From the Dungeons of Morningstar, I'm Clint.
And I'm Stretch. 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. whether it be book
reviews, movies or television too. What have
you checked out this week, bud? Mate, I've had
a busy week on the content. So I started off
my week with Ironheart. Which I watched last
week, yeah. I didn't want to like it. Didn't
mind it. Yeah. Didn't hate it. I went into it
not expecting anything. No, didn't hate it. Yeah.
The character of Rewi Williams pisses me off
a little bit. He's a bit of a whiny cat. Yep.
The young bloke who plays the Hood, I didn't
run into an issue with him at all. I don't mind
him as an actor. He's in a lot of shit these
days. Yep. But, dude, I liked it. Sacha Baron
Cohen. Sensational, right? As, spoiler alert,
it's everywhere, as Mephisto. Mm -hmm. Yeah,
good. Holy shit, dude. What a casting. Oh, I
couldn't have thought of that. Just the whole,
he's got that, oh, he's going to be my friend.
And then you turn around, he's going to rip your
fucking spine out. Yeah. Like he's got that whole
sinister friendliness down pack. Yeah. Right?
Loved it. I loved that. Yeah. The little glance
to the spoon, you see the reflection. Of his
true self. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, oh, I hope you
see it. Yeah. And then because I stay away from
social media and that when I want to watch something.
I've seen some things where it's like, oh, Mephisto
image is leaked and it's him standing in a room
and it's him as his true self and it's like,
it's not real. Clearly it's not real. Because,
yeah, the only time you see him in the whole
series is his true self is in that spoon. You
were right. The suits looked great. The one at
the start was. My favourite. Oh, yeah. I hated
the whole we're going to pull apart a barracuda
and we're going to make a suit. That was the
issue I ran into. No, you're not. Yeah. You're
not. It's sheet metal that's 0 .6 of a mil thick.
Yeah, and you don't maintain the colour of it.
No. When you bend it, cut it. No. I get what
they're doing, but. I mean, it's good for the
layman that doesn't know cars, but. No, but you
didn't have to do that. Why would you tear apart
a car that you and your dad built and your mum
had just gone and found for you? Yes, maybe take
a badge off it or something and put it on the
suit. Do something maybe to do that, but you
don't. Paint your old suit the same colour as
the car. Yeah. You don't pull apart a fucking
Mopar. Yeah. Yeah, that was the issue I ran into
with it, that and the wokeness. But besides that
- See, I didn't run into an issue with the wokeness
that much though because like Shea Kool -Aid,
I like Shea Kool -Aid anyway because I've watched
Drag Race a lot during lockdown. I didn't have
a problem with it, but it was like they were
forcing an agenda. A little bit. Yeah, I didn't
run into it, but that's - Probably because I
was picking things with the show as a whole.
I ran into more issues with the tattooing, to
be honest with you, because there's no way that
someone gets a fucking full bodysuit like that
in a week. Yeah. Please. I've been tattooed.
Yeah. No chance. Ezekiel. Did you like him? I
liked him, yeah. The Iron Munger, I did like
him. Ezekiel Stain, son of Iron Munger. I am
excited to see him. I would like him to find
a home in the Thunderbolts, to be honest. I know
he may be a villain later on, but I really liked
him as a character. And I liked the bloke who
played, like, Han Solo played him. Yeah. And
I thought he'd done a good job. Yeah. I could
see him being redeemed and playing a good guy.
I reckon. Yeah. I didn't run into as many issues
as I thought I did. Really well self -contained
story. A kid just sells his soul to the devil
and wants to be powerful. He's been ignored by
his father and disowned by his dad. Get it? Shizzer
sounds relatable. But you could see it wasn't
a story that needed to be told. I'm glad it was
because it was a good show to watch. I just didn't.
You know what my favourite part of the suit at
the end was? The feet. Yeah. How did the wheels
in it? Yeah. I like that. I do like that her
hands aren't the hands of the suit. She has like
the extensions. Exactly. And her feet, she gives
her a bit more stance because she's only a short.
She's a short queen. Yeah. You destroyed your
car and the suit lasted 15 minutes. Yeah. You're
an idiot. Yeah. I felt that. The designs for
the suit may have taken some inspiration from
an anime from the 90s called Bubblegum Crisis.
Pretty good show back in the day. A bunch of
women running around in mech suits, very similar,
all got the heels and stuff like that. That's
pretty cool. But, yeah, I kind of saw those little
touches in there. But, yeah. I'm glad you told
me to watch it because I did enjoy it. It was
pretty good. Will I rewatch? Probably not. No.
Yeah, no. One and done. Yeah. The flashbacks
and when the whole when she's sitting there watching
her and her dad dance in the garage, fuck me,
it was wholesome as shit. Yeah. I didn't – I
don't know how she was able to create that AI
though. And they never explain it. Yeah. I think
the whole idea was it was influenced by her dreams
of her. Because she fell asleep while she was
doing the brain scan. Well, could you imagine
she fell asleep and dreamed of a porno, dude?
What's going to be the AI then? Yeah. I thought,
yeah, it was cool, but at the same time it fell
a little bit short on that whole thing. I think
it would have been better if the AI was more
limited and then at the end when the deal struck
and she's back. See, that's the thing. Did she
make the deal though? Yeah. Are you sure? She
hugged her at the end. She has physical form.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, she'd made the deal.
Yeah, that's right. I liked it. Yeah. Marvel
TV scale, I'll give it a three out of five. Yeah.
I'll put that – that's up there with Agatha all
along. That was another show I enjoyed. Still
haven't watched that. I'll have to give that
a go. It was good, man. Yeah. It was really good.
Death in it was a highlight for me. Yeah. Aubrey
Plaza is death. Mm -hmm. Killed it. Yeah. Yeah,
there are parts in that too that got me. Because
at the end of the day, she was just a heartbroken
mum that missed a kid. And that got me as well.
And it was a good show. I liked it. Special effects
were good. And Aubrey Pizer killed her. I'm so
excited to see her coming into the MCU because
Kevin Feige has already said he's bringing her
in. Yeah, nice. So she's going to be a more permanent
fixture. It's not just going to be a one -story
done for death. Yeah, that's good. She's got
the star power. Oh, dude, and she kills it, man.
Yeah, she's a great actress. You haven't seen
it. Oh, you haven't seen it. Yeah, but, dude,
if you just go to YouTube and look at Aubrey
Plaza death scenes. Oh, man, I've seen plenty
of it across the socials. Not just the looks,
man, not just the skull face and that. Oh, yeah,
no, I've seen snippets of the show. She kills
it. Another bit of what have you watched? Me
and Landon still on the path to watching all
the Marvel movies. Beautiful. We did Iron Man
2, Thor, and Captain America last night. So he's
watching them in order? In order of release,
yep. Oh, release? Yeah. Gay? Did you say gay?
Yeah. Why? Watch them in order. Of release? No.
Timeline order. No. No. Gay. No. Watch them as
they bring them out because. Then you jump backwards
and forwards with the fucking post -credit scenes
and shit. Okay. Yeah. What I took from it, Captain
America was way better than I thought, than I
remember it being. Dude, great movie, man. I
watched it once, never watched it again because
I thought it was one of the weaker movies. Don't
know why. Everybody did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I
loved it, dude. I think that was, oh, no. Iron
Man's still my favourite. Phase one? No, no,
no, no, no. Not phase one. Like Origin. Standalone.
Or Origin. Origin. Still one of my favourite
Origins. Yep. Captain America is a close second
for that. It's a good one. Yeah. I liked it.
I think it definitely gets better on a rewatch.
Oh, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And his chest
looks so good in that. I don't think his chest
would look that good any other time. When he
comes out of there. And Peggy just touches his
chest. She didn't even mean to do that. She couldn't
help herself. I couldn't help myself. I'd lick
him. Peggy's chest looks good in that too. No,
we'll go back to caps. Yeah, so we're still on
that bandwagon. Nice. We'll continue on with
that. I watched Old Guard 2. Oh, yeah? Great.
Great movie. Ends on a very open end, so we're
definitely going to get a part three. All right,
okay. Which I'm not upset about at all. She'll
leave Sarah on. Looks like she hasn't aged a
fucking day. Yep. I don't know how. Thoroughly
recommend Old Guard 2. Yep. And like I said,
it opens – it closes very open. Yep. So you'll
– we're definitely going to see a part three.
Yeah, nice. If you watch more – I've read two
books. Oh, okay. Okay. You've read two books.
Yeah. One was called This Is How We Lose the
Time War. Very short, very short. Oh, yeah. Very
interesting premise. I kind of saw what was happening
from the get -go. A lot of people lured it and
I think it slightly fell short. So it's basically
these two entities, people, time travellers.
going backwards and forwards through time and
manipulating certain events on different timelines.
And they call themselves Red and Blue from the
two different factions. Okay. Basically it takes
like it's a bit Shakespearean. I'll leave that
open -ended for anybody that may want to read
it. But, yeah, in the end it was all right. I
gave it three stars. Yeah, fair enough. And the
second book I listened to this week. was by Joe
Abercrombie, which I've been meaning to get into
his books for a while now, but all his stuff
is like series. And I thought this was going
to be a series. I thought this was going to be
a one -off, but it's not. It's a series. It's
called The Devils. Very League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen. Yes, it is. Kind of found family,
kind of that kind of esk feeling. Very fun. You
have... You have a Nordic werewolf. You have
a vampire. Fuck yeah. A soldier who's very dory
and grey. Right. A priest who's in charge of
looking after him who doesn't want to be a monk.
Okay. I was going to say, is this a children's
book? No. He's looking after the children. No,
no. They are his flock that he has to look after.
They are part of the church. Right. And they're
like a force of the church. So it's like Van
Helsing. Very. So it's like an alternate timeline
based in Europe. Yeah, it almost felt like a
carbon copy of. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
for a minute there. Yeah. Definitely archetypes
filled, but the story is different. Yeah, right.
Yeah, no. Pretty cool. Have you ever seen a movie
back in the day, and I'm talking back in the
day, like 2006 maybe, called Franklin? It had
the guy out of Cruel Intentions, the brother,
Ryan Phillippe. It had him in it and he was operating
in two dimensions at the same time. Right. In
one dimension it was very steampunk and he was
a superhero. Okay, no, I haven't seen this. Dude,
really good movie. Really good movie. It sounds
very similar to that. But yeah, no, it was really
good. Dude, I like the sound of that. I really
like the sound of that book. I went straight
off the cover. I saw the cover. I'm like, this
is fucking sick. I'll put it up here somewhere.
It looks very cool. Where are you going to put
it? About here. Yeah, nice. Not near the mic.
Yeah. Very cool cover. Knew I wanted to read
Joe Abercrombie for a while now, and I thought,
fuck it, I'll go this one. Why Joe? What made
you want to jump on that bandwagon? Just because
a lot of these books are lauded as good fantasy.
Right, okay. But he has, like, the first lore
and a few different other series. I don't know
if they share the same universe. I don't know
much about them at all. But, yeah, it's been
something that I've been meaning to get on, and
then I saw this, and it's only just come out.
So it's fresh. Yeah, nice. Got on it. I like
the sound of that, dude. Or I think we might
have to give that one a read. I would like to
have heard it because I listened to it. I didn't
read the book. As a full cast production. Oh,
yeah, dude. One day if it ever comes out as a
full cast production, it'll be sick. Nice. Yeah.
So you watched something else? I did. I've watched
heaps. I've had a busy week. Right. Because I
had my first sick day in probably about six years
this week. And I was completely fuck -eyed, so
I laid in bed almost all day. Second season of
Sandman. Ah, right. My second favourite. No,
my second favourite, Satan. So my favourite Satan
is in another DC property, and it's Peter Storm
here in Constantine. He's in it for 10 minutes,
man. Still one of the best Satan. Devil. Mr.
Morningstar, you'll love this. Lucifer Morningstar
in Sandman is played by the night chick out of
Game of Thrones. Forget her name. I have seen,
yep. And she looks amazing, dude. Yep. Plays
it perfectly. So well. Yeah. Sandman is still
a show that is just a visual feast. The scenery
is absolutely gorgeous. And the cast, dude, from
Desire, Dream, Delirium, we meet a couple more
of the siblings this season. So you meet Delirium
and Disaster, Destruction and Destiny. So you
meet them guys. And to go with Death, Dream and
Desire, Dream and Desire. Oh, dude, they're godly.
They look godly. The bloke who plays Morpheus,
Dream, is just so deadpan. He never shows any
emotion. But you know what he's feeling just
by a little smirk or his eyes change shape or
something. It's hard to imagine how he could
do that by always being talking like this the
entire time. And then you've got. Desire, who
is complete opposite. He's like fucking like
a drag queen. He's very full of energy and it's
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So the stories
in this one are quite good. Cain and Abel still
knock it out of the park. They're two of my favourite
characters in this show. Delirium. Is she only
just introduced in this season or is she in the
first season? I don't know if she was in the
first season. Okay. She is introduced in this
one and she's actually the – Actor that plays
it does a great job. Because I've only – I thought
I only read the first volume. It might have been
two volumes of the comic. Right. But, yeah, I
haven't read the books, listened to the audio
books or anything. That's why I kind of held
off from watching it the first time because I
meant to read that first. I don't know. I might
just watch it and then go back. Well, in this
one we meet – so you meet Thor. Loki, Odinson.
Oh, no, not Odinson. Odin. Odin, yeah. You meet
a heap of other gods as well because Morpheus
is given the keys to hell because Satan's retiring.
Lucifer's retiring. So it's like him trying to
pick who's going to take over hell, who's going
to be. the person that takes it over. So do we
have any crossover with American gods? Not yet,
no. I hope not. Yeah, okay. Because American
gods were shit. Okay, I never watched it. Ali
swears by it. She says it was amazing. I hated
it. I hated it. Why is the internet a god? I
mean, it makes sense. Why is social media a god?
Well, why were any of the gods gods back in the
day they were worshipped? Because lightning come
from the sky. Waves were tumbling in the ocean.
Yeah. Things that people didn't know any better,
so they worshipped them. I'm not going to worship
my computer. No, but some fucking people do.
Yeah, and they can't screw a light bulb. That's
what's wrong with society these days is people
put too much kind of faith, you know, too much
into these types of things. I think that's what
he was saying with that. Yeah, all right. Well,
I hated it. Yeah, okay. But Sandman, I'll finish
it up. Probably tonight. It is just a sense.
Separating the artist from the art is the best
thing to do. Always. I don't ever want to meet
Neil Gaiman ever. Pedophile fuck, he can go and
die as far as I'm concerned, but your art is
something that I hold near and dear to me. He
wasn't even accused of being a pedophile, was
he? Yeah, he's got shit on his computer and shit.
Yeah, he had to. Had to be a fuckwit. And then
he was like sexually assaulting people in his
offices and shit. So he's a piece of shit and
go die of gonorrhea right now. Yep. But Sandman,
the BBC production on Audible is still one of
the most incredible productions I've heard. Yep.
Death is still probably one of my favourite characters.
In the first season, there's a scene and it's,
One of the most. Here we go. Getting choked up.
The way that she ushers people across to the
afterlife is so, so beautiful. Yep. And if that's
what happens when I die, I'm going to be okay.
Because she does it with so much grace and love.
It's insane to think that that's what death is.
But yeah, give it a watch. I'd thoroughly recommend
anybody give Sandman a watch. Another movie that
I have consumed this week was an oldie and it's
with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson called
1408. Have you ever seen that goddamn movie?
Stephen King. Is it really? Pretty sure it is,
yeah. It's one man in one room. And it is still
up there with my top -tier horrors because it's
so – and the closing. They filmed three or four
endings to this and they released it in the cinemas
and you didn't know what ending you were going
to get. Yeah. So if you went and watched it a
second time, it was like you were losing your
fucking mind. Yeah, it changed it. But there's
a scene in it and I'm a – as a dad, these scenes
hit harder than they used to, right? Yeah. So
it's a scene where he's, for people who haven't
watched it, he travels around the country going
to haunted hotels, haunted pubs, haunted houses,
all that sort of shit. No, no, no, just writing
about him. So he's writing books. So he writes
about him. So he gets an anonymous letter in
the mail one day and says, you've got to stay
at the Silver Dolphin. It's called the Room 1408.
Rings up and Samuel Jackson's the manager of
the hotel. I want to stay in room 48. No, no,
no, you're not staying in there. You're not staying
in there. You're not staying in there. You're
not staying in there. Eventually he gets to stay
in there. He goes, mate. He goes, oh, I know
there's been seven people dying there, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. And he goes, yeah, they're
the people that have been reported. He goes,
well, what do you mean? He goes, there's over
55 people that have died in room 1408. And he's
like, what? And he goes, yeah, there's been like
52 natural deaths in there. And no one's ever
stayed in there longer than an hour. So it's
just him in this room. Yeah. And it's fucking
horrifying, dude. Yeah, man. I'm pretty sure
it's Stephen King and he based – so it was like
– so when he stayed at – in Colorado, there's
a place called the Stanley Hotel. Yep. I've stayed
there. He stayed in this one room. I didn't get
to stay in that room because it was booked out.
It gets booked out. That was the one that was
based on The Shining, wasn't it? Yeah. So that's
where he stayed there. He stopped there, left
halfway through the night, drove all the way
home, wrote The Shining. He couldn't stay the
night. Stephen King. No way. Yeah. And you stayed
at the Stanley. I stayed at the Stanley. So I
stayed in one of the haunted rooms, haunted rooms.
It was a weird feeling. But so we went and did,
there was a tour the next day, and the family
that was staying in that room were on the tour
with us. And the husband. Left. He said, I couldn't
do it. He stayed in the car that night. No fucking
way. The son, 13, 14 -year -old, and the mother
stayed there, didn't sleep. They said it was
fucked. There's some weird theories about it.
It's built right into a fucking limestone wall
face of the cliff. I don't know. There's all
these different theories. I'm curious, sceptic.
Was The Shining filmed at the Stanley? No. Right.
That's another place. I've been there too. It's
pretty cool. You're a piece of shit. Let's go
on a boy stream. Yeah. Go to the States for a
week. We'll just get all these fun places. Yeah,
they didn't film it in the same place, but, man,
the Stanley is a beautiful hotel. Yeah, right.
Yeah, it's sensational. Anyway, so, yeah, I think
he wrote that on that place, and then I'm pretty
sure that 1408 is another story he wrote based
on that room. Yeah, right. That he stayed in,
yeah. Dude, look. I'd be freaking, and I'd probably
sleep in the car, but it'd still be cool. I would
like to go back to that room, yeah. I wonder
how long it's booked out for, though. Yeah, I
don't know. When we booked it, yeah, I think
there's seven rooms on the list of their special
rooms, and yeah. And you stayed in one? Yeah,
we stayed in one. Describe the room to me. Like,
how did it feel? What was the air like in there?
Hang on. We'll do this on the red and sundry.
Red and sundry. Okay. Okay. All right. So I wrote
it down the ceiling. All right. Superman. No.
I've got one more. No, I haven't. That's it.
Yes. So we went and saw Superman last night.
As a couple. Yeah. We held hands. There was a
hole in the back of my popcorn. No, there wasn't
because I've got a fucking epic popcorn bucket
that has LEDs in it. And you left it at home,
didn't you? I did. I did bring it in. Logan puts
his cards in it. Sick. You instantly loved it.
I did. I did. They got that fucking dog scene
out of the way real early, which I was so grateful
for. Yeah. Spoilers, by the way. There'll be
no other kind of talk about fucking anything
else for this episode. We're not going to tell
the ending or anything like that. The opening,
the explanation, the script. The writing at the
start, what a great touch. I don't need to see
the ship coming into it. I don't need to see
that anymore. I don't need to see him as a kid
anymore. The way that he did it, chef's kiss.
Chef's kiss. Spider -Man kind of paved the way
with that. The latest three movies, they didn't
give you the whole fucking origin. Yeah, you're
right. They started off knowing that you understand
the origins. Bam. Love it. No Uncle Ben bullshit.
If I see another fucking Crime Alley murder of
Bruce Wayne's parents, I will walk out. They
did that in the Batman too, didn't they? Sweet.
Yeah. Everybody knows. Yeah. Public conscience.
Don't need to know. No. We know that his parents
die in Crime Alley. Okay. Spoiler alert in case
you haven't watched Batman. Instantly loved it.
David Coren Sweat, he nailed. Clark Kent. He
nailed Superman. And the little touches, the
little touches that James Gunn put into this
thing, the reference to a comic book from 1953
or something where it was, where they explained
Superman's glasses, he put it in there. Yep.
Guy Gardner fucking knocks it out of the park.
I think Guy Gardner was one of my favourite parts
about the whole movie. Mr. Terrific. Dude. I've
never been a fan of Mr. Terrific as a character.
Like I watched all of Green Arrow. I've watched
all of Arrow. And it was okay. Well, I know nothing
of his comic stuff either. Mr. Terrific in this
was sensational. Yeah, he was pretty cool. Like
the way he interacts with his T -spheres and
shit. Yeah. Sensational. There's a fight scene
where he uses his T -spheres. Yeah. I loved it.
Lois Lane. Knocks it out of the park. She's my
favourite Lois Lane. Terry Hatcher held that
for many years, but she kills it, dude. Yeah,
I thought she was good. There were some parts
where the CG sort of fell short for me. It looked
a bit poppy. Yeah. A lot of the scenes where
he's flying and it's very fucking discombobulating
and very jarring and shit. There's the same effect
that he used on Adam Warlock in Guardians 3.
Yeah. So it's flying around a lot and it was
a bit discombobulating. I was a bit confused
and a bit to settle it down, bro. Yeah. I prefer
the way they portrayed that in Man of Steel where
you just see him like the fucking. breaking the
sound barrier, flying past. You don't need to
close up of his face. Don't need to say it. But
then when he's like, and then the camera's moving
around and it's moving up around here and then
back on his face and then back around the side
and that. Do less. Do less. See, I've thought
about it since then. I don't love it. I definitely
don't hate it. I knew you'd fucking like this.
It's nowhere near Aquaman. No, it'll never hold
a candle to Aquaman. Aquaman's way better. It's
funny because I'm really conflicted about it
and I still don't 100 % know how I feel about
it. It's funny that the thing that I dislike
about Superman the most was kind of addressed
in this. Exactly. And I don't know how I feel
about it. Like, I know, it's dumb. I don't like
it. Okay, Jeremy, we'll fix it just for you.
Thanks. I don't know if I like it. You fucking
spoiled bitch. I know, right? I know. There's
parts in the movie where I think it was because
I know a fair bit about Superman. I've seen Superman
so much that when these parts where they've nerfed
his abilities, his whatever, it was a little
jarring. Right. You're not used to him seeing
him take such big L's. And let's face it, the
whole movie he took fucking L's, bro. It wasn't
even like the depowered taking the L's thing.
It was like one of the things that I always thought
about to a man being overpowered is the fact
that he can hear the entire fucking world and
then somebody sneaks in under his guard speaking
on their microphone, which is good. I like that.
I like the fact that he has to focus on something
to hear it now. Yeah, I like that. But in the
moment, it was like, oh, hang on, no, he should
have heard that. That felt like a plot hole,
you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, oh, I don't
know if he needed to somehow explain it for,
no, he didn't even need to do that. I just need
to pull my head out of my ass and maybe watch
it again. Well, I'm not against that at all.
There was no X -ray vision in it? No, there wasn't.
No. Even like his eye beams, they were used once.
Yeah. I did like that they nerfed him a little
bit. It needed to happen. Absolutely, dude. Absolutely,
100 % agree with you. But at the same time, it
didn't need to happen because I like DC being
the DC, the different, the gritty, the gods amongst
men. But three years in, he will evolve. He will
get stronger. His dad's still alive. I don't
know. I still haven't completely taken it all
in yet. Right. I think I need to see more of
the universe to see what they do with the rest
of these movies because at the moment it felt
it was a very Marvel. I like how fantastical
it was. I like the pocket universe and Lex Luthor
for me in this film. I fucking hated him. I loved
him. No, he was a whiny bitch. Yeah, but that's
Lex Luthor. What else is he? He's a smart -ass
whiny little bitch. Yeah, I don't know. He's,
oh, boy, have you got everything over there.
You're super this and super that and I'm just
a bald fuck. I look like I've got leukemia. The
whole way that he was kind of defeating Superman
with the combinations, I won't allude too much
more to that. I felt that was a little clunky.
Superman can operate at super speed. The fact
that you're saying letters and you're beating
him to a punch, didn't like it. If he was using
a controller, that'd be fat. If he was using
a mouse and keyboard, that would have been sick.
The thing is I can't come up with something that
I'd prefer. The fact that he's seeing something
on a screen that's tele, like it's there, he's
watching it and then he's got to communicate
that to someone. That person has to put that
input in and then it has to go back to there.
There was too many variables. Yeah. If it was
him doing it. Agreed. Like somehow, like a fucking
telepathic link somehow. That would have been
good. Through science. If he could somehow put
his brain in that Ultraman and fight with like
his superior intelligence and the brawn. But
the whole team and that kind of took me out of
it. I was like, he's calling plays. Yeah, I didn't
like that bit. That to me was a – that was a
weak spot. The whole – okay. His superior intellect
can know all these combination codes. In case
you haven't noticed, it's a letter and a number.
How does every member of his team keep track
of all them codes? Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot
of weak points to that. I like what they were
trying to do. I don't think it quite got there.
And, like, they nerfed Superman, but then they
still had him, like, holding up the Kaiju's foot
to stop the dog. Your foot, man, is flexible.
Your foot's kind of under a point, a piece of
Lego. We all know how that fucking feels. It
doesn't hold your whole foot up. No. And then
again, when the building's collapsing and he
holds the building up, now that would go. Oh,
yeah. It'd just collapse around him. You're holding
onto four bricks, bro. Then four bricks are going
to push straight in. Yeah. That's the whole weight
of that building on four bricks. He could have
been on top of that car, could have collapsed
around him. He could have pulled the car out.
And it would have been safe. See, I like the
bit where you said how he was holding a foot
up when he went under the floor and he's like
tunneling through. Yeah, that was cool when it
crushed him. Yeah, I feel like I still don't
know. Look, there were issues in it. My favourite
Superman now. Man of Steel was my favourite.
I liked him. Henry Cavill is still the GOAT Superman.
Yeah, I don't know. He played the conflicted
Superman better. I disagree though. I disagree
with that. Like when Clark's getting interviewed
by Lois as Superman and you see how he's like
he's getting fucking frustrated because he thought
he was doing the right thing and all he was doing
was saving people's lives and helping people
and everyone's still judging him. He's like,
what else do you want me to fucking do? Like
it was still. I like that. Yeah. Because he's
just doing exactly what he think he's right.
Yeah. Like. I go back to Man of Steel. Was it
Man of Steel? Man of Steel. Where he goes into
the Congress building with a wheelchair bomb.
Bomb goes off. Yeah. But Man of Steel, man, has
the tear conflicted by this whole thing. He tried
to do the right thing. Flies out. God amongst
men. Yeah. That's, yeah. Yeah, he's like, do
you see? And then he's like, these fuckwits.
And then when he's like, I couldn't see it, I
couldn't see it because I didn't want to see
it. This isn't going to steer me away from the
whole new DC. Right. Look away for a minute,
guys. I'm going to say one spoiler. It's going
to be like 15 seconds. It's been pretty spoilery
already. Not really. We haven't said the ending
or what happens or whatever characters he fights.
True. Spoiler, spoiler, spoiler. Peacemaker.
Fuck off. Why? I love Peacemaker as a character.
Fucking love it. Leave it. He's already interacted
with Henry Cavill, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The
Flash at the end of, spoilers again, Peacemaker.
Yeah. Why is he here? It's dumb. James Gunn said.
We're moving on from the DCEU. Then move on.
Yeah. We're still going to get a second season
of Peacemaker. Yeah. Why do we need to have him
in the DCEU? And I love the Peacemaker. I love
Peacemaker's character. I love John Cena and
I love that show. Why is he in this? He doesn't
need to be. The linchpin will be if they ever
do another fucking Flash movie. Whether this.
A whole new iteration. Whether this whole new
iteration of the DC universe, not the extended
universe, the DC universe now, whether it will
be a result because the last movie that came
out was the Flash movie and he fucked with the
timeline. Yeah, so we got George Clooney at the
end as Batman. Yeah. And then there was the Arrowverse,
the whole two Barrys. They joined in too, yeah.
Are we going to get an explanation? Okay. Like
there is some groundwork there. Are we going
to get a payoff? Right. Whether this is another
universe and, well, no, because then there's
the continuation of the Peacemaker who's always
going to be a weird fucking thing. When did Peacemaker
come out, before or after Flash? Before. Has
the second season come out yet? No. It comes
out this year. It'll be interesting to see what
happens in it. I think there's going to be a
whole heap of jokes at the Flash's expense. Yeah,
I would like to see Gunn pick up the pieces and
assemble them in a certain way. I think as a
whole, this is the strongest DC. This is the
strongest DC. Has been in a while. It's pretty
early to tell. Yeah. But I think it's the strongest
it has been in a while. I don't know if Zack
Snyder could have done this film. I don't think
he could have. Oh, fuck no. No, it's nowhere
near his wheelhouse. The fact that they've gone
a bit more lighthearted and, like you said, Marvel
-esque. It's a very Marvel film. This would fit
in the MCU. Straight up. Straight in. Straight
up. James Gunn is a talented as fuck director,
writer, whatever he's doing. I enjoyed it. I'll
give it a 7 out of 10. I'd give it a 6. Yeah.
I enjoyed it. I really, really, really did. I
thought I would go in there and I would be so
let down. But it was just little touches. The
fact that he gets frustrated when he's trying
to tell people what he's doing. Yeah. The interaction
with him and... Jor -El and blah, blah, blah.
Yeah. Lara. The mum. Lara. And it's like we've
seen him interact with both sets of parents in
every iteration of Superman. Yeah. I thoroughly
enjoyed the ending. Ticked a massive box for
me. Huge box. When people see it, they'll know.
That last scene. Ticked a massive box for me,
dude, huge box. And, you know, it only came out
yesterday, so we're not going to talk spoilers
about it today because it's just fucking rude.
But, yeah, I just – I really enjoyed it, dude.
And it might have been the company, but I enjoyed
the movie even more. On the last thing that I
want to touch on about it, I thought the whole
metamorpho, his linchpin. A bit weak. Very weak,
yeah. I felt like he could have had more kind
of substance. Yeah. There could have been something
more than just the MacGuffin that. That it was.
That it was, yeah. Well, hopefully, well, he
is now in the Justice Gang. So let's see more
metamorpho. Yeah, well, I didn't mind the character.
He was interesting. He wasn't a straightforward
character. Yeah. Had some interesting powers.
And the way he used the powers were fucking,
were very different. Yeah. Just, yeah, that one
part about the whole thing was like. Now, it's
not going to be a Superman without kryptonite,
so we know kryptonite's going to be in this movie.
I think the way that they portrayed kryptonite
in this was great. It wasn't just, oh, I'm feeling
sick. Help me, I'm feeling cold. There was literal
physical, like it was like it was an acid. It
was burning. It was hurting physically. It wasn't
just, oh, my tummy. like in Smallville. Save
Martha. Yeah, you can. You know what I'm talking
about. But, yeah, I really thought this was a
solid first outing for James Gunn in the DCU.
It's definitely got me – piqued my interest.
Pumped for lanterns. Yeah, I'm very interested
to see what happens there. Yeah. I've seen Superman.
It was good. I'm glad they took Legacy out of
the title. Yeah. Why Legacy? Didn't need to be.
No. We know it's Superman 2025. Yeah. That's
what they should start doing. Superman 2025.
Yeah. On that note. See what I did there?