Ooh, Chris. Okay, okay. You know what that sound
means? It's time for Game for a Movie, where
we ask, are you game for a movie? My name is
Mike. I'll be your host. I am joined by... Jill.
Andre. So the three of us are going to New Orleans
with our friends. It'll be a fun time. So we
want to talk about movies. I'm going to clarify
the expectation. Movies filmed or take place.
In Louisiana. She almost said Los Angeles. I
did almost say Los Angeles. My friend literally
just put on her Facebook that she's moving to
Los Angeles. So that is the reason why I think
I'm in that mode. So films that are taking place
or filmed in Louisiana. That is the category.
We have to give a shout out before we start.
Because I did post this on Twitter. At Game for
a Movie. We're now just At Game for a Movie instead
of At Game for a Movie P1. The first one was
Deja Vu, which is the Denzel Washington film.
Yes. I've not seen it. I haven't seen it either.
It is very good. Yeah? Yes, I have seen it. Alright,
I say very good. It is middle of the road. It's
okay, I guess. You're too faced on that. It is
middle of the road, but I do suggest seeing it.
I'm middling Denzel Washington. That was submitted
by at Cheap Seats Cast or at Cheap Seats Cast,
which is Cheap Seats Review Podcast. Exploring
the Hollywood film industry for the greater good.
The greater good. They are from Charlotte, North
Carolina. Hopefully someday I will move there.
Wow. Okay. I love you guys, but yes. Yeah. For
sure. All right. Yeah. You can move there with
me. I mean, we could. Okay. I like Connecticut,
though. Do you? Wow. We're going to have this
conversation now. We're going to have this conversation
now. Like right now, Jill. Right now. Right now.
You really want to live in Connecticut? No, I
mean, I like it here. You know? I'm splitting
this into two episodes, so this is actually pretty
good. What? The Stepford Wives? I don't understand.
The Stepford Wives. Is that a diamond on the
whole entire state of Connect I Cut? Yes, it
is. Connect I Cut. You know what I call it. Okay,
what's your favorite beer from this state? Favorite
beer? Yes. Yeah, Alvarium, the Honey Shot. Easy
peasy. Done. Donezo. Bingo Bongo. Bingo Bongo,
Honey Shot. Bury me with a fork. Did you just
say Big Bang? Bingo Bongo. Bingo Bongo. Be back.
Bury me with a four -pack of honey shot from
Ovarian, man. It's good. Connecticut? Jill, how
do you feel about Connecticut? We're going to
have this conversation. I understand. I don't
know. When you guys break up, this is not my
fault. That's a lot of questioning. I will say,
Connecticut is not like... No, it's not anything.
It's not a ride -or -die Connecticut. Yeah. No,
it is. No one is. I'm open to where opportunity
takes me. That's exactly right. And possibly
Andre. Yeah. Andre. We'll say that I work in
an industry that's now recently become a little
more flexible in terms of location. Would you
say you live in a society? Andre. Yes. That society
is open to Charlotte, North Carolina. It is.
It's true. You can come with us. Wow. You know
what? This is some Kylo Ren holding out his hand
near the end of Last Jedi shit. you know you're
something of a kinetic or rise of skywalker i
don't that movie was never made i don't understand
that's what i'm saying if it's rise of skywalker
come with me i will save you my last name is
not skywalker we're not gonna smooch all right
that's not happening i'm sorry you're attractive
as shit if you spend five dollars pay five dollars
for our patreon yeah if we had a fucking patreon
and you paid subscribe our only fans cameo. The
cameo. Okay, there we go. You know what, Andre?
I'm so glad we recorded this episode after we
were drunk as shit. Yeah. Andre, are you something
of a Connecticut -er yourself? You know, I'm
something of a nutmegger myself. Nutmegger! Nutmegger!
Can we take a moment to talk about how wonderful
the Sam Raimi trilogy, well, the first two of
these. I'm something of a nutmegger myself. Yes,
you know. We've been re -watching the Sam Raimi
Spider -Man. Yes, we are two out of three deep
into the Sam Raimi trilogy. You guys have seen
No Way Home, right? Yes. Yeah, okay. I thought
so, but... I have not seen Andrew Garfield's
Spider -Man. I'm excited to re -watch Andrew
Garfield's movies. Not at all. None. Yeah, she
hasn't seen any of them. I was very incensed,
and I called him... You know how I feel about
Amazing Spider -Man 2. I do know how you feel
about Amazing Spider -Man 2. I'm excited to re
-watch them. Well, because of you, I have not
seen Amazing Spider -Man 2. By the way, Spider
-Man is not set in Louisiana or Philadelphia.
No. That's true. It's true. Filmed in Atlanta.
Which is why we're having this conversation.
Or Cleveland for Spider -Man 3. Oh. Yeah. I really
hope. Spider -Man 3 Rainy. I really hope one
part of Spider -Man 3 Rainy was filmed in Cleveland.
No, not that part. Ah, the dancing part? No,
it's not the dancing part. Not the Blaine McGuire
part. At least I don't think. The wart that I
know that was filmed was the Sandman fight scene.
Anyways, also Avengers, by the way, filmed in
Cleveland, too. Loki, when he's taking over the
ambassador, he's just taking over the tower building
in Cleveland. He's just trying to take over Cleveland.
It's not a big deal. Of course he was. Loki was
ambitious to a degree. Yeah. Anyways, Louisiana.
He's filmed in Louisiana or set in Louisiana.
Or set in Louisiana. I think there's one that
is a safe place. place to start disney's the
princess and the frog yes my favorite disney
movie your favorite i love that i thought it
was great i got to see it in an empty theater
with my sister i was very hyped to see it and
i you know it's a good eight out of ten animated
disney film i wish there was more animation that
came after it yes that's yes i think that like
it's it's unfortunate that this movie kind of
has a legacy of it didn't do well enough for
to convince disney to do more 2d animation after
this yes that's kind of what it's kind of left
with but but that's the worst part about it all
is because everything about it was great yeah
okay dash my hopes and dreams daddy the buff
is like the we don't talk about him daddy the
buff and then we can't talk about the daughter
because she's also um I don't mind her I can't
remember her first name um but no it gave us
our favorite left -handed princess Tiana yeah
who Anika Tiana's the best Anika Nani Rose Keith
David is a great villain yes he is Keith David
as Dr. Facilier is amazing yeah i absolutely
as tiana's mom yes oh yeah yeah i agree yeah
uh eudora um mama odi mama odi is jennifer lewis
such i love dig a little deeper that's a fantastic
because you want to know why the princess and
the frog is such a good film it's because the
movie takes the concept of the i want yes and
turns it around on its head and it's not the
i want it's i need yes and it's So refreshing
to have that as a narrative. Can we also talk
about the fact that Eli LaBeouf, Big Daddy LaBeouf,
is John Goodman. Yeah, it's John Goodman. I have
nothing wrong with his performance. Charlotte
LaBeouf is Jennifer Curry. And she's so funny.
Cousin Randy is Randy Newman. Who's Cousin Randy?
I don't remember. I'm guessing Cousin of Charlotte.
Yes, I'm guessing so too. Ray, Jim Cummings.
Yes! Ray is the best. Yeah. All he wants is this.
Evangeline. Evangeline. The star. Yes, I will
say that the death of Ray in Presence of the
Broad is one of the more very upsetting Disney
character deaths in very recent memory. Oh my
God, yes. When you hear him get squished. Yep.
I'm going to see my Evangeline. Oh my God, yes.
We're both there. We're both there. It's emotional.
Andre. You have no emotion. Why do you have no
emotion? Do you not like The Princess and the
Frog? No, I love it. It's great. I just haven't
seen it in a while. That's why. We should rewatch
it. We should, yeah. I'm definitely down. Great
movie. Like I said, it's tough for me to separate
the fact that that was the last 2D animated Disney
movie thus far. I hope they make another one
of them. I do too. Me too. While we're talking
about movies that scream New Orleans. We have
to talk about our interview with Vampire. Yes!
With the death of Anne Rice, Claire and I recently
re -watched it. Isn't it great? Oh, it's amazing.
Yeah. It's amazing. Every character was perfectly
cast. We sat there after the end going, who else
can pull this off? Yeah. And the fact that one
of them is Tom Cruise. as Lestat yeah he's amazing
yeah he's amazing he gives Lestat everything
that that character deserves exactly and Brad
Pitt as Lestat Brad Pitt is yes he is amazing
and we can't forget Antonio Banderas okay also
true yeah sure great also true Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst yes Claudia yes so tragic we can't
forget Antonio Banderas whose first kiss was
with Brad Pitt yeah really there's a context
to this okay Have you not seen the interview
with the vampire? It's been a really long time.
I have the DVD if you want to borrow it. Sure.
I think my mom has the Blu -ray at my home. I
didn't want to do this before she passed away,
but now even more so. I want to read all of the
canon. vampire chronicle books, because there's
a number of them that are no longer canon. The
day she passed, we watched Interview with a Vampire,
because Claire was upset about it. Like, really
upset about it. And I don't blame her or anything
like that, but any excuse to watch Interview
with a Vampire, she goes, we're watching this
tonight. Okay. Fantastic film to watch. That
film is excellent. And speaking of Brad Pitt
in New Orleans... This is a good segue. This
is a good segue. I like this. Curious case of
Benjamin Button. Wow. Curious case of Benjamin
Button. This is something I love. Really? Oh
my god, yes. The theme that he learns from the
piano teacher in the house that comes back and
then at the end when he's kind of walking through
these big moments and then it freezes on Cate
Blanchett's face as she dances and then the...
Because it's Katrina, and then the clock starts
ticking backwards as the floodwaters come in.
I could narrate this entire film for you, and
it's almost three hours long. Yeah, it is. That's
what it tastes like. It's a long movie. And it
doesn't feel it at all. No, I felt it, man. I
love that film. I felt it. Okay. I didn't feel
it, so I'm actually... And again, I watched it
when it came out, so I was like, you know...
I'm a different person now, I guess. I don't
want to make it sound like it's the best film
on earth, but I really resonated with the concept
of just how one lives your life. Sure. I didn't
walk away from it with that sort of profound...
Sure, I'm down. I'll come at it with an open
mind. Anyway, it is set in New Orleans and it
captures the change of it because it's the life
of Benjamin Button. So it's from the end of World
War I. Because he was born on July 7th, the night
that World War I ended. Or, yeah, the Civil...
No, it's World War I. It's World War I. It's
World War I because it has to be. And then it
ends with Katrina hitting New Orleans and the
levees break. It's loosely based on the story
of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I didn't
know it was directed by David Fincher. Yeah,
I mean, that lines up. That movie has so many
famous people in it. It has Cate Blanchett, Rod
Pitt, Tilda Swinton in a really great role. Who
else does that have? Taraji P. Henson. Taraji
P. Henson. Marc Ursula. Mm -hmm. Elias Koteas.
Is he Benjamin Button's real father? I don't
know. I don't know what his role is. The only
reason I bring him up is because we saw that
preview with Defendor. And so now we have to
bring up Defendor. Which was the opening. Yes.
One of the opening credits for Gentlemania. Yeah,
exactly. He was also Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles. No, he is in Benjamin Button.
In Benjamin Button. I'm pulling it up. He is
Monsieur Gatteau. He's the one who makes the
clock. Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I know exactly
who you're talking about. At the beginning of
the film. Mr. Cake. He also is Reverend Pope
Askew in The Haunting in Connecticut, which brings
us back to our conversation about Connecticut.
What? You want to live in Connecticut? I like
Connecticut. I'm comfortable here. That's all.
Right? One day we'll do a Let's Talk Whether
We Set in Connecticut. Haunting of Connecticut.
Mystic Pizza. Haunting of Connecticut. Haunting
of Connecticut. Okay. Annabelle. Yep. Anything
that's set at Yale. Yep. Gilmore Girls. Gilmore
Girls. All of it. All of it. And Stars Hollow.
All right. No, no, no. We're not going to go
down this rabbit hole. Back to New Orleans. Back
to New Orleans. Okay. I have a special shout
out for me. Candyman, Farewell to the Flesh.
Which one in the franchise is that? I think it's
the second one. Yeah, it is the second one. The
plot follows a New Orleans school teacher who
finds herself targeted by the Candyman. The only
reason I need to bring this up is because I worked
in basically Cabrini Green, which was the setting
place of Candyman 1 in Chicago. And so the fact
that Farewell to the Flash takes place in New
Orleans, I feel like I have to bring it up because
it's Candyman. It's related to my story in some
way, shape, or form. So there's that. The other
one I was going to bring up, though. was i'm
scrolling and i'm scrolling and i'm scrolling
for when you are listening to this and realize
that i have no clue what i'm talking about uh
red red takes place in new orleans red bruce
willis is red i've not seen it It's fun. I mean,
Cosmic Sin's got me thinking new things about
Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis tries in this movie.
Yes, he actually does try in this movie. So,
he starts in Kansas City. And then he has to
get the team together. Do you remember where
Morgan Freeman was from? No. New Orleans. He's
at an old folks home in New Orleans. Oh, okay.
So it doesn't really, like, take place in New
Orleans. But there's a scene in it. Okay. Including
the spot where, remember, he runs out of the
car? Yep. That scene? That scene's in New Orleans.
That's in New Orleans. Okay, got it. Okay. When
the CIA finally catch up with him. Okay. And
they're like, yeah, where is he? Oh, he's in
New Orleans. Okay. Like, a lot. So, yeah. I mean,
there's a streetcar named Desire, which I have
not seen. You haven't seen it? Have you seen
it? Yeah. There's three of them. Yeah. Which
one are you talking about? 1951, 1984, Okay,
well, how many A Star is Born's have you seen?
Zero. There we go. Balanced it. Okay. I mean,
it wasn't a competition. I don't know. So it
was 1951, 1984, I've seen the 51 one, I believe.
Really? Yeah. The one Bruce, with, my God, James
Dean. Bruce Willis, yes. Yes, Bruce Willis. Yes,
Bruce Willis. He was in it. He would have been
alive, right? I will say, it's not, the closet
thing, it's not a movie. It's a game. But Red
Dead Redemption 2's Saint Denis is like one of
the most, the best realized cities. Basically,
it's like, it's New Orleans. It's New Orleans
at the turn of the century. Is it Mafia 3 in
New Orleans? It is, yes. But I haven't played
that one, so. I haven't played that one, so I
got one on you. That doesn't happen much. That
doesn't happen much. Set in Louisiana. Louisiana.
Mafia 3 is actually New Orleans. The reason we
say Louisiana is because Scatman John Louisiana.
Louisiana is True Blood. Yep. Can we talk about
Louisiana? Because I got a movie that we wanted
to talk about earlier. That takes place in Louisiana,
but not in New Orleans, necessarily. Scooby -Doo
on Zombie Island. Yes! Scooby -Doo on Zombie
Island! Moonscar Island, specifically. Moonscar.
Captain Moonscar. And Bo. No, Riverboat Captain.
We gotta watch this movie. My thoughts... Do
you like zombies? What's the problem? What's
the barrier? Is it zombies or Scooby -Doo? It's
Scooby -Doo. Why? I don't like Scooby -Doo. I
hate to say it, guys. I don't like Scooby -Doo.
Why? This late 90s animated masterpiece is scary,
funny. I've seen it. I've seen it. I saw it when
I was 10. And you know what? I didn't like it
when I was 10, and I sure shit don't think I'm
going to like it when I'm 29. Well, it's going
to happen anyway. Yeah. It's Scooby -Doo. Yeah,
I don't like Scooby -Doo. Why? What did Scooby
-Doo do? Do you not like talking dogs? Did Scrappy
get you? Scrappy fucking sucks, and I don't think
that's controversial. How do you power it away?
All right, you know, I'm just saying... I don't
like... No, I don't like Scooby -Doo. Everybody,
you heard it first. Andre hates Scooby -Doo.
Sure. Andre's a monster. Sure. In a rubber mask.
Yeah, you can pull the mask off me. It's going
to be me. I'm going to be the grouch. I will
attack your face. Don't do that four -beard thing
because I will attack your face. Clearly what
we have to do is take a ride on down memory lane
of Scooby -Doo cinema starting from the late
90s all the way to the 70s. So you can see Shaggy
become a werewolf. You can see Shaggy, Scooby,
and Scrappy go to a boarding house and meet a
whole bunch of ghoul children. Yes, these are
all movies. No, no, no, no. You're remembering
this because Cartoon Network used to play this
all the time. I have no problem with any of the
Scooby movies. I have a problem with your numbering
system. We're going to go from the 90s to the
late 70s. Why are we going backwards? Because
I don't want to go forwards. They've made too
many. All right, fair. I know what lies ahead.
Whatever. I don't need to see Scooby -Doo meet
the Loch Ness Monster or the Chupacabra. All
right. Did you guys know that Wild Wild West
takes place some points in New Orleans? Does
it really? Come on. Is that where the butcher,
the dude McGraw, the guy with the thing with
the thing, is that where his... The thing with
the thing. The thing with the thing. The dude
who can't hear very well, Bledshaw McGraw, someone
like that. I don't fucking know. It's the Wild
Wild West. There's a villain. I'll be completely
honest. I'm not. It's been so long. So, Will
Smith's character, something has a first name,
but he just goes by West. His baloney has a first
name. It's M -A. I don't know. Will Smith's character
is, among other things, hunting down Bloodbath
McGraw. I think that's his name. is one of the
victims who gets his head cut off, but he can't
hear very well, so he holds a trumpet to his
ear. I think the massacre that he helped commit
with his machines happened in Louisiana. Oh.
I think that's the connection. Okay. Or that's
where racist... What's his name? He directed
Thor. Kenneth Branagh? Yeah, because he's the
paraplegic. Yes, yes, yes, he is. No, he's not
paraplegic because he has his arms, but... He
can't... Double amputee. Yeah. Racist. Kenneth
Branagh. Yeah. Who, you know... Yeah. Yeah, with
the spider. I got another one for you that I
think is an interesting one. Okay. X -Men Origins
Wolverine. Yes, because we meet Gambit! Remy
Lebeau. Oh my god, the best movie not made. Not
made? No, they never made a Gambit film. Oh,
yeah. Well, it's still coming. It's played by
Janet Tatum. It's still coming. Good for Channing.
Also, Janet Tatum was among our actors fan casted
in Transylvania. I had him down as playing Cliff.
I didn't have him as Cliff. Who do you have him
as? Who do I have Cliff as? Yeah, who do you
have Cliff as? Not Channing Tatum because I didn't
have it. I would say he's definitely Channing
Tatum. It's definitely Claire. It's a good point.
I can't see it in a video. I'm very glad that
this is going to come out as two parts because
we'll talk about this two weeks in a row, I guess.
Yeah, I know. The Revenge of Transylvania. Revenge
of Castlevania. We were vampire boys. Oh my god.
What is with us in vampire movies? This is why
we need to make the side tangent jump to The
Covenant, which doesn't have vampires, but it's
got angsty teen witch boys. But The Covenant's
too good. No, it is not. You've seen it though.
Yes, I saw it in theaters and at many sleepovers.
Alright, so who's going to watch The Covenant
when they lose next? Me and Andre. Andre, when
he loses the next one. No, me, and then Andre
Washington. No, because you saw it already, and
you like it. Fine. It's gotta be torturous. Can
we... This has to be my movie. This is my cross
to bear. Andre, it's got a Rob Zombie music opening,
and hot leech men doing hot leech things. Get
me out of here. Do you like spiders? No, I like
Spider -Man. I like Spider -Man. No, no, no.
Just spiders. Any other things set in New Orleans
that we should be... There's nothing else I got.
Andre? Yeah, I got nothing else. We can take
a quick break and just... Wrap it up? Yeah, wrap
it up. You know what was missing from Transylvania?
Huh? Mummies. We got aliens, we got vampires,
we got hunchbacks. We didn't get mummies. But
no mummies? Or werewolves? No, there was a joke
of a werewolf. Well, I can definitely give you
some time because I'm probably going to go to
the bathroom again. I need to go to the bathroom
too. So we can do... What is it? We don't have
it. Cash or trash? Cash or trash. There it is.
I don't have anything to cash or trash. I don't
have anything to cash and or trash. I've got
cash and trash for you. Okay. Cash and trash
it. Yeah, so we can go to the bathroom real quick
and then we'll take a break because this is going
to be episode two. I can guarantee you this.
And then we can go back. Oh my god, Joel. Nice.
So we're going to take a quick break. Yeah. And
then come back. Okay. And we're back with our
New Orleans episode, pretty much. Yeah. It's
all about New Orleans. It's kind of been all
over the place. Well, it's been all over the
place. Yes, I agree. We are doing hashtag Cash
or Trash. We're going to talk about the things
we've been watching lately on streaming services
or whatever. I don't know. At this point, why
am I talking? Yeah. Andre. It's me? It's me first?
Yeah. Okay. Because I like to keep you off guard.
I like it. Okay, so this weekend, I bought myself
a new Vigigame. Vigia? It's a Vigigame. Okay.
You guys might have heard, you've heard of Pokemon?
Pokemon? A little franchise called Pokemon. A
little franchise called Pokemon, a little small
indie franchise called Pokemon. Oh, hey. Arceus.
Pokemon Legends Arceus. Okay. Yes. Gotcha. Yes.
I'm intrigued to hear your take on it. This is
the first Pokemon game I've bought in five -ish
years. Okay. Yeah. The last one I got was Pokemon
Sun and Moon for the three years. Anyways, this
is like they're shaking up the formula a little
bit. The whole concept of this is that you are
in, you know. uh a bygone era of of pokemon it
takes place it's kind of a feudal japan vibe
not quite but whatever and it's open world quote
unquote where you walk around and you throw pokeballs
in real time and you catch pokemon in real time
you're not walking around on a grid you're not
walking into the grass and then go and then you
have to fight you know there's still turn -based
battles but you engage everything in real time
you see a pokemon in the horizon like you know
you see pokemon over there in a patch of grass
you walk over to it throw a pokeball at it um
And the core gameplay loop is a lot of fun. I
like it a lot. I think it's just a shake -up.
You're not battling, though? You are battling.
You can still battle. You still have... See ya,
Sophie. Your Pokemon just went across. Just used
rollout. So... You still have six Pokemon in
your party. You're still battling. It's very
similar. They tweak the battles a little bit,
but I will say it's much more de -emphasized.
You are not walking around on a grid looking
for trainers. There's no trainer battle. There
are trainer battles, but it's not like you run
into people and then an exclamation mark pops
over their head and they run over to you and
challenge you to battle. That was like 60 % of
Pokemon, right? Yeah, right. It is probably maybe
10 % of that now. Oh, okay. It is walking around,
getting crafting materials to craft Pokemon.
and potions and stuff and trying to catch Pokemon
to fill out their Pokedex. So you, like, you
catch, like, dozens of Pokemon. You know what
I mean? Dozens of, like, single Pokemon to, like,
fill out their stuff, you know? And the Gorky
gameplay was a lot of fun. It's fun to... I've
had a lot of moments where I'll just be walking
around and then I'll see a new Pokemon. Like,
oh, that's a fucking Pikachu. I haven't seen
a Pikachu yet. Let me crouch down. Let me walk
around in the grass and try to find the right
way to throw Pokemon. There's a lot of fun moments
like that. And... I'm enjoying it a lot. I'm
about maybe five hours in. All the window dressing
around is kind of lame. The story is nothing.
There is a lot of cutscenes where it's just press
A to watch characters stand still and talk at
each other for a really long time. The cutscenes
look bunk. The graphics look rough. This game,
it's on the Switch. So is it trash? It's cash
with an asterisk on it for me. I have come to
think of this as being a first draft. Yeah, exactly.
I hope it's a first. This is a great rough draft
for a new Pokemon game, and it's the most exciting
a Pokemon game has been in years for me. I would
still recommend it cautiously if you're a fan
of the series. So, my friends are saying that
it feels a little... Monster Hunter -like? No,
not... Well, alright, that too, but, like, just
less. How do you mean? Like... graphics being
less the graphics is a problem the graphics is
a notable step down yeah even breath of the wild
like it's not right this is this is the same
console that can that runs breath of the wild
day one it's hard to look at this and be like
okay it's just the switch like no man the switch
can the switch can do this yeah exactly yeah
xenoblade oh my god yeah so my question is should
pokemon switch their company from game freak
yeah oh oh i don't know if they can't well i
don't know if they can't i don't know what the
situation was so so so nintendo has a partial
stake in the pokemon company right right but
they're still their own thing right i don't know
yeah if they loop in another developer or not
i don't know if it's and i don't want to just
blame game freak as the developers i think it's
just deadlines yeah you know what i mean they're
like hey we need this pokemon game out by this
quarter physical quarter whatever i don't think
there's a concept of pushing a pokemon game I
think it's Pokemon. It can be done on the date
we say it's done. Yeah, exactly. And again, this
is, to me, yes, the graphics are bad and I hope
they get better, but this is them trying out
a huge new take on the Pokemon formula because
my number one complaint, the reason I haven't
bought a Pokemon game until now from five years
is that it's the same goddamn game every year.
I knew exactly, I loved Pokemon when I was a
kid. I'm so excited to be back at it again. I
knew exactly what those games were. I agree.
And this is them trying something different at
least, right? It does look bad in spots, right?
But I can kind of forgive it for every moment
where I'm like, this is kind of gross. There's
other moments of actual joy of I feel like I'm
actually walking out there trying to find catch
Pokemon. It's great. It's a lot of fun. I've
watched him play. I do not. I have not personally
played it or own it. Yeah. But, no, I agree.
Like I said, it's a good first draft. The thing
with Game Freak, and maybe the Pokemon video
game franchise as a whole, is they have a notorious
reputation of introducing a concept or multiple
concepts. And then forgetting it. Right. It's
fantastic, and then it never comes back again.
Right. The day and night system disappeared after
the second generation. Right. Secret bases disappeared
for a while after the third generation. So...
Mega evolutions are gone. So Mega... Conclusions
not being in this doesn't bother me. No, no,
I know. This is another example. But yeah, good
example. So it's, is this an experiment or is
this basically a backdoor pilot for how the franchise
is going to go forward? Because it's most important
to note that this game is being treated as a
side game. Yeah, yeah, it's technically a spinoff.
But to me, it's the most interesting Pokemon
it's been in years. And I still treat it like
a mainline game, honestly. Did you remember the
dungeon one? Yeah, Mystery Dungeon? Yeah, it
was fun. And the Rangers? Yeah. No, I didn't
play Pokemon Ranger, no. Because that was the
other side. Yes, that was like, that one was
way more gimmicky though, right? Where it's like,
clearly this is, this feels like, hey man, this
is a full budget Pokemon game, you know? We're
trying again, you know? Pokemon Snap, this ain't.
Yeah. But I heard Pokemon Snap too was pretty
good. Anyways. I heard Pokemon Snap was pretty
good. Yeah. Long story short, Pokemon Legends
Arceus. So far, cash. Let's hope they make another
one and it's a little bit more polished. Pokemon
Legends Deoxys or whatever. Cash. I want Pokemon
Legends Celibate. Sure. Whatever. Fuck it. Make
another one of these. Please. Game Freak. Just
kind of. Kind of. Kind of. Polish it off a little
bit, you know, make the window dressing a little
better. All right. That's my cash. I'm into the
HBO Max series Peacemaker. Yeah. We've never
seen the... We need to still watch The Suicide
Squad, so... You have not watched The Suicide
Squad. We have not watched The Suicide Squad.
I have not seen A Suicide Squad. Definitely do
not watch Peacemaker before The Suicide Squad.
I'm assuming. Definitely do not, right? Yeah,
definitely do not. Okay. Suicide Squad so far...
There's been moments where I'm like, what the
fuck is happening? And there's been moments where
I'm really enjoying this. I am truly for this
Peacemaker series overall because it's very R
-rated fun. Okay. uh in a tv show of all things
yeah um so yeah i would say peacemaker is very
much a cash at this point what what i don't even
know john cena no i know i know it's john cena
i'm saying oh is it like a half hour slot show
is an hour long hour long okay yeah and how many
episodes do we so far there are five and do we
know the run of it i don't know the run of it
actually off the top of my head i would guess
like 12 or 13 okay yeah and they are already
working on a season two okay It's got enough.
Wow. It's got enough support. Okay. This is kind
of a spoilery question, I guess. Is this a prequel
or a sequel to The Suicide Squad? Oh, this is
a sequel to The Suicide Squad. This is a sequel
to The Suicide Squad. Okay, got it. Yes, very
much a sequel. Wait, The Suicide Squad or just
Suicide Squad? The Suicide Squad. Which is the
better Suicide Squad? The Suicide Squad. Suicide
Squad does not have Peacemaker. Suicide Squad
has Jared Leto Joker. Yes. James Gunn's The Suicide
Squad has Peacemaker in it. Yes. And this is
still, James Gunn's directing this? Yes. All
of it, really? He's probably directing the second
season as well. Wow, dude, that guy is so fucking
busy. Well, he's done with the Guardians after
Guardians 3. Well, right, he did that tweet out.
He's not technically done with the Guardians
after Guardians 3. He said the team is done.
This is not the same team you will see. Which
is continuity to the comics. Exactly. Teams move
around. Because Guardians of the Galaxy had very
many different teams. Yeah. It'll be like the
Avengers. Whenever we get the Avengers again,
it's going to look way different. Yeah. That's
a good segue for being in Marvel. Yeah. What
about it? Well, I have two, I guess. Yeah. I'm
going to close. My first is Closing the Loop
on Hawkeye. Yes. We mentioned this last episode,
prior episode. Whatever. Wait, Chad Michael Murray's
in this. That episode. Yep. A winter romance.
I love the fact that we now have... titles that
i can say like oh it's this episode a while back
when i watched a bad movie uh we mentioned that
we had started watching hawkeye we have now finished
the sixth episode season and overall i'm gonna
give it one and a half thumbs up yeah i think
it had a bit of a slow start but after a certain
point it really picked up and i'm actually gonna
give it the honor of saying outside of not including
what if it was the most consistent Marvel series.
Sure. I'm not saying it's the best, but it is
consistent. Yes. There were no episodes. What
would you say of the Marvel series? My order?
Yeah, your order. You want a ranking? So it's
WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki,
Hawkeye. Okay. Is that your order? Oh, that's
it. Oh, okay. You're just trying to load them
up. Those are the ones and then what if. All
right. Worst to best. Worst to best. Worst to
best. Include what if. Sorry, I'm a phone pal.
Yeah, include what if too. All right, I'll include
what if. Okay. So, my ranking, personally, me
here, hi. WandaVision, Loki, Hawkeye. Wait, we're
doing best to worst? Okay, best to worst. Sorry,
best to worst, personally, WandaVision, Loki,
Hawkeye, What If, Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Wow. And it's hard for, What If has a little
asterisk because you can't really. They're standalone
episodes to a point and then the final three
episodes are one long story. So that one long
story in a vacuum is better. There's a big gap
between that and Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
None of these are horrible. Before we get to
this, because I want to hear more of your thoughts.
I want to hear your ranking and my ranking before
we get back to other things. I'm not going to
rank what if because I didn't like it enough
to even finish it. So there's that. From best
to worst. Best to worst. Loki, WandaVision, Hawkeye,
Falcon Winter Soldier. Is that everything? Yeah.
Okay. Mine is WandaVision, Hawkeye, Loki. Falcon
and Winter Soldier, whatever. Wow, Hawkeye is
very high for you. I loved Hawkeye. Hawkeye,
when it all, when things really all came together,
episode three onward specifically. Firing in
all cylinders. I like the relationships. I like
the interactions. I like Kate Bishop. Kate Bishop's
great. Hayley Steinfeld is great. Kate Bishop,
yes. Kate Bishop. Yeah, so I think I cashed it
at the time. I'm going to continue to cash. I'm
going to cash this again. We're cashing. I don't
know what the future holds for these characters.
One day I'd love to see Kate Bishop on the big
screen, if that's where this is going. I hope
the ending of it is as open -ended as I want
it to be, and there's not a specific pin in one
character. Yeah. I don't think there is, but
who knows? I worked with a guy named Matt Bishop,
and he has not seen Hawkeye yet. And I hate the
fact that I keep saying over and over, Oh, Matt
Bishop! I went to the elementary, middle, and
high school with the Bishop brothers, Matt and
Jeffrey. Oh, Matt Bishop. Oh, Jeffrey Bishop.
Oh, Jeff Bishop. Jeffrey and Matt are like, they're
great Bishop brothers. Oh, my God. That's awesome.
All right. That's one. And then my act, my real
focus of this for Cash and Trash is Mindy Kaling's
new series on HBO, The Sex Lives of College Girls.
I feel like it's a bad name. No, I like the name.
I don't like the name. I don't know. What would
you call it then? I haven't seen it, so I can't
say a name. I don't know what I'm calling it.
You're right. What would you call it, then? You've
seen it, so you're right. It's Mindy Kaling and
Justin Noble. I think it's the same writing team
that did Never Have I Ever. It's definitely Mindy
Kaling with that. I'm not sure about Justin Noble.
And it follows four college roommates in their
first year at a prestigious Vermont... baby ivy
i don't think it's a full ivy it's it's baby
ivy yeah it's a baby ivy i think it's supposed
to be faster it's it's it's not just one college
it's yeah it's supposed to be a bunch of them
together like cornell cornell i think it's supposed
to be uh hodgepodge but i think specifically
it might be making fun at vassar yeah and it's
mindy kaling so it's absolutely hilarious all
of these characters are very different and very
fleshed out so they feel like real people. Timothy
Chalamet's sister is one of the roommates. She's
one of the roommates, yeah. And then once you
know that she's Timothy Chalamet's sister, you
can't unsee it. It is like Pauline, I believe.
Pauline Chalamet, I believe. If I ever watch
their show, I'm probably going to know. Yeah,
Pauline Chalamet. And I feel bad because she's
very attractive and everything, but like once
you see the... Her character gets shit on. Well,
her character gets shit on. Yeah. Oh, she was
great in that show because she plays... Yeah,
she plays like... She's from like... what like
arizona or something small town girl she was
i can't even say she was a big fish in a in a
small pond no but the small you know hoaxy folksy
sweet girl very small worlds gets thrust into
ivy league larger things and not really having
the systems in place to handle it yeah and you
know it's all about them all four roommates finding
their way in college right and it's just It's
really refreshing. It's nice to see a show that's
about women where the main characters are not
aggressive towards each other. Yep. It's a strong
sign of sisterhood and all of that. And then
also I think there's some really good criticism.
So one of the characters, she wants to, she picked
this school because they have a prestigious comedy
magazine. A zine. and she gets she does what
she needs she through trial and error she finally
gets admitted into the the club and when she's
inside she realizes that it is sexist it's demeaning
There are people in there who are predators,
and she tries to call it out, and at first is
met with resistance. People are like, oh, my
God, we don't believe you at all. You did crazy
things to get admitted into this, so of course
you're lying. But what's really nice is that
people are like, no, we hear you. You're right.
We're going to get rid of this person. And slight
spoiler, it ends with her and some other female
writers for this comedy zine being like, no,
we're done with this bullshit. We're going to
start a new one. We're going to start over. Perfect.
And fix the system. Or we'll see. So it's clever.
It's funny. If you've been to college and have
already graduated, you're going to see things
in here and be like, yes, I... I see myself in
these characters or I remember situations like
these. So a thousand times cash. Yeah. Yeah.
Mindy, I would say somebody wrote this and I
forget where I read it, but it was, it's something
I super agree with where Mindy Kaling is like
really good at writing, writing really likable
characters that are also very selfish. You know
what I mean? Like where you will see, they're
all very selfish. And that's the thing is that
like, they're all flawed and that makes them
feel more real where, but there's never a point
where like, ah, fuck this character. I hope they
get what they deserve. And you're still rooting
for them the whole time. And representation in
this film of all races, sexual interests, and
body types is off the charts. Nice. If you're
old enough to watch this, you will find someone
in this series that is you. Nice. All right.
Well, two thumbs up. Yeah, two thumbs up. We
powerfully engaged it. We watched it basically
within a weekend. We're looking forward to the
second season, which it got renewed for, so yeah.
Perfect. Well, that will bring it to an end for
Game for a Movie. Yeah. Where we ask, are you
game for a movie? I have been your host, Mike.
I have been joined by... Jill. And Andre. We'll
see you next time on Game for a Movie. Thanks
for listening. After we partied in Louisiana.
Yeah. Woo! Bye.