You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of Game for a Movie where we ask, are
you game for a movie? My name is Mike. I am joined
by... Andre. I threw you off, didn't I? You did,
but I saw the fingers go and I said I'm going
to wait for a second. Yes, because we're in person.
I love this. We all watched a bad movie together.
Of course, to get through a bad movie, we have
to be drinking. Yes. So, Jill, I think you have
water now. But what did you drink during the
movie? During the film, I was drinking a long
drink, which I think I may have featured on the
show before. Wouldn't shock me. Yeah, it's like
Miles Teller's favorite canned cocktail, according
to the box. If it's good enough for Miles Teller,
it's good enough for me. Let's go. I mean, Miles
Teller's mustache is enough to make it worth
it. She's fishing one out of the fridge right
now. Okay. Oh, okay. The Finnish long drink.
Yes. From Finland. Yes. I was wondering what
you were doing. Okay. Hey, Andre, what are you
drinking? Slash, what did you drink during the
movie, too? Because those are different things.
At the behest of Mike, we were at the liquor
store, and he recommended this to me. This is
the Dandelion Haze New England IPA from Berkshire
Brewing Company. Berkshire's in New York, I want
to say. Let's see. Is that New York or Vermont?
No, South Deerfield, Massachusetts. Mass, really?
Okay. It's nice. It is a New England IPA, so
it's kind of sweeter. Yeah. And maybe it's just
because of the name, but it has incepted floral
notes into me. So it's nice. Nice. Crushable.
Nice. I like it. Speaking of Massachusetts, I've
got Lord Hobo from Woburn, Massachusetts. Yum.
It is the Boom Sauce Double, or Dippa. It says
double in this one, so I can't just say Dippa.
It's iconic. It's great. Can you get that in
California, you think? Maybe. I feel like it's
been everywhere. I feel like Lord Hobo has made
it to California, but maybe not Boom Sauce. I've
seen it in Ohio. He said Woburn. Woburn? W -O
-B -U -R -N. I mean, it's Massachusetts, so they
all have it. I will take whatever anybody says,
I will believe it. Worcester. Worcester. Worcester.
Worcester. We're not going down this road. Yes,
we are. I did this to Andre when we drove to
the north fork of Long Island. Like, what do
you call that? Patchogue. Patchogue. Patchog?
That was like the Patchog, right? The Patchog.
The Patchog. So, we have watched a bad movie.
We did. And I'm glad we are drinking beers from
Massachusetts. Yeah. Really? What? Really? What?
Really? That was gross. I'm sorry. Yeah. So,
I'm glad we brought up that we are drinking beers
from Massachusetts. Because the... I don't know
if you guys know this. Massachusetts is on the
Atlantic Ocean. Oh! You know what else is? The
Gulf of Mexico? The Gulf of Mexico. Whoa! Let's
go! If you guys are unfamiliar, a movie came
out in 2013 called Pacific Rim. This is Atlantic
Rim, a movie from the lovely independent production
company The Asylum, which we'll get more into
later. being a straight checker for this one.
The Asylum, definitely. Yes. So we'll get more
into that, but we have talked Asylum movies before,
including Avengers Grimm. I had to watch for
an episode. Yeah. I still have the second one
on my list for some time in the future. Avengers
Grimm Time Wars. I think it needs to happen.
Yeah. I mean, it's Rumpelstiltskin. It's Snow
White. Wow. Those two characters on the same
screen together? Wild. Who would have thunk it?
You would have thunk it. What is with you? What
do you mean, what's with me? What is with you?
You're in a mood tonight. You are in a mood.
I just watched this god -awful movie, and I have
some feelings. But you know what? I bet those
families probably are leaning towards this thing.
If you keep on watching a bad movie, it's not
a good idea. Oh, never. I'm happier that I have...
You now appreciate... I'm happier that I drank
than I would be if I didn't. I am actually really
glad that I've seen Pacific Rim. Me too, yes.
Not the second one. No. Imagine if someone was
like, hey, Ben, do you want to come over? There's
this movie I really like. It's called Pacific
Rim. It's got all these things. Giant robot punching
giant creatures, let's say. Yeah, yeah. But they
don't have it. And they don't have, you know,
they don't have a streaming platform. But they
have Atlantic Rim. The best way I can describe
Atlantic Rim is it's LaCroix. It's water thinking
about Pacific Rim. LaCroix is water thinking
about a fruit. Thinking about it. It's not next
to it. It's thinking about one. Yeah, go ahead.
It's called Polar Ice. Let's be real here. Holy
damn. Polar was created in Massachusetts. Yeah.
Oh, damn. And Worcester. I'm throwing hands,
okay? So LaCroix, the Asylum version would be...
So if you got LaCroix Pamplemousse, that's the
Pomplemousse. Pomplemousse. It would be Polar
Ice Grapefruit. That would be the Atlantic Rim
of seltzers. Yeah, I said it. I said it out loud.
I'm out here. All right, well. I actually like
Polarize's Black Cherry. If you are at the grocery
store aisle and you're like, God damn, there
is no LaCroix here and I need seltzer. This is
a fucking tangent. It's Black Cherry Polarize.
I'm just telling you my life, Mike. Are you not
interested in my life? I am very interested in
your life, but two beers ago. Okay. That's fair.
That's fair. So, Atlantic Rim. Yes. We have our
three main characters. Red, Tracy, and Jimmy
Boy. Jimmy Boy, yes. Or Jimbo. Or Jimbo. Played
by Treach. Treach was his name? Treach. Treach
was his name? Treach. Treach. Treach. Who is
basically Tyrese. Yes. Discount Tyrese. Discount
Tyrese. We said Red was discount Kevin Bacon.
Yes. Discount Bacon. And then... You never got
a, like, discount. Well, I gave... Discount Tracy
is the girl from Walking Dead. Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. The actress who played Andrea. Andrea,
yes. That's it. Yes. Right? Yeah. I hated that
character. I did, too. And she did, too, apparently,
because she was very pissed when she got killed
off. Oh, yeah? Well, to be fair, she did die
in one of, like, the last of the good seasons.
Well, and so do you know what was supposed to
happen or what she was promised? No, no, she
was not going to have a cool queer plot line.
According to the comic books anyway, she was
supposed to be one of the last survivors that
had a relationship with Rick. So this is Lori
Holden. That's it. This also bought me enough
time. Well, I mean, she died in the third season.
It's very over. Once Rick was done... Are they?
slow march to the end. Okay. It's not because
they're going to do like the movie. Guys, we
didn't watch Walking Dead last time. Hey, Atlantic
Rim, also known as From the Sea. Oh, that's the
alternative title. That's the alternative title.
Not Atlantic Rim, From the Sea. It's not Atlantic
Rim colon From the Sea. It is either you're watching
Atlantic Rim or you're watching From the Sea.
I think the script was written as From the Sea.
Yeah. And basically they're like, ooh, Pacific
Rim came out. We're going to call this Atlantic
Rim. We have robots too. Yes. Yeah. So it takes
place in New Orleans, Pensacola, and Manhattan,
I think are the areas we have found that it takes
place in. We say it takes place in because there's
like three main rooms that they do this entire
movie in. There are three sets and then a bunch
of establishing shots and that's about it. Yeah,
establishing shots. Yeah, of beaches. Of beaches.
And then there's... So there are establishing
beaches of... There are establishing shots of...
Establishing shots of beaches. There's establishing
shots of a bunch of dead bodies around. And the
Mardi Gras parade. The Mardi Gras parade. Which
I'm still pretty confident was like six different
parades. Yeah, absolutely. And then there is
the situation slash whatever. The situation room.
Yeah. Yeah. Hotel conference room. And inside
the robots. The cockpit robots. Which. I will
say, still, I like this part and I said it to
you guys earlier. They color coordinated them.
They did. The bots, you knew exactly who was
in what bot. How could you know? Wow. Red was
in the red bot. Red was in the red bot, exactly.
Tracy was in the blue bot. Yeah. And Jimmy Boy
was in the green bot. Because Tracy was lit blue
and Jimmy Boy was lit green. And red was red.
They really didn't think hard about that, would
you know? No. Hey, man. No, no, no, no, no. Absolutely.
Simplicity is key. Keep it simple. You know,
that's fine. That was not a problem with this
movie in that everyone was color -coded. It works
for Power Rangers. It works for me. It works
for me. It works for Voltron. It works for me.
I like that. No. Yeah, I was kind of ready for,
like, a Voltron thing. I thought the door was
open for it, but no. I liked that it was... I
will say the more disappointing part is that...
They fought two lizard people. Three. Three.
I'm sorry, three. I forgot. I lost count because
they looked exactly the same. They didn't even
bother to... Well, right. And it was like...
And they really didn't even get bigger. They
didn't get bigger. Right, no. It was just like,
oh, God, there's another one. Oh, the other one
hatched. And it's the same exact goddamn lizard
monster, you know? Like, I don't know. I'm looking
for effects here. I'm looking for... Effort and
design. You know what I mean? We understand these
movies are made on a budget. Exactly. We can
judge them, but at the same time... It's hilarious,
but also... We can understand that these were...
You literally designed one monster. Yeah. Even
though they all look like PS2 cutscenes, and
that's hilarious in and of itself, it's an entire
separate criticism in that, wow, you fought one
monster three times. That was the movie. So,
before we get too far away from anything, I'll
say that if you've seen... Then you can guess
pretty much what Atlantic Rim is. Throw in a
little bit of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Kong, Skull
Island, the whole giant ancient creature beings
that are around. There you go. The only thing
I couldn't guess was who dies, who doesn't die,
that kind of stuff. There was a lot of death
baiting. Yes, there was a lot of death baiting.
Yeah, and I totally guess wrong every time. Because
the answer is nobody died. Nobody that we care
about. Nobody died. Except, yeah, right, right.
Nobody that we cared about. No named character
died. If somebody was mentioned by name, they
make it through the movie. Even Alexandra survived.
Exactly, right. The little girl that was hidden
in the bar. On the other hand, Extra is dead
everywhere. Well, right, yeah. My God, this movie
would love to have some dead body homes. Dude,
are you just going to rip burps this entire time?
Yeah, probably. Okay. Alright, we apologize for
Andre. He's drunk. I just did a lot of carbonated
beverages, okay? Fair. Yes, a lot of extras died.
They did not have burping deaths. No. Death by
burping. I wish I died by burping. We don't know
how they died half the time. No, well, that's
the thing. Giant creature, I guess, presumably
crushed them, but some of them look like bullets.
Yeah, so we definitely saw some people get crushed
by the monster's claw, which is great. Love that
every time. Totally here for it. It was cheesy
as fuck. It was cheesy down for that. It was
more like, oh, man, like, wow, this giant robot
and this giant lizard are fighting on the beach.
Oh, cut to a shot of I'm going to fire the arc
cannon. Was that what it was? Rail gun. Rail
gun. Thank you. It was a rail gun. It was a rail
gun. And he totally fucking whipped, destroyed
another. His arm goes this way and he goes, whoops.
And then cut to, oh my god, there's dead bodies
everywhere. Wow, so maybe we'll die. Yes, Jill.
Jill Valentine can operate a goddamn rail gun.
Hell yeah. What? Hey, just so you know, there
may be some Game for a Movie episodes coming
from these two that are about video games. I'm
actually all here for it. Now we gotta play Resident
Evil 2 again? No, you don't have to play Resident
Evil 2. Whatever's coming. Apparently there may
be an episode about Fortnite? Oh my god. Alright,
Railgun. Dead bodies. And then it's done. Yeah,
the Railgun never comes back. I didn't even think
about that. Context, there's three robots. There's
three people in these robots. Red, Tracy, and
Jimmy Boy. Red, Tracy, Jimmy Boy. Superfly. Red
is red. Tracy is blue. Jimmy Boy slash Superfly.
Superfly. Superfly is green. Right. Repeating
now. What do you mean repeating? We talked about
this. Yeah, but like they're the three main robots.
You know what I mean? And they're like. Okay.
They fight the lizards. Do you know who the lead
scientist is? Margaret. Margaret from NASA, right?
Yes. And she butts heads with, what's his name?
General Graham Greene. General Graham Greene.
No, Admiral. Admiral. His last name's Hadley.
Hadley? It was on his... Hadley. Okay, okay.
Yes. And they talk a lot in the Situation Room.
So this is played by Graham Greene. Who is? For
the Admiral, who was in Twilight. He was in...
He's in 8 Mile. No, Green Mile. Green Mile, Dances
with Wolves, Maverick, Wind River. He's in Yellowstone
1883, Antlers, American Gods. He's been in everything.
I don't know why I'm going through this. He's
there to look stoic. He was in Red Dead Redemption
2 as Rainsfall. As Rainsfall. Rainsfall. Okay.
Probably an Indian character. I haven't played
Red Dead Redemption 2. Okay. Yep. Yep. All right.
Fine. Make me look like an asshole. No, no, no.
Burp again. That's the most I can do. Yeah, so...
Graham Greene is the main guy we all know. Sure.
There to be the stoic good general that is head
on strength. Admiral. Admiral, sorry. Admiral.
He was also the chief in numbers. Oh, I love
numbers. There we go. Yeah. Anyways. Go on. There
to be like, we gotta take care of these monsters.
I'm gonna launch these bots. And then the NASA
lady, Margaret was her name? Margaret. Was like...
Yo, I'm here too. We have a program for this.
We have a program and I'm excited to test these
bots. What are the bots called? Gbots. Mbots.
Mbots. Fuck! I knew it was a letter in bots.
I'm just quizzing you now on all this. It's hard
to... That's right. It's MREPS. It's MWEB. MWEB.
MWEB. MWEB. Right, right, right. Which they only
reveal at the end. Yeah, yeah. And then to be
fair, okay, so Pacific Rim did this too, right?
And everyone was like, why did you not use this?
So Pacific Rim, spoilers for Pacific Rim, awesome
movie. Go watch it. It's a lot of fun. Way better
than Atlantic Rim. Absolutely. Halfway through
the movie and the second fight, they're like...
you know, they're fighting this goddamn giant
monster, and they go to outer orbit, and then
suddenly, uh, Mako was like, activate sword,
and like, okay, cool, and then, boom, the giant
goddamn egg activates the sword, slashes the
monster in half, and it's fucking sick. But then
you think to yourself, why didn't they use it
before? And the movie never fucking answers it.
And that's fine, because that movie is the best
dumb movie you've ever seen. I've ever seen,
really. Can we also talk about a character that
disappeared off the face of the planet that we
all love? Who's that? Spitfire slash Rabbit Daddy.
No, Rabbit Daddy was the admiral. Spitfire was
the pilot. Spitfire was the pilot, but I thought
his codename was Rabbit Daddy. Is this the guy
who killed the second lizard? No, the first lizard.
Oh, right, because Red was holding him with his
mouth open. And then he's the guy who said, I'm
going to win the damn Medal of Honor. Yes. Well,
no, he's Spitfire, apparently. Okay, circling
back on my point with the fucking sword, right?
Pacific Rim doesn't fucking care what you think
about the sword. But in Atlantic Rim, right?
They make it a point at the end. Miss NASA Margaret
says, I'm sorry, I didn't have a chance to bring
this up before, but you guys all have melee weapons.
And it's like, what? Red has a shovel. Yes, a
shovel. And then who? Sword for Blue. Sword for
Tracy. Yeah, Tracy gets the sword, which is the
coolest looking thing. And then Jimmy gets like
an axe. Axe. Yeah, it's an axe. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It confirms that Red really does have a shovel.
It's got a weird looking axe. Yeah. Is it a hammer?
No, it was like, it was a spade. It was a spade.
It was a spade. It was a spade on a stick. It's
like digging up dirt with that shit. Yeah, it
was a spade on a stick. It's a shovel. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Mr. Main Character coming out with
a goddamn harvesting tool. Harvesting tool. All
right. We need to get to the big plot twist that
made us all go crazy. So Red and Tracy have this
sexual tension the entire movie. Well, they're
supposed to be, you know, like, Red calls Tracy
baby. They're establishing a scene. They're Fred
and Daphne in Scooby -Doo where, like, you know
they fucked. Right, right. But. They just don't
officially say they fuck. I do want to say, their
establishing scene is in New Orleans, and they
just, they're at Mardi Gras, and then suddenly,
they just like, they bump into some people in
an alley, and then they, Who calls them a squid.
Calls them a squid, and then Red, Red takes that
as license to just assault the dude. Like, they
just start fighting, and Tracy's like, no, no.
hey, just don't do it. It's not worth it. And
then he's like, no, no, no. I just want you to
make sure I hurt him right. And then throws a
punch at his face. Says, I will knock you out
faster than you can imagine. Yes. Yes. Yes. They
had characters. They had characters. Jimmy was
cool. I did like Superfly. Admiral was pretty
great too. I do love Graham Greene. Yes. But
the rest were either underdeveloped or not likable.
Admiral Green's not coming close to canceling
the apocalypse. You know what I'm saying? Admiral
Green? Admiral who? Hadley. Hadley, sorry. Graham
Green is the name of the actor. It's the Doctor
Who spin -off, Admiral Who. There you go. It's
Admiral What? Admiral What? Doctor Who, Admiral
What? Yes. Who's on first? Let's go on first.
Okay, well, you... derailed what I was going
to say. I apologize. Yeah, it's fine. So they
have this sexual tension and we get to the plot
twist in the middle of the movie. The fact is
Jimmy and Tracy made out. No, no, no, no, no,
no. They say they hooked up. They hooked up.
And then Red's like, what? What the fuck? Yeah.
What? What does that mean? What does hooking
up mean? Just kissing. And then they said, we
kissed one time. We were really drunk. And then
Red goes. Because I knew I wanted to establish
it. Do you know how many of my brothers I've
slept with? No, no, like any brother's girlfriend.
Brother's girlfriends. I've slept with. Yeah.
Brothers I've slept with. And then they're like,
I guess it's cool. You know what? Red could have
been that guy. That's a different movie. You're
right. Red gave very bi energy. I was about to
say, like, if Red was Pam, I would... I think
he loves... I think Red I think Red loves humanity
you know what I'm saying yeah no Red is very
flexible yeah I mean he's definitely pitching
in those relationships but he's he's still into
those relationships He doesn't put a label on
it. Love is love. Lizards are lizards. Robots
are robots. It's very simple. A wormhole is a
wormhole. A wormhole is a wormhole and when you
shoot a nuke into it or whatever you want, Red's
there for it. He's going to roundhouse kick that
shit in the whatever. We've given this character
a better sense of self. Half the movie, he's
in a holding cell just, like, working out. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. All right, so Red helps take down
the first lizard in Act 1. I love this. This
is a three -act movie. Each act has a giant lizard.
Yes. Closes each act with a giant lizard. Yep,
and he helps kill the first lizard in New Orleans.
And he gets a Medal of Honor. No, does he? Yes,
that was his medal. Oh, he did get a medal. You're
right, you're right. But he disobeyed General
Hadley? Admiral. Admiral Hadley. We're on the
seas, my friend. Yes, you're right. You're right.
We're on the seas indeed. Fuck, I am so sorry,
Admiral Hadley. Admiral, I have ruined your title.
He disobeys Admiral Hadley's orders directly
by engaging. And he's like, wow, he did a good
job. You messed up the city. Yeah. Either way,
either way, there's a body count on his hands
and he says, oops. He says, oops. He says, oops.
And that's his reaction to the... Hundreds of
lives. Okay, fine. We'll just say he killed 100
people there. That's a conservative amount. And
he says, oops. Can I kindly ask a question? Yeah,
sure. Nope. So, I think where we started was
talking about how Tracy and Jimmy had a tryst.
Yes. A very chaste tryst. Yes. And our favorite
all -American hero who often causes destruction.
Who's the greatest sinner among this trio? Is
it Jimmy who smooched his comrade? Or is it Red
who killed a hundred people? So the reason I
brought this up... No, the reason I brought this
up entirely is because he spends half the movie
in a holding cell. But more so because the B
-roll, after he's killed these people, the B
-roll is obviously footage. From Katrina. Yes.
Did none of you pick that up on that? No, no,
I picked that up too. No, no, like straight up.
Straight up, like B -roll from Katrina of dead
bodies. So, Red gets out of the break. No, no,
no, nothing with the actual actors on the screen.
No, no, not with the party. Nothing with dead
bodies on the screen. It was like destroyed buildings
and stuff. Yes. From New Orleans. Like, it was
very obvious. Katrina, not dead bodies, but like
destroyed buildings. Destroyed, dilapidated buildings.
Yes. Not the party scene. No, no, no, no. Because
we need to talk about that party scene. They
start dancing together. Well, he gets invited
to a party. He gets invited to a party. He gets
honored. Yes, because he got a Medal of Honor
and basically... And he killed 600 people. Yes,
and the Admiral's just like, I'm just going to
use you tonight to show, like, this mission was
a success because we killed this monster and
you got a Medal of Honor, blah, blah, blah. So
he puts him in this party. Tracy goes with him.
Jimmy, however, is going to help the Red Cross
because Jimmy is the good person. Jimmy is the
hero. Jimmy's not partying. He's putting tarps
over dead bodies in a truck. He didn't want to
go to the party because he felt sick. He felt
sick. He's aware of the destruction. Getting
the death count. Jimmy's a good person. Sure.
Yeah. Tracy's kind of, like, mad with Red, but
they dance anyway because this is their song.
This is their song. Which sounded like three
songs together, by the way. It did. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. They definitely have a song they didn't
have the rights to, so they kind of played an
approximation of it. Well, as they're dancing,
it also cross -cuts, like, dissolve cuts. Straight
to a dead body being tarped over. To, like, scenes
of death. Yeah, yeah. And it was like, okay.
Back to dancing. Back to death. Back to dancing.
Back to destruction. Like, it was... Which is
like, you can't... You don't have the pathos
to pull that kind of stuff off without us just
laughing at it. You know what I'm saying? You
didn't have the budget to pull it off. Yeah,
true too. The tone you're going for is just totally...
I see what the director was going for, actually.
And I kind of... in a better movie, might have
liked the fact that they're trying to make you
feel this. Sure. No, absolutely. No, no, no.
In a vacuum, you can say, wow, why are we celebrating
this extreme loss of life? What was that movie?
The Long Halftime Walk or whatever. Yeah, exactly.
That movie with Ang Lee. That is like trying
to prove like he's being honored as a hero. But
like he's seen all these people that he lost
in the war and everything like that. Much better.
And that's the idea they were going for. They
cannot pull this off. They can't pull it off.
They cannot pull it off. With their estimated
$500 ,000 budget. And it's not even that you
need good special effects or good acting to do
it. It's just that like the tone you've established
so far. Yeah. Doesn't line up. You know what
I'm saying? Like no. This is not. This is a movie
about punching. The giant robots punching lizards,
you cannot establish pathos with this level of
acting and budget. And red. Discount Kevin Bacon.
Discount Kevin Bacon, yeah, you're right. So,
let's just go over the end, because we need to
take a break, and then we have a game planned.
Oh, God. Okay, great. Though I do want you to
take a moment to talk a bit more about Asylum.
Yes, well, that'll be on the other side. That'll
be on the other side. Yes, I will talk about
Asylum and everything with that. On the other
side of the break. But let's talk about the end.
The final battle. And our thoughts on it. Like
our rankings. Final battles in Manhattan. They
get a super. The three. They get upgraded. They
get upgraded. So now they can actually control
it. Little tiara halos that are like direct neural
interfaces. I feel pain. Yes. Right. Halfway
through the battle they're like. I felt that
punch, and it's like, wow, the neural interlink,
like, interface. Science. Yeah. Science. If you
die in the robot, you die for real. So that's
the four stakes they have. So, what is it? We've
had three lizards, the third one hatches near
Manhattan. Yes. They have a very shitty establishing
shot where there's not nearly enough people on
the, like, looking at the shore. They also have
a shitty establishing shot of they're evacuating
the city, but there's a traffic jam on the bridge.
Yeah, yeah. They paint over to, like, George
Washington Bridge. And there's, like, one line
of cars. Right. And there's, like, plenty of
space in between. I'm like, wow. And, yeah, the
other people are coming into the city. Like,
this is fun. 3 a .m. on a Sunday. This is not
like everyone trying to get out of an apartment.
Exactly. If I drove on George Washington Bridge,
I'd be very pleasantly happy. Yeah, right. Oh,
I would take that 10 out of 10 times. Yes. Either
way, they fight in their goddamn robots to fight
the giant goddamn lizard with the little... Tiaras
or whatever. Goddamn tiaras. They have their
melee weapons. The M -webs. The M -webs. They
can fly. They can fly. Yeah, so they actually
fly from Pensacola because it never said they
were in Pensacola except for the base says Pensacola
base. Right, right, right. So they fly from Pensacola
to Manhattan to fight this giant lizard thing
and they're goddamn robots and they're goddamn
lizards with their goddamn tiaras. You're welcome.
Thank you. And then Tracy takes a few too many
punches and she gets passed out in the robot
because she has too much neural interlink damage
because the lady can't do anything cool. That's
fine. Yeah. No, and that's exactly right. Has
to be sidelined so that Red can do the final
Iron Man move. They pull an Avengers 1. They
launch a nuke out of... And there's an argument
from Admiral Hadley. Admiral Hadley. This is
my real character. I can probably get it right.
And... Sheldon Geist. Sheldon Geist. Goddammit,
Geist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That guy. Who's been,
like, working against... Yes. Geist was getting
on the phone with the Department of Defense saying,
we gotta nuke this shit. Who cares if we kill
all of New York City if we kill the lizard? I'll
kill a million people to save 10 million. Save
10 million. Whatever, yes. And his name is Sheldon
Geist. Sheldon Geist. He is way too... Yeah,
he has an eyepatch that's like... And he has
a Crayola crayon of a line. On the iPad. On the
iPad, yes. To make it sound, look like Nick Fury.
Yes. As well as he also, everything is like too
gruff and too like. He's talking like this. And
this is not an exaggeration. He talks like this
the whole movie. And it sounds just as lame as
my attempt at it is right now. I sound just as
intimidating as Admiral Geist. And everything
is uber important. Yes. Like he needs to. Oh,
they're going to send the robots. I'm going to
call a nuke on them right now. We've got to use
nuclear force on this lizard. This is the only
thing that will kill them. And there's a submarine
that's coming from Charlotte, North Carolina,
and it's going to be there shortly. I'll get
off the nukes. Yeah. Nuclear radiation gives
me a boner. So the submarine fires a nuke. Yes.
Red is able to disable the nuke, grab it, and
then basically says, I'm going to make the hero
play. Yeah. And it's not in the Iron Man way
of, like, I'm going to sacrifice myself. It's
in the, I'm going to be a hero. I'm going to
do the badass thing. There's no pathos there,
right? Yeah. Like, there's no buildup. At least
Avengers, a very silly movie that I love. Oh,
yeah. But it builds up to that moment of, like,
you're not going to make the sacrifice. You believed
that Iron Man might actually die. Yeah. Or that,
at the very least, he knows that he thinks he's
going to die. Yeah. Right? And if Red dies...
Yeah, like, whatever. Great. Yeah. Great. Tracy
and Jimmy are happy. Tracy and Jimmy can be happy
together. They can smooch all they want, and
they don't have to tell anybody. And have a caramel
baby. Yeah, right. I kept guessing there was
a caramel baby somewhere, but there was not.
Not yet. Not yet. If you couldn't guess, Jimmy
slash Superfly is black. Yes. I don't know if
we ever clarified that. We didn't, but we said
black. I guess, yeah, okay. We didn't assume,
just off of that. Okay, yeah. But just so we're
clear. Yeah. Jesus. So Red grabs this nuke, then
grabs the lizard on top of the nuke. Yes. Takes
him into space. And then he flips around, roundhouse
kicks the nuke into the lizard, and it explodes
and carries Red down to... Smashing into Earth.
Smashing into Earth and destroying the robots.
Yeah. All of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He crash
lands onto the robots. The robots are gone. Yeah.
And honestly, that was probably the coolest part
of the movie. What part? That part. Where Ramos
kicks the moon. I mean, behind this part. Yeah.
It's the hype. It's the hype. You know? This
is the, like, ahhh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of every Taika Waititi movie. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
And it's, like, one -tenth as cool as it was
in Avengers. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like,
maybe one -tenth. Yeah. And that's pretty generous.
So he is just all of a sudden out of the robot
now. Yeah. And fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my
God. Characters just teleport wherever they want.
I mean, classic, like, you know, whatever. Like,
characters will just appear out of the robots
and bar. Yep. Like, you know, like, they'll finish
fighting the thing and then suddenly cut to,
we're having drinks at the bar. Speaking of.
It was on fire in an earlier part of the film.
Yes. It was the same bar. Yes. I still go with
that. It's the same bar. And, like, you can cut.
that and it's dramatic you have for a dramatic
effect but no it just doesn't line up right there
are parts where red is in a car when he also
cuts back to him being detained yeah to him being
in a cell and it's like oh my god switching hands
yeah well and like the admiral too he took a
helicopter from pensacola to get to manhattan
to make sure that they're okay and he's just
all of a sudden there Like, there's not a chance.
I don't care how fast that helicopter is. You're
not getting from Pensacola, Florida to Manhattan
in the 20 minutes it took to fight this guy.
Probably even less than that. By time frame of
the movie. Yeah, but he's there to make sure
they're all good. And they all do a slow motion
awkward knuckles to say that they're going to
a local drinking establishment. And I think they
whiff on Jimmy. Yes. Which is shitty. Yeah. Because
I feel like Jimmy was my favorite character in
all of those. So Tracy hits everybody. Yeah.
Red hits the main three. Red goes in and does
the awkward, like, he goes like this, and it's
like a group thing where he definitely doesn't
tap Jimmy's fist. He got Jimmy's fist. No, the
Admiral missed everybody. The Admiral went limp
fish. Oh, that was what it was. Yeah, the Admiral
went in like limp fish. I just thought that shot
in somebody definitely didn't get any knuckles.
And that was the Admiral. And then mercifully.
The movie's over. And fun fact, there's a sequel.
There is a sequel. Would I rather watch Pacific
Rim Uprising or Atlantic Rim 2? Resurrection.
Which is apparently set in the Pacific Rim. That's
fucked up, in my opinion. Is Pacific Rim Uprising
set in the Atlantic Ocean? No, it's set in the
Pacific Ocean. Okay, great. Did you not hear
this? I've never seen Pacific Rim Uprising because...
I'm too terrified to watch it. Oh, we're not
talking about that. Yeah. We're talking about
Atlantic Rim Resurrection. I understand that
part. That's then the Pacific Ocean, which is
fucked up because that's... Okay, Pacific Rim
Uprising. Let's see. If it takes place in New
Orleans, I'm going to flip this microphone over.
Sorry, I've got to figure it out. I haven't seen
it myself. Los Angeles area. Okay, that's fine.
Yeah. Fine. Fine. Still Pacific. I just heard
it was really bad, so I never watched it. Yeah,
I never watched it either. Pacific Rim's great.
Pacific Rim. And this movie just made me want
to watch Pacific Rim again. So is that your rating
then? What's your rating? My rating? Yes, your
rating. You have to rate the thing. We've got
to rate this thing. My rating is .32. Do you
want me to give it a half? One half? Round up,
buddy. Yeah, we'll round up. I'm good with, like,
.25 or .5. Like, this is what I want. I don't
want the .327896 whatever. Okay, fine. This is
a real number, not the half -assed number. This
is just a real number. It doesn't matter what
decimal it is, right? Yeah. Anyways. A .5. That
works for me. That's fine. 0 .5. Roundhouse kick
nukes out of five. Okay. Jill? I'm with Andre.
It's definitely... But what's your metric? Come
on. We all come up with metrics. Point five out
of five. I'm thinking a couple options. I'll
do point five out of five. Shovel weapons. Shovel
weapons. All right. Shovel webs. Shovel webs.
Shovel webs. I have to give it more than a zero.
Okay. Yes. I agree. I agree. I agree. Because
0 or B, I smiled and I laughed. You know what
I mean? I had a good time. Well, no, I have to
give it more than a 0, but I'm still giving it
less than a .5. I am giving it a .25. Okay. I
am giving it a .25. Stepped on bodies. From lizards.
Crushed bodies. Damn. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, that
was Atlantic Rim. Atlantic Rim. I hope you made
sense of that. Yeah, me too. We're going to take
a quick break, and then we're going to talk about
Asylum on the other side, as well as play a very
fun game. We're back! Okay, so we watched Atlantic
Rim. It is a movie by The Asylum, which is an
indie American film production area. Basically,
The Asylum started... Making low -budget direct
-to -video films. That is how they started. Now
they have capitalized. They make movies, obviously
something like Atlantic Rim, capitalizing on
names of big features. They're just hoping that
people will see them at the grocery store. They
see Pacific Rim and they're like, oh, I heard
about this robot movie. I'll pick it up or whatever.
Pretty much attached to every type of genre.
I know animated films have this problem, too,
where it's something like that. Oh, don't worry.
They have animated films, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, like, literally, like, Chip and Dale Rescue
Rangers literally made a joke about this, right?
Like, where, like, characters would get kidnapped
and then knocked off. Made into knockoff movies.
Yeah, exactly. Right. Yeah. So, I've got a Wikipedia
page that... lists the movies of the asylum company
it is the asylum just so we're here uh curious
uh it lists the title of the movie what year
the director some notes to it but it also lists
the blockbuster it's based on so i'm going to
read you some that are a little trickier right
so for example one of the first ones they did
from 2006 was snakes on a train Which would be
Snakes on a Plane. Obviously, Snakes on a Plane.
Very easy, yes. So, I'm going to read you some
that aren't as easy. And you've got to tell me
what movie they're based on. Can you give me
the year, too? Yes, I'll give you the year. Are
they all live action? Not all of them are going
to be live action. Are they all within a year
or two of their equivalent film? I would hope
so. Okay. I'm not looking that much. In that
era, right? Yeah. You're not going to say 2008
and the dad -father. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so all of these
are close enough that you'll know. Okay. How
do you want to do this? Like, he answers and
I answer? We just answer together? You can answer
together. If you want to go in an order, fine.
That's fine. Organization. We'll discuss, and
if we disagree, we'll have two separate answers.
How about that? I like it. All right, cool. Okay.
So we're going to start with the earliest, 2005,
King of the Lost World. That is, what's that?
King Kong. 2005? That'll line up, you're right.
Yeah, because that's Peter Jackson's King Kong.
Yeah, it's definitely King Kong. King Kong? Yeah.
King Kong. Peter Jackson's King Kong, yeah. King
Kong. All right, cool. When a Killer Calls. When
a Stranger Calls. What's that? When a Stranger
Calls. What year, what year? This is 2006, sorry.
It's a horror movie. Okay, I don't know it then,
so. When a Stranger Calls, yes. Okay, nice job,
Jill. So we're going to go with Dragon from 2006.
Dragon. Oh, my God. Is that Aragorn? Aragorn.
Aragorn. Aragorn. Yeah, Aragorn. Wow. They knocked
out a terrible movie. That's hilarious. I kind
of want to watch that movie. I have fond memories
of being in that movie. I hated that movie. I
didn't like the books, but Olivia did. Okay,
so we've got 2008's Alan Quartermain and the
Temple of Skulls. That's Indiana Jones and...
Wait, what? 2008. That's too early. 2008, Alan
Quartermain and the Temple of Skulls. Alan Quartermain
and the Temple of Skulls. The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen has Quartermain. 2008? 2008. So that's
not Indiana Jones came with a crystal skull,
is it? It is. Oh. 2008. Wow. Indiana Jones. Shia
LaBeouf. All right. What about 2008's Monster?
It's just called Monster. It's just called Monster?
It's not Charlize Theron. It's not Charlize Theron,
right. Like Charlize Theron. It's not the Charlize
Theron. 2008. 2008. Monster. This one's fun when
you actually know what it is. Oh. This is tough.
2008? Yep. It's not... It's not like American
Psycho. It's too old. I like where you're thinking,
but it's not it. Yeah. No? Psycho. Sorry, what
is it called? Monster. Monster. Yeah, I don't
know. I'm stumped. Yeah. Cloverfield. Oh, that's...
I've actually seen Cloverfield. Okay. I have.
I have. That's a good one. It's just Monster.
Have you seen Cloverfield? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
I've seen Cloverfield and I've seen whatever
the last one. Yeah. Clover. John Cloverfield.
Cloverfield. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen both of those.
I like both of them for different reasons. I
have. And did you like that one too? That's a
very big thumbs down. Okay. Yes. All right. I'll
give you an easy one before I give you the real
one. Sunday School Musical. That's High School
Musical. High School Musical 3, but yes. That
sounds like a Christian knockoff. The Asylum's
first family musical under Faith Films. Yep,
that's Christian. Faith Films. Yeah, that sounds
like something that has to be forced to watch
in, like, religion class in Catholic high school.
Yeah, right. Yeah, right, right, right. Alright,
another one from 2008. Street Racer. Speed Racer.
Nope. Oh, really? What's one? Okay, what year?
2008. Set Fast and the Furious. That'd be fast.
No, it's... It's five or four. It would be five.
I think it's five. You're right. No, I do agree.
It's Fast and the Furious. Tokyo Dread. That's
three years too late. It's Tokyo Dread. I understand.
Jesus Christ. Three years. It's five years too
late. 2005? No, 2008 was when... Oh, wow. You're
right. That is five years too late. Holy shit.
Okay, so I have... Oh, hold on, hold on. A very
important question. Yes. I need you to click
into that movie. Does it take place in Japan?
And if so, I might need to watch it. We're talking
about... Oh, wait. Are we talking about Street
Racer? Street Racer is a 2008 action film by
the Asylum. Its title is similar to the film
Speed Racer, but its overall plot bears a close
similarity to the Fast and Furious. Are the Yakuza
involved? Based on true events is what it's being
advertised as. Johnny Wayne is an ex -racer who
serves five years in prison after crippling a
young boy during an illegal street race in Los
Angeles. Wayne, having been traumatized by the
events, vows to never race again. While Johnny
attempts to restore his life and become an honest,
hardworking member of society, his parole officer
has other plans for him. Does he get kidnapped
and is forced to race? Right. I'm trying to figure
it out. It looks like, no, it's Los Angeles.
Oh, boo! Boo! Johnny ends up racing his former
friend, now rival, Mickey Stiles for the title
of the ultimate street racer. I don't give a
fucking shit about Mickey Stiles. Where's Han?
Ultimate street racer of Los Angeles and $10
,000. I'm no longer interested. Thank you for
digging into that. You're welcome. Alright, so
I only have a couple more before we finish this
episode. Princess of Mars from 2009. Princess
of Mars. No, it can't be. No, because I saw that
in... Jupiter Ascending, but no. That was like
2013. Princess of Mars. Princess of Mars, 2009.
I can also tell you, retitled The Martian Colony
Wars in some European countries, if that helps.
The Martian Colony Wars. I am drawing blanks.
2009. Can we get another hint? I got nothing
else for you. Yeah. Pass. No idea. Yeah. Avatar.
Really? Avatar and the Unobtainium. If you showed
me the poster, I probably would have gotten it.
Can I see the poster? Sure. I don't think I have
a poster. Can you sell me some sort of promotional
art for it? Let's see. Yeah, I don't know why
you guys are asking me for this bullshit. I'm
just trying to make conversation here. Princess
of Mars. This is what it looks like. That's not
a princess. That's Antonio Sabato Jr. I wouldn't
have gotten Avatar from that. I think I would
have gotten John Carter. Yeah, right. Yeah. Like,
I could see that. Yeah. It's apparently based
on a book. Okay, great. By Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Okay. Okay. Alright, you ready for my favorite
one and why I said during the movie we fucked
up? Okay. I'm ready. I'm ready. Six Guns. It's
based on two movies. 2010. Okay. 2010, six guns
based on two movies. Exception? Nope. I can tell
you more Western. Six guns, more Western. So
it's not the Himalayan. 2010? 2010. No, not Inglourious
Basterds. It's not Inglourious Basterds. Django
wasn't it? Django didn't come out by then, right?
No, it's not Django. It's not Django. I don't
really watch Westerns. Yeah. The Princess of
Mars looks more like a puppy. There will be blood?
All right, you ready for the first one? Yeah.
True Grit. Okay. The second one, and why I said
we fucked up, Jonah Hex. No. Jonah Hex. Oh, yes.
Six guns. I don't know. I don't know anything
about it. I don't know what Josh Brolin thinks
about that. Bad movie. Yeah. Yeah. So that's
one. We could have had the continuity this whole
time. And then... What was the last one I found?
There's one more. Okay. American Warships from
2012. You sure? American Warship. Oh, I found
it. Well, you're in 2012. That's got to be...
No, that's too late for... That's too early for
Battleship, isn't it? I feel like Battleship
came out around the same time as Pacific Rim,
so within a year of it. Yeah, you're right. I
can't think of anything else I would fit American
Warship off the top of my head unless it's...
Master and Commander. No, not that. No, that's
like more Steampunk Pirate. Yeah. There was Battleship,
and then there was another movie. Right? No,
I'm going to say Battleship. We're locking in
Battleship, yeah. Battleship, you are correct.
Yay! All right, I found the last one I was actually
looking for. The last one I was actually looking
for is the first animated film from The Asylum.
Okay. And by the way, the asylum, let's not shit
on them completely, because they are the people
responsible for the Sharknado movies. So they
know what they are, I think. Oh, yeah. I mean,
the fact they do this for this much money, they
know what it is. They know what the service they're
providing is. Yeah. Top Gunner is one of theirs,
which is based on Top Gun Maverick. knows. Yeah,
yeah, and like, they definitely don't hide any
of this. Sure, right. But also, like, you could
argue that, like, that's excuse me, that's kind
of like, I don't know, like, you're trying to
get, you're trying to fool people that aren't
into movies as much, you know what I mean? Right.
People that will just see, oh, hey, we're hearing
about this movie. This is your grandma buying
you, instead of Fast and the Furious, or, uh,
instead of, um, uh, buying you, What's it called?
Um, fuck. I've told you guys that I'm losing
my memory. This is your grandma buying you, instead
of Grand Theft Auto, buying you, like, Crazy
Taxi. Yeah. Whoa, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, pause.
Crazy Tacky. Crazy Tacky? You're Tacky. Crazy
Taxi. Crazy Taxi fucking owns, okay? Yeah. So,
you know. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. No,
but I'm not saying it's a bad thing. If you're
expecting Grand Theft Auto and you get Crazy
Taxi. Sure. But Crazy Taxi is not the asylum
of productions of Grand Theft Auto. Okay. What
do you got instead? Ride to Hell Retribution.
Grand Theft Auto? Ride to Hell Retribution. You
know what? All right. Yep. Yep. You finished
it better than I could. I was going to be waiting.
Yep. That's great. Yes. Absolutely. All right,
the first animated movie under the asylum. Come
on, where'd it go? I accidentally clicked at
the top, so now it went all the way to the top.
All right, there he is. Izzy's Way Home from
2016. Izzy's Way Home? Izzy's Way Home. DreamWorks
had a movie about an alien that was voiced by
Jim Parsons that gets stuck on Earth. What's
that? Like Planet 51 or something like that?
Isn't that like Bars Needs Models? That's a Disney
movie. I thought Planet 51 was the name of the
Jim Parsons one. No, it's called something else.
Something... 2016, you said? Yeah. Can you give
me the studio it's based off of? Nope. Home.
Home. That's not it, though. That's the Jim Parsons
one. That's the Jim Parsons one, but no, that's
not it. Izzy's Way Home. Finding Nemo. No, Finding
Dory. Finding Dory? But it's where Andy Dory
came later. Yeah, but it would have been around
in 2016, so. Finding Dory. You sure? Yeah. You
don't see Mr. I don't know. You want to lock
in together? I'm going to say Finding Dory. That's
my lock. That Pixar movie that came around around
that time. It's not the last Mindy, which is
not going to do it. I'm trying to think of an
alternative. But I can't think of anything that
would be close enough. So I will throw in for
Finding Dory slash Finding Nemo. Final answer?
Yeah. Finding Dory. Yes! Let's go. Alright, I
found another one. This is the last one, for
sure. Last one, for sure. Planet of the Sharks.
Is this an animated movie? No. 2016, Planet of
the Sharks. Um, that's gonna be... No, it can't
be the Meg, can it? 2016? It could be the Meg.
The Meg came out between 2016. Planet of the
Sharks. Oh, no, it would be Planet of the Apes.
Planet of the Apes. Stop overthinking it. Fucking
holy shit. Sorry. I feel like all the sharks
were just... They literally... If there's ever
something... So is this the premise of like,
we accidentally made a shark super smart and
all the sharks are going to fight? Yes, pretty
much. That is amazing. It's the Day of the Dolphin
episode of The Simpsons. We need to watch that,
yeah. The earth would just be flooded. So, like,
how would the humans... I don't know. The sharks
are just gonna go... You guys are... As much
as I love Asylum, or The Asylum, I've never seen
this one. So I can't help you. I can also tell
you 2019's Clown. Uh -huh. It. It, chapter two.
Yeah. Chapter two. That makes it scary. I don't
know. It. Wasn't that scary to me, but, you know.
The first one was better than the second one.
Yeah, and the second one was okay, but the first
one wasn't scary, in my opinion. A little scary,
but thrilling. Sure. Sure. Sure. They have a
Dune one. What is it? Is it sand? It's called
Planet Dune. That's really what it's called?
Yep. How did they not get sued? But, okay, that's
fine. So, from this year, Dracula, the original
living vampire. Tell me what it's based on. This
year? This year. That's a good guess. That's
a good guess. I can't think of any other big
vampire thing. Well... Castlevania. Nope. That's
a vampire thing that's pretty big right now.
Vampires are having a moment, though. They are,
briefly. No, Interview with the Vampire is getting
a TV series on Xbox. You're right. D -Rising
was... Or V -Rising, sorry. That was a video
game. It was a video game? Yeah, but that's where
it started with the video games. Vampire Survivors.
Vampire Survivors. Great game. Yeah, exactly.
Let's see. What was it called again? Dracula,
the original living vampire. When did it come
out? This year? This year. This year. Brand new.
I got nothing. I don't know what that relates
to. Yeah, right. Give it to me. Morbius! Morbius!
I needed to get you one on that one. They also
made a Top Gunner Danger Zone, which is a sequel
to Top Gunner. Shark Side of the Moon. Shark
Side of the Moon? Shark Side of the Moon is based
on Iron Sky. That came out this year. It feels
way too late. Please tell me there isn't everything
everywhere all at once. Oh, that would have been
great. I don't think there is yet. What would
it have been? All the things, all the time. Anytime.
Anytime, anywhere. Anywhere. Yeah, all the things,
anytime. Yeah, okay. They also have a bullet
train one, which is called Bullet Train Down.
Bullet Train Down. And Thor Love and Thunder,
Thor for the love of thunder. Wow. Yep. So, yeah.
That's the asylum. I love the asylum. I think
we could do a whole different podcast on asylum
movies. I was about to say, anytime we feel like
we need to watch a bad movie, I think they're
going to be there for us. They're going to be
there. Well, I've already seen Avengers Grimm.
There's a sequel to Avengers Grimm. We can include
that. There's a sequel to Atlantic Rim. I wonder
if it's better than Pacific Rim Uprising. We'll
see. I think, okay, so if we were to compare...
If we were to compare movies, I think it's Atlantic
Rim versus Pacific Rim Uprising. The original
Atlantic Rim, not Atlantic Rim Resurrection.
I have a feeling I have not seen Pacific Rim
Uprising. Right. I have a feeling that I will
walk away from Pacific Rim Uprising more pissed
off than I was with Atlantic Rim. I agree. Yeah.
I have heard nothing but awful things about Pacific
Rim Uprising. And I have a lot of emotional stake
in that because I love Pacific Rim. Sophie sees
a ghost. Wow, she does. Holy shit. So I think
it's time to go. Sophie, what are you looking
at? Sophie really sees a ghost or something.
Yeah, she does. Holy crap. She's just staring.
Sophie! Sophie! Yeah! That was creepy. Alright.
Well, the cat just freaked me out so I think
it's time to go. That'll do it for this episode
of Game for a Movie where we watched Atlantic
Rim. And where we ask, are you game for a movie?
I've been your host, Mike. Joined by... Jill.
Andre. We'll see you next time on Game for a
Movie. Maybe it's Atlantic Rim Resurrection.
Maybe it's Pacific Rim Uprising. Who knows? Let's
go! Really? Let's go? I don't know. Bye.