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We're on episode 13, guys. Lucky 13. Or Lucky
13. I guess. Shouts out to Alex Morgan. Wow,
that was a creepy animal. That's a quick cut
to the podcast. I would like to take that out.
I would not. Okay. I am your host, Mikey Tank.
I am joined by... Mitchell. T -Dog. Andre Bellinger.
Welcome to episode 13. We've been gone for a
little while. We have been. We were on my bachelor
party, actually. Yeah. Been a while. Yeah, so
we were in Kansas City for... Kansas City! It's
been a while in... It's been a while. Like a
drop, I guess. Shouts of stain. What do you call
it out there? Oh, butt rock. Oh, yeah. One of
the core tenets of butt rock, for sure. One of
the pillars, yeah. One of the four pillars. Nickelback,
stains. Maybe the two. We have three glasses
of clear liquid on the table here. That's right.
Mitchell, would you like to go over what you're
drinking? So looking into a Thomas Hooker glass,
I see ice cubes and Connecticut tap water. Lovely.
And it's very good, refreshing, and keeps me
hydrated. Nice. Can you give us the flavor profile
on that? It's water. Cool. That's it. That's
all I got. Great. T -Dog and Andre, what are
you drinking of your clear liquids? I fixed us
off both some gin and tonics made from Heyman's
Gin, right? Heyman's Old Town Gin. Old Town Road?
Old Town. Up London. Up London. Old Town Road?
Old Town Road, yes. Okay, good. I love how you
had to fact check and T -Dog's like looking through
the bottle. I know. You also have a beer over
by you. I do as a backup to Ruby Red Kolsch.
I think I had that last podcast. Okay, there
you go. Still chewing through those. And I have
a special beer today. One of my favorite bands
is The Struts. They did a collaboration with
Southern Grist Brewing. And on my bachelor party,
my old roommate Ben brought me one. They have
a song called Kiss This. And so the beer is called
Kolsch This. Obviously, it's a Kolsch. Yeah,
nice. Good wordplay. Sick. I'm not much of a
Kolsch fan, but this is actually really good.
Nice. I like it. Go out and hear it. Yeah. We
saw some movies. We did. We saw a bunch of movies.
Yes, we did see a bunch of movies. Yeah, I saw
some movies, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm going to
spare you tag that I saw on the plane back. Oof.
Yeah. I saw that in theaters. Not good. Not good.
Remember when T -Dog was a girl that one week?
Yes. I saw it with her. Oh, nice. Yes, T -Dog
was a girl that one time. Wait, who was that
tag? Jeremy Renner. Ed Helms. Oh, pop star Jeremy
Renner. Hannibal Buress. Hannibal's in Jon Hamm.
Jon Hamm's in it. Who is it? That's a principal
guest, right? Yeah. It's a wife. I'm forgetting.
Yeah, I don't know. No, no, no. The wife of Ed
Helms. She's famous. Is she? Yes. Wait, you're
saying she's an actress? I think it's Amy Adams.
No, maybe not. I don't know. Redhead? Redhead.
Well, guys, we are spending time on this podcast
looking up the lead actress. Oh, Jake Johnson
was in it, too. Shouts to Jake Johnson. New Girl's
awesome. Isla Fisher? Isla Fisher, yeah. Isla
Fisher. Isla Fisher. Isla Fisher, Isla Fisher.
Classic mistake. Fishing her up with Amy Adams.
Redhead. Oh, yeah. It's Redhead. I don't recognize
her. Oh, yeah. Oh, no, now I do. Okay. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. All right, but let's actually talk
about the movies that we actually want to talk
about. I watch movies. That's right. We're going
to talk with Andre first. Yes. Andre, what did
you see? I watched this fun little movie called
Blinded by the Lights. I feel like this is like
the third music movie I've seen this year. Yeah.
Seriously. You've seen Rocketman? You've seen
Yesterday? I've seen Yesterday and then Blinded
by the Lights. Yep. Yeah, so for those who haven't
seen any of the trailers or anything, this is
about... a young man of Pakistani descent growing
up in London in the mid-'80s, and he kind of
finds his calling through the power of the boss's
music, through Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. It's
a very transformative event for him. So off the
bat, this movie was fine. I liked it. I enjoyed
it. I think it was worth the ticket price. Okay.
I don't know if I would be interested in watching
it again. But... Your ticket price covered in
your A -list subscription? Well, yeah, sure.
But, you know, if I was asked to pay $9 for it,
or $10, I wouldn't scoff at that. Yeah. Because
it kind of hits all those narrative beats you
would expect from a coming -of -age movie, especially
mixed in with having somebody from a South Asian
culture. I feel like we've seen a lot of these
notes before, but... It's still impactful, I
would say. It succeeded in providing emotional
resonance just from seeing the main character
react so... viscerally to this to listening to
a new kind of music you know like we've all had
like our transformative experiences i feel like
listening to that band that artist that really
clicks with us and really motivates us what is
that artist i'm putting you on the spot here
for me yeah for you okay well it's not gonna
be very interesting it's called there's actually
a band called fireworks it's a pop punk band
from detroit very small but that is very interesting
no yeah like i expected like a like big name
band or something like that or you know but this
is this is one that's like It's personal. Yeah,
no, definitely. Like, I'm not expecting, like,
I don't think they're around anymore, but, yeah,
like, small shows, and I got to see them a bunch
of times, like, growing up in Northeast Ohio.
Those were some very intimate shows, and their
lyrics spoke to me when I was a young adolescent
figuring out life, you know? Okay, nice. Yeah,
so on that level, like, this movie kind of hit
back to me when I, what? Yeah. Sorry, you know,
T -Dog was taking a drink, and the ice kind of
did the thing that it holds, and then all of
a sudden falls. That is unfortunate. It's fine.
It's great. He's making a bigger deal than it
is. I apologize, listeners. If we can cut it
out, we will. I will say, totally, this movie's
kind of, not all over the place, but there's
some parts that are kind of weird a little bit,
because I can't tell if it's trying to be a serious
character drama, which it totally can be, and
I think it succeeds on those levels. There's
a lot of emotional moments, especially when our
main character, Javid, kind of clashes heads
with his father, who's a little headstrong. and
doesn't really see why he's into Bruce Springsteen,
why he's into this American music. But then also
there are parts where they'll actually sing the
numbers, and it's kind of established by, this
is the mid-'80s, so Bruce's heyday was passed
by now. Even in England, they're like, really,
you're listening to Bruce Springsteen? All right,
my dad listens to him. But then they'll play
a jam or whatever. They'll play one of his iconic
songs, and then everybody in the background will
just get into it like it's a musical show tune
almost. It didn't really fully commit to it,
I feel like. Because with Rocketman, you can
kind of buy into it a little bit in that it is
fantastical. They fully built into it, that kind
of stuff. Exactly. You can tell what's diegetic
and what's non -diegetic, if that makes sense.
With Blinded by the Light, I kind of felt like
everything was supposed to be diegetic, so it
made these scenes a little more awkward. But
even then, there were parts where I'm like, uh.
I don't know if I should be laughing at this
or just kind of like, yeah, I feel good or whatever,
but yeah. I think that kind of resonated through
just the trailers, too. You think so? I felt
it would, like, there were... were moments in
the trailers itself where I didn't know if it
was, like, a terrible movie or... Right. Like,
honestly. Yeah. Ouch. I would definitely not
call it a terrible movie. This movie is too well...
I didn't want to say it was. I was just... No,
but I can tell... My impression from the trailer.
There were definitely some tonally dissonant
moments, for sure. It gets a little hokey, kind
of. Yes, yes, yes. That's not to say that there
isn't a lot of emotional impact. There is, and,
you know, it still got to me, even though I kind
of knew the narrative thread going in. Yeah.
Like, this movie... movie did not surprise me
at all well it's kind of so like what i always
say about like romantic comedies you know where
it's going to end up yes pretty much from the
beginning right it's how you get there yeah and
this kind of seems like that kind of movie where
it's like parents are probably going to accept
the kid i'm not So I'm not giving away anything,
or don't tell me, or whatever. But you kind of
see, like, parents are probably going to accept
him for who he is, that kind of thing, at the
end. But it's just a matter of how you get there.
Like, the bumps along the way, that kind of stuff.
And I will say, the best thing I can say about
this movie is that I don't think it's super dependent
on how well you like Bruce Springsteen. I'm pretty,
like, neutral on him. Like, obviously he's iconic,
he deserves his fame, and, you know, he's great.
But I don't listen to him on the regular. He's
not one of my go -to artists. That being said,
I still believe that Javed was so emotionally
touched by his music, so that was powerful enough
for me to get invested in his character and his
art. So it succeeds on that front. Okay. Do you
have a rating? Yeah. I'm going to give this one,
it's going to sound a little harsher, I guess,
but I'm going to give this one like a three,
three jean jackets out of five. That's not harsh
at all. Middle of the road. I feel like I'm lower
than the average on this one because Rotten Tomatoes
has this on a 90. Oh my god. IMDB had it lower.
IMDB had it at a 6 .8. It was good. It was fine.
As usual, our ratings are kind of... It's dependent
on us. I'm not trying to show anybody who really
likes this movie. Sometimes we're reviewing it.
to other things within its genre. We're not saying
overall. So we're a little more focused in terms
of our ratings. And you can definitely tell that
a lot of passion was put into this project, for
sure. It definitely wasn't made by a studio or
whatever. It was a passion project in that show.
It is definitely an indie movie almost. A little
bit, yeah. Got that vibe. Okay. Yeah. We're going
to jump to a very not -so -indie movie. We're
going to talk about Hobbs & Shaw. We're going
to kind of split it because... No, excuse you.
Fast and Furious presents Hobbs and Shaw. We're
going to kind of present it together a little
bit. We've made the Blinded by the Light a little
shorter so we can talk about Hobbs and Shaw.
Sorry, Fast and Furious presents Hobbs and Shaw.
Jesus Christ. If you're not familiar with the
Fast and Furious movies, there's been eight of
them. Where have you been before this one? This
is one that does not feature Vin Family Diesel.
I'm sorry. Family. So it's two side characters,
Hobbs and Shaw. I don't know what their real
names are because they just referred to them
as Hobbs and Shaw. I think the one was named
Deckard. Yeah, Deckard Shaw and Luke Hobbs. Boom.
Got it. And the next question is the Rock Hobbs.
Rock is Hobbs. Jason Statham is Shaw. Shaw's
the bad guy or turned... Good shot. Known murder
of Han Solo. Yes. Han's name is Han Solo. Fucking
what? Fuck this movie. Yeah. I will say this
is the first Fast and Furious universe movie
I've seen in theaters. Really? What? Yeah. Wow.
I know. I've only seen Fast Five and this one,
and that's it. I skipped three through five.
Whoa, time out. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You
didn't see Fast Five in theaters? No, I didn't.
Oh, it's my favorite one. Yeah, I watched it
like three times. I'll be honest. I skipped three
through five in theaters and then came back for
six and regretted it, but then stuck around for
seven and eight. It was just you mix some here
and there in theaters. I've seen them all. At
the top, before we get into this, I will say
after watching Fast Five, Fast and Furious presents
Hobbs and Shaw. I'm sold on that. I'll watch
the Fast and Furious movies at some point, probably
with some alcohol involved, but I'll do it. I'm
down. So, whereas I'm the opposite. It has me
questioning 9 and 10 when they come. Wow. Okay.
So, Fast and Furious movies are very much just
action set pieces. You go from action set piece
to action set piece to action set piece. They
raise the stakes. The first one was about people
stealing cars, and the... Eighth one, they destroyed
a nuclear submarine with a car. Yeah. And The
Rock, I'm pretty sure, redirected the submarine
with his hands or something like that. There
was definitely a part where that happened. Is
there a part in the first one where does Vin
Diesel get out of the back of a truck and grab
onto a helicopter and pull it closer? No, there
is not. Captain America did that. Yeah, Captain
America. It also happened in Hofstra. Pretty
much. So, is Hobbs and Shaw the MCU? It pretty
much is. Because Spider -Man's not. Oh, no! Why'd
you bring that up? I'm still so bitter about
it. We're definitely talking about that at the
end. It's too raw. It hurts. Spidey! Dude, Hobbs
and Shaw are new superheroes we never asked for.
Vanessa Kirby is brought in. They're the ones
we deserved. What's that? Vanessa Kirby is brought
in as Shaw's sister. She was good. I liked her.
I liked that she was not just a... What else
is she in? She's done Mission Impossible. She's
done The Man From U .N .C .L .E. She's really
got that femme fatale. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. She was the gold alien thing. Yeah, that's
right. She was the Sovereign. The Sovereign.
The Sovereign, that's it. Yeah, she's done a
couple things. Yeah, and I'm glad that she wasn't
just a plot. I mean, she was just a plot moppet,
but a capable one, if that makes sense. A plot
moppet? What? You know, it's like a MacGuffin,
but a person. You know what I mean? like MacGuffin,
like a human. I'd be plot Moppet. That is hilarious.
Hashtag plot Moppet. That is amazing. I'm going
to use that forever. It's pretty good, actually.
I love it. Yeah, she definitely, I mean, she
was definitely a big part of it and like a good
part of it, but cheesy dialogue, you know, as
you come to. Obviously. Yeah. I want to know,
like, okay, in Hobbs and Shaw. What is not a
plot Muppet? What do you mean? Okay, so a MacGuffin
is something that is just there to move the plot
forward. I'm assuming that was Vanessa Kirby.
Yeah, so at the top of this movie, Vanessa Kirby
is part of this MI6 SWAT team that's trying to
protect this virus thing. And then her whole
entire team gets taken down by Idris Elba. I'm
Black Superman! Black Superman shows up, takes
out her whole entire team, and then she just
opens the briefcase, sighs to herself, and then
injects herself with the virus. thus becoming
the plot moppet for the movie. Because she couldn't
take the case with her. Right. So she obviously
had to inject herself with the virus. Obviously.
So this whole entire time, she's the main plot
device in terms of, like, we have to protect
her. But she could also protect herself. She's
capable. And the timeline on this is she's going
to die in 72 hours or whatever it is. Right,
72 hours the virus will activate. And the virus
goes airborne and kills all the weak people.
And this company wants the virus because they
want to kill people because they want to, literally,
this is MCU. Holy fuck, they want to Thanos this
shit. They want to take out half the population
pretty much. Not half, but it's like a quarter
at least. Yeah, no, definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Actually, you're right. They've MCU'd this shit.
Yeah, exactly, yeah. You're talking about also
in the MCU, guys. That's true. That's true. I
mean, Heidel died, but, you know, it's all good.
Yeah, it is. Man. Splitting hairs. Splitting
hairs. He left this movie to do this movie. Guys,
this sounds amazing. Yeah. I mean, for, you know.
You have to know what you're getting yourself
into. You have to come into this movie on its
own terms, for sure. So three -quarters of the
movie is Hobbs and Shaw going, I don't like you,
but I'll work with you. Okay, side note, I could
watch Jason Statham. Three -quarters of the movie?
Oh, yeah. It's not even the first act, I'm like,
oh, we could team up. No, they team up. That
was 100 % of the trailers. Yes, that was. It
was too, like, oh, man, I can't work with you.
I would have liked this movie even more if it
was just 90 minutes of The Rock and Jason Statham.
insulting each other straight. Those were my
favorite parts of the movie. Andre was just hoping
for the rock flexing. Essentially what that would
have been is the Deadpool equivalent of you look
like an avocado, fuck another avocado. Yes, yes,
yes. It was, yeah, exactly. Snatching that, it's
for sure. Speaking of Deadpool, one of the first
cameos. Oh, wait. I knew this one. Yeah, I told
you this one already. Yeah, Ryan Reynolds is
in this. He shows up. And so does Rob Delaney.
Not as Deadpool. He's like... Pretty much Deadpool.
He's an FBI... He's like an FBI guy. CIA guy
who brings in Hobbs on the mission. And literally
the studio probably just told him, hey, listen,
just do your Deadpool thing. Just do your shtick.
And do that. Or like Pikachu or something. Right,
oh yeah, right, exactly what they did with Pikachu.
Where he's like saying, he's talking about this
virus to the rock in front of the rock's daughter.
It's still The Rock. It's not Dwayne Johnson.
It's The Rock. That's fine with me. The Rock's
daughter's character daughter, whatever. Whatever
it is. Plot Muppet. Plot Muppet. Muppet. Muppet.
Muppet. Muppet. M -O -P -P -I -T. I'll have to
consult with Jill on the exact phrasing on it.
Plot Muppet. Plot Muppet. Well, so the daughter
is there the first time that Ryan Reynolds talks
to both of them. And basically, he's talking
about the virus and how they're going to melt
from the inside out. And he looks directly at
the daughter like, it's brutal, sweetie. That
kind of stuff. Yeah. And the second, we're going
to do another cameo. If you do not want to hear
who this is, earmuffs. Mitchell is putting up
his earmuffs. T -Dog's. Covering his eyes. Covering
his eyes. He doesn't want to see that we're going
to talk about the fact that... Okay, so, second
cameo is Kevin Hart. Yeah. Like, he's in this
movie, and that was fun. He's in this movie,
yeah. Yeah, that was cute. I liked it. It was
a decent part. It was a good bit. It was a good
bit. It was a little much, but it was a good
bit. It was a good... Wait, cover yours again.
Okay. Did him and The Rock have a movie at one
point? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, like, they have
to be in everything together. Yeah, so, okay,
that's... Yeah, no, that's the joke. They technically
had two together. Yeah. Yeah, and they have another
one coming out, so, yeah. Oh, damn. All right,
done. Go. Go. Yeah. So he was in that movie.
My problem. Yeah, sure. The continuity errors.
Oh, so you were too invested in the actual lore.
No. Oh, okay. As I go too fast in the Furious
movies, I'm fine turning off my brain. I don't
care about continuity errors. I don't. This one
was so blatantly obvious. There was a fight that
took place on this island. And it is sunny on
this island. And then they fall down a waterfall.
And all of a sudden, it is raining. And you're
going, oh, maybe it's the waterfalls spraying
water on them. No, it is raining. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Where was this? This is in the trailer.
It's in the trailer. It's in Samoa. It's in Samoa.
Yeah, it's in Samoa. The Rocks have pretty much
demanded they put part of this movie in Samoa.
There is also another part. Was there an action
scene that took place in that rain? Yes. Oh,
fun, okay. No, definitely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And there's also another part. Right, like, that's
the thing, it was like, oh, okay, this looks
dumb and cool, I like it. So the two scenes,
like, that abut each other are, well, like, there's
a third scene that kind of splits it, but the
two scenes that abut each other, in the first
one, The Rock took off his shirt because of course.
You can't have a movie without him taking a shirt
off. And then the second one he has a shirt on.
You're doing a very poor job convincing me this
is a bad movie. Well, the second part he had
the shirt on. But there's a part in between where
it feels like it was recorded like four weeks
after where they're just kind of like, oh, we
forgot you didn't have a shirt on at this point.
We need to film this like 20 second thing where
you put a shirt on. oh yeah oh god it's like
blatantly obviously awkwardly there where he's
just like he grabs a shirt dude no that's so
it was so it's so good No, it's not. It's so
dumb. It's not. It's so absurdly stupid. The
fact that he's like, what is it? He goes from
the full loincloth, and then he's like, oh, we
gotta go and take down the helicopter. And he
has pants on under the loincloth. He takes off
the loincloth, there's pants underneath, and
then he grabs a shirt from out of nowhere and
puts it on. You can see his fucking ankles under
the loincloth. There's no pants. All of a sudden,
the loincloth's off. Pants. So, okay, to me,
this is... This movie sounds incredible. No,
right. So, the reason I like that is because
it reminded me of Commando. It just reminded
me of that really awful 80s Arnold Schwarzenegger
movie where in the final act he has a giant...
I'm sorry, did you say awful? It's amazing. It's
so good. That one's fine. Okay, but if you look
at that... Final act. And we're using that to
describe a part of a Schwarzenegger movie. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's storming the
final cat. But he's way too highbrow. I know,
you're right. Whatever. In the final scene when
he's storming the cat, like, whatever, the storming
the stronghold, he has this giant -ass LMG, and
you can tell the whole, like, the clip that reloads
into the gun gets refilled between shots every
other, like, four times. So, the same level.
It is. Well, it is, but... I'm willing to believe
that a little more. I feel like I'm laughing
at the movie, and that adds to my enjoyment of
the movie, if that makes sense. I'm glad you
enjoyed it. I did not. I found it, like, I literally
kept looking at the guys I went with and just
go, the fuck? What? Why? Also Han Solo. Fuck
that. Okay, when, when is, is it canon that his
last name is Solo? Yes. Oh my god. That's a real
thing. Like, his last name is S -E -O -U -L.
Hyphen. Oh. That's rough. I'm just confirming
this with the Fast and Furious gods. If you look
at the Fast and Furious wiki. Oh, no. Yes, I
have. Oh, my God. I will say, and I was telling
Mitchell about this, this movie is way too long
for what it is. Yes, it is. They needed to cut
out the factory scene or the Samoa scene. Take
one of those, not both, I would say. Yeah, I
think you can take... five minutes away from
each of them at least. That works too, I guess.
No, more than that. Honestly, it's probably a
half hour too long, I would say. Okay, okay.
Going back to Han. Two hours and 15 minutes.
Okay, his nickname is Han Solo. Understood. In
the fourth or fifth movie, he appears in a police
database as Han Solo. But did they tag that?
Because his real name is Han Lu. Oh, yeah. His
real name is Han Lu. So that's just how good
he is. It doesn't matter, though. Han Solo still
pisses me off. It doesn't matter if it's a nickname
or not. That's fucking bullshit. Fuck this movie.
Fair enough. Wow. So fired up. Where are you
rating this thing? Oh, really? We're going to
ratings right now? We're going to ratings right
now. We've been talking about this for like...
20 minutes. Does something else need to get fleshed
out? Yeah, I don't know. I love this movie. How
is this not a 5 out of 5? It's like I'm not even
halfway done with this. I'm not even halfway
done with my thoughts on this movie. We didn't
even get into the character motivations of Helen
Mirren's character. Oh yeah, Helen Mirren's in
this too. Has she been in previous Fast and Furious
movies? Yeah, she's Deckard Shaw's mom. Dad.
Whoa. She could be. Yeah, maybe. It's what I
teach. She's Deckard Shaw's mom. And she's in
prison. Yeah, she's in prison. Of course she
is. And she can escape at any point. But she
doesn't want to. Nah. I keep hovering between
a three and a three and a half on this one. Wow.
Blinded by the Light, suck it. Yeah, right? Okay,
this is why it's bad. Blinded by the Light is
a better made movie. It has way more going on.
Blinded by the Light is going to be my godfather
too, apparently. I feel like I had more fun with
Hans and Shaw, but I felt more emotions with
it in terms of it pissed me off and it made me
laugh out loud more. So I didn't get to the point
where I was laughing out loud. I got to the point
where I was just pissed. Okay, got it. So I am
giving it a 1 .5. Whoa! Wow, dude. 1 .5 what?
1 .5 what? Cars with hooks to helicopters. Yeah!
One to have cars chained together. Didn't quite
bring the helicopter down. It's a clown car in
the front. It's a clown car in the front. All
the Samoans are in this. I'll give it three cars
chained together and one Dwayne Johnson out of
five. Like pill -polling it. Yeah, exactly. So,
Rotten Tomatoes had it at 67. IMDB had it at
6 .8. That sounds about right. In my opinion,
that sounds about right. I understand crowds
love it, that kind of thing. It just left me
very frustrated. This is a pure enjoyment thing.
I don't think it's actually a three -star movie.
I think it's more like a two. When I go to a
Fast and the Furious movie, and I can point out
continuity errors because that's how much it's
pissed me off, that's the problem for me. It
sounds like it's not well -made. It sounds like
a machine. put together, like, a mad -libbed
sentence of, what do movie audiences want to
see? We rock in Jason's name and insult each
other. It's like, okay. With Vanessa Kirby. Yes,
please. I think it knows what it is, except that
it's just too long. It's the one big thing. It's
like, geez, it is way too long. Yeah. I feel
that. I agree with that. Maybe watch it at one
and a half speed and see where it's at. Speaking
of long movies. Yeah. Speaking of long movies,
where do we go from here? Dude, I have one to
talk about. Oh, boy. So me and T -Dog. And I
saw it twice now. I'm going to see it a third
time this weekend. Nice. So I liked it a lot.
I know Mike did not. Once upon a time in dot,
dot, dot, Hollywood. Oh, nice. Get the full title
in there. You got to get the ellipses in there.
That's how it animates on screen when you watch
it. So this is a story about Leonardo DiCaprio.
Of a lovely lady. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. all about
how my life got flipped turned upside down, too.
Like, there's multiple ways. Yeah, I love it.
Shout out to TV for just repeating itself in
very weird ways. And speaking of repeating yourself,
Quentin Tarantino has gotten to this place, and
I think this movie has proven that to me. He
is the ultimate... homage director right like
everything that he has put out on screen is in
somehow in some way uh homage to a previous director
blah blah that's a big part of his reputation
he is the quote -unquote post -modern director
and i like that part of it i know you said i
didn't like the movie overall and we'll get into
that but yeah I do like that part of it. That
was the main part of it. I think that's huge
in this movie in particular. It is huge, absolutely.
So he set this film in 1969, which was in the
early part of his 69, Summer Love. So you got
this, you got... the childhood setting for Quentin
Tarantino when he was growing up but the stars
that we see it's Rick Dalton who is a TV cowboy
played by Leonardo DiCaprio who is trying to
make the jump to film but never quite makes it
and he's at a crossroads in his career whether
does he keep playing the heavy aka the bad guy
on TV shows through the rest of his career or
does he go to Italy where Al Pacino who is a
producer for Spaghetti Westerns is offering him
to do a crap ton of movies over one summer to
keep his movie career afloat. And then you got
Cliff Booth who is Rick Dalton's stunt double
and that is played by the hunky Brad Pitt. Oh
my god. He looked good in this movie. He looked
fantastic. His forearms alone looked good. And
then of course you have Margot Robbie playing
Sharon Tate. So that's basically the table that
you're set with at the very beginning. And you
literally, for 90 minutes of this film to open,
you're just hanging out with these guys. There's
no plot. It is all just different scenes of exploring
these characters and a little bit of their backstories.
And the movie does not really pick up in terms
of tension or in terms of any kind of development
of a story until the very middle where Brad Pitt's
character... Cliff Booth, drops off a hippie
at Spahn Ranch, which has since been taken over
by the Manson family. So Spahn Ranch being an
old area where they used to film westerns and
cowboy movies and all that kind of stuff. They
don't make that, they don't explicitly mention
that at all. That it's like the Manson family.
They don't explicitly mention that. They mention
Charles. They do mention Charles. Yes. However,
I think Quentin Tarantino made that mind with
you know Sharon Tate's in this exactly yeah and
you're gonna automatically assume these people
are up to no good yeah and I would like to say
because of how everything is drawn out especially
that scene in particular with Brad Pitt and his
little journey through that ranch Quentin Tarantino's
is one of the best at building tension and he
uses the expectation of violence that people
have grown to have for his movies really against
you in that particular case. Which is why I'm
saying that Quentin Tarantino, at this point
in his career, this is his quote -unquote ninth
movie, if you consider Kill Bill one whole movie,
where he's actually starting to reference himself,
which I think is interesting. Referencing himself
as in, you know that I'm known for violence.
Guys, this is his least violent movie, by a long
shot. It's not even close. And I think it's all
in the sake of exploring these characters and
amping up the tension just a little bit until
the very end where you would obviously have to
have that release. And Tarantino definitely does,
and I don't want to give that away. He gets his
release in several ways. Yes, he does. I really
like the violence when it occurred in the movie
just because I felt like it fell into place versus
some rampant, constantly violent. Which is fair.
If you cannot invest yourself in these characters,
you're not going to enjoy the movie at all. No,
that's the thing. Those 90 minutes are key. They're
slow. But if you don't buy into Rick Dalton,
if you don't buy into Cliff Booth... this movie
is not going to capture your imagination. And
I completely get that. I was completely invested.
Just the small scenes of Tarantino putting himself
in the position of directing TV westerns, which
I think is crazy to think about. And all these
different things. I just wanted to be in that
world. And I was happy to hang out with these
guys. It reminded me a lot of Inglourious Bastards
in the same way. The first three chapters of
Inglourious Bastards, you're basically getting
introduced to... Aldo Rain, Hans Landa, Shoshana,
all those people. The Bear Jew. The Bear Jew,
for a little bit. Pause, by the way. Adam Sandler
was first interested in that role. Quentin Tarantino
wanted Adam Sandler to be the Bear Jew. That
would have been funny. That would have been good.
That would have been a little different. That
would have been a little different. Anyway, speaking
of which, there is a little stunt casting in
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. You get Uma Thurman's
daughter is in it. You get... Oliphant? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Oliphant is in it. You get... Who else?
Lena Dunham is a part of the Manson family, which,
okay, I buy. Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. That was actually
one of... A lot of the casting was believable,
but I actually really liked her part in it. I'm
not a huge Lena Dunham fan from what I've seen
so far. It seemed natural. It seemed natural
to me. But what I love most of all in terms of
what I'm taking away from this movie, when I
say I loved hanging out with the characters,
what I really meant was I really loved hanging
out with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. Absolutely.
I thought Tarantino knows how to get the most
out of movie stars. And I'll say this, Leonardo
DiCaprio had the quote -unquote harder role.
He had more emotional range to develop. He had
more of an actual emotional through -line to
carry a movie with. But I'll say this, to pull
off the Cliff Booth character the way Brad Pitt
does, I don't think anyone else could do it.
I don't think Leo could have done it. I really
think it relies so much on charisma and just
how you look on screen. that no matter how good
of an actor you could be, you can't fake that.
It's really hard. And, you know, with their work
together in True Romance, which was written by
Quentin Tarantino, and then more recently in
Inglourious Bastards, Brad Pitt just knows how
to read Tarantino. And I think he's an underrated
Tarantino actor. People are going to mention
Sam Jackson first. They might mention Kurt Russell.
They might mention Leo for Django. Yeah, Leo
as well. And certainly Christoph Waltz. But Brad
Pitt's got to be in that conversation. He just
looks so at home in these roles. Where it's just
like, yeah, I buy that. You're totally Aldo Reign.
You came down from the Smoky Mountains. Fight
your way halfway through Sicily. Jump out with
fucking airplay to teach Nazis lessons. It's
funny because you say that and he was in Fury.
And it just didn't have the same thing. And it
was almost the same character a little bit. Yeah,
he's a leader of a ragtag crew. Right. And so
it's a great compliment to Quentin Tarantino
because he brings out that of him too as well.
Or maybe he just understands it better. You know,
that kind of stuff. Because in Fury, it's a different
role entirely. Yeah. Even though it feels similar.
It's just not as fun of a movie as well. Yeah,
I agree with that too. In A Glorious Bastard,
there's definitely more artistic flair. And that's
why a lot of people had trouble with the ending
and all that. Which I totally understand. Yeah,
exactly. I'm one of those people. Exactly. And
I completely get it. But regardless, I really
enjoyed this. I remember... It's one of my favorites
that I've seen for a long time. I don't know
what movie I like. The last movie I've liked
so much compared to this one, I'm not really
sure. It is on my short list of my favorite movies
this year, which includes The Farewell and The
Last Black Man in San Francisco. So those are
probably my top three this year. I'd love to
talk about The Farewell next time at those. But,
shout out to A24. And I have such a huge bias
with their movies. But anyway, really enjoyed
this film. Ranks for Tarantino for me is number
five overall in his filmography. Dang. I mean,
like, look, for me, it's five out of nine. I
guess so, but still. So you got Inglourious Basterds
won for me, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir
Dogs, and then you got Once Upon a Time in America.
So that's where I got that right now. I will
list two. Okay. It's seven out of nine. Okay,
so you got it ahead of Hateful Eight and... Well,
no, I have Hateful Eight ahead of it. Just by
one. Just by one. Dang. Just more so because,
I don't know, I just, I like... I don't know.
I don't know what it is. Did you like that movie?
No. Okay. No. Oh, what? I'm saying literally,
so I have Kill Bill 1 at 5. Now, are we calling
Kill Bill as... I split. Okay, good. So volume
1 or 2? Volume 1. Good. Yes. So I have that at
5, and I have a big drop -off from 5 to 6. Like
a huge drop -off. Gotcha. So it falls on 7 to
me for Once Upon a Time. 8 is Kill Bill 2. Okay.
And nine is Death Proof. Right. I have not seen
Death Proof, and I've... These are the nine I've
seen. I haven't seen Jackie Brown. I have not
seen Jackie Brown. Yeah. I have not seen... Going
through his directing things is just so tough
because, like, technically Death Proof shouldn't
be on this list because it was a side project
and it was, you know, like, whatever. Well, he's
considering Death Proof a part of the filmography.
Is he? Yeah. Okay. I didn't know that. It's part
of the nine. But, like, he's part of Sin City
or something like that. Well, he directs one
scene. Yeah, exactly. And that's what I'm saying.
So, like, that doesn't count. Right. You know,
there's a few things, but I love Reservoir Dogs.
I found it weird that I was thinking about it,
and I went Inglourious Basterds is number two
for me. Yeah. Because historical fiction I have
a hard time with, and that's another reason why
I have a hard time with this one. Right. Is because
of the end. Yeah. It's both Inglourious Basterds
and because of Once Upon a Time. The end skews
a little bit. And Tarantino's gone, historical
fiction, his last four movies now. Yeah. So that
includes, hopefully, Django. Yes. Fun fact, Django,
though, was three just because I was okay with
the whole movie of it. Yeah. That one, for me,
I loved it when it came out. Yeah. Since I've
seen it over time, it has slipped in my rankings.
Yeah. And I just think it's bloated. And one
thing I want to bring up, too, that is a major
flaw in this movie, it is long. And rarely do
movies deserve to be as long as this one. And
I think it's 20 minutes too long. Like, at the
end of the day, I saw it a second time. Like,
there is some fat here that we could trim. And
I want to give a shout out to Sally Menke was
his longtime editor, starting with Reservoir
Dogs all the way through Inglourious Bastards.
And then she passed away. And then those movies
on, and that's Django, certainly Hateful Eight,
and now Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, all had
editing issues. It felt very bloated. There was
not a critical eye of saying to Quentin, hey,
you can still tell this story, you can still
inspire this emotion in fewer minutes. Interesting.
And guys, this is part of the movie experience
of 2019. Time is worth so much. Yeah. And how
do you get people to spend almost three hours
in a theater? You know what I mean? Make it a
Marvel movie. Make it a Marvel movie. Exactly
right. I feel like Marvel broke that barrier
of, like it used to be, if you weren't a high
-profile, you were within 90 minutes. But now
if they do another one, am I going to be as invested?
No, not at all. It is all build -up. Infinity
War and Endgame were just build -ups. Absolutely.
They can't. maintain that audience and just their
one -offs or even a smaller subset of the universe.
Shout out to Cliff Bootsdog as well. Anyway,
so I am going to give this one a 4 .5 out of
5. Nice. Do you have a ranking? I would have
to go honestly the same. I was between a 4 and
5. I love it. Yeah, I know. But you know what
I mean. I know, I know. Like debating between
one or the other. Right. Not necessarily like
right in the middle. You saw it, correct? No,
I did not. Oh, okay. All right. Give your rating.
I have a follow -up question. Well, so mine sits
at a three. Yeah. Just because the world, like
I like the characters, I like the world. The
end is what lost me and like it is a... slog
to get there oh it is but I respect the process
I respect what Tarantino did it's just one of
those movies where I'm just respecting the director
for what I've seen but at the same time like
I don't know if I needed to see this I don't
okay then my question is kind of an obvious one
do I need to see this on the big screen like
do I need to make sure I get to see it before
it's out they have it on Dolby Yeah, they got
it on Dolby, but I mean, Tarantino's always going
to argue that you better see his movies. Sure,
yeah. I'm not talking to Tarantino, though. I
mean, of course he's going to say that. Well,
I'm the guy who saw it twice and is going to
see it a third time this weekend, so that's where
I'm at. For me, just don't have anything the
rest of your night. Don't drink too much water.
No, no, Claire and I saw it before we had to
go to work. Yeah, no. I went to work at Peru,
and I thought... You know, it's pushing it, but
it'll be fine. I was an hour late for work. I
think we saw it at like 6 p .m. on a Sunday or
something like that. Yeah, it was great. That
might also have built into my ranking where I'm
just sitting there like, holy shit. You're just
constantly looking at your watch. Did you not
look at the run time before you went? I did.
No, no. It just got pushed back by like... 20
minutes? Yeah. Yeah, because it's AMC. Yeah,
exactly. To be fair, though, towards the end,
I'm like, oh, man, I really have to go pee. And
when they're walking up that hill to the houses,
I about went to pee. And I'm like, what the fuck
am I doing? You know it's building to the flybacks.
Yeah, I was dumb. First hour and a half is slow,
as we said before. Then it ramps up when Cliff
Booth gets to spawn range. I mean, I'm here for
that. As long as I know going in. And, yeah,
I mean, I've been invested in Tarantino's characters
before. Right. I feel like I can quit with this
movie. I just need to find the time to. That's
the thing. Just the big ass. Carve out a weekend.
Yeah, right. Just go. I just don't really like,
how many more weekends do you think we have?
It's been about a month now, right? Probably
at least two weeks. I'd say you'd have two weeks.
Yeah, for sure. Two weeks before it starts getting
hard to see. Yeah. Oof. All right. Anyway, so
four and a half for both me and T -Dog. But T
-Dog. You have a wonderful movie. Let's see if
there's a four and a half coming next. I'm very
excited for this. T -Dog? I've never seen this.
First, I've watched a few movies since we met.
Since we met? Yeah. It was a while back. Since
we met. Since we met years ago. I watched Baby
Driver. I love Baby Driver. I watched Shazam.
That was good. It's definitely aimed for a younger
audience. Yeah, but it's still fun. Yeah, Baby
Driver for sure. Yeah, Baby Driver also aimed
for a younger audience. No, no, no, no, no. It
stars a baby. Yeah, it's a baby. It's a little
baby. Oh, I thought you were making a joke about
Kevin Spacey. Oh, I forgot he was in that. Yeah,
it's best to forget. That's where I thought you
were going with that. I did not read the room,
okay. Oh, God. Oh. Well, anyway. Okay, anyways.
I'm in my second beer now. Let's do it. All right,
so I watched Zoolander 2. I'm going to sum up
my feelings towards it right away. So let's take
Zoolander 1, everything that you disliked about
it, the stupid humor. the just pointless jokes
that didn't hit. But what about male models?
Yeah. And that's what Zoolander 2 is. So we start
off by a continuation of the Center for Kids
Who Cannot Read Good. So that has been finished.
Already a great start to this movie. Yeah, right.
Okay, solid. So, you know, they have... I believe
on top of it is a large book. Like, um, I don't
remember if it's built out of some, it's some
statue, like a large book. And so that collapses
and falls. It ends up killing his, uh, at the
time wife. Um, so she's gone. That's the, that's
the, that's the freak gasoline fight accident
of this movie. Yeah. And you know, the. Free
Gasoline Bite. I love the Gasoline Bite. The
Gasoline Bite was so good. I love Zoolander 1.
Not because it's a great movie or anything, because
it's not. It's a fun movie. I remember those
dumb bits from all those years ago. A lot of
2000s Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell movies. Yeah,
right. Definitely. And then, I don't know, this
is like the 2000 and... When did this come out?
16, 2016 maybe? No, it was like 2015 maybe? I
think it was 2016. Fact checking. Yeah. But keep
going. I'm pretty sure it's 2016. And so, right
away, his wife has died. Damn. Hansel actually
suffers an injury to his face. Hansel! Hansel!
So hot right now. And Zoolander ends up losing
custody of his son. This is the major story plot
of the, well, story. Wow, all right. So we get
to see Zoolander reunite with Hansel, who have
both been in isolation. Hansel's recovering from
his, well, you know, injury. He's wearing, like,
this gold. faceplate thing covering it up. It
ends up actually not being anything. There's
no damage. It's like a scratch that's already
fully healed and everything. I hate that I saw
where that was going. I missed the point where
they actually took it off because all of a sudden
he just had it off. What are you doing? Stop
it. Why do you have a bug zapper? You didn't
have to bring this up. He is talking about I
did have to bring this up. He got distracted
too. Stop it. It's hard to get distracted from
Zoolander 2. Exactly. It's such a great film.
characters. A lot of celebrity cameos. You get
to see Billy Zane is in it much more than the
first one. If you're like, you know what? Zoolander
1 could have more of Billy Zane. Is there a certain
pop star who makes an appearance there? Right
away, actually. I should have led with this.
It starts off with Justin Bieber. He's part of
the... Zero out of five. He's part of the, I
don't know, I don't know if it was Interpol or
some sort of spy agency. What? MI6. Maybe MI6.
I don't know. The CIA? It doesn't really matter.
But, you know, to start off with, I'm like, okay,
this is kind of stupid, but it kind of follows
Zoolander 1, and then it just really followed
that. bad line of always stupid. Does it answer
the question is it too late now to say sorry?
Oh my god. Lugatu's been invented. The entire
time. And Zoolander goes... So he's trying to
reunite with his son. He realizes his son is
fat. He abandoned his son again. So his son was
taken away from him because he couldn't raise
the child. You know, he's a male model. Not a
father. Not a father. That's rough. And there's
this story plot with... Story plot. Story plot
that... The male model has descended from Adam
and Eve and Steve. Adam and Eve and Steve? Yes.
So Steve is this fountain of youth that Magatu
wants to kill. basically. Is that like a joke
on the I thought it was Adam and Eve, not Adam
and Steve thing? Is that it? See, Andre, you're
making predictions. You could have wrote for
Zoolander. Could I have? I think you just did.
They bring back like the villains in Zoolander.
They're at the end where they've They have all
these fashion people in a room since they think
they're getting the Fountain of Youth. Mugatu
ends up tricking them all that it doesn't actually
exist. And he's going to kill everyone, basically,
because they've let him rot in prison. Can anyone
guess what ends up saving the day? He throws
a bomb. It's going to drop. Zoolander does his
magnum. Magnum. Which he wasn't able to do before
because his son... He lost the power to do the
magnum. He lost his son. He lost his sense of
worth. Sense of self. It's all about the family.
He thought he killed his wife. It ended up being
Mugatu was part of the construction crew that
built the... Center for Kids Who Cannot Read
Good. Oh, so he was in on it from the very beginning.
Yeah, it was from the start. It was a long game.
Long con. Yeah, long con. It was a really built
-up story. Wow, so you're really selling me on
this narrative here. So this is selling like
a three, three and a half, four star movie. Oh
yeah. Probably four male models. Let's go watch
Zoolander. What are we doing? Sick. Let's go
find a free stream somewhere. So they saved the
day with their magnum. Everyone, like Hansel.
Everyone magnums? Everyone magnums? Hansel's
father, who is, can anyone guess who Hansel's
father is? Gretel. Come on. Gatu? Think from
the first one. Oh, from the story. Think from
Zoolander 1. Oh, I haven't seen that movie in
years. I have no idea. Yeah, I don't know. Sting.
It's Sting! Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Gotcha. I really hoped somebody would guess that.
No. That's fair. You don't have... So Sting ends
up being his father at the end. He's like...
you know, I'm your father. And then they both
did the Magnum. Oh, wow. Zoolander's doing the
Magnum. His son's doing the Magnum. Everybody
do the Magnum. Wow. Okay. Defeat Mugatu. I'm
sorry. Zoolander came out in 2001. I'm pretty
sure I saw it in 2002 and never again. What?
Really? I probably saw it on Comedy Central.
Yeah, right. I feel like I've seen it at least
2008, 2009. The first one, Sting's not in it,
but Hansel references Sting's music. He's like,
I've never heard his music, but I... I appreciate
what he does. Got it. Okay, yeah. Yeah, that's
right. So back to the taking everything bad about
Zoolander 1 and throwing it into a movie. That's
a lot as an entire movie. Yeah, but I mean, it's
not even fun bad. Zoolander 1 is fun bad. No,
right, exactly. And that's why I enjoyed Zoolander
1. This takes it too far where it's almost on
the point. It's not as bad as Watson and Sherlock,
but it's like trying... It's almost there. It's
on that parallel. I have a question for you.
Did you see Anchorman 2? I did. I enjoyed Anchorman
2 more than... Wow. I do not like Anchorman 2.
Anchorman 2 was rough. I was just wondering...
Yeah, I meant to actually make that comparison.
Sequels that you thought you wanted, well, I
guess I kind of knew I didn't want it, but you're
like, okay, yeah. See, I wanted a two -lander
more than I wanted an Anchorman 2. Sure, sure,
sure, sure. There are long gaps between the first
and the second for both of those franchises,
and it's like, I don't know, man. It's hard to
keep that mojo going. Like, I don't know if they...
Wanted to punish people for wanting the C4. Wow.
Fuckers wanted it on Zoolander 2. Well, here
you go. Fucking assholes. That's a very expensive
fuck you. Yeah, right. They have the money. But
it saves you from Freelander. It's true. Don't
get any more. I hope you learned your lesson.
I'm going to have to give it a 1 .5 male. That's
more than enough for me. That's what to say.
You liked it as much as Mike liked Hobbs and
Shaw, which is still surprising to me. I'm guessing
I'd like Hobbs and Shaw better. I think you would
too. I don't want to make assumptions or anything.
It's not a shot at you. It's more so like I just
think you would enjoy it better. Never wanted
to see Zoolander 2 because I enjoyed the first
one. Does this ruin the first one for you? No,
because sequels that are terrible never ruin
movies for me. I can separate it in my mind.
I don't know, man. Pacific Rim Uprising was...
Big bummer for me. I'm glad this podcast took
you to the dark side. I did not plan on ever
watching it. Guess what your next movie is, Mitchell,
if you get a bad movie. Pacific Rim Upsurizing.
I'd be happy to shit on it with you, but I prefer
to forget that movie, actually. So 1 .5 out of
5. Male models. Alright, so we jump into the
next part of our podcast that we always do. Do
you have a... I do. I'm generally excited for
movies that we're excited for, right? Movies
that we feel something about. Feel something
about strongly. Some feelings. I mean, I feel
like the trailer has come up for this movie a
while ago, but I'm honestly pumped for Knives
Out. Looks like a lot of fun. Knives Out looks
like a good time. Brian Johnson joint. A lot
of star -studded cast. Yeah. Rian Johnson. He's
a Spike Lee. Rian Johnson. Yeah. Rian Johnson
is a part of this. He is, and he's not attached
to a big, major, huge franchise that'll piss
off a lot of nerds. Plus, Chris Evans is anti
-Captain America. Right. It looks hilarious.
Yeah, it does. It looks like a lot of fun. Just,
yeah. And I'm still in for, what's his name?
Shoot. I just spaced out his name. Daniel Craig.
Oh, yeah. Southern guy. Yeah, right? Yeah, for
sure. Because he was fun in Logan Lucky. There
it is. Was that good? Joe Boom. Yeah, I liked
it. I like Logan Lucky. I still need to see that
one. I don't know. It just looks like... Just
looks like a fun murder mystery. Don't really
have much else to say about it, but that's just
on my list of I want to watch that when it comes
out, probably. Man, this cast is amazing. Yeah,
right. I'm just looking at it now. You got Toni
Collette, Michael Shannon, Lakeith Stanfield,
Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Plummer. Not to
mention, yeah. This is, yeah, this is a really
cool cast. Right. I'm excited for it. It's not
attached to a pre -existing IP, I think, so.
Because Hollywood lets Rian Johnson write and
direct his own movies. Yeah. Right. That's how
it is. Which I'm buying with. Going to the other
side of the scale. Yeah. I try to stay within
two weeks as always. Cool. Next week, we are
supposed to get Angel Has Fallen! The most non
-anticipated sequel ever. I didn't know this
was a thing. Wait, what is this? Angel Has Fallen?
Do you remember White House Has Fallen? No, it
was Olympus Has Fallen. White House down, Olympus
Has Fallen all came out at the same time. Damn
those movies. London Has Fallen. This is a Gerard
Butler one, right? This is the third one. London
Has Fallen. Which I got free tickets to and I
had not seen Olympus Has Fallen. And I regret
I wanted my money back for the free tickets.
I saw the first one, but it's been a long time.
Don't waste your time on London Has Fallen. I
thought the first one was all right. First one,
I'm sure it probably was because it definitely
got a sequel. And now a third one. Three cool.
Come on. The three cool. Wow. I am dreading this
movie. I got told it's supposed to be taken in
a different direction, but at the same time,
unless I get free tickets to it, which I still
might say no to, I am not going. Nothing is free,
man. Something will cost your time, and that
sounds like something that will. For me, there's
something that's already been out. It's a TV
series called Succession. Season 2 is now on
the air. And I'm pretty excited to catch up with
my good old friends. Did you like the first season?
Yeah, I really did. Okay, I've been trying to
figure out a TV show that's on my list. Yeah,
definitely. I definitely recommend it. It takes
a while to get going. Of course. But the show
itself. The Culkin brother. Yeah, you get the
other Culkin. I'm blanking on his first name.
Anyway, Adam McKay is behind the project, or
at least he directed the pilot and is an executive
producer on it. And they definitely put his name
out in front to try and get this sold to an audience.
So anyway, it's about a family that is going
through a power struggle. What was it? Kieran
Culkin. Kieran Culkin. There you go. This is
about a family that is akin to the Murdochs who
own News Corp. And the patriarch is dying. And
the whole... point of season one is to figure
out which of the kids is going to take over when
their dad ultimately kicks the bucket it's equal
parts hilarious equal parts kind of sad it's
sad it's very sad at the end of season one um
the interaction between the siblings is great
it's my favorite part um but also because they're
like douches to each other absolutely it's great
it's so great and you're selling me yeah and
the uh and also you know it definitely has some
commentary on what's going on in terms of how
big, giant media companies use their power and
how little they care at the end of the day. So
anyway, I'm all in on Succession. I believe the
first two episodes of Season 2 have already aired,
so I'm playing catch -up, but very excited to
watch. G -Dog? I guess I'm probably going to
see Ad Astra. Yeah, the Brad Pitt movie. I just
love Brad Pitt. Cliff Booth in space. Booth in
space. Who plays his dad again? Tommy Lee Jones.
You only see him in the footage of the... And
who captained that ship? My father. I haven't
heard much about the movie. Dude! That's why
we recruited you. More so for the star power,
right? Star power? What's this movie about? I
don't know. Star power? You said it's a secret
word, apparently. Hopefully it's good. Hopefully
it's good. Yeah, no, it looks fun. I don't know.
Say what you were going to say before these idiots
started interrupting you. Every time I've talked.
Wow. It's great. Let's see, what else do we have
coming up? I will say, if we're true, Judd's
really excited about Matrix 4. Matrix 4, yeah.
That's just kind of nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those
guys are the Wachowski siblings. They're writing.
They're writing? Are they directing? I don't
know about directing, but they are definitely
writing. Okay, sure. It is the full cast, though.
I liked one out of those three movies. What?
Yeah. Dude, Reloaded was fantastic. One out of
three is what I heard. I like Ghost in the Shell.
I'm down for another one of those movies. Oh,
God. But yeah, that's cool. That got announced
like today, right? Yeah, that's like today. That's
when I started seeing it. Okay. Yeah, that comes
out soon, right? Dude, reboot culture, man. But
this is indeed a sequel, not a reboot, right?
It's same cast. Same cast. I would say it's a
sequel. Gotcha. Okay, cool. I'm in. Hey, the
year of Keanu continues. Absolutely. Just let's
go. And by year, we mean like lifetime. Decades.
Yeah, right. The decade of Keanu. What can I
say? He's breathtaking. He's in a movie. We'll
just go to it. Duke Caboom. Great role. Duke
Caboo. Centennial of Keanu continues. I'm into
it, man. I'm here for all of it. And the Ted
and Bill and Ted CEO. Yeah. Come on. Keep it
going. Keep it going. Well, all right. One quick
story and then we'll close this up. Okay. Do
you know about the Keanu hand? What's a Keanu
hand? Whenever he has a female fan take a picture
with him. The hover hand. He has the hover hand.
Smart man. So there was a Make -A -Wish kid that
was on the set of Bill and Ted Face the Music,
and they did a bunch of cool poses and stuff
like that, and then at the end they did one,
and the picture is perfect because his hand,
five foot gap. It's literally, you can see the
gap between it, and it was just great. It's the
Keanu hand. It's the hover hand really is what
the term is. I love how he's in on the joke.
like to do that that is great like he knows he
knows and don't get in trouble it's fine exactly
dude Keanu is that guy in trouble Keanu and Matrix
4 looking forward to it as well but alright well
that will do it for a 13th unlucky 13 episode
of game for a movie R .I .P. Spider -Man R .I
.P. Spider -Man Spider -Man Spider -Man. We'll
see. We could talk for another hour about this,
but once Disney buys Sony, we won't have to worry
about it. Oh, God. But I am just mad about the
perfect post -credits scene was wasted on a storyline
that can't continue. That is the most bizarre
part for me, just as a fan of the Tom Holland
universe. I forgot the post -credits scene. Jonah
Jameson comes back, and... He basically finds
this video that Peter Parker's... Peter Parker's
identity's been revealed. I remember now. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. All right, Pete. So good. Well, it
is in the middle of the city what happens. Oh,
let's go. Fuck this! Damn it. Oh, well. Sony,
Disney, get your head out of your asses. Make
Spider -Man Homecoming 3. That sequel is still
happening where they're happy and Aunt May are
still dating is another thing entirely. No, they're
not still dating. Yeah, exactly. I took that
from them. Saw a tweet that was like, just a
picture of Happy's like, get back on Tinder,
bitch. Damn. Ouch. All right. For your host,
Mikey Tank. Mitchell. D -Dog. Andre. This has
been Game for a Movie, where we ask, are you
game for a movie?