WEBVTT

00:00:02.230 --> 00:00:05.809
That's the start of another Game for a Movie.

00:00:06.250 --> 00:00:09.029
Welcome to the party. This is episode nine. I

00:00:09.029 --> 00:00:11.369
don't know what's happening over there. We're

00:00:11.369 --> 00:00:13.130
podcasting over here. We're podcasting. Yeah,

00:00:13.130 --> 00:00:16.510
okay. I'm podcasting here. I'm throwing my cap

00:00:16.510 --> 00:00:18.489
at Mitchell because of what just happened. No

00:00:18.489 --> 00:00:20.750
cap. That was a lefty throw, too. You're welcome.

00:00:20.789 --> 00:00:22.969
That was pretty good. Yeah, you're welcome. I

00:00:22.969 --> 00:00:25.489
am your host, Mikey Tank. We are joined by a

00:00:25.489 --> 00:00:31.710
very special guest. I'm Allison. Oh! Yay! She

00:00:31.710 --> 00:00:33.229
looked right through the microphone. I thought

00:00:33.229 --> 00:00:35.170
we were going to do the bit where... Where I'm

00:00:35.170 --> 00:00:37.070
T -Dog? Yeah, exactly. Oh, we're still trying

00:00:37.070 --> 00:00:38.869
to figure out where T -Dog is this week. Oh,

00:00:38.869 --> 00:00:40.390
okay. I thought she was T -Dog. I thought she

00:00:40.390 --> 00:00:42.070
was T -Dog, and I thought this is, like, the,

00:00:42.109 --> 00:00:44.310
like, T -Dog was being so secretive that he was

00:00:44.310 --> 00:00:46.329
keeping his own gender and identity. Actually,

00:00:46.329 --> 00:00:49.170
do we have T -Dog, like, in the other room all

00:00:49.170 --> 00:00:50.789
the time? Is that what's happening? I don't know,

00:00:50.789 --> 00:00:52.149
man. Like, he's just behind a curtain? Well,

00:00:52.170 --> 00:00:53.829
obviously, the... He's like the Wizard of Oz.

00:00:54.090 --> 00:00:56.810
Okay. There we go. Nice. Pay no attention to

00:00:56.810 --> 00:00:58.350
the man behind this curtain. I actually like

00:00:58.350 --> 00:01:00.350
this metaphor a lot, yeah. Yeah, it works. Okay,

00:01:00.469 --> 00:01:03.130
we also have... Andre Bellinger. And? Mitchell

00:01:03.130 --> 00:01:05.969
Clements. Welcome to the party, guys. Are we

00:01:05.969 --> 00:01:09.650
guessing where T -Dog is this week? Are we done

00:01:09.650 --> 00:01:11.290
with that? Again, I'm still not convinced that

00:01:11.290 --> 00:01:13.290
T -Dog is on Allison in disguise. Right, yeah.

00:01:13.530 --> 00:01:15.409
No, because he always comes in, like, masked

00:01:15.409 --> 00:01:17.469
and stuff with, like, a voice modulator, so I

00:01:17.469 --> 00:01:18.810
don't really know what he actually looks like,

00:01:18.829 --> 00:01:20.849
so I just assumed that when you brought Allison,

00:01:20.930 --> 00:01:22.450
that was T -Dog. I've seen Mission Impossible

00:01:22.450 --> 00:01:25.310
probably five too many times. Oh, yeah, there

00:01:25.310 --> 00:01:27.650
you go. Like, mask? I'm seeing a mask right now.

00:01:27.689 --> 00:01:30.209
Yeah, right, right, right. I mean, T -Dog is

00:01:30.209 --> 00:01:33.790
just... Whoever T -Dog is. T -Dog were the friend

00:01:33.790 --> 00:01:36.689
that... Is this Russian philosophy? Yeah. Welcome

00:01:36.689 --> 00:01:38.129
to Philosophy 101. Let me get a support Russian

00:01:38.129 --> 00:01:40.310
philosophy right here. Welcome to Philosophy

00:01:40.310 --> 00:01:42.670
101. Did you just say Russian philosophy? Because

00:01:42.670 --> 00:01:45.230
that pairs perfectly with my fact that I think

00:01:45.230 --> 00:01:49.170
T -Dog's still in Russia. Oh. Okay. Yeah. Or

00:01:49.170 --> 00:01:52.250
the Ukraine because he got sent to prison. Do

00:01:52.250 --> 00:01:54.290
we think he was a Russian spy this entire time?

00:01:54.370 --> 00:01:56.849
He might have been. He definitely is. He definitely

00:01:56.849 --> 00:01:59.450
is. Definitely is. We're all in. So the KGB is

00:01:59.450 --> 00:02:01.890
still around. Oh, definitely. Trust me, I'm an

00:02:01.890 --> 00:02:05.189
expert on the KGB now, so he's definitely KGB

00:02:05.189 --> 00:02:08.270
for sure. Okay, so are you KGB? How are you suddenly

00:02:08.270 --> 00:02:12.490
an expert? We will dive further into that later

00:02:12.490 --> 00:02:14.930
in this episode of why he is an expert. We might

00:02:14.930 --> 00:02:17.110
get assassinated before the end of the episode.

00:02:17.229 --> 00:02:20.650
We might. I'm a career party man. Wow. Yeah,

00:02:20.729 --> 00:02:23.409
so we'll just leave that there, you know? Okay.

00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:25.639
Remember how in the first episode we kind of,

00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:27.300
like, made assumptions about each other and,

00:02:27.340 --> 00:02:30.060
like, how I was communist? We might have made

00:02:30.060 --> 00:02:33.060
some communists. Goodness gracious. I'm just

00:02:33.060 --> 00:02:36.139
a callback to the first episode. That is a callback.

00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.539
I barely remember that fact, but now I do remember.

00:02:38.659 --> 00:02:40.340
Yeah, maybe you should listen to the podcast

00:02:40.340 --> 00:02:43.099
more. Look, man, I'm here for the rough draft.

00:02:43.139 --> 00:02:45.580
I don't listen to the podcast. You guys all subscribe.

00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:48.639
You know who else subscribes? Who? Our new friend,

00:02:48.860 --> 00:02:53.310
Mike from Night Shift Brewing. Hey! Thanks for

00:02:53.310 --> 00:02:56.050
subscribing, Mike. You are the man. It was very

00:02:56.050 --> 00:02:59.169
nice to meet you today. So, yeah, he was an awesome

00:02:59.169 --> 00:03:01.889
dude. We would be drinking Night Shift, but it

00:03:01.889 --> 00:03:04.330
is not readily available in Connecticut yet.

00:03:04.509 --> 00:03:07.129
Future episodes, there may be more Night Shift

00:03:07.129 --> 00:03:09.389
brewing. So right now we are drinking Bell's

00:03:09.389 --> 00:03:11.689
Two Hearted, and we are drinking a plethora.

00:03:12.270 --> 00:03:14.650
of Great Lakes Brewing Company. Andre, do you

00:03:14.650 --> 00:03:16.770
want to jump on this? Oh, sure, yeah. Well, I

00:03:16.770 --> 00:03:18.830
went home for the Law Memorial Day weekend and

00:03:18.830 --> 00:03:21.930
decided to bring back some of Ohio's best product,

00:03:22.030 --> 00:03:25.949
Great Lakes Brewing. Cheers, you know? This is

00:03:25.949 --> 00:03:28.849
the brew company that I grew up with. Please

00:03:28.849 --> 00:03:30.169
fucking grow up with this. You grew up with this?

00:03:30.349 --> 00:03:34.909
Yeah, yeah, no. We do not advocate drinking before

00:03:34.909 --> 00:03:39.330
21. Not at all. Please drink responsibly. Andre

00:03:39.330 --> 00:03:40.949
wasn't alive until age 21. Yeah, exactly. No,

00:03:41.090 --> 00:03:44.300
I was just... Here, at age 21, I apparated into

00:03:44.300 --> 00:03:46.979
existence with a beer in hand, and it was a Great

00:03:46.979 --> 00:03:49.860
Lakes IPA. Test two. 21 -year -old? Yeah. Is

00:03:49.860 --> 00:03:52.060
it just kind of kept into, like, a chamber? You

00:03:52.060 --> 00:03:53.520
know, I don't want to get into it here, but...

00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:56.479
Hey, drink responsibly. He is so KGB. He is so

00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:59.479
KGB. Anyways, Great Lakes Brewing. Please, please

00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.240
bring your beers to Connecticut. Please. We also

00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:05.900
have a first -time loser. Oh, man. This is unprecedented.

00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:09.479
Mitchell has lost. This is fantastic. I'm going

00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:12.340
to, like, just... Let this sink in. Let's be

00:04:12.340 --> 00:04:15.419
clear. Yes. It has been how many episodes? This

00:04:15.419 --> 00:04:17.779
is episode nine. This is episode nine. Eight

00:04:17.779 --> 00:04:20.600
of which we had a competition. Exactly. So we're

00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:22.480
talking about that kind of stretch of me not

00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:25.920
losing. Yep. You were eight for eight. I voluntarily

00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.819
said, guys, let's, you know. It's true. He fell

00:04:29.819 --> 00:04:31.420
on his sword a little bit. I fell on the sword

00:04:31.420 --> 00:04:34.079
and said, pick up. The game that we ended up

00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:37.649
playing was name that Pokemon. Who's that? Pokemon!

00:04:37.649 --> 00:04:39.790
See, I even got the name of the game wrong. Yep.

00:04:39.870 --> 00:04:43.009
And so, you know, you get the silhouette of whatever

00:04:43.009 --> 00:04:46.610
freaking Pokemon it was, and it went beyond the

00:04:46.610 --> 00:04:49.629
original 151. It did. Which I told Andre. We

00:04:49.629 --> 00:04:51.769
went to Gen 3 for our Pokemon nerds out there.

00:04:52.189 --> 00:04:54.449
That's still, like, that's 2003, okay? All right?

00:04:54.509 --> 00:04:58.050
Like, if you, like... Nerd! Come on, man. Look.

00:04:58.269 --> 00:05:00.730
You gotta hit the nerd bullhorn. I knew I wouldn't

00:05:00.730 --> 00:05:03.290
know anything past Mew. Ooh, a nerd bullhorn

00:05:03.290 --> 00:05:05.610
actually sounds kind of fun. Can we add that

00:05:05.610 --> 00:05:08.610
in post? Well, no, I think we just need to get

00:05:08.610 --> 00:05:10.529
a thing that's just like... Yeah, that's going

00:05:10.529 --> 00:05:13.269
to play really well on the mic. I was going to

00:05:13.269 --> 00:05:15.259
say, like, with the easy button. Oh, it was easy.

00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:19.160
Fucking nerd. Fucking nerd. Anyway, I lost the

00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:22.040
nerd thing. You lost the nerd thing. That's right.

00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:24.560
He was too cool to not watch a bad movie. Hey,

00:05:24.579 --> 00:05:28.600
you know what? I knew Sam Shrew. I knew Sam Shrew.

00:05:28.620 --> 00:05:29.920
Yeah, we got Sam Shrew. And I'm proud of that.

00:05:29.939 --> 00:05:31.860
You actually made the competition a lot closer

00:05:31.860 --> 00:05:32.959
than it probably should have been. Yeah, no.

00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.879
I'm sorry, that T -Dog. It's better when he's

00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.199
in the room. It is, yeah. We can cut this out.

00:05:41.579 --> 00:05:46.439
I've gotten lazier lately he does not listen

00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:51.959
you won't know this happened he is subscribed

00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:53.980
that's the important part you know who else should

00:05:53.980 --> 00:05:56.769
subscribe? you Listen in right now. That's right.

00:05:56.870 --> 00:05:59.970
You mean me? Yes, you. Oh, okay. You should also

00:05:59.970 --> 00:06:01.949
like our Facebook page. Yeah, I did that too.

00:06:02.129 --> 00:06:04.310
Yeah, good job. I'm doing my part. I've made

00:06:04.310 --> 00:06:07.009
you guys like moderators and you haven't done

00:06:07.009 --> 00:06:09.410
shit. Nope. What am I supposed to? Well, I'm

00:06:09.410 --> 00:06:13.050
moderating. Make posts. Make posts. Okay. Yeah,

00:06:13.310 --> 00:06:15.350
just make random posts. Like, hey, I want to

00:06:15.350 --> 00:06:19.180
see this movie. Sign T -Dog. Okay, got it. Can

00:06:19.180 --> 00:06:21.720
we sign everything T -Dog? Oh, yes. Let's do

00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:26.420
it. T -Dog runs the Facebook page. This is interesting,

00:06:26.620 --> 00:06:28.600
especially because I did not make him a moderator

00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:32.000
because he wants to remain in secret. Just make

00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:37.180
a T -Dog account on Facebook. That's why we invited

00:06:37.180 --> 00:06:41.420
T -Dog over here. So we've got three movies for

00:06:41.420 --> 00:06:42.879
you. We're going to start with the good and then

00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:47.350
go to the bad, as always. I say good lightly.

00:06:47.649 --> 00:06:50.050
I don't know if... Well, no, you saw a good show.

00:06:50.170 --> 00:06:53.250
Alright. One of us actually did a TV show. It's

00:06:53.250 --> 00:06:55.810
a limited series. It is a limited series, so

00:06:55.810 --> 00:06:58.129
we will give you credit. It does kind of feel

00:06:58.129 --> 00:07:00.149
like a movie atmosphere. It's like that same

00:07:00.149 --> 00:07:01.769
production value, probably. I will say this,

00:07:01.870 --> 00:07:04.230
the definition of movie is ever -expanding. Exactly.

00:07:04.930 --> 00:07:07.250
It has that production value, at least. I would

00:07:07.250 --> 00:07:10.769
say so, yeah. Just to give you more of an idea,

00:07:10.850 --> 00:07:14.389
it's a TV show on HBO. So it does have the HBO

00:07:14.389 --> 00:07:18.709
budget. What kind of HBO miniseries that came

00:07:18.709 --> 00:07:20.329
out recently? It's critically acclaimed. I have

00:07:20.329 --> 00:07:21.949
no idea what you're talking about. I don't know.

00:07:22.810 --> 00:07:26.389
Spoilers. What are you talking about, Mike? Well,

00:07:26.449 --> 00:07:31.310
so, I'm going to talk about the movie Aladdin.

00:07:32.709 --> 00:07:34.310
Never heard of it. Oh, yeah, like the, you know,

00:07:34.329 --> 00:07:35.769
month of the early 90s, right? Yeah, the one

00:07:35.769 --> 00:07:37.970
from the early 90s. But no, this one is real.

00:07:38.170 --> 00:07:42.550
Oh. What? Yeah. For real? So, this is a real

00:07:42.550 --> 00:07:45.149
movie. It is live action. Animators aren't real?

00:07:46.569 --> 00:07:50.350
Alright, I guess I said the wrong word. Oh, man.

00:07:50.970 --> 00:07:56.089
What is live action when we get Lion King, which

00:07:56.089 --> 00:07:59.490
is all CGI? That's just CGI. We're bordering

00:07:59.490 --> 00:08:03.069
on some very weird definitions here of real action.

00:08:03.370 --> 00:08:05.670
So, you saw Aladdin. I saw Aladdin. Hey, there

00:08:05.670 --> 00:08:12.379
we go. Aladdin was good. Sick. Done. Moving on,

00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:15.620
Andre. What I will say is it definitely, obviously,

00:08:15.660 --> 00:08:19.279
is the original. It's just recut. There are some

00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:21.899
new elements. There are some new songs that I

00:08:21.899 --> 00:08:24.939
say were very derivative compared to the rest

00:08:24.939 --> 00:08:28.540
of it. So the songs in the original movie, not

00:08:28.540 --> 00:08:30.740
that they weren't on the nose kind of thing,

00:08:30.819 --> 00:08:34.879
but like... Some of the songs in the movie, Jasmine

00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:37.299
gets a few more songs. I've heard that Jasmine

00:08:37.299 --> 00:08:38.960
gets some better characterization in this movie.

00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:40.980
A little bit better characterization. Where she

00:08:40.980 --> 00:08:46.360
wants to be the ruler. She doesn't understand

00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:48.480
why she can't be the ruler just because she's

00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.960
a girl. Very much modern woman power, that kind

00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:56.240
of stuff. And it's not a bad change. I actually

00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:59.259
really like that. The issue I have is the songs

00:08:59.259 --> 00:09:03.559
are very on the nose where it's like... I shouldn't

00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:06.460
be speechless. Like, that kind of stuff. Like,

00:09:06.659 --> 00:09:08.240
that kind of stuff where she's, like, hiding

00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:10.080
in the background. You mean, like, classic Disney

00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:13.720
stuff? Like, yeah. Wait, so she's in the background

00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.159
just belting these shows. Exactly. Like, there

00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:19.720
is a spot where, like... You guys have seen the

00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:22.360
original. I'm not ruining anything. Yeah, I'm

00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.279
not ruining anything. I feel like I'm trying

00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.580
to hide it. You can't spoil Aladdin. Yeah, exactly.

00:09:27.019 --> 00:09:30.279
It's already out there. Right. I feel like I'm

00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:32.399
holding back like I normally do where I don't

00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:34.080
want to spoil a movie because you guys haven't

00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:35.899
seen it. But at the same time, you've seen Aladdin.

00:09:36.139 --> 00:09:39.460
You know what the fuck happens. So it's a spot

00:09:39.460 --> 00:09:47.009
where Jafar... Jafar captures the Sultan. There

00:09:47.009 --> 00:09:50.490
you go. You've seen it. I couldn't remember the

00:09:50.490 --> 00:09:52.950
word. I was going to say king, okay? I was looking

00:09:52.950 --> 00:09:55.190
for sultan. That was good. I could not have pulled

00:09:55.190 --> 00:09:58.769
sultan out of that. Exactly. So he captures the

00:09:58.769 --> 00:10:02.090
sultan. He has control. Yes, he has control of

00:10:02.090 --> 00:10:06.570
the genie. And so she gets taken to the dungeon

00:10:06.570 --> 00:10:09.970
is where she's about to be taken. So this guy

00:10:09.970 --> 00:10:13.149
is holding her, and she's like, I can't be speechless

00:10:13.149 --> 00:10:16.899
no more. Like that kind of stuff. Yeah, I'm gonna

00:10:16.899 --> 00:10:19.820
bust out some show stuff. Wait, while she's in

00:10:19.820 --> 00:10:22.279
the dungeon? No, no, where she's being taken

00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:24.340
to the dungeon. And, like, the guards, like,

00:10:24.379 --> 00:10:27.139
disappear? Like, they kind of, like, infinity

00:10:27.139 --> 00:10:28.899
war. Artistically? Yeah, like, artistically,

00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:30.659
right? No, they kind of infinity war, where they

00:10:30.659 --> 00:10:36.059
turn into dust. Wait, hold on. I think Mitchell's

00:10:36.059 --> 00:10:38.480
question is, is this happening diegetically within

00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:40.700
the movie? Like, these people are actually disintegrating?

00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:42.799
Or is it like an artistic, like, oh, this is

00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:47.720
for the song. So this is artistic. They don't

00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:49.659
disappear completely. It's not like they just

00:10:49.659 --> 00:10:52.200
dust all of a sudden. It's a spotlight effect.

00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:56.740
Just like, I want to listen to this song. Yeah,

00:10:56.740 --> 00:11:01.460
exactly. Right, exactly. So it's one of those

00:11:01.460 --> 00:11:04.240
things where it just kind of felt like this is

00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:07.759
too on -the -nose, those kind of songs. And there's

00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.879
another part where Aladdin's like, I want to

00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:15.620
do this for my mom, to prove how worthy I am.

00:11:15.860 --> 00:11:17.879
Wait, what? Is her mom in this? No, mom and dad

00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:20.879
are both still dead. Yeah, okay. But it's just

00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:22.379
kind of one of those things where he wants to

00:11:22.379 --> 00:11:25.759
do right by them. Okay. So this is why he's the

00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.220
worthy one, why he's the diamond in the rough,

00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:31.740
as it were. Is there any more backstory? Because

00:11:31.740 --> 00:11:34.080
I remember in Beauty and the Beast, they gave

00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:35.840
backstory to Belle's character a little bit more.

00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:38.980
Not really. And to the Beast as well. Not really.

00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.419
I mean, there's not more that they dive into

00:11:41.419 --> 00:11:44.240
about Aladdin. So this is the animated movie,

00:11:44.419 --> 00:11:46.919
but just with real actors. Yeah, and then the

00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:49.580
main problem I had with the movie, Guy Ritchie

00:11:49.580 --> 00:11:52.919
directing. I like a lot of his movies, but not

00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.019
all, for sure. Right. So I can see how he's...

00:11:55.019 --> 00:11:57.940
He has a very distinct style that I don't think

00:11:57.940 --> 00:12:00.539
necessarily works with this. Which I found so

00:12:00.539 --> 00:12:03.279
weird. Like, why did he get the job? I don't

00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:06.340
know. Yeah. He does a lot of slow -mo that comes

00:12:06.340 --> 00:12:09.039
out of nowhere, and it drove me nuts. It worked

00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.559
for Sherlock. Yes. It worked with Snatch. It

00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:13.480
works when he does, like, those scenes where,

00:12:13.539 --> 00:12:15.360
like, Sherlock's thinking. Like, I thought that

00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.340
was great. That's a great addition to Sherlock.

00:12:17.700 --> 00:12:19.889
And it makes sense. And it makes sense. This

00:12:19.889 --> 00:12:21.909
one, it doesn't make sense. Like, all of a sudden,

00:12:21.929 --> 00:12:25.549
it's just like... There's a part where Jafar,

00:12:25.610 --> 00:12:27.549
that's a little different from the animated movie,

00:12:27.710 --> 00:12:31.129
where Aladdin's taped to a chair. Oh, man. And

00:12:31.129 --> 00:12:33.769
they're going to try to kill him. So they push

00:12:33.769 --> 00:12:35.850
him off this chair, and he's falling towards

00:12:35.850 --> 00:12:38.190
the ocean. And it's like one of those things

00:12:38.190 --> 00:12:40.309
where all of a sudden it just slows down, and

00:12:40.309 --> 00:12:46.399
it's like... It feels like a movie made in the

00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.480
wake of the Matrix is what it sounds like. Yeah,

00:12:48.500 --> 00:12:50.379
exactly. So he's falling towards the water, and

00:12:50.379 --> 00:12:52.200
you're just like, just hit the water. We know

00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:53.419
you're going to get the water. There's really

00:12:53.419 --> 00:12:54.879
no suspense. There's no suspense in it. Just

00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.299
like when Dumbledore fell off the tower. See,

00:12:57.299 --> 00:12:59.139
but that was a cool moment, though. No, no, it

00:12:59.139 --> 00:13:02.600
wasn't. I agree with that, though. It was terrible.

00:13:02.820 --> 00:13:05.120
There were little kids crying in the movie theater,

00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:06.860
and I was laughing hysterically. You were just

00:13:06.860 --> 00:13:10.879
laughing. He just slow -mo fell with his arms

00:13:10.879 --> 00:13:14.110
flailing. And so, yeah, I mean, that's exactly

00:13:14.110 --> 00:13:15.990
right, though. And it's a Guy Ritchie effect

00:13:15.990 --> 00:13:19.230
that's just made for a Guy Ritchie effect. Overall,

00:13:20.730 --> 00:13:23.909
it was a good representation. It's not a great

00:13:23.909 --> 00:13:26.350
one just because the animated one is still so

00:13:26.350 --> 00:13:30.090
much better. Sure. How they worked the genie

00:13:30.090 --> 00:13:32.350
in was a little weird, too. So the beginning

00:13:32.350 --> 00:13:35.450
of the movie starts with, instead of the merchant...

00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:38.100
Remember how Robin Williams in the animated one

00:13:38.100 --> 00:13:40.139
was the merchant? Like, come and see my wares,

00:13:40.139 --> 00:13:45.639
that kind of stuff. He was a traveler on a boat

00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.340
with kids. Okay. And he was telling you the story

00:13:48.340 --> 00:13:51.480
of Aladdin. And it was kind of interesting how

00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:56.200
he did that. Because it comes out at the end,

00:13:56.220 --> 00:14:00.980
when he became human, he marries the handmaiden

00:14:00.980 --> 00:14:04.519
of... Jasmine. Okay. And then they decide to

00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:09.669
travel together. Okay. Beautiful. Overall. Will

00:14:09.669 --> 00:14:11.809
Smith was actually pretty great. I've heard,

00:14:11.929 --> 00:14:14.210
like, okay, thanks. There was a huge blowback

00:14:14.210 --> 00:14:16.509
after they showed that first teaser with him,

00:14:16.549 --> 00:14:20.009
giant and blue. That's not his fault. That's

00:14:20.009 --> 00:14:23.750
a genie. It was a very different genie than Robin

00:14:23.750 --> 00:14:27.549
Williams, and I give him applause. It sounds

00:14:27.549 --> 00:14:29.669
like it was just Will Smith doing Will Smith

00:14:29.669 --> 00:14:31.509
things, which is fine. Which is what you should

00:14:31.509 --> 00:14:34.610
do. You can't recreate the whole genie. So they

00:14:34.610 --> 00:14:38.059
did A Friend Like Me? He also did a Wild Wild

00:14:38.059 --> 00:14:40.399
West break for whatever reason. It was very bizarre.

00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:48.759
Did they actually? I know of the special cameo

00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:51.399
at the end. What? There's like a special -ish

00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:56.539
cameo. So for the record, they do Will Smith

00:14:56.539 --> 00:15:01.679
and DJ Khaled. Oh no! Oh no! that got spoiled

00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.460
for me that's immediately it's not in the movie

00:15:04.460 --> 00:15:06.960
it's the first song of the credits okay gotcha

00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:08.799
so it's a credit song but that's like a wild

00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.779
wild ass thing yeah yeah and so that's where

00:15:11.779 --> 00:15:14.840
I say like it's a little strange like that um

00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:17.919
one of the things I will say though is so friend

00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:21.289
like me instead of like you ain't never had a

00:15:21.289 --> 00:15:23.370
friend like me. It was, you ain't never had a

00:15:23.370 --> 00:15:26.570
friend like me. Like, it is rapped instead of...

00:15:26.570 --> 00:15:30.490
You hear the difference, though. Like, it's just,

00:15:30.590 --> 00:15:33.289
it's the same song. There is a little bit different,

00:15:33.370 --> 00:15:35.169
obviously, because it's a different character

00:15:35.169 --> 00:15:37.169
entirely. Yeah, because low -key, Robin Williams

00:15:37.169 --> 00:15:40.429
was singing in the first one. Like, there was

00:15:40.429 --> 00:15:43.009
notes he was hitting that I can't hit. I'm not

00:15:43.009 --> 00:15:45.649
sure if Will Smith could, you know? Well, and

00:15:45.649 --> 00:15:49.460
just, it's that kind of stuff. So, like... I

00:15:49.460 --> 00:15:53.639
give full applause to Will Smith. He did a great

00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.980
job. It is very different, but it's different

00:15:55.980 --> 00:15:58.620
in a good way. Is he CGI in blue the whole time?

00:15:58.659 --> 00:16:01.159
No. Okay, got it. So there's a part where he

00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:03.139
just kind of says, okay, I'll try to blend in

00:16:03.139 --> 00:16:05.340
more. Okay, good. And so he's just, okay. And

00:16:05.340 --> 00:16:07.700
they even make a joke about it. He has a top

00:16:07.700 --> 00:16:11.679
bun kind of thing. And Aladdin's just like, do

00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:13.559
you need the top bun? And he's like, I thought...

00:16:13.710 --> 00:16:17.889
would look good. It's very jokey like that. I

00:16:17.889 --> 00:16:21.629
heard people who liked the movie also liked Will

00:16:21.629 --> 00:16:25.450
Smith as a genie and those who did not did not

00:16:25.450 --> 00:16:29.070
like Will Smith. Which is fair. Do you feel like

00:16:29.070 --> 00:16:31.590
that is the big driving point? I would say so,

00:16:31.669 --> 00:16:34.049
yeah, probably. Because the rest of the movie

00:16:34.049 --> 00:16:37.149
is just so on the nose for the animated movie.

00:16:37.350 --> 00:16:39.169
It's a retread of the animated movie. It really

00:16:39.169 --> 00:16:42.570
is. I mean, you can possibly dislike the new

00:16:42.570 --> 00:16:44.370
way they took Jasmine, but then you're probably

00:16:44.370 --> 00:16:48.509
just a sexist. Like a hot take. I'll give you

00:16:48.509 --> 00:16:50.909
a hot take like that. If you don't like Aladdin,

00:16:50.990 --> 00:16:54.539
you are a sexist. But it's just, that's the only

00:16:54.539 --> 00:17:00.879
character. That's part of the intro. Oh, no.

00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:04.700
But that's just like the main character that

00:17:04.700 --> 00:17:06.779
changed the most. I mean, Jafar was pretty different.

00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:09.240
He was a little more quiet. I've heard people

00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:11.380
are not happy with Jafar. What did you think

00:17:11.380 --> 00:17:14.220
about him? People are like, oh, he wasn't as

00:17:14.220 --> 00:17:15.720
interesting or whatever. That's just the complaints

00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.019
I've heard, though. He was a little more like

00:17:19.019 --> 00:17:22.130
quiet intensity. Okay. And then when he got to

00:17:22.130 --> 00:17:26.809
high intensity, it was a lot more cartoonish.

00:17:26.809 --> 00:17:29.289
Okay, gotcha. Versus, like, even in the cartoon,

00:17:29.470 --> 00:17:32.269
Jafar really wasn't that cartoonish. Like, he

00:17:32.269 --> 00:17:35.470
was evil and conniving. Exactly. I guess the

00:17:35.470 --> 00:17:36.670
transition would probably be a little bit better.

00:17:36.690 --> 00:17:39.500
Hades from Hercules I have as cartoonish. Yeah,

00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.440
but in a good way. In a good way, yeah. It works

00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:45.859
in that context. Jafar was never a cartoony in

00:17:45.859 --> 00:17:48.779
the animated movie, and this one, it felt like

00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:51.440
he's at quite intensity. I agree with Allison

00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.019
there. I think it's pretty cartoonish. Well,

00:17:54.019 --> 00:17:56.559
yeah, but like... But I have not seen the live

00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.480
action, so I have no idea what we're comparing

00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:02.140
it to. So when he gets loud, that's the part

00:18:02.140 --> 00:18:03.579
where I say it's... When he becomes a genie at

00:18:03.579 --> 00:18:07.200
the end? No, no, no, where he has some... outbursts.

00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:10.119
So, like, a lot of it is just more so, like,

00:18:10.180 --> 00:18:12.559
I want to be the sultan. Like, I want to be the

00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:14.420
sultan. And then, like, blah, blah, blah. And

00:18:14.420 --> 00:18:17.880
then when he gets to the end, like, Genie, make

00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:22.200
me an all -powerful sorcerer! So, he went from

00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.900
0 to 100. Exactly. Whereas, like, Jafar in the

00:18:25.900 --> 00:18:28.880
cartoon, more like a 70 to 100. Yeah, exactly.

00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:32.529
It's already there. Yeah, right, right, right.

00:18:32.589 --> 00:18:34.789
Does he still have his bird sidekick? Yeah, is

00:18:34.789 --> 00:18:36.750
Iago in it? Oh, Iago's in it. Iago, okay. Iago,

00:18:36.849 --> 00:18:40.170
and he does actually talk. He talks like a parrot

00:18:40.170 --> 00:18:41.970
would, you know, like kind of repeating things.

00:18:42.069 --> 00:18:43.490
So it's not Gilbert Gottfried. Yeah, it's not

00:18:43.490 --> 00:18:46.329
Gilbert Gottfried. No, it's not Gilbert Gottfried.

00:18:46.470 --> 00:18:49.349
He still has not. Is it Lion King style, like

00:18:49.349 --> 00:18:52.950
just like realistic looking parrot that's talking?

00:18:53.309 --> 00:18:57.250
It's not live action? No. It's a CGI parrot.

00:18:57.569 --> 00:19:00.089
It's not real? It's a CGI parrot that's just

00:19:00.089 --> 00:19:03.359
kind of like. hazard genie hazard genie oh okay

00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:05.319
gotcha you know like that kind of stuff you know

00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:08.319
mike did the voiceover yeah right hey i actually

00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:18.099
have been nailing the voices so i will give it

00:19:18.099 --> 00:19:22.119
two wishes out of five okay Two wishes. Two wishes.

00:19:22.619 --> 00:19:24.960
It's not anything that anybody did bad. It's

00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.059
just the cartoon is just so much better. It wasn't

00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:30.599
Inway's fault. No, no, no. It's just, I mean,

00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:32.460
Guy Ritchie probably, I would have had something

00:19:32.460 --> 00:19:34.160
different. This was a fun movie to watch, but

00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.819
does not supersede. Exactly. I would rather watch

00:19:36.819 --> 00:19:39.480
the cartoon again tomorrow. Gotcha. Aladdin,

00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:42.000
while I see it again, I'd watch it if it was

00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.660
on TV. Okay. You know, but I'm not going out

00:19:44.660 --> 00:19:46.759
of my way and saying like, oh, Aladdin's on.

00:19:46.859 --> 00:19:49.759
Yeah. Click. You know, like, it's just one of

00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:51.400
those things where, like, if I already have the

00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.859
channel on, oh, you ain't never had a friend

00:19:53.859 --> 00:19:56.460
like me. Like, yeah, okay. I think there's such

00:19:56.460 --> 00:19:59.579
a generational divide because my siblings who

00:19:59.579 --> 00:20:02.720
are... in their teens, love this, love this movie

00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:05.319
a lot, they barely remember the cartoon. Which

00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:08.539
is fair. You know, it's the same story because

00:20:08.539 --> 00:20:11.359
the story itself is so compelling. Yeah. And

00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:14.099
I think there are things in the animated version

00:20:14.099 --> 00:20:16.099
that you could do better, mainly Genie stuff,

00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:18.440
because it's Robin Williams going crazy and the

00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:19.720
animators just totally falling for it. Which

00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:21.680
they did a great job with the Will Smith stuff.

00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.019
It's all CGI, but they do a pretty good job where

00:20:26.019 --> 00:20:30.420
he is doing the anti - Yes, yes. So I could see

00:20:30.420 --> 00:20:32.880
how we're always going to be biased. Right, yeah,

00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.180
exactly. Like, I'm always going, yeah, this is,

00:20:35.220 --> 00:20:36.700
like, one of the first Disney movies I ever saw.

00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:38.920
I had it on VHS when I was, like, three, five,

00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:40.480
I don't know, whatever. This is my favorite one

00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:43.519
growing up. There you go. That's exactly it.

00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:46.200
And so, like, I say I'm able to separate them

00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:48.420
and have a good time watching this one. Yeah.

00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:52.099
But at the same time, like, the cartoon has such

00:20:52.099 --> 00:20:56.319
a spot in my heart. Robin Williams' interpretation.

00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.559
It was hard to go in and accept Will Smith even

00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:03.380
though he did a good job. He created a different

00:21:03.380 --> 00:21:07.779
character. Kind of. He's a dynamic enough personality.

00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:13.519
Exactly. Alright, we go to Andre. Allison is...

00:21:13.789 --> 00:21:17.609
Filling in for our T -Dog here. Does T -Dog also

00:21:17.609 --> 00:21:21.230
not watch any movies? That's up for debate. Yeah,

00:21:21.250 --> 00:21:23.490
right. He says that he watches them, but it's,

00:21:23.490 --> 00:21:25.750
you know. The only movie I've seen in the past

00:21:25.750 --> 00:21:28.549
two weeks is Ant -Man and the Wasp. And that's

00:21:28.549 --> 00:21:30.230
old. Give it a rating. I want a rating, actually.

00:21:30.430 --> 00:21:33.549
Out of five. Out of five. And give us a cute.

00:21:33.769 --> 00:21:36.049
What we like to do around here is have a cute

00:21:36.049 --> 00:21:38.289
little rating system, you know? So you said two

00:21:38.289 --> 00:21:40.609
wishes out of five. Let's give it a little relevant

00:21:40.609 --> 00:21:44.880
metric, you know? That's a relevant metric. I

00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:49.000
don't know. You could say... Three ants out of...

00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:51.859
Two pin particles out of five. Pin particles

00:21:51.859 --> 00:21:53.799
is a good one, too. Pin particles is always a

00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:56.630
good one. Always a good one. I'm trying to think

00:21:56.630 --> 00:21:57.529
of what else could be... I think there's two

00:21:57.529 --> 00:21:59.869
instances where it's only a good one. Oh, it's

00:21:59.869 --> 00:22:02.190
a good one. That was... No, I'm talking about...

00:22:02.190 --> 00:22:06.069
I'm talking about when Ant -Man is involved.

00:22:06.309 --> 00:22:08.650
Sure, sure, sure. Two minutes in the quantum

00:22:08.650 --> 00:22:11.089
realm out of ten minutes in the real world. Okay.

00:22:11.170 --> 00:22:13.490
Wait, two out of ten? No, that was just a...

00:22:13.490 --> 00:22:17.509
I don't know. Random. Okay. But you picked it

00:22:17.509 --> 00:22:19.890
up. You got it. You nailed it. You nailed it.

00:22:20.049 --> 00:22:22.609
Alright, so, like, what are your general thoughts?

00:22:23.009 --> 00:22:25.809
Yeah, I like the movie. It's a good movie. Not

00:22:25.809 --> 00:22:28.609
great, not terrible. That's how me and Mike felt

00:22:28.609 --> 00:22:31.849
when we watched it. It was good. Yeah, it was

00:22:31.849 --> 00:22:35.690
good. I do like the X -Cons. They are my favorite.

00:22:36.069 --> 00:22:38.630
X -Cons are good. His friend, what's his name?

00:22:39.009 --> 00:22:42.569
Luis. Luis, yeah. He's clearly the scene stealer

00:22:42.569 --> 00:22:44.609
of the whole thing. Love his stories. I heard

00:22:44.609 --> 00:22:46.309
from my friend who heard from his other friend.

00:22:46.789 --> 00:22:49.630
People are trying to get a petition for Marvel

00:22:49.630 --> 00:22:52.230
to do a one -shot of the entire MCU from Luis's

00:22:52.230 --> 00:22:55.230
perspective. I saw this thing that was like a...

00:22:55.579 --> 00:22:58.019
A theory where he was going to come in and that's

00:22:58.019 --> 00:22:59.839
how they were going to explain to Ant -Man what

00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:01.819
happened when he came out of the quantum realm.

00:23:01.859 --> 00:23:03.559
That would have been amazing. That would have

00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:04.960
been pretty good. I wish they would have done

00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.480
that. It's a bear movie. They have room. They

00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:10.740
have room. He's my fan. They have room. No, they

00:23:10.740 --> 00:23:13.559
did not have room. They had room for it. I'm

00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:15.859
sorry. My left butt cheek was like sore at that

00:23:15.859 --> 00:23:19.240
point. My bladder was about to explode. Ant -Man

00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:21.559
came back early. That would have been early on.

00:23:22.109 --> 00:23:23.730
I need 20 minutes. And then he would have had

00:23:23.730 --> 00:23:24.730
to explain it to everyone else. Yeah, he would

00:23:24.730 --> 00:23:26.049
have needed to cut something else. He could have

00:23:26.049 --> 00:23:28.430
been, like, the breaking news alert after everyone

00:23:28.430 --> 00:23:32.049
came back after five years. Breaking news alert.

00:23:32.390 --> 00:23:35.470
So, what had happened was... But wasn't... So,

00:23:35.529 --> 00:23:37.630
well, that was the problem with the whole thing.

00:23:37.730 --> 00:23:39.809
Wasn't it confirmed by the Russos that he got

00:23:39.809 --> 00:23:43.289
snapped? Yes. Yeah. So, otherwise... That's terrible

00:23:43.289 --> 00:23:45.049
news. That would have been great if he wouldn't

00:23:45.049 --> 00:23:45.730
have happened. I'm sad now. I'm sad. I sound

00:23:45.730 --> 00:23:48.349
like Leezy writing to me. Ugh, jeez, that's pretty

00:23:48.349 --> 00:23:52.539
convenient. Basically... Just think of... Alright,

00:23:52.740 --> 00:23:54.740
I'm going into my theory now. Just look at Far

00:23:54.740 --> 00:23:58.599
From Home. Look at Far From Home. All the classmates

00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:01.220
are the same classmates. Yeah, no, no, no. They

00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:03.319
all got snapped. They all got snapped. So they

00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:05.420
all had to go back to junior or whatever. Right,

00:24:05.420 --> 00:24:07.819
exactly. Right, right. Just the odds of that.

00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:11.359
It's Ned, it's MJ, it's Spider -Man. And they

00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:13.720
all didn't age, right? Right, right. They just

00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:16.319
snapped back in five years later. Happy, too?

00:24:16.460 --> 00:24:19.960
Because Happy didn't age. Yeah, I guess. Yeah.

00:24:20.509 --> 00:24:22.690
Yeah, I don't think... He wasn't around in...

00:24:22.690 --> 00:24:26.029
I thought... Oh, well, actually, he was in Endgame,

00:24:26.069 --> 00:24:28.410
but was he... He was in the end. At the end.

00:24:28.430 --> 00:24:30.869
Yeah, but was he part of the... I don't think

00:24:30.869 --> 00:24:32.230
he was at the beginning. Dude, he was not at

00:24:32.230 --> 00:24:32.990
the beginning. I don't know if he got snapped

00:24:32.990 --> 00:24:35.150
or not now. Now I'm confused. It's left to the

00:24:35.150 --> 00:24:37.009
viewer's interpretation. I don't know, dude.

00:24:37.049 --> 00:24:38.710
I don't know, man. Either way. I'm sorry, I'm

00:24:38.710 --> 00:24:39.970
over it. Do you have a rating for Ant -Man and

00:24:39.970 --> 00:24:44.539
the Wasp? Get back to it. Yeah, I guess. I'd

00:24:44.539 --> 00:24:49.640
go with 3 out of 5. 3 out of 5. I'd watch it,

00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:52.220
but it's not the greatest movie of all time.

00:24:52.380 --> 00:24:54.359
What did you think of that end scene? I just

00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:56.119
want to know, because that's the end credits.

00:24:56.299 --> 00:24:58.759
Yeah, end credits. Because that was the part.

00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:02.059
I mean, obviously, that's one you've got to watch

00:25:02.059 --> 00:25:04.279
in order, otherwise you're like... Yeah, right.

00:25:05.339 --> 00:25:09.019
So, Ant -Man and the Wasp, I think, I'm in the

00:25:09.019 --> 00:25:11.779
same boat as you, 3 out of 5 kind of thing. I

00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:13.799
think it was a 2 out of 5. It was fun, but it

00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:16.119
was just kind of 2 out of 5 until that end credits

00:25:16.119 --> 00:25:20.819
scene. And I was like, holy shit. I liked it.

00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:23.980
Comparatively, the first Ant -Man movie was just

00:25:23.980 --> 00:25:28.660
a better story. I like Ant -Man and what they

00:25:28.660 --> 00:25:30.940
could have done with it, but the storyline was

00:25:30.940 --> 00:25:34.619
kind of meh. Yeah, I feel that. All right, Andre.

00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:38.099
Yeah. So, can't you be Andre? Yes. All right,

00:25:38.099 --> 00:25:40.380
so I cheated this week, and I watched a miniseries

00:25:40.380 --> 00:25:42.740
instead of a movie in this miniseries. You might

00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:44.539
have heard of it. It's called Chernobyl. Never

00:25:44.539 --> 00:25:46.900
heard of it. Yeah. Well, all right. Do you live

00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:49.900
under a rock? I do. Let me get... I actually

00:25:49.900 --> 00:25:53.319
don't watch TV much, so... I've heard great things

00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:55.039
about it. Well, I've heard it. Let me just wheel

00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:56.900
in the replica of the nuclear reactor that I

00:25:56.900 --> 00:25:58.759
have ready to go, and I'll explain what happened.

00:25:59.140 --> 00:26:04.049
Yeah. Why do you do that? I like that pun. Mitchell

00:26:04.049 --> 00:26:08.130
keeps making faces. What kind of faces? Is this

00:26:08.130 --> 00:26:13.130
actually suggestive? That's a good time. Yeah,

00:26:13.130 --> 00:26:19.549
anyways. Chernobyl. Another happy subject. Five

00:26:19.549 --> 00:26:22.650
-part miniseries on HBO just wrapped up as of

00:26:22.650 --> 00:26:25.130
recording a few days ago. Probably around maybe

00:26:25.130 --> 00:26:27.849
five and a half hours total in length. Guys,

00:26:27.950 --> 00:26:32.369
the hype is real. It's so good. I would say,

00:26:32.390 --> 00:26:35.849
like, I haven't, I felt like, the best thing

00:26:35.849 --> 00:26:37.210
I can compare it to is probably Band of Brothers

00:26:37.210 --> 00:26:39.329
or maybe Schindler's List and that level of just,

00:26:39.549 --> 00:26:42.369
it's on that level for me in terms of, like,

00:26:42.369 --> 00:26:46.509
extremely heart -wrenching, visceral stuff, but,

00:26:46.509 --> 00:26:50.289
like, also extremely powerful and just utterly

00:26:50.289 --> 00:26:52.109
absorbing, I guess, you know? What is it about?

00:26:52.410 --> 00:26:55.500
So, it's about Chernobyl. It's about the, so

00:26:55.500 --> 00:27:00.660
basically, the way that the show structures is

00:27:00.660 --> 00:27:03.819
that it starts right at the minute of the explosion,

00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:06.900
and so we see the fallout of that from the perspectives

00:27:06.900 --> 00:27:09.220
of people in Pripyat, which is the town next

00:27:09.220 --> 00:27:11.200
to Chernobyl, basically, that had to get evacuated.

00:27:12.029 --> 00:27:14.890
And then it kind of goes through the immediate

00:27:14.890 --> 00:27:17.890
fallout of that, of the next few weeks after

00:27:17.890 --> 00:27:19.490
that, of the immediate figuring out what happened

00:27:19.490 --> 00:27:22.029
and how to fix it and how to stop this radiation

00:27:22.029 --> 00:27:24.950
from killing everybody, basically. And then it

00:27:24.950 --> 00:27:27.250
gradually increases in scope to a few months

00:27:27.250 --> 00:27:29.230
afterwards in terms of the long -term cleanup

00:27:29.230 --> 00:27:31.630
of the liquidators that they had to get in to

00:27:31.630 --> 00:27:34.609
actually sanitize the area to make it not poisonous

00:27:34.609 --> 00:27:36.630
to the entire continent. And then it finally

00:27:36.630 --> 00:27:40.839
ends with... the trial of the nuclear power plant

00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:43.799
that exploded. The managers that ran it, they

00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:45.859
were put on trial about a little bit less than

00:27:45.859 --> 00:27:48.339
a year later, and that's where they explain how

00:27:48.339 --> 00:27:51.819
the nuclear reactor actually exploded. Love that.

00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:54.200
Yeah, so the structure, I really, yeah, I fell,

00:27:54.299 --> 00:27:56.720
I really liked the structure in that, like, the

00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:59.519
very first episode. it feels like a horror movie

00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:02.640
almost you know uh just because like just the

00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.000
way it's shot the music oh my god the music the

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:07.460
music is so good it's almost entirely made out

00:28:07.460 --> 00:28:10.519
of apparently um like of industrial like powerpoint

00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:12.359
sounds like the the lady that did the soundtrack

00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:15.180
she literally just went to a power plant and

00:28:15.180 --> 00:28:16.940
recorded sounds and used that as her samples

00:28:18.170 --> 00:28:22.049
So, yeah, and just the reactor core that's melting,

00:28:22.130 --> 00:28:24.309
that exploded, basically, becomes this sort of

00:28:24.309 --> 00:28:26.450
haunting, it's like a monster movie almost, you

00:28:26.450 --> 00:28:29.289
know? There's like this invisible thing, the

00:28:29.289 --> 00:28:32.730
giant, huge amounts of radiation, that is like

00:28:32.730 --> 00:28:35.609
this invisible enemy that's just eviscerating

00:28:35.609 --> 00:28:39.109
everybody almost, you know? So, yeah, I think

00:28:39.109 --> 00:28:41.849
the show does a really good job of explaining

00:28:41.849 --> 00:28:44.630
what happened at a high enough level for an average

00:28:44.630 --> 00:28:46.230
viewer like me, who knows nothing, I'm not a

00:28:46.230 --> 00:28:48.720
nuclear physicist, but I understand. what happened

00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.839
basically at a super high level and so explaining

00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:54.039
what happened there in like the scientific level

00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:56.240
as well as showing the human cost of it if that

00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:59.420
makes sense yeah where like oh my gosh every

00:28:59.420 --> 00:29:02.799
time Every time something awful happens, which

00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:04.420
happens a lot, I'm like, oh, there's no way that

00:29:04.420 --> 00:29:06.400
actually happened. I looked it up, and dude,

00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:11.079
the main high -level bullet points are all factual.

00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:14.059
So it's historical fiction, but it's accurate

00:29:14.059 --> 00:29:16.900
historical fiction. It's dramatized. It's extremely

00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:18.259
dramatized, and what I really like about the

00:29:18.259 --> 00:29:20.299
show is that they have a companion podcast. I

00:29:20.299 --> 00:29:21.500
know that's a huge ask. I'm like, hey, watch

00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:23.279
this hour -long show, get depressed, and listen

00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:25.180
to the podcast after. Don't listen to any other

00:29:25.180 --> 00:29:29.440
podcast but ours. Good note. But the writer basically

00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:31.940
hosts this podcast. all the facts about Chernobyl.

00:29:32.339 --> 00:29:35.960
And he walks... The next six weeks are all about

00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.880
Chernobyl podcast. But anyway, so the writer

00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:41.480
will walk through what happened in that episode

00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:42.920
and break down, alright, here's what actually

00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:45.480
happened and here's what I had to kind of dramatize.

00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.599
And I really like that because it's like, okay,

00:29:48.660 --> 00:29:50.779
he's very upfront about don't take this, don't

00:29:50.779 --> 00:29:53.559
take this show as 100 % fact. Like, do your own

00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:54.700
research and stuff. And take it at face value.

00:29:54.779 --> 00:29:57.240
I like that. Yeah. I want to do the real facts

00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:59.660
and what they did to dramatize it. Exactly. Because

00:29:59.660 --> 00:30:02.339
part of that is a huge theme of the show is that

00:30:02.339 --> 00:30:04.380
it wasn't, like, this isn't, like, an anti -nuclear

00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:06.099
show. Like, I was kind of worried about that

00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:07.599
going, like, oh, man, nuclear power is dangerous.

00:30:07.700 --> 00:30:10.900
We can't control it. It's more anti, like, Soviet

00:30:10.900 --> 00:30:13.400
and anti just lies almost. You know, that sounds

00:30:13.400 --> 00:30:16.440
very vague and dumb. But, like, the reason the

00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:19.460
RBMK reactor exploded was because of lies. Because

00:30:19.460 --> 00:30:22.859
of lies. Leading up to basically when it exploded,

00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:25.039
they were trying to conduct a safety test, ironically.

00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:28.420
So lies leading up to that safety test. Lies

00:30:28.420 --> 00:30:30.259
afterwards to cover it up. Like immediately,

00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:32.900
like the first episode is so haunting because...

00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.000
Immediately, the reactor plant managers are denying

00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:38.539
that the core exploded. They're thinking, oh,

00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.539
it was just a control tank. It's fine. It's 3

00:30:41.539 --> 00:30:43.839
.6 Roentgen. Not great, not terrible. That's

00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:46.680
the equivalent of 50 checks x -rays a second,

00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:50.420
or not a second, an hour. That was like the okay

00:30:50.420 --> 00:30:54.119
number that they were trying to peddle. So they

00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:56.200
thought it was 3 .6 Roentgen. It was actually

00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.710
15 ,000. Yeah. That's two, so there's this great

00:31:00.710 --> 00:31:03.509
scene where the main character, the nuclear physicist

00:31:03.509 --> 00:31:05.130
they brought in to kind of clean it up, he's

00:31:05.130 --> 00:31:07.829
like, it's 15 ,000 ronkin, that means the core

00:31:07.829 --> 00:31:09.589
is open, that means it's two Hiroshima bombs

00:31:09.589 --> 00:31:13.829
every hour. And so he's like, at the time it's

00:31:13.829 --> 00:31:14.869
like 20 hours since the explosion, that means

00:31:14.869 --> 00:31:16.450
there's 40 bombs that have gone off since we've

00:31:16.450 --> 00:31:18.549
started, and it will continue to go until the

00:31:18.549 --> 00:31:20.349
entire continent dies. So it's like extremely

00:31:20.349 --> 00:31:24.529
dire. It's so well done. It's so gripping, but

00:31:24.529 --> 00:31:26.990
also extremely depressing. Not for the faint

00:31:26.990 --> 00:31:29.930
of heart, I would say. Right. With any of these

00:31:29.930 --> 00:31:31.670
kind of projects that are based on real -life

00:31:31.670 --> 00:31:36.950
events, because a lot of this stuff can be documented

00:31:36.950 --> 00:31:39.349
and thus be turned into a documentary of sorts,

00:31:39.690 --> 00:31:42.329
do you feel that the fact that it was dramatized

00:31:42.329 --> 00:31:44.390
helps the storytelling, or do you think that

00:31:44.390 --> 00:31:46.670
a documentary version of this, like imagine if

00:31:46.670 --> 00:31:49.190
the podcast was turned into a documentary type

00:31:49.190 --> 00:31:51.650
of thing, would have served the story better?

00:31:52.069 --> 00:31:53.789
Just on your opinion, it sounds like you have

00:31:53.789 --> 00:31:57.130
a very favorable review of this. I do, yes. Does

00:31:57.130 --> 00:32:00.349
the dramatization help? I think it helps in so

00:32:00.349 --> 00:32:03.829
far as it helps me get way more interested in

00:32:03.829 --> 00:32:06.390
the topic, and now there are documentaries that

00:32:06.390 --> 00:32:08.069
have been made that are made from real footage

00:32:08.069 --> 00:32:11.210
that I'm going to go and watch now. So, yeah,

00:32:11.289 --> 00:32:14.589
as long as you don't go watching this show and

00:32:14.589 --> 00:32:16.269
then say, like, oh, yeah, this is exactly what

00:32:16.269 --> 00:32:19.470
happened. I saw it on HBO. And they're clear

00:32:19.470 --> 00:32:21.730
to not do that. They're clear, like, hey, like,

00:32:21.750 --> 00:32:26.460
you know. So I think it's, yeah, I guess my answer

00:32:26.460 --> 00:32:28.480
is yes. I think it helps. But as long as you

00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:30.079
accept that that's not the full body of what

00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.140
happened, there's more stuff. I will say that

00:32:32.140 --> 00:32:34.500
it doesn't cover everything. It doesn't even

00:32:34.500 --> 00:32:37.740
cover, in the aftermath, they built a sarcophagus.

00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:39.960
It's fucking crazy it's even called a sarcophagus.

00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:43.039
But this giant metal thing, they had a... create

00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.759
in a huge hurry to shove onto the reactor core

00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:47.640
about nine months later. So they didn't try to

00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:49.579
keep it in kind of thing? Sort of, yeah, basically.

00:32:51.500 --> 00:32:52.700
That's not covered at all. They don't mention

00:32:52.700 --> 00:32:54.160
that at all. So that's a huge part of the story.

00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:57.559
Season two. Yeah, season two. God, I hope there's

00:32:57.559 --> 00:32:58.980
not a season two. That means that there has to

00:32:58.980 --> 00:33:00.960
be a huge nuclear meltdown like that. Anyways.

00:33:01.299 --> 00:33:05.259
It still says 2019 to question mark on IMDb.

00:33:05.259 --> 00:33:08.640
Yeah, it is. It's not out of the question. Yeah.

00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:12.079
I would say some nitpicks, because there are

00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.400
nits to pick always. I would say, so to your

00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:16.539
point, some of the dramatization goes a little

00:33:16.539 --> 00:33:19.140
far. They're open about what's dramatized and

00:33:19.140 --> 00:33:20.680
what's not. There's one character specifically.

00:33:21.390 --> 00:33:23.769
uh she's uh she's a nuclear physicist her last

00:33:23.769 --> 00:33:25.509
name is homeok i believe she's a completely made

00:33:25.509 --> 00:33:29.269
-up character but basically the the uh she like

00:33:29.269 --> 00:33:31.809
supposed to represent the huge team of scientists

00:33:31.809 --> 00:33:34.910
that all kind of work together and try to solve

00:33:34.910 --> 00:33:36.430
the problem of chernobyl try to figure out how

00:33:36.430 --> 00:33:38.900
it happened because up until this point the type

00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:40.980
of reactor, the RBMK, the thing that exploded,

00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:43.220
was thought to be impossible. Which I see in

00:33:43.220 --> 00:33:44.900
a lot of these kind of things, like when it does

00:33:44.900 --> 00:33:46.539
historical fiction, that kind of stuff. Like

00:33:46.539 --> 00:33:50.460
my biggest problem with Patriot's Day, the one

00:33:50.460 --> 00:33:53.420
about the Boston Marathon bombing, that was really

00:33:53.420 --> 00:33:56.119
well done, the actual bombing, but trying to

00:33:56.119 --> 00:33:58.599
lump all the police officers together as Mark

00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:00.940
Wahlberg. You have to condense something, and

00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:02.900
it feels a little, it's not forced, but you can

00:34:02.900 --> 00:34:06.240
tell. Where she's kind of, like, she's where

00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:09.199
the plot needs to be. So she's with them at the

00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:11.320
exclusion zone, like, trying to uncover, trying

00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:13.500
to move the graphite off the roof. She's also

00:34:13.500 --> 00:34:15.679
at the hospital in Moscow where they evacuated

00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:17.480
the firefighters and the control scientists.

00:34:17.619 --> 00:34:20.219
Coming from her eyes a little bit. Exactly, yes.

00:34:20.500 --> 00:34:22.139
Yeah, so, like, you can tell, like, okay, like,

00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:23.539
yeah, I get it. Like, these were totally different

00:34:23.539 --> 00:34:25.300
people. That did take me out a little bit of

00:34:25.300 --> 00:34:28.000
it. That took me out of it a little bit. I will

00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:30.420
say another nitpick is that this is a... not

00:34:30.420 --> 00:34:31.920
actually technically an HBO show, it is HBO,

00:34:32.059 --> 00:34:33.920
HBO has a lot of rights to it, but it's a Sky

00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:35.960
production, so it's a British production, so

00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:37.659
all the actors are British, and they decided,

00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:39.440
like, and I kind of respect this decision, where

00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:41.460
all the, like, they're like, okay, don't try

00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:44.000
to do a Russian accent, just act, you know? So,

00:34:44.179 --> 00:34:46.380
you know, there will be parts where they'll,

00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:47.599
like, if you're a native speaker, it'll probably

00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:49.199
bug you more, but, like, they'll mispronounce

00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:51.800
names, they'll kind of say stuff funny, and...

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.599
I saw Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgård, both

00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:58.659
of them, great actors. Amazing. Oh, my God, they

00:34:58.659 --> 00:35:02.340
were so good, so well acted. But, yeah, they're

00:35:02.340 --> 00:35:04.000
not trying to do an accent, so they're obviously

00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.659
not fluent. And there's parts where it kind of

00:35:06.659 --> 00:35:08.059
takes me a little bit, where there's one specific

00:35:08.059 --> 00:35:11.039
part later in the series where they're evacuating

00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:13.400
everybody, and there's this old woman that's

00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:16.780
like an old Russian lady. I will say, cost a

00:35:16.780 --> 00:35:18.559
department, make a department. Wow. Ten out of

00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:20.800
ten. Anyways. She has, like, the babushka on

00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:22.519
and everything, and so she's not talking. She's

00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.119
silently, like, milking a cow, like, on her home

00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:26.820
farm or anything and stuff. So you don't hear

00:35:26.820 --> 00:35:28.539
her speak. So, like, I kind of had this expectation

00:35:28.539 --> 00:35:30.119
in my mind of what she sounded like. Right. And,

00:35:30.219 --> 00:35:31.539
like, you know, a Russian soldier comes in and

00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:33.500
be like, we have to leave. You have to be evacuated

00:35:33.500 --> 00:35:34.960
now. Like, he has a gun pointed at her to make

00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:36.880
sure she goes. And she just immediately starts

00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:38.739
speaking in this posh British accent. And I was

00:35:38.739 --> 00:35:40.719
like, oh, right. That's, you know, it's like,

00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.739
ah. It's a total nitpick. It's a tiny, tiny thing.

00:35:43.860 --> 00:35:45.699
And I kind of, I'm sure. But still, I get it.

00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:48.409
Yeah. Yeah. I guess it would have been cool if

00:35:48.409 --> 00:35:50.889
they would have this level of production with

00:35:50.889 --> 00:35:52.670
Russian actors and subtitles. I would prefer

00:35:52.670 --> 00:35:55.530
that, I guess. Yeah. But what we got was extremely

00:35:55.530 --> 00:35:58.210
well acted and just very, very gripping. And

00:35:58.210 --> 00:36:00.630
frankly, more accessible. Yes. Oh, totally. Yeah,

00:36:00.650 --> 00:36:03.170
yeah. It's way less of an ask. Yeah. Yeah, I

00:36:03.170 --> 00:36:05.369
could imagine. You're right. I'm just imagining,

00:36:05.530 --> 00:36:07.750
like, hey, watch this show for an hour and a

00:36:07.750 --> 00:36:09.309
half, be super depressed, and read subtitles

00:36:09.309 --> 00:36:11.530
the whole time. Exactly. You know? It's all in

00:36:11.530 --> 00:36:14.150
Russian. Exactly. People love subtitles. Yeah.

00:36:14.170 --> 00:36:16.659
It's a hard sell. Yeah. Especially. Americans

00:36:16.659 --> 00:36:19.019
don't like subtitles. I watched a whole show

00:36:19.019 --> 00:36:23.340
in subtitles once. You're one of the few. Congratulations,

00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:26.360
pat on the back. Dora the Explorer, hard show

00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:35.460
to follow. So, ranking? I give it 4 .7 high -range

00:36:35.460 --> 00:36:39.699
disseminators out of 5. It is the favorite piece

00:36:39.699 --> 00:36:42.980
of media I have consumed this year. Is that a

00:36:42.980 --> 00:36:45.400
nice rating? That might be our... Nah, there

00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:47.320
was a 5 out of 5, I think. I did not see the

00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:50.019
5. No, but I think there was a 5 out of 5. And

00:36:50.019 --> 00:36:52.360
with the caveat that this is extreme recency

00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:54.360
bias, I literally just watched the final episode,

00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:56.179
like, hours ago, so I'm still, like, pumped up

00:36:56.179 --> 00:36:57.820
on it. So, like, maybe it'll go down a little

00:36:57.820 --> 00:36:59.239
bit. It's like the IMDb thing. Everyone's like,

00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:01.480
ooh, the IMDb is the highest rated. 10 out of

00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:03.300
10 is the highest rated show ever. And I'm like,

00:37:03.300 --> 00:37:04.559
yeah, okay, it's going to go down in a month.

00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:07.260
Oh, yeah, of course. But right now, dude, I can't

00:37:07.260 --> 00:37:08.659
recommend it enough. I think it's must -watch

00:37:08.659 --> 00:37:10.860
material if you have the stomach for it. It's

00:37:10.860 --> 00:37:12.639
very, very depressing. I do not have the stomach

00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.070
for it. Claire has been watching it. I haven't

00:37:15.070 --> 00:37:16.750
watched it. Watch highlights or something. Watch

00:37:16.750 --> 00:37:18.789
the 90... Watch the SportsCenter recap. Yeah,

00:37:18.789 --> 00:37:20.730
watch the SportsCenter recap. I would say, if

00:37:20.730 --> 00:37:23.710
I'm reckoning one clip, watch the 90... Search

00:37:23.710 --> 00:37:26.949
for graphite rooftop clearing scene. It's like

00:37:26.949 --> 00:37:31.289
a scene where they have to clear off... I'm sorry,

00:37:31.369 --> 00:37:32.949
I have to go down this tangent again. It's so

00:37:32.949 --> 00:37:35.510
fascinating. So, the nuclear reactor exploded.

00:37:35.670 --> 00:37:37.739
There's... Bits of graphite on the roof of the

00:37:37.739 --> 00:37:39.920
reactor core. These bits of graphite are extremely

00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:42.719
radioactive. They will kill you if you're unprotected,

00:37:42.820 --> 00:37:44.159
like if you're standing next to it within like

00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:46.539
five minutes, I think, of exposure. So they literally

00:37:46.539 --> 00:37:49.340
calculate. They're like, okay, we can't get machines

00:37:49.340 --> 00:37:51.840
to move this graphite off the roof because the

00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:53.380
machine circuitry gets fried by the radiation.

00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:56.519
So we have to send human people up there in full

00:37:56.519 --> 00:37:59.739
lead suits, and we have to give them 90 seconds

00:37:59.739 --> 00:38:02.340
to go up there, clear it, and leave. So there's

00:38:02.340 --> 00:38:04.719
a scene where they have, they call them bio -robots.

00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:06.329
Literally, it was like 60. thousand people they

00:38:06.329 --> 00:38:08.889
didn't get and they move them up the roof there

00:38:08.889 --> 00:38:10.409
they give them in the instruction being like

00:38:10.409 --> 00:38:12.730
all right like like you need to clear this roof

00:38:12.730 --> 00:38:14.590
off you have 90 seconds do not look over the

00:38:14.590 --> 00:38:16.210
roof because over like or you don't look over

00:38:16.210 --> 00:38:17.570
the ledge because over the ledge was the exposed

00:38:17.570 --> 00:38:20.090
reactor cord that if you look down you're dead

00:38:21.139 --> 00:38:23.940
Anyways, so just 90 seconds real time, like,

00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:25.780
of them clearing this graphite. So it's just

00:38:25.780 --> 00:38:27.460
dudes in lead suits with giant shovels clearing

00:38:27.460 --> 00:38:29.820
off black rocks and jumping over. In 90 seconds

00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:32.179
spurts. In 90, well, it's just they show one

00:38:32.179 --> 00:38:34.559
90, they follow one guy, 90 seconds, and, like,

00:38:34.659 --> 00:38:37.099
just the sound design, like, they have, obviously,

00:38:37.179 --> 00:38:38.820
the decimeters, the Geiger counters going off,

00:38:38.860 --> 00:38:40.920
and you can hear, like, in real time how much

00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:44.900
radioactivity is going on. Yeah. Honestly, it's

00:38:44.900 --> 00:38:46.880
like a D -Day scene, frankly. You know, like,

00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:48.519
it's that level of intensity. It's like, oh,

00:38:48.519 --> 00:38:52.250
my God. Anyways. Best reviewed piece of media

00:38:52.250 --> 00:38:56.010
this year. You know what that means. Let's jump

00:38:56.010 --> 00:39:00.889
into it. Mitchell! What did you see? My movie's

00:39:00.889 --> 00:39:04.349
called Barely Lethal. Good job getting through

00:39:04.349 --> 00:39:07.849
it. Good job getting through it the first time.

00:39:08.150 --> 00:39:10.730
That was rough. I feel like the title is just

00:39:10.730 --> 00:39:14.730
enough alone. Barely Lethal. Barely Lethal. And

00:39:14.730 --> 00:39:18.269
by the way, it has nothing to... I don't know

00:39:18.269 --> 00:39:20.909
how they landed on this title. Like, if you're

00:39:20.909 --> 00:39:23.409
trying to sell this movie, obviously it's a pun,

00:39:23.469 --> 00:39:26.730
I'm barely legal, has nothing to do with sex

00:39:26.730 --> 00:39:30.269
or porn or even really coming of age, even though

00:39:30.269 --> 00:39:31.969
it's in high school. Drinking, nothing. Well,

00:39:32.030 --> 00:39:34.130
I mean, there's... Wow, there's no drinking.

00:39:34.250 --> 00:39:36.909
No, there's not. Yeah, wow. So this is like,

00:39:36.969 --> 00:39:38.809
yeah. I love that you have a notepad, by the

00:39:38.809 --> 00:39:41.570
way. I had to take notes because I knew that

00:39:41.570 --> 00:39:44.800
I was going to mentally check out. I also took

00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:47.059
a note. I took some notes on things that I did

00:39:47.059 --> 00:39:50.400
while I was not watching the movie. That is check

00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:53.500
emails. I looked at apartments in New York and

00:39:53.500 --> 00:39:57.139
L .A. Nice. That might be a spoiler. Spoiler.

00:39:57.219 --> 00:40:02.440
Yeah. Wow. All right. Spoiler. I watched Game

00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:04.940
of Zones. the new episode and the finale. Wait,

00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:06.980
you watched Game of Zones while you did this?

00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.579
No, I paused it. So I was telling Andre. So I

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:11.219
would, because... You couldn't even watch it

00:40:11.219 --> 00:40:13.079
in consecutive minutes. Well, here's the thing.

00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.199
I wanted to make sure it had my full attention

00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:18.219
when I was watching. When I knew that I was mentally

00:40:18.219 --> 00:40:19.679
checking out. At least I got through Leo the

00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:22.679
Lion and Yoga Hosers. That's great on you. I

00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:24.980
knew that I would not be as patient of a watcher.

00:40:25.019 --> 00:40:27.659
So I hit pause as soon as I was zoning out and

00:40:27.659 --> 00:40:29.679
did some things. Game of Zones was great, by

00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:31.760
the way. Y 'all should check it out. But fairly

00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:37.309
lethal. Not so great. Every time you say barely

00:40:37.309 --> 00:40:39.969
lethal, it hurts a little. It just kills you

00:40:39.969 --> 00:40:41.050
a little bit more inside. It's like there's a

00:40:41.050 --> 00:40:43.929
knife in me, and it just pushed a little deeper.

00:40:44.829 --> 00:40:49.050
It's a hard one, dude. That sucks. The big red

00:40:49.050 --> 00:40:51.570
flag at the very beginning of this film, if I

00:40:51.570 --> 00:40:55.150
want to call it that. How many production companies

00:40:55.150 --> 00:40:58.389
were listed at the very beginning when the credits

00:40:58.389 --> 00:41:02.929
were rolling? Oh, no. It was distributed, and

00:41:02.929 --> 00:41:05.349
this hurts me to say, and they have put out some

00:41:05.349 --> 00:41:09.269
stinkers before, A24. Oh, no. This is one of

00:41:09.269 --> 00:41:12.409
their early, so they did not produce it, but

00:41:12.409 --> 00:41:14.989
they distributed it. Oh, okay. Meaning they put

00:41:14.989 --> 00:41:17.090
it in theaters, which it had a limited release.

00:41:17.449 --> 00:41:19.090
I was just going to say it made theaters. It

00:41:19.090 --> 00:41:23.460
did, and ultimately VOD. So outside of them,

00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:26.679
RKO Pictures, which brought us classics like

00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:30.440
Citizen Kane and King Kong from the early half

00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:33.960
of the 20th century, they're back with Barely

00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:39.179
Lethal. They're back! Finally! I'm sure they've

00:41:39.179 --> 00:41:41.599
done a lot more between now and then, but holy

00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:44.130
crap, they came through with this one. And then

00:41:44.130 --> 00:41:47.250
also, Brett Ratner's production company was a

00:41:47.250 --> 00:41:49.030
part of it. Oh, sick. And we know that name has

00:41:49.030 --> 00:41:52.210
not aged well at all. No. No, it has not. Nope.

00:41:52.250 --> 00:41:56.250
This film was shot in 2013. It got a release

00:41:56.250 --> 00:42:00.190
in 2015, which, by the way, not a great sign,

00:42:00.309 --> 00:42:03.710
too. No. Wow. That's a two -year gap, man. What?

00:42:04.409 --> 00:42:07.929
Spoiler alert about Brett Ratner. There's not

00:42:07.929 --> 00:42:09.530
a lot of posts you're saying? There's not a lot

00:42:09.530 --> 00:42:12.230
of posts CGI to do? Literally, my first note,

00:42:12.389 --> 00:42:18.769
A24 produced. The fuck? So many production companies,

00:42:18.889 --> 00:42:23.429
indeed. My second note, Sophie Turner is in this

00:42:23.429 --> 00:42:27.690
film, guys. And this, again, 2013, so about three

00:42:27.690 --> 00:42:29.429
years into her Game of Thrones. It's a great

00:42:29.429 --> 00:42:32.889
cast. for what this bullshit was. In retrospect,

00:42:33.170 --> 00:42:35.989
yes, but it's a great cast. It's like a minor

00:42:35.989 --> 00:42:37.989
league baseball team. It has a lot of great players,

00:42:38.130 --> 00:42:40.489
but they're not fully developed yet. You see

00:42:40.489 --> 00:42:43.690
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the minors going like,

00:42:43.690 --> 00:42:46.610
he could have potential. So 2013, Sophie Turner

00:42:46.610 --> 00:42:48.550
would have been, what, three seasons into Game

00:42:48.550 --> 00:42:50.750
of Thrones, maybe? Yeah, about three -ish. Maybe

00:42:50.750 --> 00:42:52.369
two and a half, I don't know. She was not a great

00:42:52.369 --> 00:42:56.199
actress at this point. Was she American? She

00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:58.920
had an American accent. Oh, no. That's rough.

00:42:58.980 --> 00:43:01.840
Exactly. And it slipped. It definitely slipped.

00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:06.219
There were times, so let me just say this before

00:43:06.219 --> 00:43:08.719
we get into all the nitty gritty, because I'm

00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:11.599
actually happy I'm on a movie that I get to spoil

00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:14.659
and get to talk about a little bit more. So the

00:43:14.659 --> 00:43:16.780
film is about this. Wait, you can't spoil it.

00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:19.880
I want to see it. Well, it's on Netflix if anyone

00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:21.320
wants. You have more patience than Mitchell does.

00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:22.880
Yeah, seriously. I'm not seeing this movie, let

00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:25.429
me tell you right now. Haley Seinfeld. stars

00:43:25.429 --> 00:43:28.050
in this movie. Did you say Steinfeld? Steinfeld?

00:43:28.110 --> 00:43:30.510
Oh, okay. I heard Steinfeld at first. Steinfeld?

00:43:30.530 --> 00:43:31.789
And I was like, wait, what? Steinfeld's in this

00:43:31.789 --> 00:43:35.670
movie? What? Yeah. I knew it was Steinfeld, but

00:43:35.670 --> 00:43:39.250
it was, yeah. Yeah, so very big name, big name

00:43:39.250 --> 00:43:42.889
actress nowadays. Is she Gwen Stacy now? In the

00:43:42.889 --> 00:43:45.190
Into the Spider -Verse. Oh, Into the Spider -Verse.

00:43:45.269 --> 00:43:47.630
Wait, Gwen Stacy's going to be in Into the Spider

00:43:47.630 --> 00:43:50.670
-Verse? No, so she voiced voice when they see

00:43:50.670 --> 00:43:52.510
Spider -Man. Oh, I'm sorry. The animated one.

00:43:52.690 --> 00:43:55.190
Into Spider -Verse. The really good movie. Oh,

00:43:55.989 --> 00:43:57.969
so that's her. Okay, cool. Yeah, she voiced the

00:43:57.969 --> 00:44:01.389
character. Sophie Turner's in it. And then Samuel

00:44:01.389 --> 00:44:04.550
L. Jackson. Samuel L. Jackson is in this movie

00:44:04.550 --> 00:44:07.730
with Jessica Alba, who has all of maybe ten minutes

00:44:07.730 --> 00:44:09.789
in this movie. Really? She's pretty prominent

00:44:09.789 --> 00:44:12.030
in the trailer, honestly. In the trailer, they

00:44:12.030 --> 00:44:14.840
definitely... Have a head fake there. They definitely

00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:16.599
pump fake you on that. I want to go back to Samuel

00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:18.480
L. Jackson. Did he get a motherfucker in this

00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:21.380
movie? He did not. Did he get a censored motherfucker?

00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:23.519
I feel like this always happens in like a...

00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:25.559
below our movie where it's like Samuel L. Jackson

00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:27.360
goes mother and then he cuts or something. It's

00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.699
funny that you say that he does not but he definitely

00:44:30.699 --> 00:44:34.900
plays a Nick Fury -esque role. I would say he

00:44:34.900 --> 00:44:37.280
was probably like director of The Spies or something.

00:44:37.579 --> 00:44:40.659
He was, yeah. Oh my god, nailed it. See, so this

00:44:40.659 --> 00:44:43.800
movie is incredibly predictable as Allison is

00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:47.260
laying out where Nick Fury or Samuel L. Jackson

00:44:47.260 --> 00:44:50.599
is running this group of young girls who kill

00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:53.820
people. So, I forgot the name of it. Oh, Prescott.

00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:55.900
Prescott something something something. Prescott.

00:44:55.900 --> 00:44:57.739
Boom. I remember that from the trailer. Is that

00:44:57.739 --> 00:44:59.400
like an acronym? Or is that just a name? No,

00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:02.420
Prescott's just the name of it. So, the thing

00:45:02.420 --> 00:45:05.539
was named after somebody, though. Do they go

00:45:05.539 --> 00:45:10.039
into this? Not really. That hurts. If they had

00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:14.400
a sequel, maybe. Anyway, so, all these girls,

00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:17.099
tons of voiceover at the beginning, so it's all...

00:45:17.340 --> 00:45:19.940
You know, all exposition just poured out in your

00:45:19.940 --> 00:45:22.519
face for like the first ten minutes. Haley Seinfeld

00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:25.320
again, coming through there. So this is all about

00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:28.340
girls who are orphans, who are raised under the

00:45:28.340 --> 00:45:32.380
tutelage of Nick Fury, as they learn how to become

00:45:32.380 --> 00:45:35.579
assassins. And assassins for what, you may ask?

00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:39.300
I don't know. I still don't know. Do they kill

00:45:39.300 --> 00:45:41.300
bad people? Do they kill not? They kill people,

00:45:41.500 --> 00:45:44.619
apparently. Okay. However... However, there is

00:45:44.619 --> 00:45:49.780
a very cheeky scene towards the end of the film

00:45:49.780 --> 00:45:53.380
where Haley Steinfeld is talking with a gal pal

00:45:53.380 --> 00:45:56.780
of hers, talking like once she has been found

00:45:56.780 --> 00:45:59.699
out to be this assassin lady. Oh, so they find

00:45:59.699 --> 00:46:02.519
out. Well, of course they do. So there's a part

00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:04.420
where they're like, hey, so have you ever killed

00:46:04.420 --> 00:46:07.599
someone? And then she's like, not all the way.

00:46:07.820 --> 00:46:10.539
And then you begin to discover, whoa, this is

00:46:10.539 --> 00:46:14.519
like a... a play on the whole i've never had

00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:18.480
sex yeah right okay so i didn't go all the way

00:46:18.480 --> 00:46:21.239
but i've done other things like so it's like

00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:24.139
that conversation has nothing to do with killing

00:46:24.139 --> 00:46:26.260
people but has everything to do with making fun

00:46:26.260 --> 00:46:29.039
of the conversation about having sex like you're

00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:31.440
a teenager if you haven't killed someone yeah

00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:32.940
that's a thing that's a pretty shitty assassin

00:46:32.940 --> 00:46:37.250
now again I don't know. What is an assassin,

00:46:37.429 --> 00:46:39.369
really? What is an assassin? You guys gave me

00:46:39.369 --> 00:46:41.469
a lot of compliments about having more patience

00:46:41.469 --> 00:46:45.170
than Mitchell. I want to fight this movie. Like,

00:46:45.190 --> 00:46:48.309
just put this movie in a ring and just... So

00:46:48.309 --> 00:46:51.789
the movie is about Haley who grows up in this,

00:46:51.789 --> 00:46:55.630
you know, fucking death camp machine where she's...

00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:58.219
born and raised to be an assassin one of her

00:46:58.219 --> 00:47:00.000
missions at the beginning of this movie is to

00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.860
go capture jessica alba because she's listed

00:47:02.860 --> 00:47:06.440
as a bad guy so they drop uh hayley seinfeld

00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:09.920
into this area and then yada yada yada she gets

00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:18.860
captured by jessica alba but on purpose so hayley

00:47:18.860 --> 00:47:21.619
seinfeld kicks some butt Jessica Alba gets captured

00:47:21.619 --> 00:47:24.599
by Nick Fury, but after some things happen, they're

00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:27.719
helicoptered off, but because of how things worked

00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:30.639
out in the battle, Haley Seinfeld's clip that

00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:33.179
is attached to the wire to the helicopter slips

00:47:33.179 --> 00:47:35.800
through, and she falls into a river. This whole

00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:38.400
time, you do discover, thanks to voiceovers,

00:47:38.619 --> 00:47:41.480
that she is super, super curious about what it's

00:47:41.480 --> 00:47:44.980
like to be a real -life girl. Oh. I love how

00:47:44.980 --> 00:47:47.969
they do this. Via voiceover. Yes. Come on. It's

00:47:47.969 --> 00:47:50.869
via voiceover. Yeah. Show, don't tell, right?

00:47:51.210 --> 00:47:53.710
That's the adage. They show, they tell, they

00:47:53.710 --> 00:47:56.489
show. You always wonder what it was like to be

00:47:56.489 --> 00:47:59.150
a real girl. That would have been great. I would

00:47:59.150 --> 00:48:01.010
have been so in on this movie if Morgan Freeman

00:48:01.010 --> 00:48:05.909
did the voiceovers. But not only did they tell,

00:48:06.050 --> 00:48:08.570
not show, they showed and told at the same time.

00:48:08.730 --> 00:48:11.170
Wait, wait, wait. I'm sorry. They tell, not showed?

00:48:11.210 --> 00:48:15.019
They told, not showed. Okay. So meaning this,

00:48:15.099 --> 00:48:18.219
meaning this. So the whole thing is like... We're

00:48:18.219 --> 00:48:20.920
making bad puns. Terrible puns. So the whole

00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:23.079
thing is like you want a movie that through the

00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:26.500
art of visual medium will tell you how a character

00:48:26.500 --> 00:48:29.559
is feeling instead of relying on voiceover to

00:48:29.559 --> 00:48:32.360
tell you how she's feeling. Anyway, Homegirl

00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:35.559
wants to be in Mean Girls. She wants to be in

00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:37.619
Clueless. She wants to be in all these movies

00:48:37.619 --> 00:48:40.639
that you see her watch on her laptop as she's

00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:42.900
preparing for a quote -unquote mission. Anyway,

00:48:42.980 --> 00:48:45.219
so her dropping into this river, she's like,

00:48:45.300 --> 00:48:47.579
oh, my God, this is my chance to be a real girl.

00:48:47.619 --> 00:48:51.739
Real Pinocchio shit right here. So anyway, she

00:48:51.739 --> 00:48:53.940
takes advantage. You need to lose more often.

00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:58.699
This is good. She takes advantage and joins.

00:48:58.699 --> 00:49:01.219
You just need to take better movies. No, this

00:49:01.219 --> 00:49:05.280
is great. She joins a student exchange program.

00:49:05.940 --> 00:49:10.610
How? Again, guys, I do know this one. She found

00:49:10.610 --> 00:49:13.030
it through... She applied? She went on the internet,

00:49:13.170 --> 00:49:16.130
and she didn't use Yahoo or Google. She used,

00:49:16.170 --> 00:49:17.889
and this is how you know this is a bad movie.

00:49:18.090 --> 00:49:21.869
Bing? Bing? Bravo search. Oh! Wow! That's the

00:49:21.869 --> 00:49:25.400
name of Bing! It's Bravo Search, which is clearly

00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:28.860
modeled after Yahoo. Yeah. Oh, my God. Bravo

00:49:28.860 --> 00:49:31.420
Search. I wish it was Ask Jeeves, because Ask

00:49:31.420 --> 00:49:33.719
Jeeves existed. Yeah, right. Bravo Search. Ask

00:49:33.719 --> 00:49:36.159
Jeeves was at least popular at one point. Yeah,

00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:39.260
I used Ask Jeeves. It was a thing. So she becomes

00:49:39.260 --> 00:49:41.519
a foreign exchange student in her foreign country,

00:49:41.639 --> 00:49:45.000
Canada. Oh, of course. What a beautiful foreign

00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.179
language. What's this movie? Do they make fun

00:49:49.179 --> 00:49:51.659
of that fact at times? Of course they do. A.

00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.519
And A, exactly. But they don't make that joke.

00:49:54.619 --> 00:49:57.599
I just have flashbacks to Yoga Hosers. Oh, that's

00:49:57.599 --> 00:49:59.719
right. Yoga Hosers. Very Canadian movie as well.

00:49:59.820 --> 00:50:02.900
Oh, my God. So, anyway, that stuff all happens.

00:50:02.940 --> 00:50:06.679
And she goes through all the tropes of a typical

00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:09.780
teenage high school movie. And at the beginning,

00:50:09.860 --> 00:50:11.719
as she's going through this, you're thinking,

00:50:11.820 --> 00:50:13.920
you know, this could actually be clever. You

00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:16.389
know, like she studied all the... Like, they

00:50:16.389 --> 00:50:18.929
name Mean Girls by name. They have Clueless.

00:50:18.929 --> 00:50:21.510
Like, they could do a send -up of all those tropes,

00:50:21.510 --> 00:50:24.869
but instead, they do those tropes while also

00:50:24.869 --> 00:50:27.090
trying to make fun of them and act as if they're

00:50:27.090 --> 00:50:29.530
smarter than, oh, she's falling in love with

00:50:29.530 --> 00:50:32.110
the brilliant musicians, like the hunky guy or

00:50:32.110 --> 00:50:34.269
whatever. Sure, but she still does, so it's like...

00:50:34.269 --> 00:50:37.550
She still does. And it's like they're trying

00:50:37.550 --> 00:50:40.289
to have it both ways. And there's a scene where

00:50:40.289 --> 00:50:44.039
the... like popular looking girls, like really

00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:45.780
pretty cheerleaders. They're like, hey, do you

00:50:45.780 --> 00:50:47.659
want to come sit with us? They were being absolutely

00:50:47.659 --> 00:50:50.409
genuine. And Hayley's like, I've seen Mean Girls.

00:50:50.489 --> 00:50:51.869
You're trying to lure me in, and you're going

00:50:51.869 --> 00:50:54.429
to turn your backs on me. Again, she's an assassin,

00:50:54.570 --> 00:50:57.369
so she has her wires up on everything. And then

00:50:57.369 --> 00:50:59.070
the girls are like, no, we're just trying to

00:50:59.070 --> 00:51:01.590
be nice. End of scene. She does not sit with

00:51:01.590 --> 00:51:04.210
those girls. She should have assassinated them

00:51:04.210 --> 00:51:07.250
all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Assassin them. Yes. Just

00:51:07.250 --> 00:51:10.269
imagine a girl in Kick -Ass 2 with the sick stick.

00:51:10.510 --> 00:51:13.369
Like, yeah. Boom, boom, boom. Exactly. That would

00:51:13.369 --> 00:51:15.710
have been great. And literally, the quote I wrote

00:51:15.710 --> 00:51:18.650
down was, I've seen Mean Girls twice. and then

00:51:18.650 --> 00:51:21.289
the next line was is this a send up and then

00:51:21.289 --> 00:51:25.389
my third line was uneven messaging and that is

00:51:25.389 --> 00:51:28.489
really the crux of all my issues with this movie

00:51:28.489 --> 00:51:30.769
because they laid out the groundwork for this

00:51:30.769 --> 00:51:33.590
to be kind of a spoof on the teenage comedy kind

00:51:33.590 --> 00:51:36.230
of thing sure and they try to have it both ways

00:51:36.719 --> 00:51:42.239
They try to legitimately have Haley be the starlet

00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:45.659
of a teenage comedy while poking fun at it in

00:51:45.659 --> 00:51:50.340
stupid -ass ways. So, for example, they have

00:51:50.340 --> 00:51:53.800
a seating chart in her science class. And because

00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:57.980
she is a super -duper spy, she went into her

00:51:57.980 --> 00:52:01.239
teacher's office at night. While the janitor

00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:03.980
was walking by, stealthily, she walked into the

00:52:03.980 --> 00:52:07.099
office. It changed the seating chart so she would

00:52:07.099 --> 00:52:09.380
be sitting next to the really hot guy. Of course.

00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:13.920
What? As you do. As you do. And by the way, this

00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:16.460
whole spy thing, they try to make it so where

00:52:16.460 --> 00:52:19.619
she does a really good job of researching high

00:52:19.619 --> 00:52:21.800
school and she knows how to fit in. Or she'll

00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:24.219
occasionally slip up because her only research

00:52:24.219 --> 00:52:27.949
were movies. She would also have times where

00:52:27.949 --> 00:52:31.429
she would go into death spy mode where they were

00:52:31.429 --> 00:52:33.969
talking in English class. They were talking about

00:52:33.969 --> 00:52:37.510
the Robert Frost poem where two roads divide

00:52:37.510 --> 00:52:39.949
in the world. Oh, yes. The road less traveled.

00:52:40.090 --> 00:52:43.630
The road less traveled. I am edumacated. Yeah,

00:52:43.630 --> 00:52:47.980
see? Boom! And the teacher... who noticed that

00:52:47.980 --> 00:52:50.239
Haley was zoning out, that's what it does, was

00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:52.539
like, Haley, what poem were we discussing? She's

00:52:52.539 --> 00:52:54.280
like, oh, something about two roads. You know,

00:52:54.300 --> 00:52:56.099
what I would do is I would make sure that I would

00:52:56.099 --> 00:53:00.420
have a buddy like 30 clicks behind me so we could

00:53:00.420 --> 00:53:02.219
attack these guys. She goes through this whole

00:53:02.219 --> 00:53:04.059
spiel of how she would attack people if there

00:53:04.059 --> 00:53:07.760
were two diverging roads. So wacky. Yeah, thank

00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:10.099
you. Those are the points of all those things

00:53:10.099 --> 00:53:11.880
where she quote unquote slips up and lets her

00:53:11.880 --> 00:53:14.719
spy self out. Sure. It's not motivated at all.

00:53:14.780 --> 00:53:17.199
It's just made for a quote unquote joke and it

00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:18.960
just wastes five minutes of your life every time

00:53:18.960 --> 00:53:22.880
they do it. God damn it. Yeah. So spilling secret

00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:24.800
agent stuff question mark was also one of my

00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:28.030
notes. The only time where it worked. was when

00:53:28.030 --> 00:53:33.030
she is the mascot of her school because she was

00:53:33.030 --> 00:53:35.610
told that the hunky guy liked mascots, which,

00:53:35.670 --> 00:53:38.030
by the way, was a trick played to her by some

00:53:38.030 --> 00:53:40.409
other girls who didn't like her. Oh, my God.

00:53:40.730 --> 00:53:43.570
Has she seen Mean Girls? Has she seen Mean Girls?

00:53:43.630 --> 00:53:45.570
Thank you. She's done all this research and fell

00:53:45.570 --> 00:53:48.289
for that? Anyway, she did fall for that. She

00:53:48.289 --> 00:53:51.150
got the job. And while she was... practicing

00:53:51.150 --> 00:53:53.289
with the marching band in full mascot outfits.

00:53:53.530 --> 00:53:56.570
There were guys dressed in black, and the whole

00:53:56.570 --> 00:54:00.550
thing was, oh, wow, the spy people finally found

00:54:00.550 --> 00:54:02.190
her, right? She went off the map, and now they

00:54:02.190 --> 00:54:04.650
found her trying to get her back. No, it was

00:54:04.650 --> 00:54:06.710
guys from a rival high school, and when they

00:54:06.710 --> 00:54:08.989
tried to attack her, homegirl went full spy,

00:54:09.230 --> 00:54:11.170
which makes sense. This was in the fucking trailer,

00:54:11.309 --> 00:54:14.210
and it pissed me off. It pissed you off, and

00:54:14.210 --> 00:54:16.110
I will say this, it makes sense in the movie

00:54:16.110 --> 00:54:17.909
where I'm just like, damn, okay, this is like

00:54:17.909 --> 00:54:21.719
a really brief light. of how the spy thing can't

00:54:21.719 --> 00:54:23.880
come out because all instincts. People are attacking

00:54:23.880 --> 00:54:26.079
me. I've got to get into them, blah, blah, blah.

00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:30.199
Guys and ladies, this is an awful movie. This

00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:33.000
is not good. And I can also say my last note

00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:37.199
in this was dated references. Oh, no. This is

00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:39.619
what happens when you film your movie and then

00:54:39.619 --> 00:54:42.840
release it two years later. 2013 is when the

00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:45.219
film was shot. I have no idea when it was written.

00:54:45.550 --> 00:54:48.670
But in 2015, when Sophie Turner busts out the

00:54:48.670 --> 00:54:55.250
line, P90X, bitch. Oh, no. By the way, Sophie

00:54:55.250 --> 00:54:57.789
Turner's also a spy. They're not working out

00:54:57.789 --> 00:55:01.110
using P90X. I'm sorry. I don't think Sam Jackson's

00:55:01.110 --> 00:55:04.130
rolling around with the P90X tape to get all

00:55:04.130 --> 00:55:07.090
these ninja assassins into shape. Anyway, the

00:55:07.090 --> 00:55:11.849
response from Haley was, P90 extra large, bitch.

00:55:12.619 --> 00:55:14.719
That's another line that you can take to the

00:55:14.719 --> 00:55:17.780
bank with you. Wow. This is some inspired shit

00:55:17.780 --> 00:55:19.260
right here. I'm telling you, the references,

00:55:19.539 --> 00:55:23.099
the writing, the punchlines, all subpar. And

00:55:23.099 --> 00:55:26.920
I watched all one hour, 38 minutes of it. you

00:55:26.920 --> 00:55:29.940
were counting like you were like including the

00:55:29.940 --> 00:55:31.820
credits yeah right you gotta wait for you gotta

00:55:31.820 --> 00:55:33.440
watch the credits in case there's like after

00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:35.840
credit scenes unless there's oh no i shut that

00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:39.059
thing off and go right to this place yeah i was

00:55:39.059 --> 00:55:41.760
like i was out and i was ready to go guys uh

00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:44.460
before i give my uh final ranking are there any

00:55:44.460 --> 00:55:50.570
questions for barely lethal Why are they so bad

00:55:50.570 --> 00:55:53.130
at being assassins? Yeah, right. Yeah, that's

00:55:53.130 --> 00:55:55.769
a great question. That's a great question. Sophie

00:55:55.769 --> 00:55:58.969
Turner plays the rival assassin to Hailee Steinfeld.

00:55:59.070 --> 00:56:01.449
And they grew up as rivals, blah, blah, blah.

00:56:01.570 --> 00:56:05.889
And actually a fun twist. Once Hailee Steinfeld

00:56:05.889 --> 00:56:10.489
is fucking sisters. No, not that. Oh, damn it.

00:56:11.030 --> 00:56:14.869
Once she has found out to have gone and lived

00:56:14.869 --> 00:56:17.360
this other life in this high school. Samuel L.

00:56:17.360 --> 00:56:20.380
Jackson and his team sent out Sophie Turner as

00:56:20.380 --> 00:56:21.900
the one. And then she wants to go to high school.

00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:23.980
Well, she becomes a high school student in the

00:56:23.980 --> 00:56:27.219
hopes of making her so unpopular that she leaves

00:56:27.219 --> 00:56:30.500
the school. I kid you not. Not kill her, which

00:56:30.500 --> 00:56:32.659
eventually it turns into. But the initial thought

00:56:32.659 --> 00:56:34.639
is, she's going to be so embarrassed, she's going

00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:37.679
to leave. I was like, wow, this is what we're

00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:39.780
doing. That's what they thought would work. Yeah.

00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:42.260
That's why they're not good assassins. This is

00:56:42.260 --> 00:56:46.050
the scene. So I think Samuel L. Jackson is doing

00:56:46.050 --> 00:56:48.210
a terrible job of training. Why can't we write

00:56:48.210 --> 00:56:50.190
a better movie than half of the movies we've

00:56:50.190 --> 00:56:52.789
seen? It's incredible. It really is. I really

00:56:52.789 --> 00:56:54.829
wish I knew how this was made. Why did Samuel

00:56:54.829 --> 00:56:57.329
L. Jackson agree to be in this movie? Samuel

00:56:57.329 --> 00:56:59.269
L. Jackson has a thing in his contract where

00:56:59.269 --> 00:57:02.210
he wants to keep the record of being in the most

00:57:02.210 --> 00:57:04.670
movies of all time. God damn it, he's going to

00:57:04.670 --> 00:57:06.110
get that freaking record. He's going to do it.

00:57:06.190 --> 00:57:07.909
He's going to do it. I mean, if I were to watch

00:57:07.909 --> 00:57:09.909
that movie, it would be because of him. Yeah,

00:57:09.929 --> 00:57:11.949
I will say this. What other crappy movies has

00:57:11.949 --> 00:57:13.369
he been in? Because he's been in a lot of crappy

00:57:13.369 --> 00:57:15.869
movies. Oh, a lot. He has thrown so much shit

00:57:15.869 --> 00:57:18.309
against the wall. Yeah. Not all of it sucked.

00:57:18.530 --> 00:57:21.550
Is he in tax trouble? cages? No, I don't think

00:57:21.550 --> 00:57:25.510
he is. Man, I don't know. By the way, guys, this

00:57:25.510 --> 00:57:29.030
movie cost $15 million to make. $15 million?

00:57:29.409 --> 00:57:32.409
$15 million to make. That's why so many production

00:57:32.409 --> 00:57:35.110
companies were involved. I'm assuming that the

00:57:35.110 --> 00:57:38.750
A -list talent didn't help. And it made $250

00:57:38.750 --> 00:57:43.550
,000. Oh my god, dude. Nobody would pay to see

00:57:43.550 --> 00:57:46.789
that. And Jessica Alba. Oh, guys, you guys did

00:57:46.789 --> 00:57:49.449
not ask me. What role does Jessica Alba play?

00:57:49.449 --> 00:57:53.269
You said her name once. Is she an integral part

00:57:53.269 --> 00:57:55.170
of the story? Does she really bring it all together?

00:57:55.550 --> 00:57:57.849
Oh, my gosh, Andre. Thank you for asking. She

00:57:57.849 --> 00:58:01.110
is introduced at the beginning as a bad guy that

00:58:01.110 --> 00:58:03.889
needs to be captured. She gets one more scene

00:58:03.889 --> 00:58:05.710
with Samuel L. Jackson before where you're like,

00:58:05.769 --> 00:58:07.670
oh, my God, these guys have a secret past together.

00:58:08.300 --> 00:58:10.679
And you'd think if this was a better written

00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:13.340
movie, Jessica Alba's actually the good guy in

00:58:13.340 --> 00:58:15.940
this case. Because she's like, what are you still

00:58:15.940 --> 00:58:17.619
doing, training little girls to kill people?

00:58:17.699 --> 00:58:21.440
By the way, they don't kill people. They only

00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:25.659
almost kill people. Fast forward to the third

00:58:25.659 --> 00:58:28.440
act, Jessica Alba is indeed a bad person and

00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:31.059
a person to be dealt with because she was the

00:58:31.059 --> 00:58:33.159
first person enlisted in this Prescott program.

00:58:33.539 --> 00:58:35.599
Everyone went by a number when they were in the

00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:38.780
program. Haley Seinfeld was 84. Jessica Alves

00:58:38.780 --> 00:58:41.619
is number one. Exactly. That is something you

00:58:41.619 --> 00:58:43.940
could see coming from a mile away. She was in

00:58:43.940 --> 00:58:47.599
it so guys would go see it. Oh, by the way, 100%.

00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:50.019
By the way, she had a quote -unquote, again,

00:58:50.219 --> 00:58:54.059
voiceover. She has an IQ of 140. That means she

00:58:54.059 --> 00:58:56.119
will use her smarts to kill you. She's a genius.

00:58:56.619 --> 00:59:00.780
She gets taken down by Samuel L. Jackson shooting

00:59:00.780 --> 00:59:03.480
her with a sleeping dart. Right from behind her.

00:59:03.820 --> 00:59:05.599
Her IQ was not high enough to dodge that sleeping

00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:08.340
dart. It's incredible. Her IQ is too high. How

00:59:08.340 --> 00:59:10.679
easy it is to take her down. Would you watch

00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:15.139
a sequel? No. Then you're not in for Barely Lethal

00:59:15.139 --> 00:59:18.119
2? I don't care if they're legal now. Oh. You

00:59:18.119 --> 00:59:20.280
know, if they're full -on legal, I'm not buying

00:59:20.280 --> 00:59:23.639
it. Lethal 2. Not Barely Anymore. Not Barely

00:59:23.639 --> 00:59:26.599
Anymore. That's so Barely Lethal. The Barely

00:59:26.599 --> 00:59:29.349
and the Lethal. The Barely and the Lethal. Could

00:59:29.349 --> 00:59:31.210
you imagine if this was like a prequel to the

00:59:31.210 --> 00:59:33.670
Lethal Weapons series? Oh my god! Really, it

00:59:33.670 --> 00:59:38.130
should be lethal barely. Lethal barely. But really,

00:59:38.230 --> 00:59:41.030
it should be a porno. Oh no! It should be like

00:59:41.030 --> 00:59:46.030
barely. So they never commit to them being spies,

00:59:46.389 --> 00:59:49.449
thus the barely, or assassins, barely lethal

00:59:49.449 --> 00:59:53.090
part. I will say this, the only redeeming quality,

00:59:53.309 --> 00:59:55.690
and I said that Sophie Turner was still growing

00:59:55.690 --> 00:59:58.760
as an actress. And a lot of other people in the

00:59:58.760 --> 01:00:02.360
film definitely were mailing this shit in. Hailee

01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:05.400
Steinfeld is so much fun to watch. And she's

01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:09.500
just like, the way I saw her act in Age of 17,

01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:12.199
which is probably my favorite movie of her because

01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:16.460
of her, she brought some of the same stuff to

01:00:16.460 --> 01:00:19.139
Barely Leading. So she's got talent. She's talented.

01:00:19.340 --> 01:00:21.480
Yeah, she's a leading lady. That's what she is.

01:00:22.570 --> 01:00:24.110
I don't know if I remember this right. She was

01:00:24.110 --> 01:00:26.650
True Grit, right? Yeah. So this was before True

01:00:26.650 --> 01:00:29.250
Grit. Or this was after True Grit. I liked her

01:00:29.250 --> 01:00:30.309
in True Grit. It was filmed before or after True

01:00:30.309 --> 01:00:32.989
Grit, I think, right? Oh, it was after. 2010

01:00:32.989 --> 01:00:35.449
was True Grit. There you go. I loved her in True

01:00:35.449 --> 01:00:38.030
Grit. Oh, she was great. Yeah. And especially

01:00:38.030 --> 01:00:40.050
going up against some really top -notch actors

01:00:40.050 --> 01:00:42.170
in that movie. Yeah. Damon and Jeffery. She's

01:00:42.170 --> 01:00:44.650
good. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She held her own

01:00:44.650 --> 01:00:47.869
in that shit. Louis, not so much. This one, not

01:00:47.869 --> 01:00:49.690
enough to save it. Any other questions before

01:00:49.690 --> 01:00:54.719
I get to my dumbass ranking? great i got nothing

01:00:54.719 --> 01:01:00.900
sorry thank god it it is a one half kill no one

01:01:00.900 --> 01:01:04.159
so by being half kill that's what she was claiming

01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:06.300
to have half kill so the metric is half kill

01:01:06.300 --> 01:01:08.980
so it is a one star if i'm doing a star it's

01:01:08.980 --> 01:01:12.039
one but it's everyone knows my ranking yes half

01:01:12.039 --> 01:01:14.519
means you've made the movie yes they made this

01:01:14.519 --> 01:01:16.800
movie yeah and so you're giving a little bit

01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:19.460
above because of amy steinfeld I think there

01:01:19.460 --> 01:01:22.500
is such a thing as an actor or actress carrying

01:01:22.500 --> 01:01:25.099
a movie. Yeah. She didn't carry it, but damn,

01:01:25.099 --> 01:01:26.519
she pushed it a little farther. She pushed it.

01:01:26.699 --> 01:01:28.559
She tried. She tried. She gave it an extra yard.

01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:30.719
She was in a shitty movie. So I'm going to give

01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:34.940
it a one Sam Jackson half -baked performance

01:01:34.940 --> 01:01:39.699
out of five. Woof. All right, cool. Wow. All

01:01:39.699 --> 01:01:43.320
right. Beautiful. We jump into now our part we

01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:45.480
always do, things we're excited about or things

01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:49.349
we're dreading or whatever. Okay. Something we

01:01:49.349 --> 01:01:50.550
feel strongly about, right? Something we feel

01:01:50.550 --> 01:01:53.429
strongly about. Okay. Pull out your phone. You're

01:01:53.429 --> 01:01:55.090
jumping in this too. What am I feeling strongly

01:01:55.090 --> 01:01:59.230
about? You told me about one. We talked about

01:01:59.230 --> 01:02:04.889
this already. What did I say? Can I say something

01:02:04.889 --> 01:02:07.630
that came out or that will come out in a couple

01:02:07.630 --> 01:02:10.090
years? In a couple years? Yeah. I mean, you can.

01:02:10.230 --> 01:02:12.369
I try to stick to things that are like. I know.

01:02:12.550 --> 01:02:16.349
Yeah, you know. Men in Black. Yeah. Men in Black

01:02:16.349 --> 01:02:20.989
International. Yeah. I'm just excited because

01:02:20.989 --> 01:02:24.110
Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson were great

01:02:24.110 --> 01:02:27.190
in Thor Ragnarok. So they're cool co -stars.

01:02:27.429 --> 01:02:29.920
Yeah. Yes, you can talk about it. So, it should

01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:31.579
be good. It should be good. I don't know what

01:02:31.579 --> 01:02:33.980
the plot is, but they're good actors. I mean,

01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:36.219
yeah. Like, they're good. Well, it's like Melnon

01:02:36.219 --> 01:02:38.820
Gianni. Melvin Black is using Melnon Gianni.

01:02:38.820 --> 01:02:40.760
Oh, he's an alien, right? He's an alien, yeah.

01:02:40.860 --> 01:02:42.500
Woo, I didn't know that. Yeah, he's a little

01:02:42.500 --> 01:02:44.440
alien. Well, I'm more excited now. Oh, yeah,

01:02:44.500 --> 01:02:45.860
he's going to be great. Melnon Gianni loves him.

01:02:45.880 --> 01:02:47.320
He's so hot right now. Is he going to fall in

01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:48.139
the sunken zone? Like, literally, have you seen

01:02:48.139 --> 01:02:49.800
those guns? Are you fucking kidding me? No, he's

01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:51.199
not going to fall in the sunken zone, as far

01:02:51.199 --> 01:02:54.059
as I know. What? What? What? He's in a twilight

01:02:54.059 --> 01:02:56.980
zone. What? What's going on? I don't know what's

01:02:56.980 --> 01:03:01.199
happening anymore. Okay. You can bring up something

01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:04.239
that's happening years from now. I always try

01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:06.139
to stick the two weeks that we're going to do

01:03:06.139 --> 01:03:07.940
this. This is news that dropped, at least for

01:03:07.940 --> 01:03:10.659
me, that dropped today that now has a release

01:03:10.659 --> 01:03:15.039
date. It's going to be May 21st, 2021. May 2021,

01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:20.800
Taika Waititi's Akira. What? Yeah. Oh, shit.

01:03:21.139 --> 01:03:25.619
Thank you, Andre. Oh, man, dude. Akira is a very

01:03:25.619 --> 01:03:28.280
famous anime. It came out in the 80s. Taika Waititi.

01:03:28.460 --> 01:03:30.079
It's so good. It was just mentioned about too

01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:32.599
long ago. It's true. It's true. I do not know

01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:35.699
the anime, but I know Taika Waititi. I will talk

01:03:35.699 --> 01:03:37.780
for an hour and a half about Akira, which is

01:03:37.780 --> 01:03:40.159
probably longer than the actual run time. I mainly

01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:42.300
say this so I wouldn't have to talk anymore,

01:03:42.420 --> 01:03:44.460
and then Andre could just take it away. Oh, yeah.

01:03:44.460 --> 01:03:47.360
Talk about how excited he is. Dude, oh, my God.

01:03:47.539 --> 01:03:49.480
Akira is, like, that's, like, one of the top

01:03:49.480 --> 01:03:51.440
five anime movies that, like, I recommended normal

01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:53.239
people, if that makes sense. Like, it's the highest

01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:54.760
recommendation I can give, where it's, like,

01:03:54.800 --> 01:03:56.400
you don't have to be a nerd to like this movie.

01:03:56.539 --> 01:03:58.019
It's worse than I watched this. There's a normal

01:03:58.019 --> 01:03:58.980
scale. Do you know what I'm saying? I read it

01:03:58.980 --> 01:04:01.320
on YouTube. Yeah, I think it's a rental, digital

01:04:01.320 --> 01:04:04.659
rental. Okay, that's fair. I go through the legal

01:04:04.659 --> 01:04:07.699
methods. I do not pirate. Good for you, Mike.

01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:10.019
I think I might have it on DVD. What are you

01:04:10.019 --> 01:04:12.760
doing with your face, Mike? Twitching. I think

01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:15.039
I might have it on DVD. I got it in a garage

01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:16.579
sale. Wow, so legal. Literally in my room back

01:04:16.579 --> 01:04:19.639
over there. Anyways. Oh my god. So, yeah. You

01:04:19.639 --> 01:04:21.760
picked one that Andre is like over the moon about.

01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:24.699
Dude. Well, it's the thing. I love Taika Waititi,

01:04:24.719 --> 01:04:26.539
so I'm on board already. So the thing is that

01:04:26.539 --> 01:04:28.820
this is, like, the exact opposite reaction I

01:04:28.820 --> 01:04:30.699
had to Ghost in the Shell, which I would also

01:04:30.699 --> 01:04:32.480
say, similar level, like, Ghost in the Shell,

01:04:32.539 --> 01:04:34.840
Akira, they're, like, classic anime movies that

01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:37.360
I would recommend to anybody. But, like, when

01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:38.360
they announced the live -action Ghost in the

01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:40.400
Shell, that's, like, ugh, rough. But Taika Waititi's

01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:42.659
so talented, like... I love Taika. Thor Ragnarok

01:04:42.659 --> 01:04:45.360
was fucking sick. And if he can bring his, like,

01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:47.820
style... What they do in the shadows is fantastic.

01:04:48.199 --> 01:04:52.159
Right. So funny. If he can bring any of his personality

01:04:52.159 --> 01:04:56.019
into a story like Akira, I'm at least interested.

01:04:56.480 --> 01:05:00.139
Absolutely. So two more years. There we go. Very

01:05:00.139 --> 01:05:02.320
excited for that. Excited, dreading, anything?

01:05:02.940 --> 01:05:04.699
Toy Story 4. It's coming out in a few weeks.

01:05:04.820 --> 01:05:08.239
I am both excited and dreading it. June 21st.

01:05:08.460 --> 01:05:12.000
Yeah, I will see it. And I'm excited to see it.

01:05:12.059 --> 01:05:14.699
But also, dude, they could have just left it

01:05:14.699 --> 01:05:17.460
at Toy Story 3. I would have been happy. That's

01:05:17.460 --> 01:05:23.559
fair. Money? Money, yeah. I'm hoping that it's,

01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:26.260
I mean, whatever. You can't take away anything

01:05:26.260 --> 01:05:28.679
from that original trilogy, but I have a lot

01:05:28.679 --> 01:05:31.000
attached to those characters at this point. And

01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:33.420
yeah, I'll be interested to see how the fourth

01:05:33.420 --> 01:05:36.659
one does after the Toy Story 3 ended it in such

01:05:36.659 --> 01:05:40.079
a tight little bow. I thought it was such a perfect

01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:42.539
ending. Yeah. Especially how they tie Andy in

01:05:42.539 --> 01:05:45.280
and all that, and him letting go of the toys

01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:48.579
was a spoiler. him letting go of the toys as

01:05:48.579 --> 01:05:51.539
us letting go of those stories. That was a great

01:05:51.539 --> 01:05:53.219
way of growing up. I was on board with that.

01:05:53.320 --> 01:05:56.239
That was the perfect timing for us specifically

01:05:56.239 --> 01:06:01.019
because we were all starting our steps in adulthood

01:06:01.019 --> 01:06:03.460
at that point. I'm getting the opposite way.

01:06:03.539 --> 01:06:05.920
I'm getting pissed off at the fact that they

01:06:05.920 --> 01:06:10.039
are selling in toy stores a Spork. Right, the

01:06:10.039 --> 01:06:13.519
toy Spork. Sporky is like a main toy. They're

01:06:13.519 --> 01:06:17.170
selling plastic toys of Sporky. Yes. That is

01:06:17.170 --> 01:06:19.130
so genius. That's funny. And, like, they're selling

01:06:19.130 --> 01:06:21.389
you a fucking Spork, and I'm getting pissed off.

01:06:21.389 --> 01:06:23.389
So, in all the teasers, they showed, like, the

01:06:23.389 --> 01:06:25.570
main thing is that, like... She made a toy. Yeah,

01:06:25.570 --> 01:06:28.110
she made a toy out of a Spork. Like, it's just

01:06:28.110 --> 01:06:30.969
a regular Spork with, like, pipe cleaners and

01:06:30.969 --> 01:06:33.289
googly eyes, and that's a toy. You know, like,

01:06:33.289 --> 01:06:34.530
that I sent you. It's called Sporky. You can

01:06:34.530 --> 01:06:36.690
just buy your own Spork and pipe cleaners and

01:06:36.690 --> 01:06:38.849
make it for $30. Don't tell kids that. Don't

01:06:38.849 --> 01:06:40.989
tell kids that. Because you can buy it for $19

01:06:40.989 --> 01:06:42.809
.99 on the Disney Store. Or they can try it on

01:06:42.809 --> 01:06:45.789
their iPad. You're cheap. Really? Oh, yeah. 30

01:06:45.789 --> 01:06:48.510
bucks. I think it's like 30 bucks. That's Mickey

01:06:48.510 --> 01:06:50.349
Mouse coming down from the mountains. Yeah, dude.

01:06:50.469 --> 01:06:54.989
Make me some products. It's a fucking spook.

01:06:57.030 --> 01:06:59.469
It's literally the joke that Apple could have

01:06:59.469 --> 01:07:01.550
a pile of shit and put their logo on it. Oh,

01:07:01.550 --> 01:07:05.530
yeah. Like their stand that's $999. Exactly.

01:07:05.690 --> 01:07:07.539
Topical. It's still down here. Come here for

01:07:07.539 --> 01:07:09.719
the tech hot takes, guys. Yeah, come here for

01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:13.300
all the hot takes. So I will jump in then, I

01:07:13.300 --> 01:07:16.460
guess, after Toy Story 4. I'm excited for this

01:07:16.460 --> 01:07:19.199
movie. Early reviews and the trailer just came

01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:22.539
out, and it's not good. It's like 5 out of 10.

01:07:22.980 --> 01:07:26.099
But I am still excited for The Dead Don't Die,

01:07:26.260 --> 01:07:29.480
a zombie movie. Oh, Adam Driver's in it. Adam

01:07:29.480 --> 01:07:32.079
Driver, Bill Murray, Danny Glover. Yeah, it's

01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:35.139
got a good cast. It's got a great cast. Could

01:07:35.139 --> 01:07:37.039
still be terrible. I am so in on that. But it

01:07:37.039 --> 01:07:39.280
could be a good kind of terrible. I know. Selena

01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:42.219
Gomez is in this movie. What the hell? People

01:07:42.219 --> 01:07:46.110
want to put in this movie. Yeah, exactly. Mitchell's

01:07:46.110 --> 01:07:49.090
in. Mitchell's in. No, but it's just, it's one

01:07:49.090 --> 01:07:51.090
of those movies, like, the last zombie movie

01:07:51.090 --> 01:07:53.250
we saw with Bill Murray was Zombieland, and it's

01:07:53.250 --> 01:07:55.210
fucking awesome. Is Zombieland 2 still happening?

01:07:55.289 --> 01:07:57.090
Zombieland 2 is still happening, and Bill Murray

01:07:57.090 --> 01:07:59.449
is in Zombieland 2. Get excited. Bill Murray.

01:07:59.449 --> 01:08:02.929
As a real zombie now. Probably, yes. Yeah, that's

01:08:02.929 --> 01:08:09.789
funny. Spoilers. You shot me. So this could be,

01:08:09.869 --> 01:08:11.329
like, a good kind of terrible movie, though.

01:08:11.429 --> 01:08:14.800
Like, it's, so I saw a trailer. the first time

01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:17.640
today and i have seen it three times and every

01:08:17.640 --> 01:08:19.600
time it has continued to make me laugh because

01:08:19.600 --> 01:08:23.640
it's very deadpan humor um so they are the sheriff

01:08:23.640 --> 01:08:27.439
and deputy of a small town uh they are very like

01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:30.140
oh don't see that every day like when they see

01:08:30.140 --> 01:08:33.140
zombies you know so it's very like it almost

01:08:33.140 --> 01:08:37.130
feels Besides the aspect of it, it feels like

01:08:37.130 --> 01:08:39.250
a Wes Anderson movie where it's just kind of

01:08:39.250 --> 01:08:41.710
like wacky things are happening and the characters

01:08:41.710 --> 01:08:44.810
are just like, oh yeah, that hasn't happened

01:08:44.810 --> 01:08:47.710
in a long time. We live in this world. We understand.

01:08:47.890 --> 01:08:50.750
Exactly. And so I'm excited for it. I'm ready

01:08:50.750 --> 01:08:53.270
for it. It comes out in two weeks. Okay. And

01:08:53.270 --> 01:08:56.149
so I want, or it actually comes out next week.

01:08:56.229 --> 01:08:58.869
Oh, wow. Because I forgot. Surprise. June 14th.

01:08:59.430 --> 01:09:02.689
Surprise. Surprise. Yeah, so I'm excited for

01:09:02.689 --> 01:09:05.510
it. I'm ready to go. What's it called again?

01:09:05.850 --> 01:09:08.810
The Dead Don't Die. The Dead Don't Die. It's

01:09:08.810 --> 01:09:11.130
straight to the point. Yeah, June 14th. It's

01:09:11.130 --> 01:09:13.369
definitely a zombie movie. If you guys are interested,

01:09:13.689 --> 01:09:16.630
I am definitely going to see it. You guys are

01:09:16.630 --> 01:09:18.409
more than welcome to join me. I'll be back next

01:09:18.409 --> 01:09:21.250
Friday. Sure. I'll watch a dumb zombie movie.

01:09:21.350 --> 01:09:23.529
Yeah. Whatever. It's going to be a goofy zombie

01:09:23.529 --> 01:09:25.569
movie. Weirdly enough, it's been a while since

01:09:25.569 --> 01:09:26.970
those have happened. Remember when, like, there

01:09:26.970 --> 01:09:28.409
was a zombie movie coming out, like, every, like,

01:09:28.409 --> 01:09:30.029
month or so? Yeah, some of those took them so

01:09:30.029 --> 01:09:33.529
serious, though. Yeah. World War Z was, like,

01:09:33.529 --> 01:09:34.750
the peak of that, right? It's going to happen.

01:09:35.090 --> 01:09:37.829
I still suggest Warm Bodies got screwed over.

01:09:38.369 --> 01:09:41.489
Warm Bodies? Warm Bodies. Who was that in that?

01:09:41.590 --> 01:09:44.170
Who was that? Oh, I don't remember who that is.

01:09:44.170 --> 01:09:47.569
Wasn't that? It was, like, a smaller, like, smaller

01:09:47.569 --> 01:09:49.369
talent. No, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely.

01:09:49.449 --> 01:09:50.930
But, like, I remember there was, like, some guy

01:09:50.930 --> 01:09:53.560
that was. Nick Holt? Yeah, Nicole. That was it.

01:09:54.199 --> 01:09:56.319
Was he the zombie in it? Yeah, he was the zombie.

01:09:56.779 --> 01:09:59.460
No, no, no. He was the zombie. The girl's human,

01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:02.380
and it's like a romance. It's a rom -com. Yeah,

01:10:02.380 --> 01:10:05.300
it's like a rom -com. I forget her name. I'm

01:10:05.300 --> 01:10:07.380
not looking it up right now. I only have seen

01:10:07.380 --> 01:10:09.319
this movie, but it was pretty good. I'm done.

01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:14.859
I'm done. Got it. Boom. It was one of those things

01:10:14.859 --> 01:10:16.720
where that one got screwed over. I love that

01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:19.039
one. I love zombie movies, so I'm okay with it.

01:10:19.239 --> 01:10:22.590
I'm in. I'm in. All right. You guys have any

01:10:22.590 --> 01:10:24.850
last words as we close this episode? Episode

01:10:24.850 --> 01:10:29.010
9? I hope I don't lose the next challenge. Do

01:10:29.010 --> 01:10:31.050
you have a challenge ready for us? I do. I kind

01:10:31.050 --> 01:10:33.409
of just made it up on the fly. And T -Dog won't

01:10:33.409 --> 01:10:35.109
be able to participate unless Allison is going

01:10:35.109 --> 01:10:37.470
to be our... Allison can stand in for T -Dog.

01:10:37.489 --> 01:10:39.949
Because she is T -Dog. Your T -Dog, that's right.

01:10:40.109 --> 01:10:43.590
That's true, yeah. T -Dog's avatar. So, for myself,

01:10:43.770 --> 01:10:48.280
Mike. Allison. Comrade Andre. Mitchell. Comrade

01:10:48.280 --> 01:10:50.640
Andre. Thank you for listening to Game for a

01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:53.020
Movie. Please subscribe, comment, that kind of

01:10:53.020 --> 01:10:55.039
stuff. Add us on Facebook. We'll see you next

01:10:55.039 --> 01:10:57.520
time on Game for a Movie. Bye. Hydra.