You know what that sound means? That means it's
another episode of Game for a Movie. I am your
host, Mike, joined by Andre and Jill. Hi, friends.
Hello. We've all survived our trip to New Orleans.
We have. And the snowstorm. Yes. Yes, that as
well. Have you guys recuperated? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Dude, we're making hurricanes over here now.
Oh, my God. If you didn't show up with beer,
I'm like, Andre will just pull out his new, like,
milkshaker. Milkshaker. It's like a milkshaker.
It's like a milkshaker. Yeah, no. I think, like,
an old, like, 1950s, like, milkshake bar. Like,
we got one of those drink mixers. Oh, nice. Okay.
He's perfected the hurricane. And we officially
now have some tiki wear in the household. Tiki
wear. Nice. That's awesome. Okay. So, yes. That
trip was good for you guys then. Yeah, it was
a lot of fun. Have you reconverted? Yeah, let's
go with that. Saturday night, you were on point,
especially with backing up Sandy. Backing up
Sandy. Oh, yeah. Well, the funny thing was I
was not even drunk for that. Right. That was
completely sober. Yes. Yes, I was in good spirits.
What you don't know is we went on a cocktail
tour and our... Tour guide, at the end, she started
losing everyone. Mostly because I don't think
she ever had anyone. Yeah, right. She was a great
lady. not the best tour guide however she got
us into most of places and the last place was
not technically her fault we couldn't get in
yeah there was three balls going on that night
and the bar in the hotel was filled to the capacity
yes this is the infamous carousel bar yeah and
like everybody wants to go there when they come
to new orleans but that last place Sandy was
doing the history of it. And me, in very good
spirits, completely sober, decided that I would
sign language or fake sign language. I was about
to say, you were like, yeah, I don't even know.
I remember there was like a few years ago where
they got somebody that didn't know sign language.
Yeah. Press release. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That
basically. It was exactly that. But everybody
was having a good time. Yeah. So we've recuperated.
We are drinking again. Let's go with Andre. What
are you drinking first to start us off? I might
have had this on the show before. I'm drinking
the Cremo Bach beer from Alvarium. Okay. It's
nice and sweet and refreshing. Nice. Everybody
knows at this point that Andre and I are Alvarium
people. Yes, you are Alvarium people. I do know
that. So you say it is good? Yes, it's great.
Nice. Happy to have a fork of it. That's very
nice. Wasn't Cremo the old brewery? Yes, so it's
right after the old brewery. There's a little
history. Yeah, they got a historical photo and
everything. Oh, yeah, yeah. Obviously before
my time, but it's a good beer. You're saying
you're not 100 years old? Yeah. Jill, what do
you got over there? I'm actually drinking a beer
that I did not acquire but was gifted to us.
Yes. It is from Labyrinth, which is another Connecticut
beer. Love it. And it is Sour Batch No. 3. Okay.
So it's blackberry, apricot, and plum, and it's
a sour IPA. Nice. Does it have the Sour Patch
logo? Yes. It might as well be. Yeah. It might
as well. I love it. Pack her up. Oh, my God.
And then for me over here, I've got sweatpants
pale ale from Kent Falls. It is Saturday, and
I wish I was in some sweatpants. But unfortunately,
I work later. But that's changing. I'm so excited.
I know. I was about to say. I'm so excited. My
days off are changing. I'm no longer going to
be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday off. I'm going
to be Thursday, Friday, Saturday off. Pretty
soon. You're almost a normal person. Yeah, I
know. So close. You'll be working for most of
the weekend soon enough, you know? Yeah, right.
Yeah. So this is going to be awesome. excited.
That brings us to our movies that we're watching.
This is a, we call it a movie banter episode.
We have lots of movies that we've seen we're
going to talk about. Andre, you wanted to kick
us off. Yes. Because yours is one of the more
recent ones. Yeah. It's Tom Holland's Uncharted.
Uncharted. Yay. His first, I mean, I know he
was in The Impossible, but I feel like this is
really his first big post Spider -Man 4A. I don't
know about that. All right, here's another big
Tom Holland movie that's not Marvel. He's been
in a bunch of stuff, right? Well, he was in that
Chaos Walking. He performed on stage as Billy
Elliot. He was in The Impossible and he was 12.
Okay. Pre -Marvel, so give me some post -Marvel.
Cherry. Yes, he was in Cherry. The Devil All
the Time. Onward. Yeah, dog, right. He was an
onward, yeah. How could you guys forget Doolittle?
He was a Doolittle? He was Jip. Oh my god, he
was a talking dog, yes. Really want to put that
on the marquee of big Tom Holland experiences?
Right. That's, hey, show up in the studio for
half an hour, record your damn lines. I did find
out, though, when he was on BuzzFeed's interview
with puppies, they asked him a question like,
what person in your phone, if you were to call,
would always pick up? And Downey, Robert Downey
Jr. would always pick up. Nice. Oh, that's awesome.
He was in The Lost City of Z as well after Civil
War. I didn't see that. Yeah. Okay. So, I don't...
I guess as everyone can tell now, I don't stalk
Tom Holland's career. Wait, he was in Locke?
He was in Locke. Interesting. Cherry was the
big one I was forgetting about. Yeah, Cherry
was, yeah. And then Chaos Walking, which was
terrible, but it's still... I've never even heard
of it. Oh, it's him and Daisy Ridley. Yeah. You
can see each other's thoughts, and for whatever
reason, they can't see her thoughts, and basically
that's how it goes. Was it Edward not being able
to read Bella's mind? Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.
Anyways. Yeah, same page. Sorry. All right, Tom
Holland. Yeah. Uncharted. I got to say, Uncharted
is one of the movies ever, man. One of the movies
ever. Okay. As in it's a movie? It's a movie.
It's a movie and I saw it. It happened. It happened.
Okay. Well, I mean, it is kind of a miracle that
it did happen because I feel like we've been
hearing about Uncharted and the movie adaptation
for like 10 years. Yes. Like Mark Wahlberg's
been attached to this for a while and he was
originally supposed to be Nate Drake, right?
Should you give us a timer on? Oh, sure. Yes.
Okay. So Uncharted, for those that don't know,
this is an adaptation of a, so this is a Sony
film because it's an adaptation of a Sony PlayStation.
video game franchise with the same name, Uncharted,
stars... It's a very unique title. Yes, right.
It's basically, the idea is that it's a playable
Indiana Jones movie, right? What is there? Drake's
Fortune? Among Thieves. Among Thieves. And...
Drake's Deception. Drake's Deception. Drake's
Revenge. Nope. Drake's Deception is number three,
and the number four is A Thief's End. A Thief's
End. That's it. Yes. That is an expansion slash
standalone, you know, prequel to... Because it
has characters from three and two together. Yes.
Chloe's End. And Nydia? Yeah. Yeah. Nydia. Nadia?
No, no one named Nadia. Oh, God, no. She's a
character from 4. She's a side character. You
haven't met her yet, Joe. Anyways. Oh. She's
on four? No, she's not in the movie. Yeah. Okay.
We're bouncing all over the place. Sorry. All
right. Keep going. Yeah. So this is Sony. They're
kind of trying to launch. Nadine. That's who
I was thinking of. Nadine. Thank you. Yes. All
right. All right. Keep going. They're kind of
trying to launch this new movie franchise. I
will say it was kind of neat to see, like, you
know, they did kind of the Marvel Studios thing,
but with Sony PlayStation characters. Oh, interesting.
Yeah. So I think Sony is definitely, like, trying
to invest in their PlayStation IPs, because I
know Lasso. Last of Us is getting a... Last of
Us is getting a TV show. Ratchet and Clank already
had a movie. Ratchet and Clank had a movie. Yeah,
that kind of whiffed. I thought Jak and Daxter
might be getting something. There is rumors that
Jak and... Yeah, okay. Well, yes, there's tons
of Easter eggs in this movie, which is fun, but...
But when's Crash Bandicoot coming out? I mean,
Sony doesn't own Crash Bandicoot. No? Microsoft
does now, dude. What? Because Crash Bandicoot
is an Activision property. Wow. And Microsoft
bought Activision this year. Okay. Isn't that
wild? Yep, that is wild. That's why we're not
a video game news podcast. Yeah, right. Well,
that's because I'm behind always. So the idea
is that these video games are basically playable
in Indiana Jones movies. And to me, that always
kind of felt, the very concept of an electronic
movie felt redundant because the games are already
supposed to be like this. It's a movie based
on a video game based on a movie. Right. Yeah,
right? And like, so, you know, I always expected
that like, okay, if you just make an Uncharted
movie, it's just going to be kind of like knockoff
Indiana Jones. Right. That's kind of exactly
what we got. Yeah. You know? So this movie, like,
yeah, I kind of came in with, you know, medium
expectations, and I was well. Do you know? It
was, yeah. It was well. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Tom Holland obviously stars as Nathan Drake.
He is kind of an explorer. Yeah, he's a younger
Nathan Drake. In the video games, he's kind of
skewing maybe late 20s, early 30s, right? And
he definitely, Tom Holland's definitely on the
other side, like, younger side of 20s. Early
20s. Yeah, early 20s. This is kind of the origin
story. Yes, this is the origin story, whereas
the first, game kind of starts Nathan and Sully
are already established duo they're a seasoned
pair of treasure hunters this is the origin story
of Nathan and meeting his partner in crime Victor
Sullivan played by Marky Mark Marky Mark Wahlberg
and you know hey Marky Mark was always going
to be the toughest. He was the question mark,
yeah. And I got over it. I kind of went in. I
knew that he's not going to be like, this is
going to be my Sully or whatever. Yeah, right.
And again, these characters, these games are
great. The story is really fun. I like these
characters a lot. It's not Shakespeare. It's
not super high art. You know what you're getting.
Yeah, exactly. So I don't hold these characters
in a super precious spot in my heart. I'm fine
with them being a little flexible. So on that
note, Marky Mark is playing the exact role you
would expect him to. in this kind of movie. And
he does Marky Mark things. It's fine. He's a
side humor character. Yeah. He's snarky. Everyone's
kind of double crossing each other. He has a
cat. They gave him a cat in this movie. Double
crossing is everywhere in this movie. I believe
that. I have not seen it yet, but I expected
it. That's something I'm going and playing the
games. My problem with it is that I expected
double crossing and then it was like, let's double
down on the double cross. Quadruple cross? Yeah,
I think there's a triple cross at some point.
Triple cross? Yeah. Actually, no. It's not that
there's levels of triple crossing. It's just
that every character is double crossing everybody.
You thought I was working for them, but really
I was working for them while working for them
and working for them. And it's like, ugh. Eye
roll. And the use of the double cross gets annoying
because the double cross will occur, but look
at the time stamp of the movie. It's like, okay,
well they can't be... out of this film right
so then it's the the plot or the script has to
do some gymnastics to maneuver characters into
another get them into a different space so then
the plot can continue to move forward okay so
it became almost like not mcguffin by plot convenience
yeah this double cross occurred oh well how's
this next thing gonna happen oh well look this
character just came out of the shadows right
Yeah Did you fake your death and you came back
The way I look at it is that if you're yearning
for another national treasure movie, yeah, I
think this will hit that just okay Are you guys
ready for national treasure 3 They are making
a TV series, but there's a chance that there's
a 3 because of this TV series Right. Which is
disappointing because I really like Riley and
I want Riley to come back. I really like Benjamin
Gates. Benjamin Franklin Gates. Benjamin Franklin
Gates because, let's face it, it's Nick Cage.
Let's make Uncharted Natural Treasure Crossover.
Ooh. That'd be pretty cool. Those are two companies
that I don't think have ever worked together,
Disney and Sony. Well, no. What am I talking
about? Spider -Man. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
What? No. There's a chance. They'll figure it
out. They'll figure it out. Let's take this cage
in Uncharted 5. We're getting to five already?
I don't think we're going to get to five for
a while. The game? Wait, the game. Oh, the video
game. The video game. Get on a low -cap stage,
do a plot. Okay. Apparently, some Sony execs
said that this movie already did well enough.
They basically, they're treating it as their
next big franchise. Great. Awesome. It's the
exact quote, and they didn't confirm, they didn't
say, we're making Uncharted 2 already. I think
they said in so many words that, yeah, you're
going to see more of this. Tom Holland must really
like his franchises because it's like, he just
jumps franchise to franchise. Yeah. If that's
the acting career he wants, it's good security.
Right, right. I mean, he's fun in this, you know?
He's a young Nate Drake, right? But I believe
it, you know? Sure. Nate Drake and Peter Parker
definitely would hang out. Yeah, right. He's
not Peter Parker, but they would be friends.
But they would be friends, okay. I will say he
has a really good, oh, crap, you know? Yeah,
right. That's a good, you know. and this sounds
like a very generic catchphrase, but like, okay,
I believe that's Nathan Drake when he says that.
Have you seen the mini -movie with Nathan Fillion?
Yes, the fan -made movie. Because obviously the
fan casting for this role was Nathan Fillion.
And he's just too old at this point. Yeah. Unless
they did a much... They would have to do an old
man Drake, you know, training his... He'd have
to be the Sully character. He'd be the Sully
character, yeah. I would totally see that movie,
though. Yeah, sure. Because eventually they're
going to... Could you imagine him as Sully training...
Tom Holland? Tom Holland. No. Okay. I don't know.
Just ideas. Yeah, we were talking about this,
like, who would we cast as Sully if we could,
and Jill brought up the good suggestion of Bryan
Cranston. Ooh. Yeah. Yeah, well, I think when
we watched Goku, the stupid Dragon Ball movie,
I said that my perfect fan casting for Nathan
Drake would have been, like, Michael B. Jordan.
Yeah. Oh, sure. Someone a little older, but with
that swagger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nathan Drake,
to me, has, you know, a little... Fuckboy. Yeah,
so, well, right. He's a bit of a fuckboy. Well,
okay. I don't know if that was the term I'd go
with, but yeah, all right. He's smarty. You know,
he's got some smart. Yeah. He's a cocky douche.
And Tom Holland. Fuckwad, I agree with. Fuckboy.
Right, no, he's not a douche. He's a, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, okay. Fuckwad is, I think, the better term.
Let's see. Chloe's also in this movie. Sophia.
Sophia Ali. Okay. I liked her a lot. Yeah, right.
So that's a younger Chloe, which we literally
have not seen ever. Okay. So I should say that
she plays kind of the femme fatale, you know,
treasure hunter that kind of joins them. you
know, in the second act. You know, yeah, I thought
she was great in that movie, too. I think, honestly,
they have, like, her and Tom Holland have okay
chemistry. Like, looking forward to seeing her
in more movies in the next one, rather. The movie
also had another female actress that I've seen
in The Chili Ventures of Sabrina. She plays the
right -hand henchman. Tati Gabrielle? Yeah. She
plays the evil treasure hunter that Antonio Banderas,
the evil Spanish nobility who's hunting his treasure.
Not the Medici, but basically. He plays the villain,
Antonio Banderas, and he's having an okay time.
Good, all right, yeah. Sure. Everything about
this movie, like, it's good. It's fine. It's
fine. It's fine. It was a nice cinematic experience.
Okay, all right. There was some really rough
CGI, I would say, especially in the, they played
it on the, they have it in the trailers and they
put the whole clip on YouTube on the airplane
scene. Yeah, right. That's their main, like.
uh you know action sequence and that's ripped
straight from uncharted three which is fine like
work great yeah yeah like use this stuff yeah
why not yeah if you don't look too closely yeah
it looks very cool i'm guessing they're probably
going to use the train scene in the next one
oh man yeah i don't know if that works though
because it does because you've had plenty of
train scenes in movies right so this is the original
problem with this right when untraded 2 came
out and they had that train level yeah that was
mind -blowing that i was playing a video game
with the train level and the level geometry is
like flying by yeah like that that felt awesome
to control a character and move around and navigate
but we've seen it in movies before right you
know what we haven't seen like a train off a
cliff where you have to jump up yes yeah yeah
What's he going to do? Jump a boat? I've seen
that too. He's going to jump a shark. It's going
to be great. I don't know. I don't really have
much more else to say about it. Obviously there's
going to be a sequel. I will go watch it. It
was fine. If you really... If I had to compare
this to the other recent video game movie we
watched, Sonic the Hedgehog, I'd probably like
Sonic a little bit more. They're very different
movies, to be honest. Wait, who wrote those again?
Who wrote it? Who wrote Sonic the Hedgehog again?
Oh, my God. Fuck you. The Transylvania guys.
Transylvania guys. Yeah, Transylvania. Sorry,
yeah. Transylvania, dude. Yeah, I was like, I
don't know their names, but I remember. Oh, God.
Is that a glow -up? I don't know. Maybe. Yeah,
yeah. It's better. They got a budget. I mean,
they look good. Yeah, the movie clearly had enough
money to redo the animated characters. Yeah.
There is money there. Oh, yeah. Transylvania
to Sonic. Yeah, right. Yeah, I don't know. Let's
see. Yeah. Number. I got to come up with a metric,
right? Yeah. I would give this, like, a 2. Really?
Two? Yeah, like a 2 .75. I'm surprised it's a
roundup. Don't be pussy on that. What? 2 .75.
I mean, like, it's, you know, I don't regret
spending money on it, but I also already kind
of forgot a bunch of it, right? You haven't paid
me back yet, so technically you haven't. Oh,
you're right. You haven't spent money on it.
There you go. I forgot. It's so forgettable,
I forgot to Venmo Joe back. Oh, my God. 2 .75.
Imaginary dollars you paid for this movie. 2
.75 Negronis. 2 .75 Negronis. Remember the beginning?
He's a bartender? He's a Negroni, but the girl
he makes it for clearly has no idea what a Negroni
is. She doesn't tip him. I would say 2 .75 backstabs
out of 5. I'm going to round up. I'm going to
give it a three with the caveat that it was a
nice, solid ride. I don't end up paying for it.
Would I need to see opening day of the sequel?
No. But we saw it for half -price tickets on
Tuesdays at our local theater. Nice. This is
a perfect $6 movie. Perfect. Yes, right. I would
love to hear that. This is the definition of
a matinee movie, for sure. Yeah. Cool. I would
give it three out of five pirate ships lifted
by helicopters. Okay, yeah, there you go. It
was a cool visual for the first five minutes,
and then eventually it just got really silly.
Yeah, I will say that my favorite part of the
movie is that they had a Nolan North cameo. Oh,
nice. Yeah, so he voiced the original character,
and I'm glad they threw him in there. Yeah, it
was fun. I'll see the second one, sure. Why not?
Yeah. All right. I wonder how Sophie likes to
be held like that. So far, so good. Yeah, I think
she's fine. Well, you can't watch because we
have no cameras on us, but Mike is currently
cradling our cat. I think she's into it. This
is what Oliver loves. I'm hoping. She's not trying
to jump out of your arms yet. Usually when they
start flailing, I'm like, okay, cool, you can
hang out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? Okay, you're
done. Yeah, yeah, there you go. There you go.
Good job. All right. Jill, you have a movie for
us. I do have a movie. It is not a brand new
spanking movie. It's a slightly old movie. Okay.
I enjoy a musical. Who doesn't? Song and dance.
Yeah. Lose yourself for a couple hours. Okay.
Sometimes you get to see some really cool singing
and dancing sequences. Of course. Not so much
in the case of the film I watched a couple weeks
ago, and that is Ryan Murphy's 2000, 2020, 2020
film, The Prom. Oh, The Prom. I didn't know that
was Ryan Murphy. It is. It is. I don't like Ryan
Murphy. Okay, for our fans at home that may not
know, what are some of Ryan Murphy's... Ryan
Murphy is the show... He's similar to Shonda
Rhimes. He's had a lot of hands in some very
influential and money -making TV series in the
last... 20 years now. Yeah. Wow. Probably the
most famous is Glee. Yep. He also spearheaded
Nip Tuck in the early 2000s. I didn't know that.
That throws me off entirely. He was in, I think,
Post? Was he Post? I don't see Pose. Oh, wait,
yeah, executive producer Pose. American Horror
Story is the other really big one. Yes, yes,
American Horror Story was definitely the one.
And then American Crime Story. Okay. He was also
Ratched, the Nurse Ratched thing. Oh, yeah, he
did Ratched, which I heard was not very good.
So why do I not like Ryan Murphy? Let's go, yes.
The short version is he cannot write women. Not
right women at all, let alone women who are supposed
to be outside of the heteronormativity. You see
that in Nip Tuck. You really see that in Glee
and just his shitty writing of poor characters
making really stupid decisions, but you're supposed
to be rooting for them because they're your main
characters or your quote -unquote underdogs.
infuriates me to no end so how did the pro go
for those of you who are not familiar with the
musical it came out on broadway in the mid 2010s
um and it's the story of a bunch of broadway
effectively has -beens hearing a story on the
news about a prom in the Midwest that's canceled
because a girl wants to take her girlfriend there
and the school board decides, well, we'll just
cancel it so that can't happen. So the Broadway
has -beens decide that they need to go under
the premise for them of boosting their star appeal
and going from D -list back to A -list. Ah, making
their rise back. We're not here for us, we're
here for you, but they're really there for us.
Bastards. Double cross. Who do you get to have
as your musical name? Double cross. I can't believe
it. You betrayed me. Everybody betrayed me. Everybody
betrayed me. So I'm sure you're wondering, who
do you cast to have as these Broadway has -beens
with inflated egos? Oh, God. James Corden, Meryl
Streep. And Nicole Kidman. Also along for the
ride is Kerry Washington, who I actually did
not know was in this, so that was actually a
surprise. And Keegan -Michael Keith. Nice. So...
I like the cast besides one or two. Well, I already,
like, by the end of the experience, I already
had changed out half the cast for fan alterations.
And I'll get there. Okay. Because this is not
the bad movie of the week. No, it does not. So
I'll do my best. But there's just a lot. problems
with this musical and movie um probably the biggest
is that the um main lesbian couple i don't know
if this is a problem in the musical on stage
but it's definitely a problem in the movie the
main um girl in the couple um who is uh emma
emma um She wants to take her girlfriend to the
prom and dance with her and be out in public
and happy. Yes. Her girlfriend, Alyssa, from
their conversations, either is not 100 % on board
with the idea or was not privy to the whole plan.
So if you haven't agreed 100 % to show up in
a public space where all your peers and your
mother is going to be, don't do it. Right. But
that's never a conversation that they have. So,
okay. Oh, Kerry Washington plays the mother,
I see. Yes, Kerry Washington plays Alyssa, the
other girlfriend, the girl who's not publicly
standing up with her girlfriend. Right. Who's
hiding. She's not out. Yeah. Okay. if your girlfriend's
not out why do you think showing up in a public
space at a public event is going to change that
you just can't force anybody on this this is
not smart planning and I wouldn't say she's being
forced to do it but the fact that she's not standing
next to you holding her hand you just shouldn't
do it at all and that's a problem that consistently
goes through the film and it just I can't I can't
understand this logic. And it kind of just breaks
apart any of the separation of belief I'm supposed
to have. And it even comes down to... um the
broadway musical group uh working with emma they
get her address they show up the prom but they
don't realize that the parking lot is empty and
they go inside and nothing's there and keegan
michael key character character who's the principal
is just sitting there you know he's like i just
found it i'm like you just found out you walked
into this empty room and like where is everybody
right and the first thing you didn't do was call
emma right for to say don't come here there is
no prom um but the uh girlfriend alissa she ends
up at the right prom finds out what happens calls
emma and is like i'm so sorry and i'm just like
well come be with me she's like no i can't my
mom it's like breakup yeah why are why are we
rooting for this couple again this is a problem
yeah um and of course they don't break up they
ended up getting a second prom and it's wonderful
and it's Bang my head against this table. What
the fuck? And this problem of communication trickles
over to the Broadway group. Meryl Streep plays
Dee Dee. She's the main diva. She was the one
whose reputation they're really trying to fix.
And then James Corden plays her gay sidekick,
Barry. Of course, he is not gay. But once they
get to the Midwest town, Meryl Streep's character
decides, you know what, Barry? You should call
your family. and reconcile and have closure on
this and barry's like they tried to send me to
conversion camp no i don't want to call my family
so what does meryl streep's character do call
them and barry's mom shows up dad just can't
is not ready yeah it's not okay and rather than
being angry it's like mom you do care and mom
does apologize so there is some of that Great.
What? Yeah. Question mark? Yeah. And that is
just frustrations throughout this entire film.
So obviously I did not like it. Yeah. I do have
some questions if Keegan -Michael Key is a good
actor because there are times where his delivery
is robotic. Yeah. Especially when everyone else
is very over the top. See, my thing with Keegan
is I always feel like he's just like a pantomime.
Like he's not like a real actor. He's just kind
of like character and... I like him. as Ducky
or Bunny in Toy Story 4. When he's being a voice.
I guess that's what I was about to say, is that
I always like him. He was good in Dull Night
is my name. You're right, that's true. I haven't
seen that one yet. He's the writer of the script.
Once again, everyone is kind of being over the
top. That's my thing about Key and Peele. It
works in that situation because it's over the
top. It's always over the top. the bit I've seen
of friends from college, like, he's still over
the top when everybody else is kind of more a
little grounded. Yeah. That's kind of how he
is in the film. And Schmigadoon works for him.
It works well. Schmigadoon, yes. He was good
at Schmigadoon. He led his vocal talents to Toad
in the Mario movie. That's right. Like, mid -face.
I choked on my beer a little bit. Not gonna lie.
I think my biggest, besides all those plot things
that I discussed, my biggest... Why for this
is Nicole Kidman plays a chorus girl who befriends
Emma and really takes her under her wing. It's
actually a pretty good friendship. Okay. And
she's the one who found the story and was like,
we should go here. Yeah. She's not your leading
lady. She's the woman in the wings waiting for
her turn. Got it. But she's a chorus girl in
Chicago. A very dance -heavy musical. Yes. You
would think she would dance. In this movie. No.
No. And it was a horrific realization that can
Nicole Kidman not dance? Or did they just not
choreograph dances for her? And her character's
story ends with her getting a call saying, we
need you to come on stage and be Roxy Hart. Nice.
Like, can she dance now? Yeah, right. No. So
considering this, there is no dancing. Could
it be her ability or lack thereof? Why didn't
they just cast Uma Thurman? Right. Because that's
obviously who this role was meant to be. Yeah.
In my opinion, because Uma can dance and she
can sing and she has legs like an antelope. That's
a direct quote from the movie. So. What is Uma
Thurman doing right now? Yeah, what's she up
to? Upcoming, she's got four movies. Well, right.
That was the whole thing. She was in a TV series
for six episodes and she has four movies coming
up or four projects coming up. Oh, wow. That's
more than I thought. Yeah. I don't know the name
of the movie. Yeah. And, like, she's not horrible
in the film adaptation of producers as Ula, but
she can dance as well. Yeah. I can't remember
for the life of me if Nicole Kidman danced in
Moulin Rouge because it's been so long since
I've seen it, but I don't really think there's
a lot of technical dance in there anyway for
her character. Right. So it's like, why are you
a chorus girl who doesn't? Dance. So that was
a thing that me and my friend just could not
let go of. We watched this together. So overall,
the prom, I knew it was going to be bad. It was
bad. I'm never going to get those two plus hours
of my life back. Yeah, fair. Ryan Murphy. So
number, rating? I give it, even the songs weren't
memorable. last long on broadway definitely didn't
i remember it opening and closing yeah so it's
that's a pretty short like not everything needs
to be a hamilton or fan of the opera but that's
i'm still disappointed groundhog day closed quickly
i think that was supposed to be very good oh
it was a blast i saw it i saw it and it was so
good and i wish i could tell more people about
it but nope no um i will give this one out of
five meryl streep making out with keegan michael
g Ooh. Yeah, I think I've heard the ad. All right.
That way, goat. What? Nothing. No, do you know
that whole story? Yeah. Oh, yeah, okay. Meryl
Streep, so she was in Don't Look Up. Yep. I haven't
seen it yet. Well, Jonah Hill doing interviews
for the show was talking about, oh, yeah, I get
to do this scene with the goat. And Meryl Streep's
like, uh -huh, uh -huh. And it came out three
weeks later after they were doing all these scenes
and stuff. That Meryl Streep thought he was just
calling her, like, the old goat or something
like that. And, like, he had to explain to her
it's the greatest of all time. And she goes,
oh, that's sweet. I thought you were calling
me, like, an old goat. And, like, she just went
with it. Just let it happen. Yeah. So, Meryl
Streep. Apparently a great human being, too.
You know what? The prom made me want to go back
and re -watch Mamma Mia. Yeah. Because that's
a musical movie where... I mean, Meryl Streep
is obviously not the worst thing. No. It made
me just want to watch a good musical movie with
her. If you have Meryl Streep in it, she's not
the problem, usually. No, she really isn't. Yeah,
no. Barry's plot line would be infuriating no
matter who played him, but I don't understand
why they didn't give it to, like, Todrick Hall
or someone who's actually gay. Yeah. Like, why
does James Corden constantly need to be queer
-baiting, I guess? Or queer -facing? I don't
know. I don't know. I thought you were going
to say a different thing, and I was going to
say because he has a tiny penis, but... That's
not what you were talking about. Because I was
going to say he keeps being in things because
he has tiny ego. He is. It's true. He's also
a name. He's a recognizable name. There was a
time where I really liked him. And then I think
the Emoji Movie was the beginning of it. Oh,
God. All right. Well, the most recent thing I
have seen since Thursday even is the new Hercule
Poirot film. Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot.
Is that how it's said in the movie? Yeah. He's
Belgian. He's Belgian. Oh. So he's French. It's
Hercule Poirot. I thought it was Poirot. Well.
The O -I in French is Poirot. It says it in the,
at least in the first one too, right? You can
just say that man and his mustache are on the
screen again. Well, all right. It's funny you
bring up the mustache. Uh -oh. So. You guys have
not seen it, obviously. No. Are you planning
on seeing it? No. Okay, so I can go into Spoilerville,
right? It's also based on a short story that's
been out for over 100 years. Well, okay, yes.
It's based on a book. Yeah. Well, I would say
give your high -level thoughts of it first and
then spoil it just for people to see the movie.
I'm not going to go into huge spoilers. I'm going
to spoil the first 10 minutes. Oh, that's fine.
Okay, got it. I'm a little more wary about spoilers
for this movie just because the Christian novels
are built off the twist, right? Yeah, I'm not
going to spoil the twist. I'm not going to spoil
the whodunit. It is fairly, if you've read the
book, it's fairly. In line. Yeah. Yeah. So it's
not going too crazy. The first one was the same.
Yeah. I don't know why I keep going to these
because I've read half of the Agatha Christie
books, so I just know what to expect. They are
good. They're decent. It's a spectacle. It's
like why you go to a Baz Luhrmann film. Exactly.
Yeah. I will say it took 45 minutes to get to
the boat and then to the murder. Oh, man. Murder
on the Orient Express. Yes. It takes forever.
And again, again, again, again, again. It was
so boring in the first one. There's so many.
I got to set up the things. There's so many scenes
that I could have cut down easily. But like he
spends the time with the characters and it's
kind of to get to know them for some of it. Sure.
So the first 45 minutes could have been done
in 20, I think. And that's that's really what
it is. If you set up the characters in the 20
minutes and then you get on the boat. okay, that's
a different story. This was like 45 minutes,
and then we're finally on the boat, and it's
like, oh my god. It's all the time getting to
know the characters that Eternals didn't do.
Right, well, exactly. They did all that time.
And that's why Eternals didn't do it, because
it would take 45 minutes of nothing. Exactly.
That movie was still two hours long, or two and
a half, I don't even know, it felt like four.
So, they address Hercule's wife. His wife? He
does, who died, and uh basically he was a farmer
in the war in world war one the great war yes
married her when she died he basically decided
that's when he would become like the detective
because he had this eye of detail that kind of
thing and we don't get why but okay right i was
about to say like was she murdered mysteriously
um we don't know okay we really don't because
they don't dive into it they just mention it
and that's why i say the first 15 minutes of
this movie is a mustache origin story oh boy
so he's in the war and basically they get the
word to attack and take out on the bridge okay
and they get told that they're going to do it
in three hours And it's when the wind moves east
so that the gas, they're going to launch all
their gas canisters and the gas doesn't blow
back in their face. Tactical smarts. Yeah. Well,
Hercule is like, well, everybody knows it's supposed
to be at that time. It's a massacre. We're walking
into a massacre. But the wind's going east right
now. What if we do it now? And, like, everybody's
like. Oh, I don't know about that, blah, blah,
blah. But they go with his plan anyway. And his
captain, like, they get through. They take the
bridge. And the captain's just like, Poirot,
great work, you know. And it's, like, all in
French and subtitled and everything like that.
And then Hercule's like, Captain! He runs into
a bomb trap. And it explodes. They get the bridge,
but they lose some of their people, including
the captain. And so... Hercule's in a bed, like,
laying down, and all of a sudden his wife, Katrine,
comes in. And not wife yet. Oh, but that's how
they meet. But she's a nurse. They went on a
couple dates. So their boyfriend, girlfriend,
she decides to come and, like, help him because
she got word that he's in this bed. And he's
like, how can you love a monster such as me?
And he has, like, these cuts on his face that
a mustache just ain't going to cover. Yeah, right.
I was like, okay. And I'm just like, no. Like
his face and his cheek, like even how thick the
mustache goes and everything like that. And she
goes, and he's like, how could you love a monster
like me? And she's like, love is this, love is
that, like this big old speech and everything
like that. And I find it funny that I'm shitting
on love right now because my buddy's getting
married today. So she like gives a speech and
then she goes, besides, and like kisses his hand.
You can grow a mustache. And that's it. That's
the purpose of this. So the first 15 minutes
is a mustache origin story. That's like the killing
joke being first 30 minutes was like, let's give
Barbara Gordon some death by having her bang
back. bang Batman what did that do to the plot
nothing right and like it's just to build like
this character of Hercule because he has moments
where he's like no I can't get married again
because I love my wife still even though she's
dead blah blah blah and that's it that's the
whole purpose of it I didn't need him to be more
humanized yeah exactly that's kind of not the
point like to me he's like it's similar to like
Sherlock Holmes where it's like yes Sherlock
the Benedict Cumberbatch series did some pretty
good stuff with, like, making him this quirky
-ness. They didn't need to explain it, but, like,
seeing it outside of the context of, like, a
mystery and just being in the everyday real world.
But I don't know if I need all of that to explain
why his mustache is so bullshitly ridiculous.
Yes, his mustache is ridiculous. I like his mustache,
though. Well, yeah, and it's a fine mustache.
Fine, it's great. But, like, his cheek was gone.
Right. The mustache stops here, you know like
even if it's like a nice mustache It's still
under though like yeah, yeah Yeah, so you could
grow a beard or something. Yeah, right like grow
the full face thing and like cover it up and
not Oh, you don't know? Full beard? Well, and
the thing is, his cheek's missing. I don't think
he can grow hair down there anyway. You're right.
Well, you know. Obviously, some futuristic doctor
came by and like, oh, let me do some implants.
Well, like, after the mystery happens, it flashes
forward, like, seven months or something like
that. And he's shaved the mustache officially.
And, like, he has scars underneath. But, again,
there's scars down here. Not where the mustache
is. We would have seen it. I don't think this
part was in the book. And that's why it's not
good. Yeah. Because they didn't. She didn't write
that part. Right. It takes forever to get to
the boat. When it finally gets to the boat is
when it picked up. Because, like, literally.
Claire and I were by ourselves. It was a Thursday
matinee. There was nobody else in the theaters.
We were having our own mystery science theater,
like, making fun of everything. That's always
fun. Oh, yeah. Like, it was great, because we
could talk during the movie, and, like, we were
having a good time. This movie's got some big
names in it. It does. Gal Gadot and Armie Hammer,
who's like a sexual being in this movie, which
is really creepy. Which the trailers all tried
to downplay. Yes. But they couldn't. Yeah, he
is. He's in it. He's in it. He's a big part.
Russell Brand. Oh, Russell Brand? Yes. He plays
the doctor, and he actually looks pretty good.
Like, he has, like, a beard and, like, glasses
and kept hair. Like, he was actually pretty good.
He was one of my favorite parts of it. How was
Gal Gadot's acting in this one? She was all right.
Yeah? Yeah. I mean, that whole, like, enough
champagne to fill the night, like, that's become
a meme in and of itself. So, it's actually a
good... Thing. Um, so it's not as obnoxious.
It is obnoxious, but it's not as obnoxious as
the trailer makes it seem. Okay. Right before
she got very bad news. Yeah. Yeah. And so she's
kind of playing it up for her guests to kind
of like, oh yeah, we have enough champagne to
fill the Nile and like free and happy. Yeah.
And then as soon as she does that, a cork pops
and she kind of like freaks out a little bit
and you can tell there's something she's. She's
harboring. Sure, sure. You know, everybody in
these movies have a secret. Yeah. There's always
a secret. Whatever it is, and literally every
character has a secret. Letitia Wright's in it.
Her secret is she's anti -vax. Hey, they figured
that out, though. I mean, Amber's not the only
controversial show. Yes, exactly. It's all systems
go. She got the green light to go back on the
set for Black Panther 2, right? Great. That doesn't
mean I'm, you know. No, I know what I'm saying.
I'm still fully for a different T 'Challa. Yeah,
right. Yeah, and not, like, done horribly, but
just recast T 'Challa. Oh, it's tough. It's tough,
man. I know, it's a weird situation. I kind of
wish they hadn't killed Monger off. Right, yeah,
right. Like, it's a nice poetic death. Winston
Duke. Yeah, sure. Bring him on. I'm in. Umbaku.
Umbaku, yes. But, yeah. It took forever to get
there. So my rating is a three out of five Hercule
Poirot introductions because he says his name
45 times. He's nice. I'm sure he does. Finish
your thought show, please. I was going to say,
at least once they're on there, you said it picked
up. It's the rest of the mystery. The mystery
then gets, yeah, and it's exciting. There's things
that happen and you're just kind of like, oh,
wow, what is it? That kind of stuff. It's funny
to me because I knew what happened the whole
time. Yeah. So I was throwing Easter eggs for
Claire to throw her off the trail. And it was
kind of fun because at the end she was like,
you're a dick. She thinks they'll make another.
Yes. What's the next one? Oh, wait. No, actually,
no. It depends on the money. So that's what I'll
say about it. It depends on the money. I hope
they do ABC murders. That's one of my favorite
stories, which is an older Hercule. He's kind
of, like, retired almost. Not quite there, but
almost. And he starts receiving letters from
a murderer. Basically, he's killed Sarah Sweeney
in Seville, you know, and that kind of stuff.
And it's... He kills in ABC order, so, like,
A -A -B -B, like, that kind of stuff. You got
so many people to go through next. Right. And
so it's... It's very interesting. You can introduce
a lot of characters. They actually did a Prime
movie of it, which was John Malkovich as Hercule
Moro and Rupert Grint as an old, grizzled police
chief. What? Yes. Yes. It doesn't work. What?
He's the worst part of it, and it's not his fault.
I mean, I know the stories are from, like, the
early 1900s, and people died young, but, like,
come on. Yeah, he is an old, grizzled police
chief, and it just does not work. He's not terrible
in it. Yeah. But it's not his fault, you know.
But it's actually really good. It's on Prime.
I like Poirot. I watched the TV show, at least
some of it. There's 13 seasons of a TV show that
was on BBC. And I love Agatha Christie. She wrote
my favorite book of all time. Are you a fan of
when Dr. Who meets Agatha Christie? Not really.
It's fine. It's a good episode, but it's not.
It's got some of my favorite lines, but the mystery
itself is kind of wild. Yeah, they thought they
were smarter than they were. This is a sci -fi
thing, so let's put the sci -fi stuff in. It's
like, that was your choice. Interesting. Yeah,
they thought they were smarter than they were
for that one. We're going to take a quick break.
Yeah. And come back with Cash or Trash. Right.
Because we have some time. All right. See you
after. And we're back with our segment Cash or
Trash. This week I put out a tweet about a community
Cash or Trash. Trying to see if we can get some
people in the community to tell us what they've
seen recently. Seismic Cinema saw Brazen. It
is a Netflix movie. Let's read a quick synopsis
here. When her sister is killed and her double
life as a webcam performer is revealed, Grace
ignores the warnings of a cool -headed detective
and gets involved in the case. He says it's trash,
and his girlfriend got him to watch it. Wow.
So, hey, the things we do for love. Yeah. Yeah.
So that's Community Cash and Trash from Seismic
Cinema at Seismic Cinema on Twitter. So, Andre,
do you have a cache of trash for us? I do. Well,
I mean, we kind of finished. Are you and Jill
together? Are we? Yeah. Do we want to just do
it? I mean, I know what the thing is. Do you
have a second thing? Not really. Okay. I had
one back up, but I think we should talk about
the more relevant one together. And I think it's
best. Yeah. So we, wait, what? Yeah, okay, okay.
Yeah, just making sure. I was like, well, I couldn't
see you in the cast. I was like, what? I'm like,
okay, yes, yes. We are in the middle of watching
The After Party, the series on Apple TV+. Okay.
Created and directed by Christopher Miller of
Lord of the Rings. Oh, Lord of Miller fame, yes.
He directed all eight episodes. Nice. No, six
episodes. Six of the eight episodes. Yes. Okay.
Okay. Maybe do the other two, but who knows?
Yeah. Right. Nice. Love Christopher Miller. Yeah.
So it's a whodunit, right? Yeah. So we were just
talking about a whodunit. It's a modern whodunit,
right? Is that, what is it? It's a 15 -year -old.
reunion yeah 15 year high school reunion friends
gather and then they end up at a alumni's house
who's turned into a pop star okay going by the
name xavier played by d franco and yeah d franco
yeah yeah yeah can start off with a scream as
d franco falls out a window and dies so he's
mr body he's mr body yep okay it's up to tiffany
haddish's detective to figure out who Dying before
another detective flies in in the morning. Right.
Oh. So it's all a bunch of people, like all the
suspects are like 10 different former high schoolers.
Okay, I had no clue what you were talking about
when you originally said it before we recorded.
And now I recognize it. Yeah. And I was intrigued
by that show. This is a comedian like free for
all. Yeah. So much talent. Free for all? Free
for all. Free for all. I thought you said free
for haul. Free for haul. And I was just going
to call you out on it. I meant to say free for
haul. I'm also swallowing. Okay, no, that's fair.
That's a fair statement. No, I heard free for
haul and I was like, wait a second. Does the
word lady know less words than I do? You'd be
surprised how much the word lady trips on her
words. Very endearing. But yeah, so Andre, who's
in this? Well, you know, your boy Ben Schwartz
is in this. My boy? Yeah. Or Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yeah, your side. He's not my boy. I'm sorry.
Come on. No. He was my least favorite character.
What? Come on. Mona Lisa. Okay, Mona Lisa's bad,
too. Jenny Slate is, like, a decent actress,
but, yeah, she does some bad characters sometimes.
Zoe Chow's in this. Alana Glazer's in this. I'm
trying to remember. You said you already mentioned
Tiffany Haddish. Sam Richardson. Sam Richardson
is in here. It's just, it's kind of, like, you
know, it's a lot of faces that you're like, oh,
hey, look at that guy. Oh, yeah, it's that person.
Yeah. Keep an eye on the things in the background
because this is a fake. modern day world so like
Dave Franco's character has appeared in a couple
movies oh yeah no there's like there's just a
lot of this show really straddles a line between
like a fun whodunit and then just off the walls
bonkers comedy almost like Tropic Thunder yes
it feels a lot like Tropic Thunder and there's
a lot of Tropic Thunder -esque moments in it
where like They're kind of laying the background
for Xavier, Dave Franco's character. And it's
like, beloved, beloved actor, Xavier. He was
in a movie called Version of Hungry Hippos. Hungry,
Hungry Hippos. Oh, my God. And they play like
a 30 -second clip of that. And Will Forte is
randomly also in that. And it's so clearly a
joke off of Jumanji. Yeah. And it's just like,
oh, my God. My other favorite one is he was in
a biopic about Holland Oates. Yes. Channing Tatum.
Yeah, Channing Tatum. The other guy. Yeah, so
no, he plays Hall and Channing Tatum plays Oates.
And then he's like, and then he like, you know,
he's like, they're like, oh, we gotta come up
with a song. Oh, what do we do? He's like, oh,
I got it. All right. You go high and I go higher.
I go the same high. I go the same high. Yeah,
yeah, you're right. It's like they have the moment
of, like, writing a Maneater. Yeah, Maneater.
Oh, my God. You go high. I go the same high.
Yeah. And then, like, their Oscar sizzle reel.
Yeah. So funny. So dumb. Yeah. I'm all for this.
Oh, my God. Yeah, it's so funny. So, basically,
the format is... We're only two episodes in,
we should say that. And so far, it's been...
So, the first episode is the setup of the murder
and all that. And then it seems like it's going
to be Tiffany Haddish going through all the suspects,
basically. Like, hey, I'm bringing you in. Like,
let's talk what happened that night. And it just
covers, like, the actual reunion leading up to
the after party. And, obviously, like, all the
flashbacks are super... We've seen two characters'
perspectives. so far and they're obviously like
super heightened for what they think of you know
everybody sees things differently so she refers
to them as your own mind movie yeah okay your
own mind movie it's the first character yeah
first character they interview he's like trying
to rekindle a lost love from high school so it's
like a really like it's almost like a romantic
comedy where he's the he's like the main guy
and then he's trying and then he sees everyone
else as like potential rivals to this yeah right
to this romance or whatever, and then it's, yeah,
it's, and then, yeah, oh my god, yeah, so bad,
and then the second episode, the guy, like, clearly
sees himself as, like, some, like, he's trying
to bring his family back together, and literally,
like, it's, like, they make it, it's almost like
a Fast and Furious parody, where he thinks he's
such a huge badass, and, like, it's about family,
you know, oh no, there's an epic pissing contest,
yeah, oh my god, the pissing contest, yes, he
and, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. Literally a pissing
contest. It's awesome. Okay. It's hilarious.
We're really liking it so far. So, both of you
are cash? We're cash. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it's
great. I would say that, like, this is the second...
This is... So, Apple TV Plus has Ted Lasso as
its main draw. Yeah. I would say this should
be also a draw. This is a draw. Yeah. Nice. I
don't know... So, this is a one -off series,
as far as I know. I mean, once the murder is
solved, you know, whatever. Right. So, I hope
if they decide, like, okay, we want this again,
and it becomes... Find a different way. Yeah.
Yeah. Bring in new comedians. I think this is
just a great showcase of talent. Right. And I
think that the way that it's set up is that there
are unique things that you can still do that
will not seem tired and rote after whatever they
do this season. Yeah. Especially with, like,
the different, like, genre of films. Nice. Next
time is something else. Yeah, exactly. Whatever.
But, yeah. Nice. Hmm. Okay. Well, lately. I have
felt that for Cash and Trash, we have all been
on the cash train. It's true. You're right. Yeah.
It's hard to know when you go into something
you know you're going to get. Yeah, right. I
rarely get to watch something that I'm like,
wow, I did not like that. Yeah, right. Well,
I have one. Okay. That falls in the trash pile.
HBO Max just released Injustice, the latest DC
animated film. Oh, no. better than the human
one usually yes so just in case you didn't know
Injustice has not only been great comic book
series great video games it is now an animated
movie where on an alternate earth they dare to
ask the question they dare to ask the question
what if Superman was evil yes pretty much exactly
that so the Joker tricks Superman with some kryptonite
Superman is played by Justin Hartley That's also
one of the things. This is the first real movie
where I'm like, I don't recognize almost any
of these names except for Gillian Jacobs. Okay.
The DC anime movies usually try to bring in some
pretty good talent. Usually they do. Yeah, exactly.
But really, I don't know many of these people.
Anson Mount was Batman. I don't recognize any
of these as voice actors. I mean, you can't always
get, oh my god, original Batman animated series
voice actor. Yeah. Oh, my God. Are you talking
about Kevin Conroy? Jesus Christ, yeah. I don't
know why his name got erased from my existence,
but he's my default Batman voice, right? Well,
it's funny. Anson Mount was Oliver Queen on Smallville.
Oh, okay. So it is kind of funny, that stuff.
That's the only one besides Jillian Jacobs who
was in Community, which you still haven't seen.
Maybe I never will. Wait, who's Jillian's voice?
Jillian voices Harley Quinn. Okay, got it. Yes,
it's a good fit. Yeah, it's a good fit. Yeah,
yeah. So basically the story is Joker somehow
gets kryptonite and is able to trick Superman
into thinking he's fighting Doomsday, but really
he's killed Lois Lane and their unborn child.
Yes, right. She also had a bomb attached to her.
It's contingency. She had like a heart monitor
attached to a bomb. So when she dies... Metropolis
blows up. Metropolis blows up. Alright, the woman
who voiced Lois Lane is pretty big in anime.
She voiced Toru Honda in Fruits Basket. What's
her name? I just had it up here. Laura Bailey.
Oh, Laura Bailey is huge. Yeah, I was about to
say, like, yeah, Laura Bailey's in everything.
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're voice actors.
But, like, okay, but, I mean, Lois Lane gets
fridged literally at the beginning of this movie.
Yes. That's not Laura Bailey. Well, she's also
Ramakrishna. okay we're on the one half oh oh
we get crazy okay we get crazy um so basically
superman becomes evil decides that he wants to
end the world's wars he wants to end all the
problems and everything like that well right
batman's like you can't do this you have to let
people have like free will you can't just kill
people because of whatever yeah um basically
what if superman became a fascist right yes exactly
and like there's superman does some things like
there's a underground group of kids that celebrate
the joker and like the things he does and everything
like that and superman basically decides yeah
they need to die yeah and kills all these kids
Yeah. Oh, yeah. He straight up kills the Joker.
Yeah. You know how Batman has a line he won't
cross? Superman crosses. Superman crosses. This
is an adaptation of... So, I think the video
game came first, right? No, the comic came first.
The comic came first. Really? Oh, God. All right.
The video game is based on the comic. Okay. That
shows my bias because I just noticed from the
adjusted video games, maybe the moral combat
guys, right? And none of this is actual, like...
What I'll say is none of this is really the same
story to story to story. Sure. Because they introduced
plastic man because apparently he's a fan favorite.
He's in this movie. Yeah. And he really wasn't.
part of the like story he's not a playable character
yeah exactly yeah yeah so like they're all different
in some way shape or form you're gonna have to
change it yeah like i mean as far as the game
goes like that's just a series of cut scenes
as an excuse to fight right you know like so
the thing that sends batman over the edge is
that superman's basically becoming a fascist
whatever they Go to Arkham because Superman plans
to kill all the Arkham patients in order to never
have problems again. So people like the Joker
can't happen. So like Killer Croc. Yeah, he starts
killing people. Harley Quinn gets into the system
and just releases them. They start fighting everybody
because Batman's like, okay, they can't be escaped.
So we team up this once, blah, blah, blah. Because
also they were having a fight at that point.
The people chose their sides. Damian Wayne, the
son of Bruce Wayne. Siding with Superman. The
worst Robin. Siding with Superman because he
believes if you would have just killed Joker,
Joker wouldn't have killed my mom. And at this
point his mom's dead, whatever. And then there's
Nightwing who's on Batman's side. Better Robin.
Damian throws a baton at Nightwing. And basically
strikes him right in the temple. Kills him. Kills
him. Great. So Nightwing is dead. And Batman's
just like, Damien, you crossed the line. You're
no longer Robin. Like, you can't be Robin anymore.
And is basically recluses to his solitude with
his team, which is Oliver Queen, Harley Quinn,
and, well, it was Nightwing. But Catwoman. And
then Wonder Woman, Superman, Damian are all on
this side. And then there's people in the middle
or they join their sides. Wonder Woman sleep
with Superman in this? They make out. With him?
They make out. Yeah. And after they make out,
Superman's just like, I can't do this this soon.
Wonder Woman always got the fucking shaft in
the storyline. It's like Flashpoint. She bangs
Aquaman. Whenever there's an alternate reality,
it's like, alright, who's she teaming? Who's
she banging? This is where I come back with the
Ramakushna thing. Nightwing goes to heaven. And
Ramakushna is the... leader of heaven and it's
very much like buddhist i think buddhist okay
yeah i don't know yeah harikrishna kind of thing
like that kind of stuff um i think it's buddhism
i don't really remember but i think it's buddhism
um basically she's like your work's not done
i am going to link with you and you're going
to be a ghost called deadwing and you're going
to help on earth And so he like comes in and
out as a ghost character and like starts helping
people. What? Yes. Deadwing. Deadwing. What does
that mean to me? Yeah. And once he helps you,
you can see him. So, like, he helps Damien at
one point, and Damien sees him and is just like,
apologize, I'm so sorry, blah, blah, blah, and
everything like that. Instead of Damien being
such a horrible robber. Yes. Well, when we get
to the end of it, it basically just wraps up
in five minutes, and that's what I hate about
it. Is that the bad? That it just ends? The majority
of it is bad. I'm glad they started killing characters.
Like, there are several characters that die in
this. But they also make it abundantly clear,
we're on an alternate Earth. these are not your
heroes they're dead forever that kind of stuff
so they make that abundantly clear but I do like
the fact that they're just like Superman just
offs people and like there's no remorse nothing
but yeah so Injustice. Trash. Trash. Trash. Do
not waste your time. Just play the games. Just
play the games. Read the comic book series. Fuck
it. Watch the game story cutscenes on YouTube.
Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah, but it's such a better
video game. It's such a better... They don't
have these one -on -one fights or anything like
that, which is disappointing. There's no one
other than the opening when they break out the
people in Arkham and they fight there. Is there
any other... No, there's fights, but it's just
not one -on -one. It's like full battles. So
in the games, the whole entire idea is that they
go into an alternate reality and grab the alternate
universe's heroes. So... One or two make it out
of the other thing, and it's the people they
lost early. Okay, got it. Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Interesting. Yeah, and there's like a joke in
there, and they're just like, yeah, welcome to
Earth 1. And the guy's just like, you're Earth
48. What are you talking about? Nice. Yeah, it's
goofy. But yeah, so trash. Trash. First time
in a long time we have trash. Usually those DC
animated movies hit. Usually those... That's
exactly why I wanted to watch it is because I
love DC animated. Like, it's always... When there's
a new one, I'm in. There's a new Catwoman one
that I'm going to check out shortly that's on
HBO Max as well. The woman who played Catwoman
is Anika Nani Rose who is... She's in Dreamgirls.
She's Princess Tiana. Okay, nice. Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Okay, yeah. That's a name. Yeah. A special
shout -out to my friend Mark because we mentioned
Princess and the Frog one more time. He commented
on our New Orleans episode, did you like that
one? I was like, I love that one. So, yeah, special
shout -out to you, Drew. If we have a couple
minutes to spare, do we have a moment? Speaking
of alternate realities and superheroes. Sure.
Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange is coming. Yes,
they dropped the trailer. Deadpool's not in it
as far as we know. As far as we know. I think
he's going to be. And then Tom Cruise as Iron
Man. Wolverine might not be in it, but might
be. Wink. I think he is. I don't know if it's
been 100 % confirmable. I thought it was just
rumor. I thought it... Okay. I don't know. I'm
way too on the Twitter, like, I can't tell what's
real anymore. Yeah. Professor Xavier might be
in it. I mean, his voice was in the trailer.
It definitely was his voice. Well, Patrick Stewart's
in the movie. Yeah, we don't know. I mean, he's
got to be right. Yeah. I'm excited for Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise, Iron Man. It's going to be interesting.
I wonder if he's going to be an alcoholic. Maybe.
Yeah. It's possible. He could definitely go to
that devil in the bottle. Tony Stark. Yeah. I
know they tried to do it in Iron Man 2, but it
just wasn't. Yeah, I thought they were going
to go that direction with Iron Man 2. Yeah. And
then they went with Jesse instead. Yeah. Right.
I rewatched the Marvel What If series not too
long ago, and I got to the one with Tom Longer.
I'm sorry? The Marvel what -ifs? No, I'm sorry.
Oh, that you re -watched it? Yeah, that you re
-watched it. I like most of them. I don't like
the... It's... I like... I was not a fan. I like
the one with Doctor Strange in it, which you
need to watch because now it's important for
multi -years. Yeah, yeah. I really like the last
three. Okay. The one with Thor being an only
child, which leads into some other things. Yeah.
But... I think that was the best thing it did
was... Tie those three in together. Yeah. But
the one with Killmonger saving Tony Stark, that
version of Tony Stark is an alcoholic. okay they
never outrightly say it because after a certain
point you just never see him not with a drug
in his hand yeah right um so okay boozy tony
stark but yeah multi -person madness just you
talking about injustice oh yeah yeah no i totally
get how you get there yeah um i'm excited for
it i can't wait we're also going to get a tease
on the fan found the new fantastic four because
i heard lee richards is usually all right so
they're yeah the rumors are like is it going
to be and i'm blanking on his name Yeah, right.
So the John Krasinski. No, I want John Krasinski.
It's not the original Reed Richards. But that's
what I'm saying. It's either the John Krasinski
or the original actor. We don't know who. That's
the rumors. Eon Grafud. Eon Grafud. Yes. I -O
-A -N -G -R -U -F -F -U -D -D. Eon? Ian. I think
it's pronounced Ian. Ian Grafood. He's from Wales.
Yeah, I think you got it. Yeah, no, I'm excited
for Multiverse. Yeah, it's going to be good.
And who pops up and doesn't pop up. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, that'll do it for this episode of Game
for a Movie. I have been Mike. Andre. Jill. We'll
see you next time on Game for a Movie. Bye.