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 where Clint and I get to share our thoughts
on some of the content that we've checked out
this week. So, yeah, if you like what we're doing
here, guys, we sure as shit like making it, so
interact. Comment, subscribe, do all that sort
of stuff. Tell us what you're watching, listening
to, or playing. What have you checked out this
week? Oh, you do. No, I want to hear what you
checked out. So I watched Peacemaker. You called
it. Yep. You called it. It was there. We called
it. I can't say half of it was in there, though.
But when they were running around, I found her.
I found her. Oh, man. How does he do this shit?
Yeah, it was. offensive but funny. And then Adebayo's
all, what the fuck? Booking it. Legging it down
the road, I'm like, oh, Jesus. I think my favourite
part of the episode was Vigilante. Making himself.
And he's walking there and he's like, oh, my
God, they're in there. My dad's not gay in this
universe. That brought me undone. And he's so
happy about it. Mate, legit, he is. Vigilante's.
Probably one of the best characters in this show,
dude. And that's a big call because the whole
cast is so good. When he's facing off with himself
and he's like, you know, I'm a peacemaker for
another universe. I'm a vigilante for another
universe. My key work to get in here. And the
other dude just cracks that smile. No fucking
way. Yeah. So good, man. Yeah. Oh, Jesus, man.
Oh, how good was it? I loved it. Yeah, dead set
highlight for me, man. I loved it. I can't wait
for the – I'm going home to watch tonight. So,
oh, man, I'm so excited. Two more episodes? I
believe so, yes. Tonight's seven and eight will
be the last. Excellent. Keeping in that vein,
I started watching Creature Commandos. Oh, okay,
yeah. Dude. Heard good things. So good. Alan
Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus kills it, dude. He's
so fucking funny in whatever he does. The whole
cast, like you've got Rick Flagg Sr., Frank Grillo.
Yeah. So it's all their consistent characters
in the DCU going forward. And, mate, you forget
halfway through that you're watching animation.
Yeah, right. There's a storyline in it which.
I was watching the Frankenstein trailer just
now and there's, so the bride is in it. Yep.
And it's like Frankenstein's monster killed Victor
Frankenstein because he walked in on Victor Frankenstein
and the bride shagging. And it's fucking played
out. You see titties and everything, ass gyrating.
Logan's like, Dad, this is a weird cartoon. And
I'm like, yeah. Stop. Oops. I didn't know he
was watching over my shoulder. Oh, no. But, dude,
I'm like, what the hell, man? But great, great,
great. Great animation. Great, great animation.
But great show, like unreal show. The bride is
strangely attractive, even though she's like
13 different women. Dude, yeah, like GI robot,
dude. Everyone is. Are you a Nazi? Yeah. Whips
out a machine gun and points it at him and shit.
And Weasel's in it as well. Yeah. Holy shit.
I love Weasel. And it's played by him, G .I.
Robot, and Weasel is both voiced by Sean Gunn.
Right. He does such a good job, man. It's so
hilarious. I'm keen to see some more Weasel action.
Yeah, man. But it's straight after. The Suicide
Squad. Yeah. So, you know, you've got Waller
talking to Rick Flagg Sr. about the death of
his son and all that sort of stuff. Yeah. And
I'm sorry. And it's also, like, the shenanigans
that Peacemaker's getting up to are in episodes
as well. So it, like, just marries up with the
DCU perfectly. Nice. I would like to see some
crossover. We've already seen crossovers with,
like I said, the Weasel and then Rick Flagg Sr.
So they can possibly make the crossover to. Lex
Luthor in Peacemaker. Peacemaker. Yeah, I'm loving
the dude. The connectivity that he's got with
it, it's beautiful. Yeah, the tease some big
characters should be on tonight's episode too.
We'll talk about that next week. Maybe Batman.
No, he works for Lex. Maybe Batman. Yeah, okay,
so it's good. Great, great show. Watch some animation
this week too with Marvel Zombies. I have not
started yet, but I will. It was obviously supposed
to be a movie. Yeah, right. But. How many episodes
is that? Four. 20 minute episodes? Ish. Yeah.
20 to 30. Nice. Yeah. So apparently there is
a stipulation of using Spider -Man in their animated
movies that it can't be any longer than half
an hour. Ah. So they had to cut him up. I see.
Yeah. Cheeky. They got it out there. But, yeah,
you can just binge watch it. They dropped it
all at once. Did they really? Yeah, so you can
just watch the entire thing anyway. Yeah. But
it's just got episode one, two, and three. Yep.
And four. Four. I'll watch the Snyder Cut of
the Justice League again. Mm -hmm. God damn,
man. Too long. No. No. Music choices were terrible.
Slow motion. Stop it. Not everything has to be
in slow motion. The Flash, the fastest man alive,
is in slow motion 90 % of the time. I don't know.
Just cut it. Just stop it. But I stand by Ben
Affleck's Our Best Batman. Yeah. And it'll also
piss me off, right? I only noticed it this one
time. You know them glasses that he puts over
to protect his eyes and it makes him look shit?
Yeah. Perfect. time to have white lenses go in
his fucking cape, in his cowl. Yep, I get that.
And then you would have got that. It could have
been like a little LCD AR screen on the inside
so he had like an Iron Man vision. Dude, there's
so much you could have done with that instead
of having these stupid fucking go -fast glasses,
speed dealer sunnies. Yeah. Just a terrible costume
choice. Hands down loved it far more than Joss
Whedon's fucking vomit. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah,
dude, just so much missed opportunity. I'd like
somebody to go through and recut it with his
changes but just back down to the length of the
Joss Whedon one. No. Yeah, you probably could.
You'd cut out a whole heap of slow motion. You'd
probably cut it down to two and a half hours.
But, dude, yeah, I dug it, man. I still live
it. And, okay, there was a scene that Zack Snyder
filmed, which is shown in the last five minutes
where it's Master Man Hunter coming down and
talking to Batman Ben Affleck. Yep. You're going
to see me again soon. More's coming up. And he
goes, okay, sweet, I'll see you soon. We're never
going to see each other again. Yeah. Why put
that in there? I don't like it. It was just something
he was fucking around with and had filmed it
after. Yeah. And just was like, okay, this is
what my Greenland would have looked like. No,
it wasn't Greenland. It was Marshmallow. Marshmallow.
Sorry. And it looked so good. Just so you guys
know what it would have looked like. Yeah. Fuck.
That's missed opportunity. But now we get Jason
Momoa as Lobo. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The party was
born to play. Yeah, definitely. Like he made
Back of Man his own and all that and it was good.
You should see it. You should watch it. It's
fucking great movies. I have and I don't agree.
You're a fucking douchebag. What else did you
watch? One more thing. Wow. Yeah. Okay. What
else have you watched before we get to the end
of it? I started watching The Bear. Oh, yes.
Fast, dude, fast paced, like frantic, frantic,
frantic. Can be. And it sort of brings you into
that restaurant sort of environment. Yeah, real,
fucking full on. Everyone plays their role so
well. Dude, I've never seen this Jeremy Allen
White. I've never seen him in anything else.
Yeah. I like the kid. Great actor. Fucking sensational
actor. He's basically the same in Shameless,
but still a good character. Never seen Shameless.
Yeah. Yeah, Evan Moss, like, Evan Moss, just.
You want to hate him. He's that much of an asshole.
Oh, yeah, yeah. And the way they, like, yeah,
like just the first time you meet him, just put
the fucking spaghetti in. Like he's just telling
him, I don't want to make fucking spaghetti.
But, yeah, dude, I'm intrigued to see where it
goes. There's some good highs, some deep emotional
lows. These characters get more depth as you
continue watching and the whole thing evolves.
Nice. It's great. Yeah, I'm looking forward to
it. Cast is sensational. Yeah. Holy shit. 100%.
And it only gets better the more seasons are
going. Yeah, right. Well, yeah, I'm a fan. Watch
BBS again. I don't know why. I just like to torture
myself, I guess. Sorry, I'm filling in my feelings.
Again, what could have been? Again, man, Ben
Affleck. Ben Affleck. Henry Cavill. Oh, fucking
sexy man himself, Henry Cavill. Perfectly cast.
Were they? Just so well cast. Gal Gadot, no.
No. No. Not at all. Not at all? No. I think Gina
Serrano would have been a fucking great Wonder
Woman, dude. She was right there. Yeah. And then
she fucked her. No, no, no. It doesn't matter.
Who cares? Yeah. Oh, men. Well, she's coming
back anyway. So they did the same thing to Jimmy
Kimmel. They're just like, oh, no, maybe we make
a big show. A woman's rights, all that. Wow.
Sorry. But, yeah, dude, Gina Serrano was right
there, man. There's a guy on Instagram. Oh, my
God, dude, there's a guy on Instagram. Absolutely
hilarious, and all he does is mocks Gal Gadot.
He's like. In everything. He's always, like,
reading for scripts and that. Oh, dude. I think
I've seen a highlight reel of his stuff. He slips
into everything. And even if it's, like, a movie
about, like, let's say it's a horror movie and
she's still like, Kal -El, no. And it's like,
I'll fucking lose it every time, dude. And it's
hilarious. Yeah. Even the fact that Wonder Woman
was a way better movie than I thought it would
be. It was good. With her as its lead. Just goes
to show how well it was made. Yeah. Because I
enjoyed it even with Gal Gadot as lead. Yeah.
And then we watched another movie. This one was
my choice. Last week Jeremy put me through a
torturous one hour and 40 minutes. Piece of shit.
My choice was, I love whodunit movies, so my
choice was A Haunting in Venice. Dude, I love
these sort of movies. So I didn't realise. So
it came out in 2023. It's a couple of years old
now. Directed by the same guy that plays Hercule
Poirot, all three of them. I didn't know. Kenneth
Branagh. Yes. Or if I did know, I'd forgotten
and I re -learned it again today. Yeah, right.
That he directed and starred in the thing. Yeah,
it didn't fail. I like that it was billed as
a haunting in Venice and the evolution and the
story twist that it takes. Well, yeah. How do
you guess in the whole way through whether it
is actually supernatural in nature? You could
pretty much guess what the ending is going to
be based on if you've seen the other movies and
what Hercule Poirot is like. For those of you
that don't know, Hercule Poirot is pretty much
like another version of – he's up there with
Sherlock Holmes. Yeah. In prolific character
kind of saturation in the market. Hercule Poirot,
I think he did – he was in like 22 short – no,
22 novels. Agatha Christie. By Agatha Christie.
Two plays and I think it was 51 short stories.
Holy shit. Yeah, so he got around. Well, one
of the characters in this actually reminds me,
like, it's a similar story with Agatha Christie,
like the novelist following him around and writing
his antics and stuff in story form, and he's
like, oh, I've had three flops, and I've got
to pull that out of my ass, so hurry up. Get
back to action. Now, what I do want to say about
this movie is it looked great. All three of these
movies have looked great. Dude. There was something.
Kind of authentic, really authentic about the
set pieces. Something about the depth in them.
Even with – there's a couple of close -ups of
the tiles on the floor, like the red and white
checked floors, and they're really deep set tiles
like that you can – there is literally a valley
between each tile. Yeah. It felt like these were
like almost 100 % practical sets. Yeah, yeah.
And like high quality. Oh, dude, the fittings
and shit were so beautiful. There was plenty
of, like, wide screenshots, so you're taking
it all. Vast rooms. Vast rooms, yeah. Massive,
massive ballrooms. Big sets if they're all practical
sets or if not, you know, filmed in actual places.
I don't know. But, yeah, no, great. It was great.
Yeah. Like, yeah, so beautifully shot too. Like,
just every angle is just, like, it's a piece
of art. even like the top -down view of where
they're in the seance circle sort of thing. Just
shape and, oh. So we do get some kind of forced
perspectives and kind of different things to
go with the theme of the potential horror of
it all. This is where it's taken a departure
from the last two movies where they all pretty
much point the camera at whoever's speaking.
This one had some more kind of experimental stuff
happening on. Yeah, absolutely. Like even though
the other one, like you had actual landscapes,
like it was always moving in the Orient Express.
Yeah. And then on the Nile, on the death of Nile
as well, like it's always moving. This one was
the first sort of area that's area specific.
Like you only had certain rooms that they were
going into and shit. Yeah. And to make them going
into each and every room different from the last
time you were in there. It's, yeah, so well shot,
dude. Incredible. I thought Jamie Dornan playing
the PTSD war vet was well done, man. Like he
was, I think he pulled out of his ass like a
good performance. I thought it was really good.
One of the funnest things about these whole whodunits
is the different characters, the face that they
put on in the first act. It's presented to everyone
and it's kind of like that theory of, you know,
you've got three faces, one that you. show the
world, one that you show your loved ones and
then one you keep to yourself. Yeah. Like in
the first act you get what they show to the world
and in the second act you're going deeper as
they get closer and you get to understand these
characters' motivations a little bit more and
their deeper, darker pasts and stuff. And just
the way the whole thing unravels and then you
get the truth of the characters in the last act.
Yeah, 100%. I agree with that. It's even more
evident with Maid and how she is at the start.
You can tell she's protective and she wants to
make sure that everybody's okay and everyone's
safe and we shouldn't be in this house. And then
at the end to take the three characters that
are at the end, we'll talk about it a bit more
later, but yeah, you can see that she's a real
caring and was actually, yeah, it's good. The
casting. I think they've done great. Oh, yeah.
I'm guessing a lot of actors that aren't exactly
mainstream, I don't know too much about a lot
of this cast, but you've got Beth Dutton in there,
of course. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. It was
a bit of a departure from what we're used to
seeing the last, you know, six, seven years of
her being Beth Dutton. And, yeah, it was a massive
switch up and I think she played it fucking really
well. I said Beth Dutton because I forgot the
name and then we went down that tangent. Kelly
Riley. Kelly Riley, that's it, yeah. Yeah, she's
really good in this, man. One thing I had to
write down, it's at the start of the film, a
heap of kids there to do like a haunted house
tour. It's shot on. Halloween and say they've
got a heap of unhoused children and all that
sort of stuff over for a visit. They're bobbing
for apples in a glass bowl. I don't know whether
you've ever opened your mouth underwater, but
water goes in your mouth and then if you're spitting
on apples in a bowl, that last kid is going to
be drinking 99 % of other people's saliva. These
are old times. It's still done to this day. I
watched it in Varsity Blues the other week. They
were bobbing for apples and shit. I'm pretty
sure they don't do it anymore. Very unhygienic.
You're definitely going to get an infection if
you don't get an apple. I think one of my favourite
lines from Perrault, I think he has some silly
little quips in that, was when he was talking
to Tina Fey's character, you woke the bear from
his sleep. He cannot cry when he tangos. I'm
like, that was pretty funny. Yeah. Just so weird
and unconventional for a guy that's supposed
to be so intelligent and kind of, yeah. And what
I do like about these movies is in the past,
Hercule Poirot has been kind of portrayed as
a bit of a bumbling kind of guy. They don't play
so much on that. It's like he's, oh, I'm fucking
over being here. Like he was more aggravated.
He was like, I don't want to be here. I didn't
want to be here. I don't want to be a detective
anymore. And then, yeah, it's actually, you know,
halfway through at the start of Act 2, you've
sort of, he's got that switch where he's fucking,
I've been bitten. I've got the hunger back. I
get what you mean. But I meant like previous.
of him in older movies. He's always made out
to be like an idiot. Yeah. And he manages to
solve the case. But in these movies he's been
more of a serious kind of take on. Well, even
in like On the Nile and Orient Express, like
he's still, he's a bit more jovial and he was
a bit more, you know, boppy around and he's like,
oh my God, I don't know how to speak French,
but he'd done that whole thing. Yeah. And he
was more of a, more bobbly enough. But this one,
he was a bit more sullen and surly. He was like,
no, I'm fucking over it. He lost the spark. Yeah.
But he got it back. Yes, he did. Stella got a
groove. Gave it a spoilery bit. Been out for
three years almost. Yeah, I know, but I can make
that edit easier. Oh, okay. When I put it on.
I think the young bloke who played Leopold, the
young bloke. Dude, he done such a good job, man.
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I get choked up. He played
that so good. One thing about that character
in this movie, the double kind of surprise at
the end. Yeah, yeah. You know, this is the person
that committed these murders and then. Yeah,
this is the one that set it up. Yeah. Really
good, man. I thought that was a great touch.
Yeah. He could have been fine without it, but,
like, adding that kid, that kind of switch on
and cunning. Yeah, and just the way he knows
how, you know, to help his dad. Yeah. Like, just
kind of, oh, mate. Yeah, melts me. I think he
was a real medium, though. Yeah. I think he was
actually a medium. Michelle Yeoh. Not a large.
Fuck off. Medium. Small, medium, and large. I
love murder mysteries, man. I'll always watch
a good murder mystery. But I thought Michelle
Yeoh was another standout. And the first time
you meet her, that mask when she rocks up in
that gondola. Dude. Looked real cool. So cool.
Yeah, and the cape and that. That fucking cockatoo
was shifty as shit. It knew stuff. It was watching
stuff. Yeah. It was shifty. I actually made a
note of it. Cockatoo was shifty as shit. So I
think I picked the honey almost straight away.
Did you really? Yeah. Just weird. Oh, you know,
I've got some honey laying around. No, no, no,
the honey out of the linen closet. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Just they shoehorned that in there a little
bit too hard, I think. Should have been, you
want honey? Yes, I'll have honey or something
like that. Yeah. Yeah. Stop putting honey in
my drinks. But I do need some of that fucking
wild honey. Oh, yeah. I've got to find it. I've
seen Joe Rogan, a little podcast, that he was
eating wild honey. That looks fucking sick. Pretty
fucking wild. I don't know where to get it from.
I don't think you'd get it here. You need the
right bees and the right flowers. They hang from
cliffs to fucking get it because the beehives
are fucking. It's Winnie the Pooh. That's why
he ate it. He was tripping balls. He was a drug
addict. Winnie the Pooh was a drug addict. Yeah,
they pretty much just climb these fucking big
mud brick walls like fucking out in the middle
of the bush. Yeah, right. Abseil down, whatever,
and knock the bees down to the ground. It's a
fucking hazardous job. Hectic, man. They wouldn't
get paid much. No. Oh, Jesus. Economies and such.
What do you think? Yeah, I've got nothing really
to complain about it. Yeah. It's a good, solid
movie. Yeah, I liked it. I thought Kyle Allen
had played Maxim, the ex -fiancee. Mm -hmm. Dude,
I reckon he'd be a good dude to play Batman Wolverine.
Yeah, all right. And, dude, same with Riccardo
Scaramuccio. Mm -hmm. Played the cop. Yeah, Vitaly.
Yeah. Oh, wow, you've got that name. Well done.
Dude, he'd be a sick Mr. Sinister. Yeah. Or Gomez
Adams. Oh, yeah. No, I like how it goes, man.
It's all we got now. Yeah. And then the old,
yeah, I wrote fucking big house. Yeah. To be
on stilts because it's in Venice. Mm -hmm. It's
in the water. Yeah. It's on stilts and the stilts
are made of wood. Mm -hmm. That's a big house
for a house that's on toothpicks, man. Yeah.
No. And how many years ago was that built? No.
I reckon it's sinking. Yeah. The whole joint.
Yeah. That's what you get for building over water.
Jesus. The whole way through I'm like, is this
supernatural or is it not supernatural? And then
at the end we sort of get a wrap -up of, yes,
it was indeed supernatural to an extent because
she does get pulled off the ledge and he sees
something, even though he could be tripping balls.
Still, we get that sort of, I believe there's
that conclusion. And then the little boy at the
end as well, he mentioned shit. But the thing
that killed me was when the kid was walking away
and he's like, I'll see you later, Dad. I'm like,
oh, dude. Didn't have to put that in there. It
could have been like the alien at the end of
Aliens. Just didn't need to put it in there at
all. Yeah. But yeah, that killed me. And then,
yeah, I want to see more of this character. I
want to see more because I just love whodunits,
man. I love murder mysteries. I'm not a big fan
of all the genre as a whole, but I do like a
good one. Let me guess, you don't like Adam Sandler's
murder mysteries? I haven't watched it. Dude,
we are the Adam Sandler generation. What do you
mean you haven't watched it? It didn't come out
when we were kids. We're the Adam Sandler generation.
Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison. Oh, yeah, seen
all of them. Yeah, exactly. He's our dude. You've
got to watch it. Adam Sandler's our guy. If he's
in it, you have to watch it. No, that's not necessary.
He's never disappointed, except for Jack and
Jill. Uncut Gems. That was so good. No. Come
on. No, it just went nowhere. It was just one
of those pointless kind of jerk -off, look what
I can do type movies. Like no substance. Gambling's
bad. Yeah. That's the message. Yeah, but he didn't,
I don't know, just, I don't know, wasn't enough.
How dare you. Like great performances. Won awards
that movie. Yeah. I don't think it should have.
Sad Lord of the Rings. Facts. But yeah, that's
what I have consumed. Okay. So one of. Your friends,
our friends, the show, Tarn. This guy's a guru,
dude. He's got ideas. Dude, he's got such good
ideas. So he suggested that maybe we share what
we're going to watch next. So kind of like a
little bit of a book club, people can watch along.
Dude, that's a good thing. Tarn, I love you,
Tarn. If you just want to do that. I think the
next movie we're going to check out is a movie
called Cloud Atlas. Ooh, that's the one we're
going. Yeah. Okay. Never seen it. I remember
when it came out at the time, it got some things
said about it. Massive cast. Massive cast. Holy
shit, massive cast. But I think it has a bit
of a cult following. Okay. And I've heard from
people that it's their favourite sci -fi. So
it is sci -fi. Yep. Okay. I'm intrigued. So,
yeah. Follow along, guys. We're going to be watching
Cloud Atlas this week. As for that, that's the
rest of Week in Review. Swerd. That's a word
we should bring back. Swerd. Swerd. Sure. Swerd.
Swerd. We'll see you. Swerd. Friday. Iove, peace
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