shit. Sorry, guys. that's not.
Yeah, okay.
I. You don't. Have to.
You don't have to do that. It's all right. I'll just.
I'll.
As long as I have one that's at the right length. So.
Okay.
Everyone ready to go?
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All right.
In a five, four, three, two, one.
Hey, welcome to Geek Fix.
I am Frank, and I'm here with Jonathan.
Hey. Hey, yo.
And we have Thomas like everybody.
We have so many trailers and movies and TV shows to review today.
So it's going to be a little different than normal.
But I'm going to set you guys up
for a little bit of surprise at it, tell you about this.
And it's actually posting on Monday across all of our social network feeds.
So check it out and give your answers.
I want your guys's top three Marvel villains.
Comic book TV show up to you.
I'll kick us off while you guys think this through.
All right. So I'm going, Magneto.
I mean, I mean, it's really good timing for it, of course,
but MAGNETO'S just got that right vibe, right?
He's.
He's correct.
Like, you're like, Yeah, I'm teaming up with Magneto half the time,
so that's one of the greatest reasons to love him.
Then I'm going to go to Loki and completely Tom Hiddleston.
He has made this character so cool and interesting, and the Loki series
has been so invested in his character that typically is just neat.
And Thor's a brother. That's basically it.
And then lastly, doom. Doom.
Dr. Doom, sorry for his potential.
He is a leader of a nation and that is his whole mighty goal
is to protect his nation at all cost and to watch him wield science and magic
to make that happen on par with anybody and everybody.
I'm a big Dr.
Doom fan and I can't wait to see what they do with him next.
All right.
Let's go to Thomas Thomas, your top three Marvel villains.
All right.
I'm going to start off with my
bottom three and my worked my way up to my number one villain.
When you were saying that, you said some of them.
But I'm going to stay away from Magneto because where I'm currently at in
like the new run of X-Men, everything, he hasn't really been a villain.
And what we're seeing in X-Men 87 is kind of not a villain.
Spoiler alert for that.
So I'm going to start off with my third place first, which is Thanos.
The Pharaohs solidified himself
across the, you know, Infinity saga.
I'm sure some people are like, Well, how can he be three?
But he's three for me.
And this is why because number two is apocalypse and but yeah, that's it.
I thought that was a little bit of a curveball in there, but
I dig apocalypse only the strong will survive.
I mean, it doesn't matter if it's humans, doesn't matter if it's mutants.
Like, if you're not strong enough, get the F out the way.
Because I'm coming Emerg you.
So I. Yeah.
Apocalypse number two, am I number one?
I think this was your number one Doctor Doom.
Yeah, my all time favorite Marvel
villain motivations are insane.
What he's able to do, his intelligence, the mixture of science
and magic, the army he has, the army.
He can create, the rage in him, the confidence.
Like what a great villain.
All time favorite Marvel villain by far.
Yeah, I fully agree.
That's a good way to put it out. John, what do you got?
All right, I'll make sure to pick different than you guys,
even though you've already name some of my favorites.
But you know what?
I'm going to go with Kingpin, mainly because to me, he's like,
he's like the Batman.
He's he's been portrayed well in a lot of stuff, but he's like the Batman of,
villains because he's
he's a badass, able to, you know, manipulate
the masses of the city without having any kind of real powers.
So no powers and able to stand toe to toe with
like the other tiers of other villains that have powers.
Like, he's just as cool as villains with powers.
So that's good, right? Yeah. I mean, with Toretto.
With Spider-Man, like, okay, it's close.
Like he's a badass.
All right?
But I kind of would like to see because he's like,
a brute, too, is like, Yeah, strong fighter.
I'd like to see him fight Bane, Right.
Got would be a good, like, one.
I mean, I think Kingpin would lose that.
But still that go
one on one and one number two is Venom He's a misunderstood villain and kind of a
you know, plays the good guy sometimes anti-hero once in a while.
So he's just all around Cool.
And I like that he has a very clear weakness.
Some heroes or villains like their they don't have limits or they have
very vague limits or, you know, not, but his voice is very obvious.
So that's a great point. I love that.
I don't Yeah, I mean, this I can't think of off the top my head, but
if they don't have like, like Thor, Thor's a hero.
And it's like, well, what stops him from, you know, owning the planet?
Like he pretty much endless power, you know, not a clear.
We can stop making him feel bad.
So. Yeah, exactly. Humility or.
Emotional intellect.
Yeah, well, his weakness.
Eminem, one of
the is going to be Ultron I The Age of Ultron movie
and then the the water for them was pretty awesome too.
So I think we should totally bring him back into some other movies or
make another.
Ultron Dude is my number one pick for somebody who needs to come back
and not that like MCU did him wrong, but there's just so much more.
And the events afterwards, when Voltron goes to space and comes back,
dudes leveled up and I think if you watch the what if you get
a little hint of how dope Ultron can get when like he's
literally the main bad guy essentially for the whatever series season one.
But that is a very good villain.
And then they had a I think it's whenever I think it's
like Robert California members running name from blacklist Yeah he was the voice.
Yeah.
He's a great he's a great voice actor.
And the Alan Shore But there's another character name that's.
Possible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Super good guys.
So I want to get your guys's opinions on this.
Head over to Threads, Twitter, Instagram, and give your opinions on this
and let us know what your top three are.
Marvel Man, They know how to make villains, but so does DC.
That's what comics are. Dope.
What's going to get into our lives?
All right, so for our news this time, we're doing so a little differently.
Essentially, we have a bunch of trailers, we have a bunch of reviews.
So we're going to use the wheel of reviews.
And if that was echoey and sounded bad ass, it's
because Frank had enough time to edit that.
If not. Hi. How you doing?
All right, so I have the wheel of reviews and then we have the wheel of who's
going to start the reviews so we could all chip in.
But that's it.
And then I have also use.
There's two literally wheels of fortune.
It's not Wheel of Fortune. We got wheels of fortune.
Get rid of the echo again.
Double wheel of reviews.
I sure hope I got that editing in time.
Bicycling reviews of bicycle reviews. no.
And then we have the five minute timer. We have a buzzer.
This is not in a while is the five minute timer.
And so if it's a trailer, we have 5 minutes, discuss it.
And if it's a movie or TV show, we have 10 minutes to discuss it.
This is to keep things moving along
because I think me and Thomas could talk about X-Men
for another hour and a half, and we better not do that.
So I got it in me.
we could talk about Halo.
It might go the other way with it, but let's keep it short.
That will take 5 minutes for that.
All right, You guys both ready to go?
Yeah. yeah.
We're spinning the will of reviews now.
I'm going to enter in the noise
and post.
We're starting with Star Wars acolytes.
Okay. All right.
And the person who's kicking us off for Star Wars acolyte is going to be.
It's going to be me.
It's very definite sound effects of it.
All right, Well, then I'll. Sure I'll shorten it down, too.
So in the editing, it'll sound like it just was quick.
But I have.
I'll have the thing.
Yeah, I'm going to use the I might do the will.
I might do the price is right when I go like that will sound.
Yeah, that's it.
Okay, so I'm leading us for the Star Wars Acolytes trailer.
Here we go.
I am so excited for a new era of star Wars to be introduced to the mainstream.
And already we have so many people that are like
debating characters that we got in a glimpse of this trailer.
So we see a lot of Japanese influence, which I think is super cool
because a lot of the Star Wars
night stuff was pulled from Japanese influence
with the architecture, with the fighting style.
We also have Trinity and some really amazing characters.
Just today I put out a call about Vanessa Stroh,
which is somebody from the comic books and books.
That is somebody that has a light saber whip.
There's a light whip.
And and it's so neat right away.
We have debates about it.
People from like, in legends, there's already been light whips.
And, you know, famously Luke Skywalker fought one another.
People are like, this is bullshit. That shouldn't exist.
That's what I want.
I want those lively debates about something that's not just like,
they're woke really like that, which those are there too. But
but yeah, it looks like it's going to be fine.
And the Jedi are at full power again, which is something
I think I kind of missed from the prequels
that when the Jedi were just like actual power, I think we
we had a little bit of that prequels and then we never have it again.
They're always underpowered and I kind of just want to see what it's like
to have an army of light sabers rolling into battle like that again.
What are some of your guys thoughts from that trailer?
It looks amazing. I'm super excited.
Like Disney is really putting their money into it.
But I got to ask you, the I know you're saying there's been debates about this.
I've never seen it before until I seen a take that you posted about it.
But do they not burn through things like a light saber does?
If it's a whip, it's supposed to grapple things,
you know, attach like Indiana Jones, Right.
So apparently in Legends, it's eventually outlawed by the Jedi's
like in the era that we're at now with like Luke Skywalker, it's outlawed
by the Jedi in the prequels, it's outlawed because it was too aggressive
and people would wrap people up with it and then it would just incinerate them in.
And so they have outlawed it because it's because, you know, like even Jedi,
they're supposed to not stab, they're supposed to slice or something like that.
You know, it's like they have certain ways of getting themselves a little bit.
Yeah, you're right about the stabbing.
I just agree, because that's like more of a side thing.
It's attacking, right? Like
even in this trailer, we see Carrie-Anne Moss always going to be Trinity.
She she's very defensive
in how she's like countering the girl and everything.
But man lightsaber whips.
Like, I was just excited about yellow light sabers.
Now we got whips in here. This is going to be crazy.
Yeah, the lightsaber is a lot more fun than we normally see.
And Thomas, you were talking about how those are normally wielded by the guards.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think they're by the Jedi sentinels.
That would guard the Jedi temple.
I think it's basically somebody who is able to understand
or have full knowledge of how the force works.
There are some Jedi who are, of course, like more force driven and there's others
who are more militaristic or, you know, they have better combat skills.
So the Sentinels were the combination of both, thus the yellow light saber.
So it's going to be really cool to see a whole branch of Jedi
who fall into that category because that it looks awesome.
Yeah.
Do you think we're going to have a full fledged
I don't think we have Sith necessarily like the titles
if I'm not entirely sure where that lands in the canon,
But are we going to see the Sith numbers or the dark
side numbers be equal to that army of Jedi that we see in the trailer?
Or is it going to be the outnumbered dark side as well?
What do you think?
Yeah, there has to be a balance, right? That's what I was wondering.
Were watching it,
do you see such a massive, you know, light side and the Jedi eyes?
So if there is that balance either somewhere
else in the galaxy that we can't see, there's also an equally powerful
dark force or there's deep seated
corruption inside the Jedi temple that we don't see from the surface.
But there's actually, you know, people
plotting to portray them or something like that. Yeah.
So I don't know what we call the
I mean, I hopefully we see that
there's a balance either they just recently fought to,
you know, bring justice to the galaxy and they killed a lot of the Sith
and then, you know, rebirth is happening now or,
you know, it's existing somewhere and we just don't see it yet.
Yeah, it's a yeah, it's going to be great.
I was watching something. I don't know if it's true.
I know somebody out there who's read all the novels in the Lords
would be like, You're wrong, idiot.
But I saw something that the Sith kind of died out
like a thousand years before the prequels, you know,
a like Sith do they all wanted to, you know, overthrow each other.
There was a massive battle.
The Jedi, you know, did what they could.
They fought them off.
But ultimately the Sith kind of killed themselves and killed each other off.
So one of the Sith leaders at that time created the rule of two, right where
there's always one, the master
who has the power, and the Sith Padawan who wants the power.
And so I'm thinking maybe they think all the Sith are gone
and this is like the rise maybe of of Palpatine or of of one
small sect of like a Sith
who became a set because he got kicked out of the Jedi order.
And that's kind of who I think the main girl is.
That's the end of our 5 minutes.
Any final thoughts on the acolyte before we move forward?
I think it just looks beautiful.
I got. A lightsaber. And I liked it.
They actually filmed on location for a lot of a lot of this stuff.
So that's something new for the Disney Plus series. So.
All right, guys, that's the 5 minutes.
That's the format. Let's move on to our next one.
Back to the wheel of reviews.
And then as I spin the wheel for the reviews,
once I'm having it removed one so like, narrow it down so of to sit and get ready
spinning things.
Okay.
All right.
Next is the penguin and who is kicking us off.
Thomas, you're starting us off with the Penguin Review.
All right, So we're getting Colin Farrell back as that
Brooklyn is, You know, like, come on.
Well, are you making me see here?
We're getting him back in all his full form?
You know, I don't know who asked for this.
I don't know if we need this yet.
And yeah, it looked pretty good.
Like Colin Farrell, Academy Award nominee.
I love that character that he played.
And I'm curious to see how they build out the world of the Batman more.
Maybe we get a Robert Batman's and cameo, but yeah, I don't know.
I don't really have too many thoughts.
I'm just kind of willing to see what they throw out there.
I'm going to watch it. I got an ax.
So what do you guys think?
Pattinson cameo is confirmed, by the way.
He is popular.
Okay, well, I'm in now.
My my hype level just went way up. Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's great.
I'm excited to see Colin Farrell.
I didn't know I'd seen that that image of the Penguin before
and I had no idea it was him.
And then even after I saw the ticktock about it, I was like, That can't be right.
So I start looking at it like, maybe I'm just.
Maybe I'm not remembering the actor's name, right?
Or something like that. Like, no, I've seen him in a lot of movies.
He's good actor and sure enough, that's him.
Like Son of a Gun. They did.
I mean, a lot of makeup. They go with them.
But yeah, I'm excited to see this. Really.
I love that kind of nitty gritty kind of down on street level,
you know, superhero villain movie.
And especially I like these villain
villain movies and shows where we're getting to see,
you know, from their perspective, the whole kind of anti-hero thing
that makes them understood why they are the way they are.
And, you know, you like to root for the bad guys sometimes.
So I'm looking forward to.
So this
this is based off the Batman, of course, which is Matt Reeves is universe
and I think a favorite Matt Reeves universe. Really so far.
This is off the comic books, basically the long Halloween,
that kind of vibe year one, that era towards.
Yeah, very dark and gritty.
So both those comic books, they have a lot of just like random characters.
You recognize their names, right?
Kind of reminds me the Gotham Series
and what I want is for the in this Penguin series
for him to do these little things.
And I'll certainly like, yeah, I talked to James about this or
that sounds like a enigmas problem to not mind, like just drop names for me.
And then maybe we get a little bit, you know, a little bit of a teaser
for other characters that we might know in the verse.
And it's a great way to bring in some characters that are forgotten.
The old Batman series with Adam West had a character, King Tut,
that was a villain, and he was a kind of a clownish character,
but they were all clowns back then.
I think bringing in an Egyptian themed character now
would be so frickin cool because we could do that way better now.
And it's not just going to be some fat guy that's like, I'm King Tut
at the Bait Shop.
And yeah, so
I'm hoping that they could just drop into a lot of cameos for me.
Yeah, because I think the rumor is that
we're getting hush right in the Batman part too.
So under utilized. Yeah.
Yeah, right.
Like imagine they just plant the seeds for that in this.
I think that would be awesome.
But I completely agree with you.
Just throw in names that I know and I'm going to love every episode.
Yeah. So hush.
The Court of Owls,
these are not confirmed.
I've seen like characters that we need.
I'm saying like, things we need hush calls.
And as you'll, I think is how you say it, which I had all the comics as a kid.
Yeah. Azazel.
Is that X-Men That might be Marvel's. He's.
Yeah, yeah, that's Nitro is dead.
But I'm such a marvel for this.
Let's not get it.
Nico's dead argument going on. Yeah, but that's the one.
But yeah.
So those three characters, though,
in a lot of times are tied together, especially with their last year.
But like, they're just so underused and they're really dope
and they really fit the dark, gritty Gotham vibe, right?
The Court of Owls, a rich group of people
that are after the Wayne family, perfect for this type of type of movie.
So I think we could get that for sure.
Yeah.
HEIST Yeah, just the Illumina Illuminati element of it all, too.
Like nobody played the Gotham Knights game, but that was pretty slick, you know?
I mean, obviously the comics way better.
But yeah, that idea is pretty dope.
Yeah, I don't know, man.
I, I'm curious to see what they do.
It looks like there's a little bit of a time jump in there, too.
I don't know who that girl is screaming in it, but she seems important.
But she also kind of looks like a young Catwoman to me.
So I'm like, I don't know if they're going that way, but it'll be interesting.
I'm on board alone.
Matt Reeves.
Yeah. Is it a prequel or after?
I'm not entirely sure.
Probably prequel. Is he like a Rises to power?
But in the Batman, he does seem like he's powerful enough yet, so I'm not too sure
which way we're going.
Yeah, he's got the iceberg lounge.
I mean he's got all the politicians in there
so I don't know if that's as powerful as he needs to be,
but yeah, I'm on board.
You guys sold me.
At the end.
I wanted to say, like, the kingpin thing, like I'm running for mayor.
Yes. Yeah.
So cool. Yeah.
All right.
Any final thoughts on this before we wrap up the five?
It looks great.
Looks good. Just ready for it. Yeah. It's. It's just.
I am telling you guys, DC Ooh, this new era I'm so excited for.
I know this part of the old world,
but the fact that the James guys keeping the elseworlds stuff.
I'm so far, I hope.
I hope this becomes a popular thing
and they make more villain based movies and series.
Yeah that's such an interesting take man.
I yeah I like him not the biggest person I like.
I need to know all the stories from my villains.
But yeah, you're right.
Like in DC, they've done a really good job with it, so I'm
not going to, like,
throw it out the window until they make a bad movie and they've
they've made a bunch of good stuff.
So I'm on board.
I agree with you on that.
Thomas Except for when you say Batman villains specifically, all are heroes.
It just took a wrong turn in comparison to our hero.
So Batman is a villain.
That's just we're right. We're siding with really.
He's a billionaire, is punching poor people at night. But
all the other the ones like this.
Yeah, well, think how close Riddler is.
Even in the Batman movie.
Riddler thinks he's kind of the good guy.
He's getting out of corruption, and, like, Mr.
Freeze is the guy that we're going to use.
Jeff, I'm sure, used to be done.
He's trying to save his wife.
You know, I'm saying, like every villain in Batman
except for Joker, which is why Joker's Joker is, like,
so close to being the good guy.
And even Penguin's like he's keeping things honest,
you know, in the scummy places.
It's such interesting.
Got a freaking love. Batman, you know.
It's great points.
Back to the Willow Review, guys.
There you go.
It's been a
All right.
We're doing Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice next.
And the person leading the way is.
John.
And is Jonathan.
All right, John, you've been leading the way for Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice. Go for it.
All right.
So we saw the trailer for Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice, It looks really good.
I'm excited to see it, honestly. Yeah, I love that.
They used that same song from the first one.
It's, you know, as soon as you hear
that, the only thing I've ever heard that song associated with,
but then, you know killer cast bring it back everybody and have
Jenna Ortega is kind of the main character in this one now.
I don't know.
I mean, it looks like they're doing it right.
They're doing very good attention to detail so far.
We can see in the CGI and stuff, it doesn't look cheesy, which there's
definitely scenes in the original one. They're a little cringey.
You can tell it's in the snake form and stuff like that.
That's a little too.
yeah, That was.
Star motion.
Yeah. At the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, yeah, this looks so much better.
what else?
There's a Willem Dafoe is going to be in it, which I don't remember.
He plays a.
he's. You play an undead sheriff.
Detective You're right, Detective.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'm looking forward to that. He's.
He's just an amazing actor.
yeah, We brought back Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton is just all around.
Great cast.
looks really good. Really.
What do you think?
The practical effects kind of stuff that works really well for Beetlejuice?
Because it's like practical effect.
It's okay if it looks cheap
because it's kind of the, the, the look of the franchise
is kind of cheap in like just extra green lights on stuff.
And then I also like the fact that Michael Keaton being old
isn't terribly bad because he's just a rotten dead guy.
So it's like, yeah, he's just more of that.
So it works really well.
Even the final shot of the trailer is like a close up on them.
They're like, He's definitely older now,
but you're also like, he's just more Beetlejuice. Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
And I like, like you're saying with practical effects, it's
so nice when they can use them because they don't age the same way as CGI is.
You know, they're, they're going to stay the same no matter
what time, as long as they take the time to.
Do lose them.
Yeah, I listen to.
All right, let's just wait for them. Get back.
I mean, come back. Welcome back.
Yeah, go ahead. Start that set. That's a good job.
it says your Internet connection is unstable.
It's fun.
Okay.
so what was I saying? so, yeah, I live.
I live when able to use practical effects like that.
Like you're saying, they're they're pretty much timeless.
They don't age like CGI does.
You know,
our technology may keep improving, but the paint, you actually put on
someone's face is still going to look the same.
So as long as they put good attention to detail,
it's really nice when they're able to put that in.
Yeah, by now
they probably took
all the led out of the paint, so they're probably golden, you know.
you go. Okay.
Yeah.
I just like Tim Burton and General Ortega.
This is like a powerhouse new combo.
Didn't know that was going to be a thing.
And it is Wednesday and a Beetlejuice.
And I agree with you. Like the casts is perfect.
It it seems like a teaser in the fact that it's just like
a little bit of of the intrigue.
It gives you the vibe, but it is really tell you what's going on in the story.
And I'm on board with that.
You only get Michael Keaton really at the end of it
and it's like, that's all I need.
And like, I know we're getting Beetlejuice,
I know my work is back, I know the whole cast is back.
Plus you throw in a powerhouse like Jenna Ortega, this is going to be fun.
So yeah, I'm super on board.
I also I need to be challenged to it
because I kind of forget the first one.
I it's been so long since I've watched the original Beetlejuice,
I don't really remember everything.
So that's going to be a fun challenge to kind of refresh myself
going into this new movie.
Definitely.
And I'm, I'm excited for because it's it's such a good pop culture movie.
Like, it's such a well, you know,
everybody knows it, even though it probably did,
it might not have been great in the box office when it first came out.
But I'm wondering what other movies like that we can see next.
You know, like everybody associated with this movie is Edward
Scissorhands is also a really good, you know, cult classic.
Could you could you not see them remake that now, too?
They're doing it with Ghostbusters.
We're about to review that one. Because that's exactly. Exactly.
They're doing a great job with it.
So, yeah.
I, I think I wrote Scissorhands is a great call out, though.
I'm like, why that movie seems right for a part two or anything.
But yeah, yeah.
And now that Johnny Depp's free, I think you could probably get him back,
you know, with the right amount of money.
So that'll be sweet.
This is kind of like really late sequels are so far nailing it pretty well.
I think.
I haven't seen too many that were flops, so I'm excited to keep seeing that happen.
I want to.
What do you guys think about the way that they did the
like, especially the music in the trailer?
Because I think like for people maybe who didn't know, Beetlejuice
might have been surprised because it seems like a horror trailer, right?
It's like it has that song we all know, but it's not sung at the same pace.
It's not by the same artist.
Instead, it's really like creepy, like doll sound or something like that.
And then Michael Keaton pops up.
Then you're like, Okay, cut of a comedy.
We all know this is a full on comedy
that just has wacky, scary effects, but it's not really scary movie.
I don't know.
I thought it was interesting that the kind of horror for, you know. Yeah.
And I don't think it's marketed to people who haven't seen the original one.
It doesn't seem like a very broad audience trailer like you're saying.
Like you have to know what you're looking at to understand it.
I think. True. Yeah.
I mean, I do think there is a big section of the people that are going to watch it.
They're watching when they're younger and were scared.
A lot of those parts.
And that's why I'm like, man, they're setting this up pretty good
because it does seem like it's spooky, but then gotcha.
It makes the joke at the end where he pops out like even better, you know?
And I yeah, I don't know.
I think this was
yeah there's going to be some people were want that
you know like horror comedies are awesome
you guys just talked about Ghostbusters it's like a perfect example at that time.
As funny as it was,
it probably scared the crap
out of a lot of people with the special effects
and the way those like, gargoyles came to life and Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Closure looks scary.
I remember Gojira being kind of scary as much as I loved it as a kid.
Godzilla himself.
Like he had these eyes, like he'd look down like this.
But. Yeah.
Yeah, right, right, yeah. So I think they're.
I think they're nailing with the song choices always on point
A Tim Burton seems to do a really good job with that.
Like just going back to Wednesday.
There's so many really good song choices or like different renditions
of popular songs, but done in this very eerie, gothic way.
He's the master of of that genre.
One of those songs is in my rotation right now
that's on that playlist like mentioning
that has like Loki and the Batman and stuff like that.
It's one of the songs from that movie or show too as well.
So they get the vibes, movie vibes.
All right. Any last thoughts for me? One of the next one?
No, we're good.
We're spinning the wheel of reviews.
It's going to sound so much better.
Post with all the sound effects, I promise, guys.
Yeah. Yes.
All right. We have our full first.
Ah, we have our first full length review now with X-Men 97.
And let's see who's going to start us off.
And I hope it's Jonathan who doesn't know anything about it.
Yeah, I do too, actually.
I don't want to go first. This.
I did watch X-Men 97.
I thought you didn't know.
okay.
as a to I mean, not that I remember any of it, but yeah, I was.
Yeah.
It's just so we get to do 10 minutes on this cause it's a full,
you know, it's a series. All right, here we go.
shit.
It's so good.
I This has made me excited for X-Men again.
I already was a fan of X-Men, of course,
but like to be invested again, and this doubled down on it.
I like how it really knew what the fans were missing.
As in like Cyclops didn't get the due diligence he does.
Storm wasn't as powerful like she didn't.
You know, they made sure that all that was answered.
And then they're also fleshing out the Magneto character in this in a way
that I think maybe the kids that watched it didn't realize.
But as adults, when we started watching the movies,
we started to learn about Magneto through Gandalf's eyes.
And then we were like, okay, he's much bigger than he is, you know?
And now they're like, okay, let's go back to the animation
and show you that, yeah, he is bigger than that.
That's really cool.
Combat in animation has not looked this good.
Like, it's hard to think of as like animal level, right?
We all know the Cyclops drop.
He did amazing.
But his movements when he's moving around.
But even just like the entrance of Storm,
when they have the Omega threat level, that entrance is so cool.
And speaking to that, the music choices everywhere was cinematic
and was specifically targeting your emotions
and making sure you felt like the hollow emptiness of the desert.
And then she comes in, starts turning to glass, she walks in.
It's like I have no bad notes
on the first two episodes of X-Men 87, what are some of your guys's thoughts?
Thomas Let's go ahead. Let you start going crazy, man. Really?
No, I want I want to hear John first because I hear like him coming in
because I'm about to drop a nuke on this thing.
Now. I
go for John now.
I thought it was pretty cool.
I just like how they set everything up where it's like, unfortunately, you know,
Professor Xavier died, but then, Magneto steps in.
It's like, you know, he's going to take over,
but then it's, you know, right away, you think, okay, maybe he can play
the Professor X role of being, like, the good guy and just lead the X-Men.
It's like, no, humanity doesn't want to make peace.
So okay, now he's got to lead them in a potentially a war against humanity
or fight that battle, that kind of we always knew he wanted to fight anyways.
but yeah, it looks really cool.
I'm glad they set it up this way. I'm excited about it.
I'm one thing though, about Storm.
I love to see how she came in with all that power, but I
a she's an omega level mutant.
But I never was a huge storm fan.
And I realized in the show why I was never a huge fan of hers.
And I think it's because she doesn't have any precision in her powers.
So when she's fighting, she can bring in,
you know, thousand mile an hour winds, but she's going to take out the whole town.
She can bring down lightning and it's going to make an explosion on the ground.
But, you know, she doesn't have that.
Like,
you know, Wolverine can put a single blade through a person's eye
and not hit their nose or whatever. Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
All these other all these other mutants have some of them have real precise
abilities and hers just seems a little like, like
she doesn't have enough control over it, I think. Yeah.
I don't know.
Like bringing a grenade to a driving rain or.
Yeah. Shooting range. You're like. Yeah.
Yeah. Real quick on the storm thing.
I think one of the things too, that kind of makes it
she is very cool but not cool as a kid especially is
while you have like Wolverine
jumping onto a in NOLA or like we saw with Cyclops dashing around
she just always has this pose,
like bringing the storm now and then things happen around it.
He's not doing cool acrobatics or dodging or anything like that.
She's just like being cool.
So I think as a kid when you try to play with the action
figures, you're like, Here's my storm figure, okay, she's doing her thing now.
You, you know, it's not like.
Someone comes in and punches that guy or whatever.
Yeah. And I think that's something they could depict differently.
They can show her, you know, Now, I don't think she should be
forcing lightning through her arms because it comes from the sky.
But pick a target and the lightning strikes that specifically
from the sky that she was focusing on like that would make a little more sense
to be able to like channel the tornado into just lift a tank instead of like,
I don't know, being able to control it a little more.
Depict it like like in the movie she killed I think she killed a toad
by like channeling the Lightning Down.
And it threw her that at him. And then he went flying off.
So it can be done. It's just not done often.
What happens when lightning hits something?
Yeah, it was a cheesy.
It was everything else.
Yeah, whatever she said.
How they bury it. God bless her.
She did not deliver that line to all my opinion, but.
It was a terrible line to start.
I blame the writers on that one.
But yeah, it's just like I agree with you.
When I was a kid, I wasn't the biggest Storm fan.
And as I've gotten older and I've read way more stuff,
man, have she has she gone to like one of the top of my list?
Like, is she comes from royalty?
I mean, the way Magneto gives her credit in episode two is just like phenomenal.
I there's a little bit of pushback, I think, in the first episode
when they're in that Friends of Humanity room
and they're trying to save Roberto and she's shooting
the lighting stuff, she's kind of like directing it right at the guys.
And I'm like, Okay, she I feel like she can control
any type of elemental thing.
She's almost like the avatar in a sense, where she can kind of create
the conditions for a lightning storm pretty much from her hands.
So I think we get to see it a little bit more.
I would agree with you, though,
in like the animated series, I don't think they did as good of a job.
But calling back to the animated series, we got the Morlocks in episode two.
If you go back to I think it was like season three of the animated series,
she becomes like the Queen of the Morlocks.
That it's a season one.
She does that.
Yeah, it seems to use.
The like light saber. That's the light saber bows.
Yeah. Yeah.
Did you and Darth Maul But like, she's a super good hand-to-hand combatant
and I think that's what they were trying to show there
Now with her, can we get to spoilers?
Go for it.
Okay. Spoiler alert for episode two.
Now, with her powers getting taken away, we have to see her use some of that.
Like, is she really smart?
Like, what's her ingenuity like?
You know, what can she do with just her bare hands?
And I think it's still so fascinating.
She's never been afraid of a storm.
She's now afraid of it for the first time,
which I think they perfectly captured that moment in the room.
But we're going to still have to, like, learn who she is without her powers.
And she still a badass.
So I'm really excited that they've gone with that path.
It's straight from the comics, but I'm going to go into some other things
unless you guys have some other things to say about Storm.
Well, I just want to say real quick on Storm.
Yeah, I hope that we see her kind of go back to
maybe her thief life or her what kind of life that I don't know
if she would going back to that.
But we did see that she has a panda bite or a panther behind her in one scene.
So she probably has been there already.
But yeah, there's a lot of other stuff about Storm
that's not X-Men that is super cool
and I would like for them to use this time to explore some of that.
Yeah, definitely so.
Matt so John.
I think in the movies doesn't she?
Her and Beast are kind of the ones that are more into politics
to, to try to fight for like mutant rights and stuff like that.
So it'd be kind of cool to see her now that she doesn't have her powers.
She's still going to be fighting for mutant rights and freedoms and stuff
like that by leaning into her political strengths or whatever.
Yeah, obviously that also called out because Storm was the one
where I didn't read her run on getting D power and everything.
But next week let me know because I'll come back with all that knowledge.
I know about Madeline prior.
Now I know about all the time.
Cyclops uses optic blasts, slow his descent or move around
all that stuff super legit from the comics for the last 50 years.
Don't be coming at me with none of that BS but Magneto.
Okay, so now we get Magneto taking over from episode one,
and I love it because
we have also seen this in the comics, but it's, it's a different dichotomy of,
of how he approaches leadership and mutants integrating with humankind.
We like Professor X as most of the people know, who who are listening to this.
It's like we got to work with them.
We're going to be on the same side.
And he was always like, I'm going to crush them
because we're, you know, homo superiors, we're better than humans.
We should be in charge of them, not like submit to them or like try to integrate.
But he also is trying to honor his best friend and his best friend.
Hey, the X-Men's goal was always for us to stand foot and foot with the humans
to be seen as equals,
you know, for them not to oppress us and for us not to try to dominate them
and it's really cool because it's also pulling something from the comics,
which is Cyclops leadership with Magneto being in charge.
And it's to be bold.
Cyclops completely embodies the ideology of Professor X, and yet,
you know, and then Magneto does it, so they're naturally going to butt heads.
And we see an episode of what him in, you know, Jean, I putting Jean in quotes,
we're going to go away and now it's like they, you know,
he has to stick around because he's like, I'm not going to let Magneto manipulate
the rest of the team.
I got to be I got to be here to make sure that they're all okay, which again,
straight from the comics
after I think it was like X-Men 200, which was the trial of Magneto,
all of this kind of it seems like they're pulling from this time
period of the comics where Chris Claremont was just cooking.
He was like, All right, Professor X is gone.
Jean's out.
You know, Cyclops is trying to get away from the team,
him and Madeline Prior, or he meets her in Alaska.
He's going to retire.
But now it's like we get what's happening in episode two
and instantly it's like, shit, they're really going with the true
cable origin, which is wild, because that story so crazy.
I assume cable's coming back.
Then we to have cable come back.
If we can introduce baby cable at this point.
And then do you think they're going Madeline Prior
or will they suffer through this and go, that's just.
Jean, Don't worry about it.
It's 100%.
Madeline Prior
I put money on it and this is why we saw some concept art at San Diego Comic-Con.
I want to say it was last year, two years ago, of sinister.
And if you know about the comics, Sinister has everything to do
with Madeline Prior's origin so sinister
that the prior techno organic virus with cable, like, I think it's all there.
And then I'm just like so excited that they're going for this
because it's a pretty dark story with Madeline Prior.
She is a pretty messed up origin and kind of the
her pivotal stories in the comics have been really rough for her.
So yeah, it's going to be madness.
The combat, though.
I want to say this, we talked about it on Charles excepted, but the synergy attacks
of like mutants power using both of their powers in tandem
pro give you that all day like more of turning in the blob or
as psylocke or a colossus which by the way I didn't know he could create weapons.
So that was probably wild.
That's I think new because that shouldn't.
I have never heard that before. Right.
But bad synergy attacks all day.
All right.
So we're at the end of our 10 minutes for that already. That was fast.
Yeah, it was a lot of time for me.
Listen to Charles accept it. Okay?
There it is.
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We just finished Halo and it's so much fun doing this, guys.
We really get to dive in.
There's so many little nuances and changes in a season that you don't catch
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All right, final thoughts on X-Men before move forward?
Jonathan, anything?
No, no, I'm super stoked.
It was good to keep up with that.
One more sinister.
Take it for a villain, by the way, for the whole season.
So he's going to definitely be popping up more in the future.
As much as we talked about Storm too, I'm like,
if there was a new movie coming out, there was a Storm Origin story,
they'd be pretty cool.
I hope we get to see that.
man, when she's on the streets of.
Gambit It is so freaking. Cool, man. It is so dope.
Build up, do it.
Do like an Avengers style build up with each of these
X-Men characters, show their
backstory and how they kind of meet each other and stuff and then, you know, go
full fledged in a new X-Men live action series or live action movies.
I'm sending you a list of like my favorite storm comics.
So get ready.
Ever about to, like,
drop it in there because, yeah, she's a beast in the comics.
Yeah. Beast. Hey.
All right, guys, Time for the wheel of Reviews Spin now.
And we're moving on to the trailer for House of the Dragon.
Green and Black together. Okay?
And the person that's going to be doing this is.
See who we got.
Jonathan, you're starting to self on this one, man.
Take it away now.
All right, So how's the dragon's green and black trailers?
I love, first off that they did the two separate trailers to show
the two, you know, factions or perspectives, whatever
the black obviously Rhaenyra.
And she's, you know, planning on taking back the throne from her of her
dad, from her cousin, I guess.
Right.
That wasn't the nephew brothers brother.
Yeah. yeah. Yeah.
Step by step, brother. Okay. As it is. Yes.
And then so, you know, her perspective of pretty much, you know,
we have to do whatever it takes all out war.
We're going to go take back what transpires.
And then the green trailer, which was kind of cool,
that it was a perspective of of the mom and the god I can't remember.
Allison Allison Hightower,
who, you know, made sure that her son took the throne after her husband passed,
you know, kind of manipulated the the her way and that kind of thing.
And so it's her perspective of like, I have to do what I have to do
to make sure that our families stay strong.
And, you know, all united and blah, blah, blah.
and they're pretty much getting ready for war also.
But we're starting to see, even just in this trailer,
the that Amman's
perspective or his character is, is developing a lot more.
And we knew him as just like this innocent little kid
is getting pushed into the throne and now we're starting to barely see that.
yeah, no, he's not ready for the power and he's going to be
a little hell raiser out there just burning people so
that I'm excited. I'm ready for that.
So you talk I think you talk about King Egg On.
On. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, no problem.
There is a man. No, but yeah.
So egg on there definitely got to be developing more.
He's going to get kind of that Joffrey treatment.
I think we're all going to hate him plenty and.
His with too much power. That happens almost.
Yeah. Exactly.
But the one that rightfully should have it is Ayman,
because he's the one that actually studied to be king.
He's the one that's scholarly in the best of the sort.
He's kind of just like
the he should have a comic book, all his own kind of guy.
And I love how how much he's going to be carrying the green.
We also have that Christian dude.
I think his name's Christian or whatever.
He's he's the real winner. And he's like, I don't have a.
Super Christian or something.
Yeah,
man, I just don't like him.
He's because he switched sides so fast.
He was team black essentially switch sides.
But yeah, I like how much green is going to be leaning in on him
and being like their champion.
And of course he's riding Vega the biggest, baddest ass dragon out there.
So that's a really good one. Two punch.
Now, over on the black side, they're definitely war.
Have you?
But like everybody has the person whispering in the air.
So we have Damon whispering in near his ear,
but we have Hightower, Otto Hightower whispering in his daughter's ear.
So we have that going on.
We also have the war veterans.
We have different aspects of each side.
And it kind of reminds me, like with Game of Thrones, if from the beginning,
Cyrus, he had a better alliance around her
to match Dangereuses nurses,
it would have felt good to see these two alliances build up,
but it felt like Sersi because she was such a lunatic, she kept pushing aside.
A lot of people be valuable to her, like her dad.
And so this shows giving us that.
Like let them both have good allies and see who rise at the top.
And boy, guys, this is going to be fun.
And I especially like the marketing where they're really pitching team versus team.
And we all know based off of Game of Thrones
who wins this war, but it's going to be a bloodbath until then.
Yeah, I mean, it worked for Twilight, so why wouldn't they do it
for Game of Thrones? Yeah.
And like, we were just talking about Netflix, like it's fun when, when the,
you know, studio
whatever puts a little fanfare and it get you invested right before it comes out.
You know it's just a bunch of hype so totally.
Yeah I can't speak to any of the knowledge that you guys have I got a drop in like
you guys have a well, but I'm just speaking to the vibes of it, man.
Like, it just it's Game of Thrones
does something special with the tension and the characters.
Like every person they cast.
It just feels like they're.
They should win an Oscar.
I don't know why they all seem so amazing.
And even the kids and do the like.
The two queens in charge of this both phenomenal actors, actresses
or actors in their own right.
And it just seems seems like it's going to be crazy.
The way last season ended, my jaw was on the ground.
I'm fully team black and yet I like the green trailer more.
It felt like it built more of a story
and you're kind of understanding the motivations of that side.
You know, I think it did a better job of explaining that,
but I got to go with Team Black, so let's see if this season can change my mind.
anti-Black as well. Jonathan, Which side are you on?
Yeah, I mean, you got to be a team player.
You got to. Do it you back.
But I can't wait for the one on ones like I can't
wait for the day that Damon and Damon can go toe to toe with swords
because that would be cool. And I can't wait for, like,
there's a bunch of them.
But like, if if we get the season stick going against auto Hightower
sort of swords it might that or actually they would go like debate debate
like I can't wait for these one on ones that's going to be a lot of fun
to flesh out.
You know what I'm hoping for is I imagine most everybody who's
seen Game of Thrones and knows kind of how the story is going to go
or more or less they probably default to see in black.
I want to see them win you over to team Green.
Yeah.
You know, make you really like, no, this should be this way.
And then there's a curve which starts just, you know, turn back and you know
is reveal that would be a lot of fun and take you on that journey.
Do you agree.
It's so right
and that's all I will sit Jonathan because one thing I've mentioned it
500 times as I'm editing the last season, I caught myself doing it.
One thing that's really great about the series is unlike other things
where the book is the source code and then the show is based on the book,
George R.R. Martin said.
The book is based off of people telling each other the stories.
It's a 3 to 4 people writing book, basically for the book on this.
And then the show is actually what happened.
So we don't have any bias of of when people are writing the story,
for example, in the book that this is based off of, there's lot of like,
this guy was against the church, but he was misguided.
And that's because he's written
by one of the basically priest we'll go with that remains there.
But so it's like, yeah, of course he's going to say
that he was misguided because he's working for the church.
The show's going to tell you the truth.
And in the show
it showed that Alison actually does believe and for good reasons,
that her is the rightful king, because that's actually what the king wanted.
And so and in the book, it just seemed like, she's just being greedy.
No, she thinks she's fighting for her for a good son, you know, And I love that
they're actually making.
Well, yeah.
And they're making Alison kind of this person.
She's like, I want the greens to lose.
But like, Alison is a nice person. I don't want her to lose with him.
Her father could fucking die in a fire.
But there's a good person.
Yeah, Yeah, that's cool.
Any final thoughts on House of the Dragon before we go back to the well?
No. It's super hyped.
Yeah, you're right.
You're going to take me to school in June.
We're going to go every episode of that on challenges of it as well.
Jonathan Of course you're welcome on every one of those episodes.
If you'd like to join us.
I hope they release some some early merch too.
Like, you know, you get some movie buckets and popcorn
buckets for certain movies and stuff like that.
I know this is going to be, you know, on an IMAX, but they should be
releasing something like that that I could have while I'm watching it.
I don't need a pocketbook that's going to turn me on, though.
So AMC kind of keep that in mind.
Doing popcorn Bucket had me feeling weird.
So it's like, yeah,
they should go back to the will of reviews.
Graduated is the cowboy on that one. Yeah.
All right.
We're going to Ghostbusters, another ten minute one.
Let's see who's kicking this off.
Please be Thomas.
I know that one guy who didn't watch it.
So what I like is.
All right, I can.
Get started for this one as well.
All right, John. And here we go.
Tell us about Ghostbusters Frozen up, our.
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire.
A really good movie. Just watched it today.
I like had, you know, most same cast that was in
the. Afterlife.
Afterlife day ago, which I hadn't seen until earlier this year.
I think it's crazy. It. I know. That's nuts.
And I loved it.
It was really good.
I just don't know why I never came around.
Got around to watching it.
so it was just all around.
Good movie, like, you know, good technology.
They use CGI and stuff like that and how they use the drone.
catcher trap.
Yeah, I want to throw and keep it's by the fridge because we're going.
This is the week of the premiere. So just to keep it was smooth. Yeah.
So how do. You feel about the cast?
Did you think the cast worked as well this time around?
Yeah, I think it was mostly the same cast as Afterlife.
Few added characters that were a lot of fun.
But yeah, I think it was perfect.
And it's even, it's, it's nice to see the kids growing up.
We think like, yeah, you know, it kind of ruins the age they're supposed to be.
But no, I mean, kids are going to grow and they are now like,
the son is the young adult who's, you know,
learning how to drive and stuff like that.
And I like how they kind of play with that, make it fun in the movie.
yeah.
And even the little
girl in the last one is now a teenager with a romantic interest in this one.
Like, they've aged up respectfully.
Yeah. Yeah.
She's like, reminds me of Reed Richards.
So she probably is like, I don't even know what to do with this romance.
You know, like science fairs.
Manufactured. Actually, that's. Yeah, that's true.
You know, like.
And she's just so brilliant. She's.
They can't contain her genius, and it's sometimes
a problem, but yeah, it's, I liked it all.
I'm down for more.
It was simply a fun movie.
Like, I got to say,
when you mentioned the casting, by far the strength is the cast.
And there was a thing
when we first stepped out of the theaters, our son John was like,
I like how there was maybe 3 minutes of Patton Oswald
and then like a couple of minutes of this guy.
It's kind of one of those things where it's like,
I love him,
but this is like, let me just go ahead and join
in the Ghostbusters real quick because it's Ghostbusters.
Have fun with it.
They do such a great job of making sure that everybody feels naturally in there.
There's one character in this movie I won't say who and like that
that doesn't feel very natural.
And their contribution to the story is not very natural.
It was a step out, but it's not a step out from the animated series
I remember, which is what this was kind of based off of.
So there's that, but it is kind of off from everything else.
Do you think for that problem it was casting or a little bit of the writing?
I think it was writing.
I think it was just kind of like it's I keep saying vibe a lot,
but it's just perfect for this.
It doesn't fit with the vibe of the rest
of the Ghostbusters stuff, but it kind of like technically does
because we're talking about fake ghost booby trapped in orbs, you know?
So like, yeah, sure, that could be there too.
But it's like, Yeah, but use a proton pack, not this sort of thing.
I think it was a little too rushed.
When there's all this other science and stuff that's already been established
and I know we're trying to tell you about something
without telling you about something, so it's keeping it spoiler free.
But yeah, this new element that they added,
they just kind of added a little too fast.
I think if there is seeds planted and then we saw them grow,
it would have made a lot more sense and fit better and be more fun.
But it's just kind of like a quick growth and then, you know, Yeah, brief payout.
Out of context.
I'll just say this, Jonathan, how much better would have been
if his grandma just taught him how to do it?
Like as a ghost?
I see.
Come back and then just real quick.
Okay.
Yeah, I guess I would have been better.
Because it's something that's being passed down, like Avatar Styles.
Just Avatar. Yeah.
Or like it's very much Avatar.
And not even, like, training, but, like, imbue him with the knowledge.
Like, yeah, you know,
she possesses him for a moment and he understands that all of a sudden.
But the reveal of his mastery was freaking dope
when he was like, Guys, you see him do this is like, that's cool.
Yeah. That's good. I like the action.
speaking of that, I will watch Paul Rudd freaking read the dictionary.
He is so good at his job.
my God.
Yeah.
Is he's I mean and we see in this is he's so good.
I'm pretty sure he's just like blank Jack.
He can get in any role that he wants now.
I mean he's just been out now.
Great movie after great movie.
Yeah. So and he plays he plays himself.
He plays.
It's he also has shrunk up like, okay, it's Ant-Man.
He just had it today.
Amazon, it's the same actor playing the same roles.
But I just love that actor in those roles.
And speaking of Shrunk, like I know he did all Ant-Man,
but I would love to see him in something like Honey I Shrunk the Kid.
A He is a perfect actor for that kind of movie.
He's just like that fun sitcom dad now.
So I think that's good.
How does it feel?
Because I am assuming a lot of the movies back in New York.
Is that a pretty cool change from the city.
They were in? Yes.
my God.
And that is so freaking Ghostbusters, man.
When when you're back in New York and more importantly, like
especially somebody grew up on these movies, hearing that siren again,
echoing off the buildings and
is they're chasing a ghost down, you're just like, we're back, baby.
And and has audio. Here.
Was that. Instant siren audio here?
yeah.
Thanks Ed. Do.
Yeah but but yeah when you have the new cast in the old cast
we talked about this in the past where Ghostbusters is now
and the nostalgia everybody else is trying to capture.
And they just have to fix this, fit this format as well.
And they added a lot of new characters to this one.
One of them was James de Castro, a comedian I really liked.
But his role in this, I mean, he's really actually
playing himself as well, if you guys know James guys,
But he was like a cool addition that was kind of like this wisecracking.
No better than actually the Ghostbusters about ghosts that worked well for this.
I mean, there's just so many little added people
that were too evil and the story itself is serviceable.
I would say the story is good, not like going to be stellar,
but it's one of the things which just like give me a reason
to watch these people do things and I'm fine.
Yeah, yeah.
It didn't require a real heavy story or anything like that.
Yeah. What do you think about the bad guys on the.
It was.
It was good enough.
I like the, the lure.
I like that It was kind of, you know,
from a millennia ago or whatever.
but we didn't see a whole lot of them.
He wasn't like, yeah, you know, no hand-to-hand combat or him
moving much or anything like that is always
just kind of in more or less the same pose and reaching forward and stuff.
So very much like Storm. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Is power is not necessarily contact
but he was he was looked creepy
and I think he did the job as a scary ghost so they.
They show him his face a lot more than they do
the trailer So I know in the trailer he's kind of like ambiguous in the
in the movie you see his face a lot more and it makes more sense and stuff.
they do a lot of lord building in this in a
in a way that you'd expect from like again the cartoon where it's like,
really cool your area next movie, we're going to go to a whole nother corner.
You'll never have to hear about any of that lore again.
And it's just building up this wider world that you have to really dig into.
One Thing I think they could have done to build up that villain a little bit
is at one point you do hear him, you hear his voice without seeing him.
Like I think when he was inside, the orb still was on it.
So and his power to some extent
is that you don't necessarily freeze to death, but you die of fear, right?
You freeze to death.
Yeah. You die of fear and then you get frozen.
But so if he could play a little more into that psychological thriller
side of it, and whenever he's around, people
like hearing whispers or something like that,
I think that would have been cool to kind of build that fear in us, of him
that, you know, it's more of a psychological threat
than just an ice spike is going to get you kind of thing.
With the kind of the problem with that, John, is the Beetlejuice problem.
Where is that a comedy or is it a horror film?
So you kind of have.
To be let's lean into the horror a little. Bit, right?
If you want to lean into the horror, then yeah.
And I think it's those Slayer.
Those spikes would have gone all the way through.
There's a lot of the spikes right here is like, Now go a little bit further.
If it's a horror movie, then yeah, exactly.
All around a totally fun movie.
And I think you can take your kids.
They're not going to be totally freaked out.
There are ghosts, of course, but there's also Slimer who's just eating
like there's a tire subplot about the Stranger Things
kid trying to trap Slimer who's just been like, the mascot of the series
and you could cut it out, would affect anything at all.
It doesn't serve as a joke. Later on, he's like, I know that guy.
And that made me laugh.
You know what?
I honestly think you me were laughing pretty good, too.
This movie, too, Like the jokes actually held up pretty well.
Yeah, I feel kind of bad for the people in front of us.
Like us, they were, like, too much back here, But that was bad.
I wonder if people who don't know the original.
No, I just think that.
I think the jokes are all all better than it was.
Better than we just 10 minutes.
And I was like, Man, I'm really not laughing at any of these jokes right now.
But these are there were Thomas if any questions about this.
Not beyond the ones I asked.
I mean, I think you guys answered it all.
I can't wait to see this cast again.
Love them and Afterlife.
Can't wait to see the new edition of characters like, I wonder how
that's going to work because it seemed like a big cast in the last movie.
So it's like you throw even more characters in there.
That seems a little crazy.
Also, I think I saw Kumail Nanjiani with like some frosted tips,
so that seems like a win.
That's a character. We're trying not to talk about right now. Yeah, okay.
Okay.
Well, you know, we'll see.
But yeah, I'm on board, man. It looks fun.
Talk about popcorn buckets.
That bucket looks cool, too.
We should probably give some of those away, but, man, I'm super on board.
I love Paul Rudd. Let's when you watch a let me know.
I want to make sure to record a charge or something for it.
And again, it's a popcorn.
It's totally a popcorn flick.
I'm personally giving it to air often and it's leaning
so on, just enjoying the ride and not overanalyzing the story.
As long as you do that, it's an eight out of ten comfortably.
What do you think them?
I think it's a great fit.
If you liked the other ones,
if you don't like this kind of sitcom or this kind of, you know, movie,
that's fine. You know, it's not going to be for you.
But if you really did like Afterlife especially, this is right
in that same lane. So yeah, totally See it.
Kind of a welcome to the Jungle Jumanji thing, like the newer dramedies
where it's just a, you know, somewhat family movie, stuff like that.
And yeah.
yeah, a little.
Degraded or what's your score?
John I probably at least do 8.5.
Yeah, it's eight. Wow. Yeah. High scores.
Yeah. Because.
Because the thing is, is you walk out of the theater
happy with what you just saw, like, it's so hard to do that sometimes.
Sometimes I'll go see a movie.
I'm like, Yeah, this deserves a ten minute of press as well.
Oppenheimer You know?
Is that right? That's true, Yeah.
All right.
That is it for our Ghostbusters review.
And I think 10 minutes is pretty good
after that for the future, because sometimes we go ham on a review
and it gets carried away and we're headed back to the wheel of review.
And we've got two more options left. Guys.
I don't even remember what they are.
You're going to be surprised.
All right.
Go into the trailer for 1943, Rise of Hydra.
And then our person started things off
like a little dance that goes with it while I wait.
Yeah, Yeah, it is me.
All right, so we're talking 1943, the rise of Hydra and this is going to be
a video game set in a marvel world in the middle of World War Two.
We have, of course, a
Black Panther at the time,
but we also have Captain America, Steve Rogers before the freeze.
And it's got espionage and it's got, you know, a France
that's in siege with a market.
And I always love to say off and, you know, and it's just so freaking cool.
The motion capture on this though
I got to get Peyton can't reveal his name
but is the King Ezekiel from Walking Dead is going to be a Black Panther.
And as soon as he took off the mask, you're like, that's King Ezekiel.
Because the motion captures so damn good.
It looks like he's in this game right now.
Physically.
And just the combat and the lighting looks so good.
It's one of those games. It kind of march.
We have Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor, where I'm just like,
I cannot wait to watch that movie.
I just have to press the buttons to make it happen.
And that's exactly what this is.
I'm looking forward to that story.
If the combat is serviceable, I will be happy.
What are your guys thoughts from this trailer?
To me, the animation looks so good they could be making movies out of this.
And I honestly I mentioned it before, but after people have played the game
and you know, the cat's out of the bag
they should totally cut these scenes together into, you know, a small movie or,
you know, series or whatever and just throw it on Disney Plus, because why not?
I mean, you already have the content there
and it looks like a really good story that they wrote.
So, you know, if people if some people certain people aren't, you know,
interested in playing the game, you should, you know, give them the story.
And then you can also tie it in where,
you know, it continues on like they've done with the,
you know, going back and forth between the streaming shows
and the movies and theaters and stuff like that.
So you can have a game that also continues the MCU storyline.
But, you know, then once people played it, everybody else can watch it too,
and not miss out.
Yeah. Yeah. Agreed.
I mean, all the cinematics in this thing are incredible.
I think it's like Unreal Engine five or 4.5 or something like that.
So they're, they're going all out with it.
Yeah. On the cinematics and the story.
I mean, we know that Skydance is producing it normally like a movie studio,
but I think this, this is.
Their first game. I want to throw that out there.
I'm pretty sure this is their first game. That's that's incredible.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
So on the story, this is why I feel pretty confident.
You know, I listen to another podcast hosted by Kevin Smith and Marc
Bernardin called Fatman Beyond.
I love it. It's
one of my favorite podcast of all time, but I think it was like two years ago.
Mark said, Hey, I got called in to do this thing for Skydance
and I'm like, working on this marvel game.
I can't talk about it.
And, and he's like, Yeah, there's Captain America in it and Black Panther.
So when this trailer popped up, I was like, I know exactly what this is.
And it's crazy because I heard about it back then and see it now.
I'm like, my God, he I love him as a writer.
He's written some fantastic episodes of all these different shows,
but I think the story is going to be there.
I'm just curious about the gameplay
because this was a completely cinematic trailer.
Like, is it just going to be single player story driven?
Are there going to be multiplayer elements?
From what I've heard about it before,
there was supposed to be like a co-op element where you're not
just playing as Captain America or Black Panther, you might be able to play.
Is there those two other people that are in the picture with them?
One is like the Wakandan warrior and one seems to be a soldier
with Captain America.
So I'm like, All right, Are they going to add that in there?
I don't know.
I guess just from a gameplay element,
I'm really excited to see what they bring to the table.
Yeah, it's definitely going to be like a single player story mode, but
it's clear that we have companionship
the entire time, so it's going to probably escort mission esque type of thing.
Somebody for you to constantly be bouncing your dialog off of when you're about to.
So so that's how you flush out a character to wear it like both sides are, right?
Because it looks like Captain America and Black Panther against each other.
But they're going to be making their points
to the characters that are with them.
And then hopefully there's a co-op thing because Mia Jonathan,
we used to play Halo together and now Halo botched it.
So now we could do this again.
yeah, but yeah, so that you could play with the other person.
And if that's the case,
then I wonder how the combat can be feel different because I think
arguably black Panther and Captain America could have very similar
super soldier fighting moves
except for one throwing a shield, and they'll give something like that to one.
But then when you're talking about they were kind of warrior spear throw
and then we're talking about the soldier gun, you know, So I think the Companions
could really mix up the fighting styles and make it a pretty neat difference.
Yeah, definitely.
And I think the conflict between them is only maybe half the game or less.
I think, you know, it's them be against each other not knowing who they are.
And then by half the game, you know, there's that big battle between them.
No, we're on the same side.
And then you move forward with the real story.
And I'm assuming at the end of it we see Red Skull
because wasn't in the trailer at all.
But we know that Red Skull has to be the main villain for this time.
World War Two The rise of Hydra adds in the name like there's going to be great.
Yeah. So this.
I'm sure, is getting vibranium for a new weapon he's making for the for the Nazis.
Ooh, yeah.
That would be sick.
And now I want to read the comic book for this too.
Like, I hope they put a companion comic book out, which I'm sure they'll like.
Hey, Mark, why you're here?
But most of comic book,
the ties that you're going to be buying that it opened that on your pillow is.
Definitely he just wrote a new Mace Windu run that it's it was a big deal.
Yeah and that was all him and I haven't read it yet,
but it looks pretty damn good.
It looks really good. Yeah. Any thoughts, John?
Nope.
Yeah.
Question question for you guys, though, this was one thing
that kind of start me up a little bit.
You know, I get like in the weeds about things.
How did you guys feel about Captain America?
Like just the way he looked.
Did it throw you off at all for a second?
Not me, no.
Didn't you didn't look much like the Chris Evans captain America?
Well, yes.
And that's a that's a lie for me.
Like it just threw me off for a second where I'm like,
All right, that's Captain America.
But I'm so like, Chris Evans is so Captain America to me now
that when I see somebody in a cinematics or almost live action,
it's like if they don't look like Chris Evans I kind of it took me a second.
By the end of the trailer, I'm like, For sure, that's Captain America.
I love the moves, bouncing shield off people, catching it.
But there was a split second.
I was like, I don't know if that's calm posture.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Just for a split second.
But then I was on board. So how do you all when I saw it,
when I saw Kerry Payton as as Black Panther,
I was like, can we get a movie with him as Black Panther two?
Because like
King Ezekiel, he carried it for so long.
And he's even in the finale when the show is dead as a doornail.
He's still cool in it.
Yeah. Cory Peyton's dope.
So Dope Squeaks actually met a medical visionary, right,
That he's got a video with him, like, dude.
So. GROSS.
So, yeah, I'm looking forward to this.
FISHER Definitely.
You guys ready for the last? It's good realism.
You click the button right now. The wheel spinning, guys.
yeah. Same damn thing.
We're going to Halo season two.
Let's see, he's going to be starting stuff on this.
By the way, we did do a review for every episode
of Halo on Charge Accepted, and the finale was pretty spicy.
I'm starting off with this one and we have 10 minutes, three of you.
Halo two sees the whole season as a whole,
so when Halo hits, it hits hard and it was fantastic.
The Fall of Reach was a phenomenal episode and I want to clarify somebody something
when if you guys are to the charges over this
master chief is not in
the video game about fall of reach.
He is obviously in the show for it but he doesn't have his armor the whole time.
And I thought that was a really good move because it showed
how good of a soldier John is from the front.
As a leader
and with the environment around him, with the people around him,
how good all the soldiers in the Marines are.
But when when the Halo series falls flat, it falls flat.
So damn, it drags down everything around it when they're going to kill.
Spoiler alert, by the way.
Spoiler alert real fast for that, John, that I'm sorry, going to spot on this.
We're going to kill the arbiter So sadly like that
and then basically use McKee to replace him.
You're making it real hard for me to tune in for season three, folks.
I'm going to admit that right now.
That's A tough one.
And we talked about this before.
How are they going to do arbiters CGI demand in the show?
Yeah, and it's by putting in this Mickey character,
replacing him to where he doesn't need to be on screen.
That kills me that they're doing that.
Like I tell you what.
Yeah, if the Covenant had a Twitter account
they call the show racist
because it's bullshit that they're using Mickey to replace the covenant
characters who have a diverse culture and a diverse race and everything like that.
It's bullshit that we have this this white girl, it's replacing everybody.
For me.
I would much rather to go that 8472 route and have some technology
that makes the covenant blend in and look like humans.
Yeah, just for certain scenes.
And then, you know, as they walk away, they switch it off
and you see them transform just from the simple.
Innovation that that to you have marvels.
Like, come on, it doesn't take a lot just play with us a little bit.
Don't mix process don't ruin it.
I don't know it's just terrible.
The other thing the finale felt so damn flat in the fact
that we've been wanting the flood for a while
because it's a big part of the story.
And yeah, so in the final episode at the very end of this,
the penultimate episode, they have the flood fully in command
taking over the ship, zombie attack, yadda, yadda, yadda.
And it's like if you were not a Halo fan, I knew the flood was coming.
How does joining is it to be like worried about the covenant,
worried about corruption within the see and no collusion?
Not no finishing either those Osten zombie attack like make that
the start of the season two or more importantly
the start of season three now that you're finally on the halo So
I had many complaints, but I want to reiterate
that when the show does well, it does phenomenal work.
Combat is so cool.
The actors, I think, are doing a solid job.
Pablo
But yeah, it definitely had some very big weak spots.
Totally.
And they hyped up that final battle with the covenant
and putting the spike in so much over three episodes.
And then we get there and it's like so quickly washed over
because all of a sudden
the floods are attacking everybody and, you know, it's like a zombie attack.
It's like, wait, what?
What are we supposed to be looking at?
Is it like whiplash in this last episode?
And it's like, it's a little unfortunate
because this season I felt like they start off so strong.
Those first couple of episodes, I was like, man, they're bringing it
this season.
You fall for each what's happening.
I kind of feel a little weird about him
not being in the suit most of the season, but I get it.
It's expensive, it's hard, whatever.
But I thought they still did a great job.
Those episodes are incredible.
And then the end was like, there's again, spoiler alert here.
There is so many main characters that died off in the finale There
you're like, Why did I follow their story this whole season?
Just for it to end kind of so abruptly with not big payoffs.
So yeah, it was some interesting choices in the finale.
Not just main characters.
It killed off like a lot of the new characters
they invented for this season, specifically
that they bothered building up, they killed off
and they kept the characters that they put on ice for a while.
Halsey's daughter, They literally just didn't have her in most of the season two.
And also she's back for two episodes that she's one of the few survivors
and it's like, we don't give a shit about her.
She's not, you know, we haven't been following her, so why do we care? You?
But you took time to make Sean's wife just a trophy wife from season one
into a main character, a mom that loves her son and is destined to find him
into killing her off like, No, you just developed this character from nothing.
So it's.
It's so odd.
The choices they decided to make.
Yeah.
Jonathan, any questions on the show that we just spoiled for you?
Because I know you said.
I know.
I don't think I saw the last two.
Maybe I saw a big covenant battle.
a lot of arbiter, and I guess he's going to die.
But it
just. Sounds so disjointed.
That's really disappointing.
And especially the flood.
Like we've talked about it before, how it's such a it is what made the game fun.
Like it's such a big part of the game
and how much fear it put in you and stuff like that. Right.
And so we're so excited for it to be just like
teased or barely shown or introduced at the end of the season.
So it's like, my God, I have to wait a whole year to see the flood attack.
Like, this is going to be crazy and it's got to be done like a horror movie.
Like, you know, I don't know.
Obviously they didn't though, so.
Yeah, I mean, they like a lot of that,
but it's like, yeah, it just doesn't make sense.
Within the pacing of the show, you're like, for explained,
they either should've started season three with it or the Covenant
should have been done in episode seven and then flood episode eight.
So it's just like I know it was so strange.
You know, a lot of all my favorite characters
this season are pretty much dead, so I'm like,
I don't know who it was supposed to really be following.
I know it's supposed to be John, but they do something even weird with John,
right?
And you explain to me who Guilty Spark was,
but he
he plays a bigger part in this season.
But then they do something weird with John's map.
I mean, I'm like, where we go. Yeah.
Also, just real quick on Guilty they started this again season Episode
three Really should have been season three, Episode one.
It really should have been if you look at that would have laid out so
but yeah they did a thing we're guilty is kind of
interrogating master chief in the beginning of the episode
and in the end you see it's a drone but they don't explain who guilty spark is.
He is a big character.
He's basically the Cortana of the Halo that's simplifying and beyond simplified,
but still.
But nevertheless, it's kind of like that's a whole character
you just introduced in that did give any context for
and didn't make him interesting enough for anybody to care.
And then with Master Chief's
helmet, because we have to see Master Chief, we had to see John.
I'm sorry, let me correct myself.
They cracked his helmet
so that you can see through his eye now, and there's no way to fix that on Halo.
So he's going to have that for the whole season, which is
I mean, I just can't think of a worse move because you either have to consistently
CGI in a live action space or actually make the damn helmet just,
I don't know, we're going to. We'll see.
Yeah.
Why did they not go the Mandalorian route just because they didn't
want to be compared to that? Like, No, it works.
Do that. Yeah.
The Mandalorian would have been compared to you.
I mean, you are.
You've been around a lot longer than that specific Mandalorian.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think it's cool to build the character who the guy is behind the mask.
But you also want to see him as the guy in the mask that has no,
you know, emotion and is methodical and stuff like that.
You got to, you know, compare and contrast the two,
not just break it to where they're both the same all the time.
Yeah, absolutely.
We talked about a lot to like episode or season one had a lot of like
very video game moments and then this season does it
and it's kind of let down a little bit too like even the sounds
or just like different shots the way they did like P.O.V.
things with him shooting or reloading
or throwing grenades is like they didn't really have that this season.
It's like, No, that was pretty cool.
And it makes you feel like you're in that universe and I don't know, they
they seemed like they went away from that a lot this season.
I don't know. It's weird.
So we're at the end of our 10 minutes and I want to end things off
on a more positive.
I hate to just dog on. It's unfortunate.
It's over. Yeah.
So what were some of your favorite parts from the second season of Halo?
And now I'll start off with some of the characters they introduced.
Ramirez I don't know if I'm saying the.
Name right, but Perez. Perez.
I did the sexy messed up.
On the charge.
Yeah.
Perez was a wonderful character they introduced and I think is
a really good way of showing
just your average citizen fighting for their hometown, essentially.
I think I think Perez and some of the other characters do.
That is our real highlight for the show.
Yeah. Yeah. Kai continues to be a standout.
I love what they did with Ruiz.
I think I want more ribs, but she got to, you know, sail off in the sunset,
which is awesome.
All this sports stuff was super, super cool.
They did build out a different side to the Covenant Again,
It would have been nice if as the arbiter because you would have had these
two characters on similar trajectories but from just different sides.
So I think that was pretty cool.
And the special effects kicked us, kicked ass this season like it looked
really good when it looked.
I mean, there's so many fights and everything this season that are so bad
ass. And yeah, it's I don't know why.
Yeah, I don't know.
I just wish there was more of that.
Specifically Massachusetts versus arbiter.
That final fight was very dope.
Yeah. yeah, definitely.
Yeah. Yeah, I know. I didn't see the whole season.
I don't even remember which episode I left off.
Probably like episode three or something. But I did see
but I did see,
Arbiter seeing the halo for the first time
and that it was just, you know, I'm glad they took the time to make that
look so good because it was just like, man, I want to stop and stare.
I want to make this my, my screensaver on my desktop or something like that,
because it just looks so good.
So yeah, they did good with the CGI and everything.
Yeah.
And season three will be all of that because now they're on the halo
and they even said like season three, the start of the video game.
So we're going to get all that.
We want it from there again,
all right?
Let's end things off this episode.
Looking back at what we just watched and what we just reviewed,
what is your most anticipated thing out of the things that we've learned today?
Jonathan, let's start with you. What are most anticipated for.
I think, House of Dragons?
I mean, all the everything Game of Thrones has always satisfied so
and it feels like, I don't know when's the last time it came out.
It feels like it's been like three years or something.
Maybe it's only been one.
But yeah, I'm definitely ready for more.
I'm going have to agree with
going and go with House of the Dragon as well.
It just hits hits me the right way.
It's fantasy, it's big, it's epic.
Dragons are dope and and it's just a cool show.
But I also want throw in 1943
I think is something from Skydance that I haven't seen before,
like Skydance doing something new and the return of narrative video games
is something that's kind of on the rise, which is nice
because we were in the live service game era for a little too long, in my opinion,
and the fact that we're getting back to these story based games I'm excited for.
So 1943 might be even beating House of the Dragons a little bit. Wow.
I know.
I'm psyched for what I got.
The Acolyte, then House of the Dragon, then X-Men Episode three Cause
obvious reasons. That's very bad.
But all these things are so good or we're in for
a June is going to be an awesome month for us.
Emmy is going to be really busy for you and be great,
but it's going to be an awesome year and especially June's going to be a month,
sadly, with Comic-Con in July to my God, what a year could be great.
God, I almost look forward to it.
It's cool, but I'm also like, shit.
We got a lot going on.
All right, network wise guys.
Again, Outlast Podcast is coming out with episodes right now and
things are getting heated up.
One of our least favorite people just got kicked off.
So it's we're celebrating over there.
We're pretty happy
popping champagne.
Yeah. Over at Who's got Next Game podcast.
They finished up their PlayStation brackets.
Now they're moving on to the next console.
They're going to be doing two episodes console.
So join in over there, guys.
The next one is we.
So you guys get to learn, but there's so many games
to the way I completely forgot about.
So I'm excited to share those with you guys
and then a challenge accepted.
Our next move is going to be Kongo.
We were challenged by Drake and we're also reviewing
every episode of X-Men 97, so check that out.
And our next interview is with Alex Shoemaker,
one of our very shoemaker, one of our very first interviews.
He's back.
He's written a new book, and he's going to be telling us all about it.
It's going to be a lot of fun that's coming out on Friday.
All right, guys, thank you very much for joining us.
And I'll see you next week.
Bye bye.
Get the goddess of aloha in there.
Don't do any more. Aloha.
I didn't know I was supposed to say.