But, yeah, definitely because Kurt Busiek, you know.
Must find this very Amusiak, I'd imagine.
It's very good.
Thank you.
He should have a podcast or a YouTube series or something
called Kurt Busiek Finds This Very Amusiak.
But, you know, he was quite a big deal.
He created Astro City, which is like this big independent superhero.
I don't think I've read Astro City.
It's good.
It took a long time to wind up, but worth it.
But among other things, so I think he was probably a creator
who had enough juice to be like, you need to give us a deal.
So if this gets turned into a movie.
We're not doing this for nothing.
We're not doing this for nothing.
So I think that is good because as we know recently,
a lot of creators have been like, oh, they turned my character
into a movie and they're giving me five.
Then they shot me.
They gave me $5,000 and then they shot me when I went to pick it up.
They're like, here's your money, pick it up.
But you'll shoot me, sir.
You pick up the money.
You pick up the money.
This is your money. You pick up the money. You pick up the money. You earn that money.
You just pick up the money.
But this is a trick.
You just pick up.
This is a little gift from Marvel to you, buddy.
Why don't you pick up your money?
Bang.
Ah.
We're taking the money back.
Yeah.
And we put dog poo in it, but we're still taking it.
So some of the characters, this is from the article,
that could potentially appear include Baron Zemo,
Yelena Belova.
Belova, yes.
Thank you.
Ghost.
Oh, yeah, of course.
Taskmaster, the Abomination, US Agent, and the Winter Soldier.
And here's a quote from the article.
General Thaddeus Thunderbolt Ross is also a possibility
since he is the person in the comics who assembles the first team,
hence the name.
But that is unconfirmed as no deal for the actor has closed.
He's dead.
He's fucking dead.
William Hurt is dead.
He died.
Also, he didn't form the first team.
I think he formed the first.
Okay, so.
So two things wrong here.
Two things wrong here.
The dead, the thing about William Hurt being dead.
But, yeah, I suspect, look, from what I remember,
they were just formed by Baron Zemo because they're evil.
Maybe they've retconned it.
I don't know.
But I think potentially there might have been a later team
that Thunderbolt Ross had.
So they would call themselves the Thunderbolts.
Yes.
But not after Thunderbolt.
Maybe.
Maybe just they were big fans.
Did he become Thunderbolt Ross after the team?
No, he was always being Thunderbolt.
That was my idea.
My idea.
Yeah.
Anyway, it's obviously going to be led by, I'd imagine,
Allegra D. Fontaine, played by Julia Louis-Ruth.
That's right, who's been introduced in movies and TV shows for Marvel.
So I'd imagine that's what they've been setting up for for a while now.
Yes.
Looking at these characters, most of them are good now anyway.
Like Baron Zemo sort of, I guess.
Black Widow is.
Ghost turned good.
Taskmaster turned good also.
Is that right?
Did she?
Yeah, I guess she did, yeah.
Yeah.
The Abominations just doing cage fights.
USA Gemton, I don't know about that actually, that one.
And Bucky is Bucky.
Yeah.
But were there any actual like villains?
What about Sam Rockwell?
Justin Hammer.
Yeah, get him to be like this Iron Man.
Just get him to build a bunch of faulty weapons.
Yeah, or just be the Iron Man, be crap Iron Man.
I would love that.
Yeah, I guess he'd be crap Iron Man.
I mean, Iron Man is crap.
Whoa.
Even crapper Iron Man. He'll say that. Yeah, I guess it'd be crap Iron Man. I mean, Iron Man is crap. Whoa. Even crapper Iron Man.
You'll say anything.
Yes, I will, Mason.
It's because I'm a shill and I don't care whatever the thing is.
Look, I'm looking at the Wikipedia page now
and it started as Baron Zemo's Thunderbolts.
He didn't call them Baron Zemo's Thunderbolts.
That would have been a bit of a giveaway.
Yeah, it would have been.
With the latest hero team, Baron Zemo's Thunderbolts.
Baron Zemo couldn't make it.
And they were mostly the Masters of Evil.
Great, good.
Something, something.
Go on.
Something, something.
I'm listening.
Something, something.
Oh, really?
This is good.
It doesn't say anything about Thunderbolt Ross.
You can do a search on that, you know.
I'm searching for Ross, but it's just coming up with Ross from Friends.
I don't know who's on the team, but there you go.
The team does a mission for General Ross.
They did a mission.
That's about halfway through the Wikipedia page.
Do you reckon they're going to put that in the movie?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
Great.
What are they going to do with William Hurt?
Just, like, because Power's booth works for S.H.I.E.L.D.
He died and then they just went, no, he's gone.
Probably that.
Yeah.
I mean.
Could they replace him with the guy who played him in The Eric Banner Hulk?
Would anybody notice?
No.
Yeah.
No, absolutely not.
Because he's not a big enough character, I feel like.
They're both mustachioed, grey-haired gentlemen.
Yeah.
You know what?
Look, it wouldn't shock me because, again,
the original Thunderbolts in the comics were like,
we're here to honor the fallen heroes and they're gone and we're happy.
Blah, blah, blah.
It wouldn't shock me if they're like, we're here to honor Thunderbolt Ross and he was and they're gone and we're – Blah, blah, blah. It wouldn't shock me if they're like, we're here to honor
Thunderbolt Ross and he was a great American patriot
and we're here to blah, blah, blah.
And then people are like, oh, well, that seems plausible.
Yeah, okay.
Terrific.
Great stuff.
Anyways, I'm glad this is also a movie.
I'm also wondering if they are going to do –
because it's kind of trickier, I think, to do –
are they going to give them alternate identities in the review?
Because we, the audience, would know.
Yeah.
But, oh, maybe.
Maybe they'll hide a few of them, a couple of them.
Maybe.
Who knows?
And that's what we love about movie magic, because who knows?
That's right, yeah.
Something could be good.
Who knows?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe even something today we watched.
Who knows?
Maybe something today we watched could be good.
I mean, not Jurassic World, but something in what we're talking about today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who knows?
Anyway, so let's move on, Mason.
This is by The Hollywood Reporter.
Cobra Kai creators Josh Herold, John Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg,
they are working on a Duke Nukem movie.
Duke Nukem movie.
So Gearbox are currently-
Bloody, it's a bloody release in the year 2048. Duke Nukem forever, they can't hold currently- Bloody, bloody, bloody release in the year 2048.
Duke Nukem forever, they can't hold it.
Yeah, yeah, it took forever.
Did you see there was a build of that from like the early 2000s
that was leaked recently?
I did see that, yeah.
The early whatever.
Are those games good?
I mean-
They had a jetpack.
They had a jetpack.
I mean, you know, I wouldn't go back and play it now.
Or maybe I would.
You have to.
All right, let's do it.
Not me.
Oh, I have to do it.
Okay, cool.
You have to play the Game Boy Advanced version.
Was there a...
Oh, yeah.
My goodness.
Well, Duke Nukem 3D at the time was a revelation.
You could jump.
You could jump.
Can't imagine that these days, can you?
I think Dark Forces started the jump.
Oh, maybe.
But there was destructible environments.
Duke Nukem was rude.
There was nude women in that game, remember?
That's right, yeah, yeah.
Wow, what a game.
Gearbox, though, who are currently working on Borderlands,
they own it, I believe, because they bought it in like the late 2010s
to release that terrible Duke Nukem Forever game.
That's, of course, owned by Randy Pitchford, who's awful.
I don't know if you know anything about that guy.
No, I don't know anything about it.
I know the name, but I couldn't tell you what his deal is.
Yeah, they did it.
He owns Gearbox, is that it?
Yes.
Okay, right.
And he did, because Eli Roth is working on the Borderlands movie.
He's the director.
I think Kevin Hart's in it and a bunch of other, Jack Black's in it.
Okay.
And instead of showing a trailer or some footage at Gamescom
or one of those things, it was just Randy Pitchford walking around,
like, just hassling people
in the movie.
Okay.
And they're clearly just like, we hate this guy.
Hey, Jack Black, there's a Borderlands script that's on the ground.
You got to pick it up.
You've got a gun.
I was gearing up.
You beat me to it.
Anyways, previously a version of this, I think John Cena was attached during talks,
but I don't think he can do it now because he's already doing
that in Peacemaker.
Peacemaker is Duke Nukem, isn't he?
Basically, yeah.
He's American.
Not entirely.
Well, yeah, but he's got his student people, he's all American.
He's crass.
He's crass, exactly, yeah.
But, I mean, we might get to this momentarily,
but there is a certain tendency in Hollywood for somebody to go,
well, they're going to pay me $20 million to do pretty much
the same thing again.
I don't have to get into a different mindset.
I'll probably just take it.
Except to dye my hair and wear a wig or whatever.
He would be a perfect junior.
To be fair.
There you go.
Mason, trailers ahoy.
We've got three big trailers this week.
Three big trailers.
And I think the one I'm most excited for is this first one.
Should I be?
Let's find out.
The movie Prey.
Oh, yes.
Which is Predator, but fighting Native Americans in the past.
Yes.
Dan Trachtenberg, who directed 10 Cloverfield,
Laid is directing this.
I'm always getting excited for a new Predator movie
and 50% of the time I hate it.
Sure, yes.
But I like the team behind this.
It might even be less than that, honestly.
When you think about it statistically, Predator 1.
Good.
Predator 2.
Fine.
Predator 3.
Predators.
Predators.
Good.
I would even say excellent. I love that movie. And then The Predator. The Predator Predators good I would even say excellent
yeah yeah
I love that movie
and then The Predator
The Predator
which is horrible
horrible
and then there's Alien V Predator
yeah yeah
which are not
I reckon we're about 40%
okay
that's pretty good
that's pretty good
for this concept
yeah
over this length of time
yeah
that's pretty good
it is yeah
yeah
I mean maybe we'll talk about something later
that's never had a good sequel
maybe maybe maybe yeah maybe but anyway Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe we'll talk about something later that's never had a good sequel.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Yeah, maybe.
But anyway, so apparently also there are – It's been 30 years.
There's never been a good one.
It's wild.
I don't know.
We'll talk about it.
Yeah, all right.
But so what was I saying?
So apparently they wanted to make it more accessible
and sell to markets everywhere.
That's why it's in English.
But you might have this detail here.
Because I watched the trailer and I'm like,
this is really interesting, looks cool.
And I thought, first of all, it's interesting that they haven't had
the Native American cast do like that Native American accent.
Oh, the voice, yeah.
Everybody knows the voice.
You meet a wise old Native American man and they all have the same. We watch the Twilight movies, all the elders have the voice that you – you know, when you meet a wise old Native American man and they all have the same –
we watch the Twilight movies, they all have – all the elders have the voice.
But they just sort of speak.
I mean it's a little bit jarring because they're just speaking
like regular Americans.
But apparently they're doing – day one release,
it's going to be on Hulu.
You can also watch it in Comanche.
I think that's awesome.
With subtitles. Yeah. If it's good or not – be on Hulu, you can also watch it in Comanche. I think that's awesome. With subtitles.
Yeah.
If it's good or not, if it's good, I might just watch it.
I'm certainly going to watch it in Comanche with subtitles
and maybe even no subtitles.
Just see what's up.
Just see what's up, yeah.
And if I get confused, I'll turn the subtitles on.
Nobody can stop me.
I'm not in a movie theatre, am I?
What if it's all product placement and you miss it?
It's like, man, I need a crisp can of Coke.
This predator's really got me running about and I need a Coke.
And you're like, ooh, I love the culture.
You say to yourself.
I love how they've nailed the culture.
Mentos, fresh and full of life.
Ding.
Yeah.
I mean, obviously that would be like it would be dubbed
so the mouth wouldn't.
I don't think they filmed it twice because that's expensive.
I read something to the effect that maybe they did film it twice.
That would be incredible.
I don't know if that's true.
I know there's also, I think I saw this on Corridor Crew,
there's a technology they can now use where you could actually change
a person's mouth and they did it for a couple of movies
where they basically just got the person to re-record the dialogue
and just like motion captured their mouth and then pasted it on.
Wow.
So it can be done.
It's expensive, though, so I don't know whether or not.
Whether they filmed it twice or they did that.
Okay, well, I'm here on slashfilm.com.
Okay, the film was shot in English and Comanche.
Yeah, but does that mean there's some of that in there?
Like it's a mix?
Or is it like they filmed both?
It says here, this is according to Dan Trachtenberg,
there will be a Comanche dub of the movie so you can watch the entire movie
in Comanche with the original actors returning to perform their roles.
Dub, though.
Not.
It does seem a bit vague, doesn't it?
But dub implies to me that they've re-dubbed it.
Yeah, it does, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Okay, they've come back in the booth.
But again, you can't change it.
It's just...
That's true.
This is going to Hulu.
It's not going to...
That is correct, yes.
...cinemas, though.
If I can see this in cinemas, I will.
Because as we mentioned, I love 40% of the Predator movies.
That is very true.
Yeah.
Anyways, let's talk about the Black Adam trailer.
Oh, yeah.
Is it true?
Now, you've probably heard this,
that the hierarchy of the DC universe is about to change.
You better believe it is.
He's the most powerful guy.
He looks about as powerful as everybody else we've met.
Yeah.
Well, it's interesting that, okay, first of all,
I saw this trailer as part of there was an online whole situation.
It was called, I'll look it up.
It's called the Internet.
It's called Summer Game Fest.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And there was a bunch of game reveals for.
Any particular ones stand out to you?
There was like an Alien Isolation style game.
Yeah.
Pretty good.
Like a top-down.
Want that one?
No, there was more.
And there was a bunch of Dead Space looking stuff that wasn't Dead Space.
Yeah, there's like three Dead Space games and only one of them is Dead Space.
One's the original team doing a new version, not Dead Space.
And one is EA remaking original Dead Space
and there's another one that just looks like.
And one of them had a clip where an alien bites a man's head half off,
but it's not the half you're thinking of.
It's the bottom half?
No, it's like the front.
Oh, okay.
The front half.
Okay, excellent.
Wow.
Anyway, so I saw the Black Adam trailer initially through,
I think maybe they bought a cameo from The Rock.
That's what it felt like because it was just him.
Oh, in his gym.
He's on his gym and he's on his phone and he's like.
He's just going, isn't he?
Yeah.
It's so long.
He's just going and he's plugging his energy drink.
Zohar energy drink.
Zohar energy drink and then he's telling us.
I'm in my own paradise.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What up, fam?
Yeah.
That's a pretty good The Rock, right, that I just did then?
Hey, I'm The Rock.
If The Rock, the actual Rock who's in the room now,
could stop talking for a moment,
we'll get James to do his impression of The Rock.
Ah, can he, ah, ah, ah.
Dwayne, please, if you could let James speak for a moment.
Mason, pick up that money.
But The Rock, I don't.
Bang.
No.
So go on.
He punched me into space and I have to record the rest of this from space.
Isn't that just typical?
It is.
Anyway, he came in and he did this long speech and he plugged his energy drink
and then we saw the trailer and it looks all right, I guess.
I don't know.
I should be excited for this.
Why am I not?
I think we've reached a point of The Rock saturation
where you either go, man, I love The Rock,
or you're like, I'm kind of sick of The Rock.
And I think maybe we're on the side, we're on the wrong side of this,
I think, where we're like, I'm kind of.
Hasn't this movie been coming out for like 40 years?
It's true, yes.
But also, like, I'm excited for, like for the bunch of the characters we get to see,
like Doctor Fate, Pierce Brosnan, Hawkman,
the big guy who's running down the street.
Atom Smasher.
And the Deadpool mask.
That's right.
James, it's Ant-Man in the Deadpool mask and he's big.
I mean the problem that this movie is facing I think is that regardless
of whether the DC version,
you know how Marvel and DC have so many characters
that are basically the same except with different names
because it was just parallel thought.
They're like, let's have a big guy, let's have a magic guy,
or one of them stole it or whatever.
Dr. Fate's doing a bunch of Dr. Strange shit.
Yeah, like regardless of which ones were invented first,
this movie really is kind of on the back foot
in the sense that there's already a flying guy
and there's several flying guys in the Marvel Universe
and a big guy and a magic guy.
So, you know.
The hierarchy is about to change.
Is it because there's a bit where he's hit with a stick?
I think we've seen that.
That bit of Superman in the 70s with the crowbar.
Sure, yes.
And there's a line where I think Hawkman says to him,
heroes don't kill people.
And he's like, I do.
A bunch of heroes kill people.
Everybody does.
What are you talking about?
Well, that's what I was going to say.
Like it's fascinating that they've gone with this tack of,
well, this is actually, this is a hero, Zach.
He actually kills people.
They all do.
They all do.
Like Marvel and DC, it's been relentless for a decade now,
them just mowing people down, miscellaneous soldiers
and big names and whatever.
It's like, and even from the 80s, you know,
all the heroes inadvertently kill all their big villains
at the end of the last act or whatever.
I need to see him being, like, openly evil, I guess,
to, like, think this is anything other than a normal superhero.
Yeah.
Because a lot of them are like, I don't know if I want to do a good thing.
It's like, well, yeah, I have to now.
Okay. Yeah, but there's even, like like the bit where he's flying with the jets and he like bats one out of the air whatever yeah that's very iron man original iron man but that's
a good sequence it's some of the tech feels very like black panther-esque as well and the jets
it's got that yeah who are they fighting i can can't tell. I don't know. Someone in a grey mask.
What is that?
The nation that Black Adam is associated with in the comic books is called Kandak.
I think it's called Iron Paradise now.
That's sick.
Mason, it's called Iron Paradise.
Thank you, Dwayne.
The DC Universe is about to.
Hang on.
Yeah.
The hierarchy is about to change.
I had to read that because I couldn't remember what he said.
But he keeps saying it.
He keeps saying it.
I feel like he invented that phrase or it was pitched to him as like,
The Rock, you should do this because the hierarchy of the DC Universe is going to change and you'll be the most powerful character.
Maybe it was in like 2008.
Then, yeah, maybe it could have been.
Wonder Woman kills a bunch of people.
Oh, my God, they all do.
They all do.
I don't know.
Anyway, I hope it's great.
I hope it's great too.
I mean, again, because I like, I mean, imagine like Doctor Fate.
Are you kidding me?
Ridiculous.
They put Doctor Fate in a movie?
I love it.
Yeah, so this is the director of, oh.
No.
What does that mean? No, it's not the director of... No. No? What does that mean?
No, it's not terrible news.
Jungle Cruise.
Oh, yeah, okay.
The Commuter.
Wasn't that good?
Which one was The Commuter?
I don't know which one it is.
Come on.
He did Unknown and Nonstop.
Hey, was this Liam Neeson movie that I don't remember,
was that a good one?
I don't know, man.
Yeah, sure.
I'm just going to quickly show you this one? I don't know, man. Yeah, sure.
I'm just going to quickly show you this.
Okay, so this is the Wikipedia.
So there's the commuter, Liam Neeson poster.
There's also unknown, Liam Neeson poster, nonstop.
What's the difference between any of those?
I mean, they've all got Liam Neeson,
but what do they tell you about the Liam Neeson movies?
Nothing.
I liked The Shallows got Liam Neeson, but what do they tell you about the Liam Neeson movies? Nothing. I liked The Shallows.
Liam Neeson?
Yeah, that was the Blake Lively fights a shark one.
I didn't mind that one.
Okay, great.
Jungle Cruises.
It's fine, wasn't it?
Maybe.
It's fine.
I mean, it sounds a little bit like, in a lot of these instances,
it's a big star has found a director they can push around,
i.e. Tom Cruise and whoever Tom Cruise works with.
Yeah, whoever, whoever that happens to be,
whether that be a director or whoever his current wife is.
Mason, it's time to move on.
I can't believe you said that.
You shouldn't speak ill of our Lord and Saviour, Thomas Cruise,
because we're going to talk about the Sandman trailer coming to Netflix.
Having read some of the Sandman, but not all of it,
so now I need to go back to the start and reread it all
because I'll definitely just be lost if I jump back into where I was at.
There's a lot of stuff here that I recognise,
including the trapping of a Sandman, various characters, Mason.
Various characters.
They've gender-switched John Constantine as well.
They have.
But also there is a female John Constantine, isn't there, in the comics? Joanna Constantine as well. They have. But also there is a female John Constantine, isn't there, in the comics?
Joanna Constantine?
Yes, but I don't know if this is that version or the version of John
Constantine which is in the comics.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, I think it's the comic book version and they've just gone with the lady
from Doctor Who whose name is?
Jenna Coleman.
Jenna Coleman.
There we go.
Okay, love it.
This looks very interesting.
Doesn't it though?
Yeah.
Have you read all of this, The Sandman Man? I think so. He thinks so, everybody. I think it. This looks very interesting. Doesn't it though? Yeah. Have you read all of this, The Sandman Man?
I think so.
He thinks so, everybody.
I think so, but there is a lot of it.
Yeah.
I certainly haven't gotten to all the spin-off media.
I never finished Lucifer, which is the spin-off.
Did you watch the show?
Some of it.
Did you see the thumbnail where he's looking through a wine glass
and he looks like the devil through the wine glass?
Yeah.
And there's one, I don't know, because it's on Netflix in Australia,
but there's one, there's like a little thumbnail
and he's holding up like an auction, like an auction.
Like an auction paddle.
Like an auction paddle and it's got 69 on it.
He's like, ooh.
What do you think about this?
Only the devil would have this rude of an auction paddle.
They don't normally give those out, do they?
No, it's like the 13th floor hotel.
They don't give out.
It goes 68, 70. You want a 69 when you're out of luck. That's also a myth, floor hotel. They don't give a – it goes 68, 70.
You want a 69 when you're out of luck.
That's also a myth, the hotel thing, isn't it?
It's a myth.
Not always.
Really?
Yeah, sometimes it's real.
People are so stupid.
Including us.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because there will be no rudeness at an auction.
Absolutely not.
Yeah.
But what else are we seeing in there?
You would recognize more of this than me.
A little bag of sand.
Death is there.
Who's Death again?
Is it Game of Thrones, what's her name?
I think it's Game of Thrones, what's her name?
Yeah.
And he's got his little helmet on, his little Sandman helmet.
I wonder if we're going to see the 1930s Sandman,
who's just a guy.
With a handful of sand.
Yeah.
A pocket full of dreams.
A handful of sand and a pocket full of dreams and a hoop and a stick.
Fights crime with a hoop and a stick.
Absolutely.
Probably not because I don't think this production company
owns the rights to them, but you never know.
And isn't it also that often the Sandman will like,
it's in the DC universe, but this obviously isn't.
Yeah.
Because I don't know who owns this at the moment.
Yeah, so when the Sandman was created,
when Neil Gaiman created the Sandman for Vertigo,
Vertigo was sort of in the DC universe.
And then they sort of made an editorial choice to say,
because if you read some of the early on Sandman stuff,
he interacts with, like you said, Constantine,
he interacts with the Justice Society and some other stuff.
But after a couple of years they're like, no,
actually Vertigo's its own thing and they sort of severed all ties with it.
Stop it.
Yeah, so I think with this they'll have to make some little tweaks here
and there.
But nothing they can't get around to, I imagine.
Yeah, absolutely.
This comes out August 5th of this year, or at least the first part.
I don't know.
I think the first ten episodes, so presumably.
Nice.
With its first 10-episode season.
So, yes, the whole thing, as I said.
Terrific.
So I'm looking forward to this coming out.
Yeah.
People may be liking it initially and then it disappearing immediately
and then they cancel it.
Absolutely.
You better believe it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Damn.
Great strategy, Netflix.
You're winning over hearts and minds.
I think they should do the Prime thing, release two or three
and then do them weekly like they do with The Boys.
Do you have some The Boys news there?
Funny you should mention that, Mason.
It's not up next, though.
Oh, okay, right.
Would you like to do it now?
Yeah, let's do it next.
Oh, hang on.
No, this is James.
This is a smooth segue because you don't even need the data there, James.
You don't need it.
Oh, God.
Just do it from your heart.
Okay.
Pick up the news, James.
Pick up the news. You're going, no. Pick up the news.
You're going to shoot me?
Yeah.
Nick Mason.
Yes.
Okay.
All right, I'll pick you up the news.
Pow!
Bang, bang, bang.
Bang, bang, bang.
He punched me into space.
At least we can both record in space now.
Yes.
I'll show you with the big laser, the big space laser from Akira.
That's right.
That's how that worked.
I'll show you into space.
So this piece of news is that, and I think this is very wise.
Yeah.
I don't know if they've done it in all previous seasons,
but probably.
Amazon have announced that The Boys is being renewed
for season four.
Yep.
A few episodes into season three, which is very,
because I'm sure this is strategic.
They want us to know you can invest in this season
of The Boys
knowing that if the story isn't finished,
maybe it'll be finished in the next season.
Yeah.
As opposed to everything Netflix where you go,
you want to watch this new thing?
Yeah.
Who knows if it's going to keep going.
HBO Max just cancelled Made for Love.
Did you watch that?
Was that a robot?
Had Billy Magnusson and Kristen Miloti.
Oh, I saw that, yeah.
He's like a weird Elon Musk type guy.
And what's the deal with that?
Is she a robot? No, she's not a robot. He's like a weird Elon Musk type guy. And what's the deal with that? Is she a robot?
No, she's not a robot.
It's like about mind technology.
It's good.
It's really good and funny.
And it's got Ray Romano and they just cancelled it.
Anyway, it was really good.
Debois.
Debois.
Debois.
I hate my parents, Debois.
What streaming service is that?
It's straight on Stan, I think. It doesn't work. You can only say Debois. What streaming service is that? Straight's on Stan, I think.
Doesn't work.
You can only say Debois.
It's true.
It's the only word you can say.
So, yeah, The Boys Season 4.
You're still enjoying Season 3 so far?
Yeah.
So we won't spoil it here, but it's still good.
It's still good, yeah.
Should we move it along?
Good and rude, yes.
Mark, can you believe that the Joker 2 is moving forward?
Not only does it-
Of course I can.
It made a billion dollars.
It made more than a billion dollars.
He can't believe it.
And not only can you not believe it-
I can believe it.
He cannot believe this new title.
God damn it.
This new title that he has to attempt to pronounce.
Folly Adieu.
That's correct, Mason.
Which is a shared madness.
That's right.
Defined as an identical or similar mental disorder affecting two or more individuals,
usually members of a close family.
What does this mean?
Could it be a Bruce Wayne situation?
Could it be a Bruce Wayne situation? Could it be double jokers, double jeopardies?
Could be double jokers.
Yeah.
It could be a Harley Quinn.
Could be, yeah.
Could be a mirror.
He's looking at a mirror.
He goes, me and you are having a shared madness.
But it's him because he's mad.
It's a mirror.
Yeah.
Did you see the photo of Joaquin Phoenix. It's a mirror. Nice, yeah. Yeah.
Did you see the photo of Joaquin Phoenix just punching a dart?
Yeah, hell yeah.
It's like a real black and white on a windowsill.
God, so arty.
Yeah, I know.
That guy's so arty.
This is going to be a very arty film.
A lot of people appreciate this movie because it brings something to the genre
which you didn't expect, did you, Mason?
I did expect it.
It took a character.
I expected a sequel and I expected the thing you're going to,
whatever it is, and I expected whatever's going to be in this.
It's going to be about the same.
A movie you don't like.
Is that right?
I wonder what the hype is going to be like in this.
Because I feel like, you know, we talked about this, you know,
relentlessly on the lead up to the first one.
I like to think so.
And people, you know, they were like,
we're going to post security guards because we don't know what's going to happen.
Maybe some insane stuff will happen.
I mean, some insane stuff just will happen regardless, you know?
Yeah, that's true.
And in retrospect, look, I had my opinion at the time,
and I don't think it's really changed, but I.
That it blew your mind.
You didn't think they could take a character so twisted
and twist him in such a way that you couldn't even come up with it.
No, James!
I don't think you understood it.
That's what I think your problem is.
No, that's actually probably true.
Anyway, go on.
But I feel like perhaps the sentiment of now that the hype died down
and I feel like maybe the sentiment has kind of shifted to like,
oh, yeah, it was kind of a Scorsese homage
and there's nothing wrong with that,
but it didn't remake
superhero cinema forever.
Like Marvel didn't throw out their entire slate and go,
let's do unconnected arty versions of all our heroes now.
They're like, no, let's keep doing what we're doing, I reckon.
Yeah, this is fine.
Yeah, look, aside from you not appreciating or understanding it,
Joaquin Phoenix put it in a terrific performance.
Nobody can doubt that.
And aside from that, I was going to say a different thing
and now I can't remember.
I said aside from that because I'm like, I'll think of it.
I'll think of the thing I was going to say.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It sounds like you didn't understand your own notes there.
Well, that is true.
Yeah.
What the fuck was I going to say?
I don't know.
Hype?
Hype?
No, it wasn't that.
Art.
Well, certainly art.
Polyadeuce. Oh, yeah, that's right. Because we did a movie commentary on this big wasn't that. Art. Well, certainly art. Polly Adieu.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Because we did a movie commentary on this BigSandwich.co.
I think people do want to check it out.
Yeah, we did.
Nice.
And as we discovered during that,
Martin Scorsese has literally nothing to do with this movie.
I think he was initially maybe consulting
or maybe was going to be involved on some level but the whole thing was
marketed around this is scorsese's joker and imagine if scorsese made the joker he's executive
producer he hasn't seen it which is it's a master class of marketing because i'm sure like if we
were to go back and look at every interview with todd phillips and the studio and all that stuff
i bet they never said that scorsese had anything to do with it.
I bet they never did, but they were so good at inferring it
that at least you and I were like, Scorsese,
what's your consulting on this?
And he hasn't seen it.
And he hasn't seen it.
I think he was just like, I don't know,
I've just kind of seen something like this because I make these,
so I haven't seen this, no.
Yeah.
Anyway, I can't wait.
I can't wait either.
Okay, but okay, if you had to put money on it, what does the title mean?
Like in reference to...
Do you think it could be like a collective societal madness?
I think it is that.
I think it is.
And look, I'm not saying that the producers of this are so bereft of ideas
that they'll just do what the internet says,
but it wouldn't shock me if they are going to do the thing where they segue from Joaquin
Phoenix Joker to a different Joker and that's the Joker that we know from-
The Batman Joker.
The classic Batman Joker.
It's a younger guy and he also goes mad and they meet and et cetera and they have interactions
and this guy's like, I'm going to be the real Joker.
That's pretty brave.
Very brave, right? Yeah. Okay the real Joker. That's pretty brave.
Very brave, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Anyway, we'll obviously see this and we'll be making fun of it.
Terrific.
But also.
Or we'll be swept up in the magic of cinema.
Yeah, maybe it's great.
Wouldn't it be incredible if it was great? I would love it to be great.
People from time to time will review a movie, perhaps negatively,
perhaps the movie we're going to talk about in a minute.
Oh, come on, mate.
And people will say, you went into this looking to hate it.
And I'm like, I don't want to go.
I want to go into every movie.
I hope it's good.
I want to like it.
I don't have that many movies left in me, honestly.
Exactly, yeah.
Well, it's either that or you like this too much because you're a shill.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah.
God, there's a lot of people certainly have opinions about Obi-Wan,
I'll tell you that much.
Or Top Gun.
I've got a lot of comments and I'm just muting people at this point because I'm like, this is a lunatic.
Where it's like, it was good because it was woke because it wasn't woke.
There's no politics in it.
There's no politics in Top Gun.
They didn't have Navy recruiters outside some of the screenings
of Top Gun Maverick. But also, if anything, Top Gun did the didn't have Navy recruiters outside some of the screenings of Top Gun Maverick.
But, like, also, if anything, Top Gun did the most cowardly thing
a movie could do, as in not name who the aggressor is.
It's true.
To avoid, you know, so it could release in all territories.
Very true.
You know?
Does that work?
I can't, I don't know.
Mason?
Go on.
BuzzFeed News.
Is this good?
Yeah, I love BuzzFeed News.
Okay, great. You're right. Are we doing a BuzzFeed quiz after this? Yes, weFeed News. Is this good? Yeah, I love BuzzFeed News. Okay, great.
You're right.
Are we doing a BuzzFeed quiz after this?
Yes, we are.
How many apples are there?
Which apples are this?
Oh, my God.
What is that?
We'd love that.
If it's not like, not what Pokemon are you or whatever,
it's just like, how many apples are there?
And you can't, you don't pick from four.
You have to enter a number.
Seth Green.
Do you remember?
Probably.
We've always certainly talked about this.
Do you remember there was a, there's a,
there's a game designer called Peter Molyneux.
Yeah, I know.
And he's made various games and like,
they're very, very well regarded generally.
No, they're not.
Well, I mean, not lately.
He lies.
No, he is.
He's all hyperbole, but he created like populace and like some like
he's sort of milo the interactive boy that they never released you meant the the malted milk
tree no no it was like an interactive boy that you could like talk to okay but like that so back
in what i'm saying is back in the day he created like some you know real-time strategy games that
people really enjoyed and then he went he, he created a... He got woke.
He got woke.
But he did that, he created this thing that was like,
what's in the cube?
And everybody, it was like a giant cube and it had like a,
it was composed of like a billion other cubes.
Oh, Mr. Beast, I made a real billion cube.
Mr. Beast, no!
You've gone too far.
It's too light.
It's too dense.
It's like a black hole and It's sucking the earth into it.
Mr. Beast.
But the idea was you would go to this website that had this billion cube cube on it.
And you would just click the cube and the cubes would disappear.
And it would break down into layers.
Yes.
And at the end, there was like a prize.
And whoever got to the last layer got a prize.
And it was a life-changing prize.
What was it?
Nothing.
No, the prize was.
Wasn't it to keep it a secret or something?
No, the prize was that that was a different cube.
That was a different cube, probably.
I've created two cubes on MrBeast.
MrBeast, no.
They're thrown off the orbit of the Earth, MrBeast.
What have you done?
It's going to get a lot of views, though.
We should have built the cube.
But the prize was that you would be – whoever got to the centre
would become the god in this upcoming game that he created
called Goddess, and you would make decisions about the game,
but also you would get a share of the profits from the game.
So that was the life-changing element, but I don't think they ever made the game.
I'm shocked.
I don't think they finished the game.
I'm really surprised.
So some guy who spent like months of his life clicking this game.
Maybe he was the last guy who just came in.
Yeah, maybe he was.
Yeah, that's true.
Blink.
That's mine.
So I'll just give this a go, Click.
Oh, I won.
I won.
Terrific.
I'm the god of goddess.
Why was I talking about that?
BuzzFeed News, but apples.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, yeah.
How many apples?
You've just got to input a number.
So Seth Green's kidnapped board ape has been returned to its original owner,
ending weeks of frantic speculation as to the whereabouts.
I'm already applauding that.
And the intentions of its alleged abductor,
a pseudonym NFT collector known as Mr. Cheese.
Guys, Mr. Cheese, no. Green confirms to BuzzFeed. My apes, Mr. Cheese. Green. Mr. Cheese, no.
Green confirms to BuzzFeed.
My apes, Mr. Cheese.
Green confirms to BuzzFeed News that the ape is home.
So that's great.
He got his ape back that he created for a show that he is also creating.
But also it's said if you look through all the, you know,
because every transaction can be tracked if you know the wallet identities or
whatever the fuck. Don't at me. I don't
give a fuck how that works. Green
transferred 165
Ether or approximately
$297,000 to the address
operated by the NFT trader
in exchange for his ape. So there
you go. I'm actually... You paid $300,000
for a thing that he is his.
Terrific. I love it. That's great. I love it. That's terrific. I'm actually... You paid $300,000 for a thing that he is his. Terrific, I love it. That was his already.
That's great, I love it. That's terrific.
I am now excited to see the show.
You saw the trailer. I mean, that's
kind of the whole show, yeah. Yeah. But I
want to see it now. Do you? Yeah.
You're not going to watch it. I'll watch one episode.
You'll have to get it through a weird blockchain
something or whatever. Oh, that's a good point.
It won't just be on a streaming service, will it? Yeah, it'll be
weird. It'll go through a weird website.
Or I could watch it on YouTube.
It'll immediately just be on YouTube. You're probably right.
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Get ready, everybody, to hold your hands dominantly in front of yourself
to hold back an aggressive dinosaur multiple times
because we're going to talk about right now Jurassic World Dominion,
which you might be like, was this an expensive movie?
I was wondering about that, yeah.
It has, yeah, $165 to $185 million budget.
That's not crazy.
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And in its opening weekend, it's made in the US alone $132 million
and $95 million internationally.
Now, that's a good number.
But the thing is Jurassic World in 2015 made $208 million
on its first weekend.
So it's significantly less than that.
And it's even less than Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom in the year
whenever that came out, which made $148 million in the US opening weekend.
So there is diminishing returns for these movies.
But still, it seems like there's still a passion for people going to cinemas
to watch these movies where there's like one and a half good movies
that have ever existed in this franchise.
Mason, what do you think the story was?
Oh, no.
Okay, so when we last left our heroes.
Yep. Which ones? Because there last left our heroes. Yep.
Which ones?
Because there's like 16 heroes in this movie.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When we last left Chris Pratt and Running in Heels Lady.
Yep.
And who else was in the last one?
Goblin was in it for five minutes.
Goblin was in it for a bit.
For a second.
Some people went to the island there in this briefly, do you remember?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, so when we last left them, there was a big dinosaur auction.
Yeah. And there was a big dinosaur auction.
Yeah.
And there was a cloned girl, and the cloned girl was like,
we've got all these dinosaurs, what should we do with them?
Let's let them out.
Yep.
And now they're out.
Yeah, they got out, didn't they?
Yeah, they should have.
Yeah.
And now they're out.
Now they're out.
And that's not the premise of this movie.
It's not, is it?
So what is the premise?
There's locusts.
Yeah.
So the world's going to be eaten by big locusts. The world's going to be destroyed by Cretaceous-era locusts.
Yes.
And the heroes have to band together and stop it,
and there's some dinosaurs.
And also there's another Jurassic Park that somebody has made.
There sure is, isn't there?
Yeah.
But this one's not open to the public, really.
No, but you could get there.
You just need a plane. That's true. You not open to the public really. No, but you could get, you just need a plane.
It's true.
And be willing to crash said plane.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you get right in that Jurassic Park.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I just, I don't understand.
Okay.
I will watch these forever.
Is the locust thing a spoiler?
I don't know.
Well, see, the thing about it is I think people should maybe know going in.
It's up front.
Like it's near the start.
That's true, yeah.
Yeah, maybe.
We've said it.
It's true, yeah.
Yeah, but you're right.
Will you say like people should know that going in?
If you're like, man, I hope this is just absolutely chock-a-block
with dinosaurs, it is kind of.
Yeah.
Does it break any new ground in terms of dinosaurs?
More feathers.
There are more feathers.
There's a bigger dinosaur.
Yeah.
There's a couple of moments where they're like,
this one's bigger.
It's even bigger.
It's a bigger one.
Do you reckon it's going to fight the T-Rex at the end?
No spoilers.
No spoilers there, obviously, for the thing that always happens.
But, yeah, it's wild that, again, I would watch these forever.
I don't care how bad they get.
Well, here's the thing.
So we were talking about Scorsese earlier because we can't stop.
I brought up the quote again.
Yep.
So this is because, you know, Scorsese lit the internet on fire.
Boy, did he.
You know, some time ago when people asked him about the Marvel
Cinematic Universe and he said, I don't see them.
I tried, you know, but that's not cinema.
Honestly, the closest I can think of them,
as well made as they are with actors doing the best they can
under the circumstances, is theme parks.
It isn't the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional,
psychological experiences to another human being.
And he was talking about, when he said Marvel movies,
I think he was talking about comic book movies in general.
I think he was talking about Venom.
He was probably talking about the movie Venom.
And I completely understand what he's saying.
But at the same time, my brain's like,
no, but there's actually some very complicated lore
in the Marvel Universe.
And actually, I watched that, and actually,
I'm very engaged with all the various characters.
What if Captain America picked up the hammer?
What if Captain America picked up that hammer?
And of course, they are, you know,
in terms of just an interconnected cinematic achievement,
that's actually very incredible,
just in terms of producing that amazing interconnected web.
Well, I was like this, hey, shut up.
I don't even like Goodfellas.
Did you even make The Godfather, bro?
That's what I said to her.
That's right.
And so on the level of the Marvel movies, I'm like,
I get what you're saying, but I think there's maybe more depth.
Obviously, you, Martin Scorsese,
don't have to sit down and watch 20 Marvel movies,
but I think were you to be stuck in a log cabin for a weekend
and you somehow watched all the Marvel movies,
I think you might be like, oh, I see, there's a certain depth to that.
But I think the Jurassic movies are my theme park
in the sense that I'll watch them and I don't care.
Well, it's funny.
Is there a character in this?
There's a character in this movie.
Is there a character in this?
Sure.
Maybe, I don't know.
There's a character in this movie who I think maybe
has a completely different characterisation
to his previous appearance in this series.
I don't care.
I don't care if it's different.
It doesn't matter to me.
Some stuff happens.
Then there's some fetch quests and then the movie ends and I'm like, oh, so I was mostly entertained by this. I didn't think if it's different. It doesn't matter to me. Some stuff happens. Then there's some fetch quests. Yep. And then the movie ends and I'm like, oh,
so I was mostly entertained by this.
I didn't think it was good.
Yeah, no, I completely agree.
I was entertained.
Was this good?
No.
It's not good.
But, you know, for all the things that I go to for these movies
at this point, it mostly delivered on all of that stuff.
Yeah.
Chris Pratt even was quoted recently as saying,
this is the end game of Jurassic Park
because it, of course, brings back the original cast.
There's too many fucking people in this movie.
There's a moment at the end,
you know where they all pile onto the helicopter
to escape a Jurassic Park?
There's a lot of people in that helicopter.
There sure is, yeah.
And there's a moment where they're all going around a car
away from a big dinosaur
and there's just a row of them lined up in the car.
It's like a Monty Python sketch or something, yeah.
It's crazy.
But, you know, it was good to see the old cast, to be honest.
This is their first proper re-teaming since the original.
Yeah, they've been in these sequels
but never really all together.
They haven't been all together since.
Laura Dern was obviously briefly in three with Sam Neill,
which is coming up this week for Caravan of Garbage.
Thank you.
That show that we do.
So I enjoyed those aspects of it and the fact that Biosyn,
which is like the new InGen, which is also the company that tries
to get the shaving cream thing from, which comes back in the first movie,
is now like the new InGen and it's run by like a Tim Apple style dude who's also the same guy
from the first movie but they recast him because he was a sex criminal.
These are all things that you don't need to know.
So in the original movie, so Dodgson is the guy that gives
the shaving cream can to Newman late night, Nedry,
to smuggle out the embryos.
Is this meant to be exactly the same guy or is it meant to be,
okay, it's not his brother or something?
No, and he's clearly like reinvented himself as a Tim Apple,
as he is known.
He's got that kind of look in the hair and the vibe,
whereas the previous one he was just some kind
of corporate espionage fellow.
So it's been like 30 years and he's moved up the ranks
and he's like,
I'm Steve Jobs or whatever now.
I'm Steve Jobs.
And I think you've mentioned, I haven't seen this,
but I think you've mentioned that there is some sort of short film or some.
It's really good, yeah, one that's set in like a caravan park, yeah.
Oh, no, I meant isn't there a short film that explains that a team was sent
to retrieve that shaving cream can?
Oh, there is.
Yeah, it's in Camp Cretaceous and apparently there's a telltale game.
Okay, right.
It deals exclusively with that.
Right, okay.
And that's from like 13 years ago or something.
Apparently it's not very good either.
Okay, great.
It's terrific.
And that can, of course, makes a reappearance because why wouldn't it?
And Biosyn have given Ian Malcolm the job of coming in
and just rinsing all the employees.
That's right. A real carnival show. He's been like, you guys are the way you guys do it.
He's like a court jester.
He is like that.
And it's funny because when he's giving his speech,
I'm like, this is pretty standard theoretical stuff.
You know what I mean?
It's not groundbreaking.
He's just like, be careful with technology.
You guys come in here and you're like,
we hope nothing bad happens, but then bad things happen.
What do you guys think of that?
They're like, wow, wonderful.
Wonderful man.
How does he keep so trim?
I reckon he smokes.
That's what I reckon's going on.
He looks like a smoker, Mason.
I'm not saying that he is.
I'm not definitively calling it, but yeah.
It's interesting because they've just gone,
these characters look and dress exactly the same way they did 30 years ago.
Ali Sattler is literally wearing the same clothes.
She changes, but she's wearing the blue singlet or whatever
and that pink shirt.
Yeah.
Wild.
My evaluation of this movie sort of went up and down.
I'm like, this is entertaining, but, oh, this is a bit cringy.
Oh, this is entertaining.
This is a bit cringy.
There's a moment where she does, you know,
there's the famous moment in Jurassic Park,
in the first one where Alan Grant, he sees the dinosaurs
for the first time.
You see from his perspective, he sort of roughly pulls
his sunglasses off and he's like, I can't believe this.
There's a moment with Laura Dern but she's just looking
at an empty field.
Yes.
She stands up and she's like, what is this?
Yeah, it's the same thing.
And it's just
like oh it's a cornfield that's been stripped by some locusts she's like i can't believe this
you've seen dinosaurs you could probably believe probably yeah probably wrap your head around this
and i even wonder if uh laura don't knew what she was looking at in there no well like in the
original one they didn't know what they were looking at either but yeah it's but just to cut
to an empty field it's like that that's not interesting is it no what you've done but i love that yeah they've just like they're like um oh yeah and malcolm's just to cut to an empty field. It's like, that's not interesting, is it? No. What you've done. But I love that, yeah,
they've just, like, they're like,
oh yeah, Ian Malcolm's just, he's still wearing his leather
blazer. Yeah. It's a better looking leather blazer
though. Yeah, look, I think, you know, that's a look you
can carry on through, you know?
And Alan Grant's changed up his flannel
and fedora. Uh-huh. But he's
essentially, he's mostly dressing the same,
but at least his clothes are different.
He's wearing different clothes.
Also, what's interesting, I think, about this is they 100% they went
in the production of this movie they went, okay, let's put up all.
Can you believe this?
Let's put all the characters from the original movies.
Let's put up new characters.
Can you believe?
Oh, they're all together.
Oh, it's a very pale cast, isn't it?
This cast is so pale.
We really got to.
Yeah.
What do we do?
We gotta fix this, I think, a little bit.
Let's introduce some more, mate. We need more people to cram on that helicopter at the end of that movie.
Yeah, so we get a new
we get a pilot
and she's
Look, she doesn't really have a point to initially
being there. But then
I think she's actually pretty good. I think she's great.
Yeah, and they have to actually, we'll have to get that into spoilers. But then I think she's actually pretty good. I think she was great, yeah. Yeah. And they have to, well, actually we'll have to get that into spoilers.
But that's one.
So we've talked about one aspect of the story,
which is the Samuel, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum locust hunt.
Yes.
And then on the other side we've got a kidnapped dinosaur clone situation.
Oh, yeah.
Which is the Jurassic World cast.
And I think that part of it is somehow less interesting
than the cloned locust plot.
Yeah, it is.
It kind of is, which is a shame.
And, look, I understand the evolution.
Maybe that's just nostalgia.
The thing about Jurassic Park is it's not called Dinosaur Park.
No.
I guess they could go, hey, what about those weird mollusk creatures?
You want to see some of those?
Yeah, there's some plants there they brought back.
They brought some plants and stuff.
Yeah, I guess.
So in a sense, bringing back ancient prehistoric locusts makes sense.
It's not as thrilling.
And also I think they went, I also have a feeling,
because in the last one they're like,
we've released the dinosaurs into the wild and they're going to breed
and what's going to happen to the entire world?
Is the world doomed?
I think somebody crunched the numbers and went, probably not.
Yeah, but you can just say it was.
Maybe they're upsetting the balance of the natural ecosystem and animals.
But I think they crunched the numbers and they went,
it probably wouldn't be as bad as we think.
We have to add something.
Let's make it locust.
We need something that's a plague.
You could say that, like, they're wiping out vegetation
or we have to herd them into a certain spot.
I guess so.
Like a Jurassic Park.
Like a Jurassic and what happens in this, yeah.
And, you know, there's like a black market dinosaur trade,
which I think is kind of an interesting idea.
But, again, it's like, oh, Blue's got a kid.
Blue's kid's been kidnapped.
Again, like, I don't give a fuck about this fucking horrible thing that you made.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a horrible monster.
Well, again, it's interesting because Blue, again,
is a somewhat trained velociraptor.
Somewhat.
And we've also reached the point that Biosyn, the new company, have built.
They've implanted all the dinosaurs with a little chip
so they can make the vast majority of them just do whatever.
So blue is obsolete now.
Yes.
I mean, it makes you think, doesn't it?
A lot of this made me think, actually.
But, again, it's a barely controlled monster.
It's like if you could train an alligator.
If you let your guard down for a second, it's still – like you could train an alligator if you let your guard down for
a second it's still like you could raise an alligator from still like grab a piece of chicken
out of your hair yeah yeah you can you could raise it from infancy and like you know see it every day
and give it little pats or whatever but if you turn your back for a second it's gonna eat you
because that's what it does and that's the same with this to be fair there are have you seen
stories about the guy who saved the alligator and then he swam with the alligator every day
did it eat him not yet it's gonna eat him if you're listening guy who saved the alligator and then he swam with the alligator every day. Did it eat him? Not yet.
It's going to eat him.
If you're a listening guy who swims with the alligators,
if you're putting on the Weekly Planet podcast while you swim with the alligators, first of all, get those out of your ears.
Yeah, they're not waterproof.
Yeah, and secondly, it's going to look out.
Yeah.
You know?
So I put the chicken in front of me.
I'm going to eat the chicken.
I'm not going to eat you.
I'm going to eat the chicken.
You just put it down and you turn around and I'll eat the chicken.
You see me eat a chicken so many times.
You don't need to look at me eating the chicken.
You can just turn around, mate.
Bang!
I shot you.
Who was that?
I don't know.
They shot each other.
Oh, no.
So there's also – so they go to Malta and dinosaurs get loose.
Wait, who's they?
The team who want to rescue the-
The Jurassic World cast.
Yes, they want to rescue, they've got to rescue the daughter,
they've got to rescue Blue.
Yeah.
They think initially they're on the same flight.
And some dinosaurs get loose.
They're on JetBlue.
They are.
They've got some, so they go to an auction,
they meet the pilot.
Some new velociraptors get loose.
And they're not velociraptors.
They're sand dunes.
They even mean a velociraptor.
Not only that, they have been a wonderful something
from the previous movie has been brought back,
the laser-guided dinosaurs.
That's right.
They're back.
The most inefficient use of resources.
You want to build a missile?
I mean, sure, that would be easy and stress-free,
but why not spend a couple of years breeding a horrible monster
that is barely controlled?
And not only that, apparently they'll chase you until they get you.
So I like to think like six movies from now,
like Chris Pratt is just eating his breakfast
and one just busts in through the window.
It's like the monster from It Follows.
It's been following him around the world looking for him. But it's funny because in that, so they get chased through the window. It's like the monster from It Follows. It's been following him around the world looking for him.
But it's funny because in that, so they get chased through the town
and there's allosaurus or something running loose and whatever.
And there's a lot of like, you know, two come out of the cage
and he just puts his hands up.
He does a lot of putting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Does that work?
I mean, I don't know.
Dinosaurs aren't real anymore.
That's true.
I don't know.
But there's a moment where one of them does that Jason Bourne Bond-style jump from a balcony into a window.
Into a palazzo of some sort, yes.
One does like a Here's Johnny moment through a door,
all of these things.
I enjoyed it, yeah.
100%, it was that exact Bourne Identity camera angle leap
across a narrow laneway into a second-story window
and crash through.
I was just expecting some Moby to light up in there.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, and then, you know, they all end up in New Jurassic Park
because the pilot has taken the plane from tailspin
and is doing all sorts of dinosaur deeds with it.
Now, they brought back old dinosaurs and new.
Bison's idea is now that we do pure dinosaur breeding.
So we see a lot more feathered creatures.
One's got big nails.
I like the big nails.
I like the salad fingers dinosaur with his big – he's got – I like – I think
that in terms of like a terrifying new dinosaur, I thought that was quite good.
It's kind of like – it's got these kind of like very long,
sharp nails and it just sort of like they sort of hang by its side
and it's sort of like it's ready to strike at any moment.
I thought that was pretty good.
That bloody lop your bloody head off.
And there's the new, it's called a gigantosaurus or something.
It's a bigger T-Rex.
It's a bigger T-Rex, yeah.
And did you say it was compared to the Joker, that dinosaur?
Oh, maybe.
Yeah, maybe.
Did you get any vibes from that?
No.
Oh.
No, I got the most Joker vibes.
There was when Chris Pratt and the new pilot lady,
when they are running in fear from a big feathered bird dinosaur
on the ice.
Oh, that had a Joker vibe.
That had a Joker vibe to it, I think, yeah.
Let me find this Joker quote.
In the future, paleontologists will separate dinosaurs
into two groups, having a Joker vibe and not having a Joker vibe.
That's true.
I think that's where the culture's going to go.
After the release of Joker 2, society will be changed.
That's true.
Trevorrow said, I wanted something that felt like the Joker.
Nice.
So, yeah.
I didn't, like, there's like a feathered raptor that you mentioned
that showed up, which I didn't mind.
And we see, like, compies.
We see that one that's, what is it, the spitting one or whatever.
We see a couple of those.
And as I mentioned, I feel like there's a moment where the big dinosaur,
the Joker, is there.
And they're all lined up against a car.
Yes.
And it's just a slow, like it's not eating anybody.
It's just like slowly kind of, and he's got his hand up or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I didn't feel very menacing.
Yeah.
I didn't feel like, ooh, this is a new big threat.
If I was going to be critical of this movie that I think is ultimately
critic proof because it's just, you either go with it or you don't, I guess.
It just sort of devolves
into fetch quests by the end. It's like, we've got to go
do the thing. We lost so-and-so.
We've got to reactivate the power to the thing
and then we've got to... We're the locusts? What are we doing with that again?
We need the DNA for...
We've got to get the thing, get the sample
and then we can put the sample in the whatever.
Which team am I with? Am I with the old team or the new team?
I'm the clone girl. Who am I with? Everybody knows with the old team or the new team? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm the clone girl.
Who am I with?
Everybody knows who Alan Grant is in this universe as well,
which I appreciate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, should we do spoilers?
Let's do spoilers.
I enjoyed it, but it's not good.
Yeah.
I'm going to go with best movie ever because it isn't the worst movie ever.
It has enough entertaining moments for me that I'm like, oh, yeah, I didn't.
I also watched this.
I got up early to watch it before I went to work.
Yeah.
And I went in the cinema.
I'm like, if this is a waste of my time, I swear to God,
I could have been asleep.
I could have been asleep.
But I'm like, no, this was a fun passing of the time.
You've kind of turned, because I was going to say worst movie ever,
but I think I am going to say best movie ever because I did enjoy it.
Yes.
But if you're looking for the original Jurassic Park, if you don't, that's not this.
If you don't like any of the newer ones, you're definitely not going to like this.
Yes.
It is of roughly equal quality.
To the newer ones, probably.
Look, and I think we've talked about this.
Also, I love these.
Yeah, right.
So don't take my word for it on this at all.
Yeah, I mean, obviously, as I've said in the past, James,
you know that I've said the Jurassic Park slash world movies
are roughly equal in quality.
You keep saying it.
But look, I think my opinion has softened a little bit.
Because you actually watched them.
I did.
Well, I hadn't watched two and three, which are markedly worse.
I think if I were to rank these movies, it would be Jurassic Park 1,
then all the world movies are basically the same,
and then two and three.
Really?
Yeah.
So I would go Jurassic Park 1, The Lost World, Jurassic World,
Jurassic Park 3, Jurassic Park Dominion, Jurassic Park Fallen Kingdom.
Interesting.
Did I get all of those titles right?
There's been six of these movies yeah yeah
yeah i feel like all the all the world's movies to me at least have they're not great but they
all have at least an interesting element to them like the i think i think they try some new things
that aren't all that very successful sure yeah yeah. Because I know like Jurassic World, it gets a lot of criticism
because it's just a dinosaur park again and, you know,
the characters aren't as compelling.
But seeing like a completely commercialised,
modernised version of Jurassic Park I thought was interesting
as an idea.
And, you know, and we hadn't really seen at that point
a genetically engineered dinosaur and it was training raptors.
And I'm like, there's some interesting ideas here.
And I liked In Fallen Kingdom.
I didn't like that movie.
But I like the kind of the dinosaur is stalking the kid in the house.
That was kind of that horror movie.
The laser guided dinosaur.
Laser guided dinosaur.
I like that in concept.
Yeah.
The dinosaur auction, that's fun.
Yes, again, in concept I like that also.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe I should watch it again.
Maybe I'd love it because I haven't seen it since it came out.
Yeah.
Anyway, spoilers.
Yes.
So it's amazing in this, Mason.
Go on.
Let me just quickly say this, that at the start Laura Dern's like,
what is happening with these locusts?
And she's like, well, they ate all my crops.
And she's like, why didn't they eat all the corn?
And they're like, well, that's biosyn crops. And she's like, why didn't they eat all the corn? And they're like, well, that's biosyn crops.
And everyone's like, hmm, what's going on?
Yeah.
The world would immediately figure that out.
Right?
You don't need any evidence for that whatsoever.
It's fascinating.
Again, this is one of the things you have to be like,
all right, I'm rolling with this, I guess.
I mean, I know they need evidence.
Also, Dodgson's plan.
Dodgson is a bad name, the way it's so should be dogson
it should be oh dogson yeah yeah or dodson or dodson yeah exactly not both or dodson dogson
like his family married like the dodson's married the dogson's donald dogson yes exactly but so he's
what is so he as a as a as a scientist or as a head of this, he's a billionaire
and he's head of this company or what have you,
he wants to use the dinosaur technology and whatever
to solve world problems like genetic diseases and et cetera.
And so that's why he wants the kid because she unlocks the key
to the whatever and that's why he wants the baby.
For Spider-Man vibes.
Speaking of, he's Spider-Man's dad in the amazing spider-man oh he's too yeah so the but the but also he's released this plague of
locusts yep does he want them to destroy all crops except biosyn crops i mean because one you're right
he would figure it out and also i'm pretty confident everyone would die like if his plan
was all the bias or every crop dies except bias in crops
and then he sells his crops to all the farmers and they rebuild their farms,
I'm pretty sure the world would end before that happens.
Yeah, it's that Resident Evil umbrella corporation plan.
But look, it is spiralled out of control, whatever his initial plan was.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, it's the stupidest thing you could do.
Yeah, yeah. Also like, yeah, because you can cure diseases, it's the stupidest thing you could do. Yeah, yeah.
Also, like, yeah, because you can cure diseases,
which is the thing that you're supposedly doing.
You don't need to destroy crops.
Do the crop thing also, yeah.
Yeah, it's kind of, it's a bit overkill.
And speaking of overkill, underkill, Mason.
Nobody dies in this.
None of the old or new cast.
Just some randos.
Do I want to see, like, Jeff Goldblum get eaten by a dinosaur
no
but I'd appreciate it
you know if they did something
kill one of the world cast
who cares
yeah that's true
they probably all have
I'm not going to die in their contract
yeah
because they've got to come back
for when they get
you know the next one
and there's 23 main characters
right exactly yeah
because it's the end game
yeah I mean
I wonder if anybody, you know,
it wouldn't surprise me if, you know, a Laura Dern or a Sam Neill
or someone was like, oh, happy to be killed.
Yeah.
You know, wouldn't that be a fun or, you know,
make a big sacrifice or something?
And you can't bring me back, right?
No, there's cloning in this universe.
Yeah, yeah.
But also I wonder if, it also wouldn't shock me if all the cast came in
and went, hey, if you want to, you need to kill me for the plot.
That's cool.
I think that would be a great dramatic beat.
And then the producers are like, now we already planned out
all the action sequences, so you have to live.
Yeah, exactly.
You've got to run around the car and then climb a ladder.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what you need to do.
They've precisely timed up all the running and climbing around a ladder.
Speaking of running and climbing, they take the tailspin plane
into New Jurassic Park.
It's got another name.
It doesn't fucking matter.
And they're like, oh, you can't bring that plane in here.
We're going to let the pterodonts attack you or whatever.
And so Chris Pratt's plan is to eject just Claire.
Yes.
And then so he can have a little side adventure with the pilots.
Correct, yes.
Why would you do that?
You could have just, they all could have, was it like to be like,
well, one of us, I'm giving more of a chance for one of us surviving
to save the clone girl.
Was that the idea there?
I think so, yes.
Okay, well, that's dumb.
Whoa.
Because then they have to go back for her anyway.
It's a whole thing.
It's just to get them separated.
But, you know, I do like the idea of like a wild free-range Jurassic Park,
which again we saw in the Lost World and Jurassic Park 3,
but it seemed like a dangerous and new environment,
which I thought was pretty good.
But anyway, so the T-Rex makes the Jurassic Park logo
and that's good at one point.
I did say that.
That was a bit of fun.
A bit of fun.
You know, there was that.
There was the Dodgson is killed by the compies in the similar manner
that Nedry was killed.
No, no, the Dolophosaur.
Is that what they are?
Yeah.
The big frilly neck one.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
That's it.
You think you're getting away?
Pick up the shaving cream can, mate.
You pick it up.
I'm going to spit in your eyes.
Don't worry about it, mate.
And if I did, it's just a regular spit.
I won't use my poison spit.
You're not going to talk to the cops, are you, mate?
Look up Auntie Donna.
I'll bet medicine, yeah.
It'd be good.
But just the fact that, like, he even has that shaving cream can
and then he's like, oh, I'm taking this with me.
And then he gets Nedry's death in a hyperloop tunnel. Yeah. did they just happen they happen to get in and get him it's just like okay
they got him this guy who they recast from from five movies prior because of the sex crimes because
of the sex crimes that's why they they recast him and it feels like that there was stuff like that
which was just put in for the sake of it so at at the end they funnel all because they release the locusts
and they're on fire.
But again, because I don't care about the lore of this or any kind really.
Like I'm sure, again, like here's another thing.
Like B.D. Wong in this, he's like, oh, I wish I just wanted to help humanity
and I'm trapped here and I wish I could.
But wasn't he evil in the last one?
Yeah, he was evil.
He was proper evil in the last one.
He comes back hat in hand at the end like, oh, please,
I just want to fix all the locusts.
Your mother was the best scientist.
Yeah, yeah.
But that's the thing.
Get on the helicopter, BD Wong.
Because I'm not invested.
I don't care.
I'm like, all right, there he is.
I saw him in the last one.
Who cares?
Like, I understand.
Like, I have a weird reverse bias with this.
Like, with the Marvel franchise, if a character was evil in the last one,
he's like, oh, I'm so sad now.
I'll be like, what are you doing?
You've ruined the continuity.
But with this, I'm like, I don't care.
I don't care.
It's good to see B.D. Wong.
Yeah, I like him.
So they funnel all the dinosaurs into the foyer at the end
because the Jurassic Park is on fire because they're released.
The flaming locusts.
The flaming locusts. The flaming locusts.
I don't think they need to funnel them in, though.
They didn't need to do that.
Are they all trapped in there?
Oh, the chips stop working and then they wander off, presumably, right? I don't know.
I don't know.
The defence is down there.
It's also interesting that the chips work in the little dinosaurs
but not in the big salad fingers dinosaurs.
Yeah.
Why wouldn't the chips work in the – did they put a chip in the T-Rex?
They put a chip in the?
Wait, well, I mean, they were all in the area.
Isn't that where they were supposed to be?
Yeah, but, I mean, isn't the chip meant to make them docile?
Are they supposed to not fight?
Maybe everybody had left at that point so the chips were off.
Maybe because they shut down.
The chips were down.
Maybe they shut down when they activated the thing and shut down the thing.
Maybe one of the fetch quests shut down the chip that made them not fight.
I did see some things power up and or down.
That would explain a lot, wouldn't it?
Maybe somebody even said it at some point.
So at the end when they all escape on the-
The chips!
The chips, somebody said.
They're off or on!
Oh, no!
So when they escape on the gyro helicopter thing,
then they're like, okay, so the T-Rex is going to fight the Joker.
Okay, who cares?
I know.
You're not invested in the characters, the T-Rex.
Just because the T-Rex fights something in the end of every movie,
you don't need to do that.
T-Rex would be bloody exhausted.
I think that was a studio note.
And then he teams up with Salad Fingers, and then it's like,
thank God this horrible dinosaur, the Salad Fingers one,
which is you killed the other new dinosaur.
But then we leave it on a cliffhanger.
Is the T-Rex going to defeat salad fingers?
I don't care.
Wow.
But yes.
But like, I love how it's like these two.
But of course it would never win against salad fingers.
So we're just going to have it explain, like at the end of,
at the start of the next one.
They just nod to each other.
They're just going to, at the start of the next one,
they're just going to be like, yeah, one off camera.
Yeah.
It was like the blue and the T-Rex fought the Indominus.
It's that.
They just basically did that again.
But there was no build up to this fight that happens.
Who cares?
And they fly away.
They fly away, Mason.
They fly away.
They let he crab it, they fly away.
And then what I thought was like actually quite genuinely stunning,
at the end we got a whole bunch of nature shots of like wild brumbies running
and they're running with dinosaurs.
And we see the African savannah and we see, you know,
the elephants walking across and they're walking with diplodocuses
or whatever the fuck, right?
And I'm like, that could have been a movie, don't you think?
Yeah, for sure.
Like this movie that you're making.
It had a nice-looking ending and I think it also had a very nice-looking start.
There's a moment which is in the trailer where some fishermen,
they're crab fishing or something like that and a big sea-based dinosaur
jumps up and eats the thing and tips the ship underwater.
I think that was good looking.
Put your big crab net into the water.
I'm not going to eat it, mate.
I'm not going to eat it.
Just put it in here and look away.
You haven't been talking to the fishing and gaming wildlife authorities,
have you, mate?
Sorry, go on.
That's all I had.
It was a good looking start and a good looking end.
Yes.
That's right.
That's how I plan to live my life.
Ugly in the middle. Yeah, nice. But I'm just going to bookend it. Just a and a good-looking end. Yes, that's right. That's how I plan to live my life, ugly in the middle.
Yeah, nice.
But I'm just going to bookend it.
Just a beautiful silver fox at the end
and a beautiful silver fox when you were born.
So got some reviews here.
First of all, Andrew Levins was supposed to come on the show this week.
We couldn't light it up.
He was not a fan based on his Twitter feed.
But then he actually followed me up with a private message
that said, actually, I love this movie.
It's my favourite movie.
Nice.
They've got a review over at HeyFam if you do want to check that out.
So hopefully we can get him back on soon.
But I've got some other tweets here.
This is from Liam Johnson who says, worst movie ever.
Maybe worse than Fallen Kingdom.
Oh, hello.
Hello.
Both my dog and daughter somehow got in here.
No.
They've snuck in.
Oh, so many dogs.
Hello. Hello, dogs. Hello, dogs. Oh, so many dogs. Hello.
Hello, dogs.
Hello, dogs.
Hello, dogs.
Hello, dogs.
Hello, dogs.
Hello, dogs.
Hello, dogs.
Sorry, everybody.
Momentary chaos.
Eight.
It was like the end of Jurassic World Dominion.
The whole team.
The whole team was here.
The old crew and the new crew.
Are we the old crew?
Yeah, we're the old crew, I think.
Well, that's true.
I knew you before I knew my family. That's a great point? Yeah, we're the old crew. Well, that's true.
I knew you before I knew my family.
That's a great point.
That's true.
In a way, we have more in common as well.
And what happens is your son comes up to me and shakes my hand and says,
I know you.
You're very well respected.
That's what he says of me.
Very true.
That's right.
Anyway, I was reading some reviews. He doesn't leave a Transformer or something on the ground.
He's like, pick it up.
Pick up the Transformer.
I promise your favourite.
I can't.
He's my favourite.
Pick it up.
Pick it up and another's back.
It's going to happen, mate.
Bang!
Liam Johnson says,
Worst movie ever.
Maybe worse than Fallen Kingdom.
Honestly can't get over how the movie was more about locusts than dinosaurs
and locusts that could somehow form a locust inferno.
All good points.
Great points.
I can't argue with any of that.
Brad Perry says, well, Jurassic World Dominion is one hell
of a big swing and I mostly like it.
Not as captivating as the original or as gorgeous as Fallen Kingdom.
Still good.
Got to respect a franchise that rarely makes the same movie twice.
Ooh.
Yeah, I guess so.
And Treasure the Cat says, hey, James and May,
so we just watched Jurassic World Dominion.
It somehow had too many things happening and made me bored at the same time.
Worst movie ever.
Why is it so hard to make a good Jurassic Park sequel?
Now, that's a great question because there are no genuinely great
Jurassic World Park sequels.
And we are in the era of legacy sequels,
which is somebody who loved the original, whether it be, you know,
Tron Legacy.
What was the most recent thing?
We literally, it was in like the last week or so.
Oh, a quick shout out to Lockie who I ran into
watching Jurassic World Dominion.
Terrific.
What was the other legacy quill?
Very recent.
Recently we got a very good one, Top Gun.
Top Gun, there it is.
And Mad Max is a good one.
Yeah, yeah.
Blade Runner was a good one.
Tron Legacy was a good one.
There we go.
Because they had the word legacy.
Yeah, so it's, you know, in a lot of instances, not Mad Max,
but in a lot of instances it's people who really love the original
and it's been swirling around in their head for decades
and they come out and they've written or produced
or directed this new thing which has.
And also Mad Max maybe isn't a sequel because they're all
sending it to you.
I don't know, but whatever.
But it's, you know, and they have all the great stuff
that they remember from the original and they've modernised
and what have you.
But it's interesting that they have yet to do it.
And it's been 30 years since the original stuff.
Do you think maybe if they had just stopped and thought about it for a second?
No time for that, James.
There's no time.
You shouldn't think about it.
If you have to think about it, you probably should, as the quote goes.
That's true.
From Jurassic World and or Park.
Yes.
Yeah, all in all.
And then everyone applauded.
Yeah.
They're going to keep making these though, right?
I mean.
Because they make money.
This one, these make, I mean, I think the drop off is going to be,
could be pretty significant depending on word of mouth
because I think a lot of people like us will just go, oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Do you think it's because we all have an inherent love
for dinosaurs from childhood?
Yes.
Because I also have, like, as I mentioned,
an inherent love for Transformers,
but I didn't like the Transformers movies.
They don't really resemble any of the things that you like.
No, that's true.
I guess it's easier to just go, hey, dinosaurs, look at that.
It's big and it's got spines.
What do you reckon about that?
What do you look at that dinosaur?
No, I shan't be tricked anymore.
Yeah, actually, I got an interesting tweet this week
I just want to quickly bring up, talks about that specifically okay why isn't my computer the fastest computer in the world and i
said you should deliberately buy bad ones that explode after six months not deliberately oh okay
hang on i gotta through my gotta go through my awful twitter my own profile to find this
because i replied to somebody i can't. Anyway, someone tweeted me that was like, why is there only,
I'm so sorry to that person, why is there only like Jurassic Park?
Like why are they the only movies that are doing this?
Why isn't there a whole bunch of dinosaur-based movies?
Like I mean, you know, because even like with Transformers,
we see mechs and shit.
Yeah, right, right, right.
And this is the only one that does this.
Is it Fear of Spielberg?
And I don't mean Fear of Spielberg the man, but like do you think –
I wonder if it's, you know, the first one is so highly regarded
that people are like, I daren't.
Is it people like – is it filmmakers like, well, we daren't do this?
He knocked it out of the park.
We cannot – we can't do this as well as he did.
But what would you do with dinosaurs outside of bringing them back
to the modern day?
Would it be time travel?
Yeah, that is a good point.
Would it be an alternate reality where dinosaurs and humans never live?
You're thinking of Super Mario Brothers.
I am.
I am.
You're right.
Would they remake Super Mario Brothers?
A legacy sequel.
And the thing that they've always been promising slash threatening,
which is the dinosaur-human hybrids in the Jurassic franchise,
which I've always wanted to see, but I wonder if people would be, like,
pretty juvenile compared to a Jurassic park.
You know what I mean?
With the majesty of a Jurassic park.
Anyway, I don't know what they're doing with this,
and I don't know what's next.
Probably another Jurassic park.
Yeah, and they'd build another Jurassic Park.
Do they need to build a Jurassic Park if the dinosaurs are in the world?
It would be like, for us, it would be like,
do you want to go to a place that just has kangaroos to look at?
Not really.
There are those though.
Yeah, I know.
It's guaranteed.
Yeah, but are you going there?
Maybe.
When?
When are you going to Healesville Sanctuary, Mason?
Do I get a kangaroo sausage?
Can I get a kangaroo sausage?
Yeah, you can choose the kangaroo.
They'll shoot it in front of you and make it into a sausage.
Nice.
Yeah.
Yes.
A kangaroo.
Do you want that typical food that a kangaroo eats?
Put it in front of you?
You want that?
It's probably a grain or a seed or something, mate.
A grain or a seed, maybe a leaf.
I don't know.
You want that?
You want that?
We're not going to shoot you, mate.
All right.
So anyway, if you've got any opinions, I'd actually be curious to like how do people
were responding to this?
Because most people I know don't like it, you know, within this sort of thing that we
do.
Yeah, yeah.
But I don't know.
I don't know that's necessarily.
Great unwashed masses.
What do you think?
Yeah. And again, I think I have a bias to it and you have a bias, but in the opposite way that I don't know I don't know that's necessarily great unwashed masses what do you think yeah
and again
I think I have a bias to it
and you have a bias
but in the opposite way
that you don't care
about any of this
correct yes
terrific
are you folks
are you out there
are you just letting it
wash over you
what are you doing
great questions
alright Mason
it's time for the next
segment of the show
ooh
this section is called
what we read
what we gotta read
yeah that's right
and yeah
it's a theme.
We're going to do it now and the theme is definitely ready.
I just like to drag it out because people love it
and I don't just want to get it over with, you know what I mean?
I want to build the anticipation.
Yeah, yeah, they want to hear more of you talk.
It's here now though, shut up.
I'm doing the theme.
I'm doing the theme.
I think we both watched the same thing this week, Mason.
Did we not?
Well, I mean, in between recording the last segment and this segment,
we did listen to an old Martin Molloy sketch called Clacker.
Because we, for some reason, we got caught up on whether...
What are we doing?
It doesn't matter.
It's not important.
It doesn't require any context.
Just look it up on YouTube.
It's there.
But we did watch the same.
You've got to have knowledge of the TV show Cracker starring Robbie Coltrane
to understand it at all.
Yeah.
But anyway, we both watched Marvel's Ms. Marvel.
Yes, that's episode one.
Yeah.
I actually got a screener for this and two.
But because we're not reviewing this stuff week to week anymore,
I was just like, oh, I'm just going to enjoy this.
I'm just going to luxuriate in it.
I'm just going to watch it.
Boy, what a way to watch a show.
Yeah, right?
And you know what?
I bloody loved it.
It was cool, man.
I liked it a lot.
It's interesting that they didn't go because, you know,
the previous big release on Disney Plus was Obi-Wan Kenobi
and it was two episodes.
Yeah.
And is that because Obi-Wan Kenobi's storytelling was very sparse,
I feel like.
Initially, at least.
Yeah, and it felt like just one episode kind of.
It was just very, you know, the environment was very desolate,
but it was very like a lot of pondering and silence.
But this, I think they released just the one episode
because it's like it's very dense.
There's a lot of character building.
There's a lot of jokes.
There's a lot of visual. I There's a lot of jokes. There's a lot of visual.
I liked all the visuals in this.
Really interesting visuals.
It was a mix of kind of your far from home aesthetic.
Not far from home, no way home, you know, like the hand drawn.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And also some Spider-Man jatted into the Spider-Verse.
Yes, yes.
Which is intentional.
And, of course, obviously all the John Watts Spider-Man movies
at the end credits are kind of like they're fun animated.
And it had very much a vibe to it with that.
I think like it's some – which is not always translated
to the actual movies.
Yeah, right.
I think what is interesting about this is especially
for a Marvel production, it does take some liberties.
And I guess because it's TV and it's not the big hollywood blockbuster
that's relying on a box office you know huge box office return they're like you can take some
chances visually here if you like stuff and i think you know visuals are very strong they were
like okay how are we going to depict there's going to be a lot of characters texting probably because
it's young people yes how do we do that we're just going to do a bubble on screen no we'll do it
through yeah uh the environment and neon signs that was really interesting you know just just simple stuff
of like you know there's this there's a moment where kamala khan she like falls backwards onto
a couch and the camera goes with her i thought that was interesting i don't know if there's a
rig for that or something like that uh i know in uh they do that in what's that um i've forgotten
the name of the movie the guy who who created it. Lee Whannell.
Okay, yes.
Upgrade.
Upgrade.
They put like an iPad on a person and get it to track the camera.
I wonder if it's that. Ah, maybe.
But it's just, I thought interesting visuals or like, you know,
Kamala Khan and her best friend Bruno,
they're talking about like the various options of Kamala wants to go to.
It's called Bruno.
He should have a mustache.
Right?
Like Bruno Mars.
Yeah.
They're, you know, walking through the neighbourhood
and they're discussing what kind of Captain Marvel cosplay
Kamala's going to wear.
And instead of just they're talking about it, there's, you know,
we see it as graffiti on the side of the walls.
I thought that was really interesting.
And animated graffiti.
Yeah, yeah.
And there was the moment where they're discussing their big plan
to sneak out of the house and go to AvengerCon,
and I loved it.
It was a fun superhero scene.
And I loved that her cosplay in real life is just a homemade cosplay,
but her cosplay in the dream sequence is like the Brie Larson
full Hollywood Captain Marvel suit.
I thought that was fun.
But, yeah, apart from all that, I think Iman Vellani is doing
a really good job as a character.
She's funny.
She's energetic.
I like that.
She's actually a teenager.
She's actually a teenager.
That's true, yeah.
I've seen a bunch of people say that it also feels like it was
because she's Pakistani in this and it's, like,
representative of their home life and their parents.
It's very accurate, apparently.
And obviously it would be depending where you're from.
That's true.
But being somebody in the US coming from a different place,
and your parents aren't up to date with the current culture.
Basically, you've got a foot in both worlds.
I thought that's not my experience at all,
but I thought they handled that well.
And from what other people are saying is...
Yeah, I loved it.
I loved it.
I loved it.
I thought she was great.
The family is fun.
The dad, especially, I thought was fun.
Do you like his Hulk costume?
Yes.
I like the best friend.
Yeah, just a good dynamic.
And what's interesting is you get to the end of the first episode
and you're like, oh, there wasn't a big fight in the first 10 minutes.
There wasn't a big action battle sequence.
They weren't like, they didn't have, and they could just do that
and it wasn't a case, somebody didn't go, okay,
well in the first 10 minutes we have to show this is a Marvel movie
so we're going to have, you know, some villains rob a bank,
costume villains or whatever rob a bank or there's an alien invasion
and the main characters look and go, wow, that's really cool or whatever.
You know, we just had a fun comedy drama and it was good.
You kind of forget that it's about a superhero until the superhero stuff.
Until the superhero stuff happens, yeah.
Yeah, what do you think of the powers though?
It's like a crystal green lantern power.
Yeah, well, look, like I said with –
And it's just from a magic bracelet they find.
Yes, exactly.
I'd like a bit more – I'm sure they're going to do it
because you get a hint that that's part of a greater thing. Yeah, which might tie into. I'd like a bit more. I'm sure they're going to do it because you get a hint at, like,
that's part of a greater thing.
Yeah, which might tie into the other, like, the ten rings.
Yeah, exactly.
Of Shang-Chi and et cetera.
I mean, I liked it.
I think the, you know, the.
Seems like an easier effect to do. It certainly does seem like an easier effect.
And I think I've said this before when we talked about, you know,
the trailer, that I think it's because she's going to have to team up
with Captain Marvel and Photon in the Marvels,
and so they're going to go to space, and she needs space-based powers
because stretching isn't going to work.
If the other two can fly.
She can make a space suit with them.
Yeah, and if the other two can fly and shoot lasers and fly through space,
and she's like, well, I guess I could stretch my lungs really big,
see how long I can survive in space.
It's not going to work.
Yeah.
So I think that's probably the main reason they did that.
But I think it's pretty good.
I mean.
Yeah.
It's good.
It's real good.
Yeah.
I agree.
Should we come back and watch another episode?
No, I think we should stop there.
Okay.
I agree.
Because, you know, it's pretty good and let's not ruin it for ourselves.
Diminishing returns, I think.
I agree.
After that.
You've been watching anything else?
I mean, you know, bits and pieces.
I'm playing some more Sniper Elite and whatever.
And I watched a Jurassic World movie this week.
Oh, yeah, Jurassic World.
Which one?
Doesn't matter.
Not really important.
I would have said that.
Ian, anything?
You?
I think so, no.
Just...
I bought that new Batman comic where he's sitting in front of computer screens.
What's that one called?
What does that mean?
It's called Batman Plays Solitaire.
Oh. No, it's called
what is it? Batman Beats
Minesweeper, but he did the thing where he cheated
and made it really big and then he just clicked one
button and he solved it. Yeah. Batman Fortress.
Ah. Have you seen this?
No. Oh.
Yeah, so I've heard good things.
I might talk about that next week when I
actually read it. Terrific.
Yeah.
Anything else?
I think that's it this week.
Just watching that rock video over and over again.
Yeah, that's right.
Pretty good.
Get some of that energy drink.
I've lost it.
I feel like I know it before I know it.
I've lost it, Mason.
Well, I never even heard you do it.
The rock wouldn't shut up.
All right, should we do the next segment of the show?
Let's do the letters segment, and I'm going to put up the theme to the letters segment
right now.
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.
Well, it's me, James, and I'm here to tell you that it's letters time.
And if you want to reach the show, hashtag weeklyplanetpod on Twitter
or weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com.
So I'm going through some tweets with the hashtag weeklyplanetpod.
Mason's going through the Gmail.
Would you like to go first or would you like me to go first?
I would love to go first, James.
This is from Vinton from Montreal.
Okay.
Vinton says, hey, guys.
What up?
Just wanted to share a dumb thing I did because listening to your pod
and these past couple of fun years have loosened my grip on reality.
Yeah.
The other day a friend of mine gave birth to a beautiful
and healthy baby.
When I finally got to visit them, I said without thinking, hey,
congratulations on your fresh baby.
She did not find that funny.
I proceeded to leave as soon as I could.
At least they liked the gift.
Keep up the good work.
Hope to see you live someday.
Vinton from Montreal. I have no memory of saying. At least they liked the gift. Keep up the good work. Hope to see you live someday. Vinton from Montreal.
I have no memory of saying.
I don't remember that either.
I'm sure I've said that to people as well.
I'd be like, this is a fresh-ass baby.
I'm pretty sure I say that to people all the time.
Wow.
Yeah.
But it's not common.
No, don't do it.
It's strange.
I've read this one out because I love the idea that I have no,
I guess you said it.
I don't know.
I have no memory of who said that it i don't know i have no i have
no memory of who said that i think i said that last week i can think of the person that i said
it to as well okay there's something wrong with me i guess i should stop doing it i don't think
i will though probably forget what's fresh about them they're just fresh man yeah they're like
completely spotless do you know what i mean they got no they got like no like freckles or like
they smell a certain way it sounds bizarre but if you've seen they got no they got like no like freckles or like they smell a certain way
it sounds this sounds bizarre but if you've seen they smell like hospital grade disinfectant
no not even if you've seen in hardwood as opposed to like a kid that's like a few months old there
is a difference that's you know i used to be able to look at a baby and be like that kid's three and
a half months old i could i could look at a baby and tell you how old the baby was. Now I can't do that anymore.
I've lost my power, Mason.
Anyways, and, you know, with the first kid,
and you'll appreciate this, you know people ask like how old your kid is
and then you're like, well, you know, they're six and a half months
and whatever.
I have no idea how old my kids are anymore.
No idea.
Anyways, but I love them and isn't that important enough?
I guess.
Great.
I've got a tweet here.
I mean, ideally they would say more fun things that we can turn
into content on the podcast, but I guess.
We'll see what the new one does.
She's two, so I reckon soon.
I hope so, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I think the new one is, I think the older one is too canny now.
I think he knows that we're just mining him for content, so.
He clams up a bit.
And he has that gun.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I don't want to cross that kid anymore.
This is from Scott Wilkinson who says,
I'm sure you've been asked hashtag Wicked Planet Pod,
but are we ready for another superhero showdown?
It's been a while.
Are we running out of superheroes?
Maybe we could do different versions of Batman, Superman, Bond, et cetera.
So, yeah, people don't know.
We used to do these much more where we'd just pick people and – different versions of Batman, Superman, Bond, et cetera. So, yeah, people don't know.
We used to do these much more where we'd just pick people and make them fight and how that would go.
I don't know.
Not that it's run its course, well, maybe it has,
but I don't know if I can bring anything fresh to the table,
like a fresh baby.
What do you think?
No, I reckon we can do it again.
Okay, well, let's do it again.
And if it's bad, people can just tell us.
I mean, we could just do characters threatening you with a gun
and asking you to pick something up off the ground.
That's right.
That's also an option, isn't it?
I love that.
Oh, no, John from Garfield is threatening me with a gun.
I could take John from Garfield.
Even with a gun?
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, just throw him a cup of dog semen.
That would distract him. Yes, that's true, yeah. It's a real comic. Look into it. Anyway, Mason, for sure. Yeah. Just throw him a cup of dog semen. That would distract him.
Yes, that's true, yeah.
It's a real comic.
Look into it.
Anyway, Mason, go on.
This is from Alex.
Here's a question.
I think we may have covered this before,
but I wanted to get a fresh perspective, James.
I love a fresh perspective.
Hey, lads, just finished watching the Bart versus Australia episode
of The Simpsons.
I remember it generating a lot of controversy in Australia at the time.
It did.
I was just wondering, as an Australian,
what do you think of the episode when it was released
and the upheaval it created?
We've talked about this.
I always thought it was funny.
Yeah, same.
Yeah.
Is that revisionist on our behalf?
I remember people getting mad about it.
We're supposed to be the country that, like,
and I don't actually think this is true, that, like, make fun,
you can make fun of us and you can make fun of yourself
and we're just a bunch of larrikins.
But as we mentioned, a bunch of fucking, fucking like rule-following nerds here.
That's really what we are.
A lot of cops.
A lot of like you can't say that or this is a certain way
that you're supposed to be and whatever.
But, yeah, I always thought it was funny.
And I think it's gotten funnier also.
I think so too, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I like it.
I also like it.
I mean I'd love to see them attempt it now.
Oh, my God god we've run into
Chris Hemsworth
or whatever
what are you doing here
I'm just here to
promote the Rocks
energy drink
have they ever
done a movie together
great question
I'd like to see
who's bigger height wise
I know they've got
celebrity heights
but I want to see them
next to each other
you see like Shaq next to The Rock,
and you're like, how tall is any of those-
Right.
What the fuck is happening here?
I mean, again, there is, you know, there's the-
there's enough crossover because, as we mentioned,
Hemsworth's wife is in some of the-
Oh, yeah.
Some of the Fast and Furious movies,
and he's in some of the Fast and Furious movies.
Oh, yeah.
She's- I think they're partners also.
Yeah.
So they would have met.
They would have certainly met, yeah.
They would have probably discussed future projects.
No doubt.
Thor versus Black Adam.
We should do another Men in Black movie.
You can be Black Adam and I can be Men in Black.
Okay, but can I be the strongest man in black?
Men in Black Adam.
Adam.
What's his name?
Black Adam.
Yes.
It's not Black Atom, is it?
It's not Black Atom, no.
Very good.
Can't wait for that movie that I remember the name of.
Is he the only superhero whose name is just his name's in the –
his name's Adam?
Just a guy named Adam?
That's a great question.
Surely not.
Email in, folks.
Yeah, there would be one, right?
Yeah, I think it must be, yeah.
There'd be like a prequel called like –
Go on.
I can't think of anything. You know, they think it must be, yeah. There'd be like a prequel called like... Go on. I can't think of anything.
You know, they were like, if it was a Superman prequel,
it would be called Clark.
That's not an example because the Superman prequel is called Smallville.
We all know that.
Anyways, what else, Mason?
This is from Jay.
Just as a big thank you for the great mates.
Dear James and Mason, I just wanted to take a minute to thank you
and the whole social media team for cultivating such an accepting and inclusive
community. As a mega fan of Ms. Marvel,
I can't tell you how glad I am that
the barrage of negativity from toxic
folks on the internet has no place among the great
mates. We can and do disagree without
getting nasty. When I see a laugh react, I know
it's because a mate made a funny joke.
Not because Brie Larson leaves the cap off the toothpaste
or whatever. Yeah, I knew she did that.
Keep up the great work. That's from Jay.
Oh, well, that's not us.
No, well, that's over at the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates Facebook group,
which has been moderated by all the greats,
Fidel and Sarabi and Marty and Maisie and, of course, Rob Collings.
And then, of course, there's the weekly Planet Discord and Reddit.
That's right, exactly.
Everybody's having a great time and being nice to each other or else.
Or else.
You're out of some of those things that we control.
That's right.
Some of them we do not.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, I don't know because I get a lot of, like,
insane stuff on YouTube.
And, like, there's things in, like, I get a lot of, like, for Obi-Wan,
it's like, well, isn't it really the Reva show or whatever?
It's like, not really. She like, well, isn't it really the Reva show or whatever? Or, you know, it's like, not really.
She's like barely in it.
And all like, oh, so it's racist to be like, I don't like this person.
Well, I guess not strictly, but like you could see how like why you caught up on this so much, you know?
And I've seen some of the negative backlash to Ms. Marvel.
And I just, I was going to say, I don't know why.
I know why.
But it's not a bad show it's a good show but it's also you're allowed to not like it yeah but just just don't
have to be a yeah i mean if you like but also if you like if you're like i love marvel because
it's got big time action sequences and everything's exploding show's not finished yet yeah so maybe
there will be some of that there's gonna be a big explosion if you want to be critical of that, and you can, just wait till the end.
And if there isn't a big-time big-fight explosion, then.
But what if your criticism is there wasn't a big explosion in episode one?
Is that a valid criticism?
I mean, did Kevin Feige promise a big explosion?
Yeah, he went on his Instagram and he said.
Okay, great.
He said there would be.
Wow, he's betrayed us for the last time.
I agree.
Hey, Kevin Feige.
Pick up this baseball cap. Okay, great. He said that I would pay. Wow, he's betrayed us for the last time. I agree. Hey, Kevin Foggy.
Pick up this baseball cap.
You like your little baseball cap, so you only need to pick that one up.
Are you wearing a baseball cap?
Put two baseball caps on, mate.
You can do that.
One forward, one backwards, put it on.
I've got another tweet here, Mason. I'm ready.
It's from Rodri R who says, I'm late to this,
but if you do a contest gone wrong episode,
the Who Shot Mr Burns contest has a very disappointing ending.
I think we talked about this on Big Sandwich, didn't we?
Oh, I'm sure we did.
Yeah, yeah.
It was a contest to do with, what was it?
I can't remember.
It was a not some.
Was it the Pepsi thing?
Yeah, it was a Pepsi thing.
Pepsi Bucks.
It was to win a jet fighter.
Yeah.
Well, I know you have a fascination with that as well.
Yeah.
I don't know whether it could be a holiday.
We could do Peter Molyneux's Cube.
Yeah, that's right.
Maybe we should do this.
Yeah, okay, let's do it.
Yeah.
On Big Sandwich or here?
On here.
Done.
Let's do it now.
No, Mason, let's do another letter.
Okay.
I've got one while you are away.
Okay, I'll are away.
It's from Lewis. He says, hey, James and Mason's brother. That's you, right? Yes. Which one while you are away Okay, I'll R away It says, hey James and Meso's brother
That's you, right?
Yes
Which one are you this week?
You're Meso's brother, aren't you?
Yes
But that could be either
Correct
Good
I'm reading the Hannibal Lecter books
And watching the Hannibal TV series
What's your favourite Hannibal and why?
And which human would you eat?
Hashtag where's your planet pod
TV Hannibal for sure
100% Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal
The best one And Anthony Hopkins is great Yeah, yeah He's only planet pod TV Hannibal for sure 100% Mads Mikkelsen is Hannibal the best one
and Anthony Hopkins
is great
yeah yeah
he's only in
like three Hannibal
movies
and it's
like in the
the show gives
the character
more time to breathe
exactly
and he's also
got the best outfits
what about the
mind hunter
Brian Cox
was him in like
the 80s
oh in Manhunter
Manhunter
that's it
not for me
I haven't seen it
actually
is it good sorry great yeah it's got Peter it's got William Peterson in like the 80s. Oh, in Manhunter. Manhunter, that's it. Nah, not for me. I haven't seen it, actually.
Is it good?
Sorry.
Great.
Yeah.
It's got Peter,
it's got William Peterson.
Happy with that?
It's got Joan Allen.
Great.
Yeah, but no, Hannibal's good and he'll probably come back, right?
I don't think so.
I think they've already
People are always talking about him.
People are all busy.
They're all busy.
Who's busy?
Who's busy, Mason?
Mads Mikkelsen is busy.
Who else is in that show?
Gillian Anderson is busy.
Is she in that?
Yeah, she was his psychiatrist.
Laurence Fishburne, is he busy?
Yeah, probably.
He's busy making Matrix sequels or not being in Matrix sequels.
Anyway, his schedule is full.
That's right.
I have some Richard Grimes.
Hello, Richard.
And from a number of people.
Hey, guys.
So the little TCB and lightning flash that appears about Elvis in the new movie
is not a Baz Luhrmann production logo,
but is in fact Elvis' own logo stands for taking care of business.
Richard says, as a big Elvis fan, I actually have this logo as a tattoo on my arm.
So this is late period Elvis.
I just want to clarify that.
You never thought that?
No, I didn't know or think anything about this,
but thank you to you for saying that because I got hundreds of comments about that.
I didn't even get that many, and I said it.
I was the one who said it.
You know why I was confused?
Because I did, watching Jurassic World,
they put the Elvis trailer in front of that.
They did.
And there is another logo at the start,
which I think is Baz Luhrmann's production logo.
Yeah, TCB.
Yeah, yeah, that's the one.
All right, goodbye, everybody.
Anyway, we all know now.
We all know now, that's right.
We have taken care of business.
That's right.
We have tooken care of business, which I believe is what his band was called.
Is that the show?
Yes, that's the whole show.
Thanks, folks, so much for listening.
Thank you for sticking with us.
Thank you so much for listening.
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James, do you have any reviews?
Hey, I've got two reviews here, Mason.
Terrific.
You can just do it in-app.
This is from MovieListener45 who says,
Two great Australian men.
I love this show and listen very frequently.
They are very funny and nice and have good movie opinions.
I could not for the life of me tell you which one is Nick
and which one is Mason, but either way, I like them.
Thank you so much.
This is from ESK7 and then that triangle thing,
whatever that is, and then a 7 said,
Read this on Yonder Podcast.
Listener since 2014.
Clean your rooms, everyone.
Five stars.
Thank you, Mr. Peterson.
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Oh, okay, yeah, let's watch Lightyear.
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