That sound means it's another Game for a Movie
podcast. It is episode 20, guys. Wow. We've made
it 20 episodes. Wow. Time flies. I've been here
for most of them. That's right. Time flies when
you're recording pods, you know? Exactly. I was
expecting a special guest. We had a buddy of
ours say he would jump in, but unfortunately,
kids get in the way. Yeah. Yeah, you teased the
hell out of me all week. I was so excited. I
did, and I feel like a little bit of a cock tease
there. Yeah. Very cocky of you. If you did not
know, this show is explicit. I guess so, yeah.
Yeah, if you follow our Instagram page, for one,
I apologize for my language, but also, I apologize
to absolutely no one. What a great promo me and
Andre just did. Yeah, right? Yeah. There we go.
You can watch it later on our Instagram story,
because I know you're going to regret it. Woo!
But guys, um... We have a spoiler warning ahead.
Okay. Because you are going to jump into some
things. Yeah. For Detective Pikachu. Yes. For
Sonic the Hedgehog. Yes. For Don't Fuck With
Cats. And of course, Fantasy Island. Hey, what
a great TV show. I really hope they don't make
it into a horror movie. Great idea. God, it sounds
almost as bad as making a video game into a movie.
Like, what the fuck? Yeah, seriously, though.
Times two. Yeah, right. So we're going to jump
into the, what are we drinking? Okay, yeah. I
will start. I am drinking a Struts beer called
Kolsch This. If you know anything about my love
for the Struts and their song Kiss This. Oh,
gotcha. And it's made by Southern Grist in Nashville.
Big shout out to Ben and Alicia who live in Nashville
who gave me the beer, as well as we were thinking
about them and everybody in Nashville. So thank
you guys very much for the beer. Hope you guys
are all right. Everything like that. Cool. Andre,
what are you drinking? I am drinking Loverboy
Cider. from shacksbury uh i like this beer or
cider rather uh because it has the word boy three
times on the on the it does this is your type
of beer it's just my cider it's my type of cider
you know sometimes you're in a boy cider mood
you know this one's for the boys sure that's
what it means i love it yeah that's cute uh mitchell
I got Connecticut tap water. Nice! Oh, nice!
Yeah, so shouts to Lent. I'm not religious at
all, but this is something I grew up with and
I still do to this day. So, of the past couple
years, I've been doing beer as something I give
up. So, yeah, I'm continuing with that tradition
this time around. There you go. A little tap
water for you. Big shout out to tap water from
Connecticut. Yeah, it tastes pretty good. I don't
feel sick. It looks like you're almost out. Do
you need some more here? No, I'm good. I'm all
right. But thank you. But, yes, you get it. Okay.
I will start with the good movie because then
we'll come back around because I also saw the
bad movie. Right. So we'll go all the way around
like this way. Okay. I'm talking about a movie
that Mitchell has told me he really wants to
hear about. Yes. It's technically a miniseries,
but it's three hours, three episodes. So it's
called Don't Fuck With Cats. Yeah. I have been
on a train of... batshit crazy documentaries.
Shoutouts to Tickled. Yeah, huge shoutout to
Tickled. Tickled's great, man. It's fucked up
beyond belief, but it's great. Tell me about
this one. We will talk about Don't Fuck With
Cats. So the whole premise of this movie is this
video shows up on the internet of this guy cats.
And they don't show the actual act, but they
show as close as they get to it without showing
the act. So, for example, the first one, he sticks
them in a vacuum sealed bag and then sucks the
air out. It's very gruesome. And so it's a very
tough watch. So, please, I'm giving you a heads
up now. If you do not want to see cute little
kittens get murdered, do not watch this movie
slash TV show, I guess. It shows you Him putting
them in the bag, you hear the vacuum, but you
don't see it, and then it shows the aftermath.
Where do you post this awful content? YouTube.
What? Jesus Christ. So they didn't take that
shit down? Well, maybe it got put somewhere else.
I don't remember, but it started pretty much
on YouTube. Wow. This guy has his channel. His
name is Luca Magnata. I did remember it. Well
done. Which is his model name. And basically
the idea is this video pops up. These people
start a Facebook group like we're going to find
this fucker and we're going to kill him or we're
going to do whatever we can to find this guy.
Cat justice. Cat justice. And... Meow. As it
goes on, there's more animals that get killed.
There's a human that gets killed. This guy is
progressing. Yes. Does he also take this? Just
to the point of death. Oh, yeah. With the human?
No, he tapes all of it. The movie itself just
shows you up until the murder. Oh, my God. I
thought that was, like, his thing. No. Like,
I'm going to show everything but the actual death.
No, they actually, like, he actually filmed the
murder. I would like to retroactively take away
my want to hear about this movie. Yes. Because
now I sound like a monster for being curious.
Yeah. Am I a monster for watching it? No. Honestly,
the byline you gave for this movie made it sound
very interesting. I'm kind of curious because
I hadn't heard about it before at all. Curious
like a cat? Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah, I guess so.
I'm just curious like a cat. I'm so happy with
that. Oh, my God. I shouldn't be, but I am. Okay,
so this guy literally was starting with small
animals before killing a human. Yes. So this
is a serial killer. Yes. Or maybe he has to do
multiple. Basically, he only killed one person,
so he's not a serial killer. He's a singular
killer. But at the same time, he is kind of a
serial killer. But the idea is, so they start
this Facebook group to try to find him. And,
like, these people spearhead it that are leading
the charge. And they look at everything in the
room that this is filmed in. And they're like,
oh, those outlets. Have anybody seen where those
outlets are? Because they look different than
USA outlets. And the stuff on the wall, the blanket,
whatever, like, the window, they made, this guy
made a 3D rendering of the room so everybody
can put in their stuff where they're just like,
oh, observation about this. This is from... So
and so. Jeez. And so it's like, it's crazy. Then
one of the things that they found is they found
this guy and they're just like, it's this guy,
Luca Magnata, who has been on the run and they
found that he has created all these Facebook
pages to. Put out these good words about him
like Luca Magnata. He's so hot Luca Magnata He's
fierce like that kind of stuff and he uses the
same language in all of them so they were like
oh he's making all these things up because He
is creating this following because he's a model
and he got rejected as a model so now he's just
like I need to Create this following so everybody
wants me in demand kind of thing and he's batshit
It does a lot with basic instinct. He is in love
with the movie Basic Instinct. Okay. Including
at the trial, he keeps bringing up this guy,
Henry, who is the name of the husband in Basic
Instinct. Oh. And he's referring to him as a
real -life person? Is that it? So his mother
is in the movie. Right. And is just like, oh,
this Henry, he was making him do all this stuff.
Oh, he made him do it. He made my son kill this
person. And there's no Henry. Like, you realize
that it's all part of his delusion of basic instinct.
How did he kill the human? So, he took him home
with the promise of gay sex, gay relationships.
Sure. And tied him down and stabbed him repeatedly.
Oh, Jesus. This is like American Psycho stuff.
But above the... So, this is all thought out
again, remember. So, this video camera is watching
it. and above him is a poster for Basic Instinct.
Oh, gotcha. What the hell? And he killed him
by stabbing him with an ice pick, which is the
same way that the main girl in Basic Instinct
killed the husband with an ice pick. Wow. And,
like, it's just, it's, it's... It's insanity.
It's crazy. It's amazing, the Facebook group,
how much they decode and they find out and that
the police don't believe them and it may have
stopped him earlier. And one of the things that
they found on his page was he took this picture
of his balcony, from his balcony, and the guy,
I can't remember his name, but the main guy in
this, in the Facebook group, goes and says, oh,
he's in Canada. I know that. And, like, I can
figure this out because it's this specific gas
station and this specific corner because he saw
it in the background. Wow. And he figured out
where his apartment was from that. Wow. Jesus.
Was the main guy, was he also Canadian? No. Because
it's like, how would you even, like, think of
just being like, oh, we could just deduce it
down to this gas station. I can't remember how
they found out it was Canada and, like, they
found out the town. Okay. So then it limited
it because there's only these four gas stations,
and then he took Google Earth and flipped it
around. That building looks familiar kind of
thing. It's funny because you hear a lot of incidents
where internet sleuthing could actually be very
harmful to actual police detective work. Like
the most notable one in my mind is from the Boston
bombing. Correct. I was thinking the exact same
thing. Yeah. But this one, it sounds like it
was legitimate. It actually helped. Or no. It
didn't, though, because they never really got
their information across until it was too late.
Gotcha. And so, like, it's one of those things
where it's a double -edged sword because you
watch this now and you're just like, oh, I'm
going to be the vigilante. I'm going to do good.
Yeah. And the police is just like... stay out
of it you know like stay out of it because your
information could lead the wrong way and then
this guy goes and kills another person right
wow and they found him in berlin i think or like
somewhere in germany i can't remember exactly
where yeah and it was just one of those things
where the main girl got like messaged and just
like the video of it it somehow made it on the
internet and was just like holy fuck we need
to we need to do whatever yeah and she swears
Like, nobody's business, so I actually really
liked her. I thought she was funny. Sure. But
yeah, so it's... She also is, like, she works
security for casinos. Okay, so she's used to
going over surveillance footage or something
like that? Okay, got it. So it's not like it's
just you or me grabbing a computer and going
boom, boom, boom. It's somebody that works in
this way. But at the same time... Luca was sending
her messages, like, oh, I wonder what your bosses
at this casino think of you doing this in your
spare time. I wonder how that 20 -minute ride
home is going to be, and just threatening her
the whole time, too. So it's a creepy movie,
but it's very good. It's batshit, like I said.
3 .5. Trying to think of something positive.
Cat Lives? Because then you have a lot left over.
Yeah, maybe. 8 .5 cat lives out of 5. Sure. Sure.
Yay! Yay! Yay! It's a quick watch. You watch
the first hour and you get hooked. And then,
like, it's just the next two hours are butter.
It feels like one of those Netflix series that
actually has an ending. Because a lot of these
true crime ones are so open -ended. It's just
like, we got this far, but there's still, like...
Courts are still happening, or trials are still
happening. Right, right, right. You never get
that satisfying ending. It sounds like this actually
has... And it's because the court case, this
happened in, like, 2017, 2018. Okay, okay. And
so, like, it was end of 2019 that they were going
back and looking at it. Right. And, like, realizing
all the stuff they had done. Gotcha. So, I'm
going to stop talking about it because I still
have a bad movie to go through, and you're going
to get sick of my voice. Hey! So we go to Andre.
I'm already sick of it. What? Oh, sorry. It's
not the same effect of what I do with the aws
myself. So yeah, I went to go see that there,
uh, the Hedgehog movie. I watched a rodent proceed
swiftly across the silver screen and it was,
you know, yeah. You know, it was fun. I had a
fun time. This is definitely a kids movie, first
and foremost. And if I didn't have the attachment
to the IP growing up, I definitely wouldn't have
enjoyed it nearly as much as I did. But goddammit,
I still had fun. This movie is very predictable,
narrative -wise. You guys can guess exactly what
happens throughout the entire trailer. They win.
Yes. Good. Yeah. Spoilers. Yeah. Jim Carrey gets
to be funny? He does! Hey! Yes! Jim Carrey is...
That doesn't happen always. I know! Yeah, he
chooses really weird parts. He does. And I'm
really happy that they kind of just let him do
his thing. You know what I mean? Like, they didn't
tell him, like... Like, I was kind of worried
that they would be like, okay, here is the Dr.
Robotnik character from the video games. He has
to say this catchphrase or whatever. And it's
like, because honestly, the... Character's not
super compelling, in my opinion. Sorry if you
have any big Sonic fans out there. He's not a
great video game villain, just in general. There
are some hardcore Sonic fans that are gonna come
out for blood. That's fine, they can come after
me. So yeah, it literally is just Jim Carrey
channeling his 90s roles again. Basically, his
Dr. Robotnik is if Ace Ventura was an absolute
fucking sociopathic dick who was good with making
drones. Okay. Yeah. He kind of steals the scenery
a little bit. And he does well emoting against,
as Mitchell Sullivan put it before the podcast,
against the tennis ball of a CGI hedgehog. tennis
ball yeah let's see some of the jokes were like
I mean you know whatever some of the jokes were
hit and miss I was like you know kind of grinning
at stuff this uh the movie does do really well
with like all like the kind of little subtle
nods you know they kind of sneak in they do a
good job of sneaking in references without it
being like point the camera like remember that
from the games haha you know woodland critters
and rings like so there are no woodland critters
which I was kind of bummed out by but there are
rings the way that they handle the rings are
the MacGuffin and that in this movie, Sonic is
from another... and he can use rings. And they
work like Doctor Strange, like, sling rings,
right? They do, yeah, yeah. So he throws out
rings and becomes a portal to another world,
which, you know, like, okay, cool, that's how
they interpreted, like, you go through a giant
ring and you go to the next level or something
like that. Okay, sure, yeah. Yeah. Did you guys
dig it? Yes, again, narratively, that's the weakest
part. Like, just the whole setup with Sonic,
like, he's in the other, he's in Mobius, I think
is what it's called, and there's this character
who, like, it's like a, it's a talking owl named
Longclaw. who looks really bizarre like she looks
too like she's supposed to be like Sonic's mother
character or whatever like took her in took him
in even though like he has this great power of
running fast and all of these great power of
running fast yeah no it's like oh Sonic wherever
you'll go they'll always the people will always
try to hunt you down for your powers if you have
to live by yourself or whatever then they get
overrun by echidnas, like Knuckles. What? Yeah,
yeah. Oh, okay. So that was a cool, like, oh,
hey, look, it's the tribe. It's kind of Knuckles,
but not really. Do they have the boxing gloves
and everything? No, Knuckles is the one with
the boxing gloves, but he's from, like, a specific
tribe of echidnas or whatever, and so that was
them, I guess. I kind of regret looking up the
cast list because I think I spoiled myself on
it. Yeah? Okay. Well, I'll tell you what happens
at the after -credits scene after this, but yeah.
Would you like to see? I'm never going to watch
this movie. Okay. Like, in my life. Well, I wasn't
going to say it, but yeah. Oh, no way! Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, keep going. So... Yeah,
whatever. Basically, that's the reason for him
coming to Earth. He throws his ring and goes
to Earth, and he hides there in seclusion in
the middle of Green Hills, Montana. Oh, I see.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, Green Hills.
Green Hills, yeah. Green Hills zone. Okay, yeah.
There it is. There it is. They did it. I remember.
Basically, his whole character arc is that he
doesn't have a family, he doesn't have friends,
and he wants to have friends. So pretty bog standard
in terms of like... Are you talking about Sonic
or James Marsden? Sonic. Well, James Marsden,
his whole thing is like, I'm a... It could have
gone either way. Well, that's the thing. He's
like, well, I'm just a down -to -earth cop, you
know, that works for a small town. Of course
he's a fucking cop. Yeah, he's a cop. He's like
one of two cops in a small podunk town in Montana,
and he wants to go. He's up for promotion to
go to San Francisco to be with the big kid, like
the big... San Fran what? San Francisco. Cisco?
Yeah, Cisco. Okay, gotcha. What? I heard Disco.
San Francisco, bro. Yeah, I was just like, wait.
I think we're looking for another Sonic pun on
there. Yeah, I was just like, yeah, okay. Where's
Casino Zone? Casino Zone? You mean Canto Bight?
Dude, dog, bro. Ugh. Shut up, nerd. I love the
last shut up. And yeah, so James Martin's obviously
the human partner character for Sonic. He's the
one that Sonic is talking to the most. You mean
the guy that has to do all of the movies with
the CGI animals? Yes, exactly. And he does an
admirable job of making it look like he's actually
talking to somebody on the screen. They have
some chemistry, I suppose. But yeah, I don't
know. It was a fun time. I had some good laughs.
Jim Carrey was awesome in it, and they did the
classic thing where they sequel baited it. Of
course. Because at the end, it's like Jim Carrey,
if you've seen him in the commercials, he does,
in the trailers, he... has his full head of hair,
slicked back and everything. At the end, Jim
Carrey loses, and then he goes to Mushroom Zone,
I think, or whatever, from the game, some Sonic
3, I think. Don't we all go to Mushroom Zone?
Yeah, right. Who doesn't go to Mushroom Zone
sometimes? Holland is great. Basically, his giant
drum blew up in his face, so that's how he has
the goggles on with the exploded sideburn hair
or whatever, and that's kind of how he looks
closer to the classic Eggman. Okay. And he's
just like, oh, like, you know, they kind of leave
the sequel hanging out for him trying to basically,
they're implying that he's going to take over
the world as, like, the Mushroom Zone world or
whatever. Oh, okay. And then after credit scene,
I think you guys were looking at that, they tease
Tails at the very end. So is he actually in it?
Is he in a robot? It's just Tails. He's not in
a robot. And I think they imply that Tails and
Sonic don't know each other yet or something.
Because he's literally like, oh. He has a little
device thing, like a tracker thing. I think it's
sensing Sonic's power. Sonic randomly, his Sonic
speed causes electrical surges or whatever. Sonic
boom. Yeah, Sonic boom, I guess. Right. So he
runs super fast. He causes a whole power outage.
And that's how robots work. Robotnik finds him
because the government hires the drone expert
to take down this thing. So, yeah, that's kind
of, like, they almost did this thing where I
thought they were going to do, like, the supersonic
thing, which is literally just Sonic going Super
Saiyan. They did not quite do that, but that's
because there were no Chaos Emeralds in this
movie. They're saving that for the next one,
I suppose. You've got to have Knuckles involved
if you're talking Chaos Emeralds. Yeah, exactly.
Right, right. That I remember. Yeah. Let's see.
This movie is lousy with advertisements. I'm
sure you guys have heard about it. I heard the
product placement is through the roof. It is
insane. Dude, give me the greatest hits. What's
the most shameless product placement? So there
are two main product placements in here. Zillow,
which is the weirdest one, and then two huge
Olive Garden ones. You want me to go break them
down real quick? I have seen Olive Garden. It's
one of them. Yeah, yeah. Keep going. Cool. So
in the Zillow one, it's the context. Because
kids need to go to Zillow. No, so yeah. Literally,
it's like James Morrison and his wife, they're
talking in their house, like, oh, man, I think
I got the job. I think we're going to go to San
Francisco. And she's like, oh, great. I'm already
looking at apartments on Zillow. Oh my gosh.
And so to write her out of the plot for a little
bit, she goes ahead to San Francisco. The whole
thing is that, oh, Sonic loses his rings. They
get accidentally transported to San Francisco
because he throws the ring to San Francisco.
The bag of rings are in San Francisco. And he
needs the rings. So that's their travel cross
-country thing. Anyways, James Marsden's in Green
Hills. She's in San Francisco living with her
sister -in -law. and I think what is it they're
on the phone and they're talking about like like
the sister -in -law doesn't like James Morrison
for some reason even though they seem to be in
a very healthy relationship but she's like you
know like no I think you should get a divorce
I don't like him or whatever and then she like
asks His wife, like, asking about his dating,
like, how many dating apps he has. And then she's
like, like, babe, you know I don't have any apps
on my phone besides the default and Olive Garden.
Because when you're there, and then she finishes,
you're family. And I'm like, no. Yes. No. Yep.
Was it a sincere thing? Like, they're just being
a cute couple and just saying, or is she just
making fun of them? Like, oh, you're really going
to say this shit? Kind of. Like, in the middle,
I would say. She's like, she does like the little,
like, all right. Eye roll. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But not quite enough for it to be ironic. Yeah.
And then, the last one is my favorite. After,
you know, the climax and everything, Robotnik's,
like, sent to the other dimension. The government,
oh, yeah, halfway through the movie, James Marsden
becomes a fugitive wanted by the state because
he's harboring Sonic the Hedgehog, you know,
whatever. So he's, like, you know, public enemy
number one. So they wipe away all of that by
having, like, the government guy, the CIA guy,
go to their house in Green Hills being like,
we're sorry about all this, you know, we're just
gonna pretend this. never happened and I think
this will be recompense enough or whatever he
gives them a big manila envelope and then like
James Brown's like oh like what's inside it and
he opens it up and it's a $50 gift card to Olive
Garden. Oh, my God. And the guy at the CAH is
like, try the unlimited breadsticks. They're
delicious. My thing is, is this... Because it's
no secret the post -production nightmare that
this movie went through. Right. Very expensive,
I'm sure, to entirely remake Sonic to make him
look cute. Is this how they paid for it? I don't
think so. So here's the thing, right? Zillow
paid for it. Zillow paid for it. So, I mean,
and I could have gotten this wrong, but I read
in interviews that they didn't do any reshoots
at all. It was literally the only... Just fix
the furry badger teeth. Right, like that first
trailer we saw, the shooting was done and they
didn't go back to fix that. It was all just post
-production stuff of redesigning Sonic. Wow.
And on that note, this movie would have been...
way less enjoyable had it been the original one,
because the whole original Sonic awful character
design, because the characters interact and talk
to Sonic, like, oh, he's so cute, look at this
cute little hedgehog, which, like, sort of works,
you know? Like, he looks good. I like the way
he looks in the new redesign. He looks fine,
yeah. But, like, if he was that nightmare creature
in that weird Uncanny Valley territory, that
would have just not landed at all. Still better
than Cats. Yeah. I think that's where we're heading,
right? It's just like, we have this technology,
but not quite enough to make these rendered animals
look completely real. The only thing that worked
was Lion King, but people didn't enjoy it because
the animals aren't cute anymore. Simba wasn't
necessarily the cutest thing to look at. It's
hard to make those lions look damn good, but
it's hard to make them emote super well. Exactly.
They seem bored. Yeah, it's just like they look
like animals, like living animal lives. An animal
doesn't smile. Right. you know, cry. Yeah, and
for Pumbaa to be, like, this awful gray -looking
color as opposed to, like, that beautiful red
that he was before, like, I don't know. It's,
like, all these little things that make, I don't
know, the connection better. Right. Yeah, definitely.
And you know what? I do, on that note, with the
Sonic redesign, I can tell that there was a lot
of love put into that. Like, there was that genuine,
like, hey, we want the dude right by the fans,
you know, as much as they could, at least. I
mean, so I've been kind of negative on this movie,
but it was still, like, honestly, as a kids movie,
it's fun. I think it's watchable for parents.
Like, if you take your kids to this, you won't
be, like, rolling your eyes the whole entire
time. But it's not nearly on the same level as
other kids movies that, like, you know, that
actually have, you know, really meaningful plot
and character development that made me feel something,
you know? Like, this ain't even, this Toy Story,
this ain't, you know? Right. So let's get a rating
before we jump to another family -friendly movie
that may make somebody feel some way. All right.
I will give, on that note, I will give Sonic
three $50 Olive Garden gift cards out of five.
That's $150. It is. That's a lot of breadsticks.
That's a ton of breadsticks. Because at Olive
Garden, you're family. You're family. I've never
been to an Olive Garden. Okay, moving on. Really?
Wait, really? Dude, yeah. If I have, I honestly
have not. I don't remember. He didn't grow up
in the Midwest like we did. That was kind of
our only option for Italian. It's not anything
bad because you don't need to go to Olive Garden.
No, it's not good. It's just surprising. Those
type of restaurants I remember going to, Cheesecake
Factory and Chili's. I would say Chili's and
Olive Garden are on a similar level. Maybe Olive
Garden is half a step above that. Dude, Chili's
is better. No, no, no. I'm not talking about,
like, better. I'm talking about, like, classy.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel like they're the same
tier. Yeah. Yeah, you go to an aloe vera at the
mall. Right. Sponsor us. Anyway. When you're
there, you're family. All right, moving on. So
this is a movie that all of the three normal...
co -hosts on this podcast. The normal people.
Because we've had cameos, right? I thought you
were saying we were normal versus you. Oh, no,
no, no. Just like the normal co -hosts. Yes,
the regular co -hosts. He's abnormal. I'm abnormal.
I'm abnormal. So T -Dog, R .I .P. He's not with
us right now. R .I .P.? I love how you gestured
to the empty chair next to you. That was like
a nice detail. I like that. Yeah, he'll come
back. He's busy getting hookers in Montreal.
Oh, yeah, we didn't play our game. Yeah, we didn't.
I'm going to go with that one, though. Yeah,
sure. Mike and Andre they had all seen this movie
probably a year ago now whenever it came out
so I just finally came around to seeing it because
it's on HBO Pokemon Detective Pikachu and also
because he has to earn his spot back onto the
podcast apparently yeah according to T -Dog T
-Dog is just like yeah dude T -Dog's a hot shot
he won the popularity contest by three votes
and he's like I own this podcast now yeah and
so I had to earn my way back and here I am about
to shit on a movie that made T -Dog's top five
list of 2019 just Just a reminder. Just a reminder.
Top five. If you want to talk about a predictable
movie, here's one for you. I predicted the end
of this movie a year ago. Dude, yes. Based on
the trailer. That was awesome. You can hear that
in our podcast. We kept that in. Oh, yeah. We
kept it in. Oh, my God. That was amazing. Yeah.
Yeah. I remember the look on everyone's faces
when I said, oh, Ryan Reynolds comes out of Pikachu,
right? And then everyone's just like. what what
do you want to know yeah right and that's when
i realized this movie was not for me yeah so
a year later i realized hey it's actually called
pokemon detective pikachu it's based on a video
game and the production company with it along
with nintendo obviously is toho who actually
makes the Godzilla movies. Oh, okay. So that
made me very excited. I'm like, cool, Toho. That's
a big part of my childhood, the Godzilla movies.
And another Godzilla tie -in here. The guy who
says, let them fight in the 2014 Godzilla is
in this? He's in it. He's like the grizzled detective.
He's like, just walk away. The police chief.
Yeah. And he just chews up like maybe 10 lines
of dialogue or whatever he has. Ken Watanabe,
I think is his name. Yeah, Ken Watanabe. That's
it. And my favorite part of the Gareth Edwards
2014 Godzilla movie is all those slow camera
push -ins on his face as he's about to say something
epic. And he got to say all of the epic. lines
he got to say the Godzilla name for the first
time he's like it's Godzilla and then the other
one was let them fight which is dumb it's just
like alright well we have this military here
we're about to bomb them and he's just like no
man let them fight and then he's speaking on
behalf of the audience which is why I love him
in this movie though he didn't have Any lines
that I remember because as I'm looking down at
my notes and I did take notes, it looks like
I went through a fever dream and woke up and
just saw all these random lines of dialogue that
I found amusing at the time. So my favorite one
by far, this is why you get someone like Ryan
Reynolds to do a character like this. He'll draw
in the older crowd, keep you interested for a
little bit, but this is my all -time favorite
line. Smell my finger, coward. It's great. It's
absolutely great. I forgot what the context of
it was. Yeah, I was going to say, like, I don't
even remember that line. Wait, that was a line?
That was a line? That was a line in the movie.
Did he say that, Ryan Reynolds? So, Ryan Reynolds
as Pikachu, who's wearing a little Sherlock Holmes
hat, is looking for clues, and he looks to Justice
Smith, who's the main character, human character
in this story. uh gestures to him smell my finger
justice smith says no and then ryan reynolds
without missing a beat says coward yeah it is
this it this is what this movie is chock full
of yeah there's a lot of things that i identified
with so early on there's a snorlax sitting in
the middle of this city where he's blocking all
this road traffic, and you got him a champ directing
traffic around it. That reminds me of the time
you had to get past a Snorlax who was in the
way in the video game. So it's like all these
little references that I remember, I only ever
played up through gold and silver in the Pokemon
playing days. So I missed out on a lot of these
new Pokemon. Like maybe half of them on screen
I did not recognize, but I appreciated the main
ones were all from the original 150. And on that
note, I think they did a good job of keeping
that ratio, right? So you're familiar with, ostensibly,
two -eighths of the Pokemon, of Pokemon, so one
-fourth. Right. You kind of know Squirtle and
Bulbasaur, but you also get Ludicolo! Yeah, right?
Oh, man, that's right. Ludicolo's one of my favorites,
so you just had no idea who Ludicolo was. But
I understood the references, or I understood
the humor that they were going for, I guess.
Maybe it didn't completely land. But I thought,
overall, the movie was... fun in that regard
and it's cool to look at oh this is what a fully
pokemon rendered city would look like yeah humans
and it they kept it to where the pokemon are
still cute they didn't try to make pikachu look
like an actual mouse yeah they kept them in their
pokemon states and i think it's I think they
definitely focused on the main characters. A
couple background characters didn't look that
great. No. You mean, like, you're talking about,
like, the main characters? Yes. Yeah. Some of
them are kind of rough. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
I remember thinking in the theater, too, I was
like, oh. Yeah. They definitely focused on Psyduck
and Pikachu. Yeah, I like Psyduck. Those are
the guys that you've mainly... I don't like Psyduck.
No. When he's having an anxiety attack and they're
like... So I don't mind anything except for the
fact that, like, his eyes always are just kind
of ajar. Yes! No, it's like creepy. Oh, no, I
thought it was cute. The Mr. Mime, though, that
guy was fucking creepy. Yeah, the Mr. Mime, for
those who don't know, is a mime, and they interrogate
him, which is one of the funnier scenes as well.
where Mr. Mime creates this box that Justice
Smith and Pikachu go in. They play good cop,
bad cop. And it gets a little dark when Justice
Smith is pouring gasoline. Like, he's miming,
pouring gasoline on Mr. Mime to make him talk.
And I was like, this is a little dark. And they
end the scene alluding to he accidentally dropped
a... mimed lit match into this trail yeah of
gasoline that would have burned up mr mine so
anyway there is that that struck me in a weird
way and they just went to the next scene yeah
but i hope he's okay yeah but my main my main
complaints of the movie are this it was incredibly
boring Like I said, a year ago, I predicted the
ending. And for me, this is a movie definitely
directed towards kids. For sure. And if it's
a detective movie, you know, part of the fun
of a detective movie is piecing the mystery together
yourself and trying to figure out what is actually
happening here. So a brief synopsis of the plot.
The main guy's father is dead. He is a detective,
or allegedly dead, working in this city where
human and Pokemon live side by side. And that's
what Justice Smith brings him out into the city
to try and figure out if his dad is indeed dead.
And then also there's this mysterious gas that
is taking over the underground Pokemon fighting
world in this city. And it's making these Pokemon
go crazy. Something R? r i think it's it's like
i think it's what it's called the r yeah yeah
i think it's called the r yeah but it's it's
like the r compound or something yeah something
like that yeah something like that and you don't
know why and also the movie opens with mewtwo
breaking out of a lab right making a car crash
um and that all ties in together later but anyway
the reason why i think this movie comes up short
in a lot of ways and i completely recognize this
is for kids yeah but There is so much hand -holding
in this movie in terms of just, like, as the
plot is developed and things are revealed, Ryan
Reynolds, who's doing his Ryan Reynolds thing,
is undercutting all the reveals by saying, oh,
what a twist. Like, oh, this is how it connects
to this thing. And it's supposed to be snippy
and, yeah, so twisty. It's just, like, all the
cute things, but it eventually gets incredibly
annoying because then it's like, okay, you're
just going to spoon -feed me this movie. Too
much to the point of just it being boring. And
I'll say this, Cardinals in number one, they
gave me news position. which is exposition via
a newscast. Where it's just like, oh, here we
go. Like, welcome to this city that has this,
that, and this. And it's just like, oh, you're
literally, this is like, the South Parties think
it's like the laziest thing ever. And they have
committed this sin, too. They're like, we have
failed if the only way to tell this story or
keep people caught up is to have a newscaster
tell what's going on. Because this is so cheap.
That's what I remember about Stick of Truth is
when, like, spaceship crashes into the mall and
they say, oh, they're opening a new Taco Bell.
And it's like, oh, we go to this guy in a bikini
over there. Tom, it's not good. It feels lazy
and they admit it too. And anyway, so that's
where a lot of my... I'll be honest, it took
me two sittings to get through this. Dang. And
this is an hour and 45 minute movie. I was about
to say, it's not a long movie. I was just like...
I was done. It was 45 minutes in and I'm just
like, okay, I'm just going to go watch some Netflix
or something. I'm going to go out to a good place.
Yeah. Get my mind off this and go to bed. Yeah.
I'm working my way through it. Yeah. So good.
Yeah. Keep going. Well, I just, and it's, I'm
struggling to remember it from a year ago and
I guess that's kind of telling. Right. But I
just remember that whole third act just kind
of washed over me and I'm like, what is going
on? Like, I was just so checked out by that point
and I'm like, I had fun with that movie. But
yes, like when, Bill Nighy's character takes
over, becomes Mewtwo, and takes over the whole
entire city. Oh, yeah. Excuse me, the guy in
the wheelchair who's really rich becomes a bad
guy? Yeah. Sick. Yeah. Anyway, so there are enjoyable
things in this movie. I named a couple quotes
that I liked. I did enjoy Ryan Reynolds for the
most part as Pikachu, but the schtick runs so
thin as the movie goes on. Sure. Where it's just
like, quips, quips, quips. And my main thing
is, at the very end, it's revealed that Pikachu
is actually... actually embodying i don't know
the spirit the soul of ryan reynolds he merged
with ryan he merged with him it's confusing as
hell bond soul bond yeah and anyway ryan reynolds
then comes so ryan reynolds was in that car crash
that me too caused the beginning and mewtwo who
has this power to soul bond pokemon with their
humans can also bring them apart anyway after
they solve the mystery of the gas whatever um
mewtwo is this like Your dad was with you the
entire time. And then he takes Ryan Reynolds
out, and then suddenly it's a dad and son reuniting.
And my whole thing is, Pikachu sounds like Ryan
Reynolds the entire time. How does he not say,
hey, you sound familiar? Or... Dad? Right. Any
of those would have been viable things to say.
What if they just gave Ryan Reynolds 2 and Ryan
Reynolds a voice modulator at the end or something
like that? Like, hey, good to see you. Yeah,
right. It should have been voiced by Bob Saget
the whole time. Oh, God. So anyway, and oh, by
the way, I'm still very confused by this. So
Ryan Reynolds comes out. Pikachu's still alive?
Right. Yeah, I don't know how that works either.
Maybe I'm trying to throw way too much logic
into this. For sure. No, but, you know, yeah,
if you're asking questions, right. Yeah. You
can't just enjoy a good kid's movie. Yeah. Stop
being a Grinch. But that's the thing, is that
there are good kid's movies. And, you know. But
this was a good one until Mitchell ruined it.
No. So here's another good line. Mitchell ruined
Christmas. I ruined Christmas. And I think this
movie, by the way, I think. Being the script
doctor is the worst way to be a film critic.
I'm going to go for it anyway. By all means.
This movie would have been fantastic because
it sets itself up to do this. to just poke fun
at the detective movie tropes. Oh, yeah. Because
Ryan Reynolds does that with Deadpool in terms
of the superhero genre and what it's become.
And his voice, his tone, it would just be perfect
for this. And of course you have a little Pikachu
running around with a Sherlock Holmes hat. That
on its own is like a little critique of where
we've come in terms of the old... novels to where
we are today yeah so anyway that's what i would
have done differently but it's made for kids
it got a sequel so it's doing really well and
i will end on a another funny quote All I hear
are consonants and all I see is nipples. Oh,
that's right. I remember when they dropped the
nipple. I was like, what? I should just say the
word nipple? Just to keep the adults awake in
the audience. They'll pepper in those kind of
lines. So I'm going to give this movie a solid...
two Thunderbolts out of five. Oh, okay. That
was higher than I thought it would be. What about
two nipples? Yeah. Two solid nipples. Two solid
nipples. Two was right there waiting for you.
Nah, I didn't want to go there. I didn't want
to leave it there. I'd go there. And so I give
it two, but of course, understand that half of
that half star comes from the fact that they
made the movie. So, yeah, a solid two for them.
Fair. Good job, Detective Pikachu. It did its
job, but it just wasn't for me. Yeah. Hey, man.
Nothing wrong with that. Those are my notes.
Go ahead and get those pre -order tickets for
Tiger Pikachu 2. No. Now be ready. Hard pass.
I'm good, dog. Be ready. Mikey Tanik, you have
one of my most anticipated films of all time
that I heard about only about two weeks ago.
Yeah. And you are about to review this wonderful
movie. So I saw Fantasy Island. Woo! Yay! Which
I'll admit from the very beginning, I think was
not... bad enough to be in our podcast. In terms
of being the bad movie in the podcast. Yeah.
Okay. So what I saw was only the audience, or
the critic score, which was 9%. And to judge
anything by a critic score is rough because everybody
that's a critic... is nitpicking nitpicking nitpicking
and they make it worse and they see every single
movie ever exactly and that's and versus the
audience score which was sitting at a nice 46
% which I think was just too high for what we
are right so I will say that this movie was decent
but not good yep okay but it is definitely not
the worst one I've seen Okay. So I would say
it's probably second best of the ones I've seen.
Crimes of Fashion still remaining first. Wow.
All right. Because Crimes of Fashion knew what
it was. This one didn't know what it was. If
you are a fan of the old 70s TV show Fantasy
Island, you will not like this one. So the idea
is there's this island that grants whatever fantasy
you have. The rules are simple. Only one fantasy
per guest. And the second rule is once you start
your fantasy, you have to complete it to its
natural end. So is this like a resort? Is that
how it's... Pretty much. Hey, here's a resort
where all your fantasies come true. So there's
only six people besides the staff on the island
because they've won a contest and they get to
review it before everybody else. And you don't
know why it's these six people. I'm getting Jurassic
Park vibes here. Well, you don't know why it's
these six people, but it's these six people that
won a contest or whatever. Okay. Michael Pena
is Mr. Rourke, who owns the island. Yeah. And
who is the one that basically flies them out
there. Maggie Q is in it. Lucy Hale. Austin Stowell.
Jimmy Yang. Yep. And then some other people.
And Michael Rooker's also on the island. This
is a Blumhouse movie, right? It is a Blumhouse
movie. Okay. The movie starts with this girl,
Sloane, played by Portia Doubleday. She gets
chased into the office of Mr. Rourke and gets
kidnapped, essentially. You don't know by who.
Gotcha. Then the next time you see her, she is
in Lucy Hale's fantasy, which is to get back
at her high school tormentor. Hmm. Maggie Q wants
to say yes to a guy she said no to originally
when he proposed to her. And the entire time,
there's just this dripping sound. Whenever you
start your fantasy, there's a drip, and it's
very apparent. Okay, so make it obvious. The
fantasies are caused by the water on the island,
and Mr. Rourke essentially spikes your drink
with the water. Sure, okay, why not? The idea
of the entire movie is that all fantasies turn
sour at some point. There's a pair of brothers
who are a white guy and an Asian guy, but it's
because his dad married his mom and they're basically
blah blah blah, whatever. They're brothers that
just want it all. So their fantasy, they get
taken to this nice... house that's all theirs
they have all these models they have a dj they
have everything they could ever want well later
it turns out that they are stealing the house
from a drug dealer and these guys are trying
to like get back the house okay and so yeah it's
um it's screwy it's it's very tough to explain
some of it because like the one guy wants to
be a soldier and he his biggest regret is that
he was never a soldier because he promised his
mom he wouldn't be and so he gets taken in by
these soldiers to the lieutenant lieutenant's
his dad who dies because of a grenade and so
he's just like no i can't like i don't want to
live through my dad dying okay um lucy hale Is
she our main character, by the way? She's one
of our main characters, yes. Because she's the
biggest name. Right. Well, Maggie Q is, too.
Maggie Q. Yeah, okay. And then Michael Peña is
the big name, I guess. But he's, like, running
this, right? He's running this, yes. I'm just
asking for, like, the six people who are visiting
this island. Like, who are we mainly following?
And then, so, the characters' names are Melanie
Sloan, Gwen, Brax is Jimmy Yang, and JD, who
is his white brother. They find out that... Wait,
wait, wait. Jimmy Yang's in this? Jimmy Yang's
in this, yes. Like Silicon Valley Jimmy Yang,
right? Jimmy Yang, Jimmy Yang. Yeah. And so he's
one of the brothers that wants it all and blah,
blah, blah. Yeah, yeah. His brother JD gets killed
by the gangsters that are trying to take back
the house. And everybody becomes zombies when
they're killed if they're part of the fantasy
because they're still alive. Because they need
to finish the fantasy. Oh, okay. Lucy Hale is
tormented by her high school tormentor. She goes
to therapy, and the doctor's miserable, and she
calls him Dr. Torture. He ends up being this
doctor that has, like, this screwed -up face
and is the one doing the torturing on Sloane,
kind of. Oh. And she thinks it's all a hologram
at first, but turns out it's real and blah, blah,
blah, and whatever. But basically they find out
they need to destroy the water in the bottom
of this cave. Destroy it? Destroy it. Like the
well or the source. Destroy the source. But these
are not hallucinations. These are indeed humans.
These are real things. Like you can die in your
fantasy. Oh, you can't die in your fantasy. So
like JD's dead. Gotcha. So they decide they're
going to try to blow up. the thing with another
grenade yes um because it's there's a bunch of
grenades everywhere apparently um as they get
down there they start to realize that they're
all connected in some way okay because maggie
q's gwen saw another fantasy where she tried
to save this boy um from a fire boy's name is
tim taylor Nick Taylor Nick Taylor that's it
so she goes back and like sees that she lived
in this apartment building that caught on fire
Nick died he lived above her she wants to go
back in another fantasy to save him from death
when she Gets out of her apartment. She runs
into Brax and JD, realizing that they're leaving
the other way. They're apparently Nick's old
roommates. Oh. And then she runs out to a cop
who's played by the guy who wanted to be a soldier.
He's a cop that didn't go in to save him. Okay.
And then you realize that they're all kind of
connected somehow. Right. And then... There was
no Lucy Hale's character, which is named Melanie.
She wasn't there, and you learn later it was
because she was supposed to have a date with
him, but she kind of called it off last minute,
so he was home. He wasn't supposed to be home.
Gotcha. But then, it tried for the plot twist.
Oh, let's hear it. My favorite part. What is
it? So, I don't feel like this movie earned its
plot twist. A few movies do. The plot twist was
that they were all part of somebody else's fantasy.
Was it Michael Pena? No. They think it is his
wife, Julia, who is being kept alive by this
thing. So basically, Michael Pena's wife was
dead. He got to Fantasy Island. Fantasy Island
said, if you bring other people's fantasies to
life, I will bring your wife back. Oh. So they
think like, oh, Nick Taylor's mom is obviously
Julia, so it's got to be her that's doing it.
Okay. Nope. It's Lucy Hale. Whoa! Because she
loved him, even though they only went out once.
Okay. Including a line from Jimmy Yang that goes,
they only went out once? Oh, man. So she has
devised this fantasy where basically she gets
revenge on all the people who let Nick die. Okay.
Okay. But then they realize that Sloane isn't
part of this and she hasn't had her fantasy yet.
And her fantasy is that Nick comes back to life
and takes care of Melanie. Which one's Melanie?
That's Lucy Hill. Okay, great. So Nick's... corpse
essentially wakes up in the well or the water
and grabs Melanie and pulls her into the water
like essentially drowning her. Oh. Okay. And
she's able to throw out a grenade. Army boy jumps
on it. He's dead because he saved the other people.
You see the arc. Yeah, there's the arc. His dad
died the same way. Did you understand, Andre?
Okay, got it. Wow. Deep shit right there. Maggie
Q, Jimmy Yang, and Sloan are left alive. They
can fly off the island to their whatever. But
Jimmy Yang's just like, no, I want my fantasy
of my brother back. And Michael Peña's like,
you do realize if... your brother is back to
life. Cause his brother was going to admit to
this girl that he loved her and blah, blah, and
then get shot. Um, and so he's just like, if
you bring your brother back, you have to stay
because otherwise the fantasy ends. And so Jimmy
Yang's like, okay. And so like there, Maggie
Q and Sloan are on the plane. And they're just
like, wait, we've got one more because the guy's
taking off. And then JD looks back from the cockpit
and goes, I don't think he's going to make it.
And then we're going to talk about the end. Oh,
we haven't talked about the end? Yeah. This is
the very, very end. Okay. If you know anything
about the 70s show, you know about some of the
characters. Uh -huh. And so Jimmy N goes to Michael
Payne and is like, what am I going to do now?
Michael Payne goes, you're going to work for
me and you're going to be part of the staff because
your fantasy is alive out there and doing his
own thing. All of that. And he goes, but Brax
is a little weird for a tag. Do you have anything
else you go by? And he goes, yeah, in college
I had this really bad nickname because I had
this really bad tattoo. And literally tattooed
on his chest is the word tattoo. Oh, God. Great.
So he's tattooed. Oh. Does he ever say the plane,
the plane? The first line of the movie is the
plane, the plane said by Julia. Oh, gotcha. Okay.
Great. So I'm just looking at the, this is the
genius of Blumhouse, by the way. Budget, $7 million.
Oh, wow. Okay. And box office, 41. Already. God
fucking damn it. That's the thing. Cheap horror
movies. That is their, outside of doing Black
Klansman and Whiplash, their primary business
model is cheap ass horror movies. Because didn't
you watch Happy Death Day or something like that?
That's a Blumhouse, I'm pretty sure. That's what
they do. They have mastered this. This is their
MO. Oh my god, this bugs the hell out of me now.
What? Do you know how bad this movie was? In
terms of? Jason Blum wanted Nicolas Cage to play
Mr. Rourke, but Cage, Passed on the role. Oh,
wow. When Nicolas... Wow. That's a bad look.
No, I feel like Nicolas Cage actually would have
made this movie better. Yes, for sure. It would
have been... Well, no, because he was just...
He was so boring. Like, Michael Peña can be crazy
and fun. Yeah. It's just such a boring role.
But I think Nicolas Cage doesn't care about that.
Yeah, right. He would have made it. It still
would have been boring. I don't know, dude. I
think so. I've seen Nicolas Cage. The way the
dialogue was, I don't know how you could have
made it crazy. Dude, just put it in the hands
of Nicolas Cage and the way his mind interprets
words. Yeah. It's quite fantastic. Anyways. So,
like I said, it was a decent movie. Not good,
but decent. It made the time go by. What was
more awkward... It made the time go by. What
was more awkward was the old couple that was
in front of me in the movie theater. Yes, tell
me. Because there was only three people in the
theater, me, and this 80 -year -old couple that,
like, walkers getting into the seats and stuff.
And I'm just sitting there going, they think
it's Fantasy Island from the 70s. Oh, gosh. It's
not going to be a fun little romp through Fantasy
Island. Did they stay? Yes, they did. They stayed
through the whole movie, and I talked to them
after, actually. And that's what they expected.
They see almost every scary movie out there.
Oh, wow. Okay, gotcha. They're scare junkies,
and I kind of wanted to talk to them to come
on the show, because I think it would be kind
of fun. That's a cool little plot twist. Yeah.
Because you text us, like, oh, God, is there
a couple in here, and I think they're expecting
Fantasy Island. I freaked the fuck out. I was
not uncomfortable for myself. I was uncomfortable
for them. Glad they got what they came there
for, I suppose. I guess. Yeah. But, yeah. So,
if we're going to review it, I'll give it literally
a 1 .25 out of 5. Hey! Okay. So, you know, like,
spiked drinks is what I'll call it. Okay, great.
That's fun. Yeah. Nice. So, like, it was decent,
not good. Gotcha. I don't suggest anybody to
watch it, but at the same time, if you watch
it, you're not going to be pissed off about it.
Yeah. You're just going to be like, oh, okay,
that made... Fuck. Two hours go away. Yeah. So.
Two hours go away. Doolittle also made two hours
go away, but I was not happy. Yeah. I wanted
to hate this movie. Yeah. This is what I will
say. I went in and I was like, all right, I'm
going to critique every little thing. And when
it started with the plane, the plane, I was just
like, oh God, it's going to be this. Yeah. Right.
It turned where it was just like, it wasn't scary.
Yeah. Um, was it tense? It was tense, but it
wasn't scary. Got it. Uh, Dr. Torture kind of
is. ridiculous to me he looked like a dentist
more than like a doctor that was going to murder
you and then there was the whir that made the
zombies pop their eyes and that was kind of gruesome
but that's about it gotcha so yeah cool okay
on to movies coming out soon or things were excited
dreading whatever sure yeah i'm gonna cheat as
i feel like i'm always cheating on this one but
it's because it just got announced today They
announced that, oh, I should look them up. The
Last of Us miniseries on HBO just got announced.
That's not cheating. Yeah, it's, like, technically
not a movie. Well, okay, how about this? It was
supposed to be a movie. Like, they originally
announced, like, I think, like, four or five
years ago at this point, a Last of Us movie adaptation,
feature film adaptation. And it was, like, I
don't know. Like, we just didn't hear anything
about it, you know? We still hear random stuff
about the Uncharted movie that's supposed to
come out randomly. It's still coming out. Yeah,
they're still making it. They're still finding
a director, apparently. Isn't it still Tom Holland,
though? Which is weird. Yes. So it was Mark Wahlberg,
and then they... Pivoted to Tom Holland, yeah.
Anyways, whatever. Not excited for the Uncharted
movie. I am excited and cautiously optimistic
for this miniseries because A, I think a miniseries
format fits that video game's narrative much
better than a feature -length film. Okay. And
B, Craig Mazin, I think that's how you pronounce
his last name, he, well, I mean, kind of, he
wrote and directed Chernobyl. Oh, nice. But the
thing is, is that before that, he was mostly
a script doctor on, like, really bad movie. Like,
he, like, I think he wrote Hangover 2 or something
like that. He was one of the writers on Hangover
2, and, like, basically... Not great. Yeah, right.
Lots of comedy cash cow sequels, and so it was
kind of, like, an out -of -nowhere thing that
he, like, wrote and directed. Like, something
as serious and well, and, you know, well thought
out as Chernobyl. But, yeah, I don't know. I'm
consciously optimistic. It looks like Naughty
Dog, the developers of the original game, are
working very closely, because, like, they're,
I mean, that was just from, like... This is their
baby. Yes, but that's the thing. It's like so
many, you know, like, I don't think... That's
probably why it had so many different directors
is that, like, it's just their... so particular
about it, too. The Uncharted movie, you mean?
Oh, no. Well, yeah, that, too, maybe. Yeah, no.
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, so Neil Druckmann,
the director, well, the co -director of The Last
of Us 1 and 2 is, like, very excited about it,
so he's going to volunteer. When's the release
date? They haven't said anything about it just
yet. Because I'm curious if they're going to
make this push for this to be an exclusive HBO
Max thing, or is this going to be HBO linear,
then you could also watch it on Max, but... like
as soon as i'm hearing content being announced
by companies like hbo and disney and whatever
there's always an angle now that streaming has
become king and what's the gameplay here right
so anyway um Pardon the pun there. But the last
of, I love, I'm not a big video game at all.
But I remember this was, I don't know, 14, 2014,
13? 2013. Yeah. So my roommate at the time was
playing it. And I just enjoyed watching. Right.
You know, I watched the entire thing. Came home
from work or from school. And then I'm watching
this guy play this beautifully detailed game
with an awesome story. It's a post -apocalyptic
story that I just really dug, and I'm really
excited to see how they adapt it. Yeah. I think
it's really well done. I would say my one caveat
is, to your point, I also think you can get a
lot of the enjoyment out of The Last of Us from
watching it already, so I don't know how much
you're going to get out of shifting the medium,
if that isn't where, you know what I mean? Like,
it's already so close to. prestige television
show I think you're expanding the audience for
sure you're right I think an older audience would
still enjoy this lower barrier of entry you don't
have to play anything yes for sure so I guess
maybe it's not even for me it's for a larger
audience to your point so is Last of Us 2 already
out no I think that's why they're announcing
this now Last of Us 2 was supposed to be out
by now they delayed it I think it's coming out
in May this year something like that it's close
it's very close it's definitely summer release
like May or June maybe yeah so I'm curious if
they're going to incorporate parts of two into
it. They made it sound, and Neil Druckmann, the
director, made it sound like it was going to
be mostly the first one. Because there's a very
large time skip between one and two. So, yeah.
Yeah, because she's almost like an adult now.
Yes. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, anyways. I'm very excited
for that, too. Cool. So I got a movie that's
going to be coming out, I believe, in May. So
it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival back
in September. And it is a psychological horror
flick. So you know that A24 scooped that thing
up as the distributor. And it is called Saint
Maude. Saint Maude. I lately... Maude. M -A -U
-D. No, it's Maude. Like, M -A -U -D -E. It's
missing the E. Like, I saw the trailer for it
before Fantasy Out. That's what I'm saying, right?
Maude? Yeah? I guess, yeah. All right. It sounded
weird. Fine. Go. You're good. Tight. So Saint
Maude, thank you, is a psychological horror movie.
It just, it screams, exorcists, Carrie, all those
classic horror movies that I only recently have
started watching and appreciating. I used to
hate scary movies. And then just over time, you
just develop the taste and you're like, wow,
this is just a whole new style of filmmaking
and also very cheap. And it just allows. cheap
also very cheap meaning that you know, you're
dealing with casts that are younger or just dealing
with storylines that aren't going to get the
light of day in another genre. So things like
The Witch or It Follows, those kind of like modern
classics. I feel like this is coming from the
same vein. I grew up Catholic, so a lot of the
religious imagery in there kind of speaks to
me in a very odd way. But anyway, the brief synopsis
is there is this religious young woman. I'm not
sure if she's a teenager or early 20s. but she
is a religious fanatic, like Opus Dei Catholic
style, where she goes through self -torture in
order to show her worthiness to God. And there's
a point, and I'm just reading this on Wikipedia,
that she feels that she is also being possessed.
So that is where the horror element comes into
play. So anyway, I'm very excited for St. Maude.
I think it's going to be coming out in the U
.S. in May. I need to double -check that, but
it's going to be one of those... spring early
summer type movies weird spot for a horror movie
a little bit yeah but i'm gonna check it out
for sure um so anyway and you guys are more than
welcome to come and join me totally only tangent
didn't us kind of come out around that same time
though us was february yeah it was february oh
you're right it wasn't really never mind then
cool yeah us was february and then get out i
think was march or april so maybe who knows maybe
that's like a new wheelhouse area for horror
movies to come out sure and granted that's jordan
peele it's a totally different ball yes for sure
like he could sell those well antebellum is coming
out in the summer i think that looks really good
too yeah and he's producing yes i know that but
he's producing at least and i love janelle monaise
and it's really cool to see her in a leading
role it's a cool looking movie oh for sure yeah
yeah so that one i'm also excited for yeah but
anyway good hopefully a good year for horror
yeah so we'll see I can tell you Fantasy Island,
no. No. Maybe not a good start, but it was profitable.
Not a good start. Good for Blumhouse. Good for
the money. What do you got? So, I try to stay
in the next two weeks, and there's two things
that I'm arguing with that I want to talk about,
because there's a Netflix movie coming out based
on a book series that I love that looks awful.
Love it. So, it's called Spencer Confidential.
The Spencer books, the reason I love it is, like,
it's smart. wise -cracking Boston guy. Cool.
Okay? They picked Mark Wahlberg. Sure. Fine.
Problem is, in the books, he's a heavyweight.
Like, he's a heavyweight boxer. Yeah. Okay. I
don't picture Marky Mark. Didn't he bulk up for
the fighter and all that? He did, but he's not
for this. Okay, got it. And then they're making
it modern, so they have Winston Duke, which I'm
like, I love Winston Duke. Great. But they made
him so different than the character in the book.
The character in the book is problematic, so
I kind of understand it, because they do have
to kind of change it. You know, there's a lot
of... And we're tossing around and that kind
of stuff that he calls himself. Sure. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. You know, it's not, it's not. They're probably
going to turn that down. Exactly. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Exactly. And like, I get that. But at the
same time, like, it just, they made him almost
too far the opposite. Okay. Yeah. I don't know.
Gotcha. It seems weird. I'm not looking forward
to it. That's not what I'm going to, I just need
to get that out because I'm pissed about it.
Okay. I understand. The movie that I'm going
to talk about that I have no clue what it is.
The Way Back. Yeah. The Ben Affleck movie. Another
Boston legend. And it's getting great reviews.
Yeah, right. It's getting, yeah. My issue is
the trailers I've seen. Mm -hmm. It looks like
a cheesy sports movie. It does, yeah. Right.
Yeah. That's what I thought. Right. And then
when I saw the long trailer before a movie, it
has this religious aspect where it's just like,
oh, it's a religious school. They talk about
God a lot in the trailer. Yeah. So, fine. Dandy.
Whatever. It's rated R. Oh. Yeah. Who is this
movie for? Is this like drug use? I don't know.
Is that what the way back refers to? Do they
just say fuck twice? Yeah, they used too many,
said fuck one too many times. So that's what
confuses me, because if it's a feel -good sports
movie, and I'm not saying anything bad about
the movie itself, because I have no clue, and
it's currently 85 -86 % on Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah,
right. So it's coming out this week. And it finally
got this and I'm like, oh, it's actually good.
But it's just like, it seems like the cheesy
sports movie. Right. Yet it's got an R rating.
So maybe that's the fault of the trailer, right?
Yes. So the movie probably knows what it is and
then the trailer that's like, oh, this is the
angle that's going to sell it. If anything, it
could be like a studio intervention. I mean,
like, we need to sell this as a feel good. Sports
movie, you know, people are worried about it
not reaching mass appeal. But, like, you want
to bring your kids to it. Like, I remember watching
Remember the Titans as a kid, PG -13 movie still.
Right. What was, what reading was Miracle? Was
Miracle? That was, like, PG. Was that PG -13?
Yeah, okay. No, it was PG. PG? 100 % PG. Okay,
got it. You can look in there, it's in there.
Oh, yeah. That's a great movie. But it's definitely
PG. Read it in R, that's crazy. Yeah. And that's
what confuses me about this movie, I just don't
know who it's for. Ben Affleck, by the way, in
his press tour for this, just seems like the
most depressed human being on the planet right
now. He really does, yeah. It is so sad. I know.
I mean, he just seems depressed always. He's
just going through stuff, man. Do you remember
when he kind of announces Batman and he's sitting
there with Henry Cavill and it's just, no darkness.
I thought that was when they were talking about
Batman v Superman's critical reception, right?
That was why Henry Cavill was like, well, you
know, I think we stand by the film and generally
whatever. Ben Affleck ever seemed excited about
it. No, he never did. Even before the critical
reception. But, we digress. Let's close this
thing up. So, you heard about some movies. We
have some very fun things planned for the future.
Some interviews maybe on the show and that kind
of stuff. Yeah, so we're going to talk about
that, try to lay some groundwork so we can get
some people in here or, like, calling in or whatever.
Yeah. But, yeah, so we're going to have some
interviews. We're going to still talk some movies.
We're going to see some shit. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Do some challenges that are going to be on the
old Instagram and Facebook and everything. T
-Dog will lose again, which is great. Right,
because he's not here to play by proxy, so there
you go. Take it out, T -Dog. Yep. So, for myself,
Mike Butanik. I'm Troy Bellinger. I'm Mitchell
Clements. This is Game for a Movie, where we
ask, are you game for a movie? Yeah. Yeah, I
think so. I'm up to it. I'm sure. Why not? Cool.
Yeah. Sick.