Most Anticipated Movies of 2020

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Hello and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm your host

Steve Megatron Phillips. Joining me in this episode

is Mike the Birdman Don and Alex from ThisWeekInGeek

.net. We are joined... to this episode this week

to talk about the most anticipated movies of

2020. And some of the ones that we think are

going to be total dogs not. So without further

ado, let's get into it. I like that term dogs

not. Now, again, there's probably going to be

we're so early and like there's going to be more

movies announced that especially for the late

summer to fall winter. that there's going to

be some things will get moved. Yeah, the really

big titles have already been announced already

a year ahead. That's generally how it works.

But there's going to be a lot of medium budget

titles or things that were, you know, dates to

be determined that will pop up later and or even

like indie titles that we end up liking more.

But I guess these are all the ones that have

been announced currently as of like this month.

So it looks like it's broken down into a few

movies per month sort of deal So you just want

to start with like January some of these might

have already come out or just coming out now

Yeah. So to fire off in January, very early on,

we have the grudge, which is a remake of a remake

of a remake. So this one kind of looks okay.

It looks scarier than the original. See, I always

confuse the grudge with the ring and this doesn't

look as good as the ring. But this does look

better than the grudge. Was it the Sarah Michelle

Geller one? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. This looks a lot

better than that. There is one. It's not on our

list. It's probably out by now. It's called Antlers.

I think it is. And it's basically about a skinwalker,

which looks really friggin cool. I really want

to get out the theaters to see that. I think

it comes out right around the exact same time

as the grudge. Yeah, so I'm surprised you're

putting all these horror movies in January, which

is really time Well, yeah used to be the dead

month, but remember January and February is when

we started getting weird stuff like John wick.

Yeah, we're like you'd be like, holy crap, then

you can actually make money in these months Plus

this way it doesn't saturate October. So I get

it. I guess These are either holdovers that didn't

make it for October or ones that they don't want

to wait until October for Bad boys three bad

boys for life is coming or being released January

17th that I'm optimistic for it's not Michael

Bay, which makes me upset which is a weird thing

for somebody to say But I think it'll do okay

money, but I don't think it's gonna do great

money Yeah, cuz Michael Bay He knows action.

He's probably the best of that style of action

movie director But from what I hear the director

was a very very big fan and is trying to make

it as close as possible And they did bring back

the captain which makes me happy So I'll give

it a watch. It's probably gonna be a movie. I

see I've got I've got some movie passes and I

even have I was one of those smart guys that

when I did some Christmas shopping I Purchased,

you know $50 worth of gift cards to hand out

to my cousins and got myself one of those holiday

gift bundle So I get two free movie tickets For

I think one has to be used in January one has

to be used in February So maybe I'll use one

for that and the other like bigger movie is do

little Which seem to come out of nowhere the

trailers for it only came out like two three

weeks ago Which is very odd for for a very very

large. I think it's Disney putting it out It

is for a Disney movie. It's only had a marketing

campaign start six to eight weeks before release

It's kind of unheard of. Yeah, especially with

such a large star attached to it. But it is Robert

Downey Jr. That is true. So he's been pretty

charming ever since he got, he stopped snorting

the booger sugar back in the day. He's been pretty

consistent in the last 20 years. or 15 years,

actually. Ever since Kiss Bang Bang came out.

Well, that's what he... He'll admit it. That's

what his problem was, right? Yeah, he just doesn't

like talking about it now. Yeah. But Kiss Kiss

Bang Bang really revitalized his career back

in 05, 06. And he's been nonstop ever since.

And then we're looking like... And there's going

to be more movies released, but these are sort

of collected from... What was it? Fandom is the

collection of all these movies. So it's sort

of like... what people are talking about. So

there are going to be movies on these lists that

maybe you don't think are that big as an audience

member, or maybe there's ones that you think

are bigger, but these are just what's been published

out there that we're sort of commenting on. So

there's generally three or four per month. February

has Birds of Prey, which I am going to see. It's

probably going to be one of my birthday movies

as my birthday is February 2nd and it comes out

February 7th. I'm curious about it. I haven't

seen Suicide Squad yet, and I'm gonna have to

watch it first. It's very loosely tied into that

continuity, although it ignores 99 % of it. Like,

it's just the character look and design, but

it doesn't have anything to do with Suicide Squad,

allegedly. So... I like Margot Robbie as Harley

Quinn. I really do. I like most of the characters

they're including in this. I think Ewan McGregor's

black mask is cool. Like, if you haven't seen

her turn in, um, oh, uh, the Tonya Harding movie,

um, was it, was it, I am Tonya or I am some kind

of her. I, I, Tonya. She was great in that. Like

it's something about all the Aussie chicks where

they can do all the different accents and drop

it. And then they really blow, you know, a lot

of other actresses out of the water and she can

do it all. So if anybody can get that character

over, it'll be her. Yeah, it looks pretty cool.

We'll see, because DC's starting to get a good

track record with their movies, because Wonder

Woman was great. And Aquaman was good. Aquaman,

Shazam. Yeah, they've got three in a row. Think

what you will about Justice League. But let's

be honest, their individual movies that haven't

involved Batman or Superman have been good. Oh

yeah, totally. Yeah. So the next big one is one

that got pushed back from November of this year

So they had to completely redesign the character

was Sonic the Hedgehog Which I'm surprised this

movie's even coming out as a live -action slash

computer and animation thing You can start to

see posters and standees and theaters now We

got a new trailer a couple of weeks ago and it

looks good it looks great however um the theater

or the company that did the visual effects for

it was a canadian company and they're all unemployed

now it's how a lot of these effects houses work

unless they're owned by a studio they basically

get built up to do three or four projects in

a row and then when the money runs out they're

gone so yeah now they do this it's you know what

it's similar to It's similar to some of the construction

industry on the East Coast. You know, certain

times of the year, they shut down and then everybody

collects unemployment. So everybody here will

be collecting money. And then out of the blue,

somebody else should come along, say we need

an effects studio. And then the same people that

created that studio will then incorporate a new

company so they can get more Canadian tax credits,

hire everybody back, and they work for another

year or two. So it's not as bad as the media

makes it out to be. It's just sort of how the

industry ebbs and flows. I hope these people

find work because it looks fantastic. Yes. No,

do you question? Do you wonder was that a ploy?

Do you think they actually did have to change

anything or had they made it and made this all

some big elaborate marketing? Somebody screwed

up somewhere. They had faith in this and they

didn't want to listen to somebody lower down

saying, guys, this isn't cool. But Somebody in

marketing said, let's just go with it. So it's

not not my conspiracy bug clicking. It's it's

actually legit. They had to. Yeah, something.

Yeah, like the new design looks great. Are you

going to see it, Steve? Oh, yeah, totally. I

I am a huge Sonic fan. Are you your boys? Probably

not. I mean, I'm more of a one. The kids don't

sit still into fair enough. I just like. Yeah,

I just I I don't when I see a movie I like to

appreciate Sonic yet. Anyway No, well and and

I yeah, I grew up on Sonic like on the Sega Genesis

and everything so and playing the crap out of

it and so Having a scene at redesign now. I'm

fully, you know backing it and I like the fact

that Jim Carrey is playing Robotnik even though

like it's a little bit more Joke -ish with it

with his character but I enjoy what he's bringing

to the table for it because it kind of reminds

me of the USA Cartoon Express version of the

adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. No matter how

yeah, the one that I used to hate as a kid Yeah,

the one I hated as a kid to everybody come on

the TV. You're like, oh great Sonic's on. Oh,

it's the bad Sonic Yeah, I liked the the one

that was more like hardcore hardcore. Yeah You

know what it was it wasn't so much robotnik and

it wasn't even Sonic that I didn't like in it

I it was the voice acting on the chicken that

was so grating on me Um, that I could scratch

and sniff. Yeah. It was, it was, it was, it was

too much with like, you know, making the hair

in the back of my neck stand up, which is, I

guess, kudos to them, but it was annoying to

the point where I didn't want to watch. Now the,

no matter how bad Sonic is, you know, Jim Carey

had fun because you can, you can tell when he

phones it in nowadays. Oh yeah. This is not,

this was him gleefully having fun. Oh yeah. He,

you can tell he enjoys it. So that'll definitely

be a while. That's one of the four, sure, order

my tickets early movie. Now, the next one was

earlier before we were on air, Mike goes, wait,

that's a thing? I forgot. The bloodshot movie.

So the first in the Valiant comics. Well, Valiant

comics has invested a ton of money. So has Sony.

I think Sony put in like $100 or $200 million

into developing some of the properties. They

wanted to have their own comics universe if they

couldn't have anything but just Spider -Man,

right? So the Valiant, for those who don't know,

was the biggest independent comic company ever,

I'm going to say, in the 90s. I don't think so.

I think they were below Image and Top Cal, but

they were definitely in the top five. Like in

the early 90s, before they were bought out by

Acclaim, they had like each one of their comics

were getting multiple million like circulation.

They were... They were really big, from like

90 to like 95. And then they just fell apart

due to mismanagement, as a lot of comic companies

do. But they're probably most famous for Bloodshot,

Harbinger... Exo -Mano War. Exo -Mano War, which

had crossovers with video games. Actually had

crossovers with Iron Man, I think. Yep. Was it

on the Saturn or something? Saturn and the 32X

or something. So they were known for being geared

towards more adult readers or late teens to college

age readers, where in the 90s, comics were still

mostly geared towards younger teens or kids.

So they were sort of like... They were like...

the imprint comics of all of the like DC would

do later on. But before that was a thing, you

know, like they would do, they would do themes

that were more bloody, more adult themed or more

political. So cool. So they want to start their

own franchises or bring up their movie series.

They've got like three or four in the works and

Bloodshot's the first one and it's starring Vin

Diesel because he's a comic book and D &D nut.

So it looks pretty cool. um the special effects

look pretty darn good for certain scenes and

certain scenes i'm like eee from the trailer

i'm probably still going to see it because i

i'm one of the people that actually owns the

bloodshot uh when when valiant came back about

what nearly 10 years ago now uh i own a few of

the first volumes so i want to see how close

they they actually make it to the actual source

material um because right now he doesn't look

anything like bloodshot does in the comics where

he's all white Like he looks like he looks like

he's supposed to look like mr. Sinister and he

right now he looks like I'm gonna steal a car,

bro I'm fully expecting that the last scene in

the movie is where he's gonna look like he's

supposed to look in which case It's horseshit

for him to go through the movie 90 % without

the costume. Yeah, that's lame. Yeah, exactly

So we'll see where this goes, but I'm still gonna

I am tepid, but I'm gonna check it out March

brings us A couple of these I don't care about.

Onward, I don't know what that is. I think it's

a Pixar or DreamWorks animation. I don't know.

But one I do care about is A Quiet Place, part

two. The first Quiet Place was amazing. I didn't

expect it to be as good as it was. And if you

have a really good surround sound system, this

movie is beautiful. I haven't I haven't seen

it yet, but I'm going to But onward is the new

Pixar movie and it's weekend at Bernie's but

with fantasy characters so it takes place in

an alternate world where Magical fairies and

everything existed picture. Oh, dude. It's basically

like Shadowrun a little bit like what if fairy

tales like medieval time fairy tales with like

technology yeah like what if Lord of the Rings

was set in the modern day okay but magic is no

longer existing and everybody like you they happen

to be descendants of trolls and elves and fairies

but magic hasn't existed in hundreds and hundreds

of years and then these two boys find out their

dad was a wizard they have a or secretly wizard

they have a wizard staff and they find out that

he left them a spell that can bring him back

from the dead for one day just to spend time

with them before he has to go away. They go to

cast the spell in the trailer, he gets halfway

revived all the way up to his torso, and then

they fall and the spell breaks, and their dad

is revived just to his torso, and they have to

run around the country with their dad in a pickup

truck, or sorry, in a shagon wagon or a van.

It looks like one of those 80s vans with a unicorn

painted on the side. as they try to find somebody

else who can help them cast the rest of the spell

to bring their dad back so they can say hi before

he disappears forever. But what they're doing

is they weaken the Bernies the whole thing by

making him a makeshift body with and put fake

sunglasses on it and everything and they're taking

him around. So it looks kind of funny and it'll

probably be worth it. It is odd for a Pixar movie

to come out in March though. So especially with

Mulan coming out the same month, which is the

only live action Disney movie I actually want

to see. Mulan looks really cool. Because it's

the only one that makes sense to be live action.

Oh, I could make an argument for Cinderella,

I think. But it's been done too many times. This

is a story that, like, you know what I mean?

Like, there's other Cinderella stories. There's

other Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale stories.

There's other Grimm's fairy tale stories. This

was a very unique in that it was like a Far East

Asia story. So it hasn't been done at least by

a Western audience before. The closest thing

we can maybe get to something like that would

have been what the Jet Li movies like Hero and

Fearless back in the day that tried to bring

that to the West. But this is trying to bring

that to the West on a large scale, which looks

cool. Same with Quiet Place looks neat. I don't

know if there's any of these that interest you,

Steve, though. He likes shiny things. No, I don't

like shiny things. OK. So moving on to April,

this one, the movie that just won't die, New

Mutants. Haven't they moved it like three times?

Four times. At least. At least. This movie and

it's supposed to be part of the Marvel Cinematic

Universe. What's the point? It's been pushed

for two years. It's been finished and re -edited

like three times over the course of two years.

With multiple reshoots. To the point where What's

her name from Game of Thrones that was in it?

She's aged out of the character and they've had

to shoot around that. Like some of these characters

when they started filming five years ago were

teenagers and now they no longer are teenagers.

That's bad. So will I see it? Oh, you betcha.

Because it's not going to stay in theaters long.

I suffered through Dark Phoenix and IMAX, and

I got a cool keychain out of it. So I better

get a damn keychain out of this one, too. The

other movie so far that's been announced for

April, there's got to be more than that. But

well, maybe not with a few things coming out

in March, but it's the next James Bond, No Time

to Die, which will be that's an instant go to

for me and my family. Um, I'll see it. Maybe

I don't know. Blair doesn't like the James Bond

movies, which is really weird. Um, I find, um,

but I, I like Daniel Craig, so sure. It's his

last bond movie. So, all right, why not? Moving

on to May, we get black widow. I am there opening

night for that because I've been waiting for

this movie for years. As much as I have a distaste

for her as an actress, I will see it. Mostly

is it supposed to take place during the time

span of between the after Civil War? No, I thought

it takes parts of it take more parts of it take

place in different time periods like I thought

it take place in the 90s and parts of it take

place after Civil War see I thought it was partially

after Infinity War But I guess not I Could be

wrong, but I'm pretty sure because maybe you're

right because there's too many people in it But

I will see it because of David Harbour. That

guy, he's fantastic and he looks great as whatever

Russian superhero he's going to be playing. He

plays Red Guardian, who's basically Russian Captain

America. Took the same super soldier serum, but

not as good. I just love that the suit still

fits. It looks great, actually. This movie I

had no idea. In fact, I wonder if this is a mistake

At this point the Barbie movies coming out. I've

heard nothing about this. I Wonder if it's a

mistake too. Yeah, there's just something about

that that seems off to me and Leely blonde 3

also seems to be a mistake I know it was in production

at some point But there's no way we it's an animated

Okay, um why? I think. Why? Because does the

world need more Elwood? I ask you this question.

The Barbie movie, it is starring Margot Robbie,

which I... But it's animated. Well, the Barbie

movie apparently is going to be live action.

Oh, maybe it is. It says it has a 2020 release

and it was slated for a spring summer. I predict

it's going to get buried in the fall sometime.

Yeah. because you put movies in May you believe

in. That's your money -making month. Well, if

you look at what comes up right before it, like

you got James Bond coming out the beginning of

April, which at the beginning of May will still

be in theaters. You got Black Widow May 1st.

And then you've got like, I don't think Legally

Blonde is coming out. Same thing. Because you

got Fast and Furious at the end of the month.

I guess you could throw it in the middle there,

but there's gonna be something else, probably

a mid -range budget action movie that'll get

released somewhere in between there, and it will

just tank. Who is the market for Barbie? Barbie

as a toy has been selling less than it's ever

sold. Girls, a lot of times, are just getting

regular action figures. That whole overly...

feminine toy line isn't like they've talked about

it. Mattel said it doesn't sell like it used

to. So I don't know even know why they're making

that movie. Is it for like people my mom's age

to watch? I don't know. Like I said, it's weird

because it's come at a weird cultural time when

gender roles are shifting right now. So like

I would I don't know. I would watch I would watch

Barbie the hardcore porno starring Margot Robbie

any day. Any day any day of the week. Yeah. Oh

Barbie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would totally want

don't tell me you wouldn't even in secret I would

a hundred percent. I'd be like murder Robbie.

Well, she's starting it. Oh, it's a Barbie movie.

Oh, well It's apparently a hardcore porno and

she gets stuffed on all ends and be like what?

Okay, now you have my attention and we're gonna

go see this in a plex sure, okay Wait, what I'd

be standing there in line waiting to go in first

night with everybody looking back and forth It

would be me and like 40 other dudes and I'd be

like, can you fucking believe this? Are we really

gonna be seeing this porno? Yeah, and I'd be

sitting down in VIP They'd come up and they'd

be like, can I get you a beer and I'd be like,

yeah and get me a jerk towel Wow the only way

you get me to see Barbie Let's move on. I say

that and I guarantee we're probably going to

get like a press copy to watch or something.

But yeah, Fast and the Furious 9. Send it to

the guys at This Weekendy. Yes. Moving along.

Fast and the Furious 9. Probably not a porno.

And I will see that one later because I love

how ridiculous this is. Mike will see it. Blanchard.

Actually, oh, I haven't seen a Fast and the Furious

movie since like the fifth one. It comes out

on May 22nd. My dad's birthday is May 19th. I

don't know how many he's seen, but I will make

him watch all the others so I can take him to

see it as an excuse for his birthday. Can you

believe that franchise has been around for like

20 years now? Well, after the first two and third,

I couldn't believe it. But then I never saw the

fourth, but my brother told me it revitalized

the series. And then I saw a bit of the fifth.

And then my brother forced me to go see six,

seven, and eight together. And we loved every

second of it. Ever since the rock came on board,

it's been a completely different movie series.

Um, so moving on into July or sorry, June, rather

wonder woman to 84, that's going to make a billion

dollars. I am already so hooked. It's not just

the nostalgia factor. It is a, they've captured

the look, sound and feel the eighties, even with

Pedro Pascal's, uh, like infomercial dialogue.

His, his dialogue that, you know, just the way

he's delivering the lines is 100 % how every

commercial sounded them. Yeah. It's going to

be cool. And I like the fact that wonder woman

takes a DC character and really gives it it's

due. Like it's going to be cool. And the fact

that she's using the lasso of truth, the swing

on lightning, that's frigging amazing. Um, the

candy man remake was, I think Jordan peel. Right?

Yeah, I think pretty sure. That's going to be

awesome. Like, I'm just looking forward to that

one because horror remakes, I find in the last

couple of years, they've been really, really

good. So I got high hopes for that one. I don't

know what soul is, though. That's a Pixar sequel,

sort of by the same division, the same writing

team that did Inside Out. Coco? Okay. So instead

of being, uh, instead of being exploring your

emotions internally in your head, it's exploring

the afterlife or something like that. Oh, that's

fascinating. Maybe I will see that the big one

or another big one that comes out this month

or that month is a Top Gun Maverick, which is

long, but in development at multiple stages,

but it's finally happening and it's pretty cool.

I'm pretty cool. I mentioned, you know, I'm gonna

admit something. I have never seen Top Gun from

beginning to finish I have only seen bits and

pieces on TV and the really super the super gay

volleyball scene that I laugh at every time and

It appears from the trailer for this they have

a super gay ball another one So I'm okay with

that. Of course, and if you haven't if you don't

know what I'm talking about Watch the super gay

volleyball scene on YouTube and then watch the

future man TV show mocking it where they basically

They do a shot -for -shot remake of it and then

but then make it even more over home or erotic,

which is even more funny I Think it looks fantastic.

Now that one it looks to have had a ton of input

from the United States Air Force Like it looks

like they strapped IMAX cameras to the actual

jets Which does not surprise me if they did that

because I've never seen anything look that that

hyper realistic. Well, one of the things that

Tom Cruise kind of prides himself on is doing

his own shit. When he does the mission impossible,

that's him actually flying the helicopter. Like

he took like weeks training courses. So Tom Cruise

is probably logging legit flight time with these

aircraft with someone probably flying with them.

But still he's in charge of multi million dollar

airplanes. So this is going to be cool. I'm looking

forward to it. I hope it doesn't suck. And we'll

see moving on to July. It looks like a big month

for me. Minions like five or something. Is that

what that is? Or this would be for there was

Despicable Me 123 Minions. So yeah, this is like

five. This is the rise of grew. That should be

funny. I like the Minions movies. So why not?

Ghostbusters afterlife which has the potential

to be really amazing directed by Jason Jason

Reitman son of Ivan Reitman Um, it has like a

stranger things kind of vibe. Some people are

complaining. It doesn't look funny But go back

and watch the original Ghostbusters. It had humorous

moments, but it was a supernatural adventure

comedy so The biggest complaint I have is they're

doing a little too much with the you know, look

at this epic wondrous film trailer, like the

way they build it up. It should have been a more

quirky trailer, but that's not on Reitman. That's

on whoever cut the trailer. So the tone of the

trailer is a little too like building it up to

be like, oh my God, this huge epic is coming

back. That's not necessarily how I would have

cut that trailer. I did see when I saw Jumanji

3 in theaters, I took my mom to see it. uh, that

trailer played for at the beginning. I said,

what do you think of that? You want to go see

it? She's like, I don't know. I'm like, she goes,

is anybody coming back? And I said, yeah. She

goes, oh, maybe then they haven't done a good

job of explaining who's coming back. Yeah. I

don't think we will see that likely either Superbowl

or in May, because like she's, my mom is like

the, the classic casual viewer. She likes the

movie, the original, but she's not somebody who

goes to movies for every little thing. So for

her, it has to make sense. She looked at it.

She goes, She said, is it going to be as bad

as that one with the women? And my mom, my mom,

I was like, what? She goes, yeah, it was on TV

a few weeks ago and I really didn't like it.

And I was like, Oh man, if my mom didn't like

the one with the women and she, and she was the

amount of disdain in her voice for the one with

the women. I'm like, Oh man. So it wasn't just

me. I wasn't being women Haiti. It just wasn't

a good movie. So I think this is going to have

to do a lot to wash that taste out of your mouth.

And I hope it does. But I will be seeing it probably

first week. Yeah, I'm seeing that opening night

for sure. The next one is a movie I've never

heard of called Tenant. Tenant. Never heard of

it. It is. They showed when I saw it's a weird

spy movie, isn't it? Weird time travel. It's

a movie by Nolan, Christopher Nolan. It has the

most intense scene I've ever seen in a movie.

There was an eight -minute preview when I saw

Ryza Skywalker and IMAX, where they showed how

the entire opening sequence was done with IMAX

70mm cameras. It shows him and another guy secretly

pretending to be part of a SWAT team. They sort

of move in with the SWAT team to... under appearances

to stop an assassination attempt at an opera

in Russia. But in fact, what's revealed is that

that SWAT team was actually there to kill the

people. But their job is to basically subvert

the SWAT team. So they're secretly infiltrating

an assassination guild to actually thwart them.

And while they're doing it, the one guy almost

dies, the main character there that you see in

the tenet picture. And he, this guy goes to shoot

a bullet at him and he sees the bullet fire and

then it disappears. He's like, what the hell?

And he actually sees time reverse and things

shift around him. Like things start moving in

weird ways. And he's, he goes like, what the

fuck? And then he realizes that like, it sort

of reveals that he's, he's being pulled into

a government agency. That's trying to stop world

war three, but we're worth three. Isn't what

you say. They say we're worth three. Isn't what

you think it's going to be. And then it shows

like, uh, a car, they're driving on the road

and a car flips over in front of them. But then

instead of crashing into them, the car fixes

itself and rolls itself back into the highway.

And it ends with him looking like, what the hell

is going on? And then that's how the trailer

ends. OK, that sounds more interesting because

I did see something for this in front of Rise

of Skywalker. But I was like, what the hell is

this? Yeah, the IMAX one had a full eight minute

uninterrupted scene. So yeah, we had like. 40

seconds or something. Yeah. So this think the

weird physics that happened in inception, but

quantum break, right? Yeah. That's sort of dealy.

I think it looks pretty cool. Uh, jungle cruise

is coming out at the end of the month, which

I don't know what that is or much based on the

land ride, uh, starring Emily blunt and, uh,

the rock. Yeah, it's, it's based off the ride.

So it's the rock. It's gonna be fun. I'll see

it'll be fun Norbius is not making this there

is no way. What is more obvious is Morbius is

a spider -man ally. He's known as the living

vampire and it's played by Jared Leto Yeah, that

guy so somehow No, it is the fact that we haven't

even we've seen one teaser shot, maybe two from

the set, but you don't see him in full makeup.

You don't see him in costume. No, this is not

making July 31st. It'll get pushed because just

no. And the idea of putting I like the fact that

Sony is creating a Spider -Man shared universe,

but maybe leave it to the Marvel people because

the villain gallery is strong, his ally gallery,

gallery, not so much unless you have the rest

of the Marvel heroes. So we're going to be craving

the hunter of the movie. There was talk of that

for a while, and that would be cool. Who would

you get? Would you get like a Russian dude to

plan? I don't know. Jason Momoa wouldn't be a

terrible craven, but he's too tied in to but

he but he's aquaman so like i'm trying to think

like you could probably they would probably go

with some big wrestler dude or something like

yeah that's what i would do like if his english

was better wouldn't the mountain from game of

thrones be good for him i think he's a little

too big now if you turn the mountain from game

of thrones into the rhino that would be awesome

Give him the big suit. Oh, yeah, how about if

he could act Rhino the actual wrestler? You'd

have to find somebody that could fit that but

I think it would work and then for August They

only have one thing listed because you know,

there's gonna be more listed in August coming

They just haven't announced them yet, but it's

Bill and Ted and I am seeing that day F and one.

Yep I think we'll see a trailer by you might

get a teaser at Super Bowl, but you'll probably

see a full trailer by May. So that one will likely

make releases. We're starting to see some promo

stuff come out of it now. So stay tuned for that

one. I think that one will be pretty cool. I'm

really looking forward to Bill and Ted, but that's

more so because I liked the original two and

it's a lot of fun. It's got 30 years of expectation

on it. Yeah, there'll be some sort of tribute

in there, too, to Carlin. Oh, God, yeah, for

sure. They'll mention Rufus or something. Oh,

yeah, totally. In September, a little less strong,

but the Monster Hunter movie. Yeah, after one

thing to consider, too, before we get into this

is when we're entering the second half of the

year, very few things are concrete and stone.

Yeah. Yeah. Like most of these movies, looking

at them now, I can tell you are not happening.

there's a monster monster hunter it's based upon

the game but only if a military unit gets transported

to the monster hunter world it looks so stupid

um starring residual veteran mila jovovich i

think um and that's because why not i guess let

me guess her husband is probably directing it

I actually think so. So Paul W .S. Anderson.

The bad Anderson. Go get him. Yeah. Not the Wes

Anderson, the artistic guy, and not the Paul

Thomas Anderson, the really good director. This

is the crappy Anderson. This is the great value

Anderson. The next one I don't know anything

about. The Kingsman. It's the it's the prequel

to the Kingsman 1 and 2. It takes place in the

1920s or so after World War 1, I believe. will

be fun. You should if you haven't seen the first

two. Have you seen the first one at all, Michael?

No, it's on my list to watch. He becomes a trainee.

I read the comics, so it's a little different

from the comics. Basically, he's a trainee to

become a James Bond type character. That's what

I figured. When it comes time at the end to do

the big saving thing, his entire motivation is

uh the print the princess is locked up she tells

him if he saves her he can fuck her in the ass

that's and i'm not kidding she says if you save

the world we can do it in the ass And he goes,

I'll be right back. And then he goes to save

the world. And then the movie ends. The first

movie is funny because it's got Sam Jackson in

it. Yes. But that movie ends with him, them looking

through a camera in his glasses as he's turning

the girl over and pulling her pants down. And

then they turn off the camera. I'm like, holy

shit. It's literally like vulgar James Bond is

what the movie is. And yes. Samuel Jackson plays

a Bond villain in it who is obsessed with McDonald's.

Yeah, he's obsessed with being a billionaire

and having everything super clean. But his favorite

food in the world are Big Macs. So so weird.

All right. I mean, he's got a list. He's got

a list and he's like, oh, you know, dinner of

kings. And it's all it sounds to. Yeah. And they

have Mark Hamill in it for like a little bit.

And the second movie is about them saving Elton

John. Well, and then they're bringing back Colin

Firth from the first movie. Yes. And so this

third one is a prequel to set up the whole universe

of The Gentleman and how that secret society

started. Yeah. The second one also has introduced

the American Division, which is basically Cowboys.

Yeah. What's his name? The one that was going

to play Gambit. Shannon Tatum? Yeah, he's in

it as one of the Cowboys, and then they've got

the one that plays Clue and Tron Legacy. Oh,

yeah. The Dude? The Dude. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Jeff Bridges. Yeah, I couldn't remember

his name. So in England, they're the Kingsmen,

in the States, they're the Statesmen. That's

the... Okay. and they they their secret identities

are cowboys yeah they're cowboys basically it's

hilarious it's what if men in black was was about

super spies okay um so there were it's better

yeah than men in black it is honestly it's worth

watching um put that on your list of things if

you just want to have a feel -good day is watch

those movies they're hilarious and they are they

are really r -rated Like really are like I was

not joking or exaggerating Michael when I said

my the plot of the first movie Well, they also

had chips where they oh They have yeah, they

want everybody connected to the internet. Yeah,

there's there's a bunch of there's a bunch of

hilarious gore I'll say that And cannibals in

the second lady with the what is it the lady

or the dude that has razor blade legs? Yeah,

the lady. Yeah. Yeah. So the next movie says

September 25th is the many saints of Newark.

I have no idea what that is, but don't care.

Don't care. Uh, and then last night in Soho,

don't care until I see a trailer, uh, for October.

And again, these are, they're going to be a lot

more announced, but you know, October death in

the Nile. I don't know what that is, except that

it looks to be a poor old movie. It looks like

a sequel to murder on the orient that came out

last year before, which I heard good things about

cause Kenneth Branagh. Sure. If he wants to be

the new paro. Sure. Halloween kills. I haven't

seen the last Halloween though. Oh, it was really

good. I was genuinely surprised by it. And it

basically wipes all of Halloween continuity except

the first one. So, uh, okay. So yeah, it'll be

cool. Um, then the snake eyes movie, which is

the G. I. Not gonna happen. Well, they weren't.

Well, not to mention this, this might be a little

outdated. Even though this is a newer infographic.

Um, The talk was that it's no longer a Snake

Eyes movie, that it is a full -on G .I. Joe.

If that's gonna happen, The Rock has to be in

it. Or Channing Tatum. One of the two. So I would

assume that that gets pushed till next spring.

Well, Channing Tatum's character is dead. Well,

they'll reboot it. Yeah, it'll be a new continuity

because it could be anybody in the Snake Eyes

suit as long as they're a good martial artist.

If they want it to make any money, it has to

have The Rock though. Like, he's the only thing

that anchored the last film. Well, I like how

they had Joe Coles and B. Bruce Willis. Yeah.

Like, their original G .I. Joe. I don't know

what The Witch is about, so your guess is as

good as mine. It's a high, high budget remake

of the Roald Dahl movie from the early 90s that

had Angelica Huston play the main witch. Do you

remember that movie? Oh, that'll be cool. I do.

Yeah, where she ends up turning into, like, rap

people. Yeah, that was scary as hell. But it

looks to be the main witch is no longer Angelica

Houston. It's Anne Hathaway. Which could be astonishing

because I find her very attractive and I'll be

disturbed if I still find her attractive after

all the makeup gets put on to turn her into an

evil rat witch. But that should be interesting

because it's been a while since we've had a Roald

Dahl adaptation that was good because I'm not

going to count the weird Charlie and the Chocolate

Factory movie. That's all they have for October.

So you know, there's going to be more horror

films coming out. Oh, yeah. Although Halloween

will probably be the number one movie like that

month. I think Saw is supposed to come out this

year. Maybe it is. Doesn't that mean made by

like Chris Rock or somebody? I think so. Something

like that. Yeah. Why not? Complete reboot. There's

actually a lot of Blumhouse pictures and a lot

of stuff produced by Jordan Peele that haven't

shown up on these lists because they don't have

definitive dates. The one movie I'm going to

say early in the year that we wasn't on this

list that I think will make a lot of people's

list is the remake of Fantasy Island, which is

being remade as a pure horror film by Jordan

Peele. That'll probably be cool. Now we hit November,

so we have the Eternals. That has a hard date.

I know that. That's for sure coming out. This

is a Marvel movie that I don't know how it's

gonna do, because the Eternals, if they're a

very interesting race of characters in the Marvel

Universe, they're basically gods, more or less.

This isn't the terrible... Oh no, I'm thinking

of that terrible one that was cancelled after

like one episode aired, that TV show. Yeah, you're

thinking of the Inhumans. The Eternals... This

is the one with the Keanu Reeves, right? No.

You're thinking of something else. There was

talk of him being in it. No, there was talk.

Oh, no, it's Angelina Jolie's in it. Yes. So

what they're going to do with this one, it'll

be interesting to see how this ties into Marvel

phase four. But then again, I didn't expect Guardians

of the Galaxy to work. So I have to trust the

House of Marvel, the House of Ideas, to see what

happens here. But we'll see. I guess looking

at the casting, Angelina Jolie as Thena, Richard

Madden as a Karras, Kumail Nanjiani, who you

would know from Stuber, I guess, as Kingo. Well,

he's also Kumail Nanjiani. John Snow plays the

Black Knight. Oh, is that? Oh, I'm looking at

the other names on here. Salma Hayek's in it

as a Jacques. And that's it. I don't recognize

any other names. Yeah. All I know is Jon Snow.

You know, don't be surprised if we get a Keanu

Reeves reveal or some cameo or something, because

he's popping up and everything good right now.

So they could use some of that juju. Uh, I don't

know. Like I have, this is, that's a series I

have no knowledge of. So I'm going to go in blind.

I don't want to read anything about it. I know

very little because I read some comics in the

90s with the Eternals because they tied into

the Infinity Gauntlet somehow. But we'll see

what happens. Like I said, this is all going

to tie in the Marvel phase four, who I'm still

predicting the big bad to be Annihilus or Galactus

or Kang the Conqueror. So we'll see. Next is

something called Stillwater, which looks like

Jason Bourne, I guess. I don't know. No idea.

Although another movie, I think this movie got

pushed again, is Godzilla versus Kong, because

I've heard nothing about it. I know it's supposed

to happen, but I haven't heard anything about

it being production or being shot or nothing.

So I have a feeling this particular month is

really out of date. And a lot of these are subject

to moving. Another one is called Red Notice.

I think I've seen something on this, but I'm

not 100 % sure. I'm looking it up right now because

it's bugging me. Raya and the Last Dragon. Looks

cool. Don't know anything about it, but it looks

neat. Red Notice, I just looked it up. IMDB has

it listed as 2021. Yeah. I think some of these,

even though like... they're tentative dates,

right? Like they're like, Oh, Q4 2020, maybe

January sort of thing. Yeah. Because this still

has uncharted and uncharted just lost its director

like yesterday. Yeah. So it's, it's one of those

things where things are really going to be iffy

over the next few months, but like Godzilla versus

Kong might still come out. If they've already

been working on the CG for a while because it's

the Kong team working on it and as soon as they

wrap production on Godzilla King of the Monsters

that team went to work on it as well. So it already

had half the team in pre -production so I think

Dune is supposed to come out in November and

I think that will likely make its date. Yeah,

probably I know they're shooting it now Yeah,

true. King Richard, Will Smith movie. Will Smith

movies. It's really hard to tell. It's going

to depend on how well Bad Boys does because he's

had a really shoddy track record in theaters

in the last, what, 10 years? Yeah. Well, last

decade is not so kind that I wouldn't be surprised

if it just gets pulled all together. Escape room

two. I don't even know. Didn't know there was

an escape room one. Dune, yeah, you said it makes

sense. Coming to America, that is coming out

for sure. They've already... I'm looking forward

to that, having seen the first one. Secret Shame?

I don't think I've ever seen it. It's really

funny. It is funny. See, I used to get Coming

to America and Golden Child mixed up because

I used to see clips of both. Uncharted doesn't

even have a script yet, so no. Tom and Jerry

probably. because it's it's Warner animation

and they would have already had that set pretty

stone. Who's the voice cast though? Shouldn't

be any voice cast. If they're doing it right.

Tom talks though. Tom talks and so does Jerry.

They're not supposed to. I know. I know, but

any see one of the things about Hollywood is

if you have an animated movie, you just put famous

people in it. It doesn't matter whether they

can voice act or not. You know, they're not going

to do it like it would be smart if they didn't

use them to talk and everybody else just talked

around them. Yeah, but we're not that clever.

So it has a December 23rd release. Yeah, they're

they're going all in with this as a Christmas

release. It says Chloe Grace Moratz is playing

Kayla. Michael Payne is in it as a guy named

Terrence. Ken Zhang is in it. Rob Delaney. Nobody's

listed as voicing Tom and Jerry. I'll be surprised

if it makes its release. Here's the thing. It

was originally set for April 16th, 2021. It was

finished early and pushed up. to a December release.

Interesting. Okay. So I guess we'll wait and

see. The director is Tim story. So he did fantastic

for one and two, uh, as well as right along,

think like a man, think like a man to ride along

to, but he did shaft and this year's shaft. I

really liked. So Maybe it'll be okay. Hard to

say. But those are all the ones that were listed

as having, I guess, having dates at the point

that this was printed. So there's definitely

going to be pictures that we all want to see

that aren't listed there. But as far as those

being the bigger titles that have dates or had

dates, you're shaping up to be pretty good, I

don't think. Comparatively, do you think this

year's 2019 was better than the upcoming year

for movies? I think so. I think it might be an

off year in most cases, because I don't think

there's going to be anything that will match

end game. It's just not going to happen. Yeah.

Not just that, there were a lot of just decent

and good things that came out in the last 12

months. I'm almost thinking that the 2020 is

going to be a TV year. And then 2021 will be

a movie year. Yeah, because 2021 will have the

next Spider -Man movie and that'll be another

billion dollar movie for sure. I think even because

with video games, everything's winding down with

the exception of Nintendo this year for the current

gen. I feel like 2020 is going to be basically

a year for Nintendo for gaming, a huge year for

streaming and television. and a so -so to okay

year for movies. And then 2021, we're going to

have to have our wallets ready because it's going

to be really, really busy when it comes to theatrical

stuff. Plus, those of us that do want to upgrade

to a new generation of consoles, as soon as the

pre -orders come out, put down your $5 and keep

putting 20 bucks a month down so that you don't

get hit with a huge bill when it comes out. That's

what I'm either gonna go to EB games and trade

some stuff in or I might do the old Get a preorder

on Amazon and then every month buy like a $50

gift card and add it to the the order Because

I do not like I have a feeling that both systems

are gonna be like hey and we're 599 Canadian

or 499 American I'd be like well buck that's

$1 ,100 after taxes So Uh, I fully predict that

2021 is going to be a lean year as far as our

pocketbooks go. Yeah. It's going to be an expensive

here. It probably will. So I think that about

wraps this conversation up. I think so. So if

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