LNC Gets Some Work Done

Published Sep 22, 2024, 10:05 PM

While construction work goes on outside both Ariel's house AND Jonathan's house, our two intrepid hosts talk about the geek news of the week and how surprised they are that they're recording at all.

Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nerdron Collider podcast, a podcast that's all about the geek things happening in the world around us and how very excited we are about them. I'm Ariel Caston and with me as always is looks super cool Jonathan Strickland.

I am full of breakfast tacos.

I am becoming full of gushers and coffee. It feels like a real Friday.

Yeah, gushers and coffee the go to snack of psychotics like Ariel I have.

I'm gonna have a real meal after this.

Uh huh, all right, well, yeah, I'm glad. You know, maybe you throw some flaming hot Cheetos in the mix or something you want.

To kill me.

I'm just saying like you're already picking such terrible foods. Uh No, I had. I had tacos from Torchies this morning. Breakfast tacos from Torchies. I am still riding high that Atlanta finally has a torcheese location, because I got hooked on that back in Austin, Texas whenever I would visit. Granted, the torcheese of today is not the same as what it was the first time I went and I understand there were some folks in Austin who used to be big fans of Torchies who have since turned on it because it has changed so much. I maintain it's still pretty good at the breakfast tacos. Like, you don't get a lot of breakfast tacos in Atlanta. There are a couple places that do them, but not many. So yeah, I was happy to get breakfast tacos again.

I wonder if I could get them delivered here. They're a bit far for a morning breakfast drive for me unless I don't have work afterwards. But what you would sound good?

You would think that they wouldn't come all the way down here, Like I was surprised that the it's like a half hour, well maybe more like twenty minute drive from where I live to where the Torches is because I don't I live in the city of Atlanta. We don't get a lot of chains like here. Like it's it's even rare to find fast food. There are some in little pockets, but you're more likely to find, you know, independently owned restaurants, which is awesome. I love that, but it does mean that if you do happen to get addicted to say Torchies Tacos or Nando's Peri Pierrie Chicken, that when a location finally does move into the metro Atlanta area, you can almost guarantee it's going to be at least a half hour drive to get there.

Hey, at least if you come to the Perimeter Nandos you're near me, you all could be like hey, and I could be like, I can also sit there while you eat chicken that I cannot eat, but you could.

You could get the You could get the so called plane chicken which is still marinated and stuff, though I would probably still make you sick.

Yeah, yeah, I mean I've had Perry Perry chicken before. We used to have like a bone Heads or something like that that was pretty good nearby, and I'd get the mild. But I have become more sensitive to Pepper's in general, so I'd have to be careful.

Maybe what we do is we order like a plane one and then you just try a little piece and see if it's something that agrees with you, and otherwise we load you up on sides that aren't going to affect your various allergies and sensitivities and whatnot.

That works Also, I know we said that we likely weren't recording this week. Everybody I had travel plans. They have been postponed, so who knows when that's going to happen. A totally reasonable post moment. I'm happy to be recording today, but in our in our long standing history of comedy of errors recording, I do instead have housework being done in my house today, So if you hear background noise, we tried our best.

Which may or may not come from aerial side because I live in a townhouse, so one of my neighbors is having their roof done so today, so we have construction going on both ends of the podcast. We will see if that impacts us at all. Maybe we'll be lucky.

If we had been like I can hear them right now, If we had planned better and known that this was happening and not last minute decided to record today, we could have talked about nineties nostalgia and called it the Home improvement episode.

Or we could have actually made attempts to meet in person somewhere and record in the same space for the first time in years.

It's gonna happen. We just need to remember to like talk about it. Offline.

Yeah, so we're doing an episode. It's funny because I was putting together stuff for next week's episode what would be next week's episode, because I had assumed we weren't going to record this week, so I was like just putting stuff in as almost like a placeholder, because by the time another week goes by, stuff that was relevant often is like old news. That's how fast the world moves. So I was just doing it so that if there were anything that happened this week, we would have a chance to talk about it. Turns out like every week more stuff popped up than I had anticipated, so we've got quite a few things to talk about before that. However, we typically talk about stuff that we have watched or read or listened to or whatever that we want to share when we get together. So Ariel, was there anything that you saw that you want to talk about?

I After Midnight is back. Zach O Yama from Dropout was on it. Sadly like Zacho Yama, I think is one of the funniest comedians on Dimension twenty and oftentimes drop Out. He's got really good comedic timing and sense of what is funny to say in which situations However, on After Midnight, I felt like the games weren't that strong, so he didn't really get to shine, but it was still really cool seeing him on there. Because of course Dimension twenty and Critical Role both got featured in The Times recently, the Times magazine on a piece about dungeons and Dragons, which is really really cool. So I watched that, and then I'm still working through Kevin kin f Himself, which is still remaining to be very good and it's interesting watching people grow and how they move through the story differently. And this weekend I'm going to try to watch Agatha all along.

I'm also going to try and watch that. This weekend. I did watch the first episode of The Penguin, which of course is the spinoff series from The Batman.

Not Gotham and not Pennywise.

Just to be clear, right, not that not those variations on the DC universe. We're talking about the Robert Pattinson Batman version of the character and the Colin Ferrell version of the Penguin. Uh. I will say this, I think the show is well done. Like you, you know, you had real issues with the Riddler, the variation of the Riddler in The Batman. I have real. I like the Riddler in The Batman thought I thought that was an intriguing version of that character.

I know you called Dano a lot.

I just yeah, no, I get it. But like I liked the Zodiac style dark, super dark version of the Riddler, I thought that was interesting. I do not like this version of the Penguins simply because he doesn't seem that different from any standard gangster. Like there's nothing that sets him apart other than he has a weird walk because he's got a gammy leg and he's got a scarred face that makes him a little disfigured. But he's not, like you know, he's not particularly intelligent. He's very cunning, he's incredibly cunning, but he's not super smart. He makes really bad decisions, like playing different sides against each other, And like anyone looking at this, if you were privy to it, if you were there in the room when he makes these decisions, you'd say, this is ultimately going to hurt you. This is unsustainable, and when the cards fall down, you're gonna be stuck and there is no good outcome to what you are doing right now. Like I think it's pretty clear, and so it's weird watching a show where your protagonist is so deeply flawed that you're really just waiting to see a Like does he succeed despite himself? That might be how this ends, like if he's actually going to become a power figure. The one interesting thing is that he does romanticize mobsters, and he thinks of them as potentially like a pillar of the community, like a savior almost so in the very beginning, he's looking out over Gotham while the seawall is collapsing, because that happens in the Batman, and like he's he's deeply moved by this, Like he wants to help people, but to do so outside the realm of law and in ways that cement his standing in the community. Like you get a feeling like a big part of his motivation that he desires to be loved and revered.

So like I've never viewed the penguin as a particularly successful villain. I like him. I feel like the most successful he has ever been, or I should say the most successful the penguin has ever been was in the old Adam West Batman and then in the new Amazon Prime Batman Caped Crusader cartoon where the penguin is a woman, and I feel like those are the two most successful versions of the penguin. I've always considered the penguin. I don't I don't know why. It's kind of not the bane of the villain group, but like closer to Baane than let's say, uh, Lex Luthor or the Joker.

I mean, Baane is the bane of the villain group.

Yeah, but you know what I mean, like kind of on the lower regarded side.

I think it depends. I think it depends on the era, right, because like in some versions Penguin, like when it was in the really campy phase, when Batman was like in the super campy phase like the sixties and early seventies, then all the Batman villains were cartoon versions of bad guys, right, So like.

Yeah, but he was still successful there.

Right, right. But what I'm saying is that Penguin in that case was a joke because like all of his crimes involved trying to steal artwork that related to birds, right, like the jeweled statue of an eagle or something. That was always the gag. But there are other eras of Batman where the penguin is essentially a crime boss, which is kind of the story they're trying to tell in the Penguin, except he's not there at crime boss levels. He's like foot soldier, or maybe actually a higher than foot soldier. He's a kind of like middle management in the crime organization. I think it's well done. I think Colin Farrell is doing a really good job in the in the performance, I think his performance is great. I'm not crazy about the character, but it's not because of his performance. That's just because the way they've decided to frame this character in this version of Batman. And you know, we had talked back when we were watching the previews for this that it kind of looked like Sopranos but in Gotham, and I don't think it's quite that level. It's it's not as nuanced as Sopranos, but it's entertaining. So I think it's well done. I just I'm just not crazy about this version of the character.

Yeah, I I also don't like I think Colin Ferrell does an amazing job as the Penguin, just because he's unrecognizable. Part of that is because they've put him in a fat suit. And I also am just not a fan of that so much. Like Diego in Umbrella Academy season three, and this isn't a spoiler, Jonathan don't worry had a period of the show where they wanted him to be a little overweight, and they gave him the option of wearing a fat suit or trying on trying to put some weight on, and since it wasn't for the entire season, you know, he opted for Spatsude. I think stuff like that is okay. I know sometimes gaining oftentimes gaining a lot of weight or losing a lot of weight for a role can be detrimental to your body. And I wish that people had to lose weight less for their roles, and the only reason that they would lose weight is for their mental and physical well being if they need it. But I say this as a plus sized woman, But also there are people the penguin is not even like that that heavy. You know, they could have found an actor who more embodies that physical attribute.

So yeah, I can definitely see the argument there. I mean, it's it's tough because there's also the argument that the star power is one of the selling points for the series, right, Like, it's not just it's a good actor playing the penguin, it's this specific actor, yeah, but you.

Can't even tell it's that specific actor. And they have a lot of other star power like Clancy Brown and Mark Strong and Kristin Melodi.

Right, but they're not playing the penguin.

Although I did have a theory that Kristin Malodi was actually going to be the big powerhouse in this series.

She's yeah, she's It's interesting because I think they have combined Sophia Falcone with Albert Falcone from the comics, because in the comics, Albert Falcone is not just a potential heir to the Falcone Dinah, he's also like a homicidal murderer, and that doesn't seem to be the case in this version. But Sophia Falcone when she shows up, reveals that she had been an Arkham and that she's been released from Arkham, But they haven't said why she was sent to Arkham, Like that hasn't been revealed yet, And I'm like, is it going to turn out that she she's the homicidal killer? But then why would she get released? Like you would figure that if you're a homicideal killer, you're probably not going to be released even on good behavior.

Yeah, Yeah. Also, I'm seeing in like on the IMDb page versus the movie page for The Batman, that there is a character in both of the both of them that has been recast, Carmine Falcone.

Yeah. Well Carmine's dead, so dead. Yeah, so that's why they don't. They didn't bring the actor back to play a dead version of Carmine. They might be that they're showing, like in flashbacks, a younger Carmine. Gotcha, that might that might happen because I could see that because he's he dies in The Batman, so you don't we don't get him, at least not the same version in the Penguin. He doesn't show up in that first episode as far as I could recall anyway, Gotcha. There are some things in that first episode that are that made me shake my head a little bit, But overall I enjoyed it, So I don't think it's the best thing ever, but it's enough for me to watch the next episode.

That's good. That's positive to hear. Because Gotham was a slog.

Yeah, oh yeah, I could. I tried watching Gotham in about halfway through the first season. I was like, this is so ridiculous, Like so over the top ridiculous. It's lost me because I think it was specifically Fish Mooney. Fish Mooney's character was just so like chew the scenery ridiculous. I could not stick with it.

Yeah, we just had some I agree with. We've talked about it before. There were just some tonal like if everybody was a campy, if it was very Adam West, it would have been fine. But there were also people who were very very mainstream. Interesting thing. The guy who played the penguin on Gotham, yeah, I thought was a perfectly fine actor, plays a supporting character. And Kevin kinef himself and it took me a while to recognize him. But he's fantastic in.

It, I know, I know. I also saw that he's doing a voice in something. I can't remember now what it was, but I do remember, like when I heard about that, I was like, oh, it's that guy I didn't know. And then the next time I saw a clip from whatever it was I listened for, I'm like, oh, yeah, now I can hear it. Yeah, but it was one of those his voice isn't quite distinctive enough to me yet for me to just be able to pick it out so but yeah, that was I'd say, if you have Max, go ahead and watch the first episode of the Penguin, you'll know whether or not this is something that you want to stick with, or if you are, you're like, no, I've seen enough, and I don't think there's a right or wrong call on that. It's up to personal preference. The one other thing I did listen to this week that is geeky as I listened to the episode zero of the new Adventure Zone series, which is their Abnables series. So, so the idea is that all the characters are anthropomorphic animal people, kind of like you know, teenage mutant Ninja turtles are like that, or the Cowboys of Moo Mesa or so it's like mostly it's like Saturday Morning cartoon characters. Well, these are all animals that are humanoid and they don't transform, no, like teenage mutant ninja turtles or the Cowboys of movies Battle Toad or Yeah. So I listened to the episode zero of that, and it was cute like Travis McElroy is running the game and Griffin Justin and Clint McElroy are the players, and so episode zero introduced all the characters and sort of the game world, and I enjoyed what I heard. I don't know, I have never stuck. The only season of Adventure Zone I've ever stuck with all the way through was the first one I have not listened to one all the way through.

Since I really enjoyed the problem is that Griffin is just such an amazing DM, and the characters that they accidentally created for the Adventure Zone ended up being so robust that it's hard to recreate that initial magic. Right. But the second one that Griffin did, the one that was Monsters of the Week and very like Cryptid based, was also quite good. I thought. I enjoyed I think both seasons of that.

He also recently did the Adventure Zone Kills Dracula like he was the game master for that one, and I listened to the first few episodes, but I think the game mechanics actually eventually got so bogged down that I didn't care to listen to anymore.

Gotcha, I will listen to this one. I think that Travis becomes a stronger DM with each game that he dms, which is you know the case for most people, right.

Sure, Yeah, yeah, you learn what you learn by doing Yeah that his first one. His first one was a little rough, but at the same time, anyone's first go at being game master typically is a little rough. It's a it's a it is a learning experience.

Yeah, yeah, so I listen to that. Did you know that the Macroroi brothers are actually doing the Boombamon Adventure Zone this weekend in Atlanta?

Well, and I don't like going to the live recordings that much because of the possibility for awkward interactions that I find really hard to endure. Like if someone gets up and like the question thing just isn't going well, I just get so uncomfortable that I'm like, I won't I want to be anywhere other than right here, right now, So I don't like going. It's the same reason why I don't like going to see stand up comedy. Like I've got friends who are who have done stand up and I support them one, but I have never gone to see their shows because the possibility of Heckler's is enough to make me want to not go. Same with like, same with even my favorite improv theater. There are times where I have to talk myself into going because I don't know what kind of crowd I'm going to be.

In Yeah, and I know you've had bad crowd experiences even with great shows.

Oh sure, yeah, so have I.

And that makes sense. You're a very sympathetic, empathetic person. I can relate to that. I have a hard time watching people be uncomfortable or yeah, or feeling embarrassed for other people. So yeah, the other cool thing along with the macroy brothers, I'm so happy. I was like, gosh, we need to get all these cool people in Atlanta to do shows. They're doing them elsewhere. And now some of the Dimension twenty people and some of the Critical Role people are in fact doing a live D and D in Atlanta in October. I don't think I'll be able to go, but it is really cool.

Yeah, no, that was neat. You sent me the link to that and I saw it and I was like, oh, that's going to be really cool. I hope the people who go have a great time. It kind of makes me think of you know, we've been lucky to get Mark Mehir down here a few times for improvised D and D, and he's also run some D and D games, not in Atlanta, but he's done some of the ones that are like hosted in a castle.

Yeah, I've had. I have a friend who's done those.

With him, so that's really cool. I mean those are super expensive. I've never done one. I like the idea of it, I just have never gotten to the point where I'm like, let me actually plan the logistics.

Yeah. Well, she's she's a I mean, that's what she does, Goblin Katie. She she does a lot of D and D streams and actual plays as a character and sometimes a DM, but usually a character. So yeah, that's that's what she does.

So clearly, when I finally get my D and D campaign going, we should make that a real play video series so that we can start doing that stuff.

I would be for it.

I would be for it, baby Steps. We haven't even rolled up characters for that campaign yet anyhow.

Yeah, cool stuff. I love that the intersection of geekdom is growing more into Atlanta.

Yeah, and not just once a year when in town.

Yeah. Yeah, So I hope I hope that we get an actual another like Dimension twenty or Critical Role actual play in Atlanta because I am more likely to shell out a chunk, a good chunk of money to go see a show like that if I also don't have to pay for travel and hotel. Absolutely, yes, yeah, but uh there it's it's Brendan Lee Mulligan is running a game with Zach Oyama and some other people.

I think, yeah, and uh at dream hack and I have been to a dream Was it a dream hack?

It was something where they were playing StarCraft. Maybe maybe that was a dream hack, but it was way before the pandemic. And it was a lot of fun getting to watch some of the live streamers that I enjoyed the comedy and commentary of and and watching people play this game. You know, I don't play StarCraft. I'm really bad at the clicks per minute kind of games. But it was a lot of fun. I imagine this will be It's it looks like it's changed a lot, but it looks like it's still going to be a great time if you are fee that weekend in local I want to go.

Yeah. It's also just a good reminder of wherever you live, you know, keep an eye out to see what sort of events might be comeing to your neck of the woods. You never know when you're going to find, like something that's really special, maybe even find yourself a community to belong to, like that kind of stuff. It's it's special stuff. It takes a lot for me to get out of the house these days. I'm always thankful when I do it. But there's it's so hard to get past that initial barrier. And when you start seeing stuff like this pop up, it makes it actually a little less hard, which is nice.

Yeah, Yeah, for sure. And in the future, you and I will have to plan to go to something together. We can be each other's moral support.

That sounds great, yeah, because then we're like, hey, Ariel, I need us to find a corner somewhere where it's quiet and we could just sit down for a little bit.

That's you know, I appreciate that as well. I like, I can do big crowds for long periods of time. But yeah, but even if you have a good social battery, it does wear out.

So yeah, and for me, it's like just the anxiety of crowds, right Like, especially if I'm in a place where I'm not close to an exit and there's no easy way for me to get there. I don't have to necessarily take the exit. I just need to know it's available and I could get there if I needed to. And in cases where like at Dragon cons sometimes things just get so crowded, like your shoulder to shoulder, and there's just there's an equal number of people who are trying to go the opposite direction of where you and everybody else is trying to go, and no one's moving. Those are the situations where my anxiety starts to ratchet out of control.

That makes sense, I have. I have that anxiety more now than I used to pre pandemic. But yeah, that makes total sense.

Mine's gotten worse since the pandemic too. But you know what hasn't gotten worse.

The sounds outside my house, which is a total lie.

No, I was gonna say, the time limit of thirty seconds. It has remained constant and hasn't gotten it. It hasn't gotten better, but it hasn't gotten worse.

I will say it has gotten better. We used to go for like two minutes on each item.

Well, sure, but the actual time unit thirty seconds, hasn't changed. And that means it's time for us to talk about stories what fit in thirty seconds or less?

All right, and I get to go first, And the first thing we're going to talk about is Galaxy Quest, which is an awesome spoof on Star Trek. If you haven't watched it do it's so good. But it's hitting its twenty fifth anniversary and to celebrate, they're getting a four K restoration of the movie edition with like you you can get like a steelbox cover art version. It's gonna have Dolby Vision, HD bar and audio and then like something from the director on there and I Gaescy special features and I hope that it has some outtakes that we've never seen before, because that would be amazing.

I hope it comes by grab Thar's Hammer. It appears that Pure Evil has won out over the Time Bandits because the Apple TV Plus series based off the Terry Gilliam film of the same name, will not be returning for a second season. Well, I preferred the original film's style and sense of humor to the series. I thought that the kid playing the main character was absolutely fantastic, The settings were really neat, and Jamaine Clement's version of the character Evil was a lot of fun.

Sorry to see it go, yeah, for sure. Next. We had talked a while ago about Clue possibly getting a reboot. At the time, I think it was Ryan Reynolds was looking at it or something. Well, now there is a rumor big R that maybe Zach Kreeger is in talks to direct a Clue reboot film and along with Shae Hatten to write the script. Shee Hatton worked on things like John Wick Chapter three and Rebel Moon An Army of the Dead. Zach Kreeger, Yeah, Zach Creeker has lately well. I originally was introduced to him in a sketch comedy show, The Whitest Kids you know, which if you're you have sensitive sensibilities, you do not want to watch it. He has lately been into horror movies such as Barbarian and the upcoming Weapons, So it makes me really interested to see what kind of Clue movie he would make. Also, whether it's a horror or a comedy, I should totally get a chance to audition. I would kill a Clue character, not literally, figuratively.

No, you just spoiled the whole movie.

And or maybe literally.

Guriel did it in pre development with the critical commentary.

Sorry that was longer than thirty seconds.

Yeah, that's okay, what a weird I can't even imagine what kind of Clue movie would come out of that. All right, if you've been waiting for a John Cena Helm to action movie based off the classic Matchbox toy cars line that belongs to matel these days, while I got some promising news for you, because it looks like such a project as actually in development, I'm tempted to just write this off entirely. But then we did get a pretty darn good Barbie movie not too long ago, so maybe I shouldn't be so hasty. And Matchbox cars are awesome. Those things can survive a nuclear blast, can I really well, I don't know about that, but they're like those die cast toy cars. They're just so tough. Like I used to play with those, where I did the thing that all kids would do, especially in the eighties, where you would build like a homemade track that was designed to make the car go to approximately warp five and smash into like a brick wall and they'd be fine, just keep playing with it.

Next story is that we're gonna talk more about Geek Dweek from Netflix later in the show. But one of the things that was announced was on Twitter was a bunch of people who are going to be in season seven of Black Mirror. That includes Peter Capaldi, who's one of the doctors and doctor who Emma Corn who was the Cassandra Nova in Deadpool and Wolverine, and also Paul Giamatti, who has done geee stuff as well. It's it. But the thing is you have to like keep pausing the tweet because it goes by so quick. Is the Ray is also going to be in it, and a bunch of other people, and I just I didn't have enough time to watch it, enough time to pull all the cool names out of it.

Yeah, it's It makes me think of those mean things where it's like pause the image to find out which blah blah blah character you are, and it's just just rapidly cycling through all the different images and then you click the pause and you're like, pinky pie or whatever, Well here's my last one. Amazon MGM has picked up the rights to a film based off the video game series The Sims. Kate Heron, who directed the Disney Plus series Loki, is helming the project and is co writing the script with Brianny Redman. I don't know how much writing is actually involved, because I expect all the dialogue will sound like brebopscre La La Marshall, Rushtick Shawshaw, et cetera. Here's hoping it's not a horror movie in which people get stuck in a swimming pool and then all the latters mysteriously disappear.

For those words, did you do as Similish to English or vice versa translation.

No, I did not. I just literally was like what kind of sounds are in the SIMS games without actually looking any of it up.

I expect a SIMS movie to be similar to like Free Guy, where bad stuff and hilarious stuff befalls all the characters.

Yeah, suddenly you can't find a toilet and you have to mess yourself. That'll be great that I don't want to.

Watch that, but I would not put it past a movie nowadays. The last last story in thirty seconds or last is if you like Mass Effect and you can't get enough Mass Effect and you can't wait for the new Mass Effect to eventually come out, well, there is an official cocktail cookbook coming out that has seventy recipes inspired by events and locations from Mass Effect the game. It's twenty eight bucks and they The cool thing is they have substitutions and alternative suggestions in it, so you can make non alcoholic versions of the drink. So you can enjoy the recipes regardless of age.

Nice. Cool. So that's thirty seconds or less. And now it's time for us to go through a whole bunch of trailers, not all of which are for scary stuff.

No, and I had no, no, no clue on which were horrors, horry, horrors.

Yeah, the title I try to.

Say horror and scary at the same time. It does not work.

Horries, Yeah, I know that. Anyway. The titles run the entire gamut, and some of the titles don't sound scary but are and some do sound scary but aren't.

Yeah. Yeah, but it's okay. I was able to watch all of the trailers, only a couple of them. I didn't understand.

Our first one, though, is for an actual documentary, and it's a very It's a sad story, sad and inspiring at the same time. It's titled The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, and it's you. If you have followed World of Warcraft, you may have heard about this story. It's about a young man who had a degenerative muscular condition that had him confined to a wheelchair, and his family had sort of resigned themselves to this idea that he was just never going to have an opportunity to really make an impact, Like it was just a really tragic life. What they didn't know, Like they knew he was fond of computer game, but they didn't know that he was finding friendships online through the game World of Warcraft. And it's a really sad story because obviously the young man passed away in twenty fourteen, this was quite some time ago, but his passing made a huge emotional impact on the people who knew him in game, many of whom made the trip to Norway to attend his funeral at his passing. And so this is a documentary that tells that story. And the trailer alone, if you're an emotional person like I am, is going to get you like at least misty eyed.

Yeah, for sure, for sure, but it is it is wonderful to see that you know, this person made an impact, and you know, we're on a podcast. So I hate to say that social media breeds a lot of bad things, but social media does breed a lot of a lot of bad, hard things. But it also has brought to like it has given a platform to people who who may have been considered less than or had families resigned about their life.

Prior isolated for some reason.

Yeah, the opportunity to be like, hey, I'm a cool person and I want to connect and give them the opportunity to connect and touch other people's lives and help maybe other people going through the same situations. So I am so glad that they're doing this story.

Yeah. I just recently did an episode of tech Stuff about mental health and social network sites, because there's a lot of there's a lot of common sense type stuff that suggests that overuse of social network sites leads to a bad impact on mental health. But the point I was making is that while that is very probably true, we don't exactly have definitive studies making that link right, So, like it seems to make sense, but you can't just assume that that's true. You need to be able to look at evidence and make sure that what you think is true really is true. And that we shouldn't forget that while social networking sites can have a negative impact, they can also have a very positive one, and that it gets very easy for us to focus just on the negative aspects and to forget about how they have the potential to do things like connect people together who otherwise never would have met and never would have had a chance to be part of each other's lives. So this trailer is, i think, again, very sad, but very inspirational.

Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know how much of How I Met Your Mother used to watch, but there is an entire episode where the main character Ted Mosby, one of mecharacters, met someone he was dating through World of Warcraft and it was a huge joke. But like I use my my family is currently playing World of Warcraft Ascension classless, uh you know, and it's been a way for me to hang out with my family and connect with them.

So well, don't let World of Warcraft dictate that. I think your your family has plenty of class I I mean, I.

Think so too. It it's but since I've started playing with them, and I've only played once because time zones, but but I plan on playing more with them, I have been getting hit at nauseum with World of Warcraft ads.

Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, I met my my partner through the internet, so like, I mean, granted that was thirty years ago, but it's still like that was that was how I met her, and so like, I also maintain that belief that you can obviously create and maintain meaningful relationships online. Honestly, the thing I think that stands the way more than anything else are the platforms themselves and things like recommendation algorithms, Because when you get down to it, the platforms are not designed to facilitate communication. They're designed to try and keep you there as long as possible, to sell as many ads as they can. So when you get that in your mind and you're like, okay, well that's why the platforms exist, like that's their money making strategy, then you get a better appreciation for what is and isn't typical on those sites.

Yeah. I've become very diligent about like is this a friend post popping up? No, this is a random thing, and list really hits me. I'm like, no more of these, thank you?

Yeah? Yeah, well, speaking of no more of these, I don't know that's kind of.

Makes You're going to talk about a horror movie.

No, it's it's this is a kid's movie.

Are you sure it's pretty scary.

I don't know that it's scary, but it definitely as a extreme opening premise. We're talking about dog Man, a film, a film in which the protagonist is part dog, part man. Dog's head on a man's body.

Yeah, not through natural ways. It's not like Sweet Tooth where this character was just born like this. No, there's a horrible accident and they pull some gosh darn Mars attacks level surgery because putting a dog head on a man's body is a way to preserve both both people. I guess.

Yeah, so yeah, it's a dog's head on a CoP's body, and so now you've got a cop that has a dog head for a head.

Also, wasn't it like wasn't it like the dog's owner or something like that.

Maybe I don't want to think about that too much, but it is a cartoon, and it is like it's using humor to kind of go through all the tropes of like your typical cop action film, except that your protagonist is a cop who has a doghead, and it's done in a very cartoonish style. It's not at all realistic, but it does look the humor does look bizarre for sure.

For sure that I have nothing to add the premise kind of creeps me out a little bit immediately.

When on Ariel's top five films that she's anticipating.

List, yes, exactly. Actually, something that did surprisingly go on my I'm anticipating it list is this movie Brothers that is next in our list to talk about.

Yeah, so Brothers. It was kind of given me Cohen Brothers vibes, like it kind of felt like a Coen Brothers movie, but a little too comedic, like.

Like Logan Lucky.

I was thinking, well, I haven't seen Logan Lucky, so you need to fix that. I know, I know, but unfortunately you have me on this New Girl assignment that I'm going to have to get to, so it's just gonna have to wait.

Do do Logan Lucky is one movie? You can do that first and then do New Girl.

You can't keep moving assignments around. It is going to give me executive dysfunction.

Okay, okay, fine, keep New Girl and then do Logan Lucky. Just added to the bottom of the list, all right. Well.

The Brothers is a film in which uh, Peter Dinglish and Josh Brolin play twin brothers. Peter Dinglich's character is a criminal who talks his brother into participating in various crimes. Like you get the feeling that Josh Brolin's character would rather not be a criminal. But he keeps getting talked into it. Marissa Tomae is in this, Glenn Close is in this. Like the list of the list of high end actors is incredible. Brendan Fraser plays like a corrupt cop in it. And the trailer, like I said, it was giving me Coen Brothers vibes, like I was thinking about something like Big Lebowski excepted again, this is more overtly comedic, Like there's more zany comedy stuff than the surreal absurd comedy you typically end up with a Cohen Brothers film.

But yeah, and then there's this surrealness of the like they know the trailer for it knows because they're like Academy or Award winner, this person, award nominee, this person, Award winner, this person, so they know it's ridiculous.

Yeah, but the trailer looked looked funny. I could probably do without the orangutan subplot.

Probably.

I feel like that's gonna just be one of those things where I'm like, this feels like a Fairly Brothers as opposed to a Cohen Brothers thing.

Yeah, yeah, I agree, I could. I could do without that subplot. Did you ever watch Palm Springs?

I have not seen it.

No, okay, it was. It was the one that had I think. It was Andy Samberg and Kristen Melody as people who meet at a wedding and both are really like unenthused with life and then they go through like a groundhog type Groundhog's Day type situation.

That old chestnut, that old chestnut.

It was. It was a fun movie. This is done by the same people, so that automatically made me a little bit excited about it. Not gonna lie.

Yeah, I like the trailer. I thought I thought it was funny. No, it struck me as fairly entertaining. I love Peter Dinkli's work. I think that he's he's really fun actor to watch. So, uh, I'm definitely curious about this. I might wait to read some reviews before I decide to go see it, because if it does turn out that it's going to be more like if it ends up on the spectrum of Cohen to Fairly Brothers, if it's more Fairly and less Cohen, I probably am not going to go see it. But uh, if it's the other way, then I'm more interested.

Yeah, I yeah, I look. I look forward to it. I hope it hits the Palm Springs vibe, which I know, you know, don't know what that is, but it is.

It is.

Palm Springs and Logan Lucky are kind of in between Farley and and Coen Brothers, so.

Well, going from fun to harrowing. The next trailer that we watched for our our show is for a psychological thriller film called.

B B B I B I yeah and I I I'm gonna be real hones. They were taping up my windows to paint my house when this happened, so it was very, very loud, and it was really hard to pay attention to this trailer. And I even read like the wiki summary on what the story is, and I know it's this woman who is dealing with trauma and then takes medicine to deal with trauma and so she can't tell what's real and not. And that's all I got from the trailer. I don't actually know what's happening with the carousel you see within the trailer, or the cowboy guy from Dark Tower or the Little Kids or anything.

Yeah, so generally speaking, like, yeah, there's this issue of kind of the unreliable narrator element where because of her mental condition and the medication she's taking. You don't know how much of her perception to trust. But there's also kind of a stalker element to the storyline, and again you don't know, like, is she being stalked. Is the thing that's stalking her just a regular person. Is it some sort of like supernatural entity because that's how she perceives it. How much of that can you trust? What's actually going on? Yeah? Is it her grief? I think all of those are intentional, not just in the trailer, but I'm assuming in the film itself. I mean, it's always hard to tell because you have to keep in mind the people who are responsible for creating trailers, they're usually not the same people who are responsible for making the movie. And sometimes the people making the trailers are like, I don't know how to sell this film, so I'm just going to cut a trailer that makes it look like a totally different kind of story. And that's when you get trailers that don't represent the movie properly. I'm not saying that's the case here, I'm just saying that's always a possibility. I thought this looked intriguing, but it was not the kind of trailer that that automatically gets say, oh, I have to go see that response from me for sure?

For sure, I agree. It's no Waves of Madness?

What is, in fact, what is the waves of Madness? Can you seriously tell me what Waves of Madness is?

Yes, it is the next masterpiece in the catalog of Jason Trost and Trust Brother movies apparently, which if you don't know them, they did All Superheroes Must Die and many FP movies, including ones that go to space with space ducks. Not even kidding, I can't.

Even process what you're saying right now.

But this is a This is like a B level movie about a guy who is played by Jason Trost who goes onto a sh to rescue people and is being attacked by Cathulian horrors. It looks like and you can't tell if also it's in his mind or if it's real. But the thing that they're using to advertise it is that it's a side scrolling horror film, which is interesting. I couldn't really get that from the trailer. It didn't feel like a side scroller to me.

Yeah, there were moments in the trailer where clearly it's like going into the background or coming from the background into the foreground, which in a side scroller you wouldn't do right, you would stay essentially on the same plane, like I think of things like double Dragon, where yeah, technically you could go quote unquote back, but back is like a quarter inch higher than front. Yeah, so I agree. I almost got the feeling like the side scrolling thing ended up becoming more evident during the editing process and wasn't necessarily intentional from the beginning. But I don't know. Yeah.

Yeah, it's also in black and white, so it gives it that very like Sin City, Sin City or Miskatonic feel. I think, have you never?

Have you?

We've talked about this and I just can't remember. I have too much construction noise in my brain. Have you watched The FP or All Superheroes? Must I? Or any of those?

Is the f FP the one where it's set in a post apocalypse where major disagreements are are solved by a duel with dance Dance Revolution. Yes, never heard of it? No, Yes, I have seen that one.

Yes, Okay, it's dumb. It's really dumb. But I enjoyed it, and I especially love it because the main characters are j Trow Because the actor's name is Jason Trost and l E because the actress name is Lee, but they do. And the Jason Trost and his brother whose name I can't remember at the moment work on a lot of like really legit movies too, but their passion is making these original movies. Also, Behers Must Die is actually a really fun movie.

It just the the FP reminded that one came out early in a phase where we started getting the nostalgia heads right, like, we started to get films and projects that were overtly tapping into nostalgia. The FP was on the front end of that trend, like they were, because it felt kind of like a Mad Max style movie, except that dance dance revolution is the way to settle all disputes and to determine who's like the leader or whatever, and so it's an absurd premise. But then we got like that BMX by Bike post apocalyptic movie, I can't remember what the Turbokid we got, Turbo Kid we got. Then we got Kung Fury, which was taking an Internet short and turning it into a longer format, nostalgic Kung Fu like eighties style movie, which, by the way, worked way better as a short film online than it did as a full project. Unfortunately, then later on we got things like Stranger Things where you started to get larger studios tapping into that same trend. But I would argue the FP was kind of like the tip of the spear when it came to that kind of esthetic and that kind of approach. So the FP is the only one I've seen. I haven't seen the Superheroes Must Die one, but the FP was. I was impressed by the imagination of the FP like that. The whole premise tickled me, So that might be enough for me to give the Waves of Madness a try, whereas the trailer didn't really impress me much. Yeah.

Jason Trost, the brother Brandon Trust, is a cinematographer and director who has worked on things like American Pickle and Night, Bitch and Knuckles and Dear Evan Henson and Sonic the Hedgehog. So like bog Yeah, these people do Future Man one episode Bury one episode, very very is amazing. All Superheroes must Die. It's the story is for young superheroes. I'm reading this find themselves stripped of their powers by their arch enemy. They thought they had defeated years earlier, and they have to go through a number of challenges by the villain in order to save an abandoned townful innocent citizens without their powers. But the interesting thing is it had Lucas Tillinett who later became an ex man, and also Sean Whalen.

So nice. Yeah, so uh yeah. I don't know if that's gonna if any of that applies to the Waves of Madness.

But I am gonna watch it.

I might wait for Aeriel's review before I decide whether or not I'm gonna pour time in it or if it's just gonna go behind what is it? It's new Girl? And then logan Lucky, Logan Lucky, He's so good. Okay. Next up, we got a trailer for kind of a sci fi comedy slash action slash horror movie in a way I think, more less horror than the others. But it's called Mickey seventeen. And as I was watching this, I was like, I feel like this was heavily influenced by certain types of video games, Like I'm specifically thinking of things like border Lands, not for the aesthetic, but in Borderlands, the way that game handles character death, Like when you're When your character at that you are playing ass dies, it regenerates you at the closest regeneration point, and you lose some money in the process. It's deducted that the cost of your resurrection is deducted from your money, and then you're allowed to continue. This is kind of similar in that Mickey seventeen is a story in which a character, desperate to escape his situation, signs on to work for a company, and the gimmick is the work he does is incredibly dangerous, and if he dies in the process of work, the company regenerates him and his clone continues to work the job. And in this story the seventeenth clone, so he's died sixteen times already. The seventeenth clone avoids death and then encounters the eighteenth version of his clone. But two versions of the same clone are not supposed to exist at the same time, and that's where the real conflict of the film kicks in.

Yeah. Yeah, definitely a dark comedy. It gave me like very like Avenue five vibes.

It is.

It is done by h Bong Juno, who has also done Snow Piercer and Parasite, which I would argue are two movies very much on the opposite side of the spectrum from each other.

Well, except that they're both like deeply, deeply satirical, and they're deeply they're both commenting on society, just they're doing it in wildly different ways.

Yeah, yeah, it's a different reception. I feel like as well.

Well. I think both films are fantastic. I think Parasite is a masterpiece.

A bunch of awards, didn't it.

Yeah, it won, It won the Academy Award, and upset a bunch of ignoranemuses.

But I have a bunch of friends who do not like Snow Piercer at all. I have not watched it. I've only seen the sushi scene.

Oh. I love snow Piercer. I love that movie. I haven't watched the series, but I have. I've watched the movie, and I love the movie. I don't think it's a perfect film, and I think the social commentary of Snow Piercer kind of falls apart in the third act, but I loved it. Tilda Swinton is as always perfect ed, Harris is amazing. Chris Evans does really well on it too. I really enjoy snow Piercer. I think it's I think it's worth a watch.

I will add it to the bottom of my list. Yeah, but Mickey seventeen. Honestly, when I saw the this is one of the things I confused it with a documentary that Disney was doing.

I thought it was going to be about Mickey Mouse.

Well, no, because they've they've got some they've got like some space documentary that they've been working on or came out recently years coming out soon and between the space picture of that. Because the image on the trailer is just Robert Pattinson's space in a space helmet, you can't really tell what the movie is about. And the name Mickey, I was like, yeah, this is that Disney documentary thing. I'm so glad that you put it on our list so I could realize that it was not that.

Yeah, I didn't know what to expect. I saw just that the trailer popped up in YouTube, and I thought, I'm going to watch this and see what this is about. And this is one where I want to see this movie because it looks entertaining, yeah and potentially thought provoking.

Yeah, yeah, I'm I want to see it. I am a little worried that it's going to creep me out a bit, because you know, getting burned alive is even if it's for comedy, which is one of the moments in the trailer, creeps me out.

Well in that regard. It's kind of given me happy death Day vibes, like and Happy Death Day. I mean that's more of a Groundhog Day thing, not a clone thing. But because time does continue to pass in Mickey seventeen as far as we can tell, like, it's not like the day gets reset or something. So it's not like that, or what's the tom Cruise one that has two titles Edge.

Of Tomorrow slash Die diarnse repeat, Live Die Repeat, Live direpeat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are It's not like that where you're reliving the same time. Time does continue, But it does make me think. In Happy Death Day, there is a disturbingly hilarious sequence of the protagonist ending her own life over and over and over again in order to get to the next the next reset faster, and it would be really disturbing if it were for the fact that the actress just sells it as comedy in a really brilliant way, Like to this day, I'm a a maze that that movie works as well as it does.

I haven't watched it yet. I probably will watch it on TV at some point, maybe this this Halloween.

It's it's worth a Halloween watch. I think if you like, I mean, it is a darker horror comedy, but I think if you dig horror comedy, Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day to You the sequel that one manages to inject some interesting changes that I think upset some people who just wanted more of the same. But I really I think of Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day to You being similar to Bill and Ted's excellent adventure in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

Okay, so happy so Happy Death Day to You three is going to be uh Alex White and Keanu Reeves in Waiting for goodo.

Or there was a third Bill and Ted movie, so I.

Know, I watched it. It was fine.

It was fine. Yeah, it was fine.

It was fine.

They looked like they were having a good time. That's that's all that really. Yeah, someone that wasn't having a good time was Jonathan when he was watching the next two trailers we're going to talk about, because they fall into the super cheap movie category. Really yeah, No, these Both of these next two films looked like they were really super low budget to me, like because the first one, which is Amityville Where the Echo Lives, I was getting the feel of something shot on digital video, and it was like the quality of digital video from like five years ago.

I didn't get that feel. But I I'm not gonna lie. I saw the title Amitityville, and I did my coping mechanism for watching a horror.

Trailer on fast speed. You need to just watch this one. You can take it because it's not true.

I think you could. I just I forgot to go back and watch it at full speed. But I've never watched. I'm not even familiar with what Amityville is, so okay, so I've heard of it, but I don't know the story.

So first of all, the title Amityville shouldn't matter at all period, and the reason why is because Amityville isn't like a trademark or anything. So tons of low budget horror movies have appropriated the name Amityville because it has a built in recognizable factor in the horror crowd. The original Amityville, the horror film, was about a supposedly haunted house. It's related to the Warrens, which are these I mean, I think of them as con artists, but even if they're sincere, they're wrong. But they're ghost hunters. They're also the ones who are They are the inspiration. I mean, their characters are the inspiration for the characters in the Conjuring series. It's the same people, the Warrens. So the first original Amityville was about a haunted house in Amityville. Since then, the name Eville has been attached to all these different movies that have little to sometimes absolutely no connection to that original film. I get the feeling this is one of those where there's really no connection whatsoever to the actual Amityville series. But it is like a ghost movie. It's a horror movie shot on real, cheap video, and it didn't look at all scary to me.

Yeah, it didn't look that scary to me either, No more, no more scary than I thought. The lead actress in it seemed perfectly charismatic.

Oh sure, yeah, I don't. This is I don't want to heap aspersions on the people who appear in the film. I'm saying, like the film itself doesn't look like it works for me. Not that the actors are bad. Like, I think the actors are doing a great job, or as good a job as they can with the material they're given, probably better than what a lot of actors could do, but that doesn't change the fact that I find the material to be pretty lackluster.

Yeah, I'm I'm I do find the next trailer that you lumped into this also, it kind of was lackluster to me, but it didn't feel low budget to me. And that's for kill them All two the end, Like narrator bit did feel low budget, but it's John Claude van dam does family John Wick.

Yeah, so that's the other note. I'm glad you brought up the narrator thing because I forgot, like there's a narrator in the Amityville trailer too, right, like and we're talking like old school narrator, like in a world like that kind of narrator, And that's something I meant to bring up because I was like, I don't remember the last time I saw a single trailer, let alone two in one week for two different movies that use the old narrator approach, Like that's so out of style that it stuck out to me. For both of these movies.

Yeah, yeah, I feel like I have seen it in something, but it might have been. Like I hate that, I'm about to say this a period piece for an eighties or nineties theme kind of movie. I mean, I hate to call an eighties or nineties movie a period piece.

Yeah, well we're old.

Shut up when I am not old.

When they're playing music by like the Cure on the oldiest station, I'm just oh gosh. Anyway, Yeah, so, like I could see it being done as a almost like a gag, like it's meant to be either a joke or it's meant to evoke, like, yeah, this is like an eighties retro nostalgia piece. But neither of these films fall into that category. They're not they aren't set in that, and they're not trying to evoke it, and yet they have the the stereotypical narrative movie narrator voice type thing going on. I thought this trailer looked pretty lackluster too. Like I've said before, I need my action movies to have more going for them than just kick, punch, explosion, and that's all this film seems to have. Along with along with Jean Claude van Dam who looks like he's been down way too many rough miles.

Yeah, that's the thing. He wasn't selling me on it. So if he does, if I don't feel like he believes it, then I don't believe it.

Yeah. Well, and he's never been a great actor. He's an incredibly gifted action movie performer, you know, but I've never thought of him as a good actor. I've certainly seen him in some He was in a movie that was so bad that I almost wanted to go out and ask for my money back. And I got to see the movie for free. Wow, Like I didn't pay anything for the ticket, and I was like, I kind of would ask for my money back, except that I got in for free, so wow. Wow. I can't even remember what the title of that movie was. I just remember it was yet another variation on Kung Fu Tournament, like it was one of those type films.

Yeah, that's that's sad. It's sad for him too. I want, you know, people, even if they don't put out great work, put a lot of heart and soul into their movies usually, and I want people to enjoy that. I'm sure there are people who do. We have a few more things to talk about. I Am going to be real honest. I hear people on my roof now.

Yeah, But if we can't hear it in the podcast, it doesn't matter. And if we do hear it, it still doesn't matter because we explained it at the beginning.

Sure, Okay, So the next trailer we have, I just I'm worried it's going to get real out, but if it does, we'll leave the rest of the stories for next episode. But in the meantime, the next trailer is for something called time Stalker, which is a reincarnation bad with romance, revenge.

Movie, comedy, film comedy.

Film, high high concept comedy. Is what you call it?

Yeah, I said. It's a high concept, raunchy, high concept comedy where this woman is unlucky in love and has developed an infatuation for a certain fellow who does not return her attention and looks like he doesn't even recognize that she exists. And the gimmick in the trailer is that apparently she keeps essentially throwing herself in the way of danger so that he doesn't get hurt. She dies, but then is reincarnated as another variation like a century l and keeps on encountering the reincarnated same guy over and over again, and that she's kind of repeating the same mistakes while slowly growing more aware of what is happening, which is again very high concept, hard to explain. Like I don't know how you what the elevator pitch is for this movie, Like how do you sum up what this movie's about in just like a sentence or two? But I will say I thought the trailer looked real funny.

It did, and honestly, outside of one bit, didn't look super raunchy to me.

Yeah, but that one bit was like at the beginning and I was like, oh my gosh, is this just gonna be like there's something about Mary but in period costume.

Thankfully, it didn't look It didn't even look quite as raunchy as The De Cameron, which was something we talked about recently on Netflix, which one of the actresses from that is in this movie, Tanya Reynolds. But yeah, it looks pretty funny, it's got a good cast, it's got Nick Frost in it, so yeah, I love Nick.

Now, between this and Crazy House, I'm way more likely to see Tom's Time Stalker than Crazy House. Ye. Crazy House, which is another Nick Frost movie. I just watched the more recent trailer for that. Did not add it on to our lineup because it was like, I do not want to talk about this.

No, I appreciate it. The first trailer I was kind of.

Like, h it's worse. Second trailer is worse.

Good to know I appreciate. I appreciate you looking out for me and maybe our listeners.

Uh yeah.

The next thing, I almost got mad at you. For the next trailer we're gonna I do. I think I'm going to watch Timestalker. I'm excited for it. The next thing I was almost mad. I was like, Jonathan, why didn't you give me a content warning for this next trailer?

Because no animals get hurt.

No animals get hurt, no animals are endangered in it. But I was real worried at the beginning. It's for a movie called Runt, about a scrappy little puppy who joins agility contests. I immediately sent the trailer to my mom and my aunt. My aunt is a photographer for agility contest. She was like, I have to see this, but you're right. The dog doesn't get hurt or injured or put in peril in this trailer. It just looks really cute and sweet, like like Anne of Green Gables or Pippy long Stalking had a family and a dog.

Yeah, it definitely is giving me. This also has given me vibes of like stuff I would find in the eighties where it's kid comes across animal in need, takes on the animal, and they develop a magical friendship, like that's the that's the basis the foundation. And in this case, it is a mut a little puppy mutt that the kid begins to enter into an agility contest because the top prize is like a quarter of a million dollars, and the kid's family are in danger of becoming homeless because they're farm like they can't afford the mortgage on their land. And so there's a little bit of weve got to save the rec center energy going on here too, Like there's or Goonies. Like a lot of people forget that the underlying story in Gooni's is that the kids all belong to families that are going to get displaced unless the neighborhood is able to raise a lot of money. Same sort of energy going into this. It looks adorable, Yeah, it really does.

It looks really cute. Next, we've talked a little bit about geeked week stuff already, Black Mirror, The Remarkable Life of Iblin. We're going to talk about another scary movie. But yet. Netflix this week released all of the stuff that they consider geeky that's coming out, kind of like a mini to Doom, but more targeted, I feel like, and theme. The theme of it, to me seems to be not everything because there's a lot like there's a preview for Squid Games two and Wednesday to second season, and Avatar The lest Airbender second season and stuff like that. But it felt very much like, Hey, we're really getting into anime, action action and anime.

Yeah, there's a lot of that. There's a Devil May Cry was getting an anime adaptation, and we got information about that it's gonna be airing starting in April twenty twenty five, so we got a bit of a wait before that series comes to Netflix. But that's one example. You know, There's there's some others as well, a splinter Cell death Watch, like a lot of video game animated adaptation, that's.

Right, yeah, Cyberpunkchlora Croft, Castlevania Magic The Gathering is not a video game, but I feel like it still falls into that.

Yeah, is that one going to be animated? I guess so it looks like it is. Yeah.

Yeah, Rebel Moon's getting a video game that's animated, which.

Oh I can't I can't wait for people to talk about how derivative that video game is.

True. There is an anime that I'm kind of looking forward to called Soakamoto Days, which looks like it looks like if if John Wick were a happy grandpa.

Yeah, Wilford Bremley as John Wick.

Yeah. Yeah. And then there's a kind of it's got like ourcane style animation vibes. A Wolf King series.

Based off ware World books, yeah, by Curtis Jobbling. Yeah.

I haven't read at all.

I've heard about them, but I also have not read them, so I don't really have an insight into that one.

Yeah. But there are two things I hadn't heard about that are not anime cartoons that both look kind of interesting to me. And one is it's a tie series called Tomorrow and I, which has like a very do Electric Sheep Dream sort of a vibe to it.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Yeah? Yeah. The TV show had a slightly different name I couldn't remember. And then the Platform two, which is a Spanish Spanish sci fi thriller that apparently had a first one. Yeah, it's interesting.

I don't think i've heard about the Platform. I may have to check that out, because, yeah, I like a good sci fi thriller, but I had not heard about the Platform, and I'm curious about it now.

So it's like a dystopian class based structure that people live in where the very rich start at the top, and once a day food is put on a platform and the very rich get to eat as much as they want, and the platform stops on each level of the structure that people live in.

Got it, So the people at the bottom just get whatever scraps may be left over. So essentially, it's snow Piercer, but instead of a train, it's a platform kind of Yeah, yeah, spoiler for snow Piercer. But if you're in the back of the train, you got it rough.

Yeah, I've only seen the sushi scene.

It is worth watching. I like Snow Piercer a lot. I mean I've already said that, I don't need to say it.

Again, gotcha. And then another thing that they announced on geeked week was a movie being produced by Sam Raimi called Don't Move, which Jonathan says is terrifying, and I agree. The trailer looks absolutely terrifying.

Yeah, this falls into that categorory of woman being preyed upon by predatory man, and in this case, the woman in question is injected with a substance that is slowly paralyzing her and that within twenty minutes she will lose the ability to move. And it looks like it's almost done, like the most dangerous game kind of thing, Like he's injecting her and then giving her a head start to try and get away and hide, knowing that as time goes on, it's gonna be harder and harder for her to do that, to the point where she's just barely able to crawl. And then the trailer includes sequences where she's laying motionless in different locations. There's no indication of how she got there necessarily, but rest assured every situation she's in is presented in a way where it looks super dangerous for her. Yeah.

Yeah, she runs across a couple of people and so not sure why they aren't helping her if that's part of the commentary of the movie.

Yeah, or if they're just like just as predatory but in a different way or whatever.

Yeah, I will say this set off in me a discomfort based on my sleep paralysis, because when I have an episode of sleep paralysis, I can't move, and this set that off in me. And like, it's not that I couldn't move, but I had that same like anxiety watching it, which I guess is really great. It's evocative of what they're trying to make the danger feel like, so good job. It looks very well produced. Yep, I think it'll be too scary for me.

Yeah. The problem I see as far as me going to see this film is that I could go by myself because I know Becca will absolutely not want to watch it, Like this is not her thing. She would not want to see it. And the nature of the horror is such that I don't really feel comfortable asking any of my close friends, who are all women, if any of them would want to go see the movie with me, because it just feels insensitive, right, Like, Hey, you're a woman who has to deal with the harsh reality that is sometimes you're in situations with a man you may or may not know that can be really anxiety inducing and that's just your life. Want to go see a movie where that's turned up to eleven?

Well, don't worry. You don't necessarily have to ask anybody to go with you because it's coming out on Netflix.

Oh that's fine. I can watch it then by myself on.

October twenty fifth. I don't you. So that doesn't necessarily mean that it won't also.

Get a.

Theatrical release. Some things do. I don't know if this one is, because again, it was a part of Geeked Week. So yeah, the next thing surprises me that it's happening.

Yeah, we're getting an Australian version, like an Australian take on a comedy series that has enjoyed great success in two other versions, one for the UK and one for America.

And it is The Office, which you know, the whole point of it is is how inappropriate the boss is. But this time the boss is a woman and Dwhite is a woman.

And I fully support both decisions because this trailer I thought was very funny.

I thought the trailer was funny too. I was kind of surprised because I feel like media has been moving past that kind of humor. Into more situational humor lately in the past five years, and The Office is not situational humor. The Office I wouldn't even say it's punching down humor because again it's the commentary on how wrong some of this stuff is. It just yeah, it's it's not what I expected to be coming out right now.

Yeah, but I mean it's also Australia, and as we all know, Australia is about fifteen years behind the rest of the world, so it makes sense that grows.

Is that because they go backwards in time?

Yeah, it's because the toilets flushed the wrong way, which is not true. But I thought it was funny to say, yeah, I like this. I wasn't sure what to expect because, like the first season of the American version of The Office, really the first few episodes, not the full first season, but the first few episodes of the American Office are pretty bad because they were trying so hard to essentially copy the UK version of the Office, and once they got confident enough to sort of go their own way with the concept while still like still maintaining the core idea of this this boss who is completely clueless wants to be loved wants people to want to go to wherek and have work be the place where everybody wants to be for eight hours out of a day, but is incapable of seeing how inappropriate he is. That was still the core of the office, but everything else kind of developed its own personality, and that's where the US one thrived. It looks to me, based upon the little bit we got to see in this trailer, that the Australian version isn't falling into that same trap like they already they understand the assignment already.

Yeah, yeah, I So it's been so long since I've seen the British version and I don't think I ever watched it like straight through like I did with the US Office. I think just because of availability right when it was around. I know that part of the joy in the original Office was watching Michael the Boss struggle to become a better person.

Yeah, that is another thing in the UK one. Okay, I don't he doesn't even try. He's unaware, He's unaware that he's not a good person, gotcha.

I feel like there are times when Michael and the US version did was aware and tried to do better, and I thought it made him redeemable.

There are definitely episodes where he is like the worst human being in the world. I'm thinking about one where he has to go to a school. That is was one of the hardest half hours of comedy to ever I ever watched.

I agree, I agree it was hard. I liked the way that episode ended kind of but but yeah, that was really hard. I wonder, I wonder if the characters of the Australian version will be at all redeemable.

I know that one of the acts was then the film version of What We Do in the Shadows. Yeah, yeah, so I was pleased to see him in it. Yeah, I think it looks funny. I don't know if we will have access to watch this series because it was being it was posted by the Australian slash New Zealand version of Netflix, and not everything gets ported over to the United States, so I didn't look into that.

Yeah, I hope, I hope it does get ported over, though I would watch it. I've been I've been wanting, Oh, it might come to It's not Netflix, It's Prime.

Oh, Prime, You're right, I'm sorry. I apologize.

Yes, Amazon Prime, the same thing applies. We may not get it because right now it looks like it's releasing everywhere except the US on October eighteenth, according to the Hollywood Reporter. But hopefully we'll get it eventually. I can't go back to my tap. Okay. The last thing we're going to talk about is a movie called Sweet Pee Series. Oh it's a series. Yeah, Oh I missed that.

Yeah. Uh. It's a series called Sweet Pee and it is starring Ella Pernell, who most recently was in the Fallout series.

She played the main character Lucy.

Yeah she is. She's rapidly becoming my next crush, Like not surprised, you know, Anya Taylor Joy. I think it's I think it's these actors with like big eyes, big expressive eyes. Like that just gets me because Anya Taylor Joy was she. I mean, I still love her. Anya, if you're listening, I still love you. This is not me, This is not me. Moving on. I think of myself as a very large tent. There's room for everybody. So Ella, come on in. But no, she's playing she's playing a character who, like, I identify with her so much, just from this trailer, which is like, have you ever been in this situation where internally all you wanted to do was strike out at somebody because they have just ticked you off to the point where you, you know, you're just like I wish I could just kick your butt right now, or worse, like I wish I could just wipe you off the face of the earth. I wish I could just kill you leaders making me so mad. That's kind of the premise here, except that she appears to give in to that impulse and actually does start doing it, Like she starts to let herself kill people who have pushed her to the point where she just doesn't want to take it anymore. And it's presented in a dark comedy kind of way. It's not done purely as like horror or thriller or anything like that. And as I was watching the trailer, I'm like, man, I don't know that I've felt this sympathetic toward a character who is clearly a killer since maybe Barry. Yeah.

It is interesting because I mean, I can't say we all, but I feel like most of us, especially if you're listening to this podcast, have probably been made to feel less than by others. You know, I've never wanted to kill anybody. I certainly have wanted to, like squeeze somebody's face and she'd be like Ahi, but not to the point of injury, just like, ah.

You're a better person than I am. I have I have had. I have had those homicidal flights of fantasy, which I never would act on. I'm a very non violent person. I haven't even been in a fight, let alone anything more serious than that. But like those little moments of just like a psychotic day dream that was sparked by some sort of negative interaction, I've definitely had those.

I am I hate bugs. They gross me out. I looked at a couple of them too closely, and now I can't. I can't plus ladybugs bite me. But I still feel bad if I go to squish a bug and I don't kill it on the first try. So, yeah, I.

Like.

I like fighting, like I love stage combat. I love playing barbarians and aggression. But I don't like I don't. Yeah, I don't have killer tendencies.

Yeah. I think this is also why I like playing bad guys, because in real life, I am not a bad guy.

I don't not you're a very good guy.

I don't. I don't seek out harming other people or or even trying to benefit at the expense of someone else. I try very hard not to do those kinds of things, so it but it is fun in a pretend kind of way to engage in that. So when I saw this, I was just like, oh, I can't wait to watch this. It looks it looks like it's going to be darkly hilarious.

Yeah, you know what I think it might be for Anya Taylor Joy and also Ella Purnell. What what appeals to me, and not not in a crush way, but just in a like you seem really cool, is that they are both very attractive people, uniquely attractive people who that's not their stick like they they're happy to be quirky or weird or.

You know, yeah, they're not. They're not. They're not demanding that every project they work on makes them look like gorgeous and glamorous and you know, uh, you know, like untouchable or anything like that. They end up taking on these very unusual roles that end up suiting them incredibly well. Yeah, I always get the feeling. Well, if you ever watch behind the scenes footage of Parnell, she just comes across as a huge dufus And I mean that in the nicest way. I think Florence Peugh sometimes comes across this way too, Like, these are people who have impeccable style. When you see them dressed up for stuff, it's insane, like a level of style I can't even begin to comprehend. But then you watch behind the scenes stuff and they're just goofballs, and I'm like, I love that they don't take themselves that seriously all the time, and that they can cut loose and be goofy and have fun, and that just really appeals to me.

Yeah, I think it is so important, And I don't know if this is the case with them, but I think it is so important that if you are in Hollywood, that you don't let that become your whole personality.

Yeah, yeah, I agree. I mean, I guess it works like for some people who still like there's only arguably there's only a couple of people out there now who still kind of fit the bill of movie star in the classic sense, if you could argue Tom Cruise is still that. But I'm cool with that. I actually kind of prefer having real people who are also just damn good at acting like that really is. I prefer that to iconic persona who just plays themselves in everything they're in.

Yeah, for sure, for sure. Like Jason Momoa pouring drinks in Atlanta last weekend.

Yeah no, you sent me that and I was like what, Yeah, apparently that's like a whole thing. It's one of those things, kind of like how Ryan Reynolds bought a gen company. Yeah, you know, you have like this thing where you've got actors who have bought into various companies. And as part of promotion, Jason Momoa is in town mixing cocktails for this one group of fans, which cool.

Interesting.

I can't drink, so I guess I wouldn't get to go.

Maybe you could get a non non vodka.

Mixing Hi, mister Jason Momoa, I can't drink alcohol. Could you make me a mocktail and maybe a huge.

I bet you could have asked that.

Yeah.

Yeah, so that's and he would have called you sweet pea. There we go full circle.

Awesome, Yeah, great, great way to put a button on the episode.

Yeah, that's all we've got to talk about. And I am pressing my luck before there are people staring in my windows at me while I talk on this microphone. So Jonathan, if people want to reach out to us about any of the things we've talked about, or what in geek Week they're excited about, or anything else like that. How do they do that?

So you're gonna have to develop a high concept pitch for a movie about the class system and how the people in upper classes are able to enjoy a life that people in lower classes have no access to, and how inherently unfair that is, and that this isn't like a meritocracy. It's not that the people who are enjoying life deserve it because they've earned it. It's just, you know, the luck of the draw, essentially. And you want to find a really good metaphor to tell this story. But you know, snow Piercer already dead, the train and the platform already did like a structure that has multiple levels, the top of which is the most desirable place. So your big idea is you're going to use a carousel to tell your story. Here's the tricky part. Carousels don't have a beginning and an end. They're a circle. So you're going to really have to crack the nut on this so that you can figure out who is it that enjoys the greatest amount of privilege. Is it that the people who are on the outside of the carousel, because they have access to the outside world, are actually the highest privilege. The ones on the inside aren't. And also the ones on the outside. If it's one of those old style carousels, they can reach up and grab the brass ring. If you ever heard about grabbing the brass ring that comes from carousels, Like some of these carousels they have a little dispenser and little plastic rings would be in there, and occasionally not a plastic ring would come out, but a brass ring would come out, and as you go around, you try to reach up and you grab it. When you pull it out, you see if you got a brass one or a plastic one, Well, the people on the inside don't even get that chance. They can't even grab the ring. So maybe that's the way you go, or maybe you're like, no, no, no, it's the ones who are on the bigger horses, which isn't so much on the outside. Sometimes those might be on the inside, but if it's a bigger horse, they're the privileged class. And if you're the one who's just on the turtle and it doesn't even go up and down. You're like the lowest of the low. Nobody wants the turtle, he's stupid. Whatever it is, you gotta crack that code. Once you get there, you're gonna take your pitch. You're gonna schlep over to all the different movie studios. Now listen, it's gonna be rough because you're gonna be facing a lot of rejection that's gonna make you feel like you want to kill somebody. And ultimately you're gonna go into one studio and you're gonna sit there and the guy's gonna laugh you out of the room, just talking about how derivative and simplistic your ideas. That's when you're gonna snap. You're gonna take the Replica Academy award that's on this guy's desk. Turns out he'd never even want it, and you just whack him right upside the head until his skull cracks. And then you're gonna hear the door open and you're gonna think, oh, no, what have I done. I've been caught. But you're gonna say it's me and you're gonna be like, Jonathan, I have two questions for you. One, can you help me move this body. And two it can be whatever it is from LLENC and I'll answer.

But he won't help you move the body.

Uh oh, I got a bad back.

Yeah. And if you're like Jonathan, you already answered the question the highest privileges that horses that go with the highest on the outside. Or if you're favorite carousel character is the turtle because you can just curl up on it and take a nap. Then you can reach out to us on social media on Twitter where llenc Underscore podcast, on Facebook, Instagram threads where Large nerdron Collider that is also our discord channel Large Nerdron Collider. You can get an invite to that on our web page www dot large neurdron collider dot com, or you can email me for a invite or for anything else you want to chat about that doesn't fit the social media vibe at large nerdrum Pop. Try that again at large nerdron Pod at gmail dot com. Whoa and until next time, I am Ariel. I need to get more gushers.

Casting I am Jonathan. I'm a turtle Strickland.

I like turtles, stupid, stupid, They're awesome and they eat pizza.

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