The Weekly Planet - 521 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Episode Date: April 1, 2024

Another week another movie about a giant lizard fighting a giant monkey but then those two team up to fight a different giant monkey. Tale as old as time. But before we review Godzilla x Kong we have to talk the news of the week including Star Trek 4 maybe happening again, a Ghostbusters animated series, Pirates of the Caribbean is getting a reboot, Thunderbolts get a title change, the MCU Fantastic 4 ORIGIN, Spider-Man 4 details,, more billionaire lunatic shit, the plot for the DCU’s Teen Titans Movie and the future of G.I. Joe/Snake Eyes/Transformers. Thanks for listeningVisit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show including video game let's plays, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.Nick Mason Live Do Go On Show on April 14th! Tickets here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1159555?Please be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start05:43 Star Trek 4 Happening?08:00 New Ghostbusters Series15:53 Pirates of the Caribbean Reboot20:36 MCU’s Thunderbolts Title Change24:28 Fantastic 4 Movie Alternate Universe?25:19 Spider-Man 4 Movie Director & Premise27:42 Nelson Peltz Controversial Disney Marvel Comments33:38 Plot for DC’s Teen Titans Live Action Movie34:31 The Future of G.I. Joe, Transformers & SNAKE EYES37:05 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (spoilers 50:43 to 01:01:14)01:01:14 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:08:30 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/theweeklyplanetThe Weekly Planet TikTok ►https://www.tiktok.com/@weeklyplanetpodThe Weekly Planet Clips Channel on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyplanetclipsPatreon ► 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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Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of The Weekly Planet, The Weekly Planet Godzilla X Kong The New Empire. Okay, but is any of that really important? No, it's not real news. So I can go? Yeah, you can go. Great. Do you want to just read it out? Do you think if I had real news, so if I went to news.com and just read the headlines? Real news. Real news. R-E-L.

That's a free idea. Real news.com. Anybody wants to take that? Here we go. Hang on. It's for sale? It's loading. Okay.

We buy it? You can make an offer. What do you pay for that? I mean, it doesn't look very good. Yeah, but we can spruce it. No, no. I just don't think you could really do much with this. So I think you're probably nothing. What do you pay for that? I mean, it doesn't look very good. Yeah, but we can spruce it. No, no, I just don't think you could really do much with this. So I think probably nothing.

Okay, right. You know? Years ago we could have, I think. It's like when you get a, you know, you buy, you bought like an old house and you just can't really do anything with it. I think that's what this website is. And it's haunted. And it's haunted also.

What do you do with it? Years ago we could have been the real newsboys. That's true. There's still time. We would have had like the satchel with the newspapers in it, you know, with the little hats. Real news is way better than Mr. Sunday movies. Let's be realistic. Realistic?

Thank you. Yeah, very good. Realistic news. Realistically we should quit. Yeah, probably. We can't. No. Not at this point.

Because we've got too much news to cover that's true right real good news there's uh time codes below if you're doing a jump to anything because we're going to talk about the apparently a star trek 4 is going to happen of the i was going to say in the 80s no the jj abrams one oh yeah okay not the netflix stuff they're doing this is the this stuff that they've stopped doing. So the stuff they've stopped doing, they're doing it again. I doubt it, but apparently. We're going to talk about an upcoming Ghostbusters animated series. We're going to talk about rebooting the Pirates of the Caribbean.

We're going to talk about Thunderbolts. Thunderbolts asterisk. That's right. We're going to talk about Fantastic Four. We're going to talk about some Spider-Man 4 news. Not the Spider-Man 4 as in the Tobey Magcguire one but as in new spider-man 4 which fingers crossed is going to be a huge multiversal adventure and it's going to have toby mcguire spider-man and every other spider-man and animated spider-man yep dr strange is back and he goes i did this again that's right

i've come back i'm a bad little boy i've come back to do it again uh we're going to talk some more billionaire just just some of the shit they've been saying. Some of their shenanigans. Over at Disney. Just saying stuff expecting no pushback. Yep. Because they're not on the internet. I don't know.

I don't know. They think everything they say is normal. We've got a log line for Teen Titans, the movie, which looks pretty interesting. And, of course, we've got big. What more do you want from us? That's their log line. We've got a. What can we do here?

I don't know. We don't know. And we've got big Snake Eyes news, G.I. Joe news. Big Snake Eyes news? Yeah. That's very convenient because next week we're going to talk about the movie Snake Eyes. It's actually the perfect lead-in. It's almost as if we planned it.

That's right. Yeah. Some people say we don't know what we're doing. Oh, and then Godzilla X-Con this time. We know. We've got the real news. We do. Time codes below if you want to jump to anything in particular.

Mason, anyway, you've got a show to plug, don't you? Oh, absolutely. I've talked. Thank you for reminding me. You're welcome. Folks, our pals over at the Do Go On podcast have some live shows at the Comedy Festival. And if you're just hearing about this now, they're pretty much all sold out except the one that I'm on.

Embarrassing for me. Embarrassing. Well, that's the most recent announcement. They had three shows and they're like, well, they're all sold out, so we're going to put on a new show. It's at 1.45 p.m. on the 14th of April. Oh, my God. That's a great time for laughing and learning, I think.

It's a perfect time for laughing and learning. You can just go over to their socials, find some tickets there. I would love it if we sold this out because otherwise, embarrassing for me. I mean, it's also in the middle of the day. Come on, man. But that's the perfect time for a Sunday sesh, James. Oh, it's a Sunday? I think so.

Oh, my God. Let me just double check. I've opened the calculator app. That's not correct. I think I'm actually genuinely busy on that day. Oh, come on, mate. Yeah, I wouldn't pay for it. It is a Sunday.

Yeah. I wouldn't pay for it. So you're going to show up for free and you're going to yell stuff. I wouldn't pay for this. I'm not going to pay money. Okay, see everybody. I mean, I know everybody in that in real life, so why would I pay for that? I could just hang out with them in real life.

I could make them hang out with me, including you. Yeah. Anyway, if people want to check that out, that would be bloody terrific, and I would love to see you there. So it's the Dugong crew and you, and who's the – is there an extra person? I want the extra person. No, because sometimes they have two extra. So it's not the quiz. Do you want to come along? No, Mason, the extra person. No, I thought, because sometimes they have two extra. So it's not the quiz.

Do you want to come along? No, Mason, I can't. I'm busy. You said you were free and you could be there. You will be there and you're not going to pay for it. So you may as well be on stage. Fine, okay. It's the only way they'll let you on.

I'll go. I'll be there. I'll be on stage. Everyone should buy tickets because I'll definitely be there. Okay, great. People are interested in seeing me be there, which I definitely will be. Yeah. And I'm not already busy.

Oh, and also, one more thing. Yeah. A friend of the show, former guest of the show, Michelle Brazier, she's touring all over the place. Oh, my God. We tried to find a spot to get her on these last few weeks. But you refused. Yeah.

We couldn't quite manage it. But if you're in Los Angeles, she is doing a show on April the 3rd. So if you're listening to this just as it comes out. Oh, my God. You've got time. Yeah, at the Dynasty Typewriter, which is a great name for a gig. She's doing a show, Average Bear, which I've seen and it's very good. Sweet.

Yeah. April 3rd, you say? April 3rd. And she's also doing stuff during the Comedy Festival. She's got an album launch in April 18th. She's doing a tour of the UK and Ireland in May and June. Damn. She says I love the play.

So people should check that out. Check all Dem's things out. I don't know which show she's doing, but every show I've seen. It doesn't matter. It's been great. So you should just see that. Yeah. You're going to have a great time. It's funny. It's Dems things. I don't know which show she's doing, but every show I've seen has been great, so you should just see that. Yeah, you're going to have a great time. It's funny.

It's moving. Claire's seen it. She loves it. That's right. I've also seen it, just so you know. Yeah, but you don't know funny and moving. I know things. We've got that Dugon show coming up.

That's right. Which I'm excited for. Yeah. Alrighty, righty. Anyway, let's get into the show. Let's do it, Mason. So here we go. This is about Star Trek IV.

So the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot happened in 2009. It had two sequels with diminishing returns, even though the third one is probably the best one of all of them. Yeah, I mean, they flipped the classic Star Trek curse and they turned it into a modern Star Trek curse. The old Star Trek curse was only the odd-numbered ones were any good. No, wait, the old Star Trek curse was only the even-numbered ones were any good. And now wait, the old Star Trek curse was only the even-numbered ones were any good.

And now they've flipped it, so now only the odd ones. It's because of Galaxy Quest. Oh, Galaxy Quest was like the interrupt in the middle. Okay, right, right, right. That's what did it, yeah. Okay, so this one's going to be bad. Yeah, this one will be bad, yeah. Okay, great, I'm excited for that.

No, it does have a new writer in Steven Yockey. He worked on The Last Flight Attendant. Sorry, there's no last, just The Flight Attendant. Oh, I would love to see a movie on The Last Flight Attendant. Sorry, there's no last, just The Flight Attendant. I would love to see a movie called The Last Flight Attendant. Just working so hard. The last one? That's right. Working those shifts?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Impossible. I'm going to be on three planes at once. They're doing executive decision style. Ziplining between. They're ziplining between planes. So The Flight Attendant was that Kaley Cuoco. A tray of tiny Coca-Colas.

And they all get flung off by the turbulence as they go in between planes. This is the Kaley Cuoco TV series, right? Yes, apparently it's very good. I haven't seen it. Apparently this movie is going to be a conclusion, which makes sense because, I mean, even if they make this, which honestly I don't think that they will. I think everybody's too expensive and it's been too long

and they don't make enough money. They've moved to the Star Wars method, which is just put it all on TV because that's where people are. They're at home. They're watching TV. I also think they're putting this out to be like, could we keep this going? Yeah, absolutely.

Is there nostalgia in this now? So this is the last one. The first one came out 15 years ago or whatever. Yeah, boy. Yeah. So, you know, we'll have to see. Is this going to be the famed one where maybe Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth team up?

That was a story at one point. We don't know. But I don't know whether that would even, I think I've talked about before, that's probably the best shot at getting people in cinemas, but I don't know whether it is at this point. What do people remember about these? I like them.

Not the second one. That's a bad one. But in general, I like them. Not that second one, That's a bad one. But in general, I like them. Not that second one, which is a bad movie. So two of three, you quite like. Two of three is good. That's not bad. Two of three?

Are you kidding me? And if they make this one and it's bad, two of four. My God. Which is even better odds. That is better odds. That's right. That's half. That's good.

That's right. Mason. Yes. On the YouTube channel, A Trip to the Movies. There's another good movie related. That's not bad.. Yes. On the YouTube channel, A Trip to the Movies. There's another good movie related. That's not bad. Why didn't I do that? Yeah.

Anyway, I didn't. Stuck with it. See, A Trip to the Movies, you could go any day. Yeah. Mr. Sunday Movies. One day. What if you're busy on Sunday? And what if you're not Mr. Sunday Movies?

What if you're a different person? It doesn't mean anything. It's very unrelatable, isn't it? Exactly. God. I named it because i'm different than everyone else i'm a little bit above that's why i did it that way okay but in hindsight i don't know whether that was yeah it does betray like an inherent superiority like it's you you really

yeah yeah which is true yeah but uh you know whatever you you once told me it's because you feel you have a godlike nature yeah you know yeah. None of those kind of abilities have manifested in anything real. Well, you said you could sell out a live do-go, didn't you? I did say that. By pretending you were going to be there. I will. Anyway, they spoke to director Gil Keenan, who did the latest Ghostbusters movie,

about Netflix's upcoming Ghostbusters animated series. And he said, all I can say is work is being done as we speak. It's in what we call full development. Scripts are being written, art is being created, and it's a great time to be a Ghostbuster. So we're going back to Ghostbusters animated. I think this is probably a good move if they want to get new audiences

to the Ghostbusters because if you look at the box office return for these newer ones, they're pretty consistent. Like they haven't grown. That's true, yeah. This one is probably going to make less, but that's also because Godzilla came out the week after. Yeah, that'll kill it. Which will make a big difference.

Yeah. So I think this is probably a good move to do something like this. What Ghostbusters crew do you think they're going to go with? Original crew? New crew? Combined crew? Everybody? Multiverse.

100 characters in every episode? Multiverse. Everybody gets half a line? combined crew, everybody. Multiverse. 100 characters in every episode. Multiverse. Everybody gets half a line. Yeah, multiverse. Multiverse, terrific. I love that. I was thinking about this, right, because remember when we talked about the movie Ghostbusters

maybe last week? Sure, absolutely. Was that last week? It might have been last week, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did we have a filler episode in between? We didn't. That'll be next week.

I mean a topic episode. Yeah, that'll be next week. Did we have a bland filler episode? I mean topic episode. We might be able to do Monkey Man and The Last Omen next week maybe, I think. Yeah, okay. I would like to do either or one of those. Last Omen, The First Omen. Sure. And how we talked about, like, I think they're going to

be multiverse and they could bring in the animated. I think a good way to maybe continue or spin off into something new is that you take the animated characters and you cast them properly. Like, you give actors, real actors. I'm listening. Like, you cast Blonde Egon and whatever. Yeah properly, like you give actors, real actors. I'm listening. Like you cast Blond Egon and whatever.

Yeah. And then you have that universe because otherwise you'd have to do an animated thing in the real world or whatever, which seems harder. And you cast the real Ghostbusters. Is that silly? Is that a silly thing to say? I think you went off the rails like two sentences ago.

I don't understand what's going on. Why did you cast a real blonde Egon? I'm saying the real... For real. The real man. Get a man who looks like blonde Egon. Everything Ghostbusters. But he's animated?

No, he's real. Everything in Ghostbusters. But he's in an animated show. Are we flipping the script here? Yes. We're going to get an animated Ghostbusters show, but there's a blonde Egon played by a real man. No, what I'm saying is they're probably considering Ghostbusters Multiverse. So original Ghostbusters. Gospelbusters. Yes, the new Ghostbusters show, but there's a blonde ego and played by a real man. No, what I'm saying is they're probably considering

Ghostbusters multiverse. So original Ghostbusters. Gospelbusters. Yes, the new Ghostbusters, the girl Ghostbusters from 2016, and then they'll bring in the animated ones, right? Yeah, sure, sure, sure. And then, but when they come into the world, they're real people.

So you cast them. And then you've got a young set of Ghostbusters, which are the same technically as like, you know, your Bill Murray character, but they're recasting. He's Channing Tatum or whatever. Sure. That young whippersnapper Channing Tatum. Well, they weren't young in the first one.

No, that's true. They weren't. Yeah. So what do you think? I love it. I feel like James Acaster in the new version, he was the new blonde-egon. Do you know what I mean?

Sure. Ble-egon. Ble-egon. Yeah. That's right. Anyway, I never thought about Ghostbusters because, you know what I mean? Sure. Blee-gon. Blee-gon. Yeah. That's right. Anyway, I had another thought about Ghostbusters because I often do. They're not very good. But I think a good interesting thing for Ghostbusters I think would be you take one of the old Ghostbusters

and one of the new ones, so probably Bill Murray and probably Phoebe, and you put them on a haunted train together. Yeah. And that's the movie. He doesn't have any of his gear, but guess what? Ray's packed him his little proton pack. So he does have his gear. Yeah, at the end.

Okay, right. At the end. Okay, maybe a drone delivers the gear. No, no drones. Oh, interesting. No drones. Okay. Ray's like, you know, this train has a history,

and Venkman's like, I don't care about history. I only care about being a prick. So, but he packed, like how Aunt May packed his Spider-Man suit. It's the same thing. He's packed. So the whole movie, most of it, let's say 80%, they don't have any of their ghost busting stuff, but there's ghosts or a ghost running amok on this haunted train.

But then they get the thing at the end and then they do some ghost busting. Nice. Maybe it's a little fold out one like the Iron Man 2. Oh, my God. And you see Bill Murray's suit up in his Ghostbusters armor. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Anyway.

This is the latest nanotech Bill Murray. Here you go. What am I doing here? Like the suit up sequences him just like staring like at the crew being like, what am I doing here? And then the suit goes over then it's not him anymore it's fine you can save the rest of that now james is your is is your animus towards ghostbusters i'm sensing now it's probably it's perhaps bitterness that you haven't

been brought on the ground floor to make more ghostbusters movies no no it's just my bitterness did you send a letter to ivan reitman and he never responded? He died. Well, that's very rude of him. So I'm mad about that. Yeah, I bet you are. But no, no, I've just been thinking that like I think this is a really rich and interesting universe of like supernatural stuff, and it's just the same ending. It is the same ending.

You're right. It's Ghostbusters 1 over and over again. It doesn't have to be a haunted train. It can be a haunted anything. It can be a haunted double-decker bus. That also, you know, solves the problem of there's now 19 main characters. Exactly. That's what I'm saying.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. See, people think I hate Ghostbusters, and I do. Yeah. But I don't. I think I'm mad because I think it should be good and it's not. Yeah. I think because I think for some people it's like it's the comfort food thing.

Yeah. It's kind of like. And there's the comfort food thing. Yeah. And there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of like, you know, it's just you settle in and there's characters and you have a little bit of fun and it's basically the same. It's the soap opera thing. It's the NCIS thing.

It's like that kind of thing, but you want more. Well, I think sometimes that stuff lands, though, doing that comfort food kind of thing. I think for a time the Fast and Furious movies were that. Yeah. And now they're just nonsense. I would say, and we're going to talk about it in a minute, but Godzilla vs. Kong.

I think that's approaching a comfort food thing. Definitely. Yeah, no, I see the appeal of that. Also, it doesn't have to be Bill Murray. It could be somebody who wants to be in movies. Somebody who wants to do it. I think Rey and Phoebe would be good. Yeah, I think so, yeah.

Would this work better as TV? Maybe. Because you could have a smaller budget thing and you could be like, this week it's Kumail and... Whatever. Whatever. And the ghost of Kumail. What? He's died and he's gone back through time to meet himself? Wow.

Well, you could do Kumail and Patton and James Acaster. I think that would be a good... I think even those personalities would work. Because there's a super enthusiastic guy. There's the guy who hates his job, which is James Acaster's character. And then, or does he? He probably does. Doesn't matter.

And, you know, and Kamau. And he's got that frozen hand. He does have that frozen hand. James Acaster. And imagine all the powers it has. It's just really brittle. But I think that's interesting storytelling. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But even the, yeah, I just like the idea of a different setting. Because one of the things I liked about Ghostbusters Afterlife was that it was a different storytelling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But even the idea, I just like the idea of a different setting because one of the things I liked about Ghostbusters Afterlife was that it was a different setting. Yeah. You know? Yeah. For some of it. All right, so folks, Ivan Reitman, if you're listening out there,

give us the job. We'll AP the Ghostbusters TV series. Again, he's what you died in real life. Jason Reitman. There you go. He's in the great beyond now, isn't he? That's true. You can pass that message on to the executives at Sony.

Anyway. Not Sony. Yeah, it's Sony exactly exactly it's sony i don't think it's like the creative people involved in these all right this is why a comic book movie no sorry start that again whoa which is great comic movie.com but comic book.com producer jerry bruckheimer has confirmed that the next part of the car the Caribbean movie will reboot the franchise. And he's still alive. And he is still alive. He confirmed that also. That's right.

Confirmed two things. I want to be clear, it's Don Simpson was the one who died. Oh, that's sad, isn't it? Well, it's a long time ago. Yeah, well. So now it's less sad. I guess it is. Time has passed.

I'm okay with it. I didn't even know. So it hit me. It did. I heard that. You voice cracked a little bit. Yeah. When you learned that Don Simpson died decades ago. That's right.

So he said, you don't know how they come together. You just don't know. Because with Top Gun, you have an actor who is iconic and brilliant, Tom Cruise, Mason. Tom Cruise. And how many movies he does before he does Top Gun, I can't tell you. But we're going to reboot Pirates so that it's easy to put together because you don't have to wait for certain actors. Who's that a shot at?

Johnny Depp, I would say. I don't think this will go down well. No. Whatever way you do this. Captain Jack is dull. It's a dead character. Let's just, you're thinking of the first one, maybe the first three. Yeah.

It's a very boring character at this point. And he wasn't even the main character in the first couple. And then you want to reboot it into something else. And I just don't think people want that either. I don't know. I can see why they want to do it because even the bad ones do okay. But yeah, what would you do with this? Nothing, obviously, but if you had to choose.

Would you bring back Jonathan Depp? No. No. He's a parody, like, at this point. He's just like. You know what I would do? I would team up Keith Richards and Paul McCartney's character. Oh, my God.

They could be old blokes. Just old blokes. Just old blokes. Just old pirates. Telling stories. About being in the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Not even any character stuff. That's fine.

We put them in full costume. Yep, yep. We give them three to four hours of makeup each and we put them in a room and they can talk about being in famous rock bands. Just say, do you remember the 60s? And they just let them go. Yeah.

That's right. And there are pirate battles happening behind them. We'll do that in post. Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, I don't know. I think this is a no-win scenario. But, you know, good luck to them. I can see why they would want to.

I know they talked about Margot Robbie doing it at one point. What's her name from The Bear they talked about? Was she going to be in that one point? Oh, Aya Debrey? Yeah. I'd watch that. I think they should bring back Zoe Saldana because she's in the first one. That's right, yeah.

And then set that in the same universe because she's great. But does she want to break her streak of being in four of the most – Two billion dollar movies. Not two billion dollar movies, two billion dollar movies. Yeah, more than – yeah, but just – does she want to break her streak or drop her average of being in some of the highest grossing movies of all time? I mean, you wouldn't want to, would you?

No, because she was in the Avatar movies, she was in the Avengers movies Yeah And then you do a Pirates movie that doesn't go anywhere? Come on Her and Sam Worthington kicking goals Both of them, equal amount of goals That's right So there you go Anyway, we'll see. I wouldn't, but good luck

I just don't think they could they could i would love to be surprised but i don't think they would take enough risks for it to be interesting and no i think they they would they would not have johnny depp but they'd want a captain jack sparrow style character yeah and it's like when they that was that the most recent one where they they they were like well we can't get we can't get kira knightley and orlando bloom for a significant amount of time they are in it but they're like let's, we can't get Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom for a significant amount of time. They are in it. They are in it, but they're like, let's recast with the younger versions

of them and they basically have the same character. Is it their kid even? I don't even know. I don't know. God, I didn't. I would feel like they'd do that. I remember that movie being bad. It was pretty bad, I think.

I don't remember anything else about it. Yeah. But I really think the first one took people by surprise. This was amazing. And then they sort of. People like two and three. Yeah. I'm not a huge fan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But at least two and three felt like they felt like something still, whereas four and five were just like. Yeah, I think people. Look, we talked about it when the last one came out. It was everybody seemed very tired in that. think that's people if people remember them at all yeah i think they remember the they probably remember the last one being like oh this was a kind of a drag yeah and also it's not just like i know johnny dent went through that court case

recently and all of that but there's also stories about like him on set and how like like he you know a behavior you wouldn't deem appropriate, difficult to work with. Some real Brando stuff. Late period Brando stuff. Exactly. Yeah. So I could see even from that perspective why they, they wouldn't want to do it.

Like just that alone. But anyway, I don't give a shit. Uh, Florence Pugh went on, was on Instagram and she said, listen, I'm filming Thunderbolts. Listen up. Fives at 10 is speaking. That's right. Um, what's that frombolts. Listen up. Fives at ten is speaking. That's right. What's that from? 30 Rock.

That's great. And we found out that Thunderbolts is now titled Thunderbolts Asterix. Not Asterix as in Asterix and Obelix. Thunderbolts versus Asterix and Obelix. They would kill the Thunderbolts. They've got superpowers. That's right. Yeah.

Well, Asterix when he drinks the potion in Obelix because he fell into the magic potion when he was a baby. That's exactly right. They would kill the Thunderbolts. We've purchased. They've got superpowers. That's right. Yeah. Well, Asterix, when he drinks the potion and Obelix, because he fell into the magic potion when he was a baby. That's exactly right. Yeah, they're gone. Why would they even be trying to invade that Gaulish village? What are they doing? I don't know. It's crazy, but probably the government.

Probably the government. That's the last holdout of Roman rule. We're going to get them. They're still running about. They don't have magic potion all the time. They do all the time. They do pretty much have it all the time. Get a fix makes it.

That's right. Anyway, what do you think this means? Did you know that even in the translations, in the non-English translations, they all have different pun names? I did know that, yes. Isn't that crazy? It's a beautiful translation. Good work, everybody involved in that.

They're still making that. One of the guys is still alive, I think. Yes. Uh-huh. Yeah. It's the artist, I think. Yeah. Yeah.

One of them is somehow still alive. My dad read them as a kid and then I read them as a kid. Wow. My dad's 110. You've shown them to your kids? No. Interesting. I just let my kids like the stuff that they like.

Ah, force some stuff on them. Ah, man. Force your old pop culture on them. If he wants to read Asterix, he's more than welcome to if he can find it. Yeah. You've hidden it in your house? Yeah, I've hidden it. It he can find it. Yeah. You've hidden it in your house? Yeah, I've hidden it. It's a little quest.

Yeah. You're like one day you'll find it and you'll be really enriched literature-wise and he's like, oh, asterisks. We're Marvel superheroes, Dad. What are you doing here? The asterisk I know is Thunderbolts asterisk. That's right. Speaking of, what is this?

What does it mean? I think it's probably they've just got a new title. They've got a subtitle. Like a working title? Yeah, Thunderbolts vs. Avengers. You don't think it's even like this is the actual title and they can't think of a name in the movie? So they're just like, we'll call ourselves Thunderbolts, asterisk.

We'll come back to this. Maybe. We'll figure it out down the line. We can't agree on it and whatever. It's like that final line of the most recent Fantastic Four movie. Good movie. But yeah, I mean, it could be an interesting movie. Everybody has the Captain America or Black

Widow powers. That's what's happening. And we'll go from there. Yeah, I think it's probably going to be Thunderbolts, Dark Avengers or Thunderbolts versus the Avengers. They've got a shoehorn in Avengers somewhere, I think. We think Sentry's going to be in it. Isn't that the idea as well? Maybe.

Steven Yeun was going to be Century, but now he's not anymore. The guy, Bill Pullman's son. Oh. Yeah. Max Pullman. Oh. Real name. Max Pushman.

Yeah, he was Top Gun Maverick. He was the nerd. Oh. But he looks like Bill Pullman. Great. I love that. He's not a nerd. I mean, he was the president.

You have to be a fucking nerd to be the president. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you imagine? Yeah. Big fucking geek. We not a nerd. I mean, he was the president. You have to be a fucking nerd to be the president. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you imagine? Yeah. Big fucking geek. I don't know about the economy. I want to be in charge. Fuck you.

Yeah, get out of here. Go on. Look, every week, it's not significant enough to, I don't think, put in the podcast, but every week, Anthony Mackie's saying something worse about his movie that's coming out. It's bad. I hate making these. They don't let me do anything. They don't make any sense, these movies.

I don't know what's going on. Movies aren't real anymore. Anyway, come see this. Come see this when it comes out in six months to a year. I don't know. I'm excited. If it comes out. If it comes out.

Oh, my God. This is by Daniel Richman. Wait, do you have any more thoughts about Thunderbolts? It could be all right. I like the cast. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. And I'm one of the three people who actually liked Black Widow as a movie.

That's true, yeah. I know everything looks bad at the end, but I like the family dynamic. Yeah, for sure. And David Harper's really fun in that. That's true. Yeah. There we go, Mason.

Do you have any more thoughts? Can I move on now? You may move on, yes. This guy. Every day with this. You don't know this, but we do this seven days a week. That's right. One is salvageable.

Or we piece it together. Daniel Richman said Fantastic Four, the upcoming MCU reboot movie, is actually going to be set in an alternate universe. It's a multiverse situation, which we love. Do you think it's going to be a combining of universes, or do you think

it's going to be they just jump over and go, we live here now? Yeah, I mean, if this is you think it's going to be they just jump over and go we live here now yeah I mean if this is true we live here now I'm going to say my guess would be they're in a collapsing universe or something like that

isn't that what Deadpool and Wolverine might be about maybe I mean potentially this is you know the incident that gives them their powers

is also you know it's created a black hole and it's going to consume all the universes and they have to jump over and then it's like well this is like the 90s or whatever

this is like the 90s or whatever. This is like the 90s or whatever. Like the 90s, yeah. Yeah. Listening to Pearl Jam. Yeah, man. This is 30 years ago, the 90s. That's right. 20 years ago.

Yeah, I guess. Yeah. I guess. Yeah. So there you go. That's filming later this year, I think. And then we've got some Spider-Man 4 news via Jeff Snyder. Now, this currently doesn't have a director,

but one of them being eyed is Justin Lin, who did some Fast and Furious movies. Sure. And I think some good ones as well. I agree. I think he's a good director. And then he left because Vin Diesel is- Enthusiastic about his properties.

He's probably too enthusiastic to work with. So you want him to take the reins of whatever's happening over there. Sure, absolutely. So, yeah, he's looking for work, and, yeah, I think he could be a good choice actually. He's looking for work. Oh, he did the good Star Trek. He did Star Trek 3. He did the third one.

Yeah, that's right. He did Star Trek Beyond, which is a really good one. There's a dirt bike chase in it. That's right. And it works. Yeah. Shouldn't. It shouldn't.

Maybe that's why he doesn't work with Vin Diesel anymore because Vin called him up. He's like, you're putting dirt bikes in your movies? That's sort of our thing. Did I hear this correctly? Oh, Vin. He'll be all right. Yeah. Do you think he'll be all right?

I don't think he'll be all right. Fair enough. It's by the Cosmic Circus, also about Spider-Man 4. Apparently, since he's either lost or detached himself from everyone

that he's ever loved. Remember there was that big spell and everyone forgot Peter Parker? i don't remember that it's in the movie i don't remember it though so all he's got to keep him going is being spider-man uh whether the city loves him or not and so the idea is that that spider-man persona is slowly like consumed his existence and peter parker was fading away it It's compared to that of Robert Pattinson's Batman in The Batman, where there's not really a Bruce Wayne. It's just Batman and a guy who's awkwardly standing not in a Batman suit. That's right. But with a Batman eye makeup on.

That's right. Yeah. I wonder, is this the opportunity to do Venom's suit then? Oh, because he's all sad and emo. Because if Peter Parker is fading away. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe.

We still don't know whether this is going to be multiverse or ground level. I hope it's ground level. Me too. But. Me too. Who am I to say? But the people have demanded. Yes.

Multiverse stuff. I don't think they have. No. I don't want sad Peter Parker either. No? You know what? Just resolve it. Resolve it in the first ten minutes.

No, man. Make him sad. It's fine. You can give him a sad one. Okay. Maybe. He's had it too good for too long in these movies. It's true.

Yeah. Oh, look at me. My dad's rich. Yeah, my dad's rich. He's not. Imagine if he was. Oh, yeah. I'd tell everybody he's rich.

Yeah, nice. And my daddy bought Microsoft. Don't look it up. Ah, this is fun. Speaking of rich dads. Okay. It's by the Financial Times. Nelson Peltz.

Talked about this last week. Him and Ike Perlmutter have been plotting to take over things that they want to get the board members to vote them in charge of Disney because they've got big plans to make things worse. Not for everyone. No. It's got to be better for rich people. It'll be better for them. It'll be Not for everyone. No. It's going to be better for rich people. It'll be better for them. It'll be better for them. Yeah.

They're like, we are openly campaigning to make this worse just for the benefit of us. Yeah. Anyway, let us see. Why can't you see that? We do see it. We do see that, but we're not in charge of this. So you will be voted in and you will ruin this. So Nelson Peltz, of course, so him and Ike Perlmutter.

Nelson Peltz's granddaughter's in one of the Transformers movies. And she's in Avatar, I recently learned. Not recent Avatar. The Avatar movie. The Shyamalan one. Yeah, I recently learned that, because again, I bet. Is she married to a Beckham, maybe? She's married to Brooklyn Beckham.

He's a normal one, isn't he? Yeah, they're all very normal. But she isn't. I learned recently she's in that Avatar movie, the Shyamalan one. And so apparently, and I don't remember this, but I'm told that they had to race swap a bunch of characters because. Around her. Around her because they're like, well,

it would be weird if she was white and all the other characters were not white so we just got to make them. Couldn't we have a line that explains that or cast somebody else? No, no, no. We've got to recast this. We've got to be white. Cool. Anyway, so he was talking about the

state of marvel nelson peltz and he said i love this oh this is great um people go to watch a movie or a show to be entertained they don't go to get a message why do i have to have a marvel that's all women wow great stuff now not what an incredible message too yeah i know right uh well there's no message. That's important. Yeah, but if women, that's a message. I love also the phrasing. Why do I have to have a marvel that's all women?

You're trying to take this over. You should have an understanding of- What do you think this company you're trying to take over makes? Their assistant's just gone, yeah, marvel. Marvel. And he's gone, oh, they make a marvel. Yeah. Not that I have anything against women.

You do. No, he said not. You're not listening. Oh, yeah, good point. But why do I have to do that? Why can't I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all black cast? Just unprompted, by the way.

Just throw that on at the end. This is wild. Yeah. Also, none of those movies have an all black cast because they have Martin Freeman in them. Well, that at the end. This is wild. Yeah. Also, none of those movies have an all-black cast because they have Martin Freeman in them. Well, that's the thing. So if you look... Fiddling with a little joystick or whatever.

Yeah, I mean... Or getting arrested by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. So there's like Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis is in like Black Panther. That's not even an all-black cast. You could even flip it and be like, well, Age of Ultron is an all-white cast because there's a couple of black people in it. You know what I mean? Like it could work both ways.

But anyways, he was asked would he fire Kevin Feige. He said, I'm not ready to say that, but I question his record. Kevin Feige is probably, not probably, he is the most successful film producer ever. Of all time. The MCU has made $30 billion. Yeah. With a B, not million.

Well, he could do better, couldn't he? Yeah, I guess he could. You know, all the last few movies all could have made a billion dollars. They could and they haven't. You're right. Yeah, yeah. If they employed this guy's new strategy of no women, no black people. Yeah.

They would have made billions of dollars. That's probably true. Yeah. Well, I mean, obviously the last few movies haven't been a billion dollars in success. Because they've been whatever. Because they've been whatever and because they're, you know, for a bunch of reasons, they've become sort of production line-esque and people are crunching everybody.

They're crunching everybody. The output's too much, which was their mandate, by the way. Yeah, there's no kind of guiding principle behind it. Like there's no, they're not leading up to another big, well, maybe they are, but the general audiences can't see it, et cetera. And maybe Feige is at fault for not steering the ship in the last couple of years as finely as he could. But imagine this guy thinking he could do better.

Yeah. You had a full decade of making the most popular movies of all time and you've slipped off a little bit in the last couple of years. Well, I question that record. He said, they say we know nothing about the movie business. We don't claim we do. Great. But I don't think they do with five big losers in a row.

They've lost first place in animation. They've lost first place in features. Maybe it's time to change management in those divisions. And you know what? I say bring it on. Let's see what you do. I wouldn't hate this. Just to see what happens?

Just to see what happens. Yeah. I don't think it is going to happen, but it would be. Because I know, I mean, Disney are already course correcting. We won't see that for like a couple of years. We don't know what that's going to look like necessarily, but we know what they're pulling back. But this would be a train wreck. Imagine putting this guy in charge. He doesn't even know the name of years. We don't know what that's going to look like necessarily, but we know what they're pulling back. But this would be a train wreck.

Imagine putting this guy in charge. He doesn't even know the name of anything. He's a million years old. He's a racist. Like, what are you doing? And everybody's going to, you know what I would love to see? This guy at the forefront replacing Kevin Feige, and everybody's just like, what are you going to do for Secret Wars?

Are you going to incorporate the Beyonder in Secret Wars? And he'd be like, I don't know what that is. Is he black? Then no. So, yeah, we'll see how this goes. Yeah, we're going to have a Beyonder. Yeah. I don't think this kind of, I mean, he would have, like,

got somebody to put this out thinking that this was a good idea to kind of sway Disney shareholders. But I think if you're on the board of that and you know anything, you'd look at this and go, oh, this is a crazy person. And no. I mean, but whatever. If he could maybe promise them like a short-term like bump in stock, which I don't think would happen.

I think if he did take over, the stock would, I think the immediate thing would be it would plummet. I think it would recover. But I think the instant reaction would be a dip. That's what I think the immediate thing would be it would plummet. I think it would recover, but I think the instant reaction would be a dip. That's what I think. I think this guy's a bloody dip. I am a dip. Me?

No, him. But me also. But you also, yes. But for different reasons. Two dips. Yeah, two big dips. Anyways, this is my production weekly. Here's a log line for the Teen Titans movie.

The Teen Titans are further apart than ever before. What have they been up to? We don't know. Probably got lost at the mall. They may have, yeah. Until Damian Wayne recruits Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, and the new kid, Flasher, join him in a fight against his own grandfather, Ra's al Ghul, or Ra's al Ghul, depending how you say it.

That's right. I think they should alternate throughout the movie. Oh, okay, cool. They could make that a cool running joke. Everybody's confused, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Or not a joke. Just do it anyway. That's right. that a cool running joke. Everybody's confused, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Or not a joke. Just do it anyway.

That's right. Kind of like they did in Batman Begins, I think. I think it's just different depending on who's saying it. What do you think of that? Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, Kid Flash. Bit of fun. Damian Wayne, Lost in a Mall. Yep, I love that.

It's cheap. Put it in a mall. Just use it around the mall, some Stranger Things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like it. I like that idea. If this is real, which it could be. Seems like it might be. It's a fire production week. Seems plausible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like it. I like that idea. If this is real, which it could be. Seems like it might be.

It's Fire Production Weekly. Seems plausible. Yeah, that's right. So there you go. That's at least three years away. But this one's via comicbook.com. They spoke to Henry Golding with his most famous role. Snake Eyes.

Snake Eyes, that's right. About a Snake Eyes sequel. It is promoting the new Guy Ritchie thing at the moment, I think. Oh, is he in The Gentleman? Yeah. No, it's not The Gentleman. It's the blokes on a boat shooting Germans, whatever it's called. Henry Cavill's in it.

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Because Henry Golding was in The Gentleman, the movie. And the movie Snake Eyes. Oh, he was in The Gentleman, the movie. You're right. Yeah. He said, I mean, Lorenzo de Bonaventura. Great name.

I agree. He's a producer on G.I. Joe and Transformers. He's a busy man and a phenomenal producer. And it's in safe hands. He's talking about the future of G.I. Joe and Transformers, is a busy man and a phenomenal producer, and it's in safe hands. He's talking about the future of G.I. Joe and Transformers. Whatever happens, which could be nothing, I think it's going to be a combination of what has come and what is to come. Nice.

Probably true. Yeah, that's true. Isn't that just like life? It is. It's of what's happened and what's going to happen. And the potential future, you know, that golden future we're all heading towards, a gold- yes very good towards i think paramount have some grand grand plans so there you go for example what if there were a bunch of guys shooting red lasers

and a bunch of guys shooting blue lasers they're running at each other running at each other to stop the big laser that's happening somebody's built a big laser it's too big too big to blow up the world this laser yeah it could or it could. Or a broad dimension. Yeah, so. Yep, absolutely. Can we get the, I want the Transformers suits. You put them on and you transform and you're in the suit. I don't like that. Why not?

They're bad. They're bad and stupid. In the show? In the movie where Danny has one? It's like a suit that's a car? Oh, I thought you meant. Not the G.I. Joe XOs. No.

Okay, I thought you meant the G.I. Joe suits where they're running really fast. And it's like, wow, what a core premise of G.I. Joe. You get in a suit thought you meant the G.I. Joe suits where they're running really fast and it's like, wow, what a core premise of G.I. Joe. You get in a suit and you run really fast. That is a core premise. You run through buildings and stuff. What do you think? You like it? Yeah, I love it. I mean, they're going to have another shot at this. Yeah.

Because what else are they going to do? Make an original thing? No. They've also got an animated Transformers movie out. I think it's this year. Transformers 1? It's supposed to be coming out. Yeah, with Chris Hemsworth is going to be in it somehow. Yeah, he's Optimus Prime. I love that. Yeah, so there you go.

Yeah. And that's movie news. That's great. I love the future of G.I. Joe. Because it incorporates things from the past. Yeah, just big weird tanks. When's he going to get his snake face? When are they going to throw acid on him? That's a great question.

Or he gets the, what is it? He gets like a jet to the face? Like a helicopter. Yeah, in on him? That's a great question. What is it? He gets like a jet to the face? Like a helicopter. Yeah, in the comic books, he's in a helicopter and a fuel line breaks and it burns his face off. He doesn't like that, does he? No, he doesn't like it. Yeah, very good. I mean, he doesn't talk after that, so maybe he does like it.

He never said. Yeah, someone give him a pen. But don't. He'll kill you with it. It's a deadly weapon in his hands. That's right. Man, but don't. He'll kill you with it. It's a deadly weapon in his hands. That's right.

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No, that was a different week. It's the same though, isn't it? No. Some movies are better than others. Some movies. I disagree. I think all movies are great. All right.

In a way, all movies. All the movies. That's what I call them now. All the movies are beautiful and cinema is a wonderful thing. That's probably true. And if you disagree and if you think anything is bad, you're a hater. Yeah, that's probably true. Some movies are all for the fans.

Every movie is for the fans. I don't know if Sony are making movies. Rise Up Before Sunrisies. Everybody loves the Before trilogy. I'm here with you. Do you think what Sony are doing is for the fans? I don't know what they're doing. Madam Web?

No, that's not for the fans. In a way it is, isn't it? No. Because it's for like – If you know anything about Madam Web, that's not for you. Yes, that's true. I guess it's for completely uncritical Spider-Man fans or at least that's what they think it's for.

Yes. They just go Spider-Man and people go, oh, I like that other Spider-Man. This is Spider-Man related in some way. I'll see it. So in a way it is for fans but a certain type of fan. I should have called it Spider-Man Origins Madame Web. Nice.

Dimensional rift. Dimensional frozen empire., Madam Web. Nice. Dimensional Rift. Dimensional Frozen Empire. That's right. Yeah. Anyways. Dimensional Drift. Anyways. Dimensional Tokyo Drift.

Godzilla X-Cog. Yes. Budget of $135 million. And Box Office Return, it's looking good. So it looks like it's going to have about a 67 million opening weekend. Okay, all right. Maybe more. Initially it was going to be lower,

but it seems like this is getting a bit of traction. People are getting out there on the Easter long weekend. They are. If, in fact, you have that where you are. That's right. And internationally it's probably going to make about 80 to 85 million. That means it's going to be below the opening of Godzilla 2014, which made $93 million in the US,

but it's above Kong Skull Island, which made $61 million. So this will be the second highest opening for these movies. I mean, that tells me that for people the draw is Godzilla. Yes. Not Kong necessarily. That might be true. Though this feels more like a Kong movie. It does, doesn't it?

Also, it doesn't seem to be facing much competition from Ghostbusters, which is dropping off quite a bit. The Battle of the Frozen Empires, though, isn't it? Boy, is it, Mason. Anyway, I've just got here. Tell me if this is right. Go on. What do you think the story was?

Oh, come on, mate. I got you then, didn't I? You got me. It's absolutely true. What's true? Well, this is a sequel to Godzilla. 2014. Yeah.

And also Godzilla. Godzilla. Godzilla King Kong Island. Kong Island. Godzilla King of Monsters. King of Monsters. Also Godzilla versus King Kong. Yeah, that's right. It King of Monsters. King of Monsters. Also Godzilla versus King Kong. Yeah, that's right.

It's a sequel to all of those. And Godzilla minus one. It's a sequel to that also. Yeah. So after the events of Godzilla versus Kong, Godzilla's on the surface world, big mistake, and Kong is down in the hollow earth. Big mistake also?

Or is that not a big mistake? I mean, he's not having a great time. No, he's lonely. You know what's interesting about this movie, and then I'll tell you about the plot, is that Godzilla – Don't think I'll forget. No, you might forget. You've done it before.

Godzilla Minus One is all about like the point of view characters, obviously the human characters. Yeah. You know, and their trials and tribulations and getting back on their feet after big events. But in this movie, the point of view character, it's not the human characters. This has human characters.

But the point of view character I think in this is King Kong. Absolutely. Because he's just like, he's got to do human stuff. He's got to go to the dentist and he's like. He's got a job. He's got a job and he's always like, he doesn't have a girlfriend and he's like, he's just, you know, because he's constantly being pursued by monsters in the hollow earth and he's like. There's just, you know, because he's constantly being pursued by monsters in the hollow earth

and he's like. There's a moment where he gets mugged. There's a moment where he gets mugged. He's just doing it. And there's a point where he tears a big monster in half and he gets covered in green slime and he's like, I need a shower. He has to go and have a shower.

That's right. But he's the point of view character. Absolutely. You feel for him. Like the rest of the characters are sort of half-baked cardboard cutouts, like increasingly. Yes. But in this it's King Kong,

and he's trying to make his way in the Hollow Earth. It's hard. It's hard. Because the sky is also a mountain. Right? It's confusing. And every day you'd wake up and you'd go, am I supposed to be on that frigging ground?

Or this ground? Where did I leave the TV remote? Did I leave it on this ground or the other ground? Also, is it perfectly like, is it inverted sphere, the whole thing? Oh, I don't know. On the inside? I don't know.

Where's the light source? Is it a big crystal? It's probably a big crystal. But anyway, he's all out there and he's like, oh, I don't know what's going on. I've got beats and others like me. And then he does. I grew a beard.

That's right. He had a beard in the last one. And then he does. I grew a beard. That's right. He had a beard in the last one. But then it turns out they're bad. So he's got to fight them. But then they've got to contrive a way that he fights Godzilla for a bit and then they team up. That's right. And they do that.

They do the run. They do a run together, don't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's definitely given more personality than I think he's probably had before. Or no, maybe not. That's true. Maybe that isn't true. I think he's probably had before. Or no, maybe not. That's true. Maybe that isn't true. I think he's given more human qualities.

Yes. He's clearly getting smarter, I guess, and sadder. Yeah. Which is fun. Because that's what happens. Yeah. When you get smarter, you do get sadder. That's true.

I wouldn't know. But yeah, Godzilla, I wouldn't say he's an afterthought, but is more of a minor player compared to that of King Kong. Godzilla's more like a cat. He's more like a minor player compared to that of King Kong. Godzilla's more like a cat. He's more like a cat. And King Kong's more like a dog. Yeah, that's right. Or a bloke.

He's like a bloke. Yeah. How do you feel about the human stuff in this? We've got some returning characters. That's true. We've got Rebecca Hall is back. Yep, got a haircut. Brian Tyree Henry is back. He's got a haircut. He's got a haircut. We've got the Hall is back. Yep. He's got a haircut. Brian Tyree Henry is back.

He's got a haircut. He's got a haircut. We've got the young lady whose name I cannot recall who's from the Iwi tribe. Yep. Hair long, I think. Hair longer, potentially. Dan Stevens, he's got the Ryan Gosling haircut. He's got the Ryan Gosling haircut.

He's new and they needed kind of a cowboy guy. Yep. So he's in it. That's right. I don't think any of them are bad at all. Here's a thought I had. Half of these characters know they're in a movie and the other half don't.

So Rebecca Hall's character doesn't know she's in a movie. No idea. Dan Stevens' character absolutely knows he's in a movie. He figured it out. Brian Tyree Henry's character knows he's in a movie. King Kong knows he's in a movie. Yep. Because half the time he's like, oh, brother, here we go again.

He looks to the camera and he goes, he's in a movie. But Godzilla doesn't know he's in a movie. No. And no one told him. Oh, looks to the camera but godzilla doesn't know he's in a movie no and no one told him oh and the girl who lost her tribe doesn't know she doesn't know she's in a movie she's living a real life yeah yeah yeah oh and the guy uh the guy from andor he doesn't know he's in a movie no that's because he wouldn't have done that thing that happened to him that's right yeah we will do more spoilers but you kind of have a rough idea of what this is have you seen the trailer it's going to go like that yeah um i think this is you know this could have this could have easily fell into the trap of – I'm recovering from illness, by the way.

You're eating a lozenge. I'm eating a lozenge. And everyone knows it now. Good. I hope they do. You're eating one of those cocaine lozenges from the 1900s. Mason, it's just straight up cocaine. Okay, right.

But I think – because I'm sure the comparison could be made and people will probably throw it at me that I didn't like Frozen Empire because it did a lot of the things that it's already done. But I think this does the things that have already happened but there are fun additions to it which get it over the line for me. I don't think this is like amazing. Okay. But I think it's got some fun moments.

I think it's got a good villain. Yeah. I think this is, again, like we said, it's sort of a comfort food movie. If you like the previous ones, if you like the direction the American MonsterVerse movies are going, I think you'll like this one because it has all the beats you're expecting. Yes. I think this idea that, you know, people say, like,

switch your brain off or whatever. For me, I look at things like this like, is this fun? Yeah. That to me is like, then I can forgive things if it's like, enough or whatever for me i look at the things like this like is this fun yeah that's that to me is like then i can forgive things if it's like well this is a fun journey there's some things that i think probably it didn't need um there's a there's an anti-gravity moment which i think was yeah pretty unnecessary added added little to the to the action except for like a brief like an like an extra two minutes to the runtime floating about i think this movie has a lot of this movie to me feels like it has a lot of working backwards

it's like oh we need this to happen so let's just say this or what like there's a lot of there's a lot of odd coincidences and contrivances that lead up but but at the same time i'm like you know this is a movie about a giant lizard and a giant ape yeah i kind of feel like the the villain isn't bad but i feel like he's a little bit underbaked in terms of you don't really see much of him like a lot of a lot of his backstory is just delivered through exposition yeah like somebody a character just goes into a room and reads some sigils and goes oh it's actually he's from the dawn of time and blah blah blah and this happened and he was stored away in a vault or whatever. Now he's mad about it. Yeah, I don't feel like maybe he got enough run time that I'm –

and also he's just a jiker, really. What is he? He's an orangutan. He's an orangutan, yeah. But I think I liked it because he's a guy and he is just kind of a guy where he's not a physical match for either King Kong or Godzilla like individually. Right, yeah. But he's a rat.

So he's like he's a survivalist. Like he's figured out that he's smart enough. Like the reason he's in charge and he can win a fight is because he's smarter than everybody else. You know what? It just occurred to me. The thing perhaps that he needs, he needs a black order. He needs like, you know how Thanos has the regular sized guy

and the really big guy and the magic guy and the woman, Carrie Coon from Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. I think he needed that. He's got some like heavies. But they're just all, they're interchangeable kind of thing. I think you needed one that's got one really big arm and one who's got one really big eye or whatever. So I can tell them apart and I know how the good guys are going

by how many of those guys he's defeated. Because some of them are like, they just look like bald dudes that King Kong beats up. Yeah. There's some interesting scaling in this. I wouldn't say it's bad, but it's interesting how when we go. Oh, when suddenly you'll see them next to something and then you realise how big everybody is?

You know, when we see King Kong exploring the hollow earth and he's encountering these other apes, it's just some dudes in a room kind of thing. But then when they emerge on the surface world, you're like, oh, they're building stars. That's right. I forgot. I wouldn't say it's bad, but I'm just like it's interesting.

You forget? I think it did it better than, say, Quantumania did. Right. Okay. Which is not that difficult. No. I'd agree with that. I think there's a moment where King Kong,

you see this in the trailers, where King Kong finds an underground society of apes and he goes in and a bunch of them have been enslaved to move rocks around or whatever. Yeah, sure. And it's just Temple of Doom. Yes. There is a very confronted by a guard Temple of Doom moment.

And I think it was interesting seeing him yeah like a guy who's kind of free range yeah and has been killing monsters on the surface and he's so much bigger and smarter than than everybody else yeah right and i think that was an interesting dynamic on of course another interesting dynamic was yet we have little baby kong yeah who's a little what's he kong he's a mini kong yeah and Kong. Yeah. And he's down there with the grubs. Yeah. And he's all mean and. He's been treated poorly.

He's all mean and feral and he doesn't like King Kong initially. Yeah. Because he's been raised to just like hate everybody and fight or whatever. Yeah. He doesn't know he's in a movie. No, he doesn't know. King Kong constantly being like, you're in a movie, man. Just move on.

Just come with me. People are going to like this dynamic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We can be a couple. No, he doesn't know. King Kong constantly being like, you're in a movie, man. Just move along. Just come with me. People are going to like this dynamic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can be a couple of buddies. We can do a father-son thing in this movie that we're in. Well, speaking of, I took my son to see this. Oh, yes. Having seen probably none of the other movies.

He's seen some of like Godzilla versus Kong at a friend's house or whatever. But there's a moment where King Kong first goes, oh, by the way, there's a hollow earth, but then there's an even hollower earth. Oh, there's an even hollower earth, exactly. A hole opens up and there's an even hollower earth. Yeah, and he goes in there, and immediately when King Kong goes down there, he gets mugged. Yeah.

He gets jumped. And so it's him fighting these other apes, which he's never seen before. And little Kong has tricked him into it. And there's a moment where he picks him up, little Kong, and just is using him as a weapon. Yeah, that's right. And there's a moment where he picks him up, little Kong, and just is using him as a weapon. Yeah, that's right. And there's a moment where one of the apes is running away

and he throws a rock and you see it go down and hits the guy in the back and then he falls over. And my son loved it, lost it, just losing his mind about how funny that moment was. Did your son love it when Godzilla powered up and he became Pink Godzilla? He didn't mention it. He didn't care at all. I thought he would have loved that. Your son loves things powering up.

I don't think he's seen enough. To know that's not a normal. I mean, he's done it before, but that's not his normal color. Yeah, that's true. What do you think about Godzilla in this? Loved it. Yeah? I like it.

I think it's a good aesthetic. I think so too. Yeah. It looks good against the snow and against the. I don't think it's permanent either, right? No, it's not. No, no, no. Yeah.

It's interesting that for what you do see of Godzilla, because he's still doing his job, like roaming around, killing big crabs or whatever, whereas, like, there's a moment where they fight, like, in the pyramids and whatever. Uh-huh. And I would just love to see as they're tearing that apart just people being killed. Wow. Because they're...

James, everybody evacuated. Don't even worry about it. They've just ignored that aspect of these movies now where they fight in... There's a big fight in Rome. There's a fight in Rome and Cairo and yeah. A third place. Yeah, assorted places we aren't so it doesn't matter. People are just kind of okay with it.

Yeah. You know, at this point. Yeah, it's a far cry from the 2014 Godzilla where we see the human cost of it and everybody's being carried away on stretchers and going into FEMA camps and all this sort of stuff. Yeah, but now it's like Godzilla saved us and it's like, well. He's also wrecking a bunch of stuff on the way out, but whatever, I guess.

Can't they fight in the desert? They did. Cairo. Yeah, you're right. There's nothing there. It's totally fine. Oh, yeah, Godzilla suplexes Kong at one point, which apparently is controversial.

Is it? Yeah, I don't care. Okay, great. What do we – let's get into big time, big spoilers, I reckon. Sure. I'm going to say best movie ever. I had a fun time with this. Is it better than the last one?

I don't know. Which was the last one? Godzilla versus Kong. Is that the one where they fought King Ghidorah? No, that was the one they fought Mechagodzilla. Yes. I think it's better than the one they fought Mechagodzilla. I think it might be too.

But I did like the battleship fight in that one as well. I thought that was a good fight. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. But there's big team-ups in this, which I do enjoy. Yeah. There's an additional Titan. Well, there's two additional Titans.

One, which I think was kind of unnecessary that they put in. Anyway, let's do spoilers. Let's do spoilers. Like it's time for big time spoiler time, folks. But I think people should check this out. Yeah. If you like these. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's not Godzilla minus one. I think it's. Now, if that was your first Godzilla film, this is going to be a little bit different. I think that it's good that we're getting kind of two types of this, these movies. Because if you look at also the trajectory of the original Godzilla movies, they become this. Yeah, I guess that's true, yeah. It starts serious and somber and then they get kind of more ludicrous.

And it's just aliens showing up and more monsters. I think there is an end point of this, though. I think they're going to hit a wall maybe in the next one or two movies. In what way? Like there's only so many monsters that can team up and appear and whatever before they have to set it on a train like my Ghostbusters idea. That's exactly right. Yeah. Murder on the Iron Express, but it's Godzilla and Kong.

That's right, yeah. I think they've probably also reached the limit of Godzilla and Kong can't exist on the same plane because they'll- They know each other now. Yeah, I reckon they're probably in the next one. Also, Mothra's back, by the way. Mothra comes back.

Is it a different Mothra or the same Mothra? I don't know. Yeah. I think it's- Just in an egg. I mean, nobody in the movie specifically says, this is a different Mothra from the last one. And I'm sort of getting the impression that Mothra is like a reincarnation

thing in this universe. Like there's a Mothra now and it's – Was there an egg at the end of King of Monsters or something? I can't remember. We did look at them recently. Yeah, yeah. But I think – you know what? I think they're probably going to – at the start of the next one,

I reckon they're probably going to go Mothra's radiation means that Godzilla and Kong can understand each other now. So they just won't fight anymore. That's fine with me. I'm pretty confident of that. Like they're going to go, these three have an understanding now. And so they're not going to. Unless they don't.

Unless they don't. And then they'll have to fight for a bit. Yeah. I don't think the Mothra thing was really necessary though. No. No. But they needed one more surprise for the. And the ice lizard.

That's true. They did. It was a big ice lizard. Because they needed Godzilla to fight a guy as well uh that because they needed they needed uh godzilla to fight a guy as well because it was just godzilla and kong versus the new orangutan they would have that would be that's a murder they would have taken two two limbs each and just put it would have been two seconds yeah that fight so they needed a guy to fight godzilla and it's kind of this ice titan yeah he's like godzilla in reverse but he's been he's being controlled somehow by

one of his his spine crystal of crystal magic crystal that's what i guess magic it's fine yeah no it is yeah yeah uh also we we learn of course that there's a there's a there's a tribe there's an iwi tribe an ancient iwi tribe that have been living in the hollowest part of the hollow earth a new hollow part so hollow and they have been sending out a distress call to godzilla because they know that the evil orangutan was going to release the ice dragon guy and then the ice dragon guy is going to ice over the world and cause a new ice age. And run through a portal.

Run through a portal, exactly. Well, that's the thing in terms of contrivances. There's so many like, well, how are we going to get back to the regular Earth? Well, there's a portal there. It's fine. People have seen this in the trailer. King Kong gets his arm injured and it gets frostbitten, we learn,

and it gets slashed and all sorts of stuff. How are you going to do that? How are you going to do that? Well, it turns out, apropos of nothing, no foreshadowing of any kind, that Monarch was building a battle suit for Kong and the project got cancelled, but fortunately the only thing they managed to build was a gauntlet that is for his right arm and it just happens to be in the Hollow Earth.

They brought it to the Hollow Earth and it just happens to be the arm that he got injured. And it flies on like an Iron Man. It flies on like an Iron Man. He doesn't have to be conscious for it and it's also got like medicine injectors in it so it can heal his frostbite. And it's just like, all right. Pretty handy. Very handy in a lot of ways. I should have mentioned it in the previous movie. Yes. Listen, we're building an Iron Man suit for this guy.

Like the idea of it is kind of cool and, you know, there's time. Do you think there's like a more realistic way you would have liked to approach that, that like they gave him surgery, like how they pulled his tooth out? Well, that's what I thought. I thought they were going to be like, well. That's what I thought too. Yeah, I thought they were going to be like, well. That's what I thought too. Yeah, I thought they were going to be like, well, we've got to, you know.

We can use the structure of this, whatever, whatever. Exactly, but I guess there was no time. But also, why am I trying to bring logic into this movie? Yeah, what are you doing? It's just very, just an odd. You're stupid for doing that. I am stupid, you know what I mean? Yeah.

Or if they were like, hey, you know. No, I don't have anything. Or if they were like, no, no, no. you know, no, I don't have anything. Or if they were like that, I don't know. My thought there was going to be like maybe Godzilla's helping him to build something and so they built him a gauntlet so he can hold up structures or something. But then, again, why would it just be the one arm?

Why is it the one arm and that arm? But what I'm, you know. I don't know, man. Do you reckon he's going to have it in the next movie? No, he's going to be fine. Yeah. Because he got injected with the things and they said, well, these injections will help.

I think he's going to leave it on, though. He seems to like it. I think he'll put it on his wall of tools. Oh, yeah. I think he's going to have a home improvement style wall of tools and it's going to be the axe. It's going to be the axe. Maybe that whip made out of spines or pelvises or whatever it's made of.

He's going to put that on the wall and he's going to put his axe and he's going to put the robot arm. Sick. Yeah. I love that. That's good. He's going to have his little bloke, mate. His little mate. That's right. And he's going to make his own out. Sick. Yeah. I love that. That's good. He's going to have his little bloke mate.

That's right. And he's going to make his own out of coconut shells. You know what? There is a move here that they can make. What's that? They can kill King Kong. Yeah. That's a move they can make in these.

I don't think they'll kill Godzilla because Godzilla doesn't really die, really, but a big gorilla will die. That's true, yeah. Yeah. And then Mini Kong takes up the mantle. He goes into his dad's shed. And he never gets any bigger. It's just Little Kong. He's still pretty big, though, isn't he? He's true, yeah. Yeah, and then Mini Kong takes up the mantle. He goes into his dad's shed. And he never gets any bigger. Just little Kong. He's still pretty big though, isn't he? He's still pretty big.

Yeah, he can leap about or whatever. He can leap about, absolutely. Here's something I like. Godzilla's bed is just the Colosseum. That is fine. I don't know why, but that's true now. You only like that because it upsets so many Italians. Yeah, that's right. That's what I'm all about. That's why I started this podcast. They zoom up on their Vespas and they're like,

oh, they dropped their little espresso cups. I'm angry about it. This is not Malto Bernays. That's right. The opposite of that. Yeah. Opposito. So Adam Wingard, who directed this in the last one,

I think he's weighing up between doing another one of these or doing a Thundercats movie. I think the studio would like him to just continue this. Absolutely. So I think that's probably what we'll get from him next. Yeah. But how do you feel about a Thundercats movie, though? I'm not interested in a Thundercats movie.

No? No. Yeah, it's been a while. They did reboot it in 2010, maybe. Okay, great. I think they did. Yeah. I was never a huge Thundercats.

No, I was more of a Silverhawks guy. Sure. Another thing that people don't remember. Yeah. It's good to not remember things, isn't it? Boy, sure is. Yeah. So I don't know.

We'll see where we go with this. But because isn't the idea a lot of times in King Kong, like King Kong will die and then his son takes over. I mean, we looked at the original King Kong recently. This next King Kong movie is Son of Kong. You know what's interesting about this universe? Yeah. Is there's no...

It's dumb. It's stupid. It is dumb and stupid, but there was no King Kong is taken to New York City. No, it's never happened. It's never happened in this. And I'm wondering if maybe they should do like a scene in maybe the Monarch series where there's a guy and he's like, I'm going to take this Kong from Skull Island,

I'm going to take him to the whatever, and a Monarch guy just shoots him in the back of the head. No, we'd prefer it. That's the branching point of this universe is just a guy going, no, we'd prefer he stay in Skull Island actually. Yeah, let's not bring him to New York City. Yeah. Movie producer killed in accident where he fell on a bullet.

A real shame. Kurt Russell's bullet. Did you finish watching that show? No. It's good, man. Didn't even start it. Don't have Apple TV. I think it's more serious than this.

I was going to say it's a cross between this and Godzilla minus one. It's more like Godzilla 2014 and this. Right, okay. I think, yeah. I still think the strongest entries in these that got the balance right is the 2014 Godzilla and Skull Island. Right. I think they both do exactly what they're supposed to do.

And this is kind of a blend sort of that doesn't always kind of come together. But, you know, you can only do serious Godzilla movies for so long, I guess. That's true. Yeah. But, like, the monster stuff in in that skull island movie i think it's just real it's just so good so anyway what do i know about it and the human characters in that as well yeah that probably does the best human characters yeah aside from brian cranston who's only in that movie for like 10 minutes that's true yeah oh yeah no this movie they're

like oh we've got the there's a there's a flock of these weird lizard flying lizard things that luckily our our yeah luckily our little hover plane thing can camouflage. Can do that. We can control it. That'll come back. At least there's foreshadowing for that. Yeah, there is. Who doesn't love that?

I love it. Here's some reviews, Mason. It's from Russell Michaels who says, Godzilla X Kong is easily the best in the franchise since Kong Skull Island. I don't remember Kong Skull Island. No, it's true. K-S-I, or this is best overall, annoying human drama kept to a minimum.

Godzilla just did not care about human casualties at all, nor our infrastructure or monuments. B-M-E. Best movie ever. I don't think so. Body Mass Index. Yeah. I think that's the only review that I got sent.

Wow. But people don't care. We must be falling off most. I mean, we must be falling off. I think it's more likely to say that people don't care about Godzilla vs. Kong anymore. No, it seems like it's doing really well. Okay, then I guess it's the thing you said. Yeah, we've fallen off.

Anyway, so would you say check it out? I would say check it out. Or wait a minute. Is that our new review score? Check it out or wait a minute? Wait a minute. Okay. Yeah, what do you think? We should do like promotional headshots for new review score? Check it out or Wait a Minute? Wait a Minute. Okay. Yeah, what do you think?

We should do like promotional headshots for that. Okay. Check it out. We're like this. Finger guns. Yeah. Or finger guns. Or finger guns.

Or these ones with like Wait a Minute. We're like, wait a minute. Yeah. Wait for streaming, et cetera. Yeah. No, I think see this on the big screen. Yeah, the biggest screen you can. Yes.

A regular movie theater. Sure. Yeah, great. All right. the big screen. Yeah, the biggest screen you can. Yes. A regular movie theater. Sure. Yeah, great. All right, thanks, everyone. Oh, should we do the rest of the show? We should do more show. Thanks, everyone. Thanks for sticking around.

That's right. Thanks, everyone. You know what it's time for? Our segment, thanks, everyone. We individually thank everybody. We do. Yeah. So what are we reading?

What are we going to read? Here it comes. I'm doing the thing. we reading what we're gonna read here it comes i'm doing the thing what are we doing what do you mean reading or doing i watch the first two episodes of three body problem i've watched more than that i've nearly finished it well arty da aren't you a better consumer of media than me i might just be you might be and i commend you thank you are you a much better consumer of content than i am I might just be. You might be, and I commend you. Thank you. You're a much better consumer of content than I am, and I think that's cool.

In terms of ranking, as an internet person, I think that puts you ahead because you consume more media. I know more about that, but not all of it. Did you go out of your way to, like, rote learn all the stuff and the lore about that universe? I read about half of the first book, but now I'm not going to because I'm just going to watch this. Now, one criticism I've heard of the book

is that the characters are not particularly, they're a little bit cardboardy. I think it's also because a lot of them, like it's a Chinese book and it's been translated in English. So I think a lot of the characters, people have trouble like keeping track of the names. Right. I think that's like a common complaint.

They could have named them like Jeff Kennett. Yeah, like Jeff Kennett. Paul Keating. Yeah, exactly. They could have named them after. Yeah, Joan Kernerett. Paul Keating. Yeah, exactly. They could have named him after. Yeah, Joan Kerner. Joan Kerner. Et cetera.

Yes. Steve Brax. I was going to say Steve Brax. Nice. Saw Steve Brax the other day. And? Just walking around. How's he looking?

Great. How tall is he? He was taller. Taller than he was before? Yeah, he's getting bigger. Oh, no. Yeah. There you go.

That is great. Yeah, I'm enjoying it so far. I mean, obviously Maximum Betrayal, because it turns bigger. Oh, no. Yeah. There you go. That is great. Yeah, I'm enjoying it so far. I mean, obviously Maximum Betrayal because it turns out Benedict Wong is British and has always been British. Son of a bitch. You dog of a bloke. Yeah. He was British in Sunshine, I think.

Ah, yeah, of course. Maybe. Tell you what, I would kill it as one of those guys who's just been like a shadowy corporation has hired you to investigate mysterious goings on. I would love doing that. Yeah. I would be so good at it. I don't think you'd figure it out though.

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because I've got their credit card. I'm just having a nice brunch. So you're saying you'd kill it at having a credit card. Yes. And you just pull people aside and go, you know, you're part of a grand or something. Yeah, that's right.

And then you just move on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got this. Yeah, yeah. I'll pay for this. That's right. There's a pattern. If only we knew how to read it, you know? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got this. Help over this. That's right. There's a pattern. If only we knew how to read it, you know?

Yeah. I'd point to a – You'd figure this out. You'd figure this out. Yeah, I'd hope there were enough experts around. You're a physicist. You'd figure it out. Now, for people who don't know, so it's about a –

without spoiling it, we see two time periods. There's the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Cultural Revolution. And you say you want a Cultural Revolution. That's right. But do you? John Lennon? Is that what you want, John Lennon? Get out of here, John Lennon.

Yeah, John Lennon. Do you want a Cultural Revolution or do you just want to walk around in double denim doing a weird walk in the city? Because you can't have both. That's right. Anyway, go on. Just Google John Lennon weird walk. And his long bum crack.

Google John Lennon's stupid walk. That's his legacy ultimately. It's not his time with the Beatles or any of his solo albums or the song Imagine. It's him doing a stupid walk in double denim with a cowboy hat on. What an idiot. What an idiot. Anyway, go on.

So the first couple of episodes are split between two time periods. So the first couple of episodes are split between two time periods. It's a scientist who's getting oppressed and imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution and she gets introduced to a Chinese scientific installation where they're trying to send messages out into the universe to find extraterrestrial life. And in the present day, a bunch of scientists are either quitting or killing themselves. Yeah. And are these things connected? Are they connected of scientists are either quitting or killing themselves. Yeah.

And are these things connected? Are they connected? They are connected. They actually are, yeah. It would be weird if they weren't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be so funny though. Yeah.

If we got to episode seven of eight and they're like, actually the Chinese bit in the 60s, not related. All these scientists just had depression for different reasons. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think it's very compelling. It is. And I think it gets more compelling because having read the book,

some of it, I've only had some of the information. So the revelations are like, oh, this is that. There's a very harrowing boat segment, which I won't spoil here, which I hope you'll enjoy when it happens. Is it a bunch of people on a boat and they start singing the song I'm on a boat? Yeah. By the Lonely Island. It's really cringe and you're like, could you please stop? It was very cringe. I'm trying to have a of people on a boat and they start singing the song i'm on a boat yeah by the lonely island it's really cringe and you're like could you please it was very cringe i'm trying

to have a nice time in this boat but you're doing this yeah i don't like it and then also another thing happens but um yeah i think it's uh i think it's interesting the way because it's also about like ai and yeah potentially life on other planets and kind of all these other things and the way it kind of folds in together it's actually it actually the guys who did Game of Thrones. Yeah. But I think – So how are they going to finish this? Well, the books are finished.

Yes, that's true. So I think they're going to be all right, hopefully. I say that. Somebody could clip this and throw it in my face. I would love to see this continue because I know that the concepts get bigger and the ideas and the – It gets pretty wild, yeah. There are some big sci-fi concepts thrown around

and it covers a lot of time and space. I think that's interesting. Yeah. Well, I think it's boring. I think it's pretty rote. That's right. Yeah. Can it even apply?

I don't know. It might do. Yeah. Interestingly – It's better than most Netflix whatever. It is. I think Netflix TV is better than movies. Executive producers include Rian Johnson, Brad Pitt, and Rosamund Pike.

Did you see them in the credits? Oh, my God. Yeah. I guess they're all production companies. They're friends? Don't know if they're friends. Yuck. Don't know if they're friends.

Yuck. Yeah, yuck. Can't even see them hanging out together. Who was the first one? Rian Johnson. Oh, Rian Johnson. I thought you said Brian Adams. I said Brian Johnston from ACDC.

Did you say Brian Johnson? No, I said Rian Johnson. Okay, I didn't miss here. I did miss hereston from ACDC. Did you say Brian Johnston? No, I said Brian Johnston. Okay, I didn't miss here. I did miss here. Cool. Great. Anyway, I would definitely recommend it.

If you like sci-fi that's not – I would say the books are – there is a challenge to reading them. Right. Like you do have to pay attention. Yeah, but this is like – Be on your phone. Don't worry about it. No, I think it's a little harder than like a – it's not simple sci-fi, I would say.

If you love the Big Bang Theory and being on your phone while watching the Big Bang Theory – This is probably right up there. Probably right up here, I think. This is the next step or even a step down, honestly. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah, I think it's good. Yeah.

People should check it out. People should check it out. What about you? You doing anything else? Yeah, that was my thing that I was going to mention, the three it's good. Yeah. People should check it out. People should check it out. What about you? You doing anything else? Yeah, that was my thing that I was going to mention, the three-body problem. Well. Three-body more problem, you know what I'm saying?

You better believe it. Yeah. Yeah. What else am I watching? I don't know. I'm still reading that Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees comic, which I enjoy, which is Dexter but in a weird Sylvanian family role. Oh, that's right, yeah.

Which I'm enjoying a lot. I watched Ghostbusters last week. How'd that go for you? I didn't like it very much, to be honest. I don't want to get into it. But that's probably, again, we've mentioned this, perhaps your jealousy about not being in on the ground floor of the Ghostbusters reboot.

I wish I was there. That's right. Look, even if there was ever a chance where, like in real life, where I got to work on Ghostbusters, I couldn't because of all the shit that I've talked. That's right. I couldn't do it because they'd be like, didn't you say this about Ghostbusters and all the people are in them?

And I'd be like, I did say that and that is true. Didn't you call Jason Reitman Jason Wrongman for the job to continue the legacy of Ghostbusters because only the first one is good and all the others are bad? Didn't you say that? I did say that, yeah. And I stand by it even though he is here. Yeah.

All right, should we move it along? Let's move it along. Let's do some letters. Whoa. Here's a letter stand. All right. The classic one was letters, oh letters. We love you, some letters.

They're only a take my way. I know they're here right now. We're going to do letters. Damn. This is the letter segment of the show. If you do want to reach us, you can hashtag weeklyplanetpod on Twitter wall or weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com. Did you start the regular theme song then?

No, that was an accident. But you did do it. Just to confirm. Yes. All right, good. So what's the thing? What's happening? We're going to read some emails.

I've got some. Do you want to do yours? No, you do yours. All right. This is from T-Bell. He says, hi, Wikipedia Brown and at Mr. Sunday Movies, hashtag weekly planet pod. Just wondering if Married at First Sight Australia is big over there

as it is in the UK. And if so, do you watch it? An irregular sized James is a fan of some trash TV. Love is Blind, for example. That is true. I did stop watching Love is Blind a few seasons back. Oh, yes. I watched a season where that dude just went like scorched earth,

like the most awful man you've ever seen. Oh, I see. Just went bananas and I really enjoyed that. But I haven't watched it since. Also, apparently it's bad, like the way they film it all and it's all isolating and awful and all of that. I like the mechanisms of reality tv more than i like actually watching reality tv like i love hearing about like mr beast squid game mr beast squid

game all the you know any kind of yeah reality show where it's like you know the bachelor or something like that and then you and you go oh they go on dates with the bachelor and that's interesting but then you learn from behind the scenes that they're all stuck in a house and they don't get to talk to anybody for like three months or whatever it is and it's like first of all who would agree to that what what's going on there and like i think people don't know the extent going yeah like oh and you go okay i understand why people act like that because you've gone you go insane they can pick and choose whatever yeah you have a bad minute once you know in four weeks or they build a character around you.

They go, that person's going to be the bad guy. So anytime they say anything mean or even if they're lovely 99% of the time, if they say anything mean or they glance at somebody in a weird way or whatever, they've got like some crack editor on them who's just like, let's build it so they seem like an awful piece of work. And you don't know that. No, you don't know that. You don't know that.

So I like the idea behind all this stuff, but I don't really. You like creating a villain from nothing. I absolutely do that. Me too. Much like Kong Skull Island. That's exactly right. Now, this week, last week rather. Or whatever the one was this week.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Last week I asked people to email in with yes or no questions. Okay. This one's from Ben. Hi, James and Mason. In keeping with your request for yes or no questions in episode 520, do you think you're doing a good job with the podcast?

Yes. I think so too. Yep. Right? Pretty good. Yes. Yeah. I mean, if it was yes or no, I would say yes.

It's yes more than no. There's nuance there. There's things where I could improve on. There's no room for nuance right now. Sure. We could do a better podcast, for example. That's what I'm saying, yeah. Yeah.

Pretty good, right? We could do the Joe Rogan experience. Me and you on one side of the desk. Yeah, right. A black scientist'm saying, yeah. Yeah. Pretty good, right? You could do the Joe Rogan experience. Me and you on one side of the desk. Yeah, right. Some quack scientist on the other side. Yeah, you know? Yeah. Just go from there.

Yeah. I think generally we do a good job on the podcast. Yeah. I think, yeah, you know, we keep it to what we're somewhat good at. That's not incorrect. That's not incorrect at all. Here's another email. Oh, yep.

This is from Daryl. Daryl. Do you like me, yes or no? Yes.. Oh, yep. This is from Daryl. Daryl. Do you like me, yes or no? Yes. Yeah, right. How do you spell Daryl? With a Y. Yeah, right.

You're Daryl. You're Daryl. That's his name. We like you, Daryl. Yeah. But don't do anything we don't like. Here's an email from Drew, subject line email correspondence. Dear James and Mason, your podcast seems to have the momentum

of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular? Oh, mate, that's a great question. Isn't it though? It's hard when you're on top. Charisma. Charisma. Yep.

I think we have excellent. Uniqueness, nerve and talent. Those are the four. We have excellent editors and social media, which helps a lot. Uh-huh. I think we also came in at the perfect time. We basically rode the wave of Star Wars, Marvel, DC, all of those things.

That's true. And we also, we never said we're exclusively going to do those things. That's true. Because I know people have said to me, what are you going to do when they're out of like Marvel movies? And it's like we just talk about whatever, whatever the movie is. Yeah, and we didn't call ourselves the Marvel men. No.

We called ourselves another stupid thing. We called ourselves Mr. Sunday Movies Channel. So, yeah, I would say, yeah, we rode a wave. That's true, true. And our skills and knowledge lined up exactly at the right time. That's right. Yeah. Here's an email from William.

Yes or no question. Did you know Stevie Wonder's real first name is Steve-land? No. And it is, though. I looked it up. Like the Steve-land climber? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Steve-land climber.

Yeah. Classic prank, the Steve-land climber? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The Steve-land climber. Classic prank. The Steve-land climber. I looked it up because I thought perhaps William Decker was joshing us, but that is true. He's fallen out. William Upper Decker. That's... Steve-land climber. It's Steve-land. So there you go.

Didn't know that at all. Yeah, right. Are those all your yes and no's? God, these are pithy. I like them. They're good, aren't they? Yeah. Well, here's one from Jarrah. Jarrah? Which is a great name, I think. The Coffee? Yep.

Hey, guys, love the podcast, especially at 3 a.m. We the best podcast. We the best podcast. Love the podcast, especially at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday morning when I can listen to it. I work with horses in Mornington, and quite often it's the one of the things that gets me through the first few hours of my shift. And not the horses?

Maybe Daryl Braithwaite's horses. Good song. One question and one question only. Would you guys ever consider covering the Resident Evil movies? Yeah, we've talked about it. There's a lot. We've got to find it in, though. There's a lot, isn't there?

Yeah. There was a movie recently-ish. Oh, yeah, but that didn't – They did a reboot or something. I reckon we'd have to do something like when something comes out that's like Resident Evil adjacent. We did a commentary on the first one. Yeah.

People can check that out. Yeah, it might be a video game movie thing. Yeah. I don't know. But we'd probably do it like Fast and Furious as we'd do three at a time. Yeah, I can't even keep track of that. That's right. No, I would like to.

I like what I like. Yeah. I know that they exist. I know there's nine of them or whatever it is. Yeah. I just to quickly get back to T-Bell's question about the, I don't watch Married at First Sight, but I know when we go to screeners, which is very rarely these days,

there's normally a bunch of those people there. Right. Like someone, because I've been with my brother, the one you don't like as well. Yeah. And he's like, that's so-and-so from Married at First Sight. And they just bring 20 of the worst people you've ever seen in your life. A lot of hats.

A lot of hats. A lot of hats indoors. Yeah. Which is uncouth. Yeah. So I think in Australia anybody can go to a screen and you just email them whatever. But I'm not saying you shouldn't either.

They can be there. Why should I be there? I shouldn't be there. Yeah, that's right. Because they're going to be there and they'll say we saw Ghostbusters Frozen Empire and we loved it. That's true. It was a good movie though, so it makes sense. Here's an email from Liam. Yeah, that's right. Because they're going to be there and they'll say we saw Ghostbusters Frozen Empire and we loved it. That's true. It was a good movie though, so it makes sense.

Here's an email from Liam. Yeah. Hello, been a listener since about 2019. By far my favourite podcast. Well, thanks, man. Thank you. I just want to say I saw Late Night with the Devil, which is the new David Dasmalchian horror movie,

which does a little bit of AI in it, as we mentioned. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It turns out that one of the characters is played by Ian Bliss, perhaps best known to us weekly wackadoos as Rodney. Love Rodney. I mean, his name's not Rodney. What? He yells Rodney.

Yeah, that's right. He's not yelling his own name in a swamp, is he? No, no, Ian Bliss isn't Rodney. Ian Bliss is this fella. He played Agent Smith. Maybe he was Rodney. He played real-life Agent Smith. Then I guess he is Rodney.

Is he? Yep. Let me check. Okay. Anyway, go on. That's Rodney. I guess he is Rodney. He played real life Agent Smith. Then I guess he is Rodney. Is he? Yep. Let me check. Okay. Anyway, go on. That's Rodney. I guess he is Rodney. That's Rodney News. That's Rodney News. That's Rodney News everyone. That's Rodney News folks. Ian Bliss does an absolutely incredible Hugo Weaving impersonation. That's true.

Yeah. Let me check. What are you up to Ian Bliss? That's right. Here's an email from Devin. Devin? Hey guys my wife and I recently cleaned out a bunch of junk from her house that's cool man which has freed us up to get new junk we've decided we want to get a couple of nice film props but can't decide what do either of you own any film or tv props or memorabilia what would you want if money or space was not an issue uh devon's dream is either the raptor claw from jurassic park or the giant bomb from fast x which you could get as a PNG, I suppose.

Yeah, you could. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some of that was a real bomb though, right? Yeah. I'm imagining like a big spiky kind of ball thing, but I don't remember to be honest. That's a great question. I mean, speaking of Agent Smith,

I reckon I would like something from The Matrix. I reckon one of the phones, one of the. Oh, because you had a similar phone. I had a similar phone. You know what? Because they re-released it. Ian Bliss was Rodney Thibodeau. Rodney. So he's not the other.

I'm a little bit disappointed that he wasn't the guy who yells Rodney. That's good too, though. It's still good, though. I mean, this is famed for association. They re-released those Nokia phones a few years ago. Oh, my God. And they released them in black and also yellow because they look a bit like a banana.

But they didn't do the spring load. And what are they doing? I know. What kind of screen was it, though? It was sort of LCD-ish. It was new-ish. Modern-ish. Yeah, modern-ish. You might get an app on there.

Yeah, yeah. You might get an app on there. You might be able to check the Hotmail. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But I would love an original one of those with a ka-chunk. Yeah. Or a gun.

You know, one of the guns. A Matrix gun would be cool. I reckon anything from the Matrix, that weird bug that goes in Neo's stomach. I don't know whether- I don't think that's real. It was a CGI bug. No, he said it was real. Did he? He went, that thing's real goes in Neo's stomach. I don't know whether it's real. It was a CGI bug. No, he said it was real. Did he?

He went, that thing's real. Oh, yeah, no, you're right. That was real. That movie's real? But he was in The Matrix. He was in The Matrix. He doesn't know it's real. So no, it wasn't real.

Yeah. Neo, you fucking idiot. Yeah, I reckon anything from The Matrix. Yeah. I mean, that stuff would be the problem. What about an Agent Smith mask so he could be in the fight scene? Oh, maybe. Yeah, okay. It'd be sweaty though, wouldn't it in the fight scene? Oh, maybe. Yeah, okay.

It'd be sweaty though, wouldn't it? A Hugo Weaving mask, yeah. Yeah, a Hugo Weaving mask would be good. Yeah. Anything from that movie. I love Neo. I think my favorite Neo outfit is the outfit that he goes into the lobby and before he de-ropes.

Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a great look. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, and he's got all the guns. So I want all the guns and the outfit. Okay, all right, cool. Yeah, and then I can just go shopping. I don't know, anything from, what's a good prop in Ocean's Eleven?

I'd love anything from that. Probably all the money. Probably all the, I'd love all that money. Yeah. All the money from the Mirage, the MGM Grand, and the Bellagio. Yeah. Jurassic Park Jeep would be pretty cool. Yeah, absolutely.

So we're talking if money or space was not an issue. God, I'm not really, an Iron Man armour would be good. But then you're one of those guys with an Iron Man armour in you. Yeah. Which is cool. Yeah, but it would be cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

I don't know if I – yeah. We know a guy who makes – he made that – when we did one of our rare live appearances. Yeah. And I had that Infinity Gauntlet. Oh, that's right. He makes Iron Man masks just like the front faceplate and I've got to get one of those because he'll do different colours and he'll do battle damaged or not. He's got a sweet

Captain America shield. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, he's figured it out. That's what he's doing. That's right. Alright, give him a call. I will. Yeah. Anyway, I don't know if he helped. No, I don't know if he helped. Just get what you want. Just get exactly what you want. I don't like, I never liked the idea of auctions though. Too stressful.

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. If I went into a junk shop and they had something and it was like 50 bucks, I'll take that. But I don't want to fight a guy over it. The trick behind an auction is you keep bidding until you're at your max and you're just bidding because then people think that you've got unlimited resources. It's true.

Yeah. Should I show up with a suit with dollar signs on it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Call myself Mr. Unlimited Moneybags. That's what you call yourself. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Should I show up with a suit with dollar signs on it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Call myself Mr. Unlimited Moneybags. That's what you call yourself. Yeah, exactly.

Okay. I just got a quick tweet here from AJ Valante who says, the last Witch Hunter Caravan of Garbage win? Is that the Vin Diesel one? Yes, it is. Because probably never. Probably never. I guess it would be interesting to do like Vin Diesel action franchises

that tried to start off a new franchise but they didn't. Yeah. So you could do that and Bloodshot and one of the XXX movies. One of the XXX's, sure, yeah. Yeah. One of the other ones that he's done. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, maybe one day. Yeah. I don't know. We could pair it with Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters. So true. We could do some sort of witch hunter trilogy. We could do the Vavitch. We could.

Still got to watch that. Anyway, should we wrap it up there? Let's wrap the whole show up, folks. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for telling your friends about the podcast because that is how we get new listeners. Thank you for leaving a five-star review on your podcast catcher of choice. If you do, James will read it out probably.

Yeah, I'm doing it now. Do it now. This one is from Sam P.E. who says, Australian podcast. This is without a doubt a podcast. I can name five Australians from the top of my head. Two of them are Hemsworths. I mean, not by name. He just said two Hemsworths. Which ones?

One is Hugh Jackman and the other two are these blokes, James and May. So they make this shoe one of faves. Thank you, Sam. Physical education. Yes. We appreciate that. This is from 2717 Sebastian 2004 who says, best podcast for people who can drive.

If you can drive and live in the better state, this is the podcast for you. That is so true. Coming back to our rival states. So true, Bestie. You know what I mean? So true. We did rival states.

Yeah, I remember that, yeah. Is this about that? It might be, yeah, because we talked about how some people are terrible drivers. What was it again? I can't remember. Philadelphia and something else? Yeah, Philadelphia and South Philadelphia. Yeah, that's right.

Oh, my God, those classic rivals. By the way, Mad Max this week was kicking that off for Caravan of Garbage. That's right, yeah. With the original Mad Max, a movie nobody's seen. Except for the people who paid $100 million collectively. In the 70s, yeah. You're probably right. I guess if you had to pick anybody.

How much money do you think George Miller made off that first movie? Probably a lot, I'd imagine. That's what I'm thinking. Probably he got a pretty good deal because he didn't think anybody or nobody thought that it would make $100 million. When we see him, we should ask him. We should ask him. And then how much money do you have now?

That's right. And how much money can you give us now? Yeah, on your person. How much money do you got? We'll also accept a PayPal transfer of funds. Yeah, that's right. We don't want to pay the fees. You can cover that.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't you agree? You've been playing a bit of that. I have. I've been playing too much. You've been loving it? No, I don't like it that much. That's interesting.

It's okay. But we've got Superman 64, Aquaman Battle for Atlantis, Five Nights at Freddy's, Rebel Assault 2. We did a bunch of Robocop games, TMNT Arcade, Indiana Jones, and the Temple of the Emperor's Doom. The Temple of the Emperor's Doom. Fights and Furious Crossroads is one of my favorites. Batman Returns on the Atari Lynx with Mario Bros.

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and there's red. There's a red doorway and a silhouette. Love that. Do you reckon in a doorway and it's red. A red doorway and a silhouette. Love that. Do you reckon they're going to fight? Or kiss? Do you reckon the monkey man is going to beat up the first omen? I think so, yeah.

That would be very satisfying. Just that baby in the womb just laying into it? That's right. Sick. Giving it the one-inch punch. Yeah. Ka-cha. Ka-cha.

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