Large Nerdron ColliderWe talk about catching up on geeky stuff like Dead Boy Detectives and The Fall of the House of Usher, plus films and series we can look forward to in the future. And we talk about how certain Disney sequels would have probably been direct-to-video in an earlier era.
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Larger or Drunk Collider podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the world around us, and I'm just keeping that in there and how very excited we are about them. I'm Ariel Caston, and with me, as always is the delightfully wonderful Jonathan Strictly.
I wanted to buy a vowel from Pat say Jack, but now it's too late. Oh no, wait, he's fine, He's fine. He just retired. Oh yeah, literally literally, his last episode of Wheel of Fortune is today.
Wow. Wow.
Yeah. He did it for forty one years, like.
I don't ever remember him starting. But at the same time, it's one of those things that you just you take for granted that it's always going to be there.
Yeah. Yeah, so he is a Hey, Pat, you've and yourself for retirement, buddy. Yeah. He has had a long career doing and mainly being known for one thing, which is pretty incredible in show business. So not like it's super geeky, although lots of geeky people have been on Wheel of Fortune. But hats off to you, Pat Sajack.
I mean, I think you know, grammar is totally language spelling something like that.
It's totally geeky, just guessing words like the game of Hangman.
Like Hankman or wordle or spell checks or yeah.
Yeah. I always love the episodes where someone has uncovered like two letters and it's a phrase that's like seven words long, and they're like, oh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and they're right, and you're just like.
How because they're actually like AI androids and they're running all the possible like probabilities in their head.
Yeah, we know.
The machines have already taken over.
Yeah. It literally could have been a thing where the category popped up and the first thing that came to their mind just so happened to be the exact thing that was the hidden word or phrase. But yeah, I love those. There's there's quite a few. There's like a huge compilation online you can see of that kind of stuff, which is always amusing. Well, we've got lots of stuff to talk about today, but I thought we should start off with talking about anything we've seen or done that's in the geek sphere since the last time we chatted, and Ariel, was there anything that you had I mean, I know I put stuff in the light lineup, but I don't know about you.
I completely forgot too, but I did watch some geeky stuff. I'm one episode away from the uh from completing dead Boy detectives.
Oh you're further than I am now.
Yeah, so I like it and I actually do like I know you said that you you were more fond of the supporting characters than the main characters. I do like the main characters. I think those actors are good, and I think they hit the right emotional notes. I feel like the the writing is uneven because there's some very very dark stuff and then there's some very comedic stuff and it doesn't always tonally match up. It doesn't, which is fine. You can have different tones in a show. But to me, it doesn't feel like it's like it's like it's blended well together. So like some of the villains are very snarky and just have a very like comedic crass, different tone than the rest of the show. And I also think as far as storylines go, because it's kind of like Monster of the Week, right.
Sure.
That some of the some of the plot lines result quicker than I think they actually would. And I think the story should take more time on it, and some of the plot lines, like one of the plot lines with the main character. I think it's a good plot line, but it takes all season to get there, And I'm like you, it didn't need to take all season. Now, it just feels like you're rehashing the same stuff because you want to draw it out.
So yeah, yeah, Like it might have served the show better if they had resolved that particular storyline perhaps a little earlier, and maybe introduce something else like Yeah, I'm reminded of of Supernatural, which frequently would have this kind of issue where once you get past the first season of Supernatural, here's how every season of Supernatural plays out. For the first maybe third of the next season of Supernatural, it's the characters slowly coming to terms with the choices they made at the end of the previous season and and mostly not talking to each other about it until you get about a third of the way in. From that point forward, it ends up becoming about a new big bad that they will eventually face down at the end of the season, and each episode itself tends to be relatively self contained, with perhaps light ties to the bigger arcs. That sounds to me like what Dead Boy Detectives is, except of course it wasn't like two different major storylines playing out as kind of one big one. Yeah, well, why do you think about My favorite character? Is that?
Jenny the Butcher, the Witch.
She's my favorite character.
She's interesting, she's I like her because, you know, half the time when I watch a show, I'm like, I'm studying it too, right, I'm studying the art and the craft and all that, and just her choices to create this very like she has a character that is like three different archetypes maybe four put together. But every time I expect her to fall into a specific trope, she kind of twists it a little bit, so she keeps me on my toes and I like that a lot.
Yeah, she comes across a very cartoonish in a lot of episodes, like cartoonishly evil. But like I kept wanting to see her get her just desserts because she's a truly terrible person. Yeah, she's she is awful. She's like Mother gothel but worse, and I really wanted to see her get her come up and spent. At the same time, I loved her delivery so much, Like she's so terrible and I want to see her defeated, but I love every moment she's on screen. So that was to me, like, like what a great portrayal of a villain, Like it made me think of pro wrestling as everything does, where the whole point of the bad guy in pro wrestling is that you want to make the crowd hate you so much that they're willing to pay to see you get beaten. That's like your job if you're a bad guy. And I felt like she knew the assignment right, like she took that and she's like, Okay, I'm going to be a really wacky, weird bad guy. And she in the episodes I saw, she has been.
How many have you watched? Because I don't want to spoil anything.
I got to the point where, probably about five or six episodes in, I got to a point where I don't want to give too much away, but a minion of hers is actively attempting to insinuate himself between the two detectives.
That's one of the actors are like, I think he's a good actor, but I don't think his character was written super strongly because it feels cw in a show that isn't feeling super CW to me, I.
Can totally get that, Like, I only have seen a little bit of his performance, like I think two episodes that like he was introduced in one and then he kind of starts to really try and insinuate himself starting with the next one. Yeah, and I've seen those two and maybe the beginning of the next one.
Have you met the Walrus character.
Yes, I love him.
I love him so much.
He's great. Googoo Guchew is great.
Yeah, So, like it is interesting, and I think the only other thing is like some of it is very very dark and kind of gross, and for those moments, because again, some other parts of it are so light, it really does make me just feel uncomfortable watching.
It sometimes, like like the again, not to give away anything, but there's a i'll call it the groundhog Day episode because there's a loop that plays. Yes, that was a very dark episode, the loop episode.
It was, But there were also some things in there that were tonally like maybe they were trying to cut the tension, but I was like, this doesn't feel.
It doesn't feel like it fits. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that.
But yeah, but also on the same hand, like that particular storyline, and that like the Dead Boy Detective, the one from the eighties, his particular storyline because they kind of reveal it during that episode, are both the kind of storyline where I think it is the emotion behind it is very real, like in a way that if you've been through well, not the same, not the same experience as what was looping in that story, but if you've been in a similar dynamic that led up to that point, it's it's it can like hook at your trauma.
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, So we're dancing around it because it is a series worth watching. I mean, even the issues I had where I did not feel a connection to either of the two detectives, I enjoy the show and I enjoy, like I said, I still enjoy all the performances of all the supporting characters, including the human psychic, the living Psychic. She's great. She is she. I felt more connected to her than either of the detective characters. But you also said Jenny the Butcher. The one thing I know about Jenny the Butcher is she's played by Kaylee Kuoko's sister.
Yeah, which doesn't I would not be able to tell they were related unless someone.
Told me, there's a little bit around the eyes. I can see it around the eyes. I can I see the resemblance. But also they put her in a lot of tattoo makeup and that, Yeah, that throws me because I was like, there's no way she actually has a butterfly tattoo on her throat, right, And I had to look up a picture like, Okay, no she doesn't.
It's good tattoo work. Yeah, So I mean it is. It's it is dark. I do think it is. It's well done. I love who they replaced Death with because I know last time we talked about it, you said Death only showed up in the first episode, but they kind of subbed in another character for her, and I like that. I like that actress. She was also in Supernatural.
And they also have they have a character who it's not just the same character, but it's the same actress who played the character from uh Doom Patrol because the the essentially the agent of Death. I can't remember what her characters. It's the nurse night nurse. Yeah, it's same same actor, same part from the Doom Patrol episode. So that's kind of funny too, that there's that consistency of performer and character from one production to the other.
But she played nurse in Doom Patrol.
She did as she's I mean she's She.
Also played kind of antagonist in Supernatural. I love that actress.
Yes, yeah, she's great. I mean she's very She comes across as very intimidating and kind of scary because it's one of those characters who is obsessed with following rules. Whether those rules make sense or are compassionate or not, like that doesn't matter. So she's like very lawful, neutral in the terms of D and D.
Yeah, yeah, have you finished? Have you finished? I know we've harped on this way too long. We don't even know if they're getting a second season yet. Have you finished? Sandman?
I did not, I'm I so I started watching out the Fall of the House of Usher and ended up binging that entire series, so.
That I'm guessing it's good.
Good is a hard word to use for that series. I'll talk about it in a moment, because I don't know if you're finished yet, So I don't want to. I don't want to go off on fall of House and of course follow the House of Usher has been out forever. I just finally got around to watching it because I like Mike Flanagan's work. I love the Haunting of Hill House. I thought Midnight Mass was really great. I didn't watch I didn't watch the one. What was the one that was based off the young adult novels Midnight Midnight Society. Yeah, I haven't seen that one. Some like that, Yeah, I haven't seen that one. But I decided because I also like Eggar Allen Poe watch Fallow the House of Usher and I'll talk about it more in a second, But before I do, are there any other things you wanted to bring up? And no, I haven't finished that.
Man, it's the Midnight Club because Midnight Societies from Are you afraid of that arc?
Right?
I had to check myself. I was just going to say that there's a little bit more, sam man Tayan. I don't think it's going to be a spoiler if you haven't finished one and then you finished the other. I also have been watching more. It's been a very busy week the past few weeks for me, but I've also been watching more Dragon Ball z Kai and the theme song is a banger now and it is stuck in my head. That, along with the viral I keep a little dirt under my pillow for the dirt Man TikTok song. Those are both just stuck in my head. I'll share it with you later.
Yeah, the reason she said that is because I gave a weird look into the camera because I'm old and don't have TikTok.
Yeah, so Dragon Ball ze Kai has not necessarily gotten better. It's still ridiculous, but the theme song is delightful.
Like it hasn't gotten better, but I continue to watch it.
Well, I mean, it's one of those things where it's like, partially I kind of MST three k at a little bit, and then partially it's just nonsensical. You don't have to think about it fun.
Sure, Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. There's no judgment on my part. Lord knows, I watched all of season one of Velma. I can't judge anyone for what they watch.
Yeah, this is this is not me judging you. This is just me sighing it the fact that it exists.
Right, And I didn't watch I only watched the first episode of season two, and I so far have managed to resist the urge to watch any more of that show. So I'm so proud of you. Yeah, maybe I'll hear something from someone saying no it ends up being amazing, and I'm like, oh, I should watch it, but that hasn't happened yet. Okay, So follow the House of Usher. It's obviously referencing the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Every single episode is inspired by a story from Edgar Allen Poe. All the characters have names that come from Edgar Allen Poe stories. The overarching story is that you have this incredibly wealthy family called the Ushers, and you have a brother and sister who are sort of the head of this family. And the brother has like all the rest of the relatives. The sister never had children, she never gets married, she is her own woman. But the brother had two kids with his first wife, then had a series of flings with various women, some of which produced children out of wedlock, then finally has remarried but does not have a child with his most recent wife, who's about the same age as some of the kids are, right, like, that's how old he is and how young she is, and so it's each episode is about I guess this isn't really a spoiler once you get past the first episode each episode is essentially the death of one of his kids, because they reveal that all his kids are dead in that first episode. So the subsequent episodes show you how that happened, and each one is very much tied in with an Edgar Allen Poe's story, and then then at the end you finally get the answer of what a exactly happened to kind of precipitate all this, Although I would argue any person who's paying even half attention to the series, well, like by the episode three, you're like, oh, I see what's happening, and then you wait until you get to like episode seven or eight or whatever it is. I guess it's a where you get the confirmation and you're like, well, yeah, I mean this was like you've been alluding to it so much that I'm just now It's not that I didn't know what happened, it's just now I'm finally seeing the specifics right of what's set up this whole thing. I think the acting in the series is phenomenal. I think everyone does an amazing job. Everyone does a phenomenal job. I think some of the stories are dumb, but then they are also based off Edgar Allen Poe's stories, and some of his stories can be a little dumb. I think some of the characters are so cartoonishly over the top that they're not believable as characters, but they're still fun to watch. So like the whole trope of incredibly wealthy person who has lost all touch with what most people consider reality to be, Like, that's a big thing throughout the whole series, Like each of his kids has kind of their own wild thoughts and expectations of what their life should be based upon the fact they were born into this incredible wealth. There's one character that for the longest time I thought, well, he's not that bad until he turns out to be really, really bad and does something to a character that is one of my few like body horror triggers that really hits me. So that was very effective. So overall, like it's hard to say, like did I think it was good? I thought it was well shot, I thought it was well acted. I thought some of the stories were a little heavy handed, but that's also Aggirl and Poe. I felt like a lot of the ground that was being covered was covered better in the Haunting of Hill House because there's a lot of like family trauma stuff in there, but like, from a technical standpoint, it is a phenomenal piece of work. So I might go back and revisit it at some point, but if I never do, I'll be okay with that because I feel like I got pretty much everything I need to out of it, apart from just like wanting to reappreciate the performances.
Again, would it be way too scary for me?
Yes? I think so, I think. Ok So not every episode is super gory, but a lot of them are, like, like, the kids die in pretty horrific ways, and even the ones who like their method of death wasn't quite as horrific as the others, the build up to the death ends up being really bad. So yeah, so I don't know that it's your jam Ariel if I'm being perfectly honest, But you're also a fan of a girl and Poe, So maybe maybe you could watch it doing that thing you do, you know, where you block ninety five percent of your vision while you quote unquote watch the series.
I listen. It is effective, and that's how I got through the first hit movie, the New One, and then I was able to do the second one. What about Haunting of Hillhouse, because I have been told that that is less about the horror and more about, like again, the family dynamic, and it has been I've I got to do a piece from it for a class once and I thought the piece was really intriguing and really good, and I've been interested that. I don't want to scare myself so I can't sleep.
I would say that Take of Hill House, I mean, it has moments that are scary, it's ghost story scary, like it's it's like a ghost story scare. But I would say it's actually way more sad than it is scary, which I personally really appreciate because a lot of great ghost stories, you know, tragedy is like the central theme for the story, not so much the scariness, but the tragic element that led to the fact that there are ghosts in the first place. And so I really connected with it like I don't have. I think people who have had perhaps more traumatic histories with their families would maybe find it harder to watch some parts. I have been very fortunate in that that was not my experience. I empathize deeply with a lot of the characters in that series. I think it's and it has one of the most impressive episodes I've ever seen, where the whole episode appears to have been done in a take like wow, to the point where like, while the camera is on characters who are acting out a scene, the crew is clearing the space behind them and resetting it so that when the camera swivels one hundred and eighty degrees, it's you're back in time because they have reset that setting so that it's the past for those characters and different actors are there acting out a new scene. Like I've seen behind the scenes on how they did this, and they literally did have people just silently resetting while another scene is going on in view of the camera. From a technical standpoint, absolutely phenomenal, and like I said, the performances are great and it's really effective. It's really it is sad, like it's a very sad story, so I think you need to be in the right headspace.
For it, but gotcha, I have to watch it episode. I love episodes like that because they really blend the art of film and stage together really well, because you do have to rehearse it like a stage absolutely point.
And not just the crazy thing is like on a stage play. You're talking about rehearsal of actors, maybe some musicians, and then whoever's running the tech right, whoever's running lights typically maybe curtain two if you're in that kind of theater, But in a television or film production, you've got way more crew and everybody has to be on the same page and be able to move as a unit in order to pull that stuff off. And that's just crazy.
I love stuff like that, oh real quick. I also watched the first two episodes of The Brother's Son, which is said I like it, and there's not a second season coming, so I'm very sad about that. Okay continue.
And then the other thing I watched, which I won't talk about as much is Godzilla Minus one. It is now on Netflix, so I turned it on and watched it, and I'm glad I did. It. Is like everyone has said, it's an incredible film. I think it's very impressive. I think when you consider how reportedly low budget the effects were, you can't tell, like it looks like a high budget effects movie, and it is a very human story ultimately, like the fact that you have this big monster rampaging and destroying Tokyo, that's obviously an important part of the story, but it's not what the story's about, right. The story's more about this person who was a kamikaze pilot but he wanted to live, so he fakes a mechanical failure on his plane and lands at and out of the Way island in the South Pacific in order to have it looked at and repaired. But in fact he's just trying to avoid having to sacrifice himself as a kama Kazi pilot. So I would say the movie's really about examining the culture of Japan and the expectations that the Japanese government had on soldiers to essentially, I mean, ultimately throw their lives away as as a way of being a weapon, and it kind of examines that and criticizes that, while also this character has to deal with the shame of having been a kama Kazi pilot who came back. So that to me was really it's great, like it's well worth watching. Part of me does wish I'd seen on the big screen, But honestly, the parts that I've found to be really effective were these character moments which you know, you don't lose anything on the smaller screen for those you just lose the spectacle of Godzilla rampaging in those sequences.
Yeah, it's like watching District nine. I'm glad I saw it on the big screen, but I think it would have been just as good if I had first time seen it on the small screen. Another low budget, high effect movie turn out really good.
Yeah, all right, So that that was an epic conversation.
It was, so, hey, maybe we'll go through that we have thirty seconds or less, but maybe we'll go through the regular stuff a little quicker too.
We always say that and we never do, but we do have. We do have some thirty seconds or less stories to get through, and we'll just see if we can barrel through these as fast as we can. So I will get started now, Captain America. Brave New World has gone into reshoots, scheduled for twenty two days here in Atlanta, and gin Carlo Esposito, who has been in everything from Breaking Bad to The Mandalorian, has joined the cast in an undisclosed role, except we do know he's a patty because it's Esposito where it is that this film will have a tone similar to The Winter Soul, which I think is great news. Brave New World is currently slated for Valentine's Day twenty twenty five. Love You.
The Chosen, which is a kind of a dramatic retelling of Jesus' life that is interesting because it was crowdfunded. It was a Union project, but it was crownfunded, got picked up by the CW last year and they are putting out a fourth season. When I put this in our thirty Seconds or less, it hadn't come out yet, but the first couple episodes have come out, and they come out on Sunday and Thursday. So if you're a fan of it, season four is out, I think it does. I think it's one of my favorite retellings of Jesus's story, to be quite honest.
Okay, notable horror director Mike Flanagan that names So Familiar is going to helm the next Exorcist calm So. A few years ago, Blumhouse invested a whopping four hundred million dollars into creating a new trilogy of Exorcist movies. The first of those was last year's The Exorcist Believer, which, let's I did not have a great perception. This new movie will not be a direct sequel to that, but will be set in the same universe. So can flanagain create a better entry. Yes, yes he can. I don't even need to see the movie. I know that's gonna happen.
Uh. Speaking of bigger and better, American Gladiators is back. It's getting rebooted at Amazon. This follows we talked about the other week how it was Gladiators was happening in London while the nostalgia train has hit and after a few years people trying to relaunch the show. It's finally getting its chance.
I look forward to seeing a gladiator peg somewhe in the head with a tennis ball fired from a cannon.
Ah. So exciting.
Warner Brothers Discovery is working with Zack Snyder to make a TV series inspired by the film Three Hundred, which in turn was an adaptation of a graphic novel by Frank Miller. So this is the story of three hundred Spartans being all manly and oiled up and stuff and then sacrificing themselves to hold off a per invasion. There are a few details about the TV series so far, but I'm hoping we get to see oiled up and muscley spartans doing mundane stuff like cooking dinner or inspecting Wells.
I'd be in for that. We know that Predator. After the success of its movie Prey, which was a giant prequelk is getting another installment. This time it's going to be called bad Lands, and they are looking at El Fanning to star in it. Dan Tracktenberg is helming this film, and every time they referred to him by his last name, I keep thinking Michelle Trackenberg from Buffy. So it's been fun to navigate that written in my brain.
Yeah, well that name is Key. That's a Buffy joke. Okay. The Hollywood Reporter says Chris Hemsworth is in talks to star in a film that will officially bring together the worlds of Transformers and Gi Jeff. That's something that's been done in other forms of media, but this would be the first for the big old screen. I'm told by the article that this was actually hinted at at the end of Transformers, Rice and the Beasts, but I didn't see that because I do not hate myself despite my snoody opinions about the Transformer series. I hope fans are excited.
I could look. You take two bad things, you put them together, they might be good if you are a fan of the Yakuza video games. Like a Dragon Yukuza, you're getting a live action adaptation coming or sorry, I guess the video game is Yukuza like a Dragon. The live action series will be like a Dragon Yukuza. It's coming to Amazon Prime. It will come out in October and then again in November. Because people like breaking up series because nobody has attention spans anymore. Anyhow, Apparently people are really excited about it and it could be fun.
Yeah, I love it. So I played the most recent one, and so the Yakuza series is sorry thirty seconds or last I know it's not bad, but do it. The Yakuza series is one of those where it mixes like drama with ridiculous comedy. Right Like, you're playing typically a character who is a high ranking member of a crime family, and you're often doing like lots of violent, violent stuff against other people, and then occasionally you're playing a mini game where you're singing karaoke in a bar and you're trying really hard to impress people in the karaoke bar as you sing overly romantic songs. It is a ludicrous series. The most recent one takes place largely in Hawaii, and I loved every second of playing it, so I'm looking forward to that anyway.
That does sound like a fun watch, like a fighter version of Dan the Diver.
Yeah, I'll have to send you like if I can find, like a good clip of one of the ridiculous cut scenes, I'll say to you so you can appreciate how dumb but fun, fun dumb that show is. Okay. One thing that we now know about the second season of the Last of Us is that it will not tell the full story of the second game in season two. Instead, showrunners have indicated that they will need two or even three full seasons to tell that whole story because there's just so much darn narrative in there. But then I also know what happens than the Last of Us too, and I think I know the real reason for splitting that story among multiple seasons, but I'll never tell.
Interesting. I don't know what happens, but I did like season one, so I'm looking forward to season two. I thought it surprisingly not too scary to watch. Terry Gilliam is doing a biblical comedy and he has cast Johnny Depp to play Satan and Jeff Bridges to play God the show. The movie is going to be called The Carnival at the End of Days, where God wops out, wipes out human and the only character who wants to save them as Satan. It's interesting because apparently at one point God is going to be voiced by at least fifteen animals, and they're all going to be realistic, and so that's going to be quite a challenge.
And in a story that I've accidentally skipped over but I am going to talk about now, So Deadpool and Wolverine, they decided they took a look at the popcorn bucket for Dune Too, the unfortunately inappropriate Sandworm popcorn bucket, and said, hold my beer. And so there is a new popcorn bucket to celebrate Deadpool and Wolverine, which is Wolverine's face. His mouth is wide open, that's where the popcorn comes out. And that's all that happens. Okay, you're dirty, dirty people.
That's all that happens. I'm still waiting for my ghost trap popcorn bucket. I wasn't able to get the AM but I was able to get the Regal Cinema one in August. I will get it. This is the yell sellout really quick? Okay? Lastly, in our thirty seconds are last, We're getting a season two of the Gremlins cartoon Secret of the Mogwi. This time it's called Wild Batch. Gremlin's the Wild Batch, not to be confused with the Bad Batch, which is what I did when Jonathan told me about this. Apparently the main characters go to California and have to deal with a new group of Gremlin Me.
Dang, yeah. I started watching the series the I saw maybe five or six episodes of the original series when it was first starting to come out, and I thought that it was charming. I didn't think it was great, but I thought it was good. But like all the other things we talked about in this episode, I fell off of it, and so I didn't finish that season.
Yeah, I've been meaning to watch it. I haven't yet, but it's got a great voice cast.
So it is.
It is still on my list.
Oh yeah, yeah. The people who are doing the voices are some really incredible and famous actors. You know you've got, you know You've got, isn't meng naw when one of the voice actors for that series, I think she is.
She is and so is be d Wong. But they say bed Wong is known for Mulan, and I'm like, that's not what I mean. But he was also like in the Mulan cartoons too, So it's just just not what I know him from.
Something that Ariel and I know fairly well because we talked about it in one of our video episodes when Ellen c was a video series. Is I think, yeah, so do I. But it's an incredibly influential movie, one of the most influential films for Western films in quite some time, and itself it's not a Western film I am talking about. Akira Kurosawa was in Mortal Classic seven Samurai, and seventy years after it initially came out, we're getting a limited re release in four K resolution.
I think that's pretty cool. I wish it were more widespread than it currently seems.
Yeah, because it sounds to me like it's only in New York and LA and just in a couple of specific theaters.
Yeah, but the new trailer looks great, Oh my goodness.
Yeah. So if you do have the opportunity to see it, like this is the story that you will recognize instantly because it has been readapted so many times, Like the arguably the most famous adaptation is the Western The Magnificent Seven. Like, that's a pretty faithful adaptation of the story, just obviously pourting it over from Samurai to cowboys. But you could argue the exact same like structure is in things like everything from A Bugs Life to the Three Amigos. Is one that we mentioned in our video series.
Yeah, I will. I will share that video in our show notes. I will get our show notes updated this weekend, and I will make sure that that video is a part of it. I'll even make it its own post so that you can see it. If you haven't checked it out. You may have seen all of our videos. It's honestly one that I enjoy going back and watching. I don't like watching myself, but there's a couple of those old videos that I do enjoy just because one it was fun to make and two I think it turned out really well. And that's one of them.
So we've got so many more things to talk about, one of which, this one that will be fairly quick, is that we have a trailer for a documentary about the career, the life and career of Farrell Williams. It's called piece by piece, and it's done in a very interesting style.
Yeah, it's like Legos, it's animated Legos, so not like so like the Lego movie. Yeah, that's why did I have such a hard time putting that sentence together. I don't know.
I mean, it's because, like it's not what you would expect from a documentary about a musician's life.
No, but Lego man Snoop Dogg is a delight.
Yeah. I get the feeling that that this whole decision was made because it does set it apart from other documentaries just by the nature of the film style, and it also allows them to take things that perhaps would be far more mundane if you're just doing like a talking heads kind of interview with someone, and with Lego, you can just take it to absurd levels and make it a joke visually.
Yeah, throughout the whole thing, you know, Fell's happy is playing and that's that's the vibe I get. That's the vibe that they're setting with this Lego mensary. Yeah, Docu le Lego.
I wonder if we're going to see other documentaries take a similar approach in the future, which would just be so surreal.
It would be. I feel like you can't do that exact thing too many times. Yourrket's old hat.
I'm really hoping for a Lego version of the Imitation Game.
I mean, probably more people would watch it, But like I think, eventually, you you like the Lego games, Eventually you saturate people's tolerance for Yeah, watching Lego remakes Uh.
One thing that saturated my tolerance without me ever having watched any of the movies is the the Venom series. Well, I know that you enjoyed Venom and Venom two at least to some degree.
But watch Venom two. But I enjoyed Venom, we.
Enjoyed the first Venom. I I just can't forgive Venom for spawning things like Morbius and Madam Webb, like the fact that that movie is essentially responsible for such terrible crimes against cinema. I cannot forgive easily. But we got a trailer for the third and final film and the Venom trilogy, Venom the Last Dance. The film is going to come out in October. One interesting thing is that it does kind of it almost feels like it's ret conning the end of the second Venom film. In that at the end of Venom two, Venom slash Eddie are pulled into the MCU version of the Marvel Verse. But then I didn't notice this because I don't think I ever saw the scene, but at the end of No Way Home, Eddie sla end up getting pulled back yep to their original universe. So it's almost like, hey, you know what, this thing that happened, it doesn't really matter at all.
I mean, you know, this was like at this time Sony and Marvel were kind of feeling out where they wanted their relationship to go, because I think it was about the time that they were renewing their agreements and stuff that could be misremembering, so that it is interesting, you know. I think so Venom is not a perfect movie by any means, but it is fun. It's fun, and I think the reason for that, the reason why it succeeds over Morbius or Madam Webb, is because Eddie Brock is kind of a comedic schlub kind of a character, and when you focus on that odd couple relationship between him and Venom, like the action, the actual storyline doesn't matter, but that relationship of them trying to learn how to co habitate. Yeah, coexist is very funny and it's done very well. I say this, I haven't watched a second movie. I had to make sure that I hadn't because I thought the second movie was let there be Carnage.
But I was like, was that the third movie?
So, like I said, not perfect, but it is enjoyable. I look forward to this third one because in the trailer they show more moments of that Eddie and Venom trying to work together in a very messy way, and I like it a lot.
Well, I'm glad that fans like you have an opportunity to see the story come to full conclusion, while fans like me don't care.
You're not anti fans. I just don't understand why they can make a movie like Venom, the first one at least that is actually enjoyable, but then the next movies in their superhero sony verse are so unenjoyable, Like how do you how? How do you miss the mark that bad?
Yeah? I have theories, but we don't have time for me to dive into dive into that. Essentially, it comes down to studios wanting to cash in on IP and not really caring about honoring the source material or or making a coherent and cohesive like film universe like Marvel. Marvel has its own issues, some of which are due to the fact that they had such a desire to create a coherent universe like. Some of the problems that exist in Marvel are because of those choices. But uh, but you can certainly see where those efforts were made, and is that the right way to go about it. I don't know. I mean, goodness knows. Marvel alienated multiple directors who originally were attached to do a film but then later on dropped. Edgar Wright was supposed to do ant Man and he stopped, he quit, And it.
Still feels like there are some Edgar Wright touches in there.
Yeah. Yeah, but it's definitely one of those things where you feel like there's trade offs in whatever approach. But I feel like in the Spider Man splinter universe of Marvel, which oddly enough doesn't really have Spider Man in it, I feel like it just the cynical parts of filmmaking and cash again on IP seem more evident than they do on the MCU version.
Okay, during this conversation, I just have to say, you've said two things that have made me go, why isn't this one of our mashups? And I don't know if either would actually be doable or if either has actually been done in the comics. But you are like Marvel alien And then you said Nate, but I thought you were talking about Marvel Aliens, and I was like, well, is that after Zombies?
We're like a predator has crossed over into the DC universe.
So yeah, and then you just said spider Man Splinter, and I'm like, what if Spider Man were raised by Splinter?
Well, I feel like Splinter would also have the message of with great power, it comes great responsibility.
I agree, I agree. I think this is just my brain spoiler for everybody. This is my brain making up for the fact that we were going to do a mashup this week and then I ran out of time.
So I mean, I probably wouldn't have had time either in retrospect, but at the time I didn't know. Well. Next up, we have a trailer for a film called One Law wn d LA All One Word. It's an app actually not film, but a series on Apple TV Plus. It's based off of a series of novels for young adults it has some kind of like I would say, like some Wally Slash, some Fallout vibes. Yeah, like, yeah, your your protagonist is a young young girl who was raised in an underground bunker who then ends up going to the surface world and is experiencing everything on the surface for the first time. So it's all about discovery and of course, uh, the surface world is not what she expected, and she's looking for people, and there's lots of intelligent creatures wandering around but not not not what you would call people out there not.
Yeah, honestly, it really caught my attention, so I'm not I wasn't familiar with the Wondola novel series prior to this, but it really so like my favorite childhood stories are like The never Ending Story and The Phantom Told Booth and Dinotopia and stuff like that, so this really scratches that itch. And like Alis in Wonderland Wizard of Oz, I loved those. Weird, but I loved them. So I'm like, I might actually go back and read the young adult novel series.
I imagine they have to be pretty quick reads. So yeah, it looks great. I mean it's an animated series. It looks really creative. Like I said, it's on Apple TV Plus. It's it comes out starting on June twenty eighth. So if if you have Apple TV Plus and you know you love you love sci fi, especially sci fi from adapted from young adult series, I say check it out because it looks interesting to me.
Yeah, yeah, me too, and like the animation is delightful. It just yeah, it just looks like if Fallout were optimistic.
Yeah yeah, if Fallout just embraced the quirky stuff and got rid of all the really grim, bloody stuff.
Yeah yeah, at least I hope that's how this story goes. If they put in some bloody grim stuff.
Yeah, if her if her travel companion ends up demanding that he be decapitated, we know things have taken a seriously wrong turn for sure.
Man, I'm still telling you watching through uh fallow a second time is much funnier because of you catch the things they set up that you didn't catch the first time, because we haven't watched it. R right, delightful, delightful. Another thing that's delightful, at least I know it's delightful is Umbrella Academy, and we're getting its final season August eighth, and they dropped a trailer for it.
Yeah. I have not watched Umbrella Academy. It's another one of my blind spots. I've got so many of those. The more we do this show, the more I realize what a terrible geek I am.
But no, no, no, no, you but you cover, you cover, like you watch things that I don't watch.
So, yeah, I have to watch all the all the horror movies you have to you have. I don't mean I don't mean for the show. I mean like my brain requires me too, Like I feel compelled to watch horror movies. That's pretty much my go to these days, is when I'm like, oh, let's watch something, let's see let me look at let me look at what's on shutter.
I wish he lived closer because I'd be like, Hey, I'm bored this afternoon and Tony's playing Gloomhaven. Do you want to watch a TV series with me?
Yeah?
They're getting short enough. We could watch one in and ast.
What I need to do is go and see Furiosa this weekend before it leaves theaters.
Yes.
So the Umbrella Academy fourth final season trailer I thought looked good. It made me feel like, so, I, having not watched the series, I didn't really understand everything that was going on, but it felt to me like there was almost like a multiverse kind of or parallel universe kind of thing going on. Is that am I totally off track?
No? Yes, no, yes, that is a little confusing because the first season six the youngest of them, I think it's six. Anyhow, he he gets sucked into the future and where he gets where he gets it's it's like post apocalyptic future, and he gets basically conscripted by an organization to go back and make sure that the future doesn't end in a catastrophic way.
So sort of like Days of Future Past kind of thing.
Kind kind of yeah, but you know, you do you can create alternate realities by doing that, right, because when you mess with the past, you mess with the future. So yeah, so there definitely have been alternate realities that they have had to go through because this organization is messing with the timeline.
Okay, so it is.
It is really interesting and it's very quirky. It's a little dark, but I would say, like not near as dark as like dead Boy Detectors or something like that. There are some dark moments, but very lighthearted in comparison to a lot of stuff we're getting nowadays. It's fun, it's interesting. I have a couple of friends who are like I didn't finish watching the series, and I don't know why, And I also don't know why because I quite enjoyed it. But I also it is so many weird things happen that I actually had and each season is so jam packed. I think in a good way that I want to go back and rewatch it all before I watched season four, just so I can remind myself the timeline of what has happened in.
The Is this the series that has Elliott Page in it?
Yes?
Wow? Okay, so and when Elliott Page started that it was before their transition, as I recalled, interesting, and I had heard that this was a series that handled that really delicately so that it would work its way within to the show as well.
I think. So I think they handled it well. I think, and I completely understand this because I'm I completely understand why they did this, and I don't even think it's wrong. I think that they focused on it a little longer than maybe they needed to from it, but that's me coming from a place where I'm not going through that journey, and I'm like, okay, cool, I accept it.
Sure, yeah, let's move on. Can't be certain that the entire audience will be as compassionate as Aerial is.
Yeah, so so like it. It's again, it's I thought they handled it well. I think they could have maybe handled it a little bit quicker. But that's I that is such a minor critique and my own personal opinion that it doesn't really matter.
Well, I'm just glad that they were able to handle it in a compassionate and responsible way, because, like considering that, you know, the world itself is divided on that whole concept in the first place, Like you could easily imagine a studio that didn't want to have to deal with that just recasting a role or writing a character off the show entirely. And I'm glad that that was not how it turned out.
Me too, Me too. I Yeah, I love that having you know, family members and friends who have taken that journey or are on that journey, I really appreciated a great deal. I also will say that several of the seasons had dance numbers, which may not be everybody's cup of tea.
Oh you've sold me.
Now I go back. And I still watch these dance numbers anytime I need a smile because they're just so much fun. Like Season one opens up, it's it kind of was really big after it happened. It opens up with all of these people once they all get back in their home mansion. One of them turns on a song and they can all hear it, and they all dance in their own rooms, so they aren't danceing together, but they're all dancing together, right, and it's so cute. And it was kind of one of the first things they if I remember correctly, one of the first things they did to kind of be able to get into their characters and solidify their characters was have fun dance is your character, which and that's.
That's great as an actor too, Like Ariel and I can attest like whenever you're given a an assignment to that's not directly related to whatever performance you're doing, but it's just based upon your interpretation of the character you're playing. Show me how your character celebrates, show me how your character dances, or whatever. And the other nice thing about that is, as a very awkward person, if you ask me to do something as a character. I have enough dissociation where I'm not overthinking it when I'm doing it.
Yeah. Yeah, it's wonderful. I think it's a wonderful exercise. I love that they left it in the movie or in the TV show. And it's also it was placed really well within a story because it had just happened where you've got all these siblings who were put into this situation kind of against their will, had a bunch of bad stuff happen, there was a lot of tension, and then they just all go into their rooms, they have their quiet space, and it's just this moment of joy, and it was so beautifully like I'm getting a little tary thing, so beautifully placed. There's so much that this show does well. They do a lot of fun stuff in the first season with music. Later in a later season, I don't remember if it's two or three, there's a footloose showdown, which is amazing and hilarious. I just really enjoy it, even the moments that like kind of fail to me, fail up. I highly recommend it. I might put it on par with A New Girl for you, Okay, maybe higher you should watch. You should watch Umbrella Academy before New Girl. It's also a shorter show.
It's only four seasons, right, right, and and not I'm guessing they aren't seasons where it's like twenty two episodes a season.
No, No, I think there's I'm pretty sure they're short.
Okay, Well then yeah, that's a good starting point. Well. Next up, we got a sort of a trailer slash teaser trailer for Mowana Too, which comes out this November. And I don't know that. I mean, clearly it's Mowana exploring more. I think the concept is she encounters other Polynesian folks who have also sailed across the ocean, which is that's interesting, the idea of discovering new people, not just her own that she has come from. I like that. I but the trailer doesn't give us a whole lot to work with, right, It's it's kind of just giving you sort of a vibe.
Yeah, I I it was just more ma Wana. I don't like the giant scallop that she sails into. That was upsetting.
I mean, part of me is like, if there's no tomatoa, I'm not interested. But part of me is like, uh, but tomtoa had kind of like the perfect little moment in the first film, and there's no need to bring that character back. And if you did bring the character back, it would probably feel like, oh, we had to do this because enough people liked the whole tomatoa part of the first Mahana film. I will say, like watching this like no shade. I love Mowana the first film. I love that movie a lot, but I couldn't shake the feeling of if this had been done in an earlier Disney era, this would totally be one of those directive video sequels.
Yeah, I fully agree. I feel fully agree, and I might just be the first trailer. They might have some more juicy stuff that'll pull us in later, but I kind of feel like, put that in your first trailer and then if you don't have enough for a second trailer, don't do a second trailer.
Yeah, I still feel like I still feel like Frozen two had direct to video sequel vibes too.
Yeah they didn't watch that one, but yeah I watched it.
I didn't care for it, and I didn't think the music was nearly as catchy as what was in the first film. But that being said, my nieces loved the second film. So this could also be one of those things where I just have to come to the comfort of saying this was meant for someone else, and it's okay if I don't like it, and it's really okay if someone else loves it.
That is correct. Speaking of things that some people love and some people hate. We got a new Aliens Romulus trailer.
Yeah, take a guess which one of us loved it and which one of us hated it.
I loved it and you hit it.
No, you stopped watching it, so you can't.
I have finished it.
Oh did you?
I finished the trailer. I thought the end of the trailer was super strong. There was a moment in the middle where I was like, nope, I'm done, and then I powered through.
It's a bit where where a face hugger shoves its ovipositor down literally into and down someone's throat in order to inject eggs into them.
It's not even that it shoved it into their face and down their throat. It's that it was trying and multiple attempts failing. That really just hit a squeaky spot for me, which you know is not shouldn't be unexpected with the whole like Origin of the Alien Universe. Anyhow, it's a very like sexy Origin Universe. It just hit a squeaky spot.
Well, and normally we wouldn't see that process, right, you would just like the face hugger latch onto someone's head and that enough is horrifying, Like you don't need any more than that for it to be horrifying, but they delivered. Yeah, this one has a lot more body horror vibes in it. I was telling Ariel, I said, I feel like there's like a strong Cronenberg influence in this, Like Ridley Scott's first Alien film was a horror movie more than a science fiction film. And then I would say the second film, Aliens was James Cameron that was more of an action film. And then the third film, which nobody liked, I felt was like more of a hard sci fi kind of maybe not hard sci fi, but the kind of sci fi film where it's a science fiction movie that's trying to explore certain themes, but they're doing it through the lens of science fiction. Yeah, this feels like it's getting right back to those horror roots, like this, this is a horror movie.
Well, even after I guess the third one was Alien Resurrection, and then there were also the Alien Predator crossovers. We then also got Prometheus, which was a prequel, and Covenant. Why do I know this much about the Alien? But both Prometheus and Covenant were more less focused on story and more focused on just shock and gore. Well, so I watched Prometheus, but I couldn't get through the first twenty minutes of Covenant.
Just as a light correction, tiny tiny correction. Alien three and Alien Resurrection are two different movies. Alien Resurrection is the fourth film, gotcha. So Alien three was set on essentially a prison planet, like Australia. The planet. It's like a prison colony type thing. And then of course Alien gets loose and Hijackson sue Hijackson hijinks. Yeah, I said Hijackson instead of hijinks, And I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna embrace that, embrace the embrace the mistake. But yeah, so, and you know what, I don't think I've ever watched Alien Resurrection. I've seen the first three, and I didn't watch Prometheus or Covenant, so there's there are big gaps for me. But then I really like the first two films a lot for very different reasons. This one. I mean, it does look like it's scary, it looks like an effective horror film. Body horror is not my favorite subgenre of horror, So I don't know if this is one I will ultimately go see or not, but I respect the craft.
So did you like the New Evil Dead movie that came out?
I did not. I did not like The Evil Dead. I didn't finish it. I started it started on streaming as one of those that was on like Shutter or whatever, and I think I only got maybe halfway through when I was like, this isn't for me, and and and no doubt I wasn't. Part of it was that it's all about child endangerment and that bothers me. Yeah, So I didn't stick with it.
Partly for that reason, Okay, I was just curious because Petty Alvarez, who did the New the two thousand, New twenty thirteen Evil Dead and then Don't Breathe is in.
Yeah, he's irresponsible for Romulus. Yeah. I will say, like the whole cinematography and vibe of Evil Dead, like it was really effective, Like it's it's definitely a strong contender in the horror genre. It doesn't come across as sanitized or boring the way a lot of like, I love some stuff that comes out of Blumhouse, but a lot of stuff that comes out of Blumhouse is just bland. And yeah, it's not very effective horror. You can't say that about The Evil Dead. It's very effective. It just wasn't my jams. So that's why I didn't stick with it. So I don't know if this is going to be something I'm going to want to watch or not. But I thought it looked really effective.
So, speaking of things that are not your jam, what do you think about the trailer for the New Dimension twenty season Never Stop Blowing Up?
Yeah, so this is a trailer for a new Real Play series RPG series in which it looks to me like all the players are taking on roles that are inspired by the over the top action tropes of the eighties and nineties, and Brendan Lee Mulligan is the game master. The thing that impressed me most, and Ariel you already know this because I sent you a message about it, is that as the series goes on, Brendan Lee Mulligan ends up going through progressively more dramatic makeup to make it appear as though he has been really put through the ringer. Like if you thought John McClain was in rough shape at the end of Diehard, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. They did that with Dungeons and Drag Queens too, where they progressively made bleams be Lee Mulligan because you can't you can't do just his initials blm. Yeah, so bleam, which I started doing and then found out that other people like that was the accepted way to do it, So yay intuition. But they also did it for Dungeons and Drag Queens or his make got progressively more like more, yes and every time. But yeah, it looks great. I love it. He's kind of like if Mayhem from the I guess Progressive Commercials or whatever insurances from or a DM. I love it so much.
Yeah, definitely, Like I would say, it definitely gives me more nineties action movie vibes than eighties because the stuff I associate with eighties isn't quite that same level of excess. I feel like that really took off in the nineties, even though like the vibe they're giving off is that it's an eighties thing, and I'm thinking, I live through the eighties. You young, young young people, y'all who are born maybe at the end of the eighties or possibly in the midlies.
Some of them were definitely born in the end of the eighties, but yeah, no them were born in.
The Having lived through the whole decade, I can tell you that you are really mulating more of a nineties vibe than an eighties vibe. But apart from that, I respect it.
But you've got like the John McClain character, You've got, like the Kingpin character You've got.
Oh yeah. The names are great too, like the names of the character, because it's they're very thinly veiled pastiches or parodies of actors or characters, and that's a lot of fun. Like there's a there's a Vin Diesel. It's like vic ethanol, I think, is what the character's name is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just it's a really good table of players. I think they're all great comedians who will really vibe off of each other.
Well.
I know that actual plays are difficult for a lot of people to get into because they're long. I will say dimension twenty one, since this is a side Quest season. They'll probably have a fewer episodes. I don't know that for certain, but they tend to have less episodes than like Fantasy High Junior Year, which I think has teens or twenties, And they're shorter than like Critical Roles, so they're not like four hours or maybe like an hour and a half to two hours each, so still a bit of a time commitment. Yeah, a lot of fun. This is a great one that you don't have to know anything or anyone, you can just jump into it seems.
Like, Yeah, it feels to me like this couldn't be more than six or eight episodes simply because of the progression of makeup that Brennan Lee Mulligan goes through. Yeah.
Yeah, but I love it. They put a lot of effort into like their battle maps and their backgrounds and things like that too. I highly recommend watching Di Menson twenty reach Out on Discord if you don't know which ones you want to start with, because I have opinions mine different from everybody else's, but I'm happy to get home.
Yeah. Next up, we have a trailer for a film called The Killer's Game, which comes out in September thirteenth, it's partly produced by people who are involved in the John Wicks series, and I say it shows I also so think this is like what if Joe versus the Volcano but with assassins?
I mean also true? Yes, Also, what if you pulled Drax and Mantis into the real world it made them humans not aliens?
Yeah, yeah, that's also true. So the general plot is that you have Batista who's playing a hit man, and he falls in love and also gets this terrible diagnosis that he's got an inoperable fatal tumor and that he's going to die within three months. And so for whatever reason, I'm guessing it's something like there'll be a massive payout that he can then give to his loved one that if he is assassinated, then he's going to be able to get this this thing, and whereas if he just dies, he doesn't get that. So he decides to take a hit out on his own life, and then you get the classic call from the doctor of we accidentally swapped your scan with someone else's. Turns out you're not gonna die at all, and that he has to deal with the fact that he's put this massive contract on his own life and hilarity ensues, which is why I said it's like Joe Versus the Volcano, because if you've ever seen that movie, it's a wonderful movie. I need to watch it again. It's been so long since i've seen it.
I own it.
I love that film. It's not great, y'all. It's not a great man, but it's great. It's great, but it's not great. Meg Ryan plays three different characters in one movie, sometimes for just a single scene, but she's in it three different times. It's three different characters. They have a weird Polynesian slash Jewish trybe occupies this island in the middle of nowhere. It's a movie that almost works and doesn't quite, but it's very joyful. But in Joe Versus the Volcano, the main character, Joe is told he has an inoperable brain cloud, and that's what leads him to agree to sacrifice himself to this supposed volcano god for this giant company. And then later it turns out the brain cloud thing was a lie. He doesn't have a fatal disease. This was all orchestrated by the company to get a patsy to jump into the volcano, and so as I was watching this trailer, I'm like, oh my gosh, it's Joe versus the Volcano, but with hitmen. Yeah.
Yeah, I will say, like, I liked John Wick and I'm glad to see them do another story that is not john Wick.
Hopefu. Yeah, as far as we can tell, this is not actually set in the John Wick universe. It's just that in this universe, it's also true that practically everybody's an assassin.
Yeah. I am a little surprised though, so maybe this is just me taking the wrong take on it. I thought that Dave Bautista was leaving Guardians of the Galaxy to pursue more serious roles, and this doesn't feel like that to me.
I think it was more like leaving Guardians of the Galaxy in order to do other produc anything else. Yeah, well not just anything else. I mean like he did he did Glass Onion, and you know, he was in a James He was in James Bond Specter, so he's been in a few other things, although it's still like Glass Onions different, but everything else typically is falling into that action category. This definitely feels like it's it's an action film with a dark sense. Of humor to it, right, Like it doesn't feel super serious. I would argue John Wick has a even though it's absolutely ludicrous. John Wick's a ludicrous series, but it's not treated that way in the film, right, It's not. There's no like wink, weak nudge, nudge, Look how silly this is. I would say that this, based on the trailer alone, feels a little bit more like it's in on the joke than the John Wicks series is.
I would agree. I would definitely agree. Another action movie with a dark comedy twist is Inside Out too, and we.
Got a new trailer for that, the final one before the movie comes out, And this one, like none of the other trailers, really made me want to see this movie, particularly this one got closer to it. But it's because it actually was showing more of the young woman, the girl who's now growing into a teenager, that kind of her life and how her emotions are impacting her life. And while I know that's not going to be like front and center for the film, that gave me more of a connection point than just focusing on the emotions. And I was like, oh, that's right. These characters aren't just existing in a vacuum right, like they're inhabiting a human being and being able to see how that impacts the human being. That's what made me connect to it more, and I was like, oh, maybe I will see this.
I like seeing how it impacts the They did this in their Fish movie too, how it impacts the parents' emotions as well. I hope that they expand upon that to seeing other people's emotions and then maybe in like if you could have like some emotional intelligence happening where there's interplay between multiple characters emotions interacting with each other directly. I realized that that kind of breaks the.
Theme of the movie.
Though this trailer, I feel met about it. I've felt met about all of it. I do like that gosh Ayodabari is the voice of Anxiety. I love her in the Bear and I watching her do her voiceover for the character of Anxiety has been inspiring. It's just delightful to watch her process. So that's a lot of fun.
Yeah, so not exactly a full recommendation from the show, kind of like a half hearted I might be interested from me and Ariel is met so which honestly I don't. I don't begrudge you You're met, because it does feel like another wholly unneeded sequel, right, Like the first film pretty much told the whole story you needed to tell, and I, for one, at the end of Inside Out didn't feel like, Man, I sure hope that they come back to this because I really want to see what happens next. I felt like it was a pretty good conclusion. Yeah, so I'm not mad about a sequel, but it's not like that it's really captured my imagination. It's it's kind of a shame because I missed the era where Pixar was making all sorts of different things and there was so much heart to all of them and each one felt unique to itself. Yeah, and it's been a while since. Like even with Elemental, like you and I said, it was feeling like a mix between Inside Out and Zotopia, it didn't feel like it was really unique, even though it arguably was very different from that.
Yeah, just poor marketing. Marketing has been really difficult. I'm not going to go on that rant again. Yeah, I think it's interesting because I like inside Out. I enjoyed it. I actually felt very little connection with Riley or her parents or anybody. It was mainly with the emotions. So if they had started this second movie with a completely different person and a completely different journey, I would have been justicifyed with that. So see, I don't know.
I think they should have started this trailer with all the emotions gathered around the grave of Bing Bong and just crying slowly while the music played, and I would and I would have been like, I feel nothing, So it.
Would have been like an up sort of a beginning for everybody, but you.
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say up definitely had an impact on me. Bing Bong's death continues to have no impact on me whatsoever.
I'm glad that that cartoon character, imaginary friend cartoon character's death does not affect your day tod age.
I just find it so perplexing for people who are like, They're like, it was so sad. I'm like, I literally cannot understand you.
I thought it was sad enough. It was fun.
You know.
Those people probably will also really like the movie if which is all about or Dexter's Home for Imaginary Friends or whatever not. I honestly find like, I don't know, I have more connection to like watching Jenny's I don't remember her last name, but Jenny's review of the Star Cruisers.
Oh, Jenny Nicholson.
Jenny Nicholson, and she had that little alien pet with her who was the alien who met a terrible demise in both the Alien Eggs Alien Encounter Alien Encounter Ride, which I friagin loved and also the Leelo's or the Stitches Great Adventures is Greatest did just Great Escape, which I also enjoyed, not as much as Alien Encounter, but I understand why they got rid of both.
Both of those were experiences at scary the Magic Kingdom in Disney World once upon a Time.
Yeah, and both were a little scary, which is maybe why they didn't belong in the Magic Kingdom. They would have done better in.
Like Hollywood Study Woods Studios.
But that little alien I have more connection with than Bing Bong, So I'm not going to judge you too much.
By the way that Jenny Nicholson video talk about it blowing up right, Like I was surprised when I did the mention of that. I just did it because I thought, like, oh, this is something that other people should watch. And it turns out I didn't need to say anything at all, because that that video got such traction, such a widespread traction.
It's because nobody could experience the Star Cruiser, so you had to go off of other people's right.
And she's so good at being thorough with her presentation and to lay out her points methodically and support them with the things that actually happened. And she's also I think, extremely fair, right, Like, it's not it doesn't come acro to me as a hit piece as much as it is a I had, like the most unfortunate series of things happened that impacted my enjoyment. And like you're talking to someone who really wanted to enjoy the experience. Like, it's not like she was going into it determined to hate it.
Yeah, and she is very clear to be like and this one is just me being salty in my own opinion. So this isn't take take this one with a grain of salt. But I'm putting in there because it's my opinion and my experience, you know, and I know that her experience is not everybody's. Like I said, I have a couple very dear friends who ran a LARP, who ran a lot of entertainment stuff, who absolutely loved it. And we're planning on bringing their kids there and like had an amazing time. So I do think that it was a little mix of like, some things Disney could have done better, and then also her just having.
The worst, like the worst luck. Yeah, so yeah, I feel awful about that. I would have much preferred that she had had a phenomenal experience but still recognized where the shortcomings were, because then at least I wouldn't feel like, oh man, she spent six grand on this, Although knowing that her video, which is four hours long, four hours and some change, has had more than six million views makes me feel a little better because I'm pretty sure she's recapturing the money she spent on that vacation.
Yeah, I hope so. And that was not even in our show notes. That was a little bonus for y'all. But we have reached the end of our episode not as bad as we sometimes do.
Well, Nope, I take it an hour and twenty two minutes. Like look, now an hour and a half is now the new standard length for an LLENC episode.
We started it forty minutes an episode. I just want to say, and like when we first did ELLENC, when we first from video format to podcast format, and this is my last thing I promoted, and it we're running late. Like we started with reasonable episodes and eventually we got up to very very long episodes and we're doing it again. So I realized that that can be hard to like listen to, and you sometimes have to come back to it.
We will try to keep I'm not saying that at all, not even a little okay, because I will try to keep it. I love very long podcasts, and sure I might listen to them in two or three settings, whatever it may be. But when it's something that I enjoy, I never think, Man, I wish there were less of this.
Okay, fair enough, fair enough, So we'll get to critical roll length episodes.
This is like the only time we get to talk to each other, so we need.
To work on that, we do. We really need to work on that. Okay, Well.
On that now.
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