Go Yes Mac. On the way to the theater this week as we went
and saw the fall Guy screening, I thought to myself, you know,
I was a bit of an adventure junkie back in the day. I did
a little skateboarding, a little rollerblade in will be Am X in a little
bit of everything. I can't say it was great at any of it,
but I tried it all. I thought to myself, Man, is there
any like conceivable way I could do a stunt for a movie? Like?
Is there a stunt that they do on a consistent basis that I could do
believably on screen? And I don't know if there is. It would have
to be I think I would be okay with falling, but anything athletic I
obviously wouldn't be able to do. I would be able to do just some
fucking park horse shit. But that was the first thing I said to you,
What type of stunt would you be able to do? Maybe? So
I think that I could do something jackass related, like something that's kind of
clumsy. I could kind of hurt myself, But if it involves driving a
car, if it involves doing something very cord I might. People don't think
I could do that. That's a good point. I might be able to
roll a car. I have the utmost faith of myself behind the wheel.
I think I'm a pretty good wheelman. I think I might be able to
roll a car and be all right, not panic. Do you think you
could do the whole getting set on fire? I was just gonna say,
speaking from my college days, or at least my visiting college days, I
have been set on fire in the past. I have been tased in the
past. I feel like something like that would be right up my alley.
Yeah, it's an interesting thing to think about because people have different phobias,
and also like, even if I want to try certain things, I just
basely I wouldn't have the athleticism to do certain things. So's it's an interesting
thing to think about, that's for sure. I would say that there is
one stunt in this movie that our hero keeps on doing where he is lit
on fire and then pulled with the harness back into a rock. Sign me
up for that, I would like. Maybe it's because what I it's what
I do in the real world. I don't think being on fire is something
I'd like. It's not, so that's something I want to sign up for
one good three Yeah, job three, King of Queen Mill Street Entertainment.
I'm Goo and I'm Man and we are the Mac and Goo program. We
bring you friendship, Yes, yes we do. And I'll tell you there's
a very very fun friendship in this movie that we're talking about today. And
that's what this movie is in general today, is it's fun. It's fun
fun the movie. Yeah, let's turn our brains off and just have some
fun. Let's not think too hard, but let's just have some fun.
Now. I am perfectly good with what we got on screen, Yes,
but I must ask off the rip here and we can talk about this in
a few minutes, expound upon it in a few minutes. Your level of
excitement for this movie was much higher, Yes, it one was. So
are you coming away disappointed at all with what we got? I think it
hit right where I wanted. Okay, all right, that's good to hear.
That's good to hear. I wasn't sure because to me it looked like
your perfect action comedy popcorn movie. And I feel like that's what I think.
It is, the perfect turn your brain off, lowest common denominator summer
blockbuster that can appeal to the widest masses possible. That's what we got,
and I think that is exactly what you want to do every once in a
while with the PG thirteen movie is just make it as simple as possible,
even though this one maybe too many twists. So I guess maybe your excitement
level was you needed this more than I do. You were yearning for this
movie, this movie. It's my money and I needed no which, by
the way, I know you haven't finished the latest season of kurb but they
worked the JG wentworth oh eight seven to seven cash now into it? Okay,
now I'll watch it. Now, I'll watch it, folks. Today
we are discussing The Fall Guy. The Fall Guy is a PG thirteen action
comedy and drama with a run time of one hundred and twenty six minutes,
and I think it could have been twenty minutes less, or they could have
found something else to do for those twenty minutes. That might be true as
well. It's it feels a little long. There is a bit of a
pacing issue. Middle of the second act. There was two times I actually
felt like the movie kind of came to a screeching halt. So there's definitely,
definitely a pacing issueh go on, Roddy, T's right now. We
don't have an audience score where we're recording before the audience score is released.
The critics score is eighty six percent, which feels about right. On a
Metacritic a seventy six, which honestly feels a little high. May I guess
the audience score? Yeah? Please do So, I'm gonna put the over
under at eight and a half and I'm gonna take the over all right,
So you're expecting it to be in the nineties. Yes, that feels right
around. It's a good over under. It feels like it would be like
a ninety ninety one, ninety two, maybe an eighty eight. You're right
in the range there, So that's a good over under there. I'm gonna
sit on the fence and not you. I'm gonna push. I'm going to
push Gude. This movie is written by Drew Pierce. We would know him
from Iron Man three, Mission Impossible, Rogue Nation, and Hobbs and Shaw.
So that's an interesting three most popular moviesque I would say the writing was
actually, the writing was a little bit of an issue in this movie.
There there's some really meta dialogue. And then there's some really odd dialogue.
I had a little bit of an issue with the right. And then I
think the plot is just the overarching story. It's a little much at points.
And then also, what reality are we in? Yeah, that's that.
That's a good question to ask too, because seemingly we're kind of based
in reality. But then, no, we're not stunt men are superheroes.
But let me also say this right now, I know that we're you know,
we're poking and we're prodding at this. I had a very good time.
Oh I had a blast. I have a great time. I highly
recommend this movie. I really enjoy we're just talking about here. Now,
you know what prevents this movie from being like an all timer or something.
We're gonna run out and tell people to go see is the stuff for I'm
only gonna walk out and tell people to see it. I'm not running,
I'm not sprinting. Just a wisper. Hey you should see that. Hey
they're like, oh the nineteen eighties TV show. Yes, yeah, sure,
kind of like that, which I had never heard of the TV show
until like three months ago. But now you have good This movie is directed
by David Leach, who is known for Atomic Blonde. He also first and
foremost he was like an uncredited director stunt director on the John Wick movies first
two, I think, and then he did Atomic Blonde, Deadpool two,
Hobbs and Shaw, and Bullet Train. You and I both agree Bullet Train
one of the more underrated movies from twenty twenty two. Yeah, and if
i'm you know, put a gun to my head right now, I'm gonna
take this over Bullet Train. But it's similar in there's a lot of stuff
that I like, close to love, and then there's some stuff that I'm
like, we could have done without this. I might lean Bullet Train over
this. It's close, Okay, it's close. Bullet Train was a little
more exciting, if that, If that makes sense, a little more of
a drama going on in Bullet Train. Bullet Train for most of the movie,
I might lean this actually felt more like real life question Mark, Like,
it felt like there were more stakes in it. Better pacing number one
because it was on a train and the train was going fast, but also
the plot dictated it. Uh it was the train. No no, no,
no, stick with what you just said. Because of the train,
it was better paced. Uh yeah, it's it's so those five movies Atomic
Blonde, Deadpool, two, Hobbs, and Bullet Training. Now this I
would have this probably. I haven't seen Hobbs and Shaw. Admittedly I'm never
gonna see Hobson Shaw. I would probably have this second or third better than
Atomic Blonde, but not as good as Deadpool too. I think I'm right
there with you Deadpool to this Bullet Train, Atomic Blonde, Yep, all
right, so agree to agree. Also, he is a former stunt man,
yeah, which is cool. And obviously this whole thing is sort of
you know, we saw it a little bit at the Oscars this year that
I'm talking about stunts and stunt men and women trying to get their due,
maybe get an award eventually. But this is sort of playing out and I
think beats a dead horse a little bit in this movie a couple times with
the stuntman stuff. Well, it does get into him, like I said
earlier, because it's a little cartoonish. The stunt people are all able to
do these crazy acrobatics and fight crime and kind of defy gravity and the laws
of nature. M it's a again, what type of world are we playing?
In. Yeah, it's a good point made at the top. KU
if you are a David Leech fan, what he's got upcoming is a TV
mini series called Hot Air, which is a US based on Richard Branson,
the billionaire, and he's going to be played by Andrew Garfield. So I'm
pretty intrigued by that. Did you know that? And I did not fact
check this, but I heard Andy Hart talk about this on Weei okay,
that if a hot air balloon lands in your yard, you have to offer
them wine and bread. Yeah, that's surely not true. Well we'll never
know. I'll tell you what. Speaking of stunts at the beginning, one
of the least things I'd like to do in my whole life stunt or stunt
not related, is riding a hot air balloon. I wouldn't enjoy that at
all. I guess you'd have like no control over where the balloon is going.
And I've heard of missile lines, yeah, power lines. I would
rather jump out of an airplane than ride in a hot air balloon. Do
you have a parachute? Yeah, and the you don't have one in the
hot air balloon And it's just this big fucking wicker basket. That someone probably
fucking well, how do you make wicker? You know, it's a bunch
of leftover picnic baskets. Yeah, so much fucking grandma's furniture got turned into
the basket that I'm now three thousand feet in the air with that no thank
you on the hot air beloon. I currently live in a house that my
grandparents used to live in, and it one point of the attic there is
just so much wicker, and I'm like, why, what? Why was
wicker so used? I think every household in the eighties and nineties had one
of those big circular Wicker chairs where the circle moved. It sat in the
pod, the circle moved, and then there was a pad on top of
the circle. And those were tremendously uncomfortable. I don't know when wicker came
from, Where wicker came from. I don't know why wicker. I know
nothing about. As a podcast, let's put our foot down, we're gonna
stamp this. Wicker sucks, yeah, Wicker, yeah. Goose Office of
a fall Guy. The fall the fall guy, not a fall guy.
This is the confused by the first word coming up here. A down and
out stunt man must find the missing star of his ex girlfriend's blockbuster film.
Yeah, that kind of undersells it. Kind of undersells it, but good
enough. That's pretty much it. Though. This movie stars Ryan Gosling as
cult professed sievers h he's so cool formerly dangerous or danger was his middle name.
Let me ask you this question, and this hit me midway through the
podcast, not through the podcast, through the movie, and I did no
research after. Maybe you can help me out how attractive are normal stunt people?
It's a good question. I was thinking about it. Baseline, you
gotta be probably pretty physically fit, so that like a baseline that probably somewhat
attractive. But you would have to think your face takes a beating too.
You know, you probably have some scars and and shit like that. So
then it brings you back down a little bit because know one in this movie
looks at Ryan Gosling and says, wait a second, why is it your
face on the camera? Are you handsome son of a bitch? Because then
we also get into like, he is a fucking cool character in this movie.
Yes, yeah, he is a cool cat. And then you think
back to another one of our favorite characters, another cool cat, Brad Pitt
in Once upon a Time in Hollywood, also a stunt man. Let's get
to that conversation in one minute. Let me run through the rest of the
stars, because I think it's a it's a pretty good point to make about
bring up off Facebook of stunt men's profiles. Please. Emily Blunt, the
co star hair, plays Jody Moreno, the ex girlfriend in questions. Very
good. Yeah. Aaron Taylor Johnson is Tom Ryder. If you had the
name a plemonade type of person in this movie, he might be it.
He was maybe very, he was very He felt like he was from Tropic
Thunder. I agree, I agree, But he did the best out of
those characters. Okay. I felt like, uh, Hannah Wattingham, we
know her from Ted Lasso. She's the tall brit more like Hannah Weggingham because
he's got a big old wig on. I think she plays Gail Meyer,
who was pretty funny for most of her screen time. Teresa Palmer is Iggy
Starr, who's not in this all that much. She plays Aaron Taylor Johnson's
girlfriend. Stephanie's shoe pops up for a few minutes here as Alma Milan and
Winston Duke in Here is Dan Tucker. Oh, I want to add another
segment to our I don't know what it becomes with ten a deca gone,
a deca gone now. Okay, So what I would like to to add
to everything else? Now we're gonna do if the shoe fits? Okay,
please explain. Well, whenever she pops up, you're like, she fits
right in, all right, So it's just a Stephanie's shoe based thing.
No one who steals the show, they just slide right in, do their
job and get off screen. Listen. I discovered her and everything ever all
once I fell in love with her on that what's that one that you liked
a little more than me? To all the boys I've kissed, No no,
no, no one with the four Friends came out last year comedy I
like no hard feelings more. You like this one? It's the show Friends
minus two. That's what it's called, all right, Friends minus too.
She was great in that. We see her, we see her bare back
button balls in that. So I was a big friend that. I think
that's a stunt double. It might be it might be a oh that's what
you could do for a stunt double. You could be somebody go right,
We figured it out. I said this to you. This was my first
thought after the movie was over. I said, if Brad Pitt didn't exist,
I think Ryan Gosling would be the coolest guy on the planet. I
think you can still make an argument for Ryan Gosling, but Brad Pitt is
definitely the coolest guy in the play. I think that if you don't have
Ryan Gosling in this movie, I don't think anyone else could pull this off
because there is a certainary point here. There is a certain like not only
look, it's the attitude, it's in this line delivery, Like there's a
bunch of handsome actors in Hollywood, but Jannisi quah with this guy. I
think maybe Taron Edgerton might be able to do it, maybe because you need
to so you need to have the quick one liners, but they can't come
off as phony, so like Ryan Reynolds really couldn't do this. Yeah,
and you also can't be like big, over the top large like yeah Rockies.
You have to be like pretty standard body size cause he's also and much
like in The Nice Guys, he does such a great job of going from
quiet to loud. Yeah, and it isn't something that is like consistent.
It's just like out of nowhere boom. You know what's a really underrated quality,
especially in actors that are in a lot of action movies, being able
to be beat up believably. He does it great in the other guys.
He does it great here like being able to take take your lumps or a
bump as they call it in the wrestling world, and making it believable goes
a long way, like really sells an action scene. And the goss is
really good at it. Like I said, Emily Blunt was good Alan,
Aaron Taylor Johnson was phenomenal in his more limited role. I'm still holding out
hope on Craven just because of Aaron Taylor Johnson. But fuck that thing is
Oh you mentioned Winston Duke. I keep in my head referring to him as
either Zach Duke or Clark Duke, and that's not his name. Zach Duke,
former lefty of the Pirates, Diamondbacks and maybe five other Major league teams.
Clark Duke is PLoP PLoP Clark Duke. His his light burned real bright.
Everyone thought that he was the next guy, and then I wouldn't mind
a Clark Duke as sons Hot Top time Machine is very underrated. Yeah,
he's great enough. He is like when he was on the screen in super
Bad, you were just drawn to him. Goude. This is a comedy
action drama, but also it's a bit of a rom com as well.
Gives you enough to sort of establish it as a rom com. And actually
the love story in here is pretty decent. It's it's developed just enough before
we get into our decagone. I will say this, and my wife still
has no idea how to rate movies. She gave this a twelve out of
ten. She loved it. Yeah, for the comedy and love story.
I'm assuming comedy love story. It look like we said earlier, there are
things that you can definitely poke at, but it's a complete movie. Yeah,
yeah, it's it's to me a little spoiler alert. We'll get the
hot dogs in a few. To me, it's like clearly the second best
movie of the year that I've seen. Now I've only seen four, I've
only seen two movies. But it's not and it's not even remotely in the
same stratosphere as Doode too, but it's head and shoulders above pretty much everything
else. I've watched, so it's it's it's a it's a pretty fun movie.
And like I said, the only real drawbacks I have from this movie
is that there's a couple of lulls and then right around the middle of the
movie you're pretty much exactly sure how it's gonna play it. And then also,
how many times in a movie can and they wink and gnawed at us
enough that we're like, I guess we'll excuse this, yeah, right right,
a couple fourth ones just because you call out something for being overly complicated,
which I feel like every movie does. Now I don't know if we
can excuse it anymore. The whole scene with the split screen was a real
wild ride for me because I was like, I kind of like it,
and then I kind of did it, and then it kind of brought me
back. It was and that scene went on for too long as well,
Yes, which happens a couple of times in Yere. But this movie's enjoyable
if it's it's worth the price of admission, all right. Before we get
to the deca gone here, carnitas, white rice, refried beans, piko
de Gayo, and the hottest sauce they had Yeah, we ate another fucking
burrito. I did. I was gonna eat it. I was gonna eat
it ahead of time. But the line at al Hefes was ridiculous. There
was a guy in front of me that when he was ordering his burrito,
you know what he said to the guy behind the counter, what meat do
you recommend? God? What are you gonna go in there? You can't
be asking the assembly line people to make recommendations. You gotta go in there.
If you go in there, you look at the meat. You look
at which one is the best. Like, never go in there being like
I'm definitely getting chicken. No, look at the chicken first. If it
does not look up to par pick something else. I love pork, I
love carnitas. But what I always do I look at it. If it's
too wet, I don't want it. It's a good game plan, the
whole thing. Whether I agree with your game plan or not. Go in
there with a game plan. Don't go in there with a bevy of questions.
Yeah, Also, how do you feel about people ordering more than one
meal at once? Like ordering four other people? I'm okay with that,
but don't keep stepping back. Do it? Do it all at once,
don't like go over here and then come back like a fucking typewriter. Agree,
But that also you gotta have a good employer on the behind the counter
to make it work though, too, it's a given thing. Mm hmm.
All right, let's get into the now. Deca gone and we're just
gonna keep on adding fucking legs out of this octopus. We're going to fun
factor first, and this, look, this is fun. That's the biggest
compliment. That's my one word that you can put on the DVD. Fun.
Yeah, this is fun factor of the movie. Like I said at
the top, fun the movie. This movie sets out to make the audience
laugh and enjoy themselves, and it does exactly that. Satisfactor. I do
believe this movie takes way too long to get there, but I was satisfied.
Yeah, I think at this point in my life, seeing Ryan Gosling
have fun on screen chopping it up is baseline satisfactory to me. So pretty
decent satisfactor. And I'll also say this, like we mentioned, and this
is kind of a spoiler when you mentioned that there are twists. There's a
lot of twists here. But I think a compliment that you can pay this
movie is that even with all the twists, you didn't lose my attention much
like I mentioned earlier with Argyle once they had those twists at the end of
the second act, I'm like, this thing kind of sucks and I don't
care anymore. Can I ask you a question here? Yeah, and you
don't have to answer it, putting you on the spot. I'm gonna answer
it regardless of what you say, Gossling or Reynolds Gossling. Yeah, I
think pretty comfortably, especially when we're talking silly goss more range for goss right,
because Ryan Reynolds is always silly goss gives us some other stuff. Yeah,
but I'm a I'm a big silly gus guy. I'm a big silky
goss guy. I agree. I agree. Oh as in my turn borometer,
Yeah, it definitely limps at points. Yeah, Fau show there's some
bore A couple moments in here. Well, I was like, all right,
at the top, I said, maybe they could have chopped off twenty
minutes. That's probably being too harsh, but a good eight to ten minutes
here we could have chopped off and this would have been better. Hallo ween,
Well, this wayne over time and it kind of has sense leaving the
theater because we had to take notes and really think about it. That's where
the movie might have some problems. Also, when you have a movie that
there's a lot of twists, the plot is kind of convoluted, it does
make you think a little too much and you're like, I'm gonna knock a
little bit more off this. Also, and I'm sorry to steal your thunder,
but I am looking at your notes, but you mentioned how this isn't
funny enough to be referenced. I do like the reoccurring joke of and We're
gonna kick the shit out of them. That was a nice little joke that
was good in the uh towards the end of the movie there, but as
a straightforward comedy, probably the best of the year so far. But if
you're talking like comedies where it becomes relevant in your everyday life, when you're
referencing we're having a conversation civilist similar to this earlier where all like the properties
you reference all the time, this doesn't have anything like that in there,
and that means I don't think it's gonna be talked about a lot. I'm
not gonna talk about it a lot, so I'm not gonna come back to
it too much. It's just it's good humor. It's mostly Gossling sort of
reacting to stuff in a room, which is funny. It's just not stuff
I'm gonna come back to. I'm not comparing it to this movie, but
I also kind of a I'm comparing it to this movie. This kind of
reminds me of in the Summer of twenty twenty two, where you just recommend
Top Gun to everybody because you just assume everyone's gonna like it. This is
a movie I think everyone's gonna like, and I'm gonna recommend to people fair
enough. That's fair baseline. It might it might be very likable for a
lot of people. Max Credit Union, who you giving credit to. We've
talked about it a couple times already. But I think there's maybe three or
four other actors that could maybe maybe three or four other actors that could pull
off what Gosling does in this movie and really sells this movie. It's just
there's not a lot of actors that have this range as a comedic actor,
dramatic actor, you know, rom com type of stuff, and do all
the action stuff that's pulled off of this movie. It's few and far between.
When life gives you plemings, you make plemonade. And in this movie,
I feel that Gossling every scene that he's in, and he's in the
entire movie. Just his likability, his nonchalant way about his comedy, it's
there. Yep. Totally agreed because I just gave him so much credit already.
I'm gonna go a little bit of a swerve here Goo for plemonade,
And there's a couple of people making plemonade, really starting to make plemonade in
this movie. Like I said, Stephanie schu she's only on the screen for
like four minutes. She's pretty good. She's never really got a chance to
fully make her her plemonade. You know who did make plemonade though, That
goddamn puppy dog, Jeng Claude. Jean Claude stole the show in this movie.
I thought it was the instant reaction the first fifteen seconds when they introduced
the dog, I was like, this is a little much, And then
the minute the dog got involved with the chase, I was like, no,
what I'm all in? And the cool part about this Gou is the
it's the character is sort of a nod to Eva Mendez's dog that has passed,
who only responded like in French. It was a French dog, so
it was like a nod to his wife now, which is pretty cool.
But the dog. The dog made me laugh out loud, like four or
five times, pants Tan City, Excite, bike Mania, what got you
going in this movie? And I actually did let out a pretty loud chuckle
during a boat scene in this movie. Yeah, I had a couple of
real hardy laughs. But I think my favorite scene was towards the end of
the movie when Winston Duke basically assembles the stunt team of the Avengers, and
it's that sort of thing, but it's also a little bit of a old
Kanda sort of thing going on. They undoubtedly it was like a wink and
nod at the Avengers. What if he assembled a team of dukes like Franz
Ferdinand. All Right, for those of you taraty to the Mac and Go
party, we rate everything on a forty hot dog rating system in Mac.
Like I mentioned, I think you can nitpick this movie to death. It's
a little overly explaining Bondish if you will. It's inside baseball. There's a
lot of Hollywood stuff that maybe some people might get turned off by. I
did not like the soundtrack here. They used kisses I was made for Loving
You at least seven times. I didn't need it more than once. Also,
even the other songs used, it was just like a generic jock rock
album that I didn't really care for. I'll tell you what, I think
that's exactly what the movie called for. I think there was no creativity to
it. I think that's exactly what the movie called for. And you are
right though, this little bit of inside baseball Hollywood stuff. I also think
that's why the critics have liked it so much, because it's poking fun at
that. Yeah, because this world is just so cartoony, where people are
able to live through certain things that maybe they wouldn't, or get hurt with
certain things that maybe they wouldn't, and it just it felt tropic thundery,
but not as not as sharp as Tropic Thunder. Tropic Thunder with its jokes,
were a little more out there, taking some more chances. And I
would say Thunder is hilarious where this is this is funny. Yeah. And
that's a fine line too, because when you're shooting for tropic thunder type of
meta humor. If you miss it can go south real And like we've said
with metahumor, there's a lot of it these days. And if things are
so overly complicated, but you know the actor tells us that it's overly complicated,
do we ignore the overly complicated stuff because they winked at us, because
they acknowledged us, and now we're friends. I love silly Gossonnaissance I'm in
on this all the way. That's what really brings this up for me.
The charisma is undeniable. And also I think no one else can really do
what he does. This is a great date movie. This is a lowest
common denominator movie. This is a mass appeal movie that I think will hit
with everyone. This will be the number one movie at the box office.
I think it'll do well for an entire month. It pays homage to stunt
men. It also lots of really good stunts in this movie too, so
give it credit with that for doing that as well. Mac I have this
at thirty three hot dogs very fair rating. Goo. I must say,
I am starting to question if you know what the word renaissance means I'm not
gonna look it up. Goo yeah. Last, all throughout this movie here
plenty of them, a couple of really great ones too in there. Like
I said, there are a couple lulls though, and it does really lean
on the gossling and blunt stuff during those lulls. So if that doesn't hit
all that well for you, maybe you'll like this movie less. The pacing's
a little awkward, it's pretty predictable, so I can see people not loving
this movie. But to your point, the baseline, like I think,
is very much in there. So maybe it'll be ninety five on Rotten Tomatoes.
Who knows? We are in the likesnnaissance right now. Gossling, Blunt,
Aaron Taylor Johnson in Hand of Wantingham. They do a great job.
They keep you laughing. There was also a couple small jokes and small character
details here that they didn't really push towards the front, but made me laugh
out loud a couple of times. It really tickled me. They did a
good job with that. Again, I didn't have massive expectations going in,
and this gave me exactly what I wanted. I wasn't expecting a forty dog
movie. I was expecting a fun popcorn movie. It's exactly what I got.
It's a very good, very good comedy, fun action. Definitely lacked
in that dramatic edge that maybe would have taken it up a notch. But
I got into thirty four Hot Dogs my number two movie of the year.
Again, I've seen fourteen so far, and honestly, I think eight of
the fourteen I've seen I have not liked. So shall we get to spoilers?
Spoilers, spiloil stile. The amount of manpower that goes into this scheme,
it's a lot. Yeah, yeah, it's uh. And it seemed
like they it was a quick turnaround. They probably only had like two hours
to plan it. Yeah, and then all of a sudden they got a
hundred even starting like not that, but like the stunt people or the people
that are helping out Aaron Taylor Johnson, the person that is scanning the face
when he first gets in there, she's a part of the plan. Everybody
there is a part of the plan, and there's a lot of people involved.
To you also asked like, like you understand why Wattingham wanted him to
go into there to have his you know, face shown or everything like that.
But if they already have the footage of ATJ doing this for them to
then put the face on it, what what is the point of them getting
the phone from the girlfriend? Why not just go in there and take the
phone? In general that that's all they needed. Well, they had to
frame him, yes, but the here's a real thing where it started to
unravel for me for a little a little bit. But I didn't I didn't
let it be. Look, and I don't care about this. Yes,
well we don't care about this, but we're talking about the movie, so
we might as well talk about it at the not the end, right before
the conclusion, when he's officially framed. On the news, you see the
footage of Aaron Taylor Johnson karate kicking the other guy, Henry I think his
name was to death and they got his face on Aaron Taylor Johnson's But ten
minutes before that, the video in the phone they needed was destroyed by the
shotgun. So how did they so? Wattingham already had that video. So
that's what I'm saying is that she already had access to that video. So
why did we need to go through the trouble of getting the phone? You
should have just sent him to that hotel to see the dead body, and
that's really all you needed. Yeah, yeah, you're right, it's it's
they almost did one too many things and it didn't make a lot of sense.
And also the fact that he explains everything to him and you're like,
Okay, let's move on from this. We get it, we know what's
happening. And then even in that third act, which by the way,
my big pants tent was when he drove the boat backwards because he teased it
at the beginning, I'm like, yes, fuck, yes, I love
this. But when he eventually goes to Emma Blunts, Emma Blunt, right,
Emily Blunt, Emily I don't know her well enough when he eventually goes
to her and he's wearing that costume, which, by the way, the
whole making a sci fi movie was a pretty funny, like underlying thing between
the whole movie. But first off, she knows she knows martial arts way
too well. I felt like everyone in the movie knew how to fight way
too well. But when they then concoct their plan, I'm like, you
should have done this off camera. And then when you guys do the plan
and we see the plan, we'll be like, oh, that's pretty cool,
like they told us what was gonna happen. Yeah, No, you're
right, you're right. It's it would have been a funner experience for the
audience, is what you're saying. Also, they should have shown us at
least once them having sex. I would have been okay with that. Yeah,
I definitely would have been okay with that. It's also weird crass,
but yeah, we should have saw that. It's a little weird to me,
and I couldn't help but thinking about it while watching the movie is both
of their significant others are also so famous that I couldn't help but thinking what
they're thinking, Like when their spouse's film movies like this, you know,
oh who was who was the recent actor or actress that was in something?
And oh it's no every other movie. No, when everyone kept posting the
scene from Challengers of Zendaia getting kissed on the neck by both those gentlemen,
and they're like Tom Hollands at home crying and he might have been who knows.
I saw don't do that, Sandaia, please No, I saw TikTok
about basically what would you do? And that if you were in the situation
of those two dudes and challengers, and there's a lot of natural responses.
Are one you could come up with, and the TikTok was I would have
respect for Tom Holland. I like Tom Holland that enough that I would not
do it. That's pretty good, uh you. I don't really have a
ton of spoilers now for this movie. It's it's pretty straightforward. It's fun.
I like it. It's it's a lot of fun. I think you're
good. Point you made too is a good date movie. Men, women,
children of a certain age will enjoy thirteen. It's PG thirteen. It's
it's a good time, good, great popcorn movie. Like I say,
I would say that I would recommend this to more people than Done two because
I think I need to know the person more for Done two and be like,
you're okay with sci fi? Right? I think Dune two is good
enough, so good that, But then so with Dune two, you also
need to be like, now, don't get mad at me, but you
need to watch another two and a half hour movie ahead of it, or
at least watch thirty minute YouTube breakdown. I have a link to screen crush.
I have a link to heavy spoilers. I have a link to New
Rock Star. Which one do you want? Yeason, so thumbs up,
go and watch that movie. Yes, sir, let's get into maxack Man.
Maxak could be anything. It could be a boat. Also, Lee
Major shows up. Yeah. In the post credit amid credit. Yeah.
Lee Major shows up to make the arrests. He looks for Wadingham and Aaron
Taylor Johnson and Maxak could be anything. It could be a boat. Mac
Daniel our X minute, because of course, we just got episode eight of
X Men, the animated series X Men ninety seven that just came out,
and at the end of almost so we've gotten eight so far. Let's just
let's say five of the episodes. At the end of five of the episodes,
I'm sitting on my couch just staring at my blank TV being like,
that's exactly what I wanted. I would say. So far, there have
been two episodes of the eight that I didn't care for, not that they
weren't good, didn't really care for them. The other six I have very
much enjoyed. Two or maybe even three of the eight have been unbelievable,
Yes, really really great. Let me say this we're not doing a full
like episode breakdown. There are gonna be some minor spoilers here four episode eight,
So if you haven't seen it yet, see you later, just get
out of here. But for the eight episodes that we have right now,
I love the fact that they truly planned out a ten episode season with every
character having an arc, and they know the audience. They're not trying to,
you know, make this for children. They said, our audience is
dudes twenty eight to forty two, and that's what we're making this for.
I I've got to admit here, this has been not dudes. It's people.
Anyone can be a dude. I'm a dude, you're a dude.
We're all dudes. I just quoted kel Mitchell. Just let that be.
This has already surpassed my expectations for this show. And to your point,
the overall story that they've been telling this season is much better than any of
the stories they've tried to tell in one seasons. Of the seasons of this
show, it's just more streamlined. The other one gets a little all over
the place. I am stunned, stunned how much I like Magneto and where
Magneto's character is going. In this latest episode, they somehow properly use the
Holocaust to frame what has gone on to him and the mutants in this season
so far and to properly motivate what he does next. And I just thought
that was perfect picturesque. It's an absolute tragedy, a beautiful tragedy, whatever
that term is. For him, he basically has to sacrifice his the rest
of his life because he's never gonna be liked ever again for what he has
to do in this show. And it's great. The show is great,
the motivations are great. There are a couple things I haven't liked, Like
I didn't care for the Magneto and Rogue stuff, but the what that led
to has been phenomenal, so I sort of forgive it. Yeah, all
the stuff that I was like, yeah, like the Storm storyline took a
little while to really get going. The Magneto and Rogue just kind of humanizes
Magneto more. I've liked like where we are right now, We've needed every
episode to get here. And if they land this plane, I'm telling you
right now, forty hot dogs. Yeah. I think it's s trending that
way, and I guess this is spoiler folks, so we can talk about
it. When Magneto basically turns the Earth into one massive emp to kill all
those human sentinels humanoid sentinels. What I think a lot of people are missing
initially and maybe have discovered now by reading stuff online or watching videos, is
that's just not taking out the humanoid sentinels, nuclear power, hospitals, airplanes
that are in the sky. A lot of humans have now died because of
that. But Magneto had to do it to save the mutants. So that's
what Wolverine is referring to at the end of the episode when he says he's
declared war. Magneto declared wars because now all that goodwill the X Men had
built up kind of with the civilians during the season a little before that is
now completely gone and for Magneto, gone forever. So it actually was an
incredible episode when you consider all those things, and we get a couple pretty
good cameos too good. Yeah, and back to Magneto real quick, in
a very short amount of time, just from season five of the original run,
he lost his sanctuary. He then said, Okay, I'll try this
new thing I'll try and lead the X Men. That didn't work either,
and now he is just at his last win. Yeah, and that's what
I'm talking about with them framing the Holocaust appropriately. Obviously he was what eight
or ten or whatever when the Holocaust happened in this timeline, he can't lose
everything again, and that's what he's realizing, and that's he comes to this
decision to have to do that. Millions of people probably just died, but
he had to do it to save his people. And you can disagree with
what he's doing. But when if you're a mutant, I mean, I
believe the episode or I forget or someone says that the overall tag of Magneto
is right, right, Yeah, And as a mutant, that's basically probably
where they're what their stances. But I mean, even thinking back to his
final line on Genosha speaking to the child there in German, that was great
too. Yeah, you're right. So back to your cameos, Well,
Charles is back. He came back. At the end of the episode.
We get Spider Man. Yeah, nice little tidbit. Omega Red, Yeah,
Omega Red was unexpected. I guess all these were unexpected because there's a
quick montage of the falla of what Magneto has just done, and we still
don't know the full full gist of it, but you get Spider Man,
Omega, Red, and then Goot in a as you aptly named it,
a FaceTime of all the villains. Yeah, Skype call, we get doctor
Doom who's working with Bashian and Barren Zemo working with that. And also Doom
does not want this like this big mass death because that is something that he
dealt with as a child as well. Yeah, we got Zemo and we
also got kill Manger. Was kill Manger in there? Yeah? He was
on one of the screens. Oh wow, So this is gonna be pretty
interesting because the episode also lays the ground for Sinister to flip on Bashian not
to go with the X Men, but he has plans to supersede or live
longer than Bashian. So I wonder if in these last two episodes you have
Magneto and his mutants, Xavier and his mutants, and then Sinister sort of
all fighting against Bashian in one way or another. Do you think the Goblin
Queen comes back? So they tell us that she's dead in this episode,
which we sort of thought she was, but again, because she is such
a great psychic, she probably is still alive out there somewhere. I don't
know. I don't know if she comes back in these last two episodes.
She's probably not done for the series though. I also love how they got
into like absolute points in time, like they couldn't change genosha. That is
just what it is. Omega level event or not a mega omega is a
description for a mutant the what level events? I forget what the word is.
That just absolutely happened. This is what they deal with in spite of
verse two events that you just can't avoid, and they pretty much brought up
the ancient one like it's such good stuff, and there's so much good stuff
in this show. It's the best. Which also makes me think about I
don't know if it seems like Cable has gone back to try to save Madeline
a bunch, so she definitely could be dead for the long haul, which
then, and I believe ScreenCrush brought this up. It reminds you of the
episode of What If, when Steven Strange keeps on trying to change, trying
to save Christine over and over again, right exactly, but it happens which
I love because I think that Gambit needs to stay dead. I don't think
Gambit needs to stay dead of all the people, but I'm not. I
won't be upset if he is. Someone needs to stay dead. We need
steaks that I agree, delicious sizzling steaks. All right, Mac, Where
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com. So we have a pretty exciting episode coming up on GOOS Day one
that I am very intrigued to get into. Now, have you guys ever
heard of the movie Star Wars Episode one, The Fan Menace? Yeah,
A little peak behind the curtain between now. In our next episode, May
the fourth, Yes, it's happening, And this coincides with the twenty fifth
anniversary of The Phantom Menace, So Goo and I will be discussing the American
cinema classic Star Wars The Phantom Menace. And I don't even care about the
movie. I'm thinking more about everything that surrounded that, the marketing blitz that
will never be touched again. Fair enough. I always find Phantom Menace of
fascinating, like think piece and discussion this because we were old enough to crave
it and want it, but young enough to not recognize some of the really
shitty stuff in the movie because we were ten years old for it, whereas,
like Davey talks about, I think Davy was like sixteen when he saw
and that is that six years is a substantial difference in terms of like understanding
what's going on in that movie and understanding that a lot of it was pretty
bad. It is the most anticipated movie of all time. Yeah, well
it might be, right, So I'm actually looking forward to rewatching and it's
actually in some cinemas this weekend. It's being re released. Yes, yeah,
So if you're gonna go, are you gonna go and watch it.
I might. I honestly might, because I was planning on going in the
cinema. Anyways, for challengers, I might do a little double feat.
If you do that, can you please document your time there? How do
you want me to document the time? Take pictures of you smiling and watching?
I guess uh. And for the first time, now that movies are
on the up upswing again. Here, now we are in the movie,
and now that my schedules cleared out a little bit, we finally have like
a full month planned out for the first time. I'm pretty excited about that
too. Yeah, all right, So Tuesdays are Goose Days. I abuse
Kangaroos. I please flip the cassette over to side B to continue the adventure. Dam Burton