From the Dungeons of Morningstar, my name's Stretch,
and I'm Clint, and this is Prevailing Strange.
Welcome back guys to our week in review, a segment
of Prevailing Strange where Clint and I get to
share our thoughts on some of the content that
we've checked out this week. So tell me buddy,
what have you checked out this week? Mate. Not
much. Not much. I've been trying to watch Akira,
but it's a hard slog. Such a hard slog. It's
so slow. And it's so confusing. Like, it doesn't
seem to be any story at the moment. I'm halfway
through. So hopefully they do a Full Metal Alchemist
and jam a whole heap into the last half. Yeah,
okay. Oh, man. I fucking love that movie. It's
funny that you find it to be a hard slog, yeah.
Mum might be watching a different dub than what
you're watching. It's cheese and rice. Yeah,
right. No, it just looks fantastic. It's just,
I don't know, it was so kind of cutting edge
at the time when it came out, I guess. Yeah,
right. So I don't know whether nostalgia plays
a big part, but it's still considered one of
the best movies of all time, let alone animated
movies. Who the fuck wrote that list? Man, it
pops up on heaps of lists. Legit. I'm dubious.
Okay. And I will hold reserve. Hold reserve.
Anyway, so, yeah, I've tried to finish Akira,
and we'll see how I go. I'll try to finish it
off tonight. But it's just like I'll make it
probably like 20 minutes, half an hour, and I'm
so slow. And usually if I'm watching something,
I'll stay awake. Okay, even for the fact that
so many kind of scenes from it have influenced
so many scenes in modern day kind of movies and
TV, you haven't noticed that? Not really. The
bike slide? Oh, the bike slide, yeah. Yeah, that
fucking shows up in everything. It does, even
in cars these days. Yeah. Shows up. Yeah. But
yeah, what have you checked out? So I have watched
something this week. What was it? Ironheart.
Did you watch it? No. Should I? Listen, it was
slightly better than I thought it was going to
be, but I did not have great hopes for it. The
ending is better than the beginning. Okay. I
can kind of see why they released it three episodes
and then another three episodes. So it's only
like four and a half hours. It's not very long.
I might push it out tonight. Yeah, it kind of
bogs down a little bit in the middle. Right.
The supporting cast you don't feel a lot for.
Right. That being said, I don't really kind of
rally behind her either. I don't know. So what
was the reason? Give me the why. For? This show.
I think it was initially meant to be a lead up
to the Armor Wars. Which was mixed out. Yeah,
I think so. I don't think it's happening anymore.
Okay. It was meant to be a movie, then it was
going to be a TV show, and now I haven't heard
anything about it for a long time. So was this
filmed prior to Armor Wars being X'd? I don't
believe so. So why film it? I don't know. Probably
because she popped up in fucking Black Panther
2, so they felt the need to fulfill a contract
or something like that. Put her in Black Panther
3 for a minute. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
I'm not a studio exec, so I don't know their
thoughts, but if no one's asking for it, why
do it? Yeah, I don't know. I thought it was a
little woke too. Yeah. Not that I have a problem
with representation in media, but yeah, I don't
know. It just didn't seem to fit. Yeah. It seemed
to be jammed in our throats a little bit. Yeah.
Well, and this is what pissed me off about Endgame,
right? It's like, dude, be representative all
you like. But when you jam it down people's throat,
and they did that when they go, oh, she doesn't,
you know, she's got help. And it was just all
the women have stopped fighting to do this one
job that Captain Marvel could have done on her
own. Yeah. Captain Marvel could have obliterated
that whole army. Yeah. And I think a lot of people
got shitty about that too. Yeah. And, like, if
the tables were turned and it was, like, a whole
heap of blokes doing that, people would get upset
about it. It's funny. There's a bit of a double
standard about it. But, you know, I'm hoping
there's people out there that appreciated that
scene and it didn't fall on deaf ears. Yeah.
And it kind of made it worth it that some people
were upset about it. Like I wasn't upset about
it. I just sort of felt a bit flat, fell flat.
It was a bit lame. Trying to draw attention.
Hey, look what we're doing. We're doing this
thing. Trying to do the thing. That's your virtue
singling. That's all it is. Yeah. There's so
many natural ways. It's not an abomination. It's
not a fucking rare thing. Look, it's very commonplace.
Yeah. Just film it normally, mate. You don't
have to fucking draw attention to it. Yeah. Beyond
that, like the fucking. The suit looks fucking
sick. Does it really? Oh, man. There's three
iterations of it in it, and each one of them
looks sensational. Okay. I might give it a watch
just for the suits then. Yeah. The power sets
at the end are pretty cool. I felt like the final
kind of showdown wasn't as big as it could have
been. Yep. But it does set up for other stuff.
Nice. Do you think Sacha Baron Cohen was a strong
casting? Oh, I fucking loved him. Really? I did,
yeah. Okay. Do you know who he's playing? Yeah.
Yeah, okay. I won't ruin it for anyone that hasn't
watched it yet, considering it's only just coming
out. I do think he's sensational. Yeah, I know.
Okay, sweet. All right, I'll give that a raise
then. Yeah. I've caught up on some old movies,
ones that still do, they still hit. Yep. So just
you watching it or are you watching it with your
family? No, just in the shop. Oh, in the shop,
yeah. So we watched Inception. It's timeless,
dude. Just timeless. Oh, yeah. And then we watched
Oblivion, which everyone gives me a hard time
about liking Tom Cruise, but he doesn't miss
me. No, I do like Oblivion. Sorry, stepping back
to Nolan's. Genius. Oh, it did, yeah. What did
you think about Tenet? I'm going to give it another
watch. I was so intrigued by it, but it was too
smart for me for a first watch. Oh, I fucking
loved it. I think I'm going to have to give it
another watch just to fully wrap me melon around
it. Well, I'm probably still not going to be
able to fully wrap me melon around it because
he's a fucking genius. But yeah, I'm going to
give it another watch. Definitely give it another
watch. Definitely worth it. Because it was a
beautiful film. Holy shit. Yeah. He's, dude,
he's such a visionary, man. His stories are just
bullshit. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Going back to Memento.
Did you ever watch that? I have not watched Memento.
Holy shit. You can watch it forwards and backwards.
Yeah, right. It's nuts. It's just bonkers. Yeah,
it's one I've been meaning to get back around
and watch, but, yeah, I've never watched it.
Yeah, it was so good, man. Oblivion is just tops,
man. I love that movie. The style of it? Yeah,
man. I love the style of it, yeah. The story's
pretty fucking sick too. Yeah. But, like, the
landscapes and shit just, they knock it out of
the park. Hell yeah. And then. To tip off a fucking
Christopher Nolan blowjob, Interstellar. Oh,
yeah. Mate. Oh. Just come on. There's a reason
why we have the Interstellar scale on this podcast.
It's the only movie I've ever gone back and watched
in IMAX when they re -released it. Yes, sir.
Absolutely. So good. Yeah, watched. Oh, The Grey
Man. Oh, yeah. Have you watched that? No, I've
heard. It's average. No way. No? Okay. No, it's
fucking Ryan Gosling, man, and Captain America
and Ana de Armas. Yeah, I still heard it was
average. How dare you. Sorry. How dare you. It's
so good, man. It's a really good movie. And what
else did we watch? There was another of, oh,
yeah, I watched the Knives Out sequel. Glass
Onion. Yeah. I haven't watched Glass Onion. Glass
Onion's good. It's good. Dude, both their movies
are sick. The first one's a kick -ass one, like
legit Knives Out. But, dude, Rian Johnson does
such a great job with their movies. And I like
a mystery. Yeah. A mystery is a good thing. Okay.
So have you seen Death on the Nile? Yes. So.
That was Perot. Perot, yeah. I know they're different,
but like there was that kind of franchise. They've
done a couple of them. There's a bit more serious.
So you've got Death on the Nile, the Murder on
the Ori Express. Yeah, and then there's the latest
one. Ghost in Venice. Ghost in Venice. I haven't
watched that one yet. Haunting in Venice. Sorry.
Yeah, yeah. I haven't watched that one. I haven't
watched that one either. I've enjoyed both of
them. They're both great, man. I like them. I
enjoyed Knives Out. It seemed a bit more serious
with a bit of funny. Yeah. But from watching
the Grass Onion kind of trailers, it looked like
it was very silly. No, no, no. It was very similar.
Okay. It was still entertaining and it was still,
you know, there's still a good, I like the story.
Yep. But yeah, there was still some funny in
it too. Okay. I might have to pick a video. It's
good, man. It's just a simple watch, but I love
them mystery ones where you've actually got to
think in that. Like even Adam Sandler's Murder
Mystery 1 and 2. I haven't seen them. Dude, so
good. It's just him and Jennifer Aniston married
having fun. It's hilarious. Oh, that's another
trailer we haven't watched here either. Happy
Gilmore 2. Oh, dear. I'm so pumped for that.
But, yeah. You've got to give them – come on,
mate. I'm going to have to give you some homework.
Just watch them in the car on the way to work.
It's fine. Dodging deer at fucking 3 o 'clock
in the morning. Speaking about homework, Lena
and I have started watching the Marvel Universe.
Very good, very good. We've watched Iron Man
and we're about halfway through Incredible Hulk.
Right. Because that is Kenan now. Let's go. Yeah,
he's very keen to keep going. So we're not watching
him in full. It's when I get home, like an hour
to sit and watch part of one and we just, you
know, we're going to do it piecemeal. But, yeah,
he's loving it. Yeah. Sick. Logan sits down for
three minutes and then wants to run around the
world. Landon was like that. Yeah. Getting engrossed.
I want Logan to get engrossed. But he got new
wheels for his bike the other day, so he's excited.
Yeah, okay. We're building – well, he doesn't
know yet, but I got him a new motorbike. Oh,
shit. Cut that bit. Okay. No, don't worry about
it. He won't watch that. Yeah, so we got a new
little motorbike because he sold his little electric
bike he had. Yeah. And when old mate come to
pick it up – oh, we'll talk about that later.
We'll talk about that later. But, yeah, that's
all I've consumed this week. I finished the first
trilogy of the Red Rising series. Yep. So there's
six books out. There's a seventh book coming.
But, yeah, it wraps up in a trilogy. Yep. To
an extent. Wraps up the first arc. I think you'd
really enjoy it. Yeah, that was the one with
the class. The classes. The classes, yeah. So
the hierarchy is divided up by colours. Yeah.
Gold's being at the top, red's being at the bottom.
Yeah. They're like the menial labour force. Yeah.
Set to work underground, fucking mining helium
on fucking Mars. Oh, yeah, right. And like, so
in my mind's eye, they talk about how like the
red class, it sounds like they've been engineered
slightly. Right. They've all got red hair, red
eyes. Oh, shit. So gold is their gold and gold
eyes and gold hair. Yeah, so they kind of lean
into the colours a fair bit. So you can't just
change your clothes. Yeah, you can't differentiate.
But, yeah, it's a good series. Oh, I'm going
to give it a go. Long books? Ish. Got to finish
Dungeon Crawler Carl first. Yeah. God dang. I'm
slacking, man. Yeah, you are. Slacking. Hey,
come on. Well, I mean. No, you're right. You're
very right. Yeah. I've finished what's out so
far. Well, I've got it written down. It's like
right there. Yeah, Red Rising. Have you watched
Tom Segura's series yet? No. It's seven -minute
episodes, Jeremy. I'm probably not going to watch
it. Seven minutes. Mm -hmm. Just watch one every
day when you're doing a poop. That's how I'd
watch fucking Ironheart half the time. Really?
Yeah. Your poos. I can't judge. Piecemeal. I
wasn't fucking watching the entire episode on
the shitter. Just bits of it. How do you do that?
On my phone. Yeah, but I can't start something
and then put it down unless I fall asleep. I
wouldn't watch anything, man. Oh, really? If
I didn't, yeah. Oh, God. Can't even sit down
and watch a whole movie with me sun of an afternoon
between time I get home and dinner time. All
that shit. Talking about sitting down. Recently,
when I've been out doing a poop, I've got an
outdoor toilet. Logan will come and sit at the
door and talk to me while I'm shitting. In the
cold. The fuck is wrong with him? In the cold
isn't the issue here, Jeremy. His father's deucing
out. Yeah, my kids do it all the time. Oh, God.
It's so weird. I'm like. Man, it fucking stinks
in here for me. I can't imagine what it's like
for you guys. I'm basking me own ambience. Pierre,
that's all I've got for you today, this week.
Hello, friend. Not a whole lot consumed this
week. No, there wasn't much really going. Oh,
last night I was laying in bed and Rachel put
on this cheerleading, Dallas Cowboys cheerleading
show on Netflix. Yep. So I might have semi -consumed
some of that. Yes. Semi. No. Yeah, my mind went
in the gutter then. Yeah, you animal. Partially.
Charmed it. Fuck off. It's rude. Well, yeah,
okay. On that note. How long was that? Was that
two minutes? Wrap it up. I need a piss. We're
wrapping it up. Jeremy needs a piss. That's all
we've got time for today. Would you stop it?
That's free. Do it. Thanks for joining us today,
kids. Like, comment, subscribe to all the stuff
down below. Tell us what yous have been watching
lately. I will get around to watching it. Jeremy
won't, guys. Doesn't watch stuff. Love, peace, chicken
grease. It's probably true.