The Weekly Planet - 57 Marvel's New Line-Up & The Films Of Christopher Nolan
Episode Date: November 3, 2014Big week for comics book movies or whatever! We' got Marvel's new fine slate, Terminator stuff, Supergirl, Age Of Ultron and more!Plus we're talking the work of Christopher Nolan! Except for... Batman. Sorry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Discussion (0)
FX's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London.
One woman has a secret.
The other, a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost.
FX's The Veil, starring Elizabeth Moss, is now streaming on Disney+.
Will you rise with the sun to help change mental health care forever?
Join the Sunrise Challenge to raise funds for CAMH,
the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health,
to support life-saving progress in mental health care.
From May 27th to 31st,
people across Canada will rise together
and show those living with mental illness and addiction
that they're not alone.
Help CAMH build a future where no one is left behind.
So, who will you rise for? Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca.
Shooting up your bow The Weekly Planet
The Weekly Planet
Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Weekly Planet
Official podcast of ComicBookMovie.com
My name is James, editor at that website
With me as always is my co-host
Nicholas
Halloween Mason? I don't know, it's Halloween
It is Halloween, you know what, and I just remembered
A listener of the show
Made some very special jack-o'-lanterns.
Is this Junk Denate?
At Junk Denate.
Yes.
Yeah, I've got that here.
Nathan and his girlfriend.
Yep.
They made special Weekly Planet themed jack-o'-lanterns.
Yes.
Thanos on one side.
Yep.
Our dumb catchphrase, grab that gem on the other.
So thank you very much for that.
It's very exciting.
That made my day.
That's my favourite.
Yep.
Yeah.
I was thinking as well, I'm building a website at the moment, the MrSundayMovies.com.
If you go to that website, it says maintenance mode.
There is nothing there.
Great.
But go, you know, check it out.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
But I was thinking I'm putting like a fan art page.
Oh, that's exciting.
Because people will send a lot of stuff.
Remember I mentioned like, I need a new logo or whatever.
People like, dozens of people
have been sending me stuff
um
it doesn't matter
it's not important
it's very late
we're recording this
very late
weekly planet after dark
things are gonna get
real smooth
real
bloody smooth
just imagine
we've got little
little round glasses on
and berets
you know what you know sometimes you listen to a podcast and clearly both the hosts Just imagine we've got little round glasses on and berets.
You know what?
You know, sometimes you listen to a podcast and clearly both the hosts are bringing their A game.
Yes.
And it's very exciting, but in many ways it's too intense.
Yes.
And sometimes you're like,
I really wish they would bring it down to like their B game or their C game
so I could just finally get some sleep.
Like maybe, for example...
This is the podcast for you.
That's right.
Maybe one of them went out all day drinking and then came home and had a nap and then slapped together
what we were doing for the podcast uh-huh like what do you like that yeah okay great what did
you do today i had a really big pizza way too much you snuck in a nap though, didn't you? Yeah. A post-pizza nap. That exact amount of nap where you wake up
and you've hit that weird point at your REM sleep
where you're really drowsy, just drooling on the pillow.
That's where I am right now.
So anyway.
On with the show.
Yes.
You're familiar with Gambit, the X-Men character man?
Yes.
He throws cards?
Yes. He guarantees cards? Yes.
He guarantees it?
Oh, yes.
Now I'm on board, yes.
Well, the Robocop writer, Josh Zetumer...
Zetumer?
He's a guy...
I feel at this point, let's be one and done with pronunciation of names.
Don't think about it.
Just go over it.
Just go with the first one.
Okay, gotcha.
Just steamroll over it. That guy said, whatever the first one was,
he liked Robocop okay, right?
I did, yeah.
Yeah, the new one.
We're talking about the new one.
He's confirmed to be writing the Gambit solo movie,
which is coming at some point after X-Men Apocalypse.
We don't know when.
Maybe a week, maybe a month.
We don't know where.
Probably cinemas everywhere.
A cinema near you.
Yes, definitely a cinema near you a lot of people
didn't love the new robocop i didn't mind it i think it's better it's way better than it should
be yeah i had to think we mentioned on the podcast i think when we reviewed it and i just it just
came to me like yesterday i was thinking about that that i feel that the the key the point where
you're either on board with that movie or you're not is the point where somebody mentions that his guns have a stun mode.
Yes.
And I think for a lot of people, they were like, nope,
Robocop shouldn't have a stun mode.
He's shooting dicks.
Yes.
It should be a thousand rounds a minute and just people being chewed up,
you know?
Yeah.
There's none of this stun nonsense.
Yeah.
It's infinitely better than it should be.
And I think some of the writing in that is very clever,
like that kind of man turning into a machine kind of stuff.
So I think that's a good choice, this guy.
For a guy who throws cards.
He's fairly cut and dried, though, Gambit, right?
Yeah.
He's a lovable rogue.
I think people like...
And that stick's got a pointy end.
Does it?
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
For picking up cards.
Yeah, for picking up cards, yeah. And turning sausages
on a barbecue.
I think people like Gambit more.
And picking up rubbish. Yeah, sure.
Like he's doing public service. Yes.
Are there any definitive Gambit
stories that come to mind for you?
What comes to me is the
X-Men cartoon. Yes.
I think that's what most people love him for.
I'm sure there are good examples in the comics. And his turn in x-men origins wolverine origins that fantastic
where he did the what did he do i there was a fight in an alley or something yeah and he
and he played cards oh great because he's gambit so gambiting i feel like when i think of gambit in
the in the comics and i don't know if you ever actually did that but i but i always get the
sense of him just like trying to steal everybody's girlfriend.
That was part of his character, wasn't it?
Like, he's always trying to steal Jean Grey
and Rogue and Jubilee and whatever.
But, like, ineffectively?
I don't even know.
Maybe effectively?
Sure.
Do you think of...
I don't care about this character at all.
Do you care about his weird cut-out sock mask?
Yeah, the sock mask.
The 90s sock mask.
They were very popular back then.
Don't see them anymore.
You don't.
Did he have that in the movie?
No, he didn't.
Yeah.
You wouldn't try it.
He had a stick.
Yeah.
But I don't think one end was even pointy.
Wow.
He was turning no sausages.
But anyway, irrelevant.
Next up, badass digest claims.
I shouldn't have i did the
re-pronunciation it's okay that's okay this is this is the adjustment episode okay good next
week no apologies yes currently uh they claim that there's a spider-man spin-off in the works
an all-female spider-man spin-off called or it's dubbed at the moment glass ceiling
oh that's their code yeah i would be very surprised if that was sure it's dubbed at the moment, Glass Ceiling. Oh, that's their code name.
Yeah, I would be very surprised if that was.
Sure.
It's clearly not.
It's a team-up movie that would feature all female Spider-Man characters.
It's unknown which characters will be included in the film,
but a few possibilities could include.
So I'm assuming this is just the website's suggestions.
Spider-Girl, Firestar, Black Cat,
and some other versions of, like, Spider-Woman,
and whatever, Silk, Silver Sable. Okay. I don't know. Firestar Black Cat and some other versions of like Spider Woman like
and whatever
Silk
Silver Sable
okay
I don't know
they've just
this is another one
where they've just gone
list of
Wikipedia list of
female Spider-Man
supporting characters
and then just
put them in the list
yeah
I'd imagine so
yeah
where are these
characters going to come from
in that
Spider-Man universe
good question well okay Black Cat's in it sure yeah that's all we've got I guess Where are these characters going to come from in that Spider-Man universe? Good question
Well, okay
Black cats in it
Sure, yeah
That's all we've got
I guess there's a lot of stuff in that Oscorp basement
Clearly
Like there's a lot of equipment that got raided real quick
There's a lot of origins
There's so many origins in that
Yeah
Maybe like, you know, A band of misfit teens
You know
Like on
Spring break
Like the Runaways or whatever
Yeah
They'll all fall into the
Oscorp basement
Like they're on a school tour
And they all fall into the Oscorp basement
And they all get on Origin
Sure
That'll work
Whatever
Good
Look
I don't
If there's a title card
That just opens with that
Some chicks fell in
Fell in the old school basement
Whatever
Now they've got powers or something
I'd watch that actually
I'd be like that's bold
I respect your
Yeah
Your approach
But
Look they're always talking about
Spin-offs for Spider-Man movies
Yep
How about just make a good
Spider-Man movie that people like
Yeah
And then Maybe then focus on spin-offs Yeah maybe Insert some interesting Spinoffs for Spider-Man movies. Yep. How about just make a good Spider-Man movie that people like?
And then, maybe then focus on spinoffs.
Yeah, maybe insert some interesting, some characters that are interesting on their own.
Yeah.
And if we, the audience, like them.
Yes.
Give them a spinoff.
Like Jinx in Die Another Day.
Definitely.
Yep.
I think also you can tell in a movie where you're like, well, that's clearly, they're making a spinoff character there.
Definitely. But has that ever worked uh where they've intentionally done it and then it spun off
well mork and mindy okay i don't think that was an intentional no i don't think so either
uh in a movie i'm talking about no i think you yeah they probably there are probably examples
email mason no don't please don't. Please don't.
Yeah, I mean, TV-wise, you know, The Flash.
Yeah, they do that.
Yeah.
Et cetera, et cetera.
But that... Like Supernatural did one which didn't get picked up and whatever.
Yeah, people do...
It was an X-Files spin-off.
Oh, The Lone Gunman.
No, it was just called Scully.
And she was just like...
Just people coming like just people coming
just people calling
her office
it's set in between
X-Files episodes
like it's
Mulder's gone off
on vacation or whatever
and it's just
Scully picking up
the phone
X-Files division
is Mulder there?
no
I was there
some sort of
some sort of
spectral apparition
floating around your house
yeah it's not real
don't even worry about it.
You've probably been hallucinating.
See a doctor or something.
Okay, bye.
I should have picked a more obscure character like Krychek or something.
Sure.
But anyway, whatever.
Welcome back, Krychek.
He goes back to teach at the elementary school where he grew up.
Was he a bad guy? Yeah good for him now this is some james cameron news sort of not really i don't know why i included it but i'm gonna bring it up anyway
james cameron is apparently unimpressed with virtual reality technology you know like the
oculus rift oh yes where you put on a screen on your face and you're like look at all the immersion
oh yeah you yell that's how you started
up that's right yeah it's like they're siri yeah he is his quote is that there seems to be a lot
of excitement around it that's something to me uh to me is a yawn frankly so this is from the guy
who brought us 3d in a big way but i would argue that oculus rift stuff not that I've ever even tried one but I'm way more on board with that
than I am crap 3D
or regular 3D
headache inducing 3D films
I mean it was 2009 and we're still getting it
like leave us alone with the 3D
I mean come on it's been like 5 years
or 6 years or whatever
I know right
3D was a big thing in the 50s I think
and then it died out again
so however long that lasted Well, 3D was a big thing in the 50s, I think, and then it died out again. Yeah.
So, however long that lasted, surely we're up to that, right?
Hopefully, yeah, yeah.
I feel like, I don't know, is it less and less being forced when you go to the cinema?
Yes, I think it is.
Yeah.
I think there was a couple of years where every film, it was 3D or nothing.
Yeah.
But I find a lot now, there is always a 2D option
yeah
for that film
yeah yeah
so
generally
yeah definitely
yeah depending on your cinema
are you spinning this off
into Terminator news
oh no but I can
sure
let's talk man
Terminating
Terminator Genesis
the reboot
because there was some news
about it this week
yeah
that well there was
there's some pictures
yeah there's some like
promotional photos
doctor who yeah doctor who's in it our favorite doctor who yes big hair doctor oh they've all got
big hair now um but they're all just they're all just firing guns wildly yeah there's no aiming at
all which is pretty good like yeah you actually get a look at Arnold, though. Like, old Terminator. You do.
And the...
See, I wasn't on board, but I think the conceit is quite clever.
Yeah.
Like, the premise now is that Kyle Reese has gone back in time to find Sarah Connor again.
Yeah.
But he somehow ended up...
This time it's personal?
Yeah, this time it's definitely personal.
Sure. But they've done it Star Trek-wise in that it appears that the Time War has altered the timeline enough
so that Sarah Connor was orphaned by a Terminator when she was nine.
Oh, okay.
And a good T-800 Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator was sent back to raise her.
Oh, okay.
Which is why he's old now.
Oh, okay.
Because he's been there for a few decades.
I thought he'd overshot his mark.
That's what I thought.
I assume now.
I didn't know that.
Well, maybe that's the case.
But yeah, so that explains, like the organic parts have gotten real old and fat, you know?
Which I think is quite a clever conceit.
And then you can't be like, oh, well, I look pretty old now.
You're all because he is old.
Yeah, that's right
but there is apparently
a scene where
they redo the first scene
in Terminator
one of the first scenes
where he beats up the punks
oh yes
or whatever
where
now he just gives them
a stern talking to
yeah
tells them to get
better health insurance
yeah so look
I'm okay with it
I think
I'll be interested
to see what they do with it
because you know what
I don't care whether it works or not.
The Terminator franchise is dead.
And if it stays dead, great.
If it gets slightly more interesting, great.
Yes.
Whatever.
So yeah.
And that's what's her face from Game of Thrones, right?
Yeah.
Okay, good.
Game of Thrones, that's her name.
Yeah.
Real life actress, Game of Thrones.
So yeah, great.
Good stuff on Terminating Genesis.
Yes.
Cease.
Supergirl series. Oh, yes. You know how they're Genesis. Yes. Cease. Super Girl series.
Oh, yes.
You know, they're doing that or whatever.
Have they picked a name yet?
No, I don't think so.
At one point, it was a choice between Super or Girl.
Do you remember that?
No.
People were speculating.
It might be called Super.
But you can't call it Super Girl because that would be ridiculous.
Yeah, I guess it would be.
It's way less ridiculous than just calling a show Girl.
They were just going to call it Girl. That was an option. I mean, it's quite similar to the show Girl. I was going would be. It's way less ridiculous than just calling a show girl. Is that what you used to say?
I was just going to call it girl.
That was an option.
I mean, it's quite similar to the show Girls, which has markedly different content, I would
assume.
Yes.
Never seen Girls, have you?
You've seen it?
Not seen it?
No, I saw like half an episode.
Sure.
It's well written or whatever, but it's frustrating to watch.
But they're written in a way that like these people are the worst.
Oh, they're very unpleasant, right? So, yeah. But it's supposed to be that way. written in a way that like these people are the worst oh they're very unpleasant
right
so yeah
but it's supposed to be that way
so like I guess they win
I guess
yeah
well done
but yeah
okay so basically
the idea is now that Kara
yes
this is the new mythology
they reckon
that at age 12
she was sent from her dying
planet of Krypton
to Earth
where she was taken in
from the
taken in by the Danvers
and the Foster family taught her to be careful
and be like,
what's your powers, whatever, you know,
hide yourself, blah.
And then she represses her skills for a decade,
and then she has to use her skills in public,
and then she's like,
now I can be a hero.
And then she becomes a hero.
What a refreshing reboot.
What a refreshing new take on that character.
Grows up, has some powers, uses them powers love it great because she normally she comes to earth fully fully a
supergirl yeah yeah so but i guess like that's not as relatable if you've got like a you know a mid
or an early 20s girl who's from another planet but if you've got like she grew up with all the
problems that a regular teenage girl has or whatever,
you know?
Frenemies.
Frenemies.
Being able to throw someone through a wall.
All the regular powers of a teenager.
They're also looking to cast Jimmy Olsen.
Pinterest.
She's got a Pinterest account.
Yeah, Jimmy Olsen.
Etsy.
What is that?
It's like eBay, but for craft.
You make craft stuff, you put it on there.
No, thank you.
Have you been there?
What's going on there?
What kind of craft?
I don't know, like a crocheted tea cozy.
Okay.
I don't know.
All right, I'm on board.
Yeah.
If it's useless and it's knitted, you can find it on Etsy.
That's their slogan.
People are doing that in my area, like knitting crochet things for trees.
That's weird, because there are hot singles in my area.
I don't know.
But, you know, like if you say that, we live in a similar-ish area.
Oh, that people like crochet around a tree or whatever.
Okay.
I don't think they're selling that.
No, I don't.
You know what?
I bet there's something on there.
Yeah.
But anyway, whatever.
And also Jimmy Olsen and Hank Henshaw.
There's some other names as well, but they're kind of the main ones that stand out.
Classic villain, Jimmy Olsen.
Classic, kind of nerdy, maybe he won't be nerdy.
Get somebody, get an actor, it doesn't matter.
Matt Smith.
Oh, yeah.
He'd be good Jimmy Olsen.
Who cares?
There we go, exactly.
I like Jimmy Olsen, but I wish he was completely different.
I don't know.
Krypton TV series.
Remember we talked about that?
Have we talked about that?
Oh, they're talking about maybe doing... No, I don't remember.
We probably have, but I don't remember.
Okay.
I don't remember whether we have, actually.
Okay.
But basically, they're talking about maybe doing a Krypton series that is just set on Krypton before Krypton explodes.
Not during or after.
Oh, sure.
Just people clinging to meteors
spinning through space.
They talk a lot.
DC talk a lot of stuff,
don't they?
They do.
They never get around to it.
Yeah.
Well, there was supposed to be
that Batman Origins series.
Remember that before
Smallville never happened?
Yep, I remember that.
And then they made Gotham.
I'm okay with Gotham.
Harvey Bullock's great.
Yeah, true.
He really redeems a lot of that.
And last week they had a killer called, I can't remember,
the Goatman or something.
I don't know.
But it was really interesting.
It was like this mythology of this Goatman who came back
and Bullock killed him the first time, then he comes back.
And there's no, I don't think there's any Jada Pinkett Smith.
Oh, things are looking up.
That's picture interest.
Yeah, see, I feel that they have, the two main guys have quite a good dynamic.
Yeah, they do, yeah.
But the rest, I don't know.
You don't want to see Bruce Wayne putting his hand over a candle or putting together a crazy serial killer board.
While listening to metal music, generic metal music.
I don't know if I do.
Oh boy.
Anyway, Crypt on TV series, maybe.
They say that David Goyya is attached and he did
the batman movies and he'll be attached for one episode yeah maybe yeah and also i don't think
they're gonna do it because a lot of sets a lot of sets a lot of special effects a lot of costumes
that are not gonna look good yeah good point they should just use the costumes from the original
superman just like a weird shiny white jumpsuit.
Yep, definitely.
Ill-fitting.
Yep.
Weird kind of glass room or whatever.
Detachable S on the back.
Yes.
Throwing them around.
It'd be like Tron, but they're just throwing detachable S's at each other.
Tron's aged really well, hasn't it?
Nope.
That was a trick.
Didn't fall for it.
I can't believe they made a Tron sequel.
That's crazy, right? No, I quite like the Tron sequel. We've fall for it. I can't believe they made a Tron sequel. That's crazy, right?
No, I quite like the Tron sequel.
We've talked about it.
Yeah, I know, but the fact that it got made is mental.
Yeah, I guess so.
I feel the fact that Disney have enough money to buy Marvel is amazing.
Yes.
If you discount Pixar...
Yeah.
What...
Merchandise. Yeah, yeah i guess so but i mean
what have you seen the goof troop movie oh that made 82 billion dollars worldwide impressive
yeah no i don't know it's just it's all merchandise i'd imagine that's where they
make their money that's how we make our money we get that guy to carve the pumpkins and we sell
what's a pumpkin cost i hope you didn't waste too much money on that pumpkin.
I don't know.
Yeah.
I never bought a pumpkin.
You should eat more pumpkin.
I should.
It's important.
Yeah.
You know what we were saying?
Tron.
Tron.
And, no, wait.
And reverse.
No, you were talking about Tron.
Yeah, but Tron,
you were saying, like,
you're amazing at Marvel.
I'm saying amazing
Disney has enough money
to buy Marvel when,
like,
what, what is Disney's...
And Star Wars.
Yeah, like pre-Pixar, what did Disney do?
Well, they had a good run in the 90s.
Yeah, I guess so.
Like Beauty and the Beast and all those things.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, right.
Carry on then.
You're okay with it?
Yeah.
Pirates movies.
Oh, yeah.
They made a lot of money.
Yeah, okay.
Anyway, whatever.
Krypton, great, whatever. Okay, now people... made a lot of money. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Anyway, whatever. Krypton, great, whatever.
Okay, now people...
Not happening.
I'm putting my foot down.
You're going to stop it?
Yeah, I'll stop it.
Okay, good.
Age of Ultron.
Big Age of Ultron news this week.
And big Marvel news.
It's still happening.
Yes, it is.
Now, people said we...
What was it?
Like, maybe just do an episode on that. We probably should have. Well, I said we should... What was it? Like, maybe just do an episode on that.
We probably should have.
Well, I said we'd talk about Christopher Nolan.
So, we'll do both.
Yeah, let's do both.
It's half and half.
I'll be honest, I don't have that much to say about Christopher Nolan.
Sure.
You like him?
Yeah, I do.
All right, then it'll just be me talking then.
Fantastic.
She's bad, you'll say.
All right.
Okay, so first of all, there was a new Age of Ultron footage which came with Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Did you watch that?
Yeah. They're partying around. They're having a party. Oh, yes. They came with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Did you watch that? Yeah.
They're partying around.
They're having a party.
Oh, yes.
They were trying to lift the hammer.
Can't lift the hammer.
Can't lift it.
Yeah.
Captain America shifts it.
Yeah.
But then he can't lift it.
I'm surprised he can't lift it.
Well, maybe not yet.
Yeah.
But why is...
He's better than Thor.
He's a better guy than Thor.
Yeah, but it's not about being a better guy.
It's being like...
He's got the best hair.
Yeah, best hair and like being very specifically the best kind of space Norse warrior.
Oh, okay.
That's why Storm can lift it then.
Correct.
Yeah.
Okay, so it's like, is it like whoever needs it at that point in time kind of thing?
Like the Gryffindor sword?
It's exactly like the Gryffindor sword it's exactly like the
gryffindor sword because you can kill a big snake with it and pull it out of a hat yeah hats and
snakes okay good i don't know what you're referring to but i i agree we saw harry potter too i don't
remember he fights a snake and a fucking diary don't you remember no he fights a ghost in a diary
and he fights a ghost in a diary and then he kills a snake with a sword he pulls out of an old hat.
You know, when you summarise those Harry Potter movies, they sound a bit silly, don't they?
Sure.
Yeah.
What are we talking about?
Hats.
Okay, good.
No.
Is Thor going to wear his hat again?
Give him his hat.
Just let me see his hat again.
I'm not even for his hat.
I don't even like it that much, but I want to see it again because it looks kind of dumb so let me see it okay all right okay
fair yeah i think that's fair someone had a question last week about who's got the worst
hat in the marvel universe remember someone sent in oh yeah sure it's cinematic it's thor it's
thor's little hat yeah yeah great okay but new age of ultra footage, what did you think of it and whatever? Good.
Great.
Excellent.
Caleb A. is written in, right?
He's the official Ben Affleck of the show.
Good call.
He's great.
He makes a good point, but I think we can answer this.
That why doesn't Thor smash Ultron when he's like, look at me, I'm a robot.
Sure.
Why doesn't somebody kill him straight away?
Be like, remember that time that robot attacked attacked and it's just like a weird memory that
they have they're like yeah that was odd for that second that it distracted us but i'd imagine that
it can jump from body to body true yeah yeah that's true like some kind of harry potter also
potentially because we don't we don't know how that scene ends yeah potentially Stark's like
oh wait don't kill it
yeah
hear it out
it's real cool
let it
yeah
let it threaten us
let it threaten us for a bit
let this weird
robot monster creature
that's clearly
torn its own face open
let's see what it has to say
maybe I can sell this
yeah
maybe I can market this
Disney style
sure sell some lunchbox yeah
absolutely did you um see there was also a leaked clip from marvel's uh big press conference where
they announced all their film slate which we will now talk about i didn't see that clip
but if i could guess how it goes sure
there is a forever yeah okay good it's's basically Tony Stark and Captain America Chopping wood
Ah okay yep
And there's basically
An argument
Like that kind of
Leads up to Civil War
Where they have a disagreement
About Tony Stark's like
You should step in
And stop things
Before they happen
And Captain America's like
Shut up
Great
I don't think that
Also
On a different note
Chris Evans is way better
Than chopping wood
At Robert Downey Jr
Like he looks better
Yeah he would.
Like, he can do it.
Absolutely, yeah.
Just saying.
Well, that would make sense, but that's probably just acting.
Sure.
I mean, Robert Downey Jr. may very well in real life be better at chopping wood than
Chris Evans, but he's a great actor, so we would act like he's worse because Steve Rogers
has the super soldier formula, right?
Good point.
Thank you.
Well done.
Anyway, film slate. we'll just we'll
rattle them off and go through them and say what we think of them let's do that first one was
announced they actually announced it as captain america serpent society yeah that's pretty good
sneaky never heard of that looked it up i was like oh yeah that would be pretty pretty great
there is that what is that that popular um conspiracy theory that all the great leaders of the world are lizard people?
Yes, sure.
Would you buy into that?
No.
Okay, good.
Silly.
That's what they want you to think.
It's a real Harry Potter situation.
By that I mean a bit silly.
But yeah, Captain America Civil War confirmed.
There we go.
Which is odd that it wasn't.
I mean, it wasn't confirmed.
But when they confirmed it, I was like, yeah.
It's definitely been confirmed. Obviously, idiots. Which is odd that it was. I mean, it wasn't confirmed. But when they confirmed it, I was like, yeah. It's definitely been confirmed.
Obviously, idiots.
Yeah.
So, that's great.
Great start.
Followed by Doctor Strange in 2016.
Benedict Cumberbatch confirmed.
Not confirmed.
Really?
He's been unconfirmed?
He's been...
No, because they didn't announce it.
He's been heavily rumoured.
Oh, okay.
And they didn't announce it.
Because that's been thrown around as like...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, that's a lock.
Apparently, well, the rumour is that it's like final negotiations.
Right, okay.
You don't like him for the role, though.
You're against it.
Was I against it?
You said featureless face.
Look, I say a lot of things on this.
I think whoever it turns out to be will be fine.
Sure.
Yeah, unless he demands...
Unless he demands a plane.
Yeah.
But I mean, what are the odds?
Yeah.
You know, like, I'll get to be in this movie that'll make a billion dollars.
Mm.
But I'll want a big bowl of M&M's with all the brown ones removed in the trailer.
Yeah.
They'll be like, you're out.
You're out, Cumberbatch.
I think I prefer him to Wacken Phoenix.
Okay.
All right.
I like Wacken Phoenix, but I don't know.
I feel like he's way too
serious like he takes himself way too seriously oh yeah i get you yeah not that i know anything
about cumberbatch maybe he also takes himself seriously but he did put on a ping pong suit
to play that cgi dragon so he can't take himself that seriously yeah in the hobbit oh right okay
he's the dragon. Oh. Yeah.
I thought you were talking about Harry Potter again.
Or maybe.
I don't know.
A bit silly.
Yeah, a bit silly.
All right.
You know, on Sherlock, he's quite, you know.
Yeah.
He pokes fun at himself, so that's fine.
I think he'll just do Sherlock with an American accent.
Do you think he'll do an American accent?
I think he'll have to.
Won't he?
No, not necessarily.
But he's from...
Yeah, the character's American, but...
Yeah.
They might be like, well, he's magic. So English's american but yeah they might be like well he's
magic so english accent that's how that's how hollywood works you're right yeah it's like
oh this movie's set in ancient rome so english accent yes right you're right this guy's alan
rickman and a villain english or german whatever yeah totally yeah uh guardians of galaxy 2 push English accent. Or German. Whatever. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Guardians of the Galaxy 2, push forward.
Move forward a month to May of 2017.
Yeah.
And if you look at the little title card thing, it's got like hand-drawn lettering of it.
That's good.
Because they're a ragtag bunch of misfits.
Boy, are they.
Yeah.
Everyone else got like an official thing and that was good.
I mean, it's still official,
obviously, but yeah,
that's a nice little touch.
People are really looking
forward to that,
including this guy.
We'll talk about
which...
What's he doing in here,
that guy?
Get out.
Thor 3 in July 2017.
Ragnarok.
Yeah.
I think it should be
called Thor 3
because that's a fun
little thing to say.
Right?
Sure. Thor 3. Have you read fun little thing to say right? sure
Thor 3
have you read Ragnarok?
I haven't read it
oh no
yeah
about gods and stuff
a bit complicated
a bit complicated
I think
too complicated for this podcast
I think somebody wrote it
and was like explain that
and I was like
I don't really want to
because then I'll have to look into it
and I think Thor gets Odin's powers
for a while
and blah bitty blah
what like one eye
yeah one eye
his famous power of
poor depth perception.
And having Anthony Hopkins' face.
Yeah.
Great.
Yeah, that...
Look, I think I've said,
look, I don't care
whether there's another Thor movie.
But there is and that's fine.
But apparently they said
that this movie's going to do
like what...
for the universe,
what Captain America did
for the Earth universe.
Okay, sure.
So I'd imagine there'll be
like a big shift and maybe it'll be a cosmicky thing and Thanos will be Earth universe. Okay, sure. So I'd imagine there'll be like a big shift and
maybe it'll be a cosmicky thing and Thanos
will be involved. Maybe, yeah.
I don't know. We'll never know in a way.
It's impossible
to ever tell. We'll both be dead.
Followed by that same year. So we've got
three in a year, 2017. Black Panther in
November. Yeah. That's pretty
awesome. It's very exciting. Great concept art.
Yeah, I was going to say, is it the only it's very exciting great concept art yeah yeah i was gonna
say it's is it the only one that has its own concept i believe so yes was this concept art
released during that yes okay yeah it's interesting that they were like this is the one we released
the artwork for yeah i guess because black panthers were a real thing. Okay, sure. Like the rights movement thing.
So they had to be like, just so we're clear, this is a superhero thing.
Yeah, absolutely.
Just so we're, yeah.
But it does look like, it does look good.
People would confuse it with like Black Panthers were briefly in Forrest Gump.
So I think people would be confused.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah.
Yeah, it looks really good.
It's kind of like, it's a bit Batman-ish, the suit, which is kind of cool.
It is a bit Batman-ish.
It's form-fitting.
It is form-fitting.
And I think we talked about this when we talked about Ultron last week or the week before, whenever it was.
We hate diversity.
Yes, we do.
We hate that.
We're in favour of it, just to be clear.
We can take that clip out of context.
Robert, just to be clear, so we can take that clip out of context, that they have to make... Marvel's all about making these uniforms and things personal.
You can see the face.
Yes.
I think what they've got here is maybe...
Because you can't see the mouth and all that sort of stuff.
I reckon you might be some sort of...
The lower half of the mask dissolves or something like that.
Okay, cool.
So when he needs to talk, it goes away.
Or breathe.
Or breathe, certainly.
But when he's out, you know, stalking his prey or what have you.
Masks up.
Yeah, yeah, totally.
Great.
Looks good.
Cool.
No, I think it looks great.
And of course they announced the actor, Chadwick Boseman, who was in the James Brown.
Oh, the bio, yeah.
Which I haven't watched.
Have you seen it?
Yes.
He's very good though, though, from all accounts.
Yeah, great choice.
I don't know.
For some reason, I thought they'd go with like LL Cool J or something.
Not here.
That's a bad example.
I'm trying to think of somebody.
Remember the guy, Digimon Hounsou?
Yeah, I remember Digimon Hounsou.
It was rumoured at one point.
But he was in Guardians of the Galaxy.
And I think he actually might be a bit old now anyway.
So yeah, great choice.
Could have also gone Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Yes.
He would have been good.
He would have been good.
I'm in favour of him for everything.
Yeah, absolutely.
Pretty much at this point.
Next Doctor would be good.
Oh, like Doctor Who Doctor.
Yeah, the next Doctor Who.
James Bond?
Yeah, definitely. That would be good as well. Bloody Idris Elba. People are talking next Doctor Who James Bond yeah definitely
that would be good as well
bloody Idris Elba
people talking about him
for James Bond
he'd be a great James Bond
yep
yeah
you know who else would be good
who's that
modern day Roger Moore
yeah
current Roger Moore
would be really good
a lot of people want us
to do a James Bond special
yeah absolutely
but you've said
that you don't want to
go and watch them all again
look you know what
you know what I've been doing
this week
yes
this is a coincidence.
Watching James Bond films nonstop.
Well, I mean, first of all, we've been playing some James Bond video games.
Oh, yes.
Because I figure, well, we'll do some James Bond stuff at some point for that video game
thing we might do at some point.
Oh, yes.
We keep threatening people with.
But there's a podcast called James Bonding.
I love James Bonding, yeah.
It's great.
And they just go through each episode.
And I've listened to like three this week,
which is annoying because now I've got another podcast I have to listen to.
I'm top of the ones that I already listen to.
It's all right.
They only update intermittently.
Okay, great.
Awesome.
But that's a terrific show.
And it makes me want to go back and watch more Bond,
even though most of them are terrible.
They're terrible, but in a fun way.
Sure.
There's only a couple that are genuinely terrible And also not fun
The Brosnan ones
Gold Knives are alright
Yeah
The game
Yeah
The movie's good too
Next up
Captain Marvel 2018
Yeah okay
That's pretty awesome
There's a tweet here
I think this is the official
Like tweet guy for this
Yeah
And he's got
And you better believe
Hashtag Captain Marvel.
Yeah, I do believe it.
Like, why would I, why would that be the one that I'm not believing?
Come on, mate.
But also, they were clear in saying that it's Carol Danvers as well.
So, it's not the male original Captain Marvel.
Correct.
Or Shazam, who's in a different universe or whatever.
So, yeah, that's great too.
That is great, yeah. Katie Sackhoff has been, I know Joss Whedon's in favor of universe or whatever. So, yeah, that's great too. That is great, yeah.
Katie Sackhoff has been...
I know Joss Whedon's in favour of her.
Yeah, cool.
I don't know whether she'd get it, but she's great.
So that would be cool.
Absolutely, yeah.
More diversity and whatever, I guess.
Sure.
That's Marvel's slogan as well.
Yes.
More diversity or whatever?
Yeah.
Great.
It's good.
It's interesting, though, that there's no Black Widow film in all of this.
Yeah.
Or Hulk movie.
It's a really good point, actually.
Or Hulk, yeah.
You know what I think, though?
They'll turn out.
And why I think this is more interesting to a lot of people than the DC slate, you know,
of the movies that are coming out.
Yeah.
A, there seem to be more of these.
Yes.
Which is good.
Yeah.
They're actually putting out a couple a year As opposed to one every two years
Sometimes three
Yeah, totally
But also because
They always are new
Yes
Morally
A lot of them are new
Yeah
And coming relatively soon
Yeah
Whereas DC
Oh, 2018
That's quite a long way
Almost all of that
We have seen in various incarnations
Except for Cyborg
Yeah
Yeah, you're right
Absolutely right.
You know, we've seen...
There's a current Flash TV series.
There's a current Flash TV series.
We just saw Green Lantern.
Yeah.
As if we yesterday.
Well, we sort of saw it.
I didn't see it.
You know, Wonder Woman we've seen, you know, TV and whatever.
And they tried that reboot a while ago.
So...
Sure, yeah.
We all know...
And even if you didn't see that you know that weird tv pilot
reboot or whatever like you are 99 of people are familiar with say wonder more or whatever yeah
nobody knows nobody knows this captain marvel no in the mainstream world nobody knows black panther
no etc etc exactly people are more excited because this is this is new stuff they've they've done
avengers they've done black widow and've done Black Widow and et cetera.
And they're like, well, now you've accepted that this universe exists.
We're going to throw some more stuff at you and see how it feels.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Feels good, doesn't it?
Yeah.
I think I'm ripped to the face.
Yeah.
At the risk of pissing off anybody who loves DC movies and whatever.
I think this was a more exciting announcement for me because of all the reasons you said.
Yes.
But also because the way they announce it
is way more interesting.
Like the DC one, they just kind of,
they're like, yeah, we had a board meeting
and this is the movies that we have,
which is great.
Like I'm looking forward to all those DC movies.
But Marvel, the way they do it,
they do it like an event, you know?
They're like, we're having this press conference.
They invite a whole bunch of press from wherever.
Not us though,
obviously we're from wherever.
Yeah.
Could have brought us in.
And you know,
they bring out,
you know,
the head of Marvel,
Kevin Feige,
who's,
who's great with the crowd.
And he clearly loves what he does.
He's got that t-shirt cannon.
Yes.
But like,
he loves what he does.
And he,
he clearly has a love for the characters and he has his personal favorites.
And he, he, he knows what he's doing.
He's not just some CEO.
Like, he's clearly a fan as well.
And he likes bringing people new stuff and exciting stuff.
Or he's not a fan, but he's a great actor.
Like, maybe Robert Downey Jr. has taught him a thing or two about acting.
Sure.
So, that's...
I think the way they do it is very exciting.
So, yeah.
And I wonder as well, because, you know, the trailer got leaked last week, whether they
were actually going to do this today.
Yeah, good point.
Like, have this conference.
Or they maybe were going to do it next week or whatever.
Yeah.
Guess we'll never know.
No, we won't.
But in a way, that's okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Next up, Inhumans 2018.
Oh, see?
Another new thing.
Yeah.
That's pretty great. There's actually... There's a movie before Captain Marvel. We'll come back to that. 2018. Oh, see, another new thing. Yeah. That's pretty great.
There's actually, there's a movie before Captain Marvel.
We'll come back to that.
Okay.
But yeah.
Oh, people were curious about Captain Marvel as well.
Now, the idea was she was Ms. Marvel and then she took over.
Ms. Marvel.
She was Ms. Marvel.
Ms. Marvel, sorry.
I apologize.
And she took over.
From the, well, there's been a lot of Captain Marvels.
Yes.
There's been a lot of Captain Marvels.
Yes.
There was the original who was a Kree soldier who was sent to Earth to investigate.
And he was given like human features.
Investigate what?
Earth.
I'll just be like.
Just Earth people.
What's this?
Yeah.
Baseball.
Great.
Great.
What's this?
That's also baseball.
Yep.
Yep.
You just turned 360 degrees and you's just looking at baseball again.
Then he was thrown into the negative zone and he could only get back by switching his molecules with Rick Jones.
When he clashed the Neger bands together, they were his... Oh, they were in Guardians of the Galaxy, weren't they?
Yeah, yeah, they were.
And then there was another Captain Marvel called Monica Rambeau who had different powers.
She could, like, turn into energy.
She took the name Photon and she was in Next Wave, which is a really good, very fun series.
You should, like, a mini-series you should check out.
Like a comic?
It's a comic.
I don't read comics.
Okay, you don't.
It's called Next Wave.
You should check that out.
Okay, cool.
It's funny.
And, yeah, this is Ms. Marvel.
She was an Air Force Captain. You should check that out. Okay, cool. It's funny. And yeah, this is Ms. Marvel.
She was an Air Force captain.
She was caught in an explosion near the original Captain Marvel.
Yeah.
And she got cross-pollinated with Kree DNA.
And so that's why she's got those superpowers.
All that sweet stuff.
Yeah.
And that's why Rogue in the comic books is invulnerable and can fly and has superhuman strength, like permanently,
because she absorbed Ms. Marvel's powers,
like permanently, for a while.
So they're not big fans of each other.
Sure.
When you think about it. Good thing they're in different movie universes.
Yeah, I know, right?
Sparks would fly.
Yeah, totally.
But then Ms. Marvel got her powers back.
Now she's taken over the role of the previous Captain Marvel.
So now she is Captain Marvel.
Is anyone in that negative zone at the moment?
Annihilus.
Okay.
He's bad news, though.
You don't want to mess with that guy.
If you go in the negative zone, does it put you in a negative headspace?
Yeah.
That's not good.
That's probably the worst part.
A lot of road rage.
You would not believe the road rage in the negative zone.
So bad.
So, yeah, after captain marvel uh in humans 2018
this was another one that was heavily rumored as well yeah they say that vin diesel is going to be
black bolt oh yeah we've talked about that yeah okay basically they gave him group to be like
just we want you on board just do this thing for now can you wait like four years or whatever
so that's pretty great something different as well interesting also that
in guardians galaxy he just talked yes in in humans he can't talk yeah exactly so people
people wouldn't be like that's the tree yeah that's true yeah right yeah so that's pretty
are they gonna be which one live on the moon oh we don't know okay i don't know yes though
definitely yeah that'd be great where's black bolt from is he from the moon is we don't know okay i don't know yes though definitely yeah that'd be great where's
black bolt from is he from the moon is he a moon one uh yeah he's a moon one cool he's a moon one
they're probably uh that's that's a good question are they gonna be because in the in the marvel in
the comic book universe there's moon ones yes and there's earth ones yeah because they're like a
one of the ways you become an inhuman is you get caught in this stuff called the Terrigen
Mists.
These mysterious mists.
You go through them and you get the powers.
Or you die.
One of those two options there.
Okay.
And like a Terrigen bomb was detonated in Chicago, I think.
Okay.
And then some people, A, died.
And B, became inhumans.
How big was this bomb?
Pretty big. Okay. So a lot of people died. and B, became Inhumans. How big was this bomb? Pretty big.
Okay, so a lot of people died.
Probably not that many.
Okay, so a lot of people became Inhumans then.
Not that many.
A couple.
But it was a big bomb.
It was pretty big.
Sure.
Yeah.
But Marvel tend not to do...
Marvel tend not to obliterate cities off the map.
Yeah.
But DC do.
Yeah.
They'll blow up a city.
Quite a lot.
They've nuked a lot of cities.
They'll knock down a city in a movie as well.
They will.
Oh boy.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to that.
Yeah, absolutely.
I want to see good CGI animated hair.
Of the one who's got the hair.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
I think it'll be spawn capey, but better. Yes, absolutely. I think it'll be like Tangled. Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. I think it'll be spawn capey, but better.
Yes, absolutely.
I think it'll be like Tangled.
That kind of physics.
Oh, yes.
Expect that.
Great.
Yeah.
I like Tangled.
I think it's better than Frozen.
That's just me.
I haven't seen either of them.
Because I'm an adult.
How do you like that?
Now, these are the last two.
But the first one actually becomes before Captain Marvel.
It's Infinity Wars.
Oh, sorry.
The Avengers Infinity War Part 1 in May 2018.
And then Part 2, May 2019.
Exciting stuff.
Yes.
Obviously, they're going to bring in Thanos and the gems.
You saw the teaser.
Or you saw a picture of the teaser.
Yes.
Where they show all the gems leading up, and people grabbing at them.
Oh, absolutely, yeah.
And then it shows...
As they should.
Yes.
As any sensible person would.
And then it shows, at the end, Thanos looking like he did in Guardians of the Galaxy with the Infinity Gauntlet.
How did he get that?
What's going on there?
All those gems.
Probably.
Is it over when he gets that, though?
Like, it's over, right?
I mean, he has had it in the comics, obviously,
and it's fine.
But that should be over, right?
You get the glove and it's finished.
Well, we don't know how it's going to play out.
Also, the rules for it might be different.
Okay.
Mostly they just shoot energy, those gems,
in the movies.
Yeah, pretty much.
There's just lots of zappy rays.
Yeah, because there seems to be a much greater difficulty
in the movie universe about activating them.
Yeah.
So that's probably it.
Okay, sure.
It's probably like a Rubik's Cube.
Oh, he's like, Jesus!
God damn it!
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, great.
Cool.
Interestingly, they've broken the Infinity War up into two parts
like they're going gonna do with Justice League
yeah
do you think
that's a coincidence
yes
sure
I think it's a coincidence
in that
now everything's
being broke
every major thing
yeah
that's been adapted
from another thing
is now broken up
into multiple movies
the Infinity War
is like a saga though
like it goes for like
yeah true
at least two issues
is that right
at least
at least two issues yeah so I'd imagine you'd be okay with that being broken up
then yeah totally yeah there's two years between the justice league movies as well there's only one
there's only one between this yeah this is from john c though he's written and he said
ah you guys are great big fan of the show thanks john that's it no he also says i wanted to ask
about the
movies in between avengers part one and two so that is captain marvel and inhumans how do you
think that will keep the story going about these two movies or do you think they'll be standalone
like guardians of the galaxy you probably don't know but i demand an uh demand an answer
also i'm the official junior editor at that website of the podcast sneaky it's gotten in there
um will i keep this we'll see that's that's a good
question um because we're expanding the universe further and further out yeah um i think they'll
have to tie in yeah maybe that's how captain marvel will get her powers there'll be some
weird infinity thing and she's like now i've got powers and then that's what i'm great that should
be a catchphrase the whole time like whenever she does anything she's like, now I've got powers and then that's what happens. Pretty great. That should be a catchphrase
the whole time.
Like,
whenever she does anything,
she's like,
now I've got powers.
Like,
she lifts a car off somebody,
she's like,
now I've got powers.
Yeah.
Maybe,
like,
a whole lot of Avengers
are incapacitated
in between as well.
That's why they're going
within humans
and Captain Marvel.
Right, right, right.
Maybe, yeah.
Maybe they're caught
in some kind of
negative headspace.
Definitely.
So, you know.
Who wouldn't be?
Yeah. I think the rumor is that the first Avengers movie is like, negative headspace definitely so you know but yeah who wouldn't be yeah i think other i think
the the rumor is that the first avengers movie is like the b team avengers right like your your
buckies and your whatever and the second one is like everybody comes back okay because that's how
it's contracted with guardians of galaxy yeah yeah okay which would be sweet nice also you know
hulk is going to appear in this as well.
No, sorry, in prior movies.
Because Mark Ruffalo is contracted to like six movies or something.
So, there's also, I think that maybe, other people have said this, that he'll get shot into space at the end of Age of Ultron.
And he'll cross over with some space shit.
Cool. Like maybe Guardians or whatever.
Nice.
And we've mentioned this before as well.
Drax is not
green right yeah he's very green in the comics so when they punch on in the film it's clear who's
who yeah that'd be great because then you got three green people on the guardians you've got
gamora and drax and hulk yeah yeah and chris evans when he's sick yeah so yeah i don't know
that's that's that's that's a I guess. But everything's also a possibility.
Isn't it, though?
Yeah.
Infinite possibilities.
Yeah.
But for all those movies, which are you most excited for?
Ooh.
I'm very excited for Captain Marvel.
Okay, cool.
Awesome.
Yeah, because I want to see where that's going to go.
Sure.
Hang on.
There's so many options.
These are all great, to be honest.
You know what?
Probably least excited Thor, but whatever.
Okay.
Yeah, no.
I'll agree with that. Because I feel like we've kind of seen a lot of that.
Ah, see.
Three-way tie.
Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Black Panther.
Okay, sure.
I think.
Ah, but also Inhumans.
Wait.
Do they live on the...
If they live on the moon, that's in the mix.
Because I want to see what Black Panther's like...
Well, he's also going to show up in Civil War. Yeah, yeah. See, I want to see what Black Panther's like. Well, he's also going to show up in Civil War.
Yeah, yeah.
See, I want to see what his nation looks like.
Yeah.
That'd be very exciting.
I want to see what high-tech gear he's got.
Yeah.
Because that's going to be really good.
There's a scene in...
There was a Black Panther series quite a few years ago.
Yeah.
Where, like, one of his embassies or whatever is under siege by Mephisto.
Who's, like, you know, the devil of the Marvel universe. He broke Professor X's legs, didn't he? where one of his embassies or whatever is under siege by Mephisto,
who's like the devil of the Marvel universe. He broke Professor X's legs, didn't he?
No, it's a different devil.
Oh, no, sorry, he's the Ghost Rider guy.
There we go.
And he's this all-powerful guy.
I love how there's a different the devil.
That's a different the devil.
It's a different the devil.
So there's one where Mephisto's laying siege to this place
and he's got ultimate power or whatever and black panther goes into you know negotiate with this guy or just you
know try and find a way to you know sacrifice whatever he can to get mephisto to leave this
world or whatever and then it's revealed that uh while this while he's you know beseeching him to
to you know leave the world and leave us all in peace or whatever. His team's been setting up
a ring of power disruptors
around the building
to cut off his extra-dimensional power source.
Then he just clocks him in the face.
It's really good.
That is really great.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
And also Doctor Strange.
Because I want to say,
we don't...
We've got magic in the marvel universe but it's just
it's like space technology yeah it's space future magic yeah but i want to see what are they going
to do with dr strange is going to be similar yeah it's going to have actual magic who knows exactly
well they well they were very clear in the press comments i think they're like this this is we've
we've done regular earth stuff we've found in space we've found real magic in the world we're
going to employ it on this film.
Yeah.
But they're like, no, this is our...
Technically, it's practical effects
because we're actually going to summon devils.
We're going to teach Cumberbatch
how to use the Crimson Bands of Scytherac.
It's going to be great.
The Winds of Watu.
All the classics.
All the classics.
But, yeah, what was I going to say?
Yeah, but they're like,
no, this is our entry into proper magic
not proper
you know
do you believe in magic
okay which is more real
lizard people or magic
you've got to pick
ooh
lizard people
okay sure
yeah definitely
fantastic
well I'm excited
oh I'm probably most
still excited for Civil War
I really want to see Civil War
I'm not super excited
for Civil War
I'm not against it you're a fucking Civil War. I'm not against it.
You're a fucking idiot.
I know.
I'm not against it
but we've seen
those characters enough.
Sure, good point.
Great point.
But no, all of those
are great.
Can't wait
for literally all of them.
Yes.
Great.
Cool.
Moving on.
We've got more news, Mason.
So much news.
I'd save this for later.
I nearly said
so many news.
Oh, one more thing.
Yes.
My name is Dale Martin.
No, it's not.
You're James Jr. Editor.
That's right.
Totally used both my names to hear how it sounds in your accents.
But on YouTube and Twitter, I go by Laserclops.
I know now you've seen the Marvel Phase 3 movie slate, correct?
Bono asked a question.
No, I haven't seen it.
Out of all these characters.
That was a bluff.
That was an elaborate bluff
I'd just done.
We kind of answered this,
but out of all these characters,
we are getting out
of the Marvel Universe,
who are you most excited for?
So like new characters?
Who for you?
Black Panther, me.
Yeah.
What about you?
Doctor Strange, probably.
Okay, cool.
Sweet as.
Racist Mason.
Yeah, I know.
I personally have to say
Black Bolt.
He's the definition
of the strong silent type
also locked your because even though i don't know much about the inhumans i know you've got you've
got to have a locked jaw is that true yeah he's a he's a giant teleporting dog so of course you do
you've got to have him you've got to have him that's actually really a good point because in
the comics he's quite he's like he's really like a bulldog, but like, like the size of a, like
a big couch.
Like he's a real big dog and he's got like an antenna on his head.
I know him.
And he can teleport, but he's real big.
So how are they going to do that?
Are they going to, are they going to give a real, like a, is he going to, is he going
to be regular dog size?
Yeah.
Are they going to CG up a giant dog?
They'd have to CG up a giant dog, wouldn't they?
Yeah, a giant dog, yeah.
Because they've got a regular dog with Cosmo now.
That's true.
Yeah.
That'd be sweet.
Dog the size of a couch that can teleport.
Yep.
Yes, please.
Yep.
Great.
Thank you very much, Dale Martin, Laser Clops.
FX's The Veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship
between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London.
One woman has a secret.
The other, a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost.
FX's The Veil, starring Elizabeth Moss, is now streaming on Disney+.
Will you rise with the sun to help change mental health care forever?
Join the Sunrise Challenge to raise funds for
CAMH, the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health, to support life-saving progress
in mental health care. From May 27th
to 31st, people across Canada
will rise together and show those
living with mental illness and addiction
that they're not alone.
Help CAMH build a future where no one
is left behind.
So, who will you rise for?
Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca.
That's sunrisechallenge.ca.
All right, Christopher Nolan news.
He's doing the rounds on Interstellar at the moment.
Early reviews are in and they're like,
maybe Christopher Nolan isn't perfect after all. Oh, really?
People are being real dicks about it.
Because I've heard people be like this
is the best movie
going experience I've
ever had.
All these people are
real pricks.
All these people who
get early access to
this film are real
pricks is what I'm
saying.
Give it to us.
I tried to win his
tickets this week.
We did not win.
Wow.
Yeah.
I wasn't going to
take you anyway.
Was it a pie eating
contest?
Yes.
Great.
Problem was though I'd eaten a lot of pies before.
Should have known.
Should have known, yeah.
True.
But when you go to enter into a pie eating contest,
thinking about pie,
and then you're like,
I'm just going to have a couple of pies right now.
And then by the time the contest rolls around,
you're full up a pie.
I'm all pied out, mate.
Anyway, Christopher Nolan, he's doing the rounds or whatever.
And he's like, they asked him, would you ever do another superhero movie?
And he said, I had a great experience with the superhero genre and got to explore lots of things.
But it was a good decade of my life.
And I find it hard to imagine returning to it.
But never say never.
So he's left it open.
But realistically, no.
Not again.
I think that's a smart answer.
Being like, look, I loved it, but I'm, you know.
Yeah.
I get the same.
Like, you know, some people are like, well, superheroes aren't really for me.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, whatever.
Yeah.
He'd only ever go back if he ran out of money, and he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who
runs out of money.
No.
He seems good.
He'd be good with money.
Yes.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
He is.
And spinning hallways. Oh, be good with money. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he is. And spinning hallways.
Oh, so good with those.
Great.
What if he blew all his money on...
Like, he built a mansion filled with spinning hallways.
Then he'd be back.
Sure.
But yeah, look, as much as I like Christopher Nolan,
I think I like the idea of him going out and making new projects and new properties.
Yes.
Like, I love his Batman movies, and particularly the second one.
They're all good in their own way or whatever.
But I think he's a very good, competent storyteller.
Auteur.
Auteur.
Yeah.
Good for him.
And he's sort of British or from Boston.
Yeah.
And he's probably...
He is one of the few people out there putting original properties out
there.
Yeah.
That aren't based on a book or a comic book or whatever.
That people go and see.
That people go and see.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So basically we're going to go through all the Nolan movies briefly because who cares?
Right?
Well, probably Christopher Nolan cares.
What if this is the one moment?
Like we always say
You know every podcast
Is somebody's first podcast
So make it good and fresh
And don't
Like not too many
Don't turn up really tired
Do it late at night
Don't really half-ass it
Well
What if Christopher Nolan's like
Oh I think I'll give
These podcasts a try
And he
Clicks on this one
Because it's in movies and TV
And he's like
I like movies
And then he turned,
we're like,
who cares,
we're like,
who cares,
wait,
who bloody,
I'll do my Australian accent,
who bloody cares about
Christopher Nolan's
cinematic output?
Eh?
What a dickhead.
And then he's done.
I just want to clarify,
by who cares,
I meant who cares
what we think.
Oh, yeah,
that makes a lot more sense.
But I didn't want to stop you.
You were into that.
But yeah, Blake Battersea's written it, actually.
And he pointed out that apart from the Batman movies,
all of his films are one word.
That's interesting.
Yeah, I didn't realise.
Inception is two words, though.
Because everybody in that movie, when you think about it,
is inception. They're right in, inception. It's as far as you can get. Because everybody in that movie, when you think about it, is inception.
Yes.
They're right in, exception.
It's as far as you can get.
Yeah, as far as you can get into exception.
Layers of exception.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just layers upon layers.
Yeah.
So, we're going to start with his first kind of feature film.
It's called Following.
Yeah, okay.
I haven't seen it.
You seen it?
I also didn't see it.
I was going to save that for what you're reading later.
Yeah.
It's a segment where we read or watch a thing.
Or do something.
It's in black and white.
So.
Yeah.
Does that turn you off?
When was it made?
Like 1998?
98.
Okay.
Yeah.
No.
It's probably a very student film.
Or it's really good.
I haven't seen it.
So is it an independent film or is it a student film?
I don't know.
I did no research on it.
Neither did I.
Here's one for the books.
All right.
But yeah, so it sounds like a very...
He's got a lot of great concepts.
Yes.
It sounds like that.
He's got limited resources
and so he knows what he can do
with what little he has.
Yeah.
The premise is this.
Is it an art student
or some sort of student who's... The worst kind of student. Yeah. The premise is this, is it's an art student or some sort of student who's...
The worst kind of student.
Yeah.
Who is following people around the city
to get inspiration.
Okay.
To see what they do in their lives.
Okay.
And then one person he follows
turns to be like
in some sort of criminal underworld.
Oh, okay.
So, and then he gets drawn
into a web of intrigue.
An inception.
And a real inception. Yeah. it great okay cool well i'm also gonna want to read that fantastic yeah
moving on this is the first christopher nolan movie i saw uh memento from 2000 uh yeah uh it's
one of my faves me too yeah great movie one of your favourite movies or one of one of my favourite movies I think I got it wrong okay great
I remember when he was
chosen for Batman
rebooting Batman
I still have it here
it's on my bloody iPad
right there
ready to go
at a moment's notice
tell me when I watch it
yeah
when they said
he's doing Batman
I was like
great choice
yeah yeah
love Memento
and I think that's the only movie
of his that I'd seen
at that point
so well on board do you think plot wise it's his most complex movie it's probably the most complex that makes
sense when you think about it it still makes sense oh that's right i forgot i i know where
we're gonna go a little bit later you're right it is yeah yeah but i think yeah he's the most
complex movie where you don't afterwards go, hey, wait a minute. Yeah.
It makes perfect sense.
And it's amazing that that movie has so many moving parts and is structured in such a complete mindfuck of a way.
But you completely understand it.
Yes.
Like the entire time.
Yeah.
And we're going to spoil these?
Yeah, I think so.
Sure.
Except for the one that I haven't seen.
We'll talk about... The one comes after this, I think. Okay, cool the one that I haven't seen that we'll talk about
the one comes after this
I think
okay cool
don't spoil it for me
I'm 28 minutes in
I haven't seen
Robin Williams yet
so if you could just
not spoil that one
you're talking about
Patch Adams
yeah Patch Adams
he's a doctor
but he makes a joke
and everybody alright
yes
except for the people
that die
also in Patchams his girlfriend is
murdered by a serial killer or something i think that happened in real life as well
yeah wow poor patch yeah but anyway um so basically the story is a guy who suffers from a
rare condition of memory loss where every 15 he doesn't basically have a long-term memory anymore
so every memory he's had before he'd get clocked in the head yep black panther style yep remains locked in his mind forever but the only but then he can only
remember 15 minutes prior to yeah if you've seen 50 first dates it's like that this was the dramatic
50 first dates yes and not as depressing weirdly isn't that weird isn't that weird? Yeah. That's so odd.
So, yeah, it's basically he's under the impression that his guy, Pierce, who's great,
that his wife was murdered
and that's when he gets clocked in the head
and loses his memories
and he's on this hunt to find the men or man
who murdered his wife.
Yes.
But he's a very kind of clever kind of detective
but he's got this cripp of clever kind of detective,
but he's got this crippling ailment,
which means all his clues he tattoos on his body,
so he never forgets them.
And every time he, you know, that 15 minutes ticks over,
he has to kind of, okay, I'm this person, I've got this,
and he has to re-kind of learn every time.
Yes, yeah. By the time he then figures something out...
Memory's gone again.
Memory's gone again.
So, yeah, it's probably again. Memory's gone again. So, yeah.
It's probably better than 50 First Dates.
In many ways, it's infinitely better than 50 First Dates, yeah.
So, yeah.
It's got Stephen Tobolowsky.
Yeah, famous character actor.
I was going to mention that.
Famous character actor, Stephen Tobolowsky.
Yeah, he's pretty great.
Delightful.
Yeah, absolutely.
And two Matrix alums.
Oh, they do too, yeah.
Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pants Pantoliano
But yeah, it runs backwards as well, this movie, doesn't it?
Correct
So it starts, what is it?
It starts with a murder
Well, it starts, the current day stuff happens forwards
And the flashbacks happen backwards And they meet in the middle, right?
Sure, that sounds about right.
Yeah, that works.
Genius.
Genius.
Now, Nolan wrote this with his brother, is that right?
Yes.
And have they continued...
Gregory Nolan.
Gregory Nolan.
Have they continued their working relationship?
I believe so, yeah.
They did the Dark Knight movies together as well?
Yeah.
Okay.
And I think his brother also had a hand in Terminator Salvation.
Hooray!
Yeah, but I wouldn't pin that on him.
No, absolutely not.
Yeah, I can't remember his brother's name.
Don't know why it doesn't matter.
It's not important.
Once again, this is Christopher Nolan's first podcast that he's listening to.
It does matter what his brother's name is, alright?
Jonathan Nolan. That's right. right sorry thank you very much but yeah i don't really have anything else to say from it uh that other
than you should if you haven't seen memento you should definitely go watch it yeah i remember i
hired a vhs i was at school and i was like i'm gonna watch this and i did and i was like a lot
of people listening won't know what any of those words mean. School. VHS. School.
Watching.
Watching a thing.
Jonathan Nolan.
Great.
None of those.
Yeah.
It's great.
I don't really want to spoil it.
No.
Well done.
Yeah.
I think that was a nice... That's a good summary.
Sure.
Absolutely.
So, they'll be about that length, won't they?
Yes.
Now we're going to talk about these movies.
It's very late.
Yes. Next week we'll be fresh and we'll talk about Inter length won't they Yes Now we're going to talk about these movies It's very late Yes
Next week we'll be fresh
And we'll talk about Interstellar
Two words
Two words
It's a guy who really gets interstellar
A cheeky nose
Do you ever see Stella Got Her Groove Back
No
Me neither
How did she get it back though
Probably sass and dancing
Sure makes sense
Also Alec Baldwin was the first choice for
leonard oh yes that's pretty cool also brad pitt was he an option yeah there was a few names floated
around he was one of them and dennis leary turned down teddy okay that'd have been pretty interesting
yes i like who they went with yeah me too yeah excellent stuff next up insomnia 2002
uh-huh once again i'm 28 minutes in sell me me on insomnia, you think. It's not that good.
Okay, look.
It's okay.
Yep.
I think it's miscast.
I have a question for you.
Yeah.
Is Al Pacino a good actor?
No.
He was a good actor.
Right.
And then he made Scent of a Woman and he lost his mind.
Right.
Do you think it's because Scent of a Woman, he was all, who are?
Yeah.
Do you think people really reacted well to who are?
I think he won an Oscar or maybe got a lot of accolades.
Yeah.
So then he just did that forever.
Right.
Okay.
And now he's just a weird parody of himself.
Look, he tones it down a lot in this movie.
You can see him really trying.
But I do not like Al Pacino.
Okay.
No, that's not the right word i i like him enough but he's just
to me he's he's just al pacino right i see al pacino playing the devil in the devil's own in
every movie that al pacino advocates are yeah so that's that's what i say okay so you're probably
right i think they should have put someone else in it robin williams is quite good in it actually
yeah but no al pac, not so much.
But basically, the story of that one is...
Are you up to the bit with the fog?
Yes.
Okay, so he accidentally shoots his partner while chasing a serial killer.
Yeah, so Al Pacino has come to this weird place in Alaska.
Yeah.
I'm assuming it's Alaska.
Yeah, it is.
To find a serial killer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They chase him down to a cabin, and then there's a lot of fog. He accidentally shoots his killer. Yeah. Yeah. They chase him down to like a cabin
and then there's a lot of fog.
He accidentally shoots his partner.
Yeah.
In the meantime...
But his partner's also...
Oh, sorry.
His partner is investigating.
Is providing evidence to Internal Affairs
to investigate Al Pacino.
Yeah.
For all his Pacino-ing around.
He's suspiciously Pacino-ing around.
So, yeah. I think it's an interesting premise. And the idea then from that, he's kind of veryino-ing around. So, yeah, I think it's an interesting premise.
And the idea then from that, he's kind of very guilt-ridden,
he covers it up or whatever, because he goes,
despite it being an accident, he goes,
this will not look good on me.
Yeah.
So he's wracked with guilt and Hilary Swank is then involved in it
and whatever.
He's wracked with guilt and Hilary Swank.
Yes.
And because he's in Alaska and it's eternal...
Daytime.
Daytime, this time of year.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, like he can't sleep.
So his mind gets more and more kind of twisted.
Yeah, yeah.
And the thing is as well, that's actually true.
The longer you stay awake, as we've known from doing this podcast right now...
Correct.
...the more insane you become.
Yeah, I've...
Temporarily.
Yeah.
As I was watching this immediately before coming over here...
Yeah.
...to do this, I was relating to him quite well.
Like, I'm like, I totally get it.
I'd shoot my partner as well.
This guy?
My partner in podcasting, yes.
Just accidentally.
Sure, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Then you'd cover it up, but then Swank would be onto you.
Ah, Swank.
So, look, it's... I think, would be on to you Swank so look it's
I think
look it's okay
should I watch it
till the end then
yeah why not
I got some time
off tomorrow
yeah exactly
yeah do it
or don't do it
right
it's a long weekend here
so
whatevs man
interesting though
that Harrison Ford
was actually considered
for the Al Pacino role
I think that's way better
because he's way more tired
like if he had to
definitely
he really
even in 2002 was he super tired in 2002 hollywood homicide oh he was tired yeah that's true yeah
yeah so yeah there you go yeah it's fine great but yeah i wouldn't i couldn't say i highly
recommend it would you say it's his most fine film yes definitely okay cool yeah yeah yeah i
mean it all makes sense and a lot of it works and But to be fair, he's not doing the full Pacino.
Like, he brings it right down.
Hoo-ah.
But even then, yeah, it's fine.
A lot of people like it and that's fair enough if you do, yeah.
But do people like it retroactively because it's a Christopher Nolan film?
That's a possibility, sure.
At the time, do you remember anybody saying, hey, you must check out Insomnia?
I remember people saying Robin Williams is great in that because that was around the
time when he was kind of...
Playing against type.
Yes.
He did like One Hour Photo and...
Yeah, yeah.
Death to Smoochie, I think.
Right, right.
By the way, Death to Smoochie is not great.
People say it's great.
It's not that great.
No, I think it's okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Next up was obviously Batman Begins.
We'll come back to that at some point.
All the Batmans.
Yes.
Come back to them.
Yep, absolutely.
That's a whole other thing.
The Prestige.
Yeah, here we go.
2006 or 2007.
Uh-huh.
It's basically, it's a Victorian era London magician jewel.
Boy, is it.
One of two that year, right?
The Illusionist. The the illusionist was also that
which is much worse okay there you go maybe not much worse they both have inexplicable magic in
it though yes that's inexplicable third act plot twist yes yeah um i think it's and it's basically
these two dueling magicians yes uh it starts off with a kind of more like friendly competition
it's hugh
jackman and christian bale and they keep upping the stakes who can do the better magic show sure
and they have like competing magic theaters and they're like hugh jackman's more of the kind of
the showman yep and he brings in the crowds and whatever but technically the christian bale
magician is a better magician right yeah and it kind of the whole thing kind of drives the hugh jackman one insane
right because christian bale's character yeah develops a trick where he runs into a box on
one side of the stage walks not even walks into a box on one side of the stage instantly comes out
yeah 20 feet away on the other side of the stage and it drives hugh jackman insane because he cannot
figure out how he does it yes right should we spoil the twist i think we have to spoil the
twist i think we have here's the thing because i i because i want i wanted to have
like some facts in front of me whatever so i just googled the prestige yeah the first thing that
comes up if you type the prestige there's a just says nonsense no it says the prestige explained
so clearly there are a lot of people who were very confused by this i get it yeah i get it
it's not it's not hard to understand.
I think maybe what they explain is,
like, how did everybody drop the ball in making this,
that they would think that that was a satisfactory explanation
for how the film goes.
Do you remember, we saw that together.
Yeah.
And afterwards we were like...
No, in the moment.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
What?
Clothing machine.
Clothing machine.
So basically, the way thatugh jackman tops his trick the first thing he does he hires a double and so hugh jackman
disappears into the stage and then another guy appears who looks enough like hugh jackman that
from a distance the audience think that it's hugh jackman yep but that depresses hugh jackman
because that guy gets all the accolades at the end of the show and he wants the audience's approval or whatever
much like a podcast
definitely
and so that drives him to David Bowie
yes as Nikola Tesla
who's great by the way
yeah sure
why doesn't he do more acting?
he's really rich probably
and he's weird?
yeah really rich and weird
yeah and basically David Bowie...
I think they say in music,
the quote is,
you only make two amounts of money in music.
You can only make two amounts of money in music.
Not as much as you'd think
and more than you can possibly imagine.
And I think Bowie has done the
latter like bowie rolling stones those guys they get on an era where you were just like i read i
read that elton john like i read an interview with him once and he said i reckon i spend a million
pounds a year on clothes right that's insane right yes what's he done lately i don't think nothing i haven't bought
clothes this year yeah but anyway the point is bowie's really rich so yeah why why would he need
to do anything he doesn't holy crap yeah that's insane uh-huh no he made that candle in the wind
song when he's dying he reissued it oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. So that was several decades ago, right? It was. Okay.
Anyway, cloning machine.
So he goes to Nikola Tesla. I've got some stuff to say about Princess Diana,
but I'll save it.
Yeah.
I actually do, but it's not the time.
Right.
So he goes to Nikola Tesla
to help develop a teleportation machine.
Oh, yes.
Okay, yep.
Yep, sure.
But then he discovers,
and he teleports his hat.
Yeah.
He thinks it's not working. Because it's just disappearing. Disappearing. But then he discovers, and he teleports his hat. He thinks it's not working.
Because it's just disappearing.
Disappearing.
But then he discovers that the machine is making a copy of his hat.
So his hat, oh sorry, yeah, you're right, exactly.
Sorry, yeah, it doesn't disappear.
The machine keeps making a copy of his hat and throwing it outside.
In a pile of hats.
In a pile of hats, right?
So then he decides, you know, they work on it and perfect this thing.
Yeah. so then he decides they work on it and perfect this thing so every time
he builds the same trick
what he thinks is the same trick
and he goes into the
box
he teleports to the other side
of the stadium
of the stadium
or he creates a double at the other side of the stadium
it's like a fax machine
it's like a fax machine, essentially.
It's like a fax machine, exactly.
So, and then one of them is killed, right?
One of them kills the other one.
One of them kills the other one.
In a panic.
Right, right, right.
Yeah, and then he basically uses that trick.
He sets up a stage show,
and every night he disappears.
The original version of him drops into a fish tank.
Yeah.
The lid closes, drowns.
Yeah.
And Christian Bale gets framed for that murder.
Right, right, right.
But even though he's just been doing this every night, he's just been drowning multiple Jackmans.
Yeah, yeah.
And he doesn't know, we don't know whose consciousness, we don't know who's the original.
No, we don't.
We don't know whether it is teleporting him or it's a copy.
And he says that's the fear of doing the trick.
Right.
Because you don't know whether you're going to be the man in the box or the man who appears yeah yeah the other
side of the auditorium yeah and he's crazy right he goes completely insane right it's probably all
the cloning sure but i mean if you ever yeah i i spent a few years just faxing myself to various
locations and i went insane yes i can't imagine you know but um because everything up to that point as well
it's very mechanical yeah it's very grounded in reality exactly and it's very like this is how
they make a bird disappear and what actually happens is the bird gets crushed into a little
mechanical um that gets goes to your chest or something right and so but and then a different
bird appears in the cage and And then you sort of go,
well, they didn't value the lives of animals back then.
Yeah, yeah.
So of course they would do that.
Yeah.
And birds were cheap.
Yeah, exactly.
And these were all tricks that they used to do.
Like they did this thing called the bullet catch trick,
which is basically you pretend to put a musket ball
into a gun and then you,
but then you actually,
when you go to pack it down,
you actually use a little magnet stick to pull it out.
Yeah, okay, cool. And then you fire a blank and then you pretend to catch it down, you actually use a little magnet stick to pull it out.
Yeah, okay, cool. And then you fire a blank and then you pretend to catch it.
Right, right, yeah.
And stuff like that.
And that stuff is, to me, very fascinating.
Yeah.
I like that kind of stuff.
But then when they introduced the cloning machine, I remember thinking, like, okay, that doesn't fit this world at all.
And not only that, this mustn't actually be a cloning machine.
Right. Like, this world at all. And not only that, this mustn't actually be a cloning machine. Right.
Like this is something else until you see the two Hugh Jackman's appear.
And then you go,
Oh no,
they've really done this.
Yeah,
exactly.
And then of course the final reveal is that Christian Bale's character just had a twin brother.
Yes.
The whole time.
Yes.
And so,
and the thing there is that the idea is that Hugh Jackman's character has lost his mind. Yeah.
It's ruined his
life yeah trying to figure this thing out and then it was the simplest explanation yeah yeah
which is interesting which is interesting yeah but i feel it would have suited the world much more
if hugh jackman's that you whatever mechanism he discovered to attempt to duplicate this trick
it ruined his life anyway.
Yeah.
But it wasn't a cloning machine.
Yeah, exactly. Call me a dreamer.
But surely the guys who created Memento
could have come up with a better solution there.
That's it, yeah.
Look, but you know what?
It could have been...
It could have even been like...
Something more suited to the...
Like maybe some sort of magnetic...
You know, maybe some sort of magnetic device that threw him across the stage. Sure, yeah. Something to that. Like maybe some sort of magnetic, you know,
maybe some sort of magnetic device
that threw him across the stage
or something like that.
And it was killing him,
you know,
with radiation
or something like that,
you know.
But come on,
just flings him across.
It's a catapult.
Like a catapult.
Yeah.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah, but you know what?
That being said,
it's a very watchable movie
and the characters make it interesting.
Right.
And I still think it's a pretty good movie.
Despite all of that.
Yeah.
Despite how it doesn't make sense.
How about we do an edit of it?
Yes.
Where we cut out all instances of the cloning machine.
And then, like, we just get Sean Willits, friend of the show, animator.
Grab bloke. Like we just get Sean Willits, friend of the show, animator, to cut in a scene where Hugh Jackman is flying across the stage
behind a curtain in a catapult.
Breaks a lot of limbs over and over.
That would be amazing.
And then at the end when it's like, oh, I just had a twin brother,
Hugh Jackman's like, oh, my limbs.
I kept breaking all my limbs.
That would be amazing yes um but you know what the other thing is the christian bale twist yes i picked that much earlier because there's a guy
who always hangs out with christian bale who clearly is christian bale like another christian
bale who wears like prosthetics i mean but i like the idea as well that this guy has lived his whole life with this twin
and they've just shared a life.
There's a bit where Hugh Jackman sabotages his bullet catch trick and shoots off two
of his fingers.
Uh-huh, yeah.
So then they have to chisel off the other one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they fall and one of them falls in love with a woman, but they both end up marrying
her and she figures it out and then kills herself i like that that that's all stuff is fascinating even though it's
it's very evident that that's just christian yeah totally yeah but that it's yeah yeah yeah
every element of is i think every element of that movie is good yep performances are great
you know the the sets and costumes or whatever are great yep the catapult's great
the catapult is great
that we've invented
in our minds
but yeah just
if they could have
changed that twist
it was based on a book right?
I think it was yeah
so was there a
was there a cloning machine
there must have been
a cloning machine
there'd have to have been
because there's no way
there could have been
a more realistic twist
in the book
and they've gone actually you know Hollywood Because there's no way there could have been a more realistic twist in the book.
And they've gone, actually, you know, Hollywood mainstream audiences will not accept whatever we built, whatever they made in this book.
It has to be a cloning machine.
You know what?
Let's look that up now because I want to know.
Okay, cool.
All right.
Based on The Prestige by Christopher Priest.
Here we go.
I pushed the link.
Good.
Okay.
In the meantime,
I've got a fact for you.
Okay. You know what?
Oh, wait.
I want to see this first.
Okay, cool.
We'll edit this out.
Nah.
Oh, great.
Just run a search
for cloning machine
on the page.
In a flash,
it's the best search ever
for subsequent teleportation
duplicated.
Yeah, it's the same.
Okay, great.
Great.
I love how they say duplicator.
It's a cloning machine
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah
It's an 18th century cloning machine
There's some sort of ghostly
Whatever
There's somebody turns into a ghost though
That's in the illusionist as well
Yeah one of
Because in the illusionist
There's weird holograms
In the other one
Remember that
In this one
In the book version
Spoiler alert
There's a
There's
The Somebody interferes with the machine and one of them becomes incorporeal.
Oh, okay.
I think.
Well, that's probably best they cut that out.
Yeah, one of the duplicates becomes like a ghost.
Okay.
Okay, anyway, yeah.
And they fight crime together.
Yeah, they fight crime together.
Okay, fantastic.
That's dumber.
Yeah, isn't it though? But you know what? In a book like that, I'd imagine that it would fit.
Because it's set up as a...
I'd imagine that book's set up like, again, not having read it.
Yeah.
It's probably set up that way from the start.
That it's kind of a supernatural kind of...
Well, maybe.
Maybe thing.
Yeah, but this movie is not that.
No, that's very realistic.
But you know what?
Also, they telegraph early on the fact that Christian Bale's character, there's two of them in a few ways.
But one of the ways is they go and see this performer, this Chinese performer.
And he looks like this old Chinese man who can move this incredibly heavy fishbowl from one spot to another.
And the way he does it is he's not actually an old Chinese man.
He's a young, strong man.
And he grabs the fish
ball between his knees shuffles it to another place and then makes it reappear right but he
lives as that guy always right okay like he never ever breaks character uh-huh and i and that's
basically what christian bale is doing yes you're never breaking character living this this life
yeah this lie or whatever but actually that guy that guy... But you can tell, you can...
Like, the giveaway is, that reveal happens,
and Christopher Bale goes...
Christopher Bale.
Christian Bale goes,
that's what I do with me and me brother.
And then he points.
And if you can pick that up, it's the twist.
I didn't, I read that later.
Your Cockney accent is exactly like Christian Bale's Cockney accent.
I'm not even kidding.
That was dead on.
But that actor, though, that performer, he went by the name Chang Ling Su.
And he was a real person that exists, apparently.
He was this Caucasian American man.
His name was William Ellsworth Robinsoninson who disguised himself as a chinese man
probably not well but i'd imagine a lot of people then wouldn't have known what a chinese person
looked like correct yeah and would have been like yeah he's you know he's got a little bit of
eyeliner or whatever yeah like a big flowy beard that's what it is and he did that to cash in the
audience's enthusiasm for the exotic and he lived as this guy never breaking character while
in public he died in march 1918 when a bullet catch trick went wrong and his last words were
i wish that bullet catch trick didn't go wrong because i've been shot by a bullet
his last words were my god i've been shot and they were the first words in English he'd spoken on stage in 19 years.
Wow.
So that's amazing, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's incredible.
But I wish it was blimey.
Yeah.
I wish that bullet catch went better.
So yeah, I would say if you haven't seen it and you didn't listen to our spoiler, go and watch it, I guess.
Because I think it's interesting.
All right. I think it's interesting. All right.
I think it's interesting.
I think it's better than Insomnia,
even though it's nonsense.
Rightio, then.
Speaking of nonsense.
Here we go.
No.
Inception.
Yeah.
I think I've got it here.
Inception, the subtitle should be Inception.
Subtitle, don't think about it.
Really?
Just don't think about it.
Yeah.
It kind of unravels.
I love Inception.
It's great.
It's probably his best movie maybe
no it's probably not i don't know it's good it's really good i enjoyed a lot i like the concept
uh i like i like that it doesn't talk down to the audience yep i a lot of people when it came
out a lot of people like oh this movie's blowing my mind okay sure it doesn't blow your mind
I think it's a good baseline level action film
yep
like it's
I enjoy it a lot
but I think it
smarts wise
it's a baseline
like it's
all action movies should be at least this good
okay fair
yeah otherwise don't bother
don't bother exactly
total recall reboot
yes
expendables
yeah
three and probably the first two
but i haven't seen them yeah i feel like i don't think it makes entirely entire sense well i mean
there are some plot holes there but yeah that's okay right because he crafts it in such a way
and this skill is that he can put together it's like a It's like a weird kind of broken jigsaw
that fits together perfectly.
I can't even...
I get you.
I don't have a better metaphor than that.
It's fine.
But it's one of those ones
you can go back and see twice as well
and there's layers of dreams and stuff.
Inception.
Inception-ig, yeah.
Well, yeah.
I mean, there are a couple of little flaws in it.
Yeah.
The idea of going into dreams. Well, yeah, I mean, there are a couple of little flaws in it. Yeah. The idea of going into dreams.
Well, there's that.
Yeah.
Assuming everybody listening has seen it.
Yes.
If you haven't, here's a moment, and you've all gone and seen it.
So, in the, like, I guess the second, third act, when they go, they're all on the plane.
Yeah.
And they go, you know, they go up in the plane.
They all inceptionize.
Yes.
In the inception machine.
And they have to get in and get out before the plane lands.
Yeah.
The air hostess, the steward, is on board with the plan.
Yes.
Why can't you just wake them all up?
Good point. Yeah. Really good point. Yeah. Because there't you just wake them all up? Good point.
Yeah.
Really good point.
Yeah.
Because there's dudes dying in there as well.
Right, right.
Like the guy gets...
Because if you die in a dream,
you die in real life.
No, you don't.
Oh, you do though.
You go to a weird space.
In this particular situation, you do.
Because they're so far under.
Yes, exactly.
Because they're dreams in dreams.
Well, maybe that's the reason
she couldn't just wake them up.
No, that's not a very good reason.
No, it's not.
Just wake them up.
Yeah, just wake them up.
Yeah.
I was going to say,
and it was very smart, I think, in not a very good reason. No, it's not. Just wake them up. Yeah, just wake them up. Yeah. I was going to say, and it's,
it was very smart,
I think,
in like the very first scene.
Yeah.
The very first scene
is a dream within a dream.
Yeah.
So we can lay that groundwork.
Yep.
And we can,
you know,
I think if they didn't do that,
regardless of how it went,
I think at the end,
by the end,
people would have spent
the entire film going,
oh,
maybe this is a dream.
Yeah.
This part's a dream. Maybe this is the dream within the dream so if you go okay you can
have a dream within a dream that's pretty much standard procedure for these people yeah it's
not a surprise yeah so yeah absolutely great movie right great movie very stylish very stylish good
suits a lot of practical effects as well yeah Yeah. Like those suits. Like the suits.
Like the spinny hallway and there's a bunch of other stuff.
Like this.
I've got here.
It's only 500 visual effects shots were made.
But normally it's something like this would be like 2000 plus.
Okay, right.
There's some stuff that you can't do.
Like there's a bit where the city folds in on itself.
Oh, yes.
Like obviously.
Can't do that live.
No.
Yeah.
But.
Well, these days.
Yeah, but like.
Occupational health and safety... Can't do that live. No. Yeah. But... Oh, these days. Yeah, but like... Occupational health and safety.
Can't flip a city.
There's bits where, like,
they're sitting
and the cafe, like, explodes.
Like, they explode in a cafe
and whatever.
I'm sure they probably
digitally put in DiCaprio
or did they?
I don't know.
I can't even remember
what I was going to say
about this.
Practical effects.
Yeah.
Stylish.
Yeah, stylish.
Great.
See, that's an innovative
use of that, the hallway thing. Like, that's an innovative use of that the hallway thing like
that's that's been a staple for many years like i remember watching like a variety show back in the
80s or whatever or the 90s where you know they just locked down they had a spinning they had
like a spinning room and then locked down a camera and just had people walk up walls or whatever yeah
sure that's been that's been around for decades and decades we do that in this podcast we do that
in the podcast you guys can't see it, though.
We locked down that camera.
But yeah, to just, you know,
I don't think anybody's had a really effective,
exciting fight scene in something like that.
No.
Yeah.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt did his own stunts for that as well.
There you go.
I love that weird kind of sideways run he does.
It looks real weird, but I love it.
Inception is the reason why, like, for me, I'm like, don't need to make superhero properties
or other people's properties.
Just, if you've got an idea, just do it.
Right, right.
Like, even if it's bad or whatever, I'll still see.
But nobody's going to commit that amount of money to...
Like, who else would have the star power?
Oh, no one else.
Besides Nolan, yeah.
Yeah, but I mean, like, at this point, from now on, I'm saying, like, just do whatever
you want.
Just prove that it works. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. but I mean, like, at this point, from now on, I'm saying, like, just do whatever you want. Just prove that it works.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But that's the thing in Hollywood, like, you can go, you know, you can make, like, bridesmaids and go...
You know, this is a female-fronted comedy that makes a lot of money.
Now everybody can do it and then nobody will.
Because people have built their own...
Like, Hollywood's, you know, built their own...
Coffin. Coffin. people have built their own... Like, Hollywood's, you know, built their own...
Coffin.
Coffin.
They've built their own set of, you know, prophecies
and they've gone, well, that's...
You know, that doesn't make any money.
So, that's a...
You know, that's an exception.
Same with Inception.
Yeah.
You know, it's an original property.
It made money.
It's a fluke.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's exactly it.
And you know what? Inception, it's very fluke yeah that's exactly it and you know what
Inception
it's very well paced
yep
like it's brisk enough
where even if you
don't understand it
if you're just like you said
if you're watching it
as an action movie
like you can just
watch it like that
yeah true
the entire time
good action sequences
yeah
good car chase
yep
car slash train chase
good brahm
brah that's annoying not that not that it's good in that
movie it's annoying that it's in every trailer well it's it set a precedent yeah yeah i think
the guy it wasn't han zimmer i think who invented that it was somebody else but the guy was like
i'm gonna regret that but everybody does that now yeah yeah. Yeah. It's over. They should stop doing that.
I was going to say,
now at the end,
basically,
it's left ambiguous
and Patrick actually
written it,
written in,
is it Patrick?
Yeah.
The ending scene
is basically,
it's left ambiguous
whether Leonardo DiCaprio
is in a dream or not still
when he gets his children back.
Yep.
Because if for some vague reason
he can't go back to america yep it's never
really explained why yeah to see his kids and his wife is dead yes and so he does this one last
final inception sure to to get back to his kids uh and then he's got this token yep which he uses
to tell whether he's in the real world or not and he spins it and if it falls a certain way no if it
spins indefinitely he's in a dream he's in a dream
if it falls, it's real
so he's not in a dream
and we leave
we're left on that final shot
of it spinning
yeah
maybe it wobbles
like it's going to fall down
maybe it doesn't
it does
and then it cuts
it does
it definitely wobbles
yeah
look, even Christopher Nolan
has said
it's a dream
but you can
it's not a dream
but you can take it
whatever way you want
right, right, okay
I love how people
afterwards are like demanding him to like explain it people are enraged like, it's a dream but you can it's not a dream but you can take it whatever way you want I love how people afterwards are like
demanding him to like
explain it
people are enraged
like it's fine
it's whatever you want
exactly it's whatever you want
it's not real
that's right
or is it real
or is it not real
I take it as
that he's back
like that's what I took
from that slight wobble
because every other time
he spins it
it doesn't even wobble
for a second
if he's in a second okay yeah
if he's in a drain okay but the but again the point of it in is at the end as well he spins it
and he doesn't even look at it he just walks away right sees his kids so he doesn't even care if
it's a dream yeah that's more of the point of it this is this is where i'm at yeah dicaprio
dicaprio out yeah great cast yeah you said, didn't you? I did say that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tom Hardy.
Yeah.
The first time he's kind of,
it's probably his first kind of big mainstream-y kind of thing.
He did like Brosnan and some others.
Oh, I thought he did Star Trek Nemesis.
Right, yeah.
Which was a good one.
But yeah, that's...
Marion Cotillard.
Yeah.
Great.
Good stuff.
I think that's all I have to say about Inception.
Great.
Go and see it.
Yeah, totally.
I will. Okay, good it I will see it again
but we're really
looking forward to
next week's thing
aren't we
the real
people say
Christopher Nolan
has a problem
with making
developing characters
that is more about
the mechanical parts
like he'll put
something together
like a
like a very complex
machine
but the expensive
character development
right
do you think
that's true
let me think
Batman which one At the expense of character development. Right, right, right. Do you think that's true? Let me think.
Batman.
Which one?
All of them, but they're more about characters, I think. Sure.
Yeah.
Like, I feel that there are a couple of really solid action sequences in, say, The Dark Knight.
Yeah.
There's the car chase and the bank heist or whatever.
Yeah.
But I don't...
Yeah, but I'm like...
But there's no, like...
It's not a movie about crazy fist fights
or anything like that.
There's no Matrix kind of action sequences
where he fights 20 guys or whatever.
Yeah.
And if there...
There is some fighting,
but it's kind of over and quite quick and brutal.
Whatever.
I feel that's much more a character study
than a standard action... I disagree with those critics. Shut up. Yeah, shut feel that's much more a character study than, you know, than a standard actor.
I disagree with those critics. Shut up.
Yeah, shut up.
All of you, shut up.
Yeah.
Although, I mean,
although at the same time,
maybe,
maybe that's a case
for the actors.
Like,
if you talk about Inception,
Yeah.
that is a case of a big puzzle
coming together.
Yeah.
But all the drama,
all the character drama comes from, like, the fact that DiCaprio of a big puzzle coming together. But all the drama, all the character drama comes from like the fact that
DiCaprio is a good actor and et cetera, et cetera.
And the spinning hallway.
And the spinning hallway.
The most famous character of all.
Yeah.
Like I don't,
even if that is the case,
I don't mind.
Again,
it depends on his movie,
but I think,
no,
he does develop character as well.
But I think,
I feel like he's got the mind of an engineer who makes films.
Right.
Okay.
Yeah.
Like he's very methodical in his planning and he, it's, he knows exactly what he's doing.
Like he, and the way.
Arguably.
Except for the prestige.
Sure.
When he just threw in the cloning machine.
Well, it's from the book.
So now that we know.
But, um, people would have been upset if they took it out.
I'd imagine like the squid from Watchmen.
Yeah, true.
Demand the cloning machine.
Oh, it reminds me.
Hang on.
Ork on Twitter.
A-W-K, Ork.
Markush2402 on Twitter.
Shout out to him.
Would appreciate a Watchmen commentary.
Okay, sure.
I feel that I could do a Watchmen commentary for days.
Oh, great.
Like, we could do the film, and then it just fades to black, and I'm still talking.
Like, people could just watch the DVD menu, just go endlessly, and I'd be like, I've got
another thing about the themes.
All right, so I'll be candid to that.
Absolutely, all right.
We should break the streak.
Let's make that the next one.
I'm cool with that.
We could do that.
We were going to talk about off topic
we're nearly at the end of it all
there's a lot of movie commentaries
we could do
because occasionally we talk over a film
obnoxiously
at theweeklyplanet.bankcamp.com
that's the one
we should maybe put up on the facebook page
maybe a poll to see what what
people would like us to or even like we'll put what do you want and then people will whichever
one gets the most likes yeah totally because you know something a lot of people say well you should
talk about you know you should you should commentate over like steel or whatever you know
and then we're like well should we you, allegedly quite a bad film, should we force people to listen to a bad, watch a bad film as we talk over it?
Or should we do, you know, Nolan Batman movie?
Or should we maybe a new movie's coming out soon on DVD and we can get that via our industry contacts and talk over that?
Pirate Bay.
You know, so we've got a lot of options.
Yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
That's a good idea.
We'll throw that up there. But I'd be in favour of Watchmen. Let's do, I'll put got a lot of options. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. That's a good idea. We'll throw that up there.
But I'd be in favour of Watchmen.
Let's do...
I'll put it up on my Facebook thing and on the Weekly Planet Facebook.
Yeah, cool, man.
Yeah.
Nice.
Facebook slash Weekly Planet.
Is that right?
Weekly Planet Pod.
There we go.
So, yeah.
In summary, though, Christopher Nolan's pretty good, isn't he?
He's pretty good at movies.
Until next week.
Yeah, and then who knows?
Who knows?
Yeah.
I'm pumped for it, though.
I'm excited.
Are you excited?
Ah, yeah.
Yeah.
Are there going to be aliens?
Probably not.
I hope it's not a bullshit
Contact ending.
Do you remember the movie Contact?
Yeah, I remember.
Yeah.
They dropped the big sphere.
She went to an alien world
or did she?
I think I remember.
It's a real inception.
Or the prestige.
I'm not sure.
I'm pretty sure I saw the Contact movie
for a 12th or 13th birthday.
Oh, yes.
And that is not a movie you should...
No.
You should...
Anyway, the kids should see
because it's just mostly boring.
That's it, though.
And that's why we're going to move on
to What We Read and What We Gonna Read.
I'm doing the thing.
What are we reading today?
Well, I'm going to finish.
Despite your critique of it,
your scathing critique, I'm going to finish
watching Insomnia. Sure.
Fair enough. And maybe following.
See if that's... Let me know if he goes
full Pacino because I can't remember. Okay, right.
I think I watched it maybe
He definitely would at the end
Because he's from that
He's from the school of acting
From like
The you know
Up until the
The 70s or whatever
Yeah
Where you're just quiet for a while
Yeah
And then you explode
And then you win an Oscar
What's his name
The
He's in Guardians of the Galaxy
He's in Shaun of the Dead
He's great
What's his name
Actor
He does the 50 impersonations in one Oh Peter Serafinowicz Peter Serafinowicz He's the voice of the Galaxy. He's in Shaun of the Dead. He's great. What's his name? Actor.
He does the 50 impersonations in one minute. Oh, Peter Serafinowicz.
Peter Serafinowicz.
He's the voice of Darth Maul also.
He does Inside the Actor's Studio.
Oh, yes.
Where he impersonates a lot of...
Like he does like a Michael Caine and whatever and a Brenner.
He does a Pacino one.
Uh-huh.
It's very good.
Great.
Like everybody should look that up.
Have you...
Speaking of that, have you seen Michael Caine do his impersonation of Michael Caine? Yes. Everybody should look that up have you seen speaking of that have you seen michael cain do his impersonation of michael yeah everybody should look that up also it's
good because he also he does the classic impersonation where he says i'm michael cain
you do a good michael cain actually i'm not gonna make you do it but i remember you did a michael
cain but so i laughed so hard i think i nearly pissed my pants great it was the it was you did michael cain zulu about throwing spears oh yeah i remember
that yeah yeah okay all right i'm on board you'll do that one day i'll save it for a future episode
please do yeah it's probably not that funny yeah also i think i ripped it off from somebody
all right what we read though okay um i actually watched teenage
mutant ninja turtles this week the new one oh yes my brother saw it with his kids and he's like you
know what it's not that bad it's fine and i watched it and it is fine it's fine i don't know what
everybody's banging on about yeah it's fine how's will unentenant is he good no he's not that funny
but he's fine it's just fine and fox just fine it's all fine cgi it's but he's fine. It's just fine. How's Megan Fox? Just fine. It's all fine. How's the CGI?
It's okay.
It's fine.
Look, the design I don't love.
And there's bits where, like, there's bits I don't particularly like.
There's a bit where you see them, they're pegging, like, shipping crates.
Like, pegging them.
Like throwing them.
Yes.
That's what you're saying.
Sorry, yeah.
Throwing them.
That doesn't make any sense.
Because they're enormous.
Oh, like a big steel shipping container. Yes. Ninja Turtles are picking them up and throwing them. You don't make any sense because they're not like they're enormous but like it's like a big steel shipping container yes yeah the ninja turtles are picking them up and throwing
them you don't see them throw it but you see some ninjas and then one hits them right so i don't
know maybe they all picked it up at once but even then yeah like and there's some origin changes
like splinter learns his martial arts from a book that he found or whatever and then he teaches the
ninja turtles but you know what i don't know what people are talking about where like it's ruining my childhood
right exactly most like tragic thing that's ever happening this i'm in a cinema it's fine and you
know what the most important thing is as well kids like it yeah as william fichtner he's fine
it's all fine right like there's origin changes or whatever but it's not brilliant are there any
inklings of like the the cosmic ninja
turtles universe yes the the fish from space or whatever they say the goose from space whatever
yeah i wouldn't even say i recommend it and if you hate it i understand because some people hate
things but it's completely it's completely watchable or don't watch it yeah yeah fantastic yeah't watch it, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Fantastic.
And also, I downloaded Volume 1 of Captain Marvel.
I actually downloaded that before they announced it because they rumoured it.
And I was like, oh, I'll buy that now before...
I'm going to be ever so slightly ahead of the curve here.
Yeah, exactly, before they bump up the price on it.
But yeah.
What have you been doing?
Reading.
Oh, you said it already.
Yeah, I did.
Insomnia.
Insomnia.
The first 28 minutes.
It's been alright ride so far.
Pretty wild ride.
How's he going to get out of this situation?
How's he going to get out of this bucket of syrup?
Jason J's written it.
He goes, I think you guys should mention on the podcast season five of The Walking Dead.
It's been absolutely fantastic.
Very much so redeeming the series.
Would you agree?
Let me finish, man.
Okay. That is all. No, your life is not the series. Would you agree? Let me finish, man. Okay.
That is all.
No, your life is not in danger.
That I know of.
He's our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man.
I think we've got a Spider-Man, but we can have a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man.
Correct.
We can have both.
Yeah.
And a crotchety old Spider-Man that's on the stoop is telling kids to get off his lawn.
It is really good.
I think there are three episodes in and it's really, really, really good.
Like, shockingly good. There you go. Like, I feel like it's a really good. I think they're three episodes in and it's really, really, really good. Like, shockingly good.
There you go.
Like, I feel like it's a trick good.
Like, I watch the first one, I go, that was really good.
Next week's going to be terrible.
And that one was really good.
I'm like, huh, okay.
The next one will be terrible.
Hypothetically speaking, let's say I've seen the first ten minutes of the first episode of season one.
Yes.
Could I jump on board at this point?
I would say watch season four.
Yep.
Even though it's not that great.
Great.
Some of...
You know what?
I would say I couldn't even...
Specific episodes are good.
Yes.
And sometimes episodes are bad, but there's like a good five minute chunk.
I don't know when or what.
Right.
So watch some of it, but I don't know when.
Great.
But you could probably just start now.
Okay.
Yeah.
Whatever.
It's good.
Could I hypothetically not watch it? Yes. That is also an option. when. Great. But you can probably just start now. Okay. Yeah. Whatever. It's good. Could I hypothetically not watch it?
Yes.
That is also an option.
Great, great, great.
Yeah.
So there you go.
And that's what we're reading for this week.
Correct.
Yep.
Oh, he's gone full Pacino.
Oh, Jesus.
This is from Joel A.
All right, here we go.
Just listen to the latest podcast with... Did he open with um? Yes. we go just listen to the latest podcast
with
did he open with um
yes
just listen to your latest podcast
with the Mason
and I feel guilty
to thank you
alright excellent
you're the Mason
we should call you the Mason
I don't like that
I do
what do I
the Mason
okay
I've been in the hospital
for about a month now
after my accident
so here this
get this right
I was at school
and a guy was running
with a saucepan filled with hot oil and it tripped and went on all over my face jesus how did that happen
where do you go to school that's insane that is insane yeah that's a terror i hope he's like i
hope you're okay because that's like the worst thing yeah but jesus bit why wasn't somebody
stopping that from happening yeah don't run with a hot saucepan of oil. No. That's a very definition of irresponsible.
Yes, it is.
Unless you're about to start a fight in a prison.
You can edit that out.
No, it's fine.
I'm good for that.
Back to you.
Thank you for my part.
Since I'm a teenager, 14, I feel down sometimes.
And the only thing that makes me get back on my feet is your, or he says not in brackets,
not Mason's podcast in your face.
That's fair.
That's fine.
It's a collaborative.
Take your joy when you can find it, I think.
And now when I am in hospital,
I've downloaded every single podcast you've done
and listened to them all
and all of them make me crack up at least twice.
Yes.
Two, I'm happy with two.
One an hour.
Yeah, that's right.
Since you and Mason have helped me through the tough times,
I want to say thank you.
You're allowed to clue this in your next podcast.
Also, shout out.
Shout out, Joel.
That's great.
Yeah.
I hope that helps in any small way
because that's a fucking awful thing that happens.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
I hope you're okay.
And I'm glad that helps in a minor, minor, minor way.
All right.
Brett H has written in.
Hey, guys.
I looked into the news.
Remember I said gargoyles last week?
Yes.
And the site, the only site that was posted was from April 1st.
So apparently it's fake.
Tell Raymond, who wrote in, to check his shit next time.
How dare he compromise the integrity of Roughly the News.
Thank you.
Look, that's on me.
I should have checked that out.
In many ways, that's perfect for roughly the news.
Why not throw in some fake news every now and again?
Just to keep everyone on their toes.
You're right.
Yeah.
You're absolutely right.
Oh, jeez.
It's pretty crook, though.
Yeah, it is.
Okay, this is another one having a go at Raymond.
By the way, Raymond, we like you.
It's cool.
I don't know if I do, though.
I'll fake see you over there.
Love the last podcast, but I couldn't help but notice this is another.
This is a different reason for having a guy like Raymond.
Oh, yes.
I'm ready to do it.
But there was another listener who emailed in.
It was also called Raymond.
Normally, this wouldn't be a problem.
But my father was a lazy son of a biscuit and named me after himself.
But, you know, it is a problem.
I can't have my buds listen to hear you guys mention multiple raymonds
my poor dumb friends will get bewildered and confused so i officially challenge this other
ray to a duel oh please provide some challenge for the duel or no sorry please provide some
challenge or duel for me to defend my good name and claim ultimate victory do you want to set up
a duel or do you want to just go One's Raymond 1
Or one's Raymond 2
Yeah but who's who
That's the question
I think we should do standard versus rules
One at each end of a football field
They run at each other
We see what happens
There we go
If you guys could exchange addresses that would be great
Find a point equal distance
To your places that has a football field.
And if you could just...
The winner could please email us.
Thank you.
That would be amazing.
I love it, Stan.
The least work involved for us, the better, I think.
Definitely.
Thank you, Raymond.
And other Raymond.
Raymond's.
Oh, and Brett H.
This is from Robbie.
I know you sometimes feature silly DVD combo packs on your show
and while it's not a DVD pack, I have
something I related to share to you. I found
this at a video rental store
so I'm just going to show you the picture of that. Okay.
I'm ready. It's Videoland
and it offers games,
DVD and tanning.
Yeah, good, great.
Love it. Is there like a
curtain that they pull across for the tanning?
Maybe.
Can you watch a DVD while you tan?
Yeah.
You couldn't because you'd get UV lights in your eyeballs.
Maybe it's spray tan.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, maybe.
But then you'd get spray tan in your eyeball, which in many ways is worse.
Yeah, that's great.
It isn't a DVD pack, but that's okay.
It's like a DVD pack in real life.
It is like, yeah.
And the fact that there's a video store that exists is also amazing.
There's many things going on there.
Maybe they're slowly transitioning just to tanning.
That must be it.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
People still buy games though, don't they?
I really don't know.
Yeah.
I think they just steal them from the internet now.
Also, like, I remember like I've gone to a video store and they'll be like you can hire this game like i can buy that game for like
six bucks like exactly you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah uh anyway that's from uh what was it uh
it's from robbie and it's in a little town in jonesville louisiana population
2265 a very tanned 2265 no doubt so. Loved it. Now, remember last week when Adam West wrote in?
Oh, yes.
Turns out it wasn't the TV Adam West.
It was a regular Adam West.
Yes.
Regular Joe Sixpack, also Adam West.
But you said, I think it was you,
do you get harassed with people being like,
with Batman merchandise?
And that's why you became a fan of comic books and that stuff.
Yes, absolutely.
He's written back in.
Yes.
He says, I was actually born Adam Westerholm,
but sometime in grade school I decided to shorten it, not legally,
because I didn't like writing out my full name,
and people began to know me by that.
So unfortunately my life hasn't been some weird pop culture hell.
People still often bring it up to me,
acting like I don't know who Adam West is, though.
Again, give all the great work,
and thanks for reading my email last week.
That's good.
I think that's the best case scenario for that name.
Definitely, yeah.
So like he's gone,
he's made the choice to shorten it himself and he's just, he lives with it
and he's cool with it.
Love it.
And occasionally some idiot reminds him.
So yeah, good stuff.
This is from Mark though.
Sounds like a threat.
Yes, it is.
My arch nemesis Mark. we go he said uh this could
be a three second topic for you guys to touch on this is our last letter by the way i'm ready
so many letters this week and so many good ones uh into the bin god damn it in last episode you
guys read a letter from a fan named adam west i don't recall that i don't recall any details of
that i thought he was uh destined to be the subject of 60s Batman, another comic book, and Nerdum.
Does Mason, though, get subjected to Pink Floyd in the same way?
The drummer from Pink Floyd is, was Nick Mason.
Mason, correct, yes.
I don't know him.
I don't.
I'm aware of that.
Yeah.
I'm aware of who he is.
My parents claim they didn't know that he was a drummer for Pink Floyd
but I've seen
Dark Slumber Moon
on their record collection
so I think they
definitely did
no nobody knows
who Nick Mason
from Pink Floyd is
well he's a drummer
from an oldish band
yeah
is he dead?
no he's still alive
okay good
I should check
because if he is dead
I'm the most famous one
that's correct
that's probably true actually oh this could be great I'm the most famous one. That's correct.
That's probably true, actually.
Oh, this could be great.
I'm going to Google you now.
Okay, good.
He had an album called Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports.
Okay.
I've never listened to it.
He's still alive.
He's still alive.
Yep. One day ago, I'm not entirely sure Pink Floyd is over.
That's a statement from him.
There he is.
What a nice looking...
Isn't Pink Floyd dead, though?
The man Yes
Correct
What was his statement sorry
Something about Pink Floyd
Cool
Yeah
What a surprise
They asked him for details
About Pink Floyd
And he answered them
He looks like a nice man
He does look like a nice man
He looks like somebody's grandad
He does
He definitely is somebody's grandad
Born in 44
It says
Okay Nick Mason
You're one two Three four Five, four, five, six.
You're the six one down.
There you go.
Your Twitter page.
There you go.
Isn't that nice?
So, yeah.
One day, though.
And there's a look at my car collection on YouTube.
Oh, no, wait.
It's a different one.
A different car collection.
Yes.
Yeah.
Great.
That's fantastic.
And that's the show for this week.
Well, we learnt something
about you
yep
we learnt nothing else
absolutely
this entire time
we certainly didn't
inform anyone
of anything else
so
there we are
yeah
there we are
yeah
now basically
we talked about this
last week
I've set up the
Patreon
oh yes
Patreon
slash
Mr. Sunday Movies
love it
I'm gonna look up
the official thing
right now
fantastic
because I probably
should have done this before.
No, we're too busy.
Yeah.
Eating pizzas and getting drunk, so whatever.
Hang on.
Sorry.
I should have really...
What is it?
It's 1.20 in the morning on a Saturday night.
Some people are usually out or in bed,
not recording a podcast.
I think these days, though, a lot of people are recording a podcast at this point.
Yeah, you're probably right.
Yeah.
Basically, okay, here we go.
It is.
It's Patreon, P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash MrSundayMovies.
We'll tweet about that.
We will.
And I'll do a video on my YouTube channel.
Basically, if you want to contribute something to the show, to keep it going, to keep our
wheels in motion.
I thought you were going to say to keep our will up.
To keep our will up.
To keep our will to live going.
And basically, like, if you do that,
you'll get access to, I've created a second YouTube channel.
I've put some old videos up there,
and we're doing a new video game series occasionally.
Sure.
That will go up there first.
And any commentary tracks we do, I'm That will go up there first. And any video comment,
any commentary tracks we do,
I'm going to put up there as well.
So you don't have to pay any money for it.
Nice.
So if you want to give,
it's by a month to month basis.
So if you want to contribute,
I've put two amounts that people can pledge,
but you can choose whatever amount you want.
Oh, yes.
One dollar per month.
That's a good figure.
And the second amount is $82 million.
Oh, fantastic. Because that is our goal. Yeah, that's a really good goal. To have $82 million. I think That's a good figure. And the second amount is $82 million. Oh, fantastic.
Because that is our goal.
Yeah, that's a really good goal.
To have $82 million.
I think that's reasonable.
Yeah.
But you can put anywhere in between that if you want.
And basically what I've written here as well,
or what we've written here is,
and you said this,
if you want to donate, you can.
If you don't, that's absolutely fine.
We're not hurting for cash.
No, exactly.
If the money falls out of your pocket...
We're all billionaires. Yes, that's right. We're just doing this on a lark. Yeah, if the money falls out for cash no exactly if the money falls out of your pocket we're all billionaires yes we're just doing this on a lark yeah if the money falls out of your
pocket and you don't notice like that's the amount if it hurts you in any way or if you want to pull
out for whatever reason that's fine yeah and you won't really be missing out if you don't
yeah totally so yeah because there'll be sometimes new stuff on that YouTube, but mostly not. Right, yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah.
Thank you, everybody who's been supporting so far.
And we really appreciate it.
And we just want $82 million, so... That's all we ask.
We're not greedy.
No.
Yeah.
Just one $82 million.
Yeah, look, if one person out there can just donate $82 million, we'll be set.
We'll just do this forever, all right?
Jesus, okay?
Like, if we get $82 million, we'll be set. We'll just do this forever, all right? Jesus, okay? Like, if we get $82 million, guaranteed.
Though, if we get $82 million,
can we just record a bunch in a row?
Like, we'll do one a day for, like, two years.
What we'll do...
And then release them forever.
What I think we should do is we should...
If we get $82 million, what we do,
every episode we buy a high-performance sports car
and we record in that as we drive it like
off a pier maybe yeah and that's every episode absolutely yeah even like comedians in cars
getting coffee it's literally podcasters in really expensive cars recording a podcast and driving it
into a river i love it or an ocean whatever yeah anywhere where you can get a car near water thank
you yes yes yeah absolutely
also i was thinking of as i mentioned the website mr sunday movies i'm getting built at the moment
i got a friend of mine helping me oh yes it's coming together really well i think i can't tell
i don't know building websites way more difficult than it should be or it's exactly as difficult as
it should be or it's really easy you get this guy you pull him up you say hey mate what's the deal
chop chop the website so yeah that'll be that'll be up soon because i'm shifting everything from Or it's really easy. You get this guy, you pull him up, you say, hey, mate, what's the deal? Chop, chop.
The website.
So, yeah, that'll be up soon because I'm shifting everything from including this podcast.
We're going to shift it all hopefully away from YouTube onto that.
It'll still be on YouTube, but everything will go there.
Yeah, yeah.
So, we've got our own platform, don't we?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, but basically, also people are sending a lot of fan art.
I mentioned at the start of the show, I want a fan art page.
Oh, definitely. Did I mention that at the start?
You did mention that.
Okay, done.
There you go.
When it was the previous day.
That's right.
Now it's the next day.
Okay, I'm just rambling now.
Bruton the Basilisk, thank you for the things.
Oh, if you want to find us on the internet, on the social medias, we're at, we're the
weekly, we're Weekly Planet Pod.
We're just Weekly Planet Pod at Gmail, on Facebook, and on Twitter.
That's correct.
I'm at Wikipedia Brown on Twitter.
I'm at Mr. Sunday Movies and Facebook and all that.
And soon to be a website, something.
Yeah, maybe.
Just keep checking it.
Just keep hitting refresh.
Don't.
You'll probably get charged for that somehow.
It won't be ready.
Maybe sometime early next week, maybe.
If not.
Fantastic.
I have to re-upload everything.
It's a pain in the ass
if you like the show
tell a friend
yeah that's the most
important thing at all
or you know
subscribe
apparently
something rating
something better for us
if people subscribe
okay cool
alright great
yeah if you like us
leave us a five star review
or any kind of review
speaking of which
you texted me this one
earlier in the week
it's pretty good
I would point out
I don't usually read the reviews
but I'm like
I'm going to check out the reviews.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, too.
And they're glowing.
I've literally never read a review, but they're very nice,
as far as I can tell.
But anyway, this one says, the review, two stars out of five.
So that's below average.
It says foul language.
That's the header.
This would be a quality podcast if you could control the amount of times
you drop the F-bomb.
You've got one last chance, and then you are losing my subscription.
You know what?
Just...
Why wait?
Just do it now.
Just unsubscribe.
It's fine.
I think this person is probably...
I think I've dropped a few this episode already.
Yeah, he's probably out.
Look, fair enough.
But if he's listened through a grid of teeth, just unsubscribe.
It's fine.
Yeah, that's okay.
Look, every... It's not for everyone. No teeth, just don't subscribe. It's fine. Yeah, that's okay.
It's not for everyone.
No, it's not for everyone.
That's right.
And look, the idea is,
well, we don't really do this on anyone else's terms.
So we're not... Look, again, everyone's entitled to their own opinion.
But this is how we do it.
And if you don't like it, that's fine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's great.
Listen to Smodcast.
It's great.
Yeah.
Oh, wait, he swears a lot too. He. That's great. Listen to Smodcast. It's great. Yeah. Oh, wait.
He swears a lot, too.
He swears so much.
All right.
Next week, Interstellar.
Grab that gem, everyone.
You know it.
Grab that gem.
Bye.
Happy Halloween.
Yeah.
Yep.
We'll do a Halloween episode next year, all right?
Okay, cool.
For real.
Yeah, nice.
$82 million worth.
Pumpkin-shaped
novelty car.
Yep.
Into a giant vat of pumpkin spice
latte. That's how we're gonna do it.
That's how it's gonna end for us.
Okay, thanks guys. See you next week.
Bye.
FX is the Veil
explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who
play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from istanbul to paris and london one woman has
a secret the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost fx is the veil starring
elizabeth moss is now streaming on disney plus