The Weekly Planet - 473 The Super Mario Bros. Movie & Star Wars Celebration

Episode Date: April 10, 2023

HUGE week for movie news. We get into The Super Mario Bros. movies which is destroying box office records plus Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023. There were got new trailers for Ashoka featuring Thrawn and Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny and word of three new movies including a Jedi origin movie, a Dave Fioni directed Mando-verse movie and the return of Rey Skywalker in a new Jedi Order sequel. Plus a potential DCU and MCU crossover movie, a reboot/remake for Harry Potter and Moana, Shrek 5, trailers for Blue Beetle, Secret Invasion, Barbie and a whole lot more! Thanks for listeningVisit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.Please be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads. Skip extra few minutes when avoiding spoilers. Feeds on Patreon, YouTube and bigsandwich.co are unaffected.00:00 The Start05:25 DC & Marvel Crossover Movie09:58 Normal Ike Perlmutter Update13:20 Harry Potter Reboot Series20:08 Moana Live Action Remake23:10 Shrek 5 is Happening24:31 Netflix's Extraction 2 Trailer27:45 Blue Beetle Trailer32:30 Secret Invasion Trailer40:11 Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse Trailer45:12 Barbie Trailer48:38 Dog Time49:31 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Trailer56:13 Start of Star Wars News58:05 Andor S2, The Acolyte, Skeleton Crew01:02:48 Tales of the Jedi S2 Announced01:12:33 Mandoverse Movie Directed by Dave Filoni01:15:22 The Force Origins Movie Directed by James Mangold01:17:08 Rey Skywalker Returns for New Jedi Order Movie01:23:37 The Super Mario Bros. Movie (spoilers 01:39:25 to 01:46:53)01:46:53 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:53:30 Letters, It's Time For LettersJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownMaso's Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/nickmaseauThe Weekly Planet Twitter ► https://twitter.com/theweeklyplanetPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesTWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetTWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGjT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Red hot comic book movie news. Defenders of the Earth. Defenders. 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. And with me as always. Hello. That's my co-host, Nick Mason. Hello. You went through a rollercoaster of emotions there. I am so full with eggs and chocolate. And it's been like a week off.

Eggs and chocolate. Literally. Because your family's Easter tradition is chocolate. To the Paul Newman egg challenge. That's exactly right. From Cool Hand Luke. Come on, kids. You can do it.

60 boiled eggs, hard boiled. Hard boiled. Yeah, because I feel like a full week and a bit of Easter because we did extended family Easter last week and then we just had regular Easter. Normal Easter. And it's just too much and I'm literally dying. And I haven't been exercising because I got spayed.

So I'm not going to exercise properly. Did people know that? I talked about it on Suggestible. We talked about it. Speaking of Suggestible, you had a very special guest this week. It was me. I wish we didn't. I showed up at the end and I'm like.

And that was 20 minutes of that at the back end. Because I thought I'd shake up, you know, the stuffy podcast Suggestible. Thank God. Because we both got to just really lay into Claire, you know, just really derail her. Claire, I jumped in the podcast studio when she was recommending a self-help book, and I'm like, let's knock this thing down a couple of notches.

Here we go. Here we go. So it was good fun. A second special guest appearance, podcast appearance that I made this week is I was on Confessions with Sam Peterson. Oh, great show. Great fella. Great fella.

And another special guest, Liv Hewson, who people will know from Hollywood. Famous? Yeah. Santa Clarita Diet. Yellow Jackets. Yellow Jackets, which is back. Recently in, what's that one? The one that came back about catering.

Putty Down. Yeah, they're on an episode of that. Fantastic. Well, they're in all that and they're also very funny on a podcast, if you can imagine. I don't believe you. I'm going to have to listen. I think everybody should listen.

Okay, great. That's right. Two great things to listen to. Also, later in the podcast, I will have some comedy festival recommendations. If you're in Melbourne, there's two weeks to go on that. Yep. Oh, and also, thanks to everybody who popped in on a live show,

either of the two live shows I was doing this weekend. You're welcome. Dice Paper Roll. You were not there at either of them. You are welcome. I'm just going to power on through. Yeah, you're welcome. I was on Dice Paper Roll on Saturday,

a role-playing Dungeons & Dragons podcast. Yep. And then today on Sunday I was at Matt Stewart's podcast. Matt's like our mate Matt. Yeah. But he is our mate Matt. He is. Matt Stewart's podcast, Who Knew It With yeah but he is our mate Matt Matt Stewart's podcast

Who Knew It With Matt Stewart people might know from 2go1 that's right fun comedy quiz show and that was with Ben Russell Cass Page

and Dave Warnke what a line up it was what a line up somebody Matt promoted it on Twitter and somebody went heavy hitters I'm like

yeah except for one I'll never say who it's you Mason whoa that's true though anyway it's true Except for one. I'll never say who. It's you, Mason. Whoa! That's true, though. Anyway.

It's true. It's time to admit it to myself. Big week. I'm a skinny fat hitter is what I am. I look skinny, but I'm not. And that's the level that I bring to Comedy Quiz Podcast also. Absolutely. Here we go, Mason. So it's a huge week this week.

Yes. This is an action-packed, jam-packed episode. That's right. Because we had Star Wars Celebration in addition to the Super Mario Bros. movie, and there's so much news within that Star Wars Celebration. It's also still happening, so there might be some other announcements, but they did all the big stuff kind of like up top. That seems like a tactical error.

I agree. I would leave the biggest stuff till the end. Well, you know, maybe they have and we missed it. Darth Vader's back but he's orange. That's right, like an M&M. Oh, okay. Yeah. There's a whole squad of Darth Vader's and they're in M&M colours.

Like a Terry's chocolate orange but they're grey. Woke and they're woke. Are they woke now? The M&M's. I can't keep track. I think they were. Wait, chocolate oranges? Is there not a...

I remember the M&M thing was like, these M&M's cannot be fucked anymore. I mean, as in like they're not sexy. What happened to the M&M with boots and boobs? She wears comfortable shoes now. At the comedy festival, there's an M&M's booth at one of the venues where you can take photos with the M&M's or whatever.

The people in costume or is it like – No, it's just cardboard cutouts of the M&Ms. Terrific. And you can buy M&Ms. I'm like, do we get free M&Ms? They're like, no, you have to buy M&Ms. Wow. I don't like that.

And she's wearing sensible shoes. This is ridiculous. Disgusting. Anyway, so we're going to talk about a potential Marvel DC crossover movie. We're going to also talk about a quick update on Ike Perlmutter firing. We went in-depth on that last week, if you are interested. I'm not going to recap it. He's just golfing in Florida, I assume.

No doubt. I don't think much would have changed for him. Harry Potter getting a reboot. Moana getting a reboot. Shrek not getting a reboot, but getting a Shrek 5. And then we've got trailers for Extraction 2, Blue Beetle, Secret Invasion, Across the Spider-Verse and Barbie. Big week.

So, you know. Big bloody week. Good thing we rambled a bit up top. That's right. Let's get into it. James, we have unlimited time. That is the magic of podcasting. That is true.

We've got unlimited time and no responsibilities in the other part of the house. Completely agree. That we live it together. Yes, that's right. All right. We finish this podcast. We get on our matching slides.

We slide back to the other house. Into our race car beds. That's right. Yeah, bug beds. Yep. So Mason, Empire spoke with James Gunn, and they were asking him about a potential Marvel MCU, DCU crossover, and he said,

I'm certain that's more likely now that I'm in charge. Who knows? That's many years away, though. I think we have to establish what we're doing first. I'll be lying to say that we haven't discussed it, but all discussions have been very, very light and fun. This has always been an inevitability. Oh, yes.

Depending on when brands run out of ideas or they need to have a big, you know, injection of fandom and fun. But I think he's right in terms of, like, you've got to kind of do some stuff first before you cross it over, you know? Right. Yeah. Sure.

People are like, oh, my God, it's the Avengers versus some of those guys. Some of the Justice Society? Lobo? Ben Affleck's Batman maybe? Just Ben Affleck? Yeah, maybe just Ben Affleck. Character in Air?

Yeah. The movie Air? I've got to watch Air. Are you tapping at the door? No. Okay, terrific. It you tapping at the door? No. Okay, terrific. It could be the Telltale Heart. You think?

Well, I did murder somebody and bury them underneath the studio. I mean, it could just be a regular tapping, though. It could be a tapping. I can check. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If the heart's still there. Nice. In the meantime, I'm going to retrieve that cask of a Monteado that you have just down in the basement here.

There was nobody there. Whoa. I did see a raven though. Whoa. Is that the same story? It's not. Same book, same collected edition. Oh, is it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I meant that. Yeah, yeah. Great. Edgar Allan Poe's greatest hits. There we have it again. I can't hear anything. I don't know what you're talking about.

Let me take these headphones off. Okay. They were just earmuffs. I've been wearing them the whole time. Because you've got chilly ears. I can't hear anything. I don't know what you're talking about. Let me take these headphones off. Okay. They were just earmuffs. I've been wearing them the whole time. Because you've got chilly ears. Yeah, that's right. Anyways, it's the roof. Huh.

Yeah. It's like because it's been raining and stuff and whatever. It's fine. It's the telltale roof. It's the telltale roof. Wow, that's beautiful. It's the telltale sign that I need to cut some trees away from my roof or hire a guy that will do that.

Bob Iger also talked about how he might be licensing out some of their properties because they have, this is at Disney, because they have so much. Like are they really going to make? Titan AE 2. Yes. Are they? Yeah.

I think they're good. That would be great. Putting that out in the world. I wouldn't be surprised if they live actioned Titan AE though because that's how you do things these days. But look, I'm not honestly in a hurry to see a marvel dc movie crossover i'm not no i'm not really you know what it feels like that feels like the death knell of the entire concept exactly yeah because once you've done all the

characters in your universe team up and then all your characters in your multiverse team up yeah and then you cross them over with another franchise, what's left? What do you do? Exactly. I mean, that being said, they've done that in the comics a number of times and the universes continue. Yeah, but comics like ebb and flow in terms of popularity over the years. Yeah, I think it would be great if both of them got to like an absolute

pinnacle of popularity and everybody loves it, which will never happen. And then they cross them out a bit, you know. We'll see, won't we? We will. Ike Perlmutter. Because also there you want. Colin, he's edited that bit out where I said Ike Perlmutter, so it looks like Mason didn't interrupt me.

Go on. No, no, leave it in so it makes it look like I interrupted you. Because I don't know,'t like you need you also need to see two you know you oftentimes there's two iconic characters like maybe it's captain america and superman yeah meat and they fight and superman kills him immediately instantly yeah you know with flick of a finger or what have you but you you want to be like, oh, it's those two iconic characters that I, you know, love so much and these versions I love so much. Yeah, well, that's really important as well, isn't it? So we need, you know, whichever characters are at the forefront

of these particular universes, we need to have enough screen time with them that when they cross over it's significant because you can do it with whoever you just happen to have. And for some people I think that will be enough, just the idea of the two toys mating. But I think for a lot of people, for your more discerning superhero universe. For your adults in the room. That's right.

That's right. Yeah. That's right. You need to feel something with that crossover. I think, and I'm sure some people will disagree, I think I know some people will disagree, Batman v Superman is the perfect example of that. Like out of the gate it had a huge opening weekend

and then people went, I don't know about this, and then it didn't make a billion dollars, which is crazy. So, yeah, I see what you mean, Mason. Thank you. Anyways, Ike Pearl. Good interruption, I thought. Oh, my God. Collings, edit that out where you interrupted me again

because he's going to look so rude. Anyways, Ike Perlmutter-Mason. Ike Perlmutter-Mason. We talked about him last week. I'm not going to give a whole recap, but basically he owned Marvel and then he sold it to Disney. He was on the board and he's like a big, weird, racist, tight-ass billionaire who's been attempting

and has been pulling the strings but he was recently let go from the board they they shuffled him out through a maneuver so anyway again we did like 20 minutes on it last week maneuvers like a cat door exactly put him out through the maneuver so he spoke to the wall street journal in a rare interview and he talks about i was i was working for marvel was i all right exactly i guess he talks about uh he talked about- I was working for Marvel. Was I? All right. Exactly. I guess. He talks about what happened. And it was basically like, I was actually fired.

And it's like, yeah, we know. That's what the headline said. But one of the quotes was, it was merely- I don't get my severance if I don't- I don't get my last two weeks of pay if I quit. So I'm telling everybody I got fired. He said it was merely a convenient excuse to get rid of a long-time executive who dared to challenge the company's way

of doing business. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, man. Correct. That's very true. So far this is a very accurate recollection of what happened, I think. He said all they talked about is box office, box office.

I care about the bottom line. I don't care how big. Which is what? That office, box office. I care about the bottom line. I don't care how big. Which is what? That's the box office. But he's talking like fishing paperclips out of bins and budgets. Of course, that's right. Yeah, yeah. I don't care how big.

You didn't finish all this apple. Finish the whole apple. Eat the core of the apple. Eat the cyanide in it or whatever. It'll make you strong. I don't care how big the box office is. Only people in Hollywood talk about box office. That's you.

Yeah. You're in Hollywood. Yeah. Yeah. What is he even talking about? I don't know. I read the article. There's nothing I've ever learned about this guy.

He's 80. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So nothing I've ever learned about this guy suggests that he's about the integrity of characters or anything like that. It is all money. Yeah. But I guess. And racism. Yeah, and racism. guy suggests that he's about the integrity of characters or anything like that it's just it is all money yeah but i guess and racism yeah and racism and screwing veterans out of their money i did that also yeah i think maybe yeah i think maybe he's just one of those old guys with the mindset of whatever i do is correct yeah exactly for anybody else well it's that thing of like

you know a lot of people who are super rich they don't acknowledge the fact that maybe they got incredibly lucky to get there. Someone News recently did a video on this, actually, this exact thing, where it's like they think that all their good decisions got there. And, you know, I guess that is true to a point, but everything has to line up exactly. And just statistically, somebody is going to end up there and it happens to be you. We'll talk about another person like that in a minute. But he also warned Walt Disney not to get involved in politics. He warned Walt Disney.

Yeah, he said, Walt, wake up. You listen to me, Walt. Don't get involved in politics, Walt. So, yeah, there you go. Don't defrost yourself and get involved. A little update from our best friend and normal man, Ike Perlmutter. Very normal. Yeah. Having a normal one. Great. Normal man having a normal man, Ike Perlmutter. Very normal. Yeah.

Having a normal one. Great. A normal man having a normal one. That's the T-shirt. That should be his, if he goes into politics, that should be his slogan. Ike Perlmutter, a normal man having a normal one. Red, white and blue. Yep.

Side profile of his face. Yeah. Perfect. And the T-shirt makes that noise. Yep. It says, instead of hope, it says normal underneath this. Regular. Harry Potter, it appears, is getting a reboot.

And you might be like, why? I might be like that, yeah. You might be. I might be. Yeah, I am. Yeah. So it's going to be a series apparently. This is early days.

Okay. So I don't know whether this exact version will play out. We'll talk about what I think maybe they should do instead and other people have mentioned this. Is it shut up? That's definitely part of it. I don't think a – so they're going to do a series, a book. You know what they used to do?

What? They used to just put a new cover on the DVD and everybody's bought it again. It's true. They're like, there's one more bonus feature. Yep. It's just a super cut of all the doors opening and closing across all the movies.

And people are like, oh good, you get that new bonus feature. Exactly, yeah. But a new angle. But people aren't buying DVDs no more, I guess. That's true. You're doing the streaming service, that's where you get your money. But I don't think, so it's going to be a book a season, which would make it seven seasons, I assume? Eight to

ten episodes. I don't think a drawn out version of an already beloved and successful series, which people still love, is a good idea. Because I think there are a lot of people who don't like J.K. Rowling, and I want to talk about why that may be in a second. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But in addition to that, there are people who love Harry Potter and that original cast

who also don't want this. So who is this for? That's a great question, isn't it? to that, there are people who love Harry Potter and that original cast who also don't want this. Yeah. So who is this for? That's a great question, isn't it? Because I feel like Harry Potter as a franchise is maybe a very millennial thing. It hasn't really translated over to your Gen Zs and so forth. Well, which house are you? Are you Snake House?

Are you Bear House? Are you Loser House? I know all the houses. I'm pretending like I don't know. But I know Mason. We know. We know. I didn't even read the books. He doesn't read the books or can read.

But, I mean, and okay, you know, okay, we revitalise it for a new generation or what have you. But you're right. I think a lot of people love those original cast members. I mean, the books also, there's a lot of stuff that they cut out and changed which they should have. And that works. I feel like they changed.

I mean, there's some things that I think they definitely could improve, including the Dumbledore casting. I don't think he's good in it. Either of the Dumbledores. No. All three Dumbledores? Thrumbledores? No.

Sorry, Jude Law I really like in those movies that I don't like. Yeah, right, right, right. But I think, though, this could be a result of the original cast not wanting to come back. And I think that also might be a result of they have been openly against some of the things that J.K. Rowling has said about the trans community. Yes.

And J.K. Rowling, she's a very bitter person about such things. We saw, like, Katherine Watterson got written out of The Last Fantastic Beast. That's right. Speaking out also. So it could be a result of, this is speculation. I don't know this, obviously. I don't know Daniel Radcliffe. That's right.

But they might not want to do it. They also don't need to do it or she might not want them to do it either. Who do you think will come back? Who's a lot? I mean, also like. I reckon the kid who plays Malfoy will come back and play Malfoy's dad. Oh Dadfoy. Yeah maybe he will and look

I don't begrudge anybody for like being involved in this. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just like why are they doing this? I guess I also just want to quickly touch on because often when we bring this up we might get a couple of comments that are like Or a couple of long essays about like what has JK Rowling ever said?

And so to name some recent things, right? For example, there was recently a anti-trans activist in Melbourne who did a rally and a bunch of Nazis showed up to support them. And JK Rowling supported the idea that the Nazis actually weren't there, like with the anti-trans people. Yeah. And isn't it weird that nobody was like shouting down the Nazis

and like it's just a woefully, like if you're turning up to a cause and the Nazis are with you, you need to think about that for a second and there might be some things that line up like automation or uniforms that you agree on. Yeah. Like, you know, things that don't mean anything. But you need to reassess. Yes.

Right? Agreed. Also, a number of- And look, and some people are also like, well, actually- It's all a trick because actually they showed up to support the trans people, but actually they, you know. And you look at the people at the rally, there's footage of the people involved in the rally like associating.

It's Nazis. Think about it. Yeah. Think about what you're doing. The other thing is like there's – Sean's got a great video on this, the YouTube channel Sean. She's got a number of people that she's associated with who are very fascist in nature, right?

Like in this weird kind of turf alliance bubble, which, you know. See, I think a lot of people don't know about this. We think – because, you know, it's at the forefront of it happening, you know, this sort of stuff happened in Melbourne. Yeah. But I think a lot of people are just like, and the same with the boycott of the game that came out recently. A lot of people have no idea about any of this.

A lot of people just like Harry Potter. Yeah. Which is fine, like whatever. But she also recently had a tweet about how blood is gendered and transfusions need to be gender-based. And look, that may even turn out in the future to be true. But I don't think it is. But it's not true.

And she was like, when I was doing research for my new book and it's called Rothenblood or something, it's like, so you named it first and then you found this research, did you? That's interesting. So, yeah, I guess that's what I'm saying. I'm also like if you want to watch a bunch of Harry Potter shit, I don't give a fuck. Like it doesn't matter to me at all.

I think there are a lot of great people associated with Harry Potter and who worked on the games in a while in the movies. I mean, how do you replace like Alan Rickman also? What are you even doing with that? So I guess if I was to remake this, which I wouldn't, I would either pick like a really cool like animated style and draw it out a bit like the Invincible kind of method or as other people have said, you make it a Marauder series

where you set in the same continuity. You don't need any of the original actors and you make it the parents of Harry Potter and Friends and whatever. You know, like all of those blokes and whatever and they run around. So it's just basically you do the same thing again but you keep the continuity because you're not pleasing anybody with like a reboot of Harry Potter. And also it's like, you know, The Rings of Power is not a reboot

of Lord of the Rings but it is, you know, it's what people, huge fans of The Lord of the Rings, but it is, you know, it's, it's, it's what people allegedly, huge fans of the Lord of the Rings allegedly wanted, you know, new, new content in this universe. And it, uh, cost a billion dollars and no one talks about it anymore. Nobody finished it. No one. I finished it. Apparently 37% of the people who watched it finished it.

Exactly. So I just think, look, I don't care. Spend a billion dollars on Harry Potter, but I wouldn't. That's all I'm saying. You don't even have a billion dollars. Yet. Maybe I'll get lucky. Maybe. Maybe my skills, basically, will get me there. Maybe your skills. This one's via THR, though. Something that people found equally infuriating, maybe not equally, but Moana is getting a live-action remake with Dwayne the Rock Johnson and Ali Kravalio returning as the two leads, as in Moana and Maui. Okay. I feel like this is the rock going back to the well of like, what can I make so people will like me again?

Now, when did Moana come out? 2016. That's not a long time ago. Yeah, I feel like I just saw it. But I guess it's, you know, it's seven years old, 2016. It's around then anyway. It's a great movie. I don't know if you've seen it.

I haven't seen it. It's great. Now you know for sure. Yeah, it's really. And that's the rest of the story. I don't, like, why not make a sequel to this? But I think The Rock is now looking for brands that he can return to to get people in.

Because he took a hit with Black Adam. He's not doing Fast and Furious anymore. Like what else can he do? Can he make another Spy Hunter game? Maybe he could, yeah. Sure. So I understand the thinking of like let's do this again. And it could even be good, I guess.

But are they good, these? No, is the answer. Be cool, too. Be cool. Get Shorty 3. They made the series, didn't they? Oh, yeah. He wasn't in it, though.

So there you go. Let's quickly look through The Rock's filmography. Oh, and find another thing that he could do. Did he do a Tooth Fairy-style movie? I believe he did. He did the first one, and then Larry the Cable. He could do Red Notice 2. I didn't even think of that! You could do

Tooth Fairy 2. Tooth Fairy? It should be called Tooth Fairy 2, number 2. Tooth Fairy. Tooth Fairy. Yep. Threeth Fairy? Would that be possible? Yeah. You could do another, the Scorpion King movie, which is apparently happening.

Tooth Fairy 3, Scooter McNary. He'll be in it. What about the rundown? But like if he returned as that character, would anybody know? No, nobody would know. Yeah. It would just have to be a good movie. Jumanji again? Yeah, definitely.

You could definitely do. Throw you through Manji. Yep. Get smart again. Yep. Again. The other guys know he died. Well, he jumped on board the Journey franchise.

Brendan Fraser was out and he was in. We could do another G.I. Joe. How about this? Skyscraper meets San Andreas. Skyscaper and Andreas. So Skyscraper was the one where you only had one leg. Yes. And San Andreas was the same guy, but he had two legs.

And there was an earthquake. Are they twins? They're twins, I think, yeah. I never liked you because you've got one leg. Well, we're going to have to work together. What do you think? I like that. I like that.

And at the end of the movie they're like, yeah, you know what? I never liked he had two legs, but the two legs really did come in handy in this for running and jumping and so forth. Exactly. So, yeah. You only have one leg, but you have two hearts. Free guy? Oh, he had a voice cameo in Free Guy.

Jungle Cruise? This is what I'm saying. Anyway, back to the well. Good on you, The Rock. We love you and we love everything you do and think. Mason. Go on. Variety reporting that Shrek 5 is happening.

Whoa, we made that happen. That's us. We did it. With the original cast returning. Terrific. It was the same. We've talked about this in the Shrek 5 is happening. Whoa, we made that happen. That's us. We did it with the original cast returning to it with the same. We've talked about this in the Shrek videos, specifically when we talk about the fourth one on the back end of that video. But, yeah, why not?

Yeah. Why not make five Shrek movies? They've already made four. They're practically there. I thought you meant another five. No, Mason, make one more. That'd be too many. That'd be nine Shrek movies.

I think that's too much. That's going back to the well too much. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's left to mine? I guess. Shrek's kids are grown up and they're like, Shrek, we're leaving.

And he's like, I am. Call me dad. I'm having trouble with this. My twin brother's here. He's got one leg. I never liked him for that. Maybe they would bring in Shrek's family, like parents. We've never seen Shrek's parents.

Oh, that's true. Yeah. Okay, you're right. There's a lot of old rotten meat to pick out of the teeth of the Shrek franchise. That's what I'm saying. And present as fresh meat. Exactly. But it's rotten meat.

Yeah. Anyway, pretty consistently. And I mean, of course, Puss in Boots, as you mentioned. Exactly. Puss in Boots is incredible. Yeah. Exactly. They could re-team that.

Yeah, okay. Okay. You put Puss in Boots front and center. And even if kids haven't seen the Shreks, they'll be like, oh, he's friends with Puss in Boots. All right. That's right. Don't mind that.

Puss in Boots is still in cinemas making a million dollars a day or whatever it's doing. Well, now Mario's out, so that's probably not going to happen. Mason, it's trailers ahoy. What do you want to talk about first? Extraction 2, Blue Beetle, Secret Invasion, Across the Spider-Verse, or Barbie? Extraction, the exact order in which you presented them to me just then.

Okay. Extraction 2. Yeah, he's back. Jake Extraction is back. Jake Extraction. Jake Extraction is here for action and also extraction. That's right. His name is Jake, Jake Extraction, Extraction. It's the character's name. He's like Jake, Jake-straction, extraction.

It's the character's name. He's like, call me Jake-straction. And they're like, I mean, I guess. Anyway, we shot the neck in the last movie. He fell into a river. And he definitely died. He fell into a river and he died. Yeah.

But it's okay. This is the dream, though. This is maybe, oh, what if the reveal at the end of this one is these are the last neurons firing in his brain as he drowns at the bottom of a river in South America or wherever he was, or Rwanda or something. I can't remember. Yeah, good action movie.

Yeah. Solid movie from memory. We see some, like, kind of some wanna action in here. He's getting someone out of a prison, right? Or alleged wanna action. Well, yeah, of course. People, of course, wanted to know what you thought of the minigun moment. Not bad, looks impressive.

He's not going to shoot any regular men with it, I imagine. I hope Jake Strachan does do that, Mason. So do. Jake Strachan, no! Oh, I was at your wedding! Cut in half. Sorry. He sets his arm on fire and then punches several men with it.

That's good. Do you reckon that's a real fire? Maybe. Oh, here's an interesting thing. Is this about Jake's traction? No, it's about Jonathan Wick. Oh, yeah? There's no real muzzle flashes in John Wick 4.

Did you know that? Oh, they're all digital, yeah? Yes. No, I knew that about the previous ones. I didn't know about this one in particular. Yeah, that's crazy. So there you go. I didn't know that.

Also, I only learned. Maybe I knew this already. Is that because they're not using blanks, I assume? Yes, that's right. Because people get shot sometimes. Exactly. But so Chad Strahelski, you knew this, I'm sure, but that he was Brandon Lee's body double in The Crow.

I actually didn't know that. Which is why he's so against. I know it now. Yeah, that's why he's so against sort of on-set guns. But they apparently use, I don't know if it's all of them. Like an airsoft. They use airsoft sometimes, and they use a special type of Hollywood gun that doesn't have a, they're called plug guns

or something like that and they don't have, all the barrels are completely solid. Right. But they have functioning ejection ports so you pull the trigger and the casing comes out like it's a real gun. That's cool. So they don't have to CGI that. Yeah.

But we've talked about this in the past about how there probably isn't a reason to have real guns on set. But the problem there is gun acting is not as good as it could be. And if people skimp on the VFX, it really does look like nobody is firing. But this was flawless. For a second in the movie. So, yeah. Well, that's good news.

That is good news. Yeah. Anyway, I can't wait to go back to the world of Jake's Traction. I hope he does a big extraction action, which I think he will. And I hope there's good news. That is good news. Yeah. Anyway, I can't wait to go back to the world of Jake's Traction. I hope he does a big extraction action, which I think he will. And I hope there's a wedding. Do you, Jake? Jake's Traction extraction. Take your wife, whoever, for extraction.

Jane. Jane. Sexation. Extraction. Extraction. Soon to be extraction. That's right. Yeah. Maybe you should take to be extraction. That's right. Yeah.

Maybe you should take it. No, I don't. Twist. There you go. Let's talk about Blue Beetle. Finally got a trailer. Yeah. Looks good.

It does look good, yeah. Yeah. I really like the vibe of it. I really like, apparently, well, this is going to be the first, like, clean new entry into the dcu obviously it was filmed before that yeah but uh i it's got that kind of spider-man kind of young hero kind of vibes yeah yeah uh he seemed to have got the suit from ted court industries or something maybe that's true a little reference to the previous blue beetle so that's fine i don't

know if they've i don't know if they've cast a Blue Beetle or if he's still alive in this universe. I'm just looking at the cast now and I'm not seeing a Blue Beetle. That's not to say that there isn't. Might be The Rock. Or there could be. Or they'll cast it later. Yeah, that's true.

Or it might be post-credits sequence and it's somebody famous. I'm a Blue Beetle. Exactly. I'm a Blue Beetle. What if it's Patrick Wilson? Oh, yeah. I mean, he's already been in the DCU. Has he?

Yeah, he's Ocean Master. That's fine. Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Exactly right. But for people who... Also, he will be the Ocean Master in a movie coming out after this.

Who cares? It doesn't matter. I don't care. But so for people who don't know, he was in Watchmen as Night Owl. Owlman. And Night Owl is based on Blue Beetle. And Blue Beetle is based on probably somebody else. Probably a dream somebody had. It would be a dream. Of making a man based on Blue Beetle. And Blue Beetle is based on probably somebody else. Probably a dream somebody had.

Probably a dream of making a man into a Blue Beetle. And, of course, we've got, you know, no trailer can be released without a ruffling of a few feathers. Let me tell you about this, James. What's wrong with this one? Well, George Lopez is in this as the uncle, I think. Oh, yeah. And somebody's like, ooh, something, something Batman.

He goes, ah, Batman's a fascist. People got mad. Oh, in the trailer, yeah. In the trailer, yeah, yeah. I mean, he can't. And also the point, I think, of George Lopez's like, ooh, something, something Batman. He goes, ah, Batman's a fascist. People got mad. Oh, in the trailer. In the trailer, yeah, yeah. I mean, he can't. And also the point, I think, of George Lopez's character, I had to guess, is a conspiracy prank or whatever. Like people are like, dude, James Gunn said Batman's a fascist

or whatever. No, it's like when peace. Also, James Gunn didn't say. It's not. Well, yeah, but, you know. We could edit it out, I guess, yeah. But also, you know, like Peacemaker was like, you know, think about the Flash or whatever.

You know, he just, because the premise of that character is he's an idiot who believes everything he reads on the internet. Which is the character, did he say Superman's gay? No, he said Superman has a poop fetish, I think. Oh, okay, right, yeah. I think. Maybe. Yeah?

Yeah, I mean, also, from the perspective of some people in the DC universe, I'm sure Batman would look like a fascist. On account of him branding all those people? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know. But no, I kind of like the horror elements of the way the suit attaches itself. It's not like a cool nanotech transformation.

It's like a horrible body horror situation going on. Got the extra arms. It can fly into space. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really cool. I kind of, I didn't know what. I thought we'll master that before whoever the bad guy is shows up. Just to find someone in a Red Beetle suit.

That's right. Yeah. I hope it's not that. Call me Retal. I'm a Red Beetle. Red Beetle, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because we hadn't really seen anything of this aside from like a couple of teaser posters and some on set photos.

Paparazzi footage. Like the suit looks good and like, yeah, but we'll see, won't we? But no, it looks pretty good and I hope it is because who wants to see a bad movie, Mason? Not me. Not me either. I mean, sometimes we have to. Sometimes we have to.

Sometimes it's this week. For work. Yeah. Sometimes it's this week. Sometimes it's this week. Oh, and he can have a big sword. Oh, yeah, he's got the big sword, the big anime sword. Sephiroth.

Yes. Final Fantasy VII maybe. Final Fantasy VII. Oh, and it's a little bit like, I'm just rewatching the trailer now, a little bit Shang-Chi. Oh, you think he's like a rich guy, but he's not. Yeah, that's right. You think I'm a rich guy, but I'm not.

That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. I don't think that about you. I've accessed your bank accounts. Oh, what? Yeah, it's not looking good. Can you put some stuff in there? What?

Like fun messages or something, I guess? No, probably not. Okay. I do do this thing whenever I transfer money to everybody. I always do it. And 69 cents. Oh, excuse me. And that's just the benefit of having a podcast with money.

Because of inflation. Because of inflation, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. No one's ever said anything. Good. There's going to be an intervention at some point. They're going to say you did. inflation, yeah. Yeah. Exactly. No one's ever said anything. Good. There's going to be an intervention at some point.

They're going to sit you down. Probably, yeah. Your family's going to sit you down and be like. That's a very Elon Musk thing to do, isn't it? Extremely, yeah. Oh, no. Well, I'm going to keep doing it. He cuts a bus in half. That's very.

That's good. That's very Shang-Chi, isn't it? Yeah. Well, the suit has like that defense mechanism thing, right? Yeah. Where sometimes it takes over and does whatever the suit has like that defence mechanism thing, right, where sometimes it takes over and does whatever it wants to defend him and sometimes it doesn't. Yeah. Well, I'm loving it.

Yeah. I guess, you know, obviously, again, it's the second move of disadvantage, you know. We have an Ant-Man and he's a Blue Beetle, and even though the power set is not similar at all. I feel like this is different enough from what we're seeing in the trailer. Does he a shrink guy, this one? He's not a shrink guy now.

Does he a shrink guy? He should see a shrink guy. He could see a shrink guy and be like, Doc, I was super, you got to tell everybody about it. I love those scenes in movies, Mason. Anything else or should we move on to Secret Invasion? Let's move on. Secret Invasion.

Oh, this is exciting, isn't it? Oh, a lot of people saying finally we're getting a Captain America, the Winter Soldier vibe, you know? Who's saying that? Everybody. Okay, cool. You know, like they would get a trailer for something like, oh, this reminds me of Captain America, the Winter Soldier.

That movie came out nine years ago. Yeah. Oh, what a mark on the Marvel Universe. I like the bit where Captain America didn't know that it was a secret. Okay, now any further bets on who do you think is a Skrull, do you reckon? Do you think they're going to take somebody already existing in the universe and Skrullify them like a Maria the Hill? Yes, a Maria the Hill.

Which has always been a Skrull. Or a James of the Roads, perhaps. He's doing armor wars. Yeah, that's true. So I don't think you can do James Roads as being an alien. See, a few of the things we do see in this trailer, we see what seems to be a big warehouse of people in some sort of stasis. Yeah.

I imagine that is all the people that have been, the originals of all the people that have been Skrullified. I thought it was like a, it's the army that they're kind of like put on ice. But no, it's probably more likely. Skrullified. And I suspect that that's an easy get out of jail free card if there is a reveal that somebody is a Skrull and it's like, well, we didn't, and they get killed.

And you're like, well, I like the- So Terrence Howard comes out and he goes, nobody noticed? Somebody noticed that I don't look like Don Cheadle for all these movies? That's right. Can somebody tell me what happened? There was an Infinity War. What?

What? Yeah, okay. So do you think, who are you thinking then? Wow, okay. I mean, it would have to be for like a, if it was somebody like a James Rhodes, it would have to be like the last year, right? As opposed to like the entirety of James Rhodes' cinematic appearances. Well, look, I think we can rule out Ben Mendelsohn.

I mean, he is already a Skrull. I do mean like rule out Ben Mendelsohn. I mean, he is already a Skrull. He's already a Skrull. I do mean like a second Ben Mendelsohn. Yes. Is what you're saying. Yes. Ben Mendelsohn times two. Good.

Okay, I think Maria Hill. Okay, yeah. I think they're going to do something. I mean, we don't even know like maybe the Maria Hill, because we know there was a Skrull Maria Hill in Spider-Man Goes to Europe. Oh, that's right, yes. And does weird sexcapades. Put one scene, really.

Remember? The one he's putting his pants on? Oh, yeah. Put your pants up, idiot. Put your pants up. It's rude. It's rude. It's in the movie Euro Trip.

So I was saying Maria Hill, so she's a Skrull in that, and maybe that's just Maria Hill. She's just a Skrull. Oh, like she's always been a Skrull. That's what I'm saying, yes. Interesting. Okay. Why not?

Yeah. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Also. I mean, she didn't go to space as far as we knew. Yeah. What do you think the plot here is?

Is it a case of. Well, there's good Skrulls and bad Skrulls. That's true. Is it a case of. Yeah. It's like humans. They're not all good or all bad like they're pictured in the comic books oftentimes.

Yeah. Is it something to do with Fury has been attempting to find them a new planet to live on but he hasn't had any luck? Oh, okay, yeah, maybe. We're sick of this Fury. We're going to take matters in our own hands and we're going to take over Earth or whatever. Maybe the whole thing was a big distraction to get him off Earth

because he's the smartest man in the universe or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He always knows what's going on. Also, there's a few things that I think were delightful. Yeah. So it seems to be also that the Skrulls at the very least are putting together, they're trying to build super Skrulls, right? Yeah.

Okay. Like of all the powers of whatever. Yeah, because we see, so i'll be in so in the in the comic books there's the standard issue scrolls that can transform into anybody and they go hello but they're they're sort of limited by scroll physiology yeah and there's a couple of special scrolls that have powers of various they've they've acquired various we did a video on it yeah so the super scroll has the powers of the fantastic four but they haven't been introduced yet yeah there's the power scroll who has assorted other powers ice powers and electricity Yeah, so the Super Skrull has the powers of the Fantastic Four, but they haven't been introduced yet.

There's the Power Skrull who has assorted other powers, ice powers and electricity powers. There's also Skrulls who have turned into superheroes and just had their powers. Yeah, but it seems to be that they are acquiring bits and pieces and using their technology to gain those powers from various heroes. So one of the characters clearly has Groot's tree power. Tree power. Yeah.

So I assume they found a piece of Groot. Yeah, stuck in a wall or whatever. From an end game battle or something like that. There is also a damage control container. They're always losing stuff. They're always losing stuff, aren't they? But this one says Kull. So it's Kull Obsidian's arm that got cut off at the start of Infinity War, right?

Okay, yeah, yeah. I don't know what his powers were but big and tough, I guess. Big and tough. Sword arm maybe? I don't know. Maybe. Can't rule it out. Can't, I won't.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's interesting. Yes. We get our first look. I mean he's a big, like you could make a big guy. Like a thing style. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Whatever, yeah.

First real appearances of Jenna. Amelia Clark. Amelia Clark and Jenna Coleman? Let me check. Whatever. Yeah. Yeah. First real appearances of Jenna. Emilia Clarke. Emilia Clarke and Jenna Coleman? Let me check. Okay. Who's in this? Oh, the release date, by the way, is June 21st. Jenna Coleman as in from Doctor Who?

No. Oh, Olivia Coleman. Olivia Coleman. Thank you very much. Yep. You're right. You're right. Who might be playing a lady version of Union Jack.

Oh, okay. That's cool. The British Captain America, like former. Dermot Mulroney's in it. You rat. You rat, Dermot Mulroney. Kristen McDonald, you rat. Isn't Dermot Mulroney the president currently in the Marvel Universe?

I think he is. I have no idea. Okay, terrific. One day, I probably won't make it. Someone else will make it now that I've said it. You probably won't make it to being alive to make this video. Maybe not. I probably won't make it, but maybe one day there'll be a video.

Somebody do this in my honour. I was going to do like a, who's the president? Like who has been the president? Right. Because there's hints about like previous presidents and like there might be a picture of Obama or whatever. Yeah, well, in Iron Man 3 it was. It's like another, it's just a guy.

It was a famous that guy. Yeah, he was, yeah, what's his name? He's in like Shawshank. He's death in Bill and Ted's. Yes, that's right. Anyway, Mendo's in this and that's great. That is great. Big fan of Mendo.

Good to see him. Who was the main guy? Who's playing this main villain? The actor. He says his name is Gravik. It's Kingsley Ben-Adir is the actor's name. I feel I've seen him in things and he was delightful. How many gravestones does Nick Fury have at this point?

400. Is it two? It's at least two. Is that not the same one? I think it's a different one. It looks like a different location. Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah.

And it looks like it's safe house based. He can crack open a mausoleum Terminator 3 style and he's got guns and stuff in it. He played Wet Stick in King Arthur Legend of the Sword. I don't think that's what I'm thinking of. He was in the High Fidelity remake. He was in Soulmates. Okay.

He was in Peaky Blinders. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. That's probably where you know him from. Oh, and Martin Freeman is in this also. He's a Skrull. Like the whole time? Maybe. I don't think so.

Okay. It's too ordinary. Well, that's how they get you, isn't it? That's a great point. Mm-hmm. Wow. Yeah. Anyway, it looks good.

Reminds me of Captain America, the Winter Soldier. Oh, yeah, with that intrigue and so forth. High benchmark. Well, you know, because that point, the Winter Soldier was like, there's a big secret you didn't know. So it's that, you know? I think that's cool. Oh, the Winter Soldier.

Next up we have Across the Spider-Verse, Mason. Oh, yes. Which is an additional trailer to what we had where we got glimpses of some live-action Spider-Men in it. Yep. From previous footages. Sorry, I'm still looking at the Secret Invasion. Oh, my God.

Edit this out where he's cut it again. Maria Hill is just sort of like she's going around a corner with a gun in a way that would suggest she's not a Skrull. But maybe that's a flashback. Well, there's also different Skrulls. That's true. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, Mando's not having a great time here. Mando? Yes. Mandalorian? Yes. Yeah. All right, anyway, Secret Invasion, Wonderlight. Looking forward to that.

Coming out soon? June 21st. That's not far at all. I agree. Across the Spider-Verse, Mason. Yes. As I said, but you really interrupted me again. I did, it's true.

There's some live action stuff in there from the other Spider-Men from previous movies. I think could very well cameo. Maybe even in live action. Maybe they'll zip through their universes or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's something else that we see. Look, there's some wonderful cameos. There's a

very Mark Bagley inspired Ben Reilly Scarlet Spider in there. Very cool. In sort of very much comic book cel-shaded action. We get, so the Spider-Man 2099, giving a little shout out to Tom Holland's Spider-Man

from Earth-1999. What he did. Yes, what he done. Absolutely. And it seems to be a sort of a Was this the first Mayday Parker appearance? Or was there another trailer that had Mayday Parker? We knew she was in it, I think. I think there might have been a still released or something like that.

Because Peter B. Parker, who's Peter Parker the trained Miles Morales. And who was sad and lonely and left his wife. That's what I liked about him. I was happy. That's right. And I'm not happy for him. It seems to be that he's gotten back with Mary Jane. They've had a kid.

Yeah. As was canonical in some versions of the comic book Spider-Man. Depends on what kids they have and whatever, yeah. But they have a daughter called Mayday and she's got her own little web shooter. Yep. So that's cool. Yeah, so that's as opposed to the present day comic book Spider-Man who's just a real sad guy.

Yeah. God, you've got to fix that Marvel. Like at the moment. Yeah. I haven't been got to fix that, Marvel. Like at the moment? Yeah. I haven't been reading present-day, modern-day. Why is he so sad? What's he got going on? Because they just don't want him to be married and happy,

so they're like, what if he was a loser still? He's not running the Baxter building at the moment. No. Because every now and then they'll be like, Spider-Man's in charge of Iron Man or whatever. Sometimes they're like, Spider-Man, he's built Parker Industries, he's a billionaire. And he's like, oh, I dropped all my money down the toilet.

You know? I'm not rich anymore. That is true. Yeah, now I'm sad. And he's sad. Yeah, well, you got a status quo, you know. That's true. Looks great. Apparently, by all accounts, the inside word is that it's incredible as well.

And I hope that's true. Yeah. Be good. Maybe, you know, Sony Animation is somebody you maybe go to if you've got like this high concept idea with a lot of interesting world building that you can do within it. You can just go to Illumination. It's fine. Yeah, I guess you could.

Just go to Illumination. Just go to Illumination. They made Minions. They made Minions. They made Minions and they made Millions. Yeah, but Minions is good. Is it? I think.

Okay, great. Like it's exactly what it's, we'll talk about it. We will. I was just going to say plot- wise, what are we looking at here? It seems to be a case of, so in the Marvel comics there was. Somebody has to die in Miles Morales' life to prevent like a dimensional apocalypse. Yeah, because there was a Fantastic Four storyline about the Council of Reeds. Yeah.

Which I think was ripped off for Rick and Morty with the Council of Ricks. What? Yes, I know. It's true. Where there is a secret multiversal council of Reed Richardses from the Fantastic Four who've all, you know, they solve huge multiversal problems. But as a consequence, they've all had to give up their real lives

in the real world and leave their families and friends and all that reality to be like, we're going to make the ultimate sacrifice. And that seems to be a very similar thing. Like all these spider people have chosen or are required to have given up their universes so they can save the multiverse every day and bloody twice on Sunday or whatever it is. And he's like, well, actually, I like family and I like going down

to the bodega for a sandwich, actually. No, he doesn't. He hates his family. Does he? Mr. Fantastic. No, I'm talking about Spider-Man. Oh, yeah, that he does. Yeah, Reed does hate his family. But, yeah, sorry.

I got lost about that for a second. But, yeah, you're right. So it seems like somebody in his universe is going to die. Maybe his world has to perish. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. But it looks good. It does look good.

I mean, you freeze on any frame in this and you'll see like a weird Spider-Man. Spooderman is in that. Spooderman is in this, yes. There's a whole bunch of weird little. I mean, I don't think I'll ever, and I say this now, but I will get sick of it, that I really like that pointing meme. And they've done it. I like it in all formats.

But I think maybe this is the pinnacle of the pointing meme. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I'd be a big fan, Mason. And the final trailer of the week. Oh, yes. Unless you want to interrupt me with another thing you want to say. Like a rude dude.

Well, I have to keep up my reputation as a rude dude. So there's so many Spider-Men in this. I know, yeah. Damn. Some really cool designs and art styles and different animation techniques. Do you think Spider-Man 2099 ultimately is a bad, bad guy? Or do you think, yeah, I think it's just, yeah, yeah. The suit's too cool.

Do you think the spot is the bad, bad guy because he's just knocking off like a corner store? Or do you think he's just a villain? No, I think that's just Miles doing some classic. Is that like an inciting incident or something? Yeah, I think maybe it might just be like here's the stuff he deals with day to day and, you know, and it's real and it's grounded and, you know, and he's going to have to give that.

He's going to have to make a call. But I think in the end he's going to figure out a way to have it all. I agree. Next up we have Barbie. Oh, yes. Which is a bit of fun it looks like. I think it's a bit of fun. Go, Go Wigs Barbie movie, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gooseling.

That's right. Various others. So many various others. Simu Liu. And it's Simu Liu. Michael Cera. Michael Cera. Kate McKinnon.

Kate McKinnon, yeah. And they've sort of, as far as I know, they've gone all out in terms of both deep cuts of Barbie lore. So like Michael Cera is playing a guy called Alan who is just ken's friend oh really i didn't know that okay there is a one of the characters is pregnant like she's a pregnant lady and yeah that was just a like a long forgotten doll they tried out once in the late 60s or something and nobody bought it but they brought it all back they brought that character back. That character, like, indefinitely pregnant. Yeah, it seems that way.

And, yeah, and we've got, you know, and assorted other Barbies, including Kate McKinnon. Helen Mirren's in this? Anne Hathaway's in it? I'm just looking at this cast list. Kate McKinnon is playing a sort of Barbie. Been given a haircut. Been given a home haircut and scribbled on the face

and one of the legs broken off and et cetera. So a bit of fun. And plot-wise it seems to be sort of a Brady Bunch thing. Yeah, the Barbies are going to have to head over to the real world and meet Will Ferrell and he's going to be like, that's a bit of a Lego movie, isn't it? Because in the Lego movie they went to the real world and met Will Ferrell as well.

Oh, yeah. It looks really funny and, like, I wonder whether this is a kid's movie though. Like, do you think, like, you take take a kid to this and they're like – because there's jokes in this. Do girls like Barbie still? Yeah. Do they?

Yeah, definitely. Okay. Like, there's a beach-off joke, right? Or others, I don't know. Or others, exactly. There's a beach-off joke, right? Okay, yeah. I mean, I'm going to see this.

Yeah. Yeah. But there's a beach-off joke. Yes. And, like, obviously for a kid that doesn't mean anything. Yes. But for an adult – Because they're having a beach-off, like a walk-off. Yeah. Yeah. But there's a beach off joke. Yes. And like obviously for a kid that doesn't mean anything. Yes. But for an adult. Because they're having a beach off, like a walk off.

Yeah, exactly. But obviously if you're an adult, that could mean a different thing. Could. Could be. So I just wonder like how kid friendly is this? I just like, like Ryan Gosling also, just very funny. I agree. And I don't like that.

Yeah. No, good on him. He should be in another Nice Guys or Good Guys, whichever one it was. He should be in a Good Guys ad. The one with Steve. Yes, he should. With Steve Carell. Yes.

That one he did. He was funny in that. And Margot Robbie's obviously great. There was that conversation recently of like the last four movies that Margot Robbie had like bombed or whatever his career over. But if you look at those movies, like you look at the cast of people in them, it's like Brad Pitt and whoever. Christian Bale. Yeah, nobody else is like, well, Christian Bale.

Yeah, he's done, isn't he? It's fucked. Right? If she was like bad in them, then I would understand, you know. But she wouldn't be cast in these things if she were bad. Yeah, exactly. She wouldn't be cast in a Babylon or whatever it is, or an Amsterdam or whichever one she's in.

Whatever one it was, yeah. I think it's Babylon. It's both. Maybe. Maybe? But people, I didn't realize this. You know when the foot thing at the start, she steps out of the shoe and her foot's the same

because the Barbie figures, that's how they look. My thought was, because I guess I'm not a foot guy, I was like, oh, that's clever. But apparently people were melting down over that. If you're a foot person. I didn't even think about that yeah okay then that that has changed your life yeah so yeah there you go yeah i think she did foot stuff in um what was that other one the guy who did all the drugs and took everyone's

money dicaprio it's like a scene in that a character dicaprio was playing oh and in and in the tarantino one the tarant Was that her? That might be someone else. Ah, there's someone at the door. I think it's a dog. Told you. No, this is new, Mason. This is different than the other thing. It's the same thing.

There's always a dog. The telltale dog. Hello, which one is it? Hello, Ollie. Hello. Where did you go? Hello. Hello.

Hello, Bertilio. It's Owen. Oh. Hello. Hello, Petulia. It's all right. Oh. It's bloody chilly up there. Oh, you went wrong. Barbie. Yeah, it looks good. Look, I think, James, I think it's been written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, and I think they're very much clever enough

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Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca. It's Star Wars Celebration 2023, everybody. You better believe it is. Unless you want to do Mario first. No. Okay, it's still Star Wars Celebration time. You were like, oh, we've got a lot to get through.

And I'm like, we did all the news, James. And then you said Star Wars and I'm like, oh. There's so much Star Wars news. So much Star Wars news. All right. And what better way to kick off Star Wars Celebration news than talking about the Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny trailer? The new trailer.

Oh, yes. Where it goes, 1960s song, Indiana Jones doesn't understand anything anymore. He's on a train and he sees a kid in an astronaut helmet and he goes, ah, fucking Jesus. You know? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that's where we're at with Indiana Jones. Because time has moved forward. Just an old crank on a bus. That's right. Now, Mason, my one note for this is, Mason, you cannot stop me being excited for this. I wasn't going to. You cannot stop me.

I shan't be doing that and I don't want to be doing that for you, James. I'm excited also. Yeah. But. What do you mean but? I think I'm going to. Yeah, come on. Do you want me to throw a spanner in the works?

I don't know. Do you want to? No. Do you think there's going to be time travel in this? Yes. Because somebody is like. I'm going to bring Nazis back with time travel. Somebody says that.

Somebody's like. I'm just going to stop me. I don't agree with a lot of what Hitler said, but. No, but isn't there a line where somebody goes. I'm going to right the wrongs. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. So that dial is probably a time traveling dial.

I agree. A little real time turner. And they're going to go back and they're going to turn the wrongs or whatever. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. So that dial is probably a time-travelling dial. I agree. A little real time-turner. And they're going to go back and they're going to turn Indiana Jones into a woman. Whoa. And he's going to say, now I'm she, Deanna Jones. That's wild. And we're going to get upset.

Wow, wow, wow. Yeah. Wow. So I'm Indiana S. Jones. Exactly. Indiana already ends in an A, but we added a bit more to it. That's right. So apparently also it's like the first 25.

Mrs. Indiana Jonesina. The first. Housewife. That's right. The first Indiana Jones. But not by choice. Has to be a housewife. The first 25 minutes James Mangold talked about,

because he's the director of this one, not Spielberg, he goes, I just wanted to make it like a classic Indiana Jones adventure. And that's where we get all the young Indiana Jones deepfake stuff and whatever. I said, could the first 20 minutes exclusively be a picture of a map, the line with a plane going across it, and just the Indiana Jones theme for 20 minutes? And they said, yeah.

Absolutely. I think they were drunk, but I got them to sign it anyway. Yeah. So I think that's going to be a good transition, I think, into these. Yeah. I was talking about this recently with Claire. I think we even recorded it where I remember when the one came out in 2008 and I remember being like, God damn, this guy's old.

Look at him now. Oh, he's so old, Mason. I love it. He's so old and cranky. Yeah. He's even older. Oh, my guy's old. Look at him now. Oh, he's so old, Mason. I love it. He's so old and cranky. He's even older. Oh, my God. Yeah, but there's just a lot of really cool little action beats in it that we see in the trailers.

And sure, there's that floating head on a horse shot from the previous trailer that everyone put on us on. But if you're caught up in it, whatever, I think this idea of analyzing movies frame by frame, like I don't, I don't, yeah, it's like individual frames on a movie sometimes don't look good. I don't care.

We get a little snippet of Toby Jones. Yeah. Who I think is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's, the daughter of him. Yes. His character. Maybe. I think that's still a mystery at this point as well.

Okay. Right. Yeah. Maybe that was editing. Maybe that was a little bit of confusing. Yeah. Because I was going to say like, so like an interview,

I can't remember who said it, but like, that's a big, that's a mystery of this. Oh, right, okay. But maybe it's not. Maybe the mystery is, is that nerd her father or is it a cool guy? Oh, like Shia LaBeouf. Yeah, yeah.

Exactly. Maybe it's Shia LaBeouf. Is it Mutt Williams? Is it Mutt LaBeouf? That's right. But also some little character beats. It looks like Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character is very much, you know, she's out on her own.

She's locking Indy up behind a gate and taking off with a dial. I'm going to do a big adventure. That's right. Yeah. But also he's talking about he's like, this is the thing that I needed to get right and I didn't get it right at the time. Ah, yes.

Wow, you never mentioned it before though, did you? It can't be that important to you, Indiana Jones. Come on, man. Yeah, but it seems as if that item or whatever is going to be present in the first 25 minutes and all of that comes back to bite him on the ear. Do you think there will be a short round cameo? No. Well, not initially.

They might have put one in though. I think they might have put one in. At this point, I reckon there's been time. I reckon there's, you know, Indiana Jones is not known for post-credit sequences, but if there's gonna be one, I think it's gonna be... I don't think they'll post-credit. I think they might. No, because Star Wars... Would you love it or would you

hate it? I don't care. Oh, I would love it, honestly, yeah. Oh, no, the post-credit. Oh, short round? Yes. Oh, love it. I would rather it be like, let's put this character into this movie or universe properly. Yeah, sure. Than like, let's put this character into this movie or universe properly than like, here he is and there he goes. Well, there's no time.

No, I know that. There's only time to get K. Hugh Kwan in a closet, in a green screen, in the volume, and he'll just be standing in Istanbul or whatever. They've just put Istanbul on the volume and he's like, and they've just adorned him in random Indiana Jones. He's got a slightly different hat and a slightly different whip and a slightly different leather jacket.

And he's reading a newspaper that says, big win for Indiana Jones. There you go. It's great stuff. He's like, well, maybe I've got something to say about that. And then it cuts to black. The volume cuts to black. And then he just, is that all right?

And he walks off set. The volume cuts to test pattern. And he's like, is that good? All right. All right, And he walks off set. The volume cuts the test pattern. Is that good? All right. All right, great. I'm back. Oh, good God. I was a stunt coordinator for X-Men.

Thanks for nothing, honestly, the last 20 years. You absolute dogs. Anyway. Anyway, Mason, you cannot stop me being excited for this. I'm not going to stop you. You cannot stop me, so don't even bother. Okay. It's irrelevant to me what you think on this.

God, you're such a hater. I am a hater. That's undeniable, honestly. Harrison Ford didn't go to Star Wars Celebration, though. He just said a video that was like, I hope you like movies. I made a movie. Nice. Maybe I'll make some more.

I don't know. I'm pretty tired. Do you think they were like, hey Harrison, how about we put the trailer for Indiana Jones in front of Star Wars Celebration? Make it look as if you're doing another Star Wars thing and then we trick them all. I would love that.

Also, if you give me money, I will turn up as young Han Solo on the Mandalorian or whatever. I'll do it. I won't do any makeup. I won't do any makeup or costume. That's right. I'll do it. I'll do it. I won't do any makeup, but. I won't do any makeup or costume. Yes. Good stuff, man. Blade Runner 2049 is as good as you're going to get from it.

Oh, my goodness. It's going to show up in t-shirt and jeans and be like. And an earring. It's me, Han Solo. That's his best look. Yeah. Now, to move into Star Wars news, Mason, your favorite. It's not, but all right.

We've got an official timeline of events. This is how the galaxy is played out. Get ready. Write this down. I'm not going to. Write this down. How about I just take notes in an audio fashion? Yeah.

And then I'll take notes later. Write this down. Okay. The timeline is? Let me put on my green visor. You know those green plastic-y see-through visors? The see-through visors, yeah. We've got Dawn of the Jedi.

I think if they changed the lighting a little bit, they wouldn't need the see-through green visor. Well, it's the fluorescent lighting, isn't it? It's absolutely. I think they should just switch to LEDs. Yeah, I've taught like not full time, but like I've taught in classrooms with LED lighting. Insane.

It makes you feel insane. It makes the kids go insane. It's awful. That's why I'm putting on this normal green light. Is it LED? What is it? Whatever those offers. I don't know what it is.

Terrible. Regular? Regular. You know what it is. Terrible. Regular? Regular. You need a warm white. Warm white. Anyway, so we've got Dawn of the Jedi. We'll be getting a movie from it, it seems. The Old Republic.

Stop me if you've got something to say. I don't know. I'm actively yawning. I don't know if you noticed. The High Republic. Okay. The Fall of the Jedi. Okay.

The Reign of the Empire. Okay. Age of Rebellion. Oh, yeah. The New Republic. Uh-oh. Uh-ign of the Empire. Okay. Age of Rebellion. Oh, yeah. The New Republic. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Rise of the First Order.

Oh, come on. And then the New Jedi Order. Interesting. Which we'll talk about. So you're saying they're going to do a thing from each of these? No, there are things from each of these, but there's three movies which we will talk about which land in this era and then a bunch of TV series that mostly land around the Mandalorian for reasons we'll talk about.

Oh, before we go to that, have we talked about Mangold who's doing Swamp Thing? Did we talk about that last week? We will talk about that because he's doing a Star Wars and I want to talk about that specifically, Mason. Is that your one bit of news for the week? Maybe. All right.

Because we were talking about Mangold like five seconds ago. That's true. He's all over the place, this bloke. He might be too all over the place. What's getting cancelled this week? What Star Wars things are getting cancelled this week? Can't wait to find out. Well, I got news on that as well. So we also got a look at Andor

Season 2. Not a look, they talked about it a little bit. We're going to talk about it a little bit, folks. Woo! Shut up. It's Terry, whatever his name is. He hates Star Wars, he makes it. What's his, whatever his name is. He hates Star Wars. He makes it.

What's his name? Can't remember. Anyway, it's going to be out in August of 2024. I'm thinking of Terry's Chocolate Orange. I am, exactly. Terry's Chocolate Orange. It's going to be every three episodes is going to be set in a year. Okay. Apparently the first episode is set a year after the last.

Because originally it was going to be four seasons, right? Four or five, yeah. So this is probably the method of. Moving along. Yeah, moving along. That show, I've been thinking like I'm going to watch that again or at least the prison sequence. Yeah.

Just incredible. What an incredible show. How dare they, quite frankly. How dare they? Rude. Makes everything else look like shit. Rude, Mason. Yeah.

Because, you know, people aren't loving New Mandalorian. I'm fine with it yeah I think the one problem with this new season is a couple of problems they resolved

all the Grogu stuff in the book of Boba Fett so they can't do any of that sure so it just seems to be like little adventure of the week

because they're waiting for Ahsoka to introduce like Thrawn and whatever so they can't move everything too much forward right because Ahsoka's going to like, Thrawn and whatever. So they can't move everything too much forward because Ahsoka's going to do that. Mandalorian Season 3, treading water. Yeah, pretty much.

But, like, Jack Black and Lizzo are in it and some people lost their minds. But, like, who gives a shit? I don't care. Some Star Wars is good and some is bad. It's always been the way it is and sometimes it's in the same movie or property. Anyway, Skeleton Crew, they talked about that.

That's, like, an Amblinlin Goonies-style adventure. Jude Law's in it. He's like a Jedi. I guess another surviving Jedi. Guys, they should have killed more Jedi. I don't know what they were thinking. They did a terrible job. They did a bad job.

God damn. So, yeah, that by all accounts is going to capture that kind of ET kind of spirit. But maybe adults can watch it and be mad about it too. Of course they can. That's the Lucasfilm Star Wars guarantee. Then we have the Acolyte, which is like a Rise of the Sith kind of situation. There's some leaked footage. This is a Rise of the Sith situation.

It's a Sith situation. Yeah, we're in a Sith situationsituation. Carrie-Anne Moss. Yeah, we're in a Sith-situation. Look out. Keep your head down. Carrie-Anne Moss has a little fight sequence in it. She's some kind of maybe Jedi. Was this on the internet or is this just?

It was leaked. It was leaked. If you want to check it out. Okay. The dude from Squid Game is in it. Okay. And that's fun. Okay.

So, yeah. Sam Squidley Diddley. Sam Squidley Diddley. That one might be set in the. Squid Game Warehouse? Yeah, that's right. In the game of Red Light, Green Light. They need to do one really, really low budget just to see what somebody can squeeze out of it.

Oh, okay. Just set in a room or something. Set in a room. Yeah. Just punch each other. Star Wars set in a room. It should be gold. Oh, I thought you meant Squid Game.

But, yeah, Star Wars set in a room. Absolutely. I think that one might be the High Republic era. Let me check that. I actually don't know. Let me check because I think they're putting a Wookiee Jedi in it. Leslie Hedlund, Star Wars fan. It's set in the High Republic era.

It is. So they're getting the guy who plays Chewbacca now to play a Jedi Wookiee who's from – I don't know if you know this, but there's been a whole lot of books and comics and expanded material set in the High Republic. I haven't read a single thing from it. So this is that era. But this is also Leslie Hedlund who did Russian Doll.

Oh, I like that show. And maybe other things. Okay. Oh, that's one step closer to Natasha Lyonne being in the Star Wars universe. Exactly. That's cool. Do you remember as a kid? I remember everything.

There were a bunch of Star Wars comics that were set. Like in the Old Republic? Yeah, like way back in the Old Republic. And they've got the box attached to the lightsaber, like that far back? Yeah, maybe. And there weren't even real, it wasn't real Jedi stuff, but there were like people who were weird sorcerers and things.

Yeah, I vaguely remember that. What was that? I don't know. Was that Old Republic or the pre-Old Republic? I guess that is, I mean, I'm sure that's all non-canon now. Yeah. But some of it, they bring some of it back in, like maybe the Old Republic or the pre-Old Republic? I guess that is, I mean, that's all non-canon now. Yeah. But some of it, they bring some of it back in.

Like maybe the Old Republic video games. Because I remember that being just weird in a cool way. I remember there was like the first lightsabers were like a box, like a power pack. Okay, great. Like with a chain connected to a lightsaber which you would then wield, which quite frankly seems impractical. You'd have to go to the lightsaber petrol station. Every few beheadings.

Exactly, yeah. Fill her up, mate. Because you can still get that sort of service. Absolutely. At the lightsaber petrol station. Do you remember that as a kid? Yeah, vaguely, yeah. Same.

Guy would come out and fill it up for you. Yeah, and I'd be like, get on with it, mate. As a child. As a child. My parents taught me that. That still happens in some states in America yeah in service industries

you just tell people to get on with it oh right yes just get on with it just get on with it if you wouldn't mind so we also got confirmation of a second series

of Tales of or From the Jedi and we got that animated Tales from or of the Jedi which will it be this week or Dooku

you think Young Dooku You this week? Or Dooku. You think? Young Dooku. Youku. Young Sexy Dooku. I liked Young Sexy Dooku. I really liked Tales of the Jedi. Did you watch it?

Yeah, we watched it, right? Oh, we watched it. Okay, cool. Must have been a slow week. But it was great. I thought it was really good. Or did we watch Star Wars Visions? We did that too. I think that was confirmed.

Or it's already been confirmed also. But that, who do you want to see? Tales of or from the Jedi? See, I knew there was someone. You keep saying that. Yeah, and it always comes through, doesn't it? My kids have come to say goodnight. Uh-oh.

So who do you want to see? In Tales of or from the Jedi? You can say nobody. Apparently someone, could say nobody. Apparently someone was, I say someone, Steel Saunders was in town this week. Steel Saunders. And we were having a bit of a chat about a new season of Mando.

Apparently R5-D4 is in it quite a bit. Oh, yeah, he is. Okay. So not R5-D4. He's at his moment in the sun. That's true. Let me think. What if they finally brought that Kyle Katarn in?

I would love to see that. Would a Tales of the Jedi bring in a new like – I'd probably not. It would have to be like connected to somebody else or whatever. Right, right, right. I would love a Kyle Katarn, but no. Okay. I think Cal Kestis is kind of done doing the Kyle Katarn thing at the moment. Yes, that's true, yeah.

Yeah, actually, Cal Kestis, that would be cool because they are going to bring that character over at some point in something. It's just an inevitability. That's very true. I would like to see some Luke Skywalker stuff, just doing some animated training-y, little jaunts, little missions he goes on. Okay, sure.

You know? Yeah, sure. You could get Mark Hamill or the deep fakes, whatever, if you really want. Maybe a little Ben Solo thing. Oh, before he goes mad. Yeah, or. You could get Mark Hamill or the deep fakes, whatever, if you really want. Maybe a little Ben Solo thing. Oh, before he goes mad. Yeah, or after. Oh.

Something like that, yeah. Okay. But no, I'm not married to any particular version of this. But I'd imagine there'll be some variety like there was last time. Yeah. We'll have this. Okay. Tales of the Donnie Yen character from Rogue One.

Will he's technically not a Jedi? Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. I'm going to say no. What if you watch the entire episode and then, like, I don't know,

Obi-Wan Kenobi shows up and he's like, turns out you are like a Jedi. You technically count as a Jedi. And he's talking to his corpse. Yeah. Yeah. Because he didn't know that the length of his life is what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really liked that character.

That's what I'm saying. Put him in. No. I'd say no. Wow. Because he's technically not a Jedi. Well, rules are rules. It's not tales of a guy who knows some things about the Jedi.

Well, maybe it should be a tales of a guy who knows a guy. But it's Tales of. You know what they do? They just do a framing story where Ben Kenobi's like, yes, I knew a guy. I knew a bloke. We all know guys, Obi-Wan. Who cares?

Well, he's special, I think. You're boring. You're boring. Who are you even? Who am I even talking to? This is mean and rude rude Obi-Wan. This guy's mean. This is on the back foot Obi-Wan.

Pass egg Obi-Wan. Yeah, on the back foot. Pass egg Obi-Wan. There you go. Anyway, let's talk about some of the stuff we did see, including the Ahsoka trailer. You're not even rich. Neither are you.

Well. You live in a hut. You shit in the desert. I live in a hut. You shit in the desert. I live in a cave. Yeah, you did. You moved. If I sold it, I could get a lot of credits for it. No, you couldn't.

I could. I could. Where are you going to move? It's desert front property. That's worth a lot, actually. You don't know anything about insurance. You also don't know anything about insurance. You also don't know anything about insurance. Don't need it, too good.

But also real estate. Don't need it, too good. So we got a trailer for Ahsoka. Yes. One that we saw as a general public, and then they had a panel the following day. Oh, with Secret More Stuff. Secret More Stuff.

I mean, the big reveal in this, I think, we got Ray Stevenson. David Tennant. Yep. He's a robot, isn't he? Go on, then. Oh, okay Secret Morse stuff. Secret Morse stuff. I mean, the big reveal in this, I think, we've got Ray Stevenson. David Tennant. Yep. He's a robot, isn't he? Go on, then. Oh, okay, but also Ray Stevenson. And he's wielding what looks like an orange lightsaber. What's going on there?

Yeah. I can't remember their names, but they're also named after, like, Norse mythology wolves. There's, like, a blonde woman in him. Oh, so, like, Fenris and Frenris or something. It's not that, but it's whatever. Because Dave Filoni loves- Frenris and Frenster. Frenris and Friend of Frenris or something like that. It's not that, but it's whatever. Because Dave Filoni loves Fenris and Friendster.

Fenris and Friend of Fenris. So he loves wolves and shit, Dave Filoni, in his Star Wars. Does that explain the cowboy hat? Yes, that's why.

That's exactly it. Yeah. There's no through line there, but I just imagined one. But so, like, I wonder whether it's going to be like a,

so it's Ivana Sacrano and Ray Stevenson. Yes. Not sure that's how you pronounce it. And I don't know, But so I wonder whether it's going to be like a – so it's Ivana Sakharov and Ray Stevenson. Yes. Not sure that's how you pronounce it. And I don't know. It's Stevon Son. Thank you.

Is it like – is that a Mara Jade, Taurus, Cyboth situation? Yeah, sure. For those people who don't know, Mara Jade is a redhead, so not blonde, but ends up – she's the Empress Hannah. She ends up falling in love with Luke Skywalker and they have kids and whatever. Because in this trailer, Ahsoka, but ends up, she's the Emperor's hand and she ends up falling in love with Luke Skywalker and they have kids and whatever. Because in this trailer, Ahsoka, of course, says heir to the Empire. Yeah.

And everybody goes, what? Did you say heir or hair? Hair to the Empire. Sorry, what? Can you say that again, please? Hair to the, with an H. Yes. H-A-I-R.

This is somebody in the room asking her, by the way. That's right. Did you say hair? Mm. Okay. I did. Is that referring to your, is what you have hair, Ahsoka? What's going on there?

That's rude, actually. It's rude to ask that. Are they just, are they polyps? Are they two big polyps? Ahsoka, what's going on there? I am your GP. I feel I should know. I don't want to know.

And Shorus Saiboth is a clone of a Jedi who went mad and he works with Thrawn and Luke goes to train with him and Luke's like, this guy sucks, but I don't know why and it's because he's evil and a clone and whatever. But I don't think it's that. Okay. It's two new characters. I mean, there could be shades of it, minor shades.

But we also get a live action Sabine from Rebels. Okay. A live action. Now, Sabine is Obi-Wan Kenobi's girlfriend or something. Who am I thinking of? That's Satine. Okay. Who's Sabine?

It's from Rebels. She's got short hair and whatever. Seems like you had longer hair in this trailer. Yes, that's right. Some people don't like that. Star Wars fans who don't like a thing. I won't hear of such a thing. We got Ezra in our little hologram because he,

I don't know if you've seen, we haven't covered them for Paramount and Garbage, we probably will, but at the end of Rebels, spoiler alert, Ezra basically gets some space whales who can go through hyperspace and he gets Thrawn and Thrawn's ship and he shoots them off to the unknown regions. So Ezra's gone and Thrawn disappears in Rebels. I see.

And now Thrawn's maybe back. We also get Harrison Dooler. Do you think that did he like make friends with the space whales? Is that how he's back? Thrawn? Yes. No. Or maybe he made them.

But Ezra did. Ezra's friends with the space whales. Okay. But what I'm saying is after that. Yes, they probably made friends. He made friends with the space whales. They probably had a big cup of coffee and they talked about it. We're not so different, you and I.

I'm a blue guy and you're a space whale. It's pretty different though, isn't it? Yeah, but I mean, you know, we can have this conversation, can't we? That is something, you're right. It's something, isn't it? We both love coffee. Yeah, I guess they love caff. It's called caff.

We both take our caff the same way, in a they love calf. It's called calf in the Star Wars movie. We both take our calf the same way in a big trough. So anyway, if you could get me back to where I was through the hyperspace or whatever, I've got to kill an Ezra guy. No, he went with him. Oh. Ezra disappeared at the same time. And Harrison Dooler, who is the Twi'lek played by Mary Elizabeth Olsen. Winstead. Winstead.

Winstead, yes. You know, she's in Star Wars. And her husband's in Star Wars because her husband is Ewan McGregor. That's right. So that's fun. David Tennant is also returning. He's a robot. He comes back.

He's doing the voice of the robot again. But, of course, the big reveal is live-action Grand Admiral Thrawn as played by, again. Probably Mads Mikkelsen's brother, right? Lars Mikkelsen's again. I did see somebody on Twitter. There's a leaked image. Yeah.

It just looks like Thrawn. Okay, well, because in the trailer we only see the shot of Thrawn's head or it is presumed to be Thrawn and somebody took a press photo or a candid photo of Lars Mikkelsen and lined the ears up and went, those are his ears. Yeah, it's 100% him. Very candid. I'm just going to find if there's a picture of this to show you,

but you get it, right? Yes. Come on, phone. God, it takes forever. Creepers, creepers. Oh, God, Twitter's awful. Again, it's always been awful, but this is just awful. I don't know where it is.

Anyway, yeah, so, yeah, there you go. It's basically Rebels 2, Rebels Season 6 or whatever they got up to in Rebels. I can't know where it is. Anyway, yeah, so yeah, there you go. It's basically Rebels 2, Rebels Season 6 or whatever they got up to in Rebels. I can't remember. But it looks good. It's a Dave Filoni series, which we'll talk about. Well, a lot of this stuff is Dave Filoni driven. I have orange lightsaber questions.

What's that? What's going on there? I don't like the look of an orange lightsaber. I like it a lot. I don't like it. I liked how they were sort of faded. Yeah. Like they're sort of washed out. Clearly there's something going on there? I don't like the look of an orange lightsaber. I like it a lot. I don't like it. I liked how they were sort of faded. Yeah. Like they're sort of washed out.

Clearly there's something going on there. Something good or bad. Like the batteries are going low. Or they haven't stopped at the pump recently. You swing it and it's just a light just goes through. Maybe, yeah. Yeah. Love the Bray Stevenson look though.

And you just feel a bit yuck. Yeah. There's some bad taste in my mouth. Mm-mm. Oh, it tastes all metal. Yeah. Mm-mm. Ugh.

Ugh. Yuck. Yeah, and you're going to have that for several hours. Oh, I don't like this. This has ruined my day. Mission accomplished. Now, Mason, in addition to the Rian Johnson trilogy and Taika Waititi's Star Wars movie, but not the Kevin Feige movie, which isn't happening apparently.

Three more Star Wars movies were announced. Yes. Three more beautiful sacrificial lambs to be cancelled. So apparently the Rian Johnson one is because he's busy. They haven't talked about it. Taika Waititi is writing his on his own at the moment. Okay. But also I saw a rumour that maybe he's doing Akira.

He's going to make Akira live action. So we'll see if that happens. But so Dave Filoni is going to be making a move, directing a movie. We, of course, started working with George Lucas back on the Clone Wars animated series in like 2008, whenever that came out. And that's going to be the culmination of all the TV Mandalorian stuff. As part of the Mandoverse. So it's Ahsoka, it's Mando, it's probably Skeleton Crew, it's probably

Luke Han and Leia coming back and go, we're here too, and we're all deepfaked. Just a really gross scene you have to look at. It's going to be all of that and they all beat up Grand Admiral Thrawn or whatever happens. That'll be that situation. I do wonder the translation

between, like, I know because of Mandalorian, the numbers have dipped. Yep. And like event television becoming a movie. Like it has been done. Like recently, what is it? It's not The Godfather.

It's whatever. Mobsters. They did a mobster prequel, James Gandolfini show. They did a Sopranos prequel. Yes, they did. The X-Files had a movie. Well, they had a couple of movies. There's some other examples of this where like shows –

I'm not talking like Italian movie, like a movie movie. I thought you said Italian movie. Italian movies. I'm not talking about Italian movies like that mobster with the Sopranos. Whatever, whatever. But no, I think this could do very well. But also you've got to also with something like this, you've got to make it accessible to everybody at the same time.

So, you know, we'll see how that goes. I think this is very much the kind of like, the fan-centric driven, this is the ones that people seem to like. Even if people don't like the Mando season three or whatever, people like this era. They like that Luke Skywalker

can turn up and go, hello, I'm young. That's right. People like that. God, show off. Big deal. I am young. My skin's so smooth. My hair's great. God, Luke. Are you sure there's not, isn't there a Jedi code about vanity or something? No.

I'm the last one. That's right. I'm the only one. I've given up all my material things, but I'm still beautiful. Except for looking great. I've given up all my moisturiser, but I don't need it. I'm Luke Skywalker. I love this vain Luke Skywalker. Me too.

All our Star Wars stuff is just adjective, then the name of the character. Then the name of the character. That's right. That already exists. Yes, that's right. Yeah, so there you go. The other one is, and I think if any of them don't happen,

it's going to be this one. James Mangold is going to do a movie set 25,000 years before whatever modern Star Wars is at and it's going to be about the inception of the Force and the first users of it. It's going to be in the style of a Cecil B. DeMille movie. He did like a Ten Commandments. Yeah, right. And another thing from that.

Like the big biblical epics of that era of Hollywood. It's going to be that kind of thing. But the other thing is he's also working on, he's got Indiana Jones coming out, which would probably be close to locked if it's not already. But also he's doing a Bob Dylan biopic. That's right. And he's also writing this Star Wars movie at the same time he's going

to be writing and developing a Swamp Thing movie over at DC. That's right, because that's apparently one of his big passion projects. Wow. Yeah, so that's pretty cool. But, again, like, I mean, any number of those things that he's working on could fall down. But if one of these is going by the wayside, it's probably this one, I'd imagine. Especially if Indiana Jones 5, like, people don't like it.

Yeah. Which could just be because people get upset. Or it could be because it's bad. That's true. You can't take away my excitement for that movie, even though you keep trying to. Seems like you're doing a pretty bloody good job of yourself. So what do you think about that? 25,000 years in the past, whatever, whatever. That sounds true. You can't take away my excitement for that movie, even though you keep trying to. It seems like you're doing a pretty bloody good job of yourself. So what do you think about that? 25,000 years in the past, whatever, whatever.

That sounds fun. I mean, that's what I was talking about before with the weird witchy stuff. I think they could tie that in quite neatly. I mean, but also, you know, I don't think they necessarily need a James Mangold to do that, so perhaps he won't. No, but I think, you know, he'd be good at it. Yeah. I like his movies, but I think, you know, he'd be good at it. Yeah.

I like his movies, including his new Indiana Jones movie, which you cannot quell my thirst for, Mason. Oh, yes. Despite you constantly trying to. And the third movie is a Star Wars New Jedi Order movie. Oh, yes. Which was a series of books which focused on Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order, but obviously the timeline is different now.

So Rey Skywalker is going to return as the head of the New Jedi Order. It's going to be set 15 years after the rise of Skywalker, which makes sense if you go, okay, so she was 19 in The Force Awakens and Daisy Ridley's I think about 30 now and this won't come out for three to four years if ever. Works out all right. So, yeah, that could be 15 years. I think people saw 15 years and expected, you know,

Ray to be like a wizened old crow. Yeah. Like, oh, I remember. I had found a big knife. And then I looked at the knife and then I turned the knife. I turned the knife and then I saw the Death Star. It was in, I could see it through the knife. And then we went into the Death Star. It was in, I could see it through the knife. And then we went into the Death Star.

And I think there was a worm or something. Was it the first Death Star or the second Death Star? Oh, I don't know. I don't remember. What was the snake thing you were talking about? What did that happen? There was a snake. Oh, yeah.

And I think it bit my friend, I think. I think it bit my friend. Okay. Yeah, but then I said, oh, you're all right. To the mate or the snake? I don't know. Perhaps I was talking to myself. I just thought, oh, that'll be right, I think.

Put a bit of calamine lotion on that. A balm, that'll be right, I think. Put a bit of calamine lotion on that. A balm. You'll be right, I think. A balm? Yeah. Anyway, she won't be like that. You don't think old, crone Rey Skywalker is the direction they're going to go? I'm not too sure.

In the tradition of naming people the way that we do. Maybe. So this is going to be directed by Shamim Obaid Chinoy, who worked on Ms. Marvel and done a bunch of documentaries and stuff. Damon Lindelof, this is the one that he left and Stephen Knight is on board. Kathleen Kennedy talked about this in general. She's out of her ass.

She came out and she said hello. First of all, what do you think about, do you think it's too soon? It's been four years since Tross. What do you think about, do you think it's too soon? It's been four years since Tross. Um. And I think this is very much like. Bringing a new team of new guys.

Yeah. Even newer guys. And we're sorry for the last one. Right. Or some of, whatever you like, whatever you don't like about the sequel trilogies, we're sorry. How about this? Big reveal. Raise nobody again.

She's not related to the Emperor again. I think they could very well do that. He tricked you. Yeah. You're just nobody again. She's not related to the Emperor again. I think they could very well do that. He tricked you. Yeah. You're just regular again. And then the next series, she's a Palpatine again. Oh, my God. Double tricked.

Back and forth forever. Forever. I don't know whether I'm a Palpatine. They kept changing it. I just left the room. He was like, blah, blah, blah, blah, give me all your power, and I just said, I'm bored. So there you go.

Of these three, which of these are you interested in? I'll just leave my power on. I'll just leave it on my bedside table. I'm going to have a lie down, but you can have my powers, I suppose. You can have my powers if you want. I'm Ray Skywalker. I think. I buried some lightsabers in the desert.

I mean, no, just at a random location, nowhere. Didn't you bury it at Luke's house? I mean, I don't know. I don't think he ever told me where he lived. Yeah, but he could have. I mean, you knew him. No. Okay.

I think he lived in a hut out in a swamp or something, near a river or a lake or something. Why did you bury it in the desert then? I don't, I don't. Perhaps it was thematically significant. Oh, that's right, it was where his aunt and uncle were killed. I saw their skeletons. They were still there?

Yes. Really? They just left them there. Like the wind didn't even like cover them with sand? No. Wow, that's wild. Yes. So Luke didn't bury them?

No, probably. No. Just not interested, I suppose. He was off on his little adventures. I mean, I'd never even been there before. I'm not sure why I married them there. Yeah, it does seem a little like heavy-handed fan service-y, if I'm honest.

I don't know what that is, darling. I don't know. Of these three things. We have to keep moving. What do you think? No, I like the Rey thing. I like Daisy Ridley. I think she hasn't had a fair shake, I think,

in just Hollywood and Star Wars generally. I mean, she got three movies. Yes. She did Mind Snake with Tom Holland. That's true. That was a good one. And she probably did like an old-timey period drama or something. She was like, where's the-

Wearing a little hat? Where's the bridge board or whatever. Yes, exactly. That's right. I like the James Mangold idea. Yeah. Which is, again, the one I think if one of them's not going to happen, or they'll just keep pushing it down the line and it will never come out.

Look, I'd like to see Daisy Ridley, but I suspect the New Jedi Order thing will just be like, here's some young Hollywood stars and they're, oh, my God, this is exciting, isn't it? This is Ansel Elgort. He's here. Wait, is he young? I don't know. Or good?

Which one is he again? Fault in Our Stars? Don't know what that is. Okay. Oh, is he the baby driver guy? He's the baby driver. Oh, yeah, no, he's cancelled, I think. Anyways, Kathleen Kennedy said she wants to eventize movies again,

Star Wars movies. Okay. And I think what she means is like Solo bombed, people didn't like The Rise of Skywalker. Oh, yeah, yeah. Everything is like there's so much stuff in streaming and they realize that you can also make monies if you make movies. Yeah, sure, right.

You can make monies at movies. Monies at movies, baby. So there you go. That's all the Star Wars news. I'll just do a quick update. Weep, weep, weep. See if there's anything else. Being whatevered in Star Wars Celebration.

I think they're doing a couple of fan panels at the moment. But yeah, Ian McDermott's there and he's like, yeah, I was Palpatine. Whatever. Oh, yeah. Nice. I was there. I was in those movies. Cool, cool.

All right. Should we get on with it? Yes. Everybody, it's time to swing your arms from side to side. Go on. It's time to do your arms from side to side. Go on. It's time to do the Mario, et cetera. Oh. So the Super Mario Bros. movie, which is the,

there were some animated movies in the 80s or whatever, the Japanese or something. Then they did the live action version, which I've got a little bit of fun trivia at the end of this. Oh, my goodness. But now I've got a super real Nintendo. Oh, you forgot? There's also a series of video games.

There was a series of video games. They made two to three of them and then this movie. I think they should have done a Super Mario Brothers, the movie, the video game in the style of Street Fighter, the movie, the video game. Completely agree. Fully digitized Bob Hoskins. Hoskins and Leguizamo in there.

He shoots Dennis Hopper with a Nintendo scope or whatever. And you do down, down, forward, forward, high punch, and he goes, I was in King Lear. I used to do King Lear. Roger Rabbit hated it. Pain in me ass. Budget of $100 million. Oh, yes.

Box office return. Oh, yes. Record breaking. Apparently this record was set by Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. But the US opening is going to come in at around, if not higher, than $206 million. Globally, the conservative estimate of this movie in its first five days, because it did open a little bit early, is around $368 million.

What do you think the story was? Murray is a plumber and his brother is a plumber, and they're going out on their own, a couple of big plumbing boys and their big plumbing business, but nobody believes in them. Not even their family think they're a bunch of big losers. Everybody hates them. Everyone hates them and they live at home in little beds, little Mario and Luigi beds. How old are they supposed to be?

Canonically, Mario and Luigi are supposed to be 25. Then this is a prequel, I feel, to that. Right, yeah. Okay, but they look like adult squat cartoon men. It's the modern day. So, you know, people are staying at home longer. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, they find a portal and they end up in Toadland or whatever.

And you might be like, oh, what series of events leads them to finding a portal? I guess. Fall in a hole. Yeah, they are. And then they see it. They go, oh, there it is. Hey, we're going to the portal. Pretty good.

Where does this go? Yeah, yeah. And then Bowser's going to destroy Toadland or whatever. Yep. So Mario's got to stop him. Okay. And Princess Peach is there and Toad. I think. And all the stuff you like.

I think I liked this. All the stuff you like. Yeah, that's true. I think I liked this slightly more than you. Okay. But. Does that mean you liked it at all? I, okay.

I think this is, if you like the Sonic movie, movies. But. Does that mean you liked it at all? I, I, okay. I think this is, if you like the Sonic movie, movies. Yes. I think it's probably on par with the first one. I think the Sonic second movie is better. I think it's a stronger movie, stronger kids movie. If you like League of Super Pets, if you like the movie Hop, I think in that sense, it's the perfect. If you like going to IHOP, International House of Pancakes.

In that sense. Or Pancake Parlor. Or Pancake, ugh, yuck. I love going to Pancake Par International House of Pancakes In that sense Or Pancake Parlor I love going to Pancake Parlor It sucks and it's too expensive and the food takes too long I don't think you have any taste buds left Nobody likes Pancake Parlor except for you I disagree I think myself and all the uni students

That are there at 3 in the morning While I'm there would disagree with you I disagree with them So I think in that I like, I took my family, like both of my kids enjoyed it for what it was because it's like, look, he gets the thing and he does a flip and he meets Donkey Kong and what have you. So as a kid's movie, yeah.

Yeah. As like a movie in itself, not as much. No. What about you? I thought it was bad. And again, look, you know, I talked to one of your kids that is capable of conversation earlier. They both talk, Mason.

One talks-ish. And he seemed to enjoy all the stuff that was happening. Yeah. And I guess that's cool. That is cool. But some of us like a bit more out of our movies. Yeah, and I know there is, like it could be said, and I'm sure people have said this and maybe even will say it to us,

that, you know, this isn't necessarily a movie for adults, which I agree with. It's absolutely not a movie for adults, yes. But I think you could have. Nor is it an adult movie. But if you, yeah, but if you look at like, and I mentioned it earlier, like the Despicable Me franchise even, which is also Illumination, whatever, maybe the Secret Life of Pets movies.

I don't, I don't know. I haven't seen them. I think there is, there was a way to make this at least funnier. Yeah, that's my number one problem with this, I think, is that it is just there is so much empty space between jokes. Yeah. I was hoping, you know, like the best episodes of The Simpsons. Lego movie.

I've not seen most of them, but Lego Batman. You know, just wall-to-wall jokes and some of them as an adult you go oh and some of them as an adult you go ha that's actually quite good yeah i'm sure some of the kids watching will will not get some of the jokes they'll get the other get the other jokes well you see batman in his heart underpants and whatever exactly and that's a bit of fun yeah this one was just exposition half-hearted joke yep they go to a just exposition, half-hearted joke. They go to a different place, exposition, half-hearted joke. Go to a different place.

Go to a different place, et cetera. Get a power-up and whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think there are a lot of missed opportunities in this. And again, as a kid's movie, 90 minutes, perfect. Okay. Like genuinely. Right.

Take your kids if you need to keep them quiet for a little bit, you know? It is. It's perfect in that sense, which is okay. Movies can be that. But I think like there's missed opportunities in the world of the Mushroom Kingdom and joke-wise that they just don't do. It feels like a lot of this is just first pass. Like how does he get to the Mushroom Kingdom?

I don't know. He falls down a hole and he finds a pipe. Well, like, you know, what happens? How does he train? He does a Mario course. He just does one of the Mario courses, whatever. It's like Donkey Kong's here. What's he going to do?

He's going to be like, look at these pecs. And it's like, write something else other than that. You know? But I guess they didn't have to, did they? No. Because they've made $400 million. Now, I know this was your favourite bit. I bet I'm wrong.

There's a moment, well, you said this to me, where Jack Black sings a song about Peach. The part of the story is that Bowser is in love with Princess Peach and so that's why he wants to invade the Mushroom Kingdom and whatever. He thinks he's got a real affection for Princess Peach and he's like, as soon as I show up and I give her some flowers and what have you, she'll fall madly in love with me. He's not like, I'm going to force her to get married or whatever.

He's just like, yeah, she loves me for sure. Oh, I like her. That's cool. Anyway, and he sings a little song about how much he loves Peach. He gets on the piano. Yeah. And I actually just, I don't know, just by pure coincidence, I watched Tenacious D tribute song today.

Oh, yes. It's a great, people know it. It's a great song. And they've got, Tenacious D and Jack Black have a lot of great songs, but I feel like this is not a very funny Jack Black song. No. It's just like Peaches, Peaches, Peaches, I'm in love and whatever. I imagine it was like a muck around.

Yeah. I reckon they maybe even just brought in a piano or. It feels like that. And they just went, what can you do with this? Yeah. It feels like just improv a song maybe or we just wrote this song called Peaches and just, you know, it just, it's, there's 10 better versions of that. Yes. That you could have done that they just don't do.

Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. Look, to me, this movie was just weirdly paced in so much empty space in it where it could that could have been filled with jokes and instead was filled with i think you could do jokes and also hey look look there's the thing from yeah like there were a couple of background visual gags like i think there was a there's a vintage store and it was filled with vintage old video games or something those in the car yeah totally yeah yeah because none of it's – I wouldn't even say like none of it's bad.

I was never like – It looks nice, certainly. It looks incredible. Like what an amazing recreation of the Mushroom Kingdom and whatever. But he shows – Mario shows up in the – Mario and Luigi show up in the Mushroom Kingdom and they get separated and Luigi ends up in the Dark Realm and he's captured by Bowser and Mario has to rescue him and so he goes to Daisy and he's like, I'll help you defeat Bowser.

And she's like, okay. Anyway, can you run this course, this platforming course? And he's like, I'm bad at it. She's like, well, we'll just. Just keep doing it. Just keep doing it, I guess. Yeah. Keep doing that.

And he does. Why wouldn't she be like, no? Yeah. What a waste of my time. does. Why wouldn't she be like, no? Yeah. What a waste of my time. There is this kind of paper-thin, like, characterisation and I think also relationships going on here. Like, he runs into the castle to find Princess Peach and he's like, I need to find my brother.

And she's just like, all right. She's not like, this is a crazy person. Like, do we want to talk this through? Do I want to push back on this bit a little? It's immediately like, yes. And also, look, again, we know it's a, every part of this movie, yeah, we know it's a kid's movie. Yeah.

But just a tiny little bit of extra anything would have been good. How do I defeat this course? You can use a power-up. Which one? And he's like, what does that mean? What do you mean a power-up? Why do these exist? Why are they here? I hate mushrooms.

Oh, like Sonic, like in the Sonic movie. Like that's the laziest version of like, oh, I got to eat mushrooms. Well, I hate mushrooms. Well, you have to because it's in the game. Also, they don't even look like. These are cartoon mushrooms. They're different. They're different, Mario.

I think like even like so in the relationship with Luigi is characterised as Mario is always there for Luigi. Yeah. And that's it. Yes. There's not even like the cliche thing of like Mario's always overshadowing me or whatever and I can never live up to Mario and it's whatever.

It's just not. You know, the deep lore of the Mario universe. No, I just mean like it's just Mario finds Luigi and he goes, I found you. Yes. That's right. Oh, wait, you were here every time. That's pretty good.

That's good. Well, that's exactly right. And I think, honestly, the cast is great. I think Chris Pratt as Mario, the Brooklyn thing, I get it. You settle into it. I think it works for the most part, right? Charlie Day's amazing. Anya Taylor-Joy is Princess Peach and that's all fine and whatever.

Jack Black is Bowser. These are all good. These are all good additions. But it's just. Cranky Kong is only Donkey Kong's father, not his grandfather. I think that was a real mistake there in the Donkey Kong law. I didn't know there was a Kong in between. There is a Kong in between.

Oh, my God. That's right. Very embarrassing for the lore there. Yeah, I just think like the scope of this universe and you see it in like the places they visit. Why wouldn't Peach just defeat Donkey Kong? Because she's really good at everything. Well, that's exactly right.

What does Mario bring to this that Peach can't do? We can talk about the woke discussion. Italian-ness. Yeah, Italian-ness. We can talk about the woke discussion surrounding this, mate. Can we? Okay. Look, we're talking about it before the show because there's two schools of thought, right, that contradict each other. Well, yeah, look, I've seen, in terms of

woke outrage, because obviously, like a lot of movies recently, if you go to Rotten Tomatoes, for example, the critic score is significantly lower than the audience score. And I've seen two attempted culture war. Here we go. Two attempted culture war strategies playing out simultaneously. One is that actually the reason critics hate this movie is because they're against Chris Crap.

Chris Crap. That's what I call them. That's right. They're against Chris Pratt because of his conservative religious views. Even though everybody loved the Guardians Christmas special. It's just coming out. And anyway, actually the critics are completely out of touch and actually it's really good and you should definitely see it because it's so good.

And then the other direction was actually why does Princess Peach not need to be rescued? Why is she a kick-ass girl? Because actually that's not accurate to the movie because actually she's playable in a bunch of gangs. She's supposed to be a damsel in distress or whatever. So they're attempting to fire out both of these simultaneously just to see which one will hit.

And then they're just going to run with that one forever, which I think is fun. And I suspect it's the Chris Pratt. Sure, okay. We hate Chris Pratt because of his conservative views, which is why we all hated the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas special so much and why we're all going to hate Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Correct.

Or maybe the critics' score is low because they didn't like the movie because it's not good. Because they're adults watching a movie for kids. If anything, I think also like the Bowser like princess marriage thing is like, oh, yeah, like the game or whatever. I'm like, oh, you could have kind of made this more interesting, you know. Oh, and there's the – It's just like, okay, of course there's –

But that's the games and whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who cares? So many – like when Mario shows up and he's like, where's the princess of the castle? And he's like, where's the princess? And the guard's like, well, our princess is in another castle. Yeah, we get it.

Like the game. Like the game. Like the game. What about the start when he ran? But why would he say that? He'd just say no. Yeah. He'd say no, leave.

No, fuck off. I have a sword. I'll kill you. I'll kill you, foreigner. Stab you to death. That's right. Yeah, I just think like they're, oh, my God. So I enjoyed like Donkey Kong, that little Donkey Kong Mario rivalry,

and they do a Mario Kart and whatever. And again, look nice. Yeah. But again, it's such a basic way to be like, how are we going to get there? We're going to need karts. Then they go and they build Mario Karts and then they get in the Mario Karts and they do a Mario Kart. I mean, great, but like and also all the all the um all the like

needle drops are so bad they're also here we go really generic and basic like there's a right at the start they have to run through brooklyn so it's the beastie boys no sleep till brooklyn the last time i saw that in a movie i think was cop out which is kevin smith's cop out where they were attempting to build some new york flavor baby why were they like he has no sleep till brooklyn oh because it said in brooklyn And they were like, here's No Sleep Till Brooklyn. Oh, because it's set in Brooklyn? Great. That's really good. Here's a few tweets from Levens Online,

who people might know as Andrew Levens. I know him as that. He's been on this show. He's got the Hey Fam podcast. He's on various social media platforms. And he has several children. He's got several children. So he would have seen this with the kids probably. He knows all about that.

Yeah. Anyway, he wrote, the Super Mario Brothers features some nice interpretations of classic Mario songs, which I completely agree with. It's like, oh, I love that song. What a cool orchestral version of that. Right, okay, sure, sure, sure. Anyway, it says, but it's also by far has the worst use of licensed music

I've ever experienced in a movie. You get like 30 seconds of an orchestral Koji Kondo, and then bam, Thunderstrike kicks you in the dick. They get to Donkey Kong Country, and instead of hearing one of the hundred iconic DK songs, we get A-ha's Take on Me for some reason. Yeah, that was weird. Every other song you've heard in a dozen movies before, Holding Out For A Hero, Mr. Blue Sky, the battle song from Kill Bill.

They have 40 years of Nintendo music to pull from and instead they pulled from the Shrek soundtrack. So basic. Yeah. It's just the soundtrack is so basic. Individually, they're all good songs. But here's the thing, though. But they've all been drilled into the dirt by constant use

in this sort of stuff. But, like, my son, because he's got a little music player that I put MP3s on, he asked for, like, a number of these because he's never heard these. So, again, as a kid, that's fine. But, again, it's lazy first pass. Yeah. We need a hero song. Where's the Grateful Dead?

Exactly. Put the Grateful Dead on this. But, like, we need a hero song holding out for a hero. Why not Chad Kroger's Hero? Why not? Another friend of the show, Alistair Tremblay-Birchall, a couple of days ago, the Mario movie feels like it was written by Chad GPT.

And I think he's right, honestly. He also has kids, I know. I presume he took their kids too. Yeah. But I thought the Donkey Kong Mario battle was good. Like the power-ups are fun. You get like, he goes big, there's a cat one. Yeah, they're fun to play in a video game.

But I think also it's fun to see, but like, oh, maybe you could have combined a few of these in a battle where he gets one and then the other and he hits him with a multiple combo or whatever. No, just keep it basic, I think. Also, small Mario is too small. It's supposed to be like half the height of little Mario, not like an inch tall is what I'm saying.

Oh, you're saying so regular-sized Mario is a little Mario, but then there's a smaller small. There's like a tiny mushroom. Yeah, but it's too small, Mason. Oh, they had a blue shell. Remember when the guy was a blue shell? I'm a blue shell. And he said, blue shell, and he did a blue shell.

Wow. Ah, there's Easter eggs. He runs a little course, Mario Kart, Jumpman, Punch Out, Luigi's Mansion, musical cues, et cetera and so forth, Mason. Should we do some spoilers? Yeah, I'm going to say worst movie ever. It's not for me, honestly.

No, I don't think it's for me either, but as a kid's movie. And also if you're watching it with your kids or if you even want to go see it, you're not going to be like, I feel, you're not going to be like, this is unwatchable. I felt it was close to unwatchable to me. Honestly, I would have loved to be like, yeah, this was so much fun as a grown up. What a fun nostalgia trip for me. And you know what?

For a lot of people, I bet it was a fun nostalgia trip for them, but it wasn't for me. I don't like it. Fair enough. So spoilers, Mario lures a bullet into Brooklyn and destroys it. Oh my God, yes. And then they love him for it. Yeah, well, also, yeah, that's the weird bit where it's that, you know, that hero saves the day situation where, like,

nobody in Brooklyn knew what was happening. No. Maybe he did. As far as they're concerned, he did that, and he did. He did it. He brought the big turtle there. That's right. Yeah. So, you know, him and Luigi touch the Power Star together and they big turtle there. That's right. Yeah.

So, you know, him and Luigi touched the Power Star together and they get superpowers. That's not how it works. Only one person can get the Power Star as far as I'm concerned. I think kudos to them for trying something out of the ordinary. Two people touching a Power Star. Wow. I think that's cool.

Also, it went way longer than 15 seconds. True. Is that how long it lasts? I don't know. When two people touch it. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, what lasts? It went way longer than 15 seconds. True. Is that how long it lasts? I don't know. When two people touch it. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, well, it lasts.

But that's also, did you see Sonic 2? No. At the end he's Super Sonic and he does the same thing and he beats up Robotnik. It's the same thing. They're all kind of the same. Sonic 2 is better than this. And funnier. Watching some of the trailers before that,

does it strike you that? No, we just got Puss in Boots. Besides Puss in Boots. Don't they all feel exactly the same now? Let me check. There's also too much punching. Yeah, my wife thought the same thing. She's like, it's kind of boring and just like they just land on each other

and punch each other. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like, again, but I don't have kids. So maybe you're just like kids love punching and it's a bit of fun. But I don't know. As someone who doesn't have any kids, I'm like it doesn't seem like a very creative or interesting way for anybody to resolve any problems in a way

that the impressionable kids should be, oh, why am I turning into this guy? But like give me something more interesting and fun. Yeah, I don't disagree with that. So the bad guys was last year. That was good. I really liked that. Strange Worlds was whatever. Super Pets was okay in moments.

Lightyear was depressing. Seeing Red was great. I really enjoyed that. Paws of Fury was apparently terrible, but I haven't seen it. There was Minions, The Rise of Gru. I've seen bits of that, and that was all right. Pinocchio. What did you think of Pinocchio?

I hated it. What did you think of it, James? I didn't watch it. Yeah, you didn't. Yeah. So, yeah, some of them are. It depends what it is, basically. Oh, they did another.

It's just that it's not even interesting punching. Yeah, I know. You feel what I mean? Yeah, I totally get exactly what you're saying. And then there's a post-credits and it's Yoshi's egg or whatever. But also we already saw a bunch of Yoshis. Oh, yeah, that's right. Well, I didn't. I went to the toilet. Okay, great. My son informed me. I came we already saw a bunch of Yoshis. Oh, yeah, that's right. Well, I didn't.

I went to the toilet. Okay, great. My son informed me. I came back and he goes, you missed Yoshi. Yoshi. Wow. Anyway, I'm glad he enjoyed it. And you're like, I've seen it.

I've seen the video games. I don't care. I saw Yoshi before you were born. I recognised when there was Baby Mario. It was the design they used from Yoshi's Island. Yeah, give me your popcorn. He's like, but you already had a popcorn. Well, I want your popcorn too.

And your wallet. It's from Sea Ray. Got some reviews here. All positive though. Hashtag weekly planet pod. Just finished Super Mario Bros. The callbacks and the voice acting were great. Chris Pratt wasn't half as bad as we all feared.

I said what I said. Best movie ever. Best pod ever. Thank you. This is from The Dreamer who says, hey, Mr. Sunday Movies. Hey. Super Mario Bros.

Never expected an epic story, but it was definitely fun. Love letter to old Tone fans. Old Tone fans? Yeah. That's probably something else. Old Time fans? Sort of like Time fans. Like me, who grew up with the series and the last 30 plus years. Best movie ever.

I'm just a fan of old Tones. And John Paul says, saw Mario today. I thought it was really fun. They got me with all the nostalgic music. Hashtag we could find a pod. So I guess that makes it best movie ever. I'm glad other people liked it. Yeah, absolutely.

And I won't even tell them that they're wrong. You can. No, I won't. So, yeah, people seem to be enjoying it and good. I hope you, who wants to see a bad movie? Nobody. Not me. Anyway, Rocco Morton, who was one of the original directors

on Super Mario Brothers 1993, the live action, the weird Blade Runner movie that they made. He also created or directed Max Headroom. Anyway, he co-directed this movie, the original one. He spoke to Variety recently and here's something they left out of the movie that they filmed. So after Mario. This is the 90s one.

Yes. So that's all. If you haven't seen it, we've done a Caravan of Garbage on it, but basically it's live action Super Mario, and they're regular depressed plumbers, and then they go into a world where dinosaurs have evolved into people. That's right. And Cooper is a weird, he's Donald Trump, but he's a lizard man,

but he's mostly just Dennis Hopper. And then there's, it's just, it's like Blade Runner, but Mario. And Yoshi looks like a velociraptor. You can't ride him because he's like a foot tall. Yeah, yeah. It's fucking bizarre. And he'd eat you probably. He would definitely eat you.

And they have jump boots. They have big mechanical jump boots. Yeah, because he's a 48-year-old man. Yes. So he can't do big jumps for real. I was in King Lear. Not how Bob Hoskins sounds. I'll work on it.

Yeah, do a little bit. Yeah. So after Mario and Luigi complete their crazy adventure in Dino Hatten, two executives from Nintendo show up at the Mario Bros. apartment in Brooklyn and they want to hear the story because it's on the news and they're making a video game. And so it explains the reason why the film doesn't literally follow the story of the game.

It got lost in translation. The Mario Bros. told the story to the Nintendo executives and they misrepresented it. So the film was meant to represent the actual story. Right, okay. I think that would have gone a long way to people looking back on that movie even now and being like, oh, I get it. Yeah, right.

Now I get it now. But instead it had a bit where Princess Peach shows up at the end and she's like, we've got to go back. They never did. We've got to go back to Dinotopia. They died in Dinoland. All of them died. Also, Bob Hoskins was back to Dinotopia. They died in Dinoland. All of them died. Also, Bob Hoskins was in the Dinotopia telemovie.

Huh. Probably. Wow. All in all, get out there and see the Mario Brothers movie. It's going to make a billion dollars. Oh, and you want to be there. I want to be there, Mason. You want to be there when that ticks over in the cinema.

I want to go, yeah. And it goes, it made a billion dollars and we all cheer. Yeah. We go, movies are back, baby. I think the lesson from this that Nintendo, I hope, sorry, I hope the lesson they don't take is like this is, this gets. Now bear in mind, James, whatever you say here,

whatever you say, I hope that in movie executives, the lesson they don't take away is that is exactly what they're going to take away. So are you ready to curse everyone? Yeah, I am. Okay. This, the only reason this is doing as well as it would is because it's just brand recognition.

Right. It's not good enough as a movie on its own. Like for me, it's like, oh, it's fun to see Donkey Kong fight Mario and whatever. Like that's great. But there also hasn't been a Nintendo themed movie since 93, I guess. Unless it's been Pokemon and whatever. Yeah, right, right, right.

Yes. Basically, yes. So there needs to be, it should be better. movie since 93, I guess. Unless it's been Pokemon and whatever. Yes, basically, yes. So there needs to be, it should be better. Yes. Like it's just like, did you see this? Look at this. But guess what? The lesson will not be that they must be better. It'll be exactly like this because it works.

So should we spend more money on this to make it better? Why would we? Yep. Good point. Great point. It is a great point. Thank you. Do you know what it's time for though?

What's it time for? What are we reading? What are we going to read? Yes. Woo. I'm doing the thing. What are we reading today? What are you reading?

Oh, a bunch of stuff. Oh, I was fortunate enough. Hey, shut up. Sorry, Colin. You're right. I am very privileged in that way. I will shut up. Our pals over at Aunty Donna.

Yeah. They did a little screening of a couple of episodes of their new TV series called Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe. Got in. Went to the picturesque Astor Theatre in St Kilda. Incredible. And there was a lot of faffing about, but then they played two episodes. How was it?

Funny. Really funny. That's great. Really interesting. That's out this week. Yeah, all of it is coming out this Wednesday, I think. Maybe we'll have some Aunty Donna on the show next week. Maybe we will.

Who's to say? That's right. I mean, I'm not surprised, but that's good to hear that it's good. Yeah, that's right. Super weird. I couldn't go for various reasons. You didn't want to. Well, that's part of it. I hated it. I didn didn't want to. Well, that's part of it.

I hated it. I didn't want to go. Well, it's a whole thing. But anyway, I'm glad you went and you have. Yeah. I won't spoil any details, but there's some just good stuff. And some bad stuff. Is that what you're going to say?

No. I really can't say anything without. Yeah. Good. I don't want to know. Enjoy that. I've also been seeing some shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Wow.

Who did I see? I saw a guy called, did I mention Luke Heggie last week? I don't think he did. Straight up stand-up, very, very funny. Who did I see? I saw Greg Larson. Yep. Has a new show called Slurps Up, which is very good.

His last show was very good as well, wasn't it? They're all good. Yeah. They're all good. Annie and Lena Hunt for Ghost was very funny. That was a new show called Slurps Up, which is very good. His last show was very good as well, wasn't it? They're all good. They're all good. Annie and Lena Hunt for Ghost was very funny. That was a good show. Oh, yeah, because I follow them on various social medias. That was very funny.

I've seen them a lot. Who else? Brodie Snook was funny. Other people. Hannah Kemmerleary did a great sketch show. Just great stuff all around. Are you worried there were too many things that were funny? There are a lot of things to watch, alas.

Alas? Alas, there are so many good things to watch. Oh, I also started playing a little indie game. It might be an Australian game. Indiana Jones? No, it's not. And the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the video game? No, no, no, no, no.

But graphics-wise, it's not too dissimilar. Okay. I started playing a little game on the Nintendo Switch called Dredge. I don't know if you've seen a trailer or anything for like like that give it give it a quick look i will give it a quick look see there james and um uh it's a it's sort of a fishing game oh yeah okay but it's got some sort of lovecraftian elements you love a weird love i do it's a fishing game you go out in your little little boat and you do little mini games to fish for awful fish and then you go and you sell your awful fish to the awful fishmonger and then somebody's like, oh, what if you ever went out and had a look for some creepy stuff out there?

And I'm like, I will. This looks great. Thank you. Where are you coming across these Switch games? What are you looking at? So no. I just saw it on Twitch and somebody was like, Dredge is pretty good. Switch on Twitch.

And then I'm like, I hope that's on Switch, and it was. That's great. Yeah. It says it's a dark and engaging Switch experience that, unlike some of the other three I'd created, it pulls from the depths, feels perfectly, and then the review cuts off. Wow. Great.

Well, I bought my son because he wants to watch The Mandalorian, and I'm like, it's probably a bit early to watch The Mandalorian. Yes. And also, I don't want to re-watch The Mandalorian. So I got him The Mandalorian comic book. Oh, yes. And the first volume is half of the first season and he's just like, it's great.

I'm loving all these little adventures. And he gets to read? Do a bit of reading? He gets to read. I've made him read. I've tricked him into it. Nice. I also watched the first two or maybe three episodes of Beef.

Oh, yeah, on Netflix. Ali Wong and Steven Yeun. Yeah, and I'm really enjoying it, but I'll talk about it probably on Suggestible because I haven't finished it. And is it as dark as we were expecting it to be? Yes. I just love how sinister and angry it is. I'm like, ooh, I love this.

Ooh, I'm just going through the Melbourne Comedy Festival website. I'm also going through it. I'm going to go through some stuff. I'll say one and then you say one and then I say one. Okay, but bearing in mind I've seen all these that I'm mentioning and you haven't seen any. No, no, I've seen all these that I'm mentioning and you haven't seen any of these. No, no, I've seen all the ones I've seen. You're just saying things at random.

Canada's Deanne Smith has a great show this year. I think maybe I mentioned this last week, but Grace Jarvis has a show called This Is The Last Goldfish That I'm Going to Eat For You, which is about all the stuff she did to make friends before she realised she had autism. Yep, yep, yep. Let's Alistair Trombley-Birchall. Our friend Al has a great show called Alistair Trombley-Birchall

No Relation. That was really, really good. Hannah Camilleri, I mentioned, great, yep. Let's Alistair Trombley-Birchall. Our friend Al has a great show called Alistair Trombley-Birchall, No Relation. That was really, really good. Hannah Camilleri, I mentioned, great sketch show. Let's see. Dave Warnke, I mentioned, even hotter in real life. Whoa. That's right.

Oh, Prue Blake has a show called Unfriended. Yep. It's about breaking up with your friends. It was very funny. Love that. Patty Harrison, I saw she was very, very funny, but I'm not sure she's doing any more shows. Okay. So sucked in everybody who missed her. Good. I haven't seen Hot Department yet, but if you

haven't seen their web series Dark Web, it's very funny and super weird. It's got some of the Aunty Donna boys in it. Okay. But I'm going to see that. Laura Davis' show was great. My friend Ferdy Billimoria has a stand-up show called The Goatest of All Time. It was really good.

I've seen a lot of shows. You've seen too many. Yeah. You should let me see some shows. You can see some shows. Well, I already have. It's allowed. I've told you.

I've got some shows to recommend to you. Okay, go on. Okay, so I've got Joe Rogan Live from 2006. That's his comedy special. Okay, terrific. I've got Joe Rogan Talking Monkeys in Space. That's from 2009. I've got Joe Rogan Live from the Tabernacle from 2012.

I've got Joe Rogan Rocky Mountain High, which was a TV special in 2014. I've got the movie Here Comes the Boom starring Kevin James as a UFC fighter, which features Joe Rogan. I've got Joe Rogan Triggered. Can I stop you for a moment? Can I stop you for a second there? Have you gone to Joe Rogan's either his Wikipedia page or his IMDb page? I wish.

And just looked up all the stuff Joe Rogan's been doing? No, these are the shows that I've seen of Joe Rogan. At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023. Joe Rogan Triggered, as mentioned, which was his 2016 special. He's got Joe Rogan's Strange Times, which was his last stand-up special from 2018. And, of course, he's done 1,130 of their episodes of his pioneering podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, which I highly recommend you checking out.

So you'd recommend rather than if you're in Melbourne going to any acts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is instead watch any of those Joe Rogan featuring programs or specials or listening to his podcast. Some of which will be at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The Joe Rogan Experience. Okay. Well, that's good. That's good to know that that's what you think is good.

I'm very happy for you. Thank you. Yeah. Should we do letters? We should. All right. We really should. Also, Frankie McNair has a show called In Conversation with Tabitha Booth,

which is a character comedy thing. They are very funny in it. Great. Yeah. Last one. And Joe Rogan. Not Joe Rogan. You hate Joe Rogan. No, I love him. I think he sucks. it. So watch that. Yeah. Last one. And Joe Rogan. Not Joe Rogan. You know, you hate Joe Rogan.

No, I love him. I think he sucks. I would never say that. Wow. Anyway, here's the letters. 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. That's so nice. Watch Nick Mason. Thank you. What kind of watch is that? It's a Seiko. I didn't say here right now. We're going to do that. That's a nice watch, Nick Mason. Thank you. What kind of watch is that? It's a Seiko. I didn't say it was fun.

I didn't say it was fun. I said it's pretty fun. Oh. It's a little bit fun. It's not fun. Watch this, though. What's fun about that? Do you get to fidgety?

It's fidgety time. What do those things do? It's for timing? It's for timing, yeah. Great. Yeah. That's right. Comedic timing?

Sometimes. If you don't want to reach the show, hashtag Weekly Planet Great. Yeah. That's right. Comedic timing? Sometimes. If you don't want to reach the show, hashtag WeeklyPlanetPod on Twitter. That's a bit of comedic timing. Or WeeklyPlanetPod at gmail.com. What have you got, Mason? Ooh, great question. Ooh, baby, I love you. This is actually from Patrick, and he says comedy festival recommendations.

What? That's right. He says, I wanted to shout out a couple of friends of mine that have shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival this year. Mason, if you aren't already, go check them out. First up is my friend Ben Searle doing his first solo show at the festival called Hammerhead. I love that.

We call him Searle. He runs a bunch of comedy rooms. He's also a very funny guy. Next is Annie Louie with her new show Gold. She's performing at the Chinese Museum Silk Room. Both very good and funny people. I would also recommend those people. Their shows are just starting this week coming.

I also happen to do the artwork for both of these shows, so know that a wacky to-do has had a part in it all. Yes. Annie Louie is also in Coffee Cafe. Oh, very good. Okay, I didn't know that because I haven't seen it. I've seen it. Because you didn't invite me.

Mason. Yes. I've done a letter. Go on. I've got one right here. Hasht hashtag weekly planet planet pod it's from Kenny Maddy

who says after watching 2000's Charlie's Angels recently the villains plot being about GPS to adding GPS

to phones so they can track everybody I thought villains plot that have been a reality would be a good topic or at the very least you could do the Charlie's Angels for Caravan of Garbage

is that the plot of Charlie's Angels the new one? No, the old one. Putting a GPS on phones so they can track everybody. Oh, my God. That is wild. I've seen at least one of those movies and I could not tell you.

I don't know. I haven't seen either of them, any of them, any of the Charlie's Angels movies actually because to me they always looked terrible. But I haven't seen them. That's right. Yeah, no, I wouldn't mind doing the Charlie's Angels movies for Caravan of Garbage at some point.

I put them in with like those early 2000s like generic action, like stealth, you know, that kind of like era of action movies that are all glossy and just. Oh, like stealth. Like the movie Paycheck with Ben Affleck. Oh, okay. That kind of like glossy nothing kind of movie. Yeah, they've almost exclusively switched to streaming, I think.

Yeah. We rarely get one of those on the big screen these days. It's true. Yeah. What have you got in terms of letters, though? Let's find out. Ooh, Regional Dispute. This is from Matt.

Ooh, I love a regional dispute. Here we go. Ah. Dear James and Maiso, I live in Ottawa, Canada, and we have two chain restaurants that serve mainly chicken-based dishes, Swiss Chalet and St. Hubert. Okay. That might be pronounced the French way.

Hubert. But I refuse. Hubert. Saint Hubert. Saint Hubert. Okay, I was going to refuse, but it's too fun to say, so Saint Hubert. I grew up with Saint Hubert. Okay.

Funny if it's not how you pronounce it and my main selling point is their signature barbecue dipping sauce which really sells it short as I really don't like most things barbecue also every dish comes with a hot burger bun I love that is the hill

which is so weird but they taste good and I love that that is the hill they die on what's a hot just like separately a hot burger bun separately yeah that's interesting

yeah okay first time I had Swiss chalet I went to dip fries in what I thought would be similar sauce Just like separately a hot burger bun. A hot burger bun. Separately. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. Okay. First time I had Swiss chalet, I went to dip fries in what I thought would be similar sauce but turned out to be a sauce that tasted like dishwater. Yuck. Why would they serve that? Thinking most people must dislike Swiss chalet as well.

Generally when I bring it up to people, it's 50-50 on which restaurant they prefer. I think we'll need an impartial party like you to settle this. Well, the one that doesn't serve dishwater. Yeah, right? That's what I think. Well, we've got some settle this. Well, the one that doesn't serve dishwater. Yeah, right? That's what I think. Well, we've got some logos here. Oh, okay.

Well, we're presented with logos. Well, you know, a lot of food is presentation. Swiss chalet rotisserie and grill. Nah, I could make that, which means it's bad. You didn't make it, though, did you? You didn't make the logo for Swiss chalet rotisserie and grill, did you, James? I said I could have.

But you didn't. I also could have directed Pulp Fiction, but I didn't. Now here's Saint-Hubert. It's not great either. It's not great, no. We'd think it would help. That looks like a generic chicken shop in London. Colour schemes, very similar.

Yeah. So. I mean, at least that one, the second one has a chicken on it. Ooh, and Saint-Hubert, they have a chicken car. I mean, that's good. Yeah. It looks like a taxi. It just looks like a taxi. Right, they have a chicken car. I mean, that's good. Yeah. It looks like a taxi. It just looks like a taxi.

Right. It's a yellow car. Remember delivery cars that had big telephones on the roof? I do remember that. Bring those back. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we've got to make a call, though.

On the big telephone? Yes. That's right. I've parked it out the front. Okay. The non-dishwater one. If you could send me some of this signature barbecue dipping sauce. No, I don't want that.

No, if you could send it to us, that would be great. I don't want mail. Send it to Stupid Hot Studios. We'll pick it up eventually. We'll pick it up when we get there. That's right. I've got to look. And again, this is binding.

Yeah. So everybody in Ottawa, Canada has to be bound by this. I'm going to go with St. Hubert because it's funniest to say. St. Hubert. I agree. St. Hubert Jackman. Okay. I agree with you, Mason.

Thank you. And that was the non-dishwater one? That was the non-dishwater one, yes. Yes, definitely. This is from Steven who says, Hey guys, hashtag weeklyplanetpod, do you think the hike in cinema prices will impact box office revenue? In England, the prices increased 50%.

My partner and I have already decided not to go see Mario and Dungeons and Dragons and wait for streaming due to this expense. Yes. It is expensive to go to the movies. So, yeah, I think it does impact. I think like a lot of people go on the cheaper days or get a voucher or whatever to see movies. Sneak in.

Yeah. But often like, yeah, sneak in, do whatever. But often like. Tell you what, the last, I reckon five times I've gone in with theatre, my local theatre, see a movie, nobody's checked anything. Yeah. So I would recommend go onto your. To see if they catch you.

Yeah. And I recommend just going onto your local, just go on the website, go to buy a ticket, see what cinema it's in. Just don't buy the ticket, just go in it's in. Just don't buy the ticket. Just go in. See what happens. See if anybody stops you. But we don't encourage in thievery and we don't encourage that.

We don't encourage in thievery, folks. That's right, yeah. But no, I think, you know, and then you've got snacks on top of that. So if you've got like a family or you're going with a group, like, you know, it adds up fairly quickly and it is an expensive trip to make to watch a thing that you don't know you'll enjoy. So I completely understand that.

You know, you want your time to be, you know, you value your time and you value your money. That's exactly right. Yeah, and I understand with streaming it's, yeah, you can steal stuff if you want or pay for whatever subscription services you want. That's why I think also that reviews should make you pay, they should, should make you pay for the ticket. They should make you pay for the ticket in reviews. You go like a premier and they're like 25 bucks nerd.

No, what I was going with there is I think that reviews should be more relevant than ever. Right. But I think people, people don't seem to value reviews anymore. I think people don't, I think they should.

People don't value, or some people don't like the rotten tomato score, which I think is fair. I think, cause't. But I think they should. People don't value, or some people don't like the Rotten Tomatoes score, which I think is fair. Uh-huh. I think because it's an aggregate. I think you should find reviewers that you like. And trust. If you care enough.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And see if you agree with them. And you might not a lot of the time. But that's how to do it. But I think like these days especially I think people don't read reviews to know if a movie they want to see or they're thinking about seeing is any good or worth watching. Reviews now are more to validate people who have already seen a movie

and want to talk to people and talk with people to validate their choice to continue to see a particular franchise or whatever it is. Yeah. I don't know. I think we need to push reviews back into the realm of like this is an actual and where it should be, which is like this is an actual measure of like do you want to spend, you know, with your family $100 to go to this movie? Yeah, I think that's very reasonable.

And you know what? Maybe normal families are reading reviews to do that. Maybe they are. Maybe it's just. But for me, if it's a kid's movie, I'm like, I'll just quickly glance. Is this any good? Yeah, people seem to think it's fine. All right, I'll go.

But I won't take my kids to see something that if I think I'm going to hate it. I'm like, I'm not sitting through this. Even for my kids, I will not see whatever this dreck is. Would you ever put them in the theater and then just go out the front? No, I wouldn't do that. Would you go into the theatre and fall asleep? Yeah. Okay, good. 100%. Alright, great. I probably have.

I was going to also say, like, if I go to a written review, like an IGN or whatever, I'll just skim to the bottom and read the last paragraph. Right. And just be like, oh yeah, it's a nine, is it, or whatever. Okay. And then that'll be it for me. Right. Because I don't, yeah, but if I follow like an individual review or whatever. Okay. And then that'll be it for me. Right. Because I don't, yeah. But if I follow like an individual reviewer, like written or video,

then I'll watch or read the whole thing. Right. Yeah. Here's an email from Ryan. Ryan. Hey, James and Mason. Big fan of your pod and all that you guys do. I frequently work alone in a warehouse outside of Toronto.

No, you don't. That's also Canada. Oh. So your banter and the laughs you provide make the lonely work days go faster. Thank you. No, it doesn't. I do have a question. It does. You call it him a liar? Yes. He's stacking boxes right now. No, he's not. You're not.

You're having a beautiful dream. I do have a question. Frequently on the show, you guys discuss how often all these evil media corporations seem to buy up all the little guys. Disney and Microsoft for example. One company buys another company. It's my favourite thing. Yeah.

My favourite segment of the show. Do you think this trend has an end point, like, say, a government getting involved, and do you think any of these mergers have ever had a net positive on the film, TV, comic book industry? I'd love to know your thoughts. The government will not get involved, and no, I don't think it's a positive ever.

Yeah, yeah, they will never get involved. I think it's a positive for certain people's bottom lines. How many major corporations in, say, the entertainment industry do you think will be, like, that will never be involved. I think it's a positive for certain people's bottom lines. How many major corporations in, say, the entertainment industry do you think will be, like, in 20 years? How many do you think there will be left? Two? Yeah, maybe two. I reckon there might be two left.

Like Apple and Amazon. Yeah. Because there's even still talk that Apple are going to buy Disney, and they could. Yeah, that's true. Might be like Apple and Comcast or something, whoever. Oh, I love that. One of those ones that's like,

we're a global brand synergy perspective timeshare network. That's right. And it's like, what is this? We just have everything. We've got all the music and all the movies. It's just $50 a month to look at what we have. Yeah, I reckon we might be dead. I mean, because the more you consolidate things also,

then they can drive up prices or whatever. It's our monopolies or duopolies work. Yeah, yeah. You know, because it's like amazon have just like crushed bookstores both digitally and um physically but it's also and and i i'm sure there will be sort of a certain level of illusion over the top of it you know how like there's definitely how like there's like a brilliant a billion different beer brands but like they're company makes the same. Exactly. Makes all of them, you know. It's like that duff light, duff dry, duff whatever joke. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, well, that's our hot tip prediction to big companies. I think depending where you are as well or whatever, that you get so little say about everything in terms of even like what you eat. Because, again, it's a few brands who make literally all the eggs, literally all the bread, unless you're lucky enough to have like a local bakery or whatever. But, you know, it's basically two or three brands who just provide you the food that you have to eat because that's the food.

Yeah. You know? And I think that's cool actually. That sounded like I didn't like it, but I do. And also, to be clear, if you're using – if you subscribe to Amazon, that's because you also work for Amazon and you can't subscribe to Apple. Is that true? Yeah, you live in the Amazon warehouse.

Oh, great. And you get Amazon stuff. You watch the boys. And get ready for company towns to come back as well. That's going to be happening again. Let's find a happy email real quick, a real nice one. I've got one here, Mason. All right, all right, all right.

From Amanda who says, hashtag weekly planet pod. You both have lovely singing voices. That's not true, but thank you for saying that. Particularly James, all right, all right. From Amanda who says, hashtag weekly planet pod. You both have lovely singing voices. That's not true, but thank you for saying that. Particularly James. No, that's not. I'd say you have a better singing voice than me, Mason. Thank you. You've mentioned enjoyment of musical theatre before.

Did you ever dabble in it in your school days? I'm from a long line of theatre-loving folks, all the love and admiration of mates. No, in hindsight, I should have done like musicals and whatever just for even like the social aspect and by that I mean girls. But I didn't. My extracurricular school was nothing. I went through my entirety of school being like, oh,

I think I played in band for like a little bit. But it was literally like I don't want to do a sport. I don't want to do any extra activities. I don't want to be involved in this any more than I have to, which I don't necessarily think do a sport. I don't want to do any extra activities. I don't want to be involved in this any more than I have to, which I don't necessarily think is a good attitude, but I'm just a bad person and that's my attitude towards most things is that I do not want to be involved in whatever this is, this whatever forced fun, which, again, I don't think is a good thing.

I remember even a teacher, like a grumpy sport teacher once was like, you don't get involved in anything. You don't want to get involved. And I'm like, because I don't want to. And I won't. Yeah. So anyway, fuck him. Yeah, where's that teacher now?

And I hope he's dead. Because that guy fucking sucks. Anyway. That was a happy funny. That's a happy funny in my life. Anyway, what about you in musical theatre? Also didn't do it. Yeah.

But no, I love musical theatre and I should have, genuinely. Even the backstage, pulling up the sandbags. Pull up the air. Crew would be good. Crew. Yeah. It's good to be part of that crew. Yeah.

Did you do extracurricular stuff at school? No. Were you a debate lord? No. No? No. If I'd known they get to call themselves debate lords. Anyway, do you have another happy email?

Oh, here's one. Here's the last email from Trevor. I watched a lot of like, I saw like Lame Miz and whatever as a kid and I liked a lot of musical theatre. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and various others. I think nowadays they probably have more stuff like a movie club or whatever.

Yeah, exactly. Right? But back then it was just like sport or shut up. Sport or shut up club. Sport or detention. That's right. That was pretty much it. I'm not good enough to play sport.

Well, it's detention then. Sorry. This is from Trevor. Trevor says, hi, James and Mace. Thank you all for the wonderful entertainment you bring me through your podcast and caravan of garbage. I've recently ended a phase of my life where I will quit watching a movie partway through if I'm not enjoying it or find it particularly stupid.

Good for you. A recent example was The Lobster, which HBO assured me was delightfully off-kilter, and a comedy which I found neither delightful nor funny. I'm curious whether either of you guys ever give up on movies if you hate them. If so, what will it take to get you to pull the ripcord? Yeah, so often if I don't finish something, it's just that I paused it and I didn't go back to it. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I can't even think of an example of that. I will do that with video games from time to time. I know I play very few video games, but more often than not, I think I will get to like maybe 90% to the end and I'm like, I get it. That's further than I get. Right? I often get like 20% and I'm like, I get it or I don't want this. I'm like, this is fun.

I've done enough whatever kills and I've seen all the special moves and whatever and I think there's maybe one action set piece yet, but this is quite difficult and I'll put it down. I'll be like, you can get to that another week and then I just don't. Absolutely. That was fine. I've never walked out from a movie in the cinema. Me neither.

Although increasingly I think I'm leaving before the post credits. Yeah. I will leave even if it's something that I care about. You mentioned earlier about a the post credits. Yeah. I will leave. Even if it's something that I care about, I will leave. You mentioned earlier about a little post credits in Mario. I didn't stick around. I only stayed because of my son. Otherwise, I absolutely would not have stayed for that. And I wonder if that trend will continue and I will.

I wonder what the first one will be that I just leave. But I see that's the thing. I didn't watch Pinocchio. Does that count? Yeah, it does. And I'm mad about it. See, I feel like I would wonder, you know what, people email in or tweet at us, do you think as quote unquote reviewers,

if I were to find a movie so bad that I wanted to leave, does that undercut my review? Well, some people, there's a couple of thoughts of that. I've seen people do that or I turned off a thing. But would that also set a trend where I'm like leaving every second movie? I think that's fine. Do whatever. Your time is valuable.

You can do what you want. That's true. But, yeah, there is like people who are like, well, you didn't experience the whole thing so you can't talk about it, which I don't think is true. You can talk about that you didn't like it and the 20 minutes that you saw, you didn't think it was worth following up. So that's fine. You're reviewing that element of it. think is true. You can talk about that you didn't like it and the 20 minutes that you saw, you didn't think it was worth following up. So that's fine.

You're reviewing that element of it. That's true. Which is totally fine, I feel. But also you're not a true fan if you don't stay to the end. That is very true. You're not a true fan, Mason. I'm not a true fan. You look at all the post credits and you go,

God, I hope they make another Snake Eyes movie. Speaking of. Oh, yes. Next week we are doing Snake Eyes. That's right. We're going to get bro to watch Snake Eyes. Big joke. Should we get bro to watch Snake Eyes. That's right, we're going to get Broden to watch Snake Eyes. Big joke. Should we get Broden to watch Snake Eyes? We should. Should we get Broden to watch Snake Eyes?

Because we are actually going to do it. Yeah, that's what I meant. Let me finish. So Broden, we're talking about Renfield and also the movie Snake Eyes. Yeah, absolutely. So yeah, that's going to be good. Anything else, Mason?

I think that's the whole show. Or should we call the show a day? Let's call the show a day. One day. Hey, show, you're a day. What do you think of that? Folks, thank you so much for listening to the show. We absolutely appreciate it.

Yep. Let me tell you this. What are you telling us? I'm telling you that if you like the show, what you should do is you should like it and subscribe on to it and you should tell your friends about it and you should leave some sort of five-star review on your podcast platform of choice because people will see that and go, maybe I'll give this podcast a try. Maybe I'll give this one. This person has

taken the time to do this in-app, in their app of choice, and so that must mean something. That's right. Maybe I'll read it out on the show. Maybe I'll read it out. This is from Nerd of Street Food who says five stars. My goodness, thank you. Frigging great podcast. To be honest, I'm mostly here for the dad recipes. You're going to love Suggestible this week. I'm going to talk about my low-calorie snacks that I eat. Is that this week? That's coming up this week on Suggestible.

Because you teased it on the last episode, I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just tune in for inedible food. Cereal a handful. Out of the box. Dry. Yum, yum, yum. Low-carb. Cereal, a handful. Out of the box. Dry. Yum, yum, yum. Low carb.

Very low carb. And no dairy. Dairy free. Low density, low carb. Dairy free. Right. Cup of water to wash it down. That's right.

And this one's from Z Clark in 1994. He says, great show, but they really need to give Outlander a chance. That time travel Viking show or something? Time travel Viking or something, whatever. Have we got another review that's like need to give Outlander a chance. That time travel Viking show or something? Time travel Viking or something, whatever. Have we got another review that's like you should try Outlander? Maybe. I reckon we have. People have talked about it.

I think maybe we talked about it. Yes. What's High Moon? What's the Sean Connery one? Oh, it's called, I've seen it. It's called. It's Outlander or something like that. Could be Outland.

Yeah, it might be Outland. It's called Outland. It is Outland. Yeah, there you go. Maybe that'sland. Yeah, it might be Outland. It's called Outland. It is Outland. Yeah, there you go. Maybe that's why. I will watch the movie Outland. Thank you for the recommendation. You're very welcome.

No, that's from Z Clark, 94. Thank you for saying to watch Outland, and I will. That's right. Folks, if you want to get into contact with us, you can go to weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com or on Facebook, Twitter, and Bandcamp. We're busy, but we might get around to it. We're very busy.

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You've got bonus podcasts, early videos, movie commentaries, ad-free podcasts for you all. Gameplay. Gameplay, live play, not live play, game play. Let's live play a game. Let's live play. It's not live. No.

But it is woefully unedited. It was live at the time. Yeah, it was, yeah. That's right. It didn Game, play. Let's play. Let's live play a game. Let's live play. It's not live. No. But it is woefully unedited. It was live at the time. Yeah, it was. Yeah. That's right. I didn't, yeah. And what else, James? We've got, thank you to the Bruton Bassist and Rackham for all our musical themes.

Next week, Snake Eyes. T-shirts at tpublic.com. That's right. Snake Eyes. Sorry, that's also very important. Yeah. Tell you what. Next week, Snake Eyes.

Yep. Buy some T-shirts at tpublic.com. Then next week, Snake Eyes. Yep. And also Renfield. at tpublic.com. Then next week, Snake Eyes. Yep. And also Renfield. That special guest. Who will it be? Probably Broden.

Probably Broden. Depends which of them are free, but I think it's probably Broden. Probably Broden. Yeah, great. Because he sometimes listens to this show. Mark and Zach and the others. There's others in there, aren't there? There are others, yes.

They don't listen. They don't like us. They don't like that set. They don't like us as much. That's right, yeah. And that's fair. It's fair. Yeah.

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