The Weekly Planet - 84 Mad Max: Fury Road
Episode Date: May 18, 2015Mad Max is pretty great so we talk about that. And we also cover Underworld 5, Supergirl, DC's Legends Of Tomorrow, War Of The Planet Of The Apes and the Australian government threatening to kill John...ny Depps dogs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Weekly Planet, official podcast of
comicbookmovie.com where we talk movies and games and comics and TV shows and not games
as much.
My name is Mr. Sunday and James, two names, with me as always my co-host Nick Mason.
Also two names.
Two hosts, two names.
First name, family name. That's how it works.
What's going on?
Nothing, just hanging out.
Should we start the podcast with news?
Yeah, let's do that.
Alright.
Break with tradition.
You're familiar with the Underworld franchise?
Yes.
Which of those movies do you like?
The one with Scott Speedman.
Is that the first one?
I think he's in the first two, and then they CGI his face into it.
The one where he turns into a werewolf-vampire hybrid, and it makes no sense.
That's one.
Great.
Then that one.
I don't think I've seen two.
Anyway, regardless.
It might happen in two as well.
Who's to say?
They're all very blue, aren't they?
They're very blue, yeah.
Anyway, Kate Beckinsale.
Yes.
I always thought it was Beckinsdale, but it's Beckinsale, yeah.
She'll return to the role of Selene.
There should be a superhero team composed entirely of people whose names you mispronounce.
So Kate Beckinsdale could be on it.
Christopher Reeves could be on it.
God rest his soul.
God rest it.
Others?
Others.
Others I don't get right.
We'll see how we go.
Just people who write into this podcast whose names I get wrong.
Yeah, they could all be on the team.
Anyway, she's going to be in Underworld 5,
which begins shooting in October in Prague,
or production or something.
Does that news article begin with,
yeah, there was a 3 and 4?
Surprise!
Well, it was sort of...
They were released on Betamax.
Yeah, 3 was a prequel.
They were released on HD DVD.
Remember that?
I remember that.
Did you ever get any? No. Because you had an Xbox 360, didn't you? Or you do? Oh, it was. Was that HD DVD. Remember that? I remember that. Did you ever get any?
No.
Because you had an Xbox 360, didn't you?
Or you do?
I was.
Was that HD DVD?
I think it was.
There you go.
Yeah.
No?
It was red.
Those were red cases.
They were red, yeah.
Yeah.
What do you think the next thing will be?
Just digital?
Digital downloads?
Because people like having a Blu-ray.
You mean what we have now?
Yeah.
No, I mean like the next thing.
You know what I mean?
Oh.
Like the next format.
What's left?
I don't think there's anything left.
Laser discs. Oh, laser discs't think there's anything left laser discs
oh laser discs
will come back
bigger laser discs
big as the wheel
of a bike
wow
yeah
they'll be called
mini discs
but it'll be ironic
yeah that's right
you any interest
in Underworld
kind of because
if we're up to five
that means
gets good again
yeah like
the Fast and Furious
movies right
it's the point where it's only the fans or whatever,
the hardcore fans, and so they just go nuts with it, right?
Actually, very familiar pattern.
Because 1 and 2, right?
2's not as good as with the Fast and Furious.
All the cars were CGI.
All the cars were CGI.
In that case, the bats.
All the bats were CGI.
Three very little original cast members,
like Underworld 3, which was a prequel.
Right, yeah.
And Tokyo Drift.
Four was Everybody Return, but it was like...
And nobody remembers that one exists.
Yeah, who cares about that?
And now this is it!
Okay, we're back on board.
This is their moment!
So I'm definitely excited for it now.
Excellent.
Yeah.
I love how that's the rule now.
If it makes it to five, you are going to enjoy it.
Everything else, garbage.
Planet of the Apes 3, or Reboot Part 3.
Okay.
Is it a reboot?
I've never really...
I think it's a reboot.
Well, there's going to be very few original cast members.
That's true.
If we're going by the new rules we've just established.
But yeah, it's been given a title.
War of the Planet of the Apes.
Okay.
Or Wat Pota, which I like.
The other two were good, weren't they?
Yeah.
I thought, yeah, Dawn was better than Rise.
How can they compete with...
No, Rise was better.
No.
Last one was Dawn, wasn't it?
I can't remember.
Yeah.
It doesn't matter.
It was good.
Wait, Dot Pota and Rot Pota.
No, I thought I could figure it out with the acronym,
but I can't remember.
No, it doesn't help, does it?
Okay.
How are they going to top Apes riding on horseback firing machine guns?
Two machine guns?
Yeah.
Strap one to the head. Three machine guns. Three machine guns. Yeah. Strap one of their head.
Three machine guns.
Three machine guns.
Brilliant.
I don't know.
Well, war.
So I know at the end of the last movie,
they were going to bring in human warships
and that's how it was going to end.
Oh, interesting.
So you get warships and more tanks and stuff and more horses.
Do you think this is the one where there's going to be the nuclear apocalypse
and it's going to turn into the future version?
I don't think so.
I think I saw Andy Serkis' interview and he was like,
there could be two or three movies of war before you get to Charlton Heston
coming back going, what is this?
Sure.
What's happened here?
Because the astronauts have gone into space, right?
That happened in Rise.
Rise is the first one, I'm sure.
Okay, sure.
So you think they'll be back by now?
Well, yeah.
I don't think they'll do the
time no shift thing no i think they'll come back and it will be like 12 or 15 they can't do the
time shift because it's a it's a realistic universe now exactly with apes on horseback
firing machine guns off their heads very good exactly so i'm looking forward to that i really
enjoy them but i really enjoyed the last one. I've got some news for you.
I love news.
Okay, here we go.
What have I got for news?
I wrote some news down.
Is it Johnny Depp's dog? Yes, it is.
Minister for Agriculture, Australian Minister for Agriculture,
or whatever he is, Barnaby Joyce,
which is a great name for a terrible human being,
threatened to euthanise Johnny Depp's dogs
because Johnny Depp is here because he's filming another Pirates sequel. Pirates 5, they get good again. It's going to have to colonize Johnny Depp's dogs. Because Johnny Depp is here because he's filming another Pirates sequel. Pirates 5.
They get good again.
It's going to be good again.
So Pirates 5, which is Dead Tides, something Tides.
It doesn't matter.
Dead Men, Pirates Tides.
Dead Men, Telno Tides.
But anyway, he brought his two dogs, who are called Boo and Pistol, I think.
And he snuck them in on his private jet.
And then the media found out because he took him to like a doggy day spa
or something like that.
I think he hid them under his denim jacket.
Probably hid them under his...
His torn denim jacket.
His torn denim jacket with fringes on it,
with suede fringes on it.
And one under his, like, his cowboy hat.
That's right.
Anyway, so the media leaked these
and George Brandis is like,
we have very strict quarantine.
Barnaby Joyce.
What did I say?
You said George Brandis.
Oh, whatever, they're the same guy.
Who is that?
It's some other dick.
Anyway, the point is he's like,
it's inexcusable.
We have quarantine laws.
You have 50 days.
Otherwise, we're going to euthanize your dogs.
So one of our politicians, that's what they do
to distract us from whatever else is going on.
They threaten to kill Johnny Depp's dogs.
So anyway, we put them back in the private jet
and they're back in America now, one of June.
Safe and sound. Yeah. Look, he shouldn't have probably brought them in like that. Yeah. But don't threaten to kill Depp's dogs. So anyway, we put them back in the private jet and they're back in America now, I want to assume. Safe and sound.
Yeah.
Look, he shouldn't have probably brought them in like that.
Yeah.
But don't threaten to kill a man's dogs.
Correct.
Like, for no reason.
That'll trouble our tourist industry.
Do you think if Johnny Depp looked cleaner,
he would have got away with it?
Yes.
Because he looks kind of gross.
He looks like a dirty hobo, yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He looks like he sweats and then he doesn't shower.
Correct.
Like, he just keeps going. Yeah. So, thank God sweats and then he doesn't shower. Correct. Like he just keeps going.
Yeah.
So, thank God Johnny Depp's dog is safe.
But that's the kind of shit where people...
I assume they might have been, you know, might have been mugged when they got out of America.
That's very possible.
Yeah.
But that's the kind of shit where...
I guess, I mean, I don't really care about the world's perception of Australia.
But surely people are just like bloody Australians.
You know what I mean?
Like we're all outraged.
We thought you were cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
So you tried to kill Johnny Depp's dogs.
I'm all for it.
Yeah, me too.
Wait.
No, we're against it.
Yeah, yeah.
You saw the Supergirl trailer?
Just then, I did, yes.
All six minutes of it.
Boy, it's long.
Look, we'll get this out of the way.
Everybody's been saying it.
It is kind of a lot like that SNL sketch
where Scarlett Johansson is Black Widow
and she can't find a boyfriend.
Can't get a date.
Yeah, it's a little similar to that.
The trailer is essentially the entire first episode, surely.
Correct, yeah.
Just compressed down into like six and a half minutes.
Special effects are pretty good.
Yeah, I thought it looked pretty good.
I quite liked it.
I think she's very personable as their character.
Absolutely.
Looks good. Black Jimmy Olmy olsen twist i heard you
yell that from the other olsen you yelled that from the other room i did yeah other things i
yelled from the other room calista flockard yeah oh this goes forever you also said you don't know
my story and you said yes we do we do we've seen it I've seen it
yeah
well you look pretty good
so you weren't like
this is outrageous
there was a lot of that
look I haven't seen
what parts were outrageous
I don't know
the bit where she's just like
I just want to eat ice cream
but I have to be Supergirl
or whatever
right
I don't know
I guess having seen
that old Wonder Woman pilot
well that's what I was going to say
I haven't seen it
is it better than that
yeah it's better than that
like they've taken away one of her three identities so that's good she's only got the two to bother with so that's what i was going to say i haven't seen it is it better than that yeah it's better than that like they've they've taken away one of her three identities so that's good she's
only got the two to bother with so that's good uh i did yell out oh they're best friends because
she's got a best friend who knows the secret and blah blah that's pretty good yeah um she's she
revealed her identity to a lot of people in her life straight away straight away well jimmy olsen
knows her best friend knows That's her sister.
That's her sister.
Okay, right.
Hank Henshaw knows.
Yep.
Don't tell him.
Ooh.
That was Hank Henshaw, wasn't it?
Hang on, which one?
The guy who runs the agency.
And he's like,
just go and get coffee.
You can't be a super girl.
What was that Hank Henshaw?
I think it was Hank Henshaw.
What a twist.
Yeah.
Black Hank Henshaw.
Black Hank Henshaw.
And the guy who wants to date her or whatever.
Yeah.
He wants to.
He knows as well.
And Superman.
There's also sort of in it.
You sort of see him.
Oh, yeah.
Sort of.
Great.
Yeah.
It was pretty good.
I liked it.
Okay, I've got some responses here.
Ryan says,
I must say the trailer was absolutely awful.
It feels like What If Smallville and Ugly Betty had a mashup.
Yeah, fair enough.
We've got another email
saying here,
it's important to note
that the trailer
isn't always indicative
of what the show's
overall tone will be.
I think in this case
it definitely is
because it's the whole
first episode.
Sure.
Yeah.
Are you looking forward to it?
Yeah, kind of now.
No, I'm not really.
Really?
There you go.
There's too many TV shows
now that I have to watch.
I'm sick of it.
Fair enough.
I dropped Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
So I've got room for one more.
Apparently it got real good in the last episode or something.
People were like, oh my God, what did you do, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?
You changed television forever.
Final episode.
I'll watch that, I guess.
I'll maybe watch that.
Maybe we'll do a TV show wrap-up next week.
Okay, how about next week, TV show wrap-up, brackets,
as much as we can stand to watch.
I'm not watching the whole season of anything, all right?
I refuse.
I don't have enough time in my life.
So maybe we'll do Arrow, Flash, some of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that we watch.
Okay, cool.
Anything else?
Gotham.
Gotham.
Just kidding.
No, not happening.
Awesome.
But speaking of TV.
Yes.
Oh, hang on.
I have some more news.
I have one more piece of news.
Is it about Johnny Depp's dogs?
No.
Is it breaking news?
It is.
Okay, so they released an Age of Ultron play set.
Oh, yeah.
Like Lego?
Big one.
Lego or?
No, it's like an action figure kind of one.
Right.
And it's a Hasbro one.
And it's the scene where Captain America's fighting Ultron on the truck.
Yeah.
And then the Quinjet comes down and it drops Black Widow out on a motorcycle.
I remember.
And she comes and she intercepts and they all do the fighting or whatever.
Right.
The thing about the play set is they've erased the Black Widow out of it and they've put
Captain America on the motorcycle.
So in this scenario that they've created, Captain America is fighting Ultron on a truck
and then the Quinjet comes down and it ejects Captain America on a motorcycle and he goes to. Captain America is fighting Ultron on a truck and then the Quinjet comes down
and it ejects Captain America on a motorcycle
and he goes to intercept Captain America.
On the box does it say,
time travel question mark?
Probably.
Yeah, but I mean,
from what I understand,
there was all the leaked emails from Sony
and there's been tons of leaked emails.
Apparently there was like,
somebody was sitting in on a meeting
with Marvel and Disney or whatever, and Disney's like,
and this was in the emails, but apparently they're like,
look, we're Disney, we've got the female market sewn up,
like all the girls sewn up.
We don't need any more girl stuff.
That's why we bought Marvel.
We've got our quota of girls.
We've got our quota of girls, so here's the boys. We've got all we've got all the girls we've got all the girls we don't need any more girls so that so
now so the policy is basically why make any girl toys for marvel because it's a boy they're boys
it's a boys thing for boys it's a good point actually well so so if you're a girl and you
really like the age of ultron and you want to shut up about it yeah just shut up is clearly the
thing here.
What's the explanation for...
Are there two figures of Captain America in that set?
No, there's only one.
You only get Captain America, I think.
Okay, fair enough.
Yeah.
But yeah, take Black Widow out of the Black Widow.
One of the best Black Widow scenes.
Good work, Marvel.
Great.
Yeah, I just wanted to point out.
It's sort of an ongoing problem.
It is an ongoing problem.
Talk about it on our podcast.
Exactly.
I did it.
Spread the word.
Success.
Put her in.
I mean, if you're a boy, why do you want a Black Widow toy?
Why not?
She's cool in the movie.
Exactly, yeah.
What if you want to replicate the Hulk-Black Widow relationship?
Yeah, exactly.
You can't do that with Hulk and Captain America.
That would be weird.
I'm against that.
Yeah.
Actually, that would be pretty hilarious.
Mark Ruffalo tweeted that his daughters and nieces were out of luck when it came to buying Black Widow toys.
Ah.
Yeah, so.
Even Ruffalo's against it.
Even Ruffalo's against it.
And he's notoriously sexist.
Correct.
No, he's a good dude.
Yeah.
Anyway, that's all my news.
Great.
You watched the DC Legends of Tomorrow trailer.
Yes.
You yelled less stuff.
Um.
I yelled, this is less less long this is slightly shorter than
the previous one i think you said there's a lot going on here or there's too much going on here
there's a lot happening it's like all the teams come together some are villains this guy's from
the future randall vandal savage is here we don't see vandal savage in the trailer um yeah we've
got the atom shrinks the atom finally shrinks did yell that. Did you like his little run?
I yelled, he did it!
He did, yeah.
So that's pretty good.
He does a little run.
Yeah.
He doesn't look as good as Ant-Man.
No, but I think Ant-Man's...
The Ant-Man producers have twigged
that you don't really need to see him shrink.
Like, it's just kind of a cowboy switch.
Yeah.
It's a quick cutaway.
Exactly.
He's small.
They've tried to actually...
Honey, I shrunk the kids,
the atom in this,
and it doesn't look as good,
but it's still fine.
I do kind of like the idea that he,
like I say in the trailer,
he does have more tech than he knows what to do with.
Like he's just trying everything.
I think that's pretty fun.
And finally he's shrinking,
so that's good.
I like the inclusion of Rory from Doctor Who.
Oh yeah, Rip Hunter, yeah.
Yeah, that's cool.
That's interesting.
But again, there's a lot there.
Like he's like, I'm from London, and I'm from the future. Yeah, that's cool. That's interesting. But again, there's a lot there.
Like he's like, I'm from London and I'm from the future.
That was, I don't know, that was kind of a cheesy reveal.
Okay, sure.
Do you think that maybe they shouldn't have revealed he was from the future?
I mean, people will read comics. No, but they have to immediately go to the future.
Oh, yeah, good point.
I thought it was odd that they have both Heat Wave and Firestorm.
Yeah.
Because what can Heat Wave do that Firestorm can't do?
I don't know.
I don't know. Precisely. Also, Heat Wave's just a guy with a fire gun, right? Yeah. Because what can Heatwave do that Firestorm can't do? I don't know. I don't know.
Precisely.
Also, Heatwave's just a guy with a fire gun, right?
Yes.
Or does he have fire powers?
No, he's just got a fire gun.
There we go, yeah.
Well, he was with, what's his name?
Ice Boy.
Captain Cold.
Yeah.
Ice Boy and Fireman, correct.
Do you think that this whole thing makes,
a time-travelling team of superheroes makes Arrow redundant?
Yeah, look, any time you would...
No, not necessarily.
I mean, he's got his own city to deal with, doesn't he?
Yeah, exactly.
But I mean, I bet his job would be easier if he had a time-travelling superhero team.
I don't know if it would make things harder, though.
Like, how much of the time stream do you want to mess with?
Yeah, I guess.
This is a lot to deal with.
Are they going to stay in the future
the whole time or are they going to come back and forth?
I have no idea. I'm assuming a bit of
back and forth. I don't think you can do too much of the future
because it costs money.
Oh, definitely. Those
generic
Vandal Savage soldiers shooting their ray guns,
they look pretty expensive. I really liked
Almost Human
or whatever it was called. It was with the guy from D from dread that was a future show that looked like a good version
oh yeah okay right i remember that and they're just the minority report trailer just came out
which is linked to the link to the the movie oh yeah some of the same people
and i just all i could think was i wish that almost human show was still on
great yeah but it was on Fox. That was cancelled immediately.
All right.
You know what?
I'm looking forward to Legends of Tomorrow
mostly because of Brandon Routh.
Legends of Tomorrow!
Also that.
Yeah, Brandon Routh's good, isn't he?
Yeah, he's great.
Was he a good Superman?
I can't answer that.
In your face, Routh.
Yep.
All right.
Josh Boone, who directed...
I think he did Fault in Our Stars.
Boonerang.
He did Boonerang.
With Eddie Murphy.
Yeah.
Very good.
I think he did Fault in Our Stars.
He did one of those.
If it wasn't Fault in Our Stars...
Sad Oscar bait.
Sad Oscar bait.
He's directing the New Mutants movie, which is cool.
I didn't even know there was going to be a New Mutants movie.
I forgot.
I may have known.
Is this the New Mutants team that is multiple man...
It's the one for...
I don't know who's exactly in it.
I can't remember.
Wait, that's not New Mutants.
No, that's a different thing.
That's just multiple man.
Yeah.
I can't remember.
There's like a list.
I can't remember. But I don't know whether it's going to be that particular right exactly it could be any
it's just yeah yeah yeah it may just be they need to keep they need to put mutants in a movie title
to keep the trademark on mutants sure that's yeah that's why mutant x existed i'm pretty sure that
was a good show wasn't it no it wasn't oh yeah good yeah so yeah um new mutants it's good um i hope
it's good or not doesn't great are you looking up the list of new yes okay all right six popular
x-men characters for watch for in the new mutants spin-off is there somebody's reaction blend why
don't you look at somebody's reaction i hate reaction reaction videos. I hate them. I hate them. Okay, Josh Boone.
Yeah, directed Boonerang.
Yeah, we know that.
Oh, this darn...
It's a bloody...
I'm not looking at it
because it's bloody clickbait.
It's one person per page
and the first one is Professor X.
I don't care.
I don't care.
Do you reckon they'll set it present day?
What I'm going to do
is while we're talking about the stuff
we're going to talk about this week,
I'll tune out briefly and I'll look it up.
And then when I think of something, I'll just shout it out.
As soon as you tune out, I'm going to draw attention to it.
Great.
Al Moyimba, you're familiar with him?
No.
He's formerly of Latino Review.
He breaks a lot of big scripts.
Oh, I see.
Right.
He's now gone out on his own.
But anyway, he said that, and I guess this is sort of a spoiler alert for Batman v Superman
if you don't want to know anything.
He says that Doomsday's in it.
Interesting. Yeah. So, I. It says that Doomsday's in it. Interesting.
Yeah.
So,
I guess
there'll be Doomsday.
I'd like to see the Justice League
fight Doomsday
and only Superman can stop him.
Interesting.
I've talked about this before.
There's a Max Landis
pitch.
Where are they going to put
Doomsday into this thing?
Because surely the focus is
Batman v Superman.
Maybe that's at the start.
Yeah.
And then they team up and then he
doomsday just swats Batman aside I reckon it might be I reckon it might be post-credits or it might be
we just see him you know flying through space on the way to earth or something like that
on a lot of like a skateboard on a skateboard yeah because it was the 90s it was the 90s
also apparently that bit where you know Batman's do you bleed or whatever, apparently that's a dream sequence.
Those lines.
I don't know.
Hopefully the fight's not a dream sequence.
That would be very disappointing.
Yeah.
Now, I thought this week I had a Weekly Planet exclusive of sorts.
Oh, yes.
Because nobody posted this.
I got sent this earlier in the week, and I don't know why.
And then I just checked online, and somebody has posted it.
It didn't go just to me, but I was wondering why no one had posted it.
Anyway, someone sent me an email confirming that an Ivan Drago spinoff movie is in the works.
What?
Like one of the writers or producers behind it.
So Rocky IV's Ivan Drago, played by Dolph Lundgren.
Yeah.
It's a story of redemption because he killed.
Yeah, he killed some people.
Apollo Creed. He killed Apollo Creed.
He killed Apollo Creed and he had no remorse for that.
Because if he dies, he dies.
So what do you think of that?
Weekly Planet exclusive.
Exclusive.
The first thing I thought was... He's going to play Ivan Drago.
He's back.
Dolph Lundgren.
Modern day.
Okay, that kind of works.
Rocky worked.
Rocky Balboa.
Exactly.
All right, fine.
The first thing I thought was, why is somebody sending me this?
Sure.
It's not really my wheelhouse.
Secondly, I thought, yeah, I'd say that.
Yeah, me too.
I just picture him.
He's walking down the street.
He's all sad and all.
He's got a rucksack.
Yeah.
He's all, ugh.
If he dies now, I feel sad about it.
You know?
He's learned.
Hat with the little flaps?
Oh, no. Ooh, maybe, because he's rushing. That's what I'm saying about it. You know? He's learned. Hat with the little flaps? Oh, no.
Ooh, maybe because he's Russian.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's rushing off
to find redemption.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah, pretty good.
And the last thing
I've got here is
Johnny Depp's dogs
were going to be killed.
Yes.
But we already covered that,
didn't we?
We covered it, didn't we?
Yep, covered it very neatly.
Yeah.
I think that's all the news
for this week.
We should do a thing
at the end of each episode
where we just quickly check if there's more news.
Because I'm pretty sure news is like broken.
Oh, breaking news at the end.
Okay, good.
Yeah, because that happens quite a lot actually
now that I think about it.
All right.
So we'll do a Twitter check.
Yeah.
I'll check Twitter, you check comicbookmovie.com.
The best website.
The best website for news.
Well, look, Mason,
it's made a big week for movies, hasn't it?
Yeah.
Pitch Perfect 2, did you see it?
I didn't see it, but apparently it's bloody storming the box office.
Storming.
Well, it's knocked Age of Ultron off number one.
Yep.
And so has Mad Max.
So Age of Ultron has gone down to number three.
Oh.
But we're not here to talk about Pitch Perfect 2.
Aw.
Mason throws out notes on Pitch Perfect 2.
Well, now we've got nothing.
I didn't see it.
I didn't see it.
I didn't see the first one.
Is that it?
They're probably good.
Anna Kendrick's great and stuff, so why not?
But Mad Max.
Wow.
We saw Mad Max Fury Road, didn't we?
Fury Road.
I've just got an email here to kick things off.
Okay, I'm ready.
What do you think of Pitch Perfect 2?
No.
Greetings, Nick and James.
Have you been hearing excellent things about Mad Max from critics.
And critics...
Critics and then brackets critics.
Not brackets.
Quote marks.
Quote marks.
What's that mean?
I don't know.
Just people on the internet, I guess.
He probably means haters.
Ah.
I was wondering if you also thought that this is one of the best action films this decade,
as I've been hearing.
And how does it stack up against Road Warrior?
Regardless, my ticket has already been bought and I can't wait to see it.
One almost last thing.
I think it's very hypocritical of you to call Namibia a balls country.
Did we do that?
I said that, yeah.
Okay, sure.
Because when Mad Max was filmed.
When your heads are made of dicks.
Fair call.
From Mari Lee.
So, Mason.
Yep.
Did you think it was A great Mad Max movie
Yes
Did you think it was
Better than Road Warrior
Yes
Do you think it's the
Best Mad Max movie
Yes
Mad Max
Yes
All those things
Me too
Yeah
I thought it was
The best Mad Max movie also
Do you think it's
The best action movie
This year
Yeah
Probably
Yeah
Do you think it's
The best action movie
Of the last five years
It could be
Yeah it could be right
Like I'd have to think of
other movies yeah i'm gonna see it again immediately after this i'm going with somebody
else to see it again like a date like a sexy date i don't want to say a regular date a bland old date
you won't be watching much of that then i'm all right that was really good i'll
push them aside and watch that movie.
I loved it a lot.
Yeah, me too.
We saw it together.
It was good.
Not like a date.
No.
Not a regular date or a sexy date.
Yeah, I was going to say,
what we normally do if you've never listened before,
we talk non-spoilers.
Very briefly because we don't have a lot to say.
It's very difficult to do.
I don't know how people do it.
People do like whole podcasts on things without spoiling it.
Anyway.
So yeah, non-spoilers.
And then we'll definitively say this is spoilers.
And then you can leave.
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Right?
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Probably not.
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Leave a positive review and subscribe.
Definitely.
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Yeah.
And then we'll do that.
So story-wise, do you want to recap the story?
Okay.
So, Max, the Mad Max of the title.
Yes.
He's on a fury road.
The very same.
Well, he is at some point.
Yeah.
Okay.
But initially, we open on Max.
He is captured.
This is all in the trailer.
This is all in the trailer.
He is captured by the War Boys, who are sort of a band of sort of very pale, shaved head kind of...
They're like the soldiers of a sort of a cult leader warlord
called Immortan Joe,
who is Hugh Caysburns from the first Mad Max movie.
He's back.
He's bloody back.
He's back as a different character.
And he is brought to their citadel there.
And Immortan Joe is sort of, again, this cult leader,
sort of warlord dictator who keeps all these people
on this very tight leash.
Yeah.
He has a water supply, like a very abundant water supply
that he keeps under very close guard.
And he keeps them all kind of downtrodden and miserable.
And then Mad Max is going to be used as like like mad max is a universal donor is going to be used as like a blood bag for
one of the war boys yeah he's called nux nux by nicholas holt holt yeah beast about a boy about a
beast yep and he and he's kind of in a bad way yeah but then furiosa played by charlie's they're
on yeah leaves the citadel with some cargo that we won't spoil.
Yep.
That Immortan Joe is very keen on getting back.
And so he sends out...
Sorry?
M&M's.
Yeah, it's a big truck of M&M's.
The last truckload of M&M's left on Earth.
They don't melt in the desert sun.
That's right.
They melt in your mouth.
That's right.
They melt in your mouth.
And so he sends the war boys out to retrieve it and Nux ties Mad Max to the front of his car as a blood supply.
In Mad Max tradition.
Yep, exactly.
You've got to tie a bloke to the front of your car.
And that's where it begins.
Mad Max is set on a bloody fury road that he doesn't want to be on.
And then, boy, madness ensues.
He's very much against it, isn't he?
Yeah, he's mad about it.
Almost the whole way, yeah.
What do we talk about the cast?
Okay, great.
Without getting into spoilers.
Okay.
Tom Hardy is Mad Max.
What did you think?
He's got a terrible accent.
Boy, does he.
What is that accent?
I don't know.
It's not anything.
Absolutely.
It's not British.
No.
It's not Australian, certainly.
It's just a bit like this, sort of.
No, not even.
Oh, I was going to bring this up in news, but I forgot.
Famous men's rights activist website, Return of Kings,
put out an editorial like,
you shouldn't see Mad Max because it's a feminist movie.
We will talk about that.
Having not seen the movie, they're like, don't see it.
Anyway, we'll talk about it later.
What's the website called?
I think it's called Return of Kings.
It's not one of the ones I frequent.
No, no. Yeah. Is it called? I think it's called Return of Kings. It's not one of the ones I frequent. No.
Yeah.
Is it good?
I doubt it very much.
Anyway, cast.
But we'll get to that.
Remind me later.
Yeah, it's a weird accent.
He's good, isn't he? He's good.
It doesn't bother me.
Yeah, it doesn't.
Yeah.
You know what I thought watching the film?
If Mel Gibson hadn't gone crazy and weird and anti-Semitic and sexist and all that
you could have slotted him right back in.
Definitely.
I think it would have been great.
Yeah, I completely agree.
Yeah, definitely.
Old Mel Gibson.
I mean, you would have definitely needed
some impressive CGI over the stunt work
so you couldn't tell that it wasn't him doing it.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
No, you're absolutely right.
If he didn't fall out of favour they could have thrown have thrown him back yeah definitely look great but i think so
it's in the in that way it's kind of odd that mad max is still quite young looking well this isn't
a reboot i mean sorry this isn't a sequel it's not a sequel well the way it's kind of explained is
george miller i did a video on it sort of george miller none of these have any kind of continuity
said though it was never supposed to be a trilogy.
And I like what he's just like, no, they're not really supposed to connect.
He doesn't try to force them to fit.
They kind of do. Yeah, I know.
But at the same time, the timeline doesn't add up.
We talked about this last week.
Okay, sure, sure, sure.
So a lot of this is just like, these are all kind of legends of this Mad Max character.
Oh, that's interesting.
This desert hero.
Okay.
And this is just one of the things he may have done.
Because, and this is a spoiler, but it's not really a spoiler.
He does have long hair right at the start.
Like Thunderdome.
Like in Thunderdome.
Yeah.
He's captured and they cut all his hair off, so he looks more like Mad Max from Mad Max
1.
Yeah.
Or 2.
In that sense, I thought it was a sequel, but I guess not.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In your face.
I think Charlize Theron is great as Furiosa.
Absolutely she isiosa she's fantastic
it's nice to have
Hugh Keyes Burns
I assume that's his name
yeah
spelled differently
or pronounced differently
yeah it's about that
he's gross isn't he
he's gross
he doesn't get as much
screen time as I thought
he would
no he doesn't
he's not a
he's got a very
terrifying look
yeah
I don't feel he has
a very terrifying presence
oh really so i found
just seeing him because initially when he realizes what's happened yeah and he like storms in yeah
like that's quite terrifying okay but he's not like he's not a physical match to anybody right
yeah so i guess but that's not really his role though, is it? No, he has Richter, I think, who is his main...
Yeah, Richter's erectus.
Is that his name?
Amazing.
And he had his other son, Quentin.
Oh, Quentin, Quentin, Australian Quentin.
Australian Quentin, yeah.
Quentin, I can't remember his name.
Me neither.
He's a little fella.
Yeah, a little fella.
Yeah, sure.
But he's been around for years, Quentin.
Yeah, totally, yeah.
Like he was famous when he was like five.
Yeah, totally.
Yeah.
Yeah, Charlie's Throne was great
and a lot of the criticisms
and we'll get to that
have been of her character
and how she overshadows
Max
but we'll get to that
I don't think that she does
I don't think so either
that's my initial thought
I think they're a good team
that's what I thought
I feel it's still very much
a Mad Max movie
for a lot of reasons
we'll get into
in a little bit
Nux
what do you think of Nux
very good yeah and there's some other characters that I guess are kind of spoilers if you don't know Mad Max movie for a lot of reasons we'll get into in a little bit. Nux, what do you think of Nux? Very good.
Yeah. And there's some other characters that I
guess are kind of spoilers if you don't know.
I liked Immortan Joe's
kind of world that he built, like his
civilization, like this kind of
metal and fire and
gears and everyone's painted white
and he's this kind of false god
that everybody kind of worships. And the only
reason is because he has the water and he's just built himself up as that everybody kind of worships. And the only reason is because he has the water
and he's just built himself up as this, I don't know,
I guess this deity of sorts.
The world building is great in this.
Yeah, it is.
That whole, all the sets, all the cars are incredible.
Like slapped together cars.
It's like a monster truck with like a Buick.
And they're all real.
Yeah, they're all real. well like i got that here 80 of the stunts and everything is real so you got things
like charlie's the ron's arm which is he's got like a kind of a robot kind of steampunk kind of
arm i guess well it's but it's it's basically just a regular prosthetic arm yeah one of the basic ones
but it's got a claw on yeah like a like a reinforced kind of yeah like that that's cgi obviously and there's like a sandstorm in it that's cgi and right and they're
like they remove like cables from like a lot of the stunt work and whatever but yeah most of it's
most of it's real yeah yeah which is and you can that's very evident oh boy is it yeah like you
really a lot of the time in car chases you you just kind of get, like you lose interest.
And maybe that's CGI, maybe it's pacing or whatever.
I don't know, whatever it is.
So it's a credit to this.
This movie is mostly car chase.
It's just a car chase.
It's essentially two hours of car chase, yeah.
Yeah, obviously you said the stunts were amazing.
Were there any standout bits in particular or were you?
What I think is interesting about this movie is that for the majority of it
without spoiling it's a three-way battle at least okay sure yeah there's a no it in most of these
movies there's a good guys it's a bad guys yeah but in this there is there's always there's max
on his own yeah there's furiosa there's immortal joe yeah and his war boys yeah there's other
other other civilisations
other parties that
jump in on it
so it's always at least
a battle between
three parties
at all times
yeah
and I think it's quite
impressive that they've
and it's
yeah you know who's who
and
yeah exactly
who's everyone
what everyone's agenda is
and
I guess everybody has
like specific skills as well
or a look to their
yep
to their crew or whatever
I think the first meeting
between Furiosa and Max is very impressive.
That's amazing.
I was going to say that.
And Nux is also involved.
That's an incredible...
There's a clip of that actually online.
Not the whole thing.
But that's such an intense...
That's one of the best hand-to-hand fight scenes.
I don't know.
I mean, there's a lot of good hand-to-hand stuff.
Captain America hand-to-hand stuff is pretty good, actually.
I was going to say, when I said, you know,
this may be the best action movie of the last five years,
my first thought was Captain America Winter Soldier.
Yeah.
But that's a different animal, I feel.
It is.
Again, it's got...
It is superhero-y.
I don't pitch superhero movies in with action movies.
No, they're different.
They've got a lot of action in them,
but I think they're a separate animal.
Yeah.
And especially Winter Soldier is more of a thriller kind of thing.
Yeah.
It's an espionage thriller kind of thing.
And less cars.
Less cars.
This is probably the best cars movie of the last 10 years.
Uh-huh.
But I reckon it's got better car stuff
than all the Fast and Furious stuff.
Wow, okay.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
And I like the Fast and Furious stuff.
Like, it's really good.
They're more...
Having only seen the last one...
Yeah.
That was more of like,
here's a whole bunch of characters having a good time and there's some cars.
He's a CGI Paul Walker.
Yeah, you're on board for the characters.
There's some wacky stunts, but they're not, you know.
I liked also, and this is,
The Fast and Furious doesn't really do this.
Nobody feels invincible in this movie.
Yeah, true.
Yeah.
Like certain characters live and others die and whatever,
but you never feel like,
and you're fairly certain that like Max isn't going to die
because he's the main character.
But.
That's the thing though.
I don't.
Yeah.
I would get this like,
because this is,
you know,
this is the reboot or the sequel or the whatever.
Yeah.
This is a movie that hasn't been seen for 30 years. Yeah. I felt the whole time there could be, you know, this is the reboot or the sequel or the whatever. This is a movie that hasn't been seen for 30 years.
I felt the whole time there could be, you know,
this could be the last thing for Max.
Imagine the outrise of returnoftheking.com or whatever it's called.
What's it called?
Return of Kings.
Don't visit it.
It's dumb.
Yeah, no, I like that sense of, like, anybody can get hurt.
And, like, if you get a tumour, you die.
Like, if you lose a limb.
It's gone.
It's gone forever.
There's no, this world, there's no, there's no coming back.
No.
Like there's, they're not going to meet aliens and they're going to solve all their problems.
There's not going to be any time travel where they can go back and fix it.
Like this is, this is the apocalypse and this is the end for everyone.
That's right.
The best they can hope for is kind of like subsistence living
and they're not all going to die.
And for some people, a spectacular death.
Yeah, exactly.
That's what they're kind of going for.
Maybe there'll be some crops at some point in the future,
but probably not.
It's just going to be a slow,
the wheel's going to slowly stop turning.
Yeah, exactly.
Also, did you notice how colourful it was
for a movie that was just set in the desert?
Like very vibrant and really beautifully shot, right?
Absolutely.
Yeah, like I don't know what that contrast
between like the orange and the yellow ground
and the blue sky or whatever,
but I don't know,
just the previous Mad Maxes didn't really have that.
Like because it was a different time, I guess.
Like this managed to be gritty
and kind of
beautiful and colorful at the same time yeah without being too cartoony yeah i guess even
though this is just it's like a cartoon world really it is kind of a cartoon i thought it was
a bit reminiscent of um uh warhammer 40 000 okay which is set you know in this you know the year
40 000 it's this kind of it is this crazy steampunk universe kind of thing.
And I,
there were elements of that to this.
And I thought,
yeah,
it was very cartoony,
but I'm like,
I see how society could end up like this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If one guy has all the water or whatever,
I genuinely thought that like seeing the trailers,
well,
we talked about this last week.
I was like,
I'm excited for this.
I,
you know,
I'm really hoping it's good.
But at the same time,
I was kind of like,
I hope he doesn't George Lucas this.
Like, he hasn't done this for 30 years.
Because the trailer came up and was like from mastermind George Miller.
And I'm like, they might be overselling this.
They did not oversell it.
No.
He's clearly been banking these ideas.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's amazing because he's 70.
Yeah.
And I think this was maybe a six-month shoot or something.
And he's had's there's a couple
of co-writers yeah well and i think uh last week i said i watched the documentary called not quite
hollywood which is about the australian australian movie and like you see some interview stuff with
him and he's clearly you know he's well together and all that sort of stuff and i think very much
like a he's got some really good ideas and i think b he's got some co-writers and they've
worked collaboratively and they all know how to say no to stuff yeah i think b he's got some co-writers and they've worked collaboratively and they all know
how to say no to stuff yeah i think like and that that's the problem with george lucas is
nobody ever says no to him yeah well that's right yeah exactly yeah and you look maybe he learned
those lessons from like spielberg and indiana jones four and right exactly yeah i know people
like prometheus but like ridley scott with prometheus i think prometheus looks great
right that story is nonsense.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So I was genuinely like, I just don't know how this is going to go.
Yeah.
Because so many times directors return to a franchise and it's just like...
You know what an element that I thought, like here's the cornerstone of the movie,
is one of the war boys' vehicles has a guy on it with a lot of amplifier stacks
and he plays a guitar that shoots fire.
He's blind as well.
He's blind.
And that seems like the kind of thing that an idiot would like.
Like if you were like, here's an action movie
and it's got a guy and he plays a fire guitar
on a chariot made of amplifiers i'd be
like i'm not seeing that movie because it looks because that is just pandering to the absolute
lowest comedy denominator kind of thing yeah and i watched that and i'm like no they didn't
overuse that that totally works yeah it totally works in this universe that guy just pretty much
plays the guitar yeah and he provides a little bit of mood music there's a point not really a spoiler
but there's a point
where like
you know
the chase is happening
and it reaches
kind of a dead end
like briefly
and the guitar guy's like
bler bler bler bler
like he kind of
he kind of slowly
grinds to a halt
with his
with his guitar solo
and as you know
he's blind
he's really good
yeah I think it
I think it worked also
and then like there's this war tribe yeah and he would have music well he's got know he's blind he's really good yeah i think it i think it worked also and then
like this war tribe yeah and you would have music well he's got drums he's got like he's got like a
truck that's just guys with drums right yeah and you know again in the hands of a lesser you know
director i'd be like this is such pandering it's so dumb or whatever but i it totally worked
totally yeah because it's this you believe the. Like you believe this insane world that is created.
One thing that I didn't actually love,
and I thought this was just me and the screening we were at,
aside from Hardy's accent, which again, I don't really care.
I think you did really well.
I struggled initially to understand what people were saying.
Like people would like, and I don't know whether it was the accent
or the the background
noise and apparently that's not just me like at the start they'd be like it's a blade with al
and like i'm like what is that i didn't really have a problem what are you saying okay i was
fine just me then i i had a problem with american audiences i think maybe we'll have a problem yeah
yeah there's a lot of that well that's what i thought maybe it's a pretty broad accent yeah
maybe it's because i'm used to watching american tv in america
because i don't watch any australian television right right okay yeah maybe that was maybe that's
it yeah but i think yeah i had a problem the only one i had a problem with max is because i yeah i
couldn't place it yeah like where is he from what is this because i was prepared for australian
accents and some american accents but i wasn't prepared for this weird nowhere accent yeah fair
enough well look as far as spoilers go do you want to get into it yeah what have we not have But I wasn't prepared for this weird nowhere accent. Yeah, fair enough.
Well, look, as far as spoilers go, do you want to get into it?
Yeah, what have we not?
Anything we haven't talked about?
Plot's pretty good.
It's pretty straightforward.
Yeah, straightforward plot.
We know what's going on at all times.
It keeps a breakneck pace without you getting sick of it.
That's true, yeah.
Which is amazing.
Yeah, I would have thought, I lost a tiny bit of enthusiasm, I reckon, by about the third act.
Like, how can they keep this going?
But I think they, because there was so much spectacular stuff quite early on.
Like, how are they going to maintain this pace?
It felt long, but it didn't bother me.
There's a bit where the movie kind of stops and they change direction, literally.
Yeah, yeah.
And I was like, how much is left in this right
right yeah speaking of ages i thought is this going to end and that the sequel will be that
i genuinely thought that and then it's like another 30 40 minutes yeah yeah but i didn't
i didn't feel it dragged like no no no i thought it was a really perfect the perfect length okay
anything else best or worst what else do we talk about in these things uh action fistfights
fistfights were good mention that um nobody seems invincible
80 real uh everyone's pretty that'll do it that'll do it movie looks great fantastic
best movie ever oh no i would yeah best movie i would say and i said this in my review
if you saw the trailers and you went that looks something up that's could be up my alley it is
go and say it yeah if you, dumb, don't say it.
You probably won't like it.
Really?
Yeah.
I think a lot of people are going to find a lot to enjoy in this.
Okay.
Sure.
Fair enough.
I think it's a lot.
I think this is, yeah, I think it's pretty smart.
It is currently sitting on 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Correct.
Yeah.
Which is unheard of.
Yeah.
So if you want to the 1%, then don't say it.
Bloody.
How would you know?
What about the 1% kind of allegory? I say see this because it's not, I don't know it bloody how would you know what about the one percent kind of i say
see this because it's not i don't know just just see it give it a bloody good go okay how about
a really good action movie it's r like it's an r film right okay right is it a hard r because i
wouldn't say it is no because it's ma 15 plus oh it is okay yeah okay okay so yeah no nothing super
brutal happens no i don't think.
There's a few kind of things.
There's a thing towards the end.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, that happens, yeah.
That happens.
We'll talk about that.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not incredibly visceral, I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great.
All right.
Best movie ever, I'm going to say.
I'm going to say probably is...
People email in or tweet at me what you think might be one of your favorite action movies
of the last five years, and I will collate them all,
and I will tell you next week why this one's better.
Will you really?
No, I probably won't.
But I'll think about it, because I generally can't think of an action movie
in the last five years that has been better.
It's just a pure action movie.
At Wikipedia Brown.
Correct, that is the one.
Hit him up.
All right, now spoilers.
Spoilers!
Now, before we get to spoilers, somebody just tweeted,
listening to Old Weekly Planet pod,
and noticed that Mr. Sunday Movies
always pronounces Del Toro's name
Gilmero, not Guillermo.
I don't know how to say it.
So he's on the team.
He's on the team from earlier
of the people whose names you mispronounced.
I can't say it!
He's on the team.
It's just not...
It's Guillermo.
Guillermo.
Anyway, let's spoil...
Guillermo.
Yeah, let's spoil this movie.
Whenever I try as well, people are like,
ha ha ha, you idiot.
Yeah.
The Australian accent does not lend itself to his name.
To pronouncing any words at all.
You're correct.
I need Tom Hardy's vague nowhere accent.
All right.
We're going to talk about how mad is he?
How mad is Mad Max?
Because we established that he's not that mad.
Last week we did a retrospective of all three previous Mad Max movies.
I really enjoyed that episode.
Yeah, me too.
And we did establish that at no point does he really get angry mad.
No.
But I got the sense that they mean mad in the sense of he's a completely insane person
in a completely insane universe, which is why he seems to stay so calm.
Yeah.
He's insane mad.
Yeah.
And in this...
He's insane mad, right? He does have weird flashbacks and stuff. That's to his daughter, I calm. Yeah. He's insane mad. Yeah. And in this... He's insane mad, right?
He has that weird flashbacks and stuff.
That's to his daughter, I think.
Yeah, but that's...
Crazy people have that.
Yeah, definitely, yeah.
And traumatised.
It does save him at one point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because he puts his hand up to his forehead.
Oh, to catch an arrow in the face, yeah.
And he catches an arrow, like by accident.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
So maybe that was like the movie Signs,
where the message was on purpose.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. on purpose swing away or whatever I initially thought
like I tweaked
that it was his daughter
yeah
but initially I thought
maybe that was some
of the children from
oh from Thunderdome
from Thunderdome
okay sure
I guess that could work
though also
yeah totally
because we don't know
what happened to them
it all could be one thing
like it doesn't matter
well George McMillan
actually said in his mind
this takes place
after Thunderdome
but at the same time whatever doesn't really matter Well, George McMillan actually said in his mind this takes place after Thunderdome.
But at the same time, whatever. It doesn't really matter, exactly, yeah.
Yeah.
I think the sequel they're going to do,
which we will talk about in a little later about it,
that will adhere to this continuity,
stricter than what the other ones have done.
Right, okay, yeah.
Yeah.
You know what I liked about how mad he is?
Yes.
Well, they always say, like, these things, like,
who's madder, is it bad max or the world he
lives in yep it's the world he lives in he's very normal he's extraordinarily normal there's a guy
driving around with a he's blind and his amplifier stacks and he's got a fire guitar come on
exactly but i liked there's little nods to like he's not mad he's just a survivor I feel like yeah exactly
he's like a wild dog yeah and like if you're very careful you can kind of get close to him and pat
him and feed him right but he could bite you at any second uh do you know what I mean yes like
he's got that kind of about him and when he goes to take off with he has that fist fight with
Charlize Theron so fist stump fight which is Correct. Which is great, by the way, which we talked about.
And again, yeah, like there's that, it's, because, you know,
we revealed, it's revealed very early on that she's got Immortan Joe's
brides in the truck.
Oh, yep.
And, you know, he wants them back.
Max just wants a truck so he can get away.
Nux is there and it's this three-way battle.
Yep.
You know, Furiosa thinks maybe Max
wants to take the girls but he doesn't he just wants to just wants to get away or whatever
Nux is there because he wants to Nux thinks that Max thinks Max is on his team yeah and they are
for that yeah exactly yeah because they both have the same agenda right not to die I love that bit
where he fired the gun around her head yeah Yeah, that was great. That was amazing.
Yeah, I don't know why.
I really enjoyed that.
And there was that, also in that sequence,
you know, it's kind of,
that whole thing's a fight over the gun.
Yeah.
And like, they're fighting
and she ejects the magazine out of the gun
so he can't use it.
And then, like, it's got one round left in it.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
And so they shoot it off against the tanker
and then Nux is like trying to get the magazine
and he drops it back in and then Max has got the gun and now he's on his own team again.
Yeah, exactly.
And it was really good.
Like everybody had their own agenda in that.
Yeah.
And you knew where everybody was going with it.
Yeah.
And you're not like, yeah, it's really good.
That was amazing.
I liked how though, like when the truck stopped because he took off and she was like, listen,
can you get me to say if you would give you fuel or whatever?
And he was just like, I'm not interested. And then he's like, i'll get that mask off you and he's like fine get in like he's
like because that's because he's just base instincts yeah do you know what i mean like he just doesn't
want that right he got his head like that he's got there's more grunting out of him definitely
than dialogue in a lot of times in a lot of cases but i like the appeal of him as well he's he's just
moment to moment day to day yeah i Like, priority number one is getting away
and getting this fucking mask off my head.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you feel sorrow for Nux?
Or did you feel any empathy for him?
That's a good question.
I guess because that's the world he's been raised in.
Yeah.
We don't know anything about his origins.
There will be a comic, actually.
There's a comic in there.
Oh, then maybe I will.
Yeah.
But did you, by the end, you know how he switched allegiances or whatever did you find that believable or
unbelievable yeah uh well he did it for love didn't he he did that's all you bloody got in
the desert isn't it a bit of love you know love and guns love guns fury road flame throw guitar
that's all you have in this world. Three things.
Are you doing an X-Men thing?
No, I'm just looking for something.
Give me two seconds.
No, it's all right.
We'll come back to it.
All right.
Yeah, I know what I'm doing.
You know what's up.
Yeah.
Look, can we talk about the Charlize Theron role?
Yes.
What are people upset about?
Oh, yeah.
Okay, that's what I was looking for.
Okay. Okay, give me 30 seconds and I'll find a link.
Oh, actually, I know where it is.
It's in my texts. Okay okay so this is the link uh why you should not go see mad max feminist row that's
what that's what the article is called right and he's not like he hasn't i don't think he's seen it
um anyway blah bitty blue bitty but anyway um he seems to be up people seem to be upset that
charlie's theron is in the trailers a lot but tom hardy that Charlize Theron is in the trailers
a lot
but Tom Hardy is not
like he's more
in the trailers
he's more a cameo
cameo
yeah cameo
but it says
Charlize Theron
sure talked a lot
during the trailers
well I don't think
I heard one line
from Tom Hardy
right
even though
again
Mad Max
has like
16 lines
16 lines
in Road Warrior
and like and apparently like And apparently, basically all the previous Mad Max movies,
George Miller was inspired by going to the drive-in,
and the speaker doesn't work, so you're watching a movie silently.
Okay, sure.
So you can watch all the Mad Max movies with no audio
and get what he's saying and understand what the plot is.
Sure.
Anyway, okay, hang on. Here we go. You're a bloody feminazi mate yeah that's what i am mate okay here we go and finally charlie's theron's character barked orders to mad max
paragraph break nobody barks orders to mad max
but also okay look I really liked that character
and I thought they just worked well together.
Me too, yeah, exactly.
That's how I saw it.
Again, this is a guy telling people not to see this based on a trailer.
But also, like, there were moments...
It's a feminist piece of propaganda posing as a guy flick.
You know what bit I really liked, I enjoyed?
Hollywood has the audacity to remove the namesake of a movie franchise
called Mad Freakin' Max
and replace it with an impossible female character
in an effort to kowtow to feminism.
These kind of people are always mad about this kind of thing.
The first movie should have been called Mad Goose.
Exactly, because Goose is the main character.
But these kind of people are always mad at female characters,
especially female video game characters.
It's always like, there's no way that
woman could be an action hero because she's
bloody she's carrying
a woman couldn't carry that much equipment
a man couldn't carry that much equipment
if you play a video game and your character's got like
10 guns and 900 bullets or whatever
nobody can lift that it's impossible
and they're always like statistically
speaking men are stronger than women
a woman couldn't possibly.
Has anybody seen Ronda Rousey?
She'd beat me up.
Yeah, she'd kill us both in one second.
Like, she wouldn't because she seems very nice, but she could.
You know what I mean?
Absolutely.
Statistically speaking, men are stronger.
Yeah, but she's an exceptional character.
She's an exceptional person.
And Furiosa, also exceptional.
You're allowed to have exceptional characters in movies.
Hang on, there's one more line in this.
I mean, it's blabbity-bloobity, but...
Who sent you this?
I think it was on Film Drunk or something like that.
I love Film Drunk.
Yeah.
It's great.
Oh, here we go.
Here's the thing.
Okay.
Be nothing more than feminist propaganda
while at the same time being insulted and tricked
into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten
right in front of their very eyes.
Now, last week, we talked about Mad Max
and somebody sent an email in being like,
do you mind if Tom Hardy is Mad Max?
Because he's not Australian and these are Australian movies.
And I was like, no, who cares?
Because it's a movie and get whatever actors best and who cares?
But somebody coming in and saying Mad Max is a piece of American culture, it's a movie and you know get whatever actors best and who cares but somebody coming in and saying a piece of america mad max is a piece of american culture it's got me back up
he's bloody not mad max is australian you know when you go overseas and and people find out
you're australian you become more australian you do come more australian you're talking you're
calling people cobra and whatever same thing right here i don't care if mad max is australian
until somebody thinks that he's American.
He's not American.
Shut up.
He's Australian.
How do you like that?
I like it a lot.
Yeah, it's good.
You know what?
One of the bits I thought was a really good moment
between Max and Furiosa
is when you remember the bullet farmers
speeding towards him in a tank
with a car strapped to the top.
And he's just shooting bullets or whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
And Mad Max has three bullets
and a sniper rifle.
Yep.
And he misses on the first two.
Yep.
And then he acknowledges
that he's not as good a shot as Furiosa.
And his hands are the rifle.
His hands are the rifle
and she uses her shoulder to step in the shot
and she takes the shot.
And that makes sense
because he recognizes that in that scenario,
he's not better than her to suit the situation.
Right, exactly, yeah.
He needs to, like, he'd be an idiot to take that third shot.
Exactly, because he's not an action hero.
No.
He's a guy trying to survive in this desert.
Yeah.
And he knows that if that guy catches up, they're all dead.
Yeah.
So he lets her take the shot.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Anyway, great.
That's all I have to say on that.
Yeah, that'll do it.
The people of the green or whatever they're called.
Do you like that inclusion?
The warrior women.
Yeah.
I wish there was more Megan Gale.
Well, there won't be anymore.
No, because she was squashed.
But yeah, that also seeing her in that makes me be anymore. No, because she was squashed. But yeah,
that also,
seeing her in that makes me go,
oh,
I wish she was
Wonder Woman.
Yeah,
she was pretty good.
And look,
I'm sure Gal Gadot
would be fine,
but I thought
for the little
that she was in it.
Stray his own
Megan Gale.
Here's the thing though,
about these
warrior women.
Yeah.
Do they have a
specific name?
I'm not sure.
probably.
One's like the
keeper of the sea.
Are they bad people?
Yeah, probably.
Because-
They were luring you to a trap.
Yeah, exactly.
Because they seem very nice and they had the same goals to survive.
Yeah.
But they show up.
The good guys, Max and Furiosa and the team, they show up.
And they see Megan Gale and she's like, oh, help, whatever.
And Max is like, this is definitely a trap.
Yeah.
And then Furiosa goes, no, this is my people. Yeah. It's me. gale she's like oh help whatever and max is like this is definitely a trap yeah and then furiosa goes no this is my people yeah it's me and they're like
oh cool it's it's it's charlie's they're on and they you know they all they meet up or whatever
but presumably what happens is travelers go through the desert they see megan gale they're
like a supermodel yeah they're like i should help her for a variety of reasons and then the biker
women show up and either kill that person
or steal all their stuff and leave them to die.
Correct.
That's the desert, man.
I guess it's the desert.
You're right.
That's what you do.
It's what you bloody do.
Yeah.
But, yeah, it's a shame.
Apparently they all did their own stunts.
All those women?
Yeah, for the most part.
They were, like, 70 years old.
Yeah, one of them was 78.
Jesus.
And she was apparently like, yeah.
Like the stunt people, like, you sure you want to do this?
And she's like, yeah, I'll do it.
Why wouldn't I?
Well, I've got nothing to live for.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
That was really good.
You know, it was a good bit.
Yep.
We're up to our famous segment, You Know What Was A Good Bit.
Okay, I'm calling it.
This is what I knew you were saying.
Because this is all our reviews basically boiled down to.
You know what was a good bit? Yeah. Here we go when morton joe gets his face torn
oh boy yeah that was amazing that was pretty good yeah so she hooked his his gas mask or whatever
into the wheel of the monster truck yep and just tore his face clear bottom half of his face clear
clear off that was pretty amazing i wasn't sure at first like did he take his head off or whatever
then you don't really see, yeah, initially.
Then you see his body at the end.
Uh-huh.
And it's just like his tongue like hanging out with his nose and jawless face.
Uh-huh, yeah.
I would have actually liked to see what he looked like without his mask.
Yeah.
Like prior to that.
Yeah, yeah.
He probably just looked like a fat guy, I guess.
Like a fat guy with a...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, totally.
That was pretty...
He looked like Toe Cutter from the first one.
He did.
Ooh!
I guess.
That fat guy over there.
Yeah.
Yeah, totally.
That was pretty.
He looked like Toe Cutter from the first one.
He did.
Ooh.
Do you think there is any chance that that's the same character?
I mean, he went right under that truck.
Yeah. I think it squashed his head from memory.
His eyes certainly bugged out.
Yeah.
Did it squash his head though?
Yeah, I'm fairly certain it squashed his head.
Well, I don't know because he does have that respirator.
He does all that stuff.
Maybe he did live.
See, that's the thing.
It's one of those continuity things.
We'll never know.
I would say it's probably not.
It's almost, yeah.
Yeah.
99% sure it's not.
But I mean, if you were a guy who got run over by a truck
and everybody thought you died and then you didn't,
you'd get the name Immortal Joe.
Immortal Joe.
Yeah, but then it would switch over.
You're right.
So maybe.
I'm going to say it is.
What's a bit that you liked?
What's a bit that I liked?
I thought all the brides were good.
Yeah, absolutely.
I thought a lot of people were like,
why are they so, you know,
because the idea is people are like,
why are they so glamorous?
Because, you know, people in the desert shouldn't,
but they're the brides.
They've been kept.
They've been kept beautiful for a moment.
Like out of the sun.
Okay.
So it's Zoe Kravitz.
So that's Lenny Kravitz's daughter.
What do we got here?
Oh, Riley Kehoe.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is one of them.
Yeah, she was from Transformers 3.
Riley Kehoe is Elvis Presley's granddaughter.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So what's her name?
Lisa Marie's kid?
Yes.
Isn't that fun?
That's cool.
Yeah, that was good.
I think here's a bit that was a good bit.
You know in the bit where Max gives like the little thumbs up to the bride?
Oh, yeah, that's right.
That was a nice little kind of acknowledgement.
And then she slipped on the blood and she went under the truck.
Right, right, right.
He killed her.
That Max?
Yes.
Because he put that gash in her leg leg which caused her to slip on the blood
and go on that's a good point yeah that is a good point well you're gonna do what you can
that's how it is man laura the desert also nobody saw her fall off the truck except him so yeah he
could be like she lost her foot i didn't see her go she tripped on a stupid dress that's what
happened there i didn't see her go under the wheel though like i thought he might have been lying but
she did obviously well it's yeah i think the idea was it's deliberately ambiguous yeah because we're
you know that's max's say so yeah and we don't know if he's telling the truth or not she definitely
fell off the truck though and look regardless she's probably dead and they shouldn't go back
yeah and he knows that yeah like i also thought it was interesting they didn't go with the trope of
the mother died but the child lived.
Oh, yeah, okay.
But Angus Sampson said the child was dead.
He has a name.
I think he was called like, what was it?
Something like Flesh Mechanic or something like that.
Oh, okay, that's fine.
It's not that.
It's something else, yeah.
It's another bit.
It's another bit that we liked.
You know what?
I liked the bit in the grand old tradition of Mad Max films.
He just wandered off at the end.
Yeah, that was weird.
You'd think, like, what is he after, ultimately?
I don't know.
He's on an endless journey, a pilgrimage.
Surely you would want, in that world, you would want some sort of safety and stability.
So you've just brought back the new leader of this citadel.
Yeah.
You've given,
you've found a way to give water to all these people.
You've survived a fury road.
You survived the bloody fury road.
Yeah.
You'd think you'd want to just live there,
right?
Or you'd be like,
give me a car,
give me some water.
He probably stole a car on the way out.
He probably did,
yeah.
Yeah.
You're right.
I like seeing his car briefly in it.
And then it shows up again
and he's like
that's my car
that's my bloody car
in my car
yeah I don't know
what is it
I don't know
what is his
that was probably
his best Australian
that one line
is probably his best
Australian accent in that
which again is not saying a lot
nah it's not
but that's alright
yeah
trying to think if there's
any other good bits
there's lots of good
it's just an endless
it feels like an endless
stream of good bits right exactly yeah yeah I don... It feels like an endless stream of good bits.
Right, exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
I kind of...
Did you like how they made the decision,
we'll just go back?
Yeah, it did feel...
Well, it did feel like, well, this is...
We're either going to die in the...
Like, it felt like it was everybody's last chance.
Yeah.
It's either we're going to drive out into the desert
and die in the desert.
Yeah.
Or we're going to go back and maybe we'll die at the hands of,
you know,
the war boys or whatever.
This is our last chance.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely right.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't think I've got anything else to say.
There is apparently,
there's enough story material for two more scripts.
Yes.
And Tom Hardy's signed on for four more films,
maybe?
Yeah.
Or three more films,
something like that.
Something like that.
I think maybe he signed three in total.
Okay, very cool. Whatever. It doesn't matter. I'm that. I think maybe he signed three in total. I don't know.
Whatever.
It doesn't matter.
I'm glad.
I'm good.
There's a lot of kind of, I've done an Easter egg video, but there's a lot of like references
to the other Mad Max movies.
Like there's little, there's little things.
On the, on the car that he's tied to, there's the pilot.
It looks like Bruce Spencer's skull.
Oh, sure.
Like goggles.
Like there's a whole bunch of little stuff.
Apparently, Band Incorporated, who talked. Did I talk about him last week?
I don't know.
Either way, he said that you could see Max's leg brace.
Yeah, he's still wearing the brace.
Yeah, I didn't notice that at all.
A lot of the time when he's getting on and off the truck,
on and off the trucks on the Fury Roads,
you're like, there's his leg brace.
Oh, really?
I didn't notice that.
I mean, I think, you know,
it's obviously been a lot of years, presumably.
But he's still, I guess he's, like the leg still isn't broken, but I guess he's just got it on there
for the sake of, I don't want this to break again.
Yeah, exactly.
He'd wear it.
He's still wearing the old jacket.
Yeah, he's got the one sleeve.
I like the poles that he was swinging back and forth on.
Oh, yeah, you like that bit?
That was a great bit.
Yeah, it was a great bit.
Yeah, it seems super dangerous.
But so much of that where you see Tom Hardy like swing past
and then in the background, doesn't seem that far away,
a truck barrel rolls and explodes.
Yes.
Like that's amazing.
They all looked very good.
There is right at the end,
I felt there was a shot that was a little bit too CG.
Yes, with the guitar, exactly.
Where the truck, Nux flips his truck,
everything else smashes under it
and all the debris and whatever is flying out.
I thought that was a bit CGI-ish.
Look, a lot of that was probably practical,
but that guitar didn't seem...
No, that kind of threw out the whole thing.
And I guess, yeah, but yeah.
It doesn't matter.
But everything else looked incredibly real and dangerous,
which I think was great.
Yeah, that's the best.
But also, George Miller was saying stuff like,
the good thing about this is now you can do more dangerous stuff because but it's safer like you
can because you can put harnesses on somebody and fling them from car to car and then you just
digitally remove the harnesses yeah so it looks you know it's less dangerous but it looks it still
looks real because you were actually physically throwing it but at the same time you're not you're
not just throwing somebody
with no safety work at all, which they did back in the day.
And he was saying even stuff like, you've got the luxury of,
he used to do this when he was a kid, you'd go and see whatever movie
and you could count how many takes it took to do a particular car stunt
because you'd see the tyre tracks.
Oh, exactly.
But now he goes, you can just CGI the sand flat.
Right.
So stuff like that like
it's pretty amazing like this is this feel to me and again i said this in my review it feels like
a culmination of we're getting back to more practical effects yes like this feels like
this is how you do it do you know what i mean like this is the perfect mix of cgi and
and practical stuff everything should be like this like this. There should be more practical dinosaurs in Jurassic World.
Absolutely.
Like puppets-y stuff, I mean.
Like genuine.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, it's too late now.
It's done, right?
Surely.
I still think, I'm hoping that'll still be good.
Anything else?
That's about it.
I enjoyed the fact that the war boys chromed.
Yes.
I thought that was funny.
Yeah. That's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah chromed. Yes. I thought that was funny. Yeah.
That was pretty good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was amazing.
I love that.
Well, if we've got nothing else to say.
Yeah.
Ever.
We're done.
I know.
Let's retire Mad Max style.
Yeah.
Wander off into nothing.
I've got the return of a-
What did you think of the music?
Yeah, it was good.
Intense, I guess.
I didn't really-
Again, I think it's-
It's a shot here's
another slap in the face another slap in the face uh to tom holkenberg who created the music that's
um he used to record as junkie xl i don't know if he still does i don't know that is oh he did
do you remember that elvis a little less conversation oh yeah but that became big
yeah it was a remix that was him yeah uh anyway he did the music for this but again another slap
in the face because it must the music must have been good
because I didn't notice it
that's the strongest praise
I can ever give
to the music in a movie
it didn't distract me
because it was awful
but you noticed the guitar man
yeah I did
yeah boy did I
that's good
awesome
alright Mason
well I'm gonna
I'm gonna return
of a fan favourite segment
which would be much requested
by me
you specifically
I requested it
but also a lot of other people
I know what's coming here
yep hate mail but the hate has an eight in it great so basically requested by me you specifically i requested but also a lot of other i know what's coming here yep
hate mail but the hate has an eight in it great so basically this i've been storing up my hate mail
yep good um so i could because if you're gonna do it do it let it all out in one burst exactly
like i don't want to do one a week or whatever exactly i i thought we'll do it this week because
why the hell not the first one is mad max related. Oh, great. And so I thought, what a great segue.
Yep.
This is from Christopher Hovde.
H-O-V-D-E.
Hovde?
Sure.
Anyway, this is on my Mad Max Fury Road review.
Can you say biased out loud three times fast?
This shit is feminist propaganda.
Nice.
Very good.
Very good.
This one's on my Suicide Squad Worst Joker Ever video, ever video where i just said it's fine don't worry about it they'll change it it'll be fine zach austin austin says whoever
made this shut up about the joker he is the best it's a good point no there's no punctuation in
that yeah good good why would there be this is on this is actually from the av club when i got i got
the the video on av club well i didn't get it i think i actually maybe no i know exactly what
which one you're talking about because i took a screenshot out of it and i was going to bring it
up do you want to do it i can't remember where i put it so okay this is from a don good lord do
people make a habit out of listening to this guy's voice my first listen lasted fewer than two seconds
and youtube counted.
Very good.
Yep, that is precisely the one.
That is my favourite.
Give it more than two seconds, alright?
This is on my Suicide Squad video.
Three reasons why I'll be awesome.
Talbona says,
you talk too much.
That is true, you do.
Yeah.
Especially on some sort of audio medium
where you're required to talk
and the entire point of what you're doing is talking.
You definitely talk too much.
This one's actually,
it also related to a video that you were in,
but I don't think it's directed to you.
There is one that is directed to you.
Oh, good, I'm ready.
Yeah, but we'll get to that.
This is from Chuckles.
Hey, Chuckles.
420 Ication.
This is on the,
remember we talked about the best and worst Batman suits?
Yes.
One of us said, I think it was me,
that I don't like the Tim Batman suit
because it's all smudgy and weird.
Oh, yeah, sure.
Anyway, he says...
And it's like a fruit roll-up.
It's like a fruit roll-up, yeah.
Have you ever thought that maybe this is just your own opinion
and not everybody else's?
Yes.
Yeah.
I do think that.
What's also interesting is that in a lot of your videos you do say by the way this
is only my own opinion like you make that very clear i like all the bat suits but the one you
pissed me off about is the 1989 batman movie suit it was their first try at making a bat suit so
have respect and then next comment underneath but then then again, you're British.
Also, it's the wrong you're.
Great.
Fantastic.
Combine all the greatest things there.
This is the one that's directed to you because you said you don't like the Christopher Reeves,
sorry, Reeves, Superman movies,
but Grant Little says,
don't slag off Reeve films.
Superman 2 with Zod was a classic.
And in Man of Steel, Russell Crowe was a kick-ass scientist before he got stabbed.
That is definitely relayed some of the plot of Man of Steel.
And I enjoy it.
Very good.
This is one of my six things you missed from Batman v Superman trailer.
I hate Neil deGrasse, atheist asshole.
And then another comment underneath
this is clearly after
they've watched the video
hang on what was the video
which one was it
Batman v Superman
Dawn of Justice
he's in it
Neil deGrasse Tyson
is in it
yeah he does like
he's one of the voiceovers
at the start
oh okay right
so he hates him
because he's an atheist asshole
then he says
he's clearly watched the video
because then he says
actually I hate the tool
that made this dumb video spewing the obvious details with a super annoying narrative dot dot dot
ky kill yourself oh is that what that is i couldn't i didn't know what that was definitely
kill yourself yeah i didn't know i'm not i'm not i don't know that for sure but i would assume
that would be my assumption that it's he's telling you to kill yourself. This is my Star Wars Force Awakens Things You Miss teaser trailer 2.
Boring Australians.
Boring dot, dot, dot Australians.
Yes.
You're not even in that.
There's only one of us.
He just means generally.
Oh, okay.
So he wouldn't enjoy Mad Max Fury Road.
Okay.
No, he wouldn't.
He's in that 1%.
He's one of those fat cats in the 1%, mate.
So these are on two different videos, but they have a similar kind of theme. So I'll end with this. Fantastic. There's he wouldn't. He's in that 1%. He's one of those fat cats in the 1%, mate. So these are on two different videos,
but they have a similar kind of theme.
So I'll end with this.
Fantastic.
There's more than eight.
Normally, hate mail traditionally is supposed to have eight,
though it's never had eight.
No, let's break the rules this one time and every time.
Yeah.
So this is on my Five Ways Batman Can Beat Superman video.
This is from Nazmuth.
Nazmus.
Dude, please include subtitles from now on.
I'm having a hard time understanding you,
which is fair,
but I'm not going to do that.
No, absolutely.
Why would you?
And this is on my interstellar...
Also, I think YouTube does it automatically now.
I think it does, yeah.
Though it doesn't read my voice well,
like, at all.
Of course not.
You've got a bad-sounding voice.
I do.
And this one is on my Interstellar Explained video.
This is from Kaiser Soze.
Please put subtitles in American.
I can't understand what you are saying.
And be quick about it, or I will give you thumbs down.
Ooh, watch out.
And that's another episode of Hate Mail, but with an 8.
I can't go back.
Do I re-upload it?
What does he want me to do?
I don't know.
It's pretty good.
He's just on the internet, and everybody on the internet's unhappy.
Yeah, you're right.
Be better on the internet.'s just on the internet and everybody on the internet's unhappy. Yeah, you're right. Be better on the internet.
Be better on the internet.
Well, so hate mail, but the hate has an eight in it.
We'll return.
Oh, yes.
I'll bank him.
Oh, good.
And then we'll see how we go.
No fake hate mails, we can tell.
We can tell.
That's right.
Have genuine hate or don't bother.
Exactly.
Go hard or go home, all right?
All right.
You know what it's time for then?
What's it time for?
What are we reading?
Oh, what are we going to read?
I'm doing the thing.
What are we reading today?
What are you reading?
Well, now that you mention it,
I'm probably going to track down that Nux prequel comic.
I don't think it's out yet.
Well, I'm going to track it down.
Then you'll know.
Then I'll bloody know what his backstory is.
I have a similar watch we read in.
Okay.
Also, last week I watched Not Quite Hollywood.
It was really good.
Cool.
Should I check it out?
Yeah, check it out.
It's fun.
There's actually a 1970s Bruce Lee style kung fu movie,
like an Australian one called The Man from Hong Kong,
which I'm going to watch.
I don't know if it's any good.
I bet it's not.
I bet it's not.
I think I'm going to skim it, but I'm'm gonna track that down as well awesome well actually that you saw
that on Netflix yeah there's been a lot of Downton Abbey playing in my house recently yeah not from
me from a certain person who lives with me playing it right a woman I see you know what's up I know
what you're talking about I'm just know, carrying on the traditional hate of females,
which has been an undertone of this podcast.
So I've been watching a lot of that, I guess, because it's been on.
But a lot of that show is just like,
it's just like a stable hand can't serve at the dinner table.
Or like, do you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like a scullery made can't ride a horse.
Like it's just all that.
Do we learn eventually that the scullery maid can ride a horse?
Yeah, there's a lot of that.
And it's a lot of like, if you're a butler and you've got a very specific job,
you can't do another very specific butlering job.
Right, of course, yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like it's outrageous.
Yeah, it's all right.
Oh, actually, you know what?
Something I've been listening to recently, a podcast friend of mine,
Micah Williams, friend of the show, comedian.
He listens to our show.
He better.
Yeah, he does. Bloody oath he does. He has a podcast called Pop Quiz Hot michael williams friend of the show comedian uh he listens to our show he better yeah he did but he does he has a podcast called pop quiz hot shot oh good name it's like it's very good right and he gets um he gets a lot of like guest comedians and stuff
like that uh and his wife is on there as well she's a contestant all the time and they sort of
they do pop quiz kind of uh like a competition to see who's the best at pop quizzes and there's a
lot of fun it's very funny and there's a lot of fun it's very funny
and there's a lot
have you been on it?
no
are you going to be on it?
potentially
alright
yeah
I'm very old
I get tired easily
I don't know if I go
on other shows
but it's really good
and you should check that out
I will check it out
thank you for the heads up
I did actually
there's a Mad Max Fury Road
inspired artist's book
it's like 65 different artists
interpret comic book artists interpret the world of fury road um so i downloaded that to have a
look at it okay it's like 17 bucks so it's quite steep yeah yeah for a digital copy um but it was
you know there's some good art in there yeah can i skim it later yeah definitely great but also i
did watch ex machina oh finally now let's just say
that I definitely watch it legally
how?
let's leave it there
very specifically tell me how you did that
considering it's probably not out in Australia
I found a cinema that it was playing in
near my house
and I went there
could I go to that now?
it sounds really intriguing
I think it was once
I think it was only once
just the once
but if I went to that cinema you're talking about
and asked them about it they'd be able to tell me about that one session they did I think they was once. I think it was only once. But if I went to that cinema you're talking about and asked them about it,
they'd be able to tell me about that one session they did.
I think they fired everybody afterwards.
They fired everybody there.
That's interesting.
Because the scullery maid was riding a horse or something.
So if I went on maybe Twitter,
I could probably find other people who'd watched it.
Look, it was a very private screening.
There was only me and maybe one other person there.
Who was the other person?
I can't say, mate.
It's not important.
Fine.
Fine.
But anyway, you watched it.
Totally legal. I really liked it
it's really messed up
I've been looking forward
to that movie
for like a year
and I complained
last year
last week
that I couldn't
see it anywhere
so I have seen it
fantastic
and I really liked it
great
so maybe
we'll do an episode
on like AI movies
and stuff
at some point
AI
AI yeah
I'd love to talk about it.
Chappie again.
We'll just edit in the entire episode
where we talked about Chappie.
That's it.
It's from Courtney Heck though.
She sent in a What We're Reading this week.
Fantastic.
I try to include a What We're Reading.
If we get a What We're Reading, I'll include it.
You remember Courtney?
Yeah.
This week I finished reading the book
Ables by Jeremy Scott.
If you recognize the name,
this is because Jeremy is the co-
From the Adidas.
The Adidas guy?
Never mind.
Co-founder of the voice of YouTube Cinema S the from the adidas the adidas guy never mind co-founder
of the boy uh and voice of youtube cinema sins i was also the adidas guy i think he is he's very
rich i was also excited i was excited when i heard the book about the book and pre-ordered it so i
get as soon as possible the book is a group about a group of super powered children however each has
a disability that they have to overcome um i love the book and i would highly recommend it as really
interesting superhero story
and it is great for people like me
who prefer novels over comics.
Very good.
Nerd.
Superhero stories in novel form
have never really grabbed me as much.
Because there's no pitches.
There's no pitches.
There's no pretty pitches.
But there's still some pretty good ones out there.
Yeah, there is.
Okay, good.
I'm on board.
I'm going to check this out.
Cool.
All right.
Do you love Cinema Sins?
Yeah. Do you really? I don't know. Yeah, there is, yeah. Okay, good. I'm on board. I'm going to check this out. Cool. All right. Do you love Cinema Sins? Yeah.
Do you really?
I don't know what that is.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, never mind.
Time for letters.
Letters.
Letters.
And then we'll go.
I love you.
Some letters.
They're only a day away.
They're right now.
They are.
All right, guys.
Just saw Mad Max Fury Road and Bloomin' loved it.
Very good.
Especially how Mad Max was actually pretty unhinged
In this one
Do you agree?
Just asking you
That's me asking
Yeah
He still doesn't strike me
As that mad
He got mad when
Nux took his jacket
Yeah give him his jacket back
And his car
And his bloody car
But other than that
He wasn't super mad
Most of the time
He's mostly just stoic
Anyways
Which again is very true
To the character
True
Anyways what do you guys Want to see in the sequel? Apparently the title's Going to be Mad Max Furiosa super mad most of the time. He's mostly just stoic. Anyways. Which again is very true to the character. True. Yeah.
Anyways, what do you guys want to see in the sequel?
Apparently the title is going to be Mad Max Furiosa.
Yep.
What's that about?
All caps.
That's just putting another character's name on the bloody subtitle.
That'd be like making a movie called Superman, Batman.
It sure would.
By the way, can I be the official biker mouse from Mars of the podcast?
Yes.
Keep up the good work, you dickheads.
JD.
Yeah, so originally Mad Max Furiosa and Fury Road
were going to film at the same time.
Interesting.
And I'd imagine what happened was,
because the budget blew out on this.
Right.
It's like $150 million or whatever.
And they probably thought,
well, it's been 30 years since a Mad Max movie.
Maybe this will tank.
Yeah, he could George Lucas it.
Right, exactly, yeah.
So I'd imagine that's why they didn't.
But also, generally, when they film things back to back,
not great, generally.
Matrix sequels.
Pirates 2 and 3.
Yeah.
Other things.
Yeah.
Can't think of any others.
No.
Lord of the Rings were good.
Yeah.
And The Hobbit, not as much.
Yeah, so what do you want to see in it?
If it's called Furiosa, those bloody-
Probably an origin story.
Could be.
But it's-
That is a good question.
If it's an origin story, I think it couldn't be 100% origin.
I think it'd have to be-
Back and forth.
I think it'd have to be sequel to this one, plus origin stuff.
Because otherwise people would complain there's not enough Mad Max in it.
Plus origin stuff.
Because otherwise people will complain there's not enough Mad Max in it.
Although it might be interesting to see, like, to set the prequel,
maybe Mad Max is on an adventure.
Yep.
And Furiosa is on an adventure having an origin kind of thing. Yep.
And then it sort of dovetails into Fury Road.
Okay, sure.
I think that would work.
All right, sure.
I would say, because, you know, again, we don't know how, if indeed Fury Road was a
sequel to Thunderdome.
Yeah.
We don't know how many years it was in between.
Yeah.
So maybe it's a whole bunch of years.
How'd she lose that arm?
How'd she lose the arm?
Exactly.
But also, do you lose the element of something when you explain everything that happens?
You probably do.
Yeah.
Okay.
Just make it a sequel then.
Make it a sequel.
Yeah. But then again, like, would that mean that she's running probably do. Yeah. Okay. Just make it a sequel then. Make it a sequel. Yeah.
But then again,
like would that mean that she's running the town?
Yeah, that would be.
So the next one's just going to be logistics.
Maybe she's gone like Tina Turner mad.
Yeah, man.
Okay.
Maybe.
From Thunderdome.
Yeah, mad makes us to stop her.
Yeah.
He wouldn't really though.
He'd probably just keep going.
Probably just drive off.
It feels like he only stops something
if it's in his direct path.
Yeah, I think so.
And it's stopping him from wandering in the desert
yeah yeah then he'll
yeah yeah no that'll be
i'm really looking
forward to it it's
weird for a sequel
because you don't want
the world to become
too ordered okay you
don't want the people
to get complacent in
this world you still
want this world to be
doomed i think because
if they're like oh
now we've got
agriculture and blah
blah i'm like i guess
yeah you want if
anything they're gonna
have agriculture for the first 10 minutes
and then a new team of villains shows up.
Anti-agriculture people.
Yeah, just burns everything in the ground.
Yeah, cool.
That's what you want.
I'm all for that.
Well, there's all sorts of towns near it.
We didn't see, you know, there's that town that makes petrol or whatever.
Yeah.
We didn't really see that or what's going on there.
That's true, yeah.
So maybe that's the rival.
Yeah, yeah.
Whatever.
Got another letter here.
Hey, Nick and James, my name is none of your business.
Oh, very good.
And recently-
When you think about it, at some point Mad Max is going to have to get to the coast, right?
I guess.
I mean, where did he start?
Ballarat, right?
Yeah, he started Ballarat.
So what direction?
You just go south, yeah.
That's probably about two and a half hours to the coast.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Should have made it there by now.
Yeah, probably less actually.
He looks like he's just going north.
He's just going more into the centre.
Up through the bloody red centre, mate.
Yeah.
Stay out of that.
There's nothing there, mate.
There's nothing there.
Although, when you think about it,
if Australia was destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse,
they would probably leave Central Australia alone
because there's nothing there.
Yeah, I guess so.
So if you go there, it's probably the best now.
Probably got all sorts of palm trees.
No, there's literally nothing in there.
It's mining towns and whatever.
Anyway, sorry, back to none of your business.
Anyway, the Thor...
None of your business, Joe.
Yes.
Everyone gets a demand.
The Thor reveal has been made, who the female Thor is.
So if you don't want to know who this is, just maybe tune out for a few minutes.
Do you want to know?
Yeah, kind of.
Is it an original character or is it a-
No, it's new.
No, existing.
Okay.
Jane Foster.
Oh, there we go.
Right.
So it's revealed that-
It's a Red Hulk reveal.
Yes.
She changes, she loses a big mustache, and she turns into female Thor.
As everyone knows, Jane is the love interest of Thor in the MCU and in the comics.
What do you guys think of Jane being worthy of the hammer?
By the way, you guys are super cool, keep up the good work,
and can I be the official sidekick of Nick Mason?
No, you're super cool.
You're all right.
Yeah, sure you can.
I don't know.
I haven't been invested in the story at all because I haven't read it.
I read the first three.
It doesn't really matter.
I guess, you know,
she's been through some stuff with Thor.
Well, the current thing with Jane Foster
is she has cancer.
Oh.
And every time she thaws up,
it's like it's killing her.
Every time she thaws out.
Thaws out, yeah.
Yeah.
And, but the question here is,
so yeah, what do you think about her being worthy?
I'd imagine because she's doing it and it's killing her, that makes her worthy.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, you're probably right.
I mean, I haven't read it, so I don't know about that issue.
Yeah, you're probably right.
I guess the idea of being worthy is you have to be a worthy warrior and all that sort of stuff.
So I guess if you've been through enough stuff with Thor,
you probably are worthy kind of thing.
If you've saved the universe a couple of times, et cetera, et cetera,
you probably are.
But at the same time, again, being completely uninvested in the storyline,
I kind of wanted it to be an original character.
Okay, sure.
But there you are.
There you are, Mason.
Would you like to see... What's her name?
Takeover in the movies?
Well, yeah, what's her name?
Natalie Portman.
Natalie Portman, no.
Not even for a second?
Oh, yeah, for a second, sure.
One second.
Yeah, for one second.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Might go that way eventually.
It's from Malie, who's written in before with all sorts of scoops.
Oh, yeah.
Old Scoopy Malie.
Old Scoops Malay.
Did you guys see, and what do you think of the Crossbones costume?
Did you see that?
I saw it very briefly.
It looks pretty good.
I liked it a lot.
Solid, yeah.
And it makes sense he's wearing a mask.
It does make sense.
Because Crossbones does.
And also he's got his face burned off.
Yeah.
Yeah, it looks pretty solid.
I'm all for it.
Are you against it?
And it looks kind of, you know, it looks shield-y as well.
Do you hear that banging?
Yeah. What the hell is that? Stop it, Are you against it? And it looks kind of, you know, it looks shield-y as well. Do you hear that banging? Yeah. What the hell is that?
Stop it, whoever you are!
They just keep going. They just keep going.
It's getting tense. Should I probably go check
that out? Yeah, maybe. Alright, I'll be back.
Talk to the listeners. I won't. I'm gonna be
in total silence. I'm gonna take a weapon.
Yeah, good thing. Do you mind if I take one of your shoes
yeah no take one of my shoes
sure
take the vacuum
they stopped
oh wait now they're continuing
you know what it is
what is it
there's some fucking hipster
he's dressed
oh here we go he's dressed. Oh, here we go.
He's dressed in
like little shorts
and flannel
and he's got a beard
and Ray-Bans
and a backwards hat
and he's got a
he's got a bloody
lacrosse stick
and he's throwing a ball
up against the side of my
where we live.
Not us.
You told him to stop?
What are you going to do?
Let's let it go, insanity man anyway press on wait does he live around here i've never seen him before
anyway if you know who that guy is is that coming through on the headphones probably is yeah
uh anyway let's knock this out real quick.
Okay.
So what do you think, Crossbone Costumes?
It's fine?
Yeah, it's good.
It's pretty good.
Again, as a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, it makes sense.
Yeah, it does.
It looks real good.
Last letter here.
Okay.
Hi, I'm Dean from Ireland.
I love your podcast and I was looking to see your opinion on something.
Since two of you make fun of movies a lot.
It's true.
I was wondering what you two...
Patrick Ireland.
I was wondering what you two thought of Ireland. I was wondering what you two
thought of the upcoming film
Big Game
starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Do you know what that is?
Nope, not at all.
It's the one where he's the president
and he crashes in the...
in Russia or something
in the jungle
or the forest
and then a Russian boy
saves him or something.
Huh.
And they team up.
It's Samuel L. Jackson
and a Russian boy with a bow and arrow.
In the jungle.
It's the forest.
The forest.
The Russian forest.
What do you think?
Look, I'm open to it.
I'm really looking at this Crossbones costume.
It's pretty good.
He's got these solid punching arms.
Yeah.
Real solid punching gauntlets.
He does, doesn't he?
Well, he'd need it, wouldn't he?
Yeah, exactly. If solid punching gauntlets. He does, doesn't he? Well, he'd need it, wouldn't he? Yeah, exactly.
If you're fighting Captain America.
Can I show you, just very quickly, a clip from the latest Entourage movie?
Yes.
This is a classic example of Vinny Chase getting exactly what he wants.
Okay, sure.
Everything working out.
So this is what we could expect from-
So this is the new movie.
From the new Entourage movie.
Where he gets to do the movie.
All right, here we go. So he's about to show a premiere of his new movie. He says, I'm going to show you the movie Entourage movie. Where he gets to do the movie. Alright, here we go.
So he's about to show a premiere of his new movie.
I mean, he might have been nervous, I can't tell, because you're not very good at emoting.
That guy.
Aww.
Can't do the movie. no cut to the movie cut to the movie good news is look who just showed up pharrell convince you to come up here
and perform
we're doing so basically if you couldn't hear,
they couldn't show Vinny Chase's movie,
but luckily Pharrell was there.
Yep.
And Pharrell's going to do a free concert.
Yeah.
And everything worked out.
Everything worked out so good.
Vinny Chase and the entourage.
We're doing an entourage episode, aren't we?
I guess.
Yeah.
Oh, for the movie.
Will it help at all that I've not really seen any episodes?
Absolutely.
I've seen that one episode if you recall
yeah but you got
free motorbikes
yeah they all got
free motorbikes
and they went to a
kids party
and he was the
coolest kid
yeah
alright let's get
out of here
where can people
find us
that dude is still
throwing that
fucking ball
against the slide
let's get him
let's get him
after this
they can find us
on weekly planet pod
and on gmail
and on facebook
and on twitter
I'm at wikipedia brown on Correct I'm at Wikipedia Brown on Twitter
I'm at MrSundayMovies
If people want to support the show
They can go to
WeeklyPlanetPod.Bandcamp.com
Correct
They can go to Patreon.com
Slash MrSundayMovies
Or they can buy a t-shirt
We've had some nice people
Send us photos of buying t-shirts
Oh yeah yeah
Where was that one?
We didn't get one today
We didn't get one today
I'm going to find it
I'm going to find it
Unless I'm driven insane by this
Lacrosse guy
M. Night McMilliman i don't
think that's his real name callum mcmillan is his real name all right twitter he's got a grab dad
gem one the old meso t-shirt you got the better catchphrase yeah i did i got shooting up your
butthole no one's gonna buy that i also said that one so i don't know makes no sense get your own
bloody catchphrase mate all right next week we going to test out some catchphrases for you
alright fine
you're going to come up
with some
and we'll give them a
burl and see what happens
okay
anyway all that stuff
alright
yep
yeah email us
do we say a lot
so all those t-shirts
are at Redbubble
yeah Redbubble
just look up
weekly planet
yep
and they'll all be there
alright next week
I want to do Tomorrowland
but it's not out here
next week
so we're going to have
to push it back a week
and then I think we're going to do San Andreas which is the rock fights an earthquake I want to do Tomorrowland, but it's not out here next week, so we're going to have to push it back a week. And then I think we're going to do San Andreas,
which is the rock that fights an earthquake.
And we'll do Tomorrowland in the same week.
Love it.
So next week, maybe we'll do like a Flash Arrow thing recap, like you said.
Okay, what we'll do is we'll recap whatever we can stand.
Yes.
We'll recap to whatever we can finish without our eyes bleeding.
Absolutely.
All right, thanks, guys.
Grab that data gem, friends.
Bye.