Kingsman and Jupiter Ascending Review

Hi, this is John Delancey and you are listening

to the Geekcast Radio Network. Today on Weekend

at the Movies, we're back and we're catching

up with 2015. So with me once again is Nathan.

Hello. Hello. And for the sent hello So it's

been a while since the three of us have been

together on the podcast probably about six or

seven months So we are making our grand return

here and starting off again here in 2015 with

all new stuff you most recently heard Matt last

week with our box office predictions and Before

that the week before that you heard his voice

on the PFFL fantasy film draft We've had a little

bit of time since we did the draft Matt What

are your thoughts so far? Well, I got two thoughts

is first one is I didn't know taken three was

happening in 2015 When it came to my last pick

all of my guys like all of the guys I was really

looking at had been taken and I just was like

Liam Neeson into IMDB And I had you know taken

three 2014. I was like, okay. Well, that's not

gonna burn me So that's my first thought. My

second thought is I will trade Liam Neeson for

anyone, including Diesel Ramos, who I don't think

is worth any points because he's not credited

any movies. Well, no worries, because so far

I am in dead last. I'm in the process of making

everybody's individual team pages so that you

can track how your actors are doing and so other

people can track how each team is doing. I've

done mine so far. Have two people that are giving

me negative four points apiece. So that's that's

trumping your Liam Neeson my Sean Bean and Julianne

Moore for being in Jupiter Ascending and Seventh

Son are hurting me big time right now, but I

saw Jupiter ascending so maybe that got it up.

Wait There you go. Is it like if if it's below

budget you lose points if it's above budget That's

what's hurting me right now is there's a big

negative for there's a bunch of different stuff.

There's like appearing in a movie. There's a

Making X number of dollars. There's Awards. There's

Rotten Tomatoes scores, but one of the big negatives

is Not making your budget back as a movie or

not even making half of your budget and so far

Jupiter sending and seven Sun neither of them

have even come close to half of their budget

so yeah, I actually I want to apologize you asked

me to do this and It was like that's the furthest

thing I can think of that would be fun to do

because like Like squabbling over like little

details about like budgets is my least favorite

part of movie talk Like I'm like, what's the

movie? Is it good? I want to watch good movies

Right. Well, we don't need the budget part of

it. So there's like there's part of it for box

office There's part of it for critical claim.

Yeah. Yeah We're not aware that it was more than

budget And then to like I totally didn't even

I skimmed the rules, I'm not gonna lie, and I

committed to memory. It's like, okay, I need

to worry about budget, I need to worry about

awards, and I need to worry about the future

casting things or whatever. I did not read The

Rotten Tomatoes or did not commit it to memory.

If I had, I might not have banked on Paul Blart

2, because apparently the first one did not do

well on The Rotten Tomatoes. It did well monetarily,

but it's not gonna win me any awards or anything.

It might just be a wash. Yeah, and I kind of

went, everybody had their different strategies.

Some people went straight box office and picked

every Avengers and Star Wars person they could

possibly pick. You know, some people went for

more of the award potential, like someone picked

Leonardo DiCaprio. And he's so far only slated

to appear in one film, so they're hoping that

it's an award -worthy film. I went with who's

going to be in the most movies. I just figured

if they're in a lot of movies, maybe I'll have

better shots at everything. So I try to go with

people that were in like four or five, six movies.

So we'll see what strategies work out best. But

that was something that we recently did. And

now we're getting back into the swing of things

because we've somewhat worked out what should

be a regular schedule here where we're going

to be recording Every Thursday nights and we'll

be giving it to you guys live on on Friday at

some point to listen to over your weekend and

between Matt Nate myself and movie revolt Dan

we should Hopefully every week have at least

two people that are available and then we'll

keep pumping out the episodes like we were doing

last year just a quick catch -up for people that

Might not know Nate. What has been going on in

your life the last six months? Oh, well I Moved

and then I got married and then I got a job not

in that particular order actually But yeah, um,

I got a new job and it's awesome, but it's far

away. So that's kind of lame right, but now you're

you're left with some time during the week to

kill so it allows you to get your podcast in

on yeah, it's good totally and Matt, how about

you? What's the what's the last six months been

treating you like? You've been the one that hasn't

had as many conflicts, and you've been the one

that's just had to suffer at our schedules. I

was going to say, nothing has really changed.

I got my vacation back. Woo! One negative to

my otherwise very amazing job is that when you

go full -time, you don't get any vacation for

a year. And this currently is my first week off

in over 18 months. Oh jeez. which I'm living

it up. When we get to the movies we've watched

this week, you'll see just how leveling it up

I've been doing. So yeah, no, it's just I haven't

done much. Any project I was working on six months

ago has fallen through the wayside, and I've

got a new project. Nice. That's all I do. You

jump from project to project. Jump from failing

ship to failing ship. Abandon ship onto the next

one. But it should be fun. We're going to change

things up a little bit here in 2015. Keep a lot

of things similar to what you were hearing in

2014. We're going to add some different flares

along the way, I guess. So you'll see the format

kind of being tweaked here these next couple

weeks until we settle on something that we all

kind of enjoy and like. But there is going to

be some special episodes as well. We're not going

to try to do new movies every single week just

because of all of our schedules. Sometimes it's

hard to all see the same movie. So you will hear

occasionally, you know, something that's in the

theater and all three of us giving our takes

on it. But we're also going to do some look back

at some other different movies. We also have

some special themed episodes. So I'm not going

to give... anything away as far as what we will

be doing, but you'll hear some different ideas

and different fun things going along the way

that will keep things hopefully fresh and interesting

for those people that are listening. But without

giving too much away, today's main attraction,

we're just going to be catching up right now

with what's going on so far in 2015, any movies

we've seen from 2015 so far. I know Matt and

I have seen a couple similar, so we'll be talking

about those a little bit. But we will start the

same as we did back uh... six months ago looking

at the box office from this past weekend looking

at the box office from this past weekend it was

uh... a landslide victory number one film in

case anyone's living under the rock or a rock

not not dwayne johnson but do you know if you

could i live under the rock it depends if it's

like that the apartment underneath him or if

it's literally underneath him either one But

that would be 50 Shades of Grey, which brought

in 85 million dollars this past weekend. So it

doubled its budget, so anybody in our fantasy

league that had a 50 Shades of Grey member, you're

probably going to be involved with the first

movie that breaks the 100 million mark, as far

as that actually have actors or actresses drafted.

There has been another 100 million movie this

year so far, and that was Spongebob. Take that,

the first Spongebob movie. Who thought Spongebob,

it's leading the year right now with 107. And

technically if you don't count just the weekend,

50 Shades of Grey has broken the 100 million

mark now. But it had 85 million for the weekend.

Kingsman The Secret Service was number two with

36. Spongebob in its second week was in third

spot with 31. The American Sniper is still bringing

in some money. It has now passed the 300 million

mark. And Jupiter Sending was fifth this last

weekend with 9 million. So it's up to 32. But

that's not even near its 176 million dollar budget.

So that's the first top five. We'll go over here

in 2015. Matt, are you surprised at all that

Fifty Shades of Grey beats Kingsman or was that

kind of something that you expected with the

craze that the book had a few years back? No,

it's not surprising at all. I mean, you know,

part of me was doubtful that I was going to do

well, especially when you hear things like There's

a lot of outrage that the book, I mean we can

all agree was aimed at mostly female demographic

and the movie I believe has female nudity but

not male nudity which is like I know there was

a lot of internet outrage I don't know how much

of that it was legitimate or whatever and just

to add a little bit of weird statistical information

that I do have I've heard, actually, women tend

to look at other women in a nudity situation

rather than the guy, so maybe that's not as off

-putting as the internet thought it would be.

I'm not surprised. That's off me when it comes

down to. That said, I've read some of the book,

and it's not very good writing. And, of course,

there is the typical this time of year Oscar

jumps for any movies that were nominated for

Oscar. So you're still seeing American Sniper,

The Imitation Game, Selma, Birdman, Whiplash,

The Theory of Everything, all making some money

as they all get re -released or special screenings

in different theaters. I know a lot of AMC theaters

do their... two -day best picture spotlight where

you can go see like four or five movies one day

and four or five the other day movie revolt Dan

actually did that this last weekend which is

why he has not seen the Kingsman the Secret Service

yet which we'll probably talk about a little

bit later so yeah that's the box office for this

weekend 50 Shades of Grey taking the first spot

not much should change if I'm going to be a predictor

for this next weekend because really nothing

comes out outside of hot tub time machine 2 which

I don't see putting too much of a dent in Fifty

Shades or Kingsman. So we'll have to wait. Does

Black Hat only made 7 .8 million and it's out

of theaters? Yeah, Black Hat got pulled out of

the theater so fast. I was actually going to

go see that and then it became impossible. It

was in theaters for like a week or two. Right.

Maybe three. It was just immediately gone. And

it's like it was almost like Oldboy last year

where it just... literally and with no explanation

disappeared uh... so i'm not sure why the strange

magic i wanted to see but i don't think that

hit our theaters at all i think it's it's leaving

too i was actually able to strange magic it was

it was it was here for a little bit uh... i like

the real argument than a black hat so and it's

not yet so it wasn't there thing i don't know

why black i would be pulled so fast and some

of these other movies would be allowed to linger

but uh... I guess that's just the way it is.

Yeah. Getting into some of the news though, we'll

start with some sequel and remake news. We got

about four items there to discuss real quick

and get your guys' opinions on. Starting with

another reboot of a movie that's already been

rebooted. That's the stage we're at, guys. We're

no longer just rebooting old properties, we're

rebooting things that have already been rebooted.

Spider -Man. Spider -Man. Spider -Man. Like Spider

-Man, but a different film here altogether, and

that's New Line Cinema, which is apparently starting

talks to reboot Shaft once again. So, you know,

we had the 1971 original with Richard Roundtree,

and then about 15 years ago we had a Samuel L.

Jackson version. So, is it time for another Shaft,

Matt? Well, if you consider from Roundtree to

Jackson, it was 30 years. It's now been 15 years

since the Sam Jackson one Why not at this point

and who plays shaft this time Terry Crews? Yeah

That was exactly what that was no they haven't

they haven't they haven't done anything at all

But I mean they literally just like you know

what maybe we should talk about shaft and then

I got thrown on the internet because it's the

internet But yeah, no if I if I were gonna choose

any one It would be Terry Crews, just because

Terry Crews is like one of my favorite people.

I watched Unhulu. It's like America's Funniest

Home Videos, but it's like so extra dumb. It's

like America's failiest fail. I saw like two

minutes of that. I was like, what in God's name

is this? But if you want to see some unadulterated

Terry Crews on stage, it's pretty great. Just

unscripted. He's just jiggling his axe and doing

push ups and picking up contestants, which is

weird to have a contestants on a funny clip show.

It's a weird, weird show, but it's fun because

Terry Crews is awesome. I saw a terrible movie

that had Terry Crews in it. But he was the best

part of the movie As he sometimes can be and

the reason this is making headlines is because

apparently new line purchased the rights to shafts

So that's getting everybody talking about if

they purchase the rights to him or to that property

They must be thinking about making some type

of movie out of it. So also technically the Sam

Jackson one was a sequel not a remake Okay, is

he plays like a cousin of the original shaft?

Right a family member of that. Have either of

you guys seen either of the other ones? No, no

I should. Yeah, no, I would love to. That pretty

much talks to how excited I am about it. I think

I've seen the Samuel L. Jackson one. You think?

Yeah, that's how much of an impact I've had on

it. Is that forgettable? Pretty much. The big

news as far as reboots or sequels or whatever

it's going to be this last week that was making

the rounds on Twitter and what not was of course

the... Confirmation that Neil Blomkamp will be

directing a new alien movie. Yeah, you know Neil

Blomkamp who did I know a lot of people did not

like Elysium, but he also did District 9 and

Currently this year has a chappy which will be

coming out. So apparently he has been pinned

to make a new alien movie Have you guys seen

all the alien movies? No, I've seen Alien vs.

Predator. That's it That's just like I was just

listening and talking in circles last week and

they were talking about their list of shame and

There was both of Dan's friends Chuck and Greg

had both seen AVP But neither of them had seen

one of them hadn't seen any of the predator movies

and one of them hadn't seen any of the alien

movies I think yeah AVP was really Kind of dumb

like yeah, I don't think that does it justice

cuz yeah No, I know I know it's amazing. I know

I have to watch it. I actually oh well no my

friend brought over a pack of all like four movies

or something To watch the first two are definitely

worth it I don't remember much after that but

alien and aliens are definitely worth it and

then of course we recently had Prometheus which

is also gonna have a sequel And I think this

one is gonna be somehow connected to those films,

maybe. From what the article says. I was gonna

say, wasn't there like clues in the original

Prometheus that lead you to believe it's in the

same universe or whatever? Yeah, it's supposed

to be like a somewhat beforehand, I believe.

Super prequel. Yeah, and a lot of people hated

Prometheus, I thought it was pretty good, actually.

Oh yeah, a lot of mixed reviews. I got Prometheus

action figures, if that means anything. That's

awesome. Mainly the tentacle monster. which came

in a two -pack with a screaming burn -faced Patrick

Stewart. Nice. Of course the reason this isn't

making the rounds is because Neil Blomkamp himself

actually tweeted out a picture of an alien and

it said, so I think it's officially my next film,

hashtag alien. I wish I were famous and I could

just tweet out things like that that are just

not true. It was on Instagram not Twitter. I

don't want to get people mad at me but But yeah,

I think I think a lot of people are interested

in that because you know He's done similar things

that have been interesting and regardless of

how much people might have not have liked Elysium

I think a lot of people connect this to what

he did with district 9 and when he was dealing

with aliens there So I'm on board. I would have

to revisit the alien franchise You know and see

what those were like as an adult rather than

just as my like 10 or 11 year old self or whatever

age I was when those came out, but I'm down so

We'll have to see how that goes and then another

sequel here. I didn't know they were gonna keep

doing these I thought they were done but Pirates

of the Caribbean 5 Apparently now has a title

and a synopsis if anybody gives two rats ass

about that Pirates of the Caribbean dead men

tell no tales And I would read the synopsis,

but I really don't think anybody cares what the

synopsis is. I don't even know if those films

need synopsises. Here's what you did. Hey, as

Pirates of the Caribbean 5, there's going to

be Magic and Johnny Depp. It's going to make

a million. And probably Jeffrey Rush. That said,

I rather enjoyed all of them, and I'll see this

one in theaters. Oh, I enjoyed them, too. I'm

just saying, like, I don't necessarily know if

the plot is a crucial point to the Pirates of

the Caribbean films at this point. No, like,

all you need is the first ten minutes of the

fourth one, and you know that they don't care

anymore. Like, it's literally, it was just Jack

Sparrow, Jack Sparrowing around for ten minutes,

and it was hilarious and awesome. Yeah, I like

him as that character, regardless of how many

people have hated him since then, because I think

he's doing that character in every movie, but

I like that franchise. I think Johnny Depp is

just being Johnny Depp. Right like we had that

news article last year where at least I think

it was on this show Where they talked about how

famous actors like Johnny Depp and Will Smith?

Have like special writers that when they sign

a contract on a movie go back and rewrite some

of the lines to be more like the actor. Oh I

remember that I might have just found that on

my own. I thought actors jobs were to interpret

scripts and No, that's directors. Okay. And going

right off of what we might be talking about a

little bit later, at least partially, with the

Kingsman movie, apparently there's already a

sequel in the works. I was going to say, there

was a buzz about that, like, on Saturday. Like,

it released on Thursday, Friday, there was buzz

about the sequel on Saturday. Right. And the

news article that was directly quoted with Matthew

Vaughn here is saying that there's a possibility

that Colin Firth would return for a Kingsman

sequel. I'm going to save too much of my thoughts

on that for when we actually, when Matt and I

talk a little bit about Kingsman. Would that's

interesting that Colin Firth would somehow be

returning? No spoilers. Oh stop it guys. Why

not? Well, yeah, I mean I enjoy the idea of another

Kingsman movie because I really enjoyed the first

one but we'll save our thoughts on that and we'll

come back to it but Was anybody were you guys

paying attention to all these different casting

things that were going on during the week? I

don't know how much you guys follow on your or

who you follow on Twitter or this that and the

other but there's been a like barrage of casting

stuff in the last like seven to ten days I all

of my news from weekend at the movies So here

we go. So first, obviously, you guys are probably

aware that they're doing a Suicide Squad movie.

I remember that from weekend of the movies earlier.

Yeah, it's something we taught everybody a long

time ago. And they've been coming out with a

whole bunch of casting news on that, some that

we have known for a little while and some that

are becoming newer now. But obviously, Will Smith

will be doing Deadshot. That's an interesting

choice. Right. And Margot Robbie, who is also

in the movie with Will Smith this year called

Focus, will be in the Suicide Squad with him.

And that's been known for a little bit, but now

also Jay Hernandez, who some people may know,

some people may not. He's a big star on Friday

Night Lights. He will be on the Suicide Squad

as well. They're saying that he may possibly

be a prison inmate of the Joker, so that's, I

don't know. I'm not really big on him or know

his history a lot, but there's also then one

more name, which will be Joel Kinnaman, who apparently

is replacing Tom Hardy. Tom Hardy has dropped

out of the Suicide Squad, so Joel Kinnaman will

be stepping up in his shoes, who has been doing

a lot of stuff you guys probably remember mostly

from RoboCop. Didn't see it. Nate, you saw RoboCop,

didn't you? No, I haven't. Well, I mean, I've

seen the original. No, no, this is the guy that

was RoboCop here in the last few years. No, I

heard it was terrible, though. It's like, wasn't

that like a PG -13 version of RoboCop? It was,

it had its issues, that's for sure. Dan didn't

dislike it, if I remember correctly. One of you

two was okay on it, because I listened to the

MWire Weekend before I joined it. Right. I mean,

I think I had some issues for sure. It was a

flawed, had some flawed parts. I mean, it had

some entertaining parts and some good nods to

the old one, but it definitely had some issues.

But the main star there, which is Joel Kinnaman,

who will be joining Will Smith, Margot Robbie,

Jay Courtney, Jared Leto, also Viola Davis, and

a couple other people. So I mean, it's getting

a lot of stars connected to it, regardless of

how you... Feel about it and the Joel Kinnaman

is apparently possibly going to be playing Rick

Flag and in that so I Don't know I don't like

the idea like let's get some less famous people.

Maybe that's a good idea Just cuz you stack a

bunch of stars doesn't mean you got a good movie

Right especially depending on the director, so

I don't know how everybody else out there I haven't

been paying too much attention So definitely

comment on this post and let us know what your

thoughts are so far of the Suicide Squad cast

or just the idea of the Suicide Squad movie in

general Because I'm interested to see what people

think about these I haven't been keeping up I've

kept up to see who's playing who but I haven't

kept up with you know what the reactions are

and who's for it who's against it or what the

issues are so i'd be interested to see people

comment and give us their opinions on that the

other film that's been getting a whole bunch

of uh... casting news is the deadpool movie which

is being done by fox which all of a sudden uh...

right off the bat should probably scare some

people but uh... more i'm gonna say this name

wrong but marina uh... backer in who is on homeland

is going to be playing their opposite ryan reynolds

And also they're talking about Colossus being

recast because it had been the same person for

a while, Daniel Cudmore, who had played it in

previous films. Apparently he is not doing it

because he tweeted out that he'd had an awesome

time doing it, but unfortunately will not be

appearing in this one. And Gina Carano, the ex

-UFC Ultimate Fighter MMA person, will also be

doing some type of role in Deadpool. Don't know.

I know a lot of people when they saw the actual

pictures of Ryan Reynolds You know in the Deadpool

garb or Stuff like that or the pictures that

came out from that started getting on board a

little bit But a lot of people were apprehensive

about Ryan Reynolds playing Deadpool at all He

was the one who played him a while back, right?

Yeah, yeah, it's not a terrible casting choice.

I think if anyone can play a very annoying person

it's around Reynolds Oh, totally. Like, he could

totally do it, but, like, when he did it before,

they, like, had him not talk. Writer -director

issues. Yeah. Yeah, there's just the bad writing

of that character. How could you not have Deadpool

talk? Like, literally, his name is the Merc with

a Mouth. That's his tagline. Yeah. Like, so,

sewing his mouth shut early on. I didn't see

that movie because it looked terrible. No, yeah,

that's pretty much what happened. Sewing his

mouth shut early on, it sounds like... I mean,

I don't even know. It's like, okay, so we got

this Green Lantern movie. No green allowed. What?

This Deadpool guy. Don't let him talk. Don't

let him talk. Yeah. So again, I've heard a bunch

of mixed reactions on this Deadpool thing so

far, but I'd be interested to hear everybody

that listens to Weekend on the Movies, the two

or three of them, what they think of. of the

deadpool casting so far in comparison to us you

know the on suicide squad which one are you more

interested in as far as how it's just shaping

up so far and uh... this is where we can get

into some interesting territory with the weekend

at the movies for those people that are involved

in the fantasy film league because when we do

this casting segment that's when we're gonna

be talking a little bit about uh... possibilities

of some actors that are involved in different

people's teams and what movies they might be

lined up for and if it uh... qualifies for major

casting or not So far none of the names we've

been throwing out really have been I don't think

are on anybody's team I may be wrong, but I know

this one is and that's Marion Marion I always

say her name wrong, but she is in line apparently

to join Assassin's Creed So a co -star for Michael

Fassbender So that would be interesting if those

two are paired up together and that would mean

some probably mean some points for the owner

of Marion there, but That movie is going to be

coming out December of 2016 So it's still a ways

off, but it looks like the next Assassin's Creed

adaptation here or the first it has that's the

first movie, right? Yeah Yeah, so the first Assassin's

Creed movie right now with Michael Fassbender

as the lead and Marion Collard as the co -star

and People can correct me on how I'm supposed

to be saying her name Dan can I've heard that

yes Ever and I've heard people say it and I did

just doesn't stick in my head So I never remember

how to say it when I go in I just sound like

an idiot instead so movie reviews by the way

No, that's who has I've got the all right So

he's probably looking for this to be confirmed

so he can gain some points with her being cast

in the Assassin's Creed film because I think

that's somewhat of a Major role and I don't know.

I think the Assassin's Creed movies could do

well I think there's a lot of cinematic stuff

in those games. I mean, I'm not a big gamer So

I haven't played all of them or anything like

that, but I've played little bits and pieces

of them. So, would that be coming out this year

then? No, it'd be coming out next December. Oh,

wow. Okay, so... So, almost two years from now.

Okay. A year after Star Wars. Yeah, it's not

coming out against Star Wars. It's gonna wait

a year. And then the last casting thing, which

nobody owns this character in our league, but

Cody Smith McPhee has joined X -Men Apocalypse

as Nightcrawler, according to this article. from

gamesradar .com, which used to be TotalFilm .com.

I'm not really sure what happened there. They

must have changed their address or something.

One of the articles I know ends like, subscribe

to Total Film to get more news, but it's still

the GamesRadar. So they're doing something funky

with that, but for X -Men fans, I mean that should

be cool. Cody Smith, he's a pretty good actor

and he's with a bunch of other people that have

been cast as younger versions of characters.

We've already had the younger version of Storm,

Jean Grey, and Cyclops cast. So now we got the

younger version of Nightcrawler added to the

mix. So that could be interesting. And of course,

it probably will have James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender,

and Jennifer Lawrence as some of the main characters

there. So carrying over from the other X -Men

films. Are you guys excited for X -Men Apocalypse?

Yeah, oh, yeah, totally. I really like the last

x -men and the one that I feature pass is really

good They've been doing good on their last on

this run of x -men. Yeah First Class and Days

of Future Past. Days of Future Past was awesome

last year, so I'm definitely on board with this.

I think it is interesting to see more younger

versions of some of these characters. Obviously,

it gives them an opening to cast some lesser

-known people. I'm not saying these guys aren't

famous, but I'm glad, like, Matt, what you were

saying with the other film, that they're going

with some more lesser -known people. Because

I think if most people, if you name Cody Smith

-McPhee, Alexander Shipp, Sophie Turner, and

Ty Sheridan, most of them aren't household names

yet. No, so I think that's a cool direction to

go with this younger cast for X -Men apocalypse.

So definitely looking forward To what happens

with that? All right, that's it for the news

for this episode, but we do have some trailer

talk to go over We're not gonna go all the way

back from the last six months worth of trailers

That would be silly, but we will come out Yes,

since most of the movies have come out and that

would be old news that we're reporting But we

will look at back at the last seven days worth

seven to eight seven to ten days worth of trailers

We had trailers debut for Maps to the Stars Anarchy

Water the Water Diviner Crimson Peak Hot Pursuit

Trainwreck Regression Hitman or Hitman Agent

47 The Last Nights and I don't know how to say

that Viggo Mortenson movie. So I'm not even gonna

try I want to say it's Waha That actually might

be right. J -A -U -G -A. It's Spanish, right?

Yeah, right. Mostly Spanish. Like, Waha sounds

right. We'll go with that. We're gonna call it

Waha from here on out at Weekend at the Movie.

So Nate, we'll start with you. Are any of those

trailers peak your interest? Yeah, Waha. Waha.

Like, seriously. Like, if the whole movie is

in that, like, old... Format like it's sort of

a not a letterbox, but I don't know what you

call it like the full screen I don't know. It's

kind of gimmicky, but it like it's nostalgic

and it's it's interesting. It's an interesting

like design choice for the for the movie and

I mean it's it's kind of like a Western and some

I'm into that I don't know about it being like

a foreign film cuz like I don't know I'm not

into reading too much but and actually when we

talk about the movies we've seen I have a story

about some really bad voice dubbing but anyway

yeah but yeah no I mean like I could I could

get into that but uh definitely that one looks

cool You'll want to stay away from that one,

it's Spanish subtitles. It seems like a super

personal story. I just like the aesthetics so

far, from what I've seen. What other ones piqued

your interest? The Hitman Agent 47, just because

it's a video game movie and I'm super into video

games. And I mean, it looks kind of cool. I don't

know, I could go for an action movie like that.

Most most people into those types of you know,

the gamer movies are looking into that one is

something that looks pretty interesting and pretty

well done Remember incorrectly, you know what

this one has over the previous hitman movie What

no way bowl? Was that it way bowl movie. I'm

almost certain. Okay, then oh it was not oh wow

I know that he was looking at it at one time

Dude, he looks at every video. What's his deal

with video game movies? He likes to take video

games you love and ruin them He doesn't even

seem to like video games like I don't like no

one ever talks to ue bull about him liking me

You know, I'm sorry. Okay. So the other movie

is last night's that movie looks cool Probably

that's coming out real soon to one of the more

original action titles that I've seen in a while

Yeah with Clive Owen that looks like a fun fantasy

slash, you know, I Don't know exactly what time

period they were good. That's supposed to be

medieval times, right? Yeah, I'm not the other

world type of thing or something. I don't know.

Yeah But it looks fun. It looked like it could

be something that's good or it could be something

that's terrible, but I had that Robin Hood Prince

of Thieves almost type of feel I was expecting

Russell Crowe to show up at some point. But instead

he showed up in the water diviner. What did you

guys think of that trailer? That movie was kind

of brutal. Did either of you get a chance to

watch that one? I watched them. I don't... Let

me hold on. That was the one where he's going

to another country to try to find his buried

kids. Yeah, yeah. That one... Okay, so like,

Waha? It's like a western where he's trying to

find his daughter, and then Water Diviner is

kind of like a western where he's trying to find

his sons. It's really weird. They're back to

back. Back to back trailer talk. I thought Water

Diviner looked interesting. I thought Russell

Crowe looked like he could carry that film, but

I don't know. I don't know. It looks kind of

depressing at the same time. It looked like a

good movie. It didn't look like an entertaining

film. Yeah. It looked like something that could

pretty much depress you and not necessarily keep

you on the edge of your seat too much. But sometimes

those are the ones that get the best reviews

from everybody. Although I love the entirely

unreasonable wife. You can find water, but you

can't find your son. Yes, they left. What do

you want from me? Once Warren died, you ass.

I found water. Geez! I get she's a grieving mother,

but that was entirely unreasonable. We're in

the desert! Right. What about you, Matt? Any

trailers that caught your interest there? I mean,

I don't know, like, Waha looked good, and Water

Diviner looked good, but Spectre's finally on,

I really have any interest to see. Trainwreck

looks funny. But I don't know, I'm almost getting

worried that it's almost like, yeah, Amy Schumer's

typecast now. I'm hoping it's good, because it's

got Bill Hader in it, who's on my team. It doesn't

need to make me awards. It can't be less than

25 % Rotten Tomatoes, please. And make his budget

back. Yeah, just make your budget. Let him give

me some appearance points and I'll be happy.

I'm glad though I don't have anybody involved

in that hot pursuit movie because that looked

dumb as shit. I didn't see that one. How many

times can we do the movie where there's like

the little innocent funny girl that's going to

play a cop or some type of detective that has

to deal with the criminal or transport someone

or I mean I swear this has been done once a year.

And this time it's being done by Reese Witherspoon,

who's playing a cop who is in charge of something

that obviously she shouldn't be in charge of.

I don't know, I don't necessarily see her as

that funny of an actress. So I guess we got Sandra

Bullock doing it, we got Melissa McCarthy doing

it. Reese Witherspoon to me sounds like a weird

pairing to that plot, but I will not be watching

that film. Lot of people though are interested

in crimson peak and we got the first trailer

for that What's that too scary? Oh my gosh, so

this one I'm super excited for I didn't even

Comment on it. But yeah, Gary scary doesn't matter.

It's It's Loki it's it's a well, it's Tom Hilton.

No Loki goes. I mean, that's not whatever but

it's a it's Guillermo del Toro which is like

He's he's one of the greatest I don't know. I

love him. He is a good He's a really good creative

mind and they're saying that this according to

the trailer. This could be his masterpiece Yeah,

and I hate that I can't stand that Like you don't

you don't sell a movie that you've created by

saying it's the best thing ever Right, like I

don't know you let other people decide that but

I don't know whatever It definitely will have

some hype going into it. I'll watch it even though

it does look a little scary Just to see what

what the fuss is about but uh, I thought maps

to the stars looked somewhat interesting Didn't

the trailer for anarchy really didn't do anything

for me. So yeah, I'll probably pass on that one

but Those were the trailers this week, and obviously

we had some behind -the -scenes footage from

Spectre, which is the first stuff we've seen

from that. Not necessarily a teaser or a trailer

yet, but some footage there. So that's something

that we'll keep an eye on for when we do get

our first trailer. It'll definitely be something

that we are going to talk about. Well, we're

going to take a quick break then, and we will

be back with our main attraction, which will

be just catching up on the 2015 movies so far.

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sticking with us. It's time for our discussion

or our main attraction. We're not focusing on

one single movie here because obviously we have

not had any records that have dealt with 2015

yet. We've had our most anticipated films of

2015 which was an overall episode. We had our

box office predictions for 2015. and we had a

draft so we had some more general episodes as

kind of the first regular episodes so let's take

a look at some of the films that actually have

been released so far and what we've thought about

them uh... man i'm gonna let you start with what

what films from twenty fifteen of you seen so

far jess kingman jupiter sunday have you seen

anything other than those two well you've seen

strange magic you mentioned that yes i saw strange

magic uh... i saw the seventh son i saw uh...

mordecai And The Wedding Ringer and Taken Three.

Man, you are so much better at this than me.

And I know, Nate, you haven't seen any theater

movies yet this year, right? I don't believe

I've seen a theater movie since Box Trolls. Okay,

well, you need to go see Kingsman immediately.

Okay. And report back to us next time after you

see it. Really? You think it's that imperative

of a movie? I know I want I want to get his opinion

is why I said I'm saying that that's the one

I'm most interested to see his take on I really

do want everyone's opinion on that movie Yeah

I've heard a bunch so far I've heard Conflicting

opinions obviously I was a guest on the true

bromance podcast last week and we all had pretty

good things to say about it Then I listened to

in session film uh... right after that which

was basically released almost the next day or

the same day as a as a true romance one and uh...

two guys on there liked it and brendan did not

uh... he really had some major issues with this

i'm interested to see your take matt and then

later on to hear nates but let's start with a

couple of films that uh... you guys haven't seen

just get those out of the way taken three i don't

really know why that was called taken three because

it's so far removed from the original taken that

it really doesn't have much besides characters

that tie it back together It's at this point

just become Liam Neeson beating people up which

is not Not entertaining works for Denzel It works

for people that like that and it's you know,

you can enjoy the film but if you've seen taken

one it's it kind of hurts inside when you see

taken three a little bit because Nobody's really

even taken so That's that you know, that's one

thing his dignity is in jeopardy in jeopardy

of being taken. I mean I guess some things were

taken from him, but it's not like before before

You know somebody was taken from him and it was

his search to get that person back this one literally

could have been cool because there was like a

There's obviously an enemy out there. There's

a bad guy so to speak or a bad organization And

if it would have focused on Liam Neeson kind

of hunting them down and doing that that would

have been fine But the majority of the movie

was Liam Neeson trying to avoid the police and

Forrest Whitaker who's trying to hunt him down

and apprehend him So to me that took it there

was way too much of him avoiding and evading

the police And I really wish that could have

been more of him and the bad the bad guys So

not that great of a movie Wedding Ringer, that

had definitely had its funny moments. If you

just want to watch something when it becomes

free or when it's on Netflix or something and

just have maybe a couple laughs, I would definitely

recommend that for that, but I wouldn't suggest

anybody spending any money on it. Mordecai, I

was definitely alone on. I actually enjoyed Mordecai,

and every single person on the internet hates

that. And at the box office. Yeah, the box office

hated it. Everybody got you know everybody that

likes hating on Johnny Depp It was a good opportunity

for them to vent some more hate towards him.

I was entertained it could it have been better

Yes, but I was entertained it has Johnny Depp

And it has a bunch of other smaller parts by

other actors. I would say that the appearance

of Jeff Goldblum Was exciting when he appeared,

but they did nothing with him so that was kind

of disappointing But it was just a fun quirky

movie it almost reminded me of a Wes Anderson

movie and I thought it was funny did all the

gags work no but I was entertained throughout

the thing I smiled and laughed more with Mordecai

than I did with inherent vice which I saw in

the same week which I could not recommend to

my worst enemy wow really yeah I mean maybe if

you like to get like high right before you go

see a movie maybe you would have found Inherent

Vice enjoyable? I had a number of guys at work

we like we all talked about we're like okay after

work on Friday we're gonna go see Inherent Vice

and then and apparently no one looked to see

if it was coming to the theaters and I work in

a small town and it was not coming to that theater

but the town we live in which is larger had it

but no one was willing to make the journey back

to town with me so I didn't end up seeing Inherent

Vice I guess that's my point My point with inherent

vices when when the people that are arguing in

its favor have to use the argument that You have

to ignore everything that usually you pay attention

to in a movie and it's just about the experience

and That you should ignore the plot or ignore

Character development or ignore the story to

me. That's a problem Like I don't want to ignore

all those things. I especially when the experience

it wasn't that I could, you know, it wasn't that

enjoyable for me. There was a few moments where

I laughed out loud, but outside of that, I mean,

that is just a drug -induced trip of a movie

that I don't necessarily need to experience again.

I need to see this movie. In here, Vice? Yes,

because it is directed by, uh... Yeah, it's a

great director, Paul Thomas Anderson. Yes, Paul

Thomas Anderson. He did, um, There Will Be Blood,

and as we've discussed... I can't stop thinking

about that movie. Have we talked about that?

Have we talked about that? Yeah, we talked about

that a little bit last year. I mean the fact

that Nate was like whining at me for like nine

months to watch There Will Be Blood and then

I did. Yeah. Oh no, I didn't. Oh yeah, you finally

did. Yeah, it's okay, movie. Yeah, I liked a

lot of his other stuff, but this is not one of

his films that I enjoyed at all. But I would

be interested in you guys seeing Mordecai and

giving him your opinion because you like... all

the other Wes Anderson films mostly and this

is not a Wes Anderson film but for some reason

I got just a slight vibe of that and also Johnny

Depp just being crazy and I guess everybody's

gonna say he's just playing Jack Sparrow or one

of his other kooky characters but I don't know

I enjoyed it more than everybody else so I want

to know if I'm completely batshit insane or if

anybody else would actually like that movie that

I know. You know what gave me a weirdly Wes Anderson

vibe? What's that? The host. The Korean film

that Dan suggested to us? Dan suggested to us,

like, one of my first MWires. And, uh, I watched

it over, uh, Halloween weekend. I was like, you

know, it's Halloween weekend, we should watch

a monster flick, if not a horror movie. Isn't

that a spooky movie? What? Isn't the host spooky?

It's not, it's a monster movie. It's less spooky,

it's like more spooky than, like, Godzilla, but

only marginally. Okay. It's definitely more gore

than anything. There are some thrillery elements

to it, but it was literally like a Wes Anderson

movie with Godzilla thrown into it. That's what

it felt like. It had this weird family dynamic.

It was a lot of fun. It was great. And then the

last two that I'll talk about before we get to

the ones that Matt has seen also was Seventh

Son, which like I said on the True Romance podcast,

have you seen Hansel and Gretel, the witch hunters

from a couple years ago? Yeah. That's basically

what the Seventh Son is. Just with different

actors and instead of Hansel and Gretel being

somewhat of a connecting theme to the story,

it's all this idea of the Seventh Son of the

Seventh Son holds some type of magical power

that is never explained in the movie and Jeff

Bridges plays an old guy that has to take on

these apprentices that keep dying and he's got

to keep finding the next Seventh Son because

he needs him to kill witches. I don't know. Does

it have like that weird technology element that

the Hansel and Gretel movie had? No, not really.

Cause that had like theme funky elements to it,

didn't it? Yeah. Yeah, this one just straight

more like fantasy magic type stuff. I might need

to see this before it leaves theaters. It's basically

just a witch hunter movie. I'm gonna call that,

I'm gonna create that genre now. I like those.

It's Jeff Bridges and an apprentice trying to...

kill witches and one of his apprentices at one

point is the dude from a game of thrones if you

like that he shows up uh... and really didn't

like that movie that much i haven't like most

of what i've seen this year so far uh... well

isn't it isn't that how it is in uh... january

where it's like all the crappy movies that you

know usually but no uh... have you seen you've

seen hansel and gretel right matt? no i haven't

oh dude come over watch it I mean, it's not that

bad of a film. I don't know why they call it

Hansel and Gretel or why they even try to Oh,

yeah, totally. It doesn't make any sense It's

just like it's like it's brother and sister team

killing witches, right? That's why I got out

of this film It was like I have no idea what

the seven son has to do with anything Why couldn't

we just call those two dudes trying to kill?

The best part of Hansel and Gretel is What's

his name Renner? He has like he eats when he's

a kid all the sugar from the thing and then as

an adult he has diabetes Like they don't call

it diabetes there's like he takes a shot and

it helps them when he has a little blood sugar,

but Yeah, I remember that great The worst thing

about seventh son was that Julianne Moore was

in it. So thank you very much Julianne Moore

For all those negative points you got me from

that she plays the main witch He's talking about

his film fantasy league you got hurt because

that movie didn't do well now you're getting

mad at people for not even It's like it's great

Nate and like four episodes from now when I'm

getting all the points and he's not I'm gonna

be like talking about how it's a dynasty That's

a different podcast reference. Who won? Alright.

First of all, Nate, no one wins in the film fantasy

podcast scene. Another film I'd be somewhat interested

to get you guys to take on is Strange Magic,

which is obviously an animated film from the

mind of George Lucas, which is both scary and

interesting at the same time to figure out if

anything good can come from his mind anymore.

That is also a musical. It's an animated musical,

but it uses mostly songs that you already know.

Oh dear. Okay. So I think they might have wrote

one original song in that, but otherwise it's

basically a fantasy animated film that's a musical

based on popular songs already that span the

generations. Like you have modern songs, you

have old school classic songs. Also based on

Shakespeare's The Tempest, right? Yes, I believe

so. I'm not familiar with Tempest out of all

of Shakespeare's stuff. I'm familiar with a lot

of his other stuff, but not Tempest. A lot of

fairy stuff in Tempest. Yeah. But it's basically,

you know, there's like this dark world and then

there's the light world, so to speak. And it's

dealing with kind of a bunch of love stories.

They're a little too heavy on the whole love

angle in this story. And, you know, love conquers

all and, you know... people from opposite sides

of the tracks could fall in love type of thing,

but it was visually entertaining and it was fun

to watch. I thought it was all gonna be like

original music though. When they started singing

like songs I knew, I was a little thrown off,

but I don't think it's gonna be, I don't think

it's as bad as people will make it out to be.

I'll say that much. It's fun. Kids could enjoy

this. I don't see why it would be that big of

a deal. Easy to hate on George Lucas nowadays,

so. Yeah, Johnny Depp, George Lucas, those people.

Will Smith, it's easy to hate on these people.

Will Smith is that? No. I'm just talking about

other people that are easy to hate on. Oh, dude.

Who hates on Will Smith? He was the fresh prince.

Yeah, but then he did that movie. He's doing

movies all with his kids now and trying to make

them famous and people don't like it. Yeah. It's

a little scary. But Matt, get to your two films

here and I want to hear your reactions. So start

with Jupiter Ascending. What did you think about

that? Well, it's anyone who follows me on Twitter,

which I believe is zero of our listeners, will

already know my opinion, because one of my close

friends asked me. And the funny thing is, is

that it's like, when the movie was done, we were

all sitting there in the theater chit -chatting.

Like, you know, if you'd ask me, I'm like, I

don't know, like a 2 .5 out of 5? But the more

I talk about it, the more I begin to just hate

that movie. Like... Nate asked me about an hour

after the movie, or I got his text like an hour

after the movie, and I was like, it's like Godzilla

with the worst, it's like Godzilla, only it has

a worse love story than Thor. Like, the love

story, just an hour and a half, hour into the

movie, all of a sudden, with zero buildup or

anything, she goes, you know what, I love you.

She just turns to her co -host or whatever and

goes, I love you now. Co -host of the movie.

So when you say it's like Godzilla, does that

mean that like none of the fun stuff actually

happens until like five seconds before it ends?

It's like the reverse of Godzilla in that way.

I was talking with a friend and apparently there

was 12 minutes of Godzilla in the movie of Godzilla.

That much? It probably counts like when they're

in the house and he's on the TV. Sorry, side

-check. I guess it's the reverse of that, in

that literally the only thing this movie had

to offer was its very big special effects budget.

Yeah. It was just massive ships, just like weird

technology that doesn't make any sense even within

its own world, things like that. I'm completely

fine with technology not needing to make sense

in movies. It bothers me when it becomes a plot

issue, though. Okay. Yeah, I mean there's some

fun things to watch in this film It's kind of

like a like I said on it I would was on the in

session film podcast when we talked about Jupiter

ascending and I gave most my thoughts on there.

So you should go listen there. I'm not gonna

rehash it all but A lot of the technology, it's

fun in the way that back to the future Star Trek

technology is fun, just to see what kind of inventive

things they thought of that could happen in the

future in this world. And there's a lot of world

building that goes on in this film, but the Wachowskis

were just way too ambitious with this film. They

have enough material in here for two to three

films and they try to pack it all into one. And

you just end up not caring about anything. You

don't care about any of the characters, you don't

care about any of their relationships. There's

like this space dynasty family with two brothers

and a sister. Which you get nothing of for an

hour and a half into the movie and then all of

a sudden it's 100 % of the movie from there on.

Right. They share a scene at the beginning of

the film and then they never share a scene again,

the whole film. And it just deals with Milo Kunis

and Channing Tatum visiting each one one at a

time. It's just like two seconds here, two seconds

there. I just never cared about anything. Oh

like and there's so many things that bother me

some of them are things that shouldn't bother

me like there's like a part where Channing Tatum

like It's like okay, so he's immune to just everything

like at one point. He's fighting like five Starfighters

and all he has is a shield, but he wins because

he's Channing Tatum But it's just like like it

just doesn't make any logical sense or anything

like that, but like he gets hurt But it's like

not even a thing It's like, oh, hey, you're bleeding.

He's like, don't worry about it. And then like

they, and then like in the next scene, like he's

all healed up and he takes his shirt off and

then he doesn't get a shirt for like 40 minutes.

It was like, I'm literally just like watching.

He's supposed to be this like mostly animalistic

wolf man type character. And he, they talk and

they mentioned a reference about, you know, these

times before where the wolf part of him has come

out too much and he's just this wild, you know,

uncontrollable force. Yeah, for the entire movie

he does nothing that suggests that's actually

a thing. He never acts wolf -like, he never loses

his shit, he never is uncontrollable. He just

keeps coming to the rescue last minute to save

her from being dumb. And then they talk about

how he was the runt of the litter so they booted

him out of the army and so he didn't have a pack

and without a pack they always die. And then

they don't talk about that? for another two hours

and then at the end he's like I think I found

that thing I've always needed but he doesn't

say pack and it's like oh yeah you found your

pack and it's Mila Kunis whatever who cares no

one cares this movie is written so poorly never

heard of a lone wolf no that's what it was it

was literally like he is the lone wolf the whole

movie and then he's like nah I found my pack

my pack of one it's like Zach Galifianakis and

the wolf pack No, this movie is so poorly written

that they even do the same exact plotline twice

in a row in two different circumstances. No,

like literally he goes, we gotta fight that one

brother, and then it's like, zoom forward two

minutes, we gotta fight that other brother in

the exact same scene! And it's like almost the

same sequence with the two because the one, she's

about to make a decision that's bad. I'm not

spoiling it, but she's about to make a bad decision.

It's literally just like, hey, evil guy wants

you to sign a contract, you should do it. And

then he has to come and stop it. And Channing

Tatum is trying to race through space to get

to her to be like, don't do that. And he has

to like save the day. And then like two minutes

later, the exact same thing happens with the

other brother. Different evil brother wants you

to sign a different evil contract. Channing Tatum.

Channing Tatum racing through space. Holy shit.

What is going on here? But I mean, it had potential.

It could have been good maybe if it was spread

over some time and we actually got some development

so that we cared about it. the different relationships

and the different characters, but... Two or three

movies. It could have been really, really good.

I said this on the other podcast. The whole first

movie should be Channing Tatum and whoever is

working on his side trying to get Mila Kunis

off of Earth. Set that all up of how important

she is, but how there's this blockade that's

preventing her from getting off Earth and they

have to somehow get her to safety with one of

the siblings. That could have been the whole

first movie. And then the second movie could

have been the whole storyline with that sibling

or with two of them. And then the last movie

could be the whole climax with the final sibling.

So, I don't know. It rushed it and I didn't like

it. It also, like, would do something that I'm

just sitting there in the theater going, why

are they doing this? This doesn't make any sense

for, like, these characters. Like, the earliest

one I can think of is when they're just, like,

starfighters just flying through New York and

then they're just... destroying like all new

york like uh... man of steel all over again it's

like making it new york air chicago right chicago

right but they have the men in black device so

it's alright yeah well that's the thing is that

like they're just tearing ass to chicago destroying

it i'm sure thousand people die there's like

and billions of property damage and i'm just

going okay if they don't care about chicago land

they just or really bombard chicago like they've

got this giant spaceship up up in orbit just

blast chicago and then like Like, ten minutes

later you realize, oh no, Chicago actually didn't

get damaged because they've got super machines

and no one's going to remember because they've

got other super machines. But then she goes out

to a farm in the outskirts of Chicago and they

know where she's at and they don't know her but

they'll remember that one. But he did have a

cool space gate so I guess that was... That was

really cool. It was cool the way they did that.

It's one thing that they share with the Sonic

the Hedgehog games. Yeah. Channing Tatum is like

Shadow the Hedgehog. It was their back to the

future hoverboard moment where they were trying

to go for it. What about Kingsman, Matt? I'm

interested to see. What was your take on that

film? It was a lot better than Jupiter Ascending.

That's true. Kingsman, ah! Matthew Vaughn, who

did Kick Ass, he did X -Men First Class. He did

Layered Cake and he did Stardust. And a lot of

people say good things about every single one

of those films. A lot of people are very much

high on Matthew Vaughn and his ability to not

make a bad movie. Have you seen any of his past

stuff? I saw Stardust. That's the one that's

based on a Neil Gaiman comic. With Robert De

Niro as the space guy. Space Pirate. Yeah. I've

seen that one. What were the other ones? Kick

Ass. X -Men First Class. Of course, First Class.

That's the only ones I can think of. I haven't

seen Layer Cake. So yeah, I don't know. When

I'm not doing a podcast, I don't really look

into things like that. So I didn't have that

in my mind going in. Well, let me ask you this.

Most people, even I looked for bad reviews on

this. I went to Rotten Tomatoes, found everybody

that wrote a bad review, read their whole reviews,

and it was unanimous as to what parts they didn't

like. So it seems like it's universal that the

first half of the movie everybody loves. Were

you in that same camp that you really liked the,

I'm talking about everything pre -church scene.

It was very intense way more intense during that

bit than I thought like I didn't know there was

gonna be the the Whole weird home situation and

Like getting beat up in the neighborhood like

I guess I didn't pick up on that in the trailers

like the trailers had like well You're a juvenile

delinquent, but I didn't have like it's gonna

be a depressing home situation and stuff So I

didn't expect that It was it was I don't know

the train I thought there would need to be more

training it seemed more like it was like hey

Here's some situations, and you'll have to figure

it out like I figured he wasn't prepared nearly

enough right um that like but it was yeah, it

was entertaining and F &A if I didn't know Mark

Hamill is gonna be in that movie no doubt like

like it's just like two minutes in Mark Hamill

shows up not even like a minute and I was like

what Tim from first time watchers didn't even

know Mark Hamill was gonna show up in this got

it But yeah, I was definitely surprised by that.

I enjoyed that. I liked all the training I agree

with you I would have liked to see even how more

of the people fell out and got eliminated or

to see more of that But I understand that they

could only do so much But I too found the first

half very entertaining where people have the

problem is from the church scene on Did you have

issues with the with the church scene itself?

or the second half of the movie um it gets especially

campy from there on um amy and i talked about

this um where it's like there's silly and then

there's like campy and camp like you can do silly

on accident you can do weird on accident but

i don't know if you can do campy on accident

it has like certain beats to it and so it's like

like you know if you go is this what they were

trying to do yeah that's what they were trying

to do and uh it didn't it didn't kill it for

me um i will admit that the church scene was

a little weird and ridiculous and it was it was

out of nowhere for me i don't know why i didn't

expect that obviously he's has a certain style

that he definitely showed in kick ass but i wasn't

expecting the level that we got from the church

scene it kind of threw me off guard for a minute

there's some brutal things in the church scene

that were very i mean it's well filmed yeah as

far as compared to the jupiter sending where

a lot of the action i couldn't follow because

it was just like a whirlwind of action that i

have no idea who's hitting who is almost like

the first transformer movie but this one i could

follow everything but at times i was maybe didn't

need to follow some of that camera's a little

too shaky and a little too like now you're in

this guy's head and also he's not walking like

a normal human so good luck with that i just

like those camera things but generally you could

follow what was happening in the room yeah and

it definitely was a from my opinion of it and

what I took away from it. It's definitely, I

think the campiness is somewhat intentional.

It seems like it's definitely trying to be that

film that kind of speaks to all of the other

spy genre films. You know, it doesn't take itself

too serious. It's trying to, you know, call out

the different things that those spy movies do

and the, you know, the different tropes amongst

the spy movie genre. And it even goes as far

to, you know, name a bunch of different spy genre

stuff. As well as other movies. I mean, there's

a lot of movie talk in this movie. Yep Whether

it be in, you know, like James Bond and the Bourne

Identity and Jack Bauer and that type of stuff

or whether it even be like when they were talking

about the My Fair Lady and then some of those

other things. So I mean, I think they're definitely

aware of what they're doing and I think it's

impossible not to be intentionally campy when

you have Samuel L. Jackson doing a Lisp like

he was doing like that's a that's a choice know

that going in that he had that list I Saw one

of the trailers that he had it, and I just wasn't

sure you know What that was if that was like

a gag that they were doing there if it was gonna

be his actual character And then as soon as he's

like in his get -up and talking I'm like this

is gonna happen throughout the whole movie my

only issue with that is that he wasn't consistent

with it and I tend to give him a lot of leniency,

but His list was coming in and out during that

movie. There was lines where he had it and lines

where he didn't. I don't like the list. I want

to be a bit more Sam Jackson -y, I guess, in

that respect. Because I like Sam Jackson being

Sam Jackson, where he's either yelling or he's

talking really low because he's about to yell.

But I definitely liked the nods that they were

doing and then how they even come out and say,

you know, this is what would happen in a typical

spy movie, but this isn't the typical spy movie

or something like that. Like, I thought those

were cool. I thought there was a lot of little

twists and turns that some could be predictive

and some couldn't be, but because there were

so many of them, it kept me entertained, you

know, even through the training on what's real

and what's not real and what's the consequence

and what's not the consequence. And then throughout

the movie, too, I mean, I just thought this was

a fun film. I was entertained throughout the

whole thing. What were your issues with it if

you had any, Matt? Besides you had mentioned

like showing more of the training which I agree

with yeah, like I feel like I mean if if the

last 15 minutes happened the way they did it's

like this kid did not get trained to be this

good Like I didn't feel like there was much training

so much as it was just like you were watching

the reality TV spy kids the reality TV show and

then all of a sudden he was amazing but you know

it's a movie and they had the time and a budget

and whatever they tried to throw some of it in

there by saying like oh he was this uh child

gymnast and yeah he had some military he was

in the marines for a time it did kind of try

to get them way out but i think that's too it's

something that you don't they had to jump pretty

fast into him being the main the main badass

so um i can see that i think I really liked Sam

Jackson's assistant Yeah, and I think I'm a little

upset that they made her in this movie and not

kill Bill volume 3 because she was like straight

out of the kill Bill Yeah, she was deadly and

when they were about to fight at the end. I thought

he was screwed. Yeah Like well wait, she's like

the coolest character this movie so you can't

be the hero It's like I don't know how you beat

this character I am a little concerned about

the end of the movie Not like the end of them

like the end of the movie and it's like, okay,

whatever but now it's like, oh we're doing a

sequel now there's a lot of explaining to do

because the world is going to not be the same

place and they're either going to a botch that

terribly in the sequel Or be spend 90 % of the

sequel fixing it which is gonna be a terrible

movie. Like I don't I don't see it going well

It was really like a one -off movie and I'm a

little sad that they're making a sequel. Yeah,

I could do without a sequel because I think it

was a good standalone movie as well. Colin Firth

is great. Mark Strong is great. You got Michael

Caine in there. So I mean, there's a lot of great

acting in here and great character pieces. So

I had a lot of fun with it. It's my favorite

movie so far that I've seen this year. I don't

know how long that'll last. Once, I haven't said

this yet, but once we get to, I've seen seven

movies this year. Once I get to number 10, I'm

going to start doing written reviews for each

movie I do. And each time I do a review, I'm

going to have a running top 10 list. So as it

changes, I'll change it throughout the year.

But right now, definitely Kingsman is on top.

So Nate, you got to go see it. Give us your opinion.

We don't usually do too much of a score here.

That might be something we do going forward if

we talk about a specific movie. But since we're

talking about a bunch of them, there's nothing

really to score. If we're talking about stuff

to see coming out... This weekend, there's not

much February 20th theater releases is Duff Hot

Tub Time Machine 2 and McFarland USA with Kevin

Costner. Yeah, so I guess you can catch up on

Kingsman or Watch something else that might be

Oscar related that's in your theater, but I don't

think unless you really want to see Hot Tub Time

Machine 2 or 50 shades of gonna do really well

at the box office. Yes, don't don't give that

movie any more money guys Please don't I realize

it was Valentine's Day last week and and your

significant other made you go see it But stop

with that that needs to be no more money. No,

I did not two Valentine's Day points. I know

it's bad It's bad Well, I can give you two very

objective well one objective one subjective thing

one I actually posted an article on my Twitter

that points out how terrible it is as far as

misrepresenting the BDSM community and how dangerous

that relationship is mentally for both characters.

And then two, it was written as a piece of Twilight

fan fiction originally and changed to be not

Edward and Bella so that she could publish it.

And it reads like you're reading a piece of internet

fan fiction. Like the writing, it was hard. Like

I read like two chapters and it was very difficult.

Right. So. But yeah, so two pieces of Valentine's

Day, whatever. I saw Jupiter Sending and Kingston

about three, four days apart. One on Valentine's

Day because I always see a movie on Valentine's

Day with my girlfriend. We saw Kingsman on Valentine's

Day and then Jupiter Ascending later. She said

we should have switched them because Jupiter

Ascending is way more of a Valentine's Day style

movie. So if you're looking for a Valentine's

Day style movie, that's the one to go for. Because

it takes zero risks and it's very predictable.

There you go. Just like Valentine's Day. And

then the other bit was, oh, in Kingsman, my girlfriend

is 100 % certain that there's a deleted scene

that'll probably be on DVD or somewhere. If you

remember... someone was like yada yada what's

your password Colin Firth's character and then

they don't tell you what it is and then later

there's the character Mr. Pickles and my girlfriend

is a hundred percent certain his password is

Mr. Pickles and it's in a deleted scene somewhere

so interesting I'm shrugging in real life I did

a physical thing to the microphone I have a looking

at my microphone which is not looking at my computer

I'm like talking directly to it or if you're

really looking for something to do which uh...

the people in our little podcasting film community

will probably uh... shrug their shoulders at

this one because most of them hated it but uh...

saturday uh... february twenty first at three

p m in select theaters you can go see a extended

footage version of interstellar so i know most

people wanna say that was a terrible movie but

it was actually someone entertaining to me but

there's a additional i think like twenty minutes

or something like that added to the film it's

only happening saturday into one day only thing

so it's saturday february twenty first at three

p m and there's only like a dozen theaters in

the country that are doing it so it might be

one near you that you can go see uh... an extended

version of interstellar otherwise uh... there

is going to be some tough to watch for this week

even if you don't want to go to the theater to

see some of that stuff because next tuesday right

after the weekend we do have some big releases

on dvd uh... big hero six is coming out to dvd

blu ray uh... whiplash which a lot of people

had at the top of their list or in their top

ten last year uh... is coming out on tuesday

at the blue ray horrible bosses too and also

the frank darabont collection and if you're not

familiar with who he is he's a guy behind green

mile uh... majestic and shashank redemption there's

a three -pack blu -ray coming out on tuesday

of those three films as well so i'm looking forward

to it because i can finally watch both big hero

six and whiplash which i missed last year regrettably

so any of those things go ahead matt you didn't

see big hero six in the theater? nope i missed

big hero six whaaaaat? yeah so i'll have to correct

that by watching it here next week so uh... but

also definitely looking forward to seeing whiplash

That's supposed to be good and that's what JK

Simmons is getting the nomination for so I gotta

see what the buzz is all about Alright, so I

think that does it for this week. I didn't have

a question prepared for this first coming back

film But Matt or Nate do either of you guys have

any questions you want to bring to the viewers

as we make our return here in 2015? It's just

two bit scenes that were in the movie. You don't

understand it because he didn't see the movie.

He wouldn't have picked up on it anyway. I guess

one question we could put out there to the listeners

is what do you want to see from us in 2015? Yeah,

what do you want us to do? Yeah, what do you

want us to do? What do you want us to get rid

of? What do you want us to add? Watch movies?

What do you want us to do about it, listeners?

What do you want us to spend more time on less

time on? That type of stuff and like I said,

there's gonna be some interesting stuff going

forward We're gonna have some different spotlights

that we'd look at some older films There's gonna

be some fun stuff in there as well So you'll

have to just stay tuned to hear what kind of

different stuff we do But there will be some

new movie talk as well along the way when we

get chances to see new films And there's a bunch

of them coming out that we're looking forward

to So we should have time to watch at least some

of the big ones. So you'll hear from us about

that. And the new segment will be slightly different

too going forward, so you'll hear a different

dynamic when we come to our news and our headlines

and stuff like that. So hopefully it'll keep

it a little fresh and entertaining for you guys.

Matt, anything as far as looking forward to 2015

or anything you want to bring out there before

we close this episode out? I need to continue

my dynasty of winning movie games. I know they

liked me winning those. Yes, so we will be bringing

back some movie games as well to see how well

Matt and Nate can compare to each other or At

times when Dan's involved we might have some

three -person competition in the movie games

So we'll see how that goes Nate anything you're

looking forward to from the show for this next

year I'm looking forward to getting back into

like talking about movies because I literally

haven't seen any movies since we're bringing

Nate back to the theater or at least gonna give

him some homework products as far as DVDs to

watch. I did watch probably like 25 movies since

I've moved. Nice. So like I've been watching,

I've been just watching every movie I can when

I have time but I haven't seen anything in the

theaters. We'll have to get some feedback on

those films here sometimes. I own the movies

and that's free and less... Time consuming? cumbersome,

I guess. I don't know. We don't have to go anywhere.

We're going to have some less cumbersome episodes

going forward where you guys don't have to go

anywhere, don't have to spend much money or any

money, so that'll be fun. And next week, based

on the fact that there's nothing coming out in

theaters this week, we will be doing a special

themed episode right off the bat next week, so

you'll get a fun taste for what that could consist

of starting with next week's episode. All right,

go ahead. He said that sounds good. Oh, that

sounds good. I agree So thanks as always for

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