Summer Movie Mayhem!

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Welcome and Overview

Brent (00:01:26 - 00:01:29): Welcome, loyal listeners, to another episode of True North Nerds.

Ryan (00:01:32 - 00:01:33): Yay!

Jen (00:01:33 - 00:01:34): Yay!

Brent (00:01:34 - 00:01:36): Jeez, you guys were delayed on that one.

Jen (00:01:40 - 00:01:42): I wasn’t, just Ryan was.

Brent (00:01:42 - 00:02:02): This week, a little bit of a hodgepodge of stuff, but the main topic will be the upcoming summer slate of movies and just kind of what we’re looking forward to and not looking forward to. Yeah. And we’ll talk a little news because there’s only a little news to talk about. But we have Jen.

Jen (00:02:04 - 00:02:04): Hi.

Brent (00:02:05 - 00:02:06): And we have Ryan.

Ryan (00:02:07 - 00:02:07): Hello.

Brent (00:02:08 - 00:02:11): And we have no Kevin because Kevin’s out with a bunch of Santas.

Jen (00:02:13 - 00:02:14): But we do have Brent.

Brent (00:02:14 - 00:02:22): Yes, we do have me. All right, Ryan, as we kind of mentioned, there’s only a little bit of news this week. What are we talking about?

News: Trailers and CinemaCon

Ryan (00:02:23 - 00:03:04): Uh, so my news is just all filled with, uh, brand new trailers for movies coming out this summer. Hence, you know, it fits in the topic. Um, so we got our second look at the upcoming movie that we’re looking forward to seeing, Masters of the Universe. Uh, the UK trailer came out this week and it was very— well, it wasn’t very different, but a little more serious tone to it. Not all jokey humor like the first trailer I found, at least. Did you guys look at that one? I think I did in our chat earlier this week or last week.

Jen (00:03:05 - 00:03:06): I think I did.

Ryan (00:03:06 - 00:03:16): You need to send me a reminder at 4:30, actually 5:30, to look at all the trailers on your phone on days that we record because you’re a big girl and you can do this yourself.

Jen (00:03:17 - 00:03:18): I have so many other things to do.

Ryan (00:03:19 - 00:03:20): Okay.

Jen (00:03:20 - 00:03:22): I think I saw it.

Ryan (00:03:24 - 00:03:54): But yeah, so it’s a lot of the same footage, but some new footage. But the more interesting thing that happened in relation to this, oh, I guess I didn’t even look at any of that stuff. Maybe we’ll look at it later. CinemaCon. CinemaCon happened last weekend and that’s where a lot of these trailers came out and some other news that I didn’t write down. But the important part was they were showing off popcorn buckets and fancy drink cups.

Jen (00:03:54 - 00:03:56): That we won’t get in Canada.

Ryan (00:03:56 - 00:04:44): Oh, don’t say that because at least the good ones from Masters of the Universe are open market, they said. So they’re not exclusive to any one chain. Popcorn buckets such as a Castle Grayskull. With a removable turret drink, you know, your glass, your drink for your pop. Um, and the drawbridge opens and then the head of, I guess the top of the Grayskull head on the castle opens up and that’s where you put your candy. So that one. And then there’s a like full-size replica Power Sword. Drinking that has a straw in the hilt, which I want.

Brent (00:04:44 - 00:04:45): That’s the one I want.

Jen (00:04:45 - 00:04:58): Yeah, I’m looking forward, if we find these things, to taking videos of you guys trying to eat and drink out of these ridiculous things. I think the popcorn bucket is probably not going to be hard, but yeah, that’s that sword straw thing is—

Ryan (00:04:59 - 00:05:07): oh, if I get it, I— it would be very unlikely or highly unlikely that there would ever be fluid inside.

Jen (00:05:07 - 00:05:09): Yeah, also be really hard to clean.

Ryan (00:05:10 - 00:05:16): Well, it’s not the whole sword, so pretty much just like, you know, the middle section, like the thickest part of the sword.

Brent (00:05:16 - 00:05:18): It does spin off basically.

Jen (00:05:18 - 00:05:19): But still.

Ryan (00:05:20 - 00:05:25): Is where the fluid sits. It doesn’t go all the way down to the bottom of the point of the sword.

Jen (00:05:26 - 00:05:27): Yeah, but still.

Ryan (00:05:28 - 00:05:29): Oh yeah.

Jen (00:05:30 - 00:05:37): I’m still mad that I didn’t get the Rocky popcorn bucket when he’s in his sphere and you get a little Rocky inside.

Ryan (00:05:38 - 00:06:24): See, the key for these things is you have to get them on the first day. It’s like when we went and saw Ghostbusters on that Thursday night showing, I got there early. I bought the Slimer popcorn bucket. I bought some of the Ghostbuster blind packs, and I got my little shoulder-mounted magnetic mini marshmallow guys. But, uh, so yep, that’s coming. Looks, you know, it’s— it can’t be any worse than the original. Uh, so, Brent, you just watched it. We got our first look at a new DC movie. So from DC Comics movie, uh, Clayface.

Brent (00:06:25 - 00:06:50): Yeah, it’s a horror movie, which we already knew. Like, that’s how they’ve been marketing it. Um, I don’t know. Like, it’s one of those things that like, I’m sure it will be fine. It may even be great. But at the same time, it’s like, did I need this movie? I don’t think so.

Ryan (00:06:51 - 00:06:51): Yeah.

Brent (00:06:51 - 00:07:22): Like, and like that goes, that goes for a lot of the villains that they’ve turned into solo movies over the years. I’m like, and I’m like that with comic books too. Now granted, we’re going to be talking about one of those things later on this episode that’s been turned into an excellent TV series, but it’s one of those things that like, it depends. Depending on when it comes out, I’ll see it the week it releases, but I’m not like, I don’t know, I’m not super anxious to see it.

Ryan (00:07:22 - 00:07:50): It’s going to be real interesting. To see what the DC hero involvement is in this movie, if any. You’d have to think, well, someone or something has to show up. They show he’s in Gotham, so it’s just going to be established in the DCU. And it’s like—

Jen (00:07:52 - 00:07:55): They might just hint at a hero instead of actually showing a hero.

Brent (00:07:56 - 00:08:36): Yeah, and, and the thing is, is we don’t— I don’t think they know what they’re doing with Batman anymore. Like, I know he’s keeping it under wraps, but like, they’ve just started sorting out stuff for The Batman 2, which like ended up kind of like being worked on far outside the lines, and it doesn’t look like certain cast members are even available for it now. And the fact that, like, but even beyond that is the, you know, are they going to lump that in with the DCU because they can’t figure out what to do back with Batman in the DCU? That throws that off too.

Ryan (00:08:39 - 00:09:18): I could see them putting Batman in this movie and not promoting it, like, just not that he’s in it much, but like Maybe he’s in it in the third act, in the final, whatever’s happening, he shows up in time to stop Clayface. And it’s revealed who the next— the DC, that’s how they reveal they’ve cast someone. They have a DC Batman and they’ve kept it under their hats this whole time. And it’ll just be like, it’ll be opening night. By the time it premieres, it’ll leak. Mm-hmm. But that would get buzz to it.

Brent (00:09:20 - 00:09:44): Maybe. I almost think you’re giving them too much credit. Yeah. Like James Gunn’s doing some great work here, but at the same time, it’s like Batman just— it seems weird. It seems like the nut that they don’t know how to crack. I don’t see this being the entryway into cracking said nut. So.

Ryan (00:09:45 - 00:10:04): And I guess technically, if this is part of the DCU continuity that they’re building, we’ve already seen Clayface. He’s in the cartoon. He’s in the Creature Commandos, or no, Creature Commandos. Is that what it was called? Creature Commandos?

Brent (00:10:04 - 00:10:04): Yes.

Ryan (00:10:05 - 00:10:12): Yeah. He was— because he was the one the professor Oh, yes. Did you ever watch it?

Brent (00:10:13 - 00:10:15): No, because it was on a thing I didn’t have.

Ryan (00:10:17 - 00:10:59): Oh, okay. But yeah, so he replaces, he’s part of the scheme that gets them to go to this country where they go and attack, where they go to help, air quotes. He replaces this professor at a university. and I guess what’s his name, Flag Senior, finds out and almost dies fighting him. So, but, and it’ll be interesting to see, because so it’s like if this is a Clayface origin story, then it would take place before all that.

Brent (00:11:00 - 00:11:04): So I’m just looking up something.

Ryan (00:11:05 - 00:11:06): Go right ahead.

Brent (00:11:06 - 00:11:19): Well, just, I’m curious if it’s the same actor who plays both, because that would like concretely put it— doesn’t necessarily mean it against it, you know what I mean?

Ryan (00:11:20 - 00:11:20): But yeah.

Brent (00:11:35 - 00:11:43): Just looking through it. Um, cool. Uh, you keep going and I’ll, as I’m looking up this.

Ryan (00:11:44 - 00:11:52): Okay. Um, so the next one I got on my list after that is we finally got our first look at Coyote vs. Acme.

Jen (00:11:53 - 00:11:57): Yeah, I’m excited that that one’s coming out.

Ryan (00:11:59 - 00:12:29): Yeah, that one looks good. I know we’ve gone over the story behind this movie as far as getting it to see the light of day in past episodes. So I’m happy that we finally got to see the trailer and that it’s actually going to be coming out. And they make digs at Warner Brothers and the whole using it as a tax write-off and things like that in the trailer.

Jen (00:12:30 - 00:12:31): Nice.

Ryan (00:12:34 - 00:12:44): So I assume you guys saw that one, right? You saw the trailer, you liked it, you’re looking forward to it.

Brent (00:12:44 - 00:12:44): Yep.

Ryan (00:12:45 - 00:12:51): Okay. Um, we got our first look at Super Troopers 3.

Jen (00:12:54 - 00:12:55): That one I don’t care.

Brent (00:12:55 - 00:13:00): We did. Ryan and I will be there opening day.

Ryan (00:13:01 - 00:13:02): Oh yeah, we’ll go see that one.

Jen (00:13:03 - 00:13:04): Um, you guys can do that.

Ryan (00:13:04 - 00:13:09): It looks like more funny fun hijinks with those guys.

Brent (00:13:14 - 00:13:25): Yeah, so which— so Farva’s marrying whose sibling? Is it a sister or is— I, I’m trying to remember from the trailer.

Ryan (00:13:25 - 00:13:29): Sister of the, uh, the main guy with the mustache.

Brent (00:13:29 - 00:13:42): Oh, okay. Yeah, uh, Ramothorn. Which makes it like— because at first, yeah, for a bit there, like, I was thinking it was like I heard daughter in my head and—

Ryan (00:13:42 - 00:13:49): Oh, okay. No, no, he’s not that old. There’s not that much of an age difference.

Brent (00:13:50 - 00:13:52): Yeah.

Ryan (00:13:53 - 00:14:09): The interactions with his— yeah, with Farva and his, I guess, soon-to-be in-laws at the different parties or different events. Yeah, it’s going to be such grown-up, like, oh my God humor that’s going to be great.

Brent (00:14:12 - 00:14:50): So yeah, Clayface, as he said, appears in Creature Commandos, and there’s been no like official confirmation that it’s the same. And it’s Alan Tudyk does the voice of Clayface. So yeah, but at the same time, I guess somebody tweeted a question to James Gunn whether this is the same Clayface or not, and he liked the tweet, but he didn’t actually comment on it. So who knows, it’s all canon until they decide it’s not.

Ryan (00:14:51 - 00:15:07): Well, exactly. And you know, the whole, you know, he’s not necessarily gonna be the, the actor portraying human-looking Clayface or whatever. It’s Clayface, he can morph into whatever look he wants. He’ll just be the voice when he’s Clayface, like he’s like the blob.

Brent (00:15:08 - 00:15:37): Well, I’m not saying it’s Alan Tudyk doing the voice in the movie or anything. Well, he’s saying that’s who did it in the cartoon. Yeah, like if it was the same actor on both sides, that would be like, oh, it’s got to be the same guy because they’ve been doing that with Creature Commandos. Like all the voiceover people for the most part are their like live-action counterparts. So Anything else?

Ryan (00:15:37 - 00:15:54): Oh, all kinds. We’re halfway done the list. We got what was billed as the trailer or teaser for Spaceballs. In reality, it was just the announcement of the actual title of the new movie.

Brent (00:15:54 - 00:15:55): Yay.

Ryan (00:15:56 - 00:15:57): Spaceballs.

Jen (00:15:57 - 00:15:58): The new one.

Ryan (00:15:58 - 00:16:07): The new one. That’s great. Instead of the search for more money, he’s like, I found it, it’s over there.

Jen (00:16:08 - 00:16:09): Spaceballs the money. Yeah.

Ryan (00:16:09 - 00:16:17): Oh, I love it. The new one. So there we go. That’s coming. That’s not out till next year though, I think.

Jen (00:16:17 - 00:16:29): So when, uh, when I was a kid, it was like probably my cousins were the ones who turned me on to Spaceballs, and they always thought that the next movie should be called Spaceballs 3: Whatever Happened to Spaceballs 2?

Ryan (00:16:30 - 00:16:36): Yep. As great as that would be, I think that would confuse too many people.

Jen (00:16:37 - 00:16:39): Yeah, they didn’t account for idiocracy.

Ryan (00:16:40 - 00:16:49): Yeah. In this day and age, it’d be, oh, well, I can’t see Spaceballs 3. I never saw Spaceballs 2.

Jen (00:16:51 - 00:16:51): Yeah.

Ryan (00:16:54 - 00:16:59): We got a more fleshed-out trailer for Street Fighter.

Brent (00:17:00 - 00:17:00): Yep.

Ryan (00:17:01 - 00:17:08): This summer’s potential biggest flaming pile. Oh, is that—

Brent (00:17:08 - 00:17:09): doesn’t come out till the fall.

Ryan (00:17:10 - 00:17:19): Wow. The promotional push that it’s getting right now between, I guess, WrestleMania stuff and then the trailer, it’s like, I assumed that was a summer movie.

Jen (00:17:19 - 00:17:22): No, I’m already getting it mixed up with Mortal Kombat.

Brent (00:17:23 - 00:17:35): I want to say it’s October. Like, it is a ways away, which surprises me that we’ve, like you said, that we’ve gotten this much. Yeah, October 16th is the release date.

Ryan (00:17:35 - 00:17:35): Hmm.

Brent (00:17:37 - 00:17:43): Which I kind of get because they didn’t want it to be close to Mortal Kombat.

Ryan (00:17:43 - 00:17:46): Well, I was going to say, when does Mortal Kombat out?

Brent (00:17:46 - 00:17:48): Mortal Kombat comes out in like a couple of weeks.

Ryan (00:17:48 - 00:17:52): Okay. Then yeah, so they don’t want people to be confused like Jen.

Jen (00:17:53 - 00:18:03): I’m already confused. We watched the Street Fighter trailer and I said, what happened to Karl Urban? And Brent was like, that’s Mortal Kombat. And I went, oh right, they’re the same movie in my brain.

Brent (00:18:04 - 00:18:10): But also Jen doesn’t remember that a Mortal Kombat movie came out 2 years ago either.

Jen (00:18:10 - 00:18:11): Yeah.

Ryan (00:18:11 - 00:18:11): No.

Jen (00:18:13 - 00:18:19): Brent keeps saying, oh, we’re going to have to watch the first one. And I’m like, well, one from the ’90s? He’s like, no, there was one like 2 years ago. I was like, there was?

Ryan (00:18:21 - 00:18:24): I watched it. I don’t remember much from it, so apparently we’ll have to all rewatch it.

Jen (00:18:28 - 00:18:35): Maybe it probably isn’t important to the— and I’m using air quotes here, you can’t see— plot of that movie.

Ryan (00:18:36 - 00:18:38): So this— yeah, exactly.

Brent (00:18:38 - 00:18:40): I think we should anyways though.

Jen (00:18:41 - 00:18:48): Oh, are we gonna do it like a, um, like what we did? Uh, what’s the word? I’m brain tired.

Brent (00:18:48 - 00:18:50): Like a commentary track?

Jen (00:18:50 - 00:18:51): Yeah, that’s the word.

Brent (00:18:52 - 00:19:18): No, here’s my thought on it. If it was a movie we had seen multiple times and we hated or liked or something like that, sure. But you haven’t seen it. I don’t remember if I saw it or not. And when you do stuff like that with a movie, unless it’s horrifically bad, the commentary tracks just tend to be boring because you’re watching the movie and it’s a lot of silence.

Jen (00:19:18 - 00:19:21): I don’t know, I haven’t seen the Superman one before. We watched that.

Ryan (00:19:23 - 00:19:27): Yeah, but the rest of us had already seen it. Yeah, and that’s a horrible movie.

Brent (00:19:28 - 00:19:55): Yeah, that’s not a great movie right out of the gate. It’s one of those things that like I learned that when my first podcast, Two Assholes Doing Nerd Stuff or Talking About Nerd Stuff, we did a ton of commentary tracks and we did Repo: The Genetic Opera. Which is a musical. And at the time, they really billed it as the main stars of it were Anthony Stewart Head from Buffy, the guy who plays Giles.

Ryan (00:19:56 - 00:19:56): Okay.

Brent (00:19:57 - 00:20:23): And Paris Hilton. So, wow. And it’s a horror movie musical. So we went into it thinking it was going to be garbage. It wasn’t. It’s quite good. And the commentary track suffers because of that, because we were just paying attention to the movie as opposed to making making fun of it. All right, next.

Ryan (00:20:23 - 00:20:34): Next, the latest addition to the Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

Brent (00:20:35 - 00:20:41): I don’t know why they keep making these movies. I guess money, obviously. Money.

Ryan (00:20:42 - 00:20:48): Yep, because it was a big money franchise. And that they don’t want to let go of.

Brent (00:20:49 - 00:20:55): Now, this is the one which is Hamish’s origin story, right? Yes.

Jen (00:20:55 - 00:20:57): So at least you’ll know who wins.

Ryan (00:20:57 - 00:21:27): Yes. I guess technically this one is 25 years before the one we saw, the last one, or the second last one, because that was— this is The, you know, whether the Quarter Quell or whatever they call them, wouldn’t it on the anniversaries? Yeah, I think it’s 2025 because it would age. Yeah. It’s one of the fancier ones on every 25-year one.

Brent (00:21:28 - 00:21:44): So I kind of throw this, this isn’t the sort of like how Jen was talking to me about Maul. And Jen’s thing when we started watching Maul was, I hope it’s not like a redemption story.

Jen (00:21:46 - 00:21:52): Like, I didn’t want Maul to be a good guy. Yeah, I didn’t want to. Thankfully it’s not.

Brent (00:21:52 - 00:22:10): But I kind of don’t want to know what made— what was so bad that like Hamish did in order to win and become an alcoholic. Right. Like, he is like, I don’t need to know what his trauma is. It’s almost better that I don’t know.

Ryan (00:22:10 - 00:22:56): Yeah, I think it’s not necessarily what he did there, but it’s the what he, what he did there and then having to be the mentor all these years afterwards and the people he mentors never make it out. Yeah, I suppose he was the only winner before Tatniss and Peter. He was the only winner from his district. So, you know, that’s a lot of trauma, but at least this one, like I watched that other one, the Song of Snakes and whatever, the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes or whatever the hell it’s called.

Brent (00:22:56 - 00:22:57): Yeah.

Ryan (00:22:57 - 00:23:12): It was eh. Origin story of the president when he was young, how he loved a girl from another district and blah, blah, blah. At least this is closer.

Jen (00:23:13 - 00:23:32): Yeah, I have heard that the book version of this movie that’s coming out that I already forget what it’s called is really good. I haven’t read it, but I’ve heard that it’s good. Like, how long ago did Hunger Games come out? I feel like that was the— my era of Hunger Games, and now I’m just like, eh, it was good, but I’m not like obsessed with it.

Ryan (00:23:33 - 00:23:40): Yeah, no, it was old enough. It was— oh, was it 15 years ago? 10 years ago?

Jen (00:23:41 - 00:23:43): Why is everything so much before?

Brent (00:23:44 - 00:23:48): Yeah, the books came out before Jen and I got together because Jen had read them before I did.

Ryan (00:23:49 - 00:23:51): I wasn’t— I wasn’t No, not the movies.

Brent (00:23:53 - 00:23:58): The movies came out while we were together because we went and saw the first one in the theater together.

Jen (00:23:59 - 00:24:08): Yeah. So, but as we figured out, our anniversary was this past weekend and we’ve been together for 16 years at this point, Brent.

Brent (00:24:09 - 00:24:09): Yeah.

Jen (00:24:10 - 00:24:18): So it’s not like it happened a couple of years ago. No, these were old.

Brent (00:24:18 - 00:24:18): Yeah.

Ryan (00:24:19 - 00:24:19): Yep.

Jen (00:24:20 - 00:24:24): This is why I need to buy more Barbies because I feel old.

Ryan (00:24:24 - 00:24:40): Yeah, exactly. Toys keep us young. Yep. Anyway, and this next movie franchise has a bunch of toys out. It is The Mandalorian and Grogu. We got a trailer for that, another one, and a few clips making their way around.

Jen (00:24:41 - 00:24:45): I don’t care what the plot of this one is. I’m looking forward to it.

Ryan (00:24:45 - 00:24:50): Exactly. I’m going to— this is a movie. It’s like, oh, new Star Wars finally in the theaters. Awesome. Here’s my money.

Jen (00:24:51 - 00:24:56): And a good Star Wars because all of The Mandalorian TV show has been consistently good.

Brent (00:24:56 - 00:25:02): So yeah, I’m looking forward to taking my nephew.

Jen (00:25:03 - 00:25:04): Yay!

Ryan (00:25:06 - 00:26:00): I’m looking forward to taking myself. But yeah, no, another adventure with our favorite Mandalorian and our favorite Grogu. We see Grogu pushing buttons in the Razor Crest to try to help them out, and instead of listening, he fires missiles. It’s great. It looks like there’s going to be quite a bit going on in this movie though, which is good. And you know, I just hope it’s also not just all like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, like give it a little bit of time to breathe, you know, but We will see. And then my last addition here to the trailer list was another one I was looking forward to seeing and another movie I am now looking forward to seeing. Godzilla Minus Zero.

Brent (00:26:01 - 00:26:02): Yeah.

Ryan (00:26:03 - 00:26:05): AKA Godzilla hits the Big Apple.

Brent (00:26:07 - 00:26:08): Maybe. We think.

Ryan (00:26:08 - 00:26:14): Well, at some point, there’s something. You see him walking by the Statue of Liberty.

Brent (00:26:14 - 00:26:17): He could be stomping it through Las Vegas.

Ryan (00:26:20 - 00:26:21): Not back then.

Brent (00:26:23 - 00:26:32): That’s true. Yeah, the timeline doesn’t quite line up, but Godzilla Minus One was great.

Ryan (00:26:33 - 00:26:44): We have gone on about our love for that movie. So yes, I look forward to seeing this one in theaters. Probably with Brent.

Brent (00:26:44 - 00:26:46): Yep. Last one was so good.

Ryan (00:26:47 - 00:26:49): Yeah. Oh yeah.

Jen (00:26:50 - 00:27:00): I kind of wanted to see the last one, but I, I don’t— I guess it didn’t line up for me to go and see it with you guys. Um, because it looked like, again, it had more of a plot than just our monster smash.

Ryan (00:27:01 - 00:27:02): Um, yep.

Jen (00:27:02 - 00:27:07): So I might, if Brent wants to watch it again, I might watch Godzilla Minus One. And then I don’t know, is it a continue?

Ryan (00:27:07 - 00:27:13): Is it like you have to have watched Yeah, but this is a direct sequel. Yeah.

Jen (00:27:14 - 00:27:19): Oh, okay. Well, right. We should watch that one and then maybe if I like it, I’ll come with you guys to see the other Godzilla.

Brent (00:27:20 - 00:27:27): Yeah. And that director is working on like a North American movie, right?

Ryan (00:27:28 - 00:27:30): Like, yeah, we talked about it last time.

Brent (00:27:30 - 00:27:31): Yeah, right.

Ryan (00:27:31 - 00:27:34): It’s something to do with giant robots.

Brent (00:27:35 - 00:27:35): Yeah.

Ryan (00:27:35 - 00:27:56): Fighting each other. So it should be awesome. Jen, and you’re lucky, you have your choice in how you want to watch it because you can watch it in black and white or dubbed, or you can watch it with subtitles.

Jen (00:27:58 - 00:27:59): That’s way too many choices.

Brent (00:28:03 - 00:28:07): Uh, yeah. All righty. So, uh, thank you, Ryan.

Ryan (00:28:08 - 00:28:09): You’re welcome.

Main Topic: Summer/Fall Movie Preview

Brent (00:28:09 - 00:28:43): Bringing up news and stuff. Uh, you know what? Let’s kick into the main thing and a summer movie preview of sorts. Uh, we’re just going to go through the releases that are coming up and seeing if anybody is interested in anything in particular. Uh, we’re going to be starting with, uh, this week actually. Because I see something that strikes a— it might strike a chord with one person and a movie I didn’t know was coming out. So are you guys ready?

Jen (00:28:44 - 00:28:44): Yep.

Ryan (00:28:45 - 00:28:46): Let’s do it.

Brent (00:28:46 - 00:28:55): All right. So this week, the big movie is The Devil Wears Prada 2. And Jen wants to see that one, I’m sure.

Jen (00:28:57 - 00:29:03): Kenneth Branagh’s in it. Oh, sweet. I love Kenneth Branagh.

Brent (00:29:03 - 00:29:07): And there’s also— there’s an animated version of Animal Farm coming out.

Ryan (00:29:09 - 00:29:10): Okay. Never heard of it.

Brent (00:29:10 - 00:29:14): I assume. Yeah, it’s based on the George Orwell novel.

Ryan (00:29:14 - 00:29:15): Yep.

Brent (00:29:17 - 00:29:21): But I didn’t even know this movie existed until seeing it on the list, so.

Ryan (00:29:23 - 00:29:25): How wide of a release is it getting?

Brent (00:29:25 - 00:29:35): Well, it’s in Canadian theaters, put it that way. Oh, wow. Okay. Like, I’m looking at— I mean, using the list from tribute.ca of what’s coming up this year.

Jen (00:29:37 - 00:29:45): And don’t worry, I won’t make either of you guys go and see Devil Wears Prada 2. I’ll either go on my own or I will go with Tracy or I will go with Karina.

Ryan (00:29:46 - 00:29:48): There you go. I’ll watch that movie eventually.

Brent (00:29:49 - 00:29:56): Yeah, I didn’t mind the first one. It’s just one of those movies that I’m like, I don’t need it. I don’t need a sequel to the first one.

Jen (00:29:57 - 00:30:06): Oh, but the cast, the cast is so good. I love Stanley Tucci and Kenneth Branagh and Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway. I love them all. I’m so excited.

Ryan (00:30:06 - 00:30:10): Yeah, my thought is more of I don’t necessarily need to see that on the big screen.

Jen (00:30:12 - 00:30:13): Oh, that’s okay. I do.

Ryan (00:30:14 - 00:30:14): Oh, I get it.

Brent (00:30:17 - 00:30:26): Friday, May 8th, we have Mortal Kombat 2, which we’ve already discussed. And Ryan and I will probably go see it at the very least, maybe Jen as well. Because Jen—

Jen (00:30:26 - 00:30:27): I want to see it.

Brent (00:30:27 - 00:30:30): Yeah, you actually like the trailers for it. Yeah.

Jen (00:30:31 - 00:30:41): It’s just when I see Mortal Kombat and then when I see Street Fighter and then in like 6 months or actually probably less than that, when we talk about them, I’m not going to be able to tell them apart.

Brent (00:30:42 - 00:31:07): Yeah, see, it used to be easy to explain the difference when they originally came out. Mortal Kombat was like quote unquote more realistic because they used like video footage of actual actors to do the video games with. But as the years have gone on, Mortal Kombat has definitely thrown realism to the wind.

Ryan (00:31:08 - 00:31:13): Yeah, the way I separate them is always the, uh, Mortal Kombat is the one with more gore.

Brent (00:31:13 - 00:31:14): Yeah.

Jen (00:31:14 - 00:31:19): See, that’s the only reason why I’m not looking forward to Mortal Kombat is I don’t like excessive gore.

Ryan (00:31:19 - 00:31:22): Yeah, but I don’t know how much of that they’ll put in the movie.

Brent (00:31:22 - 00:31:34): Yeah. Um, also coming out May 8th is The Sheep Detectives, which Jen and I are looking forward to and are probably going to be seeing in a really odd way.

Jen (00:31:35 - 00:31:54): So my knitting group that I go and meet up with on Thursdays in Newmarket, they’re doing a special screening of this for knitters in— at the theater in Alliston. So I have to still go buy tickets. Hopefully it’s not sold out, but basically it’s going to be like dim lights so that we can knit while we’re watching it.

Ryan (00:31:54 - 00:31:58): You’re going to hear a lot of click, click, click, click, click, click, click.

Jen (00:32:01 - 00:32:09): So I’m hoping to go and see that. Uh, and I think Tracy’s going to come too because she’s been coming to the knitting group with me.

Ryan (00:32:10 - 00:32:11): Well, that’s nice.

Brent (00:32:15 - 00:32:31): Fast forwarding to the end of May, we have Mandalorian and Grogu, which, uh, I’m looking forward to. I just hope it’s like, it’s a movie. You know what I mean? Like, I hope it’s just not a slightly longer episode of the show.

Ryan (00:32:31 - 00:32:35): Yeah, that’s my thoughts. I concur.

Brent (00:32:37 - 00:32:53): End of May, we have not much in terms of things that relate to our show. The big one would be Backrooms, which is the movie based off of like the creepypasta meme and Creepypasta name?

Ryan (00:32:54 - 00:32:54): I don’t know.

Brent (00:32:55 - 00:33:02): It’s like it’s one of those things that was a photo that then developed into video footage and now it’s a movie.

Ryan (00:33:03 - 00:33:04): Yeah.

Jen (00:33:04 - 00:33:04): No.

Brent (00:33:04 - 00:33:09): Yeah. It’s interesting in how it evolved, but I’m not sure if I need to see it.

Ryan (00:33:10 - 00:33:12): I’m not familiar with that creepypasta.

Brent (00:33:12 - 00:33:16): So June 5th, Masters of the Universe.

Jen (00:33:16 - 00:33:17): Woo-hoo!

Ryan (00:33:19 - 00:33:20): Will this movie have the power?

Brent (00:33:20 - 00:33:30): Yeah. Trying to give it some fight is that movie Power Ballad with the Jonas Brothers and Paul Rudd.

Ryan (00:33:31 - 00:33:33): Yes, I sent you guys the trailer for that this week.

Brent (00:33:34 - 00:33:41): It looked pretty good. I feel that is a terrible weekend for it to open, but maybe it’s the counter-programming idea.

Ryan (00:33:41 - 00:33:42): I was going to say, yeah.

Brent (00:33:45 - 00:33:57): Speaking of like movies that maybe didn’t think things out very well, we have Scary Movie, the revamp of that horror comedy franchise.

Ryan (00:33:58 - 00:33:58): Okay.

Brent (00:33:59 - 00:34:03): And Disclosure Day, the alien Steven Spielberg movie.

Ryan (00:34:05 - 00:34:16): That’s very much different. You know, that’s counter-programming because you get the horror comedy people may not necessarily want to be the same as the alien disclosure people.

Jen (00:34:20 - 00:34:24): And then the people who don’t want to be either of those people can go see Toy Story 5.

Ryan (00:34:24 - 00:34:25): There you go.

Jen (00:34:28 - 00:34:29): Sorry, I ruined your next one.

Brent (00:34:29 - 00:34:53): In the category of great cast, I’m not sure we need this movie, is we move to the week of June 19th and the death of Robin Hood. Which is a movie that surprisingly we’re not hearing a lot about considering it stars Hugh Jackman as Robin Hood. Bill Skarsgård is also in it.

Jen (00:34:54 - 00:34:55): I haven’t even heard of this movie.

Brent (00:34:56 - 00:35:21): I’ve heard of it. I remember hearing about it a while ago. I didn’t know it had been filmed. So grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, Robin Hood finds himself gravely injured after a battle he thought would be his last. In the hands of a mysterious woman, he is offered a chance at salvation.

Jen (00:35:22 - 00:35:23): I think I know how it ends.

Brent (00:35:25 - 00:35:34): It’s also not like— I think they’re going for slightly realistic Robin Hood.

Ryan (00:35:35 - 00:35:36): You mean he’s not a fox?

Brent (00:35:37 - 00:35:51): And I’m not sure. Well, no, I mean, they’re setting it before— kind of like what they do with King Arthur now is like, it’s the story based on the legend, even though that’s a legend too.

Ryan (00:35:52 - 00:35:57): It’s the legend. The legend is based on this real life happenings.

Jen (00:35:58 - 00:36:03): I wrote an essay once about whether or not Robin Hood was a real person. I think I got 100% on it.

Brent (00:36:03 - 00:36:04): Good for you.

Ryan (00:36:04 - 00:36:05): Nice.

Brent (00:36:05 - 00:36:30): But again, it’s the cast makes it sound good. It’s directed by Michael Sarnoski, who did Pig, the movie where what’s his name? Nicolas Cage’s truffle-sniffing pig gets kidnapped and it’s kind of like John Wick, but like artsy. He also directed A Quiet Place. So it’s like, or not the first one, the second one.

Jen (00:36:30 - 00:36:33): I think I saw the Futurama version of the truffle-sniffing pig one.

Brent (00:36:35 - 00:36:55): And it’s like, it’s one of those things that like the cast sounds good, the director is good, but like, do I need to see this Robin Hood movie? Like of old Robin Hood, like regretting, I don’t know, murdering the Sheriff of Nottingham. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jen (00:36:55 - 00:36:57): I haven’t seen the Russell Crowe one either.

Ryan (00:36:58 - 00:37:01): You’re not missing out.

Brent (00:37:01 - 00:37:03): Jen, we watched the Russell Crowe one.

Jen (00:37:05 - 00:37:05): We did.

Brent (00:37:06 - 00:37:08): We did. We watched it at the cottage.

Jen (00:37:10 - 00:37:10): We did.

Brent (00:37:11 - 00:37:11): Uh-huh.

Jen (00:37:12 - 00:37:14): I have no memory of the Russell Crowe one.

Brent (00:37:15 - 00:37:26): We, in fact, we saw the director’s cut because it was a little bit better. I had seen the theatrical version. You hadn’t. That’s why we watched it. The director’s cut made it a little bit better, but still was not a good movie.

Jen (00:37:27 - 00:37:30): Yeah, I do not remember that at all.

Brent (00:37:30 - 00:37:39): Speaking of movies that we haven’t come to a conclusion whether we need to see or not, The Death of Robin Hood is going head to head with Toy Story 5.

Jen (00:37:41 - 00:37:46): They keep like ending Toy Story perfectly and then hammering out another one.

Brent (00:37:46 - 00:37:51): Yeah, they just leave it alone, that chain. But each time it seems to work. So.

Ryan (00:37:53 - 00:37:56): I still haven’t seen 4, so I can’t go see 5 yet.

Jen (00:37:56 - 00:38:01): No, you can’t, because you don’t know who Forky is.

Ryan (00:38:02 - 00:38:05): Who? Yeah, exactly.

Jen (00:38:07 - 00:38:12): I don’t know. I mean, part of me wants to see it just because I’ve seen the other 4, but I don’t think I need to see it in theaters.

Brent (00:38:16 - 00:38:26): June 26th brings us a movie we’re all going to be in theaters for. Jackass, best and last. Um, nope, I’m just kidding. Supergirl comes out that weekend.

Ryan (00:38:27 - 00:38:35): Yay! I did go see one of those, uh, Jackass movies in theater. I think I went with either my— with my friend Jamie, or I might have gone with Chuck.

Brent (00:38:37 - 00:38:38): Oh, they’re fun.

Jen (00:38:38 - 00:38:44): Oh yeah, those Jackass movies are like one of the reasons why women live longer than men.

Ryan (00:38:46 - 00:38:50): Yeah, but they have women in them now too. There’s women jackasses.

Jen (00:38:51 - 00:38:57): I didn’t say all women, just like it’s not all men, but it’s, you know, generally speaking.

Brent (00:38:58 - 00:39:08): Uh, July, we have Evil Dead: Burn, which I vaguely remember hearing about and maybe seeing the teaser for.

Ryan (00:39:08 - 00:39:38): Did you see the— actually, now that you mentioned, there was a teaser out this week. There was like a clip and it’s like inside a house, a cottage, probably like a cabin in the woods. But like there’s this girl like kind of crawling along the floor trying to sneak away as all hell is breaking loose around her. There’s people being grabbed by other people and being attacked, and it’s very creepy but very interestingly shot.

Brent (00:39:38 - 00:39:39): No, I haven’t seen it.

Ryan (00:39:40 - 00:39:44): Oh, okay. Well, to look for it later and I’ll send it to you, but, or you can look at it yourself.

Jen (00:39:45 - 00:39:47): But, um, I do not like zombies.

Ryan (00:39:49 - 00:39:57): Well, Deadites aren’t really zombies, they’re just the undead, the more demons.

Jen (00:39:58 - 00:40:00): I like the Evil Dead movies when they’re funny.

Ryan (00:40:02 - 00:40:15): Oh, same. So that’s where I was going to go with that, is I enjoy Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness. I haven’t seen Evil Dead Rise. That’s the one in the high-rise.

Brent (00:40:15 - 00:40:16): Yep.

Ryan (00:40:16 - 00:40:47): And I did see the remake of Evil Dead where the girl is the antagonist. It was okay. I kept waiting for Bruce Campbell to show up though. I kept hoping for him to show up, but he didn’t. The interesting thing, so I think I sent you this link, Brent, that Mummy movie that’s out right now.

Brent (00:40:47 - 00:40:48): Yeah.

Ryan (00:40:49 - 00:40:57): Apparently the guy they’re saying is in the same, air quotes, universe as Evil Dead.

Brent (00:40:58 - 00:41:02): Oh, I read that. Did you read the article that goes with that, though?

Ryan (00:41:04 - 00:41:05): I read part of it, I think.

Brent (00:41:05 - 00:41:05): I don’t know.

Ryan (00:41:05 - 00:41:07): It’s the same location.

Brent (00:41:07 - 00:41:16): In the same location. Scout is what I was led to believe. It’s basically they’ve just shot the same building twice.

Ryan (00:41:18 - 00:41:31): Oh, see, what I read in it was that they were talking about that’s kind of like how this I guess the little girl, this mummy, like, in that she’s not, you know, she’s more along the lines of a Deadite.

Brent (00:41:31 - 00:41:32): Yeah.

Ryan (00:41:33 - 00:41:38): Then the thing I was reading, but I didn’t see anything about location, but maybe I didn’t read enough.

Brent (00:41:38 - 00:41:43): Yeah, I read something and it’s like there’s a, like, a third horror movie that uses it too.

Ryan (00:41:44 - 00:41:47): So, oh, well, if it’s just location, who cares? That’s not the same.

Brent (00:41:48 - 00:41:59): So, uh, taking on the Evil Dead without Bruce Campbell, I might add. I don’t think he’s in that movie at all. Moana live action.

Ryan (00:42:00 - 00:42:02): Yeah. Another movie nobody asked for.

Brent (00:42:04 - 00:42:06): Somebody must have.

Ryan (00:42:07 - 00:42:17): Disney keeps thinking people want live action versions of their cartoons. It’s one thing to do the classics, but we literally just— that movie’s not that old.

Jen (00:42:18 - 00:42:40): Yeah. No. I really like Moana. I think it’s a fantastic movie. The sequel was not great because it was supposed to be a TV show and you could really tell. Um, but I don’t feel like it needs to be live action. Like, why? Why spend all the money animating it when you’re just gonna redo it as live action? You should have just made it live action at the get-go since, like you said, it’s not that old.

Brent (00:42:41 - 00:42:57): I think also, like, this is the, the stupidest reason why I don’t like watching stuff from this because I am so familiar with what The Rock looks like. All I can see is The Rock in a wig.

Jen (00:42:58 - 00:42:58): Yeah.

Brent (00:42:59 - 00:43:02): Like, it’s like, it’s just like, and I know what he looked like with hair too.

Jen (00:43:03 - 00:43:13): It’s like, there was a, there’s a great meme after that came out where people were saying, does, is it weird that this makes The Rock look even more bald?

Brent (00:43:14 - 00:43:18): Yeah, exactly, because you know there’s no hair under there.

Jen (00:43:20 - 00:43:26): Yeah, I think basically it’s a live-action Moana because The Rock wanted to sing again and wanted to do it.

Brent (00:43:27 - 00:43:48): Yeah, yeah. Uh, and then the next weekend, the weekend of my birthday, I possibly get the greatest gift of all in watching Jen yell at him public movie screening. As it is the opening weekend for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

Jen (00:43:49 - 00:43:52): Okay. First of all, you’ve already seen that happen.

Brent (00:43:52 - 00:44:10): Second of all, I mean, repeatedly. Let’s be fair. You only— when you yelled at Batman v Superman, it was only Batman’s origin you yelled at. You didn’t yell through the rest of the movie. This is one of those movies where I can see the possibility of you yelling at the entire thing.

Ryan (00:44:11 - 00:44:36): Please don’t do it if it’s a theater full of people. I don’t know if I talked about this after we went, after our viewing of seeing the Super Mario Brothers movie or not. I very much remembered why I don’t like seeing movies with people in the theater. I love it when we go to these showings and it’s us and 5 other people sitting somewhere else, not a bunch of teenagers sitting behind me.

Jen (00:44:37 - 00:44:46): Yeah, no, I will be good and respectful. I’m not going to yell at the screen, not loudly anyway.

Brent (00:44:47 - 00:44:48): Um, now I don’t want to go.

Ryan (00:44:48 - 00:44:50): You can sit next to me though.

Jen (00:44:50 - 00:45:10): I’ll whisper angrily at both of you. And honestly, from what I’ve seen, it’s not okay. It may not be that bad. I mean, the fact that they’re in the wrong armor aside, uh That’s the small thing so far. I’m trying to be positive.

Ryan (00:45:12 - 00:45:16): Well, Jen, with this in mind, I know I’ve brought this up to you before.

Jen (00:45:16 - 00:45:18): Can’t be as bad as Troy. It can’t be.

Ryan (00:45:18 - 00:46:01): No. Yesterday at the store while working, young John found something and asked me if I wanted it. And I told him, yes, just order it for me. Just order it. I don’t want— just don’t. Yeah, just order it. The upcoming release of Godzilla: The Odyssey. And I got— there’s also— Godzilla has the best variant covers. One of them is for— I guess a recreation of the poster for— is it— oh, what’s— oh, that— the The stop-motion movie, not Attack of the Titans.

Jen (00:46:02 - 00:46:03): Yeah. Attack of the Titans.

Ryan (00:46:03 - 00:46:03): Is it? Okay.

Brent (00:46:03 - 00:46:04): Clash of the Titans.

Ryan (00:46:04 - 00:46:06): Clash of the Titans. Thank you.

Jen (00:46:06 - 00:46:07): Attack of the Titans is the anime.

Ryan (00:46:08 - 00:46:19): Yeah. But I didn’t get that one. I got a different one that looks more like historically accurate artwork. I was like, that looks really cool. Just in that style.

Jen (00:46:20 - 00:46:21): Historically accurate plus Godzilla.

Ryan (00:46:22 - 00:46:41): Yes. It was just like them, but it’s like It is just Godzilla, maybe Mothra or another monster too. But it’s just like the monsters drawn in that kind of artwork. So wait, I will let you borrow it from me so you can read it. What’s the story? I don’t know. The Odyssey with Godzilla. I don’t know. It’s like Romeo and Juliet with Godzilla.

Jen (00:46:42 - 00:46:44): It’s actually The Odyssey with Godzilla.

Ryan (00:46:45 - 00:46:46): We’ll find out when it comes out.

Jen (00:46:47 - 00:46:50): But The Odyssey already has its own monsters. It doesn’t need Godzilla.

Ryan (00:46:51 - 00:46:56): Well, maybe Godzilla’s going to fight them. Yeah, that’s there to keep things in order.

Jen (00:46:56 - 00:46:58): That’s going to make me more angry than this movie.

Ryan (00:46:59 - 00:47:07): See, that’s kind of a flip because last time we talked about it, you were on board, you were fine with it. You’re like, okay, that’s— this could be fun.

Jen (00:47:08 - 00:47:16): I mean, it could be. It depends on my mood, apparently. Apparently last time I was feeling a little bit more positive, I guess, than I am right now.

Brent (00:47:20 - 00:47:28): July 31st brings us Spider-Man: A Brand New Day. I don’t think we have to spend much time on it. We’re all looking forward to that movie.

Ryan (00:47:28 - 00:47:29): Yep.

Jen (00:47:29 - 00:47:29): Spider what?

Brent (00:47:30 - 00:47:31): And the possible hidden Daredevil.

Ryan (00:47:32 - 00:47:32): Spider who?

Jen (00:47:33 - 00:47:34): Wait, Spider who?

Brent (00:47:35 - 00:47:36): Spider when?

Jen (00:47:37 - 00:47:39): Spider Gwen. Yay.

Ryan (00:47:40 - 00:47:40): Maybe.

Jen (00:47:40 - 00:47:41): We need another Spider Gwen.

Ryan (00:47:41 - 00:47:50): Maybe some mutants too. You never know which rumors to believe. We do know that the Hulk is in this movie. Yes, because toys have spoiled it.

Brent (00:47:50 - 00:47:51): Toys and Lego.

Jen (00:47:52 - 00:47:53): Yeah, and the trailer.

Brent (00:47:54 - 00:47:57): No, no, that’s Banner. That’s not the Hulk. Banner?

Jen (00:47:58 - 00:47:59): Yeah, they’re the same.

Brent (00:48:00 - 00:48:05): Well, yeah, except the last time we saw him, he was— he was Smart Hulk, right?

Ryan (00:48:05 - 00:48:06): Yeah.

Brent (00:48:06 - 00:48:08): Was that the last time we saw him, or did he give up being Hulk?

Jen (00:48:09 - 00:48:11): No, he gave up because we saw him in She-Hulk.

Ryan (00:48:12 - 00:48:19): He was, uh, well, yeah, we saw him as a man again, but he was still— he was able to go back and forth, or he could control it.

Jen (00:48:20 - 00:48:20): Or—

Ryan (00:48:20 - 00:48:21): but yeah, we saw him as a— as Bruce.

Brent (00:48:22 - 00:49:10): Yeah, but the, the figure seems more, uh, ragey Hulk than smart Hulk, but that doesn’t mean anything either. That could be just based on one scene. Um, fast forwarding to Friday, August 7th, Super Troopers 3, which we just discussed at the top of this show. And a horror movie called Ice Cream Man that I didn’t know much about, that is being done by Eli Roth and his production company. It is not based on the comic, which kind of disappointed me a little bit. August 14th is The End of Oak Street, that movie that Ryan threw the trailer up a little while ago in our group chat, and some of us thought it looked okay. Some of us were like, eh.

Ryan (00:49:10 - 00:49:17): Oh, that’s the— that’s the— that’s, uh, the, um, Ewan McGregor with dinosaurs.

Brent (00:49:18 - 00:49:19): Uh, I think so.

Jen (00:49:20 - 00:49:24): That was me. I was the one who thought it was eh, right? Yes.

Ryan (00:49:24 - 00:49:27): And I was one of— say, all right, let’s see what this is.

Brent (00:49:27 - 00:49:28): Yeah.

Jen (00:49:28 - 00:49:34): And then I have been proved— I have been proven wrong many a time. Maybe it’s awesome.

Brent (00:49:34 - 00:50:04): He’s— and I tried like in the running for most movies out this summer along with Tom Holland and Zendaya. Or this year, I should say. August 21st, nothing really to see here with yet another Insidious movie. How do these things keep getting made? Followed up by— it’s going head to head with Jason Statham doing, as Jen would often describe it, Jason Statham-y things in Mutiny.

Jen (00:50:06 - 00:50:11): Jason Statham’s really good at doing Jason Statham-y things though.

Brent (00:50:11 - 00:50:15): Yeah, he is. His billionaire boss gets murdered and he’s framed for it.

Jen (00:50:16 - 00:50:18): Oh, and he has to go and find vengeance.

Brent (00:50:19 - 00:50:26): Yes. And at this point, I think Jason Statham doesn’t have to find vengeance. He knows exactly where it is.

Ryan (00:50:27 - 00:50:27): It finds him.

Brent (00:50:31 - 00:50:44): Uh, August 28th, the, the big one will be the, uh, Coyote vs. Acme for us, which that I’m so glad that movie’s coming out. And so far it looks really good.

Jen (00:50:46 - 00:50:52): Hopefully like this will do really well and then maybe they’ll release that Batwoman movie that they finished and never released.

Ryan (00:50:52 - 00:50:55): Oh no. So somebody will have to purchase it.

Brent (00:50:56 - 00:51:00): That’s the thing. And I don’t know if that will happen.

Ryan (00:51:02 - 00:51:15): Yeah, there, Jen, I sent you a link to the, uh, to Godzilla, the Godzillas of the Odyssey, so you can see it and see the, the, the COVID I ordered.

Jen (00:51:15 - 00:51:16): Oh, that is a nice cover.

Brent (00:51:17 - 00:51:21): Should I keep going into the fall or should we, we stop it there?

Ryan (00:51:23 - 00:51:26): Uh, Pick out some of the gems. Might as well. What are the big ones?

Brent (00:51:26 - 00:51:34): Not a lot listed. We get in September, there’s Practical Magic 2, which is like, wow.

Jen (00:51:34 - 00:51:35): I’m looking forward to that one.

Brent (00:51:36 - 00:51:38): That’s a long time between movies.

Jen (00:51:39 - 00:51:42): I know, but I’m so looking forward to it. It looks like it’s going to be good.

Brent (00:51:43 - 00:51:43): The week after that.

Ryan (00:51:43 - 00:51:45): I haven’t seen that first one in forever.

Jen (00:51:46 - 00:51:51): I will happily watch that first one. It’s really good.

Brent (00:51:51 - 00:52:00): That first one, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it in one sitting. It was a TBS movie, and I’m pretty sure I saw it in like 15-minute chunks.

Jen (00:52:00 - 00:52:15): I will watch Practical Magic any day, any time. It is a fantastic movie. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but it is so good. So again, that’s one of those movies where if you really don’t want to see it, I’ll go see it with Karina.

Ryan (00:52:16 - 00:52:17): Yeah, sure.

Brent (00:52:18 - 00:52:34): Uh, like a movie. Resident is Resident Evil on September 18th. That is done by the guy who did Weapons. Um, that is the only thing that is making me interested in that movie since, uh, most of the Resident Evil movies are not good.

Ryan (00:52:37 - 00:52:46): First one’s okay, second one’s a little better, and then it just I’m sure after that I lost all interest.

Brent (00:52:46 - 00:52:59): There’s a Resident Evil that takes place in Las Vegas. I don’t know which one it is. It was a cheap night and my friend Doug convinced me to go see it. And to be fair, the trailers made it look pretty good.

Ryan (00:52:59 - 00:53:00): Yep.

Brent (00:53:00 - 00:54:20): And at the end of it, 3 things happened. One was Doug turned to me when the credits started rolling and apologized. Because it was that bad. The second thing that happened was these two guys like were in front of us as we were leaving the theater and they were talking about how amazing the movie was. I’m pretty sure one even made a claim that it should be up for an Oscar. Wow. The third thing happened of me turning to Doug and saying, what fucking movie did they see? But I really liked Weapons, and it’s enough for me to give a shot to it just because I know, like, I heard him on last podcast on the left on Side Stories, the guy who’s writing and directing it. And he basically said they offered him the gig to write it. And he’s like, sure. So he decided to write the Resident Evil movie he’d want to see. Thinking 100% they’re not going to let me make this movie. And then they okayed it. So he’s making the movie he wants to see. And I’m like, okay, that might actually be interesting.

Jen (00:54:20 - 00:54:28): Well, I mean, they tried the movies that they wanted and they didn’t work out. So they were like, maybe we’ll see what people actually want to watch and try that.

Brent (00:54:29 - 00:54:40): Yep. September 25th, we have Forgotten Island. That’s the CGI animated movie about the two friends who get sucked into— that looked pretty good.

Jen (00:54:41 - 00:54:41): That looks cute.

Brent (00:54:43 - 00:55:12): October 2nd is Digger, which is the Tom Cruise movie that there doesn’t seem to be like any information on other than it’s like being listed as a comedy of catastrophic proportions. Like that’s the tagline for it. And like, like he’s the only one listed as part of the cast.

Jen (00:55:14 - 00:55:19): So I’ll reserve judgment until I see a trailer, but yeah, Cruise is weird.

Brent (00:55:24 - 00:55:34): In the greatest double bill of all time, October 16th, Street Fighter. And then we can go across for the late show of Sense and Sensibility.

Jen (00:55:39 - 00:55:48): I have never read those books. I am not a Jane Austen fan. I’m sorry for any diehard Jane Austen fans who for some reason are listening to this. It’s just never been my thing.

Brent (00:55:49 - 00:56:02): Yep. October 23rd, Clayface.

November 6th, we have The Cat in the Hat and Godzilla Minus Zero. Those are two different movies, not one movie.

Jen (00:56:03 - 00:56:04): Oh God, I wish they were one movie now.

Ryan (00:56:05 - 00:56:06): Cat in the Hat meets Godzilla.

Brent (00:56:07 - 00:56:32): November 13th, we have Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol. Do we really need another version of A Christmas Carol? Oh yeah, this is the one. This is the one that stars Johnny Depp. No fucking thank you. I’m out. I had completely forgotten about this movie happening until I clicked on it. I’m like, oh yeah, this bullshit.

Jen (00:56:33 - 00:56:37): Oh yeah, that’s what we need is Johnny Depp Johnny Depping the hell of our holidays.

Brent (00:56:38 - 00:56:47): I, I’ve already seen Jim Carrey Jim Carrey the crap out of it in soulless motion capture CGI. I don’t need another one.

Jen (00:56:47 - 00:57:01): Okay, but the version of the Grinch, the version of the Grinch that was animated that Benedict Cumberbatch did the voice of the Grinch is apparently really, really good, so I gotta watch that one year. Somebody with kids told me it was good.

Brent (00:57:02 - 00:57:11): That Hunger Games movie that we talked about. Skipping ahead because I don’t think any of us have any interest in Focker-in-law.

Jen (00:57:12 - 00:57:13): Oh God.

Brent (00:57:14 - 00:57:23): And then December 18th, Dunesday, people. Dune Part 3 and Avengers: Doomsday until one of them blinks and moves.

Jen (00:57:25 - 00:57:26): No, wait, Dune and Doomsday?

Ryan (00:57:27 - 00:57:27): Yep.

Brent (00:57:27 - 00:57:31): Yeah, Avengers: Doomsday comes out the same day as Dune Part 3.

Jen (00:57:32 - 00:57:34): Oh, that’s not currently one of them.

Brent (00:57:35 - 00:57:37): I am willing to put money one of them moves.

Jen (00:57:38 - 00:57:43): Is it going to be like a game of chicken? They’re waiting to see who moves first?

Brent (00:57:43 - 00:57:56): Yes. Um, Wednesday, uh, December 23rd. Which is the Wednesday Before Christmas. We have Angry Birds 3 and Shrek 5.

Jen (00:57:57 - 00:58:01): Okay, Shrek I’ll go see. Angry Birds I don’t care about.

Brent (00:58:02 - 00:58:13): And December 25th, Christmas Day, Jumanji Open World and Werewolf.

Jen (00:58:15 - 00:58:15): Werewolf?

Ryan (00:58:15 - 00:58:17): That’s some counter-programming.

Brent (00:58:18 - 00:58:53): I believe, well, it’s Werewolf, W-E-R-W-U-L-F. It’s Robert Eggers who did the Nosferatu movie that came out a couple of years ago. He’s now tackling werewolves, I guess. So yeah, that’s everything that’s coming out until Christmas. Um, I think probably out of all of them, Doomsday is the one that I’m, I’m looking forward to the most.

Jen (00:58:54 - 00:58:59): That’s too far away for me to look forward to it. I’m looking forward to the ones that are coming up in the summer.

Brent (00:58:59 - 00:59:06): Yeah. And, and Street Fighter, because I think Street Fighter is going to be a lot of fun, whether it’s a good movie or it’s terrible.

Jen (00:59:08 - 01:00:08): I’m looking forward to Devil Wears Prada 2. The Sheep Detectives and Practical Magic 2 and Sword of the Odyssey. Yeah, I am. I’m looking forward to The Odyssey for all the wrong reasons, but it might not make me angry. No, that’s true. It may. Now I feel like I’ve got it, like I have— it has to make me angry or else I’m like disappointing you guys. Oh no, no. If you want me to be angry, we’ll watch Troy. Maybe that’s what we should do on the lead-up to that movie. We’ll watch Troy. And is there another bad Odyssey movie? Troy isn’t an Odyssey movie. It’s the Iliad. We could also watch the Alexander the Great movie where in order to depict that they were in Persia, they put out a bunch of Persian rugs and fucking Persian cats. Look, we’re in Persia. Anyway, classic stupid movies. They’re so bad. Troy’s worse.

Brent (01:00:13 - 01:00:13): Yep.

Jen (01:00:14 - 01:00:16): Anyway, deep breaths. I’m okay.

Brent (01:00:16 - 01:00:20): Yeah. Ryan, anything really stick out to you? Anything you’re super looking forward to?

Ryan (01:00:21 - 01:00:38): Well, the obvious ones. I’m looking forward to The Mandalorian. I’m looking forward to Spider-Man. I’m looking forward to Godzilla. I’m looking forward to Doomsday. I’m looking forward to watching Dune with Jen so we can make riding sandworm jokes again during the movie.

Jen (01:00:39 - 01:00:42): Oh, it’s because I don’t understand what the hell’s going on.

Ryan (01:00:43 - 01:00:54): And then get blinded by the transitions of in the cave, out in the desert. Boom. Oh, both of us go, ah, no, like vampires being exposed to the sun.

Jen (01:00:58 - 01:01:01): Apologies in advance to anybody who’s sitting near me and Ryan when we watch this movie.

Ryan (01:01:02 - 01:01:07): At least we have a good time. Yep.

Jen (01:01:08 - 01:01:10): I don’t remember what happened in the first two movies.

Ryan (01:01:11 - 01:01:14): Well, in the second one, he learned how to ride the sandworms.

Jen (01:01:15 - 01:01:17): Did he become Jesus already?

Brent (01:01:17 - 01:01:19): Yeah, kind of.

Ryan (01:01:19 - 01:01:23): Yeah, he’s Jesus now. Okay, he’s getting ready, but he’s now— he’s Jesus going to war.

Jen (01:01:24 - 01:01:39): He’s War Jesus. Yeah, sells more that way. Nobody wants a Peace Jesus. War Jesus sells more toys. Sorry for any religious people who are listening.

Patreon and Community

Brent (01:01:40 - 01:01:59): All righty, lots of stuff that we will be covering over the next few months. I’m just pulling up the Patreon now because we knew from the get-go this episode was going to be off the rails, and then it fell apart physically.

Jen (01:02:00 - 01:02:04): Oh yeah, you’re gonna have fun listening to what, uh, Ryan and I kept going.

Brent (01:02:06 - 01:02:49): Nice. Yeah, uh, patreon.com/truenorthnerds if you’d like to help contribute to our Patreon, you can by going there and signing up. $3 a month helps us pay for like, you know, our theme song and a bunch of other stuff and all that things that we like. None of us are getting rich off of it, let’s put it that way. But we appreciate everybody who contributes. So, uh, what you get for it is a shout out and, uh, some free content, or like not free but Patreon content. Yeah, God, this is going terrible.

Ryan (01:02:49 - 01:02:52): Exclusive content. That’s the word you were looking for.

Brent (01:02:52 - 01:03:34): Yep. So, uh, like Listen to This, a music nerd show, which there will be a new episode, uh, later on this week. It is done. Uh, Professor Rex, uh, got it finished despite the numerous technical difficulties, he pulled off a miracle and it sounds great. It will be up later on this week, so if you would like to hear it, go to patreon.com/truenorth3rds. Shoutouts go to Drew, Karina, Alex, Team Woods, who is updating our website. They emailed me today and I just got to get them a bunch of stuff and they will update the website.

Jen (01:03:35 - 01:03:36): Yeah.

Brent (01:03:36 - 01:03:41): Thank you, Team Woods. And Mike Hammond and Professor Rex.

Jen (01:03:43 - 01:03:44): Why is he Professor Rex?

Brent (01:03:45 - 01:03:59): Because if you knew the amount of crap he had to fix on the latest episode of Listen to This. Wouldn’t that make him more like Dr. Rex? No, no, no. He went past doctor.

Jen (01:04:00 - 01:04:01): Really? You think professor is past doctor?

Brent (01:04:02 - 01:04:02): Yes.

Jen (01:04:03 - 01:04:03): Okay.

Brent (01:04:04 - 01:04:07): In this case. Besides which, Professor Rex sounds better.

Ryan (01:04:08 - 01:04:14): Is he a professor of thugganomics? Or in this case, nerdanomics?

Brent (01:04:16 - 01:04:21): Yes, he is. Speaking of technical debacles, let’s end this one.

Jen (01:04:22 - 01:04:25): This has been an off-the-rails production.

Geek Picks

Brent (01:04:27 - 01:04:30): Uh, Geek Picks, who wants to go first?

Ryan (01:04:30 - 01:04:30): I will.

Brent (01:04:31 - 01:04:31): Okay.

Ryan (01:04:32 - 01:04:50): My Geek Pick is the newly released, just this week, hot off the presses, available at your local comic book store, from Marvel, number 1, from DC Comics.

Jen (01:04:50 - 01:04:52): You disappeared. You just said from Marvel and then you were gone.

Brent (01:04:53 - 01:04:54): Okay, good. It wasn’t just me.

Jen (01:04:58 - 01:04:59): Are you still there, Ryan?

Brent (01:05:00 - 01:05:01): Ryan?

Ryan (01:05:02 - 01:05:03): Hello?

Brent (01:05:03 - 01:05:06): There, we can hear you now. Wow.

Ryan (01:05:07 - 01:05:13): This website we’re using tonight is glitchy because it looks like my recording dropped a couple of times, I guess.

Brent (01:05:13 - 01:05:16): Yeah. Hopefully it’ll be manageable.

Jen (01:05:16 - 01:05:19): I’ll be right back. I just remembered what I should do for a Geek Pick.

Ryan (01:05:19 - 01:05:23): Shall I continue or wait for everybody to come back?

Brent (01:05:23 - 01:05:24): Yeah, go ahead, continue. I’m going to be editing this all night anyways.

Ryan (01:05:27 - 01:06:09): Yep. So like I was saying, available at your local comic book store, um, from Marvel Comics, Spider-Man Superman number 1, not to be confused with from DC Comics, Superman Spider-Man number 1. That was a previous geek pick. Uh, this is the Marvel release of the, the big, you know, the big crossover between the two studios, uh, with multiple stories written by multiple writers with multiple artists working on them. Uh, and some of them are with Superman and Spider-Man, some of them with different versions of Superman and Spider-Man. I have— that’s so thick, I haven’t even finished reading mine, but it’s great.

Brent (01:06:11 - 01:06:14): Good choice. Is Jen back yet?

Jen (01:06:14 - 01:06:16): I’m back. Did I unmute?

Brent (01:06:16 - 01:06:17): Okay, what’s your geek pick?

Jen (01:06:18 - 01:06:31): So I’ve been sick for the past like month and Brent bought me a comic. He brought me Absolute Wonder Woman: The Last Amazon. Does it have any more titles or is that it?

Brent (01:06:31 - 01:06:35): No, it’s the first volume of the Absolute Wonder Woman trade paperback.

Ryan (01:06:35 - 01:06:36): Yeah, that’s a good one.

Jen (01:06:37 - 01:07:41): It was really good. So I’m not a— I don’t dislike Wonder Woman, but I’ve never been a huge fan of Wonder Woman. And spoilers for this one, by the way, I don’t know how old this is, but I really like how they redid her origin story. So instead of her being— well, she’s still a princess of Themyscira, but instead of her being born and raised in the Amazons, she’s born— well, she’s raised in hell. By the witch Circe, uh, but befriends all the demons. And, you know, she still has her kind heart, and she knows— she learns magic from Circe, uh, and it just makes her— I don’t even know how to describe it. It just kind of paints her in such a different light. She still has her romance with what’s-his-face, uh, who ends up— end up in hell for some reason, and then they, they She sacrifices her arm to get him out of hell, and then there she comes to Earth to fight this like massive cool thing.

Brent (01:07:42 - 01:07:42): Yeah.

Jen (01:07:43 - 01:08:46): And it’s got a lot more mythology in it, like Greek and Roman mythology. And it’s— the artwork’s pretty good. And I just, I just really love how they redid her origin. I think that’s so cool. Because I don’t know, again, I don’t— I haven’t read a lot about Wonder Woman, but you know, I don’t like that, you know, not that I disliked it, but it never wasn’t my favorite origin story when she’s like raised as a princess amongst all these warrior women. I love the raised in isolation with just Circe, and she’s not even like— Circe can’t even say the word Amazon. She’s basically been forbidden by the gods, so Diana has to basically figure it out on her own. And she rides the skeleton of Pegasus, which is amazing. Yeah. So I really like this book. If you’re not a fan of Wonder Woman or you’re like me where you’re kind of a fan of Wonder Woman but not really, read this one. It’s good. OK, that was my geek pick.

Brent (01:08:47 - 01:10:27): Good choice. I like that book too. That’s why I gave it to you to read. 2 geek picks. One is the first issue of Corpse Knight. From Image Comics came out this week. I’ve been recommending it to every customer that comes in the store because it was my favorite book of the week. It is basically like the short-form version of it is in medieval France, there is a guy who may have been a mercenary or was like a soldier, and his past catches up to him and he gets murdered and is daughter needs help and prays, and up comes Zombie Knight to help her out. Well, at least like a corpse knight, as the thing goes. It’s really well drawn. I was not very familiar with Matthew Roberts other than he did the Creature from the Black Lagoon series from Skybound earlier last year. And Michael Chaves, who apparently is attached to the Conjuring franchise, like the movies, I guess. Um, but this, this book is like, not only is the story kind of cool, the art is really good. There’s a double-page spread in this that I’ve just been like telling everybody to look at. So, uh, possibly available from your local comic book dealers. I’m pretty sure there’s a second, uh, printing on the way. So yes, I, I quite recommend that one. And if you need something to listen to, latest episode of Listen to This will be on, uh, Friday. So there’s another one.

Closing

Ryan (01:10:28 - 01:10:29): There you go.

Jen (01:10:29 - 01:10:31): And you should listen to Listen to This because it’s really good.

Brent (01:10:33 - 01:10:33): Oh, thanks.

Jen (01:10:34 - 01:10:35): And I’m not just saying that.

Ryan (01:10:37 - 01:10:39): Yeah, no, you’re saying it because you’re sleeping with one of the hosts.

Jen (01:10:40 - 01:10:41): But which one?

Ryan (01:10:42 - 01:10:44): Tune in to find out.

Brent (01:10:44 - 01:10:51): That’s going to make working on Sunday or Saturdays really awkward if it ain’t me.

Ryan (01:10:53 - 01:10:55): Why? I’m not on Listen to This.

Brent (01:10:56 - 01:11:05): Oh, that’s true. I got this just mixed up. I’m tired and I still have to edit this thing. So we’re going to edit this one.

Jen (01:11:05 - 01:11:05): Easy.

Ryan (01:11:06 - 01:11:13): You don’t make sure you take out the previous episode so you don’t have two episodes on top of each other.

Brent (01:11:13 - 01:11:14): Oh, I already did that.

Jen (01:11:15 - 01:11:15): What?

Ryan (01:11:15 - 01:11:16): I know you’ve done that before.

Brent (01:11:17 - 01:11:20): No, like I’ve already got— I’ve already set it up. We’re good.

Jen (01:11:24 - 01:11:25): Oh God, it’s been a long week.

Brent (01:11:26 - 01:11:46): Yeah. Uh, thank you for listening. Uh, next episode, uh, probably like, uh, movie reviews and, and stuff. So, uh, you know, patreon.com/truenorthnerds. Uh, lots of shows in the near future, lots of shows, uh, from the past too. And, uh, we thank you all for listening.

Ryan (01:11:47 - 01:12:03): And before you sign off, Yes, before you, before you sign off, if you’re listening to this before May 2nd, uh, May 2nd is Free Comic Book Day. Go find your local comic book shop, get some free comics. There you go.

Brent (01:12:04 - 01:12:08): Yep, Obama’s Day, everybody.

Ryan (01:12:09 - 01:12:09): Bye.

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