Speaker 1: Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to your yearly
annual video game movie retrospective. I'm the Life Man, Life trast.
Now I'm joined by.
Speaker 2: I'm just garbage, kirklum Patzer, not a man, not anything,
just garbage.
Speaker 3: I am Dylan Muss.
Speaker 4: I'm the love a Chicken in Taylor Field.
Speaker 1: Yes, says John. So how this works? This is why
you know great to be a Patreon producer because if
you joined for the first time, you pick any movie
and then you do produce the content. Because there anytime
we do for this or other movie polls, you either
break the polls or you decide the polls. So Christmas
Movie Retrospective that I'll be coming up next month, so
look out that poles should probably be coming on the
next couple of weeks, submissions and whatnot. And then next year,
every month they're getting an episode. So many reasons become
Patreon producer. So this is I guess. Uh. I don't
know if you like the choice here, and you may
potential torture for some people. I don't know. I don't
know the thoughts of everybody's movie or thoughts in this movie.
But we did the video game movie retrospective submission, whatever
post we had doom in there, we'd wears within we
had Uh, what else did we had in there? We
had something else?
Speaker 4: Cansel curiousity. I was just thinking today, if you would count.
Speaker 1: I didn't think Pixels counted, but you Kirk Ones Depans
and he didn't vote, but you and Dylan vote for yes.
I was fine either way, but I.
Speaker 3: I want to watch Pixels, but I kind of needed
to watch Crazy. I've never seen it, but isn't it
written by Mike White? I just want to see you
what the heck it is?
Speaker 4: Don't need to really see it to be honest, just.
Speaker 3: The curiosity of the Mike White ism. I want to
see it.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, but it's.
Speaker 3: Been on the market for like fifteen years and I
haven't seen it. So that's why I needed, like, you know,
to be paid to see it. You know, that's that's
kind of.
Speaker 2: Where the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Man, He's looking for an excuse for Pixel slass Bubs
submitted it again next year.
Speaker 3: You know, please keep it coming.
Speaker 1: But obvio, see what we're talking about today, hence their nicknames,
hence the great patrons. We're talking about the Minecraft movie
or a Minecraft movie. I don't even fucking know it's called.
So you know, usually I throw to people I'm gonna
go first, because I think everyone knows. On the most negative,
I think everyone already knows my opinions where these two
are seeing for the first time, so it's not like
a big shock of how I feel. I feel like
this movie. If you were to say, hey, we're gonna
get a lab and we're gonna put together a movie
that is designed for trust now to absolutely hate this
is that movie. I don't think this is like the
worst movie here and it's the worst movie all time
anything like that. I can still live this movie and say, okay,
I could see I can't really actually see any merrits.
But I there's much worse movies I've seen in my life, right,
even things like The Room. We're sure Tommy Wiseau claims
was a dark comedy. If we know it wasn't we
know all turned around. But I have more enjoyment from
watching something like that. We watched War of the World,
which technically, yes, is a worse movie than The Yes,
but I would watch that ten times over before I
had to watch this again. And that's my history with
this that I watched or I didn't watch it, and
we went to the theater with the kids. They really
wanted to see it, so thank god she took the
bolt right and then they really liked it want me
to watch, So of course yes, when it comes on Crave,
I watch it. I watched it. Awful experience, just awful.
Feels like the longest movie all time. It's not even
that long. I don't even think it's two hours, is it?
I don't know, but go ahead, Kirkling.
Speaker 2: When you when you're watching these movies with your kids
that your kids absolutely love, are you just like, what
a fucking garbage movie? Like?
Speaker 4: Are you just fucking kids like that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I put on the God Like you're just
dour and angry while you're watching it? Or are you
like it's like so you're kind of doing it through them?
Speaker 1: No, it's the same thing as someone un trested you today.
I don't like sim through the Nutcracker every year, but
I do it because Wenn loves to do it. But
they're internally I have that face with the kids. No,
I don't say, you know, they'll ask us. Not really
my type of favorite movie but the good thing is
I can say, like, well, there's movies you guys don't like, right,
They're like, yeah, I guess so, but no, I never
like got watch the like I never crap on in
front of them, like even like you know so no,
but we had to watch again. So they were very
excited when I said, oh, guess we're watching with the podcast.
And for this movie, it has every single clop clope
there you go, new and clo, cliche and trope. You
can think of new student, dead parent, troubles at work,
you know, old Glory, Like it just feels like this
movie is a chat GPT, like Taylor has written he
has read us a version of this movie in the
past if we asked him to do that. That's one
the CGI and everything. For me, the most part looks
pretty awful. It's that canny thing or they can't think
where this whole movie I can't believe the world that's
happening where Hey. I don't like these movies that much,
but Avatar, at least when I'm watching them, I feel
like it's living, breathing, and obviously that's the standard, right,
But I'm just I'm using a movie that is all
Cgi where this I can never lock in because it's no,
it's just Momoa, that girl from Peacemaker, Jack black that
girl from Wednesday. Don't know their names. They're just in
a green screen room looking around, trying their best, and
you know they do all right, Momoa. I hate in
this because it just feels like it's a full paycheck movie.
He's just happy to get whatever he has and goes
back to Adria Drona good for him, and then to
top it all off, the fucking well another thing too,
I learned in Chair, I learned in Trivia, which I
will lay out. Jared Hess directed this movie. It made
so much sense because here's the thing. I do not
like Napoleon Dynamite. I do not find that funny. It's
not my type of humor. But at least I can
say I can understand the merits, and that to me
is like, okay, a good movie. So when I saw
his name in that treatment, oh my god, it makes
sense because it's the type of humor I don't like,
like when Jack Blackley, oh much appreciate, like when they
just shorten words or just say a bunch of adjectives
and big explanation, like fun zany words to put together
and it's supposed to be funny. None of that's working
for mee, none of that. And then to top it
all off, it's the worst version of Jack Black. And
here that's fine, clearly there, right, because I feel like
since twenty fifteen, there's been this thing that I hate
Jack Black, since the Mario cast when these guys cast
him as Yoshi, which he got a better role as Bowser.
He was great to the man saying I do not
hate Jack Black. I don't hate him as a performer.
I don't hate him as a person. Though what he
did last year to his best friend was shitty dump
at his best friend. That was shitty. But I don't
hate the man, right. What I dislike is this version
of Jack Black, where, you know, I listen to the
newscast Dylan Terry talking about Dylan's twelve DVD's King Kong,
Jack Black phenomenal in King Kong. You know school Rock.
One of the most charming performances you'll see is Jack
Black and school Rock Tropic Thunder. I enjoy because that's
him being comedic. But it's not like the same old
same when he's just playing this just Jack Black, himself,
very over the top, very kind of funny, annoying, you know,
underdog hero that he's played. For some reason, it feels
like the last decade he's just checked down and be like,
I'm going to do this role all the time now
and ruin things like goosebumps, et cetera. So I and
I don't mind him doing this type of role every
once in a while, but I felt like in the
nineties and two thousands we had a good mix of
Black kind of switch it up. I feel like this
is the worst version of I'm just watching Jack Black again,
collect a paycheck, do his thing, very easy, layup.
Speaker 3: I just having fun, man making movies, big adventure, a
great time, geez.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: To end it off here, absolutely, to end it off here.
You know, we had the ten year and we had
Extra Life, Extra Life hit twenty thousand, k nine years.
That's great ten years. We would not be here with
Ease and everyone over you but for Mike and everybody
that voted this the one time you year. I'm gonna say,
fuck y'all, fuck y'all for making me watch this twice.
You're wasting my goddamn time making me watch my craft.
Speaker 3: What do you watch it once?
Speaker 1: What true? But I wish I knew. I wish there
was a very future version. So every other time, and
thankful for you this time. When I saw that poll
on longed in, I felt ashamed of each and every
one of you that voted. You motherfuckers, because I have nothing.
This is on so long, and I will respond to
what these guys want to talk about. I have trivia,
but I have no pro and that Jennifer Coolidge stuff
is just, oh my god, it's awful. I have nothing
to say about this movie. There's nothing I wish I
could erase that out of my mind. I have nothing
to say. There's nothing about this movie that I ever
want to think about nor return to. I never laughed.
I was the Homelander Gift. This is easily easily a
zero out of ten. I'm dropping my rating right away,
a zero out of ten.
Speaker 2: Crazy, definitely like Homelander Gift. But I just picture your
family like loving this. Maybe not Emily so much, but.
Speaker 1: Like you, she said, it wasn't that bad, and I
had to question separating, you know. I was like, I
hope you guys liked the idea of a stepmother because
it could happen.
Speaker 2: Oh god esus, I'll piggyback next off that one. This
was an interesting watch for me. I didn't think I
was ever gonna see this movie. I was kind of
hoping I was never gonna see this movie. And I think,
you know, thanks thanks to the Patreons, they voted and
they chose this film. And I don't even think I
was like really curious going into it, maybe other than
the chicken Jockey stuff, just because I like when that
was tearing like a hole through the nations of just
blowing up theaters and stuff and people are going crazy,
like enough fireworks. Like I just part of me was like, hey,
fomo fear and missing out, like like what am I
missing here of such a crazy scene that that's making
these people go crazy on this. I feel like that
was the only aspect of the movie like I was
really like interested in. It was kind of like, uh,
I don't want to say out of body experience watching this,
but I just felt like very numb for majority of
this film. I watched it in three parts, and the
first part was like seventy percent of the movie, and
then it was like thirty and then I literally like
couldn't even finish the last ten percent, and it wasn't
because like it was so bad I turn off. It
was just life.
Speaker 1: Stay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was in for a drog well while watching
this for many ass like majority of of the moments.
I hate to say it, but like I didn't like
Momoa in this role. But I think I think I
have like a certain weakness to just him in the
sense of like I see him being kind of a
character nowadays, like like there's the cal Drogo badass Momoa
like so scary. Yeah, like he's so scary of an individual,
Like if I saw him on the street, even if
he's not in the makeup, like I'll probably be terrify
this guy awkamn, like so charming, but like still he
had like just that badass free to him to like
in Dune, he's cool, like cool inclusion. But I just
could never get over like his outfit that they have
him wearing for majority of that film. Every time I
re watched it, I just see him as a pirate
now and it's just I just giggle. And then here
we are, we got the garbage man Moa. I'm not
gonna go too deep on him because this is my overall,
but there was a couple moments where it was just like, man,
this is so this guy is here for the paycheck,
not like he's not acting or like doing a what's
a Marlon Brando thing where you're just phoning it in. Yeah, exactly,
he's not phoning it in, like he is doing it.
But I'm like, man, this is so not the film.
It's gonna get you an oscar or like whatever whatever.
Speaker 1: Major.
Speaker 2: I don't think that was a sense. No, definitely not.
I would hope not going into it. But it just
seems like a very character type version of himself that yeah,
it's come a long way for him on his trajectory
of being an actor and whatnot. So there was a
couple of moments that kind of just made me crack up.
But it wasn't really because of the written joke. It
was just the situation that I was seeing. Besides that,
I will defend the CGI. I think the CGI blending
with the humans didn't look great. I'm usually like super
critical of that stuff, but like that was so nowhere
near like the bad parts of this movie. I think
it was a highlight actually, just seeing like the CGI
world CGI like zombies and stuff and the creepers. The
sound design around like the Minecraft elements was cool. I'm
not like a big Minecraft player, but I've definitely played it.
So just just recognize Holy Traus's the hereditary person running
on his roof in the in the back there. That's scary.
Sorry to break the fourth wall there.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 2: Like I could at least recognize when some of those
little tones would go off, or even just like the
sounds of the skeletons or they're like shooting off their arrows.
It was just like, oh man, like if anything, it's
it's making me want to jump into a Minecraft world.
So I guess it did that. It checked that box.
But yeah, just the whole setup of the World of
like with Steve and like what we're doing here, I
was just I wasn't really in it.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say.
Speaker 2: It was like making me so mad, like I can't
believe we're doing this. I think part of it helps
that I'm not like a super Minecraft person, so it's
not like, oh man, look what they did to my boy,
like how some people are reacting with like the World
of Warcraft movie came out. I definitely don't have a
lot of skin in the game. Wasn't as bad as
I was like thinking it to be, but like it
also wasn't really good, like like I didn't think it
was gonna be, so I was just very lukewarm going
through it, and like I said, just just pretty Emperor Drogue,
no emotion while watching it, which, yeah, I'm never gonna.
Speaker 3: Revisit this movie.
Speaker 2: I it also felt like the target audience. I was
expecting it to be more in like an all ages range,
but this felt like a lot more of a younger
audience range. I don't want to say it, but like
part of me was expecting like a six to seven
meme reference or something like that to pop in and
really have that Yeah, like it just seemed like so
ten and under like like maybe ten's too old even,
but like it just felt very much for kids, and
I could imagine like like like you know, I've seen
Sharp Boys and Lavia Girls back in the day, Like
I like those movies as a kid, and if you
watch them now, it probably be worse than this movie.
So like I can't say this is like a god
awful movie because it's like it's not really for my
my target audience. I don't think maybe maybe the age
demographic is supposed to be for everyone, and maybe that's
where they failed. But overall, yeah, not a fan. Uh yeah,
I'm I'm not gonna say I'm excited to unpack it
with you guys, but uh yeah, I'll just pass it
along to you guys.
Speaker 3: Uh, I'll take the torch next here. So I have excited.
Is not the right work because I would have watched earlier.
But I have wanted to see this movie because opposite
of Travis, I'm a big Jack Black fan, and I
like him enough that even when he is doing the
same thing, just Jack Black, as I'm saying things in
funny ways, and just the way he like jump he
does his little like hops and his jumps around just
makes me happy. When I see Jack Black, he just
brings joy to my life. So I you know, I
like I like me some Jack Black, and then I
love Minecraft, one of my favorite games ever. So I
have been intrigued to see this movie at some point.
It never really obviously when it hits streaming, I wasn't
jumping out to go find it and watch it. But finally,
with this moment here can finally check it out. Uh
and yeah, so I've been looking forward to it, but I,
you know, had very low expectations just based off the
things I've heard from it, and I think, yeah, Kirkland,
to your point there, I think I very much had
the expectation that this was like an extremely kids kids movie,
like didn't really seem like it was serving multiple audiences.
I mean, there is a lot of stuff in your
if you're a Minecraft fan that's like fun moments, Like
even just when the crew early on is like nighttime
falls for the first time, and they're like quick like
panic building a house, a structured like defend themselves like that.
You know, that's fun because that's like a relatable moment
that you experience every time or I guess the original
time you play Minecraft. So there's the fun little moments
in there. But overall this movie, I think the biggest
issue I have with it is like the writing just
sucks so bad, and I like really set the tone
immediately when Jack Black and like the opening monologue is
just kind of exposition you kept expositions in catching you
up on like where he's at before we go into
like introduce the rest of the characters, and it's just
it just sucks. Every line of dialogue is so blend
and uninteresting and there's like no nuance to it, where
just it's it's just like exposition dumping. And then you know,
so many of the little jokes that characters have just
don't really land. I feel bad for some characters here
who get like a worse end of the stick than
others in terms of the dialogue. But I could not
stand Momoa in this. I feel like the way Travis
hates Jack Black is kind of how I hated Mamoa
in this. I did not a single moment of his
work for me. I think the older sister character is
maybe like the best acting in here, but she's maybe
given the most, like actual scenes to act with and
be emotional or is everyone else is just being zany?
So I think that was fine. I love Coolidge in this.
I think she's great, and I am excited to talk
about that because Travis obviously said he doesn't like that.
But I think there's a couple really like, if there's
any good writing in this movie, it's all given to her,
even though she's you know, only has like ten lines
of dialogue in the whole movie. And let's see what else.
I think it's sichi. I wise, I think I'm with you, Kirklan.
I feel like there's a lot of things like when
when a human character has to interact with a creature,
it doesn't look good, like if anyone slashing a sword
at an enemy does not look good. But generally, I
think the backgrounds look really good. I think the environments
and the way they took like the blocky ugliness, Like
Minecraft is an ugly game, right, they took that blockiness
ugliness and glowed it up to like four K, you know,
like just getting the craziest texture pack going for this game.
And I think it does look pretty good for the
most part. When creatures are just walking around the background
on their own, I think it's fine. It's just like
when those yeah, interactions are happening, when things look a
little bit off. But I think they did a good
job of taking some of these really really low ressprites
and like blowing them up and just giving them like
the rounded corners to their to the edges, and I
don't know, just like brightening the colors and things like that.
So to me, it kind of works. It Actually, it
looks a lot like Mario, like the Mushroom Kingdom. I
feel like you get a lot of those same tones,
the same lighting, all that sort of stuff, and I
don't know what else I you know, overall, I don't
think I hated it as much as these two, but
it's definitely like it wasn't indascruciating to watch for me.
But like the dialogue is cringe worthy in this it
absolutely sucks. But I think think, you know, my last
point here is I would have freaking loved this movie
as a kid, and so maybe there's like five percent
of me that's like, oh yeah, I can like, you know,
put my mind back to what I was like as
a kid and kind of see where the enjoyment comes from.
Because Jack Black Minecraft mixed together, Uh yeah, that would
have been everything for me as a child, So I
can say where the enjoyment would come from for those
under ten, the underten audience, as Kurdla mentioned. So that's
where I'm at with this one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, this is this is not a movie
that I personally was rushing to see, and it's not
something that I would have seen outside of this uh
retrospective in the fans the listen you.
Speaker 2: Say you almost watched it?
Speaker 3: Were you?
Speaker 2: Like, I'm glad I didn't watch this before this, I
swear you made a comment at some point.
Speaker 4: I yes, I made a comment implying like I'm glad
I didn't watch like on my own beforehand, because I
just I'm this is just a one and done. If
I were to watch it, it wouldn't have been me putting
it on and not like again, racing to rush into it. It
would have eventually happened, but not anytime soon. It just
expedited because of this this retro. But uh m, yeah,
Like I feel like there's definitely some better options out there,
like Monster Hunter and even Make the Cut with mil
Yovich and Tony Jall. That would have been a fucking
banger of a time. Doom want Doom, I want to
do him too. It would have been a primo pick
with Carl Urban the rock fucking popping off. God damn,
but this this movie felt like Borderlands and Jamanji, like
hate fucked and you got like a weird.
Speaker 1: I forgot Borderlands existed, right that could pop up on
these ones. I forgot that's a movie until you just
you just I just that's terrible. I know what's gonna
happen next. We can get Borlands and twenty twenty seven.
These fuckers are gonna make us do Minecraft too. I
can feel it in my bones already happen.
Speaker 2: We're having room boys.
Speaker 1: Hands. Oh my god.
Speaker 4: So this had a lot of borlanisms in there, but
then again, I think it it was just the Jack
Black component that made it feel jibanji ish.
Speaker 1: But did you see Borland sort of cut you off?
Have you seen that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I did it.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 4: I did a review for it on the feeds there
we go check it out, Yeah, go check it out.
So yeah, I just feel like it was a movie
that just did not do enough to really stand on
its own. I'm not going to give it a super
hard fail by any means. I'm not giving it a pass,
but we'll see what I give it at the end.
But it's definitely something that the CGI did not rub
me the wrong way necessarily all the time. And I
can get on board with you guys when you say,
like you see the CGI and the real world kind
of meshing at the same time. There are definitely some
moments there, but for the most part, I didn't like
when I would catch myself laughing, and for a lot
of the times I was just I was laughing only
at Jason Momoa and the things that he was doing
when he's eating the lava chicken and just trying to
be all macho and he bites it into it and
I'm like, man, he's really delivering because he's got like
the quiver going on and his eyes are starting to
swell up and he's just like, man, this is kind
of getting to me. He's a good actor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just the things that he's just.
Speaker 1: And that's just they're gonna show. They're gonna show that
clip the garbage. Look, there's gonna be that clip that
they show. And then he beats Timothy Shallow man mart
He's the free.
Speaker 4: He's just he has something that's so so casual when
he's Jennifer Coolidge is outside and he's pretending to be
the uncle and he's like, oh, who's the guy that
divorced you or like they made a mistake or whatever.
He's just like so I don't know on the fly,
and he's trying to one up Steve all the time too.
I like Jack Black. I think he's he's definitely Uh,
there was a part there was a time when like
you highlighted Travis School of Rock, you know, Shadow hal
the holiday. You got all these different roles that like.
Speaker 1: Hold up, hold on, we'll walking back, don't he saw
the sneak? Okay, no chance, hold that. Yeah, that's another
fucking great Jack Blabe. He's fantastic shallow No, no, no, no,
we're not throwing the movie where Gwyeth Paltrow wore a
eight hundred dollars or eight hundred pound body suit for
the all true love my god, envy.
Speaker 4: Then I'll switch that for envy because that was that
was a good one and never heard of it. Yeah,
remember with the vay Pooh rise, when uh bay pooh rise.
Speaker 1: This is another sneak. Already seeing this poster. As much
as I love Ben Stiller is giving me massive red flags.
I will share if you've never seen this. No, but
this poster is definitely given some shallow out type of.
Speaker 4: Ben Stiller.
Speaker 1: Like Ben Stiller, Rachel vizes in this amy pole, Wait
what do you do, Taylor in an audience score, an
audience score for.
Speaker 4: Quick quick context. Okay, okay, quick context. Ben Stiller and
Jack Blacker neighbors, and then Jack Black creates this thing
called vaypou rise, which makes Pooh disappear, and he becomes
a fucking billionaire, and so the whole movie is Ben
Stiller getting extremely jealous of just Jack Black, like living
like rich.
Speaker 1: Now Shahaw was the better pick, apparently forty percent versus
the seven and twenty seven.
Speaker 4: Go watch it's a great time.
Speaker 3: It's a great I will I will do that.
Speaker 4: Taylor was nice. Nice, there's a silver lining for tonight.
But yeah, so back with the back with the minecraft. Yeah,
it's just it's I don't know. There were some things
that I did. I had a good time with and
it was fun, but I watched it in two parts.
The older sister. I couldn't get over the fact that
she looked like she was twelve, and she was driving
a car and she was playing the mom role and
she was in this room with all these execs like oh,
your marketing planted it, And I was like, I can't
get on with this. This is really throwing me off.
Like she looks like she's.
Speaker 1: Just twenty three years old, so she could have a license.
Speaker 4: Three yea, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: WHOA she's from Wednesday.
Speaker 4: I'll mentioned like what two years ago, right Wednesday? That's where, Yeah,
I can't remember her name. She's Wednesday's like mad Friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, emm Myers, Emma Myers, I.
Speaker 1: Think she meant like in the show.
Speaker 4: I think that's in the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don enidclai Admires, Yeah yeah, Emma Enid a
daughter of the director of Envy.
Speaker 4: Auto of the director. Uh yeah, I'm just I'm I
think that they Yeah, It's just I don't know. I
don't know. This is a This is a crazy one
because Jared has like, I like that your libre, but
one of definitely like a high up movie for me,
is definitely a Napoleon Dynamite. So I don't feel like
there was there's not your libra humor in here, maybe
to a slight degree, but not not all of it.
It was very it's very different. And then Napoleon Dynamite
is just such a fucking fantastic film. I love that
movie so much, and that's definitely on just a different
comedic tier than what this movie is by far, so
I think.
Speaker 1: It's more in line with Napoleon though as far as
like a lot of dumb characters interacting with each other,
right like that, that's a Napoleon They're all, I don't know,
they're on a different playfield as far as.
Speaker 4: But it's not, it's not. The IQ level is definitely there,
and it's it's I would say, that's definitely the same,
but it's not excessive and flamboyant and exactly No.
Speaker 1: No, it's much more mud.
Speaker 4: Where it is, and I think that's why, because it's
so more muted, it feels more innocent and I can
laugh at it a lot more, whereas this, Yeah, it's
just totally in your face and that you're right, Jack Black.
These last few movies, he definitely plays that same kind
of role. And it's funny because I just saw on
my feeds today we got our first shot of Jumanji
three where going to the world, So I'm like, oh,
Jack Black, as he's popping off, he's probably gonna be
the same character in here now box office king himself.
I will give him credit in Jimanji actually because he
plays two different kids, so the one he plays the
girl and then he plays like the guy, right, So
I feel like he does actually he is. He's really
really good. He does spread out and actually do different portrayals,
so that's probably the most diverse he's been in the
last few years. They're performance Envy fantastic twenty two thousand
and four film. But I don't know if I have
anything else I can really add the score. I don't
really remember much of the score. One scene that I
will shout out actually that did maybe laugh was when
he was riding Jason Momoa's back. I thought, this is
fucking crazy, and then they had to do like the
flip and Jason will is like, I'm gonna you know,
Jack Black was like, I'm gonna squeeze. Which one was it?
One of them was like I gotta squeeze. I gotta
get tight up on you, and then he like clenches
and tight and do what you need to do what
you need to do. Yeah, nine mode, yeah, yeah, sixty nine.
Speaker 3: There's a scene like that in Tenacious D actually, where
Jack Black is writing John c Riley as a sasquash.
So I feel like that was kind of a bit
of a I feel like there's a few little Tenacious
D throwbacks in here, But maybe I've just seen that
movie since thousand times and you.
Speaker 1: Sure didn't watch that, you didn't put that on.
Speaker 3: And then that's just always playing in my head on
repeat on loop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, carry away, Where where do we wanna where?
Do you guys want to go here?
Speaker 3: Well, I would like to ask, because yeah, I like Kirkland. Obviously,
the chicken Jockey thing that became every everything I was
all over the internet. I guess it's a meme, but
it was also just people popping off in the theater,
and so knowing that that was a thing going into
this movie, I was like, Okay, when we get to
that scene, I'm gonna perk my ears up a little bit.
And then we get to the scene and it's just
kind of like any other scene and it's not really
that special. And I thought there'd be like a big
song or something. So I just I just don't get it.
Why why did that blow up? Do you think is
there any rhyme or reason or is it just pure
brain wrong?
Speaker 1: That's not like from the game. There's no is there
a chicken Jockey.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's even mini zombies. Maybe there is now,
but I don't remember there even being mini zombies.
Speaker 4: Chicken Jockey is a rare in game hostile mob. So
I guess that mob is what kind of prompted the
crowds crazy. Yeah, I don't do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can tell you how. That's when when Kirk
was asking for the age, it's definitely and it's not
calling him out. I know he did enjoy the movie,
but it's like s Pubs and down, I feel like
that's who it's intended for. Obviously other people well no,
but I just mean like people that were obviously you
guys played Minecraft when you were growing up, but you
weren't playing it as like kids, right, like kids kids? Okay,
there you go. And I've never I've played it a
few times to like exit a menu, so I've never
played it myself, but like, I feel that the people
that wrote with it as kids, that's who it's really
hidden for, Like when spos can be that nostalgia about.
So that's why I feel like it's SPO's age and
down who it's four. And that's where you know that's
gonna say they all suffer from brain rot, but you
know that's where you know that's the chicken jockey thing
is definitely something where it's like I don't I'll say
but but but don't get me wrong. I think there's
people of every air that suffers from brain rot. Don't
get wrong. I think I just think it's in yeah,
that we fucked up for them. But I think it's
brain rot in different scenarios where I feel like, I
think in this scenario with this movie, Yeah, it's something
where it's just like a fucking the six set. It's
just something where it's like, oh, this is something like
hilarious and let's mean about it, let's bring live chickens
into the theaters all that type of stuff, And yeah,
I know that's where it's like, that's where that movie
makes me feel old man, where it's like, oh, they
don't make movies like they used to when I was
a kid, you know, which you know, we talk about
Charckbor and Love Girl, which sucked.
Speaker 4: As this is just a movie that based on video
game adaptation films. I feel like this is one that
it's up there with Angry Birds that didn't need to
be made. They just made it because it was just
the big It made a lot of money, right right,
Well maybe.
Speaker 1: I don't know, so if you know, but that's the
thing where because again referring everyone, check out the newscast
that they just did, uh, Dylan Taylor, when you get
stuff with live actional Wana Taylor, you talked for like
three minutes about why the live actional Wanta doesn't need
to be made, and then Dylan Ellis you know, saying that, yeah,
we'll be there day one, and like that's that's why
they do it, because like you're like, oh, they don't
need to The suits are just looking at what is
the most financial Angry Birds was what at one point
I'd say, like the biggest app game in the world,
right Minecraft, when the like still it's is it best selling?
Speaker 4: Still?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like top five or something right, Like It's
like that's why it is, Like, so you're looking just numbers.
It needs to be made. It has to be made,
and I don't think they care. And as we saw
the Angry Birds, those movies are hits. With this, I
don't think they really care about quality because I think
certain names, if you hit at the right time, you'll
just get people. And this is I'll bring sets either.
But I think it's like I still think it was
the second or biggest North American movie this year behind
Lelan Stitch. So it's like absolutely.
Speaker 3: Even before the movie and stuff like the Minecraft merch
has been huge for years. They've been doing the lego forever.
I feel like every kid has like a diamond sword now,
Like I just I feel.
Speaker 1: Like it's just everywhere the sword for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like that pipeline is an undreverse where
it's like, Okay, thing is a video game, then it's
a movie, and then they go hard on the merch.
But I feel like, yeah, Minecraft's been like looking huge
for a long time now.
Speaker 4: There's definitely room to do a good story in this world.
I think it's innatly it's like a classic kind of
cop out when you have the real world versus like
the game world or something like that. Even Monster Hunter
did that right, and I think they've done They've done
that it with a few other ips as well when
it comes to video games. But in this sense, like
it's just a shame that the dollars are more valuable
than just like writing a good story, and I feel
like they could have done something maybe a little bit
more interesting and engaging here instead of just kind of
tossing it out the window and then just phoning it
in right. Like Jason Wimo's whole role. You guys were
talking about how he just showed up just to collect
the paycheck. That's really what his fucking role was in
the movie. He showed up he's trying to get fucking
diamonds and stuff because that actor broke. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: He's not broke. But again approach that maybe that's a
brand butter In's in the future. But it's just like
that's right, Like you say, they they should do that,
but they didn't need to. They need like all this
worked out for them, right, They're doing a sequel. They
got Chicken Jockey, like they did all these whatever they
did like party screenings where people could I.
Speaker 4: Know, stuff, like it's an unhealthy problem that's being fed
for all the wrong reasons. It's just a nasty cycle,
you know. But does that second one.
Speaker 3: To a billion, which they do, then like mission accomplished, right,
Who cares what.
Speaker 1: We think our kids enjoying, kids are enjoying from which
kids all the like tons of kids, my three kids
enjoy it. Yeah, And because even like Kirk, because I
was a little older when I saw Shoo Shark Boy girl,
Yeah that was that was the wrong video I downloaded.
I was at age where it was like this fucking sucks,
but tons of people loved. But because I was the
age previously where I love Spike.
Speaker 2: Kids, Spike kids pretty similar though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's why I was at that age, right.
But then so when I get a little older, and
I'm thinking, I'm gonna girl, what.
Speaker 4: Who likes shark?
Speaker 1: That guy right there?
Speaker 4: I it was. It was a little bit below me.
Speaker 1: He tried to watch it last week.
Speaker 2: I incorporated it and my generation.
Speaker 4: That's the Taylor Lautner film.
Speaker 1: Right, yes it is. Yeah, but that's just what I mean.
When I got older, that's where it tracked for me
of like, oh, this isn't this isn't that good? And
even then, like I'm not trying to throw stones, but
I could say the same thing about the fucking Mario
movie and you enjoy that. I think the Mario movie
is super empty and like nothing calories, but it's like, no,
we love it because it's like a bunch of cut
scenes and that's I mean, uh no, but I will
they're both not good movies. But that's the thing where
it doesn't matter. If if that's where I think we're
gonna get so many shit movies in ten years, I
get like it doesn't matter because people they're paying to
go see the events now. So when people hear that
people are going nuts for Chicken Jockey and you might
get a live animal in your theater. That's worth the
price of mission, not to see like what it is
for people. Though it's the second biggest movie of the year,
it's nearly a billion dollar movies like it's you know,
like that's where I don't think they sure would. I
personally like them to sit down and go, hey, let's
really crack this Minecraft story and make it great. Sure,
but I think they made it kitty like we were
just talking about, and kids do like it because they're
not thinking the same way we are. They're just seeing
loud characters do fun activities, and it always always helps
big time when there's one or two kid protagonists as well.
I've always noticed with uh with my kids, like even
with Star Wars, they enjoy them, but they don't lock
as much as if you got a kid protagonist like
Harry Potter. You're there, asked abou Cherry Park. Because when
you're a kid and there's another kid on screen, you're
putting yourself in that journey, right, So I think they
were super smart from business wise to make that main kid.
And even the MS we said, she looks like a kid,
but the main kid who's I can't remember his name,
what's the main character's name that Steve's like protege, he's
the builder. His name is Boy is actually just boy
Henry Henry? Okay, So like they were super So if
you're just saying about from that, they were super smart
to make Henry the protagonists a young you know, lead, So.
Speaker 4: Is that why they did it? With the Predator? Then
they had the kid as the lead so the kids
can relate to this character's rule.
Speaker 1: Well, but that's done because it's a rat R movie.
So that's where you're off the reservation right there. You
can't the target audience can't buy a ticket to see the.
Speaker 4: Movie Jurassic Park or Jurassic Park.
Speaker 1: Then, well, but that's different because that I can just
say is a great tale like that, that's a whole.
Speaker 3: Different spectrum roman you have before.
Speaker 1: And even then Jurassic Park is very successful full So
don't we even said this with the last movie right
with the kids? Well, yeah, but I don't think that's
for the kids. That movie. I don't think Drassic Park
was considered a kid's movie, nor The Predator. So I
think you're you're out back.
Speaker 4: I'll back try.
Speaker 3: But Jurassic Park, I think I love Envy, but it's
you know, maybe not a good movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could say the Drastic Park movies. Now, yes,
And that's why we complain. Why is there always a
fucking kid in pair all the time in a glass bowl,
in a life jacket, in a jeep.
Speaker 3: M glass bowl?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And Jurassic Remember, they're like they're in a ball
and they're like, oh, it's put of a ride.
Speaker 3: I don't remember.
Speaker 4: That's there?
Speaker 3: The glass bowl?
Speaker 2: Huh. Yeah, it's a gyrosphere.
Speaker 3: Ah, yes, a gyro sphere.
Speaker 4: Now you're bowl.
Speaker 2: You can picture it now? Oh no, not all it's
a gyrosphere.
Speaker 1: Okay, bowl, where.
Speaker 2: Is it.
Speaker 1: Technical? It's called a hamster ball. There you go.
Speaker 2: It's a gyro And there's.
Speaker 1: Like fucking in an hour of these kids in this
ball just mosing around entertaining everybody. He's definitely saying together,
all right.
Speaker 3: Two jokes I really liked in this one is when
Jennifer Coolidge drives over the villager and she says, you're
not gonna assue me, are you? Everyone wants to assume
me when I hit them with my jeep Cherokee. It's like,
only like the way Coolidge says words, and the fact
that she says jeep Cherokee, and not just like with
my car, but the fact that she like name drops
that which I don't know if it's product placement or not,
but that wine fucking killed me. And then also later
on when she's having dinner with this villager who she's
now dating, and the server come up, comes up and
asks are you finished, and she says no, I think
he's Swedish. I was fucking rolling again. I love that line.
Like that, that is top notch writing right there. So
showed it to Coolidge, who I feel like, doesn't she
even like anywhere in the last hour of the movie.
I feel like she's just randomly in the middle.
Speaker 1: I don't think so yeah thirty seconds and then she
gets the end credit if.
Speaker 2: She gets like a yeah, oh, I didn't stay around
with the end credit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I gotta go back. It's positive.
Speaker 3: But shows the Coolidge doing her Coolidge thing. I didn't
like her early on, but when she was hanging out
with the villager, I liked all that stuff that it
was fun.
Speaker 2: I loved how you were ragging on the writing at
the start and now you're like, but the rating of
these jokes man, well.
Speaker 3: Two jokes, I mean out of a however many page
script is not a great ratio. But that's why I
want to highlight the good, the good moments. But unfortunately
those are the only two lines I liked in the
movie that.
Speaker 2: I could that I wrote in I'm splitting blocks here.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't love the Coolidge inclusion. I think we
could have. I think it was just like the villager
thing was just it was just taking me out of
like any potential humor of just this guy is so standouty,
like nobody's addressing this at all. He doesn't see now
it's getting me now the joke's getting me after the fact.
But yeah, I'll just leave it there, all right.
Speaker 3: One more line I liked actually, right at the very
end of the movie, Jack Black.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: They defeat the foe, the enemy, I don't even know
what her name was, but defeats the foe and she's
like dying and she's like come here, come close, and
he's like, what are you gonna stab me with you
with a little knife or something. She's like, no, no,
I'm not gonna do that. I'm too tired. And then
he comes up and yeah she does try and stand
with the little knife and the way he slaps it
just like in the very most Jack Black way with
like the CGI creature. It got me that that was
that was good stuff. I like that line.
Speaker 4: At the start when he's I think this is the
trailer too, when he Jack Black, he's like he's a
little kid and the guy like chasing around the mine
and then he's older and he's like, I yearned for
the mines. Uh, that just is I'm pretty sure they
pulled that just from this meme where it's like, in
nineteen twenty, we took children out of the coal mines,
and in twenty twenty, the most popular video game in
the market is Minecraft and the children yearned for the mines.
That meme just fucking always got me. But the way
Jack Black says that that lion, it's it's it's some
good stuff.
Speaker 3: It's a good Jack Black word. Yearn yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: A year yeah yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1: In the movie whatever, the last line in the movie
was whatever, That one.
Speaker 3: Was, Oh you like you liked the little knife joke
as well?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, and that that's how because I know we're
at the end, thank god. And then credits you.
Speaker 3: Know, but then you stayed for the post credits.
Speaker 1: Not this time the first time I did. But yeah,
that only line.
Speaker 3: Okay, what's your favorite lie? We're doing a podcast, you
guys have to say things.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. I have nothing to say.
I am speechless. For once they knew what they're getting into.
They're being cheeky. This was a colorad of space. This
was one of these pics that, yes they did. Even
he might put an eyewink in the discord when he
was talking about it. He knew he was doing. He
knew what they and he go sixty nine like in
the comments.
Speaker 4: They knew what they were doing private chat and they
were coordinating.
Speaker 1: Yeah something. Someone put it in there and they leaped
on it like a bunch of ants, like, oh, here's
a chance to get Minecraft.
Speaker 3: Reviewed, and we're doing like the Dennis song at the end.
It was fun.
Speaker 2: I was gonna mention Dennis and us just such a
lack of sure like plot point for me personally. I like,
I I guess it's like something from the Minecraft world
to like bring something to the real war, but like
they really don't do much with the character Dennis at all,
and he's like so heartbroken that he lost Dennis, and
then in the movie, Oh, you can just take Dennis.
It's fine. I don't, I don't care. I was like
a gain, I was Emperor Drogue this movie. I was
pretty numb when that happened. I was like, are you
fucking kidding me? Like, after all that, he doesn't fucking
keep Dennis here, like like we we don't even have
a lot of moments with Dennis. And uh at a bio,
I don't know her actual name, but yeah, that's her
Peacemaker name, but uh, and like I feel like she
was fine, but like really not a lot of substance
around her.
Speaker 3: At a bio. So who is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll she's the one that's like the the keep,
like she checks on the kids.
Speaker 4: She's the realtor.
Speaker 1: Okay, the realtor. Yeah, yeah, why she's done.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's that's her name, Daniel.
Speaker 1: She's in this adventure. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like I don't.
Speaker 3: I feel like she got the shortest end of the
stick in terms of just the worst dialogue everyone.
Speaker 2: And I really liked her in Peacemaker more more in
season one than season two, but like still just to
have her in here and to not have a lot
of juice, like I feel like the Coolidge had more
juice than than the Brooks did.
Speaker 1: Well sit Coolidge, of course, Yeah, you gotta give her something, right.
Speaker 3: I drink the kool aid, That's true. Yeah, I feel
like favorite village actress in Orange of the New Black,
and I don't. I don't think I've seen her in
anything since then. So it was I was excited to
see her in here, but then, yeah, she just gets
nothing to work with.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, absolute a copy off guard when she appeared, because
I was like, she's kind of a name.
Speaker 1: She's not she's she's not an.
Speaker 4: If I can recognize her, I know her from another project.
To me, that means your name.
Speaker 1: Did you know her name before Crookland looked it up?
She's great building the name, she's great peace maker. Hey,
this will this will help her, you know, because she's
probably gonna well the sequel what well, I guess it
depends what you want help with. I think for what
she what her career she's aiming for, and the product
she's picked. I think so yes, I think you'll get
more projects like this.
Speaker 3: Royalties on this Bad Boy for thirty eight years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mentionined she'll be hopefully in the sequel for
her case. So I think for the career she's seemingly
building this. This helps in the case, like yeah, again
if was in this minecraft.
Speaker 4: Two, well after after that, just more.
Speaker 1: Movies like this, like when we talk like when you
do a funny voice in Mario or a shitty role
in Ghostbusters, or if you're in the next can the
Hat movie like all that, or even then she's a peacemaker.
She's gonna be in the DCU until Saudi Arabia fucking
buys dc So she's good there. So just like stuff
that's like or action. She would be like in the
action comedies where it's like she's the top cop or
the handler, like the neighbor who you know, like whatever,
what if Michael Sarah just doing Running Man? She could
do that, you know, like that.
Speaker 4: Type of stuff like I'm Melissa McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right. I don't I won't pull that far
because I think McCarthy is like a different level. But yeah,
there's tons of opportunity for especially with streaming now, there's
so much that, like I don't know, kind of schlocky
stuff out there that like anybody can do.
Speaker 2: Right, So the Shardan project maybe sure, No, she no,
She's show she wanted to.
Speaker 1: She showed she had the chops and peacemaker.
Speaker 4: Okay, I put her in anything.
Speaker 2: But then like Taylor Sheridan projects, you.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, the guy Ran told Frank Grillo is in
the Shardan products, then I'll give it to the bio too.
Speaker 1: She's a fan after than Frank Grillo. I promise you
that if you were asked me if we could get
one person in GV movie, I'm thinking Daniel Brooks one
hundred and a hundred.
Speaker 4: Hundred grill, we could do that.
Speaker 2: We can go that route.
Speaker 1: So you got to work with him, Kirktly and you
have to work with them, and he's big league. He's like, yeah, no,
I'm not losing this fight, you know. So like The
Rock and Duwayne right, they had those contract where they
can't lose fights or anythinghere, Daniel Brooks like, I bet
you're having a fun time on set. Whether she's a
Christler not saying for girls a bad person, I'm not
saying that. I'm just saying, you know, he could be. Yeah,
he's in those shared movies.
Speaker 3: My notes have been expended.
Speaker 1: I do trivia whenever ready, but I'm yep, my notes
are gone as well too.
Speaker 2: As I mentioned, I'm pretty vanilla when it comes to
Minecraft in my experience, Like I never got super far
in the game, but it was still cool to see
like his little contraptions and like, to my understanding, that's
kind of how it works, like with the red mineral
thing to like just shoot around your carts and stuff
like that, and the lava chicken thing, like like do
people make that in game till cook your chickens? Just
like an automated system like that. I feel like I've
seen some contraptions, if it's not that specific version, just
just specifically when Steve was showing off all of his stuff,
it was kind of cool to go through that because
I remember like visiting friends worlds and stuff. Again, I
was super vanilla player, but they're like, oh, look what
I made, and I'm just like, I didn't even know
you could do stuff like this in this game. So
it kind of felt like that when we were going
through that sequence. So I will give a positive.
Speaker 1: For that.
Speaker 2: The Enderman also I thought was cool. Is that how
it works in the game. You just can't look at
him or he messes you up.
Speaker 3: Pretty much. It always tries to teleport behind you.
Speaker 2: Like a Slenderman.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's it's a little knockoff. They headed there,
but you do get that item, that teleporting item when
you do kill it, so you know it was good
accuracy as well.
Speaker 2: Cool the Tater Todd gun? Can you make that in Minecraft?
Speaker 3: That I think was fiction? And also then they have
like a saxophone at one point, like I don't think
you can make a saxophone.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My other game related question would have been about
these pig creatures, the Malgosha that was her name, the
Big bad and her her just army of underground pigs.
Is that like a foe that you come across a Minecraft?
I didn't think.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, you you come across like the I think
they're called piglands or piglets or whatever. Probably not piglets
because that would be like IP infringement. But yeah, when
you go to the Nether, which is like the hell
world that he was in, then they're those guys are everywhere.
They like pretty essentially replace zombies and the ghosts. The
giant flying ghosts are everywhere, and they do like shoot
like bomb attacks from far away and they are terrifying.
So it's cool they got those in there. I don't
know if Maldo Malgosha is a boss that's like actually
in the game, not not that I've seen. And then
like the bigger ones that are kind of like the
big trolls or whatever. I've never seen those before, but
it's been a while since I've been in the nether
been a while since I've played Minecraft as well. But yeah,
there's probably a few of those freaks in there, but
definitely like the regular pig guys are and those ghosts
are everywhere.
Speaker 4: Why is it the pigs get zombiefied when they sip
into the overworld? What is it that triggers that immediately
for them unless they drink that potion.
Speaker 3: That's a great question that I don't know the answer to.
Speaker 1: Maybe let's let us know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another thing I wanted to mention was when the
Piglands are doing their raid on the village and they're
like just fucking up these villagers and then just like
turn into meat, which I think that's how it works
in the game. If you like kill a pig or something,
it'll drop some some pork or whatever. So it was
like pretty what I felt graphic for like an under ten,
but I guess it's Minecraft. Minecraft has violence like that.
But like these pork villagers are just they're just panicking
and then they're just getting like just popped by these
these little piglands.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was one of those moments where I'm like, this
seems so dark and fucked up, these poor little villages
villagers here.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you get meat from villagers if
you kill them, because that's just like cannibalism. That would
seem like kind of crazy if they had that, but
maybe they do. I don't normally try and kill them,
but I know if you do, like kill a pig
with like fire, then you get cooked meat immediately, which
is way better for your health and region and all that.
Speaker 4: So lava, same result.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kirkland was mentioned that earlier, and I feel like
that might be a thing, and like I feel like
you can somehow use lava to cook food, but I can't.
I can't recall. I don't think that was a thing
back in the day, but I could see it being
a thing now. Even if you just put put it
near lava, maybe it just cooks it. I think that actually,
I think that does happen. I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: The other question I had on items was the boots
of Swiftness. It seems like they had a lot of
emphasis on that. Is that a Is that a thing?
Or is that just what you use in like creative
mode to like fly around?
Speaker 3: No, you can you can enchant items. They added in
chanting like a while ago, and there's like all manner
of effects, So I assume swiftness is one of them
that you can you can get on there.
Speaker 2: Okay uh. And then my last little identified identifier that
I had there was the the bucket water trick. I
remember actually doing that when I played Minecraft, so that
was kind of fun. I also thought they were gonna
take a bolt swing and just kill off Garrett so
like when he was when he when they did the
bridge sacrifice, I was like, Hey, that's like right up
there with like the most unnecessary sacrifice, almost almost the
level of Buddy from Coongskull Island that just gets bobbed
by that one dinosaur and just blows up on the wall.
He keeps throwing out, just keeps popping up on my
on my reels. Yeah, but yeah, no likely when that happened,
I'm like, wow, like, that's actually pretty impressive. If they
if they just kill off Garrett here, and then of
course he shows up and he's like, oh yeah, the
bucket bucket trip. I went from Emperor Drogue to like
the angry level, like half a step. I'm just like,
fuck off, this is so ridiculous. But whatever, there you go.
I'm done my imaginary list of notes.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: For some trivial yeah, do.
Speaker 2: It laid on me?
Speaker 1: Honestly, not much because it's a newer movie. But as
I said, right now, currently ranked third in the twenty
twenty five box office, behind Niza two and Lilo and Stitch,
it has nine hundred and fifty seven million dollars. I
imagine maybe Wicked and Avatar could push it down a
couple but even then, it's, uh, you know, the biggest
video game opening of all time. So it's gonna hold
o that till NIS two. It's an anime, yeah, so
that's why it's one point nine billion dollars. Incredible, incredible.
So Trivia the film was undraft. YEA. We gotta start
looking at that next year to these foreign market movies,
because that could be a surprise.
Speaker 2: Times it has actually one I've never won, but yeah, done,
good numbers.
Speaker 1: I'll show a news guys. I think I think the
the box office between you three is very close, unless
Wicked like does a two billion for me. I think
you guys are all kind of very close to each
other right now, so you never know. Like the film
was originally going to be directed by Sean Levy. Obviously,
he's a producer of Stranger Things. He directed, did Boreene,
He's doing Starfighter, he did Free Guy, so it was
originally going to be directed by him, but he left
the project after disagreements with the Minecraft developers as they
thought this his idea did not suit the game. Uh.
And then another person, Rob Mack, who's I think he's
on like always sunny, and I guess he's doing other stuff.
He's always attached the hip of Ryan Gosling, was hired
to direct the film, but dropped out due to creative differences.
So there you go. Tell you're talking about you know,
I'm not caring. Why don't they crack it down and
do something they you know, they clearly, at least with
a few people had some differences. So they had some
sort of vision.
Speaker 4: Jack Black and there they probably wanted someone else, Ryan Gosling,
they wanted him to be the.
Speaker 1: Main Jack Black wasn't actually cast in the Scroll originally,
so that's the other trivia there. But yeah, how do
you feel they're trying to do other stuff there? The
creatives the devs, they're like, no, it's the same.
Speaker 4: Vision as Universal, right. You know they had someone signed
on the direct Drastic World Rebirth. It's like, no, you're out.
We just want someone to take the script and direct
this movie for us, right, So no, those.
Speaker 1: Are different situations, I think, because that was just they
needed a director. This was they had two directors that said, hey,
we should do this, and they're like the devs were like, no,
we don't think that's right for Minecraft, which I'd love
to the Rob Mackwin doesn't surprise me, doesn't have that
much of a history. The Sean Levy went obviously that
would have been pre dead Pool of En right, so
I feel like after Deadpool of reen he's big, swinging,
can do whatever. But still like Stranger Things was a hit,
Free Guy, Stranger Thing massive hit that he's produced, Like
Free Guy's a hit? What was what's the rock? And
sock them Taylor, what's a real steal? That was a hit?
The Nightmare or the Night not Nightmare, the Night of
Museum ones. So yeah, so I don't know. But originally
Matt Barry was first cast as Steve, but had to
drop out after the sake after Strike altered his schedule.
The role went to Jack Black, who was only originally
supposed to cameo as a talking pig. Barry instead provide
the voice of a get wit. Yeah, which is just
kind of to me, like the fact that because the
first trailer, right, it's all like the world, here's characters
showing some Minecraft stuff and it ends with that Jack Black,
like I am Steve. The fact to me that was
not always Jack Black fucking blew my mind. That to
me is like because to me, I think Jack Black
and when he does is perfect for the type of
movie they're doing here in the audience they want to reach.
I would have thought that Jack Black was like the
first like if you had a roll call that, hey,
who should be who are the top ten actors that
would fit good Minecraft? To me, Jack Black would be
one or two. I gotta put him over Momo, right,
So it's kind of crazy that not only was he
not considered like he wasn't even cast a Steve. It
just feels like they were trying to go for you know,
chicken jockey meme culture stuff, and Matt Barry is not
like a big poplar name, like he looks like Jack Black,
but it's just kind of and especially that jump up too.
It's not like if it was let's say it was
Dwayne Johnson, right, if he drops out, it's like, okay,
you could see dj and Jack Black, like there salaries
being similar in a way, right, but like Jack Black
had to be like a huge I imagine increased over
Matt Barry. So just blew my mind that was not
Jack Black originally, just because so if this movie, if
the strike doesn't happen, Jack Black is not Steve Crazy
alternate universe sucks for Matt Barry because I feel like
you would have liked that that paycheck, you know, that
would be that'd be nice.
Speaker 4: So funny that Jack Black is just sneaking into all
these video game movies the last three years because Super
Mario Bros. Came out in twenty twenty three and even
happened Borlands twenty twenty four, and then Minecraft twenty twenty five.
So he's just every year he's doing a new video game.
Speaker 1: What's next?
Speaker 2: Two? He dinloaded what is it? NV two? Reloaded NV two.
Speaker 1: That's not video game.
Speaker 2: Trying to think gonna be the second one is what video.
Speaker 1: Game properties do we have? I feel like how he's
he would oh man though, that's like a man another
match me in heaven. He would fit guitar hero. I'm
kind of surprised, like I could honestly.
Speaker 3: Seems in Tario three in one of his songs.
Speaker 1: Well there you go. I could easily seem sneaking in
a fallout at some point, like if he can sneak
into Star Wars, he can sneak in a fallout Like
I just feel like, yeah, man, and one of the
worst stars, worse than anything that happened in the prequel,
and wasn't Jack Blake's fault. It's just like what they
did with that episode was just That's why I cannot
trust Fillony, I can't trust favre Uh. There are many
reference to Napoleon Dynamite in this movie. Obviously Jerry Jared
has to be talking about. That was his second movie
as Troublesome Apocas are storing are I think they meant
to say sorting. It's its story of or storing of
the tears. Oh I see okay? Uh so troublesome apolka
apocas that's one, the story of tater tots and pants
pockets uh and a self defense training dojo. The t
shirt says we're having a similar design to vote for Pedro.
So there you go, and that's fine. Like for example
of like the humor Travis Snell hate that whole opening
when it's the teacher and he's talking about how he's
in debt and he has like a minute montage of
how he's in dead and why he's teaching. He has
like the long hair. That's the stuff that I can't stand.
And then finally Steves Lavas Chicken by Jack Black entered
the UK Top forty at twenty one. It's not just
Jack Black's biggest hit. It now holds the record for
the shortest UK hit at thirty four seconds, being the
previous holder of The Ladies Bras by Johnny Trunk and
The weeesby by two seconds. So there you go. But yeah,
there you go has in the UK history the shortest
song to be in the top forty, So that's what
you're working with. So and same thing like he had peaches,
he had that not only is in the Vinelia movies
there given him hits. So who knows what he'll do
in next one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, voice, as I said, you forget how badd he smells?
Speaker 1: Right? Does Jack Black smell bad? Is that a thing?
Speaker 3: Did you even watch the movie, Travis, It's a joke
in the movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've already cycled that. I watched it this weekend.
I had to get through it. As I said, zero
ten for smooth year.
Speaker 3: Have you ever given a zero to ten before house?
Speaker 1: I think there's a few, there's a finite. He's better
than that, but like that's like five to six. There's
other good stuff in there. But it's pretty it's pretty
met but no, I zero ten is pretty pretty hard.
But it's happened so.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna go with a I'm gonna go
with a two for here, two out of ten. I'm
gonna fail this movie. I think I enjoyed the c
g I to an extent. I enjoyed the the mimicry
of the sound designs from the games, and just like
the little like Minecraft isms. Uh and I think it's
through my positives end. So yeah. Also, yeah, I didn't
even talk about like the main I thought he was okay, uh,
like fit the role of for sure. No, I'm said, Garrett,
but you fooled me. That is that is my most
character in the movie. What it's like, hold on, let
me get my.
Speaker 1: Just trying to turn it from there. I'm just trying
to change from a negatively review of a child, but
we're going for it. What will continue to continue?
Speaker 2: I will negatively review a child if they deserve it,
but this chap did not deserve that every week and
I did that on our Skeleton Crew review for a
good chunk fucking Taylor. What was his name?
Speaker 4: The name exactly your name?
Speaker 1: What is his dad's name?
Speaker 3: That his dad too.
Speaker 2: To attend though, would not recommend you mentioned till for grace.
Speaker 1: They should have to get a Minecraft too. He'd be
a perfect fit.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and like Eric Foreman, like absolutely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would. I like Kirkland's number, I will match.
I'll match with the two wow, two of us the
lowest rating I've ever given a Jack Black movie.
Speaker 1: Vy.
Speaker 3: I'm ready for Envy. I'm ready for.
Speaker 1: Like just that finch tighter guy. He made a machine
that gets rid of Pooh, like who like.
Speaker 4: Who it's it's a spray like a spray sprays.
Speaker 1: The fact that he offers.
Speaker 4: Ben like, hey, you can go in on this with me.
We can make tons of money Bens so like, no,
I'm not going to I understand no.
Speaker 2: But he's going with him because he's's right there in
the name.
Speaker 3: I think it'll be good because you know intonations deep.
Ben still is in there and he's like a producer
on the movie. So I'm sure they met on Envy
and then later formed that strong bond. So I feel
like I got to see the roots of that.
Speaker 2: He's in a music video too.
Speaker 1: I feel like they know they met earlier. So have
you guys ever seen The Cable Guy? So Jack Black
is in that movie and Ben still directs it. That's
in the nineties, So and that Jack Black before he
was like anybody, So they've I think they're together.
Speaker 2: Direct that movie.
Speaker 1: It's one of the first times because remember he is
in the movie, he's on trial.
Speaker 3: Remember he also directed the Great Reality Bites that Kirkland
has seen next.
Speaker 2: Year before Envy, I'll watch it before envy, I guarantee, and.
Speaker 1: Then also, don't forget tropical thunder right there, and that
together still directs that as well. So I feel like
there's a couple of other because they are part of
the rat pack. In the two thousands, it was a
group of guys that kept working together. It was it
was considered, it was the Wilson's, it was Feral, it
was Stiller, it was Black, and then Correl kind of
joined at the end. They're missing, oh, Vince Vaughn. That's
another one. They're called the rat pack in Hollywood terms.
So yeah, pretty much. Yeah, they're both in that movie too,
aren't they. Ben Stiller and Jack Black are both in that.
Speaker 3: Kicks his dog off the bridge?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and then ben Stiller's and then ben
Stiller's the el Spaniel channel, remember he has the women. Yeah,
and then it's like that memes a golf of course
that's from Anchorman, of course. Yeah, No, Taylor, and it's
off here.
Speaker 4: I like I like that too. That too, is a
very it's a good number. It's good number. I'm not pasting.
I'm failing it for sure, but uh yeah, I'm not
gonna be rewatching this. I'm two if it's retro, then
sure it's It's not something that I watched it alone.
I didn't want to watch it with Madison or my kid. Uh,
so you should have.
Speaker 1: You should have paid her back. You should and you
should have paid her back for the big short you
had to watch your birthday too.
Speaker 3: This would be your kid's favorite movie. Watch it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, one day.
Speaker 4: My kid's favorite movie.
Speaker 3: She'd be like, I want to ride you like a
chicken jockey, Taylor, Let's let's do piggyback ride.
Speaker 1: You don't get to pick what their favorite movie is,
so one day you.
Speaker 4: Might be, oh, like that too. It could happen. But
like all that kid says, it's just Star Wars. So
I mean, I'm not saying I helped pick it. Jack
Blackett Star Wars, who watched the episode all the time, Lizzo, Oh,
it's just great episode.
Speaker 1: That'll change, don't worry. Once I go to school, Taylor,
it changes really fast because if their friends are into
something only Star Wars, Okay, good luck, good luck with that.
Speaker 4: Trave a zero.
Speaker 3: Maybe your lowest course collective six might be the lowest
rating collective rating.
Speaker 1: That's pretty bad, I think, so yeah, because I feel
like even stuff that like help I guess yeah, I
think we make it to out of forty now for
a bat like, because I feel like even stuff like
color out of space, like I probably give extra points
for Oh, there's like some good shots, like some artistic
stuff going on, but I usually yeah.
Speaker 3: Like four minimum. That's like it's hard to go blow
that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd have to go back. I'd have to go
through the Animal of History to see what other bad
stuff we've reviewed. But hey, honest, I'm surprised. I thought,
not that you guys were chitting on it, but I
thought I was just gonna be very negative and then
everyone's gonna be like six out of tennis and I
was gonna be like the stick in the mud. So
but uh, Patriots, I hope you enjoyed that. I think
you got exactly what you wanted there. You got us.
We would have never talked about this, wee golden geeks.
It would have never came up. So and you know,
it is still a twenty twenty five movie, so we
did talk about it. Yeah, So we'll be back next year,
and like I said, the Christmas one will be coming
up as usual. The only rules are just don't pick
something we've watched before. Nothing but our franchise, even though
I don't think there's anything really I got Christmas franchise
we're gonna do so, uh yeah, sure, pick the Hall. Yeah,
let's rinse this Jack blackness out there, and let's get
Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet. Hell yeah, absolutely so.
But until next time, we promised you I'll not be boring, right,