In a world with terrible movies, four friends
compete against each other to watch the worst
of the worst. After seeing the movies, they come
together and review them for your pleasure. Who
saw the worst movie? What did they think of it?
Was it really that bad? Challenges are different
every week, but Andre, Mike, Mitchell, and T
-Dog have to have their wits about them. No one
wants to see a bad movie, so to be forced to
is the worst thing imaginable. Can they stay
off the loser board and not have to see a bad
movie? Their time to lose this week. The answer
to these questions and more on Game for a Movie.
Welcome to the second episode of Game for a Movie,
the competition game slash podcast where four
friends compete to see bad movies. Oh yeah. I
am your host, Mike. I am joined by... Mitchell.
Andre. Come on, man. You gotta say it louder.
T -Dog. No. Your favorite ASMR host. Oh, no.
Oh, God. No, it's all right. Let's keep going.
Okay. His name is T -Dog. He has a very T -Dog
name, but a very NPR voice. Yes. We've come to
this consideration. It's all things considered.
Yeah, did we consider that? We each, in the past
two weeks, have seen a movie. One of us lost
a competition, which you can see on our YouTube
page and our Wix page, guys. We have a Wix page.
Dude, Wix it real good. As well as we are now
on iTunes. Hell yeah. That is official. Let's
go. Way to go, Mike. Get that explicit rating.
We did get that explicit rating. Yeah, we don't
need to do a disclaimer. Are we rolling into
it? We'll go disclaimer first. Spoilers ahead.
Second disclaimer. Fuck this. Oh, fucking Andre.
So I guess we're going to continue getting our
explicit rating. Sweet. Rated E for everyone.
That's what I'm going to tell my friends. Yeah,
that's that big old E right there. Big red E
on it. Yes. It's for everyone, guys. Come on.
All right. So we are going to jump in. I'm going
to start this week, and we're going to go to
our loser. How selfish. Yeah, you're welcome.
I'm very selfish. You know why? Because I'm the
favorite. Speaking of the favorite, I saw the
favorite. Did you just? Oh! That's really good.
I'm the master of transitions. Don't you guys
know this? Yeah, we didn't rehearse that. That
was off the cuff. I didn't even know what movie
you watched, and then I remembered you guys talking
about favorites. See, T -Dog is up to speed.
I'm catching up. So I saw the favorite. I will
preface this by saying I really dislike period
pieces. I really do. Okay. My fiance wanted to
see it, and as you know, guys, keep the lady
happy. Yeah, absolutely. So we went and saw it.
I will start with her rating first, just so everybody
knows. She gave it a 3 .5 out of 5. Oh, okay.
So she enjoyed it. Yeah, yeah. She thoroughly
thought it was good. It was entertained. Laughed
a bunch, like I laugh too. I'm a huge fan of
hers. Yeah, I'm a huge fan. She knows her shit.
I'm going to preface it that way, saying that
I don't like period pieces. Great. It was extremely
well written, extremely well directed, and extremely
well acted. Wow, you are doing a lot of asterisks
here. But I fucking hated it. This is my review
of Roma, by the way. One of the things I loved,
I loved the cast. Sorry. Go ahead. We've got
Rachel Weisz. We've got Olivia Colman. We've
got Emma Stone. It's a trio of just amazing actresses
that all needed this screen time. And I love
the way they divvied it up. Everybody did a great
job coming into the movie. And as well as the
director. There was these shots that were done
with a fisheye lens that were really cool and
really well done. And it was one of those things
that I remember as I'm watching it going, this
is awesome. This is really well done. So now
to get to my rating. Because here's where everybody's
going to start to make fun of me. I give it 2
out of 5 pigeon shot. Oh, that's not bad. Oh,
yeah. What? Well, I've seen the movie, so I get
that. Yeah. I get the rating. So it's not like
I'm shading on it, giving it a one. It's just
all the period piece took it away from it. This
was such a good movie that it brought it back
to a two. Because I automatically start at zero.
Oh, wow. So you would say that as far as period
pieces go, this is one of your more liked ones.
Yes. Okay. Like I said, extremely well written,
extremely well directed, and extremely well acted.
As well as I love the little nods. Like there's
this ballroom scene where they start doing like
these very modern dances and it feels kind of
like it's making fun of the period almost. Yes.
And so it's very aware of what it is. Plus some
of the dialogue is just so witty and just so
off the cuff that it's hard not to like this
movie even though... It is a period piece. Right,
so you're just biased against the genre. Yes.
Gotcha. So you're just way off the target audience,
basically. Pretty much, yeah. And to be honest,
that's like half of movie watching, especially
with genre pieces, because it's so damn specific.
Oh, yeah. So if you're not in on it from the
beginning. And I went in knowing I'm probably
not going to like this the same as Claire. Yeah.
And it's fine. I understand I wanted to see it
because she wanted to see it, and we had a great
night. That being said, I didn't enjoy it as
much as she did either. But two isn't that. Okay,
so when we were messaging on GroupMe, there was
like... I thought you were going to give it a
half. I was ready for a half, yeah. Slight nod
to GroupMe. We would be happy to sponsor you.
Man. Give us free access to your application.
Don't say it out loud. We need leverage. Sorry.
Sorry, this app that's free in the app store.
As someone who saw and is a big fan of the eight...
movies that are nominated for best picture it's
my favorite of the eight it is the favorite it
is the favorite no pun intended no totally okay
sure i got you not my favorite of the year in
general but my favorite of the year did not make
best picture but i thought the favorite in terms
of what i've seen from and i'm going to read
this director's name he's greek yorgos lanthimos
okay i left him out because i wasn't going to
try yeah it's rough and i probably just butchered
it So he had directed, for those who have seen
his work before, Killing of a Sacred Deer and
The Lobster. This is the first movie, at least
on a wide release scale, that he directed but
did not write. So the witty dialogue and stuff,
you can't entirely credit to him. But I will
say this, that type of dialogue was not present
in his previous two movies. Interesting. But
the aesthetic of... You know, the favorite in
terms of the feel, the tone of the characters,
very much so in The Lobster and Killing of a
Sacred Deer in different ways. So it's interesting
because those are two movies that I've had on
my list before that I wanted to see. Now knowing
that it's also his movies, I'm like, oh, I even
more so want to see it because this movie was
so well done. It felt like a passion piece because
it felt like everybody put in their all. And
not that other movies don't, but... Comparing
it to the Humanity Bureau, where Nick Cage is
getting a paycheck. Yeah. You know, this was
very much so. It felt like, oh, I want to do
this because of this movie, because of this script
or whatever. There's a lot of passion, you can
tell in the project. Exactly. And it's Fox Searchlight,
so it's independent and all that, which is great.
And I will say this. Emma Stone, I have a huge
bias towards. I think she is... Same. Yeah, she
is gorgeous, obviously, a talented actress, and,
you know, a chameleon. I mean, she has done so
many different roles. but you can tell it's Emma
Stone every single time. She puts a piece of
herself in each of these roles. It couldn't be
anybody else. It couldn't be anyone else. I think
it's really her sense of timing, her comedic
timing. It shines in this movie. I think Olivia
Colman, rightfully so, is the one who's getting
all the spotlight in terms of combinations and
stuff. I loved Olivia Colman in this movie. Absolutely.
I'm so glad I know her from other things too
because have you seen Broadchurch, anybody? So
Broadchurch is a British TV show. Very dramatic,
very like... over -the -top dramatic, but it's
a fantastic show. She is the lead alongside David
Tennant, which goes to show you the acting chops
there that I'm talking about her as well. On
that, she is absolutely fantastic. I loved her
in Broadchurch. I loved her in The Favorite.
And it's another thing going to the timing, the
wittiness. They're all so good at comedic timing
and nailing those little moments. Because even
there's moments where they focus on, like faces
and stuff like that you can tell they're thinking
they're going they're not just okay I'm just
standing here because I was told not to say a
line you know it's very much so oh well as the
queen I'm thinking ha ha ha I own you because
you're my person you know right there's there's
a lot of non -verbal dialogue basically exactly
and she has in my opinion the best role like
she had the most to sink her teeth into because
this is such a batshit portrayal of queen anne
oh yeah it's over the top and just to briefly
go over the plot of the movie so queen anne famously
and this is loosely based off historical fact
very loosely very loosely but uh queen anne did
not bear an heir So this was a movie about her
and alleged love affairs with two of her female
servants, I guess you can call them. I don't
know what the right term is. They're ladies -in
-waiting. Ladies -in -waiting. Yeah, which is
their term. But basically... They still service
the queen. Glorified indentured servants. There's
a lot of other things going on in there, but
ultimately being the favorite is what earns you
the right to live in the upper crust of this
castle. Emma Stone is trying to get back to her
ladyship because she is no longer a lady. So
she worked as a servant first and then is trying
to become a lady. She literally walks into the
castle with mud on her dress. That's how low
of a character she starts out as. But, um, yeah,
it was really, really well done. Um, two out
of five pigeon shot is what I would say. Cause
there's a lot of like pigeon shooting and there's
also a lot of sex. Absolutely. There's a ton
of sex. Yeah. That is another thing. Like I'm
not. Oh, sex. Yay. Like, that kind of stuff.
It was just... Yay. Yeah, it's caveman. That
was you in the theater. It's a caveman. It's
a caveman, okay? Pornhub .com. Yay. I didn't
even know the website. Okay, Michael. But it
was just one of those things that caught me off
guard because, like, I was not expecting it in
this kind of movie and all of a sudden... Oh.
There's a breast, okay. That's not expected.
All right, fine. That's also what you say when
you go to Pornhub. You're like, oh no, what is
this? What type of hub is this? So I do not know
the website, but I have heard there is a guy
that does wholesome porn videos on there. Oh,
that's become a meme. Like, yeah. Like, some
porn videos? Yes, like, encouraging you while
you find the correct video on Pornhub. Like,
that's his video. Right. Nice. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
I'm going to probably cut this whole thing because
my parents are probably going to listen. Okay.
And I don't think they should know that I...
That you like dick. Right. That's not it. So
you make sure that you cut this part. So you
make sure that this is not making the broadcast.
That's the only part that actually made it. Great.
So there was a lot of unexpected sex. And now
we're going to wrap this conversation up and
go to Mitchell. Mitchell, what did you see? Oh,
the favorite. The period piece on acid. I loved
it. But I will say the movie. Okay, so I see
a ton of movies, which you guys know. I'm going
to tend to pick to the movie that gave me the
strongest reaction when I saw it since our last
podcast. And that movie was actually the one
I saw last night called They Shall Not Grow Old,
which I mentioned on our last podcast about one
that I was looking forward to. So now what was
great about it was at the time of our last pod,
I had no idea that A, it was going to come out
in Connecticut because it was limited release.
This is a technically foreign film directed by
Peter Jackson, which is a World War I documentary.
okay so it was initially released one day only
in december it eventually got two more days at
the end of that month and amc and i think a couple
other bigger chains picked it up for february
which is amazing so it's playing now in connecticut
and i got to see it and guys it did live up to
the expectations that i had for it so yeah so
i'm curious what makes it a foreign movie just
because it's peter jackson or is it a because
i i remember you saying it's world war one and
everything like that. Does it follow a different
army? Because the first thing I thought was like
USA, that kind of stuff. Right. No, so it specifically
follows British shoulders going out to the Western
Front. So Peter Jackson did this in conjunction
with an archive group that has all this World
War I footage. And they actually approached him
in 2014. And they said, hey, do you have an idea
of how we can make this into a documentary? All
we ask is that... you use our footage so given
that task he mulled about it for like six months
and came back to them with a presentation of
like hey not only are we going to put this out
we're going to clean up the footage you know
it's going to look pristine and the beautiful
thing about film it carries so much information
even in those old celluloid days where with modern
technology you could draw out the best image
possible with the right tools so he was able
to do that and they did one better and colorized
a lot of it and i saw it in real d 3d This is
in 3D? I kid you not, dude. Wow. It is incredible
how they treat the 3D dimensions with the presentation
of this movie. They really go out of their way
to get a foreground and a background. And the
most beautiful part about this movie, and ultimately
it's the point, it's a movie without a real plot.
It's about basically putting you in those boots,
in those trenches. in no man's land, in the Western
Front. And it humanizes these soldiers who are
19, 20 years old in a very vivid way that otherwise
we would not have based on the archival footage
if they were just presented as normal. They Should
Not Grow Old starts off like this. They present
the footage for like the first 10 to 15 minutes
as black and white. You get the 3D effect, but
it's black and white. It's cleaned up and whatever.
And it's presented as a box, as a one by one
box on a bigger screen. And once the boys that
you're introduced to, they go into war. the screen
goes wide, and you're in color. Oh, cool. And
it's almost like Wizard of Oz. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Almost like that moment when she goes to Oz.
So you vividly see all these guys live their
life, and there isn't a ton of footage of them
actually firing, going into battle. A lot of
that was still photography back then because
a lot of the people who were filming, they were
mainly miles behind enemy lines or, you know.
away from the front lines i should say and they
were capturing the moments when these guys were
days away from battle just bored just kind of
shooting the shit and those are some of the best
moments because when i was watching that movie
i saw a lot of us just hanging out just being
dudes just like trying to pass the time right
and the whole thing about the movie was um these
are young men and yeah crazy like 19 you kidding
me i couldn't even imagine absolutely and frankly
no one in that shot um you know in any of the
shots that you saw in the movie understood what
the hell they were in right you know the gravity
of the situation there had never been a world
war before So it's really interesting how they
portray the mindset of these kids going into
war. You see all these shots of them smiling
and waving at the cameras because, you know,
filming was in its infancy. Right. Anytime you
saw a camera, you're just going to smile. Yeah,
right. Like, oh, what a cool novelty. Exactly.
And it's funny, a hundred years later, we're
seeing like an audience, two, three generations
on the line, seeing these guys in. living color
anyway so you see these guys smiling and peter
jackson does a terrific job of this juxtaposing
that to the still photography of corpses of these
kids eventually die and it really drives in the
point of the casualties of war right um and it's
anyway a very harrowing experience i will say
this i liked it overall we're in the this boom
of documentary filmmaking and i'm so excited
to see a movie like this that push the boundaries
of technological filmmaking especially in the
documentary form um it did drag a little bit
i mean it's not all exciting it's there's no
real plot so it's like there's no narrative really
to follow besides the greater war itself really
exactly and it shouldn't take away from the movie
overall because i think it's you know it still
has a purpose it's just it's important yeah i
think it's important yeah it sounds really cool
and i like It's kind of unfortunate this is such
a limited release because I had no idea this
was in 3D. Are you kidding me? Oh, yeah. I can't
watch it in 3D at home. No. So it's presented
in a normal view as well. So it's just normal
2D. But I was able to see it in 3D, which is
great. And typically I don't say that. Only you
have to twist my arm for me to go to a 3D movie.
But the sound design was excellent. You can say
all you want about Peter Jackson. He's going
to go down as one of those filmmakers similar
to George Lucas. where they're going to be remembered
for the technological breakthroughs that they
introduced to filmmaking. What he did with Lord
of the Rings and what he's doing now in documentaries,
which I never thought I would say, it's special,
man. So it's a fantastic movie, very relatable,
especially if you're a young man, I'll say that.
Because this is specifically focused on male
soldiers. They could have gone in so many different
directions than doing World War I. And this is
the direction they chose to keep within an hour
and a half. And then a bonus thing, at the end
of the movie, they had like a 20 -minute, after
the credits rolled, a 20 -minute thing of Peter
Jackson explaining and showing you how they achieved
all the technological stuff they did. So from
coloring, from the sound design, they hired actors.
They did so much research on this film. All the
guys that were on... screen that they had dubbed
over they tried to find from what area of england
they were and hire actors with that accent oh
wow that's cool it's incredible really yeah this
is a project like i said he was approached in
2014 and we're seeing it today yeah so this is
a passion project i really hope peter jackson
or whoever invests more into this stuff explores
the other stories of world war one or maybe the
world war ii um and that would be i would love
to see that again so they shall not grow old
i'm giving it um four i don't know what i i'm
gonna be serious i'm just gonna give it four
out of five stars yeah um just because of what
kind of movie it is four out of five helmets
or something yeah helmets yeah okay yeah sure
yeah it's it's keep your helmet on yeah yeah
trench warfare is shitty yeah Yeah, sorry for
kind of bringing down the pod. No, no, no. I
wouldn't see you write that at all. And I actually
think, I mean, it is an important movie. Yeah,
we joke around. We have a good time and stuff
like that. We see terrible movies and stuff.
But there's sometimes that we see these great
movies that we feel like we have a purpose to
share with the audience. I think this is a very
important movie. And it couldn't have come at
a better week because... Remember who's presenting
after with their movies. I mean, I feel like
the two wars are probably equatable. Oh, my God.
Wow, T -Dog with the hot take. Fuego. I don't
know about that one. Andre, you saw a movie along
with me and Mike. Oh, Jesus Christ. Share us
that. Oh, you've got to crack open a beer for
this. Oh, that didn't. That's audio. Whatever.
Yeah, there you go. Woof. Yeah, so cracking open
a cold one for this one. After the, yeah. So
I saw Dragon Ball Super Broly, and I twisted
my two good friends' arms into watching it with
me. I don't know if we were really twisted. No,
I wanted to go. Yeah, okay, yeah. We went, and
we wanted to go. We all grew up with Dragon Ball.
Right, yes. And I was hearing a lot of buzz about
this movie. I just want to point out, wait, Mitchell
just opened a beer, too. This is how this discussion
is going. Yeah, right. No, I need a drink. If
you're at home, please open a beer. Open a beer.
Open a beer. If you're old enough. I feel like
I'll try to get the window dressing brief. So
the three of us went to see it. We watched Dragon
Ball, right? We watched it when we were kids.
Um, I have stuck with Dragon Ball in terms of,
like, games and stuff. It's been just the general,
like, you know, like, nerd anime zeitgeist for
forever, so I feel like I'm seeing Dragon Ball
media all the time. I've not watched a single
second of Super. That's, like, the new show that's
going on right now, and this Broly's technically
followed up to that. Yeah. So, you know, we saw
some powers in there we'd never seen before.
They turned blue. Yeah. Their hair turned blue,
and it freaked me out. Yeah. It was strange.
It was weird. Back in my day, Super Saiyans had
gold hair, not this blue shit. Um, So, yeah,
that was a fucking Dragon Ball movie if I ever
saw one. It was so Dragon Ball. Yeah. I'm just
saying, dude, I would love to have been the voice
actor for Broly. You would have passed out. Like,
you would have straight up passed out. It doesn't
need to be in one session. It's probably multiple,
yeah. I know the only line he said besides his
monologue. He had one monologue that was probably
two paragraphs long. And then the rest of the
time was just... It was, okay. So, basically,
as a quick, like, summary for what this movie
is, basically. So, it's, it's, like, the villain
of this movie is Broly, the legendary super saiyan.
He's, like, he's been in Dragon Ball before,
like, in, like, offshoot movies. Yeah, he's very
swole. He's very burly. He yells a lot. I hate
Mike. Put that on record. Oh, goodness. What
a pun. I mean, basically. I think his name summarizes
it. Yeah, right. And, like, you know, people,
like, I don't know. There's, like, a ton of fan
art, and, like, he's, like, a fan favorite character.
of knew why because he's just super strong and
there's no he has no personality you saw it yeah
there was no personality at all um he was enjoying
he was likable that girl took an interest oh
my god none of that made sense no it did not
um so anyway so so what people were telling me
about this movie was like oh yeah like this is
a good movie because it actually gives broly
some depth and i'm like what You kidding me?
Like, there's no depth at all. Like, whatever.
Basically, this movie, the pacing is all over
the place. So, the first, like, 45 -ish minutes,
you would say? Oh, yeah. That was, like, it goes
all, it's just all about, all on Planet Vegeta,
which is basically just, like, Goku's, well,
Goku, Vegeta, and Broly's backstory, which is
basically Superman's backstory, you know? They're
all, yeah, from Krypton slash planet Vegeta.
They're all on planet Vegeta. Frieza blows it
up. Broly gets sent to a random planet. Vegeta's
off -world and Goku gets sent to Earth and all
of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z happens while
Broly is by himself. With his dad. With his dad.
With his dad. With his really fucked up dad who
basically enslaves him. Yeah, this movie definitely
told me that parents suck in the Dragon Ball
universe. Oh, absolutely. Dude, Goku fucking
sucks as a dad. Right? good parent in Dragon
Ball. I'll say that. They're all too self -interested.
Except Piccolo. Piccolo's the one good dad. Piccolo's
great. He did start off as a bad guy, though.
Yeah, that's true. Is Piccolo the green guy?
Yeah, he's the green guy. T -Dog's in. I watched
a few episodes when I was a kid. We didn't have
it. I don't think the... whatever cable network
it was on originally. I didn't originally get
it. It was on Toonami, I feel like, when I saw
it. Yeah, Cartoon Network, Cartoon Network. Yeah,
but I thought, was there something before? There
may have been. There may have been. I think it
preceded Toonami. So there was another channel.
I thought it was on WB, yeah. But not even WB,
it was like something before WB. Yeah, I don't
know. Long story short, I think the only time
I saw it was a few episodes when we were on vacation,
so, you know, I was able to tune into the...
Dragon Ball Z universe. I see. It was afternoon
special for me. Yeah, hell yeah. It was on Toonami
for me. Late at night, though. So, 45 minutes
of this exposition, and there's no fighting,
which is fine, whatever, but the exposition's
not super interesting, wasn't super engaged.
And then, so, like, it's basically setting up
all this backstory, and then they just kind of
drive forward this excuse for everybody to be
back on Earth chasing the Dragon Balls. Yeah.
Why? Why is Frieza going after the Dragon Balls?
So Frieza is back, which happened in Super somehow.
I don't know how. I'm sorry. I want to jump before
we talk about why Frieza is interested in the
Dragon Balls. Yeah. How did all of the Dragon
Balls get found? What do you mean? So they had
six of them. There's six of them already. Yeah,
six of them already. Because Vegeta's wife just
decided, I'm going to grab them. That's right,
right. Yeah, no, she wants to grab them. Well,
Bulma has a tracker. Yeah, they've had a Dragon
Raider which has been established for a while.
If you don't know, you gather seven Dragon Balls
together, grants you a wish, happens once a year,
once you grant the wish, they scatter around
the world, and blah, blah, blah. The characters
have done this so many times that it's so casual
to them. So I like the fact that Bulma's like,
yeah, I'm going to go and find the Dragon Balls
so I can get a Mystic Botox, basically, right?
Like, I can make myself look five years younger.
Because ten years would be... too suspicious
everybody would ask you look 10 years younger
oh no no no not me yeah right which i thought
was like fine like whatever like these can't
be characters yeah like it's so trivialized and
i laughed when balma said that yeah but then
what was frieza so then frieza is like you know
in his ship like like we gotta go find the final
dragon ball with his arms like and behind his
back this villainous pose and he has this big
monologue where he basically explains, like,
no, I don't want immortality. I want to grow
five centimeters taller because ten centimeters
would be too suspicious. T -Dog, your face just
lit up with laughter. I just, I like what they're
doing with this. I feel like they're having fun.
Yes, no, they're definitely, like, so another
thing we should know about this is that Akira
Toriyama is actually writing this. The guy who
originally made Dragon Ball, he doesn't write
super. He's, like, I think he, like, is a producer
on it or some sort of like executive thing, but
he doesn't write or like, but he signed off on
this. Yeah, no, he wrote, he wrote, he wrote,
he wrote, so that was part of the big deal. Yeah.
He wrote the screenplay. Yeah. Just a little
judgment. Yeah. So, um, yeah. Uh, so we already
know the stakes are super high. Growing five
centimeters or looking five years younger. Oh
God. And so basically it's Vegeta and Goku and
Bulma in their little ship trying to find the
last Dragon Ball in the Arctic. Then Frieza really
shows up and then pretty much is like, all right,
well, we're just going to fight for 45 fucking
minutes of nonstop fighting. That's not hyperbole.
That's not. It was like 45 minutes. Yes. I think
you might be light. Possibly. You're right. No,
it's probably more closer to an hour, really.
Yeah. Which, hey, you know. Watch a dragon movie.
I'm down for some fighting. I want some fighting.
In fact, that was one of my complaints. I was
like, dude, where's the fighting? I want a Bardock.
They showed Goku's dad Bardock for a little bit.
I want to see a badass moment for Bardock. That's
cool. I want to see him punch Frieza, maybe.
I don't know. Whatever. I'm on board with that.
Maybe cut down the Broly fight, throw some Bardock
in there, maybe make it a little more even. Oh,
you mean balance the movie? Yeah, right, yeah.
Oh, please. Balancing the movie sounds a little
too hard for them. So, you know, hey, for the
next hour, it's pretty much just... Goku and
Vegeta trading off, fighting Broly. And the biggest
problem with this movie is that Broly has no
dialogue. He just screams the whole time. Which
is like, it might sound like, oh, well, you expect
that in a Dragon Ball movie. You know, there's
always a lot of yelling in Dragon Ball. Like,
dudes, I went back and watched some hype moments
from the original show. Like, you know, the Frieza
fight, the Cell fight. Those guys, they have
monologues. They're cheesy and corny as fuck,
but they engage you. You know what I mean? They're
very entertaining. They're entertaining, and
you're like, yeah. Like, I want to see these
two fight, where it's like Goku and Broly, like,
it's just like, okay, like, I'm just watching
these fireworks happen, you know? That's all
it is. And here's my deal with the Broly thing.
So he keeps, during the fight, he initially goes
after Vegeta, then he goes to Goku, then they
fuse or whatever. I don't know what it's called.
Anyway, fusion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fusion, whatever,
tight. So there's a point where they point out
he's learning, like, while he's fighting. He's
learning as he fights. And he's always matching
Vegeta and Goku. Yes. And then... His one weakness
shown throughout the entire movie is this dumbass
shock collar that his dad puts on. It's literally
a shock collar. A shock collar, yeah. Like, I
could not believe it. Like, wait, so he's kicking
Vegeta's ass? Like, who's on, like, his final
level, by the way. Yeah, right, right. Who is,
like, destroyer of worlds, basically. Destroyer
of worlds. And a shock collar is the thing that
takes this dude down. It's a super shock collar,
bro. It's a super, it's a Saiyan shock collar.
Bro. Bro. Bro. Bro. Bro Lee. Bro Lee. And then
Frieza offs the dad in, like, such a nod. Oh,
yeah. That was actually legit. I love that moment.
I laughed. Oh, I thought it was so funny. I couldn't
believe he did it. Yeah, like, he just finger
guns the guy, and then he's just like, oh, no,
like, Bro Lee, a stray energy beam killed your
father. For the people that have not seen this
movie, so Bro Lee is starting to lose, and, like,
Frieza's just like, I need to get him mad. So
he just finger blasts. Finger beams. Broly's
dad. And kills him. And just like immediate,
just dad falls over. And Frieza just says so
nonchalantly. Oh, go for it. Oh no, Broly, your
dad got struck by a random beam of energy. He's
dead. I love how he doesn't even own it. Like
he doesn't even own the fact that he killed him.
It just kills him. So, of course, that enrages
Broly, and he goes even more powerful. So then
Goku and Vegeta have to take a little siesta,
meaning, like, they just tell him, like... They
peace out. They peace out. Which is fine. I was
happy with them. I was like, okay, Jesus Christ,
we can breathe for a little bit and not watch
people punching for a little bit and get some
levity a little bit, right? Yeah. Like, you know,
and so they try to learn the fusion dance, which
is hilarious because... So, like, Goku's trying
to teach them the fusion dance, and I like that
scene because... Piccolo. Piccolo's, like, getting
fucking pissed off at them because they're...
fucking it up, and then each time they fuck up,
it takes half an hour, and meanwhile Frieza's
just on the other, like, on the Arctic getting
his shit kicked in, basically. Because Broly
can't decide if he's, like, bad or not. Well,
he's so enraged that he doesn't know he's punching,
basically, right? Yeah, blind rage, whatever,
yeah. So it's implied that Frieza just got an
hour and a half's worth of thrashing, which was,
I think, pretty funny. It's actually pretty solid.
Yeah. I'm okay with that. So the big finale is
just, you know, Super Saiyan, they finally fuse,
they turn into Gogeta, they turn Super Saiyan
Blue. Was it Gogeta, or was it... Vegito? That
was Gogeta. It was Gogeta, yes. They actually
explained that in the movie. Did they? Did they
mention that? So they mentioned that was the
other one's Vegito. Vegito, yes. Vegito's the
one with the earrings. Yes, so in the Boo saga,
they fuse with earrings, and that's permanent,
like that's like forever, but then there's some
bullshit where they unfuse, whatever. Dragon
Balls? No, not Dragon Balls, I think it's Boo's
digestive system. I don't want to get into it.
Boo eats them. Yeah, Boo eats them. Yeah, yeah.
What? Yeah. I never saw the Boo saga. Oh, yeah.
Oh, sorry. Spoilers to the Boo saga. I mean,
you know, I knew you were going to watch that.
Dude, the Boo saga is batshit, dude. Yeah, it's
wacky. It's the weirdest one. More than wacky.
It's the weirdest one. I might get back to it
after I finish watching Avatar. Okay. Because
I am watching Avatar. The Last Airbender? Yes.
Oh, an actual good show. Hell yes. Yeah, that's
superior. Yeah, finish. Put that on your priority.
Anyways. Okay. So then Gogeta is the fusion dance
that's permanent. Oh, that's only 30 minutes
long. So that's, you saw Super Saiyan Gogeta.
That was also a bit of fan service because in
Super, I know that Vegeta shows up, and a lot
of people were like, well, where's Gogeta? So
they threw him in this movie, basically. Okay.
And, you know, dude, like, I think... On a visceral
level, like, on, like, a purely visual spectacle
part, I feel like this movie accomplishes what
it wants to do visually, you know? It's easily
the best -looking Dragon Ball, like, movie. Like,
looking at these other, those other, like, looking
at Super especially, like, the actual TV show,
there's, like, way more, like, keyframes in the
animation. The line shading is really strong.
It looks really distinct, and I really liked,
like, some parts of the choreography. Like, there's,
like, a brief moment where you're seeing... I
know. It sounds dumb, but, like, you know, like...
There's a brief moment where you're seeing a
first person view of Broly and Goku's trying
to come up and pummel him. It feels like a video
game. And hey, the little 10 -year -old me, that's
what got my nostalgia excited, basically. Um,
there are random weird parts where they just
switch to 3D animation. I feel like a lot of
anime's been doing this nowadays, and it's always
jarring for me. Like, I don't know if you guys
noticed it, like, when they just transitioned
3D models, and that was, like, the only part
of the visuals that I just did not like. I was
like, why the fuck did you do that? Like, whatever.
It's fine. I don't know. I'm not an expert on
animation, so, like, maybe there's a reason for
it. Whatever. Um... Okay. Yeah. This movie's
dumb as hell. I think we're getting to rating
time. I talked a lot. I'm sorry. It's fine. I'm
going to give it, you know, honestly, two centimeters
out of five. Wow. That's a good scale. You're
going to two. Yeah, I'm going to two. All right,
Mitchell, we saw it. I want your rating as well.
It's half. Half a centimeter out of five. Wait,
how many Dragon Balls out of five? Zero. It's
so bad. Well, okay, here's my deal. Here's my
deal. So they made a movie. Thus, they get half.
Like, that is putting your name on the SAT. Damn.
So, great for them. I will say this. See, I'm
not afraid to give somebody a zero. Yeah. You're
going to give it a zero? Really? No, I feel like
I'm in between you two. I felt that when I left
the movie, I felt that I was in between you two.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, my thing is, look, getting
a movie made is very hard. You sound like you're
giving this person an F and they're like, never
mind, go ahead. No, I'm giving you an F because
you put your name on it. So it's just like, is
he cut? Look, here's the deal. So I went back,
because we saw that the reviews for this movie
were actually pretty good. And I was just like,
what were these reviewers seeing? And then I
realized, okay, so it's not the New York Times
reviewing this movie. No, it's not. These are
all these random blogs. This is Lizard Eater
127. I should have given you that disclaimer.
This is the big flaw of Rotten Tomatoes is that
when you see an 86%, not all 80 % are creative
people in Rotten Tomatoes. No, they're not all
equal. These were fans that reviewed it. The
one positive review that I took away, and I'm
like, okay, I will accept this opinion. is the
LA Times, whoever reviewed it for them, they
said that this is the perfect movie for a Dragon
Ball fan. Yes. And I think you have to be a current
Dragon Ball fan. Yeah, I think you'd be caught
up. And I'm somewhere in this weird in -between
state where it's like, I'm not caught up with
Super, so, but I still, like, I've still, I still,
like, you know, I played the new Dragon Ball
fighting game, so, like, I know that shit, but,
like, it still didn't connect with me on a level
that a lot of my friends did, you know? And I'm
like, mm. I don't know. So there's nothing engaging
about the characters or the plot. No. The action
sequences, I thought, were frankly boring. For
as long as they were, dude, there was nothing
I got out of them. There's no storytelling in
the action sequences, which is what you got during
the Frieza saga. Yes. A lot of back and forth,
a lot of gains and losses. This was just a bad
movie. That was all about fan service, which
is great, but it did not serve me. So half a
whatever out of five. So I told you, I'm sitting
in between you. to? Yeah. 0 .5 to my rating?
Yeah. It's closer to the 0 .5. I gave it a 0
.75. 0 .75? We're going down to, okay. Wow. Yeah.
And the next episode we'll be like, I give this
one a 1 .7325. Well, no, the real thing is I
can't give it 0 .5 because I thought it was better
than that, but I also can't give it a 1 because
I didn't think it was as good as that. So I'm
not saying it's a perfect rating and that we
should change our rating system. I'm just saying
for this particular movie, I can't give it a
one. I feel bad bringing you guys along. That
was, you know. Oh, no. I was having some dumb
fun with it, and that's why I gave it a two.
But I was like, oh, yeah. Dude, I had a great
time. We are not feeling this. I had a great
time more looking over at you guys and being
like, what the fuck? Yeah. It's bewildering.
Yeah. Yes. So, all right. Well, that was that.
Is that the worst movie of the week, though?
That's what I'm wondering, too. We have T -Dog
here, who, if you saw on our YouTube channel
or Wix page, you saw him lose the challenge of
the Super Smash stock battle. What movie did
you see? So, a few weeks ago, it was before it
left theaters, I saw Holmes and Watson, the critically
acclaimed Victorian -age Sherlock tale. Okay,
nice. It is great. It's a period piece. So I
would like to start off saying I feel envious
of Andre last week, or two weeks, however long
we did the last one, because he made me kind
of want to see the movie that he was describing.
There were elements of it where I was like, oh
man. Maybe not actually see it, but where I could
be like, oh, that's a bad enough movie where
it'd be somewhat entertaining. Maybe if you drank
enough. I'm not sure exactly, but I don't see
any. light that you would make this movie entertaining
you know even even if you're like trying to rift
on it um it's it's really hard to find redeeming
qualities uh so essentially it's a pretty basic
Sherlock plot um you know some you have James
Moriarty uh the primary bad guy throughout a
lot of Sherlock. Like every single one. Storytells,
right? He's the main bad. So it starts off, you
know, they're after him. Sherlock isn't able
to, they're not able to, I guess, convict him
ever. He ends up taking off to America. But they
still think that he might actually be there.
It turns out to be his, so Sherlock's like house.
um housekeeper who is actually james moriarty's
daughter you know is doing this plot against
the queen all right you know to assassinate the
queen yeah um and and then you know she even
frames uh watson for a brief you know maybe like
10 to 5 5 to 10 minute span and it all happens
so quick like when you think about the plot line
it's condensed so short um there's really not
much of the plot Basically, the entire movie
is Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. They're just
overacting on this Victorian, you know, they
have the accent, the clothes. It's almost like
somebody really disliked, I guess, the popularity
of Sherlock Tales and just decided to put out
this movie that was, it didn't even like, yeah,
I mean, it was, satire but essentially there
weren't even um you know i guess if i'm going
to a will ferrell movie um or john c reilly i'm
expecting some dumb comedic relief yeah yeah
and there were almost three stooge -esque type
interactions where it was like i don't know if
they were actually humor yeah but i don't know
if they're actually trying to get a laugh from
the audience or if they were trying not to get
a laugh from the audience you're saying that
there was a comedy like trying to that would
be funny yeah and um that's a nice c -dog It
was really... They made a movie, damn it. They
put their name on the paper. Somebody made a
movie. The funny thing is that I'm thinking over
here, is like, oh, I'm thinking this movie's
terrible, but at the same time, I'm also wondering,
is there many other actors that have their middle
initial in movies? Right. Like, we keep saying
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. Yeah. I'm not
entirely sure about that, but... So James Moriarty
is played by, I can't think of his name. I can
look it up. He's from Schindler's List. Oh. Ray
Fiennes? Ralph Fiennes or Liam Neeson? He's in
it as well. Liam Neeson is not in this movie.
He's in this movie, okay. Hugh Laurie is in this
movie. Hugh Laurie's in it. Hugh Laurie's in
this movie? He is, briefly. So he plays Sherlock's
brother. Oh, that's a good fit for him. The issue
is they have like maybe a minute or two. It is
very fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so he's James
Moriarty, the primary bad guy. However, he's
only, you know, they have very minor dialogue
for him. And you see him a few times in the movie,
but it's really mainly screen time is... Will
Ferrell and John C. Reilly overacting this accent
and trying to do this. Well, I mean, like, I
didn't know Steve Coogan was in it, too. Yeah.
So it's not like a lot of people. Yeah. It's
interesting, like the character or I guess the
actors that were in this. Yeah. The Hugh Laurie
dialogue is basically, you know, a few minutes
and it's it's him and Will Ferrell there. basically
mind telepathically communicating because, you
know, it's like this feel of they're so intelligent
that they can just communicate non -verbally
and so they go through it. Well, the funny thing
is the first thing I thought of when you said
mind telepathy in Sherlock Holmes was in the
Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows. remember how
they're playing a chess game at this party and
like they're making their moves in their head
oh you're going to do this well i'm going to
do this yeah yeah and so it's interesting that
you made it in that voice because that's that's
kind of how you get the entire like that exact
voice is that entire sherlock oh yeah But it
wasn't funny. No, no. It sounds like it could
be, but it has to be. The excerpt of Mike's voice
was kind of interesting in terms of how he just
kind of made this dialogue. But it was that the
entire span of the movie. Oh. So there were a
few parts where it would pause reality and then
you'd get Sherlock calculating this past or whatever.
But a lot of, I would say that happened maybe,
i don't know a handful of times and it was it
was just like some stupid um like a b to hit
a b or something like that and at the end i think
it kind of introduced this like lackluster love
interest so sweet it was Yes. Oh, spoilers, you
asshole. Dude, what the fuck, bro? Disclaimer,
spoilers. Can we go and edit the yes out of there?
Oh, absolutely. I don't know, T -Dog. Maybe watch
the movie and see. I don't think I have the ability
to edit you guys. I only have the ability to
edit myself. Oh, goodness. Because there's definitely
things in this podcast that have not been edited
out. That's true. I'm so glad we don't have video.
I also went back to try to, I guess, review or
look up Google reviews on it to see what people
enjoyed about the movie. And there were a few...
I guess, positive reviews on it, but I just couldn't
pick out what they actually liked about the movie.
Was it John B. Reilly? I don't know. It probably
was. John F. Reilly. It was really difficult
to get through. It's a movie that you'd walk
out of the movie theater. Really? It's not even,
like, you can't find the bad, laughable, you
know, where you're laughing at a movie because
it's weird in between. It's just that there's
no, the comedic, relief of it um i mean it was
non -existent but it was it was non -existent
wow for comedy you kind of want to be funny yeah
wow it yeah i really don't know what to say about
it because you know i enjoy their You know, those
two actors, they're stupid. They have, yeah.
Stupid movies. I mean, they make stupid jokes.
Right. They have decent stupid movies. Yeah,
exactly. Like, Talladega Nights is great between
those two. Yeah, Talladega Nights. Step Brothers.
Step Brothers is amazing. And what is the commonality
between those two movies that we just said, though?
Adam McKay. Yeah, that's true. He's now gone
on to more serious films like Big Short and Vice,
which have comedic elements, but I think there
is something to be said about being in the hands
of a master director. I don't know about this
one, though. Adam McKay is not a part of Sherlock
or whatever. Right, and I get that. I just feel
like any other... I don't even know if it was
the director. I don't know if it was the script.
Yeah, trying to figure out who the director was.
Like I said, I almost feel like it was somebody
that was purposely trying to make a bad, like
a non -laughable. Like it was a sick practical
joke. I'm not entirely sure. Wow. But I was also
just like movie. Eaton Cohen from Israel. He
was a writer -producer known for Idiocracy. Idiocracy's
good. Is he the third Coen brother? Men in Black
3 and then Holmes and Watson. He was also a writer
on Tropic Thunder. Wait, time out. So there's
Joel and Ethan Coen. They are not related. This
is E10 Coen. Oh, that's so important. It doesn't
matter. They're not even close to religion because
Cohen is C -O -E -N. This one is C -O -H -E -N.
But it doesn't matter. Idiocracy was a great
movie. But he's a writer -producer. He's not
a director. but I really I don't know where like
I don't know who to blame this movie on everyone
yeah everyone like accepting roles accepting
jobs okay do we know who the production company
was because that they even greenlit it is probably
it was a big one I thought it was Warner's because
they tried to sell it to Netflix Netflix right
and Netflix didn't want it and Netflix passed
they're like we've got all these Adam Sandler
movies we're doing well we've already got our
Stupid comedy questions. From what I heard, they
were asking for too much money on the sell. So
Netflix is just like, eh, we're spending a lot
of money. Yeah, I mean, over $5 is probably...
I would look that up. Mike, if you want to look
that up. I think it was Warner Bros. I don't
want to look it up. Okay, yes. Okay, we'll disclaimer
this with a lot of uncertainty around what we
state as quote -unquote not facts. I don't know.
Yeah, you know. Fiction facts. Fiction facts.
Alternative facts. Talkie facts. Alternative
facts. Gary Sanchez Productions. Columbia Pictures.
Columbia. Okay. So Gary Sanchez, that is the
production company of actually Adam McKay and
Will Ferrell. I was going to say, it's still
produced by Adam McKay. Is it? Yeah. So that
means he threw money at it, but creatively he
probably had nothing to do with it. Yeah, sure.
Gary Sanchez, by the way, that's hilarious. Because
that was before the baseball player. Oh, Cary
Sanchez, yeah. Yeah, I didn't even think about
that. I feel like they intentionally made it
just... I don't know for what reason. Maybe it
was a tax write -off. Yeah, it could be, yeah.
A tax write -off! Maybe. I just, I don't, I want
to know how they got all these people in it.
Maybe it's legit, like, they just wanted to hang
out, you know? So, so, I mean, you know, they
love people, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that could be
the case, and if they would throw, like, an interesting
Sherlock line, or, you know, um, maybe... work
on some plot, I could take it as a non -comedy
type, kind of like the BBC series or something
like that. I don't really see those actors playing
that type of role, but it'd be interesting to
see. Definitely not Benedict Lumberbatch. How
dare you? I, for one, can't wait. I cannot wait
for the inevitable sequel of Sherlock Holmes
Infinity War. There's more to this. Did they
leave a sequel? No, I didn't laugh at all during
the entire thing. Not even forced chuckle, etc.
But there was, at the very end, the entire movie,
James Moriarty, presumably in America somewhere.
which is like white knuckling because i feel
like i know what you're going to kind of the
wild west right and so at the very end cut to
um you know this is i can't remember if it was
post credits or just right at the end um so you
cut to um this western style looking bar yeah
james moriarty's sitting there um some kid delivers
him a note that says, you know, we know where
you are or whatever. And then, you know, pan
over to the guys sitting there in cowboy hats.
And I had to chuckle there just because the prospect
of a sequel to that. And that made me laugh.
So I was going to say I did not laugh at all
during that movie, but that part made me laugh.
Just the idea. Just the idea. They might make
money. That is scary. Good for them. I was also
thinking based on this is at some point after
we've done enough of these podcasts that maybe
we should pick one of the bad movies and everyone
sits down and watches it. Oh, there's one that
we already have in mind. Yes. Do we want to spoil
it or no? When I say bad movie, bad... Oh, okay.
I remember. Okay, sure. There's one that comes
to mind. Yes. Okay. But that's different. I thought
we talked about this last podcast. The Room is
amazing. You've seen The Room? No. Oh, okay.
No, we missed this on the last podcast. That's
fine. But I'm saying like as a collection of
ones that... You know, we've had through this
podcast and picked, like, I would say the room
is something different. If we get through, like,
20 of these and we're just like, oh, man, Humanity
Bureau, Holmes and Watson. Honestly, the worst
of the worst is going to be Holmes and Watson.
Dude, you haven't seen Humanity Bureau, my dog.
You got it. I mean, my thought process right
now is if we do this, if we're still doing this
in a year. Yeah. March Madness is coming up.
Yeah. And we can line up all of them. Do a bracket.
Do a bracket. Wow. That would be interesting
though. Yeah, I was about to say playing games.
I feel like Broly makes the playing games for
that. We probably have like, we probably get
to 32 movies. Yeah. We probably see some other
crappy ones that are not on the list, like Broly.
And so we can throw Broly in and then just kind
of have a bracket. I'm not looking forward to
watching all of those, but that sounds... No,
no, no. I'm not saying we watch all of them.
No, I say we watch them all. Like, we... Oh,
my God. And then we... Maybe not 32. Maybe not
32. I'm a guy who watches, like, a ton of movies.
So that's a lot. Maybe once we get down to like
the Elite Eight or something. Yeah, that may
be a little more doable. We'll figure it out.
Maybe the final four. Something like that. We
can agree on movies that we all have seen collectively.
For me, anyway, I don't know if Paroli would
make my Elite 8. It is a terrible movie. No,
I'm not even saying that. He's not even elite
of the terrible movies, is what he's saying.
I don't think that would make my list. Oh, gotcha.
Dude, it's on the bottom of my list. I know it
came out last year, but it's on the bottom of
2018 and 2019. Wow, damn. Broly sucks. Put a
shot color on that thing. I would have rather
watched Broly. Let's get to your rating. What's
your rating? I'm not rating this. You can't not
rate it. You have to give it an out of five.
Even zero is a possibility. Zero out of five
what? because it's not worth putting a joke.
It's not even... That's exactly the movie. That's
exactly the movie. No trench coat? Can we say
trench coat? I don't know. No, no. He doesn't
deserve it. What was that bad selfie joke that
they had in the trailer? The camera where he
hit the... There's the old camera and they knock
out the queen. Wait, wait, wait. The queen. Queen
Victoria's in it? Yeah. Oh, that's great. That's
amazing. He punched a bee, didn't he? Yeah, that
was part of the... Zero out of five Bs. Oh, sure.
It's a B movie. What are we going to do when
we watch the B movie? Damn it! Dude, the B movie's
amazing. Zero out of five bestiality? I don't
know. Dude, love is love is love, dude. Yeah,
right. Dude, Shape of Water won the Oscar. We're
in a post -bestiality world. That's right. Hashtag
fish sex. So we're going to jump to our thing
we do every time. We're going to shorten it a
little bit because it seemed like it would drag
down a little bit last time. Basically just a
movie you are feeling something strongly about.
It can be positive or negative. Okay. Upcoming.
I guess I'll go around again. All right. Yeah.
It's on you. I was going to wait because I feel
like somebody else is going to bring this movie
up. And so I was going to wait until the end
because I have a backup plan just in case. All
right. But I guess I'll jump first. Alita Battle
Angel is going to suck. Hot take. It is going
to suck. That has 33 on Rotten Tomatoes. The
embargo is up then. The embargo is off. I did
not know that ratings or anything like that.
I just knew from the trailers it is going to
suck. It's an anime adaptation and they went
for the direction of it's an anime adaptation
so we'll make the main character's eyes super
big. Big and buggy. That's a That's a choice.
I would have understood if they did that for
like Mantis for like the Avengers movie. Well,
yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's cohesive. Like
that makes sense. This one, it seemed out of
nowhere. And then all of a sudden, I don't know.
It just feels to me like it's going to suck.
Where's the vault? Is it in it? I mean. So I
don't know. He might be the saving grace, but
he seems like a 10 minute part. Yeah. I don't
know the story. So can someone like catch me
up? I don't really know the story super well.
It's just a classic 80s battle manga. So she's
a robot. She's a super robot. Yeah. She's part
of the super robot genre. So it's like kind of
super tropey. I can tell you what happens in
the trailer. That's about it. So she is. So she's
not a human. So she does. She gets dropped from
like the society that's above everybody else.
She's their trash. But she is a robot that's,
like, extremely good at fighting. Kristoff Waltz
takes her in, like, is the dad, and basically
says, you need to destroy the society because
they're keeping us down and, like, making it
impossible to live because we live down here.
So this is like Geppetto if you turn Pinocchio
into, like, a battle monster. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He would kill the whale. This sounds like a much
better movie. Dude, fuck yeah. He would kill
the whale instead of being eaten by the whale.
Right, right, right. I watched that. I definitely
see a puppet take on a whale. Yeah. Anyway, Alita
Battle Angel. Alita Battle Suckage. We'll see.
To be fair, no one is seeing this. Yeah, exactly.
I think it's going to bomb. Totally. The funny
thing is, I'm also willing to see it. Okay. Because
I... do feel like there is some love put into
it so there's a chance there's like a weird because
like what I don't understand is that Alita Battle
Angel is not nearly popular enough of a property
for them to think oh this will make money so
like Ghost in the Shell you remember Ghost in
the Shell that came out a couple years ago that
has enough cachet with enough nerds that like
okay I get it you're gonna try to make money
on it so much cachet that they cast Scarlett
Johansson as the main character dude holy fuck
oh my god that is a discussion for a completely
different podcast the worst part is they made
it a plot point that whole That old... That she
was whitewashing? Yes. They made that up and
it was bad. It was not good. Anyways. But like,
it goes on the show. That's popular. It's called
classic. I don't see a lot of people talking
about Aelita, you know? So, I don't really know
why they made this movie. And that's why I'm
curious about it. Like, yeah, you're right. Somebody
out there really fucking loves Aelita and made
this movie. Who jumped on it, too, is the weird
thing about it all. The... What is his name?
Cameron. Cameron... No, his last name's Cameron.
Oh, James Cameron. James Cameron, thank you.
I was spacing on it. Yeah, James Cameron jumped
on this. Like, of all people. Is he producing
it? He is... Or is he a writer? Because he likes
to write, too. Oh, does he like to write? So,
the thing about Avatar, technologically amazing,
blah, blah, blah, he was also a writer on it,
and he poached a ton. from other movies and other
stories, which is fine, but also shows that he's
not particularly a strong writer. Sure, like
you're not... Screenplay is by... James Cameron,
James Cameron. The story is by, or the screenplay.
Screenplay. I mean, it's an adaptation, so like,
you know... Yeah, gotcha, gotcha. And like Robert
Rodriguez is part of it. I'm not a huge fan of
his. Yeah, but still. No, but he still has a
style. Yeah, he's a style and he has a reputation.
He does, he does. So it's one of those things
that it should be better than it is, but for
whatever reason. It looks bad. No, I'm with you.
We've got a star and a writer. We've got a star
as a director. Yeah. As much as you don't like
him, but he's a star. Yeah. Just give it what
it is. And you've got Christoph Waltz, who's
a star himself. Yeah. Two -time Oscar winner.
Exactly. The dude acts. There's three people
that should have made this movie better than
it is, and I'm just sitting here going, it's
going to suck. Yeah. But I still feel like I
would see it. Maybe the marketing team just let
us down. Although, if that was the case, then
we know Rotten Tomatoes, like, it would be, like,
amazing. Right, exactly. Yeah. But, yeah, I don't
know. I'm curious about it, too. Definitely curious.
I don't know. Mitchell, anything you're strongly
or negatively positive? Yeah, I mean, there is,
I don't know. So I'm looking through basically
what's coming out the next couple weeks, and
I wouldn't say strong opinion comes to mind before
any of these, but I'm just going to say it just
because I've seen it bombarded on pretty much
every movie I've gone to see in the theater.
This is one of the trailers that's featured,
and isn't it romantic? Yeah. So Rebel Wilson
is the star of this movie where this is a early
30s something white girl living in New York who
is single and she gets mugged in a New York subway
as one does and runs into a pole again as one
does and she wakes up arising from a coma. And
she realizes, holy crap, my life is different.
And as it turns out, her life is now a romantic
comedy, a PG -13 romantic comedy. Oh, boy. Yeah.
Wow, that pretty much reads like the overview
on this. Exactly. Rob Schneider is a carrot.
Like, that's probably my carrot. I'm in a romantic
comedy. Rebel Wilson of Pitch Perfect fame and
among other things is in it with Liam Hemsworth,
who is the hunkiest of all the Hemsworths, in
my opinion. Sure. That's an opinion. Oh, yeah.
That's an opinion. That's an opinion, man. So
it's a romantic comedy. So it can be. I'll jump
on the hot take. No. Hot take. What's your hot
take? Are you going to say Thor or? So Chris
Hemsworth. Okay, that's not a hot take. No, no,
no. I'm just saying compared to your Liam. Oh,
I'm giving you the hot take. Yes, yes. You get
the hipster take award. Oh, okay. Gotcha. You
get the hipster hot take. You know, I liked it
before it was cool. Right. Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely. Yeah, Chris Hemsworth is... He's
been a hunk. Oh, T -Shok's a little uncomfortable?
Yeah, yeah. Okay. So are you looking forward
to this movie or are you... Has that been good
or bad? So far, you're like, I'm trying to read.
Oh, T -Dog, I will say, if I lose this week's
challenge, this will probably be the movie I
have to see. Okay. Not by choice. It looks awful.
It does. So, every time I see the trailer, nothing
about it has grown on me. It's usually a good
time to check the phone, see if there's any emails
or last -minute texts before the movie comes
on. Last -minute bathroom break, just in case.
Maybe hop on the bumble a little bit. Yeah, right.
Swiping, which I guess leads into the movie itself.
Bums. I was just going to say, you get a Bumble,
you can take her with you. So anyway, this movie
does not look good at all. Maybe Liam Hemsworth
will see it with you. Bro. Dude. Bro. Don't tease
me like that. Broly. Dude, broly. That Australian
accent. It's crazy. I do think, I don't know
if this is stunt casting or not, but it's two
people living in New York and both are Australian
actors still using their Australian accents.
I mean, that's like better than the, I'd rather
have them like flaunt their Australian accents
than like try, like, I don't know. Not everybody
can hide their accents. Rather than have Will
Ferrell do a British accent. Yes, exactly. Right.
It's not that their accents were bad. It's just
there was no subsidence amongst what they were.
Trying to say. I feel like you need to watch
Homes of Watson in a very specific mindset for
it to work. Oh, that's not a good mindset. I
don't know what type of mindset. Okay. Well,
you know. We live next to Massachusetts. Yeah,
dude. So maybe you should go watch it there.
Even then. I'm talking inebriated. Oh, you're
talking like slobbery? Oh, dude. I feel like
they would just be sad. It's a perfect Netflix
movie. Yeah. Honestly, it sounds like a perfect,
because if Adam Sandler was getting that kind
of money. Yeah, right. People would watch it.
But if they still had some left in the budget,
I'm sorry that Roma's getting all this money
on their Oscar campaign. People would have spent
it on fucking Holmes and Watson. Anyway. Dude.
romantic not on my list but potentially could
be if I lose this week's challenge. Sweet. Which
we're gonna find out. Alright. So this movie
I'm excited for is I feel like I'm gonna always
pick like the kids movies. Lego Movie 2. The
second part. That should be fine. Yeah. No. Okay.
I was pleasantly surprised by the Lego movie.
Yep. And I loved Lego Batman. Okay. Lego Batman
might be my favorite Batman movie. Like, straight
up. Honestly. I've heard a lot of people give
that take. I like the Lego Batman movie, but
I... Yeah, I know. No, no, no, no, no. Again,
I'm not here to tell you that your opinion is
wrong. I'm just saying. I'm not here to tell
you your opinion. I know, I know, I know. But
it is. But like, oh, okay, gosh, well, thank
you for letting me know. I love how Batman is
that kind of character, though. Yes. I think
that's a legitimate take that you have with the
Batman movie. He could go both ways. Right, he's
such a ranger. Dark or like... kids movie yeah
right totally whimsical yeah exactly anyways
we're not here to talk about lego batman talk
about lego batman 2 or lego batman 2 yeah we
should uh lego movie 2 lego movie 2 the second
part um i don't know i mean like i haven't watched
too much trailer for this because i'm frankly
i'm already sold on it right like yeah I mean,
it seems to be reviewing okay. It was 92 on Rotten
Tomatoes. Okay, cool. So they didn't fuck it
up, right? Presumably not. I just love the fact
that they've introduced other brands as the bad
guys. I know. I love that. I can't think of what
it is. But it's, like, Playmobil almost. Yeah,
yeah, like, Mega Bloks. Building Blocks or whatever.
Yeah, it's, like, it's the opposite brand that,
like, tried to go after Lego's fortune. Is it
Mega Bloks? Is that what it's called? I thought
it was Building Blocks. Building Blocks, maybe.
Yeah, I don't know. Whatever. All right, that's
another one of those we're not sure facts. It
doesn't matter. Yeah, but, like, you know, that
first movie is just so charming. And the animation,
like, I love the pseudo stop -motion animation
style. I feel like that movie really pops. And
yeah, I'm just sold on the sequel, so not really
much else to say besides that. So, yeah. Nice.
T -Dog? Well, unfortunately, Andre also stole
my choice. It's a good movie. I would also go
with the Lego 2 movie. I saw the first one when
it was out in theaters. I even think it was on
a first date. There you go. Wow. I mean, the
relationship didn't work out, but the Lego 2
sequel looks like it's working out. Yeah, there
you go. All right, so T -Dog, while we're talking
to you. You lost our challenge last time. You
had to see, obviously, Holmes and Watson. Yes.
We are curious, because you have sent us a bracket
before this challenge, and we have not seen what
we're doing. What are we doing? All right. Well,
the bracket that was sent out was a, I guess,
a four -person bracket. You know, you basically
have to lose, first person to lose twice, you
know, boils down. Randomize seeds so there wasn't
any unfair competitions. I was wondering how
you did that because I was the one seed and I
was the little one. No, I just went there and
clicked randomize seed, you know. Generated the
bracket and then we'll see who basically loses
to first. We don't need to play the winning,
winning unless we really want spoil rights. Okay.
I don't know if we should, are we going to segue
to the video or should I announce what we're
doing? Well, announce what we're doing and then
we'll segue to the video after that. We're going
to play a little NBA Jam. Oh, shit. All right.
Any particular year or is it just NBA? It's one
for Android TV. Oh, nice. Okay. So it should
have an update -ish. Yeah, that works. I have
not played it much more than a few minutes, so
we're all on a little more evenly playing field
compared to, you know, Andre's playing 24 -7
smash all fucking day. We all had the same tool
set available to us, all right? The most skilled
fighter, or should I rather say the least skilled
fighter lost. Yeah, yeah, whatever, Andre. Okay,
that's cool. I brought quarters the first week
and ended up in the loser's bracket. Like, come
on. That's on you, dude. You made your own bed
with that one. No, I didn't. I didn't try to
give myself an advantage. That's really what
it was. That's it. Like, you know, I wasn't really
going for any advantage. Me and T -Dog left.
We left the apartment. Andre and Mike were still
playing quarters. It took a while, man. It was
a saga. I lost my own home. You took damage to
the table. Yes, my beautiful. It's fair that
he took a little advantage. I think there was
an old NBA GM a long time ago that I used to
play back in 90 -something. The one at the bar
cave in New Haven. Oh, that's true. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. I golded the hell out of your ass. That
was awesome. We should have just gone to New
Haven. Yeah, you're right. Is that time? Is that
time? Let's get in the car. I don't know. We'll
see. We'll see. Okay. Or we could just play here.
Yeah, let's just play here. We'll make a decision.
Tune in to the, I don't know, YouTube channel?
YouTube and Wix page. It'll be up later tonight,
probably, after everything's done. Find out if
we ended up driving 45 minutes to complete this
challenge. Spoilers! Spoilers, we're not. We
fucking didn't. Well, thank you guys for listening
in. This is the second episode of Game for a
Movie. Any closing words from you guys? Maybe
Dragon Ball was never good. Oh. That's a big
hot take. To go to on the end, really? Yeah,
no, sorry. All right, well. Mitchell's like reeling
for like, oh, God. I will go out and jump in
front of this bullet and say, I love Dragon Ball
Z. All right. Wow. I'm more on Mitchell's side
on this one. So for Mitchell, Andre, T -Dog,
and myself, Mike, thank you for listening where
we ask you. Are you game for a movie?