Welcome into Game for a Movie. This is the 21st
episode, guys, and it is our special quarantine
edition. Yeah! We are coming from three different
places right now. I am joined by... Mitchell
Clements. Yeah! And Andre Bellinger. We're both
remote. All of us. All three of us, rather. Exactly.
And I am Mikey Tank, your host. You can't really
get the social cues here. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Mike is... literally a picture of himself. Well,
I turned off my camera because otherwise he'd
be facing the ceiling, so I tried to be nice.
You want me to turn it off? Fine. I'll leave
it on the camera. No, I like your smiling face.
Nope, there you go. You get ceiling. Oh, boo!
It's a huge ceiling. Yeah, you're welcome. That's
my skin tone. Oops. It's okay. There we go. Hi.
So, Kind of by accident, we did watch one bad
movie, all of us together, through Netflix Party,
which was great. And then by accident, we saw
the same movie at different points together,
kind of. So we're going to talk about the good
movie first, and then we'll get to the bad movie.
The good movie being, we saw Onward, the newest
from Disney Pixar. Let's start with Andre. What
was your thoughts on that? Yeah. With your woo
there. Onward? Yeah. Oh, onward. Okay, well,
honestly, I really liked it. It was a lot of
fun. It pretty much, I am very overwhelmed by
it. It was an enjoyable watch. I'll probably
watch it, you know, maybe six months, a year
down the line again. And, yeah, I don't know.
It was a solid, fun, animated movie with touching
moments. And I pretty much got what I wanted
out of it. Okay, what did you think going in?
That's really why I'm asking you first, is because
I think you had the strongest thoughts going
in. Well, so I was saying to you guys, and this
is not a super uncommon opinion, that it kind
of felt like a DreamWorks movie, and I should
clarify that, and that it's not a black mark
on the movie. There are a lot of DreamWorks movies
that I absolutely adore, How to Train Your Dragons
1 and 2 among them. It just kind of, I don't
know, it was like... When I saw that trailer,
I was like, huh, that's a Pixar movie? It just
didn't feel like a Pixar movie, at least from
the trailers to me. Something about the art style,
I think really what it comes down to is that
it's kind of a more conventional fantasy style,
which is totally fine. But when you look at the
rest of Pixar's catalogs, I feel like a lot of
the fantasy elements from those movies are a
little bit more creative or they're rooted in
real culture, like Coco. And I don't know. Pop
isn't the right word, but it just didn't seem
quite Pixar -y to me. But yeah, that's kind of
where my head was at going into the movie. Mitchell,
did you have any thoughts like that when you
were first going in to watch it, or no? Yeah,
I mean, from the trailers I did. So before I
saw the movie, I had obviously seen the trailers
like everyone else, and then I was actually at
Disneyland when they were still promoting the
film. It was before it had come out. marketing
that they actually had inside the park kind of
sold me more on what ended up being the emotional
driver of the movie where it ended up being a
movie about brothers and a movie about father
and sons and for whatever reason those who are
inside the park got a better taste of that than
you would have if you were just to watch a trailer
in front of a movie or on YouTube or whatever
so I thought overall as great of a marketing
machine that Disney can be Let's be honest, this
is a movie they put out in March. So maybe not
the most confident release date for a Pixar movie.
You know, that's this one red flag that came
up to me. But at the end of the day, I'm with
Andre. I was pleasantly surprised by it. It hit
a lot of big emotional chords for me. It was
the last movie I watched before quarantine set
in. So I was in the theater watching it. It's
that cool experience of hearing other people
react to stuff on screen. I was hearing a lot
of crying, or very soft sobbing and sniffling
when the big emotional beats happened. That definitely
raises the experience for me in terms of why
I like this movie so much. To Andre's point,
and I think the more I think about it, why is
the DreamWorks comparison so applicable here?
I think it's because if you look at how The world
is set up in super high concept where it's just
like, hey, this is a world in which if all those
fantasy stories from the past were true and that
is just the lore of normal Earth, I guess, this
is what normal Earth would look like if trolls
existed, blah, blah, blah, along with being,
you know, 2020. or 2019 where we have technology
so it's what I'm trying to say is that in a lot
of movies like you would see in Shrek like the
self -referential hey this is the Shrek version
of Disneyland and it's Castle you know what I
mean literally I don't know why it took me so
long but as soon as you said that it reminded
me of Shrek 2 in that way because it was like
when they went to I forget what the actual not
Duloc but the where Fiona's parents were. Very
much similar vibe, right? Oh, yeah, it was supposed
to be Hollywood. It was supposed to be Hollywood.
Exactly, yeah. High fantasy set in modern times,
as it were. So that's kind of why the setting
felt familiar to me, at least. And the other
Pixar movie I felt that kind of had the same
vibe, and it's the last Pixar movie that Dan
Scanlon directed, who directed Onward, was Monsters
University, where this ended up being a college
movie movie kind of in the vein of animal house
but it's in the monsters universe and stuff so
it's a lot of like little easter egg jokes on
screen and stuff and the monsters university
yeah that's that's what it is oh nailed it you
got it even from far away i still got it i think
all of those things um like kind of equated to
what ended up being a dreamworks vibe though
i absolutely did enjoy this movie Nice. Yeah,
I think I had the, well, I don't know for sure,
but I think I had like the strongest opinion
of like, I really want to go see that. For whatever
reason, I had circled this one. This is one of
those ones that I was just like, I'm ready for
this one. I can't wait. And I think. What it
comes down to is, yes, I like being an only child
and everything like that. This is the one I related
to where I wanted a brother like this. Like,
that's what I took out of it. So I really looked
forward to this one. And plus, it's got Chris
Pratt and Tom Holland, like, two people that
are absolutely amazing. Yeah, those are two actors
that are super fun to watch, right? Exactly.
So I was never worried that I wouldn't. be entertained
by this movie. It was always like, oh man, this
sounds like a fun time. Yeah, exactly. It was
one of those ones that kind of felt... Like the
main feeling I had from everybody else was just
kind of, it's going to be good, but it's just
going to be good. You know, like that kind of
thing. Whereas I was like, I was feeling this
is going to be great. I'm so excited. I'm really
ready for this. So it was, like I said, it was
just one of those films where it's just like,
this is how I related because I wanted a brother
like that. I wanted an older brother or I wanted
a younger brother that I could be the older brother.
And like, cause growing up, you know, you don't
feel the most. confident you don't think you're
going through everything correctly and that kind
of stuff and that was the message that i liked
about it was having that somebody where you can
be like hey am i doing this right am i going
through this right oh for sure yeah yeah so i
don't know i loved it i really did i think um
uh i really enjoyed it and we'll probably watch
it sooner than your six months to another year
andre okay um But yeah, going through it and
everything like that, I really enjoyed it. It
is different. I'm sorry. Go for it. No, go for
it, please. Well, I was just going to say it
is different because I think I would have liked
it more having seen it in theaters. It is different
first watch through at home. I don't know. Like
how so? Like the visuals just didn't have as
much of a punch for you? Well, no, as Mitchell
was saying that he saw it in theaters, like hearing
others' reactions and that kind of stuff. wanting
to know what other people are thinking. You know
what I mean? Gotcha. So for me, that is the,
I mean, I think movie theaters, we're seeing
this now, you know, the, the entertainment industry
can evolve into something else. The theaters
did not exist. It may not be as lucrative because
a lot of, uh, companies, uh, like Disney who
put out a ton of tentpole features over here,
make a crap load of money with box office. But
most, uh, major distributors don't have the same
arsenal that disney has so they're taking you
know they're kind of hedging their bets and we've
been seeing a lot of uh digital releases from
universal lately right for those that should
have been premiered in theaters by now so what
i'm what i'm saying is to mike's point you know
this whole thing of you know watching something
at home it doesn't have that special feeling
That little icing on the cake that the in -theater
experience offers. I'll say this, guys. We all
saw Endgame together, right? The Last Avengers
movie. Imagine watching that three -hour movie
at home. You know what I mean? Compared to watching
it in a jam -packed theater. We also saw Infinity
War together. Imagine watching that at home after
big emotional moments happen at the end where
you're hearing children crying. Spider -Man just
died. Spoilers. Sorry for spoiling. Marvel movies
only get two weeks. It's fine. Oh, for sure.
Yeah. But yeah, it's just, I'm going to miss
that. And I feel like because of what's happening
right now, a lot of theaters or a lot of distributors
are going to start valuing in -home distribution
just a little bit more. When I watch something
on Netflix, it is just not quite the same. No
matter how great of a movie The Irishman was,
it will never be, you know... You wish you could
see it in theater. Exactly. It won't be The Departed.
It won't be Wolf of Wall Street or any of the
other Marty movies that I've seen on screen.
It's just different. It's just different. Departed
feels different because I'm right there with
you on that. Departed is one of my favorite movies
of all time because I saw it in theaters. And
now going back, it's still great. Don't get me
wrong. But it just doesn't have that same punch
as it did. And it could just be I saw it for
the first time in theaters, so I'm holding it
there. But at the same time, I'm going, it just
doesn't feel the same, you know? Right. You definitely
saw it at that right age, Mike. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I definitely didn't sneak in. Um, I will say
it was kind of, I feel like the circumstances
of world events kind of actually made this movie
hit a little harder for me only because I've
been talking to my brother way more frequently
because we're all cooped up inside. And so I
was kind of feeling the whole theme of brotherhood,
even just maybe probably like 10, 15 % a little
bit more magnified. And I was like, I was watching
it with Jill and I was like, this movie is cheating
because it's tugging at the exact heartstrings
that are vulnerable for me right now. So, uh,
It's just, you know, the main theme of Brotherhood
definitely hit a stronger chord with me because
I have a brother that I'm pretty close with.
So that's why I like this movie as much as I
did. Nice. I'm kind of curious to see if I was
able to see this movie in theaters under normal
circumstances, if it would hit the same. But,
yeah, I don't know. Just something that's rolling
around in my head. You can still at least think
of your brother. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Okay,
so let's jump into ratings for this. Along that
same point, let's start with you, Andre. So what
would you give this rating -wise? I'm going to
give this one 3 .5 D20s out of 5. Nice. Okay.
Mitchell? I'm going to go with a very solid,
very solid 3 out of 5 Manticores. And I'm choosing
Manticore because... My favorite character, just
scene -stealing character, was Octavia Spencer's
weird lion -dragon hybrid character. Scorpion.
She was so much fun. I wish there was more of
her, to be honest with you. She was a lot of
fun. Oh, God. And she killed it vocal performance
-wise. I was laughing my ass off. So, yes, three
out of five. Absolutely loved it. See, I... Go
ahead. Middle of the road Pixar for me. Okay.
Yeah, so that's why three out of five. I'm with
you with Manticore as a scene -stealing, like,
great character. I also really loved Colt Bronco.
He's cheesy as hell, but I just loved how he
would laugh at his own jokes and it would be
a nay. It's those little details. Also, Claire
caught this and I missed it. Did you notice that
his car was a Ford Bronco? Yes. Yes. Yes. I totally
missed it until she pointed it out. Um, I mean,
I'm kind of in the same boat. It's funny. We
have the spectrum from three to four covered
because I'm going to say it is four sprites out
of five for me. Hey, there it is. Yeah. So yeah,
I really enjoyed this one. That was one I was
excited for too. So I guess that gave it a little
more weight to it too. Um, but yeah, so, all
right, let's jump into the meat and potatoes
of this. Oh, man. Yes. Oh, so excited. Save the
movie. So we watched a movie about two weeks
ago now. We watched it on Netflix Party, as I
said. I'm going to shout it out again because
that was actually kind of, that was really fun
to watch with you guys this way. For sure. But
we watched China Salesman. Yeah, China Salesman.
Which continues. Whenever I do an image search,
I don't know how this movie keeps getting more
and more posters. Like, there's so many images.
I'm just going to say the same thing. Like, I'm
seeing, like, three different posters just looking
and Googling it for reference. If you look at
it, there's so many different posters for this
damn movie. Does anybody want to start talking
about this movie? No. It's a Chinese propaganda
film. That was not even popular in China. I will
say. Right. It's true. Terrible numbers in China.
Oh, wow. Yeah. What is it? 20 million budget,
1 .5 million box office. And that's in U .S.
dollars. So, yeah. Jesus Christ. According to
Wikipedia, at least. Yeah. It is a, I guess,
top level. It's an action movie. That shouldn't
be an action movie. What's that? It's an action
movie that really shouldn't be an action movie.
Right. Yeah. And it's basically what got us to
watch it was that the two main actors on the
poster were Steven Seagal and Mike Tyson. And
I'll say one of those two actors has a prominent
role in this movie. And the other one has, let's
say, a glorified cameo. Oh, yeah. Yes. can't
talk about this movie without rambling hard i
think i think just to be fair yes chinese propaganda
movie um 100 behind that there is literally a
scene where a guy is under under heavy fire he's
behind a bunker or i guess a makeshift bunker
i guess behind a tank and in order to stop the
fire uh all the you know people shooting at him
in africa what he does is he lifts up a chinese
flag which i guess calms everyone down because
they're not part of the rival army or whatever
i guess i don't know but it was like a michael
bay -esque uh tracking shot this guy just picks
up the chinese flag it starts running down this
pathway and then everyone's just inspired to
stop shooting um it just reminds me a lot of
something that you would have seen in like transformers
uh but it would be all sparked, but instead they're
doing it with the Chinese flag. I think we should
read the plot. So if I can, here's the plot as
told by Wikipedia. Yang Jian, a young Chinese
IT engineer, volunteers to go to North Africa
and help the company he works for to win a competition.
The winner can own the right to control the communication
between South and North. French spy Michael is
ordered to go to North Africa and win the competition,
so France can control the mineral resources of
Africa. Uh -oh. He hires the best mercenary in
Africa, Lauder, and a former general, Kabad,
to help him. Jan discovers their conspiracy and
is the only one who can stop them. All right,
so, Clover, disclosure, Lauder, the mercenary,
That's Steven Seagal, right? And then Cabal is
Mike Tyson? No. Cabal is Mike Tyson. Cabal is
Mike Tyson. Steven Seagal is louder. Yes. Really?
Right. Okay. I got that way confused. Yeah. That's
why I wanted to read it. Yeah. So Steven Seagal
and Mike Tyson share one scene together and it's
the very beginning of the movie where they have
this random fucking bar fight. didn't even know
that louder was a mercenary i i didn't i didn't
understand his character like he was just kind
of there i don't even know yeah he was there
and you think because he's a part of the uh you
know the opening sequence you're like okay so
they are going to set up this Mike Tyson versus
Steven Seagal type of movie. Right. And that
is literally the only time those two fight. Oh,
by the way, Steven Seagal disappears for about
two hours. And we don't see him until the end.
And he just randomly... Go for it. He just randomly
appears again. Like, he's just randomly there
to, like, he's a deus exigalia. Yeah. Well, he
doesn't do anything important. I don't even know.
most of the movie happened without him. Like,
he shows up at the beginning, has a cool fight
scene, well, not cool, but, you know, a dumbass
fight scene with Mike Tyson, and then two hours,
the actual movie happens, and at the very end,
in, like, the denouement, or whatever, Seagal
shows up again, he's like, hey, I'm still in
this movie, I'm one of the best in Africa, or
whatever, I'm a special forces guy, cool, you
know, whatever. If that movie had all, it was
just the same length, and it was just one big
Tyson versus Seagal cheesy fight, it would have
been a better movie. Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure.
Because the only entertainment value in this,
in my opinion, was not the fighting between Mike
Tyson and Steven Seagal, but the acting. It was
the dueling banjos of bad actors in that opening
action scene. And I absolutely loved it. What
was Mike Tyson's accent supposed to be? It was
supposed to be... Because it kept changing. It
kept changing. It was North African for a while,
and then suddenly it was European, and then maybe
he slipped back into his normal Brooklyn accent.
I don't know. It just kept shooting up and down.
And then Steven Seagal, they pulled this guy
off comatose just to be on the freaking movie.
He barely delivered words or sentences. He looked
like he just woke up in every single scene and
here he is fighting, quote unquote. But I will
hand it to, maybe I should hand it, to the poor
editor or editors who had to try and make Steven
Seagal look like an athletic fighter. Oh my God.
That's true. You're right. Every camera shot
was like chest up. He never moved his feet, right?
Oh my god. Yeah, the stunt choreography was something
to behold, I would say, for that fight. We're
not even talking about the best part of this
film. Come on, guys. We need to talk about the
dialogue and how every time the main character
was introduced, oh, you're just a China salesman.
That's true. Oh my god. They do the we're some
kind of Suicide Squad moment like at least 15
times in this movie. It's so good. The amount
of times that Mike said roll credits probably
was at least 30. That's my favorite joke when
watching a movie when they say the name and you
just go roll credits. It's one of my favorite
jokes. And I love how you call it the Suicide
Squad moment because it's totally the moment.
Just some kind of China salesman. This Wikipedia
page is great. I don't know how much of it is
true, but I don't really care. So it says China
salesman, also known as deadly contract. It is.
Trial of warfare. It is. What? Yes. I'm seeing
two alternate titles here. There is like four
titles for this movie. If you look up China salesman
in images, like I was saying about all the different
posters. there's literally the same poster with
different names. Deadly Contract, like there's
Warzone Crisis or something like that. It's got
a million different names. And we're talking
about the poster a lot because it has Seagal
and Tyson like the poster boys and literally
they have one scene together. Right. What's her
voice? Uh, no. I'm just perusing the IMDb trivia
page for this film as you do. And one of the
top ones is there's a Mandarin speaking scene
where Steven Seagal interrupts a conversation
between Dong Shu Li, that's the main character,
and Li Ai, telling them to speak English. This
was due to Seagal forgetting his lines. It really
left the final cut of the movie. Wait, that made
it in? They left it in, yeah. This movie's incredible.
I remember him saying that, too. I was like,
what? God. Oh, my gosh. Literally, we were all
watching it, even T -Dog, and T -Dog was playing
Overcooked while watching this. I couldn't really
blame him, you know? I mean... Oh, I wanted to
do a million things different than that. I had
a fun time watching this movie. This was not...
Let's see. I don't know. It's hard to gauge into
how bad and the bad movies we've seen because
it's such a different type of bad. It was entertaining
in its own way, I would say. I'm never going
to watch it again. It's not like the room level,
like, I need people to see this movie. But it
had its own entertainment value to it, I think.
With this specific group of people, at least.
It's like second or third top worst movie for
me. Like, not the opposite way. Like, not worst
worst. It was like, okay, this was entertaining.
Okay. I'm trying to think what that last one
was that I watched that was, I got second. It
still remains that stupid mafia movie with Megan
Fox and Kaley Cuoco. Crimes of Fashion. Yeah,
that's still number one of the best, worst bad
movies I've seen. But this one's like second
or third, probably, of that. So, you know, because
it's stupid. It's like, it's entertaining stupid.
Guys, okay, so go through IMDb's user reviews.
Check this out. So I finally found a 10 out of
10. The headline is, you people are all crazy,
because most of these reviews are like 1 out
of 10. Oh, God. I'll just read it. This movie
is great, followed by a billion exclamation marks.
It's more of a life -changing experience than
a film. So many delicious layers. I hope there's
a follow -up delving deeper. It's his Seagal's
character. What brought him to Africa? Money.
Was there fallout from him helping the China
salesman? Was he invited to the China salesman
and Susanna's wedding? What did he give them
for a wedding present? Will he ever find a love
of his own? We didn't even talk about Susanna.
This person is great. We didn't even talk about
Susanna, the white woman that just falls for
the China salesman. Oh, for sure. Played by the
incomparable Janique Oskivald. Oh, yeah, she
was great in that one movie. Yeah, you'll know
her from things like The Smurfs 2 and Blood from
a Stone. Oh. So there are those things. She was
in The Full House, which I guess, I don't know
what The Full House is. This might be a French
movie. French movie, yeah. It is not. It is not
The Full House you're thinking of. It is not.
All right. Well, it's verse two. She definitely
played a pregnant model. That is her character's
name. Pregnant model. Oh. So there you go. Pregnant
model. Okay. All right. Alright. This would be,
I'm sure she was just trying to find some space
to really show off her acting range. So she's
like, sign me up for this. She read the China
Salesman script and said, sign me up. I can't
wait to work with Mr. Seagal. The funny thing
is, working with these actors, she was like ten
times better than she probably ever has been
before. Yeah, I mean, you know, whatever. Yeah,
right. Just... She's the A -lister compared to
these two. Yes, very true, very true. Oh, my
God. I think it's interesting that they cast
two, obviously for a hope of selling this movie
to people. You get Steven Seagal, Mike Tyson,
two Americans, two guys who are immediately recognizable,
especially Tyson with the tattoo and all that.
Typically, you see American stars, especially
of a fading variety, they'll go overseas and
they'll do these one -off commercials back home,
and then most people will never see them in their
home country. Just like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
What happened there? He went to Italy. Oh, that's
right. He went to Italy and did the Spaghetti
Westerns. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Don't give me that.
I actually watched the movie. Come on. No, yeah,
that was it. I thought you were making a joke.
No, no. Yeah, no, you absolutely nailed it. So
you get Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal here. My
heart broke for Steven Seagal a little bit because
I'm sure there's a whole catalog of these movies
that he's done since he's been, like, since he
left his prime, right? I mean, there's, like...
That's a great way of putting it. Yeah, like,
I'm just trying to be nice here. He's not a...
He's not a great actor by any means, but he was
definitely one of the great... He's not a great
person by any means, but whatever. Anyway, sorry.
Yeah, he was a bankable action star in the 90s.
And since then, outside of China Salesman, because
we watched it for a podcast, I would not have
known of any of his other movies that have come
out recently. Under Siege? Insane. Under Siege,
for sure. Yeah, that's like a big one. Yeah.
Well, that's like his most iconic, I would say.
That's the first one that pops into my head when
I think of him. Oh, dude. He was in a movie called
Beyond the Law with DMX. We know our next one.
Dude, that came out last December. Is it on Netflix?
And can we Netflix party it? Yeah, I'm doing
it right now. Beyond the Law. I feel like you
can just do this with guys like him. I guess
Nicolas Cage, but he'll pop up in some actual
decent stuff every now and again. Speaking of
Nicolas Cage, I rewatched Community. And there's
a class they offered in one of the community
episodes that was called Nick Cage, good or bad.
And it's all about if he's a good or bad actor.
And I've been thinking about this question going,
I don't know. I don't. He's not for me. He's
not a good actor in my eyes. But there's so many
movies where he's actually done like good things.
Oh, for sure. But that's the whole question.
It's not if you personally think he's a good
or bad actor. If he is a good or bad actor, period.
He's the one that straddles the fence. Yeah.
I don't know, man. I feel like he's just a product
of his time. I don't know. I feel like this could
be its own podcast. This very discussion. During
quarantine, but we're not watching a ton of new
movies. That actually might be a good thing to
go to. Dude, I'm happy to just watch some Nick
Cage movies. Good, bad, whatever. Oh, hell yeah.
And then we'll talk about it. How about that?
Okay. Nick Cage. I'm paying for him, yeah. Nick
fucking Cage. Let's do it. As the guy says in
the episode, don't marathon it because you'll
break yourself. And then Abed obviously becomes
Nick Cage on this rant. Yes. Don't break yourself.
Just watch some movies of Nick Cage. I'm on board
with this, actually. I'm good with this. All
right. Well, let's get to ratings then, guys.
Mitchell, what would you give this movie, The
China Salesman? Oh, my God. There's so many options.
Yeah, I know. I'm like, fuck, I don't know what
my rating's going to be. Shit. Guys, this is
a quintessential they made a movie. So this is
a half, I don't know, Chinese star is the proper
term, or what's on the flag. Damn it, you gave
me the flag. Yeah, but go with the flag. So I
got to give it a half. I mean, like, honestly,
there is no thought put into, any part of this
movie that went beyond we want to make money
or we want to... We want to propagate China.
Exactly. Or we want to put out propaganda on
behalf of the People's Republic of China. So,
yeah. No, this movie's terrible. If it wasn't
for the fact that I was watching it with some
of my closest friends, I would have absolutely
hated it and probably would not have made it
past the first fight scene. So, half star for
me. I did really enjoy watching it with you guys.
Andre? Yeah, I had a lot of fun. Which doesn't
line up with I'm also giving this one half destroyed
cell tower out of five. Damn it, you took mine.
Fucker. Yeah. There you go. It's all about cell
phone towers, apparently, and uniting the north
and south and the dramatic cell phone calls.
Yeah. Yeah, there you go. No, it was a lot of
fun to watch, but god damn it, I would not recommend
it to anybody. Oh, no. No, of course not. All
right, fine. I'll jump on it. I'm also giving
it one half, but I'm giving it one half of Steven
Seagal's body because that's all we saw. So that
was China salesman. So normally at this point
in the podcast, we go into things we are excited
about, things we're dreading, things coming out,
whatever. Because of the quarantine, we really
don't know what's going to happen next. Things
like Black Widow have been pushed back. Trolls
World Tour is being revealed. It's coming out
on digital the same day it's supposed to be in
theaters. There's a lot of things happening where
things are just getting pushed back. Obviously,
the next James Bond film. I could go on and on.
So we're going to do something. We are hashtagging
quarantine binge. You can play along at home.
What are you watching on your hashtag quarantine
binge next? We will jump to Andre. What are you
watching next on your quarantine binge? Hashtag
quarantine binge. Hashtag quarantine binge. I'm
staying completely on brand by watching children's
cartoons with my girlfriend. We are midway through
Gravity Falls, which is a Disney show that I
I think finished a few years ago, back in 2016.
It's on Disney Plus now. It's a very fun show
about two kids who are staying with their great
uncle. It's kind of like a Twin Peaks kind of
vibe town in Oregon, and there's lots of supernatural
stuff. Lots of charming characters. Very fun
time. We're about halfway through it. Pretty
short. Only two seasons. About 50 episodes. Can't
recommend it enough. Animation is really great,
especially for a television show. So two thumbs
up from here. So yeah. And once that's done,
I'm probably going to continue on my Lord of
the Rings journey. We just watched The Hobbit
last night, The Unexpected Journey. That was
a long -ass three -hour movie. We have two more
to go. Take care. We'll see. Yeah. Yeah, that's
it. Okay. What was the name of that show again?
Gravity Falls. Cool. I just didn't know if I
heard it right, and I just wanted to make sure
it got out there. Mitchell, what are you watching
next on your hashtag quarantine binge? Yeah,
for me, I mean, I'm just grinding my way through
the MCU again. I've been introducing the Marvel
movies to Kelly, my girlfriend, over the past,
really past couple months, but since we're in
quarantine now. Hold that thought. Hold that
thought. Wasn't it your anniversary recently?
It was. It was yesterday, Saturday, April 4th.
Congratulations, buddy. No, I wanted to call
you out on that. Congratulations. Thank you.
Yeah, it was our one year yesterday. We had a
nice, we ordered some takeout. We baked brownies
and put that in ice cream and just had a nice
little dessert. And we watched Black Panther.
At least it's a great Marvel movie. Oh, I know.
And it's the only one that she had seen before
we started this binge watching. Oh, nice. Nice.
Yeah. So it's the only one she had seen. But
yeah, we're going through that. But also I wanted
to mention something that is on my personal list.
It's on HBO, it's streaming, HBO Now or HBO Go,
which is how I'm going to be watching it. It's
called The Scheme, and it's a documentary about
the NCAA men's basketball coaching scandal that
happened a couple years ago, where there was
basically a system in place between executives
at Adidas and... different agents who were recruiting
different high school years and basically fixing
where they were going to sign and play their
college career. And it was all based on a whole
lot of money that the NCAA wasn't touching that
was basically operated almost like a drug deal.
It's like, hey, we're going to give you this
player, and the player gets X amount of money.
The school gets X amount of money for taking
that player. It is a scandal written all over
it. So for a big basketball head like me, I'm
really looking forward to it. It's called The
Scheme. It's on HBO. Nice. I got to say, it's
now on my hashtag quarantine bench. So I'm going
to go with, well, so I just watched Locke, which
was great. It was Tom Hardy and everything like
that. It was a good movie. That was one that's
been on my list for a while. Another one that
has been on my list for a while and because I
am the director of batshit documentaries apparently.
Yeah. The Act of Killing is what it's called.
So they've got these guys that are like death
squad people and they're not like repentant about
this at all. They don't feel bad about it at
all. But they have one of the guys that was on
this death squad recreate his favorite killings,
but he gets to choose the movie style. So the
entire movie is like a bunch of different movie
styles. So he's like, I want to do this one in
a Western and he plays himself and he gets to
recreate all these killings and different styles.
And as it goes on further and further, like you
see, he kind of realizes like, Oh, even in the
act of like making it movies, it's just kind
of like, uh, what am I doing? You know, that
kind of stuff. Um, But yeah, it's supposed to
be really good. It is another batshit documentary.
After watching Tiger King, I need something else
because I cruised through that. But yeah, so
the act of killing batshit documentary number
four that I've mentioned on this podcast, I think.
So how are you going to watch that, Mike? I believe
it's on Prime Video right now. Gotcha. Yes. Yeah,
it's either on Prime or HBO, one of the two.
And because I spend too much money having all
of the services that I can, you know, you know
how it goes. Yeah, I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But
yeah, so that'll do it for our podcast tonight.
It's a little shorter, but it's awesome because
we're far away from each other. Hopefully, well,
we'll probably do this Nick Cage one in quarantine.
I'm kind of looking forward to that, actually.
And then we all will. get back to hopefully watching
movies together, talking together face to face,
drinking beers together and having a good time.
Um, but that, that'll be it for game for a movie
episode 21. So for myself, Mike, good luck guessing.
Oh, Andre. Damn you. Damn it. Fuck it up. Oh
shit. And I'm Mitchell. This is Game for a Movie
where we ask, are you game for a movie? Hashtag
quarantine binge.