Large Nerdron ColliderThe Max streaming platform will say goodbye to a whole bunch of geeky properties at the end of the year. Plus, we talk about the trailer for Furiosa, our reaction to the promotional images for the Fallout TV series, and we don't have many nice things to say about the preview for the upcoming Ted streaming series. Plus more!
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large nor Drunk Collider podcast, the podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the world around us and how very excited we are about them. I'm Ariel Castin, and with me, as always, is the ever so Merry Jonathan structs. I'm on vacation, That's why you're ever so merry.
I'm assuming I'm certainly extremely merry right now. Yeah. In fact, I'll be going to Mickey's very merry Christmas party in a few days when I go down to Florida. But right now, I'm still in Atlanta, and we wanted to make sure we got an episode in before I went on vacation because right now we don't know whether or not we'll be able to record one next week. I hope we can, but I'll be traveling back on We record on Fridays, and I'll be traveling back on Friday, and I still have to go and pick up my dog from my parents' house, which is not close to the Atlanta airport, nor is it that close to my house. So we'll see whether or not Ariel wants to stay up that late and record an episode.
Yeah. Well, well, and we'll see if you are feeling up to it too, because yeah, that is fair. If you aren't, then that's good. That's gonna make for some interesting listening.
So, yes, that's true. We can get a very grouchy Jonathan like, yeah, whatever, let's talk about this geek crap.
It'll be all Grinch episode.
It'll be all Grinches all the time. Merry Christmas, you have filthy animal. We're gonna We're gonna chat first about stuff what we have seen recently, because both Ariel and I actually have something to talk about, uh in this segment before we go to our thirty seconds or less. So Ariel, tell me about your experience is watching geeky stuff over the past couple of weeks. Sure.
So I finished the season two of Loki, which was fun because I picked it back up right after the Calamity finale and it was the episode where they're in Chicago at the World's Fair, and so that just felt very thematically appropriate. But I finished it. I liked it. It was fun. I don't think I liked it as much as season one, but I liked it. I watched all of this Scott Pilgrim takes Off, which is the Netflix cartoon series, and that was just such a delight the first episode. If you haven't watched it yet but you like Scott Pilgrim and it's on your list, I'm gonna warn you the first episode starts off and you're like, am I just watching the movie again? But that's not the case. Stick with it. It's ridiculous. Make sure you watch the credits at the end because the guest stars that they have doing voice work on the show is also phenomenal. And then I watched the first Doctor Who episode of the new series and I loved it. I loved it. I was so good to have Russell T. Davies back. I thought it was a fun story. I learned that my cat, if anybody's on the discord saw me post this, that my cat is actually a Doctor Who alien, because they've been talking about it a little bit over there, And yeah, I just thought it was I just thought it was a lot of fun. I thought it was a lot of fun. I loved seeing Donna back. And then I watched a first episode of Invincible, but I won't talk about that because that's what I watched. I'm not the most Yeah.
Did you watch the first episode of season two of Invincible, or the first episode of Invincible full stop. Season two. Got it of season.
Two because I was like, I need something that's a little bit lighter than Barry, and I think I might have chosen wrong.
Yeah. No, Invincible is grim and gory and violent and depressing. Season two is real depressing. So if you're not familiar with the concept of Invincible, the story is that there's this incredible superman like superhero named Omni Man who has a son, and his son takes on the superhero name of Invincible, and his son is learning how to use his powers and everything, and then his son finds out that his dad isn't all he thought he was. He's not a hero at all. He's a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible person. And that's putting it lightly. And season one is pretty much all about how that kind of leads up to a big confrontation. Season two is kind of the aftermath of that and people trying to pick up the pieces and move forward and people living with the choices they made. And there's a lot of comedy in the show. It's not like it's all super dark and grim. It's kind of like the Boys that it has this take on the superhero genre that is not like the bright, shiny Superman take on it, that's much more dark and gritty. Season two has some interesting episodes that are not all about the character Invincible, which is kind of interesting as well. And they're releasing this season in two chunks. So the first chunk was four episodes, so I watched all four of them because I had watched the first season and I enjoyed it, which is a weird thing to say, because sometimes it was very very upset while watching it. But I thought it was very well done. Whereas Buriel watched a lot of stuff that she found delightful, this was not delightful, but it was compelling.
That's good to know. Would you say that it's darker than Barry.
No, No, I would say that Barry. Okay, Barry's final season is bleak, like it is bleak. Barry's final season is bleak. Especially, gosh, there's some there's some hard stuff in that final season. Okay, Yeah, I.
Why I am watching Invincible first.
It's two different It's two very different kinds of dark. Right, Like Barry, it's watching a tragedy unfold because you are already pretty sure where this is gonna lead like it's hard to imagine very ending with a happy ending, Like it's just hard to imagine that being possible, and so you're really just watching a train wreck in very slow motion unfold. Invincible, there's still a possibility of a happy ending, but the odds are high that it's gonna cost an awful lot to get there.
Yeah. I will say I find Invincible easier to watch than The Boys because it's not not live action. It doesn't feel as gross, like there's a lot of violence and there's a lot of gross stuff in there. Yeah, well, I feel like it's a more compelling store.
Invincible doesn't have the other form of abuse. Besides, like Invincible's violence is all just pure violence. You don't have a lot of like male on female forced violence kind of stuff that happens in The Boys. Yeah, and I mean that like in the Boys first season, that's a thing and it doesn't let up in frest episode. Yeah, it's not like it is beyond unpleasant, very compelling television, but incredibly unpleasant. Invincible does not have that element, but it is really dark.
Gotcha. I did watch one more thing today before popping on, so I didn't add it to the notes. But Dropout has released a trailer for their new show, Very Important People. And if you haven't seen it, Jonathan or anybody who has drop Out who also listens to our show, I know there's a couple of you. It looks so much fun. I laughed so hard at one point my husband called out for me at the room to ask if I was okay.
So I'll have to check that out. Oh I did. Also, what did I talk about this last time? I don't think I did, because I think I watched it in between. But tell me if I did, I watched the whole hell House series.
You did talk about watching some horror movies. I don't remember which one.
It might have been the Hellhouse series. So out of consideration, I will not dive into my thoughts on the hell House series A part to say that, in case this is reiterating, parts one and four I thought were good, and parts two and three I thought were entertaining in parts but otherwise not that good.
Hey start and finish strong, and what's in the middle doesn't matter as much.
Yeah, all right, Well, I think that leads us well into our thirty seconds or less segment, which again is honestly, like when we get through this and we start talking about the stories in our main lineup, arguably they all could have been thirty seconds or less.
But we'll see, Yeah, this might be a shorter episode, so we'll see. Maybe it'll all be thirty like a minute in under I don't know, Okay, So the first thing we have is Shane McGowan passed away. If you don't know him, he was the front man for the Pogues. I think he was sixty five when he passed, Yes, sixty five. He passed away from encephalitis. He honestly hadn't been healthy for quite a while, but he passed peacefully with his family and friends. You know, it's sad that it happened right now because the Pogues wrote fairy Tale of New York, which is a Christmas song, and now we're hitting the Christmas season. So I don't know if that's poetic irony or if it's just sad, but certainly his passing is sad, and to everybody who loved him, you know our cumnolences.
Yes, And I know thirty seconds are less, but I'm a huge Pogues fan. That's fine. Kirsty McCall, who I'm surprised you didn't take it. Well, you were the one who submitted it. Chirsty McCall, who was the other singer in Fairytale of New York. She also tragically passed away years and years ago. So now both of these singers featured in that song have passed on, and it's an amazing song. It is not a happy Christmas song, and there's also some foul language in it, just to keep you on the up and up. It is not your typical Christmas song. But yeah, very sad to hear of his passing. All right, here's my first thirty seconds or less. Now that the various strikes are over, we're hearing a lot about various productions getting back up to speed, and one of those is Venom three, according to star Tom Marty. Now, originally the plan was to release Venom three on July twelfth of next year. That has now been pushed back to November eighth, so still for next year. So in case Craven and Madam Webb don't have you excited, which would be sane, then maybe the next film in the Spidey without Spidey spin off will excite you. So there you go.
I stand by it. I liked the first Venom. It's the only one I've watched. Okay. Another thing that picked up production very briefly was Beetlejuice Too. Apparently when a strike happened, they only had a day and a half of shooting left and now that's over. They're done with principal photography. It's supposed to come out I think later this year. Oh yeah, it's supposed to come out in September. I am excited that Willem Deflow is playing a deceased action star turned detective, so he's basically playing Bruce Campbell, which is enough for me to see the movie all by itself. But I'm glad that they were able to get everybody back to finish up because I know how frustrating it is to be so close to the end of a project and not be able to complete it. That gives me anxiety.
That's also not the last time mentioned Willem Dafoe in this podcast, but anyway, next up, Marvel has tapped Michael Waldron to write both upcoming Avengers films that would be The Kang Dynasty and then Secret Wars. Waldron is the creator of the MCU streaming service Loki that Ariel talked about just moments ago, and that of course introduced Kang to the MCU. Waldron also wrote Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, So you know, your mileage may vary. It's not all good. Currently, the plan is for The Kang Dynasty to premiere on May first, twenty twenty six, and Secret Wars on May seventh, twenty twenty seven, so we got a while to wait. Yep.
Next is something we talked about a while ago, which is the sequel to This is Spinal Tap. It is still in the works. It begins production in February, starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKeon, and Harry Shearer. But apparently we're also going to get some fun guest stars like Paul McCartney, Elton John and Garth Brooks. I like this is Spinal Tap a lot. I wonder how a sequel will hold up current day, because I haven't watched it all too recently.
I think it'll be fun to have like the whole aging rock star element in there, kind of like you know, sort of spoofing off of bands like the Rolling Stones, you know, and the original film also had a ton of interesting supporting characters and cameos and like Fran Dresher, Billy Crystal. You know, there were a lot of people that if you watch the film, you're like, oh my gosh, that guy is in it. It's pretty cool, all right. James Cameron has said that Avatar three is in post production and will continue to be in post production for two more years. Will they plan premiere date around Christmas twenty twenty five. Avatar four is currently expected to debut on December twenty first, twenty twenty nine, and Part five on December nineteenth, twenty thirty one, which will put it twenty two years after the original Avatar film. Also, Cameron plans to become a New Zealand citizen next year.
Good for New Zealand. I do like in the article you posted, which will put in our show notes when all of these actors start thinking about how old they will be when when the series ends. Speaking of speaking of old series, did you know that the movie Hook, the story about Peter Pan who has grown up and become an accountant and now goes back to never Land to fight Dustin Hoffman along with Pretty Woman, You was originally going to be a musical. Neither did. I yeah, but apparently if you did, or if you're just finding out, but it's still excited about it. The News movie soundtrack, the expanded movie soundtrack that they're releasing for the movie, will include some of those musical numbers, and that is exciting to me. I look forward to them actually putting it up on stage, and I wonder if Jonathan will like it better as a musical.
Oh man, I wanted to like that movie. I love Dustin hoff performance, and I love that you referred to Julia Roberts as pretty woman. All right. Lion's Gate has secured the rights to adapt the Stephen King's story The Long Walk into a film. That story is set in the dystopian future in which kids compete with each other on an epic walk, with the last one left standing the winner and for the losers, well it's pretty grim. J. T. Mulner will write the adaptation, and Francis Lawrence, the director of The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Ladders, is going to direct.
Interesting. I never read The Longest Walk, but I've heard it synopsized to me, and it disturbs me. Something else I've never done has played Grand Theft Auto. But for everybody who's looking forward to the next Grand Theft Auto game, the trailer for six arrives on Tuesday, and by that I mean the fifth So yeah, I know people have been waiting for it. So for all those GTA fans, congratulations and happy holiday.
Yeah. I'll be in Epcot on that day, so I'll probably have to watch it when I get back. Maybe I doubt i'll even by the time I get back to the hotel, I'm not going to be conscious, so let's just be honest. It'll be a few days for me to wait and see it. Eli Roth's horror film Thanksgiving was a surprise hit, having been inspired by a tongue in cheek fake trailer for the double feature film grind House sixteen years ago. And I hope you have room for seconds because the Hollywood Reporter says Roth will return for the sequel, which tri Star Pictures plans to release in twenty twenty five. I thought Thanksgiving was a fun, schlocky horror film, very heavy on the gore, but that's Roth's style.
Interesting. Also interesting, the US Postal Service announced that they are they announce their twenty four season stamps, which they do, but this upcoming year, we are getting a series of D and D stamps to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons. They're all based off of previous like cover artist books.
And things like that, and other art like official artwork from D and D.
But they're delightful. They're delightful.
Cool roll to save against lost mail, all right, hah. Finally, Universal Pictures released a second trailer for the upcoming film Night Swim, which is about a supernatural evil lurking in a swimming pool attached to a house. As far as I can tell, the film's inspiration is a short film from the same director that was made several years ago. It was also called night Swim. You can see it on YouTube. It is two minutes forty five seconds long once he cut the credits off. I know because I actually watched it a year ago when I got on a short horror film kick and I have no idea how they stretched a thin concept, not even a premise like this. It's so short, it's like just an idea. There's no story. I don't know how they stretch that to be a feature link film, but it comes out on January, so I guess I'll find out.
Yeah, you can watch that. I tried to watch the trailer. I got five seconds in. I'm like, I'm gonna have to watch this with no sound on double speed. I still couldn't do it. I like swimming at night.
I know, okay, and you know what, like, I really don't. You know, maybe it'll turn out to be a great horror film, but I think part of the problem is that some of these horror shorts, they're so effective because they're leaning very heavily on evocative imagery and very like shocking twists that only work in the context of a very short production, and you can't really tease that out over the course of like ninety minutes or whatever. There was that one I can't remember what the name is now, but there was that one short film where there's a woman she's in her house and when she turns off a hall light, she sees a silhouette of a figure menacingly stand. When she turns it on, there's nothing there. And then she turns off the light and she can see it again. And they turned that into a full length film and it didn't do so well. And I'm just wondering if this is going to be the same sort of thing.
I guess, well, I guess you will see, so we're onto our regular news. But it was real hard not to just segue into another thirty seconds or last by saying there's gonna be some stuff soon that you won't see, at least on Max.
Yeah. Actually I made so. There's a full list that you can read that Warner Brothers Discovery published on their press release page. And I have a selection of some of the stuff that's leaving. This is just a sample, but for example, Frisky Dingo, the adult swim series is leaving delocated, a different adult swim series is leaving. The Man from Uncle is gone. Annabel, Annabel Creation, and Annabel Comes Home are all going. The Avengers, not the Superheroes, but the nineteen ninety eight film adaptation of the British TV series is going. But good riddance. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's a terrible movie. I enjoyed it, okay for everyone else out there who wants to know. It has a five percent Rotten Tomato score. Five percent of all critics gave it a positive review, and ninety five percent said it was gave it a negative review. Now Ariel is in that rare group of five percent. Me, I'm with the majority on this one. I that movie was incomprehensible and Sean Connery was terrible in it.
Yeah, but it gave me such good cosplay fodder to be Emma m appeal, m appeal.
Yeah, because it's it's stands for male appeal.
Ha. I didn't know that, but I like it.
Yeah, that's from the original series. You can go back to the original series, and I mean there's a lot of like m appeal has a lot of in common with say, Catwoman from the nineteen sixties Batman series, Speaking of which the nineteen sixty six Batman film will also be leaving Later Runner twenty forty nine's leaving Briga Dune the Conjuring too, only one in the Conjuring series as far as I could tell, that's leaving ELF. A whole bunch of DC superhero girls films called like Hero of the Year, Intergalactic Games, and Legends of Atlantis. Those are all gone at the end of December. Quick.
I want to I want to interject there because I saw another article saying these DC ten DC properties are leaving Max, and it showed all of like the big like the Snyder verse ones, and I was like, this is such a click bait. It frustrated me. Now I'm sad that the superhero girls are leaving, but also we know that Max is taking a step away from Children's animated, so it's not a surprise. I hope it finds it's way somewhere else. Okay, keep on.
Yeah, all these yeah, the series that are leaving that are all DC related ten to be the animated ones, except for Batman nineteen sixty six, which might as well be a cartoon. Several Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies are going, which is sad for horror fans like me. The Haunting, another great horror movie, Insidias chapter two, just chapter two, apparently the original ninety five Jumanji film with Robin Williams. That's going. The lego movie Looney Tunes back in Action. In fact, there was rumor that all Looney Tunes material was gonna leave Max, but apparently that has been walked back a little bit. Some other stuff like Scream, Scream two, and Scream three are all going. Paddington to the two thousand and four film adaptation of the Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, Good Riddance, Trick or Treat, a great Halloween movie that's going, Warm Bodies, Wonder Woman, Bloodlines is going. So yeah, it's This is just again, just a kind of a selection of some of the geek related properties that are going. It's not all of them by any means. The list is long, and you know, yes, there's the need to refresh your library every now and then, and you can't just continuously pay for larger and larger libraries. You do occasionally have to shift things out. But of course, Wonder Brother's Discovery has a pretty bad reputation for dumping properties.
Yeah. Yeah, if they didn't have that bad reputation, I'd say this is fine. It might even be beneficial to some of the actors in there. Well, I don't know, because it depends on when the the sag after contract still has not been final finalized, voted on by the actors yet, like it, that's still in the process. I think that happens this upcoming week, But if that passes, I don't know how soon those royalty adjustments happen. I do, at least for most of these properties feel like they will find their way to other platforms, which which is good because there's still good movies even if HBO Max no longer wants that as a part of their library, and then there's still good aventures. So yes, look, I also like Van Helsing and I also like Dylan Dog Dead of Night, So we all know where my dumb humor button lies.
Well, it's not all bad news because there's stuff that's coming to Max and the next story is about something really exciting coming to Max.
Yeah. So the Miyazaki film Spirited Away had a stage version that was kind of I think it was like one of those Fathom event things. You could go to the movie theater and see it. Possibly. Yes, yes, it was a very very limited run, and I was very sad because it didn't get to see it. But it looks like there's great costuming and puppeteering and just stagecraft. It's a thing all love about beetle jears, and now it's coming to Max on December twenty fourth, twenty fifth, twenty.
Fourth, twenty fourth. I think, yeah, that's really exciting. Like you said, there's a lot of puppetry involved, and I saw little clips of this when there was the Fathom event coming up and was blown away, and I was like, how I've seen Spirited Away. That is an incredibly ambitious project to tackle. But everyone who saw it that I've talked to really thought it was phenomenal. I just haven't seen it yet, so I'm excited that it's coming to streaming me too.
I may not get to watch it on Christmas Eve for Christmas Day because my husband is not as much of a fan of Miyazaki. He's watched it, but cartoons are not always his thing, so if they are, well, this is.
A lot of this is live stage, it's not a cartoon.
Yeah, he might like it better. But I will definitely watch it this holiday season because it seems like a lot of fun to do. It makes me so happy. Thank you Max for that.
Yes, not everything you do is terrible, and we're glad for that.
Nerdicst reported, well, I guess so. A bunch of people reported that there is a first look at Agatha dark Hold of dark Hold Diaries, dark Hold of Darkness, Dark Wing Duck.
Let's Get Dangerous.
Yes, Agatha dark Hold Diaries has released kind of a little behind the scenes look at the upcoming series. I really appreciate everybody's excitement and buy in, and just like enthusiasm for this project, I just am not the feeling enthused for it.
Well, I'm enthused just to see Catherine Hahn do more stuff because I love her. I think she's she's got great instincts, She's a great performer, great actor, and so I'm really excited to see her do more stuff. I have no idea where they're gonna go with this because of how they did Wanda Dirty in Doctor Strange and really Agatha without Wanda doesn't it seems it's kind of like having a series about Lex Luthor and Superman doesn't exist, Like what's the point. But uh, I am. I am curious. This behind the scenes stuff is going to be included in a Blu ray of WandaVision. I didn't even realize WandaVision was going to get physical media, but I think that's pretty cool.
I'm I'm glad for it in case it ever leaves streaming platforms, because that's one I would buy.
Yeah, I'll pick it up because that was I think that's the high water mark for the Disney plus Marvel streaming series so far, like Loki comes close, but WandaVision to me is like that is that is the standard that should be met every time. And for the record, like I've liked most of the streaming series, including Shee Hulk, which I maintain was very good, but I keep reading people talking about being trash and you're trash. Okay, maybe you're not trash, but I don't agree with your opinion.
The episodes were just too short. They ended it weird places, and I feel like they could have like I get maybe ending on like a cutaway that's black and you're like, what what? But I feel like it could have been executed a little bit better. But that being said, I thought the performances were lovely and I laughed a lot.
So we also got a first look at some of the images from the upcoming television series based on the Fallout series of games, including a look at the Brotherhood of Steel characters in their armor and a Vault Dweller in the Vault Dweller jumpsuit, as well as a picture of Walter Goggins as a ghoul, and they look very true to the style of the computer game series, so at least from an appearance side, it looks like it's right on track. Now, the question is whether they can nail the tone, which throughout the Fallout series has been kind of well, certainly uneven. Like, it's very hard to reconcile the tone of Fallout games because you will have moments of just absolute zany wackiness followed by the most grim of grim stuff, and it's hard to have it all kind of make a coherent story. So I'm very curious to see what path the television series takes.
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Emma Parnell, who plays Lucy looks spot on to the characters in the in the video game, you know, minus the Uncanny Valley as far as I can tell. And Walter Goggins, who still has one of the best names I've ever heard, Walton Goggins. Yeah, Walton Goggins almost looks more normal as the Ghoul than he does in real life.
Yeah, Goggins plays some amazing characters, like he's he's so he's really good at being bad.
Yeah. Yeah, always a delight. This made me wonder about the Borderlands movie that has been in production crazy forever. In theory, it's still happening as of last month.
Yeah, we hadn't heard really anything about that for quite some time. I mean part of that was because of the strikes, but still.
Yeah, yeah, last month there was an article saying, hey, it's still in the works with the reshoots that have been fun and all because with the cast like that, you don't just throw it away unless you're certain.
Unless you're Warner Brothers Discovery.
I wouldn't gonna look. I would still happily work for them.
So uh, yeah, it's just maybe your work would never be seen.
You know. That's yeah, it's possible, but it might also be seen. So we'll never know, Well we won't. We might know. I'm not gonna say we'll never know. We'll probably know at some point, but not today. Next year, for Christmas, we're getting something a little bit darker than Spirited Away. We're getting a new version of Nosparatu.
Yeah uh, and this is this has been known for a while, but I somehow, if I had seen this news, I had forgotten it, so I did not realize that there was another there was a new adaptation in nos Faratu in the works, and that it was coming out next year. And the cast list tickles me. You got you got like Nicholas Holt, it is going to be cast in nos Faratu. I think that's funny because he was just in Renfield, which is clearly so Nosparatu is a ripoff of Dracula. It's always been a ripoff of Dracula. The vampire in Nosperrato is called Count Orlock, but it's essentially if you watch the original Nosferatu, it's it's an adaptation of Dracula. Then. So, but then you've got like Nicholas Holt, who was Renfield in Rinfield, which was obviously another like inspiration from Dracula. And also Willem Dafoe, whom I mentioned we were going to talk about again. He's gonna be in nos Faratu. And the thing that's funny about that is twenty years ago he was in a movie called Shadow of the Vampire. And when he was in Shadow of the Vampire, he played the character of Max Shrek. That's the actor who originally played Nosferatu in the black and white film. So it's just funny that he's also in this.
Yeah. Yeah, Also people who are in it are Bill scars Guard and Aaron Taylor Johnson, who I love Aaron Taylor Johnson. He's a great actor.
Yeah, And scars Guard is actually playing Orlock, which because when I saw Willem Dafoe was in I'm like, oh my gosh, are they gonna have Willem Dafoe playing Orlock? Because that would be hilarious that he played the actor who was Orlock twenty years ago and now he gets a chance to play the character. No such luck, So I have no idea who he's playing.
So I understand stand that Bill Scarsguard looks like a very GQ model version of Steve Buscemi, but I think just base level, Bill Scarsguard is too attractive to play a Nosparatu because they're ugly vampires. That's that's their whole thing. And I feel like if he makes his ugly face, it's going to be Bill Scarsguard as penny Wise as Nosferatu.
Uh where his eyes aren't pointing in the same direction and.
Yeah, and he's drooling with his pointy lip and.
There's gonna be a lot of prosthetics.
Yeah, yeah, there would have to be. Look, I'm excited for this. We all know I like classic monster stuff. I'm less excited to watch it on Christmas Day, but I will watch it.
Yeah, yeah, I'm well, you know what Christmas it's a time for scary ghost stories. According to you know that song, so scary ghost stories and tells the glories of Christmases long long ago.
So so is count Orlock then going to find the true Christmas spirit and buy everybody a roast goose?
I sure hope. So if they if they combined Nosparatu with the Christmas Carol, I'll be really happy.
That would be that would be a delight. I would watch that on Christmas.
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The next thing is also like super a delight, which is we're getting a new Karate Kid movie. And they had an open casting call for the new Karate Kid, which is just really cool. Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan made a video and said hey, if you're if you fit what we're looking for, send in, and they got like ten thousand submissions very quickly.
Yeah. Super cool. Yeah. So Jackie Chan of course was in the most recent version of Karate Kid, and Ralph Machio was the original Karate Kid and then went on to be in Cobra Kai as well, So it's really exciting to see them both involved in this new one, and of course now that we're getting a new Karate Kid as well, it's not going to be was it Jade Smith as the last one? So I'm really I'm really curious to see how this project continues, because I really I have a soft spot in my heart for the Karate Kid franchise. I really have a soft spot for the first two because I was young when both of those movies came out and very much liked them when I was a kid, So I look forward to seeing what the next story will be.
It makes me surprised that you haven't finished Cobra Kai.
Honestly, Yeah, I never I don't think I've even watched a full episode of it. I've seen clips of Cobra Kai like I've seen like compilation clips of different things in it, but I have not actually watched a full episode.
I like it, even though at very many times during the series I was infuriated at the dumbness of both the adults and kids. I still really in the series. Back to the casting call, I am also excited because for the new Karate Kid, they're looking for someone who's Chinese or partially Chinese to play the role, and I think that's also a good choice.
So yeah, and that they're looking for preferably someone who can speak English and Mandarin. Although that's that's kind of a like ideal situation sort of thing.
Yeah, and also someone who is fifteen to seventeen, because I think Ralph Macchio was older when he played the Karate Kid.
Yeah. I think he was approximately fifty three when he was the Karate Kid.
No, that's how old he is now. I'm sure. Funny thing Tony told me. I didn't realize this. Terry Silvers, which is in the Third Movie, which you didn't like as much. I think he's a third movie, was younger than Ralph Macchio. Is younger than Ralph Macchio very old.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah, it blows my mind, but it's fun trivia. We also this week got the first trailer for Furioso, which is a spin off of the most recent Mad Max movie.
Mm hmm with Anya Taylor Joy.
Who you love?
Yes, my girlfriend Madia Taylor Joy is in the movie. I'm jealous.
Also it happen my girlfriends.
Or you wanted to be Ania Taylor Joy's girlfriend? Okay, yeah, no that.
I want to be Ania Taylor Joy period.
Oh. I like.
I like being me anyhow. The thing that surprised me because apparently I either have a very short memory or haven't been paying enough attention. Is that Chris Hemsworth isn't it? And he's playing what looks to be like a bargain Bin version of Thor.
Yeah. I liked it because like, he wasn't I mean, I'm bad at recognizing people anyway, but he wasn't immediately recognizable to me. And I saw saw him in the trailer, and before it got to the point where I had his credit title show up on screen, I was like, is that Chris Hemsworth?
When I first saw him, I was like, is that cri Chris Hemsworth? And then he talked him like, surely it can't be, but who the heck is that? But it is Chris Hemsworth. Yeah, I like that's he's going outside of his normal Marvel stick, which of course you would, but in the movie his character wears like a ratty yellow, ratty red cape, which just reminds me of a very like toxic Wasteland version of four.
Yeah. He also he also rides a chariot pulled by a motorcycle, which is incredibly cool. Like when I saw that that design of a vehicle, I'm like, man, I love the vehicles in Mad Max. There's someone my favorite like like film design things. Also, the cinematography that was on display in that trailer was phenomenal. Didn't get a whole lot from Anya Taylor Joy apart from looking like a badass. We didn't get a whole lot of lines from her, so it's kind of hard to to target where her performance is here. I'm just glad we're finally going to get this because I remember seeing interviews of her a couple of years ago where she was talking about the filming and so it's been a while since the filming on this picture wrapped. But yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. I very much enjoyed Fury Road, and this looks like it's going to be another Like it's probably gonna be another two hour chase scene. But I'm okay with it because Fiury Road was so good.
Yeah, I feel the same way. I didn't expect to like Fury Road as much as I did because I'm like, it's a giant chase scene. Normally I don't like just even though I like car stunts, I don't like movies that are just one giant chase. Yeah, I find them kind of they make me a little anxious. And also it's it's one stick throughout the whole movie.
Yeah, they make me bored because, like I think of like the the the pod racing scene in the first Star Wars movie, and I almost fell asleep in it, and then when they released it on home video, they actually made it longer, Like are you kidding me? This is too much.
I feel like that movie was made for kids though, and not for you at the age you were when it came out.
Yeah, no, I won't. I won't go on my Star Wars rant.
Yeah, we don't have time for that today. I Yeah, I really like Mad Max, I really liked Freery Broad. I'm looking forward to this even though Anya Taylor Joy, as bad ass as she is, doesn't look like Charlie's.
Therein to me.
But you know, the Wastelands can do a lot to a person, so I'll take Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, well, let me put it to you this way. If the Wastelands, if the if the Ravages of the Waste langs and turned an Anya Taylor Joy into a short, at least they're on They're not that bad, right, right? Go for one one gorgeous young woman into another gorgeous, slightly older woman is okay.
I agree, Maybe maybe we all need a little wasteland. That's not true. The other thing I'll say is, like, I'm you and I have both kind of talked about prequels and how much do we actually need them before? But her character, like was a cool character, and we learned very little about her. So I think this prequel is okay as opposed to the next prequel we're about to talk about, which is the prequel to Ted. You know that horrible Seth MacFarlane movie about a talking teddy bear that everybody can hear.
Yeah, we got a We got a trailer for a prequel series that'll run on Peacock. It is also, of course called Ted and Ariel, I want to ask you an important so did you watch the trailer?
Yeah?
Okay, how many times did you laugh?
Zero? Oh?
Hey, you laughed just as many times as I did.
I you know, and sometimes I like Seth MacFarlane and I loved the Orville. This property is just not for me.
Yeah, same here, Like it's just it just comes across as obnoxious and mean spirited, but not in a funny way. Like it's just Yeah, I don't know, I do not get the appeal at all, Like there's the gimmick. I get the gimmick. The gimmick Teddy Bear comes to life turns out to be a foul mouthed, pot smoking, sexist lowlife just like the guy who's his best friend?
Ha ha ha.
Isn't that a funny concept? The problem is that's it. That's all I see. Like, I don't see anything beyond this concept, which I don't necessarily find that funny to begin with, because I've seen other movies like Meet the Feebles, where you you take the concept of like the characters like puppet characters or Avenue Q if you want to talk about stage version, these characters that would normally be geared towards kids being actually terrible characters or whatever. I've seen it before, and I've seen it done better. So this did not appeal to me, even in the slightest.
Yeah, especially like I could even maybe understand if they're like this shows how the main character got to be that foul mouth, you know, sarcastic, poor minded person, But it doesn't do that. And even Scott Grimes, who plays the data in it, who I love from the Orville and He was even in my very favorite Christmas movie of all time way back in the day, The Night They Saved Christmas. He played one of the kids. He couldn't even save this trailer for me.
Yeah, I yeah, this was a total miss for me as well. Maybe folks who are big fans of Ted the film, no shade on you. If you like that, that's awesome. It's just your taste is different from Mars. That's totally cool. Different tastes are great. Maybe you will find the series trailer to be knee slappingly hilarious, But for me, it was just like, I do not I'm not gonna hate watch this. I did that for Velma, I'm not gonna do it for this. Am I am good?
Yeah, the next trailer you're gonna have to talk about because I you added it and I didn't get to watch it before.
Oh okay, So this is This is a series that Bruce Campbell is hosting. It's called Discontinued and according to the trailer by Bruce Campbell. By the way, this is not a fictional like narrative based series from what I can tell, but it does have a premise, and that premise, apparently is that the year is twenty thirty seven, and it's a dystopian future and everybody is kind of locked away, and for some reason, Bruce Campbell has to talk about different stuff that has been discontinued, and like, I'm talking about real stuff in the real world, So like there would be an episode that would go into an actual thing that is no longer really a thing. So like VHS tapes could be an example, right, because those have been discontinued. No one is making new VHS tapes. The last company to do that stopped a couple of years ago. So that could be an episode to talk about the history, evolution and then the discontinuation of the VHS tape. That would be an episode. But not just that. It's things like television series or various specific products. That kind of thing so very weird that they have it set in this premise, set in a dystopian future. But I dig the idea.
Yeah, yeah, me too. I do dig that idea, and I will look forward to watching the trailer when we get off of this episode. And that is it. Jonathan, If our dear friends want to talk to us about any of the things that they've talked about that we've talked about today, or that they've talked about. Really, they could just share their day with us too. How do they reach a slash you?
That's pretty simple. So tonight, when you go to bed, that beloved stuffed animal that you've had forever and ever is going to make its way right up to you and start talking with you, and you're going to reminisce about all the great times you had together. But over the course of the conversation you're going to discover this stuffed animal is a pretty terrible person. But it's still the stuffed animal that you loved as a kid, So you can't just throw it out. I mean, this is this stuffed animals stuck with you, thick and thin, So you're gonna have to just sort of endure its company, and day after day, the stuffed animal is going to be walking around with you and calm on your life and occasionally embarrassing you to terrible degrees, apparently not realizing that it's doing that. But it's gonna be making you feel like crap in front of people you love. By the same time, it's gonna be like, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know, And you're gonna have to forgive it. That's gonna go on for about three months until you have reached a point where you can just no longer even stand to look at this thing, because that's how angry it makes you. And you're going to be trying to go to sleep, and it's going to be talking to you about some terrible thing that you did when you were five years old, and it's the sort of thing that would keep you up if you just like you're about to drift off and it suddenly pops into your head and you just feel ashamed and angry at yourself all over again. He's gonna really start twisting the knife on that. You're just gonna turn to your stuffed animal and you're just gonna start ripping it apart, like you're gonna tear its head off, and it will be screaming the whole time. It will be screaming the entire time you'll be ripping its arms and legs off. And then when it's laying there in pieces next to your bed, the head will look and say, Jonathan wants to know what your question is. You can ask it and then I'll hear and I'll send you an email and.
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