WEBVTT 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:06.280 Oh, that one was crispy. Mmm. Ooh, I like it. 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:10.759 Mmm. Ah. You know what that sound means? It's 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:14.039 another episode of Game for a Movie. I am your 00:00:14.039 --> 00:00:17.579 host, Mike. I am joined by... Andre. Jill. Nice. 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:19.839 This time we got it better. You were a little 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:22.480 early on this time, you know? Yep. No, it makes 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:24.500 sense. And we've talked about the order a little 00:00:24.500 --> 00:00:26.699 more, so this time I felt a little more comfortable. 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:30.309 Yeah, that's the power of... You didn't listen 00:00:30.309 --> 00:00:34.409 to our episode last week. The start of it was 00:00:34.409 --> 00:00:39.609 great. Let me tell you. True comedy. Yeah. So 00:00:39.609 --> 00:00:43.350 this is one of our movie banter episodes. So 00:00:43.350 --> 00:00:46.090 there is no bad movie unless we watched one on 00:00:46.090 --> 00:00:50.390 our own. But it's still great talk about movies 00:00:50.390 --> 00:00:54.350 with friends. We're going to jump into what we 00:00:54.350 --> 00:00:57.229 are drinking, of course. Yes. Andre, what are 00:00:57.229 --> 00:01:00.820 you drinking over there? hands for the second 00:01:00.820 --> 00:01:02.840 episode in a row a cider. It's a Cider Geist 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:06.099 from Rheingeist Brewing. It is the snug cider. 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:08.579 It's hard cider with spices. It's got a little 00:01:08.579 --> 00:01:10.780 five spice blend in there. I gotta say, it's 00:01:10.780 --> 00:01:13.079 pleasant, you know? It is really nice. A nice 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:15.400 little fall cider. See, I love Rheingeist. Easy 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:18.540 to drink. I am a big fan of Rheingeist. Yeah, 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:20.540 we're Rheingeist fans here too. Exactly. Jill, 00:01:20.659 --> 00:01:22.859 what are you drinking over there? I'm drinking 00:01:22.859 --> 00:01:27.219 water. Yeah. Stay hydrated. High quality H2O. 00:01:28.569 --> 00:01:32.409 I have got Broken Symmetry Nano Nimbus. It's 00:01:32.409 --> 00:01:36.510 a hazy pale ale. I filled in. Nano Nimbus, I 00:01:36.510 --> 00:01:38.730 like that. Yeah, I filled in for hosting trivia 00:01:38.730 --> 00:01:42.010 right before Thanksgiving there. It's like an 00:01:42.010 --> 00:01:43.950 hour away from my house, but it was totally worth 00:01:43.950 --> 00:01:46.870 it. That place was awesome. It's converted train 00:01:46.870 --> 00:01:50.989 station. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, so it's a small 00:01:50.989 --> 00:01:52.650 brewery. Don't get me wrong. It's very small. 00:01:53.180 --> 00:01:55.459 But it's cool because it's right along the train 00:01:55.459 --> 00:01:57.859 tracks, and you can tell it was an old station 00:01:57.859 --> 00:02:00.319 depot kind of thing. What's the brewery called 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.939 again? Broken Symmetry. Broken Symmetry, okay. 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:09.800 It is in Bethel. Yeah, it is in Bethel. Literally, 00:02:10.099 --> 00:02:12.120 it's small and everything like that, but there's 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.199 a lot of cool things to do in Bethel. It's well 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:18.000 worth the trip. And so I just picked up two four 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.280 -packs for Thanksgiving, and it's delicious. 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:25.960 Yeah, nice. I also have a 9 % honey Saison from 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:29.139 them as well. Ooh. Yeah. Both are phenomenal. 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:32.759 Like, top ranks. So. Yeah, we checked them out 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:35.900 on our winter break, Joe. You know? Yeah. I like 00:02:35.900 --> 00:02:37.719 that. Highly recommend it. Also, Bethel is an 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.340 important character in Shin Megami Tensei V. 00:02:41.539 --> 00:02:44.479 Oh, is this a video game podcast? Can we hear 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.560 what Tensei V? He said it was Bethel, and I'm 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.599 like, oh, I've been hearing that name a lot the 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.539 last three weeks. Very, very, very fun JRPG. 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:53.740 I'm loving it. I'm pretty sure you said some 00:02:53.740 --> 00:02:56.199 of that in English. I'm not 100 % sure. No, there 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:57.919 was one word in English, and it was the number 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.039 five. Oh, five. Got it. Yeah, okay. I follow 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.620 five, yes. If you know, you know. We'll just 00:03:03.620 --> 00:03:05.310 leave it at that. Yeah, if you like Persona, 00:03:05.310 --> 00:03:07.849 this game's also made by the same studio. You 00:03:07.849 --> 00:03:12.930 mean Persona 5? Yeah. Yeah. Got it. Nailed it. 00:03:13.009 --> 00:03:16.449 You got it. There you go. Oh, my God. We're putting 00:03:16.449 --> 00:03:18.830 the game in game for a movie, for sure. Hell 00:03:18.830 --> 00:03:21.409 yeah. Hell yeah. I like that. I like having a 00:03:21.409 --> 00:03:23.430 little game corner. Oh, yeah. I don't know. It's 00:03:23.430 --> 00:03:25.870 fun. Like, we talk movies, and that's fine and 00:03:25.870 --> 00:03:27.590 everything like that, but we can talk video games, 00:03:27.689 --> 00:03:30.650 TV shows, anything, really. That's cool. Yeah. 00:03:30.949 --> 00:03:34.009 Yeah. You should get a... Hades on the Switch. 00:03:34.509 --> 00:03:37.330 Since I know you have one. Yes. Okay. It's very 00:03:37.330 --> 00:03:39.990 fun. I'm enjoying it. You're playing to that 00:03:39.990 --> 00:03:41.750 now. That was my favorite game a couple years 00:03:41.750 --> 00:03:45.110 ago. It was so good. Hades is great. $20. We 00:03:45.110 --> 00:03:48.129 also need to get a Mario Party game going. Yes. 00:03:48.969 --> 00:03:52.370 I just bought Mario Party. I also just bought... 00:03:52.370 --> 00:03:56.229 All -Stars? Yeah, All -Stars. Yeah. Okay. Right? 00:03:56.689 --> 00:03:58.050 Superstars, All -Stars? Yeah, Mario Party, All 00:03:58.050 --> 00:04:00.169 -Stars. The new Mario Party, that's a bunch of 00:04:00.169 --> 00:04:03.430 old Mario Party maps. Yes. It's great. When you 00:04:03.430 --> 00:04:05.710 say it like that, it doesn't sound as good. No, 00:04:05.830 --> 00:04:07.810 but that's what they needed to do, man. I just 00:04:07.810 --> 00:04:10.090 wanted to play some fucking Mario Party like 00:04:10.090 --> 00:04:12.509 I was on the N64. I agree. It's great. Yeah. 00:04:12.590 --> 00:04:15.169 No, we will definitely have you guys over, and 00:04:15.169 --> 00:04:17.750 we will have a good time. I am in. I also got 00:04:17.750 --> 00:04:19.589 Metroid Dread, which I've been playing through. 00:04:19.829 --> 00:04:26.339 Oh, how far are you? Not far. I know. I am not 00:04:26.339 --> 00:04:28.779 far, and I knew that would get you excited. Oh, 00:04:28.980 --> 00:04:30.939 I love that game so much. That's my favorite 00:04:30.939 --> 00:04:33.540 game so far this year. That's your goatee? That's 00:04:33.540 --> 00:04:35.720 going to be my goatee, yeah. We have four weeks 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.839 left of the year. It's the game of the year at 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:40.300 this point for me. It's so good. I'm trying to 00:04:40.300 --> 00:04:42.240 think what else came out this year, because now 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:43.860 I'm trying to figure out what my best of the 00:04:43.860 --> 00:04:45.879 year is. It's been fun, don't get me wrong. So 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:49.519 I'm not far in it. But yeah, that is definitely, 00:04:49.660 --> 00:04:54.649 it's been fun so far. come out this year, but 00:04:54.649 --> 00:04:56.750 I played it this year. Okay. And that's Xenoblade 00:04:56.750 --> 00:04:58.949 Chronicles. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard 00:04:58.949 --> 00:05:01.389 of that. Yeah, yeah. I'm now looking up video 00:05:01.389 --> 00:05:05.290 games from... So I disappeared off of our chat. 00:05:05.310 --> 00:05:07.209 Yes, right. We lost your beautiful face. I mean, 00:05:07.250 --> 00:05:08.490 like, the thing is that everything got delayed 00:05:08.490 --> 00:05:10.149 this year, so there really hasn't been that many 00:05:10.149 --> 00:05:14.509 huge releases, right? Yeah. So, I mean, but I'm 00:05:14.509 --> 00:05:16.810 gonna look anyway just to see what I've played 00:05:16.810 --> 00:05:19.410 and what I think is the best. Ooh, I did really 00:05:19.410 --> 00:05:21.430 enjoy the Link's Awakening they re -released. 00:05:22.050 --> 00:05:27.319 Oh, yeah. That was fun. It's also the style that 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:30.540 is so cute. Yeah, exactly. And I love that. I 00:05:30.540 --> 00:05:32.759 think that's why I was a big fan of it this year. 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.000 Damn. I really haven't played a lot of these 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:40.639 this year. Shit. Oh, Hitman 3. I've played very 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:42.800 long games. That was in January. That was super 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:46.079 early, too. I need to finish Hitman. I'm halfway 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:51.240 through 2. That trilogy is just so wacky. Yeah, 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:54.860 right. Hitman. Hitman's always fun. Like, it's 00:05:54.860 --> 00:05:56.759 always a good time. You know what you're getting 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:59.259 from the very beginning when you buy it, but 00:05:59.259 --> 00:06:03.540 it's still always fun. All right. Enough video 00:06:03.540 --> 00:06:06.819 game talk. We're going to hide. We're going to 00:06:06.819 --> 00:06:12.339 head into movie talk and maybe TV shows as well. 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:19.180 Maybe. Maybe. Movies. Movies first. Andre. Andre's, 00:06:19.220 --> 00:06:20.939 like, gunning to go, so I think we've got to 00:06:20.939 --> 00:06:23.740 let him. I'm trying to force all these memories 00:06:23.740 --> 00:06:25.800 to come from this experience because I've already 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:28.699 forgotten a lot about the time I've watched Eternals. 00:06:29.139 --> 00:06:32.660 Eternals. What was it? That was a month ago? 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:34.240 Three weeks ago? Well, it came out a month ago. 00:06:34.300 --> 00:06:36.180 We watched it the weekend after it came out, 00:06:36.220 --> 00:06:39.279 right? Yeah. We did not pay full price. We did 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:43.639 not see it on IMAX like we did Dune. No, we did 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.259 not. Right. Oh, my God. I need to talk about 00:06:46.259 --> 00:06:47.879 Dune. No, I think you're going to talk about 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:57.100 Eternals. I know. I know. I know. Oh, shit. You're 00:06:57.100 --> 00:06:59.660 talking about Eternals. Oh, God. You know what 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:02.899 this means? This is why we needed to have a November 00:07:02.899 --> 00:07:06.120 episode now, because it's backlogged. It is. 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:08.339 No, definitely. We've been backlogged up a little 00:07:08.339 --> 00:07:10.339 bit. But whatever. It's Marvel. Like, we've had 00:07:10.339 --> 00:07:12.560 a bunch of Marvel episodes. We're all Marvel 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:16.819 fans, I guess, at this point. Yeah. So, whatever. 00:07:17.180 --> 00:07:19.600 Eternals. It's a movie. It came out. We watched 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:21.959 it. It was fine. I don't know. Well, that's what 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:24.199 I say about Marvel movies, too, when you say 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:25.819 that we're all Marvel fans and everything like 00:07:25.819 --> 00:07:28.259 that. It's so weird to me about this one because 00:07:28.259 --> 00:07:34.060 I've said, I will say it again, if this wasn't 00:07:34.060 --> 00:07:36.139 part of the MCU, I don't think I would see it. 00:07:36.420 --> 00:07:39.500 Yeah. Yeah. I'd agree. Like, that's the thing, 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:43.139 is that it, I mean, I'm not familiar with the 00:07:43.139 --> 00:07:45.560 Eternals comics at all, so I'm absolutely just 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:49.360 like, I was just watching this mostly for the 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:51.439 Marvel. Cinematic Universe Connection and Kumail 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:53.300 Nanjiani. Those are the two reasons I was coming 00:07:53.300 --> 00:07:56.360 to watch it. Kumail's the only part of the casting 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:58.500 that even got me excited because I am not a huge 00:07:58.500 --> 00:08:01.399 Angelina Jolie fan. She's good. She's actually 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:04.500 pretty good in this. Yeah, okay. If anything, 00:08:04.740 --> 00:08:08.720 she's underutilized. Oh. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:10.180 also think that this would have been better as 00:08:10.180 --> 00:08:13.000 a miniseries rather than a movie. I would have 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.230 liked to have watched a prestige. television 00:08:16.230 --> 00:08:19.790 season of this instead of an hour and a half. 00:08:19.970 --> 00:08:22.970 No, it's two. It's over two and a half hours. 00:08:23.269 --> 00:08:26.129 It's a very long movie. Because they have to 00:08:26.129 --> 00:08:30.810 introduce, what, ten characters? Eleven. Eleven? 00:08:30.889 --> 00:08:35.110 If you're counting Kit Harington. And he's underutilized, 00:08:35.110 --> 00:08:36.950 too. He just shows up at the beginning just to 00:08:36.950 --> 00:08:39.570 say, wow, this is crazy. Whoa. And then also, 00:08:39.690 --> 00:08:42.409 why didn't you guys help out with Thanos? It's 00:08:42.409 --> 00:08:50.509 only plot importance. Yeah, no, definitely. Jill 00:08:50.509 --> 00:08:52.429 alluded to it. This movie has a huge problem, 00:08:52.529 --> 00:08:54.789 I think, in that I just did not care about any 00:08:54.789 --> 00:09:00.029 individual character that much, right? This is 00:09:00.029 --> 00:09:01.929 an ensemble movie without any of the preamble, 00:09:02.029 --> 00:09:06.419 if that makes sense, right? There's no... it's 00:09:06.419 --> 00:09:09.159 just asking you to care about this huge team 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:11.139 when you don't know anything about them and then 00:09:11.139 --> 00:09:13.519 by their very nature they're kind of they're 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:15.740 the eternals they're immortal beings that are 00:09:15.740 --> 00:09:18.919 above humans right so yeah they're gods they're 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:21.080 god they're like demigods or whatever and so 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:24.179 by just by the very nature kind of makes some 00:09:24.179 --> 00:09:27.519 of them kind of plain right you know like uh 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.299 i would say cersei the portion of the main character 00:09:30.299 --> 00:09:33.659 she's like i i got i had nothing to grab onto 00:09:33.659 --> 00:09:37.000 her character right her main arc is that, oh, 00:09:37.139 --> 00:09:39.720 she used to be, she used to have this super long 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:42.320 relationship with Icarus, played by Richard Madden, 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.100 and oh, now that that's over, she's decided that 00:09:45.100 --> 00:09:47.879 she's gone full native, and she's living amongst 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:51.559 humans now. She's now dating Kit Harington's 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:54.980 character, who's a normal human guy. Wait, Kit 00:09:54.980 --> 00:09:57.159 Harington's a normal human guy in this? Yeah, 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.340 yeah, he's a normal human guy. Okay. He's on 00:09:59.340 --> 00:10:02.000 the turn. Totally vanilla. He's just another 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:05.720 wanderer. Yeah, that's it. You know? Okay, that 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.759 feels like a waste of an actor there. There's 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:12.080 stuff with him. All I will say is that this won't 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:15.220 be the last movie that Aaron did. That's all 00:10:15.220 --> 00:10:17.799 I will leave with that. When I see it on Disney 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:19.799 Plus in January. It's like when Hawkeye showed 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.980 up in Thor. Where it's like, oh hey, that's a 00:10:22.980 --> 00:10:26.259 person. Alright, when I see it on Disney Plus 00:10:26.259 --> 00:10:32.360 in January, then I'll have a better idea. busy 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:34.000 plus to watch this right if you haven't seen 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:37.340 it yet like yeah especially with january movies 00:10:37.340 --> 00:10:40.019 like it's not we're not waiting on the next big 00:10:40.019 --> 00:10:43.059 thing to be in january they all have time yes 00:10:43.059 --> 00:10:46.539 exactly um i mean visually i think this movie 00:10:46.539 --> 00:10:48.019 looks really cool there's a lot of really cool 00:10:48.019 --> 00:10:51.539 shots really pretty very pretty movie um especially 00:10:51.539 --> 00:10:53.679 with like the kind of this they do a really good 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:56.360 job of selling you on the scale of the celestials 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.120 the celestials are these giant huge beings that 00:10:59.419 --> 00:11:01.600 basically oversee the development of the universe. 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:06.440 Basically, they created the Eternals. Those are 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.039 the beings that are like, hey, I think the main 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.360 celestial is Arishem, right? Arishem, yeah. Arishem 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.600 is the one that basically creates the titular 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.139 Eternals that we're following and sends them 00:11:16.139 --> 00:11:18.419 to Earth. And they do a really good job of showing 00:11:18.419 --> 00:11:20.759 the scenes that he's in. They really do a good 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:23.779 job of selling them on just how huge and how 00:11:23.779 --> 00:11:30.269 mighty these beings are. It's cool. Let's see. 00:11:30.289 --> 00:11:32.990 In terms of action scenes, I don't know, man. 00:11:33.110 --> 00:11:37.669 It's just a lot of CGI. So what the Eternals 00:11:37.669 --> 00:11:41.009 are fighting are this race of alien mutation 00:11:41.009 --> 00:11:43.230 creatures called the Deviants, right? Deviants, 00:11:43.230 --> 00:11:45.710 yeah. You've seen it in the trailers. They can 00:11:45.710 --> 00:11:47.289 only fight Deviants. They can only interfere 00:11:47.289 --> 00:11:50.009 when Deviants are involved. So a lot of these 00:11:50.009 --> 00:11:53.509 fights are just them against this CGI weird dinosaur 00:11:53.509 --> 00:11:56.110 tentacle monster thing. There's really not much 00:11:56.110 --> 00:11:58.490 to sell it on. I will say that, what was her 00:11:58.490 --> 00:12:01.220 name? Is it Makari? She's the one that was... 00:12:01.220 --> 00:12:04.360 The fast one? Makari, yeah. I liked how they 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.460 displayed her super speed, as it were, right? 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:09.419 I did like the shots that she was running fast 00:12:09.419 --> 00:12:13.940 in. It was cool, and I kind of... If then whatever 00:12:13.940 --> 00:12:15.879 Flashpoint, whatever that next Flash movie is, 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.080 if a lot of the running scenes look like Makari 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:19.980 running around, I'm down for that. It looked 00:12:19.980 --> 00:12:22.559 cool, it felt kinetic, it felt frenetic. And 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:24.860 you saw it in real time. They didn't do slow 00:12:24.860 --> 00:12:27.570 -mo with her. I generally appreciate it. Yeah, 00:12:27.809 --> 00:12:32.990 that distinguisher from Flash and what's it called? 00:12:33.129 --> 00:12:36.409 Quicksilver? Yeah, okay. Yeah, and Quicksilver. 00:12:36.490 --> 00:12:41.450 If I can add, I think a lot of the issues with 00:12:41.450 --> 00:12:42.870 the film, besides the fact that they're trying 00:12:42.870 --> 00:12:46.269 to introduce technically 11 new characters, is 00:12:46.269 --> 00:12:48.750 the scope of it. Because this is a movie that 00:12:48.750 --> 00:12:54.620 spans thousands of years, millennia. of the film, 00:12:54.659 --> 00:12:56.980 and hopefully this is not a spoiler, is that, 00:12:56.980 --> 00:12:58.299 you know, it's like, they've been here, they've 00:12:58.299 --> 00:13:01.340 been living among us, and a good driving force 00:13:01.340 --> 00:13:04.899 of the film is their connection to Earth. Okay. 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:08.399 And then the, you know, the problem with the 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:09.679 fact that, like, oh, they couldn't interfere 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:11.779 with Thanos, and then the ramifications of all 00:13:11.779 --> 00:13:14.000 of that. Right. Where the movie really fails 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:17.779 is that they just don't give them the backstories 00:13:17.779 --> 00:13:20.200 needed to be like, yeah, I really get that you 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:22.720 care about humanity. Right. Right. I mean, like 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:25.059 you get you get some little blips some of them 00:13:25.059 --> 00:13:27.200 have it but not all but not all of them right 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:31.860 i see what you did there blips yes oh geez the 00:13:31.860 --> 00:13:35.259 blip uh well i mean yeah so like there's some 00:13:35.259 --> 00:13:37.019 characters that have these sort of hang -ups 00:13:37.019 --> 00:13:38.960 like i think druid had kind of an interesting 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:41.980 sort of dynamic where so all these eternals have 00:13:41.980 --> 00:13:44.679 different powers druids his power is to mind 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:47.000 control happens right and so they show in the 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:48.679 beginning of the scene he uses that as a placating 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.360 tool where like you know humans would like you 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:53.299 know they try to be aggressive against them and 00:13:53.299 --> 00:13:55.759 he basically like you know forces them to put 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:57.519 down their weapons and calm down or whatever 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:00.860 and they kind of have there's another flat yes 00:14:00.860 --> 00:14:02.399 like half this movie is just flashback scenes 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:05.100 and there's a flashback in like when the they 00:14:05.100 --> 00:14:06.779 do a flashback scene this is fairly early on 00:14:06.779 --> 00:14:10.039 the movie so not a huge spoiler they do a flashback 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:13.580 scene to um when i believe it is that the mayans 00:14:13.580 --> 00:14:17.200 are getting invaded by i think so okay and basically 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:19.279 like they're they're watching all this carnage 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.909 and drew it just basically says I can combine 00:14:21.909 --> 00:14:23.590 control of all these people and make them stop 00:14:23.590 --> 00:14:26.950 at a whim. Like, I can stop all this bloodshed. 00:14:27.230 --> 00:14:29.950 And Salma Hayek's character, Ajak, who's the 00:14:29.950 --> 00:14:31.370 leader of these Eternals, basically says, nope, 00:14:31.450 --> 00:14:33.389 we can't interfere, can't do it. And that's basically 00:14:33.389 --> 00:14:35.710 his big split. Like, he's like, nope, if I could 00:14:35.710 --> 00:14:38.470 just have everybody follow my will, everything 00:14:38.470 --> 00:14:40.230 would be fine. Yeah, there's kind of a conflict. 00:14:40.590 --> 00:14:42.610 And so basically he just kind of, that's when 00:14:42.610 --> 00:14:44.570 he leaves the group and he fucks off to nowhere. 00:14:44.889 --> 00:14:47.570 And so I guess the structure of this movie is 00:14:47.570 --> 00:14:51.490 that... There's an exciting incident that basically 00:14:51.490 --> 00:14:53.850 is like, oh, man, all of the Eternals have been 00:14:53.850 --> 00:14:56.350 scattered in modern day. Like they're still among 00:14:56.350 --> 00:14:57.950 us, but they're not hanging out together as a 00:14:57.950 --> 00:14:59.809 group anymore. So there's an exciting incident 00:14:59.809 --> 00:15:01.690 that I won't say, but basically it's like we 00:15:01.690 --> 00:15:05.870 got to get the band back together. So wait, it's 00:15:05.870 --> 00:15:09.129 the Blues Brothers? Yeah, it's a road movie. 00:15:09.289 --> 00:15:26.600 Oh, my God. the group and it's just kind of i 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:28.580 don't know kind of jumps around a bunch yeah 00:15:28.580 --> 00:15:31.240 i haven't seen any of the director chloe zhao's 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:34.440 other films right so like i do i i think that 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:37.240 this movie if you've if anyone is if you've if 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:38.500 you're listening and you've paid attention to 00:15:38.500 --> 00:15:40.720 ratings this movie is one of the is the lowest 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:44.519 rated marvel film now okay and i definitely think 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:48.750 some of that is oh chloe zhao this Oscar -winning 00:15:48.750 --> 00:15:51.250 director was going to make gold out of this. 00:15:51.350 --> 00:15:54.049 Right. The expectations for her were so much 00:15:54.049 --> 00:15:57.110 higher than some other directors. This is not 00:15:57.110 --> 00:15:58.909 nearly the worst Marvel movie. This is not the 00:15:58.909 --> 00:16:00.809 worst Marvel movie by a long shot. Where would 00:16:00.809 --> 00:16:03.370 you say it is on your list? I'm not asking for, 00:16:03.429 --> 00:16:05.470 like, a blow -by -blow. Yeah, I know, I know. 00:16:05.570 --> 00:16:07.610 Would it be bottom five, middle? It's not bottom 00:16:07.610 --> 00:16:09.429 five. I would say it's bottom third, though, 00:16:09.490 --> 00:16:12.110 for me. Okay. It's probably somewhere below Doctor 00:16:12.110 --> 00:16:15.169 Strange. Okay. Slightly below middle of the road 00:16:15.169 --> 00:16:18.080 for me. I would say it's higher. So, well, I 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:20.679 think Doctor Strange is Not is a lesser film. 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:24.019 So for me, it's a little more towards the middle. 00:16:24.059 --> 00:16:26.100 I think it's better than Ant -Man and the Wasp. 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:28.100 Okay. Better than Ant -Man and the Wasp, but 00:16:28.100 --> 00:16:29.580 I feel like Ant -Man and the Wasp, and this is, 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:30.940 I guess, going to the problem, Ant -Man and the 00:16:30.940 --> 00:16:32.679 Wasp is going to be an easier sell for me to 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:34.960 re -watch, because it's just a, I can just put 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:37.539 that on, and it's not funny. It's a smaller story, 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:38.919 and it's not going to bore me, you know what 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.259 I mean? Like, I will just forget about it, but, 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:43.559 like, I was tired after watching this movie, 00:16:43.620 --> 00:16:45.379 you know what I mean? Yeah, right. Yeah, this 00:16:45.379 --> 00:16:48.500 movie is not, this movie is not funny. This movie 00:16:48.500 --> 00:16:50.700 is not lighthearted. every Marvel movie has to 00:16:50.700 --> 00:16:52.759 be funny. It does definitely feel like they were, 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:54.360 like, saying, like, see, this is different. They 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:56.240 don't have the Marvel quips like all the other 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:58.220 Marvel movies do or whatever. And I'm like, okay, 00:16:58.259 --> 00:17:00.360 well, now it's just kind of boring, man, you 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:02.220 know? Like, Tango is the one that has the, like, 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:05.039 he's the only one that has any sort of life in 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.440 this movie, I feel like. Yeah, and then there 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:11.539 are a couple scenes when it all kind of comes 00:17:11.539 --> 00:17:14.099 together for a few seconds. Yeah. And it's like, 00:17:14.099 --> 00:17:17.519 wow, I really, I like this family aspect. I like 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:19.890 the relationships that are here, the power. dynamic 00:17:19.890 --> 00:17:23.910 possibly a power dynamic struggle maybe but then 00:17:23.910 --> 00:17:27.329 the scene changes or the plot needs to get going 00:17:27.329 --> 00:17:29.410 because we're an hour and a half in and the band's 00:17:29.410 --> 00:17:32.029 still not together right and we don't really 00:17:32.029 --> 00:17:34.490 know what they're why are they getting together 00:17:34.490 --> 00:17:37.849 and there's a lot of things that get set up and 00:17:37.849 --> 00:17:40.470 then dropped or then appear out of nowhere and 00:17:40.470 --> 00:17:43.130 then have little to no ramifications and i'll 00:17:43.130 --> 00:17:46.210 stand by it this should have been a 10 part miniseries 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.880 Eight episodes for all of the characters, some 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:51.000 of them having their own, others being doubled 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:54.339 up, and then an intro episode to set everything, 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:57.720 and then a finale. Yeah, I mean, it sounds ironic 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.299 that I'm complaining about how long this movie 00:17:59.299 --> 00:18:01.460 was, but I definitely agree with Jill. They just 00:18:01.460 --> 00:18:04.200 could have used more time, but also chugged up, 00:18:04.299 --> 00:18:07.769 you know? asking for you to sit down and for 00:18:07.769 --> 00:18:09.730 this for two and a half hours and coming out 00:18:09.730 --> 00:18:11.329 with not really caring about these characters 00:18:11.329 --> 00:18:13.569 something went wrong here is all i'm gonna say 00:18:13.569 --> 00:18:15.630 right i don't know it sounds like i'm really 00:18:15.630 --> 00:18:17.470 harsh in this movie it was perfectly fine i don't 00:18:17.470 --> 00:18:19.910 feel like i got ripped off or mugged for watching 00:18:19.910 --> 00:18:23.730 this movie no and and dare i say when they make 00:18:23.730 --> 00:18:25.809 eternals 2 i'll probably still go see that in 00:18:25.809 --> 00:18:28.250 theaters i don't think they're going to i don't 00:18:28.250 --> 00:18:30.400 think they're gonna make in Eternals 2. I have 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:32.059 a theory about how they're going to be involved 00:18:32.059 --> 00:18:35.079 into the Marvel Universe. Yeah. And I don't think 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:36.339 they're going to give them another standalone 00:18:36.339 --> 00:18:38.160 film. I think they're going to be woven into 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:40.200 other character stories. Like, I could see them 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:42.980 just kind of showing up here and there in other... 00:18:42.980 --> 00:18:46.200 Yeah. Yeah, right. And we can't really talk about 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:48.319 specifics of that without super spoiling it. 00:18:48.420 --> 00:18:51.240 Right. Yeah, sorry about that. No, it's fine. 00:18:51.619 --> 00:18:55.000 So, I do have a question because this was a hot 00:18:55.000 --> 00:19:00.000 -button topic in the community. So they showed 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.680 a sex scene in it, right? Yes. There is a sex 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:06.619 scene. Did it throw you off in a Marvel movie 00:19:06.619 --> 00:19:09.319 to see a sex scene? No. I didn't think it would. 00:19:09.859 --> 00:19:13.480 It's a bog standard PG -13 sex scene. You know 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:15.880 what I mean? The curtains might as well have 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:17.779 blown by. The curtains were blowing in the wind 00:19:17.779 --> 00:19:21.359 in the background or whatever. It was so... We 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:24.740 saw some gyrating bodies. Yeah. Shirtless gyrating 00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:30.039 bodies for 15 seconds. I don't know. Like, no, 00:19:30.220 --> 00:19:33.099 it was, that is not like, and it wasn't like, 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:35.299 okay. So it wasn't raunchy enough to be like, 00:19:35.339 --> 00:19:37.099 whoa, like they really went for it. And it wasn't 00:19:37.099 --> 00:19:39.700 meaningful enough to be like, wow, this is a 00:19:39.700 --> 00:19:42.960 really necessary. Yeah, right. Exactly. It's 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.400 like, okay. Yeah. I was wondering, I didn't think. 00:20:09.029 --> 00:20:14.849 Well, that's what I was curious about. Yeah, 00:20:15.569 --> 00:20:19.700 I didn't think it would matter much. Makes me 00:20:19.700 --> 00:20:21.440 laugh that they bring up, like, oh, it's the 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:23.920 first sex scene in a Marvel movie. Iron Man slept 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.380 with the first, like, reporter. Yeah. I would 00:20:27.380 --> 00:20:30.099 say Iron Man 1 was way more lewd than any of 00:20:30.099 --> 00:20:31.759 the Eternals. Yeah, okay. Even more so. Yeah, 00:20:31.819 --> 00:20:35.259 okay. This is an artistically poetic sex scene. 00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:38.599 Yes. Okay. All right. So, what would you guys 00:20:38.599 --> 00:21:06.059 give ratings for it? I followed the second one 00:21:06.059 --> 00:21:08.680 a little more than the first one. Yeah. It makes 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:12.140 sense when you see the film. Okay. It does. January 00:21:12.140 --> 00:21:14.539 can't get here fast enough, and by fast enough, 00:21:14.619 --> 00:21:20.140 it can take its time. Yeah. All right. Jill, 00:21:20.299 --> 00:21:24.099 you have something for us? I do. I'm actually, 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:28.140 before I get into it, I'm just searching a movie 00:21:28.140 --> 00:21:29.640 I was originally going to talk about, and then 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:39.559 I found something way better. Okay. She's going 00:21:39.559 --> 00:22:02.039 to talk about June now. Yes. Okay. Okay. stupid 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:04.079 and saccharine do you watch the hallmark ones 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:08.000 or just rom -coms well rom -coms i can't watch 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.140 hallmark because we do not have cable ah okay 00:22:11.140 --> 00:22:14.700 right okay that's fair that's actually fair do 00:22:14.700 --> 00:22:18.119 i get like a recently watched thing watch list 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:39.829 watch anywhere do you need help over here a librarian 00:22:39.829 --> 00:22:43.650 who abruptly loses her job and moves back to 00:22:43.650 --> 00:22:46.970 a small hometown that she's actually not from 00:22:46.970 --> 00:22:49.690 because that's where her brother now lives and 00:22:49.690 --> 00:22:52.069 along the way she meets a handsome millionaire 00:22:52.069 --> 00:22:54.170 but doesn't realize he's a millionaire who's 00:22:54.170 --> 00:22:58.130 trying to resuscitate a hotel but the locals 00:22:58.130 --> 00:23:00.009 are all against the change because they think 00:23:00.009 --> 00:23:04.039 it's going to sell out the town. And like I said, 00:23:04.119 --> 00:23:05.640 it's called A Winter Romance. And the reason 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:07.680 originally I was going to talk about it was because 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:09.380 it doesn't take place in winter. It takes place 00:23:09.380 --> 00:23:14.039 in fucking November. So it is a lie. And Chad 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.519 Michael Murray's in it. Chad Michael Murray's 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:20.279 in it? Wait, he's doing stuff? Yeah, and he looks 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:24.900 good. The dude hasn't aged. He's aging like a 00:23:24.900 --> 00:23:28.140 fine wine. He looks fantastic. He's by far the 00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:31.200 best thing in this movie. And it's a shame. There's 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:33.420 not enough scenes of him shirtless riding a horse. 00:23:33.740 --> 00:23:37.940 Yeah, okay. This movie was hot garbage and not 00:23:37.940 --> 00:23:41.119 in a fun way, and it infuriates me, and this 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:43.700 stupid librarian can go fuck herself instead. 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:49.200 Stupid librarian can go fuck herself. Well, because 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:52.380 at first, the aside here is that it starts off 00:23:52.380 --> 00:23:54.700 with her being like, I love doing research and 00:23:54.700 --> 00:23:56.339 helping people uncover history, and I'm like, 00:23:56.339 --> 00:23:58.190 so why aren't you a fucking archivist? Why are 00:23:58.190 --> 00:24:00.190 you working at a public library? And then she 00:24:00.190 --> 00:24:02.730 loses her job, like I said. And I'm like, well, 00:24:02.769 --> 00:24:04.269 boo -hoo. You shouldn't have been working in 00:24:04.269 --> 00:24:06.849 a fucking public library. That's why, you know, 00:24:06.910 --> 00:24:08.930 that's why your job is lost. It's a public library. 00:24:09.210 --> 00:24:12.930 They have no funding. And then stuff happens. 00:24:13.190 --> 00:24:15.069 So originally I was going to talk about that. 00:24:15.190 --> 00:24:17.390 And then on Friday. Wait, I got to bring it up. 00:24:17.470 --> 00:24:22.410 Okay, so he was on like a ton of episodes of 00:24:22.410 --> 00:24:29.009 Riverdale. Oh, Chad Michael Murray? Yeah. after 00:24:29.009 --> 00:24:31.470 season one. So he was on Riverdale, Sun Records, 00:24:31.670 --> 00:24:35.049 Agent Carter? Didn't watch that. He was on 14 00:24:35.049 --> 00:24:37.369 episodes of Agent Carter. That's like apparently 00:24:37.369 --> 00:24:39.890 like the best Marvel TV live action series. That's 00:24:39.890 --> 00:24:42.190 what I've heard too. Okay, sorry. Keep going. 00:24:42.789 --> 00:24:45.430 No worries. Oh, and Andre's clip when he glanced 00:24:45.430 --> 00:24:47.170 over when I was watching this movie, he's like, 00:24:47.269 --> 00:24:49.869 does it sound horrible for me to say that she 00:24:49.869 --> 00:24:51.910 looks like a porn star? Like it just looks like 00:24:51.910 --> 00:24:53.970 a porn parody of a librarian. You know what I'm 00:24:53.970 --> 00:24:55.609 saying? And maybe that says a lot more about 00:24:55.609 --> 00:24:57.769 me than it does about the film, but that's just 00:24:57.769 --> 00:25:00.480 what I got. It probably does. She was not appropriately 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:02.299 dressed for her job. Right, that's what I mean. 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:03.980 Like, what? And I don't mean, like, skin -tight 00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:05.700 clothing. It's just, like, she was very dressed 00:25:05.700 --> 00:25:07.279 up. And I'm like, you're a public librarian. 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:09.859 You don't need to be wearing skirt, heels, and 00:25:09.859 --> 00:25:13.599 a nice top. Okay. Anyway, we're not talking about 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:19.519 this movie. Because on Friday, I moved on to 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:22.440 Netflix because they released their holiday collection. 00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:27.539 Okay. And I came across... There is no bigger 00:25:27.539 --> 00:25:31.220 scam than the holiday rom -coms of the world. 00:25:31.319 --> 00:25:33.880 There's just no bigger scam. They just pump them 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:36.619 out for cheap just to make money. Oh, good. I 00:25:36.619 --> 00:25:38.480 love it. It's like a conveyor belt of films. 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:41.480 And we're consuming it. I'm consuming it. Yeah, 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:43.759 right. They found enough chills in the world. 00:25:45.500 --> 00:25:52.000 So, Love Hard came out in 2021. And the synopsis 00:25:52.000 --> 00:26:21.569 reads... Oh, no. Oh, no. I know both of those. 00:26:21.829 --> 00:26:26.049 Yeah, exactly. I know Jimmy Ray Yang, not from 00:26:26.049 --> 00:26:29.809 Silicon Valley, but from Crazy Rich Asians. Yep. 00:26:30.170 --> 00:26:32.130 And he's hilarious in that. So when I saw that 00:26:32.130 --> 00:26:33.569 he was in here, I was like, oh, okay, this is 00:26:33.569 --> 00:26:36.089 going to be at least funny. He's also in Space 00:26:36.089 --> 00:26:38.990 Force, which I... Yes, he's in Space Force. He's 00:26:38.990 --> 00:26:42.490 also in Fantasy Island. Oh, that's right, he 00:26:42.490 --> 00:26:44.589 was in Fantasy Island. And I saw that for the 00:26:44.589 --> 00:26:49.309 pod. Yep. And it gets so much worse at the end. 00:26:49.369 --> 00:26:53.670 Hey, you know what? He's also in the... as Enthusiastic 00:26:53.670 --> 00:26:57.769 Zebra. Oh, nice. I appreciate that. That's Enthusiastic 00:26:57.769 --> 00:27:00.309 Zebra. What I was getting at is that this was 00:27:00.309 --> 00:27:03.049 going to be bare minimum funny. It's probably 00:27:03.049 --> 00:27:05.210 not going to be good, but it's going to at least 00:27:05.210 --> 00:27:06.670 probably have some good jokes because I feel 00:27:06.670 --> 00:27:09.650 like he has a good read on comedy. Right. And 00:27:09.650 --> 00:27:14.829 his career is not that desperate. Not yet. Not 00:27:14.829 --> 00:27:17.130 yet. Hopefully not. He's actually really, really 00:27:17.130 --> 00:27:21.450 good in this. So as I said in the summary, she's... 00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:24.720 Not lucky in love, and she's chronicling all 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:28.440 her misadventures with a blog, or it might not 00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:31.079 be a blog, like a news website that she is a 00:27:31.079 --> 00:27:35.930 writer for. Okay. The whole reason this gets 00:27:35.930 --> 00:27:37.690 started is that she's talking about how she's 00:27:37.690 --> 00:27:40.190 so unlucky in love, but she apparently has ridiculously 00:27:40.190 --> 00:27:43.130 high standards. She's only looking for the 1 00:27:43.130 --> 00:27:47.609 % men who look like gods, who have perfect personalities, 00:27:47.829 --> 00:27:49.190 but then when she actually meets them, they're 00:27:49.190 --> 00:27:52.589 bland, stupid, or just full of themselves. Yeah. 00:27:52.650 --> 00:27:55.569 So her friend takes her phone and widens her 00:27:55.569 --> 00:28:05.779 searching radius from five miles. Well, and like 00:28:05.779 --> 00:28:07.500 L .A. too, though. They have so many people. 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:10.240 Like, you can go 25 and still be fine. Yeah. 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:14.720 So, we go from five miles of L .A. to the whole 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:19.420 country. And she connects, matches with a dude 00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:22.799 named Josh in Lake Placid, New York. And they 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:26.190 hit it off. And they... through conversations, 00:28:26.309 --> 00:28:29.009 through texting, then through voice call. And 00:28:29.009 --> 00:28:30.589 her friend's like, oh my God, he sounds like 00:28:30.589 --> 00:28:33.569 too good to be true. You need to see a real picture 00:28:33.569 --> 00:28:35.890 of him. And the only way that you can really 00:28:35.890 --> 00:28:37.609 know it's true is if he's holding up a newspaper 00:28:37.609 --> 00:28:40.170 with today's date. And she's like, oh no, it's 00:28:40.170 --> 00:28:42.769 fine. He's totally real. He sounds so cool. So 00:28:42.769 --> 00:28:45.369 she's like, hey, can you just like, you know, 00:28:45.390 --> 00:28:47.349 send me a picture? So he does. And she's like, 00:28:47.410 --> 00:28:51.809 see, he's a real guy. He's a real boy. Exactly. 00:28:51.890 --> 00:28:54.309 So after some flirtation, he kind of says in 00:28:54.309 --> 00:28:58.460 passing, oh. with me for Christmas. So she decides 00:28:58.460 --> 00:29:01.380 to bet it all on love and flies to Lake Placid, 00:29:01.380 --> 00:29:05.220 New York to be with him for Christmas. And she 00:29:05.220 --> 00:29:09.960 gets there and, you know, come on, you know, 00:29:09.980 --> 00:29:12.240 everybody can know where this is going. So she 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.240 gets there, finds his house somehow and meets 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:18.420 his family. And his family is actually like super 00:29:18.420 --> 00:29:23.490 fun. His mom is played by Rebecca Stab, Barb. 00:29:23.910 --> 00:29:27.470 His dad, Bob, is played by James Saito. And then 00:29:27.470 --> 00:29:33.329 grandma is played by Althea Kaye. And they're 00:29:33.329 --> 00:29:36.569 just so excited to see her. And she's a gorgeous 00:29:36.569 --> 00:29:39.009 woman. Their son really hit it out of the park. 00:29:39.369 --> 00:29:42.430 and they're like oh let's go get josh josh josh 00:29:42.430 --> 00:29:45.250 you have to get a date if someone's here and 00:29:45.250 --> 00:29:48.509 you know slow the door opening you get the full 00:29:48.509 --> 00:29:55.490 body rising shot and it's jimmy o yang so you 00:29:55.490 --> 00:29:58.109 know the love boat has come to an abrupt halt 00:29:58.109 --> 00:30:10.049 here and record scratch moment yeah exactly sees 00:30:10.049 --> 00:30:13.349 the guy whose pictures he had been using for 00:30:13.349 --> 00:30:15.390 himself like that's a real person that lives 00:30:15.390 --> 00:30:17.670 in the town of late placid so she's like well 00:30:17.670 --> 00:30:20.849 i'm gonna get him to fall in love with me so 00:30:20.849 --> 00:30:23.269 it becomes the you know trying to win a guy over 00:30:23.269 --> 00:30:26.710 while also developing this friendship slash relationship 00:30:26.710 --> 00:30:29.690 with the guy originally catfished her right and 00:30:29.690 --> 00:30:35.849 it's also low -key a musical what yeah it's a 00:30:35.849 --> 00:30:37.839 musical there are three musical numbers maybe 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:40.720 even four um is that the minimum number is it 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:43.440 like or is it like a song per well it depends 00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:45.759 by like how long the thing is that's what i mean 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:47.519 like is there like a song like every what song 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:49.500 every 15 minutes or song every this is an hour 00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:51.880 and 44 minutes and i think there are four songs 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:54.960 so this is almost a musical but the fact that 00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:57.940 not once twice or even thrice characters break 00:30:57.940 --> 00:31:02.059 into song it's a musical in my opinion so we 00:31:02.059 --> 00:31:05.059 get a rendition of um i would do anything for 00:31:05.059 --> 00:31:10.880 love by meatloaf That was great. We get a weird 00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:15.359 acapella moment with like a Christmas song. And 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:19.640 then maybe it's cold outside. But it's like the 00:31:19.640 --> 00:31:23.539 gender role swapped version. Because all these 00:31:23.539 --> 00:31:27.920 characters actually can sing. Harry Shum Jr. 00:31:28.220 --> 00:31:32.859 from Glee plays Josh's older brother. and he 00:31:32.859 --> 00:31:35.720 can sing and dance so naturally they were like 00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:38.099 oh well let's take advantage of this triple threat 00:31:38.099 --> 00:31:41.380 right here um i think there are only three songs 00:31:41.380 --> 00:31:47.440 but regardless it's it's fun is the movie stupid 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:51.680 at points yes absolutely because she In trying 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:53.480 to win over the guy that she thought she was 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.660 talking to, she lies about who she is. You know, 00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:58.940 she says that she's an outdoorsy type. She says 00:31:58.940 --> 00:32:00.680 that she likes to eat meat, even though she's 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:03.819 a vegetarian, that she's experienced rock climbing. 00:32:03.900 --> 00:32:06.720 So she's effectively doing the exact same thing 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:09.980 that Jimmy O. Yang did. But at least in his case, 00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:13.180 he... He never lied about who he was as a person. 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:16.400 He lied about who he was visually. What he looked 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:19.380 like, yeah. Because Asian Americans are less 00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:23.599 likely to find matches on dating sites. So, all 00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:26.940 of that. And, yeah, no, this was actually really, 00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:28.920 really fun. It was not, like, I thought it was 00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:30.039 going to be a little more dumb, and I'm really 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.039 happy it was smarter than that. Yeah. And there's 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:36.240 just a lot of homages to rom -com movies. So, 00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:39.140 Love Hard is a reference to the fact that... 00:32:40.619 --> 00:32:43.259 Nina's character, Natalie, her favorite Christmas 00:32:43.259 --> 00:32:45.839 movie is Die Hard. Jimmy O. Yang's character's 00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:48.740 favorite movie is Love Actually. Get it? Love. 00:32:48.819 --> 00:32:53.079 Oh, God. There's a lot of, so there's a lot of 00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:58.279 homages to Love Actually. They play a song that 00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:00.900 plays in 500 Days of Summer. Okay. And I'm like, 00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:03.099 that's not a mistake. They did that on purpose. 00:33:04.380 --> 00:33:07.990 Yeah. I liked it. As someone who enjoys rom -coms, 00:33:07.990 --> 00:33:10.670 I found all of those little notes to it pretty 00:33:10.670 --> 00:33:15.650 cute and funny. So, yeah, you know, for my first 00:33:15.650 --> 00:33:20.109 of the Netflix winter collection, this was quite 00:33:20.109 --> 00:33:23.309 good. And Jimmy Lee is hilarious and should be 00:33:23.309 --> 00:33:25.250 in more things. I thought he did a really great 00:33:25.250 --> 00:33:28.450 job as the main character and give him more things 00:33:28.450 --> 00:33:31.769 to be the lead in. Yes. He was actually not... 00:33:31.869 --> 00:33:33.990 He was not the worst part of Fantasy Island, 00:33:34.109 --> 00:33:37.750 so I'm with you on that. Good. Also, his character's 00:33:37.750 --> 00:33:41.069 a candle maker, and I love candles. So it's like 00:33:41.069 --> 00:33:43.069 the same thing with Jack Black's character in 00:33:43.069 --> 00:33:45.170 The Holiday when he's a soundtrack composer. 00:33:45.390 --> 00:33:47.730 It's like, yes, this is a profession I find oddly 00:33:47.730 --> 00:33:53.289 sexy. Please go on. Well, then we talk about 00:33:53.289 --> 00:33:55.309 his candle sense, and I'm like, oh, I'd buy a 00:33:55.309 --> 00:33:56.950 candle that smelled like some of these things. 00:33:57.210 --> 00:33:59.130 Right, so his whole thing is he's trying to get... 00:33:59.899 --> 00:34:02.420 manly scents on the market, right? Yeah, it's 00:34:02.420 --> 00:34:05.279 50 % of the candle market's untapped because 00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:09.880 there's no scents for men. Like wolf musk or 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:12.500 like falcon tears or something like that. No, 00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:15.039 one of them's like lawn mowing. Oh, okay, nice. 00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:16.780 All right, lawn mowing, like fresh cut grass. 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:19.420 Like, okay, that's pretty good. Yeah, I don't 00:34:19.420 --> 00:34:21.079 know. And then, like I said, the family is just 00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:23.159 really, really fun too because they're so excited 00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:27.019 that he is dating somebody and then, like, just 00:34:27.019 --> 00:34:30.550 how extra they are. with everything. So if you 00:34:30.550 --> 00:34:32.829 enjoy a nice romantic comedy and you can turn 00:34:32.829 --> 00:34:34.969 your brain off for a little bit, check out Love 00:34:34.969 --> 00:34:38.670 Heart. How many movies are in the Netflix holiday 00:34:38.670 --> 00:34:40.869 collection? I don't know. It's kind of a lot. 00:34:40.869 --> 00:34:43.690 I'm a little scared. I know. And also you need 00:34:43.690 --> 00:34:45.949 to give a rating on this one. Yes, you do. I 00:34:45.949 --> 00:34:50.550 will give it three out of five Kiwi allergies. 00:34:50.969 --> 00:34:53.130 Okay. Okay. Wow, I didn't know you could have 00:34:53.130 --> 00:34:55.050 more than one Kiwi allergy. Yeah, right. I mean, 00:34:55.050 --> 00:35:03.539 not a Kiwi allergy, but somebody. Lake Placid 00:35:03.539 --> 00:35:05.860 from anywhere you've been in upstate New York, 00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:07.719 Andre? Have you ever been there? I have not been 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:09.679 to Lake Placid, no. I've been to Lake Placid. 00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:13.000 It's not a finger lake, right? No, it's not. 00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:15.559 No, it's not. What is the fame? How does Lake 00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:17.139 Placid get to be like... It's where the Olympics 00:35:17.139 --> 00:35:20.500 was. Yeah. So there was Winter Olympics there 00:35:20.500 --> 00:35:26.320 in 92? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's pretty 00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:28.599 far from anywhere I've been, you know. So I was 00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:31.699 in Rochester, and that's probably a solid four 00:35:31.699 --> 00:35:33.960 -hour drive. Let's look. Yeah, there's a lot 00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:36.199 of movies in Netflix's holiday collection. I'm 00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:37.559 definitely not going to get to watch them all, 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:39.340 but I think I need to check out Father Christmas 00:35:39.340 --> 00:35:42.360 is Back. Yes, yes, you do. Or Five Hour Drive, 00:35:42.460 --> 00:35:45.460 literally. John Cleese is in this. I need to 00:35:45.460 --> 00:35:49.440 see this. Lake Placid, when we were there, there 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.619 was the outdoor games happening. It always happens 00:35:52.619 --> 00:35:55.260 there. And so we watched a lot of people with 00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:57.780 chainsaws and logs and everything like that. 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.130 It was kind of fun, actually. Hmm. Yeah. the 00:36:01.130 --> 00:36:04.170 axe one you know like the split in the log and 00:36:04.170 --> 00:36:06.030 that was cool actually it was a really cool time 00:36:06.030 --> 00:36:09.130 I just found another holiday film that's got 00:36:09.130 --> 00:36:11.510 Rob Lowe and Kirsten Davis in it that's also 00:36:11.510 --> 00:36:15.449 going on the watch list Holiday in the Wild okay 00:36:15.449 --> 00:36:19.090 I wish you best of luck in all your endeavors 00:36:19.090 --> 00:36:21.809 I know and wish Andre luck too because I'm going 00:36:21.809 --> 00:36:23.510 to make him watch some of these with me oh god 00:36:23.510 --> 00:36:28.570 poor bastard Christmas with his family and I'm 00:36:28.570 --> 00:36:30.409 like, what movie should I make them watch? They 00:36:30.409 --> 00:36:31.630 already made them watch The Muppets Christmas 00:36:31.630 --> 00:36:33.329 Carol last year, which is a great film and everybody 00:36:33.329 --> 00:36:35.630 should watch it. So I'm like, should I make them 00:36:35.630 --> 00:36:39.130 watch The Holiday? Like, it's a seasonal requisite 00:36:39.130 --> 00:36:42.070 for me. Yeah, that's a good one. Maybe I make 00:36:42.070 --> 00:36:45.010 them watch Holiday in the Wild. Who knows? Good 00:36:45.010 --> 00:36:47.969 luck. I wish you the best of luck for both of 00:36:47.969 --> 00:36:57.730 you. Thank you. I'm scared. Have you never seen 00:36:57.730 --> 00:37:02.309 it? No. We might need to watch that then. Okay. 00:37:02.670 --> 00:37:04.769 All right, Mike. I'm just, no, I'm just doing 00:37:04.769 --> 00:37:08.389 my cue cards of Love Actually. Well, Bill Nighy 00:37:08.389 --> 00:37:10.750 is the best part of Love Actually and all of 00:37:10.750 --> 00:37:13.130 his amazing blouses. Yeah, you're right about 00:37:13.130 --> 00:37:16.449 that probably. Yeah. So I'm going to talk about 00:37:16.449 --> 00:37:19.690 Last Night in Soho. Both of you have not seen 00:37:19.690 --> 00:37:23.010 it, so I'm going to go spoiler free. But the 00:37:23.010 --> 00:37:26.829 story is essentially a fashion student. She's 00:37:26.829 --> 00:37:30.730 on the poorer side of things. Her mother has 00:37:30.730 --> 00:37:32.949 passed away, but she still sees her mom because 00:37:32.949 --> 00:37:34.989 she has this supernatural connection somehow, 00:37:35.110 --> 00:37:39.190 someway. She gets into this fashion university 00:37:39.190 --> 00:37:45.550 in London and basically moves there to live on 00:37:45.550 --> 00:37:48.050 her own and go to this fashion school and become 00:37:48.050 --> 00:37:50.449 this famous fashion designer and everything like 00:37:50.449 --> 00:37:53.590 that. And we know she's obsessed with the 60s. 00:37:53.590 --> 00:37:56.030 That is what we know about her. So all of her 00:37:56.030 --> 00:37:58.610 designs are very 60s inspired and everything 00:37:58.610 --> 00:38:03.570 like that. She moves out on her own and she starts 00:38:03.570 --> 00:38:06.070 seeing this girl from the 60s, Sandy, who's played 00:38:06.070 --> 00:38:09.829 by Anya Taylor -Joy. And Anya Taylor -Joy's character, 00:38:10.110 --> 00:38:13.750 Sandy, is a singer who's trying to get famous 00:38:13.750 --> 00:38:18.929 and falls in with the character Jack, who's played 00:38:18.929 --> 00:38:23.800 by Matt Smith. uh yes well so the first thing 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:26.380 i say because they're first seen together i said 00:38:26.380 --> 00:38:29.340 to claire i go i want another season of matt 00:38:29.340 --> 00:38:31.980 smith as dr who with anya taylor joy as the companion 00:38:31.980 --> 00:38:36.559 because i think that would be a blast oh yes 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:40.219 madman in a box yeah i literally the chemistry 00:38:40.219 --> 00:38:43.900 between the two of them right immediately is 00:38:43.900 --> 00:38:48.199 just off the chain like it is it is insane um 00:38:49.190 --> 00:38:53.070 We also have Diana Rigg as Miss Collins. We have... 00:38:53.070 --> 00:38:57.190 That's basically it for the famous people you 00:38:57.190 --> 00:39:02.909 know. But our main character, whose name is Eloise, 00:39:03.170 --> 00:39:06.349 is played by Thomasin McKenzie. And it bugged 00:39:06.349 --> 00:39:08.289 me for the entire movie because I could not figure 00:39:08.289 --> 00:39:10.389 out where we knew her from. We knew her from 00:39:10.389 --> 00:39:13.969 something, but we don't know what from. She was 00:39:13.969 --> 00:39:16.969 the girl in Jojo Rabbit. Jojo Rabbit, yep. Yes. 00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:20.079 And it was bugging the hell out of us because 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.179 we could not figure it out for the life of us. 00:39:24.099 --> 00:39:27.980 But yeah, basically she starts seeing Sandy in 00:39:27.980 --> 00:39:30.400 these situations where it gets worse and worse 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.219 and worse. At first it's just like this 60s dreamland 00:39:34.219 --> 00:39:36.260 and then it starts getting worse and worse and 00:39:36.260 --> 00:39:40.219 worse and Eloise can't separate her real life 00:39:40.219 --> 00:39:42.579 from the fake life and everything like that and 00:39:42.579 --> 00:39:46.980 it starts messing with her whole life. To the 00:39:46.980 --> 00:39:48.579 point where, like, she gets mad at the wrong 00:39:48.579 --> 00:39:53.960 people, she gets in trouble, and just a lot of 00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:58.320 little things like that. It is an Edgar Wright 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:02.420 movie. This is his first with a female protagonist, 00:40:02.579 --> 00:40:05.639 right? I believe so, yes. Yeah, that makes sense, 00:40:05.739 --> 00:40:07.880 yeah. Because he did, like, the Coronado, he 00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.219 did Baby Driver, everything like that. Soundtrack 00:40:10.219 --> 00:40:14.179 is... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The soundtrack, 00:40:14.300 --> 00:40:18.409 as you can expect, is excellent. He does things 00:40:18.409 --> 00:40:21.409 that... Basically, at the end of this movie, 00:40:21.530 --> 00:40:24.050 I did not know how I felt about it, but I knew 00:40:24.050 --> 00:40:26.849 I wanted to see more Edgar Wright films. Okay. 00:40:27.750 --> 00:40:31.030 There's one scene in particular that is just 00:40:31.030 --> 00:40:36.510 phenomenal. And... I really would love to see 00:40:36.510 --> 00:40:39.269 a behind -the -scenes where they did this. Basically, 00:40:39.289 --> 00:40:44.280 when he sees... When she sees Jack and Sandy 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:48.659 in the 60s, they start dancing. And they do this 00:40:48.659 --> 00:40:52.760 dance and it's all one shot and everything. Sandy 00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:54.980 goes off screen. All of a sudden, Eloise is in 00:40:54.980 --> 00:40:57.059 the scene dancing with him. And then it's Sandy 00:40:57.059 --> 00:41:00.639 again. And it's literally like dance, rotate, 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:03.360 switch, everything like that. It's done in one 00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:06.539 take. And it feels very much like it was just 00:41:06.539 --> 00:41:09.079 the two actresses were just in swap, in swap. 00:41:09.260 --> 00:41:11.900 You know, that kind of stuff. It is an excellent 00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:14.880 scene. It is honestly amazing. One of my favorite 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:18.079 scenes of the year. They definitely botched the 00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:21.340 ending, which I'm not going to talk about. They 00:41:21.340 --> 00:41:24.400 didn't stick the landing for it. But the first 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:28.579 two -thirds of the movie were excellent. It is 00:41:28.579 --> 00:41:31.219 very weird. It is very strange. And it's good. 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:34.880 But at the same time, I do not know how I feel 00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:38.099 about it at the end because of the ending. Interesting. 00:41:38.300 --> 00:41:42.329 Yeah. bummer yeah right um i still recommend 00:41:42.329 --> 00:41:44.869 it at least have a good time for the first two 00:41:44.869 --> 00:41:49.030 thirds um because it is crazy and fun and like 00:41:49.030 --> 00:41:51.710 a little bit scary it's marked as a horror movie 00:41:51.710 --> 00:41:55.010 for certain parts of it oh really yeah i see 00:41:55.010 --> 00:41:58.909 it like i do see it because it's creepy um there 00:41:58.909 --> 00:42:00.949 are some characters with like melting faces and 00:42:00.949 --> 00:42:07.469 stuff like that it's yeah it's creepy um i really 00:42:07.469 --> 00:42:10.639 can't say much more without Spoiling some of 00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:16.099 it. Well, the reason... So I can say, like, the 00:42:16.099 --> 00:42:18.780 reason she moved out on her own is because her 00:42:18.780 --> 00:42:21.280 roommate at university for the first part is 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:27.260 kind of a bitch. So she basically just decided 00:42:27.260 --> 00:42:28.780 she's going to move on her own because she can't 00:42:28.780 --> 00:42:32.980 spend a semester with this lady. Gotcha. Yeah. 00:42:33.260 --> 00:42:39.730 But, yeah. So I would say... 3 .25 dresses out 00:42:39.730 --> 00:42:45.730 of 5. Okay. Wow, 3 .25. Yeah. Except pie. Yes, 00:42:45.809 --> 00:42:49.949 almost pie. We passed pie on that. Yeah, we did 00:42:49.949 --> 00:42:57.050 pass pie. Yeah, passed pie. Yeah, so that's last 00:42:57.050 --> 00:43:01.840 night in Soho. Yeah. Do we need to watch it before 00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:03.539 it gets out of theaters? No, I don't think you 00:43:03.539 --> 00:43:05.679 need to watch it in theaters. No, I don't think 00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:07.239 you need to watch it in theaters. I think it 00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:11.320 was very good and I would recommend it in theaters, 00:43:11.460 --> 00:43:13.179 but at the same time, I think you could very 00:43:13.179 --> 00:43:17.679 easily watch this film and not be thrown off 00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:19.500 that it's not in theaters. It doesn't change 00:43:19.500 --> 00:43:22.260 that much. We managed to get our Edgar Wright 00:43:22.260 --> 00:43:24.219 fix in over Thanksgiving break when she showed 00:43:24.219 --> 00:43:26.460 my family Hot Fuzz. That was fun. Oh yeah, nice. 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:30.460 At first, Andre, I think you were like, I don't 00:43:30.460 --> 00:43:31.800 know. And I'm like, no, I think your family's 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:34.539 going to really, really like it. Andre hadn't 00:43:34.539 --> 00:43:36.199 seen it before. I hadn't seen it either, yeah. 00:43:36.659 --> 00:43:39.159 Hot Fuzz is so weird to me. They were laughing. 00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:42.719 I had no idea that Timothy Dalton was in that 00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:46.440 movie. That threw me for a loop. Yeah. Hot Fuzz 00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:50.420 is interesting because it's one of my favorites 00:43:50.420 --> 00:43:52.739 of the Cornetto trilogy, but the beginning of 00:43:52.739 --> 00:43:57.559 it is just so long. How so? Well, so they marketed 00:43:57.559 --> 00:43:59.500 it different. They marketed it as it was this 00:43:59.500 --> 00:44:02.559 cop action movie, that kind of stuff. And, you 00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:04.659 know, people are disappearing and stuff, but 00:44:04.659 --> 00:44:08.840 it's not, it's like cop work, not cop action. 00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:10.539 Right, right, right. Okay, got it. I'm looking 00:44:10.539 --> 00:44:13.059 for the swan. Yeah, exactly. And that kind of 00:44:13.059 --> 00:44:14.960 stuff. And so, like, when I first watched it, 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:18.679 it was just, okay, okay. I was also much younger, 00:44:18.780 --> 00:44:20.199 so all I wanted was bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. 00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:21.860 You wanted was the violence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:44:21.860 --> 00:44:23.719 Which, I mean, you know, hey, that final climax 00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:26.409 scene, that was... It was well worth it. sequence 00:44:26.409 --> 00:44:31.190 goes on for too long. He's getting more and more 00:44:31.190 --> 00:44:34.239 over the top. i don't want to spoil it we got 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:36.039 no one seen it and then it kind of crescendos 00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:38.420 i think you can spoil that one this was the last 00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:41.679 45 minutes yeah right my favorite edgar wright 00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:43.639 ism is even if that's even the right word was 00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:46.019 the fucking all the montages whenever he put 00:44:46.019 --> 00:44:49.119 someone away it's like what it get like he yeah 00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.019 yeah like the extreme fast cuts when he was like 00:44:52.019 --> 00:44:53.940 putting away all like all the underage drinkers 00:44:53.940 --> 00:44:56.699 at the pub i was like wow yeah right no that's 00:44:56.699 --> 00:45:00.139 awesome again that's why i say especially after 00:45:00.139 --> 00:45:02.219 this movie like edgar wright makes a movie i'm 00:45:02.219 --> 00:45:06.440 in That's kind of where I am. I don't need to 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.679 know much about the plot. If you say Edgar Wright 00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:13.039 made it, I'm in. Yeah. We're going to take a 00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:14.820 quick break because we do need to get some commercial 00:45:14.820 --> 00:45:18.340 breaks in. And then we will come back with Cash 00:45:18.340 --> 00:45:20.239 or Trash, which we have not done in a while. 00:45:20.420 --> 00:45:23.760 We have not. No, we have not. So we will do Cash 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:31.610 or Trash after the break. We are back with Hashtag 00:45:31.610 --> 00:45:35.349 cash or trash, where we tell you about some of 00:45:35.349 --> 00:45:37.150 the things we've been watching, and if you should 00:45:37.150 --> 00:45:39.889 watch it, cash, or if you should not watch it, 00:45:39.949 --> 00:45:43.570 trash. Andre, you're going to get us started, 00:45:43.630 --> 00:45:48.010 buddy. All right. So Jill and I are about, what, 00:45:48.110 --> 00:45:50.670 we're four episodes? We're about to start episode 00:45:50.670 --> 00:45:53.170 four. We're starting episode four of Artane, 00:45:53.349 --> 00:45:57.289 the Netflix animated series. There you go. And 00:45:57.289 --> 00:46:00.159 it is... At the top, this is definitely cash. 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:05.420 This is some quality shit. Cool. So, basically, 00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:07.400 have you heard anything about it at all, Mike? 00:46:07.460 --> 00:46:09.800 It's League of Legends or something? Yeah, so 00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:12.880 it takes place in the League of Legends universe. 00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:16.360 It's called Runeterra, I guess. But... You'll 00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:19.320 notice that, like, you don't need to know anything 00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:21.320 about League at all. I don't play League of Legends. 00:46:21.500 --> 00:46:23.000 Jill definitely doesn't play League of Legends. 00:46:23.219 --> 00:46:25.820 We did, years ago. Right, but, like, we are not 00:46:25.820 --> 00:46:28.260 League fans, so we don't have much prior investment 00:46:28.260 --> 00:46:31.320 in these characters or anything like that. And 00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:34.460 we're definitely invested in the story so far. 00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:37.900 I think it's definitely done on purpose that 00:46:37.900 --> 00:46:39.980 the show is just called Arcane. Like, if you 00:46:39.980 --> 00:46:41.900 go on Netflix, it just says Arcane. It's not 00:46:41.900 --> 00:46:44.760 League of Legends Presents Arcane. Yeah, it's... 00:46:45.710 --> 00:46:49.539 League of Legends. It's a subtitle. Okay, it's 00:46:49.539 --> 00:46:51.960 a subtitle. Okay, got it. That's the first time 00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:53.239 I've seen that. I was looking at the Wikipedia 00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:55.000 page. You're right. I thought it was just Arcade. 00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:57.000 And they definitely lead with just that marketing. 00:46:57.239 --> 00:47:00.519 My only known part of this media in any way, 00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:02.840 shape, or form is it has a very generic Imagine 00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:05.480 Dragons song attached to it. Yes, it does. And 00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:07.079 I would say that's the worst part of the show. 00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:11.780 Yeah, right. It's the title song. I hate it because 00:47:11.780 --> 00:47:14.539 I used to love Imagine Dragons. Now it's gotten 00:47:14.539 --> 00:47:17.019 so generic. Now they're Nickelback. Yeah. Every 00:47:17.019 --> 00:47:19.679 song sounds... the same oh my god yes hey hey 00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:21.860 the skip intro button's there for a reason and 00:47:21.860 --> 00:47:26.340 uh yeah so i guess yeah i should probably give 00:47:26.340 --> 00:47:29.300 you a quick like synopsis of it basically it 00:47:29.300 --> 00:47:34.050 follows two sisters uh vi and powder um and they 00:47:34.050 --> 00:47:37.110 kind of are the the there it takes place mostly 00:47:37.110 --> 00:47:39.769 in this city called piltover it's like a fantasy 00:47:39.769 --> 00:47:43.550 like high tech uh high tech city where it's clear 00:47:43.550 --> 00:47:45.449 there's a clear class utilization of the haves 00:47:45.449 --> 00:47:47.650 and the have -nots the top side or it's like 00:47:47.650 --> 00:47:50.409 where like the utopian society is where it's 00:47:50.409 --> 00:47:52.710 a high -ranking council that runs everything 00:47:52.710 --> 00:47:56.389 they all are focused on technology this is a 00:47:56.389 --> 00:47:58.489 world where magic exists we're still learning 00:47:58.489 --> 00:48:01.460 about it but The citizens of Piltover don't have 00:48:01.460 --> 00:48:03.199 magical powers. It's the idea that you have to 00:48:03.199 --> 00:48:06.320 be born with magic, but they have technology 00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.980 instead. So they're all kind of like a self -made 00:48:08.980 --> 00:48:13.880 society, as it were. And Vi and Powder kind of 00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:15.539 live in the slums, and they're kind of roughing 00:48:15.539 --> 00:48:18.539 it in the slums. And it's kind of following their 00:48:18.539 --> 00:48:22.099 journey, trying to, I don't know, make their 00:48:22.099 --> 00:48:25.639 way through this kind of politically charged... 00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:28.059 little, little fantasy. Making my way downtown, 00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:30.820 walking fast, faces past some homebound. Yeah, 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:33.239 you know, blowing up stuff, and yeah, it's great. 00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:36.760 It kind of serves as an origin, so both Vi and 00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:39.920 Powder are characters in League of Legends, so 00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:42.099 this kind of serves as their origin story, I 00:48:42.099 --> 00:48:45.469 guess. But it takes place, I think, like... No 00:48:45.469 --> 00:48:47.809 idea. Probably like 10, 15 years before League. 00:48:47.889 --> 00:48:49.550 I don't even know. Whatever. It's definitely 00:48:49.550 --> 00:48:52.170 a prequel. So I guess if you don't know League 00:48:52.170 --> 00:48:53.929 of Legends, there's a lot of these characters 00:48:53.929 --> 00:48:56.369 that will show up that are like, oh, hey, I know 00:48:56.369 --> 00:48:59.230 that guy. He's this champion in League. Oh, neat. 00:48:59.369 --> 00:49:02.289 But I don't feel like I'm lost as far as they 00:49:02.289 --> 00:49:04.030 throw a lot of proper nouns at you and stuff 00:49:04.030 --> 00:49:06.809 like that. But the way that it's told, it feels 00:49:06.809 --> 00:49:09.969 very accessible. And it treats these characters 00:49:09.969 --> 00:49:13.969 with a lot of respect. Yeah. a lot of these characters 00:49:13.969 --> 00:49:17.090 that villains especially so far are nuanced they're 00:49:17.090 --> 00:49:20.389 relatable and you know it's kind of like oh man 00:49:20.389 --> 00:49:22.590 like if there's not just much mustache twirling 00:49:22.590 --> 00:49:24.769 evil for the sake of it you know there's a lot 00:49:24.769 --> 00:49:27.250 of shades of gray and i'm kind of surprised that 00:49:27.250 --> 00:49:30.150 something out of a league of legends like could 00:49:30.150 --> 00:49:33.230 could have this kind of nuance to a story, I 00:49:33.230 --> 00:49:34.730 guess. Right, yeah. Andrew and I were saying 00:49:34.730 --> 00:49:38.150 it didn't need to be this good, but it is weird. 00:49:38.289 --> 00:49:40.730 Yeah, right. Like, it is, yeah. And I'm not saying 00:49:40.730 --> 00:49:44.530 it's good in spite of its origins, but it's worth 00:49:44.530 --> 00:49:46.489 watching even if you don't care about League 00:49:46.489 --> 00:49:48.309 at all. This is not just for the fans. I think 00:49:48.309 --> 00:49:51.269 this is definitely worth watching if you like 00:49:51.269 --> 00:49:53.969 any sort of animation. And visually, it is very 00:49:53.969 --> 00:49:56.730 unique looking. It looks awesome. It has this 00:49:56.730 --> 00:49:59.750 very cool art style where everything, it's CGI, 00:49:59.969 --> 00:50:04.400 but it looks like hand -drawn okay like not pastel 00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:07.719 but it has this like it looks like cards all 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:10.619 right cards yes the closest thing i could get 00:50:10.619 --> 00:50:12.119 to it is honestly into the spider -verse they 00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:14.420 look very different but kind of that you know 00:50:14.420 --> 00:50:18.860 i like that no i like that yeah right it's not 00:50:18.860 --> 00:50:20.960 it's not the same kind of like it's not like 00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:22.780 you know they're not playing with the frame rate 00:50:22.780 --> 00:50:24.840 and stuff like they were with Spider -Verse. 00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:26.619 But I would say that's the closest thing I could 00:50:26.619 --> 00:50:28.539 think of to that kind of style, that and that 00:50:28.539 --> 00:50:30.199 Christmas movie, Klaus, that you showed me last 00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:33.320 year, Joe. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Anyways, whatever. 00:50:33.500 --> 00:50:34.800 I don't want to sing too many phrases. We're 00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:37.840 only on episode four out of nine so far. They'll 00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:39.639 be ready for the second season. Definitely hard 00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:42.000 cash. If you see it on your Netflix feed and 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:42.900 you're like, oh, is that a League of Legends 00:50:42.900 --> 00:50:44.400 show? I would say definitely give it a shot if 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:46.559 you're at all interested in it. It's great. So, 00:50:46.579 --> 00:50:54.320 yep. Hard cash. Okay. Jill? we have been checking 00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:57.420 out netflix's much anticipated cowboy bebop live 00:50:57.420 --> 00:51:01.380 action adaptation and this is kind of interesting 00:51:01.380 --> 00:51:04.679 because i'll just i'll start off with this we're 00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:07.719 still we're on episode three okay so it's still 00:51:07.719 --> 00:51:10.000 too soon to make a final call but it's definitely 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.880 not trash but it's also not cash okay not all 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:18.590 of it some parts are absolute cash casting fan 00:51:18.590 --> 00:51:23.750 -fucking -tastic. Oh my god. Jon Cho owns this. 00:51:24.130 --> 00:51:28.309 If this is the last thing he is ever in, I hope 00:51:28.309 --> 00:51:32.610 he goes down as being a wonderful live adaptation 00:51:32.610 --> 00:51:37.269 version of Spike Spiegel. I like Mustafa Shakir 00:51:37.269 --> 00:51:39.769 as Jet Black. Jet Black is also really great. 00:51:40.010 --> 00:51:42.150 Jet Black is great. I haven't seen much of Faye 00:51:42.150 --> 00:51:48.289 yet. She was good too. So casting is really great. 00:51:48.389 --> 00:51:50.809 Sound, fantastic. They got the original composer 00:51:50.809 --> 00:51:55.250 back, so it really fits well. Where it starts 00:51:55.250 --> 00:51:59.769 to get questionable is how much of an adaptation 00:51:59.769 --> 00:52:02.329 do you want? Do you want it to be screen shot 00:52:02.329 --> 00:52:06.170 for shot? Or do you want same characters, roughly 00:52:06.170 --> 00:52:08.809 same story, but different avenues of getting 00:52:08.809 --> 00:52:11.829 there? And as far as I can see, this show cannot 00:52:11.829 --> 00:52:15.719 decide how it wants it. Yeah, right. First episode 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:17.400 is a shot -by -shot remake.