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71 of the Cinema Geeks, we discuss the recent

trend of adapting movies to the small screen.

Talk about the one movie in existence that will

apparently never have a remake. We react to the

latest live -action film coming from, you guessed

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Episode 71 with The Cinema Geek. That's right,

it's Episode 71, and we are The Cinema Geeks.

I am one of them, Optimus Solo, and joining me,

as always, is Hard Candy Mandy. Hello. What's

up? Not much. And Movie Revolt Dan. Hi, Dan.

Hey, how's it going? Not too badly. How's your

week going? It's going well. It's been busy.

But yeah, it's kind of exciting because it seems

like we're in the midst of the fall season and

there's good movies in the theaters again when

it felt like that would never happen ever. Yeah,

the theater slumber is over and now they're just

mocking us by seeing how many films they can

put out at a quick rate to make it impossible

for us to see them all. So it's always fun to

try to coordinate times to see films at this

time of year, and it doesn't get any easier as

we move forward, kind of going all the way up

until Christmas Day when it's just like, here's

six movies. You know, no one ever wanted to release

something in September because that entire month.

No. All right. But, yeah, we're definitely getting

into a fun movie season, and we have definitely

seen a whole bunch of movies recently, and we'll

get into some of those a little bit later. First,

we have to deal with the box office. We had a

week off. Well, we let people vote on both the

next director retrospective after we close out

the Tarantino spotlight. We also were allowing

people to vote on our casting choices for our

fantasy filmmaker, and we're going to get to

the results of that at the end of the show today.

So we didn't have a chance to react to the box

office a week ago, but we do have to go over

the results from there before we get our new

prediction. So two weeks ago, we all tried to

do the same thing. We all tried to predict the

top three at the box office. Dan, you had Maze

Runner at number one, Everest at number two,

and Black Mass at number three. Amanda and I

both had Black Mass at number one, but she had

Sicario at number two and Maze Runner at number

three. And I had Maze Runner at number two and

Everest at number three. So we took three stabs

at it, and none of us were right. No, no. Dan,

you at least got the number one right with Maze

Runner. We had Black Mass at number one. You

had Black Mass at number three. That actually

ended up coming in at number two. And surprisingly,

number three was not Everest. Sicario ended up

only being released in a very limited amount

of theaters. And number three actually ended

up being The Visit. So what did you think about

those results, Dan? Well, I guess I should have

done more research because I did not realize

that. Everest was only being released very limitedly

in, like, IMAX 3D that weekend. So it kind of

made it hard to win. So that was somewhat surprising.

So I didn't realize that was going on. And then

The Visit doing better than I thought, maybe

because it had a little bit more positive buzz

than we've seen for a Shyamalan movie. For sure.

Though it's kind of sad when debuting number

three is a surprise. I mean, it's like, wow,

that did better than I expected. It kind of shows

you how low expectations were to begin with.

Right. That's for sure. So, rounding up the top

five from two weeks ago, we had The Perfect Guy

actually coming in at number four, and then Everest

coming in at number five, with the other new

one, Captive, that week coming in at number...

And like I said, Sicario only ended up being

released in six theaters that week, so that wasn't

really a factor at that point. Looking at just

this past weekend results, a week ago from when

you're hearing this, we had a couple of new ones.

We had The Green Inferno, The Intern, and Hotel

Transylvania 2 all coming out. And the top five...

with not even a question, was Hotel Transylvania

at number one, almost bringing in $50 million

in its opening weekend. I think it set some type

of September box office record, if I remember

seeing the article right. The Intern came in

at number two. Maze Runner dropped from the first

spot down to the third spot. Everest came in

at number four as it was released a little bit

more widely, and Black Mass rounded off the top

five with The Visit just on the outsides looking

in. Anything surprising from a week ago's box

office, Dan? Nothing really comes to my mind,

really. Again, it's kind of a weird time of year

where the release schedule of things, it's hard

to kind of predict because of just the amount

of theater things are in. Yeah, for sure. Amanda,

are you surprised at how well Hotel Transylvania

2 did? A little bit, yeah. I didn't realize it

had the following that it did, I guess. Yeah,

definitely. And it also could be a product of,

like we said, it's coming out in September. Not

a lot of competition. It's been a while since,

you know, Minions and Inside Out are about the

only two that might still be playing in some

theaters here and there, but probably very limited.

So it doesn't have a lot of competition. It's

also the right season for it. So I think it was

kind of like a perfect storm for that. Not much,

obviously, is changing as far as the year goes

since we're, you know, finishing up the month

of September, getting into October. So not a

lot has been moving and shaking. For that, I

will say, though, that Mission Impossible Rogue

Nation has quietly been sneaking up on the 200

million mark. I believe at this point it's in

the 190 to 195 range. So it has an outside shot

of kind of doing what Cinderella did. If it stays

in the theater long enough, it might be able

to get there. But it is going to start having

a lot more competition. So we'll have to wait

and see. But it's trying to be the seventh film

to reach the 200 million mark this year. Getting

into this next week, so we can make some new

predictions. We have a couple big ones coming

out, obviously, and that would be The Martian,

The Walk. We have Free Hell, but that's not going

to be really a wide release quite yet. And we

should have Sicario going a little more wide

as well this weekend. So Sicario, The Martian,

and The Walk probably all being the big players

being added into the mix. Dan, where are you

going for your prediction this week? Well, it

seems kind of ironic that with The Martian coming

out this weekend, and if you go back maybe two

years ago or so, when Weekend at the Memorial

Weekly was kind of debuting, like Gravity was

one of our first episodes, and that set the mark

for like $55 million. It was like the biggest

October opening ever. So I'm thinking The Martian

will. not beat Gravity's $55 million, but I do

think it'll get close. I'm going to predict that

The Martian is easily number one, but I'm going

to say it falls short of becoming the biggest

October opening, but gets really close, and I'm

going to say it makes $50 million this weekend.

All right. Healthy opening for The Martian. Amanda,

where are you going? I think I am going to go

with The Walk. I'm going to put it at number

three, so Martian number one. Hotel Transylvania

at number two, and The Walk coming in at number

three. All right, so doing a top three again.

You didn't fare as well last week or two weeks

ago doing that, but you're going to try it again.

I will say now to consider that The Walk is going

to be in less than 500 theaters this weekend,

so that might be kind of hard for it, just throwing

that out there. Oh, man, that might be good information

to have. And I'm going to try to do a little

Rotten Tomatoes, change it up a little bit. I

haven't been faring well when I try the box office

lately. So I think next week we should start

to get some scores in Rotten Tomatoes -wise for

a couple films coming out mid -October, second,

third week of October. And the two films that

we don't really have much review -wise yet on

Rotten Tomatoes would be Crimson Peak and Bridge

of Spies, which are both... probably going to

start getting those reviews rolling in. And I'm

actually going to say that when all is said and

done, that Crimson Peak is actually going to

beat out Bridge of Spies, Rotten Tomatoes -wise.

So I'm going to go with Crimson Peak scoring

higher than Bridge of Spies, Rotten Tomatoes.

Even though I obviously picked Bridge of Spies

on one of my most anticipated films, I have a

feeling for some reason people are going to have

more of a problem with that and are going to

be a little bit higher on Crimson Peak. That's

where I'm going with that prediction. We'll see

how we fare going into next week. Now it's the

time of the show where we go into news and trailer

talk. We have a few news stories, not a ton,

but we've got a little bit to go over here. And

a lot of them kind of revolve around the same

thing, so we'll kind of talk about them all at

once. Dan, I want to get your take here. I know

it's not necessarily the first time this has

ever happened in history, but it seems like there

is a recent upsurge as far as TV shows that are

trying to base their premise off of a movie.

We had, debuting this year, a minority report

TV show. We had a limitless TV show. We've obviously,

in the midst of all of the Marvel stuff, I think

that's kind of a little bit of a different...

mold there. But then we also have a whole bunch

of things being rumored to happen. We have a

Taken TV show apparently being worked on by Luke

Besson, and Michael Bay, we teased it also in

the intro about what he might be doing next,

apparently working on a Jack Ryan TV show. I

know there's probably other ones that have been

rumored out there, but what's your take, Dan,

on all of these? kind of rumored projects from

the big screen to the small screen? And how do

you think they translate? Which ones have a chance

of actually working? Because I've seen like half

an episode of Minority Report and I couldn't

continue. I have not seen Minority Report. It's

interesting. I think maybe it's because, you

know, with TV. you're getting the ability to

do a little bit more special effects -wise and

things like that. And they're seeing the success

of probably, like, some of the superhero stuff

and, like, The Walking Dead. And people are trying

to, again, take something that's known and make

it into something that's, you know, get the ratings.

And I'm not sure which ones would work. Jack

Ryan, to me, has always been kind of a bland

character. So I... TV show may make more sense.

I feel like a Jack Ryan TV show would be in the

same vein as something like NCIS or something

like that, where it's just a procedural, and

it'd probably be on CBS and get a trillion people

watching it but not be any good. I don't know.

It's interesting. It's something that you've

seen. There have been a lot of... movies that

have been tv shows some have been successful

some haven't like the odd couple to like you

know alienation to you know a lot of random things

um i'm okay with it if it works out like i thought

the minority report was a good idea i thought

like it had some potential um i'm guessing from

what you're saying that it didn't actually turn

out that way i i have to give it another shot

but like the first 15 minutes of that or 20 minutes

was so hard to follow from a visual standpoint

because everything kept jumping around and the

effects they were using was just like flashback

after flashback after like vision after vision

and i was just like i'm about to be sick so i

can't continue to watch this right now not a

good good sign no yeah i mean to me it's always

like who's doing it to be honest with you so

yeah I'm fine. None that we've talked about am

I super interested in, but sometimes you get

something that makes more sense for TV than it

does for film, and occasionally it ends up working.

It seems odd, the ones that are being chosen,

though. Taken doesn't make any sense to me. I

mean, I guess maybe someone would be interested

to see the backstory of that, but not if it's

not Liam Neeson. It stops being Taken. The title

doesn't make any sense. We've already seen other

people try to do that, and also it seems like

they're choosing a weird time to do that. franchise

is basically falling away and kind of fading

out. Yeah, it's like the Transporter series that

they had that no one, again, even knows about,

let alone it was, like, I watched, again, like,

15 minutes of that, and it was awful, and it

was, you know, five years too late. Same thing

with, you know, we already have three Taken movies,

so it does seem like it's, you know, why this

now, you know? And the Jack Ryan seems like that's

about 20 years too late. Yeah, I mean, you just

had the movie, what, two years ago with Sean

Penn? Chris Pine. Chris Pine, not Sean Penn.

Those are the exact opposite. Yeah. Wow. But

yeah, I mean, that movie didn't do very well

either. So, I mean, it just seems like they're

not choosing the right time to do some of this

stuff. No, but I guess in the sense that you

have, you can bring it into more today with,

you know, new stories going on and does seem,

you know, from being more of a. character set

in the Cold War to a character set in the Age

of Terrorism. So there's probably some updates

you could do with them. Again, I think it would

just be a procedural type of show. It seems like

it would kind of blend in with a lot of other

shows that are out there doing the same type

of thing. The only one that, to me, has a chance

of being unique and good would be the Minority

Report one. Right. I mean, yeah. Like you had

the Terminator Chronicles, whatever. To me, it

makes more sense when you're taking a universe

or something like that or taking the construct

of something and doing something that's not all.

But I never thought there'd be a Limitless TV

show. That, to me, is like, the movie was okay.

All right, TV? Yeah, all right, sure. Why not?

Go for it. All those hardcore Limitless fans.

I guess. Amanda, what do you think? Are you interested

in any of these properties being expanded on

a TV series, or are you fine with what's already

out on TV? I agree with Dan. I'm not really excited

about any of them. I was looking forward to Minority

Report, but after watching that little bit that

we did, I liked the movie, and I thought that

the premise was really cool, so I was interested

to see what they were doing, but just the direction

that they went in and their execution really

didn't have me involved. I don't really care

about Limitless as a TV show. Taken, like you

said, it's a little... A little too late, and

it's not Liam Neeson, so I don't know how any

of these are going to pan out. I mean, if it

was a Liam Neeson TV show about what happened

prior to Taken, I would probably at least tune

in at the beginning, but anything else, I'm not.

And Jack Ryan, that's just going to be exactly

like NCIS. Yeah. Well, it just is one of those

things where certain directors have an interest

in doing something, and that's what starts making

the headlines. Speaking of that, another director

that basically had an idea of something he wanted

to do that made headlines in the last little

bit was Bryan Singer, and he tweeted out there

that he had just been putting the finishing touches

on a project that he had long wanted to do, and

that was a new adaptation of 20 ,000 Leagues

Under the Sea. Dan, what do you think about that

being remade in modern times? Interesting. I

guess for some reason when I think of that, I

always think of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,

that movie. It could work. Everything Bryan Singer

has done outside of the X -Men, though, lately,

has not been the greatest. I'm thinking of, like,

Jack and the Giant Slayers or whatever, and that

was pretty awful. So that's also a classic story,

so trying to take another classic story and do

it again, eh, I don't know. And the other thing

that comes to mind, too, is something like John

Carter, which is, again, another classic story

that they try to bring to the main screen, and

it didn't translate well. Sometimes when you

have a story like that, it's hard to... make

it for today's audience so that'd be my one hesitation

for it obviously we have the technology to do

it but it's just it's a delicate thing to manage

and sometimes just because you're working with

amazing source material doesn't necessarily mean

you'll be able to make a great movie yeah I kind

of agree with that I mean I'm I don't really

have an opinion at this point one way or the

other I didn't I guess a lot of people have had

interest in making a new one of those and Obviously,

probably today's technology lends itself to making

an interesting -looking version of that. I don't

know how big the audience is or what the attention

for that would be or the desire for that, but

maybe if done right, it would be something that

would be worth doing. Maybe if they got the Nemo

from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, that

would be pretty cool. I've got to say, he was

a good part of that movie. Speaking of remakes,

one film that will not be remade, according to

the studio at least, would be The Exorcist. Apparently

there was rumors that it was going to be made

or something around that line, and the original

director obviously was not about that. He was

not about that. He had a tweet that said, I completely

denounce a remake of The Exorcist by Morgan Creek,

to which they said, for the record, we will never

attempt to remake The Exorcist. Yeah, and they

continue to go, despite what was printed, we

can assure you we would never, ever attempt to

remake The Exorcist. Smart move. It is like the

godfather of horror films. I'm glad William freaking

kind of went like, no, don't do that. So maybe

there is one film that can be spared from the

remake, but cursed. But to be fair, there are

like three sequels and a prequel, so it's not

like it has not been. It's not like it has an

unblemished record or anything by any standards.

Right. But it's not going to receive the modern

day where they just completely remake the entire

movie shot for shot. Like the Gus Van Sant in

Psycho, where it's just like, this is exactly

the same thing. So, I don't know. You are a big

horror fan, Amanda. Do you want a remake of Exorcist,

or are you happy that they're leaving that alone?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It holds up

so, I mean, for the most part. It holds up really

well, so just watch it again. It creeps me out.

I'm pretty sure I scarred my little brother at

some point with this movie. It's even hard for

me to watch now as an adult and having the effects

still hold up for me as somebody who frequents

the horror genre. I think this is saying something.

Just leave it alone. It's scary enough. So no

more Exorcist, but something there will be more

of is Men in Black. So apparently that is not

going to be dead yet. They're trying to kind

of revamp that, as every company is trying to

do with every property. The headline, though,

for this one was about the idea that Men in Black

will continue without Will Smith. Which I'm sad

about. Did you watch Men in Black 3? I did not

get a chance to watch Men in Black 3. Okay, but

you are not about Men in Black without Will Smith?

Yeah. Dan, what do you think? He's going to be

too busy doing the reboot of Fresh Prince. That's

a real thing. Is it? That's awesome. I did not

know that. Dan, number one, are you interested

in Mormon and Black? And number two, if you are

interested, does it matter if Will Smith's involved

or not? I'll go with no. And secondly, I'd go

with yes. I would be far less interested if it

was someone not Will Smith with those characters.

I thought the Men in Black thing was okay. I

thought I was kind of... presently surprised

with how it ended, and I thought, like, wow,

it actually did something a little bold, which

I did not expect to see for, you know, a movie

of that nature. Wait, did that have Boris the

animal in it? Yeah, the guy from Play of the

Conchords. Yeah, okay, I did see quite a bit

of this movie then. So they were able to find

a good replacement for Tommy Lee Jones as far

as the younger or, you know, different time period

version of that. Josh Brolin, right? Right. Are

we thinking they could do the same thing with

Will Smith? No, they'll just get Kevin Hart.

Oh, my God. He's not tall enough. There's a height

requirement. All right. So you have to let us

know if you're interested in more Men in Black

or not, even if they change the cast. But one

franchise that's not going to change the cast

outside of what they have to do is the Fast and

the Furious franchise. And apparently we're not.

Sorry. Do you like that? I've never seen you

or heard you laugh so much, Dave. But, yeah,

the Fast and the Furious, if you're a fan, you

have some good luck coming because you've got

at least three more films. I'm still trying to

get over the numbers thing of Vin Diesel saying

that they're going to make one more trilogy.

I'm not quite sure if he understands what a trilogy

is or the fact that an eighth, a ninth, and a

tenth movie would not make for another trilogy

if there's seven prior to that. But, anyways,

he's talking about there will be at least three

more. Fast and the Furious films, but he's not

letting anything out of the bag as far as who

will be directing them because he's saying with

such a crucial and important franchise, he wants

to make exactly sure that he has the right director

in place before anything happens. So he's taking

his time to try to find the right person. Dan,

three more Fast and the Furious films. You in

or out? Three more? No, I think... Man, no. It

gets to the point, it's like, what more can you

do? There's no way they can... Can they really

get any crazier than they already are? It's going

to be like a crossover with the Transformers

for the eighth one. It's insane. They will have

a transforming car by the end of this franchise,

I guarantee it. Something fighting... I don't

know. That's the only thing they haven't done

with the car, is they have to get it to transform.

They basically already got the Batmobile from...

Was it the Dark Knight? They basically had that

in this one, so the next step is Optimus Prime.

I mean, they're making tons of money, but I just,

I don't know. I think it'd be good if they just

ended with the last one, because considering...

How it ended, yeah. Maybe one more, but definitely

saying three more makes me scared. People around

the world, though, are rejoicing at this news,

so at least a part of the population will be

happy. even if it doesn't include myself. Amanda,

you want three more? One more, two more? No,

I'm good. Good? Yeah, I'm good on all that. Watching

seven of them in the last six months was enough

for you? I've watched the first, like, three

so many times, it's ridiculous. And I would have

been fine if they would have stopped it there.

I just think it's funny. It's like, we've got

to pick the right director. I'm like, stop it.

Stop it. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure they're lining

up. Yeah. And banging down the doors to try to

get involved. No, she did not say script writer.

No. That's not necessary. Yeah. The only other

thing that we have to go over – well, first I

want to get your opinion, Dan. I don't really

have a strong opinion either way, but I know

that you are a – I'm not saying I'm not, but

you're a big Bond fan. I know – what was it,

a year ago or a couple years ago you guys went

through and did quite a few podcasts on – Did

you guys do every Bond film? No, we missed like

three of them. I forget which ones. At that point?

I know, I know. It was like three or four, I

forget. But one we didn't do was like Diamonds

Are Forever, which is awful, so it's not what

you're used to talking about. Gotcha. But you've

obviously, you're very in tune with the franchise.

You've seen them, you've talked about them on

podcast. I don't know how much you are into the

music and the theme songs, etc., but obviously

it made a big splash here in the last couple

weeks, and not so much a positive response, a

lot more negative things being said about Sam

Smith's theme song for Spectre. Did you hear

it? I haven't heard it yet. I know he was doing

it, but I have not heard it yet. I was going

to ask more so on what your... How much do you

care about the theme song for a Bond film? Does

it matter? It matters and it doesn't matter.

It matters in the fact that it tends to go where

a good theme song usually has a bad movie. You

get a bad movie when the bad theme song usually

gets a good movie. That streak a little ended

because I thought Skyfall, I like Skyfall's theme

and whatnot. So hopefully if people don't like

the theme song, hopefully that's a good sign

for the movie. Sometimes. It's sometimes. I mean,

Goldfinger obviously is an iconic theme, but

there have been some bad ones here and there.

I think A View to a Kill has one of the most

notable ones, and that's an awful movie. I have

not heard it. I was just happy that whoever was

doing it was someone I actually heard of. So

I knew of him. It stinks because it is important

because that's part of the James Bond experience.

There is, like, the title sequence and the theme

song and, like, all that kind of makes, like,

is part of what makes that movie work. So to

be a great Bond film, I think you need all those

pieces working, which is why I think Skyfall

is one of the best and same thing with Casino

Royale and other ones. So when you're, like,

rating them as a Bond movie, as a movie itself,

no, but as part of that entire experience, it

is vital. you know, you want to start off in

a strong doubt at least. Yeah. And we're about

to kind of tune up for Spectre because Amanda

and I will, we're going to start making the trek

through the Daniel Craig Bond films because I

don't believe she's seen any of them. I've seen

them all, but I'm all up for rewatching them

heading into Spectre. So we'll be giving you

our thoughts on those here in the next couple

of weeks as we, as we catch up with those films.

We cannot end the news segment without talking

about the latest live -action rumors from Disney.

So we have to have one every week. It's actually

taken over Star Wars, where we no longer have

Star Wars rumors, we just have Disney live -action

film rumors. And the latest is about a... Remake,

sequel, prequel, I don't know what it's going

to be, but it's going to be something about Mary

Poppins and the name being connected to that

is Emily Blunt, along with the behind -the -scenes

work from the same people that did Into the Woods

from last year. A new version of Mary Poppins,

Dan. Which pile of live -action remake are we

putting this in? The crazy one or the one that

we're at least hopeful for? Emily Blunt makes

me a little hopeful. It is weird. thinking of

a Mary Poppins remake with... Dave and Mr. Banks?

Yeah, Dave and Mr. Banks. Just thinking of that

and thinking of another one coming out and how

she was so much against it in the beginning with

and kind of overall against it. So it's interesting

in that realm when you consider, like, people

considered Mary Poppins when it came out sacrilegious

compared to the book. But I don't know. It's

weird. Mary Poppins doesn't seem like something

that could work with today's audience being more

of a musical and being, like, that type of...

A movie, I'm not that hopeful for it. Maybe if

it's a good cast, but again, something I really

don't think they need to do by any means. So

if they do that, and it makes a bunch of money...

Will we see Sound of Music and... Sound of Music

and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and all that? Right.

Another Fiddler on the Roof or something? Maybe,

maybe. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, Emily Blunt,

like you, it intrigues me to see her attached

to the property. Amanda, you thought that that

was a decent casting, if that comes true. But

I just don't know. How can we make this stop?

Like, I don't understand. If they stop making

money, you know, it's... But to be honest, I

thought Jungle Book live action was hesitant

on, and then I saw the trailer, and now I'm a

little bit more intrigued. It's a little different

because it's a musical, I would assume at least.

Right. It's just interesting because with Marvel,

it's like, okay, we just are at the point where

we just, at least some of us, I guess, we just

trust that most of what they do is going to work,

and we're just like, even the ones we don't think

are going to work, like Guardians of the Galaxy

might be a risk, Ant -Man might be a risk. They

all just seem to work. I mean, some people are

tired of it and have the superhero fatigue, but

outside of that, they work. With the Disney live

action, it seems like it's going to be, from

what we can tell so far, it's going to be a little

hit and miss. So it's more of a question of which

ones are going to work and which ones aren't.

They're all going to make money, but which ones

are going to actually be received a little bit

more well, at least from a critical standpoint.

I mean, like Alice in Wonderland made a billion

dollars and I think had like a 13 % Rotten Tomatoes

score. Right, and even Maleficent made quite

a bit of money, even though that was not very

well -reviewed. But Cinderella made a bunch of

money and was well -received for the most part.

So I think we're going to have a lot of hit and

miss with this, and I'm with you. I think the

Jungle Book trailer looks decent, but some of

these other ones, I just don't understand how

they're going to put it all together. Amanda,

you want, what, 25 more Disney live -action rumors

before the end of the year, or where are you

at on this? Yeah, I'm all about it. I want to

see a little bit more about who's going to be

cast besides Emily Blunt. I was actually on board

with the rumor that Tim Burton was going to be

involved. I was thinking that was going to be

pretty legit. He's going to be busy with Dumbo.

He needs to get off that and get on the Mary

Poppins train. I think he can stay away from

all of these projects as far as I'm concerned.

What? Hater? I guess. Disney and Tim Burton,

at this point, I'm not all about the collaboration.

All right, so that does it for the news stories.

A couple other ones that we'll have links on.

You can definitely let us know what your opinions

are on all of these different things, whether

you're excited or whether you're upset. Now we'll

get into trailer talk. There's quite a few trailers

that were out in the last little bit that made

some headlines around the Internet. We give you

a choice of one of them, Amanda. Which one do

you want to yay or nay? I'm going to go a big

yay for the Angry Birds movie. Oh, my God. I

think that the following behind this is going

to go ape shit, banana sandwich, and this movie

is going to make a ton of money. It might be

cute. I mean, it's got a pretty good voice cast,

I think. Some pretty big names in there. And

I think the animation looks really good. I think

it actually might be a cute film. That's something

I didn't think I'd ever hear. I will give you

that the trailer is not as bad as I expected

it would be. But when they first said that there

was going to be an Angry Birds movie, I thought...

a little part of the world died. And hopefully

I'm wrong that it actually ends up being something

good, I guess. But I am not on board with this

at all. Dan, what do you think about the Angry

Birds? It's interesting that you talked about

movies coming out later, you know, like Taken

and those other films. You feel like it's a little

past its prime. I kind of feel that way with

the Angry Birds because I know it's still popular,

but I felt like its popularity is not like what

it was a few years ago. The trailer did look

better than I was expecting. It was actually

the one I was going to pick to talk about as

well. I agree. The animation looks pretty strong.

I did like that. A lot of names attached to it,

too. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I feel like after the

Lego movie works and, you know, Tony and Jump

Street works, I can't just dismiss something

based upon premise alone. So the trailer does

look better than I was expecting. But again,

it's just the idea, you know, there has yet to

be a good video game movie. You know, maybe making

a video game movie and not really even trying

to be like the video game is the way to go. So

who knows? Maybe it'll be good. Just have some

characters, but don't have them do anything that

happens in the game. Exactly. I've never... Yeah.

It's kind of hard to if it was just a movie about

people, birds flying into things. There's going

to be like that one time where something happens

and the crowd's going to go crazy. Unless it's

like Jackass, but with animated birds. So she

stole your thunder. Do you have any other one

that you want to yay or nay? I didn't really.

I felt like nothing else really stood out to

me that was all that intriguing. Okay. My bad,

Dan. That's all right. I'm going to throw a couple

out then for you. I'm not going to talk about

this one myself, but I'm going to predict that

Burnt with Bradley Cooper is going to be Hyro

from True Bromance, his number one film of the

year. So I think Chef last year, Burnt this year.

I'm just going to make that prediction now. We'll

see if it comes true. He loves his food movies.

The man loves his food. The only other one that

I wanted to throw out there, I was somewhat interested

in the trailer for Truth, as well as somewhat

interested in the trailer for The Program. I'm

not necessarily 100 % on board, but I'm intrigued

by both of them. But if I have to pick one to

yay, it's going to be Back in Time, the documentary

on Back to the Future, because why not? I love

Back to the Future. I'm all about hearing some

more inside stuff about what was going on behind

the scenes and whatnot. My only worry with that

is I feel like that stuff gets talked about so

much, especially this year with it being 2015.

Are you going to be able to provide information

that has not been kind of talked about to death

already? Yeah, that's true. But not a great week

for trailers regardless. There is a bunch of

other ones on the website. We've got about 12

or 15 of them there, including a bunch that I...

have absolutely no idea what the movie's about

or what was going on in them. A couple confusing

ones out there, for sure. But I included an animated

one called Hell and Back, which, I don't know.

I'm interested to see some people's opinions

on that, but I'm not necessarily a big fan of

the people that are behind that, the other work

that they've done. I mean, it looks okay, but

I really couldn't get excited about it. No. like

most of the trailers this week. So if you disagree

with us and are excited about all of them, let

us know which ones they are and why. We're going

to take a quick break, but when we come back,

we've got another game for you, give you a little

more insight into our taste in the movie world.

It's a game called This or That, and it's coming

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Thanks for sticking with us. It's time for the

main attraction. Like we said, we're playing

a game called This or That. It's pretty darn

simple. It's exactly what it sounds like. We're

each going to be taking turns throwing out two

items, and the rest of the people are going to

be discussing which of those two things they

would be more for. So it's this or it's that.

This is coming from Amanda's idea, so I think

it's going to be a fun little discussion. Should

give you guys some more insight into which genres...

we like better, which movies we like better,

which actors we like better, or maybe some other

random things that people have that they're going

to throw out there. So we don't know what each,

what is on each other's lists or what ideas people

had. So it's just going to be some off the cuff

movie reactions, discussions, et cetera. So hopefully

it'll be fun. If not, we'll never do it again.

If it is fun, there's endless possibilities and

we could do this numerous times throughout the

next coming months and year. All right, Amanda.

It was your idea, so you get to start out. What's

your first this or that? Oh, man. Let's go with

Guillermo del Toro or Benicio del Toro. Oh, the

del Toro dilemma. Dan, I'll let you go first.

Which one would you pick? I'll go with Guillermo,

Gizmo, as I like to call him. We go way back.

I like Benicio, but he's done some bad films.

here and there. But, you know, I like Pacific

Rim, and Gilmore was also one of my choices for

our next director retrospective, so I feel like

I don't pick him here. Not a good sign. Please,

please pick that one so I can make Kevin watch

so many more movies that I like. Yeah, I'm going

to have to agree with Dan. I'm going to go with

Gizmo as well, and I'm going to continue to call

him that as well. But, yeah, I mean, I like Benicio.

There's nothing wrong with him, but he's not

been someone that's like, I don't know. It's

not like I tune into a movie just to see Benicio

Del Toro. He's a good character actor. He's a

good extra piece. He's fun to see in films, but,

you know. But he's not having, like, if a movie

has Benicio in it, it's not like, okay, that

sold the movie for it. It's like, okay, cool,

or whatever, but it's kind of either way. But

if Gizmo's doing the movie, I'm more excited

about it. So he has more of the draw in an individual

name attached to a movie. So I'm going Gizmo,

too. Amanda, it was your question, but what are

you voting? It was really hard for me. I was

thinking about this. I think I'm going to go

for Guillermo del Toro as well, just because...

Anything him, I'm involved in. I want to be in

the group that just worships Guillermo del Toro,

like everybody worships Christopher Nolan or

whatever else. This is my camp. All right, so

a clean sweep for Gizmo. All right, Dan, I'll

let you go next. What's your first this or that?

Mine's actually kind of a scenario. I'll start

with this one scenario. And it's a scenario where

you're walking into a theater and you have two

seats to choose from, basically. And one seat,

you know, you have this seat where you'll be

sitting next to a person that you know they're

going to be talking the entire time obnoxiously.

The only other seat, though, is you'll be sitting

next to a guy who reeks like no tomorrow. Just

a very smelly man. Those are your two choices.

Which one do you go with? This is a bad scenario

for me because I think either one ends not well

for me. Man, that's tough. Because if I'm next

to the person that's talking, there's no chance

that I don't eventually get into an altercation

with them. Because I'm the type of person that

even if someone's making a noise or doing something

on the phone, I just constantly... have to be

looking like turning at them or something like

what are you doing you're driving me crazy i

actually shook a kid in the theater one time

i was talking you say you shook a kid i shook

somebody super hard some random person how like

when you say kid this is like were you arrested

I was actually seeing The Grudge 2, like, opening

night in college. And it was a packed theater,

and I was there with a few of my friends. And

there was, like, a whole row of teenagers behind

us. And they wouldn't shut up. So I turned around,

and I was like, hey, we didn't pay $9 to listen

to you talk. And then the kid was like, what?

What did she say? And, like, just kept talking

over me. So I grabbed his leg behind me, and

I shook this little kid. And I said, hey, we

didn't. Pay $9 listening to talk. All right.

In that case, I'm going to sit next to the person

that's making all the noise and talk, and I'm

going to bring Amanda with me. And that will

take care of that because we can shut somebody

up, but we cannot de -smell somebody. Yeah, true

that. I know that's not a word, but I'm going

to go. De -smell somebody. So did he stop talking

or did it just? Yeah, they shut the hell up.

whole movie my friends were like oh my god amanda

sit down and like hey shut up i once i once had

a group of young people that decided that they

should uh i don't remember if it's m &ms or skittles

but they were throwing them and literally was

like them in the back row and i think we were

one of the only other people in the theater it

was my friend and i and we were like somewhat

in the center of the theater and they like one

of them like all of a sudden i had a skittle

that just landed in my lap And I was like, what

in God's name is going on here? And I figured

out that they were throwing it. I don't know

if it was after the movie or at one point the

kid went to go to the bathroom. It might have

been after the movie. And I actually went in

the bathroom after him, and he was washing his

hands at the sink, and I went up and slammed

the Skittle down on the counter, like right next

to him, and I think he almost shit his pants.

He was beyond scared. That's because you're eight

feet fucking cold. He muttered an apology and

ran out of the bathroom. He thought he was going

to get raped in there. Yeah, that's probably

not the wisest move. But yeah, I'm going to sit

next to the guy that's going to talk in hopes

that I can convince him to not because I can't

convince the other guy not to smell. Amanda?

The same. All right. Dan, what are you going

to do? I feel like I'd go with the smelly guy

and just get popcorn so it kind of can help mask

the odor. I was going to say, if there was some

way for me to induce my nasal passages so I couldn't

smell for a couple hours in some way. Because,

you know, you can – because sometimes, like,

what if they don't stop talking and then it escalates

further? Because I've seen that happen before.

I feel like with a guy who's smelly, you got

more subtle ways of getting around it. And at

least maybe he's a nice guy. Yeah. Maybe he meets

well. He's not a fan of water. It's just – I

don't know. Oh, my goodness. Okay. I have – I

don't know, I guess a little off. I'll go off

the regular here. Yeah, I'm going to continue.

You kind of thought outside the box. I'm going

to try to do the same. But mine's more so going

with what's more important to you in a film,

this or that. And I'm going with, is the beginning

more important to hook your interest and to get

you invested in the film? Or is the payoff at

the end more important? So beginning or ending

more important to you, Amanda? Well, I want to

say ending because. Even if a movie has a really

shitty, boring beginning, I'm still probably

going to try to sit through it to see if there

is a payoff. I will sit through the shittiest

movies waiting for an awesome payoff. All right,

so you're going with ending. Dan, what about

you? It's hard. It's tough. I would say probably

beginning for me, because I think for me it's

more about, to sound corny, it's more about the

journey than the destination. If the trip there

at the beginning, if I've enjoyed that, but maybe

I didn't like the ending, I can overall still

really like a movie, but if I have a movie that's

bad but with a good ending, I tend not to like

it. So I think I'm more for the setting up with

a good foundation to begin with. And for me,

and I can kind of see both sides of it, and I

can definitely see your argument about one being

bad isn't... maybe as detrimental as the other

one being bad. But if we're strictly going with

just the beginning part and maybe not the whole

first half of the film, but just the beginning,

I think the ending might be a tiny bit more important

to me. I'm the type of person that, I don't know,

not that I write much or anything like that,

but whenever I did write stories or poems or

anything, I actually always started with the

end because it seemed like that was the most

important part to it. And then I would rack my

brain on, like, the best way to set that up or

the best way to kind of build that foundation

or to get there and try to create a good journey.

But I was always some type of sucker for how

things ended, and I always wanted them to end.

Like, that was kind of the first thing that I

visualized. So I guess ending for me, but I can

see arguments on both sides. All right, Amanda,

what do you got next? Groundhog Day or Caddyshack?

Go into a movie, this or that. Dan, Groundhog

Day or Caddyshack? Which one are you picking?

I will actually, this is kind of easy for me.

I'll go Groundhog Day. It's honestly probably

close to my top ten favorite films of all time.

I think it's, you know, perfect is a strong word,

but I just love the progression of that film.

It's funny, but there's also more... It has a

lot to say thematically, and it's perhaps one

of Bill Murray's best performances. Caddyshack

is great for laughs. It has some classic moments,

classic lines, but I just think that Groundhog

Day within itself is a stronger film overall

when you consider everything. Yeah, I'm going

to echo that sentiment as well. I've never been

as big on Caddyshack as everybody else has. I

mean, I think it's good, but it's not. Like I

said, it's not the complete experience like you

get with Groundhog Day, so I'm going to go with

Groundhog Day as well. What about you, Amanda?

I'm going to round that out and say Groundhog

Day as well. I actually was listening to In Session

Film podcast recently, and they were talking

about Groundhog Day, and I happened to be in

Woodstock while they were talking about it. I've

been spending a lot of time there the past week

for work and stuff, so it's been kind of cool

to look around and see if I can see any moments

from that film too. So I'm going to say Groundhog

Day too. All right, so another clean sweep. I

guess we're more in balance than we thought.

Dan, is it going to continue, or are you going

to break up the harmony here? We'll see, we'll

see. I'm going to go with kind of a classic one,

one that I think has changed recently, considering...

the success of one of these guys, and that's

Matt Damon or Ben Affleck. They've been attached

at the hip for a while. Matt Damon was taking

the lead there for a great deal, but now Ben

Affleck with his directing career has almost

evened the ship a little bit. So do you have

a preference over Matt Damon or Ben Affleck?

I actually have this on my list too, and I was

kind of racking my brain. I'm like, you know,

Matt Damon. came in with the Bourne Supremacy

identity, all that stuff, and just whooped serious

ass and is super cool. Now he's going to be the

Martian, but at the same time, Ben Affleck is

now fucking Batman and he's directing and stuff.

So I think that's a super hard choice for me

now, maybe not so much back in the day. But you

know what? I'm going to say Ben Affleck just

because I'm super excited to see Dawn of Justice

or whatever's coming out here. All right. It

won't be a clean sweep here because I'm going

to go with Matt Damon. For some reason, I've

always been a bigger fan of Matt Damon from the

get -go. Something about his acting, I think,

well, I don't know, something about his acting

that just draws me in more. I think, obviously,

Ben Affleck has done a decent job with the directing

part of it, but I guess if I'm going to view

it just as an actor standpoint, then I'm going

to go Matt Damon. What about you, Dan? Yeah,

I don't disagree with that. I agree with that,

Matt. Damon is a better actor than Ben Affleck.

But, you know, I do think Ben Affleck's directing

career does, it almost evens it out because I

really like the town. And his first film was,

well, Gone Baby Gone. And Argo, you know, he's

done a great job there. Hopefully with the Batman

franchise. Gets a little bit more cred. But ultimately,

I'm going with Matt Damon, mainly for my love

of the Bourne franchise. I just really dig that

franchise. One of my favorite action franchises

of all time. And again, like you, I really just

something about Matt Damon's acting. And I think

he has bigger range there. And maybe one time

he can also become a director. He's shown his

ability. you know, the Bourne films too. And

the marching looks really good coming out as

well. Like, I just feel like even like, you know,

he can do comedy, he can be serious. All right.

For my next one, I'm going to shift and go to

a franchise, this or that. So I'm going to go

with two of my kind of classic favorite franchises

when I was kind of in high school and then watched

on repeat, it seemed like during college. And

it's hard for you not to be in both camps, but

I guess if you have to only be in one. Die hard

or lethal weapon. So, die hard or lethal weapon.

Amanda, where do you sit on that one? God, this

is so hard. You know, I do love Bruce Willis.

You know, I love me some die hard. Word up, JD.

Or not JD, DJ. Don't make fun of me here, but

I'm going to go lethal weapon. All right, one

vote Lethal Weapon. Dan, what do you think? How

do you break this one down? I go with Die Hard.

For whatever reason, Lethal Weapon, I never really

watched them a great deal growing up. I think

I watched them here and there, but I constantly

re -watched Die Hard, especially the first and

third one. So Lethal Weapon never really had

a big place with me ever. So it's kind of an

easy choice on my end. I think if you're going

with the individual, which franchise individually

had the best film, it's probably Die Hard. Well,

probably not even probably. It is Die Hard. But

for some reason, I've always liked Lethal Weapon

just a tiny, tiny, tiny bit more. I think it

was more because back in the day I was a bigger

Mel Gibson fan than a Bruce Willis fan for that

time period. But I love both franchises. I think

Die Hard is probably obviously the better action

franchise, has the better individual film. But

something about Lethal Weapon, I guess, would

make me pick that one if I had to. Don't ever

make me make that choice. I want to be able to

watch either franchise whenever I want. You're

the one who decided to make us make that choice,

Kevin. Good point. You put that evil in me, Ricky

Bobby. Good point. All right, Amanda, change

it to something else then. All right, here's

the easy one, or it should be at least. Buzz

or Woody? Oh, wow. I'll go Woody. I feel like

Buzz is kind of a little bit full of himself.

He's got a little bit of an ego. So I'll go Woody.

Plus, I like Tom Hanks more than Tim Allen. He

sold it for me on that one. I'm going to go Woody,

too, just based strictly on Tom Hanks versus

Tim Allen. I like Woody's humor a lot more than

Buzz's. I think his dry, witty, dickish humor

really does it for me, so I'm going to say Woody

as well. All right. Dan? I guess I'm going to

keep the animated theme going and go with Lion

King or Aladdin. Oh, my God, I hate you. I know,

Aladdin. I'm going for Aladdin. For you? Yeah,

Aladdin for me. Oh, man. I can't pick between

any of the... You could throw Little Mermaid

and Beating the Beast in there, and I still would

have a tough time. Something about me, if I'm

just picking personally, my choice, I'm going

Aladdin. If I was ranking them, I'd probably

put Lion King as the better film, but Robin Williams

as Genie, the music, and Aladdin, I liked a little

bit more, so I guess I'll go with Aladdin. That's

just wrong to have to choose between those two.

I know, I know. It's like your favorite kid or

something. I have my favorite there with you

because I think Lion King is probably a better

movie, but Aladdin is more of a favorite. We

were watching it, and when it comes on, I realize,

wow, I still remember this movie word for word,

like every bit and piece of it. I think the songs

are stronger in Lion King but more catchy. In

Aladdin, and it's a little bit more fun and adventurous,

so it's a hard choice to make, but I'd go Aladdin

too. Well, we'll see which one resonates more

in your household as you start showing them and

getting the reactions firsthand. Yeah, yeah,

I'm trying. I've got to get through the Godfather

trilogy first. All right, let's make this whole

round animated. I'll go from a studio standpoint.

Amanda, Disney or Pixar? Disney. Not even thinking

about it, huh? No. I already know. WALL -E, Ratatouille,

Inside Out. I like those movies, but I find more

things that I like in Disney movies. All right,

so not even hesitating Disney vote for Amanda.

Dan, where are you going? That's tough because

my first thought is Pixar because recently it's

been that way. Well, maybe I shouldn't say that

because, you know, with Disney it's shown up

with Tangled and that type of stuff. That's hard

because... If one exists and one goes away forever

and those movies never existed before, it's like,

man, it's hard to choose that because you look

at Disney's history. There's some great films

in there. Same thing with Pixar, even though

the time frame is shorter. Oh, man. There's not

as many misses with Pixar. There are not. There's

a lot more choices in Disney, obviously. Yeah,

and there's also a lot more time. give it pixar

20 years but what they catch up and misses because

you know they were going on the bad bad uh bad

spree there for a little bit exactly i'll i'll

go disney just because i think if i were to count

out the amount of films i you know i think it's

more they win due to quantity maybe not overall

quality but it's it's a tough choice and my thing

is thinking about aladdin like would i rather

live in a world without aladdin or without toy

story i think i'd rather live in a world with

aladdin but barely yeah i think that's a good

choice and i almost have to disqualify myself

because i will admittedly call out my blind spot

in my uh list of shame films i still have yet

to see up and wally so i feel like those are

probably two of the biggest films so We do, I

just haven't seen it. So without having watched

those two, it's not fair for me to vote. But

without those two, it's a slam dunk for Disney

because those are obviously two of the biggest

Pixar films. So a clean sweep for Disney. Amanda,

what do you got? Okay, let's go with Tom Hardy

or Michael Fassbender. I literally have that

written down on my sheet. I literally, literally

have that written down on my sheet. It is right

here, Tom Hardy or Michael Fassbender. Well,

get it going, Tom Hardy or Michael Fassbender.

No, Dan has to go first. I'll go Fassbender.

Man, I just, that's tough. That's tough. But

I guess the way I look at it, I can't even make

an argument. I'm like, well, Fassbender is more,

you can be more than, you know, you can kind

of dive in different roles. But so can Hardy.

He's making something like Locke where he's just

this average guy. I don't know. Magneto or Mad

Max? Surprisingly, I'd go Magneto. I just love

X -Men First Class so much. I think I prefer

Fassbender in the sense that it's hard to even

find weaknesses in these guys. It's like Joe

Montana or John Elway. Either way, you probably

have a chance of winning the Super Bowl or the

Oscar. Honestly, it's the first thing that comes

to mind. It's just Fassbender. It's not more

than that. Maybe because I've known him more

and I feel like his character is maybe a little

bit more warming or welcoming at times. I don't

know. It's hard to say. Nothing we say is going

to make sense. No. I feel like Hardy, he can

be so intense at times, but I don't know. Bane

or Magneto. I'm going to go Magneto. It's as

simple as that. That's the only thing I can think

of. I'm going to go Fassbender, too, with the

caveat that I think Hardy is catching up to him

in my head very quickly. I mean, I think they're

both winning the race, but Hardy is right behind

Fassbender. He used to be a little bit farther

for me, but in the last few things I've seen

him in, he's caught up quite a bit. But my gut

says Fassbender as far as a first instinct, so

I'll go with that. What do you think, Amanda?

Fassbender effect. Thank you, baby, all the way.

That can be taken a lot of different ways. All

right. Okay. Dan, which one do you have next?

Another classic one, but it's worth talking about.

Scorsese or Spielberg? Yeah, and I thought about

putting that on there, and I decided not to because

I didn't want to have to make that choice. Oh,

man. Amanda, what do you think first? Steven

Spielberg with all of his grandiose or Scorsese

and his more, I don't know, would you call it

more mature or more gritty? Artur -ish or very

much... I'll say Spielberg. Any reason? No. That's

a tough one. Man. I mean, I think Spielberg does

have specific audiences. I mean, he's playing

to the general audience, but I think like...

maybe appeals more to a general fan, maybe not

as much. I think most cinephiles probably would

go Scorsese. That might be a dumb statement,

I don't know. Me personally, I guess if I have

to vote, I'm voting Spielberg, but that's just

not ridiculous. Yeah, I'll go with Scorsese.

It's tough because Jurassic Park's one of my

favorite films, so it's good fellas, but I think

Scorsese is... Better is a strong word, but I

do think he's a better or a little bit more pandering

strong to say with Spielberg, but I think he

has a tendency to do that here and there, where

I think Spielberg or where Scorsese shows a little

bit more restraint. Maybe there's a tad bit more

maturity with some of his films. I don't think

Spielberg's ever made anything quite like something

like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull. He's made great

films, but something that has, well... Yeah,

Schindler's List. So maybe that's not true. But

I guess I'm a fan of crime films, and of course,

Casey's the king of crime films. There you go.

That works. Man, where do I go next? I'm going

to try to go off the beaten path again before

I go back to maybe some more traditional ones

after this. But what's more important to you

in a film to be on point, I guess? And I'm going

to say writing or directing. Is the writing of

the film more important or is the directing of

the film more important? Dan, we'll start with

you. Man, that's hard because you look at, we

talked about Mad Max, Mad Max, where clearly

it's not the script, it's the direction that

made that movie. Man, that's a tough one. I'll

say it's... I guess you could think of it like

can a director overcome a bad script or can a

good script be good no matter who's directing

it? I think a great script could be good no matter

who's directing it. I think a bad script is hard

to overcome no matter who's directing it. So

I'll probably say script on that end just because

it's – yeah, if you have something like Mad Max,

you can maybe – not that that script's bad, but

it's clearly not one built upon. writing per

se, but it's hard for that to happen, especially

if it's not a genre film. I'll go script over

direction, although I feel dirty saying that.

I kind of talked myself into it. Amanda, I'll

let you go first before I give my thoughts. What

do you think is more important, the writing or

the directing? That's a hard one for me. You

know, I think that dialogue and the script can

really take me out of something. But I think

that even if there is really shit dialogue and

not a whole lot going on in the script, that

a director can really pull a lot out of a script

too. So maybe direction. It's weird because directors

always get more of the attention and it's always

more important about who's going to direct it,

who's going to direct it. But man, it's hard

not to go with the writing on this one because,

like you said, I think a good script you can

give to just about any director and it's going

to take... some talent to screw it up compared

to the few directors that can elevate something

that's written poorly. So I'm going to go with

the writing as well as something I think that's

more important a lot of times than the directing

outside of the few directors, obviously that

are, you know, once a generation or twice a generation

type directors. So if you look at it, there's

been those directors who've had like one great

film and then they've not done anything ever

since then, maybe because they haven't got anything.

to that level script wise and i think for that

question you have to you have to eliminate like

the masters of direction yeah yeah and it's hard

though because you think the number one job of

a director is getting good performances out of

his actors so then you also have to think about

that as well but if you take that out and thinking

more so the direction portion. I don't know.

It's tough, but it's definitely basically you

want both. Is this the, yeah, you want, you want

everybody to be on board and on par. All right.

A couple more rounds and then we'll close it

out. Amanda, what do you got for this one? Let's

go. Hmm. The puppeteer at work. Gently or Bruce

Lee. Gently or Bruce Lee. Dan, you got thoughts

on that? Are you just talking about movies, the

movie career, or them as people? Them as people?

Let's do the movie career, because I'm pretty

sure Bruce Lee in real life was a badass, and

I'm not so sure about Jet Li. Maybe he's just

nuts. Yeah. I mean, Bruce Lee has a couple good

movies, for sure. Unfortunately, he probably

would have had more. Though I think, again, more

of a quantity thing, I think Jet Li probably

has a little bit more. But I'll go Bruce Lee

because I think Bruce Lee is far more iconic,

and there probably may not be a Jet Li in the

sense of what he is without Bruce, so I'm going

to give him credit for that. I'm just going to

come out right in front and say I don't know

enough about either one to make an educated guess

or statement on which one I would prefer. It's

not a genre I know much about, so I'll abstain

from my vote. Amanda, what do you think? say

Jet Li. I like his style. I like a lot of his

movies. I like his swagger. And I think that

he looks really badass doing all his stunts.

Alright. Fair enough. Dan, do you got another

one? Yeah, it's actually regarding franchises

we've kind of talked about a little bit today.

Well, at least one of them. And it's the James

Bond franchise or the Mission Impossible franchise?

Oof. I actually had on my list Mission Impossible

or the Bourne franchise. If we're going Mission

Impossible against Bond, I'm going to vote Bond

Slam Dunk. I haven't seen all of the Bond films.

I've probably only seen maybe a third of them,

but I just like that franchise more than I like

the Mission Impossible. The Bourne would probably

have been a better one because it's more even,

but yeah. Yeah, I got to go with Bond. There's

just more of the Bond classic elements, the history

behind it, et cetera, that I just enjoy a tiny

bit more. So I'll go Bond. What about you, Amanda?

I'm going to say Bond, too. I think there's a

lot more going on in Bond, and I think that there's

more gadgets, there's more action, there's more

drama, there's more tension. I think overall

that Bond's a better franchise. Yeah, I think

it's from a character standpoint. I mean, obviously

it's got a much larger filmography, I guess,

if you want to call it that. But just from the

notable or iconic characters that have appeared

in the Bond franchise, I don't think that's something

you get with the Mission Impossible franchise.

And even if you just look at it, say, Daniel

Craig's Bond films to compare to that of the

Mission Impossible films, just within the same

frame, I'd still go Bond just because I like

the Mission Impossible films, but I don't think

any of them got to the level of Casino Royale

or... They're fun action films, but they're not

more than that, where I feel like Skyfall and

Casino Royale are legitimately good movies that

transcend their genre, unlike the Mission Impossible

films. Right. All right, I'll go with an easy

one just because we haven't done it and people

would probably question us why we didn't ever

bring this one up. And it's current, I guess,

with everything that's going on. It may seem

like a slam dunk for a lot of people, but I think

there is a little bit more to think about. And

the classic question, I guess, Marvel or DC?

You've got the Dark Knight trilogy. You've got

what's about to come up, I guess, that we can't

judge much on. But you've got the whole Batman

filmography, I guess. And then you've got everything

that's happened in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Dan, is it an easy one, or does DC have a chance

there? It's really Marvel or Batman, to be fair.

Well, I guess Superman, too, but I'll go. If

you include Superman, it hurts their chances.

No, maybe not the classic ones. Yeah, the first

and second one, at least. But third and fourth,

maybe not so much. I'm admittedly a Marvel fan,

so I will go Marvel over DC. I don't think Marvel

necessarily has something as great as the...

The Dark Knight, but also has nothing as bad

as Catwoman. I think, too, they have more diversity

within their characters and they've had more

successes overall, so I'll go Marvel. Amanda?

I want to say that I like Catwoman. Halle Berry

killed it. I do like DC. Their animated stuff,

I think they go darker and I like it. But as

far as... How much I've enjoyed myself with the

Marvel Cinematic Universe, I'm going to say Marvel,

just movie standpoint. All right. So clean sweep

for Marvel. I would pick Marvel as well. I do

love the Dark Knight trilogy, but there's just

way too many misses on the DC side that I can't

give them a pass as much as Marvel succeeded.

I mean, Guardians of the Galaxy, all the stuff

they've done with Avengers. They just haven't

missed as much, so I'll give the edge to Marvel

as well. That's just strictly talking about the

films, not talking about the TV series or comics

or anything like that, just the films. All right,

one final round, I think, is what we've got time

for. So, Amanda, what's your last pick for this

time doing this or that? Well, good segue off

what you just brought up. Bruce Wayne or Clark

Kent? I'll go first, and I'll say Bruce Wayne,

and it's not even a competition for me. What?

What? You don't like Clark Kent? You don't like

who he is, what he represents? I've never been

a fan of Clark Kent or Superman. I'm sorry, Hyro.

I'm on Barry's side of this. Bruce Wayne and

Batman have always been. It doesn't matter if

I'm talking about the alter ego, which I know

one has an alter ego and one doesn't. But yeah,

it's easy on that one for me. I'm not even going

to try to explain it. Dan? Bruce Wayne and Clark

Kent. Interesting. Clark Kent's kind of a klutz,

so purposely so. Purposely so. It's part of it.

But, you know, it's hard to say. So which one

do I think is a better character or rather be?

It's all your personal feelings. Personal feelings.

Okay. I guess what character do I enjoy more?

I feel like if you go into the movies, Clark

Kent has probably had more... has more impact

in the films than Bruce Wayne does, because I

feel like Bruce Wayne's very... You don't get

much Bruce Wayne in even Dark Knight, all that

much, I would say. So I'll go Clark Kent, because

I feel like him in the Christopher Reeves films,

I like his performance as... Ask Clark Kent because

it shows you that his secret identity can actually

work because of just how well he plays that character

compared to how well he plays Superman. So based

upon performance, I'll say I'll give the edge

to Clark Kent. All right. What was your choice,

Amanda? I'm going to say Clark Kent. Outvoted.

Two votes for Clark Kent. What's your reasoning

behind that? I think that there's some good and

some bad to... why he acts the way he acts as

Clark Kent, I think at times it's kind of a smack

in the face to how he views the human race. But

I also think it's very clever of how he blends

in so flawlessly as this character. All right,

good argument. Dan, you've got time for one more.

What's it going to be? This is tough trying to

think. I guess maybe we're talking about franchises,

and this is maybe two of the... bigger franchises

in the last 10 years or so in Hunger Games or

the Harry Potter films. I actually had that written

down. I wasn't sure if I was going to throw Lord

of the Rings in there or not, but I had this

written down as well, Harry Potter versus Hunger

Games. I'll go first because that's a pretty

clear -cut winner for me. Granted, they've had

more films, but I much prefer the Harry Potter

world and everything that's about it. I enjoy

some of the Hunger Games, but I think there's

some weak spots in there as well. So overall,

I would rather have, if I could live in a world

without one or without the other, like you said

before, I'd rather have the one that has Harry

Potter in it. I'd rather live in a world with

Harry Potter at fucking Hogwarts. So is that

your choice? Yes. Going to abandon your Hunger

Games franchise, huh? I mean, I do like it. It

does have its problems, though, and there's just

nothing about the Harry Potter movies that I

would change. All right. Dan, what do you think?

Yeah, I'll make it a clean sweep. I think just

Harry Potter films are better made. I have more

connection to those characters. And, yeah, Hunger

Games movies are fine. I wasn't the biggest fan

of the last one, per se. But I think the Harry

Potter overall are stronger movies. They're more

consistent, and I have more of a reaction to

them. I think the Hunger Games movies, they're

enjoyable. I don't know. Just not as strong,

in my opinion. All right. Clean sweep for Harry

Potter. So the last one comes to me, and I am

having a tough time. I have so many written down

that I want to go over. Just picking one. I'm

going to go with an actor pairing. Dan, I need

your help, though. I'm going to go either a more

serious route or a more comedic route. Which

one should I go? Let's go comedic. All right.

I'm going to go with... Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler?

Jim Carrey. And you're thinking about all of

his movies, not just the state that they're both

in currently with their careers. You're going

Jim Carrey, you said? Uh -huh. Not even a question?

No question. Eliminating... He's always been

one of my favorites. I do really, really enjoy

Adam Sandler movies as much as they're probably

shit. I do have fun with them. So you'd rather

live in a world with Ace Ventura and Dumb and

Dumber than one with Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison,

I just have more fun with Jim Carrey's performances.

He's got more physical comedy. I think that they're

both really over the top, but I like how Jim

Carrey does it more than I like how Adam Sandler

does it. All right. Dan, agree or disagree? That's

tough. I'm thinking Adam Sandler probably wasn't

the best movie of them all with Punch Drunk Love,

if you're looking at their serious work and comedic

work. arguably Jim Carrey can be the better actor,

because he also has Eternal Sunshine and Spotless

Mind, too, so that's the top one. I have not

seen 23, so I cannot speak to that. I haven't

either. Who do I find funnier? That's a good

question. I guess I'd go, you know, since we're

saying comedic, we're just looking at their comedy.

I enjoyed Adam Sandler's comedy in the sense

of Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison. more so than

Jim Carrey's with The Mask and Ace Ventura. If

I watch Ace Ventura now, it doesn't seem as funny

to me, but if I still watch Happy Gilmore, I

can still get a couple laughs. So I'll go with

Sandler. All right. I think it's a tough choice.

I think if you take Adam Sandler's best two comedies

out and you take Jim Carrey's best two comedies

out, I think you're left with more to choose

from, obviously, from Adam Sandler. Because I

think, honestly, outside of Ace Ventura and Dumb

and Dumber, I don't know if there's too many

Jim Carrey films that I would get excited over.

I do really love The Truman Show, but again,

that's not a comedy. Yeah. I like that movie,

too. I really, really liked Ace Ventura when

I was a kid, but I think overall I'm going to

give the edge to Adam Sandler just for no other

reason than I think maybe volume or quantity

sides more with him. Let me close this out with

one more I think is super hilarious. Oh, okay.

All right, so this is Keanu Reeves, but Keanu

Reeves as Neo in The Matrix or John Wick in John

Wick. I thought you were going to say Keanu Reeves

or Nick Cage. I thought that's where you were

going with that. Both Keanu. So Neo or John Wick?

I'm going with John Wick because he did not annoy

me nearly as much as Neo did by the end of that

franchise. Dan? Well, end of the franchise. If

we're just looking at The Matrix, Neo, I'm going

to... Just look at Neo. Just Neo. Just Neo. I'll

go John Wick because I think John Wick is more

fun of a character. But I like The Matrix better.

Can I hold back my thoughts until I see John

Wick 2? Does he become Jesus in that too? No.

All right. And for those of you who are wondering,

I avoided on purpose the Star Wars, Star Trek

thing because I think that's a slam dunk and

everybody knows who wins that fight. I'm sorry,

Chuckies. It's not a year to vote. It's not a

year to vote for Star Trek. Especially when you

talk about movies. Yeah, especially in the movie

-verse, and we've talked about that ad nauseum

on other Geekcast Radio shows, so we will leave

that to rest for now. So, all right, real quickly,

we'll run down a few things as far as what we've

been watching recently, just to kind of give

you guys a quick rundown of the films and kind

of what scores we would give them. Dan, have

you seen anything in the last couple weeks you

want to bring up? I unfortunately have not, so...

Okay, so this will just be a real quick rundown

from Amanda and I on some scores, and then we'll

get into the closing stuff for you. So, Amanda,

what's one of the films that we saw this weekend?

Just kind of what it is, quick thoughts, and

a grade. Let's start with one that we saw together,

Everest. I fucking hated this movie. I was so

bored the whole time. I couldn't invest in any

of the characters. I couldn't... I didn't get

the sense of what they were really trying to

do with showing... what a struggle and how hard

it is in the process of actually going up the

mountain. I never really felt a good sense of

time. The only thing that I felt was out of breath

like they were. I couldn't put myself into the

position to, even after they said, oh, your body

is literally dying, all that I could really see

was they didn't have enough oxygen. It didn't

play enough into what was actually going on with

their body, even though they tried to play that

up. So I didn't really like it overall. I didn't

like it. ending. I know it's based on a true

story and as tragic as that was, the movie about

it I didn't enjoy. What score would you give

it? I'd give it a 4 out of 10. 4 out of 10 for

you. I'm going to be slightly higher than that.

I'll give it a 5 .5 out of 10. You always have

to be slightly higher. 5 .5 out of 10. I think

it's slightly better than average. If you want

to know... About Everest, I think the best thing

to do is listen to the in -session film podcast

about Everest. I think they nailed that on the

nose there with their commentary on that. I think

it's definitely disappointing. I'm not going

to go into why, but it's not nearly as good as

I was hoping, so I will give it a 5 .5 out of

10 for Everest. The other new film that I saw

in the theater, outside of stuff we just saw

on demand or on video, was The Visit, the M.

Night Shyamalan movie, and I went into this.

It was your birthday. choice. You got to pick

whatever you wanted. There was Black Mass and

all kinds of other things out there, and you

picked The Visit, and I thought I was going to

hate it. I was thoroughly entertained by this

film. I don't usually like this genre, but I

actually quite enjoyed this film. I would probably

give this one a 7 out of 10. What did you think

about The Visit? I'd also give it a 7 out of

10. I thought it was pretty funny. I also thought

the jump scares and the twist and this actually

worked. I know that sometimes M. Night Shyamalan

just goes kind of batshit crazy with his twist,

but I think that this one really, really worked.

It wasn't paranormal. It wasn't aliens. It was

believable, and it still creeped you the hell

out, and I liked it. I thought it was a little,

I want to say meta maybe, in the fact that he

kept kind of poking fun at himself as a director.

I think so, too. And I think there's a lot more

that you could say about it. We'll save that

for another time or something else. But I definitely

think we're in agreement on a 7 out of 10 for

The Visit. Why don't you go over the two that

you saw without me from previous years real quick,

and then we'll just do a quick rundown of the

other 2015 films you've seen. So you saw two

from 2000. And I think they're both from 2013.

Maybe one was 2014. But what were the two that

you saw without me? The Counselor, which I fucking

hated. It was awful. People don't talk like that.

People don't do shit like that. I still don't

know what the fuck that they were doing. You

ignored everybody's critique of that film and

decided that you wanted to see that one for yourself.

I had to because of the cast. I was looking at

the cast and I just... I had to see for myself.

Well, I'm glad you got to learn the same lesson

that we all learned when we watched the two days

that it was in theater. I'm going to give it

a 2 out of 10, just because they had a cool cast

and some cheetahs or whatever the fuck they were.

I think the next 2013 movie I saw was The Place

Beyond the Pines, and I actually give that a

6 out of 10. I thought it was a really cool...

I think the execution was really cool. I liked

the cast. Ryan Gosling, what up? It was interesting

how they had a shift of the characters and the

focal point and the timeline, so I really enjoyed

it. Yeah, 6 out of 10. All right, and then we

saw a bunch of movies as far as rentals that

we're going to just go real quick through. We

saw Cut Bank, Cop Car, American Heist, Return

to Sender, and The Last Knight. Amanda? What

were the good ones and bad ones out of that?

Or go through your scores from worst to best.

Worst to best. I'm going to say Cop Bank, 2 out

of 10. John Mockfitch puking over dead bodies.

Cop Car, also 2 out of 10. I was totally bored

in that movie. It was just a bunch of stupid,

unrealistic choices made. Return to Sender, I

give that a 3 out of 10. Rosamund Pike was just...

Fucking creepy. I did actually really like Nick

Nolte in this movie, though. I thought he was

really good. And then the last night... No, we

got one before that. What? Where? Oh, American

Heist? We're going to go four out of ten. I didn't

really like that movie. I just thought that...

You've got to say the two people that are in

that film. What? Who are the two brothers in

that film? Christian, or Hayden Christensen?

Hayden Christensen and Adrian Brody? Yeah, and

I think their relationship, though some of their

dialogue was weak, they kept saying, we're brothers,

we're brothers, it's just to the end, or whatever.

They said that at least five times in the film.

Five hundred times. But I think that their relationship

between them was pretty deep. I liked it. Jordana

Brewster and her, the work she's gotten done,

and her horse teeth, hate it. And then... The

Last Nights, I think, was the one that I enjoyed

the most, and I'll give that a 5 out of 10. Out

of all those films, the one you enjoyed the most

got a 5 out of 10. Yeah. That is scary. I'll

go down the scores real quick for you. In reverse

order, I think my favorite out of those was...

Probably The Last Nights as well. I'll stay with

a five just like you did. But I'll also give

Cop Car a five because I enjoyed the... The fuck?

I enjoyed the first... Why? Because I... If I

could finish my sentence. You didn't even act

like you liked this movie. No. I'll give it a

five out of ten because I enjoyed the first two

-thirds of the film. I thought the last third

was utter horseshit. So I did not like the last

third. But because the first two -thirds had

me engaged and I was watching, I'll give that

a five out of ten. What about the first two -thirds

had you engaged? I just found it interesting.

I was interested to see what was going to happen.

Two little boys making some... apparently stupid

decisions. I just was intrigued as to what was

going to happen and following the story. What

are these idiot kids going to get into? Exactly.

How are they going to hurt each other? So those

two, I'll give a five out of 10. I will give

Cut Bank, I'll give that like a three and a half

out of 10. Did not enjoy that film at all. I

don't understand your grading at all, ever. All

right. And then I will give, I'll give Return

to Sender a two out of 10. Rosamund Pike is terrible

in that film. I know a lot of people are big

fans of her from Gone Girl, etc., but Return

to Cinder, she is not acting well. It is... Bad

acting. But I agree, Nick Nolte was good. And

then easily the worst film out of that group

is American Heist. I'll give that one a 1 out

of 10. Hayden Christensen and Adrian Brody are

terrible. The writing's terrible. The dialogue's

terrible. Everything about that film is terrible.

That's probably one of the worst films I've seen

in the last two years. All right, so nothing

to talk about good. I guess we talked good about

The Visit. All right, let's... Quickly get into

what's coming then this weekend and on to Tuesday

with the Blu -ray releases. We got a whole bunch

of stuff coming out on Blu -ray this week, including

some highlights here. The Mad Max Anthology.

We have a couple different seasons for TV shows.

We have a Steven Seagal 8 movie action collection.

I don't know if anyone's a big Steven Seagal

fan. but I don't even know if I know a single

film in that eight movie action collection, so

maybe that's a sign that that wouldn't be a pick

for me. Mad Max Fury Road 3D Combo Pack, Boulevard,

there's a whole bunch to pick from. If you're

just looking at the Blu -ray releases and you

can only buy one of those films, Amanda, or one

of those TV series or whatever it might be, which

one are you putting your money down on? Hmm,

shit. Let's go... Mad Max Fury Road 3D combo

pack. All right. Dan, if you have to put your

money on one thing on that list, what would it

be? Yeah, I agree. I'd go Mad Max as well. And

I'll be different and go Mad Max, but I'll go

with the Anthology just because, whatever, I'll

own them all on Blu -ray. That's cool. But I'll

stay away from everything else. As far as theater

releases, like we said, there's three plus, I

guess you could talk about Sicario going a little

bit more wide. So out of Freeheld, The Walk,

Sicario, and The Martian. If you can only go

see one in theater, Amanda, which one are you

going to see? Sicario. All right, she's going

with Sicario. Dan, only one in the theater. Similar

to my reasoning for Everest, I want to see The

Walk on the big screen. Just for the walk itself,

seeing that in possibly 3D, IMAX, I think that

would be a cool experience. I can totally see

what you're saying there, and I think if you

had to pick one to see, if you have the option

to see it in 3D, it would definitely be the walk.

I guess just to be different, I guess the one

I'm looking forward to a little bit more, although

I am looking forward to Sicario, I'll be different

and just say The Martian, just because, whatever,

I like to get burned 700 times by the same director.

But it's getting good reviews, so maybe it'll

be redeeming quality. And I'm a sucker for science

fiction, so I'll go with The Martian. All right.

We've never done this before, but the last thing

before we close it out, there's a whole bunch

of limited video -on -demand, direct -to -movie

types of films. I'm going to run down some of

them and make you guys pick one out of this list.

So just bear with me here. We have Attack on

Titan Part 1, which is a live -action anime adaptation

from Funimation. We have Labyrinth of Lies, which

is a drama kind of dealing with Germany post

-World War II. We have Shanghai, starring John

Cusack. We have Hell and Back, which we had the

trailer for from the animated film there. Partisan,

which is a film dealing kind of like with a commune,

kind of like almost that cult atmosphere. He

Named Me Malala, which is a documentary on the

Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Addicted to Fresno,

I think we've all seen the trailers for that

with Judy Greer and Molly Shannon. We have Taxi,

which is the documentary from, I always say his

name wrong, but Panahi. It's probably not how

you say it, but he's obviously a pretty famous

filmmaker from the Middle East. We have Garm

Wars, The Last Druid, which is a combination

live -action CGI starring Lance Henriksen, which

is 15 years in the making. We have a film called

Northern Soul, which is about the underground

DJ movement, which stars Steve Coogan. We have

This Changes Everything, which is another documentary

on climate change. We have A Christmas Horror

Story. aka Krampus, which is billed on the poster

as an instant classic. I just thought that was

a League reference, but I guess it's a real thing.

We have Narcopolis, which is a techno thriller

where all drugs are deemed legal. We have a film

called Deathgasm, which is a heavy metal horror

film. I don't know. I guess that's a genre, heavy

metal horror. They said that like there's a bunch

of heavy metal horror films out there, which

maybe there is. There's Sherpa, which is a documentary

on an industrial dispute. We have The Creeping

Garden, which is another documentary kind of

on a number of different things. It's hard to

describe. We have Shark Lake. which is a film,

obviously, about killer sharks starring Dolph

Lundgren. And we have a film called This Is Happening,

which is a comedy starring Judd Nelson. Dan,

if you had to watch one of these, which one would

you watch? Man, obviously Shark Lake with Dolph

Lundgren. No. I'm interested in He Named Me Malala.

That has potential of being good. But I probably

would go because I'm a Steve Coogan fan. I'd

be interested in Northern Soul because it sounds

ridiculous, but I could see it working knowing

Coogan's comedy. All right. I'm going to take

the easy way out and just pick with kind of more

what's dealing with a time period or a genre

that I like a lot. So I'll go with Labyrinth

of Lies. It's a drama. It's dealing with wartime.

It's kind of Germany post. post -World War II,

and it's kind of talking about the secrets and

the different unveiling of certain people that

were doing certain things, etc. So it seems like

it could be somewhat intriguing. It's also getting

to 78 % right now in Rotten Tomatoes, so maybe

it's decent. But Amanda, you're forced to watch

one of those films. Which one's it going to be?

Hell and Back. the already animated film. Which

is starring Michael Pena, Mila Kunis, Susan Sarandon,

Bob Odenkirk, and Danny McBride. Yes, sir. Brought

to you from the same people that I believe did

Robot Chicken and something else. All right,

so you can look for all those streaming or on

demand this week, and they're all probably available

for you, and you can get back to us on which

ones we should have picked. Outside of that,

we don't really have a question for you, so to

speak, but I do want to... Tell everybody if

you have not voted yet, please go out and vote

on the director retrospective. It's your last

chance to vote. You only have probably a limited

number of hours and or maybe a day or two to

vote before we record that final episode. But

like we said at the beginning of the show, it's

time to unveil what you guys picked as far as

our remakes. Our fantasy filmmaker. Dan, I don't

know if you've been keeping up with the results,

but we got quite a few votes last time I checked.

I think we were up into the 30s or 40s for each

film as far as votes on which ones should be

made or which ones weren't. Do you have an idea

of what the results are before we unveil them?

No, I purposely did not take a look. All right,

so you will be witnessing this. We were keeping

track for a little while. I think we kind of

lost track this last week, but we were definitely

keeping track the first couple of days. So the

first one that we had that will reveal the results

from was from Amanda, and that was the live action.

remake or reboot, I guess, whatever you want

to call it, from Little Mermaid from the Disney

film. All right. And for the Little Mermaid remake,

we have a grand total of 29 votes to make that

film and only six to make it stop. So by 83%,

Amanda, your Little Mermaid is being made. How

do you feel? I feel pretty good about my solid

choice. All right. So that's a high number. So

83%. We'll see if anybody can beat that. You

followed that up with your Waterworld remake.

And the choices were Make That Movie or Once

Was Enough. And we had 34 votes in that. And

I guess kind of unbelievably, we have a tie.

It's 17 for Make That Movie and 17 for Once Was

Enough. So 50 -50. So we have no clue what to

do with that film. The world does not know what

to do with your proposal for Waterworld. So,

wow. I did not expect a tie at all. So, interesting.

Dan, your first one was the Spawn reboot. We

also had 36 votes for that. And the total is

23 to make that movie and 13 for Too Little Too

Late. So, 64%. Give it the green light. So, eh.

That's positive. Yeah. It's passing. It's a pass

-fail. It's 64%. Not quite as high as she got

with Little Mermaid, but still a passing score.

We'll see if you're two for two, because I guess

Amanda's one for one, because the tie, I don't

think we can fault her for or give her credit

for, so I don't know about that one. So a new

Towering Inferno, 35 votes, and the total is

21 to make that movie, and 14, only one building?

No. So 60%, Dan, for that one. So you get both

of yours made for 64 % and 60%. Yeah. I'm surprised.

I was wondering with Tower of Inferno because

I know it's not well -known. Unfortunately, the

director of that just actually passed away this

past week. Oh, geez. Yeah. I'm surprised that

Spawn didn't get more votes. I thought for sure

more people would be on board for that, but 64

% still passing. I'm surprised not more people

were on board for Wonder World. All right. My

first one was Star Trek, another new generation.

Make that movie or just can't do it, Captain.

And the votes, let's see, 35 votes for that one

as well. We have 30 of them for make that movie,

five for not. So 86%, which I believe barely

beats Little Mermaid by 3%. So we're going to

make that Star Trek film. And that leaves one

last one. Why do you have to compare it to Little

Mermaid? I thought there was no winners here.

There's no winners. So far we're all winners

and we're undecided on Waterworld. And that makes

the last one the Masters of the Year remake.

You could either make that movie or by the power

of Grayskull, no. Another 35 votes, and we have

28 yes and 7 no, so 80 % for He -Man. So none

of our movies got shut down. I think that's successful,

guys. None of our movies were shut down. Amanda's

sad about Waterworld, though. I'll go vote and

give you the 17, so it'll be 51 % and 49. There

you go. If I would have voted on my own, then

it would have pushed it over. So we'll break

that tie by all voting for yes. All right. So

definitely, I guess the only question for you

guys outside of that, besides going to vote on

the last chance you can for the next director

retrospective would be, did you like the fantasy

filmmaker? And did you like this or that? If

you liked either of them or didn't like them,

help us figure out if we should do them again

at some point, because they definitely are the

types of things that we could do over again if

we... were so asked to by the listeners. Amanda,

anything else before we close this episode out?

Just don't see Everest, please. Please don't

see it, Chris. All right. So thanks, as always,

for tuning in to the Cinema Geeks this week.

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us. Be sure to tune in very soon for our wrap

-up of the Tarantino retrospective and the reveal

for who is next, as well as upcoming another

one of our top ten of the half -decade list.

We only have a few more of those left. Enjoy,

so stay on the lookout for that. And we will

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