Episode 268 - Ooooh, YUCK!

[00:00:16] Hey everybody, it's another episode of Go Flix Yourself. My name is Ben Konowitz and with me as always is the bongo to my bass guitar Bradford Oman. Bongo. That's me. And the lead guitar to my bass guitar Alex Pappas. Yes. And the snare drum to my bass guitar Nate Loucks. I just wanted to see if you would actually do it.

[00:00:46] Just a snare drum? Not even like a drum set? Like a cool like... Sounds like it was a bird pooping. Hey, one of us is drummer, one of us isn't. Is it wet? Dude, that's not even a snare drum moron. Yeah, it's a quiet snare drum. No, it isn't. You're playing on the hi-hat, you dummy. That's a cymbal. That's literally a cymbal. It is a cymbal. It's a hi-hat. I'm doing something different. So it's just a terrible impersonation of something else.

[00:01:15] That's great. You know a lot about that, don't you? You tried. You tried big swing and a miss there, chief. You stupid bearded fuck. Well, hey, welcome back everybody. It's been a couple of what, weeks? Alex, it's been years since you've been on the show probably. Well, we've got people in the audience today. Brad, why don't you do the introductions please? Oh, yes. Well, first, let's start with the first member of the peanut gallery is Charlie Young. Hey, Chuck. Hi. Hi, Charlie. And then you handle this introduction.

[00:01:44] Oh, my lovely and talented girlfriend, Ashley Wisniewski, is here. Hey, Ash. Hello. And why don't we go back to you, Brad? Oh, my wonderful girlfriend, Caitlin Derrico, is here. Hey, Caitlin. Hi, Caitlin. Well, yeah, they're here in person in my lovely Musty basement in good old Northwest Indiana. It's our studio. Charlie's working on it. We're going to be moving soon, and we're going to be upgrading to video soon, and we're very excited about that. We are. Yeah. Yeah, we really are. Charlie went down there today and half built the studio.

[00:02:14] Why do you not give him credit? It's just we've been working on this for a long time. Whoa, that sounds pretty fucking judgy from a pastor. You hear that, Charlie? Okay. Were we not, Brad, how long ago? How dare you besmirch? Thank you, Brad. No, it's not Charlie. How dare you besmirch? It's not Charlie. How long have we been working on the video? Well, then you need to clarify that because that's mean. We haven't been working on the video. We've been working on preparing the space for us to shoot the video. Okay, but how long ago did you start talking about video?

[00:02:42] I feel like this is a check on Charlie is unjustified. On Charlie at all. Charlie's the victim here. At the beginning of the year, they said we were going to do it soon, but we didn't clarify when or that. There was a teaser. Okay, I feel like you're being a little bit coy. Forgiving? No, coy right now because you've been more mad about this than anyone. Would you say he's being obtuse? What are you talking about? Yeah, I mean maybe obtuse. No one's mad about anything. You're a weirdo. No one's mad about anything. You're being a weirdo. Anyway, you owe an apology to Young, Dumb, and Full of Podcast.

[00:03:12] That's Charlie's. Young, Dumb, and Full of Podcast. Is that his OnlyFans handle? I love Chuck. Yeah, so we are going to do that soon. Soon. We'll see what happens. Yeah. But anyway, it's nice to see everybody. And Brad, before we go any further, I've just got one question for you, buddy. Oh. Well, it's more of a statement. Uh-huh. If you brought a snack that I don't like, I'm going to throw it at you. Oh. And so go ahead.

[00:03:40] I loathe it when he brings it in baggies. I hate it. I don't like this either, but here we go. But you know what, though? Because you're a little fucking cheat, and all you want to do is try and sneak a look at the bag so you can figure out what it is before you put it in your mouth. Okay. That line of statements doesn't ever need to be said by you about Nate Loucks ever again. Ever again. But also, just bring the treat bag and maybe put it in another bag or something like that. Bring the treat bag. That's what I did. No, you brought it in a separate baggie. I don't know how old those are. I don't know if you... When have I ever brought you a musty tamale?

[00:04:10] A lot of times you brought us crab. Oh, we're going to talk about musty tamale Tuesday? Yeah, that was a bad time. First of all, I'm a lot better at alliteration than that. I wouldn't pick Tuesday because it's already Taco Tuesday. Okay, fair. Yeah, you go with a musty Monday. But we got pretzels. You go with a musty Monday? It looks like some sort of pretzel. There's two of them in there, so make sure you take each of them out. Oh, God. Oh, jeez. Don't fuck this up, Alex. Mixing it up on me. Alex, don't worry. You get to have some treats, too. I'm excited. They're pretzels.

[00:04:40] Do you love pretzels? I do like a pretzel, actually. God, that's the... Would you say... Yes. Do you love pretzels? No. Yeah. I don't. It's fucking boring. I don't love them. Do pretzels ever make you cream in your jeans? No. I don't think so. If that's the flavor of these, I'm going to be really excited. Hey, check it out from Nabisco. Cream jeans pretzels. It rocks. There's two of them. One of them's cream. The other one's jeans. Yeah, cream jeans. There we go. Okay. What is that? Denim? Yeah. It's a nice Levi pretzel. Which one did you do?

[00:05:10] I did the pink one? Yeah, do the pink one first. Cool. What's that? Is it raspberry something? No, but you're close. Strawberry? It's definitely strawberry. Strawberry what? Shake. Strawberry cheesecake. Two different things. Not right. Strawberry shortcake? There you go. That's why Alex is the new host. He's replacing you? No. I ate the other one. Me too. Everyone eat the other one now.

[00:05:42] What's that? I don't like that that's the way you're asking what do you think it is. I don't know. I don't like it. Hey, now this one's got an interesting flavor profile. What do you think it is? And it's devolved into... Is it coffee? Is there caramel coffee? No, it's not coffee. No. No. I don't know. Sweet. It is caramel sundae. No. Interesting guess, but very wrong. Dolce deluce? Think about the fair. I don't want to.

[00:06:12] Caramel corn? Yeah, fair. I don't want to. I don't really want to. I don't like the fair. You usually give us more lead up to that. Like, hey, what's your favorite? We had two different ones. I think he's a little off. We had two different ones. Do you remember this podcast or anything? We had two different ones. Doofus. This time. So we had to not have a normal lead. Quick question. What the fuck was that? And let's move on. What was it? Whoa. Hey, tone it down with your anger over here. Just because you're skinny now doesn't mean you got to get mad about eating sweets. Fuck.

[00:06:42] That's my girlfriend, ladies and gentlemen. And she's definitely laughing too hard about me losing weight and getting angry a lot. So it's going to be a fun conversation for later. The flavor is fried chocolate sandwich. Why don't you go upstairs and give me a sugar-free wafer? Now. Fried chocolate sandwich cookie. Oh, nobody was getting it. That's dumb. Wildly recognizable flavor. Everybody knows that one. It's a deep fried Oreo. Fuck off. That's what they have to call it though. Hey, get mad at Flips. Not me. Fuck you, Flips.

[00:07:12] And it's Flips with a Z. I hate it even more now. Yeah. I didn't even know that. And now I'm mad. I hate that a lot. Oh, there's probably some kind of Comic Sans font too, isn't there? No. Are you sure? They got a pretty good font. All right. I'll back off a little bit. You know. No, they got a pretty good font. I'll take this three-star review up to a four. That's Flips. Yeah, get it. Strawberry shortcake and fried chocolate sandwich cookie pretzels. You can get them at the store. Cool.

[00:07:41] It's a sponsor. I get it. Well, Flips, thanks for sponsoring. We really appreciate your money. Alex Pappas. Yeah. It's been a minute. Yep. For those of you that are listening, maybe even first-timers, this actually is a movie podcast where we talk about the latest movies that we've seen and we talk about some TV every once in a while. And then we do actually talk about some trailers and we do that stupid sponsor bit. And then maybe we play games. And so, Alex, what do you think is your favorite game that we've ever played on the show before? Like, that you've been a part of.

[00:08:10] And you're not allowed to say your own game, even though your own game was incredible, where Alex Pappas would make up, is it manga? Yeah. Or anime? Anime. Anime series. And he would just give you a real one and then a few fake ones. And you legitimately could never tell which one was real. He's so absolutely creatively perfect. I don't pay that compliment too often, sir. Incredibly creative. Love it.

[00:08:35] So if you're out there and you need incredibly detailed fake anime descriptions, I'm available. Alex is your man. What do you think? What's your favorite game? My favorite thing that we ever did was recasting Batman or recasting The Dark Knight was my favorite thing that we ever did. We need to bring that back. Not that specific one, obviously. Yeah, but like recasting. Yeah, those are always fun videos. I've always enjoyed Last Man's Dad. And it's the games where it feels like maybe Brad might lose. He never loses. I know. But it's always kind of fun to.

[00:09:06] I got a game. It's very, very, very limited. Did AI help? No. No. I'm very clearly not doing that anymore. The only thing AI ever helps me with is organization. It never is creative anymore. I don't. I learned my frickin' lesson. So yeah, but I have a game. It's more of a Brad's gonna get one, Alex is gonna get one, Nate's gonna get one. We're gonna see if you guys can. There's literally just three. It took a little while to find three that would work. All right. Sounds good. I like it. Yeah, it's good stuff.

[00:09:36] Alex, what's the last movie you saw, buddy? The last movie that I saw was The Mandalorian and Grogu. Oh. In theaters now. I've also seen this. Yeah, what did you think? I'm curious. It was fine. My son liked it. The other two wanted to see it, but they had to go to baseball. I think they're seeing it with mom. I'm sure that they'll like it for the most part, too. It was pretty rote, I would say. Yeah. That's what I've been hearing, and I've also heard from our general manager at the arcade saw it, and he said, I'm just not quite sure why it was a movie.

[00:10:04] It felt like three episodes strung together, and nothing significant enough to warrant a movie happens in it where there's a turn, and you see something crazy happen, and it will change the game forever. It wasn't that. It felt that a movie would escalate. You're hoping. Yeah. It did feel weird to be sitting in a theater up until, I think, up until Rat of the Hut happened, and then it was like, well, this feels like a movie now.

[00:10:31] It's a silly movie that's happening, but at least now it feels like a movie. I don't know why that was the switch for me. Like I said, my kid, Van is my oldest. He's 14. He enjoyed it. He left. He's like, that was pretty fun. That was cool. I really liked it. I'm like, what do you think we're going to watch next? He's like, I don't care. I'm like, okay. That kind of feels like Star Wars is that. When you leave the parking lot and you don't have that, oh, I can't wait to see what happens next.

[00:10:56] I like dumb Star Wars more than I like smart Star Wars usually anyway, so I was fine. I was really glad that I didn't have to remember anything that happened in The Mandalorian since the last time I watched it to watch this movie. Have you watched all of the seasons? Yeah. You got it, right? Yeah. And that's honestly, for me, that's what's frustrating about it is because if you're going to take the TV show and turn it into a movie, you need to do something that justifies turning it into a movie.

[00:11:23] Why are we just watching episodes of the show on the big screen if it's just going to be the same thing? And it's really frustrating that nothing happens in this that progresses them as characters at all. There's nothing that changes in the Star Wars universe whatsoever. There weren't any cool reveals. There wasn't some big development that affects anything more than The Mandalorian and Grogu. And you got nothing that happens. There's no real stakes because you know they're not going to kill The Mandalorian or Grogu. It just felt like a real nothing burger.

[00:11:51] But they're not going to kill The Mandalorian and The Grogu. They're not going to kill Mando or Grogu in any episode either, so the stakes aren't even there in the show, but it's still a good show. So why is that different for the movie? Because the movie needs to feel bigger. Like Star Wars on the big screen, Star Wars is a movie. It's an event. This didn't feel like an event. This felt like a carnival, like a really low-key, you know, just like thing that was just like, yeah, okay, I didn't need to go to that. And you'll be able to watch Mandalorian season four if there is one. And you won't have to see this movie. It won't matter.

[00:12:20] Is this a directional shift for the Star Wars property where they're saying instead of making the, like, we're going to make Mando and Grogu because it's going to be an event and everybody will go see it. Instead, they are tepidly going, well, we're going to mass produce these things and at least we'll get a box office return? Yeah. I mean. Are they leaning in? I mean, Disney definitely is the one probably who would want the movie more than anything

[00:12:47] and saw the value from that, if only from a merchandising perspective. But at the same, for, I will say that I know that there were definitely people who indicated that something needs to change in the status quo of the Mandalorian and Grogu as characters. Something needs to happen. Sure. In this movie. But Jon Favreau specifically did not want to do anything because he wanted people who didn't watch the Mandalorian to be able to watch and not need to know anything, which Alex appreciated.

[00:13:16] But at the same time, they didn't want to do anything that would change anything anywhere else either. From a marketing perspective, I would posit that Disney's looking at this like, if we keep building things and putting them on streaming, we're only giving the people that are already paying our stream. You're not going to get a new Star Wars property and for the very first time somebody's getting a subscription to it. They've already got it, right? Real quick. Did it open this weekend, by the way? Real quick. Yes. Sorry, last weekend.

[00:13:44] What they are trying to do, though, is they can capture more of a general audience at the box office and then they go, oh, how can I watch more of that? Oh, I got to get a Disney Plus. I felt that's why it's a marketing thing. But I feel like you're I think you're at the very least you're just breaking even, though, because you make a movie like Mandalorian and Grogu. Sure. Let's say you pull in some people who have never watched the series, who aren't Star Wars fans. Now, all of a sudden they are. They get Disney Plus. They can watch the Mandalorian, whatever. Anyone they gain from doing that.

[00:14:12] They're losing like the fans who are like I like who don't want to see, you know, what is happening in Star Wars now because it's boring and it's not exciting and nothing happened. You know, it's fair. I just don't know what then. What's the fucking point? I think that like what's Disney? It's been open for a week, two weekends now, and it's not done yet with this weekend. It's already made over 250 million. Yeah. I mean, so that's why. But also it doesn't need to be more complicated than that.

[00:14:38] But also it looks like that this weekend of the box office, you're going to see something crazy happen. The Mandalorian and Grogu is going to drop to number three and number one and two are going to be taken by two horror movies, the second of which has a third weekend that is bigger than both of the previous weekends. Which is like super crazy. Obsession. So I had only heard about the run of Backroom. Backroom is just open this weekend. Obsession's been out for three weeks now and this weekend is going to be bigger than its previous two weekends. You've seen both? Yeah. I haven't seen Backrooms yet. I've seen Obsession twice. I've seen Saw Backrooms this weekend. Oh, nice. Which one's Obsession?

[00:15:08] Obsession is the one where the guy like makes a wish on a novelty thing that this girl he has a crush on will love him more than I know else in the world and it turns into a movie. It's really fucked up. But it's also going to be very close. Probably 26 versus 25 million. But the fact that a horror movie that was made for under a million dollars is making this much money and also is having a box office rise like this against a movie that's supposed to be a huge blockbuster is crazy. Agreed.

[00:15:34] And is that maybe also because the summer movie season is kicking off and people are going to theaters a little bit more, you're getting a share of everything? Because it's not like Grogu shit the bed. No, that, but also I think that you're also getting a little bit of probably just overall franchise fatigue. Not even just superhero fatigue anymore. Well, that's true. I think younger audiences, they don't care about the run of Star Wars. They don't care about the legacy. It's hard for my kids to sit down and watch a movie. What's the number one film for this year though?

[00:16:03] What do you mean like what's the best movie of the year right now? No, what is the number one profiting movie for this year? So far? Yeah, so far. I don't know. The house guest. Super Mario Ghost 2. Oh, Super Mario Galaxy. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. It has done almost a billion dollars already. Yeah. Not the house guest? Or the house maid? No. Not the house guest with Sinbad and Phil Hartman? Sinbad and Phil Hartman? The number four movie? Surprising. The Lady Wears Prada. The Lady Wears Prada. The Devil Wears Prada 2.

[00:16:33] You be careful about the lady. The Lady Wears Prada. The number five movie, Pegasus 3. And so like- Wait, what was the last one there? I'm sorry. Pegasus 3? It's like an international release. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But again though, people are still very much into sequels. That's probably a Chinese release. Brad, do the accent. I think- No? Okay. All fair only. Got it. Number seven right now is The Mandalorian. I think that- That is the number seven film worldwide. But look in the United States. Okay. Hang on.

[00:17:02] I want to say what I think. Yes. Nope. Nope. Nope. No one says that enough on this show. Give me a minute. I want to say what I think. I think this was the first Star Wars movie in seven years, which I didn't know until Van told me on the way because he had Googled it. If Star Wars had been firing all cylinders and they had released some kind of nothing burger Mando movie because that's a good way to sell gugu dolls to kids, it would be fine. Exactly.

[00:17:32] I think that a lot of Star Wars fans have a hard time reconciling with the cynicism of Disney as if there weren't toys all the way from the beginning, as if George Lucas wasn't like, I want to maintain the rights. It was always cynical from the beginning from that point. I think that now Star Wars, in its desire to exist, has to fulfill all these different masters that it really can't.

[00:17:59] It has to be satisfying to adults who want it to engage with the world and or while at the same time mystifying children so that they will become the third or fifth generation of Star Wars fans. The only thing that's really worked is Grogu. Grogu, baby Yoda hit. It hit with kids. It hit with everybody. The first season of The Mandalorian is one of the only things that has happened since Disney took over that everybody's like, that was an unbridled success. Everyone's like, I kind of like it.

[00:18:26] To your point, I saw the first season, the first whole season of The Mandalorian. I have not seen anything since because I get it. That's what that show is. Okay. And sure, it's fun. But there's other fun things that I want to watch too that aren't Star Wars related because I'm a very casual Star Wars fan. Right. I also think we've gotten too into the idea that there needs to be a Feige and that the Feige is the solution. That if we had a Feige, then everything will work right because that worked one time. And it might work with DC. Maybe we'll see how that works.

[00:18:55] And I don't know if that's necessarily true. I also don't know if necessarily Dave Filoni is the right person to be that because he has created so much stuff that he cares about that might not really be a good basis. It'd be impartial for this. And also might not be a really important basis for like, maybe that's not what it like. That was mystifying to you, Dave, because that's the Star Wars. But I don't know if kids care about Thrawn. Who is Favreau to him?

[00:19:23] Who would be the Favreau in the MCU? What do you mean? Jon Favreau. Is he also doing that to Kevin Feige in the MCU as well? As far as what? Favreau brought back the MCU. Why not? Well, he started the MCU. He started it. But Favreau being like, he's got the direction of Mando. He knows what he wants to do with it. I'm sure he was very, very involved in like, we're not going to do this in the movie. We're going to do this instead. Is that fair? Yeah, for sure. Right. Okay. So my question is, he doesn't fill that same role for Marvel in the MCU, does he?

[00:19:53] Oh, no, no, no. So like, again. Yeah, Favreau hasn't done anything. Who's the guy you were saying just now? The other guy? Dave Filoni. The Star Wars guy. How is Filoni and Favreau's relationship compared to like Feige and who would that be at Marvel? Uh, it's very close because they were, I mean, they were the co-executive producers and co-creators of The Mandalorian. So is this more like Russo brothers back and forth, like decision making wise? Because Feige is, Feige is by himself, right? He's where the buck stops.

[00:20:31] Kind of. He's basically like the second coming of George Lucas with a bit of more contemporary filmmaking, you know, style, I guess. But he, his thing like kind of Alex says is like he is definitely a fan of the stuff that he created in Clone Wars and the animated shows and bring that stuff into live action. And I mean, again, being a casual fan here, I remember just other real fans like you guys talking about the Clone Wars being amazing. Yeah. Like it's a great animated series, right? Yeah.

[00:20:59] But it's, I think, I think for me, uh, the, the thing with Star Wars right now is that it's become something that it wasn't ever meant to be. And that's really tough. And Marvel had the same problem, even though they're able to manage the storm a little bit better. But Star Wars has become less special since Disney took it over. And the Mandalorian is partially to blame for that, but also so are all the other shows that are out there. And because Star Wars was a big deal when you got a trilogy of movies for roughly 10

[00:21:28] years every other decade or so. But they weren't, they weren't great though. Even before Disney took, right? The, like, Jar Jar Binks, the Jar Jar Binks era wasn't great films. So, and so, and this is kind of like one of the fascinating weird things about Star Wars is like, yeah, there were people that didn't think those movies were very good at the time. It was the people who grew up with the original Star Wars. The prequels were not well received. But if you talk to a lot of fans now, even those who, like those, especially who grew

[00:21:56] up around when the prequels were coming out, now those prequels are becoming as beloved as the original trilogy was to the generation that saw them before them. There's a whole generation of Star Wars fans who love the prequels and not in an ironic way. They love Phantom Menace. They love Attack of the Clones. They love Vengeance of the Sith. And so you've got this, you know, generational thing happening where, like, the idea of what Star Wars fans, how they're defined, what they like, what they enjoy, has covered so much

[00:22:22] ground now that it's really hard to do anything that will satisfy, you know, people who are new and people who are longtime fans. And which longtime fans are they? Because they're different. It's safe to say that in 10 to 15 years, those who are watching all the stuff now are going to love it. Yeah, I mean, they're going to look back fondly. Yeah, there will probably be a new contingency of Star Wars fans who love the sequel trilogy, despite some of the people who were naysayers about it. But I think that, to circle back

[00:22:46] around, is that the Star Wars was bigger when it was just a trilogy of movies that you got every now and then. It felt like something special when a Star Wars movie can be around. Now, even though we haven't had one in seven years, it's because of the television stuff being focused on and also just kind of, they're having a really hard time focusing their vision as far as what they want Star Wars to be. And trying to figure out what it can be now is really difficult. Are they making money? Sure. Yeah. That's all they care about. Yeah.

[00:23:16] Right? I mean, that's really all they care about. Of course. And so, I don't know. I think that some of the choices they made in The Mandalorian show that they care about other things, like they didn't rock the boat either. Right? Like they purposely didn't move the needle in any direction. They didn't give Grogu any new force powers that anybody had to argue about. They didn't... In the movie, I mean? Yeah. In the movie. Yeah. Right? Like, I think that they do care about other things besides the making of the money.

[00:23:43] I think the making of the money is the most important thing. But I think that they do also maybe realize that if we're going to engage with Star Wars movies and we don't have a good handle on what the fans are going to do, then we're not going to do a lot. Let me say this. Maybe Lucasfilms cares. Right. I don't know if Disney cares. Disney only cares about the money you're going to make. Right? Yeah. But that's 2026. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. And so, that's really the secret is, is this going to make money? If so, just keep on doing them. Right? Right.

[00:24:13] Right. Marvel series. The Marvel shows almost all stock. They're not very good. But they keep on making them. Right? WandaVision was pretty good. Loki season one was pretty good. Pretty good. Loki as a whole is great. The Loki world. Falcon and the Winter Soldier I liked. It was fine. It was fine. I liked it. And then after that, I just stopped watching. I didn't see anything after that. I didn't dislike Hawkeye because it's a Christmas film or a Christmas series. Hawkeye was fun. Ms. Marvel is very good.

[00:24:41] I think what you're getting at is, many of them are fine. Right? They're not bad because they have the money to make them okay. But it's also just too much of it. You know? Yep. It's just... It loses the kind of specialness. When you water it down and then people just start thinking, instead of I have to see this, it's like, oh, I'll catch the next one because you can. Yeah. It is interesting though because you bring up Dave Filoni. Dave Filoni is a huge star. I listen to interviews with him and he is a huge Star Wars nerd. Oh, yeah. Right? He's like George's handpicked guy. Yeah.

[00:25:11] And so is that helpful or is it not? Right? Because can he be impartial? Right? Like the dude knows... He's like Stephen Colbert talking about Lord of the Rings. Right? Like he knows all the little things and all the little things are big things for him. And so it's like, you almost want somebody to be like, let's step out of that a little bit and back into a world where we all live in. I would say that I can watch this in my oldest because he's the only one that's a Star Wars fan.

[00:25:40] Like he was... Like I was paying attention to Star Wars when he was the right age to absorb that part of what we were doing. And so like he cares and he likes Star Wars and stuff like that. And so he's really excited whenever anything that's connected to the Clone Wars or Rebels is happening in real life. At least he was. Yeah. And you can see that like each iteration of like a live action thing that came from the cartoon that he liked that turns out to just be a boring TV show. Right. About maybe something will happen and then like whatever.

[00:26:09] And like all of this stuff has felt like it's served getting Dave Filoni's bugaboos into Star Trek so that they're there or Star Wars so that they're there so we can have them. I'm like, Van was really excited for Ahsoka. We're going down a real big Star Wars rabbit hole. Van was really excited for Ahsoka. I was pretty excited for Ahsoka just because like I like lightsabers enough that that's almost always enough. Like it really is. Like if there's lightsabers, I'm served. That's your fandom. Yeah, exactly. Like I don't need...

[00:26:38] I certainly don't need this movie to make me think about anything that's happening in the real world right now. And if there's laser swords, then I'm on board. Then that's usually fine. I'm happy. So we were both pretty excited. And then by the end of it, Van was like, so what happens? I'm like, nothing. And this is how TV kind of works now. But it also like the whole thing felt like it was just kind of built so that Thrawn could appear on screen in the Disney universe. So that way Thrawn could be around because Baloney liked Thrawn.

[00:27:07] Like my son doesn't care. Like he clearly has stuff from before Disney flushed the books and the extended universe or the legends or the canon or whatever it was that he cares about, that he wants to nurture and protect and make sure gets into Star Wars now. And I think that sometimes that's good. I think that fandom can really serve you in that role.

[00:27:30] But I think that sometimes at the same time when you're putting yourself in the movies with your hat on and you're putting on the rogue fighter jet thing and you're putting yourself in an X-Wing, maybe you are too into this. Too close to it. To make good decisions. That's fair. Because like probably someone should have- Especially for the masses. Right. Right. And like somebody could have probably been like, maybe we shouldn't, maybe this should just be TV. Exactly.

[00:27:57] And maybe we should wait 10 years and 10 years from now have a great plan. And instead it's like, no, we need to do this. Disney wants a movie. I just always assumed that it was going to be like catch the finale on the big screen. Yeah. Like that's typically what you would do. Well, and honestly, that was kind of actually what they were supposed to do. The Mandalorian movie was supposed to be something that did lead to a movie that Filoni was going to direct that would have basically brought a very iconic Star Wars storyline from books into this version of the Star Wars universe.

[00:28:24] But they decided to pull the plug on it because they didn't want to have to carry the threads over from the show into the movie and risk not having as big of an audience. Wow. All right. Well, did you see anything else that you want to talk about for a half an hour? I saw the Andy Sudeikis Animal Farm animated film and I really, really, really hated it. Andy Serkis. Yeah. Sorry. Andy Serkis. Not Andy Sudeikis. Andy Sudeikis is Jason's brother. Right. Yeah. I saw Andy Serkis' Animal Farm and it was really, really, really upsetting.

[00:28:53] I'm so glad that I watched it before I showed it to my kids because I would have been really upset had that been how I introduced Animal Farm to my kids. Politically, it's offensive. Humor, comedically, it's unbelievably offensive. Which is, we all know, worse. Yeah. Like maybe an animated version of Animal Farm probably shouldn't be that funny in the first place. Maybe. Fair enough. But it shouldn't be this dramatically unfunny ever.

[00:29:23] Nothing should be made. I thought this was weird. This film was released by Angel Studios. Yeah. No, I know. Which is very Christian. But it is made by Andy Serkis who directed it and written by Nicholas Stoller who did Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him Into the Greek Five Year Engagement. And so it wasn't created as this like Christian film, right? And it's also been in the works for like over a decade. So I assume Andy Serkis made this film and then sold it or that studio bought it.

[00:29:52] Is that or did they fund this? I'm actually not sure. So I'm 100% of the opinion that Angel Films made specific editorial decisions to undermine the concepts in Animal Farm to be more in line with the kind of nationalism that Americans like. Yeah. Here's the crazy conspiracy corner. Is this in the theater or like? It wasn't. Yeah, it was. And then I started out because I'm like, hey, this is cool because there's another animated one.

[00:30:20] Did anybody watch the animated one when we were in school? It's 1984. Right. And it's directed by the same people that own the company, the Ring Camera Corporation. So that. No, but that's what this sounds like. Oh, that sounded made up. It was made up. No, but like in a good way. There is another animated Animal Farm. I can remember watching it in something. It was in some kind of like group as a kid. Are you talking about the 1954 one? Is it animated? Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Ashley put her hand up. Yes.

[00:30:50] Yes, my dear. Right. Right. Do you remember watching this? Yeah. It says reading and lit. So this was also produced by the CIA. Correct. To subtly undermine the message. No. The original one. Or the original one. The 1959 one. 54. Yep. And so I know that and now I know this and I do think that those three things are related. But yeah, I was so. It was offensive. It really was. It was on all the levels that it could have been.

[00:31:21] It was really offensive and no one should show it to anyone ever. This is one of my daughter's favorite books. She loves this book. Yeah. And she was excited about this film because she's like, I hope there's a film that gets the book right. And it seems like. Yikes. It seems like, nope, we're going to have to keep on waiting. It's awful. Well, did you see anything else? No, I'm good. All right. I think. Did you see Super Mario Galaxy? I haven't seen it yet. Fuck. No, sorry. We had a whole conversation at People of the Wild Wings about the Super Mario Brothers movie and how he thinks it's good.

[00:31:50] 30 minutes long. The first one. I'm a defender of the first one. I haven't seen the second one. Gotcha. We just watched that one the other night. That's what you saw then. I saw it, yeah. Yeah. What'd you think? I mean, it's not horrible, but it's not great. So it's fine? It's fine. Did you have fun? Or did the kids have fun? The kids had a great time. Of course. There you go. That's what matters. Honestly. I did like mini Bowser. You can, but you don't have to. You don't have to. I did enjoy the mini Bowser stuff a lot. I liked it.

[00:32:20] And I liked the direction. They did well on that. I liked that direction. I liked that the sun still wanted to kind of rule the universe and Bowser is trying to say, no, these are my people. Of all the kids' films, not the worst one you've seen. Yeah, because there was an actual, there's an actual value add there for like just instead of just being point A to point B, they did throw something in that I didn't see coming in that plot line. There's no consistency with what the characters do though. That's fair. There's a lot of inconsistency in that film. Yeah.

[00:32:48] But I still, you know, put on my glasses and- And the boys loved it. Sat there and watched it. And Lottie. And Lottie, yeah. I just think that there's, the animation looks so good and there's so much potential for the Super Mario Brothers world that like it just feels like a waste of talent to have that be the final product. It made a billion dollars. Of course it did, yeah. So, they're doing it. I didn't hear it. McDonald's has served over 9 billion people. I love a good burger. I like a really, like McDonald's, like an egg McMuffin's really good. Oh, I love a good McMuffin.

[00:33:17] It's a really good sandwich. Don't hate on McMuffins. Yeah, don't hate on McMuffins. Why do you hate McMuffins? I don't. I love McMuffins. Then you just proved our point. Yeah, but I also prefer the steak, egg, and cheese bagel. From McDonald's? Okay, then. You idiot. You still like things from McDonald's. Of course. Okay. You go to a restaurant and get a better version, but you're like, but this is still good. I like it. You just compared Super Mario Brothers, the movie, to McDonald's in a negative light and then started saying how much you suck the dick at McDonald's. I don't understand this at all.

[00:33:45] It's like, I can get a egg sandwich that's better. I know, but I do like this one, though. But there's nothing that's good in the Mario Brothers movie. Anyway, what have you seen lately, buddy? I've seen two films I want to talk about. Go for it. First one is a film called Apex. Did you see this yet? I haven't. I have not. Is it worth it? Apex? Yeah, it is on... Charlize Theron? Yeah. It's like the kind of thriller where a weird guy starts hunting down a female in the woods. Oh, like a movie for an adult person? Yeah. Oh, wow. Those are always fun. Yeah, I can't do that.

[00:34:13] But Taron Edgerton is the weird guy. Yeah. And he's a very good weird guy. Yes. Right. Great actor. Have you seen this, Brad? No, I haven't seen it. You guys need to see this. This is more your guys' alley than my alley. Oh, yeah. Ben, you're going to love this. We're going to watch this tonight, Ashley. We don't have the kids tonight. No kids! All right. You guys should definitely watch this film. We're going to watch it. We're watching it. It is suspenseful.

[00:34:39] Charlize Theron's great, but also he steals this movie. And I cannot talk too much about this movie because it's going to give some plot lines away. But it is very good. If you like suspense films that are... It's not horror. It's completely suspense. But there is some bizarre stuff in this. Some thrills? Yeah, for sure. Some thrills, spills, and chills. Netflix, well done on picking this film up. It is a lot of fun.

[00:35:07] Like I said, suspenseful thriller. Also parts where you're going, oh, yuck. Okay. That was a little weird. You'll get it. After you watch this film, you're going to get exactly what I'm talking about. My favorite thing is being in a movie theater with Nate where he goes, oh, yuck. And it's just the main characters kissing. Yep. Every scene where there's a kiss.

[00:35:37] And then Molly goes, we got to go. Listen. We have to leave. This is the four o'clock matinee. Text me after you see this film. Everyone that's seen this film. Yuck. Everyone that's seen this film knows exactly what I'm talking about. Fair enough. I will probably text you. Yuck. Yuck. Did you see this because of Molly? Because this sounds out of character for you. Funny enough, her sister. Okay. This isn't holiday related. We watch it at her house. I'm going, yuck. Yuck.

[00:36:10] Yuck. Don't love it. Don't love it. Don't love it. But I'm like, oh, the guys are going to love this film. Are you a sitcom character when you watch movies like that? Yeah. Yuck. I'll have what I'm having. That's my phrase. Second film I want to talk about is a film called The Sheep Detectives. Yes. Yes. One of my favorite films of the year. This film you are sleeping on. Go see this film. It had such a great emotional core to it.

[00:36:39] It is everything a kid's film should be. So this is, Brad, where I'm back on your side to say kid's films don't have to be bad. Yeah. Wouldn't you have felt really bad if they made The Sheeps fart more? I mean, it could have been funny still. Yeah. It was missing sheep farts. But again, though. Wouldn't you have been mad if the character. Like most things, it was missing sheep farts. Didn't evolve. This film, though. I'm a little sad. It has a $75 million budget and has barely made its money back. And it should be doing 10 times that. It is. I agree. So good. Yeah.

[00:37:08] The voice acting in this film. Molly and I were talking about this. The voice acting in this film is fantastic. Yeah. Like it is. And it's not just the voice acting. The one thing that I was actually impressed by, and I'm curious as to why, if it's maybe the kind of story that's being told that you're just more forgiving of it. But tell me if you agree with this and if you can understand why. Why do I hate the photorealistic computer animation of the Lion King remake? Mm-hmm.

[00:37:34] But I absolutely have no problem with the extremely photorealistic sheep who are talking in the exact same way. It's a great point. Because this did not take me out of it at all. Exactly. Never at any point did the sheep looking as realistic as a real sheep would just talking. Not like it didn't feel fake. It didn't feel weird. It didn't feel like it was Uncanny Valley kind of stuff. And yet, because of the voice acting being so good, I didn't need to see the sheep emote

[00:38:00] as if they were photorealistic cartoons like they do in the Lion King, which is extremely weird. And I wonder if that is the key detail that is part of it, that they let the voices do the heavy lifting and they don't have much of an expressive face. That's a great point. But again, though, the voice acting, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, fantastic. Bryan Cranston, fantastic. Grissel Dowd, Regina Hall. Patrick Stewart is so good in this, his voice acting.

[00:38:27] It is just a film that, like I said, I sobbed in. It was so good. It was wonderful. And even, obviously, Hugh Jackman is really good. Nicholas Braun is so funny in this film. I just hope more people will go and see it, even if you don't have kids. I think as an adult, you guys didn't have kids in Saw. It is still worth seeing. No, it's very charming. It does have a compelling murder mystery. And they love it. There's a part where I'm going, I don't know who did it.

[00:38:57] Yeah. It's funny. It's lovely. It's wonderful. It's like Babe and Knives Out had an adorable baby. That's good. Yeah. Thank you. So I love that film. I saw it in the theater. I hope more people go and see it. Yeah, you should go see it. Because I want more of these films made. I think it's made by the same person that made Paddington, which, as you guys know, are some of my favorite films. I love Paddington a lot. How about you, Bradford? What did you watch lately? I did see The Sheep Detectives as well. Okay. That was a movie that I saw. Yes, we established this. And we talked about Obsession.

[00:39:26] I saw Obsession. And I would also like to implore people to go see Obsession. Obviously, the word of mouth is big on it because it's still going incredibly strong in its third week at the box office. It's actually earning more, like I said. Yep. Showings are selling out all over. I genuinely don't even know any of the actors in this. No, and that's what's amazing. And that just proves how well it's done right now. It's really good. And Curry Barker, the director of it, he's kind of the latest in this new hit

[00:39:57] of filmmakers from YouTube who are now having movies that are pulling in millions at the box office because their YouTube audience is showing up to see that. And so there's several. Wow, that's a new thing I didn't even. Yeah. I didn't have that on my bingo card, really. Yeah, there's several of them out there right now. And Backrooms is another one that this is happening. I mean, it tracks, right? It makes sense. You make content on a platform and then people like your content. They're going to go see you wherever you are. Yeah, my son, Finn, 16 years old, just went to Backrooms and loved it. He thought it was so good. I thought it was great. I can't wait to see it.

[00:40:27] But this guy's going to probably get a lot more opportunities real soon. Oh, yeah. He's already got his next one planned. Yeah, Curry Barker is doing anything but ghosts. This one stars Aaron Paul, Bryce Dallas Howard, Violet McGraw. So he's obviously, people have noticed, right? He's getting a $5 million budget for this one. Yeah. Nice. Lots of moolah. What else did you see? I also saw The Breadwinner. Nate Baragatze. I'm a little sad this did not do well at the box office. Are you?

[00:40:55] I know because I know what Brad's going to say about it. I love Nate Baragatze. I'm sad in the sense that it sucks that we don't get major studio comedies and theaters anymore. I would prefer that it is something a little more to my comedic palette than what this ultimately is. But I will say the movie... This is not grownups. No, it's not grownups and it's not daddy daycare. It's not anything that silly or dumb. And I appreciate that. There are silly things in it.

[00:41:25] The kind of things you'd expect in a family comedy. Some slapstick stuff and the bumbling dad kind of thing. Because it only has a 28% amount to me. Yeah, and the thing is I understand people not liking it. Especially if you maybe don't like Nate Baragatze as a comedian. Which is understandable. Some people just don't get it. Who? There's plenty, honestly. There's people who just don't like that kind of comedy where it's dry. Some people just don't like funny things. That's true. You know? They're bad people. They should feel ashamed. But that's okay. I think that this is better than many movies of its ilk.

[00:41:52] It's definitely just a 2026 Mr. Mom reboot with Nate. But to me, Nate is what helps it. Because his comedic style is there. His dryness. And just his vibe being there makes things feel a little more palatable. Even when it's just like... I buy that. Yeah. At any point in the film did they make you go... Is that a no? It's a no. Okay. None of it. What also helps is the supporting cast.

[00:42:21] Kumail Nanjiani is in this. Colin Jost is in this. Will Forte. Will Forte is in this. What's her name? Mandy Moore. Nope. Not Mandy Moore. Keep reading the lady names. Keep reading the lady names. Kate Berlant. Kate Berlant from I Think You Should Leave. Gotcha. Yeah. She's hilarious. And so they put these people in supporting roles. And it also adds up to make something that... It worked for me. Sure, man. Also, Zach Cherry.

[00:42:50] Shout out to him on this podcast. Because he's always solid in everything he does. And he's just a perfect supporting actor. Yeah. Thanks for listening, Zach. Yeah. Thanks, Zach. Yeah. Big listener of our show. He does love the sponsors. That's what he tunes in for. Anything else? The last thing that I will talk about... Because we haven't... I don't think we've had an episode of Go Flicks Yourself since... Anyway. I saw The Invite at the Chicago Critics Film Festival.

[00:43:17] This is a new movie from Olivia Wilde that basically plays out like an adult comedic play, but in movie form. It's Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Anelope Cruz. And it's just these two couples who are having a dinner. And then it keeps escalating in just hilarious banter and stuff like that from there. Because of how that dynamic develops over this evening that they're having dinner together.

[00:43:45] This movie is so consistently funny. I was laughing... Me and Caitlin saw it. And the whole theater... Killing it up. Laughing... Shut up, idiot. By the way, I love that point. You were laughing so hard throughout the entirety of the movie. It is sharp writing. Everyone is hilarious in it. But the combination of Rogan and Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton and Penelope Cruz, it just makes this fascinating, incredibly hilarious. Yeah. It looks really, really good. Who wrote this film? What? Who wrote this film?

[00:44:15] Rashida Jones and her husband. I'm forgetting his name. Will McCormick. Will McCormick. Yeah. I didn't know she was a film writer. She is? Yeah. That's great. They also did the script for Toy Story 4. Also, Quincy Jones' daughter. Yes, that's true. And she was in the office. Yeah. Okay. I feel like we're just establishing things that everyone knows. Yeah, exactly. Also on Parks and Rec, that was a show on NBC. But yeah, the invite comes out at the end of June, I think.

[00:44:44] And so if you miss adult comedies that are actually hilarious and will make you laugh so hard. Then accept the invite to the invite. Thank you, Ben. Here at AMC. Yeah, do it. Don't go to AMC if you can, though. It sucks. Here at Cinemark. This is an A24 film. Ben, does it make you want to see it more? I actually was on board until you said that. You're going to love this movie. I'm just joking. I do watch a lot of A24 stuff and a lot of it's bad. It's not true.

[00:45:14] It is true. It's categorically true. You're a piece of shit. What about you, buddy? What have you seen? I saw Normal. Oh, the Bob Odenkirk movie? Bob Odenkirk. How was it? It just kind of felt like it was soft and nobody. Yeah, it was like kind of somebody. Yeah. You know, is that how I'd phrase it? This is going to Netflix. Where does this film release to? I believe this was on Netflix. No, it had a limited release in theaters. Yeah, yeah. Like a direct to VOD.

[00:45:44] It just hit VOD pretty quickly. I rented it. I rented it. Because I love Bob Odenkirk and I love Nobody so much. The second one's fine. But if that's what you're going to give me as an older action dude, I'm pretty much an old guy now, so yeah, pretty much my wheelhouse. Yeah. And I love Bob Odenkirk, like I said. He's fantastic. This is definitely a different movie than Nobody for sure. Yeah. I don't even really want to spoil it. Okay. I don't know how much is out there. Like, what do you know about it from just seeing?

[00:46:12] All I just, I have the vaguest of it's Bob Odenkirk in an action role. That's really all I know. Yeah. And honestly, I want to kind of keep it there. And within the first, like, I don't know, 20 minutes. So here's the thing I will say about it. It's probably an hour and 27 minutes long. And for the first 25 minutes of this film, maybe half an hour, spoiler alert, there's no action. I just was going to say, for the first 20, 27 minutes, I am rock hard. I am just hard as a pencil.

[00:46:42] You know that famous phrase where you're hard as a golf pencil? I'm so rock hard as a golf pencil. Anyway, 20, 30 minutes goes by, no action. But just, you know what, you can see it on the wall, what's happening around him the whole time. And he's developing what he understands. That's why it's really good. Because then it unleashes for about an hour. And you're like, oh shit. Yeah. This is exactly what an action film should be. Okay. So it's a slow burn enough to make it worth your while. I really enjoyed it. Interesting. Yeah.

[00:47:10] I watched The Dictator. The Sasha Baron Cohen movie? I hadn't seen it in a long time. Yeah, I haven't either, honestly. What surprised me more than anything were just seeing, you know, oh my God, I'm blanking on a very famous comedian. Jason Manzoukas. My goodness. I forgot he was even in it. Yeah. And he's a pretty significant part of it. He's the second lead, isn't he? Yeah, he is. Yes. Is he? Well, I mean, wouldn't it be Anna Faris? She's the... Oh, really? Wow. She's in it more than him.

[00:47:40] Anyway. But again, like kind of the cast of characters that they use, the comedians in these roles that were really, I didn't even recognize the first time I saw it because it was so many years ago. There's a very big speech that he gives about, you know, why wouldn't you want to be a dictatorship? And then he just espouses everything that America does. Yeah. And it's just like, oh, it felt like a big short moment where you're like, all right, well, you got one there for sure, man. This sucks. But yeah, overall, it's just as good as I remember it being. Like I laughed a lot while watching it. Okay. Yeah.

[00:48:09] Maybe I'll have to re-watch it. It doesn't... I don't necessarily think that... It's probably problematic that it doesn't age poorly because we haven't grown as a society at all from when that got made. Hashism is less funny in 2026. Exactly. It wasn't when we did that. Because yeah, these were more like... Oh! Oh! Yuck! Oh! Oh! Yuck! I re-watched something recently that I was... Your turn's over. I was happy to be reminded just how funny it really is.

[00:48:39] I showed Caitlin Good Boys. Oh, yeah. Good Boys is great. I mean, I remember liking it, of course, but I hadn't seen it, I think, since it came out maybe. I think Booksmart is better, but Good Boys is a little bit raunchier maybe. Oh, it's funnier, for sure. And funnier. But I think Booksmart's the better movie. I agree. Yeah. Booksmart is a better movie. But yeah, Good Boys is just... I mean, the three kids are just so fucking good in that movie. They're just so funny. Yeah.

[00:49:03] And I forgot about the repeated high-pitched screams from the kid in the front house and just how funny that was. It's so high-pitched. And there's just so many good lines. Quit thinking with your big dick, Max. With your big dick, Max. It's just... It's hilarious hearing kids say the thing that they got them to say. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, is it time to watch some trailers? Yeah. Or we can play a game. Whichever one you want to do. I mean, I don't want to sing a fucking song, so... Save the game. It's not really a game. Like I said, it's three things. We can probably do both, actually.

[00:49:33] Okay. We can save the game for the end, though, if you want to, so you can save the trailer song. I don't really want to sing a trailer song. Oh. You're going to eventually, so... Yeah. So you want to do it now or you want to do it later? Alex, do you want to sing a trailer song? No. No. I'm good. He can jump in and help you if he wants to, but you got to start without... But... You know the rules. It's been so long, though. Do I have to? It's been like forever since we've done this.

[00:50:01] I think it's time to turn over a new leaf where I don't have to do that anymore. Nope. Nate? No, I think you need to sing. I think people literally, they listen to... Long-time listeners. Like, why are you trying to change tradition? Huh? I don't like you at all. All right. Let's play the game first so that I can think about trailer song. No. No, you built it up already. Now he's going to make it good. He's going to make it good. I've got to think about it. Yeah, he's going to make it good. I've got to think of one. He's going to make it good. Let's not do dead air here. Sorry for the blue balls, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I've got...

[00:50:31] This is called... This game's called... Hey, what movie am I talking about? Okay. Good. So... Good. And you're only going to get... You're only going to get... It's pretty much... Hey, uh... Yeah. This episode features three very distinct new sounds from our guests. Ah! That's Brad. Yuck. Yuck. And I go... What are you talking about?

[00:51:00] So how to say, hey, what movie am I talking about? As fast as you can. Yeah. Yeah. You each get one. Uh-huh. If you get it. Yeah. No, we can't compete. It's fun to compete. Oh. It's... Because it's an either or type thing. No. It's fun to compete. All right. So I'm going to give you a movie that just... The clues about this film. Yeah. Just clues about it. Right. You tell me what movie I'm thinking about. Do I have to wait for you to finish? I guess whenever. I mean... I'm not going to get this. I'm not going to get this.

[00:51:29] Because there's no competition here other than... You know. Yeah. Actually, we could do that. For... Yeah. I'll give you... I can guess with each clue. I'll give you a point for every clue that's left over. Oh. Okay. All right. All right. The fate of future generations depends on a teenager. Oh, that's easy. A traveler arrives in the 80s from the future. Oh, you got this. Brad.

[00:51:59] Brad. The protagonist's mother becomes romantically involved with someone she probably shouldn't. What are we doing? Back to the future. I just wanted to make sure. All right. That's incorrect. See, I knew. It's the Terminator. It's the Terminator. You were going to say that. See, I got that one. You didn't know. No, I did. I know. I knew. You didn't know anything. All right, Nate. I didn't even know the name of the characters in the Terminator. Nate, you ready? That sounds like such a shitty insult.

[00:52:27] Like, you guys are on the playground, and you push them, and you push them back. You don't even know the names of the Terminator movies. He's very much a cartman. You don't even know the name of him, man. I bet you don't even know what Al Boren's middle name is on Tool Time. But he's on a movie podcast. He should know those things. It stars Adam Schwarzenegger. Man, I bet you don't even watch Tool Time. All right. Here we go. Okay.

[00:52:51] In this film, a major set piece involves ordinary citizens on public transportation. Nate, remember, he's trying to trick you. So the first movie that you think of, it's not it. All right. The villain wants to prove a philosophical point. The terrorist issues public challenges. He wants you to think it's that movie, and don't say it. Don't say it. Don't you fucking say it.

[00:53:21] That's what he wants you to say. That's what he wants you to say. Don't say it. Don't do it. Nate, you're right there. I'm not going to do it. Come on, buddy. You can do it. I'm not going to do it. Don't say it. Are you sure? No, I'm not going to do it. Don't do it. Explosives play a central role. Not doing it. Yeah. It couldn't be a movie with Keanu Reeves. Don't say it. I won't. Say it. That's it. That's all of them. I don't know what it is. That's all of them. I don't know what it is. Then guess. I don't know. Blades.

[00:53:50] Blades. Blades. I love you so much. I love you so much. I love you so much. I'm not going to tell you what it is. Blades. He said, and just to clarify, he did say Blade. Like Wesley Snipes in Blade. He said Blade. Yeah. And I want to remind you real quick. A terrorist issues public challenges. Yeah. The authorities are forced to follow it. It's not the one with Keanu Reeves or Sandra Bullock.

[00:54:20] A major set piece involves ordinary citizens on public transport. It's got to be with Blade. A villain wants to prove it's a lot of a point. Explosive play a central role. I don't know why, but Blade is one of the funniest movies you could have picked. Final answer. Like if you tried to pick the funnier movie, you couldn't do it. I mean, you were on the right track. No, it's not Sandra Bullock or Keanu Reeves. It's Blade. Okay, fine. Yeah. It was Speed. What? Yeah. I thought you were tricking us. But Brad's was a trick. You thought it was The Dark Knight, right? I literally thought it was Speed the whole time, and he's like, it's not that. No, I thought it was Speed. No, I did too. I did too clearly.

[00:54:50] I thought it was. I was setting up The Dark Knight. I thought you wanted us to think Speed, but it was going to be a different movie. I was going to guess Speed after the first one. You're like, it's not that one. No, no, no. I thought it was that one, but I thought he wanted us to think it was Speed. All right. Here we go. Fuck. Yeah. End with you, buddy. Blade was the one. All right. A talented celebrity becomes stranded in a small town. Mr. Ripley. Sure. All right. Property damage gets him into legal trouble. Yep.

[00:55:19] He's forced to remain there against his wishes. Uh-huh. He falls for a local resident. Yeah. He ultimately reevaluates what success means. Is it Cars? It is Cars. I was hoping to lead you towards Doc Hollywood because what I found out is Cars is Doc Hollywood. Cars is Doc Hollywood. I picked that for Alex because of her relationship, of course, with the Cars universe. Yes. Good job. Good game. So Alex is the winner. Solid. There we go.

[00:55:49] Great job, buddy. Fun times. Great job. Hey, I'm pretty proud of this one. That was pretty fun. That was good. Pretty good. Yeah? Are you sure it's not Blade? It's not Blade, buddy. All right. How'd you get that trailer song in your head? Yeah. Did you have a lot of fun? Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Give me some fun. Yeah. Boom. Boom. Boom. It is unfortunate Seinfeld doesn't have a theme song. You couldn't really- Better to watch some trailers.

[00:56:20] Maybe Grimmie will be there. Boom. Boom. Boom. Oh, yeah. How about trailer, trailer, trailer time with Brad and Ben and Nate and Alex is here too. What? I don't even know what song that was. That was Top Gun song. Yes. Oh, Jesus. There's some other keys in that song. No, there aren't. Not for old Benny boy. Yes. Great job. Wait. Danger Zone? That was Danger Zone? That was Danger Zone? That was Danger Zone.

[00:56:50] Yeah. Is that how you remember Danger Zone? You mean Blade. Electric Guitar Circus. What the fuck? I'm trying my best over here. This is why I don't like doing it. Yeah, exactly. Great job. That's Top Gun. You did. Awesome. Ben might be tone deaf. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I don't know what that was. That sounded bad. Ben e-hill. That was bad.

[00:57:20] Do you want to talk about some fucking trailers or not? Do you want to talk about some trailers? Yeah, let's talk about that first. Let me talk about some trailers. Let's talk about that really creepy one to start. Yeah, start with the creepy one. 72 hours. We're going to start with Wildwood. This is the latest movie from Laika, which is the stop-motion animation company behind Coraline and Paranorman and whatnot. This is another stop-motion animated movie that I don't fully understand what the story is other than there's this older sister who's trying to get back her brother who's been somehow

[00:57:50] taken into some darker fantasy realm. The animation in this looks incredible. I'm so intrigued by it. I won't do it. I don't like it. I'm very excited for this movie. I don't like it. It's going to give me nightmares. You have nightmares anyway. Yeah, but these are Coraline-style nightmares. I don't like that. That means it works. I am super impressed by the fact that it's stop-motion. I also don't know why it's stop-motion because you can't tell that it's not computer anime. It's very, very well done.

[00:58:20] It's really, really, really well done. It's amazing. As an art that is currently happening, it's fantastic. I'm glad it exists. It's the same guy, right? It's the Coraline guy who's the guy, Henry Selick? It's not Henry Selick. No. Oh, okay. Travis Knight did this one. Well, then I care less, actually. If it was Henry Selick, I was going to be like, but I'm glad that he still gets to be out there doing his thing. But now, there's some new guy who I don't have any historical attachment to. I don't care.

[00:58:47] All the other movies that aren't Coraline were directed by other people, like Paranorman and Box Trolls. Yeah, Box Trolls was all right. I don't know. It's gotten to the point, though. Like I said, it's too smooth. I don't know why it's not computer anime. I do get what you're saying. And I think that really just what it comes down to is, honestly, it's like the people that do care about it, like that's probably all that they care about. And it's the people who are actually doing it who care about how the medium looks.

[00:59:14] You know, because you can replicate a stop motion animation style in animation. They've done it before. They do it in the Lego movie. But in this case, I think it's just the dedication to the craft. And once you do find out that it is stop motion, it does kind of add a new layer of, oh, wow. And you wonder kind of how they make it look that good at stop motion. That makes it more interesting to me, for sure. Because I see what that movie is. I'm sure it's going to be great. There's nothing about that trailer that says I would want to see.

[00:59:43] The plot itself, I'm like, this isn't interesting. But this is a teaser, though. It's a long teaser. And I think it's meant to show off the scope of the movie, how big it is, that there's a lot going on in it. But I'm definitely intrigued by it. I want to see it, if only because of the visuals alone. But I'm also fascinated by what the story is, because it feels like a real original story. It is original. It's based on a book. But I remember my daughter reading this book, but I don't know what it was about. But I don't know what it was.

[01:00:13] This trailer just didn't capture me as I hoped it would. You were talking through most of it. Yeah, they already did this in the Electric State, though. I don't need to see this. This is Electric State 2. I'm sorry. She's going after her brother? Sorry, you're going to miss out on that electric boogaloo joke? Yeah. Yeah, I won't let it pass. No. I got it. But yeah. We'll know how well this will do based on Masters of the Universe, because it's the same director. Well, that's not. It's the same director? It is. But also, those two things are unrelated.

[01:00:43] Listen, we'll see how good he is. I don't know. I need to see another trailer, because if it's that kind of tone through the whole thing, I don't really like child peril. That's not a thing that I'm huge into in the first place. The world is sad enough. Yeah. And then on side of that, it almost always feels a little manipulative to me. Let's make a claymation film that's an hour and a half long of the last part of Pan's Labyrinth. That looks like a great movie. That sounds fucking amazing. No, it doesn't.

[01:01:12] It sounds like a terrible time at the film. If it wasn't for kids, I think I'd be more interested in it, honestly. At this point, I feel like... But I think that this is trying to tap into the kind of movies that they don't really make anymore. They don't make movies like they did in the 80s and 90s, where you had kids on adventures with real snakes. Yeah, like scary kids movies are fine. These days you can have sheeps that fart. I mean, why would you pass? I think that kids need scary kids movies.

[01:01:39] I think that this is filling in a hole that we don't really get to see much of anymore, especially because they don't really make live action comedies for kids anymore either. Do they go to a desert world, and then a snow world, and then a water world, and then the wild wood is the final world? Then I'm back in. Maybe. Levels. Yeah. I love levels. I'm a guy that loves his levels. I love my levels. I'm seeing Masters of the Universe tomorrow as we're recording this.

[01:02:08] I hope that that is good. I've heard very good things from people I try. I hope it's a surprise film like Dungeons & Dragons. Well, I think that that's awesome because it doesn't look good. No, I've heard from people that I respect that is very good on the level of being something like Thor Ragnarok or Dungeons & Dragons. Dungeons & Dragons was what you said. That's what I was hoping it would be. I hope that it's Dungeons & Dragons. Let me know, dude. I know. I'm very intrigued now. Is it PG-13? Yes, of course. Well, I don't know. I don't know if they're doing a PG version of it or whatever. No. They're showing a lot of tits.

[01:02:39] Then it wouldn't be PG-13. Yeah, you know she tits? It's one of the famous- She tits is he-man's women. Good God. My God, that's horrible. I didn't name her. No, no. He tits. I didn't name her. I didn't name her. He tits is horrible. She tits is fine. He tits. Clap, clap, clap. Oh. For those who can't see, I was slapping big boobies together like a man.

[01:03:06] Imagine the end of a movie where you slap your boobies together. That's what Brad was doing. Imagine the end of a movie where you slap your boobies together. That famous one. Pan's Library. Pan's Library. Where it ends with two big boobies. And they have eyes. It's really weird. Gross. Eee! Yuck! All right. Well, that's all the time. We talked about another trailer. We can watch the trailer. 72 hours. 72 hours.

[01:03:35] And this is a new Netflix comedy starring- Alex, do you want to make the joke that you made earlier? Because you want credit for it? Because it was a good joke. It's about how, if it's a vehicle for making fun of Kevin Hart, then I'm on board. No, well, that's a great joke, too. But no, about this is what? The prequel is 127 hours. Yeah, the prequel is 127 hours. But no, so this is comedy starring Kevin Hart, Marcelo Hernandez, Cam Patterson, Ben Marshall, and what's his name? Mason Reeves? Him, too. Yeah. Yep. The last guy. Mason Reeves. Mason Gooding. Mason Gooding.

[01:04:04] Mason Gooding Reeves. From the more recent Scream sequels. He's been in those. Maurice? Mason Gooding Jr.'s son. That's not true. That is absolutely true. Is it? Yeah. That's one of the things you would make up to trick us. No, it's absolutely true. Oh, well, he looks like his dad. Nepo baby. Yep. They're all a bunch of Nepo babies. But I think this looks surprisingly funny. It really does, because there's not a lot of Kevin Hart in it. And also, I'm just surprised, though, because it's a Tim Story movie, and Tim Story sucks. Oh, wait. What is he responsible for? Tim Story. What kind of abortions did we see because of him?

[01:04:34] He's known for Barbershop. Well, no. Barbershop was not bad. Ride Along. Ride Along's not good. It's not great. It's not good, either. Have you seen the first Fantastic Four movie? Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer. Oh, well, that one was way better. They got it right. Think Like a Man 2, Tom and Jerry. Okay, we're good. I mean, that's really all I needed. I didn't need to go there. Actually, the blackening was great. No, I was going to say. Okay, the blackening. I was going to say, the one thing that he does have going for him is the blackening was fantastic.

[01:05:02] But I think that's more of a strength of the script than it is him as a director. Okay, yeah. Okay. So, you love Tim Story. I love him. But no, this looks funny. I hope it's good. I think the way they use Kevin Hart as more of a, even though he's the lead, he's still a supporting character, it feels like. Well, any movie like this where there's fodder for improv and stuff, you know that that's what this was. And I can't wait. This is one that's going to definitely come with bloopers or outtakes or whatever. Yeah.

[01:05:32] That'll be hilarious because those guys are all really funny. Yeah, and they have chemistry already. It's built in, so I'm sure that they're fine on set. And for that reason, I'll probably end up seeing this. Is it going to be on Netflix? Is it on Netflix? I'll definitely check this out. This will be a background. Would you see it in theaters, though? No, I haven't seen movies in theaters anymore, Brad. I really don't do it. Why? Because I have kids now. They can't go? Not really. Not to this. Not to this. What? Because they're not. No, no, not to this. Are you fucking them? Are you them right now? Why? Why can't we go?

[01:06:02] Wait, why can't we go? Why? Why? Dad. Dad or dad. Why? My dad's dead. You're Ben. Why? Wait a minute. Why don't you go see other movies with him, though? I mean, I have taken them to the theater. Like Wuthering Heights. Well, dumb. Yeah. I took a Manchester by the Sea. You got a re-release. And I was like, now this will make you a man. And I wept. Watch it. Watch it all. In the parking lot, thinking about them watching that film. These are the only feelings you're allowed to feel.

[01:06:29] When's the last time you went to the theater with the kids for a movie? We took him to see the Minecraft film. No, that was last year. What else did we see? Ash. It's a Hopper's movie. Yeah, I took him to see Hopper's. When did you tell anybody about that? Well, we haven't probably recorded since then. I know. That's what I mean. It's an old movie now. We didn't talk about it on the podcast. But did you see it, though? I want to hear about it. I saw Hopper's and I saw Swapped. I don't care about that. I want to talk about Hopper's. I liked them. I liked them.

[01:07:01] I liked them. No. We don't need to talk about Hopper's, man. It's been out for a while. Did you like it? Yes, I did like it a lot. You think it was very funny? It's very funny. Yes. I think it's so funny. I love it. I will say the thing I like probably the most about it, there are some real ... I like when films establish and stay within their reality. Yes. And so there's a robot that wears a human mask and they pull it off of his eye a little bit and it physically comes down and gets weird. And that is what would really happen in real life. And that's the kind of stuff that I look for in films like this.

[01:07:31] I think that to your point about kids' movies should be for adults as well, that kind of thing, that's the level that they go to that I go, there. Sure. Now that's a representation of what we're talking about. Yeah. I 100% agree because this is a movie that works just as much for adults as it does for kids. And there are things that both will readily enjoy and it's fully entertaining for everybody. Yeah. Good stuff. Is that my watch going off? I don't know. I don't know. That was Ice Cream Man. It is. It's Ice Cream Man. Oh, by the way, this reminds me. This is stupid. This is all in this fucking show.

[01:08:00] I will tell a quick story. I went to an ice cream place here in town and it was adorable. I am watching what I'm putting in my body as much as I fucking can. I'm losing weight. I'm trying to win this weight loss challenge. I'm down like 55 pounds. I feel very good. But I'm also not really eating a lot of sugar. So we go there for the boys and they're going to get a treat. And I lean in and I go, hey, just real quick, you probably don't, but is there anything sugar free? Because sometimes they have like blue raspberry sugar free whatever. And she left the window to ask her manager and she came back.

[01:08:29] I'm probably a minute, probably a full human minute. And she goes back and she's like, um, we only have a SpongeBob popsicle and it does have sugar. And I maybe it's a no sugar added. I didn't really. And she's like, I'm sorry. And I just, I, she's like 15. I didn't mean to laugh in her face, but she goes, and it has sugar. And I went, oh, all right.

[01:08:59] Well, I guess we're going to just stick with the water then. I'll take it. It was just so freaking funny, dude. I have no idea what that meant, but I thought I'd share that story. We have a SpongeBob popsicle, but it has sugar. And I'm looking at the plethora of sugar filled treats and delights in front of me. And like, and I see SpongeBob is on the fucking menu, by the way, like it's right there. It's just naming one random thing that also exists on the menu. It was the least offensive thing to offer. It was either that or ice cubes. Yeah, pretty much. So they're giving you like a cup of nuts.

[01:09:28] A cup of nuts. Okay. Welcome to Tasty Cream. You want a cup of nuts? All right. Anything else to add, buddy boy? I got nothing. The movies are back. We're back. We're back for the summer. So buckle up. Oh, motherfuckers. Put that buckle on. Did you just say butt fucking? No. Oh. You want me to? No. I don't know. Is that what you want me to do? I don't know. Is that what you want from me right now? But no.

[01:09:58] Thanks for listening, everybody. We're back for the summer because Saturday Night Live is on hiatus. Leave us some comments. We're going to be trying to do one every weekend if we can. We're going to go back to assignments. Yeah. Maybe. What? No, shut up, Nate. We're going to go back to assignments. Yeah. Why don't you grow up? Also, leave us some comments so we can have a mailbag portion of this podcast, too. It's like my favorite part. We miss you guys. Mitch, how you doing? Yeah. Mitch gave up on us. He did not. No. Stop it. No. Hey. Mitch still listens. Yeah. He's an avid listener. He does. No, he doesn't. You know what? He knew.

[01:10:28] How dare you? The last time I talked to Mitch, he said, I know Nate's life's going to go down the tubes. I follow Mitch on all the socials. He's doing well. He's seeing movies. He probably started his own podcast. I don't know. If he does, we'll listen. If he does, we'll listen. I'm trying to do his accent. If he does, we'll listen. Down under. No, he hates that. Don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Mitch. Good day, mate. Stop. I said good day. Bye, everybody. Bye.

[01:10:55] Nah, cheesengie.