The Weekly Planet - King Kong 1933 - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: March 28, 2024

We're going back to where it all began, the original King Kong movie from 1933. It's influence is still felt to this very day with it's unique story, amazing use of stop motion coupled with rear proj...ection and a symphonic score to accompany the iconic imagery. It's easy to see why it became an instant classic and remains relevant in the year 2024. Thanks for watchingSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:54 Welcome back, everybody, to another record-breaking episode of Caravan of Garbage. Elaborate on that. We broke a record last week. Did we? Because we did the oldest movie we've ever done. Whoa! And this week, we're breaking that record again We broke a record last week. Did we? Because we did the oldest movie we've ever done. Whoa. And this week we're breaking that record again
Starting point is 00:01:07 by doing the oldest movie we've ever done. Whoa. Now this isn't the oldest movie we've ever talked about in our private lives. I'm just saying. Might be. What about all the times we've whiled away, you know, in front of a fireplace talking about the train that comes into the station and everybody thinks it's a real train and they're like look out!
Starting point is 00:01:25 Sometimes we describe it to each other so evocatively that we actually think a train is coming at us. We're not even watching the movie. But I'm like no James, stop describing it so well. People could appreciate how well we describe things just from these videos alone. That's why we
Starting point is 00:01:42 get so many likes. People leave likes on this video. And comments that are like what's the plot of this? They didn't describe the plot. Sometimes we just assume you all know, I guess. Yeah, you know King Kong, right? That's right. Just a maniac. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:53 Just a maniac running about. That's right. Running amok. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Getting some people who deserve it and some people who quite frankly don't. You've probably seen the 2005 version. You might have seen the version. We did a video on it.
Starting point is 00:02:04 You might have seen the 70s version. Maybe it was on TV when I was a kid. Probably. You may not have seen the 1933 version, King Kong or Men Who Hate Women For No Reason, the movie. Just a bunch of men on a ship being like, what are you doing here? She's like, I'm here for the King Kong movie.
Starting point is 00:02:23 No, I don't like that. There's a moment that there's a moment there's a great line i know exactly where you're going with this do you want to do it now but well there's a moment where so it's fey ray yeah breakout role as uh as this uh a young woman who's come to the big city but she and she wants to she wants to make it somehow and she gets roped into this suicide mission to go to an island uh and and be accosted by a giant ape and everybody else yes but she spent some time on the ship with a with a bunch of people who don't like her yeah they're like one guy in particular the love interest yes jack who's like what's women
Starting point is 00:02:56 doing here i hate women why why you ruin everything why did you kill yourself and then 30 minutes in the movie after a small number of conversations he says her, they're alone and they're on the deck of the ship, and he says, I guess I love you. And she says, but Jack, you hate women. And he does. He goes, yeah, I know. He literally says, yeah, I know. James, this was a simpler time.
Starting point is 00:03:19 You could meet a woman for 30 minutes. Be awful. Be awful and then marry her. Because she had to because she couldn't get a credit card or a home if she didn't marry you. I think of this era as the all right boys era. It was a simpler time. It was a beautiful time.
Starting point is 00:03:34 You'd have 10 to 20 of your boys behind you, and you could go like, all right, boys, let's build a raft. All right, boys, back to the ship. All right, boys, see these prehistoric wonders from before the dawn of man? Let's shoot them. You know? Your boys are backing no matter what. They just murmur.
Starting point is 00:03:50 You know, you tell your boys and they go... You've got to make sure that you're the head of the boys, though. Oh, absolutely. You don't want to be one of those murmuring fellows. You'll get tipped right off a tree to your death. You'll be one of several men who die that way. And you're like, were they in an earlier scene or is this new for the... I don't know.
Starting point is 00:04:06 It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. All right, boys. Take some photos of this ape. I didn't get trampled by the ape. All right, boys. This is a pretty remarkable movie. Imagine seeing this, though, in 1933.
Starting point is 00:04:20 I mean, now, yuck. Old, obviously. Yeah, yuck. I mean, on the one hand, full respect for using the Zack Snyder Justice League aspect ratio. Gotta respect that. Absolutely. Zack Snyder's the blueprint, as we know.
Starting point is 00:04:31 That's right. They recut the original Kid Cod to fit his vision. No, look, I am joking in terms of it being yuck. This genuinely blew me away. Right? I'd seen clips of it. I hadn't seen it in its entirety. It's very good world building.
Starting point is 00:04:45 Look, the acting's not great. It's the 1930s acting. It is what it is. It's the 1930s staging. It all looks like it's a play. It's all middle shots of two men going, oh, I'll say a line and smoke a pipe or whatever. Exactly, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:58 But yeah, the acting's a little wooden. So the original, the inception of this story, like the movie Inception, Maren C. Cooper, one of the co-directors, his first vision was of a giant ape on top of the world's tallest building fighting aeroplanes. And then he went, okay, how do I make this work? And went backwards from there.
Starting point is 00:05:16 Okay, yeah. Which I love. I mean, I could just film that. It's in an era where I could just film that and put it on screen and people would be blown away. But I'm going to go the extra mile. I'm going to use logic and reason. I'm going to use logic and reason. There's a lot of logic and reason in this, I tell you what.
Starting point is 00:05:29 Also, there's a lot of things in here that you'll recognise as staples of the film industry and things that still carry over. Screaming. Screaming. If you love screaming, this is a film for you. At least 40 minutes of solid screaming. Absolutely. 40 minutes of King Kong as well, which is a lot of King Kong.
Starting point is 00:05:45 Yeah. Really, yeah. It's one of the first Hollywood films to use a fully symphonic musical score by Max Steiner. Not just by him, but just in general. Sure, okay. A lot of movies didn't really do that. They certainly hadn't allowed a score by Max Steiner. No.
Starting point is 00:05:59 None of them had at this point. I think he maybe had done a previous movie to this. That's not important. Sure. It's not important. I think Max Steiner would probably think it's important that's true i mean not now no oh yeah everyone in this movie involved in it is dead is long dead even king kong he died in the movie they killed him in the movie oh yeah yeah you wouldn't do that these days no he'd give a
Starting point is 00:06:19 thumbs up like his corpse would give a thumbs up on the ground he'd be like aha that's a little clue he'll be back for the sequel you know maybe some rocks would levitate off his coffin and you'd know he's still there's still a chance he could come back snyder is the blueprint absolutely yeah the animators for this they also acted out the fighting between like the t-rex and king kong for for reference footage which makes total sense you can see that in in the rasslin yeah yeah the rasslin in this uh It's also combining stop motion, which was relatively new, with rear projection.
Starting point is 00:06:49 This is the stuff that really blows me away. This is the volume, baby. It is the volume, baby. And if you watch it like an Ahsoka or later seasons of The Mandalorian or whatever, it is set up like a plot. It's the same framing. It's the same framing.
Starting point is 00:07:03 It's just two people in a mid shot going, oh, we've got to go to a different room. It is set up like a plot. It's the same framing. It's the same framing. It's just two people in a mid shot going, oh, we've got to go to a different room. We should stand sort of next to each other in a different room after this. Yeah, that's cool. Also, the thing with that stop motion and rear projection, they do it two different ways. So it might be that the stop motion is the rear projection,
Starting point is 00:07:22 the background and actors are in front of it, like reacting to King Kong kong or dinosaurs or like the the log tipping and they match it all up perfectly or they flip it where they have a stop motion set and they might have like an actor like in the corner and they'd film that prior and they flick one frame at a time for every movement of king kong or whatever so you're capturing that in footage if if that makes sense. It doesn't, but I'll watch this again later on. Then I'll understand, maybe. There's a moment that really impressed me where King Kong's fighting a lizard in the cave
Starting point is 00:07:54 and Anne is in the background behind him. Yes. And then in front of King Kong is Jack hiding behind some rocks, which people are often doing in this movie, like hiding behind a thing while a thing is happening. And he's like, there's no way I can die because I'm not one of the boys in the back. That's right. I'm safe here.
Starting point is 00:08:11 But that's three separate elements that they've combined practically. And it's just really impressive that they were able to pull that off in a relatively convincing way. Anyway, standout moments, you mentioned, where they kill that Stegosaurus. That's like an extended sequence where you see it just lumbering about and it runs up and they shoot at it and gas it. They don't.
Starting point is 00:08:33 They say, all right, boys, let's shoot this. Let's shoot this unique specimen that exists nowhere else in the world. Let's riddle this thing. And then they shoot at a bunch of the falls over and then they walk past and they're like, better shoot it in the head. Yep.
Starting point is 00:08:45 The stop motion that's happening, it's lined up perfectly, and it's one extended sequence. It's a one-er, Mason. It is a one-er. You familiar with a one-er? No, but I'll research it later. That's right. I'll understand it.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Just watch the opening of Goodfellas, Mason. That's a famous one-er. This is the spiritual predecessor to the movie Extraction. Sure. That makes sense. You know where Chris Hemsworth shoots that stegosaurus in that Russian prison? I think all the dinosaur stuff is really fun. Even the stuff that King Kong is not in.
Starting point is 00:09:16 The moment we mentioned it where King Kong is just killing several guys on a log. And you see everybody hit the ground individually. That's right. They don't have to show that and yet they do. You know what I would say if I were to be critical of this movie? It's old yuck. But also the sound design, like they're not quite there yet. Like he's often thumping his chest.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Yes, there's no footsteps. There's no footsteps. Foliage kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is very early days of sound in cinema as well. When the bodies hit the ground and crumple
Starting point is 00:09:46 they don't really make a noise they don't go ah I'm dead and I'm dying but I guess what they probably
Starting point is 00:09:52 were expecting is people in the audience of cinemas going just yelling out that's obscene you know they wouldn't be hearing
Starting point is 00:09:59 the sound effects and I like it yeah I mean the T-Rex fight obviously and the bit where he does the yappy jaw. Just little moments like that.
Starting point is 00:10:07 You don't need to put that in, but it gives him kind of an animalistic curiosity. Sure. Which makes him feel more alive. And just, yeah. Okay, bringing King Kong to life. Absolute marvel. So, Marcel Delgado, he made the animation models.
Starting point is 00:10:22 And they used metal skeletal structures previously they'd used like a terminator that's right and then they'd use like i knew he'd give a thumbs up yeah and they they use material that would like flex and expand and contract for the muscles so you see him kind of move beneath he's covered in rabbit fur which they would try to brush down between each movement but you watch it kind of move up and down on him because as they move the model, the fur moves. And it kind of gives away that it is stop motion. And then they also built like a bunch of life-size stuff. There's the bust, like the head and the shoulders.
Starting point is 00:10:57 There's a big hand and a big arm and a big foot for stomping. Is the scale correct? Like when he goes into Fay Wray's hotel room and drags the bed out? It's like, is that scale right? I don't know. What did you just put? Rabbit fur on a broom. Yeah, well, even the models of Kong are different.
Starting point is 00:11:16 The one in the jungle is smaller than the one in the city. Well, because they gave him roids on the trip over. They must have, yeah. Because at some point during the boat ride, somebody's like, I don't know, I've been around this guy for a while. He's not that impressive anymore, if I'm honest. Well, let's roid him up. See how big we can get him.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Yeah. He's on GGH. What's that? Gorilla Growth Home. They're all on it, all the stars. They're all the gorillas. Oh, just diet and exercise. Is that right, Mighty Joe Young?
Starting point is 00:11:43 Oh, poached chicken and brown rice. Shut up. You're on GGH. We all know. And bananas, is it? And one thing I like about this version of Kid Cog, and it's similar to that of Godzilla, though there is more humanity in him,
Starting point is 00:11:56 is that, God, he sucks. Like, just, he goes on multiple tears, and sometimes it is justified, and sometimes he just pulls a woman out of her bed and goes, oh, this isn't the woman
Starting point is 00:12:07 that I know and just drops her to her death. Imagine that's the way you go out. Yeah. What a nightmare. You didn't even go
Starting point is 00:12:13 to the show. No, you don't know. You don't know what's happening. You're probably sleeping because you did a big day shift.
Starting point is 00:12:19 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're probably like 20 bucks for a ticket. This is insane. I'm not going to that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:23 I'll just have a nice rest before my work at the pollution factory or whatever the lead eating factory factory and then you dragged out of there yeah my god there's a point where he just he puts a guy in his mouth and he chomps him a couple of times he's like nah and he just spits him yeah spits him out a number of these scenes also that were deleted for like various re-releases because people found them distressing all the censorship boards were, we can't put this in. It's a very violent movie.
Starting point is 00:12:48 It is. Yeah, especially of the era. Yeah, well, I've seen worse. Yeah, me too. Yeah. Remember those weird sucky creatures in the remake? Oh, man, I want to talk about that. Giving everybody a big suck.
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Starting point is 00:14:00 Help CAMH build a future where no one is left behind. So, who will you rise for? Register today at sunrisechallenge.ca. That's sunrisechallenge.ca. Oh yeah. Yeah, the city rampage. I found this fascinating that the Empire State Building had only been completed two years prior. I'm trying to think of like an equivalent thing that happened like two years ago. And I guess it would be like, I don't know if King Kong destroyed Twitter. I don't know when it was brought out two years ago.
Starting point is 00:14:31 I wonder if King Kong climbed that big sphere in Vegas. Oh, there we go. That's what you want. That's right. It's a real struggle. He's just slipping off. He's slippery, so slippery. You know what?
Starting point is 00:14:42 And it's got the big face that it's looking at. Yeah, it's got a big SpongeBob on it. He gets mad because he hates SpongeBob. All the guys in the boat kept showing him in SpongeBob on the way over. God, I'm getting bigger and I hate SpongeBob. Do you reckon the natives of the island were happy that Kong was taken? They were like, man, that guy sucks. I hope something really terrible happens to him.
Starting point is 00:15:03 I think probably all the women that were going to be sacrificed are happy yeah sure but also maybe the natives would just sacrifice them to whatever now yeah just whatever comes through the door let's sacrifice them to that dead t-rex i guess yeah but also do you think like that would miss him they're like yeah he was kind of like our tv though wasn't he you know he'd show up it was pretty exciting push some trees over do a big scream. This is good stuff. This is good stuff. Really breaks up, you know, our normal day of lighting a bunch of torches and running around. That's right.
Starting point is 00:15:32 I want to talk about all of that. But I actually found the ending when he died, like, it's a little bit affecting still. Because he's just, he's confused. Like, he's slowing down as he's being riddled with bullets. He's wondering where the blood is coming from. His insides. Sure. He doesn't know that though, does he?
Starting point is 00:15:52 I guess. And I do think it's really funny how he bounces off the building on the way down a couple of times. I enjoy that. But I think, yeah, it's funny how they managed to bring it around to like, you know, there's no sympathy for Godzilla. It's like good. Yeah, that's true, yeah. The original one I'm talking about, but this, it's like oh no, he's just a bloke having a go, wasn't he? It's true, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:14 Yeah. And I do love that line where it's... He was the crocodile Dundee of his time. He got sent to an you got sent to a world that was not his own. Yep. And he just lashed out, you know? He did, yeah. I did love that line that it's like, it wasn't the aeroplanes that killed him,
Starting point is 00:16:29 it was beauty that killed the beast, which is basically like women, am I right? Can you believe women did this? Beauty's the brand of the machine guns. Oh, okay. So technically he's not wrong. Yeah, yeah. God, now in terms of reactions to this,
Starting point is 00:16:40 people, like the general audience loved it. It's a blockbuster. It's the equivalent of a 1933 blockbuster. Our co-director Maren Cooper, who reacted to a critic's idea that the movie was implausible by saying, sure it is. I can't think of anything more implausible. Imagine
Starting point is 00:16:55 seeing this and going, this isn't very real. Yeah, man. What's that guy? What's that science guy? That guy? Neil deGrasse Tyson. There we go. That's the guy what's that science guy that guy neil degrasse tyson there we go yeah that's that's the guy it's exactly actually the gorilla would be crushed under its own weight i think actually well he's on the ggh yeah you don't know uh so of course there are dated depictions in this of you know the way they're treated women or the one woman oh no there's two women because another
Starting point is 00:17:22 one gets flung out of that building yeah i guess and the natives obviously and you know obviously it is of the era it's a very different time but here's something that's interesting uh the film was initially banned in nazi germany with the censors describing it as an attack against the nerves of the german people and i know right and potentially German racial sentiment however according to a confidant of Adolf Hitler
Starting point is 00:17:49 Hitler himself was fascinated by this film and saw it several times it was a big film buff so if you like this movie you like the same thing
Starting point is 00:17:55 as Hitler wow yeah so just bear that in mind do you like this movie uh yeah but I didn't know that Hitler thing
Starting point is 00:18:02 well Hitler breathed oxygen we're all breathing oxygen oh you like that do you no I don't know that Hitler thing. Well, Hitler breathed oxygen. We're all breathing oxygen. Oh, you like that, do you? No, I don't like anything about that guy. Wow. I don't like him. I mean, I like how he's addicted to meth.
Starting point is 00:18:13 I think that's pretty funny. That is funny. Yeah. Anyway, it's time for Trivia 1933. King Kong. This is the trivia segment of the show, Mason. This is going to be obscene. I don't think so. On August 10th, 2004, two days after Fay Wray died,
Starting point is 00:18:28 the Empire State Building darkened its lights in memory of her. It's nice because she was up in this movie. That's a nice tribute. And again, if the Las Vegas sphere was around when she passed, they would have put one of her eyes real big on it. I think that would be beautiful. Just looking around at Vegas, you know? Yep. Now, you might have heard about this, but there's a deleted scene which has never been
Starting point is 00:18:48 found, which was apparently only publicly shown once for a preview screening. And it's a scene where Kong shakes the sailors off the bridge and they fall into the ravine and then they're eaten by giant spiders. Now, apparently at this alleged preview screening that may or may not have happened, audience members screamed and left the theater or they talked about this grisly sequence spiders now apparently at this alleged preview screening that may or may not have happened audience members screamed and left the theater or they talked about this grisly sequence throughout the subsequent scenes and so one of the directors said it just stopped the picture cold so the next day back at the studio i took it out myself and this has completely disappeared there is like there's rumors of its existence and there are still images that do, but it was remade of course in the 2005 King Kong
Starting point is 00:19:25 movie. And Peter Jackson also went back and made that scene in the style of 1933, which is funny. He did the whole black and white thing and rear projection and all of that, which is a fun little thing he did. And look, it's fun to think that people were too scared
Starting point is 00:19:41 of the spider sequence, but I think the second theory is more fun, the idea that they wouldn't stop talking about it afterwards. Oh, he's climbed the building, but it's not as good as the spider thing. Oh, he's got the... He's climbed... Oh, it's not as good as the spider thing. Everybody's taking photos of King Kong,
Starting point is 00:19:59 but it's not as good as the spider thing. Never somebody should have taken photos of the spider thing. I wish I did. I wish I took photos of it. But you get cameras that take forever. You know how they are in 1933. Or as we call it the spider thing. Never somebody should have taken photos of the spider thing. I wish I did. I wish I took photos of it. But you get cameras they take forever. You know how they are in 1933. Or as we call it the present day. Anyway, let's burn down this theatre.
Starting point is 00:20:12 Something to do. Something to do. Something to do. So you mentioned this, but there's a moment where somebody says, these tickets cost me 20 bucks. Now, assuming that they're $10 each, right? Oh, yeah. Okay, sure.
Starting point is 00:20:23 He's mind two tickets, one for him and one for a woman he's trapped into his life. $10 in 1933 is equivalent to $234 in 2024. Is that a reasonable amount of money to go to a theatre and you heard there might be a gorilla there and then they pull up the curtain and there's just a giant
Starting point is 00:20:39 gorilla chained up. Is that a reasonable amount of money to pay? That's a, I mean that's a that's a chance you are taking. That's wild. Like imagine, I don't know how much, Taylor Swift is often touring and I don't know how much those tickets cost, but maybe sort of equivalent. What if you were like, hey, listen, you can pay $230
Starting point is 00:20:57 and Taylor Swift might play a series of hits from her vast catalogue of albums or there's just a giant gorilla chained up. And maybe it gets loose. Maybe. Yeah, I think that's probably worth it, honestly, yeah. It's 50-50. It really is. God.
Starting point is 00:21:15 Before they set it both up, Taylor Swift goes on stage and they set the gorilla up and then they flip a coin. And if it's tails, Taylor Swift is just like, well, bye. Or she drops through the stage. The trap door opens. You know how Roger Ebert, he didn't like the original Godzilla. He did like this one. He's like, it's corny and cheesy and whatever, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:21:33 But it's America made. Yeah, he likes it. But he kind of, I read his review and there's a reluctance to it. To like, I know it's hokey and silly and the special effects don't hold up. But I like it, I guess. You know, you can openly like it. It's okay. Hitler liked it, but whatever.
Starting point is 00:21:48 That's right. Whatever. This is also one of 11 films that Fay Wray appeared in, released in 1933. Damn. I feel like this was an easier time. There's no method acting. There's no weight loss or muscle gain.
Starting point is 00:22:04 Sure. You turn up. There would have been some meth acting. Oh i think yeah once we hit the judy garland era there would definitely be oh yeah it really would have just been like you turn up they switch on the camera you go what's that who's there they switch it off you have a cigarette you know your movie's done sure absolutely yeah but i mean you were also kind of you know you you were you were in contract to that yeah studio for your entire life that is true you got ten dollars a week yep which was enough to see a giant gorilla i guess so that's that's something that's right in terms of box office the budget of this was 672 000 which is the equivalent to about $16 million nowadays. And the box office return initially was $5.3 million,
Starting point is 00:22:46 which today is about $126 million. So big return on this. This film grossed $90,000 in its opening weekend, the biggest opening ever at the time, and it actually saved RKO, who made this. The previous year, they lost $10 million. Wow. I mean, in movies.
Starting point is 00:23:03 I don't think they just lost it. Sure, right. Yeah. So MGM actually offered to buy this movie before it was released for $1 million, which RKO declined, luckily, because every time they re-released this, it made like multiple millions of dollars. This was an absolute cash cow for them. It also got a sequel nine months later, the same year Son of Kong came out in December.
Starting point is 00:23:25 Nine months later. That means Kong was doing it. He was doing it. We don't know the gestational cycle of a giant gorilla. It's probably nine months. Yeah, it's probably nine months. Isn't that what that Hugh Grant movie's about? Yeah. The gestational period of a giant gorilla? That's right, where he impregnates Julianne Moore with a giant gorilla. And Robin Williams comes
Starting point is 00:23:41 in and he's like, I'm a doctor! Ooh, very good. Ooh, lovely. A gorilla, you say. So the King Kong movies, just the movies themselves, we're not talking about the animated show, merchandise, all of that. At time of recording, they've made $1.7 billion. Are we including the MonsterVerse movies? Yes.
Starting point is 00:24:00 Is this enough for it? Oh, maybe. I don't know. It's probably, probably. It could be. Yeah. It could be more or less. No, that's probably right. You said a big number. What more enough for you? Oh, maybe. I don't know. It's probably, probably. It could be. Yeah. It could be more or less. No, that's probably right.
Starting point is 00:24:07 You said a big number. What more do you want? Yeah, what more do you want? God. These people, they're always like, your numbers aren't accurate. You don't know what you're talking about. Kill yourself. No, I won't.
Starting point is 00:24:16 I'm going to live. That's right. I'm going to live and say random numbers. Four, 72, 100 billion trillion. What are you going to do about it? Nothing. Those numbers were all wrong, by the way. That's right.
Starting point is 00:24:28 They were wrong for the context. We also don't even know, like, in terms of how wrong. Yeah. Because we don't understand the original context. That's right. Yeah. But you know what? You know what's good context?
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Starting point is 00:24:56 let's plays we play so many good and bad video games there you play them yeah I got fumble fingers so you know
Starting point is 00:25:03 I mostly just commentate from the back. Yeah. Do it better. Do a backflip. Play a better game. Yeah. Too late, I guess.
Starting point is 00:25:11 There's other bonus podcasts. Also, our podcast, The Weekly Planet, where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. That comes out there early on Sunday as opposed to Monday. But if you want to check that out, we're going to talk about the new Godzilla X Kong movie. That's got its own YouTube channel, Spotify. It's on Apple and whatever. Just Google it or just use whatever thing you use, all right? Just use whatever thing you use.
Starting point is 00:25:29 I don't know what you use. I don't know what you're up to. Right? Yeah. What are you, listening to a podcast on Roku or something? Is that what you're doing? Maybe you do it. I can probably do that.
Starting point is 00:25:37 You shouldn't do that. That functionality's probably there, though. But don't do it. Don't do it. All right, thanks, everyone, and thank you to Ben and Lawrence for the edit. Thank you, Ben and Lawrence. Oh, also, before we go. Yeah? Yoga commercials. Don't do it. All right. Thanks, everyone. And thank you to Ben and Lawrence for the edit. Thank you, Ben and Lawrence. Also, before we go.
Starting point is 00:25:45 Yeah. Yoga commercials. Oh, my God. We didn't even mention yoga commercials. I love those. Yeah. Why do you bring them up, though? Because they're stop motion gorilla stuff?
Starting point is 00:25:54 Because they're stop motion gorilla stuff. Yeah, man. Look those up. Australian as well, by the way. That's right. Australian owned and loved. Yeah. Is yoga any good?
Starting point is 00:26:01 I can't imagine it is. I don't remember liking it as a kid. I remember eating it and being like, I like the idea of this, but this tastes like shit. Good ads, though. Great ads. That's just why I'm. It's speed.
Starting point is 00:26:12 They did speed, didn't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Among others. That's right. Yeah, man. Well, grab that jamming, guys. We'll see you next week. Get yourself a yoga.
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