WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.439 Welcome into Game for a Movie. This is the 21st 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.179 episode, guys, and it is our special quarantine 00:00:05.179 --> 00:00:10.859 edition. Yeah! We are coming from three different 00:00:10.859 --> 00:00:15.960 places right now. I am joined by... Mitchell 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:20.960 Clements. Yeah! And Andre Bellinger. We're both 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:23.920 remote. All of us. All three of us, rather. Exactly. 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:25.300 And I am Mikey Tank, your host. You can't really 00:00:25.300 --> 00:00:27.879 get the social cues here. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 00:00:28.379 --> 00:00:31.320 Mike is... literally a picture of himself. Well, 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:33.500 I turned off my camera because otherwise he'd 00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:36.200 be facing the ceiling, so I tried to be nice. 00:00:36.780 --> 00:00:38.880 You want me to turn it off? Fine. I'll leave 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:44.179 it on the camera. No, I like your smiling face. 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.920 Nope, there you go. You get ceiling. Oh, boo! 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:52.100 It's a huge ceiling. Yeah, you're welcome. That's 00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:56.719 my skin tone. Oops. It's okay. There we go. Hi. 00:00:57.420 --> 00:01:00.969 So, Kind of by accident, we did watch one bad 00:01:00.969 --> 00:01:03.990 movie, all of us together, through Netflix Party, 00:01:04.170 --> 00:01:07.750 which was great. And then by accident, we saw 00:01:07.750 --> 00:01:10.790 the same movie at different points together, 00:01:11.069 --> 00:01:14.430 kind of. So we're going to talk about the good 00:01:14.430 --> 00:01:16.250 movie first, and then we'll get to the bad movie. 00:01:16.489 --> 00:01:20.090 The good movie being, we saw Onward, the newest 00:01:20.090 --> 00:01:25.730 from Disney Pixar. Let's start with Andre. What 00:01:25.730 --> 00:01:28.390 was your thoughts on that? Yeah. With your woo 00:01:28.390 --> 00:01:32.549 there. Onward? Yeah. Oh, onward. Okay, well, 00:01:32.730 --> 00:01:35.510 honestly, I really liked it. It was a lot of 00:01:35.510 --> 00:01:38.450 fun. It pretty much, I am very overwhelmed by 00:01:38.450 --> 00:01:40.170 it. It was an enjoyable watch. I'll probably 00:01:40.170 --> 00:01:42.209 watch it, you know, maybe six months, a year 00:01:42.209 --> 00:01:44.569 down the line again. And, yeah, I don't know. 00:01:44.670 --> 00:01:48.650 It was a solid, fun, animated movie with touching 00:01:48.650 --> 00:01:50.310 moments. And I pretty much got what I wanted 00:01:50.310 --> 00:01:53.120 out of it. Okay, what did you think going in? 00:01:53.219 --> 00:01:55.659 That's really why I'm asking you first, is because 00:01:55.659 --> 00:01:59.040 I think you had the strongest thoughts going 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:04.359 in. Well, so I was saying to you guys, and this 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.739 is not a super uncommon opinion, that it kind 00:02:06.739 --> 00:02:08.979 of felt like a DreamWorks movie, and I should 00:02:08.979 --> 00:02:10.979 clarify that, and that it's not a black mark 00:02:10.979 --> 00:02:12.979 on the movie. There are a lot of DreamWorks movies 00:02:12.979 --> 00:02:14.740 that I absolutely adore, How to Train Your Dragons 00:02:14.740 --> 00:02:18.139 1 and 2 among them. It just kind of, I don't 00:02:18.139 --> 00:02:20.460 know, it was like... When I saw that trailer, 00:02:20.699 --> 00:02:24.080 I was like, huh, that's a Pixar movie? It just 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:27.000 didn't feel like a Pixar movie, at least from 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.879 the trailers to me. Something about the art style, 00:02:30.099 --> 00:02:32.219 I think really what it comes down to is that 00:02:32.219 --> 00:02:35.219 it's kind of a more conventional fantasy style, 00:02:35.419 --> 00:02:37.900 which is totally fine. But when you look at the 00:02:37.900 --> 00:02:40.680 rest of Pixar's catalogs, I feel like a lot of 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.379 the fantasy elements from those movies are a 00:02:43.379 --> 00:02:45.139 little bit more creative or they're rooted in 00:02:45.139 --> 00:02:50.370 real culture, like Coco. And I don't know. Pop 00:02:50.370 --> 00:02:51.990 isn't the right word, but it just didn't seem 00:02:51.990 --> 00:02:56.090 quite Pixar -y to me. But yeah, that's kind of 00:02:56.090 --> 00:02:58.349 where my head was at going into the movie. Mitchell, 00:02:58.409 --> 00:02:59.870 did you have any thoughts like that when you 00:02:59.870 --> 00:03:02.710 were first going in to watch it, or no? Yeah, 00:03:02.770 --> 00:03:07.189 I mean, from the trailers I did. So before I 00:03:07.189 --> 00:03:09.349 saw the movie, I had obviously seen the trailers 00:03:09.349 --> 00:03:11.849 like everyone else, and then I was actually at 00:03:11.849 --> 00:03:13.870 Disneyland when they were still promoting the 00:03:13.870 --> 00:03:17.360 film. It was before it had come out. marketing 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.400 that they actually had inside the park kind of 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:22.979 sold me more on what ended up being the emotional 00:03:22.979 --> 00:03:25.620 driver of the movie where it ended up being a 00:03:25.620 --> 00:03:27.840 movie about brothers and a movie about father 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:32.080 and sons and for whatever reason those who are 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:35.060 inside the park got a better taste of that than 00:03:35.060 --> 00:03:37.400 you would have if you were just to watch a trailer 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:39.699 in front of a movie or on YouTube or whatever 00:03:39.699 --> 00:03:43.080 so I thought overall as great of a marketing 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:45.919 machine that Disney can be Let's be honest, this 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.219 is a movie they put out in March. So maybe not 00:03:48.219 --> 00:03:52.080 the most confident release date for a Pixar movie. 00:03:53.060 --> 00:03:56.259 You know, that's this one red flag that came 00:03:56.259 --> 00:03:59.419 up to me. But at the end of the day, I'm with 00:03:59.419 --> 00:04:03.479 Andre. I was pleasantly surprised by it. It hit 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.680 a lot of big emotional chords for me. It was 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.840 the last movie I watched before quarantine set 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:12.530 in. So I was in the theater watching it. It's 00:04:12.530 --> 00:04:14.650 that cool experience of hearing other people 00:04:14.650 --> 00:04:18.110 react to stuff on screen. I was hearing a lot 00:04:18.110 --> 00:04:21.689 of crying, or very soft sobbing and sniffling 00:04:21.689 --> 00:04:25.490 when the big emotional beats happened. That definitely 00:04:25.490 --> 00:04:28.529 raises the experience for me in terms of why 00:04:28.529 --> 00:04:32.209 I like this movie so much. To Andre's point, 00:04:32.610 --> 00:04:35.250 and I think the more I think about it, why is 00:04:35.250 --> 00:04:38.209 the DreamWorks comparison so applicable here? 00:04:38.790 --> 00:04:42.509 I think it's because if you look at how The world 00:04:42.509 --> 00:04:45.329 is set up in super high concept where it's just 00:04:45.329 --> 00:04:50.209 like, hey, this is a world in which if all those 00:04:50.209 --> 00:04:54.829 fantasy stories from the past were true and that 00:04:54.829 --> 00:04:59.329 is just the lore of normal Earth, I guess, this 00:04:59.329 --> 00:05:01.470 is what normal Earth would look like if trolls 00:05:01.470 --> 00:05:04.050 existed, blah, blah, blah, along with being, 00:05:04.170 --> 00:05:08.810 you know, 2020. or 2019 where we have technology 00:05:08.810 --> 00:05:12.329 so it's what I'm trying to say is that in a lot 00:05:12.329 --> 00:05:15.990 of movies like you would see in Shrek like the 00:05:15.990 --> 00:05:19.069 self -referential hey this is the Shrek version 00:05:19.069 --> 00:05:23.509 of Disneyland and it's Castle you know what I 00:05:23.509 --> 00:05:25.970 mean literally I don't know why it took me so 00:05:25.970 --> 00:05:27.829 long but as soon as you said that it reminded 00:05:27.829 --> 00:05:29.870 me of Shrek 2 in that way because it was like 00:05:29.870 --> 00:05:32.709 when they went to I forget what the actual not 00:05:32.709 --> 00:05:35.600 Duloc but the where Fiona's parents were. Very 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:37.959 much similar vibe, right? Oh, yeah, it was supposed 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:39.560 to be Hollywood. It was supposed to be Hollywood. 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:43.500 Exactly, yeah. High fantasy set in modern times, 00:05:43.540 --> 00:05:45.300 as it were. So that's kind of why the setting 00:05:45.300 --> 00:05:47.699 felt familiar to me, at least. And the other 00:05:47.699 --> 00:05:50.079 Pixar movie I felt that kind of had the same 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:54.439 vibe, and it's the last Pixar movie that Dan 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:58.360 Scanlon directed, who directed Onward, was Monsters 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:03.300 University, where this ended up being a college 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:06.410 movie movie kind of in the vein of animal house 00:06:06.410 --> 00:06:09.709 but it's in the monsters universe and stuff so 00:06:09.709 --> 00:06:11.870 it's a lot of like little easter egg jokes on 00:06:11.870 --> 00:06:14.110 screen and stuff and the monsters university 00:06:14.110 --> 00:06:18.470 yeah that's that's what it is oh nailed it you 00:06:18.470 --> 00:06:23.050 got it even from far away i still got it i think 00:06:23.050 --> 00:06:26.269 all of those things um like kind of equated to 00:06:26.269 --> 00:06:28.750 what ended up being a dreamworks vibe though 00:06:28.750 --> 00:06:33.399 i absolutely did enjoy this movie Nice. Yeah, 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:37.680 I think I had the, well, I don't know for sure, 00:06:37.699 --> 00:06:39.360 but I think I had like the strongest opinion 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:44.100 of like, I really want to go see that. For whatever 00:06:44.100 --> 00:06:46.180 reason, I had circled this one. This is one of 00:06:46.180 --> 00:06:48.079 those ones that I was just like, I'm ready for 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.319 this one. I can't wait. And I think. What it 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.279 comes down to is, yes, I like being an only child 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.660 and everything like that. This is the one I related 00:06:56.660 --> 00:06:59.980 to where I wanted a brother like this. Like, 00:06:59.980 --> 00:07:04.660 that's what I took out of it. So I really looked 00:07:04.660 --> 00:07:06.360 forward to this one. And plus, it's got Chris 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.040 Pratt and Tom Holland, like, two people that 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:12.240 are absolutely amazing. Yeah, those are two actors 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.639 that are super fun to watch, right? Exactly. 00:07:14.819 --> 00:07:16.720 So I was never worried that I wouldn't. be entertained 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.620 by this movie. It was always like, oh man, this 00:07:18.620 --> 00:07:20.660 sounds like a fun time. Yeah, exactly. It was 00:07:20.660 --> 00:07:23.360 one of those ones that kind of felt... Like the 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.860 main feeling I had from everybody else was just 00:07:26.860 --> 00:07:29.100 kind of, it's going to be good, but it's just 00:07:29.100 --> 00:07:31.360 going to be good. You know, like that kind of 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:34.560 thing. Whereas I was like, I was feeling this 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:36.660 is going to be great. I'm so excited. I'm really 00:07:36.660 --> 00:07:40.459 ready for this. So it was, like I said, it was 00:07:40.459 --> 00:07:42.060 just one of those films where it's just like, 00:07:42.139 --> 00:07:44.259 this is how I related because I wanted a brother 00:07:44.259 --> 00:07:46.839 like that. I wanted an older brother or I wanted 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:48.779 a younger brother that I could be the older brother. 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.319 And like, cause growing up, you know, you don't 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:53.480 feel the most. confident you don't think you're 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:55.339 going through everything correctly and that kind 00:07:55.339 --> 00:07:57.459 of stuff and that was the message that i liked 00:07:57.459 --> 00:07:59.839 about it was having that somebody where you can 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:02.120 be like hey am i doing this right am i going 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:06.040 through this right oh for sure yeah yeah so i 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:10.060 don't know i loved it i really did i think um 00:08:10.060 --> 00:08:12.860 uh i really enjoyed it and we'll probably watch 00:08:12.860 --> 00:08:15.139 it sooner than your six months to another year 00:08:15.139 --> 00:08:19.680 andre okay um But yeah, going through it and 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:22.040 everything like that, I really enjoyed it. It 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:25.160 is different. I'm sorry. Go for it. No, go for 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:26.279 it, please. Well, I was just going to say it 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:28.120 is different because I think I would have liked 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.879 it more having seen it in theaters. It is different 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:37.019 first watch through at home. I don't know. Like 00:08:37.019 --> 00:08:40.059 how so? Like the visuals just didn't have as 00:08:40.059 --> 00:08:42.139 much of a punch for you? Well, no, as Mitchell 00:08:42.139 --> 00:08:44.399 was saying that he saw it in theaters, like hearing 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:48.960 others' reactions and that kind of stuff. wanting 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:50.980 to know what other people are thinking. You know 00:08:50.980 --> 00:08:55.980 what I mean? Gotcha. So for me, that is the, 00:08:56.139 --> 00:08:59.320 I mean, I think movie theaters, we're seeing 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:01.960 this now, you know, the, the entertainment industry 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.360 can evolve into something else. The theaters 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:06.940 did not exist. It may not be as lucrative because 00:09:06.940 --> 00:09:10.600 a lot of, uh, companies, uh, like Disney who 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:12.720 put out a ton of tentpole features over here, 00:09:12.820 --> 00:09:16.240 make a crap load of money with box office. But 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:19.919 most, uh, major distributors don't have the same 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:23.399 arsenal that disney has so they're taking you 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:26.440 know they're kind of hedging their bets and we've 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:29.159 been seeing a lot of uh digital releases from 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:31.899 universal lately right for those that should 00:09:31.899 --> 00:09:34.840 have been premiered in theaters by now so what 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.899 i'm what i'm saying is to mike's point you know 00:09:37.899 --> 00:09:40.860 this whole thing of you know watching something 00:09:40.860 --> 00:09:45.779 at home it doesn't have that special feeling 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.659 That little icing on the cake that the in -theater 00:09:50.659 --> 00:09:53.320 experience offers. I'll say this, guys. We all 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.799 saw Endgame together, right? The Last Avengers 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:59.000 movie. Imagine watching that three -hour movie 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:02.200 at home. You know what I mean? Compared to watching 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:05.340 it in a jam -packed theater. We also saw Infinity 00:10:05.340 --> 00:10:09.379 War together. Imagine watching that at home after 00:10:09.379 --> 00:10:12.860 big emotional moments happen at the end where 00:10:12.860 --> 00:10:15.860 you're hearing children crying. Spider -Man just 00:10:15.860 --> 00:10:25.559 died. Spoilers. Sorry for spoiling. Marvel movies 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.320 only get two weeks. It's fine. Oh, for sure. 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:32.059 Yeah. But yeah, it's just, I'm going to miss 00:10:32.059 --> 00:10:34.539 that. And I feel like because of what's happening 00:10:34.539 --> 00:10:37.419 right now, a lot of theaters or a lot of distributors 00:10:37.419 --> 00:10:41.039 are going to start valuing in -home distribution 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:46.000 just a little bit more. When I watch something 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.320 on Netflix, it is just not quite the same. No 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:50.740 matter how great of a movie The Irishman was, 00:10:51.299 --> 00:10:54.399 it will never be, you know... You wish you could 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.740 see it in theater. Exactly. It won't be The Departed. 00:10:56.740 --> 00:11:00.240 It won't be Wolf of Wall Street or any of the 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:02.039 other Marty movies that I've seen on screen. 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.179 It's just different. It's just different. Departed 00:11:05.179 --> 00:11:06.820 feels different because I'm right there with 00:11:06.820 --> 00:11:08.700 you on that. Departed is one of my favorite movies 00:11:08.700 --> 00:11:11.100 of all time because I saw it in theaters. And 00:11:11.100 --> 00:11:13.360 now going back, it's still great. Don't get me 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:15.659 wrong. But it just doesn't have that same punch 00:11:15.659 --> 00:11:18.519 as it did. And it could just be I saw it for 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:20.580 the first time in theaters, so I'm holding it 00:11:20.580 --> 00:11:23.000 there. But at the same time, I'm going, it just 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:26.399 doesn't feel the same, you know? Right. You definitely 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:30.480 saw it at that right age, Mike. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:35.919 I definitely didn't sneak in. Um, I will say 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:37.700 it was kind of, I feel like the circumstances 00:11:37.700 --> 00:11:39.740 of world events kind of actually made this movie 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:42.259 hit a little harder for me only because I've 00:11:42.259 --> 00:11:43.840 been talking to my brother way more frequently 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:46.179 because we're all cooped up inside. And so I 00:11:46.179 --> 00:11:48.279 was kind of feeling the whole theme of brotherhood, 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.440 even just maybe probably like 10, 15 % a little 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:53.500 bit more magnified. And I was like, I was watching 00:11:53.500 --> 00:11:55.000 it with Jill and I was like, this movie is cheating 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:56.620 because it's tugging at the exact heartstrings 00:11:56.620 --> 00:11:59.279 that are vulnerable for me right now. So, uh, 00:11:59.850 --> 00:12:03.889 It's just, you know, the main theme of Brotherhood 00:12:03.889 --> 00:12:06.330 definitely hit a stronger chord with me because 00:12:06.330 --> 00:12:08.789 I have a brother that I'm pretty close with. 00:12:08.909 --> 00:12:11.809 So that's why I like this movie as much as I 00:12:11.809 --> 00:12:15.509 did. Nice. I'm kind of curious to see if I was 00:12:15.509 --> 00:12:16.889 able to see this movie in theaters under normal 00:12:16.889 --> 00:12:18.970 circumstances, if it would hit the same. But, 00:12:18.990 --> 00:12:20.769 yeah, I don't know. Just something that's rolling 00:12:20.769 --> 00:12:22.289 around in my head. You can still at least think 00:12:22.289 --> 00:12:26.690 of your brother. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Okay, 00:12:26.750 --> 00:12:31.649 so let's jump into ratings for this. Along that 00:12:31.649 --> 00:12:34.289 same point, let's start with you, Andre. So what 00:12:34.289 --> 00:12:38.470 would you give this rating -wise? I'm going to 00:12:38.470 --> 00:12:44.210 give this one 3 .5 D20s out of 5. Nice. Okay. 00:12:44.409 --> 00:12:48.730 Mitchell? I'm going to go with a very solid, 00:12:48.789 --> 00:12:53.110 very solid 3 out of 5 Manticores. And I'm choosing 00:12:53.110 --> 00:12:57.059 Manticore because... My favorite character, just 00:12:57.059 --> 00:13:00.019 scene -stealing character, was Octavia Spencer's 00:13:00.019 --> 00:13:04.620 weird lion -dragon hybrid character. Scorpion. 00:13:04.659 --> 00:13:08.259 She was so much fun. I wish there was more of 00:13:08.259 --> 00:13:09.919 her, to be honest with you. She was a lot of 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:12.779 fun. Oh, God. And she killed it vocal performance 00:13:12.779 --> 00:13:15.259 -wise. I was laughing my ass off. So, yes, three 00:13:15.259 --> 00:13:18.720 out of five. Absolutely loved it. See, I... Go 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.740 ahead. Middle of the road Pixar for me. Okay. 00:13:20.860 --> 00:13:22.919 Yeah, so that's why three out of five. I'm with 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:25.000 you with Manticore as a scene -stealing, like, 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.220 great character. I also really loved Colt Bronco. 00:13:30.100 --> 00:13:32.779 He's cheesy as hell, but I just loved how he 00:13:32.779 --> 00:13:34.480 would laugh at his own jokes and it would be 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:39.899 a nay. It's those little details. Also, Claire 00:13:39.899 --> 00:13:42.019 caught this and I missed it. Did you notice that 00:13:42.019 --> 00:13:47.129 his car was a Ford Bronco? Yes. Yes. Yes. I totally 00:13:47.129 --> 00:13:51.049 missed it until she pointed it out. Um, I mean, 00:13:51.070 --> 00:13:52.769 I'm kind of in the same boat. It's funny. We 00:13:52.769 --> 00:13:55.750 have the spectrum from three to four covered 00:13:55.750 --> 00:13:58.929 because I'm going to say it is four sprites out 00:13:58.929 --> 00:14:03.309 of five for me. Hey, there it is. Yeah. So yeah, 00:14:03.389 --> 00:14:05.409 I really enjoyed this one. That was one I was 00:14:05.409 --> 00:14:07.629 excited for too. So I guess that gave it a little 00:14:07.629 --> 00:14:11.830 more weight to it too. Um, but yeah, so, all 00:14:11.830 --> 00:14:13.929 right, let's jump into the meat and potatoes 00:14:13.929 --> 00:14:20.769 of this. Oh, man. Yes. Oh, so excited. Save the 00:14:20.769 --> 00:14:24.429 movie. So we watched a movie about two weeks 00:14:24.429 --> 00:14:27.830 ago now. We watched it on Netflix Party, as I 00:14:27.830 --> 00:14:29.769 said. I'm going to shout it out again because 00:14:29.769 --> 00:14:31.450 that was actually kind of, that was really fun 00:14:31.450 --> 00:14:34.730 to watch with you guys this way. For sure. But 00:14:34.730 --> 00:14:41.210 we watched China Salesman. Yeah, China Salesman. 00:14:41.289 --> 00:14:45.080 Which continues. Whenever I do an image search, 00:14:45.220 --> 00:14:47.299 I don't know how this movie keeps getting more 00:14:47.299 --> 00:14:50.820 and more posters. Like, there's so many images. 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:52.220 I'm just going to say the same thing. Like, I'm 00:14:52.220 --> 00:14:54.039 seeing, like, three different posters just looking 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.879 and Googling it for reference. If you look at 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:59.179 it, there's so many different posters for this 00:14:59.179 --> 00:15:05.600 damn movie. Does anybody want to start talking 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:10.679 about this movie? No. It's a Chinese propaganda 00:15:10.679 --> 00:15:17.600 film. That was not even popular in China. I will 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:20.779 say. Right. It's true. Terrible numbers in China. 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:25.080 Oh, wow. Yeah. What is it? 20 million budget, 00:15:25.299 --> 00:15:28.120 1 .5 million box office. And that's in U .S. 00:15:28.139 --> 00:15:31.080 dollars. So, yeah. Jesus Christ. According to 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:34.639 Wikipedia, at least. Yeah. It is a, I guess, 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:38.509 top level. It's an action movie. That shouldn't 00:15:38.509 --> 00:15:42.149 be an action movie. What's that? It's an action 00:15:42.149 --> 00:15:44.549 movie that really shouldn't be an action movie. 00:15:45.490 --> 00:15:48.889 Right. Yeah. And it's basically what got us to 00:15:48.889 --> 00:15:52.470 watch it was that the two main actors on the 00:15:52.470 --> 00:15:56.269 poster were Steven Seagal and Mike Tyson. And 00:15:56.269 --> 00:15:58.690 I'll say one of those two actors has a prominent 00:15:58.690 --> 00:16:01.669 role in this movie. And the other one has, let's 00:16:01.669 --> 00:16:10.580 say, a glorified cameo. Oh, yeah. Yes. can't 00:16:10.580 --> 00:16:12.539 talk about this movie without rambling hard i 00:16:12.539 --> 00:16:15.919 think i think just to be fair yes chinese propaganda 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.299 movie um 100 behind that there is literally a 00:16:19.299 --> 00:16:23.559 scene where a guy is under under heavy fire he's 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:25.860 behind a bunker or i guess a makeshift bunker 00:16:25.860 --> 00:16:29.419 i guess behind a tank and in order to stop the 00:16:29.419 --> 00:16:33.019 fire uh all the you know people shooting at him 00:16:33.019 --> 00:16:36.799 in africa what he does is he lifts up a chinese 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:40.919 flag which i guess calms everyone down because 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:43.080 they're not part of the rival army or whatever 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:47.419 i guess i don't know but it was like a michael 00:16:47.419 --> 00:16:51.299 bay -esque uh tracking shot this guy just picks 00:16:51.299 --> 00:16:54.820 up the chinese flag it starts running down this 00:16:54.820 --> 00:16:57.620 pathway and then everyone's just inspired to 00:16:57.620 --> 00:17:00.799 stop shooting um it just reminds me a lot of 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:02.980 something that you would have seen in like transformers 00:17:02.980 --> 00:17:05.849 uh but it would be all sparked, but instead they're 00:17:05.849 --> 00:17:10.190 doing it with the Chinese flag. I think we should 00:17:10.190 --> 00:17:13.390 read the plot. So if I can, here's the plot as 00:17:13.390 --> 00:17:16.769 told by Wikipedia. Yang Jian, a young Chinese 00:17:16.769 --> 00:17:19.509 IT engineer, volunteers to go to North Africa 00:17:19.509 --> 00:17:22.609 and help the company he works for to win a competition. 00:17:23.289 --> 00:17:26.190 The winner can own the right to control the communication 00:17:26.190 --> 00:17:30.150 between South and North. French spy Michael is 00:17:30.150 --> 00:17:32.690 ordered to go to North Africa and win the competition, 00:17:32.990 --> 00:17:36.269 so France can control the mineral resources of 00:17:36.269 --> 00:17:40.529 Africa. Uh -oh. He hires the best mercenary in 00:17:40.529 --> 00:17:44.009 Africa, Lauder, and a former general, Kabad, 00:17:44.049 --> 00:17:47.049 to help him. Jan discovers their conspiracy and 00:17:47.049 --> 00:17:49.970 is the only one who can stop them. All right, 00:17:50.009 --> 00:17:52.730 so, Clover, disclosure, Lauder, the mercenary, 00:17:53.230 --> 00:17:55.369 That's Steven Seagal, right? And then Cabal is 00:17:55.369 --> 00:17:59.230 Mike Tyson? No. Cabal is Mike Tyson. Cabal is 00:17:59.230 --> 00:18:01.549 Mike Tyson. Steven Seagal is louder. Yes. Really? 00:18:01.670 --> 00:18:06.769 Right. Okay. I got that way confused. Yeah. That's 00:18:06.769 --> 00:18:11.549 why I wanted to read it. Yeah. So Steven Seagal 00:18:11.549 --> 00:18:14.829 and Mike Tyson share one scene together and it's 00:18:14.829 --> 00:18:16.329 the very beginning of the movie where they have 00:18:16.329 --> 00:18:18.890 this random fucking bar fight. didn't even know 00:18:18.890 --> 00:18:21.190 that louder was a mercenary i i didn't i didn't 00:18:21.190 --> 00:18:22.849 understand his character like he was just kind 00:18:22.849 --> 00:18:26.710 of there i don't even know yeah he was there 00:18:26.710 --> 00:18:30.309 and you think because he's a part of the uh you 00:18:30.309 --> 00:18:32.470 know the opening sequence you're like okay so 00:18:32.470 --> 00:18:35.160 they are going to set up this Mike Tyson versus 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.119 Steven Seagal type of movie. Right. And that 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:41.220 is literally the only time those two fight. Oh, 00:18:41.299 --> 00:18:43.799 by the way, Steven Seagal disappears for about 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:46.700 two hours. And we don't see him until the end. 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:51.140 And he just randomly... Go for it. He just randomly 00:18:51.140 --> 00:18:53.299 appears again. Like, he's just randomly there 00:18:53.299 --> 00:19:00.160 to, like, he's a deus exigalia. Yeah. Well, he 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.279 doesn't do anything important. I don't even know. 00:19:02.700 --> 00:19:04.380 most of the movie happened without him. Like, 00:19:04.380 --> 00:19:05.960 he shows up at the beginning, has a cool fight 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:08.299 scene, well, not cool, but, you know, a dumbass 00:19:08.299 --> 00:19:11.039 fight scene with Mike Tyson, and then two hours, 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:13.180 the actual movie happens, and at the very end, 00:19:13.259 --> 00:19:16.180 in, like, the denouement, or whatever, Seagal 00:19:16.180 --> 00:19:17.500 shows up again, he's like, hey, I'm still in 00:19:17.500 --> 00:19:19.960 this movie, I'm one of the best in Africa, or 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.000 whatever, I'm a special forces guy, cool, you 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:26.119 know, whatever. If that movie had all, it was 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:28.940 just the same length, and it was just one big 00:19:28.940 --> 00:19:31.980 Tyson versus Seagal cheesy fight, it would have 00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:35.279 been a better movie. Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. 00:19:35.900 --> 00:19:39.740 Because the only entertainment value in this, 00:19:39.740 --> 00:19:43.019 in my opinion, was not the fighting between Mike 00:19:43.019 --> 00:19:46.680 Tyson and Steven Seagal, but the acting. It was 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:51.480 the dueling banjos of bad actors in that opening 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:55.779 action scene. And I absolutely loved it. What 00:19:55.779 --> 00:19:58.220 was Mike Tyson's accent supposed to be? It was 00:19:58.220 --> 00:20:00.740 supposed to be... Because it kept changing. It 00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:04.240 kept changing. It was North African for a while, 00:20:04.380 --> 00:20:07.880 and then suddenly it was European, and then maybe 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:10.299 he slipped back into his normal Brooklyn accent. 00:20:10.420 --> 00:20:13.259 I don't know. It just kept shooting up and down. 00:20:13.500 --> 00:20:16.079 And then Steven Seagal, they pulled this guy 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.519 off comatose just to be on the freaking movie. 00:20:18.779 --> 00:20:25.579 He barely delivered words or sentences. He looked 00:20:25.579 --> 00:20:29.599 like he just woke up in every single scene and 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:32.740 here he is fighting, quote unquote. But I will 00:20:32.740 --> 00:20:36.859 hand it to, maybe I should hand it, to the poor 00:20:36.859 --> 00:20:40.799 editor or editors who had to try and make Steven 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:44.299 Seagal look like an athletic fighter. Oh my God. 00:20:44.579 --> 00:20:47.480 That's true. You're right. Every camera shot 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:55.160 was like chest up. He never moved his feet, right? 00:20:55.700 --> 00:20:59.759 Oh my god. Yeah, the stunt choreography was something 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:02.940 to behold, I would say, for that fight. We're 00:21:02.940 --> 00:21:04.920 not even talking about the best part of this 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:06.960 film. Come on, guys. We need to talk about the 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:10.079 dialogue and how every time the main character 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:13.140 was introduced, oh, you're just a China salesman. 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:18.089 That's true. Oh my god. They do the we're some 00:21:18.089 --> 00:21:20.750 kind of Suicide Squad moment like at least 15 00:21:20.750 --> 00:21:25.529 times in this movie. It's so good. The amount 00:21:25.529 --> 00:21:28.930 of times that Mike said roll credits probably 00:21:28.930 --> 00:21:34.309 was at least 30. That's my favorite joke when 00:21:34.309 --> 00:21:36.410 watching a movie when they say the name and you 00:21:36.410 --> 00:21:40.509 just go roll credits. It's one of my favorite 00:21:40.509 --> 00:21:42.650 jokes. And I love how you call it the Suicide 00:21:42.650 --> 00:21:44.990 Squad moment because it's totally the moment. 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.480 Just some kind of China salesman. This Wikipedia 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:54.579 page is great. I don't know how much of it is 00:21:54.579 --> 00:21:57.259 true, but I don't really care. So it says China 00:21:57.259 --> 00:22:01.460 salesman, also known as deadly contract. It is. 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:06.079 Trial of warfare. It is. What? Yes. I'm seeing 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:09.079 two alternate titles here. There is like four 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:12.460 titles for this movie. If you look up China salesman 00:22:12.460 --> 00:22:15.039 in images, like I was saying about all the different 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.440 posters. there's literally the same poster with 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:20.980 different names. Deadly Contract, like there's 00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:24.740 Warzone Crisis or something like that. It's got 00:22:24.740 --> 00:22:27.200 a million different names. And we're talking 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:31.259 about the poster a lot because it has Seagal 00:22:31.259 --> 00:22:34.900 and Tyson like the poster boys and literally 00:22:34.900 --> 00:22:38.880 they have one scene together. Right. What's her 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:43.799 voice? Uh, no. I'm just perusing the IMDb trivia 00:22:43.799 --> 00:22:47.000 page for this film as you do. And one of the 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:50.079 top ones is there's a Mandarin speaking scene 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:51.700 where Steven Seagal interrupts a conversation 00:22:51.700 --> 00:22:54.180 between Dong Shu Li, that's the main character, 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:57.900 and Li Ai, telling them to speak English. This 00:22:57.900 --> 00:23:00.759 was due to Seagal forgetting his lines. It really 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:04.559 left the final cut of the movie. Wait, that made 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:10.420 it in? They left it in, yeah. This movie's incredible. 00:23:11.529 --> 00:23:13.609 I remember him saying that, too. I was like, 00:23:13.670 --> 00:23:18.950 what? God. Oh, my gosh. Literally, we were all 00:23:18.950 --> 00:23:21.970 watching it, even T -Dog, and T -Dog was playing 00:23:21.970 --> 00:23:25.890 Overcooked while watching this. I couldn't really 00:23:25.890 --> 00:23:28.210 blame him, you know? I mean... Oh, I wanted to 00:23:28.210 --> 00:23:32.470 do a million things different than that. I had 00:23:32.470 --> 00:23:34.410 a fun time watching this movie. This was not... 00:23:34.410 --> 00:23:36.569 Let's see. I don't know. It's hard to gauge into 00:23:36.569 --> 00:23:38.390 how bad and the bad movies we've seen because 00:23:38.390 --> 00:23:42.230 it's such a different type of bad. It was entertaining 00:23:42.230 --> 00:23:43.910 in its own way, I would say. I'm never going 00:23:43.910 --> 00:23:45.609 to watch it again. It's not like the room level, 00:23:45.710 --> 00:23:48.089 like, I need people to see this movie. But it 00:23:48.089 --> 00:23:50.809 had its own entertainment value to it, I think. 00:23:51.589 --> 00:23:53.289 With this specific group of people, at least. 00:23:53.450 --> 00:23:57.670 It's like second or third top worst movie for 00:23:57.670 --> 00:24:01.289 me. Like, not the opposite way. Like, not worst 00:24:01.289 --> 00:24:03.829 worst. It was like, okay, this was entertaining. 00:24:05.130 --> 00:24:07.650 Okay. I'm trying to think what that last one 00:24:07.650 --> 00:24:11.220 was that I watched that was, I got second. It 00:24:11.220 --> 00:24:17.119 still remains that stupid mafia movie with Megan 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:23.680 Fox and Kaley Cuoco. Crimes of Fashion. Yeah, 00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:26.660 that's still number one of the best, worst bad 00:24:26.660 --> 00:24:30.460 movies I've seen. But this one's like second 00:24:30.460 --> 00:24:34.279 or third, probably, of that. So, you know, because 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:36.799 it's stupid. It's like, it's entertaining stupid. 00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:42.559 Guys, okay, so go through IMDb's user reviews. 00:24:42.740 --> 00:24:45.900 Check this out. So I finally found a 10 out of 00:24:45.900 --> 00:24:49.940 10. The headline is, you people are all crazy, 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:51.720 because most of these reviews are like 1 out 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:54.359 of 10. Oh, God. I'll just read it. This movie 00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:57.940 is great, followed by a billion exclamation marks. 00:24:58.299 --> 00:25:01.400 It's more of a life -changing experience than 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:04.900 a film. So many delicious layers. I hope there's 00:25:04.900 --> 00:25:08.190 a follow -up delving deeper. It's his Seagal's 00:25:08.190 --> 00:25:10.890 character. What brought him to Africa? Money. 00:25:11.349 --> 00:25:14.089 Was there fallout from him helping the China 00:25:14.089 --> 00:25:17.430 salesman? Was he invited to the China salesman 00:25:17.430 --> 00:25:20.210 and Susanna's wedding? What did he give them 00:25:20.210 --> 00:25:22.730 for a wedding present? Will he ever find a love 00:25:22.730 --> 00:25:25.970 of his own? We didn't even talk about Susanna. 00:25:26.430 --> 00:25:30.170 This person is great. We didn't even talk about 00:25:30.170 --> 00:25:33.789 Susanna, the white woman that just falls for 00:25:33.789 --> 00:25:38.980 the China salesman. Oh, for sure. Played by the 00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:44.339 incomparable Janique Oskivald. Oh, yeah, she 00:25:44.339 --> 00:25:47.599 was great in that one movie. Yeah, you'll know 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:51.859 her from things like The Smurfs 2 and Blood from 00:25:51.859 --> 00:25:58.329 a Stone. Oh. So there are those things. She was 00:25:58.329 --> 00:26:03.269 in The Full House, which I guess, I don't know 00:26:03.269 --> 00:26:05.450 what The Full House is. This might be a French 00:26:05.450 --> 00:26:09.829 movie. French movie, yeah. It is not. It is not 00:26:09.829 --> 00:26:11.750 The Full House you're thinking of. It is not. 00:26:12.930 --> 00:26:15.210 All right. Well, it's verse two. She definitely 00:26:15.210 --> 00:26:18.250 played a pregnant model. That is her character's 00:26:18.250 --> 00:26:21.769 name. Pregnant model. Oh. So there you go. Pregnant 00:26:21.769 --> 00:26:26.269 model. Okay. All right. Alright. This would be, 00:26:26.289 --> 00:26:29.329 I'm sure she was just trying to find some space 00:26:29.329 --> 00:26:32.549 to really show off her acting range. So she's 00:26:32.549 --> 00:26:34.589 like, sign me up for this. She read the China 00:26:34.589 --> 00:26:37.730 Salesman script and said, sign me up. I can't 00:26:37.730 --> 00:26:42.650 wait to work with Mr. Seagal. The funny thing 00:26:42.650 --> 00:26:45.130 is, working with these actors, she was like ten 00:26:45.130 --> 00:26:47.849 times better than she probably ever has been 00:26:47.849 --> 00:26:49.890 before. Yeah, I mean, you know, whatever. Yeah, 00:26:49.890 --> 00:26:57.039 right. Just... She's the A -lister compared to 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:01.039 these two. Yes, very true, very true. Oh, my 00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:05.000 God. I think it's interesting that they cast 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.559 two, obviously for a hope of selling this movie 00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:11.880 to people. You get Steven Seagal, Mike Tyson, 00:27:12.099 --> 00:27:16.920 two Americans, two guys who are immediately recognizable, 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:20.539 especially Tyson with the tattoo and all that. 00:27:22.410 --> 00:27:25.289 Typically, you see American stars, especially 00:27:25.289 --> 00:27:28.369 of a fading variety, they'll go overseas and 00:27:28.369 --> 00:27:32.450 they'll do these one -off commercials back home, 00:27:32.609 --> 00:27:35.369 and then most people will never see them in their 00:27:35.369 --> 00:27:37.450 home country. Just like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 00:27:39.269 --> 00:27:43.490 What happened there? He went to Italy. Oh, that's 00:27:43.490 --> 00:27:45.009 right. He went to Italy and did the Spaghetti 00:27:45.009 --> 00:27:48.509 Westerns. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Don't give me that. 00:27:48.569 --> 00:27:53.460 I actually watched the movie. Come on. No, yeah, 00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:54.900 that was it. I thought you were making a joke. 00:27:55.079 --> 00:27:59.000 No, no. Yeah, no, you absolutely nailed it. So 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:02.579 you get Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal here. My 00:28:02.579 --> 00:28:05.799 heart broke for Steven Seagal a little bit because 00:28:05.799 --> 00:28:08.980 I'm sure there's a whole catalog of these movies 00:28:08.980 --> 00:28:12.839 that he's done since he's been, like, since he 00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:15.700 left his prime, right? I mean, there's, like... 00:28:15.700 --> 00:28:18.019 That's a great way of putting it. Yeah, like, 00:28:18.140 --> 00:28:20.480 I'm just trying to be nice here. He's not a... 00:28:20.750 --> 00:28:23.029 He's not a great actor by any means, but he was 00:28:23.029 --> 00:28:23.970 definitely one of the great... He's not a great 00:28:23.970 --> 00:28:25.849 person by any means, but whatever. Anyway, sorry. 00:28:26.289 --> 00:28:29.490 Yeah, he was a bankable action star in the 90s. 00:28:29.509 --> 00:28:32.769 And since then, outside of China Salesman, because 00:28:32.769 --> 00:28:35.809 we watched it for a podcast, I would not have 00:28:35.809 --> 00:28:38.470 known of any of his other movies that have come 00:28:38.470 --> 00:28:42.069 out recently. Under Siege? Insane. Under Siege, 00:28:42.109 --> 00:28:44.089 for sure. Yeah, that's like a big one. Yeah. 00:28:44.170 --> 00:28:46.289 Well, that's like his most iconic, I would say. 00:28:46.289 --> 00:28:48.490 That's the first one that pops into my head when 00:28:48.490 --> 00:28:51.799 I think of him. Oh, dude. He was in a movie called 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:55.480 Beyond the Law with DMX. We know our next one. 00:28:56.259 --> 00:29:00.819 Dude, that came out last December. Is it on Netflix? 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:05.579 And can we Netflix party it? Yeah, I'm doing 00:29:05.579 --> 00:29:08.200 it right now. Beyond the Law. I feel like you 00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:11.759 can just do this with guys like him. I guess 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:14.380 Nicolas Cage, but he'll pop up in some actual 00:29:14.380 --> 00:29:16.680 decent stuff every now and again. Speaking of 00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:20.920 Nicolas Cage, I rewatched Community. And there's 00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:23.039 a class they offered in one of the community 00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.740 episodes that was called Nick Cage, good or bad. 00:29:28.180 --> 00:29:30.700 And it's all about if he's a good or bad actor. 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:33.259 And I've been thinking about this question going, 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:41.259 I don't know. I don't. He's not for me. He's 00:29:41.259 --> 00:29:43.940 not a good actor in my eyes. But there's so many 00:29:43.940 --> 00:29:46.339 movies where he's actually done like good things. 00:29:47.220 --> 00:29:50.630 Oh, for sure. But that's the whole question. 00:29:50.730 --> 00:29:54.369 It's not if you personally think he's a good 00:29:54.369 --> 00:29:58.109 or bad actor. If he is a good or bad actor, period. 00:30:00.410 --> 00:30:05.069 He's the one that straddles the fence. Yeah. 00:30:05.690 --> 00:30:07.990 I don't know, man. I feel like he's just a product 00:30:07.990 --> 00:30:11.829 of his time. I don't know. I feel like this could 00:30:11.829 --> 00:30:15.470 be its own podcast. This very discussion. During 00:30:15.470 --> 00:30:17.269 quarantine, but we're not watching a ton of new 00:30:17.269 --> 00:30:19.329 movies. That actually might be a good thing to 00:30:19.329 --> 00:30:23.170 go to. Dude, I'm happy to just watch some Nick 00:30:23.170 --> 00:30:27.670 Cage movies. Good, bad, whatever. Oh, hell yeah. 00:30:27.910 --> 00:30:29.509 And then we'll talk about it. How about that? 00:30:29.890 --> 00:30:32.839 Okay. Nick Cage. I'm paying for him, yeah. Nick 00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:38.619 fucking Cage. Let's do it. As the guy says in 00:30:38.619 --> 00:30:40.759 the episode, don't marathon it because you'll 00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:43.160 break yourself. And then Abed obviously becomes 00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:47.440 Nick Cage on this rant. Yes. Don't break yourself. 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:50.019 Just watch some movies of Nick Cage. I'm on board 00:30:50.019 --> 00:30:53.420 with this, actually. I'm good with this. All 00:30:53.420 --> 00:30:55.599 right. Well, let's get to ratings then, guys. 00:30:57.539 --> 00:31:01.000 Mitchell, what would you give this movie, The 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:06.200 China Salesman? Oh, my God. There's so many options. 00:31:07.019 --> 00:31:09.099 Yeah, I know. I'm like, fuck, I don't know what 00:31:09.099 --> 00:31:12.740 my rating's going to be. Shit. Guys, this is 00:31:12.740 --> 00:31:15.640 a quintessential they made a movie. So this is 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:19.519 a half, I don't know, Chinese star is the proper 00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:22.079 term, or what's on the flag. Damn it, you gave 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:26.200 me the flag. Yeah, but go with the flag. So I 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:28.380 got to give it a half. I mean, like, honestly, 00:31:28.460 --> 00:31:32.859 there is no thought put into, any part of this 00:31:32.859 --> 00:31:35.599 movie that went beyond we want to make money 00:31:35.599 --> 00:31:38.500 or we want to... We want to propagate China. 00:31:39.220 --> 00:31:42.240 Exactly. Or we want to put out propaganda on 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.579 behalf of the People's Republic of China. So, 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.839 yeah. No, this movie's terrible. If it wasn't 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:50.740 for the fact that I was watching it with some 00:31:50.740 --> 00:31:52.640 of my closest friends, I would have absolutely 00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:54.279 hated it and probably would not have made it 00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:57.180 past the first fight scene. So, half star for 00:31:57.180 --> 00:31:59.019 me. I did really enjoy watching it with you guys. 00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:04.289 Andre? Yeah, I had a lot of fun. Which doesn't 00:32:04.289 --> 00:32:08.430 line up with I'm also giving this one half destroyed 00:32:08.430 --> 00:32:11.569 cell tower out of five. Damn it, you took mine. 00:32:11.710 --> 00:32:16.230 Fucker. Yeah. There you go. It's all about cell 00:32:16.230 --> 00:32:18.410 phone towers, apparently, and uniting the north 00:32:18.410 --> 00:32:21.690 and south and the dramatic cell phone calls. 00:32:22.250 --> 00:32:25.450 Yeah. Yeah, there you go. No, it was a lot of 00:32:25.450 --> 00:32:27.049 fun to watch, but god damn it, I would not recommend 00:32:27.049 --> 00:32:29.869 it to anybody. Oh, no. No, of course not. All 00:32:29.869 --> 00:32:32.450 right, fine. I'll jump on it. I'm also giving 00:32:32.450 --> 00:32:35.029 it one half, but I'm giving it one half of Steven 00:32:35.029 --> 00:32:43.069 Seagal's body because that's all we saw. So that 00:32:43.069 --> 00:32:51.049 was China salesman. So normally at this point 00:32:51.049 --> 00:32:53.289 in the podcast, we go into things we are excited 00:32:53.289 --> 00:32:55.470 about, things we're dreading, things coming out, 00:32:55.509 --> 00:32:57.859 whatever. Because of the quarantine, we really 00:32:57.859 --> 00:33:00.740 don't know what's going to happen next. Things 00:33:00.740 --> 00:33:03.400 like Black Widow have been pushed back. Trolls 00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:06.380 World Tour is being revealed. It's coming out 00:33:06.380 --> 00:33:08.720 on digital the same day it's supposed to be in 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:11.140 theaters. There's a lot of things happening where 00:33:11.140 --> 00:33:13.039 things are just getting pushed back. Obviously, 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.180 the next James Bond film. I could go on and on. 00:33:16.859 --> 00:33:20.059 So we're going to do something. We are hashtagging 00:33:20.059 --> 00:33:23.430 quarantine binge. You can play along at home. 00:33:23.529 --> 00:33:25.930 What are you watching on your hashtag quarantine 00:33:25.930 --> 00:33:30.369 binge next? We will jump to Andre. What are you 00:33:30.369 --> 00:33:32.650 watching next on your quarantine binge? Hashtag 00:33:32.650 --> 00:33:35.930 quarantine binge. Hashtag quarantine binge. I'm 00:33:35.930 --> 00:33:39.410 staying completely on brand by watching children's 00:33:39.410 --> 00:33:45.109 cartoons with my girlfriend. We are midway through 00:33:45.109 --> 00:33:50.430 Gravity Falls, which is a Disney show that I 00:33:50.490 --> 00:33:52.109 I think finished a few years ago, back in 2016. 00:33:52.470 --> 00:33:54.950 It's on Disney Plus now. It's a very fun show 00:33:54.950 --> 00:33:58.369 about two kids who are staying with their great 00:33:58.369 --> 00:34:00.890 uncle. It's kind of like a Twin Peaks kind of 00:34:00.890 --> 00:34:03.890 vibe town in Oregon, and there's lots of supernatural 00:34:03.890 --> 00:34:07.529 stuff. Lots of charming characters. Very fun 00:34:07.529 --> 00:34:09.650 time. We're about halfway through it. Pretty 00:34:09.650 --> 00:34:12.949 short. Only two seasons. About 50 episodes. Can't 00:34:12.949 --> 00:34:14.710 recommend it enough. Animation is really great, 00:34:14.750 --> 00:34:17.349 especially for a television show. So two thumbs 00:34:17.349 --> 00:34:20.050 up from here. So yeah. And once that's done, 00:34:20.110 --> 00:34:24.829 I'm probably going to continue on my Lord of 00:34:24.829 --> 00:34:26.670 the Rings journey. We just watched The Hobbit 00:34:26.670 --> 00:34:29.949 last night, The Unexpected Journey. That was 00:34:29.949 --> 00:34:32.489 a long -ass three -hour movie. We have two more 00:34:32.489 --> 00:34:37.769 to go. Take care. We'll see. Yeah. Yeah, that's 00:34:37.769 --> 00:34:40.789 it. Okay. What was the name of that show again? 00:34:42.090 --> 00:34:45.469 Gravity Falls. Cool. I just didn't know if I 00:34:45.469 --> 00:34:47.289 heard it right, and I just wanted to make sure 00:34:47.289 --> 00:34:49.550 it got out there. Mitchell, what are you watching 00:34:49.550 --> 00:34:52.789 next on your hashtag quarantine binge? Yeah, 00:34:52.809 --> 00:34:56.389 for me, I mean, I'm just grinding my way through 00:34:56.389 --> 00:35:00.570 the MCU again. I've been introducing the Marvel 00:35:00.570 --> 00:35:03.090 movies to Kelly, my girlfriend, over the past, 00:35:03.289 --> 00:35:05.510 really past couple months, but since we're in 00:35:05.510 --> 00:35:08.489 quarantine now. Hold that thought. Hold that 00:35:08.489 --> 00:35:12.940 thought. Wasn't it your anniversary recently? 00:35:13.619 --> 00:35:16.820 It was. It was yesterday, Saturday, April 4th. 00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:19.380 Congratulations, buddy. No, I wanted to call 00:35:19.380 --> 00:35:22.559 you out on that. Congratulations. Thank you. 00:35:22.619 --> 00:35:25.119 Yeah, it was our one year yesterday. We had a 00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:30.369 nice, we ordered some takeout. We baked brownies 00:35:30.369 --> 00:35:32.630 and put that in ice cream and just had a nice 00:35:32.630 --> 00:35:35.409 little dessert. And we watched Black Panther. 00:35:36.349 --> 00:35:41.989 At least it's a great Marvel movie. Oh, I know. 00:35:42.090 --> 00:35:44.929 And it's the only one that she had seen before 00:35:44.929 --> 00:35:47.889 we started this binge watching. Oh, nice. Nice. 00:35:48.110 --> 00:35:50.110 Yeah. So it's the only one she had seen. But 00:35:50.110 --> 00:35:51.809 yeah, we're going through that. But also I wanted 00:35:51.809 --> 00:35:54.469 to mention something that is on my personal list. 00:35:54.940 --> 00:35:59.179 It's on HBO, it's streaming, HBO Now or HBO Go, 00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:01.599 which is how I'm going to be watching it. It's 00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:04.820 called The Scheme, and it's a documentary about 00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:09.500 the NCAA men's basketball coaching scandal that 00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:12.800 happened a couple years ago, where there was 00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:16.239 basically a system in place between executives 00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:21.849 at Adidas and... different agents who were recruiting 00:36:21.849 --> 00:36:24.969 different high school years and basically fixing 00:36:24.969 --> 00:36:28.050 where they were going to sign and play their 00:36:28.050 --> 00:36:33.170 college career. And it was all based on a whole 00:36:33.170 --> 00:36:37.110 lot of money that the NCAA wasn't touching that 00:36:37.110 --> 00:36:39.989 was basically operated almost like a drug deal. 00:36:40.070 --> 00:36:41.150 It's like, hey, we're going to give you this 00:36:41.150 --> 00:36:43.570 player, and the player gets X amount of money. 00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:46.659 The school gets X amount of money for taking 00:36:46.659 --> 00:36:49.199 that player. It is a scandal written all over 00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:52.039 it. So for a big basketball head like me, I'm 00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:53.679 really looking forward to it. It's called The 00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:58.199 Scheme. It's on HBO. Nice. I got to say, it's 00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:02.860 now on my hashtag quarantine bench. So I'm going 00:37:02.860 --> 00:37:06.820 to go with, well, so I just watched Locke, which 00:37:06.820 --> 00:37:08.840 was great. It was Tom Hardy and everything like 00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:11.420 that. It was a good movie. That was one that's 00:37:11.420 --> 00:37:14.750 been on my list for a while. Another one that 00:37:14.750 --> 00:37:16.710 has been on my list for a while and because I 00:37:16.710 --> 00:37:20.610 am the director of batshit documentaries apparently. 00:37:21.329 --> 00:37:25.550 Yeah. The Act of Killing is what it's called. 00:37:26.829 --> 00:37:30.929 So they've got these guys that are like death 00:37:30.929 --> 00:37:34.789 squad people and they're not like repentant about 00:37:34.789 --> 00:37:37.050 this at all. They don't feel bad about it at 00:37:37.050 --> 00:37:39.489 all. But they have one of the guys that was on 00:37:39.489 --> 00:37:44.889 this death squad recreate his favorite killings, 00:37:44.889 --> 00:37:48.329 but he gets to choose the movie style. So the 00:37:48.329 --> 00:37:49.989 entire movie is like a bunch of different movie 00:37:49.989 --> 00:37:52.710 styles. So he's like, I want to do this one in 00:37:52.710 --> 00:37:56.269 a Western and he plays himself and he gets to 00:37:56.269 --> 00:37:58.449 recreate all these killings and different styles. 00:37:58.809 --> 00:38:01.789 And as it goes on further and further, like you 00:38:01.789 --> 00:38:04.750 see, he kind of realizes like, Oh, even in the 00:38:04.750 --> 00:38:06.949 act of like making it movies, it's just kind 00:38:06.949 --> 00:38:10.050 of like, uh, what am I doing? You know, that 00:38:10.050 --> 00:38:13.849 kind of stuff. Um, But yeah, it's supposed to 00:38:13.849 --> 00:38:15.730 be really good. It is another batshit documentary. 00:38:16.789 --> 00:38:19.329 After watching Tiger King, I need something else 00:38:19.329 --> 00:38:23.230 because I cruised through that. But yeah, so 00:38:23.230 --> 00:38:25.769 the act of killing batshit documentary number 00:38:25.769 --> 00:38:28.429 four that I've mentioned on this podcast, I think. 00:38:29.349 --> 00:38:32.969 So how are you going to watch that, Mike? I believe 00:38:32.969 --> 00:38:36.630 it's on Prime Video right now. Gotcha. Yes. Yeah, 00:38:36.789 --> 00:38:39.309 it's either on Prime or HBO, one of the two. 00:38:40.590 --> 00:38:44.090 And because I spend too much money having all 00:38:44.090 --> 00:38:47.329 of the services that I can, you know, you know 00:38:47.329 --> 00:38:52.230 how it goes. Yeah, I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But 00:38:52.230 --> 00:38:55.010 yeah, so that'll do it for our podcast tonight. 00:38:55.090 --> 00:38:57.050 It's a little shorter, but it's awesome because 00:38:57.050 --> 00:39:01.130 we're far away from each other. Hopefully, well, 00:39:01.210 --> 00:39:03.289 we'll probably do this Nick Cage one in quarantine. 00:39:04.610 --> 00:39:06.530 I'm kind of looking forward to that, actually. 00:39:06.690 --> 00:39:11.489 And then we all will. get back to hopefully watching 00:39:11.489 --> 00:39:13.809 movies together, talking together face to face, 00:39:13.969 --> 00:39:16.190 drinking beers together and having a good time. 00:39:16.409 --> 00:39:18.789 Um, but that, that'll be it for game for a movie 00:39:18.789 --> 00:39:23.010 episode 21. So for myself, Mike, good luck guessing. 00:39:23.630 --> 00:39:28.670 Oh, Andre. Damn you. Damn it. Fuck it up. Oh 00:39:28.670 --> 00:39:36.099 shit. And I'm Mitchell. This is Game for a Movie 00:39:36.099 --> 00:39:38.960 where we ask, are you game for a movie? Hashtag 00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:39.460 quarantine binge.