you know what that sound means it's another episode
of game for a movie where we ask are you game
for a movie i'm your host mike i'm joined by
it's chill i was gonna say normally we have like
that struggle of who answers first yeah but when
just the two of us it's actually kind of nice
where it's just hey point it is super easy yeah
uh we've had a day where we've been uh some of
us have already been drinking some of us Well,
no, both of us have already been drinking. So
we're going to talk about the things we're drinking
first. Usually we do it in the order that we
go in. So I will go first. I'm drinking from
the Noda Brewing Company Vampire Walrus, which
has a very cool walrus with vampire teeth. I
love this. This can design is awesome. And Noda
seems like it's one of those. It is very cool.
Yeah. This is a Imperial Dip. Apparently there's
a yuzu fruit in it. That's interesting. I didn't
know that, but it's very good. I actually really
like it a lot. It's obviously I got it for the
name and the can art, but the beer is actually
pretty decent, too. So I'm like, all right, cool.
I'm here for it. All right. So what do you got
going over there? Well, I'm not currently drinking
it, but I had an old favorite of yours earlier
today from Reverie Washington Sour. it makes
me so happy do you follow any of the reverie
people it's okay if you don't i saw them at uh
the a beer fest i went to a couple weeks ago
yeah um they didn't recognize us but like i mentioned
your name and they're like oh yeah how's he doing
uh dave is his name he was uh he was i guess
cataloging their trip uh the reverie people went
to nashville oh fun and it looked like a time
like it looked like a hell of a time oh yeah
it's fun i love reverie you also want to give
a shout out oh sorry no go ahead yeah yeah as
i said that's what i had earlier so as the name
implies it is a sour um it's very vibrant and
in color let me guess cherries not like not quite
electric red okay but it's it's If you went into
a haunted house, Sam Raimi would be proud of
that color of red. Let's put it that way. Sam
Raimi. Yes, he loves color red. It's true. Yeah.
I sipped a cotton candy sour roughly around the
same time, and the smell of it was bleh, but
it tasted way better. That was from Hoax. Okay.
Yeah, Hoax. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, I know that
one. They used to have that at the Oasis all
the time. Very nice. Yeah. I had a couple of
their beers also at that beer fest I went to
not too long ago. Nice. Yeah, I'm jealous of
the beer fest. It was fun. It wasn't perfect,
though. There was some technical issues. This
was the first year, I believe. So hopefully they
iron out the kinks for next year. Okay. Yeah,
that was our thing. We went to Moo Brewing Q,
which is their third year or something like that.
Music fest first, but it's like burgers, and
then they added barbecue this year. um getting
the vip ticket though you get two hours of beer
tasting at the beginning and it almost because
it doesn't sell well it almost is too much because
like especially that second day we drank probably
12 to 13 samples and then just coasted the rest
of the way like we didn't get any more beer um
Yeah, that was, it was a good time, but it was
definitely one of those things where it's like,
I like this and the fact that there's not many
people here. So you kind of go, okay, where do
we want to go? There, there, there, there. Okay,
cool. We'll go to Noda. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right
on. I mean, the best rear fast are the ones where
you don't have to stand half of it in a line.
And that was pretty good about the one we were
at. There was barely ever a wait, although the
crowd around 12 % was nuts. Yeah. Rightfully
so. 12%. Shout out to Christian. Yep. All right,
so let's get started with the movies. I watched
a new movie. This came out on 420, so you can
see what we're dealing with. It is the movie
Quasi, which is the latest from the Broken Lizard
Gang. They're responsible for such films as like
Super Troopers, Beer Fest, those kind of movies,
as well as Tacoma FDU, which is on television.
I know those movies, but I didn't know the group
had... absolute ignorant moron i like i said
i knew super troopers didn't know the group had
a name yes the broken lizard films yes um and
what i'll say is this one definitely is like
the first real attempt where it's like oh this
is monty python like we're trying to be monty
python especially there's a hole there yeah it's
it's a 1600s french you know like it's not quite
uh holy grail levels but it's definitely trying
for that um it's the story of quasimodo who's
trying to find love in this sad sad world uh
meanwhile the pope and the king the pope is coming
to france and the king of france wants to kill
the pope while the pope wants to kill the king
the king wants to kill the pope because if the
pope's out of the way then he has like the strongest
army because he just married this woman for her
uh for british army basically to like unite the
kingdoms uh and then the pope wants to kill the
king because the king obviously has these aspirations
and a complete dick bag all right the guy who
uh played farva and super troopers is the director
and what i think i like best about this film
is that they play multiple characters like all
of them really play multiple characters at least
of the main gang um because there's a lot of
times where uh i think his name is um let's see
i gotta pull this up i didn't pull it up on my
i pulled it up on my computer i didn't pull it
up on my actual character uh it is so it's um
kevin heffernan okay um he plays characters that
come into contact with each other a lot and like
every time he calls kind of calls himself out
like who's this fat bastard you know He very
much understands the, okay, he's the overweight
guy. Let's call him out, you know? Yeah, gotcha.
So Steve Lemme plays Quasi, who's obviously Quasimodo.
Is it a musical? It is not a musical, no. No,
I'm sorry. There's no Knights of the Round Table.
We dance whenever we're able. Nothing like that.
No one tries to burst into song and then is promptly
shutted. No, there's no bursting of songs. There
are chants, like a lot of chants. Yeah, that's
as close as we get. The constant theme is talking
about oysters and how it's the food of kings.
And Quasi and his torture mates, because they
run the torture chamber in France. basically
they want oysters so they keep going oysters
oysters oysters oysters oysters you know like
that kind of stuff that happens a lot um it is
ridiculous and ridiculous do you know what the
tagline is for the movie i don't top your head
uh oh every day is hump day yeah yeah that's
a lot without without saying much yes yeah and
i mean there's there's there's gross out humor.
There's tons of jokes about his hump. He gets
stabbed in the hump at one point. So it constantly,
well, it's all right. He gets an arrow, sorry,
but he gets an arrow and like constantly people
are like giving him a hug. Like, are you okay?
And every time they hug him, it shoots like a
spurt of blood out of his hump. Yeah. It hit
my fatty deposit. I'm good. It is very stupid
humor. But the Broken Lizard gang, I love their
movies. Like, it's just fun because you can tell
they're having a good time. They love each other.
And especially this one. It's really weird because
it is a combination of everything. Really? It's
everybody from the Broken Lizard troop, obviously.
They got Brian Cox back, who was in Super Troopers.
And then some of the supporting characters are
the people that were in Tacoma FD or some of
their other movies. You're just like, oh, it's
that guy from that thing. It's that girl from
that thing. And so it's kind of fun to see that
because... Sorry, I just am scrolling through
the IMDb and I forgot. Have a good time. Well,
Phil Hudson's a character in this. There's a
part where they're trying to, like, sing a song
for Quasi. And so they sing Frere Jacques. Because
there's constant jokes about that, too, where,
like, they say, like, that's impossible. You
know, like, over -the -top French kind of things.
And so they're singing Frere Jacques. And they
go, only the sheep fuckers. And this guy, like,
starts going and he starts singing. He's literally
called sheep fucker in the IMDb page. So this
seems almost like an homage to, like, that bygone
era of comedy used from, like, anywhere from
the late 70s into the mid -90s almost before
you get the rat humor of the 2000s. Yeah, and
that's the thing is, like, they try to, each
movie definitely feels a little different. So,
like, Super Troopers, obviously buddy cops kind
of thing, like a, you know, goofy highway patrolman,
that kind of thing. club dread is one of my favorites
um that's basically these guys go to an island
because of this singer you know like it's like
the the cruises and stuff like that it's very
much jimmy buffett style um but there's a murderer
on the island killing people one by one oh i
love this one club dread is one of my favorites
it's dumb as shit and i'm not gonna i'm not gonna
lie about that but it's so much fun to just turn
your brain off and watch it They have one called
Slammin' Salmon, which I haven't seen that one,
but that's basically waiting. It's like a parody
of waiting. Okay. This one was definitely like
an homage to like Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
And then, of course, Beer Fest is Beer Fest.
As a thing would imply. Yes. I don't think I've
seen any of their films, to be honest. Not even
Super Troopers? I know of Super Troopers, but
don't be shocked. Like, this is not tend to be
my type of humor, but. Oh, I think it's definitely
your humor. Is it? I like stupid things, but
I'm very particular about my stupid things. At
least I like to think I am. So I'm going to say
watch Super Troopers. Yeah, like I enjoy the
dumbness of like Pineapple Express or. Yes, Pineapple
Express falls in this category. Fast and the
Furious 2, but then something like Year One.
Oh, no, this is not Year One. No, no, no. No,
this is definitely like they have fun. And like,
I think what I like about these movies is that
all of them have fun. Like each one. Yeah. And
each one you can tell like the entire it's mostly
like the same five guys. You can tell they love
each other. They're having fun, like hanging
out with their friends and just making a movie.
And that's what I'll say about quasi is like
it's not the best of the best. I have it as number
five out of the six. broken lizards things i've
seen but that being said out of those six five
of those i'd watch again like i'd watch quasi
again um obviously super troopers at the top
club dread beer fest tacoma fd quasi and then
super troopers too they just yeah that felt forced
that one was definitely a forced one um but that's
my thing with broken lizard as i think that's
what i like about them the most is that they
have fun with this There you go. I mean, that's
what sells half the movie sometimes, even when
it's garbage. The vampire Transylvania movie
that we watched. That movie was dumb as bricks.
But like, yeah, I would say it's just a bunch
of friends making a movie. Exactly. Yeah. And
that's exactly what it feels like. It's definitely
like National Lampoon like that. Yeah, I would
agree with that. And so that's why I think I
like this one. I don't love it. But it's not
the worst thing I've seen. And it's not the worst
thing I've seen of theirs. Yeah. I'm not telling
you as somebody who has not seen Broken Lizard,
do not start with Quasi. No. I would say start
with Beer Fester Super Troopers. Those are probably
the two that are the most loved. And then if
you're feeling it, go to Club Dread. That's my
like go -to, one of my go -tos. It's weird because
I've probably seen it the same amount of times
I've seen Clue. yeah those are my like go -to
comics i know blue and club dread yeah i'm now
thinking of like all the dumb movies i like harold
and kumar at least the first one harold and kumar
would fall on this list i'd think yeah you know
there's a really there was a time in my life
where i really liked american pie three the one
where specifically the third one three the wedding
and the wedding one like american wedding yeah
Oh, my God. I saw the first one. I think I, like,
only seen the second one once. And then the third
one, like, that was a library or blockbuster.
Gonna rent that movie. Did you ever see, so,
like, Alison Hannigan apparently recently got
asked what movie she regrets doing. Oh, really?
No, I didn't. And she goes, I regret none of
the movies I'd done. I just regret the line she
had from American Pie. because now she has kids
people come up to her and were just like oh that
one time at band camp and she's like don't finish
the rest of that line these are my kids so i
guess that means because wasn't she a scary movie
had like date movie wasn't she the main character
of date movie You got me on that. She is. It's
very possible. I never saw a date movie. I'd
given up on the scary movies at that one. Yeah,
I'd given up on the scary movies. Yep, yeah,
she's the main character. I've only seen that
one, I think, once or twice. You know, the second
scary movie. Oh, the fat suit. Also, great movie.
Yes. The fat suit. Shallow Howl, a date movie,
or something about that. Instead of putting glasses
on a woman, they decided to go with that. I get
the outrage with Shallow Hal, but I actually
really love it because the message is like, don't,
you know. Yeah, exactly. See the inner beauty,
that kind of thing. And so I get why they used
a fat suit. And that, like, at least they found
a reason to. Is it good? Is it okay? No. it aged
poorly yes yeah that's exactly it yeah when it
first came out i was like good yeah okay cool
i see that i see the merits of this and now yeah
i'm with you it aged poorly speaking of uh connecting
this to jack black we're in like the jack blackissance
we are i love it i mean he never technically
went away but like no but i'm all for it i he's
my favorite character by far in the jumanji movies
that they've made i haven't seen the second one
but i loved him in the first one So the second
one giving very little spoilers here, and this
is like the tiniest, the tiniest of spoilers.
When the characters go back in the game, they
don't end up with their same characters that
they were before. And so Jack Black has to be
a completely different character. Oh, it's so
good because there's so many times where it's
just like, oh, yeah, he's not Bethany. It's very
good. Nice. To bring back the conversation, and
I actually can connect. One of the things I'm
going to talk about to the Broken Lizard group,
to Brian Cox. Brian Cox. There's like some preamble
to how I landed on the thing I landed. Okay,
I'm ready. Take me down the rabbit hole. So as
you know, Andre and I watched the original Bourne
trilogy. Yes. For a long period of time. Holy
shit, Jason Bourne. I think we started it a year
ago or like nine months ago with the first one.
Okay. So we most recently just watched the final
one, Born Supremacy, right? No. Or is it – no,
Born Ultimatum. Ultimatum because it goes in
alphabetical order. Identity, supremacy, ultimatum.
That's clever. Ultimatum. Yeah, exactly. And
then legacy is – fuck legacy. That's the one
with Hawkeye, right? Jeremy Renner. Jeremy Renner.
Yeah. I was going to say Rob Rainer and I'm like
that's not the right person. Rob Rainer. I know
how you get there though. It's the R's. It's
the R's. So Brian Cox is actually in The Bourne
Supremacy as Ward Abbott. I don't remember who
that is, but he's in the movie. So there's the
little connective tissue here. So having finished
the original trilogy, it was kind of like a thriller
American government hole in my heart. Okay. I
love how you're getting here. Yeah, well, no,
I'm making it work. I'm making it work. Roughly
around this time, Netflix's The Night Agent miniseries
had come out. So, considering 1 plus 1 equals
2, I decided to give it a go. 1 plus 1 equals
2. Oh, it does equal 2. Okay, sorry, I was carrying
the 1. It does equal 2. Do you know the series
that I'm talking about? Yes, I do. Claire has
been watching it. I have not been watching it,
but she turned it on today, and I saw D .B. Woodside,
and that made me very happy. It made me happy,
too, because he will always forever be from Buffy.
That's how I know him. Okay. Oh, my God. I can't
remember his name right now. I have him as I
remember him more as a Mendel from Lucifer now.
Ah, the show I should watch, but I have not seen.
Yes, you should see Lucifer. It was actually
pretty good. I hate how much I loved it. Well,
besides the last season, I was not how much you
loved it. Yeah, I hate how much I loved it because
it's not for me. Like, that's that's not a show.
That you're looking at going, oh, yes, Mike would
like Lucifer. But I did really enjoy it. Principal
Robin. Yeah, Robin would. Robin would. That's
it. There's a great episode with his like his
mother's backstory that he. Yeah. His character
is great. So very happy to see him. I forgot
he was in 24. I never saw 24. I don't know if
I'm going to. watch it you don't i don't have
that big of a hole for an american political
thriller yeah you don't need to go back not like
the island no um go back so the night agent uh
this this uh is available right now on netflix
like i said it is a mini series i believe it's
adapted from an existing property um okay that
wouldn't shock me It is based on a novel, so
an adaptation of a novel. Okay. Yeah. As I was
saying, it's an American political spy thriller.
It starts with an FBI agent getting a phone call
during their shift, and from there, political
intrigue, espionage, lots of shootouts, sneaking
around. Nice. A little dash of sex. Yeah. Great.
I love how that's the reasoning. Like, oh, yeah,
that's great. no i mean i don't there's not much
i can talk about it without it starting to snowball
into spoilers okay but if you're in the market
for something i love the tagline heroes aren't
born they answer the call i feel like that tagline
kind of does it a disservice it makes it more
cheesy than it sounds it definitely does no and
i'm not saying it's a good tagline it's not but
i'll liken it to like a nice summer day paperback
You want something that's going to engage you,
but then when you're done, you can walk away
from it and be like, yeah, that was a fun ride.
It's not going to linger with you for too long,
though. I'm sure within about... Actually, this
thing came out in... when did it premiere it
premiered in march i feel like i didn't start
hearing about it until late april early may and
just as short -lived as the talk discussion was
and it that was primarily because the diplomat
also came out on netflix and people were like
oh this little there's a little spy thriller
renaissance happening now just as quickly i feel
like the discourse has moved on plus now we have
this class of 09 coming out or whatever and that
feels like another one I don't know what that
is. That's Kate Mara, Brian Tyree Henry. It's
on FX, but they've released like some of it on
Hulu. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's
kind of interesting. I don't know. That's that's
one of the shows that caught my attention where
I was like, OK, cool. I'll check that one out.
It's really interesting because Kate Mara is
like top series cast. She's in all the promotions,
but she's like number 10 on the list of people.
Is that a good sign or a bad sign? Well, I'm
wondering if it's a like, oh, hey, we have Kate
Mara. Watch this show. And then all of a sudden
she gets killed off. Yeah, she's not really in
it. Or something like that. Yeah. And this is
I know nothing about Class of 09. This is not
me spoiling it or anything like that. But it's
just one of those things where it kind of feels
like Kate Mara's 10? Well, also around. roughly
around this time period there was the talk of
the citadel tv series coming out that i don't
know much about it but i know it was not well
received yeah it's not it's not well received
at all good thing because apparently it's part
of a bigger bigger thing like a bigger universe
yeah um the guy who created the night agent this
seems to be his bread and butter um he was he
wrote for the shield he created the shield he
wrote for the unit yeah um Swat. He is currently
the creator, writer, and executive producer.
So this dude knows what he's doing when it comes
to crafting a story like this. Yeah, sorry. I
just typed in The Citadel. The second review,
three stars. The script was probably written
by ChatGPT. Ouch. There are some good names attached
to The Citadel, too. Richard Madden, and then
we've got Priyanka Chopra Jonas. And who's the
main guy? Oh, Stanley Tucci. Yeah, Stanley Tucci.
I love Stanley Tucci. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God.
That's funny. That's the Night Agent. And I'm
sure people probably would have talked about
it a little bit longer if a little prequel series
to a Netflix juggernaut hadn't come out. And
you're thinking I'm talking about Indian matchmaking.
You would be correct. But actually. There is
the Jewish matchmaking. I thought about watching
that actually just to have something for the
show. I thought about watching it. I, I have
not engaged. I'm morbidly curious, but I feel
like I need to make it a drinking game. Oh yes,
definitely. And please invite me to watch that
drinking game. I feel like through like through
the, my, the gaps of my fingers. but uh yeah
no in my i i can't think of a clever off the
top of my head connective tissue of how to jump
from the night agent to queen charlotte other
than hey it's netflix it's netflix but i've also
watched that i think i watched that over the
course of roughly 48 48 hours like two days they
release everything okay that's the nice thing
about netflix unlike our watch of ted lasso like
i'm enjoying the week to week but there is something
very refreshing about just we have said that
we are going to watch season three of ted lasso
when it's all out i think they have one more
week or something like that or two more weeks
two more weeks yeah okay the third to last episode
so we're literally yeah we're going to watch
it all like one day binge it thank you so the
episodes are much longer this this season they're
about an hour each yeah that's what i've heard
okay all right you have to let me know what you
think seeing it all in one go yeah um but yeah
queen charlotte queen charlotte dory um this
is really pinkies up have you seen any of the
bridgerton no hi no no nothing it's not you don't
want a period set romance bodice ripper you literally
said period and i was like i'm done i'm off uh
i'm not usually the period type i'm not usually
the uh drama type i like I'm talking about a
broken lizard movie on this podcast today. It's
not for me. So a slow boil romance over like
eight episodes of Will They Won't They would
not be titillating to you. No, no, it would not.
Regé -Jean Page is all the titillation I need.
He's not in this. He is not in this. And probably
will never be in any Bridgerton thing again.
He's done. He's living his best white life off
as a paladin in the D &D universe. No, Queen,
it was really good. I don't want to beat around
the bush. The Queen Charlotte of Bridgerton story
was one of the few prequel things where... Are
you okay? Did you just get beard in the eye?
I did. I was trying to get the pop. It's right
by my eye. I take that as a sign. I don't think
that beer wants to be drunk. This beer was fine.
It's very foamy. God, ow. I can't believe that
just happened. That was Bridgerton karma. Ah,
yes, that is Bridgerton Carmen. That's me calling
out any period piece now. The women will rise.
So what was I saying before you got beard? This
is the one of, you know how some TV series. They'll
make prequels and it's just because they want
to keep the cash coming in on the franchise.
I'm sure if Westworld had done better, we would
have gotten a Westworld prequel series. Well,
we got the Lord of the Rings prequel series and
it's apparently not very good. I disagree. I
liked it. Did you like it? Okay. Yeah. Unfortunately,
I mean, fortunately, unfortunately, writers deserve
fair compensation. yes the writing has been i
believe halted yeah um no i agree completely
yeah this is a good point to share like a wga
strike we're behind you i don't know what it
matters that our little podcast is behind you
but we just want you to know that we stand with
you and did you see the picture there's a picture
that i think is right up your alley that you'd
like oh i have not seen it mandy patinkin's on
the line He has a sign that says, my name is
Mandy Patinkin. You underpaid my writers. Prepare
to pay. Love that. Love that, man. What a treasure.
But also there's a picture of Lin -Manuel Miranda
bringing him and his friends donuts on the line.
Oh, I did hear about that. Oh, it's so good.
I love it. I love it. So we stand behind you,
WGA. We do. Yeah. Sorry. Okay. Sorry about that.
No. Queen Charlotte. This is one of the rare
– getting to the point. This is a really good
prequel series. And if anything, I kind of wish
they hadn't tried so hard to give a subtle B
plot to kind of weave through the A story that
connects it back to the present day. I don't
necessarily know if it's going to lead into season
three of Bridgerton, but they gave a little fan
service to those. who are interested in the Bridgerton
plot lines without really trying to split the
narrative. Yeah. It was really fantastic. It
served up everything you want from a Bridgerton
style story. You really go to like the characters,
the sexual tension and the romantic tension for
that matter. And young King George looks like
our old landlord. So your old landlord, not mine.
I know my old landlord. Sorry. Yeah. Greg, if
you listen to this, you look like young King
George. So compliment. Yeah. Oh no, it definitely
is. Use that. No, it's really good. It's well
acted. I would say it's well written. If you're
a fan of the contemporary music being translated
into Regency era composition, it's great for
that too. Nice. Yeah. It's impressive when you
watch something like this and you realize it's
far more than just I'm here for the sex. Yeah,
right. Which I would imagine that's why people
were attracted to Fifty Shades of Grey. You're
here for that. You are. This is not Fifty Shades
of Grey. This is far better in all elements,
including the sex. This is better written, better
sex, yeah. Yeah, no, it continues to be a nice
breath of fresh air that is romantic escapism.
Romantic escapism, okay. Yeah, that's what I
would call it. If you didn't like Bridgerton,
I don't think you're going to like this. So take
that if you will. But if you're open to a new
experience, you don't really need to know anything
about Bridgerton to enjoy Queen Charlotte. So
this is something that sounds interesting. Also,
the most badass opening, it starts, not really
a spoiler, but Julie Andrews is the narrator
for Lady Whistledown. this secretive person we
don't really know the paper um so she starts
with a brief uh voiceover that basically says
that what you're about to see is fiction based
on fact is like fiction based on things they
don't necessarily say fact they very clever with
trying to pick a side on that just enjoy this
is basically this is stupid but here it is enjoy
we're about to take you away on a like a romantic
escapism as you said before Yeah, romantic escapism
awaits. Get on board or get off. Yeah, right.
I love that. I'm all for that, yeah. They knew
people were going to come for it. That's Julie
Andrews, too. The narrators in our things are
pretty good. Julie Andrews, Brian Cox. We're
getting some good narrators lately. Does Brian
Cox narrate Quasi? He does, yes. Yeah, he is
a narrator for the beginning and end. this is
literally like a 10 minute job for him he had
to go to a voice booth and go i'm brian cox like
this is quasi okay 1600s quasimodo blah blah
sophie sophie cat made an appearance just over
there okay i want to like mess around with the
camera too much but uh she's just off camera
nice i love it yeah surprisingly no animals have
broken in on me today So it helps that. Oh, cause
I didn't tell you. I didn't tell you. I've been
playing a video game that Andre has been trying
to get me to play. Video game. Yeah. Video game
podcast. Now we are game for a movie. We can
talk games. Love it. Andre has been trying to
get me for a long time to play guardians of the
galaxy. And it's not that I haven't. had any
interest it's not that i was just like ah no
i'm fine it is on playstation plus so i finally
got it downloaded and i've played it uh probably
four levels of it this far which is about two
three hours or so yeah claire is now playing
it too oh that's fun yeah so i'm guessing it's
a hit it is a hit so she plays uh she um This
is not about thoughts about the writer or anything
like that. Death to the author. But we have both
played Hogwarts Legacy. I have beaten the first
go around. She has played Hogwarts Legacy. She
has started at least four times. Oh, my God.
I think you mentioned this before that she was
really into it. Yeah. So she completed the game
first as a Hufflepuff. She completed the game
as a Ravenclaw. Yes. No. Gryffindor. She completed
the game as Gryffindor. And then she wanted to
see the common rooms of Ravenclaw and Slytherin.
So she started the game two more times. Ravenclaw,
she's a little more ahead. But she was like,
I need a break. I need to do something different.
So she started playing Guardians. And she basically
has already caught up to me. Wow. Yeah. That's
exciting. It's always fun when two people in
a couple get into a game together. Like, I am
absolutely loving this. We're playing at different
times, but it's kind of fun to, like, talk about
with each other, too. So she's a little behind
me, but not quite so far behind. Right now, while
we're recording, she's playing in the other room.
Very nice. But it's just one of those things
where it's like, okay, cool. Like, this is kind
of fun to see that you're interested in playing
that kind of stuff. And, like, it's characters
we know and love. I'm a little upset about Star
-Lord's voice. Oh, you don't like it? I don't
like it. But the rest of the game has been a
lot of fun. I like the gameplay. I like that
it's challenging. Sophie Cat! Hi, Sophie. She's
not a lab cat. Not a lab cat. Don't want, don't
want, don't want. I've actually started, well,
more than started now, I've been playing Hogwarts
Legacy. Yeah. I'm enjoying it, but I've pierced
through the veil of the game. And I see the matrix.
I see what it wants me to do. I see the game
loop. And I'm enjoying it. I don't know if I'm
going to finish it. But I think it's very clever
with how the magic system works in the game.
Yeah, I'm with you on that. I think the characters
are really all pretty well written. Yeah, for
the most part. I'm with you on that. I have some
characters. Yeah, I have some characters where
I'm just like, yeah, fuck you. Whenever I find,
like, a notebook, I don't even read it. No. Now
that I know how to skip dialogue faster, I just
read it in the move. Yeah, exactly. I love it.
Yeah, I finished the main story as a Hufflepuff.
And, like, now I'm just kind of like, all right,
I'm going to 100 % this game because it feels
like a game I can 100%. You know, like, I don't
feel like it's too difficult that I'm sitting
here going. well i don't know if i can 100 this
game and i obviously i'm not gonna play it more
than once on different difficulties but it's
one of those games where i feel like okay normal
playthrough i can get 100 of the stuff done that
kind of thing um i switched to guardians and
then i'm also playing again fractured but whole
that's a fun one Oh my god, I love South Park
games too much. I already played Stick of Truth.
It was quick and easy and outdone. I should replay
Stick of Truth. I think I like that one more
than Fractured But Whole. I agree completely.
Stick of Truth was definitely the better of those
two. Fractured But Whole is fun because it's
superheroes and stuff, but it's a lot more of
like... okay go do this mission go do that mission
go do this mission you know like you have to
go to this to do that to do this to that and
stick of truth was just kind of like a little
more not exploratory but like it's a little more
you get to discover on your own a little bit
yeah there was less on rails guiding yeah exactly
going back to hogwarts legacy i feel like i'm
overpowered like i'm in level 20 High 20s. Yeah.
And I'm getting quests where it's, like, recommended
level, you know, level 11. Yeah. They scale,
but I think they scale. Well, that's the funny
thing about, like, Claire playing through this
again. When she was Gryffindor for the second
time, she got to level, like, 35 before she completed,
like, the second story mission. You know, and
it was just like, oh, cool. You're just going
to destroy everybody. Good luck. I mean, it feels
nice. Yeah. I'm in the second semester, I think.
There was a seasonal change. And now I'm filling
out the map room, if you will. I'm enjoying it.
It's being games that me and Andre are playing
the same game as your loved one. Andre and I
are doing that with Tears of the Kingdom, the
new Legend of Zelda game. Are you obsessed? Yes,
in the way that I'm obsessed. I dream about it.
Is that obsessed? Yeah, that's pretty obsessed.
I was exploring through Hyrule. That's pretty
obsessed, yes. Just a tad. Yeah, I didn't take
a day off of work to play it, though. That to
me is obsession. But I mean, like, all right.
andre's really enjoying it yeah enjoying is underselling
it he loves it yeah well that's yeah um there's
so many link fanboys that are calling it like
one of their best games of all time already it
just came out yeah right well that's what i wanted
to know where does andre on the link fanboy he's
pretty high um i don't know if he's played every
single zelda game that's ever zelded but he certainly
has his favorites a couple uh one or two are
I would say, or Deep Cut. One or two. They're
known. Does he like Wind Waker? That's the important
thing. I think he likes it. I love Wind Waker.
I think Wind Waker is the good... If you know
you're a true fan or just a casual fan, is if
you like Wind Waker. I was actually saying, I
don't know if you've followed any of the news,
there was a discussion that the creators had
that they already are thinking about the third
one, or the next Zelda game. I won't call it
the third. Yeah, this is going to sell out. This
is going to do well. Which is good. I'd rather
hear that they are thinking about it than, eh,
we don't know. We'll see what this does. I would
love if they took another stab kind of at the
Great Sea, but it wouldn't obviously be the Great
Sea again. play with that sailing mechanic once
again with that exploration yeah i have to figure
out some creative story for it but i think it's
time i think it's time to and then i'm with you
there's so much they could do with like underwater
maybe yeah okay yep no i'm with you because well
especially because the water temples as much
as they're a pain in the ass they are usually
the most talked about it's just what it is yeah
i mean uh what was that that was ocarina You
mean the one with Jabu Jabu? Maybe. I'm talking
about the Water Temple. Like the most well -known.
That one's Ocarina. I didn't know if it was Majora's
or Ocarina. I knew it was the 64 one. I believe
it's Ocarina. I've played parts of Ocarina. I
haven't played it in full. The only two I've
ever played in full, although I've watched Let's
Plays of all of them, or at least all of the
3D Zelda's, Wind Waker and Link's Awakening.
Link's Awakening. And Breath of the Wild. I actually
beat Breath of the Wild on Thursday. Oh my god.
I could have beaten it two years ago, and I just
never did. The funny thing is, I think the only
one I've actually stuck through and beaten was
Twilight Princess. I like Twilight Princess.
I played a good chunk of that. Yeah, it was just
more so that was the first one that I was fully
invested in. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We didn't
give ratings to everything, by the way. No. We
need to give ratings. We did not. We'll backtrack.
We'll backtrack. Do you want to go first or should
I? Go ahead. At least one of them. Oh, I can
do both. So for Queen Charlotte of Bridgerton's
story, I give it... 3 .8 out of 5 oranges. Or
mutated rabbits. That'll mean something if you've
seen it. There's mutated rabbits? Now maybe the
period drama might be in Mike's future. No, it's
deformed rabbits. She gets a Pomeranian. the
iconic royal dog yeah and she doesn't know what
it is so she calls it like a deformed rabbit
oh for a long time i've called it a mutated rabbit
same idea lame all right fine i'm still out and
then for night agent i would give that a solid
3 .5 out of 5 phones okay phones are ringing
phones are ringing phones are ringing yeah quasi
is uh 2 .5 out of 5 oysters 2 .5 is low, man.
Well, it's not, though. It's half. Out of five,
true. Yeah, that's the thing. I feel bad because
I say two, and I'm like, oh, wow, I'm really
giving this a two. But 2 .5 out of five is really
half of the scale. So if you double it, five
out of ten. And so I'm giving it oysters because
that's a big point of contention is oysters.
Oysters, oysters. And there's a chant. Yeah,
exactly. It's the stuff of kings. So, yeah, he
has, like, an orgasmic experience when he has
his first oyster. Yeah. Yeah. It's oysters. They're
an aphrodisiac, don't you know? They've got the
juice. They are an aphrodisiac. I also needed
to point this out, so I know I'm going back on
this. The queen of the kingdom is played by...
In Quasi. In Quasi, is played by Adrienne Palicki.
Padalecki. Padalecki, yep. I saw it on IMDb.
And, you know, they kind of tease the will they,
won't they? What do you think gets them over
the hump, as they say, for why? Yeah, you're
welcome. That was accidental. What do you think
puts them over the hump for them actually doing
the hump? Oysters. Nope. Not oysters. They find
out they're cousins. Ugh. Yep. 1600s. That's
what they did. incest what a time what a time
it drew me insane when she goes wait what oh
my god we're cousins oh come here like it's like
over the top like oh yeah yep there you go you're
welcome And on that note, I think we should close
this episode. I think we should as well. This
has gone off the rails. The minute incest is
brought up, I'm out. Oh yeah, as soon as incest
happens, we need to close the show. So that was
us for a movie podcast. Hey, follow us on everything.
Yeah, right. Follow us on everything. We talk
about incest sometimes. No. No, no. I'm your
host, Mike. I've been joined by... A reluctant
Jill. We'll see you next time I came for a movie.
Oh my God.